skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprised no one has mentioned it yet, but this is a huge loss for accessibility.

After I started using Linux with Gnome, I realized how much less strain I was putting on my wrists with the taskbar/launcher and window controls on the left. Since as a right-handed person, it, the angle of my wrist is at a much more comfortable angle, about 45 degrees facing inward. It's way more natural to do a side to side swiping motion with your forearm than a jerky up and down motion when the taskbar is in the default bottom position and you're switching between windows all day.

I only use Windows at work now but if they haven't added this back by the time we have to upgrade to Windows 11, it'll only be a matter of time before I start getting carpal tunnel symptoms again.

I bet there are others that have limited arm mobility that also rely on this customization that will be even more harmed by this.
I love the stairs, and especially when they bring stairs to the front and the rear of the plane, but they're not great for people with mobility challenges. I guess dual jetbridges could be an option to speed boarding and deboarding, but I've never seen that happen.
Thanks for the tip, will do that.
'Space Jam' and the Fury of an Algorithm Scorned
I long for the day they invalidate QM
I agree, though I wondered if that was actually true - I don't think so? But I don't know.
It’s not the centerpiece if you are doing your job as a parent.

> Extreme rejection and rebellion is a logical outcome from that.

If that’s the result then you are failing as a parent.
It depends on who you ask.

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According to the W3C, it used to be that:

> a URI was either a URL or a URN.

But now, it’s complicated:

> the view became that an individual scheme does not need to be cast into one of a discrete set of URI types such as "URL", "URN" […]

> Further according to the contemporary view, the term "URL" does not refer to a formal partition of URI space; rather, URL is a useful but informal concept […]

> Thus as we noted, "http:" is a URI scheme. An http URI is a URL.

All the above citations from https://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/

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The WHATWG holds a different view:

> Standardize on the term URL. URI and IRI are just confusing. […] URL also easily wins the search result popularity contest.

From https://url.spec.whatwg.org/

This may be what the author of the article had in mind.
> if all of the votes in the majority were from the Engineering team and both of the votes in the minority were from Marketing then there is no consensus

This is the critical part. If the QA objects there is no consensus. Doesn’t mean management won’t decide in favor of the others, but no consensus has happened if a major group objects.
It’s probably better than you think. You’ll need a competent lawyer but beyond that you’ll depend on the court system, which attempts to put you and the government on equal footing.

Depending on the legal issue at stake, it might also be possible to access additional legal expertise pro bono, or through an organization like the ACLU.
No, what we have here is definitely more of an exception - sort of like an RFC for larger changes that could take months or years to play out. The vast majority of code changes do not go through this.
A fair share of my phone numbers are bogus(old numbers, info I store as a phone number even if its not) so the db extracted from here would be dubious
> I can only speculate that the abysmal state of self-hosted software for the general public is because there is not enough money to be made in terms of recurring subscriptions or constant inflow of data.

That's exactly what it is. Some software charges a subscription for self hosting. You maintain everything like a sysadmin and pay a huge per user per month subscription fee. It's insane.

Look at authentication systems to see how ridiculous the price discrimination / gouging has become. It costs $0.0055 per month for and AWS Cognito user or $0.00325 per month for an Azure AD External Identities user. However, as soon as you use Active Directory for employees it's several dollars per month per user. The P1 plans are $6 per user per month. What makes auth for an employee worth 184,000% more than it is for a customer?

I think big tech is absolutely scamming everyone, especially small businesses. They're taking "charge what the market will bear" to a whole new level and the only reason it's working is because anti-trust laws aren't being enforced. If we had fair competition the cost for a lot of tech would drop substantially IMO. There's a lot of room in a market with 2000x markup.
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By "local" they mean "major industrial country", not "Joe's bike shop and solar panels".
Can other nodes find it?

If that's the case, I don't see how it is a problem. The user should be able to decide what content their node hosts.
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and why should everything be about quality of life? It is an important point, but not the only one.

Edit: Also, I think the problem is not of we having 'less' quality of life (although it can still be improved), it is more of how can we distribute that better quality of life to everyone.
> But AI has the same wage everywhere around the world

not really - look at BTC.
all their friends use it and it'd be social ostracism to not use it?

Is that a thing? I have plenty of friends that use Instagram but they don't look at each other's stuff or talk about what someone they know in real life posted. If they care about people they know seeing it they put it on Facebook or in the group chat.
Yah, i'd rather take my bike, buses and train. I do transport my kite board with public transportation, and yeah, it IS annoying, but i'm pretty sure i'm not destroying my carbon budget. A car is fine as rental, a few day in a year. Ill take EV cars now.
It's a hard one to know. I knew my parents CC details from about 12, and they knew this, they would often ask me when buying stuff online rather than fetch it from their wallet in another room. If I wanted to buy something online, I just asked first, made the purchase and gave them the cash from my own savings from pocket money.

I'd like to think I was pretty mature at that age, and my parents would like to think they had done a good enough job raising me that this would never be a problem, and it never was. But we can clearly see from stories of kids spending large amounts of money in FIFA or mobile games or whatever, that this is not true for every kid.

The fact that online purchases were a slow user experience in the 90s meant that I had the concept of purchases, and paying back my parents in cash reinforced the concept of spending real money. Since I had my own savings, I could also see the impact to myself if I spent more than reasonable on Pokemon cards or whatever.

If it had just been pressing a button in a video game like it is for modern kids, and wasn't trusted to mind my own money (or that money was just numbers in a bank account), would I have realized the same at age 12? Or would my parents ended up as the ones that "should have known better". How much of that is good parenting, versus a different environment? I don't know.

I don't have kids of my own, and my life situation is such that I don't consider it a practical near term possibility, but I'd like to think I could raise my own kids so I could extend that level of trust, but a lot of people would see just the fact that the kids had that kind of information irresponsible in its entirety.
The OP said old devices, not old OS versions. In other words, the lack of software support is the problem, not the hardware.

I used a smartphone that was released in 2014 until the end of 2020. It worked perfectly fine, and would have continued to work perfectly fine—except for the software. The GPS date rollover happened and there was no official update to fix it to the new epoch. VoLTE support in custom ROMs was impossible (because this feature is locked in a closed-source binary blob), so it couldn’t make phone calls once my provider turned off their 3G network. Otherwise, it was fast and worked fine.

When I gave up and looked for a replacement, I found that most low- and mid-range phones sold in 2021 have slower hardware with fewer features than my 2014-era flagship phone. Lower-resolution non-OLED screens, lower benchmark scores, no wireless charging, no waterproofing, no replaceable batteries, no unlocked bootloaders. The idea that newer hardware is objectively superior is simply untrue.
Everybody but the TVA.
I was thinking of the period before the exodus to digg and reddit happened. I'm not sure about the year... before 2006-2007, I guess.
I got a third party halo strap for my Quest 2 and it vastly increased comfort and ability to wear it for extended periods without fatigue. Might want to look into that.
No, Windows has by far more investment into security and a far better culture. Linux has a multiple-decades-long history of saying that security is not important and has had to be dragged kicking and screaming to modernity.

SELinux is just an LSM built decades ago, I wouldn't say that somehow proves that upstream cares about security.
This is extremely common on just about any escalator in the US (and many other places).
I have 5 android devices at home, 3 of them are android 4.4, not planning to upgrade until hardware fails. One LG phone doesn't even get updates for google play
It doesn't work that way. Government forces us to use their service for a fee, and forces us to provide services for free. Tax filing, and handling authorities requests are prime examples.
I come from maths, not physics, but their construction

g_{\mu \nu} = A_\mu A_\nu

looks a little weird to me. The left side is a tensor, but isn't the electromagnetic four-potential is a gauge field, not a tensor?
Then you probably haven’t heard of airport TSA agents turning away people with New Mexico license, thinking that New Mexico is in Mexico and not the US.
You could say it's winning (I'd disagree, but also I couldn't care less), but if Android has already won iOS wouldn't be doing so well (which isn't the case).

I've been thinking about getting a Linux "app" phone for certain apps, but it sure as hell won't be Android and won't have any Google s/w.

I think many Android users feel the same. Everyone who could have an Android phone already has one (or two) - there's no way to grow from here. Peak Android.
I think it's premature to dismiss the suggestion that school closings are the cause. Suicide is a complex topic, and the pandemic introduced a lot of disruptions not immediately felt. The suicide attempts could very well be a delayed effect, as proposed by the parent comment.
I think we need to put considerably more effort into discussing existing and new scientific endeavors before we consider funding. I am not saying we should pause or reduce funding, but rather the reach of our public coffers has increasingly exceeded our understanding of what we are or are not accomplishing with that funding.

The amount of noise, publicity, and politicization of scientific research makes it very difficult to wisely set public policy at both the national and local levels.
> If the author studied the economics of airport shops they would no longer be confounded.

Can you elaborate? I concur with the author. If there were more reasonable priced shops, I would probably spend 3-4x what I do. Smaller profit but greater wallet share.
> The police here send underage people to bars with fake IDs in order to try to punish the bars for serving the underage people the police sent. Really.

Source?
You expect that none of Android would work but all of K-9 should work?
Wages aren’t the only cost, and it isn’t clear how good and AI would need to be to fully replace production line workers — it might be that an AI good enough to do that would need to also be good enough to render all human labour obsolete, including ours.
>Microsoft should consider a "hacker" build of windows that starts as a bare-ass powershell prompt

WinPE? Server Core?
The linked video is the best. I had no idea how to use the linked website before I watched the video. And then when I watched the video and realised I didn't need to use the website to understand.

I gleemed: "Javascript passes callbacks to asynchronous third-party APIs (fetch etc). Once those APIs are finished, they pass those callbacks on the "callback stack". The event loop, when the call stack is empty, then moves those callbacks onto the call stack for processing."

The posted article is a bunch of fluff and then an advert.
Well, I'm not sure I see the point of anything beyond an emulator, (is it even slower than the hardware?) but the thing that sticks in my memory about the Amiga is how the Roguelike games tended to have graphical tiles when most ports on contemporary machines didn't. Specifically Hack and Moria, back in the day.
I don't think I'll accept such extreme authoritarianism. It's quite a thing to want so much state control over peoples' lives.
The primary mechanism patents provide is the open publishing and explanation of the technologies/mechanisms/etc involved. The goal is to extract research from the depths of company archives and promote iteration on existing technologies without outright cloning them. In return, you get a guaranteed monopoly on your technology for X years, and protection from theft after your open-publishing.

This system has failed in a number of ways.

1. The rate of technological evolution was significantly slower, and a time-limited monopoly was less impactful, in previous history. The industrial revolution covers some 100 year period. The digital revolution covers about 40. Things get obsoleted much faster these days, to the point that a 20-year monopoly is literally the whole lifetime of the technology

2. Patents have been granted too easily for too little (largely because there’s no repercussion for filing, and re-filing, dumb patents) allowing for extremely broad interpretations, and a single technology incorporating hundreds of different patents (eg h265)

3. Because there’s so many of them, and they’re often so vaguely defined, I’m fairly certain almost no one actually reads them to learn how to implement something, or improve on the design. I’m also fairly certain that reading patents is a great way to “poison” yourself — if it can be shown you read the parent at some point, and then violated it, it’s a trivial lawsuit.
I have an Oculus Quest 2 - it's really not intended to be multi-user (even within a single household), which seems like a big miss.

The answer to both of those questions is: "hit the factory reset button in the Settings menu" which blows away any and all state. That's realistic for selling the device but not really for lending it.
Louis Rossmann's video series about his search for a new location in NYC may have a lot of relevant lessons even in a different city.
On reddit you've got your mates page which shows you only posts from people you follow, on facebook you can curate your wall to some extent to only see news from your family and friends. You can do the same thing on twitter. It's still social media and an extremely toxic implementation of it at that.
if it was obvious, why wasn't it obvious until the patent?
It’s more that it’s hard to control pollination outdoors so a huge chunk of your crop will be worthless males
Many escalators esp. older ones are not wide enough to allow two people to pass comfortably.
ORD and DCA have free wifi and they collect emails presumably for that marketing purpose.
A little bitter, are we?
This varies widely by city and state. There are some cities where you'll almost never get carded, and others where you'll get carded at every single bar.
Maybe something along the lines of regions of charged space time resist compression while charged and non charged regions more spontaneous compress? Attraction/repulsion?
I did. Still don’t know what you mean.
California moves to cut off water to thousands of farmers
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Connect 4 has changed the lives of many people. Now, this gaame has been recreated in Python thanks to Keith Galli. Two game modes are available, single player featuring an Artificial Intelligence unit, or multiplayer to play with your friends. The AI does not do things by random, instead, it is actually smart and quite challenging to win against. Good luck!
The article rates Incheon airport at the top of the list.
To clarify this, the government has to go through certain procedures to seize your private property. If you own a hardware server, it is your property, even if it is sitting in someone else’s data center.
Ok…but bash is waaayy more common. I could see this if you were making an argument about Perl, since it’s probably pretty close to parity with bash in terms of pre-existing in most environments…but python? No way!
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How long before the update hits the Google Playstore ?

Bonus point: if I install k9 through f-droid or the APK, will it keep my settings ?
You can bind mount the socket in a volume. You can also do this with named volumes shared between containers. You’ll need to make sure the GID/UIDs match, but it works great. It’s often faster for inter service communication than the Docker proxy.
Sure, it would take an enormous amount of energy to do it though.

Oh yeah, and you'd also be annihilated as you were completely turned to energy as you tried to go through it of course. But you'd sure fire a hell of a lot of randomized high energy particles out the other side after the amount of time it would have taken light to get there.

Not my preferred kind of "travel", I'll just freeze myself and go the slow way or something.
This article is more about Canada, but it does have some applicability to America. The rising cost of rent, coupled with the desire for greater returns over stability, I just pushed a lot of small retailers out. I think this is also a problem of the walk-ability issue in America: it’s very hard to walk to anything. European cities Are easier to walk to the corner shop. Not so in America. If you are able to live in one of these walkable communities, it’s often too expensive to have something like a bookstore.
after spending time here, i feel enriched

after spending time 'there', i feel drained
One high profit “receipt” is better than several smaller profit receipts summing to the same total. Why? Lower transaction cost.
The Imperfectionist: You don't need to fight time
Supposedly it's been licensed (2019)

https://www.jasolar.com.cn/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=sho...
Everybody is both happy and unhappy.
There are several problems with choosing by merit.

One, you have to define merit and whether it really is merit. If a rich kid scores higher because he got an expensive private tutor that taught him how to do better on the test really more meritorious than the smarter poor kid who scored lower because she didn't have said private tutor?

Second, you have historically marginalized groups that lose out because their ancestors were systematically abused, not allowed to be educated, not allowed into most institutions.

Saying that it should all just be a meritocracy now is like someone that gets a big headstart in a race and then once that headstart is pointed out, they start calling for fair play.
FYI electricity rates are the highest for residential use. If they started charging small-time home growers as commercial enterprises (on par with factories for example) they would pay way less.
Freeing children from nonsense like drugs and social media isn’t holding them back. My children’s social development occurs in the real world where they participate in sports and educational activities and spend time with friends offline. Social media isn’t real socializing.
Land value taxes are effectively one implementation. Land value taxes necessitate that high-value land be put to productive economic use.

I think this is a nice taxation strategy given that land can be considered a common good (and it's finite, and you didn't make it).
> It honestly sounds like you're getting upset about this relative to how you think it should work, and not relative to an actual practical barrier

Typical irritating Apple fan response - "It's not the device, it's your fault for not using the device as Apple intended.

Everyone knows that Apple locks down its devices to only work well within its eco system. But many don't like the fact that it doesn't work as well as with other devices, and this is where Android (and other mobile OS) shine over ios. With less than 50% marketshare, Apple device users do often run into this problem with others who have a non-Apple device.
Note that 'iq.harvard.edu' is The Institute for Quantitative Social Science. I can't help but think they are trolling.
Performatively resolute as always, Maggie!
Which major US airports do not have train or public transit to the city center? Chicago does for both Midway and O'Hare, I'm pretty sure NYC does, not sure about others (not much of a traveler).
wasn't that the promise with the space shuttle, too?
You've built a straw-man for my statement and you've completely mischaracterized Linus.

Linus had multiple statements that won him pwnies, but what I'm referring to is decades of mailing list posts where he's insulted researchers, or decades of him and Greg rejecting CVEs and hiding vulnerabilities, etc. This has persisted even today, mostly from Greg, but in a less public way than it once was due to cultural shifts.

Make no mistake, Linus and Greg have always had a hostile relationship with security researchers.

> many specialists hate that because they think their field is the most important and all others should be second.

Another straw man. I never said anything like this; that security should be the number one priority or that anything else shouldn't be a priority.

> would Linux really have become the de-facto base on which high security orgs (banks, 3 letter gov agencies, etc) deploy? I doubt it very much.

Is this satire? Are we really going with "Banks deploy Linux... therefor it's secure" ? Did you know banks also run Windows XP on their ATMs?

Linux has had external contributions to security, yes. Much of that has been despite upstream, and with immense work across decades to get upstream to play ball.

> However I think it's silly to suggest that the Linux kernel has a history of not even considering security.

Sorry but the only way for this to be the case is to simply not know the history of the Linux kernel.
This article is not really coherent. It seems like a bunch of random statements about physics, strung together without explanation. This paragraph for instance is a bunch of true-ish sentences but overall is gibberish:

> The metric tensor of spacetime tells us how lengths determine in spacetime. The metric tensor also thus determines the curvature properties of spacetime. Curvature is what we feel as "force." In addition, energy and curvature relate to each other through the Einstein field equations. Test particles follow what are called geodesics—the shortest paths in the spacetime.