skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what way does Smalltalk embody the concepts underlying biological cells and systems? Note that objects sending messages to other objects has very little to do with that – it would look more like lots of identical objects emitting lots of identical messages into a shared medium, and lots of objects receiving none, some, or many of those messages (a stochastical process) and reacting in a more or less deterministic manner.

Such a system would be hell to develop, debug, and maintain. Which is why we don't design systems that way. Which is exactly my point.
> Local storage only and no accounts is a feature to me
Agree! But the privacy policy is missing. Who tells me that the stuff is not uploaded tomorrow and sold to advertisers?

A takeout as csv or json would also be needed. That could also be the basis for multi-device, which some people undoubtedly will need.

Ideally of course open source it. I am always hesitating to feed closed-source services with my data.
With 'car as a platform' and automotive corps at least toying with the idea of subscription based features (think: chip tuning and such) it seems tempting to expand this scheme to cars.
Fusion (originally "Digital Fusion" by Eyeon Software, now part of Resolve) is also a purchase [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmagic_Fusion
Introduction to Makefiles
To everybody complaining about how there are no options, my phone my money, etc., go donate (money, code, documentation) to a project actively working on providing an alternative. Put your money where your mouth is. Actions speak louder than words.
Looks like it's designed for scammers who sell it to gullible people on the street, making them feel like it's a "once-in-a-lifetime" deal.
Apple or Dell? I would start with Meanwell if I were trying this.
Nix is a nice research project, but after playing with it for ~6 months and contributing to nix-packages, I came to conclusion that (in my case) it's not suitable for production nor development, and now I manage my personal machines with a simple Ansible playbook.

Main reason for leaving was that Nix package maintainers have to heavily patch all software. Packaging for nix is more like porting software to another operating system. Just check the amount of ad-hoc patches in nix-packages repo, and note that they have automated tools for patching the most common problems, so the problem is even worse. Now how about quality of these patches... I was able to merge some pretty large patches to nix-packages from an anonymous and sketchy-looking github account, and they weren't scrutinized much, because the original author of the derivations abandoned them.

Moreover, Nix breaks the chain of trust for the language packages. For example, Erlang and Elixir packages are signed cryptographically. Most erlang libraries come with a rebar.lock file containing hashes of the dependencies, so reproducible builds are already ensured. Unfortunately, package hashes are incompatible with Nix derivation SHA's, because they include some additional envelope data. What did Nix people do to work around this problem? They patched out the checks for rebar.lock files from the 3rd party Erlang build system. I would not dare to run a distro that contains patches like this in any kind of production environment.

Additionally, /nix directory is readable by all users, so you cannot use Nix to manage secrets, and there was no universally approved way of doing so (or at least it was the case at the time I was using it).

As for personal use... You cannot install opam packages without dealing with incompatiblities, you cannot easily install games from Gog without dealing with incompatibilities, and to be honest, do you really need such degree of reproducibility for your very own dev machine?
Jesus, I had no idea. Remind me to never, ever switch to Android
Proposal for target-private directories for compilers
I think if you tell people you want to practice your Finnish, and you're not in a busy restaurant / grocery store, they'll entertain you. Younger Finns just have stopped assuming that people would bother learning Finnish.
I made a website to guess tomorrow’s Covid-19 case count
Heaven Is a Place on Earth
Will you kill a fellow HN'r in civil war 2?
A TV is something which is nice to have, but not essential. A phone is needed for calls, which are essential. Try fixing a billing problem or banking problem without calling the company.
The formula “government must [support] X people, and [mitigate] Y people” seems like a pretty consistent formula for all collectivism. They only differ in the reasoning.

It could be anything: smart/dumb, peaceful/violent, weak/strong, poor/rich. And in any order. Today people seem to be fixated on race. I wonder if we’ll ever get past that.
Cheers!

Sorry for the noise.

Someone once asked me, when Barack Obama was first elected, if I trusted him. I was mildly astonished. I said, "That's not what politicians are for!" To me it seems clear that the primary purpose of politicians is to get out in front of the crowd and justify to ourselves and to the world our crimes, cruelties, and vices.

I mean, if people weren't wicked would there be any politicians or lawyers?

I actually dropped out of high school and was homeless for a few years, in part because of disaffection with society and politics. I got over it. Nowadays I tend to believe that most people are doing their best, we just suck. I think it's the aftermath of the Younger Dryas and the invention of agriculture, but that's a whole 'nother story.

Anyhow, I'm curious about how other people view the world and (at this point in history) the political class, so thank you.
BMD has published an excellent series of introductory video tutorials and 5 training books (available for free in PDF form, along with media and project files to follow along). Going beyond just showing how to do X, I think they do a great job of communicating best practices, workflows, and things like keyboard shortcuts that might be useful. This is some of the best educational material for any such application that I have come across (paid or free), and I enthusiastically recommend checking it out.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/tra...
A lot of people (especially across the waters) have no idea where Switzerland is on a map, nor that they speak German (Same with Austria).

I'm going to guess that might have to do with GP's assumptions…
200 scientists collaborate to an experiment and publish promising results. Dudes on the internet say it is bs.
No, you couldn't. Have you even skimmed over the features it has?
Ah nice. Used to work in a large corporation with a major office in NYC (I am in London).

Also recruiting C++ developers, had a few folks with 30+ years of experience.

I think the key is to have developers who are good, but not too great that they can pass interviews in other places (tech interviews are getting impossibly difficult nowadays).

Give them decent work-life balance, decent pay/perks, and decent teammates/manager. They will stick around for a while. Not looking too hard and if they look there's a good chance it doesn't conclude (interviews are too time consuming with a family and too difficult).

There's still quite a bit of attrition though. NYC has a lot of strong opportunities (FANG, banks, hedge funds) and C++ developers have niches in demand (finance/high performance).

Top developers will get a better opportunity eventually. I've seen the case where another company decided to take over somebody or a whole team, it's unstoppable.
Mind Management, Not Time Management Interview
Yeah, I haven't given it that much thought. It only started as a weekend project. I would like to keep it as local as I can.
Possibly, there will be 2 uses: a non-db, non-url, local version AND an account based thing.
> you can't abolish half of a thing. abolishing half of slavery still leaves you with slavery

Then I guess the abolitionists failed because slavery still exists.
Personally, though I don’t like DRM, I don’t think we can ban it generally (though I could probably think of a few more specific cases where we should). I would like breaking DRM to not be a felony, though.
The DOS Batch Guide
Small benchmark/test system for microservices
Hi @all I have developed a small test/benchmark system for some microservice frameworks out there, and publishing all results in github, just wanted to show and get your feedback, https://ozkanpakdil.github.io/microservicetests/2020-10-31-microservice-framework-test-11.html, if you check on top right menu you will see older tests, in jdk 11 and 15 , I am using multiple jdk to see how jdk works, and multiple framework and show their minimum jar size and minimum compile time and response times with simple controller, I used gatling for the response tests. feel free to open a PR for https://github.com/ozkanpakdil/test-microservice-frameworks which publishes the new test every time dependabot brings a newer version to the pom.
> Be civil, this isn't reddit.

No need for ad hominems. I was civil. Victimhood is a tired and hateful reddit style personal attack. Stop it.

> I'm not using academic terms and yes, making up my own terms to put down what it's been my experience.

No. You are using academic terms and then making things up. Why are you doubling down?

> Indo-European languages share a lot of structure and roots, similar ways of thinking even if phrasal structure are very different between Germanic and Latin languages, the same for Slavic ones.

phrasal structure? What are you talking about.

> This is my experience, instead of being an ass, try to improve on top of it, you help nobody.

You helped nobody either. Actually you hurt people by making things up.

> Now please, try to behave as is expected by the rules of this forum, I try to come here to have civil conversations and not expecting this place to devolve into some other cesspool subreddit.

You are the one turning it into a cesspool with ad hominems and victimhood.

For someone so sure of his decision, you sure are defensive. And I wasn't being "uncivil", my "party trick" comment was actually a joke. I was poking a little fun. It was harmless. People like you are why the internet and places like sweden are turning into a horrible place. Loosen up, stop taking things so personally/seriously and move on. And if someone calls you on a mistake, why not admit it and learn from it rather than doubling down with "phrasal structure". Have a nice day. Civil enough for ya?
This deviates outrageously from my experience. The figures you’re giving are so extremely anomalous that there must be some simple explanation.

Are you running WSL 1 or WSL 2? Is this emacs in a terminal, or GUI emacs via VcXsrv or similar? Where is the file, on the Windows side or the Linux side? How is emacs configured for, I dunno, swap files or whatever its equivalent is (I’m a Vim man)?

My first guess is that you’re using WSL 1 and accessing Linux files, and that emacs is doing synchronous flushing writes of some kind of swap file on the same file system after every tiny thing. If this is correct, I scream in horror at the magnitude of the wrongness of what emacs must be doing.

My second guess is that you’re running emacs in Windows’ conhost, and it’s emitting vast amounts of data to the terminal for whatever reason. conhost is really slow, though it’s getting a bit better.

If neither of these is correct, I’d be interested to know what is going on. Profiling may well make the answer obvious, though if you’re on WSL 1 I’m not sure if the standard profiling tools will work. If you’re on WSL 1, upgrade to WSL 2, it’s superior and faster in all regards except performance of accessing Windows files, which is way slower (but accessing Linux files is enormously faster). I’m convinced that there will be a simple explanation.
This seems pretty cool, but it would benefit from some extra information on what it considers. And maybe links to documentation about the options your setting so you can double check.
God, I hope so. I've been meaning to try the PinePhone and maybe others at some point
Joe Hiden is a racist child molestor
This sums it up. Trump took low participation voters and made politics sport for them. The slogan "make libs cry again" - it's not about what he can do for them, it's about how he can hurt "the other". That his supporters identified with him so much every attack against him they felt was an attack on them.

The rabid cult of personality that popped up around him has been highly disturbing to watch. Decking everything out in shirts, hats, flying his name as a flag, painting your house with his name, covering your vehicle with flags. The non-stop rallies and campaigning even after he was elected.

And no, before someone trys to compare, it was not like that with Obama. People were excited about him but it did not become an everyday identity alongside a never-ending campaign.
Glad that it found a new home.
Last time I checked it got passed around from acqui-hire to acqui-hire, only to somehow end up at a defense contractor.
A longitudinal privacy study on iOS and Android Apps
No, it isn't because it limits the damage to devices purchased from a source you can avoid. That you would want to avoid anyway.

This device has complete access to your Google account, probably your photos, emails, maybe even credit cards. Smartphone has become such an important piece of personal computing that you want to buy one straight from the manufacturer or their authorized dealer and, since you're on HN, preferably with unlockable bootloader.
Another tool for shell scripting form Python: https://marceltheshell.org. (Source: https://github.com/geophile/marcel.)

E.g.

from marcel.api import *

for file, size in (ls('marcel',
'test',
file=True,
recursive=True) |
map(lambda f: (f.path, f.size))):
print(f'{file}: {size}')
Well...Linux plus rootkit preventing you from doing what you want on a device you've paid for
When has straight lines worked out without genocide?
Covid-19 Fuels Data Center Containment Market
> Is it unreasonable undesirable or unnecessary?

In the context of self-defense... yes? It's just not a very good return on investment.

> I disagree. Guns are tools. Guns are toys.

> The overwhelming majority of firearm use is safe and recreational.

Right, so that's the other half of gun owners, who don't say they have a gun for self-protection, which wasn't the context of this thread. That's fine, though.

> Gun ownership is not correlated with gun violence[1].

I mean, it clearly is. You get less gun violence in countries where there are fewer gun owners. That's trivially true. And you'll have to forgive my cynicism, but I can't take wikipedia seriously as a reference on this topic. It's too well-funded a concern for that page not to be pulled in every direction under the sun.

> The problem with guns isn't that there are a lot of them. The problem is that they are, in very rare cases, used to do serious harm.

The CDC says 39,740 firearm deaths in 2018. Four or five weeks of COVID, at that rate. Whether that counts as "very rare" is subjective, I suppose. That's the cheap bit, though: because the US seems to have a congenital inability to prevent people from going bankrupt over medical bills, you've also got to factor in the same again (to a tolerable approximation) in hospitalisations, according to the NIH.

At some point you've got to look at that situation and think "Is the fun of making things go pop worth it?"

It's not just the direct harm. In supporting a culture that normalises making things go pop for fun, you get an extensive infrastructure that also benefits people who end up being a serious problem. Yes, that includes school shootings which, yes, are rare, but they're also fairly unique to the US in scale and regularity. Saying "they're rare" doesn't absolve anyone of the need to question why that is, or what can be done to make them less lethal. They make headlines - or used to; they're frequent enough now that they're less news-worthy, which in itself points to a really deep issue - out of proportion to the number of people directly affected because of the combination of the innocence of youth and the extremity of the violence, but now all the schools need to have active-shooter drills because, as a society, the behaviour of the US shows us that it prefers making things go pop to making kids safe.
It couldn't find some of the songs I tried but it finds interesting similarities. I didn't know that "London bridge is falling down" was based on Bach's BWV1005 for example (or vice-versa).
The title makes it seem like they spent their own money, but according to the article they raised the $75m from donors via their committee.
When I was a lad our phone initially was a pay phone. I think the landlord was able to set the rate. It was free to receive calls.

My grandparents had a phone which only allowed incoming calls (which my older cousins did a type of phone phreaking on to call out, or at least pretended to!)
There’s a transformer inside the rj45 connector?
Totally possible and expected. By the look of it, this is going to spread for Android in all jurisdiction soon.
Suppose class mobility is good for poorer people. Canada has more class mobility than the US. Canada also has universal healthcare (like most developed countries) which helps people take risks like starting their own business which helps with class mobility.

Why do poor republicans in the US keep voting against universal healthcare?
Hi HN!

Let me present you the side project I have been working on for the past two weeks :)

It is a place where you can share your side projects, even before they have a shiny UI or marketing videos, and when you don’t feel ready to post them on Product Hunt yet. In other words: a mix of Product Hunt, Show HN, and /r/SideProject.

What do you think?
Something tells me they would not block the ability to call 911.
Starter interrupters on cars with subprime auto loans have been a thing for a quite a while.
Sure, people who lease will get a new car every time the lease term is up, but I am skeptical they do it for the new gadgets. It looks like that not having to care about maintenance and wear&tear as well as financial incentives are the major reasons to lease. Besides, the cars being leased are mostly expensive ones, with OTA software updates, why manufacturers would do that if their plan was to make you buy a new car for the new features?
Yes. The last vowel is often dropped (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocope) esp by Italian Americans. This also makes it work for nearly every conjugation so it can be the question (do you understand) as well as the answer (I understand).
But Trump [1] also says the non-white congresswomen known as "the squad" should go back to where they came from. Even riled up his supporters [2] to chant "send her back".

You know "go back to where you came from" is a common racial insult hurled at non-white immigrants decades or generations after they naturalize in the USA?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMZnemqsCdI
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqLxxbjVG_k
The case you describe for Wikipedia would be a functional cookie, not subject to a banner, while Facebook would use a tracking cookie, subject to a banner.

I think that the fact that a lot of websites nag you with endless lists of cookie consent checkboxes, even for functional cookies, is not entirely innocent, and contributes to the idea that cookie notices are terribly annoying and pointless.
States, or cantons, in the shape of narrow pie-wedges, with borders cutting straight across rivers and mountains, are obviously impossible to administer.

For a lively introduction to the failure at Versailles, I can recommend John Maynard Keynes' Notes on the Peace.
JavaScript has had isArray a long time--even IE 9 has it. I'm surprised that there is enough active development going on for browsers that don't have it to lead to 40 M downloads a week.

I'd have expected most things that have to support browsers that old would be mature projects that do not get much active development.
To be fair you could argue that the US has only been stable since the end of the US Civil War in 1865.

I’m interested in the Swiss system. How much autonomy do the Kantons have?
It is a bit odd yes, since gurlic is attempting to be a bit of everything. I hope I'm able to clear up some of the oddities with better UI, when I have help.

I'll implement that hamburger menu, thanks!
Election Day 2020: Rene Girard, Part 2
Your mileage might vary, but I'm using 4 banking app (one of them even disallow taking screenshot in Android 10) but they are working on custom rom (lineageos) with unlocked bootloader as long as I don't install root.
They can, but in my experience (especially at small rural schools), the sports I was talking about get the "good" practice times (after school).

Any other sport gets... whatever doesn't conflict with those.
Does it show the accuracy estimate, or it's wholly left to user guess?
There was a movie that took these policies to their logical conclusion: Repo Men.

"In the near future, you can buy artificial organs on credit. But you had better make those payments..."

When so many people don't have a way of accessing the internet besides of their phones, and internet access is essential to meaningfully participate in our society and economy, these sorts of actions become less defensible. It's all about context.

On the bright side for Google/Apple/etc, they have wormed their way into our collective lives to the point where "phone culture" might start to drive legislative decisions in the same way that "car culture" did in the past decades.
In the device, often integrated into the socket.
> sorry, if my wife were to die otherwise I’d choose abortion—much of the revulsion has its moral roots in the argument against eugenics.

As far as I know that case isn't even considered abortion by any mainstream pro-life organization.

I was surprised they didn't mention this case until I realized it didn't even count in their view.
How to troubleshoot routing protocols session flaps – part 1
The worst I've found is a few apps that complain and push a bullshit scare story at you ("your device is insecure" LOL. My house is technically less secure because I have a key to it, too). Bank accounts are commodities and most banks have no monthly fees with no minimum balances. The easy answer is to choose banks based on who doesn't engage in user-hostile shenanigans (see also: snake oil "2FA"). Moving between accounts over the course of a few months is quite easy, especially if you do not write checks.
All I can think is that your hourly rate must be pretty high to put up with that. It's good advice for when I might need it, I suppose.
Is it confirmed they have senate majority?
Network effect is true for walled gardens.

In this case, the UPI system is like a utility. Available to all, robust and incredibly low barriers of entry.
I agree – having read the intro and skimmed some other sections, they seem like great foundational introductions and I'm absolutely excited to use perl instead of GNU-like utilities... but I'm very nervous that I wouldn't be able to quickly find how to do it with perl later.

An additional "problems to solve with a perl one-liner" index of some kind might be quite helpful for that...
FWIW this sort of email triggers my immediate shutdown reactions in several ways: use of "Hey" greeting from some unknown non-friend, general (albeit here not total) avoidance of first-person pronouns[1], phony-baloney specificity in time and duration for an initial meeting.

[1] "Saw your email," "Would love to hear more"--no, avoiding "I" does not make the writer appear stronger.
Users of the Android OS are not Google's customers.
How do you know you had Corona if you did not get tested and how does it relate to the rest of your argument?
Is library printing not a thing everywhere?

I've always seen it at every library I've been at (both school and public), but I suppose it might be more of a regional thing.
Obstruction of justice