skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because most people actually prefer them, now that the vast majority of people are past the point of needing skeumorphic metaphors to understand user interfaces, because we grew up with computers. I would certainly throw my computer out and go live in the woods if I had to deal with beveled, gradiented garbage with dense, tiny interfaces cluttered with stuff with no proper spacing to let it breathe. When I upgraded mg family computer from Vista to 8 as a kid, or when iOS went from skeumorphic to flat a bit later, I was so relieved, it was like getting a cold glass of water.
Depends on how literal/direct you are being. Algae plastic isn't terribly expensive to produce.
> The flat, broad, flight-enabling feathers we see across most of the wings and much of the body surface of living birds are called pennaceous feathers. (Fun fact: these are the feathers people used to make into quills for writing, hence the word “pen.”)

I get the author's point, I think, but the etymology of "pen" according to wiktionary.com:

> From Middle English penne, from Anglo-Norman penne, from Old French penne, from Latin penna (“feather”), from Proto-Indo-European péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from peth₂- (“to rush, fly”) (from which petition). Proto-Indo-European base also root of *petra-, from which Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) (whence pterodactyl), Sanskrit पत्रम् (patram, “wing, feather”), Old Church Slavonic перо (pero, “pen”), Old Norse fjǫðr, Old English feðer (Modern English feather);[1] note the /p/ → /f/ Germanic sound change.

So pens aren't called pens because we used pennaceous feathers, but because they were made of feathers, period. At least that's how I get it.

"Pennaceous feather" is a funny term too, then, meaning something like "featherlike feather"?
My friends and I have launched a Chrome extension app. With this tool, you can leave virtual sticky notes on any webpage, facilitating seamless communication among team members.

I think it's a great tool for design agencies or developer agencies when they surf the web looking for inspiration/ trying to look at competitors' websites. Or even developers chatting with their team about different tech stacks...

Feel free to give it a try and feedback, whether positive or negative!
The scaling story in Elixir is so nice, I just implemented eventual consistency for calculating average ratings on a Class/Instructor level and it was 20 lines of code in a GenServer that can be tested and is super clear how it works. I'm not even sure how you'd do something like this in Javascript or Python but it would probably involve extra infrastructure that is another moving piece to deploy, manage and can be a cause of potential failures. The same is true with rate limiting and something like Hammer (https://github.com/ExHammer/hammer).
The use a library called 'libcosmic' that uses Iced framework that is written in Rust.
It's a big issue in the UK as a means of side stepping taxation, more so recently as the current UK Prime Minister ...

Rishi Sunak's multi-millionaire wife claims non-domicile status, it has emerged, which allows her to save millions of pounds in tax on dividends collected from her family's IT business empire.

which goes over like a lead balloon in a country squeezed by post Brexit conditions not being quite as rosy as portrayed, and a run of Tory PMs being totally useless in many many ways.
Will it be able to generate an image of the most common misspelling of the large hadron collider?
I've gone full Chicago '95[1] mostly because I struggle so much with parsing flat GUIs. Having the UI be a carbon copy of Windows 95 is mostly a side-effect, it's simply the easiest way I've found to get a user interface where I'm not constantly confused as to whether UI elements are interactible or not, which elements are resizable, and where icons have easily distinguishable colors and details instead of being elder futhark line-art. I've gotten it to do a surprisingly good job of applying this theme, not just to GTK widgets but also Qt widgets (although they pull a bit more toward Windows XP).

Only apps that refuse to comply with native styling is web-browsers and IntelliJ.

Although I've found an old qtwebkit based browser called Falkon that, despite running an outdated engine, does a decent job of rendering most websites I visit, while having a working native scroll bar and mostly not fucking up the native controls with CSS crap. It's what I daily drive for most of my surfing.

My eyesight is kinda garbage and this theming is mostly an accessibility accomodation, not so much a nostalgia thing. For all the attention accessibility gets in UI/UX circles, it's kind of ridiculous how Windows 95 absolutely takes most modern UIs to school in that regard. 100% of the software I struggle to use is born out of state of the art design sensibilities.

[1] https://www.marginalia.nu/uses/screenie.png
A consignment shop?
Feels like a term used in academia unrelated to the actual field itself...
But that the universe behaves according to some laws?
Embeddable key-value storage for events and time-series data (v1.0 released)
I want a reverse amazon where I specify the problems I have or products I want, and it gives me the best product/supplier.
Retroactively cashing out at the top twice over: he already sold at the top to buy Twitter, dragged that cash into the street, and set it on fire. This is a mulligan on the Twitter disaster.

Just don't ask how the solar shingles are doing because he already skated past the shareholder suit about bailing out family members with Tesla's money.
Memoirs: Sir Arnold Whittaker Wolfendale. 25 June 1927–21 December 2020 (2021)
Software could "learn" multiplication by simply creating a lookup table for every value to some reasonable degree. A test isn't going to have somebody multiplying 100 digit numbers, or even 10 digit numbers. Every single number up to 5 digits could be done with just 10 billion entries. This doesn't mean that a multiplication test is just testing memorization, or that math is just memory. It simply means that machine learning learning/application and human learning/application have relatively little in common, in spite of the constant and generally awkward attempts to try to anthropomorphize machine processes.
And the people who get killed well before their time for following it are just a price that he is willing to choose for them to pay? Still not benign.
AWS kills Snowmobile data transfer truck
A warning for anyone who tests the Cosmic Desktop on their distro: It’s possible (if very much in a pre-alpha state), but it makes your file system read-only, which can be a bit of a surprise if you’re not aware it’s coming.

It’s easily reversible, fortunately, but it really threw me for a loop when I wasn’t able to update my Tumbleweed packages. Heh.
Did I miss the link or so they not have one to actually test this "pre alpha" version?

I would like to fire up a VirtualBox VM to try it out.
Ugh, I just recently started noticing the G Hub sometimes crashing and restarting itself -- rare, like once or twice a month, but it happens, both on my Mac and Windows machine.

Now AI? Can we also assume we'll get all our keys logged? In the name of the AI progress, naturally.

Nah, I'll go full Chinese keyboards and mice, they at least have 100% hardware controls, no need for software, and you don't have to wait for e.g. Razer's shady software to fully start before your keyboard stops blinking and actually activates the single static color profile you assigned it.

These softwares should have been done once, updated 30-40 times to iron out any bugs, and left alone forever. But of course they'll not be.

The moment my Logitech mice start doing things I don't like, they get sold second-hand. Pretty sure they'll be bought the next day.

Sigh, why, oh why, corporations. Why? Can't you just make it work and leave it alone?
This sounds like an head-on collision that happened on a high speed rural two-lane road with an impatient driver thinking they could complete a tight pass in time. I absolutely hate these roads, for this reason.
That’s not what the article is about, at all.

Yes, we face an immediate climate emergency today. This article is for the humans of ~200 million years from now and avoiding the future red giant. Climate change won’t matter for them when the Earth will no longer be in the habitable zone.

Though even if we do manage to alter the orbit, the eventual white dwarf would require moving out orbit a second time, but into a highly radioactive environment.
It absolutely is different. It may not seem so to a non baker, but regular cooking has a lot more leeway. Baking consistently requires a much finer degree of control over the variables. The difference between "a pinch of baking powder" vs "5 grams of baking powder" is entirely different. In the first case, you're left wondering why pancakes came out good last time and why are they inedible this time.

I'm no great cook or baker, but I've learned through trial and lots of error how to bake bread and a few other things. Get a scale and always convert to grams.
Oh, I agree! But I did not want to make more than one change at a time ;)
Came to say the same. I often sell things within hours despite living almost in the middle of nowhere. People are glad to drive over an hour for all sorts of things and most are comfortable with digital payments.
While some regulations might be beneficial, it’s sad that the opinion of an 80-year-old on nascent technology carries so much weight…
Backdoors Are an Everyone Problem
I was curious as to why Professor Wolfendale was Astronomer Royal for only a few years. He sounds like an impressive person, it seems he surrendered being Astronomer Royal since he was taking the government to task over science, and heard that the role of Astronomer Royal might be stopped.

A great short biography
...and penknives were originally the small blades one used for trimming pennaceous feathers into writing-pens.
While I do remember a vague connection between beepers and drug dealers in the 90's (probably from movies), I don't ever remember people just assuming you were a drug dealer just because you had a beeper in middle and high school. I don't believe I started carrying one until after high school though, so maby I missed out on all the fun.
It doesn’t matter why Europe is dependent on American guarantees when we are discussing the state of the world as it is now. Perhaps the information you’ve provided would be helpful in developing a long term goal of non-dependence on the U.S. military.
Indeed, but it still unconsciously invites controversy (in my opinion) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Isn't this E-Bay.?
The 2nd law of infodynamics and implications for simulated universe hypothesis
AI Horde – a crowdsourced distributed cluster of image and text generators
'goldene': this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick
CERN is a special place, unless there is support to build a similar institution, it won't happen.

By the way, CERN is already exploring AI for the new accelerator.
Rocky Linux to Support Upstream Stable Kernels
And if you're lucky, your `<whatever>` might even get upgraded from "you're using the wrong tag for that purpose" to "now your tag is mostly correct" <i class="icon-cough"></i>.
> pixel perfect design

This phrase has lost all meaning. We can see from your screenshots that the table titles are misaligned from the items, as is the “Search” text.

Don’t call something “pixel perfect” unless you really went in there and manually nudged every element pixel by pixel.
I don't think a button that launches ChatGPT is "it" - but I do think we're headed towards a UX that is invoked more often systemwide actions.
Selling is hard, but even giving things away is more difficult than it should be.

When you list something for free you soon find out how bad people are at communicating and how unreliable they are at showing up when they say they will show up.
I know you are being funny, but I would just say this title is an incorrect use of the idiom. I’m assuming the intent is to have the words “model matches doctors” as clickbait. “All but” idiom means “very nearly”, not completely.
My conversations with people who have implemented Linux where it shouldn’t have been have essentially boiled down to it being easier to hire Linux developers than embedded systems developers
Have a look at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.11695.pdf which also uses the norm of inputs based on calibration
That may be useful if paired with a comprehensive industrial policy to boost the domestic semiconductor industry. Otherwise it'd just be a funnel to American companies for EU taxpayers' money.
It's interesting since China is restrictive on everything, but they're allowed to play ball in other people's fields. They need to be banned from the WTO and the West in general until they change their tactics.
In the UK at least there are house clearance companies who do exactly this, typically after a death. They first look over the entire contents of the house, then buy it from you and either sell it on or dispose of it.
Low quality motion. The robot's movements have no inertia. Too smooth, too artificial. Like how video game characters move without motion capture.

There's also too much ambient occlusion in the rendering, but they were careful with the materials and the scene that it looks somewhat plausible.

Compare it with an actual video of their real robot: https://youtu.be/48qL8Jt39Vs?si=Kkb7oTnYf-GllRJv

The difference in the movements is clearly visible.
As horrible as this accident is, this is also a testament to modern automotive safety. If this had happened in the 70s or 80s, they all would've been done for. I've seen reports of recent model year cars surviving these kinds of accidents while leaving their drivers unscathed.
> Right now, I'm not making much money, and that needs to change relatively soon.

The alternative is risky in that it is fairly likely to not take them where they're trying to go.
Number of dead sawfish soars to 40 as reports of spinning fish continue
That is because nobody expects HEP to produce commercially viable products. People do expect that of AI. I think it sounds like a great idea, both to stop a bit of AI brain drain to the US, as well as to develop AI for things that aren't immediately profitable to businesses.
But the nations I mentioned see Russia as a threat and not their NATO allies. This is what we are discussing. What does it matter that some people hold grudges for a long time when that isn’t pertinent to the discussion at hand?
The net might be less than the cost of a nanny at first, but kids do not need nannies, generally, when they go to school. If the spouse choosing to stay at home would prefer not to set their career back the 5-8 years (depending on how many kids) then that would still be worth it in the long run, salary wise.
That industrial policy is already here: https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...
What's unfortunate about the name?
Have you seen https://openresty.org/en/ before?

To share a quote directly taken from their website:

> By taking advantage of various well-designed Nginx modules (most of which are developed by the OpenResty team themselves), OpenResty® effectively turns the nginx server into a powerful web app server, in which the web developers can use the Lua programming language to script various existing nginx C modules and Lua modules and construct extremely high-performance web applications that are capable to handle 10K ~ 1000K+ connections in a single box.
No thanks, I don't want your shitty font file that only looks ok on whatever system you testet. All websites should use the system font for body text. The only problems is that a) the default browser font is usually some ugly shit instead of the system font and b) there is no way to specify size in a way that different fonts will actually be the same size. Both of these need to be fixed in the browser instead of hacking on more shit for each website.
>A lot of old timers think it'll eventually get better - but it won't for new grads.

It will, just have to wait for the next hype train. Long live the hype train. Toot toot!

I'm an old timer, so take that for what it's worth.

New grads have to do their part. They can't just coast through college and think some company is going to hire and train them up just because they have a degree and no drive.

We've been hiring for a year now and there's a whole lot of people with no drive, no ambition, don't feel the need for self improvement via side projects, etc. I always had a side project going on to learn new stuff. It's table stakes.

If there's one piece of advice I could give to new graduates is that. Give a shit about your career. Always be improving on your own time. Otherwise you'll be one of millions of people who got into tech for the money and got pushed out during a culling like we're currently going through. If you can't hack the hacking, get into QA, it pays pretty ok too.
> Do they actually generate a thumbnail or do they just show the available ones?

I haven't tested it, but either way the current plan is to replace the GTK file picker with Nautilus in a "file picker" mode. So if it is a problem it should in theory be fixed with that.

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/planning-filechooser-portal-im...
Ask HN: Google Terms of Service Changes
Anyone else notice this?

> More clarity on disputes. We’re clarifying that if you violate our terms, our remedies aren’t limited to suspension or termination of your access to the services, but may include other remedies under applicable law. If problems or disputes arise between us about these terms, you’ll have the opportunity to describe the issues and address them.
repeating lies doesn't make them any more true. starting a war, then losing badly, is just that, losing a war. Or maybe you think the US committed genocide against Germany in the 1940s too?
I've thought about something like this. In my mind it all comes down to receipts. We need a system of ubiquitous standardized itemized and cryptographically signed digital receipts. That way everything you buy aggregates into your personal inventory app. Then making a posting is a matter of one click and one photo. The UPC in receipt means a full product listing can be generated automatically. This is crucial since most Craigslist posts don't have sufficient detail about the specific item model and specs. But with a UPC or equivalent that can be pulled in automatically.

Once postings consistently have UPCs attached, you can figure out the market price for everything and push that to people who own the product when the price goes up.

You can also push out product recall and class action lawsuit alerts.

The receipt would really be a proof of purchase, since it's cryptographically signed. So it could be used to make verified third party product reviews without the conflict of interest of the site also selling products.

You could hook your personal inventory database up to your social network to make a lending library with all your friends. Why buy something new when you can search all your friends' stuff and borrow from them?
2022 and 2023 ICPC World Finals
But the user doesn’t pick the buyer the “reverse Amazon” does

Or did I misunderstand
Vastly simplified userscript to only show transcript when pressing Ctrl+f

https://github.com/madacol/web-automation/blob/master/usersc...

// ==UserScript==
// @name Show transcript on Ctrl+f
// @match https://www.youtube.com/watch*
// @grant none
// @version 1.0
// @author madacol
// ==/UserScript==
document.addEventListener('keydown', event => {
if (event.ctrlKey && event.key === 'f')
document.querySelector('button[aria-label="Show transcript"]').click()
})
I wonder if doing this will result in subtle bugs simply because the effective length of the copper traces is being altered, which changes the transmission time.
It must be challenging to live in a cave isolated from the world ^^
I think I would love the article but the presentation makes it necessary hard to enjoy.
Another data point: We got a Peloton last year and have rode with lots of instructors. All of them are fit as hell. One of them had a stroke and another is battling breast cancer. Life waits for no one.
You and I are really talking about two different cohorts, which emphasizes my point. Who are you trying to understand and how are you trying to understand them?

The article and I are talking about early career professionals (mid twenties) and I am trying to particularly understand the ones around me who are struggling to make a housing purchase in the near future. Also, I would never use Harvard as a rubric of average and your decision to use it as an example truly perplexes me. Instead I suggest you have to look at averages and not at isolated price points of particular colleges to understand the woes of a generation. From, https://thecollegeinvestor.com/32031/average-student-loan-de...

> From 1990 to 2013, the growth of student loan debt surpassed the growth in students, going from $24 billion to $110 billion per year, a 352% increase in loans. During that same period, the number of students borrowing increased by 40%.

That is far greater than inflation. The reimbursements may have also been increasing over inflation, but did not compensate the cost increase for the average person I am concerned with.

Standards are not rising. These early professionals will get smaller homes in farther away neighbourhoods for much more, if they could even afford them in the first place.
Part of their 'social capital' experiment? You have to be a good person (by some government metric) before you can enjoy any privileges. A good job, a good place to live, effective transportation, mental health. You know, the things it takes to dig out of the hole you're in.
My partner occasionally fawns over the idea of buying a vintage Jeep, "just to drive around town, not on the highways". Safety has always been my #1 point of pushback, and when we looked into what can happen even in a low speed accident without modern safety systems, that idea was put to rest pretty quickly.
The article has another factual error as well:

>covering 8,425 miles without taking a single break. For comparison, there is only one commercial aircraft that can fly that far nonstop, a Boeing 777 [...]

The Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350 have ranges exceeding that, with ranges of up to 8,790 mi and 11,163 mi respectively, depending on the variant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner#Specific...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A350#Specifications

edit:

Turns out there's even more aircrafts that exceed that range.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A330neo#Specifications

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380#Specifications_(A3...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A340#Specifications
Tab width of 3 is actually really nice in languages like Lua or Ruby that have `end` as a delimiter. It makes nested blocks "step" down very aesthetically.
Here he is just today going after the regulators in this situation...
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1780897522778554841
And commonly, in the US, you'll see baseboards (3-4" tall) which were sloppily cut and then that was, in turn, covered up with a quarter-round moulding. If the floor and wall are installed properly, the quarter round shouldn't be necessary.
OP covered this:

>The distinction of turing-completeness is actually not very interesting (e.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit)
Thanks to your comment I finally understand what flat means in the context of UIs :)
Why are you assuming that regulation that applies to a billion dollar company would apply to everyone? Isn't it way more useful to just regulate the large players?

Small players can't make a lot of damage, and the cost of regulation in an entire market (millions of apps) is huge compared to regulating maybe a dozen apps with a half billion users.
Not when he's still doubling down on that support in the wake of everything.
Double ICPC World Finals, both long delayed for multiple reasons, happening right now.

Shameless plug: I have a weird hobby of running an unofficial mirror of the scoreboard [1]

[1] https://zibada.guru/finals/