skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. I'm also an immigrant myself that argues for limits.

> You're not forced to participate in any discussion you don't want to be in but people have a right to discuss it.

Exactly, and if you're not capable of engaging in that discussion productively, don't be surprised if your viewpoints and positions don't get the consideration you think they deserve.

Civil dialogue is the foundation upon which we find understanding in the face of disparate experiences. If you're feelings about the dialogue gets in the way of contributing to understanding, then it is you that is hurting your own cause.
> If you have a suggestion for how someone like me who has male physiology but doesn't have a "feeling of being a man" (or any other gender) can represent themselves in a system where there is only a single gender identifier and making sub-distinctions is frowned upon (because "trans (wo)men are (wo)men") then I'm all ears.

This is called nonbinary, agender, or genderqueer. This is a fairly established situation. You may come across someone who uses nonstandard pronouns such as "they/them" or "zyr/zem" or something like that. There's even an LGBTQ flag for being nonbinary. (Q stands for queer/questioning as well). If you are assigned male at birth but don't identify as male or any other gender then you may be nonbinary or agender. If you're interested in learning more I recommend reaching out to a local LGBTQ community organization to be more educated about gender identity and to figure out if you might yourself be LGBTQ!

(Additionally on technicality, trans means "anything that isn't identifiying as one's assigned gender at birth". Being nonbinary is a subset of being trans. Society is most familiar with binary trans identity, which is when someone is assigned F/M at birth but identifies as M/F, however this is not the entire set of trans identity. You are free to be assigned M at birth but identify with no gender, and still be trans.)
I can adjust the white balance with my Elgato key light and that seems to work pretty well.

The Logitech C920 is IMO a nice compromise. It's as high quality as you need for most purposes and it doesn't take up the desk real estate of a dedicated camera. It's also easier to have your eyes closer to the slides you're presenting or the video of the person you're speaking with.
Got any recommendations for a good 4K panel in the 40" - 60" range that won't break the bank? I have my own speakers and I can buy an external tuner if I need one
Well, I did blame myself somewhat (anything in my comment suggest otherwise?), but do you always inspect the voltage selector when you plug something in to the mains?
It would be nice to see a video of the gloves in action, but I couldn’t see one on the page.
https://archive.is/7pkw0
Faraday cages around the property line. In LA some people already live in houses hidden behind 25 foot tall hedges. They need only a tin foil roof.
You are confusing "because of" with "in spite of"

Where is the evidence that any of that was required?
>That kind of defeats the purpose?

Exposing a nice, standardized Rust interface would be the purpose. Then you can switch the backend later (for a custom Rust one or something else).
Yea the pricing structure is weird.

https://bahn.guru/

Helps to find cheap tickets, so when you are somewhat flexible you can still travel for cheap.
True, although then I’d lose trust in the devices and wouldn’t want to use them by that point anyway.
Maths is, like literacy, a fundamental skill, not a specialty.
That's a great accomplishment. However, I think the point is that we (as a society) should recognize and stand up for our oppressed people. Otherwise, we're placing the burden on the oppressed to "take the high road" and, essentially, fight an uphill battle.
Cloud if:

- Someone else is paying

- You expect to dabble

- You need burst capability

Buy if:

- Cost sensitive & capable
One other aspect of Rust that makes it suited to GUI work is the fact that the management of mutable state is one of the core problems of writing a GUI app, and that Rust allows you to talk about mutation in a way that no other language (that I know of) does. You can a) have mutable structures, and b) declare that a function will treat one of those - passed as an argument - as deeply immutable, both within the same language. You can have exactly the amount of mutation that you want, which should be extremely enticing to any GUI developer.
The technical term for that "horrible duplicated mess" is "obfuscated code".
and this is how you get a vestigial tail
Here's a few:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roJ7nZs9Fz4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PZ2YLLQIJI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEZzoJVCJ6s
Not sure what you mean as it was a bit of a long comment, but "taking reasonable precautions and moving forward based on a fair assessment of cost and benefit" is pretty much what I think that dental offices are doing. Why? Aerosols. Half of what they're doing is blowing saliva particles in a close space. Surgical mask is just not enough in this scenario. How far you go it's debatable - probably N95 and face shields are a minimum.

But that's just a rather isolated niche. As far as the rest of society goes, I'm pretty ok with masks and basic distancing.
This comment misses the mark a bit. Gmail actually competes with spam emailers - then run their own ads inside your inbox and would rather you click on those. They also sort promotions and spam out of your primary inbox pretty robustly.
How is the picture quality compared to the top Samsung/Sony 4K panels used in smart tvs?
The app does tell the user their document was successfully delivered or not as well. It also counts the number of times an invoice has been opened. I could also track the date and time of that but I don't.
It wasn’t a joke because then it happened and he moved to capitalize on it. You should know that at this point so why are you pushing an inaccurate revision to history?
It lacks "ctrl+r" because it does history search even better than bash. It shows auto-suggestions based on your history. I find ctrl+r when I'm in bash kind of annoying, and not as good at searching.
> Unless you do heavy processing over 8 seems like over kill.

I'm not doing heavy processing at the moment, and 8 seems too small for my light reading.

I have a 16 GiB MacBook and at the moment the built-in Activity Monitor say it's using ~14.5 GiB.

Firefox shows as ~9 GiB, and Safari as ~4 GiB.

I also have a VM running Linux, most of my work (other than reading and editing files) runs inside it. It's currently showing as using less than the browsers, about ~4 GiB.

There are some other tools running, such as terminals and Emacs. But they take much less.

None of this is heavy processing.

Those figures don't add up to < 16 GiB. There is obviously some sharing taking place and/or compression, or other misleading aspect to the figures. So is it using a lot of RAM really? Yes: recently I noticed serious slowdowns while reading. It's because the system was swapping to SSD under high memory pressure when I had Word, LibreOffice, Preview (for PDFs) open as well, and after some video conferencing tool was still active but not doing anything. It was not a busy CPU, it was memory pressure.

So my next laptop might need more than 16 GiB.

> And if you do heavy processing (rendering, photoshop or audio) then why do it on a laptop in a first place?

Because it's your main and only decent computer, and you need it to be portable sometimes.

Admittedly all this working from home is changing the equation temporarily. But even at home, I don't want to sit in the same place all day every day.

Back before Covid, I didn't work at a fixed location so needed to take my work with me. In future, I hope to do that again, so getting another laptop when I'm ready seems like the smart choice again.
It makes sense to me. Users lend social networks information they may prefer to keep private, and social networks make risky bets that third parties will not misuse this information. And they do so without informing the users themselves (except in the tos, but who reads that?). Why not regulate this?
Vilified Early over Lax Virus Strategy, Sweden Seems to Have Scourge Controlled
Did you find it unremarkable because you already know the material, or because the material isn't relevant to what you do?

Anyway, some reasons:

* Draws together a wealth of material on databases and distributed systems that wasn't explained in a systematic, accessible way anywhere else. It provides a map to someone coming to this hard-to-navigate area for the first time.

* Great balance between being conversant with the academic research (without being too abstract) and being practically applicable (without being too tied to details of particular technologies)

* Shows underlying unity and concepts of very different data technologies, e.g. why classic relational database write-ahead logs and replication are very similar to streaming platforms like Kafka

* Subjective, but it is very clear, accessible, and well-written. This is very very hard to do and quite rare in technical books.

It's my favorite technical book of the decade and my first recommendation to anyone who asks me how to really "level up" as a senior engineer.
YouTube UI is stretching the limits of browser capabilities for almost no benefit whatsoever. YouTube functionality could be recreated at a fraction of the computational cost. Try resizing YouTube and a duck duck go image search, which one resizes easier? Which one uses more CPU?
True because it was posted on opindia ?

Sorry I don't take my driving instructions from a propaganda outlet whose editor has admitted [0] on twitter that it had been a political outlet.

Once they approach the neighborhood of Teltumbde credibility and service built up through decades, I will think about it.

> Okay you follow fake news scroll.

> Don't say OpIndia is right-wing citing Wikipedia and non-sense.

Oh the irony !

I didn't name call, [0] has a link to a spreadsheet that documents just a few (some 40 odd) of opindia's efforts at propaganda by airing fake news and deliberately slanted misreporting.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24632299
Damn, am I a harbinger customer? I loved my Motorola Droid, Droid 4, and Droid Turbo, none of which saw nearly the success of the iPhones and Samsung Galaxies.

I just thought it was crappy that Motorola was actually providing phones with the features people were asking for (In the Droid days, people wanted physical keyboards, and the Droid Turbo offered insane battery life and a damn near bullet-proof screen), but they seemed to be commercial failures.

FWIW, I use a Pixel 3 now, which seems to be doing okay, but still not near the success of iPhone and Galaxy.
Isn’t this evidence that it isn’t tolerated? The bank is paying a billion dollars and three of the traders involved, including the executive, are facing criminal fraud charges in a RICO case.
> It means you're able to generate more revenue per person,

No. It means they are able to generate more profit. And that is an indirect reflection of efficiency.

> a company that respects your privacy will be unable to compete in that metric.

That's a common opinion, but I think this remains to be proven - see e.g. https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190201. The choice quote:

"That's a lot about profiling for ad targeting, which obviously doesn't work, if anyone would just stop and look at it. But there are way too many people incentivized to believe otherwise. "

I think there's a lot of truth behind that - that I suspect targeting adds small, marginal difference, not existential difference, and thus it's entirely possible that the advantage is all or mostly due to factors other than privacy.
Being angry about an opinion is fine. That doesn't mean you should try to stop people from talking about it.

Save from the feedback of concrete actions being taken (which you want to avoid), discussion by a diverse crowd is the only way to properly surface the harmfulness of a viewpoint.

Making an opinion politically incorrect won't stop people from holding it, they may on the contrary feel validated by it.
In practice, the samsung TV won't connect to your neighbors wifi if its already connected to yours. So you can firewall away and the TV will be none the wiser. For now, at least.
You /s but I've found that I can consume HN content with roughly equal level of unhealthy interest that I consume reddit content

That is to say, sometimes when I'm not particularly engaged with whatever else I should be doing on the computer, HN becomes my primary "addiction" and I find myself opening tabs and scrolling through content without particularly intending to
look at the source youtubedown to see the sort of bullshit they pull to make downloading hard

https://www.jwz.org/hacks/youtubedown
Speaking even more pedantically, a new decade is starting right now ... and here comes another one.

The 2020s start 2020-01-01 (just as the century called "the 1900s" started 1900-01-01).

The 21st century started 2001-01-01.

The 203rd decade starts 2021-01-01 -- but nobody talks about the "203rd decade". That's the difference in terminology between decades and centuries; we don't refer to decades by their ordinal numbers.

Yes, it's confusing and inconsistent. If only Dionysius Exiguus had known about zero.
I wrote a book, too (career advice for new devs). I had previously written a technical ebook (about Cordova) and wanted to write something that had a longer lifespan, but was still focused on developers. Writing a technical book was great, but, like you said, it became outdated very easily.

That said, if you want to anchor yourself as an expert in a space, I can't think of a better way to do it than to write a book. This is because it will force you to learn the topic very well (I remember spending an hour testing out something so I could write one sentence accurately) and because you can say "oh yes, I wrote a book on that" which gives you a lot of credibility.

I think it was totally worth writing the less technical book too. It makes you dig into thoughts and ideas in a much deeper way than blog posts or presentations.

It also opens up some doors in terms of presentations and speaking, if that's of interest. My book wasn't on a technical topic, but if you write one, I could definitely see that leading to some consulting.

I think the best way to write a book is to blog it first, then assemble the pieces (adding in more). This lets you do a number of things:

* you can outline the topic as a series of posts. If you can't do this, don't write a non-fiction book.

* you can see if you like the topic 5-10 posts in. If you do, then you have the bones of a book. If you don't, why would you commit to a full length book?

* you can build an audience. I didn't have a large audience, but had a list of 200ish people I could market the book to. And again, if you blog 5-10 times and no one is interested, they probably won't be interested in a book either.

* you can easily turn it into an ebook (using a tool like leanpub) if you determine you want to self publish. If you work with a traditional publisher, you can still pull and revise the blog posts.

Since the book was just released in August, I have no idea of the financial success. Like the author, I'm not looking to have this be a huge piece of my income stream. If I can earn out my advance, I'll be happy.

Here's the book URL if you want to check it out: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/the-book/
Free Android, iOS and JavaScript WebRTC SDKs
What's the difference between a USB speakerphone and just using the microphone and speakers in your computer?
The sick thing about these kind of scams is how much top-tier human talent has been sucked up by the financial sector, essentially to find ways to scam people legally (or at least without getting caught).

It doesn't say much for society's conception of value that there's more money to be made through finding ways to squeeze more revenue out of socially useless financial transactions rather than by solving real problems.
5 minutes with a utility knife dramatically improves them.
That's interesting... German has still the genitive case and it is formed with an "s" too. That's a nice resource, thanks for that!
Yes Katie Turr literally asked if he was joking and later said she was shocked but wanted to confirm.

It’s amazing how people try to reposition history and how effective it is when they do it because the facts are clear and on video.
I show courtesy to those who have earned it. One earns some just being human, but then one can lose lots by one's behavior and agenda.
> If Office 365 premium ever starts showing ads, people will also become upset.

And Microsoft will do nothing about it because people will use it anyways.
I've seen it in XML-based docs showing example XML responses. Then somebody tried to document the doc-generating-tool and I think we all know how that went.
Hn has been flooded with completely off topic politicol posts that have nothing to do with coding or startups.

Its very very sad.
Open back headphones are a luxury but not necessary: call centers have long ago taught us about the $5 one-eared headphone with a regular headphone price for one ear and a padded base clipped just above the other ear. All audio/video calls are mono (and horribly encoded and filtered at that), you’re missing nothing by listening with only one ear and gaining nothing by paying for quality headphone drivers that will go wasted on the barely over 8 kHz sampling tinny audio that’s coming in over the pipe.
The entire precious metals desk did $250 million in profit a year. I doubt spoofing is responsible anything close to a majority of that.
my assumption would be that multiple people thought it read like spam, instead of an open source project
My current favorite future fusion reactor project (I'm a layperson) is the Wendelstein 7-X: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X

Seems like they're meeting all their planned milestones and it's going well!

Excited for their next updates...

More from their project page: https://www.ipp.mpg.de/w7x

"Wendelstein 7-X is the world’s largest fusion device of the stellarator type."
I'm not sure why that post would necessarily be flagged (and I can't see it since it has been flagged). But there are a couple of odd things here: first, your example of talking about GitHub stars is more about using the stars, eg, what they are, projects that organize them, etc. Relatively few of these posts appear to be projects that just have gained a number of stars. But those posts still do exist, so your conclusion that people are just flagging development successes doesn't seem to be correct. Secondly, your post getting flagged probably doesn't indicate that HN is "losing its soul".

I'm guessing that there was some difference between your original post and the ones you're comparing it to that is causing it to be perceived badly. You should reevaluate your submission, see if there's anything that might be breaking any of the site's guidelines, then edit it and resubmit.
I don't know if the news is really the best example of this today. Clearly there will always be a subjective bias in reporting the news, but as deep fakes become more prevalent it will become increasingly important to know that the origin of a video clip is trustworthy.

That said, there are clearly some social networks where you absolutely want to verify authenticity. Take for example, dating websites. Fake profiles _TODAY_ are a huge problem for those sites. If you have too many fake profiles, then paying users just log off and never come back. Same for LinkedIn. How many recruiters are going to pay for access to that network if 30% of the profiles are fake?
Not to mention the CFLs never lasted anywhere near as long as advertised, which is annoying and exacerbates the mercury situation further. This is why the environmental impact of something should always be examined holistically instead of just zeroing in on one particular aspect.
I hope that wxWidgets for Rust never sees the light of the day.
In my experience the answer is "all of the above"

It's rather analogous to physical products that are shipped with the instructions in 8+ languages or Tesla selling cars with their batteries limited in software.
The Pandemic Pushed Universities Online. The Change Was Long Overdue
They do this because they get penalized by email service companies for sending emails that people don't open, so they have to guess.
Your link has a rather interesting redirect for people referred from HN...
Yeah I'm sure the massive PR campaign at SpaceX is responsible for these reports.

And yes, amateurs have done great things, but to compare it to a global high speed internet system with small rapidly deployable terminals is not really the same thing.
I don’t know why, but this reminded me of HN about a decade ago when people would post Erlang articles en masse as a means to make sure non-technical people were bored and wouldn’t hang around. I guess it didn’t work in the long run!
I have no doubt, I just haven't found the time. The codes kind of a nasty mess / proof of concept.
PyProb: A probabilistic programming system for high-performance computing
Retroquad will be open-sourced sometime next week
> I grew up in the South, and it is everywhere

Or you are biased to see it everywhere.

Maybe it's true, maybe it's false, but the burden of proof on those who make statements about white supremacists, and I did not see any evidence supporting these statements.
I have a lo-flow toilet that usually clears the bowl on a flush but doesn't always clean the sides of the pan if excreta misses the water. Often takes two or more flushes and some bleach to clean the sides as well.
it's only a half stroke tho.
It's really stunning to see the percentage take from writing a book vs. putting something on the app store. People complain about Google and Apple taking 30%, but for these books, they're taking 75% for electronic books and 90% for print! 30% doesn't sound so bad to me compared to that. (I realize for print their costs are higher, but still - 90%?)
The Confederate battle flag meant "The Confederacy" for five years, and meant "Mississippi" for 126.

I'm not from around there, and it isn't my business to defend nor condemn it. I do think taking it as ipso facto evidence of white supremacy is a Yankee mistake.
I certainly enjoy content like this a lot more than the "X startup exited for $Y million" content.
Do tell - what is the project?
> The reason I don't mention "I see you are opening my emails" is because it makes people uncomfortable.

Oh, you're so close.

Why does it make them uncomfortable when you mention it?

----

> How dare you sir levy false accusations against me. I NEVER said that. Please don't spread lies about me.

Two comments ago:

> So that's why you see silly emails like 'I see you are opening my email, why don't you answer' - which is insane from a marketing point of view, why creep people out? So silly. Good open rate data gathering results in you not knowing that it's being tracked.
As every "flat" hierarchy this is inflexible and impossible to get right (think "ComboBox" or "MenuButton" for example).

A better approach are mixins. Separate ones for layout and behavior. This is much more flexible, and avoids code duplication or "crazy" inheritance hierarchies at the same time.

Rust Traits are ideal for mixins. So a GUI toolkit in Rust should be just fine.
> Was it in the 80s while gay people were dying of aids while straight people ignored their plight?

Now in 2020s Gay people are accepted in the mainstream society.

> The 70s when mainstream american society treated anti-war activists as terrorists?

Anti-war activists are no longer treated as terrorists.

> The 50s and 60s when white people literally moved out of cities and into suburbs to get away from black people?

Segregation has ended.

All of these positive changes have come by "You surrounded yourself with lots of different people with varying opinions."

If the people were so rigid with their views as assume them to be then these positive changes would have never happened.