skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I'm going to claim that there is at least something better than judging on physical characteristics. In fact most companies agree. It's not a strange or unique opinion.
Central banks are backed by governments. And there is no way of at least western ones giving up the monetary control they offer... The results of such actions would ruin their electability for years or decades.
I'd say it is better to know a few people well than skim the updates of hundreds.
notice of meme acquisition

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Making it necessary for a judge to order you to hand over your encryption keys is better than the alternative.
Really interesting from an ecological standpoint, but from a resource concern isn't the purpose of relying on each other (e.g. Russian gas), to link the economies so we have strong incentives to avoid wars?
This seems to be an obvious strawman of an argument.

First, you assert that being pro-gun implicitly means being pro-death. This is not the case. I and many others who are vehemently pro-gun feel the way we do because we believe that self-defense is a fundamental right of a human being, and that possessing and carrying the means to effectively defend one’s self is the practical implementation of recognition of the right.

Second, you assert that gun rights are about enforcing one’s view on others. This is also not true for anyone with whom I’ve discussed this issue. Gun rights advocates see this as about preventing people from imposing their will on others by force.

Third, you implicitly assert that all gun rights advocates are Christian. This is demonstrably false.

Fourth, after asking the reader to take the above assertions as fact, you accuse anyone who disagrees with you as being ignorant of their own biases or a liar.

People don’t have to agree. That’s fine. You may be surprised to discover that people who hold different views from you do so because they form those views from different lived experiences. All it takes is a little empathy.
Hah! A good bot wouldn't get distracted and edit a line without reading it all back to make sure it still made sense ;)
Sioyek 1.3 released – PDF viewer for research papers and textbooks
I'm curious, do you also tend to fast from news sources, if you follow any? HN, BBC, stuff like that. Things that aren't social media but might have a similar effect where you get overwhelmed or anxious from the information.
Uber has a multi-billion dollar business selling taxi rides.

They may not be running that business well, but it's a business. They have a roadmap for turning those rides profitable, that they may or may not be able to execute on. If you invest in their business, you have the ability to steer it, by using your shares to vote.

The fact that they produce something is the difference between it and a ponzi.

The tera business model was 'sell tokens to people who want to get in on the 20% yield, and pay the yield with the profits of these sales.' And also skim 3 billion for the founder. It's completely circular.
I managed to acquire a Sun E3500 from a former employer, which is almost the size of a bar fridge. It used to throw enough heat to keep my house warm. Unfortunately it was noisy as hell. The ethernet transceiver died at some point and I couldn't be bothered replacing it, so it just became a bedside table until I finally disposed of it.
I thought they already had yjit, which is much much better these folks were doing years ago. Looks more like a big namedropping event to get better yjit buy-in from ruby-core
>What's so great about Waterloo? It is nowhere near Standard/Caltech/MIT in competition.

Indeed.

Canada and California have about the same population. One might plausibly, if generously, posit Toronto and McGill as rough equivalents to Berkeley and UCLA. But Canada does not have a Stanford, Caltech, CalArts, UCSF, USC, UCSD, etc., etc. Waterloo? SJSU, maybe, and California has a dozen other colleges at about that level.
There are national governments that have tried and failed to maintain a currency peg. Why does anyone expect a crypto company to be able to do it?
Show HN: Simple Journal – Journaling and activity tracking with focus on streaks
I have a similar story, but for me it is 4 years and still going. I am generally calmer and my emotional amplitude is less pronounced during the day than when I was on SM, but getting involved socially means you really have to be proactive, otherwise you sort of disappear
> Knowing your future child will develop a debilitating disease during it's productive years will be valid grounds to terminate the pregnancy, regardless of ongoing trials.

That's not a downside and Down syndrome screening is already being done. This is not what the article is about though, the article is about screening newborns.
Hello HN!

I've been working on Simple Journal for some time now. The concept came into being after I noticed more and more people picking up journaling. I became interested in the topic and started to research ways to make it easier to turn journaling into a habit. I'm an avid Duolingo user and I've always been very impressed with how they handle multi day streaks, and in particular, how well they worked for me in making a habit out of using Duolingo. So I added streaks to journaling and that concept turned into Simple Journal. After that I wanted a more granular control over the things I was tracking in my journaling, so I added a way to track and chart various types of activities.

I hope you like it, do let me know what you think.
There are non-subjective arguments. See EWD831:
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...
Consider the following scenario: You're pleased and content one minute, thinking your life is going fine the next. You have a few minutes to kill, so you log onto Facebook and begin scrolling...

First, you notice a friend's post stating that she has accepted her ideal job.

Then you read a coworker's too political rant.

You continue browsing and see a video of your neighbour enjoying a fantastic tropical vacation.

And now your cousin has uploaded a before and after photo that makes you want to hide your thighs for the rest of your life.

The next thing you know, you're second-guessing your profession, irritated by politics, wondering why you can't afford a trip, and researching your next diet.

Social media is nothing but roller coaster,
Video Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTmCI0Xp5vI

Features:

* Quickly preview or jump to figures/references/equations/etc. (even if the PDF doesn't have links)

* Search paper names in google scholar by middle clicking on their name (you can configure other search engines as well)

* Ruler mode for easier reading and less eye strain (for a demo of this feature, see https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6392321/168427739-...)

* Searchable table of contents, automatically generate table of contents if not available

* Searchable highlights/bookmarks

* Browser-like history navigation

* Mark locations for quick navigation (Vim style)

* Synctex support

New in 1.3:

* Vastly improved ruler mode with support for multicolumn documents and ability to automatically goto/portal to/overview the definition in highlighted line.

* Automatic table of contents generation for documents that don't have table of contents

* Automatically mark the location of last search with symbol '/' and location of last visual mark with symbol '`'

* Better handling of visual ruler in presentation mode

* Add ability to automatically use downloaded files as portal destinations (see https://sioyek-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config...)

* Add ability to select text using keyboard (see https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek/issues/147#issuecomment-10890...)

* Add ability to open files using drag and drop

* Save and restore window and overview positions

* Add ability to execute shell commands on selected text in PDF file (for example can be used to make a translator)

* Add ability to bind multiple commands to the same key binding (all are executed in order when key is pressed)

* Improved smart jump to support more document formats

* Handle `xclip` text selection

* Add ability to rotate pages

* Numerous bug-fixes and quality of life improvements
I would have to agree, I also gave up Instagram/Facebook because I noticed it impacting my mental health.

The only thing I miss is the early days of Facebook when it was just humans being human, and posting pictures of them being silly or with their family instead of flexing about newly acquired money/status, etc. But maybe that's just me remembering with rose tinted glasses.
You talk as if governments are necessarily adversarial, and as if I as an average citizen would prefer that the monetary control lies with anonymous wealthy individuals rather than an electable body of representatives.
I was going to say UK!
You still have the timezone issue, which is a problem
https://apnewscorner.com/y2mate/
Thanks that's v. helpful. I pulled my small investments out of Ethereum into dai a few months back. I think I will close this too for now.
> No distracting or trending news unless they are highly relevant

No “unless”, please. No news should be present. No events should be discussed until they are a week old, at least.
It is remarkable how many large and modern C++ code bases somehow make thorough use of the language, including constructors, without exceptions. Unless the asserted need for exceptions is a gross mischaracterization.
It is mostly true.

The worst part is in this industry even your junior peers will tend to not respect your experience/wisdom. They will view you as a grumpy grandpa who rants about the good old days. Let alone non-peers.

Whereas in many other industries it's not like this. A senior surgeon or pilot is always respected by their junior peers. They can brag about having done 10,000 successful flights or surgeries etc... but in our field there's no similar metric that is valued.

The exception is if you are a superhero god-level famous IC which most of us are not.
IIRC this font is available in the linux kernel. Every time I build one for my laptop I set it as the system's text-mode font because it makes using a 1080p screen in 15" quite nice (and I usually have to spend some time debugging why nvidia drivers have fucked up again (damn switchable graphics))
It's interesting that you see this as an incentive to avoid wars. A large proportion of wars have been caused by resource interdependence (invasions to secure external resources that are relied heavily upon), not avoided by it.
An entity with a single purpose (accounting to issue no more of X tokens than they have Y tokens in another account) has a vastly easier challenge (both directly, and from audit/controls perspective) than a more-powerful entity with lots of conflicting needs. There are still incentives for people at a custodial stablecoin to steal/debase, but it is a relatively tractable problem compared to e.g. federal reserve dual mandate or a non-independent central bank with even more competing concerns.
Video: Computer Security 161 Cryptocurrency Lecture
I suspect if they had worded the law as boards must have a minimum number of both sexes then it would have been less likely to run into legal trouble. Such a law would have had a similar effect so it puzzles me as to why they chose the explicit discrimination option.
>The argument is essentially that the constitution does not directly spell out a right to either, therefore the previous rulings are null and void.

That is a significant problem though. The court shouldn't just make stuff up that has no constitutional basis.

Anyways, the government can already compel you to give them data against your consent, it's called a subpoena. There are even cases of people being held in jail for refusing to provide decryption keys.
I just stopped reading news completely, and deleted Twitter.

And try to only read technical subreddits.

It's a whole lot better - using the time to exercise or program instead of just doom-scrolling for stuff we can't change anyway.
> nobody wants to be the odd one out by quitting.

Uhm… how do you know that?
By all means go to Steam (or another digital storefront like the Nintendo e-shop) and check the 'indie' category. There's a revival of pixel-art games going on to the point some people are completely fed up with them.
Even then, since 80% of everything is crap you can't expect every game to live up to your best memories, but if you want pixel-art you can get it ;)
now this looks much better than mysql/postgres cluster solutions.
do you know comparisons to the two bad ones?
> “More women on corporate boards means better decisions and businesses that outperform the competition,” Atkins said in a statement. “We believe this law remains important, despite the disheartening ruling.”

I don't understand this. Something being a competitive advantage is not a reason for a law.
> better data-density and durability than a stack of paper

Eh, what? Paper has survived for hundreds if not thousands of years. Show me your RPi 1000 years for now, next to an equally old bible, and we'll chat again. (Not a religious argument, the bible is just an example.)

Edit: Make it 100 years from now, the effects should be obviously already at that point.
there is https://www.beeminder.com/home

which is doing pretty much what you've described here.
The macro does not look (necessarily) as a bug, it simply does a counter intuitive thing of zeroing everything, including the capacity. Maybe the way it is used, the capacity is saved, then the array cleared, then it is set back; or more likely it is used only after the allocation of the object, when everything requires to be zeroed (but if this is the case it should be called "_init" and not "_clear", for clarity). Does not look as the most sounding interface of course. Also this is the kind of thing that should not be done as macro regardless of speed... and only turned into a macro in case of very aggressive profiler-drive optimization.
Where Did Software Go Wrong?(2020)
I agree. Not sure remote is just as productive though, especially over the long term.
Personally it's hard to understand if quitting SM changed my emotional response to a lot of things or if it is me who changed in time. It doesn't help that the agenda and techniques used by these platforms evolve all the time to find new ways to hook you in
Whaaat? Not sure what doctors you see but SLE does have a test battery that includes blood work and the presence of other shitty but objectively possessed symptoms like pleurisy. Many people with diagnosed lupus will tell you of the hard and stressful journey they went through to eventually get the diagnosis (because it’s rigorous and rather specific). The drugs that lupus patients get access to aren’t the kind you “get a kick out of” - meloxicam, hydroxychloroquine, prednisone, and it gets worse from there, e.g. methotrexate and other immunosuppressives. Lupus sucks balls, and the meds are almost as bad other than the fact that they keep you from dying early. I’ve never heard of a doctor that would take a self diagnosis of lupus seriously, much less do that and hand out prescription pain killers (assuming that’s what you’re alluding to). It would be like walking in and telling a doctor you had cancer and needed oxycodone to treat it: doc’s gonna have some questions and want to see some data first (hopefully).
> So I appreciate FOSS and use it, and I’m very grateful for it. I just don’t buy the moral arguments. If someone wants to charge money for their software

FOSS isn't about it being free though. You've already stated the issue:

> FOSS is not a good model for generating the massive investment of resources

That doesn't mean FOSS is has as a moral to not charge for software.
> Q: When would one say that happened?

Under Trump’s presidency, since he appointed three justices. The most significant shift was in 2020, when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away and was replaced by Justice Amy Coney Barret. Ginsburg was one of the most liberal justices.

Supreme court justice’s are non-partisan and don’t represent a political party, but they generally reflect the beliefs and ideology of the president who appoints them in their interpretation of the role of the constitution. e.g. originalism vs. a living document.

> Is there somewhere one can track which side (although I hate to use that phrase) has had a majority over which period?

That’s a good question, that would be a helpful resource. This seems like a good place to start:

https://www.allsides.com/blog/how-supreme-court-ideology-has...
Very incisive question.

When I first moved off the social media sites, I went to google news to "stay informed". I had enough self awareness to realise that I was treating it more or less the same way I was treating twitter so I stopped looking at those too.
> Simplicity is not something you sacrifice correctness and completeness for "sometimes", it always wins if there is a contest.

Not quite: The absolutely simplest code is an empty code file. But that doesn't do anything when compiled, so I doubt it would become very popular; people want their software to do something. And if that "something" is equivalent to "rm -rf /", they'd prefer it to do something correct in stead. So code simplicity doesn't always win; having at least some darn somewhat-correct functionality easily beats it.
Specifically albumin, which surprised me a bit back then, but admittedly I do not know nearly enough about proteins to be validly surprised.
Making obviously unpersuasive arguments is the <i>whole freaking point!</i>

The whole abortion debate is a political tool to rally people behind. It is irrational precisely for this too work. Abortion proponents are not interested in debate and a reasonable outcome.
it's rather simple, really:

her body, her decision.

my communication, my decision.
Other things were rejected by California voters yet put into law anyway, most notably in recent years the allowance of homosexual marriage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_8
I agree.

I would add than in my opinion, Inkscape specifically has a remarkably easy learning curve and great documentation. So little learning allowed me to accomplish so much.

Admittedly, I don't use polar arrangements.
I mean, hats off to one of the greatest pieces of overengineering (and the documenting thereof) in history. Not only does this ensure a comfortable reclining work position — it ensures absolutely no one will ever want to recline with you, either. Pure productivity.
...the IDE will help to install the package

I wish I could love that feature, but I hate it. I don't like the way it obscures what's going on under the hood (I find myself taking snapshots and trying to figure out "what's changed" or reverse engineer the installer metadata), and many projects use it as a crutch instead of providing a simple drop-in file (or a few). So many projects don't even include a simple "download" button anymore.
> I don't think newborn babies are people either

What is it, exactly, about newborn babies (for now, I'll ask about embryos later) that makes you think they are "not people"? Is it something they do, or something they don't/can't do? Something else?
Ok, but if the main argument in favor of encryption is that it allows people to break the law with impunity, it won't help.
This is all techno-babble fantasy of a post-apocalyptic novel.

In the real world a post-apocalyptic world won't have enough food to sustain basic labour, all global supply chains will cease to exist and skirmishes for arable land and drinkable water will take over. Anything remotely needing cooperation on a greater scale than a local community will be absolutely broken.

Plenty of old hardware that will cease to function in 5-10 years won't help a post-apocalyptic society for long. Constant brown outs and blackouts due to a shortage of labour, maintenance capacity (parts and labour) will absolutely wreck any chance of mining using electricity. The scarce electricity, be it solar or some lingering power plant that can continue to function with lowered maintenance will be needed to sustain life, not trade.

Solar panels need a quite complex supply chain, photovoltaic cells are a high-technology product.

Bitcoin won't exist in a post-apocalyptic scenario. This is a teenager fantasy of how humans work, and a technocratic one at that...
Why I’m Never Going to Freelance Again
This is incredible. I need to do this too.
Fantastic news, and I'm very glad to see it at the top, but but poor writing IMO. The quote from the ANU researcher about "showing for the first time how ..." links to a 2019 article, and this makes it difficult to distinguish what within the piece is new information and what isn't.
Based on the way the article is written, I wouldn’t trust the author to write readable code either. It seems unfocused and lacks a coherent point… or did I just fail to understand it?

Readability is a very real concern and something every programmer should think about. It’s a form of communication.

It all starts with naming. Naming the entities, classes, methods and variables is probably 70% of making really readable code. In my experience, the difference between ‘spaghetti mess’ and ‘nice, clean code’ can often be achieved with an identical AST structure but with well-thought-out and consistently applied names.

The other 30% probably deserves it’s own book. It involves breaking complex portions of code up into well-named segments (ex: functions or variables), keeping related segments near each other (not spreading functionality out over dozens of files), using consistent patterns and much more.

There is a such thing as unreadable code. The author here has some nuggets of wisdom buried inside a lot of chaos. Maybe his style serves a good purpose for prose, but it isn’t an example of efficient and clear communication. Readable code should be efficient and clear communication.
Sad outcome but not surprising at all.

Hope they can actually back it up with renewables rather than living off Russian gas for the next few decades.
Machine Learning at Alan
Operation Flash 1995 Part 1
Since I am a Croatian, I found this article on Operation Flash fairly interesting. Article is in two parts, and fairly detailed - this is only the first part.
StackOverflow is newbie hostile, Discord groups aren't. Guess what the result is. SEO code spam sites rank higher on Google than StackOverflow for the same issues, that isn't exactly helping.
A speculative asset is... A speculative asset. Very few people joined the BTC bandwagon on principles, most of the space is crowded by speculators trying to get rich quick, it's been pretty obvious for the past 4-5 years at least.
First thing I thought: rents in Toronto are just going to go up even higher! When a big company opens a new office in your city, it's half good news, half worrying news...
Does that mean I'll get half my search results in Hebrew now instead of Russian*? -

[even though Yandex knows I live in UK and have my language settings set to UK English?]
>Most people who are pro-choice consider framing the issue as murder as dishonest.

I don't think OP was saying it is murder but that it's helpful to have some argument why it's not murder (since there are some that claim that it is). If someone says "Meat is murder" and I say "I have the right to eat what I want" then I've not really responded to their argument and to some it might even sound like I'm implicitly accepting their premise.

I am obviously pro-choice and I do understand the people arguing against abortion rights are doing so in bad faith in most cases but I am still not sure why there is such reluctance (in debates I've seen) to not demolish the "fetus=human being" argument which is put forward as the primary reason to ban abortion.
Outdoor testing: https://youtu.be/XQms-iHX9RQ?t=1449