skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Babbage had the habit of trying to upsell his investors into a more complex, more risky, more academically interesting device without completing the last one." Omg the oracle business model was born....
Lot's of reasons for this. Mostly having to do with the minimal size and sophistication of current quantum programs, and the background that many of these efforts arose from Physics teams where python is heavily used. One of the most popular non-Python based version of these sorts of frameworks is https://yaoquantum.org/ which is in Julia.
Running/biking/sailing, woodworking (I build boats), restoring antique cars, home remodeling and repair, gardening.
Wanted to link to the illustrations part in particular but it was taken off the URL. So trying again here: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy#graphics-and-svg-illustra...
I love Gnome's design. Maybe I'd make title bars skinnier and add corner tiling?
Furthermore, the variety of projects that are enabling convergence on their applications is growing at a fast rate, with KDE, GNOME, Nitrux, Elementary and Jingling among others shifting their interest on mobile-ready and touch-friendly applications for the future of Linux.

So, in other words, Linux desktop applications are going the same way as "desktop" applications on Windows and MacOS. I put "desktop" in sarcasm quotes, because so many of these apps are just upscaled mobile apps, which retain the giant buttons and low information density suitable for a 6" touchscreen even when they're scaled up to a 24" monitor.

If this is the future, I hate it.
The tradeoffs with session length are actually quite interesting. Obviously infinite sessions are the best in terms of the initial friction, and thus be great for creating user engagement and minimizing the number of users who drop off the service due to having to log in again. And even if the users stick, if they need to log in too often they'll hate it (as seen all over these comments).

But on the flipside, the infinite session might not be a benefit in the long term. A user who signs in just once when creating account will have no idea of how to log in. They'll have forgotten their password because they only used it the once, they've lost access to their recovery email account due to changing jobs, etc. And while any single one of these issues would have been trivial to fix if noticed quickly, letting them pile up for a year means you might have very few ways of proving it really is you when that nominally infinite session finally gets killed for some reason.

I very nearly had this happen last month. I had been intending to close an old phone number from a different country, where I haven't lived in 15 years. But I also happened to try to log into a PSN account for the first time in years (consoles basically never require new logins); the password mysteriously did not match the one that was stored in my password manager, and it was only that old phone number with weeks left to live that got me back in.
Unlabeled icons are terrible. I use Gmail more than any other application outside of dev tools like my editor and my terminal, and I use every single one of the message operations (archive, snooze, add as task, report spam, etc.) at least occasionally. After a month with a new work Gmail account I realized I was still waiting for the tooltip to pop up before clicking the buttons, just to make sure of what I was clicking on. Fortunately, Gmail lets you switch to text buttons. Now when I want to snooze a message, I just click snooze, instead of thinking, "This button is a clock, I bet it's snooze, but hold up, what if it's another time-related operation I'm not thinking of... okay, confirmed with the tooltip, now I can click."

And that's for a button I click several times per week!
if I have to have a microsoft account to use GitHub I'm moving all my stuff to GitLab
Why do we have to suffer it on the desktop though? It’s so damn hard moving windows on gnome without setting something off accidentally. Especially with the shitty touchpad input devices.

My mac laptops aren’t touch screens and they get this usable.

The whole gnome desktop makes me want to stick forks in my eyes.
I looked Curtis Le May up.

The wiki quotes him as saying: "I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal."(https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX61....)

Did not stop him doing it to North Korea and he was unable to get WWIII off the ground, thank goodness.

Some redemption for his role in the Berlin airlift. Particularly for passing the job over to one better qualified.

A complex character - I wanted to find a psychopath, but simply a mass murderer.
> Of course the register supported 40 digit numbers. This was a machine that would have to be cranked. The clock cycle was literally a cycle. Anything less than 40 and you could more economically pay someone to calculate directly.

Yes, but larger registers would need more physical force to manipulate. If you had smaller registers, you could have a higher gear ratio on the crank, allowing the machine to run faster for the same input force.

If they wanted to perform some particularly complicated instructions, then they might want a lower gear ratio instead. The obvious solution: install a gearbox and a shifter.
>There's a sci-fi novel I want to write some time...

>You know how some countries have mandatory military service?

>Well, what if all of the "Essential" jobs, all had mandatory service?

Corvee labor, aka a sci-fi novel about a concept in existence since Ancient Egypt.
I can't say I fully understand it, but having compared major triads with different intonations, I can only say I myself find slightly sharper thirds to sound nicer in chords. Here's one thing I've used: http://tmp.esoteri.casa/interval-test.html (5-limit is "just intonation", Pythagorean uses 81 : 64 for the major third, 1/6-comma meantone is 55-EDO, and 12-EDO is standard equal temperament.)

One thing I like is that the slight dissonance takes the edge off the ringing. I find that to be a rather strong flavor.

The book I mentioned offered suggestions why sharper major thirds are used, but I don't remember there being anything convincing other than observations about how harmony works. Maybe your thought that going too flat sours the third makes sense: if it's sharp, you have a little more freedom to adjust your intonation without accidentally going flat. Plus, thirds are fairly forgiving anyway since they're corresponding with the fifth harmonic, which over two octaves higher.

It's worth mentioning that the Pythagorean major third is about 1.266 : 1, which is quite sharp, yet it's still just intonation since it's from going up by 3 : 2 fifths.
A lot of criticism of the atomic bombing is context free 20-20 hindsight.

Big armies are like huge complex ships: they take a while to get moving, are hard to steer and hard to stop. So one can criticize the destruction of Dresden, but you also have to remember that the UK had built a machine that threw planes into the air and there was little correlation between the amount of armaments being sent and the number of targets available (or accounting to reduced opposition). Yet that machine was a small part of a huge effort, and was probably only paid attention to by the high command when something went wrong. And not to mention the rage and anger on the part of a bunch of people who had been bombed themselves for years.

My wife grew up near a town in Germany that was bombed for the first time, and utterly flattened, in late April 1945. Absolutely no strategic value; they had simply wiped out everything above it on the list so now it was their turn. I never heard anyone complain about it (and boy old people were happy to give you an earful about all sorts of things).

For more lack of retrospective context: As for the atomic bomb, don't forget Turman only heard about it when he became president. And all sorts of facts that seem clear today were completely unclear back then. What would the soviets actually do? Was Okinawa an example of what the invasion would be like? Japan still occupied Manchuria and other parts of Asia. Intelligence on the risks the Allies faced was still thin.

And don't forget that allied troops in Europe were rebelling (even turning their arms against their officers) at the prospect of being shipped to the pacific theatre.
You can easily guess the right sha256 just using random strings and overlapping correct characters and then you can run a dictionary attack on it, or a brute force one if it's not too long.
Any way to see what's going on inside one of these neurons while it's spiking for a particular calculation problem
Tokyo is actually a place where you see this in practice, from what I read. Prices are fairly stable due to lots of new construction.
There's tons of FUD about nuclear waste, including with respect to environmental impacts. I think environmentalists have been coming around to nuclear, but I'm pretty sure that's a more recent development. At least my perception circa 10 years ago was that environmentalists were largely (if not overwhelmingly) opposed to nuclear. Certainly for a long while, environmentalists worked (perhaps unwittingly) with the fossil fuel industry to promote personal responsibility and lifestyle campaigns ("everyone needs to go vegan", "we just need more recycling", "get rid of SUVs", etc) rather than substantial energy reforms (like nuclear or carbon tax).
> Maybe unit tests need unit tests? (There’s probably a lint rule to catch what I describe above)

Yep - meta-testing (ensuring that every unit test that exists in a project adds unique coverage, remains valid, runs as expected, and I'm sure many other properties) could (and should!) definitely be automated.

Some more advanced meta-testing could involve tracking changes to a project's source history over time (in other words: tests that run with commit history). By that I'm thinking of situations like: "does this test genuinely still test what it used to, after the test and/or application code was modified?"
Woah. Now that is incredibly useful.
Couldn't agree more. I want to see a "mostly pure" occurence type system with refinement types and HKTs on a SUBSET of ECMA.
pg-osc: Zero downtime schema changes in Postgres
I use the acme text editor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor) for work every day. It makes heavy use of mouse chords, so I need 3 real buttons on the mouse, and it's hard to find a mouse with 3 real buttons and a scrollwheel which doesn't get in the way of the buttons. I've got a Kensington Expert Mouse trackball which works pretty well, but at the end of the day an old Logitech PS/2 mouse plugged into a converter is my go-to.
I guess I fell into the same trap as a lot of others reading this and commenting it and having the programmer side of my brain see one thing and the musician side see something else.

Computer programs must follow the rules... the rules get made up first and the programs get built to conform to the rules.

Music theory isn't like that. The music comes first. The theory gets made up to try and describe & understand what is going on with the music. It's not at all like a program where the rules & theory come first and you build something that fits into that.

If you write a piece of music that doesn't conform to some kind of arbitrary rule in music theory that's fine. If your music is successful and important enough someone will modify music theory to explain why your music was successful and important.

There is a cycle where you learn some music theory to help learn music but the theory just helps you understand what's going on, it doesn't force you to do anything a certain way. You can't come at music and think about it like you're building a computer program.
No, GNU/Linux phones can run desktop applications scaled down in such a way that they stay usable. See examples here: https://puri.sm/posts/converging-on-convergence-pureos-is-co....
I’m outside the US and nah, the bombings are viewed as quite justified.

Japan track record during the war is on par with Nazi Germany when it comes to genocide, mass killings of civilians, war of aggression, etc.

And it took two atomic bombs and even then Japan took time to capitulate.

The US could have just blockaded Japan and starved them out but is hundreds of thousands of civilian dead from starvation any better?
I found a solution for Firfox on Ubuntu MATE:

1. go to about:config

2. find widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override

3. Change to some pixel value (I have mine set at 26).

voila!

I do not understand why the default is so thin. Really bucks the trend of every UI element being touch-screen large nowadays!
>But somehow a 1960s split level at 1800sqft is spacious.

I've actually found the opposite. Modern builds seems to prefer open floor plans and higher ceilings that older homes do not. To me at least, this can make the equivalent square footage seem less cramped. To your point though, it's much more common for newer homes to have more bathrooms than older builds of similar size which obviously erodes living space.
That's a good starting point, and certainly good advice for marking current time and past times. But keep in mind that future event absolute UTC can change due to politics, e.g. a change in daylight savings rules, which is less rare than you might imagine (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_coun...). That concert scheduled a year from now at 8pm in UTC+5 might actually end up occurring at 8pm in UTC+6.
Middle mouse button + dragging works fine, faster than scrolling in some situations.
No, and for good reason: if everything is high-rises then housing becomes too dense. The problem isn't lack of housing density. The problem is too many people wanting to live in a small area. We need to reduce demand (by spreading over a wider area - more cities and rural areas too) rather than increase supply.
I agree, when it comes to larger indie games. But there are still simple games that are worth playing, and certainly don't deserve to have their revenue stolen by content farms. The game referenced in the video above is an example of this. And people forget that 2048 was heavily "inspired" by Threes.

It's a separate discussion, but I believe there's still a "lottery" aspect to indie games. There's a lots of survivorship bias as play there. For every Hollow Knight or Disco Elysium, how many other passion projects run out of funding, or get released and go unnoticed?
If there is some sort of national mandatory essential service, that will happen regardless of what organization it falls under if it is ran poorly.
I remember Take Five mainly for the bass in the background during the drum break. But then, I like listening to rock music in Just Intonation, so I'm not typical.
Does this help you? https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/09/how-to-disable-gnomes-...
Nuclear reactions can be modulated quickly, they just aren't designed to and are prevented from doing so due to red tape. It's economically tricky because the fixed costs of a nuclear plant mean you don't want to underutilize it now, but you can make them variable.
>People want to live in specific locations, or have to in order to find work. This drives land values up as demand increases.

This ignores the world's giant pool of floating capital ravenous for returns that jumps on trends and amplifies demand by buying up what it thinks will have good resale or rental value.

I saw this happen in the area I grew up in recently. Some people I know who were struggling to gather a deposit saw their dreams of homeownership go up in smoke as they got consistently outbid on a series of properties by investors.

This would be a pretty harmless outlet of an for a glut of capital if A) land werent finite or B) land had not been slowly untaxed for decades.

Of the two, B is a more prudent way of making property prices sane again.
Even at Caltech at the time, being a computer nerd was not popular. Popular was physics (possibly because Feynman was there at the time). Astronomy was popular, too. Back then, however, nobody had any inkling of how much money could be made from computers.
Thank you, this is a big improvement. I'd rather have a nice chunky Motif-style scrollbar but it's better than nothing.
Hehe, i like it!

Except that changing direction quickly left/right feels kinda bad. Seems you wait for the animation to finish before checking for new key presses, not buffering the last pressed key.
> The old houses still around are the exception to the rule, not the norm.

So true. In fact, you could teach the concept of survivorship bias by looking at old homes, and the statement "they don't build them like they used to".
IBM has a nice online resource for learning quantum computing using their framework (Qiskit) https://qiskit.org/textbook/preface.html
>I’m pro densification but highly against sprawl.

My natural inclination is to agree with this statement, but I'd like to hear your rationale. Can you elaborate on your preference? Is it location dependent?
I'm right here thank you very much
Please do not use SHA256 for storing passwords, use Argon2

;)
I've been a gnome user for well over a decade. What's common to hear from people like you who have a good level of understanding the ecosystem and the community is that Gnome developers consistently make shitty design decisions and refuse to take input from a wider audience.

What is the reason for no group emerging, forking gnome and doing it the right way? I'd actually pay to support such efforts.
I'm not pretending anything. All I'm saying is that honking horns is not an arrestable offense. Parking in intersections is not an arrestable offense. These are tickets and fines.
>Well, there's a lot of history in that relationship.

The Israel branch basically saved Intel when NetBurst failed completely - at the time Intel was behind as much as today.
Why won't battery backed solar+wind be cheaper then too? It's already cheaper, and massive advancements are being made there too.
>It's really not terribly important to know "what frequency of two underlying beats sounds good."

And yet I get the feeling that if someone does investigates that (and adjacent topics) in depth with success there would be a bunch of interesting consequences to it.

Maybe, I have got no knowledge in the field - it just sound like something interesting, why the heck wouldn't we want to know it?
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You should see the excruciating experience as a feature. 5 years ago I probably spent hours per day on reddit. Nowadays, maybe 30 minutes.
Ah, that makes sense honestly. I bought their lifetime license and I'm a subscription user. Kinda sounds like the right thing to do is refund the lifetime license holders if they've changed architecture and direction that drastically.
I don't expect apps to be collecting data when not in the app. I think I get a permission warning like "this device uses GPS - allow when in app, allow in background, etc"

But with android, I just want to know if there is a log of every place I go for instance and does this get sent to Google periodically. This is outside of the map app.

Also, I definitely want to know if it's recording data any time apart for when the microphone indicator is on. This is on an OS level.

I know there's some nuances, but I think what I am asking for is pretty basic.
>Almost nothing, especially with the cheap materials used in current modern construction (unless requiring some hurricane code; ex. South Florida). It's all due to zoning limitations, and homeowners voting in their own interests to keep the supply down, and values to rise.

Did you read the article or just the title?
> It’s so damn hard moving windows on gnome without setting something off accidentally.

I'm not sure, I've never run into this? The headerbar itself, with its labeling text, works just fine as a mouse/touch target.
> According to the best current knowledge of humanity, it provides no information whatsoever.

??? My first guess has two green letters, or 8 bits of the hash are known. This excludes 255/256 of possible passwords-- so if there's a dictionary, it's way cut down. I also know for the other 30 digits a value that they are not-- this is about .1 bits apiece, for 3 more bits. And I get a few more bits from knowing the population count for each digit.

One guess has reduced the search space by a factor of 10000+. If I say, know the word is in /usr/share/dict/words, the number of possibilities has dwindled from 230,000 to something around 20.

Now, in this case, with a 14 character randomized password-- the amount of benefit is limited. The search space is still significantly shrunk by each guess, but in a way that is difficult to iterate.
I really like 12tone's breakdown of pop songs. Here's an example with The Immigrant Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwsfR5sJPbM
The scale and effect of radiation was not appreciated in the 40's and probably not into the 60's, given the scale of air testing. I thought much/most of the cast of a John Wayne movie (Ghengis Khan?) ended up with some kind of cancer after being downwind of a Nevada test?

Look for The Atomic Cafe on the 'Net to see what the training films from back then had to say.
While demand outstrips supply as now, prices increase. These have a ceiling of the maximum people can afford. If everyone is given a £10k payrise, then rents will increase by £10k, and buying will increase by whatever an extra £10k a year will get you on the mortgage.

Until supply increases enough so that demand is no longer artificially constrained that will be the case. Now there are places where supply is higher than demand, like inner cities in places like Stoke, and prices there are low enough that even a single earner on minimum wage with 6 months salary as a deposit can afford a 2 bed house [0]

[0] https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html...
Who woulda guessed that being a graphics programmer, gameplay programmer, network programmer, tools programmer, creative director, mechanics designer, systems designer, level designer, art director, artist, composer, sound effects artist, qa analyst, ux designer, social media coordinator, customer support specialist, marketer, community manager, graphic designer, copywriter, data analyst, etc in one would be one of the hardest things you could ever try to do. And funnest and most rewarding
I opened with:

> Let’s assume BTC replaces fiat (USD)

If BTC replaces fiat, I don't believe it would increase in buying power at a rapid rate. I think it would gradually increase in buying power over time only because the total supply will gradually shrink due to lost coins / dust /etc.
I am offering my opinion, but you already knew that and were just being sarcastic.

It is also not meaningless, you simply totally ignored the rationale I provided for the 10:1 figure. It's the ratio that roughly equalizes the moral worth of allied troops with Japanese children.

Admittedly this is all subjective, but that also applies to your opinions.

"The point is, the U.S. was pulled into war by Japan and did not have had any obligation to lose even one more person to end the conflict."

The US wasn't pulled into war by Japanese children, though, and you seem to be perfectly fine with their extermination under your perverse doctrine of collective guilt.

"No one is arguing this. But when it comes to the life of my son or brother vs. the life of someone I don't know, I know what my choice will be every single time. And I would bet my entire net worth that 999 out of 1,000 people would choose similarly in that situation. The instinct to stay alive completely outstrips armchair intellectualism and 20/20 hindsight"

People decide to do lots of shitty things for all sorts of reasons. The mere act of deciding to do said shitty thing and the fact that that shitty thing is a popular choice doesn't make it less shitty and doesn't serve as a moral justification.