skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it is true, then good bloody riddance. Nobody is going to miss those rent seekers. The future belongs to open, unencumbered standards.
Today's electronics is mostly done by big semiconductor companies.

The sad reality is that today's hobbyists merely read datasheets and glue together existing ICs. You simply can't make a WiFi transceiver out of discrete components.
If I use it and decided to not pay after 6 months, then what? I lose all the curated bookmarks?
Scientists demonstrate particle detector for dark matter
Doesn't seem real.

What's there to break? The cutters on the face of the TBM, and bearings would likely be replaced few times during boring. Aside from that, what's there to break? Hydraulics is sure to outlast even the longest boring.

Pumps, gearing, sealing, etc should all be easily replaceable.
It's been reported in mainstream publications before this [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/05/31/us/politics/ap-u...
Firstly, Congrats on making it to the front page of HN, I guess you finally managed to work out the algorithms (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23417975). In closing all I would add is this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439437
Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 2: Image Improvement and Glossy Reflections
I haven't seen one either but I can easily believe it, as there are proprietary magnetic USB-C adapters that do not support data (they only have 5 or 6 pins). I can imagine a "normal" cable behaving the same way.
I don't think characters need to be deep to be memorable. The most memorable character from the Baldur's Gate series, and the only one notable enough to get his own Wikipedia article[0], is Minsc. Minsc is the cliched stupid-but-brave warrior hero we've seen hundreds of times before, but he has one memorable gimmick: his pet hamster Boo. The inherent comedy of this combination is enough to make him very popular. "Go for the eyes, Boo. GO FOR THE EYES! RrraaaAAGHGHH!"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsc
Anyone gone so long on silent retreats? Can you talk about the experience?
I sometimes receive my neighbor's mail (199 instead of 119), and he does too. One time I ordered pizza and it said it was delivered, but I never received it. I'm wondering if he ate my pizza.
It makes me happy to see the speed at which Blender is being developed now. I have been following it for more than 10 years and it seems like it is finally starting to take over the industry. :)

And even though I don't use it that much myself, it is one of my favorite FOSS projects out there. I wish Blender developers and community the best!
"Children in cages" happened during the Obama administration. No uproar then?
Firefox's performance on Linux is markedly worse than Chrome's.
Write apps for Garmin watches, especially supporting ones a generation or two old and on the lower end. Welcome to the world of removing code to shave a couple KB off the space the code itself takes up in memory so you can use it for data.

Oh and for some reason their language and APIs are OO despite the fairly tight memory limitations, and despite not having any real need to do that (nor enough memory to really take advantage of any OO features even if you wanted to). So you've really got to watch (haha) yourself.
This is how I think of it. The cliche is “software is eating the world” and it’s true - most companies hiring engineers are doing so because their bottom line is doing well thanks to specifically how scalable software is and how many real world problems it can help with.

So companies should be willing to pay a fair wage to good developers. I say should - obviously this is capitalism and if they can get it done for a penny then why not - but if developers refuse a bad deal it will create pressure for them to do so.

If I’m selling enterprise software in New York and someone from New York who happens to be residing in Mexico at the moment is working for me, I’m selling $10k/y licenses and paying him 20k/y something seems off.

OTOH if he moves to San Fransisco, Kensington in London, Monaco or Hong Kong I say ah ok here’s $200k. He’s doing the same stuff!

Doesn’t make sense to me. Instead say well he is worth $100k to us, he then chooses to live wherever in the world makes sense and is affordable.

For a remote first company that’s make sense.
the ultra left does not want to kill the rich

Just from the top of my hat, the latest example of a hundred-plus years worth of statements/actions that disprove that statement: https://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/videos/politik/Linken-Mitglied...

Shown there, a statement caught on tape at a strategy-summit of the German far-left party Die Linke (I freely translate): "...regarding Energiewende [German Green New Deal]… after the revolution, when the 1% has been shot, we still want to heat our homes…"

To which the party chairman, Bernd Riexinger, present on the same stage replied: "We're not gonna shoot them, we're going to put them to good use"
I've been using the free SketchUp (now SketchupMake) for many years, and it seems that no longer exists. I think it's been replaced with a new web-only free version. I found it to be pretty nice for simple woodworking and home projects, with a rather intuitive interface. My use was so casual and infrequent that I never really considered the paid version.

Is there a good alternative (free or reasonably priced paid) for very simple and casual 3D modeling?
> Definitely a shame that they make so many phones without microSD slots, though.

Just don't buy those phones and that problem is solved.
Cool, but this article would have been more useful with some practical examples of things Lighthouse doesn't catch. If the point is "this automated metric isn't perfect", no automated metric is but how bad is it exactly?

I still don't have a sense for how bad Lighthouse is because I've never disabled all keyboard events, disabled all mouse events, or changed the high contrast stylings. The article almost makes the opposite point to me -- how bad can Lighthouse be if the only loopholes are things that would pretty obviously have accessibility issues?

The only useful examples I could see were the ones at the bottom of the article, which show up in Lighthouse next to the score.
You can fight against a green new deal without being fascist. But if you fight it by doing or allowing people to do things that undermine democracy, like say... withholding aid funds to coerce other nations to do things that hurt your political opponents... yeah, that leans towards fascism.
Also to push the false dichotomy that we have to choose one or the other, but can't do both.
I know it's just an expression, but that has always bugged me. Fighting fire with fire is a legitimate firefighting technique (controlled burns.) Red Adair even fought fire with explosions.
> And vi was built from ex, which was built from ed, [...]

I think vi might more charitably be described as a paradigm shift. It also happened to bring terminal independence to everybody by later prompting the development of termcap (like vi, brought to us by Bill Joy). Of course termcap begat terminfo, [n]curses, ...

I feel like grandparent wishing for acknowledgement isn’t really out of line. It’s “Show a little respect; you have no idea where we were before vi.”
I didn't even feel that emacs was slow when I was running it on a 25MHz 386DX. The only real change between then and now is that I'm using a TrueType font with it.
Code Review and Criticism: Separating my work from my worth
This is annoying. I recently got a 3D printer that actually works (as opposed to one that requires endless tinkering) and I've been using SketchUp a lot lately.

Just today I encountered an issue with some bad mesh and I was thinking "you know, I like this product, I might just give them money, at least I'll get a perpetual license out of it".

This makes me reconsider that. I really think JetBrains went the right route here for their subscription/license and I was excited to see Trimble follow in their footsteps, until now.

And also this marketing copy is just a giant slap in the face. Give me the numbers!
Nice. Users have been screaming about how much changed between 2.79 and 2.81. They should have called it Blender 3.

The Blender 2.8x experience has too much of "where did they put ???". Remember, this is a 3D animation program capable of film quality, with UI complexity far beyond most applications. I spent 15 minutes yesterday looking for the "align" tool, which isn't where the "current" documentation says it is. That's a daily experience coming from 2.79.

Actually, the 2.8x series is pretty good. But it obsoleted most of the published Blender books, of which there are many, and most of the user base.
So a stable version, to give users some relief and allow the documentation to catch up, is a big win.
I love what blender has done with the interface.

It's like the exact opposite of Inkscape, which gets worse by every release. It no longer looks like incompetency, at this level I suspect sabotage by a competitor...
yep, pyenv is step 0 for sanity.
I have found that the configuration needs are all in the task. Most tasks are default-friendly by dint of harmonizing well.

The ones that aren't must be acknowledged, and attacked directly and mercilessly with automation. That could mean a bit of custom code, recording a macro for keystrokes or mouse clicks, or transforming the task into data to make it programmable or searchable.

Knowing the tools only means adding more options along these axes. Customizing the WM and editors can help, but it leans more in the direction of directionless tinkering. I develop in Windows and make use of its tiling shortcuts(Win + arrow keys) all the time - it's 80% of a tiling WM and is always there and has been there since Vista. That's the benefit of knowing what defaults can do, and "merciless automation" on top of defaults goes a long way.

Anyway, whatever editor you use, you still depend on the keyboard to type the code, the monitor to view it, and comfortable ergonomics for a long session. Identifying the best thing for the task is an art form. I recently invested in cheaper headphones(!) because they are lighter weight and therefore contribute less to neck strain; I also expect them to last longer since drop impacts will be less forceful.
I keep Vivaldi as my "test in Chrome" browser, but their business model is not the most transparent from a privacy perspective (at one point it looked like they were aggregating browsing stats to resell).

Firefox is still my main driver. They make the occasional bad choice but their overall business model is basically the best we can hope for in a browser, these days.
It was originally a commercial product. The seller went out of business, and the user community bought the software from them.
I consider that Mozart's music can be beneficial...

Q1 > However, there are some promising studies in regards to Mozart and relaxation
Q2 > Mozart’s music also seems to be of benefit to people with depression

https://www.pianotv.net/2016/11/the-health-benefits-of-mozar...
Ask HN: Simple Living in Tech
Lots of people say that simple living is better for them. Working less and sane, earning less but also being more frugal, down to earth and reducing consumption. They often remember no-bullshit jobs such as janitor as the time when they were happiest and least stressed, but they were ultimately forced to do something else due to finances.

I have a sad privilege to see my company grow a lot and become infested with office politics, decision commitees of random people, VPs ignoring employees because their advice contradicts Tech Crunch article they read and misunderstood... You know, typical corporate.

I love tech and I'd like to stay in the industry, but I have no idea where to look when searching for no-bullshit, relative stress free roles. Roles with maybe not that good salary in tech, but comfortable enough to get by. Consulting? Traditional business enhanced with my tech knowledge? Government?

Where to look?
our justice system isn't built on prevention, for pre-cognition, thought-crimes, or any malfeasance really, because that's the road to any of a slew of nasty -isms (totalitarianism, authoritarianism, etc.). justice is served after a wrong, not before it. that's intentional.

we prevent crime by being good to each other and expecting the best, not trying to force behaviors and ways of thinking. it's actually amazing that we are so good to each other--everyday there are probably millions of opportunities for strangers to kill or maim each other, and they blow right past that opportunity every time. it's awe-inspiring, really.

the first step is to stop being fearful.
Wireless is subject to interference and introduces new security concerns. They run on batteries which you then have to replace. They tend to cost more. That's a lot of trouble to avoid a two foot USB cable.
"You may have noticed I haven't tweeted in a while. That's because I've been on a silent retreat for 75 days.

Let's talk about the experience and how it's changed my opinions on capitalism.

(1/17)"
You can get paid for using the browser by being shown replacement non-targeted ads. Although it's a trivial amount.
You can't have it both ways. Either facebook/twitter/instagram are common-carrier public squares, or they are private corporations. If they are private corps, they can block whatever they want. If they are common carriers, they can't censor people, but they will also have to open up their platforms to competition and submit to more government oversight to allow for fair and equal access.
I am not saying that inheritance is a natural right. I agree that inheritance should not exist, because it is unfair. But, still, even if you get rid of inheritance, the kids will have different environments while growing up, it will still be unfair.

This is not a solved problem, so I can not provide you an answer on how to fix it. Hence please see my last sentence in my previous post:

Life is not fair and will not be, until we find a way to make everyone equal and provide equal opportunities.
> In fact, the opposite is the case! Just look at Adobe.

Well from some points of view, they're right - I had an Adobe CC subscription for a little while, and after six months of no improvements, I abandoned Adobe products entirely.
The highest-performance deep learning framework is most likely Theano which still has to be ported to current Python 3.x. There's quite a bit of low-hanging work to be found via fixing things like that.
The Pillage of India
I would assume the hit Ringo Starr song Back Off Boogaloo from 1972, which is one of his most popular non-Beatles singles, might be more likely to be known by the average person.
I'm don't think that covers everything! I have used that page when commenting, but I'm sure I've seen formatting not described there.
Sorry, and not to pick on you, but this is part of the going around in circles. People have been making the exact same points for literally decades. Combine that repetition with the superficiality and hair-triggerness of internet discussion, and we get a recipe for tedious flamewar, which is definitely off topic here.

It's part of the general principle about canned arguments. Intellectual curiosity is all about diffs, and the diff between threads with canned arguments and threads without them is significant. The latter are much more interesting.
As one who has used SketchUp for many years (because it was free for Makers), and even bought a pro licence at one point, I can say with confidence that this product is NOT worth more than $25/yr. It's riddled with bugs and the resultant models are extremely unreliable in terms of precision. Even with Pro, you need to buy a ton of plugins to do things you would think would be pretty standard for a Pro license like rendering, animation, pipes from lines, etc (there isn't really a decent animation plugin either that isn't buggy).

This is for making quick rough concept models only. For any serious engineering or 3D printing, I recommend Blender, Autodesk Inventor, or Solidworks.

Do not waste your money on SkethUp. You will waste a lot of time working around bugs and you will need to buy extra pluggins to do basic tasks, many of which are barely supported by their owners (there are exceptions). It's a product that had great potential, but has simply devolved.
You're really missing the forest for the trees there.
How ironic
I do not want into "big leagues". I said that the patent system no longer serves its original purpose and it is virtually impossible to write any meaningful piece of software without violating some patent.
You're cherry picking idownvote. Look at the current manufacturing and economic/workplace protection/maneuverability between class situation (not the stock market, the people) the US has been faced with. Do you really think this is working for everyone?
Stopping to work in the middle of a live presentation or in the middle of a game. My mouse is excellent, I love it but I have a magnetic USB cable next to the mouse pad for the times where I get a warning 10 seconds before shutting down.
Reviews generally just say "works for me" or "didn't work for me" and you have no idea if the problem was at one end of the cable or the other, or the cable, or the reviewer.
Found it here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208368

> Compared with Apple USB-C Charge Cable
The Apple USB-C Charge Cable is longer (2m) and also supports charging, but data-transfer speed is limited to 480Mbps (USB 2.0) and it doesn't support video. The Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) cable has Thunderbolt logo on the sleeve of each connector. Either cable can be used with the Apple USB-C Power Adapter.
If one, this would be open.

The current banking system doesn't suck because people are greedy or bankers are bad people. It sucks because it is closed and no one can join.

(If you're tempted to say: "no, anyone can join, they just have to fulfill the regulations blablabla", then this is your answer.)
Who cares which C-level exec is doing something nefarious?
Stupid laws will always be a thing.
I have a MIDI piano that takes USB 2 Type B. I bought a B-to-C cable and it works fine with my laptop and desktop. I decided I needed an extension cable (for connecting a microphone) and I opted for USB-C.

The piano's cable doesn't work with the extension, unless you connect it the right way 'round. USB-C shouldn't need a right way 'round...
> Solar is great but you can't put it in a tank or ship across the ocean or fly

Not directly. But what about using it for hydrogen production?
Ya, I found the answer on Apple's site:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208368

> Compared with Apple USB-C Charge Cable
The Apple USB-C Charge Cable is longer (2m) and also supports charging, but data-transfer speed is limited to 480Mbps (USB 2.0) and it doesn't support video. The Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) cable has Thunderbolt logo on the sleeve of each connector. Either cable can be used with the Apple USB-C Power Adapter.
I started using Blender around 2013 when we needed to make some exciting animations for a work project. I quickly grew to love it for its streamlined Jack of all trades approach to media creation and it’s breathtaking pace of development.

It’s such an incredible piece of software and I would encourage anyone interested in working with 3D graphics and animation to jump in. There is a wealth of training material online.

When you compare it’s basic workflows to other professional creation software such a as CAD, Photoshop the comparative bloat and lack of interface fluidity in the paid software is often jarring. It’s like comparing Vim to MS Word.

For example in SolidWorks if you want to rotate the view to a top, front or side view you can mouse over to a widget up in the corner of the screen or more quickly press space and then click a button there to orient the view. But that window has to be closed with the mouse and not by hitting space again and oddly can be resized for no good reason resulting in a big empty mess on so many users installs. It’s sloppy and janky design in extremely expensive professional software.

In Blender I just have to press 1, 3 or 7 on my numpad for front, side or top view as those keys correspond to X, Y and Z axes. Wonderfully intuitive and responsive.
Adobe, please just fix bugs and stop taking away functionality. Exporting as SVG in Animate is under the "legacy" option and I figure they're going to take it away soon. There used to be multiple vector export options (svg, eps, fxg).
Nice! I have been collecting a list as well :) https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/1f55f9679f064bcff029...
What if it was powered wirelessly, with a range as big as the cable?
> Many, if not most, dotnet devs run the Jetbrains tools to enhance their VS experience.

In fact, you don't even need VS as part of the experience anymore – Jetbrains Rider has most of the Resharper features (including "extract class" in the latest version) in an IDE based on the IntelliJ platform. It feels much faster than VS + Resharper.
I'm aware, but I just don't understand the point of it. How is it in any way better than a purpose-specific configuration language like Dhall/CUE/Jsonnet? What's the point of having it look like YAML at all?
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Chariglione was the charismatic leader behind the MPEG standards, including those behind DVD (MPEG-2). The biggest challenge wasn’t technical but political: getting a bunch of companies to agree to pool their patents so licensing them could be streamlined.

For next-generation video beyond H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC), that consensus has broken-down and his prediction seems to be that open-source standards like Alliance for Open Media behind the AV1 video codec will prevail. It’s worth noting that H.264 and H.265 are telecom videoconferencing standards defined by the ITU-T, not consumer electronics standards defined by ISO, so I’d say the loss of relevance of MPEG happened 20 years ago, even if MPEG (part of ISO) was involved in both standards.
Their code for the full browser isn't open source. Only the chromium code is. Although it's mostly UI related code that you can inspect but just be aware.
I hope someone makes a Dogme 95 tribute creepy movie while this sound lasts. It’s perfect.
Brave automatically redirects you to their referral Binance link
"In theory" all of those problems can be solved, though. I want to know why someone doesn't want wireless even in theory.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/melissasegura/police-un...

"Police unions have become increasingly rightwing as a backlash to the Obama administration and Black Lives Matter — and that’s bad news for the cities they police."
What are you going to do if you ever need to make any sort of change to the project? Rename the project?
I find your absolutist interpretation hard to understand. I think if the occurrence of a situation in which violence is appropriate necessitates an exception to a rule, that doesn't necessarily indicate a bad rule. For example, even though the Founding Fathers were presumably well aware that circumstances may exist in which violent revolution would be justified, note that the constitution they drafted didn't make allowances for a new American Revolution to able to occur without any laws being broken.
Tinkercad is free. It’s even simpler than sketchup. Might be what you’re looking for. https://tinkercad.com/
This is awesome. When I build my spaceship, it's going to have a command line interface and I'll use this to display pertinent spaceship-data, such as gravitational pull of nearby black holes, tachyon levels, and warp signatures etc.

Can't safely use a touchscreen or mouse when all hell breaks loose in space!
It happened because some users upvoted it and others downvoted it. What did you think was happening?
Wow. This is quite a stretch. I honestly didn't expect to see this on hackernews. At least this mental exercise, as improper as it is, probably can help you see how bad the situation is for black people.
For anyone unfamiliar with the title's origin, it is a play on words of a 1959 Richard Feynman lecture, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom: An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics".

https://www.google.com/search?q=there's+plenty+of+room+at+th...