skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2nd one isn't even recommended by UT.

FP2 is the second device on the "promoted" devices page. That feels like a recommendation?

https://ubports.com/supported-products

> Google Pixel 3a/3a XL.

Doesn't support one of the most interesting features to me in UBports, which is display output for convergence.
> They have other things to smooth out the parts of python which are annoying in math, like exponentiation works with ^, and dividing integers returns a rational number instead of floating point or an integer.

SageMath also has a multivariate inequality solver IIRC. `*` is repeated multiplication (exponentiation) in Python. If you require preprocessing to translate ^ to *, you don't have valid Python code that'll run with any other interpreter.

Is it easier to import SageMath from a plain Python script now; with conda repackaging?

Type promotion in Python:

from rational import Rational
assert Rational(1, 4) / 2 == Rational(1, 8)

Python 2 had a __future__ import to do floatdiv instead of floordiv:

from __future__ import division
assert 3 / 2 == 1.5
assert 3 // 2 == 1
assert 4 / 2 == 2.0

Python 3 returns floats from ints or decimals IIRC:

assert 3 / 2 == 1.5
assert 3.0 / 2 == 1.5
assert 3 // 2 == 1
assert 4 / 2 == 2.0
That’s a bit reductive. We also use grooming to discuss forms of recruiting done by fringe and especially antisocial groups (cults), in which case the connotation is identical.

If you’re going for AGI, then this activity is a form of abuse. If you’re not going for AGI, then we have a different problem, in that if we allow computers to make decisions without any human interaction, we’ve hamstrung the Rule of Law. There’s no “one” to sue for ruining your life.

If human actors are ruining your life, that’s a crime, and should be treated as such. Even if the computer is the triggerman.
About 15 years ago as well, a cruise ship I was on blocked most connections if you hadn't paid, but allowed DNS, so I tunneled some vpn over dns and it worked.
iunno, setting up a custom ROM is the first thing I do on any wifi router I buy. Haven't really touched the concept on my phone, but it's totally something I've done for security reasons.
Well it's not like desktop OSes are much better, your average LTS Linux distro gets like what, four or five years of updates before they pull the plug?
Very true, maybe it's not a strong predictor either way.
> "Reducing" is the least expensive because it doesn't require any energy, but we (consumers) like to buy stuff, so once a product is in a person's hands, "reduce" is out of the equation.

From a commercial perspective, "reducing" isn't about "reducing" the purchase of marketed goods, but rather reducing the waste/pollution/etc. that goes into manufacturing those goods. Like reducing plastic wrapping on boxes, etc.
I come to HN for posts like this, thank you.
Direct link to the article: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-06/page/n393/...
Mobile these days can be React Native which also "builds" for the web and desktop

Next.js makes React less painful

Solito makes Next.js + React Native a possibility today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30678100
But it will certain lower the demand. And might push it below what is needed for sustainable industry and supply chain. And I would guess for viable export you need first at least some skills in own market.
I would think they have all the messages from Slack (it’s how they were able to write the Twitter Files), but who knows what format it’s in.
So? These shoes all look great, even by North American thrift store standards. It would be a total waste to shred them when they can be put to lots of additional use. Maybe they should have tracked some truly worn-out ones.
Can a troll be proven right?

what should the white supremacist do in this case ?
Screens yes, battery no.

Or at least changing batteries used to be mainstream. Anyone born before the year 2000 should not be at all intimidated by changing a battery. I can't speak for Gen Z, it's possible they've lost that skill.
So you're judging them by their perceived level of caring and knowledge, even though you have no evidence of it, and the outcome was better than expected.

Sounds like hell?
I said they obviously will stabilize. They always do. Everything always does. At a certain point the population is just so low that having children becomes highly advantageous again. There's very very few biological system where the entire population just dies out from lack of reproduction (despite all other resources to do so being available).

On the other hand: there is absolutely 0 evidence to suggest that the population wouldn't stabilize. There are sub populations of humans that already have stabilized populations, this is true throughout the animal kingdom. If it's just preferences to not have kids, then those people will see their genetic line stopped and the people with preferences to have kids will see their genes dominate. If it's environmental, then our path will look a lot like that of other animals experiencing environmental shifts: certainly tough, but if you can adapt fast enough you'll be ok.

Right now, the main reason people don't have kids who want them is finances. The likely outcome here looks like the economy will winnow as a consequence until having kids becomes a positive financial decision (and that might mean going back as far as subsistence living in a worst case scenario). Regardless, the population will stabilize short of an asteroid or other catastrophe.

There's not a single precedent ever for what you suggest. The population stabilizing is the default for all of nature.
Please don't perpetuate misunderstandings about schizophrenia. It has nothing to do with multiple personalities.

https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/schizophrenia-myths-and-...
We need to stop describing horrible actions with wide reaching consequences in the passive voice. And we need to start socially punishing people who insist on doing so. Otherwise the wheels are coming off.

Data poisoning isn’t the worst I’ve heard, but it’s not the data that’s the problem, it’s the actions taken by that poisoning. That’s the subversion that matters, not “the data”.
The subtitle is "Why should anyone need a license to braid hair?", and the lead in example is talking about New Hampshire's push to wholly remove licensure. Sure, maybe that kind of tack is needed to open up minds to the idea that it's possible to have consentual private interactions without the mediation of government.

But it's not particularly nuanced to brush aside why some of that standardization may have been useful to begin with, especially when we take for granted modern conveniences like the ability to talk into any random shop labeled "hair cuts" and not walk out with bugs.

I'll admit I stopped reading the article at some point, as it was quite long and not particularly enlightening. So I said my piece regarding the philosophical basis of where reform needs to start, which is actually the same root as the issue of unaccountable police - this rotten assumption of sovereign immunity. If we correctly attribute the state's drag on individuals' lives to the state itself (rather than allowing it to be brushed aside and externalized to individuals), the proper incentives will fall out.
What's your point? It's not like you are no longer able to update your computer's OS when that happens.
I am a surgeon currently employed by a private equity group and bound by an absurd non-compete.

None of your points are accurate here from my perspective. Personally, I was profitable within 3 months of my hiring. The longest I've heard of it taking for a physician to become profitable is around 6 months and that's going completely independent. The idea that a doctor is a money-loser for 2 years is absurd. The need for physicians so greatly outstrips demand that I don't see this applying even in large metropolitan areas.

To your second point. The way private practice used to work was a new physician would take a low initial salary in order to be offered the opportunity to become a partner in the practice. The assumption being that for the first few years the new physician is making the partners money. There are a lot of advantages to being a partner in a practice rather than being completely independent and it was worth a few years of a depressed salary in order to be able to purchase equity in an established practice.

What's much more common now is for senior partners to recruit young physicians and then flip their practice to an equity firm after binding them with a non-compete, essentially canibalizing the future of independent private practices in order to ensure themselves a nicer retirement.

Relevant to the discussion is the fact that equity firms, and to a lesser degree hospitals, must chase growth at all costs - inevitably driving up the cost of healthcare. I think this is something that we agree on.

The short answer is that non-competes take power away from independent physicians and give it to equity firms and hospitals. If you sincerely want to see independent physicians flourish then these need to go away as soon as possible. If you read the comments submitted to the FTC you'll see that my perspective is common.
Am I only one who questions this recycling plan in the first place? Aren't we quite worried about microplastics at this point? And isn't making fields of this which stay in sun and weather just eventually going to spread it around? Not that I have been on a track in long time, but already then I noted the wearing of tiny bits off. Where will all of it end?
1993 was right around when 14.4K was becoming popular. I had a 9600 baud modem, which still felt fast (compared to my previous 2400.)

My first Internet connection was over a 9600 baud SLIP connection.
> Nor would I put much value on polls conducted in conditions...

That's a fair point - polling is difficult and unreliable in a contested region - but what other evidence can we look to?

Perhaps this: "an occupation against a hostile local population requires far more soldiers than a peaceful occupation of territory" as we've seen recently when Russia occupied regions not controlled by the separatists.[1]

And the Russian forces in the separatist regions before 2022 were far from sufficient to hold the regions if the local population had been hostile, especially with Ukrainian forces also fighting them.

> Yanukovych was removed from the office by the parliament

This isn't accurate. "On 21 February 2014, Yanukovych ...left the capital for Kharkiv, saying his car was shot at as he left Kyiv, and travelling next to Crimea, and eventually to exile in Russia."[2]

Then, because he had fled, "the Ukrainian parliament voted to remove him from his post...on the grounds that he...effectively resigned."[2] He was not impeached.

It's more accurate to say that he was driven out of office by the riots, a fact that Parliament merely recognized.

(Also, your analogy to Jan 6th makes no sense, because in any such analogy, the rioters have to end up with the President they want, just as they did in Ukraine.)

1: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/01/politics/ukraine-assassinatio...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych
QML and Qt Quick are mostly useful for mobile applications, but were barely able to prevail in this market. Qt originated as a desktop application framework. LeanQt aims at the original purpose and strength of Qt.
This reminds me of the ADS-B exchange flight map

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
> But coffee can be cheap. $100-200 BIFL hand grinder, and like $50 for a brewer + tons of paper filters

(if you're trying to do decent coffee for cheap, a $40 hand grinder and a $10 french press is fine once you get a good technique.)
I think gp and gggp are arguing that the diffusion of responsibility means that nothing takes responsibility for baseline functionality, and as such there are huge gaps.

With X all these things are in X or the single shared X compositor itself. Yes, it's bloated and sometimes lacks flexibility in configuration or doesn't work perfectly, but there's no gaps.

I don't think the author is saying these individual projects should do these things, but if they don't, who does? It means that everyone using wayland effectively is using dwm, and dwm isn't for everyone (or even most people?). It feels like you're saying users should suck it up and learn to love the dwm philosophy, C and all, which doesn't seem quite right to me.
Very cool. Looks similar to the underlying technology in Network Access Analyzer from AWS:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/network-access-analyz...
Not really. That famous Dropbox comment was questioning the value of the product while offering a more difficult way to get the same result.

Commenter here is not questioning the value of any product, but offering a potentially simpler way of achieving the same thing.
Supported for 3 years. LOL. Just don't get this one bit.
Does parochial mean that someone still thinks digital watches are a pretty neat idea?
> I hate to quote him at all, but I do so to dissuade responses that this is a “cancel culture” decision.

“The comic sucks now” would have been an editorial decision about the content. “Here’s a terrible thing the author said somewhere else” is cancel culture. It’s not as if all the readers know or care who draws this.
It is a milder climate but still cold winters. People usually have small wood stoves or electric space heaters. It's just they're all not very efficient when compared to these masonry heaters.
Same here. The woodstove I have heats the main room fine but doesn't really reach well to what I use as an office. I use it as supplemental heat source, not primary. Getting it going and then into maintenance mode is a good hour or so of prep. Then needing to refill it at least once in the day.

When I run it during the work day I'll generally work in the same room just to keep an eye on it. Some days that's not worth it. Some days it's -20F out and totally worth it.
Oops, You Wrote a Database
God, I love Paul Simon
When I get to year 4 I install the next major version of my distro. My hardware doesn't go to the junkyard.

Meanwhile, my mom was just reminding everyone in my family that Android security updates stopping means they have to replace their phone more often than they would otherwise like to.
> Getting around pointer events inconsistencies is a lot easier than building your own cross-platform VM

For sure, and I did. I wrote some code that makes an invisible fullscreen div appear just at the right time to prevent pointer events being triggered when they shouldn't be #cleancode. It's just frustrating that things like that need to be done, and how often they might need to be done.

> I imagine there will also be differences in the way macOS, Linux and Windows handle graphics, IO, audio, etc, that will eventually leak to UVM, it's just the nature of the challenge.

At the moment you can create a window with one function call, and you have another function call to copy one frame's worth of pixels into the window. The pixel format is in BGRA byte order, 32-bits per pixel, and that's the only option. I'm going with really basic, low-level APIs like that because they're harder to get wrong.

Audio is going to be equally simple. There could be cross-platform differences in things like the amount of latency to write audio, but I'll do my best to make the APIs extremely portable and hard to get wrong.
while offering just three years of security updates, after which you basically have to throw the thing away?

"security" is just used as an excuse, in practice there's very little in the way of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities. In fact the "security" of newer devices seems to be squarely aimed against the user, so make of that what you will...
I do wonder how many have just never been exposed to Mathematica and Matlab. I don't think they were perfect, by any measure; but a lot of the things people find amazing about modern open source tooling were near table stakes for advanced tooling decades ago.
Well, millions of Americans are one of them, either directly or through their index funds, retirement funds, etc. When you said "I don't care", I assume you meant "I" as a representative of some larger public class.

Surely you understand that jrm4's interests, specifically, don't factor much into corporate/national decision-making?
What part of removing Flatpak integration packages from repos is not true?

If there's any false reporting it's from that absurdly positive Register article, which simultaneously set out to say Flatpak wasn't very good anyway and couldn't be installed without a GUI.

Snaps have become a disaster because of Canonical mismanagement and now they want to lock users into using snaps.
Huh, guess I am just that gullible to buy the marketing to the point where I now wonder: how the heck can you have a removable battery and also survive being held under water? (It has an IP67 rating.) I guess waterproof everything except the battery contacts and trust that the salinity is low enough that the 5V doesn't jump between the poles, plus it not being wet for long enough to start rusting (IP67 afaik doesn't require it to work a week later still)?
This is an Internet forum, not a court of law.
This isn't even news really, but it's not adopted because getting sick people to exercise is more difficult and more expensive in practice than getting them to swallow a drug. So we stick with subpar treatments. Diet is also more effective than most drugs but giving everybody a good diet is arguably even more difficult than getting them all to exercise, given we only have so much supply of healthy foods available.

I still hear an attitude that telling unhealthy people to exercise is condescending and neglectful because you aren't giving them "real medicine" meaning a drug, which I generally see as either grounded in sheer ignorance or one persons anecdotal experience. The amount of confidence I see in drugs that are effective in maybe 20% of the population, which is a lot of those used for mental health, is utterly bizarre.
> FP2 is the second device on the "promoted" devices page. That feels like a recommendation?

The FP2 is a very old device lacking some features and probably got recommendation back then because other devices were worse. https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/fp2
Otherwise I'd also could have recommended the Nexus5.

On FOSDEM 2023 Ubports developers didn't show off this old phone, either.
A lot of this comes back to money. There’s a propaganda network measured in billions of dollars annually which reliably amplifies these messages, and I think that’s probably the angle to pursue. A lot of this stuff would stay on 4chan if people weren’t pouring money into broadcasting it, and many advertisers will cave if asked why they’re funding white nationalists.
I wonder if there is a selection bias at play. One of the major symptoms of depression is lack of motivation. Exercise requires some level of motivation. If people are exercising, that could mean that their depression is not as severe.
The first task could be done with a tool like this, but it is not a project for beginners. The second requires a different tool, a non-sequential ray tracer. See https://community.zemax.com/got-a-question-7/sequential-vs-n...
Sure, but timing matters. Google circa 2008 was (from what I hear) still amazing despite being public.
I can totally see doing it on a router, but I'm scared to do it on a phone because I've heard too many horror stories about banking apps and similar refusing to run if they detect they're running on a rooted phone.

I only have a smartphone in order to use all of the apps that people assume you'll be able to install. If a significant percentage of those won't work on a custom ROM, I may as well not have the device at all.

(It's entirely possible that my fears are overblown, but that I have them is suggestive of how far from mainstream custom roms are.)
Older devices I used had gaskets around the battery contacts and a tight fastener. That seems to work well until the gasket eventually degrades over time.
It is amazing how many people think they know better than the guy whose company did $120 billion in revenue last year. Maybe Zuck has more business sense than some rando writing for the Atlantic?

Imo paid verification will absolutely make sense to the tens of millions of brands that advertise on Meta's platforms.

"Nobody seriously thinks that Facebook or Twitter will rake in anything remotely comparable" (to the billions made by airline fees)

SnapChat already has 2 million paid subscribers. Between FB and Insta, Meta has > 6x as many active users and will charge for verification separately at this stage so 10 million paid Meta accounts seems realistic in the short term = ~$1.44 billion a year.
Going to wait and see how many "iPhones are so unrepairable" folks are gonna buy this phone.
> For concurrency it's a lot harder to make a good interface

Can you elaborate?
I know it's possible. But the last time I did any frontend work, jQuery was the state of the art. So I decided that for now my efforts are better spent nailing the core experience and creating more courses.
Reverse Engineering a Windows 95 Game's Asset Storage Format
This is part one of hopefully three. Future parts will look at disassembling the binary to find secrets!
This just looks like basic biology to me. Yea it will be rough and quite the adjustment, but not catastrophic and totally precedented in nature. We will reach a new equilibrium - like all nature does.

These same people just a few decades ago were saying we're on track for runaway population growth because they couldn't imagine birth rates slowing. Now they say we're on track to go extinct because they can't imagine birth rates every picking up again. There are communities even in developed countries that are at an equilibrium birth rate, and the rest of the world will get there. That's simply how nature has worked over and over. The population will continue to grow, slow, then level off. Maybe decline somewhat, but find it's new equilibrium.

There's pretty simple logic to this too from natural selection: the types of people who don't want kids will see their genetic line end or can't, the people who do want kids and can will see their lines continue. The remaining over time will be people more and more inclined to have kids and the environmental effects will decline the population until we're at a sustainable level. Nature is self-correcting, always has been, and there doesn't seem to be any evidence for why that wouldn't just happen here too. These same corrective mechanisms are the same in the economy.
There was a time I avoided the cloud, certifications, meetings, having to be a team player.

Then I was told it's possible to have fun, the purpose of certifications, make good money, and do those things while at the same time enjoying them.

Now I absolutely love running meetings, working on a team, as an individual contributor, and haven't touched physical hardware in 4 years.

Nothing really changed except putting in the work and changing my attitude. Since that time I have doubled my pay, work under the conditions that I enjoy.

Like paying debt, you have to work twice as hard to get half the result. Ultimately, eventually, there is a net positive.
I think here this type of activity would be possible. But solution is simply buy one from big enough company(special type of company). Thus it would be unlikely that anyone is able to gain majority and in fights there is likely enough people on sensible side. Like where I live has 126 units. No one is going to own more than half of them. And big corporations instead own entire similar buildings next door.