skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not "ideal". Function keys are exactly that: physical keys. Something you can use without looking down at your keyboard.
Actually, I did at first look into this kind of a modification of GNU ls, but its internal concepts of how to classify files is just not amenable to generalization along the lines of https://github.com/c-blake/lc . Basically, the patch would be to thoroughly overhaul guts of the command and libraries it uses and be so unclean that starting from scratch is better, even if you wanted to "stay in C".

It's not like the patch would be installed 100% of the time anyway, and shell aliases can paper over divergent installations. So, it's 100% fine if none of these features matter to you - to each his own indeed - but I thought your point deserved a reply.

(EDIT: also, `lc` is < 1000 lines of pretty tabular Nim code; Nim is a very high productivity language; exa and GNU ls are both effectively like 10x more code, IIRC. But yeah, you do need to have the Nim compiler installed)
> pin 0000

Basically following the (alleged) 'tradition' of the nuclear launch codes:

* https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/launch-code-for-...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link#Develop...
Stop Miscommunicating Your Big Idea
By focusing on Small Science. Big Science needs big money, big equations, big machines, big careers, big meetings, etc, so big science should be last resort. Make experiments cheap, cheap enough that it becomes embarrassing not to double check. Cheap enough that half of the comments in a science article are about people doing the experiment themselves right there.
Industrial automation monitoring is a major commercial application. I was going to look at https://www.minidsp.com/products/usb-audio-interface/uma-16-... for doing it. Do you know what limits of detection you could get, and on what equipment?

Monitoring structural vibrations is also useful, and I think is an ongoing research area. I mention this because it's possible to sell it and research it at the same time.

What about synchronized cameras in different locations?
A lot of the Tibetan monks I have seen in the US seem to be really excited about their cell phones and are on them all the time.
Highly recommend this and other videos by Peter Santenello. He goes into Amish communities and just talks with people. Fascinating insight into the same topics of this article.

https://youtu.be/EgY1SVXiBrU

His journey into orthodox jewish neighborhood in NY is great too.
One way to explain this is that “goodwill” is an intangible that shows up on the balance sheet, which must always be balanced. Assets = Liabilities + equity.

Goodwill is on the asset side of the equation.

Basically, Tesla stock owners consider the company to have ambiguous secret sauce of the right employees, IP, brand recognition/reputation that makes it more valuable than its current on-paper business activity.

Or, it’s just a stock that they believe they can find buyers for – a belief which has been proven to so far be true.
Of course people with a variety of stances on the issue all call themselves “pacifists”, just as there are “vegetarians” who eat fish. I respect the choices that you describe, because they’re your choices, and don’t endanger other people. The pacifists I consider morally obtuse are those who refuse to see that they enjoy their freedom under the umbrella of institutions that are decidedly not pacifist. It’s a kind of philosophical parasitism. And the pacifists that I have real contempt for are those who would refuse to defend other people against violence.

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
-- John Adams
Why award anger at all?
Self-reply to correct an important typo after the end of the edit window:

> The number of COVID entry restrictions which are made harder to enforce by the EU DCC or its associated regulation is zero.

I meant "easier to enforce", in the sense of further restricting movement of people who national decisions decide should be subject to further restrictions, when I wrote "harder to enforce" above.
> The MBP designers still bravely include the 3.5mm headphone jack

And in Jony Ive designs they've had it on the wrong side for years. The 2021 model finally moves it back the left side.
> There really isn't much to gain.

We (external parties) really can't say. We don't know what's holding Facebook's system back, we don't know the challenges it faces both internally and externally. We don't know what VM limits the code is hitting, how well the GC/memory allocation story is for HHVM with Facebook's code (other than what we're told). We don't know how well Facebook's database is or isn't keeping up with the backend, and what future plans the database team has that would change the query profile which could then cause the backend fleet to hit limits of HHVM's tunables with current growth. We also don't know HHVMs team is planning.

If there is a problem that Hack and HHVM hasn't been able to solve, one would hope that the spending of billions of dollars is properly considered. Or to borrow from another expression, I'd hate to be billion-dollar-wise and future-of-the-company foolish. I don't begrudge the exec team for having to make that call and other calls like it. (Choosing to do Hack & HHVM in the first place was a similar judgement call.)
Citation needed. Pacifism is one of their basic tenets (actually rejection of violence is).
How many times cheaper would a competing product need to be for you to consider buying one?

Obviously, Fluke, and the positive reputation that brand is known for, and reliable product support are worth a LOT, but I'm sure there's some $$ divisor beyond which you/someone like you would take a risk on something substantially cheaper.
Presumably the designers of Wayland do not think that this philosophy and those abstractions are so fundamentally flawed.

Could you explain why these concepts are so flawed, for those of us to whom it is not immediately obvious?
> Relentless ivory hunting over decades has caused elephants to evolve in a way we never imagined them to.

This is only true if "we" have very little imagination.
> Really curious what those places are.

We live in a rural area about 10 minutes drive from Olympia, the capitol city of Washington state.

There's a fair amount of public transit in and around Olympia, but none of it comes close to where we live. Uber doesn't serve this area, and taxis are rare and expensive.

My wife and I work from home, and drive our largely hydro-powered Tesla in to town a few times a week.
It’s definitely here to stay. Next up is adding more sensors to it such as Face ID. It just makes sense as they continue to merge iOS and macOS together.
I wonder how much wagging the dog FB has ended up doing to everyday activities? Do people give more weight to doing things that have a better opportunity for more FB engagement? (Thinking more on this I don't think FB is the sole culprit here)
No they are not, no vaccine is 100% effective.[1]

In the case of Polio there is actually Vaccine derived poliovirus VDPV[2], the person getting the vaccine is immune, however he can transmit it to un-vaccinated people for the OPV version which was administered in the U.S. till 2000

OPV is known to cause paralytic poliomyelitis(polio) in 3 cases per million doses given [3]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/hcp/effectiveness-dur...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/hcp/vaccine-derived-p...

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27894720/
I just call that "programming".
Yeah I suspect RoI will be negative
I wouldn't, because a fruit bred to be bigger and juicier is engineered by humans for their own benefit, while an elephant evolving to not have tusks is evolution going against human benefit.

I believe natural selection includes the influence of any species related to the species in question as predator or prey, and humans in this case are predators. We may historically be responsible for far more processes of natural selection than we're aware of!

You're right that it's exceedingly rare to see us so directly play a role in natural selection today (as opposed to indirectly through affecting the environment), which makes this very interesting.
She has the right to be annoyed with those that were supposed to deliver and test the collars, not with Martha Lillard or NPR.

From the point of view of M.L., she is maybe one of several that promised to help but could do it (not a fault of Naomi Wu of course, but of those that first contacted her for help and then left things unfinished), so it doesn't surprise me that she was not mentioned.
I've personally had a much easier time getting Bluetooth and printers to work on Linux. It's been 100% plug and play on Linux but on Windows I have to use a mess of driver installs, configurations, changing the Bluetooth stack, messing in device manager to reset stuff
Biology is one field that seems to be making massive breakthroughs recently. On the other hand, it seems like a lot of theoretical sciences like Physics haven't have similar breakthroughs in decades.
Within the limitations of the horse's reaction time and maneuverability with an attached buggy, yes.
What is your point? That it's acceptable to kill or otherwise maim creatures which are not endangered, like, say, humans?
Black and Latino students did worse in schools with ‘diversity officers’: study
Interesting bug. I wonder how a "Falsehoods people believe about other countries' passport systems" file would look like.

On a similar note, I remember reading about some Egyptian atheist's struggle to have no religion stated on his domestic identity card. It was quite a twisted story.
Ask HN: Is there a good source of information on HDMI and it's permutations?
I'm looking for insight into why a recently purchased PC's HDMI signal won't work across an HDMI switch (despite it working when directly connected to the display device.)

I don't have confidence that installing a new HDMI switch would result in a successful outcome as I don't know the cause of the current breakdown.

If anyone can point me to good information on the history of HDMI and what versions work with which other ones it would be appreciated :)
Completely off-topic, but in the face of all this corporatism, I still love the fact that the period at the end of the sentence, "Sergey and I are seriously in the business of starting new things. Alphabet will also include our X lab, which incubates new efforts like Wing, our drone delivery effort." is a link to http://hooli.xyz
B.J. Novak's Face Is on Products Worldwide. He's Not Sure Why.
Can we just skip to the last season in which Zuck begins the final stage of his plan to unify all metaverse-enabled human conscioussness into the singularity?
> I argue they do not have the tools to make those choices in an unbiased manner as those tought experiments are also technological byproducts.

I wonder if the rest of us use technology in an unbiased experimental manner without regard to the consequences? As the decades go by we become increasingly stressed having to deal with commutes and corporations and bureaucracies and living in a world of phone zombies, mass media outrage, echo chambers, etc. All the While our world becomes more complex and less robust.

Personally I think there's a huge lack of intent and wisdom on our part. As a group we're focused on novelty and profit instead of people, and don't seem to be so great at dealing with the resulting problems like pollution, inequality, depression, etc.
This number just doesn't feel remotely plausible. Hasn't Copilot supported just one editor and five languages until now? And it's advertised as being available to a limited number of testers, and gated behind a waitlist. Oh, and according to the article half the people who were granted access to Copilot have stopped using it.

There is no way to make these numbers work unless we assume that the people using Copilot are committing orders of magnitude more code. And if they are, how likely is it that they're really legit users?
Politicians are generally an older crowd. Obama got a lot of credit in 2008 for twitter use, wherein that use was basically tweeting campaign statements and updates.

It was probably 2016 by the time that politicians realised they could use social media to whip up such strong feelings to maybe benefit their campaigns.

People certainly disagreed with each other online in 2012 (I remember reddit had subreddits dedicated to complaining about how much pro Ron Paul content was posted in the mainstream subreddits), but I think it's the active engagement of the politicians themselves that turbo charged this.
This only shows Cruz “grilling” company executives. Presumably other senators were involved?
Apple charges forward to 2030 carbon neutral goal, adding 9 gigawatts of clean
> 40% of the code produced by Copilot had cybersecurity flaws.

Off-topic, but it's quite ironic to me that "cyber" had such a resurgence. In ~2010 to 2015, most people in my circle considered cyber to be a washed out joke, and yet, in the last few years, it gained massive popularity again. It's still hard for me to take anything "cyer-" seriously, though.
Sure, although better privacy comes with the liability of having to take care of securing the deployment by ourselves. It just seems easier when it’s out of the box on some SaaS solutions.
Only the fourteenth story about this in the past week on here
Methane Leaks in Boston Are Largely Unreported
I have no algorithm again, at least until FB decides to break it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29004489
Hooke, I love your submissions and namesake. Did you see this piece on how steppe raiding can lead to the evolution of larger community sizes? Get along people, or die.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0516-2
RTX-KG2: Building a knowledge graph for translational biomedicine
I am always a little conflicted about articles that portray the Amish as this wise group of people. I lived close to Amish country for a while and there were lots of stories about child and spousal abuse. They seem to live to some degree outside the regular legal system so you hear less but it seems to be a pretty oppressive group.
It's hard to pin that down exactly, but let me put in these terms... the dollar number I've long had in mind as "I could quit working, live on savings/interest, and do more or less whatever I want with the rest of my life, without living a lavish lifestyle" is $14 million.

If I, say, sold a company for enough to where I walked away with that much (after taxes, for the sake of argument) I'd buy a house (not a fancy house either), a car or two, a bass boat, and the rest would go in various mostly long-term investments. I think I'd be pretty settled at that point.
What is the use case? Modern batteries hold their charge for a long time. In a review I saw today, the reviewer - a professional photographer and filmmaker no less - said that he managed to shoot edit and export a video on a single charge[0]. The need to swap out batteries with these device has all but disappeared, save for permanent replacement.

[0]https://youtu.be/I10WMJV96ns?t=643
Same with Euchre. Inflection in calling pass or pick up, even the way you breath, can lead to tipping your partner off at what you have/don’t have.
The key thing to realize about DST IMO, is the fact that time zone is adjusted for it.

So for example I live in Europe/Oslo, which is UTC+02 when DST is in effect (CEST). When DST is not in effect, my time zone becomes UTC+01 (CET).

And therefore, when we adjust our clocks, time is not really moved.

Although it may seem like the time turns back from 3 AM to 2 AM on 31 October 2021 in my location, that’s only true if you don’t take the time zone into account.

What actually happens is we go from:

2021-10-31T02:59:59.999…+0200

to:

2021-10-31T02:00:00.000…+0100

And we see then that if we convert this time to UTC, we have simply a transition from:

2021-10-31T00:59:59.999…Z

to:

2021-10-31T01:00:00.000…Z

So actually, nothing bad happened.

The article also says as much, but I wanted to comment on how I think about it when I consider DST, because I think it’s a pretty straight forward way to look at it.
An automobile battery is around $100-200 and not easily accessed. This battery is around $1000 and there's little detail on how it's secured. That would be a serious consideration for me if I were to consider buying one of these.
cyberx is still a strong signal that something is corpo bullshit.
And from where do they get the money to buy the bitcoin?
Yeah the CL community likes to be lone warriors, I am definitely very guilty of that.

Documentation in CL is pretty bad. Worst is when people say its well documented and its nothing but, all those manuals just listing all the functions are a complete nightmare and useless to me
I was a very late smartphone adopter. I had a map in the glovebox and would look at a maps website on a desktop/laptop before leaving for somewhere unfamiliar. Your colleague doesn't seem to have figured out the technology that smartphones have replaced.
Yes you can. Another problem though is that the microphones need to have a common timebase, unless you have More Magic.
Traps wouldn't work because the authorities would get to the elephant in a trap before the poacher returned, thus the poacher would lose their prey.

The poacher could always hang around near the trap, but if you're doing that you might as well just shoot the elephant, not trap it.
I'm with you, seems like the title should've stayed. If the framing was a problem, it should be prefixed by who is making the claim.
I spent a few minutes on it, but Is there any kind of end?
She’s explained many times how the gay and lesbian scene that she identifies with works in parts of Asia. I think she’s sincere as she’s mentioned her relationships on Twitter. She’s not appealing to males. She’s appealing to specific types of lesbians.

I think this part of her complaint with western media is legit. They all just assume that she’s doing it for the views. Ignore the gay and lesbian scene in Asia entirely to come up with a fake narrative. Completely ignore that she has done some good work just because of the way she looks. Then go on and on about inclusivity and LGBT rights.

Even Adam Savage’s Tested.com seems to have snubbed her. They requested a few CR-30s be sent over for review but then <some shenanigans> And the review never came and I guess they never sent them back to her.
There’s a Word for Using Truthful Facts to Deceive: Paltering [2016]
Author here; I have experience using it 100s of times per day since I wrote it. There are a couple of things that I don't use (like selinux) support that may be a little hinky. I have a few loyal users, but I don't hear much feedback about troubles they might have.

It has kind of a long history. I first did a prototype in Python about year 2000 and then a year later a re-write in C which I used for a couple of decades and then an I think pretty nice 3rd gen in Nim. (Often one doesn't really get it all layered correctly until 3rd try, even for something kinda simple like `ls`.)

Miller columns a la NeXTStep is something easy to simulate with `lc` via the glob abbreviation { paste <(lc -1m25 ../..) <(lc -1m25 ..) <(lc -1m25 .) | column } and in general the program is more like an "ls construction toolkit" than a fixed classifier/turnkey ls. But really the readme covers many more details.

Among unusual ones is "tweak" files; Got a directory that you want special defaults for? Just drop in a `.lc` file. (With some parallel hierarchy features when perms do not allow that directly.) This is sort of like Windows remembering what sorting/layout options you clicked on, but manual and opt-in (and far more general).
Behold, the Macbook Wheel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
But if it was centralized, convenient, had shareholders and an advertising budget to get peoples attention faster than the decentralized one, then they’ll suck up the advertising money.

People are exchanging time for money. They will do this.
A mosquito racket increases efficiency at least 10 times. If you direct the output of that camera to a VR visor you can chase and zap them in the dark.
The GUI builds pages assembling HTML templates (building blocks) that you have to provide. Basically it allows you to use Jinja expressions, variables, macros, etc.

You use your own editor to work on your files. Kit55 will detect changes and recompile complete pages using your building blocks. You can keep a browser open and Kit55 will update your pages in your browser as well.

I totally see what you mentioned about dnd style editor. Can you think of a better alternative way to describe the tool?
Well, yeah. And I think that's ultimately why they bumped it up to 11, because they wanted to drop support for older hardware. Even if Windows 10 was going to be the "last version" of Windows, it would be insane to believe that it would continue to support all hardware forever.

That being said, the cutoff line for Windows 11 CPU support does seem to be a bit higher than necessary. But I don't know all of the reasoning behind why they chose the point that they did.
Thanks you for the feedback!

That's the idea. To simplify the process on for every user, and to make sure that adding more people does not complicate the process.
UWP is obsolete, because desktop applications are obsolete.

The Fortune 100 company I currently work for had UWP application for some internal needs. The main pain point was that it was distributed to some private instance of Microsoft AppStore, which meant every time we released new version it had to undergo certification process, and then it would take days to actually push it to user's laptops.

We rewrote the app as the Angular web application, and never looked back. Now every time we deploy the new version all users get the update immediately.
JIC - "the basics" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI

But is the HDMI switch known to work with any other PC and display?
Previous discussion from 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20789755

And a related discussion from a year ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25916140
Given the fact that Copilot is trained on a corpus of real code, is it not reasonable to assume that the number of security flaws just reflects how insecure most public code is? If human-written code has about the same 40% suffering from security issues then then using Copilot is certainly no worse. It definitely doesn't seem fair to invalidate the idea of AI-assisted code generation without testing that.
Whatever politics touches, it taints. No surprise here.

But one of the items you mentioned is food. I sort-of doubt that we have a great progress in food. People seem to be much fatter than ever before. That would suggest a lot of cheap calories, but less quality of food overall. Unless we measure progress in food by raw caloric content, we might actually be regressing.

The burden of metabolic diseases is certainly at an all-time high and not a single country in the world managed to reduce it meaningfully again.
I thought I already explained this. OS isn't the sole, maybe not even the main arbiter of performance when compiler and developer biases can cause a greater difference.

I already explained that some scenarios (like FS) would have significant variance due to the differences in design philosophies. That doesn't have to mean that one OS is objectively worse than the other, but it could mean that they prioritize different scenarios.

I don't think we have any way to tell if an OS is objectively "faster" without resorting to micro benchmarks which you're right about them not being so meaningful.