skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a rule, desktop apps are used for producing and mobile apps for consuming.

That's an interesting observation. I am not really interested in web IDE's, but I am happy to use google docs. Though I spend maybe 20 times more time writing code than documents.
For the demon's point of view, I guess I'll have to reread The Screwtape Letters.

> > they never want what they can't get.

> Also they make people like that, they kill their ambition through breeding and mental control.

I admit they're more advanced than we have been, but how different is "I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard." from camels and needle eyes?

It may be more efficient for alphas to wear grey and deltas to wear khaki, but we can still trivially recognise the difference between the likely ambitions of the people depicted in

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/02/78/71/0278718a44733e6a05c5...

and

https://scontent.fqls1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/88175441_110...

thanks to thousands of repetitions[1] of our lessons in childhood...

The US may be finer-grained than the BNW: instead of having only 5 castes α β γ etc. they use nine-digit post codes to indicate their socioeconomic status. (then again, there was "on Wednesdays we wear pink.")

Mond: "Degrade him from what position? As a happy, hard-working, goods-consuming citizen he's perfect. Of course, if you choose some other standard than ours, then perhaps you might say he was degraded. But you've got to stick to one set of postulates. You can't play Electro-magnetic Golf according to the rules of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy."

[1] I was once reading a description of big community feasts in pakistan, in which it was described that the local landlords don't dress any differently from their tenants, but visiting elite do dress fancy, to gain admission to the VIP tent. It sounded very similar to the dress code of a Midland TX BBQ.

"I'm glad I'm a Beta", sung in yank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLyqUuXrXkw
I'm going to shamelessly plug my own library here:

https://github.com/oconnor663/duct.rs

I wanted to solve the same problem, originally in Python (https://github.com/oconnor663/duct.py). It's surprisingly annoying to do pipelines and redirections, compared to how easy they are to do in the shell. Lots of libraries try to address this, but most of them seem do it by emulating shell syntax within the host language, using operator overloading or other magic like that. I think that's a limiting choice. (For example, can you use `cd` to change the working dir for the left half of a pipeline but not the right half? In Bash you would use a "subshell" for this.) Instead, I think it's sufficient to build an API out of regular objects with regular methods. The result doesn't look like shell code, but it's easier to reason about, and more consistent across different languages.
A perfect MITM device that is tiny and can be hidden somewhere is my first use case. Micro pineapple.
If you are resisting arrest, you may still be presumed innocent of the original crime. However you're almost certainly guilty of resisting lawful arrest, which is usually a misdemeanor.

There's no exemption that allows innocent people to resist lawful arrest.

This is not to say that injection sounds like a great solution for everyday arrests.
For my cross-platform app, I was originally using Qt for desktop platforms and Android. I was fairly happy with Qt on the desktop, but less so on Android, in part because I was using Qt Widgets - Qt Quick is the newer, preferred way to build GUIs in Qt, at least for mobile. Around 2016 I started looking into an iOS port - at the time, Qt for iOS was fairly immature and there was (is?) some uncertainty about licensing requirements for statically linking Qt on iOS. Having already spent more time than I wanted fighting various problems with Qt on Android, I decided to consider alternatives and ended up creating my own SVG-based GUI library that I now use across desktop and mobile:

https://github.com/styluslabs/ugui
Did you find one that isn’t paid mostly by google?
Full time EMTs aren’t trained enough to make good decisions about when it’s appropriate to administer ketamine and how much to give. A cop who did some EMT training but doesn’t use the skills full time is going to be even worse.
I live in a country where we don't inject people with ketamine on the street, nor do "criminals run amok". We also don't have armed gangs imposing "their own idea of a justice system", and we have fewer police killings in 25 years than the US has in 25 days.

I imagine your comment is probably symptomatic of the major societal issues within the US; it certainly worsens the image of the US to those fortunate enough to live in a Western nation which isn't actively regressing.
> It's not necessarily the amount of waste that is the problem...

You might change your mind on that after a bit of reflection; it doesn't make sense. We produce a bunch of things that are going to be hazardous forever - I always point to lead when nuclear comes up. The only reason anyone talks about nuclear waste is because 1 football field is small enough that we could contain it forever. Most industrial processes produce too much hazardous waste for that to be feasible.
I'm not sure there is really anything in here that hasn't been said before. But the longer it goes on, the clearer it becomes that this isn't a blip for work that can support it. And, while some teams will embrace a hybrid model, people who really want an in-office experience will probably have to consciously seek out like-minded employers and teams.

There's probably also a tipping point where if remote becomes a typical option for certain types of jobs, many people--as noted in the article--will move to a location where they can no longer take a hike into an office once a wekk or so.
> building quality

For top tier heirloom quality, use the native GUI widgets of the platforms you are targeting. The rest written in portable C.

If the app is literally just GUI widgets, then then the cross platform nature falls apart. But for something like a 3D video game where a window widget is just a little bootstrap to your game, it's nice.
Alvin Weinberg, the father of many LWR designs said that naval scale reactors (≤100 MWe) are very safe, but for utility scale one cannot make the same guarantees. Which makes a good case for SMRs like the one designed by NuScale Power. It operates in a pool of water and uses natural circulation in case of pump outage, making a loss of coolant accident less likely.
OP is talking about merchant fees. Amex is the most expensive card for merchants to accept.
Accidentally doing too much ketamine and badly k-holing (by snorting) is one of the worst experiences of my life. Maybe the worst. It was exactly as you described, it's like you're being cut off from reality and have no way back. It's like being plunged into the bottom of the ocean, darkness, everything real is distant, you try to move but you can't - it's like someone has unplugged all your sensory organs and limbs.

And it comes in waves -- just when you think you're coming out of it, it pulls you back down.

I swore off ketamine for life after that and don't plan on ever touching it again. I would take a bad comedown from stimulants over that. I would take the feeling of hopelessness, anhedonia, and thorough depression from a bad MDMA comedown any day. To be fair, both things only happen if you do too much, it's avoidable, and it was entirely my fault for not weighing the dose.

And I still think therapeutic ketamine for depression should be studied and trialled and legal. But still, K-holing was an absolutely horrifying experience and I don't recommend it to anyone for any reason.

And it probably was only not even worse because I was also on MDMA.
> taking 7 months to build and not shipping anything

So I spent the first couple of months chasing an on-premise alternative to photo storage[1]. Then I realized that the product was difficult to sell, and required a substantial investment of capital so I pivoted to an E2EE alternative on the cloud. I also spent a non-trivial amount of time trying to raise investment, which I regret at this point.

> how long are you going to spend before actually testing that out?

If things don't go terribly wrong, the project should be up for beta testing in early October.

[1]: https://orma.in
I am amazed at the default reach to legislative solutions as if this has been consistently successful in the past.

At one point not too long ago, Microsoft controlled everything. They didn’t control retailers, but they would put ISVs out of business regularly. You could charge what you wanted, but were always at the risk of a “predatory pricing” attack when Microsoft would clone your feature for free in the latest version of their products.

There was a consent decree formed about product tie-ins to stymie this activity circa 1994.

Then the Web Browser came along and threatened Microsoft’s regime. We had a way to run software anywhere without Microsoft’s involvement!

And of course they tried to tie their own Browser into Windows, because that’s how they competed in the past. They were found guilty of violating it with in their 1998 trial, forming a new consent decree with penalties in 2001.

Did this actually matter when mobile took over in 2007? Google Chrome also now has vast majority browser share. Did this help there too?

What Apple and Google are doing is nowhere close to this in terms anti-competitive behaviour, it’s not even in the same league. You throw terms around like “rent seeking” without understanding what that means. Rent seeking is about expanding one’s share of wealth without also broadening the base of wealth. A retail cut is ... not that.

But even more so... why are people so devoid of knowledge of tech history or imagination that we must reach for legislation rather than building a better mousetrap?

This isn’t about consumers, it’s about ISVs wanting higher margins without putting any of the work in. It’s not likely going to be successful.
Reading the last few lines of this and hearing that he’s the happiest he’s ever been is interesting to me. Does anyone ever regret movement from job to owner/founder? Seems like most don’t?
Federal buildings in the US built after the Oklahoma bomb are also very fortified and don't have a a lot of windows.
That is false, police are not injecting people with Ketamine. As the article says, paramedics are.
Yes. The Flutter team makes it clear that desktop support is still in early stages.

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Desktop-shells

https://flutter.dev/desktop

Still, it seems like Flutter will be a good option once desktop support is more stable.
Bit of a side note, but the author mentioned https://GitHub.audio, which I'm quite enjoying. However, that site says it plays "string plucks" which I'm not sure I can hear, or at least discern from "bell dings". Is it working properly?
I use cq-editor[1]. For sure CadQuery and CQ-editor have a insanely sucky install experience. I never got it to work by following conda guides. I run NixOS so for me it's as installing it as a package.

[1] https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor
Could StarLink remove global internet censorship? (January 2020)
I got this question following a thread about censorship in the Middle East in the publication: https: //news.ycombinator.com/item? id = 24247561

I would be interested to know your opinion about the measures that governments could take that they censor their towns in case StarLink reaches rural areas of Middle Eastern countries (and countries in general that censor their local internet networks)
Don’t Create B-Teams
Did Microsoft ever go in hard on trademark enforcement like Apple has always done with its logo and brand? I guess it's unavoidable to a degree given how generic the 'Apple' name and associated iconography are, but I'm having trouble thinking of MS equivalents other than the 'mike rowe' stuff.
Yes that's what I'm talking about as well.

Merchants don't accept them because of their high merchant fees, but AmEx don't have high merchant fees for some flippant reason like to create a 'luxurious image' - they do it to create value for their card holders.
The only reason why you need to state that "people actually love him", is because they don't. There is no other reason for that.

How do you know he lost a billion dollars? Did you see his tax records? I'm pretty sure it's ain't because of the lack of trying if it was so.

In a normal situation, I can't imagine any scenario that a businessman can lose a billion dollars by becoming president. But this is the only guy that is literally capable of failing upwards.

--

Criminal indictments with the current administration : 215.

With Obama: 0, but... Obama did 8 years. The current one isn't even at 4.
Context: Sophie was one of the main architects of the original ARM processor

Fairbairn: So was there sort of a major insight or breakthrough or whatever in doing the processor, or was it just sort of you read the papers, you sort of absorbed things and sort of went through the process? Were there any sort of major aha moments, or points that--

Wilson: There was nothing aha about it. It was just, "You can do this stuff. You just get on and do it." As I say, it was more the reverse. We expected to find a roadblock. We expected to find why National Semiconductor employed all those people in the building in Israel and why they found it so difficult. And we just never did. We also-- we thought it was going to be much harder than it really turned out to be, so we put a lot of effort up front into verification and modeling.
Stalkerware sees all, and US laws haven't stopped its spread
The hangar animation behind the main menu is a big part of that GPU hit.
Compare those values to your own weight, and pay attention when you hear someone’s weight to see if it matches your heuristic.
Yes exactly. And, ironically, many of these solutions can make you less safe; at one of my former employers we had something like this, but the problem is that since you're getting a cert from the MITM server, you're not able to inspect the cert from the real server, and at least in the case of the Cisco product we were using, the MITM server wouldn't bother to inspect it either; expired certs, certs with the wrong CN, self signed cert, didn't matter - the MITM server would ignore the problem and happily replace the cert with a valid one signed by the company CA.
> Makes you think about how, in the age where technological achievement can so quickly outpace the control of individuals, yet also relies on those same individuals to make it happen -- how important it will be for us to somehow find a way for the people at the top to not lead everyone else down a wrong path.

You would have to convince everyone that everyone has a right to live and survive and have basic comforts.

If those scientists and engineers refuse to work on weapons, how will they make money and put food on their table?

They won't even be allowed to walk out if they know secrets.

If they were to detach from their society and go forage in the wild and attempt to start a self-sufficient community, they won't be able to defend against government, military or criminals (a redundant list you might say but I digress).

You have to convince the soldiers who enforce the will of "the people at the top", but then how would they earn a living?
You know that this is from a TV show right not an actual product.

They used a logo which is different enough to not be accidentally confused but similar enough so that people can guess what they are referring to.

Also this log had the same orientation and roughly the same drawing style.

If anything you could say that pears on computers due to movie and cinema have become a synonym for a "expensive high quality computer/phone/etc." and as such Apple pear tm would be diluted from the get to go if Apple would register it.

There are also apple alike products using pears, they normally also don't try to trick you into buying their product by confusing it with Apple products but use the pear to communicate a that it's (supposedly) an thing with similar qualities as Apple but which is not Apple.

There is a difference between a generalized logo which is the synonym for "something similar to an apple product but definitely not Apple" and "something similar enough to accidentally confuse it".
Solo founder here.

- I started a newsletter with progress updates to keep myself accountable but found that as time goes on I haven't needed it as much

- Motivation can be variable over time and you need to keep making progress even on your down days. I think this is (one of the ways) where a co-founder is super valuable, as you can motivate each other when one of you is down.

On the theory that this thread will be a honeypot for other solo founders: if you're interested in potentially working together or just someone to bounce ideas off of, shoot me an email (address in my profile)
Erroneous dating.

"The intelligent layman has long suspected circular reasoning in the use of rocks to date fossils and fossils to date rocks. The geologist has never bothered to think of a good reply, feeling the explanations are not worth the trouble as long as the work brings results (American Journal of Science 276:51)." –J. E. O’Rourke
Maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Lindows.com....
Not sure what you are commenting on here - this article is a review of three different types of technology used to pull water from the air.

I found the discussion far more interesting than this dismissal suggests they would be, in particular:

- improvements in dehumidifier tech,

- development of new dessicants that will potentially be more efficient then dehumidification, and

- new fog-catcher designs (fog catchers are already used as reliable water sources)

There are a number of different companies mentioned, some of which have dubious claims, so maybe one of those is the scam you are referring to?

The article seemed balanced to me, not promoting any one company or technology with outlandish claims. It leads in to the discussion by saying "the majority of these devices operate in the same way as mechanical dehumidifiers", differing in two major ways two major ways:

Firstly, robustness – water harvesters are designed to be operated 24/7, rather than to cycle on and off. Secondly, drinking water quality controls are built into the machines. ‘The coil is coated with a food grade coating so that the water that’s collected isn’t exposed to metal contamination, and the air filter is a much higher quality than in a dehumidifier,’

And then it immediately jumps into why this is generally a Bad Idea

But even though this dehumidifier-like water harvesting technology has been around for a while now, ‘the market is still very small’, explains Ruzhu Wang, a professor of refrigeration engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. ‘The reasons are high energy consumption and initial investment costs,’ he adds. Another issue is water capture efficiency; especially in dry, desert conditions where a water harvesting technology might be most needed. The atmosphere must be humid for useful volumes of water vapour to be able to be sucked up using these tools.

This is an area that seems to attract extravagant and unrealistic claims, but I don't think that accusation holds up agains this article.
The talks by Brandon Rhodes are these two:

* The Mighty Dictionary (PyCon 2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMyy4Sm0uBs

* The Dictionary Even Mightier (PyCon 2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66P5FMkWoVU

There's also one by Raymond Hettinger, which seems to have been given first at a meetup and then, in shorter form, at PyCon 2017:

* Modern Dictionaries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p33CVV29OG8

* Modern Python Dictionaries - A confluence of a dozen great ideas (PyCon 2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npw4s1QTmPg
Of course, the definition of "lawful arrest" is pretty flexible these days and can seemingly include arrests that are blatantly unlawful, like some cops deciding to assault a random passerby on the street because they don't like the look of them or are unhappy about legal conduct like photography. Is it okay to resist under those circumstances? According to a judge or a police officer, probably not, but at the end of the day you'd probably win the case. If you survive.
You're also making assumptions here. Lots of out-of-shape programmers have been in fights. Lots of out-of-shape programmers weigh more than twice what this victim weighed, and still move well. Also, get out of here with that "women" bullshit: that proves all your implied expertise comes from watching TV.

The attitude here is typical of bootlickers, however. Never mind that there were a dozen cops present. Never mind that they were not responding to an actual crime. Never mind that very few people in the general public are highly-trained choke-out ninjas. Some cops might get scared, so let's burn the world down. Pathetic.
I'd rather have every news about the Trumpeteer blocked.
Why not Google, instead of demanding that the OP do research for you?

I don't know what quote the OP was referring to, but a couple of searches turn up dozens of quotes from Trump, Trump advisors, and major Republican operatives that might fit the bill. The problem is that they might not fit your bill -- which is really why you should be the one doing the Googling, rather than having someone hunt down quotes so you can reject them.

The first two results that popped up (there are dozens of others):

https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-audio-trump-adviser-r...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/30/trump-republ...
You do know that ... fb ads are served based on off site web history and cross domain activity right?

Because this reminds me of a comment I read by someone saying that Instagram only showed photos of scantily clad women, followed by noticing his account mostly followed scantily clad women
Thank you for the disclaimer even if it wasn't strictly related.
> pay attention when you hear someone’s weight to see if it matches your heuristic

I don't think I've ever heard an adult male ever mention their own weight in public. You can see why it'd be hard to estimate when you don't have any data.
UCL engineers set new world record internet speed at 178Tbits
At least an example of one "other country" would be nice. Never heard of such practice, even though I was working in different countries of Europe and Asia
Your conjecture that this research is shoddy appears to be unfounded.

By using Life Quality Index, which includes Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy, the research takes into account well-being and health impacts other than death; making expected-value decisions on such a metric is a standard way to encode a nonlinear objective function without needing to use higher central moments elsewhere in the decision.

Furthermore, the analysis does look at the economic impacts of relocating people from their homes and does not simply compare the statistics against air pollution.

Finally, economic analysis of old-style nuclear remains incredibly relevant, given that existing "legacy" nuclear power-generating stations represent a significant fraction of total stationary power-generating capacity, and that we have witnessed political movements to replace these facilities with fossil-fuel burning plants due to fear of nuclear accident.