skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you.

For the longest time I thought there was just something wrong with me. Rarely would you find a comment in an article about micropayments that pointed out that micropayments sound, stressful!

It causes me anxiety just having to think about having to consider making payments everytime I click on an article, for example, even if it's a tiny $0.01 amount each time.
IBM was _the_ prototypical vertically oriented company back in the late 70s before the PC - manufacture chips, build boards, build computers ranging from desktop to mainframes, develop the OS, provide finance for customers, offer integration services. Apple is nothing compared to IBM in its heyday.

When I joined IBM in 1991, it was still a very inwardly focused company. Although it was clear that things were going to be changing rapidly in the industry, it was hard to get employees to understand how precarious things were - until the big layoffs of the mid 90s.
The headline is annoying to me, I feel it should read '2020 emissions in biggest fall since WWII due to pandemic'.

The prefix 'climate change' is redundant, I wish the BBC could get back to being more objective.
> That stretches the meaning of the word beyond anything useful though.

No - it’s literally the definition of the word censorship: “suppression or prohibition of speech”. It really sounds like you’re trying hard to redefine the word to mean what you want to say, but maybe you should just pick a different word?
> targeted ads are more effective than untargeted ads, therefore the business model drives increased privacy violations

That's what the current lions keep saying (Google, Facebook), but what few unbiased, unsponsored studies keep showing and what nearly a century of advertising "common sense" knew is that they are wrong on multiple levels. Targeted advertising is "preaching to the choir" at best and calculated harassment of your target (micro-)demographic at worst. Neither of those extremes and largely nothing in the middle in between them is actually good for growing a brand.

I have a slow burning boycott of companies that target me too directly, and if trends continue I wouldn't be surprised if that becomes a more general boycott/movement/backlash among the populace.

Advertising can be reformed if we regulate the business models without killing advertising as a whole. It should be as easy as a reboot to pre-DoubleClick/Google advertising best practices that served reasonably well for a century or more.
Most criticism I see here is of the JS frame works generally, rather than React in particular.

I, for one, am glad to see the push back against the mad craziness that has dominated the Node.js/Framework word.

It is easier to speak than listen, easier to write than read, and easier to build than test... Hence Node.js, and JS Frameworks.

I do love programming in Javascript, have not done it for a while, as I cannot abide the ignorance and arrogance that goes with the ecosystem.

I love plain old vanilla JS....
You seem to know a lot about Glib. What did you do with it?

I looked to port Gtk to MCU, and then gave up. Too much C trickery, and hard to replace, heavy dependencirs.

For somebody who knew Qt, and Gtk since 2003, it looks like a miracle now how Qt got smaller, and faster than Gtk, and can even run on an MCU, and quite well!

Very big contribution to that was Qt's team willingness to undo the wheel reinvention, and willingness to throw out their hacky attempts to replicate new c++, and standard lib functionality.

The Glib+Gtk world, unlike Qt, still lives in ANSI C, and C99 era, and refuses to concede on reinventing functionality of modern standard libraries, language features, and compilers.
There's a famous tweet (since made private, but screenshotted):

"Twitter is 90% someone imagining a guy, tricking themselves into believing that guy exists and then getting mad about it"

I think you could substitute "Twitter" with just "social media"
> Miguel de Icaza

Miguel de Icaza is the creator of Gnome and Mono.
Obviously everyone's use case is different.

The way I would frame it is this:
1. Your car has x range. Let's say 200 mi. or 321 km. And takes 1 hr. to charge. (Just for reference, my current car gets refilled with gas every 400 km. and takes 10ish minutes to do the task).

2. How long does it take you to travel that range in everyday life. For me, it would take about 2 weeks. But lets assume that its winter or I'm driving a lot and my time is cut in half, so I need a full charge every week.

3. Now I ask myself if there is anywhere in my driving schedule where I consistently spend about an hour in a place where there are chargers. The answer is, of course, I might go to Costco, the grocery store, home depot and the library In the course of a week. Of course partial charging is also an option, so two 30 min stays at any of the above also solves the issue.

So I'm covered for my average use case if charging at home isn't an option.

It is a smart question to ask, but it is actually pretty easy to answer if you think it through. Obviously there are a million and one use cases for a personal vehicle, but me and all my friends would be fine.

Even thinking back over the past year, including lots of outdoor activities into the backcountry in Canada, I have a hard time thinking of more than one trip that would have been different with an electric car (towing on backroads in the mountains. A corner case if ever there was one).

My theory is that charging infrastructure will all of a sudden become as necessary a commodity as parking. A restaurant that has a few chargers in the parking lot will attract more business, and I wouldn't be surprised if it also became a revenue stream as well.
2 or 3 parking spots. It's a token gesture, not meaningful infrastructure. Electrifying an entire parking lot is a lot more expensive than 2 or 3 spots.
There are some big open questions for us as a society on this.

I don't approve of calls for violence and I thought Facebook etc were doing well at free speech until the last year or two. It seems like no one is happy with that anymore.
Do Dogs Dream?
> Have you looked at the contents of the site and the driving force of the company behind it?

Of course - hence my point about the conflict between hacker ethic and HN.
Apparently the covid pandemic has exacerbated this issue, because a lot of wild venison goes to the restaurant trade, and that market pretty much disappeared. Result: more deer overpopulation and damage to ecosystems.
Why North Korea Excels in Cybercrime
The EU legislation regarding CO2 emissions has teeth, and no respite has been given. This is the reason so many PHEVs are being introduced lately, they are about the only way to comply except pure BEVs. Sure, UK is not EU anymore but the legislation is felt worldwide.

Before 2020:
https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/transport/vehicles/cars_...

From 2020 onwards:
https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/transport/vehicles/regul...
There was also a historical re-enactment page removed in December because they had militia in their title [1]

Looks to just be an over-eager moderation engine.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-55215949
How to Make Yourself into a Learning Machine
Thank you for the clear and concise explanation!
This is a textbook strawman.

> So what, figuring out how people without a designated parking space can change their car is trivial compared to trying to undo global warming.

No it isn't. NYC has limited space. There simply isn't enough room for a charger for every car. That is a nontrivial problem with extreme cost. You can't just handwave it away.
Mine does. He sometimes whimpers in his sleep.
On the other hand, constant context switching makes the cost of switching dominate the cost of activities. Less switching seems more efficient.

(And before someone says life is not about efficiency - it is. Getting your life to be more how you like it for less effort is a good thing.)
I love that this start as an argument on tumblr and it only go foward with people being more and more offended with each other.
I had to look it up again to check, but does this not fall under the dictionary definition of sophistry[1]? It seems especially appropriate to call it that given the 2nd definition of sophisticated[2] as something at a high degree of complexity, and "sophisticate"'s common root with "sophistry".

By making a complex argument, you deceive others into thinking that you have refuted another argument, when in fact you have not done so; the fallacy of your argument was hidden by it's complexity.

1. "the use of fallacious arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving." -- Oxford languages, via Google; https://www.google.com/search?q=sophistry (retrieved 2021-01-22)

2. "(of a machine, system, or technique) developed to a high degree of complexity." -- Same as [1], above.
I actually moved near my new job anyway. It's remote for now, but will return to (mostly) in-person eventually. Looking back, I should have stayed in my college town for lower cost of living -- but at the time, we didn't think the pandemic would last quite THIS long.

If you can, why not try one of the LCOL cities trying to attract remote workers with stipends or relocation assistance? Or, take the time to try out somewhere you've always dreamed of living?

Meeting people is tough, especially right now. You could keep an eye on local groups on sites like Facebook or Meetup. You can try to find people with similar interests that you can participate in safely, like playing outdoor sports or hiking. Some friends have found people to chat with on services like Bumble BFF, but YMMV. I'm trying to more consciously stay in touch with my existing friends--being more open to talking on the phone instead of a quick text, or setting up time to play games online.

Unfortunately, it's just a hard time to meet people.
I'm not sure why you're talking about Gtk/QT theming in the past tense, it all still works the same way with modern versions of Gtk/QT.
Lynx don't browse, they hunt.
If we break off the assumption of what most consumers want, sure. But then what would be the point?
Politics is the game of making incremental progress and always feeling like you left something on the table, its such and opposite skill of engineering, and yet it is the most important skill in engineering useful systems.
No strategy is perfect if you have imperfect information. You just choose between different risk profiles.

Probably the simplest strategy would be to always ask for the amount you curently make, plus 30% or 50%. And keep interviewing once in a while even if you are okay with your current job. If you asked for less than you could get, the next jump will fix it.

Then don't increase your expenses, save the extra money, retire early.
Ask HN: Why is desktop computing still so slow?
I don't understand why using a desktop is still so painfully slow. On moderate to better hardware 10 years ago it took ~5-10 seconds for me to open photoshop... today it's still the same. Windows took 10-30 seconds to load then and it's about the same now (to go from power button to actually in Windows with the desktop loaded). With the hardware being multiple times faster, why doesn't software follow suit? If you asked me 10 years ago, I would have been most looking forward to things loading in an instant, but we appear to be no better today.
If you used metal as the graphics api on Linux, literally no existing Linux software would work with it unless you also used a layer like MoltenGL or MoltenVK (which have been written for a Mac system and would likely need modification). Linux graphics drivers also tend to have extra APIs for buffer management for X11/Wayland, which a molten compat layer probably doesn't do as molten is meant to run in-process with each app I believe.

Some of the Metal APIs are also a little intertwined with swift and objc.
Does this vary more depending on the plywood grade, maybe? I have some shelving I made from AB birch, and it looks pretty close to .75. Maybe 1/64 scant. (Although I don't have calipers handy and just used a tape measure, so I'm not being super precise.)
Crossbows are easy to use and don't alarm neighbors. Venison is delicious and nutritious. Butchering a deer is a fun and educational project for the whole family, and requires very little equipment: knives and a big table, plus a tree limb and some rope for the initial skinning. This is yet another problem that people could solve for themselves, if enough of them cared to do so.
There are video files here : https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.0c12100?goto=supportin...
At least for GTK there is Oomox, a theme generator than provides even more customization than Windows 3.1

https://github.com/themix-project/oomox
One hull crack located in ISS, another one suspected
Yes, it seems unlikely this is deliberate. The SWP is about as likely to forment a revolution or incite violence as Judi Dench. They're a bunch of harmless eccentrics.
I've been WFH for about 5 years now and also have two young ones so I know the feeling :)

I've found that any chore time is now also podcast time. So things like cleaning, laundry, or mowing the lawn I've always got one headphone in (the other ear is for listening for the kids)
I’m curious whether it would filter out plastic molecules, as they’re the water contaminants that worry me the most
Facebook is a private platform: they're free to block any content they want, malicious or not.
The more apt analogy would be it's like catching a cold and losing 5lbs on a soup only diet.

You actually lost weight, but not in a healthy way, and as soon as you feel better you're going to gain it, plus some.
One can wish, but I know that there is huge pressure on the current administration to appease the left wing of the party. Keystone XL is canceled, and the US has rejoined the Paris agreement on the first day of Biden's Presidency. A multi-trillion dollar Green New Deal that will further saddle future generations with debt is looking likely at this point. Whether it will provide the benefits it purports to do is far from certain.
@otoolep

SQLite has a great post on “When to Use” (and not use) SQLite.

Would be great if you included these same use cases in the ReamMe docs and make it clear if Rqlite can address them.

https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
You still have fewer choices of where to stop/eat and will be stopping longer.
Computer History Museum interview with him: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201....
They're already working on bison: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25846480

ETA: and we apparently have some moose and wild boar now, on a small scale: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/apr/15/wildlife...
A 2020 16" Macbook Pro isn't old by any measure. This argument seems disingenuous.
Well, Facebook is run by the far right, like Peter Thiel so no wonder.
Please, don't draw a false equivalency between a major political party that does not play host to violent rhetoric, on the one hand, and groups that where plans (very real, actionable, and actioned-on plans!) to subvert the government are incubated, on the other.

Put another way--let's not turn sedition into another us-vs-them political game. That's how democracy ends.
On the one hand, Google plagarizes everything. Search for "how to boil an egg" and Google will paraphrase the answer for you so you don't even have to click anything.

That means Google essentially takes the ad revenue right out of the mouth of content creators whom Google relies on.

On the other hand Australia needs to recognize that they are playing someone else's game. If Australia wants the boon of having Google popularize their content they can't expect to push Google around.

On a side note: I find it ironic that nobody looked twice at how the record labels killed competition. Nobody cared that oil companies sandbagged renewable energy for 60+ years. All these conservative companies who's lobbyists literally created American capitalism were fine with immoral behavior so long as they were the ones flying the "trickle down" flag. Now that "liberal" (read: progressive) tech companies played the capitalism home game and won all those once too big to fail industries are screaming that social media is too big and cancel culture, once the nation driver of our economy, is now bad.

Gee, it wasn't bad when you ran the world. At least tech companies pay a livable wage.
I don't think the take on feminism in this article is particularly good. The author discusses feminism as "a memeplex that provides a bunch of pattern-matching opportunities where a man is in the wrong and a woman is in the right", but feminism is about analysing the power dynamic between the _classes_ of 'man' and 'woman'. Any system of class-based power analysis can be abused by supposed adherents to attack _individuals_ in a given class, but that doesn't mean that the system isn't itself valuable as a critique of power dynamic that exists between the classes.
I'm not doubting you, but do you have a source for:

> Parler wanted to be taken down so that they could fight this legal battle

?
I mean, my original comparison was between a Model 3 and Civic, and the complaint was that it wasn’t an apples-to-apples comparison, so I gave an apples-to-apples comparison instead with the same vehicle in gasoline and electric configurations.

None of the cars you listed are under 3,500 lb, meanwhile, many compact gasoline cars are under 3,000 lb, with subcompacts under 2,500 lb. Batteries are heavy.
O yeah, this threshold is real for the too.

If I have a relatively focused task to work on, but I also have meeting in the middle of the day, can be a 30 minute call, I know I will not succeed. I really need that build up and then hold on to that momentum. And after, even when I'm satisfied and happy with my work, its super hard to let go. I will keep looking into improvements during the evening and will linger on it in bed.

I still have to figure out how to deal with this. But then I'm only 29 and just starting my professional career, so enough time to learn and grow.
Some day we are going to discover how to apply all research results like this one, and we'll end up with the healthiest mice ever :)
Chemotherapy with light; only one injection required
https://youtu.be/ljPFZrRD3J8
I am a rails developer myself and I love rails, but this applies to rails too. Actually rails lowers this problems a little because it is an opinionated framework but you could same to Angular for frontend. In react case, you just have to build that yourself with the pros and cons.
Doesn't directly solve the root problem, but I use https://privacy.com for all of my online purchases. It lets you create multiple virtual card numbers, so every site I pay, I give a different card number. If any single site gets hacked, I can disable just that card. And each card can have a spending limit per transaction/day/month/year. Or, you can make the card a "burner" card that automatically deactivates after the first transaction.

Edit: I suppose that doesn't work as well for hotels specifically, at least in terms of giving a card for incidentals. Since it isn't a physical card, not sure if the receptionist would be keen on entering a digital card like that? But I've definitely used it to pay for rooms online.
Spot on advice that is painfully accurate. Enterprise SaaS startups? Read this 1st.
Actual study link:

Injectable Single-Component Peptide Depot: Autonomously Rechargeable Tumor Photosensitization for Repeated Photodynamic Therapy
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c06881
Some point after I got diagnosed and I was having a conversation with my wife and I just burst out crying as I explained to her how after spending north of 1000 nights doing the dishes at 2am sometimes 3am because I was determined not to let our marriage bust up over me not doing the dishes and thinking to myself night after night "I wish I knew what this was called so I could get her to understand" I was just so overwhelmed with relief to finally know why and to be able to communicate that and to know there really is a reason underpinning it etc.

It helped tremendously with that aspect. Balance so far I haven't been able to obtain still. I haven't had any luck with medication yet as apparently 20% of people don't respond to it and I might be one of those people. So far I've only tried a sustained release formulation of Methylphenidate and I don't notice any difference. For other people the difference is quite dramatic. I've been encouraged by r/ADHD to be persistent in trying to find if there is a combination of meds that works for me. Next I will try the instant release version.

It's helped my health a lot. I would always put off going to the doctor or dentist and thought if I ignore it it'll go away. Since learning that untreated ADHD has a life expectancy that's shorter by 13 years on average (due to increased risk of a accidents, obesity, drug addiction, suicide etc) I've really started to put an emphasis on fixing my litany of health problems and in the past 12 months have started to see progress.

Getting diagnosed was the biggest revelation of my life and a very positive thing for me. The down side is is you go through this honeymoon phase where you feel like "now that I know what this is I can finally solve all the problems" and eventually realising it's a neurological condition and not a curable disease.

But for sure if you have suspicions seek an evaluation. One thing that I found interesting is that it presents very differently in people, so how one person describes it might not be how you experience it. Generally speaking though if the patterns that emerge when you start looking through r/ADHD and How To ADHD YouTube channel and the book "Driven To Distraction" resonate with you then it's probably a pretty good indication.
Wow, so very sad.
I wonder if electrical grids are really prepared for mass adoption of EV. For example, UK is already quite reliant on the HVDC link [0] from France. In 2016 it got damaged resulting in a reduced capacity, which has caused serious concerns at the time. And it's not only about power generation, it's also quite probable that a lot of existing power lines would have to be updated to satisfy a higher demand for electrical power.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC_Cross-Channel
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> this gets more favourable media attention.

The "favourable media attention" you are talking about is here the Socialist Workers' Party reporting about itself on its own website.

I'd wager the BBC will not cover this at all, in contrast to acres of free promotion for Parler etc.
Wow, mind blown. Thanks for correcting me. Amazing to learn that the wave function is so directly sampled by TEM that the image we get shows Moiré patterns caused by its phase :)
While actually a good question, I am reading a bit of snark here.

Don't spend your time on anything you don't want to, but if you want to learn about .NET GC then either research the author or research other deep dives into .NET GC.

To research the author you could.

Go to the About page on their blog...

You could also look them up in Stack Overflow. https://stackoverflow.com/users/2894974/konrad-kokosa

You could watch the first 10 minutes where he addresses this.
Yes obviously I mean physical controls, like a volume control or a car indicator stalk.
Presumptive user feedback: "How come when I click this bookmark which has the icon nice and right there it sometimes takes minutes for the icon to show up on the tab?"

Principle of least surprises for the user is probably at play here. Bookmarks and tab icons seem like reasonably similar "chrome" to the user.

Separating the caches isn't necessarily easy either: it is just as likely to hand the trackers at that point a good signal for people who bookmarked a site based on whatever heuristic ends up being to refresh that cache if it is no longer "recently accessed tabs".