skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find Teams has a subpar UI and UEX compared to slack. I catch myself still saying “slack” me much like how “let’s call an uber” became synonymous with ride share. I really wish slack had a fair chance to compete with Microsoft.
> No sure about bleeding edge, because for the most part their products work but at different times they have defined:

I'm ex-Apple and an Apple fan as much as anyone, but I also have the benefit of being old. Not to take anything away from Apple's collective accomplishments, in many of these categories I'd say they "redefined" more than "defined".

There were many smartphones before the iPhone (the Palm Treos were great), many MP3 players before the iPod, many tablets before the iPad (the Microsoft Tablet PC came out about a decade before the first iPad), all-in-one PCs go back 40 years now, etc.
The page says "Loading Fibratus docs..." and that's it.
https://bugs.debian.org/972134
> There is a difference between a critique and censorship.

I don't say otherwise, or even refer to "critique" or "censorship" in my post, so what are you talking about?

> The person is not advocating that the hosting company of this blog post remove it from the internet

I also didn't accuse them of advocating the hosting company of this blog remove it from the internet, or even remotely hint at such, so what are you talking about?

> should not have been written in the first place

He said the author of the blog should "just spare us" their opinion.

If you want to carry on pretending you don't understand what that means I can't stop you, but next time try addressing what was actually written, not stuff you've completely made up to argue about.

The downvotes are far more likely simply because some people who love hate speech but hate free speech have more than 500 karma.

HTH
it's really a tie between "int", "long" and DWORD (though thankfully DWORD never made it into a language standard).

I would put "char" in the running now that we (thankfully) live in an increasingly UTF-8 world, but at least it's more or less universally understood to mean an 8 bit entity (even though this is not strictly true). It certainly isn't "a character".
Interesting. I'm often late to things myself, and think there is value in reviewing things in an "untimely" way. Like, how good is Breaking Bad if you start watching it in 2020?
> > Citation needed. When Governments had lots of revenue, they assist the population with public services, which tend to benefit the lowest stratum of society the most. But the cumulative effect is to raise the quality of life of society as a whole.

> Citation needed.

That's actually fairly uncontroversial. Small government fetishists insist that left unfettered the flourishing market and voluntary charity would more than make up the resulting gap, but any evidence to the contrary is generally taken as proof that we just haven't lowered taxes and deregulated enough.

The defense of Communism that it hasn't actually been tried for real yet doesn't make any more sense when applied in turn to laissez faire capitalism.

On the other hand, we have quite a bit of data about the broad middle ground, and it is pretty clear that the current settings for the US economy are that taxes are currently too low and not progressive enough (how much is a matter of some debate), and that we probably need to revert to Reagan-era levels if only to be able to afford to refresh and replace crumbling public infrastructure that has been a drag on the economy for a while (because putting off maintenance doesn't save money in the long run) and step up enforcement of existing regulations.
Shoot sorry, I had closed registration while developing. It's open now!
Everything seems like a losing game
Ditto. I do, however, appreciate that it is not using recaptcha.
Or Nvidia Shield TV - there's Netflix, Amazon, whatever - and also the genuide Kodi, right in the Play Store.
In D, the only size that varies is pointer size.

An int is 32 bits, a long is 64. Makes life much easier.
ggplot >> matplotlib and dplyr >> pandas. its not even close imo.
I would recommend Edward Tufte's books on data visualization, which are themselves fantastic examples of how to visually arrange information to maximize understanding. "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" is a great place to start.
What you see as “risking killing” we see as “living a free life”. Same problem as with CO2 and global warming, we will only ever respond to negotiation and persuasion, you will never be able to walk over us like we are doormats. It doesn’t matter if there is a way to rationalize how leaving us free might harm others, we generally do not trust your judgement and we will never entrust you with the power to enslave us.
Dependant partly on stage of company and stage of product, however... Consider asking how many products they have successfully canned. Not launched. Killed. When you’re a PM launching products everyone from the investors and CEO down is your friend. When the time comes to kill a product, nobody want to know. Product Management is the job of managing the product through the product lifecycle. Concept, development, launch, iterations and enhancement, maturity, and yes... eventual migration, retirement, and burial. If you are at a large and mature company a PM may be required to retire more products than he launches. Both ends of the product lifecycle are important.
I mean she did not HAVE to make an ultimatum.

Real change takes hard work and time, and patience, and also playing politics with powerful people you dont like.

Sounds like she basically made a one sided hit piece which was against the work some teams of brain, and took the "my way or the highway" approach. That wasn't so smart from her either...
And they're not entirely wrong. Although there are benefits provided by other industries on net (probably including tech) that are greater.
I agree with you in general, but one important aspect of "HDR" is 10+ color processing (not necessarily showing, FRC8+2 is already an improvement) on the displays. That lets you create more grays etc
I do use spaces to indent code. And I still have no idea what my fundamental misunderstanding is supposed to be.
Beautiful website. Love that it respects system theme.
Infamous Assassins of the Middle Ages
Not so much. Insurers don't insure land. The insure property built on land, crops grown on land, and they insure against various kinds of liability. None of my dirt is insured.
> …essentially the only 5K displays available are the LG one made in partnership with Apple, which is over a grand and has numerous quality issues…

Are these documented anywhere? I have one (it's glorious) and I've not had a problem with it, but it'd be interesting to see the list.
That's true, but HN as a whole does reflect hacker culture - even in the non-computer-ish things that they take an interest in. If you had a bunch of economists, for example, you'd get more economics and less programming, but also different history, different art.... Hmm, actually you'd probably get econjobrumors.
Let's see. Not everything interesting I come across on the web is a good fit for HN, but when I see something that is, I post it here.

I've found that (at least for me) once a community is strong enough, and my motivation to participate in it is strong enough, it's not hard to participate in it naturally.
Yeah that's exactly what attorneys say about legal requests all the time. "Oh just ignore it, no need to prepare, the judge will see it your way". Then they write you a check to thank you for saving them from boredom. </sarcasm>

Have you ever retained an attorney for any legal issue whatsoever? From my experience, your comment is the grave misinformation.
Works fine for me. Do you have JS disabled perhaps or maybe its the browser you're using.
I used to love Quora but then it became absolutely terrible, so I started using Medium more. Then Medium went ahead and essentially made itself pay to play, so here we are.

I miss the times when both of those platforms were good.
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Bitreich.org
We have the idea of "innocent until proven guilty". So a crash is an accident until you can show that it was done on purpose.
Yeah, I saw that. And then they wonder why people pirate movies...
The Somethingawful Forums have been a great example of how to run a community for over 20 years. There's a subforum for pretty much everything. That being said, it's absolutely not for everybody and it can be immensely difficult to figure out the culture and how to fit into it.

I wouldn't have my job, house or partner if it weren't for them though!
It’s disgusting - revolting, despicable, outrageous, horrific, contemptible - to pretend that San Francisco didn’t give any reasoning for their more stringent order. The order explains the reasoning perfectly well in an 80 page PDF anyone can go read: COVID is worse in San Francisco than in other parts of California.

So it’s not a “perfectly adequate query,” it’s just ignorance. And it’s horrendously irresponsible for SFBay to perpetuate that ignorance during a pandemic.
>Let's not also forget that the Chinese had been reading and writing for centuries before anyone else.

Written Chinese isn't even as old as written Greek, much less the oldest written languages...
Yeah I think I agree with you and stncls, the practical conclusion is that one probably shouldn't use intmax_t in external ABIs.

Not that it should be much of a concern in practice, as far as I can tell intmax_t seems mostly about writing "generic" integer code without having to specialize for any int type, but that wouldn't make for a very clean or idiomatic public C API IMO. At least I don't think I've ever encountered it in the wild.
If that doesn't work, try riding a bicycle. You can adjust the pace depending on how you feel, and see a lot more than you would on a regular walk. If you pack a lunch, you can go pretty far, relax in a nice place, and head back.
Cory Doctorow on TrickBot and UEFI
This is a good rule of thumb to adopt in teams and point out in code reviews.
> the needs of genes of prolific breeders who use women’s bodies as vessels

I believe you mean the needs of actual human beings born of such people, to whom the God-given rights of life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and yes, the collective inheritance of the commons, are owed.
I always wait to watch TV shows and movies until the hype has blown over and people can actually tell me their honest thoughts...often in relation to other shows they've seen.

Time allows for context that simply isn't possible otherwise.

It's become a huge time-saver for me. And I would say the shows I do end up watching tend to be of higher quality, on average!
I found 'The Prize', a history of the development of the oil industry, by Daniel Yergin, to be fascinating.

Perhaps closer to your request, 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bourdain comes the closest to describing life in a restaurant kitchen in a very entertaining way. (Source: Was once a dishwasher and cook in a couple places.) If you like Bourdain, his friend, Michael Ruhlman has several books on being, and becoming, a chef.
Please don't break the site guidelines as you did in your first paragraph. They ask commenters not to be snarky and to omit the "Did you read the article" trope.

The rest of your comment is wonderful. Unfortunately, introducing it in a hostile way creates a barrier that's more than just a speed bump. Mentioning in a friendly way the article refers to Hindu-Arabic numerals would make a much better intro.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
5 years? At the speed news is moving nowadays, 5 hour old news is too slow for most social media sites =P
It is particularly infuriating in R, because

lm(y ~ ., data = my_dataframe)

already means "regress the variable y on all other columns in `my_dataframe`." For big, interactive regresions, it's really natural to write

my_original_dataframe %>%
do_a_bunch_of_tranformations() %>%
select(...) %>% # Pull out just the columns you want
lm(y ~ ., data = .)

and god knows how that last line is going to be interpreted. So disambiguating through some mechanism is necessary anyway. A lambda is much better than some temporary variable that just holds the formula `y ~ .`.
It's a slippery slope argument. Logicians demand perfect rigour, and label reasoning that fails to attain that a "fallacy". Humans are satisfied with heuristical arguments, which the slippery slope is an example of. Pointing out that it fails to achieve perfect rigour is meaningless; no argument reaches that bar, and demands to pursue it will only result in obfuscation. Instead, try to explain why the heuristic doesn't apply in this case - if you can. The general response to a slippery slope argument is to explain why one step, once achieved, won't lead to any further steps. You will have great difficulty demonstrating that in this case, since government expenditures regularly rise to the level of their budgets (and indeed beyond).
My wife recently started watching it, and I’d argue that she’s enjoying it more today in 2020 than I did when I was watching it as the episodes were released.
Hanafi Islam is not a theological offshoot. It’s one of Islam’s 4 major schools of law, the other three are Maliki, Shafii and Hanbali. All of them are inside what is considered orthodox mainstream Islam.
None of that is about React, it’s about npm and webpack which are also used by the other libraries. With the compilation, it’s damned if you do and damned if you don’t. People complained before we had static analysis tools that JS wasn’t a real language, and now that they exist and add wait time, people complain as well. But all of that is beside the point where you were claiming that React doesn’t even need to exist, not that the development cycle is less than ideal.
NCSU grads may have done illicit things too.
I think this has been implemented already in Finland. The tax administration evaluates the property's value (both land and infrastructure) and taxes it accordingly, eg 0.5%. For unused land the municipality can set an extra tax to coerce the land owner to develop the land, for example 1 to 3 percent. But I wouldn't say it is a miracle maker, just a part of an effective taxation system.

What I personally would do, if I could, is to target the unscrupulous rich by banning companies located in tax havens from operating in the country, unless they can prove that they have proportionally high enough of employees working full-time in the said tax haven compared to their assets. That, I would say, is very achievable goal that would affect mostly just tax-dodgers and give a strong signal that those practices should come to an end.

I think it is just unfair that normal people have pay taxes up to 50% on their earnings (depending on the country of course) while millionaires and billionaires can just bypass the whole system by incorporating a holding company in Cayman Islands. Or mega corporations that can even negotiate special tax privileges.
Winners of the Interactive Fiction Competition (IFComp) 2020
You can control mouse cursor with your eyes.
Check out GazePointer: https://gazerecorder.com/gazepointer-beta/
Yep, they need something that beats Confluence and Jira and works as a tab in Teams.

And no, anything based on Sharepoint is not that.
I was just going to ask the same question. Everything is pointing to macOS working so well because they own the entire chain. Throwing in the external monitors that Apple promotes would suggest that Apple might also work as smoothly with it as their own. So one more test would be to use a really nice monitor not promoted by Apple.
Dolby Vision traces its origins to the acquisition of Brightside Technologies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrightSide_Technologies), which was itself a spin-off from a group at the University of British Columbia. I wonder how extensively Dolby has profited from the patents it accumulated via that acquisition, since many of the key ideas behind HDR displays must surely be covered by them.
hehe, seems like it, link is a link to a youtube rick-roll video
You didn't work hard enough then.
Or the very questionable use of eminent domain that some municipalities engage in.
This is the exact situation I ran into trying to block ads with a pihole on a Samsung smart TV. The ads were very specific highly localized to my small province. Not something that could be random or generic.

I thought I was doing something wrong since the TV absolutely refused to accept the DNS settings I was inputting.
Thanks for offering the coupon to the HN community :) And of course thank you for putting this together for all of us to read and learn from. I took advantage and ordered this book, along with a few others on the site.

I've wanted to add Data Analysis along with ML to my utility belt. With your books and Andrew Ng's class coming up this Monday, I have a fun Winter of learning ahead of me!
Try GazeScroll Chrome Extension
https://gazerecorder.com/gazescroll/
The arcs on the circle represent percentages, like on a pie chart
Kitchen Confidential was really fun. The audiobook happens to be narrated by Bourdain, too.
I'm sure you thought about this deeply already, but FWIW I think 5 years is a little bit too long. You're basically looking for "timeless" articles, but there are not that many of those on the web; much less so if you exclude the last 5 years. Also, this necessarily eliminates anything related to new scientific and technical advances, which I think are the coolest discussions in HN in general.
Exactly. It's the feudal system implemented with different accounting methods. Landowners are turned into sharecroppers working for the government.
Anecdotally, I’ve been surprised by how Washington DC’s aggressive, punitive taxing of vacant properties has done little (in my observation) to free up these plots. $MM properties that just sit there.
They're probably referring to modernity in the historian's sense of post-Renaissance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_period
> So, ladies and gentlemen, the Linux Foundation 2020 annual report has been produced on a Mac.

> Running Adobe Creative Cloud on MacOS Catalina 10.15.7.

> Which is proprietary software. Its kernel (and some userland pieces) are based on BSD. Not Linux.

The Linux Foundation already knows that Linux is 'still' not ready for them to use for producing their reports or PDFs such that they keep having to use macOS and not even using open-source alternatives.

This isn't the first time they have done this. [0][1] Whenever they post tweets like this [2] they are becoming more sillier each time they use macOS and sell the 'Linux Desktop'.

[0] https://itsfoss.com/linux-foundation-head-uses-macos/

[1] http://techrights.org/2020/08/30/how-to-make-unneeded-scanda...

[2] https://twitter.com/linuxfoundation/status/90727492786634752...
That's the point! But yes the 5 year timeframe is somewhat arbitrary and may need to be adjusted.
Your insecurity on every thread here. See a non tech person's reaction when you see someone saying they work for Google vs Amazon.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25317810 and marked it off topic.

Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar.
I wish more languages gave us a "|>" operator. Too many languages settle with dot notation, which confuses encapsulation/method calling with syntactical convenience.
I'm unclear, are you trying to say that the above idea is poor?
Google Fires AI Scientist
Some time ago I helped build a software that heavily used some python GIS libraries (GDAL, rasterio, etc) and we needed a UI for some windows users. We chose cefpython[1] to the job, as we could interface easily between the python and JS parts. The development experience is not so polished as of Electron though.

Nonetheless, is a great project and not so difficult to use, although not perfect, it worked perfectly for our needs.

[1] https://github.com/cztomczak/cefpython
You can Write with your eyes.
Try GazeBoard :https://gazerecorder.com/gazeboard/
Eye Tracking and text entry using only an ordinary webcam.
Apple will be releasing miniled displays next year, which should be pretty close to oled in terms of contrast, but without the screen burn issues
Some thoughts:

1. Francis Schaeffer said that the problem of modern man is basically epistemological. (Epistemology is what we know, and how we know, and how we know we know.) You can see this showing up in things like "post truth" politics, the replication crisis in science, and the problem of determining what's going on from news reports that are biased in various directions. In whatever route you take, it might be worthwhile to make sure that you get at least some epistemology in your studying.

2. It sounds like you're interested in a rather pragmatic way, rather than academic. If so, I'm not sure groveling through the original authors is the optimal way to do what you want. Explorers take dead ends. Those dead ends are interesting, in an academic way, but not so interesting to a pragmatist.

3. If you're not going to read the original authors (all of them), then you're going to be relying on some kind of a guide (or more than one). Choose carefully, because who you choose will shape your journey, and probably your conclusions. Maybe more than one guide, from more than one perspective, would be useful.

4. Personally, I really like Francis Schaeffer. I'd recommend Escape From Reason and He Is There And He Is Not Silent as very short overviews of much of philosophy. But you're going to have to do some work, because in a short book, he does not answer every objection or fill in every blank. You are left the exercise of applying his ideas to your questions.

Schaeffer is a Christian, and his philosophy is explicitly Christian. If that turns you off... then it does.
> an environment in which extremism thrives.

True. But what if other, more virtuous things thrive more ?
I'm pretty happy that they didn't, because silently replacing one operation with a similar operation that inevitably has different bugs and different ways of handling edge cases would be pretty frustrating. Letting both live side-by-side as people transition would be my preference.
> Everyone knows what happening, and they're all in on it.

The thing with Hertz' stock going crazy even though they declared bankruptcy was insane... people were buying the stock because they're betting there'll be another idiot wanting to buy the stocks off them for a higher price. Which is the entire principle of crypto, IMO.
So taking an investment risk so that a startup can grow is to be looked on with scorn? You might be posting in the wrong community.
Less Wrong is an interesting yet incredibly frustrating phenomena. It's fascinating mix of semi-solid speculation, dubious speculative and pernicious right-wing/"evolutionary" arguments (IE, shades from sold game theory to incel-thinking and such). I like to survey it sometimes but I also actually would like it to die since some of the more interesting thinkers/tendency might do better pulling out of it's particular (and very toxic imo) "rationality" framework.
You broke the site guidelines terribly in this thread. Please don't do religious flamewar on HN again.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25319171.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25317810.
ReleaseEye
> suddenly less nicotine in cigarettes

I remember thinking in the early 80's that they should just cut the amount of nicotine in cigarettes by 3-5% per year. That was 35 years ago. Nicotine content would be down ~70% by now.
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#compari...

It's a surprise to me that like "==" or "<", the "is" comparison operator can be chained. TIL. The author is a bit hyperbolic though.
Yes, I had, but the only thing I had to do is log out and log in again. Cumbersome, but not a deal breaker. And, as they said, it's already fixed. It's nice to self host because I have access to all the premium features. I have a family group in bitwarden where I share specific credentials (including OTP keys) with my family.