skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A note on HiDPI since a lack of fractional scaling is always brought up as a frustration point: with Xresources you can set 'Xft.dpi' to an appropriate value (like 144) and restart your X session and most programs/toolkits should scale fonts appropriately (Java is occasionally an exception but the same is true on Windows), it won't scale things like icons which can make the experience frustrating if your program has no other means to scale interfaces but this experience is about what you'd get on something like Windows 7 or 8. Additionally if you need multi-monitor support you can use display scaling (also known as upscaling) with RandR 1.3 (released around a decade ago) to upscale low DPI screens so that the fonts will be equal sizes on both monitors, e.g., 96 dpi -> 144 is 1.5x so a 1920x1080 monitor will become 2880x1620.

None of this is perfect or easy to set up and it's in no way a substitute for fractional scaling support in the toolkits of the programs you're using but it has worked for a very long time and produces appropriately sized crisp and sharp fonts on all monitors, and more importantly it should work reasonably well even on outdated programs or toolkits that have no support for fractional scaling. The Arch wiki link should explain this but it's not spelled out and there's a bit of a misconception that fractional scaling is the only way to get a blur free HiDPI experience on Linux when that just isn't the case at all.
For those that want to go deep link diving. 'Meow, I'm a Cat'.
How does Android (Linux) handle big.LITTLE chipsets? From what I understand they’ve had this process for years so there must be some software they’re using to handle what process goes to what core. Is that not something they’ve upstreamed to the main Linux codebase?
Not enough people would budget for the military is my guess concerning why we haven't tried it.
Making a demo for an old phone – AONDEMO
>It is worth noting that FB get probably the world's largest amount of spammers, fraudsters and general bad people due to the fact that they have an absurd amount of users.

Yes, and they make a ton of money from those users as well. So the question is why the Facebooks and Googles of this world don't have proper procedures in place to deal with these things in a sensible way.

If a decision gets reversed only after exploding on Hacker News or Reddit it should be considered a bug.
That's my default post icon. Because it's being silly about the Illuminati. No real reason it's my default except that it amused me.
But you have to use the power structures that were in place pre-epidemic, and lots of them stop at arbitrary boundaries where the modern cities don’t. In the US, health policy is generally handled at the state level, but you’ve got places like the DC metro area where the city effectively spans both Federal land and parts of two states.
Ble.sh: A Bash Line Editor with syntax highlighting and auto suggestions
If you’re on a phone, here’s an HTML version: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/2007.09560/
Dart

For building rapid GUI applications in Flutter
> People want gasoline or gas. People don't want to pay for CO2 removal, because they don't get anything back immediately - maybe a slightly cooler planet and better biosphere 50 years in the future.

I don’t want gas; I want some means to propel my car from A to B. I’ll choose the most economically practical option, gas being the currently most available one. I live in Florida, so the “underwater in 50 years” meme hits very close to my home: about 3km away, to be precise. Lots of people will see the incentive to use less gas, or to pay for carbon sequestration in the absence of a non-gas option.
You have to assume 2 basic ideas for the masks to be useful. First is asymptotic spread, which, although might be true, is more political and less settled science[0].

Second, the ideas that masks work to protect people from you for respiratory viruses. There's a 2013 study (way before the current political pressure) that challenges this[1], and UIC Health also made a claim masks weren't necessary, although now they have a big disclaimer over the opinion[2].

So why not just wear one. Even if those two are correct ideas? What about people who can't wear masks? There are people who have suffered trauma. If you say, "I can't for medical reasons" people just assume you're some right-wing republican. There is judgement back and fourth when you make the masks a requirement, and further you're asking people to disclose something that might be very personal.

A man in Ontario was pepper sprayed and arrested by police for not wearing a mask[3]. Police shot another Canadian man for not wearing one[4].

And we're not even talking about the psychological effects. Why is no one making the connection between the normalization of the mask and massive civil unrest?! It should be a very obvious hypothesis, and yet no one seems to be discussing it (I talk about it here[5]).

Challenging mask ideology doesn't mean you want everyone's grandma to die. There are legit reasons why this should be optional and not mandated. When you mandate something like this, it breaks the social contract.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23957495

[1]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

[2]: https://publichealth.uic.edu/news-stories/commentary-masks-f...

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmaKvW1H2Tg

[4]: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/world/2020-07-17-canadian-p...

[5]: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/secondary-effects/#masks-...
Your article says those houses still need heating, just less than typical.
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Apparently HN doesn't let you publish emoji? I thought we had UTF-8.
Nicely written article. Interesting and one should definitely be aware of how certain services are charged before using them. This would be a good lesson for all of us :)

On a different note, Recently I was looking to learn AWS concepts through online courses. After so much of research I finally found this e-book on Gumroad which is written by Daniel Vassallo who has worked in AWS team for 10+ years. I found this e-book very helpful as a beginner.

This book covers most of the topics that you need to learn to get started:

If someone is interested, here's the link: https://gumroad.com/a/238777459/MsVlG

I highly recommend buying this e-book if you think AWS documentation is overwhelming.
> Someone who knows the word courgette, probably knows the word zucchini. While someone who knows the word zucchini, might not know courgette.

I don't see why this would be the case.

More accurate would be:

Someone who knows the word courgette, might not know the word zucchini. And someone who knows the word zucchini, might not know courgette.
> shut down arguments about mask wearing

How is “shutting down” different from disagreement here?
Twitter/Facebook/whatever-the next-big-thing-is doesn't have 9 out of 10 fields that are on my ID card. If I show them a piece of blacked-out plastic with only my first name visible, since that's the only piece of information they have about me, it won't help them identify me.

Yes, you need to prove that you're the data subject matching their records before they should act on your request, whatever that request may be. But uploading a copy of your ID card almost never serves that purpose. See also a bigger comment I wrote elsewhere in this thread with sources and examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23957503
There are way way worse people out there than the ones who put up curious papers on a pre-print server for others to read for free.
SWIFT is a communication network, it replaces the letters and couriers ancient banks would have used to agree that payments have been ordered and funds have been moved. Payment don't "go through" any bank that hasn't been explicitly requested. The whole point of the SWIFT network is that it is global and it allows you to reach every branch of every bank.

There are of course banks whose SWIFT processing is handled by someone else, but they are usually service bureaus or central offices within a conglomerate, not partners in a specific country.
It's fundamental to the platform business. The Internet just happens to be the biggest place to build platforms. But it's the same as how grocery stores or any intermediary works.
Ditto. Purple beans ftw!
How to integrate appimage files with AppImageLauncher in Linux
I think you overestimate the number of Americans that hold your views.
“Flex” in that slang term isn’t precisely a “display of strength” but rather “a display of one-upmanship[1]” in any form. A weird flex is specifically one-upmanship in a form where nobody else was really competing over it in the first place. It’s “weird” because you’re trying so hard to out-compete others in a category where nobody else is trying to compete at all, and where, therefore, a category where it’s very easy to “win.”

Most Guinness World Records are weird flexes: not hard-fought limits of discovered human ability, but rather something one person decided to prove they could do that nobody else has really even cared to challenge them about since.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-upmanship
Nim

To practice coding interview algorithms and data structures problems. It is basically like Python but statically typed and compiled.
Or 'Meow, I'm a Frog'
Oh that makes much more sense, thanks!
How does knowing where you are affect acquisitions? And why wouldn't they know just from talking to the target?
I'd to hear why I was downvoted. it is a fact people forget. Most have websites have that stupid cookie notification when 99 don't need to. Here is how to evade the gdpr, ignore it like it doesn't exist
> Eventually I gave up and switched to the default Manjaro. Its installer does not support an encrypted root file system

I am using manjaro with an encrypted file system. It was relatively easy to set up and even the boot loader is encrypted. Does pinebook ship with a different version?
TBH, I find those terms worse.
And the more I think about it, infuriatingly so. (So I apologize in advance for the following cynical rant :) ).

Sure, they sound superficially more compassionate.

But in reality they are defeatist, victimizing, agency-removing euphemisms that do a wonderful job of clouding the underlying issues.

If you are that far into problems as described by various posters in this thread, pain and suffering are symptoms, and if that's all you're looking at, you're only going to treat those. (Ain't drugs nice?)

Realizing you're "broken" is the first step towards identifying what exactly it is that's broken - and towards any further steps actually fixing it. (And yes, your environment and your relationship with it often is the part that's broken, too).

And it's not only the self-image I'm talking about - I'm definitely not in the "they can only help themselves" camp. But it's oh so much more convenient to go for the symptoms (or switch the channel) when you're looking at people "in pain"...
Yes, they are also waste of resources and a review spamming problem. I should have phrased that better.
That's just the excuse for doing it. But tax rates are known ahead of time, they could just add the tax to the price and put it on the sticker, just like pretty much every other place in the world does.

In my opinion, it's a very deceiving practice that could definitely be fixed if businesses really wanted to fix it. But there's no incentive, because if you show your prices including tax and fees, they'll seem more expensive than the competition.

In the case of hotels, my experience is that with a lot of them you book online, pay the total, but then when you go check out, they've added some extra fees. Sometimes this happens before booking, you browse the options and choose based on price, but when you go check out, the total has changed because they've added not only taxes but some other fees as well. My most recent experience having this issue was with AirBnb just two days ago.
> Also I am wondering, why are the recitals quoted and not the articles. The recitals are in fact part of the GDPR with the same value as the articles, but this is well, unusual.

Author here. I'm not a lawyer and my knowledge about GDPR is somewhat limited. Admittedly just grabbed the first thing that I found without getting too deep into it. Happy to update with more accurate references if it makes the point clearer.

> Ok there is a misconception in here: legitimate basis is a broader term which is defined in recital 47. E.g. "The processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes may be regarded as carried out for a legitimate interest." - Sentence 7 of recital 47.

> However ever data processing based on legitimate basis is to be checked against the expectations of the data subject and its rights. This rational has to be explained to the data subject in plain words and the data subject has the right to object.

I wasn't aware of it. That's interesting... do you have more info about the "has to explain ... right to object" part in particular? this sounds a bit like seeking explicit and informed consent though, right?
We actually have the opposite problem right now, what's the incentive to do _the right thing_ if you can be fired for not following orders?

Remember that 40% of americans can't afford a $400 emergency.
There actually is a citation buried in the text "Wearing a mask significantly reduces the chances of spreading COVID-19 from you to others"

"From you to others" is a link to a preprint by fast.ai titled Face Masks Against COVID-19: An Evidence Review

Direct link:

http://files.fast.ai/papers/masks_lit_review.pdf
If one app can turn the microphone off, can another app turn it back on?
I should add you need to scroll to find what you want - it’s loosely in order but you have to do the finger exercise
> Moreover, GitHub blocks indie search crawlers,

Do they have a deal with Google/Bing? Any details about this crawler block?
It’s actually worse because at least blink tags are confined to browsers. Now you have developers putting emojis in log statements for whatever reason.
No offence. In my experience Software engineer with an MBA is a person who had found coding is not a skill that suits them.
> Many schedules do not allow for daily 60 minute exercise routines at the gym which take 10-15 min to get there by car.

You can get that 60 minutes of exercise/physical activity if the transportation to various destinations is changed into a form of exercise for all or some part of it. In the case of a bicycle, it does require that destinations are less than 10 miles (16 kilometers) away, otherwise it would take too much time.
hello from europe, we got all the versions running for 150 years, none proved armed citizens turned out good I think?
Great multi-touch demo.

Be sure to turn up the quality and res.
What's with the proliferation of emojispeak?
Who orders seeds via amazon? It doesn’t strike me as likely to lead to success.
The most efficient way to do it is to forcibly remove every politician that opposes reducing CO2.

CCS is more likely to succeed and will lead to significantly less bloodshed than overthrowing all the governments at once.
make diamonds out of this carbon and maybe you got something that will take care of the problem forever
Look at how well the US (and other countries) has handled pandemic. Pandemic is basically a toy-problem version of climate change:

- Action must be taken before you see consequences

- The best time to act is right away, though it might not seem a big deal if you do

- You need to trust experts

- Taking some initial economic damage is unavoidable...

- ... but is ultimately much cheaper than not taking that hit

- strong leadership and a unified population is needed to align interests and create mutually beneficial cooperation

etc, etc.

But the US failed spectacularly, and most importantly learned nothing from it.

If we can’t control pandemic easily we are certainly going to fail to make any progress on global warming
I am saying polices are the reason why some areas failed. Saying this is how things are done is justification for failing policies, but it doesn’t mean they actually work.

The CDC was specifically created because diseases need a nationwide response, the US simply failed.
We have two kids (in NC, US)), both were c-sections, we had insurance on the first one, but because she was born in Feb, we had to pay the deductible twice, because even though it was the same pregnancy, it was "over two billing years". And even with insurance we still ended up paying the rest of the bill over 3 or 4 years.
Second kid was with no insurance, I think we'll finish paying that one when he turns 10 years old.
I don't know about other areas in the US, but around here you can at least setup a payment plan with the hospital and they are 0% interest rate.
"You Need to Learn Mandarin" is needlessly inflammatory, but yes, I would like to learn Mandarin, actually.

English is not my first language, but having learned it allows me to consume content from the English-speaking world and SOME content from non-english speakers who choose English (and rightfully so) as their net language.

I'd love to learn other languages to be able to interact with more people and ideas. Imagine speaking English, Mandarin, Spanish and Arabic. Being able to communicate with over 3 billion people in their own terms. Engage in the discussions that they're having about their lives, in their words. That would be great.
The moon is a large gravity well that adds a hefty tax in deltaV cost to anything sent to or returned from it. It also devoid of useful resources and building materials, especially compared to near earth asteroids.

Building in low earth orbit will always be way cheaper.
This paper argues that dreams are a form of data augmentation. Data augmentation is still useful even given double descent. Double descent is theoretically interesting but every DL practitioner will tell you that overfitting is still a problem.
Lean [1] [2] [3]

To try and revitalize my math life a bit... There are some things I quite miss, and learning Lean was my idea to force myself to get back in the swing of things.

[1]: https://leanprover-community.github.io/

[2]: https://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/~buzzard/xena/natural_number_gam...

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp-mQ3HxgDE
I'd be shocked if they ever admit it was ransomware. Besides nearly no public response, what they finally put out still just frames this as an "unfortunate outage", sidestepping the reality of a (likely) massive data breach.

I am shocked that once again another company is willing to do their brand serious damage by keeping quiet and not trying to allay customers fears of stolen information, compromised app updates, and $800 paperweights.

Pilots can't update their flight databases, an FAA requirement, nor upload flight plans, so it's more serious than some are claiming. And yet, near silence.
oh huh, I had heard of gitea but I didn't know it was so similar to github. I may actually set up an instance for myself then, I'm using github issues for some personal stuff that isn't collaborative
Those materials aren’t on the moon.
You can think of DL as a model to explore huge solution spaces, is clearly not the only one but looking at things with some models sometimes makes much more sense and DL has been extremely useful. Is true than real neurons and artificial ones are different but "both are systems that perform complex tasks via the updating of weights within an astronomically large parameter space.". The brain is clearly not using the same mechanisms but it probably have some of the same problems and looking it from a DL perspective (that we understand better than the brain) could help us understand it better.
I have to disagree. I used to have a MacBook and the XPs 13s keyboard and mouse are not very enjoyable to use. They are fine, but I have considered getting a new computer for the last year because of it
There's this paper which describes a simplified fluid dynamics appropriate for games: Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games
by Jos Stam. You can find the paper and implementations by searching. It's based around numerical stability and speed, rather than accuracy. I think it would be interesting to put this into a simcity-like game to get good air pollution maps.

I'm not sure if this WebGL page is based around this algorithm.
I suspect they are worried about the ‘high fructose corn syrup’ content
If you buy a stolen bike and could reasonably have known that it was not obtained with consent, you're also liable. For example, an unusually low price from someone who doesn't own a bike shop and wants cash can be indicators for that. In the case of data, it may be that they are able to provide lots of data without plausible source.
Hydrogen is expensive to produce, cumbersome and dangerous to store and handle. How will that be competitive with traditional jet fuel?

Jet fuel is safe to handle, the infrastructure is there, it doesn’t go all Hindenburg in a crash, and it doesn’t require new engines.

What we need in the next decade is a better jet fuel.

If commercial flights all used 50/50 renewable fuel that would cut greenhouse emissions in half. Providing that much biofuel without disrupting food production or fresh water supply will require a moonshot effort but it still seems like a simple obstacle compared to replacing fleets with electric or hydrogen powered aircraft.
> you can shoot yourself in a leg == you can do almost anything

That doesn't really follow. A language with plenty of undefined behaviour => shooting yourself in a leg. A language with plenty of defined behaviour => you can do almost anything. C falls somewhere in between.
Bookmarked, anything with Aaron Hsu is usually well worth a watch. Thanks.
I recall my mum, it must have been in the 1980's, engaging in much eye-rolling and tut-tutting at our (Australia) then prime minister, Bob Hawke, using the word 'irregardless'. Bob was ostensibly quite charismatic, but no one could accuse him of being an especially thoughtful communicator.

In retrospect it's fairly typical behaviour for less literate types to adopt a word that sounds sophisticated beyond their standard repertoire , and assume it's sufficiently cromulent for formal use. (A very recent thread on HN was around the use of the word 'decimate' as an alternative spelling for 'destroy', for similar reasons.)

I think Boris Johnson is a profoundly bad force in the universe, but I do recall feeling the editing of one of his appearances on a UK TV show (Have I Got News For You) was patently unfair, as he was asserting that calling small four wheeled vehicles 'quad-bikes' was etymologically unsound. His point (I imagine - the broadcast did not include the justification) was that 'bike' is a corruption of bicycle, in turn rooted from 'bi', referring to the two wheels.
We’re regressing back to hieroglyphs
Unrelated story, but in the nineties I worked as a line service tech at the local FBO. Gene Cernan regularly flew his C-421 from Houston to his weekend retreat in the hill country. I got to know him fairly well and eventually got to where I was taking care of his 1980s yellow suburban. I got to be "his guy" and was allowed to drive his truck, fill it with gas and wash it for him. As a 17 year old kid, this was the highest honor imaginable.
I went off to college the next year, but I won't soon forget how well he treated me and his willingness to share all kinds of pilot and astronaut stories with me that were basically in his "private collection" of stories.
He died not long ago, and I wish I could have attended his funeral. What a man.
If they rental agency is paying those taxes then they are aware of them, have them entered into their CRM, and can inform you anytime by pulling a simple DB query. There is no excuse in 2020 to not know exactly what the price is and keep that from your customers.

I deal with reputable rental companies. The rental price is based on demand but everything else is a known quantity. I’ve never had the quote priced higher than the online quote. And in a few cases I’ve had it go down by using certain credit cards or loyalty programs.