skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those that actually use the outdated X vector graphics operations look like utter garbage compared to anything post-1995

Modern UIs could do with being a bit more like 1995. Most of my work is performance sensitive so the first thing that goes are all the desktop effects that try to barf pointless rainbows and glitter in my direction.
> Extinction events don't happen that often.

That's a matter of perspective. I would say they happen all the time.
For the sealed-bottle experience, you can buy the commercially supported Black Magic Probe hardware. Still open-source and better integrated into gdb than Segger etc.
Current left wing political narrative can not allow IQ, which is as to psychology as e=m*c^2 is to physics to be true and valid.

Several of there narratives would implode by an general acceptance of the implication of IQ.

Example : The median IQ of blacks in the US is 85.
Example : The median IQ of humans in Sub Sahara Africa is 75.
Example : The median IQ of China is 105.
Example : The median IQ of Ashkenazi Jews are 115.

Note : IQ does not make you a "good" person.
Note : IQ does not guarantee success
Note : IQ is mainly genetic.
Note : Currently there is no proven way to raise one IQ above it's natural limit.
Note : Several things has been shown to lower IQ, malnutrition, cousin marriages, spanking.
Note : A person with IQ less then 90 can not follow written instructions of any complexity.
Every time I see a post from them I’m amazed at how unfunny that site is

Can you share a funny post here?
It's an early request for comments, so I guess you should find out how to respond to the RFC properly, if you don't know already.
I’ve always had desktop PCs at home, and I’ll always have. For me, a laptop PC has always been a complement to a desktop PC, not a replacement. My desktop PCs are sitting on the floor, so they don’t take up much space.
The question was "is freedom of discussion important to education", not if Joe Random cares enough to deviate from the path of least resistance.
> Opponents of DRM like the slogan, "You bought it, you own it."

Not really. Capitalist opponents of DRM like that. Many of us are against ownership and property as such - but do support autonomy, privacy, decentralization of power and the breaking of the dichotomy between user and designer/programmer, between producer and consumer.
Do note also that IQ is normally distributed only by design. There is no convinsing evidence that I have seen for any cognitive ability being normally distributed, let alone general intelligence—however they define it.

Usually cognitive abilities have a step skew to the right. And even IQ fails the sniff test for normal distributions as you can imagine that the difference between 70 and 100 is far greater then the difference between 100 and 130.
> the price has been falling to levels that make it difficult to make a living

I'm really curious to know how much drivers are making. I recall when Uber arrived, a lot of guy driving taxis (not medallion owners but renters) were really happy to switch over.

AB5 has this paternalist (and somewhat racist) undertone that drivers are too stupid to know how much it costs them to operate their business.
How does iOS handle custom schemes when you’ve got two banking apps?
macOS: App sandboxing via sandbox-exec
I'm surprised this made it to IEEE's website, as bicycle generators are long understood to be unsustainable.

I think more could be gained by a small wind turbine or even a small water turbine, although those are definitely more complicated.
What does this have to do with an invasive species? Do you assume that we allow Murder Hornets to spread and displace multiple native species? I'm confused about the intent of your post.
The guy who hacked around the boot logo check with an FPGA was also a great watch:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ix5yZm4fwFQ
I think given a given search algorithm there is an art to searching effectively with that algorithm. For example for a long time you’d search based on the words you expect in an answer to the question. As Google got more into the “reading the search query as a question” mode you had to shift a bit to framing the query with words from a question that would typically be asked to get the search results. I suspect some of the friction between switching search providers is that we unconsciously get tuned to what terms to use to get the answers we want.
I wonder when the US will get sanctioned for its support of terrorists, fundamentalism, misinformation, and human rights abuse. It has a long history of these things, and they are getting worse and more blatant at an alarming rate.
I don't understand the conflation of uefi with secure boot. Uefi can be independent of secure boot—I use uefi and have never enabled secure boot—the purpose of uefi was to consolidate definition and discovery of various bios-level APIs. Probing memory, setting video modes, and more; these things were poorly specified, and implementations frequently differed. Uefi is huge and overengineered, but it's still a definite improvement.
I usually work in varied locations and rather not have the people I'm in call with see where I am. They don't need to know that I'm outside or in a cafe.

The green screen support is mostly for my home office, I can hang a generic green sheet behind me and get perfect background replacement.
>strong man Randy Savage

macho man Randy Savage
Trying out something new and fun is what you do in your free time. Working with decade-old legacy code is what you get paid huge amounts for and the reason you want to start from scratch in your free time.

I agree that this is not good overall, but it's going to be very hard to convince people to work on not-fun things for free. Some might see it more akin to volunteer work, but the amount of people willing to do this are far outnumbered by the people simply doing things for fun. Too be fair, it is at least pretty great in so far as that they're doing open-source work :)
It makes a ton of sense. If you could have google quality search without the tracking or ads, imaging how many more iPhones Apple would sell, and how much more people would be willing to pay for them.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/10/introducing-slowww-ml-the-s...
Why are instagram, Facebook, and Twitter so damn addicting?
Is there a liberal version of The Onion?
I did not care much for C++ templates, until I moved to dynamic languages and understood the power. In dynamic languages I hated the inability to know if I was passing in an incompatible type. Templates are a perfect combination.

The main problem with templates are the compiler error messages.
I don't think there is anything wrong in particular with using Chrone's browser sync or password management system at all. That is so long as the linked account is secure.

The problem here is the weakest link which I imagine is the recovery email assigned to his google account (ie probably the Yahoo account). That was likely compromised because of the phone/SMS-based 2fa.

That is nothing to do with Google as users should be aware of the security of their recovery emails.
Ironically Kubernetes is written in Go.
Ask HN: Why are ML developers leaving TensorFlow for Pytorch?
In the recent Lex Fridman podcast I noticed that geohotz was very happy about moving Comma.ai from Tensorflow to Pytorch (https://lexfridman.com/george-hotz-2). This sentiment was also echoed by Jeremy Howard doing the same with Fast.ai (https://twimlai.com/whats-next-for-fast-ai-w-jeremy-howard/)

I recognize these moves were made over a longish time period and some time ago but the coincidence was remarkable (to me, a developer who has dabbled but doesnt work with either). Is there some bigger picture going on here?
They are not. Simply believe this, and you'll be fine :)
Over the last 10 years or so I have transitioned to having two big desktops, one at work and one at home, with with a large dropbox folder keeping them in sync. I found I just never needed to carry a laptop with me and could get better price / performance in desktop.

I do get a little nervous being without a computer when I'm on holiday 5-6 times a year, but in 25 years I've never actually had to do any emergency work while on holiday. I think the risk is very small.
Good LCDs are static unless you're running a dvi-vga-displayport-vga-hdmi dongle monster where the pixels are inevitably shifting a bit every instant. What you're more likely to be seeing is PWM backlight flickering at you.

If it's indeed the LCD and not the backlight, pray tell us the model so we don't end up buying it.
Not necessarily.

There is a 0.750.750.75*0.75 or a 31% chance of no rain at all
Pluses and minuses for sure... I feel like the video meetings are always filled with people only 70% there... sure, you can glance at your phone every once in a while you are in a meeting... but you aren't making food, writing an email for a completely different topic or watching Youtube videos on a different screen.
You’re making my point aren’t you? You think the NYP story is as reputable as the dossier ?

All the same, I don’t know of any newspapers which published stories treating the dossier as a source. As an object of the story, IE this thing exists, yes. As corroboration: please share if you have any.

Actually I think what happened is Rudy etc got a little too desperate and excited and blundered tactically: surfacing the contents of the hard drive as continual leaks, like the DNC emails, would’ve allowed for a similar dynamic to 2016. Wouldn’t have mattered politically if the contents were real or not.

By reaching and trying to drop the story as “real news,” the dubiousness of the source material got thrust directly into the spotlight. Blaming twitter, liberals, or whoever, for their poor smear tactics is just a coping mechanism at this point if you ask me.
Spacecraft design could get to Titan in only 2 years using a direct fusion drive
There was a program on the radio about either GCHQ or MI5 a while back, interviewing some who worked there, all young people by their voices. They talked about it as a job, even the interviewer noted they didn't discuss dealing/mitigating bad stuff like actual bad actors and enemies[0], they liked it as a job, reasonably enthusiastic I guess. What was most obvious to me was they sounded not very smart; they had little insight into a larger role, no deeper questioning of what they were really doing, mainly a nice secure job and that was fine with them. They came over as medium-dull bureaucrats at the start of their career.

[0] badly put but I hope it's clear
I’ve downgraded without issue twice in recent years. Must be a jailbreak thing then. Every one is always saying to save your shsh blobs so I don’t know.

I don’t think that wiki or most sites are that up to date with jailbreaking stuff since the peak of jailbreaking was so long ago.
"To realize that people are foolish is nothing to be proud of. To realize that you yourself are the people, too — well, there's some reason for a bit of pride in this realization" (R. Akutagawa, quoting from memory.)
Bingo, this is exactly what I was going to say. The Earth sure is fault-tolerant, we just might not enjoy what PIDs get the kill signal to repair the system.
> what is the die that is being rolled in these election statistics?

A program which randomly generates outcomes for each state, based on probability distributions inferred from the polls, and calculates who wins the election given those outcomes. They run the program repeatedly and report the proportion of simulated wins as the probability of winning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method
for the record i didnt get an email about it. :shrug:

i figure you get an email if it was a Show HN that flopped or something. here i was just submitting an article i liked as a regular HN denizen.
Wolves in Yellowstone are a "keystone species" [1].

A year ago, there was a fascinating episode of "Nature" on PBS about keystone species. It's available for free online streaming here [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_species

[2] https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/the-serengeti-rules-41dfru/2...
This is, basically, naive and your view of the world would likely be greatly expanded by reading Manufacturing Consent or Inventing Reality.
Your "problem domain" is a bunch of boring, easy, simplistic tax and/or logistics calculations and you know it.
I think they win big on advertising because they auction keywords. That was a novel idea and the one really big economic success they have had which funds everything else. I don’t think they need to make search less good to get more money. They do put the add more and more prominently, but the raw search results seem to be steadily improving if you can get used to the idea they are now trying to understand your intent instead of just grep’ing the internet.
The problem with templates is that it's a new language on top of an existing language. Why not use the same language for types as you already have for values?
Currently yes. However if they spent the whole $14 billion a year it wouldn't take long for apple to pull it off. I dont know what google spends on their search algorithm, but it cant be orders of magnitude more than $14 billion annually.
Don't shoot the messenger, take your qualms up with the Media Bias Chart[1]. That's what I was basing my answer on.

[1] https://www.adfontesmedia.com/
> The test is whether the tool is designed and/or offered for the purpose of circumventing copyright

It is not more designed and/or offered for this purpose than any other communication tool. At least I didn't see an evidence. The fact that it could be used is not sufficient. The goal of the whole exercise was probably more to set an example and to intimidate people a bit.

EDIT: That is probably why they called in the RIAA, which is quite peculiar. The RIAA is no copyright collective, is it?
yes, that's the issue - writing a different desktop metaphor like the various tiling WMs was something that took as few as a couple hundred lines of C. Now with Wayland the person who wants to write his own desktop environment has to rewrite much more to get to something that doesn't even provide half of what Xorg gives.

Also, compositors are not mandatory anyways on X (I don't use one personnally and prefer it like that) so it's a weird remark to make.
FWIW Japan doesn’t use fractions - 1 yen is approx 1 US penny. Lunch is 300-500 yen.
Android is still general purpose. I have Termux if I need to compile and run something. I can sideload APKs. I run Windows on desktop for newer games, but quite a few work on my Ubuntu laptop too.
off-topic, but if "username checks out" style posts were appropriate here, this would be a good place for one. :D
Newer isn't better-designed. Unix was really well-designed, compared to so much of the modern stuff, and it does everything I need. Nineties Linux was a nice Unix. I wish we hadn't spent the past quarter-century turning it into nineties Windows, with layers upon layers upon layers of cruft.

I don't get why Wayland is slow, when Enlightenment was fast on machines with 32MB of RAM, a 3dfx Voodoo, a spinning HDD, and a 66MHz CPU...
From my own experience with colleagues doing ML: because they don't trust google anymore.

Rumor says it's related to the reason we're migrating from angular to react: the risk google will deprecate technology X is not quantifiable, if there are other solutions covering the same problem space not suffering from the "will it be deprecated tomorrow" problem, they'll win.
> you can’t store the lookup table with constexpr

IIRC you can store a null-terminated string as constexpr, right? If so, then there's your lookup table.
Glad I didn't know that, and I will continue pretending I did not. :P
Do you have evidence for this statement?
I don't see Stripe's involvement in this at all: Stripe has no access to your bank account. Stripe might provide an IBAN for the publisher to provide a payto URI with. It seems like the whole point of this setup is for the user agent to decide which app to open to initiate a transfer to the destination.

For Stripe, this scheme is sort of irrelevant. If Stripe wants to offer the ability for someone to transfer money to an IBAN (or any other account identifier) through a webpage, they can just...do it. They don't need a URI, they just have a JS function which triggers a payment flow.
Apple is the new old IBM without all the warmth and personability, but ten times the marketing skills.
I cannot agree more. If i could upvote twice i would.

We are loosing biodiversity at a rate comparable to the last mass extinctions, we are loosing our "life support systems" as climate/biodiv. experts say, yet no one is concerned.

This is beyond the worst i ever expected in my worst nightmares. And this is happening now.

And no one says a world. No one even dare spending 5 minute reading the material. No one cares.

If we go extinct (with 95% of the other species first) it will be well deserved.

By the way, the science says that the dynamics are NOT in our favour:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/08/wildlife...
Thanks, I'll have a look at it.
Very true. clang seemed to give gcc a much needed kick up the arse. Even M$ are taking their C++ compiler, and standards adherence, seriously again.
Lack of real enums is one of my biggest annoyances with Go. So so many times I've put the wrong enum value in because it's just an int and it matches another set of enums. I've taken to putting each set of enums into a separate file and separate folder just to help the compiler catch this. The project I'm working on now has about 25 separate enum files+folders. Gagh!
If nothing broke then I don't see what the problem is. And, your assertion doesn't even seem to be correct. I re-read the bug and it's one GNOME developer suggesting for changes to be made only in GNOME 3, because support for a particular feature was deprecated upstream. The developer is apologetic and later goes on to make suggestions about what can be done in Ubuntu and XFCE. I see nothing there about "GNOME devs requesting that Transmission break itself." https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3685

I'm not trying to dispel any perceptions either, if you have a deep seated belief that GNOME (or XFCE, or anything really) are "not playing nice" because they removed features from upstream, there's nothing I can really say to you to change that view. If you want to challenge your own perceptions, I'd suggest you start developing a new open source desktop and application platform yourself over a period of many years just to see how much work it is, and how it's practically impossible to support everything that every app developer asks for when none of them are paying you a cent.
I don't understand what the author is concerned about. Are there PC laptops being sold today on which you are prohibited from installing Linux because of UEFI / Secure Boot?
Sure, there was some details about the reactor design that were not disclosed because "state secrets" but the very glaring error occurred after the operator deliberately ignored the safety limits that were shared and knowingly exceeded that by withdrawing all of the control rods. I'm not saying the USSR didn't have any capable nuclear engineers, but that operator should never have even stepped foot in a control room with their lack of knowledge of nuclear physics and a blatant willingness to just push forward when they know they don't understand what the reactor was doing. Add on top of that management insisting that they push on and get the reactor up to power, to hell with the consequences. Xenon poisoning after high output operation was not some secret safeguarded knowledge. The reactor operating limits were known to the operator, he decided to blow past them anyways.

I'd call their behavior, both management and the operator, reckless and incompetent. Even in the original design to forego a full containment structure, that was predicated on making sure that the operating limits specified were never exceeded and no one bothered to check to see if the night shift guy was clueless or not. It'd be one thing if they followed up the design to forego the containment structure with rigorous controls around ensuring competent operators and hard physical limits on reactor operations but they didn't.
i have an extremely unusual position as a contractor bc of covid so i am actually not technically a fulltime employee for the day job as well. so it works out there at least on the employment terms level. as for conflict of interest, it's a product they dont (yet) offer, its open source, and i'm performing a different role to the day job. i've been public about it and nobody's raised an issue on either side. ofc if you want to get nasty you could, in which case my downside is having to give up either gig. not terrible. its amazing what you can do with job opps when you dont need the money.
I think what happened is that smart phones took over because people who were not using PCs started using smart phones, and so it seems that phones took over but I think it just tapped into a gigantic market that wasn't really touched by desktop PCs, whose users are mostly professionals, power users, gaming nerds, etc. These groups like the most powerful computing options, and still do but the there are way more non-technical people using a computing device now than before.
RIAA alleged both actual infringement (through test suite), and anti-circ.

Fair use affirmative defences and tests (of which several apply) address the infringement claims.
the fact that the system provides a choice is the issue that leads to fragmentation (which is the main problem).

Saying "people could just do / not do X" absolutely never ever ever works, not in politics, not in programming, not in "not being an asshole to each other", not in "not using firearms", etc - things have to be enforced & unescapable at some point if we want sanity.
The concluding paragraph of the originally linked Science paper is revealing:

> There is limited knowledge about the virus-host interactions that determine cellular entry of SARS-CoV-2. Viruses display considerable redundancy and flexibility because they can exploit weak multivalent interactions to enhance affinity. While the focus to date has been almost entirely on the role of ACE2 in SARS-CoV-2 entry, the expression pattern of ACE2 does not match tissue tropism of SARS-CoV-2. This raises the possibility that co-factors are required to facilitate virus-host cell interactions in cells with low ACE2 expression. NRP1 could represent such an ACE2 potentiating factor; however, it is also possible that SARS-CoV-2 can enter cells independently of ACE2 when viral loads are high. The reason why a number of viruses use NRPs as entry factors could be because of their high expression on epithelia facing the external environment, and their function in enabling cell, vascular, and tissue penetration.

NRP1 might explain some of the strange pathophysiology of COVID-19.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019#Patho...
I much prefer desktops and don't even own a laptop at the moment, but what's with the fixation on UEFI? I'm not well versed in the technical differences between BIOS and UEFI, but I don't think it really matters? All these people like Richard Stallman and this guy make their lives harder as a method of virtue signaling. I'm convinced they get off on the masochism of making their life hard for the sake of "freedom."

Meanwhile, the rest of us just want to get work done: my Arch Linux desktop that boots with UEFI is functionally identical to one that boots with BIOS. So.. really, who cares?
> Dillon says the Trump administration cares “very much about free speech and for conservatives to have a voice in the public discourse.

Is this another instance of their satire that I’m somehow missing? Donald Trump is very much not in support of free speech.
> If you could have google quality search without the tracking

This is a hypothetical of the frog-with-wings variety.
Spatial audio is also a big thing that's lacking. Because you're all equally balanced there's no sense of space.
Tea certainly eliminated coffee from the mid 19th century, but tea did not eliminate "coffee culture".