skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's like saying that we shouldn't read books on the beach. You have to meet people where they are.

A secondary reflective screen on the outside of a laptop might be the better solution, but from what I remember reflective screens usually don't have good colors. The last TFT reflective screen I remember has been hard to find an outdoor picture of although.
I'm not GP, but I read and worked through almost the entirety of Volume 1. I found it both approachable and enlightening. I have read (but not worked through) large chunks of Volumes 2 and 3, I have not purchased a copy of Volume 4 yet.

Volume 1 really works well if you also work through Concrete Mathematics (my professor and I started on Volume 1, diverted to CM, then back to Volume 1). CM provides enough additional math to get through chapter 1, where I was having a bit of trouble on some of the math heavy portions.
Never mind the Apress, the book is also available or Amazon or other bookstores. The material that this book covers is very impressive and the author knowledge even more, he has some of his womrshops/conference speaches available on yt
Last year I was 55 and backpacking with my brother (35). I was reading a 1st gen Kindle and having problems without my reading glasses. He kindly pointed out to me that you could change the font size, an idea that absurdly had not occured to me. I still don't know what was more remarkable: that it didn't occur to me, or the way it saved 16 nights of reading for me. It felt a little embarrassing to have to take advantage of this feature initially, but it wasn't hard to embrace and feel deeply grateful for.
Mail is better then slack in that it is non interrupting. It is good for usual stuff that can wait hours or few days and is neither bug not feature request. Which is quite common thing.

Slack is good for chat and quick discussion.
VS Code 1.49
All true.

Nrfx has some stupid decisions made in it. Like #if #define where if you don’t “enable” something the variables aren’t ever defined. Which means for me I have some SPI code that throws errors when SPI INST 2 isn’t enabled. My code is still valid, it’s just that variables that used to exist no longer do. Annoying. It doesn’t cost anything to “enable” the peripherals in preprocessor.

It’s ~47 instructions in the example I just checked to get a return from nrf_gpio_pin_read(some_pin) that’s not good. It also reminds me that nrfx and nrf aren’t the same and when you need to use one vs the other is anyone’s guess.

I do like their ASSERT() and use it for my own things. It’s report function is weak so i can overload it with one that reports to my other FreeRTOS threads.

Nordic isn’t bad, but they went a little overboard with the HAL. I don’t want “one code” that runs on all chips poorly. I want chip specific code that runs great and yes I’ll have changes to make if I switch chips, but that’s life!

Not only can’t you go bare metal with BLE and real complexity, but with a modern RTOS and knowledge of when you need a thread there is no reason to on chips with 48Mhz and 512kB Ram.

FWIW, I do recommend Amazon FreeRTOS but investigate their LTS version they are moving to if you look into it.
New Hubble Data Suggests There Is an Ingredient Missing in Dark Matter Theories
I might try it, I'll let you know if I do under this topic.
Our Phones Are Color Correcting the Apocalypse
Lynch's Dune never looked so good! The actors were fully committed, whereas those in the trailer look like they're just reading the lines. No conviction. Guess we'll see if that holds in the full film.

Lynch's version also had an unbeatable cast: the Baron, the Reverend Mother, both mentats, Sting in his finest moment as Feyd Rautha, Kyle MacLachlan, etc. Throw in the sets and costumes and it's a tough act to follow. It would have benefitted from another hour, but so it goes.

Plus, those sandworm teeth in the trailer just don't look like they'd make a good crysknife.

It would have been nice to see what Lynch made of Return of the Jedi, which he apparently turned down for this, but I'm glad he made Dune.
I'm sorry but this "feature" is yet another design a hacker living in a bubble came up with. Most people think and program in English, or languages very close to English. In English I can read let x be 4ys and some change. I don't know how to read the arrow. 4ys and some change implies x? If this is a feature designed purely for speakers of SOV or OSV order languages like Japanese, that's fine, but the dominant language in technical discourse isn't one of those.
> YouTube incentivizes creators to make artificially long videos, resulting in a huge amount of filler.

Given how popular obnoxious jump cuts are on YouTube, I would assume this wasn't the case. What part of YouTube incentivizes this?

I always attributed the increased intros/outros/ad spot/filler lengths to the general trend of YouTube getting more "professional" than it did 10 years ago.
A lot of the complexity in EU4 consists of artificial mana mechanics, which HOI4 also has. HOI3 and Victoria II have complexity due to the underlying complexity of the simulation.
That seems almost certainly the case. It seems unlikely that any USPS sorting facility or post office where this could have fallen behind something would still be in use 100 years later (at least without extensive renovations/changes).
Until youre working on a team and your thoughts aren't the same as everyone else's thoughts.
I was surprised to see hooking code like this being written in Rust. I've come to expect C sample code for purposes like these, so it's nice to see that there are actually alternatives when it comes to intercepting function calls and extracting data from a process.
Valve discontinued their controller and streaming box because they did not sell - to get rid of their stock, they had to put them on fire sale. They're still supporting the controller and afaik the streaming box as well. The controller was innovative but often regarded as awkward, and the streaming box wasn't particularly special.

The Valve Index on the other hand has redefined the high-end VR market and is selling out accordingly. I've tried most of the consumer VR solutions on the market and the Index "knuckles" controllers blow everything else out of the water, it's not even close. Oculus has dropped out of that market, opting to produce more affordable but somewhat less capable headsets and controllers. I don't see HTC turning it around as they don't have the name recognition or the capital and their tech is already weaker.

Point being is that Valve owns the top-end of the VR market already and this project, while impressive and definitely promising, is not competing with Valve. It might in the future, with a lot of work, but it's not insurance against a Valve dominion. There might not even be room in this niche market for more than one competitor, which is awful but that's what we're looking at.
This is the exact reason I've wanted this, for a long time. I even asked Matz about it a conference once, probably 10-ish years ago.
I’m afraid all our servers run on Windows and use IIS ;)
It would be helpful to understand why you found that to be the case.

We get off-hand comments like this about the docs on occasion, and without explanation, we can't do anything to improve the docs to resolve the complaints.

We put in a ton of effort on the docs, and we think they're great. What are you missing? Did you spend the time going through and reading the docs?
I just watched the sumptuous Gandhi movie and thought "Nice, now I'll search for some movies about the real Gandhi". After typing "Gand" in the remote control, there was Gandhi in the 5th, after searches about a more important historical figure: Gandalf.

The first video was titled in big letters "Was Gandhi a racist who spanked women?".

Make no evil. Duh!
Perception of the data can be deceptive too (the process of turning data into information).
Portland protesters describe being swept up at night by federal agents
Smartphone cameras are not for people who know what white balance is, so that's a very solid thesis.
Sorry. Did our best to make it straightforward. https://caddyserver.com/docs/v2-upgrade

At least it's just a one-time thing.
Supporting Cast: Slate Plus platform as a service
Yep, that is very helpful. Thanks!
If you do statistical modeling, you have to watch your priors. Orange skies are very rare, so the priors in the camera image processing software are off.
Strangely enough, I like FreeCiv the most. Its mostly based on Civ2, but it takes a few nice features like boarders from the later games. There's a huge degree of customization.

The main issue of FreeCiv is that its an open source game with poor music / graphics compared to Civ6.

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Civ6 is the best graphically by far. Its available on a wide variety of platforms. Arguably, the simplified combat system is better for a beginner (but for me, I just get bored with it a lot faster).

I guess Civ6 might be best for a beginner: the modern community is on Civ6, its got the music and graphics you'd expect from a AAA-game.

But as far as actually thinking about strategy, build orders, and competitive play? I think FreeCiv (Civ2) is the deeper game by all measures.
> how do you give a benefit to those who contribute to removing CO2 from the atmosphere, for example for people who plant trees on their property.

You don't. Unless it's done at a large, industrial scale the effects of these efforts are negligible. There are always exceptions of course, like that guy in Texas who rehabilitated thousands of acres of land.

Not to mention planting trees on your property is its own reward. Trees are nice to look at, they give shade, hold topsoil, and create healthy ecosystems. They may even increase your property's value.

On the other hand, if we get good at carbon capture at scale (e.g. by harnessing un-storeable renewable energy) the money from carbon taxes should be used to pay for it.
> It doesn't actually change the fact that wide is the only way to play.

You can win civ6 without even settling a city.
Kary Mullis was an astrologist who thought that environmentalists were responsible for the AIDS hoax and wrote the forward to an AIDS denialist book written by a person who with her 3-year old daughter then died of AIDS a few years later.

There is literally no benefit to engaging with these charlatans or their half baked ideas.

Have you ever run a PCR? It's not magic and none of the arguments by these bizarre COVID truthers hold any water when there are thousands of people using them in research every single day.
Have you talked to mom-and-pops about this pricing model? Though "2.9% + $0.30 per transaction" isn't difficult to understand, if they've never heard of Stripe, it is difficult to understand _why_ that's what they're being charged. It might be easier to digest if given a flat monthly fee based on usage (e.g. $X for 100 units, $2X for 500 units, whatever)
As I understand it importers are forced to use urls ending in /v2 for imports, and to find out which major version a project is on when they do import, please do correct me if wrong.

I'd rather this was a choice made by package maintainers individually rather than the go tooling. Most packages simply don't need that as they strive to be backwards compatible and never introduce large breaking changes. Should they always be relegated to versions like 1.9343.234234, because the go tool requires it?
I added "Slate Plus platform as a service" to clarify what this is actually a link to as I didn't think just "Supporting Cast" was actually informative.
Don't contributors retain the rights on their contributions in most cases? I see nothing about contributor agreements or copyright assignment in Caddy's repo.
That sucks, one advantage of getting a laptop from Netherlands is that they use ANSI US keyboard, which I prefer over a localized keyboard.

Usually Dutch people speak English very well, maybe you can call another store.
The lcd screens listed are 195 right now. With a lower res screen it might get close. Pricing might be variable.
back then we used to call it slashdotting, what do we call it now?
That's great for you. Other people have a problem with being forced to do something that's not great for them.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/148424026X/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_1...
Btw its 1100pages long!
Where is the data on results? I looked at an AirBnB “experiment”, they moved an action button above the fold (duh). But no details on how much more effective the move was.

I am all for A/B testing, but the devil is in the details. You can get more users tapping the purchase by moving the purchase button where users are more prone to accidentally tap the purchase button. That doesn’t mean you get more purchases, or that the move was a positive change.
Agreed.

The survey collected 2,309 responses from US residents 18 years or older.

That is a very tiny sample to get meaningful numbers. The moving companies for sure should have a better picture of trends. It might be a year before we see any numbers though. [1] Perhaps a reporter could call them and ask if they have rough current numbers.

[1] - https://www.uhaul.com/Articles/About/19966/U-Haul-Migration-...
I got fibre to my neighbourhood
I'm a big fan of immutability and using constantly so I agree with your tutor.
In New Zealand, of all places, that's going to make this technology useless.
I changed over months and months ago to v2. It was painful, but docs were being written at the time, and the community was able to help me with most of my problems. The one last problem I've not solved yet is having caddy 2 work with bitwarden whereby bitwarden's ssl does not conflict with caddy 2. I was unable to figure out how to work with it, so my bitwarden ssl expires every month or two and I have to manually update the ssl by bringing down my personal site for a couple of minutes.
I wonder if you could embed a modern image-recognition AI in browsers, to create image descriptions when they are missing.
Tiny Talk: like ChatRoulette, with your friends
Hey there!

Introducing a little quarantine side project I've been working on: Tiny Talk.

Tiny Talk is basically ChatRoulette, but with your friends. The goal: to bring back social serendipity :)

Here's how it works: sort your contacts into groups (friends, family, work, etc.) -- or block a contact to prevent a match (other users won't ever know if you block them). Then, from time to time, you'll be invited to join a randomly-coordinated, 7-minute video chat with one of your approved, eligible contacts (or you can initiate a Tiny Talk to kick off the random matching process). Tiny Talks are double-blind, so neither you nor the person you connect with will know who the other is until you've both opted into the conversation. The only requirement is that you've both sorted one another into groups other than "Block". When the seven minutes is up, that's it! Need more time? Just call / FaceTime them back.

Tiny Talk is meant to be low-commitment (hard cap of 7-minutes), low-risk (pre-sort contacts + double blind matching) and fun (who's ready to break up the monotony of 9 to 5 Zoom?)

Available for iOS on the Apple App Store and Android on Google Play. Landing page / more info on the Tiny Talk site: https://tinytalk.io.

If you do check it out, definitely share any/all ideas and feedback!
Other options include bpftrace[1] or C, Python or Lua via BCC[2]

1: https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace

2: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
same, it was a huge part of my child hood. just leaving this here in case any other SMAC fans havent seen it https://paeantosmac.wordpress.com/
Yes, it's called Ocaml ;)
I think it would make sense for chained operations in a mental data flow sense.

makejunk().filter().last(4) => fourthings

feels better than

fourthings = makejunk().filter().last(4)
United Airlines’ website bug exposed traveler ticket data
Postmark is at the originating post office (usually). But what you say is still almost certainly true.
I haven't had a monitor in ~5 years, but the ones I owned had physical buttons for adjusting brightness/contrast/gamma/etc... Do new monitors come with no in-built controls?
Has the 10 cent surcharge on plastic bags not had an affect? When it was implemented in my area I saw most people switch to reusable bags over the course of a month, and many restaurants stopped giving out bags unless they were specifically requested.
Woz loved these kinds of optimizations.

With the Apple 1 he also used 7 bits per character, but he stored them with 7 1024-bit shift registers.
YC Tech Talk and Happy Hour
It was probably a Videx Videoterm:

https://archive.org/details/Videx_Videoterm_Installation_and...

It was common for Apple resellers at the time to sell them with third-party add-ons.
I've read that the 7-bit horiz pixels was a special Woz hack to save on cost. In 'fully'-addressable mode the nearby pixel 'swim about' as pixels are set/cleared in the vicinity.
I'm curious, how many years have you,

- used an iPhone as your primary device?

- used an Android as your primary device?

- played Fortnite, and on what device?

For me it was 6 years of Android before switching to an iPhone for the last 4 years. I've been playing a lot of Fortnite (less during the waterworld season) on a PS4 over the last 11 months.

Edit:

Especially because you're arguing for sideloading and Android already allows that, yet Epic is still suing Google. I ask because when you keep saying you're arguing "for customers" and "pro-competition", that Epic is just requesting a "basic right" (which they don't seem to be given the Google lawsuit).

I'm just wondering what background experience you have with all of these different companies and platforms that helps you judge what is best "for competition and the customer".
Right, valuable to the economy. But my original point is that “what is valuable to the economy” and “what is valuable to society” may be divergent
The HN "hug of death" is one I've heard frequently.
The most immediate way Slack is more "flashy AIM" than "flashy forum" is that threads don't bump back to the top when they get recent activity.

If someone replies to someone else's message in a thread and it scrolls off my view, they could have a 50+ message conversation in there that I would never see.

In a "traditional" forum, if a topic is that hot, it'll stay on top of the topic list. Even in a more threaded forum like HN, where ordering is done separately, when I refresh, I'd see there were more replies on a hot sub-thread, in a way that can disappear entirely in Slack.
I have a similar feeling with no rational basis. The fact that something so accessible exists and which no one can decode is a bit inspiring. I've certainly enjoyed exploring the world's languages trying to find a match for what I see in the manuscript, however unlikely it is that a non-expert could decode it. It does feel like a treasure hunt anyone can join.

Once we can read the text, it will most likely describe something mundane. Perhaps it is a text on herbology, like it appears. For me the mystery is worth more than whatever the manuscript contains. I don't think it will open the door to understanding history and a culture like the Rosetta stone did.
Caddy runs great on Windows! But the integration with OS-specific features might not be super tight. What do you use from IIS that only IIS does?
Civ3 and Alpha Centauri both have separate Build Road To... and Build Railroad (or Magtube) To... automation modes.
I don’t know about emacs but your comment prompted a search for Smalltalk-80 docs:

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook....

On page 309 the `Metaclass Protocol` is defined. This class has a property “comment” [with value semantic of] ‘commentString’. So possibly they got it from Smalltalk. Don’t know.
I've been working at Zipline for over four years now. We're building a scalable and reliable UAV based delivery system with a focus on making medical supplies accessible to all humans that need them. We're operating distribution centers in Rwanda, Ghana, and North Carolina, and I believe we're still the only such system operating in production.

I'm an embedded software engineer, and I work on a lot on the firmware running in the vehicles, as well as in all the various ground equipment we've developed to make our system easier to operate. I also touch a lot of "high level" python to build out developer tools and when interfacing to the company's broader software stacks. It's important for our system to be as automated as possible so that we can hire and train local flight operators to serve their communities with minimal engineering support. I think that's something really cool about Zipline. Our flight operators are the most awesome, dedicated employees, and they're in the trenches launching hundreds of flights per day through extreme rain, heat and cold. I want to say that something like 1/3 of flights are for medical emergencies, too.

I've been very happy working here, also. It's a really good group of people. Everyone's dedicated and self motivated to move quickly, without compromising family or work life balance. We try to keep communication within the company as flat and direct as possible, too. There's no corporate politics or egos to maneuver around. Our CEO's car is one of the crappier cars in the parking lot. For surprise medical reasons I had to take quite a bit of time off at a really quite terrible time in the schedule earlier this year, and my coworkers happily picked up the slack and sent me an embarrassing amount of very luxurious chocolate.

Since I joined, my team has grown from just me to about a dozen people, and all the growth has done is made us busier with all the cool projects we're taking on. We're generally always hiring across the company, and especially on the embedded engineering team. Since I've been around a while, I tend to focus on broad architectural work while helping out on whatever project is the most on fire, and try to give newer team members a chance to focus on projects that they can own long term.

https://flyzipline.com/careers/

This is what I've been working on improving this past week. If you sign an NDA, I can tell what relevance it has to 1980s rap music...
https://youtu.be/FeSCEalMOL8?t=85
How does it compare to cdk?
Thanks! It's great to hear the positive experiences too.
> This is important because if you underestimate you are effectively subsidizing foreign industry.

I think the idea is that every country in the world taxes imported or mined carbon, so there's no escaping the taxes and no implicit subsidies. The ones that don't play get hit with heavy tariffs, sanctions, or trade embargoes.
Nigerian scientists are working to better understand coronavirus