skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did the toolchain you were working on support both GCC and Clang? I ask because I was recently trying to work on a ESP32 project in vim and got stuck hard on YouCompleteMe only using a clangd-based completer while the project was only compileable with a GCC-based toolchain, leading to annoying things like headers not being found due to things like `#if GCC...` (or the like), and also not all cli switches matching up.

Any tips on getting completion working in vim for GCC-only CXX projects is highly appreciated...
Even worse - that the person trying to reproduce it can't access unless they have a license for something.
Actually I suppose Skype over lynx is a good example counter to my own point, who knows?

Naming a brand after a concept is an asshole thing to do, sure it puts your product in the search results for anyone googling devops, but it makes looking for anything related to the product painful, so I'm all for another name change.
Pretty easy solution on November 3rd. Vote Democrat down ticket.
I created this service along with a friend to help people take the most out of their social profiles bio link. We believe we have a solid product, but are always looking for feedback :D
I agree, linguistically that comment borders on gibberish.
Why do you think a well built desktop PC would be less power efficient? It's probably more power hungry, but I don't think desktop PCs use inherently more power per instruction executed or whatever arcane metric we'd be measuring. Modern desktops can clock up and down just as quick as their more mobile counterparts, and due to proper cooling, the same chip you have in a laptop would be more efficient in a desktop enclosure - the cooler a chip is, the more efficient it can be - higher temperatures necessitate more power to move a charge across a conduit.
Distributing YouTube-dl source code through image sites
Well this isn't the collapse of San Fransisco - but rather the office rental market. Also interesting that people let go of the office space. Companies making a lot of money wouldn't do that they'd keep it for a year or so simply to have the continuity. They are too busy making money to worry about their rent.

But if they are looking to cut back on rent costs it makes me think times are tough. That paying attention to cutting this cost (and the hassle it will cause now and when things return to normal), and taking that attention away from growth means that there is an issue.

Obviously this isn't the permanent collapse of SF but it might be a nail in it's long term coffin. I can't imagine in 50 years time, with globalisation, with global currencies, remote working, VR etc. that you'd need to be tied to a physical location to innovate or get investment.
Vietnamese Americans will gladly eat them out existence if you want. We love that stuff!
Mostly deficit spending. QE and the like is for increasing the money supply, not really spending. Though it can have a knock on effect in terms of the rate the govt borrows at.
I'm a wlroots developer, and I'm using an old Sandybridge mobile i5 CPU daily. So I'm pretty surprised about this. I'd be interested in a bug report if you were to try again.
I guess I'm confident that an open market will always provide for us. I don't know why you think it would not.

Right now, today, it has never been easier to just go down to the local mall and buy a general purpose computer, and sure, there are lots of phones, tablets, and consoles on display as well, but there is no less computers as a result.
Yep and it doesn’t matter.
I'm excited by the idea of permanent remote work and moving somewhere more affordable. I moved to SF relatively late in my career, and only realized afterwards that I have nowhere near enough savings to own a nice home here.

But most of my coworkers seem eager to return to the office. They miss the office environment, the perks and catered meals, and the socialization. And the managers, who subsist on meetings and in-person interaction, seem even more anxious to get everyone back to their desks. The powers-that-be probably have personal motivations for keeping everyone here as well (e.g., many millions of dollars tied up in their homes, which could lose significant value if the housing market deflates).

All this is to say, I'm skeptical that workers won't be called back into the office as soon as leadership gets the chance.
You can alias that type into a simpler name and keep using that instead of bringing components into the current namespace (or the global one). I haven't done C++ in some years but this was definitely a part of C++11.
The point is that people want to know what's going to happen before it happens. If I believed a Democrat was sure to win, I would want to allocate my stock portfolio different than if a Republican were to win.

Also, you can make money betting on the outcome itself. If the odds you get are underpriced relative to an accurate forecast, that's a great bet to take.

Furthermore, these forecasts influence where politicians put their focus. Let's say you're Hillary in '16 and you think Wisconsin is yours despite the forecast showing a narrow lead, maybe you should reconsider.
Unix: Making Computers Easier To Use 1982 [video]
I'm not saying it would be a good situation to end up in, I'm saying it is economically viable (so we'd still have fruit).

Hand pollination of apples is already sometimes done in China.
Nah, the spending power of the federal government, and the tax collection of the federal government are not linked.

So long as the fed can print money the federal government can spend. It cares not about the states or how much income tax flows in. Hence, it can run up structural deficits until faith is lost in the $ (inflation).

State governments, on the other hand, cannot print money. They must operate in a zero-sum mode.
It takes some time to get a feel of the culture of a new place, but trust me as someone that has lived in a few other states, it eventually makes a big difference. California has dramatically out performed other states, and is more expensive because it was working, in part because of the culture that is unique to California.
Hmm, I actually thought I already had that. Thanks for the catch! To be honest I'm not quite sure what category to put it under though?
I assume since this is a US case, they only care about percentages of US searches.
So, I know you were joking but this idea has more than a little validity. In my vision, it would be a small group of families that would meditate daily together, and collaborate on chores and child-raising, and (this part I haven't figured out yet) work on the same project, or perhaps WFH on software-like things. Ideally there would be daycare, gardening, and some sort of exercise (yoga) involved. I mean, yeah its easy to imagine how such a thing could go horribly wrong - bad actors taking advantage, cult-like groupthink, etc - but its also easy to imagine what it would be like with the right mix of people being good to each other. Maybe call it a "Sci Fi Kibbutz" or something.
The power goes out for a day, sometimes days, every year in my neighborhood when the wind blows. Finally fed up, I recently had a generator installed that attaches to the natural gas line.

I know that purchase was effective, because a week after it was installed there was a big storm and power went out everywhere except my neighborhood. Just having a generator successfully wards off power failure, you never have to actually turn it on.

I submit this is objective proof that I am living in a simulation and none of you exist, you're just artifacts of the simulation.
Oh, absolutely. The more genetic engineering and radiation the better. With a bit of machine learning you've got a pitch deck for murder hornet removal as a service.
I find it really gross this trend nowadays to look down upon or make fun of people that are interested in preserving their freedom. If I assume you're from the US, what's supposed to be the "land of the free, home of the brave", and yet you're mocking somebody for wanting to be free in this particular aspect of their life.
You're definitely correct, but its more like "scrape Facebook and Linkedin in real time".

This measure is probably more about generating mystique that is useful for recruiting than it is about maintaining security.
> This is a classic "Damoclean sword" conundrum.

Is it though?

Its only a conundrum because of the way we have organised data, with NO regard for the people the data comes from. We could have had data collected WITH consent only.

The privacy boat left the port long ago - personal privacy was intentionally eroded, and this is just one example.

Personally, on ethical grounds, I could never have designed a system like that, with so little regard for others, externalising private information so that a permanent record is kept. Once private data is exteralised, who knows where it ends up, even if it is in the name of some good cause (eg an improvement in therapy). Plenty of people warned of these sorts of outcomes.

At this point, if you care about your privacy, you really only have the option of not engaging with the system. Or engaging as little as possible.
Yes, they can't be signed away. Nuances matter of course, but regarding data privacy rights the general situation is that if you sign some contract with a clause 'agree to X or we won’t give you service' then that clause is simply invalid as it conflicts with the law and is not binding. If a company would use that data, then they can be fined for using that data without consent since that is not valid (freely given) consent.
I wouldn’t.

Better to run it into the ground — this stuff will get bailed out to protect the banks.
I mean... having used both X and Wayland as daily drivers, you're fucking insane if you think you can EVER get me back on X.

On Wayland I get excellent multi-monitor support (mixed scaling ratios, much better automatic detection and configuration, much better plug-and-play). I also have a touchpad on my XPS that feels just as good as a Mac.

To boot, I haven't had to touch a config file related to input devices or output devices a single time using Arch/GDE/Wayland.

Honestly, I'd probably still be running linux in a VM on my laptop if it weren't for Wayland.

If X is your opinion of "stable and working" then I don't want any part of your systems.
Yes, I conceded that we aren't blank slates. I still think we're on the wring track.
1. I hate infinite scrolling and algorithmic surfacing. It's maximizing engagement and not giving me content I care about. I don't care for the dopamine rush.

2. I want to leverage visual memory, you know what you've seen even over a few days, and it's easy to scan through a list of peoples' last posts to know you've already seen it. A quick scan with positional context that doesn't mutate every 30 seconds trying to keep you from bouncing.

Imagine reading a newspaper where the columns reloaded every 30 seconds.

This tries to be precisely the opposite of that, though individual user columns will update if they post, that's part of Twitter's iframe JS though, so out of my hands.
The high end iMacs are quite nice, as long as you don't mind their all-in-one nature (including the monitor obviously). Back in the day I might have suggested Hackintosh, although that's always seemed like quite a hassle to me, and certainly less appealing now Apple are moving over to ARM.

If I buy another Apple laptop it'll probably be a 16" Macbook Pro. In fairness to Apple I usually get at least 5 years out of one of their laptops so can generally live with the premium.
On the flipside, I wonder how much of a market there will be to rent individual offices?

Many like working at home, but a lot of us have rather ad-hoc situations. Even with a perfect home office, kids etc at home can make concentration tough. And the space separation and seeing other adults is very valuable.
I guess I live in a sensible country. People would be screaming bloody murder if that shit happened here.
Democrats are part of the problem. The solution isn't to vote democrat or republican, it is to vote for people that care.
Term limits would go a long way to solving that problem.
Another approach to data availability and standardization: who cares?
Anyone who matters, anyone properly dangerous from whom GCHQ wants to hide, doesn't care much about official secrets acts. Any KGB (ie russia's FSB) wouldn't hesitate. But it would be an interesting exercise. A visit to the oxbridge libraries, then compare those faces to everyone walking the streets around MI5/6. Seems rather tame compared to all the other things we know have been done.
Money a lot of money,networking opportunities etc was THE draw.

There are dozens of cities that have everything else that SF has. If $$ goes away it will crash so hard it will make Detroit look like a model city.

My hope that after election hysteria is over and Vaccines get approved we will be back to something resembling normal by next summer. SF has a huge value as a place for tech with all its other faults it would suck to loose it
Common Worlds, Common Sense, and the Digital Realm
Check this project out for spacial audio meetings, misses the mark on the video piece but interesting none the less. It's built on jitsi meet. https://github.com/capnmidnight/Calla
DDG is a billion dollar company, someone's using them :P
One wonders if the people who worry about election hacks ever worry about the fact that voting machines are closed-source, never audited by the public, and sold by people who make no secret of their strong political leanings.
Virtual meetings are fine, here's what you might need:

Mute yourself when you're not talking.

Use a client with decent dynamic range compression (discord gets this right, some others don't)

Video adds nothing.
And Debian is ironically hard mode! Packages are so outdated and Debian is so unfriendly and clunky. Like a worse Ubuntu.

IME, Manjaro/Arch unironically provide a better, less buggy experience. Maybe the bugfixes come in faster than the bugs and the devs pay most of their attention to current versions.

And more anecdata: I wouldn't say scripts to fix your resolution are "common" pains on Linux. (Though crashes on Cinnamon are ;p -- stick to KDE or GNOME if you want polish.) The closest I've come to that lately was having to reset the sound daemon due to a Manjaro bug, but that's the only thing in two years I've had to do. Meanwhile, on Windows, the internet dies when I turn my VPN off (the same VPN I use on Linux, at that). And, for that, the scriptable solution's more elusive. "Reinstall and pray" is the only way to go.
If you think it merits discussion and your discussion is merely some opinion that doesn’t cross any of the site guidelines (sums to “I don’t care about this topic much so you shouldn’t either”), then there’s no basis for flagging it.

Flagging means it’s either off topic, inflammatory, or not worthy of discussion. It’s on topic, and obviously not inflammatory. So you’re left with worthy of discussion... and you obviously are discussing it.

Put it this way: if this is worthy of a flag, why are you here giving soft opinion as to why you personally would ignore it, as opposed to arguing why it shouldn’t be allowed period?
I worked on a laptop for 18 months, I'll never do the same mistake again.

It was awful on all dimensions, even the portability as the thing I choose at the time was not light, I used it at home only once.

Not worth it.
> Yet, I can still install and run whatever operating system and software I want on my laptop _and_ desktop, and I don't see any sign that that freedom will go away anytime soon.

We got awfully close though. Had Linux not been popular enough back when UEFI SecureBoot started being adopted, Microsoft would require x86 UEFI motherboards to not allow the user to install their own keys, like they did with ARM UEFI (https://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-c...).
It’s based on IRS direct deposit.
Also missing shadertoy. https://www.shadertoy.com/
This seems so true and yet so depressing at the same time.
In theory, if a rootkit gets installed on the system, having Secure Boot enabled would prevent it from running.
I’ve seen similar things.

If you disagree with this concept, go to a west coast US metropolis and and try to have an open private discussion about something taboo (e.g. abortion) where you’re openly against the status quo. Odds are good you’ll hear about it.

For example, I used the term “wife beater” to refer to a tank top, in a private conversation, at a Berkeley bar. Within seconds I had a total stranger come up to me and tell me I shouldn’t use that term.
I think the lack of eye contact is a big problem, possibly the biggest. Right now, when you look at the camera, the other person sees you looking them in the eyes. And when you look them in the eyes, they see you looking somewhere else. And when you move around, the other person's gaze doesn't track your position in space. The body language dimension of communication gets all messed up.

Here's an example of tech that could fix this, using gaze tracking and 3D reconstruction to make the screen behave as a stable "artificial window" from your room into the other person's room, changing the view as you move your head. That way you can look at the other person and make eye contact naturally: https://www.fastcompany.com/90498000/move-over-zoom-this-mag...
I'm a consultant and provide my own tools, but I'm well paid and $5k for a few computers that will last a long time is a fairly minor expense.
I think it's instructive to set aside money for a minute and think about things in real terms: if we shut things down, then which parts of the economy won't be functioning and what is the cost of that.

For example: suppose hospitality workers are paid to stay at home. How is that paid for? Well actually it's entiely paid for by people having fewer of the hospitality experiences that they are used to. It is obvious when you take money out of the equation that hospitality workers staying at home will not cause there to be any less of essentials such as food and shelter to go around.

There are other sectors like manufacturing where there is a real cost to be paid. But that could be as small as delaying the purchase of the manufactured goods by period of lockdown. No so bad.

Whem you look at it like this way, QE seems entirely justified. All it really does is spread the effects accross the economy to people who can bear them, and avoids financially ruining people which will be a primaey cause of long term economic damage once things reopen.
And I would! While mail is not as easy to monitor at scale or distance, the files of single patients are even less protected; catching a letter is rather trivial if one really wants to.
I don't agree with the part about desktops not being mobile, there are plenty of sub 10L cases that you can literally fit in your backpack and walk away. If you don't carry your computer around very often you can easily have a desktop that's portable. The most extreme example of this is the Velkase Velka 3[1].

- [1]: https://www.velkase.com/products/velka-3
I see what you mean here, and it might be what the statistics website is claiming. However, it is not clear at all. They use the words "large share of the smartphone operating systems’ market within the United States," and "largest share of the United States smartphone operating systems’ market" when talking about the market share for Apple and for Android, respectively. Sounds like the same metric is being compared.
You seriously think that everywhere in America with reasonable tax rates is just getting fiscal transfers from SF?
Most? You’ve gotta be earning more than 400k to get into the 1%.

Top 10% maybe, since that’s around 125-150k.
Yes, the federal government could bail out state and local governments (and indeed that’s some of what the Heroes Act does – passed by the House in May).

But the GOP Senate intransigently refuses to act or even negotiate, and so state/local governments are getting crushed.
You're right, things will move on, and I am not (personally) all that worried. Nor are the creditors who can afford to eat a loss.

My concern is more about the ripple effects. Many low-skilled workers rely on service work, and servicing corporate real estate is a real industry (janitorial services, managerial duties, parking lot attendants, plumbers, even construction). They are already having a pretty hard time of it, and if this industry vanishes, "moving on" may mean going out on the streets. San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and San Diego have enough homeless already.
Getting rid of First Past the Post with something like Star Voting (https://www.starvoting.us) would go much further without imposing arbitrary limits.
I found this pretty funny.

https://babylonbee.com/news/seeking-to-quell-controversy-joe...
We should never have sent a 1200 check at all. The people who need help were the ones who lost their job. And they got it through extra unemployment benefits.
I do realize there is an issue with some people who don't qualify for unemployment either because they still work part time or because they were self employed. That group should have been targeted and or given benefits as well
You can reconfigure the more modern ones.
Awesome wordsmithing - I annoy be as bleak as you for your third paragraph but thank you for your passion :-)
I wonder what would happen with a Queen excluder under the hive, so that the entrance required worker size or smaller?

Drone entry/exit and blockages would be an issue after a period presumably.
Wow does not work well in mobile. Bouncing between progressive image updates and moving text below.
That seems like an overly simplistic view of what code is, and what code can be.
It's the latency. Getting a turn to speak becomes very difficult if the speaker doesn't provide a reasonable gap to break in to the conversation. You basically just need to push harder on the interruption than they push on continuing to speak. I know it sounds rude, but sometimes you need clarification if you want to have a chance at understanding what the speaker wants to say next. Sometimes you spot a flaw in what they've said and need to interject before they waste 10 minutes talking about something that's not going to work. And sometimes you just need to cut someone off to stop them from rambling and repeating the same thing in 5 different ways.

While there are non-verbal cues that indicate that you have something to say, my experience with physical meetings is that those cues get completely overlooked anyway.
Most of HN is in the 1%? Maybe globally, but I doubt most of HN is in the 1% of America.

A couple of two, both making $200k/year is outside the 1%.
Do you have a suggestion for who to vote for who “cares”?

And as my sibling comment mentioned, eliminating first past the post would, in my opinion, be a gigantic improvement. If you’re in Massachusetts, please vote Yes on 2 this election so we can have ranked choice voting statewide.
I couldn't remember what "DE/WM" meant. If anyone else is in a similar situation, they stand for "desktop environment" [0] and "window manager" [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_manager
It’s uncomfortable to write down that “Abel is here primarily because he’s good friends with the CTO but he mostly stays out of the way, Baker is the one who really knows what’s going on but can’t write reliable code, and Charlie is a code monster but doesn’t have the faintest idea of nor interest in how our business actually works.”

Pick your combinations of what pros and cons each team member brings, but it’s rare for the unvarnished truth about your people map to be exclusively positive.
"Consilience" is not on the list but nobody's perfect.
> 12. My desktop doesn't have a microphone or camera, so they cannot be surreptitiously turned on remotely.

Your points are all good but this one gave me pause for thought. We're all working from home and using our microphones and cameras more than ever. I'm using my regular laptop with plug-in microphone and webcam. Are laptop makers thinking in terms of upping the specs on the microphone and webcams in their upcoming models?