skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Has anyone here an idea where this notion of a "steady march of progress in human history" is coming from?

IMHO, it's the base assumption of modern society (e.g. "new" implies "improved"; instead of recommitting to old ideas, we say we need new ones).

It's not true, but it kinda looks true if you only consider recent history with a little cherry-picking.
I use most of my CS skills almost daily.

I may not be writing compilers professionally, but on the surface, understanding parsing has gotten me out of more than a few tight corners.
More abstractly, there are lessens to be learned in designing large applications; and appreciating the difference between a finite state machine and a deterministic turing machine, including the types of problems they can solve and how much of a pain in the ass one is to write compared to the other.
anyone else not able to see sufficient details the tiny screenshots? What was the difference?
> don't forget that we have already built and are living in a prosperous civilization

I don't think thats true for the west. The only impressive progress we have made for the last 50 years was in computer hardware and software. Sure, we are somewhat comfortable, we got a bit better at producing things, but if compare that with 1850-1950? Its not even a competition.
Why the world's flight paths are such a messs (2018)
> his should allow you to develop a nice little statically link executable instead of deploying a jar if needed.

To save me the clone/compilation time, any approximate numbers of how small the binary is for a SWT app?
Preview seems like a good example of something that's worth open sourcing. Not only will people end up doing work for you, you get eyes on the code and more direct issue tracking.

Consumers get a product and they still have to go on Mac to use it.
Yes, the author says it's "the result after modifying (removed a blank page) and saving that same PDF in Preview." So it's not enough to just view the file in Preview.app I take it, but you need to save it out (which still shouldn't strip anything extra, obviously, but is not what I thought was being claimed).
Ignoring the context here, which I agree is polarizing...

I think we do want politicians to politically benefit from anti-corruption efforts (i.e. doing their job). It gives them a selfish reason to do positive things, which seems like the most important mechanism for representative democracy to work at all.
Most should, or at least have it on the roadmap. There are many Git repositories, off GitHub, that are only accessible with SSH authentication.
Trump's Twitter account was hacked, but ethical hacker faces no charges
You can actually appeal things when you start paying.
Sweden was not going for maximal herd immunity - they still have had various restrictions, just to a lesser extent than other nations. Their strategy was more to focus on what seemed like it would be materially beneficial, rather than just marginally beneficial.

Why do you think their strategy failed? I see this take all the time from those who are pro-lockdowns/mandates, and I also know that Sweden are themselves revisiting their restrictions and tuning them to be more strict. But ultimately an opinion about whether these policies are good or not is about one's personal values. This is more about what tradeoffs we are willing to make - which risks and outcomes are you going to accept in return for the benefits? For me, given the overall infection fatality rate is very low still (~0.68%), I am OK with those scared of the virus staying home and self-isolating as strictly as they want, while others go about their lives to whatever extent they choose. After all, life always contains risks.

I also want to add that there's a lot Sweden got right (https://fee.org/articles/5-charts-that-show-sweden-s-strateg...). Sweden also had a big spike of fatalities early on from nursing homes, and as I recall nursing homes alone account for more than half of Sweden's deaths. Without that blunder, they would be looking much better in terms of COVID-caused deaths. But even those early incidents, have to be taken in terms of the number of quality life years lost rather than just the number of deaths. After all, a person dying of COVID in their 70s is not as tragic as someone young dying. This is the same consideration we take on in assessing medical interventions more generally, and it would be irrational not to consider that here.
Sort of. It's advertised as legal with the gasoline engine. I take it "then, when you want to have some fun" means "when the Police aren't around."

> The idea is that you drive around legally on the gasoline engine then, when you want to have some fun, spin up the jet and get on the burner (you can start the jet while driving along on the gasoline engine).
I understand it does not: the issue occurs when the user removes another (blank) page, then saves the file.
I haven't tried Quest 2 specifically but had similar issues with Rift and HTC Vive (we had them at work). I have different prescription for right and left eye and was seeing blurry no matter how I adjusted the lenses, to the point of losing stereoscopic vision rendering the headset pretty much useless.
>Most states are run on a deficit and several states are already near bankruptcy.

The first isn't true at all. Most US States are forbidden to run deficits[0].

Which is why many states are already cutting services and laying off workers.

What's more, there are significant restrictions in most states on when and how they can raise money by issuing debt obligations (bonds).

With sales and income tax revenues plummeting in many states, that leaves them with few options other than cutting services, laying off workers and slashing public programs.

Without Federal assistance, things are going to get much worse before they get better.

[0] https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-are-state...
I didn’t say you can’t use it on a desktop, just that it’s not really what it’s meant for. The issues outlined above, like sleep, Bluetooth, etc. aren’t the main things focused on.
can window decorations be turned off?
No no, I use sandpaper. So much cheaper than other exfoliating washes.

But yes, I did mean to imply two different companies.
> We aren't even close to a point where someone can just pretend a container is a magical box that just works.

I challenge this assertion. While it is of course true that there are situations that require a deeper knowledge of Docker, this is also not universally true.

Many projects these days have a Getting Started doc that has some options like:

- Build from source

- Install this package

- Use Docker

I often choose the Docker option because I know I'll (most likely) get a working version of the project in 5 minutes with minimal effort. I might not even fully understand the project yet or its architecture (much less that of Docker), but I can get it up and running with `docker pull` and `docker run`.

In many cases, I'll never need to know anything more.

I've personally spent more time using docker to build my own stuff, so I've had to learn more. But for many folks, it absolutely is a magical box that just works, and that's perfectly ok.

I agree that all abstractions tend to eventually leak. But depending on why you're using Docker, you may never have a reason to encounter that leakage.
I don't get this. If there are many servers, sure. But if it's something that runs on a single box without problem, why on earth should I tear it down?

Also, "running a server for ten years" does not need to mean that it has ten years of uptime. I think that wasn't meant.
Not at all, you know why? Because everyone talks about BTC relative to some other currency.

The very topic of this post "Bitcoin breaks above $20k or $20,000 USD / BTC". How can something that can only be quoted in terms of another currency be inflation resistant?
Is there any other city where techies descended upon whom also largely revile selected tech billionaires and thus represent a voting block elected leaders would pander to?
The same thing is happening to macOS. Big Sur is sealing the deal with a mishmash of iOS styles inconsistently applied across the desktop.

I was always a huge believer in native UI, following the platform HIG, never reinventing controls just to satisfy graphic design caprices; but Apple has essentially given up on these things.

The Mac UI is now just Windows 10 with rounded corners instead of sharp.
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The difference to look for is between the top half on the right vs the bottom half on the right. The text has been scrambled into random symbols.

Here's a direct link to the 2,240x939 image: https://annoying.technology/media/previeweatingpdfs.png
If by people you mean academic and institutional voices in power, then I fully agree. I'm only repeating my comment above for effect, here: the WHO and CDC said that masks were not recommended for the general public, and did more harm than good, and this only changed in June.

So from here, the issue is that common sense was shot down in favor of credentialism. I wore a mask starting in March because it was common sense, and I was given scientific arguments for not wearing them. Because, science. That I observed medical professionals wearing them, and east Asian citizens doing this for decades already, was irrelevant in the face of credentialed spokespeople from large organizations arguing that up was down and down was up.

So then the idea that people are children and should be treated as such becomes very elitist if taken like this.
>Consumers get a product and they still have to go on Mac to use it.

There will be ports to windows and linux in under a month.
Being from Eastern Europe I can assure you, people lose all their learned helplessness surrounding technical stuff and become proficient torrent users if that's what separates them from their favorite movies and TV series and music.

People are "computer illiterate" when they dont care, are lazy or think they can make someone else do the work instead of them.
> I think it might be because I don’t want to be standing and moving around when playing a game and if you’re not doing that, the motion is kind of unpleasant.

Project Cars 2 and DCS make it worth the headset alone - throw in Elite Dangerous and No Man Sky and I have enough VR entertainment to keep me busy for the foreseeable.
> Mozilla doesn't have a real sustainable business model right now.

This is the meat of my problem with Firefox as it stands. I've not stopped using Firefox since the mid 2000's but come on, you need something more than just checks from Google. Charge me for a commercial version of FireFox that includes a VPN subscription and funds its development. Just do it ten years ago.

Honestly, if they're not going to embrace Rust and Servo becomes completely usable I may just jump ship eventually. My hope for Servo is that it becomes 100% Rust as much as sustainably possible (I understand for codecs and some things recreating them in Rust might be overkill when there's standardized libraries just use them), even the JS engine.
The block reward dominates by far. Transaction fees are paid directly by users. They will not pay more than the actual value they derive from the use of the network.
I've loved Firefox for years. There's also been a bug that I've never been able to track down: clicking on dropdowns doesn't "stick" and it take multiple tries to select something. Today I finally cracked. I just can't have that irritation in my life any more. So Brave it is. #myfirefoxstory
It doesn't take much effort to verify these claims.

But it's not worth my time digging it up for you.

If you don't want to believe it, then don't. Doesn't make a difference to me.
Other than being unavailable outside the US, I'm pretty sure everyone who ordered one received it. Apple also donated at least a few of them to OSS projects.
So is there an active Preview corruption example that doesn't involve ABBYY? I've used FineReader before for a commercial effort, I do remember it being very finicky.
For sure this is his play. My early take is that the VR/AR social experience is absolutely the killer app and will beat the pants off phone, chat, social feeds and video calls. It will be so good that it will be the default way to commutate at a distance, making it a huge threat to Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and Messenger. I think the fufilment of that promise is still probably more than a decade out.
I'm not sure what you mean waste of time. If they weighed the cost of doing a port versus the cost of staying on GTK1 or GTK2 and backporting things, and they chose the port, it seems like according to them that would be the least time-wasting option.

I get what you're saying, but asking "why doesn't my old API get new features" is a different thing than asking for backwards compatibility because that entails actually modifying the old applications to support new API features, not just maintaining compatibility with them. If someone really wants to step up and backport features to GTK2, that's always possible, you don't need to wait for the GTK4 developers to figure it out.
When I tried it, it wasn't that good. The screens on the Q2 felt like a resolution of something between 720 and 1080p, which isn't that good compared to my dual 4k monitors. Same with a 8k & 6k 180 & 360 video.

Overall VR feels like it needs a 4x resolution bump. Basically a 16k 360 video rendering and 4k x 4k per eye vs the 1832x1920 per eye that the current q2 has. To do that well you probably need something like a two 3080 GPUs, one for each eye.

Even after that, maybe even an 8k x 8k would give a big improvement. We don't have GPUs that can render that today.

Foveated rendering is definitely needed for this to become possible.
Several Pacific Northwest US salmon species are on the brink of extinction. Tire pollution is one of several independent attacks on them. When they're gone, we won't quarrel over which really did them in.
There is a more detailed image link in the doc.
Devil's advocate: why should I choose this yet-to-exist distribution over something already existing, such as Oracle Linux?

The most common argument (Oracle is evil and litigious. Therefore, using Oracle Linux will result in me being sued) honestly seems like FUD.

All RHEL downstream distributions rebuild the same SRPMs that RHEL provides. Doing a quick comparison over some common packages (kernel, httpd, openssl, etc.) between CentOS 8.3 (https://vault.centos.org/8.3.2011/BaseOS/Source/SPackages/) Oracle Linux 8.3 (https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL8/baseos/latest/x8...) shows that they are indeed byte identical (with the exception of certain spec files including debranding patches).

What is the value of having a separate RHEL derivative? It isn't as if the "community" can propose/submit any changes, since any changes will cease to make the downstream distribution a "bug for bug" compatible RHEL derivative. If I actually wanted to participate in the larger RHEL-derivative community, I would need to actually submit my changes to the CentOS stream project.
It's pre-populated with your Substack newsletters, but it works with any RSS feed.
The flip side is that specialty services and shops are more likely to be available. This includes medical services. One may have to drive for a day or use airlines to reach the equivalent leaving from an isolated area.
Here is comparison between Sweden and Norway.
'The observed temporary excess mortality likely arises because people in vulnerable groups die weeks or months earlier than they would otherwise, due to the timing and severity of the unusual external event.'
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.11.20229708v...
> In the lower half is the result after modifying (removed a blank page) and saving that same PDF in Preview.

I don't think this means Preview changes the files just by opening them.
> I think there are probably some narrow applications where it’s clearly better than not having it, but I’m skeptical of VR as a platform.

Fitness. It is much easier to grind in a VR game for an hour than it is to grind on a treadmill for the same amount of time.

I have a Quest, the games suck, but the fitness experience is paradigm changing. Beat Saber was and still is the Quest's killer app, but there are lot of similar games that keep the experience somewhat fresh (not to mention new beat saber music packs, I also use FitXR more than Beat Saber).

I bought my Quest back in May 2019, it died around June 2020, but I was already using it a couple of hours a day by then so had to get a new one from a scalper (during the Pandemic, Quest units were hard to get). I really don't want to go back to life without it.
At Google & Co. you might need this stuff, but 99.9% of the other engineers at Google & Co. don't. Source: me, as I work at "& Co.", who employs numerous ex-Google staff, and have friends in other "& Co."s, etc.

What Google & Co.'s engineers do is gatekeep. Sometimes it's out of ignorance, sometimes out of inappropriate generalization of their roles to others, and sometimes out of a deep angst caused by working in roles that effectively make almost all their CS-specific trivia next to useless in practice.
It doesn’t really. Firstly, that’s not what they are mad about, since that hasn’t actually happened to them. They are mad that the pdf’s their scanner produces don’t work properly.

And secondly, that hypothetical could well be using broken software too. We really don’t know how bad the PDF’s ABBY produces are, but as someone who owned this scanner and the software, it’s fairly obvious that the software is barely maintained.

It really isn’t Apple’s fault if someone else is producing bad files that they happened to previously tolerate, especially if that somebody isn’t maintaining their software.
Raindrop is the best bookmark extension/app I've ever used.

Since the desktop app has a reader view, it's great both for organizing things for classical bookmarking, and for maintaining a "live" set of things you need have at hand, such as documentation. It's very good for "read it later" use cases, too.

Pocket is a very good offline reader for having a queue of web articles (and only that; it does not do handle things like PDFs well) to read later, but not good for anything else.
In some contexts rocky is synonymous with unstable or unreliable, so I assume that's the issue some people have.
Sounds like you are - what would you have us do? Fly out and solve it for you? What is the point of this as a reply, if you want to spread awareness of your situation then make a thread.
Thanks, quite right. (I realized same too late to edit my comment.)

FWIW I liked "Zeit" better than "Vercel" (shrug). But preferences aside, I was annoyed that the new redirects for "now.sh" URLs were -- uncharacteristically for a team famous for attention to detail -- mishandled, e.g. breaking a fantastic preso I'd bookmarked (which grauch used in his React Conf 2017 talks) and which I had cause to reference today in promoting NextJS with a client. It's the only real "footgun" move I've seen them make. Here's hoping it's an anomaly!
Ardour (0) continues to use GTK2 as a cross-platform GUI toolkit for Linux, Windows, macOS (as well as Solaris/netBSD/FreeBSD). There are a few tricky issues on macOS and Windows, but when I've spoken to people with large cross-platform code bases built on Qt, it seems no better or worse than the case there.

We would like to move away from all desktop toolkits in theory (GTK and Qt as the prime examples) because they really don't offer us a lot. Unfortunately, they do offer:

1. Treeviews
2. File Selector
3. Text Entry
4. Menus

and we have no wish to reimplement these (TreeViews in GTK involve basically the entire toolkit). We slowly move towards a future vision based just on GDK (the lowest levels of GTK) but I doubt we will ever fully be able to drop the higher levels entirely.

(0) https://ardour.org/
Or use YouTube Vanced.
I assume it’s more like “Microsoft will try to keep their Chromium-derivative’s codebase from diverging too much from upstream so they don’t have to maintain it after Chrome removes the old one”, and I also totally understand that desire.
Shameless plug, I've been working on a community air quality monitor for my little community https://millerbeach.community

I live a few miles from steel mills, oil refineries, who take advantage of Lake Michigan, constantly polluting both air and water, occasionally dumping/"releasing" more toxic chemicals than permitted and don't raise the alarm for a few days: https://www.in.gov/idem/cleanwater/2576.htm, killing thousands of fish, closing water intake, parts of the National Park, etc. etc.

I've lived in Gary, IN since 2016, moving from the UK. A few weeks ago, a young lad from Gary died of a really rare cancer: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/us/ben-watkins-masterchef/ind...

Last week, my 3 month old daughter got diagnosed with really rare genetic disorder called Kabuki Syndrome, on top of heart disease.

Who knows if either is/was caused by living so close to steel mills and/or pollution, but I'm skeptical. Did I cause/impact/increase/etc my daughter's condition by choosing to live next to a steel mill? I just have to accept that I'll never know the answer to that question.
* Three years ago.
I remember reading that by following hyperlinks in Wikipedia articles, all Wikipedia pages can be indirectly linked back to the page for "Psychology".
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The main resource issue is because Docker runs in a VM, it can't share memory with the OS. So it's using the configured amount of memory (2GB by default) whether you're running busybox or an entire Kubernetes cluster.
The "don't touch it if it's not broken" philosophy is fundamentally at odds with an internet-connected machine.

You either need to upgrade or unplug (from the internet).

There are still places out there that are running WindowsNT or DOS even. Because they have applications which simply won't run anywhere else or need to talk to ancient hardware that runs over a parallel port or some weird crap like that. These machines will literally run forever, but you wouldn't connect it to the internet. Your hypothetical cave device would be the same.

Upgrading your OS always carries risk. Whether it's a single yum command or copying your entire app to a new OS.

Besides, if you're on CentOS 8 then wouldn't you also be looking at Docker or something? Isn't this a solved problem?
Recycling of plastics was always broken. Plastic cannot be recycled economically, so it does not happen.

If you think that buying plastics because they can get recycled, you are wrong.
If they were available for purchase to non-developers, how would that be early availability? That would just be a release.
Show HN: Segment for Payment
While it’s hard not to love Stripe and its operational excellence, they're often not the sole payment processor a (big) company uses. Companies with scale tend to integrate with a handful of payment processors, gateways, and banks to manage payment inflows and outflows through a distributed architecture. On top of integrating across many payment systems, companies need to manage cross-border conversions, payment failures, transaction immutability, and many other issues.

We are building a cloud-native service serving as the undergirding infrastructure for payments.

If you are handling payment for a company using multiple processors / gateways and you are facing problems, ping me at maxime.manseau (at) hotmail dot com

Would love to have a chat with you and show you what we ve built so far.
Nobody said anything about 'quick and easy'.

I lived close to the westway and used to cycle a lot in London, I'm pretty aware of denser urban arteries, but walls are not completely covered in soot from diesel vehicles, which are now much cleaner than ever before.

There is a tremendous amount of dirt and debris from tires and road degradation around high traffic areas, you are probably confusing soot with dirt.

Better road maintenance, recycling tires to incorporate into road surfaces would help enormously especially with heavier vehicles like EV's, SUVs and trucks.