skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fix for “Rails server is already running”
Interesting. I typically hit the decision maker or their boss - so when I get a no, I know there is no one else to seek.

Some people also reply with a sterner 'no, don't reply again'. To them, I do not even reply with a 'Thanks, no problem' message since I'm scared they will mark me as spam!
Let’s hope so. It’s a house of cards by nature.
My biggest pain point is that some of the mainstream multiplayer anticheat implementations don't work on wine. I'd like to be able to play Tarkov or Hunt or Apex on Linux, but I can't. So far, I have just not played those titles, even though I really want to. I don't really want to have to dual boot just to play them, because Windows 10 messes up my EFI booting. I used to run Windows with a GPU passthrough, but I stopped doing that once proton came along. Maybe I'll look at doing that again, though it was hell to set up on Gentoo at the time. Maybe other distros have smoothed that out a bit? It's been like 6 years since I did it the last time.

I know the wine guys have been doing great work trying to get anticheats working in wine/proton. Hopefully that progresses well. Getting anticheat to work in wine would really be the best.
Ironically I got a bunch of these wrong because JavaScript is less weird than I thought it was. For example for some reason I thought ![] would be true, because JavaScript would do something weird, but it's not and JavaScript does exactly what you'd expect any sensible language to do.

I didn't enjoy the quiz, it just reminds me how depressing the base layer of the thing I'm most passionate about in life is. The expression [1,2,3]+[4,5,6] returning what it does is just a bummer, it just sucks. Calling it weird is giving it undue merit, as if it's cute somehow that it's so awful.
> mobile browser

I think he refers to these kind of UI features on smartphones: https://www.samsung.com/au/support/mobile-devices/using-spli...
A valid question for which I don't have an answer.
Tips for keeping track of 10+ sites as a solo founder
Show HN: Dev Update #17 of nCine, my open-source C++11 2D game engine
Billionaires routinely conspire with politicians and law makers to prevent workers from earning a few dollars more per hour, but somehow they would would be too ethical to pump and dump Bitcoin?
They also did say ‘software’.
It helps.

People gets discouraged from working with these companies, meaning they have to raise wages meaning it is easier for others to compete :-)
EULAs already often prohibit disassembling the binary. That feels completely crazy to me, it's like saying that you aren't allowed to press Ctrl-U on a website. Is it actually legally binding?
Worth noting that the Apple ][ and C64 had a 1.023MHz clock rate with a minimum of 2 cycles per instruction, so your “horribly slow” system might be about real-time for the era.

(Atari 800 had a 1.77 or 1.79MHz clock, but wasn’t regarded as wildly different.)
the confusion and distress starts with assuming its "your own pc". for at least a decade now the winning and profitable design pattern wants user devices turning into thin clients. the chromebook-ification of computing if you wish, or its X-terminalization [0] for somewhat older people

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_terminal
Why Specs Matter: Breaking Down Barriers to Sustainable Concrete
According to the Times, the camera was hidden in a smoke alarm and Hancock did not know of its existence. It would be interesting to know who authorised it.
I live in DC and read local news. The TJ article was featured in last week's WaPo Metro section. I have a personal interest in the school's academic quality and admissions policy.

>The new policy is race blind.

The old admissions policy was race-blind.

>It has further improved access for economically disadvantaged students and students with other special needs

It has removed standardized literacy and numeracy testing. The test has been replaced with a 7th grade GPA requirement, and opaque "holistic review" which lets county officials paint whatever demographics picture they want. The holistic review is a fig leaf over what many parents suspect to be de facto racial quotas, which are expressly illegal. One group of parents is suing over this: https://pacificlegal.org/case/coalition_for_tj/

EDIT: Yes, and I'd have taken merit lottery over holistic review, per previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27569189

What the new process does NOT do is address the root causes which led to low black and Hispanic admissions with the old system, i.e. underperformance on standardized numeracy and literacy tests. A true "class absolutist leftist", which I am not, would address those problems at the root instead of fudging TJ admissions numbers to obscure the issue. Now it looks like the county is preparing more diverse students for success at TJ, which it isn't, because the old race-blind system showed that it wasn't. We've put a thin coat of paint over a bunch of subpar middle schools and support systems.

Under the new policy, TJ will admit more students who are not equipped to succeed in such a rigorous academic environment. In response, either the students or academic standards will suffer. Underequipped students admitted under the new system replace others who in all likelihood would've been better prepared to succeed. This is the problem of affirmative action "mismatch," about which much has already been said: https://harvardpolitics.com/matters-mismatch-debate-affirmat...

>The conservative white racists already lost at TJ because their normal arguments of “meritocracy” failed them, so they aren’t an especially important political player on the topic.

That's quite the laundry list of assumptions.
Or the appeals are automatic "No, sorry" responses.

I would love to see proof of an AI appeal that was successful.
Regulating Software
State organized social security means that folks have the choice to do things like not have children and can leave abusive situations without having to worry about starving in old age: It also means that folks aren't necessarily forced to quit work to take care of their grandparents and that folks without a safety net actually have one.

It doesn't reduce the need of a social network, and it is there because the 'organic' safety net doesn't work well enough.

I have more social interaction because of different kinds of social media and more options for types of social interaction! I can play games with others without being at their house. I wish the internet was this developed when I was young, and am a bit envious of kids today because chances are, they can find a small group of people that don't make them feel horrible.

People have been spreading fear through media since any sort of media existed. Through most of history, you couldn't call them on their bs, though, since even if you were literate, you usually didn't have access to any other source of information.

You know, talking to strangers is sometimes just a cultural difference. People don't talk to strangers without reason where I am (Norway) - and I gotta tell you, it is great. I can now walk down the street without having to wave at whoever waves to me like I did in the US. Not only that, but a lot of folks talk to strangers... on the internet. Which is totally different, since you know that anyone posting on the internet wants to - in some aspect - interact with other humans.

Family is only good if they are, well, good. But we've seen throughout history that family doesn't always have good intentions. Some families are abusive, both physically and sexually. Some will force strict gender roles on their kids (no, child, you can't play baseball! You are a girl and should be cleaning). Some will send kids through questionable therapies to 'fix' their queer child or beat their child for dating outside their "race". They might expect to choose your spouse for you. I mean, this stuff happens now, even with the "reduced necessity and dependence".

I agree that we aren't tackling social isolation! I'm pretty sure we could let folks work less and improve everyone's standard of living by making sure the safety net is strong enough for more people to afford hobbies and playing sports and going places socially. I don't agree that automation is problem, though, but more that it is one of the solutions to making life better.

The Covid-19... we are not starting from the same set of agreed upon facts here.
I would recommend putting a large amount of effort into email. Email is the channel you own forever. Your Instagram followers are subject to Facebooks whims and they are not a company to be trusted.
The track pad issues seem to largely be gone.

I still get screen tearing.

I am running on a laptop, but I typically keep it plugged in as often as possible to save the battery so I haven't noticed if it's good or bad.

It's still a good trade IMO.
Kazakhstan has been mentioned due to proximity I believe and also Texas, there has been a lot of interest in using the natural gas flares from oil wells to run them as this is currently a waste product.
Stop building sandcastles a.k.a. How to properly bootstrap your startup – Part 1
I'm a long-time Linux user and my job is to develop open source software primarily used on Linux. My suggestion to you is to get a Mac. I'm not aware of any Linux distros that are suitable for non-developers. I wish it was otherwise, but it just isn't.
Email providers in general, and GMail in particular, is not as sophisticated as we like to believe. There have been so many instances where people I have been talking to for several years get randomly thrown into the spam folder.

It goes without saying that some of my outreaches get thrown there too by default.

So, as the sender, I don't really know if you saw the message and didn't want it, or if you were too busy to reply, or that you did not receive my message in the first place.

There are, of course, many email tracking tools available. I do not use them though.
A couple more:

1) Do not limit the length of the password to some arbitrarily small number.

2) Do not validate email beyond the simplest, "includes an @ and a period. Email is validated by sending a confirmation link.

3) Don't get so stupid with the "secure password" special character crap. Some of us use super long, but memorable passwords, which are more secure than your bull#@!+&$
It is used heavily in NFTs. You need content addressing for that use case.
In the latest releases of Win 10 Home, at least once you have connected to the network, that button does not exist. They prompt you to enter your WiFi info first, then ask you to log in. And once you have entered the WiFi info you cannot get back to that screen and remove it until after you have set everything up. At least not without a factory reset, which I didn't actually try.

They force you to log in with a MS account during the initial setup then once you are in you can add a local admin account. Then you can log into it and remove the MS account. Its absolutely horrible.

I have been dealing with this a lot lately, had several laptops that were Home and could not get in to them without the MS account. Its a huge pain.
This is how Chromebooks work. A Google account is needed to sign-in. The motive is not mysterious -- I don't believe it is security, it is pushing free services to collect more data. We all know that selling people's data is deliriously profitable.

Of course, people will create less-attributable accounts.
You're replying to a message asking why we don't fund FOSS by saying the problem with FOSS is a lack of funding.
If you own Bitcoin, you have a major incentive to spin everything as good for BTC so that they price rises. You are also incentivized to convince others to buy BTC so that the your investment in BTC pays off.

Given there is no intrinsic worth of BTC, rather just the collectively belief it is worth something, these incentives are very strong with BTC.
Pinephone.

I believe the idea is that anything with blobs can be hardware disabled.
This is some kinda prepper/conspiracy nut website
There's the heat, but then there's also the humidity which is just oppressive. It's exhausting.
But if my client is thin, why would I buy hardware?

I.e. this runs counter to hardware makers goals.
Same here. If I ever loose access to all my devices at once, I'm not logging back.
So this is a domain name for dapps, but the domain name itself isn't decentralized?

How much does it cost?
>you cannot buy a portion of share of stock.

Robinhood (and other many other brokers) support fractional shares
Does it really still provide great ad revenue? Hasn't that been declining and increasingly restricted over the last several years?

Viewers largely don't care what platform your content is on as long as they can know it exists (link) and can easily consume it without jumping hurdles.

I don't care if I watch something on Youtube or Vimeo as long as I see what I'm trying to see.
Nope, that's a load of ignorant horseshit. Do yourself a favour and read about the PDO process. It's nothing to do with "lobbying" anyone. "The Greek government" did not "lobby" anyone, rather the producers of feta cheese in specific regions of Greece applied for their product to be given a PDO by the EU. The application was of course supported by the Greek government. At the same time, it was contested by the Danish, German and French goverments because industries in those countries had been selling cow's milk cheese as "feta" for sometime and didn't want to lose the revenue. These three countries also didn't "lobby" anything - they contested the PDO application in the courts. They lost, so feta is a Greek PDO cheese.

"Lobbied"! Seriously.
> They are essentially gambling, you dont buy securities/assets/stocks/currencies you just bet on price movements of those items.

It sounds like you're defining gambling in terms of tangibility.

Very few people take physical delivery of stock certificates, bond certificates, or currencies. In some sense, their trades are just bets on the value of numbers in a database.

Are silver futures contracts "just a bet on price movements"? What if the contract is physically settled and the buyer takes delivery of the silver bars to their home? Is it still "just a bet"? What if they always sell the contract before delivery? What if instead it's a cash-settled futures contract? It sounds like you don't consider spot fx trading to be gambling. What about FX futures? What about FX CFDs?

What about synthetic financial products with less volatility than some of the more volatile equities. Are those gambling?

Without expressing more detail or nuance, it sounds like you're defining gambling as risks you don't take. There's an argument to be made about exposing retail investors to leverage and high volatility. Though, you don't seem to be making that argument.

The trouble with defining gambling by tangibility is that most of our modern dealings are very abstract, and it basically ends up being what you're used to vs. what feels novel/foreign.
I would love to see the internal documents that Apple has on maintaining stickiness. I’m sure it contains a trove of terms and concepts that would enable a meaningful discussion.

For example, using Apple Music was the default for the HomePod. Using any other music service was clunky (coincidentally or deliberately).

Another point is the Apple Watch. Switching to an Android phone would mean getting rid of two devices.
Yeah, I find out there is the arm build. But core is a nice minimal core with less packages. ~350MB vs 1.1GB...
If you use Windows and assume you will have any form of privacy or control over the operating system, you are going to have a bad time.
Switch to Linux or be okay with Microsoft spying on you. Those are the choices.
I really think we should stop pushing things like that or the wat talk (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat). Sure it's funny and all, but it's not helping people understand. We're presenting Javascript as some kind of stupid black magic tool, which is not. You can very easily find the standard online, and go through the examples to understand. Sure it's unintuitive, I agree, but lots of things in programming are unintuitive, and when you can't change them you have to learn them.
I agree. No matter how much Microsoft tries, given they can't remove local accounts altogether I will refuse to log into a Microsoft account for as long as it is humanely possible. Same for secure boot.
Yes, that's absolutely true. At the same time I've had some really strong friendships online. It's easier to find people who you really click with.
Our built/lived environment is so bad and corrupting after tens (if not hundreds) of years of anti-humanisc approaches to building (including modernism and postmodernism). No incentives for a wider range of housing possibility, like community and social understanding encouraging cohousing or just shared kitchen/reading facilities (apart from very lately apparently purely commercial driven development I've heard about from the US like in SF).

Maybe some post-post-structural theme is emerging. I've seen developments which have elements of that, but I have also seen some of those elements being coopted by modern estate builds (like, well at least from kinds of basic informal security but without internal walkways and personal space in front of flats along the walkways; like surrounded green spaces but that are left to fend for theirs self after build has finished), and that have little relation between integrating working spaces (workshops, community cafes and even theaters, etc.) into the plan, and most certainly no indications of resident open working groups for all aspects of the running of the building almost as a cooperative.

Wake me up when a Timeless Way of Building etc inspired and the like concepts are starting to become somewhat more of part of standard reading/planning/construction. All these new builds recently that are wasting so much already known wisdom and humanist conceptions of how to progress the mental well-being of residents as well as the state of society.

If only architects took on "patterns" in a way that the computer/design community have..
Yep. Divorced 2017, lost most of my friends due to Brexit then COVID hit. Social life down the pan.

Discovered Meetup earlier this year. Worth looking into it if you’re in a similar situation. No one knows anyone already on it and everyone is still battered from COVID so it’s a good starter for getting back out there and back to being sociable creatures.
This thread is about Microsoft. If you want to complain about Microsoft getting unfair treatment, you should have to find a single comment in this thread that defends similar behavior by Apple or Google first.
In a free media market, editorial decisions are made based on audience engagement. If the readers are more likely to read the article with more numbers (and thus see the ads in it), that's what will be published.
OSS software isn’t immune to this stuff either. Many projects want to increase the number of people using them.

What’s different is the community pushes back on annoying examples where customers are mostly stuck with that they purchased and don’t have a say.
Yep, pools are more like boats when they are empty. Here are some pictures https://sandiegoapprovedhomepros.com/pools-popping-out-of-th...
I've been using JavaScript for around 15 years, and I've never used a comma to separate expressions. And I'd still go to MDN to look up if sort() is in place or not :p
Advocacy and Device Innovation – David Clayton KIYO
On this episode of Let’s be Blunt, Montel talks with the founder of the hardware brands Myster & Octave. Davis talks about his home and business being raiding for selling only CBD products and the legal threats that came with it when he was in his early 20’s. He has been a lifelong advocate for cannabis, and has been working to change the stigma that comes with being a cannabis enthusiast.
Thank you. I remember this being super popular in my blogging times (this and third party comments system) but when I needed one I didn't find any. So before bed yesterday I wrote one. Glad you liked it.
That is only going to happen if you overestimate how many people around you are actually lonely.
There are so many fails when it comes to signup/password change/logon UI that I’ve become acutely aware of after sitting next to an elderly couple trying to implement 1password.

Validate that your passwords match immediately, yes, but be aware that the password fields may be filled in / altered by a process other than typing a character! How do you describe to a non tech user that the only reason the new password and confirm password fields are actually the same (even though there’s an error) and to proceed your only option is to hit space bar in one of those fields and blindly delete it. Then it updates the validation and you can proceed?

Along the same lines- sites that don’t let you paste in your password from a password manager. What’s worse - not letting you paste in only to “confirm” your password. What’s the point of that?

Just finding the account page to change your password is super confusing. There’s typically a little user icon in the top right so I have shown them that. But after that, sometimes it’s in “profile” - other times “security” - and other times it’s hidden under a few levels of menus. Some sites call the password a “passcode” - and on and on.

Password complexity requirements have gotten out of hand. “At least one symbol but not more than four, two of which can repeat - and only the symbols @ and ! Allowed”. Really?? Now I have to specially tweak the password automatically generated by 1password to match. Again, explain that to your grandma.

SMS/2fa prompts using a password field - whenever you fill one in, it prompts 1password to helpfully remember that password for you. Super confusing for a non tech person! Now they’re potentially adding a ton of new “passwords” for this website into the password manager, and they have no idea which one to use when logging in again.

Email “validation” - I gave up using my personal non gmail address for sites as most of them claim that the non standard tld I used was not “valid”.
I find all mainstream attempts lacking. I feel as if the app is optimizing by AB tests across the whole population instead of trying to find a proper descriptor of my learning behavior and influencing the teaching actions according to that.

For example, Duolingo transformed into a tapping app where spaced repetition took a backseat and learners are incentivized to tap the same lesson until the badge tells them they know the lesson. The lessons are skewed towards the easier target->source questions because the population finds source->target too hard.

So the app becomes extremely useless to me but I guess useful for the masses.
What's a good way for someone without much of a background in maths to start grokking this? I've had had several encounters with the lambda calculus over the years (including a coworker who is absolutely in love with it), but it's never really clicked for me in any meaningful way.
It isn’t artistry. It is that there are too many variables for a recipe to hold your hand and tell you every tiny thing to do to get a desirable result. Just cooking a piece of meat will vary based on the power of your stove’s burners, the thickness and composition of the pan you are using, the thickness and surface area of the meat, internal variations in the meat like fat content, etc. So a recipe gives you general guidelines (med heat, about 6-8 mins) and a desired end state (until browned and cooked through). Cooking requires you to use your own senses and your own brain to evaluate your progress and outcome.