skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most new companies in this space have been using "AI" marketing to pitch a better world of video conferencing and it's been largely a failure. (unless you call getting bought and then shut down by Cisco a win)

But I 100% agree with you that this is a design problem to be solved first with better interfaces and workflows, not AI. Innovation is the sum of behavior change and AI is not going to be doing our knowledge work for us anytime soon. Given we're doin the work, we deserve better tools to do it ourselves.

I'm currently building grain.co that layers a new kind of video conferencing on top of Zoom, focused on brokering the recorded information gathered during sync calls into the async tools where knowledge lives and actual work is done after the convo ends.

Our approach is to make it easy to annotate in real-time, clip out those parts you want to save/share, and then push them into async tools where anyone can view them like it were text in a document or a message in Slack.
I've been using MATE with the arc theme for years now. It feels very modern, and the interface is remarkably refined.
So I'm not a programmer by trade or hobby, I'm a hardware hacking and sysadmin type. I've dabbled with programming over the years just to try to get my feet wet, with "simple"/"easy" languages like Python, Lua, PHP, etc. I never really got into it and never really grasped the fundamentals beyond basic program flow (something I had already learned with Visual Basic in college 20 years ago).

I saw this on HN a couple of hours ago and figured I'd give it a whirl out of boredom and something to do while dinner was in the oven. I've never touched C before, and while I understand its historical significance and the fact that it's a very low-level language, I was always told to never start with C because I'd never understand it.

Now, I'm not claiming that I understand it to the point I can start writing my own programs, but I will say that the way the author presented this tutorial has built a confidence in me that if I keep pushing at it, I can actually learn to code in C over time. I got through the first chapter and I already have a fundamental understanding of how to manipulate characters and input/output on the command line. Thinking back to my dabbling with bash scripts in the past, I now more fully grasp what I was just guessing at with those.

Granted, it helps that I did start with an understanding of variables, conditional statements, and other basic programming building blocks, but I am no longer intimidated by learning C and I am eager to finish this tutorial. If I still have that eagerness once it's over I'm going to continue learning C, as one of my favorite OSes (OpenBSD) is written in it and I'd love to understand more about how it works under the hood.
It was mainly a toy project for me; a bone to chew on if you will. I wanted something which I could mess with easily myself and which was heavily pluggable.

Integrating it with various external peripherals should be easy and it's designed to run completely on its own (i.e. no cloud for a lot of things).
NB re: your comments being flagged.

That's user actions (admin results in "dead"), though HN may be tuned more sensitively, particularly for a highly-active green (new) account. Prior history may be associated. Recent days (and months) have been fraught.

There's a contact email in the FAQ. You can request action, though that doesn't seem overly justified here. Guidelines are also worth aa review.

Discussing voting is strongly discouraged.

Emotion runs high on political threads. It's useful to carefully consider what you write, how much evidence you present, plausible alternatives, and tone.
IME users aren't doing a lot of C
9/11 never happened.
Had we all but vestiges of a free market, these would be valid responses, but we don't.
Without getting into JK Rowling, a site that has the technical means to but willfully ignores transphobia or homophobia certainly is not "cool".
Interesting I cycle in summer, road bike out of the city. Will have to check out Zwift.
That is interesting! I'd always been confused WHY Apple with its focus on audio / video wasn't pushing more here for some better open standards.

The AV1 support is obviously a step though in the right direction.
Rust will not in any case replace C++, in any core application area.

Rust might move in alongside C++, in some, in time. Or, Rust could still very possibly fizzle. That would be the normal course of events for a new language, barring a miracle as was dispensed to Javascript, Java, C++, and vanishingly few others.

Will Dart survive and thrive? Kotlin? Scala? Clojure? Go? All doubtful, based on prior experience. Having a lot of code and a lot of users does not seem to suffice. Many other languages had those, and faded. Ada even had $billions in backing, and faded.

What we can say confidently about Rust's future is that it is not certain to fade. The miracle has come in less deserving cases.
Those companies have been around forever, and have will be around longer than most SV-like companies.
I wonder if Warner actually will read this... Most likely not. Unfortunate because Gab actually cares about handling malicious situations correctly.

If section 230 is upheld, this would protect Gab, but it seems like certain groups just want to shutdown anything that does not conform to their views.
This is like the millionth time this has been posted on this website in the past few days, but the first amendment applies to the government, not private companies.
For simple document or file type storage for an application I think solutions like S3 or azure blob storage are really great. In my real world experience we replaced a highly finicky way too heavyweight COTS CMS and all the associated database and backend SAN complexity with S3 and it ended up being way cheaper, easier and more reliable. To me object storage is one place where the cloud hype does deliver. Have had mixed results with the other services, even with things like RDS you have to do a lot of tuning and backup / DR work yourself.
The first amendment does not exist in a vacuum, it is based on an ideal so prevalent and powerful at the time it was literally the first thing they thought to include.

Supporting freedom of speech is a moral imperative, and if your only defense of companies that suppress free expression is “well, it’s not technically illegal” maybe it’s time to take a long look in the mirror.
Ironically I missed the structure that came from the vow of obedience that felt at times like I gave up all my individual freedom. I learned this gave me focus on the thing at hand, whether it was praying, meditating, cooking or cleaning. I still miss the sheer simplicity of that life.
I don't know anything about Parler's funding and connections in US politics, but the insinuations about the founder's wife are just ridiculous.

Young woman from Russia loving Russian flag is somehow bad and unusual? Her mother being an honored engineer somehow implies something bad? A young woman having instagram handle "cherry on top" means anything at all?

I am Russian and not the biggest fan of Russian regime, but come on!
Not everyone right of Biden is a nazi.
The chart includes top sources by traffic

But traffic is decided by the market. There's nothing wrong with left-leaning media being more popular.
For me, it all just came off when washing it, 6 months or a year after seasoning. The sponge was filled with black flecks. Seems like once you get a defect in the surface, it fails catastrophically. With more traditional seasoning oils, the seasoning gets thinner gradually as it's abraded away.
Not to mention their branding. Great picture.
My point is that while it may suck, it’s not the violation of human rights that some people treat it as. So I understand if someone kicked off YouTube complains about it but I’m not going to entertain the idea they’ve been silenced.
Computers are faster than 20 years ago, and amateurs stated and ran big forums 20 years ago.
And because it's not open source, you have to trust them on all that, right?
Harvest your best ideas with a long-term to-do list
Ah yes, the middle schooler's understanding of free speech, where "political discourse" includes plotting terrorist attacks.
I use two monitors on linux mint with cinnamon. One is a 4k display, and the other a normal display. Display scaling works fine - but once enabled I get a weird bug where I can see a duplicate, frozen mouse cursor on my screen based on where the mouse was in the login prompt. And it hovers on top of all other windows. Somehow the mouse cursor bug is related to the HiDPI scaling options.

I've learned to just use the downstairs toilet. I move the mouse to the bottom right corner of the screen before I log in.
Most legal systems have concepts of being an accomplice, criminal negligence, constructive possession and so on. So it seems reasonable that a website which help crimes be committed or hosts illegal content on its servers should have some liability or requirements on taking reasonable preventive measures. Especially if the website is made aware that such crimes are being committed.
Are there? Was it through Twitter? In all likelihood what you're talking about is some random semi-private forum that's going to fly under the radar anyway. And you have that big, huge number: hundreds, not mere dozens, hundreds! My oh my, that's a scary army right there. How many suicide bombers have the harassment by ISrael of the illegally occupied territories population created?

And with this joke of an army is good enough to kill free speech on the net. That's almost as tragically comical as the floatsam in the Gulf of Tonkin that caused millions of deaths, but it's happening right now.
Tyler, baking is not hard! All you have to do is follow the instructions. Which recipe scorned you? I will help you learn to bake.
You do understand that Gab specifically states that they are taking measures to stop bad actors from using their platform, right?
That’s not true at a large scale, and they have lots of media files in addition to text. One problem to especially consider is how timelines work: a forum generates one view for a much smaller number of users but any service with a follower model has to efficiently distribute updates. This isn’t incredibly hard, of course, but they’re not just spinning up an IRC server here.
I feel like quite a lot of people in the Free Software community somewhat enjoy creating things that seem to deliberately be designed to trip up people who aren't in-the-know. Seems like a terrible way to run an advocacy movement.
You're right and it does. But we do already do that with (other) utilities: the power company can't cut off the supply to the local KKK office as long as they're operating legally and they pay their bills.

This is the price we pay for an open society. Freedom means freedom for morons as well as for us. I wish there were an easier answer, but I wouldn't even trust myself with the power to decide who is allowed to speak and who isn't, so I won't trust Amazon Web Services PR department. So no one gets the job and sometimes that stinks.
Time of check, Time of Use

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-check_to_time-of-use
personal anecdote time:

I was recently playing Hollow Knight on the PS4 console. Mostly it was ok, but some portions of boss battles just felt downright unfair.

My original setup was to route the HDMI from the console to my AV receiver, then to an HDMI splitter (to strip hdcp), then to my 'gaming, very-low-input-lag' projector (rated at somewhere between 5-15ms input lag). It occurred to me that the difficulty may have been due to extra input lag caused by the receiver, so I tried an experiment, changing the connection order with the exact same components.

So this time I went from console, then to HDMI splitter, with its two outputs going to projector (for video) and AV receiver (for audio).

The difference was like night and day. Suddenly those battles that were 'almost unfair' went to 'almost trivially easy'. My best estimates for the amount of input lag the receiver was introducing was around 125-175 ms range. Pretty wild how much of a difference that made.

On a related, but different note - it reminded me of a concept I've purposely tried to implement it similar domains, that is: training with systematic disadvantages. In this case, the extra input lag acted as a systematic disadvantage that forced me to become hyper-responsive in order to stand a chance at succeeding. Additionally, it caused the viable response window to enemy actions to become short enough that specifically telegraphed moves were such that I needed to treat them as almost completely random, and adjust my response accordingly. In other cases, (especially in soulsborne games,) I specifically never invest skill points into raising my health in order to force myself to become better at the combat dynamics, and simply never getting hit, rather than allowing for health as a 'mess up meter'. Which generally allows for 'taking off the training weights' if ever needed,once a suitable level of mastery has been attained.

Does anyone else here have other examples of utilizing purposeful systematic disadvantages in order to improve one's mastery of a thing? Would especially love to hear any examples outside of gaming too, perhaps in career things/tech/etc.
Glad it works for you. It does not for most of us. Including multi-monitor setups or various glitches in rendering. Google Kubuntu Fractional scaling to have a glimpse.

A few examples:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1253744/inconsistent-resolut...

https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=309&t=164736

https://pointieststick.com/category/high-dpi/

Probably there are workarounds, kernel patches, magic scripts that might solve the above, but honestly I don't have time to spend on these. It should just work. I use an OS to get work done, not to fix the OS.
> Gab exists to promote freedom of speech, by which we mean all speech which is protected speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. No more, no less.

I'm a free speech absolutist, but violent speech, "fighting words," insurrectionist speech, etc. are not protected under any free speech doctrine. Free speech isn't some carte blanche that allows anyone to say anything at any time. That's not how it works†. I've argued in favor of free speech here on HN (and got the downvotes to prove it) more times than I can remember.

But this letter by Gab is absolutely disingenuous. Eric Coomer, a Dominion executive, for example, is not a public person. He has received death threats and is currently in a secure location due to credible threats to his family, children, and parents. At this very moment, on Gab TV, we have a live channel discussing his alleged fixing of votes (featuring Lin Wood). I mean, this is a blatant attack on a private person that has been proven to incite violence.

This has nothing to do with free speech, and Gab is an absolute cesspool of delusional QAnon conspiracies, anti-vaxxers, and adjacent movements. They're going to have a hard time monetizing (just as 4chan did).

† See Mill's Harm Principle.
> At the very least, it should mention if the optimization is lossless [...] or lossy

True, the UI is optimized a bit too much :)

By looking very carefully at some test image I see that it is not lossless, there are more compression artifacts. Well, lossless would have been a miracle, it reduced the size of my photo from nearly 600 KB to just a bit over 180 KB.
We still have enough of a free market that Stripe can legally do this.
I mean nothing excuses not having thumbnail previews. That’s just stilly. I just mean the default typing action to be search rather than typing the name of the file.
>Nunes also said the CEOs of the companies should be prosecuted criminally. He also said he has been talking to fellow members of Congress and that they’re exploring their legal options. And he also called on the Supreme Court and federal judges to step in and intervene.

It is really annoying when we have government officials who fundamentally don't understand how our government or its laws work.
> our contemporaries in the Valley forget the social importance of letting off steam and of exposing bad ideas, and bad people, to public scrutiny.

Interesting. Within this screed, Gab laments that other Silicon Valley forces have distanced themselves from it. One could argue that public scrutiny of ideals also involves reactions to those same ideals.

Why is the distancing and refusal to do business with Gab (by individuals or businesses) not seen as valid by Gab? It seems hypocritical.
> Free software development is not a democracy, and does not get driven by polls. Features and bugs are introduced by those who show up, within a community that works towards a shared goal.

And it is exactly to let themselves yell that, they work hard to alienate few normal devs left in the project.

I understood now that Gnome 3.0 was from the start Redhat's fully intentional attempt to appropriate the project, and is not dissimilar to Microsoft's embrace, extend, extinguish.

1. Get command of some more abandoned parts of the project.

2. Push a series of guaranteedly unpopular sharp direction changes which will lead to loss of devs.

3. As devs leave, you get more reinforcement to your casus belli, saying that "nobody maintains this pile of garbage, so now I am taking it over too"

4. Rinse, and repeat.
Many people would have said the same about Apple vs Nokia when the first iPhone came out.
Yeah, then this doesn't apply to them, they are funded by something. Just that you don't have to be to have a few million active users.
Non-integer scaling has been working fine for me for a few years now. I use Fedora + KDE, 175% on my 24" 4K monitor and 225% on 4K 15.6" laptop.

I just had to manually increase the mouse cursor size, and in Firefox change layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to the scaling factor.
Until Hacker News deletes this account they will be promoting the following:

- 9/11 never happened.
- Jews were responsible for the propagation of Communism.
- New Testament is false
As another post has stated, this isn't a very helpful post on learning to cook, and is more Amazon affiliate links than anything else. If people are genuinely interested in cooking and Culinary Arts, below is a book suggestion list, which should have free online PDF versions of them. This list is meant for people who wish to cook professionally, but for themselves, at home, for friends, so on. The list circles around recipes, theory, history, technique, so forth. More generally put, "kitchen knowledge."

Note, these books are meant for dedicated inquisitive cooks who are eager to learn. If they're gonna sit on a coffee table or be used for average homemade meals, then these aren't for you. These books are the starting point and foundation of some of the most important chefs in history. It's up to you to Google the book and figure out what it's about and why it's so important (most should have Wiki pages). This is list is only meant to serve as a starting point for what to Google in the first place.

All the books (should) have English translations, however they vary. Some translations leave things out, or give literal translations rather than the meaning, etc. The original title is used so you can have a source point to choose your own translations based on reviews/descriptions.

Listed by order of importance (per my opinion). Mostly focused on haute cuisine and Italian, but another list for Japanese at the bottom. Note, I am biased against nouvelle cuisine, so you'll have to Google that for yourselves.

[Haute Cuisine] Le Guide Culinaire - Auguste Escoffier

[American/Haute] The Professional Chef - The Culinary Institute of America (As well as the Bakery/Pastry version)

[Haute Cuisine] Le Répertoire de la Cuisine - Louis Saulnier

[French/Haute Cuisine] Larousse Gastronomique - Prosper Montagné

[Haute Cuisine] L'Art de la cuisine française au dix-neuvième siècle - Marie-Antoine Carême (Completed only 3/5 volumes before death)

[Italian] La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiar bene - Pellegrino Artusi

[Italian] Il cucchiaio d'argento - Domus

[Haute Cuisine] Ma Gastronomie - Fernand Point

[Italian] Ecco il tuo libro di cucina - Pellegrino Artusi (Still looking for a copy, much less a translated one)

[Technique] La Technique [OR/AND] New Complete Techniques - Jacques Pepin

[Why ___?] On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen - Harlod McGee

[Pairing] The Flavor Bible - Andrew Dornenburg

---[Japanese]---:

Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art

Sushi: Jiro Gastronomy

*[Next 3 are "maybes", haven't had time to read/research them fully.]

Ivan Orkin (Chef focused on Ramen)

Cooking with Kimiko-san

Kimiko's World: Cooking, culture, and festivals of Japan

---[Additional]---:

Ruhlman Twenty - Michael Ruhlman

White Heat - Marco Pierre White

Sauces - James Peterson

Cookwise/Bakewise
For people unfamiliar with Gab, from Wikipedia:

> Gab is an American alt-tech social networking service known for its far-right and extremist userbase. (...) Gab claims to promote free speech and individual liberty, though these statements have been criticized as being a shield for its alt-right and extremist ecosystem.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)
> regardless of which ideology they're for or against

I can't see the post you're replying to but the post it's replying to is insinuating that half the US electorate is seditious. Propagandized beyond belief. It's almost funny.
This argument for censorship is as pretentious as it's vacuous.
Well played. The “think of the children” trick is almost always effective and difficult to counter.
Major tech companies don't have a problem when their platforms are used to organize the burning of cities, the take over of police precincts
Thankfully the Supreme Court has a track record of knowing how their role works.
What they and Parler don't get is that inciting violence is not in any meaningful way 'speech' because it conveys no information or ideas.

https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/89jan/dershowit...
Correct, horse (battery staple)! Sorry about that. This interpretation is what I intended - the rate of change has certainly increased like never before.
On the other hand, would you _ever_ have even _considered_ working for Juicero? <smirk>
Perhaps not the Mattermost bridge, but https://matrix.org is pretty straightforward in my eyes. The "Try Now" button is clearly visible, and takes you right to multiple different clients and a clear option to open it in your browser. From there it's the login / sign-up flow.

Is there something I'm just too familiar with? I really like the project, so I've been through the site (and set up my own server) enough that maybe I'm glossing over a rough point.
>The fact that the congressman speaking does not mean his statement deoes extrapolate for the entirety of congress. Did we hear other arguments on front of the Chairman against said protection ?

Given that Chris Cox (the congressman quoted) co-sponsored and co-wrote section 230 with Ron Wyden, his take on what it was all about is absolutely relevant, as is the fact that there was a competing bill that when finally passed, incorporated section 230.

A piece of unsolicited advice: Learn some history, friend.
Hence you pay for "support", not the software.
Well for starters some americans think biden is a commie, so its not like logic really comes into play when americans use "communist" as an insult.

That said, i dont think tax revenue supported infrastructure is really the definition of communism either.
Ask HN: Is it still possible for an individual to quit the internet?
from last time i asked this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24624189

figured it’s especially topical now
Jews were responsible for the propagation of Communism
Until Hacker News deletes this account they will be promoting the following:

- 9/11 never happened.
- Jews were responsible for the propagation of Communism.
- New Testament is false
On macOS you need to "Option-Click" on Scaled radio button to see full list of resolutions.