skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main use I've seen for "upstream" vs. "downstream" is in reference to dependencies between projects - often one or more open source "upstream" projects feeding into a combined/enhanced for-pay "downstream" product. For that reason alone, I think using the same terms in a messaging context is a bad idea.
Right. I think people overwhelmingly recharge at home, and if you live in, say, an NYC or Chicago apartment building, owning an EV can be a major hassle. I have almost never seen Teslas parked in Manhattan streets, but in outer boroughs, private residences have a Tesla at every 3rd house (I am barely exaggerating).
I had to look up the quote but I think you have that pretty wrong. You're getting the GNOME shell and GTK mixed up.

https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3685

The ticket is about GNOME 3 removing support for status icons from the GNOME panel. GTK3 still has the status icon API, although they're deprecated and don't work on Wayland. That shouldn't have any effect on XFCE or any other shell with an old panel that supports the old X11 status icons. I think you can also restore the functionality to GNOME with an extension.

Also, if you check further down the issue you'll see this clarification:

>There should be no change in behavior for non-GNOME platforms.
Agree - it's just Microsoft buy-in at this point. Every product from Office 365 to Teams to just Windows itself is suffering.

To think people build their businesses on this is mind boggling.
I believe it is common to pretty much all Red Hat and Freedesktop developers.

Poettering has come with very similar claims that betray that he does not understand what people outside of his small circle want and need, the same can be said for Wayland developers, DBus, NetworkManager, PulseAudio and all such other infamous projects.
Your sample is not very meaningful because these apps are the successful ones. A much more interesting question is how do these apps differ from those that don't grow organically.
Horizon EDA 2.2 (Progress Report September – December 2021)
Sorry to change the topic but why is his web site constantly moving around so much? Sheesh
I'm not sure what your point is. Buying the whole market or a substantial part of it has always been a good strategy.

"Beating the market" is what "hot tips" are all about. "A fool and his money" etc. etc.
Hmm - by and large this seems like FUD-based reasoning (an in my view, deeply flawed).

E.g. "the measures aren't as effective as we hoped" doesn't mean they're completely ineffective. "The data aren't as clear" doesn't mean the data are completely useless. "The virus mutates and is more complex than we thought" doesn't mean its nature is beyond our understanding and we'll never be able to get the upper hand.

One thing we agree on is that the CDC has dropped the ball far too many times, and has largely forfeited the trust that many people had in its guidance. Ironically (for your argument) is that this is precisely because it has acted against basic logic and against measures which (though imperfect) do largely work.

But it simply doesn't follow that, just because one agency in the U.S. has become unreliable in its pronouncements -- that we can't rely on any basic science at all; that there's no hope of slowing this thing down or of staunching the tide of death and misery; and at land there's no point in attempting to get any kind of social consensus on basic measures (which while imperfect, are still largely effective) to do so.
> Seems about the same as US states allowing people from other US states to vote.

That's not a correct analogy. The EU is a voluntary economic coalition of multiple sovereign nations while US States are administrative districts of a single sovereign nation. EU nations allow residency status to citizens of other EU nations, but it's definitely still "moving abroad" not like "moving from California to Texas"
Can't help thinking of the Yogi Berra quote (whether he said it or not), "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."

Seems like there are a lot of folks interested in blogging support, considering that nobody reads blogs anymore.
> Logo gave me a brief taste of functional programming even though back then I did not know the term "functional programming".

This is what Unix pipes did for me. By the time I started programming constructing programs as series of side effect-free transformations felt perfectly natural (to be precise I did have some previous imperative programming experience and I didn't like it / grok it)
There are also some old papers, converted to PDF by way of dvips and Ghostscript, that are completely unreadable with a screen reader unless you OCR them, because the text in the PDF is somehow not using Unicode or even ASCII. You'll see the same problem if you run pdftotext or similar on the document. My usual example is this:

https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/~dfried/mex.pdf

(I only know about this paper because someone linked to it on HN several years ago.)

I'd be interested to know more about how the conversion to PDF ended up like this.
You can do this in places with universal single payer healthcare, too.
One could do that as well. Different use cases can mix and match any restrictions using the Match block in sshd_config or simply having a general restriction like this.

AllowUsers root@192.168.*.*
I have, not sure about @ghaff but I suspect he has, too.

This "researcher" is attempting to go deeper and quantify it, maybe (I suspect) as a way of devaluing individual thinking.
I'm inclined to believe this. I was in a discussion about this yesterday with friends and a clear statistic would have helped. But the chart you've got there --- I know it's not the fulcrum of your whole argument, I'm not sniping --- doesn't really make the case you make in your comment. It says that we spend 0.1% more than the OECD average on primary/secondary schools, but are boosted in the overall rankings by spending way more than any other country on tertiary schools (unsurprising).
Me and the Monkee: a final visit with Michael Nesmith
> If Upwork is the middleman here providing a payment platform, then I'd expect them to swallow the cost of card fraud

Of course! How else would you be able to protect yourself if someone else is handling the payments?
> It sounds to me like the bazaar system is working fine qua its own standards, then. Red Hat writes what they need to solve their problems, party X writes what they need to solve their problems, the code is shared, everyone gets what they want.

The difference is that Red Hat's problem is not making enough money, and everyone's problem is software not working because Red Hat breaks functionality to make more money.

Red Hat's “problems” are similar to the “problem” Apple experienced that that heir hardware was interoperable with third party hardware, so they made sure to use proprietary cables that only work with Apple hardware.

> Except: It sounds like what you really want is for Red Hat to solve your problems, not only their problems. That's definitely not how this stuff shook out historically. And it opens a door you might not want to open, because now you need to ask yourself why users liked systemd, and what obligations you have to support beyond your own needs in your own software.

No, what I want is for Red Hat to stop product tying, which you conveniently ignored and didn't address.

What they're doing isn't solving any technical problems any more than Apple is doing by using proprietary cables when standard cables suffice.
I'm talking about your first post: "If the freelancer had taken a credit card directly, he would be in the same situation as now." part.

It is impossible to claim that.
> No one does a phd for the coursework :)

Tuition also entitles you to access library resources, university software, campus gyms, sports facilities, child care, and university provided health services. I think your emoticon is implying your statement is tongue in cheek, but I mean.... they absolutely do though. If you don't consider taking courses a benefit to doing a Ph.D. then yeah, the value proposition of a Ph.D. program is quite lopsided. Tax-free tuition is an amazing benefit from my perspective.

> Your industry friends could easily travel the world, and they wouldn't be stuck in a conference hotel for half their trip.

You say stuck at a conference hotel, but I love conferences. They are so much fun and I always learn so much and meet amazing people. Moreover, what I said was "travel and present research". Not many employees who have been working for 1-2 years out of college get to present their work in front of an audience of peers and experts. It's great exposure and an amazing way to make connections and start building a career. My friends in industry were never given opportunities like that.

> paying them entitles you to the US social safety net!

I mean, you start paying into them soon enough -- I'm not really worried about my social security payout when I retire because I didn't pay into FICA when I was 24. The benefit of not paying FICA is that $30k goes further now when you need it. With Obamacare, healthcare isn't much of an issue anymore for grad students, and we got cheap/free healthcare at the university health services.

Look, all I'm saying is that when you say "$30k with marginal benefits" it makes it sound like a grad student is being compensated as a fast food employee. It's more like: $30k, and there are all kinds of benefits which may or may not appeal to you as an individual. If you want to make a ton of money go into industry. If you want a different experience do a Ph.D. You will (should!) come out of it with an education and a lot of open doors, some of which are permanently locked or vastly harder to open without the Ph.D. degree.
> For my use I wouldn't care about search much. Most of what I write is one-time information like a phone number or some shopping list. Sometimes it's a thought that I just want out there but it has no value beyond that moment. And if an idea can be used in some of my projects or become a seed for one, I'd want to catalogue it using a structured app like Evernote or Standard Notes or any other.

I think there are lot of advantages of using one app for all notes, and that's part of why I made thinktype. It means you don't have to ask yourself where to write something down and where you did write something down.

> Just sent you in an email

Thanks. So it does look like the entire thing is too wide. I have no idea how to fix this, or even replicate it, sorry.
My state prohibits gyms from requiring ACH exactly to prevent this sort of abuse. It doesn't stop them from trying, or structuring their fees.

The gym industry is very predatory and it needs far more regulation.

It should be noted that in the US, some banks will allow you to request a default ACH block/lock on your account, and I highly encourage you to ask for such.
https://youtu.be/i3E0t0kGeug

Doesn’t appear to be the case.
I think another interesting contender in this space is Elixir's live book. If someone figures out how to do custom kernels for this (not trivial, since the backend will have to parse the target language and create "local virtual state"), it could be really fantastic since live book is more collaborative out of the box -- internally it's backed by an OT system and supports multiple simultaneous connections in
Spack
Sure, it's not DRM classic but it's not that big a leap in logic -- it is still a digital system that manages your rights (to use any cartridge you want).
I do this as well.

This reminds me to look into a long standing request of mine. I want Chase to give me an account that has no external bank access allowed. Money can only be moved into/out of it from the other Chase account under my ownership. My immediate look a few years ago did not reveal any built in way to make this possible.
Same here! I have never felt comfortable hand writing things but the act of typing in an editor such as vim feels very liberating.
IRC logs from 1991 Soviet coup d'etat attempt
I loosely agree. I feel SSRIs should be used in cases where someone feels so down they cannot function. Once they are functional enough for therapy and other support, they may want to consider carefully stopping.
> Even so, my initial sympathies were with the freelancer. But then I looked at the main page of his website. he is a "Blockchain & AI Focused Tech and Investment Consultant"

Whilst I have little time for the crypto world, this is totally irrelevant. They were using a large & popular freelance platform for legally acceptable work and the exchange of fiat currency for billable work. People use platforms like Upwork in the (often mistaken) belief that it adds a layer of trust and safety to a working arrangement, including billing.
Read with a purpose, why are you reading the paper? Make sure you have clear questions going in, else you are just reading for the sake of reading and it is tedious and wasteful. If you read with purpose you can be much more pragmatic. Read the abstract and the conclusion (or last part of the discussion). Have you obtained the answers you were looking for? Probably not completely, so what are you missing? Not convinced look, at the methods! Not understanding things properly, read the introduction! Doubting the conclusion, read the whole discussion. Does this mean you don't have to read the whole paper, probably not.... but it will make you comprehend the whole thing much better and still faster, because, like you indicate, comprehension is the issue, rather than the text length.
My favorite tech job was when I intered for a fire department doing fire mitigation inspections and ended up building them and appointment scheduling system in my spare time, as well as put together a geomapped report of the programs mitigation efforts to present to the county.
I wonder how long before people propose to use it for happier society. Just like Stanisław Lem predicted in short story about Altruzine in Cyberiad [1] :)

[1] https://books.google.pl/books?id=xhbFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT264&lpg=P...
Looks great! How have you sourced the underlying metadata? From past experience, access to such metadata, especially IMDb, was rather heavily restricted, requiring a paid licensing agreement for access.

Does the Streaming Availability API use properly licensed data sources? If so, you might mention this on the marketing site, this would be a selling point for certain commercial projects. For that matter, it might be worth mentioning if the API can be used for commercial projects at all.
Feeling “slightly under the weather for a couple of days, similar severity to having a cold” is what Covid looks like in most children.

Covid infection is “potentially” much worse, that’s true, but so is a drive to a vaccination site — the child might die or get seriously injured in a traffic accident. What matters is not the “potential” but rather the actual likelihood, the expected value. Has Covid been dangerous to children? The answer is, rather overwhelmingly, no.
Cool cat.

I love how Mingus is so in tune with how his cat (Nightlife) thinks, sensing how to encourage him, how to avoid freaking him out, how to lead him along.

Some of Mingus's best known works (Mingus Ah Um, Black Saint and The Sinner Lady, etc.) are organized group improvisations, with multiple wind instruments playing improvised lines at once. It's different from big bands like Ellington's where you have featured soloists and everybody else playing charts (even if the rhythm section does some improvising), and it's difficult to achieve balance of the various elements under such circumstances. I get a sense from this article how Mingus manages to get inside the heads of his collaborators, to keep their trust, and lead them towards a shared vision.
As I said: "as far as I know". We have to follow a tight testing routine. The remaining chances are quite low.
I go with Epson or Brothers these days. Canon and HP pretty much getting the ban whenever I have the influence or power to affect the procurement: personal, friends or companies. It has been 2 decades. If they are able to do it drm-free they would have done so. People keep on voting them with their wallet to get these kind of anti-competitive behavior. Complain won't work. Laws or congress is a joke for decades now, considering ours have been so dysfunctional. Just ban at the procurements via word of mouth will be way more effective.
There are already quite substantial emissions when turning oil into plastics and other products. Steam crackers are among the biggest industrial carbon sources.

But that's not all: The common end of life processing of most plastics these days is waste incineration (causes CO2) or landfils (may cause methane, which is worse than CO2). Sooner or later most carbon embedded in the oil used for products will end up in the atmosphere.
This article is about petroleum-derived products, and cutting your carbon footprint by choosing alternatives.

One thing I can't shake about the EV "revolution" is that it's going to require a massive expansion of our renewable energy capacity, like solar and wind, but we also need that renewable energy for other things, like household energy usage. If we were rational and serious about making the biggest impact, we would reduce car dependency so the green electricity we generate can go to less wasteful means. It seems incredibly wasteful to massively build out green energy to continue to prop up a system where we all drive several-ton hunks of metal one mile to grab a coffee at a drive-thru.

I see stock pictures of traffic jams [0] and just think that EVs are a green "band-aid" to cover up a wasteful lifestyle.

[0] https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/traffic-jam-in-los-ange...
I am not opposed to the idea of an email list except I have to go through a continuous process of unsubscribing myself from email lists and maintaining spam filters just to be able to read email.

Subscribing to any email list deliberately just breaks down the discipline of delisting myself from hpunwanted email lists.
I've written a Wordle solver in F#. It's interesting because your first word contains the five most probable letters. My solver starts off by selecting, at random, one of the possible words that have these five letters.

Could you say more how you've determined your solver to be deterministic in 6 steps?

Also, I'm not sure I understand what this means:

> It selects a word to minimize the number of words assuming the worst-case green/yellow.

Particularly the part "assuming the worst-case green/yellow". Do you mind elaborating?
You don't understand what happened at Xerox PARC or what their "GUI" was. Smalltalk wasn't a language, it wasn't a GUI, it was an _environment_, and its whole point was that it didn't hide anything! It was a completely different paradigm to how computers and their programs are architected today. A Smalltalk system was always meant to be so simple that one could understand, and change, everything about it.
This is very similar to what happens in many Latin American Countries, but they use WhatsApp instead of Line.

The phone companies got greedy and priced the individual SMS so high ($0.06 local) that nobody uses them except for 2FA codes and notifications.

If sms where still $0.02 each as they were in the early 2000s I would still use them occasionally.

iPhone users here (10%) are not really aware of iMessage because they use WhatsApp.
The House of Government
If the other factors are highly correlated with % of people in a group, then this simple segregation model still makes some sense.

Say group A has preferences for unmodeled factors that are strongly correlated with the % of people living in an area who are in group A. Think whole foods nearby, yoga studio, asian fusion restaurant. All the stuff in the SF marina neighborhood. As long as preferences are the same within the group, then these external factors can be represented by the % of people in group A.

This doesn't account for price and income though, which are obviously important.
I use an external hard drive in a fireproof safe. I also have some documents in a safety deposit box at the bank.

There isn't much workflow to talk about. Grab the drive, move files, put away the drive.

I admit, there is no style to this solution. But it works nicely for me.
> Okay, how much do the shots reduce your risk of “long COVID”? Looking for quantifiable results from research, not your opinion

Use google… its not my job to do it for you

> Not my point, if you read more carefully. Can you quantify your risk of long term complications from a mild infection? How’s that compare to risk of car accident, sports injuries, cancer?

I read carefully and it was your point. And again usw google . Not my job

> Is this supposed to be some kind of ad hominem attack? Yawn. I can’t pretend to care about your opinion of me. If you’re going to respond please focus on answering my questions.

Yes it is. People like you aint indivuals. You are all the same bunch with exact the same opinion and the same way of misunderstanding things. Dude you are totaly transparent

> Well over 200 virus strains are implicated in causing the common cold, with rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, adenoviruses and enteroviruses being the most common.[

Nice you can usw gooogle … do it again
I mean, looking at what my local stores have on offer you can get a multifunctional inkjet for $90, cheapest colour laser for $340. But realistically are you going to buy the cheapest possible one? You can probably get a very decent inkjet for $150 but for a decent laser you'll probably need to go into the $500 range. It's a roughly 3X price difference.

Still this does surprise me, last I checked they were all over $600 at the very least, so the prices have come down in recent years I guess.
If you go through old Springer Undergraduate or Graduate Texts in Mathematics (typeset in TeX and Computer Modern) you'll notice they are really pleasant on the eyes. The amount of information density is just right. There's no noise and it's very easy to distinguish where sections start and end.

If you look into any great pre-TeX book like Rudin [1], it looks much uglier and more difficult to read. I'd actually pay a significant amount of money for new editions of Rudin or Halmos typeset in TeX and Computer Modern. They'd be much easier to go through.

I must also add Latin Modern is a slight update to Computer Modern that is slightly thicker and looks much better on screens.

[1] https://web.math.ucsb.edu/~agboola/teaching/2021/winter/122A...
I just pay $5/month for IRCCloud. The iOS app could be a lot better, but not only does it make IRC work like any standard chat app that allows messages while you're away, it also offers some modern bare minimum UX like inline images and link cards.
Since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29838197 was posted a couple days ago as a Show HN, I've put that one in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page. I hope that's ok!
Importantly, it’s a band-aid that consumers (especially in the US) can be convinced to want - EVs are fun to drive!

Versus the “right” solution, which is near impossible to sell to the populace.
> Business printers exist, and for those you pay a steeper initial price, but then the cost per page goes dramatically down.

Here's a secret of printer procurement, at least for laser printers: Usually, the more expensive the business printer is, the less it costs to print per page (including toner). With even a moderate amount of use, you save money by purchasing a better printer up front. That is, you can spend your money on a better printer, or spend even more money on toner. It's that obvious a choice.

Just do the math: Estimate pages per month (your old printer may have a log). For various printes, look up the price of a toner cartridge and the number of pages of print it supplies. With a spreadsheet you can calculate the lowest lifetime cost, and I bet it's for a better printer than you expected.