skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several of solid reasons to not change anything:

1. It might not be obvious that changing a setting could improve things. You need to have a solid mental model of how the specific tech works and how the setting could influence things. Casual users don't really have a model. Well, everyone has one, but for casual users it's more like a half-drawn sketch.

1. Changing a setting might break something - sometimes for good. Worse, it could break something unrelated (at least unrelated for the casual observer). Worst case scenario, it breaks something in a subtle way, that you only notice after a long time.

2. Changing a setting might break something that you can't fix on your own. Which takes us to a crucial social aspect: nobody like to feel dumb. Asking for help in many cultures and for many individuals makes them feel dumb.
Because of tiled window managers. Having many terminals open is often more ergonomic than the terminal's tab support.
What does "Liberty and Accountability" mean in this context? Accountability is quite broad. Can you narrow things down a bit and elaborate? Can you give examples of countries that tried liberty without accountability (as you mean it) and have failed?
Wyoming stands up for coal with threat to sue states that refuse to buy it
Of course they do. But if you don't want to see a certain type of ad, especially one that brings up painful memories needlessly, why would you care?
Apple has guidelines on the screens displayed before the opt-in.

I've seen apps fail audit because of the pre-text.
Are you aware of a discussion of the best scientific research and arguments on either side? my understanding is the same as yours but I’d like to become more educated on the topic
Well, they could reach out to the Debian or Gentoo community and ask for help. We would be happy to help them.
The Debian manual agrees to use `cp` and then to run `sync` to make sure all data is really written to the disk. I've been doing this for a year or two now with no issues, even from a Mac.
Illumos is a BSD, so perhaps, like other BSDs, they don't want to rely on GPLv3 projects like (current) gcc.
Opposition to an assertion--and make no mistake, it's purely an assertion--of moral superiority isn't anger. Reaction to haranguing born of that same assertion can be anger, but that's a different matter.
Know someone who works in a Glasgow A and E, says this really helped.
I'm actually quite surprised it's that high -- I've seen one prompt so far, and I was kind of running on autopilot so I accidentally clicked "Accept" before my brain even processed what it was asking me (and then I didn't bother to track down the setting to manually opt-out afterwards). I guess I'm in the top 5% of absent-minded users!
4 Years After an Execution, a Different Man’s DNA Is Found on the Murder Weapon
Depends, in the context of COBOL that would be some ORM library.
Can you group tabs in Sway? I have a lot of tabs open and each window represents a specific group. I navigate primarily by keyboard, and having grouped tabs keeps me organized.

I'll give Kitty a shot. I've been using konsole recently and it works for the most part, except when sending files through picocom. ctrl-a+s pops up a message about terminal flow control even though the keystroke is intercepted by picocom and not used for flow control.
They are probably developers who make money from ads. Or just people who click Yes to get things out of the way.

There is a variety of reasons one may click "Yes".
Sure, but my point is that if the machine fails, the drive won't be soldered. Just plug it to another computer and keep working.
"at 17 minutes, the reagent was added" ... by god or universal happenstance.
It’s a false dichotomy for me. I understand many people make money off it, but I just don’t want to see any ads. And I believe if a person needs something, they should be able to find it. But buying stuff because you see a banner? If the banner was the only reason you bought an item, maybe you didn’t need it in the first place.
>Apple is disrupting whole economy for apps.

I've been wondering why people aren't asking what kind of data is Apple itself collecting?

Not only from users, but from the marketplace. Shouldn't users also give consent to what they share with Apple? Shouldn't businesses also choose to share info with Apple?

This is gave us a sense of "justice as been done", but now we should look deeply into what the gatekeeper is doing, to what benefit, and how balanced it made the playing field.

Truth be told, I'm biased because I'm always suspicious of Apple because I always believed that unlike what they preach, they put Apple first above everything else... but I only see them getting an exclusive view of user behavior on their devices.
At first, I fully agreed with you. Then I saw another comment using "an experiment was conducted" as an typical example of passive voice, and I find that to be far more passive:

"...was conducted" suggests no information about the conductor. It could be the author, and in the specific context of an academic paper it implies the author, but it could just as well be anyone else on Earth especially outside of this context.

"Surprisingly" (or "the results were a surprise," etc.), on the other hand, doesn't leave anything to the imagination. I can't think of a way this word could potentially mean that another party but the author was surprised.

Passive voice could hide the party responsible for surprising someone (active "Alice surprised Bob" becomes passive "Bob was surprised"), but in the original scenario, the party causing the surprise (the subject, which could be hidden by passive voice), is the experiment. The surprised party is the direct object, not the subject... passive voice is not a term to describe hiding the direct object; that's transitive versus intransitive.
yup, had the exact same experience with a different product before. amazon does not care
But s390x support isn't dropped anywhere. On the contrary, IBM spends a lot of money and efforts to make sure it is well supported by free software.
As soon as I hit an “if” branch in a shell script I move to JS, Python or Ruby
What you misleadingly call an "elaborate story" is exactly the common story of how new disease emerges. It was even in the Sodergbergh movie Contagion from 2011.
So if many people are breaking the law, is the law set at a level where many are not able/willing to follow it (like say speed limits in many areas) or are more Americans by nature law breakers?
Well, what defines that potential risk? They can already charge you with crimes for endangering yourself. It's mostly stuff like drunk in public, excessive speeding with moby else around or in the car, or doing donuts alone in a snowy parking lot.

If we leave it up to the courts, it's not worth the paper its written on.
If it's on and you toggle it to off it triggers the "Do not track" across all apps.
Ok, I’ll adjust it. Thank you.
I’ve been on Sway for a few weeks now. Copy and paste worked immediately in Alacritty (without installing wl-clipboard), and it starts in less than 100ms with a warm cache (on a new and powerful laptop).
Yes the wording is confusing. If you turn it off it will block all apps from being able to track you without prompting. https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/26/allow-block-iphone-app-tracki...
Intel (née Movidius) were selling SPARCs a year or two ago in the Myriad 2. SPARC is an open source CPU with solid GCC support.
When I taught writing in grad school, I actively (pun intended) pushed students away from passive voice. Active voice is generally easier to read, and typically forces the writer to clarify more things within a sentence. There are, of course, certain instances where passive voice better suits the context.

Academic writing is needlessly dense for all kinds of reasons other than passive voice though.
I find that clear and simple writing correlates with high quality work on the technical level. Especially at the top of the respective field.

For example in AI if you read the papers coming from the best labs the writing tends to be on the point, short sentences, almost informal-sounding, actually someone telling you what and why they did and what they found. Not merely conforming to arbitrary rules set up by bitter mediocre "scholars".

But yes, people who are afraid they have nothing to say try to hide it behind long sentences with incomprehensible nested structures and overjargonized vocabulary. Plus equations that are designed to impress rather than enlighten.
I thought the point that movie was making was that George Clooney's character was not a good person.
The problem is much deeper than that for sellers. Enough negative reviews can end your ability to sell on Amazon. Add to that, reviews are part of the ranking algorithm, positive reviews will play a role in where you place in a product search.
Personally, I’m a pretty solid fan of UBI, but I didn’t try to incorporate my views on that into the explainer. As you note, there are a lot of weaknesses in the “work is required for life” principle that we inherited from the founding colonies.
A good rule of thumb: The more moving parts its has, the more points of failure it has. This goes for pretty much everything.
How would a drug addict on meth or heroin afford an apartment at any price? The homeless problem is made worse by the housing problem, but the people we see in the tent camps under freeways were not priced out because their rent got raised. That’s just propaganda the mayors in democrat cities put out to shift blame and responsibly.

> Edit; also, apparently giving needles actually has significant benefits to a community, in that addicts are constantly exposed to a medically safe space where their addiction is treated like the health problem it is. It also gives them constant exposure to safe, non-judge mental avenues for recovery programs and detox clinics.

But we don’t give free needles or insulin to people with diabetes? I just think our priorities are fucked. And you look at a city budget like SF where hundreds of millions are spent on the homeless only for the problem to get worse every single year and the money is never spend in an accountable way. I’d just prefer to help people who would actually help themselves so we aren’t just enabling them further in a self-destructive path.

I’ve never seen another country with our policies that seems to be a working model. Why can’t we just copy something that actually work? I find it bizarre we just keep spending more and more but won’t look beyond our own paradigm for a better strategy.
If they are stealing, committing vandalism or generally victimizing others then yes I absolutely agree they should be punished. My main point was I disagree with arresting people for possession of narcotics. Once it crosses over from a victimless crime to something else then I agree.
It is an ironic paradox that:

Attempts at destroying binary labels in one dimension create new binaries in adjacent dimensions.

Basically maximizing labels (identities) creates an inherent conflict amongst identities because it further removes them from a unified label or identity group. As people more tightly identify with the group that highlights their _differences_ from other groups instead of their _similarities_ then society wide fracturing will occur.

This fracture will further drive unrest in the parent society. To make matters worse, if discussion of this potentially negative outcome of progress is seen as taboo then the cultural "brakes" that can be used to positively integrate the changes into the future society will be cut.
My thought on the article was implied: I do not support Reddit's aims, and won't partake in their business model.
"Batteries Included" means it is super easy to turn it into an executable. This was why I switched from Python for my personal projects.
"counterintuitively"

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=%22...
If you read the article, they made deals to have people buy the product, give it 5 stars, and then reimbursed the buyer who got to keep the product.
Then flash it on an OS that's not connected to the Internet? That's what I do anyway. For some that's a pain, but over time I learned to have an OS that's airgapped for privacy reasons.
> I mean a 10 $ USB-C cable with more Amazon reviews than e.g. the PS5?

That seems like a bad example. People are having a really hard time getting PS5s, and probably 50%+ are scalpers that don’t care about writing reviews. And cables are produced and bought at a much higher rate than video game consoles, anyway.
"alarmed by" has 94k results.
I guess obsolete got verbed...
The post has no mention of mandatory minimums, prosecution pressuring innocent people into plea deals without proper oversight by a judge, quality of publically provided lawyers, no mention of re-offence rate and no comparison with countries that focus on rehabilitation.

I am sorry but this is vacuuous, it doesnt even scratch the surface of the issue
I don't know, but I think both are reasonable questions.
The problem here is that you can't imagine students being admitted to top schools not wanting to go to other schools. That was his whole point, top schools are seen as such a superior choice that some people can't even imagine students choosing to go to lesser schools.
> Yes, but where can I buy a SPARC CPU?

You can buy them used or new in various kind of servers.

> How many of those who have/can have it are running Illumos and are putting money/time in it?

Dunno, I'm not really a Solaris guy. I use Solaris as a hypervisor for Linux and BSD LDOMs.

> And more importantly what's the outlook for SPARC?

Well, you could make the very same argument about Illumos. The Python developers wanted to drop support for Solaris already and OpenJDK upstream did actually drop it.
The OP said 'generic symptoms.' There are no prescription drugs for 'generic symptoms', they must have a specific approved use and they must be mentioned verbally in the commercial. Here is the evidence to the contrary:

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/prescription-drug-advertising/pres...
It was called "stop and frisk" in the US. When Giuliani did it in NYC in the 1990s, crime was reduced _dramatically_. Entire neighborhoods were liberated. Washington Square Park went from a very dangerous "no go" zone to a lovely, family-friendly park. Giuliani was praised for the outcome, and other agencies started the practice.

But, unfortunately, political correctness won over, and the practice is mostly gone now -- and the crime rates have since soared. Giuliani was once called "America's Mayor" -- my how quickly times change.
tmux doesn't cut it for me. I use tmux on remote machines and really don't want to nest tmux sessions, and it looks like tabbed will spawn an alacritty process per tab.

Kitty it is.
Amazingly succinct post.

However I think the CCP are overplaying their hand now. They are doing too much too fast too aggressively. Hong kong, NBA, now going after Australia. It's going to backfire IMO.

Especially if you start to think about non first world countries. What's india going to do once they're massive covid wave is over? Is it going to improve india-china relations? You are going to have 1bn people with a border with China very very pissed I think at them.

We are only 1 year into this pandemic, and I think many geopolitical issues haven't been worked through yet.
What I really want, is a C++ book that lists the absolutely must-have features for a beginner-intermediate programmer, I don't want to be overloaded(no pun intended) with all those 2000 advanced features, I can read an advanced level book when I'm ready.

Basic types, smart-pointers(how to use them and when to use them), basic OOD and template(but no advanced tricks), essential algorithms and containers, that's about them. No need on constexpr, rtii etc for now.

In this fast-paced world it's hard to get interested in any books more than 300 pages for me.
And then pee on the floor and do jumping jacks, run in circles, then read a magazine, then install an upside-down lectern in the living room only to realize... you forgot the television.

God save us all!
For a moment I thought they would hypothesize that the patterns might be an actual “rendering” of what the birds were looking at, especially when I saw the 7th image which looks remarkably similar to a rodent.

Apparently I'm pretty far off, but just this idea of animals communicating images with sound waves was something I'd otherwise never have.
And in this article it's explicitly covered they were doing work on these at biosafety level 2 and 3.
As a programmer Gnome has really damaged their relationship with a lot of developers.

For example take a look here: https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3685#no1

>I guess you have to decide if you are a GNOME app, an Ubuntu app, or an XFCE app unfortunately. I'm sorry that this is the case but it wasn't GNOME's fault that Ubuntu has started this fork. And I have no idea what XFCE is or does sorry.

Gnome kind of goes off and does it's own thing without thinking about or cooperating with other open source developers. [Here's](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217) an example where they make a technical decisions that massively inconveniences a bunch of well known open source projects like GLFW and SDL (low-level cross-platform GUI toolkits).

Gnome are not good citizens of the open source commons, they do things that make it much harder to create cross-platform/cross-DE apps. GTK used to be fairly vendor neutral, it was the "GIMP ToolKit", not the Gnome toolkit. It worked with any desktop environment you chose to use. Since then they've been making the toolkit much more dependent on Gnome specific features and actively been making the lives of everyone else more difficult.

Also there are a lot of controversial decisions that make developers lives annoying, like [refusing to implement classic typeahead](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/244) instead relying on their search daemon which is really annoying for a lot of developers, and of course makes running a GTK app in a non-gnome desktop much worse. There are a few outstanding issues that make it annoying for developers to work with file paths under Gnome.

So yeah, they've burnt a lot of developer good will and seem intent on continuing that trend. LXDE even switched to QT instead. Really made it so that the linux desktop is less of a stable/reliable thing to develop for.

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https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2019/12/04/there-is-no-linu...

By refusing to cooperate with other open source projects they're really making it harder for open source developers to get things done and make new apps. Instead of having a common platform we now have gnome and everyone else, and there really are a lot of very obvious examples of that happening over the years.
I prefer Etcher over Rufus because there's very little to configure. It's easy to get the settings wrong in Rufus and it can make an ISO unbootable or unusable if you don't know what you're doing.
I have no beef with gtk/gnome and the like, but I find it really funny when developers use such colorful language.

Still, as a heavy terminal user, I fail to understand what's the big deal with the choice of terminal. I have used only xterm for more than 20 years (with a short stint with gnome-terminal, and I didn't find any relevant difference). It starts instantaneously and doesn't make any fuss while it's running. Is there anything important that I'm losing?
Verbing weirds language.
Yes, you can do it through the config or by using shortcuts to switch a group of windows into tabs. I'd also recommend tmux and tmuxp.
We clearly differ on the USPS. FedEx, UPS, DHL, etc clearly provide superior service for overnight and courier service. Rural service could be solved - it simply has a cost. To your point, "as a country we've decided that it's in everyone's best interest to be able to go get mail." We have also decided to subsidize the cost of the service with metropolitan customers subsidizing the rural (similar to phone service). If the US used taxes to pay a FedEx, there would be better quality service at a lower cost.

Having the government provide the service introduces politics to the operation of running a business. Where should post offices be located, how often should mail be delivered, what products should we offer, should prices vary according to cost to delivery, etc. These issues make the USPS what it is today - a bureaucratic behemoth that is still delivering Christmas cards from 2020.
Domain experts may lie, they might be sure that idea will never work but still propose it in order to increase company valuation, get funding, etc.

Example: self-driving cars. Probably, experts that work in this field are confident that self-driving cars are impossible even 100 years in future, but working on self-driving cars gives them money.
yes, it is. Even in dictionaries, e.g. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obsolete
> I had a boss who said he is best developer in the world and he meant it.

He was the best developer in his world.
I don't think HN News uses Arc anymore. Also Arc is just a language written with racket. Racket is a language for making languages.
TV and radio were successful with ads for a long time without needing to build a profile on every person in the audience
I mean I get that, but they could have just said we're no longer developing this, because we're tired or whatever. I just think it's interesting they made such a strong stand.
Argentina raised $2.4B with a one-time wealth tax
Just ask GPT3 how many papers resulted in proving the negation of the hypothesis, and how many papers resulted in reasonably proving the hypothesis. And maybe inconclusive results for sake of completeness. It would be interesting to see the numbers, especially in the field of psychology.
While this is mostly true, there are some (very limited) circumstances where modern language constructs are legitimately the best approach. Generic libraries are probably the most obvious case where you may need some fancy metaprogramming. Move semantics and other similar tricks for avoiding copies are often used for saving much more than a 24-byte copy.

Unfortunately, a lot of C++ enthusiasts who write this kind of code are language lawyers who might prefer to write in APL (a language with "expressiveness" and "beauty") than a language for humans.
> Some things can be incredibly difficult to add in to a codebase that wasn't designed to expect that kind of change.

In a 3 week old code base? Please... You can write the entire thing over again in a week and add what you want during that time.

The commenters here should do that too! It would probably take less effort than bitching about someone's side project that they'll probably never even use here on HN.
TimescaleDB is implemented as an extension on Postgres, so native Postgres runs underneath.

("Underneath is not really the right way to think about it, because the extension model lets us hook into lots of different places in the Postgres code -- TimescaleDB generates a shared library .so, implemented in C, so runs in same process/memory space.)

But, the great thing of this is as Postgres improves, so does TimescaleDB. TimescaleDB launched with Postgres 9.6, and now supports Postgres 13 and all the great improvements that have been implemented between those two PG versions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27061130
I have found a Gentoo distribution with big endian for the raspberry pi 3, so it is out there https://github.com/zeldin/linux-1/releases
> Standardized tests are terrible. Predicting the outcomes of standardized tests is very simple, it's a function of your parents income.

Correlation is not causation. See Skirt Length Theory https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/skirtlengththeory.asp
Drug laws dont create gangs. People create gangs.