skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you follow the link next to that text, it says that they're ripping out sync Python using Flask from their monolith and replacing it with async Python using Tornado in a microservice, though some teams are also exploring Go.

Which seems like an entirely reasonable way to use Python (no quotation marks needed), and exactly what I'm advocating - Python is a language where you can ship something today and reimplement it next year, also in Python, for the same engineering effort that you'd spend doing it once in a more highly structured language. Alternatively, you can reimplement it in another language. You can safely rip out and replace the original Python, because it's a language that optimizes for humans both reading and writing it.

And just about every place I've worked, business requirements are constantly changing, and the scale and structure of the company (and associated Conway's Law implications) are changing, and so code you write today is going to be tech debt in a year anyway. A language that encourages you to write outrippable code and makes it easy to replace it is your ally under these conditions.

(Put another way: Python is a language that is readable enough to avoid the https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... trap, which is fundamentally about code that is so complex that a human can't figure out all of what's going on and the only safe way is to treat the existing code as a relic.)

Again, I'm not saying this is the language for everyone to use for all cases. There are cases where you want to make the code a little harder for humans to read and write so that the computer can help you with things. If that is indeed your use case, go write Java! But I think there's plenty of stuff you can call "production-ready" that doesn't fit this particular mold.
Digital signal processing maybe?
that said, AI does seem to require some hard ethical thinking about how it should be used and by whom, and which limits ought to be implemented

and i dont expect a bunch of startup devs who only care about meeting a deadline or their next funding goal to really think about the philosophy of what they are doing
> Carplay is only a small preview of the level of integration consumers are going to expect over the next 5-10 years. If they can't sort out a digital key across their lineup, they are kind of fucked.

Oh absolutely. The infotainment system of the German premium automakers is utter trash. It's slow, overwhelming and incredibly tedious to use. My family owns five cars, a BMW, an Audi, a Seat and 2 VW, except for one VW they are all fairly new. The BMW and the Audi infotainment system are equally bad, by far the best ones are integrated in the Volkswagen vehicles. But when comparing them with competitors like Tesla, they still suck.

I don't like Tesla, but credit where credit is due. They software concept for their vehicles is innovative, thought out and incredibly feature rich. If this is what VW, Daimler and BMW aim for, they still have an incredibly long way to go.
If people just want a chat there's a Twitter thing called #JoinIn.

People get together for informal chats on Christmas day. It has a UK focus, which affects the times it'll be busiest.
Not entirely, see the Jones Act for example and various carve outs for Saipan and Micronesia, maybe Samoa
YC (and by extension, Sam Altman in his past capacity as its President) is not in the business of maximizing the longevity of each and every investment. Instead, they are in the business of maximizing their ROI within a reasonable timeframe (and they are pretty good at it). If that doesn't sound like a good deal to you as an entrepreneur, you should raise your money from elsewhere or avoid raising altogether.

But to claim that Sam Altman doesn't know how to build a business is a bit of stretch. OpenAI seems to be doing quite well.
By definition, the laws the EU have forced on the UK were opposed by the UK government, and would not have made their way into UK law had they not been forced by the EU.
I'm fairly certain they were shooting the brightly coloured cubes, and getting killed when said cubes got too close.
Guillain–Barré Syndrome
I do have the Hexen 2.0 Tarot deck, and keep it as a treasure.
(Though, I bought it quite a few years ago, I think in 2012 or 2013; plus 2 years of waiting time.)

Each time I go through the deck, I discover a new detail or reference.
Just got back and set them up. It's not cheap but it's a lot of fun!! My daughter now has a rainbow Christmas tree.
What says you can't reset the coin the same side up in between flips?
I’ve not checked all of them, just about a dozen, but as far as I can tell they’re just regulations and European Council decisions. In other words they’re administrative interpretations of the application of laws. And entirely trivial ones at that. I’m not a lawyer maybe they meet the legal definitions of laws, but whether or not Apertame in particular is an ingredient that needs to be included on contents labels hardly seems like the stuff of international treaties.
The Spectacle, an idea from the Situationist International, it viewed the collective experience that we have in our society as a Spectacle(a reality simulacrum with images).

"All that once was directly lived has become mere representation. The decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing." Guy Debord

This inspired the Matrix, most recently also demonstrated and inspired Black Mirrors episodes, exploring capitalism and participation in hyperreality.
Yeah - entire classes of problems went from unsolvable to solved. Some of that is in the consumer space and some of it is not.

I feel like an AGI could accidentally wipe out half of humanity and there would still be people commenting on HN about how the exact same technology already existed in a roomba seven years ago.
Thoughts and prayers is literally doing nothing, though. Not comparable at all
A fair comment until the last paragraph. You should be respectful.
A friends company had a test phishing email to see how many people clicked the link, and then sent out another email after the test with a link to a video everyone had to watch about not clicking links in emails... it is amazing that authenticated email is not a solved problem!
> both raster and bitmap

What's meant by bitmap in contrast to raster? In the context of graphics, I regularly use them as synonyms.
If the human immune system could effectively fight this virus than maybe there would not be goddamn 79 million infected??

As I’ve written in my other post - yes of course exponential growth will once ceize. But it is absolutely insane to think with the current trends that the outcome of waiting and doing nothing or infecting young people or every other stupid thing regarding natural immunity will effectively counter this virus - not until a significant percentage of humanity have already died.

(Also, you do realize that vaccines work by “teaching” the immune system, right?)
You know what is ridiculous? That in 2020 we don't have an electronic document format which has modern animation support:

- WTF happened to .mhtml/.eml ?!?

- .odt : the least bad I guess, but is still a bit heavy, clunky, and uses discrete pages without reflow by default. Also, the underlying language isn't designed to be tinkered with, which is a critical shortcoming in many situations.

- .pdf : inconsistent .mp4 reader support, discrete pages with fixed layout.

- .epub : no .mp4 support

I guess the patents associated with .mp4 might be to blame? I can't wait for AV1 then! (And bring mhtml back!!)
I agree that the support for uncommon resolutions is less than ideal. That said, I've gotten it to work. Caveat: sample size of one.

On a 2019 MacBook Pro 16" with the dedicated GPU, I've had success connecting a 5120x1440 Samsung CRG9 via DisplayPort. I had to use this adapter [0] and this cable [1] to do so, but it does work. It also works on a 2018 MacBook Pro 13", but due to the lack of a dedicated GPU (i.e., Intel graphics only), the output is a bit fuzzy as it's not a natively supported resolution. Still, it's good enough for productivity work, though not for video/photo editing or gaming.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07F17ZHJY

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B079736Z53
And no I don't work at Google.
You can sign in with Apple and avoid sharing your email with exactly 2 taps. This "workaround" is available to everyone to whom this app is available in the first place, and it is literally less work than actually typing in your email, and it doesn't involve a 4th party. So not trying the app because of that is completely pointless, and the same goes for complaining about requiring email.
Is it the source you think is incorrect or have I misinterpreted its meaning?
So that's the definition. What's the specific example?
How viable is making a competitor to an existing software but with a better UX?
I'm curious how viable it is to take software that already exists (Video editors, browsers, etc...) and simply focusing 100% on providing a better UX.

So the only differentiator is the UX. By UX I do not mean how many useful features you can offer that the competitor doesn't. I actually mean spending a great amount of effort in thinking about how to present visual elements and features to make it more intuitive and easy to use then the competition.
UX has never been a strong point of Adobe either.

I find gimp's MDI workflow better than PSs single window UI.
A friend of mine owns a Jeep with a Uconnect infotainment system and let me tell you, Daimler is very far ahead with their current generation of infotainment system.

They launched their MBUX platform a few years ago and hat huge goals, since I don't own a mercedes, I don't know if they managed to keep up with those. However, from what I read online, it doesn't look like it
"there is a light at the end of this fucking tunnel and we will get through it."

As someone that was lonely before COVID, there is no light at the end. Makind friends when over 30 is incredibly difficult. Being an big extrovert in isolation is tough. I want to work in an office, but I probably never will again in our industry.
In the third paragraph of the article: But nearly 40 percent of the people who saw Investor Village’s ad either lacked a college degree, did not make $250,000 per year, or both, the company claims.
Thank you! This is honestly the best winterveil gift I have received this year, very much appreciated!

When you say "temporary" remedy, is that implying there will be a real fix that obsoletes this, or this workaround will stop working at some point?
It might, even if one out of thousand who use it, I’d say it is worth it. A simple act of talking to someone is enough to walk someone off the metaphorical and literal ledge. That one call can lead to long term therapy and counseling. I know where you are coming from - it feels like a drive by post with a phone number.. but I really don’t have any other options to offer.
I just think it's a shame since it makes sense for regions to move towards integration. It's a shame the EU management in Brussels has been so sycophantic to the power of banks.
I've seen people cause all kinds of problems with hooks, but I don't believe I've ever seen deadlock. Can you elaborate?
> Not yet supported are new unique features introduced by the DualSense such as Adaptive Triggers and the VCM based Haptics. These features require a large amount of data and complex data structures. It is not clear how to expose these. The current Evdev and FF frameworks are too limiting. We hope to have a dialog on how to expose these over time in a generic way.

It looks like the Sony devs want to support the new vibration features, but don't want to abuse the existing hid/input layer for the amounts of data it apparently requires. It is good they're looking for feedback (I assume via the kernel development mailing lists) on the right route to implement them.

It'd be neat if we started to see a lot of open source projects that used this controller in the same way Kinect projects took off.
I forgot that too, doh. And yes, I know the usage cases, in order to install w95 on it booting from a floppy and then a disk image :).
Well put. I wonder if a lot of this comes from classical piano players (which there seem to be a lot of, proportionally?) assuming that everyone who learns piano is necessarily aspiring to play those super difficult classical pieces one day. I've started picking up the piano with jazz in mind and it's hard to tell if a lot of the advice out there is spot on and I'm worse off for ignoring it, or if it's really just not relevant to me because I don't intend to play Bach or Mozart. A lot of it _feels_ irrelevant, but I hesitate to dismiss it when it's coming from people who are clearly a lot more experienced than I am.
Brexit takes effect in 2021
Every international treaty and trade agreement includes an adjudication process in case of disputes. The adjudication panel has oversight of interpretation of the treaty, not individual National course, for very obvious reasons. The ECJ is the transnational adjudication panel for the EU.

There’s nothing particularly special about the concept. It’s no different in principle than the WTO dispute resolution process, the International Court of Justice at the UN, or any number of other international arbitration, dispute resolution or treaty enforcement mechanisms past or present. All of those have the agreed power yo adjudicate on whether domestic UK laws are in violation of our treaty agreements.
D50 and D65 are the 1960s replacements for illuminants B and C, which were introduced along with the CIE standard observer in 1931.

Illuminant A is a black body radiator that approximates an incandescent light bulb. Illuminants B and C are attempts to approximate daylight by putting a colored liquid filter in front of the black body radiator (or incandescent bulb). Illuminant B is a simulation of tropical noon daylight, while Illuminant C is a simulation of average daylight at a higher latitude (more contribution from the sky, less from direct sunlight).

Illuminant C was widely used in colorimetry, but it didn't match real measured daylight spectra especially closely, so the D illuminants are a replacement based on some physical measurements taken in Rochester (where Kodak was based) and London. Colorimetric applications that previously used illuminant C mostly switched to D65 instead.

(Note that real outdoor daylight spectra vary dramatically depending on place, time, and weather conditions.)

For details, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_illuminant

> reason D65 is chosen for the sRGB white point is that it is fairly accurate, in other words it's pretty close to the actual white point of the monitor I'm looking at now (Dell P2415Q).

There is also influence the other way. Monitors have a D65 white point to match the spec.
LOL I pay for a Notion personal plan and that was my exact thought.

Speed matters!
Ask HN: What is the best place to sell domain names in 2021?
What is the best place to sell domain names in 2021? What about country level domains?
Thank you for your insights ... I will revisit the post to try to remove my mis-expressions that have led you to draw conclusions I did not intend.

To help me, when you say:

> I think a more charitable explanation that you don't seem to have considered at all is that their answer makes logical sense in their framework ...

I can't find a framework in which it makes any logical sense. Can you suggest one?
Setting a goal for yourself and following it through to completion.

Delayed gratification and hard work.

Doing the right thing, when everyone else is doing the easy thing.
Is the ‘art world’ completely unaware of what games artists and the demo scene were doing in that era and with those same tools?
This could be the textbook example under hyperboles.
Having it run on Linux...

even if it needed Wine.
The cold war was the father and mother of the computing industry and science. Most of innovative super computers were designed and sold for the Nuclear Weapons Labs or the Lockheeds of the time.
When people refer to a “Canada” style trade deal in the context of Brexit, they are referring to the free trade deal between Canada and the EU.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Economic_and_T...
Count me among those people. The U.K. is home to some absolutely wonderful people but those in power (and those who wish to be close to that power) are depressingly small thinkers, to me. Their vision is locked on a semi-fictional past where Great Britain was an exceptional country without fault or failure. They want to recapture something that never existed and are willing (if not eager) to throw away a position that was enviable for those in and out of the EU.
Free to download and "own" "forever" Epic style, or free to experience until the end of the week?
No-one's mentioning the NHS, but we're fucked because we didn't really sort out MRPQ.

That means nurses, doctors, any healthcare professional, who wants to work in the UK (and we really really need them) needs to get their professional qualification approved before working here. When we were part of Europe we had a mutual recognition system worked out.

Also, we used to share information about professional regulation and any concerns or sanctions placed upon those HCPs, and we've probably lost that too.
That only works when your SVN server is in the same computer as you; the fact that SVN has to reach out to get additional data for the history is what kills it.

With git on the other hand, all the file storage is local to you machine regardless of which other remote git servers you may be using.

In addition, git blame doesn’t have to go through all history; the logical git storage model is object based on hash, so it’s really a set of queries for the contents of hash values that is used. Yes, it walks through commits, but at the lightweight metadata of trees which are akin to navigating a file system.
A bit like what the "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" was in 1993-2003, after which they decided to face reality and renamed themselves "Serbia and Montenegro" (and eventually just Serbia after Montenegro left).
Than don’t jump to conclusions based on click-bait headlines with no actual content.
It sounds like you're referring to machine learning based superresolution? Superresolution by aligning and combining images involves a lot more pixels in total, and so more information.
My 2017 Seat Leon costs significantly less than a comparable BMW 1. I have a decent navigation system, voice controls, Android Auto and CarPlay, touch infotainment (not a fan), and lane assist, emergency break assist and several others. A friend of mine bought a BMW 1 which cost 12k more than my car (MSRP) and, excluding the gps navigation, has none of those features.

Those aren't innovations, those are almost standard in lots of vehicles.
Pasting comment downvoted to oblivion with valid points. Can we have some functionality in HN comments that are not liked by majority for "some reason", to be visible?
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People got excited about the m1 machines Apple released, but remember, those machines are tied to some of the worst tested and often regressing piece of software out there—Apple operating systems. Had they released these machines ten years ago, things would have looked very different. But knowing that macOS—Big Sur in particular—is the only supported OS in these machines just kills any curiosity I have, let alone excitement. And my career is basically in the Apple software ecosystem in the last 10 years.
What I don’t understand is how shilling and fanboyish the Apple developer community is with regards to such bugs. Apple can do no wrong. “All software JS bugs.” “Privacy matter the most, the hell with basic computer functionality.” And so on. It boggles the mind. The amount of people that seem to have tied their personal identity to the Apple brand is very large, almost cult-like."
That certainly was so in many areas, less so as they synchronised more over time (many EU standards born out of originating UK ones). But definitely an opportunity to raise standards.

Now - how that works if say the UK raises a standard and the impact upon EU imports. For example the EU regulations for `carper dust sucker` was questioned by Dyson for being flawed. Now if the UK does it's own standards that have to be followed for `carpet dust sucker` to be sold in the UK that exceeds EU standards then that could be interesting.

So the prospect of a trade war via standards used to limit external competition and sudo subsidise companies in that cunning way - could be something we could well see down the line. That equally could work both ways.

Which all makes how this trade agreement is worded in need of scrutiny as rules to protect one way, will also word both ways in such agreements to lock-in standards. Now if they refer to just EU standards as a base and no reference to equally protection to UK standards or whatever is the higher. Small details like that could have some interesting ramifications later on.

One thing is for sure - we are still a long way off from a standard global shoe size that is used by all. Which say's little and lots about trade and standards country to country.
Fun story I heard from an aerospace engineer - they were running some heavy simulations and producing graphs.

He found the printer that was emitting the graphs was actually more powerful than the (very expensive) machines running the simulations, to the point that converting the simulation to postscript (or some variant thereof) and running it directly on the printer was some orders of magnitude faster.
Some of what you describe reminds me of EagleMode, you might want to try it out.
Since its tenth anniversary release is soon, Wonderful Everyday.

I'm only five chapters in, but so far it's a deeply constructed story with a lot of cultural references woven in seamlessly. Even halfway through there are still more mysteries being hinted at. It also speaks about topics like perception, the purpose of existence and the ego. I hope to finish it soon.
It's funny because many europeans did the opposite trip. Migrate to UK for offering the best economic prospects of the continent. Lower taxation, business friendly politics. That was a deal for me.
I doubt there was much hype about the printing press when Gutenberg introduced invented it circa 1440 but if there was any hype, the printing press certainly lived up to the hype.
I can think of no mechanism which has enabled such widespread transmission of knowledge/information (without distortion) in human history. No great success or failure is usually the result of one cause but I'd wager that most of technological progress in the last 5 centuries has been greatly enabled by the printing press.

Some (light) reading on the topic :

https://www.history.com/news/printing-press-renaissance
The difference is that the runtime can schedule something else if the blocking is async. It looks the same as sync blocking to the caller, but not the scheduler. The point of async is you can write code that looks synchronous but is actually participating in cooperative multitasking.
Free to experience until January the 2nd IIRC. It's about $80 dollars or so normally so even it's worth having a go even if you don't take to it.

The Tomcat is an absolute beast, though, so be prepared to be reading an instruction manual just to play a game if you want to go all out.

Also, to anyone who goes on DCS multiplayer for the first time: IFF IFF IFF.
I guess Sir Humphrey can rest in peace. :)

( Do Tell me if I am wrong though )
There are plenty of brownfields in England. The housing supply can be grown at will. If it isn't, it's because large (English) landowners and other (English) landlords are effectively controlling the English Parliament - like it's always been since its formation, really, bar a short interlude after WWII.
There’s a long list of major economies that don’t have free trade deals with the EU, such as the United States, China, India and Australia.