skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being a maker isn’t about creating “things of value” or being “useful”.

That same mindset is ruining many a good hobby. Astrophotography is going down a shameful route where the only thing your peers want to see is the misery of all the debt you have to out fancy someone else.

as for 3d printers.. they have come a long way and have become a core part of creativity and engineering for programs like First Robotics.. hardware is improving, safety is improving, reliability is improving - so much so that if you give up on the creative aspect you can just print away and get started with little effort.
Yeah. The accounting can become even more of an absolute nightmare if you actually have to start planning that far ahead and taking into account the long-term sustainable average of converting land to forest, instead of the short-term best case.
> Normal numbers are zero.

Name a government that hasn't abused it's power at one point. Not sure what your definition of normal is in this instance.

> Who ended up in prison for it?

I'd be ok if China simply stopped what they are doing without sending anyone to prison.

To answer your question though, no one. It's hard to prosecute individuals for an organization's failings without dismantling the organization, which is the US military in this case. The best we can hope for is fixes to prevent such abuses inches future, which we got.

Many Americans, myself included, wish some people were put away, and also sincerely hope that the perpetrators of abuses in Xinjiang find similar ends.
I think both lines of thought are correct and aren't mutually exclusive. Systemically, we have a fundamental underlying issue where profit motive isn't always aligned with the rest of society and there in lies what we see now.

I also think greed, or perhaps better described as flaunted greedy behavior, has increased over the past several decades. While capitalism has of course always been greed driven, different periods of time and different cultures have set guardrails up as to what level of greedy behavior is and isn't acceptable.

In the US the culture during the prime time of the industrial revolution, capitalism had technology progress propping its greedy appetite up. Those gains have been largely consumed and greed shifted over more and more towards optimizing on labor. We live in an environment now where we no longer assume your employer has your interests at heart and everyone listens to HR and leadership propoganda selling pictures of families and care for their employees while everyone rolls their eyes. We assume our employer will try the pay the least for us and get us to do the most for the least. We assume that they'll replace us the second they have a quantifiable cheaper alternative. Many decades ago these practices weren't as accepted, they certainly occurred, but they came with bad image and cultural rejection that harmed businesses. That isn't the case anymore. Businesses can basically do whatever isn't explicitly restricted by law or more profitable than penalties law sets and its just the accepted state of affairs. After all, it's legal, what are you going to do? Meanwhile through aggressive lobbying businesses are basically writing the law as they see fit.
I would agree with you, were it not for two things:

- The fact that neither China nor the US are actually even interested protecting these people from human rights abuses.

- The history of US interventions making thing significantly worse, not better (see: every US intervention)
> Chinese government saying that US is being hypocrite because they did so and so in Iraq and whatever happened after 9/11 from abuses.

That is an argument against abuse, not in favor. What are their arguments to support their actions?
I bet a good percentage of Mac users use actual applications for their work instead of browser-based app facsimiles. That's what comes of having a (reasonably) consistent, stable OS to work from.
Are you sure? I'd like to hear the take of someone in their early twenties on this. My feeling is that a lot of them are terrified by it themselves too.
Having been bullied by some parts of the lower social classes half of my child life makes it all so much easier to handle. Having the lower social classes use their democratic rights to screw things up also helps. In contrast, the higher classes I've met in my life have typically been, well, classy. Some of them might have acted against me, but not in a tormenting and barbaric way.

Another viewpoint is that even if you could say that I don't deserve my currently pretty good place in life, neither would I really deserve a worse part either. Nobody would be doing better if I was doing worse.
Putin would definitely not avoid international condemnation in any scenario of Russian involvement in Ukraine.

Donbass had a huge amount of best Ukrainian corps stationed, taking them out would take months in any scenario short of regime change in Kiev. This is what will happen now and there would be huge loss of human life from both sides (but especially Ukrainian once pocket around their troops is formed).
that doesn't add much value but make it more easy to identify the offending place where the error occurred. What would be great is a unified way to add context in a standard and automated manner, like a stack trace.
Alan Kay ParcPlace Lecture – “VPRI 0563”
Franzensfeste was chosen by fascists as well, according to the Italian Wikipedia page. The previous name was Mezzaselva all'Isarco/Mittewald am Eisack.

Italian people used to be the majority (~60% in the '60s) down to ~40% now, which is still a significant number.
The Greeks were the first, to my knowledge, who discovered the need for mathematical proof. Egyptians, Babylonians, etc. probably knew about the pythagorean theorem, but they didn't prove it or felt that they had to (that we know of).

FWIW, Pythagoras's connection to the theorem is also disputed, but here we might just be dealing with a lack of sources. The first known proof appears in Euclid's Elements.

> There is no need to refer it to his name [...]

Due to the highly abstract nature of maths, names in mathematics are often very arbitrary, and the first thing that sticks, sticks. Fields are called "bodies" in German, but they denote the same thing (and both of these labels are very arbitrary). There's multiple things that get called "ring" and have nothing to do with each other. And many objects or theorems are named after people who had little to do with them due to misattribution, for example, Pell's equation has nothing to do with John Pell.

FWIW, there are many things named after Indian or Arab mathematicians, and there is also the (rather important) "Chinese Remainder Theorem".
This story is specifically about a man that members of the U.S. government were lobbying to come and testify at the ICC ("...after months of behind-the-scenes lobbying by U.S. lawmakers, human rights activists and international lawyers"). The ICC that the U.S. is not only not a member of, but specifically has a law against anyone assisting the ICC in cases against members of the American government[1]. I don't see why the motivations of the groups involved shouldn't be discussed.

Likewise, if someone suspects someone of bias, I don't think it's unimportant to ask them if they hold consistent positions. If a Trump supporter is talking about how Biden should be impeached for something Trump did, I don't think it's "whatboutism" to ask if they would hold the same standard to Trump (or vice versa). There's a big difference between being concerned about something because of an underlying moral principal, and being concerned about something because of a specific bias against one of the groups involved. This used to be considered an important distinction, but now people act as if we shouldn't even talk about it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...
IMO there ought to be a specific entry field type for credit card numbers. Plus possibly also one for CVV/CVNs. Security implications plus formatting implications make it neither "a number" nor "plain text". In a card number, the 4 digit grouping should be automatic, like it is on some of the fancier custom input fields.
Point is: You don't often need to travel to the city center, and choosing that as fictional final destination is giving trains an unfair advantage. Often you need to somewhere NEAR Paris.

Also, and this may be related to the airports I fly out of, but I have hardly ever had planned more than an hour of time from entering an airport terminal to the gate. In TXL (sadly closed now for the much inferior BER), I averaged 25 minutes. At Stuttgart, I once managed to get there in 20. It all comes down to being prepared for security, knowing which security controls are often underused and picking up the right departure times. rel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnNyUGhXTsw
Is it their fault? The software tries every trick in the book (and some new ones) to steal your attention.

I disagree about the creation utility from a quality perspective, lack of ergonomics while filming, bad mics, etc. But there's no question the availability of the device is astonishing.

The old addage: "the best camera is the one you have with you".
I got fooled by Nayirah al-Sabah, and later by Colin Powell. I've learned from history, and I don't care to repeat it.
Most likely Canon because of liveview support:
http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php

https://www.crackedthecode.co/how-to-use-your-dslr-as-a-webc...

https://www.heandshephoto.com/canon-eos-rebel-xsi-450d-guide...
It feels like we had a little golden age where we explored the limit of what connected devices and open information sharing could do for everyone and that was interesting. Now we have seen that can have some bad sides too.

We've come down from that high and looked around at the physical world and technology is not progressing at the same pace, it is a little depressing. Real progress is still being made but we got used to the fast pace of exploring and filling the connectivity gap and it's a rough transition.
Ctrl+Down is useful for navigating intra application, but Ctrl+Up is a ridiculous mess.
I don't know, there's always been garbage software, it's just mass market now.

I also happen to think techies can get a bit snobbish about it all. Techies always just "know" to avoid garbage, but there must have always been a market for it. There's still a bunch of cool stuff you can get buried under free to play micro transactions/advert based games.

One of the things I like about the app store, and a reason I moved into mobile development, is that it's easier than ever to be a one man dev team again, good or bad
Did you take any antibiotic acne medication as a child by chance? I also had this as a teenager and have recently learned about intracranial hypertension as a potential side effect of some tetracyclines (I was on minocycline)
There is no origin limitation. It works on premise or cross cloud.
This is an article about China.
One grim day (when youth is over) you find that new music gets on your nerves
For all the faults of the western world, we will have to serve as the preserver of the record of all these abuses in countries that don't allow anything but the official version to spread. It should be noted that without the international news of the Uyghur repression there wouldn't even be an official version from the Chinese government, they were silent about it until it became big. We can't do a lot for the Uyghur people, but at least let's not get fooled into doing Xi's work for him.
Feels really wasteful that Australia would try to come up with the same thing rather than just using the UK one, if that's essentially the goal anyway.

https://design-system.service.gov.uk/

It's even published under this liberal license:

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-lice...
i guess you were lucky enough not to have to watch someone close to you die from it then.
Wasn’t that tried with Do-Not-Track? The issue isn’t that there isn’t a way to know what the user wants; it’s that companies deliberately make these decisions so some users click “accept” because it’s easier than rejecting everything one by one. Then the users blame the government for this mess when the companies are actually violating the law.
Solving the world’s problems is not the mission of tech companies, it’s to make profit, so yeah that is less interesting.
Who is paying for all these pro-US government, anti-China, anti-Russia articles to pop up on tech news sites?

I know the US has interrupted the Grammy's broadcast to denounce Russia, or started the Saturday Night Live broadcast denouncing Russia, or fired various opera singers or pushed Russians out of sports federations so I guess tech is just another base to cover. After weeks of Russia bashing I guess it's time to get back to bashing the Chinaman's yellow peril.
> Around this time Apple came out with the Apple Watch and we thought the smartwatch market was about to explode. So in a quest for big sales growth, we figured our 2015 strategy would need to shift focus to a broader market, away from our core early adopter market positioning.

> In 2015, we had the option to narrow our focus to a smaller but more distinct market positioning. Looking back, this is one of my biggest regrets. We could have been the smartwatch for hackers but we tried to grow our volumes and market share (and failed).

I think that this is the big take here. You can define your mission to make a hacker-friendly device (or different from the status quo), and when you see Apple, Samsung, Google or whatever big brand try to get a similar product, you double down on that hacker-friendliness. They will sure get more appeal to mainstream users, but nerdy "I want a gizmo I can deal with" won't want that. The problem is surveying the real size of that nerdy market, and if it is enough to help you earn a living.
This comment is so I'll informed I'm taking it as satire.
I remember seeing an epidemiologist near the beginning who was saying that normally people don't listen at all when they talk about these kinds of things and so they sound the alarm loudly. This time people listened and he was warning everyone that an overreaction would kill more people. He probably got kicked off everything for "disinformation."
An article on architecture with no pictures is a tough read.
US is still in Syria btw, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Tanf_(U.S._military_base)
As it's the GPU that seems to be the issue here is there a RISC-V based SoC with an open source GPU driver?

Worth noting too that there is an open source driver for Arm's own Mali GPUs.

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2021/06/11/open...
Quite the insult for PCs to be named in the same bracket as Chromebooks to be honest. Not that they are necessarily bad, but this is comparing a toothbrush to a dental laboratory.
"with Windows 11, Microsoft took away the ability to move the taskbar, which is one of the most requested features on the Microsoft Feedback Hub, with over 17,500 upvotes."

People care about the taskbar position because it impacts how they use their computer. The number of votes shows this.

"Unfortunately, another Windows 10 taskbar feature is sorely missed, which is the ability to uncombine open windows for the same program.

As it is common for these people to have multiple instances of the same application open, whether that be Notepad or Office applications, combining them into a single icon on the taskbar them it too time-consuming to switch between Windows."

It might seem small, but it takes more time to switch between different windows for the same program.

Why would Microsoft remove perfectly good features that users want?

Did they not learn from the UI mess that was Windows 8 that their users do not like drastic changes for no apparent reason?
Or, express directly what you intended and let the compiler and library do it:

e.g. https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/mem/fn.swap.html
As someone who has been attracted to programming quite young and who now lives off this activity, I have never been hugely attracted to hardware. I didn't like spending, too.

However, today it's worse. I still don't like buying stuff, and I now see hardware as future waste. What changed in me is the ecological perspective which I didn't have that much before. I also see hardware as things that take place in my home. Not attracted at all. I want less things around me, and less waste. What gets my interest now is hardware enabling free software and that lasts.

Still very much interested in things related to programming.
Computing also gained a political dimension to me. It's everywhere, and there's this constant fight to keep it non hostile and useful to people. Nowadays I weakly advocate for free software and privacy, including to people who are not especially interested in computers.
I quite like the epiphany / gnome-web functionnality to create "apps" out of separate website. Too bad it doesn't work with msteams and I wish firefox had that function as well so I can still use my extensions on thoses.
I am Russian and I have been informed about the hypocrisy of the communist regime that my parents grew up in. Yes, train tickets are cheap, but a pretty big downside is that citizens can only think what power-hungry country bosses demand them to think.

I do not have an opinion on Bucha because I did not study evidence yet. However, while some Western media exaggerated at some points, it is not even remotely comparable with lies told by the Russian side. (I have relatives in Ukraine who had to leave a city as it was being destroyed by military activity, so I know a fair bit from their words.) Priors tell me Bucha news is likely to be at least 50% true, sadly.
It's not specially designed for the job. It's an estimation, calculation and BIM software.

Here's an article about the software and the job (it's in German tho): https://www.nevaris.com/warum-nevaris/referenzen/brenner-bas...
Turn off JS and you're almost there! Ok, it will load the header and footer but apparently also displaying a text-only article without Javascript is asking too much (Reader mode works though)
The people responsible for those many abuses and injustices are the ones cynically pushing for aggression against Russia and China. You can’t separate the two in reality.
For me, it's stopped being cool for a few reasons.

Environment. I know most people don't care about the environment on HN, but the toll of consumerism, including tech gadgets, is huge on the environment. I restrain from buying new devices for that reasons.

Profit. It has always been about profit, but never to that extent. It's all about selling new stuff that we don't need, getting our attention, making us addicted. And it's the same on the workplace. I used to work on weekends because I loved what I was doing. Now it's all about trying to pass the next performance evaluation.
Your comment makes me think, I wonder if some of the problem is power imbalances and one off communication leads to bad faith communication being a better strategy.

For example, in social media the votes outweigh the replies 10 to 100 fold, and fewer people read the replies than the first post (especially on sites where it's an extra click to see comments).

Yet to your point, if it's iterated, that doesn't work as well. Of course this isn't just a technical problem, but I wonder if there's a way to weight high quality commenters similar to high quality posters, and if that leads to the virtuous cycle you describe.
We still get indy games year over year that take the industry by storm.

factorio, stardew valley, undertale, don’t starve, super hot, goat simulator, cup head, rocket league, kerbal space program and so many others.

heck steam, Sony and Microsoft are competing to distribute this IP and open it up across platforms and it’s never been better.
Excuse me, but why would we take what most Chinese people believe as a factor when trying to verify or understand their government actions against Muslim minority?

I mean not to say that Chinese people that most of them probably never heared (or cannot) of the tank man would be a good judgment about truth which the government are hiding on a regular basis.
I believe save the Mac by apple, with the premise being that Mac sales being on decline for some years prior to M1.
Why is this hexagon hexagon a square with unnecessary edges in between?

Shouldn't edges and/or nodes correspond to something, or this is not a mathematical hexagon?
I'm genuinely intrigued, because I seethe with rage just trying to use the keyboard and guestures on smartphones and I can't really imagine trying to actually code or write or sketch on it.
I share your frustration. But I also suspect this research focus on ‘grooming’ is only part of a much larger picture. As you point out, trust is the bedrock of many relationships.

The problem is not building trust alone, but the reasons for doing it, right? What is your intent? Who authorized your actions?

If your job has you working with money, you will find there are many procedures that require witnesses. And if you work in B2B you learn to communicate in such a way as you can later show proof of authorization.

So, all is not lost, but community is important. And what people do when they shy away from accountability is for anyone to guess.
I'm male, and suffered from chronic headaches and migraines since I was something like 5 years old.

I find your wild, completely unsubstantiated claim to be deeply disrespectful.
Agree with you, but also, for how many decades should they wait for browsers to get their shit together? It's not as though input type="number" is particularly new.
The tech that you know has changed. We've moved well beyond programming languages and frameworks. Once you adapt to the frontier, your eyes will be opened to the revolutionary technology being developed right under your nose.
It’s kinda new. In the late 1990s after quitting my job I got a mortgage. They had all types (my favorite offer was one where you just paid back interest for 30 years and at the end owed the whole principal again). But back then as long as you put 20% down you were ok.

Then we had a mortgage crisis where too many people were defaulting…
I think the point is you are wholly ignoring atrocities committed by the ccp and changing the topic. So what if the US did bad things, the ccp is doing horrible things and that is what the article is about. What is your response to that? They are imprisoning millions, it boggles my mind how bringing it to light could be considered nothing more than point scoring.
What is Qt Language Server? Can I use it to have qml autocompletion in my emacs lsp-mode?
For me it was when tech no longer served me and my interests. Anything tech does for me these days is usually just a means to get me to use it so that someone else can collect data, push ads, or control me. There's rarely a product or service that doesn't have some hidden cost or give someone else power over you.

Cars have internet, but track your location, can listen in on your conversations, and optional features or the engine itself can be remotely disabled. Phones are powerful computers in our pockets, but are mainly intended for media consumption and data collection. They are also heavily locked down and controlled. Updates are automatically pushed to our devices and software with no notification of what's been changed and no way to decline anti-features and user hostile changes.

I still have some hope for the future of tech, but we need to find a way to get tech to work for us again instead of also being used against us. So far things look like they're going to get much worse before they get better. More spying, more restrictions, more consolidation, fewer choices for consumers, less ownership, fewer customization options, less access and less accountability for companies when data gets leaked or people get hurt.
yeah, consumption devices that turned tech into boutique sure put a dent in my care for where it’s going. Some of it has led to improvements no doubt but much of it is just obsession and consumerism i would be happier without.