skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. What is "real world use" for you?

I bought my daughter an M1 Air for Christmas, she is a university student that mostly does written work in Word, research (so mostly web and PDF stuff) and obviously video conferences right now. She has no trouble getting 13-15 hours of uni work done (a little less if a lot of video calls).

Compared to the 2018 Air it replaced she says it is "insane". Although battery life is great it isn't a huge deal for her. The thing she loves the most is no fan noise when on video calls. This was actually the reason I bought it for her as she constantly complained about how loud the old Air was as soon as Zoom started up.
> Being a self taught software developer who has been programming since I was 12, I had no idea how to reverse a binary tree.

I'm also an autodidact having taught myself how to program at 15 but never pursued a bachelor in CS. I've failed coding interviews before when asked to diagram a sort function. So I upped my game, took an algorithm course on coursera, coded up some binary tree examples, learned about algorithm complexity. Then I got through the interview process at a FAANG.

Algorithms are not a part of my daily job but perhaps they are like an honor code for software developers as much as a martial artist will never use violence in real life.
I have only ever had to wait at the busiest chargers and they are all in high population density areas, not in the mountains. Even then I have never waited more than 20 minutes.

I have driven and charged my car at Tesla stations in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, and the UK and I think there are only two Tesla chargers that I have had to wait at: Lier South and Lier North, both just north east of Drammen on the E18 on the way to and from Oslo respectively.

The situation is not so rosy if you can't use a Tesla but this is only a problem for me when I visit the UK because of the very uneven distribution of Tesla chargers. However number of chargers, both Tesla and others, is growing rapidly almost everywhere in Europe so the problem is getting less acute.
The link shows a page with "forbidden" string. HN hug of death?
What kind of improvement will this bring to the seasoned nodejs dev, that it will leverage the learning effort?
And yet, HN operates on a (not "the") definition of right and wrong. Stepping outside the boundaries gets you a visit from the moderation fairy, and might end with you being ejected.

That means the burden is not on "people" in the sense of individuals. You can expect a certain content and tone coming to HN because the moderators ensure that. Yes, they're people too, but not in the sense PP and GP used it.

That was clearly an "each individual user should..." statement - and that's likely unsustainable for large user groups.
Money. There is way more money in the iOS ecosystem.
Would he somehow check for blood clots? What could that doctor have done?
I can literally call a cab in the middle of the night and be at your parents' house in 30 minutes. That doesn't mean the average person needs to (or should) own a car.
touch typing should be faster than handwriting, no?
Well, for starters you have to figure out how you measure "comprehension".

Seeming as different brains make different space-time trade-offs when representing/retaining knowledge.
LONG predate? Sure, instances of Muslims attacking Jews certainly do, just as instances of Jews attacking Muslims certainly predates Mandatory Palestine by thousands of years.

But in the centuries preceding Mandatory Palestine, there was not a sizable Jewish population in the area.
If the attacker gets code execution on just one victim, it should be possible to send invites to all of their friends. So you can't rely on just interacting with people you know well.
My advice? Ignore most things other parents say. My youngest graduated from high school last year. A public school. A sane school - though you'd never know it when listening to the other parents. Parents are nuts and you should take everything they say with a huge grain of salt. (Except me of course!)

On the college front things are a little different. My oldest two went to private, liberal arts schools majoring in mathematics and science. The SJWs make life irritating and the administrations kowtow to them a bit excessively but they still ended up getting a good education. My youngest is going to a public university - even though the nonsense is present, the student body and the administration largely ignore it except where there's a legitimate case (I know that's subjective, but what "most people" would consider to be a legitimate case). Most of our "culture wars" are made up by Fox News and CNN to give their talking heads something to blather on about. Hell, if we're all in agreement on most things - which we largely are - then why would you watch them? Their whole business model is making mountains out of molehills.

The funny thing is China believes it. You may recall Japan thought we were in decline, too.

Honestly, at no point in my life have a seen the future of the United States as being brighter than I see it now. Do we have problems? Absolutely! But we're doing a much better job not sweeping those problems under the carpet than we did in the past and that's the key to our getting those problems solved.
In case anyone thinks that this is a new thing, we had a white-only freshman orientation session at a University of California campus, led by a black woman who lectured on the history of slavery and ongoing racism. As a hands-on demonstration she led us all in several rounds of Simon Says, in which she ordered us to do things like stand on one foot, and reflect on what it would be like to have to obey or die.

This was in the spring of 1980.
It's true, no country is fully self-sufficient in producing all the inputs for food.

The thing is, you're unlikely to be in a food, and fertilizer, and a heavy machinery, and an energy crisis all at the same time. Putin cuts off the gas? Just buy apples from Poland, etc, etc. Generally, the failure modes for trade in all of these are not correlated.

Some foodstuff that goes into animal feedstock, or into wasteful refinement processes (say, beer) can also be eaten directly.

Now, I'm not saying that the government should do nothing about food security... It should encourage domestic production.
That is a good question to which I do not have a sensible answer other than a vague "both, probably". I suspect empires follow more or less the same trajectory as many family fortunes do: the founders build a base upon which subsequent enterprising generations build an empire. Once the empire has been established and more and more generations grow up with the certainty of it being there decay sets in. Eventually the empire either falls prey to its neighbours, decays without outside intervention or enters a steady state. The steady state makes it vulnerable to new ideas which might not necessarily be better than current ones but at least they are new or progressive.
I currently have XPS 15 with 4k screen and I can easily see pixels, so 14 should be a little better. There is also the feeling that it is 2021 and should I still be seeing pixels? I think crisp high resolution view is much better for the eyes and feels more natural. I am also almost always within reach of a mains socket, so I don't particularly care about battery life, just that I can move the machine from one place to another easily.
Python: Semantic whitespace is the one true way

Also Python: Meh, you can leave out the whitespace, I'll figure it out
This article is a new low for the New York Times. Only a journalist could take something as uninteresting as the half-baked liberal crusade against benign computer jargon and write an article as politically charged as this one. You can tell they're desperately trying to squeeze the last drops of attention out of this mundane non-story. It's as if journalism school graduates are only taught how to write the genre of "left-leaning social justice outrage," and they're absolutely incapable of writing anything else.
File picker loss of functionality is the fault of Gtk3 and Gtk4. It would still apply even in systems without GNOME at all. Maintaing a fork of Gtk3 and 4 with patches to restore 2010 era functionality would be difficult but not infeasible. Arch does some of it.

I've looked at the code and it is quite a terrible mess. It's no two line patch to change settings anymore because everything gets reset multiple times in functions you don't expect.
They do. They have a total monopoly on phones running iOS. Way stronger of a monopoly than PCs running windows in the 90s, given that every single iPhone is locked into this vertically integrated market.
US Suicides Dropped Last Year, Defying Pandemic Expectations
This. I started tinkering with node shortly after I heard Ryan introduce it at JSConf EU, and it was a very different world, not much for Node to draw from on the browser side, no modules, no promises, not even TypedArrays IIRC.
instead of a pyramid scheme i like to think of it as an inverted funnel
Yeah, sprinkle some crapto dust on it, and let it rot.
Yes, because workers don't as a general rule get rich, the masters do. Again, my comment was not trying to argue for the benefits of Communism, but to explain why it does keep coming up.

And it's because you can always come to the line personnel and tell them: "Don't you just hate it that while you do most of the actual work, the upper-ups earn hundreds times as much as you? Well, here's a solution: ..." And this solution was socialism and trade-unionism in the XIX century, communism in the XX, heck, even capitalism was sold as one in the very late Soviet Union, no kidding — it was seriously argued in the media that privately-owned firms would pay workers better than the state-owned enterprises, just look at the West, and many people actually belived that, really.

Of course, none of those solution ever worked, and that's exactly why they will always be proposed, in one shape or another — socialism itself didn't appear out of nothing, "when Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?" was uttered in 1381. So there you go: the spectre of communism will haunt us all as long as inequality exists, that is, until the humanity stops existing.
In the simplest terms, it is meant to be a replacement for Node.js.
It also implies that it's not a consensual agreement with your workplace. If you can figure out how to live your life without working, youre allowed to. Slaves... not so much
Because:

a) it's not entirely whether vaccinated people can still be carriers. I think it's now /mostly/ clear that they don't.

b) people are fscking awful. If you let vaccinated people not wear masks, you're going to have a bunch of philosophical zombies lying about their vaccination status to avoid wearing masks in public spaces. So, everybody wears masks until this thing is over and then some.
Deno has a couple of very good selling points, the main one is that it allows to use JS web browser API's in the CLI, this includes things that range from the Fetch API[1], up to WebGPU even! all in the command line interface.

Besides this, it uses the same module system as the browsers do. The JS module system is in my opinion very well designed and intuitive. No need for AMD or CommonJS or Node require's.

Other good things about Deno is that it includes a lot of goodies by default. In that single binary you get in your command line interface:

- A very very decent and fast bundler (bundling in JS is a mess, the Deno is straightforward and needs no config and no hacks, which, surprisingly is unique in the JS bundling scene)

- Testing library

- TypeScript support (for those that like it)

- Documentation generator

- Linter

- Syntax modifier (like prettier)

- Official VS Code plugin

Unlike Node, it uses Rust to bridge the gap between the JS engine and the OS, and leverages on a lot of very cool Rust libraries.
The Real Moms of TikTok
Fentanyl drug dealers are walking around and spreading it to others and are definitely not being dealt with the same urgency as COVID - given it's SF, the police probably don't even bother.
The company is clearly focusing entirely on their SaaS version, which just makes sense in this day and age. They provide the stand-alone version for people who know about and want to continue using it, but obviously they don't want to drive any new users to this end-of-life product.

In my opinion, it's not a dark pattern, it's just softly winding down the old app. That's not an unreasonable thing to do. If you want a traditional app, there are other choices.
Yes this quite outrageous, probably intel is paying to have the "highest" configuration sadly.
And this 16G is also soldered, so cannot be replaced afterwards...
I like Novara Media, for UK politics stuff, but also very interesting interviews. They have a quite wide range of interviewees, from a surprisingly broad political spectrum (that goes from somewhere in the center to the far left), and the hosts are charming, intelligent, and always well prepared.
What’s good for your career is being passionate about your craft and continuing to learn. Writing rust is one example of doing that.

I do see a lot of new startups using Rust and it’s becoming more common in server side environments. It’s probably worth learning.
> but more inconvenient than hitting a button in your bank app

Sure, assuming:

1. you have the app

2. you have the IBAN (or equivalent)

I'd say 1. is a good assumption for younger generations (?), but 2. is still more friction than what Signal could offer.
> The US military is a money pit.

Yes, but it's a very visible money pit. Its purpose is to discourage any other country from throwing their own money into a similar pit by competing.
If only everyone had a choice in where they spend their time and energy. Oh they do.
Use a Mac with a Retina display for a week and see whether you don't notice a difference — and it's certainly nowhere near half the battery life. Everyone I know who's done this has never wanted to go back.
Alright, then I think we agree. And using AltStore is not a luser-sustainable method of delivery, so the point is moot.
In my opinion companies create such departments to stave off government regulation, by pretending to already do all they can about "Ethics in AI" without government intervention.

If those people were hired for that, they failed spectacularly in their jobs.

In a wider sense, the whole "Ethics in whatever" thing seems to just be a power grab.

For example my country has Ethics groups debating Corona measures. I live in a country that theoretically is a democracy. If "ethics experts" get to make decisions that control our lives, why bother with democracy?
If you're not willing to be open with your source, don't market your software as open-source.
I know, from watching Signal's development and public writings over the last several years, that their strategy is to bring privacy and security into as many people's lives as possible while matching the UX of the best for-profit surveillance capitalists out there. In HN threads like these, I usually find myself in the minority because I believe in this mission and how they've prioritized it over other goals e.g. decentralization, free software, etc.

All that being said, I feel like they're really unfairly dismissing a lot of real concerns by characterizing them as just saying "cryptocurrency is the worst". The Signal Foundation absolutely understands that the key to winning the competition against FAANG and surveillance-based tech is just as much PR as software development. It requires people trust the app and the foundation to have their best interests in mind. Cryptocurrency may be popular, but it's definitely not synonymous with "safe and trustworthy" by any means.

They also don't really answer the regulatory question. Governments, in particular the US government, really doesn't like unregulated finance. If there's a case to be made by some SEC or FBI busybody that the Signal Foundation is involved in financial crimes, they have a lot of resources available to bring the hammer down on them. And that's just the worst-case scenario. There are plenty of other avenues that the US government could use to kill this feature (or the app as a whole), including exerting legal pressure on Apple/Google to remove it from their App Stores, or simply making MOB next-to-impossible to purchase legally.

I am in support of their mission to make payments private and secure. And I think there is a universe in which I can see this working out for Signal. The last few years have brought news of several well-known powerful people using Signal. US politicians have been known to use it, and the latest Facebook data leak seems to indicate Mark Zuckerberg is a user as well. If Signal is widely understood to be so valuable that people in positions of power are interested in using it, maybe they're betting that no one will dare touch them because they're too big to regulate. Here's hoping!
So an App Store full of real apps and 5 fake apps trying to gouge you per real app (some using ads so they are the first result). Sounds like a great future. Do extensive research before installing anything.
Config – a global design conference by Figma
Yeah, yeah. One thing I admire the Bitcoin fans - they are diehards. But at the same time, there's nothing new under the sun - greed is powerful! But it never ends well!
Kill Tuesday
Trump said he'd use nuclear weapons? I must have missed this, source?
Text rendering is way smoother, you can also read smaller font because they are more detailed instead of being pixelated.

While QHD is enough for me, 4K is great because it is a factor 2 compared to 1080p.
I think there a fine line between these and curated lists (which most would use) that create echo chambers and comfirmation bias (which many platforms have).

I like the methods this site uses over others quite frankly and that seems to be quite a bit of human moderation to get to it. But i think scale also has something to do with it. Reddit was much like this site in its earlier days.
I of course appreciate the effort but besides "a big Gnome extension" I don't see much that could be called a new desktop environment.

Also the planed features read a little bit funny to me, to be honest, as that are all things KDE Plasma provides out-of-the-box.

But clearly looks like an improvement over vanilla Gnome, that's sure!
Yes, the fact that they are being this cautious is a good thing for public trust. We have other vaccines as well. I rather have this level of transparency then blindly tell people to get JJ and we will figure out edge cases later.
Actually, I bet he'd be even more dismissive.
MacOS sort of supports it - the help menu for each app has a search box CMD+Shift+/ (or CMD+? If you prefer to think of it like that) will open it up.

Each of the menu bar options should be searchable, and the search box will open the requisite menu to the correct branch/leaf and highlight it for you.
> "Why is everyone worried about blood clots, and not that the J&J vaccine has a crap-tastic efficiency of 66.3%?"

The J&J vaccine is marketed as a single-dose vaccine, unlike the others which all require two doses to reach their reported efficacy. Single-dose is a massive advantage which will greatly speed up vaccination progress, especially in developing countries.

And 66% seems pretty good for a single dose.
I think it's a little murky given that they're not officially at war.

Anti-terrorism conventions define terrorism as explicitly including unlawful killings with the intent to intimidate a population, or to compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.
As I said above: "Don't expect them to feel a sense of obligation if you're going to assume the worst about them just because they are rich."

You say that "Every single one has exploited people left and right", what evidentiary basis could you possibly have for making that statement? There are thousands of billionaires worldwide, could you name even 100 of them off the top of your head, much less explain how each and every one "exploited people left and right"?

Haters gonna hate.
Haven't checked, but screen resolution might helps to explain.
Your RSA SecureID being the point of failure is much more rare and much more harmless than your phone being the point of failure.
I know about Marek's disease in chickens, but has a leaky vaccine ever caused a virus to evolve like that in humans?
Libya isn't in the Middle East
Frameworks tend to dictate a certain way of doing things and introduce a pile of their own concepts and abstractions. Runtimes tend to be unopinionated. There's very little learning-fatigue around Deno, and there's almost no choice-fatigue since it's only the second mainstream (non-browser) JS runtime.
> That being said, with Big Sur, 1Password changed its default behavior from being unintrusive to literally obscuring input fields with big “unlock 1Password” pop up’s.

That's not a Big Sur thing, that's a 1Password thing (I've not upgraded to Big Sur still).
It's important for people to understand that Judaism is a minority religion that has been historically persecuted. There is nothing wrong with working to preserve the tradition and culture, and if it ends in a small amount of ethnic homogeneity then it has to be accepted as necessary, especially since "Jewish" is both a religion and an ethnicity, so in the current historical context failing to preserve Judaism means failing to preserve Jews.

Empowering BIPOC isn't about expecting all the same things. It's about giving BIPOC the resources they need for their ethnic and cultural self-determination.
I didn't say it was unjustified, just checking if the hypothesis that bad PR leads to philanthropy is true.
Yes, there is a reader on the inside too.
> Diesel is far worse than petrol for local pollution for example. So let's ban diesel in the city, then as electric becomes more viable, we can finally ban petrol as well.

This is less true than it used to be unfortunately. Most manufacturers have moved to Gasoline Direct Injection engines for efficiency reasons, but GDI engines produce a lot more particulates than regular gasoline engines, although not quite as many as diesel.
Had surface pro 4, also nice hardware, decide it was going to update Windows right now 30 minutes into a trans-pacific plane flight even though every knob for updates was set to manual only.

Took almost all of the 14 hours over airplane wifi in which I could not work at all.

Gave it away to charity the day after I landed. Its sister unit a coworker had bricked itself about two years later.
The 2001 attack on the Pentagon is usually cast as a terrorist attack in the West. Words change: terrorism is now really more about who committs the attacks, and how much you like them, than the mode of attack or the target.
If attempts are up but actual suicides are down, did we just get way worse at suicide?
a thunder clap headache is also a symptom of a stroke.
I'm excited for Dendrite, their new homeserver written in Go which will hopefully solve at least some of these performance issues. I've hosted a Dendrite server for a couple months now, but haven't had the chance to use it much.

With that said, it's been disappointing to see how slow development has been on it. Hopefully it picks up and they can get it out of beta this year.