skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Flutter for Android, Windows, Linux and possibly a web client.

Wouldn't Jetpack Compose make more sense for these platforms? It is native for Android and is similar to flutter for web and desktop.
My understanding is that it would not infringe, so long as it is a party-agnostic policy.
Aren't there welfare programs in the US?
Medium is the worst.
If the fix is so simple (I do this all the time btw), why waste people's time?
Just like Usain Bolt’s physical attributes are a minor factor and it’s his grit and responsibility that makes him so quick?
IQ is not a meaningful shorthand for anything, but yes, they want to catch the "idiot in a hurry", not someone who's paying enough attention that they could be set off by some smaller mistake later into the process, wasting the scammer's time.
The difference in Europe is smaller I think. 80% of salaries fall within a fairly narrow band.

https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/visualisaties/income-distribution
Phones are re-sold and re-used. They would account for a minor fraction of plastic use. It would be completely unreasonable to set a standard form factor and disrupt the market for an evolving product category.

What could use a standard form factor would be packaging, especially for glass jars and bottles which could be endlessly re-cycled.
The problem of being poor in a good country (having free education and healthcare) is not only in not being able to afford necessities or luxuries from time to time, but about not having a base of capital on which to build on, not being able to do your own projects while being forced to pay rent to rich people, to fund their businesses with taxes, to help their economies through inflation and being forced to participate in their projects.
I wonder how far you could get using something like https://github.com/carson-katri/SwiftWebUI or https://github.com/TokamakUI/Tokamak to render the Swift app to a webview for the other platforms... I’ve not tried it, I imagine there might be jank and limitations as SwiftWebUI is “a toy project” but with some work could be a legit option - I’ve run pretty bespoke and complex React Native applications as desktop apps via react-native-web and Electron and it worked incredibly well.

I do like the idea of only maintaining a single codebase, but of course it comes with significant trade offs. The idea of building for Apple-first but automatically getting a reasonable fallback for other platforms is quite appealing - as you say, for many businesses it probably makes sense to focus on having the most polished iOS experience possible.

Honestly I’ve been quite impressed with the end results we’ve got from React Native, but you are always going to be lagging behind the native platform.
Golang web apps are probably the simplest to deploy.
How on earth could they only install Ubuntu 20.04, because everything else was unavailable.

Last I checked, you could install Debian from a set of CDs which got regular point releases. Having something with decent power like a Core 2 Quad you could go back to around 2007 I guess (though I fear at this point they might have problems with their API). How do they solve the problem of running on Windows XP?
"Hacker" is pretty much synonymous with ruthless capitalist these days.
For me it's to do with work. I think of work all the time and I find it difficult to think of it in Greek. So I end up thinking about work, in English, all the time.

The problem is that I keep forgetting Greek words and I find myself using English expressions even when I speak in Greek, even when I'm not speaking about work. And then I start saying things I'd never say in either language. I'm particularly shocked when I make blunders like "περιφέρεια του κύκλου". I just hope it's too early for early Alzheimer's.
Why medium specifically? You’d have to ban just about every news and media outlet.
You seem to be trying to identify causation from a single graph. That's not how data analysis needs to be done. You have to compare different datasets that vary in the control variable. In the case of Europe the UK vs Sweden is a good comparison because they are similar in most ways that should affect viral propagation except for lockdowns. Sweden has seen significantly better death rates than the UK, despite the theory saying they should have done much worse, meaning the theory is wrong. Because the theory is wrong you can't derive anything by looking at UK curves in isolation and comparing them to a theoretical counterfactual.

You can also look at the different performance of US states (none) despite very different measures.

That chart is etched into my brain because of how worried I was

In other words you were terrified and forced that fear on your family, based on a mis-understanding of how to use data to draw scientific conclusions. And now you're accusing anyone who points out the truth to you of political axe grinding, although it's you who just threw in a random mention of "conservative ministers" implying their politics is responsible for lots of deaths. That's a political talking point!
One word: audio
I often wonder where Fabrice Bellard finds the time for all of his projects
Wow, so every single poor person would go out and rob?
Each of them had their morals eroded by poverty? Every single one of them?

Your comment comes across as that of an apologist.
You must be fun at parties.

In my day, we had to constantly pick and choose our battles so we didn't come across as assholes.

I guess going the opposite direction and airing every single tiny grievance to any person who will listen eliminates that minor inconvenience; everyone gets offended.

But on the plus side you don't get offended anymore, and that's all that matters nowadays anyway.
Now with tables turned, not few people gloat when people complain getting a taste of their own medicine.

While I understand the short term gratification, I find this dangerous long term.

For all the failures of the old norms and methods, at least there was a way to formally abjure your antisocial beliefs and get accepted back into society.

Today not only we didn't yet develop such a code, but we also leave a permanent trace of our past blunders and misplaced allegeances which are now permanently associated with our identity.

Precedents of this scenario create anxiety in a lot of moderate people, most who are even agreeing with the majority of the zeitgeist.

Regular people may not be vocal about it, so we get a perception that now only KKK folks are whining about freedom of speech.
Oh don't worry, this happens to me all the time too. It seems to be normal.
Couldn’t agree more: the attitude I’ve developed as I’ve progressed through seeing many web and native projects from conception to completion is that adding a new tool or dependency is not as cheap as it first seems - each new tool compounds complexity, makes it harder for others to contribute and is a source of future fragility to the project

I suspect the web’s low barrier to entry (which is a wonderful thing) means a large proportion of developers are relatively junior and the prevailing voices encouraging these development patterns reflect this

The browser stack is incredible and you can make great things and have a wonderful experience building them but I would avoid listening to popular takes on how to do it - you’ll have a better time working from first principles and just using what makes sense to you given your experience

I’m curious to hear other options on this but over time when reviewing a library or tool I’ve come to learn different signals: a library or tool with a website with serious design effort put into it has become to me a signal to be seriously sceptical of value - doubly so if it features the phrase “blazing fast”. And a tool presented with html 1.0 almost zero CSS, Fabrice Bellard-style [0], that’s the good stuff worth paying attention to

[0] https://bellard.org/
Most of my success is due to great circumstances, but I’m still really happy I grew up in those.
Why Clinical Laboratorians Should Embrace the R Programming Language
I wonder if it's a better system to just hire smart professors and give them tenure immediately. The lazy ones in it just for the status won't do any work, but the good ones will. Sure, there will be dead weight that gets salaries for life, but I feel like that's a lesser problem than incentivizing bad research.
If you are a former KKK member who truly wishes to renounce your former beliefs and reform, you should be aware of what an uphill battle it will be to rejoin normal society after espousing such abhorrent hateful beliefs. You have to be aware that some people will never be able to forgive you for that, and that you will lose social and financial opportunities based on your past actions.

As someone who participates in the hiring process, and who works with a large contingent of non-white people, I could not justify hiring a former KKK member unless they showed serious, ongoing efforts to rectify their past. For the same reason I would never hire a former Auschwitz guard if I worked with many Jewish people.

Actions have consequences, and allying yourself with a racist organization has lifelong repercussions.
They are talking about actually streaming. Would you be comfortable allowing a 13 year old girl in a bikini playing in an indoor inflatable pool that changes bikinis every 50 subs? The content is public, you can watch any stream without logging in.
Yeah, google is better at searching Reddit than Reddit is at searching itself.
ICU Designs
Our company makes cell phone cases with built-in high-quality mirrors and adjustable two-tone light diffusers to use in any lighting situation.
I agree with your diagnosis of the problem, but don't think your solution is a good way forward - immediately after undergrad is way too early to be evaluating research potential and would just shift the hyper competitiveness earlier.

A better solution would be to stop overproducing PhDs. We could reduce funding for PhD students and re-direct that towards more postdoctoral positions - perhaps even make research scientist a viable career choice?
If you want them to understand the value of money really quickly, fly economy for a change :D
It links to https://rawgit.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/master/we... in the first line of the README
To chime in: I'm super impressed by flatpak. There is a small learning curve as with any tool, but once you get through it it works very well.

Snap uses a compressed image format that makes startup horrid. And snaps don't seem to work well with hidpi resolutions when scaling is enabled (snap doesnt know about the scaling so it draws everything super small).

I haven't used AppImage but between apt, snap, and flatpak, I really see flatpak as the winner for how games should be installed.
Chop one onion, one carrot, add fat, nasty meat bits or fish heads, and whatever else is going to rot in the fridge. 3 minutes prep, then just let it boil 1+ hours.

If you forget stuff on the fire then yeah go get a burger
True dat. NYT did 9/11
news/media livelihoods depend on that paywall, i'm fine with that.

medium literally exists to just put a wall between you and the authors content. nobody's making real money blogging on medium. and HN is an audience of developers, for whom standing up their own blog is trivial.

ironically dev.to is shadowbanned on HN (understandable because lots of blogpspam), when medium is the one that gives readers a terrible reading experience.
Not meaning to be facetious, but it's in this week's hard copy.
yeah - I'd be surprised to learn that the average paper in their study had 153 citations regardless of other things. Perhaps they only looked at highly cited papers, but that induces its own issues.
Would you ever consider a licensing model similar to Cockroach DBs BSL where older versions fall into the public domain/are open sourced once they're no longer revenue generating? Or perhaps once a new major version is out?
Delete your cookies for medium. Then you should be able to read it. Or don't allow cookies for medium in the first place.
I'd totally agree if we were still required to be in the office.

With WFH though you can actually more or less pick who you're spending those 8 hours with, in that case maybe keep the politics among the people you're physically around.
Scientific progress today heavily depends on financial support of society, so as a whole it cannot be completely decentralized and independent. People want to know how their money are spent and want to have guarantees that science will not create something awful. This means that policing of science is inevitable and important part of the system. It is not a question if we need science “police”, it is a question how it should look like. Today it is decentralized: someone maintains the list of media publishing in which will count for citation index, there are ethical committees and scientific boards, lawmakers regularly tell what can be done and what should not etc. How this will change if there will be a new system of incentives in place, we can only imagine: it can be a good or a bad thing, but as long as the system remains democratic, all problems should be easy to fix.
I’d like to see the results from the human nature test
This 'article' is very short, and the evidence of 'failing' to run away from politics is dropped in the second last sentence.

I think there is a big difference between having a discussion about politics at work, and using your workplace as a tool to forward your political agenda. Somewhere in the middle is using company resources as a platform for (not directly work-related) political discussion.

Although I dislike the way that most employers take advantage of unequal power distributions with employees, I don't see any real issue with a company saying "our policy is to leave politics for non-work time". At some point as an employee you are actually expected to do things that your employer wants, and if you are doing non-work why should the company pay for it unless it's part of your work agreement?

A company transitioning between different policies is a challenging situation, and for a company in the public eye that will almost inevitably generate controversy, but actually "letting the market decide" about this issue seems good. It means that there are companies at various points on the politics-at-work spectrum that employees can choose from.
./play.it 2.13: Website, copyright and video games
No, as I understand it, the network does not need to be transmitted. The decoder learns on the same stream as the encoder, so you do not need to transmit network parameters.
It sure is politicized from all possible sides. But we should be open to investigating the cause, so that we can create policies that can prevent future disasters.
Build an API with the Ruby Freedom Stack: Sinatra – MongoDB – Heroku – Minitest
It's pretty step by step, so if you ever wanted to deploy an API with Ruby and a flexible document database quickly, backed by a test suite, here's your guide.

I'm planning to do a free workshop around it where we can talk your API idea and deploy it together tailored to your use case, so ping me if you are interested.
Apple Screwed Facebook
You have a weird definition of “logical conclusion”.

How about you can talk about political issues in an adult and professional manner?
How would that eliminate cruft? Browsers would still have to support old version for backwards compatibility. Much better IMHO to extends the languages in a backwards-compatible manner.
Is it easier now? Last time I tried (years) app could see location was spoofed so I had to root to spoof better and then many apps could see I was rooted and refused to run.
The Complex Path to Quantum Resistance
> good acceleration to appeal to the macho truck crowd who will hold their nose while making the plunge to electric so they can feel good about themselves when they floor the accelerator at stoplights and onramps.

I have a Mustang Mach e and can't emphasize this enough. It makes tooling around my suburban enclave a pleasure as I go from 0 to 30 mph in a blink.

I entered an on-ramp with a BMW behind me. Honestly, I wasn't trying to make a point, but the BMW swung around me as we entered the highway and it was on. Then it was done. Giggle.
I think this would be a positive step, but to play devil's advocate, what happens when this superstar scientist retires? If I'm a researcher in his lab, does my job just disappear? If so, I'm still going to feel pressure to exaggerate the impact of my research.
So people who used proprietary software will not be able to publish. Sounds like a win-win to me!
https://antimatter15.com/project/project-naptha/

https://projectnaptha.com/

We had this fully client-side in the browser all the way back in 2013.
Care to elaborate? It felt like the best thing ever when switching to InnoDB.
Cars are an interesting case.

If I could have lived where I lived, but without needing a car, I wouldn’t have been poor. A car isn’t a luxury in a place designed for cars, but a burden. You’re constantly told driving is a “privilege”, but you can’t go to work without it and maybe not the grocery either. You’re worried that it will break down because not only will you not get to work (and maybe get fired) and don’t know how you will repair or replace it, but because you know you can’t even pay the tow truck company to drag it off the road. Tires cost money so you drive on bald tires until you literally can’t, white-knuckling it on ice-covered roads. Gas prices swing widely so you’re always watching and planning can be tough. You have to choose between insurance you can’t really afford and breaking the law. Since you use cheap gas without additives you fail the smog test and have to take your car to a shop (which you worry may rip you off) where they will guess at the problem, but if it doesn’t work you have to repeat the process once more before, for a fee, you can be exempted. Cars were a massive source of anxiety for me when I was poor.

Instead of worrying about shelter and food, I had to worry about a car, shelter, and food; and basically in that order.
This is why I've always preferred the unifont interpretation of emojis: just monochrome graphics that get rendered with the same color as the surrounding text.
In a 100% honest world I agree with everything you say. But, the world isn't 100% honest.

Let's say company A asks manufacturer F to make 100,000,000 units of a product. One element of this product costs $10. An enterprising person suggests that if 1% of the material submitted to the mfg line was counterfeit, but could be made to pass "inspection" they could make at least $10,000,000. They could resell the "genuine parts" on the grey market at a 50% markdown, but only pay 1% of the cost for the counterfeits. The product would ship. Company A would ultimately be left to deal with the 1% (but not trivial number) of unhappy customers and perhaps a class action lawsuit due to "not meeting specs".

In the post I am responding to, there is no requirement by anyone to validate that a part is within spec. Current contract manufacturing for a lot of products does not involve the originating company being able to independently validate the product before it is shipped to the end user. All validation needs to occur during manufacturing, on-site at the manufacturer. If you aren't validating what goes into manufacturing, how can you make any promises as to what comes out?

If company A decides to implement serialization of parts to combat manufacturing "problems". Those advocating "right to repair" are going to be upset because they are now 100% collateral damage. There are other aspects of this, where chip vendors attempt to lock-in customers with the promise of using "custom part numbers" (HP has a fabulous history for this, extending back to the 1980's) or for "custom" programming during fabrication. Many, many. many parts now contain programmable elements and silicon vendors have capitalized on this to gain a business advantage and lock in.

In a world of fraud, especially in the "repair" market, how can and do you establish trust when purchasing parts?

Let's also look at something entirely different. The "Blue Pill" is a development board, originally based on an ST microelectronics STM32 part. If you wanted to purchase a "Blue Pill" board, you will now >90% of the time (based on price) receive a counterfeit product - the microcontroller will not be an STM32 part and it will not exactly meet the specifications (especially in low power situations). Who is to blame? Who pays for this fraud? Should this be "fixed"? How? By who?

Pivoting again. This news "report" is a product, delivered to customers. Are journalists prepared to document the thought processes that went into their product. Will they commit to documenting any changes to the product, including why the changes were made and for what reasons? This is what many of these articles are implicitly asking of hardware manufacturers!

I am generally in favor of being able to repair, but it isn't as simple as toilet roll unroll forward or backwards? (a deliberately chosen metaphor as the majority of the worlds population does not use).
It’s kind of weird that dynamic languages are known as being bad at refactoring, when Smalltak was doing advanced full system refactoring in the 1980s.

In the case of Python, I think the problem must be more syntactic and lacking an introspectable compile step than an issue with it being a dynamic language.
> while remaining in support for years to come.

Python 3.8 has already reached the point where it’s only receiving security updates - not other bug fixes.
Good. If we can have more even distribution of that, then it'll hopefully enable bipartisan pushback.

Or it'll just get worse and even more partisan, but that's the current trajectory anyway.
Sure I'll check them out, Get some feedback & then add it to StartupToolchain.

Thanks for bringing them to my notice.
I agree, this doesn't seem like much of a solution. Due to the incredible amount of noise my 2019 16" MBP makes when I have it open and a 4K monitor attached, I have to always use it in clamshell mode, which makes almost no noise at all unless I'm watching a video or doing certain things in VS Code.

I too looked at the title and thought someone had finally figured out how to get around having the laptop open and a monitor plugged in with no noise, but it seems like this basically makes no difference at all since it only works when the lid is shut. I've resigned myself to the fact that it'll never be solved, and hope to get this MBP replaced at some point
To add to the experience, Auckland to Doha is possible.

The one upside to that flight is that the plane is going land fairly promptly, you can’t circle for too long after a 19 hour haul.
I can't stand fishbowl jobs. Cubicle farms make me depressed. I don't like being on display when I work.

Humans are animals. We stretch. We burp. We fart. We scratch ourselves. We eat. We drink. We dance. We might want to randomly punch something. We nap. We naturally do all sorts of things which are "unprofessional." When we get tired, we need a break to recoup and come back supercharged.

None of those interfere with getting stuff done.

I hate going to work in any job where I'm on display since I need to suppress all of that for 8 hours a day. More with most jobs.

I don't mind going in nearly as much if I have an office with a door which closes.

When I was an executive, I'd sometimes hold longer business meetings with people I knew well hiking, walking, on a kayak, or similar. Those were hyper-productive meetings compared to sitting in office chairs across a coffee table. It only worked for meetings which didn't need a whiteboard or computer, but that's a lot of meetings.

I won't say whether WFH or in-person is the future, but I suspect many traditional corporate practices won't survive.
Very recognizable. I had that thought literally yesterday while doing the shopping. It always makes me happy I can afford the animal products where they’re treated a bit better; grab the nice IPA beers if I want to; even like you say, buying any sandwich I want. It is lasting joy coming from little money to having a lot.