skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?" — George Orwell, 1984
If someone could build a tool that somehow allowed you to set generic tokens like "heading text color", "body text color"... etc, while potentially including contrast warnings in case you mess up

And then automatically generate the theme files for all these apps - now that would be simply amazing!

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At least for me, since I maintain my own personal VSCode/IntelliJ theme
How does Novi plug into Whatsapp?
Are there Whatsapp APIs available to deploy in-app apps?
Well, you could be a chef at Le Bernardin, or you could flip patties at McDonald's. You can cook for a retirement home, or sell tacos on a beach. There are at least as many ways of being a professional programmer as there are ways of cooking food for a living.

And no, not all of them suck so hard.
“I can see the 1 from here…”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aE12n2yFU-s
Wallet Maker Ledger Launches Crypto-Linked Debit Card for US and EU Customers
"Marketplace products have longer and unreliable shippings"

Thats not your decision, or amazon's. The end customer should be deciding what service is better
All of that is completely irrelevant to my point, which is that fiduciary duty does not compel Apple to do business with China. You were peddling a falsehood.
Have you noticed just how sensitive the CCP leadership is about its image? Every perceived slight is a black eye to them.
> Microplastics cause damage to human cells in the laboratory at the levels known to be eaten by people via their food, a study has found

> In March, a study showed tiny plastic particles in the lungs of pregnant rats pass rapidly into the hearts, brains and other organs of their foetuses. In December, microplastics were revealed in the placentas of unborn babies ... In October, ... that babies fed formula milk in plastic bottles were swallowing millions of particles a day

In occasion of research article A rapid review and meta-regression analyses of the toxicological impacts of microplastic exposure in human cells, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03043...

> Humans are exposed to microplastics (MPs) daily via ingestion and inhalation. It is not known whether this results in adverse health effects and, if so, at what levels of exposure ... Seventeen studies were included in the rapid review and eight in the meta-regression. Four biological endpoints displayed MP-associated effects: cytotoxicity, immune response, oxidative stress, barrier attributes, and one did not (genotoxicity)
It depends what level you mean. Understanding and using pointers on basic way is simple. Understanding pointer provenance, aliasing rules, etc. are a completely different level and people not very familiar with the spec (so almost everyone) do not understand a lot about pointers. http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2019/p1434r0....
A system for being more productive with to do lists
In all fairness, the Linux kernel uses various techniques here and there for optimization, too.

Where do you see hacks being used in, say, the refactored code? If you meant generally, then sure, they do.
Intel Spills Some Beans on Software-Defined Xeon CPUs
I always had to inform my insurance company what my average annual mileage was. Maybe try getting another quote? It seems to me a ticket would be an event that could affect your rates, whereas simply driving less doesn’t produce any event that would trigger an algorithm to adjust your rate.
"By tracking the evolutionary trajectories of vaccine-resistant mutations in more than 2.2 million SARS-CoV-2 genomes, we reveal that the occurrence and frequency of vaccine-resistant mutations correlate strongly with the vaccination rates in Europe and America."

I predicted this would happen but got called an ignorant, anti-vax conspiracy theorist.

You're welcome.
> As far as I am aware on Linux there is no way to stat and unlink in one syscall.

That just means you have to do a little more work.

1. Become root.

2. Fork until the process table is full.

3. Kill all other processes. After each kill, fork until the process table is again full.

4. When all processes other than the init process are yours, you can do the stat and unlink without worrying about race conditions since there is no one else to have a race with. (Assuming the file you want to stat and unlink isn't some file that your init process is interested in, and assuming it isn't on a network drive).

The side effects of this are annoying to deal with though and are probably worse than whatever problems an unhandled race condition would cause.

Another approach would be to create a new user, chown the directory containing the file to that user, become that user, chmod the directory to 0300, kill any process that has that file open, do your stat and unlink, chown and chmod the directory back to what they were, and delete the earlier created user.
Yeah notion's habit of overriding essential browser shortcuts is bad enough on desktop but the site is basically useless on mobile.

The two Screenshots are placed next to each other instead of having the headline between them, and one of them doesn't even render.

I have to use notion at work and if I didn't love my job for other reasons their UI might be enough to make me walk out the door.

Plus: my goodness for a few words and two images this page takes forever to load and render, even with a warm cache. Cutting-edge UX in 2021! hooray!
I tried it, but after some time I figured out that VS Code's default theme is much better for my eyes.
I thought the Prime badge meant fulfilled by Amazon
Funnily enough, the proportion of journalists who deserve jailtime or worse is also at an all time high.
Actually, the Diaoyu Islands belong to Taiwan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senkaku_Islands
It doesn't support nearly as many programs as dracula theme does but I'd recommend giving https://themer.dev/ a try. Supports all the popular terminals, IDEs and then some.
help(list) quickly provides a list of all available methods and properties, as does help([]). Is that what you mean?
Peripherally related and also on a made for Google phone (Nexus 6p IIRC)... several years ago I called 911 and found that I couldn't use my phone for a short period after https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2016/7/25/how-the-g...

They claim it is so 911 can call you back in the event of a dropped call but oof, just not cool.
Hopefully the process wont change in 6 months when a new UI "update" is released.

At least i hope not, I wouldn't be surprised to find a cooker controlled by a phone style touch screen running Android.
Every once in a blue moon you get logged out and need to log in again. Teams seem to cache some stuff and not others so in that case behavior isn't exactly intuitive.

I am not the least surprised that it trigger crashes.
Interesting but I don't know how to make sense of it. How can it be that "close to nothing of what makes science actually work is published as text on the web"?

- Is the information that makes science actually work mostly in images that the machines don't yet understand?

- Was the information paywalled or in private databases and inaccessible to this researcher?

- Are the papers mostly just advertisements for researchers to come gab with each other at conferences and doodle on cocktail napkins, and that's where all the "real science" happens?

- (From the comments) is the information needed to make sense of papers communicated privately or orally from PI's to postdocs and grad students, or within industrial research labs?

Something is missing from my mental picture here.

Don't real scientists mostly learn how to think about their fields by reading textbooks and papers? (This is a genuine question.) If so, isn't it likely that our tools just aren't advanced enough to learn like humans do? If not, what do humans use to learn how to think about science that's missing from textbooks and papers?
As long as you stay away from compiler-dependent, platform-dependent, and/or undefined behaviour, you should be fine. Main problem is that a surprising ab´mount of "looks normal" code is actually UB.
NFTs just force the idea of “ownership” onto things for which ownership makes zero sense.

You are never going to convince more than a small number of suckers that any of this is true or worth it.
I recall seeing a Show HN post a while back about a research focussed web browser that helps as a thinking tool:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28446147
> What I want, is button, when I press that, "The Almighty Algorithm" will analyse the sound, the beats per second, the vocals, the instruments, the lyrics, anything that affect the sound and locate other songs with similar profiles. Bonus points for letting me input stuff like: higher tempo, less bagpipes, the singer has a high pitch voice which hurt my ears.

This might be possible in theory but part of the issue is that the algorithms input parameters are not the same from person to person. The parameters you described are mostly technical attributes of the sound, but what about cultural/political affiliation? Do you care if the lyrics are in a different language (some people do, some people don't). Do you care if there is a political or religious message (and are you particular about which religion or political tribe)? Can Spotify take that into account somehow? Maybe, but it seems very difficult to tailor that to the user.

Speaking personally, music is more than just an aural experience for me. At times it's about connecting with my social group, or cultural traditions, or a spiritual experience. At other times it's just the music. When I listen to mainstream stuff, Spotify is ok. When I get deeper into edge-case territory, Spotify doesn't really know what I'm looking for and often makes suggestions that appear to demonstrate a shallow understanding the cultural meaning of the music I'm listening to.
I can code-golf in powershell. You could too, if you tried.

Powershell is based on small composable commands that are easy to chain together - as you would know if you've used it at all.

Valid criticisms exist of powershell. It baffles me why Linux refuseniks trot out such easily-discounted objections. My belief is that it's a figleaf over a political position: "I will never use a Microsoft product". We're on HN; that's an acceptable position. Why bullshit?
At least you were able to see something. In Chrome, with cookies disabled by default, the page appears completely blank.
Wow, that's a site I haven't thought about in probably a decade.
Wow, can’t believe Solarized is already old enough to potentially be out of fashion…

But I agree it’s much more aesthetically pleasing over Dracula.
Just as in any large political system, China cannot be entirely controlled centrally. There are three or four levels of regional and local control below the centre.
It would be impossible for Beijing to administer all of that detail.

In foreign affairs, Beijing is sovereign - including anything related to the Senkaku / Diaoyu islands which are presently owned by Japan. So in this respect you are right.

For local matters, there is considerable flexibility and internal conflict. Currently, Beijing encourages citizens to find fault and report administrative issues at local levels, but will brook no dissent of its own management. In domestic administration China is less coherent than your claim.

All of the above could be equally true in a non-authoritarian form of government. I would argue that China's authoritarian politics are largely orthogonal to its degree of federation.
Unsurprising indeed. You can't fly that high on technological merits, at least as long as it's just some web software thing and not something as extraordinary as reusable space rockets. It's all about brand on that level. And sure, a brand as fresh as Clubhouse can drop to irrelevancy in weeks because everybody who is already connected to the brand is, by definition, an early adopter. And early adopters are the quickest to jump ship when something new and shiny appears elsewhere.
BioNTech’s boss, Ugur Sahin, remains sanguine about Omicron
Lawmakers urge the head of Instagram to better protect children
I spend a lot of time on forums before and recently I googled those communities again and all has been lost. Forums contained very valuable information and function as a history archive. Too bad most of that has been replaced with temporary solutions that get pushed down timelines never to be seen again.
This pretty much sums up the last two years of fighting COVID.

Governments/media/academics: we will solve the problem by doing X.

Sceptics: that won't work / isn't working / hasn't worked.

Governments/media/academics: it isn't working because of the unbelievers.
» Most Georgists support extending the land value tax to other kinds of economic land e.g. slices of radio spectrum.

This makes me wonder, do roads pay land tax? I think railway tracks do but I'm not sure about roads.

Personally I think more of the spectrum should be like 2.4GHz, 5 GHz (and soon 6GHz?). No auctions. No owners.
Align Production Reality and Event Documentation with Event Discovery
Readable HTML does not mean it's good HTML, also these are not mutual exclusive. The UX and design can only be improved if you improve the code. Tables only bring you so far..
I used a couple of induction hobs and couldn’t get used to them because the interfaces just didn’t work with my brain. Press a ‘button’ - maybe it will work. Move a pan slightly - now you’ve pressed a ‘button’ with and something has happened but you will have to figure out what. Spill some water? Now another change has happened. Maybe the whole thing has switched off and you’re wondering why everything seems to be ruined.

I tried to buy one with physical knobs but was told that the manufacturers who make them are moving to the touch controls.

So I’m going back to gas.
IMO this is what a metaverse should be: just a federated game.

Actually, Open Simulator (an open source implementation of Second Life's protocol) is kind of already that, although one might debate whether it's a game and the tech is pretty dated by this point.
https://archive.md/dtYoJ
Face Computers Are Coming. Now What?
no he's right, pt is an absolute unit unlike rem/em, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_...
Ask HN: How to interact with OS or any application at the speed of thought?
Is there Google Voice ACCESS combined with vimium way of labelling and navigating?
This completely fails to acknowledge that single core performance for CPUs from eg 2014 is comparable to middle range CPUs from a few years ago.

Eg. i7-4790k from 2014 has a single thread score of 2470 (similar to single-core performance focused Xeons from the same generation), compared to eg. scores of 2593 for i5-10400 from 2020 or 2579 for Ryzen 5 3600 from 2019: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

While their power usage is greater, price for the whole package will be much smaller, and real life experience, which mostly depends on how well 1-2 cores can run, will not be much different.

Those Chinese motherboards also include updates like support for NVMe drives and newer wifi.
I can't comment on the rest of the post but this bit stood out to me:

> Sometimes they talk so much about fit fit fit, but they don't even bother with a personality or IQ test (which as a former hiring manager, I find very valuable because it allows you to balance the team, not because you see how high/low people score).

Just for reference, if an employer ever asks me to perform an IQ test I'm definitely walking away.
There's plenty of ways to improve on HN without affecting load times.
How Python Development Is Beneficial for Businesses?
Companies ruined by Indians https://www.quora.com/Do-Indians-really-ruin-a-lot-of-wester...
To your point but even more general: the ML/AI space is far too focused on replacing people rather than helping people. There is a suffocating cultural conceit that we are on the verge of general AI and oh my gosh what will the humans do, we better institute universal basic income right away, etc.

What a joke.

Try to help humans think better first. If you succeed at that, you might be on the right track towards developing cold fusion, er, general AI.
Lol, so if you change a fixed number into a slanting line its '1000 difficult to implement hacks'. That literally replacing a fixed number with a simple function(income) -> %. However there are also good reasons not to do that.

And the tax is not regressive, you clearly haven't read about it other what other people who have not read about it.
Yep iOS changes but not in a way where it trips you up and with much fewer features that overcomplicate or cause breakage.
So we don’t classify jailed and tortured Julian Assange as a journalist even though he broke amongst some of the biggest news stories over the last 20 years. Or that the Trump administration planned on assasinating him. Or that Joe Biden is trying to extradite him on trumped up charges (pun not intended).

Or the Black TV reporter Bilal Abdul Kareem from Chicago that Obama tried to kill multiple times:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/27/senior-cia-off...

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the thing that is scarce is, depending on the country, not even really land itself but really proximity, connectedness in the graph of resources. price of land goes very high where there are lots of jobs and good schools....
> If you are writing a dialler, you should be confident when you hand it off to the OS that it won’t pass it along to another app.

I've no idea how exactly this bug happened and therefore whether the following has any relation to that issue or not, but if you want VOIP apps and similar things to work, you do need to allow the "I've got a phone number and I want to place a call" step to be intercepted, because otherwise how are you supposed to make a call via VOIP etc. when selecting a number from your contacts list, a phone link in a browser, etc. if that step was hardcoded to the regular phone app?
I don't see a downvote button...?
He meant to write cooling; the moderate (warmer) parts leave, leaving the fanatical 'cold' members. I agree that 'fanatical=cold/moderate=warm' seems a little backwards, but it's that way and not the other because it's an analogy to a real physical process, while evaporative warming doesn't exist.

From 2007: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporativ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooling_(atomic_ph...
The advantage of Minecraft (or any other game for that matter) is that you are focused on the game. You can enjoy playing it with people even if you otherwise have nothing in common and/or disagree with their views/opinions.

When it comes to photos specifically, not being able to send media is also a huge advantage when dealing with creeps or other malicious people. Spam is pretty much non-existent in most games because you generally can't click on links, and the worst "malware" incident is typically a troll telling you to Alt+F4 to fix a bug.
This isn’t fair. By 2021 we have learned that the way to judge the merits of a scientific proposal is not testability or provability but the ability to exchange Joe Rogan anecdotes on the Lex podcast.
Yeah, but you can’t extract a payment from every micro interaction with those dusty old protocols.

Imagine if you were earning money every time someone read that comment you posted!
> "The People's Bank of China and other top financial regulators have tried to reassure the public that Evergrande's problems can be contained. The central bank on Monday also announced that it would pump $188 billion into the economy, apparently to counter the real estate slump."

I guess it's all fine then. Nothing to worry about. Keep walking. /s
I can imagine all the hate, but I think it's only natural for Microsoft Teams to hijack your calling functionality and make it work only when logged in with your Microsoft account. How else can they snoop on all your phone calls?

Teams is free, they have to make money somehow, you know. You pay with your data. I can imagine they will record all your calls too, because let's face it, how much is a call log without a recording worth anyway?
not enough karma points.
(In advance, I apologize if this seems unnecessarily harsh, but it is description of a real event and the thought process of younger me)

Unrelated, but in 2012 or something like that, I was out walking, on my way to a meeting. I literally stopped mid walk, and turned another direction, went to a store and bought an iPhone.

My, at the time, state of the art Samsung galaxy S3 had just prevented me from answer an incoming call due to a software bug. As the S3 froze and then crashed, a crushing realization hit me; what I was holding wasn't a phone, but something else. I was even a poor student at the time, but due to engagements, I was completely dependent on my phone working, or as I then realized: "Having a phone".
Bash becomes extremely portable if it can shell out to multiple platforms’ external commands.
My analysis:

People often get cough up in definitions of what is or isn't monopoly or what free market is, on HN. And its even often argued in USA politics.
In EU its far less.
What is important is the perceived result (Apple, Google, Facebook have enormous power over daily lives of people) and how people feel (weather something is fair of not). And many inside EU myself included think that

> Google, Apple, Facebook or Amazon

are abusing their market position, that they are doing shady stuff to limit competition, starting to use more and more dark patterns, avoiding taxes (taxes are higher in EU so people are more pissed if somebody is "getting away with it") and generally don't trust them.

So politicians (that want to score points with people) are doing what people want.

Another thing is, that some of this companies are starting to become so powerful that they are starting to worry politicians themselves. So politicians are "defending their turf", by smacking the upstarts when they can. (This is happening in USA as well )
I don't think any of those really mention the number of smokers. They discuss the impact on the tobacco industry, which can make up the income in price difference on top of the lower-than-expected tax. The second article says only that not raising the tax higher means some people decided they're ok with the cost.

But neither one really shows that the prevalence of smokers pre- and post-tax hasn't changed.

In terms of numbers I can only find the 2016-2017 GATS numbers of 28.6% users, 10.7% smokers.
Theoretically yes, because it was "a major rail transport and communication centre, housing 110 factories and 50,000 workers in support of the German war effort".

It's worth remembering that at this time precision munitions didn't exist. Attempting to bomb a factory was largely worthless, especially at night and under enemy fire. It was really just about dropping as many bombs as possible over a wide area and hoping that somehow, some of them would get kinda near the actual targets. The fact that most wouldn't was taken for granted.