skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> MagSafe is neat, but I don't miss the $80 proprietary charger with a cable that's fixed to the brick

No law of physics requires a cable with a magnet on one end to not be detachable from the brick on the other end. So while I too do not lament that the cable is no longer affixed to the bricks, I would like Apple to make a magsafe cable that is just not attached that is also not shitty (all those third party USBC attachments have terrible weak magnets that can't even hold themselves in place and I believe can cause power delivery problems).
Wikipedia is still a huge source of mass disinformation because anyone can edit the pages and we know that companies and government agencies have been doing it forever, either directly or by using reputation management services.

Just because they lock controversial articles once in a while doesn't change much.
It's all because of FB's recent changes.
Many thanks!

Actually two years ago I did also a computational model of ALS, but I was not so satisfied with it.

https://github.com/Hjertesvikt/ALS_model
The touchbar was their excuse to get a non-Intel chip into the 2016+ Intel models.

It failed at pretty much all it's use cases - it is not available when the laptop is closed, and it's too far when you're at a desk with external keyboard attached even if you don't go clamshell.

It was the ROKR of the Intel->ARM transition - a stalking horse that showed Apple had to go all-in.
As a .Net developer I've.. never seen people write code at work like this. This looks like a hefty amount of boilerplate to achieve practically nothing. I'm guessing this guy learned Asp.Net first.
Focus Lock – iOS app to set the notes/goals on lockscreen's wallpaper
I especially like the shadows cast by these sand dunes

https://shademap.app/#25.89382,12.57935,8z,1610728080000t
They gave counter examples, specifically "we didn't need this in the past, therefore it is not actually necessary". Which is entirely correct. We do things the way we do things largely for historical reasons and beginner users are right to point that out.
Shiri's Scissor (Slate Star Codex)
Thanks for staying for the credits! I make credits for a living, so I’m biased, but you’re right that they serve a real artistic purpose, as a gentle transition from the dream world back to the real one. No one likes to be shaken awake and bombarded with a new dream — especially when they haven’t yet made sense of the last one.
> The .Net tooling used to be easy

Net tooling used to be horror. Now its good. Speaking as someone who does CI/CD work on it for a long time. You seem to speak as someone who doesn't have .net muscle memory.

Programming is complex, unless you finish with hello world (even hello world is complex in enterprise environments).
Privacy law: German Covid vaccine officials guessing people's ages from names
> Ads on Amazon Prime are infuriating. And I can't help think how annoying it must be for people with disabilities.

Or people with small kids.
well it was fun while it lasted
This has been fixed!
Pixel phones are the best Android phones because they come closest to pure Android experience and have the best smart-phone update policy outside of the iOS eco-system.

Unfortunately they don't move any significant units because Google doesn't know how to market them, sell them or distribute them ... because Google is bad at devices.
Isotope labeling for imaging requires only a low isotope purity. One radioactive glucose in a vast sea of normal glucose is just fine, because as I'm sure you know the energies of the emitted particles make a very distinct marker.
A bit of both, really.

I’ve never tried to run Linux on a machine with an NVIDIA GPU, or on a machine with two GPUs. But from what I have read, this is the impression that I get:

It’s quite common to have a bit of trouble getting anything working, and you will run into problems far more often than with any other brand of GPU (which will just work perfectly).

Many things won’t work with the proprietary drivers, because they implement everything their own way, and so software has to be written against the NVIDIA proprietary drivers, rather than using the standard tools that everything else uses like OpenGL and Mesa.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/linux-on-laptops-asu... is the sort of thing I’ve heard of: there, the NVIDIA GPU is trouble from start to end. Admittedly it might have gone more smoothly with something other than Ubuntu, with more recent versions of kernels and other such stuff (I like Arch, so this wouldn’t be a problem for me), but it’s still just bad.

But then too, I mentioned Wayland: because of how NVIDIA made their own world on Linux, the proprietary drivers are completely incompatible with Wayland—basically NVIDIA hardcoded support for X (again, rather than using the standard approach everyone else settled on) and haven’t done so for Wayland.

If you use Nouveau instead of the proprietary drivers, you’re left with a GPU missing a substantial fraction of its functionality, stuck at a low clock speed in power-draining mode. But I think you might be able to use Wayland.

I gather that Linux has problems in any dual GPU environment, but that the issues are far worse with NVIDIA than with anything else. If you’re operating a single-GPU machine and are content to use the proprietary drivers, I gather it’s not such a problem, though many applications may be unable to use GPU acceleration.

I welcome any corrections to what I’ve written here. As I say, this is all just hearsay.
repost? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25756931
Also, are we in a place where there are solid handhelds that can play n64 games well?

I remember Goldeneye always seemed to be a problem on them
But will users know or care?
also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25786699
The ambiguity can be solved by specifying "heaping" units. One heaping tablespoon, or 1/2 heaping cup, etc.
Visualized Rise of Tesla
For me, the problem is that programs have a habit of putting buttons that do important things in the natural resting area of where my hands go.

Zoom, for instance, puts the mic, camera, and share desktop buttons right where f1-f3 should go. If they were actual keys it wouldn't matter, but since they're touch sensitive, I have to suddenly be very conscious of where I rest my hands or else risk sending content I do not want to a meeting.
TrueVault (YC W14) Is Hiring a Content Writer (Full-Time, Contract)
As I said, if you believe FB drives Apple sales, you're misguided. Apple is not your friend, and they are certainly no friend of FB. (FB is not your friend either, but that's a separate issue.)

If FB was shut down tomorrow, people would still go to their Apple stores the day after. That's just reality.
It's not fully impossible to build an up-to-specs magnetic USB C connector, it just hasn't happened yet. I am 100% if anyone ever pulls it off, it'll be Apple.

https://twitter.com/USBCGuy/status/1186718432932159488

> No, because per the spec, and current technological limitations, there is no way to do a proper connector and logic board.

> It might be possible some day with active electronics, and special electrooptical couplers. But I haven't seen any yet.

Written by Nathan Kolluru. He and Benson Leung were the two guys who did early through technical reviews of USB C cables, later he joined Google as well as a Hardware Engineer, Technical Program Manager. They gave this presentation recently https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/D1T2-3b%20-%20USB%20... In other words, he actually knows what he is talking about USB C wise, unlike little me :D Interesting writings on USB C hw at https://medium.com/@kolluru.nathan

Edit: please, ffs, stop recommending non specs compliant garbage magnetic connectors. One, you might have very serious ESD issues because now your USB C pins are much more exposed than the normal connector. Two, you might have very serious data integrity issues because those pogo pins do not and can not adhere to the very rigorous specs. I find it absolutely astonishing that people would trust a thousand dollar electronic device on a piece of uncertified cable transmitting 100W and tens of gigabits...
Isn't matrix just federated? (but still centralized).

Difference being like email. Gmail (or your own matrix server) might go down, but the overall email ecosystem wouldn't.
How Sustainable Is the Rally in Renewable Energy Stocks?
Hey there!

Faser is a small side project I've created for Pirsch [0]. It's a service providing the favicon for a given URL/hostname and optinal size. The main reason I've created this is that we didn't want to rely on any third party service. We also saw some issues with certain domains while using the Google favicon service (ironically it couldn't download the Google favicon for example). The thing is MIT licensed, so in case you have been looking for something like this, here you go. I will add more tests and other improvements in the future.

[0] https://pirsch.io/
I am not sure most users would agree with your assessment that IRC is easy. To many it is arcane.

If you created two Telegram alternatives, that was identical except for performance, would users not choose to use the most performant one?

Statistics like these (I just found at random, but there are many like it available) demonstrates that your average user do in fact care a lot about performance:

https://www.marketingdive.com/news/google-53-of-mobile-users...
Hopefully this will help convince people that, yes, land is still important, and yes, we still need a land value tax!
Is 1.1.1.1 censored in any way?
> It doesn't produce any alternative lines for thinking about treatment, causality, etc.

The whole "genes that shouldn't be on being switched on" thing made me think about David Sinclair's work on aging, and his information theory of aging.

Has anyone been really looking into ways to avoid damaging (or ways to repair) epigenetic information as a potential solution to cancer?
This is indeed incredible.

When I read such posts I have so many different feelings mixed up.

1. I'm envious, I won't hide this :)

2. I think that I shouldn't give up with my own product

3. I think that I don't work hard enough

4. I feel pleasure, I'm glad that it was success for you. Yep, I don't only envy but also can be happy for someone

5. Your name is Vlad, are you by the way from Russia? If so, Поздравляю от всей души! =)

These posts should be in golden collection.

Especially if someone says: "Hey, who needs another tool like this?" and you show him posts from dropbox, webflow and others
So you wouldn't have hired Alkhawarizmi, who was a pious muslim? after whom Algorithm is named and who is considered the father of Algebra.

You are reducing people to binary 0 and 1's. Humans are far advanced and complex creatures than you believe them to be.
This is the only kind of downtime that makes your competitor way more furious than you are. I hope Elon Musk's tweet was the beginning of the end for Faceook, Inc.
> and pioneering exchange coins with the securities/utility token mash-up called BNB.

To be fair there were other exchanges that tried this 'invest in the house' gambit, but Binance made it stick.
Signal (Messenger) Is Down
Look at the sponsors page
https://docs.python.org/3/howto/argparse.html

Python has an argument parser in the standard library
About 28ms here (UK).
> Type C is pretty ubiquitous by now.

Not really. From top of my head I could easily gather > 30 things at my house with the plain old USB A connector (several flash drives, keyboards, mouses, Bluetooth and WiFi adapters, smart card reader, external hdd enclosures, a stack of old laptops, r-pi, headphones, routers, playstation, tv, car diagnostics cables and probably several other things I can't remember). There are USB A connectors in all 3 cars in my family. And probably a dozen more devices with mini/micro USB - dslr camera, couple of tablets and older phones, dashcams, thermal imaging camera, powerbank...

Meanwhile there are exactly 3 devices with usb-c ports - 2 phones and one of several laptops (which also has several usb a ports). The only regular use of USB C for me is charging my phone. Everything else is on USB A or micro USB.
I'm not sure if this is because of all the new users, so maybe someone that has been using Signal for a while longer can pitch in: Is the Desktop experience really as bad as it has been over the past few days?

It took 4 minutes for me this morning to replay a chat of maybe 200 messages, and that's with one person. I can't even imagine how bad it must be with multiple big groups. Sending takes ages, often being out of sync with the phone app, and I get notifications for messages I replied to half an hour ago on my Desktop when unlocking my phone.

Not sure if I'd wanna stay on Signal at the moment if it stays like this, maybe Matrix is really the better choice - at least Element on the web is by far superior to signal.
It makes a lot of sense to make development and maintenance easy, because that is where all the costs are. Size of the resulting app only matters in certain circumstances (say, distribution of ios apps) and rarely matters for Console stuff.

Dependencies, dependencies, dependencies = Reuse, modularisation, standardisation of boilerplate
There's always a way, it's just that Moxie (lead developer) is against it. His blog post from 2016 about the topic: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
If I really liked that word processor for general use then I might also use it for simple one-off programming tasks, like how I use my browser's developer tools today (Firefox though).

What's the alternative though? Is the suggestion that browsers ought to be competitive out of the box with whole off-the-shelf IDEs that can cost thousands of dollars, prioritizing that use case over even web browsing?
An excellent video on this subject from YouTube commenter Nerrel, who also highlights Sega's decision to sell legal ROMs through Steam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj9Gk84jRiE

And related from the same author, is the effect that the emulation modding/patching community has on how we view low effort re-releases such as the recent 3D All Stars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0d82ZJ4sd4
Somehow I read this and I'm not sure what the actual Unsettling Truth was, but it still was interesting, I learned a few new things, and I've been following this one pretty close.

The more I read about this the more I'm reminded of Chris McCandless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McCandless
Hi, I'm the author. Using a throwaway for all the obvious reasons.

I'll try to dive into this thread over the next few hours to answer any questions folks may have about this. Please feel free to ask.
The Apple Pencil 2 and Magic Keyboard case attach to an iPad extremely well. Wouldn't be hard to imagine the new MagSafe being somewhere in the same spot as before but not having any kind of "port" that juts out or in.
People also don’t realize that moderate inflation is a good thing. You want a gentle inbuilt mechanism to encourage consumption. And we have good tools to combat inflation whereas we don’t really have any tools to combat deflation.

There’s a reason nobody spends Bitcoin and it’s mostly not about fees or block size.
Today, January 15th is the court-ordered disclosure date for Tether. So soon we should know how big the Tether bubble is.

Clearly, it's time to get out of USDT. There's no upside potential, and there's a big downside potential.
Big shout out to the ideas like this that are just someone having fun and being excited enough about the outcome to share with the world :)
You can assume that, if the machine runs out of memory, that someone comes along and installs another gigabyte and sets it going again. Predicting whether programs will halt under those conditions is exactly the same as if they really had an infinite tape.

It's a bit tricky with real programs because eventually you might expect you'd run out of address space, so you might have to relax constraints and say that at least some integer types don't have a defined maximum value, or stuff like that.
2014 version here. It looks like someone ran over it with a forklift after I sent it as checked luggage once (they probably did just that), but I won't upgrade to a Mac unless they're able to make them compelling again.
I feel it's problematic that whenever someone writes about an ethically tricky security vulnerability disclosure someone will come up with some variant of "but doing it a bit differently would've been more ethical".

The reason I think this is problematic is that there are already more than enough people in the security community who will either say "fuck it, I'm not gonna bother with that" or "let's sell it to the highest bidder".

We should appreciate more when people are trying to do the right thing and worry more about the people doing clearly the wrong thing and less about whether the people doing overall the right thing did it perfectly.
As of summer 2019, anime has become my primary entertainment medium. The thing that pushed me deep into it was I watched "A Place Further than the Universe", an anime about 4 high school girls who go to Antarctica. The thing that blew me away about it was that one of the girls had basically dropped out of high school and was working at a convenience store because she had been bullied by her seniors on the track team for outshining them. My sister went through the exact same experience (substitute Choir for Track), and her response to it was basically the same as this characters (get the hell out and explore the world). I was floored to see something so relatable and cathartic in anime of all places, when the only kind of anime I'd watched until then was the kind of shonen stuff that made it to Cartoon Network in the early 2000s.
Totally spot on :-).

Its in good part inherited complexity (as humans didn't engineer humans). The other part is in Mytical Man Month :-)
2015 estimate for Putin was $200b[1] by Bill Browder, who for a period of time, had been mistakenly believed to manage Vlad's wealth, and was active in the privatization investment opportunities in Russia.

In 2015, the richest western capitalist was Gates with $80b[2], which means Putin was worth 2.5x more than Gates.

Another example of how these kleptocracies tend to funnel wealth up into the top is Kadafi, who was estimated to have died with $200b stashed around the world[3]. At that time, Bill Gates was worth $61b[4].

Without proof, I grant that you can believe whatever you want about Xi. But you can believe he's a unique benevolent snowflake in the history of totalitarians, or you can believe he's just like the rest. I'm going to assume he's like the rest and wait for proof that shows the opposite.

[1] https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2015/02/15/putins-net-wor...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2015/03/02/forbes-...

[3] https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-2011-oct-21-la-fg-kada...

[4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/luisakroll/2012/03/07/forbes-wo...
Just donated some money to Signal. My only issues with the app has been minor usability ones but they'll fix those.

Signal the organization, the app, etc are all worthy of support and I for one thank Facebook for pushing millions of users into Signal.
I hope they also allow at least two displays to be connected instead of the one display limitation on the latest MacBooks
Data visualization app for the attack on the capital
No.
They have 1.1.1.1 for families, that they block certain sites.
Shopping online is frequently cheaper... unless you’re talking about groceries only.

Even then, is grocery shopping really a large source of people getting covid?
The problem with the Touch Bar is, merely grazing it ever so slightly with a fingertip causes countless freaky side effects.

I've reverted to a straight, function-key-icons-only Touch Bar and it's still a problem for me.

I estimate since 2018 — the year I bought this MBP — I've had tens of thousands of irritating inadvertent errors interrupt my flow.

So frustrating. If this ships as described, I'm ordering one on Day 1 and then I'm NEVER going to use this Touch Bar MBP again.

Touch Bar was a stupid idea. It should have been optional, not default. Had it been optional from the start, there's no way it would still be an option, it would be discontinued years ago. Because few people would be ordering a Touch Bar MBP after they tried it for an ownership cycle.
Wonder if the news of Chen's arrest is "heartbreaking" to MIT president Rafael Reif:

https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2019/06/27/mit-president-c...

Apparently when he's not busy providing reputation laundering for members of organized crime like Jeffrey Epstein, Reif is running a "sanctuary university" for Chinese spies like Chen.

MIT profits from turning a blind eye to their scientists' ties to Chinese Communist Politburo, much like they turned a blind eye to Epstein's sexual abuse of 12 year-old girls, that in this case enabled a scientist like Gang Chen to take away $20 million in federal research grants from more deserving Americans ... so they should be held accountable too.

More here:

https://theconversation.com/the-thousand-talents-plan-is-par...
I don't think you understand the severity of what antifa was doing in downtown Portland.
Not OP but I'm also avoiding anything with Nvidia in it. Half of the reason is voting with my wallet, as you mentioned. This other half is feeling much more confident that the hardware will be supported and compatible with Linux in the long term.
Kind of my line of thinking as well. I would never pull in a library with a 100 features when my software only needs 2 of those features. I write those 2 features myself.
> because mass creativity tends to be done mostly to show off in front of friends/colleagues or romantic interests

?? What kind of bizarre red-pill nonsense is this? You think all those interactive Flash microsites were to impress girls? lol
The X1 isn’t low end. Low end trackpads on windows laptops are still abysmal in most cases.

Anecdotally, there’s a store near me which arranges laptops by price. I often start at the high end and try the keyboard and mouse, working my way to the low end. Somewhere in the middle it changes over from “this is fine” to “it feels like nails on a chalk board”.
> Making the glucose the patient intakes mildly radioactive

The carbon and oxygen in glucose used as fuel doesn't stay in the cell - it becomes lactic acid (or carbon dioxide and water), which leaves the cell.

You could make a weaponised version of something which does get retained in the cancer cell. For example, nucleosides, which are the raw material for DNA, and which are needed in volume to support cancer cells' rapid proliferation. These drugs are called nucleoside analogues, and are used to treat cancer and viruses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemcitabine
Barring the reliability issues, the butterfly keyboard is my favorite, even over the 2015. That said, they are all good and don’t matter enough to sway what machine to buy.
Show HN: Open-source full camera pipeline replacement for Android
Huh, fixed it for me on my Chromecast. IIRC it would shrink down to show what was autoplaying next, so when I disabled that it stopped shrinking.
This is good info, thanks. I really like Mattermost as a Slack alternative and am slowly trying to transition friends to a private server (and away from Slack/Discord).