skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
KDE (Plasma) 5 (i guess you meant that) is usable but i still think KDE 3 was the high point of KDE. After all the flashy stuff was introduced in KDE 4 things went downhill fast. Similarly with Gnome, Gnome 2 was the best series, Gnome 3 was awful.

It seems somewhere around the late 2000s both projects got very nice and usable desktop environments, couldn't figure out how to "evolve" next (because apparently software just can't not evolve) and started throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. And unsurprisingly, a lot of it did stick.

To its credit, KDE 5 does seem to try to clean up the mess a bit though in that over the years it is the only between the two that doesn't compulsively make me want to remove it from any Linux machine i get my hands on (and can remove stuff :-P).

Sadly XFCE seems to be heading down the same way.
I'm not sure I exactly get what "separation kernel" means. The linked wikipedia page doesn't help much. But the description of the problem leads me to unikernels as the answer.
Additionally, WhatsApp heavily encourages storing backups in Google Drive as well, with semi-regular popups asking users to configure backups in GDrive and to set the backup interval, if not already done. Obviously this doesn't mean Facebook has the information and the straightforward interpretation is that it's the least involved way of creating backups without sending it all to facebook
That's because the windows audio stack was massively changed with windows 10 (notably introduced lower latency audio).

Didn't affect players or tools that used the top level api, but anything that interacted with the stack and its drivers had to be updated.
I recently built a login where the user types in their email and it sends them a login link whether they’ve ever logged in before or not.

Link expires in 10 minutes and cannot be used more than once.
Almost every single person receiving this advice let alone being willing to follow it is far better informed than the average voter. This is a fantasy abstraction that in no way reflects actual human beings. Maybe it would work in a country with a multitude of candidates and parties but in the US people usually just vote their color. You're either liberal and vote Dem or conservative and vote GOP.

Since a binary party arrangement naturally expands to encompass half of the electorate, elections stop being about voters and start being about tactics. Who can gerrymander the hardest. Who can have the most opposing votes thrown out and opposing voters purged from the rolls. Who can interfere most effectively with the other party by suppressing polling places, drop boxes, and the post office.
I test drove a Tesla for the first time a few weeks ago and was appalled at the UX. This exact issue came up (I had no idea if it was engaged or not) and the dashboard went haywire at intersections that had separate lights for if you wanted to turn left or go straight in that lane. It was enough to completely turn me off from buying the vehicle.
This isn't holograms (and neither are the looking glass or Sony's spatial display thingie), but holograms exist, generally film based.
hi @aetherspawn, thanks for trying out the app. I considered that the price is equal and fine for the value user get (they get save their notes online and different user experience). I didn't try to compete with other Bible readers though, from business perspective, I offer the note-taking experience.

However, I am also collecting feedbacks on everything, so the prices you saw, may change in the future. If you also have feedbacks, really appreciate it. Thank you again.
Building an Artificial Sun
With Firestore, even when offline you still see your edits in your query results (flagged as such). This cannot be done with GraphQL, as the meaning of a GraphQL mutation is arbitrary, so the client can't change the offline query results accordingly.
I’m wondering if part of the problem is that I’ve made a poor life choice in making this library the central state manager in a large app: https://github.com/RisingStack/react-easy-state

The stack traces are truly and utterly useless. One cannot see what triggered a rerender or other reactive action.

And a rerender can be triggered between two lines of synhronous code, magically, thanks to es6 proxies. What have I done???
Please consider trying this:

Paragraph 1: Topic paragraph, introduce topic and question.

Paragraph 2: Summarize argument.

Paragraphs 3-n: Topic/assertion sentence. Support assertion/argument. Last sentence may summarize support. These paragraphs should follow the overall structure but sometimes you will need more than one paragraph to support something you suggested in the second paragraph.

Paragraph n+1: Review conclusion and some salient corollaries.

Paragraphs n+m: Discussion of implications of conclusion.

I read through paragraph after paragraph and I have no idea what your argument was, where it was going. If you have lots of single-sentence paragraphs, you're probably frustrating and confusing your reader.
I wonder how people feel when they write a long post and people think TLDR... it’s kind of like being interrupted. you should read all posts from beginning to end.

TLDR: sarcasm
Why is it important to not mislead a whole generation of JavaScript programmers into believing they are doing functional programming when they're really not?
In contrast to Signal, Telegram doesn't end-to-end-encrypt messages by default (they get stored in plaintext on their servers), it also doesn't protect the social graph and even stores your contact list on their servers. Even WhatsApp is more secure than Telegram.
Yeah that's how I read into it. The son gets a one time pitty gift.

The older son has it made.
Yeah. There was a time that you could use chrome://global/content/config.xul to get to the old about:config, but they removed that too. Don't know why they did that, only people who wanted the old behaviour would use it. Being able to sort by column is really useful, that's what I miss.

Edit: Didn't see your last line about chrome://global/content/config.xhtml , now I can get the old behaviour back. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
The point isn't to build your own and use it; it's to verify that the binary in the app store matches the source they published.
Thanks for sharing this. Wish I had this years ago at an HPC gig at FNAL (similar use case, with users having deep path home directories on Lustre and pNFS).
now that looks cool. coming out with an Android app anytime soon?
I miss elections where people are actually voting for a favored candidate instead of against the more despised candidate. The only recent election where that may have happened was Obama v McCain, and that says something.
Tech Giants Want EU ‘Safeguard’ to Proactively Remove Pirated Content
Thank you. Unbelievable how many people would rather no one try anything new at all.

This article and the responses show the worst of HN -- bad faith attacks, no attempt to give the benefit of the doubt, no engagement with the underlying vision, unwarranted pessimism.

Why not ask what niche this tech excels in, or what impact a refined version could have? Most projects fail -- that's obvious -- but how might this one succeed?

In short, why so much negativity? The more you default to these views, the likelier it is you and everyone around you will never accomplish anything.

This is the poison that is destroying Hacker News and likewise many startups before they have even been imagined.
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The point of reproducible builds isn't to run an open client, but validate that their copy in the app store matches the source they say it does.
LaTeX is relevant if you use it as part of your tool chain. That's like saying "Markdown isn't relevant; the text editor is." No. They're both relevant.
This parable has nothing to do with obedience to authority.
Oh. The omission was my mistake... one I made because I was assuming that offering voice calls isn't particularly credible with the isolation technique used in the device.

For SMS/MMS do none of the wifi hotspots offer a similar interface to serial cellular modems?
Argument cause must be pretty rare, but I can imagine it happening with long paths to a virtual environment's interpreter nested deep somewhere in a home directory.
As Cars Get Smarter, Massachusetts Voters May Shape Their Future
I’ve had my M3 for two years and the UX all makes sense to me. I’ve always felt it’s very intuitive. I have a feeling because of the beta nature of NOA it should have a prominent button. I haven’t used it much but I live in a rural area where I can’t use it anyway.
published 1998.
Sounds like you're a church of interruption person. Whereas this advice is about teaching women to go from meek to church of strong civility.

https://sambleckley.com/writing/church-of-interruption.html
Significantly, the younger son asked for his inheritance before his father's death.

To the elder son's complaints,the father merely responds (in the present tense) "all that I have is yours." Has that son perhaps not understood what he was in possession of?
'Even if we don’t find signs of life on Venus, that’s interesting too: it will mean Venus and Earth were two planets that started out very similarly and ended up with radically different fates. “That still raises profound questions that need answering,” says Byrne. “But to answer them, we need a program for studying the planet.”'

I love this copout at the end, combined with a call for funding even if we don't end up finding anything on Venus - just to answer these questions that this one guy, a space reporter came up with.

Uh, how about instead of putting hundreds of millions or billions of dollars into that, we put that money into actually fixing shit on the planet we have right now?
I think this analysis is horrific, just absurd assumptions everywhere. Maybe arguable that one could discuss something about bias-variance and uninformed people in an academic setting, but trying to apply this to real life is just a waste of time at best.
Heh. For fun I put in a bit of "Within a Budding Grove" (one of the Proust books [1]) and it's almost entirely in the yellow region, even with my bad copy-paste job that chops up sentences by accident. Proust is fun to read, but it took me a while to get the way he talks.

[1] https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/within-a-budding-gro...
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Fear of new UIs is justified. The last time anyone did serious usability engineering and published results and methods was Windows 95 (or at least, that was the last round I've seen).

I'm afraid of wasting my time learning totally new interactions that are less useful and get changed again in 1-4 years. I would rather cling to my 'legacy' interactions that keep working for as long as I can, than to keep churning.

I was never a KDE person, but GNOME 2 was getting close to having everything right before GNOME 3 won the race to ruin desktops.
You are taking the older son at his word but not the father. That's not the only way to read it.
Oh yeah! WordPerfect came out of some offices up the road in Orem.
I agree for Gnome, but how is KDE 5 worse than KDE 3?
I was driving a Ford Fiesta for a while and it would hijack the stereo, mute the music and say something like "Please connect your phone to run a vehicle report" while driving once a week or so. The only way to get the radio back was dismiss the modal it popped up or presumably install the app and let it send data home.
With the exception of people who need full time carers, everyone is the prime authority and advocate of their own interests.

It's the interrupted's job to correct the behaviour because they're the one who wants it corrected.

It could be someone else's job as well, but its still going to be the interrupted's job.
Inheritance is central to the story. The older brother is working to increase the value of the estate, because he’ll inherit half one day. The younger brother asked for his half up front in cash and wasted it. The older brother is pissed because he cares about doing the right thing, and he’s not especially rewarded for doing it when others don’t.

There’s another story in the Bible about this, the vineyard workers. Workers are hired for the day with the promise of a day’s wage. Some are hired in the morning, others at noon, afternoon, and an hour before dark. The morning workers are angry because everyone got paid the same, and the vineyard owner reminds them that they were paid fairly, and that they should not let what others receive damage their contented-ness.

Christianity’s emphasis of forgiveness and full welcoming has been criticized by many austere and rigorously just religions and philosophies.
What's an example of a zk-snark, assuming they exist today, and what millions use them?
For the record, the cop who gave me the ticket never heard my bike. He was wondering through a group of our parked bikes looking for illegal mods. My polished muffler looked cleaner than the rest of the bike and so he thought it was a new addition. And the vfr 2000 was a very quiet bike.
I thought that Southworth and McAlpin were kind of out there on their own with this hypothesis.
>Or if they'll be long unplayable either technically or legally.

Technical isn't usually a problem, as cracks and emulators already exist.

Legality is a problem in theory, but in practice it seems it is just ignored? Actually, what explanation does the Internet Archive have for any of this being legal?
> It would be great if longitudinal studies of huge populations existed, but...

That's the problem, isn't it. There's so many things we would know if only we had better data. However, until we actually have useful data, we have to simply acknowledge that there is insufficient data to say anything worth saying. To do otherwise is unscientific.
Spack: Multi-platform/version package manager
I really doubt that Flutter/Dart will displace Android/Jetpack Compose/Kotlin. Kotlin already very quickly replaced Java for new Android code at many places, and it offers big productivity advantages without any downsides. So, on Android there’s a strengthening incumbent.

I think Flutter could evolve an interesting platform for “line of business” or “rapid application development” projects, similar to Lazarus/Delphi. In that respect, I agree that we could see growth for flutter for low-cost cross-platform projects, and on Linux.

But, after the failures of React Native, none of the mobile developers I talk to have any interest in these non-native, layered-on-top frameworks that need a plugins ecosystem to call into native code or native APIs. Your productivity is basically held hostage by the runtime to an even greater degree than it already is on a mobile OS.

I also don’t thing Google needs any new web APIs to make Flutter accessible. They can position some invisible divs with the right spots with the right WARIA attributes.
I don't get that at all from the story. It teaches that you should stop worrying so much about yourself and celebrate the success of others, even when you think you are "better" than those other people.

And it's a rather precient parable because jealosy of a sibling is a common thing.

When others overcome something difficult, like addiction, I try to celebrate with them. I don't sulk and complain that i'm not getting enough adulation for never getting addicted in the first place.
High quality ball points are a lot less scratchy than the cheap ones. I've used some that are definitely less scratchy than a fountain pen with a fine nib.
Let me clarify my point here. It was not that I 'saw people asking for opinions', it was the whole interaction. Literally, is was shocking. The silence, the agreement, and everything else. People that had made a point before were afraid to express it. People that were speaking did not speak anymore. The incorrect path was taken, and it was not the first time I've seen this behavior. I look up everything I suspect online, and I don't think that's making a leap. It is simply using tools available to shine a light on the truth.
I changed the ': subtitle' because I couldn't get it to fit within limit with just small tweaks.
I'll just leave these here:

Conflict of Interest Statement from the paper:

"The authors declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Dr Hooker is a paid scientific advisor and serves on the advisory board for Focus for Health (formerly Focus Autism). He also serves on the Board of Trustees for Children’s Health Defense (formerly World Mercury Project) and is a paid independent contractor of Children’s Health Defense as well. Dr Hooker is the father of a 22-year old male who has been diagnosed with autism and developmental delays. Mr Miller is the director of Thinktwice Global Vaccine Institute and was a paid consultant to Physicians for Informed Consent."

If you're curious about those organizations mentioned there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Health_Defense

"Children's Health Defense is an American 501c3 nonprofit advocacy organization, known for its anti-vaccine activism. Much of the material put forth by the organization involves misinformation on vaccines and anti-vaccine propaganda. It was founded and is chaired by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Established under the name World Mercury Project in 2016, it has been campaigning against various public health programs, such as vaccination and fluoridation of drinking water. The group has been contributing to vaccine hesitancy in the United States, encouraging citizens and legislators to support anti-vaccine regulations and legislation."

http://thinktwice.com/faq.htm

"Some doctors will say anything to compel parents to vaccinate, even if it doesn't make sense or is an outright lie. They spread this misinformation to make parents like you feel guilty, and to create tension between parents of vaccinated and non-vaccinated children. It is a ploy to coerce you into vaccinating your child. How could your non-vaccinated child be a danger to the vaccinated child? If vaccines are effective, then the baby should be protected."
Apart from Lamy Safari, another option is the Pilot Metropolitan. If you want smooth writing, get a Medium or larger. Pilot Medium's are the equivalent of Fine in most countries.
This is for an internal app, makes sense that it worked out well for them because the internal app is mostly a greenfield project. Some resume padding and performance review check offs for those associated with the project, however this Kotlin Multiplatform is NOT stable enough for most large scale applications.

For starters good luck turning on / off features, handling UI state, and tying in the business logic to that state. And good luck mangling dependencies and build times with a new added Kotlin dependency :-)
You’ve got some heavily inaccurate assumptions about how the virus spreads. Most infected people spread to nobody, even without restrictions. The bulk of spread happens in clusters in poorly ventilated indoor environments. The household attack rate is something like 17%. That’s people living in the same house. 83% of people don’t get it!

To have a sustained outbreak breach quarantine, you’d need:

1. An infected person to arrive (probably less than 2% of arrivals are infected)

2. This infected person must breach isolation protocol. (Most people are honest or fear or penalties)

3. They must be infectious when they breach protocol (you are only very infectious for five days or so)

4. They must go to a place apt to superspreading (not everyone breaching isolation will go to a bar or a party)

5. The newly infected must all remain asymptomatic and not seek testing

6. Once community spread is detected, the government must delay taking action, fail to contact trace, and avoid implementing new measures

This is obviously possible. Outbreaks have happened in Australia, Vietnam, New Zealand, New Brunswick. But it is much, much less likely than you suggest, which is why you’re being downvoted: you’re completely failing to consider the system dynamics.

And in each case step 6 has put things back on track pretty quick. Australia is the exception, but there the local government was slow to respond and so they needed a big, long lockdown. Other areas responded quickly and so the necessary lockdown has been short.

I’m in the Atlantic bubble. Frankly it leaks like a sieve and yet it’s still been enough to keep out infections for now.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overloo...
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I think you mistake my opinion of Twitter for my opinion of all media and all social networks. Virality of the kind Twitter relies on is not essential to the definition of a social network. I do not quit out of a desire for some ascetic lifestyle or asocial tendency. I like to discuss ideas in the comment threads of HN as much as anyone. That's originally what drew me to the service over 10 years ago.

As to why I wrote this, I thought HN readers may be interested in my take on how we got here, having worked in the space professionally. After all, social media tech used to be a big thing on these forums back in the day.

Then again, maybe there's also a lesson in that we expect anyone who writes anything now only does it to farm clicks.
First of all, throughout all of recorded history, when has government been competent in caring for it's subjects needs?

When it had its foot on the neck of the peasants for a thousand years during Egyptian times or a thousand years during medieval times?

The only thing that ended massive repression by the government during the middle ages, was the black plague which killed indiscriminately and allowed redistribution of the wealth and subsequently the enlightenment.

What about when gov't started started holocausts, genocides, crusades?

When it invaded Vietnam and many of the other frivolous wars the human race has been in?

This is not hand wavy this is history.

SECOND OF ALL, this is not a temporary hit this is permanently hurting hundreds of millions of peoples lives increasing real poverty around the world destroying small businesses and people's livelihoods.

This is rewriting society and culture.

This is increasing homelessness, suicide, drug addiction and overdoses and more.

If you think this is a temporary hit you and the rest of the people like you are truly in your own bubble.
(spending more karma bringing libertarian ideas into a HN thread on infrastructure, but here goes)

The point is that the bridge makes sure it has towing capabilities on standby for the fastest turnaround possible, since the operators of the bridge only care about the bridge. If a city government has a standing contract with some towing company, they probably use it for all sorts of things, so you wouldn't have that immediate standby capacity.

I don't like the work "privatized." Instead, this would be a bridge built by entrepreneurs and operated as a business.
It doesn't matter. YouTube's Standard License authorizes certain videos to be viewed only by streaming through YouTube's web player or an authorized client. This is enforced by obfuscating code in the player. By circumventing that code, youtube-dl veers into "illegal piracy tool" territory.

Note that it wouldn't matter if youtube-dl contained no deobfuscating code at all, but merely downloaded and evaluated the JavaScript Google's web client uses to deobfuscate. The result is the same: youtube-dl circumvents copyright access controls and is therefore illegal.
It has nothing to do with 1995. Windows 95 was aesthetically conservative but not ugly, unlike KDE3 (which is ugly and NOT conservative).
If the limitations of the free version and/or the pestering bugs you, consider looking into Scoop.
Arguably, the best "No SQL" database: an LDAP-compliant DIT.
I use F12 several dozen times per day because it is the "Save as..." shortcut in MS Office. Much better and quicker than navigating the menus
Woot! Sid Meier's Colonization is there. Hands down one of the best games of all time.

Wing Commander II collection, but no Privateer? That game is why Star Citizen even exists.