skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In addition I think that if you are destined for the elites then it is more important that you understand (really understand) the life of the others, than if are apprenticing to be an electrician.

Two things here:

1. What exactly makes you think the college educated are exposed to fewer points of view than those from the "heartland"? Everything I've ever seen points to the opposite being true, where going to an institute of higher learning puts you in touch with a *vast* array of different people, and living in an urban center does the same. Which leads me to my second point:

2. Why exactly do you think it's not important for someone from the "heartland" to exercise empathy or be exposed to other viewpoints? It's pretty obvious that a large factor in the problems of today is tribalism and "othering", which gets pretty quickly destroyed by exposure to those same "others", something you don't often get in the "heartland."
16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world Rust compile
I use them because they fit better in my workflow. I use a tiling WM and vim bindings everywhere I can because keyboards hurt my hands less than mice. I use them just for discovery, if I know what I want mv / cp / find are better. tree doesn't work so well if you have a sub-directory with hundreds of object files, etc.
"Steve Bannon left Biosphere 2 after two years, but his departure was marked by an 'abuse of process' civil lawsuit filed against Space Biosphere Ventures by the former crew members who had broken in.[70] Leading managers of Biosphere 2 from the original founding group stated both abusive behaviour by Bannon and others, and that the bankers’ actual goal was to destroy the experiment."

Shocking ...
> The Left and the Right used to agree that freedom of speech was fairly sacrosanct.

Ha. "Agreed" only in the most superficial way. You might have caught people saying it occasionally.

If you follow civil liberties debates and the politics thereof you know there's often a gap between what politicians (or just ordinary people) say about freedom of speech and what they actually believe and do. In the US the politics of things like compelling public schoolkids to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, to give a perennial example, are illustrative of this. (there are tons of examples involving obscenity laws, etc.)
Hey look, another person who doesn't know what HIPAA actually is/does...
Those are called Corner Bracket. It took me a while to find out that I have to have CJK font installed in my computer to use the corner bracket. And the file size of CJK font family are huge! More than 100MB.
GraphQL-Editor: Visual Editor and GraphQL IDE
So feel free to correct me if you think I'm wrong.

I thought the biggest draw to Electron was that it was a single stable platform that worked and looked the same everywhere.

I feel like (based on that) any attempts to move to OS bundled web engines would completely miss the point of why Electron is popular.
It’s a rigged game. As long as they are aware, they won’t be disappointed
It gets better after 1 years, then gets better after 2, and so on. Especially once they become autonomous and self-sustaining and you can reason with them using words. Then it's absolute rewarding bliss and frustrating chaos all at the same time.
Shell is not the best solution long-term for a largish organization, but if you are indie hacking a simple app it's actually a viable option.

That's also why I chose Bash to teach config management and deployment[0]. Do it in Bash, understand it fully. Then go a pick up a tool of your liking. Or not, if it actually does it job.

[0] https://deploymentfromscratch.com/
What the heck is wrong with Jack Dorsey's mic/speaker setup? Is this a machine from 1995?
Similar products do exist, although they're not very good: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KKYZL66
Grammarly has that plugin. I'm not sure how they both compare though (I never have time to give Hemmingway a try before my Grammarly payment renews!).
How is the move working out for you, btw?
>there is literal mass delusion out there far left and far right.

What delusion is the "far left" believing in, in your opinion?
If there are any parents of newborns here, please read up on the Period of Purple Crying: http://purplecrying.info/

This was one of the hardest times for me as a parent, and it was helpful to know that I wasn't alone. We were given a DVD about this from our public health nurse.

Now I have a teenager, and oh boy, it's a whole new set of problems.
>I'm unable to fathom the notion that if a computer doesn't work the way people want, the answer is for people to adapt to the computer.

You don't understand because you think you're fighting computers but you're actually at odds with other human's desires.

If I pull your code, even if it was a mistake I don't want you to later rip the rug out from me and force me to figure out what happened from the history you deleted.

You can easily change the history technologically. You just force push what you want. The issue is that is usually disabled because it causes a lot of problems for everyone else on the team.
Twitter is testing audio rooms a-la Clubhouse as well, they're scouting for beta testers right now.
Show HN: I built a non-immersive calendar to prevent context-switching
Hey HN!

We built a chrome extension that lets you load your calendar from any website quickly without switching context (i.e. switch to another tab or app).

I personally have a busy calendar, and didn't like jumping in and out of GCal 30 times a day: every 20 minutes, I'd go in to GCal to check my upcoming events, create a meeting, or do some other simple action. Each of them doesn't take long - always under a minute. However, the annoying part was that I'd forget about what I was working on before - the cost of context-switching.

That is why we built a non-immersive calendar experience. An user would hit a shortcut to load up their calendar nearly instantly on the page itself. From there, Motion makes actions like creating events or sharing availability easier with better UX and built-in workflows. For example, to share your availabilities with someone, Motion automates that workflow (by using your personal preferences and running a logic on existing events to maximize maker's time). Once you are done using the calendar, just hit escape to get rid of it. You haven't left the page at all.

We are also working on a desktop app, as we'd love to use the calendar inside apps like Zoom and PyCharm.

We believe this kind of non-immersive approach can apply to all actions that take less than a minute - such as checking the email you just received or viewing a Jira ticket. For longer tasks that require deeper focus, an immersive experience is necessary - such as note-taking or coding. Here's our vision: in the future, whenever you need to perform a quick action in another app, instead of switching over to that app, Motion would bring to you the only component you need (an input form, a message, a textbox...etc).

We'd love to hear your feedback, and let us know what other apps would benefit from this non-immersive approach.
Indeed. To ensure MySQL stores "real" UTF-8 one has to use "utf8mb4" instead of "utf8", which just rolls off the tongue and backwards (in)compatibility seems to be the reason why one can't just DWIM things backwards... "utf8mb4 or bust" it is, then!
I remember spending lots of time with my nieces when they were newborns and infants, and their cries didn't bother me in the least. Now that I have my own, when my own children cry I most often want to punch a wall.
> If Mozilla falls, another will take its place.

Yes, another chrome skin perhaps?
I used this for years while blogging. I was frequently complimented on my clear writing style. It really helped with my addiction to long run-on sentences. I think of it as training wheels - eventually I didn't need it, but it was really useful at the start.
Ah so, "implemented in C" usually does not mean "uses the C ABI even though it's implemented in another language." If that's what you meant, then I very seriously misunderstood you.
Ask HN: Income Smoother for the Gig Economy
Last year the wifi functionality broke on my nest thermostat, and I lived without a smart thermostat for months! Google did replace it for free when I finally got around to making a support ticket, so at least for me it was a positive experience.
True. Though I guess I don't have a chance to reverse the river made out of a constant stream of developers produced by universities and bootcamps, who think "Cat extends Animal and makes_sound with "meow" and Dog extends Animal and makes_sound with "woof".

I'll try to keep it in mind if I'm ever to make a book or something like this about this subject.
It is very hard to believe that the implied size of Door Dash's market (vis-à-vis their valuation) is realistic and/or sustainable given their business model.

Said another way, it seems improbable that there is a large market for unsubsidized food delivery given the very high level of unsubsidized costs/prices and the improbability of reducing the largest costs (the delivery person). And, of course, the subsidies will eventually end.

Then again, what do I know? Circa 2012, I was certain Facebook would eat Twitter's lunch.
These things tend to be highly regional. I laughed when I read the “brand affinity” part of doordash’s S1. That’s completely in their own heads. These products are beyond commodity — the only brand that matters is the restaurant; no one cares what company brings it to you as long as it’s the cheapest/fastest, and MAYBE the most reliable.
Tyk is offering grants for side projects
I don’t believe xi was a rich text editor. Just a regular text editor, with some interesting design decisions.
"Why hasn’t it been done yet?

Patience, I think. We are so used to things we can hack together in a week, nobody is thinking in terms of years. And good UI requires years of work. It’s a big commitment."

That's quite an observation, thinking of the hundred thousands of man-hours probably spent on both Swing and JavaFX and SWT, and they power a huge lot of high-quality, highly polished applications, including real-time graphics.

I'm sure this work is great, but no need to put the competition down...
Excellent ideas!

I agree with you on all fronts, exception git add --all && git commit. I don't believe those should be joined at the hip, because staging and committing should be two distinct actions/decisions. Defaulting to including everything would lead to too many human errors and would therefore be dangerous in my opinion.

A distinct flag like git commit --all -m "foo" might be OK in my book. Possibly even adding some git config --global commit.all [default|confirm] or something.

Then again, who am I?
Certainly a good counterpoint! Now that I think of it, I've never heard a single person tell me they use Windows because of good looking UI!

Unfortunately the bullshit gods usually have more influence than should be allowed. But making something 'look good' in a sprint demo where the CEO is present potentially releases a lot of pressure and gives the team more time to build something that works.
It would make me instantly disregard your comment as immature
And the author of that book is a mathematician:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Vickers_(computer_scient...

https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~sjv/

"My particular interest is in toposes as generalized spaces, with the connection between logic (specifically, geometric logic) and topology. These are areas of mathematics that have connections with computer science, although my work in them is often purely mathematical. Over 2017-18 I formalized an approach to topos theory using Joyal's Arithmetic Universes (AUs) as a substitute for Grothendieck toposes, potentially implementable on computers, and showed how to use it to obtain constructive, base-free results for toposes. My current work is on developing the techniques of this approach and exploring the extent to which it can capture Grothendieck's original applications of topos theory."

"I was a computer programmer for several years. I wrote the ROM and user manuals for two Sinclair computers, the ZX81 and the ZX Spectrum. Then with Richard Altwasser I founded Jupiter Cantab Ltd, which produced the Forth-based Jupiter Ace microcomputer."
Hi guys, I'm a self employed building an app called Penguin to help combat the problem of irregular pay amongst the self employed. We’re pretty nascent and struggling to understand if this would help the gig community. We’d be indebted for your take on it if possible, thanks a ton :)
Got one of these in my Beeb, never knew it was a dual core monster. No bloody wonder they were so expensive back in the day.
> Think about vim: it is cryptic, does everything different than everything else out there , but it gives you something in return.

The same could be said about git. For example, branching and merging is far better with it compared to previous VCS systems like SVN or CVS. And, like git, one had to read the documentation of those systems to have a good understanding about how to use them.

> I like reading manuals, but not for things that could have been totally obvious if somebody spent a split second thinking about how to communicate it clearly.

But should everything be totally obvious? For example, I doubt someone who hasn't read the documentation at some point could write a simple hello world program in most programming languages without making an error.
Thanks for that explanation. From the website, it wasn't quite clear to me (and still isn't tbh) whether servo is merely a rendering or also a CSS layout (+ parsing etc) engine.
It was removed in 20H2, now the only Edge an end-user is allowed to use is Chromium Edge.
And if footballers could just stop struggling against one another then maybe they could all agree on which direction the ball should go.

There's no room for agreement here. The sides are

Republicans: stop censoring us

Democrats: please censor Republicans even more
You could a bit like in Arecibo, and pick a properly-sized crater ?
Have a feeling Twitter stories are going to be used almost exclusively by adult film stars promoting their onlyfans.
Alternatives to Notion for those on corporate VPN
I've been using Notion for a more than a year now, and I love the following features:

* slash commands

* export/import to/from markdown

* export to pdf

* page linking / page nesting

* support for code snippets

And I've used Evernote for several years before that, and after I made the switch, I've never had to look back. I find that my productivity has increased (content throughout, clarity of thought, knowledge base building, etc) since I've started using Notion.

Now, coming to the nub of the issue, I've recently discovered notion.so is blocked on our corporate VPN. And I'm missing out on the valuable Notion features.

I've researched other note-taking tools, and I've used ClickUp for a while, but then recently settled in on using Obsidian. While I like Obsidian, I see that it's not a total replacement for Notion, and I don't like spending extra hours syncing content between my various devices.

And it doesn't look to me that migrating the site from notion.so to notion.com (not a redirect, but a full migration) is on Notion's roadmap for the foreseeable future (https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/f6x9mk/why_the_so_domain/)

For those of you who've switched to using Notion, and are currently not able to use Notion at workplace, what are your alternatives?
>Passive voice can be used to omit the doer of the action, which is preferable when the action itself is the focus.

Behold, the most important thing to know about business writing:

>Chris broke the build.

>The build was broken.
I've been wondering if someone could make an active cooling dock for the Mac Book Air. I was even thinking the M1 wattage is low enough that you could have a thermoelectric cooler lowering case temp down to room temp.
Recounts do not change results with something like 99% probability, particularly results with large enough margins like these. Therefore, it is reasonable to determine with high probability what the final electoral results will be from the "preliminary" count of votes. Again, not only are the margins within each individual state large enough to make it improbable to overturn, the margins of the predicted electoral votes are large enough as well, even in the unlikely event that an individual state is somehow overturned. This is not even remotely close to Bush v. Gore in 2000.

Your objections seem overly pedantic, to be honest.
In your example, the primary difference for me wasn't so much active-vs-passive, but attribution. I've seen the passive voice used to great effect for softening statements and avoiding the assignment of blame/other undesirable attribute.

Instead of "Chris and Jack disagreed during the discussion", one could say "No agreement was reached during the discussion". One may say this is mealy-mouthed, but it seems to me that managing emotions is a supremely important part of being a good communicator and being a consensus-builder. Avoiding the use of language that triggers "fight-or-flight" responses is very useful in many situations.
This looks great! Looking forward to testing this. When I get my Raspberry Pi 400 :)
> life is funny.

Spending 2+ hours in a chat to debug an internet thermostat is the opposite of funny.
Firefox made DoH default to Cloudflare, but that's because Firefox was the browser that pushed DoH the hardest when it came out, and at the time Cloudflare was (and arguably still is):

a) the best provider available

b) more importantly, the most private provider available

But there's nothing about the technology locking Mozilla into keeping Cloudflare the default in perpetuity, and in any case, the solution to your concern is to adjust the defaults, not to throw out DoH entirely.

There's nothing about DoH in specific that's causing the concerns you have. Mozilla could have set Cloudlfare DNS to be the default even for regular, unencrypted DNS traffic. There's nothing inherent in DNS technology that would force them to respect your OS settings. If your concerned about Cloudflare taking over, rejecting DoH isn't the solution to that problem.

It's not an underhanded centralization push, it just so happens that when DoH was still new, there was effectively one provider that was widely available, that could confidently handle a large upsurge in traffic, and that made extremely strong privacy guarantees compared to the rest of the industry. At the time Mozilla started pushing DoH, most ISPs in the US didn't even offer it as an option at all. As that changes, I expect that browser defaults will change as well.
It looks like a nice tablet—unfortunately, it doesn't seem to render color either (at least from what I can tell).
I think air pressure (the weight of air above us at sea-level) compresses the air sufficiently for it to reach a temperature much greater than you would expect, e.g around negative 20 degrees Celsius.

(This figure needs verification, I'm going from memory).
Tyk ran a fund back in March where they would give micro-grants to people working on side projects. They've decided to do it again and applications are open until December 20th

Here's a direct link to the application if anyone's interested: https://tyk.io/fund/
Googles founders detached themselves from their runaway creation without actually bringing it back under control
Its 2020 and your thermostat now needs to talk to something outside your house to adjust the temperature? No thanks.
Yes, the pandemic fatigue is real. Yes, it would be wonderful to hang out with my friends in person, or to drive 100 miles crossing the border to go visit my children.

But the reason this is lasting so long, and things are shutting back down is because people are ignoring the truth. You can talk about the economy all day long, but the fact of the matter is that if we all would’ve taken this seriously and shut everything down, we would be through the worst of it already.

Comparatively, New Zealand and Canada have done a dramatically better job than America. People there appear to be willing to set aside their selfishness in favor of the common good.

And the people who don’t believe that it’s real? All I can say is that it’s extremely clear that we are living in a second Cold War. But instead of fighting with nukes, we’re fighting with misinformation, and Russia is winning.
I’m also surprised they didn’t bring that back with an M1. Here’s to hoping it will be released next year to balance out the higher end 16” pro and whatever others come out next yet.

I had the 12” MacBook for a couple years and the form factor was amazing. I backpacked around the world with it. But it was so underpowered, it was barely useful. I found myself using my phone more and more because it was less frustrating. I would love to see what an M1-powered 12” MacBook could be like!
I seem to recall seeing a headline here on HN, within the last week, that said something along the lines of "Climate activists are the most frequent flyers", though I don't remember the exact words. Maybe somebody with better search-fu can find it?
They can be handy if you're in the middle of something else, and you need one without distraction.

I don't personally use them, but I live in emacs for many hours a day so I do use its integrated directory-manager (dired) to perform simple operations.
they're posix compliant so I would imagine they can colo anywhere lol
Electron (WebKit) is much more than a rendering engine though. Sure, you could use Servo in a desktop app, but you’d have to also bundle all the other browser components (a JS engine, for example) individually. You’re basically building a browser at that point.
Show HN: TradingGYM – WebApp That Helps You Practice Trading
I have also heard that Microsoft put lower priority on the x86 emulation layer, because they felt like if it was really good, developers would have no incentive to make native compiles.

While this sounds instinctively ridiculous to me, as of late I’ve become very cognizant of general laziness in our industry, so who knows…
I’ve been happy with my Boox Nova 2, which is smaller and more portable. It’s an Android tablet so you can enable developer options.
I'm not sure azul is being actively developed any more; the repo looks a bit tumbleweedy.

The best place if you want to keep tabs on this area is probably https://www.areweguiyet.com/
She's hardly the most overpaid CEO in tech, but she seems to come up pretty often for some reason.
Seriously, I can't fathom why translucency is still being pushed -- for the menu bar and window sidebars.

It was a fad when Windows Vista introduced it. It's not useful at all. It should have disappeared when flat design was introduced, but inexplicably Apple still likes it?

There is no reason for my menu bar to be light blue or light pink or whatever other random color happens to be at the top of my wallpaper, especially when my windows cover up the wallpaper anyways.
You're not the first one to say that it's hard to use right and I agree with that. This is true for a lot of powerful tools. At the end of the day, what is intuitive is what you have used a lot. If you're using a tool that fits an entirely different paradigm from what you are normally used to, it's going to be unintuitive. It's fair to say this frustrates everyone, especially in the beginning.

All that being said, this is not a reason to then take the next step and claim that basic competence in what is today an essential tool is optional. It is necessary and to work well you must know it well, otherwise the frustration you point out will be part of your life every day. As opposed to something that you live through and say goodbye to.

The fact that everyone is taking this as toxic or willfully oblivious is as far as I'm concerned infantile. It has nothing to do with "being a real man" (whatever that means to you), it has something to do with having the maturity to realise that you are making your own problems.

That is not to say we cannot build a better tool. Perhaps we can! Up until this point I have not seen it done without losing something else in turn.