skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an X11 implementation that runs on Mac OS, so it does indeed run X11 over the top of the Quartz graphics system that Mac OS uses.
Trading may be complicated, but when SV releases an app to make it simple, you can’t use that as an excuse.
I know that, but maybe that was for the best, it gave them guys like Zhukov.
"I think this law is about BS"

Fixed that for you
lol similar to the blog, I just got tricked into a prime membership. I'd swear that I didn't click the button in their full screen "upsell" page in the middle of the checkout process.. but yet money gone and only half refund. Their customer contact details is hidden so deep, that it took me 10 minutes to find out. Finally contacted them and got the remaining amount as store credit. Experiences like these puts me further of amazon. Now think about the definition of good UX.
Guarded Horn Clauses: A Parallel Logic PL with the Concept of a Guard (1987)
I am not well versed into how these logical fallacies are supposed to be applied.
Everyone is operating with imperfect information, so no implication will ever be 100% logically tight.

For example, using "appeal to authority", it is logically true that just because a group of Fields Medalists think your proof is wrong, does not necessarily mean that your proof is wrong. But in practice, there is a very high chance you are in the wrong.

Logical fallacies are binary, but the world is more stochastic, so I may be wrong, but I think these logical fallacies do not actually apply to reasoning about the real world. They only work when applied to thought experiments.

But I am no philosopher so I do not know for sure.
For Go learning: https://bitfieldconsulting.com/books
In that logic the parent comment disregards the original comparison operands. Innocuous, irrelevant, if not somewhat offensive and disrespectful.
I’ve been using a couple of split keyboards over the last year and it’s slowed me down because I can no longer cross over the keyboard to type a letter with either hand. This means you sometimes have to use the same finger twice in a row which always feels inefficient to me.
Part of the scientific march against entropy
The Capitol is a literal building in Washington DC, which is the seat of the United States legislative. Even if it _was_ true that "people were roaming the streets smashing windows" when Trump was elected, no one was storming the Capitol building, which is why no one wrote anything about people storming the Capitol...
> but the differences between individual VGA cards were too big.

Buyed the programming manual for the ET4000 GPU (>100DM for this manual alone, a lot for a student from the eastern part of Germany at this time), opcodes and all. I liked the possibility to easily mix Assembler with Pascal in Turbo Pascal. Machine code for graphics, FPU, interrupt programming, the higher language for anything else.

After that, I learned C from the Open Source Fractint. So, the transition wasn't that painful after TP's decline.

And anything was so snappy in Turbo Pascals text mode windowing system (as with Norton Commander too).
That is not true. I use Tridactyl on FF and on pressing v it switches to selection mode very identical to the one shown. Then you can use hjkl to edit the selection.
I’ve just moved p down a row on most of my keyboards.
No, it started with facebook being myspace with nazis and nudity banned; developed through a few waves of Google search reprioritization and the sanitization of Reddit(i.e. normie 4chan); eventually became open bans of radical Islam, Russian/Chinese political speech and commentary, leading into the Great Youtube Demonetization.

The Trump/Parler ban is largely the chickens coming home to roost; that crowd energetically supported all of this that wasn't personally against them, a lot of the modern US right is second-generation inspiration from the anti-Islam "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy and people like Pamela Geller (long forgotten.) Another anti-Islamic precursor to this has also been the constant anti-Palestinian activism at every university, and a good example of the career direction of the people who energetically participated in that is Bari Weiss, who now cries about cancel culture (which is both real, and responsible for her entire career.)

Now, with all the recently converted lefty Millennials minted over the last two elections still mostly seeing the world through the lenses of Obama Democrats, they've come to agree that the only real problem is that not enough people are censored. That's unanimity from left, right, and center.
> as well as the UK until less than 30 years ago

I'm not sure what you are referring to - we didn't use a liberal arts model 30 years ago. The modern idea of 'liberal arts' is an American invention, aping classical ideals but not actual traditional European practices.
Ask HN: What if Stack Overflow suddenly decides to shut down?
As the title says, what would happen if Stack Overflow decides to interrupt the service? Realistically speaking how much damage could that do to everyday work?
Dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25955216 with 80 comments and 250 points and itself was a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25953538 with 240 points

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25951390 Is the root - 564 comments.
This might not be 100% bad as a model, as long as it is properly implemented. One important thing would be the role of teachers in doing exercises and Q&A instead of plain lecture recitation from the books.

Having had a roommate that used to be a researcher in the university i was attending at the time I was able to see a lot of the back-office side that most people don't see.

Long story short, most researcher and professors are evaluated on the basis of the output of their research (number of publications, journals, h-index and that kind of stuff).

Teaching is really an overhead, and a lot of researchers/professors game the system by making things as standard as possible in their own interest (and whatever about the students).

I had seen this myself during a surprisingly short exam (circuit theory): taken in the morning, the professor had corrected ALL of the exams before 3:30 pm. The trick was in using simple numbers (the computations were not the hard part of the exam), skimming briefly the piece of paper and then checking if the numbers in the solution matched his own numbers in his already-solved exam. Duh. I had to go there, ask to have the exam evaluated in front of me, and for an important part of the exam he candidly said "I haven't understood what you did here so I didn't assigned any points to that" -- which is really bullshit.

You've got a phd in this shit, you're supposed to be a world-class expert on the matter, how could you not understand this? It's not that you haven't understood, it's that you didn't bother spending 30 seconds to look at the piece of paper. (I had learned from the book instead of his lessons because I had a full-time job -- and thus he hadn't recognized the procedure)

Anyway, I had to keep my temper and explain. He agreed and assigned me the points.

To come back to the original point: somebody might think he's just an asshole (and btw they wouldn't be wrong) but if you know about the back-office dynamics you'd understand that he was/is just minimizing the overhead. In a wrong way, but still, that's what he was/is doing.
It sounds like that doctor has lost some reputation to you now. It’s hard for people to say “I don’t know” for some reason.
I was trained to touch type by being addicted to IRC in the 90s. So if I want to type all lowercase with no symbols I’m like 150WPM but unfortunately slower with code.
> being consensual or not has any bearing on its efficacy

Not on efficacy, but in reported efficacy. Basically: if you're willing to be unethical about testing X, why would we trust you to be ethical when reporting about X.
So then it makes sense to disappear comments? Downvoting wouldn’t be bad if comments remained, but only a few downvotes net will bury a comment point. Make it 50 downvoted net at least.
Why should we need Chinese or Russian vaccines if a large part of other vaccine production is being made in Europe?

Basically USA and UK are hoarding their production and EU production, and EU are fulfilling orders for other parts of the world and not enough for itself - this doesn't seem balanced and EU should act swiftly to stop this bullshit.
As a French I'm still extremely bitter about the insane manoeuvering by the EPP to put her in place. Then again, finding anyone even remotely competent in the EPP is probably quite hard.
It is indeed. I'm black and when I first saw people doing that shit I was like... What is this nonsense.

It went from pretty being a meme to being a part of "Black support" which is worthless virtue signalling at best, and devalues actual black support at worse.
> With Edge switching to Blink, essentially becoming yet another partially-degooged Chrome

Now it sends half of your data to Google and the other half to Microsoft. That's an improvement, they decentralized spyware.
Ask HN: Is Differential Pricing Ethical?
ActiveLambda – Simple and intuitive No Code internal applications
The performance is hardly the biggest issue, the ease of bugs is.
Facebook’s Oversight Board wants feedback on whether FB was right to ban Trump
"Facebook’s Oversight Board, the independent body empowered to review the social network’s most complex platform moderation decisions, is now accepting public comments on the company’s decision to “indefinitely” ban former President Donald Trump in the aftermath of the US Capitol attack on January 6th."
Basically the EU was and still is being naive. USA and UK hoard production, while EU is seeing the stock go away.

Maybe it's time to play the same type of ball game, level the play field, and lock all exports of vaccines until orders are leveled to the deadlines established.
Too expensive, I don't remember the details but due to how their pricing worked, we had to drop Intercom because they count every user we show the form to and not by interaction.
> every important argument is fallacious in some way

An argument can be profoundly fallacious or not. A solid argument, pretty much by definition, is solid because there aren't obvious fallacies in it.

> dismissing every fallacious argument will allow you to "win" every argument simply by pointing out all the ways in which your opponent is wrong

No: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy
Determinations of chance aren't material, they're a matter of perspective and a tool to use when making decisions. The chance that a wrong proof is correct is 0%, and the chance that a correct proof is correct is 100%, no matter what any selection of Fields medalists feel about it.

Whether, when you're making a business decision, you go with the lone whacko or the Fields medalists is a different question.
You can tell HN is full of engineers - all discussing the difference between weighing and measuring, the utility of using DL for this.... but no discussion of the end product. Well, I made this the other day. I measured, so probably didn't do that right and my oven is crummy, so the temperature was probably off and I think I left it in a little too long (or I'm at the wrong altitude?)

So the outside was a bit more crispy that I'd expect, but it wasn't burnt. The inside was definitely cakie - not fluffy enough to be called cake, but not solid or hard enough to be a proper cookie (the outside was cookie-like). Quite edible, but it turns out you can actually use too many chocolate chips....
It's not absurd.
At least it improves you mental abilities; as when you try to write using your other hand.

p.s. Even occasionally I'm walking closed eyes.
>suspension is due to abusive content somewhere on Matrix; we're working with them to explain how Element works

What a joke. Does google remove their own messenger platform and email app too when someone uses them to send something naughty?
Hydroxychloroquine: +Side+effects,+Covid-19..+|+Health+Lines
No one who has been in WSB for a while wants the publicity, believe me. No one who has been around views this as some noble moral crusade. But WSB went from <1M subs in 2019 to 2M by end of 2020, to 6M now. We didn’t magically orchestrate it, they flocked to WSB after every media outlet in the world mentioned it for a week+ straight since Gamestop happened. Its an open forum and we don’t decide who joins, or when, or what they post. When 4M new people show up in a sub of 2M in a week, its Theseus’ ship twice over at warp speed.
Ask HN: What's stopping decentralised applications from taking over the world?
I don’t use stack overflow to much, I usually prefer documentation or blogs
A 100K-sized company is going to have a BYOD or corporate device issuance program with tie-in to MDM, which effectively functions as a private appstore (the DPC (device policy controller) (itself an app) can silently install apps (as in, download APK from $anywhere, hand to PackageManager) without confirmation, etc).

MDM infra is big bu$ine$$, but DPCs are quite simple to write.

(Psst. They also let you read CPU usage on Android 7+ (sadly not per task, but at least with per-core granularity). The catch? Installing a DPC requires a factory reset. xD)
I'm using the only statistic that matters, the percentage of the population being vaccinated. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

If the goal of vaccination is to stop the propagation of the virus, all the other possible metrics you cited are irrelevant.

Which shady tactics? Not being 3 months late to place an order?
> What a political cover up

No, it’s called ‘police work’. You don’t let the world know what you know otherwise the suspect has time to concoct a story.
Argumentative logical fallacies apply to conclusions/truths, not suspicions or intuitions.

They're meant to do exactly what you are asking for here: eliminate a binary rule from deduction.
Ouch.

> The issue seems to be caused by some new security APIs in Big Sur. Apple has apparently started returning with errno=EINTR from some system calls that previously never returned this error. Fixing this problem on the PostgreSQL side is not trivial, since it seems to require changes in both PostgreSQL itself and possibly in extensions as well, so it's unlikely to be fixed quickly.

> These are the possiblities:

> Try to disable security software (eg. Antivirus products) that might trigger the problem
Downgrade to macOS 10.15
Send feedback to Apple that they should fix the issue. PostgreSQL is unlikely to be the only affected software.
Hope that someone fixes the error in PostgreSQL

https://github.com/PostgresApp/PostgresApp/issues/610#issuec...
Unlike what a concerning number of crypto enthusiasts appear to believe, "sorry for your loss" is often not an acceptable response in the mainstream world of finance.

But just like most players in the space have magically discovered the need for KYC if they want any real mainstream adoption, I expect that they'll also spend the next few years discovering why chargebacks and fraud protection are a thing.
I've done it for years.

There's not much to say about it really - it's what you make of it, which means it can be horible or amazing depending on how good you are at managig yourself and your environment.

In my case, I am several timezones ahead of the rest of my time, which means in general my social life on weekdays is pretty much non-existant, which is a bit isolating.
That's actually intuitive lol, could it be doable in chrome?
"oh, now that you're winning, there's this extra unwritten rule that I forgot to tell you about..."
For starters that would require actually mentioning the person...
I wouldn’t be surprised if people feel uncomfortable googling in an interview even when told it’s fine.

You’re being judged for your knowledge (in part at least), googling something fairly basic doesn’t feel great even if it’s completely normal to do that in normal development.
No major apps have gained traction that way. So unfortunately, those are enough hurdles that this isn't realistic.
Ask HN: How has Diversity and Inclusion programs impacted your company?
At my current employer, the D&I program has resulted in the hiring of a lot more white women and barely any underrepresented minorities (URMs)[0]. I have experienced myself and heard from colleagues that referrals of URM candidates were rejected in favor of less qualified white women. It seems white women are the main benefactors of D&I programs just as they were for affirmative action[1]. How has D&I programs impacted your company?

[0]: https://diversity.ucsf.edu/URM-definition

[1]: https://time.com/4884132/affirmative-action-civil-rights-white-women/
That's almost all people in practice.
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An argument can be logically sound but with a false conclusion. An argument can be logically invalid but with a correct conclusion. The role of logical fallacies is to point out unsound reasoning. They don’t demonstrate veracity or lack thereof.

Regarding the appeal to authority fallacy you mentioned. I personally do not believe this is a fallacy. I do agree that the appeal to false authority is a fallacy. We all have to rely on the expertise of others for much of what we believe to be true. Of course said beliefs might be wrong but relying on expert knowledge is not a fallacy in and of itself in my opinion.
"Terms and conditions" often contain more than just restrictions on copying, they can have everything from arbitration clauses, through anti-interoperability clauses, to obligations that go directly against local laws.
Right now their endowment is looking perilously low. Is that normal for a UK university? If the university goes bankrupt, can they expect government bailout?
They already have been, since the very first day of the Apple AppStore (and hence its copycat Play Store). But they typically hit smaller developers with no recourse. Occasionally they hit the “wrong” crowd and shit flies for a few days, until some bigwig goes “okay, I guess these particular cats deserve a pass, just approve and move on.”

Google and Apple stores are like nightclub bouncers. If they don’t like you, you ain’t gonna dance. “Normies” don’t care until the bouncer picks on them.
That's why XMPP has been adopted for military and industrial use.
The most powerful and stable web framework is mORMot, it supports both FPC and Delphi. Here is its version 2 in development: https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2

I use Delphi all the time, IMHO, it's the best tool for Windows desktop app development - concise language, blazing fast compile time, easy UI design, flexible UI framework, all-in-one IDE, and so on. It's such a joy to me :)

And here is my new desktop software written in Delphi: https://docxmanager.com/
Don't be evil - Google 2004

We have a new policy - Google 2012
That would be absurd but compared to everything that happened in 2020, that could be very likely. A lot of $ billions are being lost which very well may impact a large amount of expectant people.
The fastest way to make it fast and performant is moving these 'Webgl' animations to a separate page like 'Github Globe'. Leave only text,
no fancy effect, nothing irrelevant to 99% of users.
What if a teacher's disability prevents her from being as effective as one who is not disabled, even with feasible accommodations. Does her right to teach outweigh the students' rights to a good education?
.NET (Core) has also an issue with this. [0]

Apple seems to intentionally break quite a lot of core APIs lately.

0: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/47584
If it's so cheap to decode that it's barely slower than copying the bytes, the problem largely goes away, no?

No doubt you're right that it would be more efficient to store the binary representation natively, especially assuming portability isn't an issue, and especially if a zero-copy solution were used, but many real-world systems have to cope with data formats that aren't the most efficient. Huge amounts of data are shipped as XML and JSON.
Lawmakers take aim at insidious digital “dark patterns”
You can use FDroid though.
SpaceX violated launch license in Starship test, triggering an FAA probe
Exile does not usually remove someone from the country. Greek exiles pretty much just had to leave the city they were exiled from. Chinese exiles had to observe a minimum distance from the point of exile, which was set according to the severity of their crime. The British practice of transporting criminals to other continents is abnormal.

We're talking about someone getting kicked out of Phoenix and moving to Austin.
Nothing wrong with reshaping their focus if they also rename themselves into the Leicester Vocational School. They should be stripped of the title University that they are not worthy of any longer.
All right don't have time to research, but when it comes to emulators what is the state there?
I was using collision detection as an example to show just how stark the difference is. There are plenty of other examples:
- Rendering sprites can be done in software, rendering 3d models requires hardware acceleration (for the most part these days).

- User interaction/controls are much simpler in 2d than 3d. In 2d, inputs are (mostly) mapped to a fixed axis, in 3d, those inputs are relative to your perspective which often changes. This leads to awkward situations like Gimbal Lock, and other issues similar to it that can leave a user confused about what their input is going to do

- Implementing gameplay features is generally simpler in 2d than in 3d. A simple example of firing a weapon is straightforward in 2d, in 3d you have issues like where does the projectile start, (from the camera or the player?), how does that interact with animations/the player model itself? Those issues are practically non-existant in 2d, but can ruin a 3d game.

- Anything that deals with rotations in 2d is an order of magnitude more complicated in 3d.

Taking it farther, factorio isn't a "general purpose" sim, it's constrained to a grid with very little in the way of external forces to be considered continuously. There's no gravity, the player walking on a belt doesn't interrupt production, etc. Factorio (to it's credit) leans into this from a gameplay perspective.

> It's a damned shame nobody's written some kind of amalgamation of libraries, let's call it an engine, so every game developers out there doesn't have to write the same collision code a thousand times. /s

Factorio isn't using one of those "engines" you speak of. They've been pretty vocal about how they've hand rolled the game and the engine underneath it.

> It's bugging me away how many folks are confusing pretty 3D graphics with technically complex and efficient simulations (such as piped fluids) on billions of objects.

Actually, I didn't mention graphics, you did. _You're_ the person who is "confusing pretty 3d graphics". At the most fundamental level, simulating an extra dimension adds 50% more of a cost, but in reality the algorithms change and become orders of magnitude more complicated. Collision detection is a textbook example of this, hence me using it in the parent post.

Factorio is a technically impressive game, there is no doubt about that. But it's likely that if factorio was implemented in 3d it either wouldn't exist, or would be a substantially less polished experience (see Satisfactory for the closest example).
or just looses eye contact for a few seconds. Body language interview is the thing.
That's not even true when looking at deaths per capita (because how is total deaths relevant?) If you remove micro-states, the top 5 in deaths per capita is:

1. Belgium
2. Slovenia
3. UK
4. Czech Republic
5. Italy

4 out of 5 are in the EU.

Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/