skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look, we're all trying to do something for the future, we're on the same boat. But you can't just simply waltz to mankind and actively make their lives measurably more miserable 'because future and polar bears', suck it up. People will react very negatively and you will lose the cause, maybe for good. In next elections some populist will win and revert any progress (I believe I don't need to put names here, do I).

It literally doesn't matter that everybody on Hacker News would agree with this, HN is definitely not a representative sample on many topics.

If you think mankind is smarter, look at politics of lately, look at covid-related deniers, folks rejecting masks due to some wacky conspiracy, 5g/chipping and so on and on.

Forcing folks like this while we give places like China, India or other polluters a free pass? Not only are people expected to pay the bill (research, transition), but it literally won't matter on global scale that they do.
The article literally tells you what to take away from it:

> Until it is clear what may be causing the issue and Apple releases a fix, late 2013 and mid 2014 13-inch MacBook Pro may wish to hold off on installing macOS Big Sur .

A backup doesn’t do you much good if the machine is bricked.
I accept that but for the moment there is no centrally organised way to do this, car charges have timers and the like built in for sure, but that is asking a lot to expect everyone to set it. The majority of people will come home and plug in. This should be easy to fix but it is another thing which needs to be rolled out and working in the next 10 years.
Programming Phoenix is good. You might want to look at something Elixir specific too, I liked Programming Elixir although I've heard good things about Elixir in Action as well.

The official online documentation is pretty good too.
Trying to understand this as someone who is not sophisticated about security issues. It SOUNDS like, if you have a Big Sur machine that runs no software other than Apple's and software downloaded from App Store, this isn't an issue.

The problem is if you install non-App Store software. Most people don't need to do that, but of course, the types of users who frequently Hacker News frequently will. So they run the risk of installing, and using, malicious software.

I myself do install non-App Store software sometimes. Prior to Big Sur, I could use Little Snitch and be sure I knew what servers it was communicating with. With Big Sur, I can't.

Does that sum up the problem?
Ok, so you cannot prove it, which means that I must prove otherwise?

I wrote exactly what you cited in May 2019, but it was not about SKIA. And if you continued reading you would have noticed that multi-threaded rendering context implementation is already provided. So, I don't really understand what is your point here.

There are Blend2D users that started using the library based on their own benchmarks that compared Blend2D, SKIA, and also AGG. So there are already users that use Blend2D instead of SKIA based on their own benchmarks, and I think that's a much saner approach than following your "expert wisdom".
> Especially among HN users, who you would assume would be more likely to see the benefits of new technology.

HN users generally seem to care about their own convenience at the cost of everything else, as seen by all the support for things like Electron.
GitHub is just a mirror for Linux. We're discussing projects that use GitHub as their primary repository.
I just finished re-writing all the copy for www.facet.net, so copy writing is fresh on my mind.

Here's some feedback:

- It wasn't clear to me what your company does after reading your home page.

- When I saw the "Courses" section it clicked. But I only read that far because you asked for feedback.

- You should lead with what you do or what benefit the customer will receive.

- For example, the main title on your home page should be something like "Learn computer science by playing games" or "Fun, self-guided computer science courses"

I would highly recommend https://copyhackers.com/.
> and ask what kind of air they want to brea

I don't know what kind of air they want, but it doesn't look like they are doing much to stop polluting.

If they wanted to, they could stop buying so many clothes or wear them for more than a season...

https://indigohoneycomb.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/fash.png

https://assets.weforum.org/editor/4DxwPKr6vDnGTAjAheQiVQrcrv...

See?

Nobody likes a bit of truth

People only want to believed the stories they already believe in.

As I've written in another comment

"Praise EV and you'll look cool, blame fast fashion and they'll hate you"

Point proven.
> For instance old school analog TV had significantly more information in the lumas than in the chroma.

That’s the case for the large majority of digital content as well, in a codec like H264 the chroma resolution is a quarter of the luma resolution.

> but if the intention was to fool me into thinking that it was actually an ancient recording

To be fair, no one claimed this. I think it’s almost impossible to do because so many factors come together.
Actually the gatekeeper is what they call themselves as "mentor", not the tool users.
Dan Bongino also owns a stake in Parler.

They aren't remotely for free speech either, by the way. I started an account there, disagreed with someone (I guess one of the wrong people to counter), and was banned within 10 minutes for wrongthink.
If batteries plummet in price everyone will buy EVs anyway. If not whoever is in government the will quietly let it slide. They mandated all new houses to be energy efficient a decade ago, but somehow it never quite happened.
Engineering Geology of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) System, 1964–75
Much respect to these people for continuing the project even after it became clear that ventilators aren't uniquely useful for treating covid.

If they can get the relevant certifications and work out how to handle reliable servicing, it could be a significant boon to the medical community, especially in areas where cost is an issue.

Better yet, it could show people that it is possible to develop critical medical devices without relying on a heavy veil of secrecy and NDAs, and give a much-needed leg up to projects developing devices like ultrasound imagers or EKGs/EEGs/etc.

Here's hoping they can clear the regulatory hurdles without much difficulty and let people buy them without MIT-style license disclaimers, but it looks like those problems will likely fall on local manufacturers.

Which raises an interesting question: is it smart to be the first company to start mass-producing an open-source medical device? You would need to foot the heavy certification bill as a large capital investment, while any future competitors wouldn't.
> I don't want every text file I download to be categorized and moved into a semi-permanent collection.

It already is and it is called desktop search.
The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgaria (2016)
“The couple initially gave $250 million to the nonprofit Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), which has set up a grant program that funds local government efforts to expand voter access, including drive-through voting, temporary staffing support, equipment to process ballots and applications and nonpartisan voter educations”

God forbid people be able to exercise the right to vote.

“A conservative legal group, Thomas More Society, has filed lawsuits in eight states, including the presidential battlegrounds of Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia and Iowa, seeking to block the grants from going through”
We already had a social network that favored long posts (not sure whether by design or culturally): Google+.

I remember it as a haven for gasbags who were overly fond of their own verbiage; essentially a write-only medium.
Franz: Messaging App for WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Slack, Telegram
I have my media library from 20 years ago: it is embedded in my music files using standardised tagging formats. Any in-software 'media-library' I have used in that time has simply been a cache of and search interface for this metadata. Similarly some video files support tags and there are some standards for external metadata storage that can live next to the files I believe.

I highly doubt the music file metadata shown in the video only exists in an opaque internal representation within VLC.
It's a trade-off, for sure. But it's on the project owner to make that call. It's not always the case that one model is best for any given project/maintainer/set of users.

As for project health, I treat the git log as a far more reliable indicator than the issues list. That shows me what's actually getting done.
There is. Email me for invite.
I long for the old IRC days...when you can open a room on DalNet and talk to a small group of like minded people about what you are interested in and curious about..invite/kick those who get obnoxious. It was cozy and I’d give anything to get an online community where we all get along and where it’s ok to be open to new ideas.

Most of the BBS and IRC rooms I frequented had little to no moderation. Flamewars occurred, but everyone eventually calmed the fuck down..you just have to let it burn out almost like how you’d allow a child to have his tantrum and then it’s back to life as usual.

I think moderation and rules are making communication worse. Anyone who has been in a marriage or a relationship can maybe attest to the fact that in the fiery instances where we don’t sit down and ‘figure out rules of engagement’ burn out fast. When there are rules for the emotional pressure valves to be released, arguments and disagreements become nested and multi layered.

In today’s world..we are all toddlers and/or married to each other on social media and Twitter, FB et al have become our nannies creating and putting out meltdowns and tantrums at the same time.

Having said that, IG is still my favourite. Except that they are allergic to images of certain parts of the human anatomy and sometimes even onions can be too sexy for their nipple detection algorithms..but otherwise it’s brimming with joy and positivity.
Ask HN: Salute Emoji
Are there plans to add one? If not, how do we put it into the pipeline?
>>just don't call what other people enjoy stupid, please

I enjoy it too, my last car was a Mercedes AMG with a modified exhaust and a tune map. I loved it.

But no, it was stupid. The climate is fucked and I literally had a car where the ECU would inject fuel and cut ignition just to produce the loud BRAP BRAP BRAP noise when changing gears. Literally burning fuel to make a noise and not move the car forward.

Like, these two are not mutually exclusive. It was incredibly awesome and incredibly stupid at the same time.

For driving experience of course I would pick the AMG over my electric car. But it's not a sustainable position to be in.
Yeah, we have SLE -> SUSE Linux Enterprise , then S or D or others stuff. Server, Desktop, 4SAP, etc.
Mmm, ok, however, the example just looks like bad sync between the server side and UX/copy teams because of poorly written user stories.

I think they should fix the development processes before the copy strategy.
I thinks the main problem isn't the platform itself, but the form itself. Twitter is toxic, Parler as well, but perhaps to other people. What's the point?
Then you can use those options as Google didn't exist. The thing is the quality is so much better thanks to them people choose the products. The phone you had before Android wouldn't fulfill a purpose people buy phones these days. If you don't remember how much better Gmail was than email providers back in the day I don't know what to tell you.
Indeed, but it suffices that all major C and C++ static analysers end up supporting it, to the extent that it is possible.

On Visual C++ builds, and usage of Eclipe's CDT I always turn as much as possible on.

It isn't Rust, but as you say, every bit helps.
>after another few decades of battery chemistry improvement

How do you know we aren't near the end of what is possible with batteries already? I assume that people in the steam and internal combustion era thought things would just keep improving forever as well.
Petrol prices will make running ICE vehicles impractical, seems likely a lot of filling stations will be removed as the forced transition to centrally controlled and permissioned hybrid/EV transportation is gradually increased.
To be clear, I was responding to the situation where someone clearly puts effort in creating a high-quality contribution (a PR or bug report) and the maintainer simply ignores them. I think it is the right thing to do to at least acknowledge it and say "Thank you for your contribution! I will review it when I have time".

I don't disagree with you or others on ignoring low-quality, low-effort contributions. I get that people have finite energy and time. Taking 5 seconds to say "thank you" when someone has clearly put in the effort, though, is a no-brainer.
If I have to interview another whose only ML tools are GLMs, random forests and boosted trees (only ever with one hot encoding, of course) I’m going to do the same.
But people do still buy cars, I assume voluntarily, so there must be some benefit for them.

I live in a urban area and my commute by public transport is twice as long as by car. Yes I know it's not something to be celebrating - but I am definitely and objectively better off by using a car.
This should not be a blanket ban. Actually I don’t think they would even need to implement any policy at all. By 2030 I would expect electric cars to be so economical that it’s the only viable choice for the majority of people.

Not to mention that there will still be plenty of valid use cases for ICE cars in 2030. Need to go anywhere without the charging infrastructure? Need to travel a long distance? Need to travel in an emergency like a blackout?

The other part which is just kind of sad is that this is another nail in the coffin for the hobby of building and modding cars. Parts supplies will dry up and working on older cars will just become more and more prohibitively expensive. It’s already happening. To be honest when a car is just another computer it ceases to be interesting.
The Power of Data Structures
VLC has already been a media catalog app for quite some time - on mobile, but also on the Windows app available on the Microsoft Store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/vlc/9nblggh4vvnh . This version looks quite a lot like those slides.
Whenever I see Medium articles of insane serverless architectures used at the startup stage, my stomach drops. Serverless computing isn’t about fast iteration (for CRUD app development) or even “pay for what you use” (for CRUD app development).

Serverless is typically hard to setup and hard to iterate upon. You want to have a pretty clear understanding of the specific use case you’re addressing beforehand so you can architect the system well, which isn’t easy for a solo developer / small team who just wants to setup a little function in the cloud.

Actually, the best use case for serverless is:
- subscription to AWS specific events. It’s all built in and easy to plug into.
- elastic ETL pipelines. This is a very enterprise focused use case which involves processing GBs/TBs of data with complex transformations. The variability in data throughput makes serverless an elegant solution. Also, your ETL pipeline isn’t going to change in the same way that a product focused use case of serverless will change.
> You have options like LiveView for your frontend

Worth noting Stimulus Reflex uses the same approach as LiveView (most stacks have similar options)
>establish these clear goals in the README

No amount of README pleading, CONTRIBUTING.md or issue templates can stop the class of people which don't read and don't care. If you open an issue on my project, at the top, you'll get a message explaining that, as shocking as it may be, "debugging requires information." Then there's a checklist of 5-6 items which are the bare minimum required for me to start debugging this app which runs on numerous operating systems and platforms.

Despite all of this, about 20% of all issues ever opened in the project have blanket ignored the expectations of the project. The coding part of open source I still love. The administration of the project, and endlessly begging people to follow the guidelines, necessitates occasional sabbaticals to recover my sanity.
Your diverse group isn't very diverse.
Traffic is very congested and slow in the UK, what looks like a short trip can take hours
>Emacs is not an IDE

No it's not. Why are you telling me something I never said? I believe you are utterly mistaken to believe that I hold this opinion.

>If you really need an IDE, just use one.
>I don’t see any point in that.

You don't see the point because you completely missed the point.

I want an IDE that is as lightweight as vim/emacs and as powerful as a Jetbrains IDE and lives on the console.

So right now if I "just use" an IDE it's not lightweight as it likely runs on the JVM, I can't fire it up on a console when I'm ssh-ed into a server.

If I fire vim up on a server I can't get any code highlighting or code following or integrated graphical debugging without a lot of yak-shaving and even after I do the yak-shaving it's still not done as well.

I want both on one app. Now you may not like this idea, you may be opposed to it. But this is what I'm asking for and this is my opinion. I respect your opinion but please don't tell me to "just use" an IDE when that is not the topic of the conversation.
Yes and all of them are bad
Spring + Thymeleaf is also great it's practically Ruby on Rails for Java developers.
Sure, but I wouldn't go so far as to say resolution of analog is "meaningless". I'm not aware of a precise quantitative measure of film "resolution", but simply from a qualitative sense of resolving detail, it's quite meaningful and useful to say that 35mm film is generally considered to lie somewhere between 4K and 8K. Which is far higher than 1080p.

In other words, if you're watching a 1080p video and complaining it appears too "high-resolution" to have been transferred from film, that's almost certainly incorrect, and it's something else that cluing you in it wasn't film -- probably grain and/or color characteristics.
We can also work back from first principles here. According to [0] we can see in 2019 the UK consumed 20.8bn litres of diesel and 16.2bn litres of petrol for non-commercial use. Taking the energy consumption of 10 KWh and 8.9 KWh of a litre of diesel and petrol respectively gives us an annual total of 3.4x10^11 KWh.

Dividing this number by 8760 (the number of hours in 2019) gives us 40,203,196 KW, or 40 GW total energy consumption. Assuming that electric vehicles are 5x more efficient than ICE, gives us about 8GW of electricity needed to replace all petrol and diesel consumption in the UK.

According to [1] the UK's peak consumption is currently 61.9 GW with a theoretical maximum of 75.3 GW. So to replace all non-commercial fuel used would be 13% of the peak usage.

According to [2] the UK's total electricity generation in 2019 was 323.7 TWh which is 3.237x10^11 KWh which is roughly equivalent to the total energy value for non-commercial diesel and petrol calculated above. Assuming again the 5x efficiency gain that would mean a ~20% increase in the amount of energy that would need to be generated.

[0] https://www.ukpra.co.uk/en/about/facts-and-figures

[1] https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ofgem-publications/76160/13537-elec...

[2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
You are not alone in this. There are actually tens of alternative social media sites started by people who are fed up with the status quo.

For starters, here's a good maintained list: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/hi97fz/...
I agree that "the economy" has relatively little to do with the ability for "a" startup to succeed, given the right startup, with the right technology, in the right political environment, in the right social environment...

But further up you basically said "if you haven't made a lot of money in tech in the last 10 years then you're doing something wrong"

Which is a tautology, independent of how you define success. If you don't succeed, you did something wrong. But define "a lot of money"

Is a "lot of money" a six figure personal income? A six figure income is easy to get. Just work hard and be good at your job for a few years, and don't be afraid to negotiate. Set your terms, if you're valuable they'll pay for your time.

Or are we talking on the scale of companies? I helped build up a small garage operation into a multi-million dollar turnover enterprise - is that a lot of money? Probably to some people, but not compared to the multi-billion dollar companies.

Some random nobody made a website that lets people post 140 characters and we all lol'ed and now it's worth more than twenty billion dollars. There were millions of web forums experimenting with different modes of communication. Did everyone who tried to start a social media website at the same time as twitter do "something wrong" because they didn't understand the magic formula?

If you're talking on a personal level, then yes, making money in "tech" is easy. I've made "a lot" of money in "tech." I live more comfortably than my peers. But I would not say it's been easy, or it's just been some fluke.
I am just staring to realize that along with some bad decisions, wrong understanding of life and people and suboptimal skill and knowledge acquisition in past years I must have some degree of lasting depression. One aspect of positive change that I do notice now that was totally missing is literally feeling dopamine “scent” or “grasp” when contemplating something important I need to do among the things that I chose to be doing like my job and side projects, in the worse times it all felt like a burden, something I just owe to myself. But little by little I start to remember that I love doing a lot about it. Hopefully the dopamine gears will continue turning and speeding up!
You can also check out https://github.com/TensorSpeech/TensorFlowASR for inspiration (not my project, not involved). It implements streaming transformers and conformer RNN-T (but in TF2). Deployment on device as TFLite. So far, there aren't many usable pretrained models available (just LibriSpeech), but with some work it could turn out quite nicely.