skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not always. Any particular two or more wikipedians who decide they don't want something in can sometimes stop it.

For example, in Australia there is a body that does sport participation statistics, Ausplay. They do this every year. It's a great source for sport statistics on Australia.

Two wikipedians decided that these statistics were not permissible in the sport in Australia article. They won :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sport_in_Australia#RFC_on...

This is sport in Australia, which is not that controversial. Now things that are controversial like IQ or the role of heritability in ability are surely going to be problematic.
These poor people got hit with COVID supply chain hell and they're impressively keeping keeping on.

Still, it's like waiting for Duke Nukem Forever. My kids are already years past when I wanted to turn them loose on this.
These stats are from likely voters, adjusted for voting power? And could you source your stats on civil asset forfeiture?

I'm getting throttled so I might not be able to reply in a timely fashion.
Also, I think if you put these two lists together, there are probably 70 English words for snow.

https://poetry-contingency.uwaterloo.ca/fifty-five-english-w...

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/how-many-words-snow-16650
You need the “electrical” aspect to get these efficiencies. There’s a couple aspect of it that gives it a great mpg. Engines naturally have a range of rpm and load that makes it extremely fuel efficient (worse to best can be over a 20% difference). Traditional car makers tune this to be around 60 mph since that’s the typical cruising speed of the average American. With a hybrid, you can force the engine to run at this optimal performance regardless of speed. Second aspect is regenerative braking which recovers a nontrivial amount. Lastly, with a electrical motor, you can tune the acceleration curve to use more electrical motor more than the engine to reduce acceleration deficiencies. FWIW, most hybrids sold in the US (maybe globally?) are not pluggable. It has an engine, electric motor, generator, and a very very small battery pack but standard hybrids are not pluggable (they never touch an outlet).
My phone's 5G connection is 550Mbps.

Thank god for civilization!
Being able to store value as currency for long periods is a bug not a feature as it does bad things to the economy.

Lets’s say you want to store gold in your basement for bad times like a famine. Great you and everyone else has 1+ oz of gold when a famine hits, but society didn’t actually get any more food so everyone having gold is not just pointless but wasteful both to mine the stuff and to keep it protected from thieves.

Alternatively, society can try and store value as productive assets like stocks. On a day to day basis it looks similar but rather than building ever larger vaults and digging ever deeper it’s a quest to create even the smallest income stream. You still hit diminishing returns but it’s stuck with diminishing positive returns.

PS: > losing money to middle men converting to some commodity

You end up losing even more money when the government is trying to get and store enough gold to keep a gold backed currency, it’s just less obvious. Great Britten sent many ships to Canada during WWII to keep it’s gold safe. They had much much useful things to do with those ships and men.
Have you used Oculus? Metaverse is just a better version of Oculus with more software...it's not really a brand new thing.
A completely subjective take:

Edge's dev tools have smoothed over some of the more rough edges of the standard Chromium dev tools.

Also, I find Edge's browser settings to be slightly more navigable.
even worse, you aren't the product, the rich data and access to users (via targeted ads) is the product. You are merely a mine-able resource. Another analogy would be we are cattle, but the product is the milk/meat, not the cow.
You forgot "ISPs customers don't trust the ISP" because the ISP is selling their DNS info, what's being resolved, returning false ad-filled spam instead of a nxdomain...
First time i heard about it i thought it was the dumbest idea. But you can sell anything to the right people.
Surely we can all agree that fiat currencies are often less volatile than commodity currencies but have higher average (signed!) inflation, but looking at the development of the US economy during the 01776–01932 period we're talking about, I wonder what you are thinking of when you say "does horrific things to the economy ... would [be] insanely destructive".

You may or may not be aware that during that time period the US went from being a set of mostly agrarian colonies under the thumb of Great Britain to being the world's most prosperous economy, the world leader in industrialization, and the most popular destination for economic migrants, where supposedly "the streets were paved with gold" (a phrase originally used to ironically condemn London).
(We're all adults here, yes?)

If TikTok's algorithm's really so good, would someone please apply it to porn? I might actually pay money for that, and I doubt I'm alone (ha!)...

Then again, despite trying TikTok a few times its never been able to capture my attention for long. Maybe I'm just hard to entertain.
Well you're talking about 60fps ProRes 4444 (XQ?) footage, and the article is talking about 30fps ProRes 422 LT footage. That's 6.5x (10x?) less data for the same size project, and not much difference in how "pro" it is.
Not too different from San Fran then!
Eating more ultra-processed foods associated with increased risk of dementia
Just go all the way. Handheld adaptive optics because lol.
The Linux desktop is its own worst enemy.

The fragmentation, the inconsistency, the need to drop into a terminal to debug certain things, and the difficulty of dealing with driver problems for inexperienced users all do more damage than anything Microsoft attempted to do.
I disabled the web portal ping in the settings (about:config - network.captive-portal-service.enabled - set to false)... I don't think it phones home anymore... But I sure don't like the direction Firefox is going. I've been using it since the beginning and I'm finally thinking of switching.

The funny thing is that I started using Firefox because of extensions.... and they basically blocked extensions on Firefox mobile... I know that you can make collections, but they made it as painful as possible.
Historically, Windows didn't really have the grouping by application type that GNOME did - any grouping in the Start Menu was down to whatever folders any given app would create when installed. It did have some standard folders like "Accessories", but I don't recall any third-party app using those. The common practice was (and still is) for every app to create its own top-level folder, then put its shortcuts underneath. So it ended up as a linear list of apps, which of course doesn't scale well - but it's also not how GNOME did it.

I will also note that, 1) the start menu is still very much there in Win11, including folders, and 2) the fact that hacks like Start8 exist and sell enough copies to be profitable indicates that quite a lot of users do prefer it to the newer arrangements.
UX? I would be even happy with more UI variety.

I remember jobs and gates being asked at a d8 conference in 2008 how they imagined desktops in 10/15 years.

Gates spoke about voice and motion as controls, while jobs argued that on desktop there wasn't much to change because customers were probably already used to things in certain way and any disruption without a net advantage was just not gonna happen.

He also said that the only chance for a ux change were mobile devices as they were a fresh start for everyone.
driving is higher order derivative thinking (speed, rates of change in speed, relative rates of change in speed) and this is why most people suck at it.
Ok, [e: less than half the aforementioned figure] is <$150, then maybe that specific machine required multiple classes?
Is your claim that there is a class of people who invade homes while carrying a firearm, but will only use it if the other person also has one?
This was posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32238121
We need to invent airbags for the elderly.
That does sound serious. I wonder if there are any anti junkyard dog grassroots movements that one could join to help put an end to this madness?
Again: you somehow appear to have missed the point that this is a research project, not a SaaS proposal. It is not intended to have "real world usefulness", it's intended to advance the science of feature identification and image recognition. You know: science. You're a PhD student yourself, which makes it especially confusing that you appear to believe research has no value in its own right.

You are of course correct that these are not arbitrary photographs. Again: it's a domain containing enough complexity to offer meaningful challenges, but constrained enough to allow achievable progress.

> The features needed are few and finite and there's no need for machine vision to find them.

Finite, sure. Few, not so much; there are thousands of distinct types of LEGO block. If you're going to try to make the case that these diagrams can just be trivially parsed into the corresponding parts, orientation, and connections, while also accounting for occlusion of elements and model rotation across diagrams... well, you're probably going to have to try a lot harder to make that case than by just stating it as fact.
From what I (vaguely) remember, the reasons behind moves like Dolphin were that they felt the integrated Konqueror was a mistake. It certainly made for hard maintenance, the integration system often broke after small changes; and I can imagine security was an issue. Microsoft had made a similar choice in Windows 98/2000/XP, and went through a similar backtracking after XPsp2.

Also, they were trying to move the system to Qt4, which was a big task. Breaking things up probably seemed logical. Add a bit of classic FOSS bugfix-is-boring-let's-rewrite, and voilà...
Imagine if you could sell an attractively priced laptop form factor that people could buy!

Then you could get the data all the time, not just when users browse the internet. Or you could make browsing the internet almost synonymous with using the computer. Whichever works for you semantically.
Not sure I really buy it. The patent suits seemed more related to VFAT than anything else, especially not as vague as desktop metaphors (remember, Microsoft succeeded against Apple trying to come after them in the mid-1980s on similar notions; they'd be fools to think that precedent would not hold on yet another competitor).

It's also the same time that Microsoft seemed to want to abandon Windows 95 paradigms as quickly as possible, with the release of Windows 8. It did seem like everyone just went crazy at about the same time.
There are more ways to overshoot or undershoot than there are to be critically damped. Population level tends to be an overshooting system which then collapses back to equilibrium. Doesn't bode too well for us when you look at human population growth over the last century. The troubling part is the scale; even a loss of 10% of the population would be the largest wholesale loss of life in human history. Over a century, that's not a huge deal, but over a decade, it would be a disaster the likes of which we've never experienced.
Yeah, same sort of experience here. It was interesting work, and I had some decent teammates, but every other person was an asshole, especially as they got further up the management chain. I'd never work for FAANG ever again, it's not worth the mental health damage. I hear similar from friends who work for big pharma. Soulless corporate vampirism.
> And France is arguably the worst in the EU. They try to "protect" local markets like China.

Every single country engages in some sort of protectionism, including USA the mecca of "free market", it's called corporate subsidies.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32254681
Interesting theory, but I don't recall this happening. As other commenters are saying, there were indeed patent-related issues around FAT and the like, and huge interoperability problems with NTFS (to name one, but that's irrelevant here)... but I don't remember anything around patents and the desktop style -- which may exist, but they were not the problem here.

From my recollection, the real issue was Mac OS X (as it was spelled at the time) gaining territory by being a real Unix with a good interface, thus attracting a lot of Unix/Linux users into the Mac. I'd even bet that many old-timers abandoned Linux on the desktop to move to the Mac, which in turn left room for the newcomers to replace the interface with something resembling the coolness of the Mac. But I'm only hypothesizing here.
Well even the information contained in your post and the reply ("I am the founder of GNOME, and [something about his official connection to the project during the 2 -> 3 transition]; I can assert that nothing like what was described here happened: No patent lawsuit was threatened; fear of such lawsuit did not play into our decision to develop GNOME 3; and Ubuntu did not start Unity because they were rebuffed from GNOME 3") would be adding to the discussion.

As for "need", I think depends on what you mean. Is he morally obligated to set the record straight? No, of course not. Will his original reply, with only his username and no other information, convince very many people? Not really: if he actually wants to correct what he sees of as misinformation, he does "need" to do at least a little bit more.

FWIW I certainly don't remember "Avoid being sued over Windows 95 design patents" being part of the motivation for the 2 -> 3 transition being discussed in the wider community at the time. (As opposed, say, to the DCO -- aka "Signed-off-by" discipline -- adopted by the Linux kernel, which was definitely designed to defend against MS-funded SCO nonsense.) But it would certainly make me feel better about Linux desktop fragmentation if it were true.
Gnome 40+ is basically perfect for me after adding the "AppIndicators", "Bluetooth Quick Connect" and "Sound Input and Output" extensions.

I absolutely love being able to click a single key and being able to easily:

- see all windows open across monitors

- drag windows to different desktops / monitors

- close any window and re-organize the whole thing (something I can't do on macOS)

Default apps are also pretty good and the whole DE is super stable and snappy.
My only complaints are the GTK file picker being useless and the title bars taking too much space on non-gnome apps (which don't have window decorations).
I personally think the best “solution” to needing any vehicle (car, truck) “outside a city” is one that runs on petrol alternatives (biodiesel, among others, being a common one). For remote/very very cold regions gasoline still has high value because they’re easier to start in way sub zero temps.
for the record there’s no bias against EVs here
Massive blowback for "removing configuration options".

GNOME 1 had an absurd about of configuration, including many of what the GNOME 2 designers described as "unbreak me" options: options where only one answer could possibly make sense ("make X work"), and worse, some of them were off by default.

GNOME 2 removed those, in favor of better autodetection, better defaults, and similar. However, in doing so, they ended up removing some that were actually important to people, for use cases that weren't as well known. Some of those were added back, or better replacements provided, in the first few versions; as a result, GNOME 2.4 or so was much better than 2.0.
Assuming eternal altruism from a third party is absurd. This data is being soaked up, processed, transformed, stored, and at some level shared via a peering agreement.
The US is an (unevenly distributed) hellscape for anyone dependent on government regulation for basic quality of life. Regulators are wholly captured for most industries. Air quality, e.g., is not actually enforced by EPA, if the offender is a big and old chemical factory, particularly if people being gassed might be black.

They don't even need to bribe inspectors; the agency itself just rolls over on its own.
re: dragging a decent load

My father, born in 1930 in Minnesota, told of watching farmers bringing out a team of horses to help pull stuck tractors out of the springtime mud -- it wasn't only about their not-insignificant strength, but their superior traction. In his teens -- which would have been in the forties, he worked with teams of horses, which seems oddly late in the 20th century, but he did, as did my paternal grandfather. The terms for the various parts of the, to me, very-complicated-looking harnesses were as fresh in his mind in his eighties as they had been in his teens.
>... must be at least as good as a skilled, attentive, unimpaired driver...

... dealing with motorcycles.

I don't care if it's 25% better than the public for non-motorcycles if it's an AI-powered cager.
Ask HN: Best way to re-learn math after high school/college?
I'm currently in my mid 30s, and feel like I've forgetting how to do basic math. My day job is programming / web development, and I often feel like a fraud that I don't know (or remember) basic (and not so basic) math.

Does anyone have any recommendations on the best routes to go when re-learning math later in life? I'm a big fan of online courses—and am ideally looking for a platform that sets a solid foundation and progresses into more advanced math topics.

Maybe something like Khan Academy would be a good route to go? I want to look at all my options.
No one forces gamedevs to ditch opengl.
~10C of warming in the short to medium term is beyond even the wildest IPCC models is it not?
climate change has become a culture war meme topic, which is why it's time to change the perspective and leave that inanity behind, so that we can make meaningful change in our lifetimes (lest our lifetimes and those coming behind us become shorter and more painful). framing matters, and we the people need to grab the mediopolitical bull (who try to do all the pre-thinking for us) by its horns before we get gored.
Firefox is funded by Google and not by users, I bet they use statistics on web searches via the browser to negotiate those deals.

Just like everything else, if you don't pay for it then you are the product. It would be different if Firefox was funded by donations, but it is a for profit company that gets basically all its money from selling users to Google.
This is a clear cut objective summary IMHO. Couldn't have said it better myself.

Also like you said, there are downsides to working at FAANG. However there are downsides to working at every company, and IMHO, the downsides at FAANG and FAANG-like companies are at least compensated for by the upsides.

The one exception might be Amazon. I'm just hearing too many horror stories coming out of Amazon that it might be the one FAANG I have zero interest in working for. But even then, if you can bite the bullet and put up with everything for a year, you'll probably be in a better spot for the rest of your career than if you were to have been at some lesser company.
I feel the same way. Gnome 3 feels great as a keyboard first power user, it feels great with a laptop touchpad and using single, double, triple finger swipes for different things. Presumably it works pretty well on touchscreen devices too.

It actually still matches my Windows workflow pretty closely because all I ever do is hit winkey and type the name of the app I want to launch there too.

The only place it really falls apart is if you're using it with Keyboard + Mouse and aren't the sort of person that likes to just learn keyboard shortcuts and gestures for everything without looking at the UI much.

The other problem I have with it is the opinionated stance on window border/title sizes. The defaults are way too big and you're not really supposed to change them. Other than that I quite like Gnome 3.
Knock on wood I’ve had tremendous success with big upgrades like this on Debian. It’s not the most glamorous distro but the stability is well worth it.

My go to base VM is Debian 11. I usually use it for my base Dockerfile unless there’s a compelling reason not to. I tend to run Ubuntu AMI’s on EC2 but methinks I should give vanilla Debian a shot there too.
Cat delays eating mice until later
I hope they come to Android soon, too. Would love to try it.
Thank you. I didn’t have a clue why I should care about this.
This is really nice and it actually supports a lot of the complex types TypeScript allows (e.g. array of unions, functions). Would also be cool if you could generate random values and function inputs for QuickCheck / regression test generation
Hacker Lab positioned themselves as for profit. I am more interested in sustainable non-profit, so probably relying on charity to stay afloat can be fine, if it is reserved for nice-to-have things, that can be reduced if needed.
Big difference is that porn is incognito so probably a little more difficult to try matching preferences with your peers for good reasons lol

I don't find myself using TikTok much, but when I do it's easy for me to slip into a black void for an hour watching videos. I found the app was able to determine a pretty reasonable algorithm for me waaaay to quickly
"Warning: Protected by a cloud connected camera which will violate your right to privacy"
> I have a reason to believe that it is a company wanting something beyond what many or most of the users would prefer.

As an exmozillian I find this I have to wonder about your reasons for this. From why you think crash reporting, render time, and privacy preserving analytics aren't giving benefits that users prefer, all the way to characterizing MoCo as "a company".
Is it possible to change the search bar in the new tab page from Bing to another search engine yet? It seemed like it was set to bing, couldn't be disabled, and only the address bar could be changed to another search engine.
Also, like it or not, the majority of the internet runs on ads currently. Remember the outrage from Youtube creators when adpocalypse happened and everyone's income just dropped? Now imagine you're a website owner and suddenly your website isn't making any more money and needs to shutdown.
but event "emissions" isn't a simple calculation
No one is claiming that it is, but there are standardised reporting practices to ensure proper coverage of emissions when published. These are the Scopes 1, 2, and 3 (which includes 12 sub-scopes), listed in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. They are the GAAP of the sustainability industry and is required by every major reporting mechanism (e.g. CDP, etc).

All the items you listed are covered within the scopes, include power generation, fuel processing (typically called well-to-tank), transmission loss, emissions embodied in purchased assets (e.g. construction emissions of a vehicle), employee commuting, waste, etc.

Depending on how you look at something, getting an electric car is a horrible thing to do. Even then, is that better or worse than charging it at night from a coal power plant?
A common claim by climate-deniers that has been widely debunked for almost every power network in the rich world (where electric cars are most common). If I remember correctly, only two countries in all of Europe were found to have lower emissions with a petrol engine than plugging into a dirty grid.

I think a lot of the woke efforts in and of themselves are short sighted, and not very well thought out at all though.
Woke? Not thought through? You wrote a long comment about carbon reporting when you clearly don't know the first thing about how carbon is reported or calculated...