skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m curious as to if other commenters share the pet peeve of, particularly design software that wouldn’t present itself properly in Retina?

For a while Unity didn’t support it and it was definitely one of ‘those things’ about using it I hated until they perfected it. (There was a limited beta window for it as I believe an ‘experimental’ option?)

Design software should definitely ideally match the DPI it’s supposed to be presented in. That’s almost a make or break for myself.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26690751
Do not track should have been on by default. But the idea that anyone would ever obey it without the legal force was always a fantasy. If 90% of people checked "do not track" do you think they would have started to follow it? Of course not. They would just have some other reason.
Edit live video background with WebRTC and TensorFlow.js
Whenever you communicate with a user or a group on WhatsApp, your phone number is visible to that user or group. If anyone of the users in that group is a rat, they can divulge all the conversations to law enforcement including all group member details.

Bottom line choose your friends wisely or join seedy groups with caution.
The term "bully" just doesn't seem to capture the behavior described in this piece. To send threatening images, organize wide-scale negative reviews of a person's online properties, doxx, etc with the intent to silence someone needs some other word. "Online terrorist" is too strong, but something closer to that term seems more appropriate.

I'm increasingly of the opinion that more high-profile court cases are needed to keep this sort of psychopathy in check. That's, of course, easier said than done.
blocking google.com with adblocker will make website unresponsive.
Because the wording in the article implies that Andrew was the force behind the incorporation of Freenode Limited just for the sake of acquisition, but there's no evidence for that.

By all accounts, Christel herself incorporated and reached out to Andrew looking to sell it. Christel backstabbed the community, that much is clear. But Andrew himself never tried to manipulate the network at any point. So much so that from 2017 to 2021 no one protested Freenode Limited's involvement.

That's my only issue with the situation. Let me be extra clear: I believe freenode/libera.chat should NOT be owned by a private company. But to paint this as "Andrew is evil and trying to control us!" is disingenuous.

Just say it like it is: let's liberate the community at Libera Chat. Don't try to manipulate people into despising someone who sponsored the project for 9 years.

Again: please, if you have any evidence that Andrew intervened in the community's affairs other than sponsoring it and letting Christel and the staff free to manage it as they pleased, since 2012, let us know.
This is almost like one step toward an object-capability system. In an object-capability language, the main function would receive capability objects, like a reference to a module for accessing the filesystem, and functions could only use those capabilities if they were passed a reference to them. You could write your main function so it takes the filesystem module, creates a wrapper around it that only exposes read-only functionality, passes that read-only wrapper around to most functions that build up some kind of plan, and then the main function uses the raw unrestricted filesystem module to execute the plan at the end depending on the dry-run flag. You can then be easily sure that code doesn't do any writes to the filesystem if the unrestricted filesystem module isn't passed to it.
It seems intuitively true that you would always have SOMETHING acting as a go between video driver and all clients and if this crashed your graphical interface goes down unless you have something that acts as an interface that can in turn restart the component. A buggy client already shouldn't actually take down your X server but a bug in X obviously can.

It sounds odd to me to describe applications relying on a toolkit like QT/GTK which can run in dozens of different environments which in turn run on both X11 and Wayland which in turn can talk to a variety of different GPU drivers as tightly coupled.
that just seems cruel. we shouldn't be torturing these animals just to see how hardy they are.
Haha oh shoot, you're right. So the government could pass a law that anyone who is elected must give up all their wealth upon quitting office and there is nothing in the constitution that would prevent that?
> People have been saying this since I was an undergraduate.

> I'm submitting my tenure packet this year.

That doesn't mean it isn't happening. If anything, the fact that the rate of adoption is slow over a long period of time would tell me that there's more stating power here. If suddenly 20% used python that would be a warning sign. If there was .5% year over year for decades.... That's different.
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What OS do you use?

As an iOS dev for a living and a mainly MacOS user I have unfortunately found the UI/UX experience of Inkscape and GIMP (especially) to be kinda rough to use, I feel like maybe it’s better on Linux?
Or the opposite of that - you conveniently forget about a dilemma, only to wake in the middle of night in a cold sweat thinking about it.
Not everybody is so easily impressed by the bullshit titles claimed by pretenders.
Not possible, this order is to ban a list of users who got caught and future reported users not to try and identify the copyrighted material itself.
> a spammer would absolutely just strip that plus part off

Why? They don't care about protecting the business interests of wherever they got that address from, and it's not like stripping the plus off will meaningfully increase the success rate.
> Maisel seemed too pretentious

Opinion that you didn't ask for: I felt that it was both a good show and a terrible one at the same time and decided to stop watching it. It felt like it was 40% "haha these mega-rich Jews are mega-rich, Jews, and also out of touch", 40% "Gilmore Girls in New York", 19% "romantic nostalgia for Lenny Bruce and a young Joan Rivers", and 1%...I don't know...maybe "they showed boobs on screen that one time".
> How they do this ?

Easy, someone squealed.

All the encryption in the world won’t do you any good if the recipient of the message can’t be trusted. And the larger the group the more likely it is that someone is a bad actor.
Sorry I thought you were worrying about your PII and the filepath as two different things.
It's not when the owner promised to never interfere.

15 march: I have not, am not, and will not interfere with the operations of freenode outside of when asked for help
By definition, they wouldn’t be aliens then, would they?
The next sentence in the article says he made that statement in the context of the Apple vs. Epic court battle.

Regardless, that's a scary statement—Apple gets to decide which programs I can install? That's my least favorite thing about mobile phones.
The sibling comment touches on this, but the class of tooling that lets you analyze (R)everse (dep)endencies. There's a bunch that do similar things, but examples:

Rdep: https://github.com/axw/rdep
Gomod: https://github.com/Helcaraxan/gomod

If you look at what they're doing under the hood, its mostly gluing bunch of official Golang libs that let you inspect package-level information.
How to Make Carbon-Neutral Gasoline Out of Thin Air
I enjoyed the series about the Romanovs
I would say no, but in this case I think only "attached legs" should count.
> You going to call up every business that doesn't accept your email and tell them their programmers suck?

No, because it's not 1993, but I absolutely do use the contact forms or bug reporter for any website that doesn't accept my email. Most of them fix it, because it's objectively a bug caused by their non-compliant code.
Amazon employees and shareholders.
My guess is they are drawing parallels with it being open to submissions, sharing and reviews(discussion). Prolly not the source control part of it. Though that would be a good feature to have.
I was surprised too! I was sent a link and then it opened the replit site. The window was split vertically and one half it was coder editor. It looked like a "free" version where you can type some code and run it. And every time I hit tab the editor went out of focus.
I'm just saying I have spent my entire career in "The year Python unseats R."

and also "The year R unseats Python."
It's not like antibodies circulate indefinitely.
You are totally right, I just noticed a similar loop hole in our free speech law that those bad people can exploit in order to spread their message! Better close it up and qualify the 1st amendment.
Software is built by "The New Kingmakers" so maybe go after the would-be kings, not the king-makers. We have our masters. It's the demands of this world that have us producing this horrible dreck. Show us that you want better software.

Stop letting this horror show of anti-personal computing roll over top of us all by demanding & paying for other things. As Ted Nelson's Computer Lib's cover starts off declaring, "You can and you must understand computers now," but the Computer Scientists feel utterly alone in trying to understand & make reasonable & to help the world co-understand. The business doesn't understand or want to understand, the consumers don't understand or want to understand. If you want moral systems, you are going to have to participate, steer some yourself.

> Yet, many social, political and ethical concerns have emerged as the application of technology has grown in daily life.

Go nail your qualms to the door of those who emerge the software, who gather & direct the computer scientists. Or, world, you must somehow charter new people to be able to better pursue this quest. Good citizens arise only within environments where they can be good, but it does not seem like moral systems do a good job providing for us. There are endless articles here on HN about the difficulty of trying to fund open source, and scant few other even imagined scenarios for how goodness might support it's way in the world.
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Those laws apply to broadcasters because they use a finite public resource (broadcast spectrum).

There is no finite public resource that Facebook has exclusive rights to use.
What about car-wolf collisions?
Wesley didn't revoke Lee access. The domain drama was just a misunderstanding about a 2FA/config thing that happened months ago -- it is documented in the email that Lee's published from Wesley: https://web.archive.org/web/20210519213611/https://gist.gith...

(edit: Maybe that when all this drama started, Wesley held on giving access again.)
This is coming soon!
If there's another industrialized civilization on earth, we would have seen evidence of it.
I cut 50% of the time needed to manually count small objects by...counting in twos.
Tata Steel to continue salaries for Covid victims' families m
There's a wonderful book called No Magic Bullet by Allan M. Brandt that discusses how rates of syphilis and other STIs rose after there were effective treatments.

To your comment, I'd at least say there's evidence that treatments to previous STI epidemics hasn't caused the downfall of humanity, and so a vaccine or treatment for HIV/AIDS likely won't either.
Activists mobilize to fight censorship and save open science
That sounds like the very successful politicians I've seen up close. And I mean that as a compliment.
Can it really be that China is now moving ahead of the US both in financial regulation, and in environmental responsibility?

> The government will “crack down on bitcoin mining and trading behavior and resolutely prevent the transfer of individual risks to the society”

> In upstate New York, a private equity firm bought and revamped an abandoned power plant just to mine bitcoin.
Your clone that emerged from the teleporter would never know that you died screaming in agony as you were disassembled.
> The payments feature works through Bluelink, Hyundai’s branded connected car system that gives users control over various vehicle functions and services. Bluelink, which requires a subscription, is offered in three different packages that cover areas such as vehicle maintenance and alerts, remote climate control and unlocking and locking as well as destination search.

A new source of revenue for Hyundai, and a way for them to extort businesses with the threat of excluding them from their network, thereby diverting customers away.
The site uses google for logins so I assume it just bugs out when the request fails. The whole site seemed pretty fragile and unresponsive even while working. Spinners everywhere and often the spinners would go away and there is still no content left on the page.
This is exactly it. The goal of the sale is to own the rights to semi-famous original content and an interesting back catalog on the cheap. Amazon just sees the sale as better then bidding against Netflix for the same content.
I’ve been working in tech for a decade, I’ve scaled several large products and worked on distributed complex systems with a lot of users and some seriously workloads. Memory use has been a major issue perhaps two or three times total.
One option is to do it at the client layer, before messages are transmitted and have left your device.

Note: I’m not advocating they do this or supporting the ask , merely providing a technical option.
'real time' generally means latency guarantees and trading some throughput for consistent low latency for interrupts and scheduling. So faster in some dimensions and slower in others.

The Arch Linux wiki has some description of their real time patches:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Realtime_kernel_patchset
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There is absolutely no way that someone who thought building a dropdown for email domain name is a good idea wasn't putting AOL and Yahoo! as the first two options.
That would make almost every website the "Github of X" since submissions, sharing and comments are core features of many websites. Is HN "the github of cynicism"?
If Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh voted to hear it it would be demonstrable, once and for all, that they are the greatest partisan hacks ever to sit on the bench. IMO
Well, depends on how you define it. Another intelligent species which we call 'aliens'.
We'll cure those too. Rather than worrying about that scenario, I'd rather consider what the world will be like when there are no STDs. It's certainly more amusing than fretting about something that has already happened(super-variants of run of the mill STDs).

As an aside, I wonder what role STDs played in the development of religion and the religious superstitions surrounding sex. Can monogamy survive in the long-term in a world without consequences to promiscuity?
Volume control is crucial part of this Turing test. User is human if lowers the volume immediately :)
Treatments and vaccines are different, though.
yeah you gotta replace something in prod that already works perfectly fine - or release a greenfield feature and sunset it in 14mo lmaoo
> That's an interesting observation about bounded externalities and wider positive effects.

To a first-order approximation my mental model I'm trying to look for extant literature upon: model the signalling as a message-passing system whose agents exhibit observational reflexivity while they pass the payload. Agents are simultaneously bounded by their individual observational capacity's volume (how much granularity, how fast, how broadly of topics, how far-ranging of inter-relationships they can comprehend).

If the hypothesis withstands systematic back-testing scrutiny against historical data, then the next step is to assess its predictive modeling power. Degrees of validation would help me resolve some confounding observations of my own that different organizing principles of various systems ("capitalism", "socialism", "communism", "anarcho-", "merchantilism", etc.) in different contexts (economic, biologic, social, etc.) appear to repeat certain patterns. As if the levers of control change an interface like a protein surface on a cell/bacterium/virus/DNA-strand/RNA-strand changes, but there is a certain "core API" functionality that is found over and over, like a "portable DSL" that is re-evolved in many contexts due to emergent properties of power structures in resource-constrained settings.

I wish I had Dyson Swarm-scale computronium and stor-tronium to help us process and synthesize all of history's known works to find out who else has gone down this rabbit hole, though. There is hardly any original thought when college-dorm-style chatting ideas like this, mostly new ideas only show up in engineering new capabilities and pursuing scientific discovery of new principles; our ancestors were smart cookies. The Vatican has vast stores of works yet to comprehend, for just one data source out of many (every nation's archives, every private archive, etc.).

Curse our limited lifespans, and simultaneously marvel at our verse's breathtaking beauty, right?
I don't think it's workable because it creates all the wrong incentives around hiring:

- Foreign workers will be even more competitive than they are today relative to domestic (because they won't have to be compensated for the additional income tax burden).

- Capital expenditures, automation, etc will all be more competitive vs. hiring workers.

- Companies look for even more non-worker ways to spend cash, such as increasing their political power via lobbying.

Maybe none of this is bad long term, or it all comes out in the wash eventually, but trying to sell this in the short term sounds like political suicide to me— I don't think the purported benefits of 0% tax on corps is even remotely worth it. Corporations benefit from government services; they can pay taxes directly on the value they generate.
Press a key on a real piano - instant sound.

At 10ms (and possibly less), you will start to notice the lag and it will affect your performance.

https://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/q-how-much-latency...
I assumed it was run on donations and corporate sponsors. I didn't expect them to have that many staff as well.
It's so easy to use,Especially fix tool!!!
Is that a problem? I've seen Haskell written in terms of Peano arithmetic and that's like the same thing.

(* did not read the article yet)
> They are the only ones with the in house expertise

The first windows phones/pockets (based on Windows CE) were already fairly old when the iPhone launched. Microsoft was used to dealing with multiple OEMs, not building it's own hardware.
Consumer Reports Slams Tesla's Full-Self Driving Capability
Oh I never knew! Thanks. That does simplify a lot
Sure, I’m sure they enjoyed their life expectancy of under 30 years.
Nobody says it is obvious.

It is specifically because it is not obvious that it is important to not get it wrong in prominent places such as quotes from Guido. Or to downvote and lambaste people calling attention to getting it wrong.
Constitution is at governmental level, which amongst other has law enforcement options to deal with matters. Moreover governments are for all citizens.

This law is forcing a private corporation to do something, when that private corporation has limited other options. Moreover, a private corporation can decide who it wants as its customers, just like some restaurants reserve the right to deny service to certain kind of customers.
Article about trying to participate in the mass hypnosis despite physical revulsion... How about just forget about it. Successful career? Wtf is that?
Another set of people learning about how untenable Facebook's censorship regime is in the long term.

I just wish they'd cast a wider net.
> Forced error handling semantics so that unhappy paths are easily enumerated

They could have just added pattern matching and exhaustivity checking though, right?
It is very difficult to hold even slightly counter opinions due to people like these. Moreover coming from a country whose politics is very different unlike the easier left vs right / libertarian vs regulation preferred compass in the states, everything is very grey in the rest of the world. A lazy Western media which does not give nuance to discussions not involving itself and new generations who hold up influencers and practice the same cancel culture as in the West have really made the political discourse among young people even here devoid of anything meaningful.
Wikipedia is pretty biased and far from an arbiter of truth, especially when it comes to summarizing someone's life, beliefs and personality.

A lot of what Yarvin has written is prescient and extremely incisive. Just because his views and models of the world do not align with the current cultural zeitgeist does not mean that he should be silenced or branded a racist. I get the feeling that most of the people that criticize him have not spent even 10 minutes reading him, but propagate regurgitations they've read/heard. This is not the mark of a healthy society.
The article mentions the "cobra effect", which is basically the same story, only set in India with the British offering bounties for dead cobras:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#The_origina...
Maybe GM will see as an opportunity to electrify the Colorado instead of the Silverado (unless there are already public plans to do so).
This is basically a stronger form of Conway's law, the weak form of which is definitely true (and should be respected when planning projects.)
"The Fastest And Shortest Algorithm For All Well-Defined Problems

...

An algorithm M is described that solves any well-defined problem p as quickly a the fastest algorithm computing a solution to p, save for a factor of 5 and low-order additive terms."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220180215_The_Faste...
It's not particularly secure but in a pinch I just use the python standard lib server to start an http server in a folder then open up the port with ngrok temporarily to share the file. Security through obscurity for a very discreet time period works.
Understanding Contextual Facial Expressions Across the Globe
Thank you, that was so good.
> Both HIV and COVID came from animal hosts originally.

The jury is out on COVID. We don't know.
rule of thumb is that sound travels roughly 1ft per ms, so 5ms is the same as standing 5 extra feet from the speaker. Most musicians don't have much trouble up to around 10-20ms.

Jitter is killer though - if the latency is randomly changing it's really annoying.
For that particular use case (from Android to other devices on the same network), either of these would work:

https://github.com/marcosdiez/shareviahttp

https://github.com/jimmod/ShareToComputer
I think in this case the problem is that Inkscape's rendering pipeline is just extremely computational inefficient on macOS. It's not that things don't show properly, it just takes too long to draw all the pixels. MS Excel for Mac actually has the same problem if you fullscreen a spreadsheet on a 5k external display unless you put the display in low res scaling mode.

If I remember correctly, which I probably don't, it's partly also because the macOS display process involves painting something like 2-4x as many pixels as the screen actually has and then downscaling the result because that looks prettier than just drawing the exact pixels directly. But I'm probably misremembering that part.
End user repair most certainly is a consideration. They considered it and wholeheartedly rejected it.
Is this because the finger protocol is defined such that it must use ASCII, and not UTF-8? (Honest question, have not used finger in a looooong time)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1288#section-2.2
Mind sharing that companion piece, please?