skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sangeeth is not a Sikh name. In India people don't convert to Sikhism, or at least I'm a middle-aged Indian and I've lived here all my life, I've never seen it happen. There's a certain foreign subculture of Americans converting to Sikhism, but then they take on Sikh names. It's extremely improbable that Sangeeth is a Sikh person.
> I live in a neighborhood where the median income is below the national average by about 10% and above the national average by about the same amount.

My brain is not parsing this sentence properly. Could you elaborate a touch?

I'm reading it as "the neighborhood median income is, at the same time, 10% below and 10% above the national average income", which is only possible if both the national average and your neighborhood median is 0. I presume I'm reading it wrong.
Please add "No-Code" and "Toxicity Classifier" to your toxicity dataset.
GNOME is in a damned-if-you-do damned-if-you don't situation here; if they don't adopt the flat theme, they look "old fashioned" and if they do they have a crappy UI.
If you're Apple and you make your desktop more attractive and pleasant you drive sales and market share. If you're redhat and you resource that you drive market share, to Ubuntu, who I believe still have a policy of never paying for development except for Ubuntu things, eg their failed desktop nobody else would use, Mir, bzr, etc.

Is that still the case? It would be a huge disincentive for other distros to contribute to the commons when ubuntu just parasite from it to a big market share.
Yeah, right. They know exactly what he was thinking.
> Plain M&Ms: Yes (melts in your mouth, not in your hands!)

I don't care that the chocolate doesn't melt in the hands, when the candy itself stains!
That doesn't really match up with the b-list regional folks I've gigged with.

As far as I can tell, the big goal for the folks who were 25 in 1978 was to get an album on with large distribution and make basically mailbox money for the rest of a career. I've known people who have done that basically on a couple songs. Like, pretty middle of the road folks I've met were able to make a living off their mailbox.

That will likely never happen again in our lifetimes.

But it's just not the case that folks were never making a living off selling recordings.

And further, being in a world market (as far as I can tell for a small, small time artist) is horrible:

I'm a very, very good musician but I am not world-class good.

But now I have to compete with world-class artists?

I'd much rather have to book shows via telephone if it means that I had access to a local scene that didn't have access to literally every recording ever made.

As a listener I personally like that access, but as a musician I have no problem thinking it's categorically =not= better for folks on the small end of things.
> And look at how these projects are organized. Most of the time it's pretty much top-down with a. It's why we have the term BDFL.

To make a more general point: top down leadership is not inherently bad. But in order for this to work well, people need to have the ability to enter and exit a project or polity at will.

(See eg how McDonald's doesn't let customers vote what to put on their menu, but customers are free to eat at a competitor or make their own food at home.

And compare that with North Korea also not letting citizens vote on their menu. But also taking steps to keep people from switching to a competing provider of government services, like South Korea. Similar also for the Berlin Wall.)
I've long ago made up a corollary to Greenspun's tenth rule; any sufficiently complex or mature access regime will re-implement half of kerberos, poorly.
mass adoption is clearly the goal of meta
I don’t like conspiracy theories, but I always wondered if the flat design trend wasn’t a genius way to nullify the advantage of higher powered graphic platforms.

“Our stuff looks lickable, buy our expensive hardware.”

“Au contraire, design with colored paper and scissors is hipper than lickable UIs. Buy our less than stellar hardware.”
There are parts of the city that are just really nasty. People are murderously aggressive on the roads. They never smile anywhere, never have time for anyone, including their closest family members. They seek entertainment as an escape, then get into addictions.

I think that affects the mental state of those who are just immersed in those environments. When literally everyone you meet is an asshole, you end up thinking that way of the world, and in many people, they become part of the problem as well.

It's not limited to cities or urban density. I think it's self-selective. I noticed the attitude is worst in financial districts or hardcore poor areas. I would bet certain high paying tech districts might be similar too.

Outside of a certain city core, you do have exponentially more places to pick where to live. So the self-selection effect might also fall differently. Someone who chooses to live in an area with nice gardens might have a different personality to someone who chooses an expensive condominium.
TIL: the "command unit" of a javelin missile is a capable night-vision system, even after the missile is fired.
>Here is a radical idea. Build more houses. Maybe put them on top of each other so they don't have to be so far away from jobs.

No disagreement here.

>American love complaining about the inefficiencies of centrally planned economies, but then make one of the most important aspects of the economy, where people can live and work, into a entirely centralized way of doing.

Are they really centralized? NIMBYs aren't some cabal of shadowy billionaires, they're a grassroots effort by local residents. By that definition it's quite decentralized.
Light Pillar
USB-C for monitors is a joke. The connection is so fragile, it constantly drops out of the monitor, or gets knocked out of my desktop. I'll take HDMI or DisplayPort over that any day.
Even the data attribute is enough.
Who Was Agent 355?
For the Apple ecosystem, SwiftUI is looking pretty good. I wrote an app that works on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS by taking a ten hour online class to learn what I needed. Swift is also a very robust language and platform.
Ask HN: Aren't most startups wasting money on AWS when they don't need it?
I am open to different perspectives, but a startup with few months of runway paying 30k to AWS seems like a stupid bet when it could be costing factors less if they had just been using a dedicated server located in middle of USA.

Dedicated servers can come with terabytes of data, 60+ GB ram, and 16 cores or more while costing much much less.

What AWS/Cloud offers is instantaneous scalability and 99.99% reliability. Whereas most consumer/saas apps with early adopters DON'T need 99.99% reliability and aren't going viral. And even if they go viral they could always have cloud as back up.

It just feels like cult-like behavior to always be on AWS regardless of the circumstances.

10M in funding? sure, knock yourself out.

200k? you are gonna be broke by next quarter...

It's like paying for 5 bed room apartment when you are single dude and don't even have a pet... why?

same argument for breaking into services/micro-services... you can buy 10 servers and scale 10x while keeping monorepo and ultimately speed of development. We secured funding, lets make 20 services to scale, you have like 1000 DAU barely
I tend to see it from the opposite perspective. Physical looking buttons, borders, and always-visible controls were designs born from rigorous user testing in the 1980s and early 1990s. The push to flat design that really picked up steam around a decade ago did not have, as far as I can tell, the same level of testing, and was promoted largely by programmers who wanted designs that were easier to implement.

Platform developers were incentivized to go flat because it lowered the cost of development and development time if developers were using fewer, simpler custom assets. At this time, both Apple and Google were bragging about how many apps were on their stores, and how fast they were growing, and neither wanted to fall behind the other.

But admittedly, my perspective was that of a third-party developer. I have no direct knowledge of why Microsoft, Google, and Apple all embraced this trend, and I have only anecdotal evidence that it made things more difficult for novice users. There could be a treasure trove of research showing that flat is better, but I have never seen it presented.
> Any income surplus generated by UBI

Typical UBI proposals are funded, e.g., by additional progressive taxes, and so no actual income surplus is generated (in a first-order analysis), income is redistributed, compressing distribution.
Had that experience before where I spent ages looking for how to do something and what I had tough was a label was actually a button.

Now if I can't find anything then I just start clicking on random design elements in case they turn out to be a secret button to a hidden page.
That is indeed discussed directly in the linked video.
How is excluding otherwise-qualified Asian students for less-qualified students of other ethnicities any different from the Jewish quotas at top colleges that existed in the first half the 20th century?
it's a neat story but i find this style of writing unreadably grating
Alternatively you could just not make building housing illegal. the mor regulation you add the more expensive things are going to be and the more opportunities there are for corruption. The harder you make building housing (the more regulations there are) the more expensive housing is going to be. If housing is expensive homelessness will rise.

Alternatively you could be like San Francisco and lard on regulations "meant" to help that have the effect of reducing supply, resulting in a large homeless population, since people want to live there.
This looks cool.

In the past, I've had good success with using GoOse. There are implementations in Scala as well as Golang.

https://github.com/advancedlogic/GoOse
There is no CSV standard. The ancient ones are still completely valid. Some groups have tried to define some regularity, but there is no spec. So by all angles, this predates gif by a long shot.

ROFF and TAR are the same. No group owns some standard for them. And akaik ROFF is still the 1970s format.
No, I don't think that's true, unless perhaps there's a tense or other grammatical structure in the source that was present in early modern English but not in present-day English, and they chose to use it for grammatical accuracy.

More likely, it's an old translation from the Latin. Many of the translations we have now originate from 150+ years ago.
The problem is that UI has reached its pinnacle with Win2k/xp classic. So if you are a designer, you still have to do your job, you gotta design something. But it is never going to be on that level, in efficiency, looks or usability.
It's such a nihilistic proposition, I can hardly be mad at designers of today. Go ahead, make that button flat and call it clever. Why not
Perhaps that's where my thinking gets unstuck, in my mind Meta is adjacent to the existing VR industry. Their goals don't seem to align with what VR has so far tried to achieve. I know how silly that sounds, considering they're so closely related, but it's almost an uncanny valley representation of what VR already is.
if n95, you are protecting yourself, if regular 3 layer masks, you are protecting others more than yourself. I'd just go by your city stats, high/rising cases wear a mask regardless of what others are doing, if stable/low cases skip it but keep with yourself in case you get stuck somewhere for an hour or more indoor space.
What is the virtue of a GPU-based terminal vs. non-GPU-based terminal? I'm not grasping what "GPU-based" means here. The software must still load from storage or net to an OS layer, which still runs on a CPU.
Stop trying to apply the 'free market' or capitalism to every situation. The problem is more fundamental than your field: As long as those economic tools are treated as sacrosanct, universal solutions by society in general, your field inevitably will suffer.

(They are very useful tools, but like very tool, not the solution to every problem.)
The risk of catastrophic harm for BASE jumping (and I say this as a licensed skydiver who has many friends who are base jumpers) is high enough it’s almost certainly safer taking a machine gun, pointing it straight up, and emptying a couple belts in the air trying to hit yourself in the head.

As a noob, it’s more like putting on a blindfold and wandering across 101 at 8pm for a few minutes.

Skateboarding for noobs is much safer as it’s more on the broken bones side than fatalities.
Trust The Science.

Trust The Plan.

Jesus, Take The Wheel.

They all have a pretty similar ring.
IIRC, it was terrorists, who often refuse to work with the stuff due to the danger involved, who named TATP "mother of satan".
Not worse, worser
It has. It’s been implemented several times and seen limited adoption.

ExtJS, React Native Web, and jQueryUI Mobile all “solved” this problem. Even Twitter Bootstrap could be considered a solution.

Why hasn’t one of these caught on and replaced bespoke apps? These frameworks are a lot to learn, difficult to optimize for narrow use cases, bloated, sometimes proprietary or inconveniently licensed, and often hard to maintain as browser capabilities evolve.
All fair points, but medicine is highly cautious, and most would prefer to go with the larger entities opinions/research. So Merck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merck_Veterinary_Manual) have a massive influence which introduces lag, although some do read pubmed to access more up to date studies, but (google) scholar can be a better search engine to use over pubmed. I'm also aware of the Eli Pariser Filter Bubble which will affect what the vets see and what I see. I also have to do repeated searches sometimes over a few weeks, months or years to see what the search results are throwing up which it didnt previously.

> Have you actually looked to see how the medical field tackles this problem?

Yeah and they dont tackle the problem to my satisfaction instead using older technology/medicine. No one wants to put their neck on the line because they dont want to look at human studies where biological similarities exist, or different species are used, like the good old rat.

So some in-vitro studies exist because its impossible to study in-vivo, the tech just doesnt exist for in-vivo and that is an area where they are highly cautious and there does seem to be a general dislike for using non patentable chemicals!
I want positive, individual focused, human interest stories that avoid: ideology, politics, and hot button topics. I want eye-bleach for my soul.

Groups of x identity stand up for themselves against cops in city Y, several are injured. Or individual of group x is discriminated against? Country Z is murdering people. No thank you.

This company in rural Idaho matches stray dogs with ex convicts, here's one of their stories from ten years ago and a check-in now. This library in upstate New York saved its micro-film from a flooded basement and is now putting it online. Hell yes.

Drop the "If it bleeds it leads." If it bleeds that makes me sad, stop focusing on bleeding things.
It should only last about a week. Caffeine discontinuation shouldn't be that long. Ever try decaf?
Well, they’d probably need to make a law banning it - and who seriously believes anyone is going to do that anyway enough to pass a law about it? (Lol)

Also, even relatively nanny state UK probably figures if he’s only going to take himself out, why bother trying to stop him.
> He's saying that if everyone has extra money, then everyone can afford higher prices.

UBI only gives everyone extra money if it is unfunded; typical UBI proposals are funded by either increased progressive income taxes or cutting other spending (which produces income to the recipient), and so is (in first order effects) zero-sum. (Typically, it replaces rapid clawbacks from means testing with slow clawbacks by progressive tax increases.)
I don't really understand this. You're not coding directly in the language, but now you're coding in an implicit language provided by Copilot. From what I've seen on Copilot, although it is an impressive piece of tech, all it really points out is that code documentation and discovery is terrible. But I'm not for sure writing implicit code in comments is really a better approach than seeking ways to make discovery of language and library features more discoverable.

And I know it sounds silly and like "I had an idea like that once" (see Office Space), but I actually came up with the idea for or at least a similar one to Copilot in an off comment to a coworker back in like 2014 or so. The idea was that as you wrote code, it would display on the side similar code that had been written by others doing the same or similar thing, and then it would allow you automatically upload small processing functions to some sort of cloud library. Same thing for doing autoformatting, although that's less of a concern now that formatters are becoming popular. The context I was working in was visual languages though. I had even started writing a tool during an "innovation week" (that I never showed) that would start visually classifying whether code written in the visual language was "good" or "clean" or not. I never got anywhere with it and mainly just have some diagrams generated from that project that were buggy so that they kind of look like art.
Using the same timescale, Wikipedia itself (the Wikimedia Foundation) went from $5M revenue to $120M, 24x. [1],[2]. During that time the Executive Director's salary went from $168k to $387k[3]. At the end of Sue Gardner's leadership in 2014 there was a question about her $300k salary[4] which included the response:

"(2) Retention bonus to compensate Sue for lost opportunities during the
transition period: $165,000."

This seems to undermine Mitchell Baker's reasons for her salary increase, doesn't it?

Wikipedia also gets a slightly higher score from CharityNavigator than Mozilla, edging them out on more efficient earnings, lower admin overhead, but far ahead on "growth of expenses": https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/200049703 vs https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/200097189

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...

[2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/financial-reports/#sec...

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...

[4] https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@list...
This is addressed by the author. Even if matched, these are impressively matched datasets. To the extent that it is questionable the hospital had the number of potential study participants to match them this well.
to those thinking about using these as your intro to physics, I would think again. Its common sentiment among the physics crowd that these are nice to go through after you understand the concepts, not as an introduction. Usually your junior year summer go through them for fun if you have the time
Are you an MD or scientist? Historian of science? It would be useful context for us.
Falls apart when we get down to binary, but holds across most levels of abstraction
*Scientism
The main one is regarding how the community determines what is misinformation and what should be censored.
Article didn't mention any Brazilian companies as far as I could see.
Did you turn on screen reader mode or braille mode in Google Docs? IIUC, braille mode exposes more UI content and structure to a screen reader, as opposed to simply feeding it text to speak. Not sure why braille mode isn't the only screen reader mode; maybe it's slower.
Ironically, you are correct. Driving in Arizona doesn't require a driver's license.
Sorry to hear - but thanks for reading it anyway!
> Now you've just raised the barrier to entry even higher for normal people

How so?
My concern with getting a pixel less than 6 is that the phone would only be supported for a year or two by google which means I'd have to get a new phone or have firmware that is not receiving security patches.
Too funny after a huge vet bill for x-rays I was trying to look up how to build an x-ray machine myself but only for the question of if it was possible not to actually do it. I questioned why so much for something that probably doesn't cost that much. Some will say it costs lots because of certification and upkeep and licensing but I call bs especially after seeing this video.
I upgraded my TAMU-based system to ELF. It seems there are a few of us "crazier people" that the article mentions still around.

For several years I didn't get any distribution updates but installed new versions of packages from source instead. It was fighting GNOME updates that finally made me throw in the towel.
You aren't allowed to have a community that believes these points though. Basically every "terf" or "tankie" forum is banned/quarantined. That's an administrative decision; not the product of organic debate.
> Except that GIF is not a personal name, and all those meme GIFs won't be mad if we call them "jifs" or "gifs".

Well, I guess you can say it how you want, but it still seems disrespectful to insist that majority rules over the inventor's wishes.
I'm a bit annoyed that some subreddits are pushing their Discord servers. I think Reddit is a great forum but Discord definitely isn't..
The first couple of days can be weird, but then you'll get adjusted to it.
> ls, grep, find, ps, htop will always be what they are.

SystemD screwed with a few that I'm still discovering one by one. "cron", "shutdown" is no longer in the default debian path, I think ulimit was another one.

But at least I don't wake up one morning with the whole interface rearranged.
This is wonderful. Thanks for making it.

-- Wanted to share a memory. Growing up there was this put-put course that was called Magic Mountain that my family and I used to go to. It was sort of a big hill that they made into a mountain so that when you were walking on it you felt like you were a giant. Anyway they had this small stream that came down the side of the mountain and wound in-between all of the courses. There was this one hole where the stream intersected at the top of this really obnoxious little course with lots of switchbacks and weird angles. You were "supposed to" (quote on quote) jump the stream and continue on with the hole, but if you managed to knock your ball into the stream there was a ball catch at the bottom that would push the ball back onto the course near the hole so it didn't get washed out to the bottom of the entire mountain. It was possible to make a hole in one if you knocked the ball into the stream - the little river would carry the ball down to the bottom and then gently push it into the hole. Your game reminded me of that memory. Thanks.
> Under UBI how to you prevent people from now borrowing more money (spending it on a vacation, clothes, fancier car, etc.), paying all the UBI as interest and ending up back in the same financial situation they were before.

Don't make UBI subject to garnishment/attachment to pay debt and exclude it from income considered available when determining bankruptcy terms. Lending behavior under those conditions will prevent the use of credit you are concerned with, and bankruptcy itself will resolve problematic cases to the extent that lending behavior does not prevent it.
They still cause insulin release, and a resultant hormonal response
Out of curiosity, did they book their own tour? What sort of rooms are they playing? And who is dealing with their music publishing?

All of my close musician friends generally have teams that deal with those sorts of things, but not necessarily from their label (although the more famous ones playing large rooms/stadiums definitely go through their labels).
I sure hope not. There's so little space left that hasn't already been destroyed for human use; we need humans to cluster up as efficiently as possible so we can preserve what is still intact.

Who is Eric Weinstein and what is the quote from?
Why do you assume that they'd know that a rotting sausage might harm your dog? It sounds like they were being kind and helpful.