skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I started working on DynaBlogger (https://www.dynablogger.com) I picked Rails because that's what I've been using for many years. After one month or so into the development I tried Elixir and Phoenix and I seriously considered switching since I was still at the beginning. I liked response times in microseconds while with Rails you have to implement aggressive caching to achieve good enough performance. I liked the language and Phoenix too was nice, but eventually I decided to stick with Rails. The main reasons were 1) it was easy to get started but it would have taken quite a while for me to become as fluent with Elixir/Phoenix as with Ruby/Rails, 2) I would have had to reinvent several wheels from scratch or make do with inferior alternatives to popular Ruby gems. I didn't want to spend too much time with this then but I will likely revisit Elixir/Phoenix later, if needed for performance or else.

I think this is a good combination of language and framework but if you go that route you need to be sure you're ok with a smaller ecosystem, meaning that you may need to build things from scratch more often.
"... the participant was injected with the company’s Covid-19 vaccine and not a placebo, Soriot said on the conference call..."

https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/09/astrazeneca-covid19-vacc...
There's definitively a bigger expectation that women should dress up while at the office. Personally, I'll still wake up early, do my hairs and a put on a light makeup just for the 30 minutes long morning meeting. Sure, I'm wearing pajamas pants but you wouldn't know it.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/should-you-wear-m...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01674...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299431552_The_Impac...
https://poolside.fm/
sure, that's the unrealistic part of this video.
I didn’t like the available offers, so I build my own shitty macOS app for that once, you can get it here: https://github.com/TN1ck/BrightnessChanger

Maybe it interests somebody.
This is a really great point and I believe it is (at least partially) driving the anti-science rhetoric that seems to be metastasizing. When a topic is inaccessible to the general public, and only experts in the field can understand it and hold a monopoly on information, then you inevitably start to see pushback against it.

That being said however, making certain fields more accessible to the populace often comes with the price of a false sense of understanding. You see this a lot in medicine with WedMD, where heuristics that largely ignore the deeper pathophysiology have empowered some to believe they are more knowledgeable than their doctors.

This must be doubly true for the more abstract forms of physics - where any simplified analogy is going to give rise to false notions via extrapolation. I think there has to be some sort of balance between the two
If there's no way to prove that semantic processing was used then the rule is unenforceable so you might as well permit it. Cropping the photograph is indistinguishable from using a different camera, and changing the focus is indistinguishable from getting the focus right by accident. Cropping and focus can both be used deceptively, but it's a different type of deception from selective editing of an image, e.g. changing somebody's skin texture.
Alpha Centauri is where it's at for me.

Some gushing: https://paeantosmac.wordpress.com/
It’s a very charitable assumption. New principles were not necessary to block.
It is. Go to https://poolside.fm . They are a “retro” webradio with a summery vibe.
Never heard of this, do you have a link or a searchable phrase? TIA
There is an upside to that madness, and that is the Apple had a 6 color high res graphics screen, and when only one pixel is used, it actually has a close to square ratio.

Most 2bpp displays of that era made wider than tall pixels.

The result, given creative use of patterns was a high res display that could pretty much do anything. Maybe not that well, depending, but 6 colors per line makes differentiating objects clear.

4 is not quite enough.

I would like to know as well.
>How does it compare to the ecosystem cost of coal strip mining?

I think we're all in agreement that coal is terrible and we don't want to use it anymore. Having said that, the one benefit it has over solar and wind is that it doesn't actually need to be backed-up by any other power source. As in, it doesn't need an alternate base-load to be provided.

But again, I take your point ... coal is bad.

The question is, given the environmental impact of solar and wind, coupled with significant limitations (like needing base-load to be provided by fossil fuels) can we do better? It turns out nuclear is much better in every respect. That's all I argued.
Is that extra latency an inherent limitation of how Wayland is designed, or could future optimizations improve Wayland so that its performance is on par with X?
Dude: It's just a simple outliner with features built on top of it. There's not much of a mental model beyond the outline aspect (headings and text). Everything else is just a feature which you don't need to know to use the basics. As your needs go up, you merely learn the feature you want to use. Most people use only 10-20% of Org's features.

Seriously, M-Ret, TAB and S-TAB are all you need to get going.

I watched the Google Tech Talk on it and was immediately productive. Don't bother with the Org manual until you want to do more.
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"Alright" is a common greeting in the UK, similar to "How're you going".
Quora has a program where they pay people a tiny amount to post questions. So there are a lot of stupid questions that could be easily answered with a google / wikipedia / imdb search.

My favorite question, a triple stupid question: "Does California make good wine?" 1. California is a big place, with many different climate zones. 2. There are at least a hundred different varietals. 3: 'good' is a relative term.

Also tons of spammy ads.
I'm probably a younger version of him. I'm miserable because I've lost faith and hope in our systems (corporate, legal, marriage, etc).
OK, but the Apple ][ was sold before special computer monitors were common. It was meant to hook up to your existing home TV. So what mattered at the time was the way most people's TVs were calibrated. They usually had a lot of overscan, because (a) 1970s picture tubes weren't square, they had a lot of rounding at the corners (b) the (all-analog) deflection & blanking circuits made fairly ugly artifacts at the edges which TV makers tried to hide.

If they'd shipped with 320-wide video, a lot of people wouldn't have seen the prompt on the left hand side.
How about making them all accessible to the public? Maybe with a 12 hour delay.
Agreed. Coal is terrible. Too bad solar needs fossil fuel back-up (coal or natural gas). You're not getting off fossil fuels with solar/wind.
You may enjoy a story in which such an AI (played by 4chan randos, at that) is pitted against the God of the Left Behind series.

https://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.TalesFromTheBeyo...
Allow to upload a PGP public key, and reset request page would just return an encrypted PGP message containing a link to reset the password.

Assumes:
- people are less likely to lose their PGP key, than random password to a random website.
- people have PGP keys
- PGP key doesn't contain email address (it does).

Anyway, it would be reliable, and it doesn't need giving third party online service access to all your online accounts.
can you "stream" conform ? for UI live input

so that "john mcallister" yields { :name "john" :lastname "mcallister" } but "john " would yield { :name "john" :lastname nil } (or :todo even)
I disagree that Discord is niche at this point. They're already worth several billion and it's still growing significantly, with perhaps several hundred million users and very high user-retention, usage, network effects, and proprietary lock-in. I'd still invest in Discord today if I could, in a heartbeat.
Is this really just syntactic sugar? None of the examples in the article seemed to show why code would be more readable (array assignment maybe, but the leftward seems just as readable).
Huawei says it will replace Android with its own OS on smartphones in 2021
New Zealand also has a lot of relief. It is not an atoll which could be overrun by a 1 meter sea level rise.
> Soldering SMD components sounds daunting,

It really isn't, watching some videos learning some techniques. Practice. The same statement could be made about most things that people aren't familiar with or haven't spent any time working to learn.
I was a graduate student at CU Boulder right before Dr. Larry Baggett retired. Once, while studying for my analysis prelim I asked him a question off an old exam I was struggling with and he immediately whipped out a piece of paper and pen and starting writing down integrals without skipping a beat. What a truly amazing and brilliant person, thanks Dr. Baggett!
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Yes, buying a car was an investment as in you can buy it and then later sell it used for a higher price than you bought it.
With the bell used in the video, can you (putEverythingInside) && (haveOriginalPlungerWork)?
Techdirt is acting like Sprint was going to remain as a viable company "if only they didn't merge".

But the reality was either they merged, or Sprint would shut down. There was no scenario where Sprint stayed in businesses acting as competition.

On top of the that T-Mobile had a really hard time competing with Verizon and AT&T because of lack of spectrum, so preventing them from getting Sprint's spectrum would actually make them less competitive.

I think the author may have forgotten that Verizon and AT&T are competitors to T-Mobile and instead only paid attention to Sprint.

> "Not only did the DOJ ignore all objective data showing the deal would clearly be terrible for customers, the market, and employees"

What data is this? Because out here in the real world the deal has been amazing for T-Mobile customers and the market. Perhaps not employees, but that's not really a reason to stop it.
It's not actual science though. The "selfish gene" explanation is just wrong. There are plenty of traits that have nothing to do with spreading genes. Some traits simply have no measurable impact on gene selection and therefore just exist and can pass along without cost.

By putting every trait through the "it must help gene selection somehow" is simply wrong and isn't scientific.

Also, why doesn't mutual aid apply to human societies? I haven't seen any evidence why it wouldn't considering the fact that its so pervasive. I literally see it everyday.
> we have good evidence for (self isolation) in favour of rules we have weak evidence for (mask wearing).

> That mask isn't doing much to prevent the spread of your disease.

What is the weak evidence for mask wearing?
It took us a while to get ahold of the .com from the owner in Michigan. After numerous attempts to reach the owner - including a Postmates order, a flower delivery and a hand written Christmas card - we bit the bullet and grabbed the .ca to start. openunit.com eventually expired, went live on the GoDaddy auction site and I was able to pick it up for $400 after a bot tried to outbid me. Over the next week weeks I’ll consolidate the two domains - if developer operations is of interest, please reach out to me at taylor@openunit.com and let’s talk DNS records.
People likely to lose a password, would likely lose this paper code too. People using password manager would not lose the password in the first place.
Huh. I got my II+ with the 80-column card installed. I guess I just assumed that was standard. Being more than 40 yrs ago, I could be misremembering.
Is this different than when you have to adjust your camera a few steps so that snow is not rendered completely (blown out) white?
The real lesson is to always have automated monitoring and alerting in place for everything. Certificate renewal, API schemas, service dependencies, core libraries and protocols - everything can and does change without notice. You could have a single dependency on www.google.com and it would still eventually break.
xterm and compatible terminals have a margin bell; enable with ESC [ ? 4 4 h
> Decorative images should be in your style sheet, not the html document.

Similar to the discussion around functional CSS [1], HTML vs. CSS is a separation of technologies, not a separation of concerns. Neither approach is _wrong_, they just come with different trade-offs.

[1] https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-...
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Are references like statues? Should they be torn down?
yeah, i had to recover my HN account, i forgot i made one
"Smart City" sounds a lot cooler than "1984-style surveillance state". Add some light artwork, upbeat music and some stock photos of happy people and you get the population rooting for you. Just like Apple, Google and Amazon do. Yes Apple is better than the other two, no they're not angels.

And really, the safety aspect is easily circumvented for the bad guys. Take a standard corona mask, hoodie and some sunglasses and you're done.

For the rest of us it means living even more in a panopticon than ever before.
I can't explain why, but I would be sad the day the Voynich gets solved.
Hey, hope you are ok. I for one do not equate CCP with Chinese people,and I try to make that point where it is needed.

Hope you are able to come through this ok.
I've always avoided dell, AMD should be avoided for giving Dell a chip API that let dell do what they did.
Wire up your editor to trigger the USB bell when the cursor reaches the floor(0.95N)th column?
so shouldn’t this fine-scale readjustment of the electron/proton distance be measurable?

Maybe this is the ‘wind’ preventing the electron from reaching the nucleus :)
The "big two" have implementations. Definitely not mature but it's getting there.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Mutter/RemoteDesktop

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kdenetwork/krfb/krfb-configur...

You most likely won't see an implementation "for Wayland" because that's like asking for a websocket implementation "for HTTP" the actual compositors that speak Wayland need to implement remote desktop capabilities and then expose an API for managing remote desktop sessions (org.freedesktop.portal.RemoteDesktop) to programs that want to leverage it.
Director of Level here. We're working on just this. There's a really long form article on Medium / Towards Data Science but apparently HN blocks the domain. If you run a Google search for "How To Teach Programming To People In Prison (Without Computers)" you'll pull up the article. Would be interested to hear your feedback. Thanks!
Ktrl: A Linux keyboard programming daemon
it's understandable given our relative disempowerment on the matter, but it feels a little bread-and-circusy to focus on picture-taking rather than a real-life approximation of an airborne toxic event[0].

in LA, we had a bit of a clearing yesterday, but the bobcat fires (and others) have turned us hazy and slightly orange again. i can feel it in my airways. it's more worrisome than the corona everyone else seems to be fretting about, because it certainly will cause unseen damage to everyone's lungs in varying amounts. hundreds of thousands die every year from air pollution.

[0] delillo, white noise
Which would be the wrong decision if there is a security-critical issue that cannot be fixed in any other way.
I am also struggling to think of a situation where I would want to reach for this feature. The only examples I can muster are just minor improvements to readability, like you pointed out. I would love to see a solid example where this is a must have feature.
I guess that's why there is short video suggestions now in the Youtube app.
I don’t get why people are against cameras. We have limited police resources and need to enable them to locate wanted criminals easily. Betting on police randomly spotting a suspect with their eyes while on patrol is a bad bet. We can do better and this technology is the way.
That might work if you only have one display. But on more than one that gets tiresome real quick.

On linux I use ddccontrol to control the brightness on all displays at once (using a simple for loop in the terminal).

I plan to write a script for it that would allow me to bring up a dialog and enter brightness from just a shortcut, but this is good enough til that itch comes.

I'm sure there are alternatives to all operating systems.
And here's a MIDI-to-CV controller built with a $3 microcontroller instead of a $40 computer: https://github.com/elkayem/midi2cv
Great idea!

Now the snoopy old lady across the road can actually follow you around town at all hours.
Doesn't sound like it would have paid much less and he would have had much more free time, but it seems he was so enamored with working at HP he didn't mind getting subsistence wages as an engineer.
It is always rendering at integer scale and always downscaling to target size (upscaling would result in blurriness; upscaled apps are only those that support only @1X scale).

Just take a screenshot of your desktop and check it's resolution, then compare to physical display resolution. Apple uses output scaler of the final, composited image.

It's not stupid; it is a solution that you can implement without support at application side and is relatively simple. Going Android way means, that all apps have to support random scales, which means they have to ship with assets for that.
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Most people are familiar the standard narrative arc structure (which makes for compelling storytelling):

normalcy -> conflict -> (rising action to) climax -> resolution.

In flash fiction (i.e. very short fiction), the same elements exist, but due to brevity constraints, it starts the story in the middle, i.e. the point of conflict or climax, and then resolves the other parts along the way.

I think creators who understand how to exploit this structure could potentially make some really compelling short videos.

Example:

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
You probably don't need systemd (on WSL)
Yup. In the early days one of the first things I did to the TV's I setup for myself and others as monitors was to do a full CRT setup to put the entire safe area on screen, converge, color drive, etc...

The Apple always fit. Atari machines often didn't.

On my personal "monitor", I scored a finer dot pitch CRT and did a lot of work to put the entire frame on screen.

Atari did allow wide screen DMA which used up nearly the entire active display area.

I would run a 384x224 display on it sometimes.

And after a full alignment, better CRT, one could read 80 columns on the set and watch color programs look very good.
Yeah, maybe it's more like "state is hard, so only Paul can do it. If you want to Paul to change some state for you, then you're gonna need to fill out this form."
Do you have any data to support that incarcerating someone via forceful removal of them from their home and creating a financial burden on them is an effective suicide prevention measure? It certainly doesn't feel self evident that is and it seems quite possible that it would have the opposite effect.

So that's why one might care.
https://xkcd.com/2357/
Yes - we're a nonprofit that's entirely supported by donors. The prisons / municipalities are broke for stuff like this. They don't even serve edible food. As we get further in our development there are large foundations which are interested in just this type of work. Until then, it's community supported. Thankfully, we have no paid staff (right now) and the production and distribution of the content doesn't cost a ton. So the money goes pretty far.
Wonder if it goes even further back to using morse code. As there was no 'case' in that just letters and numbers. Think the custom was to use upper case there. An interesting project to look into someday I guess.
My family and I also live in Seattle and are in the middle of moving for similar reasons (sold my house, bought another one, waiting for everything to close). I probably wouldn't have pulled the trigger, but I have a friend who happens to be a real estate agent, and that made things a lot easier. Still, moving is expensive, a lot of work, and really disruptive! (I'm typing this from a hotel room...)
>Yes, this is just the latest attack angle.

I didn't take that angle, so why bring it up?

Solar and wind are diffuse, low-density, energy sources. This is why you need to use a lot of land to collect that energy and therefore a lot of panels and turbines. This also implies a lot of land for mining the necessary metals, and a lot of land when they are inevitably decommissioned. There are costs to this in a world which has a growing population numbering in billions and growing per/capita energy needs and which is going through environmental collapse already.

This is NOT a bad faith argument. Wind and Solar may never be viable outside of niche areas. Wind and Solar may not even be that great against climate change given that they are not viable without fossil fuel base-load (natural gas companies are some of the biggest proponents of wind and solar these days).

Nuclear just so happens to be an energy source that doesn't release carbon into the atmosphere, doesn't need fossil-fuel base-load, and has minuscule land-use requirements. All I argued is that it is inevitable that we will have to rebuild our nuclear infrastructure because there aren't any other options.
Open source projects still have a copyright holder with special rights.
I explain the abundance of hackers in Eastern Europe this way. The government supports black hats implicitly by giving them special treatment in criminal court. They are raised in the black market and gain their skills there. When they become prominent enough to gain the notice of the authorities they are given a plea bargain. They can either rot in prison for a decade or join the government and hack for the state. Young hackers can act with impunity knowing that the worst that can happen is they receive a cushy office job. The USA doesn't have this system.
Unfortunately, no. This was done for a client and is proprietary.
these results are not terrible. relevant long tail results are hard. well done.
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Thanks for working on the docs and engaging here, I know it can sometimes be a thankless task.

I don't think it's a matter of opinion that the vast majority of software in common use does not use strict semantic versioning, most likely including the web browser and operating system you are using to read this comment, popular packages like kubernetes, and the Go project itself in the mooted 2.0 with no breaking changes. It is highly desirable to avoid significant breakage, even to the point of ignoring strict semver and avoiding it across major version changes! So I'm not arguing for encouraging packages to break, but rather the reverse, I prefer the status quo pre go mod where packages are assumed not to break importers, though sometimes small breakage happens and/or is acceptable.

Most packages use a weaker version of semver than the one you describe, which is still useful, so I'm not clear why the go tools have to impose the very strong version which is not commonly used. The difficulties introduced seem to outweigh any benefit to me.
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> In C# 9.0, you can omit the type in a new expression when the created object's type is already known.

private List<WeatherObservation> _observations = new();

This is something I've long wondered why I couldn't do and I'm glad I'll be able to in C# 9.
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