skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An analysis of the full DEFUSE proposal on gain-of-function experiments
In most cities space is the expensive thing
Yep, I've been bullied the whole time growing up and I didn't start making friends until I was about 20. I am friendly but I'm not good at making friends with people I might never meet again at parties. Wfh makes me want to hang myself so maybe have some empathy that not everyones a thriving social butterfly like yourself.
Apple maps was worse at launch than Google Maps was at the time.

However I welcomed the change as it was Google which was preventing Siri from working outside of north america ("find restaurant near me"; didn't work in the UK until after Apple Maps)

Today the landscape is different. Google Maps is positively littered with ads which makes it in some cases very annoying to use.

Turn-by-turn navigation, if you have carplay is much superior with apple maps.

They have comparably updated maps data.

So, it's a marginally better usability in some cases and equivalent in most.

Google has two advantages: Reviews and more accurate points of interest (if they are businesses).
> However, I do have a gripe. Many posts negatively impact upon my self-esteem. Reading HN I get the impression that there are lots and lots of folks earning huge salaries at very important companies. Lots of others have founded startups, raised $millions and in many cases have had massive windfall exits.

This is basically the worst part of any social networking service now. They highlight the breakout success stories, geniuses and outliers so much that it becomes easy to assume everyone else is doing much better than you are.

For average Joes it's seeing the influencers and celebrities on Instagram and TikTok, for developers it's Hacker News and Reddit.
“prophage”?
Nice. I was hoping to work in a “quorum” pun/ reference but not finding it.
AeroSpace – i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
It seems like things were fine for the engineers when they ran things?

What exactly do you think went wrong at Google in the early years?
Google was most successful when it was "like a giant grad-school". Its downward trajectory coincides with it being run by McKinsey alums.
> With the money they were paid, we believe it was mostly used for fuel, pesticides and fertilizer, all which carry their own environmental cost. So we’d solved one environmental problem

Genuinely interested: what environmental problem did you solve there?

> A PhD researcher uncovered that actually smaller families increased their fishing activity as they wanted to boost the life chances of their fewer offspring.

Are "fishing families" really the problem with fishing? I would have thought that the industrial fishing boats are not "family businesses"...
This is, in essence, a short horror story in a similar vein that Stephen King used to write back in the day. Technological differences aside, it'd fit in right along side Nightmares and Dreamscapes.

I'm absolutely certain I don't want to live in the world depicted here and subject to it's regular trauma (human trauma and the QUALITY of human life not being something Dave gives a shit about), but on the flip side, if I had grown up there and read a story about the Dave-less world I currently live in, I'm equally certain I wouldn't want to live HERE, either.

So in short, A+, well done.
American/Canadian-only problem.

Most of the rest of the Anglosphere call "gasoline" petrol, and you step on the accelerator. Gas in Australia actually refers to LPG.
> Even if it was remounted read-only to be deleted it wouldn't free up any usable space.

This was somewhat annoying on my old phone, where out of the measly 16 GB of total space available, several hundreds of MBs were reserved for the OEM partition and therefore more or less completely wasted.

The one semi-useful app therein was a file explorer app – given that at least at that time Android didn't really have a proper built-in file explorer, this was actually a somewhat sensible idea, but then on the other hand as a power user I still prefer a file explorer of my own choosing (and with root support), so it was still mostly useless to me.

Other than that, it contained what looked like configuration apps for a few American mobile service providers, plus something like some sort of Brazil-specific app store – all completely and utterly useless, especially given that my phone was bought in Europe and was on the European software update channel!

And as you say, deleting any of those apps wouldn't really free up any space (except a little bit in dalvik-cache if I remember correctly) because it was a separate partition.
Evil is an attribute that people may come to possess through various means (ideology is a big one), which becomes manifest through their actions when they demonstrate severe selfish disregard for the lives of others.

The above does not rest on religion. Christians/etc having their own theories about evil is irrelevant. When most people say Pol Pot was evil, they're not talking about demonic possession or some silly nonsense like that; they mean he was a mass murderer, which is evil.
Not exactly, timestamps only commonly matter for handling certificate expiry, and you'll still be fine if you're a few minutes out.
The one pretty directly suggests the other.
With Safari, and Safari’s ability to run sites like apps (assuming this will make it to VisionOS), I don’t see this as that big of an issue. Not like it was for Windows phone.

Spotify isn’t something that should need a dedicated app to play music in the background, it could run in the browser just fine. I think the same
Is true for YouTube. It may not have VisionOS specific features, but watching videos shouldn’t be a problem.

I removed the YouTube app from my phone a few months ago, because I thought I was using it too much. I still load it up in the browser all the time and it works fine. I don’t have background audio anymore, but that should not be an issue on VisionOS, and is a premium phone feature that most users don’t have.
This is untrue. You can observe this in scalas implicits, which generate an insane mess in any medium to large codebase.
actually app password will keep working. Which is basically all you need for mu4e
Very true.

I was teaching a 9th grade class a few years ago and realized that men from a certain demographic showing pics of their reproductive organs had traumatized the young females in my to the point most of them showed signs if PTSD. They gasped, closed their eyes, and/or recoiled at any image suddenly popping up on their computer screens or on the projector.

I pointed out that this was felony child sexual abuse, and that the perpetrators were easy to find. Law enforcement did not care.
It was certainly horrific for a while, I work in agriculture across a large area and we "banned" a coworker from using it because all of the pins they would send us would end up a mile away somehow, whereas they didn't have that problem with google maps.

However it is very much improved these days, and workable enough. Definitely worth a re-evaluation.

Incidentally, I encounter two intermittent bugs in google maps:

- This past year there's a bug that mirrors the old apple maps problem of sending me somewhere way off from my destination in some rare and particular (barely inhabited) areas, like an AI is trying to snap the point to something normal people would recognize as a destination. But no, my destination really is the side of a field. I find I can get around this by doing a longer hold press when setting the location which seems to force the coordinates. It's always important to double check the destination didn't change on me.

- Sometimes when clicking "Start", the app will get stuck presenting some kind of text only directions with no way to get away from that damned useless white screen until I kill the app and re-enter the destination.
> > sure, but you dont need to understand actual set theory

> How would you know? You sound like you understand set theory.

Easy: most mathematicians don't really care about set theory (beyond the fact that it exists and is the standard foundation).

Understanding set theory goes deep. For example: why does the Banach-Tarski paradox exist in ZFC (C: Axiom of Choice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice)), but not in ZFD (D: Axiom of Determinacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_determinacy))? Or another one: why does the statement "every field has an algebraic closure" not hold in ZF (but in ZFC)?

Never heard of this stuff despite having studied mathematics? Just like I said: most mathematicians don't really care about set theory.
Extraordinary wizards. Founding fathers. True legends.

RIP
No, Buchheit was employee #23 at Google. He also developed AdSense as part of Gmail.
just make the corporate income tax proportional to the sqrt of headcount and let the market sort it out
Adult apps aren't allowed on the Apple Store, so it'll depend entirely on the web. If you can launch multiple browser windows at the same time to cover the full FOV then I'm sure someone will eventually make use of it...

I'm not sure why existing Meta headsets aren't being used for this purpose, or what features distinguish Apple's headset from existing products.

If Apple's headset ships with 3D video recording then there's probably an opportunity for some pair of adult creators to go viral by recording the first porno on it.
Yeah, I figured as much. So the above commenter was just talking out of their ass.
"Reticulating splines"
"> only some countries do not build coal plants anymore

is completely unsubstantiated. "

Germany opened its last new coal plant 3 years ago. In theory the last one, but soon the government will change and this likeley as well.
And our eastern neighbors poland and co. certainly won't give up on coal anytime soon. So much for rich countries.

And china which is on average still poor, indeed invested more in coal than I was aware. But a coal tax specially for china seems rather geopolitical motivated to me.
Has somebody actually compared same applications running on electron vs tauri? With sandboxing enabled.
Also not "suicide", but "suspected murder-suicide":

>A preliminary investigation suggested that Liren Chen took his own life after fatally shooting Xuanyi Yu, marking a devastating turn of events in what is now being treated as a murder-suicide.
The plus was contributing to the spying-censorship advertising machine vortex thing that is Google.

Google was - still is - a lot more responsible than most companies with that responsibility. But the risks are high and obvious. How good are these people at assessing this "plus"? I'd rather just be in it for the money if I were involved in Google. Being in it for the money is a respectable thing.
Swiss government accused of online surveillance – SWI swissinfo.ch
slotchange is your answer. In the connectedCallback add the eventListener and inside your slotchange handler: const myBs = this._slot?.assignedElements();
Oh, I see. BTW don't hardware keys (e.g. Yubikey) solve that problem entirely?
Not at this stage. Although at some stage we may provide an API so people can build their own extension. Chrome has the largest browser market share - 60% plus - so with such a small team we have to focus for now.
> or a problem specific to Electron?

Oh and... if you want problems specific to Electron... I'm pretty sure Discord was keeping all the cat pictures and memes that it had ever displayed uncompressed, in ram, for a long while. Memory usage of several gigabytes if you had the meme channel open. Even it displayed only the last 3 cats.

It's better these days but it was a problem for years. And tbh I'm not sure they fixed it or even realized or cared about the problem or one of the 2498127 npm packages fixed it.
FALD? It's so rare it's practically unheard of, some very high end HDR-compatible monitors have it, but I wouldn't describe it even remotely as "most". In fact I'll eat my hat if 99.99999% of monitors out there use anything other than edge-lit panels that don't change brighthness no matter what you display.
It's weird MS isn't doing that yet given their own OS and its apps already support dark mode, and websites can detect this setting as well.
both had slump but I think Facebook has been much better shape after Zuck did layoffs and pivoted away from metaverse. Llama and Meta Smart Glasses both feel like groundbreaking products.
This thread is about Microsoft, it’s pointing out their hypocrisy feigning concern about the environmental footprint of their cloud infrastructure.
Simple PS5 hack which will slash your loading times
Isn't it more misleading to claim that this is just due to environmental reasons? The first link you provide actually says the first reason is due to security (you wouldn't believe how often student accounts are compromised and/or used for sharing pirated content). The second reason is the environment, and the 3rd, reason, even though they don't say it outright, is cost, and I'm guessing that's the real reason.

But giving institutions 100TB of base storage with more for paid licenses isn't exactly stingy.
That was exactly how I meant the question, yes. :-)
When people pronounce mandarin they often pronounce differently depending on their local dialects, which is why I brought up Cantonese/hokkien. In turn these often derive from older variants of chinese. It seems like there has been some kind of shift from ngxxx in Middle Chinese to yxxx in Cantonese and to rxxx in mandarin, but only for some vowel sounds now represented by y… in mandarin, which is why we don’t see the y to r shift for other vowels. Just guessing here, definitely not an expert.

The pinyin spellings are confusing, and I’m not sure the history of why they were chosen exactly like that. It definitely makes it hard to learn the pronunciations.
It did? I guess it's forever stuck in my mind as the YouTube iPhone icon and I've forgotten it was used elsewhere.

A quick googling doesn't come up with any instances of this icon except the iPhone. The 2005 YouTube logo was already the familiar black and red. Where else was the old TV icon used by Google?
> It seems to me like you could easily implement regenerative braking in the same way by having the brake pedal respond to light pressure with regenerative braking, and firm pressure with brake pads.

It already works exactly like this. It's called "blended braking".

One pedal driving is a different feature. It's intended to get even more regen, by encouraging more gradual deceleration. If your habit is to already avoid hard braking, then it doesn't really increase efficiency because you'll get the same benefit from the brake pedal.
> Even if you believe Meta is directly competing with Valve, it's embarrassing for Valve, as someone in their position should be undisputed in their niche and have the market in deadlock.

Meta can tap a billion people to play social games.
> Slashdot is a place to post things

It is! But this isn't there :)
> Google has two advantages: Reviews and more accurate points of interest (if they are businesses).

Unless someone can prove me wrong, Google probably has four advantages, and the last two are MAJOR ones.

3. Google Maps probably has MUCH better worldwide coverage. Which means that Apple Maps is useless in large parts of the world.

4. Google Maps can be used on any platform (Android, Windows).
The provider might notice that their key is being used in an unauthorized way and terminate your account, prosecute you for computer fraud and abuse, etc.
While it’s nice (nowadays, many keyboards actually support "swiping), it still gets so much wrong, and accuracy plummets for bilingual writing (For myself, I decided that the annoyance of getting nothing right because I’m in the wrong language is better than introducing more subtle errors). For those reasons, I still wish there were phones with full physical keyboards.
It's like in software development. If daily leaf blowing is what you're paid for, boy you blow em leaves.
I feel even older because I’m starting to forget.
It's a long, random password, that you generate anew for each application that needs it: one compromised app can be revoke quickly without affecting other.

But more importantly, app password can only be used for email, not other Google's service, so even if it gets leaked, the impact is severely reduced.
I did not understand that. How is a system package manager hiding the difference in complexity between Go executables, Electron apps, etc?

My point was that a sane system package manager has maintainers for the packages and should not accept to ship a full OS in a single package.
I did assume this was a webpack or otherwise package for loading css libraries. Took me a while to work out what it actually was.

Probably because I’ve had such headaches with webpack within rails and would love something to make it disappear (yes I know there are newer solutions but each one breaks things in new and unique ways).
On Getting Freelance Developer Jobs
Hi there! I would love to see a demo on the website that doesn't look intended for embedded/enterprise devices, maybe a simple Todo app? Best of luck with Slint!
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Technitium advertises itself with being able to serve as a root DNS, in both its documentation and on their blog [1]. So I think my argument is still valid, as it's way too over engineered to be a simple, self-hosted, home lab solution for the problem at hand.

[1] https://blog.technitium.com/2021/07/running-root-server-loca...
When I worked on my Commodore 65xx computers, I intimately understood their hardware architecture, the Page Zero layout, the general layout of RAM/ROM, PEEK/POKE registers that mattered, CPU operations, and I had a general knowledge of assembly language. And most of this was documented in the user manuals themselves; the only other stuff I read was "Compute!'s Gazette".

When I received my first IBM PS/2 in 1989, I hardly knew any of this stuff. I didn't know any x86 assembly, I didn't know how DOS laid out memory or how the INT routines accessed devices. My computer overnight turned into a black box. I didn't program it in BASIC, I just loaded games and applications on it.

This sort of system opacity drove me rather crazy, and soon I was in college studying Unix and systems architecture again. I didn't waste any time deleting DOS/Windows and replacing it with Minix.
Thanks. I have no idea where I read that, but have been carrying around that “fact” for over twenty years!
Woaaw, amazing work.
At some point I struggled with the dilemma:
* clicking to discover a new animation
* spending all my life contempling the current one
The only conclusion I was able to draw from here is that EDM became more "pop".

Every decade since the '80s has some type of EDM song taking the number one spot, but '10s has like 7 in the top 10.
I'm not familiar with Ruby, and the link to Ruby had completely escaped me. (What's in a name, huh?)

Thank you!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bQECSInWVPY

Seems like Walt Mossberg made the girl comment in this video where Jobs is talking about headphones for video. Mossberg also made fun of Dell’s large phone, saying it was like holding a waffle up to your head, and the market proved him wrong there.

These devices, in their current form, aren’t something to wear while walking around town, like someone might do with headphones.
The figure may even have been cut as a motivational act by the mustering army itself. Not so far away are the Fovant monumental badges, cut for similar reasons by WW1 soldiers preparing to go to France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fovant_Badges
>It’s vital to remember that the people coming over from Europe and other places were paying passengers, not cattle. They weren’t shoved onto ships and then dumped onto American shores to be newly cataloged by harried immigration officials.

This is not even wrong.
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That's mostly because proofs are too long to write out easily in the back of a textbook, imo. Your best bet here is to learn the proofs of the theorems proved in the book first - they're usually much harder to come up with at first glance than the problems one bases on them. Or, if you're using a commonly used textbook, you can usually find people's own proofs online. Sourcing an easy to grok and easy to check proof is a very good skill to build in any case, it minimizes wheel reinvention at the neural level.
Beautiful visualization of data as usual, Pudding.cool never miss.

It indeed appears that we're increasingly leaning towards more repetition, I suppose it's more appealing to our TikTok-conditioned minds.
Then why are they bombing the entire surface of the region?

Hitting hospitals, schools, refuge camps, homes, residential tower blocks, businesses... murdering thousands of civilians?

And yet all these propaganda articles always fail to present any kind of evidence that any target was legitimate * or tunnels used for anything relevant * weapon stores * Hamas facilities... "just trust us"

Best they could do was stage some week fake evidence at the hospital. Can't imagine future conflicts with AI generated video and image "evidence"
Google Dreamview
Could have? Sounds like the bar lowering. What's your PhD in?
I didn't ask why you hire, but why you knowingly restrict what you know.
"will continue" can't really be said about anything Google with any degree of confidence.
1) we have seen recently that data can disappear also from cloud storage, so I don’t like talking about average person, because I am an average person in medical terms, but I still take the steps necessary to stay healthy, like doing periodic checkups, so the average person in tech needs to educate themselves in doing their backup or not complaining, I am not sure we have to build a society based on the needs of the average person who doesn’t bother reading anything or anything

2) Filesystems et cetera, are not rocket science, Windows gives you even a way to automatically create mirrored disks, it's just a matter to read a tutorial

I don't feel I have any obligation towards average people, it's their works and it's their duty to understand basic tech, it's not rocket science. Like all other people try to inform themselves about pipes in a bathroom, kitchens, medicals, etc.

If they don't, if Google or Microsoft change their ToS (That I guess the average person hasn't bothered reading) or if Google has a data loss, then should not complai, if Microsoft changes their policies, they shouldn't complain, being an average person is not a justification to live leeching society, ignorance has never been a justification