skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Linux since 2000. While I made countless tries to make it usable as a desktop, I had been forced to recognize long time ago that for me it isn't a good enough experience.

It alway needed lots of time to configure things to make it half decent, the configuration would broke from time to time. Some software which I want to use either runs poorly using Wine, either can't be run at all.

I am much more comfortable using Windows as a desktop and WSL has eliminated the need to dual boot or use a Linux VM.
I imagine part of the rapid copycat spree is that it's practically just two steel-pan drums welded together. Those have been made for over 100 years.

Making a better resonance, and removing the need for a stand, is a fairly significant improvement. They do deserve recognition and reward for that imo. But there's no way they didn't see this coming.
Canadian companies contributed significantly to developing these vaccines too.

Vancouver-based Acuitas Therapeutics developed the lipid nanoparticle delivery mechanism for the Pfizer vaccine, for example. There are others as well. This article lists three Vancouver companies:

https://blog.jonasneubert.com/2021/01/10/exploring-the-suppl...

And that's not even mentioning Vancouver biotech unicorn AbCellera, which has developed an antibody treatment.
Not to mention, these events are precdented. This is a 1:40 to 1:100 year pandemic; depending on how much of it has to do with modern airlines.
I think critique is usually more healthy than agreement.
Disagreement is the fire in which the sword of knowledge is forged.
I find that most mentions of Web3 and DWeb relate to something with blockchain in it somewhere, which I am not interested in atm. So to me encountering these terms signifies "Probably not worth checking out". But YMMV and blockchain fans should probably be triggered by them.
It’s only slow if you’re git cloning/doing stuff inside of /mnt. You need to use the WSL file system
Abdul Qadeer Khan, “father” of the atomic bomb in Pakistan, is dead
Here's a secret hack to bring back the flavor of old avocado in the fridge for a few days: a half teaspoon of soy sauce and a few drops of hot sauce. You can thank me later.
To be clear, UV and blue light ABSENCE might be the case why so many kids are shortsighted.
> I have had grown men in tears on the phone just at the thought to having to contemplate killing healthy animals.

They are also healthy when they are killed to make food, I don't quite understand this posture. This just reduces the turnover so less healthy pigs are killed per unit of time. They are in tears because of the loss of revenue, not because of the animals, otherwise they really chose the wrong career.
> They're a damn American company, free speech should be a major component.

Given the constitutional safeguards you may be right on this one.

> Thinking any other country would actually respect privacy is truly delusional.

This, however, I had to read several times to be sure you were saying what I thought you were saying. At which point I just shook my head in amazement.
Most people suggest trying old.reddit, but i.reddit is what you want on mobile.
In the article it says clearly that you can run the distro of your choice using WSL.
He is of particular interest to The Netherlands, where he allegedly 'stole' enrichment tech.
you mean with buffers i.e. array.array . i thought that.
Most effort I have seen anyone put into telling a recruiter they are not interested in a job. Well, got a blog out of it.

Wonder if they have similar conversations with recruiters from all other companies, would be great to see those published.
Mumble has long since falling out of favour. It’s missing most of what people consider critical features now including mobile support, good IM support, and the ability to instantly create new communities without dealing with hosting.

I’d say it’s likely that most discord users are mobile or at least half.
the windows part.
titan-lang.org

Why is it down? I found other links for those interested:

https://github.com/titan-lang/titan

https://github.com/titan-lang/titan/blob/master/doc/manual.m...
If you look at the data in the link I posted above, it shows exactly the opposite. Nuclear gets more expensive per capacity built.
> 1. SM64 has received very little love from Nintendo since its release

Let’s not forget SM64DS which was a really interesting remake. A lot of welcomed additions to the original game while still respecting the original game. I’m sad because I believe this version will never have a remake and since it’s a Nintendo DS game, it started and will continue to age terribly badly.
He has been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted and burned, not to mention died multiple times

BUT he had to watch out for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome when learning to play the piano.

Hmmmmm
A lot of it's probably in the Wayback Machine. I wanted to read the Woz interview and while the HN link is dead it's in WBM:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070312172247/http://www.founde...
Isn't WSL v2 another flavour of Linux VM?
Why not? I tried it and it seemed a good browser. I think it’s a good option for those who hate Google.
On jamstack.org's list of static generators[0] you can filter by template language. For "R markdown" it only has:
Bookdown[1], Rmarkdown as you mentioned, and Blogdown[2].

I've never looked at R markdown before. Thanks for sending me down the rabbit hole with Bookdown. It might solve one of the questions I'm currently thinking about.

[0]: https://jamstack.org/generators/
[1]: https://bookdown.org/
[2]: https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown
At the moment there are several laptops with Oled panels and more are coming, so either the burn in problem is solved or not an issue in sufficiently long term. In fact car manufacturers started using OLEDs for the built in infotainment screens, and those famously sit and display the same image for hours at the time - sounds like it would be a poor choice for an OLED but clearly not.
The Scandinavian solution works because of it's highly functional education system. When enough percentage of people have at least a basic comprehension of logic and the scientific method the "surveillance state" as you call it does not need to strong arm common sense in its population.
I suppose I meant a ‘fork coup’ where it takes the dominant position. More libreoffice style than waterfox style.
> the top screenshot looks doctored rather than being a real screenshot

It's SVG, so not a screenshot at all.
Ok, that sounds kind of whacky but very intriguing. Can I ask what age you are and if you measured your current accommodation power (like: how many diopters can you accommodate now)?
Good point. A few years ago, the big thing was AI. Everybody was talking about how AI would put half of the population out of jobs. Nowadays it's all about cryptocurrencies, which are being hyped as nothing short of a revolution. It's always the same nonsense with a different name.
How would the brain synchronize its internal clock without inputs?
If you or anyone else is interested in bringing the price of avocados down, the state of Hawaii is currently funding (on a very small scale) avocado farming in Hawaii, which produces a non-Hass variety that is about two to four times the size, and has a slightly buttery taste, but when prepared with the standard ingredients, doesn't really differ all that much from the Hass except in color; it has a more yellowish tinge than green. But seriously, if anyone wants to beat the cartels at their own game, Hawaii is where it's at for avocado production.
The first screenshot is in fact not a screenshot but an svg file. I don’t see how that makes the website look more fishy, though…
The first research [0] mentioned in the article uses the following ways to measure "adolescents’ academic, psychological, and physical wellbeing":

> Academic achievement (n= 2,020) was obtained from administrative records providing the end-of-grade standardized test scores for reading and math for the 2014–2015 school year.

> School belonging (n= 2,104) was assessed with the six-item Psychological Sense of School Membership23 self-report scale of school membership (e.g., I feel like a real part of my school; People at my school are friendly to me; [0] Not at all true to [5] very true), α= 0.84.

> Conduct problems (n= 2,103) were assessed using the 26-item Problem Behavior Frequency Scale24 of behavioral aggression and violence in the last 30 days (e.g., In the last 30 days, how many times have you …skipped school; stolen something from another student; [0] Never, [1] 1–2 times, [2] 3–5 times, [3] 6–9 times, [4] 10–19 times, and [5] 20+ times). This scale was converted into a count of reported problems (binary for each item rated >1 then summed).

> Psychological distress (n=2,104) was assessed using the six-item Kessler Psychological Distress Scale25 to measure the frequency of participants’ feelings of distress over the past month (e.g., During the past 30 days… about how often did you feel worthless; about how often did feel restless or fidgety? [0] None of the time to [4] all of the time), α= 0.66.

> General physical health (n= 2,097) was assessed with an item from the Add Health General Health and Diet survey26 (i.e., In general, how is your health? [0] Poor to [4] excellent).

I find it not surprising that having a social media account is not statistically related to the results of these measurements. And I suspect for example, being exposed to online sexual contents will also not affect as well. When talking about these things, I tend to be skeptical of behaviorism and feel like a more nuanced methodology should be taken.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7570431/
> In a just world, courts would simply invalidate these contracts in their entirety.

As I understand it, the EU essentially does this, deeming EULA terms to be unenforceable if they are unreasonable and/or hidden.

I'm no lawyer though, and unfortunately I couldn't find a great article on the topic, just scattered HackerNews and reddit discussions.
I recognise the same thing, but not limited to phone screens. I associate the warm dim light of incandescent bulbs with evening and winding down. I also associate bright blue light with activity and being awake.

It’s anecdotal, of course. But whenever I’m winding down and I see a bright light I can just feel my body wake up a little.

I wonder if that’s actually as physical as it feels or if it’s caused by the associations.
> The radical change here is that now anyone with some pocket change in crypto can deploy a decentralized application.

Oh man it'll be awesome. Decentralized applications running on someone else's hardware with no SLA or even a meaningful relationship between the application author and person(a) executing it. Terabytes of data will just sort of float on the blockchain...sorry, immutable data store. I'm sure it'll be super fast when uploading from people's residential Internet connections.

So exciting!
I do all my dev on Windows side and I use WSL from time to time to quickly test builds.
With an ORM you can leverage the IDE to get field names, types and descriptions by simply typing out the name of the model. In pure SQL you need to memorise the schema, or continuously switch contexts to refer back to it.

Another advantage is that you type-check your queries, whereas with pure SQL you can accidentally load a number into a string variable and crash the application.

Because of this I prefer very light ORMs that abstract almost nothing. Those that provide model definitions, automatic migrations and a one-one SQL mapping.
Ah yes, the scientific debate. Honestly I thought it would occur elsewhere, such as in papers being published, with a book review being a watered down version for the more lay person, with less polarisation due to the aggregation of sources.
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111...

There are several studies pointing to glyphosphat (this one just an example, use Google). Actually there are so many studies that Europe ends the use in December 2022.
An easy example of a 10x programmer is just someone who has inside out knowledge about the business. I.e. someone who should have switched jobs to get a serious raise years ago.
That’s the beauty of it: you can’t.
Can it run Linux From Scratch (LFS)? It seems like it could.
An overview: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-a...

Allowing people to leave their house for up to an hour of exercise: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-58277503

Firing on protesters: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/21/victo...
Ethereum Altair hard fork at the end of this month introduces light clients which will enable the browser to sync with the chain, making infura unnecessary.
Lots of money? If you can short cut mining, it's cleaner black money than dealing drugs or people, probably. And if you can steal from someone else's address, maybe that's even better... You can seize funds with no red tape. Or mete out that capability to allies etc. Why wouldn't the NSA want to support a parallel financial system that criminals flock to? Just like why wouldn't the NSA want to covertly support encrypted messaging apps or the FBI do that...
I won’t disagree. My anecdote was from 4–5 years ago. We’d assessed that Discord was too much for us specifically. I had used the Mumble Android app from F-Droid a time or two to communicate while on the go just to chat. As for the hosting, at the time I also had dynamic DNS and actual ISP and it was lightweight enough to self-host a room with a couple of people without issue. I think not dealing with hosting probably is a big issue for a lot of people. Monetarily the difference is small, but philosophically free vs. $2/mo is massive.
For him an encryption/programming expert it might of been. There were posts back in 2005 about how to design a 'bit gold' and he was already jumping through hoops to launder money to gold bars through hong kong with all kinds of problems. The motivation was there.
Great! It was never a sensible choice to use foreign-looking design on iOS.

Now, if only every other company in the world would do the inverse and stop using iOS-style design on android, which I consider to be a much more prevalent issue.
> The researchers used innovative statistical methods to predict average trajectories of depressive symptoms for approximately 15,000 participants ages 20 to 89, divided into three life stages: older, midlife and young adulthood. They then applied these predicted trajectories and found that in a group of approximately 6,000 older participants, the odds of cognitive impairment were 73 percent higher for those estimated to have elevated depressive symptoms in early adulthood, and 43 percent higher for those estimated to have elevated depressive symptoms in later life.

Can somebody explain how this could show causation, instead of correlation?

Setting aside the "innovative statistical methods" that "predicted" depressive symptoms (machine learning?), the actual conclusion seems to be: "depression in early adulthood is correlated with dementia later in life".

(Actually "predicted depression in early adulthood", which I don't trust one bit if it's actually coming from a machine learning model.)

The results were adjusted for a lot of things, but not for other existing mental illness, for example. I can't imagine that there wouldn't be confounding factors that can cause both depression and dementia, especially knowing that a lot of mental illnesses are already known to be linked (e.g. autism and ADHD, bipolar disorder and depression).

The title seems completely dishonest to me. Maybe someone who knows statistics better can explain what I missed.
Damn. What did Canada do to you? So salty. They had a smart strategy here. Give them credit, it paid off.
I feel that HN has mostly been a business news site for the last 6 years, and has been trending into a more zeitgeist focused site in the last 2-3.

I've fulfilled my need for more technical discussions elsewhere for a while now.

One place I've liked is lobsters.

edit; I'll add that I've also started seeking out deep technical knowledge about a subject in the official places for the subject in question. For instance, for deep discussions on Kotlin I go for the KEEP and Slack channels.
How Instagram led to two teens' eating disorders
And building a custom one is easy. I have Gentoo running in WSL with no fuss.
Can someone explain the hype around crypto? Startups and even large consulting companies hyped blockchain. But they never could find an actual use for it. So even places like IBM silently closed their departments.

It is like crypto is a solution looking for a problem. It feels like the whole blockchain hype all over again. More noise than actual substance.

Anyone know of an example for a lay user where crpto has a huge benefit compared to other tech in the space?
People who write open source windows software are looked down upon. Your typical hacker especially in the 90s/00s - Microsoft was the evil empire.
Google is big enough to have both promoters and detractors of Flutter, and everything in between. They don't even need to choose one alternative either, they can bet on all horses in the race.
It seems to me the argument is really that it’s meant to be varied — as in, their goal was really to be playing with the awkwardness of poorly constructed tooling that can only haphazardously be declared an “instrument”. Akin to the “hacker” spirit — doing enough with whatever at hand, by understanding those objects beyond their construction’s intended purpose.

More specifically, I think their issue is like taking an arduino and spare parts and slapping together some gizmo, versus simply buying that gizmo outright. The gizmo alone really wasn’t the point, and if a whole culture builds around variating and expanding on that concept, then the manufacturing and sale of a prepackaged gizmo both violates that goal, and also threatens that community’s continued public existence (because you’ll now get newcomers who don’t “get” it, and thus begins eternal September).

So from that perspective I can empathize, though I don’t actually know anything about this community, and I don’t really care for use of lawsuits as a means of defending their goal (isn’t burning man supposed to have a whole anarchy thing overlaying it? Lawsuits seem contradictory…)
The novel XX by Rian Hughes explores this idea in great depth.
Bingo! That looks perfect. :)

Always nice to clear up a miscommunication. dances around

Have a great evening.
In a well functioning game industry, A Hat in Time should be in top selling charts of every gaming platforms.

I don’t know if negative reviews even exists for this game.
It looks like you are correct that the surveillance app is limited to anyone who has crossed state or national borders in the last two weeks. That being said, the Australian government has not relinquished its emergency powers, and is instead pushing for additional powers such as mandatory internet ID.
On Ubuntu it used to be possible to evoke this with changes to color temperature of the night light setting. But, the range has been reduced in recent versions and there isn't any obvious way to set it back.
Show HN: Slitherin – Solving the Classic Game of Snake with AI (Part 1)
Actually you are right. I'm sorry I totally forgot about that Samsung Galaxy Chromebook and there were a few more. My mind was thinking more of Desktop PC monitors as that is what the DASUNG is. Seems like a few options in the 27-32 inch are trickling out like the new LG monitor. Suspiciously it seem out of stock as soon as it launched, this is what happened to the Dell OLED. (EDIT: seems like other stores still have stock so disregard this) But yeah in the ~13 inch range there are a few laptops. There still seems to be some fundamental problem.

I have heard of talks that Apple is investing heavily into microLED and the next big tech and skipping OLED for Laptops/next gen Monitors. That might be where the rest of the PC industry heads as well.
Cooperative Linux
This post should be titled "what ORMs have taught me: world is black and white, if you use ORM, you can't use SQL".

Are ORMs leaky abstraction? Yes. All non-trivial abstractions are leaky.

Can you write 95% of code in ORM and drop to raw SQL for 5%? Yes.
NSW Premier cops a spray of beer to the face
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-two-la...

From what I can garner, there are such systems on trial, though as of Sept 16 the trials were on a voluntary basis.
Years ago together with another guy I created LibreFox. I came up withe the original concept that is still used (No telemetry, private search, uBlock Origin by default, default security and privacy settings).

We quickly heard from Mozilla's lawyers: "Eliminate the Fox from your name or we sue you!".

So we abandoned the project, but seeing the website you posted, my concept has lived on, and the gitlab seems to be pretty active as well!
You should be able to set screen time for yourself without possibility to disable immediately, like the noprocast/delay settings in HN.
`localhost` always resolves both machines without issue, it’s when you hard code 127.0.0.1 or ::1 instead of localhost, you end up with shenanigans.
Started a WSJ subscription when the pandemic started. No more doom-scrolling. Life is good.

Also, reading the newspaper becomes a fun ritual.

I don't _need_ to know when something happens the same day. I sometimes read the paper a day late, and that's okay.

The WSJ weekend edition has an excellent "Book review" section that I look forward to.

Highly recommend a print paper, even if you pick a different one.
Anyone remembers Cooperative Linux or coLinux? It was WSL 15 ahead of its time.
I wanted to build a TeamViewer-type system using reverse tunnels so that I could access my possibly NAT'd or dynamic IP machines from each other in a simple way. The typical use would be SSH control, copying files each way, VNC. I came up with something where each machine connects to a an always-on server with a domain name, and offers a reverse tunnel I can use to SSH down, but it occurs to me that there might be a better way, or even a tool someone has already build. Does anyone know of something like this?

(pwnat is pretty cool, but I don't think it does quite what I'm looking for)
I think you cannot run X-Window applications out of the box
Satoshi left an unfinished video poker game in the source code in Bitcoin v0.1.3 ALPHA:

https://github.com/trottier/original-bitcoin/blob/master/src...

I'm curious if either Szabo, Finney, Le Roux or Sassaman have had any connections to poker or gambling in the past?
Exclude node_modules from Apple Time Machine backups
Sure it is. But it is better integrated with Windows Desktop. I don't have to start and manage the VM. It's seamless.
It was fun to explore HN in those days.

PS: It is funny that you can still upvote old posts!
You too, Shawn.
Never rely on GitHub features, like issues, wiki or actions.

While the repo itself cannot lock you in, theses can.
FWIW some people don't adjust the brightness on their screens at all, that's where a lot of complaints about headaches and such come from.
This is the Pallene repo:
https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene