skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, whatever. These guys are great at espousing some high minded principle that happens to fit into whatever the desired outcome happens to be.

These reactionaries represent the dead hand of a generation of people who control or seek to control to guide society to meet their own generational/dynastic wealth and power goals.

I’m sure you’ll feel differently as the assaults on the 14th amendment continue and things like the right to privacy are whittled down to a nub.
Majority rule literally the definition of democracy.

This is obviously in conflict with minority rights.

If you care more about minority rights than democracy, fine. Lots of governments have limits on majority rule. The USA constitution is a famous example.

But those limits are limits on democracy. Which make them anti-democratic.

The more strictly you protect minority rights the less democratic your society is.

> It's not a democracy if you have a bunch of people you treat as second class citizens.

That's the purest democracy there is. A direct democracy that let people vote on absolutely anything would always produce that result.
Yup same. The top performers I know want to work on really hard stuff, crush it and go home. The most they like doing is going to a party where they can hold a drink and chat about a topic. But as soon as cutesy like refrigerator boards or dress like a cuckoo starts happening, they will look elsewhere.
Thousands and thousands and thousands of gay people were born into families that believed, to their core, and therefore taught, with generous zeal, that being gay is against god's wishes, a sin, immoral, wrong, and therefore should be considered SHAMEFUL.

I feel like it's reasonable to have LGBTQ people hosting events to try and let these people know that you shouldn't be ashamed of a perfectly normal thing.
I would like to call out that parent here is not a neutral or random party and works on Urbit, and so may have a conflict of interest.
> I'm from the US, Kefir is healthy fermented yogurt-like drink that is in every grocery store pronounced "kee-fur".

Pretty unfortunate. Take a look here at a pronunciation in English more closely resembling the original Caucasian / Slavic: https://www.lexico.com/definition/kefir (/kəˈfɪə/ in IPA). There's audio in the link, which should hopefully clear up confusion.

This is also the common way I've heard it pronounced in the UK, where the product appears on most major grocery store shelves.
I think the idea is that it is the professional thing to do if you intend having clients that your business' demise will cause issues for.

ie. It shouldn't be at the suggestion or cost of a single customer, it is an accepted business cost to you.
J2ME is mostly dead; I think it lives on as an option for interactive content on Blu-Ray though. But just because it's dead now doesn't necessarily mean it was a gimmick that went nowhere, IMHO.

Obviously, write once, run everywhere didn't apply. But Nokia Series 40 was J2ME plus some Nokia extras and had pretty big install numbers until it petered out. Of course, I think all the J2ME platforms had platform extras, if not just platform quirks. Of course, Nokia platforms more or less disappeared in the US somewhere 2005ish (reportedly over disputes about shipping phones with a built in SIP client), and their worldwide popular models were virtually invisible to US population and US based tech news; only after moving to Windows Phone 7 did Nokia phones start showing up in the US in volume again.

Android didn't want to pay for a J2ME license, so they just put actual Java on there (or cough totally not Java cough, but happens to be mechanically translatable from JVM bytecode, depending on how close to a courtroom you are). Having file streams that you can seek in both directions is super handy, so Android has expanded to fill the niche that J2ME phones took on.
Why GEMM is at the heart of deep learning
I agree. they should own their crappy user experience and just say they dgaf
Have you seen how hard it is to pass a contentious law these days? Most people can agree about its merits but it's naive to act as if special interests haven't manufactured the contention and captured the regulatory and legislative processes.

We don't have the luxury of proceduralism any more.
> If you only make enough enough predictions then some of those will turn out predict the future correctly.

If we have a coin and we say "It's 50% chance it lands heads" and it lands tails, were we wrong?

If we have a 20-sided die and we say "It has a 5% chance of landing on 20" and it lands on 20, were we wrong?
There's a strong argument for senate representation being a feature, not a bug. After all, it's a democratic republic of a union of separate states.
Do we have an AI that can reliably identify and euthanize people with right-wing authoritarian personalities? That might be handy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarian_perso...
I think you misread. I wasn't comparing the lifter to a plane, I was comparing other ionic propulsion planes to their plane.

> and as the ionic propulsion planes did before (as others have linked to).
Everything you say may or may not be true, but it doesn’t address the point of the ruling or what's under debate. If you don’t believe that the Congress is representative of the will of the people, your issues are not with this or that law or SCOTUS ruling, but with the fundamental structures of the American republic.
I don't see this as a problem. If someone is creating something new they have a reason, something that is motivating them. Explaining these reasons lets others know if the project is something that interests them or not. This is especially important for collaborative projects to attract people whose goals meet your own and who can contribute additional ideas that you wouldn't have thought of without being a distraction because they are trying to pull the project in different direction than you had in mind. It is also important to attract users if that is something you want.

Its not justification, it is just communication.
No you don’t understand, being more democratic in the abstract is more important than actual rights being stripped away or retaining the bare minimum environmental regulations on companies that are destroying the planet.

It’s sad how the flimsiest well-actuallys carry so much weight around here. Anyone making arguments around recent decisions being democratic has their head buried in the sand about how blatantly undemocratic the US has been since its inception.
> They're revenue now is just a $2bn

And has been growing 30% YoY for the last 3~4 years alone. This is unheard of in any other industry/market.

Their FCF is also impressive.
Pesky extremists. Next thing you know, they'll be pulling down statues and banning the teaching of history.
JavaScript is another example. The core model is simple: Closures + dictionaries. But the syntax is clunky and confusing.
The Pico doesn't run Linux. It does optionally run MicroPython or CircuitPython (I recently used the latter w/ a Pico for a friend's cosplay blaster pistol), but the C/C++ SDK is baremetal.
Yeah I had to learn Assembly in college. We also had to physically print out our C++ code and turn it in to the professor. Did it make me a better programmer? Maybe but to this day I still haven't had to use it. Most of my practical skills I picked up on the job.

P.S. I've seen the professor grading the printed out programs and he'd do it by flipping to the last page which was supposed to have the result output, and then fold the corner of the papers so it looked like he read the whole thing and then put a grade on the top. It was pretty funny.
I’m waiting for the first lawsuit against the DEA. What in the constitution gives the right for the Fedwral Government to regulate what we voluntarily put in our bodies or grow in our back yards?
Where did you see a headline about judicial overreach? The headline here and in the article is objectively correct.
> All you had to do was look at Trumps subreddit vs Hilarys.

I have absolutely no idea how this could be good science.

Especially given the outcome of 2020.
It already exists and it's called eIDAS[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIDAS
The Electoral College exists because popular vote would lead to just a handful of our largest cities holding all of the political power. Switching to popular vote would lead to presidents completely ignoring or worse enacting policies that harm smaller cities, suburbs, and rural Americans.
Nintendo has become a failure in a lot ways. it used to be a leader....but I have little respect for them ... they have some nice IP...that's it
I really do pray that this "modern", "flat" craze is just a fad.

I dream of a future when normal interfaces and drop-down menus return.
The GOP are going to immediately nuke the filibuster and ban abortion at the federal level if they control the government after the next election. Pence has even said this out loud recently. It will likely make no exceptions for rape or incest either. The majority of the country is against this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/24/abortion-...
> and that's by design.

And that design is there to keep sovereignty of membership countries - so it is strange that you are surprised that there is still the ability of countries to secede the union. Most powerful entities in EU are national governments of countries. Who is appointing Commissioners? Member states. Similar like national governments are appointing its ministers. Then there is veto and of course, who has last word in everything? Heads of states / prime ministers.
"What the market wants is short term growth and I firmly believe that is what is destroying our economy and the market."

Agreed, and its now a pox on the overall system.
The big risk to products where better UX is a differentiator is that it's easy for competitors to catch up and you need to keep moving. I tend to agree that Unity will be around for a while, but I'm not sure it will keep its same prominence. It's losing its first mover advantage.
A lot of studios are starting to pick up Unity. It’s not that Unity can’t make AAA games, it’s that most of the workforce is used to C++ and Unreal style engines. Most A and AA games are being made with Unity nowadays. Unity started getting popular in mobile dev where it’s still king and now those devs are slowly moving on to bigger better games.
Also, Thales is basically a sweatshop in Eastern Europe. They'll charge the EU several times what the work is worth in Western European dev wages, then nearshore the actual work in their Eastern European offices. Similar to what IBM, Oracle and other consultancies and bodyshops are doing.

I wish I was a Western European manager there. Make huge wages without doing much work other than churn out PowerPoint presentations to the tech illiterate C-suite and boss around some Eastern European juniors.
There's something inherently unsettling about government having so much control over people. I know EU is different but history proves EU is more vulnerable to having dictators. It's interesting how people don't see the danger here, and I can almost see history repeating itself, except on a different scale.

Where is this all going? I hope I'm wrong and it means some kind of utopia where people only enjoy the benefits of an all-knowing, all-seeing entity that has full control over your life, with none of the downsides. To me that seems highly unlikely, at least not without some heavy price paid along the way.
> The good times are over for VC backed SaaS

Disagree. These companies absolutely pump out cash on a free cash flow basis:

"It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that. So if you could take the free cash flow, that’s something that investors can spend. Investors can’t spend percentage margins.” “What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.” “When forced to choose between optimizing the appearance of our GAAP accounting and maximizing the present value of future cash flows, we’ll take the cash flows.”"

https://25iq.com/2014/04/26/a-dozen-things-i-have-learned-fr...
Kefir author here. Quite surprised to see it on HN. A few notes in response to Brian's post and comments:

- Kefir name is simply a reference to milk drink, no other connotation is intended. Updated project README with this information.

- The compiler is indeed quite primitive, especially, in terms of code generation. My main goal was implementing a C compiler that is reasonably compliant with language standard and platform ABIs, so I decided to simply ignore any performance considerations as I wouldn't compete with well-established compilers anyway.

Usage of threaded code is also caused by the same reason -- it is very simple to obtain assembly from intermediate representation when the assembly is mostly composed from references to runtime routines. Even without considering more sophisticated schemes of code generation, current approach is not optimal -- threaded code encoding scheme is very wasteful in terms of generated code (which was also noted in the blog post) and has awful runtime performance.

- I have tried to keep compiler compliant with the standard as well as compatible some of widespread C extensions (with some exceptions which I listed in README). Will try to address compilation errors found by Brian. Unfortunately, currently I do not have much time to work on the compiler. Identifying and fixing such bugs might also be quite tedious, so I expect that there are enough unnoticed compatibility problems there.

- Patches implementing OpenBSD support are appreciated. I plan to integrate those into the main code tree at some point.
You make it sound like it's impossible to build a Web app that supports rich interactions without a page-reload without requiring JavaScript, but this isn't true. You can use progressive enhancement/graceful degradation to build one such that users with JavaScript still get the experience they get now, while users without it will have an experience that's slightly clunkier but still usable.
Windows NT was in development before 95 and Windows 3.1 became successful while NT was actively under development.

It did not so much learn from Windows 3.1, TBH, but did learn from OS/2. And from VMS and RSX-11, which Dave Cutler worked on in the past.

The windowing system in the initial NT release did look like Windows 3.1 though.
I have two kids 9 and 4. I would be curious to know how to develop better growth mindset / go-getter attitude in kids?

I know the classic way is to add the word "yet" to something they say they can't.

But what are some practical activities and ideas that can be applied today?
OpenSea user email addresses leak after data breach
> Roe talks about this in terms of "privacy", saying that a woman in consultation with her doctor has the right to determine what's the best course of treatment; the government doesn't have the authority to take abortion off the table.

Roe also makes it quite clear it's not absolute:

"A State may properly assert important interests in safeguarding health, maintaining medical standards, and in protecting potential life. At some point in pregnancy, these respective interests become sufficiently compelling to sustain regulation of the factors that govern the abortion decision. ... We, therefore, conclude that the right of personal privacy includes the abortion decision, but that this right is not unqualified and must be considered against important state interests in regulation."

> So, how does the government get the authority to take marijuana off the table?

For the same reason as Roe highlights above; that the right to privacy is not absolute. I think you'll find the leftist position on marijuana is fairly similar to the leftist position on abortion, though.

> And how do they have the authority to say that vaccination is the only acceptable course when covid-19 is rampant?

They don't, and they haven't.
You seem to think this is a both side's issue. Putin has a few bridges to sell you.
nodejs server for games = how to burn your money fast world record

the money people coming telling game devs how to make their servers to become inefficient

little do they know
Mr. Gensler put it succinctly; Every large system trends towards centralization.

The crypto economy has slowly started to work its way into the traditional finance system. The only thing that crypto is really good for is having an auditable system of account, which isn't possible in the current financial system with centralized creation of debt.

>where all they have to do is prove who they are to access their stuff.

My prediction is that crypto does indeed become centralized between a few wallets & those centralized wallets can have some form of 'Verification' for reinstating lost keys.

> it's publicly available and non-identifiable,

Because they can combine it with their massive databases and make it identifiable is my guess.
So when does he become a party pariah?
Sleep duration matters for heart health, according to new recommendations
Or, Coinbase's statement that it "sources its information from public sources" is misleading. After all, the blockchain does not provide geolocation data. So what public source would that come from? That's why this article was written: because it looks like a company selling its users' geolocation data but claiming not to. Publicizing that fact may lead to an outcome where we know for sure, one way or the other.

If Bob is found standing over a bleeding corpse with a smoking gun in his hand, would it be a misleading headline to say "Bob found standing over bleeding corpse with smoking gun in his hand"?
Show HN: Python Live GUI 1.0.0
Hey all,

I've previously posted a hobby projected I've been working on here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31679945

I'm happy to officially mark it as version 1.0.0 and to enforce backwards compatibility.

https://gitlab.com/BenWiser/python-live-gui

There is still a lot I want to get done but I'm also eagre to hopefully start getting feature requests.

The goal of this project is to make it really easy for me to throw a GUI together for remote applications. Hopefully that scratches an itch for some of you as well.

This demo showing how you can save form data shows the kind of usecases I use this for:
https://gitlab.com/BenWiser/python-live-gui/-/blob/main/examples/5_form_upload.py
Perhaps he meant mursik [1]

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mursik
My take is completely opposite from yours. I think it's great when someone "gets" that git is an extremely powerful and capable tool with a horribly unintuitive user interface. Whether you call that "complexity" or just "terrible UX", to me that's a sign that someone has good instincts regarding the risks associated with this kind of "complexity". Whether I agree that a decision to shun git for that reason is justified depends on the specific situation.

> ... that I should minimize my exposure to them. I’d never work in a team that dumb ...

That sort of arrogance is an important signal to me that I should limit my exposure to the people displaying it. I personally see this sort of attitude as a sign that there may be a dangerous lack of empathy on their side, and I've seen that go south too often.
Shure SE215 and the default tip it comes with. I can only speculate on why the IEM is better, but I suspect it comes down to the tip material creating a better, more substantial seal. The outer shell is also physically larger, and that may also play a role in keeping more sound out.
Niantic also announced layoffs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-29/pokemon-g...
It’s not obvious to me that transactions are the key here.

Suppose I want to buy something online using crypto. I buy up $X worth and transfer it to the vendor. They transfer whatever it was that they bought, but they immediately redeem the bitcoin for $X, give or take a small amount from market moves.

There’s no net demand for crypto here, and the increase in crypto price from my purchase will roughly be offset by their sale.

I think the only way to explain crypto prices is through buyers hoping that they’ll be used as a store of value. I don’t agree with that, but that’s a different story.
Every mindset can justify every action if you sufficiently want it.
Yes, that is fine, my email is in my profile. I'll look forward to hearing from you. I can help with the Discord if you need help.
More specifically, the dissenting opinion argues that the right to abortion logically follows from all the prior rights granted to women, eg own property, voting, divorce.
>>Congress can't do anything about Supreme Court rulings.

Actually, they can, that is the whole point - congress has the power to pass laws - SC does not. That is exactly what the SC just told congress to do - their job.
How much of our food supply comes from New York City and Los Angeles?

Your comment implies that the needs of these states is somehow less important in the governance of our nation.
I have a pair of bone conducting audio 'headphones', aftershokz, and while I avoid using them for music listening, they handle voice audio really well and you still have full access to the sounds around you. I use them for calls and podcasts when I need to have situational awareness like biking or going for a run. I stress they are not for audiophiles for music though, the sound loses a lot of depth and richness. Caveat, the pair I have are 4+ years old and they likely have made improvements since then.
Sure, if they’re lucky they might get a 30 second courtesy chat between lobbyists.
I agree. A friend of mine does a lot of research on Congress and says that getting rid of closed-door committees and committee votes has really increased the power of the parties for reasons you mention: it's hard to negotiate in good faith when people (e.g. lobbyists and party officials) are constantly looking over their shoulders. Earmarks and other things can give them ways to work things out when in private, compromising here and there, and coming up with a bill that will be balanced in the end.

I strongly suggest his research[0].

EDIT: Oh, and my friend[1] who does a lot of the research is a ex-NASA scientist, which is one of the reasons I also got excited about his research, as I studied electrical and computer engineering in college and was excited to see an engineering mindset applied to political dynamics.

[0]: congressionalresearch.org

[1]: https://congressionalresearch.org/JamesDangelo.html
Exactly. And what most people tend to think is "healthy" is not based on sound science of any kind. These questions you ask are important because one can't take something like diet and exercise and treat them in a reductive sense.

One can lose weight by eating nothing but plant leaves. Is that "good" food or a "good" diet? Such a diet would be unsustainable in the long run simply because said food is neither dense enough in energy nor dense enough in nutrients. That doesn't sound particularly good to me. But many people equate salad to being "healthy", such that they will add lettuce to the things they actually want to eat because of a mystical believe that plant material is inherently good.
> "Middle C" is C4

I've been confused by this, where some software or MIDI files expect "middle C" to be C3, and others C4. For example, another article states:

> There are TWO conventions for numbering keys (notes) in MIDI. The most common is the one below where MIDDLE C (note #60; $3C) is C3 (C in the 3rd octave).

> However, another convention was adopted by Yamaha Corp. for their synthesizer products which parallels the Octave Designation System used in Music Education formulated by the Acoustical Society of America. In that convention, Middle C is designated "C4".

> The "C3 Convention" is the most commonly used octave designation system on standard MIDI keyboards and this is the convention we will use for this class.

From: Computer Music (MUSC 216) MIDI Note/Key Number Chart

https://computermusicresource.com/midikeys.html