skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always been fascinated by Rodney Mullen, and only learned years later he was nicknamed the Godfather of skateboarding.

And with good reason! He rose in fame at a young age, pulling up insane freestyle tricks, yet started before street skateboarding was a thing, and was overnight rendered obsolete.

But he went on to reinvent himself and created so many tricks, some he's still the only one able to do, or do with anything close to that level of mastery.

He then suffered a medical issue where his hip joint fused... Wasn't supposed to skate ever again but came back from it, relearning everything with a different balance.

He's over 50 now, and skating with such style[0], pulling off one-handstand flips which is insane at any age.

I respect Tony Hawk, but Mullen is an alien alright, less popular but so much more fundamental for skateboarding.

https://youtu.be/xjMGAQCXppc
I agree that Finder is somewhat weird in regard to hierarchies, but it all makes sense if you get to know it: basically, you can move around with CMD+Arrow. Up goes up a directory, down goes down a directory (or opens the file). Left / Right go forward / back in history, like a browser.

I'm not sure Windows is such a great example in the conversation about file systems, what with its "collections" and abstract hierarchy which is sometimes upside down and somewhat – but not fully! – circular.

Open an explorer window, click on your name under "quick access". You're in the home directory. You also have a "Desktop" folder there. Go in there. You see your desktop files. So far so good.

Now go back to your user folder and click "up". You're now in "desktop". What?! Only now, there's other stuff in there. How many desktops are there?!

Now go back to your user folder, choose any folder. Click on the address bar. C:\users\your_name\your_folder. Click twice "up", you expect to be in C:\users, right? Ha!

Now type C:\users\your_name\your_folder, or browse through the C:\ in the left pane. Click the address bar and compare with earlier. Now click up. Very intuitive. Depending on how you got somewhere, your apparent hierarchy is not the same.

Back to the "quick collection" thing, there's a desktop entry there. Click it. Looks like the first desktop folder, so no surprise here, right?. Click up. You end up in "my computer"!

Now, do the same operations in Finder. How many different desktops are there? Not sure how Windows is more logical or user-friendly.

I side with the other poster who said that most "common users" just don't understand file systems, and so they put everything on the desktop because it doesn't go away.
Well that would be payment processing with Amex. You are still allowed to go to Sam's Club next door, or Sam's Club ( Store ) opening one close to Costco.

>Don’t like state of iOS, travel to territory of Android.

Except the "State" of iOS currently holds close to 70% of Smartphone user in US with close to 80% of the spending. You are basically telling business to either comply with the "State" or go else where. Which is why something "above" the state has to come in.

I am not arguing for or against opening or side loading App Store. But there are no competition on each of those different levels. Which Apple likes to lump it all together as one thing. And this idea shouldn't be hard to grasp.
The Perilous Hunt for Coconut Crabs on a Remote Polynesian Island
> Do you have a citation on nuclear winter not being a thing? The last thing I read on the subject was that even a full blown exchange between india and pakistan would be enough to wreak havoc on agriculture in large swaths of the world for a year or two

A good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Criticism_and_d...

The gist is that in the 80s nuclear winter was portrayed as apocalyptic by Carl Sagan and others using shoddy models in order to advance an arms control agenda. More recent work depicts far more modest climactic effects that are highly variable based on the season the nuclear war would occur in (worst in the summer, very modest to non-existent in the winter). The issue seems to be not so much the bombs themselves; but how cities burn, how much soot would be produced, and how it would move through the atmosphere.

This is also worth reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Kuwait_wells_in.... Sagan's nuclear-winter modeling team predicted in 1990 that 100 oil well fires would produce a small-scale global nuclear winter. In 1991 Iraq started 800 oil well fires, which caused no such thing. The only effects were localized and stopped soon after the fires were put out.
Fauci fucking funded this goddamn shit!

Fauci, Newsom, Whitmer, Cuomo - they all need to be executed for treason.
This is the thing about Macs - people think they are intuitive because they have learned how to use them over X number of years. Including, I believe, those building the OS at Apple. But for a person who isn't familiar with them, they are absolutely not intuitive.

And any time there is a complaint, the community is like "Oh, dummy, just do this thing that is not obvious at all, how could you not figure that out?"
> according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report that could add weight to growing calls for a fuller probe of whether the Covid-19 virus may have escaped from the laboratory.

Here's the US Dept of State "Fact Sheet" for Jan 15, 2021, which (previously disclosed) states much of the same info that WSJ is now just getting to 4+ months later and reporting it as "news": https://2017-2021.state.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan...
Sure, but I'm also far from convinced bitcoin exists in those bursts.

:shrug:
On the use of Benford’s law to detect GAN-generated images
I use 20+ year old hard plastic chair. If pandemic continues I can use it for next 30 years probably.
quoting from the post

>> but I switched to Mac because the hardware is just better than even the best Windows hardware for the same price, and the software typically JUST WORKS.

author claims Windows to be a superior operating system but "just works", isn't that the clearer signal to better software?
That helps a lot! Thank you very much for the thoughtful response.
The ErgoChair Pro by Autonomous

https://www.autonomous.ai/

https://www.autonomous.ai/office-chairs/ergonomic-chair?opti...
Bees Make Wax – Understanding the Science Behind Beeswax
Is this better or worse than the US pattern of sanctions and drone strikes?
I use tags all the time, so Im not sure why you find them useless. And what do you mean - no parent folder?
Interesting, I built something similar for myself - https://jublime.com/. It is not as polished as this submission, but I just add features which I feel useful to my job search.

Good luck with your product.
Not on Linux
Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label
> Like the first time after a boot/login?

More often than that - I knew it'd ask on fresh boot, but this is after switching users or just a night where it pretends to sleep. I'm still tracking it down and figuring out the scenarios. I'm not averse to it as an OS, I just want to understand why it's done something when it has.
With that price tag I don't see a lot of appeal for most people in Academia outside really big, rich labs in US and maybe UK.

Good luck anyway
How do Windows app with zero windows work? The reason it’s doable on macOS is because the menu bar is always there.
Amazon has turned developers into consumers. I like the site, I hate how un-hobbyist-friendly the dev world has become.
Touchscreen buttons? No thanks.
Quite, also they're definitely downstream of human hosts. The comment that was replied to was implicitly talking about strains in wild animals that could have been the source of the whole malaise.
They've joked a couple of times that Seamus Malekafzali won't come back after the length of that one :D

Update: oof yeah I just checked again now - 3 hours 4 minutes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW6lg-7L7yk).
There really ought to be sandbox "default" settings or templates that Firebase has for noobs, instead of configuring everything change by change. I still dread configuring IAM and now just resort to using one big EC2 instead of multiple services.
> This feels so much like the Iraq "weapons of mass destruction" fiasco.

So I have to pipe in here as I recall this vividly. What crystalized this for me was of all things an op-ed piece by a conservative (not neocon) writer that essentially came down to this (paraphrased):

> There are essentially two possibilities here:

> 1. Iraq has no WMD. In this case the invasion is unjustified; or

> 2. Iraq has WMD. In which case, why wouldn't they give them up to avoid a US invasion?

This was such a simple and undeniable logical fallacy in the Iraq WMD invasion narrative it blew my mind.

I've been skeptical about the lab leak theory. But you can be skeptical about the theory and still recognize that the WHO just hasn't pursued enough leads to debunk the theory to a sufficient degree. Examples include:

1. China had an online database of coronaviruses. This was taken offline in late 2019 and hasn't been online since. The WHO investigation team has not examined it nor sought to do so. While the timing is certainly curious, it's not necessarily damning. But it warrants investigation (IMHO); and

2. Chinese labs have been less than forthcoming about what coronaviruses they have.

Chinese authorities have been less than fully cooperative here. Again, that's not damning. I consider it much more likely that Chinese authorities simply don't know if Covid leaked from a Wuhan lab but there's literally zero upside in finding out if that's the case.

Would you want to be a member of the CCP that released information that allowed the WHO to establish that Covid-19 came from a Wuhan lab allowing critics of China to "blame" China for this?

Nope, I wouldn't either. So why cooperate?
Duplicity has this option. I love it. Especially when something bad can happen, like blowing up my disk because an ISO image is in the backup area.
That's a pretty bad page, given that it gives regexes that match very different things for different languages, without a) explanation what the differences are, and b) any rationale for why you may or may not want to choose between the different versions, let alone c) why different languages "deserve" different versions of the regex.

This is already a field where there is a lot of misinformation flying around, and a page that merely regurgitates all of that misinformation without the perspicacity to realize that its purported information is internally incoherent is not helpful.
Steelcase Leap v2 with a headrest. I bought it new, since finding a refurb one with a headrest is really difficult. My company gave us a WFH-office-setup stipend at the start of COVID lockdowns though, so that paid for about half of it.

I went from a crappy Staples faux-leather chair with terrible padding to this, and the comfort level is night and day.
I am relatively new to the workforce, but I am struck by the amount of time spent reporting estimate, redoing estimates, and planning work.
Execute Fauci!
Gnu Stow is a thing.
I've been using a Steelcase Leap that I bought way back in 2008, and it's basically as good as new. Considering how much time we spend in our chairs and how (relatively) durable they are, I think making the investment in a nice one is probably not one you'll regret.

You might want to visit a local ergonomics store to test-drive, if it's practical for you -- for example, I personally don't prefer Aerons because the mesh bothers me. Those kinds of personal preferences are better to discover prior to spending $$$ on something.

Also, don't discount the rest of your equipment -- equally important to my ergonomics are wrist support and proper monitor placement. A good-quality VESA arm will also last decades and be able to follow you around. Your monitor should be about arms-length from you, with the center of the screen falling about a hand-span below your eye line.
That's a worrying strategy because there are many reasons for using a catchall. Example: one email per site to track companies selling personal data, then maybe bounce that single email address.

Do you know any site blocking domains with a catchall?
>Splitting the difference by not changing the salary at all seems fair, and nicely lines up with the agreement you already have in place.

You're not splitting the difference if market rates change. If pay is going up for marketable skills, the employee is eating the cost, if pay is going down for marketable skills, the employer is eating the cost. If there's inflation, the employee is eating the cost.

General inflation alone needs to be accommodated at bare minimum, otherwise the employee is incurring debt by remaining in place year over year. Most likely by staying somewhere, your skills are also being refined around said employer, so the value of your skills for said employer should be going up.

This ignores all the other factors. Businesses created this sort of employment market with high rates and high turnover because it's what they wanted, it's not the labor force that largely want it, they've just adapted to it.
I started skateboarding last year (mid 30s) and it's been a blast.

Surprisingly (to me) its very diverse, very different board/styles that enable very different activities: skateboarding, longboarding, down hill, dancing, surfskating, long distance skateboarding, ...

I eventually settled on long distance skateboarding (LDP). Which is jokingly refered as "old man's skateboarding". You just roll on a board on bike paths. It slightly more effort than bicycle, but going for 10-20 miles is not a problem (if you can do it on a bike you can do it on skateboard). The board makes a big difference, you need specialized board for distance. The "pumping" technique is what got me hooked, enables going for very long stretches without having to push with your leg.

It's so much more convenient to carry skateboard to the bike path than a bicycle, no racks, you can fit more skateboards in a trunk than people in a car.

LDP technique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA0xS8J7jPY&t=109s The guy in video is very good at it, but average person can start slowly riding couple miles after first hours or so.

Short movie on distance skateboarding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm1_DTNMKqo
Weather cancellations/delays don't count as denied boarding. These rules apply only if you're bumped due to overbooking.
I've been using Doppler for a few months now and I like it, why would I use this instead?
Liberals who side with China are enemies of the state and should be arrested.
This is a novel idea. Congrats on the launch!

When I hear collaborative writing, however, I think of OverLeaf, which tons of researchers I met use for writing LaTex collaboratively. Does Curvenote support Latex editing out of the box? How can you make them transition to your platform if their workflow isn't data heavy?

Btw - I personally am not very happy about OverLeaf. Its UX can be improved in various ways but seems lacking enough development support.
Yeah, the article title should be "Drug dealer caught by online photo that revealed fingerprints". That's the interesting and unexpected part, here. I didn't really know that could be done and hadn't heard of it before; but I suppose it's not too surprising given the prevalence of high-resolution phone cameras, now.

I'm guessing what happened was that they were monitoring an anonymous chat group on this EncroChat app and weren't sure of the true identities of some of the people in it. They saw one of them posted a photo showing fingertips, decided to see if they could extract and match the fingerprints against their database, and got a hit.

I disagree with the (current) top post in this thread saying it's "likely parallel construction". It could be, but the claimed story also sounds pretty plausible, if it's indeed true that they could match the fingerprints based on that photo.

That said, if they didn't heavily downscale or obfuscate the photo before uploading it, the fingertips look so blurry that I imagine it'd be hard to get anything actually useful from it... (https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/F8F6/production/...). If that's close to the original photo, I would grant more probability to the parallel construction/source protection hypothesis.

I'd be quite impressed if the photo was really that blurry and they still managed to extract fingerprints. Though, maybe it could become more feasible with some Photoshop adjustments?
Huh, how did I not ever hear/find out about this when I was choosing a provider... I think this is the first time I've seen them mentioned on HN, despite searching through quite a few de-googling threads. Will definitely take a closer look!
Haven't considered the wall hacks, that's a good point. Still though, I think you could mitigate this with a few different techniques.

The CPU cost is largely there anyways, as you are updating everything on the client from the server anyways. Any games that rely more heavily on physics will have more work to do to simulate yes, although basic gravity/velocity calculations with some linear interpolations thrown in is very lightweight, even when talking about 100 players. Bandwidth is quite small, how much data does it take to send a single key stroke? A number of bytes really, multiply by 100 players, multiply by say 2 or 3 keystrokes at the same time, multiply by 60 frames per second, and you still get a very reasonable (dare I say negligible?) amount of bandwidth.

The point is not for it to be authoritative whatsoever, the point is to not have to wait on two round trips from the server to get location data from your opponents, but try to do it in one round trip. If your connection to your opponent is lower latency/more stable if done through the server, then that should be the fallback of course. Movement prediction/smoothing happens even to your own personal character, even on a good, low ping connection to the server, the good games just know how to hide it effectively, but you often still get people complaining about hit registration. There is no perfect model outside of everyone having amazing internet connections.
Love the "It works for me" ethos. Very popular amongst us IT guys. Sadly not much help to the OP.

If we want to have better products, we need to address issues that people have using them. Apple UX is slowly eroding over time, to the point that I planned to move to Windows camp after the forced replacement of my MBP.

Sadly or thankfully M1 really helped to put a curb into those plans :).
Usually I just use dry run directives to make sure stuff is working right when I first develop it, so all that is worked out from the very beginning. I also like to develop with a lot of debug output gated behind debug as well, and just leave that there for the inevitable but at some point that would make me add it if not already present.

What I don't like is passing those as params as args. Currying this stuff around is very error prone and cumbersome. I prefer to set environment variables for DRY_RUN and DEBUG (with debug accepting higher integer levels for more debugging).

This works wonderfully for me since I never have to worry I didn't pass something along correctly, I'm always asking the global set at runtime.
Huawei Expected to Develop a 3nm Kirin SoC but Release May Happen in 2022
An astute executive that saw an early prototype of this asked “how much does a Nintendo 3DS cost?”

It’s a Rube Goldberg gaming machine.
Even Amid a Pandemic, More Than 40M People Fled Their Homes
Yeah, your comment made me curious, so I did a bit of digging and it looks like there's been at least one paper published in that domain: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03054....

Would be amazing to see 3D models from photogrammetry added to the mix as well.
Because, as was mentioned, in every other context/OS, that is not what Enter does?
I'm not who you replied to, but I find this interesting. It seems like you're asking rhetorically, but the answer for me is no. I expect I'm not alone.

I do own an old Kindle Paperwhite, which I assume is fairly locked down? I'm not actually sure.
(I'm a Director-level with 30 reports in my organization, with a few managers as direct reports. These thoughts below reflect my current problems as well as problems I had when I was "just" an engineering manager. Note that the problems don't go away, just increase in scale...)

Number one for first two questions: hiring. Finding solid, dependable people with the right skills and attitude is really, really hard. I probably spend 30-40% of my time on the hiring side of things. We have so much work to do and not enough people to do it, and combining that with the slow rate of inbound high quality candidates means that I have to spend a ton of my time screening and talking to candidates. Someone else mentioned turnover, but I have never (so far in 6 years) had anyone quit while working under me, so turnover for me has been really low.

Number two problem relating to the above: diversity. It's nigh impossible to find women and other marginalized groups. They're in such high demand and the supply is so low that it's just so hard to hire people and have your team not look like a team of white dudes.

For the third question, I talk to my old bosses and coworkers the most. I have a fantastic relationship with my last two bosses. Nowadays we're peers (same title, different companies) and we compare notes and mentor each other. If you don't have someone like this already, I suggest going to meetups (post-COVID) and meet other engineering managers. A shortcut to this is to find a new job, and then your old job colleagues can be your external mentors ;) That said, there's nothing wrong with having mentors within your company. Just be up-front with them about what you're looking for, especially if they're upper management.

For the fourth question, I've never really found that tools have an impact in either direction. I've yet to find a tool outside of Excel/Google Sheets and email that is indispensable.
I think the concept may just need some slight modification to work in more modern cases like this. Namely, by making the interface zoomable.
Get a standing desk with a bar stool. Standing is much more ergonomic than sitting. And the arrangement with the barstool lets you very naturally switch between sitting and standing. Your body will tell you what it wants and half a second later you have the better pose. Also invest in a monitor at the right height, ergonomic keyboard and vertical mouse. If you have wrist pain like I also did, try alternative keyboard layouts such as QFMLWY. And a Mac-style keyboard where you copy/paste with the strong thumb (Cmd), not the weak pinky (Ctrl).
Oh thanks, that's fascinating, I thought they were the same thing. Reading the answers on that page, it sounds like there are quite a few programs in common use (e.g. Final Cut Pro) that treat ENTER and RETURN differently. I have both keys on this PC clone keyboard plugged into a Mac mini, so maybe I'll be able to use the numpad's ENTER for keyboard shortcuts. Thank you!
The conspiracy theory arguably sparked a new tide of anti Asian hate attacks. So, yes, it was and is dangerous and it fomented discord among population.

There was zero evidence, at the time, that the virus escaped from a Chinese lab. There is still zero evidence that the virus was created in a lab, or that its purpose is to be a biological weapon.
Ikea MARKUS it's $200 but has been pretty good to me, the price of a used Aeron is higher. The things is the MARKUS has a 10 year warranty though Ikea and is pretty comfortable and a solid price. I have used both and they are both pretty comfy to me but the Aeron is too much to pay.
> or they’ll be sent to the mines.

Are you sure? Any sources? That sounds like bs to me. While IT job market is shrinking, even if ppl quit there is still a large pool of jobs in pretty much any direction.