skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would recommend running a lightweight X11 WM

I'm not used to the notion that X11 even supports touch events. I wonder what the experience is like. Will I need mobile versions of Linux software or can I expect existing desktop software to work?

Honestly I'd be satisfied if I could have a fully featured terminal and browser. Looks like the pinephone even supports physical keyboards!
True but will your choice change the course of society? Probably not.
Coping strategies
Thanks! This is good news!

It seems it just started at the end of last year, and my local watery authority is already publishing results on it: https://mcwa-wordpress-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/upl...
In your analogy of smoking, the returns of smoking companies like Philip Morris have been astronomical.
Agree that Facebook Marketplace is good at the moment. I think this is because of the small number of people using it.

If it becomes mainstream then it will have the same problems as all other marketplace websites.
Most bosses are aware of the issues, so an engineer playing a rebel and bringing them up wins nothing. The only way to attract attention is to leave.
The solution is to fix public transit to handle those problems (more capacity, better buses/trains), not give the already-wealthy-that-can-afford-private-transportation even more ways of doing private transportation.

Hint: while you can stay at home and work from your PC, there are still thousands of people still using those very same cramped unventilated spaces, still catching COVID in there. But I guess it's only a problem when it affects you.
Pretty rich, coming out of an organization that assaulted and chased Vincent Canfield out of CCC for . . . . owning trollish domain names.

I'm sure the presenter doesn't necessarily share the Congress's values, but it's funny nonetheless.
This is hardly a significant issue. Many projects that have -Werror on by default support a --disable-werror configure flag. Your project can do the same.

As for compiler upgrades breaking things, everyone should be on the same compiler version to begin with. When a new Visual Studio version comes out you don't just let everyone upgrade right away, right? Someone installs it first and fixes up whatever issues arise with the new build tools. Then, at an appropriate point in the release cycle, they give the OK for everyone else to upgrade. Everyone upgrades at once including the CI nodes.

Why would GCC and Clang be any different? A serious project should have developers using a fixed version of GCC and other tools. Of course this doesn't help the random open source contributors who just use their system GCC but that's what --disable-werror is for.
I use https://www.raindrop.io
Why do you think that people who are so undisciplined that they disabled warnings, are so disciplined that they will fix warnings? Not disabling a warning is far easier than fixing it.

A warning is only useful if it's someone else's place to fix and it's warning you that you might suffer or you they might suffer from misusing you code. Warnings are most useful at runtime where it's impossible to stop and fix.
Facebook and Instagram.

Duff Beer and Duff Lite.
The biggest insult seems to be just how inefficient they are to do... anything. Being in a nice park/wherever, greeted by someone revving away intermittently trying to push around a couple of leaves.

Can someone tell me what I'm missing when I think this tool is utterly inappropriate for the job? At very least it could suck; but really what's wrong with a rake? Genuinely asking here.
My vote won't change the result of an election but I still vote.
I've never paid any attention to the UX of the score box until I read this. I agree with a lot of the sentiment and the tone of the article is hilarious. Most fans watching sports only look at score boxes when they were away from the broadcast for some reason. If you are intensely watching your favorite team, you don't even need a score box.

I've seen corporate re-branding efforts first hand and his introspection to how, potentially, CBS is always about the CBS-way is kinda funny. This is kind of like how I think system integration issues inside a software company almost are a tell of how the org is structured.
Clean energy bill passes, Byron nuclear power plant saved
I mean... You can look at the paper, they actually do use a novel generative AI model, so it's rather strange to criticize this being labeled AI.
And, the paper also shows the new model to outperform existing ones in 84% of cases according to a bunch of human forecasters, so calling this just PR is overly cynical IMO.

As far as "It’s not doing true weather prediction but rather extrapolating the movement of radar images.", both the paper and article say the paper is tackling short term rain prediction ('precipitation nowcasting'), so it's not oversold as far as I can see.
I’m not the OP, but I think we deeply erred by conflating gender and biological sex characteristics into a single word. Unfortunately, the solution to retain men/women for gender and use more specific terminology for sex is problematic.

- There’s a greater argument to be made for binary biological sex, and you can attach obvious descriptions to it to make the two categories distinct.
- Gender on the other hand is more fluid (both historically in its expression, and in between cultures).
- Biological based terminology can be used historically (e.g. Women’s History)

But this is all off topic, so I’ll stop here.
> Every year unchanged is a lucky coin toss.

But every year changed may be as well. For example the November-revolution in Russia. There are numerous examples that change was for the worse, especially for the masses.

And the Chinese or Roman empires outperformed any other quickly changing empire by far.
If we imagine that it becomes possible to ‘record’ full sensory experiences and ‘replay’ them in another person: would a collective pour their meager resources into elevating the life, lifestyle, and success of the single experience donor such that the collective can experience a superior life (as a personal state) that would otherwise be unattainable?

Mary Lou Jepsen at Openwater talked about her team’s efforts to create that tech in a Long Now Foundation talk back in 2018

https://www.openwater.cc/

https://longnow.org/seminars/02018/oct/29/toward-practical-t...
Pinboard is a good one. You can even upload PDFs etc and search the text within the PDF. Paid though. It's cheap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinboard_(website)

Desktop site: https://pinboard.in/

Mobile site: https://m.pinboard.in/

iOS/iPadOS/macOS app: https://get-pins.app/
Branding the Right Flutter Appbar
There's a weird view that once you've told people about bad behavior once (and in the general case) then somehow you no longer need to share further and more specific evidence of bad behavior because it's redundant or something.

However this view is both wrong and counterproductive if the goal is to actually reduce/prevent such behavior. In the real world, a lot of people aren't aware of even the general case -- they have limited attention and so while you may know that Russian oligarchs hide their money in real estate, someone who is less news-savvy may not realize it. Moreover even people who understand the general problem (Oligarchs stashing national wealth into real estate in democratic countries), they may not understand the specifics of how this is done and our laws are bent and abused -- by the oligarchs and moneyed interests in our own countries.

In general I think the news agencies are correct to recognize that there is important news here, and that these specific new details are important and relevant to ongoing attempts to solve these problems. Moreover, I think that even in cases where the news is entirely "redundant" (e.g., "powerful criminals continue to behave in a criminal manner") it's extremely important to put a spotlight on the behavior from time to time just so that politicians and citizens are aware that it's ongoing and are motivated to perhaps actually do something about it (should they be interested in doing so.)

I don't know why I'm writing this absurdly-long comment in response to a random downvoted complaint, but I see this "what's new here?!" response pattern quite frequently on HN and I think that pattern of thinking can be problematic; I wish I would see less of it. If you're not interested in an article, by all means scroll on.
I would suggest something more directly applicable. Textbooks are useful, but if you're looking for something to get the most out of today:

SQL Performance Explained

Art of SQL

Database Design for Mere Mortals
Brafox or Firerave
Stock prices can be right or wrong. Here’s the interesting question - What should Facebook financials look like to justify its stock price now? You can read “Expectations Investing” to find out the approx “correctness” of $FB current market price.
If you're a library author you generally can't dictate what compiler to use (within reason of course). IME a surprisingly high number of people use MingW/GCC or Clang to build Windows projects for instance (and this works surprisingly well too).

Also: new versions of the same compiler add new warnings, so you need to account for that anyway, unless you want to stick forever on an old compiler version (I've worked on projects where upgrading to a new compiler version was often delayed for exactly that reason).
Does that go for the "Nobel" prize in economics as well?
I didn't find his politics, or any politics really, very out of place in the novels, they seemed (to me) a natural part of the story telling.

But, full disclosure, I am a bit libertarian myself, politically so maybe I didn't notice as much or they weren't as grating to me.

On the other hand, I find Terry Goodkind's novels completely unreadable, and the politic-pushing obnoxious, so I don't give libertarian politics a pass when it comes to out-of-place axe-grinding prominence.
Holy shit you sound annoying and wrong about Everything in this thread
2004 or so .... Facebook was limited to updates about what your friend circle did in college.
Python has nice optimised libs for that, so it's not completely a surprise for that kind of application.

If you're doing generic symbol shuffling with a bit of math, Python is fast-ish to code and horribly slow to run. You can easily waste a lot of performance - and possibly cash - trying to use it for production.

Whether or not you'll save budget by writing your own optimised fast libs in some other lang is a different issue, and very application dependent.
I sure hope so. Not holding my breath though. :)
This is horrible advice.
>TikTok

Well they would have bought musical.ly, which is where the non-Chinese TikTok came from.
AI Is No Match for the Quirks of Human Intelligence
By making his choice he is changing society.

Lets say he has no global reach his choice may change opinions of the people around hom. It may even change minds on here.
This is so important. It’s unbelievably criminal how people with ridiculous wealth can continue to get away with this.
And why I canceled prime and don't use Amazon anymore. It's basically become a flea market done up with the fake shine of questionable reviews.

No thanks.
Compiler Explorer Outage Post-Mortem
Katalin Karikó is 66 now and not 99 ;)
Apple finally lets you report App Store scams
Your employer is toxic and causes long term damage, like smoking. As for the TV whataboutism...

TV doesn't track me, doesn't tailor content to influence my behavior, TV doesn't try to build a model of my social network. And the big difference - TV actually creates content themselves.
It's not really what the MS devs said though: "I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation"

This seems to mean, nobody has ever done that, it is a research project (a doctorate thesis must be about something that has never been researched before, at least where I live).

This particular problem cannot be a PhD subject, because it has already been researched, solved and done multiple times, by different persons and on different projects.

Someone can use the knowledge already widely available on the internet to grasp what the issue is, and implement a solution in their own project.

Years of experience aren't a PhD. Years of experience can help you understand a thesis, but only if the research doesn't exist yet, can it be considered a doctoral research project.
Social media has massively amplified the penalty for making a mistake or offhand remark. People used to make tasteless jokes all the time and it was treated as it was, just a joke and life continued. Now anything out of the pale that catches the attention of some sort of influencer spells doom. Anyone caught at a bad moment on camera is pilloried, made out to be the anti christ and have people actively seeking out their employer in an attempt to cost them their job. No one is allowed to have a bad moment anymore where as before we were all acknowledged as flawed beings and that was ok. Publicly espousing an unpopular opinion now can be career suicide even if done outside of the work environment.
Yeah, back in the day I would always be afraid to fry my device when plugging a 3rd party charger, because of the polarity or voltage. Now worst thing that can happen is... nothing. For me that's an improvement.
It's not the flexibility that encourages bad habits. Lisps are incredibly flexible, for instance, but do not generally encourage bad habits. R encourages bad habits because the language itself and its libraries are not very well-designed. The language is powerful and useful, but it's also a mess.

R encourages bad habits for the following reasons:

- R is made "for statisticians, by statisticians" so a lot of the example code out there is very poorly written

- The syntax is very inconsistent across libraries, and even within base R

- There are a lot of syntactical quirks that cause a lot of confusion for anyone who's learned another language, like using dots in function tables, e.g. "read.csv". There's also the 1 indexing.
And to be clear, Microsoft probably has plenty of people capable of writing this kind of code. They just aren’t working on console.

In fact, consider the hypothetical of: what if Microsoft had hired Casey Muratori.

Do you imagine they’d have put him on the console team?

I mean the Windows console, not the X Box console, or the Minecraft console.
This 2020 video shows a fleet of their "smaller" models under test in Hawaii: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvXq4n2aVh8
I once had a series of exit interviews that went all the way up to the vp of engineering. I think they all knew the issues but didn’t want to admit it. I was also being coached on what to say to the higher levels. I really did not appreciate that.
From what I’ve seen, your IP address can view ~3 posts in a 24hr frame before you’re forced to log in.

IG has gotten very hostile in that way over the last year.

If you scroll far enough on a user profile while logged out, a modal appears for a login. Remove that modal and keep scrolling and IG will begin 503’ing all served images to your IP for 24hrs.

Coincidentally, I’m in a foreign country right now and IG “deactivated” my account (presumably because of the change in location). I had to send them a *photo of my face* to open a ticket about it. It’s been a week now with no reply.

That combined with the logged out hostility means I don’t have an easy way to view anything on the platform. Maddening.
There are no general rules, different people will have different problems.

For me: It was promotion and payrise-- as I was too scared I would be "found out" for not being good enough, which meant I didnt get either for many years; until I quit.
4. WhatsApp hasn’t been completely monetised yet.
Always an interesting read. A ton of insights, but I always find it a bit hard to make sense of, and it feels so disconnected from a modern distributed systems context.

In retrospect, I think a lot of the Spark SQL Dataframe workflow comes pretty close to what D/Tutorial D aspire to - static typing, functions on relations, imperative style but fundamentally unordered, etc.; however, it's only a processing system, not a storage system.

I have kept my distance from the "data lake" buzzword circles, but maybe a transactional, Spark-based data lake does approximate what Darwen/Date are going for? The only thing really missing might be nested relations?
Microsoft and AMD reportedly partner up to create powerful Arm laptop chip
This seems to be aimed at a very general audience. Otherwise it would have mentioned actually great features like Containers.
That's really interesting about the headaches. It makes sense.

The model is actually useful for google. Road traffic is closely linked to weather, with some routes worse impacted than others. If you predict the weather, you can predict changes in congestion patterns caused by the rain, so you can predict journey times better. Most journeys people are using google maps for are probably in the 30min-2hr range.

It's also simply interesting because predicting the progress of frontal rainfall is not something we're good at. We can apply conventional extrapolation, but this only considers the direction of the weather, not at all the changing saturation of the clouds.
The article doesn't seem to specify any difference between plain tobacco, consumer cigarette, or marijuana smokers. The [linked study](https://thorax.bmj.com/content/early/2021/09/12/thoraxjnl-20...) doesn't seem to clarify, either.

I'm curious if there is a difference between the three.
>I did everything I could to signal

You don't want to "signal" - you want to "filter". So install FBP and filter out all the stuff you don't want. For me, it made FB like it was a decade ago and thus usable for it's original intent.
> Antihierarchical Aggression – the belief that those currently in power should be punished, the established order should be overthrown, and that extreme actions, such as political violence, are justifiable to achieve these aims.

I'm struggling to see how wanting the authorities that brought us massive inequality, unjust wars, global surveillance and the destruction of countless species and habitats, etc, is considered authoritarian.

That's just self-defense at this point.
its obviously old because it uses firefox 81 or 82 as per the article. Probably 1 year old firefox.
Amazon and MIT establish new Science Hub
Their career aspirations and what they need from their managers for that.
Would be a great prop for an HP Lovecraft cosplay.

Hey, Lovecraft! What are you staring at on your phone?

(reveals rheoscopic fluid side)

It's a portal into the grey abyss!
How? Pretty sure scientists praising other scientists isn't what those people are looking for.
Incognito mode + the mobile view thing from the developer console seems to work for me.
> Firefox is a browser, Brave is a ...

Yes. But to most people, they're both browsers. So it really doesn't matter.
It was? From the wikipedia article

>[...] proposed legislation would create a "death panel" of bureaucrats who would carry out triage, i.e. decide whether Americans—such as her elderly parents, or children with Down syndrome—were "worthy of medical care"

I'm not sure how you got estate planning and/or medical euthanasia from that.
For me, the biggest con is the bad code developers commit in order to suppress warnings, both true positives and false positives. The latter really pushes me in the camp of haters firmly. The more warnings you turn on, the more false positives you will encounter. Any opinions should acknowledge the balance first.
But replier addressed that, no?

30min car ride is not a 30 min run or bike ride. And then there's weather and terrain and layout.

It may be 30min drive with some exercise vs 2hr bike ride in rain and mud. It's not as interchangeable as it may seem.
I feel like choosing a browser is like choosing a political candidate (US) - I don't choose the one that I like, I choose the one that is least bad.

FF is still the least bad.
You weren't lying about being completely off topic.
I used to criticize youtube for this, but its really pretty easy to tune out the politics by saying "not interested".

This is unfortunately not the same as a downvote, which is effectively saying "show me more of this, I want to hate its siblings too"
fact checking is just a political fight for making things look true or false. It is an official ministry of the truth, reminds me of past times, and certainly not better than today or 15 years back, where absolutely any aspect of life tried to be politiziced.

Many things cannot be easily audited, are about points of view, and fact checking enables censorship and bias towards one side or another. And last but not least, I am not a kid. When I go out at night I know there are good and bad places and people. I figure out what is good and bad and if I make a mistake, I learn.

I am an adult. I do not need babysitting. If there were far fewer people to control the rest of population, special mention to politicians here, who are kind of a mafia, then people would care way less about news. I know a bunch of people, just like me, that have taken the road to believe NOTHING from mainstream media because it is so obviously manipulated, even fact checking.

We have our own and different views and philosophies but we reached the conclusion that politics and trading to extract resources and create obedience from people are the main goals of people who want to control others.

I do not need fact checking.
What about a third option. Write a design doc so there's feedback about the approach before coding begins?
> Although vaccinated people can be infected and even spread the virus, the disease is usually mild, amount of infectious virus and the time they are infectious is much smaller.

I confess I haven't watched that video yet, but I believe there are not any studies that claim that "amount of infectious virus and the time they are infectious is much smaller". But I will watch it later and see if something new came up. I claim this because not long ago, our prime minister was infected after being fully vaccinated and had to be at home for 10 days before coming back to work.

Like I said, I am healthy and can work from home, so I have the luxury of waiting a little while to make my decision. After all, I am only affecting myself with this decision. A lot of people die from smoking/drinking alcohol as well, should we prevent them from getting it?
Bonus Point: The CrewCrew (Congress Security) is a barely documented all-female "security" gang. Men are not allowed to join. There are rumors that the President of the CCC controls it directly. Questions of accountability are still not answered.
USB Implementers Forum?
I'm still annoyed at the chaos that remains for USB3

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/2/27/18243425/u...
Try invidious, it's basically a filter over youtube that protects your privacy and gets rid of the junk:

https://iteroni.com/feed/popular
So, are they making millions?
The idea is to have self driving safer than our average driver who’s always texting and driving, sometimes driving under the influence and sometimes just too stressed to pay attention to the road.

Self driving cars will make fatal mistakes but I have no doubt that tesla very soon will be able to be safer than the average driver.

Plus the more autonomous vehicles on the road the more safer it is.

Finally currently traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for 30yo so we aren’t exactly replacing a perfect system
>A vast majority of who gets the virus does not die or get any effects.

To the OP's point, the same can be said about the vaccine. Their point being, because of the transmissibility of the virus, it's fairly safe to assume that most people leading normal lives will be exposed to the virus at some point so the choice is whether or not to be exposed while vaccinated or not. There seems to be less uncertainty around the vaccine than the virus, so the risks are better known.