skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two random comments:

1. When I was younger I though brutalist concrete buildings were ugly, now (even if they still are) i find they are usually the most interesting thing in a city core.

2.
> Even their own houses typically look like architectural garbage.

Agreed. I can't believe how cheap and ugly so many of the "rich people" houses are. It seems to be a competition for who can have the most different rooflines, and for uses of stone veneer
Oscars are meaningless anyways.
I wonder if there is somethink like Facebook, before Facebook became bad. A place to put up a personal profile, a few pictures, the bands you like, and then tell people to "add me there". A messaging feature, a "how I'm doing" status feature, and thats about it. No social media, no feed.

I seems like you should be able to strap a Django CRUD app, an ActivityStream library, and a XMPP (or Matrix?) client together and get a decent early Facebook clone in the Fediverse.
When eating outdoor in the summer requires you to swat away the same wasps from your plate over and over again, it's definitely annoying. I was stung as a kid for no reason, it was a pain for me and my parents to deal with. My wife and kid were stung also by wasps they could not see.

We get rid of termites and insects by fumigating entire buildings. I don't see anything wrong with doing that to wasps as well. After all, in all likelihood, wasps will vastly outlive the human species...
> lack of bothering to ask about pronouns

Because no body actually cares, no body will use your made up pronouns.

> use of the words "normal people" and infiltrating a group only to neg them to be more problematic than anything.

Isn't it obvious that the people in this group are clearly not normal?, they even admit themselves!
Me neither. But I'd be interested in having both such that the caliper is backed off a bit so to engage the traditional break you have to pull harder. Maybe after a few years the "brakeless" system could gain my trust.
If I recall right, the founder was involved in the fiasco to abandon Presto in favour of Blink. I remember one of the reason he cited in defence for this is that Presto couldn't keep up with the increasing number of popular, broken websites they needed to support in "quirks" mode / compatibility mode (or something like that) and working with Google on Blink would really help with that. So I don't think he is entirely blameless. (But there's also the fact that all businessmen, especially new one, also make honest mistakes).

It's a pity that Vivaldi doesn't see the business potential in building another new browser engine. With Mozilla making Firefox an adware crap, I think Vivaldi may even be able to get half a million dollar in online funding for the promise of another open source browser engine. Projects like Netsurf and SerenityOS browser already have done half the work and just need an experienced and talented leadership to give them momentum and Vivaldi can certainly provide that ... Even Webkit is quite decent and just needs a multi-platform push.
Wasn't there a chinese guy that failed these three times, put his family in poverty due to the expense, realized he's the brother of Jesus and started a rebellion that killed 40 million people? History can be weird sometimes
As an anglophone, I guess I should be proud that "der/das Whataboutism" is perfectly cromulent Denglish: https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Whataboutism

What's the context for Crazy Glue, though? Is there now a political sibboleth even in the Bau und Hobby milieu?
Because we can't not hack. I've always been interested in writing, and read a bunch of "how to become a writer" stuff. I read a piece with some great writer answering the Q "how do you know you're a writer?" Answer: because you can't not write. I'm perfectly OK with not writing. But not coding? That's another thing...
When I went to school, I did plenty of "creative" things without the need for the Greek system.

If normal students were getting into juvenile, weird shit, the frat houses and sororities were turning those activities up to 11 and sprinkling in group coercion dynamics.

As I mentioned in my other comment, the author of the article didn't really stop to consider whether any of this stuff that was squeezed out by the bureaucracy was actually beneficial. Do most students even prefer a campus where frat boys set their houses on fire? What about the person living next door?

When I was in school, Greek life seemed weird and excessive. I bet a lot of students on campus feel that way.
You're right, but my point is more about uniformity. Society seems to have tacitly agreed that there's only 3 beautiful looks for everything. You can be beautiful - and by "you", I also mean buildings and inanimate objects -, but only if you fit this narrow criteria.

Give me diversity. Give me creativity.
>> interesting to note that even individual aesthetic disasters like victorian homes, when combined in a neighborhood with common roof-lines, etc. form a charming aesthetic that has been singularly unachievable except in ersatz form since...

I just assumed it's all about cost savings. Architecture has been affected by the race to the bottom as much as anything.
The point isn’t that it’s an unbiased news source. The point is you don’t have to make up some shadowy CIA/State Dept. story about it.

It’s right there in the public mission of the governmental agency that actually runs the RFA. You can see the budget, strategy directives etc.

The RFA is unapologetically an arm of the US government. Judge it for what it is without dramatizing it.
A problem with jumping over to the current popular language is that JavaScript will eventually fade in relevance, as all programming languages do. At that point Emacs would be saddled with two niche languages, and the advantage of using what is popular will be lost. Emacs is the “editor of a lifetime” and I expect it to be around for another 40 years. Best not make decisions based on what the current trends are.
One is denigrating, the other is protecting voting rights. If you can't tell the difference, you may be miswired.
You can't just observe that labour-intensive elements are less common and declare that it's Baumol's cost disease! You have to provide evidence that it's that, rather than any other cause.
fzf, ncdu, sd (sed alternative), fd (find alternative)
“Web3 is full of solutions in search of a problem, especially among startups building for other crypto startups”
This is completely nonsensical. Take away your linux package manager and compiler and you'll get no work done either!
Either they ended sponsorship, the list isn't updated in a timely manner, or Apple didn't want to be listed.
This sounds like an application risk-aversion/-seeking that Kahneman highlights in "Thinking, Fast and Slow"

Specifically... each of these individual decisions (wrt to abstraction, in this context) was made to locally optimize (speed, simplicity, etc) some issue or other

But when taken in gestalt, they're overall not only not optimal, but downright bad

Most of those decisions are made by people far to close to a tiny portion of the problem to understand the implications of their choices

Alternatively, it's an application of the blind mice finding an elephant story: yes, it's like a rope, a fan, a tree, a hose, and on and on

But it's none of those, it's an elephant
Dunno, one is able to find automatic rentals all over the world - and if not that, one can certainly find ahead of pick-up time that the car is going to be manual...
Love it, great job!
In the US, dialing 988 will also get you access to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. (Technically it is now the 988 Lifeline, but they both refer to the same thing[1].)

1: https://988lifeline.org/current-events/the-lifeline-and-988/
I use Vivaldi day to day, mostly because of tab stacks, but it crashes fairly often and loses my tabs in the process (I can always restore them from its trash though). I just got the new release, and discovered another bug: If you're on tab A and right-click on a tab stack B, and click "pin tab stack", it pins your current tab, rather than the stack you clicked on.

I want to like Vivaldi, but how do these things pass QA?
I get this perspective, and it's no judgment on you specifically for holding it, but from my point of view as another upper middle class person, my quality of life is also improved when my neighbours have the care they need.

I don't want to have to live in a gated community so that I can shut out the lepers, and that extends to things like schools too— I want a public school system that gives every kid a decent chance of succeeding and that goes the extra mile to provide supports to those who face additional challenges at home. Even at the cost of a potential opportunity for my own kid. Most of the world is not a zero sum game: the solution to scarcity is to invest and make more of it, not to fight over the scraps.

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” — Stephen Jay Gould
I too like brutalist architecture for its sincerity. Big Cities are inherently ugly. Brutalist architecture just don't pretend they are pretty.
Yes, there are recent setbacks, but you really need to put yourself back in time to where India was in the earlier part of the 20th century. Caste discrimination was fully legal. Women had next to 0 legal rights over themselves and their property. The Partition of India was the most violent outburst of religious violence that has occurred in human history.

There are many problems in contemporary India but I would suggest you not generalize the average Indian in this way. Many young people are quite open minded and quite westernized in their attitudes towards social issues. Modi’s victories in Parliament are complicated and not all driven by religious intolerance.
Q-CTRL makes quantum computers useful for developers
the compiler can type check source code for any obvious insanities, and thereby catch and prevent, at compile time, a subset of what would be runtime errors.

that's the idea anyway. (i worked on v8 for example, and other compilers, and typescript does something similar targeting javascript)
I know what you mean but I reject the idea of an ugly truth.

I would reject an ugly truth being true but a false thing people accept as being true which is not necessarily true. If you truly reject anything not true good right it becomes easier to avoid degrading words or falling into despair.

Said another way, the truth cannot be ugly. So there is no such thing as an ugly truth. Do you agree the truth is beautiful?

I think this because true and truth is beautiful. And it cannot be assailed or degraded by ugly or it wouldn't be true.

In the same way water wets things, the word ugly doesn't become true by juxtaposition to the word true.

There must be a precedence to meaning and you must take your stand. Otherwise everything becomes mud and there is no purity.

In other words, if you bring up an ugly truth I would say it was false and reject it as being not true.

Light extinguishes darkness.

Said another way, if something is an ugly truth then it is the ugliness that is ugly, not the truth. But I would reject it because I reject ugliness.
The pretty release notes have been published [1]. Maybe it's worth updating the post link to point to it.

(ninja edit, the page is now listed on the releases page [2])

[1] https://www.blender.org/download/releases/3-4/

[2] https://www.blender.org/download/releases/
It's a matter of attitude. The German umlaut and ß are basically contractions (ß ambiguously less so); accents in French change pronunciation and/or semantics (French circumflex shows where a no longer pronounced letter used to be) while in Spanish they only denote atypical stress (which can disambiguate an otherwise homonym), similar to the Vietnamese use where they are pretty explicitly phonic in nature.

While in, say, Swedish, letters like Å, Ä and Ö (and, to this non-swede, arguably W) are diacritically-marked letters that became fully-fledged ones, like mitochondria becoming "part of a cell".

Actually the swedish alphabet is remarkable to me in that it preserves many otherwise useless letters like Q and Swedish orthography is quite tolerant of the use of non-letters like á ("non-letter" meaning "not part of the official alphabet").

The only diacritic used in English, the diaresis, is clearly completely optional and I suspect many people go through their entire lives without encountering it!
>I like you as long as you are useful” which is of course not the truth.

I think that's the problem with depression disease: no matter what most people tell you, your brain will find a way to use it to dig the hole deeper.

My wife has battled with minor depression and anxiety her whole life. I learned that more than trying to say things to cheer her up in the moment, i was more useful by looking for treatment.

It's a terrible disease.
I vastly prefer my Thinkpad X1 Nano to my work MacBook Pro. I pair it with a desktop, so keep that in mind…

The nano is very, very lightweight, which makes it an amazing portable device for packing up and carrying around.
The display is matte, which reduces glare when working outside.
The keyboard feels significantly better to type on. This is the biggest pro for me.
The camera has a privacy shutter, which gives me a greater peace of mind.
And of course, it works well with Fedora Linux.
I also optioned mine to have a 5G modem, which is convenient, although I rarely use it due to costly data plans. I have only managed to get the modem to work on the Windows side, but I’m optimistic it will have better Linux support one day.

The MacBook Pro is an impressive piece of hardware. The M1 chip is powerful, the battery life is amazing, and the build quality is high. However, I find it to be a much better experience exclusively using it at home docked in my setup due to its weight and glossy screen. At home, I can use my own mechanical keyboard when it’s docked to get around its mediocre keyboard. At that point, I’d rather just use my desktop. But if you’re only getting one device and are fine with MacOS, it is a good option. I prefer the more flexible desktop + lightweight laptop setup personally.

A minor thing I’ll note in favor of Apple is that the MacBook Pro is capable of driving my nicer Sennheiser headphones with ease. It’s something most people wouldn’t care about, but Apple excels in the audio department and deserves praise.
This might change from place to place, but here in Italy whatsapp has effectively 100% market penetration. I don't know anybody except very elderly people who doesn't use it.

Not that I'm a fan of it, it's kind of garbage actually, but I take it as a fact of life.
Maybe a little slower, but way more readable than the ones in the article.
I get charged $3 for getting $400. Less than 1%, and my credit union reimburses the ATM fee.
Real-World Engineering Challenges: Choosing Technologies
Let him do whatever keeps him interested in the topic. By following his own path, he will be more likely to stick with it.
Test prep is somewhat helpful for some people but some rich kids can't test their way out of a paper bag.

Standardized tests are a route to social mobility for some. This guy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Webb

came from a hardscrabble background in Missouri, standardized test results helped him get into the Naval Academy, he was a marine lieutenant in Vietnam, got a law degree, spent a lot of time in Asia as a journalist, wrote some novels including one about a guy who becomes a US Senator, actually became a US Senator representing Virginia.

There is a lot of concern that attempts to get kids into gifted programs other than through testing will be influenced greatly by family SES

https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/2/17/22288448/nyc-gifted-admis...

There was that time I yelled at my son when he was a toddler and carried him under my arm out of a grocery store and somebody called child protective on me. They sent somebody to my house and fortunately my mother-in-law had just been cleaning and the house looked absolutely spotless, full of books, horses grazing in front of the house, at least middle if not upper class. They had no idea that my house doesn't even have central heat!

Had they come to a hovel I could have had a very different outcome. They interviewed people and had a short investigation but based on appearances they saw what looked like "a good home" and might have gathered we'd have resources to fight them in court.
Many solar power plants come with 3-4h of battery simply to time shift output to peak demand. Because solar is DC you effectively skip inefficiency from DC>AC (Solar to grid) and DC>AC (Grid to battery) conversion. On top of this you can use the same DC>AC equipment for both the batteries and solar plus being able to convert DC>AC to charge batteries from the grid becomes optional.
Climate protesters gluing themselves to things. (Who are the true terrorism menace in todays Germany according to some)
It's really sad you have to resort to reverse engineered drivers which will always be behind because Apple won't support Linux officially. You'd think the most profitable company in the world could do better. Really sad.

Not to dismiss these efforts, incredible engineering. But I won't buy Apple hardware unless Apple officially supports Linux. I honestly don't know why they wouldn't. More developers using their hardware is a good thing imho.
> all phones should be like that.

No, let's have some choice. You pay for the ruggedness in size, weight and aesthetics. That's not a trade-off everyone wants to make.
Used the zig static build in offline mode yesterday to hunt down a excessive storage consumer. Highly effective.

Another tool I've used is jdiskreport[1]. It's a java app with a straightforward GUI. File system scanning is multi-threaded and quite efficient.

1. http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/
I really love Blender! Now I just need to get back into it now that they've made it so fast on M1. It can be really fun if you have the time for it
What works better?
Hertz will pay $168M to customers it falsely accused of stealing its cars
Herbicides are one type of pesticide. Pesticide is the umbrella term.
I like it too. I especially like it for big government agencies, like FBI and post-office. Gives the impression of "we are not here to f*k around".
To me it makes English easier because it makes spelling more semantic rather than phonetic, so that if you see an unfamiliar word you're more likely to figure out its meaning than if you simply had the sound.
Amazon Joins Open Invention Network
Done. Will take some time for any straggler pages to show up in the CDX indexes.
I've seen his comment somewhere (on reddit?), it's not.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221207142932/https://www.nplus...
"...A little more than a decade after the First Turcological Congress [presenting the Latinised alphabets], many of its participants—including Baitursynov, who remains a national hero in Kazakhstan—were executed over accusations of nationalism."

It seems that the whole Soviet "indigenisation" project was a mere, however protracted and disguised, effort to identify the local cultural and indigenous leaders and to subsequently terminate them. It rather seems consistent with an imperial safeguarding action. For all empires, the indigenous identity is a direct threat. Especially so this is in the case of russian empire in whatever reincarnation. This only underscores the absurdity of this conglomerate of forcefully "united" people - not allowing them to develop on their own, yet having not much in common in order to being able to effectively lead them. Let alone, lead where??

I wonder who is considered a ruling class in the present day russia?
I was talking to a Serbian coworker about this, and he showed me a screenshot from a recent Slack conversation where he and another Serbian were intermingling Latin and Cyrillic in the same sentences. He said they really didn't care which one was used.
Switched to this a few years ago. Far better than anything else I've tried.
Shift to Memory-Safe Languages Gains Momentum
And how pray tell will you authenticate with this numeric user id or username in the system? Is it like social security numbers where everyone just lets you input anything?
Refresh rate. The idea was its harder to aim at 9Hz.
It's fine whether or not you want to be "online" or "offline" - you just need to understand that the basic currency is different.

If you think being an online person is some horrible thing or a marker of being a bad person, you just value different things. The kinds of people in TFA are selected for by merit of not living up to your offline standards in one way or another.
There's no B in STEM /s
Triple Modular Redundancy
It's better for Monero - what people thought Bitcoin was: actually private.
It was though, a fine was levied. There's flexibility in the punishments that are dished out in a lot of justice systems and I suspect it's to take into account that the law is not really nuanced. It's hard to write down /all/ possible motives, reasons or contexts in which a law or rule has been broken, and allowing the punishment to be scaled based on judgement seems like a reasonable thing to allow. I guess that's what judges are for.

Of course this raises questions around who is making these judgements, and there's sometimes unfairness in how they are applied (eg. police in the US, broken tail lights and the colour of skin of the person stopped), but it doesn't mean that the underlying goal isn't sound, just the implementation.

Personally I've had experience of this. My car tax (UK) lapsed and I didn't renew it. An oversight during a busy time of my life (moving house), and one that I noticed and fixed independently once I noticed, it must have been after a month or two.

However, during the period when my car wasn't taxed the police noticed and reported it (to the authorities, not to me) who issued a fine (~£90) that was sent to me by post. Unfortunately though I'd told the authorities that I'd moved house, twice, they sent the fine and all followup correspondence to my old address and I ended up with a choice, pay debt collectors (they managed to find my new house /just fine/) for the now increased fine + expenses (in the region of ~£800) or go to court. Worst case either way was I'd have to pay the increased amount.

I went to court and the three justices deliberated my case (I could hear them) and though they decided that I could afford the increased amount, it wouldn't be in anyone's interest to levy it as the circumstances in which this happened mitigated my lack of attention to the increasing fines. I wasn't a deliberate law breaker and ultimately a large fine wasn't going to change my on consideration generally good behaviour, and they made me pay the original ~£90 rather than the substantially increased amount.

As the saying goes, the law is an ass.
I'm surprised to not see WhatsApp on this list. In my country, it is currently ubiquitous (not just all acquaintances except 2, but stuff like "send us the message you want on WA and we'll print it on this bouquet" for florists, or for printer offices, "send us the doc on WA at this number").
He has been teasing this for a couple of months now. This cryptic twitter post[1] would suggets something related to nx[2] as numbat is their logo and that is the alt text on that tweet.

The most out of the box thing I can think of is that one of the image generative models has been ported to elixir. That would be insane! That numbat twitter image is suspiciously 512x512.

[1] https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1583551565381914624
[2] https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx
I have used ncdu for a long time, and it's good if you have time to wait for it to get sizes, if you can't, Duc AKA "Dude, where are my bytes" has caching and is ready to apt install on Debian and Ubuntu repos https://duc.zevv.nl and it has different GUI options. It's slightly more complex but for larger volumes I use it instead of ncdu.