skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My 9 year old daughter told me last week that Uranus had rings, and I told her I really didn't think so, are you thinking of Saturn? And she said nope, they both do. What a weird bit of knowledge to get wrong, even at 9, so I looked it up. She was delighted to have taught me something.
Yeah. My dad literally sits with me for extra Math and English materials (He is a Math prof and my mom is an English prof). I hated it but TBH that's probably I'm going to do to my son :P Of course to a lesser extend as I need to take care of my career at the same time. Back then once you are prof you are safe for eternity.
Climate control boards working off physical controls are known to go out as well.
That, or the curriculum is obsolete.

If people live in a world of ubiquitous phones and internet access, maybe we should teach them how to live in such a world.
"one-size-fits-all" solutions are the prevailing business strategy of investment bankers: Make every company run exactly the same, and save on cost by commoditizing the materials and people.
Centralization happens because it's easier and cheaper to implement services in a centralized fashion. Since users care more about features and price than about centralization, it seems pretty obvious that this problem can't be solved with standards, since standards are unenforceable.
Ask HN: Trying to help a small business owner
Looking to tap into the community's wisdom and experience here --

Q: Any ideas, pointers, paths in trying to help a non-techie friend who owns a local business, who got her business and personal FB and Instagram account suspended for a linked IG account she doesn't own (gibberish title she's never seen) and doesn't know how to escalate (no phone number for Meta support, etc obviously).

Can anyone at Meta provide a pointer in a direction for this situation?

Context: She's an amazing birth doula that I hope more folk can continue to hire here in the Boston area. Her social presence was a big part to help generate awareness of her services for expecting parents.

Initial message on FB Messenger she received:
""We have determined that you are not eligible to use Facebook. This decision is final. Unfortunately, for safety and security reasons, we can't give you any additional information as to why your account was disabled. For more information about our policies, please review the Facebook Terms."

More info:
"Your account was suspended because your linked Instagram account long-gibberish-title-account-name-that-she-didn't-own doesn't follow our rules. Log into your linked Instagram account to appeal our decision."

Personal FB page, business FB page and FB messenger suspended, and real IG account is fine.

Question: what would you do? Would you go the account rep for the business route?

(I'm rare poster, but have been an avid, near daily HN reader since 2011 and thought I'd ask the community)
> Can we please first analyze the problem before we call for regulation

yes, let's prevent regulators from applying and enforcing no brainer life saving safety regulations without first being required to spend decades studying each individual issue and then litigate each individual issue for another couple of decades, ensuring that nothing ever gets regulated ever

because that's what you're asking for, whether you realize it or not
How different languages laugh online
If you create a sample project with a list view, you can scroll that widget by clicking the mouse on the background and dragging it (a reminiscence from touch based interfaces). The example projects don't look native but look like a mobile app inside your desktop. Windows themed button sizes don't follow Windows 7 desktop guidelines out of the box.

Sure that if you put the extra effort you can make QML look native, but it makes you wonder if desktop is in fact a goal for the framework.
I have to assume you were trying to make a joke but have made the mistake of confusing drinking alcohol that impacts your mind with eating food that is a fuel for your body.

It was a valiant (/S) effort!
Are you then personally liable for the loans? Or are they made against the business assets? In other words, if you fail to repay the loan will you typically lose your house?
but they do not fall for the spin the way your dad does.

Do you have teenage kids? Mine is falling for a new health/beauty/wellness 'spin' on a near weekly basis.
Very persuasive when stated that way! It’s a good question. Why not just allow this small added feature which you don’t have to use?

That’s a great general question that can be asked in many places that software dwells. My answer and thinking is therefore general as well. It’s a trap. What would the great Stallman say about touchscreens in the cockpit? He would be correct too. It’s a Trojan horse, once they get the touchscreen there it’s a matter of years before driving involves watching ads to offset fuel tax costs or whatever else the leadersip has decided the world must do now.
Personal attention matters. You can’t really outsource that.

While not scientific, it is a sentiment described in _Diamond Age_.
> The arrogance required to tell someone that their experience is false is something I have trouble wrapping my head around.

It's my least favorite thing about HN, but it's one of the opiates of the internet. Alternate phrasing like "not in my experience" might be slightly better.

I still think "downvote to grey" is a regression vs. simply letting popular comments be voted higher.
Has anyone (outside of Google) gotten to play with Gemini Ultra yet? Been hearing a lot about Pro, but I'd be interested in seeing whether Ultra is really close to as capable as they claim.

Also very interesting that Mixtral 8x7B ranks in the same neighborhood as Gemini Pro/GPT 3.5 Turbo/Claude 2.1 while being fully open source and Apache 2.0 licensed.
Discussed 2 years ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28447499
> the real question is whether people find iOS compelling enough to pay a premium for using it and put up with the ecosystem lock-in

It’s only paying a premium at the lowest end of the market - if you’re buying a Pixel, you’re paying as much or even more than someone buying an equivalent iPhone. The ecosystem switching cost is real but given how most Android users I know complain about app developers favoring iOS, I’m not sure how substantial that is.
In that last "very concrete" line, the 'fish seems to think 8 ... Qc7 is a mistake, and after e.g. 8 ... Be7 instead it puts W at just +0.2, which is perfectly respectable but not obviously better for W than after 7 ... Be7. If you try the same g4; fg g5 idea, then it thinks B is actually slightly better after either ... Nfd7, or even better ... f3; Bxf3 Nfd7. I'm a patzer so don't claim to know what the key differences are, but one is that in the variation Stockfish prefers the white pawn on g5 is hanging so he has to either spend a move playing something like h4 or else sacrifice it.
I've been using QubesOS for years, and I highly recommend it. Not only for security (which of course), but also for the cleanliness of not polluting your computer with a myriad of dependencies for projects you just tried once.

And of course, the high-risk activities that we all have to do at some point (now at least their risk is limited to their virtual machine) :

- curl|bash or similar
- pip install, npm install etc
- run any random github project
- sudo install the drivers of my Brother printer
- install zoom
- plug random cheap USB devices to eg update their firmware
The article was short. I read through it...and I still haven't changed my opinion.
You picked a bad example. Defroster is one of the safety critical controls you need to be able to turn on now. More than once I've crossed a weather front while driving and the outside humidity and temperature have both changed drastically causing an instant need of change to the HVAC for safety reasons.

The radio should only have minimal accessible controls while driving. However even then remember that the non-driver should get the ability to have more control.
Apple macOS is a UNIX™ and has been for decades, both in Arm and x86 implementations, and before that in PowerPC form.

Two Linux distros, both derived from CentOS Linux, have also held certification in the past.

Whether an OS is a UNIX™ or not is nothing to do with whether it is based on AT&T code and has not been since Novell bought AT&T Unix Labs and donated the trademark to the Open Group in 1993. For three decades, whether it's a Unix or not depends solely on whether it passes Unix compatibility testing.

Linux is a Unix and so is macOS.
We're back to Plato and his dislike of writing. "If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written"

It's a difference of degree.
Because in the short term it's cheaper to do other stuff.

And ain't nobody going in between this year's bonus and executives.
Are the rings only that prominent because of infrared? Would they look like that in visible light if you were close enough? Those look like they could compete with Saturn.
I've received extremely mixed messages from Americans about how well funded education is.

On one hand, I've heard that a class of 30 kids gets almost half a million dollars of taxpayer money per year.

On the other hand, I've heard that teachers get a salary of about $50k, and have to beg on gofundme to equip their classrooms with basic stationary.

I really have no idea how to get these two facts to line up.
To stop for charging?
IIRC, just before "miniB" actually hit; there was a lot of confusion and efforts to make something like it. Olympus and Fuji both had a USBC looking wingless connector on some USB cables, they'd used the same connector, but wired it differently.

I was selling cables and adapters on ebay at the time and we had a package with both types. Easier to sell people both versions than deal with "oops i needed the other one."

(I may well have mis-named the parties; apologies if so)
Mob programming is so easier in a call with shared desktops that at the beginning of the pandemics when we were wondering how we would work after people returned I was pushing for we never do it in a conference room again.
And most phones, even after 12+ years of this feature, badly mangle spoken text when transcribing and require editing, while the audio stays intact when sent.
Not to mention in the american south where many of these large trucks are lifted to become even taller. Usually accompanied by illegal window tint so dark that you have no idea if an idling truck has anybody inside.

I want to see that the driver has acknowledged me as a pedestrian before crossing in front of their jacked up truck in a parking lot.
Several things can be true.
cubes have all the disadvantages of open plan offices and none of the advantages of private rooms. i prefer open-plan offices over cubes.
Demanding an instant answer is often a burden to teammates. If they have spare time to answer they will answer in chat. Be patience and be respectful to working routines of other people.
So they finally fixed all issues with panel gaps and build quality?

You need to be rather waterproof to manage to effectively float and not leak...
Drivers Behind the Growth of the GPU Cloud Computing Market
And an interesting project to boot! Thanks for sharing
> The idea of a water fountain for cats may sound odd

Cats instinctively love & trust moving water as stagnant water can accumulate bacteria & disease.

So a cat fountain sounds like a gimmick or novelty but it’s a great idea.
Blaming extroverts/introverts is a red herring - it’s down to the nature of the work.

Whether they’re introverts or extroverts a programmer’s job tends to require a lot of solo focus. There’s collaborative aspects of course but it always requires windows of deep work that are deeply frustrated by distraction, introvert or not.

Many other areas of work (including much work in upper management) don’t require that focus. The work is often deeply collaborative and communicative, and it‘s work that can be dropped and picked up on a dime and iterated on without much loss of productivity. In a way it’s work that actively benefits from a “distracting” environment, because it’s often full of rapid-fire blockers best resolved by grabbing someone nearby.

The friction comes from the fact that the people who do either type of work don’t understand the other type if their whole career has only involved one type.
I wish we were capable of sending manned missions to the gas giants. Uranus and Neptune are such mysterious and beautiful worlds, I'd really like to see them up close with my own eyes, however dim such an image would be.

Maybe if we make it past the ecosystem collapse, one day people will take the Grand Tour in person. (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)
The cybertruck doesn't have door handles. You press a button, then the door pops a little, and you put your hand on the door frame where the door closes. Slick design, until you slam your fingers, or it freezes.
The Gemini white paper reports higher scores on HumanEval and other tasks.

So one of Google lied, this eval has bugs, they borked the deployment is true
Because an email allows me to field it when I am not working on high-focus tasks.

It also

1) forces (or at least encourages) laying the whole thing out in a coherent order

2) leaves a record of both the question and the answer, so that the asker can refer back to it if they forget

3) leaves a record so that if the asker is asking obvious questions, or repeatedly asking the same questions, or failing to formulate their questions in a sane and coherent manner, there is documentation to take to their supervisor, not only to prove it, but to show exactly the shape of the problem, and have a possibility of getting them the kind of help they need
I'm not sure about Leagues rating system but I would definitely believe that the top echelon in most serious sports/games is reserved for people who are both more talented and also hardcore practice.

I play chess and the GM level is above the skill cap of some talented people who have put in dedicated practice since a child and are a full time professional dedicated player as an adult. The median talent at full time dedication for their whole life wouldn't reach that level, and no one who only started the game at age 20 has ever reached that level regardless of natural talent. Some of the most famous players never attain that level, including some full time professional players that are known figures today (like Eric Rosen) and historical chess theory leaders (like Jeremy Silman).

And in practice "just" GM level isn't even good enough to be a top tier player: the top 100 players can trounce the lowest GMs.

I would assume the same applies to any other game/sport that has the cache for people to train at it from childhood like Tennis, Basketball, etc.
I think it was Audi that had an interesting compromise: a screen with a haptic joystick in the center console. Using this joystick was a bit more like sliding a puck around that would “stick” in certain places (to highlight UI elements). I don’t think it’s a total solution, since the UI was still stateful, and it required looking at the screen to determine that state, but it did nicely handle the feedback portion.
I've always wondered why Disney hadn't been bigger into this business before. They already have the parks, hotels, and cruise liners, it makes sense to use their IP and relationships to build communities. I'm not a huge fan of Disney IP in particular, but if they put as much thought into their communities as they do into park design, it could be a wonderful place to live. Plus, they can always do mashups with other groups -- wait until you can live in Swift city full of The Rock's gyms and a mobility network delivered via Waymo cars (which will obviously be redesigned to look like Landspeeders).
> the server is still closed source.

No it isn't. Canonical's snap store is closed source but Snap does not depend on it and the process of configuring snapd to fetch and install from your own store is fully documented and needs no proprietary or Canonical tech whatsoever.
I do the same, found its the quickest way and you don't need to take your eyes off the road and your hands off the wheel.
+1 to this. I'm from Leuven and would visit FOSDEM yearly - until I moved to Canada ~3 years ago. For tourists going to Belgium to attend FOSDEM, definitely stay a couple of days to explore what's around BE. It's a small country so relatively easy and cheap to travel around. :)

With any luck, I might be able to travel to Belgium around Feb and attend FOSDEM in-person this year.
Stopping for food, say. You're on the road in unfamiliar territory, it's lunch time, you need to eat. What do?
When people are in a room you can have multiple voice conversations at once. When you are remote, you cannot. I know you can replace voice side channels with text, but this is a lossy proposition.

Turn-taking in general is better in person due to high bandwidth channels for nonverbal communication.

I say all of that as an autistic person who has trouble with all kinds of tacit communication (it may be that I have studied it so much in order to fit in that I really notice it), so yes there are downsides to being in person (I can pretend to make eye contact on a video), but I'm talking here about why the average developer or product person might have good reason to prefer in-person for a two pizza meeting.

Nice whiteboarding app affordances are great, but the low effort of onboarding to a physical whiteboard also encourages broader participation.
No worries. Was just answering your question.
I know a few older adults who effectively cannot compose text. They can read just fine, they can talk, they just can't express themselves in written words. If they learned to, it was fifty years ago and they've spent their working lives doing things that didn't require it. In the little things where you need to write (a thank you card), they had a spouse cover for them.

I think it's probably relatively common, at least for some generations. Voice memo gets them past a very big source of anxiety.
This is Uranus from earth: https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/interactive-sky-watchi...

Part of the trouble is that it’s really far away.
I really want to play microscope, I bought the pdf but I couldn’t successfully tempt my gaming group with it on one of our off-nights. Wish I had a bunch of time and my friends did too. I also want to use it for generating a homebrew world for some other game system.
I have a car with voice controls. That don't work if the overall UI is set to Latvian. And struggles with my accent when set to English. The climate control knobs have no problems with my language skills tho.
I would say that FOSDEM is well-organized but they just can't create auditorium.

There is like probably at least 4 ultra-popular tracks and only one Janson ...
Ah, the gas giants.
Firefox 121
When you sit down and go over the reports and give direction with your employee each week, it should stand out pretty clearly if they are not doing their job. No different than any other organization where you hire employees. Cities and countries are not somehow magically different. Of course, you don't just vote for the employee you like and never speak to them again. That would be just plain silly. Being the boss doesn't mean you can sit idle on a sandy beach for the rest of your life.

Although that is not nearly as silly as hiring an employee and then doing their job for them. There is no point in hiring anyone if you want to do the job yourself. You go through the employee election process because you recognize that it is more efficient for one person to do the work on your, and your neighbour's, behalf. You are choosing to hand off the work to someone else precisely so you do not have to do it.
I used jsweet to accomplish something really cool once, bringing pieces of an archaic, tried-and-true java codebase into the browser. I had to downgrade java to accomplish it, and I had to manually fiddle with the outputted typescript, but I'm overall very grateful for JSweet (and my users would be too if they only knew). I hope there's a future for it.
> problem imposed upon you by the company

No, this is an entirely self-inflicted problem by the user.

It's 2023. Everybody knows about the telemetry, the unserviceable hardware, the "fuck you" style bug reporting and customer service, and of course the fact that you no longer own your own machine.

Anybody buying Apple (and to a large extend Microsoft) at this point, knowing they have no intention of letting you have access to your own device, also knowing that there are superior open-source options, deserves precisely what they get.
9 year old me finally gets to cross this off the bucket list.
It’s a joke about your anus. (Uranus)
In a Mazda?
Entangled – connecting animations between two browser windows
Neptune has rings as well, as does Jupiter.
>They just keep using annoying audio messages.

Is this a regional/socioeconomic thing? I very rarely see people record and/or listen to voice recordings in public, and my friends certainly don't do it.
Wow, I've been using Ruby for a decade and have never run into this. If you are dealing with a codebase written by someone else, then Rubocop probably has a rule for detecting these gotchas. I'd run it across the whole thing and burn down the flags.
Cars have functional lives of 10+ years, and very often longer than that. The way nearly all car apps are implemented is that they depend on some remote backend. What you're describing sounds good on the surface, but car manufacturers have absolutely no incentive to keep that software up-to-date, functional, and secure for the functional life of the car.

The LCD readout doesn't require long-term software maintenance, because it's entirely local and just works regardless of who's in charge at the car company.
There seems to be a whole genre of announcements from corporations and politicians where they partially backtrack on some all around terrible change while congratulating themselves on listening to their customers (with a clear undertone of bitterness about this being the case).

I can understand (without being particularly happy about) politicians having their own agenda that does not align with the majority of voters, but why is it that vendors producing widgets are so strong-willed about certain details? Why won't any car manufacturer make a car with no touchscreens except perhaps for a satnav that has no data link to the rest of the car electronics at all, or any laptop manufacturer make a laptop with non-chiclet keys (in the style of pre-x230 thinkpads)? Surely there would be a deeply underserved customer base to capture in both cases; one could really get the sense that corporations feel that satisfying those customers would be downright immoral.
How would a power dip damage an appliance?
Who says you aren’t? You can’t be non-specific and then get pedantic about someone who is using specific examples.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/11/business/nuclear-power-france...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-62820639
. vs + for string concat is still one that causes many basic syntax errors for me as I switch back and forth between PHP and JS. I know immediately what I've done as soon as the corresponding syntax error is thrown, but still not immediate enough for when I'm actually typing it.
I wasn't saying Ricci calculus was related to special relativity discovery. OP didn't say whether talking about special or general relativity.

17 years old I think is quite recent given the gap between special and general (would you say no immediate connection between them because of the length of that gap?), and there were presumably other pieces involved.
Good! I miss the clicky knobs in my car. I don't mind touch controls when they're always on the same place and don't require navigating submenus.
Amazon Sellers Say Misleading AI Product Reviews Threaten Sales
To be honest it took a long time in Photoshop to have something as good as it is now. Masking is the bane of my existence when I have to do it (but I'm only an amateur, so, not often).