skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One day you'll understand that everything it's cyclic. Flat interfaces will be toshed out for semi 3D interfaces such as the ones from Aqua/Haiku/Windows 9x and so on.

Most of the Linux solutions are overengineered, btw. They had to release Pipewire for everything as OpenBSD did with sndio. And yet ALSA adds a layer of cruft and complications. Sndio+OSS just works.

So, I think keeping yourself on a simple design path makes the future much easier.

For example, MTP on phones suck, up to the point that using SFTP with some server from FDROID makes the data sharing back and forth much, much better.

Ditto with rclone vs 200 providers with their own GUI for everything.

Or age and/or signify vs OpenSSL or GPG2 being used to encrypt files where those have options for everything encrypting/signing related.
I could be wrong, but it seems the real worry about DNA being known is that one could be discriminated against for health care if one was prone to disease. That hasn't happened yet.

I did my DNA test with 23andMe and did not hide my identity as I figured such a fear is not likely to play out in my lifetime. I also have not committed any crimes worthy of forensics (yes, I drive over the speed limit and smoked dope when it wasn't legal but otherwise a good boy).
You’re right, just reading more on the topic now, it’s a punishable offense, not illegal. My mistake thanks for pointing this out
Covid shutdown linked to record rainfall in China
battle bots have to be well engineered to stand a chance. In other words you are saying that the delivery ones can auto-upgrade in case of need. That's a true AI, chum.
Aren't these expensive robots prime targets for thief and/or damage by local youths?
I guess the issue for me is that there are places where people greatly exaggerate their claims, and there are places where those seemingly exaggerated claims are legitimate.

Given that, I don't think I have ever read anything good about the UAE, either editorial or comments from expats. Maybe from insta influencers who wanted to pad their hollow "luxury life" existance.
These little guys or very similar ones wander the sidewalks of Mountain View freely.
Gumroad's recent redesign is also quite ugly.

For now I won't stop using the service, but it disgusts me every time I see it.
Someone, who for legal reasons is not me, has the idea to make stickers with strong glue and cheap paper (so they can't be ripped off in one go) to stick on top of the QR codes to these things. The sticker would have text that says "Sorry you can't use this scooter because the last rider parked like an idiot."
A convergence of the two electric vehicles would solve all problems: once you drop off your e-scooter at your destination, it runs off by itself to deliver burritos for someone else.
Slides: [0]

Carol is one of the authors of The Rust Programming Language [1]. This talk, targeted mainly at C programmers, motivates the development of Rust and then offers a deep dive into Rust's safety guarantees.

[0]: https://learning.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/leaning-cen...

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
Oh ! I have ADHD too so maybe it’s that.
... and? (I' m i europe)
It isn't, but he asked.
Single women are losing in today's economy
> I mean theres being pragmatic and "accepting" that in North America

It's not pragmatic to stunt the growth of the market. North American EV sales volumes are one third the size of Europe's. North America's inability to do something as basic as standardize on chargers is one of the reasons why.
There’s a difference between a consumer drive and a server drive. Plop that $100 drive in and you may be back in a week or so replacing it.
I agree, Delphi and C++ Builder alumni here!

However I find .NET to be the only really good things about modern Microsoft. Even Windows itself has so many anti-features these days that I pity the average user who can't lock it down.
This is what I ended up doing -- I got a (relatively) inexpensive LG 4K monitor with USB-C, DisplayPort, and 2x HDMI inputs, and the monitor has a built-in headphone jack and a pair of USB-A ports. Plug in one cable, and my laptop or tablet turn into an experience that gets you close-ish to a desktop (the iPad still has real issues when you're trying to run it primarily through an external monitor, mostly that it only occupies a small portion of the screen if the app isn't specifically designed to handle an external display).
In Moscow there are such robot deliver post, where traffic more complicated than in campus, I think couple years and they are completely replace human delivery
Site is broken. Can't scroll through, everything just rolls past.
> Cold reality is that even 5-year old kids know what sort of company MSFT is and what sort of people work for them.

Mate, 80% of college students don't know that.

Source: Work at a computer repair shop and see shocked faces.
Maybe they should pity the human delivery workers who they are helping to put out of a job?
For me Dropbox is still better than the competition (don't know about iCloud, never used it) and I don't even remember what redesign you're talking about. I've always used it as set and forget sync, I rarely see the interface or the web page.
Just wait until we find out what the government, via their designated companies have been doing with our DNA off the back of the swabs
It's a race as much as "person from English speaking coubtry" is a race. It encompasses white Spaniards, black Dominicans, and indigenous people from Central and South America who don't necessarily speak Spanish themselves.

There are two dictionary definitions of race: people sharing common biological features, and people in the same ethnic group. The biological features one clearly doesn't work.

An ethnic group is a group of people who share a common cultural background or descent, but the cultures and descents of these people are very different.
When I was 19 I answered an ad for an internship. I met these 2 clowns in a chinese shop where the first thing they wanted from me was to sign an NDA. They were so hyper-protective of their product idea that I still don't know what it is. The most I got out of them is that it's some sort of dating app (this was years ago IDK where they are now).

I put their product on the side and talked to them about the company and this is what I learned:

Q: how many employees work here

A: it's just the two of us (2 founders)

Q: do we already have some product

A: no

Q: is this a paid position

A: yes (press x to doubt here)

Q: how much?

A: we can pay equity

Q: how much investment do you have

A: none

Q: how much equity do you want to give me?

A: how much do you want?

* wtf kind of a question was that, I thought I was interviewing for an internship*

Q: how is this an internship? This sounds to me like you're looking for an investor.

A: some mumbojumbo about what I'll learn running a company virtually by myself

Is this a common thing? Companies trying to 'hire' investors?
>smirking at someone for getting rolled is low.

Is it still low when it is self-inflicted? That old fable with the finisher at the end about 'you knew me for what I was when you picked me up' comes to mind. This ending was clear from the beginning.

Microsoft is the same company who licensed Mosaic from Spyglass with the promise of a quarterly fee plus royalties and then released their version of the browser as Internet Explorer for free resulting in no royalties. Never mind the history of companies who got in bed with Microsoft and never quite recovered afterwards. Or the history of blatant ripoffs. DoubleSpace anyone?

Anyone choosing to get in bed with Microsoft at this point gets what they deserve. There was a reason why they were literally paying companies to write apps for Windows Phone.
iCloud - you don't really need an alternative.

Microsoft - You have many alternatives to Microsoft software. Linux, Libre Office, Java, Python, IntelliJ, ... pick one, or more.

Amazon - there are so many other stores. And cloud providers if you are into that.

Netflix - just another streaming service. You can decide how to consume media in many different ways.

Google - Mail you can host anywhere, it's not like Gmail is special. Online productivity suites are not that rare as once. If you insist on Youtube you can use it without an account, Android with fake account.

If you find yourself you can't switch, you are into much bigger trouble. It's ok to be burned once, but next time you start you new SaaS startup, think twice do you want to depend on specific company for all your needs.
I strongly disagree. APCA isn’t finalised, but it’s vastly better than the existing WCAG contrast stuff. I’d much, much rather have it included than not. Pointing out in the clearly-visible credits that it’s a work in progress is entirely sufficient.
> Why not both?

Go's fuzz tester takes this approach. When a failing input is found, it's added to the source code directory with the intent of you checking it in.
I agree, but I highly suspect that if you flag a lot of submissions that aren't also flagged by others you end up on some kind of list where your flags are ignored or deprioritized.
Disclaimer: Anecdote (does not mean data)

I was one of those who took an SSRI and had a change in my sex drive. I took escitalopram and it killed my sex drive, doc switched me to trazodone and things returned to normal.

If your SSRI is causing you problems, talk to your doctor, they can switch it up. Everyone responds differently, you should be able to find one that won't mess with it.
What's telling to me is how often I have to go back to the Win98 styled windows... and how much I prefer them to the newer Settings window.
One of the funniest things I've ever seen was behind the scenes at TGIF at Google. Sundar was wearing some nice bay area gear (ie, ready to climb a mountain or meeting a corporate board room) and there were a couple PMs nearby wondering what brand he was wearing and how they could buy it.
Having Sex more than once a week 15 years into a relationship with 3 kids running around is not alot? I bed to differ. I think for most that would be more than they are currently do.

Having sex daily is a young couple fantasy, and really at this point just waiting time.

Time is the one thing we dont have. If Im not feelin it, and the wife isn't feeling it. I'm not going to force it. And If I want it, and she dont. Rubbing one off out in my office quick after the kids are in bed is no big deal.
I’d start by looking into the company and related companies at companies house. If you have the time and patience you might find something that’s newsworthy enough to make politicians act to prevent misuse of data, cheaper and more effective than private litigation.

[1] https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...
Unfortunately, I'm going to have to disagree...

Things aren't that bad, but I've definitely noticed a lot more cases of downvoting of "against the grain" comments or opinions with often very few responses in the last couple of years.

Previously, I rarely noticed heavily downvoted comments, and in the cases they were, there were almost always reply comments explaining the opposite side, leading to IMO much better discourse and discussion.
I almost feel like you're proving my point. Try going outside the tourist districts. Nobody is complaining that the streets of downtown Dubai are dirty, they're complaining that they're being cleaned by slave labor.
...And other countries/states have embraced Bitcoin. The China ban was going to be "the end", fast forward less than a year and the network is stronger than ever. It has more users than it ever has. Bitcoin continues to grow regardless of these actions. It simply doesn't care.

You didn't address the difference between unilateral government-bank cooperative freezing of accounts en masse vs. what's required to strong-arm keys from a single person. Do you acknowledge they aren't even close to the same thing?
If you know more about what I could do, please get in touch (email on my profile). I am not from Australia or the US, so I don't really know how to start with such procedure.

Also, it was such a traumatic experience that I was truly relieved when me and my family were back at home and safe, I wanted to just forget about it and rebuild my life at the moment.

Now I'm in a much better place so I'm looking to, at least, share my story; particularly with young students, like I was at the time, so I could prevent them from going to these places where abuse is common and rampant.
this is Uber's strategy.
> Of course, all the testing agencies are collecting DNA.

Source please!
Why are you conflicted about this? There has to be a lingua franca for business, the internet, etc. (not necessarily the same language). Historically speaking, it makes sense how English would bubble up as this language. Why should that cause guilt or conflict?
Honestly, I don't buy the incredulity. Even first year PhD students know about faculty politics and how it shapes your future. And to expect anything different at MIT?
There have been a few studies that people have actual sympathy for robots in distress.
This doesn't seem to be a movie tie in. The character and vehicle design look different. It's likely a "well-timed" adaptation of the novel, similar to the recent graphic novel that was released in 2020, which emphasized completely different parts from the movie and had very different visions for things like the ornithopters and even the race of the cast.
Happy Birthday HN! This is one of my favorite online communities. I enjoy popping in here a few times a day
Personally, I'm all for criticizing both. And I think most people are, but this time we're in an article about Microsoft.
Q_compress: Lossless compressor and decompressor for numerical data
Well to be fair they have destroyed Skype as well. It used to work well, now it's a joke with messages often not delivered for random long time periods, call not getting through when both people are online, and just generally failing at the basics. But before MS rewrote it, then it worked very well.
> I would agree with the author if the question was "ONLY pair programming" vs "ONLY individual programming", but that is a stupid question.

I think there's some unstated context when people talk about pair programming. Everyone occasionally wants to pair (maybe not with the term though). Pair programming didn't have a name until it started being mandated. As soon pair programming gets a mandate of some sort (% of time, part of codebase, day of week...) it becomes a stupid mistake. It's pretty useful up until that point.

Pair programming is like keyboards. I'm skeptical of anyone who brings up the topic: it doesn't need to be discussed.
Ruby is even worst. Out of that 6%, 5.9% were from Shopify.

Unfortunately I just cant get along with PHP syntax. I do like the direction Laravel is going.
What’s behind the recent ransomware attacks on European oil installations
This. And it is brutal. It’s truly amazing how many Michael Phelps or “when I was twenty” responses there are.
> I'd call that a coup attempt. You might call it an insurrection. I think that's quibbling over semantics.

This seems like a good opportunity: since this scenario/though experiment is a product of your mind, you should have access to knowledge of whether it actually was a coup attempt (the people in question genuinely had the intent to overthrow the government, and a legitimate plan of sorts) - so, did they?
> Or a naturalist tale of trying to turn the desert green?

That's an interesting premise, and a nice third way between the obvious and tired approaches of Imperialist Exploiter 2000 and Mujahideen Simulator.
Greening Bitcoin with Incentive Offsets
Sure, but what standard was going to win wasn't entirely clear even at the point Tesla was going into Model 3 mass production.

Remember for some time, the best selling EV in US was Nissan Leaf which used Chademo. In fact for a long time in the northeast, the most widespread non-Tesla DC fast chargers were Chademo.. CCS only took the lead 2 years ago. This is also why Tesla has sold a Chademo adapter for years here in the states and is only recently releasing a CCS adapter.

It's like being mad at Apple for not using USB-C when they invented Lightning (which predates USB-C).

For better or worse, Tesla is selling you an ecosystem. Buy our car, it has a strong, widespread, easy to use, affordable charging network.

If you buy most other EV brands in the US, you are stuck using ElectrifyAmerica chargers which are more expensive, fewer locations, and critically - incredibly unreliable. Go watch some non-Tesla EV reviews in the US, or car comparisons.. the number of reviewers in manufacturer provided cars having issues with chargers being down, slow, or unable to authenticate with their particular car is insane. There was even an official sponsored event with TV crews to race EVs across America and they repeatedly ran into these issues...

We also run a serious risk of the situation getting worse rather than better. Remember that ElectrifyAmerica is part of a settlement with the US Government by VW due to diesel gate. Who knows then the funding winds down and if they have enough 3rd party capital to continue building out, fixing their hardware issues, etc.

So for now, unfortunately, it makes sense to buy a Tesla and rely on Tesla chargers - they are incentivized to work well to sell you more cars.
I wonder if it is possible to measure the volume of poorly discarded scooters and properly parked scooters and compare location to location.

There is an area I visit often and it started with lots of poorly parked scooters but after a while ... I didn't see many. I don't know if folks just did a better job or if the company scooter shepherds (don't know what to call them) were cleaning them up effectively or what.

On the other hand I have visited places where it was scooter chaos...
A better option would be to use USB-A to USB-C adapters -- a quick check of Amazon says you can buy one for $15USD[0]. This also side-steps the worry about devices with a proprietary "other end" or where the cable is unremovable -- all it's doing is changing the port shape on the host side.

[0]: https://smile.amazon.com/Anker-Adapter-Converts-Technology-C...
As a Mac user since 2004 I recently found myself seriously considering other options. Mainly due to the huge regression in UI/UX over the last 2-3 years. Most first party apps have become less functional and harder to use. I'm struggling to use these apps full of tiny gray similar looking icons that don't exactly work in similar ways. Is it my imagination or does drag and drop simply not work reliably on macOS anymore? Finder in column view is being the one I fight with constantly.
The thing is there's no designated place to park them. You can't put them on the property line next to the sidewalk. Many sidewalks don't have a "planter" or other non-walking area. Sidewalks weren't designed for this. I think we should ban sidewalk scooter parking. The public right of way is not a parking lot for private companies.

As an aside: many (most?) people who need sidewalks choose to use the road instead because the sidewalks are inaccessible. Snow and ice doesn't get removed from all sidewalks (regardless of what regulations say), tree roots breaking up the pavement don't get repaired, large inclines/declines are a safety hazard. I know a regular-abled person whose face got mangled as she was riding her bike on a sidewalk and hit a chunk of unrepaired sidewalk and went over. Sidewalks need a redesign.
Kathy Loves Physics and History
Nobody said they're not important.
Could you be a bit clearer why you're being critical? Much of what DeepMind does is rooted in prior projects, they just sprinkle a little more RL and have a great press team. Nobody would use their system for real in production, just like when they published how they could run Google datacenters 5% cheaper in real time- turns out, nobody actually deployed that because the settings it came up with don't make sense to humans.
This may just be my confirmation bias, but I started using Reddit in 2012 and that felt like the big heyday and the peak of the site. It had reached critical mass to be interesting, but the new UI design hadn't come yet and it still felt niche enough to have the weird, interesting corners.
Your analysis here is circular. You essentially state that it’s hard to measure the impact of pride so we shouldn’t try, which sure, you can hold that opinion I guess. But it kind of flies in the face of your original position that it’s not predictive. “Hard to understand” is not at all the same as “meaningless”.

This also rings extremely hollow. There’s nothing about your claim that is specific to pride. You can apply your criticism to any aspect of human behavior. Humans are hard to predict. This is not a particularly novel insight.
Ian Cutress leaves Anandtech
> The idea that 3 days away is life and mind altering is deeply concerning to me.

I agree. I was left with the impression that the author could benefit from a therapist. It is a strange and unsettling concept to me that someone should be so emotionally vested in being connected to the Internet as much as possible.
However, Slack doesn't allow you to a) stay alertable to a subset of the company (e.g. people you are working heads down with on a project) while b) ignoring everyone else in the company. Even if you stick those people in a common channel and mute the rest of the channels you are in, people can still jeopardize your focus with a single at-mention or DM. Just anyone can hijack your sidebar.

Slack doesn't respect something as simple and fundamental as the focus of a small team within a larger org. But if they did that, they wouldn't sell as many subscriptions, because it would be less addictive, I guess?
Another formulation that I like:

Exercise to build muscle, eat to lose fat
It was a nice tablet environment and also massively wasteful and inconvenient for the vast majority of people running laptops and desktops. It was dead-on-arrival and I predicted it would be dead-on-arrival since prerelease versions of Windows 8.
It s well documented that young men are having less sex. I would like to see a comparative study between gay and str8 men however

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-health-sex-idUSKBN23J...
FB's initial success relied on a lot of variables coming together, and Zuck is smart enough to know that.

He's also smart enough to know that people are smelling weakness, and that's a bad time for him and Meta, because the parts of the tech world Zuck has allied himself with are ruthlessly mercenary and when he + Meta become a liability, all their friends and allies are going to drop them like a rock. The main contribution Zuckerberg brought to the table was an understanding of and an outlet into digital youth culture. Now we're hitting adulthood and Zuck's approaching middle-age, and you can't be the bright young kid forever. He's realizing that he needs something concrete for his power and influence to last, but I wouldn't be shocked if either:

a.) The people with the decent ideas/the ones who could tell Zuck 'no, that's a batshit idea' that he'd listen to have all bailed. They're not going down with the ship.

b.) He's tanked his reputation to work with so much that he can't assemble the teams he'd need in order to make something like the Metaverse actually feasible. There are no Savarins, McCollums, Hugheses, or Moskovitzes around. He has ideas, but he's so obsessed with being on top that he's forgotten that an army of a million soldiers with a commander in chief but no generals or officers is not going to be very effective.

That's my take anyway.
Cops can earn a good amount, and can move up. But lets be honest this is not a game every cop has the option to do. only so many upper management positions. same with a teacher.

All I meant by it is making six figures by the time you turn 30 is not as easy as a task.