skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are the police wearing forest-pattern camoflage? Do they need to seek cover in the woods from attackers?

I'm not the first to point out the militarization of police, but the camo doesn't even seem practical. There's an appearance, maybe not intended or reflective of their reality, that there's a culture of playing at combat and embracing violence, and where the 'playing' takes precedence over the mission of peace, deescalation of violence, and public confidence in professionalism.
Asinine Puppeteers

Great way to start a debate.

Snowden case is worse than Protasevich. They diverted a plane of a president of another country. Snowden dennounced a government that was breaking the law. He wasn't convicted of anything, so he as innocent.

The two cases are a menace to democratic societies. I'm appalled that someone can find one terrible and the other one something normal. Great example of double standards.
https://www.chargerlab.com/category/power-z/

These read out the e-marker and tell you the supported power delivery and USB data speeds.

The irony that their product comparison table has 30+ rows should not be missed!
One day I had to siphon the gasoline out of my car for some work....and I ended up with gasoline in my mouth
Alternatively we are in a massive carbon bubble, because valuation of these companies is based on their reserves, by the time we'll get to the last drops of oil they'll have to deal with famine and roving tribes of technobarbarians.
Thats not a risk, it's a certainty.

When this buble pops it will make 2008 look like a frat party.

https://www.cbd.int/financial/doc/carbon-bubble.pdf
Three requests for the Google Chrome team as they experiment with RSS
Never underestimate how dumb people can be.
Unfortunately, 5K 27" displays went nowhere. Around 5-6 years ago I was hoping for that to become the standard resolution for 27", instead of UHD (billo 4K), but alas. I believe that one LG display is literally the only 5K 27" display on the market now. And that's of course a 60 Hz panel, like all other 5K 27" have been, and it's an LG IPS on top, so not exactly the best image quality you can imagine.
I think what OP is suggesting is to go out 1 min the first day, 2 mins the second day, etc, until you have built up enough melanin in your skin and have a natural defense against it.
> Wasn’t that a product of Aryan migrations from the north?

I know this isn't a great answer, but "yes and no" -- it is certainly true that the Proto-Indo-Europeans brought with them Rigvedic religion. But that religion itself was syncretized with other beliefs across Central Asia and South Asia over quite a long period of time. While it is often dramatized as a "violent" invasion (no doubt reminiscent of later "violent" "Aryan" invasions), the truth is more bland, which is that the nomadic Indo-Aryans and their ancestors had a rich level of cultural exchange with more settled civilizations. Some of it by the sword, but some of it otherwise.
Why not remove postcodes?
We are not innocents, but we are not the perpetuators either. We should bare the responsibility by paying a premium for any surplus CO2 emitted during the production and transfer of any product we buy. But it will only happen with sane, international laws that take into account the environmental impact of all products.

Also, a large populace is easily manipulated and democracy is not that direct for the average person to have a proper say. And “the market will solve it” mentality never ever worked, not even thought to work by Adam Smith generally — only in very regulated markets.
My novel doesn't. I don't know why. The few people who have read it really like it, so I believe it's not that it sucks. But I've tried ads, promo services who have mailing lists of readers per genre,... and very few people buy it. Something doesn't work.

Is it the cover? Is it the blurb? Is it the theme? Is it the price? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QPBYGFI Anyone knows anyone in publishing who could help me debug this?

(On the other hand, my not-novel Computer Graphics from Scratch seems to be doing well!)
I think it's a strong disconnect along with the staff selling lies wholesale. It's weird.

I do wonder when Andrew is going to realize that the 68K users he has is mostly idle connections or small private irc channels.
> Because it does not scale

Arguing on the Internet doesn't scale.

And if someone says something wrong, and you don't have the time to respond to it properly, it is better to just ignore them and move on, than to answer their poor argument with a poor response.

> P.S. Or, in other words, burden of proof ;)

I hear so many invoke the concept of "burden of proof", without appearing to have ever really reflected on the complex philosophical questions involved – which of many distinct principles for assigning the burden of proof ought we accept? Many of them sound plausible on the surface, yet can produce opposite results when applied to particular cases. And why and how are we obliged to accept any such principle? If there are multiple competing proposals as to the nature and contents of the "burden of proof", how do we determine which (if any) of those proposals is right? Is there a single burden of proof across all of human thought, or does each discipline or field of endeavour adopt a burden of proof suited for its own needs? Do we force criminal law, high energy physics, mathematics, ancient history, psychiatry and philosophy to all share the same principles for determining the burden of proof? Or do we allow each to pick their own, and maybe one discipline's principles will contradict those of another?

Such people would be well-served by familiarising themselves with some of the philosophical literature on the topic, for example James Cargile's 1997 article "On the Burden of Proof" [0]. I think it is well summarised by his concluding paragraph:

> Is there one, ultimately correct standard of proof? I don't think so; but in a given case, it may be true that an appropriate standard of proof has been satisfied. It can be truly observed that a different standard has not been satisfied. Confusion can arise as to the significance of this fact.

And to quote the epistemologist Keith Lehrer's (often-cited, including by Cargile's paper I referenced above) 1971 address to Vassar College [1]:

> ...generally arguments about where the burden of proof lies are unproductive. It is more reasonable to suppose that such questions are best left to courts of law where they have suitable application. In philosophy a different principle of agnoiology is appropriate, to wit, that no hypothesis should be rejected as unjustified without argument against it. Consequently, if the sceptic puts forth a hypothesis inconsistent with the hypothesis of common sense, then there is no burden of proof on either side...

[0] https://www.jstor.org/stable/3751305

[1] Keith Lehrer, Why Not Scepticism?, Philosophical Forum 2 (3):283 (1971)
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> immigration

In recent decades, immigration animosity is usually directed towards Mexicans. Usually people are upset when they perceive their jobs are being "taken away", but the professions Asians are associated with in recent decades in accordance with that model minority myth are not the same set of jobs that are being threatened.

> I believe that people universally care about their material conditions of their lives, about being treated with respect

I think everyone would agree with this sentiment, however the far-left/medium-left now equate this sentiment to "All Lives Matter" and reaffirming white supremacy or even that Black Lives Don't.

I attended public school that was 25% black, 25% white, 25% latino, 25% asian. I always felt America was a tolerant place, but in recent years that has changed. The democratic party has shifted from the labor of party to being one of social issues and identity politics, while the republican party has in a way become about blue collar laborers. In my opinion, identity politics is to blame for this, but the situation is far too complex to point to a single or even a dozen things. I realized that, as a rule of thumb, most phenomenon in America can be parsed if you assume there is some private commercial interest at play. Things may start as grassroots, but eventually corporations taint the situation with their own agenda. Definitely Social Media and the attention economy which is fueled by controversy and polarization, "The Social Dilemma" may cover some of these bases.
I don't think the belief in creation by God requires any more leaps of faith than a belief in other cosmologies, such as the big bang, etc.
The Wonder of Haidinger’s Brush
Some specific workflows may improve and be more efficient here and there, but it would be the first time in history if this would mean games are cheaper to produce, instead the scope will increase.

As for LOD creation, there are things like https://www.simplygon.com/ already.
Ya I’m pretty sure that’s a sentence in English that’s never been written before. I love how that was dropped in as if that were totally a normal thing to do with no explanation.
SpaceX aims for its 100th successful flight in a row TODAY with a Falcon 9
We are working on a 3d mobile game and we have both the concept of mvp and vertical slices.

Vertical slice is the product we show to management.It's crude and only has the most core elements. No music very few sounds no introduction. Something similar to a prealpha product that you can play with.

MVP in our company is like beta products that you put on the stores, those early access ones. You get full audio, polished visuals, full FTUE and the means of payment, etc. Basically a full game but with a bery limited amount of gameplay contents. Say Doom but only with e1m1 and e1m2.

Then we grow from there and add a lot of things if it looks good. We first push the MVP (early access) to Tier-3 countries and then gradually open access to all countries if the revenue looks good. We kill it if it doesn't pose a positive return after some tweaking. The majority of programming frameworks are done at this stage but new contents still need code here and there. Eventually you are planning new major features e. g. pvp that needs new frameworks but that's probably months after MVP.
I know design and all this, but I would prefer red, blue, green plugs and corresponding colors on my laptop to make it easier what I can plugin where - with my desktop I which has around 10 USB ports I always struggle to find the right one.
Not aware of how to do any of those things, but if you want some of the _better_ aspects: Lives in a browser tab, connect from anywhere, etc, look into TheLounge or Convos as your client. I'm a major version behind on TheLounge and it's still fantastic.
The hard sci-fi background makes the protomolecule stuff quite good actually IMHO.

Since they are not goofing off in basic things and they've done their homework, having space magic happen is much more entertaining than in e.g. Star Trek where basically everything is driven by plot-based technobabble so you really have no distinction between "standard technology" and "unfathomable space phenomena of the week".

Some of the space magic driven by protomolecule later on is fairly thoughtfull IMO and meshes nicely with rest of the show. I would advice you to continue watching - the series gets constantly better and better.
> Also, there are a number of asians who do in fact use "Stop Asian Hate" as a cloak for their own anti-black feelings

I agree
On my Samsung Note 8, photos are rendered with very different colors in email previews vs if you download then view them, the email preview shows the colors as being very blown out.

Color spaces are hard yo.
I agree with this. I think you really need to be a good data engineer to be a good data scientist. Now, these terms are different roles at different organizations.

I think you need to have a well developed software engineering skillset. You need to have some experience with database systems and query optimization. Of course you need a strong background in statistics and mathematics. Often these skillsets are split across teams and departments, which tends to slow the process down. It takes a long time to develop these skills, but if you have them, you are very valuable.

Many DS and sometimes companies make a mistake of undervaluing the software engineering skillset. However, if your data comes from the real world, it will be messy, it will need to be organized. If you don't know how to do that, then you aren't going to build your models. If you are bad at querying your data, then you are going to build your models much more slowly.
> Imo one big reason why declarative UI's hasn't caught on is because C/C++ really don't have the best ergonomics for building "flexible" data structures or immutable updates, by turning it around to using im-gui style rendering it could probably be solved fairly smoothly.

I suspect it has more to do with the sheer amount of effort to build a new UI toolkit (text rendering itself is an insane amount of work) and so very few UI toolkits actually make it to a usable MVP whether they are traditional/widget-based or reactive.
Totally agree that not everyone wants the same UX.

And same applies to IRC as well, there are clients that go more in the slack/discord direction (which I also won't touch), but it's great to have options, so everyone can be happy in the end :)
How is it a hypothetical? You've already said that China has slipped on its carbon neutrality goals, all while we continue to import ever more manufactured goods from that country. Now would be the time to start taxing those, which as I pointed out, we would never do.
I don't get the image at the top. Why are they showing a different color in the two left most squares?
The two solutions don't play in the same ballpark of EV either. With Torrent and NAS and Plex you're talking niche phenomena forever.
Study: Don’t count on caffeine to fight sleep deprivation
You don’t see 100% infection rates when a positive person is in a a room. Reducing the amount of particles inhaled in such circumstances must be of use.

You would on the other hand expect a 100% fatality rate if you fired 123,000 bullets at each person in a room. So your analogy is faulty.
Isn't this more like cable tv packages, where you add another $10/month to your bill for that package of channels, which were often focused by broadcaster, who had a bunch of exclusive shows, or themes, like sci-fi or 'cartoon network'.

Netflix, Apple TV, etc are broadcasters and crunchyroll is thematic.
In the context of blockchain tokens, “digital ownership” is equally as nonsensical as owning a fine art print with ink and a pencil signature on it. These artefacts, and the ideas of ownership around them, are social constructs.

The mental shift that most struggle with, is that the NFT ownership is not owning the digital image/file/media/bits (which can be copied on any machine, “Right click save as”). It’s probably closer to purchasing conceptual art (see Sol LeWitt), or similar to owning a certificate of authenticity handed to you by the artist. Or, perhaps somewhat analogous to “owning” digital property such as a domain name.

I agree this tech does not magically make everything more secure. But, for example, you can query the “current owner” of a million dollar CryptoPunk - as long as the blockchain survives, the database record will be secure & immutable, and cannot be changed except from the token holder’s own wallet address.

Reading the Solidity code & querying the contract myself helped me understand the value here is not in the digital media file; it’s in the ledger record (or state).

https://etherscan.io/address/0xb47e3cd837ddf8e4c57f05d70ab86...
This bad advice would raise the rate of perfectly preventable skin cancer if people followed it, which we absolutely should not.
> The best part is that the cables look nearly identical with some very small print on the cable that says they are different.

If you're lucky, that is.

One would think that after nearly 2 decades of USB cable confusion the standards bodies and vendors would make an effort to make the cable identification easy, but no.

I suspect it's because they actually want consumers to end up buying lots cables and the churn it causes.
The Future State of VR
There is a point when it doesn't make any difference if the language sucks or not. What matters is if it is capable. You can say the same about most successful languages: C sucks, shell script sucks, eLisp sucks, LaTeX sucks, but they're all there and will continue to be because they have been capable of support the communities for which they were designed.

Now, you can freely dream about the perfect extension language for UNIX, or vi, or TeX, or emacs, but it won't make any difference because nobody will move from something that works to an unproven extension language just because some people (usually the minority) feel that it is a more comfortable language for them.
this is interesting. Given the biodiversity of human beings, it should be safe to say that any product may have negative consequences at scale. Certainly the HN crowd can appreciate what it means to work at scale. The fact that J&J knows these consequences exist and plans for them makes them evil? If your company planned on extra engineering resources strictly to assist launch issues, is that evil?

Evil comes from them knowing issues and shipping anyways (see the opioid crisis). Being prepared for adverse outcomes is just common sense.
The set of people who know how to set up Plex/Roku is very, very small. My parents can barely figure out how to use Netflix. This is why monthly streaming services exist and will continue to exist
ha, thanks very much! thats cause i dont have the curse of knowledge when it comes to payments haha
It's probably just not implemented for anything but D3D12 and the Playstation graphics API. Those are the priority targets for high-end game content.
OpenAI Announces Funding for Startups
I tend to pick and measure a piece of wood before turning my saw and cutting.

I say that I am cutting the wood. But I select it first before marking it and cutting it.

I noticed that I use the visual mode of vim a lot. With easy motion to highlight words or other object boundaries to quickly jump to.

I tried kakoune and liked it. But after 15y of (neo)vim it's hard to change. That plus how good You completeMe is for vim.
Monopolists are winning the repair wars
The simulated appearance in Wikipedia gives a good impression what one needs to look for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidinger%27s_brush
Ah, I was mislead by the wording. Ah, thanks for the clarification!
Use what is in the standard distro. Don’t go too far downstream. MacVim/gVim
My favorite is that it's ingrained in the language that living is temporary:

"I am alive" uses "estar" -> "Estoy vivo."

But "I am dead" also uses "estar" -> "Estoy muerto."

AFAIK, when most people die, they are dead forever.
> Making TF3 would be especially weird because Valve basically popularized all of those trends.

> That's just the format now.

It simply doesn't need to be this way. It would take 1 executive decision to change all of this.
I don't have a sense of how big a deal this is, but I had a totally random thought I after I read this:

> FDA currently recognizes the high danger of this compound and lists it as a "Class 1 solvent" that "should not be employed in the manufacture of drug substances, excipients, and drug products because of their unacceptable toxicity ... However, if their use is unavoidable in order to produce a drug product with a significant therapeutic advance, then their levels should be restricted" and benzene is restricted under such guidance to 2 parts per million ("ppm").

This reminds me of a story I heard about Kosher Coca-Cola. They had designed it such that its impurities were below a certain threshold. (Googling it now, the ingredient in question was glycerin derived from non-Kosher beef tallow.) However, the consulting rabbi explained that the threshold only applied to accidental impurities; you can't put them in on purpose.
I can't think of a counterexample for "estar", but you are absolutely right about "ser". Off the top of my head: "soy rubio" (I'm blonde), "soy joven" (I'm young), "soy ciudadano Español" (I'm a Spanish citizen).

My favorite quirk is "estoy muerto" (I'm dead), which leads to plenty of metaphysical discussions.
> He’s a pretended to a defunct throne.

The designated heir to the pretender, etc. And not even the most accepted pretender among those who think the lineage of that throne means something, but he is the only one actively seeking restoration after 110 years of the throne being defunct.
Even if you don't consistently write E-prime, that observation often improves your writing. Occasionally every E-prime construction feels forced and you might as well just stick "to be" in there, but I find that re-writing often makes my prose more interesting and clear.
Watching ThePrimeagen and tjdevries has also given me some good insights into neovim. Tjdevries has put a lot of work nvim-treesiter, and it shows. I have stuck with regular vim for a while because I have everything configured the way I want, but I am setting up a new build now, and I will probably move to neovim.
Neither Nanite nor Lumen use raytracing.

Source: they said so, somewhere.
Greenland’s ice sheet is releasing huge amounts of mercury into rivers
Monopolists are slowly destroying society as we know it, when will this be addressed? Do we need to go out in the streets?

This is a real gem from the article:

"In 2014, a pair of American political scientists published a groundbreaking peer-reviewed paper analyzing 30 years' worth of US policy-making that compared policy outcomes to public polling results.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

They concluded that general public sentiment had almost no impact on US policy making – but the political preferences of wealthy people and large corporations were hugely predictive of what laws and regulations we'd get."
I've heard but cannot verify that eating more potassium will make it smell bad again. That is, that a mineral deficiency may cause some things to smell good that otherwise wouldn't.
SOA was overloaded even in 2004, when IBM was promoting it heavily. In 2021, it so inclusive that even microservices fall under its purview.

> often by consultants pitching

You do realize the term originated by consultants, like many other terms used today (DDD, Gang of Four, Agile, anything from Fowler/Martin etc.). Consultants may not always be the best at implementing things, but I've always found that they do a great job of giving names and marketing repeatable business/software processes.
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It is, compared to pretty much any currently in-use editor.
I appreciate your wish to be more in keeping with the guidelines! And I hope I didn't come down on you too hard. The problem is really a co-creation between comments and upvotes, and the upvotes do the greater damage—but there's no way to reply directly to them.

Your edit is still not in keeping though, because if you read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html to the second-last rule, you'll find: Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Moreover, from what I've looked at in this thread, your comment appears to be false. Which critical comments are you talking about specifically?
I'm in my mid-50's and I'm doing my best work - and running rings around the younger, less experienced developers. Just plan on every 10 years your technology stack is going to completely and radically change. If that bothers you then stop now and find another career.
You can't fly over here. And you also don't have enough gas to go anywhere else. See, I'm not really forcing you to do anything.