skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could ban the manufacturing of anything with an ARM core, in China, in the extreme case.
I don't understand why Softbank won't just put it back to the public market and list on the LSE.
I can't even recall the last time I saw a physical fight. Last time I participated in one was around 1980.
I've never been to one of those but it does sound great!

I'll have a look around my area and try one post-lockdown, although I feel like it'd be so much easier to join if I already knew someone who went...
I'm British and living in The Netherlands.

The British - like the Germans - are good at doing. They're going to have a really hard time for the next decade but they'll pull themselves out of the slump.

The Dutch - they are more "managerial", the culture involves spending a huge amount of time talking and very little doing. Our PM is a great example - he's an identikit guy in a suit, who ticks all of the boxes. Even as far as keeping the parts of his life which do not confirm to standard quiet. No vision, manages like a soft MBA, mediocre. Looks a saint compared to Johnson or Trump. The previous guy was the same.

Just compare our vaccination efforts to those of the UK or Germany. Miles behind. We're probably still discussing the ethical ramifications and impact of the human rights of the tiny subgroup of people who will reject the vaccination for hipster*/religious reasons

* Management culture, so you have an army of dummies who study something easy at university so they can get a career in middle management, drinking coffee and reading/sharing pseudo science on Facebook.
I find your privacy policy rather disturbing.

Basically you initially say no data ever leaves the device but then you go on to say:

1) in case of a problem you gather detailed log data

2) you “may” store third party tracking cookies

3) third parties will get access to my personal information (though you seem to promise they won’t abuse it) hmm

4) you directly write you can’t guarantee the safety of my personal information

I think I’ll pass on this one.

Edit: privacy policy: https://hush-1.flycricket.io/privacy.html
> I just don't believe in the supernatural or any belief system that requires the breaking of the Second Law of Thermodynamics without any explanation of how.

Like the spontaneous generation of life that continuously grows more and more complex?
I get those even without a website at the domain. They just spam everyone who can be found from whois data (lists of non-expired domains they probably just buy from somewhere).
I used to stop in at the Godiva store in the mall nearby--mainly went there for gifts and the occasional overpriced drinking cocoa on a date. Personally my chocolate consuming habits shifted to buying bars at stores like Whole Foods. I hate seeing stores that offer something unique close, especially local coffee roasters with a cool vibe, but just don't get too sad about chains like Godiva shifting to online only.
I see nobody answered this… so I'll answer with the caveat that I'm the author and thus biased. But I did use RT before making Filmulator, and I still use it in conjunction occasionally.

RawTherapee does no photo management. Filmulator does.

RawTherapee has many ways to achieve a given result, with tons of flexibility, but gives little guidance as to what's best for what. Filmulator only has one tool for each job, and is much less flexible overall—but it's easier to learn.

RawTherapee can edit jpegs and tiffs. Filmulator only edits raws.

The UI philosophy for Filmulator is to never add things before making them fully usable and easy to learn. I like to point to the cropping tool as a significant pain point in RawTherapee that I was able to implement more elegantly in Filmulator.
American cities are not that great, crime is way up in my area (Minneapolis). I want to live in Tokyo. Can afford a house, don't need to own a car, can walk everywhere, kids can take public transit and no one bats an eye, low crime. I guess I should move and stop dreaming.
my experience with high doses of stimulants has taught me that sometimes when your attention is drawn more closely to some concept than is usual there is a sort of "zoomed too far in" effect that makes it difficult to recall details of things less related to the prioritized topic.

Once the significance of the newly over important concept starts to diminish you regain your usual recollection abilities
Build? Sure.

Build well? These things aren't built perfectly the first time, or anywhere close. You don't always know what you're building until you've iterated on it a few times. It's just ready to forget that you didn't know when you have the benefit of hindsight.

And build well and maintain? Not a chance. This should be obvious.

Maybe we have different ideas off what a small team is. To be, 3-4 devs is a small team. In context, I could say maybe ten developers, but I would consider that a large team. At that point I'd be preparing to split into multiple teams.

In not saying they needed 21,000, but it's likely we just mean completely different things when we talk about a small team. What does it mean to you?
It's not that notifications can't be disabled by clicking a few extra buttons, it's that those extra buttons are outside the usual workflow. Going into presentation mode in Keynote/Powerpoint/Google Slides doesn't also go into the slack client and disable them, nor does it for other programs that pop up notifications (eg skype, windows update/app store updater), and why should it? Keeping slack confined to the web browser sets this boundary neatly, so long as you don't also allow the web page to display notifications (which chrome will do if you let it).
The main thing that stood out to me is the only reason Sun could "profit" from this accidental disruption is because someone in management was a nice enough person to allow something which it sounds like they must have seen as a small net loss for the company but a big net win for the engineers involved.

I found that part much more surprising and interesting than the presence of harmful politics or people climbing over each other to claim credit for something they previously dismissed.

Of course the story would be even more uplifting had Java become profitable and not just popular...

(I mean certainly Java was worth something and the prime reason Sun got bought by Oracle, but it wasn't enough to help the company survive as an independent entity and even with hindsight it's not obvious to me what strategy would have allowed Sun to prosper)
And in the other direction as well. I live in the EU and used to buy clothing from a UK e-store which would trivially arrive a few days later. This year, my 35eur shirt got stuck in customs and I had to pay another 40 to retrieve it (vat + customs fee). That was the last time I'll be buying online from UK.
When FB went public, they made money and had 3-4k employees, Google were pretty similar.

I don't object to lots of employees in principle, but coupled with losing money every single quarter, it's a red flag for me.
Let's not forget artists that are also hit roughtly by Brexit.

A good text by Fish "How Brexit Has Destroyed UK Artists’ Ability To Tour In The EU" [0]

[0] https://www.facebook.com/derek.dick/posts/10157827728953587
Amen brother.

My belief is not that people should be free to choose what they want as long as they choose exactly what I want.

I know I will socialize so much more online than in person and the 10-second commute is exquisitely delightful.
So called "best practices" are contextual and not broadly applicable. Blindly following them makes you an idiot

I've come to associate the expression "best practices" with "a set of unwritten/badly documented rules which accumulated over the years and which we apply manually and thus inconsistently, even though we could automate this at least in part".

Sometimes I wonder what would happen if my "best practice evangelists" from various projects I've been in met.
No surprise as one is supposed to air the wine before drinking. So the wine needs some oxgen to get to its best. The question only is: when is the optimal point reached? Depending on the wine and if you don't explicitly air it, it should indeed take till the next day to get to its best.

Fun fact: while it is said that whisky doesn't need to breathe, I always find freshly opened bottles somewhat disappointing and do think they get a little bit better over the first week open and then stay at the level for long times.
No, they do not bypass all of it, or even much of it. Their limits are being stretched, and courts may decide that they’re being used improperly, but I don’t know of any big legal changes enacted by executive order.

But a president just tried to use all of the power in the executive branch to overturn an election. And he didn’t even come close. That doesn’t seem very king like to me.
What margin? They've never made a profit as far as I know. Maybe they'd make more money if they let these local competitors take their unprofitable business.
Calling Chromium features gifts is a bit generous - they're more like bait.
Mach's IPC model actually got worse on newer machines, as the amount of cycles wasted in some badly thought-out decisions was growing greater. Fortunately other resources make it less visible, so certain things were mitigated (that's how OSF/1 offshoots like Digital Unix and OSX didn't die under its weight), but you could always get a benchmark showing its problems.

What Mach really did was strangle the microkernel revolution in the crib by becoming the face of it then turning out to be hilariously slow and giving that reputation to microkernels in general.
I agree. I live in the suburbs. Have lived in urban and rural in the past. I like the suburbs. Plenty of green space. Plenty of privacy. Lots of interaction with neighbors and lots of families with similar aged kids to play with.
All amenities are close by (but beyond where I would walk). Sure i have to drive, but its 3 minutes and its easy.
To each their own on what they choose as a lifestyle. Stop hating on mine.
I'm not sure it's just specialization. Outside of hands-on engineering, there are a lot of roles in product management, developer relations, marketing, finance, etc. that are pretty transferable between companies. There's just a lot of job hopping in SV--especially between often short-lived small companies--that you probably see less of elsewhere. Personally, aside from one company that went pop in the dot-com era--I've never been at a job less than about 10 years on the east coast.
How An Astrophysicist and a Painter Stared Down Black Holes
The solution is avoid ambiguous words. If a word "Means" one thing but people use it differently, it is often a poor word choice. This means your vocabulary might get a little constrained, but it guarantees effective communication.

Nonplussed is a particularly bad word. The rest of their examples I think you can figure out based on context.
Then I finally can stop typing “python3 -m pip install ...”
Also the presidential pardons.
> CO2 is usually your safest option

People with COPD need not apply.

CO2 intoxication is unpleasant for us because the baroreceptors in our arteries can detect when the partial pressure of CO2 is too high. This is the feeling you get when you hold your breath. You have somewhere between four and ten minutes of oxygen supply in your blood, but it becomes unpleasant within the first minute because CO2 is building up instead of being exhaled.

People with COPD always have an abundance of CO2 in the bloodstream because their alveoli don't exchange gases correctly. They likely wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Just saying. Your argument is sound and generally true, but it's true not for everyone.
Both dd's name and its command line syntax is intentionally arcane and bizarre and originally meant as a joke ;)

The tool is originally meant to do various conversions of formats of data on 8-track tapes and both its name and syntax is reference to (arguably less bizarre) syntax used by IBM's JCL to produce contents of tapes that need that kind of conversion to be usable on unix.
At present I have no choice but to use Python 2.x as Maya and Houdini (animation software) are still shipped with Python 2.x The industry has know for years about the EOL but it's going at a glacial pace due to issues with PySide / PyQt and Python 3. https://vfxpy.com/
"9 to 5" kind of became the expression. The reality in maybe most places that have formal hours is 8 or 8:30 to 5 with "unpaid" lunchtime in the middle.
Oh man, I've been carrying a pocket knife since 10th grade (pretty sure any statute of limitations has expired on that...). The first Dragonfly was my 18th birthday present to myself. I am now somewhat older and have only been in woodworking seriously for a 5ish years.

Mostly I like not having to go looking for a knife when I need one. In most situations there's one around somewhere, but if it's in my pocket, I don't have to interrupt what I'm doing to find it. Context switches and all that.
> Meh, the Monarchy has no power it’s just a ceremonial position

Even ignoring the secret veto that the Queen and Prince Charles continue to use against proposed legislation[0], the effect of the Monarchy (and the uncodified constitution) is that the Prime Minister of the day can effectively act as a monarch without the checks and balances that would exist in a republic.

> as for the lords yes the process of becoming one is not great (it is no longer hereditary however)

The House of Lords is the biggest parliamentary chamber of any democracy in the world (currently at 792 members), which is not a sign of how much expertise exists in it, but rather how easy it is for the government of the day to expand it with their cronies, who may then hardly ever turn up, except to vote to force through whatever legislation has passed in the Commons.

Also, it is incorrect to say it is "no longer hereditary" since there are, by law, 92 members who hold hereditary peerages.[1] Admittedly, the specific selection of these peers is subject to a vote (some elected by the House as a whole, though most are elected by only their fellow hereditary peers), but it is still an affront to democracy to have dozens of seats in a legislature which citizens are ineligible for due to their ancestry.

> I don’t think you can really compare with the American system where you elect a de-facto king every 4 years

You absolutely can compare it with the American system, and it compares badly, since the UK's de-facto king is elected only every 5 years, and they are chosen not by the people, but by the MPs, who on average were voted for by 37% of eligible voters at the last election.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/14/secret-papers-roy...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords#Hereditary_peer...
It's been so long since I regularly used optical discs (for anything other than the rare rented DVD) that I now assume by default that I'll need ddrescue because the discs are all old.
I did not expect this kind of performance. Neat!
For you to insist this is fearmongering is disingenuous and you should feel ashamed.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
People keep saying there are specific cases where NoSQL is better, but never what any of those cases are.
I'd love to try the Nikon 85mm tilt-shift macro, but it is extremely pricey and I don't know if it would suit me, not least because the sense I get is that tilt-shift takes a lot of setup for which I doubt I'd have time. Of the shots I linked, only the yellowjacket held (relatively!) still in one place for long enough that I might have had a chance; the others were far more typical in that they hardly ever stopped moving and I had to take what shots I could get. These were all done with a Nikon 105mm f/2.8 VR II, courtesy of my local camera store's used gear counter; for macro use, the VR and AF capabilities are totally superfluous, but the optics are excellent, it has a good working distance even at 1:1, and the extra features are handy for using it as a long prime and portrait lens.

The DoF just comes from stopping down a lot. The P. metricus shots are at f/32; the V. maculifrons I shot at f/25, and the spider wasps at f/22. The tradeoff with increasing ratios is diffraction vs. a more forgiving DoF; as I've gotten better at nailing focus by eye (and usually on eyes, which makes it easier due to their structure), I've found myself able to work with a wider aperture and a narrower DoF - that list is a progression in time, as well as in aperture width; the P. metricus shots are from mid-2019, the A. a. metallicus ones from late 2020. (The P. metricus and V. maculifrons were also shot on a crop-sensor body and the others on full-frame, which also makes a difference, including in DoF.)

You do need to add light at such narrow apertures, of course. I use three SB-R200s on a ring mount, with a controller on the hot shoe - a pretty pricey setup admittedly, but also one well suited to my particular use cases, including quick setup and teardown since everything has to fit in a backpack - I don't leave my cameras behind at home, they're no use to me there. For a rig that doesn't need to be put together and taken apart on a daily basis, you can do as well and much cheaper with a Lepp bracket and a couple of Ebay flashes plus an RF controller.

I don't know what to make of macro rings, if I'm honest. Even with a decent set that shouldn't have light leaks, I always end up with soft, hazy, weirdly defocused shots that just don't clean up well. I'm pretty sure it's not my technique, but I've seen enough good shots made with rings that I have to assume I'm doing something wrong and just haven't yet been able to work out what it is. It hasn't been a huge issue, but I'd like to figure it out someday, not least because a teleconverter is a really expensive way of adding magnification.
In most cities, urban parks are now covered in tents. No parent is taking a four year old into a public needle exchange
> Do these men think that time is free?

Written by someone that, for some reason, did not decide to maintain their own fork of python2. If time isn't free, why is it expected from maintainers to support other companies' lifestyle with their own time?
I was told that the math department had several early retirements due to deans on the warpath and attempted consolidations of teaching loads
Argon is better at reducing oxygen ingress in the short term, less than 2 weeks. But only strictly as a measure of dO2, sensorily a panel of experts were unable to determine the difference. So I would choose whichever is cheaper.
I agree. It's a low margin business that has never made a profit, so it probably shouldn't be valued as a growth stock.
> I expect this is how most of HN's crowd grew up, too.

To be fair this is evidence of bias, not evidence of superiority

> With more people and shops etc in your neighborhood comes noise and chaos.

This isn't necessarily true. Not all urban spaces are built like manhattan. If you live on main street next to the shops, sure, but a very easy and pleasant urban form is one with a main street with shops and quiet side streets with apartments and houses. For example, a lot of the neighborhoods in Brookline, MA[0]. The bigger issue is that because there's so few neighborhoods built like this, the few that exist are incredibly expensive and desirable, atleast in greater Boston.

[0] consider the map view here. Residential, tree filled streets all close to a shop-lined (and rail-lined) main street https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3396099,-71.1361021,426m/dat... . I lived 1 building away from the main street (just across from the school) and the only "urban noise" was the school. It was a peaceful and an amazing neighborhood. I would have moved there permanently if it wasn't like 700k for a 2 bedroom in an old building (or $3MM for a brand new 4 bedroom townhouse).
The office you describe sounds like a crap office. Comparing a crap office to remote (where it's largely as good or as bad as your decide) isn't really fair. I've previously always worked in lovely offices, with lots of light and quiet spaces, at places where adhoc working from home was common and acceptable (even if we were still office first). Compared to that remote working sucks for me, particularly for the reasons the OP shared.
I think for me it was not so much a concrete report, but rather the usual "this file is not commonly downloaded, please don't run it". This is bound to happen with every single version you release, unless you sign them, in which case the reputation for "commonly downloaded" belongs to the signing key instead, so subsequent versions will not show a warning again.
Is Europe somehow the ideal? I don’t think so.

I’ve been to Europe and seen the mass of cars in the down town core and shit parking situation.

I’d say chicago doing is pretty good compared to Europe.

My overall point is despite good mass transit and dense housing, when people can afford it it, many people prefer cars.
> no constitution

We don't have a codified constitution, but we still have one; it's just made up of various written laws and unwritten things like conventions.

I agree that the system isn't particularly democratic though: the executive (Government) can pretty much do what it wants when it has a majority in the Commons and the relevant promises in its manifesto (to bypass the Salisbury Convention in the Lords).
There seems to be a lot of pressure to rename words that comes from tribalism. Tribalism redistributes power and words can be leveraged distinguish a tribe.

Take for example calling a group of people "guys". Always when I was a child, and still usually now, guys referred to both genders when speaking to a mixed gender group. But it is empowering to the feminist tribe to be distinct, and interpreting guys as a kind of insult to females has that effect. It converts a statement meant to be neutral into a kind of oppression, by giving it a different meaning than the speaker intended. It separates a tribe and gives them reason for solidarity and sympathy.

That's a lot of mileage from a simple redefinition, and the result is positive where the resulting tribalism is a positive force. That it is a positive force is obvious to the tribe member. So I think this strategy will be a permanent feature of language evolution.
Lifehack of the month! So obvious and so little used.
Joe Biden might bring 'unity' – to the Middle East
You could also use built in browser screen share. (instead of electron app)
> A shit tonne of brits haven't done much with their lives. They've just sat and grumbled that their job doesn't pay enough (while refusing to work harder or change employer or get a qualification).

This is neither fair nor accurate, and is the same kind of thinking that people attributed to Trump supporters in 2016. The reality is there are whole areas of the country that feel unsupported by their government.

Jobs they held have been offshored as a result of globalalisation and deepening income inequality ensures that they receive smaller and smaller shares of the pie, despite worker productivity vastly increasing.
Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to shakedown Facebook and Google
The government is inept, and will often do symbolic token gestures. Plastic is a big case in point. They are going for useless plastic bag bans, and plastic straw bans instead of the real issues.

Clothes made from recycled plastic bottles (yay recycling(?) are shedding fibers into our waters as they are washed. How is that ok?

Now just to be clear, one thing I saw in the US which I found pretty disturbing, was those small plastic bags used for fruits. Sometimes they were so low quality that they visibly shed little chunks of plastic. I'm fully behind banning those.

But as flawed as government is, I guess it's still better than nothing.