skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GTK4 still doesn't support native rendering of window controls, so unless you're willing to create a faux "native" theme, your application will look like it doesn't belong on anything other than a Gnome desktop. I think it's idiotic and childish that the devs stick to their guns like this when there's clearly a high demand for a crucial feature like this. I dislike the project as a developer.

Don't get me wrong, I'm using a Gnome desktop for my day to day work. As a user, I enjoy the end result and I'm very happy with the way the system looks, but the absolute refusal to allow for any SSR has so far prevented me from ever seriously considering GTK for any cross-platform desktop application I'd like to write.

I don't really have a problem with the Gnome apps. There's nothing special about them, but they work and they're there. I quite like the software tool when it works, I've never managed to get Discover working for more than a few days so at least Gnome Software is stable in comparison. I also don't have any trouble with MPV for video playback. Sure, it doesn't contain a lot of power user features, but I only need it to play video files when I double click them, for anything else there's VLC.

Gnome, as a package to build a diatro around, works quite well. With a full Gnome setup, you can do almost everything you need to do on a computer. KDE is similar in that regard, although I really dislike the general UX of the KDE ecosystem for some reason.

On a side note, VLC is getting a (controversial) new UI that makes it look more slick and modern than the current design.
This is the real insane feature for me. Wow.
Thank you! That makes sense.

So given that the net results of this shuffle is zero, I guess that confirms that this article isn't about CO2, it's about inequality.
Who is they?

You mean the article author? Yes, it was odd that he mentioned that, but besides that not a bad feature to have (but a bit wordy for my taste, I hope they'll change that).
Okay so that isn't happening, what else can be done?
> Also, your second "we" isn't even that, I think that's just good old-fashioned generic pronoun (because English normally doesn't allow a sentence without a subject).

I don’t think I’ve ever seen “we” used as an indefinite pronoun. It’s usually “one”, “you”, or “they”, depending on formality and context.

In this context, it seems obvious to me that it stands for the author(s) and the reader, in a (maybe misguided) attempt to reduce the distance between them and involve the reader in the narrative.
Where Gates lives, the power is mostly from hydro, and you can pay a (surprisingly small) premium for 100% of your power to come from renewables.
> except the problem of too many features

Scala is a pretty simple, concise and coherent language though. Never understood why people deem it has too many features, I write it professionally and never felt so.

At least comparing it to C, C++, Python. Java may be more simple, but you have tons of features added with metaprogramming via dozens of annotations generating lots and lots of boilerplate, Lombok and Spring are examples of that.
What annotations are you referring to?
"A novel approach"
> After all, users would need to get a sense of what it looks like before they’d want to buy it.

Interesting work but I doubt it's what anyone buying these assets would want.
Personally, I'm getting tired of these kind of articles - they seem to serve no useful purpose other than letting people endlessly debate who should act first (spoiler: the answer is always "not me").

Let's first implement carbon tax with actual teeth, and go from there. And please no talk of "Ahh but what about America/China/India/Global rich/Corporations/whatever?" For god's sake, America can start first. Or China can start first. Or we can all finger-point each other and merrily claim "I'm not gonna do anything until that guy moves first!" while the world is heating up.
I just don't understand where they got such high excess death numbers in the first place. Fitting a sinusoid with a 52 week perios and adding a slope for population growth you can get a very good (R=99.xx) fit up until the pandemic. Using that ramped sinusoid the excess death number comes out about 50k over the reported covid totals.

Edit: data source is cdc total mortality page. Going back to 2014
This misses the point to an extent that it is honestly kind of insulting. I am aware of how to manage settings, that is not hard or interesting. KLVTZ suggested reverting to defaults on a regular (~annual) basis. I pointed out how changes to my desktop environment are disruptive, regardless of the reason (OS version bumps or revert-to-default).

Settings do not change fundamental OS behavior. I can't set my notifications in Big Sur to "Catalina".
The 'Car Product Development Stages' Analogy Sucks
I feel like a blunder (or perhaps not?) of this magnitude would get you the electric chair during the Cold War.
I imagine they would probably say the same thing to you.

You're really not willing to use an excellent piece of software because one time you saw a dev dismiss someone who didn't like the default color scheme? How is that not even more petty?
From what I remember, Florida and California were hit at the same time, but California went on and on and on, while Florida somehow ended.

Maybe I can find graphs.
Item 1) Currently, sellers give out coupons codes that make a $50 item into a $5 item. People buy in reviews group buy it...it counts as a purchase and Amazon marks their review as "Verified Purchase".

Item 2) Professional reviewers have purchased multiple products above certain threshold.

Easier way to stop this is to prevent reviews from people who used a coupon to buy something and the price is above some threshold (i.e. seller doesn't knock to $5 between 10PM and midnight for their reviewers to buy it).

If I can think of this solution - why can't Amazon? Simple answer is they know of this behavior and encourage it.

I have shifted my purchasing behavior to buy from Walmart, Target, Ebay when at all possible. I know Walmart isn't exactly an angel - but I'd rather have 2 devils in the marketplace than 1. I even try to buy books from Barnes And Noble...but unfortunately the fulfillment time + price is hard to beat w/ Amazon. I rarely have books above the B&N threshold for free shipping.
I’m a man and had occasional but regular migraines until I got low testosterone diagnosed and treated. Just throwing it out there, even though I might be a unique situation.
It might also be worth having those links opening in new tabs as an option. Right now, at least on iOS, following a link and then going back leaves you at the top of the original page again, not where you were up to before you clicked the link.
Maybe OP is suggesting everyone pay $12 to take down Facebook?
The method needs articulating as everyone on earth paying US$12 wouldn’t get close to buying them out and shutting them down.
I just had two thought considering this:

1. Do we appreciate bird songs because they indicate a resource rich/hospitable environment?

2. Do birds hear the entire range of the song, or just pick up specific bands?
Anecdotes obviously don't validate data models, but I do wonder if my personal experience was common.

My mother-in-law passed last summer, alone in her apartment. She was sick beforehand, quarantined, and living in a senior living community. When she was discovered the coroner did not come and investigate because it appears of natural causes, based on the observations of the local police officer. Her body was transported directly to the funeral home.

I insisted they do a COVID-19 test, which the coroner did at the funeral home. The results came back as positive. Had I not pushed them to actually test, it would have been misreported and her death mis-attributed.

It left me wondering if this was common and how many people may have passed in similar circumstances, without family pushing for testing.
why is creating a bootable USB stick so hard? By the look of the comments it's not something that tools can do reliably. How can I learn more about these types of issues? Booting an OS in general, that is.
You have to consider that SO exists not only to answer your specific problem, but also to help other users who might face a similar problem. In that context, it might be helpful to mention, if you are the asking person, include the details why you cannot do X, if you know you can't; or, if your question doesn't include details about your specific circumstance, answers that mention that common solution is to do X instead.
Not necessarily 100% — more CO2 in the air does boost plant growth rate, so a small non-zero net CO2 emission rate may be compatible with an equilibrium between the pre-industrial atmospheric CO2 concentration and today’s atmospheric CO2 concentration.

97% reduction might be enough? Dunno, but I can believe it.
How difficult would it be to do the following?

- rent the cheapest place (smallest, worst, etc.) somewhere on the edge of an expensive area = this will be your official address;

- buy or rent a nice large place in a cheap area = you will actually live here;

- work from home.

Bonus points if you share the cheap place in the expensive area with your friends (no problem, since no one is actually going to live there).
I'll cede this point. If you're accounting for the quantity of pennies down to the precision of individual penny atoms then your accounting must be accurate to within the quantity of penny atoms that are rubbed off the penny during normal handling during the transaction.
Great article, this is the content I come here for. I think its a really interesting thought experiment in how we might want to try things differently. Also thanks for sharing your experience with imagemagick and code.
Or the PI, or a technician, or a grad student. The point is, it does not matter who did it.
At least for me the best part of Steam reviews is that I can easily check reviews done by my friends / online gamer groups. By restricting the web of trust so a smaller batch of entities, I know I am avoiding most of the fraudsters.
From Wikipedia:
IHME receives core grant funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation[60] and the state of Washington. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Inter-American Development Bank; Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health; Medtronic Philanthropy; and the National Institute on Aging have also contributed funding through project grants and contracts.

Billions of dollars from organizations that have billions invested in selling vaccines

Look into the criticism of organizations such as Gavi.
I'd like to see fMRI of the listening birds' brains.

Crows, in the morning, seem to be broadcasting work gang related information, organising their crew to go and harvest certain regions, then report back on the yield.

If songbirds are courting, and hence broadcasting different information, for different purposes, I wonder if some generalisable differences might be apparent in the receiving birds brains.
Freedom to change.
Not all states are offering this. Are you sure Montana does?
The answer to that question is no, but the Alpha is still considered the least common denominator even though the hardware is obsolete. When people write litmus tests for the Linux memory model they are still validated against Alpha semantics, because compiler optimizations have the same reordering effects as the weird caches of Alpha processors.

(The stroke of genius of the C++11 memory model, compared to the older Java memory model, was that reordering could be treated the same way no matter if performed by processors or compilers).
GC is there for a reason, unless you do HFT, use it to your advantage.
Many places already has laws around infanticide which is much lower than manslaughter. Canada for example sentences mothers to at most 5 years with no minimum for killing their baby.
I don't have opinion either way, just saying it might have looked to op they just quit without cause and still collected unemployment benefits, since these reasons are not usually considered causes , op may not have understood it well.
Unintended Instructions on x86
i would be ok if facebook charges and not track, i am sure we might end up in a state where we are paying and getting tracked. It would be like the roomba who said they will sell the floor plans.
the JVM does something of the sort right now.
Some more:

Any problem has many possible solutions, but only one (well... few) are simplest.

It doesn't take much intelligence to write complicated code, this is just finding "a" solution.

Finding simple solution requires understanding of range of all possible solutions or at least a lot of them, understanding what makes them simple, and selecting the one that is simplest.

If you are smart and want to show it, why not show your smarts by finding simple solution to the problem?
> Is "pointing out" data considered downplaying?

I'd consider it playing devil's advocate, depending on the scenario. The problem is, these days I often see a lot of bad faith arguments being passed off as "just playing devil's advocate".

You can be obese and diabetic and still live to be 80+ years old. My grandma is both, and will be turning 81 this year.

But if someone who is only 30, but obese and diabetic dies to COVID, it's a pretty damn bad faith argument to try to claim that COVID was not the cause of death.
Also known as the "I don't know the answer to your question, but here's an answer to a different question so I can look smart" problem.
I am not sure which mode of shopping is more 'energy intensive', I'm just pointing out reasons why online shopping may not be worse than retail shopping.
Please. Show me the dotfile in Big Sur that changes Messages.app to the Catalina binary.

MacOS does not use dotflies to manage OS settings.

Dotfiles require a separate mechanism to replicate.
I was actually making the point that the FEMA Director for the Pacific Northwest probably knows a lot more about the scenario in question, and that his statement may be grounded very deeply in fact such that it's not hyperbolic at all.
That's 2015, densities have gotten much higher since then. I'll take back heavily corrupting, I've seen it happen but I don't know that it is the norm within 1-2 years.
Yeah, I hope it were available without contacting them, but it's probably too much to ask.
Not exactly — the line topology is effectively a “minimum” topology, whereas the bulk of the actual routing knowledge is built up from keyspace neighbours searching for each other and creating virtual paths via intermediate nodes.
That's what I'm getting from it, message broker. It says pub/sub and 'routed RPC', wherein a client can register a method and another client can call it...but that's achievable with pub/sub anyway so not really sure what the benefit is.
So, uh, do a usage search before changing stuff? You'll have to, anyway.
I think the reason they had to add that question in the FAQ is because lots of people were saying that that was their situation, while it actually wasn't.

I don't have actual data, which is obviously not a great position to be in, in a discussion, but I saw a TON of stories from restaurant owners who could not open solely because all the employees left since they made better money by not working.
Are you triggered by foods that naturally contain msg?
To emphasize your point in other words, this means that the difference between $14 and $20 is massive. $14/hr will just cover food & rent & essentials with nothing left for quality of life. $20/hr means you can afford beer.
This is key. Carbon has to get out of the air and go back in the ground.
You should be careful how far you go with that reasoning. If someone commits suicide due to loneliness during the lockdown does that mean covid killed that person? In an indirect way sure, covid kill him, but in my view it should not be counted as a covid death. Just taking excess deaths without differentiating these kinds of deaths is going to result in misleading statistics. It will cause people to think a person who did not have covid actually died from getting covid.
Having experienced this far too many times (dogs jumping fences!) I now carry a few compressed air devices (“Pet Convincer” is a repurposed CO2 tire inflator that blasts air) to scare off-leash dogs away without hurting your dog accidentally via other less humane methods (pepper spray, tazer, etc).

Keep your dogs on a leash in public people!
If hospitals are full, not all people who need care can get care. It's not a complicated concept. ICUs in many parts of the country hit capacity during the pandemic, and that was with radical efforts to limit the spread of the virus.
You are not wrong. But not right either.

All those nice settings (for google and everyone else) are only for the minimum they are required by law. That means anything that they can claim to be "anonymized" is fair game and not visible to you in any way.
I wrote pollution, e.g. what goes straight into the ocean [1,2] which is a good proxy for pollution at large, not carbon dioxide emission alone. I mentioned that in passing to illustrate the hypocrisy of the UN and other environmentally conscious organizations. CO2 is just one component, and if those organizations can't even get the rest right there is no reason to expect them to be consistent on that issue either. I hope this makes sense.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...
[2] https://ibanplastic.com/top-10-most-polluted-rivers-in-the-w...
It seems like you have an issue with this paper not because of the methodology but rather because the conclusion disagrees with your worldview.
Clojure famously makes extensive use of a software transactional memory (STM) to provide painless multithreading:

* https://clojure.org/reference/refs
* https://sw1nn.com/blog/2012/04/11/clojure-stm-what-why-how/
My problem with a carbon tax, and carbon credits, it's that they're displacing the problem, and unless they translate to equivalent carbon capture, the net carbon emissions remain nearly the same.

The goal is reducing carbon emissions, not paying for emitting them. Stricter emission limits, and heavy fines/less subsidies for the biggest offenders would do wonders in this regard.
OH MY GOD THE ROBOTS THINK THEY ARE HUMAN AND LOOSELY EMULATE EMOTIONS WHAAAAT

That's not a spoiler that's a really common trope

If you want that, play the much more beautifully rendered Detroit: Become Human, the "spoiler" is in the title

There is nothing deep about Nier Automata, there are no shocking revelations

The only reason you play this trope is to get a feel for "how" or "when", which this game will pretty much never really get to or explore, just pile on fetch quests and edgelord nihilism appealing to 14 year olds

Seriously, if I was 14 I would have really been into this. But I'm not, and I'm not into this.
This shows up in the library space as the Reference Interview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_interview

Patrons engaged in research show the same pattern and it's important for a librarian to accurately assess what the patron is truly looking for.
They did, with the next gen.
There is a whole industry around this...and I'd say you (and I) were many years too late. Once you find a good product others will come for it. If I find something "cool" on Amazon I check Aliexpress. If it's a significant savings I'd just buy it from there.
Did you get results?
Per capita is meaningless, the Vatican could pollute more but only has 500 people. I do not trust calculations of hard to measure items like the CO2 footprint of an entire country (which could easily be an order of magnitude worse or better). In any case the effects are so far removed from the cause that many politicians and business leaders will simply ignore making any rational changes, since demanding change will affect them sooner (no votes or less money) rather than later (their grandchildren suffer, maybe the human race vanishes). Rational discussions are unlikely without immediate reaction (even then as in India with Covid an in your face nightmare can't motivate some people).
"China knows everything we know, and many things we do not"

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/hurricane-china-how-to-prepar...
This is really cool! However, it breaks my heart that talented people have to spend their time on something like this - companies should be required to release a documentation for consumers so they can fully use their products. Otherwise you don't really buy e.g. a Mac, only a privilege of using whatever Apple cooked up for you.
This erosion of ownership should stop.
If you bought a computer in the 80s you could get everything you need to write your own operating system etc. you could get schematics, parts and so on.
Today you pay a lot of money for an illusion of owning something.
I get that many people don't care, but this is not the world I want to live in.
Hopefully initiatives like right to repair will change it and companies like Apple will be forced to treat consumers like consumers and not sheep that they can fleece as they please. Apple (and other big corporations) should serve consumers, not shareholders.
Events like this are rare, and often not handled well by humans. You have 3 basic options, and in reality some mix of all of them.

1) Hit the object
2) Swerve
3) Brake

Hitting the object is almost always a bad idea. On a highway the best option is almost always 2. On an empty road, the best option is almost always 3.

Saying things like "You also look at the traffic beside you and behind you to evaluate risk of braking or swerving" implies that humans are good at this and computers are bad at this. I'd wager humans are bad at this and computers are good at this. And in either case, situations like these represent a small fraction of accidents on the road. If the computer arbitrarily chose to recklessly swerve to the nearest lane every time it would still likely outperform human drivers in terms of safety if it solves the low hanging fruit elsewhere.
The chain is effectively ordering the nodes by public key, with the head of the line being the highest public keys and the tail of the line being the lowest ones. Nodes bootstrap by looking for their keyspace neighbours and building paths to them, which intermediate nodes will track in their routing tables, so at each hop, you effectively route “towards” a public key based on the known paths.
Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid?
> people avoiding medical treatment

People avoiding medical treatment is awkward in the figures, because - medical treatment sometimes kills people. First link I found suggests that medical treatments cause 800,000 deaths per year in the USA.

If medical treatments are really down, I'd guess we might actually expect mortality figures to be temporarily down (but, higher later).
You're underselling it - at an extra $600, about 40% of workers would make more on unemployment than at their job: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/employers-struggle-compete-6...
This is pretty dissuading from using the tip feature. Ultimately, Twitter had to make a choice of which processor to go with and PayPal was clearly the winner here. Perhaps in a year or so they may move to Stripe.

What would (maybe) be a good move is to process the transactions through Twitter itself?
I don't see how Kotlin is easier to integrate into an existing Java app than Scala is. They both require adding new dependencies and changing your project build config, and require developers who know the respective new language. That's... about it. They both offer similar levels of interop with Java libraries.

If you want to assert that finding Kotlin developers is easier or that Kotlin is an easier language to learn, sure, that might be the case (I really don't know), but that's not really an integration task.