skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly I don’t have issues with other nightshades just tomatoes - no autoimmune issues (unless minor seasonal allergies count)
Vim is user-friendly the same way Unix is user-friendly: it's not. It's user-centric.
Facebook CEO exposes his vision of computing platforms competition for the next 10-15 years, starting in 2015.
Imho Microsoft’s requirements are the perfect excuse not to install Win11. I have a 10th generation cpu, and I’ve purposefully disabled TPM so to avoid the OS upgrading by itself, or nagging me to update.
FWIW, if you want to dip your toes into audio and song classification, the Spotify API offers feature extraction.

Also, there are some very cool ML topics in the frequency domain. For example - in the past years there's been a small revolution in the guitar / bass / etc. industry where simulators offer quite realistic sounding amps/speakers sounds.

Back in the day, these simulators were just carefully crafted filters that would emulate the response of said amps, speakers, room/ambience, etc. but with the advent of more powerful DSP, it is now possible to sort of "extract" these features on the fly - some of these products do indeed use ML/DL algorithms in their core. In the end, the goal is to profile the environment, and create some complex filter / function that matches the response. Which is one thing Neural Networks can do quite well (approximating functions).
Actually there is a market for this in my view.

Pop_OS has an useful Gnome implementation, I liked especially the option to switch from normal to tiled windows (and I hate childish UI/UX of Gnome).
If they pull this off I am willing to pay for it.

I hate the new direction of Mac OS UI. They have forgotten what made them beloved from UI/UX perspective and I have no interest anymore in "vertical integration" for ruling the world.

So, if System76 invests in learning the best practices (and especially the old Apple HIG documentation) they can create the Real Linux Desktop revolution.

Just focus on serious minimalism, accessibility and traditional interface paradigms without trying to be liked by the masses or following any "trend".

As a designer I love their identity. They have the courage to create difference in a world filled with mediocrity, conformism and wishful "colorful" thinking.
Some folks can't help worshipping rich people.
What makes GMO crops bad for health?
I still use it frequently for any random calculations.
That's how America has always worked, though: freedom is an asset you buy with money. They're just saying the quiet part out loud now.
And yet we're complaining about having to know git internals in order to use it :)
It doesn't work so good for times but I often use Google search to multiply numbers with units together and get a result in the units I want without having to worry about screwing up unit conversions.

Example:
4 atomic mass units * (1000 nm/sec)^2

Google Result:
6.64215616 × 10-39 joules

I use this all the time. I use wolfram alpha for solving equations or systems of equations but I use google for unit conversions because it's got better input parsing (frankly).

I should try the wolfram alpha math entry mode probably, I think that didn't exist when I started using it. If I could manually enter the equations with stricter formatting to ensure it's interpreted properly I'd use it more.
But why not having big windows just above the kitchens? This would provide natural light for the common areas, for the tables which can be used for studying, and for natural light for the bedrooms provided either the door is open or the bedroom door has some "obfuscating glass" part.

There are windows only on one side, and that is an extreme waste. If windows were placed on the longer sides, the "natural light" problem would have greatly diminished.

(In fact, I would also have placed windows in the bedrooms alongside the perimeter walls. Those who want the window get it, those who do not prioritize them will choose differently and maybe pay for a cheaper room.)
Apple’s New Screen Repair Trap
I have worked in a windowless room from the beginning of COVID. I would prefer this to having a roommate. Currently I could commute into the office and work in our big window'd office with others, but regardless of COVID (and even assuming a pre-COVID lively office), I'd still work at home a lot. I usually go in one day a week for collaboration or hardware stuff that needs me there.

In my best working arrangements, we all had our own offices, but would often collaborate and invite people into pair-program (and spacious with big windows). I've worked both in single offices, shared workspaces, and cubicle farms. I would sacrifice a lot for privacy and solitude.
Initially, I used vim emulation within Obsidian, but later realized that I didn’t need to know about backlinks very often—I just wanted a simple wiki, so I started using vimwiki. The main downside for me is that you can’t (to my knowledge) use folders without changing links ([[folder/note]] instead of [[note]] in Obsidian), so all my notes are in one directory with no subdirectories. I also don’t think renaming files in vimwiki updates links in other files like in Obsidian. Because I prioritize using my own vim config over many of the features in Obsidian, I use vimwiki. Whenever I need something that Obsidian can do that vimwiki can’t, I just open Obsidian. I love owning my notes in plaintext :)
I usually took LIRR from JFK when I visited NYC, which is faster and more comfortable than the subway and often faster than Uber/taxi. Penn Station is convenient for most of Manhattan, and Atlantic Terminal is good enough for the parts of Brooklyn I typically stayed at.

A bit more expensive than the subway, especially during peak hours, but worth it IMO.
In Search of the Origins of Fin Fluctuation:The Inelastic Market Hypothesis
It's a little too early to be hyped about const generics in Rust. You still can't do basic compile time arithmetic on them, such as (BITS+7)/8 to get how many bytes you need.

I recently had to use "FixedBitSet" in Rust. This is simply a set of N bits.
It's the clean way in Rust to do bit-banging. Unfortunately, the underlying implementation is a dynamically allocated Vec. So, when you do bitset.set(4,true), far more code is generated than just one OR instruction.

So, it's not quite here yet.
I think school choice is the ideal middle ground. Schools can offer a variety of ways to teach and parents can pick from them / start their own school and provide another offering.

One size fits all is bound to cause problems as our society becomes more diverse and accepting.
Schools should work for kids. Period. They often don’t, but let’s keep our focus.

Schools need to collaborate with parents to work for kids. Parents need to collaborate with schools to work for kids.
If they pay for shipping I'll send them my contributions directly.
I remember how Unity fell apart back in the day. But while Canonical still felt they had the resources to back it, it was pretty good, imo.

Maybe a few dedicated people can produce something good.

From an end user perspective, I don't see any reason not to welcome this. If I don't like it, I can just keep using Plasma.

Best of luck to System76 with this effort!
if the user agent is linux, they provide the isos. Otherwise they want you to use their creation tool.
People even today underestimate the badness of living in the lowest income quintile of almost any society. It is not just about cashflow, but about (lack of) respect and dignity.
I also can’t help but think we Americans “democratize” construction too much. Whenever a project is announced dozens of people come out of the woodwork to protest any and all aspects of the plan. Things get delayed because the local busybodies bring up as much as they can to either halt the construction entirely or to demand concessions. Some of the regulations make sense for most new projects, but does an existing rail line they’re trying to allow passenger trains on need a new environmental impact study because the locals demanded a new 15 foot high sound wall? It’s already inside of a major city and it’s not like there are any endangered species it’s going to impact.
>And I can’t play the game anymore because I’ve lost the CD. Ditto with Halo, CS, AoE and others.

The disadvantage is that your game is locked now to your account, I cant just gift my games to my son. I have to make sure to keep my Steam version in Offline mode before he tries to play from his PC using my Steam Account. I wish there was a way to create family accounts and share the game or even gift them to your children, you could add some rules like you can't re-gift same game for say n years or whatever.
For whatever reason I've found this "Human Crush" phenomena simultaneously interesting & terrifying ever since I first heard about it some years ago in regards to the Hillsborough disaster. People in a dense enough group cease to function as individual units... but instead as a large fluid mass incapable of immediate course correction.

It's stuck with me, and made me more wary and alert when in crowded scenarios to this day. I suppose there's a thought to be had that as urban centers become more populous and common we'll have to figure out better ways of preventing and policing stuff like this. (And like the tragic stuff happening at Astroworld last night.)

Be safe folks.
> Schools should work to produce well rounded educated productive citizens for the community.

Agreed, but who defines this? Parents deserve input, as key stakeholders and as taxpayers.
Epic has been talking about the metaverse for years... e.g. it came up a lot in their Apple lawsuit, and searching on google turns this up from mid 2019: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/115784180038569574...

So far it seems like they sort of vaguely want to turn Fortnite into it... but I haven't really seen much that I would call concrete.
You only see the finished product, not the 100 failures and incremental improvements over time. You could certainly write something yourself from scratch, but I doubt it would be competitive against this.
No you'd have to write the client code yourself. Are mobile numbers at risk from being disconnected?
> Does that strike anyone else as insane? That's like 330k per room

As someone who lives in California, not really, no.
I totally understand all of the drawbacks here, I agree that it’s hard to think of an actual use case, and all that aside, there’s something aesthetically pleasing here in an “I’d read about this in a William Gibson novel” kind of way. “My compute fleet is distributed across a field of windmills in Europe” just _sounds_ cool.
> Schools should work to produce well rounded educated productive citizens for the community.

No. Children are not a commodity, to be molded by the needs of the state by the educational industrial complex.

Children are people. Their own interests should be paramount. Not those of the community, the state, or even the parents. (The parents are generally more trusted because they have their children’s best interest at heart more often than the bureaucracy does.)
Yes, thank you. As someone with anxiety / panic disorder, spooky things like "we need to talk" at the wrong time can be a trigger. That doesn't really happen often for me anymore professionally (being a principal engineer, well regarded, hard working, competent, with tons of jobs I could jump to), but when I was more junior and less financially / personally secure it would bother me.
In general, commercial and institutional buildings do not have to meet the same building codes as private residences. Try to find an outlet in a hospital room the next time you visit a sick friend. None of this one outlet on every wall and every 8 ft.
An entheogenic church. Sermons on Sundays at 4:20 PM.
I can't eat tomatoes, but not due to allergy or intolerance, but rather because they're the primary trigger for my somewhat severe acid reflux. Eating something that contains tomatoes guarantees a reflux episode, even under medication, and without medication will likely lead to a trip to urgent care.

It's unfortunate because I really like tomatoes. I grew up on a farm, and as a child really enjoyed a fresh ripe tomato sliced thin with the slices topped with salt and pepper, or eating thin slices of tomatoes with ham on fresh baked bread. Truly heavenly. Unfortunately also something I can never have again as long as I live.
> But really what I'd like to see is math taught in a far more granular way.

I really like your proposal! (And not just for math; any subject could be taught this way.) Problem is, if everyone advances in a different way, it is no longer possible to have 20-30 kids in the classroom listening to the same lecture. Because one of them is today at week 1, another at week 2, etc. So now you need to learn from books or computer.

> And there'd be no need for a gifted program.

We would need some bonus "weeks" that are not meant for the average student, but the matematically gifted students could take them.

First, students should be able to take "weeks" typically meant for older students, even if that meant that gifted kids at elementary school would take lessons meant for high school students. Second, there could be alternative lessons exploring the topic in greater depth, or exploring connections between various topics. Third, there could be optional lessons with topics that are normally not taught at all.

All three of these should be available, not just the first one (although even that would be way better than nothing, which is what we have now). To give an example of a deeper lesson, while average students learn e.g. that binary numbers exist, and maybe learn to convert from decimal to binary and vice versa, gifted students could also learn to do addition and multiplication directly in binary. An example of a topic typically not taught could be set theory, or game theory.
Isn't there an unwritten rule about layoff timing that it's always on a Friday? Always do layoffs on Fridays so people have time on the weekend to calm down instead of going postal?
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29124884
Having been both an employer and manager giving and hearing "major" news (departure / restructuring, etc as is being discussed), I'm torn. On one hand, we are conditioned that its important to deliver news in person and not hide behind email, and I agree with this - it's much more collegial to have a conversation.

On the other hand, I don't react well to having news spring on me. My heart can race, I need some time to think through it by myself in order to be ready to discuss it rationally. I doubt I'm the only IT person in this boat. And likewise, if I'm delivering bad news, I end up spending more time worried about reactions that properly explaining myself. So a note in advance, to break the tension, could lead to a more effective conversation, vs. surprising someone. I understand there could be legal reasons why you'd have to terminate someone in person, but outside of that, it's nice to give people time to consider what they'd like to discuss before pulling them into a discussion.
Amen, brother. This is very true. What you did or didn't do, and what they arrested you for, or prosecuted you for, are often wildly different things.
Slaves of Sparta (1861)
I agree that debs that were audited and distributed in the package manager are better in that way. I guess my objection is that "curl https://getmic.ro | bash" often gets a hostile reaction here on HN whereas "wget https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases/download/v2.0.10/... && dpkg -i micro-2.0.10-amd64.deb" does not.
I lost my ke... wait, no it was a cell in a county jail awaiting trial.
I'm new to this so asking earnestly, but:

>That hydrogen is grey hydrogen from fossil fuels usually, but the actual Haber process does not use any hydrocarbons. Using hydrogen to make ammonia is therefore not a new process. It literally IS the process we use today.

It seems like this grey hydrogen still ultimately comes from fossil fuels. It might be further up the chain, so to speak, but it's still dependant on them. No? So doesn't the statement that raising fossil fuel prices raise fertilizer prices true then?
I agree it can be pretty easy to set up a basic version of this, but eliminating edge cases, optimizing, and unit testing can make it take significantly longer.
> a lot of people would rather have a small room without a window that's properly private than a marginally bigger one that you share with an asshole roommate.

Not an American, so maybe I missed some cultural thing here - but what does one have to do with the other? Single-occupancy bedrooms with windows seem to be the standard in many European countries at least.
I mainly use it as an english dictionary of math terminology.

Although for the basics of differential geometry like the Weingarten equations and the Dupin indicatrix WA is lacking - as is Wikipedia except for the articles in the german Wikipedia.
And I haven't found a way to get to the 'Weingarten equations' searching for 'Weingarten', you only find him by the full name 'Julius Weingarten'. :(

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weingartenabbildung
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weingarten+equations
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indikatrix
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=dupin+indikatrix
I don't know about "hacks", rather observations.

If most people didn't have to work to survive, they wouldn't know what to do with the time. An observation about slavery is that you've traded in the burden of responsibility that liberty introduces for the comfort of not having to worry about what to do with yourself

It's easier to just go do what you're told than it is to determine what must be done. Most people actually prefer that way of living. Left to themselves, they'd either become paralyzed with indecision, or they'd piss their lives away indulging their appetites and possibly commit suicide.
The tool is useless. Bypass instruction for the TPM checks etc. are on MS website since release day.
Anyone with basic windows knowledge could do it since the win11 iso leaked.
A few years back, I commuted almost every week between Boston and NYC on Amtrak (~80 trips total) and had a very different experience.

I took the NE Regional instead of Acela because it was $49 each way and only ~30 minutes longer than Acela. With the exception of blizzards (which wreaked havoc on everything), there were only a handful of times the train didn't arrive within 30 minutes of schedule (a delay of 10-20 minutes was pretty normal - but I just factored that into my schedule).

In that period, I flew the same trip maybe 5 or 6 times, and that was more unpredictable. Once, my flight was delayed by over an hour. Another time, I spent almost two hours in a Lyft getting from JFK into Manhattan due to construction.

Plus, there was the stress of trying to get to the airport on time on both ends. And worrying about whether there'd be a line at security, and trying to figure out what I'd do if I missed my flight. On the other hand getting to South Station and Penn Station was easy, I could walk right onto the train, and if I thought I was going to miss a train, I could just switch my ticket to the next one.
You might not trust Google, but you cannot stop doing business with them unfortunately.
If you are a publisher you need Google's traffic, and if you don't play by their rules you run with disadvantage with your competitors.
Why can’t you just say what the topic is ahead of time? It’s still not any better, just more bro-y
JFYI, the "official" date is 1889.

It was in occasion of the visit of the King (and Queen) of the recently formed Kingdom of Italy to Naples.

The first pizza (pizza Margherita, so later named after the name of the Queen) "novelty" was not the tomato in itself, but rather the tomato together with mozzarella cheese and basil, as symbols of the three colours of the Italian flag, white, red and green.

Too bad that it is nothing but a story, pizza, including a version with these same toppings existed at least since some 100 years before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_Margherita

though it was not particularly common, because the mozzarella cheese was costly even then.

Plainer pizzas (called by different names), with just tomato or only garlic and oil were common not only in Naples, with the exception of the cheese all ingredients (flour, water, tomato, garlic, olive oil) were ubiquitous and cheap not only in southern Italy, but all aroud the Mediterranean Sea.
> loops

Don't
Google isn't a subscription service either, and people lose access to their Google account for completely arbitrary reasons, seemingly without recourse. I believe it's the same risk

I do make a habit out of using the Backup Games option in the Steam client, but I usually do that more as a caching strategy to save myself the 30GB download in the future than addressing the risk of my Steam account going poof
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26270793?seq=4#metadata_info_ta...

It isn't hard to imagine how collection of space debris could be leveraged for adversarial purposes while retaining a semblance of innocence.
When you buy it from the government, at least there is a veneer of it having come from democratically elected leaders and going back to a pot of resources that are democratically spent.

As in there was zero reason for the government to give Clear a cut of the money, other than outright corruption. They already have the department of homeland security.
> Munger said he based the dorm’s design on the Unité d'Habitation in Marseille by Le Corbusier.

Well there’s your problem. Le Corbusier’s designs were beautiful dystopias.
This isn’t the US though. It’s Sweden.
I have seen situations where the person was immediately escorted out, but it was for competitive security purposes. They still got paid for their 2 weeks. That seems fine, if a little paranoid.
That’s promoting school choice. (Which I support)

A very political topic. As one side is very against it
The WP article explains that it was just to work around a bill forbidding surface rail on that route.
Since I encountered Ada in the late 80s, I've often wondered how this would work out over a long lived project, even when I was young and full of confidence and the expectation that long lived was going to be a thing of the path.

C has been a headache in many ways, but one thing I've noticed is that there are many examples of very, very long-lived C projects, and not very many examples of very, very long-lived projects in most other languages (IBM, obviously, will disagree here, and COBOL). Some of that is related to C being a good fit for generating economic value at the beginning of the era that would now qualify as very long lived (20+ years, 30+ years), I'm sure, but it is interesting to consider that parts of some languages will not age well.
If you draw comparisons to say, tortillas(i do), they go way, way back, at least 12k years if wiki is to be believed.
For those interested in some of the challenges facing schools and the attempts to improve them, I found this documentary very interesting: Waiting for Superman. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/waiting_for_superman

And on school choice see Milton Friedman: https://youtu.be/SEZnis9-9Gc
Wrong or right, this is what we get not taxing rich - they get to decide what is good for us and our children.
it seemed like they didn't quite understand the concept of rack units to me either
I adopted my philosphy for randomness (synonymous with luck in my opinion) during an intro to stats class. We were going over error bars for linear regression, and that is how I think of randomness - so when I wish someone luck, I'm hoping that whatever model they used to prepare for their "event", that their end result is the better end of the error bars.
Yeah WSL2 and the promised android apps support seem really interesting.