skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Office UI, in general, hasn't improved since 2007 introduced the ribbon. Recent changes to Outlook make it seem like nobody at MS is even thinking about these issues.
The California dream is dying
Your comment implies that you’re only familiar with C-style curly brace languages.

ClojureScript is a Lisp language. If you’ve never learned one, I highly recommend it. It will make you think about programming differently.

As esr puts it in his (in)famous “How To Become A Hacker”:

“LISP is worth learning for a different reason — the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it. That experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use LISP itself a lot.”

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#skills1

For myself, I learned Scheme (another Lisp-like language) in graduate school through the How to Design Programs curriculum (http://htdp.org/), which despite already being a professional programmer, I found enlightening. And then again in the online programming languages course from Brown: https://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/.
The median number of contributors to GitHub repos is 1. One. The "community" of open source is mostly a myth. Big important FOSS projects are paid for by FAANG companies who use that software. They can't rely on a "community" to fix bugs, so they pay people for that.
So much hate on the comments, sure their business model may be questionable but this guy has half the world's population using his social products. They are well positioned to pull something off in this space, however their walled garden model is going to limit their aspirations unless they change it.

I also feel like there is some confusion between the "metaverse" concept and spatial computing in general. In the article he describes working and collaborating in the metaverse, but you have other companies also claiming they are building a metaverse around gaming (Fortnite, Roblox). I think just like we have a clear separation between work and entertainment applications, there should be a clear distinction here too.

I could imagine there being a spatial computing layer (like the web) that facilitates both, but I think calling it the "metaverse" is confusing given the mixed usage of the concept. I'm not sure Facebook is the company that would build something as an open protocol layer, given their track record with building walled gardens.

I do agree with him that these possibilities are entirely dependent on better smaller hardware, that isn't a cumbersome headset. Entertainment seems like a no-brainer, given some success in the VR space with early hardware. The experience would have to be more efficient and productive than desktop and mobile computing to be adopted in the workplace.
The article presents a lot of relevant data. In particular, about half the people that got in with high test scores but low grades were from under privileged groups. I’d wager that such groups are less than half the population of admitted students.
I tested the app on one of our more interesting mimics (tooth billed bowerbird, endemic to the area) .. without great results. It is however very successful in identifying much of the morning cacophony here. This is for far north Queensland, Australia where we have a fairly decent array of resident songbirds.
My comment got prohibited while the parent was flagged, but the example code seemed pretty understandable to me and I've never written a line of lisp code in my life (the closest I've come is cutting and pasting lines into an emacs config file). While Lisp has claimed ownership of all the parentheses that Python has eschewed, it's a more than reasonably readable language and predictable in its syntax.
I think this is the heart of it. In a way this cuts to the heart of America itself, both its successes and failures.
ALTEXXANET - Your 90s Internet Experience
Depends on what the "anti-virus' does isnt it?
cesarb pretty much described the whole thing.

But to add, the message store the where the texts are stored. I usually keep it all. WhatsApp doesn't care about the media more than you do, so you can delete anything not needed, and now you have full text message history + important media on your new phone.

I have tested it while migrating across 3 devices and half dozen phone factory restores, so I'm fairly confident it still works. There are very ugly restrictions coming in future Android version with scoped storage and whatnot and I'm worried Google is finally going to cut me out. But until then, I keep mine.
I don't do take home work.
Yeah correct, but IDs are easily fake able anyway. The purpose of ID is to stop low leve falsification, high level ID forgery involves bribes for .

Worst comes to it, I’d opt more for biometric verification provided the software / hardware is produced by a sane entity such as local government and not some seedy nightclub.
Good point. Here's an example:

> Apple executive Eddy Cue sent an email in January 2011 to CEO Tim Cook... “I believe there will be a 7-inch market and we should do one,” Cue wrote in the email, which forwarded an article written by a reporter that switched from the iPad to a 7-inch Samsung tablet. “I tend to agree with many of the comments below,” Cue wrote.

> The email was introduced Friday during Samsung’s cross-examination of iOS chief Scott Forstall, who was among the recipients of Cue’s email. Forstall testified that Cue also used a 7-inch Galaxy Tab at some point... Steve Jobs was an outspoken critic of such tablets, saying that one would only be practical if it came with sandpaper to make people’s fingers smaller.

https://allthingsd.com/20120803/apples-eddy-cue-saw-market-f...

> I expressed this to Steve [Jobs] several times since Thanksgiving and he seemed very receptive the last time

https://www.digitalspy.com/tech/apple/a397538/apples-steve-j...
Yep, just one of the many confusing 'features' of macs.

Oddly, macs been having so much software/upgrade trouble lately, for reliability, i'd rather go windows.

If Windows had a native terminal...
Then sell it to marketing teams, or send goons to your house if they think you’re causing trouble, or stalk you.
My game has sold 7,210 units and has 99 reviews as another data point. So 72 units per review.
It's a generic task for a test, not work that they need done.

The person they want, who is really good at writing network servers, could get that task done in that time.

Me I am really good at other things but didn't know when I started exactly how http works. Now I do.
For anyone getting into ObsidianMD, Syncthing works great to sync that. I use it to sync the vault folder between my phone, Chromebook and central NAS. Works great. I do ignore the Obsidian .workspace file to avoid extra battery usage.

It's also fantastic for backups from various VMs amd backing up photos from phones to my NAS, etc.
Lottery systems with an initial cutoff make sense if you have a large surplus of applicants who surpass your lower quality threshold. Rather than make asinine minuscule decisions over who exactly the top 1,526 out of 10,000 are, cull the 7,234 that don’t make the cut and randomly select from the survivors.
I don’t think the traditional waterfall style of infrastructure planning (all planning up-front, implementation on rails) is optimal for the cloud. Even the best plans are likely to run into unexpected difficulties.

Unfortunately suggesting actual DevOps practices (i.e. giving developers some actual control over infrastructure and a more agile approach to infrastructure development) is viewed as heretical and crazy in large enterprises.

The end result is enterprises paying cloud premium prices, but, with none of the flexibility and agility that make those prices worthwhile.
Enders game’s alien are quite different from both they aren’t a single unified hive mind but a species of queens and mindless drones using biological technology rather than literally being the ships or having a wide range of forms, also no rapid evolution or gene stealing etc. Starship Troupers share even less they don’t even use starships, aren’t a unified hive mind, etc their both great example of sci-fi space biological armies being a fairly huge space for different ideas.

Remixing at least involves using multiple sources, my only real issue is SC both only copied from 40k and changed so little. It’s like the figured after just crossing just past the line of copyright infringement was enough and they would go no further. But hey they did the same with the original Warhammer game to make Warcraft and that worked out just fine for them.
Practical reasons why Electron is winning. A universal base framework and language. Choice of popular development framework, UI and other libraries and million of developers.
Surely one could not just make up a totally fake birth certificate from nothing and have any licensing office take that seriously? Surely there are additional electronic records or other security features?
What made you want to change it?
That's how good definitions are made. You refine them against examples.
Not to mention by default assuming an executable download outside of the appstore must be malicious so you have to jump through red tape just to enable it. It's like they assume all their users are just morons and can't be trusted.
Floss one tooth.
Futurama was great and seemed to comment on this several times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGgTy5YJ-g
I know it's weird to mention when you are talking about all these fancy tools, but I was surprised how often I get decent results when simply taking a photo and using Yandex image-search. First time I did it I didn't even expect anything but random pictures of grass, but it's actually good and it is even sort of helpful that I can see similar, but different plants in the same search (which is how I found out that apparently I was mistaking for its close relative a plant that I'm used to putting into my tea from the very childhood: I just called it what my grand-dad thought it was). For well-known decorative plants it often straight up shows the exact plant variety I'm looking for.
Absolutely — I ended up with multiple fractures. Weights, but most importantly simply working on your core & stability will help a lot to prevent something like that. I used to hate any non-cardio activities but once you make visible progress it's much easier to keep it up.
Russia has the economy size of Italy, it’s just chaos for attention.
And in the US, 14 year-olds can be tried as adults. I wonder whether that is ever applied to charges of underage drinking?
I wouldn't say there isn't admiration, at least where I grew up.

It's just a general lack of role models. It's not often massive, inspiring companies emerge from Latin American countries.

Entrepreneurship is really hard in LatAm: bureaucracy, lack of venture capital, grounded business thinking (investors down here are likelier to invest in more grounded, less technological companies over bigger moonshots).

We just have no frame of reference to dream big. Add to that the fact that most LatAm countries are exceedingly poor, there isn't much room to take the kind of financial risk entrepreneurship entails.

There is hope: things are changing. Governments are investing in startup communities and the last decade brought us the first Latino tech unicorns. But we're a long way to go still.

TLDR: LatAm is generally poor, risk-averse due to culture and has problems generating the feel-good success stories first-world countries mass produce.
I believe at least on windows this bit isn't always true

> In a well designed program, all of the translating and parsing is done before sending to the clipboard.

To avoid unnecessary work a program can opt to delay rendering until it's pasted or the program is closed. This is why excel will sometimes ask you if you want to keep your clipboard on save.
I hope you're right, but at the same time I think I've expecting that since middle school and I'm now fast approaching my 40s...
I used perl years ago for all sorts of text processing and glue. I remember struggling with lists of lists. I just checked the docs[1] again to see if I've grown at all as an engineer in the last 15 years.

>Now you should be very careful that the outer bracket type is a round one, that is, a parenthesis. That's because you're assigning to an @array, so you need parentheses. If you wanted there not to be an @AoA, but rather just a reference to it, you could do something more like...

Still pretty tricky!

[1] https://perldoc.perl.org/perllol#NAME
Yes that’s what the company said, the same company the appears to be over working employees in unsafe working conditions, so it shouldn’t come as a shock the company statement is bellied by the fact the employees are still on strike and the union is still negotiating.
Way to cherry pick things and sugar coat the stats for the US.

Per capita emissions for the US: 15.52 tons

Per capita emissions for India: 1.91

US has about eight times the per capita emission of India, double that of China(which makes a lot of things for the US) and somehow India and China are to blame and the US deserves no blame, even given all its riches and having the means to reduce emissions?
"To recreate this 2,000-year-old dish, Magnanimi started with a recipe from the 1st-Century AD Roman cookbook De Re Coquinaria, the only surviving recipe book from ancient Rome, which is attributed to Apicius, a wealthy gourmand once described by Pliny the Elder as "the most gluttonous gorger of all spendthrifts"."

I could have sworn I learned about Apicus from an ancient HN thread... but apparently it's never been linked on here before? Did moths eat the thread?

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29728/29728-h/29728-h.htm [English, 1936]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apicius

related: "Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25543742

semi-related: "The mystery of silphium, a lost Roman herb (2017)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22229666

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15197503
How a Walmart worker with Down syndrome fought and beat the retailer
LISP is super easy for humans and machines to parse which makes it readable and I'd be hard-pressed to call it ugly for that reason--I think it's pretty darn easy to read having fairly small exposure to LISPs. I personally prefer ML-family syntax and never liked the ergonomics of working with parentheses, especially in Vim, but I agree the parent comment reeks of exposure bias making claims about what others know and should feel comfortable with.
Unfortunately I don't clearly remember because last one was a while ago, but it was Sync conflicts due to external factors. The one where it was Syncthing's fault was years ago and is very likely fixed now.
A little disappointed it is not massively parallel text-processing on GPUs...
Emperor of the universe
It's still annoying. Apple needs to realize, it's my machine, and I'll take whatever risks I want. Stop trying to police me as though I'm incompetent. I know full well at this point if some random executable is going to be sketchy and it's wholly on me if I run it. It's just a push to go to the app store, while convenient, it most certainly is not for developers who don't want to deal with their BS to maintain a presence there.
There is no reason to use "arcane template meta programs" anymore. That is all old-C++ stuff needed to work around missing language and library features. It has been literally years since I coded or even (visibly) used any template meta program construct.

That's not to say it doesn't exist in the implementation of the Standard Library. I just never have any need to see any of it.
They get huge fines from the state alcoholic beverage office. This is strict liability, and punishment can be gigantic fines and revocation of the alcohol selling license. So, intent doesn’t matter in most states and no matter how real an id appeared, selling underage creates these consequences.
So why is affirmative action still needed at college level if they get so much help in all the years before?
I think you misspelt it in your search:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Yeah, a bit odd to use cuda in the name since it's such a specific thing.
This is really good insight and reminds me of similar industry norms that often get strong pushback (e.g. OKRs). Often there is solid reasoning behind why and when you'd want to employ these practices. However, enough organizations implement them just because they've seen them used or because there's hype around them. Eventually the poor implementation attracts pushback, but often the naysayers also don't understand the reasoning behind the practice.

I personally didn't understand what these types of questions would accomplish, but your explanation makes sense and it seems like this would be a good tool in the hiring toolkit.
Wisconsin was one of the states with a drinking age of 18 while Illinois had 21. The border between the states was referred to as a "blood border" because of the large number of drunk driving fatalities of 18–20 year olds crossing the border to be able to legally buy alcohol.

So, yes, the fact that the drinking age was 21 didn't prevent me from consuming excessive quantities of alcohol during my first three years of college¹, but it also eliminated differential situations like Illinois-Wisconsin which had a measurable impact on reducing DUI fatalities, so it was a bit more than not much.

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1. During the late 80s, the dorm soda machines were stocked by the students. Many of the machines had a slot dedicated to beer (often a "random" slot where you took your chances. You might get something good, you might get Coors Light. The soda machine of the era were capable of dispensing glass bottles of beers even though they were designed for cans. Mostly capable. Occasionally, your 60 cents would end up buying you a pile of broken glass and beer foam. Regardless, having campus being the only place to feasibly buy alcohol meant that drunk driving incidents were rare to non-existent.
I'd assume the information on the 2d barcode is the same as what's printed on the front. The problem is that you have no idea whether a scanner is connected to a larger surveillance database. A GDPR-style law and real enforcement would go a long way to restoring some societal trust in the US. As things stand right now, it's prudent to put tape over the 2d barcode and the printed ID number, and only remove it when necessary (eg actually interacting with the police).
Why would you expect to know what a line of code does in a language you've never used without looking it up? If you've ever used hooks in react it is roughly equivalent to setCaretLocation(null).
In hindsight, stick with W95 until Windows 98 SE, then stick with 98 SE until 2K, or even XP, comes out. Maybe it's because I was not a big DOS gamer, but I found Windows 2K to have excellent compatibility with everything I wanted to run, including DirectX games. My trusty old Pentium II with a Voodoo card was happy to run Photoshop, Simcity 4, World of Warcraft, VMWare and all manner of other 21st century software with Windows 2000.

After a RAM upgrade. A few, actually. Started with a spacious-seeming 64 MB in '98, retired the machine in '05 in part because because even maxed out at 768 MB, it was cramped. That was a crazy era when it came to RAM, huh? Been a while since having enough RAM was a major concern for most consumer software, let alone just the operating system!

I sometimes wonder if Microsoft should have made W2K a consumer release, rather than waiting until XP to give us a real operating system on PCs. (After a few years with Windows 2000 I switched to Linux and never looked back. I did keep a Windows 2000 VM until just a few years ago, though.)
But the prohibition doesn’t stop teens from drinking, just makes it a crime.
If you enjoyed this, check out Tasting History on YouTube. He had a whole slew of ancient Roman recipes that he faithfully reproduced.
Did you read the paper in its entirety? Honestly, did you?

It is filled with well researched arguments and quite a few facts that I found highly surprising. I say this as a guy who went from 270 lbs down to 180 then back to 240 then down to 200 and still struggling to stay put. The descriptions of leptin induced neuroses and people's varying mental states is highly accurate. The number of different cultures that don't have this obesity issue, my previous girlfriend who grew far fatter and taller than her peers after coincidently being fed antibiotics for a long term illness as a child.

For goodness sake, did you even get to the part about the Macaques and the standard bmi distribution growing just like humans are? This situation isn't normal and congrats on losing weight but you're one triumphant data point in a growing sea of obesity.
Crazy hurdles: right click the installer or app, click Open.
There’s a wide variety of photographic color meter light calibration charts, see https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/3109910011...

My favorites are from Datacolor or X-Rite.
Same realisation here. This is the only time I have ever granted camera access to a website. And even though this is a legitimate project, I feel as if they can take advantage of that access.
The FOSS movement has failed to appeal to end users, and a big part of that is the chronic inability of FOSS leaders to understand UX.

Us programmers want to believe that technology is enough. That just because because our implantation is technically superior in x, y and z metrics, consumers should be flocking to our solutions. But that’s not good enough. We have to get the technology right, and we have to make the product a joy to use.

As you said, there is a real disconnect between technical people and users. User-centered design tends to be treated with a kind of hostility. It’s often viewed as “dumbing down” rather than making the product better. I’m not sure why this disconnect exists, but until we close it, customers will continue to flock to closed ecosystem solutions.
Brilliant! If this was all I learned today, it would not be a wasted day. Thank you.
Sadly, I still have to support IE11. There are some people so entrenched that IE is the internet, that we've seen tickets come in through IT where people reported others for using Chrome because it isn't IE and they were concerned.

Sometimes I wish we could just tell these ignorant people get bent and figure it out. I'm not telling you to build goddamn Arch, it's just running a different piece of software. 100% of them didn't even ask to install it either.
>"their meaning is inherently embedded in human experience."

Not necessarily, some animals have the same perception. Some carnivores don't eat dead animals, others primarily eat carrion and they interreact differently with inanimate objects.
Yeah it’s cross-referenced if possible.

The hot shit is to use a baptismal record instead (accepted most anywhere but usually found only for older people).
Apple has explicitly chosen to stay away from anything GPLv3. It's the reason Bash and other tools bundled with macOS are so old (they're the last version that were still GPLv2), and why they chose to switch to Zsh as a default.
People who disagree with you must be borderline mentally defective? This is unnecessary and against the HN guidelines. If you replaced those three categories with ones that describe any 'protected class' of people, I think you would instantly see why this is so.
And some might say “but the hive itself doesn’t have consciousness, or an ‘experience’”. Which is impossible for you to know, unless you are (or have been) a hive.
Chrome is coded in Google-C++, which is what cletus was complaining about. The rest of the world is not constrained to code like Google does.
I have the urge to write an Atari 2600 program to solve some of the recent Project Euler problems. I’ve already found that it’s feasible. The hardest part is input and output.

https://projecteuler.net/problem=759

https://projecteuler.net/problem=760