skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter constantly encourages new levels of batshit because everyone is fighting for attention. I had a troll account with over 1500 followers that got nuked in I think 2017 after I posted a screenshot of the twitter stock price and tagged Jack Dorsey, I'd got a couple of suspensions before that for just being a dickhead but I was really surprised that was what got the permanent ban. Honestly, it was good thing in the end, fewer distractions and the super secret cabal chats I was in I'd added them on other platforms anyway.

The thing I saw even then was selective enforcement, I'd get death threats all the time from various tough guys over posts where I'd mocked them for being socialists or whatever, which I'd report, they'd never get banned. I didn't care that much because it's the internet and I wasn't posting under my real name, what were they going to do. But then I'd see people getting banned for telling others threatening them that they were strapped and it wasn't a good idea to make those threats. There's a hierarchy on Twitter when it comes to following the rules, and if you draw the ire of the people in the protected upper echelons you'll be threatened and bullied without any recourse.
Here is a website with opposite arguments (against Linux on the desktop specifically)

https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.t...

In the end you have strong arguments both ways. I personally use both on a daily basis. Generally that's Linux for work (coding, mostly) and Windows for fun (games and media).
UltraWide vs. Dual Monitors – Which Should You Choose?
This is an interesting question, I was not aware of this behavior in C#. It looks like the solution is to use annotations to specify a property as being ignored.

The intended behavior is to serialize all fields of an object (some properties have backing fields, others don't). You wouldn't serialize properties themselves for the same reason a getter/setter on it's own wouldn't be serialized - only the data stored.

Put simply, I would say C# has the wrong default behavior here.
It doesn't look like they will enforce it. They say they plan to support the direct explorer to playback. I hope because if they start adding the files I play to some sort of library, whether by duplicating the binaries or not, this is the end of me using VLC.

What I like a lot less is controls overlaid on the video. It's a matter of taste but for me I absolutely hate that. Don't mess with the image. If I want the controls to disappear I am happy to go full screen. Skype is doing the same and it is annoying as fuck.
NASA and SpaceX prepare for first 'operational' commercial orbital flight
It seems the Feds have seized the backend servers for these voting systems:

https://dcdirtylaundry.com/bombshell-the-2020-election-took-...
It’s important to separate changes across evolutionary timescales with individual mutations. Brian’s have a metabolic cost which promotes efficiency over time, but efficiency is just one of many relevant factors. A whale has significantly less relative metabolic cost per Lb of brain than a mouse. Further, individual mutations may be a net negative.
Or to any other latitude.
You should check again - Ubuntu applications are now being distributed via Snaps that everyone hates, they are sandboxed tho. For other distributions you have Flatpak that is also sandboxed.
> Covid-19 associated mortality rates were 0.2 per 100,000 (95%CI 0.1 to 0.4) in Norway and 2.9 (95%CI 1.9 to 3.9) in Sweden.

You can shuffle around numbers to narrow that distance a bit but you're starting with hell of a disadvantage. Afaict the article you linked only suggests there /may/ be some mortality displacement, it certainly doesn't say "no net effect".
Why single data scientist should be responsible for obtaining data from 2000 stores? Data at scale requires people at scale. Data engineers would do this job.
Something similar, but much more impressive was done in central London with a much larger magnificent monumental nine-story Victorian building over a much larger distance... in 1983!

The video shows it all: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyqxc?start=325

Interesting tidbit: Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Eric Idle and other famous actors worked in that building around the time it got moved.
I'm eternally grateful that there's a website that's similar to early Reddit (what I remember about it at least). Although with an older demographic on average - I guess whoever was on early Reddit is older as well now. Of course HN has been around for forever as well.
Yeah I just found out that we're not expected back in the office until 𝟤̶𝟢̶𝟤̶𝟣̶ 2022 at least. I wish they had communicated that earlier. We would have left the bay area already.

Edit: Sorry, 2022, not 2021.
I'm Japanese and I've never heard such deal is going to be signed until very recently. I admit that I've not read news eagerly but news articles / TV news shows that related to RCEP is really few. When TPP deal was going to signed, there were many news and discussions.
I expect that deal with China and Korea should make massive discussion in Japan, but very few maybe due to covid.
> "We've had over a thousand applicants just in the last two weeks alone

How many tech people are in the Bay Area? Is this around one percent?
So it’s a walled cess pool.
In the US and certain upper-middle class echelons of other Western nations, maybe.

Outside of that bubble, though, it ranges from neutral to positive to acknowledge a person's ethnicity.
Bunnie Huang wrote a good piece on how Apple/Google's Exposure Notification stuff doesn't allow as much determination of who got infected by who compared to more complete (but less privacy respecting) Contact Tracing:

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5820
I feel like I shouldn’t have to explain it, like the people who didn’t attend that wedding but got it from someone who did also decided to interact with the person who did.

There is a chance you could hit and kill someone in a car accident next time you go out. Should you have stayed home to avoid that risk? In any situation with risk involved there will always be stories like the wedding mentioned. The point is that people should be free to take on as much or as little amount of risk as they want. If you have compromised health or a very low tolerance for risk maybe you should make the decision to avoid people as much as possible, wear a mask, work from home, etc.
Ate least they only need one timezone.

Had they ended up in the longitudinal direction, they would have less climate changes but lots of timezones.
The Birth of a Galaxy
Yes! I wanted to address this idea in the article, but it didn't make the final cut as I didn't think it added much to the points being made. Moving away from direct field access and only using functions is definitely in line with the Alan Kay OOP model.
Qt is nice but costs money for developers of proprietary software. Electron has its own costs but most of them are externalized to the user. So it wins out.
I used to be on windows. I uninstalled candy crush, bloatware but what can you do. Windows reinstalled it some time later with an update. I have no use for an operating system that doesn't serve my needs but the needs of someone else.
I would love for Tulsa to succeed at creating a "new silicon valley"

It could be great for the area, great for the people who are early movers, etc

I don't think it will be, but I think ideas like this are good experiments. You need a certain amount of gravity before you have a good tech scene, and I am interested in knowing "what does that gravity look like? How can such friction to becoming a tech hub be erased?"

Honestly, my current bets would be:
Good office space (probably not a huge open office but whatever), a good space for hosting meetups / other presentations (maybe even a conference!?), and frequent infusion of new talent -- from college or a program like the one described in the article

Then you just need a few people with a lot of initiative to build the community
We'll have to wait for annual death statistics for the final answer.

So far, Sweden's annual deaths are tracking the same as prior years:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...
That’s great news! I was disappointed since I read the discussion on github. I clearly misunderstood. Thanks!
Pigeon Intelligence
I guess this means every other Mac was really slow all along.
In what way does a globe not do a good job showing the true size of countries?
One of my favorite places in Moscow [1], the Andreevskij Most, was moved from its place to new one to become pedestrian bridge (it was railroad bridge before that, I used to see fireworks from its heights).

[1] https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8... (Russian)

The move was big deal back then - the preparation took eight months and the move itself took hour and a half (for about kilometer of walking distance).

I like the view from there.
The people of Melbourne/Victoria in Australia would like a word...

They went from a "second wave" of over 700 new cases a day, to just having hit 16 consecutive days of zero new cases - all due to lockdown restrictions and mask wearing.

It was tough on people. But it worked.

Looking at numbers like 160,000 new cases a day is horrifying. Death rates seem to be globally hovering right around 0.5% - that's a lot of dead people...
ironically, windows just included this for Edge, you can alt tab between browser windows and you can put websites as taskbar apps ( and will also jump to all windows of the app easily as well)
Sounds kind of dismissive and passive aggressive. The architecture suggested in the article is terrible but I think the way to respond to it is to explain why it's terrible from a security standpoint and then also a maintenance standpoint. If they are smart they will get it and then move on to finding a way to fix the planning problems. Stonewalling and defending your corner is something I have personally seen evolve as a kind of toxic thing in big companies leading to breakdown of communication.
I wouldn’t assume that there isn’t a licence involved.

Intel have clearly indicated in the past that they think licensing is a requirement for emulating x86[0].

I imagine that Apple are only emulating x86-64, since they dropped 32bit support in their last OS. I believe that x86-64 is owned by AMD, so I imagine Apple has a licensing deal with them.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/tiriasresearch/2017/06/16/intel...
Does anybody here know if these contact tracing apps can possibly work? Is bluetooth enough to trace reliably?
I remember Intel "warning" that x86 emulation is riddled with IP/patents - now that they are falling behind I fully expect them to turn to milking competition by patent trolling - sort of like Microsoft back in the Android vs Windows Phone days.
The guy does say in the video that they are trying to appeal to users who are used to streaming services and help with content discovery. He didn't really say how but it is logical to assume that it points to integration of 3rd party streaming services.
Reasons to prefer Windows 10 over Linux:
https://miscdotgeek.com/why-windows-10-is-my-desktop-os-of-c...
Can anyone say why browser based IDEs like Jupyter Notebook are taking over desktop programs?

I'm finding I keep getting pushed to Jupyter and just am not crazy about it.
> > Finally, because Linux is a ubiquitous server operating system, its security is under constant attack, and Linux desktop users benefit from fixes to the vulnerabilities.

> Attacking servers is harder and probably may give you better "reward" (stolen data), but Attacking normal people is easier so you can do it at bigger scale...

I think that attacking normal people is easier. I disagree that it scales though. Normal people have huge variances in their systems and the version they run, their network connectivity, their IT savvy, etc. and therefore the kinds of exploits required to break into their home systems will vary a lot.

The variance in commercial systems is probably as high, but who cares since you only need to take down one or two, rather than hundreds or thousands, for equivalent payoff.

The pick-pocket will make a million dollars more slowly than the bank robber.
For a digital map, you can show a simulated globe (like what Google Maps does).

If you have a world paper map, though, there's no real way around inaccuracies. You can trade off one inaccuracy for another, is all.
https://dcdirtylaundry.com/bombshell-the-2020-election-took-...
Despite Conflicting Evidence, FDA Approves Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir
Not at the moment, but I have seasonal mood swings that I usually control with the gym and taking a holiday to the northern hemisphere when the worst of it hits in winter.

This year was really rough on me mentally, being away from people and couped up in the house took its toll on me and I had no real way to fix it. It's crazy how everything can be objectively ok in your life, but something like this comes along and just completely messes you up emotionally.
What could possibly go wrong?

(Besides the obvious cruelty and injustice as well as the extreme likelihood of rebellion and creation of a world government of evil monkey overlords, which might not necessarily be worse than what we currently have.)
Thanks open source Recognizing Sweet Home 3D open source main contributor
ARM already has instructions for improving performance of Javascript [1]. What if Apple added custom ISA extensions to their chips to support efficient x86 emulation? Current evidence seems to suggest that much of the translation is happening statically; a few additional instructions might greatly increase x86 emulation performance if most of the code can be translated instruction-by-instruction.

Also curious to see how Rosetta will work with x86 code whose instruction alignments can't be determined statically.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50966676/why-do-arm-chip...
China is probably working on it.
The "new silicon valley" is already Phoenix, AZ.
The Impact Sprinkler – more clever than it seems
I think the difference is not between legible errors vs none, but how many people who deeply understand computers are in the community. So a community difference instead of a technical one. In Windows land, most folks don't understand it, so most you'll find on the internet is "I reinstalled windows, the problem is gone" and "try Pro Cleaner ^TM 2000, the trial version has some ads but it removed the problem for me. requires E-Mail signup though".
> In what way? desktop? kernel tweaks?

How deep do you want the Rabbit hole to go Alice?

On one end you have Arch Linux:

Arch is largely based on binary packages. Packages target x86-64 microprocessors to assist performance on modern hardware. A ports/ebuild-like system is also provided for automated source compilation, known as the Arch Build System.[28]

Arch Linux focuses on simplicity of design, meaning that the main focus involves creating an environment that is straightforward and relatively easy for the user to understand directly, rather than providing polished point-and-click style management tools — the package manager, for example, does not have an official graphical front-end. This is largely achieved by encouraging the use of succinctly commented, clean configuration files that are arranged for quick access and editing.[29] This has earned it a reputation as a distribution for "advanced users" who are willing to use the command line.[30]

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

And then on the other end you have Distro's like Mint, or Ubuntu:

Mint is designed for ease of use and a ready-to-roll out-of-box experience, including multimedia support on desktops. The operating system is easier to install than most Linux distributions. Mint includes software required for e-mail and online functionality as well as support for multimedia content, whether online or from a user's own files and physical media

There are several different desktop editions of Mint, including Cinnamon, GNOME, XFCE and KDE, to best support various hardware. The operating system is also provided in an alternate Linux Mint Debian Edition for those that are more familiar with Linux. That edition is said to be less intuitive and user-friendly but also faster and more responsive.

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

I started with KDE, then went to Mint, Ubuntu, and some other distros like Manjaro that I've been tinkering with lately.

You can see a good list of all the distro's here (current and upcoming):

https://distrowatch.com/
Thought I'd use this as an opportunity to thank what appears to be the primary contributor to my favorite open source application, Sweet Home 3D. I planned a complete home remodel (duplex -> single family home) with it!
Don’t Talk to CorpDev. Part Deux
The problem is that the Libertarianism/free-market policies simply don't work. They've failed to address the growing inability to normal people to have financial security and a reasonable quality of life.

At some point, continuing to advocate those policies in the face of their outcomes becomes negligence at best.
Google Maps does not do what you are saying it does. Try it for yourself. Zoom out. Look at the size of Greenland. It’s just a variant of the conventional projection you’d use on paper.

And even for systems that do adjust the projection based on where you’re looking, such as Google Earth, that simulated globe is still... just a projection. It’s got the same issues in that areas and sizes are distorted.
[off topic] I hate the mobile web! This site is another example of how I hate it. An ad wall that required me to scroll before I could accept and then after a few seconds a pop up to sign up for a newsletter. It’s awful...
Maybe what we really need first is a new religion and ethics, one that would eliminate the "playing god" dilemma and enable faster progress in the right direction. It could picture us animals as insignificant and not worthy the attention of the creator of the universe unless we reach ourselves a certain level of intelligence, consciousness and empathy.
...which is nice from a user control perspective, but completely ignores gp's argument. You can either have user control or everyone up to date. You can't have both.
> Ironically Microsoft just released a beta arm version of the JVM for Mac.

I wasn't aware of this. Can you provide a link?
Investigation of Cadillac Fairview Corporation by Privacy Commissioner of Canada
88% are human caused and I'll bet a large sum that those fires generally burn lands closer to human civilization. That lightning strikes ignite millions of acres in remote Alaskan wilderness is not relevant, unless you think we should be out there protecting nature from itself.
The overall counting process in the UK scales horizontally rather well (it's a great example of map-reduce!), and it's close to unthinkable that the results affected by any given count would not be known on the evening of an election day, even if the shape of the resulting government were not known as in 2010.

What is not reflected however is the sheer number of votes that people tend to cast in the US - often voting on dozens of different measures.

The UK process does not have this aspect - at worst there may be a Westminster, country-specific parliament and city or town council on the same election day, and they are handled via separate ballot papers.
> Windows ARM is not available to OEMs.

Not "officially", but you can get hold of it as an individual and install it on e.g. a raspberry pi relatively easily already. Running it in a VM might be doable.

Actual Windows 10 ARM too, not the restrictive IoT version that's officially supported on the pi.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/01/27/windows-10-arm-on-r...
Google's a great tool. I typed in "Roma slavery" and got dozens of hits. Take your pick.
This is relevant to only a small segment of the market. A substantial majority of software development, even VC-funded software development, isn't something that can meaningfully be sold as a consumer-facing phone app.
That doesn't mean good. I think it is still possible to rate your own songs on iOS but there are so many hoops to jump that this is effectively a deprecated feature. He explicitly said it doesn't mean you will be able to reach these features easily.
We haven't been doing a very good job with those controlled burns it seems.
Does it mean that I may record desktop screencast in 15FPS (to not overload GPU) & then convert to 60FPS?
I finally decided to try Linux "for real" (no dual booting) on my laptop. I have used it in the past, but for the first time it truly can be said:

The Linux (Gnome) UX is miles ahead of Windows.

I genuinely wish I could have Gnome on Windows.
How I automated my job search to land 30+ interviews during the pandemic
Linux being open source is reason enough to prefer it over Windows.
It's funny because this seems like a textbook case of the innovator's dilemma (from Clayton Christensen) in a nutshell - what worked for Intel was just working so well, that cannibalizing it with something new didn't make sense - until it was too late.
> If you take any functioning healthy ecosystem on earth, one generally less tampered with by humans, you'll find from a microscopic, right up to a macroscopic level, the life in those ecosystems have adapted to function together.

You're still taking essentially a static view of a dynamic system, because you're looking at too small a timescales. What we see as "natural balance" is essentially a freeze-frame of nature. The equilibria we see aren't stable - they're just very slow to changing. Everything is evolving and in a constant war with each other at every level - from microscopic to macroscopic. Nature itself doesn't care about the environment as we see it today[0].

The problem with humans boils down to what makes us truly special: intelligence and socializing enabled us to evolve a meta-organism of society at rates many orders of magnitude faster than biological evolution. Language and writing lets us propagate knowledge and technologies between generations, and intelligence lets us problem-solve and simulate in mind space - pruning the solution space quickly and in an efficient way, over evolution's directed RNG.

Point being, no other organism can respond with the speed at which we evolve our societies and technologies. That's why we disrupt the ecosystems and the climate. We're too fast for nature.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event is a good example. An evolutionary leap, leading to most life dying off, only for new and more complex forms to eventually take its place. But as it is with life, whatever comes after a mass die-off isn't the same thing that was there before.
I'm responding to a user who described having to learn a text editor as suffering. I'm not sure how your response relates to mine.

I happen to be a person who uses a fancy keyboard (Kinesis Advantage2) and text editor (vim) to reduce RSI.
Haha that'd be annoying as hell.

We do have 2 timezones, though (because of Rapa Nui)
> Linux runs better on both new and older hardware. Better as in programs open faster, the file manager opens faster, the task manager opens faster. Everything uses less memory and less CPU cycles. Everything is snappier.

Unless "hardware" is many laptops or all tablets, which effectively can't run Linux (unless Android etc.)
A relevant thread on pigeon intelligence for identification of breast cancer pathology:
https://twitter.com/iScienceLuvr/status/1221304037020069888
Except that codecs and hardware won't stop evolving.
These scientists essentially created what may have been a new species, that perhaps would have had similar sentience to us and had them terminated after 100 days.

I don't think that there is any evidence that other animals don't already have the same sentience as humans do.

I agree that this is unethical, but other forms of using lab animals or factory farming in my opinion are equally unethical in my opinion.
Those are toolkits to sandbox processes, but I'm talking in terms of complete solutions. Linux has Snaps and Flatpak, but the modern distros lack in solutions to enforce sandboxing policies systemwide against arbitrary binaries.