skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think high-DPI screens are as commonplace as it is continuously being repeated here. The only relatively common high-DPI screens are on the macbooks and higher end 13/14" laptops (250-300 ppi). If you move away from laptops and on desktop-sized screens (25-27") ppi quickly plummets. A common market monitor size/resolution combination is 27" at 4k resolution. This is roughly 160 ppi, although better than 1080p ~100 ppi screens is still nowhere near the pixel density of a macbook. So even on 4k screens the legibility of a heavily-serifed font such as Garamond is questioned. There is probably ONE desktop monitor with >250 ppi I can readily find* (Dell UP3218K) and that's almost $4k !! I'd say the author's argument still stands for anyone not on a ~$≥1.5k laptop. It's the same story as "we don't need subpixel antialiasing any more". Yes it's an ugly hack and yes you definitely don't need it on 300 ppi screen. Fonts are still going to look fuzzy on anything else.

[*] In the UK: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/products/monitor/#r=768004320,57...
I agree with that, I think the way the rocks were handled in the books was much more impactful. It all felt a bit analytical and detached in the show which I didn't like. It still had an emotional impact for me but that may be because I was relating it to how I felt while reading it.
A 2% death chance may look small on its face, but Covid is not the only thing you can die from. If you accept a 2% death chance ten separate times, your death chance overall is 18.3%. I bet those are numbers which a lot of people won't be comfortable with anymore.
Isn't that the period considered the "golden age" of Hollywood cinema?

I've no skin in the game, really, except that I do love film and I hope good films are increasingly made.

It's not as if those films or productions are requisite viewing. It's casual entertainment or philosophy. I'm not sure what the pressing concern there is.

Amazon, however, is a different beast and should probably be broken up to some degree for other reasons—not this one.

It's definitely a streaming service arms race, though.
>That one was literally used as a justification for the IE de-bundling many years ago.

Yeah, that's what I was referencing by using it - that said my phone comes bundled with trash that I can't uninstall

>Regarding marketplaces: in accessible online shopping, Amazon and eBay are a de-facto duopoly for the vendors. Get booted off of either and watch your business go dry in a matter of days.

Their marketplace does seem to be pretty powerful, but I've seen a lot of vendors do well with a standalone site + Instagram/Facebook ads and marketplace so I'm not sure it's really a duopoly for all vendors. If you are only in one market and that market bans you your business will go dry immediately either way.

>Amazon often enough dominates local labor markets - they strategically set up their fulfillment centers in places that have high unemployment, so that employees have no practical (!) alternative than to accept the exploitative working conditions that Amazon offers.

This one I don't think works - it can apply to any employer that moves into a high unemployment area and I think that's something we want to encourage companies to do
If anyone's interested I'd also recommend The Exploring Series¹ youtube channel which does summarized narrations of SCPs.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/ManggMangg
Something desperately needs to be done about Fake News. I'm not saying we need to ban journalism, but we do need to look into licensing and tracking the news they produce. Perhaps we should consider outlawing Op-Eds, as they are the primary conduit for disseminating falsehoods in newspapers.
I guess that's the plan of the plaintiff.
and the second in mine. I hate it when I can't stop an animation, which is why I don't like gif.
Developer here, ask me anything (wondered why the traffic exploded today until I opened HN).
The outcomes of developers embracing No-code
The Elder Scrolls series has various interesting in-universe explanations which help account for the multiple actions a player character could take:

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Dragon_Break

I suppose this fulfills the same purpose for the SCP universe:

http://www.scpwiki.com/document-recovered-from-the-marianas-...
Right, but we're talking about evolution of infrastructure. Putting plugs at parking spots is extremely cheap, and in fact is happening already basically everywhere.
I'm technically on both but really only using Libera.
Freenode's management changed. Libera.Chat is a new organization with new servers not associated with Freenode -- but many organizations that had previously maintained IRC channels on Freenode are moving to Libera.Chat.
He's using a technical definition of irreducibility [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducibility] for which the claim is true. It doesn't mean "cannot be expressed more concisely at all".
look cool.
The upside here is that MGM has been limping along for ages, and if Amazon ends up paying off their debts and relaunching a bunch of their titles, even if this all collapses in a few years, MGM will probably end up better off for it.
A code of conduct doesn't prevent situations like this in any way.
There is something different about this virus. The idea that viruses become less harmful as the years go by is based on an evolutionary pressure.

If a virus kills its host before it has the chance to spread, then it has an evolutionary pressure to evolve into a less harmful variant.

The difficulty with this coronavirus is that it can spread asymptomatically AND it takes up to a week before you notice any symptoms.

That's a problem, this virus has less of an evolutionary pressure to evolve towards a more benign variant. Imagine if it were to kill 100% of its hosts after 10 days, if you don't get a single symptom in the first 5 days while you're still able to transmit it, this virus will have barely any evolutionary pressure to evolve towards a more benign form.

Still, the less a virus kills the more it is able to spread, a virus's ultimate goal is to make as many copies of itself as possible.

There are plenty of viruses that have not gotten more benign over time, HIV for example.

Everything considered, I do personally believe that over the longer term 10-30 years, the disease caused by sars-cov-2 ancestors will be less bad than they are now, taking into account vaccination and our immune systems getting used to this newest virus as well.
I get it. Humans are selfish and greedy. But we’ve also exceeded our carbon budget as a species, so here we are. The state could always nationalize Shell and dismantle its production capacity. This outcome seems pretty tame compared to what could’ve (and still might be) mandated. We have the technology to rapidly decarbonize, how fast we move is a choice.

The longer we wait, the more severe the consequences awaiting businesses who emit vast quantities of CO2 in the course of business. Some will adapt, some will receive a legislated or legal ruling death sentence. It is what it is.
> Also, it sounds unreasonable to tell a company whose principal product produces CO2 to stop making it

No, it's not unreasonable. And it's far less unreasonable to demand damages for the harm they've done through lying about what they know and the damage it causes.

Companies like Shell have been saying that they can perform CO2 capture and sequestration to reduce emissions. But they haven't actually done it. It's time for them to perhaps try that.

We have a clear path to making Shell's products completer unnecessary while maintaining current lifestyles, we no longer need fossil fuels. Even extremely conservative, fossil fuel-friendly, and renewables-hostile groups like the International Energy Agency have now published pathways that show that fossil fuels are not necessary.

It's time to move on, and Shell can either adapt their workforce and knowledge to a disrupted economy, via offshore wind turbines or underground sequestration of CO2, or they can die out. We don't have many other options as a society.
Even if you're going to ignore every country other than your own - before you use terms like "Great National Misery", please make it clear which nation you are talking about!
The show was weird from the start -- the first season was the first half of the first book, then they adapted the second half of the first book and the first half of the second book for season two (and likewise for S3 and books 2 & 3). Season 4 largely resolved that by wrapping up book 3 and adapting all of book 4 in one go, since book 4 is kinda slow on its own.
Unreal Engine 5 enters Early Access
I'm sure all of HN feels for the hassle you and others are going through. Please consider thoroughly documenting your experience publicly, permanently, so we have a record of these harms.

This is certainly an historical situation.
It seems reasonable to start with 1D for instruction then move to 3D to me.

What's the issue?
> Actually, this seems to be the dirty secret of pandemic planning - as far as I can tell, there really doesn't seem to be a good way to evaluate how effective specific policies are.

Before an actual pandemic, that may be somewhat true. although some measures are blatantly counterproductive, e.g https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/06/13/boris-johnso...

An actual disaster though, is a "can't fake it" test of disaster preparedness.

So you agree with what I said here prior evaluations were overtaken by events? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27290252
I don’t see any hard evidence there, only speculation on chemical weapons. But maybe I missed it?
lopsa - the League of Professional SysAdmins.
> I almost never bother reading chat history in IRC, but in Slacks/... you are expected to keep up with @mentions and on "important channels" etc.

Isn't that more of a feature of the kinds of environments that run Slack vs IRC?

If my office used IRC for communication, I'd still be expected to keep up on all important channels and pings.
Good!

CO2 emissions have massive externalities and the more we force companies to bear those costs (be it via court judgements, carbon taxes, or a CO2 credits market) the more they will adjust their behaviour.
Reminds me of "breaking bread with the dead" by turning away from the constant deluge of content and looking at works of the past.

https://harpers.org/archive/2020/10/no-time-but-the-present-...
I'm chugging through book 2 at the moment, I hate reading books right after I watched a show since I'm already aware of most of the events and the plot direction, but I want to see where the show diverged in the later seasons and of course get to the books after that.
Season 4 is bad because the book is bad. Unfortunately, the source material doesn’t get any better after this.
I've got a hardware Link - it's still being supported now. It had an update a couple of weeks ago.
Depends on their model... but a very large selection of PC games already ship with gamepad support (I mean, a huge selection of PC games already run on other consoles for example). I mean, that's really it. If you have gamepad support and can run acceptably on the hardware, then you're good to go - basically no extra dev required.
By working for the other companies there, investing on the Martian stock market, playing poker, marrying a rich partner...

A repayable loan is not feudalism.
Set up a support / resources landing page on your web site and set the IRC topic to point to that. People who connect to freenode will figure it out pretty quickly. Generally a good idea to always have a pointer to a page you control like this any time you're using someone else's server/service. You never know when something like this is going to happen and it provides you a way to communicate when/if it does.
it's me or you missing a driver for your cursor movements?

I don't imagine myself talking to computer... but I might try that for the fun with my awfulite editor :)...

gl.
Torrent clients are widely available for android.

iPhones attractive a different sort of user who would probably prefer to keep paying .
I mean, honestly, watching toddler for hours is boring.
Apes together count.
We can use face masks, which automagically produce vaccines (occulants) by killing viruses and then allowing us to ingale dead viruses, to alert immune system.

I use this for myself. It's easy to make such mask at home for flu and SARS viruses, which means "no profit" for VC's. I tried to spread information about such masks dozens of times in my country with zero effect.
> Or does it stream from some common CDN that keeps track of all this and bills each seller for their share of bandwidth?

You might be overestimating the costs here: it’s a fraction of a penny per GB to deliver.

> Or does some magic happen so that even though I'm playing the movie in the Fandango app, it is actually streaming from Apple servers?

It’s directly from Fandango - there is a shared revenue model + Fandango treats the MA content just as they would any third party content. They acquire source material and ingest it into their catalog as they would from any other studio.
From https://stratechery.com/2021/distribution-and-demand/:

`I do get the argument that Prime Video is a waste of money for Amazon; Brad Stone notes in his new book Amazon Unbound that “there was little evidence of a connection between viewing and purchasing behavior” and that “any correlation was also obfuscated by the fact that Prime was growing rapidly on its own.”`

Is that nugget actually true or is Bezos just obsessed with the glamor of Hollywood?
Unreal Engine 5 is now available in Early Access
I assume that can be handled trivially with today’s video editing capabilities.
Why? I watched a few sporting events recently and I was surprised how often sports gambling was mentioned during the broadcast. Does that annoy you too?
No idea why you are being downvoted...this comment is comedic genius!
The operating picture looks staged too despite the caption claiming otherwise. Battlefield hospitals tend to be chaotic and bloody things. Not peaceful and calm operating rooms without a drop of blood in sight.
It hasn’t happened because big tech lobbies against it and deploy capital not only in the political arena but the general consumers culture landscape.
I had that in my library from PS Plus but hadn’t tried it, so thanks for the recommendation.
Their awful UI is an artifact of trying to be a storefront (where shows are sold by the season) and a streaming service (where you can binge without regard for seasons).
They redirected ISRO's O2 production output to hospitals [1].

[1] https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/geo-imaging-satellite...
There's no reason in principle why an OpenGL-based GUI must be inaccessible. Qt heavily uses OpenGL, at least on some platforms, but is still more or less accessible.

It's more accurate to say that the vast majority of GUI toolkits that have ever been written are inaccessible, and most OpenGL-based toolkits fall into this category. Accessibility is tedious to implement at the toolkit level, especially in a cross-platform toolkit, so generally only big toolkits with corporate backing get it.

Also, on the web platform, if you abandon semantic HTML and use canvas or WebGL, then you're forfeiting the accessibility that your UI would normally have by default. As far as I know, the only way to make a canvas or WebGL-based UI accessible is to construct a parallel HTML DOM tree (and presumably use CSS to hide it behind the canvas).

Thanks for being curious about this.
One of my favorite thought games is trying to imagine an alien species who started off with a different way of counting/measuring things. Say, maybe going with complex numbers right away.
That is a different company:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Resorts_International
The studios are basically paying the burden of cost for MA. It's one of the big reasons Paramount and MGM haven't joined, it's expensive on the studio side.

Bandwidth is a nearly zero cost for a lot of the companies streaming the video on MA anyways. Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, all don't care meaningfully about bandwidth cost anymore, especially for prerecorded content they can CDN all over the place. The biggest value to a streaming provider participating in MA is user acquisition: People might redeem their existing collection on MA, and then buy new titles on their platform.
Shell has rooted itself deep into Dutch politics and society. It's called Royal Dutch Shell not just to sound fancy.
Like this, you mean?
https://www.wired.com/story/2021-platinum-age-piracy-streami...
>They have the size and market control to crush and/or acquire all competitors

I don't think that is true for all competitors, but it definitely is for many competitors. It's a good point if they are using that power, which I think they are, especially in particular industries. Same applies to Facebook, Apple, and many other companies as well.

>2. They purport to operate a neutral marketplace where they aren't responsible for the end product while also controlling what products you see and what company you will buy from and choose the ones that give them the best margin. The huge problem of counterfeit and faulty products on Amazon directly harms the consumer and because of (1) there isn't a general market remedy.

That's two different things, isn't it? Counterfeit products are a problem and a non-neutral market is a different problem. I think the non-neutral market bit is already covered by existing regulations, isn't it? Shouldn't we simply apply the rules we have?

>3. They leverage their position as market maker to figure out what products to manufacture and undercut innovative companies with their massive scale. In the short term this is a net benefit to consumers who get a cheaper product but it creates a mess of bad incentives down the line.

This one I've seen before but not as an argument to break them up - it's an interesting argument to me because I think a lot of companies engage in these practices. Grocery stores classically would release basic cheerios for example and undercut the price of the brand
Why We Don't Track
Here in Israel, it really feels like it's "over". There are still some restrictions, but more and more people are just going about their lives like normal.

Masks are not mandatory outside (though many people still wear them), they are mandatory inside (though many people don't wear them inside anymore).

And the most important thing - social events are back with a vengeance. You can basically do everything you could do a year and a half ago.
These firms are bullshit shakedown operations. You are actually not the target though. The real target is large copyright holders who are sold a copyright enforcement service that doesn’t work and is completely incompetent.
Everything is a word. Most words are informal, and may not effectively communicate both direct meaning and cultural implications.

Formal words can generally be found in a dictionary, and when used in those contexts, are more likely to effectively communicate direct meaning.
I agree, Valve needs to better support hardware to build trust. But I think some perspective is worth mentioning.

Every Valve hardware device has had a longer maintenance and support lifecycle than any Google Nexus/Pixel device ever sold. Valve has consistently been better than Google about their hardware + software lifecycles.

It's totally fair to compare the two, but that doesn't necessarily make them equivalent. Valve's track record isn't good, but it's not bad either -- it's not like Google's.
Why are they sticking it on Shell? Blame drivers. And anyway, even if Shell did hamper the global phasing out of fossils in the past we still need their oil. It's unfair to the public. And also, "knowingly hampering the global phase-out of fossil fuels" sounds like it deserves a fine, not a demand that to my ears at least sounds unreasonable. One more point, if renewables are actually viable then fossils should anyway be dying a natural death. Governments should be working harder. Fine Shell and let it die slowly i say.
from my experience there are no hard times to explain anything. if you have income from your activities from abroad you declare it and might have to tax it additionally, depending on whether the two countries have any treaties against dual taxation or not.
Anything Marx Brothers is hilarious
Developer here, you are right. I have also considered such systems, but my free time is limited, so for the moment I just implemented the most basic case.

Simulating limits will be included in the next release.

Hysteresis is something more difficult, so will not handle any time soon.

Asymmetric systems can be handled by gain-scheduling the PID (make a model for each region and schedule the gains), this is approachable in the middle term.
> It will most will likely consolidate to 4 major players so we're looking at 4 subscriptions to watch most new content.

How do you see this playing out when there have been so many big investments by traditional players to put forward new streaming services?

The major players went from Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon and have now added Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock, Apple TV+, and Paramount+, with more on the way.

Untangling all the licensing deals is quite confusing as well and starts to get into the innards of production. I always associate Friends and Seinfeld with NBC, yet they aren't on Peacock, they're on HBO Max and Hulu, respectively. That and content shifting from one platform to another constantly, makes the web even more confusing and it's hard to determine which services you really want.
That part is easy, the hard part is not causing cancer when doing so. For example, cancer cell lines often have lots of telomerase activity. The creation of immortal human cell lines through site-directed mutagenesis is easy, since we know most of the genes that promote cellular immortality from studying cancer.
Well the good news is that now that we have mRNA vaccine technology we can develop vaccines just as fast as those viruses come.

It blows my mind that we had the coronavirus sequenced the first weekend after it was discovered, and the first current, same-as-in-production-now Moderna vaccine ready in February of last year, before the epidemic even came to the U.S. All the time since then was spent on clinical trials and ramping up manufacturing capacity.

But now that the mRNA platform up and running, I expect subsequent vaccines for new viruses can move through the process much faster, if need be.
For graphics with only a few colors you can save a few extra bits by moving to lower bit depths. PNG explicitly supports an 8-bit palette color mode that is pretty lean. You can even specify fewer than 8 bpp if your palette is small enough to have its cardinality fall within lower powers of 2.

I recall PNG8 not being well supported in some applications. I've run into this with game engines, which I found strange since asset size is an important thing to keep in mind.
The Chrome Web Store is functionally a malware distribution system. There's no real moderation to speak of, and the vast majority of desktop PC malware is distributed by it.
95% of your salary will be directly deposited into the account of E Corp (Mr Robot) since they own everything, no need to make x payments to x entities per month. Everyone wins!
The heavy load of advertisements is a point well made, however the cost is a bit more nuanced. By your calculation, it would cost $2,166/month (+price of service) to just watch that amount TV.

This is an opportunity cost but only if you have the stamina to be doing billable work during all that time instead of relaxing.
This can help setting up a thermostat, which is super annoying to do if you’re not used to it
Hopefully they are going to restart the Stargate franchise now :-)
What if this is a sneaky way to recruit non IRC users to a new network? I'm saying this because I want to try it out.
Ya I closed the app and removed the Accessibility permission at this step. I don't need this app to "connect with my coworkers"