skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As soon as I opened that page I had a flashback to playing Elite on my ZX Spectrum as a 10-year-old. I had to look twice at the map to check it didn't show Lave and Reidquat.

And that's really weird, because now I look into it, I think there's no way I saw a map like this in that game. Nor Frontier on the Amiga, as far as I can see. But when I look at the map, Elite is all I can think about, somehow I feel certain that's where I've seen it before, even though the evidence suggests I'm wrong. There's some strong association going on there. Weeeeeeird.

Edit: I think it might actually just be that I first saw this page so long ago that it feels the same... As soon as I zoomed out I knew I'd seen it before, but not for a long long time.
Oh come on, as if “the Greeks” were sitting around the agora all day chatting with Socrates. That would sure be news to a Spartan helot.
Unreal Engine is also used by the BBC to create virtual studios for football punditry programmes. This uses a simpler green screen technology, but it demonstrates how Epic are moving away from their gaming roots.
> Well, to start, the number of n-bombs they drop is super uncomfortable these days, even with satire in mind.

It was, then, too, and intentionally so in contrast to the sanitized approach to the time period in conventional cinema of the time.

OTOH, that specific thing that it is satirizing is far less current and relevant today, so I suppose without active consideration of context, it might seem gratuitous as well as uncomfortable.
Can you explain why any of this is more secure than signal with sealed sender? What is the privacy impact of tying to a phone number, beyond the one bit: I have signal?

As far as I can tell, sealed sender leaks less metadata than omemo currently does, which makes tor etc. Mostly irrelevant. Plus, I'm not going to fuck up signal, while I will misuse Tor.
How to find new markets through value chain analysis
I was thinking the same, an off timer could be handy. But you can solve this with a timer and a lid, no need for IoT at all. It feels like we're turning into Wall-E when so many people are too lazy to light a candle or flick a light switch.
Downturn, disrupted: Business and the next recession
That boy chasing that ball out onto a crowded street has much better chances with an automated car vs one driven by a human. Heck, any of those situations human drivers perform very poorly in already, the bar is low.
7:17am? Really? Not 7:15am, not 7:30am?
>Now to lay back and drown in the downvotes :-)

Please consider omitting this self-fulfilling prophecy that implies you are some kind of underdog.
Jurisdiction is key.

Your post is illegal? Where?

In the jurisdiction of the server? The poster? The moderator? Anywhere in the world?
"Once Upon a Time" (2011-2018, with Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin!) was shot on virtual chroma-keyed sets with real time integrated pipeline tools to preview how it would look.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_(TV_series)

The tech behind Once Upon a Time’s Frozen adventures

https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/the-tech-behind-once-upon...

Once Upon a Time” TV Series VFX Breakdown

https://web.archive.org/web/20180623020817/http://www.animat...
So we'll be able to play video game adaptations of the locations in the episodes really easily/soon, right? ;)
Echa por un gran amigo (Nacho) en la gran voz de Pepe Rogriguez y Ecko Norteño
Which is much better gap than $20,000/year and $2,284,044,884/year. [1]

1: https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/10-highest-paid-ceos-in-t...
It depends on who chooses automated vs self driving options. If primarily sports oriented people want to drive their cars manually, that is going to be one heck of a risk pool.
Yes, what they have here is akin to an IoT light bulb that you can turn on but not turn off, with the added bonus that in this case "on" is a safety risk.

Don't often see a true-to-life, physical embodiment of the phrase "half baked"
> A 13 year old who is roughly the size as a ten year old will, on average, have a large advantage.

This is an interesting claim. How much is a large advantage? Do you mean in hockey specifically? Or in athletics? Or any given task?
"Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors"

Thanks for posting this (upvoted you).

I was just about to order that book, but I usually research critiques of the book before buying it. I found yours here just because I'm the original poster (OP) and was reading through comments.

I am not going to buy the book, at least for now. Thanks again.

Edit: There's also a HN thread about the blog post that you shared [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21546850
Blueprints aren't for programming, they are for scripting and the material editor. As soon as you want a data structure more complicated than a map, or to do for loops inside the blueprints, it gets unpleasant.

Unreal is designed to integrate with a hot reloading visual studio setup in c++. Extending and sharing code is a breeze with plugins and many people fork the whole engine itself to make significant changes. One team reimplemented source style movement in their fork and shared it.
And at the same time my ISP cares less and censors less here in Eastern Europe... :P You will most likely not get a letter for downloading movies, games, and so forth.
There was an article I read on that solar powered website that's been shared on HN a few times that changed by view on heating.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/02/heating-people-not...

Basically, just wear a sweater and long pants in the house in the winter so you don't have to heat it so much. And if you need to, put a heat source near you, but there's no need to heat the whole house.
Privacy is not security. Privacy laws do not improve your security. PGP does almost nothing to improve your privacy even when used correctly (metadata leaks). I have a hard time understanding what your point is. If Google, or whomever, is following the relevant privacy laws, why do you care if they have a plaintext copy of your private communications?
No, driving the SUV to the store usually uses more fuel than the entire supply chain to get to the store.
"Only turbines built in 2016 or later take even a small hit to their revenues if prices go below zero, and more than 75 % of the production capacity was built before that."

That seems like a recipe for folks just building endlessly regardless of demand, pulling money from government... and an eventual mess when you fix it and nobody is making money suddenly...
Cosign similarity is a standard method of searching multi-dimensional data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity
It would be more efficient for Germans to pay for new energy production in their neighbors. Poland for example has lots of coal that makes it untenable to do green energy.

[edit] though frankly it’s probably even easier for Germans to just pay their domestic coal producers not to produce.
> For god sakes you have Bloomberg running after half your party was just outside occupying wall street no less than 3 years ago.

Independent of all the other points under discussion, I'm not sure how this is a fair a critique? It's not like there's a vote to decide who gets to run in a primary; the whole point of a primary is to vote to see who gets to run, and that isn't anywhere near being decided yet. If five months from now he gets nominated, that's another story, but there's not much evidence to suggest that will be the case.
I never buy these stories. Why is it that an 18 year old high school student has trouble getting up and off to school by 7:30/ 8:00 am, but an 18 year old marine has no problems getting up at 4:30 am?
Still not comfortable having skin exposed to the cold, and texting gloves never seem to work that great for me.
> Seriously: how is PGP something that mostly works

The entire Debian infrastructure is secured with PGP. PGP emails, PGP signatures, PGP encryption.

Seriously: it doesn't just "mostly work". It's rock solid battle tested for 20 years, and thousands of people use it without needing hand holding.
Lawrence Tesler, Who Made Personal Computing Easier, Dies at 74
Every candidate except Bernie Sanders supports a contested convention
> but can we agree that in an article focused on securing debt financing

We could also agree that its a tech-blog article, which means 99% of the people reading it simply do not care about financials, other then "huge raise! wow, revenue! great profitability potential".
Google AI no longer uses gender binary tags on images of people
"German Stasi is on my CV, because I worked there. I was just following orders."
However, it _is_ Reddit's platform. Do they own it or not? If they don't own it, then who does? What incentive do they have?

If people were paying reddit directly, this might make sense. But reddit has to make advertisers happy. They pay the bills.
I think you mean isometric (that's where the X, Y, and Z axes all have the same scale, and are 120 degrees apart).

Fun fact: pixel art is usually not-quite isometric because they use a vertical line and then lines that have a slope of 2:1 which is about 7 degrees larger distance between the X and Y axis[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_video_game_graphics#...
I had a mantra I used to use, I would say with emphasis “And I would know this how?” But, communication depended on word of mouth trickle down, which was horrible, and I refused to accept responsibility for things I was not made aware of.
Note the difference:

Senior managers don't need to control the servants' access because they won't take your job, they're lesser beings in the caste system. The control is there for those who might take your job or customers because they are caste equivalents.

At no stage are customers' concerns so much as considered. Control is not of the data, it's the vital control of peers and rivals. If you're not a rival, who cares?
I feel like the issue is that a lot of consumers get stuck paying a fixed per kWh delivery/transmission fee.

IMO: this doesn’t make sense. Transmission and distribution costs are largely the amortization of the cost of building the system peak carrying capacity.

There’s no shame in charging higher D&T rates during peak times and near-zero rates at 3AM.

Could also make electricity taxes a percentage instead of a fixed $ per kWh.

Germany could encourage domestic consumption of its overproduction, which would further encourage demand smoothing, but instead exports it.
Can you get a decent job just by knowing Unreal Engine well? Maybe by just doing small POC projects?
Rather, it seems there may be room for a law to carve out an exception for those, rather than also including a bunch of things that clearly are publishing in the exception.

Meanwhile, what about mailing lists? "But those aren't (necessarily) public! What if we want to put our proceedings on a web site?" Well, luckily there's precedent for that, and the word you're looking for rather than "put" is "publish", and you can absolutely do that, but, naturally, it's publishing, just like if you were to publish a private physical mail mailing list.

Either physical publishing needs to get the same protections certain kinds of web publishing have now, or we need to rethink what we've done with web publishing. Unless there's reason to believe we don't need those laws around traditional publishing anymore, the latter seems like the better idea to me.
Tradition! Tradition!
I thought they looked great. Still adding to it.
I bet I can guess who this is
"The Greeks" were a diverse group of peoples spanning three continents over the course of most of a millennium with varied cultures and social structures. Many of them, including some of the most iconic Greek societies like Athens and Sparta, were comprised of 40-60% slaves with treatment on par with that of Roman slaves or worse (e.g. Helots in Sparta).
Professional game teams use visual tools. Visual tools allow non-programmers to do work / prep files / iterate on ideas / create animations without an engineer being involved.

An individual indie dev doesn't care about that, so having hardcoded data may be a faster workflow.

In the studios I've worked UI artists work on the UI files and then pass them off to engineers to connect to the code. Tuning data comes from spreadsheets, and art/animation comes from artists, and they generally have a one-button import process that doesn't involve an engineer.
Some people are certainly employed in pointless jobs, but the idea that this is true for the majority is doubtful.

And for those people who's labor is pointless, the solution is to have more meaningful work, not idleness.

I can think of no more pointless form of labor that to toil away for whatever bureaucracy that would be responsible for administering this harebrained scheme.
The actual article were commenting on right now is literally about why this doesn’t work. That’s the whole point of the article.

One example (from the article) is other people accidentally replying to your encrypted messages in plain text, including the entire reply history.

This is what TFA is about. PGP is not safe for people who actually need encryption.
Here in a central european country, end-user price for Russian natural gas is about 4 eurocents/kWh. Electricity is 12 cents/kWh, in Germany even more iirc.

I have no idea about wholesale spot prices, but I don't see any incentive to switch to electricity as the price isn't going below 4 cents so often.
Why delivering the mail in Congo is so hard
Or modern ones for that matter.
After the Strongmen – Neill Fergusson
Mess? Turn that around into an opportunity: charge for clean-energy-powered carbon capture.
They may not resize the browser window often, but when they do, it fires a lot of events with a lot of resolutions depending on how exactly they move the mouse to the desired position. Try opening your browser console, paste the code below, then resize a few times and see how many events you get.

window.onresize = function() { console.log("resizing!"); };

You could do various techniques like detecting the start of resizing and waiting for it to settle down before requesting the new image, but still, I think you may be underestimating how many resolutions there are out in the wild :)
I'm curious as to how you plan to scale PostHog to larger users. As the person who scaled Heap, here is my honest opinion of this. I think there is going to be a huge challenge ahead in scaling query performance. This was perpetually a challenge at Heap and was for a long time the main limitation on Heap's growth.

The challenge was tough enough for Heap and PostHog is going to be at a huge disadvantage due to the lack of multi-tenancy. When you use Heap, your data is stored across Heap's entire cluster of machines. When you run a query, that query is ran simultaneously against every single machine in Heap's cluster. Even though your data may be taking up something like .1% of the total disk space, when you run a query, 100% of the disk throughput of Heap's cluster will go to processing your query. It's not an overstatement to say this alone results in a >50x improvement to query performance.

I honestly think Heap wouldn't be possible without multi-tenancy. It's hard enough as is to get queries that process multiple terabytes of data to return in seconds when you have a fleet of dozens of i3s available. I'm not sure how you would do that with a fleet a tiny fraction of that size. If you're curious about Heap's infrastructure, Heap's CTO, Dan Robinson, has given a number of talks on how it works[0][1].

That's not to say that PostHog won't work for anyone. I previously tried (and failed) to start a company based on optimizing people's Postgres instances. One of the big takeaways I had was that no matter how you use it, Postgres will work completely fine as long as you have <5GB of data. I think if you have a modest amount of data, something like PostHog would work perfectly fine for you. Since the Postgres optimization business didn't work out, I wound up pivoting to freshpaint.io which eliminates the need to setup event tracking for your analytics and marketing tools by automatically instrumenting your entire site. Since I started working on it, things have been going a lot better.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVl9_6J1G60

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJLq3GV1Dyk
Using electricity to heat buildings should be one of the last steps to take, after almost everything else using energy is renewable. Electricity is a precious form of energy, while heat is primitive. Converting in both directions is not lossless, so you want to keep the precious form.

The author makes it seem like that the negative prices are constant, which is not the case. Germany also does not have 100% renewable energy. Once you have an electric heater at your home, you will be using electric energy generated by burning coal to heat your home.

It also does not solve the problem of the German electricity market, which is mostly that renewable energy is not steady. Power is not distributed evenly across space and time. So you need to store the energy and move it from North to South. But storage and transmission lines are lacking to say the least.

One intermediate strategy you could take, would be to convert abundant electric energy to hydrogen, which you can feed into the already existing natural gas pipes and burn inside the already existing gas heaters, the author is criticizing. This way you would solve both problems (missing network and missing storage) at the same time.
Ask HN: Managing significant-other relationships as a startup founder. Advice?
I know HN is not the place for relationship advice, but I imagine I'm not the only founder who has struggle with the constant balancing act between "what's best for my relationship" vs "whats best for my business" - because I find they are often at odds.

At the end of the day, what my girlfriend wants is to feel valued, important and like she comes first. I tell her she comes first, but in reality we both know that's not true. The company comes first and the people I am responsible for as the CEO come first. She comes in at a close second, but in the words of Ricky Bobby "if you're not first, your last" is how I imagine she feels about it at the end of the day.
> an 18 year old marine has no problems getting up at 4:30

Define "no problems"

Also, most high school students are under 18.
At Stake in Boy Scouts’ Bankruptcy: $1B in Assets, or Much More
How did Linode and Scaleway lose your data?
Yes, human culture was different in the past. Judging an ancient culture by our standards doesn’t make for a strong argument, their way of looking at the world would be completely alien to us.

The ancient Assyrian empire would allegedly make corpse piles and skull pyramids after putting entires towns to the sword, humans are and always have been cruel to each other.
A search using 'millionshort.com' (mentioned here yesterday) and your 1st suggested search string found this 1998 story - 'Inside Dell Computer Corporation: Managing Working Capital':

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/9571
RL architect recreates “Parasite” mansion in Sims 4 – tour it 360 degree VR
Ironically I moved from DO to Vultr because their network was more reliable
And like most of these "scandals", it was nothing more than a handful of offended people being very vocal while the vast majority didn't even notice. It's only worse now because of social media amplifying the outrage but the relative numbers are the same.
The statistics on the amount of cocaine show an appalling pattern of lying and false evidence from the police.

It's even more appalling that people hardly acknowledge such bias.
You'd have to do the math, but it might be because the surplus doesn't last long enough to pay for the equipment. Even if the prices were low enough for half the year, this means the equipment sits idle half the time. Most energy surpluses are shorter than that.
For many projects I've often looked for easy solutions that would handle exposing data connectors to the end user of a project. Somewhat like an embedded Zapier with community maintained connectors (e.g., for the end user to grab SalesForce data and sync it with your account).

I suppose Singer might be the closest thing from your list above, but still you'd have to build out a large amount of auth & end user tooling to get it to work.

Every B2B SaaS developer these days has to build in a ton of integrations. Even an affordable hosting service for this would work well (embedded integration where you don't require your customer to sign up or pay for a second product).
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A high school educator once told me that the impetus for the early schedule was businesses who wanted teens to be able to work for them in the afternoon.
You might find it interesting that namecheap can provide dynamic dns.
The colours and font are quite evocative of the early versions of Elite, even if the names of the stars aren't :-)
Barr doesn't care about the "implications" for the tech companies or their employees. And he's not trying to "change technology" as you put it.

He's just trying to stop these companies from playing dirty, as they have been for a long time.

He's concerned with making services such as Youtube, FB and Reddit face up to the fact that they are publishers, and not really forums because they're so riddled with AI and fishy algorithms.
Did the Hunter help you a lot on getting early visibility on ProductHunt? I did a quick check on him and he is not on 500 hunters list.
| car reliability and choice have improved so much

Citation needed. I've worked on my cars a lot and this is not borne out by my experience.

Edit: I feel we can leave EVs out of this discussion until they're in at least 50% of households' driveways.
This is why identifying unintended consequences beforehand is so important.

"We want green energy -- let's subsidize green energy by taxing electricity."

Seems fair enough... fast forward several years and:

1. People burn fossil fuels for heating because electricity is too expensive, increasing their carbon footprint.

2. Poorer people in apartments and cities pay out the nose to fund rebates to wealthier suburban homeowners with solar roofs.
Ask HN: Know of anybody who offers “React coaching”?
We are looking to implement React as the frontend for a current Rails app, yet nobody on our team is a React expert.

Wondering, do you or anybody you know offer "React Coaching" to do hours-long screenshare(s) to help implement React in the most effective way? To give feedback on refactoring and setup?

Feel free to email: will at sendbottles com
Many years ago I was doing a lot of reading on astronomy and spent some time thinking intently about the scale of things in the solar system.

After a few months of this I woke one morning from a hyper-real dream in which I was in a 'high-Earth' orbit and felt like I was seeing the solar system with a lot more clarity. That was it's own reward and I also think that it shows our minds are much more capable than we let on.
I'm not sure I follow, charge ... who for what?
I couldn't disagree more.

Electric heating via heat pump is ridiculously efficient and has a much bigger bang for your carbon-reducing buck than anything else a homeowner can do.
Please do not jump to conclusions and read the footnote which addresses that point explicitly: "drug seizure records, amounts seized do not appear to be the cause of this change."