skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, right. That gets us into the definitions of innovation and research.

Apple does very little research, in the conventional scientific sense we're discussing here, I think that's pretty uncontroversial. They produce few if any papers. They are (or were, under Jobs) very good at coming up with new ideas that strongly appeal to the buyer and which got them a reputation for innovation, but which probably wouldn't be considered clever enough to be research papers. At least not top tier papers.

For example, exposé is a widely imitated feature and was considered very innovative at the time, but it wouldn't be seen as serious computer science. The iPhone is/was widely considered innovative but had basically no new research tech in it, given that capacitive touch screens weren't developed by Apple. It was just a really nicely implemented mobile computer. Actually the innovations in the iPhone are nearly all packagings of tech developed by third party firms that Apple then buys or buys exclusivity rights too. At least, that's true in my view.

Microsoft's R&D budget I think is also a victim of definitions. Software firms normally report all product development as R&D, right? I think these days they may even report datacenter builds as R&D. We can see this on Microsoft's investor website:

"In addition to our main research and development operations, we also operate Microsoft Research. Microsoft Research is one of the world's largest computer science research organizations"

i.e. the kind of university type "scientific" research we're discussing here is only a sideshow in Microsoft's R&D budget.

You're right to call me out though; I don't have any stats to prove that industrial research does more than academic research. It's not a statistical argument to begin with, just my own own perception ("all seem to"). I read a lot of CS papers and the best ones have corporate email addresses at the top - the second best, a mix of corporate and university addresses, the third best, only university addresses. If you asked the man on the street to name the biggest innovations in computing in the past 20 years they'd probably say things like, uh, smartphones, YouTube, AI, blockchain, etc etc. All things that have little connection to universities, with AI being the closest but it was Google that revived that whole field and has been pushing it forward ever since. Neural nets weren't receiving much investment by the academic community before that.

Anyway, that's CS. CS really isn't the problem here. The pseudo-science is elsewhere.
> Alyx. Sounds the same, but this spelling has the right gender.

Our female friend Alexandra introduces herself as Alex.
Fortunately it didn't penetrate through your pectoral muscle and reach your heart.
Beautiful Design: the Handley Page H.P.42 airliner (1931)
Art Deco in action
You pay for it when you buy electricity (usually as a fixed component of the price per kWh). Electric cars will consume large amounts of electricity, and that will fund the upgrade of the grid proportionally.

That said, if bi-directional charging becomes commonplace, the grid will probably get substantially simpler - you can burst off your car or your neighbors car in peak hours, 4-9pm.
From memory they give refunds based on some time threshold of hours played. So if you’ve played more than say 2 hours, it’s much harder to get a refund
True, Material for MkDocs doesn't have a working out-of-the-box solution for working code examples, as it's a language-agnostic theme for documentation, but it shouldn't be too difficult to integrate [1].

[1]: https://dev.to/yysun/make-code-run-in-your-docs-4800
Yes, in UK mine was terrifying. In all likelihood candidate would get destroyed trying that tactic.
> it plays random noise at the maximum possible level, bypassing the system volume

but why bypassing the system volume? It does not make sense to me.
Great! Are there any tickets on this we can follow?
I recognize the symptoms you describe, but I find the picture you painted a bit too pessimistic, given that in the field that I'm familiar with (theoretical CS), groups in Poland have been among the strongest and most visible in Europe in the past 10 years.
This isn't reddit. Who cares.
Not even that can be taken for granted anymore. I was once harassed by French border police for being in the line for European (not EU, the sign definitely said European and not Union) nationals with a Norwegian passport.
Facebook blocks 30 Israeli right-winged WhatsApp accounts
So can single cell organisms drive cars? Because otherwise I don't see your point.
what even is "infinitely more awareness?" is that an actual metric? Computers today have exactly as much awareness as they had in the 1970s, situational or otherwise, which is none. The algorithm in question does not know what a bookshelf is, does not know what a job interview is and it does not know how the two relate. It correlates a bunch of pixels and creates the illusion of having awareness, but this is an anthropomorphization and nothing more.
I don't think this is even a remotely plausible scenario. You've got to remember that money is just a convenient way of representing a certain amount of actual, real-world resources, and the big problem with "drop everything and rapidly switched to synthetic fuels and chemicals from solar" is that the real-world resources aren't there. Just the input energy that would be required to build everything would be immense, and I don't think we've got the production capacity for solar cells or the raw materials to do it either.

Also, as I understand it the profit margins for fossil fuel production isn't particularly high. The companies have impressive-sounding overall profits, but that's mostly because they sell a lot of fuel thanks to it being used all over society for all kinds of things. In some sense, the benefits of cheap, readily-available fossil fuels are externalized to the rest of society, with competition heavily limiting how much of that benefit goes to the companies making them.
Well, yeah. You can call yourself a lawyer even if you aren’t licensed to practice law. Many politicians still call themselves lawyers but they only practiced for a year or two out of college.

Similarly, Doctors are still doctors even when they cross borders. They just can’t practice medicine for money without a license.
Absolutely! I went to a workshop on step sequencers at Ableton Loop which I didn't realise was about Max step sequencers specifically, and it was really interesting - the host asked who in the room was a programmer, and just me and my friend raised our hands out of like 20-30 people. Then he started asking who had built x, y, or z musical thing and everyone else was raising their hands - I thought it was interesting that they didn't see what they were doing as programming, even though it very much is to me!
You're entirely correct -- I am not denying Facebook the company has strong political leanings, or that it doesn't, shall we say, "influence" its fact checkers. But in this particular case, the lab-leak theory, traditional media was so aggressive in shutting it down and "confirming" its falsehood (despite not having any actual facts or evidence), that Facebook really had no choice.
Oh Apple... On the iPhone, using earphones, the volume is limited (afaik because of a EU law). On Mac, none of that is the case. I was in a teams called, tried to make it quiter with the touchbar but accidentally set the volume to 80% (insted of 10-15 where it's usually at). My ears hurt for an hour. Thanks Apple for that useless Touchbar.
I beg to differ, it looks quite a bit better than analog, even past the fact that "good" analog at that distance is already hard to achieve.
I am just curious because I do photography as a hobby/semi-pro and I don't understand where using Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/Lightroom is infringing on your privacy (PC/Mac). I also use VSCO plugins for Lightroom at times (I mainly switched to Capture 1 Pro though) and I'm unsure why I should avoid them.
I think the issue was (back in the day) that many computer keyboards didn't have arrows _at all_. See for example the IBM Model F: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_Model_F_XT.png

If you search for "oldest computer keyboards" in your favorite image search utility, you'll notice that many keyboards there don't have arrows at all. I did not find any keyboards with the arrows on the left side, although it wouldn't surprise me.
I don't think it works anymore. I was very engaged in Stackverflow a few years ago (got ~55K reputation) but stopped using it (not sure why). Now, last week I opened a question in ServerFault (where I got ~100 reputation or so) and my "silly" question was just answered with "what are you asking? Please ask the question the right way".

I didn't even bother fixing my question. I deleted all my stack exchange accounts.
It feels like the second paragraph was written by Open-AI... Was it?
Words derive meaning from their context, and you're pulling mine out of theirs. The full sentence is:

> No end-of-episode cliffhangers or other mechanisms trying to make you binge-watch.

I'm talking about mechanisms that modern TV uses to trick people into watching a series many episodes at a time until they're too tired to go on. An end-of-season cliffhanger that was designed to ensure people would come back when the series returned next season after a long break from their weekly Star Trek watching habit is not at all the same thing. Nothing about TNG is attempting to make me, the viewer, binge-watch it.

In the case of me and my GF, since we know exactly when we are about to watch an end-of-season episode we just plan an extra hour for it that evening. That's it.
>IIRC the only place Valve officially sold it was on Steam itself.

As far as I know, that's correct, but it was region locked. You could not officially buy it where I live.
> It’s a complex topic for sure. But the position of “color is purely a perception in our head and not wavelengths” position is too extreme in the opposite direction and isn’t helpful in building things.

As an illustration for the in your head position: Human eyes can't directly perceive yellow tones. What we think of as yellow is a computation on the signals of both the M and L cones. If both say they perceived radiation at approx. the same intensity, that gets calculated as yellow afterwards.

That's why RGB displays are not reproducing the correct wavelengths, but only those our eyes can read directly: red, green and blue.
Get it up.
Nobody likes a public humiliation so perhaps the defense event is almost ceremonial but the real defense took place before that in order to get the event itself scheduled?

So that even if people don't fail their defenses often, there might be many that didn't get theirs scheduled at all? This is just speculation on my part.
Better Microsoft's Fluent Design Apps with HTWOo UI
Be more specific.

Compromised how? Which places?
One Percent
Microsoft only cares about developers to the extent that they can get them interested in Azure. Anything more than that is a happy coincidence.
Been squeezing my brain to understand the same thing hence my previous post, I would assume the mobile versions may infringe on privacy (or Creative Cloud if you actually use it - I personally don't).

Unfortunately since it's so high up the list of don't this whole list reads more like "use these FOSS thingies instead of xyz corporate things", disregarding the Adobe Suite is so good when concerning workflow and it shouldn't really infringe on your privacy since it's not really doing a lot of talking (unless you use their cloud storage thingie which I can't fathom a reason for).
Hands-on: automatically trigger a Bamboo build on Git commit
It's from the same author btw !
Presumably the people who upvoted it. But you're right, this isn't Reddit, and the guidelines discourage shallow dismissals.
I've just been wondering about Normandy, Paris, Palo Alto on their twitter.
This is correct, but to clarify something, you don't need ExpressLRS for OpenHD, they're entirely independent (one is for control, the other for video).

Also, Ardupilot blows INAV completely out of the water for reliability, at least for fixed wing craft. I've switched all my planes to it from INAV.
Indeed. Why are meth producers blamed for meth-related problems? Because it's easy to point a finger at them?
The problem is the video codec not being degradation tolerant, this way you need a quite an overkill amount of FEC.

If a codec can tolerate just a few percents of arbitrary bit errors without completely garbling the image, you can slash the bandwidth many times even with a youtube level HD quality.
Well it's not nothing, just because it's less than the big contributors. Transitioning 1.4 billion cars to electric is going to take a long time. I don't see the majority of cars transitioned within the next 30 years. Bitcoin is, as you said just burning of energy and can be replaced with coins that are a lot more efficient, within a much shorter timeframe. It seems like it's an incredibly easily reachable goal for politicians without hurting a lot of people, which is why I assume it's gonna happen.

Many times in climate change policy decisions has symbolism been more important than actual impact otherwise all cows would've transitioned to low methane producing food a while ago. Instead big western countries are making short flights illegal. These flights are producing no significant impact and yet they are made illegal for symbolism.

Though for Bitcoin I does trigger my own sense of wastefulness. Maybe it's jealousy.
Ask HN: Multi-Language Site and SEO
Hello,

can you tell me please, does adding more languages to the website affect my Seo in the USA search results (English)?

What to choose: sub-directories or sub-domains, ex.
fr.example.com VS example.com/fr ?

Thank you.
Use it but for the love of god take some precautions or you'll end up like me [1], being raided by the Police for clicking an innocent looking link that was sent to you by PM

[1] https://blog.haschek.at/2015-that-not-so-awesome-time-the-po...
not really. They suggested it as a viable option for third party access, because they initially wanted to keep native apps as a first-party advantage, and not open the device unbundled software.

It has been tried a few times though, particularly by Palm (WebOS, now living inside LG smart TVs), and of course Mozilla tried a smartphone firefox OS for a while.
It's a comic book adaptation. Nerds being pedantic about it is part of the deal ;)
This article also has some interesting background info on Lee and his motivations: https://hackaday.com/2021/05/20/freenode-debacle-prompts-sta...
You know, I just tried and can't reproduce in Chrome either. I'm able to reproduce in Safari, and now having successfully nerd-sniped myself I'm pretty confident it's actually a bug in Safari. The `@media screen and (min-width: 60em)` doesn't update its definition of an `em` when the page is zoomed in or out, so zooming the page gives more pixels for the "min-width" part, but the "60em" is still being treated as the original zoom level.
The May 18 Gwangju Uprising
Hyperactive immune response gone wrong?
Why not double? Why not ten times, or a hundred, for extra convincingness?

The fact is that it only has to be good enough for them to find the people that they want, rather than for pleasing random HN commenters.
There's always a better system on paper. The Kyoto protocol with quotas and CO2 trading was decided on 1997.
It was modeled after the successful sulphur emissions trading, at the insistence of USA.

And even with that, it's been hard to get it through internationally.

So one way to actually cause delay and harm is to just always propose scrapping what's halfway built and go for the next system.

Rio in 1992, Kyoto in 1997, Cancun 2010, Paris 2015 https://www.cfr.org/timeline/un-climate-talks
Ah, so basically you just have to create somehow a header file that D can use? I've looked into the `deimos` repos and there's a bunch of them, what I see is, C header files in a folder, then a folder with one or several d files (not .di), that set up somethings and have a

extern (C) {
...
}

block declaring types and funcs from the C header file. Then when building you just link the original required C libs? It seems nice.
Similar lesson a decade earlier: Linux seems interesting, how to install on my Windows machine? First step: Run fdisk. Done.

The most painful part was the hundreds of photos I just had finished scanning. At least I got quite good at scanning photos..
Alpega is hiring a Data Engineer in Austria
bet if you sum all the anecdote you'll find out a gaussian of opinions
Sorry to hear that, but I appreciate your words of warning. I go to loud clubs / live music a lot (pre covid) and despite knowing I should probably wear earplugs, I don't. Perhaps club revival post-lockdown is the time for me to begin.
To be honest, it is everywhere. For example, I subscribe r/succulents and it's largely the same thing (and I doubt anyone astroturfs particular plant species).

I think the main reasons are that it gives people with nothing insightful to contribute something they can share and can elicit some emotional response which is easier for a picture than text. A picture is also faster to consume and process which likely explains the popularity of image macros and memes. Another problem is that the majority of posts in such subreddits are usually the same few questions, so typically a sticky post or a wiki page will be made to refer people there (or asking for help will be specifically banned) and suddenly there is not much to talk about.

The most egregious example for me is r/selfhosted which started as a tech DIY subreddit and transformed into people posting pictures of all the docker containers they are running at home.

edit: In fact, I would go as far as to suggest that the primary reason HN is slow to succumb to the Eternal September is because it doesn't allow for embedding media.
> Free speech is a critical component of ensuring democratic government is held to account

Free speech is not a critical component of ensuring democratic government is held to account, but rather ensuring that power is held accountable when used against the powerless. Free speech is the answer to the age old question Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?, or Who watches the watchers?

What the xkcd comic completely misses is the fact that government is not the only place where power resides today. The US free speech laws was created at a time when kings ruled absolute and governments had few restrictions, and so you needed fundamental laws written in a constitution in order to hold a newly founded government in check. Today, arguable Google and Facebook wield more power than most governments and so a law that is limited to government is no longer suited to keep the watchers in check.

In contrast, the EU has free speech rights laws written in more modern time and it does not limit itself to governments. This demonstrate quite nicely how the xkcd comic falls into a US-only context. If you are being boycotted, canceled and in general discriminated because of your speech, your free speech rights might be violated under EU law. A lot of it depend on the power dynamic between the watcher and the watched.
It’s exciting an organisation like GitHub gives a vote of confidence in an open standard for tracing. Making OpenTelemetry an industry standard will help everyone to develop better backend services
It is very hard to get published in any of the reputable journals. Even academics with years of experience and specific knowledge only get accepted around 15% of the time.

A key part of gaining a PhD is getting your papers published. Initially it usually requires being a co-author with an established academic. Towards the end of your programme you might be lucky to get 2-3 papers published after a great deal of revising and editing. And of course, all that is based on leading edge research, i.e. work that builds upon prior knowledge.

Many journals that charge to publish your papers are basically scams and viewed with derision by academics and experienced researchers.
I'm sorry but I am not comfortable sharing, however, here is a list of companies that I know use Clojure.

- Arena Analytics: https://arena.io/

- Reify Health: https://www.reifyhealth.com/

- Guaranteed Rate: https://www.rate.com/

- OppLoans: https://www.opploans.com/

- LookingGlass Cyber Solutions: https://lookingglasscyber.com/

I also believe that DRW (https://drw.com/) also use Clojure but not 100% sure on that. I know they use some Elixir though.
I've long wondered if the answer for this and other issues like tax evasion wouldn't be to often change the metrics.

If you start cheating the metrics, or optimizing a lot towards them, it becomes counter-productive when they change. As such, the most efficient way forward would be to work without trying to optimize for a temporary metric.
On the flip side, it would be troublesome to convince people to different, complex forms each time.

What first gave me the idea was the concept of "lubricating" headers (submitting some with random values) for future http protocols, to combat "ossification", where middle boxes start to meddle with them and become obsolete when they don't recognize the new fields, instead of transmitting them.
The drivers of photo quality, in order, are: what you photograph, when you click the shutter, the lighting, the composition, the imaging medium.
"undocumented immigrant" isn't necessarily the same as "refugee", likewise sex vs assigned gender. if you're going to critique word choice you should know what those words mean
Exxon spent over $35M dollars fighting the board changes - it is at least a crushing defeat for the current management/board.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/exxon-vs-activists-battle-over-...
How does Jupyter compare with an environment like Spyder, which basically mimics the MATLAB approach? Can I inspect variables, run arbitrary commands against them in a REPL?
Yes, and I'm currently building that [1].

But there are a few alternative to Confluence today. Whether it is Notion (not too good for technical documentation, true), Slab, Clubhouse (not the audio app) or even Quip. They mostly fit companies which are under 150 people. Managing documentation with an external tool is hard because technical documentation is better when closest to the source code

[1] https://dokkument.com/
This is in aggregate. If you look at great papers, they are almost surely accepted. Bad papers are almost surely rejected. But those in the middle are a coin toss.
why wouldn't you rent to it?