skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article fails to mention that although ABS certainly isn't uncommon, PLA is far more popular for 3D printing and is much less toxic.
For what it’s worth to anyone who finds themselves reading this for whatever reason; the author of the above comment changed their original post from a snarky “have you?” To its current form after my reply.

In my opinion that is not the behavior of someone who is trying to have a good faith discussion.
There's a big difference between someone like Myhrvold and Musk. Both made their fortunes by being great business leaders who were able to take big risks, rely on the expertise of others, and probably use cult-of-personality tactics. Both probably have big personality redflags.

But Myhrvold used his initial fortune to co-found a patent troll corporation.

Musk used his initial fortune to accelerate the adoption of sustainable human transport, solar power, battery storage, and space exploration.

Does it not seem obvious why some would be willing to accept Musk's faults? Would you rather have Satan help move us 10-20 years closer to saving the earth or tell Satan to fuck off cause he's a dick and let the earth be closer to death?
Or just throwing the gameplay up on a monitor (either with cables or via chromecast)
> The completely arbitrary and almost random lock-down decisions have crushed all small business, giving over their entire customer bases to large big box stores.

The response here in Washington State has resulted in permanent closure of more businesses than deaths with covid within the state.
If I've learned anything from cloud services, it's that product names mean nothing.
I agree, you can't beat the real thing. I think we will probably have both though, going forward. Online classes will be a lot more popular even if the lockdown ends, and teachers will live stream by default.

And kids interacting in a virtual school would be a nice addition to a real school too.
> Then I said to myself "this is not the future", and haven't touched VR since.

Yeah, nothing has changed in social VR in 25 years.

/s.

There are multiplayer async party games that can be played with 10 people (I've done this a lot!). There is online multiplayer. Dismissing VR because you played descent on a 3dof box 25 yrs ago is kind of lame.

> There is no amount of technology that can get over this problem. It's not about FOV or resolution or immersion

This is frustratingly dismissive and easily disproven. Look at Acron: Attack of the Squirrels! Look at Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes!
Tech Preview of Docker Desktop for M1
UK politicians call for the resale of goods bought by “bots” to be illegal
Can someone explain what this actually means?

The developers added that since there are (almost) no “undo” buttons in the world of crypto, the user’s LINK tokens are now stuck in a non-upgradeable—and thus immutable—GHST staking contract forever.

What is a GHST staking contract, and why can't the other party in the contract simply refund the tokens in a second transaction?
You are missing my point, which is, there's no material reason to 'use energy' to 'create currency' of any kind.

It's just a peculiarity of bitcoin and the way some cryptos are generated.

There is no theoretical generalization to the notion of energy->currency so the OPs premise of energy->value doesn't make any practical sense ... other than for BTC.
Imagine if Facebook gave 10% to their users, lowering their profit margin to 20%.

Let's say every user gets 10% of the average, or $20/year. As you say, not a big priority. But some people would sign up, who otherwise would not. And some people would keep their accounts, who otherwise would not. Win for Facebook? Hard to say.

Now, what if Facebook gave each person 10% of what they personally brought in? That wouldn't take much more tracking than what they already do. But in this case, you'd have a lot of people maximizing their time on Facebook in order to increase their payout. Win for them, bigger win for Facebook. Heck, Facebook could even get rid of all their stupid dark patterns, and stop the endless research into more dark patterns, improving their bottom line even more. No need to trick people into engaging if they are voluntarily engaging for a small sum.
Just suggesting the aboriginal people of wherever have made a mistake gets downvoted to oblivion.
Every ccTLD is assigned based on the nation's ISO 3166-1 country code. Why should the citizens of Niue be forced to use a nonstandard ccTLD?
As they should. That weight sensor is not intended to make it safe to put a car seat in the front of a car.
> Obviously you have to be comfortable with facebook

Interestingly enough this is the primary reason that my quest is collecting dust. Once they forced a facebook login for accounts I decided it was no longer worth me clearing an open space in my apartment.
The scale is enormous but so is the scale of actions we did take. Billions of dollars in aid to individuals and aid/loans to businesses. Government funding for operation warpspeed to develop vaccines. High unemployment and a reduced economy for months as the pandemic continued.
That is a false statement. For one thing, gold is not a productive asset; for another a house is not spectacular investment.
The name sounds perfectly fine to me.
> Unless you have an personal or professional interest in fringe operating systems posix compliance

I mostly hit things like these with alpine containers and openwrt. OpenWRT I guess could be considered "fringe operating system", but alpine (at least for containers) seems reasonably mainstream?
Zuck was clearly jelly of Benioff and Conway having UCSF buildings named after them.
Resources, articles, libraries about SwiftUI
nobody wants to listen to your pseudo-scientific flat-earth covid conspiracy theories; also - partisan politics like covid-19 are not welcome on HN

take them to reddit
> These coding challenges used to be a very good measure of ability

I'm skeptical. The stereotypical interview question involves reciting algorithms from memory, where the thing you actually want to know of a software engineer is do they appreciate how things fit together to meet the constraints of the project.

> The problem is that I haven't seen any good alternatives.

Something we've done before (and had good success with in hiring good candidates) has been to pose a real problem we're dealing with now or have recently solved (so the solution and problems are fresh in the reviewers' mind) and ask the candidate for their solution at a high level. Not whiteboard coding, though. Something like if I tell you we're trying to filter out strings that contain creatively obfuscated obscenities, what should we do in order to maximize true positives while minimizing false negatives (and as the candidate offers solutions, provide sample strings that would fail their solution and see how they adapt)?
> Waterfox Classic is continuing to support the long-standing XUL and XPCOM add-on capability that Firefox removed in version 57.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfox
I think it's safe to say there is a large portion of the population that will continue not eating indoors until they are vaccinated, or the infection numbers in their area go down significantly. I can't find articles to back it up, but I have read from restaurant owners saying that even when they were allowed to expand their indoor capacity, they were never hitting that limit.

With that said, this is going to vary by region. There is absolutely a large percentage of people wanting and willing to go eat indoors at restaurants right now, I just don't think that number represents a majority.
> The parent commenter said that plastic bags were banned, not that they were taxed.

I said free plastic bags are banned. So they are 'taxed' by the store instead.
We already manufacture and distribute paper products on an immense scale even without it being a national (or global) emergency.

Again, according to that TWiV episode, making the tests is not much more complicated than just printing some antibodies on pieces of paper.

It could definitely be done, we just need the will to do it.

A Manhattan Project for testing could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and probably trillions of dollars.
I already do this with Feedbin and Reeder on macOS.
Like Snowflake?
+1 what Jonathan said. Typically, when email service providers are down the response code indicates a temporary issue with a soft bounce code, so you can still try to send to that address in the future.

The action for rectifying isn't too difficult, but the implications are still pretty big...
Great, another Linux distro... I am trying to use something, but I just can't.

Spending my time fixing problems instead of doing actual work is fun, for a while.

Every damn time I start this one laptop with Linux, trying to get away from Windows 10, there's something to fix.

Oh, the undervolt is not being applied, time to build the whole thing again.

Oh, restart causes it to wank the hard drive indefinitely for some reason.

Oh, shutdown is still not working, glad I got a power button.

Nouveau glitches.

Bluetooth has disconnected and just refuses to work again.

Audio recording is not working again.

Video encoding is not working again.

Video playback is not working again...

And it runs so well in a virtual machine.

Why can't people just band together and create one good Linux distro for the desktop. Rhetorical question, I guess.
I've also seen a mini-cooper on youtube with a jet in the back doing the same thing on the highway :)
This is a lot of fun when you have a big dog that likes to ride in the front seat, or even if you just put a bunch of groceries in the passenger seat, since it also makes the seatbelt alarm go off.
It looks just as unwise as it sounds :)

https://www.leithcars.com/blogs/1421/wp-content/uploads/2016...
"Thinking back to early CentOS days... My cofounder was Rocky McGaugh. He is no longer with us, so as a H/T to him, who never got to see the success that CentOS came to be, I introduce to you...Rocky Linux"

— Gregory Kurtzer, Founder of Rocky Linux and Co-founder of CentOS

It's written in Repo's README
If you're using Cpanel, you have no choice but to use Redhat, CentOS or Fedora.
I can't understand how Mozilla failed to execute on Firefox OS.

From where I am at it was a massive opportunity for Mozilla and Web developers all round the world. They didn't have to take on Android and iOS directly, but may have gotten there eventually thru 'worse is better'.

Imagine a web developer learning just a few APIs and being being able to customize their web app for smart TVs
Because unlike other TLDs, the two-letter root domains are well-defined as ccTLDs way back in 1990 defining it as "following ISO 3166" two-letter code, and ISO has assigned Niue as NU. The only exception now is .UK and .SU (United Kingdom is technically GB but before ICANN it was assigned both UK and GB and Soviet Union is gone but it has became de facto ccTLD for CIS).
> what more have the "lockdowns" in the US been than "masks and social distancing"?

Destruction of the service industries? Educational handicaps on multiple generations of students?

My point is that it's cheap to wear a mask and socially distance yourself while otherwise carrying on with life. It's extremely expensive on society to force everyone to stay home as much as possible and avoid certain businesses. It's expensive because it pushes the country more rapidly into debt, it pushes millions into poverty, it drives up suicide rates, and dozens more second and third order effects we won't find out about until the coming years.
I think the whiteboard advice is for being comfortable in interviews.
In my head, that idea kind of balances with looking like "Central" OS. Something at the center of anything is more likely to be solid.
I wonder if Vivaldi is considering doing the same thing?
Jetbrains is working on this
https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose/
Unfortunately and unavoidably, all browsers won’t be 100% compatible so web devs need to do browser specific fixes. If the browser is sufficiently unpopular, it won’t get specific fixes. If it doesn’t get specific fixes, then it breaks websites and users are forced to try another browser. Eventually customers may just give up on the incompatible browser. Increasing the drop In market share, increasing the likelihood that a website doesn’t get specific fixes... [spiral]
I would say that's definitely a study plan for learning key CS concepts, but not necessarily a plan for becoming a software engineer. Those are two very different things.
I studied atomic physics, graduated in the early 90s. I was extremely fortunate that both of my parents are industrial scientists (now retired), so I had good role models, and working in industry wasn't a foreign idea for me.

I've been in industry for 25+ years, with no regrets. I've told people that there's a good living to be made doing things that other people hate. In my case, I solve hard multidisciplinary problems, usually involving math and sometimes physics. Persuading people to hire me can be tricky, but persuading them to keep me is easy.
Gossamer Albatross – human powered aircraft
I didn't write my own but started hacking[0] on an existing implementation -- you learn quite a bit about the underlying language by tracking down bugs as you implement (or port) features in the interpreter. I was trying to get the parser up to an actual parser for the language (which produces a lot of 'language learning experiences') but got distracted with adding unicode support (which hasn't really taught me anything new about scheme...)

[0] https://github.com/eponymous/yocto-scheme
That "what their techy friend recommended them" does a hell of a lot of work. It pretty much drove Firefox up to 30% market share once, remember.
What are you talking about? The US has old growth forests only in the Northeast and Europe has all but cut down all of its old growth forests except in parts of Poland and maybe Germany. You gotta take responsibility at some point. Just because a generation flips over doesn’t mean the slate has been wiped clean of the faults of your fathers.
Note that this does not generate graphs from "linear history" -- the "linear history" means no merge commits / a single parent [0], and such graphs would be a straight lines. I think the "linear" here refers to the non-nested JSON structure? The better project title would be:

"Generate a git graph structure from a flat list of git commits"

BTW, a more traditional approach to graph generation uses Graphviz graph language (sometimes called "dot file") to visualize commits. It does not look as neat though, but there are more tooling there [1] [2]

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/admin...

[1] https://github.com/rpmiskin/git-graphviz

[2] https://return42.github.io/git2dot/slides/index.html#/3
Well, it's a really accurate name, so at least they're honest.
> Train temporary workers to man the temporary hospitals. Teach them how to know when to defer to a medical professional.

Normal hospitals are already staffed at pretty close to the maximum rate of less qualified to more expert staff for their caseload, and the easy caseload that requires less expert share of time is pushed out of hospitals entirely by the crisis. Surging additional minimally trained staff doesn't help anything.
> Honestly I don't see how this argument pops up in every single discussion on plastic bag reduction every time...

Well, it wasn't an argument about plastic bag reduction. It was an example in an argument about omissions in reporting about plastic reduction efforts. The example is clearly valid, even if you consider other metrics to be more important in the example. It probably didn't help that I initially put "environmentally friendly" in there mindlessly.

I also clearly stated my opinion about the solution to this, which doesn't involve lifting the ban.
LOL in the hours since this was posted, the Abbott test got an EUA for at-home use in the US:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/abbotts-binaxnow-co...
thats true, but for most headsets, resolution still isn't high enough to read bodies of text without eye fatigue. until that is solved, I don't think VR will move from entertainment to productivity.

Varjo is getting closer to that resolution level, but their headsets are priced for enterprise ($8k i think?)
True, the decade argument isn't fool proof. For non mathematically provable problems (is X a scam? as opposed to 1+1==2?), I find it easier to reason on the basis of ML like features with their respective weights. The longevity of sustained BTC valuation is just one feature here, not sufficient on its own.
It’s funny how you can substitute many research fields instead of “astrophysics”.

Well, did I say “funny”? I meant “utterly depressing”. I’m in because I don’t think I would like any other job better, but I have a lot of sympathy for people who flee this broken system.
gRPC Kotlin 1.0 for Android and Cloud
Having been in security for 15-20 years or so, I can relate to other comments on the thread. The result is niche, impractical, templated, and, paper mill or no, does not advance the field in my mind. I wonder if the author learned anything new about security in the process, but that seems doubtful. What is really cool, though, is the equivalence of physical phenomena in the eyes of security. If a defender were to block certain emissions (e.g., acoustic), all that an adversary needs to build is a transducer. What is also cool to be reminded of is that computing machines are built around physical processes and that their abstractions can be thus stripped. This is hardly new knowledge, it is only new to the uninitiated.
I thought it was going to be .ws
> So I think it really does matter whether it runs in an emulator or not.

If you were to write a SNES emulator that only emulated the console itself, it would not be able to run the many SNES games that use addon chips. SNES emulators include code that emulate the addon chips originally contained in the cartridges[1].

So, I think your test is a false one. Games run in the emulator because the emulator added emulation for the chips in the game. This game cartridge would also run on a SNES emulator if you emulated its chips.

[1] Code to emulate the behavior of the DSP chip in Super Mario Kart (among many others): https://github.com/bsnes-emu/bsnes/tree/master/bsnes/sfc/dsp
Entropy Loss for Reinforcement Learning (2018)
I missed the link to the TWiV episode. do you have it?
Yes, and even if the room is large there are tables and break-y things that invariably interact with shins, swinging controllers and your ability to just fully immerse.

I stopped playing VR mostly because I was tired of re-arranging furniture and re-calibrating the Index when I did so.

I guess if you live in a house and have a basement or 'rec room' with no furniture, it's less of a hassle to play ping pong or Beat Sabre in VR. Otherwise it's VR Poker with its random social toxicity where I can sit on the couch and interact with people if I find a table without kids or mean people in it.
One issue people don't necessarily know about is many restaurants and similar businesses still had to pay their full tax and regulatory fees; the most common being able to sell alcohol. So when your local government tells you cannot operate or must operated severely restricted there should be some adjustment of the fees and taxes paid by affected businesses.
Is it related to org mode? Or does org mode support non-text information too?
Sorry, the idea is that this guy made a repo for how he wanted to study to get hired at google, and now it seems that a lot of people are contributing. I removed the google part from the title as i see now that it might have been misleading.
They break backwards compatibility because there's not really much reason for them not to. The new releases have a lot of refactoring and redesigns that would break things anyway. The old ways are considered deprecated and keeping them around forever complicates the code and has about the same cost as backporting things to an old version.

If it's too much work for application developers, the can keep on an old version of the library or maintain a shim. (There are still a lot of GTK2 applications out there, although distros seem to be removing them because nobody is interested in maintaining a shim or backporting things)
Also extremely high dependence on oil. They are also not as socialist as people imagine. I think it was Sweden that implemented a bunch of socialist laws in the 70s, their econ tanked and they back peddled on a lot of it. The myth they're still as socialist remains today. Check out Norway's expenditure on welfare programs. It's like 136m euro or something like that per year. I researched this a year or two ago. Then check out how much their state oil brings in. I want you to do it so you can see for yourself how much "norway hates fossil fuels and capitalism". Because without the free market on oil, there would be zero Norwegian welfare system.

Yes, Americans call the Scandinavians socialists, the same way dry rub BBQ pit masters call BBQ sauces the devil's abomination to food. It's either anachronistic hyperbole or just plain hyperbolic. Steps toward socialism sure, but we're not talking about comrade level stuff.
As someone who's named Rocky, reading this thread is amusing. Every comment feels personal.
Corrupt Bolsonaro government? Probably you are mixing up with Lula?
Because of hardware manufacturers, closed/proprietary firmwares, Microsoft standards...
I removed that part as i saw it's misleading
This… is not the place to rant about Linux? Desktop compatibility is not the goal of CentOS style distros.
This is the only good argument. The US and Europe have destroyed all their old growth for progress and only Norway seems to be doing the right thing to right the sins of their fathers. Brazil is finally in the wrong for not taking this offer.
An average customer at Amazon apparently buys $600 worth of goods from them in a year so if they got 20 packages then yes this would be a 10% increase. However I for example probably get 2 packages from them a month and a $6 monthly increase hardly seems important, if I leave a light on in my house for too long the increase in my electricity bill probably eclipses that. Depends on point of view I guess.
Google and Qualcomm partner to support 4 Android versions
I'm sure that's not legal, but then, neither are more conventional blasts down the highway.
2020 Google Assistant Developer Year in Review
As of today, how many DOH servers are running from IP addresses also used for serving websites. In the testing I have done with publicly advertised DOH servers, generally, the IPs are only used for DoH (sometimes DoT, too). Of course this could change.

The localhost forward proxy I use can distinguish DoH requests from other HTTP requests because the DoH query URL structures used are mostly the same; they follow RFC8484. As of today, it is easy to probe IP addresses for listening DoH servers. The list of "known DoH hosts" is still quite small. Of course this could change.

To be clear, I am defintely not a proponent of applications ignoring user system-wide DNS settings and using DoH to obscure that fact. I have long run localhost root and DNS for myself and have no need for third party DNS, whether ISP or open resolvers.

However, as an end user I see no reason to trust any outgoing HTTPS traffic from applications authored by folks who are agreeable to online advertising as a business model.

The greatest threat I face is online advertising, not DNS lookups associated with malware. With DoH, HTTPS traffic could contain an unwanted DNS request, but prior to DoH it could also contain data to be used for tracking and advertising purposes. I felt the need to start monitoring/MITM'ing the HTTPS traffic on the private networks I control long before anyone proposed DoH. I would guess many corporations and other organisations do the same.