skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very interesting! Working through the docs now and I'm enjoying the schema, and I've came up with similar ideas regarding data validation / generation in the past. It's nice to find a project like this! Thanks!

In most projects data validation becomes problematic. In a most of cases the schema could be a lot more defined than what type def offers. This allows for test cases to make sure data fits the model.

We've also been creating a DSL to build web apps. Check out Lowdefy [0] - I'm trying to come up with an "Infrastructure as Code" word for Lowdefy. "UI as config" is the closest fit, but not sure...

[0] - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy
But then there is no argument left for nuclear in the first place!

Once you have scalable storage for excess energy, renewables and their fluctuations are simply cheaper, safer and greener, right?
You can try this script which uses xvfb/xpra to upscale old apps: https://github.com/kaueraal/run_scaled

I've never used it, but a lot of people seem to recommend it.
No, that's what you think new wave UNIX is. This strikes me as just pedantic nonsense to me. You don't need to go around policing what "new wave" is supposed to mean to everyone.
I was interested in purchasing a ReMarkable tablet last year then realised the ReMarkable 2 just released months ago and was very surprised that to see that they still don't have a color e-ink version.

Until then, I am skipping it since I don't think it is worth the price.

Downvoters: So I disagreed with the HN hivemind with a point I made about saving money for a better version and now I get downvoted for wrongthink? So somehow, this device is worth $400 to spend on a 32 bit machine with 8 GB of space and 1 GB of RAM?

That is more like spending $400 on an over powered Raspberry Pi 2 just to read ebooks. (In black and white). You also might as well buy the latest iPad then.
I wonder how the "10k freelancers" surveyed were chosen. Presumably the selection process used can hugely influence the picture that emerges.

Looks like this is really just a promotional site for their product/service.
Berners-Lee to auction original code as NFT
This guy clearly does not read the news.

He thinks the pandemic did not have much impact on the economy. He reads right wing economists. He was upset Trump was painted as dangerous. Is this supposed to be an example of being “free from the storytellers”? It just proved he is blindsided by reducing his news sources to a few very biased channels.
>I am not sure what the situation in the US is but realistically in Europe if you have a big enough family online grocery shopping is a no-brainer.

If you're in the US, and within 15 minutes of a Costco or other similar wholesale store, I cannot imagine paying someone to do that legwork would be cheap enough to be worth it for anyone who is mobile and has a car. My kids also love going to the grocery store and interacting with people. But mostly, labor is very expensive, and if I am doing grocery shopping for fruits and vegetables and dairy (which I want to pick myself), then the rest of grocery is 100 feet away so I might as well do that too and not pay someone else to do it.
This seems really exciting. I haven't had the chance to use Grafana yet; from the linked issue, am I understanding correctly that you'll be able to serialize dashboards to Cue schema, and hence get all the niceties of a structured representation - versioning, non-visual editing, and reproducibility?

I recall seeing another project HN which created dashboards out of a yaml description. This seems like a fantastic idea, given that a lot of business panels and dashboard apps can be implemented with a limited set of UI interactions.
> So your concern is that things that currently work the way they do might, and this is where it gets sinister, work differently in the future!

There's literally draft legislation in the UK that will cause these negative impacts, so we're not talking tin foil hattery here.

The best thing you can do to avoid draconian legislation is to make the legislation unworkable by having too many points where the control would need to be exercised.

The more you have centralised points that choke traffic, then the more likely it is that such legislation will get passed, and the more likely it is that it will have a generally powerful effect.

I don't need to have my car engine explode before realising that doing general maintenance is a good idea.
I hear you, I'm not saying it's easy! Firefox especially desperately needs more funding here (and Apple more competition, on mobile at least).

That said, that API count is referring to individual methods & fields (see https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/catalog) not whole specifications. I'm mainly concerned about them reviewing and making contributions to write these specs, rather the work to fully implement them, so that at least they end up with something they might be happy implementing in future.

Either way, if every few months Chrome can genuinely churn out hundreds of APIs that developers genuinely want and use (a big caveat!) and Firefox/Safari can't keep up, then that's game over. Chromium has the market share, people will start using these APIs, serving a relatively worse and worse version for the slower browsers (if they bother), and eventually the older browsers will either have to implement them to according to these defacto standards, design & implement a sufficiently better alternative somehow, or die (for the average user, at least).

Firefox beat IE last time because it took the 2nd option: it had better alternatives to Microsoft's non-standard web technologies (primarily: consistent APIs backed by clear standards and good tools that solved the same problems) and thereby managed to capture web developers and lead the compatibility game, rather than following. I don't see how they can do the same again if they can't propose workable alternatives to new standards other than 'defer' or 'reject'.
As an example, Sweden where I live has 8 major political parties and during elections years there are usually tests where one can compare each parties political program to ones own political views. For me, the lowest rated for me sit at 45% and highest sit around 60% (which wasn't the centrist party).

I would definitively not call myself a centrist, nor left or right. There is some good goals even in the far left and far right, but also a lot of things I strongly disagree with to the point of alienation. Centrism simply just an other political agenda with its own set of prioritized demographics and intentions.
"The counterfactuals that matter to science and physics, and that have so far been neglected, are facts about what could or could not be made to happen to physical systems; about what is possible or impossible."

On the contrary, if I had to describe theoretical physics in a nutshell, I would say it is entirely about what is impossible. Pick any physical law or theorem. I cannot exceed the speed of light. I cannot globally decrease entropy. I cannot measure a force between two static electric charges in vacuum that deviates from the Coulomb force law.
> EU invests massive amounts in technology

An interesting question is: what's the ROI of this investment. Anecdotally, the over the last 50 years the EU has been loosing their leadership in field after field. First to the US, then Japan, S Korea, Taiwan, now China. With the loss of the UK Arm is no longer an EU company. Have you looked into Linux commits recently [1], or where papers come from in the top CS conferences?

[1] https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribution/
Mobile data is too cheap to meter
ASML says hi from the Netherlands
Saving in Dark Souls
The video is now private, did someone upload it somewhere else?
Unsupervised Auto-labeling of Websites for a bookmark manager
You're not supposed to "read meaningful data". You're supposed to be overwhelmed by the slick, professional, glamorous world and lifestyle of freelancing, and sign up for their service.
It's a shame that GitLab isn't more widely used. It's really powerful whereas GH actions just have a bunch of really annoying limitations.
I curate a list[1] of "FOSS tools to improve the Hacker News experience". HNReader has just been added to it.

[1]: https://github.com/bminusl/awesome-hackernews
Interesting crowd this kind of post brings out.

No, ivermectin is not being “smeared”. It is not an anti-viral and makes no sense to use against COVID-19. Nearly every report of its use links back to this Buffalo article, and there is no publication by that doctor on its use. It’s a hoax. There is no miracle cure, and by now doctors have a pretty good protocol on how to treat the disease already.
Greyout
You could always port the whole thing over to WASM and run it as a spooky blob of code!
I built https://mornin.fm, glad to share it. And it's open source, both web and server.
Hardly ever to be honest, with HN being the one exception where I'm constantly at 175%.
> but instead go to great pains to twist, alter, edit and selectively curate reality to fit their message.

The video had long segments without cuts, that seemed to include enough context. Do you have any examples from that video in mind as to how it could have been misleading despite this?

> Meanwhile the person interviewed was a technical director, as I understand it meaning an audiovisual equipment guy, so I don't know why you'd consider him an authority on editorial decisions.

If I recall correctly, he only spoke of his first-hand experiences. So even if he were just a janitor, that would not cast doubt on his claims.
That is indeed also a problem! Essentially it comes down to wrapping sets of dependency management. Thankfully the "engineering" side of Python is fairly good at this in my experience, but I have seen the "data science" side of Python do some of this.
Buy a book light?
For me, the interesting thing about Ready Player One isn't the VR or treadmills. It's the ability to seamlessly transition between games that seems like the killer app that will come from that.

The vast majority of video games these days are of the genre where you're moving a humanoid character around in a 3d environment. I'd love to see somebody come out with a bridge that allowed you to hop between various types of those games.

You should be able to seamlessly go from playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater to Grand Theft Auto to Skyrim on the fly. The only real differences in those games are the scenery and what details they chose to spend effort refining. One day somebody will figure out how to extract the commonality and convince enough studios to get on board building on top of it as a platform, and you'll get a pretty good first cut of the Oasis.
I'm surprised Apple wouldn't have some sort of regression test against a large sample of real websites.
> What stops governments from just passing this legislation now if they're so inclined? It's not like China hasn't already pioneered the technology. They're even happy to sell it. It's not even particularly hard, just the same type of internal corporate firewall system scaled up to cover the entire country.

Broadly cost. China's moderation and censorship of the internet is very expensive, and requires significant scale, and only works because most of the companies involved are at least partly state owned in the first place.

The more you have a small amount of centralised points you can target, the lower the costs to implement sweeping measures against all traffic and the higher the technical possibility.

The UK already has a draft law on the table that will effectively ban any sites that do not meet the requirements of the state regulator, and the legislation notes that a useful way of forcing sites to comply is that the Apple App Store and Google Play mean that if you can force them to delist applications then you've done 95% of the job. They are centralised points that make bad legislation more plausible.

We don't want that to get even worse than it is.
There is a difference between a contractual agreement to use a service for a period of time and just pulling money out without such a contract or any other form of consent. That is to say: one is legal in the US and the other is not.
My previous company was located in the very center of London. I used to eat lunch quickly and then go on a stroll for 30-45min with a mile radius. I knew the area inside out after a year and it was so nice to discover all the little shops, parks, some random pubs, or galleries.
Site doesen't appear to work on firefox at all
Therein lies the problem with labels.

"I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own."

~ Number 6
> "immense costs of reciclying solar panels ... A nuclear power plant can last 50-75 years."

How long do you think it takes to "recycle" a nuclear power plant after it finishes operation? Decommissioning an old nuclear power plant can take more than 100 years and costs billions.

Decommissioning and clean-up of the UK's fleet of 17 retired Magnox reactors, built between the 1950s and 1970s, is estimated to cost in excess of £100 billion, and will still be ongoing well into the 22nd century:

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/WR-UK-nuclear-clean-up-co...

Is it really fair for us to keep offloading these costs and problems onto future generations?
I want one but I don’t know what I’d use it for. Weird problem to have I guess.
I couldn’t imagine anything worse than purely async communications. Tonality of voice is so key in building rapport, even better are video calls so facial expressions and (limited) body language can be used and seen.

I understand the sentiment but a world of purely text based interactions would feel very lonely and full of miss interpretations and understandings.

A happy medium needs to be found but while the pandemic has us locked up in our homes? I’m incredibly thankful for Zoom, Hangouts, FaceTime, Teams and even Skype.

Update: I don’t begrudge people not turning on video, im more than happy to just use audio but please don’t force me to type any more than I already do if you want to discus something complicated.

Update 2: I’m a full stack developer in case you’re assuming I like to talk because I’m product/sales/marketing
I'm looking at the 15" Thinkpad "Performance" lineup [0], but it doesn't looks to me to be on par with the current 15" intel MacBook Pro.

Display is better on the MBP, RAM goes the same max amount (64), the GPU seems a tad better on the MBP with the AMD Radeon Pro 5500M.

As you say the keyboard feel might be different, but we're really in subjective territory (I used the MBP's new keyboard for a year, and it's now a good laptop keyboard)

[0] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-p/Thi...
If privacy is a concern, users should also consider switching to an independent DoS/DoT DNS provider.
We've been building dashboards in YAML for a while now using Lowdefy - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy

It is very flexible. Will publish more examples soon!
Why First Impressions Matter for Software Services
“Can you turn on your camera?”

Sure, but it's not pointing at me. I like good ergonomics, which means my work laptop sits besides my monitor and keyboard and mouse. So yeah, I can turn on the camera and have it look at the blank wall past my shoulder if you like that. I'll do the camera thing for really important or polite functions, but not for the daily stand-up or whatever.

I had the misfortune of using Zoom yesterday. I've used Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Jitsi Meet (that one's nice), but Zoom really sucks. Somehow it manages to hijack the mute control of my microphone, which the others don't do (all using the browser version, no apps). I usually just unmute myself in the meet-thingy and mute/unmute myself with a keyboard shortcut which operates on the OS-level muting, but Zoom does not like that.
There's an honor system in many places. You sign a document stating you are who you say you are, and have it witnessed by someone who is "deemed trustworthy" - local police, teacher, clergy.
Notice how when you present the facts, people get really quiet. No, "Wow, I checked out the source and you appear to be right. I'm going to have to re-think these issues."

So much for intellectual integrity.
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How to Enable Eco Mode in Windows 10 for Individual Apps
Whenever you see a cryptographic protocol that does not include authentication you should be highly suspicious. In most cases there are some smart attacks.

Gnull just pointed out that FHE by itself does not provide authentication so you still need some additional means to achieve that.
Truly we have a new nazi regime on our hands here.
> "This similarity has already led to some women turning away from Coq and others getting harassed when they said they were working on Coq,"

That never happened. No one is interested in something but "turn away" because the name sound similar to cock. I can't imagine the following conversation student: "I am interested in calculus" professor: "you will have to work with coq" "I am not interested anymore".

>getting harassed when they said they were working on Coq

People usually do jokes with one another, how about you laugh and make a joke back. Stop taking yourself so serious and have some fun. And again, that never happened, no one was "harassed" because the name of what they are working on.

> (Jasper Hugunin) A bit of a stretch, maybe not disqualifying, but as a native English speaker (and given the context of this page), Gallus reads a lot like "phallus" to me, which is again a name for male genitalia.

I have nothing

edit:
> Coquito Reason for discarding: can have a violent meaning in some parts of Latin America....
And apparently in Colombia, Puero Rico, and Venzuela colloquial for "blow to the head with bare knuckles" (if I understand the seventh meaning here correctly: https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/coquito).

They search for the seventh meaning in a word and discarded the word. In there quest to find the most unfunny word related to cock they do produce some funny text.
What was your last onboarding experience like?
That is the most frustatingly slow and cludgy page to scroll through that I've seen in a long time. Absolutely unnecessary. My mac mini really struggled to render that.
Zoom is also sadly the absolute worst meeting software.

Even moreso if you're not an English speaker since the UI translations are terrible and most of them don't make sense in context - the interface is confusing as is, my parents stood absolutely no chance in figuring out how to work it.
When will Netflix drop off Season 3 of ‘Virgin River?
Light from the sun contains a much greater number of wavelengths (and different depending on time of day) than that from the backlight; it's not the same.
+1, Bit plain, could stand to have some more sarcasm.
I am happy with the Boox; it's a great device (hardware + the reader too) I think and I use it every day. Besides the China nature (which means what user Tho85 already explained here), I am a huge fan of the idea more different eReader types. For a lot of tasks. I often work in bright sunlight and it works really well while my laptops, including the MacBook m1 will give me a headache in 15 minutes glaring against the sun; this is just perfect and powerful enough to be a big screen for another device.

Because of this device I now have the weird hallucination of my perfect device; seems it would be a surface pro x lte (but later gen; it needs to at last get closer to usable software wise) but with a color eInk screen. I know they will never make this but yep, that would be basically my daily driver. The Boox people could come quite far but they focus on eReaders.
Why are they printing these articles? I assume to change the future, warning of a financial crisis should lessen the effects as fewer people put money into the broken system. So maybe they averted the future by predicting it
Yes, but good luck getting much effort to happen. Microsoft has said for a few years[1] now that using rust would solve a majority of their kernel sec issues, but they haven't said much since. The work to do that much porting is probably harder and would introduce other bugs then fixing problems as they emerge.

[1]https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/11/07/using-rust-in-win...
> Now that discord has access to my Passport , in case of an identity theft could you tell me EXACTLY whose liable for the leak in regards to the law ?

Discord only has access to your passport if you upload it to them. They don't have access to it by virtue ofthem being a stripe customer.
I've seen a fair number of Access applications that were rewritten simply because they need to work in a web browser. They were otherwise fine.

The system I worked on was specialised but highly capable - it could build applications that are very very hard to get right in PHP (but easy to get kind-of-right-if-you-squint).

What I would really love to see is a top class open source Low Code platform; I believe that it could provide a very nice tool of entry to software development, especially for adults.
But....

German prosecutors brought criminal charges of stock market manipulation against Herbert Diess

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-tria...

>As the current CEO of Volkswagen, Herbert Diess was prosecuted, along with and Hans Dieter Pötsch, the chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswagen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Diess
>3. We think this’ll actually make the state of global privacy better

I'm sorry but this is grade A bullshit. If your api provides access to data (extracted or raw), you are not improving anything. Quite the opposite actually, because now I not only have to trust the company that I choose to do business with but I also have to trust stripe, an american company.
The issue isn't so much Zoom, as meetings without clear actions. So much time is spent discussing stuff rather than just doing it together.
Thanks you just helped tons of my code go faster. Turns out false output dependency is a much bigger issue for bsr and bsf with 32-bit operands since it impacts all models and GCC builtins like __builtin_clz(x)^31 won't xor the output unless you use -march=native. So once again I find myself replacing compiler apis with stallman notation. For what it's worth:

asm("popcnt\t%0,%0" : "=r"(res) : "0"(pop) : "cc");

Can generate the mov statement automatically.
First it was Slack hate, now it's Zoom hate. These are great tools IN MODERATION.
social anxiety disorder, SAD
My biggest complaint about the ReMarkable is the lack of any meaningful business management tools -- I love using it, but, I need to be able to limit sharing, specify a specific SMTP service to use for sharing pdf files, remotely wipe a device, enforce a password on the device before storing and sharing notes from a sensitive meeting amongst my team.

Outside of that edge case, I love it and it's indispensable and I use it at least 3 times a day for meetings and other to-do lists for myself.
In the same poll, only 31% said they would feel safe saying the same views in private. My take: this was a partisan political poll of an extremely paranoid group of people.
> Imagine for a second that your favourite programming language or the one you use at work was called "Penis"

No need to imagine, "bit" is pronounced in French exactly like "bite", which means basically the same thing as "cock".

> How fun would it be when you told someone "we use Penis where I work to implement our AwesomeSoftware™?

You get used to it. Talking about "cock twiddling" sounds strange at first, and is annoying. But since we're French we can't really hope that this will change anytime soon.

Anyways, I'm all for changing the name, but hope we can keep the French origin. "LPC" for "Le Prouveur Coq" is a good idea https://github.com/coq/coq/wiki/Alternative-names.