skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some context, specifically, rustc has a "no compiler flags that alter language semantics" rule (editions are sorta this but also sorta not, it's too in the weeds for the purposes of this post, this would make a change an edition cannot make). What this person (I believe, I'm not gonna dig up the forum post to cross-check usernames) wants is something that they would describe as an optimization flag, but the rust/rustc devs would describe as a language dialect. This was therefore not accepted. (C and C++ compilers do have these sorts of flags.)

If alternative compilers had such a flag, you'd end up with code that was incompatible with rustc, leading to an ecosystem split. This is one of the major fears within the community about alternative implementations.

IIRC the GCC Rust developers have stated a desire for compatibility, and therefore I'm not sure that they would accept this flag either, but we'll just have to see I guess.
Because I’m not a masochist. I use ubuntu for work, some issues I’ve encountered:

* No sleep mode by default

* Snap is cancer. When I’m sent a pdf, I cant open it directly because the current app is isolated and cant see that a pdf reader is installed. Same with all other app specific extensions.

* Snap, again. Whenever I’m sent a file on Skype, I have to reboot; It overrides my $home directory and I cant open or access anything elsewhere.

* Why do links sometimes keep opening in firefox? I dont have it installed, did a full scan and cant find where it comes from. Yeah Microsoft is pushy about Edge, but at least it respects your settings when you do change them.

* There’s a memory leak somewhere, I have to reboot every week. Probably that’s why sleep is disabled…

* spotify sometimes can no longer find an output device and everything gets muted (might be an app issue, but I haven’t encountered it on other platforms so ubuntu gets the blame)

* When disconnecting external displays, the pointer still “sees” them and disappears into oblivion. Also it doesn’t work for half the screen.

* With external displays, I sometimes have to log in twice

For personal devices, I just want reasonable defaults so I dont have to tinker with them
I see you support Thrift and Buck. Would you also be interested in adding Proto and Bazel support? Being able to query the code based on the build graph (sort of) would be very cool.
What is stopping the governments from changing the laws to make it illegal?

I do not understand the concept of expecting an entity to pay taxes they are not liable for paying.
Sure, everyone wants to be old on the Internet. I hear these twenty somethings constantly claiming that they’re in their sixties cuz it’s cool. /s

No, to tolerate something you need to have some measure of control over it in the first place. Given that you don’t have any control over Electron or other developers using it, you’re not actually tolerating anything. You have no choice in the matter. The only thing you could possibly do resembling tolerance would be to not comment on it... but you’re doing the opposite, even when nobody asked and in places you shouldn’t be.

You’re essentially just sitting here sneering at the community based on your ideology and your comments are not interesting or even practical.

Standard web applications that run in a browser are not an alternative and given that completely unreasonable suggestion I’ll just assume that this is satire.

Good luck stemming the tide!
You had me at "Deploy by running a single executable"
Browsers do integrate with VR headsets.

And it is awesome.
existing thread : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28356141
This is not true. Ivermectin has over 8 studies and they all came back positive. They want us injected so badly that no lie is off the table. Why are you all starting a civil war with them?
Would also be interested in some more info! @toomuchtodo I'm just breaking into the fleet data collection space - any tips on where to go to learn more?
Hulu, in my country at least, is ad-free on premium. It's not a hard thing to investigate rather than speculate[1]

[1]https://help.hulu.com/s/article/how-much-does-hulu-cost
A portable power station (eg [1]) should be an expected part of a working ironing setup..

[1] https://www.bluetti.com/products/bluetti-ac50s-500wh-300w-po...
I have retired several times. It is great to have lots of time for reading and exercise. That said, I have repeatedly gone back to work for several year sprints because I wanted to work on a team and do useful work.

The larger issue is workers accepting Covid-19 payouts and losing interest in work or at least in their current career.

Several things have to come together here, and I optimistically hope for: more automation and AI removing drudgery work, people are encouraged to do more meaningful (to them) work that is good for themselves/community, and we reach a compromise that rewards super performers like Elon Musk while at the same time provides adequate food banks, free training, and inexpensive communal housing for the people at the very bottom.

Most of my friends think I am a little nuts with my high degree of optimism but I think things will work out OK.
The Winners of Remote Work
These poor, poor ad companies are being taken advantage of by me. I have no shame. I even immorally block ads on thousands of endpoints used by other people! Quite the tragedy!
Apologies if I wasn't clear. I'm talking about the relationship between Apple and developers who are building applications using Apple's proprietary software libraries.

I completely agree that consumers should have very wide rights to the device they purchased.
Please make other people stop cooking and selling food without meat?
I am not talking about sensational or misleading like in FoxNews or CNN :-) I am talking about boring as in....very serious persons, on a serious background, reading very serious the Reuters or Ap news of the day. As the service was paid and it has to provided ;-) A better model would be instead having to provide good analysis or quality content otherwise your audience will go somewhere. As in for example, the FT or the Economist.

Actually thinking about it, the issue is wider than just the news and I think the financing mode of the mandatory tax is a big part of it. What is really a shame, as Germany has a rich culture of hundreds of years so great content in all forms should not be a problem.

"Why is TV in Germany so bad?"
https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/3d4vxz/why_is_tv_i...

"Why is German TV so crap?"
https://www.exberliner.com/blogs/the-berlinale-blog/berlinal...

You might comment the BBC financing model is similar and I would agree. I think the difference is that the BBC also embraced a highly commercial model of selling content like Top Gear and other stuff worldwide. In this case the English language content with its planetary audience, pushed for a more competitive/commercial model and the German TV stayed too insular in my view.
> Plausible proxy runs as a first-party connection and is only blocked by those visitors who block JavaScript entirely.

Which means it still underestimates; those who selectively disable Javascript, through things like uBlock Origin's advanced mode or uMatrix, will not be counted. So the real percentage is probably higher than that 58%, and we don't know how much higher.
In medicine, you'd call unbounded growth a tumor. I'd say our desire for ever growing economies acts as a tumors towards the environment...
Too confusing for me. Too many different distros. Too many different DEs. Too many different package systems.

Just look at this https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Comparison_of_desktop_envir... And this one distro doesn't even cover the package systems that differs between distros and other distros based on those (see how Ubuntu is based on Debian but there are distros based on Ubuntu, it's like the Inception). Of course some of these doesn't matter on a huge scale but analysis paralysis is real. And stone me for that but I really don't believe the more choice is better. Or leads to better things in this case. Like imagine if people would work together to have _one_ better distro instead of having... hundreds or thousands of different one.

I have to use Linux for some projects in VM but that's more than enough for me.
I dunno about that, the reservations around Tucson have housing with electricity and water. They’re not mansions, but pretty close to what other poor people lived in nearby. What he’s describing sounds exceptional from my POV.
Corollary to my comment in relation with the swiss banks example in another thread: when all actors face the same problem, it's not a problem.
I vehemently refuse to read your comment!
Getting the maximum of your C compiler, for security
Apple has no right to restrict any API usage in the iOS that is running on MY hardware that I fully paid them for.
Leaded petrol wasn't available at my place since the late 1980s. It's a weird to now realize, 30 years later, that the practice didn't stop everywhere ages ago.
Unless I misread the article, it doesn't seem to break the monopoly on app stores, just on payments. I actually asked the question on another thread if anyone knows.
The study that originally was widely and loudly used to turn the public opinion against HCQ had actually been retracted just 2 weeks after being published and without much fanfare.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Since then there have been studies that show HCQ can be effective in early treatment.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33042552/

However, the damage seems to have already been done.
>I looked at analytics of a site that had a post trending on Hacker News and Reddit with more than a thousand upvotes and more than a thousand comments.

Reddit is a very diverse site and not a tech savvy site overall. This just means the subset of users who liked this, likely very technical link, blocked GA. To use that to claim 58% of all reddit users block GA is very disingenuous imho.
Growth can manifest itself as a rising standard of living for everyone (albeit unequal). I’m pro-growth, but I do agree with the notion that if we want humans to survive for multiple millennia, we need to foster a much more holistic idea of growth (which includes waste, resource consumption, environmental damage, human well-being, etc).
Hello HN,

3 years ago, I shared the iOS client for my Hacker News app HACK:

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/hack-for-hacker-news-developer...

Since then I have made it MacOS compatible too.

Last few months, I worked on building my first Kotlin app and built the Android version of HACK.

It has all the awesome features - login with your HN account and swipe to vote, favourite, reply. You can submit new posts too.

I believe my app is the only HN client to have:

1. The app also had a built in reader mode as well as text to speech for an article or comment.

2. Push Notifications for replies to your post or comment.

3. Easily access an article via archive.is or archive.org or google cache

4. Built in browser has an ad blocker.

5. All the endpoints of HN.

6. Updated often. I have been updated the iOS version as often as needed to implement customer requests. Same will apply for Android.

There's tons of customizations settings and colours, fonts, font size change etc available in the app.

The Android version is brand new, so any feedback is appreciated.
Pretty similar youth for me. But one question I ask is whether my adulthood is easier because of the pain I experienced as a youth. Whether I can handle harder emotional situations now as a result. Not a reason to allow bullying, just that I feel fortunate to have been able to learn a lot of tough lessons as a child instead of as an adult.
> MS is a US company could be enough for US courts to force them to exfiltrate data.

The CLOUD Act of 2018 was written and passed with the purpose of forcing US companies to hand over data to the US government - regardless of where the data is stored.
That makes more sense, although I can’t say that "many booleans are guards for the presence (or validity) of a value" matches my experience.
You don’t think logistics is a massive part of those organizations? From fund raising, purchasing, transport, etc? I have no doubt the numbers involved dwarf the number doing the actual fighting.
Michael Herrmann. Thank you for the mention ;-)

The post you mentioned about being criticized for not being open source: https://fman.io/blog/dear-comrade/
It is true that on a six-week basis we add new things. I should have been more specific, haha. The point is that the language does not make daily breaking changes, which is a reputation that we still sometimes have even after all of these years of no longer doing so.

That said, you are still right that it is a thing that the gcc-rust developers will need to keep up with.
But bügeln is less ironic which kind of ruins much of the appeal.
I'm not sure you understand the scale at which Facebook operates. They don't have to do anything.

As long as billions of people keep using Facebook they can maintain their own static analysis tooling for Javascript for as long as they want.
But the point is that increasing it does not improve life for everyone, only those at the top. The idea of "trickle down" economics is a (frankly laughable) fallacy.
> For all the hacker new commenters, who have been commenting on this topic, for the year that the drama has been going on, and were convinced that Apple and Google were going to win this fight.... well you need to re-evaluate what made you think that.

To the extent that I've seen this point on HN, it has always been in the context that there is no law in the US which prohibits what Apple or Google are doing, and hence it would be difficult for regulators to win without new laws or rules in place. I'm not American, so I can't say whether those people were right or not, but I think it would've been pretty ridiculous if anyone said there would never be laws against it.
You think it’s okay for ISPs to double dip on charging their customers for access and then charging their customers’ most popular services (who are frequently competitors of the ISPs) for the privilege of accessing their customers? Why should any ISP think they can charge the source of my bits when I am already paying them for the bandwidth?

https://www.theversed.com/2754/riot-games-seek-court-justice...

Net Neutrality is not just about “shoveling YouTube streams without having to pay.” In one case, an ISP was deliberately dropping packets for a popular online game (which, if you didn’t know, online games are known for requiring very little bandwidth), and extorting the game developer with the loss of ISP’s customers if they did not pay up.

ISPs are monopoly-abusing extortionists. They deserve every bit of ire they receive.
Why would you want to do this? Isn't there enough spying by government and private for profit companies? Now we want individuals spying on each other?

What motive could you possibly have for making a list of people who go for walks?
No, Apple is free to stop operating in countries with such regulators. No business activity => No violation of competition-related regulations.
Disable JavaScript by default (try uBlock's advanced mode).
I just switched from macOS to PureOS running on a purism Librem 14 about a month ago. Overall, it's pretty good and I'm happy with it. It really is the kind of computer I've dreamt of since the early 2000's. All black, no logos, aluminum case. The ports I need and nothing more. The right size and weight. And privacy first.

As other have mentioned here, the trackpad experience on macOS is literally an extension of your body it's that good, so it's hard to compete. It really is pretty incredible that my 10 year old macbook air trackpad is still technologically superior to literally every trackpad in existence that isn't from apple. From the glass surface, to non-linear scrolling of screen lines per trackpad distance traveled, to inertial scrolling, to two finger swipe for back and forward, to pinch and twist to adjust Preview'ed files. It goes on...

Beyond the trackpad, the battery life is iffy and wake from suspend still somehow doesn't work perfectly every time are my only complaints. Of course it took a few weeks of getting things configured to how I like it, but I feel set now. I also only really browse the internet and watch movies. I don't code or do strenuous video, image, or audio editing. Oh, and the audio is terrible compared to apple laptops, which again Apple somehow is incredible at.

The big issue for me is privacy and ownership of my hardware. I will put up with all these small issues to truly own my computer. Most don't care, which is sad, but it's a common discussion point here which I won't get into.
I agree, religion offers simple ways to classify actions as good or bad. Following the church teachings or priest's guidance was enough to make an individual confident they are a good person, doing good things.

Meanwhile, in real life, everything is complex, few things are clearly good or bad, everything has advantages and disadvantages. People need a simple compass to distinguish good and bad. It seems the "political beliefs" are taking up that space in a secular society.
You are correct that there are also cases where use is clearly commercial. Simply selling the licensed work is one although I expect the sort of person who does that doesn't really care much about the license.

Another is probably things like advertising but if the organization has any sort of legal department, they're probably going to want to confirm that you have rights to the work in question.

And then, as I say, there's a vast middle ground about which different people have differing strong opinions.
I don't understand why a 3D geometry model would best be called simply "model" in the context of HTML.

The term "model" is a pretty generic term that's very relevant to HTML, already used heavily in Web frameworks, etc.
Could it be that the restrictions made regular exercise more difficult for children?

I remember reading a lot about parents struggling without parks, schools or kindergartens.

Even as an adult, I didn't get to move much until it got warm enough to cycle. Passive exercise like walking to places was completely gone for a few months. Even when I could cycle, I had nowhere to go.
I don't have to go into a Walmart if I want to shop.
I wonder if Samsung (HQ in Korea) had influence on this requirement.

EDIT: why the downvotes? If you don’t think Samsung had influence, wouldn’t it be more productive to reply and say so - that way there can be a healthy dialogue on the topic.
> That’s why the hostility to ads feels misplaced

I have no hostility to ads themselves. I have a huge amount of hostility to the spying that comes with them.
I played rugby and actively follow it and football but it's harder and harder to grapple with the long term consequences of these sports as more information about damage especially from sub-concussion level impacts comes out. It's hard to imagine but I think the NFL will have a serious reckoning over the next 10-20 years unless they can fix this somehow
That's not true. The average salary for a Software Engineer is $101227 per year in United States. Data > personal anecdotes. Many SWEs earn less than that.
How much mountain top removal and mining will we need to do in order to build out all of this green energy? Steel, copper, concrete, rare earths, etc. all require fossil fuels. The green energy systems all require those components. Just take copper for example. How many tonnes of copper are going to be required to outfit all of the wind turbines? Copper isn't renewable. It will require endless mining and extraction to get anything close to the amount of copper we need. I feel like people are ignoring the elephant in the room.
It's a lot harder to reverse obesity than prevent it. Most of these kids will grow up to be obese and deal with the health issues that come with it for the rest of their lives.
Google allegedly forced Android OEMs to not ship devices with a pre-installed Fortnite / Epic Games Store launcher.

Also forcing users through multiple warning screens and settings until you have finally installed an app might look trivial if you know what you are doing but for everyone else might not be as easy. There are many, many articles about how you should simplify your websites onboarding process to increase the amount of customers so the Android flow is pretty much the anti-thesis to that.
I'd like to take a moment to mention "Increment" which is one of Stripe's publications. It's really good, and each issue is a work of art, in the literal sense. It takes care to consider viewpoints from more parts of the org than just engineering, which is something we can all appreciate.
Thanks for sharing, I don't mean that they have, more from burocratic point of view, like checklists in RFPs, given conformance with stuff like these

https://www.highintegritysystems.com

> Supports IEC 61508, IEC 62304, FDA 510K

Hence why imagine Rust might need some kind of good for high integrity computing stamp, be it ISO, ECMA, or something else.
>Second, the benefits of rent-control take away various healthy market-based incentives. My dad for example lives on welfare in an apartment with 3 bedrooms, by himself in the capital city, and pays 1/3rd of the market rate. He has no incentive to seek out smaller housing which suits his needs just fine.

Whereas if you allow market rate on all apartments you've given landlords collecting rent an incentive to impede all kinds of property development which might bring rents down with NIMBYism.

If they are leveraged landlords who risk going underwater on their mortgage if too much supply comes on the market you've created a veritable NIMBY zealot who will show up to every town planning meeting and throw sand in the gears of new development and vote down every social housing program that might impede supply.

Will your dad? Doubtful.

Rent control wasnt ever a clean, ideal fix (land value taxes are) but they're a band aid solution to rent seeking driven evictions - especially of the frail and elderly.
But at least for apple you already pay a 100$/year fee for them to distribute your apps.
Assuming I'm reading your snark correctly, is this really such a bad thing? People here seem to have a rose-tinted view of the internet's past, before Google, Apple et al. "abused" their browsers' position to push changes into the spec.

I can certainly see that apparently there are a lot of HN commenters who would like to go back to the days of IE and no real web technologies or much progress, but I think practically everyone outside this bubble prefers their browser experience to be at least somewhat feature-rich, and while the proposal under question may be strictly unnecessary, it should be weighed against alternatives: bundling a model viewer with every page view.

Maybe this proposal is bad and a waste of resources, but I don't like the knee-jerk response of digging one's heels in and decrying any and all browser APIs as bloat.

Not entirely directed at you, but your response just seems to echo something I see very often.
> Duplicacy by Raymond Chen

Gilbert Chen is a different person to Raymond Chen, unless I'm missing something?
Apple doesn't do that. The restrictions Apple impose are on distribution(i.e. you can't use Apple's distribution services to distribute your app to the users of that service if Apple don't let you), you can do whatever you like to your own device and Apple can't do anything about it. That's why it's perfectly legal to jailbreak your phone.
> in ten years of using Linux at work I've never experienced tear-free browser scrolling

Sounds like a hardware/driver problem. How is this a fault of Linux? I guess your hardware came with Windows and the vendor never cared about Linux support.