skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feynman wouldn't have been so daft. The interviewee strikes me more like a tunnel vision autistic who takes the riddle far too technically and literally.
Though collusion between two tech giants is obviously distasteful and anticompetitive, how is this ultimately addressed? Sure, governments could force Google and Apple to break into smaller entities...but as long as humans still largely choose the best software, there will still be network effects that lead to dominant players emerging. In turn, there will be new giants.

So...either there are general paradigms/regulations/principles to apply, or we'll simply return to this state repeatedly, no?
This is completely ignoring the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As soon as you start renting out your "home", you lose the right to choose who you let into it on the basis of the renter's race, gender, religion, or nationality.
Actually, I prefer to use dark as a descriptor for a wide arrange of things that are non-sinister.

There is a lurid racist history to using the word dark for sinister, in the oddest of corners. For example, the racial history of the Mormon church has extremely strong connotations in their sacred writ for "dark" meaning sinful. Obviously melanin in the skin doesn't correlate to scrupulosity or zealotry -- but in the minds of its 19th century author(s) it does.

Similarly, during my few years sojourning in the Philippines, dark skin was seen as socially undesirable because American television typically portrayed beautiful people as white.

These are hogwash notions, but reinforced by a desire to equate bad/immoral with a color scheme. So, I don't personally feel we need to restrict dark to negative connotations, simply because dark isn't negative by itself, nor is luminous always a positive (e.g. JWST likes the dark for pictures).
I have been using mine (64GB with Ubuntu 21.04, Gnome Flashback) for the past several months as my primary work laptop. I have not experienced any of the issues you mention. I like it so far. In fact, hardly notice it. Except maybe when I do sudo/login. I can use my fingerprint instead of password :). My earlier laptop was a 2012 MacBook Pro which gave up last year. I do have an M1 which is used exclusively for iOS dev.

I did have to tweak few things mentioned in their community page/forum to get everything working.

Two issues (which hasn't bothered me yet)

- battery drain during suspend
- gnome not supporting different scaling with multiple monitors (fixed in later version of gnome as I understand)

edit: formatting
This word play isn't worth the time or effort. Shall we try to apply the meaning of full stack based on my own entry into web development in 1998 when N-Tier development was all the rage? I think not.
Is it just me or does the social recovery system sound tricky?

I'm thinking phishing, social engineering, threats, but also people often trust the wrong people, relationships don't always last, and sadly people die.

Especially for very important and sensitive stuff I'd say there are better alternatives.
I wonder if the horizontal scroll on mobile is part of breaking out of the box.
The Dan Case is absolutely gorgeous. What hardware are you running in yours?

I’d love to get a setup like this going with a 30x series card, but I’m not sure how difficult getting one at listing price is these days.
Dude just go for it. Even if it isn’t a product and cannot be sold, having a project that demonstrates your skill is worth more to the right recruiting staff. Also, in trying to solve a problem you care about, you will find challenges and the right motivation to learn the tools to overcome them.
Am I the only one to think that if a pressure cooker can cook 95% of your meals then you're a really boring eater?
I like one thing about laptops, if there is a power outage you will not lose all of your work. Yes, you could buy UPS for computer but the fact that laptops have batteries is the main reason why for past several years they are my main computers.
The link just takes me to google?
> This entire idea of using random IDs assumes that your computers can generate random numbers that are random and unpredictable — this isn't an easy problem, and there's a lot of research being done in the field.

Can anyone here provide some hints as to how you can verify that the randomness is actually random?

If I was to create some blackbox and I claimed it generated 100% random numbers, is it possible to disprove my claims?
How? Isn't decomposition a non-invertible function? Many different brains on a cremation table can lead to identical piles of ashes.
> Coin mining has been on the rise in northern Kosovo, mostly populated by Serbs who do not recognise the state of Kosovo and refuse to pay electricity.

This is a very loaded, technically inaccurate statement. This recent article explains the situation better: https://balkaninsight.com/2021/11/23/kosovo-to-end-free-ener...
I think the PC* environment roughly went through three phases.

1st phase: You must do everything by yourself.

2nd phase: You can do everything by yourself.

3rd phase: You must do everything through the OS.

The third phase is much more safe and more convenient, but also much less exciting.

* in the wider meaning, not necessarily only IBM clone
> The alternative option seems to be that Apple is for some reason required to use their position to enter the search market.

Well, another alternative option is that Apple is forbidden from charging for being included in the list of search providers (as default or otherwise), they can't be pay-to-play, they can pick whatever providers they want they just can't charge for it, so they have to make decisions based on something other than who pays them the most.

Which, now that I think about it, doesn't seem like the worst thing in the world actually... but I really don't think US law requires it.
How come the government can afford to subsidize energy if the economy can't sustain paying the "true" price for it? Where is the money coming from?
What about storage of energy in batteries for resale to the grid? That’s very low (or negative) return by comparison? (Also probably not possible everywhere.)

Also, if the claim is correct (about crypto making energy price arbitrage much easier), then a motivated reasoner could argue that it has had the positive effect of eliminating inefficiencies by forcing energy to obey the “law of one price”.

Which, to clarify, doesn’t necessarily make it positive-sum overall, but still needs to be weighed against its energy usage cost to accurately gauge the full effect.
Ah, true, those of course do too. But plain Debian or something slim based on it like AntiX or Linux Mint Debian Edition would be my pick.
Being anti-mandate doesn't make you anti-vax. It's not GP's fault if you can't tell the difference.
would you rather have three teams developing one app on three platforms (windows, mac, linux) or one team developing one app for all platforms?

It makes perfect business sense to use electron. It opens paths which otherwise would be very costly and hence infeasible.
Ask HN: Where to find leads for blockchain/crypto mobile work?
Hey everyone,

I've been in tech world for 10+ years, most of them mobile. I am based in Asia, but for the last 3 years been working remotely. Clients mostly from USA, Europe, thus I have no problem with the time-zone. Charging 85usd/h as of now.

I do specialise in building e2e products in Flutter (mobile framework). With it I can get a new contract pretty easily (due to my extensive portfolio and references). However, I'm thinking to make a move and check more of blockchain/crypto development space. Am open for pretty much anything - as long as it involves blockchain and I can learn from people/resource around me.

I seem to find quite some troubles finding leads for such jobs. Maybe am looking into some wrong places?

Tried:
- LinkedIn
- UpWork
- https://crypto.jobs/
- https://cryptojobslist.com/
- https://cryptocurrencyjobs.co/
- Twitter (blokchain/crypto, flutter tags)

LinkedIn seemed to have most offers, but it's fairly hard to filter. However, trying to go through them.
UpWork seems not to have great quality job posts, although found couple great ones.

Any advice is appreciated!
These kind of threads make me feel like the old secret society handshakes have been replaced by mystic level mastery of memes.
We are very happy Just Works customers for our US operations and have been for years (migrated from another PTO). Beautiful interface, great service, timely support, fair price. When employees have a question about anything related to their benefits we just point them to Just Works and they get quality answers quickly. Can’t say enough good things about them. Happy to refer anyone.
We can all use more compassion and empathy. Be at peace, and hopefully the developer(s) can correct course on their principles of engagement.
> This is a really horrible project and should be avoided IMO.

I'm glad to see that you've retracted this, but note per HN Commenting Guidelines: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
Is that true?

Certainly seems to be true here in Sweden. All new houses and apartments I've seen recently have tiny open plan kitchen with terrible layouts. It's clear that they layed out the rest of the house first and then just crammed in a kitchen in whatever space was left over.
> Science is pretty clear on the amount: it’s 42%.

What science? There's not even a way to claim that number in the article.

I would personally argue that there is an optimal stopping point that is true in other problems. That number is 1/e or 37%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping

37% of a 24 hour day is ~9 hours. Most people work ~8-9 hours a day before stopping. Most people sleep for ~8-9 hours a day. Most people have leisure for ~8-9 hours a day. This percentage is pretty consistent & has actual backing in other applications.

There are other major variables not accounted for such as circadian rhythm and your biological working clock, but that's besides the point.
I think you're getting the better deal. In America we offloaded a lot of lesson planning, worksheets, and more to independent companies. The problem arises with this because many teachers now just rely on answer keys, and can't answer why an answer is what it is, or notice that the given answer wasn't actually correct. Since teachers aren't putting in the work to design anything, some aren't putting in the work to teach beyond the given script, so they really can't do anything beyond read to kids. This unsurprisingly, leads to poor results.
I would say 75% are replacing a spreadsheet.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc... they are not suspected, they are possible.
Are we really talking about China promoting competition in the context of search results?
Spam.
Just looked at your comment history - how many times are you going to spam the same link, which is also your own website.
I might be misunderstanding you. I have a setup such that:

When I yank to the "kakoune clipboard buffer" in kakoune (a terminal text editor), the X clipboard is updated (again through OSC 52). When I copy something to the X clipboard (either on chrome or some other program), the "kakoune clipboard buffer" is updated [0].

[0]: technically, the kakoune clipboard buffer updates itself from the X clipboard when it is read from.
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Hi folks, I'm the user from the screenshot above (thanks for sharing this btw).

I have to say, this was a quite unpleasant and unwelcoming interaction as my question was genuine and I indeed did do some extensive research before asking this question in Discord.

As a devtools founder myself (co-founded www.prisma.io) I highly value welcoming and helpful communities and offered my help to the people behind the Tauri project to turn it into a more welcoming community. I hope they are open to it since I actually really enjoy using Tauri as a project.
This articles seems to a victim of the flaw of averages:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29793256
If only I could back in time to visit my younger self...

I had 1980's BASIC books in 1992 along with a 386SX running QBASIC. I learned what I could from GORILLAS and NIBBLES. I looked through some books at the mall bookstore, but I didn't know anything about Microsoft C, dBase, and what the hell was CLIPPER? I didn't understand how computers 'worked' until much later. A C64 and an assembly language book might have built a real solid foundation.

I didn't know any adults or older kids when I was a kid who did anything with computers. I think that if my mom could have taken me to any kind of computer or programming class at the local community college, that would have been huge. Computer class in school was mostly typing, Oregon Trail and putting any kids who tried to run BASIC, go online, or bring programs from home into detention. Of course, we played pranks like swapping CTRL and ALT on the IBM keyboards, or running the PEEK/POKE command on the Apples to change the refresh rate of the monitor.
Having experience writing crowd simulations in both games and VFX in film, I suggest you take a look at Massive, and perhaps read some of their documentation to learn how this successful implementation handles crowd simulations: https://www.massivesoftware.com/
Orchestras famously switched to behind-the-curtain auditions. As expected, it got the same sort of objections as in this thread.

It’s famous for the ridiculous differences he policy change made. Women's success rates doubled overnight.
That is certainly rude.

But the contents aren't very problematic. This is one person tired of repeating himself in a chat.

The issues up there have a much more reasonable discussion.

I wouldn't embargo the project due to it, but it's worth looking if they have a better channel than the discord one. Anyway, the Mac isn't a good environment for webviewers (notice that there are other projects with this same known bug).
Does Airbnb offer other alternative methods of identifying riffraff? I don’t use the service but I wouldn’t unless they offered a way for me to profile customers. Background checks and/or ratings would probably suffice. Name and picture are obviously very subjective but people use what is available and probably won’t participate unless they have a way to protect their business.
I've used https://smallstep.com/docs/step-ca/ as a CA internally, works well.
No longer a need to pay subway tolls or submit to arrests, and eliminating the enforcement of trespass cancels the concept of private property. New York City is awesome.
>It doesn't, and I very much wish the company and reviewers had made that clearer.

The reviewers definitely need to do a better job of thorough testing before making claims. But in my experience it is common for things to inexplicably not work when before they did and vice versa in Linux with no good explanation as to why. It's part of the reason why "the year of the Linux desktop" is always next year IMO.

As for Framework themselves, I checked the product page and this is all they had to say about Linux support:

"Available in configurations with Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro, we’ve also tested for compatibility with common Linux distributions and will be publishing guides on using them."

I don't see those guides in the support section yet so it seems they don't support them yet. If a vendor doesn't explicitly list an OS as supported then I don't consider it supported. So like 99% of Linux situations I would assume YMMV.
> Shunning an individual by accusing them of acting in an unacceptable manner is "cancelling" them isn't it?

Yes. But replying to an individual and telling them why they are incorrect and what you believe correct to be isn't shunning and isn't canceling. It's dialog. Reading interesting discussions is the reason I come here and participate. Echo chambers aren't interesting.
or...

"we want reasonable jobs that allow us to have a life and do not functionally make us the property of a corporate entity that does not share sufficient amounts of the gains of our labor with us and labels requests to be treated with respect as unintelligible"

States/those with power claiming things are 'unintelligible' when in fact they just don't like them or want to treat them as valid is a classic form of control.
no-code is more like the past of web development. Macromedia Dreamweaver, Shockwave Flash, Frontpage, etc. And you know what, a good authoring tool unleashes more creativity than today's boilerplate SPA bullshit.
It is a literal quote from the article...
> Making GUI apps using Electron tech for front end is no less time consuming than doing GUI in Lazarus for example

It is a lot faster if you already know web tech stack, and you would have to learn Lazarus/pascal
They probably could, but it would be worse. I worked for a few years with the opposite, replacing spreadsheets with systems with custom interfaces, backed with databases, access control, real backups etc. The savings (in form of reduced need of manpower), quality and reliability increases have often been enormous for these customers.
exactly...compliant is a two way street.
One factor you are missing in that analysis: TSMC is very profitable—about $5 billion per quarter. Better working conditions don't have to mean more expensive products; it could instead mean reduced profits.

https://focustaiwan.tw/business/202110140010
> You need at least "real world units" for stuff like the minimum size of touch targets [...].

That touch targets need absolute lengths is a good point.

> So that makes for three independent settings, in the general case.

Yes, and you’ll notice that’s what Darktable does (or did) :) I’m not unsympathetic, just have never seen it done in a moderately complex situation.

> Modern CSS is quite close to Turing complete, so an entirely constraint-driven design (which is what's needed when more than one unit is being chosen by the user) ought to be feasible.

I suspect it’s not a question of theoretical expressive power so much as ergonomics: allowing easy description of (what people think about as) simple things. It probably doesn’t have to be precisely; if a full constraint-based / linear programming approach[1] is the way to go, I expect designers will adapt, it’s just that last I checked those could be quite tricky to use: small changes could lead to drastic rearrangements of the layout, and as soon as you try to add a couple of breakpoints the whole thing becomes NP-complete.

It’s like, say, LR(k) parsers. LR(k) parsers are nice, fast, and good at expressing our intuitions about ambiguity (unlike ordered choice). They are expressive enough for almost anything you might want to say. But nobody really wants to work with them, the failures are tricky and hard to predict, and they lack many things you want for modularity (say, closure under unions).

It seems to me that the situation with truly resolution-independent layouts is similar in this respect: we can technically do them, to some extent, but they are a pain, so nobody does. And it’s not so much a problem of finding the perfect language as a problem of figuring out what it is that we want to say that seems so simple in our heads.

[1] https://gss.github.io/guides/ccss
The people in charge quite possibly have crypto farms themselves, so... don't expect a solution until there are literal electricity blackouts due to shortages or the electorate gets really angry.

But if it were to be implemented, it would work. It wouldn't make the electorate happy either short-term, it would be like flushing out an infection with a fever.

Plus, with the delicate nature of the political situation, I wouldn't recommend Kosovo's institutions imposing brownouts on Northern Kosovo, or at least not just on Northern Kosovo.
> >30% of the population are on the streets with pitchforks
> I think you are overlooking the word "experiment."

Is the so-called "experiment" focused exclusively on a jurisdiction that enforces those rules?

A/B testing tends to be randomized per session or per user or per marketplace, not per jurisdiction and specially only on those where AirBNB already lost lawsuits and thus has to face a precedent.

Also, is Oregon the hotbed of racism and discrimination in the US rental market?
Show HN: Static reflection for C++17 (enumeration, attributes, proxies, ...)
60 jobs in 1.
Racism is pattern matching (and can be good or bad - selecting a good bone marrow transplant donor is racist) so I’m not sure how educating will resolve it. People correctly notice trends.

I think making it illegal and socially unacceptable is the only way to get rid of it.
Covid deaths afaik are “death while having Covid”. Do you see a reason to apply a different standard to vaccines?
The mob was not that significant. It's the defense system that failed intentionally.
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Found this[0] link showing the hiring at least:

"TSMC this year hired Benjamin Miller, a 25-year Intel veteran, as its head of human resources in Arizona."

[0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-tsmc-looks-doub...
This questions keeps coming up, and without knowing the specifics of the tools being discussed, the answer will always be "it depends".

I recently started using a no-code tool called Glide[0], because it emphasized that the starting point could be as simple as a Google Sheet. That data is pulled into the app's visual builder interface, so you can start playing around with filters and conditional logic to show/hide information.

Then you can set up user logins, Stripe integration and basic CRUD functionality with read/writes happening on the Gsheet. You can string together actions with Zapier and create calculated columns like you would on an Excel pivot table.

Ultimately, I can see myself creating a small community app using this tool, but not something that has hundreds of thousands of users, as then we get into tricky issues of vendor lock-in.

So IMO, the use case for something like this is for rapid prototyping and and an MVP. You wouldn't want your entire business hosted on someone else's platform, so as you get user feedback on the MVP, you should be talking to a dev about how to move off-platform: hosting, deployment, using a proper DB, security reviews ---- all the ugly stuff the no-code tool abstracted away.

[0] https://www.glideapps.com/
You can, but AFAIK the way it does that is by overwriting the clipboard with null data. If you have a clipboard manager, it may save your credentials before it is overwritten so that it can retrieved later, and in this case, it is not something you want. Some clipboard managers can be clever and detect a null overwrite and interpret it as a request not to save the overwritten content.

Autotype do not suffer this problem and is generally considered safer. Some password managers have an even safer "mixed" mode where part of the password is in the clipboard and another part is auto-typed, meaning you have to monitor both the keyboard and the clipboard to grab the password
Realistically speaking, would even the most-die hard apple fans move to a new (apple) search engine over google? I highly doubt it.

I get that the article is more about google paying apple to be the default in safari, but I'm just wondering.