skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (...) just tell applications to render their windows 1.5 times larger, map the inputs properly, and turn off font anti-aliasing.

Doesn't disabling anti-aliasing make things look worse? Unintentional and random jagged lines never look right.
Oh god, Backbone. I absolutely hated that framework. It didn't even seem to do anything, it seemed like I had to implement all of the logic myself. Except I had to do it their way, for some reason, and practically nothing made sense. (I haven't touched it in years, though, so my memory is probably distorting my experience)

I like the idea of React, just not what it has turned into. The amount of tooling that it has created to do things that should be simple (but aren't because of the runtime and/or the programmer), and the gymnastics it goes through so that people can have their precious (often unnecessary) SPAs, is ridiculous. That, and JSX continues to be an abomination that shits all over separation of concerns so that smoothbrains don't hurt themselves trying to reason over it.
Ok, maybe that one is partially the switch's fault.

Also, here's a better link for that: https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/qo6r3f/powere...
Point taken, and agreed.

I do think governments will eventually turn against (at least anonymized like XMR) crypto, the same way they turned against bearer bonds/shares. Governments in the past 50 years have been extremely resistant to bearer-like certificates with extraordinarily high value density.
This is a weird reductive line of reasoning where you can't have multiple goals. My primary goal is relationship building amongst my staff, my secondary goal is for them have fun while doing it. Therefore I try to create the most fun activity possible that involves the staff being together. Your "send them home an hour early" completely violates the primary goal without invalidating the secondary goal as you claim.
Are they creating new laws with Executive actions?

That would seem like it falls under the legislative branch.
Religion would be ok to me and, I’d imagine, OP if it presented itself as philosophy or fairy tales that you could take or leave. Or a part of human history like medieval knights.

It’s a curios byproduct of human inquisitiveness and that’s it. it shouldn’t have any special rights or claims to have a deeper understanding of the universe that would even give certain people (priests etc) to be the judges of other people’s actions.

The world wouldn’t succumb into chaos if all churches / mosques etc . were gone in an instant and people forgot they existed as anything but pretty buildings.

There were of course smart and kind people at all times and they happened to use the vehicles of religion some long long time ago when it seemed like the best logic toolbox for the mind
It’s not perfect information, it’s a lack of misinformation. Indistinguishable fake products remove the possibility of name brands.

You run into situations where people can’t trust a gas station is actually selling gas when anyone can slap an Exxon sign up. Reputation networks fill some of these roles, but gatekeepers aren’t free markets.
"It seems"???

Really?

That suggests you don't know what you are talking about. You are talking about a very popular app. If it is doing something shady shouldn't there be hard evidence by now?
How to change an opensource programming language to prevent it from working in a particular country?

> The scenario is somewhat hyperbolic, but the US and European centric nature of Rust gives people in less developed nations pause.

This point is correct with every semi-major programming languages (top 100 popular?), so I don't think it's just a Rust problem.
> I even successfully asked the reviewer if a certain change would remedy the issue, they said yes, I resubmitted and that was that. Took about 2 days in all.

You're lucky. I've asked them such questions. Most of the time they refuse to respond. Even if they do, there's a good chance you'll get a different reviewer for your next update with a completely different opinion and interpretation of The Guidelines.
the part of that where he gives up on opening the door had me cackle laughing. Thanks for sharing this, it’s absolutely perfect.
I won't miss the Mandatory Fun Corporate T-Shirt. What a waste of resources. Printed up and shipped halfway around the world to be used one day and then donated to Goodwill. Let's do better!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31433221
That's incredibly generous of you, and it's true that our illustrator fucking rules, but if there are other startup people wondering why we do well on HN, I think it's actually really simple: we write for HN, not for our own marketing goals. One of the first rules in our style guide is that our model reader is never going to use Fly.io, and that our posts still have to be worth their time. I think that's all there is to it? If you can clear that bar, you're all set. Tailscale does that, too, and so does Cloudflare.
I didn't read it, but I listened to an audiobook version of TKOGIWY about a year ago on a long road trip. I must have missed something, because my take-away was that the author was propounding the merits of of passivism, and anti-authoritarianism. I thought it was tedious. I remember being disappointed.
Why do journalists try to use drug terminology without any idea of what it means? What's going on here is counterfeiting, not doping; dealers are selling fake pills, not "laced" pills.
It seems like you've really loaded up the term "atheist" here with a lot of negative connotation. It's unfortunate, but a lot of people seem to think this way. Truth is, everyone in the world is an atheist if you just take the word at its basic definition of "a lack of belief in a god or god(s)". That is, there are surely gods you've never even heard of and so you lack belief in them. The way you feel about those unknown gods is the same way I feel about all gods

But the label of atheist has been imbued with all sorts of negativity. So much so that some people hear it and think being an atheist actually makes someone evil, without any care for the well-being of other humans. Or they think the atheist must be miserable and unfeeling.

It's why I don't even use the term any more. I don't know if other people I'm talking to will have the same definition of the term that I do. If someone asks me about my religious beliefs, I simply say that I have none.
That hasn't been the case for years because of per-origin caching. CDNs get their performance from edge routing, not caching.
There may be different medications that can help.

I was initially given Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) and it was so good and I wrote the most beautiful code and my focus was pure and I needed more and more and I lined the pills up at night and did I mention beautiful code, on on sentences and becoming insufferable?

Anyway, I switched to a different stimulant (vyvanse) which had a more measured effect and did not lead to that kind of addictive over the top behavior.

Apropos of the original post - I find that during a procrastination spell, I’m still “working” in the back of my mind even though it might look like I’m doing legos at work. At some point my brain hits what I think of as an “activation level” and I suddenly “flip” my attention and focus to the job at hand. It feels like what happens when you’re kindling a fire, and you get a little bit of flame in some dry stuff, and then you “pop” that flame (attention) into the larger pile of fuel.
I doubt they'll offer ARM, but the RK3588 is designed for laptops and not embarrassingly slow (about 3x the performance of an RPi 4).
That's weird to nitpick. That's a software issue not a display issue.
I disagree. Although a specialist will often move up one level, and manage a group of specialist that specialize in what the manager specializes in. Often when they have to move up to manage people outside of their specialization they are hampered, if for no other reason they do not enjoy the diversity. They specialized for a reason.
I noticed a lot of threads about how it's good that this (apparently more reliable than K-9 or gmail) app needs to be thrown out and rewritten because of android-side API drift.

There's an effect called "survivor bias", which for software, usually means that the older a popular application, the better it is. For instance, Unix shell has survived more or less intact for 50 years. That implies no significantly better CLI language has been invented by the last two generations of programmers.

This idea of just deleting quality software every five years for no reason is setting the field back.

Imagine what things would look like today if Microsoft had managed to replace 100% of unix shell implementations with the DOS command prompt!
Micro plastics are mostly fibers shed from fabric. So stop buying synthetic or semi-synthetic clothing and only buy cotton or other organic materials.
People with ADHD are twice as likely to become addicted to substances, I assume the same is true of YouTube. For many, including me, ADHD and addiction come hand in hand.
This headline cracks me up.

I recognize it traditionally produced MSIL and this is a big breakthrough, just feel like the feature is kind of the whole point of a compiler.
Does anyone know for how much?
It is an alternative. And it is infinitely superior than the situation on iOS where you are simply out of options if Apple does not approve. With Android it might be harder than being listed in the Play Store, but at least it is possible and there are massive communities who do so.
Department of Justice announces new policy for charging cases under the CFAA
Ah Ok, I didn't see it like that - thanks for the alternate viewpoint.
You could try Go instead. But it won't be any easier despite having (arguably) less to memorize.
I guess it's a matter of anecdotes. I certainly don't have enough data (one + a half apps with countless updates) to make any serious claims. For us google has been more trouble, but I've heard other bad stories about apple too.

I'm freshly frustrated because I'm dealing with a random metadata rejection (on an "internal testing" build! nothing has changed!) just now.
Yes

https://gizmodo.com/apple-return-to-work-policy-alphabet-mac...
Infertility would be "none", and I didn't say that, I said "fewer".

But I'm sorry you've put such an important emphasis on having kids in your relationship. The fact that you live in a society where that's reasonable is immensely sad, to me.

You should feel whole without children, and the fact that you don't is the real tragedy, IMO.
> I think it's a mix of curiosity, lack of deadline pressure - and something else I can't put my finger on.

I'm not sure I agree on lack of deadline pressure.

There's a virtuous cycle somewhere if I squint that's fundamentals -> makes it easier to find where the problem is -> makes you more willing to dive deeper -> leads to stronger fundamentals. In parallel maybe, curiosity -> dive deeper reading other people's code / learning about software -> stronger fundamentals

This all leads to things like "I bet this is a network or protocol level issue in this dependency" -> even in someone else's large, open source codebase, I can quickly track down the problem without needing to understand the entire structure, for example. But gaining that ability to intuit takes time, especially for newer engineers.

Edit:

Technically fearless though isn't really the above example for me, it's more, if the business needs it, and we want to allocate resources, there's nothing I can't build or learn how to build in a reasonable amount of time. When you're layers and layers of abstractions up, you're constrained at each layer on what you're allowed to build. Perhaps a simple definition of being technically fearless is the ability to drop down layers of abstraction as needed to solve problems.

I think John Carmack[1] is technically fearless, for example. Known for video games, but I would hire John in any domain and have no doubt he'd be successful.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack
I work in a closely related space: parent's comments are accurate. Some of these items can be solved with better forecasting models, but the issue is that almost no-one actually cares about 'better' forecasting at inidividual meter levels. Sysytem-wide (or at least substation level) forecasts are well studied for supply/demand considerations (at a minimum). Also, the variability in consumption patterns at an individual level are large. IOW, one might be able to generate forecasts accurately for 'typical' residential consumption (at a per-household level), but commercials can be very different.
Ideally, IF (and this is a BIG if), forecasts for "most" premises was accurate enough, then one could make the claim that the missing data shouldnt really cause a recalculation of bill once the actual consumption data comes thru, except in cases where the error is large. Guess that means that the error check/correct process needs to continue to exist.

The meter being replaced shouldnt be a major issue, this is relational (at least we treat this all as relational) data that should be captured (by the customer information 'CIS' system), and should be available with a 1-2 day delay. Similar argument applies to other relational aspects of the premise under consideration. Not saying that those are easy (more ways for this process to have gaps).
Imagine if the power company cut off people’s electricity in error 1/10 of the time. That’s insane and dangerous.

Apps are an important part of the economy and having a false positive rate of 10% when the consequence is severely harming a company is unacceptable.

Not sure if it means regulators should get involved but Google (and to a certain extent Apple) have had this problem for many years and it doesn’t seem like market forces are going to change their policy.

I think the angle to take here is that Google is being anticompetitive by blocking a mail competitor from Android. So I think anti-trust is the existing set of laws that apply and hopefully will be pursued.

Hopefully it’s just Google’s stupidity and not malice, but I think all the data to determine that is private and confidential to Google so requires some legal compulsion for evidence in order to investigate.
how's browser support for something like "a:has(img[src$='.gif'])" though?
I just did pay for it.
Most developers don't seem to understand that jQuery was not just a wrapper for browser compatability. Yes, we do have all that nice functionality in a modern browser nowadays but compared to jQuery it just not as elegant. jQuery still has a place.
Wait until you see what hardware the OpenBSD developers use... are you going to claim that they aren't professionals?

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20120425065148

https://www.undeadly.org/features/2012/r2k12/P1020598.JPG
It seems bitterly ironic that the people who need those stimulant medications the most tend to be those who will have the most trouble jumping through all the hoops, and continuing to perform the song and dance on time every month.

The 'good news' is the active compound in Desoxyn is widely available at cheap prices and surprisingly high-purity in hypo-regulated markets. It is, in a way, easier to acquire (on every street corner and through the mail) than many very boring prescription chemicals. So there is at least a theoretical alternative.

Amphetamines for ADHD is one of the most effective treatment there is in all of medicine, along with things like insulin for diabetics and benzodiazepines for anxiety.

Unfortunately, self-medicating with N-methylamphetamine is an extraordinarily unwise thing to try. It is hard to recommend that anyone who is already prone to substance abuse attempt that maneuver.
> In fact, a Fidelity retirement planning survey of about 2,600 adults found that 45% of "next gen" — defined as 18 to 35-year-olds — "don't see a point in saving until things return to normal."

That's horrible logic. When the market is down is the perfect time to invest, if you expect things to "return to normal": you're basically getting things at a discount. Buy low, sell high(er).

(Also don't try to time the market, but baby steps.)
A lot of people/companies still rely on IP filtering
Sadly, Linux doesn't support fractional scaling properly. This is a show stopper for me.
> Doubt that this is a real concern.

I mean...it is a very real concern for me because I've found myself in the described situation twice now.
Short answer, prescription drugs can reliably fill in the spot of cocaine. You'll save money, stress and also these drugs can cover much more of the day.

No joke; shoot me an email if you want a detailed solution. I can easily chew your ear off with my own tale and anecdotes. Email on my profile page.
We're on the same boat. IDK what to do honestly. Hope someone makes a keyboard with trackpoint for the framework.
Right, to be clear this isn't breaking news but a blog post about a story from March

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30868760
Micro plastics mostly come from synthetic fibers, like the fabric in masks.
The discrepancy in the article you linked is completely unrelated to how well we conceptually understand renormalization (which is broadly applicable to many quantum field theories, not just the standard model). It could be the case that the standard model is wrong, but my claim would still stand.
Parent ninja edited the wording after my response.
And that place is? Not saying I disagree, this just feels like an incomplete thought.
If this statistics is true, then Google is removing lots and lots of legitimate apps. This is exactly why a monopoly is bad. 90% is nowhere close enough accuracy for such a system.
This issue always confuses me. Unions are neither always good nor always bad. Advocacy and discussion is part of the process.

More power to Apple if it wants to attempt to convince its workers that forming a union will not be in their best interest. More power to the workers if they want to listen to voices on the other side.

Carry on.
I grew up my entire life being told everyone has a little ADHD and I just needed to try harder to pay attention. I've still heard it as an adult.

My issue was using the phrase in the first place without some explanation of just how wrong the idea is.
The banks collapsed in 2008 – and our food system is about to do the same
This is pretty adjacent to some of the stuff I've been thinking about as of recent. Maybe I'll give religion a try.
MI officials fast-track bridge fix after man says it 'collapsed under my feet'
I trust FDroid more than I trush Google.
Silly Lossy Text Compression Idea
Respond how exactly? The last thing you want to do as an organization like this is to take action and then find out that the removal was warranted. I think it is up to the app developer to supply sufficient information to show that it was not warranted.

In another posts, someone already showed where they are essentially uploading contacts to remote servers. I agree it sucks cause I had seen the app on F-Droid and it looks like it was actively developed, but the developer stopping development because of the Play Store removal doesn't help instill confidence. Otherwise, they'd just continue development and support F-Droid and alternative Play Store initiatives.
It feels short & superficial to me.

Docker is a management layer for images and instances, itcs cli is in effect apis for controlling machines, & we hadnt really had one before. Being able to programmatically talk about machines has vastly increased our capabilities.

Electron isnt hiding anything: it's bringing a well defined & well loved virtual machine with plenty of capabilities to new targets. It's enabling something that already is, to happen on a new place. And adding a toolkit for adding yet more capabilities.
Prior to the C/C++ standardization process, every compiler implemented a different dialect of those languages, and there wasn’t a complete and accurate specification for them. Some very basic C code working with one compiler might not work on another.

I don’t think Rust or any other modern language needs to be standards-org standardized, but this is a different era; there is a single solid, well-documented, versioned reference implementation for Rust. That was never the case for C or C++.
I can't say I ever look forward to rejection, but it would be interesting to see if this is a general policy shift.
I think you're catching the overall sentiment, which is "why does it matter?". I actually wonder whether the causal direction works the other way sometimes with anxiety/depression. The combination of the two makes it hard to evaluate or visualize long term positive outcomes of current actions, so you're more likely to gravitate towards things that are immediately rewarding.

My unrelated take is that remote work is going to make this problem way worse.
Buck Scientist Uncovers Clues to Aging in Mitochondria
Lots of startups provide needed products and services. I don't think that's enough. They need to provide needed products/services in a way that can be sold/marketed profitably, and scaled profitably.
The expression comes from England's Parliament. The full version is, "Hear, Hear the excellent speaker!"
my next laptop!
> static IP

And therefore easier to be tracked. If your device has an IPv6 address for life it'll be easy to build up some interesting time/location metadata...
That's the entire point I'm trying to make. "Everyone has X" is a categorically wrong understanding of what the underlying problem is.

An equivalent is saying everyone has trouble walking sometimes when we're talking about someone who limps and needs a cane.

The symptoms are not the disorder and don't come from the same mechanism that causes normal people to have difficultly paying attention sometimes.
OP shoot me an email if you want a sounding board from someone who is just a step or two ahead on the same path. Email is in profile.
I love jQuery like I love a roll of duct tape. I'll use it for anything and everything but I also don't mind if a commercial jet would not like to showcase it.
> The reason it's pulled isn't java vs kot: It's refusing to use the modern APIs that are required for it to function on Android 11+.

That's not a reason to pull an app. It's a reason to tell users of Android 11+ that the app isn't compatible with their device, but everyone else should still be able to install it.
Memorizing specific lines is only important at the highest level of competition. You should however have some rough idea of what you're trying to accomplish. Hanging Pawns channel[0] has videos about a lot of openings and their main ideas. I recommend Scotch Game for white and Sicilian Defense(any variation) for black. You can also use https://listudy.org as a tool to practice memorization(though I repeat, this is not worth focusing on). The most important thing imo is to play longer games(at least 15 minutes) and analyze them afterwards. There are some people who can improve by only playing shorter games, but from my experience, that's very rare.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/HangingPawns/playlists
The problem is that familiarity needs to be maintained or you can lose it. As someone that doesn't get to use Rust at my day job that can be hard to keep fresh.

I only occasionally dabble in Rust in my free time and coming back to a project of mine after months of not having used any Rust, yeah lets just say that line noise made me prematurely murder some of my pet-projects.

Sure it gets probably better with time but still it is a cost that one pays.
I don't think so. One trick I've used to good effect is setting an high max-height, then translating by 100% and removing pointer events.
Do you have any problem with resolution, screen scaling? I think it requires 1.5x scaling, which often cause screen tearing and artifacts on Linux.
I think the person you replied to simply meant they found no spiritual significance in religious texts. That is, their ONLY value is either as a piece of literature or as a historical recording of culture.