skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you have a misconception of what freedesktop is, it is not much more than a hosting service for desktop-related projects. If someone wants to submit an RFC there the process is the same as it's always been, other people working on that can choose to accept or reject anyone else's proposals. I wouldn't say GNOME or KDE or wlroots or any of those are being a main driver, the point with that is that they have to come together. None of them can just say "I am working more on standardization than you are," that doesn't make any sense when the participation is voluntary.

(And just IMO, things like layer-shell are not really a solution that fits with Wayland, that just puts us back in X territory where clients can position themselves arbitrarily, steal input and take over the screen)
The World’s Most Inspirational Iceberg Is a Fake
I know this is not the same app, but it is the same service, and it's a privacy nightmare from what I gather. If you care about privacy, don't use it.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/cl...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2021/02/10/clubhou...
3D printed house in 48 hours
Honestly just working on something without an existing user base makes a huge difference.

There's a certain amount of institutional crud that's just crud, but most of it exists because once you are successful, you can lose what you have more easily than gaining something new.

Millions or billions of people use the major products FAANGs provide. They might get more users if they make these products better, and boy howdy are there a thousand ambitious devs, PMs, and managers trying, but they'll also lose millions of users if they make them worse. Hell, they'll lose millions of users if they make them different, regardless of whether it is better or worse.

90% of institutional crud is "how can we not piss off the billion people who are happily using our products and giving us money, either directly or indirectly?". Users hate it when our product breaks, so we're going to have excruciating review and approval processes to submit code changes, style guides and minimum test coverage and an entire campus devoted to monitoring for problems. Users hate it when their personal data gets leaked or abused, so we're going to set up razor wire and require devs to go on a quest for mystical artifacts before they can do anything with it. Users hate it when the site changes so we're going to require a dissertation in the form of a sonnet explaining why the color of the buttons should change, and then six months of live experiments to be sure.

90% of what you hate as a user about big companies is the result of them "acting like a startup" and radically redesigning UIs or changing the core functionality of a product or breaking existing functionality to add new or just developing a new product out of nowhere and presenting it to you like you should care.
The snowy countries losing their identity
/s I know, most of the people I know came for the money but stayed for the science.

Those "salaried employees" started life as curious people, yeah some of them might be looking at the world with a blurrier lens. But they were constructed, the system made those people. While they make the problem worse, they are symptom not a cause.
I actually know what I'm talking about. Some other people here actually know what they're talking about. I'm not going to waste my time finding more links when you can just call them biased or too legalistic.

You quoted a reporter paraphrasing Gebru. And "proposed" doesn't mean everything was peaceful.
I run a team of about 50 on the tech side (about 100 overall) everything you said is spot on. It takes a lot of effort to craft a good Jira ticket that is actually meaningful too. We get lots of placeholder tickets and whole sets created from excel that are basically meaningless.

You need to really understand your tools. If people tried to use power tools the way they use computer tools there would be missing fingers everywhere.
I know, counter-intuitive it was for me too!

Professor Michael Young, Michael Rosbash and Jeffrey C. Hall won a Nobel Prize for research in this area in 2017.

[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2017/press-releas...

[2] https://bubblin.io/blog/daylight-energy-fatigue
So that's why I suddenly want to buy Lightspeed Briefs.
What about the bit coin whales?

The btc-e money the Mt gox coins. Satoshish original coins and all the gpu miners pre 2012?

There are plenty of people walking around with btc wallets with hundreds to thousands of coins that are basically funny money to them.

For every btc price cycle there is more usd and less coins in circulation.

Selling off 10 btc at the moment on any exchange would tank the price with about 10k usd....
I think Krita is primarily a painting program, not a photo manipulation tool.
Analysis shows magnetic field reversal may be more impactful than first thought
The problem is backward compatibility with external linking because this expects another word on the call stack. It also relies on the programmer to be smart about bounds, which, they’re already intentionally ignoring, so, I don’t know. However, there are some attempts at a hardware solution to provide memory safety without modifying the stack: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MPX. At array creation time, the pointer bounds are loaded into a register and the address is translated between a safe address and a real address. I don’t actually know if this works in a transparent backward-compatible way, as in, ignoring unregistered pointers and translating without being told to. I should also mention that AddressSanitizer also does something similar in software, and is becoming ubiquitous. The performance/size penalties are significant, bu it seems to me that the hardware translation should be fast if it is separately integrated with the existing cache address translation and memory bus.
it's unfortunate most kids dont get a skilled mentor by middle school. I had friends that were older than me, and my uncle, both got me interested in tech/"hacking". eventually the school let some of us help do some tech support. its such a waste of time to stuff kids into a room with no direction, just to fulfill gen ed requirements so the school boards ranks better. I had a friend get hired into tech straight out of highschool without a degree while everyone else wasted time in undergrad
> Its battery dropped from 100% to 48% over that time

I have the same model with insane battery life. I think your unit might have been defective.
Whoa, cool to see you here. JQBX powered some really fun virtual hangouts with my friends during lockdown. Thanks for building it!
I've resolved several online arguments that started in response to opinions I've shared. The methods the article mentions are methods I've used, usually because they seemed like natural ways to chill the situation.

I'm not sure I've ever changed anybody's mind online, but I try to always keep in mind that that is not my goal. When others disagree I try to make sure my opinion is understood, and I try to understand their opinion too.

One benefit to online argument over in-person is that it's easier to take time to reflect on my own reactions to others. I can take time to decide how to react. In-person it's often impossible to do that.

I agree with most of what you wrote - I like being able to choose when to be "in the bubble" and when to not be in. I think we'll really benefit over time as people learn how to use these different forums better.
This reminds me of what they say about democracy, that it's the worst form of government besides all the other ones.

Or programming languages. There's the ones people complain about and the ones nobody users.

Process isn't fun, and yes there are times when it gets in the way. But if you don't have one, you still do. It's just not formalized and probably powered by force of personality instead of the needs of the business. Hopefully those are aligned.

The powerful think everything is working great, and for them, it is. As long as the business is aligned with their needs, this works. But it doesn't scale to when you have many different stakeholders with conflicting needs.
The UK has had a national minimum wage since 1998.

The only significant "blow" to the free market i can think of happened in 2008 with the proof that millionaire bankers have no accountability and will have their jobs saved by the state, no matter the cost.
Yeah. I like your way of putting it. It's true that online and how people interact can be quite misleading. It's a really good point on how we can build better systems to match our instincts
I had similar experiences in high school where I was bullied constantly but the only way I knew to deal with it was by fighting back aggressively (verbally and physically). It sometimes stopped them from bullying me more directly but usually ended with me getting in trouble and being labeled crazy.

This led to counselors and people telling me I had anger/emotional issues and I should just ignore the bullies. There's wisdom in ignoring haters and self-coping mechanisms but as a teenager in a forced social system it's not a great answer. This was the 90's.

I hope society/adults have better responses now but I doubt it.
@idlewords, I renewed for a year, having signed up in 2014. For me, it's an essential service.

I didn't receive any email about this; the most recent message I have is a password reset in 2017.

Aren't the deep discounts for multi-year renewal tantamount to recapitulating the problem with the original one-time sign up fee? i.e., having to run the service with no recurring revenue.
If one person has all the pizza and you cut it into more pieces and give it to other people wouldn't it feed more people?
I completely agree.

Our demand for meat has increased so much it is inevitable that the market is going to resort to breeding animals faster with less care to supply the demand.

By cutting down we can have a positive impact
How exactly would you prove that school bullying is uncommon in schools? I highly doubt your second point is true. If you have some research it would be much appreciated.
Freezing is not the only threat. The functioning of cells depends on proteins that only work effectively within certain temperature ranges. Ectotherms tend to have multiple different pathways for a given process that cover several different temperature ranges while endotherms don't. So, do birds have that? Do their feet still grow, heal, fight infections when they're cold or do they depend on time spent with their feet warm?
And if you ask me it's not Jira. It's the companies. I've been in many large companies and have seen other tools used. Jira is a huge improvement especially with its workflow. Have you have had the sort of reporting requirements and workflows implemented in a tool where what's a simple workflow action in Jira with a transition screen that asks you to fill all the required fields implemented as just a screen full of fields that you are supposed to individually update correctly? And they're all over the screen seemingly unrelated?

Now the good part is that you don't actually have to use all those customizations if your company doesn't 'need' that much process. Whether you have a Todo-In progress-Done workflow or Backlog-Ready for Dev-In Progress-Code review-Ready for QA-In QA-In Regression-Ready to merge-Merged to integration branch-In Integration Testing-Ready for master-Merged to master-Released to Prod workflow is up to you!
Why Package Signing is not the Holy Grail (2013)
Look at it stochastically, that particular set of events, yeah random chance, super rare. But with similar behaviors, could we make similar discoveries? Hell ya!

And they all feed back on each other. Then some other idea might enable us to discover penicillin by some entirely other serendipitous route. There isn't a single path to the future.
https://thesnippets.substack.com/p/bitcoin-records-a-new-hig...
There's effectively two main schools of designing multiple-terminal airports. One school is to design each terminal as a separate island in a vast sea of tarmac, so that all of the inter-terminal transportation has to be done post-security. This is the model of, say, ATL or IAD. The other school is to put all of your terminals around a central cluster such that every terminal can have independent pre-security access. This is what, say, ORD or DFW do.

In the latter setup, each terminal gets independent security lines, but there is often (although, as in DCA, not always!) post-security connections between terminals that allow you to choose any security line you want, although at the potential expense of a lot of extra walking. But in the former setup, there really isn't any alternative to a single security line for everybody. And if you have an airport like IAD where space was never budgeted for that security line in the original terminal construction, it can get pretty bad.
Immer vs. Ramda – two approaches towards writing Redux reducers
I think IOTA in this case is a better project focusing on a more important problem in the future (IOT) and machine to machine transacting.
I was referring to the fact that computers themselves are the descendants of logicians — Church, Turing, von Neumann. Your argument above could have just as easily been used to attack Turing machines before the invention of the general purpose computer.
I'm not trying to both sides this - but it shouldn't be controversial to say that the net output of the political system isn't great. This isn't just a reflection of the parties, but the will of the people.
There's a lot that can be solved there just by adding storage. I won't pretend it's a silver bullet, the only silver bullet here is the much more vague "invest in your infrastructure like your economy depends on it" - but Texas is so resource-rich that it treats supply as a solved problem, and has very little buffer storage between gas supply and gas plants. "Just-in-time logistics" carries risks and rewards, and a large part of what we're seeing here is those risks.
I'm sure this is already known but no one else has mentioned it, you don't boot into recovery mode anymore with Command+R.

New M1 mini you just hold down the power button.

I know that's not people's issue here but just thought it should be said for anyone new to the new mini.
Pangolin DPC
Obama accomplished next to nothing of note in his 8 years. ACA, while a start, largely doesn't change anything about how the healthcare industry operates. He accomplished nothing with regards to our failing infrastructure. The alphabet agencies sure loved him though.

So far with Biden, we were promised an additional $2000 stimulus check...oh actually it's just $1400...oh actually, we're not so sure now. What did he do instead? Marched the military right back into Syria on his first day in office.

So yes, this is a "both sides" thing.
I'm Australian.

If I want to read important disaster information from the BOM, I will go to the BOM site, not Facebook.
It seems rude to mention Strava in conjunction with withholding data in this way as I'm fairly sure they have helped to contribute back anonymized gps traces to the community for tracing of biking and hiking routes.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Strava

Similar to BSD licence, this is beyond their legal requirement and is some kind of token of good faith in what seems a mutually beneficial relationship. I'm sure they could do more and it's an open question on how to get those that benefit most to contribute in similar proportion but I'd think there must be better targets to call out.
How to (Actually) Calculate CAC
I just bought "Ra" after reading this and the "Transit" article. Absolutely fantastic writing!
Schiphol disagrees with you. Its railway station services about 45 trains an hour, none of which terminate there.

Making a stop is a lot less of an issue if it also serves as a transfer hub. This can greatly reduce the congestion of downtown stations.
Donate your voice for Timers and Such
Hello HN!

I'm creating a new open-source dataset for speech research. We'd like to record people saying commands involving numbers, for things like setting timers (hence the name "Timers and Such").

Donate your voice if you have 5 minutes and want to help out this humble Ph.D. student!

https://www.timersandsuch.com

Fun fact: two participants now have independently told me that they found doing this "oddly satisfying". So if not for the sake of reproducible speech recognition research, do it for the chance for some odd satisfaction!

(If you want to learn more about the motivation for the project and why more data would help, I wrote a blog post about a preliminary version of the dataset, made using the voices of some friends and colleagues: https://lorenlugosch.github.io/posts/2020/12/slu/)
I'm baffled that people are (or pretend to be) surprised by this. This should be completely obvious to anyone who's ever seen the inside of a high school.

Obvious how? Not everybody is socially astute. Granted, I had never been bullied in high school but I wasn't much of a social operator.
The Bitcoin Genesis block references The Times article on 03/Jan/2009, "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks".

It's p2p digital cash, but at the same time, you can't ignore the reason why it's created. It's meant to be a decentralized, uncontrollable currency.

When it comes to currency/store of value, you could argue that security and trustworthiness is more important than speed and fees. If you want faster and cheaper transactions, use lightning network, it's functional and growing in adoption.

If you want to use a crypto that's not volatile, you can always use stablecoins. There are both centralized and decentralized stablecoins pegged to the dollar.
No, despite being very open minded. I was a hard core physicist, but it would have been really cool to find something unusual (I did not have much hope, though).

Most people were in the category "I really saw it" and expected to just search "for that".

Some told that they or their relatives had special abilities. When I wanted to witness them they never happened, usually due to my "aura".

I spent a few nights in haunted houses. These were cool, the cracking at night was quite frightening. But ultimately it was not even B-grade horror (no slamming doors or anything). I saw rats once and this is what terrified me.

I met once an energothepeutist (he was "magnetizing" people's heads to cure them). It was on the radio, he came with a lady whom he cured. When he touched her neck, she collapsed. I asked him to touch my neck and make me collapse, he said it was dangerous, I told him that I officially agree to anything and take all the risks, he touched my neck ... (there is no music when you are on air, but the listeners do hear one, it was quite tense) ... I felt his fingers on my neck and yelled "aaaahhh!". He jumped 2 meters away. Of course I did not feel anything.

I particularly dislike the fraud kind (like the one above) who are putting people at risk (the ones that are sick and instead of medicine choose home - similar to the homeopaths). I was making special efforts to show how useless they are.

I had a lot of empathy for people who thought they saw something and wanted to understand whether this was true or not, I once met an old lady who thought that her dead husband was talking to her and I helped her to realize that these were various sounds in her appartement. She was really nice.

Unfortunately, many people will not believe anything even if it jumps to their face. This is BTW the same message I was being given by the ones that were showing me effects I could not objectively see or record.

One thing I did not agree to are "philippin healers" - they tell that they will extract your sick organs without you feeling anything. I did not want to do that because I feared that they would have some cutting devices under their nails (or something similar) and that this could get seriously dangerous.
That is really cool. I would be interested in hearing more about what happened with this project
They do different things. Agora is an RTC platform. PubNub is, as I understood it, a glorified websocket, which is used for realtime updates, like people joining and leaving a room. I have no idea why they chose this particular stack.
> Yes, the analogy between school and prison is spot on.

In general, I don't agree with this. However, after reading a couple of prison experts argue that prison gangs, and most prison violence could be eliminated simply by reducing the size of the prisons. They argue that prison gangs are a rational response to the inability to make prisons safe for prisoners, and that inability is simply a question of prison size.

I wonder if a similar effect isn't present in modern public schools. That above a certain size it. becomes impossible to maintain an environment which is physically and psychologically safe for the students.
This sort of stuff is why I refuse to participate in "traditional" social media, which is clearly unhealthy. I refuse to take my mind to bad places, where it could become unhappy. I simply cannot afford to be unhappy.

If I want to want to watch YouTube videos, I search for such videos on a traditional search engine via video search and get the YouTube link. Then I do a sentiment analysis on the comments of the video. If the video has greater than or equal to 10% of the comments containing negative sentiment (whether it be mildly or strongly negative), then I don't watch the video. If I decide to watch a video, I use youtube-dl.

Likewise, I use an Nvidia Jetson with a webcam to monitor my emotions when surfing the internet. I simply do not go to pages that take my emotions for a spin. I have found that social media always makes me unhappy, ultimately.
> Then you can cable it to mac #2 and it will show up as a drive. Additionally you can hold down option on mac #2 and choose the disk from mac #1 as the boot drive, and then boot from it. This is really good when say #1 has no display or has a display problem.

Does this work when #1's disk is encrypted (as it should be) on a Mac with the T2 security chip?
Thomas says a lot of nonsensical things during those 4 minutes. He keeps on continually referring to the trading prices of GameStop, basically belittling the market price of $100~200 and continually insisting that it is a company worth a lot less (somewhere below $50, I forget). Even though he runs a brokerage firm, his personal opinion is very non-neutral and he wants to dictate a market direction.
Here's an issue that enumerates all pending tasks for a first iteration of this feature: https://github.com/mindsdb/mindsdb/issues/1116
> If every constituent member of that order is causally dependent on something prior to itself, then it appears that the order in question must consist of an infinite chain of causes. Yet Aquinas denies this implication (fourth premise): if the causal order is infinite, then (obviously) there could be no first cause. But without a first cause, then (necessarily) there could be no subsequent effects—including the intermediate efficient causes and ultimate effect (ST Ia 2.3). In other words, the absence of a first cause would imply an absence of the causal order we observe. But since this implication is manifestly false, he says, there must be a first cause, “to which everyone gives the name God” (Ibid.).

* https://iep.utm.edu/aq-ph-th/#SH2b
Aren't we all gods & divine?? Aham Brahmāsmi is the truth - I am a god & divine. I am NOT tainted by eternal sin or whatever falsity dogma preaches..
But category theory is very foundational theory. It would similarly be like learning set theory without further goals, which would be fine if you think of it as alternative Sudoku.

As a foundational language it’s there to formalize mathematical objects, but that doesn’t mean people think in either set or category theory, as opposed to higher level objects in their domain.