skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren’t these all risks with paper voting too? There’s no way for us to verify the results in an open and transparent way.
They did that with a "simple" piece of paper? Imagine what they could do with a "complex" piece of paper!

More seriously, we've seen attempts to make flat keyboards [0]. The lack of haptic feedback limits them to niche devices. If they can do more than just input devices though, I'd be much more interested.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/AGS-Wireless-Projection-Bluetooth-Sma...
You can eliminate 80% of Internet harassment simply by being male (continuously from birth).
Wouldn't some kind of static linking of the right GTK libraries inside your binary help? Completely newbie question, I am not claiming anything.
Too bad they published it through Elsevier. I would have liked to read their paper.
And Perl took this convention from Prolog. In Perl it's the default context, in Prolog the default unknown symbol.
Twitter Stopped Letting New Users Pick Their Usernames During Sign-Up Years Ago
I love corporations. I choose to work in one. Corporations are assemblages of people. We use them to organize people for productive things. We know the things people do are productive because other people pay the corporation for it. If the corporation starts doing bad stuff they lose money and reform or eventually die. Corporations want their employees to be happy so they are more productive. No one is coerced into working for the corporation - people enter and exit voluntarily. Corporations don’t have ulterior motives of turning employees into devil worshippers or whatever the author is accusing them of.

I’m also happy that non profits exist so others can work for them if they choose to do so. While I am still free to choose I will work at corporations so I can be maximally productive and earn the most money I possibly can.
I can't edit my comment but replace Majority with Minority and that's what I meant.
It pops up during presidential election years. The donations are what is funding the DNC and the Biden campaign. It's an odd thing when you consider that Harris was a prosecutor who was unusually aggressive about putting black people in prison for minor offenses like pot, and that Biden was a senator who pushed to pass the strict sentencing.

I think the deal is that getting a person to donate to an uninspiring political campaign is difficult, but it is easy to add a more-palatable organization in the middle to pass along the funding. It's almost money laundering.
The tight performance bounds for Union-Find data structures are ridiculously complicated to prove given how simple the algorithm is, even in a mathematical sense.

There isn't a lot of theory-building in algorithms, compared to the more traditional fields of maths, but the combinatorics are formidable.
Belarus was never _not_ authoritarian. This isn’t really new.
Your observations are coincidental and skewed by cognitive bias. A neurosurgeon is one obvious counterexample.

The predominant determinant of labor compensation is substitutability.
Doesn't moderation solve the quality problem? Content is only low quality when the admins intentionally don't moderate.
Windows-only.
> What right do you have to demand that things be manufactured in a particular way?

What right does the corporatocracy have to poison the world and create wasteful, planned-obsolescent, proprietary, non-modular tech? What right do Global North countries have to create monopolies for intellectual 'property' that keep people from understanding the basic building blocks of our modern world (and who are therefore easier to rip off/cheat)?

> I don't want my tablet's battery to be user replaceable!

Tell that to the kids in Ghana choking on your (and our) e-waste

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mleQVO1Vd1I
True - and I think schools can enable this and teach knowledge in vastly superior ways.
Is there a version of this that runs on 13.5, since that's jail-breakable?
Swc-node: Faster ts-node without typecheck (useful for tests)
GP didn't demand a flip-up hatch to swap out batteries, just that it be possible on some level. As it is, you generally can't buy even first-party batteries to replace even if you have the 'specialised tools' (aka a screwdriver) to open it up.
See, everyone is different. My phone never comes close enough to my bathroom to end up in the toilet or the bathtub.

It shouldn't be this all-or-nothing approach. We need choice and diversity in these markets. Same applies to screen sizes, btw — everyone's different, some people do watch video on their phone, some are disgusted by the very idea of it.
_Exactly_. Tech companies regularly exist purely based off of illegal business models (they call them _Disruptions_).

So, yes, we agree, if there are repercussions for a company regularly breaking the law, then engineers can and should refuse work that has negative legal or moral repercussions. But in the world of tech, that's not the case.
Insignificant people? Who?
That sounds amazing! Which one is it? Do you have a link?

I'd really like to experiment with all the new mobile Linux software on an e-reader. I can't guarantee anything, but the community may just grow a little :-)

Would you mind sharing some details about how you implemented the driver? I happen to have an ED097OC1 (possibly excess stock from the Kindle DX) on my hands and would like to drive it from a Linux system.
Thanks for sharing! I have heard this called biomimicry. When you take inspiration from nature to create designs.

I enjoyed this video on the concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf4oW8OtaPY
> Automatically generating monoids such as the stack monoid from their corresponding simple sequential programs seems like an extremely promising area for research.

I was interested in this problem a while back and the papers I remembered being useful were:

"Automatic Inversion Generates
Divide-and-Conquer Parallel Programs": https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/192663016.pdf

which is based on "The Third Homomorphism Theorem": http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/publications/th...

The motivating example is whether you can generate a mergesort (where the monoid is combine two sorted lists) given an implementation of an insertion sort (where the sequential program is inserting one element by one into a sorted list).

I remember being disappointed by the answer after reading these papers but in the citation graph there are a bunch of relatively recent program synthesis papers. Maybe there's something better now.
The Misleading Joy of Consistency
Today is my 250th day streak at Duolingo, but what's the point?!
I can't talk 3 Spanish sentences straight.
Here, I'm talking about two factors we miss while being consistent and can affect our productivity.

This article was originally published on my site 8 days ago, so don't be confused about 241 days in the image :)
I was pretty disappointment by Noita

I had been looking forward to this game for years before it was released, but it ended up being quite a different game then I had intuited from the trailers. I expected an environmental sandbox where you would have to combine quick thinking with the manipulation of interacting environmental elements (water + electricity, or fire + coal) to survive, similar to my favorite roguelike Brogue. When the game came out, I realized it was designed more in the style of Binding of Isaac or Risk of Rain, emphasizing combining slotmachine-esque random weapon modifiers into hideously overpowered weapons that for the most part did not meaningfully interact with the environmental simulation in a meaningful way.

It is still an interesting experience, the weapon combination system is a strong source of emergent play, but that emergent weapon design does not meaningfully influence the player's strategy in how he/she approaches the game across runs.

I think there is a better game trapped inside of the pixel simulation of Noita, waiting to be unearthed.
How's Target any different?

The issue is basically whether the store has opened up itself as the marketplace for third-party-sellers, and how much they push these third-party sellers compared to their own products.

It seems like Target may be more conservative with their Target Plus compared to Walmart and Amazon. However, even Newegg and many other stores have gotten on the third-party bandwagon.
I noticed that the job app lists US Citizenship as required for ITAR. This is not true, Legal Permanent Residents are in fact US persons for ITAR requirements.
This has a certain “Diamond Age” vibe to it. I’m all for single-function devices as individual pieces of “smart” paper.
> It's not enough to just have the direction be right.

That's a subjective value statement, not an objective fact.
I print a lot of miniatures which require tons of supports, but the support process most people in my space use result in supports that are incredibly easy to remove - it got to a point for me where I enjoyed removing supports that I was printing too much. Sort of like when we'd put Elmer's glue on our hands just to pull it off after it dried back in school. :)

Post (or pre) support removal is an isopropyl or acetone (or other agent) bath to remove any liquid surface resin and then a final UV curing.

I use an Anycubic curing station so that definitely speeds things up. To process a full build plate from my EPAX X10 it takes upwards of five minutes of my time [in terms of attention] (plus six minutes in the alcohol bath and six minutes in the UV cure chamber, which are both unattended processes).
Chart: How disinformation spreads on Twitter
I am guessing its because the hackers are not gaming fakespot's detection systems.

If amazon adopted fakespot's algorithm, the hackers would circumvent it within a week. This would also happen if fakespot reaches a critical mass of audience.
> that's not good but 40% is almost saint-like by (say) french standards.

I think a lot of that is just party loyalty at the moment, and party loyalty is a MUCH bigger deal in the US than in most European countries.
Yes, I think that's the objective for the licence. Reading slightly more into the product (Halo 2), they would benefit from more adoption by others as it could facilitate cross-chain interoperation.

The license model gives everyone equal access to the code, and equal rights to improve Halo commercially (make money?) with the promise that they subsequently open-source their improvements after 12 months.

This license model fits this product quite well.
Can’t you do that with a regular printer and the last line use the print head with a shovel thing attachment to push it off the bed at the end?
> There's something so arrogant about the right-to-repair and user-serviceable crowd who think devices should be crippled to suit their minority requirements at the expense of the majority.

I want to buy a device once and use it forever. That's it. It's that simple. The glued-together construction artificially limits the lifespan of the device.

And, actually, it's possible to have both. I remember there were water-resistant Sony phones that had user-replaceable batteries.
Four Reasons Why I Write
>You are still talking about mapping the simulation to a representation that will make sense to you.

I am talking about mapping that will make sense to anybody at all, be that inside or outside the simulation. If such mapping cannot be constructed, then how can we state that information about these computations exists in dust?

The part about abacus is very good, but it is also very different from dust theory, since with abacus there is a process of computation, states are obtained one from another sequentially, and the positions of abacus beads are not random. In the case of dust the information about the simulation is clearly not contained in the dust, so it's unclear how dust can cause the simulation to exist.

> It seems that information in our universe cannot exist without some physical medium

isn't that simply due to the definition of the word exist?
> If it's so powerful, why did it not take over the rest of the world.

Time. For going from 1/10 000 000 to 25% of the population in 300 generations (7500 years), you need to have a gene that give you 5% more offsprings at each generation.
It looks like your iPad had a defective battery. You can’t expect 100% defect free - at a large scale.

I, like many other parents who deal with kids throwing these in tubs and toilets, really like devices for being water resistant. It’s just a trade off you’ll have to make.
The University of Auckland has developed a CubeSat specifically for measuring ionospheric disturbances and researching whether there is any relation to earthquake activity. They aren't looking at solar proton activity specifically but nonetheless may find something interesting.

You can read a bit more about QuakeTEC (the team responsible) here https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2019/11/25/space-cadets.h...
> I want to buy a device once and use it forever.

Ok... but most people don't. So you aren't going to get that. You can't expect phone development projects costing hundreds of millions of dollars to cater to your particular views. And guess what more: people who buy a device just once aren't going to be anyone's priority for anything.

> And, actually, it's possible to have both. I remember there were water-resistant Sony phones that had user-replaceable batteries.

How thick were they, though?
The ‘last dictatorship in Europe’ moniker dates back to a time when the general impression was that Russia was democratising. It’s definitely more dubious now.
I'll add one of my favorite ones: you can do Option-Command-C to copy the path of a file to the clipboard (if you need to use it somewhere that doesn't support dragging to paste a path).
Western medicine did produce it, or at least started to catch on. Then the war on drugs moral panic hit and all that research was shut down.
Lichess has free analysis. Chess.com has limited free analysis.
> I wish there were just one highly-regarded expert source so that I could just go with what they say and not have to research every little thing.

I find the same with different subjects matters. Something I really needed to dive into, fish farming, in the end resulted in me taking a one year vocational course. That was a good expert source. Another thing I do, is work with recording music, as an amateur. Again a subject with tons of information available, most of it is poor IMHO. I know a vocational course would help, but most materials for this is not available publicly. It frustrates me that a lot of school material, paid for by the government, is behind a gatekeeper. Not sure how to solve that.
Awful tabloid theatrics aside, the story illustrates the serious point that there is way too much opacity regarding money in our society.

Bring it all out into the sunlight. Then figure out what policy should be.
> Half baked mouse support, awful windows management with incongruent fullscreen functionality, half baked multi monitor integration, terrible thermals/performance, and the removal of anti-aliased text made MacOS a generally poor desktop experience for me.

All of these features pose significant issues on a desktop that utilizes multiple monitors, large screen real estate per monitor, a mouse, and sub 1440p displays. They all are considerably less important factors on a laptop that commonly utilizes a trackpad and a single retina resolution screen with limited real estate.
Qt 6.0 Feature Freeze Milestone Reached
Another big annoyance: you can't turn on natural scrolling for trackpads but have it off for the mouse. The two separate settings are inexplicably linked.
Questions like yours that get asked time and time again on HN make me sigh with frustrated rage, especially when posted by someone with a 20 day old nick with 100+ karma. But, to quote one of your own submissions [1]

There are many quotes on questions, like “better to ask and be thought a fool for five minutes than to remain a fool forever” and the likes, but to me, there is something deeper than that. Asking questions often reveals a lot more information than just the answer to the question, almost regardless of the situation.

However, it is always worth doing a search before asking questions rather than receiving a spoon-fed answer (or a Dang "discussed Previously At:) comment but - here ya go ... follow the Rabbit Hole of Links to Truly Understand the 'Why'.

Search is your friend when it comes to things like 'why doesn't HN do x or y?'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21788013

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23741350

Edit to add forgotten [1] link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24366538
I had a lot of fun modding this game. The files were in LUA (I think) and you could easily give your character whatever starting equipment you want. Oil wand + fire was a good time.
I think it's a qualitative difference. Belarus has corruption but it's consolidated to the top even if there's more of it. Compare with Ukraine where IT business will be killed off before it gets off the ground because every small time bureaucrat wants their pound of flesh. As a result a significant portion of Ukrainian talent goes through companies that are/were Belarussian even though Ukraine has the center of gravity in terms of talent concentration.
It's just another day in Facebook.
They also had a massively exaggerated view of the Soviet leadership’s and system’s incompetence, likely driven by their racial theories.
Hillary Clinton didn't call the working class deplorables.

Here are her words, verbatim:

“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s
supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?”

“The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it.
And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”

As you can read, the "basket of deplorables" refers to "about half of Trump's supporters" who she considers "“The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it."

Now one can argue that she was wrong about the fraction of Trump's supporters who fit this archetype, but she did also call her own comment "grossly generalistic," so she wasn't trying to be precise and make a statement about literally 50% of Trump supporters.

The only way someone can interpret this as referring to the entire working class is if, 1) they simply drink the Trumpist Kool-Aid without bothering to research because Screechy Woman Bad, or 2) they believe the entire working class comprises about half of Trump supporters, all of whom are racist, sexist, homophobic and xenophobic.

And Biden being boring shouldn't be a negative. The Presidency isn't supposed to be entertainment, it's a political office in a bureaucracy.
I think this comment has the right idea [0]. Amazon has two problems with seeds:

1. people doing what appears to be a weird scam that involves seeds being mailed across boarders

2. seed sellers on amazon have been flagrantly violate import controls for years.

This new policy seems to be addressing #2, which is important to Amazon now more than ever because of the increased scrutiny caused by #1 making international news.

I've personally bought seeds from Amazon which were declared as "bookmarks" to sneak past US customs.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24393395
But works on Linux too: https://www.protondb.com/app/881100
Handing over all of your user details and auth management to a VC-funded company with 1000x exit pressure from investors... what could go wrong.
Uhh, they just drank different milk. Ox milk, goat milk, etc.

Cattle are not always found in other places.
Student Teacher
There's a number of other reasons the OSI doesn't approve licenses, such as avoiding license proliferation https://opensource.org/proliferation . As a simple example, there are a huge number of variants of the 4-clause BSD licenses where the advertising clause lists more and more people besides the University of California; they're all open-source licenses under the Open Source Definition, but the OSI isn't interested in promoting them, because including all of those advertising clauses is a pain.

I think this post is not claiming that the license is (yet) approved by OSI, but it is claiming that it's an open source license under the OSD.
You're a good person.

That's been bugging me for years, but just a tad under bugging me enough that I'd take the time to solve it.

Thank you!
Carmack is...a special case.

The reason why being blindingly fast in tmux/emacs/vim/shell/etc. is a difference in kind rather than degree is because it lowers the activation energy on trying radically different things. If you can move massive amounts of code around quickly and accurately you can try a different design on a whim, and throw it all away without a second thought if it doesn’t work out.

When manipulating code is time consuming there is a tendency to “make it work” with the design you’ve got. So much code looks like someone “made it work”.
Authoritarian propaganda alleges that journalists are fabricating news.

I'm not alleging fraud but neglect and passive collusion. That is, journalists are allowing certain US Gov misdeeds to go largely unreported while amplifying US Gov voices w/o ever vetting if official claims are true.
Works perfectly for me on Linux using Proton. I've played 36 hours and haven't experienced a single issue.
I thought I liked programming, but when I tried to learn other languages, I found out I just like Python.
funny, I thought AI/DL has been ready to save the world for a while since everyone is bragging its power but until now Amazon still faces fake reviews problem.
I analyzed 24 blog posts on API design (rest/graphql/rpc) and compiled a list of the books they recommended (sorted by the most popular ones first) https://www.readthistwice.com/lists/best-api-design-books.
Which nucleotide site is that?
It must be possible to do on ARM Macs once they are released. Even if they are still encrypted (regular macOS App Store are not), extracting the key from macOS memory has to be simpler than on an iOS device.
Well, i think you could just take away all the enjoyable stimulus you provide (music, points, etc) for positive tabs. Turn down the music and subtract points. I think playing harsh noises or something like that would be over the top though
Who cares? If you are watching a game, it doesn't matter if one side is a bot.
My personal must haves are Yoink for drag and drop, Moom for window sizing/placement, Default Folder X.
Well, yes, it’s bad, I am not defending it (and I have never seen it in the wild, even in class when I was taught Riemann integration). I am not sure how the supposed popularity of ‘right Riemann sum’ means that ‘horizontal integral’ would be any good.
I've found that I'm very, very biased towards certain tech stacks and against others.

Erlang, UNIX, C, by all means.

Windows, C++, Java, no thanks.

Python is rare in that it's in the middle: it's very useful, and I don't hate it, but neither am I a big fan.
Maybe, though you risk breaking the print head if the print is stuck to the print surface.
It's worth noting that this specific situation is only possible due to the insane complexity of gift tax laws. Payments made into a trust are supposed to be gifts, and taxed accordingly. However there's a number of ways to get around this. This strategy doesn't work if you have to pay a 40% tax on transferring your assets into a trust, and another 40% tax when you want to transfer those assets into another trust.
Not sure why you're being voted down.

That's one of the most facepalm-inducing headlines I've ever seen on here.
In a rat, but too much red meat is also linked with cancer.
cmd+shift+5 pops up a screenshot and record tool for screen, window or selectable area. Also lets you send to file, clipboard, mail, etc.
The range is terrible. Lower than Bluetooth and mugch tighter line of sight too.

And it's less durable than a smartphone which is great as saving to SSD at shutdown.