skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's the same for most content, I read a huge amount. I do read some intellectual books, but only occasionally. The rest of the time I read utter, thoroughly entertaining, trash.

I feel the same way. However I force myself to read things that will better me once in a while anyway. I too want to hit things with a big sword (without the pain of getting hit), and get the girl (without cheating on my wife), but the world including me is better if I do something else anyway. Which is why I do sometimes read a complex math book.
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ contaminate indoor air at worrying levels
I'm struggling to see why you think landlords would be able to charge above market rate once rent control ends.

(or alternatively, why they would choose to leave money on the table and rent below market rent if they weren't subjected to rent control)

It doesn't make a lot of sense to me that they would (minor exceptions excluded) charge anything other than market rent.
As long as the real rate of return is positive and wealthy people have a higher income or save a higher percentage of their income, inequality will increase. Hence inequality almost(?) always increases in times of stability. You don't need low interest rates to tell that story.
The reason Firefox is higher is probably because it's the easiest one to block ads on mobile. Most people I know who use Firefox on mobile do so specifically to have ublock origin. I personally use chrome on desktop but Firefox on mobile.
Why Half-Assed Modern Art Is All about the Memes
No need for such an element. It's such a private use case to display 3D models that it's better suited as a web component than an element in the standard. See for example <model-viewer> https://modelviewer.dev/
I wonder how strictly they check up on your mass attendance. I'm not sure the ethics of lying to pass an unethical religious-based test for housing, but it strikes me that there must be at least one resident that is not as dedicated to the church as most.
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I suspect this will be fulfilled by improved transportation.
Notice I wrote ONLY. Of course it's a huge motivation, but would I move to a country or city I hate for x dollars? Would I work in a company that's making chemical weapons that work only on kids? Would I work for Facebook?

No I wouldn't and there are dozens of (less comical) examples where I draw the line.
Great job with this. What's your roadmap for releasing some of the tooling for editor integration? Really, the question is should I build something or wait a few weeks?
doesn't ublock black GA by default? That might help explain it
A free Notion Template that lets you validate your MVP Idea
My apologies, when I said "whatever terms they want" I was being somewhat hyperbolic, even if I do think the spirit of the sentence is clear when read in context. Obviously terms of any such license cannot violate law.

Are you suggesting that Apple charging developers a percentage-based license fee for use of their work is unlawful anywhere, under any law current or proposed?
That's not a sport - it's called programming
Such as? You clearly have something in mind.

The only way I can see justifying the "narc first, negotiate later" approach is if I don't expect the "negotiate later" part to ever happen and am simply seeking to be a vindictive jerk and want to cause problems for them.
For some reason people want more wealth than anyone could possinly hope to enjoy or need. Talking about multi billionaires.
Awesome news, but let's wait and see how this will turn out.
> The commission fee that Apple charges, 30% is partially to cover operating/marketing etc.

Then by all means, please charge me separately for these things. Because I don’t need them. Apple doesn’t do marketing for me, never promoted my app. People find my app through my own marketing channels.

Charge me roughly 2 % for In App Purchases just like Stripe and PayPal.

Charge me a traffic fee for whatever download traffic I cause. This way, I at least benefit from my app being only like 5 MB in size.

If I want to be featured on the App Store, charge me.

The rest like App Store listing? Covered by my $100 developer fee.
Thank you. I'll check it.
That's quite an odd humblebrag, I must say. You feel good for the simpletons for whom Go's expressiveness is adequate, but it's just not up to your own lofty ideas.

Perhaps the language isn't a fit for your skills or preferences, which is fine. You want something that scales with your abilities, but then say that you're not a strong programmer. A bit confusing.
The EPYC journey continues to Rome in Cloudflare’s 11th generation Edge Server
I would love to see that apple negotiates their wishes but have in turn to implement web APIs they currently keep back by choice.
And let users use a real different browser on their device.
Smaller developers now have more payment processing options in South Korea. In addition to Apple's and Google's own systems, they can also choose from a wide variety of third-party systems that charge ~3% instead of 15%/30%. I don't see how this would be anything but a benefit for smaller developers.
Tunnels to the Isles (Faroe Islands)
I used Ruby for years without apparent decline
It seems to be unavailable (in India)
Windows 11 available on October 5
I haven't tried to build partnerships like you mentioned. But it's something worth trying.
We want to open-source the C++ and Python indexers but they're not ready yet - we have to separate them from internal build-system-specific bits.
Same way html canvas + javascript is different from the img tag, I suppose
Thanks dropnerd. I am working on a machine learning feature to filter out false positives internally . Any other suggestions ?
Economic growth can be equitably distributed, as it was in the western world up.to the 70's, and has been in China. Of course GDP says nothing about the way wealth is distributed that's why you have to look at where the growth goes.

There's no iron law which says that growth 'has' to go to the top 10%
How do I properly open-source a mechanical invention of great importance?
I want to open-source a mechanical invention of great importance to humanity - for 2 reasons:

1. Once the information is in the public domain, nobody can claim a patent anymore (and thus not block the wide/fast spread of the invention). Note: A Chinese judge may for example not strike down a patent if the invention was published in an obscure paper journal that only exists offline and in the US; the chosen medium must ideally have a certain visibility to ensure this "prior art" status and there must be a credible/verifiable date of publication.

2. Everybody should be able to use and build the invention (and ideally contribute to its wide/fast spread and improvement/optimization)

Open-sourcing maximizes the collective benefit for humanity - that is my goal.

What are the best platforms/tools/approaches you know of that allow this? (There is the _proprietary_ "Defensive Publishing/Prior Art Database" by IP.com, but it's hugely expensive to upload a bit of text and a few images, which turns me definitely off. Ideally somebody would build a blockchain-based service for this.)
We already have that for ages now with canvas and webgl.
> If it's opaque to visible light how does the camera produce an image?

It isn't opaque to infrared light though. The image is still high enough quality to make out people, it looks funny but it is good enough for their purposes.
I was diagnosed with cancer recently while looking for software work in a new field and studying obsessively. I'll probably live, but the prospect that my life could be snuffed out without warning at any time made me ask myself whether I really want to spend my last days writing code at all. Now I'm now spending loads of time outdoors and fantasizing about cabins in the woods and changing careers.
I’m always a bit entertained by people who claim they want to express a non-biased view of partisan dynamics, and then proceed to express something that is a perfect representation of the fundamental attribution error.

Personally I think the primary contention that exists between the dogma of the left and the right is just the contention between collectivism and individualism. But outliers aside, I don’t think you end up with substantially different policies from one side or the other, regardless of the contrast in the dogma. I don’t think members of either tribe are substantially different in their dogmatism, reactionism… or in their proclivity to deeply reflect on the views they hold. For any person who finds themselves substantially aligned with a mainstream political ideology, I think the chance that they’ve put a substantial amount of critical thought into their world view is very close to 0.
VRML is not so much dead as subsumed by X3D, and any newly-proposed standard for 3D models on the Web should at least have feature parity with that.
Maybe, or perhaps the government was "persuaded" by Korean payment companies? Still, sounds like a net win.
Traction brings improvement over time. SV companies enjoy enormous first mover advantage and megaphone that pushes their products to the masses early to capture them, and then iterate on UX.
A law license isn't required to be a federal judge.
It is, for the purposes of seeing Web pages, not for wrapping a Website into a custom build of it.
Is finding a good recruiter easier than finding a good position?
I hope India too follows suit.

Our government is notorious for it's heavy handed laws on tech startups (read twitter, paypal, chinese apps, etc) maybe this time it could be actually be for some good.
So many of the problems in the USA and the world stem from that godawful administration
It means that if those payment processors gain market share from Apple I will need to support them to reach the exact same userbase because if the users adopt using the alternatives it is very likely that they will stop bothering to upkeep their Apple payment methods. It happens all the time and there's even API for it to offer the users a grace period until they fix their payment.
So I found out my neighbors were proud to be participating in some new Neilson study. Apparently they pay you to wear these boxes in your pocket that pick up sound. At the end of the day it syncs what it heard to their servers and you get points, which eventually translates to money.

Essentially the stated purpose is so that it can pick up what music you listen to throughout the day, but in reality it's picking up everything.
People will also do all sorts of things for fun.
The Samsung browser isn't actually that bad at all. Has some neat features that can't be found in Firefox or even Chrome, like the enhanced video playback tools. Plus it supports adblocking plug ins (though only FF has the much better ublock origin). Keep in mind that tons of website just outright won't work with Firefox mobile too, and it has a very annoying bug that has been known for years where all your tabs will very oftem reload whenever you switch to another app and come back. And that's regardless of how much free ram you have. Samsung browser just... Works.
This. Google has amazingly helpful peering bilats with most major ISP's globally, they don't have to pay for transit nearly as much as the rest of us. they were a staunch defender of net neutrality because it let them avoid millions of $$ in transit.
I don't think you would be permitted to have a faith-based test for entry into a homeless shelter in the US, though, even if the shelter were faith based. I'm not a lawyer but I've seen enough fair housing act noticed when buying, selling, and renting housing.
No, not linux itself though, rather it is the phone manufacturer who do not want open their kernel source code so that random developer can reuse their phone even when outside support terms.
> Some sort of localised motion sensor would probably be sufficient to tell you how many people are watching

You'd also have pets captured, curtains flapping by an open window captured, and any toys kids are playing with (like balls) potentially captured as another viewer too.

Meanwhile pap who likes to sit motionlessly while the kids round around him, isn't detected.

> without invading too much on people's privacy

Motion detection feels like a pretty major privacy violation to me.

> You wouldn't know the age, but you already have ton of information by knowing the address and the subscriber already.

Except when you have friends or family over.
Uh, do you think the point of the sport is to de wrinkle clothes?
> If this gets accepted into webkit, which is now nearly synonymous with "HTML"

It's not synonymous with HTML. Chrome's browser engine is now unfortunately synonymous with "the web" in general. And, while it's derived from WebKit, it's diverged from it too far, and bears a different name, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine)
Capitalism can be controlled. Eg in China they permit capitalistic enterprises if it is deemed to "benefit the state or people". They also don't permit private enterprise to run the banking system.
I think the only way counter the new Puritanism is to meet every accusation of impropriety with unyielding defiance. Never explain yourself. Never apologize. Never allow your equals to hold you "accountable", let alone your inferiors.

"My life matters. Your feelings do not."
CDC researchers have found that obesity triples the risk of hospitalization for children with COVID-19. The absolute risk is still low but still it needs to be taken seriously.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
IIRC there are results around brain damage in association football as well, mostly due to players heading the ball.

Guess nobody has dared suggest prohibiting head playing in association football. Would be interesting to see how the game would change if such a rule would be enacted.
> For example in Rust you can write a function that might mistakenly overflow a 32-bit integer and, in production it will just silently wrap. In WUFFS that function won't compile until you either decide explicitly what should happen (e.g. wrapping, saturation) for each overflow, or you trap all the cases where it could overflow as an error.

You can do this in Rust, up to a point. There's a lint to ban dangerous arithmetic: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#in... . You can then use the {saturating,wrapping,checked,overflowing}_{add,div,mul,abs,...}() methods to decide exactly what should happen on overflow.

But WUFFS seems a lot nicer. Judging by the README it first tries to determine whether overflow is actually possible, while Clippy will happily forbid you from running "1 + 1".
Yikes....

Hard to have a response to something so far removed from what I'm seeing. Not really any reconciliation possible here I think. Have a good day/evening!
PC: SimpleWall, uBlock, Decentraleyes, Privacy Badger
Android: AdAway, uBlock, Decentraleyes, Privacy Badger
Home network: Pi-hole

I never asked for ads and telemetry, so there is no other option for me.
That argument does not work when there are only two service providers in town, Apple and Google.
Peloton
>only Qt programs work reasonably well, other programs "work", but you can tell they only work through a hack

How is that different from Windows? Native toolkits get scaled natively, non-native toolkits get image-based scaling.

>you have to use [nvidia] if you want to use external displays.

You are simply mistaken. I have a T480 with an nvidia GPU, which I never even load the kernel module for, and the HDMI works just fine. Photo proof: https://imgur.com/a/LgRpFMi

>you don't understand the problem with this "solution"

Yeah, I really don't. You're complaining about how two specific distros picked more or less at random don't suit your use case. What else am I supposed to say than "well use a different distro then"?
1€ to live there for a year.
6.5€ to visit once.

What is going on there?
The GAFAM poster campaign toolkit
> You can always just static link all binaries.

Not always you can't. There are many reasons to use dynamically linked libraries all of which are applicable whether you're using PIMPL or not.
First off I absolutely love Ubiquiti and UniFi gear. I would like to warn HN readers that the UDM Pro is a always on cloud connected device. You have no other option but to use Ubiquiti’s cloud based auth with the Dream Machine and UDM Pro. You can create local accounts but you must have a UI.com account to set them up. Breach info here[1]. If the service is down you can’t login[2].

Not to mention UniFi has been quite buggy in the past year. It’s almost to the point where I’d stop recommending their gear. I’ve had multiple failures on the Cloud Key Gen 2+ where a power outage or restart messed up the controller or UniFi Protect. Recently a single nanoHD ap was giving me terrible speeds and it took 5 factory resets and forgetting it from the controller like 20 times before I could re-adopt it, SSH-ing into the device and sending it commands didn’t work even after the factory resets. I’m not the only one with reliability concerns[3].

Buy directly from Ubiquiti so you get their full warranty. I believe Amazon and Microcenter are not authorized retailers.

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/whistleblower-ubiquiti-b...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/UNIFI/comments/ku09ii/unifi_cloud_s...

[3] https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2271193-ubiquiti-unif...
The study covered one season and did not cover long term impacts. It's entirely possible that, like the parent comment, the whole team finished the season, tested poorly on cognitive performance, took a few months break and were then back close to baseline. The comments about long-term impact are generally not about one season of ordinary contact in any sport.
> Java, C# and Javascript are obsessive about backwards compatibility

This might be true for Java, but this has not been my experience for the other two. NET especially. Incrementally migrating from 4.6.* to CORE3 has been challenging, even when we've had external (expert) .NET consultants to help us.

> There's nothing magical about Wirth's languages or Go.

I don't think so either! On the contrary, they're everything but magical.

> What worked two years ago will be broken today, and the language has very little to do with it.

Almost on the dot two years since those rewrites happened and nothing (to my knowledge) has broken. On the contrary, looking at code examples and best practices from 2011 look exactly the same. Writing Swift, anything older than 2019 made me sweat.

> As in: you haven't run into things that are broken yet.

Longest record so far! :)
You’re talking to us though, right?
Only minor changes are needed to make weight gain. Consider one extra soda per day (150 Calories per day) and a bit less walking around (walking a mile for an adult is about 100 Calories, those kids are smaller but probably used to walk more going from class to class at school, so let's put it at 100 Calories).

250 Calories x 30 days in a month = 7500 extra Calories a month. 3500 Calories is about a pound of fat, so that's roughly an extra 2 pounds a month, or 24 lbs per year, assuming their exercise and food consumption otherwise stays the same as it would have. Throw in another extra snack or something, they could reach an extra 36 lbs in a year.

Easy to see how it adds up. Also adds up for adults.
Psychophysical interactions with entangled photons: Five exploratory experiments
At least they could use a proper name instead of the generic "model", something like "object3d".
Very cool! How does this differ algorithmically from the trigram based search that everything uses from google code search from like 20 years ago?

And continuing off of that theme in practical terms how does it stand up against zoekt?

I’m curious because zoekt is kind of slow when it comes to ingesting large amounts of code like all of the publicly available code on GitHub

The few people using that commercially have basically had to spend a lot of time rewriting parts of it to make their goal of public codesearch for all attainable.

I and a few people I know are pretty convinced that there are better and easier ways / technologies to make that happen.
Marketing Automation for Graphic Designers
> Good software has good "bones". The right decisions were made early on to support building more stuff over it.

I like how you expressed this. It puts into words what I've experienced with various codebases, both my own and others'.

This kind of understanding is difficult to teach and learn, what it means for software to have good bones. It also brings up the thought that it's not just about under- and over-engineered, but the qualitative differences between well- and (for lack of a better word) badly engineered software.

Fortunately there are various concepts that people have developed which help in talking about things like "good bones", such as modularity, encapsulation, functional purity, idempotence..

I suppose over-engineered software goes too far in applying these concepts (especially OOP?) where it starts to go against it being "well-engineered". But in general I'd personally prefer working with such a codebase, in comparison to under-engineered software where things are disorganized, too interdependent, rampant use of globals, etc. It follows your analogy of an "over-engineered bridge".

On the other hand, there is something to be said for software architecture that is tastefully and minimally engineered, with just enough strong bones as the basis - but no more! - to achieve its purpose. It's a quality that is somewhat rare to see, where the code is almost deceptively simple to understand, such as small functions with clear singular purposes, and not being too clever. It takes many years of experience (and perhaps certain kinds of personality) to reach that level of simplicity.

I believe such simplicity cannot be taught, but perhaps can be "absorbed" via osmosis, haha..