skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lead-taught General Assembly's web development bootcamp for a year and a half. My students included a retired Air Force colonel, an orthodox Jewish grandma, and a guy who used to write FORTRAN in the 70s, in addition to lots of people in their 20s and 30s.

We came to realize that one of the most important things our students needed to learn is that their previous careers were an asset that gave them a significant edge over their competition in the job marketplace. They weren't jumping ship and starting their careers over; they were expressing their skills in a different way.

Coding is just a part of being a programmer. Unless you're working for yourself, by yourself, a bigger and more important part is being able to communicate with others about what you're coding. As an employer, given the choice between a competent developer who knows how to communicate an idea and work with others, and a "rockstar"/"ninja"/"master hacker" developer who doesn't, I'll take the former choice every time.

Whether you're switching to technology from being a waiter, a salesperson, a graphic designer, or whatever, the experience you gained from your prior jobs is hugely valuable.
They're cheap and easy to use.

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The southern hemisphere has not seen the same amount of polar "amplification" as the northern (b/c more land in the northern hemisphere). But still an active topic of research [0]

[0] https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
Cameras are also nice for enabling pass-through views. Works much better than you might think on the Quest. My phone hasn't been working the last few days, so I've been watching videos (etc) in the Oculus browser with the passthrough environment, and I can walk around a bit and do stuff (brush teeth, etc) while watching a video on a large screen, and it's relatively practical (hand tracking is still annoying and largely 2D so it's still better to use a controller), but this could be improved with software updates and the improved Quest 2. The view is stereoscopic and so eye-hand coordination works basically flawlessly (much better than I thought it would).

It'd be sweet if someone eventually made a headset with pass-through view with high resolution and ability to choose wavelength (UV to IR, maybe even a phased audio array to visualize sound sources for the deaf).

If you could make the tracking cameras work in the Sun and figured out a way to harden the display (perhaps using a protective electronic shutter system) to sunlight, it'd be closer to a general platform.
There could be an industry wide agreement to reserve the top two pixel rows for realtime visual feedback of sensor use.

Apple already has this. Little orange dot indicates audio. There's a blue arrow for location access. I don't know if there's something for video or not.

You can then go into the Settings app and see which apps were using those features.
This might come handy, thanks!

A lot of big name 3d printing software are really badly written and perform horribly on complex models.
I think the mistake you're making here is assuming that the United States can only apply blanket policies to all countries and can't treat individual countries differently.

Your aggregation view isn't correct in practical terms. The government (with the consent of the voters, I need to keep stressing that) decided that grenade launchers should be banned, but they didn't decide that all firearms or weapons should be banned. You can clearly see how you can pick and choose categories or different aggregation levels to take specific action on.

It's like, you ban grenade launchers because you don't like the potential harmful effects. You ban Chinese companies because you don't like how the Chinese government treats your country. I think it's pretty straightforward generally speaking. We wouldn't be here if China allowed free reign for US companies to operate in China as we have for a long time allowed Chinese companies to operate in the US. We even only ask that Chinese researchers disclose their military affiliation. In China do you think they'd let US military officers work at top research universities in China? Why wouldn't they? Why should the US?
There is no limit but, for the moment, we recommend it for teams up to 100 users.
That you brought that interview up at all guarantees you didn't listen to it.

Abigail Shrier is very supportive of transgendered people, and conveyed in some depth her numerous interviews with medical health professionals who provide aspects of gender reassignment and agreed with their unequivocal experience that it's helping people.

Her book is specifically about statistically aberrant behaviour in small groups of female teens that show atypical behaviour compared to normal transgendered people that are being given hormones and life altering treatments with minimal oversight, often to their lasting detriment.

That isn't transphobic.
Given the arbitrary way in which the CCP laws you mentioned are applied, I don't see any practical difference with the US action. I do agree that the CCP's way gives a better image so that its spokespeople can pretend like they are just upholding the rule of law and hide the reality.
This is a private company making its own decisions, not the government.

Also, cancel culture is a catch-22 where those who named and bash it frequently turn to it all the same by going after private companies and persons like Ted Cruz trying to boycott Nike this summer. It's almost an oxymoron. Everyone does it to some degree and it is a perfectly lawful way to vote with your wallet aka boycott those with opinions or actions counter to your morals. Personally I find Trumps fraudulent use of his NY charity, shut down after he settled fraud charges, more than enough reason to boycott him and those who support him. If that's cancel culture, then good.
Apple Terminal and kitty both have less latency than Alacritty. Alacritty being “the fastest” may just be a marketing gimmick.

https://thume.ca/2020/05/20/making-a-latency-tester/
Oof good thing I stayed away
>Well, getting certain infections as a child will cause permanent damage that continues into adulthood. And increasing the likelihood of getting infections also increases the likelihood of getting a particularly bad one.

>It could certainly happen but does it happen in most case ?

Shingles is from varicella-zoster virus, which causes chicken pox in children, reawakening within your nervous system at a later age. Most children in the US born earlier than 1995 were probably not vaccinated against chickenpox, and have a higher risk of shingles trashing their nervous system at an older age.

Assuming "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is flawed. Viruses can lay dormant and slowly kill you, or flare up and cause complications later. A lot of viruses like herpes family, hepatitis, HIV, are bad mojo that typically leave your body permanently weaker after infection, not stronger.
(i3-gaps user) Tiling is basically an extension of this, and it can absolutely make your life easier if your work or play revolves around switching between workspaces that contain ~3+ windows each.
That seems rather bleak and somewhat Malthusian. I'm further perplexed by the idea that anti-individualism or some sort of collectivism would be "better for us". Historically, collectivist thinking hasn't been positive for anyone who's interests fall outside of the narrow interests of those in power.
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> It needs to be a game changer and the future of something or the research funding and developer ecosystem are going to dry up.

I hate that we live in a world so dominated by network effects, economies of scale, corporate consolidation, and shareholder value that there are fewer and fewer realms where "small success" still exists.
How do you define "algorithmic" filtering?
Use long flags when scripting (2013)
Banning TikTok isn't going to help Hong Kong.
Years ago, I worked at a factory that had thousands of variations of a large, heavy product, some dating back to the 60s. This product has multiple units packed for shipping on pallets and random scrap pieces of wood and then strapped down like some sort of Jenga puzzle.

I created a generic OpenSCAD model for the product, and fed in parameters derrived from more than a dozen data sources to generate a model for every variation. Then, took the 90th percentile by production numbers, and overlaid the models to show the boundaries of the variations as one model. That shape was then used to generate stack-able, vacuum-formed trays to hold the product.

I had a couple of expensive 3D CAD products at my disposal there, but OpenSCAD was the solution I needed to programatically crank out models. That's how my foray into programming started and my career shifted from Manufacturing Engineering to Software. Thanks OpenSCAD team!
This is how you end up with students who are not prepared for the workforce because they haven't been trained on the tools that businesses actually use.

There is nothing ethically wrong with asking students to purchase proprietary services, but it is tone deaf to make them buy absurdly expensive software.
If we recognize the government's ability to enact boycotts and sanctions, we must recognize its ability to ban foreign companies with connections to adversaries. If we reject the former, we have to make an argument that incorporates its centuries of precedent. (In the United States. Millenia, more generally.)
>There is a lot of hate but what is really appalling is how few trump supporters can be reasoned with. Or can see reason at all. The ones that could... are no longer Trump supporters.

This is literally the exact same thing Trump supporters say about Democrats, that they only reason with emotion and can't use facts or logic.

>Please do keep in mind that while it may be "half the US population" (it's not), it's definitely not half the world population. An absolute majority of the world is looking at the USA in utter disgust.

He's actually relatively popular in India (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/01/08/how-people-...), and also in China (can't find a better source than https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Trump-popular-in-China, but if you know many mainland Chinese you could ask them), which make up a significant chunk of the global population.
This is why Facebook's culture is the real problem, and it won't be fixed no matter how many "independent" oversight boards they produce.
By that logic shouldn't it be octopodes? That way we're consistently greek.
Trump admin looking into Tencent’s US gaming investments
I don't really understand the composition API. Doesn't passing values by reference which can be modified anywhere downward the tree make your app difficult to reason and debug it?
Code signing has been a thing for a while, Windows has had it for ages.

With Windows though you have to get a cert from an authorized partner, with Apple you go directly to the source.

That includes agreeing with the terms of the developer agreement, which clearly states that if you violate the rules, you lose access to your developer account, and thus access to the signing keys to sign new applications.
Actually was “Mozilla give up Firefox send and Firefox notes”

https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/
> Vue 3 has demonstrated significant performance improvements over Vue 2 in terms of bundle size (up to 41% lighter with tree-shaking), initial render (up to 55% faster), updates (up to 133% faster), and memory usage (up to 120% less).

What does 120% less memory usage mean, really?
Peter Godfrey Smith has a great summary of this in "Other Minds":

> Why should an organism devote all its resources to one brood, or one breeding season? Much depends, again, on the risk of death by predation and other external causes—especially on how this risk changes over an animal’s lifetime. Suppose in some animal the juvenile stage is risky, but once you get to be an adult, you can expect to live for a while without being eaten. Then it makes sense for adults to reproduce more than once. That applies to fish and many mammals. If, on the other hand, the adult life stage is very risky, it might make more sense to “go for broke” as soon as you get to a stage where you can breed. Seasons also play a role. There might be a good season for laying eggs, or for hatching. That will determine a timetable within each year; perhaps it makes sense to mate in spring, or in winter. Then the question becomes: During how many years should you try to reproduce? Initially it might seem obvious that there is no harm in leaving it open, at least, that you will be around for another couple of years. You might make it through. Why fall apart in the meantime? But here the Williams argument returns, along with the need to think about these evolutionary questions by considering vast numbers of individuals and many generations. In the abstract, you would like to live and mate forever—at least from an evolutionary point of view. But who will leave more descendants, an organism which spends everything on one mating season, or a rival which spends less now in the hope of reproducing again later? If you spend less now to save something for later, that will do you no good if animals of your kind have little chance of making it to the next breeding season. In that case, it is better to put everything into one mating season, embracing all the options which give you an advantage now, even at the cost of breakdown once the season is done.
Quite possibly the only "plain" HTML website with an SSL cert I've ever came across.
would people stop using Instagram because of it?

Any responsible parent would make sure their young children didn't use it.

There is a minority of users who will feel rightfully violated in their privacy

So? Because they're in the minority their voices don't matter?

The worst that will happen is that FB will be sanctioned to pay a laughably low fine.

Sadly, you're spot-on with this one.
“Just the facts” come on
> I can not really square that circle.

I have similar experience. When I was in the military I was very "Sir, yes sir". Nowadays, I need to understand what / why I am doing what I am doing. It's worked well for me in hyper growth environments and not so well in established companies where people don't question the status quo.

I could be wrong here, but generally I see two types of people. People who care about what they're doing and people who don't (missionaries vs. mercenaries).

The trick is to not come off combative or argumentative. Tricking people into thinking something was their idea has worked well for my personal journey.
Also, you don't need to sign code to distribute it. Sure, it makes it a lot harder on the user, but the user can easily allow unsigned code to run.

So what they say isn't even true.
> How does the police being abusive make it okay for the rioters to burn down random buildings?

It doesn't absolve any responsibility, but if you take a step back - the police behavior was the indirect and sometimes direct cause of the other symptom.
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> "CIA does way more than lying and propaganda. They create wars too."

No one is saying they don't create wars. Look into the School of Americas for all the death and destruction the CIA caused in Latin and South America. The CIA was also first on the ground in both Afghanistan and Iraq post-9/11. But that's not what we're talking about here.

We're talking about a CIA report on a subject of importance to the president. The CIA isn't going to release that report without sign-off from the top brass, all of whom serve at the pleasure of the president.
The UN did audit, to the opposition of the US and UK, and "reached consensus" with China.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-un/china-say...
I think the US passing legislation that requires foreign companies to transfer their technology (or worse, copying brutally repressive CCP laws on media) would be far far far more damaging than surgically banning companies from specific countries under a reciprocal reaction.
Panorama was a firefox killer feature for me. So slick, so useful.

I _really_ enjoyed the ability to switch between different sets of tabs depending on which project I was focusing on at the moment. The Panorama UI made it quick, simple, and painless to do. It seems like most users simply use multiple browser windows, but I've honestly never been able to figure out how that works effectively when you're juggling multiple projects at once: when I'm not working on a particular project, I want it completely gone and (safely) hidden away so that it doesn't distract from my current project.

And then of course Firefox killed the Panorama feature. With the rationalization that no one used the feature and that it would be better implemented as an extension. Except that the extension went unmaintained after a few months. And then later, Firefox broke the APIs that made Panorama possible. The net result being that in the past few years, my productivity in the browser plummeted.

There are various tab management addons for Firefox but almost all of them have the following downsides:

* geared towards manually saving and restoring tabs (I don't want manual anything, I just want to switch between groups of tabs with a couple of clicks)
* not actively maintained
* buggy (as in, loses tabs for useful content that in some cases took a long time to find)

So far the one I've had the most luck with recently is Tiled Tab Groups (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tiled-tab-gro...). I don't use the UI for it, though, unless I'm creating a new group. I just click on the icon in the toolbar and select the group I want. It's still on probation as far as I'm concerned but it hasn't crashed or lost tabs on me yet.
Apple's wording is loose enough not to preclude it. "Not doing anything" is present tense, but they could still have said they were going to. No one has to be lying.

When Apple watched reached for comment on whether they just gave an indefinite extension: no comment.

When earlier reached for comment on whether they were restricting it: immediate non-denial denial.
One minor counter-example: to enable third-party apps on my Android-supporting Chromebook, I had to go through considerable contortions (1). It was not as easy as it is on typical Android devices.

1: Install Linux sub-system, install android-tools, wget the apk, and adb install it on the same host. Now I get a warning on the login page about 'unapproved apps'. It is not great.
I believe that "Fortnite Save The World" and "Fortnite" are different things; is that the discrepancy?
Thank you for the fantastically detailed response. That actually does explain how we ended up her.
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Those policies are not harmful to china. They are harmful to us. The free market isn't an end in and of itself. Similarly tiktoks removal from the American market is not harmful to america... Just china
But if Cisco's software wasn't full of bugs and backdoors, Huawei's wouldn't have been either. Huawei's mistake was just stealing crappy software...
Apparently someone missed the news on PSP, PlayStation Vita, DS and Switch capabilities and ecosystems.

I can provide some learning materials to catch up with the world.
I have a different perspective. I think that the scope of the 2nd amendment has narrowed over the years. In 1776, private citizens owned every kind and sort of weapon used by the military. Ordinary people owned cannons, were instructed to put cannons on their private ships to defend against pirates, and owned the same sorts of muskets used by the army. The modern equivalent would be buying tanks at Walmart for cash and not registering the purchase nor requiring a background check.

By the way, the archaic meaning of "regulated" means "properly disciplined and drilled". It did not refer to control or supervision by a state.
Mindustry for an open source free version of the same thing on just about any platform.
The one thing that could be done is to keep bloat to a minimum. It makes the web faster and less energy use is merely a bonus.
> I’m very confused why so many on HN are so pro China, despite it being the poster child for genocide and human rights abuses.

I go out of my way to comment on any posts related to China since it's a subject that I have studied immensely and am very interested in and I have noticed that anything I post that is slightly negative about China will get downvoted or flagged. I've chalked it up to the fact that HN is filled with people that are:

- opposed to anything (and everything) Trump does including clamping down on China

- opposed to anything (and everything) the US does. This includes US people and outsiders.

- native Chinese HN users/bots downvoting any content that is negative about China
My experience with Fusion for 3d printing is basically: looks great, is fast but my models fail to print correctly for some reason.

Can't wait for freecad to get a useable UI, because it is works fairly well for printing despite its UX shortcomings
octopuses

Like "Vaxen?"
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It's quite common to characterize intended features which cause unintended problems as "bugs".
Actually, the Amazon client could be a component that is managed by a sane dependency injection system (e.g. a factory of "books that can be bought on Amazon") and is used by a book to implement the abstract book operation "buy a copy of me".
This would be basically equivalent to a "book buyer" object with a "try to buy this book" operation, with small advantages and disadvantages (either the books or the bookstores are privileged as the main entity in the many to many "can be bought at" relationship).
>Several months ago there was an incident where the parent discovered over $2500 in credit card charges mostly due to in game purchases.

This sounds more of a parenting issue. How and why did the kids have access to the credit card info?
For anyone else who considered Panorama to be their favorite feature of Firefox before they killed it, the closest replacement for it I've found so far is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tiled-tab-gro.... It's not at all perfect from a UI standpoint, but it hasn't lost my tabs or crashed the browser yet.
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>> whats the evolutionary reason for something like that?!

You can never really know the reason with evolution because every plausible effect is in play and part of the optimization process. Having said that, one reason for adults to die may be to conserve resources (food) for the young in times/areas of scarcity. Another may be to prevent excess breeding by an individual, which may reduce genetic diversity. There are probably other viable reasons as well.
Is UV-C dangerous to people? If so, after how long?

It'd be interesting to consider this for doctor's waiting rooms, boarding areas for planes & trains, and waiting areas for restaurants. Just waiting for your table or appointment could sanitize you with zero additional effort. Not 100% but reducing the impact/risk in otherwise close quarter space would reduce the overall spread.
> Spinning it as national security, while potentially true (really don't know)

Do with this as you will, but I as a US citizen was personally impacted by the Chinese government's surveillance despite not being a target of their foreign intelligence operations. A random Chinese kid who was obsessed with forcing me to date him, who who has a politically-connected family in China, used the Chinese government's database against me. Just think how much worse it would be if American citizens were actually targeted by real operations.
Case in point right here. Aside from your observation being objectively untrue, that kind of talk (from any political spectrum) used to be non-existent here.