skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd work for someone who voted to raise my taxes. That is years of my life's work redirected to causes I don't agree with. Worse than someone being against me getting married. If I could swap marriage rights for lower taxes, I wouldn't be married. It is more symbolic these days than practical.

I think the gays can cop it.

> you are gay, or your sibling is gay, or your best friend is gay

At least one of those is true.
In the US, I assume? Also, note that app stores aren't the only revenue, and precisely because the web does not work as well on ios devices, this number will be slightly biased in apples case.
Vexperio – the fastest growing virtual tour platform in Germany
The irony is that the American suburbs are some of the most regulated places for living I've ever seen. I mean many places tell you how long your grass has to be, when you put up Xmas decoration and how big it has to be, the color of your doors...

I guess when private organisations do it it's all fine, but god forbit government tries to implement regulations.
"Wealthy dictatorships really are as chill as any rich democracy as long as you don't start poking the leadership with political ideas that don't benefit them."

Unless of course you are in the way of some of the powerclique and they decide to take over your buisness or land without compensation.

Or the spoiled son the of the dictator (or the dictator himself) wants to bang your daughter or your wife. And maybe kills her while doing so. And anyone witnessing or complaining. That means officially also in a dictatorship no one does that. People just go missing or have accidents. Or found guilty of some other "crime".

Exaggerating? Well, I just read a book about Trujillo, the former dictator of the dominican republic, it is quite interesting. But he did not invented power abuse. Anywhere where there is unchecked power, those things happen.
Websites are either made to only be as good as what the worst browser can render or needs enough developer time to work around it. In other words as if speed limits were set to 10mph on highways because my crap SUV dictate the road for everyone around me. The argument gets turned on its head when using a car analogy though. If only Google-sized companies can build a modern rendering engine then they dictate the web (and they rarely agree with users on what's important). If Ford could dictate roads they would make them impossible to drive on in other cars - or if Google did they would mandate only cars with RoadAd™ turned on, if Apple did only cars with iTires™ and so on. It's the road that gets dictated by the big companies like Apple and Google, not the cars. Roads luckily work just fine in an old or low-production car, unlike the web.
Yeah, I tried that and it completely struck out. Gave a "similarity score" of .992 or .993 for ten other accounts that weren't mine. Detected a big fat zero of my old accounts (I rotate them regularly).

AI is hype deep-fried in hypesauce.
You probably could script that in Hammerspoon. I have a small script that resets the balance to center every few seconds (it sometimes wanders off-center for some weird readon), setting the volume should be possible too.
> We do see (3) with Typescript and Coffeescript. These create some debugging friction. Also as JavaScript gets marginally better the appeal of these other languages can feel more niche, and many people just use the common denominator.

I have no idea with Coffeescript (I've read about it, but never used it). But my current job is basically spent all day writing TypeScript.

1) There is no debugging friction. I can debug TypeScript directly in my browser.

2) It isn't marginally better over JavaScript. It is leaps and bounds better than JavaScript.

TypeScript compiler will catch many, many, many common problems straight away (provided it is configured correctly). I have written a lot of JavaScript and I don't enjoy going back to having to write regular JavaScript.
We don’t need css float for layout hacks anymore, but it’s intended purpose to wrap text around an element is still a valid use case.
> worrying that a human with a horse's head might be born anytime soon.

But is there any advantage for a human to have a horse's head? I don't think. So it appears to be a very flawed analogy, on multiple levels.

Also you should consider that this proof reading mechanism is not a hard blocker for evolution, and it could be easily overridden by mutation that are highly favourable for the organism that posses it.

And the ability to evade vaccine immunity is specifically such a mutation, in a population which is immunised with non-sterilising vaccine.
A few thoughts here:

1. LiveBook is awesome and just continues to get better.

2. The Elixir core team is pumping out some fascinating stuff, taking inspiration from other languages and ecosystems and improving upon the products.

3. The author of this post is Mark Ericksen, co-host of the Thinking Elixir podcast, and I highly recommend it for anyone looking for an Elixir podcast! It's my favorite.

4. This is a really cool article, I hadn't thought of using LiveBook as an actual BI tool but I might actually try it out. I've thought about using it as documentation, and in tandem with something like this might get me over the hump.
Preventing deaths is one thing. What about all the economic loss that comes from people unable to travel / work / leisure due to heat waves.

This climate change is going to be the next big depression of our age.
For all intents and purposes, apart from covid, the vaccine (Pfizer, Moderna) is no different than injecting yourself with very small amount of saline.

Geting stung by any insect is orders of magnitude more dangerous.

So avoiding vaccine is of no practical benefit to anyone.

Despite billions vaccinated there's no clear evidence that any onserved adverse medical outcome registered after vaccination has greater prevalence in vaccinated than in general population.

If you want to fight for freedom of medical choices then fight for the right to abortion because there is no other case where a person is lawfully compelled to risk their health for benefit of other human.

That's way more clear cut case of limiting somebody's medical choices (by refusing a procedure in this case) for benefit of only another human.

Limiting peoples medical choices is pretty bad when you think about it as being compelled to a procedure or being refused a procedure for ideological reasons. But what's worst in this are ideological reasons not the limitation itself. We are routinely limited in out medical choices for practical reasons like the cost of the procedure or harmfulness of it and we are sort of fine with that.

Your inability to have you kidney cut out to sell it is a limit on your medical choices but most people find it reasonable given harm to you and to society caused by such procedure.

Freedom of choice is a great thing to strive for but it's only as realistically possible as long as people won't use that freedom to make excessively stupid choices.

Freedom is not absolute thing. It's just a worthwhile goal to aspire to when practical.
People keep saying that but we are no closer than we were 50 years ago.

People have been saying it for far longer than 50 years:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

The trouble is, both sides of the argument are correct. When disruption occurs, many people are badly disadvantaged even if society as a whole moves forward. It would be best to find ways to reduce the impact on the affected people without holding up automation and other improvements which have been shown to be beneficial to productivity in the long term.
in your example you can easily avoid this issue with k fold sampling. its not an algorithmic bias rather a training data bias.
So Editors Drafts are 'Standards' now?
But they produced them.. If Apple has yet another flaw in one of their devices. People are not saying "apple did not operate your phone"
Seems less like it’s funny, and more like it’s aimed at a niche market.
Not the parent comment, but I think it depends on the house you have. I find huge american houses with 3-5 rooms are unsuitable, except when you limit the robot to one or two rooms.

My apartment in Europe is suitable for it, as I do not have many rooms, so that it does a decent job on cleaning. I do not use the regular vacuum very often.
Some in the world are capable of working without being emotionally incapacitated by the thought that those they work with don't agree with all that they believe in.

Mozilla is there to build browsers. Politics should have been left at the door.
Instead it wasn't and so Firefox happened and then Brave happened.
Really strict moderation is the key. It does work on the parts of reddit that use it. r/AskHistorians is a stellar resource, although the price is that it is not a forum.
Not sure why you brought the STL in to it. Copying a std::string is as easy as assigning the variable, or calling the assign function with a char* and length
> And that in most respects it has be a disaster, I've lost count of the number of scandals and resignations... [2] Rather than being good PR for Japan, it feels like it's been overwhelmingly negative.

You are basically describing every olympics I can remember and most that I’ve read about before my birth.

Assassinations, at least 5 decades of doping scandals by East Germany and USSR, ice skaters’ husbands attacking competitors, Hitler, etc.

The Olympics is a rage-inducing waste of taxpayer money, but I love watching gymnastics.
Indeed. From the article:

> The first Crossrail trains will start running in 2017, and when the network is fully open in 2019, it will shuttle an estimated 200 million passengers every year.

Currently the project hopes to be able to open one line in 2022 (maybe) and is at least half a billion pounds over budget.
Yet it is completely useless. Doesn't teach critical thinking, epistemology, etc. There's a "science" class, and that's it. The rest is lexical knowledge memorization about past stuff (wars, plays, novels, poems, politics).
My guess is that it has more to do with popularity of the term "data scientist" in job ads than the popularity of those products. Total results for SAS etc are probably a lot more stable.
What are the measuring units for enthusiasm?
“reporting news or disseminating information that may frighten people or intentionally distorting information to cause a misunderstanding about the emergency situation, which may eventually affect state security, order or good morality of the people.”

Note the wording. What is written left of that "or" makes the rest purely redundant and unnecessary, although it serves its purpose as smoke in the eyes. And the "good morality" part is also 100% subjective.
If taken to the letter, a mere reporting of a coming tsunami wave could have someone arrested.
Vague laws that can be easily bent or taken to the letter, according on whom they're applied to (friend/enemy) are always a telling sign of heavily corrupt governments.
It claims the medals are pure silver, but a 925 silver alloy or so would be more realistic? Probably just ignorance of the detail by the research behind the article.
Sure, but it's a much better path than disassembling memory by rom dump which is how I got into computing 35 years ago. I also had the benefit of controlling 100% of my own computer, from $0000 to $FFFF, without App Store DRM systems and non-repairable sealed and glued cases making it difficult for me to get under the hood of the silicon I bought and paid for.

Monopoly app stores with no opt-out for a device you paid $1000 should be straight up illegal.
Why do you care with "other people" think?

You should have a strong moral compass, and you should be able to tell right from wrong, and awful from decent. And you should let that compass guide you in everything you do, including who you give the precious resource that is your attention to.

Framing it as "other people consider awful" makes it sound like you do not actually agree that awful people are all that bad, and that is a moral failing on your part.
Add they depend on Googles money. I guess Google is paying to prevent Chromium becoming a browser engine monopoly.
I think you've misunderstood the slide. It says: If we do no other mitigations other than wearing masks (3 variants in the graph), this is what happens.

If additional stuff is done, then the risk goes down. It does not say how much, maybe a little, maybe a lot. But such other mitigations are unlikely to happen if the easiest, most effective and most accepted way, wearing masks, is not enforced already. That's why it makes sense to look at the case of masks-only.
Are you just that historically ignorant of how this goes?

3000 people also die a year from asprin. Everything in life is a trade off.
Well yes, a police being unfriendly to anyone is probably better than a police being unfriendly only to certain skin colors or status. I remember travelling in Morocco (and also western sahara), where the police was very friendly with me. But I was a western tourist and the police was ordered by the king to be very friendly to tourists. From the locals I heard different stories.
Show HN: Food Calories API
An unofficial food banks API, use data from fat secret
I think more effort should be put into cross browser support, but that said.

> "I want web sites to do everything a native app can do" is a suicidal mistake.

Most Mac users are just using MacOS as a windowing system to run Chromes browser engines multiple times across the bunch of Electron apps they use to do their work.

The age where Mac users were mostly working all day in native Cocoa apps is long dead, I think I might be the only person in my office that uses a text editor running on Cocoa not Chrome.

We didn't get here by accident, end of the day Figma is better than Sketch, Google Docs is better than passing Pages files around, Google Maps in a browser window where your actual research is happening is better than opening the Apple Maps app and Slack is better for work than Messages.

The world moved forward, Jeff might not like which tech stack it chose but no one is making anything written "natively" on Macs that can compete, and it's silly to say that it shouldn't exist while that fact is true.
I think the Pro Display XDR & stand were less “outrageous” and more “aimed at a niche market most of us don’t know much about.” People were expecting something consumer / prosumer and Apple made something aimed at the professional market.
I don't have issues right now, but honestly: I'm still very ignorant of databases' abilities, so far my app works, and I have no idea how far I can push Mongo until it becomes an issue. I agree that Mongo seems much easier to manage than Redis for data structures, so I'll stick with it until it becomes an issue.
Maybe I should just pay for some consulting on that one.
UNIX seems, historically, to focus on utility. There are lockable doors but you get the keys. It becomes your choice to manage your machine(s) at whatever level you need to. Critical utilities and management can almost always be automated because of the philosophy of having a CLI which can be made to work without user interaction and because devices and critical parts of the system are exposed to scripting languages (/proc /dev etc).

Such a philosophy makes it impossible to create a truly easy-to-use system because the "OS" cannot make assumptions about its state. e.g. you have a configuration file and the root user can edit it with a text editor and introduce inconsistencies.

So either you don't allow the user to introduce "not anticipated" states or you let them and on their head be it. That seems to me to be the main UNIX philosophy - "ultimately the choice is yours".

That doesn't mean you can't screw it up and make it something else. I think the corporate interests who are paying for the development of Linux have made choices that have moved it a few steps away. Thanks to open source, however, one can escape their clutches for a price.
>employs 1000+ people

How many are actually working on the browser?
Israel's war on ('anti-Semitic') ice cream
Umm, I was a member of the CSS, XHTML, and XForms committees back in 2001, and most of my fellow committee members were from big corps, including me, representing Oracle on the committee.

Perhaps you're thinking of the IETF. The W3C was always more corporate than the IETF, but even the IETF had lots of corps, it just had more university reps than the W3C did.
The most severe, currently completely unresolved, DNS based privacy thread is not even mentioned in the RFC:

https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/nd...
“I call for the need for more research on the dark, down-, and destructive side of entrepreneurship—what are their dimensions, why do they generate suffering, and how we can reduce them and speed recovery? Such a stream of research holds the potential to make an important, compassionate contribution,” Shepherd wrote. “I started my scholarly journey into the dark side of entrepreneurship after my father’s business failure caused him to suffer greatly. I was interested in understanding this darkness to help people like my father anticipate negative outcomes of entrepreneurship and reduce their suffering.”
Going to be fun watching this backfire.
In addition to this if you are a native English speaker loosen the muscles of your mouth when you speak Italian.

Different languages require different movements of muscles and if you don’t adapt it just sounds like Italian with an English accent.

To quote an Italian: “…the English speak Italian with a closed mouth..”. I guess this is similar to the way Japanese people never seem to pronounce “L” correctly because the tongue movements are unfamiliar to them.

What’s funny is if you learn Italian well and travel around people will assume you are well educated from your lack of dialect like pronunciation/words.
No it does not imply that.
It’s a good idea I think, yet I’ve never been emailed in the 11 years I’ve been here. Maybe the things I say aren’t interesting enough :). Then again, I never emailed anyone either. I did have one scary encounter a few years ago on HN where someone tried to aggressively dox me, that led me to remove my email completely, but now I just obfuscate it a bit.

I guess my main concern these days is that I said a lot of things on HN that I sort of regret now. Way too cynical and negative at times. I’m not sure I’d want a future employer going through my comment history! So I try not to make my personal link too obvious, and I suggest the same unless you are always guarded in what you say here.
> Safari skins

More like embedded WebViews.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28016398
1.5TB on "a bunch" of drives?
You can get a 5TB drive for 100$ on amazon.
Only half a billion? So 2% over budget? That sounds great for an infrastructure project.
I feel like this should link to the original tweet [1] or even the article behind it. Had to navigate through three layers of retweets to get there.

edit: Okay, I guess it's about the additional discussion below that particular tweet.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/NatureBiotech/status/142079563395...
Alters can be easily connected, but having separate accounts like parent described can be useful nonetheless. For example, one well-known Rust developer has a day Twitter and a night Twitter which is good, because many are probably interested in one, but not the other. Generally, cramming too different kind of content into one account can be equally detrimental for the writer and the readers.
Is it? Plenty of athletes say they don't feel well. The specificity about Biles is that she was the great favorite and abandoned at the last minute in the Olympics without much prior signals that it could happen. Tennis players for instance have talked about pressure, depression, the importance of mental preparation for decades now. Recently Them for instance admitted he had a terrible breakdown after so many efforts to finally win the US open and since then hasn't been able to do much. In cycling Dumoulin also recently had a break from his career because he felt too much pressure and too little joy, them dis a great come back at the Olympics. Ian Thorpe in his time spoke a lot about mental health amongst athletes, difficulties and depression.
And I admire Kerri Strug. The whole point of the Olympics is to transcend the limitations of your mind and body and not to succumb to them.
A man who 'killed' Pluto
How the Apple 1 computer works
for 2. I am not sure why you would blame Amazon if it seems rather like a general specific employment problem in said area. Amazon is not responsible to fix everytjing around them are they?
How does that work for security patches?
Google dictates the direction no matter if you look at blink or chromium. If Google wants to dictate a future where Brave cannot possibly do the work on chromium to implement their features because Google turned the code in a direction demanding too many development hours then they can easily do so. I completely agree with your last paragraph but using something Google in the end is controlling is closer to a honeypot than a solution. What we need is "a fast, capable, privacy-respecting, no BS, no ads or tracking browser with a sustainable business model, using whichever rendering engine (preferably one that is also well designed and fast)" on the market that isn't controlled by a big corporation like Google, Microsoft or Apple.

Sure it might be doable with blink but why on earth pick a fight where the opponent basically desides the rules? It's like pissing against the wind. I very much doubt it will succeed and if it does it will likely just swap Google out with another corporate entity (like Microsoft). We need a rendering engine made by someone like Mozilla (or better) to succeed if the open web is ever going to be a reality.
when and where from can I get myself a recycled electronics gold watch / earrings for my lady geek? I feel very confident that this is going to happen, now, but I'm fascinated by the economics of the acquisition of the e-waste, in terms of "ore" density : it's a while since I was marvelling at the sight of the gold pad to pin wires in a ceramic package. Where's the highest quality and concentrations now?
I found putting one of those Philips Hue light strips behind the monitor helped tremendously. If I set its brightness and temperature to a dim warm setting, the dimly-lit wall right behind the monitor makes mid-range screen brightness work just fine (eyes accomodate to the higher overall brightness, so the monitor needs to be brighter to "fit in", but I still perceive the whole scene as dimly-lit) and the color temperature seems to work well for me, I still get tired and sleepy. I can even control the light using the Hue bridge's REST API, so it's easy to automate as well.
That just leads to decision exhausted users saying yes by accident. Traditional browser policy errs more on the side of not making things that are too often dangerous especially if they are rarely beneficial over safer flows. Trying to make progressive web apps do whatever an app can do is basically being bug for bug compatible with bad ideas that sound "convenient".
Nobody was able to rule out conciousness as purely emergent from plain observable behavior of neurons without any need for quantum or pixie dust or the essence of life.
Or perhaps it is simpler: DC is overwhelmingly Democratic, Trump did not like the "deep state", so it must be embraced with enthusiasm, of course.

Polarized two-party politics makes some strange bedfellows.
only in theory. in practice unions become just like other orgs where leaders concentrate power for themselves and fail to represent anyone at all. making the situation worse for the employee and the employees.