skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tested a bunch of different HDMI cables when I needed to record 10-bit 4K 4:2:2 @ 60fps from my camera, and found that the most reliable cables were Monoprice brand, starting at just under $4.

https://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=102&cp_id=10240&cs_id...
OLEDs incorporate the backlight with the pixel, so they can turn on or off the light for each pixel, giving you much nicer blacks. A typical LED backlight is just a single uniform light, so it can only be adjusted for the entire screen, and unless your screen is black, you need some light. I guess if everything was a at most a darker grey, they could crank it down, but I don’t think anyone does that?
Agreed, as per the package.json on master this is version version 3.0.0-alpha.4.
I don't believe that tcrowe is the person who put this repo up. I do think tcrowe is posting in this thread as 1000units but that's just speculation.
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I would say the hero worship and the "win the popularity lottery" model for software success are two of the attributes of the industry I like the least.

Self funding for indie developers would be great but I don't see this helping. We don't have enough filmmakers or (I bet) enough audience attention and desire for many more of these.
Seems there is not much information yet on the actual hardware. Quick search found this:

https://siliconangle.com/2020/02/17/hpes-cray-tapped-build-m...

Eventually reaching 145 PFlops

The Met Office didn’t share further hardware details other than the fact that the supercomputer will incorporate graphics processing cards.
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I think a lot of weirdness in US regulation is because of Congress having lost the ability to make clear headed laws. There is so much friction in the partisan fights that they don’t have time and energy to write clear laws that make sense.
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First and foremost, I know billing is always an issue in any industry. The check is always in the mail, there’s always an excuse...

Suppose you’ve been working with a company on Net15 for years. They’ve always been good payers. Lately they’ve gotten later and later.

At first it was just a week or two, no big deal, you’ve worked with them for years and they’re a great income flow. Slowly it keeps slipping... you know they’ll always pay, but you start doubting more and more.

A few weeks turn into a month. Then two months. Then three. The check always clears, but the outstanding invoices just keep adding up.

What do you do? It’s hard to just say “it’s a lost cause” and move on, but it’s equally (more?) hard to ramp up legal pressure...
Case in point, you could get bipolar ECL RAM in the 80s with access times of around 1-2 ns (which is at least four times faster than the fastest DDR-SDRAM in 2020). Except those things would have a few kilobits at most and burn a Watt or two; an entire 16 GB stick of DDR4 doesn't require much more than that. (This is SRAM of course; you can't build good DRAM on a bipolar process, and MOS SRAM is much faster than DRAM as well. However, MOS SRAM in the 80s would have access times of 20-150 ns; it's typically the suffix of the part number, e.g. 62256-70)
This is what it looks like to be part way along the path to human safety.

There is a ton of work ahead, but we are going in the right direction.
Same.

Our ERP system doesn't work well with Firefox, and I didn't want to use Chrome.

Brave fixed both issues, and it just feels lighter than either of the two other browsers on my Pop_OS! Thinkpad.
It also has the most successful stock markets.
> If you write code and you're not on 4k, you don't know what you're missing. 4k is great.

I am on 4k60 on 43". I spend most of my day in terminal (ubuntu, i3-regolith) - it's nice, but don't think I would be missing out much without it.
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The article mentions that human artefacts have been found in the sediment under the solidified lava from the eruption of the said volcanos.

It also appears to claim that Australia seems to be a general exception to the rule that human populations move around - in this case they appears to have stayed put. As a result, it’s a reasonable deduction that there were humans before the said volcanoes, and (less credibly) that they are generally linked to the aforementioned indigenous population. Ultimately I think what’s interesting is the first part, a piece of human culture survived for so long through whatever means.
This is great stuff, Harry. Congratulations on the launch.

Since you're asking for it, a request that I have is if there was a mobile-OS wide implementation of it, that'd be great. I've tried launchers like https://getsiempo.com (defunct?) and https://lessphone.app but walked away unimpressed due to a variety of reasons: The main one being having to change habits to adopt to the new UX, whilst solutions like blloc [0] look appealing from far-out, they need equal amount of buy-in. That said, I am all for zero-config solutions.

A personal hack, I want to share: I exclusively use distractive websites from the browser (no installing "fast", "always-on" apps), and I force clear cookies everytime tabs are closed.

That means, I'm forced to login to view any new comments, likes, messages, or notifications and that is enough of a detterent and an annoyance that I don't feel the urge to seek validation often by rechecking on number of upvotes, likes, or replies of the trails I leave on various social media websites like news.yc (which is amongst the cleanest social media websites out there, in that it doesn't employ any dark patterns to lure you in, but that karma count must keep going up, right? #growth-mindset).

Coming back to mobile, on Android, Google's digital well-being initiative [1] has help kick-start competing implementations. I particularly like OnePlus' version of it-- the Zen Mode [2]-- It requires no setup or configuration and simply learns to know what's causing distraction, shows you a pop-up warning about too much usage, and if enabled, it simply goes nuclear and denies access to the phone for 20m.

I'll keep an eye-out for Firefox and/or Brave versions of Motion. Any idea on timelines for those?

[0] https://www.blloc.com

[1] https://wellbeing.google

[2] https://www.androidcentral.com/oneplus-explains-how-and-why-...
Seconding TUI. Pretty solid. In fact if you need a better debugger than that I see no reason as to not jump to a good IDE ... no other middle ground required.
Yeah that is what they write for the terms. In practice though they have never enforced the 1TB/user clause, can't find any references to them doing that ever. Many people claim to have many terabytes with no enforcement on the user clause, myself included at 13TB currently with 1 user for just under a year so far. Apparently it has been this way for years.

Effectively you get unlimited storage for $12 + taxes/month.

It's a pretty smoking deal if you don't mind the (seemingly minuscule) chance that one day they'll ask for more money or pull the plug. In my use case all the data is easily retrieved again so it would only be a minor inconvenience.
Time Cube could be another well-known example
eval(/exec) is how dataclasses (and namedtuples before them) work: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/4c1b6a6f4fc46add0097e... . It is a big gun, but sometimes (usually deep within lib code) big guns are the right answer. Don't use reflection or runtime bytecode emission in Java.. unless you have to. Don't drop to inline asm in C.. unless you have to. And so on.

And, of course, if it _is_ the right decision to use such a tool be aware of just how easy it is to use big guns wrong. Even this very article's 'just do it' tone seems to convey a lack of respect for decorators, what I'd consider a 'medium gun' in python. So many intermediate python programmers write decorators that don't properly interoperate with the descriptor protocol and thus either fail to work on instancemethods (as here: https://repl.it/repls/ThreadbareCurlyKeyboard ) or hardcode a 'self' arg in their wrapper and thus don't work on global functions. I'm fine with simplifying it for an article but for production code this is a pet peeve of mine :p
That sounds like a just so story to me, though. They could spend way more on lobbying, and get more - more subsidies, more tax incentives, etc. but they don't. It seems very unlikely to me that they get everything they could possibly want for such a tiny fraction of what they could spend, given that most everything at the Fortune 500 level is a race to the bottom.
Yes, at places that have them and where those roles are well-integrated and their teams reasonably well run, which is... not everywhere, by a long shot.
My view of the economics is that most recently Tesla knows how to make a car. The battery pack is still more expensive than an ICE drivetrain, but that is a matter of time.

My view of that is based on the rapid construction of the China gigafactory, and the sooner-than-expected Model Y deliveries.

The only company with proper prioritization of EV development outside of Tesla is VW. GM would be next, but they still are going too slow and clearly don't have full C-level executive buyin
Raises aren't usually negotiated. They'll give you a number and you say "thanks!".
I read your blog, but how does one actually verify PIA logs or not for example? It seems there is always going to have to be some level of trust involved.
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I don't see what would have changed. Most large companies still have arcane reporting structures and strong silos that prevent clear communication and collaboration.
This regulation isn’t designed to protect you from yourself (eg addictive behaviors) or “investments” that are obviously bad for even those without a high school education.

It’s designed to provide some minimal protection against sophisticated fraudsters (eg Bernie Madoff).

SEC doesn’t govern lotto/gambling within states; that happens at a state level, just like alcohol and tobacco.

I agree that the USA tends to have an incoherent stance on age of responsibility versus freedoms, but that’s largely because the federated government system and different states have different ideas about how much freedom/responsibilities their people should have.
Structured?
As already echoed in some other comments in this thread:

What is your experience with Notion? How does it compare to org-mode, specifically your system?

I had a run at org-mode, specifically with interest in literate and pkm, and it was too painful/buggy, with the obvious rabbit hole of config. So far, Notion appears to be "good-enough", but it's slow and there is some export friction I feel could be smoothed over with org.
Size and perspective matter; a smaller object much closer to us could occlude Betelgeuse.

Granted, that object would likely need to be both dark and travelling through interstellar space, two things that would by themselves be noteworthy. Unless it's something much, much closer and in the orbit of our own star... I wonder if they're ruled out Kuiper Belt objects or comets yet?
I've been using i3 for a few months and can never see myself going back to working without it now. I must say that I think it makes most sense when you have multiple monitors though.
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I agree. I was deeply disappointed by "The Knowledge..."
I just started to look into Rust. And while reading the book, I kept thinking: “this is much easier than c++”, exactly for the reasons you mention. In C++ there is quite some things you need to keep in mind while programming (like whether something is moved from), rust takes some of that away.
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Ah yes, I thought it was wrong when I typed it, thanks for the prompt.
It's just wasteful.
Which countries have less bizarre and byzantine securities laws?
Sounds a lot like the core "values" in my current company. Mind you, they are a bit different (are these protected by copyright?).

I don't think I can play that sort of game. I know I have to do it in order to get promoted, but my mind won't stop complaining about the facade.
The thing I love about i3 is that the config file is the complete documentation. Forget how to do something? Open the config file. That's it.

<3 i3
Just one of many reasons you should block js by default, and push back (usually by just leaving) sites that show blank pages without it.
This was published by NIH 6 years ago. Would someone summarize the response in the scientific literature?
> ...Congress having lost the ability to make clear headed laws.

When do you imagine they had such ability, and does much of th Byzantine nature of the securities laws really post-date that period?

> There is so much friction in the partisan fights.

No more than usual, except in the sense that because of the partisan realignment (or two overlapping realignments, one stemming from the New Deal itself, the other from Johnson's signing on to civil rights) from the New Deal until the 1990s the bitter ideological fights were somewhat less often aligned with party boundaries.
Hehe, no problem!
'if twelve cows are lying down it's gonna rain'

QED
> Because why should I have to click to get focus?

The click not only focuses but is also passed on to whatever you clicked on, so it's like it was already focused.

> Less of an issue on a tiling window manager, but sometimes I really want to be able to type in a window without bringing it to the foreground.

I don't understand that. You have to somehow indicate to the system what it is you want to type on.

> Also, selecting text should copy and middle click should paste. No one can convince me these things are bad or unnecessary.

I'm 100% with you on that. Although saying "selecting text should copy" makes it sound like it's being copied when selecting, when it's actually copied when pasting.
My experience with Sway was the same until the 1.0 release (about 11 months ago). The 1.0 release fixed all the show stoppers and I've been happily using it ever since. It also comes with a few nice things build in like gaps.

To be honest though, there isn't much difference from a day to day perspective between X11 and wayland. A few things are nice (adding and extra screen doesn't reset the video mode) and a few things are worse (recording video). Make the switch when it's the natural choice, don't force it ;-)
I have this idea I like to think about from time to time.

"Know when to be Achilles and know when to be Odysseus."

When it comes to online distractions and addictions, I've found anything that any tool that doesn't offer precommitment and restrictions of editing/removing the intervention will be ineffective in the long run.

If Odysseus could have untied himself from the mast, he would have.

Apps like these seem to be designed for our best selves, when we need help for our worst selves. My best self would probably be successful using this app. But my worst self, probably will ignore the prompts over time until I get annoyed and uninstall the app

My app of choice has been Freedom, where you can set a schedule and prevent quitting the app. I have had problems where I needed to get work done on a website and couldn't so I understand the use case. A work pass feature is something I'll suggest to the Freedom team. But for me as a customer, having success in not over-consuming distracting/addicting sites/apps is immensely more important than the infrequent inconveniences from having to access sites for business/work purposes.
I'm no expert in YC's business, but I think the confusion might be coming from thinking about this too similarly to how later-stage investment works, where there are fewer investments to place and more information available, and therefore more up-front analysis. It's not feasible to do that in YC's case, where they fund hundreds of startups a year. Nor can such analysis apply anyhow—there's too much uncertainty at the earliest stage.

The way YC looks for signal is different: simple and rooted in a few fundamentals. Do the founders seem effective? are they talking to users? and so on. The funny thing is, even though the fundamentals are simple and have been laid out in pg essays for a decade or more, it's surprisingly hard to reason with them. The mind doesn't like to stop with so little. I think that's why YC funding something like this feels paradoxical. (In the present case, it wasn't what they applied with but something they came up with later; but that helps make the point.)

"Bait to get acquired" would be considered a negative, since that's not how a business like YC ends up with the few big successes that make or break it. It's more like this: is there some plausible random world in which this thing ends up becoming a major breakthrough? It doesn't have to be probable, just fairly imaginable. And the founders have to seem like the kind of people who might, with luck, pull it off.

(Sorry for editing the carpet from under you! What I just wrote here was in response to your pre-edited comment too, but hopefully is still relevant.)
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Yes, we know: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1228598015247536129

> @elonmusk: albedo will drop significantly on almost every successive launch
Yes:

1) Future sats will continue to get progressively lower albedo

2) The sats brightness is much higher in their "orbit raising" phase then their "service" phase.
Excellent collection of resources! I'd like to add one: https://forvo.com/ Forvo is a free site where you can look up words and hear them spoken by native speakers.
They are actively working on reducing reflectivity but there will always be an impact and honestly any effort to improve it will be well appreciated by me. However, even though I love the work astronomers do and the view of a clear sky into the stars, I must say I prefer global Internet availability over making astronomers clean their data from satelite datapoints.
Most discussions about this leave the goal of Starlink out of the picture. If this can bring Internet access to every spot on Earth, the immediate benefit for humanity is clear.
I used i3 for a while and really enjoyed it. Though, I eventually switched back to KDE. I didn't like having to fiddle with power management and configuring screen locking.

I was noticing that I was only using 1-2 tiles at a time and I could easily emulate that by just side-by-siding windows in KDE.

I think if I ever have the chance to use a Linux machine professionally, especially with multiple monitors, I'll definitely reach for i3 again.
This article does contain useful information especially since a lot of this is way less obvious than it should be to a non-technical end user.

My crappy Apple USB-C Multiport adapter simply refuses 60Hz 4K on an HDMI cable that works out of the box with Windows 10 on a GTX 1060. This is despite the fact that the product page says that this configuration with my particular Mac is supported (edit: it’s actually because I have an old adapter).

Then I use a cheap $8 USB-C to HDMI cable and it works fine on two MacBook Pro 15/16” computers (be careful here as a 2016 USB-C MacBook Pro 15” doesn’t support 4K 60Hz over HDMI but the identical-looking 2017 model and newer do).

Frustratingly, Apple doesn’t make a similar USB/power/video adapter for DisplayPort, just for HDMI. Nobody else seems to make one either unless you get into the world of expensive hubs.

For our older 2015 MacBook Pro, Thunderbolt 2/mini displayport to DisplayPort is the option.

What I’m getting at in a poorly organized fashion is that the world of single cable charge and display and device hub is definitely not here. There’s one display on the market that supports USB-C charging above 85W and it only works with newer Macs.

You can get basically the same display for $1000 less with an LG 27” 4K display and just use DisplayPort and HDMI with adapters. Saving yourself from plugging in a second thing isn’t worth $1000.

I can’t for the life of me figure out why the people who make displays with built in power supplies for USB-C charging didn’t just default it on the 100W maximum that the spec allows. What short-sighted design!

In any event, I think I don’t mind keeping that piece of hardware separate from my display, not just for reliability but for weight and bulk as well. I can easily hide a power brick under the table.
I should have been more clear. My conjecture is that if we trained students on learning theory specifically and directly, they would understand the "suffering and pointlessness" of duplicating failed solutions. They would more openly embrace experience (failure) as necessary didactic tool.

Destigmatize not #winning and embracing experiential learning.
This is a serious problem we experience personally, and we know it’s a painful one for millions of others. We have the opportunity to help people claim back a significant amount of their time each day. The initial product is simple, but there are many other ways to expand and tackle this problem. Safe to say selling data or being acquired by malicious vendors is off the table.
"Vue is on the lightweight side of things"

Vue is on the average weight side of things.

Frameworks like HyperApp and Preact I'd consider lightweight.
> Would love to see them go even further and let just anyone invest

Very broad statement. 'Anyone' in 'any' amount? Surely you are not advocating that. Are you?

In what way do you think the average person 'anyone' knows enough to essentially bet on a typical startup (called it 'gambling')? So you have a typical person living paycheck to paycheck but yes let them put whatever savings they might have into a startup?
It's sketchy legal ground. Basically they could say "everyone with blonde hair and brown eyes must submit", and through other extralegal means have found out the culprit had blonde hair and brown eyes. They manufactured a way to search and arrest them.
Unlock origin. Go to settings. Look for "Default Behaviour". Under it, you'll find an option to block media larger than any size you choose.

I put 100KB for mine.

Also, you can install the Firefox extension called Video Image Block. It's a real data saver.

Lastly, look up bandwidth hero. Can help compress images on a server before it gets to you. I'm using free heroku tier for mine.
I have the same setup on my Macbook Pro. Works great.
Not really.

To avoid bots from inflating viewers, they have banned non-partnered/affiliate channels from appearing in the directory if they have above a certain amount of viewers.

While this solves the bot problem, it ensures that new channels will never become popular. Because if you begin to become popular, your channel will literally disappear and you cannot grow.

(And on a side note, there are a lot of large streamers today that admit they used bots to promote their channel when they were first starting out, years ago. Sometimes, gaming the system is the best way to win.)
i3 is a godsend. I used it for a long time before switching to Sway. I told my brother about it, helped him a bit to set it up and now he stopped using any other WM/OS.
> If this can bring Internet access to every spot on Earth, the immediate benefit for humanity is clear.

In which part of the earth are you missing the internet coverage so horribly?
Also:

1) This was this particular booster's 4th flight

2) This particular orbit was stated to be at the very edge of F9's performance.
Keep a running list of accomplishments throughout the year. Often but not always you'll be given a chance to self-review, so include your wins in that.

If your employer publishes criteria for different levels, try to aim your evaluation to hit the responsibilities of your current and next level.

It's best to start this process as an ongoing discussion with your manager and ask them what you'll need to do to get a high mark or a promotion and track your progress against the goals you develop together.
> If you write code and you're not on 4k, you don't know what you're missing.

I really don't. Would anyone care to share their experience? Currently, I'm thinking that a vertical monitor would be an improvement for me, but I don't see a reason to get a screen that's several times denser.