skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Idly curious as to how bright those of you who suffer from eyestrain have your screens?

I have pretty decent eyesight. Pin sharp at long range although, now in my mid-fifties, my minimum focussing distance is longer than it used to be. I always say, I'll wait to get glasses until my minimum focussing distance is longer than my arms!

I've never experienced eyestrain when using a computer, even for long periods at a time. But I usually have my screen pretty dim. usually about 3 dots on my MacBook [as a reference for you mac users]. Which, most of the time is about the same level as the ambient light in the room around me.

Old artist's trick: If you almost close your eyes and just squint through the tiny slit left, you can judge the relative brightness of objects around you, without shapes or distance getting in the way. When I do this, my laptop screen doesn't show as being any brighter than the walls, floor, furniture etc. around me.

I'm wondering if people who suffer from eyestrain have their screens set far too bright. ie. much brighter than their surroundings. So that they're effectively staring into a lamp for hours at a time.

My girlfriend [who wears glasses] has her laptop screen on almost full brightness all the time. When she hands me it to show me something, I actually find it painful to look at, the screen is so dazzling. Conversely, if I want to show her something on mine, I have to bump the brightness up all the way, or she complains she can't see it properly.

Incidentally. Counter-intuitive as it may seem. Apparently bright sunlight is really good for the eyes. Something to do with the particular wavelengths it emits, if I remember correctly.
No the co2 is a proxy for air exchange with the outside. It is the air exchange that prevents disease, not low CO2.
> And even had some big mountain experience

One problem is that that experience lull you into a false sense of security. I'm not talking arrogance or so. Merely that you can do something everyday that's unsafe and get away with it, training you on bad data to think it's safe.

Like avalanches. Certain conditions are met. You go out. Everything is fine. Same the other times. You learn that it's safe. Suddenly an avalanche happen with those exact conditions. It was just arbitrary it didn't happen the other times.
"But I’m also quite stupid, so take this with a grain of salt" <-- this sounds like genuine humility, thanks for this, we only see this rarely.
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That's why I wrote Linux-on-Dex, not Dex. Dex itself works, Linux-on-Dex doesn't anymore. Linux-on-Dex was Ubuntu container with X11.
I see plenty of families in Teslas; it turns out there are lots of families who can afford it.

A new Model S was too rich for my blood, so I picked one up used. Great family car. Massive amounts of storage. We're out of the stroller years but it would be great with a stroller.
My X has wiper controls on the stalk. Does that make it a real car for you?
Samsung discontinued support for Linux-on-DeX (which was always experimental/beta anyway). I assume whatever hacks they had in place to make the thing work were too hard to port to Android 10 for what was essentially a feature for hobbyists.

You can still use DeX itself to get a desktop environment when you plug your phone into a dock, but it's an Android desktop environment, with Android apps running in floating windows.
Tesla has made approximately 2000 deals. Years aren't decades, and the cost just isn't high enough that it will drag out.

It's sort of neutral that there's more than one manufacturer of the other chargers, if the chargers work well with vehicles it doesn't matter if they come from 15 factories or 2.

Tesla clearly has a lead. My point is that it is unlikely to be durable.
It is like any resort / vacation area. There are lots of jobs in food services and the trades - nearly all of the properties are single families and they have to survive beach climate, wind, and the occasional hurricane.

The Cape has a lot more unique stuff than the average vacation region, as you can see Woods Hole is there.

So much bitterness and cynicism on HN.
Going from 50-40 is fairly straightforward.

Next time don’t speed.
C#9 Interop Performance Improvements
Wow, that's insane. For a supposedly business friendly place a lot of US regulations (and this tax!) are seriously bad for business.
Linux on Dex (ubuntu in container) was abandoned and cannot be launched anymore.

Dex itself works, but that is just an Android desktop.
Try dumping toxic waste in the environment in 2021 and see where that gets you. The lesson has mostly been learned.
Strange tip, I use to do part time local delivery. It made my brain cool off (safe regular activity, simple money, low skills). In between deliveries I often wrote small bits or small feature branches. I found it a good balance. It also made me think differently because I'd favor changes that were high ROI. No large design, no syntactic change. Only solid and valuable additions. Something I never really felt before.
"hypervisors as an app orchestration platform" sounds like a good description of Kubernetes too (if we ignore the difference between OS-level virtualization and full VMs).
I'm no marine biologist but you can be certain that humans are not a regular diet of barracudas.

Once, a 5-meter tiger shark came to me out of the blue and got too close, but as humans aren't a regular diet of tiger sharks either, it swam away.
Suggestion for a fun group based game where no-one is left out for the entirety of the rounds: Avalon.

My friends and I have had so much fun playing this, especially with all of the tiny game modifiers you can introduce to spice it up when things get too easy.
In the MS-DOS days, I used to play games on the PC, and arguably, these were all unikernels. Typically, the game had its own set of drivers and was basically running in ring 0, and immediately after start it bypassed MSDOS and did most of the HW stuff itself. This was usually good for the game because it allowed it to squeeze every last bit of performance from the machine, being completely in control.

So that's definitely a possible use case.
> If you lose weight faster than 100gr per week
is it even possible to have weighting accurate within 100gr??

> However if you lose 6-7kg in a month
Ah! this I can measure reliably.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_quote:

"a pull quote ... is a key phrase, quotation, or excerpt ... serving to entice readers into the article or to highlight a key topic ... They can add visual interest to text-heavy pages with few images or illustrations"
What if you wanted good ventilation/co2 levels?
The article explains why it's simplistic to think of legal argument as pure maths-style logical deduction. This goes back at least to Oliver Wendell Holmes (US supreme court justice from 1902), who made fun of those who treated a dissenting judgement "as if it meant simply that one side or the other were not doing their sums right, and if they would take more trouble, agreement inevitably would come."

Holmes said that law should be seen as induction, not deduction. Induction involves pattern matching, analogizing, and so on. I think that at least the first 4 of the 5 types of argument described in the article can be thought of as types of induction.

Holmes also said that the law consists of nothing more than prediction of what courts will do. And he described the development of the law in language that would make any Machine Learning person think of nearest neighbour classification: "The growth of the law is very apt to take place in this way: two widely different cases suggest a general distinction, which is a clear one when stated broadly. But as new cases cluster around the opposite poles, and begin to approach each other [...] at last a mathematical line is arrived at by the contact of contrary decisions."

It seems to me that the legal theory of Holmes, and the modern practice of machine learning, are remarkably similar. They're both about prediction based on experience / datasets. Shameless plug: I've written a (free!) book about it, "On the path to AI: Law’s prophecies and the conceptual foundations of the machine learning age".

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-43582-0
At least at my local NAUI dive shop, PADI is generally considered to play too fast and loose with the rules. Especially with new and untrained divers. The joke is PADI stands for “Put Another Dollar In”

Not that I’ll never go with a PADI dive, especially if it’s the only game in town where I’m visiting. But I generally bias towards NAUI, and would highly suggest anyone new go with a NAUI cert.
Snowden is a modern day hero, there's really nothing else to say.
Not necesssarily, there can also just be performance and security benefits that result from not having to include all the random stuff you need for an more general purpose OS.
Barracudas really aren't dangerous to divers. There are a few recorded cases of bites but I don't think anyone has been killed.
Thank you for saving my time and data.
Kind of, but is that really a problem? Virtualization provides a layer of security and isolation that containers still haven't (and maybe never will). For a long time just the fact you could run multiple apps on a single server was a breakthrough and for the most part people weren't all that concerned with performance.

Now that it's matured, people are back to optimizing for performance, and this is one of the ways to do that while maintaining the security that virtualization provides. One thing that seems to remain true is that the pendulum of flexibility <> performance is always swinging back and forth in this industry.
VM machinery has been hardware optimized for a decade. Also, hypervisors have much reduced attack surface compared to a shared Linux kernel. They're better for long-running production systems than containers.
You can use style="white-space: pre-wrap" on a div, and
deal with the structure later. You'll still be able to use links and images, and the text will not look like a turd, before you get to finishing up the structure. At that point you can remove the pre-wrap style.
I fully agree with the statement "to make hypervisors work as an app orchestration platform", although imo the real hack is using two full blown general purpose operating systems to run a single application which is precisely what most people are doing when deploying to the various clouds today.

Unikernels have many advantages and one is removing the complexity of managing the guest vm. People really haven't had the option of removing this complexity since creating a new guest os is time-consuming, expensive and highly technical work. When you have a guest that knows it is virtualized and can concentrate on just that one workload you can get a much better experience.
https://electrek.co/2020/08/04/tesla-wiper-controls-ruled-il...
I don't understand how this isn't common knowledge: smart TVs are universally bad. This was figured out years ago. Just get a good screen + hdmi/dvi port and attach your laptop. No ads on your screensaver, no screen tracking that otherwise wouldn't happen, it's fast, it's 100% compatible with all platforms and media (if not legally, then through torrents).

If your laptop works, and your screen works, then this setup works. What's the downside?
To be fair the poster you’re replying to seems to have run the correct commands indicated by the README, unless I’m missing the same thing they are.
Motivated by the part:

> Perhaps the best measure of this problem is how often I have to append the search terms "reddit" or "site:reddit.com" to a query. Increasingly this is the only way to find the opinions of people who aren't being paid to give them.

in the recent HN post about search being about metadata analysis, I tried looking for search engines that search only in forums/discussion boards. (The site:reddit trick is probably going to become less useful in the future, given that more people are using it and hence it has become a prime target to be gamed.) This one is pretty decent, at least as an alternative set of results to increase your chance of finding the answer you're looking for. If you know any other search engines like this, please mentions those too in the comments here.
Yes. The Economist is cherry picking data from one place, in one narrow period of time. All of the other studies (that you keep ignoring) cover much larger samples of people, over longer periods of time.

Also, "number of successful suicides" is an extreme, myopic metric for mental health. Ignoring all of the upstream signs of decreased mental well-being, and focusing only on successful suicides, is like measuring societal well-being exclusively by homicide rate.

"Sure, people are depressed, anxious, isolated and panicked, have increased suicidal ideation, and are seeking therapy in greater numbers than ever before...but they're not successfully killing themselves! All is well!"
Not to mention the person you are replying to edited their comment after the fact (possibly as I was replying). It originally said something to the effect of "show me a company without a CEO". Which I think is significant, as I took "A" to mean "singular".
Not just seafood but fish from remote lakes across the US and Canada which were heavily sprayed with DDT to kill the spruce budworm. This was done up until the early 1980s and now accumulated in lake beds with concerning levels still showing up in fish.

We're also seeing blooms of blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) in remote lakes that are now being linked to widespread glyphosate spraying over young forests.
I'm unsure if this is more your perceptions, the places that you've worked or a combination.

Why do you phrase it as "public accountability ritual"? I'm sensing my definition for accountability is different than yours. I typically think of my comment at a standup as (small) opportunity to answer "what have you been working on?" once instead of if every member came by and asked in a friendly manner. I wouldn't be bothered by them asking individually, and it saves me repeating the answer.

I've never heard the phrase "isn't living up to expectations" related to stand ups. Do you (or places you've worked) normally have those related? I'm not sure I understand.

Why do you think it's "in front of your team" as opposed to "with your team"?

I, and other people I've worked with, have never been bothered by saying "still working on the same hard task" for _weeks_. If anything, I usually hear encouraging comments; "it sucks that the task is so difficult", "anything I can do to help you out?", "I'm surprised you haven't gone crazy from that", etc.

The places I've worked at aren't even great at agile, but I've never seen the process directed towards some of the things you're saying.
I agree, but strangely enough, both extreme right and extreme left seem to love discrimination in some form.

I honestly believe that the real solution is treat everyone the same, and to demand from everyone to do the same.

When your solution includes distinction, you will never get rid of the distinction.
You can see the coral reef in Eilat (Israel) without really diving since it is in shallow water, not sure if it is as good as in Egypt but at least there is a decent hospital near by if something goes wrong.
Any place with Hard Ceiling (something between you and the surface except water) necessitates specialty training in most dive certification organizations.

The issue that many take with PADI is that their values are mostly aligned with making profits.
British Columbia has long been the scam capital of North America (well, maybe tied with Miami). It brings a tear to my eye to see it all grown up from the days of ripping off seniors for junior mining company shares on the old VSE to its current status as international money laundering hub for the entire Pacific Rim.
Do we say we hate reinventing the wheel? I think the reason it’s even an axiom, “don’t reinvent the wheel,” is because it is so very tempting to reinvent the wheel rather than building on established wisdom.
Thanks for the link, but I much prefer the article to those American style documentaries, with the scary sound effects and endless repetition to build "suspense". Interview is at the 8:50 mark for those curious.
My kids are now 7 and 10 years old, respectively.

I wonder if they'll have to learn to drive, and make a driver's license?

It could be that by the time they come of age, there are self-driving cars, but they're much more expensive than making their license (which in Germany costs around 2k Euro, including lessons).

Or maybe there'll be no viable self-driving, fully autonomous cars by then? Who knows?
Not when you're spending time not at school on the sofa or in bed feeling miserable and unable to do anything.
Its amazingly easy to not have those debts, and most people I run into do not. The problem is the people who do are very vocal about it and it's impossible to inform them that they may be spending more than they can afford
Singapore has this issue too. Hotel conference rooms (and some offices, I'm told) will be set to 19⁰C or something equally not achievable so AC works full blast, while outside is humid high 30s.
Thank you for sharing your story. I agree it would be interesting to look into the more details in the future. Using Scheme instead of Javascript sounds fascinating too.
Did you have a chance to compare Forth to other stack-based languages, with some opinion as a result?
i don't want to have to use a pc when i watch tv
Being super lean and carrying mass in large muscles will ruin this, fwiw.

In my late 20s I was militantly fit and also very into rock climbing. I supplemented this with some lifting to balance things out; people who ONLY climb end up looking a little weird as the lats develop out of proportion with the rest of you.

Anyway, even with a lungful of air, my neutral buoyancy point was like 8-12" below the surface.

Alas, I am now 51.
> we also need to get ill to keep our immune system active and healthy.

This... is exactly what (many) vaccines do.
“prefer to talk about politics, at work?”
To answer your question, no, they did not say that.
The main point was that you can not just download the Roku SDK, make sure you follow their rules and submit it for approval. Roku wants revenue sharing deals - even for advertising - and sometimes asks for ad inventory.

The comment you quoted was specifically for people who I knew would reply about Apple “forcing” content providers to use in app purchasing.
A Practical Review of the Path Taken by Siddhatta Gotoma
An attempt to "reverse engineer" what Siddhatta actually did, to determine if there is possibility of a reproducible result.
On top of all this, it could be macro-economically destabilizing and lead to disastrous results. Even Douglas Adams tried to warn us 40 years ago: https://benoitessiambre.com/specter.html
O2 Concentrators, Ventilators, Surgical Masks
A brilliant use of Twitter as a medium for social satire. The guy is very talented.
Very interesting, thanks. Though it remains exceedingly rare so far as we can tell.
> Either way in my mind you are putting yourself above the poor little people, who are in such misery. You do not think they are trying to do what's best for them? They are responsible for their own fortune and many of their children actually make it.

I don't understand that logic. I am not putting myself above anyone, just stating a fact. And the fact is that a was majority of immigrants are indeed doing their best and trying to make it, but they have neither the same starting point nor the same chance like locals. They had it harder at every step, in school someone called Mahmet get on overage 1/2 lower note in German than Max, given the same performance immigrant children are less likely to get recommendation for Gymnasium. Someon with foreign name will have more issues searching for an apartment to rent, get less invitations for a job interview, and even be paid less for the same job, where we will hit the glass ceiling and not be promoted above a certain level.

Don't get me wrong, this is not specific to Germany, and this is not a simple issue, but let's not pretend that it doesn't exist. Yes, many people make it, but not because Germany is so egalitarian society, but despite all those issues.
Once you start getting to technical depths you operate under the assumption that you are alone, even when diving with a buddy.

I know some french federation divers who will tape their hands to their hand power inflator to avoid confusion when experience narcosis at depth.

At first I thought it was a goofy idea, but after experiencing debilitating narcosis at 60m I had second thoughts about it.
And is funded by CIA's in-q-tel.
> A lot of our fundamental disagreements are about subjective values, and we distract ourselves by thinking the issue is actually about facts.

Originally yes, and if we could all agree on that separation we would probably have an easier time. But subjective values have definitely clouded a whole lot of peoples acceptance of facts in the objective part of the spectrum. That's the real issue.

I really enjoy political discussions on how someone else thinks we should optimize for individual freedom or collective utility or what is the most effective way to reach a goal based on some values and premise.

I haven't encountered such a discussion in years. Most things boil down to entirely disprovable bs people encounter on whatever facebook (or otherwise) rabbit hole they've decided to live in.
The keylogger is detected because of hotkey actions.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/shortcuts.html#repository-gr...
Calorie reduction to that extent will work, but that will already have consequences if you do it. And I can personally attest: gallstones ... you think something like breaking a bone hurts. It does not. Gallstones, THAT hurts.

https://www.webmd.com/diet/guide/rapid-weight-loss#2
Thanks, just what I was looking for.

I used to use a matplotlib backend that worked with ITerm2 for coding in a remote server (standard technique, that I also cover in my Hy language book). Adding Nbterm would also be useful. Off topic, but it is sometimes just (much) better to do development on a remote server with much more compute and faster Internet connections.
Gitlab's marketing page, that is.

If you're going to claim Gitlab, as in the tool, has that, then link to an actual example repository for proper comparison.

Not trying to defend Gitlab here, but this headline makes it sound like you have an agenda.

(The page linked compares about.gitlab.com, which is a wildly different site than the rest of Gitlab)
If german administration is a shit-show then administration is a shit-show everywhere. There are always people who will say "the 'administration' should know better!!!".

People have too high standards for leaders. They are also human.
> the project folder takes multiple gigabytes even for small-ish projects

This is a workaround but you can specify a global directory for all those artifacts with the env var CARGO_TARGET. This will deduplicate common dependency versions and lets you stick it in a temp disk/exclude from backups.
Quality plerk ethic
> I was quite careful to slowly ramp up the difficulty, and even now, I'm very cautious of really strong currents.

This is most definitely how it should go.

It seems like an inevitability you will eventually have something go wrong (maybe you lose your group, your mask is a problem, you burn through air too quickly, etc). In this scenario the most important skill is to not panic and control your breathing but I think that mostly comes with experience.

While you develop experience, diving conservatively hedges against some of the worst case scenarios. Something as simple as a mask coming off can lead to panic which leads to hyperventilating. Someone hyperventilating will feel like they just can't get enough air and the immediate reaction will be to exit as quickly as possible.

Guides, as OP points out, should be far more sensitive to the experience a person has.