skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right in criticizing me for not being proportionate enough. I did not take the time to make my post more nuanced. So let me clarify.

I do not believe that the HK protests were mainly due to US sponsorship (even if they were a contributing factor). My point was rather that it's unreasonable to expect a country to not respond to foreign sponsorship with security measures.

I do not believe that the HK protests were mainly undemocratic. However, the undemocratic and violent faction had effectively taken over, while the actually democratic faction failed in reigning this former faction in, so in my opinion trying to rhetorically separate them is a waste of time.

I do not agree with you that the CCP's popularity in the mainland is fake. There are multiple studies that show that their popularity is real.[1][2] The difference is between mainlanders and Hong Kongers is that many Hong Kongers don't have first-hand experience with how the mainland is governed and how the mainland has improved, and that the media regularly injects disinformation. Mainlanders know about Hong Kong, but they disagree. You can blame it on propaganda, but even mainlanders who have moved outside the mainland and who have been exposed to western media, don't tend to change their stance on Hong Kong.

[1] https://ash.harvard.edu/files/ash/files/final_policy_brief_7...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/05/did-pande...

What bugs me most is that the criminals are getting away with a good reputation in the west, who wholly paints them as "pro-democracy freedom fighters".

It also bugs me that a lot (not sure how many, but a lot) of protesters don't know what sort of freedom they want. Check the Keybros interview I linked: why could none of the 100 protesters articulate what concrete freedoms they are missing? Why are the protesters mostly younger people who have never lived under British colonial times? There is something deeply disingenuous among a part of the protester movement. I hope they can recognize that economic trouble (e.g. cage houses) is one of the reasons, and I hope that Hong Kong will do something about that. If these protesters think that life in Britain is really better, then they should experience it firsthand and come to their own conclusion on whether their protest was right or not.

What I hope for is more reconciliation between mainland and Hong Kong. I even hope that Hong Kong will get more democracy, namely universal suffrage and a strong Common Law-based rule of law environment. However I want Hong Kongers to be honest about things, and I want more democracy/rule of law at the same time as a Hong Kong that is proud of being part of China, and at the same time where criminals aren't swept under a rug for political reasons. One Country Two Systems, not Two Country Two Systems.
That’s awesome!

I’m running it on an older iPad Mini (Safari, on the
latest OS), and it works fine.
Next holiday try Shanghai in winter.
How can a 2GHz machine have trouble playing Quake 3? It was designed for ~400MHz, after all.
When you say new do you mean "This product didn't exist before and here it is, new"?

I read it as "a new method" and left kinda disappointed if I'm honest
Some good points, though giving a platform for people to upload and view "beheading videos", is implicitly condoning it.

Should the the platform condone such things?... To me no they shouldn't condone some things, even if they are true.

The dark web is the indescriminant place that you're looking for that contains the dark unaltered truth's of the world...
Wireguard to your home network is a must if you're into homelab/self-hosting, and no harder to set up than any one of the services you'll have set up on your home network. I love having direct access to my home network from my phone.
Yeah I could have framed my original response better.

I have hiked above the arctic circle but not during winter time. Then I would look towards what you are using. ;) You do seem to hike a little heavier than me, but that could be a seasonal thing. When I go for a 10 day summer trip my pack is around 19-23kg, enough stuff to deal with weather around 0C and rain storms.
ublock Origin also does the trick of blocking YouTube ads. And is free. Both as in free speech and in free beer. :)
Do these snapshots or models even matter anymore? Are snapshots from training some image generating model really useful to anyone and arent there already newer and better models out?
VSCode has debugging built in and can connect to various runtimes.

Not that I ever use that - I prefer sticking with the language native tools, and I rarely require anything beyond inspecting runtime values and simple benchmarking.

Maybe this comes from the perspective of Java, where you need an IDE to do proper debugging, building/starting an application requires a gazillion command line arguments, and you have layers upon layers of abstraction to drill through? Those are pains worth taking away, but don't apply to all languages or platforms.
> Someday maybe it'll be possible to accelerate guest Windows DirectX graphics without hardware support for SRIOV. That'll be great for my CAD workloads.

Maybe you could already try to use DXVK on the windows guest, plus this Vulkan passtrough.

I know that some Windows users successfully use dxvk to sidestep drivers issues: it's mostly a drop-in DLL.

Edit: although I don't think there is a windows driver for this yet. Given recent progress made on building mesa on windows, that might change soon.
We are building our new management Travel App
I use it with pi-hole [1], and as a Tailscale [2] bridge.

I tried to use it as an alternative workstation (running on sway over arch); the 4K display output is nice, but limited to 30hz, and the machine just isn't peachy enough for my use-case.

[1] https://pi-hole.net/
[2] https://tailscale.com/
Have you waited for indexing to finish?
I really don't the point of this service. Have you faced any use case of it in real world?
Vscode is more than suitable for big projects, Its not just for hello world projects. VSCode is best tool for TypeScript/JavaScript/Dart.
For Java/C# it probably is not.
Huh, just the other day i was talking about how JetBrains products succeed in being some of the best IDEs around, but fail at the use case of just wanting to edit text files, where Notepad++, Visual Studio Code, Emacs, Sublime and vim could all be preferable to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29362960

And then JetBrains come out with this... That's certainly pleasant to see!
My new door has a mechanism where you first have to pull the handle up to engage this hook-like bolt and then lock the door with key or knob. I thought it was a bit tedious but now I finally understand the purpose. The bolt would prevent the door from being pulled apart from the frame easily.
Assuming you are using the squeeze bottle method, as the below linked comment says, put 8 oz distilled into the plastic bottle, then nuke about 25 secs to reach approx 100 degrees F. After you do this a few times you will learn exact amount of time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29375614
It's more reasonable to expect them to make 35-45K pre taxes, 20-25k after taxes. With a COL of a working class person around 17.5-20k.

Most people in software, or any tech field, are barely middle class let alone retiring aged 50.
This bug is quite telling: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-276949 It is marked as fixed but it is not yet released. If you look inside, you will see that HTTP Proxy authentication has been broken for almost a year. Many corporate users are behind such proxies, and they suffer.

This kind of bugs should be utmost priority, because they directly impact the cashflow.
get the same solution/result of the others but quicker with so far more ease
That's what someone said about Cracktorio. I think we spent like 40 hours on the demo.
> When compared to VS Code and its remote editing over SSH, IntelliJ was really lacking. I know of a couple of people who went away from PyCharm just because of this.

What issues did they have?

PyCharm in particular has had a "remote interpreter" feature for a while which works quite well. The text is edited locally but the interpreter and libraries are installed on the remote end. It then brings back whatever it needs for code analysis, so performance when editing is the same as local dev.

The story isn't so great for other languages, though.
IntelliJ is clunky as ef, and slow as hell. It's really powerful but feels really ancient, and isn't native on anything. I hate Java. I hope this is their attempt to completely bypass the old platform and create a new product from scratch, starting with vscode parity but eventually reaching the power of IntelliJ and replacing it wholesale.

I don't know if that's their actual intent, but I can hope.
That's great. Not all methodological insights get adopted by applied studies. Thanks for pointing this out!
I think something similar happened to the Warzone 2100 RTS.
> Trucks, in particular, are often not even equipped with side mirrors in the first place.

Maybe mandating side mirrors (or rather enforcing this mandate - I can't quite believe that side mirrors are optional for roadworthiness, even in India) would be a better point to start with, rather than outlawing the phrase "Horn OK Please"?
Why would anyone need real-time collaboration in IDE? Is it helpful?
It can be stable, profitable, and growing and you might still be burned out, or have an even better idea you want to focus on, or just want a change.
Can video producers get free beer with 0 ad revenue?
Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
> But PinePhone (and likely this is going to apply to the PinePhone Pro, too) is THE development platform for so many mobile Linux projects/distributions.
Linux is designed to be portable, so if it’s good software it’ll go to better phones. Nobody cares that Librem 5’s is THE development platform for phosh, open source is software, it holds no power to have worst hardware.

> Hardware features do not matter if there’s no software support.

That’s why Linux isn’t better than an android custom rom for modern devices. There are zero benefits, many more problems, no apps, and on worst more expensive hardware. Who benefits by using Pine or Linux mobile if they can run more on android or iOS? It’s why the hardware and software currently both do not matter, and the current dated hardware looks even worst when everyone knows it’ll go to better hardware; pine knew it was useless to stay on the hardware themselves. Support on owned or cheaper used devices is much more interesting, with unsupported hardware gaining new life rather than buying new devices that don’t work and are the equivalent of an untrained retiree becoming a perfect worker around retirement age.
Why? Because I'm a second class citizen in a java IDE. No thanks. The marketing is also quite clear on the target audience https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/
Invisible Influences: against typical-minding
In the current state of things, having a straightforward website is a competitive advantage. There's a reason I prefer StackOverflow links and completely avoid Pinterest.

The website I live from counters all of these patterns. Nothing appears above or in the content, only below it. There are no popups, no calls to actions and no GDPR notices. It's just one page of uninterrupted text. Everything else appears under the article. This has worked really well for me.

The way I see it, if your business model involves adding friction, you're doing something wrong.
The main known facilitators for those virus mutations are on one hand the number of contaminations (particularly cross-species but not only), and on the other when the infection lingers in one individual due to a compromised immune system. Considering how at its worst the vaccine reduces the length of the infection, it's entirely implausible that it would also increase the likelihood of mutations. Not impossible, but very implausible. Is there a precedent for this kind of things?
Even I have Kotlin downloaded, and I've never ever used it.

Number of downloads is a rather poor proxy for actual usage.
There’s a reason airbnb is the recognized brand being discussed. Yes, competitors have existed before. But Airbnb made it popular, easy, and safe enough for any random person. Pre-airbnb scale of VRBO was barely a blip on the hotel market.
I've tried a RPI 3b for backups & home server, but found it too slow. Also backup drives connected over USB are said to be unreliable. Since then moved to slightly bigger, but fanless & low power motherboard, with intel x86, in mITX form factor. Asrock sells a bunch of motherboard models with J-series processors. Its more expensive though
Game Localization: How to Succeed
In our new article, you’ll hear from leading video game localization experts Marina Ilari, and Ewa Dacko, discover the importance of game localization, what elements you need to localize aside from the in-game text, and more.
The last time I compared the Python support in VSCode to PyCharm, the difference was still very huge when it came to more complex situations, where PyCharm usually handled the situation much better.

And also the speed. PyCharm was by far much faster (I mean specifically the code parsing, auto completion, etc).
Prices went up because real estate prices went up because people sold - not the other way around.
It's orders of magnitude more powerful than machines that can run Doom or Quake. The ports you have tried must be terrible.
Looks interesting, but where can I actually watch this documentary?

Nothing on Vimeo, Youtube, Amazon, TPB/RARBG/XDCC, zero mention of any sources on their website. The site does not even carry a date of publication. (I mean, what are the basic infos one wants to have about films? Is it really so hard? ...)
another interesting thing is that in parts of the south it's "sound ok horn" instead.
How Twitter Spreads Love?
Depends on construction standards. I can’t find my source, but my understanding is that passive house is 3-4x better ACH than a typical recently built house in the UK when you take as built measurements of typical usuage patterns.

Heat recovery ventilation is an available technology and it’s not practical in the winter to sit in a house with the windows wide open, even with the heating on full so no-one will actually do it.
I’m only guessing here, but within 5-15 years I think there will be! At reasonable prices. Time will tell :)
I have worked with many power-users in allegedly "non-technical" roles.

I don't think that they are disappearing; life will find a way. Although, I do think that the median software is becoming harder to automate or stitch together (at least for someone without existing scripting knowledge). Tools that do have APIs don't offer a nice, smooth gradient from beginner to "power-user" that anyone could find themself pulled up.

An exception to this is Excel, which I believe exposes this "gradient" rather well.
It's terribly slow on my Monterey OSX Safari, yet flawless on Chrome.
I think LibreOffice did it quite well with the ability to change the UI layout.
I wonder if this a reaction to Microsoft gaining developer mindshare through VSCode, Github codespaces and other integrations around VSCode?

It could also have been a response to requests for better remote development support due to the WFH situation in the last ~1.5 years.

Don't know if there is a way for use to know which one though.
Another issue that hits IntelliJ IDEA corporate customers is WSL2 support.

While VS Code has great WSL2 support, IntelliJ IDEA can not even show proper error messages when opening Maven projects inside WSL2.

See https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-267333
Ooh there is a name for that style! Didn’t know that.

I see it everywhere. It feels very generic most of the time. Some graphic artists do it well though.
friggen beautiful !
So Facebook hoovering up Instagram and WhatsApp is fine, but we draw the line at, of all things, GIFs? Seems like backwards priorities and tokenism to me.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that they don't understand, merely that a different viewpoint was expressed:

> ...there is clearly a lack of understanding of what an IDE gives you.

This is most definitely true for many people who have largely gotten used to dynamic languages and have only used text editors or have only experienced VS Code with plugins, because it's wonderfully easy to run and use, even if its feature set is lesser than that of many of JetBrains' products.

Where it all gets a bit muddier is finding the distinction between "not knowing" and "not caring/needing".

For many use cases out there, VS Code with plugins will be more than enough!

But for working on an enterprise Java/.NET/... codebase and applying refactoring across dozens if not hundreds of files, something a bit more might be necessary. When working with the Eldritch abomination that the Spring framework and its many integrations are, you better have tooling that provides you with smart hints, fixes and autocomplete suggestions, as well as context sensitive parsing of your dozens of XML/YAML configuration files and their values.

When you're trying to trace down a race condition across hundreds of proxied Java classes, where the framework rewrites and calls your code with reflection so it's really hard to actually debug anything outside of your code, you better have a good debugger and the possibility to use conditional breakpoints, otherwise if you can only catch any type of exception, you'll be sitting there for half an hour just to get to the specific state that you're looking for.

Edit: i'd say that all of the autocompletes and suggestions (e.g. "you can use a lambda here", or "you don't need all of this cruft for implementing a functional interface") can actually be beneficial to getting to know a language or a framework better.
The UI is probably written with compose https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb
From his earlier blog post: “The chain allows the atom to absorb photons and send electrons into excited states where they're delocalized — spread over the whole chain. The longer the chain, the lower energy these excited states have, so the redder the molecule is. The β-carotene in carrots is orange while lycopene, being longer, is red.”

Does that mean you can tune the EMF resonance based on the length of the chain? How low can you go?
I really enjoy working with Inkplate [1]. Besides showing photos, you can show all kinds of information like weather, calendar and whatever. Takes some coding but at least you can customize it for your needs.

[1] https://inkplate.io/
In Rajasthan I saw "Horn Please" everywhere, usually without "OK". And that's the title of a book about the colourful trucks of the subcontinent: http://www.hornpleaseindia.com/
Mate, this is beautifal !
> do not understand why a certain paid IDE could be better, because they never tried it

Same goes for most vim/emacs vs. ide discussions :)
Mysterious Computer Could Prove Time Travel Exists
Before: FB doesn't own the market, so this acquisition is all good.

After: FB now owns the market; how did we let them become a monopoly!?
Really? I'm using their IDEs on Fedora 35 with Wayland. Seems to be working fine.
It's probably good you've given up. Too many surgeries can mean a serious problem outcome like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_nose_syndrome

It sounds like you may already have some symptoms of that?
Essence – An experimental OS built for control and simplicity [video]
No idea what that means, but I don’t see the relevancy or mind if it’s not, with corporations contributing most of the code like Microsoft and hardware companies such as Intel.
Yes, but they are more like a Rolls Royce than a Model T Ford.

There's no mass production, and we really need to ask why.
Keyne West is a well-known creative genius
It's a device for children to get them into computing. Do you always buy things you have no use for?

Also, is everyone missing that this is about the Raspberry Pi 400. Why are half the comments about Raspis in general and running servers on them etc?
Accessibility Myths
Case for Simplicity and Client Satisfaction
I tend to agree.

It's a bit like the dynamic vs. static typing situation. New comers often prefer languages like Python at first for their simplicity, only to "rediscover" that static typing is so much more manageable later in their career.
My best christmas gift.
A discussion of WebKit and its features would make this far less clickbait-y: https://webkit.org/status

Noting, however, that I use Firefox and Thunderbird as my daily-driver applications, and Edge + Safari when I must.
Way we're going, about like when they made the pendant, except with guns and distilled alcohol.
Unmanned high-speed vessel achieves breakthrough in dynamic cooperative techno
I would say it's molecular biology that investigates what the virus actually does; while evolutionary biology is an attempt of explaining, mostly retrospectively, how an organism has changed over time, and possibly what has driven this change. My understanding is that evolutionary biology is kinda like statistics in the sense that it can tell you the distribution of the outcomes of tossing a coin, but it can't tell you whether the next flip of the coin will be the heads or the tails. And what we are usually most concerned about practically is not how the virus will behave over a long period of time, but what the outcome of the next flip will be.
Someone is getting too scared from VSCode and decided to counter-attack.
In many places no cars have mirrors. They get smashed off by other cars promptly. Driving is more akin to number cars
True; but from what I've seen it seems most people who start businesses have a very hard time letting them go, even when they are doing badly; but I guess there are circumstances where it makes sense to sell out.
Does it have support for LSP?
In that case you could just use a proper PC.
"Indian drivers rarely use their side mirrors"

Doesn't matter if the mirrors are there or not if culturally people don't use them.
The thing is that Apple is kind of moving towards making RAM the level 4/5 cache. It’s becoming more and more important to tie RAM closely to CPU to reduce power consumption and lower latency. That’s naturally going to make RAM size grow more slowly than it did before and make it non-upgradable.

I think the solution is to increase the amount of caching RAM on NVM storage, so the NVM acts more like RAM used to.

So I really don’t think what Apple is doing with regards to RAM is a problem. But they should have a user replaceable NVM slot. Perhaps tiered with a soldered on NVM chip so you can cache some of the data on a low power, low latency NVM.
This argument is completely without merit.

Facebook makes money from mining the data you generate while using their platform.

If you're not using _their_ platform, you're not making _them_ money.

To combat WhatsApp and Instagram, Facebook tried the Facebook App. It didn't work (people still used WhatsApp and Instagram a great deal more than the facebook app). Instead of figuring out why, they just bought the platforms out and forcefully integrated them.

Which clearly violates the Clayton Act.

"But why didn't the FTC intervene" because old people don't understand tech and new things will always confuddle the outgoing gatekeepers.

Those purchases gave them data they previously didn't have access to. Which gave them MUCH more control in the advertising market.

I expect boomers and the like to not understand this, but to hear "facebook isn't a monopoly" on HN is fascinating.

How else do you describe the centralisation of the internet via Google and Facebook? Innovation? Really? Despite all the evidence in leaks and statements?
Giphy hosts images on thousands and thousands of other websites.

They're buying analytics access to further enable them to profile their users, sell that as an advertising platform.

Instagram, WhatsApp give deep profiles into their users but they're pretty up front about what they can do. CDNs need to be treated in special ways. They can leak information back to someone like FB and deanonymise activity.
What's wrong with a phone or a PC?