skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked in the industry for years and I'm just now starting to see accessibility become mainstream for difficulty. Developers are coming around to the idea that games should be "difficult for you" to the degree you are interested and capable of engaging in difficulty. Celeste, for instance, added some great difficulty adjustments. (Also, it's a fantastic platformer with a great soundtrack and trans main character.)

I hope we continue to see further normalization of sliders for settings for players to tone down (or up) experiences to have the game meet them where they are.
If the drug's patent is about to expire, doesn't that mean generics will soon be available and the high-cost problem will be solved through competition?
Asia forms world’s biggest trade bloc, a China-backed group excluding U.S.
I encounter so many bugs nowadays in my tools. I would probably spend all my time fixing those bugs in multi-million-LoC codebases (assuming that tool is open source). That story sounds like something that could happen back in the day, when things were simple enough. I wonder if it could happen today.
Manufacturing in India vs. China
Meeting Mr. Kid Pix (2019) [video]
Apart from the non-organic portion of liquids, doesn't just about everything you consumer consist of organic cells filled with DNA? Plants, animals, it's all DNA
All opinions on a forum are "alternative opinions". We can't tell if somebody is a scientist here, or whether they're talking shit or not, or whether the consensus (like in many cases) are old wives tales (like "fat is bad for you").

Even peer reviewed papers are "alternative opinions".

Unless it has been peer reviewed in several papers, repeated, empirically proven, and got into textbooks, I wouldn't consider anything a "solid scientific truth".
How about you work on 1 for 3 years and try to become as fluent as a native as opposed to speed racing through life like a powerboat on crack? /s

There are so many subtleties and history in a language, it's worth diving into one culture at a time.
In some countries I know it generally works, in others it maybe doesn't. I can't speak for italy.
yes. the age factor is highly weighted. i have no issue with faith, but i want to it to jive with rationalism that i value highly. i have mellowed much over the years.
For me the fact that they are working on improvements (including the ability to disable these checks) is a reason to take Apple devices into consideration again
> People will charge when electricity is cheapest

So if it's cheapest from 6 PM to 6 AM they will start charging (absent any control from the utility) at 6 PM approximately.

I am interested (genuinely :-)) in standards for grid to appliance communication and on which countries have those discounted rates. Would I lose the discount if my commute is longer (so I need a continuous supply throughout most of the night)? Are they tied to specific wires coming in the building?

Also did anybody run the numbers on the power that would be needed by a supercharger network comparable to current highway gas stations?
Hard work is the essence of what produces so-called talent. It seems to my understanding that talent is more so the culmination of a chain of clever thinking which ultimately derives more understanding and natural association with XYZ, than a deterministic natural born trait. Albeit, there are most definitely physical strengths tied to DNA, it wouldn't be entirely far-fetched to claim that different people have different mental strengths.

However, hard work doesn't always produce greatness. It would be misleading to say that hard work is equivalent to all other hard work. It's not. It's synonymous with the phrase, "practice makes perfect." Yet the phrase should really be amended to "perfect practice makes perfect." Aimless, bad practice will led to aimless, bad results.

Mental focus and barricades are huge components as well. The greats are just as human as the rest of us. Comparison is mentally debilitating for everyone, especially if "talented" individuals have a higher rate of growth than the average. Yet I have to wonder, does the individual who "desires greatness" aspire to achieve validation for ego-boosting fictional accomplishments or truly wish to push the edge of their capabilities to their respective human limits? The former have no chance at putting their energy into prospective efforts. The latter may continue to develop and create something the world hasn't seen before, and or realize that they can do things they had believed they couldn't before.
Is it really that much? 32B per year from 320M of U.S. population, that's $8 per month, with 72% having an account, that's $11 per month per user. Not all that much as i see it (trick is though, those who would opt to pay for ad-free experience would be the best, highest-revenue users, so a fair price for one would be a lot higher, i'd say no less than $100 per month).

But, i also see nothing wrong about personalised ads. At least, when personalised ads truly work the way they are (haha) advertised. Before personalised ads - remember the 1990s banners - most of the ads were utterly irrelevant, just visual spam.
Yes, but parent says " Purines are essentially broken down pieces of DNA". Are those all "broken down DNA"?
That is false on current macOS. There have been many additional protections (rootless, SIP, SSV, eradicating kexts) against uid=0 malware added to the macOS over the last 5-6 years, and rightfully so.

Even unprivileged user apps can’t read and write to every file their POSIX permissions say they should be able to, due to things like ransomware. When apps want to read or write certain directories, an additional permission dialog is displayed.

I am not aware of any other desktop OS that implements these sorts of protections. How you describe it is definitely how it works on Linux and Windows.
If there are a lot more, it's worth listing them all in a blog post. A set of evidence is more compelling than only one act that could potentially be written off as well-meaning incompetence.
Bash is more intuitive than powershell, not saying powershell is bad. It's just a might beast.

But nix has vi, native package managers and doesn't need a GUI most of the time. Saying that, I don't mind hyper-v and it's VBS technology.

If you need to run a business use Windows, if you need to host infrastructure or run an app...use nix.
Based on your post history, you might have ADHD. Consider speaking to a psychiatrist.
German Autobahn do have speed limits, the no speed limit stretches are limited.
Hm, I don't know where you got this idea from... I certainly didn't mean it like that.
WSL, even WSL2, has always been much slower in my experience.
Temporary Satellite
I'm biased as a language lover and wannabe polyglot, but I think new languages are a great skill to learn and certainly practical (if your goal isn't only to learn something that helps you make more money). Learning a language unlocks a whole new culture for you - both online and if you travel to a country that speaks it. Depending on the language it can also help at home (Spanish in the US, for example). For traveling in particular, if you speak the native language fluently it really opens up a very different experience than going around as an English-speaking tourist, it's very cool and fun.

That being said, focus on just one new language. Three at once is extremely hard to balance without committing a very serious amount of time and having a high level of natural language learning talent. The easiest languages to learn with English as your native language take around 500 hours to reach conversational proficiency [1] which is an hour or two a day, try to learn 3 languages at once and that's nearly a full time job. If you dedicate yourself to spending an hour every day it's realistic to reach conversational fluency in a year and a half or so, if you go more casually it might take 3-5 years or longer.

[1] https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/ (this is for full professional proficiency, you can probably converse smoothly with less than that)
Just learn 20% of the things required to be conversational in your favorite languages and everytime you finish scratching the itch of wanting to learn more, go do something else :)
Protecting a failed industry from modernised competitors doesn't work. The industry has still failed and now lacks incentive to invest in new technology and infrastructure. Having committed to protecting it with tariffs and quotas in the name of jobs, government is now a captured regulator and props up the failed sector further with grants and tax breaks; in other words, it's now a leech on every other sector. Those commanding the sector pocket the majority of the support funds, since government is incapable of ring-fencing or auditing their use.

So the strategy as a whole feeds a cycle of decrepitude, decay, and corruption. Since it's unsustainable, eventually the house of cards collapses and everyone at the bottom of the economic pyramid starves anyway.

It's a particularly nasty case of a policy measure harming the people it was supposed to help. There's an adage in economics, "trade favours the poor"⁽¹⁾. Mark it well.

As a rather extreme example, the so-called "Great Depression" of the 1930s was significantly exacerbated by protectionist trade policies, ostensibly rushed in to shore up local industries with tariffs; in practice this caused the already-declining global levels of trade to collapse entirely.

Protectionism is the opposite of investment and renewal, and an enemy of prosperity.

⁽¹⁾ there's a related saying in political science; "trade stops wars".
Yes, which isn't to say that only free content should be posted, but tagging it paywalled would at least let people know "Yeah, I can't rtfm, so I won't bother"
“I can trick a system service to do the malicious thing for me if I have root”, and that’s as designed, and something at least people on HN want (“I want control over what my hardware runs”)

If you have root, you can also remove Apple’s exceptions from that list. I haven’t checked, but that should fix the issue of Apple’s services bypassing firewalls.
So you'd prefer people were ignorant?
I've been soured by this whole episode tbh (and I'm big on the Apple ecosystem). I'm gonna hang on until there's a communication about Apple services in Big Sur bypassing Firewalls and VPNs
The interesting thing about gene ARHGAP11B is that it is a truncated version of ARHGAP11A, meaning that it was caused by a degenerative mutation, which goes totally against creationist arguments that degenerative mutations can never lead to improvements, let alone the development of new species. This should be mentioned in every textbook about evolution to counter the arguments of creationists.
There are a million other ways to “convince” them when they are operating normally, which presumably these apps are not explicitly hardened/audited against.
> Second, Agile doesn't ask people to estimate ("respond to change over follow a plan"). Management asks people to estimate.

I think it would be more accurate to say that those who pay for your time will ask you to estimate on the value which you expect to deliver in said time. That seems like a fair question to me.
Point taken! It was not so much about me , financials are not a stance for my living.
Philosophical as it may sound , my worry is for the hand cart puller who walks all day in pretty hot sun here , or for that maid whose husband has lost his daily wages due to COVID and how she makes ends meet for her kid selling milk to a co-operative here.
India lives in its villages (quot: Mahatma Gandhi) and taking a livelyhood off in the name of globalization may not augur well with rural households in the long run
This literally sums up my perspective on all modern advertising practices. The way we do advertising is manipulative and evil; the goal of advertising is no longer to alert people of potential solutions to their problems, it's to psychology manipulate them into buying something whether they want it or not.
No not at all, I was referring to the size of equipment seen in Afghanistan for dedicated geostationary links to military facilities.

The starlink cpe is indeed in the category of directv dish sized.
What you wrote about is something that I really struggled with wrt serverless when I first started learning it. Lambda, at this point, feels to me like doing a php project without using any framework. You are doing it all yourself, all the tedious stuff.

I have started to mix Zappa and Django to get the best of both Django and Serverless. So far, I like it. I have not hit any considerable scale yet, so I wonder if Django is too heavy, or just right. It seems fine so far. The other plus - it’s all open source tech, so it’s easy to move away from Lambda if I need to.

It’s even better, too, because you CAN break out some more isolated functionality into stand alone lambdas when they start to get clumsy inside a typical Django proj.
> This whole time estimation thing is akin to predicting when the next hurricane or earthquake will occur.

This myth needs to die. Can you predict if an item will take closer to a month or a decade? If true then it is far easier to predict than hurricanes or earthquakes. You might not make predictions as accurate as management wants all the time, but most can predict how long things will take within a factor of 3x or so and it will be within that margin most of the time, a person who could do that for hurricanes or earthquakes would be the greatest genius in history.

And yes as you get more skilled your predictions will become more accurate. Hence accurate predictions being a sign of skill.
Yes, I can see HN getting excited about a dramatically better satellite internet option regardless of who it came from. OneWeb, Amazon, etc could have had this attention if they had gotten here first.
CSS Cheat Sheet
Nice diagnosis! If I talk about food, I might have binge eating disorder and should seek a nutritionist
I can assure you 130km/h is treated as merely advisory. That is, you are advised to go at least 130.
Yes. This "greatness" is actually quite a fragile thing when one considers the mysterious origin of passion, etc. Without motivation there's nothing.
> We owe the monkeys their sapience.

> I did [killed all the kids I haven't had] and I find it acceptable.

Don't you think it's a self-contradiction? There's 0 evidence to support valuing hypothetical descendants of these monkeys over hypothetical descendants of your children.
It would be even cooler to get it working in user browser with local CPU and no upload thanks to ffmpeg on WASM:
https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm
Let's all just agree that if that lil smart monkey was born, nobody's allowed to kill it until it dies a ripe old age of natural causes, and we hopefully teach it to play Winston in Overwatch.

Otherwise, that's way too close to murder - thank you very much.
I was referring the parent posters's comment that he did serious internet access for military facilities in Afghanistan over geostationary.
Maybe the Dutch website is different but I think it is one of the worst webshops I've been on. When you search for a product you end up in a flood of pages with half related products. No filters, nothing. So I never find what I am looking for and just leave.

Now I don't think Amazon is stupid so there must be a reason for this experience.

I also think they know something we don't.
Doesn't help. You would need a globe with an "inner" map and an outer mostly transperent sphere that can be freely moved and display a country in a semitransparent manner. That way you can move the countries to compare over each other. And now might still want to freely rotate the upper one of them to get the best visualization.
I'm sorry sir, but your argument is shit. It's a false rationalizing, and it should be put down, along with all modern advertising practices.
I don’t think the handling of Covid is really indicative of government incompetence (except perhaps a complete lack of coordination nationwide on Covid efforts). Our federal structure was a compromise to keep the U in the USA. So it is expected that each state will do things as it sees fit. China is an authoritarian state that needs tight control in order to maintain the status quo, so of course it was able to quell the pandemic. South Korea and NZ are both small and relatively centrally governed. The UK, Canada, and Australia all have public healthcare or public options. None of it is true in the USA. We have chosen not to have a public option in healthcare for the working age population, so we shouldn’t expect to be able to put down pandemics easily or even with difficulty.
Subjective Time Poll
Did any HN readers notice a particular "speeding up" of subjective time in the 3rd week of September 1992?
Any light on this question would be greatly appreciated.
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Sir, this is the internet police. We will need to see your "full authorization documents" to prove that you're permitted to make fun of Italy.

I mean Italy is really easy to make fun of either way, you only have to take a look at the government and history to realise that.
Can you give examples of what you disliked in each of KDE, GNOME and XFCE?
Not saying RCEP or TPP are good deals - just that if all parties tried to construct mutually beneficial deals there’s every reason to expect countries to trade with USA.
Perhaps a corollary might be that not enough great engineers exist to give good estimates, so we attempt to avoid giving estimates with much consequence attached.
After moving to the USA from Europe I was quite shocked at the free-for-all on American freeways. The European model is followed very well in Switzerland, and it's extremely pleasant and practical to have the ability to cleanly overtake, overall reducing traffic and allowing different vehicles to go at their optimal speed without being stuck behind the lowest common denominators (trucks, busses, etc. clogging everything up)
Yeah, they're huge. I love the place. You can travel for miles and miles through remote forest, then pass through a main street that looks like the center of any other large town. You can get lost following the meandering pavement, or get in trouble following a dirt track too far. Dirt bikes share the roads with sport car rallies (and logging trucks). Expansive overlooks appear out of nowhere, and you can find backpacking trails by looking for cairns along the roads. There are equestrian camp sites. It's not really possible to describe in a short text comment.
Thanks for saying what needs to be said. My impression as well is that they just mind their own business and they do not want to be integrated, but merely prefer to coexist in a parasitic form and tied to their own community more than anything else. They have their own culture and traditions which they vigorously isolate from whatever place they live in. Framing the issue as just racism and discrimination does not capture the point at all even though they definitely exist in both sides. We are talking about a community of people that appears in Europe in the 9th century and they keep their cultural identity ever since and the rest of us are scratching our heads trying to understand why.
The article literally says "Instead, you can define an API that takes an SQL query from the client, runs it, and returns the results," so...
Those numbers are hilarious, there's a reason you found them on some random Youtube channel with no methodology or explanation...

I hopped on Gamer's Nexuses 3080 review just to get a number for a 5700XT and an i7 and Horizon Zero Dawn comes in at 10 more FPS: https://www.gamersnexus.net/images/media/2020/rtx-3080-fe/hz...

You can spot check the other numbers and find similar discrepancies...

Of course the reason I can't find a proper reviewer doing this exact setup is because the idea of buying a 2600 for a new build doesn't make any sense period...

Even the i3-10100 beats it in gaming, and that costs as little as $100...
There is more to the world than black and white, but post above mine was implying black. Which from SF to San Jose (where the companies actually are) is almost all lower single digit % of pop.

As for Oakland the black pop is steadily declining, and might even be sub 20% when 2020 Census #s are released, in a decade might be mid teens.
Rich Hickey thinks a better use of your time to get better at languages you already know [1].

My favorite quote from his article:

> Musicians get better by practice and tackling harder and harder pieces, not by switching instruments or genres, nor by learning more and varied easy pieces. Ditto almost every other specialty inhabited by experts or masters.

1: https://gist.github.com/prakhar1989/1b0a2c9849b2e1e912fb
Woah woah woah, what is this? Requirements analysis?
Ask HN: How correct are geohot's opinions on CRUD developers?
Geohot once said in his streams that CRUD developers ( people working on frameworks like Ruby on Rails, React or something similar ( I'm assuming Django as well ) ) aren't even real developers. They are mere translators and that bootcamps basically just teach you these frameworks that make you a translator between `input -> system -> output`, a job that'll be replaced to some extent by AI in the future. He also compared CRUD devs to those who wrote news by hand before the printing press.

How correct are these opinions? My recent work includes a large Django project with multiple components for an SaaS I'm building and that got me thinking, is this even real coding? Idk Geohot took a toll on me I suppose. I mean I'm not particularly restricted to a framework per se, I just like to use whatever the right tool/technology is to get an objective done.

Either way, would love to have some opinions flowing.
Windows as primary OS with WSL is perfect fit for my work.

I hope WSL will be better in the future. May be someday people will not compare Windows and Linux when they have WSL on Windows machine.
Published my first NPM package – here's what I learned
It has always been like this.

The Mad Man series are about an advertisement company in the fifties.
I finally got fed up with tweaking Arch/DWM and switched to Manjaro with KDE on my main machine, I went through all the versions of Manjaro and all had their problems and I finally settled on KDE.

Looks good, allows me some tweaking, runs surprisingly light. Although, still some annoying bugs, the most annoying being when I open an application on my 1440p screen, KDE often opens it on my second monitor for no real reason.
Technically that's also possible with cryptographic hashing functions, but we still use them.
There is, every source stated it man. There was meeting at the contested location, which both sides argued that it belongs to them, and apparently India used to petrol that area. In the meet they had agreed to pull back troops, whilst the Indian side retracted the troops, the chinese did not move an inch. This was observed by Indian troops, when they(about 2-3 initially) went back to enquire this, the Chinese counterpart attack the Indian side with weapons (wire-barbed woods etc) even when weapons were forbidden in that region according to previous agreements. This was clear violation from the Chinese side. Soon the Indian troops got a information about this and they rushed to save their men. And during this clash, most of troops from both sides either died in hand to hand combat or fell down deep into the valley.

The point is that China keeps on extended their claim of what border looks like for them, showing centuries old maps and treaties. Its not just limited to India. They captured few villages from neighboring country Nepal, last year their was a similar issue at doklam in bhutan where India had to step in. They have territorial disputes with All countries, even the region where China doesn't even share border by creating artificial Islands.

It's not about losing small region, but about future consequences, they'll proclaim more land. In fact, No body understand's how they could proclaim and ENTIRE STATE of India (Arunachal Pradesh), which has Its own Democratically elected Govt, since country's independence.

The Chinese Land Grab needs to stop. It's straight up Bullying.