skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to trash the profession, but in reality it's no different than a computer engineer, plumber, accountant or anything else.

I used to think "well med school is really hard, so the bare minimum for a doctor is pretty good". Then I started working in healthcare and realize, no, that's not true at all.

The best example I can think of is when I worked on a project where we wanted to get ready for a much better competitor in a disease area. Not "slightly better", but "mind blowing better and not using it would be malpractice". Most doctors had heard of it, but we want to remind them not to purchase the company's older drug because they'll just return it a year later.

Turns out there were multiple doctors, after the new drug was approved and available, that continued to use the old drug. We literally had to go to them and say "hey stop buying the company's drug please". And I realized, damn, these doctors' patients are getting really shitty treatment.
Oh boy. We need an open protocol for social media already. It’s obvious the current platforms are too subjective and these idiots have become like mainstream news networks where they remove content based on how advertisers feel about their ads being displayed on those programs. That’s not what the internet is supposed to be. Need to end this soon honestly because Patreon ain’t my mother or Putin.
And on windows and linux AND is open source and free :)
On the contrary it is literally the only way to beat the big platforms that already have a billion users.
Just bill yourself as an artisanal developer and 5x your rates
I feel I’ve never noticed this podcast because I listen to No Stupid Questions from Freakonomics and never realized it was a different podcast
How’s the overhead? Are you launching full chrome every lambda invocation?
Also choosing a base platform agnostic framework like SDL which has a lot of the OS interactions (keyboard & mouse) already abstracted away for you gets you pretty far on the cross-platform road.
Replace #2 with: use a payment system that doesn't require them to give their credit card info to a stranger. Payment shouldn't require that.
I'm reserving judgement until I hear about this from a slightly less iffy organization. This doesn't inspire confidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Frontline_Doctors
Mozilla is a Google funded project whose main driving force is keeping up with Chrome, isn't it? It's not like they determine browser standards... Google and Apple set those and everyone else follows or dies.

Edit: Even in the IE days they were always playing catchup. Firefox is just the poor/free man's alternative to the corporate browser of the moment. They don't really steer the ship, just follow trends.

And these days Mozilla is basically an adware company anyhow. They just keep bundling random crap with their browser.
You can make a hello-world app with JS and GTK by creating a file hello.js, typing some code in, and then running it. AFAIK, although Qt has some support for JS integration, the story is not the same. You still need to develop a traditional Qt app and then start peppering in JS where it suits you. Am I wrong?
I think a lot of the problem with comparing R to other languages is that a lot people don't get the problem space that R is working in. Science deals a lot with categorical variables, missing data and high dimensional data, and the 'table' or 'dataframe' is adept at storing and working with this information. Under the hood it's just a load of optimised fortran code working matrices, but the code clearly shows what kinds of data manipulations and transformation you are doing to eek the right information and visualisations out from the dataset.

I see problems when people take an imperative approach to solving numerical problems, and something like Python is better suited to that. Also, R isn't really set up to work with matrices like Matlab/Julia are.
Hey @todsacerdoti thanks for posting this :) did you try it out?
I think the repo did not yet have the actual rust code (which it does now)
Reupload is gone...
Less no-code, more low-code high-tongue tool.
I did look into using SANE (many years ago now) but I couldn’t find any equivalent to the Fujitsu software to do things like auto-rotate, auto-de-skew, control over multi-page PDF output, long page scanning, continuous scanning, … a ton of stuff that the ScanSnap Manager does to make it all smooth and easy.

I’d be interested in reading your writeup, particularly if something has changed in the last few years.
What do you think a whistle-blower has to gain from revealing this very specific info to you?
This seems like a non-story. Patreon isn’t a “social media platform”, it’s a fundraising tool for creators who generally post their content on other platforms. Given that, it makes sense that users could be banned based upon their actions outside of Patreon. They should give back the money though.
Would you support lump sum payments to remove oneself from future tax obligations?

It seems to me unlikely that a majority of people end up paying taxes back to the school district they attended.

What about those who were homeschooled, etc.?
Beta Testing - Self Growth App
You will own nothing and you will be happy (renting everything).
Interop can be useful, but who gets to collect all the data when you hoopkup e.g. WhatsApp and Telegram? Both, I'd imagine. How would you remove data/opt out of a platform you never accessed before? There's a lot of leeway there.
This is awful. EU has no idea how to properly regulate tech.
Oy. How does a site like this even make it to the front page? America's Frontline Doctors is a right-wing cutout full of the usual conspiracy theorists and ghouls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Frontline_Doctors

This domain is as fake news as they come.
In python, you could also type

>>>a + [4]

[1,2,3,4]

and b would be unaffected. This is logically consistent, assignment is not the same as doing an in place operation. I don't have an explanation for the java one
Le Corbusier actually made plans for Stockholm as well. They were even worse. The whole Old Town of Stockholm as well as great parts of Norrmalm and Södermalm would have been lost. The raisinf of the old Klara and the related "modernization" was bad, but it could have been much, much worse if Le Corbusier had had his way.
Yeah sure, but messaging apps don't need new features - they need to simply send messages to each other. Walled gardens suck as a user experience for messaging apps.
False, Russia was attempting to rapidly industrialize and needed to purchase foreign technology and needed foreign currency to do so.

So he sold the grain that would feed his people in exchange for USD, Deutschmarks, Pound Sterling that he could use to buy industrial equipment.

I mean, it's not exactly out of place for Stalin to sacrifice his people's lives to realize his goals for Mother Russia. Plus the added benefit that the people dying were troublemakers anyways (Ukrainian nationalists).

Do note that when the famine did strike, those same foreign countries offered famine relief that Stalin promptly turned down.
I'm very well aware of his biography. This mocks agnostics not Atheists. He normally mocks everyone, Catholics included. This specific comment was made in "the report" before interviewing a well known agnostic whose name eludes me.

His intentions though are irrelevant. It's a pretty spot on observation.
Ask HN: What does 12:00 AM mean?
Today I missed my online exam because I was 12hours late. Being European and engineer I was used to 24hours notation. “12:00 AM” was interpreted as 12:00 noon in my head. In retrospect i’m disappointed Pearsonvue (in this case) does not write these times in universal format or even better, attach an ics file upon schedule confirmation.

My question to you is: did you run into this kind of mistakes also? How do we solve this more universally?
Brilliant! We're well on our way to migrating. The experience has been buttery smooth so far. And the codebase itself is really well organized. Huge thumbs up!
There is some migration aid for this, as it is really common lisp based statistical package like xlisp.

https://lisp-stat.dev/docs/resources/xlisp/
Errata:

Page 37 says that pipelining is the reason we need to jmp after setting 32bit mode in CR0, but that's not true. The execution mode is part of the CS descriptor, and setting CR0 merely means that "on next segment (CS:EIP) jump" we should treat the segment part not as a 16bit segment, but as a segment descriptor selector.

Otherwise, dude, that would be a race against the pipelining with undefined behaviour.

So no, pipelining is an implementation detail you STILL don't have to care about.

Like, do you know the instruction pipeline length on a 386SX? No, because you don't have to. There's no rush to jump. (though what else are you going to do?)

Actually, you could continue executing 16bit code, loading only DS/ES with 32bit selectors. Why, I don't know, but you could.

> a near jump[…] may not be sufficient to flush the pipeline

Nope, that's not it. You are literally jumping into a 32bit address space by loading the descriptor. The descriptor is not loaded until you load a new selector into CS by using a far jump.

Mind you, this is from memory when I made my OS in high school. Back when there was a lot of moving floppies back and forth to iterate. :-/

For more on this (and the resource I wish I had back then), see https://wiki.osdev.org/
Short version: We should be tar and feathering politicians who perpetrate these scams on our uncomplicated population.
Borland IDEs, Norton Commander (and its alternatives) built-in text editor, and programs that mimicked those green-grayish or blue-grayish text mode windows. Or those simply made with Turbo Vision.
I miss this side of the web, wish more people would publish their own blogs / zines devoid of any commercial ambitions.
Yes, I think if you are using switch() for an analysis in R, you're either using the wrong language, or you're doing R wrong.
That is a valid criticism, but this is still a functional resource. I did attempt to create a TTS system that was fully local to the website and you can try it here: https://locserendipity.com/sim/voice.html
I miss the days when I could fire up Pidgin (or Gaim when I started using it) and instantly connect to every IM service I ever needed. Hopefully this is a step back towards that.
I have no idea if any of this is true, but it rings true and it reminds me of similar distortions of the integrity of scientific inquiry by the interest of industry, in my own field of study: artificial intelligence and machine learning.

And perhaps that's no surprise. It's the same universities that produce both kinds of research (and researcher) after all.
Has this story been covered on a credible site?
Postico 2 is 2x the price of Postico.
GNOME is pretty much the worst offender here, which really makes it all the more baffling. They constantly wax helplessness, begging for more contributors or feedback on their OS, and when people try to contribute or give feedback on their OS, they say "no not that part!" and go redesign something they don't take personally. It's especially ironic considering how they worship "usability" in the other hand, insisting that their lack of functionality is so that they can better emulate macOS. It's remarkably frustrating.

But it's also the sort of behavior that keeps other developers going. KDE is great at soliciting user change, and nothing is "off the table" for scrutiny or redesign. Many other desktops share that same philosophy. The pockets of high-and-mighty developers are what end up shooting desktop Linux in the foot, and while I do happily daily-drive Linux, I can say with certainty that it will never hit the mainstream with maintainers like these driving the best-funded desktop environment.
Sortakinda. I've been BBSing since I was 11 and I'm still ok with time-shifting message systems but the twatters and faceblokes made it gross. The non-advertising social networks seem to be more my speed.
I like the idea of it, and was looking recently for a compact/'point and shoot' type camera that's decent, but pretty cheap (say £100-250 was the range I expected to look at). I'm sure there used to be loads! But it seemed they'd all but evaporated - is it just chip shortage, or have 'camera phones' (heh, remember that?) decimated the market at the low end?

I don't want to choose a phone for its camera particularly, and like the sibling thread on film cameras (I used to but no longer think I want to take it that far) would prefer the separate device for the more deliberate & focussed-ness of it. Frankly it also avoids looking like I'm taking hashtagselfiez.

Any suggestions for a fairly cheap but decent, basic camera? I'd also want to automatically sync to my phone or something, but I think no reason that has to be built-in to the camera (could be SD card with WiFi, and some companion app?).
I use TablePlus on a daily basis and really enjoy it. The one feature it's missing that I really want, and which I sometimes switch over to DbVisualizer for, is spreadsheet-style selection and editing.

If you click and drag vertically in TablePlus, it selects multiple rows of data. In DbVisualizer, the same action selects just one column (or more, if you move the mouse horizontally too) in multiple rows, allowing for quick copying and pasting of just the data you need. (The reason I don't use DbVisualizer as my daily driver is that it's a Java app, so the UI isn't native, which brings some quirks and sluggishness to the app that I avoid when I can. Other than that, it's great.)
Thank you; today you taught me something! :-)
I think the part about running it through automated tools is fine, so long as they can read and understand the code in highlighted areas. This provides a repeatable, standardized process which eliminates some of the chance for human error. It's especially helpful in helping to remember what vulnerabilities exist in version whatever of various libraries/servers/etc. That's all stuff you'd be looking up in a CVE list anyways. Of course you need knowledgeable people configuring the tools and building custom patterns to search for the PII or other company specific sensitive data (paterns and var names).

Even with this, they should be having a conversation with the dev team to understand the intricacies and to double check that the documentation matches the current system (can't tell you how often old docs are used and were missing something).
> the poor people are not white on the coast

Googling suggests "The Poverty Rate of white residents in New York, New York is the same as than [sic] the national average."

Source: https://www.welfareinfo.org/poverty-rate/new-york/new-york

In that link you'll find the poverty rate is higher for non-whites but that doesn't change that there are indeed poor white people on the coast.
Fair enough! I did not know indeed the extent of Niemeyer's power over the city plan, I only knew about the iconic buildings.
Related: If I type 'ha' for "Hacker News" in Safari's address bar on my iPhone, by the second letter it'll show "Hacker News". But if I'm too quick to hit "Go" on the keyboard, Safari instead searches DuckDuckGo for "ha".

The UI must update sooner than some underlying state; this bites me multiple times a day.
Very dangerous to our democracy.
Since right now it's so easy to compete with WhatsApp?

On the contrary, the whole point of this law is to make it not just easy, but even possible for alternative messaging providers to compete.
I've always thought that GTK was great at filling the screen with interactive elements. Almost too good, actually. The GTK versions of certain apps like Handbrake and Transmission have almost no whitespace...
Absolute Peak Guardian.
So no more security , innovation and progress for EU? Everything including encryption usage and data transfer will be decide by old fat bureaucrats. Forgot to add a pop up window about transferring message to different country and your own 1 billion eurofiats to them.
I love seeing the Kodak employees. I’ve worked remote for nearly a decade and do miss working with other people, but there is something about doing engineering on physical products in a massive plant like that which I really wish I had.

Then again the place is clearly ancient and their stock price has been sliding for years so I’m sure it’s not all roses.
As a third-generation Italian migrant, I'd remind you that food evolves. The grandmas and aunts always made both bolognese and chicken lasagna, with a heavy tomato sauce and a lot of cheese, in a pretty similar way (never any cream though). I'd take that any day over a "proper" one with bechamel!
Define credible site.
In france we have this research director, Didier Raoult, who pushed for the use of Chloroquine as a treatment against COVID. He was the head of a research center dedicated to tropical diseases. This guy literally argued that the smaller the test sample, the better the result. This guy lost his job of director (not to mention investigation of research fraud), but he mades it very difficult for uneducated people to trust the vaccine.

Not to mention that I dated a biology scientist and teacher who did not want to get vaccinated. I heard 2 other scientist lost their jobs in a research lab in my city because of not wanting to get vaccinated.

So no matter what people will tell me, it seems that science is rife with people who should not have their credentials, despite high level education, universities, "merit based" grades, etc.

It reinforce my cynicism, because I had some scientific education, but I dropped and never reached a degree. It's what Pierre Bourdieu talks about, that degrees are a way of maintaining social classes. It's exactly what you hear in the movie "Good will hunting", that a degree is just a piece of paper, while people can just educate themselves by reading science books.
I personally prefer DBeaver. But I'll definitely check this one out once I get my hands on a Mac.
There are annoying show-stopper bugs that the developer refuses to fix, like this one for not being able to set options for null/empty values when importing data from csv ( https://github.com/jakob/Postico/issues/406). Or issues importing CSVs exported by Postico itself, that seems like a pretty basic requirement.
On the other hand, even though DBeaver has an annoying and ugly UX (as any other 90s Java software) and is full of warts (eg not showing a unique key constraint in a postgres table, which was visible in Postico), it somehow feels more substantial.
This is a pretty toxic way to handle news and I would say abuse on the discourse.

As you can see in the article they reference a primary source directly, ie. her Twitter.

So even if you don't like who comes bearing with the news, if you comment on the reliability of the bearer you should have a valid criticism against the source that everyone can validate.
I worked with cross-compiling containers. The compiling times were... bad. Our x86 build took like, two minutes (this was a very small and lean C++ application). The arm32v7 ones took upwards of 30 minutes.
Funny, for me it's this comment.

Edit: What particularly annoys me is how techies are so intolerant of different life experiences. Fine, you wouldn't do what she did. Good for you. How is it then okay to denigrate that person's experience and how is that acceptable on HN? How is that kind of intolerance and closed-mindedness acceptable?
They set that years ago. Kicking a content producer out of their platform for using wrong words on a third-party podcast not even on their platform...
Yeah... personally I detest anything flat or rounded... give me square pixel sharp corners any-day... and not just for buttons.
Prosus' Statement on Avito
This doesn’t seem all that different from any of the other sanctions and embargoes that we call for (and applaud) as a society.

“Patreon supports the KKK, Nazi Party, or Putin himself by taking payments, even though they never said it did anything bad specifically on Patreon.”

I think a majority of people would be agree that Patreon should have the right to dissociate with those groups. (Many would argue they have an
obligation to.)

If they can decide that, why not you, I, or this person I’d never heard of? (All of which I’m arguing is fine.)
This seems to be inherent to what Patreon is. Patreon is a thin layer to take money for subscriptions, generally in exchange for off-site content. Although people do make blog posts on Patreon to announce content, the general gist of the platform is that the person's content is elsewhere online. I would personally characterize Patreon as something closer to Venmo (or Paypal or VISA or...) than to a traditional social media platform.

So it would stand to reason that any kind of code of conduct rules are enforced based strictly based on off-platform content. Like, you don't need to agree with the rule or the enforcement, I'm not trying to sidestep the debate about when and why a platform might ban people for what they say, I just mean the "off-platform" element highlighted in the title isn't really all that relevant here. If they only banned for on-platform and not off-platform then you'd just see users who fall afoul of rules stop using the blog post function on Patreon and just keep doing their content elsewhere.

I think the choice to not name the social made platform, the user, what they said, or provide any context in the title is likely disingenuous and not in keeping with the best title practices for HN posts.

It's a bummer because I think the actual policy debates around off-site conduct are kind of an interesting grey area, just not one that applies here.
Thanks for the Wikipedia link!

The design alone of that website looks like a fake news or "alternative" news website.

And in general ALL social media platforms are private companies they can ban whoever they want for what ever reason.

Social Media companies are not your friend. They don't fight for your freedom. They don't have a soul or anything in that direction.

Treat them as any other company which can screw you at any moment.
How Patreon is in the same bucket as advertising social networks? I thought you have to pay for following people in Patreon.
In the article, one of her paintings is A Portrait of the Artist's Sisters Playing Chess and there's something about their facial features and expressions that seem almost photorealistic, in an odd way. I was caught off guard and found myself staring at the painting for a good while: shorturl.at/dkAQ7

I've seen a number of paintings from that time period and a few hundred years after where the subjects are artistically styled, but I have a tough time imagining the subject "walking around in the modern world" and looking like someone I know. Take this painting by da Vinci, for instance: shorturl.at/dsMV3 The subject is beautifully lit and painted, but the subject doesn't seem like someone I'd see walking around today and as a result I'm disconnected from her.

> "They appear alive,” wrote Renaissance art critic Giorgio Vasari [of Sofonisba's painting]"

They do, indeed.
Just don’t go drinking too much! Beyond the surface level issues associated with too much coffee (dependency, sleep issues, skittishness, etc), it’s known that coffee does contain small amount of the carcinogen acrylamide. And while the jury is still out on the extent of the risks, it probably won’t increase the risks of cancer in the long run if you’re an average coffee drinker.

This article gives a good overview [1]

[1] https://theconversation.com/amp/fact-check-does-coffee-cause...
Maybe web without any frontend dynamic? So without JS and the all the complex dynamic features of css?