skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How about we encourage people to use the skills and passions they have, rather than box them into conforming to the vision of the few ?

Because life doesn't work like that. If you want to be a doctor you need to undergo a grueling training regimen. I'm deeply passionate about software, but that doesn't change that 80% of my time is spent doing boring, tedious work because that's what work is. Even if you're an artist. I know literally artists. There is no way to have fun all the time doing something productive.

That's why I teach my (admittedly, high functioning) ASD daughter about tolerating non-preferred activities to get what she wants. Yes, she finds having her face painted disgusting, revolting, skin crawling. She willingly endures it every time because she delights in the result. It's her choice every time to sit in a chair and have it done. That's the kind of thing I want her to take from childhood into adulthood because every adult has to do things they hate for the sake of society running and even the care of themselves.

Same way I don't like exercise because it's just actively awful because of my condition, but to not do it is to make myself deteriorate over the long term because of my condition. I want my daughter to be able to make those kinds of decisions. What sucks, but is good for her in the long run. We finally got bathing on the list. No one is going to argue with me that a person who never bathes is a functioning person.

I will continue to "train" my kid. Her life is better for it. Ever since she got therapy she has been happier, more stable, less disturbed by the world, and more able to connect with people both like her and not like her. If any parent could get an outcome like mine from "training" they'd pick it every time. No one is gonna tell me when my kid used to slap herself and cower under chairs is better than my kid who is probably too obsessed with trains and rainbows and spins while she walks when happy. I think I like her spinning better than her cowering.
RDF Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have this cool property that each resource has its own URI, so if you put a webserver behind those URIs you can summarize the resources and browse from one to the others.

Normally you need to upload your KG to a SPARQL endpoint and then deploy another browser and a webserver and connect all those components, and it is complicated, error prone and wasteful when you have a small KG.

To solve this I made RickView, a single binary written in Rust that holds a KG in memory and acts as a web server for RDF resources.

Here are some RDF knowledge graphs you can browse that are served by RickView:

- <https://www.snik.eu/ontology/bb>

- <https://hitontology.eu/ontology/>

- <https://annosaxfdm.de/ontology/>

- <https://linkedspending.aksw.org/>
Someone should make a monitor for the monitor
If we're being pedantic about it, sign-up pages are off-topic and not a great fit for Show HN. You also seem to have taken authority over another old HN account with which you submitted this. That's weird.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, ideally without barriers such as signups or emails. You'll get more feedback that way.

You had a chance to create a homepage instead of a blank registration form without any additional information. If this is the best prototype that you could come up with, then it is on you that the submission is disliked.
blaming Neanderthals for most things is a gross over-simplification and misdirects reader's attention towards genetics. While there is some humour to it, I would be cautious of giving into unwarranted fixation towards genetics, as we no longer live in the world where it needs to be defended against Lamarckism and like.

I posit that the "runtime environment" i.e. epigentics, among other things, has a far traceable cause than the smidge of related species. The nature and consequences of autism land me to believe that it's more likely a consequence of a compiler error, although shoddy source code could be a secondary/compounding cause for it. Take Down's Syndrome as an prime example of genetic disorder, and it becomes clear why such categorization does not work for autism: autism is too broad, it describes the effect rather than cause, and I'd argue that autism is far less debilitating (pronounced) and definitely not inherited.
I’m a long-time advocate of using the best appliance (a Mac) to connect to a “real computer” (a linux-x86_64 build with an NVIDIA card in it).

But the times are changing and paradoxically I have almost the opposite view in 2024 vs 2021.

Desktop Linux can render fonts really well now, you can generally play audio now, ditto 802.11 and BlueTooth and damn the drivers are just good now.

Conversely Apple gear is becoming a pretty credible threat as an on-tile HBM accelerator platform, and while I’m sick unto the death of getting my damned window border radius to me by people other than Steve Jobs himself, I want a Studio on my desk or a Pro sled in the closet, the Sillicon is just too good to ignore now, and the MLX people aren’t sleeping.

I care a lot about darwin-aarch64 now, and could give a fuck less about a windowing system worse than Windows.
She had a job though.
Ah, I find mixed DPI/resolutions is a disaster on Windows too - apps break when moved between monitors quite a lot.

The trick for me was going all in - 4K monitors at 150% only on both Windows and Linux - on Mac I have a 4K portrait and a 5K landscape, and that works fine there.

I've been using 150% on both X11 (since late 2021/early 2022) and Wayland on AMD hardware and it's been pretty much fine.
Quadratically, not exponentially.
My MacBook Pro also has a notch and it is working fine so the notch isn't the problem
That seems to be a rather simplified view, as if stemming from the world of frictionless pulleys and rope that does not stretch.

These are self-propelled electric vehicles that have regenerative braking. Regen is miles ahead of just dumping momentum as heat [as conventional brakes must] but it can never be 100% efficient -- and it may not even be able to begin to try to capture 100% of that momentum in the first place, depending on the particular braking circumstance.

These characteristics weigh heavily on how such vehicles perform in the real world, especially when the terrain is not flat. (And in this test, the terrain was not flat.)
I don't think that is an in-depth on methodology, they seem to be talking about how the WHO does things. And that doesn't seem to translate the graphs.

But regardless, the bigger point is that the default position isn't that Stats Norway data is automatically comparable with everyone else's data. The world is large and complicated; it is quite easy for small details between systems to do surprising things.
Yeah and if you're prepared to spend a serious amount of time learning Nix. Which kind of counts it out from "the year of the Linux desktop".
I don’t understand your complaint. The conclusion of the paper says this: “By embryogenesis, the biological bases of two subtypes of ASD social and brain development—profound autism and mild autism—are already present and measurable and involve dysregulated cell proliferation and accelerated neurogenesis and growth.” It is correct to describe that as “established that brain overgrowth begins in the womb”.

It seems you have an issue with that the researchers reached this conclusion from experiments with what you call “some odd organoid derived from blood cells”. I’m not an expert so I wouldn’t know if that is a valid way to make the conclusion but once they do it seems the summary in the article is correct.

What do you feel is wrong with the article and what do you feel is flaky with the research?
So basically irrelevant reasons in 2024.
I've had a slowish laptop (intel gpu) with Manjaro (Arch derivative) and Steam for a few years now. It's not my main laptop but I fire it up once or twice a week for some light gaming (I have some indie games that I like). It works great for that despite Intel performance not being great, obviously. Every few weeks I use the Manjaro settings tool to update the kernel to the latest and greatest. And of course I update packages regularly with a command line tool called yay.

I can't say it has been completely without issues. But so far I've been able to solve these issues. And this doesn't happen a lot. But probably not a great distribution for beginners as you are expected to solve problems on the command line. But if you know what you are doing, this is pretty nice and stable. I like having rolling updates and not missing out on all the latest stuff.

Having Steam means that Windows is now optional for gaming. You don't need it for most games. They'll work fine on Linux. There are exceptions of course but mostly everything I have just works fine. And between Mac and Linux, I just have no patience for the dreary experience that is Windows.

Most other work stuff you can get via snap/flatpak (I use both). IMHO both need work but software availability is pretty good. But for things I care about, I tend to install them manually anyway so I don't have any middlemen to deal with between me and the software project. E.g. Firefox can update itself if you just install the tar ball from them. Works great.

With most linux distributions, the main differentiators seem to be the amount of effort they do to have users needing to use a terminal window with various degrees of success. With most Linux distributions, you'll find yourself needing a terminal window sooner or later.
Strip the computer part

How to make 'screen' behave.

Forget about the computer's underlying constructions.

programming languages are symbol based time waste.

In order to do something with programming, you need to know underlying api which talks to hardware resource. There are three hardware resource. display, space, time. Its monitor, cpu, and storage. but lets stick to fundamentals.

When trying to build using programming language brain effort gets consumed for obselete APIs. Reducing the underlying system, it boils down to display, space, time.

Display is the fixed size in hardware, so scratch it.

Whats left? space and time. Keep a dot on space, move your position forward. What happens? the point of dot is backward. When it comes to time, there are two point of observation. One within the space and another focusing on space.

Everypoint can be a point of reference to another point.

A point has a reference point, what if the reference point of the moving point also moves?
Most people in the West now buy things with credit cards and constantly use their phone. These are absolutely not identity providers, but they provide far more tracking in day-to-day life than an ID card would, with none of the actual benefits.

ID cards only facilitate a surveillance state, when they are monitored for every purpose... mobile phones and payment cards (even loyalty cards) already provide that.

UK taxes are based upon a (National Insurance) number, or at least contributions are, which is explicitly stated as 'not' being an identifier, and often has the same number used by multiple people.

There seem to be many ways that identity is handled that create massive technical debt, but very few that actually try to do it correctly for the actual benefit of citizens.
> While there are technical differences between Snap and Flatpak, the gist is the same. Offer a sandboxed, isolated, and universal package format for Linux. Universal package formats are an overall win in my opinion. And make Linux feel a little bit more like one operating system. Still, they are now yet another choice that the developer needs to make when distributing their software on Linux.

Someone has yet to explain to me how the Linux desktop is supposed to just agree on a universal standard for everything without a proprietary ecosystem, at which point it would just be a shittier Windows. And that's not even touching on the fact that alternatives often exist for valid reasons, i.e. Pipewire being obviously better than Pulse, which used to be a de facto standard. Or the fact that some companies like Bitwig have already demonstrated that commercial Linux software via Flatpak is viable - Adobe simply does not care, and they never will.

The irony of Windows users sharing their opinions on the Linux desktop is that they often sound how they picture existing Linux desktop users: people who treat their computers as toys. We're fully aware that using Linux has major caveats.

It's okay to just not like Linux, man. Nobody is forcing you to.
You forgot about people who used Linux and were put off by all that maintenance work required to have updated and stable environment. I would gladly pay subscription for a stable Linux desktop experience.

I am currently using Windows, hate it, but I know that I can update it and be almost certain that it will work tomorrow.
Everyone seems very keen to accept that obesity is linked to maternal mortality without actually looking at any of the details, how the deaths occur, how they could have been prevented, etc.
Also: competeting with other humans is also a form of socialization. And most humans like that.
If your're most interested in blog posts google translate is great for exotic languages.

But for the data they're all there in English [0].

And if you're after methodology, analysis or understanding medical data, they follow WHO standards and publications are all in English on pubmed.gov [1] for the explicit purpose of international collaboration (which is the norm in medicine and public health for most developed nations).

[0] https://www.ssb.no/a/en/histstat/
[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24780982/
We've got no shortage of electron beams to use in an engine. The problem is that the engine runs out of electrons very quickly and will become positively charged. Meaning all your propellant will come flying back. You would have to capture 'free' electrons from space to make use of it.
> However, I’m struggling to imagine how centralised actions would work.

Don't imagine, just have a look at what is happening in other countries. Overlooking the world outside of the USA is also very "American".

Chile has the same problem with obesity. Some national policies where introduced, including mandatory information on food packages and a sugar tax. Of course, it did not magically solve the problem, but the obesity pandemic is decelerating, and the sales of unhealthy food have dropped, especially for children.

Other countries have introduced similar rules for mandatory package labels. In this domain, Mexico and Canada are ahead of the USA.
Great tool! I used it to plan my vacation.
Great. I am glad to hear this.

You forgot about people who live there all year round. You know, the ones who work, maintain services, offer food, have children who will keep everything working.

Spain shouldn't be a big hotel, it is also the country of people who live all year round.
Is that a good thing to have a very heavy car ?
The same article was written billions of time in the past 20 years (at least).

Few thoughts:

- Popularity may imply things that are fundamentally incompatible with the way Linux works. Imagine Windows or Mac giving the possibility of fork, and of course, you will have seen plenty of "distributions" where people tried to fix all of these things that don't suit them, with a lot of hardware problems and software incompatibilities. The author says it himself: Windows 8 was the worst OS they used. So, if Windows 8 would have been forkable, of course plenty of parallel version trying to fix the problems would have appeared. Additionally, not sure forkability is compatible with some economic model such as "getting popular by doing a lot of adverts and costly initiative to win market share, paid by revenue we got by doing user-unfriendly-things (ads everywhere in the interface, capturing users, ...)"

- There are more brands of car or of dish-washing liquid than obviously-not-anecdotical Linux distributions. I'm still not sure why people are so confused about the number of distributions. Just do what you do when you buy a car or a dish-washing liquid bottle.

- Popularity does not really matter. As soon as there are incentives to not be ignored by hardware or software makers (and there is now for Linux, the amount of "compatible with Linux" is impressive when you think of the market share. Probably due to the fact that it is an important systems for some sectors and that Linux users are building bridges), then it does not matter at all to me if my neighbor is using Linux or not, it does not affect me in any way. I'm not sure I understand what is the point of being popular.
reminds me a lot of http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

pretty much all HTML, with only the bare minimum CSS to make it somewhat responsive.

I guess if you want one tiny piece of feedback, based on the above site:

>A little less contrast

>Black on white? How often do you see that kind of contrast in real life? Tone it down a bit, asshole. I would've even made this site's background a nice #EEEEEE if I wasn't so focused on keeping declarations to a lean 7 fucking lines.

I agree with the advice, but I've definitely seen many a heated debate over raw black on raw white amongst designers. So take with a grain of salt and a handful of personal preference.
Yes, an interesting engineering challenge.
Weight savings and less complicated rocket without the legs makes for higher payload capacity.
Seeing this reminds me of a wonderful talk by the late, great Joe Armstrong (co-inventor of Erlang): "The Mess We're In"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
I still use the old Bartender 4, works perfectly on macOS 14.5 even with a notch

If this tool gets the additional bar feature and some more customisations, it might be a good alternative
It does make you wonder if there is a way back from this when the daily death toll steadily increases without any visible end in sight and deliberate starvation of a population is accepted without question by the majority of the worlds nations.
I agree with you on the repeated frustrations of Desktop Linux. I'm not aware of your experience but personally, I've hopped from Distro to Distro and DE to WM to DE for years and I've come back to Pop!_OS as the choice for my own and friend / family laptops and desktops.

They seem to give me the fewest frustrations in setup and compatibility with all sorts of hardware from Nvidia GPUs to Realtek WiFi and Bluetooth Chipsets.

Their development team is also actively working on a replacement to GNOME that has actual HDR and scaling support. Right now, Pop!_OS is the only one that has given me a decent scaling experience with 3840x2160, even with fractional scaling. I've yet to try their (system76) own hardware but I'm already finding it quite decent for people testing the waters and jumping ship from Microsoft Spyware while not willing to break the bank on the newer Macs (though the M1 Air is still excellent).

Nevertheless, we ought to keep in mind that every new year is the 'Year of Desktop Linux'.
At the end of the day, all of this discussion does not detract anything from my original point:

> You would be surprised about the sheer number of spaniards that would welcome this second-order effect.

Lots of spaniards would clap at this, even if they're mistaken (what your arguing for). So peter335's argument would not be listened to.
I'm not sure why you're surprised. The macOS GUI has never been designed with power users in mind. If you wanted to enhance your experience as a power user, you always had to resort to 3rd party software. By using Apple products you accept to use them as they were designed to be used, and any customization of the experience is a luxury that could be taken away at any point. Apple knows best how you should use your computers, after all...

Linux is on the other side of that spectrum, but then you lose the benefit of a tightly integrated and curated ecosystem. If you're willing to give that up, and don't mind tinkering and frequently dealing with jank, then Linux might be for you.
Haven't heard of one. But this sounds pretty slick. I could envision a Premier Pro like interface with clear starts and stops for each sequence combined with simple keyboard interactions being pretty awesome.

I think the main thing you'll need to figure out is how to get users from a youtube video to this software. Maybe a Chrome Extension?
>This really doesn't mean much. The second cube (or another shape) isn't going to double the line count.

It's like the difference between "Hello World" in Python and "Hello World" in Java. Doesn't matter in the context of a serious software engineering project, but it's a significant barrier for beginners.
SadServer Solutions – Saint John Task
> - The real criminals are people from Spain, speculative funds and tourists from all over the world buying property here and not using it. They steal to everybody.

So create a tax for leaving property empty and use that to fund programs to address homelessness.

There are plenty of solutions which aren’t permitting theft.

Banning short term rentals for instance would be pretty effective. There could be other side effects but it’d certainly lead to many second homes being sold.

> We aren't paying low, the problem is the crazy rent market.

I sympathise with this. My assumption would be that imposing punitive taxes on unoccupied properties is the most realistic solution.

If that forces people to sell, supply goes up. If people continue as they were, there’s more money available to do something with.
Working in vehicle routing optimization for MSB, I would like to share a couple of insights/observations.

1. People can be very creative in solving their problems with your features (and bugs!), even completely unrelated at first thought. They just have to be (a) observable, (b) speaking the language your users understand, which mathematically oriented or generic packages do not.

2. On the other hand, the quite plausible (to me) approach of "obtain an initial solution — adjust for ad-hoc constraints — reoptimize the rest" constantly fails as "too complex" with users reverting to Excel instead.

However, I still stubbornly believe that mathematical optimization cannot do everything, and we should aim for domain-specific decision-support systems that are primarily manual where optimization is only a part of solution building, and UX really matters in that process.
Hi Dotan! Haven't bumped into you in a decade! I was actually thinking about you this week...
All Parasites Have Value
In the UK, it has little to do with privacy per-se, but that we know they will be abused. That being part of the national character which rears is ugly little head from time to time.

We kept ID cards after the end of WW2 for a period, until some time in the 50s. They were finally scrapped when a car driver rejected a police demand to see his ID card, and the court case backed him. Parliament got rid of them some time later.

Ever since successive governments (of all flavours) have wanted to bring them back, it seems there is an institutional desire for them amongst the mandarins of the civil service.

Finally the prior Labour government brought them back in 2006, but the subsequent 2010 coalition government scrapped them. Every party bar Labour had promised to scrap them in their manifestos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Cards_Act_2006

So I'd not be surprised if our current GE led to another Labour government, and they brought the ID cards back.

At the time, and currently for some (i.e. me) a driving licence was a different document, without a photo. One which one is not obliged to carry while driving.