skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing arrogance - so powerful and they will do whatever they like to keep and extend their position (hmm, trumpy behaviour)

>>A Google spokesperson said such agreements over antitrust threats are extremely common.

Sure they are, when you are knowingly doing such shady activities, bit like pre-nuptials. Or more like how non-disclosure agreements can be used to stop whistleblowers.
React Server Components Introduction
>Windows scaling looks like crap

Huh? I'm using LG's 27 inch 4k and scaling looks good. It can bug and force you to relaunch app but that's not something you encounter often.
Their copyright bots have no understanding of what public domain is, all it understands is resemblance to copies of work that somebody else has uploaded and claimed copyright ownership of.

Zero regards to the possibility of many people being able to legally create independent works that are derivatives of the same public domain work, without any one of them preventing others from creating new independent copies.
If you want to go bargain basement yes. If not, get an XPS or a Thinkpad (of the 'pro' series) and you'll have great hardware. Of course there will always be someone who finds something to complain about, but overall, these are fantastic machines.

Thing is, people complaim about there not being high quality gear, but when someone then makes it, they balk at the price. Yes people, a great laptop will cost you $3000.
Edgelords get rejected by all the non-nazis.
Federal spending per person is $14,652. If you’ve ever earned less than ~$70k you’ve accepted a dime forcibly extracted from a stranger.
I tried to use the Elgato Camlink with my Macbook and Sony ala6400. But everytime I use it, the fans would ramp to a noisy level.

Turns out that processing is still being done by the Macbook.
I had the same exact problem when starting Summon The JSON project. The best comment I read was it is the most niche project he ever heard of. And in reality it is a rather small market for it. Moreover, the price has to be higher than what normally card games cost. Because when you don't order millions of decks, it is more expensive to manufacture, and moreover basic costs are also split into a smaller number of orders. It makes very hard for any innovation to go to the market. It really depends on if you will find a way to manufacture it in small quantity (what increases the cost) and if you will have market for it. Fortunately I have found an ambitious manufacturer that prints on demand. But it is a card deck. Hopefully there will be more manufacturers of electronic part willing to support startups with small order numbers. It blocks the market we don't have them enought
“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”
4k on 27inch requires you to do 175%. 200% is too big.
After five years without programming in a language, one will inevitably forget syntax and/or concepts, that's not something specific to Ruby - there isn't a presence of "sharp corners" more than any other language.

Actually, Ruby's selling point, during the golden times (I guess it was around the mid-2000s), was actually the simplicity and human friendliness of it.

I guess (but it's hard to prove anything in this sense) that Python came out earlier as human-friendly scripting language (1991 vs. 1995), and Ruby didn't provide any killer feature - until Rails came out, but that caused Ruby to "be" Rails, while Python had other areas of application, for example operating system tools.
The examples @piokoch made are very good.

Seats in planes were designed for average people. It means that myself, as an average person, have the right to be relatively comfortable in that chair. If an obese person sits next to me, I have nothing against them on a human level - but the fact that they use my space.
They are not comfortable either (certainly physically and probably psychologically) so if we accept obese people in our society (which is the case), they should have special chairs in planes, similar to the situation for disabled people. They should not, objectively, pay more for them even if I think that in the vast majority of cases obesity is a choice (I am somehow overweight and do not think that this is anybody's else fault than mine). This is akin (at least in France where I live) to the fact that they will be medically treated with my money (same as the ones that smoke cigarettes will be treated for heart issues or pulmonary cancer).

Now, should someone who horribly stinks be allowed on the seat next to mine? No, because we do not accept stinkiness, as a society. It is completely arbitrarily, but this is how life is.

The example in sports is a good one too. I think that we should not test anybody for anything because a sportman today is not a normal being anyway. They are bred to be excellent in what they do. A volleyball player will not be able to participate in a 100 m sprint and have the slightest chance. So any idea of "natural" in sports is long gone (except for purely amateur).

In that light I have no idea how to deal with the women/men separation we have today. There probably not be any because a top woman volleyball player will be eons better than the amateur man volleyball player I am now. On the other hand they have no chance against a men team.

Sports at pro level is such a commercial entity that I even wonder if we should care.
Easy way to view it is browser’s private viewing mode.
This doesn't address the key issue of how many "in head" horcruxes you want to have. Is it one and the same for all passwords? Then two broken passwords reveals it (if someone's clever maybe even 1, not sure here). If it's different for different passwords, you now need to memorize (or store elsewhere) a list of many, many such horcruxes. Not 7... but maybe a 100 or 200 to be practical for a heavy user of internet apps. Which basically means you need 2 password managers.

So where do I store the 100 horcruxes?
What's your take on this?
Executive order requiring 'beautiful' federal architecture
The new thing is that 'professionalism' is a "white" thing and so it somehow suppresses other races. Somehow brown people like myself, Asians, hispanics, and most black people don't have an issue with it but for others it's a hill they wish to die on.

So now you have to understand slang of about 10 different cultures because speaking correct English is apparently oppressive. Also, being polite and not aggressive is also racist to other cultures, but not really other cultures, just a vocal minority of one culture. It's pathetic and it makes it really hard to Just Get Shit Done.
For me the most immediately noticeable difference between a webcam and a dSLR setup is FOV.

Every webcam use lenses with dSLR equivalent focal distance of 24mm to 12mm, which fits the user's upper torso naturally when placed atop a display, but lens that wide technically isn't suited for portraits. Portraits are usually taken from a distance with lenses with narrower FOV[1], typically 50 to 90mm in 135 equivalents or 45 to 25 degrees in FOV diagonally.

So to make a "good" webcam, the first step is to give it a "longer" lens if I'm going to do it. Trying a cheap clip-on "macro zoom" lens on a existing webcam, etc.

1: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/president-dona...
By the time holocaust was going on, it was too late.
It's sad that a perfectly good and neutral comment is getting down-voted without good responses. Just because it does not agree with the "functional programming is the best" trope.
Sadly, the software is quite terrible. Last I checked, it only did 720p. Even an entry-level Sony at that $700-800 price range outclasses what the software can do by a long shot.

So there's no way to make use of high-end Sony gear for mind-blowing webcam quality, since the software is a huge bottle neck. Very disappointing and a missed opportunity (not to mention Sony was months behind Canikon and others with their software release).
A new API backend for the jamstack
Oh lightning is definitely the largest real-life factor.

I definitely cut my colleagues some slack here since many literally had to set up a home office out of nowhere.

Some had to go to the basement (and CFL lights + webcams = blergh), others just had to cram themselves into whatever corner of the house (thus also badly lit).
most as in 99% is three orders of magnitude worse than most as in 99.997%.
Unfortunately containers are still into the "peak of inflated expectations".
Author Farley Mowat Smuggled a V2 Rocket into Canada
> Voat is proof that we are not yet deserving of free speech.

Try and avoid generalizing from one example. Free speech forums worked pretty well from 1995 to 2010.
Do you mean “abysmal”? Your first sentence says that a capture device was a bad solution, while the next paragraph seems to imply that it was a good solution.
He's a rescue worker so I assume the on-site man had a good feel for the situation.
@Apple MacBook Pro
Fun fact: The artist in question has been dead since 2011. The wording of the article, more specifically when it says:

> Grammy award-winning musician Maria Schneider and Virgin Islands-based Pirate Monitor Ltd teamed up in the summer to file a class-action lawsuit against YouTube.

It somehow led me to believe that the artist was being ... not nice, shall we say. But it turns out it's just the company then. Huh.
as a volunteer EMT I’ve done CPR a few times. it’s normal to break ribs.

probability of rib fracture increases with age.

sufficiently old and it approaches 100%.

babies are the most flexible, I don’t know if their ribs even can break, below a certain age.

edit: clarifying, I’ve never not broken ribs, but my youngest patient was middle age.
No.

Here’s a thought experiment I’ve come up with to illustrate this: what happens tomorrow if we shut down all social media (to whatever level you define social media.)

This gets to the crux of the issue - the underlying reality of the speed of information broadcast/transmission and the social-informational structures that are constructed to absorb it.
Until everybody is willing to admit that both sides are to blame for this, I doubt we’ll see any improvement, either.
$30k is extremely optimistic for tooling costs for someones first hardware project. Maybe if they found a good JDM in China to work with.
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Without a doubt this is my biggest issue within the software industry. Massive amounts of indirection & abstraction under the guise of 'DRY'.
This is the reason why i chose to use basic cordova instead of ionic in my application. I can't use cool out of the box components when building the UI, but i can implement my own UI components using Vue.

There are still some tradeoffs, the javascript webview ui components are not fast as the native ones.
i don,t think your comment is any better.
Even if bluntness only equals useful truth for a minority of times, it is still worth it.

Truth is a rare and important commodity, much like gold is. You would not throw away a mineral that has "only" a few per cent gold as useless, only because non-gold forms the bulk of it.
Grossly misleading headline, "and announced a new cloud region in Saudi Arabia that will be resold by an arm of state-owned oil and gas company Saudi Aramco.".

They won't be powered by saudi oil, just resold by them, however that works.
I think one of the main advantages of using data-test-id attributes is to remind myself that there is a test case connected to the code I'm currently editing. Also makes finding all the tests that are connected to this element easier.
Do they like it in 20 years after the concrete is all chipped and looks set to fall apart?
I have about 400 DPG passwords all stored in my head.

https://github.com/62726164/dpg
Moderation is a mash up of several roles- I expect it to expand over time. One of those roles IS slapping baddies.

You are on the forum so long you figure out who is a repeat offender and who are the coordinates groups
> organized religions are only nominally predicated on such stories

This strikes me as an absolutely non-factual and perhaps even propagandistic statement.

The entire premise of an organized religion is based on the stories of that religion! Otherwise, you just have a (more or less) conservative bureaucracy with a few rituals thrown in (rituals that, without said stories, are without origin).

> Whether the material is right or wrong is beside the point. If it has merit then invariably it will come in a different package sooner rather than later. Time is scarce, and attention is oxygen for people with an ax to grind.

What??? Saying that "whether the material is right or wrong is beside the point," is maybe the most absurd thing I've heard today. Regardless of the package, if something is true, it is true. With your mentality, one can construe very absurd conceptions of morality.

After all, it's mightily important that we don't tell the common folk the Earth is not the center of the universe, because <insert_religious_reason>. Galileo is a strange man with strange views (only supported by an equally strange Prussian fellow). I think those views will, if correct, surely come in a more acceptable package at some point.

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As a note of personal bias, I find it hard to sympathize with people who foster military ties as you claim to have.
Promote open source and vote for those that do. It takes time but it isn't that hard. Of course you have to execute what you preach and use more open source yourself otherwise that'd just be hypocrisy.
A simple fix to the language would be to require everything to either be on the left or the right of the variable.

I wonder why that wasn't done?
Sod's law means that the window is often behind the desk, making video pics a silhouette, and the light that does come from the monitor can give some ghastly hues to your skin tone!
I don't have any particular project in mind, but every BulletML game and many Danmakufu games are written this way. My favorite BulletML game is rRootage[0], but the scripts used in rRootage are procedurally generated combinations of scripts from other games, so they may not make good reading. I think Shiroi Danmakukun[1] features handmade scripts.

BulletML and Danmakufu's scripting language are not my favorite languages for other reasons.

[0]: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/windows/rr_e.html

[1]: https://shinh.skr.jp/sdmkun/
John Ousterhout's "A Philosophy of Software Design" is an interesting alternative to Clean Code.
Who do you expect to do that or who do you expect to give the power to somebody to do that?
How does that change anything?
2. Use a local password manager that saves to a file that you share using your own Nextcloud server.
It revolves around JavaScript I think. ;p
To me a defining characteristic of 1930s Nazism was a perceived mortal struggle against Communists that excused or justified egregiously unethical and immoral means.

In the modern U.S. that has some similarity to the highly polarized debate the last decade along party lines.

This however? It's mortal political enemies coming together to elbow-bump over ... pork-barrel end-of-term politics. That, from a realist perspective, is America. It's not great, but it's not 1930s Nazism either.
"Nazism" in today's usage is a collection of ideas (many with some ressemblance to the ideas of 1940 Germany). The label "nazi" is applied to anyone who believes any of them.

The biggest reason why holding one of these ideas makes it likely you'll hold the others are the effects oulined above (people being pushed into the wotch community). So, in essence, the modern censorship environment created the modern Nazi. :D
In the first aid training I took, I was not taught to look for a pulse, just for breathing. If there is no breathing, you perform CPR.
Nothing wrong with the article. The title was manipulated and baity.
Nah, there are plenty of truthful things around.

My point is, being jerk should not be equated with truth and people who are not jerks pretty often don't lie.
Finally made an account, just to reply to this. With newer Canon DSLR bodies you can use the Canon Webcam Utility[1] to directly get the video feed show up as a webcam, with just a USB cable.

I've been using the EOS R as my webcam with the RF 35mm F1.8 lens and it's working pretty great. I just hook it up with the USB-C cable and it shows up as a webcam.

The only annoyance that I haven't been able to get around yet is switching batteries. There's a Kickstarter project[2] for a battery that is hot-swappable, but among those features it also allows you to just use the power while plugged in, which I'm eager to try out.

I haven't tested the audio quality of the camera, so I can't say much about that. I've always just used my headset. I would expect it to be somewhere between meh and ok-ish. Of course you could invest in a proper mic plugged into the Camera[3].

I have it set up on a tripod behind my desk. One thing I have been considering is getting some kind of a monitor arm style setup for the Camera, but so far I haven't found such a product.

The setup of course is quite expensive depending on the Camera, but I already had the camera and tripod since I do photography as a hobby, so I was pleasantly surprised when Canon came out with the webcam utility.

Is it worth it? Probably not if you just want something that works all the time. I mostly use the camera to take photos, so I have to re-mount it every time I come back from shooting, and keep the batteries charged, etc. but people do notice and it's fun to see their reactions and getting accused of being a YouTuber every once in a while.

[1] https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/se...

[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/x-tra/the-camera-batter...

[3] https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/best-shotgun-mic/
Sadly the implementation of USB-C on models like the U3419W isn’t to standard and causes known issues when used with Apple laptops.
better than half precision, but will still burn you is the FLOAT type in MySQL. It's single precision, not double precision, which is expected these days in floats.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/floating-point-types...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(programming_language)
What are different ways to screen employees?
“sabai sabai" attitude and fatalism sound like a truly dangerous combination.
I don't run windows 7 - so the zero day issue wouldn't have been a problem.

That's like saying don't use the web version cos your out of date browser can be exploited.
The result of many decades of anti-Communist brainwashing. It's telling that stuff that's considered basic quality of living in Europe like government-provided affordable healthcare is considered "socialism" in the US.
The idea that a few people with guns are ineffectual is a common fallacy. A person with a gun at the right place and right time can easily be effective.

Also look at stuff like the Millennium Challenge, in which the United States Navy had multiple battleships with the latest and greatest technology sunk to the bottom of the ocean because of a couple guys riding around on bicycles passing notes and some small rafts with explosives.

An individual can do a lot.
Thousands of fraudsters are selling via Shopify, analysis finds
The science behind virus mutations and why they matter
And how do you explain the correlation in the past? Because the correlation of these ideas is not modern development, it was like that already during Nazi era - and when before it.
This movie just writes itself.
Why would it be better that they anticipated the current situation years ahead of time and then took actions that would allow them to continue to do it be better than it simply being reactionary? This is way worse.
I highly doubt respectful conversations were taking place where phrases like "i don't want to sleep with a Frankenstein monster" was born.

So at least be honest about "LGBdroptheT" being transphobic, if you're going to cry homophobia.
Translated video transcript of the event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj2-cgxy98o , some parts were a little unclear so I omitted them.

Cameraman

"Tum [someone's name] go see the injured person."

"Hey, someone, wear a glove and continue the CPR" (presumably the person currently doing it will get fatigued)

cut

"What district are we at?" (someone replies: 8)

"Please look around as well"

cut to the elephant being lifted up

"Is it [the elephant] badly injured?"

to the elephant "Come on!"

"Bring it to the hospital for treatment"

cut to the elephant walking

"Ok the baby elephant seems strong and can start to walk on its own."
That's a for a specific case of high performance code and removing duplicated work.

Referencing carmwack always has to be in the context of high performance code.

Even carmack himself has started like functional code. Which normally leads you down small pure functions.
I don't moderate anything anymore, but I generally have an n strikes policy when debating with someone.

If I spend [not insignificant amount of time/mental energy] with you just to disprove something inane, and you do that to me n times, I won't argue with you anymore, even if the n+1th time happens to not be completely baseless. At that point it's either explicitly on purpose, or implicitly linked with a bias that makes them susceptible to bullshit that confirms said bias.

I don't know if there's any ab initio way of knowing if someone's spouting nonsense on purpose or not, so character patterns are hard to scale. But that's why moderation online is harder and faster than in real life, because you don't have a 1on1 interaction in the same way. It's up to netizens to behave and think before speaking.
I've tried on a project, but incompatibility with some libraries (gems) made it impossible. I guess it's very much like PyPy.

I think parallelism is just not part of the Ruby ecosystem anyway, at least in the present (possibly in the future, who knows).

Rails released officially support for multithreading long ago, but it was broken. And there is a Ruby global lock, anyway (3.0 will have true parallelism, although in alpha).
To explain further:

200% (2 times each direction) scaling on 4K is the equivalent of 1080p. A 1080p 27 inch monitor has huuuge pixels for the normal viewing distance of a desktop monitor. 1080p is common on 23-24 inch displays. Therefore you are forced to use fractional scaling which is less then perfect.
1. India's image is what enhances its chances of gaining more business which improves livelihood of everyone.
2. Monopoly of violence requires working justice system where civil and criminal matters can be resolved.

Ignorance is not a bliss.
Ripple: A wireless token-passing protocol for multi-hop wireless mesh networks
first you talk about "our youth and our society are a good deal more liberal than they were 15 or 25 years ago.". Which you show as having gone from 54% D to 65% D ?? Which I would guess is fairly liberal. Then you go back roughly 40 years to say "The youth in the 1984 Reagan-Mondale election was not liberal".

And the generational thing is what I brought up originally. Boomers and some GenX don't necessarily 'point the way' that every generation will age.