skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self-deprecating humor was another thing that went bad places I didn't expect it to go.

When I was in high school, I got in the habit of cracking self deprecating jokes because I was one of the top students. It was a means to try to put other people at ease and signal "I'm just plain folks and not perfect and please don't be intimidated. Please relax."

Later in life it only served to convince people I was a loser and/or had terrible self-esteem issues (or both). And there is no remedy for it once that happens because how are you supposed to explain the joke?

"Noooooo. You have that backwards. I'm so sure I'm better than you that I'm trying to bring myself down to your level and seem approachable!"

0_o

Yeah, no. Just no.
I was a regular at the HN London Meetups, when I was living over there, and fondly remember (after yet another founder anecdote on stage) someone tweeting “Do founders at dog food companies eat their own dog food?”

Many years later two owners of a dog food company attended one of my workshops, so I had the chance to ask them in person. They never had. (Although several younger employees had done so, with no side effects.)
See Also: Apology
If you’re looking for an open source binary file template language, there’s binspector: https://github.com/binspector/binspector
Our perspective is that others are prevented from enjoying those same benefits by the regulatory interference that is ostensibly intended to help them. We don't see it as capitalism failing, but the regulatory state failing and capitalism being distorted thus.

we are also concerned about capitalism's replacement. except we fear the continued suppression of market action to lead to authoritarian totalitarianism because the regulatory state appears to have been captured by oligarchs.
There is one reason that makes it potentially legitimate to compare screens at different brightnesses when gauging battery life, but not when comparing SoCs. There are screen technologies that adjust color representation and brightness together, to make it possible for a dimmer screen to look brighter (or show up better in brighter light) by sacrificing some color range in a mostly imperceptible range. If you're showing off a technology like that to improve battery life, it's completely reasonable to compare screens at different absolute brightnesses in nits. But if you're comparing generations of SoCs, you should be doing so with exactly the same screen brightness.
If you can't or won't stop posting political flamebait to HN, we are going to have to ban your account. It's not what this site is for, and we've asked you more than once already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
“a brief glance at Trump supporters sharing graphical claims of voter fraud is enough for me to immediately detect lying-with-statistics”

Same background. No, you can’t and you know it.

The presented data may not support the assertion for any number of reasons, but a “brief glance” will not “immediately detect” much of anything. Maybe a bunny in a cloud.

What data was collected, how was it collected, what data is not presented, how is the data processed, how the data is presented and what interpretations can we reasonably make, and which we can’t. You need to be able to answer all these questions. Takes some actual work.

Were you a NASA manager on the Challenger mission, by any chance?
1) I don't have enough karma for downvoting. If you have been downvoted, that has nothing to do with me. This is a throwaway account, I do not care about its karma.

2) I took a look at your profile, and noticed that your comments contain the word "feel" a lot, often in the context of attributing feelings to others.

Attributing feelings to people you don't know based on short fragments of text is so speculative that it can be reasonable to say it's misleading and can be a waste of time.
>Just because something move forward doesn't means it moves in the right direction.

Sure. In this case though I meant "in the right direction" too. I, for one, welcome third party kernel extensions moving to userland.

>Do they ? How many brain-time did Apple waste yesterday by soft-bricking ALL THE DAMN MACS running Canalina ?

A little. Nothing like the brain-months I've wasted on Windows and Linux troubleshooting, and I've been using Windows for ~30 years, and Linux for ~20 (plus several UNIX varieties of yore, like SunOS, Solaris, and AIX, with the ocassional toying with FreeBSD as well).

I'm annoyed by several things in Apple land as well (e.g. the keyboards on the last 3 years on laptops, the firewall bypass situation in Big Sur, the not-so-useful touch strip, and lots of minor issues), but I'm also annoyed by the "grass is greener" sentiment all the time, or the "sky is falling/Stallman was right" rhetoric...
When someone who is top of the class self-deprecates themselves, often people will interpret that as an attack on them, as it looks like you're bringing yourself down to their level, which implies you actually do see yourself on top and them lower than you. I hate being pitied. You're far better off just being who you are, and damn proud of it.
> I sort-of know that it means the phenomenon where Harvey Weinstein

I think you are confusing your imagination with reality. Nobody - and by that I mean literally, without exaggeration, no single person who lives or ever lived - ever pretended that Harvey Weinstein raping women is the reason they don't want women on their team. Not "everybody", not somebody - literally no single person is pretending or ever pretended that. Moreover, you know that as well as I do, I am certain of that (because you don't know any such person, by virtue of such person not existing). So why are you writing these obviously false words?

> Because apparently "showing up at their colleagues' hotel room doors, naked and at night" is somehow just bound to happen in the course of standard operating procedures.

I do not know who told you that (I suspect you imagined it just as you did the above) but it certainly is not the course of any operating procedures at all. None of them.

> Also the related phenomenon where people walk through cities being casually and formally anti-semitic, deliberately crashing cars into groups of people, but call the other side "mob", because they complain about that on Twitter.

People who walk through cities being anti-semitic and people who complain about cancel culture are distinct sets of people whose intersection is minuscule. And you also know it. Also, cancel culture is not complaining on Twitter about somebody marching somewhere, and you also know it too. Again, you are writing words which both you and everybody reading them knows are false. What for?
Yup. Content adaptive backlight control (CABC) has been around for decades. But I don't think any modern devices use it? Least of all "Pro" devices like the macbook pro which lay so much emphasis on color accuracy.
In case you haven't heard of it, you can read more about the tildeverse at https://tildeverse.org/

It's basically the group of shared linux servers that popped up a few years ago with old school computing and tight nit community in mind.
I've never found this to be a convincing argument in favor of the electoral college as implemented. Why favor a system which constantly cedes power to the same small arbitrary electorate (swing states), year after year?

States should allocate electors in proportion to their own popular votes. The +2 electors for each state is already a good mechanism for combatting pure majority rule. At this point, swing state influence is arguably worse for this country than majority rule.

http://archive.fairvote.org/e_college/reform.htm#proportiona...
I'm still running Mojave. Fuck 'upgrading' to an operating system that kills a ton of 32-bit VST plugins I paid for a decade or so ago that will probably never get updated, while adding no meaningful features of substance for me.

I don't need a dark theme. I don't need to be able to answer calls from my iPhone on my Mac or whatever.

I just need the software I have paid for, that has worked for 7 consecutive software iterations, to continue to work.

I'm in the 'Snow Leopard was peak MacOS / OSX' camp, honestly; having used the OS as a daily driver since 10.3.x...
Respectfully disagree. GP's answer was also on my mind given how timely and relevant to the question it is.

Sometimes reality does make people look bad. That doesn't make that reality "garden-variety political flamewar." The results of the election have been universally reported and it's ridiculous to pretend that they haven't just because it offends the political sensibilities of some.

Political discussions on HN are already pretty questionable, but killing discussion because it might upset a certain crowd biases what we're allowed to talk about away from reality. That's never a good thing. This shouldn't be a bubble where we can't say something as simple and inoffensive as the statement that Donald Trump lost the election, has (along with some Republican colleagues) refused to concede, and that it epitomizes the way that norms have been eroded in our government over the past four years.
Examples of Magnetic Circuits
But that's not battery technology, is it? It's what you said, everything else but the battery technology. Also, Tesla isn't the only company with that technology.
If you’re interested in this ‘Personal Data Warehouse’ concept, you might also be interested in @karlicoss’s articles[0][1][2] about his infrastructure on saving personal data.

There are various technical differences, for example @simonw preferring lightweight SQLite databases compared to @karlicoss preferring dumping the data and parsing-when-needed[3], but the purposes are similar enough that I think they should be mentioned.

There were also some very constructive HN discussion[4] on these articles, where @simonw have also introduced Dogsheep before :-)

[0]: Building data liberation infrastructure — https://beepb00p.xyz/exports.html

[1]: Human Programming Interface — https://beepb00p.xyz/hpi.html

[2]: The sad state of personal data and infrastructure — https://beepb00p.xyz/sad-infra.html

[3]: Against unnecessary databases — https://beepb00p.xyz/unnecessary-db.html

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21844105
Yes; binspector: https://github.com/binspector/binspector
> I am still suprised by the number of people that want trackpad's

I occasionally have need to use a laptop in conditions where a mouse is inconvenient, so i prefer to have a trackpad, but I find that even the best trackpad is far inferior to a mouse. (Trackball, at least the kind that gets integrated into a laptop, isn't an improvement, IMO over a trackpad.)
Possibly an artificial language like Esperanto, although that never really took off.
Also lack of switch-case statements dont help. (Workaround is either if statements or dict of functions to be called)
A tool I released years back is in the similar vein. It is mostly intended to be a binary file template specification and analysis tool: https://github.com/binspector/binspector
There were seven people aboard the Challenger.
American elections for president are every 4 years, as are most other offices.

Pretty much without fail, any election that isn't a presidential one has lower turnout if not also scheduled with the presidential one, since many Americans will only show up for the presidential elections. Which is why the ballots tend to be long.

Granted, I don't think this makes them very complicated; my ballot had plenty of offices this year, and it was essentially a one-page double sided bubble sheet, with accompanying voter guides sent in the mail. It's not very hard.
editing programs are loading a ton into memory though. edits are done in memory before their final output is saved to disk. if your viewing it on the screen, it is almost certainly in memory, and if your working with high res video you very well could exceed 16gb. more memory means larger (longer clips or higher res) video files loaded to memory means faster and more efficient working
But then how will developers exert their local domain dominance to imply and an even greater breadth of knowledge when patronizing other devs? /s
people have been saying that for over a decade.
That is battery technology in my opinion. Technology involved in managing and and controlling battery systems.

Batteries these days are very reliant on their controllers to perform well and be reliable. You couldn't just jam a dumb battery bank into a Tesla and have it work right.
Ironically did you ever notice that The Sound of Music is actually sympathetic towards fascism under the surface?

http://www.critical-theory.com/watch-zizek-explain-why-the-s...
> I never once recall an instant where I was saying "Uh uh, this type signature is driving me craaazy".

Is that sentiment based on modern languages, though?

While modern in its place in history, but adhering to older principles, I frequently hear exactly that from people evaluating Go. Languages with more complex type systems bring tools to help alleviate those concerns. Not all of those concepts were widely available looking back two decades ago. Java, for example, which was probably the most popular typed language of that time did not provide even generics until 2004. Being able to write a function once and use it for many (dynamic) types was no doubt seen as a big improvement for many use cases.

Type systems are back in fashion now largely because they are much more usable now, especially outside of the academic languages.
I would say English. No one thinks its a beautiful language, but everyone can speak it, and there's a whole bunch of people that can only speak it.
It's just buggy, not dead. However there should be a point when backward compatibility should be dropped, if you want to keep maintaining a sane codebase and interface, or force a "better" way of doing things. When Apple deprecated OpenGL and moved to Metal, I hated it but I actually respected a lot, cuz Metal does have a superior design, and by deprecating old technology they're forcing devs to use this better technology for better software (being proprietary is separate issue).
Having a copy of your data "reclaims" your data only in terms of access but it does not reclaim the control over it.

Once you upload data into many of those services, in most cases you them give a permanent license to use it in whatever way they want.

Then, if you have your own website, nothing prevents Clearview AI [or some equivalent company] from crawling your website, index their photo into their facial recognition db. I don't think those companies care at all about robots.txt.
> The Cold War would be an answer

That's not the answer, it's the mechanism of that violence.

> unless you somehow deny that communists were equally dedicated to subverting and overthrowing the west.

I will absolutely deny that. Note the number of capitalist governments coup'd by communists. Note the number of invasions and constant wars of The West. Look at Vietnam. Western involvement was long-reaching, direct, violent, and generally within other countries fighting grassroots revolutions / civil wars or throwing off colonial it imperial influence.

When attempting to find similar situations started by communist countries, we find important differences. Dragged into conflicts on their borders. Literally fighting a genocide directed at themselves. Long-standing territorial disputes on their borders.

> I disagree that this is a valid generalization

Feudal backwaters subject to regular famines became superpowers that eliminated homelessness and hunger. And the fall of those systems corresponded to drops in QoL over and over and over again.

What other tests would you want?

> This is because the centrally planned economy depleted vast amounts of capital in their desperate struggle to keep the economy moving and competitive with the west.

Capital is just stuff or money tradeable for stuff. The stuff didn't go away after color revolutions. But public programs were absolutely privatized or abolished by liberal capitalist governments in moves aligned with their ideologies - ideologies you can find throughout this site, in fact.

> Cynically I could offer the same answer a communist would offer when asked why people weren't permitted to own factories in the Soviet Union: because that would put "the wrong people" in charge of the means of production.

Ah, but in that case there's a consistent ideological position: bourgeois democracy and ownership must be curtailed because otherwise it will grow and eat you and those you love. According to liberal democracy, you're supposed to be able to seek and form a representative government in a multi-party setting - yet they restrict those parties to force bourgeois options to be the only ones available.

The supposedly core ideals of The West clearly bow to capital when push comes to shove and one should question the propaganda that it's these ideals that won or were even the actual goal.

> Less cynically, its not clear how a centrally planned economy would know how to correctly allocate resources, so there's no reason to return to the central planning model in the absence of a solution to the problems that caused it to fail in the first place.

But the vast majority of several countries want that return, with support increasing with age - the people who actually lived under communist party rule. They are prevented from doing so by their political systems. It cannot be voted in. Democracy clearly doesn't mean that much to The West, right?
That is still a problem today in Rails. So it is a double edge sword for Ruby and Rails.
Why are old phones better than new ones? Is it simply because they're cheaper?
And the next decade could be wonderful. No article in the Atlantic is going to convince me one way or another. The choice of headline does convince me that journalism isn’t getting better.

I’m old enough to have a certain...reaction...when a Russian starts telling me his “science-informed political theories” are worth a second glance. Still looks fun to talk about. Grand theories have had a way of self-destructing in Eurasia...
I dont know. But I will tell you that my native language (Spanish) is probably C++. Created as a supposed improvement to a venerable ancestor, it started to incorporate stuff from other languages so it became a veritable behemoth that everybody uses at their own particular style. People complain about it and say its days are counted, but yet here it is , as strongest as ever.
PS. Live Demo link at the bottom of page is broken.
My windows box has crashed over a dozen times in the past few years because of GPU driver issues with nvidia and amd
Obviously there were larger forces at play here, even before the pandemic, but it's pretty amazing that they've managed to do so poorly in a year where their industry did so well:

https://guitar.com/news/industry-news/fender-sales-record-20...

> It isn’t just Fender that’s been experiencing an increase in sales this 2020, but Gibson, Taylor and Martin as well.
IMO, this is why the best dating app (pre-covid) was Meetup.com
> I never once recall an instant where I was saying "Uh uh, this type signature is driving me craaazy"

For example, this is ugly in Python:

def handler(on_error: Callable[[int, Exception], None]):
Spotify’s discover weekly and release radar playlists which are personalized. Those two playlists make the subscription worth it for me.

For specific/niche things, certain subreddits get a fair amount of posts. I suggest reverse searching links to music you enjoy instead of trying to look up a particular sub.

Hype machine and soundcloud also help a bit.
Very cool.

You mentioned wanting to do it on mobile, I wonder if you could plug it into a little Beeware [1] app.

[1] Beeware - https://beeware.org/ - Write your apps in Python and release them on iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, Linux, Web, and tvOS using rich, native user interfaces.
> the Vienna study dogs were all Border collies, so I’m a little surprised that any of them were mature. That would suggest a certain calm, a willingness to tilt the head and muse that doesn’t seem to fit the breed, with its desperate desire to be constantly chasing sheep, geese, children or Frisbees.

I had a border collie from 6 weeks through every stage there is. And while I may be biased, I’d counter point that the author is ignorant here.

I’ve been lucky enough to have many “smart breeds” in my life. Labs, shepherds, etc. and the border collie is the most human in personality. They are just extremely smart. But in a different way that makes them seem more human. Like they have reasoning skills at a higher level. Head tilting in this breed is a body language. My dog and I had a full language we spoke based on head tilts, eye movements and other minor body movements. I could nod my head from across a park/field and he knew if he was getting food, water, a ball, if I was calling a route for him to run, or if it was just time to go home to say a few. This body language extended into pretty much all situations. Most people thought/joked he read my mind because it wasn’t like it was sign language. The movements were so subtle people didn’t even notice them. And I could read his movements too.

Any way , I think this is a great breed for this type of study. I certainly remember my dog’s phases fondly and can relate to the basis of the study.
Sealed classes in Kotlin largely solve that problem for me, and Java is getting those. It's not quite the same, but most of the time I find that if I'm trying to do Int|String, it's primitive obsession and there is actually a better sealed type hierarchy I'm missing.
That's absolutely true. The GDPR gives you a right to request deletion, but it's not a great defense against companies like Clearview harvesting your data for other purposes. Hopefully the legal framework will continue to get stronger around that.

In the meantime, we can still have a LOT of fun by pulling our data back into systems that let us run our own queries.
> Also, I initially misread this as National Instruments and imagined a DJ programming in LabView, LMAO.

This made my day. This is one of the funniest things I have ever read.
I think Beeware could be a really good fit for this. I should spend some time exploring that option!
DMCA 1201 is a whole different can of worms, one which isn't really affected by the copyright term. 1201's whole purpose is "anticircumvention": to ban tools for breaking DRM, not to actually punish infringement.

That is, The Matrix being out of copyright tomorrow wouldn't change anything for DeCSS under 1201.

The linked blog post here is actually quite strange: the post is talking about 1201 abuse, but the proposal is about copyright infringement and 512 takedown, neither of which are really related to 1201. So its hard to see how this would "blunt" 1201 at all.

The recent high-profile situations have blurred the lines between the takedown provisions and the anticircumvention ones, especially as they just get listed in a "dmca" repository on Github, and the post even mentions this in the case of the Widevine takedowns, but the little technicalities do in fact matter here.
Miami Marlins hire first female general manager, Kim Ng
Haitian Creole
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If French is Java, Haitian Creole is Kotlin.

The language has a very consistent grammar, all the conjugations are predictable

While most of its words are of French origin, Its syntax is a little different:
La Table = Tab la.
Le téléphone = Telefòn lan.
J'ai envi de manger = mwen anvi manje

It's written phonetically. No surprises when it comes to pronunciation.

It's modern. It's one of the youngest languages in the world.

The language emerged from contact between French settlers and enslaved Africans during the Atlantic slave trade in the French colony of Saint-Domingue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Creole