skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>it used to be that the whole village got together every week

It'a a good thing until you end-up being excluded from that big community which means excluded any kind of social life or even worse(i.e killed with stones). I say: good riddance of that kind of community! More niche communities are better because you have more choices and less powerful community leaders.
Video tour of their factory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yzjA9ZYYNk

It seems like there's enough market for this BS to sustain a legitimate factory operation with full-time employees. Now while there's no way to tell whether the founder is just a conman or delusional as he'd never admit it, I wonder what the employees think of all this.

This video also includes a good drinking game - drink every time he says "by hand".

The "lab" looks like a small repurposed kitchen. I've seen better labs at electronic hobbyists' homes.
If I was in charge I’d classify tech workers as non essential and not let them work. Make them go through unemployment for a while. I bet a whole lot of these privileged people would suddenly become a lot less “scared” of Covid…

The amount of privilege that reeks from the tech sector is astronomical. I’ve never been more embarrassed working in t is industry than these days.
Similarly I feel the same way about the atheist movement, and I say this as a atheist who had on occasion corresponded with Christopher Hitchens. It is more anti-religion than pro-free-thought as I felt it was in my youth. Science appears to be growing it's own clergy, demanding deference as opposed to encouraging debate.

When we first attempted to find truth in the world, the truth seekers called themselves philosophers. Once philosophy had become polluted with Platonism, the more Aristotelian thinkers were driven to science. I think one day science will be left behind in the same way and seekers of truth will go elsewhere.
Honestly dense cities suck. Why anybody would pay so much for such a small space with neighbors so near I just don't get. Good for you getting out.
I exclusively use the trackpoint for mouse input and configuring the edge scroll to occupy the entire touchpad meaning that I can use my thumb to scroll without moving my hand away from the trackpoint.

In libinput the edge scrolling is hard coded to 7mm and previous attempts at making it configurable were rejected.
Do All Languages Have Adjectives?
The problem is it’s rather incomprehensible what it would mean to not be in a “simulation”, for sufficiently lax definitions of simulation.

At the absolute core, simulations are differential equations. I believe it was Turing who said something along the lines of “the universe is a set of differential equations, science teaches us the equations, religion teaches us the boundary conditions”.
Swift is an incredibly appealing language on so many fronts. It has an expressive and fairly robust type system, an excellent suite of built-in libraries, and moreso than many other languages I've used cares deeply about syntactical ergonomics (i.e. how a language construct or interface feels and reads to use).

It's so unfortunate that its tied up in the Apple ecosystem, then. Not that they don't care about it (they clearly do) but by being an Apple project first-and-foremost, it has virtually no community control—practically no community to speak of—and is unlikely to ever have real, first-class support for use-cases that Apple doesn't use it for, e.g. web apps/APIs or CLIs (where it's the most appealing, imo). This has some benefits, like adding features to the language when Apple-created designs are hard (e.g. SwiftUI), but it's overall a net negative.

Contrast this state with Rust, which has by far the best community I've encountered, and cares deeply about developer experience. Or compare it to JS, which has a clear, formal, and well-documented process for adding features to the language. If Swift were a truly open project, I'd have a hard time finding many things to dislike about it.
That's actually my point, learnxinyminutes seems to hide the approach details in favor of just showing syntax and assuming you already know how to think in the language you're looking up.

I don't care about syntax as much as I want to know how to think in this language. I'm sure my IDE will point out how to define an int32 for me.
Wage increases really help the lower income brackets. When you stop seeing "help wanted" signs, that's when it's time to worry.
Eyes on Asteroids – Home/JPL
Pointing to one person's death and claiming a specific cause... I assume you have very specific autopsy evidence to prove it?
How Quickly Should You Contact Inbound Leads
> Capitalism is when there is an owner class that owns the means of production and extracts profit from the workers' labor.

That's Marx's explanation, all right.

What free markets are, is when people freely decide to make transactions with each other, without using force or fraud.

The simplest case is you have an apple tree, I have an orange tree. You have too many apples, and no oranges. I have the reverse problem. We trade. We are both better off. I exploit you for apples, you exploit me for oranges.
There's no reason for people to put up with crime and squalor while we are waiting to fix the income inequality and housing affordability issues. Things were bad before COVID but not this bad. We could work to get them back to pre-COVID bad if there was enough political will.
> competitive jobs

Isn't the big news of the day that there's a labor "shortage" and wages are rising?
Having two monitors with different DPI or physical size. Wayland supports different scaling per monitor, so your windows will look thesameish in terms of physical or pixel size (depending on your wishes) when moving them across monitors :).
This is a seemingly harmless albeit embarrassing incident. But more broadly I'm really curious as to how the Coinbase product is still so bad. Half of the time I try to 'trade' on the app, the transaction will fail and I'll get some generic error message. The user experience is thoroughly lacking. I have to imagine they employ a lot of talented engineers at this point, and they should know how to build a nice scalable product, but they just can't seem to do it. Really baffling... And in exchange for the poor experience, they charge absurd fees.
Can someone explain why marriage works better if the parties don't talk about the game theory aspect? I don't understand why that would change anything.
In a world which contains huge, systematic lab screw-ups (such as the FBI Crime Lab scandals), is there good reason to believe that 23andMe is particularly reliable and competent? Vs...one of our clients at $DayJob is a home mold inspection lab. Keeping their modest mold lab Officially Certified requires daily duplication, replication, etc. of dozens of individual test results, plus statistical analysis of those, plus...
I don't believe FB's algos truly maximize profit. I think they are short sited.

Imagine a food company did metrics that showed the most popular food was hamburgers, so they kept optimizing and optimizing trying to serve nothing but hamburgers. It arguably wouldn't work and they'd be giving up tons of market share and $$$$$$

FB (and Twitter) seem to be trying to optimize where they believe everyone wants the same thing. Unfortunately for them, when myself and lots of others try their services we find it's shoveling stuff at us we don't want. Instead of driving our engagement it drives us away.

There is tons of content I'd like to see on Twitter but every time I check it, now down to about once a month, they shovel so much shit I'm absolutely uninterested in at me that I just remember why I don't look and I leave. If they'd let me opt out of their recommendations my engagement would go way up and over time I'd follow or and more people. Instead they just drive me away.

The same is true for FB though in different ways. They try to fill my newsfeed with stuff I'm not interested in hoping to get me to spend more time. Instead it just prompted me to delete the mobile app and only use the website on desktop since some extension helps me filter their crap out. My usage without the mobile app is probably 25% what it was and falling. Entirely their fault for removing choice and assuming everyone wants the same thing.
Wow! This is what I was looking for a week ago. Thank you!
> Has the font rendering improved at all?

Yes and no. The Linux default are bad because people lack some common taste in font rendering. The default fonts on most distros are pretty awful. Here's my recipe for the best font rendering setup on Linux, which in my eyes is as close as macOS (tested on Fedora 35):

* Have a high DPI screen at 2x scaling

* With a custom fontconfig, force the default sans, serif and mono to the Google Noto fonts. DejaVu and Bitstream are ugly. Don't use them.

* Copy and install the ttf files from your closest C:\Windows\Fonts directory. Everyone on the internet uses Windows fonts. HN and Old Reddit use Verdana.

* And the best for last: disable font hinting. Modern distros default to slight hinting, which is still too much hinting and distorts the font. MacOS doesn't apply any hinting.
Because it brings the healthcare system crashing down with them. It's not a personal liberty if it's at the direct expense of the lives of others. Get the fucking shot.
“… but rather packages bifurcating into a million different incompatible implementations of everything because so little is in the standard library.”

This was my problem. I played with Haskell some. I actually liked it quite a bit, but I just couldn’t force myself to program in it. I’m so used to Java where you have a huge standard library. Even without that I’ve done PHP or python where the standard libraries were quite good.

Haskell felt like a giant step back. And I know there are reasons for the way it ended up. And in many ways that makes sense. But even if you ignore all the functional programming stuff that’s new for many people it’s an incredible pain to get started in Haskell because of the lack of standard library and the huge number of extensions.

And if you ask around you find out that lots of people don’t use Haskell without like 12 different extensions turned on. And then you have to use _these_ libraries to get anything done.

And that’s before you get into the religious wars over if you should be using lenses or some other thing.

As a new user, my preference would be this:

1. Stop pretending GHC isn’t Haskell. For all intents and purposes it is the one and only implementation that matters. Just like PHP, Ruby, and Go have canonical implementations. Bonus points for renaming GHC to Haskell.

2. Bring all the modern stuff people expect into the standard library. I’m sorry it’s been way too long to remember what’s missing, but I’m sure people who are active in the community know what the “must use“ libraries are.

3. Language extensions are for academics. There’s nothing wrong with having them, but you shouldn’t need to mess with any of it to write good apps. Figure out what should be on by default, compile it in. No normal programer should have to mess with them.

I feel like fixing those three things would make the language 100 times more approachable. I don’t think it would ever happen, too many people would have to agree on too many things. But I just don’t see Haskell ever going anywhere without it. The same way I don’t see Emacs ever becoming a “normal“ program that people use without lots of changes.

It’s OK if you want to stay “obscure“ because you like the way things are done. But don’t expect to take over the world.
The parties and the restaurants. If it was not for that I wouldn't be in SF or any other city.
There was a story of some audiofools (in Japan if I remember right) who paid a huge chunk of cash to have their own last-mile transformer (not sure of the exact term, but basically whatever converts the last HV stage into normal household voltages) for this exact reason.
I saw no mention of feces, poop, shit or excrement.
More accurately, the developers need to a) fix the buggy implementation of the Gnome-specific protocol they currently use, and b) switch to the standard screensharing protocol.

https://github.com/flathub/us.zoom.Zoom/pull/182#issuecommen...
I want them to add TRUE to the question “fact check is just facebooks opinion?” ON FACT CHECK. So anyone can use it to refute anything ever said on there ever again
> Regarding Truman:

> In September 23, 1946, Robeson and a delegation representing the ACAL met with President Harry Truman to push for an anti-lynching agenda. Robeson demanded that Truman issue a public statement expressing his views on lynching and recommending a set of legislative and educational measures aimed at eradicating mob violence. Truman turned down these requests, claiming that timing and political circumstances made these measures difficult to implement at the moment.

You make it sounds like he didn't so anything, but the GP comment you're responding to shows that he did what they were requesting about a year after they asked:

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1948-harr...:

> By 1947 the question of black civil rights in the South had become a national issue when a committee President Harry S. Truman appointed to study the issue called for legislation which among other things would to protect voting rights for Southern blacks and provide federal protection against lynching. In response to the report President Truman sent a special message to Congress on the issue on February 2, 1948. That message, the first by a sitting president to address the question of black civil rights, appears below.

Sounds a lot like a "public statement expressing his views on lynching and recommending a set of legislative and educational measures aimed at eradicating mob violence", no?

Did you even scan, let alone read, the link you were responding to?
Dangerous game that is. Covid vaccines are essentially what you propose, but without the natural ability to spread. Designed to be without side effects, turns out not to be so much without side effects Only time will tell.
May I ask why the scare quotes on abortion?
> I definitely agree that this 100-mile reach is egregious overreach, but have there ever been any cases of this being actually abused

There's the Greyhound bus raids. Probably happening still.

Does Suda v. U.S. Customs and Border Protection count? Suda was just hanging out in a small town in Montana and speaking Spanish. Martinez-Castro, et al. v. Village of Wakeman, et al. ? Saucedo-Carrillo, et al. v. United States? Jaimes v. Harris, et al.? Moreno v. United States Customs and Border Protection Officer Mario Unate and the United States of America? Hernandez-Carranco v. USA, et al.? Sanchez, et al. v. U.S. Office of Border Patrol, et al ? These are just a few of the ones that make it to the lawsuit stage, you understand.

Would you consider the ACLU complaint? https://cbpabusestest2.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/az-aclu-c...

> Or for instance, have CBP agents ever busted into someone's home?

Homes are the only thing excluded from this authority but just because it's to hand, Boule v. Egbert et al. The agent got it dismissed in summary judgment, saying the agent was in the wrong but the fourth amendment didn't apply because the house was right next to the border, and if property-owners like that had rights CBP officers might hesitate as they went about their patrols, and let bad guys get way. (They got that reversed on appeal — after two years and the expenses of appeal — and were allowed to proceed with the original suit.)
The restaurants are the only part of the Bay Area I actually miss.
Socialized medicine and mental health care. Social safety nets. Meaningful jobs programs. Less policing and more community resources. Reforms on how prescription drugs that lead to addiction problems are prescribed. Free care, at the expense of pharmaceutical companies, for human beings who have had their lives ruined due to inadequate care from the medical community who have been misled by the pharma industry. Accountability for our leadership that has been bought and sold by corporate interests.

The list goes on. There's a lot that can be done. Increasing policing and cracking down on drugs have both proven to be damaging, but it's the only thing the uncompassionate and out-of-touch know how to do in response to problems they refuse to address.
The board of supervisors has most of the power in SF government (despite that, the mayor traditionally takes most of the blame). It seems that Breed's hands were tied until a situation where the board's majority would cooperate. The board's majority is a faction that often opposes Breed.
True, but religion creates extra tribalism (no gays! no Muslims!) and adds a healthy dose of justification for the tribalism.

The way many Christian churches have fully embraced the "Jesus wants you to be rich" mantra and the "the poor deserve to be poor" mentality is fully out in the open now.
Not if you use screen scaling.
For crashing your games if you move the mouse too fast https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/159
At that point, let's just write Scala.
I mean I've had 2 mac's so far and I've reset the first one a handful of times it never took me more than about 1 - 2 hours to get up and running with Homebrew (a package manager for Mac). Although I will agree the Mac installer is highly unintuitive.
That's so Visual Basic.

Not a bad move, though. Most Go "Interface" things do tend to be "{}"
>I feel the rift in the Linux world grows bigger between the conservatives (fuck systemd! X11 was alright!) and the progressives (can I have HDR, fractional scaling, and hardware video acceleration on YouTube, please?). I want my computer to be modern and slick and fluid, I'm vain like that.

I have fractional DPI scaling in x.org, I just don't use it since undocking keeps it on that on my small screen.

I use systemd, pipewire, x.org, and never follow unix philosophy with my desktop environment not because I am some sort of political standard you set arbitrarily, I just use stuff that just works, like most computer users.

> The reason why xorg had to be abandoned is a Google search away.

Its mostly because you can't make it more perfect, but they did!

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/10/xorg-2110-sees-a-relea...

>After three years without a full release, X.Org 21.1.0 has finally landed with new features and a lot of bug fixes. While the next-generation for all Linux systems will eventually be Wayland, plenty still default to X.Org.

I really dislike how you turn linux into politics, announce it isn't suitable for modern hardware with zero reason, saying x11 (actually x.org was crappy as if the whole thread isn't talking about how much crappier wayland is) and deal with it. Leave your feelings at home.
Sustainable Scala
I too have some curiosity here as my mental image experience is not "vivid" per-se but rather is more like a cloudy feeling of visualness. I can reference parts of the image and sometimes remember specific minute detail but there is no ability to grasp new ideas from this image. It's also not in my eyes but feels "up" or floating somewhere.

I would bet that this characteristic is not black-and-white but rather a spectrum from eidetic memory to no visual manifestations.
I started taking statins at 37. Doctor said enough is enough with the high cholesterol! So far no side affects after a few years.
I heard that they put a safer San Francisco in Austin.
Unfortunately, very little has filled the void left by religion, and I think this is having a profound negative effect on society.

Churches used to (and still do) provide: a local support network, initiation rituals for children (giving them a sense of belonging - something very important and very lacking in our Western culture without religion) , a social outlet and place to make friends, often have free to use facilities for members so you can have events there like weddings, funerals, birthdays, a shared experience that gives people a sense of belonging, etc.

People might say that these things have all been replaced by other things, and while that might be possible if you go out of your way to find a replacement for each and every one, humans are quite lazy and very few people ever do this. Being part of a church or other religious group gives you all this for free, and despite the other negatives, I think that is a huge positive that many people are starting to miss out on.
Offering them some form of housing that provides a modicum of humanizing privacy would be a great start.
Not make such a mess as a poor supervisor and mayor to begin with?
> I’m also realizing that that when people describe that they can hear the sound of their voice in their head (a train of thought), that it wasn’t just a metaphor. But my thoughts are silent.

I call that "my brain," and I tell it to shutup a few times each day. It feels like thoughts I'm not in control of, I'm just listening to them. Usually, they're off-topic. Often, I don't even like them.

Although I'm not sure I could swear they aren't silent. I relate to a "voice" in my head, but it's definitely not a third-party narrator, and it's certainly not auditory. It's more like I'm imagining a voice saying the words (generally at a pace that is much faster than I speak).

So, as proposed in some other comments, I think I can see how either description would fit me, and how people might view their own inner thoughts as either voiced or silent, even if those inner thoughts were identical to mine.
Mixed refresh rate monitors.
I think Apple's end goal in ten years is to ban browsers in general. They're just a way for people to get content without paying Apple for it.
Idi Amin Dada is now a Diktapunk Do you want to swim with my crocodiles?
Being pessimistic isn't the same as being critical.

Those tech workers are never coming back, it doesn't matter what SF does.
I have been playing under sway which removes many bottlenecks (or at least haven’t noticed any), you could give it a try
https://github.com/swaywm/sway
Because an advertiser will pay more and most people don't want to pay anything? There's a technical problem of handling micropayments but those are a lot smaller than the social/business problems: think about what the experience would be like clicking around with “Please deposit $0.25 to continue” prompts, and whether sites would bother with that when Google will give them a check every month for less work.

Google has tried this with Contributor back in 2015, and then again in 2017, but it wasn't popular because you were committing to pay a noticeable amount of money every month (which is more than many people think they can/should pay) and the people who would pay that would only pay that if they didn't see ads at all (since you were effectively bidding for your own ads, this wasn't a given). If, as is common, you hit sites which weren't using Google's ad network, you'd still see ads and the prospect of paying more to buy those out wasn't going to be a fun sale.

Now, maybe Google isn't trustworthy here but they're far from the only party to try this and there are also services like Apple News or Blendle which are trying a more targeted approach. I don't know how their sales look but the fact that it hasn't been newsworthy suggests that the status quo isn't going anywhere quickly.
...and UBI and social housing.
> selection pressure

How does selection pressure work when the disease is spread by people with no symptoms?
NLP + Vector Search = Semantic Search.

This course teaches how to use NLP to turn text data into dense vectors while capturing their meaning. Then you take those vectors and put them in a vector database — like Pinecone.io or Google Matching Engine — so you could do on-demand vector search. And voilà, you have a semantic search application!