skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have written several 500 page documents in libreoffice both as sole author and as one of two or three primary contributors. It works quite well because it is easy to define styles and virtually never apply direct formatting. There would no doubt need to be a plugin to force this behavior in a large group. Multiple Indices and Tables of Contents were also well supported. More advanced tooling can still be used since it is an xml based file format (like MS office at this point I believe). For example I could write a complex regex to create different rules for applying an index without too much fuss. On most or all of those docs I was collaborating with others (editors etc) using track changes. It worked fine for us. But that was always under a dozen people in the group. There are various simple odt to git solutions available.

Now I am not necessarily advocating this path, but we were philosophically opinionated on this point in our groups, so we were happy to do it.

Latex is not excellent for authoring, although I understand it can be a necessary evil for documents with a lot of formulas or other difficult to format constructs. There is a lot to be said for the simplicity of a WYSIWYG editor when writing, so you can focus cleanly on the content you are trying to write.
Its funny since I find this comment to be the most normie way of living ever, being under the boot of people who don't give a shit about you.
>The only problem with my theory is that this effect (ie. not wasting time) lasts a couple of days after returning from a trip. This should not happen because you are in the same context as when you were liberally wasting time.

When you return back home, home is somewhat a different experience from the day to day drudgery. I think it's just that our brains hate boring routines and modern capitalism has made your life extremely Specialized and routine.
No one else is selling laptops period that can match the M1 Pro in performance and efficiency. Much less the M1 Max.
Using OAuth2 for solving first party sign in is such a pain. Synchronizing refresh token requests, storing sessions on top of your access token, going through a consent grant, making sure you use the right flow (implicit is out? auth code? with pkce? without?)

There is some really good open source software emerging like https://github.com/ory/kratos which has APIs for native app flows, single page apps, server side apps and doesn‘t rely on protocols intended for completely different things such as „allow CircleCI access to my Gitlab repositories“.

Is it really worth investing in OAuth2 these days just because Auth0 pours millions in marketing? I highly question it…
That's what I was thinking as well. There's also an interview somewhere on YouTube with Ken Thompson talking about this game and he goes off on a bit of a tangent talking about it. Really fun to hear him talk about it.
Left and Right Agree Selling Bodies Are Wrong – For Different Reasons
> I guess the global menu ignores notch in the middle and displays sections anyway?

Yep, but that's not really an issue on KDE since most widgets will avoid the center of your bar unless you explicitly tell something to display there. I'm sure some frustrated MBP owner will push a fix for it in the future though, it's just a matter of time.

> The difference in fonts between KDE and macOS is visible here at first sight

Well, in this screenshot it is. As you can see, there's no GPU acceleration on anything here, which means they've probably got subpixel AA disabled (and obviously aren't running San Francisco system-wide). You can configure the two to be frighteningly similar though, in my experience.
Fantastic detail! Thanks for that.
Scrolling through the thread, this is my favorite so far.

I like that it avoids counterproductive dependencies for loading a dotfile within the app. This is an operation that should be done at the same level as launches the Python interpreter, and Python should then complain if required envs are not set.
I say we vote bomb Brandons WH Vids, and the next YTRewind, let Mama Susan have her "win" while it's clear to everyone else that the joke is on them.
Apple won't stop until it makes third-party iPhone screen repairs impossible
Well, except Alaska.
That is impressively light. My opafiets is 30kg.
Running container outside a VM is my use case too.

Would love to see some performance numbers.
> The study says nothing about the symptoms being psychological.

> It says that people who self-diagnosed as having COVID-19 attributed those symptoms to COVID-19 whether or not they showed antibodies for the virus.
> But working with other lawyers/parties could be a challenge. I am not certain how Libreoffice could handle a 500 page memo being worked by 50+ people including thousands of track changes/comments. I even stumble upon bugs in MS Word while working on such documents.

I stumble on bugs in Word Online with far, far fewer participants (e.g. 2).

Confluence holds up very well.
No vdom, proxy based, self contained, and absolutely no need for any kind of parsing for templates.

The overall code composition is quite different if you take a closer look.
I need Word all day. I need to copy and paste from excel and acrobat. I need merge from Outlook, etc.

Most of what many many attorneys do involves Word. If everything you’re doing is in the VM, what’s the point?
Thought experiment:

Imagine that a flaw is exposed in a cheap slot machine that slightly shifts the odds in the player's favor. Because of the low bet value in the slot machine, the rewards ends up being something like $10/hour.

Case A:
The bug neutralizes the slot odds and adds a constant $0.005 usd that accumulates every pull. Times 30 pulls per minute times 60 pulls per hour = 9 bucks an hour.

Case B:
The reward neutralizes the odds but adds a random $600 drop with 1/126,000 probability (ie, once a week).

The expected value of both games is the same, but I feel like people would get addicted to the second while the first would feel like a job.
I'm not sure I totally understand your point here. How did 150 years of gasoline usage help lead the world to be green?

And we as of yet have not changed to 100% nuclear and/or recyclable and don't have the technology yet to achieve that goal of nuclear energy for "4 billion years"
https://twitter.com/smod4real

This guy, right?
Apple seems to draw so much actual pure hate...

It's like, I can understand hating an oil company or something like that, but Apple? Geez.
Filecoin and other storage crypto coins are trying to address this.
Definitely not my experience, and I don't pay for any Apple services. I had the Apple TV+ app installed for a while and I thought it was a bit annoying they used notifications to advertise new TV shows, but I did have the free Apple TV+ trial at the time.
We care less because for the most part everyone is much better off than we used to be. Material wealth is easier to acquire and with less physical effort.
This prints:

Me too
I love Geeksforgeeks

The s introduced in f is local to the function unless you use the nonlocal or global keyword with it. To do otherwise seems like a really bad idea to me...
Coros claims to have worked around this. I was shopping for a new watch a few months ago when my old Garmin died due to physical damage. They got back to me too late, but they claim to be able to filter notifications on iOS. Had they replied sooner, I probably would have gotten a Coros rather than another Garmin.
1) there are no working thorium reactors 2) breeder reactors are hazardous 3) uranium seawater extraction doesn't exist 4) if uranium seawater extraction were made to work it would use enormous amounts of energy not reflected in this.

The depressing truth is this shows that current uranium oxide reserves and nuclear tech could supply global energy needs for only 6 years.
Probably the same as the ratio of Stanley Nickels to Schrute Bucks.
I tried you.com about a month ago in beta. Even made it a default browser for 2 days.

I like the concept but for me it is too early. It's also complicated because as a citizen of non-English speaking European country I need to be able to search in my native language. Understandably, the search quality is much worse in my native language than in English.

Also, as with DDG before, I realised how much of a feature the personalisation of Google results is. Alternative engines often sell lack of personalisation as an advantage, and I see the point, but it also means less relevant results.
> Their main profit is in selling the hardware

Not anymore - it's now about selling services to get recurring income. E.g. App Store (to extort money from developers), Apple Care, Apple Pay and iCloud (from users) etc.

That is why they are locking down the Mac systems too, and making it a closed system like the iPhone / iPad platform. They have been doing this for a while now. The only thing that now differentiates an M1 mac to an iPad or iPhone is that the bootloader is not locked on the M1, and so you can still theoretically install another OS. (Ofcourse, the practical reality is that due to the closed box nature of the M1 Apple Silicons SoC, non-macOS OS can't exploit the full benefit of the hardware and will always offer subpar performance).
Libre Office is really lacking and lagging compared to MSOffice. I wanted to patch some stuff that need love.
I wrote the above post and I agree 100%

My work has been trying to promote e-learning with ted talk-like videos and I absolutely hate it. It's not just about the speed.

I can learn so much quicker with text. I can skim through the parts I already know and spend more time on the parts I need to carefully consider. With video I need to skip around and it's hard to keep track of what's being discussed then.

I think it's really the younger people in the organisation that ask for it because they're used to youtubes. I rarely watch youtube, probably once a month or so. Makes sense but they try to push it on everyone by setting a goal of so many videos to do.

However even when I was young I thought that classroom teaching was inefficient and I could learn much better myself. One of the problems (also with video) is that you have to slow to the speed of the slowest participant.
Sorry, I don't. Learning how to do that is on my to do list. I've read articles about using Ad Words to validate notions, but have never tried. My own efforts to date have been torturous unending manual trial and error. Not optimal.
Not a technical comment, but wow, Plasma 5 looks great on that hardware.
Edge isn't IE, and it's not Chrome either
Whisky War
These have been submitted in the past month but got no comments:

Restaurants prep for long-term labor crunch by turning to robots - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/22/restaurants-looking-for-labo...

Rise of the Robots Speeds Up in Pandemic with U.S. Labor Scarce - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-06/rise-of-t...
Rumor has it that this tiktok video[0] was the cause of the pause and eventual disbandment of iBuyer program.

[0]https://www.tiktok.com/@seangotcher/video/700785597830984832...
>Please check our Twitter feed for the latest information.

https://mobile.twitter.com/internetarchive/

But no further info there, right now.
That seems to be the goal of Chrome OS.

Unfortunately, Chrome OS prioritizes simplicity over functionality, so most of the non-technical users I talk to complain that it's not enough to replace windows.

Something like Ubuntu with a really good wine interface would be much more valuable to the average user.
You need to think of why smaller communities can’t have the tools to have their own governance and constitution, derived from standard factories with possibly just some parameters changed (like the YC SAFE but as a smart contract). These rules would be also part of their constitution, just as the requirement for a warrant limited in scope to search places and effects is part of the US constitution. We need to log who decrypted things and why, minute by minute, camera by camera. And there have to be clear rules as to who is authorized do it.

Oh, and the roles and permissions should be stored on a community blockchain, not a centralized database:

https://github.com/Intercoin/CommunityContract
Possibly. There was this HN news article from a short time ago [0]

"The vast majority of the favicons offered up by websites are PNG. 71.6% of <link rel=”icon”> images are PNG. 21.1% of /favicon.ico files are secretly PNGs, including Reddit’s. Strangely, only 96.1% of Apple touch icons are PNG. Presumably the other 4% are broken."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28933391
Here I'd like to separate it from those frameworks that require a "compiler" to work...

Sorry for mistaken "vanilla" for different meanings...
Consider a present where lawyers just need to get their work done
if your endgame goal is solely more money and have a slave like life where you can't make any choice, then i don't think any of that matter at all anyways

but you can still save money by not being dependent on their bloated (now you need better hw) and more expensive offering (now you dependent on their bloated cloud infrastructure)

but hey, that's just my opinion, we can still have choice, right, right?
Aren't breeder reactors mostly still on the drawing board? I get that they're very promising, but my understanding is that there remain some non-trivial issues to work out around corrosion and so on.

Anyway, I'm totally a believer in nuclear power for a greener future (yay Michael Schellenberger), but we need to keep these discussions honest: the path forward is to right now be building hundreds of copy-paste instances of existing, proven designs, not making the discussion about what might be possible with technology that's in development or not really in use at scale.
In the UK this recently led to a £100,000 fine: "A judge has ruled that security cameras and a Ring doorbell installed in a house in Oxfordshire 'unjustifiably invaded' the privacy of a neighbour ... the devices ... broke data laws and contributed to harassment."[0]

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58911296
It gets even worse. LibreOffice forked from OpenOffice [0]:

> OpenOffice.org Initial release May 2002; 19 years ago

Which itself originated as StarOffice [1]:

> StarOffice Initial release 1985; 36 years ago

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openoffice.org

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice
I can see where you're coming from. Turn on any cable news channel or pick up any major newspaper and the future is scary. But really, is it that bad? Or do they have panic to sell?
“It’s my pretty firm belief,” says Gilliard, “that the police should not be called unless someone’s life is in danger.”

That can seem, to some, like a noble if naive thought. Yet Gilliard offers a retort. “The likelihood that it was a Brown or Black person who egged my car, based on where I live, is pretty high,” he says. “When you call the police on a Black or Brown person, there’s a good chance you are putting their life in danger. I don’t think that is a thing one should do lightly.”

The mental gymnastics of well-intentioned paternalism is humorous to see in practice. If it’s rational not to call the cops in this situation because the risk of negative externalities is far too great, then two conclusions are possible: (1) black/brown people are rational actors and they know the chance of getting caught/punished is very low, thus are incentivized to continue breaking the law, thus creating a vicious cycle where more law breaking begets more leniency, which begets more law breaking or (2) black/brown people are not rational, and need the benevolence of others to make sure they do not end up in jail.

Either way you slice it, it becomes clear that even well intentioned individuals are mostly acting out of self interest. It’s in the interests of Gilliard to not call the cops because losing a $50 package that will be reimbursed anyway is less important than projecting the image that he deeply cares about black and brown people.
I'm sorry what? I don't know how you come to that conclusion. Time and time again we see someone get called on a welfare check only to be shot to death. People are weaponizing the police because they are not trained to deescalate and their rules are engagement are basically comply or die.
There are pros and cons.

If the population at large didn’t commit crime (in a perfect world) we wouldn’t need policing. Given that’s just fantasy, policing is for now necessary. Distributed citizen policing devolved this back into the citizenry. Is that good, or is it bad? It has both. On the one hand everyone will have biases for and against things. On the other hand, those under threat have better recourse (against stalkers, casing a home, burglaries, etc.)
These lawyers aren't full time employees who would be on the partner track. "Contract attorneys" are hired on a temporary, project by project basis to perform document review for discovery during lawsuits and investigations. Depending on the size of the matter, the work could be done by a small team or even hundreds of reviewers.

They are directly employed by staffing agencies, and those agencies that have contracts with law firms or corporations. Their primary task is to sit in front of a computer and review documents, and disposition those documents based upon the instructions provided by the law firm.

Aside of the fact that the process is overseen by lawyers, document review probably doesn't have to be done by lawyers.
Excellent article.

I would like to read a line or two explaining how this law-firm contributes to the F/LOSS community.
Fujitsu automated scanner I got working pretty well.

Agree with the rest.

I mostly think Lawyers don't really care about technology (except good research tools) and billing tools.
I have a question,

I'm creating a python binding (on linux). The company tool chain uses clang/llvm/libc++ , whereas python is built with gcc.

what should I do? is it ok to statically link libc++ ?
That post strikes me as wildly off the mark. Zillow didn't fail because "many home sellers felt jilted, offended, etc. by this product." They failed because they systematically overpaid for assets. (Anecdotally, the one person I know who sold to Zillow is very happy with his experience; not because the process was perfect, but because they gave him more money than his house is worth.) This post is about the wrong battle ("Why does our conversion rate suck?")

If I were to steel man his argument, I'd say that maybe the bad user experience meant they had to overpay to get people to actually use the product. But he seems very narrowly focused on "this wasn't a good experience for sellers" when that's at most an indirect factor in the failure.
Yeah I know that's an option too but it's annoying... It means it's even more time-consuming because it ties up one hand as well as my attention for the duration of the message.
I was never a fan of ruby until I had to use it at work.

I think my main superficial turn-off was indeed the non-traditional loops and I was a fan of python whitespace indentation.

But on the whole ruby just feels very coherent and language features mesh very well together - it often feels like a true lisp with self-style object orientation done very well [1].

Python otoh feels like an imperative language with classical OOP added on and extended via magic methods.

See e.g. functional programming in python vs ruby with map, filter, reduce and so on and how blocks and procs in ruby interact with those vs lambdas in python.

I still use python often but have to say I tend to miss ruby when I do.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803815
Kinda like Ruby :P
Spinlaunch Orbital
as suggestion, regarding the following code:

Stuff.new().each do |item|

puts item

end

In idiomatic ruby, we drop this parenthesis, so the code will look like Stuff.new.each ...
That sword could have two edges though, if the fed increases the interest rates to curb the inflation, you will end up with an asset that depreciate regardless of your fixed mortgage because a significant number of people will default on their mortgage payment driving down the cost of housing as the banks do repossessions.

Also banks are already increasing their fixed rate significantly to make sure that they don't end up holding the bag.
Python took over Perl's role already in the early 2000s.

Is the new BASIC in what schools are concerned.

There are plenty of domains where it gets used.

However I bet plenty more people are doing data analysis in Excel than Python.
I've found the perfect building to be a 1998 Toyota Carolla - I don't know if that's historically accurate to the BCE era however.
I mean ignoring everything you said right up to the end statement, that's always been the case since the police are under no obligation to protect you.
That’s an absurd statement. As you say, there is no silver bullet. In other words there is no single-threaded solution. We have to do better.
Austria to Impose Lockdowns on Unvaccinated
No form of exponential growth is sustainable; another name for it is "explosion".

In practice, most things that look exponential end up as S-shaped / sigmoid curves
It's incredibly frusturating that this isn't part of the public discourse, where are the pro-nuclear candidates? Which parties are pro-nuclear?
"More than 20 countries have developed nuclear power industries without building nuclear weapons. On the other hand, countries that have built and tested nuclear weapons have followed other paths than purchasing commercial nuclear reactors, reprocessing the spent fuel, and obtaining plutonium. Some have built facilities for the express purpose of enriching uranium; some have built plutonium production reactors; and some have surreptitiously diverted research reactors to the production of plutonium. All these pathways to nuclear proliferation have been more effective, less expensive, and easier to hide from prying eyes than the commercial nuclear power route."

https://www.britannica.com/technology/nuclear-power/Prolifer...
According to that article it sounds like yes, the average went up slightly, but that covers up the real story: some places have decreased funding and some have increased funding.
Can ruby just die and go away already? But atleast it’s not another article stroking Rust’s shaft…
People moving far away and turning their lives around makes a great story for a reason: I'd bet it almost never happens (or happened).
That's a very short duration evolutionarily speaking. We're talking maybe 10K years...we exist as humans how long - a million years?
Newer Tesla batteries are fused per cell, so when a battery dies and it's neighbor cells start dumping charge into it the fuse goes and hopefully that's that. So it's perfectly possible for a single battery to become disconnected from the rest of the pack. But that's not a function of the battery management system, it's purely a safety feature (otherwise the pack would almost certainly go up).
Interesting. I know back in the 80s, law firms were in love with WordPerfect for some reason. When did the switch occur from WP to Word, and why?
I came away from this post with a strong sense that I wouldn't want to work with the author.
Probably because Amazon replaces most of them.
That's super impressive, and extremely useful!
How badly is cryptocurrency worsening the chip shortage?
It’s how landlords work, not software.

Billions of people cannot afford to be online, the environmental toll of consumer gadgets is catastrophic.

You seem to think this is forever. I wish more engineers had gone into plain old physics. Humanity hardly needed more meandering story tellers emotionally decoupled from the real constraints of our reality.

Physical reality always determines our next steps as that’s what provides the information we have to iterate against.
> It works fine 95% of the time.

A phone is a frankly critical device these days. 95% is not good enough for daily driving. I need >99% guarantee that phone calls and text messages will come through and behave appropriately. I need modern apps like Lyft, Spotify, Tesla (“car key”), and banking.