skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. A design system, to create web sites on the fly.

2. A content-as-code framework, to help me writing complex articles, mini-books. The ideas are visualized as a directed graph, so I’m sure I’m sticking to them, and the result is complete.

3. A color scheme generator for web sites, to help me creating themes with accessible typography.

4. Gravity point calculator, to help me localize the focus point of a web page / slide, to make sure the message is delivered.

5. Art directed images, displaying the same image in portrait/landscape, depending on the device/orientation.

6. Hand made web decorative elements, to make uniquely looking web sites.
A whole bunch of little things, mainly command line tools.

Most of them are open source and also have extensive documentation and a screencast video going over them.

Here's a few examples:

- https://github.com/nickjj/notes

- https://github.com/nickjj/invoice

- https://github.com/nickjj/wait-until

And a few recent scripts to optimize very specific workflows:

- https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/using-ffmpeg-to-get-an-mp3s-d...

- https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/a-shell-script-to-keep-a-bunc...

- https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/bash-aliases-to-prepare-recor...
I agree with you, the details on the frontpage are enough for 99.99% of users, but IMO security is something that people rely on "trusted sources" so having somewhere easily accessible for these "trusted sources" to learn how it works, helps, specially when a project is new.

After a while people just "know" that signal is secure not because they know how it works but because they heard enough "trusted sources" describe signal as such.
I can't speak to billing since that's not my area but in general I disagree. A process doesn't need a non-trivial flow to need a queue and workers. I've done this with route optimization requests. They have a priority and need to be run in discrete processes. Once they are done, they are done.

The database records the start time, in the databases system time, in UTC.

The parent process can't update the job status, it can only cancel jobs.

There's a pool of workers. Each working may fetch a pending request or wait. Once it has fetched a request, which sets it as pending, no other worker is able to fetch this request. Only this worker may alter the status of its request and it may only set it to completed, and it may only do so with its results.

The worker periodically writes its status to a separate table. If such status has not been written in a timely manner, the worker is assumed to be stalled and a new child request is created, available to other workers.

Putting this logic into the database instead of a parent process, which managed a shared concurrent queue, has been a by far more pleasant solution. Granted, we're not talking large numbers of concurrent requests. Ten as opposed to ten thousand. If we're talking hundreds of concurrent, short requests, I can see this starting to become problematic.

I think there's huge difference in the needs of different implementations of queues and workers so I'm interested to hear more about workloads where this approach fails and specifically in which regards. In my experience, it's been pleasant.
I volunteered for AZ two months ago, otherwise I would have needed for to wait a couple more months to get a mRNA shot. With reserves of Ivermectin I feel very safe.
Except that it promotes and enforces that centralized, remote power on others, and calls it justice.
Your given link also produces a 503 error. After, you can strip off the arhive.org portion of the URL and then it works, since it is no longer a referral.
This is pretty much what they do nowadays. Look at patriot or S-400: the launcher, fire control radar, acquisition radar, are all mounted on trucks that can drive around. The radars do indeed share information with other assets like that. However anti radiation missiles ("ARM") are still a threat as the system won't function if all the radars are out
The US suffers from de-industrialization as a result of the free trade agreements. That is 100% the cause of the excessive poverty we have vis-a-vis Europe. What's odd is this belief that consumer protection laws are somehow what is keeping Europe from having the same problems. And I don't really see Europe as being on a different development path. Rather, the EU managed to buy time with Eastern Europe coming into the fold creating a source of cheap labor nearby that delayed the migration of industry to China and the resulting mass de-industrialization and growing pockets of poverty that result. But the rot is already there with the industrial decline of Southern Europe and firms migrating production out of Europe, just at a slower rate. You can view Europe as lagging the U.S. in this area also.
TikTok Feed Psychology
Just because you have a battery factory in one country doesn't mean you have to charge all the batteries with electricity from that country, does it?

(Also: "EUs worst CO2 polluter" according to what measure and which source?)
No it didn’t. First - a driver was required in the vehicle meaning they either had to break laws around driving shifts or use 2 drivers - which you can already do. Second - the driver had to drive both the start and end of the journey. This is like when your child learns to ride a bike and you’re actually just running along behind keeping them up- the difference being with the kid if you let go and they crash it’s not a big deal.

There’s nothing about this technology that enables what they’re claiming, it’s basically a demo other companies could have done 5+ years ago.
I agree with you that changing academia so it works well for both men and women is the right thing to do. Find ways to help men improve reading and writing skills so they aren't left behind, and help women improve math and computer skills so they aren't left behind. The purpose of education is to uplift. Sometimes we get too caught up in it as a competition.
This is also a meditation/mindfulness technique I've heard described in some guided practices, so I think anyone could definitely do this. For me it does require various levels of focus/effort when I try it at different times.
Observable is like Jupyter for Javascript. A general JS notebook environment, with the added twist that it uses reactive dataflow ideas to evaluate cells in a "right" and deterministic order (a common footgun in Jupyter where cells might be reevaluated manually, resulting in unexpected state).

D3 is a JS library for data visualisations.

Both are the brainchild of Mike Bostock. That's the connection. :)
A Skeptical Look at Climate Science
> Up to 3 dice for defence is the standard rule.

The standard rule is up to 3 for attack, up to 2 for defence.

https://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/risk.pdf
Made something really similar to apple's recently unveiled "universal control," but from Windows -> Mac. Lets me have the mouse wander off the side of the screen if "pushed hard" and it "pops out" on the mac. It has some issues with modifiers sticking and it's hard-coded to my network IPs and screen resolutions, PLUS it requires an unrelated tool I made to actually build the thing; it's on my "open source someday" list but it's not very other-programmer-friendly.

Made lots of other things but that's probably my fave and the strongest one for productivity.
Yes, but the only ways we know to generate antimatter require a lot of energy. Theoretically it could be an incredibly energy dense "battery" for spaceships or whatever though.
> Using a technique known as optogenetics, in which cells are modified so they can be activated by light, the researchers focused light on neurons in the pons to stimulate those in which ADRB1 was expressed.

I feel like there's a Manchuria Candidate story waiting to written about this.

That's cool as hell.
"If we look into COVID19 Deaths in the VAERS dataset there are only 4,946 deaths associated with the COVID19 vaccines. "

After seeing ridiculous things like lacerations and gunshot wounds and herpes being loosely associated with a "vaccine injury" I no longer believe anything in VAERS. Anybody can submit data, and it seems like it's now just a tool for unhinged anti-vaccine types to try to use to manipulate others.

garbage in, garbage out.
The Texas Horned Lizard
>If you build it as a CLI, you can get the GUI for free via Gooey

But then you've just added a dependency and, unless you vendor that thing, or don't update it in the future, you've no way to ensure it doesn't screw up your application at some point down the road.

Design the API, write the code, then have your front end(s) (cli, GUI, etc) call into it. Best of all worlds, no additional dependency.
https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/javascript-and-observ...
Its unquestionable precision-guided authority likes to travel about 9 thousand kilometers away from the center.
There's also the trichoplax, a kind of "tribe" of cells that is "made up of a few thousand cells of six types in three distinct layers: dorsal epithelia cells and ventral epithelia cells, each with a single cilium ("monociliate"), ventral gland cells, syncytial fiber cells, lipophils, and crystal cells (each containing a birefringent crystal, arrayed around the rim)."

They can be pressed through a sieve so that the cells split apart and move as individuals. The cells will reform the organism. Two trichoplax organisms can be split like this and the cells from each will reform with each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichoplax
Yes but it’s unusable in 99% of apps, so it doesn’t matter how technically brilliant it is
If you are already ingrained in the Google ecosystem, then sure. Personally, I can't stand it.
Sure but the point is these already wealthy people gain all this wealth for doing literally nothing, while the people who slave away and actually keep the economy going work hard all year for much, much less. And then of course workers end up having to hand most of that "cash" directly back to the land-owning classes for rent (among other things).

Homeowners could cash out on their investments and remain housed by getting jobs and renting, like the rest of us, which of course they won't do, because they recognize how exploitative the system is and that they earn more just sitting on property.

Anyway you look at it homeowners come out way ahead every time, for doing absolutely nothing.
Nice.
Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOGru_4z1Vc

...bears reposting.
The semantics around close() are as they are not because of issues around exit, but because of shared descriptors.

Calls that duplicate descriptors such as fork() or dup() will result in multiple descriptors which refer to the same network socket. These sockets need to be able to be closed individually via close() without actually shutting down the socket or modifying the socket state.

If close() terminated a connection ala shutdown() then it would be impossible for a process with a network socket to fork a temporary subprocess.

A different call is necessary to indicate that you wish to terminate the underlying network socket state.
Agreed! There's often a little jostle during the starting land grab to get Australia: easy to defend and those extra reinforcements really matter in the early game.
China’s New Power Play: More Control of Tech Companies’ Troves of Data
My dad had a full collection of minidics and our car had a mini discs player. I remember my dad telling me it was a superior technology but sadly wouldn't get any traction.

I never had a minidics player, I had cd's and after that a USB player with 32mb of storage. A year later I could get the same model with 64mb storage for the same price!
Old English has that quality where you can squint at it being a modern English speaker and it almost makes sense. "Loaf ward" sounds like a fair description, if clumsy, of somebody who guards bread.

But then "ward" is often a building or section, or, a minor under protection. Maybe "warden" keeps the meaning while being etymologically similar.

Edit: after a bit of googling it seems that ward and warden are cognates (alongside guard and others), but the former is from Old English, and the latter is a later import from French, though French speakers got it from Germanic sources.
And even better would be to support the Google Cast protocol to increase adoption while offering a roadmap to transition to a better protocol.
Notching definitely works, it is used routinely in air combat. It is more effective at greater range because it's hard to maintain the same distance to a radar that is closing on you.

The principal use is to break missile lock. It's less useful for disguising position, especially against opponents with AEW&C and data link. Breaking lock means reducing the doppler return to below the range gate threshold, and changing bearing to escape the Kalman filter that is predicting your position based on prior kinematics.
The only software that has the potential to delight the user are games or gamified software (likes, follows, etc). Everything else is out-of-mind at best.
Two reasons:

1. Because there isn't even close to the amount of radiation around we would see from such incredible amounts of anihlillation

2. Matter/antimatter annihilation is symmetric - it removes the same amount of matter and antimatter from the equation so however much stuff we started with we expect to still see the same amount of matter and antimatter and the antimatter doesn't seem to be around

Its worth emphasising that there is some matter/antimatter asymmetry in the standard model, they don't behave as exact "mirror opposites" particularly in the context of some kaon physics, but there isn't even close to enough asymmetry to explain the amount of matter and the lack of antimatter we observe.
I have ABP yet I saw ads on this page? Are they doing something dodgy?
https://archive.is/zOZKq

From the Article: "So why not call this thing the tech tax that European officials freely admit it is? Because Ms. Yellen and her G-7 colleagues understand truth in advertising could kill this measure on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers might bristle at a tax aimed primarily at U.S. companies. They especially will notice the goal is to shift to other governments tax revenue Washington might otherwise claim for itself."

Bureaucrats trying to fool other bureaucrats in order to get what they want without consulting citizens.
The research has shown conclusively that individuals have vary different antibody levels after Covid recovery. There is no blanket advice.

The longer history of the immune system is 0% relevant. If the immune system could be "trusted", we wouldn't need most modern medicine at all.
Just yesterday I wrote a command line tool I called “slice” that acts like Python list slicing for lines in a file. It’s a bit simpler than piping head to tail, and I’ve needed it enough times this week that I went ahead and wrote it in Zig. Haven’t used it yet in practice, but I’m excited to!
Sometimes I feel like a paranoid weirdo emailing companies to delete my information. Sometimes I'll even have to be a bit forceful and put pressure on them. But when even the big guys like Volkswagen can't properly protect PII, how can a little online shop?
Ever, AFAIK.

Contributing to the greenhouse effect, yes, but that's never been considered exactly "pollution". (Unless the darn kids have fucked up language again. Geroffmyfuckinglawn.)
Will I be rejected during job interviews based on genes?
>Personally if it were up to me, I would exclude poor working class whites from any notion of privilege as they clearly aren’t.

When the world's wealth was stolen and concentrated in a few locations on the planet, the majority of the people living in those locations were/are white and one of the primary barriers to earning a piece of that wealth was and still is race. What we see today is less explicit than racial laws but things like immigration restrictions have the same effect.

I think the 'white privilege' label is appropriate, anecdata doesn't change the larger historical observation.
I made a little script for quickly spinning up KVM virtual machines on my testing rig. It just grabs a minimal Ubuntu image, preseeds it with a ssh key, clones a VM on the default NAT network, and sets up the disk size/CPUs/memory allocation. It's not meant to replace orchestration or config management tools, just for quick and dirty VMs.

https://github.com/noahbailey/kvmgr
I don't get all the mouse hate. It works fine for me yet I'm not calling other's mouse preferences asinine.
BP conventionally being relative to an epoch date of 1 Jan 1950, which is at an ever increasing distance from the actual present, is something of an issue (and while “before actual present” is useful, using BP for it, given the conventional use, is problematic.)

"ya" (years ago) as a suffix is better, in that it doesn't have a conventional use with a particular epoch date.
what are you trying to say?
Not my tools, but been following 100r long enough to know why they build their own tools: https://100r.co/site/home.html
I wrote Piku (https://github.com/piku) to do all of my deployments. Easily the most bang for LOC I ever did.
That's interesting. The creation date for Dungeons and Dragons (1974) would be -24 BP then.
>But I'm not giving up my frameworks.

Why would you dig your heels in if you've found a superior alternative fulfilling all your requirements?
Now it would be interesting to see if both type of short sleeper from both gene similarly don't suffer any health effects and have the same health benefits, or if it's only one of them.

The way this gene effect was described, it doesn't make sense why they'd see no negative side effect, since it promotes "waking up". The other gene felt more like it allowed the brain to sleep more efficiently and require less sleep.
A friend and I always develop small scripts to generate stuff that's really boilerplatey in Android, basically writing text to files with node.

I've also made my own autoclicker for grindy Android games that otherwise detect in-OS clickers by basically using batch and adb to click certain spots randomly in a while loop.

Also a few batch scripts for a musician friend who's 0% technical to separate mp3 songs into instrument tracks (to rehearse and have fun) with spleeter by just dragging the file into the .bat.

Oh and a bunch of mini scripts to pull and merge stuff from one git branch to another and push it all (like dev to staging) to trigger a CI flow.
The #1 use case for 'casting' with a chromecast in my house is absolutely to stream from online services to my tv or monitor while controlling it from a device that would melt or run down its battery if it tried to act as a go-between for the data, or had to potentially re-encode data from its storage to what the tv can support.

That's still the niche that chromecast fills better than anything else at a price point that means you can buy one for every tv and monitor in your house for the cost of a more fully featured device with storage on one or two tvs.

Sadly google seems to hate the chromecast and even their own software gets worse at casting to it every year.
“Obsessed” is society’s word for “passionate” outside of approved areas. Spend all your time and hundreds of thousands of dollars on wine or golf and you’re an enthusiast. On splotchy canvases by louche cigarette-smoking sybarites in tight jeans and you’re just getting started. On mushrooms and you’re “obsessed.”
I listened to The Blindboy Podcast episode “Manchán Magan”[0] (The name of the interviewee, author of an etymology book[1]) yesterday and some of the stories were about shared words.

[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-blindboy-podcast/i...

[1] Library link: https://www.worldcat.org/title/thirty-two-words-for-field-lo...
Whatever you read is nonsense. There is no universal principle for these things. Getting Pfizer every 6 months may end up being a good idea, but it'll be because it's the most conservative approach -- not because everyone's immunity disappears in 6 months.

Anything that says natural immunity lasts for 2 years is lying because the virus has not been observed in humans for that long yet.
1000 times no.

You need to build security for the lowest common denominator.
As mentioned by the other poster, prop 13 makes the surprise tax bill situation moot. And in this current market you will not have to sell for less. My sister in law recently accepted an all cash offer for more than asking price. Made about $500k in 4 years.
What Makes Me Angry
Likewise, "surfing the web" is a really strange mixed metaphor. It really should have been fixed from the start.
Looks like a little bit of everything except the likes of abstract algebra, logic, category theory.

These include linear algebra, graph theory, probability, algorithms, mathematical analysis, topology, differential geometry. But the most important prereqs are math maturity and mental toughness/endurance.
I have thousands of images of journal entries & notes about things I want to make (music, stories, software) collected over the last 8 years. I'm currently organizing it all with tags and metadata using a Django web app. It's fun, even addictive, and I'm finally getting the insight from my own personal records that I've been hoping for.

What this looks like is gathering my data, spinning up different views and templates based on what I want to do next, using and iterating on the page while I use it, getting a new idea, rinse & repeat.
The creator of Dungeon World is a big fan of Burning Wheel. He has a video where he explains why it is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E79DDGdX62I

His point is that game mechanics reveal what a game is really about. Using this classification: DnD is about fighting monsters. Dungeon World is about worldbuilding. Burning Wheel is about character development.

Since people are different, this might help to find the right one.
Make High Quality Data Visualizations for Websites with R and Ggplot2 (2017)
It appears that you don't really have to write any Rust unless you need to do some heavy lifting. In this case Rust would be grate for file tree scanning, the rest can be done in JS. I am having trouble finding any really grate examples of what has been built in Tauri. I kind of want to play with a fully featured app to see how it performs.
Ah, I get it now.

And it’s interesting to me that Rust doesn’t allow that considering it’s not accessing memory (yet, and that’s the whole point I’m sure.
complexity and simplicity seems pretty biased to human understanding?

Just as a thought experiment, I'd propose that our universe and the human experience is incredibly simple. Humans were only given a limited number of senses so that the simulation can be run in this "low fidelity". Compared to the thousands of senses a level or two up. We also are simulated in a simple linear time model, only able to experience a single time at once, greatly reducing the complexity and fidelity needed. Same for the number of dimensions we are able to sense.
Board Games We Love (2020)
In laymans terms: We spit on (international) law, because of our (military / media / political / intelligence) might.

I wonder, what will happen when the money dries out? Keyword: Dedollarisation. Russia and China are leading it, others try to follow.
A hapax legomenon, one of my favorite literary terms.
It's struck me as peculiar but with a trackpad or a mouse the "drag down to move screen content up" feels natural, but on a touch-screen, phone, or tablet it's the opposite. So on a Mac I always have to change the default trackpad preference.
I’ve always considered Apple’s scrolling acceleration to be among its most important features. For, like, 30 years. Since the Mac debuted. But I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that someone out there wants to disable it.
Chromecast is also unusable for 99% of apps. On Linux, there is no reliable way to use it to play movies with embedded subtitles on your TV. Probably because the protocol is too hard to implement.