skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like discovering the ancient concept of 'Public Communications' by accidental recourse of self aware rhetoric.

Every single thing we do, if the public were to have access to the raw facts, it would cause 'outrage'. The entirely of leadership is putting the difficult facts into the difficult context and making the trade offs.

We 'don't talk about' the fact that we don't give medical aid to COVID patients past a certain point because we have to put a dollar figure on it (i.e. triage), similarly the fact we have $1200 'solutions' to COVID that could probably wipe it out without vaccines if we could get everyone the tech, but we can't 'afford' it, or that masks do not protect you like wearing a gas mask through a chlorine cloud, rather, they're minimally protective but nevertheless we believe 'do make difference' and we want people to wear them, so we don't talk about it in detail, rather, just suggest or require them as policy in some locales.

Because people make decisions based on the emotive strength of the rhetorician, the magnitude of impressions, emotions, group consensus, 'opposition', politics, their instinct for the validity of the source ... and not conscientious and dispassionate civic reasoning ... we worry about what is said on 'mass media'. People will do largely what their favourite 'talking head' say to do ... so we have to be careful about what 'talking heads' say, at least in some situations.
Agreed. I found out about this early perhaps due to my South African family who sent me this doctors analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2vI4XczqZ8

It could be excellent news. It sounds more virulent than delta, so should displace it given enough time, and much less dangerous.

If this holds up, countries are doing the exact wrong thing by banning travel from South Africa. The thing to do would be to open travel with no restrictions and maybe even subsidize the airfares. The sooner you replace delta with omicron in a country, should this continue to hold up, the better.

I bet not a single country does the logical thing. It's politically infeasible, because it's counterintuitive and the population wouldn't understand or support it. Plus the politicians themselves aren't exactly the sharpest.

But it doesn't matter. Delta swept the world in under six months. Omicron may well do the same if what we're seeing so far about the R value holds up. At this rate it may well just be a matter of time.

The "end" of the pandemic, at least in ways that matter may well be on the horizon.
This is an unfortunate reality of this pandemic; the vast majority of deaths, even with Delta and the OG, were among those people with pre-existing conditions, including the most common: obesity and related disorders like type-2 diabetes.

I think Boris' statement is accurate, but you're right; our reaction to it needs to be taken in context. The media and government will talk non-stop about vaccination and treatments, which are incredibly important due to the reality of the pandemic, today. But, mentioning weight, eating healthier, exercising, critically analyzing your own risk factors (with the help of a doctor), etc; out of the question.

I wish I could scream at our leftist leadership right now: Managing fear is wildly important. Every spectrum has extremes. On the extreme right we have vaccine denialists; that's unhealthy. But on the extreme left, we have the opposite [1]; people who are so afraid of this thing they can barely live their daily lives, people who isolate, become depressed, and even kids who are so impacted by at-home learning and impaired social lives they commit suicide. That's blood; the rightwing media and government leaders spill the blood of people who won't get vaccinated, and the leftwing media and government spills the blood of people so caught up in the fear of this thing they neglect their own mental and socioeconomic health.

A (leftist) friend just told me three days ago: "Every other human is a threat."

At this point, we need to heal. Vaccinations, treatments; absolutely. But far more importantly, we gotta put COVID behind us, even if its still here. That responsibility falls on the media and government leaders. Early in the pandemic, we (probably) overplayed the severity of the disease to convince people to isolate; we didn't know how bad it would be, so it was the safer, correct route. Today, I think we need to underplay it. Don't lie; don't obscure. But the fearmongering will destroy our society far faster than COVID does.

[1] https://twitter.com/drewtoothpaste/status/147012370236491367...
> Our ancestors would argue that a 1MB application was bloated.

And no one listened, so now -- despite our computers being thousands of times faster -- basic applications are hundreds of times slower to open. And we're junking a bunch of "old" machines that are considered too slow even though they're technically capable of performing rapid operations at levels our brains can barely comprehend.
That's not what parent said at all, if anything he meant the very opposite. He was just suggesting missing features. The site is a nice tiny project but it's not what you'd expect when you think of making websites from paper, you'd think it would understand layouts and convert them to CSS or let you create a sitemap from a tree but as it is it's just OCRing text and uploading it to a page with an editor next to it.
I am very confident that the dumbest rocket scientist and most incompetent of neurosurgeons are more intelligent than all of the readers of the Daily Mail combined.
It exists: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview. Might not be cheap for search-as-you-type though.
I can't imagine doing math or electronics in my head without some concept of internal visualization. Assuming you do those things (if not there is likely something else that applies): When you rearrange equations in your head, are you not having some visual representation of them (actual equations in an otherwise empty space for me) that you manipulate? When you think about a circuit, don't you mentally think about where the current goes in an actual visual representation of the circuit?

What about having read a textbook, can you sometimes remember roughly where on the page a particular graph or equation or whatever was?

I think the answers to these questions might help me at least to figure out whether we think differently, or it's just a different description.
are you sure you are not referring to Mathematica or taking derivatives? ODEs and integrals are hard to solve for even simple cases, I cannot imagine wolfram alpha being able to solve anything even remotely complicated without throwing an error.
What was the name? I played plenty of stacks back in the day!
> assuming compression of course

I don't know why this seems the standard practice in the industry, but it really annoyed me when I realized a “15TB” LTO-7 tape has actually only 6TB real, “native” storage coz it assumes some average compression ratio.

Why is this acceptable? What if I use the tape to store incompressible data like video and images? Feels like intentional cheating.
Sorry, 'Western' was lazy shorthand for 'Western civilization', which covers most places geographically. I meant to exclude from my statement only poorer societies that don't have the luxury of being stupid in their healthcare approach to this disease and time.
Here's a recent one. Dumping some of the strategic oil reserve into the supply to artificially lower fuel costs, otherwise known as a subsidy (Monetary assistance granted by a government to a person or group in support of an enterprise regarded as being in the public interest).

> Today, the President is announcing that the Department of Energy will make available releases of 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower prices for Americans and address the mismatch between demand exiting the pandemic and supply.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
i liked the old design on their website better.
though this one fits better with the whole "software as a service" thing, i suppose.
Bootup archlinux image, type in archinstall, make sure to select gnome... It's that easy.
Oh man, Hypercard and ResEdit were my gateway drugs. I don't know of anything equivalent nowadays.

The pinnacle for me was getting it to run my teacher's laser disc player.
Hardly a dent has been made on the desktop. I still see users running either Windows or macOS.

ChromeOS is possibly the 'closest' to this (and that is proprietary), but Google is going to replace it with Fuchsia anyway; meaning that we will soon be back to square -1 on the Linux desktop.

Oh dear.
Right, but I mean it's a notebook-based language/environment so they seem hard to uncouple. Just looking at the link I posted it seems a little complicated. Have you used Mathematica in a team situation?
Yeah it's integration of OCR and a lightweight CMS that also conveniently rolls together fees for hosting and GPT3.

I was a little surprised that the paper part is used only for plain text. It would sort of make sense to have at least a few formatting and layout features.
It seems as if the Framework Laptop is starting to put pressure on the industry.

I'm still highly partial to Framework. Both for rewarding their innovation, and ... let's just say, a Dell-Hell basis to my personal origin story (as this nym).

https://frame.work/blog/introducing-the-framework-laptop

https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/21/monica-byrne/#think-diffe...
Hoppscotch’s maintainer builds open solutions for all
Consider sitting outside and looking at a flowering bush or tree. At first it's just a tree. Then you realize that there are flowers on it (they were always there, but you weren't attending to them before). After a little while you'll again suddenly realize that there are bees buzzing around the flowers, and a nest halfway up and a few feet from the center on the right. You, most likely, did not have all that in your head on your first glance at the tree. It was just a tree. This is how many mental images are formed.

If asked to imagine a person or object or scene it always starts off fuzzy for me until more details are prompted for (by myself or by the questioner). Someone kept bringing up Tony the Tiger in one of the recent discussions on this. For me, he starts as an image of the logo or just the face/head on the cereal box. If I continue to think of it, or am asked a question about it, more details will come to mind. I may even recall and imagine Tony walking around a scene, like from a commercial.
I meant nothing was done w.r.t CO2/CH4-based global warming. I think some form of pollution (smog/acid rain/CFC) were tackled surprisingly efficiently because they didn't require a complete rethinking of our lifestyle.
Just wait until your wifi or suspend breaks on a distro change on your 5 yr old laptop.
It's so good in fact, it makes me wonder if this was the Wuhan Virology lab's penance act.
That looks a lot like a scam
Yes, but they’re not. It was just a typo.
Maybe related https://alzheimersnewstoday.com/2021/10/05/hyperbaric-oxygen...
I've seen it. Tbh women who are less attractive tend to be more assertive and are the ones more likely to approach.

If the girl is like an 8 or a 9 she's never going to approach solely based off the fact that she never had to in her life.

Either way all women are swiping right only for the unicorns when on tinder. It's the modern equivalent of an approach and it tips the game in their favor. Prior to tinder women just got whoever approached them, with tinder they signal their intentions to the unicorns.

What this means is that only a few men are getting all the matches on tinder. The actual statistics, in fact, pan out this way.
Quantum Entanglement of 2 Macroscopic Objs Is Physics World Breakthrough of Year
> The divide between those who dislike or don't understand virtual goods and NFTs is very much along generational lines.

Virtual goods don't appeal to me but they make sense. It's the decentralization that makes no sense. It wouldn't solve any problems for Fortnite.

> They don't care how about the underlying technology or how it works, only the end result.

You just admitted that decentralization doesn't matter. V bucks are not a cryptocurrency. They work just fine centralized.

Anyway, my point is that just because you think NFTs are absurd doesn't mean you think digital goods are.
Very nice idea to both save real estate and obfuscate URLs - I might steal it :)
If I remember correctly, L1 ETH can handle ~13 transactions per second. Meanwhile L1 Bitcoin can handle ~4 transactions per second. At the time it was introduced, one of Ethereum's selling points was that it was able to handle 3x more transactions per second than Bitcoin, IIRC.

300% more is usually considered a good upgrade for most things (Apple is touting a whopping 20% speed increase on their latest iPad, for example). It's just that six years is a long time in this space and they've learned how to make things a lot faster since.
SQL doesn't have this "belief". SQL has the behavior that is most useful for querying and joining when some columns have unset values, or foreign key relations that are unset.

I understand your position, but your idealism would be strictly worse in real life. Can you imagine if an optional foreign key relation immediately made all joins fail because one was unset? Or if a join between two optional values made all NULL values join together?

The SQL NULL behavior also allows UNIQUE nullable columns to have more than one instance that is NULL, so you can have uniqueness over a column that may also be unset.

If you're a purist or an idealist, SQL NULL might be a mess, but pragmatically, it's the only behavior that is sane for SQL as-is.
My girlfriend uses a MacBook and likes it. She bought a cheap windows all-in-one desktop and simply couldn't use windows. I made the effort during one weekend to make it look and behave like MacOS as much as I could.

Appearance-wise it is very very close. I got some gnome extensions to mimic the behavior quite closely too. In terms of software, it is still missing MSO and some magic apple integration to their other products. Otherwise, she is now a happy linux user on the desktop.
Counterfeit Part found in $10K Dell switch and HPE supercomputer
There's more to macOS than look of the desktop, notably the universal menu and full screen mode opens to a new workspace. I find the latter a big productivity boost when working on an undocked laptop as the gestures to switch workspace or windows between an application are so well integrated.
Finally a Facebook exec that tells it exactly how it is. Facebook should not be the information police. Individuals are 100 percent responsible for what they say and do. If someone makes a threat on Facebook, it’s not facebooks fault. The same goes for misinformation. People can get tricked by things but they can also learn. Look at the traditional media. People have learned that they all have their own biases and now it is no longer trusted. The same happens on Facebook. You cheer for a friend or a group for a bit then they say something totally stupid and stop cheering. People are not all mindless drones no matter how much “they are rather ones brainwashed and dumb, not me” people say there is. It’s always “not me” who is wrong. Not to mention even if they are wrong that there should be enough faith people will eventually learn. I love this Facebook execs comments and the way he brings back personal responsibility for what individuals post.
> I can't wait until all proprietary software becomes obsolete due to FLOSS becoming good enough for everyone.

The problem is ‘good enough’ is a moving target and FOSS isn’t exactly closing the gap.
What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too (2020)
> is just pseudoscience. No studies, no test

> look for some real course in psychology and learn from there.

Isn't psychology famously pseudoscience as well, given almost all of their studies are irreproducible.
My Ubuntu laptop is just fine apart from every now and then randomly pausing and not accepting user input for a minute or so at max CPU. Seems to be maybe Chrome related, so that's maybe the next thing for me to try to migrate off after Windows.
This all sounds like it comes from the world of Action Item, Professional Super Hero ( https://professionalsuperhero.com/ )

Me? I just want to write, improve or even remove code to make software better.
You can you use Mathematica for free if you have spare Raspberry Pi laying around. please check:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6775330

https://twitter.com/WolframResearch/status/10519497450302177...

https://www.theverge.com/2013/11/21/5130394/raspberry-pi-inc...
WebAssembly is notably a pathological case for _any_ stack-scanning GC, since the stack isn't addressable.
You should be able to attach an apple script to a Siri shortcut that runs emacsclient:

/opt/homebrew/bin/emacsclient -e '(toggle-frame-maximized)'
You don't need to nearly as much, by comparison.
If that happens I’m going to eat my mac mini for lunch.
I would love to read your documents! Can you please link to your site?
Yes, EWC needs lots of internationalization love. Please please please open lots of issues and PRs!
Ghidra has been publicly available for less than half the time of IDA/HexRays, but it has really caught up fast.

https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/22676...
General question, but who cares? Would you rather then reprint all of these stickers just to solve your OCD about proper spelling?
some folks are super touchy here nowadays. Sad.
> You're actually sort-of describing the original idea for Vox. They wanted to basically have like a website of things happening with explainers for everything they could easily link-to and keep updated so they could write a story explaining an event

I see something different in gpm's idea. Vox wanted to update their articles. That's bad. gpm wants to aggregate coverage of the same topic over time. That's great; it gives you an easy way to look at "what did people think in 2018?".
As are 30% of all squirrels.
Now that SSDs are ubiquitous, hard disk drive manufacturers should up their game:

* 5.25'' drive which is taller (more platters) and wider (more sectors per platter)
* Slow rotational speed to reduce consumption and vibration
* SMR again, but label the products accordingly
* Small (64-128GB) SSD embedded, acting as transparent cache especially for quick response to write commands.
* Possibility to disable this caching layer with a SATA command.
Detailed Marketing Mix of Sony (7Ps)
On some Mercedes-Benz you could watch TV while driving [pdf]
This comment is unhelpful and ineffective, for if it were so easy, it would be done already. People have to live with the decisions that their grandparents' generation made because the inertia of it puts it firmly out of the reach of the individual.
Yes, that's famously why we had Nixon, Reagan, Bush, another Bush, and Trump.
> From what I see the proprietary operating systems are in decline now

It is a very slow decline, but it's being largely going on unnoticed. Rewind the clock 20 years, there were all sorts of paid software offerings everywhere on the desktop. You couldn't uncompress a zip without paying (or stealing from) someone. Unless you were a Linux rebel running slackware or whatever.

We can do a lot on Linux now. We have thousands of Steam games running on the Proton+Wine+Vulkan combination (often with similar performance, in some cases even better). Most of the missing apps are available in the browser - which is a blessing and a curse.

Everything is moving to open source software. The issue now is different: we have commercial offerings on top of open source, closing their gardens. Take Android. Ridiculous amount of open source software, arguably the most deployed software worldwide. Controlled by a corporation.

Lots of apps have moved to the web, where we have a similar problem. Their foundations are most often based on open-source. But they are behind some corporation or another.

Heck, the big cloud providers all have in their core a whole plethora of open source software.

The operating system concept, as we know it, is in decline. This may be a global maxima for FOSS OS. I hope it isn't.
Konsole is not actually 50kb, you need to include the libraries it imports to do an apples to apples comparison. What is going on here is tabby is the equivalent of statically linked + a virtual machine OS called a browser, while konsole is not. To properly compare the two, you need to compare source code size, as if you downloaded tabby and ran it an browser. To really compare them properly, you'd also need to make the typescript compiled into equivalent JS VM assembly. There you'll find them probably to be significantly closer in size
I wrote a (userland) general purpose and driver/hardware-agnostic multitouch daemon w/ gesture support for Linux that works with the existing input stack (i.e. doesn’t require switching to libinputy but also supports it), if anyone is interested:

https://neosmart.net/blog/2020/multi-touch-gestures-on-linux...

https://github.com/mqudsi/syngesture

The biggest benefit is that you can use drivers with actually correct acceleration curves like xf86-input-synaptics (if you’re on X11) instead of the offensively bad, NIH reimplementation that ships with libinput.

Oh wait, I’m on HN so I shouldn’t neglect to mention my project is written in rust!
Previous discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24449927

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24401748
I bought an old eroded farm with my wife and we’ve been restoring habitats, placing parts of it into conservation, and working towards regenerative farming practices.

We also went pretty much entirely plant-based with our diets years back, and traded in our hybrid for an electric vehicle.

I’m not under any illusions that those steps are going to change the outcome — but our hope was to make people interested in nature, where food comes from, and to learn more ourselves in the process.

I also find that meditation has a lot of value for me when it comes to coping with such massive issues. It reminds me that I can always change myself, and hopefully through that find ways to spread a compassionate mindset towards others.

I have three little kids, and a pretty clear-eyed sense of what their world is shaping up to be. I just try to focus and much of my energy as I can on setting a good example for them. Hopefully they’ll grow up with the tools and knowledge necessary to find ways to thrive in a challenging environment.
> HyperCard and Excel were my programming gateway drugs.

Same! I had played with C++ a bit, but what really made programming logic stick for me was when I made my teacher a gradebook in Excel in 9th grade. His logic for calculating the grades in class was a bit strange, and he was doing it all manually, and my grades were exceptionally bad in that class, so I asked if I could get some extra credit if I could make his grading easier. Surprisingly he said yes [1], so that weekend I really crunched through Excel and pumped out a gradebook that implemented all the rules he was using to grade.

It was the first time that "if" and "else" statements really clicked for me, and it got me interested in "real" languages.

[1] In hindsight he really shouldn't have. It was sort of an unfair bit of favoritism he was paying to me, but 15 year old me didn't really care.
Very nice. Small nitpick: clicking on the text of the radio button works, but it doesn't for the checkbox.