skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like your monitor is set too bright. (Or less likely, not bright enough.)

If you set your monitor to the same brightness that paper or a non-backlit screen would have in your room, then your vision doesn't have to adjust to the different brightness levels.

Same for TV. Don't watch TV in a dark room!

When I had a modest home theater with a projection TV (the old bulky kind, not a separate projector and screen), one of the best things I did was to light the white wall behind it with a soft neutral gray light.

The technique at the time was to use a small fluorescent desk lamp on a small table behind the TV, with the fluorescent tube wrapped in a specific color of lighting "gel" to make it a neutral gray. The lamp was aimed up at the wall behind the TV. This made everything much easier on the eyes.
I've been seeing the same even in English language.
Tinder keeps your exact location (a bit) private
Replying to my own post but want to give credit where it is due. First saw this on Phoronix.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nintendo...
I think it also has a very impressive refresh rate for an e-ink display. It's actually usable as a monitor for reading, writing, programming...
maps me is better for me, because using is very easy and comfortable!
That's the question at the center of all this, isn't it. Who actually holds the power here, the state, or the company whose information they hold could severely embarrass anyone who opposes them?

I can't even begin to imagine what similar companies in NA (e.g. Facebook) have on our elected officials.
Although almost nobody who reveres him seems to notice that his policies assume a basic level of universal healthcare and significant government assistance during economic downturns, since he writes about these almost as a side-note.
While I don’t expect this to also be a breakthrough in terms of pricing, hopefully it starts driving the volume that will eventually make this type of display more accessible.

eInk is notoriously proprietary and patent-encumbered, which is largely what makes for the astronomical price. Once the patents start expiring, we should start seeing the prices of displays become closer to LCDs.
100 people is more than Apple has working across 3-4 major products, so no.

They work in much smaller teams.

What you describe is some IBM carricature of the 1980s.
I’m on mobile so forgive any syntax mistakes, but I’m talking more along the lines:

const createLea = (data) => ({
...data,
id: (
data.id ??
data.name
.toLowerCase()
.replace(/\W+/g, '-')
),
});

No mutation, no getters (function or implicit), dead simple to use, dead simple to reassign (just call the function again with the same data but provide a new `id` and super easy to understand at a glance (easier with types, but I digress).

> prototype-based-like language

One of the benefits of the approach I describe is you’re no longer working in a prototype based language. I mean, of course you are, but you don’t have to care.

Edit: even on mobile I couldn’t stand the formatting.

Edit 2: since I mentioned performance in my original comment, I’d add that there are two benefits here (one real, one possible with JITs): getters and setters (and anything with Object.defineProperty) perform worse than regular values; if you program in this style, the JIT has an opportunity to recognize that your values are generally immutable and optimize object construction e.g. with the spread operator as persistent data structures the same way FP languages do.
Don't forget the many ways in which Machine Learning will revolutionize X.
When I remarked on Twitter about 10 years ago that Mark Zuckerberg was the most powerful person on earth, I got attacked big-time.
>What the users are going to do? Use Bing?

duckduckgo isn't horrific. And certainly not for image searches, which is how Pinterest's pollution ends up being noticed.
If you're interested in this talk, watch this one first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jiPeIFXb6U
there are issues with `terraform graph` that taint the output a little with unnecessary information: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/14511

People at hashicorp are aware of it but it doesn't seem to be a priority getting the output to look nicer right now
how do you even interact with the N64 ... ?? controller????
>Yeah so far I don’t think Apple has done anything equivalent in importance to the Enigma code breakers

That's probably because the Enigma code breaking has been mythologized. The war would have won without it (and it mostly was on the Eastern front anyway).
Thanks. I guess it would be nice if CTRL+Z mapped to :suspend under the hood.
That stable neutron can be a stable tetraquark with zero electric charge, or something of that sort.

It has been eluding lhc experiments for the same reason dark matter has been eluding them: detecting neutron like particles is extremely difficult when there are only 5 of them per cm3. I suppose that in some experiments those neutral particles get hit by accident and physicists see some discrepancies in the results, but since those discrepancies aren't reproducible, they get swiped under the rug.

As for the early universe model, well, it's a nice theory and it's backed by a few indirect evidences, but it's still just a theory we can't verify directly. This theory invented before the dark matter came to light, right?

The experiment we're talking about would cost maybe 10 billions - a rounding error in a world where some people make multiples of that in just a few months.
(Former Apple engineer)

It’s funny, a friend of mine who’s been jumping around tech companies and recently joined a (non-Apple) FAANG had told me that I was taking the Apple secrecy way too seriously.

It’s kind of a unspoken rule at Apple that you just don’t talk about what you worked on while you’re there, and I just normalized that kind of behavior at future ventures for better or for worse. Every former employee I’ve spoken to agreed. HR had (and I’m sure they still do) meetings almost annually showing that leaking has serious implications, from factory checkpoints (even though we’re in SWE) to prevent parts from being leaked to post-mortems on how various HW and SW leaks that end up on MacRumors.
Which is why exactly I call his writing brillant...he seems to be able to express a consevatism that also has a soul.
He started making more money than the politicians.
You're showing a fundamental misconception and outright ignorance of what research papers are, and more importantly what science is. For example, you're somehow assuming that academic papers about to be subjected to peer review are somehow milestones which write in stone the truth instead of what they actually are and always have been: a way to share data, observations, theories, hypothesis, and even assumptions on research topics. Researchers share their work not because it's bullet-proof but because it's food for thought that can be used to drive our understanding a bit further.

And a paper is retracted only in extreme cases such as gross scientific malpractice such as fraud. Unless you have some info that you refused to share, I see no coherent and rational reason to indicate any of these papers should be retracted. Having strong emotionally-driven positions on a subject is not a reason to demand a paper should be retracted.
I just realized Vitalik never finished college. That's even more impressive for what he's done.
The former, until you run git gc, in which case the latter happens.
Very sad to hear. I’d always hoped to have the time to take Latin with him but never did. Requiescat in pace.
i specifically hate how they hack slap a login wall on images, and dont allow you to right-click+save on mobile. they're intent on breaking the mobile web for their own self interest.

if you're going to SEO yourself to the top of google, good for you, but please dont use google as non-optional lead capture for your app that I don't want.
I love 18xx, they are probably my favorite genre of board games. (Though the recent resurgence in publishing has made me scrap any ideas I might have had of having anything even approaching a complete collection.)

The Wikipedia page seems like an awful introduction to the subject though. That's just a list of features that might or might not be present in the games of the genre, I don't understand how someone who isn't already familiar with it could get any value out of the page.

The reason these games might apply to the HN demographic is that they are effectively simulations about running companies in times of rapid technological change and seemingly infinite growth. (We used to play a lot of 1841 around 1999-2000 boom and bust, and made a lot of jokes about the similarities between the game and reality.)

Effectively what you have is a very complex board game feeding valuations into a fairly simple stock market system, with market instabilities and riskiness being inserted into the game by passage of time. (Old equipement becomes obsolete by technological advances, and stops being productive.)

They're games about making money, and that money might be coming from any number of places. You might be creating value for real, effectively defrauding the taxpayer, fooling the gullible retail investors, or fooling your gullible opponents. Different games will fit differently on the engineer/investor/swindler triangle, but all will have some aspects of all.

Anyway, if anyone wants to give these games a try, http://18xx.games/ is the best place to play them online. But I'd kind of recommend finding a group of friends to try it out with, rather than playing with randoms.
Power to do what?

That’s not an attack, I just don’t know what you mean by power.
The Dark Knight Rises.

Overdelivered on top of the hype behind the first 2 movies.

The second one was really hard to beat.
I think this is a NextStrain link to it. There's probably more information, jumping off from there.

https://nextstrain.org/groups/neherlab/ncov/S.N501?animate=2...
Only somewhat related, in 1986 or so computer labs at University of Pittsburgh had giant printers, like 8 feet long with a maze like paper path. They were however rather fast, something like 60-90 pages a minute. The pages being spit out was a common sound in the labs. They were however overwhelmingly used for ASCII. The first page would be your username spelled large on the first page out of ASCII.

I got interested in the Mandelbrot set, wrote it in pascal from the original Scientific American article. Trick is I had no way to view it. File quotas on the campus VAX were limited, so I wrote a simple RLE compression. I looked into the Postscript standard so I could write it myself, but was somewhat horrified at the complexity. I had written PCL before. But I did find a nice Fortran library. So I wrote some Fortran to read the RLE picture file and output PostScript.

Some afternoon near Xmas, I tried it out. I had no idea if it would work since I couldn't debug it, there was no postscript viewers (or graphical terminals) available. I printed the postscript file and the printers sudden page per second stopped. After a few seconds the operator jumped up and was about to reset the printer. I pleaded my case for a few minutes, the operator agreed, and a 300 DPI Mandelbrot was spit out. The operator went "Woah!", a few more people in the lab saw it and impressed. I explained what a fractal was and that you could zoom in infinitely. Several people wanted copies, so I printed them. The entire process took many minutes (pascal to generate, fortran to render, and print to print). These days you can zoom way deeper and get at least 60 FPS.

Later I wrote a EGA driver in Turbo Pascal, primarily for Mandelbrot viewing and a few simple games I wrote. I was able to do so from an article in the PC Tech Journal which printed the entire EGA card spec. Later I wrote the ASM for an 8087, then a HP-730 (PA-RISC 1.0) and a small tweak for the HP-735 (PA-RISC 1.1).
I read up until the point where she categorizes

"quarantining elders" to protect them from people who refuse to take health preclusions as:

"cold-blooded sadism"

Clearly not someone who is "politically homeless" but rather a political activist with an agenda.

Articles by political activists (from any persuasion) have no place here on HN.
Are there examples of large public companies releasing compromising information on elected officials in response to political threats or pressure?
(2015); discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9243163
Here are two reasons:

- He was an intellectual juggernaut in the field of Latin. One in a lifetime kind of guy.

- He never published a book but only provided sheets to his students. His students are now working together to piece together all of his worksheets so that a full catalog can be published. A very interesting project in its own right!
Ma didn’t just overshadow the party, he overshadowed the Chairman of the party.
The UK is no island?
One day we will have cash made of eink. You'll transfer BTC to the "paper" and pay.
On earth, populations move to new regions because of 1) natural population increase and gradual migration by people who are pushed out of their home region due to overcrowding, or 2) deliberate conquest by groups with a very centralized power structure, in which there is a person or group who is in a position to extract tribute or resources from the conquest. In the case of interstellar travel, neither of those two are feasible. The people doing the migrating have to be supported by massive amounts of money, which rules out the first reason for migration, as it’s not a cost efficient way to deal with overpopulation. And there is no way to exert control or exact tribute from light years away, so that rules the second reason for migration. So there is a question of motive: why spend the money when you will not directly benefit?
I don't understand why there's not more investment into transreflective LCD technology like pixel qi since no one seems to be able to bring down e ink prices.

Pixel qi allows passive lighting in grey scale while also allowing colour with active lighting. And higher frame rate than e ink while still having low power consumption thanks to passive lighting ability.

Edit: Found an interesting article on the fate of pixel qi and some other alternatives to e-ink:
https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-rise-and...
Thank you so much! A very quick copy paste into uBlock and it works wonders for Google & Google Image searches.

I wish I had looked into this before! :-)
Good point and agree, its the same at other contemporary corporations. I am kind of looking at 1970-2000 era when companies used people as part of their brand / face - Bell Labs, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Fairchild Semiconductor, IBM and many others that made great engineers feel-like they weren't replaceable, but actually part of the ethos of the company. Their personal goodwill was coupled with the company's image and success. We've stopped doing that I believe.
IMO, essentially mind control and subtle influence of people's decisions and stance on everything, including the outcome of elections.
> But these monitors are still way too expensive for me

I will never be an early adopter for that precise reason. I _do_ think the monitors look quite lovely but I am not interested in a product with such a hefty price tag while being made in China. (Full disclosure, I will go out of my way to avoid Chinese products even if the price tag is more reasonable.) That being said, I would pay $1k for a 13" monitor made in Germany, Europe, Japan or USA.
Western reporters treat China the same way Silicon Valley reporters treat major tech companies. The reporters are afraid of upsetting them out of fear of retribution.
The difference is that the worst that can happen to Zuck et al is having their company split up and paying more in taxes.

Ma on the other hand could well end up getting Epsteined.
Apple is somewhere in the middle: 25, 25, 25, 25

They do split it up, vesting every six months, so it’s actually 8 straight 12.5% chunks.
If you like this article, you may want to read The fish can sing by Halldor Laxness.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fish_Can_Sing .
Trying again. I wanted to focus on your theme of repressed voices, not which side is good or bad (a losing game of tribal warfare).

> dissenting opinions on U.S. politics were silenced on reddit

A quick googling: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/29/reddit-...

It’s not as simple as you make it out and your framing of it suggests a significant bias on your part. Some speech doesn’t deserve a platform. You’re still free to think it, to say it out loud, to buy a domain and host it, and talk about it with like minded people — but you have zero god-given right to engage in that shit-talk in other people’s space in which you are a guest.

Censorship is a concern, free speech is a concern but it’s complicated. Add in the weaponization of social media and the lovely gift of the power of disinformation from your motherland and it gets messier still.

You’ve provided incredibly weak evidence to make your case (an article that didn’t praise T and an article that unnecessarily dunked on him). And all the while you conveniently ignore key factors (i.e., that T. treated his office as his personal kingdom and expressed contempt for those not loyal to him, ad nauseam).

Someday I should actually read it, but the theme itself is pretty clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
"However, a process that has a process identifier
(say ProcessIdentifier) of a process with which it
communicates can launch a denial of service attack to kill
that process"

The BEAM does not promise (or provide) secure isolation between processes within a single VM. It's even called out in their bug report policy:

https://github.com/erlang/otp/wiki/FAQ:-What-kind-of-patches...

"An Erlang process does not have a region of mutual exclusion,
which can lead to internal conflicts within processes."

I don't follow the use of "mutual exclusion" in this statement; the only thing that can write to a process's stack or heap is the process - what kind of "conflicts" do you mean?

"For example, in Erlang it is
necessary for application programmers to explicitly code a
request handler for each re-entry into the region of mutual
exclusion"

This sentence doesn't help either, because the previous statement was that the processes don't _have_ the region this objects to writing handlers for entering...
Power to swing elections?
As a 100% Mac user since 2006, I've been trying to use Linux on the laptop (Ubuntu) for the past month or so. I find it ok. If I wasn't so used to the keyboard mappings/shortcuts it might be easier. Maybe ElementaryOS would have been a better OS if I'd had the choice.

Reiterating the parent, I just want things to work and work well together. I've been using computers since about 1980 and Linux since 0.9. At some point in my 30s I just decided custom tweaking and compiling from scratch was more self indulgence and a distraction -- I'm still working on my other distractions and bad habits, but Gentoo isn't one of them!
> Right now I get around this by having an ambient light sensors adjusting my monitors but it's buggy and error prone.

Can you expand a bit more on this solution? Is this something you made or COTS?
What happened? Its THE Fastest-Selling PC Game Of All Time.

https://www.vg247.com/2020/12/11/cyberpunk-2077-fastest-sell...

https://www.vg247.com/2020/12/23/cyberpunk-2077-13-million-s...

4.72 million copies on day one, 13 million copies in 10 days.
I find it interesting reading about legendary language teachers. https://www.amazon.de/Chinese-Through-Poetry-introduction-tr... for Classical Chinese and https://www.amazon.com/Familia-Romana-Lingua-Latina-Book-ebo... for Latin are by amazing language teachers who refined their material over decades and finally published wonderful books that contain so much wisdom and good taste.

( If you know of similar books for other languages, please let me know! I didn't even have any interest in learning Classical Chinese, but was drawn in by Barnes's book more or less immediately... ).

As much as language-learning is a lot about hard work, some people seem to be exceptionally good at teaching, and slaving away struggling to learn a language under a dreary teacher is the worst.

Language teaching seems to have its own particular flavour of impact on the students and their relationship to their teachers? I guess it's far more common that their teaching will have a gigantic impact on someone's life, if they are going to be using the language every day, than many other things that people learn. Less likely of Latin, but it still seems that people can be nonetheless grateful to have a gifted teacher even there!
The author is Leigh Louey-Gung (LoGun) and I would not recommend reading it.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22663642-end-game
From what I've seen, all the media (and thus the majority of American people) 100% rag on China any chance they can get. They are public enemy number one, and anti-China sentiments are popular and applauded. I don't remember the last time I've seen positive articles about China.
A radical pessimist’s guide to the next 10 years (2010)
Now this is suspicious... Looks like OP is just trolling...
Wasn’t there an option at one time to tell Google to hide results from a certain domain? I feel like I haven’t seen that in years though
Same. I went the DDG route a couple of years ago, and searching tech topics made me constantly do g!. And a few other things. Suddenly, Google's results go so much worse, that the duckduckgo offering just proved to be actually functional by comparison. And I think it actually has improved over the years. It's now my default browser search and I'm comfortable not having to worry about Google capturing every feeling or thought I have when I google something, and storing that for eternity.

Not to mention the awful vendor blogs and stores and secretive marketing clickbait masquerading as a neutral information totally dominating Google's page 1 and 2 of results.
It's wild and rather irresponsible given the censorship and surveillance that people in China are subjected to.
Wow, so much of our political discourse makes sense now...
This is simply how quantum mechanics works. Schrodinger equation involves complex numbers. To remove them from the final result, we take modulus square of the amplitude and obtain the probabilities. Why it works is an open question in physics AFAIK.
Big fan of "talk to sales" or "contact us" pricing pages.
Has there ever been any genomic sequencing done to pinpoint what made SARS and especially MERS so much more deadly than SARS-CoV-2?
tbf this is pretty similar to what the left in the US says about billionaires. I wouldn't completely discount it as state propaganda.

In the US, it is incredible how often reporters parrot security state talking points without any research into whether they're accurate, such as how people piled on Russia after the recent hacking scandal without any evidence shown, just a gut insinuation as far as I know.

The only advice I can give is: always be skeptical. period.
Here's the link to said HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25063726
Both are true.

Jack Ma was a governmental sponsored big tech monopoly that hated by many small merchants.

Now the government decided to punish Alibaba, so the crowds cheered, for whom the saddest part is the whole thing has little to do with them from start to end
I've been toying with a PM2.5/PM10 sensor lately and #11 definitely seems to be true. Causes a pretty strong spike in the readings