skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw an example of a poorly applied logical fallacy here on HN. The poster was claiming that an app’s popularity was meaningless via argumentum ad populum and that their chosen alternative was “correct.” It’s like arguing that everyone should replace their USD with Bitcoin. In an ideal world, perhaps, but we don’t live in an ideal world; we live in a world where popularity matters. I’m sure there are other examples of this kind of logical purism being misapplied to the real world, especially among programmers.
The coordinated banning of the president of the USA across all mainstream platforms was just the beginning. It's like they were afraid, previously. Now they found out they can deplatform everyone they want and no one can really stop them!
Trying to win arguments by just pointing out fallacies is on the list of fallacies too. It's called "Fallacy fallacy".
M1 docker is still in preview, so that's not an option for many folks running newer Macs.
now, I am on macOS and now nothing about Qt nor GTK.

I've read some in the internet and they say Qt is *generally* lighter than GTK. Is that the case? Should I try and build the Qt version for Nyxt if I want performance?

Also, does either version has more feature than the other? Thanks :)
And while they're busy breaking their current set of APIs, they're dragging their feet on adding anything designed in the last 15 years. Someone just wrote to me with a complaint because my software doesn't build on macOS due to missing getline and fmemopen implementations.

Naturally I told them to use an open source operating system and declined to update my code to accomodate Apple.
Chrome has “malicious website” feature to censor any website they want. Does Element have anything similar?
Mark Johns is a driver with no arms. Rare car at speed in Australia
Mark Johns from Australia has a modified very rare vehicle that he drives with his feet.
Same. Much as I’d hate to do it I’ve been eyeing a Windows system, with Linux either through the OS layer or virtualized.
My first exposure to programming came in college in 1998, we used Turbo Pascal to learn programming concepts.
It absolutely went over my head at the time, I just couldn't grasp it for the most part! And there began my life long journey to understand this thing called programming!
Over 20 years later and I am still bamboozled and confused frequently, but it's my living these days!
So that article talks about third party clients - third party e2ee support has gone from "basically none" to "a few clients". It's complaints for the official client is that e2ee is opt in (not anymore), fingerprints are shown base64 rather than base10 (a: who cares, b: there's an emoji encoded display now for shorter user recognisible fingerprints) and that it warns about being in beta (it isn't anymore).
Why do you imagine Microsoft made Visual Studio free even for companies with <= 5 users if the same people would've paid for it anyway?
Messed up stuff and entirely insane. They should ban whatsapp also and all other chat apps that allow end to end encryption proactively as people almost surely put abusive content on there.

Fuck Google, seriously. Fuck them. This will be the #1 political and consumer issue for me from now on. I want them to be completely destroyed. Google must die.
I'm in the same boat. Almost all Nintendo games are too hard for me. My girlfriend just breezes through.

Also other games. I'm just a bad player and have to find games that are fun nonetheless (Crusader Kings III), or very easy.

Food for thought: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/easy-mode-guilt
Hanlon's razor is not a good heuristic, I don't know why everyone is so into it. If there's a monetary incentive to be deliberate, it's way more likely to be deliberate. Deception is everywhere, especially in sales.
BTC Billionaire Tim Draper to I'd Buy Tesla Cybertruck with Bitcoin
Well the parent poster said they aren’t allowed to use that cash as collateral - if that’s the case, then not really?
There seems to be a major flaw in comparing the data between the two studies: the Pfizer paper is counting Covid19 cases (symptomatic cases with confirmed PCR for SARS-CoV-2), while the Maccabi paper seems to be counting SARS-CoV-2 infections overall, which would include asymptomatic cases.

They even say so explicitly:

> Second, our case definition was positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR test irrespective to presenting symptoms that defined COVID-19 cases in the RCT. This might explain the discrepancy in results.

So, this new research is not really contradicting the Pfizer paper in any way - they are simply measuring different quantities.

Still, it's nice to know that the vaccine also offers protection from infection, not just the disease.
Used to be? -6 and counting. Should get flagged any minute now. Can't have people speaking untruths ya know?

edit That didn't take long.
I assume you mean for the SNES. I grew up playing Super Mario World, and while I would argue to be able to 100% it requires this knowledge (IIRC that's how they encouraged you to subscribe to Nintendo Power), but just going to beat the game was not terribly difficult.

But it could also be because I grew up playing them, I'm used to the gameplay style. Some newer games are like you describe, I cannot get past some levels and I quit in frustration.
That's an excellent read, thanks for posting.

I am, however, quite surprised that this was regarded as a close decision. I guess a lot depends on wording, but when one person is predicting the dollar will be worthless, and the person in the role of judge claims that given global economic uncertainty, it's a "close" question, I wonder if they're just saying that to be diplomatic.

Obviously there's a lot of uncertainty, but one way to think about it, is that it can get so much worse than it currently is. And it seems like the predictions being wagered over were pointing to the "so much worse". I think the same holds for the environment, and for the proposed war between rich and poor.

I get the temptation to treat those as close, because there's tensions that you could imagine leading to some worst case scenarios. And so one might want to acknowledge the tension, and you want to put that acknowledgment into some sort of partial credit. But I think that way of thinking gets all confused and hair splitty, and comes from a place of thinking everything's a trick question, and not wanting to be perceived as overlooking nuances.

Anyhow, credit to all parties involved for formalizing their discussion and getting a bet out of it. I think those kinds of conversations are valuable, and I think it helps to get people thinking about what it takes for beliefs to be true over the long run.
Not every device is under MDM in a big corp. Often you have people like external consultants bringing their own devices, who need to participate in (semi-)internal communications. You cannot just MDM those and you cannot just issue bigcorp devices to them, so you need something like the normal appstore to distribute the software. Maybe you even have BYOD for internal people, so MDM could be hairy from a GDPR/employee rights/liability standpoint. And maybe you even have customers and partners who you want to communicate with, whom you have to provide with a viable option of communicating. You can (maybe) separate those into an internal and an external communication tool. But then you just have two different tools, one of which will have the exact same problem about needing installation via commonly available appstores.
The app Kiwix let’s you keep a static copy of stack overflow on your phone, it’s only a few gigabytes. It also has Wikipedia!
Not sure what a 'ban' even means. Can't mine? Cant take in exchange? Because, how will anyone prevent trading online? Does government still not understand that, the Internet has no geographic location?
What is up with the Preload List? Porn gets to bypass autoplay?
BJ and DT.
Text requires at least two bytes (it needs a separator), and negative numbers require yet another byte. So it's hard to make a point that they occupy less storage. But there is another advantage: it can represent infinitely large numbers.
Really nice. Looks like nextjournal is making a big bet on clojure: https://twitter.com/mkvlr/status/1355272185733111809?s=19
Yes, my wife and I actually played through without chests in the last decade. It's quite a fun experiment and yes it is difficult.
AstraZeneca's CEO said this in an interview:

> As soon as we have reached a sufficient number of vaccinations in the UK, we will be able to use that site to help Europe as well. But the contract with the UK was signed first and the UK, of course, said “you supply us first”, and this is fair enough. [1]

It’s just an out of context quote and the problem is more complex than this, but I think it’s fair to say that you could interpret this statement as “first come first serve” and since the contents of the contract with the UK are still unknown, this also raises some questions.

[1] https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/01/26/news/interview_...
I am on 14.4 but I don’t remember seeing anything like you mention in any 14.x version. Just long press the app you want to delete in the App Library and select “Delete App”. Otherwise go to Settings - General - iPhone Storage and select the app you want to delete and delete it from there.
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We're talking about Ubuntu. Distro X is always Ubuntu. Y and Z are usually picked from Debian, Red Hat, Fedora and Arch
Yes I can confirm. Robinhood sold 3 of my GME options as I was selling some of my other positions in order to exercise 3 GME $115C JAN29 for $150 and 6 ACM $7C for ~$5 for me at 2:13pm on 1/29/21.

This was when both stocks were near the lowest point during the day.

I had ~$110,000 total portfolio with many positions holding penny stocks strictly so I would be able to unload in the afternoon. I had been exercising AMC $7C all day and 2 of them were not sold automatically as I had sell limits on them.

Immediately after, both GME and AMC prices went up.

This is criminal on a level I have not seen before. An options contract gives me the right to buy the shares at a certain price and that right was taken away from me.

The total difference in the GME contracts from the point at which they sold mine and the average price all day was about $35k less. This. Is. Criminal and it must be shut down completely.
I beat Super Mario World and Yoshi's Island legit with no crazy shortcuts or save state scumming, with 100% in Yoshi's Island. I didn't play them as a kid when they came out, but as an early-20s adult through emulation, and while SMW was difficult, it never felt unfair or impossible. Yoshi's Island is more like a story, not really that difficult, it's probably my all-time favorite game overall.

A Link to the Past was significantly harder to beat.

Earlier NES-era and older games could be absolutely punishing. The original Metroid is bonkers hard and Super Mario Bros. 3 is much harder than Super Mario World.

I think it's a matter of acclimatization. I grew up playing mostly platform games (mostly on PC), which I think has given me an innate sense of how the 2D world physics and interactions work most of the time. I remember the jump to 3D games being like learning to ride a bicycle all over again.

Fun addendum: because I grew up playing Commander Keen and Duke Nukem and so on, using directional keys with my right hand is hard-wired for me, I simply cannot do it with my left hand, and I'm actually left-handed. I can use a mouse equally well with both hands, but I just can't do WASD normally for 3D games. I have to remap and flip the controls to IJKL. Today I just play most games with a controller, aside from FPS games.
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I have worked remotely in a relatively small town with 70k people. I have lived in areas like Denver and Washington D.C. and I will never go back to the grind and misery of city life.

Pros: save money, no traffic, nicer homes and schools, never wait in lines really

Cons: no entertainment you would find in a bigger city, making friends can be more difficult, can be several hours away from a large airport
Almost everyone with money has already left Argentina because of the socialist death spiral. If this happened in the US everyone in the 0.1% would move assets somewhere else, the way companies do.
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We've just published an official blog post updating on the situation at https://element.io/blog/element-on-google-play-store/ which we'll keep updated as things progress.
I don't really understand why they would need to put up a margin in order to execute/clear a fully paid buy order on the exchange. Users promised $x in exchange for stock. RH have their $x. RH needs to make good on the exchange or clearing house. Seems to me that risk runs the other way... Other brokers/clearing house participants might be unable to pay RH users because leverage + a unexpectedly high stock price.

I understand why RH would shut down leverage. After that point, I don't understand why/how stock purchases represent a risk to anyone but the buyer. How is the non-leveraged side creating a risk of nonpayment? I really don't know how any of this works though, so let's leave this all aside. Lets grant that RH/users are at risk of being unable to cover trades.

So what? GME buys on RH create a scenario that risks RH running out of money. So what? Why/how does this risk the clearing houses? It's a $20bn stock. A 2% move in any of the big companies is a $20bn.
In the "comments" page, for example https://www.happinews.co/links/5 , add a link to the article. In HN my "workflow" is to open the comments page of the interesting items in a new tab, click to read the article, and then click "back" to read the comments and upvote.

You need more post, like 5 per day. Reddit faked it with sockpuppets, but I perhaps you prefer to make the posts with the real names of the developer team. Anyway, more post and more comments, interesting comments.

Sometimes it's easier to get traction here with a technical post. Tech stack? How big is your server? Spam problems? (Don't worry, you will get spam sooner or later.)

Someday you will also have moderation problems. Each one has a different definition of happiness. The initial community is important.
There is no need to be the best, either. Look at an ecosystem. Do organisms need to try to be the "best"? Of course not.

Businesses are similar to organisms. They compete in an ecosystem to convert syntropy to entropy.
History repeats over and over again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3597025

For all the chaos, the Internet continues to be surprisingly consistent with one set of rules for BigTech and friends and another set of rules for the rest.
maybe you should show with some well designed experiments that your idea improves upon the current practice?
> Also, not everyone lives in the UK.

Also quite a substantial number of people don't live in the US. So as I said in another comment, perhaps we should all annotate our comments with information regarding the jurisdiction in which the information applies.
Can we just please pass some legislation to break Google and Apple's app installation monopoly already?

No, we can't solve the problem that way: the very same problem wound remain: EU and 5/9 Eyes want e2ee backdoored or gone. If you start legislating which apps are allowed, you're putting yourself even more at mercy of gov regulation.

And the regulation would be blanket, with little to no way of sorting things out through unofficial channels as it can be done with Google. It'd be "backdoor or jail", not even sideloading apps to help you.
When I am purchasing HW peripherals, I always check Linux support in advance. Since I started doing that, I had zero compatibility problems.
I find that as I get more familiar with a stack and start solving more "complex" problems, then documentation and blogs are the way to go. But if I'm learning something new and need to change the background color if a button blue then usually stack overflow is the fastest place to figure that out.
Ditching WhatsApp
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20210129191423/https://learn.rob...
Country Phone Code in JSON
It could be both. You can make an untruthful statement about why you didn't do your homework, and the untruthful statement can be logically fallacious as well as untruthful. I don't believe that one precludes the other. I would even go so far as to say that those properties frequently go hand in hand.
> What stops somebody from purchasing aged reddit accounts and then pumping up, upvoting their own threads?

I think it is already happening. Search Reddit for Tootsie roll. One 3 yr old Reddit acct with no posts makes a flurry of posts about TR and it jumps 30% in 2 days.
In the medium/long term, this would just train people to ignore those popups. Or to use a patched browser.

There is simply no way to suppress content as long as there's enough demand. Somebody's always going to find a way to deliver. That's even true for really illegal stuff like drugs, copyright infringement or child abuse material, but so much more for content which is legal.
getline and fmemopen are both supported on macOS.

[/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX11.1.sdk/usr/include]
-> % grep -r -n getline stdio.h
stdio.h:355:ssize_t getline(char \* __restrict __linep, size_t \* __restrict __linecapp, FILE \* __restrict

[/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX11.1.sdk/usr/include]
-> % grep -r -n fmemopen \*
stdio.h:356:FILE *fmemopen(void * __restrict __buf, size_t __size, const char \* __restrict __mode) __API_AVAILABLE(macos(10.13), ios(11.0), tvos(11.0), watchos(4.0));

getline became available on OS X 10.7 (in 2011) and fmemopen on macOS 10.13 (2017).
Use Synapse.
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This situation is orthogonal to what's predatory. Its predatory that they generally encourage customers to front more than they realise they're fronting. Many customers think they're betting £1000, they don't realise they're actually betting their house.
I have been running Postgres in Docker on my M1 MBP for a while now. No issues so far.
So what happens if people start flagging Google chat products as abusive? Will Google pull its own apps? Probably a big fat no.

I was so close to proposing moving off of Slack and onto something like Element/Matrix. Unfortunately this will be a harder sell to my management considering Google or Apple can just shut down any chat client businesses use.

This is ridiculous.
I've stopped relying on Google to give me reference documentation on searching the function/library name.

I generally go directly to the API reference and do the search there because Google results might not even have it on the first few pages.

I actually get annoyed at being pointed at the StackOverflow question that shares a few keywords with my search, but is completely unrelated otherwise.
Because bill gates convinced them not to: https://khn.org/news/rather-than-give-away-its-covid-vaccine...
This is known as the "logical fallacy fallacy", which rarely shows up on these lists.

"orange_tee made an appeal to authority, therefore every conclusion he is attempting to draw is false and can be rejected out of hand."

It's a very jejune debate tactic, by people who have just dipped their toes into logic for the first time, and have discovered a brand new way to shut down arguments.
HP Dynamo is similar to what you suggest:

https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-78.html

Note that CPUs and compiler optimization have improved over the last 20 years and these results may not still hold.
City Guesser – GeoGuessr but with video
> who has consulted for Facebook on encrypted messaging systems

I mean, bonus point for the disclosure, but why should I believe is any word of that quote?
I'f you've had a pet bird, you might notice many birds have TWO opposable thumbs (toes actually).

So they can not only manipulate things, they can also grasp things quite securely, and do things like walk up the side of vertical objects and hang upside down.

I'm uncertain if they can do things like turn a screwdriver, which seems to come from the wrists more than anything.

and then there's the whole flying thing, which has kept them out of reach of most predators since the dawn of time.
> Could not find a way/command to simply clear ALL the cache (cookies, cached images and files, Database storage, etc.)

That one is indeed because most of those things are opaque to qutebrowser. They're handled by the underlying QtWebEngine/Chromium, and only for a few of those things there's a way for qutebrowser to delete them. There's an issue about it here:
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/58 - but many things probably can't be done, or only in a hackish way (e.g. by qutebrowser reading/manipulating those internal Chromium files, before it starts up fully).

You can however remove ~/.cache/qutebrowser and ~/.local/share/qutebrowser/webengine/ manually.

> The ultimate goal would be some way to replace the functionality of "Temporary Containers" or alternatively "Cookie Autodelete" (you keep all the history, but everything else is in Incognito mode except for whitelisted sites.)

Via qutebrowser's `--temp-basedir` (or `--basedir`) flag, you can already start an isolated instance - but indeed the history won't be shared with the main instance (and neither will e.g. the config, but there's the --config-py flag).

There are also some "profile managers" which are based on the `--basedir` flag: https://www.reddit.com/r/qutebrowser/comments/l6zj0z/compari...

Finally, I'd indeed like to have a container-like feature integrated into qutebrowser itself in some way: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/4102 - automatically switching containers based on the URL unfortunately won't be possible, but I think even just launching a new window with a different storage path (i.e. profile) would provide a lot of value.

> Can't disable WebRTC (= unique device id can always be tracked)

I think to fully disable it, you'll need to rebuild QtWebEngine. As far as I know, this is a Chromium limitation. Can you elaborate on "unique device id" though? I'm only aware of WebRTC leaking internal IPs, which can be prevented via the `content.webrtc_ip_handling_policy` setting.

> Great project, keep it up :)

Thanks for all the feedback, I really appreciate it!
Why not both. There’s value to learning to take calculated risk. If you put a tiny sum where you are okay loosing to make a quick buck and have a decent model of probability, it works out.
As a long-term Linux user, I have been forced on occasion over the last few years to use MacOS. I am at an almost complete loss as to what anyone sees in it. Standard utilities that work seamlessly on Linux are regularly broken, there's a weird security system that requires me to do all sorts of boot-time nonsense just to have control over my own machine... and now, apparently, they're violating the first rule of kernel development by breaking userspace.

The hardware is nice, but as a platform, I just don't get it.
They were on OSX Lepoard, maybe that's not the most recent one? I don't use Mac. When were they introduced?

In any case, it's a trend with Apple, even if this particular example is wrong. See also: Vulkan.
Some normies simply don't like going to those particular nightclubs because it makes the owners even more powerful and puts money in their pockets.