skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My grandfathers brother had polio and was crippled for life.

I always remember how my grandparents talked of vaccines having seen the effects of polio and smallpox when they where growing up. They considered vaccines a modern miracle and could not imagine not getting them.
There’s a way also to remap the gnu coreutils to their normal commands without the g prefix. I did it a while ago but I can’t recall exactly how…
Are cows an endangered species?
How we rolled out security keys at Twitter
If I have an if else case, a switch statement or something similar, it can often predict the next branch exactly how I would write it. That‘s probably 80% of the suggestions I accept, the rest is single line autocompletes. I have never accepted a whole function implementation, and they are actually rather annoying because they make the document jump.

It‘s useful enough for me, as a magic autocomplete.
Unvaccinated people aren't runing anyone's livelihood, except for taking a bigger risk on themselves.

It is a principled stand. I'm all for vaccination and I'm vaccinated myself, I don't care who's vaccinated and who's not. Making it illegal to employ unvaccinated people is inexcuseable.
In Ostravian dialect of Czech it survives as well.

"Kaj ideš?" - "Do roboty." (standard Czech would be "Kam jdeš?" - "Do práce.")
>Replaceable RAM and SSD being lost is still painful. Personally I don't believe this was about forcing users to pay for upgrades primarily. It was about shaving off a small amount of volume.

Louis Rossman gets a lot of things wrong because he does not have a computer engineering background. For example, he does not understand why Apple used SPI on the Macbook Air instead of USB despite it having USB capability. I had to correct him to explain that when your design goal is extreme power saving, you have to cut everything including running your data over SPI instead of a more power hungry USB bus.

Furthermore one reason they ship soldered on Ram is technical. It has been explained here from time to time that they are achieving much higher memory bandwidth with the memory modules they are using and it necessitates being soldered on. If the design goal is to build the most responsive laptop while maintaining excellent power savings, then this is the right approach to take.
The Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit looks like it is what you want.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-400/

And most importantly, these seem available for purchase.

Plus, there is a huge amount of stuff in the way of books and magazines that can be downloaded for free:

https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/books

https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/issues

as well as several other magazines and libraries from the same source
I can flip my notebook over, pop the battery out and put a new one in within 5 seconds. That is replacable.

I also replaced a macbook battery once, with a hot air resoldering station (to soften the adhesive) and a metal bucket filled with sand nearby in case it catches fire (the battery was balooning and bending the aluminium frame out of shape). The whole thing took nearly an hour. Ultimately it was also replaceable, but this was needlessly painful.
Rather bad news. Meson introduces a rat-tail of build dependencies.
Picking colors of any pixel on the screen with the EyeDropper API
After a Year of Silence, Are EU Cyber Sanctions Dead?
Nostalgia Is Bullshit
haha, I went even further. I designed a font called CSS Mono, and someone says it is like comic sans of coding fonts in Youtube comments, like in a bad way obviously. lol, check it out https://css-mono.wentin.net/
> This is a really oblique response. Could you be more explicit about what "not-actually-true "truths"" you're referring to?

It's not always so cut and dried as ~"false truths", but more like normalcy/convention/cultural-norms are unquestioned.

Look how we conduct journalism, in largely narrative form with a few cherry picked stats here and there. What the media decides and broadcasts is reality is what "mainstream" consumers believe/perceive reality is composed of. Sure, freedom of speech allows differing opinions to be broadcast, to some degree (and with limitations), but we have decades of experience in seeing that the Right beliefs are what prevail, attaching a "conspiracy theory" sticker is just one of the latest.

Take "democracy", our most sacred institution - there are an infinite number of variations of democracy, but how many people think of it any more complexly than a binary? Yes, vigorous debate is allowed and even encouraged about mild tweaks, but how often does one encounter discussion of fundamental changes to how we practice democracy?

Take our financial system - I think we're all aware of some of the interesting decisions that are made in this area on a regular basis.

Consider covid and the "moral obligation" people have to get vaccinated and put up with any financial hardship resulting from lockdowns. I'm not opposing this on its own, but why is saving the lives of primarily boomers who've lived long, relatively lovely lives a moral imperative, spare no expense, and anyone who doesn't fall in line is considered selfish if not evil....but when it comes to children around the world dying of malnutrition, or people at home dying from drug issues, why is there zero moral imperative? "That's different"? Indeed it is, but I would very much like to see it stated explicitly and precisely why one "is" a moral imperative that demands setting aside all other concerns, and the others do not. If it is actually about saving lives, shouldn't we be concerned about all lives?

Take how we live in general: how we educate our children and the public ((or don't as is often the case - see: financial literacy, critical thinking, etc), how we choose to design our cities, you name it. All of this is just "how it is", rarely do we seriously question the optimality of the fundamental ways we run things. But when something goes wrong, oh boy are we quick to point a finger at this or that policy/person, typically with zero regard whatsoever for the comprehensive causality that preceded the event.

I propose that it is the psychological phenomenon/exploit described in this parable that enables this comedy of errors to continue on generation after generation, and I do not think I am the only person who is well aware of it:

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”
Yeah but if malicious intent is a concern you can just spin up a sandboxed instance to run the code to check first.

Really the thing is there's not way to ascribe correctness to a piece of code right, like humans fail at this even. The only "correct" code is like rote algorithmic code that has a well defined method of operation. And there's likely a lot more correct examples of that, like way more than you'd ever be able to poison.

You may be able to be misleading though by using names that say one thing but do another, but again you'd be fighting against the tide of correctly named things.
Of course, I acknowledge startups' need (and the need of all employers) to do what's best for them. Likewise, I do what's best for me, and for me that would include avoiding a place like this. I'd rather jump through a few more hoops than be out on my ass after 3 months.
This is the kind of thing I would need to see in real time, because I simply can't believe that it does any of these things in a way that is reliable and doesn't involve having to search through and make sure it hasn't made any mistakes, taking just as much time as if you did it by hand.
Good article.

But the problem is not limited to social media
Lots of discussion about leaf blowers in the past few weeks: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I might go with a Pixel and LineageOS... I just hate to have to buy a new phone to be able to install it.
I believe political, theological, and moral divisions must always have a significant number of people believing untrue things, otherwise they wouldn’t be divisions, they’d be considered “common sense”.

Theologically, Atheists and Zoroastrians can’t both be right (to pick a hopefully non-contentious pair); with Brexit, the obvious conjugate pair is Leavers vs. Remainers; with morality I have too many to choose between, but the obvious pair to reference without people assuming (even here) that I take the side of the Evil Ones[0] is abortion, pro-choice vs. pro-life.

There are, I think, also cases where the supermajority of humans believe falsely; I think the identified cases of this are all called “cognitive biases” or sometimes “paradoxes”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

[0] at least, I’ve never seen that response here for that topic, but I have seen bad takes for other dichotomies
I said I use VSCode all the time, which I suspect is the reason I got access. (I never use VSCode.)
I think the trouble is trying to have it both ways: excusing the existence of a curation algorithm because "people prefer it" [0] while also refusing to take all the responsibilities normally associated with a publisher who curates and delivers content.

[0] Never mind the more obvious problem that "people prefer it" is not a great excuse for intentionally makinga product as addictive as possible.
> > Leaving your country and working (in your country) are rights

> Says who? Who defines those rights?

UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

> > Australia doesn't allow you to leave the country even if you have a passport

> Australia literally was a prison colony. You know, prisons, the things where people can't leave?

Ok, I'm now fairly confident you're just trolling.
Yeah, and you could see it coming. I remember joking pre-2016 about the upcoming election, wondering how many of my friends would start unfriending each other. I had no idea how big a change was actually coming.

I wonder why it didn't happen in 2012. I remember ACA arguments on Facebook but while they were contentious, they were generally value-driven and not based off of batshit lies.
>the iPad Mini [$499+] is more expensive than the larger iPad

Sort of. The $329+ "iPad" has internals that are a few generations old, kind of like the iPhone SE. The iPad Air ($599+) and iPad Pro ($799+) are the "real" current larger iPads.
These 25 minute peaks were caused by a similar event, witness the also slow rates in the surrounding blocks. So that’s approximately how bad it would get in this ‘disastrous’ event.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/03/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-dr...

We survived.
Yeah, one of the reasons why Čapek chose the word was to express that robots do menial, undignified work.
Wayland makes the wrong abstractions and does not offer vital functionality usually needed on a Desktop system. As a result every Toolkit/Compositor has to implement that additional functionality itself and most of the time it is incompatible to the competitor for no apparent reason.

As an exercise I recommend to write a native universal applicable Wayland application that takes screenshots.
Are laws the only thing preventing you from stealing?
Top Automation Companies of 2020: Rising to recover
> Just wanted a middle ground - oldschool style just less cluttered and less unnecessary info. Did I miss something? Did no one figure it out?

I'd say WoltLab Suite (https://www.woltlab.com/en/) matches that description. The forum part of the software is not free/OSS, though. There is also other modern, commercial, PHP-based forum software that would match your description (XenForo).

Disclosure: WoltLab is my employer.
I wonder how they distinguish between Copilot code and code manually copied from Stack Overflow
What exactly is “OS performance”, if not running applications? Micro benchmarks can be compared to premature optimization. Which we all know is the root of all evil.

There are lots of realistic workloads where some benchmark gives completely opposite and counter intuitive results, often due to caching and scheduling tricks.
They're hunted interactively by people with guns, not passively with traps.
Copper gigabit Ethernet is about as old as USB 1.1.
meat production and processung in the "developed" world isnt much better. in fact this might even be better because those cattle probably weren't raised in factory style density
i hate constant annoyances/nagging by discourse forums

forum is a place for discussion, not a RPG where you collect achievements
Totally agree on the $2 worth -- the race to the bottom on pricing that happened after Apple introduced "free" freemium apps with no way to filter out free / subscription apps resulted in an incredible destruction of value.

Every single app store version since the introduction of free, I file a bug asking for a filter to see only paid games. No free, and no IAP.

I don't mind IAP to upgrade a free trial to paid, ideally the filter would differentiate.

If the app store let USERS filter by broad categories, there's a good chance high end (price insensitive) users would stick to the top couple categories:

- Purchased apps (one time purchase per semver major version, and Apple has to support upgrades)

- Rented apps (subscription, recurring)

- Rented features (levels of subscription unlocking levels of features, see Carrot)

- Freemium (consumable IAPs: gacha, tokens, cosmetics, pay-to-win, etc.)

- Targeting/ad supported (subclasses: tracking, non-tracking)

- Free

Then those top 2 or 3 categories and the truly free category could compete on value again without being lost in the dark pattern noise.
Windows Exploitation Tricks: Relaying DCOM Authentication
I actually do use VSCode (in addition to Vi and Vim) and I believe I indicated that.
Right, but "natural selection" generally doesn't include human influence, but that's semantics. Would you also say that fruits that are selectively bred to be bigger and juicier are also under the influence of "natural selection"?
Don’t Reopen Namespace Std
McCartney? He probably had above-average home resources available though
i'm an engineer and i'm not even sure what "PE cert" stands for. certification means very litte.
Yes, the shunning is problematic. But there is one key difference between Jehovah's Witnesses and the Amish, in this respect: The Amish encourage their teenagers to go experience the modern world, before making that commitment. Among Jehovah's Witnesses, that kind of pre-commitment behavior would lead to (reversible) soft-shunning.

I think the rational play for an Amish youth would be to not commit to the religion, but live the lifestyle. That's not really feasible for a young adult who was brought up as a JW child, after a certain age. They would be gradually excluded from their baptized cohorts, even if never shunned outright.
When you have over a billion people in a culture valuing ivory, it doesn't take a large percentage of holdouts/morons/assholes/psychopaths to pose an existential threat to Elephants.

Multiplication is a bitch.
> centralized body setting rules that act in their (the user's) interests.

Not sure it's possible. Only if you (or your friend) are the admin, you will like the rules.

> How is such a platform staying online without charging users or using advertiser money?

It's much more secure and reliable (long-term) to have a sustainable small server for friends than to rely on a huge anti-user for-profit company. One could also create a paid service. For example, I am using a paid email-provider.
I first started with GitHub because a recruiter told me I needed a portfolio of some sort to demonstrate my skills to potential employers. Given that I'd been applying for graduate/junior roles in the industry for over three years with frustratingly little success at getting to face-to-face interview stage, I decided to build some side projects to show people what I could do.

I got my first professional coding job a year later. I lucked out by finding an employer who not only looked at my GitHub, but was also willing to take a risk on hiring a 49yo junior.

The side-project is still on-going: developing it keeps me entertained when the grind of regular work drains my enthusiasm for coding.
Async IO is not chosen because a language isn't fast enough, it's because IO isn't fast enough. Async IO would be useful even if you handwrite everything in the best and fastest assembler possible because in the time it takes to go out and read some data (even on an SSD) you can compute many, many more things. The purpose of async IO is to permit the interleaving of fast and slow activities. If I were still doing scientific computing (it's been a while) I'd want async IO (some implementation of it) even if I had the best GPU for my number crunching bits. Loading the model takes a lot of time and there are other activities the program can engage in during that delay.

CL's lack of a standard way to do async IO (in this particular instance) means that even if you have a very fast program, you end up with either a bottleneck waiting for IO or you've recreated the async IO model from other languages (or their standard libraries or their de facto standard libraries) and are now responsible for it.
Makes me wonder how human activity is evolving our very own genetic pool. Examples: competition vs cooperation, male vs female height, our immune system.

We have long had a culture where men prefer mates that are shorter than them, and women prefer mates that are taller. This results in constant pressure on the pool resulting in men being on average taller than women. Will this change over time as we outgrow this rather primitive preference? (Sadly, even many feminist women have clung to this preference.) Not all species "prefer" that the male is bigger or stronger than the female.

An obvious one is our reliance on modern medical technology, and drugs in particular. Are our bodies becoming less able to fend off disease?

The most important one for me is the balance between those genes that give us our selfishness and those that give us empathy and love. What impact does an ever more individualistic culture and an economic system that defines selfishness as a virtue have on our gene pool?
It's truly amazing, almost felt magical the first few autocomplete results I got.

There's the benefits that a lot of people mentioned, but to me the biggest benefit is I can avoid procrastination. Usually when I'm blocked on something I'll run a search in the browser, but very quickly I end up going off the trail and just browsing the web and losing a lot of time. Now when I'm blocked I simply type the comment of what I'm trying to do and the autocomplete suggestion is pretty damn good and unblocks me very quickly. More surprising of all, it somehow understands my code style by looking at the context.
These are very commonly used in manufacturing plants to find leaks in compressed air lines. I had a Fluke vendor visit the ol' airplane factory to see if we could use their tools to find air leaks in low-pressure ECS system ducting.

But c'mon, they are not $500k. More like $20K.

https://www.fluke.com/en-us/product/industrial-imaging/sonic...
Yes but you shouldn't rely on it and should always be paying attention. We're hoping that the next version of horse should be fully autonomous.
Leather from animal and leather from plastic is extremely different. It’s not just the imperfection, it doesn’t stretch the same way and the composition is fundamentally different

Synthetic ivory is ivory.
I made this post but credit to kw_dev who inspired this with his https://kwcodes.com/how-i-failed-5-side-projects-in-6-years-... HN post from a few days ago.
I use the gnu coreutils because small things like cli flags are different for the macos implementations. So for example some aliases in my .zshrc didn’t work on my MacBook. I come from a Linux background so it was nice for me to have coreutils behave exactly how I’m used to. Some people prefer gnu software for ideological reasons too.

It was one of the flags for ‘ls’ in particular that made me switch. There’s a way to add the gnu coreutils to your path without the g prefix so I never even notice the difference.
Tournament chess players have already been caught cheating in person using mobile phones. Recent example [1]

[1] https://www.chess.com/news/view/igors-rausis-58-under-invest...
Like any algorithm, it is dependent on the quality of its training data. In a study, a group of academics from New York University found 40% of the code produced by Copilot had cybersecurity flaws.

Yeah let me use this tool where 40% of its output is garbage. Toss this in the ever-growing AI Winter bin.
There's a lot of different data out there and a lot of different theories. The dark matter hypothesis fits a lot of the data really well with a very simple model, few extra constraints or variables.

The alternative theories don't fit the entire set of data as well. Or they do, but by choosing additional complexity, rules, constants that are chosen to make the model work, but can't be explained otherwise.

Dark matter isn't a full explanation, no doubt, but imho it's the best we have.
There are probably farmers no too far outside your city that need trucks and other vehicles. I’m not a farmer, and much prefer a lifestyle like yours. But the people growing the food you eat have a different lifestyle.
Yes.

If you look how much of an ape also exist in a human, this shouldn't come as a surprise.
Following your link takes me to an Ubuntu page. The first step is to open the 'Activities' overview and start typing 'Mouse & Touchpad.' What's 'Activities'? So I click on 'Activities' and it takes me to a Gnome page. What if I'm not using Gnome? What if I'm not using Ubuntu? Is it the same in KDE or Cinnamon? How about different Linux distributions?

Linux has become ridiculous in this regard, and that's the reason Linux will never be more than a geek operating system. A place where the tech savvy can praise it's features and crap all over Windows, which is only for the unwashed masses who aren't smart enough to see the obvious inferiority of Windows and the great evil empire that is Microsoft.

Yes, the desktop revolution is here! Finally we are free of Windows. Please... Windows is easier and more user friendly than Linux. Full stop.
Oh absolutely! Sorry, I was excited in my typing. It's not every day you see "your baby" on HN :) Everything I built was on the shoulders of giants, and lol, I didn't invent beamforming itself (of course).

The problem I have trying to find the niche application is that there's not much (at least, that I could think of) where you can have high quality audio data, but where a simple camera wouldn't work. Also, full imaging (as opposed to just tracking the largest/loudest source via TDOA) is quite different math, stupendously more computationally intensive.
So if the touchpad funding had failed there would have been no more Xorg release?
all the steps are designed to prevent you from damaging your speakers with adhesive removal solvent.

You don't have to follow each step, but if you don't know any better you should.

taking shortcuts just leads to sloppy outcomes, like any repair method.
The biggest problem of Wayland is that it has the wrong philosophy ("Every frame is perfect") and the wrong abstractions ("Everything in the universe is an array with RGBA values"). If your foundations are flawed like that you are doomed from the start. What remains is a very expensive and cumbersome way of blitting bitmaps.
Yes. It is a horse. Horses are completely capable of independent movement.
You know the ~ 10% perf penalty we all recently heard about on AMD processors? That was reputedly because MS worked so closely with intel to optimize windows for their upcoming processors that they didn't fully consider the impacts those optimizations would have on AMD.

TLDR: If anything windows on intel should be more optimized.