skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 'agreement' does not involve agreeing to reinstate her, and while claiming to apologize for "making mistakes", counterfactually goes on to say "we invited Ms. Cellio to apply for possible reinstatement [says nothing about as a moderator] on all six sites following our new reinstatement process. Ms. Cellio expressed concerns about the new process and has not applied."

People who have remained inexplicably silent throughout: new SO CEO Prasanth Chandrasekar, and Joel Spolsky.
Hiding is not leadership.

The SO user reaction was near-unanimous rejection: in one day alone the post got -533 votes; that might be the record for a one-day downvote: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340906/update-an-ag...

54 moderators have resigned over the matter:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-... . And there's still the issue of forced relicensing, including asserting the right to do that retrospectively before the CoC change.

Monica was a valued and respected contributor and it is sad to see yet more missteps as SO pursues monetization and profitability. A large number of SO users still say she should be reinstated. Management could yet fix their mistake if they really wanted to.
The best part about Facebook's preprocessor (warp) was that it was slower than Clang (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7489532).

But the preprocessor isn't what makes compiling C++ slow. It's a combination of the complex grammar, and ahead of time optimization of a (mostly) static language. Turns out you can compile code really fast if you don't actually try to optimize it.
Radar at legal power levels does not have a health impact.
Germany is FILLED by them, they often advert smoking brands on bus stations.

I hope germany learns from france, this is great news and very inspiring
According to their chinese doc, the number is actually "multiple hundred millions", so it's more likely just a translation issue.
I'm guessing you mean Bruce Williams ;-). But yes, he has a very extensive set of tutorials on everything related to Darktable (40+ videos at this point) and he's busy adding some on Darktable 3. Also, he's a photographer with a lot of experience so a lot of what he presents is from the point of view of a photographer trying to get sensible results.
Whatever you do with today, and however you spend it, I hope it's a happy day.
Don't use, please.
All chinese big corps are controlled by evil communist party.
See what they are doing with their people: HongKong, Xinjiang, Falungong ...

Lie everywhere, control everything
Just as a suggestion - try to focus on your ideas, not on the technical knowledge that seems necessary for the implementation. To roll out an MVP, a Django app on PythonAnywhere may be enough.

Only after you have tested your app with some real users and when you start feeling that PythonAnywhere is limiting you, start learning about more advanced technical stacks or infrastructure - you will feel more motivated to learn it if there is a need to use it.
Linkding is a very lean bookmark service that provides bookmark management, tag categorization and search. It is built to be self-hosted and runs perfectly fine on a Raspberry Pi. It also provides an import/export function that is compatible with other services like Pinboard.in.

After using Pinboard.in for several years I noticed that I basically only ever use the features described above. Also while I like the minimal approach and the quick UI of Pinboard, it could just look a little bit nicer. So I took that opportunity to make a hobby project out of building such a service myself while also learning something new. I decided on Python and Django as stack, as I never really used Python and Django looked impressive. Building the application took me around 2 weeks. I implemented the features above, added a basic CSS framework with minimal tweaks so the UI looks nice and made everything work on mobile. My take-aways from the project are that Django is really awesome. Django is a batteries-included web framework and provides pretty much everything you'll ever need OOTB. The documentation is among the best I have ever seen. Also as someone who has been mostly working on SPAs / rich clients for the last decade I have to admit it was a sobering experience how quickly you can get results with an integrated server-side framework like this. I'll definitely consider that approach more from now on.

If you are interested, the application is basically ready-for-use and easily installed with Docker. I have been running it for 6 months now in a Docker container on my Raspberry Pi and in terms of just dumping links into a storage it suffices for me. I provided a demo instance with open registration here: https://demo.linkding.link
Wow I was looking for good codebases to dig into in my free time. This one looks like a good option.
I opened a random file(HippyBridge.h[0]) and it looks very similar to React Native's RCTBridge.h[1] which leads me to believe Hippy is either a fork of React Native or heavily "inspired" by it. A lot of the comments and symbols match React Native's 1-to-1.

EDIT: I've read through more of the source and compared it to React Native. Like Jarred mentioned[2] it probably started out as a fork of React Native.

0: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/blob/master/ios/sdk/base/Hi...

1: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/React/B...

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21877857
I played this game more than any other in the 1980s. The title screen had the name "Silas Warner" and over the years, I've periodically searched the web for information about this man. There's not much out there; the comments from the Id guys always come up as do his death in 2004.

This article is hands-down the most information you'll ever read about him.

If you're old enough to know the difference between Wolfenstein 3-D and Castle Wolfenstein, and enjoyed the first one, you'll appreciate this article.
if your job is about making wheels, you kinda have to reinvent the wheel. Just driving the car teaches you nothing about them
The problem is the laughable Internet downlink available especially in rural country parts - you're lucky to get 16/1 DSL there.
1% of the Russian population is said to hold 46% of all the country’s money
> In US? Climate denialism.

Hm, not sure.

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."

-- Albert Einstein
Can you spell out what myth is being busted, and how, in a way a numerate person would be inclined to agree with?
Well because it's 90 percent efficient vehicles will emit 10% the amount of CO2, but the thing is all the CO2 eventually gets emitted, just more slowly. That might be ok if we weren't already at the world's carrying capacity for CO2, instead we need to be drastically reducing our emissions this is just an expensive stopgap measure that keeps us digging up carbon.

As others have pointed out we're not just burning the Amazon, we are burning all the Amazons back through geological time.
It varies per camera model. With the latest version, you can at least turn off the default application of the base_curve, which IMHO is quite horrible in that it consistently blows out highlights. I default to using filmic now. Also, you can develop some default styles and presets to speed up initial processing.
There's a lecture series he did if anyone's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8LbkfSSR58

I must say that there is a slight Tommy Wiseau energy about the guy, but that's no bad thing :-)
Felix dies natalis Solis Invicti :)
> This could end up being a really interesting precedent in film (not in a way I like, personally)...

Cinema as a Service (CaaS)?
I really hate the confusion between whether the cats’ fur is part of their bodies or not. Like some of them seem to wear huge fur coats with obvious collars/lapels but it’s also part of their body, and in this one she unzips her... body and then there’s more underneath? When it’s really actors in costumes on stage that makes sense but that clip makes me feel queasy...
Best holiday wishes to all! Keep the positive vibes going. We all have ups and downs, just know that. Great community here, learning everyday.
May the joy and bliss of Christmas abide with everyone and their entire household.. Merry Christmas.
It's mainly the difficulty of getting sufficient information to people to let them understand what they are seeing. Field guides are generally detailed but you need to have some identification skills and know how the field guide is organised. The general guides cannot provide sufficient coverage so you need one for birds, one for mushrooms, one for trees, one for flowers, etc. etc. A phone app solves a lot of that.

The additional advantage of phone app is that allows casual contact (assuming people are motivated enough to install it) so if someone comes across a flower or tree with fruit they have enough information to at least identify it and perhaps learn some more about it. That's a huge step forward compared to today.
It uses sqllite. If you work directory by directory, it's fine. Most of the relevant data is in sidecar files. Apparently it can migrate lightroom meta data to its internal DB (haven't tried this).
They were trying to design custom-fit bras automatically, based on 10 measurements of the body. But 10 measurements are too few to capture the wide variety of boobs that exist, and it was too expensive to gather ground truth examples (because you have to pay for expensive custom fit bras for a load of women) so they failed.
I suspect it could be that real analysis truly makes you challenge your assumptions and forces you to build a habit of thinking through corner cases.

Other maths courses do this as well, but real analysis is particularly vivid for some people because of all the fun counter-examples you get to see in a well-taught course, such as a function that is everywhere continuous but nowhere differentiable.

This habit of thinking through corner cases is something I miss from a lot of (junior) programmers.
Commodity checkoff: federally-mandated, consumption-expanding propaganda
I guess C++ is immune to hypes at this point. You can't bullshit your way through a topic where most of your audience probably has at least a decade of C++ experience under their belts.
Part of the issue is that companies now many use "developer advocates" as mouthpieces at the conferences. They are usually good at giving presentations, being social, being PC, etc but are generally lacking any real depth about the product they are presenting.

At most tech conferences you are now getting presentations from a technical marketer on a circuit who has given the same presentation (or a variation of it) 10 times in the last month rather than the people who did the work.
Beginner's Guide: How to Become a Data Analyst – Codementor
For those interested in that, Analogue will release the Analogue Pocket, a FGPA handheld console too. It will play Gameboy and Gameboy Advance games and you will be able to develop for it. There will be 1 FGPA to emulate the console and one another for development.

Analogue does great products usually so I can't wait for it.

(I'm not affiliated at all with them, I just love their products).
RetailFlux Queue Management System
RetailFlux has published a new queue management software that can use in-store cameras to estimate daily queue activities. For example, the prediction model can tell a retailer when her cashiers will explode due to high queue lines. This AI based prediction model utilizes real-time traffic and queue density data in order to present highly accurate estimates
I don't believe that's an inherently bad thing for the development world. As a non native speaker I can recall quite a few situations where my native language has annoyed me in the context of coding to no end. Just to randomly pick two:

Microsoft Excel translated (still might, no idea) their function names and internationalised stuff like floating point numbers. That might be beneficial for some parts of the user base, for me it meant broken spreadsheets, broken data. That might still be a thing today and working fine but if it is, it's just another days point to show that it's an investment and not some easy to add mechanism.

The second one is mostly programming language independent. There's been quite a few times where I tried to onboard developers into legacy code bases developed fully by German language teams (read: German comments, tickets, documentation) and it's a pain. It served no purpose other than catering to the lacking English skills of some team members while essentially blocking the possibility to bring in talented outside help.

I like that English has become the common language of our industry, the alternative just compartmentalizes information without much apparent benefit.
Exactly. You cannot create a convincing test for what you cannot define.

So, this proposed test is just a thought experiment demonstrating the pointlessness of the question. At least I hope that was the intent. If they really thought they had something, that would just be sad.
Vrolijk Kerstfeest allemaal! :)
Yeah right.

Examples of well-recognised sarcastic phrases that would mess with simple sentiment analysis aside, I think the fact that it’s easy to think that English is simple and well-formed has probably held back serious development of chatbots etc. — the hard work of learning the real rules can be substituted with a simple grammatical approximation that gets a lot wrong and can’t be easily improved.

Or, to put it another way: “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is treated as a string of nouns, not [proper noun] [noun] [proper noun] [noun] [verb] [verb] [proper noun] [noun].
Thank you. A lot. This is one of the most well-founded, didactic and insightful comment I ever read on HN.

I happen to have a decent background in mathematics. Some people say it's useless for most contexts that a programmer can meet (exceptions being vectors and matrix for 3D and quaternions for some 3D APIs for example), but I disagree. You just illustrated how abstract mathematics can be directly relevant to programming.

Even when the mathematics one knows are not directly applicable, I think having studied mathematics helps shape the brain activity at all tines into thinking things orderly and more efficiently. Having correct intuitions about what will be a productive approach and what will not. Loving and embracing simplicity

That said, perhaps we should use different words for the different activities that look like programming. To be caricatural, one is just piling frameworks and libraries on a language where you don't even master the basics, filling in the blank from examples and snippets from the net. The other activity is writing well thought out programs on top of highly generic patterns like Reactive Programming or even designing your own patterns and frameworks to be used by others.

The first activity does not need much mathematics, the second greatly benefits from it.

What do you think?
Should we use different words?
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I'm more and more convinced that it's a bad cop-good cop sort of promotion going on in both cases:

1) Publish trailer with atrocious version

2) Wait patiently for reactions and news coverage

3) Announce that you will revise the art before the release of the movie due to feedback from the public (when in fact it was a "build one to throw away" sort of thing)
Ask HN: What is the best website you cannot find on Google?
Nadolig Llawen
Introduction to Database Systems (CMU) [0] should be useful to anyone who wants to learn about how relational databases work.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbohkNBWQs_...
Inflation for 2018 was 1.9% in the US. So that's still above inflation but also the number of visitors have increased. You should also probably take into account that the city is saturated and thus there isn't any room for growth. (which kinda of the equivalent of the city costs inflating more than the average city in the US).

> you can just feel this viscerally as the lines outside shops have shrunk, numerous shopkeeps are just dusting their shelves with no customers, and gifts look unpurchased for years.

Or maybe consumers are changing their behaviors for lack of a better word. It never made sense to me, why, as a tourist I should go shop through the city stores. The brands are the same back home, the prices are x2 what you pay in Amazon and the logistics are not that great (flight/taxis/trains/bags/etc...)

I don't think tourism is dying in SF or any city in the world (Tourism growth is so strong that even if you are a sucker-city you'll still beat records) but there is little value-added in these shops that tourists will stop and drop $$ at them.
Oh, this is lovely. It’s what we had before Dejanews and Altavista and Google came along and indexed everyone for free-text search. You could have conversations and reasonably expect that only people looking up the forum topic would then be able to see the conversations you’d had. This is dreamy.

I hope they never allow web (Google etc) search indexing of any kind, it would destroy them utterly.
_The hard thing about hard things_ (Horowitz) has some good pointers, although not for your more practical questions (for which, btw, the answers will vary a lot based on context - e.g. sector, country, bootstrapping vs external funding, etc.)
Instant LAN Messenger for Windows and Mac
Christ but you seem like a moron
NDNts – JavaScript for Named Data Networking
Nothing is wrong with it. It's perfectly ok to be vegetarian.

But if you think you're helping the environment by being vegetarian, then you might not be as frustrated about the environment. Being a vegetarian is not "doing your part" when it's just an ineffectual gesture that assuaged your guilt.

So it's only wrong as much as it is misdirected energy.
IonPush – Live Deploy Updates for Ionic Apps
I think the human race will rue the day it took the first step down the path to a metaverse. Fortnite has already show millions of parents how it's impossible to get their kids to disengage from a game which carries a high social cost of not being involved. The incentives are weighed heavily against individual choice and that can only lead to new forms of slavery.
Sunset is 4:39PM right now in Fort Collins.

Night is after sunset in common English: https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/8954/the-exact-time-...

Also for the FAA:

14 CFR § 1.1: "Night means the time between the end of evening civil twilight and the beginning of morning civil twilight, as published in the Air Almanac, converted to local time."
I love you all.
As a colorblind person I thought that was me seeing things but then, after inspecting the code, I could confirm: 86% red.
> Go to any game jam and watch the teams using Unreal or Unity. Their progress dwarfs those that start from zero.

Pretty sure I would come out on top with my CoD:MW download then.

The point of game jam is having fun while challenging yourself doing what you like. If you can't animate a sprite or draw a wire mesh without game libs then by all means use Unity, Unreal or even Scratch. Nobody's judging. Just don't read too much into it.
It doesn’t look great but hey it’s Christmas Day, maybe the bad style will force you away to spend time with your family.

As for the Santa Hat “controversy” (https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268), I think it’s utterly ridiculous.

Merry Christmas
This isn’t new. The US ending of the big blue was switched to a happy one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Blue#Original_and_alte...
>No reason to be concerned as long as local laws are being followed

Well unless you care about privacy, the potential for stuff crashing on you/your property, and/or noise pollution.
It's literally how mythos and folklore has always worked.

A couple of tropes and interchangeable characters.
> Pokémon Go is the “I’m always listening to podcasts or music because I don’t want to be alone with my own thoughts” of games.

Harsh but well said.
> The quality of the speakers is mostly terrible.

I agree - mostly. I was at Visual Studio Live in Vegas a few years back and apart from Donovan Brown giving an absolutely mind-blowing presentation of Azure DevOps the quality of the sessions was so bad I felt it as an insult.

At Anglebrackets I've had better luck. I went earlier this year and saw a presentation on Blazor given by one of the devs on the team.
30 ft wingspan powered glider drone made from composite materials would be even more energy-efficient. Multirotor drones have low energy densities and waste it rapidly.

Other aspects to consider are that the “drones” are replaced by others as batteries deplete or that the drones aren’t really there as long as people believe.

It’s possible that someone is doing this as a hobby for artistic, conspiracy theory “reconnaissance“ or benign data gathering-purposes or conducting some sort of investigation or intelligence gathering.
Those marketing people at Lamborghini absolutely smashed it out of the park with this.

No cease and desist nonsense, they just confirm that this is a special case of fandom that they are happy to support and a little boy gets an amazing experience.
This is How A Society Dies
>The author's point is that the obituary only mentioned recent events, ignoring the rest of his career.

But that isn't true: it is the _blogger_ who is shifting the facts to mold opinions

In addition to has lobbying against lgbt and women, the article covers his birth, earliest job, naval career, university degree with honors, wife children and business. It mentions his 1950 bishop appointment, his visits to service men in the Korean war, his 1963 promotion, his presidency, and the expansion of the church under his leadership.

The article even literally says "he embraced humanitarian causes with Christian, Jewish and Muslim groups supporting homeless shelters, food banks, nursing homes and disaster relief efforts in the United States and abroad."

When the blogger claims it only discusses recent events, he is, at best, mistaken. Of course it does not emphasizes or order them in the way the blogger wants which is not surprising in that he would like his religious leader portrayed more positively. Other people, on the other hand are not interested in having articles honed to conform to the desires of a religious group.

Luckily, he has a church run paper he can read and the rest of us have a less religious centered source. Which is exactly how it is supposed to be. What is less clear is why the Deseret News (and other rightist papers) receive so little pressure to change, while the NYT receives a continuous stream of denunciation even from the highest government leaders.

But, as you say, absolutely no-one has to read a particular news paper, that is part of a free press. The other part is that the press be free from government interference.
"Like I said, the only real difference in terms of atrocities abroad is one of capabilities"

And before that you said that the US is 'splendid' compared to Russia.

"because they perceive Russia as a threat."
That is a paranoid mentality stuck in the past.

"Unless you seriously think NATO is going to conduct a first strike attack on Russia, the only way in which that threatens Russia's security"

An American NATO general gave an order to attack Russian paratroopers in Serbia during NATO's illegal compaing there.
NATO countries have been closing air space to Russian military planes and refusing refuelling to Russian warships under the pressure from Washington. A NATO member shot down a Russian bomber.
Most importantly, if you have a loaded gun pointed to someone's head, you don't need to fire it to get complaince.

"If you have to choose one, it's not a hard choice at all."

Did the EU actually had to choose? Was it in the EU's interest to antagonize Russia by trying to expand NATO into Georgia and Ukraine? By excluding Russia from its security arrangements?
There was an immense amount of good will in Russia of 1990's towards the West and the US and American elite choose to throw that away and go ahead with NATO expansion.