skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My point is that IMHO it's not Rust itself that's not suited for GUIs, but it's the GUI toolkits that have often aged very badly and are out of touch with modern software development.

The post was about writing a Rust wrapper for Wayland -- I thought Wayland was supposed to be a relatively new/modern framework.

It seems like windowing toolkits in general might present some difficult scenarios for Rust, regardless of age.
I have no clue what "actively engaged" data actually means, since the author doesn't provide any links to the studies asserting its superiority. GPT-3 was trained on 45TB of text, little of which was written with AI training in mind.
FTA:

>Suppose, now, you have a little game company. Instead of making software, you knock out three or four clever games every few months. You can’t invent all the games yourself. So you go out and hire a game designer to invent games. You are going to pay the game designer $6,000 a month to invent new games. Those games will be clever and novel. They are patentable. It is important to you, as a company, to own the patents on the games.

>Your game designer works for a year and invents 7 games. At the end of the year, she sues you, claiming that she owns 4 of them, because those particular games were invented between 5pm and 9am, when she wasn’t on duty.

>Ooops. That’s not what you meant. You wanted to pay her for all the games that she invents, and you recognize that the actual process of invention for which you are paying her may happen at any time… on weekdays, weekends, in the office, in the cubicle, at home, in the shower, climbing a mountain on vacation.
I collected many links here:

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/math/type-theory
Yes, exactly right about USSR.

The more equality less STEM effect is seen in more than India. Sweden is the example I see talked about most. It's interesting and still heavily debated. I don't fully understand the current state of debate.
Shannon said information value depends on the degree to which the content of the message is surprising.

Can we say creative people are more attracted to, and produce more surprising information than non-creative people?

Corporations are usually biased towards logic and statistics (finance & accounting), but through this they can become blind to the fact that predictable bits contain much less information than unpredictable bits, and they can even develop a kind of hidden disgust around creativity.

For example, nobody gets fired for being "logical" and it not working out. But if you're make a creative mistake, well that's all on you and you're shown the door. This compounds and all you're left with are "Experts" in logic straightjackets.
This is one of the best and most accessible pieces I've read about the underlying principles of how such systems work.

https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
Burying or shielding the die isn’t going to help, as the die isn’t large enough to radiate. The EMI typically comes from poor return paths for fast rise-time signals. Common mode (ferrite) chokes on cables help a lot, though again EMI issues are mostly due to poor circuit design and PCB layout.
There is more cognitive overhead to bf, the programming language does not help you mitigate it.

C++ destructors and rvalues help condense ownership without having to think about the execution path of a whole program.

I'm not aware of what haskell features + tools pragmatically decrease the complexity of a program. If an experienced programmer is still fighting with the language heavily after 9 months and can't figure out a good way to debug programs, that should be a red flag if it is a consistent scenario.
https://countryhighlights.com
I see they still don't have any graphic designer.
The AGPL is written by basically ~one lawyer as far as I know, has never been properly tested, has absolutely not been evaluated by people who should care (like the Gentoo team; as a metadistribution they are in a unique position regarding licensing different from other distros). Almost everything I read about it falls into two camps:

* Most people in free software: The FSF wrote it, therefore it's fine, because the FSF are trustworthy when it comes to freedom%. All server open source projects should use it, it'll magically protect us from the SaaS loophole, and there is nothing to worry about if you're not an evil corporation.

* Most every big corp: the AGPL is a ginormous can of worms and we aren't touching it with a 1 mile pole. Nope. Stay away.

Guess what? Reality is in between those two extremes. The problems with the AGPL are widely underreported in the free software world, and almost nobody has taken a close look at its wording and what it really means. "Leave it to the lawyers" but then nobody ever actually goes and asks a lawyer for a clean take on it.

We should do better. The FSF has done a terrible job of educating people on exactly what the AGPL requires and how it interacts with typical free software project development and deployment workflows. If you haven't asked a lawyer about this then maybe you should think twice before slapping it on your project. Relicensing after the fact is a very costly ordeal.

% The FSF, through their "Respects your Freedom" hardware rubber-stamping program and its absolutely broken requirements, which actively encourages reduction in user freedom, makes it much harder to detect hidden proprietary backdoors, and hurts projects that are actually aiming for maximum openness, have amply proved that they are not infallible and are not to be trusted without careful review of their policies and projects. I can go into a whole different tangent about this, but my point is, don't treat the FSF as the good guys by default. Look at what it is they're doing exactly and all of its consequences.
For sure, the author puts a lot of emphasis on cost. Not everything needs to be assessed by cost. I live near downtown because I can just walk to the bar. I would like a garage for a workshop, I wouldn't use it 95% of the time, but the accessibility means I could build whatever I wanted. Having a backyard cookout and swimming pool in a popular neighborhood makes it really easy for me to throw parties.

I wouldn't want to rent a van for the same reason I never invited friends over when I couch surfed the first few months I moved to a new city

I guess it just depends what matters in your life. Some people like nice cars, its a depreciating assets and poor investment choice but if it makes you happy that's a lot of hidden value not being accounted for
Yep. My father is one of them. Has cancer but it's driving a couple of diesel cars that did it, not the smoking for 60 years...
It's only really a problem if your software isn't designed for it. Most of the problems people had with DOS memory protection issues were due to the lack of standardization around memory management. Similarly so with Windows 3.x, running DOS programs from Windows on top of DOS was never going to work well. Even Windows95 had its problems.

On the Amiga it didn't have this problem. There was AmigaOS and that was it. The base hardware was for the most part tightly coupled to the OS and the architecture was designed to provide standardised mechanisms for accessing hardware that were fairly stable. The Amiga had different stability issues of course, but my A4000 manages fine without memory protection despite having a full MMU on-board.
Yeah, bad was the Atari 400. The C64 was a dream compared to that. I was so jealous of the Sinclair owners that had ready third-party replacements available for their crap membrane keyboard. Typed a lot of code on that thing though.
For what it's worth, Cloudfalre also pointed out the weird trend in Korean ISPs:

> South Korea is perhaps the only country in the world where bandwidth costs are going up. This may be driven by new regulations from the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, which mandate the commercial terms of domestic interconnection, based on predetermined “Tiers” of participating networks. This is contrary to the model in most parts of the world, where networks self-regulate, and often peer without settlement. The government even prescribes the rate at which prices should decrease per year (-7.5%), which is significantly slower than the annual drop in unit bandwidth costs elsewhere in the world. We are only able to peer 2% of our traffic in South Korea. [1]

> Today, however, there are six expensive networks (HiNet, Korea Telecom, Optus, Telecom Argentina, Telefonica, Telstra) that are more than an order of magnitude more expensive than other bandwidth providers around the globe and refuse to discuss local peering relationships. [1]

This post is from 2016 and now the Korean Goverenment passes the law that makes the fee even higher. The Korean Government keeps favoring their ISP over other internet companies.

[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world...
> Certainly, there are no positive health effects to all of the extra radiation we are creating

Just three days ago:

Exposure to Static Magnetic and Electric Fields Treats Type 2 Diabetes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24742900)

I cannot say anything to the quality or validity of that article, but as usual absolutes are more often wrong than right.
Voting Machines had to be rebooted
>when you open several windows with the same application (like when you open several LibreOffice documents), the Task Manager will group them together.

This is exactly the opposite of what I want. Why don't the designers of 21st-century desktop environments understand that my 3 PDF files have nothing to do with one another? The same goes for my terminals, my text buffers, my web pages....

Why group things that are involved in unrelated tasks?
AI-Led Manufacturing in Industry 4.0
In time for its 24th birthday which is tomorrow!
Google Slides “mention” spam
EDIT: Turns out I'm not the only one today to mention this on HN! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24763276

Spammers have now discovered that you can "mention" someone in Google Slides, anyone at all, and it will pop up a notification on their Android phone with no recourse. I get a few of these every week now. Has anyone else been seeing these?

I can't find any way to disable such garbage in Google Slides itself (it doesn't seem to have settings), or restrict it only to my contacts. I don't want to disable Drive notifications entirely since I actually do get shared things by friends on occasion.

This seems to be the new iteration of Google Calendar spam and Google Drive spam.

Hoping to make enough noise here to get Google eyes on this problem, since there's no other way to notify Google of this issue.

(I guess I could always put together a Slides deck and "mention" some Googlers...)
Gods, how complicated has "simple" become :)

Back in my day, you plugged in your 8 bit computer and it started on a BASIC prompt. It was all self contained.

Also, I had to walk uphill to school in the snow, both ways.
You don't have to be using a Gmail account to get them. My FastMail account got these notifications a few days ago, but by the second day the spam filtered had them figured out.
I vividly remember spending $180 for the 512K upgrade for my A500. $180 for 512K!!!
The person in charge of the NYT guild Twitter account doesn't know it's from its. The newspaper of record, everyone.

A nice reminder that these types are always the loudest, but rarely the best and brightest of the bunch.
Training Your First Distributed PyTorch Lightning Model with Azure ML
The original goal was to lower the curve so that hospitals wouldn't be overloaded. To that end, the lockdowns have served their purpose.
SoftBank Prepares to Launch a SPAC
I think static generators are mostly used for personal blogs or pages, but I'd love to hear about newspapers that use them!
Many of the resources we make at Raspberry Pi, actually target the micro:bit[1].

We recently worked with UK Scouts, and again used the micro:bit for many of our resources [2]. They're just easier devices to use, especially for some Scout leaders, who are not technically experienced.

[1] https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects?hardware%5B%5D=...

[2] https://www.scouts.org.uk/staged-badges/digital-maker/stage-...
It's not different. Both will work. But if the above is all you need, I feel that flexbox adds a lot of verbosity for no benefit.
Just because there's a huge amount of sensationalism doesn't change the fact that AI is created a huge amount of economic value in a vast number of applications over its ~6 decades.
“ Voters complained on Twitter of 90-minute delays as multiple machines had to be rebooted.

Aklima Khondoker, the Georgia director for All Voting Is Local, a voting rights group, said that electronic poll pads on which voters check in had created problems around the state. “We’ve seen over 10 counties where this is happening,” she said.”
Do you hate the people at Facebook who work on improving the Linux network stack? Are they making the world a worse place?

Some nuance, please.
One of my favourite posts on HN was some gentleman telling me that masks didn't help against COVID, that the science was in, and that I was endangering lives by even suggesting something so stupid when either the WHO or CDC or Fauci had debunked the idea. I think that was back around April.

My current policy is to wait until the evidence is older than a week. That is one open label study on patients that were already in hospital - strong evidence, but not a final word. Maybe they missed something, maybe they made a mistake. Science is hard.
https://republicamericas.com
I thought "That sounds really interesting", and then noticed I made the first comment on the story so I've obviously seen that before.
> And if they dont have enough how to charge them for all the resource/energy drainage they offload to the real world.

That's the million (billion?) dollar question for me. I observe that it will sadly follow the precedent of the oil industry and other industries -- a slap on the wrist to the tune of a fraction of the true damage, with society left to bear the brunt of the externality in perpetuity and prosecutors able to say "at least we tried!"

I can't help but wonder if there isn't a better way.
Any discussion of HCQ that ignores zinc, a key part of the original treatment protocol, is missing the mark.

Rationale:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030698772...

Trial:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32930657/
Optaplanner is a heuristic approach, meaning that you will not have any optimality guarantees until you have explored/filtered all of the domain. Gurobi is an MILP solver, relying on linear relaxations of the integer problem to provide you an optimality gap as you keep searching the tree and eventually a proof of optimality once you found one of the optimal solutions (there might be more than one that achieve the same objective, specially in scheduling)
> I need to apply justify|align|content|items in the browser to make it do what I want. I can't for the life of me remember what they do.

I found the Flexbox Zombies course to be helpful for that: https://flexboxzombies.com

It's free right now too.
Metcheck fac blinders Amanda rooster:
Scratch&sniff rooster nun&priest bottle
Yes&amen rooster bow_bells_chimes fac(rooster thomas_aquinas quid)
Picts&celts quid .

Or should even the operation formerly known as ! be renamed to Fleetwood?
> One thing I learned about all of us first-gens, we're all equally angry cunts.

Speak for yourself :)
It is incredibly irresponsible for the President of the United States (or of any country) to speculate about obviously questionable practices like injecting disinfectant in the midst of a global pandemic and a national emergency.
But that's software not hardware. That could run on a pi. A PI has a 'usb drive' and you could code the OS to 'start the file' as soon as it is downloaded.
Were PIs not conceived to be targeted at kids to learn programming ?
> already have some Patreon money for the assortment of homeless websites and the like that I already run which will be used to support this effort.

Forgive the question, but is it a good idea to spend money donated to homeless websites on this other venture?
The way that later AmigaOS versions integrated UI and command line workflows through OS APIs and design-guidelines is still mostly unmatched today IMHO, from today's point of view this is like a dead end in the tree of operating system evolution. Linux, Windows and MacOS all were behind in different aspects (and of course ahead in some others) but then developed into entirely different directions. I would like to have seen the ideas of AmigaOS ca. '92 developed further (instead of just merely keeping it alive and adding a new UI skin from time to time). Instead the command line and UI drifted further apart in all surviving operating systems.
> Why, in the 21st century, should I as an application developer ever have to worry about that?

Then don't have backups at all, let's see how that goes.
Ruby or Ruby Murry is in common use generally for going to an Indian Restaurant.
Just a reminder: csszengarden.com was created back in 2004 (I think). Zeldman's "Designing with Web Standards" came out in 2003. "Modern CSS" is over 17 years old. The CSS itself is not yet 24 years old.
Try Bootstrap 4's "grid only" CSS file. I used to do Flexbox by hand, until I realized I was reinventing the Bootstrap wheel by abstracting most of it into classes.

It's all based on rows and columns, that collapse based on screen width. Plus, utility classes for all the alignment positions.

You'll still run into the issue of way too many nested div's, but I find myself more productive than trying to flexbox everything by hand. ymmv.
> Most people forget that it costs almost as much delta-V to get down as it does to get up in the first place

Doesn't that depend on how you get it down.

Metal foam dropped from orbit into an ocean would float, you could have a retrieval vessel go pick it up.
I agree with this comment and I’ve made it many times before especially wrt tech forum hysteria over using similar language about women.

I have noticed it tends to be worse received if it’s about women. Though I think there’s something larger at play than just defensiveness (objecting to bros) and whiteknighting (objecting to hos). And we may agree that we all should really just settle down when it comes to gender.
Sure! this is only about strategic players. For Dutch I know Shell, NXP, ASML, Airbus. But also their whole finance, accounting and telecommunication sector, and generally all big industrial companies.

I think this should be a normal advice in any country. Countries spying on each other isn't new and smartphones and tablets are just an easy door to open.
Voice recognition, text translation, OCR, image compression? "Analysing stats about data" alone is something that can be applied to everything from antiviruses to climate models.
Content Aggregation Technology (CAT)
I assumed that rognvald used a tracker but his Rognmashine plugin seems to run only on Max for Live: http://rognvald.com/Rognmashine.html which suggests that Live is his Daw of choice (though I can't independently confirm that.)
USSR was also technically communist. There seems to be a lot of those when looking back :)
> it's one (maybe the most important) of the world's cultural nexuses

How does that translate into everyday living for people who don't have a job in culture creation (media, fashion etc.)?
I agree with most of the author's statements, but there's some points that I like to add why you should use CDN's for javascript libraries. But you could always use a reputable CDN site, use a checksum for security, and if there is downtime issues, quickly revert and fix the issues on your end. CDN's are nice because it reduces the time to develop. I build a lot of startup apps and resort to CDN's, but if I were building a secure enterprise app this story would be different

On another note of using CDN's, Deno is of interest. It's gaining popularity because it's using CDN's as part of it's pipeline dependency process. You don't have to waste a huge amount of time installing dependencies and node packages that you don't care for, just import and your done
There were more humans hired to perform simple calculations prior to the calculator, but we don't see people saying we should get rid of the calculator.
>Is it the fault of the lawmakers in my customer's state?

Unquestionably, yes. They know exactly what kind of business they were looking to restrict with those laws, and in your analogy they stuck all the fallout from that on you. (That's not to say one shouldn't be civic-minded, but for the record I tend to avoid analogies when talking about this because they more often seem to confuse the issue than actually explain what is happening)
nav, figure and button: why wouldn't flex cut it?
You probably know this already, but you can use KDE with your choice of WM, allowing you to swap out kwin for i3/sway or whatever else floats your boat/gives you tiling.

Edit: Spelling
> What I don't get is who the heck all the people under the ad commenting about how great the product is are coming from.

They're either bots, or paid.
Indeed. That would also require CLAs unless they aren't taking in outside contributions.
Why configure it when it denies an opportunity to rant?
It looks like nice, and 70 dB is very low noise for something compressing air.

I am perplexed by the symbols in the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr3qhBmbvs0

Water is H2O alright, but air was not O2 last time I checked.
Btw, as you bring up politics, Trump's own doctors, who absolutely know what they are doing, gave him a long list of medications, including some experimental ones which weren't even ermergency approved by the FDA yet, but that list did not include HCL.

https://www.boston25news.com/news/trending/trump-coronavirus...
It's KDE, so I would guess that it's fairly simple to configure to not do that.

Haven't used this version though, so what do I know.

Edit: It says about two lines down that it's configurable.
You might recognize the author [1] from his roles in films - many cameos and smaller roles. And of course his long list of works that he's directed himself.

As to the 'Seen:' in the article -- it's probably more nostalgia than snob-ism. The time when you saw the film shapes how it's received, to some extent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bogdanovich
CSS Grid is the nice API. It fits my mental model for 90% of layout use cases. Flexbox makes responsiveness a lot nicer, and it definitely passable.

> but just looking at the raw HTML always leaves me a bit confused how elements on the page will relate to each other.

Generally you shouldn't be able to determine layout from the raw HTML. HTML should be semantic. CSS determines layout and styling.
My kids love microbit - and have been hacking stuff on the platform since they were 7 or 8 years old.

They’ve played with raspberry pi too, but Microbit is just so immediate. You write some code (or drag some blocks about), upload and it just works. It’s simple, understandable and quick. It’s also bridging the gap to learning some basic electronics too - building small circuits on a bread board with a mictrobit controller.

There’s something about microbit that just sparks my kids imagination - they’ve used it for school projects, homework assignments, they make little robots, figure out how they can automate tasks like watering their plants. All things they could do on Raspberry Pi of course, but still…

I see my kids playing about with mictrobits and I get a really sense of the same joy I had messing about with computers and electronics in the 1980s.
Since it's KDE you can switch this feature off :)

You may be looking for activities (they are useful to group related tasks together).
> I'm sure they don't complain about how things turn out for them

Apple also shouldn't complain, but still they let the consumer pay twice: once for the phone, and then the tax.
So you are defining intelligence to be whatever the brain does? That is certainly a philosophical position.