skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, at a certain point, basketball resembles building and selling ecommerce products very little, and I don't know if it's doing you a favor for anyone to listen to you torture the analogy this way. This is a poor concept for a post. I think you would need to answer the question "Which sport, if any, involves an environment closest to ecommerce marketing."

In my opinion, a more suitable sport to draw comparisons from would be jai alai:

- Balls are flying dangerously fast (204 mph)

- Game has been known to cause fatalities when it hits players

- Unpredictable, colorful, sketchy and associated with gambling markets based on match results

Can you guess why I think this sport is more similar to e-commerce marketing than basketball?
I did not say anything about using their own mobiles.
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Lego Ideas – Lego HeroQuest
khanacademy isn't. My 7 year olds have done a lot of the basic classes in the past year or two.
Didn't Slack rewrite their app to be native and move off of Electron?
Show HN: Light up code in text editor as it executes
It always amazes me how using Windows never feels safe. It is literally a sieve in terms of security.
Guzey of guzey_arena fame?
This has been discussed for over a year at least, there is currently no solution (that the developers consider acceptable, proot is an option they don't). As each day passes we move closer to the app being banned from the Play Store (or at least updates being banned).
Rand Paul says no-knock warrants 'should be forbidden' in wake of shooting
And I seem to remember that FreeBSD can support linux binaries, too.
Hook up some cameras to Neuralink[1] via the developer API (tongue in cheek) and boom, sight!

[1] https://www.neuralink.com/
I'm certain that Nicolás Maduro feels the same as you.
Intuitively it it feels like that should make swing faster, but experientially swing feels heavy and slow.

Is swing poorly optimized, is it due to being in Java?

I'm not a UI dev and have not thought about it much.
Usually that only works if you ignore the definition of terrorism.
Raku is cool if you want to learn some new paradigms that other languages might copy too. Perl would be a more suitable choice if you were looking for a language that might be used for job search right now.
We've perhaps not spent our time efficiently in this thread; it looks like they fixed the non-determinism a month ago,

https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/pull/121

Linked directly from the issue, too. It would indeed seem to have all been random numbers in the wrong order.
I was considering joining SDF, but I'm confused about the membership levels. What's the minimum level needed for static html hosting with a domain I already own?
Actually Janus does provide a client library. Yeah kurento has kind of ceased to evolve but Janus keeps up with the latest edition of the webrtc standard which continues to evolve and improve.
I guess it needs to be forked.
KT to Conduct Epidemic Research with Support from Gates Foundation
Reading files the hard way – Part 1 (Node.js, C, rust, strace)
A local radiostation has a broadcast of four hours. They are required to play an x amount of music tracks by the station (about 6 per hour), but there has been demand to make the broadcast available as podcast without the music.

Could this make it possible to automatically remove the music from the MP3 file they have available? With 6 tracks per hour times 4 hours, manually removing the music is time consuming.

I doubt it, as it seems all vocals are are output to a single file...

Is there any other tool someone can recommend?
I would second this having hard fast rules works, but for me, meds where the real night and day difference. It's literally like someone flips a switch in my brain when I am on, or off ADHD medication. I get so single task focused off the meds, but on the meds I can completely break in my mind and accomplish the 2 minute task that has needed to get done for a week now.
Sure- in the framing of- all models are wrong, some are useful- that sort of model may even be right, but it would fail to be useful. Fair?

I don't disagree in principle with supply and demand, my point was rather that as a model it explains very little about New York City real estate, and if one insists on it as an explanatory tool, one will have to throw out nearly all of the data, which what makes it interesting to study.

Various accounting fictions drive a lot of asset pricing. Not fictions in the sense of being false, but rather in the sense of being complicated narratives woven for various purposes that, at the end of the day, are just made up. Real estate is absolutely FULL of these, and they tell a much richer pricing story.

Taking the hypothesis of 100x increase in supply- if we are able to poke at that magical occurrence, put it into context, provide some facts and reasoning behind it- we can see circumstances under which it either lowers or raises prices. I mostly see ways in which it raises prices.

If the increase in supply was executed by adding to the inventory of one of the monster private owners in NYC- you can be damn sure there would be no sudden drop in pricing of the rest of their inventory, and dollars will go into tuning the machine- tax and reporting rules, interesting ways of structuring new inventory into new assets- so as to allow them to reallocate their ownership in ways that they deemed most advantageous.

If the supply increase were executed by magically growing the inventory of city-owned property- you would also probably not see much in the way of price decrease. Why? The city will have the additional burden of maintenance for an enormous new footprint, for water, sewer, public transportation, etc. Huge capital investment would be required, which would require more population, and some sales. But the city will not make that inventory available in any way that would impact prices for other owners. Fund it with debt, keep prices steady, set up special programs to grant the properties, locked in to prevent fast turnover, to new owners who have to move to the city, and look forward to growing flows in the economy in the future.

A way in which it might lower prices is if magically ownership of these new properties was distributed among existing renters or small property owners. This is closest to the behavior of an actual market, which describes NYC less and less as more and more of the footprint is held by large interests. But individuals would be forced with a choice of- leave their current space, or shed this new space, both of which would lead to various price depressions. But in the scheme of things, I see this as least likely. Even genies are lazy, and would prefer one large transaction to millions of small ones.

Cheers.
wow that's so stupid. Sales tax is paid by the store, not the customer. How can the tax be collected after the fact?!
Yes. Even in the smaller BSD world it's an "alternative OS" compared to FreeBSD or NetBSD.
I should've given more context. Based on my anecdata in post-Soviet world, ~50% of graduates choose a job completely unrelated to their degree (e.g. a chemist becomes web designer, a linguist becomes QA engineer, and economist becomes barista). They probably realize this during first 1-2 years in college, but they carry along because it's just easier this way, they made friends with classmates, and education is free or cheap.

The point is, they don't care at all about the academic problems because it's (a) not interesting to them and (b) usually professors don't motivate students with real-life examples. E.g. while microeconomics is very much relevant for everyone, the way it was taught to us, it felt insanely boring and inapplicable to real problems.
Your domino reference suggests you continue to confuse free will with consciousness.

Free will is the idea that out minds might somehow have a self-generated non-deterministic ability to make decisions that is unmoored or constrained from causes that others can see or investigate.

This is either trivially not true (as in the "many worlds" deterministic interpretation of quantum mechanics), or trivially true in a weak sense (quantum mechanics non-deterministic interpretation) i.e. our decisions are controlled by quantum randomness, but not by any special property of our minds.

There is zero evidence of "free will" and yet people have conjectured they might have it for as long as we have records of people's introspection. This phenomenon is easy to understand: it is a typical example of motivated reasoning. We have a biological imperative to desire freedom of action and though. "Free will" is the ultimate fantasy of freedom of thought. So regardless of all lack of evidence, people will be drawn to, and depending on rationality, adopt a strong belief, in their "free will".

So we can dispense with that self-motivated "illusion" based on good science.

In that sense, there is an illusion as you say.

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That leaves your point (if this rephrasing of your point is acceptable to you) that self-awareness in a functional sense does not necessarily imply an entity has the qualia of self-awareness, i.e. consciousness.

I also agree with that. Somewhere between us and a deck of cards saying things like "I am conscious" is a mechanism we could build that had some level of self-referential ability, could say things to you or me that looked like consciousness to us, but which didn't really understand itself. And therefore could not actually be conscious.

We can agree that their can be an illusion of consciousness. But note the illusion is to external observers. The limited entity itself has no subjective awareness of the illusion or anything else.

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Which is why consciousness cannot be an illusion to an entity that experiences it. It is one of the very few (the only?) completely direct experience we have, with no intermediary.

If you have the qualia of self-awareness, then you have it. There is no illusion of having it. If you don't have consciousness, you cannot experience the qualia of an illusion of consciousness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

Through this pandemic experience, companies that were not previously forced to run more efficiently are now having to learn. Once they have figured this out, and IMO that does not take long, then there are few reasons to again carry the same amount of overhead, including employee compensation and benefits, office space, etc.

These BS jobs are not responsible for increasing revenues or decreasing costs. Eliminating them to reduce overhead is a no-brainer.
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> For the attack to work, it sounds like you would have already needed to have a piece of malware on your phone, ready and waiting to strike. But not a particularly sophisticated one. After you ask the Fortnite Launcher to download Fortnite, Google claims that any app with the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission would have been able to sneakily replace the real Fortnite app with a fake one after security checks were already complete. It's known as a "man-in-the-disk" attack.
In fact you don't really need to depends on third party to do analytics as well
You completely missed my point. Here: God doesn't exist, I'm in competition with myself only, I can't control the outcome or anyone or anything at all including my emotions, only my individual behavior.
It does seem like there'd be an obvious pivot from student visas. "Loved your college experiencem? Stay in the US! Here's a two year work permit, and if you get a position in your field, maintain it for 12 months, and show you're paying down any student debt you've accrued, you can convert it to a green card.
Would it be possible to provide a rom
Image that would run in an emulator?
> How many desktop environments actually let you switch the window button side?

KDE does. And Gnome used to.
I ain't no fancy pants happiness author but I'd posit that happiness is 70% stupidity and 30% circumstance.

You can be poor and happy or rich and happy, but the smarter you are the less likely either of those are true. Though being rich certainly helps.
Kinda like this guy except I use google apps for documents and sheets, VSCode for an IDE and...

I boot Win10 for Steam games, Fusion360 and AutoCAD.
>The future where the world doesn't need their oil

We'll need oil for plastics even if we stop using it for transportation, and Saudi oil is just about the easiest/cheapest to extract, so we'll be using their oil for a long time, but it won't be as grotesquely profitable for them as in the past.
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That makes sense, but the seller is listed officially as Apple, shouldn't they 100% make sure the product is always legit?

I wonder if something like Twitter Verified, but Amazon seller verified would help.
Sure. For example: I value honesty and hard work. If I am honest and am working hard I am living with integrity.
Have you tried Flameshot for screenshots?
DLSS is for anti-aliasing and sharpening, not for denoising. And the technique is different than fixed frame ray tracing denoising because DLSS makes use of multiple frames and motion vectors.
What does that have to do anything? A lot of people are unable to exercise, that doesn't mean that you shouldn't be exercising if you can.
locate is not mentioned -- two orders of magnitude faster than find for searches from '/' on my laptop, e.g.

find / -name \*bashrc\*

locate bashrc

Faster because reading from a single binary cache file, updated nightly, rather than opening every directory inode under /. To force an immediate synchronous update of the cache:

sudo updatedb
Wow, that website is really something. Feels like peeking into the mind of a deranged person.
Your `pre` elements are set to `overflow: scroll;`. You pretty much never really want that. (And it looks terrible on platforms that still have real scrollbars instead of the iOS-style overlay indicators that fade away. It should be `auto`.

See https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visufx.html#propdef-overflow
What advantages does sending data over WebRTC have over sending data over websockets?
This is pure speculation on my part, but would the parts of Azure Microsoft has open sourced be useful to their competitors? I think Google and Amazon would prefer their own ground-up implementations that work well with their systems. Furthermore, becoming a cloud provider takes a lot of infrastructure, so I'd consider it unlikely that a competitor would spring up using Microsoft's software.
Flutter for desktop solves this.
-1 to having a stranger wander through your place and things while you're not at home. As a commenter on this site you should be well aware that any computer security precautions are forfeit when physical access is available.

Get a roomba.
By that argument, running copyrighted code through a compiler would produce a binary that is not copyrighted.
All the big startups hire all the best people mostly to stop them from getting hired anywhere else until they can't sustain it. Having 1000 extra developers is better than having 200, 5 person engineering teams working against them.
I read through all of those a few days ago actually. It's a really awesome list. Thanks for publishing it.

ArchiveBox 0.4 will probably be the first thing that has a chance of replacing my existing solution.
I think this is the interesting question. I'm an extremely deep sleeper and almost nothing wakes me up while I'm sleeping, but I've found that I naturally sleep significantly longer if my bedroom has too much light or there's a significant amount of noise around me while I'm asleep. So despite not actually waking up consciously, I think I sometimes end up in this partial wake state where I'm not getting proper REM sleep and as a result, not actually getting the rest I need.

It wouldn't surprise me if this is often the case for people who feel they need more sleep. Having proper blackout shades and full silence (via ear plugs or otherwise) during sleep allows me to sleep a significantly shorter period of time as measured by however long I end up staying asleep. I typically don't use an alarm, so it's fascinating to be able to notice that natural difference in how long my body seems to need before booting back up.

Interesting anecdote - the pandemic is what triggered my awareness of this effect. When I'm at home alone sleeping (typically into the late morning, I'm a night owl), my dog will sleep with me. When my girlfriend started working from home from early in the morning, he would wake up with her and bark loudly at the occasional activity outside. I suddenly couldn't wake up on my normal schedule, even though I wasn't actually consciously woken up by the barking. The thought occurred to me that it could still be the barking and something related to the depth of the sleep, so I tried ear plugs + having my girlfriend close the bedroom door. Suddenly I was back to sleeping normal hours. Years of strange sleeping pattern problems were explained in an instant.
I think that was the case for Doom, but for Quake 2 and 3 a SGI Origin 2000 was used.
Woman who designed Florida's Covid-19 dashboard removed from her position
How to Setup Two Factor Authentication for SSH on Fedora
Hey friend, please don't purposely misread the comment. It's clear that folks are contrasting two different styles of communication.

Linus Torvalds can be plenty kind when he wants to be. And John Carmack has also done his time being a jerk.

What people are saying is that the kind approach is their preferred default.
What makes you think these companies haven't thought deeply about the issue, other than the fact that you disagree with their actions?
I sleep for 4-5 hours, get up for about an hour or so, and then try to sleep another 3-4 hours. Previously, I'd wake up after 4-5 hours and spend 2-3 hours trying to fall asleep again. An hour of activity during the night seem to be much more efficient as I get more sleep in total, and obviously feel rested afterwards.

Occasionally, I've stayed up, and while I've usually felt quite well for several hours without noticeable decreases in my cognitive abilities, I've been completely exhausted by lunchtime instead.

Perhaps it is an age thing?
This should be higher up.

PCBs are considered more like artwork.
I don't think anything is written up, but you can see it if you put Project64 into wireframe mode. The most clear I've seen it is in the intro cut scene of Conker's Bad Fur Day where the camera's slowly backing up from Conker's throne.

So TMEM is only 4k. If you want mippmapping, that eats half of it, down to 2k practically. That leaves you with enough room for 1 32x32x16BPP texture at most. So I think what they did in some cases was to take a mesh with a larger texture, and run it through a processor to tesselate the mesh on smaller texture block boundaries in UV space, so they can render each tile of geometry with the same texture block at once, then swap to the next subtexture and render all it's geometry. That'd give you an apparent larger texture than you could fit into TMEM, and is one reason (of many) why their games look so good. They also might not have had tooling for that and just brute forced it by hand, I can't tell just from looking at the wireframe.
.02 BAC is about a 12oz beer for the average male. Given that there is a lag between drinking that first beer and having the alcohol absorbed into the bloodstream, I find it entirely plausible that 1.5 pints in could correspond with a pool player's peak performance.

They've already consumed enough alcohol to move past the sweet spot but it isn't yet affecting their performance.
How is that nonsense? Have you never considered what a smartphone can do as a weapon of war? Mobile radios have not been modern for a long time.
Also my reaction. If anything the response to this shows developers' adverse reaction (or stylistic deference) to CSS in general. IMO CSS is not that hard to grasp, although my bias/expertise might be getting in the way. There are plenty of CS concepts that are much more complex than understanding selector specificity.
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These companies often assume that they can spend money to acquire customers but that those customers will stay loyal when the money hose turns off. If you have a fucking amazing product and spent the money to get people over the activation energy of trying it, that’s true. But a lot of these customers came to you for the bargain and flee as soon as the bargain dries up.
Oh it's a shame to see this domain (openhardware.org) isn't up anymore. Does anyone know what happened? We have been pretty successful in having free/open software, but it seems there's virtually nothing in the free/open hardware space
> If that's a monopoly, it's not quite the kind of a monopoly we should generally be worried about.

All available search engines run on ads and offer roughly the same service. There is no competition in the market from the perspective of the consumer. How is this healthy?
My understanding is that people have a pretty consistent "set point" of happiness that may vary, but generally returns to the set point. See research on lotto winners.
That's no longer true. The latest v17 update allows you to use USB2 (including the in-box cable).

https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/gjgcq0/oculus_...

Disclaimer: I work at Oculus but do not represent my employer on public forums. Opinions are my own.
I don't think I've ever went back to look at any of my offline bookmarks I've been collecting over 10 years. I have this fantasy that one day we'll have electricity but no internet for a while and I'll be glad I saved all of my bookmarks for offline use. But it's really just a fantasy.

Frankly, I've realized offline bookmarking just feels good and lets me close the tab. I would wager this is most people even if they don't yet realize it.
Ask HN: Now we're staying inside with Wi-Fi, have you changed your cell plan?
Some MVNOs are offering plans as low as $6/mo. The only reason I'm keeping my cell is to make calls. Now I think by switching to a cheaper plan, I can save at least $30/mo. Have you done this? If it's not too much to ask, can you say which plans work better for calls?
By that logic why do companies even bother to have employees or contractors? No payroll == more money?
Definitely relate to the foreign language part, especially when trying to speak casually after primarily learning from a structured classroom setting.
I know, it sure seems like he has a lot of skill and institutional knowledge to contribute. That said, I'm not sure what his current involvement is, I just know they referenced him in that article.
You wanna check out web monetization API - https://webmonetization.org
This may be what you are looking for. An ARPA membership with a small annual fee...

https://sdf.org/?faq?VHOST?01
Rent or buy home office furniture?
Interested to know if with new WFH norm people are happy buying their home office furniture or a commercial grade rental package would be appealing? Should employers pay for that?
If only there were a search engine for tiny websites.
I hadn't seen this discussed yet, but how did Google know that Podcast Addict was indexing corona-related content? What was the mechanism that triggered the ban? The developer's twitter said that he didn't include any corona keywords in the play store metadata, nor in the source code. The consensus seems to be that some automated system was too aggressive in banning.

My best guess is that the source for the info used to ban PA would be the reviews, i.e. someone posted a review mentioning "great podcasts about corona" or something. But I can't imagine it's that simple, because then I can just put "corona" in any review and get somebody's app banned.

Unless Google has some other way of tracking PA's content?
Given that no spot in the value chain is particularly profitable (drug companies, hospitals, doctors, nurses, insurance companies), I am more inclined to believe there are structural issues rather than greed.
Not yet. Still working on it locally.
We didn't know that we had insurance that covered this until after the court case. It was a nice surprise.
Data rentiership and turning personal digital data into a private asset