skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also if you are in the "Recently used" tab you can't hit Ctrl+L to get a path box
Interesting info but there must be a better source.
The central idea here is that you need to hire large numbers of engineers and have an immense compute footprint to run a site like Parler. This simply isn't true anymore.
Truth and reconciliation.
I’m assuming one would use nMigen with Yosys instead of Lattice’s bloated toolchain. That wasn’t clear.
Does searching in Nautlius still lose focus after every single character?
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There's plenty of such boards these days.

I generally recommend the iCESugar and the ULX3S, for iCE40 (UP5K) and ECP5 respectively.

I own both boards, and a few more I don't feel like recommending.
Those persecuting Galileo were not “everyone else” though, it was just the Catholic Church authorities, and in fact even many church scholars were sympathetic to Galileo views and confirmed his observations. Also Galileo was subject to actual persecution by the authorities, not simply being dropped by business partners. It’s a completely spurious example.
This is a bit of a meta discussion, but there does seem to be a marked difference between what the moderators do (most recently, pruning entire threads) and what users using the "flag" button and down voting does.

The last couple of days have been particularly hellish, with many threads that descended into flame wars which drifted far away from whatever the original post was about.

I agree that there have been many threads that were far from being good faith discussions and turned into shouting matches with too many posts made in bad faith (such as citing bad sources that did not contain anything directly relevant to the point being argued, or links to sources that just repeated the original unsubstantiated allegation without presenting any evidence). Actions taken by users in these threads seemed to reflect preexisting biases rather than anything resembling a good faith debate.

With that I want to express my appreciation for the moderators who's job I do not envy but who are very necessary to keeping this site functioning in any way.
They're paying money to a trusted authority for preferential treatment on a literal registered trademark, in such a way to try and poach customers.

It's legal, but I don't understand why. The broader discussion point is why we do this to ourselves.
I also picked up the M1 Macbook Air, and I'm shocked at how well it performs without a fan. I had an Intel 13-inch Macbook Pro before this, and simply running, for example, a high-viewer Twitch stream with chat open in the background would heat the chassis to ridiculous levels, and blast the fan constantly. On my M1, not only is there no fan, but the unit is completely cool to the touch with all of the same applications running. I'm impressed to say the least.
Ha , content? You got me there, oh! the recklessness of youth.
Please don't post unsubstantive or flamebait comments to HN, and please don't use this site for ideological battle. We ban accounts that do those things, regardless of which ideology they're for or against.

The idea here is thoughtful conversation on topics of intellectual curiosity. Please stick to that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Super agree that new modes of conferencing software are needed -- I see similar ideas, "drifting locational chats" come up a lot, but it's never seemed to 'fix' things in my experience.

I'm personally an advocate for more asynchronous communication, for less video (I find video very tiring and time-consuming), and for more audio at work. I feel audio is the sweet spot of informal, low effort, and still more emotionally engaging than pure text. I believe this so much that I'm actually building a chat application, called heysync[1].

It's somewhere between slack and discord in terms of features, but intended to allow for asynchronous, conversational audio to fit directly into the way teams already chat. You speak, and it can play live to any teammate who's listening right then, but it also records the audio, and transcribes it inline with regular chat, so the message can be easily read or listened to in-context later, allowing for true asynchronous audio conversations without dedicated audio rooms. Of course, you can also just chat via text like you would with slack or IRC.

There is an early info site up at https://heysync.chat/ if anyone's interested in this idea :)
Interestingly, I never noticed it until now.

I guess it's extremely important for some people and not important at all for others.
> Ads are clearly marked as ads and are separate from the actual search results.

Except for the time they weren't...
https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/23/squint-and-youll-click-it/
Yes! This issue infuriates me to no end. I've made my set up quite clean, I've got my tiling window manager set up how I like it, but if I want to keep using firefox I have to keep dealing with this ridiculous bug. What on earth was the person thinking when they created this?

I've seen many other downgrades with gtk updates. The UI for Deluge, one of my favourite pieces of software, got pretty ruined by the gtk3 uptick.
Surely you’re joking. Is this person a sex worker? Or do they have any qualifications to speak on the subject of sex work? Because it seems like a channel dedicated to alt-right/far-right talking points and I don’t consider a Steve Bannon superfan to be an authoritative speaker on the topic of what sex workers want when it comes to their safety.
Gab’s Response to Senator Mark Warner
I guess I’m worried about talking about how we have really poor development practices. It’s hard to describe what I do, they try to block people from learning about what their kanban card is for. I just write proprietary scripting language functions then fill out a Word document “unit test” about them. I guess I can editorialize and try to steer the conversation towards what I can bring to the company. Thanks for the advice!
Sounds like a libinput bug.

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libinput/

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/touchpad...

I'd file a bug though, and see if whatever's wrong can be fixed for every trackpad of that same make/model.
author of gnome file picker here.

jk, where are you? what do you have to say for yourself!
Or pressure was applied to them.
This article hit me hard. I work in a non Silicon Valley-like company. I became a developer because I thought I love coding. But I found out that, in fact, I love problem solving. Tightly defined Scrum tasks make me sad and I would love to have more autonomy.
Programming will look extremely similar. Compare programming in 2000 vs programming today, what changed? We used C in 2000 and now we use Go.

The problem with visual programming is that it doesn't scale past the size of your display. We have been capable of data flow programming with a gui for over a decade, it just isn't a great way to program complex systems.

I expect there will be more code and more of it will be written in languages like go. The biggest constraint on programming is comprehending big code bases, and languages like Go help with that.

We need an actual advance in programming to avoid a future that looks like today except with 10x as much code to understand before you can do anything.
Trademark squatting and bribery have specific, legal definitions and in many countries are illegal.

It does not mean bidding on your competitor's keywords or paying to use Google's advertising platform.

You do understand that what you are saying is libellous right ?
That was before the invention of fuzzing.
Exactly. direnv/lorri basically solves the per-language virtualenv nonsense, but universally for anything. I use chezmoi to manage my shell.nix for various directories. That way every project can manage its system libraries independently. Once you get used to it, it's truly amazing. So much so, I almost think the future trend, once enough people become enlightened, will be checking in shell.nix as standard for development projects.
This is pretty incredible. The idea that a non-left-leaning twitter-alternative must be a Russian ploy to destroy America is pretty rich. We've got a new Cold War, this time led by the Left. It's going to be a wild ride methinks.
Old one yes. New one (since win vista) allows you to pick folders.

pFileOpen->SetOptions(FOS_PICKFOLDERS | FOS_PATHMUSTEXIST | FOS_ALLOWMULTISELECT);

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shobjidl_...
KIO is pretty fast I think. Dolphin is insanely fast at least - if you list a large directory almost everything that can't be loaded instantly is loaded asynchronously and streamed in to the UI after the UI becomes responsive. I think the KDE file picker is using other code altogether, I'm not sure why it's so much slower. GIO is horribly slow and makes everything that uses it next to useless, eg [1]

[1] https://github.com/lxqt/pcmanfm-qt/issues/462
Frankly I find the whole blog post silly. All OSes/software have trade offs. It's just a question of what is important to you. I'm primarily an Ubuntu user but I have one Windows machine. There are things in Windows that just flabbergast me that people put up with. And Windows users can easily say the same thing about most Linux variants.
Who is Funding Twitter?
Many non-technical or older people can't easily tell the difference. I've seen it in action with colleagues and relatives (smart well-educated experts in their fields).
Somehow nextcloud shows a system tray icon on my Gnome laptop

Looks like there are still tray icons, they just need to be implemented differently?
Alcohol concentration would not be enough to kill cholera... Especially diluted. Strongest wines are usually in the 15-17% alcohol...
IBM is using light, instead of electricity, to create ultra-fast computing
>Use the manufacturer tools (which, in this instance, are free) as using an "open-source toolchain" is NOT for beginners.

As someone who learned the ropes with the open toolchain, I have to strongly disagree.

It's perfectly feasible, and from what I've seen (videos and such), the closed toolchains are way messier and do not provide much in terms of tools unless you pay for time-limited licenses. No thanks.
the amount of wine required for the mass isn't exactly the same as what would be drunk during meals, especially as, in monasteries, not all monks are priests.

And even if wine wouldn't be banned, I think the wine would be stored under lock and key, if only to avoid consumption outside of meals
startpage.com is malware, always has been
Honestly, they should just toss the file picker and write a new one. It wouldn't be too hard to do. I've written custom file pickers in Qt before, and I've used GTK+'s API a lot for other things, it's not very different. I think they'd just need some guy to spend 3 days on it.
The biggest culprit for suspend issues are GPU drivers. Unfortunately, all the options suck.

Both nVidia and the AMD have buggy Linux drivers, especially regarding suspend issues.

After experiencing suspend issues with the closed-source nVidia drivers, I bought an all AMD laptop (Dell G5 SE), only to deal with even buggier open-source AMD drivers.

The Intel drivers just work, but Intel integrated GPUs are painfully slow, and using the integrated GPU makes the CPU run noticeably hotter.

That said, AMD drivers are getting more stable over time, and buying AMD is probably our best chance of improving the driver situation long-term.
his followers can barely figure out how to get on parler, many of them thought parler groups on facebook was parler itself. They will NEVER, ever, figure out scuttlebutt, DJT couldn't even figure out scuttlebutt.

People want to sign up and login easily. This doesn't seem to do any of that. Convenience is king and necessity it's history maker.
Fennec (Firefox) on Lineage OS.
Parler seems purpose built for revolution.
That’s good to know, thanks. Congrats on the move!
This is interesting to hear. I have the opposite experience, I'm generally an anxious person and feel stressed going into meetings, especially with groups of new people. I've found that I'm much more relaxed on zoom calls than in person, I think because it feels like there is much more of a buffer between me and the people I'm talking to. Seeing faces on the screen does not provoke the same feeling as a real life meeting.

(Incidentally, I really dont like working remotely and want to get back to real meetings as soon as I can, even if it will make me more anxious in the moment)
> Is that what you're proposing?

You are being extremely uncharitable, and are attacking a straw man yet again. I don't think my argument is particularly hard to follow. A degree of proportionality between value generated and compensation isn't some far-fetched kooky idea.
Is this https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2366 ? It really bothers me as well.
I don't think that's the goal. I think the goal for those companies is to not lose business over this. This is the free market at its best. Market pressure has made the math pretty simple: if N customers won't do business with my company because we do business with Abhorrent Co and the potential revenue loss from losing those N companies is greater than the revenue I generate from Abhorrent Co, then drop Abhorrent Co.

If any of those companies felt the ethical/moral value of Parler was more valuable than the lost revenue, they wouldn't drop them. Obviously that's not the case.

The moral here is pretty simple: don't be a Nazi.
YouTube channels were helpful for me... That's it
Why would the required server footprint have changed since previously?

I buy it’s easier/cheaper to manage infrastructure, but scale requires infrastructure and I don’t understand why that would have changed.
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iCE40 and/or ecp5, with yosys+nextpnr, is absolutely the way to go.
I thought it was out in the open that Rebekah Mercer is funding Parler.

Ah yes, the day after this post was written so said npr (https://www.npr.org/2020/11/14/934833214/conservatives-flock... ) and Newsmax (https://www.newsmax.com/politics/rebekah-mercer-parler/2020/... )

Not a secret.
That's a bit harsh. The OP has a good point, and he's not mischaracterizing anyone's argument. Please re-read the HN guidelines about being civil.
Don't be a fool. Of course it is.
I've worked in large and small, with good and bad cultures. And to be clear, that is not my view of developers. I point it out because I agree with the author of the article that there are differences in companies. I'm sorry that those traits did not get you where you wanted, but they are not bare minimum in a lot of companies. I've walked engineers from their seats over to the counterpart's seat and have had others who do not go outside of their area due to an inaccurate belief that it's not what their manager wanted.
I went to a social gathering of former co-workers using Gather.Town. Each person has an avatar which they walk around a 2-dimensional map. You see video (and audio) of everyone within a certain distance, and apparently if you’re in a “conference room” you see everyone in there. It did replicate the behavior of in-person parties where you groups would form, and people would join them or break off to find a new group. It was far better for the purpose than trying a Zoom call with 50 people, where there’s a single awkward conversation.

Some of the user interface was confusing as a first-time user, but overall it was effective and people wanted to do it again.
Ultra-charitable interpretation: Perhaps they meant to use gaming voice communications instead of video conferences, because those voice comms work pretty well and video is 99.8 % unnecessary anyway.
So I suppose in your eyes science can never correct itself? I find the constant example of fauci’s “about face” on masks as an example of why not to listen to experts to be very concerning, especially by people who profess to believe in science. There is a wide gulf between deliberate misinformation and the scientific method refining the best advice known at the time for a novel virus. It’s disingenuous to equate the two.

In the beginning there was a real question of how this virus transmitted as well as acute supply shortages of n95 masks for first responders.

If you expect scientists to be correct the first time, every time, I guess you’ll set yourself up for disappointment. I suppose when you sit down to code, especially using a new language or framework, you get it right the first time with no bugs? If so, congratulations and let us know how you did it.
Maillard reaction seals in flavor and texture. That’s the purpose of searing meat as the first step.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction

But you should feel free to enjoy chicken legs cooked in a cold pan. It’s not a food safety issue. Just a texture and flavor process.
Note that the alternative would be forcing private companies to do business with a party they do not want to do business with. That has its own set of issues.
It does change the Edit menu in Finder on Big Sur.
And btw, I can create infinite accounts so ban one account, ill get another IP and be back in a few minutes. Flag this
This article...exaggerates...the difference between SV and 'not SV' companies. A lot, actually. I've worked at a few places in SV, and several outside of SV, too. For the most part it's similar: use the existing infrastructure and implement a service, front-end, whatever, within that, to solve a business need. Very little in the way of novel or new solutions to genuinely new problems is required. The difference is mainly in pay and, to a much lesser degree, respect.

Regarding autonomy--usually a high degree of autonomy is found in two places: 1) at larger companies, a very senior, trusted individual who has proven himself to be competent and capable of making big decisions; 2) at startups, a very junior individual scratching an itch and loading up on technical debt.

For the most part solutions are prescribed or narrowly constrained--99.999% of engineers are going to use the same services architecture, libraries, and compute infra every other engineer is using.

Regarding curiosity and problem solving: I guess I have a different definition of "curiosity" and "problem solving." What I've seen in this industry ain't either, generally: it's mainly driven by personalities at the individual or corporate level, e.g., "everyone" doing what Google does or following Fowler, and empirically unsupported anecdotes/fads (e.g. TDD, agile, etc.). The vast majority of engineering work in any established company is to use an existing tool or infra to implement a generally well-defined need. Most of the interesting details are already solved, and the implementation work, while also interesting, isn't really solving the problem, per se.
Interesting. My country Pakistan, took a different approach in the last elections. An algorithm [1] was agreed upon, on how to draw constituency boundaries for each district. Further, there can ordinarily only be 10% variation between constituencies in a single district. The entire delimitations exercise was done in open, and there were multiple review steps.

I imagine the algorithm could be further improved, but it at least ensured some amount of certainty and transparency.

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[1] As far as possible, the delimitation of constituencies of an Assembly shall start from the Northern end of the district1[**] and then proceed clock-wise in zigzag manner keeping in view that population among the constituencies of an Assembly shall remain as close as may be practicable to the quota: https://www.ecp.gov.pk/documents/laws2017/1-3-2020/The%20Ele...
> but noone wants to talk about it as it directly threatens various established interests.

There are many people talking about it. Adhering to healthy life style is difficult for many people. Most obese know perfectly well why they are obese an what it takes to be healthy.
Peering with what carrier pigeon IP service?

They'll still require a backplane service with a landing point in the US.

Unless the site goes fully Tor / Onion.
I honestly can’t think of a better example of the egregious abuse of quasi-monopolistic power than the shutting down of Parler.
This is really disappointing. Essentially, at this critical point in time for the industry, you're just giving up, merging everything sort of related into one giant story, hoping people will go back to discussing Rust again?

I came here by first reading the story on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/ku6jdx/amazon_to_drop...), then trying to find what I expected to be a front-page story on HN; failing - then finding this via a search.

Edit: While I agree that the debates are kind of going in circles.. there's also the informational aspect. I guess this could be alleviated if the title was changed to to indicate that AWS was a part of it. E.g. say AWS instead of Amazon. My first reaction when seeing the new title was that the Amazon Fire store had blocked this app. I'm sure it has by now, but that's not so important to many people.

.. anyway, that's a moot point by now - the story is on page 2-4 or so.
> Take for example the scaling issue. It has been now almost half a decade with 4k Displays, and Linux still does not know how to deal with it other than 100% or 200%. Currently Linux is unusable for anyone with a modern display.

Fractional scaling works fine on KDE, and it's worked for over a year since I first started using it.
What exactly is Thunar missing for you? I genuinely like it.
I see Parler is tiny when compared to Twitter, but i have no idea how large or demanding it is.

How does it monetize its traffic?
Sorry, I'll try to not incite flame wars. In my defense, anything related to these kinds of issues is highly likely to rouse emotions. The only way these topics can even brought up without a flame war is if every one agrees, and no one expresses a dissenting viewpoint. Just Food for Thought.

But yes I could certainly have been less provocative.
Five years too late, but I'll take it.
The problem that you mention was largely amplified by Big Tech, the same companies who are now offering their "solutions".
As the owner of a company, I am more and more afraid to be dependant on Google, Apple, Amazon, etc. because everyday on HN there is a new example proving that they can destroy your business if you are not aligned with their view, their interest or someone in their evaluation team.

I use electricity, water, phone, etc. and I have never been afraid to be cut off by these companies as long as I pay the bills and respect the law.

PS: I am referring to none political cases (especially with app stores) that have been happening the last years.
Not that rich. We saw Trump act as a useful idiot for Putin in the last four years. Perhaps the Kremlin believe they can influence U.S. conservatives easier than liberals. Target those who feel like they're a minority and constantly attacked yada yada.

Disclaimer: No sources on this, only my opinion and anecdotally what I've seen over the past few years. Maybe an irresponsible comment that could ignite a flame war. Mods do your thing
I know one thing: neutral sure taste different.
from what I remember of my catechism, the chastity would depends on one's state (single/widower, married, cleric). So for single persons, priest, monks => abstinence, married => fidelity to the spouse