skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have become so incredibly needy of others approval and attention that some of us don't even function properly when being alone.

This makes us incredibly week as well, totally dependent on others to feel good.
Talking about logging got me a rejection at Google. The very kind 22 year old interviewing me asked what my thoughts on commenting code was and I said most every time it's used as an excuse to show off a piece of overly clever code, so normally I discourage it in favor of logging, as they are code comments you can use in production. I realize now that was my first graybeard moment.
The Russia story is a cover to prevent the left from organizing on the internet
Vizio to send class notices through the TVs that spied on viewers
Chrome extension I don't care about cookies is what you want.
Active Directory: Difference Between Windows and Azure AD
Huge walls aka “mountain ranges”.
Boy, HN loves articles about solitude and loneliness. And it's a distinction that often crops up in discussion here.

I think there's a balance here, and cultivating some amount of loneliness -- not solitude -- is also good. For example, two people in my life are "Alice" and "Bob", who have been married for decades. Alice once told me that one of Bob's great weaknesses was that he'd been alone for too long in his teens and 20s. This had benefits: Bob's social needs are low to non-existent, and while he has loving family and friends, he enjoys sustained solitude. For example, weeks of overseas travel where nobody knows him and he doesn't talk much are great fun for him.

The downside was that he got too used to this. Engaging with other people is messy and hard to control. If you don't have that gnawing bit inside that's hungry for attention and connection, it's easy to decide all that mess isn't worth it. That can hurt people who need those connections more, as they may feel themselves weak or pathetic by comparison. Relationships with other people can become strained if you are at least approximately self-sufficient.

Briefly, my point is most people need (or at least want) to be needed. Somebody who's truly content with solitude isn't going to put that need out there, so relationships with such a person might be more difficult. Of course, too much need is another problem. But a little need seems good.

(This point is pretty tailored to the HN community, which appears to have a lot of stoicism and solitude devotees. I like both too, but I think the point above is worth remembering. The mutual exchange of vulnerabilities is an important component of close friendships.)
Women judge and police each other openly, yes, but men tend to judge women silently. That means if a man doesn't find a woman attractive he'll just ignore her (or act polite but curt).

Yes, some men will openly judge and mock women's appearances. These men tend to have a lot of other behaviour problems though.
An "audit log" or "branch log", what business decisions were made, and a "debug log", what params drove said decision
Xiaomi Picophone F1. SD845, 4-6GB RAM, micro-sd slot, 4000mAh. Popular enough for treble and lineageOS dev last I've checked... I'm actually using a whyred (RN5) now which is it's cheaper cousin with SD635 and fully flourishing custom ROM scenes.
Dis this man not understand radioactive fallout?
Well at least those are peaceful uses. Must be sad when your greatest invention can only be used to kill inordinate amounts of people.
Does Locke's entanglement with slavery undermine his philosophy?
Where the certificate is just bogus, like it says "Test" or "Do not use" on it, and that's not a joke (TPPI which stands for "Test Pack Please Ignore" genuinely is one of the more famous Minecraft modpacks so, you know...) then you're correct that all bets are off.

But, where certificates expire the whole _point_ of a code signing or document signing system that makes it different from the Web PKI (certificates for stuff that speaks TLS) is that it makes use of Time Stamping, ala RFC 3161.

The Time Stamping services don't know anything about anything, except they promise to make signed documents saying they saw a particular bit-string (a hash) at a specific moment in time. Timestamps.

And it turns out that this (if you trust any Time Stamping service to know what the time is and not be corrupt) is enough to bootstrap a completely acceptable code signing system where even though the certificate expired in say, January 2017 you can trust that it was valid in March 2015 when its keys were used to sign some code, so therefore the code is still good.

The Certificate Transparency system does a lot MORE than this, but that only makes sense when we want transparency, proprietary vendors mostly do NOT want transparency.
> It suggests operators who prefer to be fund manager

It could be suggestive of that, but I'm not sure it is in this case.

Looking at the press around the CDF, they made a couple of co-investments (can't find anything where they led a round or were the first through the door), and it wasn't "in-house" as much as Airware branded: they had LPs and I think it's likely Airwave's involvement was simply being the technical due diligence on a deal and then somebody else doing the paperwork, legals, etc.

It seems like it was a beauty parade for talent, ideas, and future acquisitions.

There's a whole other argument around whether or not that's a sensible idea, but I think it's a big leap to suggest that a market leader in a nascent market setting up an investment vehicle specifically for that market is indicative that they 'prefer' to be investing not operating.
>Emissive displays don’t generally match the brightness of their surroundings

How so? You can set any brightness you want to match the environment. Usage under direct sunlight is one edge case e-paper is clearly better at, and any usage with poor environmental lighting is detrimental to your eyes itself, regardless of technology.

I'm really sceptical about the entire "E Ink is better for your eyes" thing until I see some serious studies. People managed to ruin their eyesight centuries before computer screens. There's just too many factors at play here, from genetics to typography.
8962 points :)
Don't waste your time. The notch will be gone at some point and Apple will be claming to be the first to do so.
Some people. Those of us who are quite happy to be alone, or even prefer it, cannot be noticed or included in these statements (by definition).
But is it that infringement can be proven only by a court? So can US customs do any thing in such cases, even if we assume they have the competency to judge if a particular import violates IP.
saw this video recently by a contemporary indian thinker:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfwqx7MaPog

liked its open ended invitation to investigate 'life' and what it is to be alone in our body.
On my computer the game runs at 40 FPS. So there is still room and I can increase the timestep if you want.
This game simulates the Navier-Stokes equation on a grid of the size 256x128. Four times the size would already reduce the game to 10FPS or even more. Of course you can try to rewrite it to run on the GPU. An alternative would be to use so called Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. This is particle and not grid based. But this technique has other drawbacks.
Yes it will be worst for them, just like a housefire being worst for that collection of rare stamps you had at home, but also turning everything else into a pile of ash.

The impact of a no deal brexit will be felt everywhere because that's who the UK as part of the EU is trading with.
I don't want sites to track me, but these consent popup are very annoying and most don't allow me to opt-out (easily).

My best solution so far is using two Chrome extensions. "I don't care about cookies" and "Vanilla Cookie Manager".

The first one will accept GDPR consent, the second one auto delete cookies from non-whitelisted domain after a certain period (eg. 30 minutes).

Additionally, I have uBlock Origin blocking tracking domains.
sure, booting in real mode, a20, EIP rollover. For real Intel wins look no further than Puma cable modem chipsets switched over from arm to x86 - 1GBit links can be DOSed with 1Kb/s stream.
I just keep exploding no matter how slowly I reach the landing pad :(

Any tips of what am I doing wrong?
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> you should ask yourself what alcohol and drugs are.

A way of inducing an altered state of consciousness, just like sleeping and meditating. This isn't problematic for the "brain in vat" scenario.
A reflection of the sun on a mirror is a reflection of a very strong light source through a perfectly reflective medium.. A book or an e-ink screen is still ultimately sunlight, but it has scattered (which is reflection too) while passing through the atmosphere many times before reaching what you are looking at.
If said tarot cards and tea leaves are 5000+ years old, then studying them could certainly be done scientifically.
I increased the timestep by a factor of two. Have fun

https://simulationcorner.net/js13kgame/
If the brain is in a vat, why is it affected by alcohol outside the vat?

Sleeping and meditating are both internal to the brain, but alcohol only becomes internal to the brain if it has some physical access to the brain.

For the brain in a vat theory to work, the computer controlling the simulation would have to monitor the amount of alcohol that is in the bloodstream of the simulated being, and adjust the alcohol in the vat accordingly?
This is true. Really thinking Apple did it just to see who would copy them and to say they were first. Notch is a super poor design choice UI wise.
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I doubt that you’d be able to do this at a large enough scale to make it worthwhile. And any storm is a moving target, so you’d need to have pumps all over the ocean.
> iPhone X design looks better than iPhone 8…

Absolutely, it's a stunningly beautiful phone!

I sense that the newly announced iPhones have a smaller notch compared to the iPhone X. If that is true then we can assume that Apple is working on reducing the notch height to a point where it goes seamless with the frame and then we'll have the entire glass surface to play on.
It's difficult to express just how remote these areas are. I've not been to Sunspot, though I've travelled nearby. Cellphone coverage is at best extraordinarily sparse, towns infrequent, and not all those marked on maps have much by way of services.

Gorgeous vistas, though. And staggering brushfires.
I had a 386DX-33 with a 387 FPU “math co-processor” and 256 kbytes of external cache... speed is relative, and compared to 386SX machines it was amazingly fast.
This is why Javascript needs an equivalent to Java 8's LocalDate and LocalDateTime. It copied Java's terrible, fundamentally broken class for dealing with dates, if it could finally get around to copying the good date library that Java added later, that would be great.
The esc key is not a problem for me. You have the mod always under your left thumb (left half of space-bar). Keyboard is so small that you easily reach mod and esc at the same time with your left hand. Takes a day to internalize.
Since you are getting them anyway, you should definitely give them a go for a week or so when you get them.
> I have an SE, and I like it. The size is nice, I like that it lays flat, I like that it has a headphone jack. Newer models don't have compelling features my SE lacks, and take away things I like. I have no incentive to upgrade, and will likely explore other manufacturers when it eventually wears out.

This is what the author of the article should have written. Instead he's filled his piece with inane bollocks.

"It honed that design to a cutting edge and then, when everyone expected the company to leap forward, it tiptoed instead, perhaps afraid to spook the golden goose."

It's really difficult to look at the iPhone X and not see a company leaping forward. Look at the critical reception and customer satisfaction. This is a phone which was widely considered to be a huge leap, and which Apple explicitly acknowledged at the unveiling.

> It was the best object Apple ever designed, filled with the best tech it had ever developed. It was the best phone it ever made.

At the time, arguably. There's little disagreement that the processor, camera, screen, GPU, and security in iPhone X is better.

> To me the SE was Apple allowing itself one last victory lap on the back of a design it would never surpass.

Just such a painfully bad take. Staggering.
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I actually think the author is really smart to point out boredom as an ingredient in the mix. I’m friends with a pretty successful writer who told me a couple of months ago how hard it was to get bored in the modern world, and yet, if you aren’t kind of bored, it is very hard to access the full extent of your imagination to come up with ideas that no one else would.
This is brilliant.

One of my favourite games growing up was Thrust on the BBC Model B. Had directional velocity and towing mechanics, which was pretty good for the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt44PEIWBRg
While the phone may look beautiful to a lot of people, that notch is horrible to design a UI around. Even the screenshots in the article look terrible after the suggested adjustments. I really hope the notch eventually goes away.
If I recall, some of these modes activate a random timer, so you don’t directly trigger an action. More like indicating that an action should occur, without directly starting it.
anxiety is a symptom of an underlying nervous system dis-order. so staring at a screen for long periods of time is hard on an organisms nervous system (to remain in place for so long without movement). So visual snow and anxiety both stem from the underlying structure being at dis-ease.
The real difference between XML and JSON is that XML is not directly serializable to a data structure because it's too "rich", with both tag attributes and values. For serializing data DOM, XPath etc are really not the right fit.
This is quite common pattern:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericize...
True at some point that will happen, but not in the foreseeable future. Web developers also need to take in account that there are large rounded corners cut out on the screen which will most likely remain even when the notch finally goes away.

The WebKit folks had a great blog post on how to do all of this and use the new env variable in CSS. It was proprietary back then, but I believe it's on the standards track now Android is copying the notch.

https://webkit.org/blog/7929/designing-websites-for-iphone-x...
Plus the degree goes a long way in getting you past the resume gatekeepers and into the interview room in the first place. There are a lot of places that won’t hire at all without a CS degree, and many others see it as a strong signal at entry level (education becomes less and less important as you get further into your career and have a job history to demonstrate your skills).
The total development effort apple has caused to be wasted on this monstrosity is nothing but depressing.
And also prevents seeing which package versions you use. Some networks have ridiculous content inspection to filter out 'bad' executables like Wireshark. Basically, TLS is the best way to stop mitm of all sorts.
It is an odd design choice on Apple's behalf to make the sides of the notch usable/drawable. With an OLED screen you can easily black them in such a way so they "disappear" in horizontal. Keep them for OS status in vertical orientation.
I think most people are forgetting that LED backlights are controlled usually using PWM which flickers, fast, but still flickers. I haven't found any research about how it might affect humans. I suspect it would be better if no-flicker current-controlled LED backlight was used instead of PWM.
Could this be some unknown effect of polarized light vs. non-polarized?
Great idea! I improved the "program":

$ cat >hello
Hello\ World\!
$ chmod +x hello
$ ./hello
./hello: line 1: Hello World!: command not found

V0.2 changelog:

* fix: adheres to Hello World! standard now
Android devices send data 10x more often to Google than iOS devices to Apple
Every designer period should also study it's hard catalog and mobile app, they are equally impressive too
I wish DNT (Do Not Track) header [0] was respected in case of automatical opt-in/opt-outs [1] but sadly, I think it won't happen (at least soon).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

[1]: https://www.w3.org/blog/2018/06/do-not-track-and-the-gdpr/
You can get pretty much any feel you want from a mechanical keyboard. For soft you go with the "non-tactile" i.e. "linear" keys like cherry mx red. You can also get rubber rings to put on the stem of the swich so you get a softer landing. Available in different hardness, shore a40 or a50.
As one who will turn 37 in less than a fortnight, reading this felt sometimes quite depressing. I have always subscribed to the adage that one is as old as they feel; and I don’t feel old. However, increasingly, I see I’m not as fit as I once was. This is the inevitable process of ageing, which comes as no surprise, but what bugs me is how I see myself in terms of where I want to be. Again, I feel young, in the sense that I’m still impetuous about my career and still have aspirations of doing something I enjoy, rather than something that pays the bills. My peers are physically the same age I feel — in their mid-20s — slightly sharper with youth, while those of my generation seem to have achieved at least one higher level in terms of development and respect. Has that ship sailed for me? I originally felt I was just stuck in a rut of my own making, but reading this passage on midlife crises gives me pause.
Do you see the green bar on the speed indicator on the right side?
Really interesting point. Body gets all charged up and then needs to work to eliminate byproducts through slow manual processes instead of them being excreted through exercise. That would make a lot of sense.
Just watched that yesterday, sounds like a mix of philosophies, stoicism and being authentic
I'm confused.

IF a consciousness was housed in a black box (a brain, but we're ignoring it's internals) AND that black box had inputs connected to a computer that can send signals to the black box that it WOULD interpret as signals of sight, sound, touch, hunger, intoxication, etc.

THEN how is one suppose to conclude that they are not just a consciousness in a box because they 'feel' drunk after they 'feel' they've ingested alcohol.

There's no need to monitor alcohol levels because the alcohol hasn't been proven to exist!
Keto was created specifically for people with epilepsy. It works wonders for a subset of those patients, and for them any potential down sides are very much worth it. Some people with migraine (which in some ways resembles epilepsy) have also noticed a reduction of frequency and severity of attacks.

Parts of the two groups mentioned above have been on keto since the 1930s. A diet that's about a century old can't really be categorized as a fad. And while there have been oodles of studies highlighting the dangers of the western diet, which is killing millions, I haven't seen the same for keto.

Of course, there are many confounding factors here. But it's indisputable that keto works in improving epilepsy sufferers' lives.
One could get a decent experience with "2.5D" fluid dynamics.

Two 2-d planes, one for current and one for wind, and a bit of creative fakery to model sail and keel dynamics.

This could play nicely with some tuning.
I have the UHK with Cherry MX Brown switches and my old MS Natural (105KB?) which I had purchased second hand.

I feel that my UHK keys require less force than the Natural.

My Natural has a bit more prominent click points (which require more bundled force at a certain point) but an overall "stickier/mushy" feeling (to be fair, I hadn't cleaned it a lot :)).

My UHK keys feel more springy and one might not particularly notice the click point but I still get good tactile and auditory feedback.

It took me about 2 days to get comfortable with the new keys. Overall the UHK feels smoother and less strenuous.

I hope you can make some sense out of the above, otherwise please feel free to ask for clarification :)
It's bad because some commuters will have to cross the city center to get to the suburban park, and there's no feasibly way to provide commuter oriented public transit.

Compare that to the offices in downtown Chicago for example, where a large percentage of the workers arrive at work via Metra (medium distance commuter trains) and el (inner city public transit).
The problem with higher speeds were instabilities in the numerics. So I reduced the internal time step. Never tried to increase the speed again after solving a few of those problems.
Overall silly, but that history and location are important to understanding the ground in which a person grew, so to speak. There are some quips about "the God an atheist doesn't believe in" that have a point -- a person's worldview is shaped by ambient society and the philosophy they were exposed to as a child.

It is weird how culture and religion become decoupled and religious actions become cultural markers.
That's certainly been my experience. Relationships and friendships tend to fall apart if one of them is emotionally self-sufficient. The core relationship-driver of emotional neediness and desire that's apparently the natural state for many appears to be both the glue that binds and the carrot to actually bother building relationships in the first place.
I wonder if there have been any studies on the effects of intermittent stress on the human body. Might there be healthy outcomes from regularly putting the body under short term stress that is then successfully resolved, almost like psychological exercise?
Just finishing up Malazan book of the fallen series.
I absolutely do not hate cyclists, I am one myself. When I lived in the city, I commuted in to work on a bike. I have lived that life and know what it’s about.

What I disagree with is the idea that we can build a society around cycling. I was lucky to be able to live close enough to work and be abled enough to do the ride 5 days a week. And I was lucky that, on days with bad weather, I could work from home because of my job as a software developer.

As I started to look outside of my own life, I saw that not so many people were lucky. Actually, most people weren’t this lucky. How would I ride to work as a construction worker, with all my equipment and rotating job locations? How could I do this as a nurse, where I would be on my feet all day working odd hours? The more and more I considered all the ways people participate in society, the more I realized that the very narrow constraints of cycling just don’t work for most people.

So sure, build the cycling lanes and bike racks, I’m not asking you to rip those up. There are many people who can cycle and we should accommodate them. But that’s it - Just accommodate them. Don’t try to uproot the core structure of our way of life. You’ll want the roadways when you get old and injured can’t ride any more.
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Matching rgba() to the hardware around it is a very interesting take!

Isn't the notch in landscape mode similar to how we used to have these feedback buttons on the left or right of the screen with absolute positioning? Uservoice and GetSatisfaction come to mind.
Finished with 6128 points here with only 1 ship left. That was a close one.

Great demo. I'd love to see this fleshed out. I think a lot of the older games had seriously good playability and deserve to be revisited.
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