skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This gets brought up pretty much every time immediate mode GUIs are discussed on HN. I think your comment is reasonable, and I don't disagree, but I also think it's important to not throw the baby out with the bathwater and dismiss immediate mode GUIs for accessibility reasons.

It's not at all clear to me that the right approach is to have both the accessibility interface and the GUI be generated from the same components. It seems to me that it's just approaching the lowest common denominator of a passable GUI and a passable accessibility interface.

The traditional widget-style GUI paradigm asks you to essentially copy all your application data into their format and to keep this format in sync with your own data. This is tedious, and I believe hinders the creation of better GUIs. On the flip-side, owning your data structure means it can indeed hook into the accessibility API for you.

Immediate mode GUIs provide an alternative approach, where they only handle rendering stuff on screen. Since all the data structures are now properly controlled by the programmer, it is much easier to create dynamic GUIs. Taking a step back like this provides an opportunity to further the state of the art.

The solution I see to providing accessibility in immediate mode GUIs is that the programmer has to hook into the accessibility API themselves -- if it makes sense. It's not clear to me that certain advanced GUI programs can ever be very accessible. Yes, this is more work, but there's also an opportunity to create richer experiences for people with disabilities.
This makes sense though from a care optimization perspective though, yeah? Say an ML model is developed to predict a rare disease, and person 12345 scores highly by that model but has not been tested. Without IDs, the NHS would need to replicate the model on secure infrastructure to identify and potentially save the life of the person. With IDs, researchers most familiar with the methodology who already have the infrastructure set up can simply give a set of high-scoring IDs to NHS administrators.
The title should correct the spelling to "Buddhist" from "Buddist"

EDIT: now it has been corrected, thank you!
What happened with f.lux?
I assumed it was but noone else replying here seems to agree...

"/s" really is needed I guess
The sad reality is that if you can't save 6k, house ownership may not be a viable option for you. Things break. Things need maintenance.
Bro you live in the Netherlands.

I have numerous Dutch friends who are not as young and foolish, and your perspective is not the mainstream one in that country.

Your nation was under occupation by the Nazis until the United States came in with the UK and made it otherwise.

Obviously that doesn't mean the United States isn't imperfect and of course it has tremendous flaws and has yet to live up to its true ideals in its founding documents. That being said there aren't American soldiers walking around outside your door right now.

Ask yourself if anyone in the EU will stand up for your nation?

Angela Merkel sat on her hands and did absolutely nothing when a Dutch jet liner was blown up by Russian weaponry in Eastern Ukraine. Hundreds of your fellow citizens died and nobody in Europe did a single thing. Sure, sanctions were procured and many other nasty letters but not a single Russian military asset was arrested or brought to justice. Hundreds of your countrymen are dead and nobody was ever held accountable for it. It was a war crime and there is no trial.

I look forward to the United States continuing to recede from its superpower status so that the world can finally realize what they were taking for granted. About half of the United States population spent the last 5 years talking about how terrible their government was. That makes the US unique compared to the other superpowers in the world which are authoritarian at their core.

I should hope that India will eventually step up and develop into a democratic superpower but until then you have no other options other than a toothless, useless Germany dominated EU. The EU couldn't even handle vaccines properly, so I'm sure they'll do very well in protecting your citizens from the realities of authoritarian superpowers.
I genuinely wonder how stupid one has to be to think that this was a good strategy.

Has the person who came up with this idea ever met people? This kind of thing regularly blows up private platforms, on an open protocol like IRC this was guaranteed to trigger a swift mass migration.
You're right. But I still can git-clone gnu nano, all of its dependencies and compile it on my own hardware. If fsf ever goes belly-up one still can do so with any source they ever made available. Users of software supported by FSF are immune from any kind of FSF takeover.

But indeed, FSF has to consider if RMS does more harm than good or put him in a position where he can do no harm.
that's the source branch. I am looking for a way to copy the target/destination branch name.
The single-# channels were official channels (or grandfathered channels from before "official channel" policy).

That meant that they weren't random chat channels, they were linked with specific organization that handled them (this was done to prevent name hijacking... which is what rasengan just did)
> I don't think you understand software like you think you do.

Sorry, can't hear you above the noise of your furious backpedaling. If somebody rewrites the protocol rules in their software to allow anything approaching what you've described (lol, "yes cryptography is involved"), then why are they worried about btc hashing power? I mean, you specifically said:

> If I had >50% hashing power of BTC(for exactly 1 transaction), I can make the current chain say anything I want, like give me all the BTC, and it would become valid and "permanent".

I'll tell you what it would look like to the rest of the network if anybody enacted your diabolical plot: suddenly somebody starts submitting invalid blocks to the network at regular intervals and only those who are monitoring for weird traffic like that even notice, then the block solve rate slightly sags until the difficulty automatically adjusts. Congratulations, you've turned your massive hashing advantage into an incredibly expensive joke.
Most of freenode was public channels, no? Couldn't he just use a bouncer and store logs?
On (2), it's not that I disagree. But he's apologizing on behalf of the government, where he singlehandedly in his personal decision cost lives too.

And that's in addition to the fact that as a member of that government he's also collectively responsible.

Yes, both things can be true. He can be an asshole who singlehandedly cost lives by undermining what effort the government was making, AND he's right that the government didn't do enough.

So he was part of poor handling of the fire, but then on his own time he went to the fire station and blew up some firetrucks for fun, while the fire was still raging.
What exactly does "hijack" mean though? I don't speak IRC so it's not clear what they're actually doing to the channels.
The only thing I can think of is that Stargate might finally have a change to reappear
Upgrade (RelayFM podcast) covered this on this weeks episode and this apparently will come down to what the Broccoli family will agree too since really they own the rights to Bond
>I wish there was an "auto-flattener"/"auto-inliner" tool

I'm as big an advocate of "top-down" design as anyone, and I have also wished for such a tool. When you just want to know "what behavior comes next", all the abstractions do get in the way. The IDE should be able to "flatten" the execution path from current context and give you a linear view of the code. Sort of like a trace of a debug session, but generated on-the-fly. But still, I don't think this is the best way to write code.
Like almost every Mars colony in sci-fi works. So think an Australian mining town, but you only fly-in, not fly-out.
reminds me of fpsfs (fuse-fps? dont remember the exact name) from the mid 2000's, which was a 3d ftp game with dirs as rooms and files as blocks which you could shoot and so delete :)

edit: it was Brutal File Manager - thanks, folmar
Ok so should Olive Garden be allowed to call the police if I go and take the food from their restaurant without paying? Because you just said they have an infinite supply of it.
Well. That's a good sign that whoever bought out freenode has no comprehension of group psychology or the fact that this behavior is more likely to lead to people leaving very rapidly. Barbara Streisand syndrome anyone?

It is so clear that they thing the community owes them something when in reality the people who use the irc are the only reason freenode has any value. It's not that hard to spin up another irc server, it is hard as heck to get lots of people to join and use it.
At the 90's, under heavy US lobbying, my country made copyright infringement a crime.

What that means nowadays is that those people would now need to talk to the police. That implies in bringing some very good evidence, because our criminal system isn't antagonistic, and also facing the criminal consequences of false allegations.

As a result, some foreign companies tried very hard to create a copyright predator industry shortly after the criminalization, but had to abandon it. There are still copyright protections, mildly enforced, but not that kind of thing.
Not holding my breath.

This quote comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ps2lTqaVNw&t=331s
Welcome to what happens when the common network and routing infrastructure is privately owned. Proprietary standards. Subscriber ident, discriminatory "I will/won't service you today" sets the tone for how things work. Mesh interop is more than doable. It just ain't profitable, nor is it desirable from the centralized controllability perspective.
I asked years ago (and I'll ask again!)

I wonder what Las Vegas would look like if tech companies started buying / building hotels in Vegas

At one point MGM owned almost 1 third - half the strip (ish) - recently they've been selling off properties which is a shame, MGM properties are my preferred resorts.

Maybe Amazon can breath some life into Excalibur or Luxor but it sounds like those are not part of the deal
More than just narrative reasons, I think it makes sense that the planet that receives half the sunlight would be building less brightly lit ships
seems like the guy genuinely does like IRC/freenode. So it's just a misguided attempt at wish fulfillment to the detriment of the community
Honestly, there's an pretty solid rule you don't crap on your channel owners by using chanserv. That's the number one way to be clear that having your channel on their server is fundamentally unsafe.
> This Flash animation that I created ...

How old is this article? And how do I get to view this animation?
Have we actually shortened the life of everyone by one year, on average? We put rather severe restrictions in place, and not everyone were affected the same way¹ (which is not fair, I know). My point is, it's not like we put everyone in suspended animation for a year, or instantly aged everyone by a year, or made the life of everyone miserable enough for that year that it wasn't worth living. The effects of how we handled this crisis are real, but a full year of lost life per person on average seems like a stretch.

[1]: to give but one example, unemployment kills (more precisely, it's a risk factor). Rising unemployment causes additional deaths. Not a huge amount, but a measurable one for sure. We effectively killed some people to save others.
It really doesn't. The best option is weechat-matrix, but that's already a dead project. The lack of good client diversity is what is holding me back from using Matrix.
> extremely poor platform APIs

As a former member of the Windows accessibility team at Microsoft, I'd appreciate your thoughts on what makes the platform accessibility APIs extremely poor. I have my own thoughts on what makes them difficult to implement, but I'd like to hear your perspective first.
Ask HN: Who is your favorite CEO and why?
For me, it’s “ Tony Hsieh ” the late former CEO of Zappos because of the kind of remarkable work he did with his customers and employees.
In the modern English language no such thing exists. There is North America and South America. There is a sub continental region called Central America, but that’s not a continent and the demonym is Central American, not American.

It may be that a different language treats things differently but wishing it in English doesn’t make it so.
Meh, in the real world, the boundaries aren't so clear.

In most organizations, data science or analytics will likely play all these Potemkin-ish roles to varying degrees, while also adding real value to the business.

Sure, you may do some "decision laundering" for an executive, but that executive may then go on to help champion data science and develop a data-driven culture because by doing him or her a solid every now and again, you build a relationship. Favor trading may seem dirty or impure to a lot people, but it's also how a lot of great work gets done.

And sure, your org will likely use data science as marketing with a healthy does of McKinsey-inspired corporate BS thrown in. This does not and generally will not preclude the organization from also using data science productively and appropriately.

Anyone who thinks you can rise above petty politics to do some sort of "pure" data science is going to find themselves, frustrated, ineffective and burnt out.
>Taiwan had a detailed plan in the event of a pandemic, the UK did not. This allowed them to get started with contact tracing earlier and more effectively.

To be clear - this is you speculating and correlating two things that may or may not be causally related. India is a good example of a country that had a very light initial COVID wave last year, but is now drowning. What's the difference? Government policy? Maybe but India isn't exactly famous for having a well run government bureaucracy. Deadlier COVID variants? Maybe?

What if how hard your population is hit really just comes down to the prevalent variant your population is exposed to. After all, there is evidence that the variants in Europe and North America were much more deadly and virulent than the strains in Asia.
Good analysis, but you harm your credibility by saying Nintendo curates eshop titles.

This is only technically true, and no layperson would be able to tell. 99% of the eshop is ports of shovelware android ‘games’ that consist of little more than cover art.
That scene in the behemoth in s3e11 between camina and ashford is one my favourite. Their discussion of what it is that makes belters what they are in that situation, such great writing
Ubuntu's Move to Libera Chat
Is anyone making a decent living from Slack apps?
You can support EFF, who fights against such cases in court.
MacBook Pro not charging when plugged due to battery optimisation issue
Belavia flight B2869 from Minsk to Barcelona not entering EU airspace
I dunno, but I was hoping the comments on the story would offer some insight into the region. But half of them are gossip about some random youtuber who went there once.
Wow arch is bleeding edge even for wiki URLs.
An Introduction to Jorvik, the New Tasking Profile in Ada 202x
if someone goes to libera and registers a bunch of channels and tells people to go to freenode, how would they respond? or if popular subreddits were shut down by their respective mods, you'd can be sure that the ops would come in an open it up again. I bet it would take less than a minute to get banned for bring up freenode on libera. if people want to leave freenode they should do that, its pretty rude to expect them to leave your abandoned channel as a memoral to your departure.
I'd anyone remains on freenode after this, they deserve whatever comes to them.

Irc servers are not that hard to start up and libéra is already in place. It's a matter of time now before they lose most of the users.
I think it's also admirable how quickly libera.chat has grown into a network of over a quarter of freenode's size (26%).

freenode.net users as of 18:48 CEST 2021-05-25:

> Current global users 69472, max 85052

libera.chat users as of 15:06 CEST, 2021-05-26:

> Current global users 18337, max 18338

In particular, it's larger than OTFC now. Data as of 15:16 CEST, 2021-05-26:

> Current global users: 18100 Max: 18101

As for the trends, they look good for libera.chat and bad for freenode. On 2021-05-20, the values were as following for libera.chat:

> Current global users 11126, max 11130

And as following for freenode.net:

Current global users 77159, max 83476

So freenode lost 7.6 thousand users (9.9%) while libera gained 7.2 thousand users (39%) within the last couple of days.
Joel Chadabe, Explorer of Electronic Music’s Frontier, Dies at 82
gnuradio.
We also got hijacked.
An empire of dirt.
If I had to pick a single politically uniting issue, breaking up Amazon and big tech would be it.

Why has this not happened yet? Is the out of power party afraid the in power party will get credit? (This has been discussed when both parties were in power)

If the government can't get something with this kind of support done, I fear the road we are headed down .
> He added that "in a well-run entity", the prime minister could have appointed a "sort of dictator" to run the Covid response, with the power to "fire anybody or move anybody".

That was him basically, no? That’s what makes it all worse. “The government’s decisions [that I took/forced] were awful and someone [other than me] should be held responsible”.
Skiff Raises 3.7MM from Sequoia, John Hennessy, and Jerry Yang for E2EE Docs
lol, online monopoly isn't enough for the tech companies? You want them to monopolize offline too? :)
You were on the DevOps team! They did what ops did!
I'm so looking forward to the last book. Reportedly it will be released on November 18.
(2011)

While the archive.org snapshots only go back to 2019, this is basically word-for-word from his 2011 book, which had a chapter with the same title. As others have commented, the advice doesn't necessarily hold true with high DPI displays anymore.
As much as I dislike Amazon, I am continually surprised at how hands off their streaming creations seem to be. Expanse is probably biggest anti-corporate rant on TV I saw in a while.

If they continue to treat their streaming arms as another business and not PR, it is a great move.
Unidentified Aerial Polyhedra: Huge Tetrahedron over Pentagon 12-19-2018 [video]
Game of Thrones did not have a budget problem for the last season; it had a writing problem. While other seasons used the novels for the build-up and for the story to make sense, the last season did not. And while the author does know where he wants to land, he hasn't worked out, or hasn't shared, how to get there completely yet. The tv show went there with no proper buildup, which is what makes that season poor. To me, the final situation, or who wins/dies, is not the problem, nor are the effects.

As for The Expanse, it's season not seasons; the next season will be the final season. I cannot see the tv series ending in the same end point as the final novel, that is I cannot see them cramming four novels with one huge time gap in between into one season. But I do believe it will come to a satisfactory conclusion at some alternative end point.
Is freenode having its sourceforge moment ? In 10 years abandoned and then revived by normal people?
Valve's track record with non-VR hardware is, to put it politely, not good.

Seven years after launching the Steam machine (2014) initiative, there are no Steam machines available for sale. [1]

Both the Steam Controller (2015-2019) and Steam Link (2015-2018) are discontinued and cannot be purchased, despite consistently positive reviews from users. [2]

As other commenters have noted there are already numerous "Switch-like, but x86" products that exist, and it's unclear to me what innovation Valve can bring to the space.

IMHO if Valve wants to be taken seriously in the hardware market, they need to stop pulling a Google and actually support/iterate/not discontinue their existing hardware products (before someone adds that they did support these through firmware updates, I mean updating the hardware to keep up with the times, Steam Link with apps or 4K, etc).

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steam_machines

[2] https://store.steampowered.com/search/?category1=993
Release The Apprentice outtakes! You know you want to, Bezos :)
What alternative to Brex/Divvy to you know for EU ?
"It looks like the app is using the native review dialog, then observing windowDidBecomeVisible: for the container window that’s rendered in-process, and putting something on top of that to prevent interactions other than five-star reviews."

From https://twitter.com/_inside/status/1397540108971266049
Prime video has a different mission than Netflix or Disney+.

Prime video exists to keep you reasonably attached to Prime. Prime keeps you shopping at Amazon first. As long as you understand that, the content Amazon offers for free makes sense.
I might be misreading the screenshot, but it says that a channel admin changed the topic and then also banned everyone from the channel?
...or any oil rig north of the polar circle... hostile environmental conditions combined with too many people crammed into too little living space and nowhere to go. Basically a prison camp, but with (I assume) higher than average wages (but nothing to do with the money except sending it home to the family on Earth).

(PS: this of course assumes that's there's anything to do on Mars, it's not clear to me what the Mars colonists would actually do there all day, except constructing the actual colony - but what then?).
Providing free services doesn't give someone the right to be an asshole when users want to leave.

It doesn't give them the right to suddenly seize a channel/repo that someone has put a lot of work into building up and then not take flak about it.

Sure, the motivation for profit & retention is there, but capitalism != morality.
> They are way more fractured

In Germany, to a far lesser degree than eg the US. Cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Church_in_Germany
Heh, and I wrote it before you even responded :D

This comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27289097
Your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27289100

Im happy to give them time - im just pointing out the current state of things, and what sets off my alarm bells. These are all things that can be addressed, no doubt.
Do you have a reliable citation showing Google is doing this?
I thought Matrix group sizes are limited to 1024 members. I can't google if this limit still exists.
Help. I’m lost. Does a higher nationwide house price-to-rent ratio mean a good thing for home owners, or does it mean a good thing for renters?
iOS IDE Play.js Goes Online: Acquired by CodeSandbox
Even worse, they are given free access (no warrant) to ISP information about the individuals they presume to be infringing so they can tie an identity to an IP linked to infringing material.

Lawyers win either way, via the fines that they ask for (people are scared that this could escalate and just pay), or the fees to fight the fines (usually a letter highlighting the situation that personal information was obtained without a court order). So they have all the incentive to propagate the practice.
Senate preparing $10B bailout fund for Jeff Bezos space firm
What they don't seem to cover is what they think directly identifying data means.

Does anyone actually know what that means? I wouldn't know from a medical record how much data would need to be removed to make it anonymous. It likely depends on the record. And there are different answers that can both be right (so which are they using?).