skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does it really need to override my font size? 13px is too small for my display

The advent of good browser-based zooming has made non-default font-size users like yourself a small segment. The days of having to author everything in em/rem is mostly over – keeping everything scalable was tedious and prone to issues.

I'd bet you encounter issues regularly: explicit font sizes on a root element are a ubiquitous practice. Examples include HN itself, Google, MDN, Apple, etc.

That being said, 13px is quite small. I'd encourage at least a 16px minimum. But for now, simply zoom in with Cmd/Ctrl-+
"Look guys, we gotta be smart about this" is one I hear alot. Does that mean that we are normally working dumb?
Agile with managers

- We have rearranged your sprints because of super duper important deadline for a very important customer.

- But we already begun this sprint!

- Yeah, but we are Agile.
Maybe not stop completely, but certainly in some contexts, e.g. when using machine translation to produce text in a language you can passively understand but don't have a large active vocabulary in.

Which I did just yesterday by putting the text I wanted to convey into Google Translate and then tweaking it until the translation looked reasonable. In the end, I still had to postprocess the output a bit, but I ended up with something which I couldn't have written if starting from scratch, which was entirely worth the small pain of using slightly less colorful language.
https://www.google.com/search?q=peter+norton+programmer%27s+...

I'm kidding, although it seemed this book would never be outdated since EFI came along. Still worth a read though, as a sort of primer?
> I hike

I have to say it is less of a problem while hiking. Coyotes do leave me alone. It's much more of a problem if walking, running, or bicycling through suburban areas. Yeah, I know, Americans (especially those living in massively gentrified areas) tend to just tell me I shouldn't do these activities and get in an SUV instead, but that's not how most of the world wants to live.

> in the US

Yeah, the US isn't the world. This might be why you haven't seen how dogs can be a huge problem. The US isn't representative of the stray dog problem that plagues very large parts of the world, including eastern Europe, east and southeast Asia, Middle East, central America, and sub-saharan Africa.
This example is nice but if you put arguments metadata in the function name, you have to have one main argument, the function name can prove cumbersome if you have 3 or 4 arguments with units like

.setPricePerMassInCentsPerKilogramsWithTimeoutInMilliSeconds(100,2,300)
Yes, inflation would burn itself out with permanent price increases in a world where the Fed wasn't holding down the print button.

The goal of increased interest rates is to make borrowing more expensive, which means business and consumers would cut down on investment or loans, since those are good mechanisms for money creation. It slows the velocity of money and therefore demand.

Of course, we also have supply shocks right now which are causing price increases due to scarcity as well.
> They are in the brain market, not the screen market.

Sure, but it's another place they can pop up an app store and extract 30% rent from companies who want their product available on Apple's new screen.
Not invisible, just hard to spot. There were a bunch of tiny holes that let the light through.
Yep, RPA is just User Interface Automation.

Unfortunately, A lot of RPA companies, including UiPath, have co-opted the word RPA into enterprise marketing, alongside words like 'AI', so the words lose meaning. But RPA is just automating the UI, when no API exists.

Disclosure: I'm a co-founder in an RPA startup. I think RPA is a confusing, historical accident of a name.
> There was a time when I was proud of working on crypto, and how most of our users were actually, genuinely using our product to evade various forms of abuse from their local authorities.

This is one of cases where the term "crypto" is genuinely confusing. I'd easily believe your claim if it were about cryptography, but I'm highly skeptical about it as applied to cryptocurrency.

I wouldn't be surprised if, when the final history of cryptocurrency is written, its main effects will be judged to have been scams and linguistic confusion.
Redshifting is built in. Although to be honest, recently it has been a bit unstable for me in the sense that some applications seem to cause it to disappear. Don't know what's up with that.

Screenshot works fine for me, but I guess you have a specific problem since it's not working for you.

Cube - yes, there's a plugin for that. I'm not using it, but there is another one called "Burn My Windows"

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4679/burn-my-windows/

which I'll admit to having installed since it was just so easy. Now, when I go home, my windows explode. I was never into the Compiz thing, but I'm enjoying those exploding windows. I just tweaked the animation length slightly and turned off a couple of the effects. It looks much better than that genie effect on MacOS.
I've watched an interview on MSDN with one of the developers of .NET (I think she was responsible for the GC), who also used to work on Windows, making those famous workarounds making games work on newer Windows releases, even when they relied on old kernel bugs. I think she said that the best way to get familiar with a complex new codebase is to step through it with a debugger, going through several scenarios. I think it's a great idea. I only wish I had a working visual debugger in my day to day work.

EDIT: Found the interview: <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/Careers-Behind-the-Co...>
True! But you don’t need actors to enable horizontal scaling?
In a past life I used Voltron[0] with lldb. Depending on your use case, it might be enough? Watching what value lives in what register works at least (or at least worked last time I used it). It's designed around having things in separate terminals, so you'll need tmux/screen/tiling window manager to get a similar view to gef.

[0] https://github.com/snare/voltron
I don't understand what you are talking about. My Linux-first laptop (Librem 15) has been working flawlessly for many years with no issues whatsoever. Suspend, WiFi, GUI work as expected 100% of the time.
I mean, you call it a scam and exploitative, but our customers are very happy with our service. They give us repeat business by sending their kids and grandkids to us. Our brand becomes a part of their identity moreso than Apple could ever dream. They wear our logo on their clothes and they even tattoo it on their bodies. When we call our customers up every year and ask for donations, they open their checkbooks and give us money for nothing at all in return. If our business were so exploitative, why are our customers so enthusiastic about our product?
> Religious figures and scientists both argue over how the universe was created.

I haven't seen much arguments about this. In most civilized countries, religions have stopped to make factual claims about the "antediluvian times", because all their previous claims were proven false. For many decades, scientists have almost stopped arguing with religious figures. The tendency is that scientific people are less permeable to religious beliefs, and religions are almost powerless in scientific domains. Lastly, religions don't argue, internally or with each other, over the origin of the world.

> Religious explanations often posit that some sort of higher power created the universe but fail to provide the story prior to that.

The religious explanations failed to satisfy you, but at least some of them provide a consistent explanation. For instance, Genesis states that their god was there from all eternity, then at one point he created the world. You may dislike this "story before that", but it is clear and consistent.

> The same is true of science with its big bang.

It's not true. There are several theories about the origins before the big-bang, or at the big-bang. Science does provide the stories you long for, but at the same time science asserts that these are just hypotheses, and that it's highly probable that models in this domains are won't ever be proved.
But also not talking about colonialism at all is a red flag.
Some "making of" details in this Twitter thread as well

https://twitter.com/robcupisz/status/1505874912984117253?s=2...
> Orgmode is awesome but it's frustratingly difficult to use outside Emacs

Ah yes. I get the Emacs part putting some folks off. Org markup is super capable and stands on its own merit. I’d love for it to be more independently recognised, spurring a rich and diverse ecosystem of org-powered tools (outside of Emacs).

I’m scratching my own itch for iOS but also taking feature requests along the way :) https://plainorg.com https://flathabits.com
Hot Take that no doubt will meet a lot of doubt:
I would make a prediction that Window's next OS, is going to be semi-Linux based.

Imagine Windows doing to their OS the way they did with their browser, forking opensource code and rebranding it as their own. I could see them deciding to take some flavor of Linux (or maybe even something esoteric like Google's Fuchsia), and just slapping on their bloat & spyware.

I don't think this would damage Microsoft's marketshare as much as some people think. Sure, they no longer have "their own codebase", but I don't see the benefit in that. Hell, they could go lower & build off the actual Linux kernel and then build there own distro off of that. That way they can still enforce certain structures at a low level.

I would deeply enjoy this, although I would not use it (sticking with Linux). But imagine Microsoft embracing & advocating for AppImages/Flatpaks/Snap packages, Vulken, WINE/Steam Proton, etc. Imagine building for only 2 platforms to get your app running on (nearly) all devices. Imagine having Linux on the desktop get the same treatment it got with Linux on mobile.

Again, I understand this sounds like I'm predicting pigs will fly, or it'll rain cats & dogs, or the government will be efficient, but I'm serious, I can see this happening. Maybe not soon, but the next decade could be very interesting to see how this fabled "new" Microsoft moves & behaves.
Quality of life also tends to suffer when Russians invade your territory or cut off your energy supplies.
> switching to AV1 should have been fairly obvious

Things are moving, but not quickly.

VLC shipped an optimized x86 software decoder very recently, but Handbrake has yet to find an open source software encoder in good enough shape that they can add it for general consumer use.

https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/issues/457
I am building my first non-trivial Next.js app now. It definitely took a couple days to get a simple "fetch data from a third party and render" use case working. And even now I'm not sure if I'm holding it right.
Why do you need identity except for increasing performance?
three_seconds=3000

...

time.sleep(three_seconds)
Box2D https://github.com/erincatto/box2d
I went over every file of this writing a Unity plugin for it in work once. I was really impressed, learned a lot.
Have you never seen a 90s Taco Bell commercial?
It sort of works... https://imgflip.com/i/69gjkt
Not to mention whatever fraud crypto might prevent is replaced by an entire fraudulent industry.
Ask HN: Metaverse Marketing?
Samsung, GUCCI, Nike, Vans are hosting events in "metaverse"

i've been wondering whether these marketing efforts actually generate any ROI?
I'm not arguing gender roles in this case - I'm proposing a justification for the sexual dimorphism in grip strength.
> The mind of metal and wheels is transactional, utilitarian, devoid of sentiment. It would be more like a natural process than a person

I basically like where you are going with this, but wonder why you then say that a transactional/utilitarian process is like a natural process?

Nature as Tolkien seemed to understand it would be anything but transactional and utilitarian.
I'm 30+ and I can't understand teenagers texting on my own mother language.
This was not a basic intro to programming course. It was an intermediate theory course.
Key context here is vintermann had a balance due (and gave no indication that he disputes that). Of course there should have been a better explanation - especially if asked for. But to the extent there was a mistake, arguably it was simply in not charging the card earlier.
Little's Law and Service Latency
Can't you just pop the screen off and clean it? I had an iMac; the glass is held on magnetically and there are a dozen-or-so Torx screws behind the bezel.
i haven't used it, hear it works for some people. my chemistry probably would not mix well with it in my system.

you may find longer lasting results cutting out bad habits, bad people, bad food, bad information, etc.
That's great to hear. Now, compare that to the sample size of people running Linux on custom-built desktops, Chromebooks, cheap-o laptops and Macbooks, all of which are "supported" by the Linux kernel. Starting to get the picture?

Furthermore, even some commercial "designed for Linux" laptops like the Dell XPS Developer Edition have critical features missing like suspend/sleep, both of which work better on unofficially supported machines like Thinkpads. You're welcome to support whichever hardware vendors you choose, but you absolutely can't pretend like all hardware works "fine" on Linux to the same degree it would on MacOS or Windows.
To each their own, I guess.

I haven't built anything with SolidJS, but it's not my style based on the docs. It is interesting that you bemoan being so far from "regular" code in Svelte when it's basically a minimal superset of HTML, as opposed to Solid, which uses JSX (which feels very far from "regular code" to me). Also given the fact that Svelte is a compiler that emits vanilla JS, I have a lot of more control over performance, compile-time checks for things like a11y, unused deps, etc. I'd argue that svelte source code looks a whole lot more like it's output than SolidJS does, but that't just me.

It's easily the best overall front end developer experience I've seen, but I've only built smaller projects with it so far.
Whereas I would have taken the choice of location and animal to be an ancient root of, e.g.:
"They sent a sample of [SomeBeer] off to the state lab for analysis. The report came back: 'Shoot that horse, it suffers from diabetes.'"
Alarms Raised about Reuter's Russian Partnership
> 2014 coup

The 2014 revolution (not coup in the classic sense) followed by the recent non-rigged (unlike in Russia) democratic election in which the current leader was elected in a landslide of popular support.

> commit a slow genocide on it's own Russian-speaking part of population, around 30% or so

Source? I am aware of one warcrime most likely committed by Ukraine-aligned troops (potentially Azov) in the Donbas that were pointed out by Human Rights Watch. They killed like 15 civilians in criminal shelling. Haven't seen evidence that would amount towards the claim of genocide, which is a high bar.

> Just now they decide to ban all other parties

That's false. They didn't ban all other parties. They banned 11 minority parties that constituted about 10% of the seats which had ties to the country that is currently invading them. Some far-right ones (which get like 2% of the vote) and mostly far-left ones. If Russia hadn't invaded, guess what, this wouldn't have happened.

> force all broadcasts to spread just government propaganda.

You mean forced to spread government information? That's correct. They are being invaded by Russia and so they invoked these kind of martial law measures which would be concerning in any other context. The root cause of martial law in Ukraine is the Russian invasion. If you have a problem with martial law in Ukraine, then blame the country that is invading Ukraine.

> At least putin have killed single individuals who are against him, nothing new under the Sun

Actually, it's not normal to kill domestic political opponents and journalists.

> So fat he finance some nazis, and mercenaries of similar kind (Wagner), but fur less than NATO-armed, trained and financed Azov, Pravy Sektor, C14 et al. and for the mercenaries nothing different than Blackwater and co.

The head of Wagner is an actual Nazi, with SS tattoos on his neck. Putin sent this literal Nazi's henchmen into Ukraine under the guise of 'denazification'.

I will admit that the Nazis in Azov are a huge problem, but if you were a small country that had to defend against Russian aggression, you can't afford to pick and choose who's going to help defend your country. Empirical proof: Azov is proving hugely useful in delaying the Russian invasion in Mariupol. If they have kicked Azov out, Mariupol may have already fallen. Again - the root problem here is Russian aggression. If Russia wasn't a threat, they wouldn't have to resort to desperate measures like this. If you don't like Azov, then blame Russia, because without Russia, Ukraine wouldn't have any need of Azov.

> In purely political criminality terms putin is a criminal like Biden, Trump or Jonson

No. Biden et al are not ultranationalist despots who murder their political opponents, rig elections, ban free speech, and invade democracies.
> It seems like there might be a persistent gap in STEM education where each new generation of hackers is unaware of the underlying societal reasons why such attempts fail and convinces themselves: "this time it's going to be different".

I think that's true. More broadly, I think it's a totally unfounded belief that computer technology can somehow transcend human nature coupled with a general ignorance, disinterest, or even contempt for non-computer technology.

Take cryptocurrency: in large part its original vision was rooted in contempt for law (a kind of social technology), which just meant it repeated a bunch of mistakes that have been solved in well-developed legal systems, with little to no value-add.
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What’s so bad about a bunch of shady companies in China having the capacity to completely take over a massive global financial system?
Building scalable web platform using Next.js, Cloudflare, and Contentful
Ok, special administrative region. It has its own laws, currency etc so I don’t think this changes the overall point.
Millennium Tower – A Solution Without a Problem?
I am pretty good at devices like this. Have done a lot of raspberry pi development, arduino, nvidia jetson etc. for real ML production application. I ordered a Coral before and just had no luck. Worked for some contrived applications, but had nothing but trouble with the drivers and anything remotely custom just failed. It's cool tech, but I'll pass on this vanity project that will undoubtedly get cancelled right as people start to rely on it.
It would be purely up-and-down (due to the Earth's 23 degree orbital tilt) if the Earth was on a perfectly circular orbit. But because the orbit is slightly elliptical, and because its orbital speed thus varies throughout its orbit[0], the alignment of the Sun on the sky at "noon" drifts back and forth according to when the Earth's orbit "outpaces" its daily rotation or when the daily rotation outpaces the orbital motion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler's_laws_of_planetary_mot...
To Make Social Media Work Better, Make It Fail Better
@Bumby, you had a thoughtful question. I'm not sure where you're comment went, so replying at top level:

>> Why? Because people make rational decisions across the distribution.

> Do you mean that the average consensus converges on a rational decision? From an economists perspective, where does that assumption tend to break down and what are the best mechanisms for mitigating it?

To clarify, on average people make microeconomics decisions that move a macroeconomic distributions in a measurable (and sometimes predictable) fashion.

Connecting microeconomics foundations to macro models also allows for structural estimation of unobservable parameters, but that's really a tangent.

Your question is getting more at behavioral economics/mechanism design (e.g bounded rationality), on which topic I am not deeply studied. The aphorism "the market is rational on average" seems related, perhaps?
I don't understand the surprise expressed by many in this thread. There's 47k engineers all working very hard to justify their job at MS, there's no incentive on making a good product, it just has to sell, keep your boss happy and that's it. Why would you expect that many people working fulltime to output anything consistent? There's only so many real requirements to get a product that works, and as soon as someone gets his hands on them it inevitably threatens an other team. So new requirements are created and you end up with this.
Yes, its just between 100 and 200€ of service charge, as they have to unglue and glue back together the machine. And carrying an 27" iMac is also a challenge - you don't want to have it damaged in transport. This all is possible, but it shouldn't be necessary. Didn't stop me from buying and loving my iMac, but it is not good design.

I am planning to get a Mac Studio as the replacement for that iMac, but I would be happier, if easy cleaning of the fans would be possible.
As the son of an alcoholic I could relate to some of this, but I found the writing overly contrived and not endearing or clever as was the intention.
To some people, blocking a road is an act worthy of invoking the Emergency Measures Act.
As someone who went to undergrad for EECS at MIT, it’s interesting to see that everyone who didn’t go to MIT say to go there!

I’m not recommending against it, but it’s not all sunshine and roses. People there are not all “a different caliber of person”. Also being involved heavily in hiring, we don’t give that much weight to MIT just because it’s a top school. That being said, I did learn a lot, and some of the classes are taught with a level of completeness and internal consistency that for me lead to a deeper understanding and intuition for many concepts that is rare in other people. However I can’t say this is only MIT.

If you’re interested interested in talking privately, let me know and we can find a way to connect.
> describe where our universe came from ... that obeys the laws of cause and effect

All you've done is ask a trick question, like "prove Fermat's Last Theorem without using any math". The problem is you used the words "where", which means "a place in the universe", and "cause and effect", which means "tracing the causes of something backward in time", with "time" again existing only within this universe. It's a little like Zeno's Paradox of Achilles and the tortoise. All we've found is that this particular way of asking the question or describing the question is insufficient.

Obviously in order to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, you need to use math. Obviously to talk about anything "external" to the universe, you need to use something that is not a "where" within this universe and does not follow the cause and effect defined within this universe. The question is: is it, therefore, useful to ask the question, given that we are stuck in this universe?

No. It's not.
As someone learning hindi, I'm looking forward to trying this.

Shaabash!
Well, I am glad you are finding my commentary helpful but I am still no closer to understanding the reasons for your arbitrary choices.

Why is it a “recursion conjecture”?

Why isn’t it a “Corecursion conjecture”?