skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why the Biden-Harris “Trucking Action Plan” Will Fail
Yep, we've got deals with six English-language publishers. The conversations have generally been pretty smooth. Most of the publishers we work with are excited to get their series in front of a larger audience through a streaming service.
> I think we need to define history - you seem to be operating from the definition as a narrative anchored to a list of facts, but I consider history to be the collection of facts of themselves, from which narratives can be derived.

But historians don't write down lists of facts. I think you'll find, as the author does, that if you try to extract from a work of history a list of facts, you're going to end up with things that are highly debatable. Some of these things will be moral judgements, some will be assertions about human psychology and motivations, some will be implicit metaphysical beliefs. It might be worthwhile to write all this down but historians won't do it voluntarily because many of these things are embarrassing to admit.

I would say that sophisticated readers of history already have a somewhat Bayesian perspective. They implicitly attach probabilities to historical narratives and update those probabilities as new information arises. It's not rigorous but it seems crazy to me to expect that it could be made rigorous.

I don't agree with your dismissal of old Egyptology. I think you're buying into an Edward Said/postcolonialism narrative that is terribly flawed. I also don't think you can easily label historical narratives as "anti-bayesian" or obviously wrong. I think Holocause denial is obviously wrong but it's not on the same level as flat-earth.
Would it be possible to define the GUI with XML, Unity just added this officially and it makes life much better.

Then you do something like rootGUI.Query("elementID").RegisterCallback( e => otherFunc(e));
USA and EU Commission Joint Statement on Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework
This particular festivity brings tourists and with them a lot of money to the city, so the locals probably see it as necessary.
What we have to tackle is not immigration. It's the reason for it (too much discrepancy in standards of living), and our own pollution we put on the planet.

Because we are the main polluters on this planet, not them. We produce tens of times more pollution per person than people in Africa. The buck stops with us. We have to set a more sustainable standard of living and help others to attain it too. It's very unfair that where you're born defines your standard of living.

By looking purely at immigration you're looking only at one tiny piece of the puzzle and disregarding all the others.
There's no mention in the article of the vast amount of food diverted to biofuels. Getting rid of all the mandates and subsidies for that is the most obvious thing that could immediately be done to increase food production. (Of course, biofuels make no sense at any time, being entirely a corrupt money-making scheme whose political support comes from misinformed voters who falsely think it has some environmental or energy-production benefit.)

There may not be enough seed to plant alternative crops, rather than corn meant for ethanol production. Presumably corn of the varieties used for ethanol could be used as human or animal food, but it might be necessary to expand infrastructure (eg, milling capacity) to allow this, which ought to be possible given the lead time before harvest, if people start thinking about it now.

It's also possible that more land could be planted with alternative crops (eg, wheat) using the available seed by somewhat reducing the amount of seed used per acre. The lower seed density would often be mostly compensated for by increased growth. (If typical seeding rates are optimized for yield, the derivative of yield with respect to seeding rate will be zero, so a small reduction in seeding rate will have only a slight effect on yield.) Slightly lower seeding rates might come about naturally if the price of seed goes up. It's also possible that grain currently destined for food use could still be diverted for use as seed - checking that out while it may still be true seems like it could be a priority.
I used to be a pretty hardcore Manjaro evangelist (and I still recommend it to people who want to quit distro-hopping), but I've been burned a handful of times by it. Arch is obviously a notoriously unstable distro, but Manjaro in particular can lead to some nasty issues. Especially if you're mix-and-matching AUR packages with the Manjaro repository ones; I've had at least 3 or 4 systems get entirely borked because of an untracked dependency or something being too far behind in the Manjaro repo.
> Resource usage is a problem but has become manageable over the years. See how pretty and efficient VSCode is.

Has anyone else noticed that, in defense of Electron, everyone always trots out this one example, but... that's it? Like, where are all these other magnificently efficient Electron apps? If it's that easy, surely there must be others. And yet...
Really? What phone OS are you on?

On new Androids BT is wonderful, all the switching is in the tray menu. Turn on headphones, it connects, turn them off or use the switch to go back.

I also don't ever turn Bluetooth off though, or even have the button to do so in my quick shortcuts, so things might be different if I did.

And I do remember older androids being annoying, since you couldn't switch away from the headphones in a hurry without turning it off.

But as is, I'm pretty much pro-3.5mmless and don't think I'd ever want to go back to cords.
I recommend using a chin strap instead of tape e.g. https://www.beechfieldsleep.ie/product/cpap-chin-strap/
The "right" thing to do is anticipate their gtm strategy and compete head-to-head.

The "fun" thing to do is write code that in effect does:

IF( user.email.endsWith( COMPETITOR_DOMAIN_NAME ) ){
// Troll away. Lull them into thinking you have limited features.
}
indeed. auto, apply and threads!
You're right that the question alone might be misleading. I mean every company using your open source package in their development not only FANG etc. The local pizza shop might be using OSS but probably does not have a dev team of their own (they either use a SaaS or have freelancers for their website).
When I worked at future shop / best buy 25 years ago, it was part of our job to weekly go to Staples / Office Depot / Radio Shack to write down prices, product placement, customer experience, worker knowledge etc.

Not saying I enjoyed it, but it taught me at early age that Competition awareness in some form or another is a baseline for a business owner.

They seem to be upfront and open about it. Depending on your market and placement, you can even use it as an opportunity to reach out. In some markets it's a closed sum, in some markets it's a rising tide lifts all ships.
We choose new titles by talking with our publishers to figure out what they have English streaming rights to and what we think fits well in our catalog.

Premium users can send us a message on social media or via our support portal to request series, but we’re considering adding a more dedicated way to send requests.

Searching by author is on the roadmap! We have the metadata so it’s just a matter of integrating that into search.
Hey HN! I'm Mahamad, co-founder of Tachyon Transfer, where we're building faster file transfer tools for developers. We've spent the last year building an ultra-fast FTP replacement, and we thought we'd show you guys what our technical process was like. Let me know if you have any questions!
>> UNIX isn’t good enough anymore and it’s getting worse

> Why exactly?

Beside the defects well stated in the Unix Hater's Handbook, unix violate it's own principles since many years. Original unix idea was: desktops like Xerox SmallTalk workstations are too expensive and complex for most needs, so instead of a real revolution of an extraordinary outcome we decide to limit ourselves to most common needs in exchange of far less costs. No GUIs, no touchscreen, no videoconferencing and screen sharing [1] just a good enough CLI with a "user language" (shell scripts) for small potatoes automation and a bit of IPCs for more... Well... For more there is a "system language" (C) that's easy enough for most really complex task.

That was a success because no one really like revolutions and long terms goals especially if they demand big money while many like quick & done improvements at little price.

However in few years unix start to feel the need of something more than a CLI and some GUIs start to appear, unfortunately differently than original Xerox&co desktops those UIs were not "part of the system, fully integrated in it" but just hackish additions with so interoperability, just single apps who have at maximum cut&paste ability.

> Sure, but it also requires rewriting a lot of these things, introducing and fixing new bugs... It feels like the good ol' "let's rewrite this program" that quite frequently doesn't live up to the expectations

We need desktops again, witch means not just "endpoints" or "modern dumb terminals of modern mainframes named cloud", but desktop computing, since desktop development is essentially abandoned since many years and even back then was in a bad shape we need to restart from the classic desktops. LispM was ancient, hackish, but are still the best desktop we have had in human history so a good starting point. We have some kind of LispM OS/OE here: Emacs, still alive and kicking so there is something to work with, that's is. Emacs is already a WM (EXWM) have countless features and it's already "plugged" in modern bootloader OSes to have hw, driver and services. It just need to evolve.

[1] yes, you are reading correctly and no, I'm not wrong, I'm talking about the famous NLS "Mother of all the Demos" from 1968 https://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY
In some time the future generations will come to consider this contractor/employee dichotomy with the same disgust we have for child labor. Same with surrogacy and many other things.
> I suspect they have more content than they let on — that they are sitting on a trove of content that they are waiting for copyright expirations or reform.

This is one of the things that their official status as a "library" explicitly allows them to do, so yes, I think they have even acknowledged that. When stuff goes into the public domain, the Internet Archive will release it.
In the VJ community, QuickTime is still used heavily due to the HAP codec being decompressed on the GPU and includes support for an alpha channel.

https://hap.video/benchmarks.html
specific formats aside, rclone can give you portability across any storage-as-a-service providers
I'm saying malware isn't the same as a license change.

If we consider malware to be simply a form of licensing, than all malware is allowed, in every place. If malware hits you, it means you shouldn't have been using the software.
Any intentional relation to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slint ?
> Until we have solved the problem of energy storage

We have. Pumped hydro and batteries (iron flow is successfully being deployed commercially, but also lithium ion; Li-Ion prices continue to drop 6-12% per year.)

> because they both rely upon polluting raw materials for both themselves and their batteries and need backup power, which to this day means gas.

No.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/three-myths-about-renewable-e...

> To pick a much tougher case, the “dark doldrums” of European winters are often claimed to need many months of battery storage for an all-renewable electrical grid. Yet top German and Belgian grid operators find Europe would need only one to two weeks of renewably derived backup fuel, providing just 6 percent of winter output — not a huge challenge.

> The bottom line is simple. Electrical grids can deal with much larger fractions of renewable energy at zero or modest cost, and this has been known for quite a while. Some European countries with little or no hydropower already get about half to three-fourths of their electricity from renewables with grid reliability better than in the U.S. It is time to get past the myths.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2012/sep/26/myt...

> The essence of the wind sceptics' case is that a scaling up in wind power will have to be "backed up" by massive investment in gas-fired open cycle turbine (OCGT) plants, which are cheap to build but considerably less efficient than the combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plants which deliver the vast majority of the UK's gas-fired electricity supply.

> Their arguments are not borne out by current statistics, however. If the sceptics were right, the recent windy conditions would have seen considerable use of less-efficient OCGT as wind input to the grid ramped up and down. In actual fact, during the entire June-September period, OCGTs and equally dirty oil-fired stations produced less than one hundredth of one percent of all UK electricity. In total they operated for a grand total of just nine half hour periods in the first 19 days of the month – and these periods had nothing to do with changing windspeeds.

Further references:

https://usa.oceana.org/renewable-energy-myth-vs-fact/

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy05osti/37657.pdf

Stick to writing web browsers.
"Pete had no HR, no health benefits, and no employee record with alternate or emergency contacts."

Welcome to tech dystopia, I guess.
The happiest times in my life and the healthiest I’ve ever been are always when I eat mostly meat and very little of anything else.

I don’t care about the emotions of animals at all, and never will. I purposely show my daughter videos of how to slaughter farm animals to try to make sure she has a full understanding of what’s happening so she doesn’t one day realize what “pork” or “beef” means and becomes vegan. Her favorite food by far is steak.

I’m all for others reducing their consumption as hopefully that’ll drop prices so I can eat more meat and feed my children more meat. Which is the only actual end result people who advocate cutting meat consumption will ever achieve.
You don't want to ask your users for their local backup

Edit: To expand on my comment a bit.

1. You will have to check with every user when they last pulled their repos and/or made any local change and wanted to push it.

2. While your git is offline and you're figuring out which version is the most up to date your users can't do any work with git

3. You just lost all your issues, pull requests, wiki articles and more that isn't stored in git

4. Making backups is your job as a systems administrator and you just failed spectacularly
Gross profit isn't even a useful metric here. SpodGaju is just cherry picking a number that's high to make it sound outrageous. SpodGaju is ignoring all the infratructure (and related costs) needed for reliable electricity.
Are you trying to conflate "selective breeding" and "genetic modification" or do you mean "US Americans" when you say "anyone"?

If by "Anyone" you mean "US Americans", then you are probably referring to that vitamin A added GMO "golden banana" that is field tested there. But in that case there would be no need to say "technically in some fashion or another". (EDIT: i must have misinterpreted a single source, there is a lack of secondary sources confirming any large scale availability of this banana in the USA. Sorry! The field test is in Uganda not America)

The banana we are used to (Cavendish, ~99% world export market share) is not a GMO, because that term has a definition and a meaning, no matter how much people try to conflate "selective breeding" and "genetically modified organism".

What you are doing is called "muddying the water" and in general it is not helpful in serious debate, except when you aim for winning an argument, instead of reaching consent or discovering a deeper truth. I am not saying it is invalid to make a comparison between selective breeding and gene editing, highlighting the similarities. Doing that is perfectly fine. What is not ok, in my opinion, is trying to attempt to redefine and twist the words used by the other side of an argument to describe their position such that they can not express their position anymore. Note that sometimes word definitions are vague and reaching a common understanding can look similar to this pattern, but in this case the "technically in some fashion or another" gives the intention away.
> Every cloned git repository is a backup

Is it? If I checksum the .git folder on my workstation and my co-workers workstation they're going to come back different. There's no guarantees that I haven't rebased main, or that I have all of the branches that were stored on the remote. If something catastrophic happens to our main remote, which one of our versions do we restore to?

> It's decentralized version control.

Just because git is decentralised, doesn't mean that it can only be used in a decentralised way. How many teams are pushing/pulling like a p2p network, and deploying to servers/clients from their workstations and verifying that the commit hash of their local repository matches what's deployed? A vanishingly small number of people.

> Most of the things you're struggling to solve are effectively preventing it from actually working as intended

If everyone is using it wrong, the tool is wrong. There are billion dollar companies out there that are based on a centralised git service, which proves that people can (and do) use tools in the way that makes sense, not necessarily as they were designed. Personally I'm glad I don't have to share patches over mailing lists with my coworkers, but you do you.
> There seem to be more and more things that are only delivered as snaps.

I'm on Ubuntu, and of all the software I use (I count around 20 programs installed not through the Ubuntu apt repositories), fortunately only two are available only on snaps - Chromium and Subsync. The first actually accelerated my move to Firefox.

Regarding Subsync, I had to write a ridicolous script to start/stop all the snap services - ridicolous because Snap has an integrity service that overwrites any change to the Snap system (!!), so one can't even hack the Snap system files without disabling such service. It actually gets worse - Ubuntu has a relatively tight intergration with snap: one can't have the `snapd` serviced disabled (without hacks), because the Ubuntu software upgrade invokes it if present, and if it's disabled, the upgrade will hang.

If Ubuntu will force more software to go through Snap, I'll abandon it (after many, many years).
Which platform are you using? It should already be preloading a few images in advance but maybe we can do a better job on this on a particular platform.
Vegas location is a big clue. Read about Howard Hughes associates and casino finance history.
oh, I totally agree that there could be some design space around this.
Funny you say that, the entire reason I even opened my mouth was because I used to be on those contractor teams early in my career. Experienced it first hand. It sucked. I knew how much it sucked. I promised to be a better leader than the ones I had and saw.
I also had the experience of healing a little bird (not a crow) suffering from an injury, and he grew very attached to me afterwards, in a very similar fashion to what is depicted in this video. Birds can be fantastic companions.
> Is there anything we should or even can do about this? Or is this form of competitive research simply unavoidable?

It is unavoidable. The best example of this is Clubhouse. Many of the top social media founders created accounts there, all chatting and agreeing that 'it is the future of having group discussions' only for them to copy Clubhouse later and never come back. This is what they do.

You have to be paranoid and ask tons of 'what ifs' about your competitors next moves and get there before they try to roll out something that can seriously lure customers away from you.
Solution to what? Personally I think ALL of such package managers exists only for a reason: satisfy commercial software needs, in disguise to being developed for free by a community instead of being neglected and pushed to the place they deserve, witch is /dev/null.

The future of package management is NixOS/Guix System, the future of isolation are cgroups (see FireJail, BubbleWrap). The rest is absurd like full-stack virtualization on x86 to make VMWare profit, HW OEMs profit, consulting profits etc and people who should not, because of ignorance, running infra built by someone else a brick at a time, or the way to create disaster waiting to happen...

I see exactly ZERO good cases for snap, flatpak, appimage etc... ZERO, really.
The "if we don't have many kids the bad guys become a bigger group" is precisely the attitude with which we will never solve these problems.

We have to stop this thinking of it being a race where we have to keep ahead of others. We have to work together or we will never solve our environmental issues.

And the thing about a kid emitting 1 ton CO2 per year is nonsense. Just bringing your kid on one international roundtrip flight already emits that much. Not to mention choices made in their name "I have to protect my kids so I have to drive an SUV tank" that I've heard many Irish parents claim. One ton is peanuts.
I'm pretty sure it's all of those things combined. Their search has become heavily weighed towards mainstream media, so if a video even has a single keyword that can be related to a current event or important person, it may be impossible to find because CNN, Vox, and Jimmy Kimmel Live dominate most of the results.

The search feature also seems to return less in general, and has become geared towards suggesting content below the fold. You can get it to keep returning more that's related to the search query by just continuing to scroll, but it runs out remarkably quickly.

So yeah, if you like it, download it. I don't care what anyone says about copyright. Unless it's something you know will be around, it can disappear for good.
In the opinions of many, Google is a monster. We know it and they know it too. Problem is, what can we do about it? Until then, expect Google to kick dirt in users faces. They will continue to terminate, ban, shadow ban, blacklist, violate privacy, sell your info, etc... at will and when convenient, for them.

Until a true challenger or their replacement arrives, don't be surprised at having to keep wiping the dirt out of your eye.
Common Lisp on Emacs via SLIME is not competitive with Smalltalk, re: "interactive experience" since Emacs is not the native substrate of CL, but essentially an out-of-process experience. If you want to experience CL at its best, you need to run Symbolics Genera.

Emacs with Emacs Lisp on the other hand offers a great interactive experience that also manages to easily surpass every modern Smalltalk incarnation in practicality and size of development community. So if running Genera isn't easily doable, this will give you a taste of what Lisp interactivity is all about.
Reactions from management and everyone else is typically different for suicides than for car crashes and other causes. In my experience, suicides are hushed and not discussed while car crashes and heart attacks are. It’s a terrible double-standard.
cannot see this article from Europe, but in the earliest VR hypes in the 90ies, the marines built robots to perform remote surgery on the ship. a current leading european company sells surgery robots.
> Npm, as much as it annoys me, is light-years ahead of anything in python.

Hence PEP 582:

> This PEP proposes to add to Python a mechanism to automatically recognize a __pypackages__ directory and prefer importing packages installed in this location over user or global site-packages. This will avoid the steps to create, activate or deactivate “virtual environments”. Python will use the __pypackages__ from the base directory of the script when present.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0582/

I haven’t tried it yet, but there’s already a PEP 582-compatible dependency manager: PDM https://pdm.fming.dev/