skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be interested to hear as to why you couldn't achieve the functionality of this app in Electron.

I agree with you that it's almost impossible to get a native UI feel in electron, but that's not always the first priority.

If the end goal of the application is to present a custom interface for drawing on a monospace grid for ASCII art, I'm not sure I see the argument that a native UI is necessary over any cross-platform kit like QT or even an html based UI. I totally agree on shortcuts being a problem. Dealing with those cross-platform can be a headache when sufficient care is not being taken. Especially from an outsider to the platform.

As a long-time linux user, most of the interactions on OSX feel wrong to me, but I know it's me that's the problem. If I were to write shortcuts for the OSX platform, I'm sure I'd get most of them wrong. Conversely, if an OSX developer was writing shortcuts for a linux or windows platform, I'm sure they'd face the same issue. It really benefits to have a platform expert you can consult for testing.

I'm not trying to eschew the need and benefits of native apps here, I was trying to point out the fact that the large amount of hate for Electron (and similar web UI on desktop solutions) have their place.

Heck, this entire app could have been a web app. I'm sure a few out there exist to do very similar things.

There's dozens of ways to accomplish things in the wonderful field that is software development, and the whole "this tech is bad" cargo-cult is more a disservice than anything. There are pros and cons to every decision that goes into an application, and taking a stance against one method without considering the use cases and how it could benefit or hinder runs the risk of loosing out on promising tech or excluding people from using your project.

I've seen Monodraw a few times over the years, and I've lamented the fact that I haven't been able to use it, which is what drew me to make my original comment.
Beyond Biology: Autoimmune Illnesses and the Big Unknown
No, they were biased because they literally excluded certain races or had small numbers of certain groups. These training sets classically either came from celebrities, or researchers themselves - unbalanced classes of input.
Ask HN: How to gather a nice advisory board for a new IT startup?
But how founders usually gather the right people with the right expertise to contribute to a startup fairly? Are there any platforms that could ease this task?
This would still require conversion from and to Javascript strings, and doesn't help with any language compiled to WASM that isn't Rust. And it probably wouldn't even help Rust because such a native WASM string type would presumably live outside the WASM heap (because if the string data would be on the WASM heap, there's no need for a native string type).
Thank you. I too miss the days when I could find niche opinions and in depth knowledge via a simple search.
Generating JSON Directly from Postgres
I really like this analogy, especially while WSB-style "YOLO" has become a life philosophy over the last 5 years.

That said, I wonder if the "fantasy financial league" game can become a lesson by selectively choosing a handful of stocks over a 30 year period. Tell the kids about the economics of the period (let's say the 1960s - 1990s) and provide a few companies with the tickers, names, and descriptions replaced. Watch as the "blown up" stock subsides, but the conservative investor wins in the long-run.

EDIT: I cannot stop thinking about how ubiquitous YOLO as a philosophy has become in the last decade. Everything about life has become a binary of win or lose. Your stock market plays "won" if you are in the green, your tweet "lost" if you did not get effective engagement, your latest commit "won" if the established metrics succeeded after deployment. And then there are the implications in machine learning, where everything becomes a binary "correct or incorrect" assessment...
Considering that EU only emits 10% of global CO2, it is more like 2.7 degrees instead of 3 degrees of warming.
I'm unsure if its related to estrangement, but I don't think its farfetched to assume its a big factor. Its interesting to me that for many who consider themselves non-religious often have taken up something else (overwhemingly, politics it seems) to fill the hole, often with the same zeal and dogmatic outlook that they look down on in traditional faith-based belief systems.

But I also think its more than simply the abandonment of religion. It is the abandonment of religion combined with the rise of the internet/social media. It isn't only religion that has suffered participation declines in the previous decades. Local communities of all kinds have crumbled. The internet has provided people with a means of escape from anyone that could possibly disagree with you and allows you to find perfectly insular cultural bubbles. This is immediately more gratifying than real world relationships, but it also conditions people to have zero tolerance for anyone in "meat space" that isn't in complete alignment with them, in which case they simply distance themselves from the relationship. But at the same time, many of these online community relationships tend to be more shallow and superficial than real life ones, which is why so many people report strong feelings of loneliness in their lives.

We've essentially dismantled most of our traditional local sources of community and replaced them with superficial but unsatisfying online ones.
I would also like to know what "woke concepts" the parent commenter thinks are being taught in mathematics classes. After googling it quickly I found a lot of hysteria about it from right wing media outlets, but the actual documentation seems only to propose less rote learning and more application.
What an abysmal quote. It is completely false, and does nothing to encourage intelligent people to go into teaching which we desperately need.
It's amazing how big these tech companies are getting:

https://miguelrochefort.com/blog/tech-giant/
Video of German sysadmins learning they've been pwned by the NSA (2014)
I think “toxic” is a bit hyperbolic. It’s likely they’re just frustrated with how out of touch some baby boomers can be.
Instantly reminded me of "Body Electric" by Robert Becker. A fascinating account of how novelty in research is often ridiculed despite being revolutionary, interspersed with various electromagnetic theories: from limb regeneration with cancer growth to life's origins, epigenesis, and embryology.

Edit: gah, should've read the article before commenting, he actually mentions the book as one of his inspirations.
I know for a fact that base pay for a first year SWE with a BS+MS in CS at Goldman just broke $100k a couple years ago. That probably sounds like a lot to most people, but if you're hiring staff to live and work in NYC, especially when there's an absolutely massive Google campus 10 minutes North of the GS HQ, that's pretty much table stakes. Never mind the glaring cultural differences.
That gave me a good laugh, thank you.
https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns
Displaying Realtime Data in Your Web Application Without Hassle: IHP AutoRefresh
Considering Cyprus has a gigantic DMZ down the middle of it (in several places) I'm quite surprised it made that list.
Microsoft Launches Windows 365
You're assuming a causal relationship when the claim is correlational. The claim is not that because of a person's ethnicity that person will commit crimes at a certain rate, the claim is that you can make a good guess about criminality based on ethnicity. That is to say, there is a correlation. Which is unambiguously true--just look up the numbers. Only takes a moment.

In either case, whether it's racist or not is irrelevant to the issue at hand.
I did end up buying them.

Apple's ear buds are the only ones that fit comfortably in my ears so it's sorta my only choice. (The pros do not, which is unfortunate.)

I don't typically run with headphones in so that's not an issue, but even if I did, it's pretty easy to hit the volume button on my phone unless it's in a backpack or something.
What does it mean to be truly educated?
It can also be really hard to judge quality (or at least popularity) a priori. I write for various publications that track traffic. Invariably I'll have posts I think are unique and interesting, which I really like. And they get middling views.

So it often makes sense to not tilt too far into finely-crafting a low volume of work.
Then I'll slap something together a "5 things people get wrong when doing $X." It's not bad but it's pretty cookie cutter. And it will blow up.
And if/when SpaceX finishes Starship plus Superheavy, SpaceX will be launching up to 400 satellites per launch.

Also, they've submitted authorization for up to 42,000 total starlink satellites: https://spacenews.com/spacex-submits-paperwork-for-30000-mor...
Considering Bezos is hardly involved with Amazon anymore it’ll be hard to tie WaPo into its antitrust case.
A winch gets you maybe about 1/3 of the cable length (and thus strip length) at best. A typical cable length is between 1 to 2km long. Let's say you can gain 500 m height. A glide ratio around 50 is probably on the higher end of what's achievable, so you're looking at 25 km of range. That's before you account for wind, that the world is not flat or the fact that you don't start your landing at 0 m, but more like 200/300 m from the ground.

Honestly, for short ranges, you're much better served by electric planes, or gliders with a self-launch motor. Small strips and winches don't go together.
They have government takedown requests from China, Russia, and Spain.

https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns
This won’t trigger war, just like the Holocaust didn’t trigger WW2.

But this could of course trigger massive international pushback in the forms of sanctions and boycotts etc, and those will unfortunately trigger even more nationalism and tension, which could eventually lead to war.
In the end, there is just no way any regime treats people like the Chinese treat Uighurs without consequences.
> Replaced the prompt with a full-fledged editor

Is this better than running a shell interactively in Emacs?
The book "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat" is fairly modern still but also considered a classic by many. The entire goal of the book is to break cooking down to these aspects.

Another person in this thread mentioned the Master Classes with Gordon Ramsey and Thomas Keller and I can concur that both of those are really great in teaching technique that is reusable across just about anything you cook.

Cooking is pretty easy once you get enough of it under your belt and are confident with different techniques. It's also quite liberating as many things go with each other and it isn't a mystery if something will work. You can begin to target "profiles" you want your food to take on.
Second that! He has a very scientific approach, sampling various ways (cooking dishes in six different ways, comparing them), which makes it far easier to understand why something is done that way.
Everyone always writes these and yet I've seen very few ever talk about how to decide what's worth showing up for or how to get a working hypothesis of an animating principle for your own existence. It'd be remarkably useful to have a working framework for how to figure out what to want, especially targeted at smart people with top level talents in several areas.
This is wonderful. I have been studying communities and food as a way to rebuild trust...this sums it all up nicely. I have been looking to start up a local "potluck" type idea --note: not my idea, many people do this already.

I just thought a little rough organizing might be nice.
I learned a lot by watching way too much food network. After a while your brain starts picking up on the design patterns.
Riddle in the California desert, and one man’s fight to solve it
Julian Assange was the canary in the coal mine. Authoritarian censorship is going to be a major political battle this decade.
In fairness though, most double doors aren't spring loaded like those idiotic saloon doors are so wouldn't hit people in the face in quite such violent fashion.
Terror attacks lead to fewer cat adoptions
Ludicrous Semantic Search Speeds
For me, the ideal terminal is a modern GUI document, backed by a file, with cut-copy-paste, mouse editing, and an insertion point. Using the "terminal" shouldn't be a weird different mode of interaction.

BBEdit's Worksheet is the closest I've seen to this (and before that, MPW, but now I'm just showing my age). But BBEdit doesn't handle curses, which can be very limiting.
I'd say the manner in which you use the time is as important as the habit itself. It's not "practice makes perfect", but "perfect practice makes perfect" etc.
I agree that we can't have zero moderation, but we should also recognize that large social media platforms have become the de facto public square and while it is lawful for them to moderate content, it's detrimental to our society. If I had to choose between trusting Twitter to moderate such a large volume of our society's speech and flat-footedly regulating them like a public utility to the extent that their quality drops and they vanish into the ether whence they came, I'd certainly choose the latter. That said, I think we can find middlegrounds that provide for high quality digital content while also allowing people to have robust speech freedoms in practice.

One such incarnation which is particularly interesting to me is the idea of regulating compliance with an open protocol such that Twitter doesn't own your social network, but rather they are simply one option through which you can access that social network. If you like Twitter's monetization model and moderation, great. If you don't, you can trivially go elsewhere (i.e., you don't have to leave your connections and conversations behind--you can continue to participate in the same conversations from your new social media portal) or even build your own.
Can you imagine working at FB, which despite its considerable ethical failings, is a decent employer from what I've seen and suddenly being told you're going to Amazon and need to start memorizing The Principles?
Here they call the number in the British television show QI: https://youtu.be/zUrYRdIxYp8
Those courses are in my opinion.
> A few years back there was a movement on Facebook with groups called "Survivors of Narcissistic Parents" and similar that encouraged people to cut off their parents....

> I've also saw more than one person disown their parents after being sucked in to the anticircumcision movement - men who had until that moment seemingly normal lives but were then convinced their sex lives would never reach their potential because of a decision their parents had made....

That's a really good point. Before the internet, and especially social media, people had weird and arguable toxic ideas, but it was almost always impossible to form a geographically-based community around them, so they'd almost always peter out and their effect was limited. The internet broke geographical limits, allowing intense purely ideological communities to form around almost every idea and validate them, no matter how wrong and misguided. In our very online times that can have serious social consequences, sometimes for good but often for ill.
Governments have done all those things to people because of what they've said on Twitter.
There has been alot of innovation in digital payments in India over the last 10 years. There are a number of local alternatives to traditional card brands. This might be a combination of protectionism to support local payment alternatives, and international card network unwillingness to invest in India given declining market share.
From my understanding (I could be wrong) and why I have to follow all these rules here in Canada, is the USA made a homeland security law in like 2007 that said law enforcement can have access to any foreign individuals data without a warrant/good reason.

So now when picking services I am not allowed to host on any non Canadian servers if we are hosting personal information about staff/users etc. It can be a simple event registration system, survey, or just having to be really careful when using cloud services. I even have to watch out when sharing a innocuous file over Slack.

This really sucked when stuff was moving over to cloud and we wanted to use a lot of hot new stuff, but most providers get it now and provide Canadian servers so not as bad finding compliant vendors.
Beautiful story. Please pass on my gratitude to your lawyer buddy for making that stranger's life better. Gosh, HN can be wonderfully soothing sometimes! :)
The issue with the new tabs is that they are not tabs, they are buttons.
It could be argued, but I think its a pretty weak argument.

HN, Reddit, news, comics, manga, TV: its all a dopamine drip. The specifics can be impactful: a movie that changes your perspective, a great article on HN that helps you accomplish a goal better/faster/stronger. But usually you are just slamming your preferred dopamine drip. SciFi books or comics don't "help humanity vote better", they are enjoyed, the same way some people enjoy reading Reddit and HN.
Is it necessarily the wrong lesson?

Stanley Druckenmiller: my risk management strategy is to put all of my eggs into one basket and watch it very closely.
I don't believe that is the main reason. Forced confessions without a lawyer present is a huge factor in Japan's conviction rate.

> In Japan this occurs in the context of forced confessions during detention of suspects whose lawyers are not present during interrogation. In the United States a similar danger is present in plea bargaining. There is a well-known “trial penalty” — a defendant who spurns the prosecutor’s offer of a plea bargain will generally receive a significantly higher sentence if found guilty at trial. Both systems struggle to provide oversight of confessions and plea bargains, respectively, by means of judicial hearings.
The number of domains of knowledge that are effectively infinite are compounding...this thought tends to make me hyperventilate if I think about it too much.

It was very important to me to be smart so that people looked positively at me, now that I'm getting older, I'm having a hard time letting that go as I know more and more about less and less.
I think listing genes is probably crossing the line. It's not like there is a gene for crime that some category of people would have more or less...
Microsoft brings Windows to the cloud with Windows 365 and Cloud PC
Double-check your ergonomics. Stretch your hands and wrists. Take breaks. If that fails, ask a doctor - RSIs vary, so definitely ask for help instead of trying anecdotal fixes.
The younger generation had significantly less tetraethyllead exposure. I wonder if that had any impact.
> particularly if you’ve had cataract surgery

Cataract surgery should improve night vision. Those with cataracts generally have much worse night vision because their vision is clouded.

If night vision is worse, it could indicate that the person needs a follow up with their eye surgeon and possibly follow up surgery to adjust the IOL.
Easy for the Netherlands or Finland, hard for Romania, Latvia or Greece. The EU is quite diverse and individual countries will hopefully be more ambitious if they can.
Photoshopped Nissan Titan Used to Aim for $20M in EV Startup Funding
For those who don't know: Druck compounded capital at over 30% for 30 years. Never had a down year.
Kroki can render Svgbob along with numerous other text-based diagram formats, including Graphviz:

https://kroki.io/

KeenWrite[0], my text editor, renders changes to text diagrams in quasi-real-time by calling out to Kroki. Meaning, you can embed Svgbob in Markdown documents using:

``` diagram-svgbob
// diagram text
```

[0]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/scr...
I agree, I am definitely happy with my terminal experience in general, and there is an equivalent for most of the features using a combination of TMux/ZShell/vi mode, etc etc...

It actually feels like I'm living less of my life in UIs these days, and more in the terminal than I did in the 90s/early 2ks.

I've definitely felt some performance improvement using Alacritty: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
I personally don’t understand why someone would want an ortho if you’re going to 1) have to learn a new layout and 2) spend a lot of money on something custom. The ergonomics of either a columnar stagger or something like a manuform seem way better.
Using 0.1% of all the energy produced on the entire planet to do seven transactions per second, something a single desktop computer from 2004 could handle just fine on its own, is not a waste that is "subjective".

It is the most outlandishly, ridiculously wasteful that humanity has ever produced. There is nothing in the history of mankind that comes even close to this level of utterly deranged waste.
What does a "Hacker News launch" refer to? Is that simply announcing it in a Hacker News submission?
I don't disagree with you, and which is why I qualified my thoughts with a filter of a "large and growing market". Impossible to fail in such a market if your goal is not to be a billion dollar company.
Lessons from Development Failures
Presumably there is some presumption that everyone in the study has more or less the same driving needs. Possibly for a small area in MO, that might be true, or at least close enough. I mean, I don't drive much either, but I live in a place where I don't have to. I don't need the car to get to work or do most of my ordinary errands. Now, if they want to track my bike, they might get more data.
PPO = Proximal Policy Optimization

[https://openai.com/blog/openai-baselines-ppo/]
Add a little to a little and there will be a big pile.
I also had a failed HN launch, glad to see that pushing through pays off. I’m not giving up, that’s for sure :) Happy for typesense founders!
Yeah, I mean maybe I'm overreacting -- I'm all for a better terminal, and there's some genuinely cool stuff here -- it's just undermining its own case by overselling IMO.
Welcome to Fascism
It's a billion person country.

It might not make sense for every country to demand things like this, but that doesn't mean it doesn't make sense for giant countries too, and it doesn't make it inefficient.

At India's scale costs are already amortized anyways, but worse, consider India's physical location. It's surrounded by hostile nations (Myanmar, China, Pakistan, make a wall around it). To get data out of the country you're talking about moving it through hostile territory, or moving it through vulnerable subsea cables. Not only is the bandwidth probably more wasteful than the extra compute needed to spin up another set of servers to serve the billion people in India, but the network cannot be relied on to keep working during any sort of crisis.

Luxembourg or whatever demanding all data processing happening internally would be meaningfully different. It's less than a million people to amortize over instead of more than a billion. It's next door to allies which the data could reasonably be stored and processed in, instead of isolated. But we're not talking about whether or not Luxembourg should demand this, we're talking about whether or not India should.
> This discussion _is_ about the US (but also other governments) censoring Twitter posts.

Presumably the US is genuinely asking Twitter to take down posts, not invoking any hard power to coerce Twitter. That runs counter to free speech ideals, but it's not a strict violation of Twitter's rights. If there is a victim, it's the folks whose Tweets are being taken down, insofar as the de facto public square is privately owned and thus not subject to first amendment protections (Twitter can legally, unilaterally censor the de facto public square).
The scale of change ultimately required means we can’t even afford to let Togo stay on fossil fuels even if the entire rest of the planet shifts and they’re the only ones left.

But the more that rich countries do, the easier it is for everyone to transition, and the longer everyone gets to make that transition.