skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent point. Parents, especially, I admire. There was a dev at S2 who somehow had two kids, attended university to finish up his degree, and worked at S2. As far as I know, he had a very happy family life and was a great dad. It was almost frightening seeing just how much a disciplined and motivated person can do with the time they’re given.

The other aspect I wanted to share, if it helps at all, is... it’s truly fine to waste your weekend, or to be unproductive and do nothing. There’s so much stigma attached to that, and almost every system in a capitalistic society would have you believe it’s a terrible sin or that you’re less of a person.

But I get that your point is more along the lines of “I just wish I had time for everything I wanted to do.” For whatever it’s worth, the feeling doesn’t go away. I feel guilty about not being as focused as I could have been yesterday, for example, and it’s hard to shake the idea that 24 hours are simply too few.

I should probably stop here, since the obvious reply is “yeah, that sure sounds like an awful problem to have, with all that time available to you. /s” which is entirely valid.

But! You can get it for yourself, depending on what you can exchange for it. In truth, my laptop’s internal keyboard has been dead for four years or so. I just bring an external everywhere, since it’s $500 to fix.

Unfortunately parents don’t have the luxury of simply choosing to save up money and then take a year off work, because the cost of family often scales with time. So, those of you who have children and still manage to do a lot of other things: you’re real heroes in my eyes. Fuck Sunday!
I'm in Canada. I buy VEQT.
Yes, I think this was more of an engineering problem than a physics problem. Building telescopes with enough sensitivity to be able to resolve a star ~100k light years away, and the necessary software to process their raw data, is no small feat.
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This actually reminds me of the early days of twitter, when people would do this more often in my feed. Don't really see it anymore, but I guess it still happens in more niche circles!
I’m taking a month off work and it is amazing. I was sitting quietly thinking about how not doing anything important frees you up to just be a good person. Listen to a friends story? sacrifice sleep or a workout to do someone a favor? It’s easy once you remove that constant feeling of needing to be somewhere or be doing something. It sucks that work forces us to not only make the most of our working hours, but also our free ones.
In the US you'll find the vapor recovery boots in California for sure. Other locations too, depending on the state & local laws.

Paying before pumping became a thing when gas went to $4 a gallon several years ago. Stations had a lot of people driving away without paying and the amount stolen was below what the police would investigate.

You can often pay at the pump, and they way they work is they authorize a certain amount ($75, I think) against your card, and then when the station settles at the end of the day, the actual amount will be applied. I have exceeded American Express's hold limit a couple of times during cross-country drives, and had to talk to their fraud department..

Pumps with one hose are cheaper. You'll probably get a dribble of whatever grade the previous customer chose from what was left in the hose. But diesel will always have it's own hose.

The funny thing about precisely stopping the pump - prices in the US seem to always have 9 tenths of a cent added to them - like $2.599 per gallon. If you purchase exactly one gallon, and hand over $2.60, there's no way to get that tenth of a cent change. I expect it was originally a marketing thing, and now it's a custom.
Sure, but your argument is for "shouldn't act".

It's not the same as argument for "avoid getting involved".

They can't choose not be involved, there's literally no way to avoid being involved once you're providing facilities.

The act of producing software which "does not moderate user generated content" is an action demonstrating a particular set of values. It's not neutral.
> Diversity of experience seems orthogonal to whether one codes outside of work.

It might be (I don't think it's practically orthogonal though it's obviously not strictly linked), I should have mentioned both quantity and diversity of experience (and, in fact, thought I had; I must have dropped part of intended edit.)

I can spend W + H time making X widgets, granting more quantity in the same scope or W making X widgets and H making Y (or Y0...Y∞) systems, for increased diversity with the same quantity in X.
Huh, I've always found Unity orders of magnitude better than something like Unreal, never seen more than 10 seconds to compile which seems quite reasonable to me.

(You do need to turn off Auto Refresh though, no idea why they think having that setting enabled by default is a good idea.)
> is it that unusual to want to watch a few YT videos or a 25-60 minute episode on a streaming service?

To want it perhaps not, but do you see people do this around you? I've seen more people gaming (laptop and mouse) on a train than people watching streaming video on the train. There have been more people that watched videos but when they pause for the conductor it's virtually always VLC or WMP, revealing that it's pre-downloaded. (I know VLC can do streaming but I'd have seen buffering here and there and they're much more likely to use the service's own client because of DRM.)

So while I don't say it's weird to have that desire (it would certainly be easier not to have to plan this ahead), yes, it is unusual in the Netherlands. And now that I live in Germany I'd say it's not just unusual but impossible, given their mobile data network coverage.
Let me guess, you're single and 24 years old.

You know what I do at home "just for the hell of it"? I play with my kids.
Possibly. It's hard to know without having a detailed insight into how this works. Presumably, there's some process involved in extracting it from both animals and plant sources. (You don't just put shark liver into a vaccine.)

Someone in the know would have to provide a comparison.
This is nice and I really appreciate the work of DuckDuckgo for privacy, but unfortunately it is not enough for me to switch from Google Maps. First, you cannot select a custom location as a target, it automatically selects a shop from a search result. I could not select my house or the closest station.

Secondly, there are no public transports, so it is unusable in Tokyo.
Assuming it was a properly conducted poll(I have no idea if it was or not), you get surprisingly accurate results with that sort of sample size.
Show HN: PurpleAir air quality iOS 14 home screen widget and app
Wrong link (missing last letter).

Correct one:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-legged_essay
Thanks a LOT
AMD has caught up to Intel but still lags behind nVidia (on Windows at least). I'm just not sure they can fight a two front war. Something has to give.
There are also clients that can just download those gifs while you're on WiFi for later consumption.

I'm not saying you should do this, just that it's also quite easy to save 90% of your data usage without reducing media consumption if you are so inclined.
Can one really separate Tolstoy's ideology from his philosophy?

I'd say the former defined the latter.
There are all sorts of "manually". I used to write and manage build scripts for entire GNOME when I was using Slackware 15 years ago. So occasional git pull ; # eyeball the build script ; makepkg is a breeze compared to that.

Automating AUR updates is asking for trouble anyway.
Twilio is buying customer data startup Segment for between $3B and $4B
Thanks a lot, happy sunday too !
Many vendors make routers which have 4G modem which then send out a WiFi signal + have Ethernet ports.

In rural areas the ADSL prices started climbing up a few years ago and most moved to cellular (60 euros for 21Mbps ADSL vs 25 euros for 50Mbps 4G). As of recent fiber connections are getting good in rural areas as well, so people are switching to fiber (40 euros for 100/100Mbps, 60 euros for 1000/1000Mbps). People who have both 4G router + fiber are quite rare.

In my experience some channels on 4G are quite ossified and during peak times you might even get a better throughput on 3G.
If you are interested in the science of poker:

Computer poker research group[1] of university of Alberta are working on creating AI that play poker better than human.

[1] http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/index.html
>You are not listening. You don't need round trips.

Ok, so you've already proposed to me that my server not only needs to know how to load all the data, it also has to have an HTML renderer baked in, AND in your haste to say my SPA doesn't have any advantages, you've already forced your server to execute a layout algorithm on N graphs of unknown complexity, on your own machine & dime instead of your client's, just in order to accomplish what my SPA got for free: instantly rendering the next content when the user clicked.

The fact that you can come up with a list of things orthogonally related to serving web content that aren't solved any more gracefully with server-side rendering than an SPA - SEO, semantic content, accessibility - it's just silly. Same with this idea that you're going to pre-render the HTML into an ingenious layout where the user makes a series of actions that uncover nested HTML and don't require round-trips. It's as if you're ignoring that a primary benefit of SPAs is you can hide data loading really easily with prefetching JSON blobs and writing JS to navigate the tree. It's literally the language for the task.

It's exactly why I've not been shy to say this: anti-JS anti-SPA users get so bent out of shape that SPAs build nice UIs that they throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I feel this way about high refresh rate.

Having a 120Hz monitor feels like having a computer that keeps up.

(Provided your input devices are also fast enough.)
It can be quite hard to come to game development from a web programming background, because "good architecture" for a React app means a set of best practices (e.g. one way data flow, immutability, discrete mutations and events) which don't always cleanly map over to a realtime environment. It might be good to talk about mapping over concepts you're already familiar with.
Nobody really knows yet. Check back in a year or so.
I can answer as a homegrown Canadian. Canada suffers from oligopolies in many industries, telecoms being one of the big ones.

Before I moved away to the US I was grandfathered into a $80CAD 8Gig/month plan and that was actually considered VERY good compared to what was available. Now in the US I pay $50USD for unlimited and burn through 25 gigs a month.
I love the concept, thanks for sharing
Highly recommend his writings on money and government. The man was brilliant.

"The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens… Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere."
— Leo Tolstoy

"The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another’s labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live. ('Taxation')"
- Leo Tolstoy
Teachers often work nights and weekends. They'll be doing anything from helping with extracurriculars, to looking after kids on excursions, to marking and writing reports, to for-profit tutoring, to planning lessons. A science teacher will stay up to date with what's happening in their speciality, and might have semi-related hobbies like birdwatching, or archaeology.

It's a little harder to pin down than side projects, but the activity is still there.
I love go, congrats on putting up that video
If you disable the option allowing Google to track and collect your location data everywhere and everytime, you cannot use this option.
The runaway example is more of a thought experiment to illustrate why emissions per-capita, in isolation, is flawed and can still lead to devastating climate change effects. In reality, there probably won’t be countries with unlimited population growth, but India, Nigeria, and other African countries will be adding several billion people to the planet in the future decades while most of the rest of the world will be even or decline. As climate change effects become increasingly real over the next couple decades, I don’t see the rest of world being amenable to decreased standards of living while other countries add people to developed standards of living. It’s likely countries will try to coalesce around existing populations being assigned a per-capita total emissions limit for their current population. Where a country’s additional population will come at the expense of the existing country’s population’s ability to emit.
I _think_ it was every other frame, and I am fairly sure that it was a software/driver issue. It had never happened before, it has not happened since, and it started immediately when starting the game and the symptoms got progressively worse and triggering the mild symptoms happened every time I started the game.

What I convinced myself of after a few minutes being sure I wasn't hallucinating was that the graphics driver was pushing out malformed data in some way or the other which was triggering bugs in the monitor hardware/firmware, which is easy to believe are plentiful. It would be an interesting project to try to track down and replicate the bug.
Lawyers and doctors are such a hysterical example here because they work a notorious amount. Especially when coming out of school.
I can't support Tidal's endorsement of MQA[1] - an audiophile scam and an attempt to lock music into yet another proprietary format. While they still use it, I won't sign up and I'll continue to dissuade others from doing so.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Quality_Authenticated#C...
That is really interesting, I haven't had an AMD card for >10 years now and would really like to be rid of Nvidia due to the closed source drivers. How is suspend/resume? Thinking about canceling my pre-order queue with EVGA and getting a 6xxx card.
Launch HN: Huespace: Home decor community,creating color palettes for every home
Hi. I'm David Lee, founder at Huespace. We are very nervous...But

I have exciting news: we are launching the Huespace app (IOS ver.) today!

Huespace is a home decor community platform that creates color palettes for every home. Our color suggestion tool allows users to re-imagine their space through different colors, styles, and products. Users can also post images of their beautiful rooms to inspire other users.

As you know, current social media platforms are too vast - the experience there is not catered for people who are seeking ideas for their rooms. Most home decor images out there are ads or sponsored content. We strive for a more authentic platform by allowing users to share their own spaces.

We strive for a community where non-experts can become designers of their own spaces. And we need your help: please give us feedback on what you liked or disliked about our platform, so we can better serve users like you.

Thank you - and enjoy Huespace!

Demo Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0mHgFV-sMw
IOS App store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1532674161
What is this 500B euro amount you are talking about?
A friend of mine wrote a 'chaos engineering' tester for this specific issue:
http://github.com/enferex/cme

Randomly inject bit flips into a target process memory space, so you can see/test how your software handles it (if at all).
The concern is first-party fakes, so I don't think public-key crypto helps anything. For example, in the "launching a cryptocurrency" case, you want everyone to believe you just launched the cryptocurrency, so that it's not possible for you to have done a bunch of advance work on hashing to create an unfair advantage for yourself.
UK here. I pay £20/month (USD $26) for unlimited data, voice and SMS.

I have two such SIMs, one for the home router (because it's cheaper and faster than FTTC) and another for my phone.

Usage varies, but on a busy month the home SIM will see 100-300 GB, mostly for Netflix. The phone SIM sees about 10-30 GB.

Speed varies by time of day, but at peak it's 90 Mbit/s down, 20 Mbit/s up. At the slowest times of day it drops to about 8 Mbit/s down. The phone is faster than the router, so I've occasionally switched to using the phone to download something large.

Last time I checked, there was technically a cap on the monthly data of 3 TB. For a while they also limited tethering to 30 MB, i.e. using the phone as a wifi hotspot, and then (if they detected it) you could theoretically be charged a lot for tethered data over that cap. But they officially removed that restriction a few years ago.

The links are a bit unreliable. But the FTTC connection I had before was more unreliable, and more than twice the price. The FTTC connection before that was nearly three times the price (gouging - it started out cheaper than quietly kept increasing a lot). And if I move home, I can take my link with me now, instead of being tied into a 12 month contract at a fixed location.
Derren Brown did this with horse races IIRC for a TV show.

https://derrenbrown.co.uk/shows/the-system/
Commenting just because I think this is well-said and would like to come back and read it again, from time to time. Nothing else of substance to add, but much thanks.
Nice post. It’s worth noting that a post like this doesn’t need to be written for Godot because the official docs are already this good.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_...

After spending literally hours trying and failing to get Unity to run at all on my computer, I downloaded Godot and ran a demo project in 5 minutes. It’s a great lighter-weight option for software developers who want to feel a little closer to the code.
So, that's what it's for! :((
Thoughts on Bartleby?
Oh, that's a thing I've noticed a lot lately in Cook County --- squad SUVs with the silhouette of a tactical rifle behind the front cabin. I think they might be standard issue now?

By military uniforms, I mean, like, fatigues? Drab green, no colors. CPD insignia.
You think 4GB was anywhere near common for a 2005 PC?
Many lawyers and doctors do work on the weekends and they have continuing education requirements. Your comment suggests you have no idea what lawyers and doctors do.
Whenever I see them use two adjectives side-by-side as in "I will be very and highly..", I automatically assume they are young-blooded
Does it actually impact speed or just QoS? I'm on an Optus reseller network and basically can't see any problems - 1080p streaming and Duo video calls work without and with low latency. Even if I'm prioritised lower than business, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
You still have to reason through “what if it collides with the real hash function?” How do you know it will behave the same if you don’t test it?

(I can sympathize with both approaches and don’t think either one is better.)
It's your comment that made me realize this hit the frontpage so thanks a lot
I use around 15 GB/mo out of my 60 GB/mo plan

Looking at my mobile data usage (which hasn't been reset since August), the top apps are 5 GB YouTube, 3 GB iOS system services (mainly document sync), 2.5 GB tethering, 1 GB photos app, 1.5 GB Twitter, 800 MB LINE messenger, 800 MB App Store, 600 MB music, 500 MB Safari, 500 MB Instagram, 350 MB Podcasts, etc etc
When I say "If a CDN is critical to your site's performance you should put your site on it" I do mean to say "put (those parts of) your site on it" not "if 51% of your site should be on a CDN put the other 49% as well".

But to your question though even un-cacheable content can be "those parts of". There are products from CDNs like https://blog.cloudflare.com/argo/ which combine CDN cache tiering with higher tier network transport to origin servers for all cache misses (or uncacheable content). Again though, it depends on if it's critical to your site's performance or not. If you don't have a bunch of uncacheable content, that content doesn't need the absolute best transport, or the time/money could improve some other part of the site speed more then it's not critical to your site's performance.
Particularly, paying per song versus paying per seconds of song delivered is bullshit
Welding isn't a really good comparison. I'm not sure there's much new coming out the world of welding, and you probably hit peak skill 3-5 years into your career. Neither of those assumptions hold for programmers. The field is constantly changing, the 'best practices' are evolving and you (should) never really hit the day where you're never going to get better anymore.
I think creating a side project just because all the cool kids are making money doing it can make you exasperated.

It looks like when the reason for doing it is not to solve your own or anybody else's problem, your focus becomes more and more about technology, competition, process, etc.

Otoh when you're alleviating the pain, your focus is always to get it done as quickly as possible no matter how many corners you need to cut.

So yes it's time to take a step back and figure out what your goals are and if they align with whatever it is you're doing with your time.
I've heard horror stories of trying to develop a game and also maintain an up-to-date Unity install. AFAIK it's best to just live with whatever Unity version you've started your game in and be careful of upgrading point releases and avoid upgrading to any major release.

Also, I think it's worth mentioning that if you care about the longevity of your game (like 10+ years into the future), depending on the Unity runtime being compatible with future OS versions is also a risk.

Then again, the alternative requires some pretty hefty engineering chops and prior knowledge of a whole host of lower level concepts and APIs.

EDIT: Also Heaps is the choice of Dead Cells dev and he's written about it some here: https://deepnight.net/tutorial/using-my-gamebase-to-create-a...
St Kilda is another that might interest you – it's somewhere I'd like to visit one day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmf7OZCe63s

No one lives there anymore, but there's still a small abandoned village where people used to live about 100 years ago.
Gee, what excellent conversation you make. Flagged.
Without consulting it, I guess it is raccoons that will take over the world?
Where does outer space begin?
Thanks. Yeah that does sound plausible. Canada suffers from anticompetition too.
I've just started messing with WSL2 on one of my old threadrippers. Ubuntu works. What I've not found yet is a source for Centos. I've found a couple open source projects, and a few beer money entries on the Microsoft store - but nothing I'd consider a good source yet. Still trying to figure out if I need to package up Centos or make some random msi work.

The irony is I've spent more time mucking with this than doing a native Centos 8 install on the same hardware.