skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a bad thing to use "political" in this narrow sense. It cultivates the mindset that politics = party politics at the highest level of government. And then paints it as a bad place. Whereas actually people do political things all the time in their work and personal lives and even most of the decisions made by formal political system are made at the local government level in most western democracies.

Redefining a thing narrowly as its uncouth and hard-to-participate subset, and then blasting the thing (using its original wider definition) is a good way to drive people away from participating. Which is what we don't want.
The infinitely large desktop is something I associate with older Unix file managers. Can't say I've ever liked it. Much better to have more than one desk or a single well organized desk than an infinitely large desk you have to walk across to find what you need.
You are absolutely right, my bad! I agree, that was very much one of the pillar use cases.
I played through that game exactly 100 times before I gave up.
Not emotional does not guarantee rational.

Rational does not guarantee correct, if you don't consider all the variables.

Anecdotally, I find Libertarians are just as susceptible as people of all political parties of being selective with arguments that support their points of view, and ignoring others.

What is unique to Libertarians I know is an arrogance about the objective correctness (because of their lack of emotion and rationality) of their philosophy.
You keep saying this, but you're too late. The 64-bit signed time_t path was already chosen long ago and is being implemented.
A new database as a service:

https://instadata.app/

Instant no-provisioning database on the cloud.

Like S3 for data structures.

Still in private beta.
This was a great online encyclopedia before Wikipedia was created.
US outlines NUCLEAR future with mini-reactors
> To me the quote sounds pretty funny, because a cloud of 500 CPUs running Swift, right now, is way more expensive and way less efficient than a single GPU. The current generation of GPU have over 10k single-thread cores...

The number of threads in a GPU cannot be compared to the number of CPU threads or CPUs, especially in 3D rendering. CPU threads are vastly more independent and powerful than those on a GPU. GPU thread divergence places significant burden and limitations on the design of GPU kernels. Memory bandwidth is very costly as well. This is a very active and open research area for 3D rendering, and this Disney scene is designed to test those limitations (among other things). There is a reason why most of the 3D animated movies you see were rendered on CPUs.
Someone need to make a platform that allows you to rank different types of animals (monkeys for example). Could use AI/linear regression to choose the winner.
I can also report a positive experience with Jamulus. There's probably people in this discussion who have only experienced the latency through Zoom or Skype, and assume it's about as good as you can get over the internet. It's not even close.

If you have special software like Jamulus, non-wireless internet, players geographically close to each other, and an external audio interface, the latency is surprisingly good. If you have most but not all of that, it can still be usable. Our end-to-end latency was around 30 ms, so not as low as parent's, but we were still able to play even "jam songs" where just followed each other for chord changes instead of having agreed them beforehand.
Affinity Designer is the biggest thing holding me on Mac. I wish Wine supported it, I'd switch to PopOs in a second.
Regarding the pricing of the analytics, please reconsider. 1€ sends the signal “I’m the cheap option” and will attract cheap customers. In fact, everything below 19€/mo or 199€ sends that message.
It's hard to complain about experiments like this when publishers want to get paid for search results that drive traffic to their sites.

Personally I'd welcome a Google Search filter to exclude news sites.
I don’t understand how that is relevant though. Presumably Amazon would just as well sell to Twitter and Parler, if Parler wasn’t opening them up to brand damage? Amazon doesn’t own Twitter and has nothing to gain from not selling to their competitors afaict. And this explains nothing of the Apple and Google deplatforming.
Insect Populations Suffering Death by 1000 Cuts
Edit from poster: Because of character limit I had to shorten the headline somewhat, sorry for that. Caps are copied from the news article, so not shouting or anything.
Search for the TCEC opening books or read the FAQ at https://wiki.chessdom.org/Openings_FAQ. Opening books haven't been used for a few years now. They were only needed because computers had issues evaluating opening positions.
Hi there, does it have to be video only? Or would a 3D avatar platform (think web based Second Life) where you could enable a video camera feed floating above your character suffice? If the latter sounds interesting, I can send you a link to a platform myself and another developer have been working on that is powered by WASM.
I am building a directory of privacy friendly tools - https://privacylist.net/
I started building it for myself but then thought it could be useful for anyone. It is still work in progress and needs lot of work on details and the list itself. The idea is to show options to average person (not only techies) with enough details to help them choose.
Conductor is the metronome.
Only sort of real. So far no one has made it practical for humans.
Maybe food has sth to do with decrease of testosterone, but I think it's rather cultural issue.

1. Lifestyle. Less sport, more cars etc.

2. Politics. Testosterone behaviors are less and less rewarded (or even directly punished). Adaptive strategy is to produce it less.
Update: I just signed up on their waitlist. Very cool product. If the founders see this, congrats on what you are building. Also, if anyone has access to the app, please tell us your experience.
See also the case study at the back of Stafford Beer’s classic Brain of the Firm
It has been a thing for 3 releases.
Unfortunately, only veertu used it, and xhyve.
Veertu is not what it was anymore.

Sorry.. that was HVK. VK is newer
It's already known that marijuana use lowers your testosterone in the short term. Maybe it also has a long term effect.
Craft brewers now have a new tool for sniffing out trace flavor compounds
The fact that America can't even do chocolate right tells you everything you need to know about the food. Having been to America several times, I've eaten some amazing restaurant food, but the stuff bought in supermarkets is where I think the problem lies.
America’s History of Torture (2009)
> I've never seen the result of a contest being something that really mattered in stoicism.

Yeah, my point is that's explicitly given as an example of something you shouldn't care about IIRC.

> I think wisdom comes into question here, and if you do "virtuous" things with bad outcomes, it's not very wise and therefor not very virtuous. Good intentions with bad results are nice in that you meant well, but good intentions don't make us virtuous on their own.

At that point doesn't the whole stoic idea just become circular? The wisdom to act virtuously seems to be no simpler than a complete philosophy. And all of the rest of stoicism seems to depend on being able to know whether your acts were virtuous - e.g. if I acted virtuously but had poor results because of things outside my control, I shouldn't be saddened - but that advice is no use if I don't know whether I acted virtuously.
React WYSIWYG tools to be popularized in 5 years
I don't see the irony, I'm just more knowledgable about Chinese literature so I gave an example of how biased the list is using its lack of Chinese literature. I am fully aware that many other literary traditions are also not represented on that list, I think its fair to say the vast majority of books on that list belongs to what is normally referred to as western literature.
What to Expect on Twitter on US Inauguration Day 2021
That's how studio records are typically done, as per Areading314's comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25787241
that makes me want to put a sonar sensor into my eurorack modular synthesizer. I actually installed a real theremin module today. Eurorack is simpler than midi, each aspect of a sound is a separate DC voltage, the standard for pitch is “1 volt per octive”
> Presumably one of the benefits of living in such a regime is the ability to participate in policy formulation through voting, political campaigns and various forms of public service.

As someone who has lived in both types of regimes, I can assure you that it is also one of the downsides of living in such a regime, as you yourself allude to in your last comment.

> As a result, would it not be reasonable to assume that most of these individuals are very knowledgeable about a variety of aspects of public policy?

This really doesn't follow from the premise, and I would argue is demonstrably false. No - most individuals are not very knowledgeable about them. Just as many who have the privilege to eat healthy still do not.

I'm not sure if you are being serious or satirical (if the latter, I salute you!)
Levels.fyi is basically spot-on for my company, despite it having a relatively small # of reports, and is also accurate for friends of mine who work at larger companies (FAANG). But, as another reply said, some places will have vastly different pay scales for "similar roles" to SWE - for example, it's known that Facebook pays Data Engineers less than Software Engineers at the same level (mostly by giving them fewer RSUs).

If anything, I would say Levels.fyi underrepresents average total comp for many of the listed companies, because:
1) they don't take into account refreshers, where given, and
2) they don't take into account stock growth (which, yes, is not guaranteed, but it wouldn't be _unreasonable_ from a perspective of estimating Expected Value to assume whatever RSUs you get will track overall market growth, just with more volatility)
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_drift_illusion
Just in case you are looking for an rss feed, you can always give rss-proxy [0] a try.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy
http://www.zombo.com/

also https://www.bluesnews.com, which I am astounded still looks about the same.
Newsconomy [1] was a website with a pretty similar idea. It never gained much traction afaik, but the developer seemed pretty passionate about it [2]. I believe this [3] is the developer's current page, in case you wish to get in contact with him for this project.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20190404134937/http://newsconomy....

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20190423090552/http://nickmudge.i...

[3] https://dev.to/mudgen
It says a lot that so much of the "genuine" opinions on products are all siloed in Reddit. They call themselves "the front page of the Internet", which speaks of arrogance to me, but it might slowly be starting to come true. But if it works, I don't see it as a completely bad thing, I guess.
I can write code in my browser, even without external sites: F12

Also, how can you fail to install something like NodeJS?
Food on the table while giving away source code
A few drops of vinegar goes great too
Can someone ELI5 the ramifications of this change? The WhatsApp FAQ says only chats with businesses are affected.

Also what happened to the "if you're not the customer you're the product" mentality. Do people expect some entities to pay for servers and teams of Android and iOS developers to create a chat app without getting paid and out of pure goodwill?
I read the article and I understood that the authors are stuck in the 1990s and just discovered the staggering fact that their data fit distributed kv stores not traditional sql .

>Find a new hobby.

like circle-jerking on hacker news?
www.google.com but it's changed since then
> As I understand it, the challenge is syncing when changing from standalone to integrated modes.

It's not challenge to switch from grid-connected to off-grid mode. The reason that solar PV systems today shut down during grid outages today is to protect line workers from current feeding back to to the grid from the PV - which is to say the automatic shutoff is there by design.

Home battery storage systems, however, have transfer switches that automatically "island" the PV system from the grid in the event of an outage so that it can continue to produce power.

> The challenge is such that most home PV can’t operate standalone.

Decentralized != Off-grid
How is this damning? Seems consistent with public messaging
New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst
alistapart.com, smashingmagazine.com, css-tricks.com and a couple other web "avantgarde" sites with a progressive vibe and focus on developing the web as an innovative and inclusive medium are still alive (though alistapart's hp marks half-year old stories with "new" badges which they probably shouldn't).

Come to think about it, I spent a lot of time on w3c.org, OASIS xml-dev mailing list archives, and other web standardization sites.
Don't forget you get 2.7% more mass per volume from the salt!
Thanks, this is really helpful!
Since there seems to be no central point of information on the myriad versions of oberon and no official website at eth anymore, it's really hard to get the lay of the land and find out which version does what and why.
I think you're missing the fact that with PoS, you can use positive _and_ negative incentives to incentivize desired behavior while with PoW, you only have positive incentives. Once you can slash bad actors for enabling a double spend attack, you can significantly change their calculus.
The macOS kernel is Xnu or Darwin, not Linux. Try this on macOS vs. Linux:

uname -a

macOS system call numbers and interfaces are derived from (Free)BSD.
Word.com. It was sort of a postmodern literary magazine. So many funny, interesting and weird stories were on there. One of the columns called Work got compiled into a book called Gig, but the rest of the site is lost to history.
That pretty much exists though. That's why Raspberry PI was invented and at the cost of $25 + a keyboard and mouse for the base model.

If you want to pick up programming as a hobby, a hobby computer exists. If you want to get more serious eventually you have to learn your tools.
I write F/OSS full-time.

AWS does / did contribute patches to Elasticsearch.

The problem Elasticsearch has is, AWS shares none of the gigantic profits it makes from its Elasticsearch Service, which is a double whammy because it cannibalizes Elastic's own SaaS offering.

> To conclude, that sounds like false equivalency to me. It does matter who is using it for free and profiting.

You mean to say, Facebook must share a % of its WhatsApp profits with ejabberd, or ejabberd otherwise is right to SSPL their software?

Or, Google pay Oracle a share of the spoils because it is an "app container layer" on top of Java/JVM? And that Oracle is okay to switch to SSPL otherwise in search of those dollars?

Or, okay if CnFdn SSPLs k8s?

Also, if it matters whoever profits contributes back monetarily, may be the right way to do so would be via a Foundation. Using the Commons Clause or SSPL is not the answer, in my eyes.

See also: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/12/14/open-source-confronts...
I guess the problem of hiding out waiting for society to reform is that you get no say in it. And being in the out group is dangerous when things devolve. ‘Cause historically it’s not really into rugged individualists out for themselves but along cultural and familial lines. Bunker style prepping, particularly in a place you’re not a part of seems more about denying the reality of the predictions these people make than anything else.
Copper IUDs still exist for several reasons and they work pretty well without hormones.
I'm happy to be that old guy who learned programming with magazine articles(and a pirated copy of turbo Pascal. You really appreciated that hypertext help.)
Imagine something like this but as an endless jam session. People choose who to turn on and off and can go through it as many times as they like.
> In some form or another, all existing languages (other than joke langs) are in this space.

I was hoping there was going to be some insightful critique after that long preamble. This is similar to an "all languages are Turing complete" type nitpick that doesn't add much to the conversation.
Thanks for the warning, dang. I often see Indian political flamewars here and I know what they are, but I didn't realize that online political discussions from Sweden exist on HN, and they're even more toxic than their U.S. counterparts (e.g. immigration, gender, etc). I just enabled "Show Dead" and went to your link and it instantly ruined my day, reminds me of 4chan /pol/ threads. Thanks again for keeping them under control, time to disable "Show Dead" and forgot what I just saw...

> The problem is the statelessness of the internet.

I fully understand your frustration. I always thought forums are much better since Twitter is a worse offender - you have to repeat what you've just said 10 minutes ago after a new person has joined the conversation - but for someone who moderates forums daily, I guess it's basically the same experience.
I've been calling it the Not Trustworthy FileSystem for ages. Didn't even know it was this bad.

Haven't found a way to run it on ZFS yet. There's a project that implements btrfs here: https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but the touch bar's finally grown on me, even in spite of its occasional freezing. Or maybe it's a little Stockholm Syndrome. I've firmly accepted its place in my life.
If it's the same objection that is raised against milk drinking, then it's more about natural hormones in the milk/egg that is intended for a calf/chick. Not artificially introduced hormones.
> some modern scripting language should be able to replace some aspects of the spreadsheet and work much better

To begin with, it should be a single package without dependencies, just like excel is. Not some "ecosystem" where you need to install certain versions of packages for your script to work.
There is a Far Side cartoon with an obese doctor talking to an obese patient, and the patient says to the doctor, “you’re the first doctor who has not told me to lose weight!“

Obesity is more or less considered to be normal now, it’s a real shift in the last few decades.
A personal recipe vault. Me and my wife got sick of dozens of bookmarks that we had of our favorite recipes so I've decided to make something about it. I'm guessing that if we needed it someone else might like it. I haven't launched it yet officially, it is still in testing stage but is usable.

https://gabngabn.com/init/default/about

You can put your recipes into it, you can share them or make them private and if you see other users' recipe you can copy them to your vault just by a click of a button. And if you speak more than one language you can specify that and search other users' recipes in all the languages you understand.
> https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-windin...

This is really an excellent post. While I'm not a debian developer, some of those challenges enumerated affect end users directly as well. Like plenty of packages being single-maintainer fiefdoms, with wildly different quality of maintenance.
I would contact/DM Ben Collins[0] or
Brandy Zadrozny[1], dump all information available and request assistance making an effective report to the authorities. They have seen and reported on dozens of similar cases, often making official investigations move forward.

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/oneunderscore__

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/BrandyZadrozny
Dwayne Johnson Give $30k Truck to the Guy Who Took Him in When He Was Homeless
"people that do not care about meeting society's beauty standards"

It's not about beauty standards, it's about healthy standards. Remember when there was a push-back from models being too thin? Everyone agreed that it was bad to show ultra-thin models because it was unhealthy and generally unobtainable. The same should be for overweight people, except now we have the concept of body-shaming (which didn't apply to ultra-thin models??). There needs to be more of a focus on self resposibility along with a push-back against the bad practices of the food industry.
Memepool was my favorite source for interesting or fun links to follow. For "more intelligent" links (related to Web dev. IA, programming, etc) I frequented Tomalak's Realm. I see several mentions of Slashdot, Kuro5hin was a descendant from it that also got traction.
Edit to add K10K which was design inspiration.
I was thinking the same. I have no problems dealing with the terminal, but man if I ever have to do more than adding numbers in a spreadsheet...
Do you mean that the fighters were of an ethnic minority that apparently had a higher cultural acceptance of violence, or that the fights were ethnic conflicts?
Why don't you think you can? Ignoring all the coding sites and the console, VS Code is nothing more than a "Browser" that runs javascript.
Why?

Still have not seen a use case for crypto currencies that is honest, legal, and not a waste. A lot of naivety and scamming as far as I can tell.

I am completely stumped as to why anybody who has programmed a computer and experienced how hard it is to get them right would think smart contracts are a better idea than plain old legal ones.

I am not saying that the current arrangements around private property, money, law, and power are good. I just do not see crypto currencies disrupting them. Nor smart contracts.

So, why?
I'd put it a bit differently: people with very little power banded together to create a movement that together has some power and was making incremental progress over the decades, but allies were needed to accelerate it and make big change. After Kennedy's assassination Lyndon Johnson lent his enormous political capital to revive a dying civil rights bill and get it passed, and that was a big push, so much so that it lost his party the south for 50+ years.

I fully agree media consumption doesn't fix a whole lot, and certainly not in today's media environment, I merely advocate for staying informed and engaged enough to discover a useful way to make impact. I want to live in a world where we mostly just live our lives as we please, but society's state right now is such that I don't think it will let us off that easy.
The thing that grinds my gears are the people who claim that the reason it was so niche was that the people playing were insert your favorite -ism here. To be clear I think its great that more people are playing. D&D is an awesome hobby.
The point here is to expand the number of social media sites from the handful we have to several more rather than collapsing them into a single state-owned entity.

And, we can't just snap our fingers to make that happen. True competition comes from separately owned, competing services.
People have this outdated idea that Google will reliably search through the entire internet to give the result that matches their query best. This goes against that, and is why they complain.
Ah no. Libertarianism is dominated by men precisely because it primarily attracts those with high incomes, and men have higher incomes in general.

It also attracts people with an egotistical streak and those with low empathy, plus those with a high confidence in their own rationality.

They did not become all of those things by being libertarian, they became libertarians because that ideology attracts people who are comfortable in life and focus more on individual personal gain than on an empathetic society that benefits everyone more equally.