skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this a good time to post this video of the Union Demo Copy Program tool[1] for the Atari ST? When it came to serious copy jobs I used Fast Copy[2], though. But I'd heard rumours about formatting disks on DOS.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf19uSe2UIA

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Libl3S9AaT8
German company to produce Cameroon's biometric passports
Why is it over the top?

Having the actual subject in front of you is the best way to learn about things.

Do remember that this is not about sex, but about body image.

As a German i never understood the prude Americans and their idiotic view on nudity.

Having stupid amounts of violence (even the Tom and Jerry kind) in the media is fine.
Having artificially perfect bodies (with the proper amount of cover by clothing) is fine too.

But if there is a nipple visible somewhere they go full apeshit for no reason.
I don't think there's any payment plan that nets you the console for free? The payment plans are good on their own right, because you aren't paying much more (or slightly less) if your plan was to get a Series S + Gold + Game Pass (Gamepass Ultimate). But there's no plan where you get it for free.
Wow, really unfortunate these are locked under copyright of "The Trustees of the British Museum" ([1] for example).

[1] https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/1613716997
That was a surprisingly fun read.
>TS is still too immature to recommend

care to explain?

I don't think TS is immature, but whether it's true or not, Java is still used by 90% of the enterprises. I am amazed why Node.js (TS in server) could not yet challenge Java, especially in large enterprise systems.
Can somebody tell me what's the use case of having several routes between home and the outside world? Is it redundancy? wouldn't you need more than one physical routes, which cost money?
> “Analysis and refactoring and everything” isn't something VSCode overlooked developers interest in, and application server integrations are also part of the VSCode ecosystem.

I have yet to see vscode perform one third of the refactoring options provided by e.g. qtcreator for c++
Nobody in their right mind would publically express these views in today's Cancel Culture witch-hunting climate. You're probably in a bubble of like-minded people, and mistakingly extrapolating the views expressed in that bubble to the whole developer community.
Wat?

They took over sovereign nations and enforced their rule where they had absolutely no claim. That's enslavement of whole peoples.

And that's not even getting into forced labour, torture, rape, genocidal starvation-inducing policies, stealing of resources, racism, and so on...
Kotlin + Spring Boot is pretty nice and going to get nicer as the Spring people roll out more Kotlin friendly features and DSLs.

The trick with Spring Boot is to keep things simple and avoid some of the stuff that is there for legacy code bases. Also, there is a lot of complexity lurking in using stuff like JPA (which I tend to avoid), spring data (like wise), spring-batcg and a few other things that IMHO are not so great. But the core of spring's dependency injection and e.g. MVC with kotlin's co-routines is pretty nice. If you want graphql, there's a great spring library for that from expedia that makes this super easy to setup.

The reason javalin and other frameworks are not mentioned is because it's part of an enormous long tail of stuff. A quarter of a century of Java means that there are a lot of things out there that are still being maintained and actively developed.

Technically, Spring MVC and Spring Boot are the actually the same thing pretty much. Spring Boot basically just packages up Spring 5.x with a lot of convenient things. I've actually migrated a few old spring projects to spring boot at some point.
Have you ever tried QtCreator? I tried CLion and VS but all feel slower in my CMake based c++ projects.
I spent hours playing a similar game on the Speccy that I've never been able to track down. Turn based with graphics that looked like Lords of Chaos, except you controlled an army of wizards and soldiers against invading swamp/rock monsters.

The one distinguishing feature I remember is that you had to aim ranged weapons manually, a bit like a golf game with a rotating direction arrow where you have to press stop at the right time.
I bet most HNers don't even know what Palantir is much less why it would be wrapped up in any controversy.

I'd be wary of extrapolating much from online bubbles.

Btw I don't think I speak for a minority of HNers when I say that it's not that easy to find a "good" job, whatever that could mean. For example, simply wanting a fully remote job already damns you to a tiny minority of US jobs, especially pre-Covid. Even a so-called "bad" company doesn't need to check many boxes to be one of someone's few options, so it always seems quite premature to claim that nobody would want to work at said company. Hell, if you even particularly enjoy your job, you've hit jackpot as far as many of us are concerned.

Sometimes statements about what fellow developers will or won't do make us all sound like millionaires looking for our next hobby.
This is beautiful!!

Do you have a write-up or any details on how you did it? There's quite a few things I'd like to apply said treatment to :D
But how do you learn to put a condom on then?

I guess everybody tries in private anyway; but making balloons with your classmates is way more fun ;)
I'd disagree with the "single play through" and
"pointless starting weapons" comments though. For
me it was multiple play throughs learning about
what worked and what didn't. This for me was actually
a thing that kept me coming back.

Absolutely! Without cheating and looking at FAQs, it's essentially impossible to win your first playthrough... or your second, or third. It's not fair. But it makes you keep coming back. And when you finally learn to beat those bastards it's just exhilarating! In retrospect, I'm not sure how it manages to hook us. But it does. For me, perhaps it was the (intentionally) pulpy 90s-style, X-Files-style, paranoiac alien invasion/infiltration plot.

In many ways we could say X-COM broke so many rules of game design. By any conventional standards it's way too hard at the beginning and you'll generally be way too overpowered at the end, if you've got the flying armor suits and such. But that is part of its unique charm, intentional or not.

Played the newer versions on Xbox 360 and mobile,
and whilst fun, they had removed far too many features
to keep me engaged for more than a few hours.

I thought the 2012 reboot was just good. Like you said, I think it removed a little too much of what made X-COM.... X-COM, though there was certainly much I loved.

For me, though? XCOM2, and particularly the "War of the Chosen" expansion, actually do surpass the originals.

OpenXcom is a much better offering, especially on mobile.

I've been putting it off for years. I need to dive into that.
I guess I'll have to try it out one of these days, thanks!
For me, node js projects are not difficult to maintain. Who is right at the end?
https://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/XcomAcademy.XcomAcademy.htm...

https://www.feartheboot.com/ftb/index.php/archives/category/...

Here's some collaborative xcom fanfic.
> I hope the cable company bought the "mortified" TV owner (possibly old/poor) a new TV because they've done nothing obviously wrong.

I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to jam public signals village-wide: https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement
Bro where TF do you find flashcards? Too much effort to create them urself
Tools like these will also help with that. We will be directly able to measure a Childs nutrition and intervene if the parents are careless.

I have watched many cases of child and elderly abuse which were not just due to lack of education.

People have different passions mine is a criminal free world.
To be perfectly fair with you it's a mistake I commonly make as I'm not exactly interacting with Canadian provinces and it has very little to do with my day to day.

What I am repeating is a "fact" I've heard multiple times from multiple executives and I live half a world away, I've never been truly interested in what the various political systems are in Canada (or the US, or Mexico, or wherever) but I am acutely aware of different laws in those countries too.

For instance in some states in the US it is legal to turn right on red.

If I use the wrong terminology when referencing county or region then it has little bearing on the things I've actually heard.

I never claimed to be an expert on Canadian law, just that I had heard this anecdote and I'm trying to say as often as I can that I'm not an expert in law or Canada itself.

I understand your point, but it _is_ rather pedantic as it doesn't actually change anything about what I said to get it wrong.

I'm sure you know very little about how Switzerland is segmented but you are aware of the direct democracy antics of the country.

Ignorance of one thing does not preclude knowledge of another.
It’s nearly $100k more a year just for a median home mortgage, so I don’t think it was ludicrous. Local and state income taxes are essentially triple as well. I don’t think $80k will cover property, Federal, State, and local taxes at that level. Those taxes exacerbate the pre-tax income necessary to cover that median mortgage.

Again, I’m sure I could get by just fine on under $300k in SV. But it’s still not comparable in terms of being as comfortable. For example, if I really wanted to pay off that median home in five years it’s possible elsewhere; I don’t think that’s a reasonable option in SV.
If you like the first MoO, take a look at Dominus Galaxia.
Not really, the copyright on the photograph will always belong to the photographer. The image is available under creative commons for non-commercial use, which seems fair enough.
Security September: Cataclysms in the Cloud Formations
That's a pretty nice write-up, and continues to show why hardened hardware is needed, not just software, if you actually have secrets to protect.

One thing that struck me is "After running these experiments for more than a day, resulting in more than 1 million experiments, we did not observe any successful glitch…"

That's like 100ms per test. Are those devices that fast to put into uart mode and reset and wait for the result? Were they running this with multiple devices in parallel?
Maybe, but the point of this protection is to avoid accidentally using them. If you let a user supply a URL and they enter a javascript: URI then it'll be defanged.
I did! Mainly on Linux because QtCreator is one of the very few Linux IDEs where the debugger worked out of the box (now I switched to VSCode too there, mainly because it allows the same development environment across Windows, Linux and Mac).

True, QtCreator performance is fine. But I found the whole toolchain integration (Kits?) and cmake integration a bit weird if I remember right.
I know what you mean. So many things are like that. =)

But I'd really like to hear the case in favor of TFTD. I might go so far as to call it objectively worse!
Getting into the region of flight where MCAS operates by design on a commercial flight is already embarrassingly sloppy flying. The number of sick bags required on the flight would be a fair proxy.

Unless we are talking about the number of times MCAS activated outside of its design criteria but didn't result in a crash. For example, as is presumed to have happened on the flight before the Lion air accident.
Incremental change can be hard to notice; I believe that more than enough people can, will and are getting serious about climate change. It's always worth building more momentum.

CO2 output reduced[1] by over 35% in the UK between 1990-2017, and that demonstrates that real, impactful change can accumulate thanks to simultaneous improvements in multiple areas. The linked reference includes a Jupyter notebook with Python analysis code and original data sources for anyone curious.

The UK isn't alone in this - many other European countries and the US also reduced CO2 emissions between 2005-2015[2].

The UN Environment Programme produces yearly 'gap reports' such as this one[3] from 2019 that provide assessments of worldwide progress on greenhouse gas emissions relative to countries' commitments via the Paris Agreement.

It's still a difficult battle and some people won't care to help for various reasons; some benign, some selfish or ignorant.

In my opinion much of the capability to improve requires strong, well-informed political leadership who are able and willing to encourage and improve energy efficiency.

Since we have good tools to collect and analyze information nowadays, I believe that in the years to come it'll become increasingly apparent which groups have been working earnestly to tackle climate change and which groups have been impeding progress.

[1] - https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-the-uks-co2-emissio...

[2] - https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-co2-emissi...

[3] - https://www.unenvironment.org/resources/emissions-gap-report...
“people absorb knowledge by reading sentences”

Such a boring take on books.
I like to write software but I don't want to be on-call if the software I wrote breaks at 3am in the morning. I do take my job with professionalism, I do write tests for most of it (not 100% coverage, but 100% coverage of the critical parts), I do monitoring (and answer and fix alerts if they happen during working hours) and I don't deploy on Fridays (and don't allow people to deploy on Fridays).

My code will crash sooner or later. I already know that. I don't write 100% bug-free code. But I cannot accept to give 100% of my time one week per month or so to a company in exchange for money. I just don't understand why people can't understand that I can be a professional only during 8 hours per day, but not more.
Innovative ways to improve learning are always exciting, but leading with a hypothesis contrary to my personal experience[1] is unlikely to convince me the conclusion be valid.

https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2020/02/06/the-secret-of-aca...

> "The temptation is to write papers proclaiming the superiority of your work and the pathetic inadequacy of the contributions of A, B, C, …"

[1] in particular, working memory is not an issue with books: rereading is a thing.
HSBC started as the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and its founders were intimately involved in the opium trade. This article seems reasonably neutral and historically accurate: https://mondediplo.com/2010/02/04hsbc.
Great to see so many new user-friendly fin-tech apps gaining traction these last few years.

Revolut recently launched out of beta in Australia, and they have disposable cards and virtual cards, which was a huge selling point for me.

It's absurd that we had to essentially hand over the password of our bank account to random online sellers and let them pull the money out, instead of just sending them some money. It's an outdated model. With disposable cards we're one step closer to a sane system of online payments.

I also don't understand why Up/Bendigo decided to disincentivise putting all my money in my Up account. IIRC they lower interest rates on your savings if you have too much in the account? Strange.
Yeah, that the tech industry is a meritocracy is a myth that's popular with the white educated middle-class men who like to believe they have more merit than other groups.

(I'm a white educated middle-class man myself, and a career in the tech world has been easy and natural for me. I'd love to believe it's because I'm really that good, but I try to be aware of my privilege.)
Hey, just wanted to come comment here to say that since reading this 2 days ago, I've setup bvckup2 to sync all my important stuff. This is exactly what I've wanted for a long time now. Thank you so much. It's really exciting.

Up until now I've been manually doing it via 7zip. But doing it manually is so unreliable that it doesn't even count. Or using Macrium, but it always felt like overkill.

Bvckup2's archive/keep eveything feature for handling deletions is really great!

Someone else in this thread mentioned Duplicati, which also looks really great. I might add that to my backup flow. I thought it was you, but now I can't find it anywhere in the thread. I guess they either delted or edited their comment.
thanks for the info. i did not say there are two streams. i said there are two levels of transcoding - normalizing the ingress into some standard codec and container and second one is the lower bitrate variant - that does not mean just one but as you said - it is/can be 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p(source) and so on. in other words the encoding takes place at least two times.

> FFmpeg (x264) is plenty "fast enough" when tuned on commodity X86 hardware, when you have things like AVX extensions. Generally transcoding a 4-6 second segment of video should only be taking a couple of hundred milliseconds at a maximum

can you elaborate on this? i find that hard to believe from what i have seen and from the ton of "ffmpeg is slow" google search results. if that is truly the case, there might be light at the end of the tunnel. annecdotally, today i encoded 2sec h264 mp4 into av1 and it took only 2-3 minutes... vp9 took 8 seconds(still 4x). sure, that was not on a server but still, it's not like i am computing PI on the background.
Who Is the Monster?
Or it's just like having an incanter on the squad.
Fans of XCOM should give Xenonauts a try. It's pretty close to the original, but the new penetration and building destruction mechanics make it really enjoyable in combat.

If you are a big fan of the XCOM OST, I think you might enjoy the XCOM 2 Tactical Legacy Pack OST, which is a reimagining of the original's soundtrack. I played through XCOM 2: WotC with this and it was fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLydXsA6zXiitzsl9JBCFs...

One of my favorites is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZv1brsTE_A
If they clicked on the "jam public signals village-wide" labelled button rather than the "on" button, fair enough.
92% of UK charity websites load cookies before consent
It probably takes 18 months to get a support case escalated to the point where a real engineer looks at it.
Definitely one of my favourite games growing up (along with Colonization).

I'm reminded of one of my best gaming facepalms which occurred playing X-COM. We'd been playing the game for ages and had found it very difficult to kill all the aliens during the ground missions. We'd go round the whole map attempting to find the last remaining aliens before having to give up. It was only when one of us accidentally clicked inside the UFO that we realised we could actually go inside the UFO. Our mission success-rate improved somewhat after that 'discovery'.
I don’t see how this is an argument for how “books don’t work”. The author’s point seems to be that books don’t support learning, because books are static and can’t adapt to the thinking and working process of the reader/student. Something more is needed to “learn”.

This implies that the purpose of books is to “teach”, but is that so? Books at best “inform”. It is up to the reader to bring the framework for learning, be it the class setting, a study group or just experience enough to self-study.
The two biggest problems I've had with Intellij IDEA for Java:

1. It's too memory hungry for a project that uses microservices.

2. Lack of official support for OSGi & bndtools (although it looks like almost no one else is using it based on their data).
I find it funny how they carefully avoid mentioning Kotlin in the article. Especially considering that it is popular and that they created it. I guess they did not want to be party-poopers on Java's birthday ;-).

Basically, Spring + Kotlin is a great combination currently. Spring has first class support for Kotlin and it arguably makes a lot of things easier. E.g. async io with Flows instead of Spring Flux is a lot nicer. I've done several projects with that in the last few years. The Spring people have done a lot of good work in recent years of making it work seamlessly with kotlin. E.g. their flux stuff is a bit clunky but interoperates nicely with Kotlin's co-routines and flows, so you mostly don't have to deal with it.

Also on Android, basically most projects are Kotlin at this point.
When's the last time you checked if any of your electronics were emitting a jamming signal?
Show HN: Compose Key on macOS
Thanks, it's much more interesting indeed. The link should probably point there directly.

Now that I understand what it is, it's actually something that I've wanted to use before. It looks very useful.
IMX it's safe to pass by those long books with millions of anecdotes, and more enlightening to attempt to untangle the cultural trends behind the specific products (and their visual and textual presentations) in the duty-free catalogue.
As Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
As a JetBrains customer of their full product suite for many years, I actually agree with this sentiment.

In fact, I think VSCode is one of the best things to ever happen to JetBrains. In particular, Live Share forced them to finally respond with their equivalent product Code With Me (several years too late, but at least it's here).

Without VSC, I don't think JetBrains would be responding nearly as well. It's baffling they consider themselves a full-feature IDE product while having an inferior alpha live share that was rushed through only in response to competition. It's been suggested for years.
That's very fascinating. Good luck on your project! Convert some non-believers =)
I see that this is the author of the excellent "Quantum Country" so perhaps the case being made here is obviously biased, for a good reason.

I get a sense that the author seems to argue that most book authors are not conscious of the working memory of the reader. I don't think that is true. Many "good" non-fiction books I've read actually rely on space-repetitions throughout the text quite heavily. The author, to their credit, does note this for textbooks. Often concepts in long texts are referenced in a non-linear manner, either in expectation of ideas to come or in retrospect to draw parallels & new connections. Unfortunately, the onus here is on the reader to realize and extract the maximum juice out of this non-linear flow.

The key idea of this post is to shift this burden to the "medium" and not the reader. Books can't handle this responsibility in their current form. I certainly agree with this. Distill [1] is pioneering this from the perspective of medium-reader engagement. Unsurprisingly, Michael Nielsen, a collaborator of the author of the post, is a member of the steering committee at Distill. :-)

I love these new directions in dissemination of ideas!

[1]: https://distill.pub
Show HN: Adversarial Generation of Extreme Samples
That's going to be a long time.

Look at northern inland there are places in Ireland and parts of Scotland and even the USA where I would have to be careful as I am a product of a mixed marriage and I also was a a "crown servant for 15 years" and have a southern ie catholic last Name.
Last I checked (and that's a long time ago) they would pretty much hire anyone who could both code C++ and seemed able to learn finance.

And was willing to sell their soul, ofc.
Everytime i turn on my fan, my computer screen goes black for 2 seconds, only when used on same outlet.
> You're probably in a bubble of like-minded people

I don't think I'm IN it; I am observing it from the outside, and would love to find an opposite bubble to observe too, but just can't.
> Unless we are talking about the number of times MCAS activated outside of its design criteria but didn't result in a crash.

Yes, that was what I had in mind. You can bet that on every plane that did not have the secondary input to the MCAS system this happened. Two crashes are the very ugly tip of a much larger iceberg and the FAA has a vested interest in keeping that iceberg submerged.
Agree. I found Thinking, Fast and Slow painfully biased