skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Valve's development practices are apparently good for a chuckle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k238XpMMn38

The devs don't seem like they have enough time to deal with the code they have to write, let alone respond to security issues. (not their fault, of course)
How many dead people would that "normal" have been worth to you?

If, instead, people had behaved responsibly in mass and we had used the time we got from that to establish coherent contact tracing and testing, things would have returned to normal by August as well, only without many the deaths your way would cause.
I wouldn't even care if that laptop were an inch thick
I think lousy annoying manual moderation in smaller communities is hard to beat. Human beings have flaws but we have hundreds of thousands of years of adaptation to making small social circles work that might not work AS well in groups of hundreds or low thousands but they can be made to work acceptably.

When you say highly engaged community members I hear people who have no life who derive self importance via imaginary internet points and social position not by doing things but by running their mouths. While it claims to encourage community it discourages it by potentially punishing association. It would make people afraid of being associated with ideas others consider bad which sounds great if you imagine communities run by people that are largely or mostly good and intelligent when in fact people are largely bad selfish and stupid.

It would be ruthlessly gamed by individuals whose status would be based on their efforts to stir up drama that sounds fantastic when its directed at people like Epstein or Harvey Weinstein less so when you realize that this would be effective at silencing people regardless of guilt because people would need to as you say cut the branch loose.

I have literally never heard a worse system of meta moderation proposed.
I wouldn't say no to that if other specs matched.
At this stage, getting as many people to near 100% death avoidance and with some immunity is the goal.

We're not at a stage yet when we can play favorites. It'll be a long time before we have the supply to prefer one over the other (except maybe in the US where there will be enough mRNA vaccines to go around).
Yes. Every iOS user should demand they have control of their phone but I don't think that is required is it? If you literally can't install any application except from the app store then things are even worse than I'd heard.

edit: This is apparently true. I can't believe anyone puts up with that. Welcome to the Apple 1984 commercial in real life.
You are basically teabagging.

There is a lot of awesome people in the Free Desktop community, who work hard for what they believe in. Criticism is always welcome, there is a lot of work to do and a lot of stuff to improve.

But having people who use a different OS come in and ridicule all of that work is not really nice.

I've been happily using the treaded GNOME without filepicker thumbnails for 10 years now and I'm neither less productive not less happy than you.

Enjoy your Mac! OSX has a lot of great inspirations for the Free Desktop.
I'll go ahead and disclose that I found myself in a similar situation after attempting suicide by overdose. I was hallucinating and making no sense, not following direction, and I've been told I was trying to break into other people's vehicles looking for my truck. The cops assumed I was on meth, which is fair. After not being able to get me to admit to it because I had no idea what was going on and had never done meth, they called an ambulance and sent me off with the EMTs. If those cops had behaved the way the ones involved in George Floyd's death had, I would be dead. Which, of course, was my original intention. But the job of the police is to keep people safe. Whether they want it or not. When someone is obviously having a medical issue, they need to call an ambulance immediately.
It produced a lot of stellar (free) content for a long time, after all.
Oh no problem at all -- I think it's a great counterpoint to closed ecosystems like Signal and Discord which are actively hostile to third party clients.

If you don't like Electron, you're free to choose an alternative desktop client like Fractal (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Fractal) or NeoChat (https://invent.kde.org/network/neochat) or Nheko (https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko).

Or on the mobile side, FluffyChat (https://fluffychat.im/) and Nio (https://nio.chat/) are both solid alternatives.

If you're coming from IRC, there's a WeeChat plugin (https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix) or a standalone terminal client called Gomuks (https://github.com/tulir/gomuks).

It's still early days, but Element is genuinely committed to Matrix's success as an open protocol, and I find the community enthusiasm to be very encouraging.
Because the hexadecimal parsing rule [0] happens before [1] the rule that parses names [2]:

% cat 0xfor.py
0xfor 1
% python -m tokenize -e '0xfor.py'
0,0-0,0: ENCODING 'utf-8'
1,0-1,3: NUMBER '0xf'
1,3-1,5: NAME 'or'
1,6-1,7: NUMBER '1'
1,7-1,8: NEWLINE '\n'
2,0-2,0: ENDMARKER ''

Also, literals have to be evaluated before names, otherwise you could overwrite them:

>>> 0xzzz = 1
File "<stdin>", line 1
0xzzz = 1
^
SyntaxError: invalid hexadecimal literal
>>> 0xf = 1
File "<stdin>", line 1
0xf = 1
^
SyntaxError: cannot assign to literal

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#float.fromhe...

[1]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/5ce227f3a767e6e44e7c4...

[2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/5ce227f3a767e6e44e7c4...
This may be true for some, but is absolutely not true for everyone. Some people pick up leetcode easily, but for some it requires much more practice.
The Surface connector is fine, and has the added benefit of being magnetic, unlike any other connector available. For basic charging it’s very easy to get a USBC to Surface Connect cable, or if you really want you can use the USBC port directly for charging. The magnetics really make a difference in portability and I would not want to give it up.
I don't think it's a special pleading. Covid is a nasty coronavirus but it is ultimately an incremental change in a very widespread kind of virus that humans have coexisted with forever. Human beings have evolved to survive this kind of thing as a species. This is the kind of risk that a species has to be equipped to survive to have made it this far. Which is not to say that a virus can't come around and wipe us all out, but it would be a truly extraordinary event.

For all we know, mRNA vaccines can alter your gametes. We don't know because this is the first time we ever use them. They aren't like viruses or weakened viruses. They are just a massive injection of genetic material (much of it deformed) that encodes a single foreign protein. No human being has ever had such a thing done to them until very recently. mRNA vaccines are not part of any natural process that modern humans or our ancestors have had to withstand to get to the present day.
I was going to say "I'd skip all the traditional web-dev stuff and just make a little Go application that serves a web endpoint with something neat in it"... and then I stopped myself and thought about how much boiler-plate and explanations and step-by-step you'd need just to get kids compiling Hello, World... Teaching kids is hard.

Edit: i appreciate Go because there's not as much boilerplate or setup required as with some languages (unpack the tarball, set $PATH, and I'm off to the races) but even those steps mean we're talking about shells and directory trees.
First, which others? A friend in the US drove several hours to be vaccinated, maybe three hours each way, which adds up to the same risk as from the vaccination according to the site. Are you asking whether it diminishes his suffering due to the risk en route to/from vaccination or his suffering due to risk on the site? Or are you asking whether quantifying the two risks diminishes suffering?
But destruction of Earth is inevitable!

Even if we manage not to destroy ourselves in the next hundred thousand years, we still have to deal with some "soft" and "hard limits".

First we have comets/asteroids impacts. I guess we might have the technology to deflect them in the next 5000 years or so, so this shouldn't be a problem.

Gamma ray burst, close super nova explosions and glacial periods would severely damage half of Earth, but, again, as long as this doesn't happen in the next 5000 years or so, I think we will develop the technology to recover from that also.

Let's fast forward to 600 million years where things start to get interesting: the level of carbon dioxide will fall below the level needed to sustain photosynthesis... So no more plants. But if we are still around here by then, I guess this should also not be a problem as we will be able to synthesize whatever chemical we need.

In 1000 million years the solar luminosity will be 10% higher than at present. This will cause the atmosphere to become a "moist greenhouse", resulting in a runaway evaporation of the oceans. Hmmm... 1000 million years is enough for us to come with a solution for this, but who knows?

In 2500 million years Earth will lose its magnetosphere.

In 4000 million years the surface of Earth will melt from heat.

In 7500 million years the Sun will absorb Earth.

So... if we want to preserve man kind I would say that, in order to "play it safe" before things get more complicated, we have around 500 million years to escape Earth and ten times that to escape the solar system.

I'm quite convinced that we will manage to do both. I'm also pretty sure we will be there to witness it: we just have to hang on for ~50 years or so until we get functional cryogenic chambers; from there it is just a matter to tell the operators to wake us up in 5000 years once immortality is achieved.

Who is with me? :)
The limits of mRNA vaccine manufacturing are that it's a new process and the technology and supply chain required to produce it are very hard to get right. Derek Lowe does an excellent job of debunking the simplistic "Why don't they share the design" argument here:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/02/my...
> And then hand that formula to the rest of the world including Brazil, India, China, and other recent new COVID hotspots so that the virus doesn't boomerang back to the US in an evolved form?

Such a vaccine would also have two doses and require intense refrigeration which are the primary issues blocking it... additionally many of those jurisdictions might not accept a US vaccine. China, maybe, since they admitted their own vaccines aren't working super well. Russia doesn't have anything wrong with its vaccine but the Kremlin admitted no one is taking it, apparently because they don't believe in covid.
You are absolutely right. This lackadaisical attitude towards their games was present in CS:S as well. Security, gameplay, performance. All of it takes a back seat to milking the cow.
If the surface laptop played nice with Linux it would be a viable competitor to the X1 Carbon or Dell XPS
straitjacket: related to the word strait.
Note this is about phase metastability, and not RT, 1ATM high Tc. They don't claim that in the actual article, just that phases like high Tc phases survive at 1ATM. There is __no way in hell__ that they would have published this, if they hadn't already tried the viable RTS phases, and they didn't work. It would have been literally giving away a Nobel prize to any other group which could race to do it first.
Thanks- I should probably actually file bug reports :)

I am curious though: why roll your own? It seems like the only real differences are a) URLs/file extensions in the module names, and b) some type declarations for the system APIs (which I'd think just come down to some .d.ts files, not custom LSP logic). Microsoft's TypeScript language server is a wonder of engineering, and I doubt any small independent team would ever be able to go toe-to-toe with it. Seems like a waste to forego that if there's any possibility of utilizing it. A minimal fork maybe, if nothing else?
Learning and reciting the silly dance is at least plausibly correlated with job performance, hence fizzbuzz.
>suggesting that this PQed non-SC phase is stable up to 300 K

See page 5. The phase is stable but does not superconduct at that temperature.
It's just a set of about 3 gnome extensions, at least on Pop OS 20.10 right now. So in theory you just need to install the gnome extensions and you're good: https://github.com/pop-os/shell

I've been using it for a year and love it--typing this reply in a browser window tiled next to a terminal. It's easy to add little exceptions too for modal apps you want to hover outside the tiling.
Games also require root access to the machine for the sake of DRM and ineffective anti-cheating software so it's impossible to contain the damage they do.
> it's entirely rational for a country under constant threat like Iran (or Israel) to want nuclear weapons.

No, it's really not. It's akin to citizens wanting to walk around with ARs in case they need to defend themselves. No, worse, because at least an AR wont annihilate everyone around you after you're already dead.

The value in having nuclear weapons is the threat that you could spitefully take your opponents out with you. The danger in having nuclear weapons is that some day it could actually happen.

Mutually assured destruction is not a deterrent. It's an eventuality - one which we should be vigilantly protecting against.
Std: Jthread – I Told You Concurrency Is Tricky – Nico Josuttis
> Surface Connect - Is that Microsoft version of MagSafe?

Yes & No; its Microsoft's proprietary version of Thunderbolt 3, which does have magnetic connect/disconnect.
The Business of Hit Songwriting
Aware of that. Ctrl however makes me move my other hand and I am a lazy fart. Middle click requires significant effort on my mouse.
Iran is a large nation of millions of people with a relatively developed government (even if we don't like the way it is currently structured).

I doubt they would initiate a nuclear strike, knowing it means their annihilation.

Also, most modern statements by Iran focus on the "Zionist regime", not the literal killing of the residents of Israel. You can find similar rhetoric in the United States about the CCP.

> what is certain is Iran has stated they intend to use nuclear weapons

Is that certain? When have they said that?
It's humbling to see just how powerful the largest nukes are. https://i.imgur.com/FXmpY0t.png

(permalink: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=100000&lat=32.062921...)

You're technically right -- the blast radius isn't covering all of Israel -- but third degree burns across ~50% of the entire landmass would be hell.
short_anecdote: don't switch, it's not for you!
Open systems ungood. Duty of thinkpol to enforce goodspeech. Prevent crimethink. Users read only prolefeed.[1]

[1] https://genius.com/George-orwell-nineteen-eighty-four-append...
Yes. I used Opera before, and Vivaldi is as close as one could get to that Opera <=12 experience (unfortunately including them taking years to fix minor bugs that annoy you).

It leaks memory for me on macOS. Not sure whether it's its own bug or if it's the Nvidia driver.

On the built-in ad blocker, I don't use that on my computer (uBlock Origin is way better) but I do use it on my phone. I don't use notes either, IMO there's no good reason this should be part of a web browser.

The tab grouping is a cool feature. The ability to screenshot the entire page is also a cool feature, but there's a bug that causes it to capture anything with border-radius without anti-aliasing, I reported that as VB-56521 on 26/08/2019 and it still isn't fixed.

Overall, there's this lack of attention to detail that permeates all their products and sometimes drives you crazy, but it's still way better than all other browsers that redesign their UIs every several years for no benefit to the user.
Thanks for this.

I've split 'Handling diacritics' in to a separate section to 'Case sensitivity'.
This isn't quite RTS, but it's a breakthrough step towards it. If this pressure-quenching concept can be applied to some of the more exotic high-temperature superconductors (~300K) that usually require hundreds of GPa, it might result in superconductivity at room-temperature and pressure.
I'm using it on a Surface Pro 3 that runs Pop OS and have nothing but positives to report.

Additionally, it's by far the best tablet experience I've had not just on Linux, but period.
The US is more than just its government. It is easy to argue that we are in a cultural decline as well. We all have agency in that regard.
his point was not about needing to, but that we can trust google, and it seems we can't trust apple, despite apple's promises about safety and vetting
Regarding languages/game engines - is anyone aware of good game engine, that is thread safe?

My limited experience with Unity was that it's cool and fun until you want performance and then start hitting these annoying concurrency limitations.

Seems like Godot also has some limitations like that. [0]

Is that something that is general limitation of game engines design or limitation of languages they are implemented in?

[0] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/threads/thr...
I'm surprised people even create this dichotomy still given how good writing recognition is. I'd say in a decade or two writing recognition will be effectively a "solved" problem the same way spellcheck is.
It doesn't superconduct at 300 K, the metastable phase can survive heating to 300 K and superconducting will resume when cooled back down to 26 K.
Deno has first-class support for TypeScript. Refactoring code without types is not a pleasant experience.
With a free account you can basically create a lot of content and export it in a vectorized format. Far better than the competition I would say.

Illustrator isn't free either, but AFAIK it doesn't even have a free version that lets you do 1/4 of the features of Figma.

Of course for the nice things you still have to pay, but I would argue that Figma already gives a lot of free features away
Just wipe it down with a bit of alcohol (while unplugged from the wall of course). I’ve found the connector tends to wear from “sparking” when connecting and disconnecting and gets a thin layer of carbon on it.
>And if side-loading was alowed then every big player whose app users "have to have", e.g. Google, Facebook, Abobe, Zoom, Epic, would start their own independent app store (or distribution just for their apps).

>Users would have no recourse than to install the app for there (or do without Facebook or Zoom etc).

We are already aware of a platform that allows easy sideloading - Android. And most apps on Android are distribured through the Play Store. All "big" players still go through the Play Store.

When there is no such thing as the examples you described going on in Android, why do you expect iOS to be different?
Eyecam open-source webcam will make you feel spied on
Strong magnets for nuclear fusion reactor.

Other applications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_applications_of_...
Yes it is, if 90% of the reason for new tech is to get richer, if all protections like copyright, patents, etc are dropped then people will be much less incentivized to invest and stick their necks out for new creations. I wholeheartedly do not agree with your IMHO. That said we could absolutely improve our current patent system and copyright system (especially copyright and those parts which contribute to patent trolls)
Just out of curiosity, as someone who selfhosts Bitwarden, how is 1Password so much more polished?

I’ve never used 1Pass. Just, I’m always amazed by how well Bitwarden works and how there’s not really features I’m lacking.
The usual Fairbanks room temperature superconductors.
Pro tip: don't import those libs from deno.land/x. The runtime is agnostic to where you're pulling libs from, and that's by design. The AWS SDK v3 for example works great through the Skypack CDN, and you're pulling the canonical one, not simply a port maintained by a third party.
Not in Big Sur it doesn’t. They dramatically changed the appearance for the worse. Tons more wasted space. They broke long-standing keyboard shortcuts.

The move to iOS-ify MacOS with Catalyst just doesn’t work. Messages on Big Sur is effectively non-functional. I have a chat with a friend that breaks the message entry box reliably. If he sends me a message I have to create a new message to him to get the input box. It’s janky crap.

Personally I’m excited by a hardware company selling a fully integrated Linux machine and taking an interest in making a working OS. This could finally get me free of Apple’s misguided antics.
You mean it's a runtime, like Node.js? /s
No worries. I was basically just using your comment as a jumping point to say what I wanted to say anyway, as one does. Haha.

My experience has been rough and painful at times, because I tend to be very pragmatically and interest driven in terms of what I learn, outside of being pragmatic about what might be asked in interviews. I also do not have a computer science degree, as I studied mathematics, but I self-study on interests of mine and take interviews as they come. This has made interviews rough at moments, but it's worked out so far, because I would likely be very unhappy at a place that quizzes me on something I could learn over a weekend or two if needed and grades me solely on that. I had one particular interview that wasted an hour and a half on tree questions, then a few more hours on random discussion topics and behavioral questions, and they never once asked me about prior work or side projects. It was a complete waste of time and energy, for both of us, and I have held that interview experience as a prime example of what I have read about Silicon Valley and FAANG-style interviews.
Denmark has a fixed exchange policy with euro so it shouldn't count.
Are ethnic minorities extended the "right of return" in Israel? Last I checked this was not the case.
Ask HN: Can the community remove Google FLoC from Chromium
I believe Brave and Vivaldia have announced that they will not use the Google FLoC features that Google have contributed to Chromium.

Some have raised concerns about having to maintain "their own fork" and means
extra work to synch up the main Chromium tree.

Is the reverse possible?
Can the community remove Google FLoC from Chromium itsel?
Tell Google to build it for Chrome?

Is there governance routines for it?
Look if both households are low risk and everyone has been vaccinated go ahead and meet under one roof without any masks and hug - that's fine under current recommendations. It's even looser than that, like if you unvaccinated low risk children visiting vaccinated grandparents ad so on.

Right now across US being fully vaccinated is only 80% effective against infection. When you have 20k vaxed folks meet when the virus is endemic in the pop, some of those vaxed folks will be infected and some will catch it there.

When more folks are vaxed there will be less of the virus circulating and then that calculation then changes. It's all about how prevalent the virus is in the community to begin with assuming no strains appear that dramatically reduce the effectiveness of the vax.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/13/9864114...
It's more significant for AIs because we expect them to become super human, thus with potentially unlimited potential for disaster.

I would say we have been dealing with goal alignment problems with humans for most of human history.