skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Users, given the choice between native and Electron, would overwhelmingly choose the former.

They might choose the former but then what? I would too, as a user, but in practice as the article mentions the alternatives aren't yet that great. So quite often the user can choose between the Electron app... or nothing. Many users accept the drawbacks and in fact it's mostly developers or technical people in general who complain about Electron. Most users don't even know about any of this.
What counts as global poverty in the course of human history?
> they've all but forgotten why we're all here to fail and learn and grow as human beings and find kindred spirits

Speaking of first principles...

Do you really believe that there's a purposeful reason why we are all here, or is that something you choose to live your life by?
Not the OP, but no, I have not. Nor do I intend to. Ever.
> I see Roman coins or Roman era stuff for sale on some FB groups. Frankly, buying them, even if illegal (some countries have laws making anything historical found state property), is not the end of the world provided you don't destroy them.

The problem is that buying these artifacts incentivizes bringing more of them to market. The result is looting of archeological sites. Diggers get their marketable trophies to sell at the cost of destroying the knowledge future archeologists could obtain from the site because it has been jumbled. Recovering looted antiquities is a small consolation as the value of such objects to archeology is severely diminished when they are divorced from their archeological context.

The only ethical thing to do in our current situation, if you value archeology as a method to understanding the past, is not to engage in the antiquities trade and encourage others to do the same.
I usually refer to the streetlight effect as the statisticians' error, or the economist's error---those being two major fields where the data you can get may only be a very poor proxy for the problem.
But entire world has the virus now, every human is a potential "lab" for variants to come.

And I still don't think Omicron is as different from original Sars-Cov-2 as Sars-Cov-2 was to known predecessors.
I agree with all the points. If only sound insulation was better in these old plexes. Hearing someone sneezing (and not only) on the upper floor is not much fun.
Interestingly enough, between 1933 and 1975, it was a criminal offense for U.S. citizens to own or trade gold anywhere in the world, with exceptions for some jewelry and collector's coins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act
I'm a high school student who has a passion for software development. I interned at the University of Waterloo this summer.

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Remote: Open to remote or in-person in the Toronto area

Willing to relocate: No

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Optimizing for fast local development at Lyft
Not really. If we are doing data science for many companies and explainability is an aspect we will likely go for decision trees if the lift for advanced models is minor anyways. We use this (not quite as pretty for visualization but extremely useful to get a grasp if the tree model): https://github.com/parrt/dtreeviz
Linus Tech Tips is attempting something in this field: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt3-6BsWlPk

tl;dw They're building a setup where they can test a bunch of computer equipment with standardised tests (built by them) in a standardised environment (also built by themselves).
> Just try to look up any topic on YouTube, and you'll have to get past the hundreds of mainstream media channels covering the event, before you actually find the original video.

I find this problem extremely frustrating. Does anyone have suggestions for how to easily find primary video sources, instead of the massive heap of commentary that a youtube search yields?
I believe Teams just switched to Edge WebView instead of Electron. The point remains that native applications are starting to only be specialty applications like games, CAD/CAM, Creative Suite, etc where you need a lot of access to compute power.
I don't think it's an antivaxer argument but if you develop the reasoning it really becomes somewhat controversial.

The problem is that vaccines are not completely effective (efficacy goes down with time, is lower against new variants, there are breakthrough infections, etc.) so variant formation is not completely supressed.

Everything being equal (given one exposed or even one infected person) you may have less variant formation with vaccines. But when you have more infections you will end up having more variants.

That the number of infections would increase as people's behaviour adapted to the lower fatality rate was not unexpected: people take more risks because the prognosis of an infection is not so bad anyway, once infected they may have a mild, undiagnosed evolution and still contribution propagation...

And it's no longer an hypothetical scenario. In many European countries there are more infections now than ever before.
Glasses which focus at your computer distance (which varies by personal preference; measure it and take that number to your optometrist) help with presbyopia.

However, there are many other eye ailments which tend to appear later in life and which glasses alone cannot correct: cataracts, macular degeneration, corneal dystrophies, etc. Some are treatable through other means such as surgery.
Author heeyah. Would love your feedback, either here or at @cushychicken on the tweet street.
The frontal area of two spheres of the same mass will be determined by the sphere's density, and that drives the air resistance.

If frontal area didn't matter to drag, wouldn't all spheres would have the same drag coefficient?

From that page:

Cd = D/(rAV^2/2) where A is frontal area.

What am I missing?
I like the analogy, but in many cases the societal ills that defi is trying to solve were caused by software in the first place (e.g. internet advertising as a democracy-eroder). Also, the protectors of the status-quo are putting a lot of software people to work in protecting that status quo, so tempting them to the other side means compatibility with their skillset. Lastly, anyone who would overturn the status quo must provide the people with an alternative that's at least as good. As underdogs, we can't afford to out-hire the banks, so the only way forward is to be more effective on a smaller manpower budget--which probably means leaning on crowd-sourced solutions mediated by software.

It's easy to fall into the trap you're describing, but that doesn't mean that that's what is happening. It looks like the battles here are genuinely shaping up to be fought in software.
I would imagine surely there’s a distro that is just as functional as what you’re imagining Haiku will be one day right? The main issue I find with Linux is app support but that would be worse again with Haiku. What sort of usability issues would you expect to run into with something like Mint? Btw not saying Haiku isn’t cool, it absolutely is. But I see it being a long way behind even the Linux desktop.
I wonder what would happen to the market if suddenly the population was quartered or halved? We have omincron now, I’m just waiting for a variant do mutate and become something ugly like Ebola. I’m also thinking of places like Japan where thousands of houses are abandoned. Surely there are things that could crush the market aren’t there?
* Everyone seems to increasingly be in it for themselves

I was fortunate to have had a career with mild autonomy to help other team members even if it was slightly out of my job description. But this only happens in a shared office environment where you can see when someone is falling behind or overhear a problem. That physical presence also creates a bond with co-workers that's often more powerful than the corporate mission.

But working from home for the past years I feel like I mercenary working among mercenaries. Working with people that have never met and will never meet and for whom work isn't about the mission or the customer. If I get work done early, I now just call it a day. Why bother with ad-hoc testing, documentation, checking in on that new hire, proposing a conference paper, investigating technical debt, etc. It's liberating but it's also depressing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29415031
Nothing in the article mentions anything about fresh burials.
And it is how many learned about RISC-V's existence.

It will be a PR disaster long remembered. One for the textbooks.
Wow, not sure why this guy is sharing quotes that aren't backed up by any data.
I found Jitsi: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet but is a very big projects and not easy to understand.

I need some other alternative solutions, with much fewer codes, that has features like:

[1] webcam streaming

[2] audio streaming

[3] screen sharing

[4] file sharing

[5] messaging

[6] whiteboard

[7] recording

Any help is very appreciated.
Thanks
The good news seems that vaccinated people only seem to get a mild infection.
The experts interviewed in the article the OP posted all agree that a persistent infection in an imunocompromised individual is one of the leading theories. Maybe even more plausible than a reverse zoonotic event.

People with a compromised immune system are a good setting for evolving new variante of coronavirus. They stay sick for a long time (meaning more viral replication and more opportunities for mutation) and they apply a weak immune response which while not sufficient to wipe out the disease, provides selective pressure that rewards immune evasion.

There's a common antivaxxer myth that vaccines promote the creation of new variants and that we would be better off without vaccination. I think it's very important to emphasize that is not the case.
and works much better in performance on a system where you can install an affordable NVME PCI-E 3.0 or 4.0 SSD for the hypervisor and guest VMs. With a raspberry pi4 you're limited to unreliable microSD cards or weird hacks like a SATA3 drive connected by USB3.
As I was reading it I was saying "no, don't do that" even having read the title.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/uk-to-offer-booster-sho...

Three months, available to all adults.

"All adults in the United Kingdom will be able to get their booster Covid-19 vaccine doses three months after their second shot, the government indicated on Monday, in a dramatic acceleration of the country's inoculation drive that comes amid fears over the Omicron variant."
An earlier thread 23 days ago [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29158021
Science is the only and ultimate final authority.

Indeed, praise be to science.

It really is not a bad assumption.

More like a leap of faith.

There literally can not be a higher authority than it by definition.

How [onto]logical.

It is just that it is unethical to do so, so we refrain from it.

Amen, brother. We've got to repress those urges of curiosity to appease glorious science. Praise be to science! Amen.
This piece seems to use "decentralized" and "distributed" interchangeably. These are not entirely the same concept.
Well, we are living through one right now. Empty shelves and stores that close early and restaurants out of business and schools that are hardly teaching our kids.
And I thought I couldn't understand some dialogs because I am an immigrant...
Exactly, a most electron apps work on the browser or have good non electron alternative

I have tried some but that's about it
Inside an Australian Covid camp [video]
The norm in post-WWII North America is to mandate specific quantities of parking per land use type. Some places get really detailed about this.

Here's a map of places that have eliminated parking mandates in some way: https://parkingreform.org/resources/mandates-map/
Because the worst abusers of Electron can afford to have dedicated teams for platforms.

Do you think Slack can't hire enough developers to build native platforms for Mac/Windows/Linux? Spotify? Discord?

I get it for small dev teams to build a cross platform app - but at a certain size, I don't understand why they can't go build native apps that aren't garbage.
I'll point out that:

- LA is already building various large expansions of public transit, as well as walking/biking infrastructure.

- Generally the shops basically come along with the housing. "Activating" the ground floor - putting retail or other public uses into the ground floor of buildings that are residential above is standard practice when building those taller residential buildings along main arteries, on busy corners, and so on.
Those are some crazy numbers. I could build a garage apartment for a bit over 100k in Milwaukee. I could divide my house into 2 units with a few walls and electrical work. Lots of houses have unused or underused attic/garage/conditioned space that can be converted relatively cheaply. My "fully built out" neighborhood has plenty of tear-downs, houses on double or triple lots, and even a few truly vacant lots.

This is not going to double the density of neighborhoods, but it opens options for residents and makes it much easier to add units. Sometimes that won't be worth it economically - even if you want to - but the numbers will work out in many cases.
Should have joined the Theta gang, like most of the relatively sane wallstreetbets degenerates.
When I hear "welfare queen," I think of a black woman. Because I'm racist (sadly).
From that, the racist idea that free services (e.g. universal healthcare) are unduly exploited by black people (or immigrants).
Rust looks like a very popular choice this year: https://aocweb.yulrizka.com/?year=2021&day=1&language=Rust
AKA you can transmit wide signals and take up the whole band :P

The 300bps limit doesn't make sense anymore, but an occupied bandwidth limit sure does...
But grassroots campaigns and protests do result in change. Not quickly enough for many people, but if your alternative is burning everything down....
I think that's a totally valid opinion.

The advantage to people is that they can more flexible.

The disadvantage to people is that they can be more irrational.
Idk, I enjoyed that. Looking forward to the last bits of the comic!
> The mongols killed up to 2 million people in less than two weeks

I very much doubt that account. The Holocaust was 15,000 deaths-per-day at its peak, and that was a fully industrialized gas-and-bury operation.

2-million in 2 weeks is 140,000 people killed per day, or roughly 10x "more efficient" than the Holocaust at its peak.

I have severe doubts that the Mongols in the 1200s had the efficiency of the Nazi genocide operation. Just from technology alone: the Nazis were able to use poison gas and bullets to quickly and efficiently kill, as well as the use of fully loaded Trains and logistics to ensure that these death-machines were operating at maximum efficiency.
Reddit, probably.
Agreed. Have you tried using google products without a google browser? It's _worse_. Much much more annoying.
>Assuming if somebody breaks an agreement, you just hit them over the head with a stick.

If this is possible, then it is equally possible to just hit anyone you please with stick so that they are forced to do what you want.

Which means, the most violent eager person gets to rule. Which is what people who prefer court system don't want.
Never underestimate a human's mental gymnastic ability. This is where evolution deniers draw a distinction between "micro" and "macro" evolution, arguing that "of course micro evolution happens, you can see it!" and "of course macro evolution doesn't happen, you can't see it!"
"Did you notice that most desktop apps that feel snappy don’t include any animation?"

well, this is patently false. https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
NYC has high prices, but they are not nearly as high. NYC is not perfect, but it is a lot easier to build there, and thus housing is much cheaper. Housing in the middle of dense cities will always be expensive because it is a desirable place to live, but as you get out NYC starts to get affordable faster than in CA.
In addition to Nalin's great sudoku example elsewhere, here's a couple of my repos that use SNARKS:

1) Some experiments/learnings https://github.com/JofArnold/zkp-learning-in-public

2) A blockchain-based Dungeon crawler built for a hackathon that uses a SNARK (Circom, snarkjs) to validate that the user hasn't cheated when getting to the end of the maze https://github.com/Derked/FantasyCampaign
> We can, actually, outlaw guns, and it would cause less gun deaths and less gun crime

This is a fallacious argument, criminals don’t follow gun laws.
Why Is It So Hard to Figure Out What to Do When You Lose Your Account?
Breton Woods and Visa/Mastercard were top level designs... But they were designed to make money. (For the US and Visa/Mastercard respectively.) Nobody has ever taken the "god's eye view" with the intent to be nice.
As an end-user I love Electron because it allows products to evolve quicker and across all platforms. I would choose an Electron app (or if it runs in a browser, even better) over a native one.
nah. you'd do a 3 story and get 3.5kft out of it per unit. would cost around a million for the 2units with today's material prices. rent it for 6000-8000/mo. affordable housing never starts with new built unless there are major incentives.
For now.. but they'll have their own cloud hosting (xcode cloud is a test). The AWS contract expires soon..
Ride hailing app Grab makes $40bn market debut
> At the end of the day, so many people fail to realize the success of Electron is in making desktop applications so much more approachable for those that are mainly front-end focused developers/hackers

Front end focused? It makes desktop apps accessible period. Someone inevitably mentions QT in these conversations. Find me a single successful QT based app. Electron is really the only cross platform option.
Forgive me, since I don't own a car:

Wouldn't it be cheaper to rent a car if you're only going to use it once a week or so? I mean, with the payment itself, plus insurance, plus gas, regular maintenance, is it worth the price?
> for some reason ARMv8 did not incorporate any lessons from that.

I used to think so too, until I asked some more knowledgeable people about it. Turns out the lesson IS that not having it is better. Fixed-sized instructions make a decoding significantly simpler, making it much easier to make very wide front ends
The governments who enact the restrictions and the majority who support them are not acting entirely on arguments based on health. For example, origin of COVID is animal reservoir (bats) which makes a bunch of the restrictions illogical (they are predicated on sterilizing immunity / eradicating it entirely - also known as zero covid).

So, it is not cut and dry case that you can present a health policy based on health, like you are making now. You probably need some kind of Girardian scapegoat or a political argument to shock the public out of it. I don't think the latter is coming because majority supports and sees the restrictions as positive.
I'm not trying to shit on nolan's batman movies; they are definitely a cut above most superhero fare. I'm pointing out that dialogue is only one of the ways in which the content of a movie is expressed. superhero movies are an easy example; you can deduce a lot about the plot just be observing who fights whom in what order. there are also subtler cues like body language, lighting, costume design, etc. some visual content (eg, belter creole in the expanse) has deliberately unintelligible dialogue. as long as it's an intentional choice (or at least a known tradeoff), it can still work.
it could be easy to find out. omicron has a very characteristic signature in the PCR test (a missing band) that I imagine makes it possible to do a retrospective analysis if you have good data records.
> the success of Electron is in making desktop applications so much more approachable for those that are mainly front-end focused

Enabling more sht being shipped is not a badge of honor for a technology. Same goes for Visual Basic and Go, and for all those effort to dumb down software development when what the world needs is for quality* in software to be valued over quantity.
How to Turn NIMBYs into YIMBYs
Singapore starts making its copyright law fit for the digital world
> Code once, deploy on Windows, macOS, and Linux

This is a major pain point of electron. Sure you can save some costs, as you only have to write one GUI, but the result is always really bad.

The only electron application that is even remotely usable is VSCodium. MS Teams is a slow dumpsterfire and a mess of UI (Why do they even implement own "Close Window" buttons?)

Furthermore it is simply annoying if an application does not look like the rest of my desktop
You don't wake up into a disintegrating society, you wake up into a society that's a little worse every day for decades. See: other highly developed countries that are no longer considered highly developed.
Head turning is actually why I have a vertical monitor. With a 1440p next to a 1080, I'd have to turn my head a ton to see it all. Now with my 1080p vertical less movement. It also nice that webpages like being above 1000 pixels wide, so splitting two web pages on the vertical keeps them in their desktop version.
Exactly. I'm an evil SFH owner. I don't give a single shit about how much it is worth, because I'm not a house flipper and I plan to live in this home for decades. I deliberately moved to this home, away from higher-density housing, primarily to get away from high population density and for the other various benefits of living in a SFH neighborhood. Some people like living in higher-density neighborhoods, and they should have a place to live that they like, too. There is not One True Correct style of home for everyone.
Seriously where do all these people come from who think society is worse today that it was a few decades before. It's not. There has never been an opportunity for so many people at various levels. Artists have it the best now in the internet era where they have various streams to monetize their work. Case in point is Spotify. Ofcourse Spotify and other providers are going to make money off artists. But without them most artists worth their salt would stay poor.

If you don't see and appreciate the huge progress made across the world in social life and quality, you have been living under the rock.
VSCode on macOS Web (Ala StackBlitz)
What I also noticed is that Jitsi is a great app but it lacks file sharing and collaborative whiteboard, which are very important to me.
This is definitely a major part of the solution. Places like The Domain[0] in Austin should be a model for mixed use development.

https://www.galleryatdomain.com/gallery-at-domain-austin-tex...
At Amazon scale, I imagine they strip the original chassis and use only the motherboard with custom power and cooling for some insane density. As visible here https://youtu.be/R4ArjHz4gd4?t=192 you could save some significant space doing so.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28794933

I posted this a while ago, I enjoy using a single monitor over multiple ones, multiple ones made sense when screen resolution was way worst.
The sound track was an analog track, rendered onto the film itself (either as a magnetic tape strip on the film or an optical track outside the projected image) and was read by the projector as the film rolled through.
Nice one, let's call it intentional deeper meaning saying you shouldn't roll your own zero-proof knowledge crypto implementation.
The theory is that it would be someone that is immunocompromised enough to just hang in there for a long time. It's a numbers game. The more people that get infected, the bigger the chance a rare event like this will happen.

This is one reason why vaccine distribution inequity may come back to bite us.
If a user had to choose between a native app and their top 10 most anticipated features, which would they choose?