skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes me wonder about their management style occasionally, like taking over two decades to fix the issue with the accidental quit shortcut on desktop. People were celebrating that it was done, but I was wondering why it hadn't been fixed earlier if it was that important (I had accidentally triggered that shortcut myself at least ten times before).

Also reminds me that their mobile division seems painfully understaffed.[1] After using Firefox Mobile for a year there still isn't even a way to search your history, along with a dozen other pain points I put up with daily. And the most painful issues I bring up are either closed or never get addressed for months, or ever. It makes Chromium-based browsers even more tempting to me, and in cases I've had no choice but to use them for things like caching bugs with stale development assets, but Chrome is really all there's left if we lose Firefox.

I really, really hope that they do not sink the current iteration of mobile Firefox. When I see resources being used on projects like these, I just wish the more pressing issues were prioritized. Firefox is the face of Mozilla.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26107676
And yet, the odds of a longer streak of consecutive years become smaller: (1/300)^n
Usenet Trolls operated individually and were easy to ignore.

The article discusses virtue signaling mobs, which are much harder or even impossible to ignore, especially once they have infiltrated whole organizations.

The novelty here is that the article calls the mobs mentally ill, not the grumpy individual (who will also be persecuted by mobs these days).
Some people not familiar with games might think the issue is overblown and the result of a vocal minority of zealots.

How would you feel about a 4K colorized version Citizen Kane?

The issue here is that these games are supposed to be a reissuing of the original games, with some small tweaks. People are often fine with that. The case of the Dragon Quest III remake and the 2D+3D simultaneous versions of DQ XI show that the exact same audience is fine with fully upgraded (or even downgraded) games.

However, this in-between situation is frustrating. Is doesn’t help that Square Enid keeps on trying over and over with every version being the definitive one.
how do you measure that?
i could not figure out the captcha, did not complete.
I don't think entirely so. Perhaps to some extent there is a sampling bias, since members of the military spend a lot fo time around military facilities. But much of the reports are from aircraft carrier strike groups that tend to meander around and take trips between US bases and also patrol strategically important water areas.

A significant number of the reports come from the immediate visible vicinity of San Clemente Island off the coast kind of in between San Diego and Los Angeles. San Clemente Island and San Nicolas Island next to it is the site of a US Navy base with multiple runways used to test drones and other aircraft and run training exercises from companies on the mainland. Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrup Grumman all have extensive engineering facilities both in Los Angeles and San Diego. In fact in the 2004 "Nimitz incident" the carrier was undertaking a training exercise next to San Clemente when the objects were reported to have appeared on the radar display and when they sent out the fighter planes which reportedly saw an object and got it on infrared camera.
Apple had over 100 percent of the profit in the phone market for a quarter a few years ago. Every android handset maker lost money.
Founders made 8 figures, most employees including early ones got less than 100k. Back during the dotcom boom, options were distributed a lot more generously. At the first company I joined, the admin assistant made enough from the IPO to buy a vineyard and retire.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27635934.
> but for the mutations to have a selection benefit strong enough to dominate that gene pool there would have to be more people who didn’t survive than did.

To be pedantic: the gene pool is mostly influenced by anything that prevents reproduction, i.e. if you have your kids, and then die that doesn't affect the gene pool to a first approximation (there are selection pressures of becoming an orphan, but they are likely usually very weak. If being an orphan makes it more likely one will have kids or more likely to have more kids than one would have otherwise, then the selection pressure will select for death, which is inverted from what is naively thought! Edit: And if you are older and have never had kids and die, there is very little chance for selection pressure.).
> but we knew it wouldn't change anything

Maybe the immediate threat of developers quiting wouldn't have, but I think something might have eventually. Probably change from the top.
My recent experience with the xbox gamepass app on Windows let me cancel my subscription fairly easily on both the console and the pc (two different accounts) without ever having to call someone.
I like to think the culture at xbox has changed, maybe not microsoft, but maybe it will trickel up eventually.
I selected them all -- on every one it looked to me like they all were the thing -- I did not pass. At least not if getting another captcha means you didn't pass.
"Big chunks of American cities are built on man-made land that is a climate catastrophe waiting to happen"

I live in Somerset, UK. Just north of where I live is the "Somerset Levels". About 400 years ago a bunch of cloggies (Dutchmen) were engaged to drain the marginal lands for farm land etc. King's Sedgemoor Drain was built later etc. This is the land of Glastonbury (the festival actually happens at a farm in Pilton).

The Neths have centuries of experience of dealing with marginal lands. Your swamps are not going to faze them any more than ours.
Paper and mycelium?
I use the new Snip&Sketch tool all the time on multiple computers and it never takes more than a fraction of a second. Maybe it was just slow the very first time you used it?
UV induced degradation isn't biodegradation.
US intelligence community releases unclassified report on UFOs [pdf]
Seriously, and also pixel art is so constrained designing "for a CRT" doesn't really mean much of anything, especially when different CRT's had drastically different properties.

At most, it might mean artists perhaps tried to increase color contrast between pixels a bit, to compensate for known blur. But on the other hand, they were usually working with a limited color palette so that kind of subtle adjustment often wouldn't even be possible -- the colors just are what they are.

The preference to blur 8-bit video games on modern systems is totally valid, or to even try to emulate actual CRT characteristics, but so is the preference not to. It's an entirely aesthetic preference that doesn't really have anything to do with original "design intent".

And then stuff like this (from the article) is just ridiculous:

> Look at how much detail you're missing when youre only looking at the raw pixels. Richter's hair is barely visible! Look at how much clearer his boots read as leather on the right!

Color contrast (the hair) has nothing to do with pixellation and everything to do with different overall gamma, contrast, and brightness of the display -- which you can customize on your modern display to your heart's content. I guarantee you "Richter's hair" was "barely visible" on plenty of CRT's as well.

And I don't know about you, but his legs/boots read equally skin/leather to me in both images. But I guess you can see anything you want if you're motivated to...
There's also the (sometimes) predatory capital structure. And please understand the capital structure - that not all "shares" are made equal.

Also

Even if the "expected value" is high, how would you feel after spending years on what turns out to be a pretty low salary with no extra equity value, which is a very high probability event? Up to everyone to answer.

Those two are why I'm pricing such things at $0, unless there's a liquid market, simple capital structure and ordinary 10-Ks in EDGAR.
There's nothing to get past. Your password is not unsafe, which is what you want, you're good. Just click next.
Submitted title was "Does God Control the Weather? (2004)" and submitted URL was http://www.theweatherprediction.com/issues/3/.

As feared, the thread is getting derailed by God in the title (God regularly does that), so let's change to a less activating page. I've picked your first link there.
Good questions. You got the right long line. The normal number line, the "real line" can be thought of as taking a half-open unit interval [0,1) and putting one at each integer to "fill in the gaps". This is already very long. If you did the same thing, but stuck together each point on the real line, then you'd get the long line.

Cosmic fluid is a model of the universe as a fluid, like an ideal gas or something. The phase space is is the space of all the possible states it can get in to (shape, flow, pressure etc.) You may call this state space depending on how you think about spacetime. See e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_state_(cosmology... .

xkcd: 435, 794, probably others
I don’t think it’s in any way “combative” to point out that I am indeed competent and capable of interacting with the online world safely without the assistance patronizing of strangers on the internet. And, whether your intention or not, that’s exactly what your comment was: patronizing. With undertones of “well what did you think would happen when you present yourself in such a way”. Whether you’re willing to admit it or not, comments like yours aren’t helpful — they’re part of the problem.
The human population is much larger and richer.
> in particular, "I disagree with it" is not in the same category as "most reasonable people consider this to be immoral"

IMO, this distinction is usually illusory, and only taken seriously in the kinds of conversational spaces that aren't worth being part of. "Most reasonable people think it's immoral" can be applied to any number of horrific things over the course of human history. If you want to hide[1] a potentially sincere groupthink simply because it doesn't comport with groupthink, there a million and one fora full of dumb, narrow-minded people you can do that on. HN isn't all the way there yet, and I think it's worth pushing back against the tide.

This doesn't suggest that it's impossible to post something so alien that there's likely little of value to discuss, but this is demonstrably untrue of the parent comment, as evidenced by my response to it and the half dozen people who found it interesting enough to upvote it.

[1] Again, we're talking about flagging, not just downvoting, though it applies weakly to the latter too.
And they all saw the same object from the same perspective which could have resulted in similar visual effects leading them to misjudge how far away the object was. They reported that it was very far away but the sensor readings in the thermal video and other alternate theories about what the object was suggest that it wasn't as far away as they thought. Which if true would explain why they thought it was moving faster than they thought.

I was referring to the disjoin between the radar technician, the fighter team with Fravor, and the later fighter plane that actually captured the infrared video.
Deep work by Cal Newport.
It helped me learn how to be vastly more productive in the same amount of effort and time.
This had me cracking up, it's genius though. When I had to cancel I told them I'm leaving the country but I'm gonna use the prison line next time.
I've always found the "all-powerful AND all-knowing" to be a contradiction in terms. Either God is capable of learning new things, and is thus not all-knowing; or God is all-knowing and incapable of learning new things, and is thus not all-powerful.
I also thought it was an underwhelming answer. It's easy to think we really know how it all works. Thank you for the comment.
This is a old pre internet argument -

Are serial killers mentally ill?

Are people who are temporarily changed like black out drunk of a fit of rage responsible for their actions, like drink driving and murder?

Should homosexuality in the 50's been classed as mentally ill considering it could ruin you life and even get you killed.

But now it's gone fro Macro to Micro.

I know at an IQ level believing Pizzagate is as dumb as thinking unarmed people in a Capitol is an insurrection. But I also think QAnon has more mental illness than BlueAnon but I have no idea why I say that. I think Scientology or flat earthing is a dumb as Catholicism but in practice I think Scientology has more mental illness.

I do know Karen's is a name for mentally ill women and watching their videos will one day be a shameful stage of the internet. That's a predictable future.

But it's all hard to quantify and the Goldwater Rule needs to die.
To illustrate: https://greenpaperproducts.com/biodegradable-containers.aspx

From their FAQ:

> Bioresin is a thermoplastic made from organic materials instead of petroleum products. Bioresin is a substitute for PET and polystyrene and can replace polyethylene and polypropylene.

> PLA stands for polylactic acid and is a resin made from corn starch. PLA is used to make clear compostable containers and PLA lining is used in cups and containers as an impermeable liner. PLA is biodegradable, and fully compostable.

> Bagasse is a natural byproduct of sugarcane refinement. Bagasse pulp requires minimal processing and elemental chlorine free (ECF) bleaching to turn it into a woven high-strength paper that is biodegradable and compostable.
Frank Cifaldi, who worked on the Megaman Legacy collection and Disney Afternoon retro collection and is kind of an expert on this stuff (runs the video game history foundation among other things) has a lot of good nuanced takes on this:

https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/1408515001048961025

TL;DR -- every artist had a different workflow and approach. Some worked directly on CRT monitors, some worked on Amigas with Deluxe paint that had crisp pixel art akin to what we see today (yes the monitors were CRTs but there was a wild world of difference between some computer displays and televisions), some (like Miyamoto) worked directly on graph paper and then had someone else code them directly into the game.

There is no single rule for knowing what an artist's "intention" was without looking at the context on a case by case basis.
So they are practising on collecting more data but with the motivation that it is somehow for the good of society? It is still doing the one thing I don't want Mozilla to do, embrace data collecting, no matte the banner or motivation.

Also universities through history have done numerous unethical studies, they don't automatically gain my trust or data because they pinky promise.
The spam problem started in 1993 w/ Robert McElwaine spamming all of the groups relentlessly with crackpot content from WUSTL. WUSTL did nothing for a long time because he sued them (and won) when they stopped him putting ads in the campus paper.

I developed a zero day email amplification attack and launched it on a Friday; it worked better than expected and filled the disk on their VAX and the whole campus was down until the next Tuesday.

They couldn’t prove I did it but the central computing facility found a pretence, deleted my account and gave me an empty suntape that allegedly held my files. I still had accounts at the physics and EE departments so it was not a big loss.

McElwaine was out.

The recorded history of USENET spam started in April 1994 with the law firm of Canter and Siegel and their Green Card Lottery scam. I was involved in that too and did not get in trouble for that one but anti-spam activism got me a date with the JA, trips to the Dominican Republic and Brazil, other misadventures and a lot more spam.
Such a defeatist view. You might as well say "it's pointless to try to understand anything not strictly human".

I think we are allowed to discuss things from an anthropomorphic lens because thats the only point of reference.
This is an invalid critique of the article. It is critiquing it for something it doesn't do, now justified by the idea that people might ignore what it actually says.
Wow. Why even go work for a startup if you are going to do this? Might as well just work for a FAANG and collect immediately liquid equity.
Yeah, absolutely driving me nuts. The readability has suffered for me.

Oddly, I opened a private tab on Safari - which was a not part of the test and had the older line height. It had a settings icon at the top of results page with an option to enable Dark Mode! Wish I was in that test cohort :-/
"Where to?"

"North Korea"
The report is short (8 pages) and is really just there to motivate the creation of a unified procedure for detailed collection of sightings; interestingly there appear to be 18 relatively recent incidents that cannot easily be explained and appear to have unknown propulsion characteristics. I wish they would release all of the images, videos, and data that they have, but it would probably reveal too many details of classified sensor systems.

Combined with the recent French report (and other government reports in the past) this does seems interesting - this is the first time governments have officially admitted that something unexplained is being seen regularly by experienced aviators.

I'm generally skeptical, but in this case I'm not too convinced by the debunkers either. However we would really need the full data to be released or available for review by multiple groups of experts to know anything.
My reply predates this edit from the parent:

> Sorry, I definitely did not put as much thought into my comment as I should have and I left out the critical piece of information that really ticked me off.
>there is a clause saying the consumer cannot perform chargebacks.

I'm pretty sure a business that accepts credit cards cannot decide to 'opt-out' of chargebacks!
I think too often UFO debates become too "either or". People will say "it can't be aliens; it's advanced technology from Russia or China!"

In all cases... why not both? I think we should open our minds to all the possibilities.

I think it's unlikely that humans are "special". There are billions of possibilities regarding how life could have evolved elsewhere. (And that's not even considering panspermia theories; it could also look very much the same in certain pockets of our, or other, galaxies, due to effects like that.) I think there is likely to be a wide variety of life. I think there are probably other human-like life forms in the universe, just as there are probably life forms that are so different that they might resemble ghosts and angels to us.

One interesting thing about UFO reports is that there are a wide variety when it comes to descriptions of the craft. You have the "classic" saucer shape, cigar shape, "tic tacs", spheres... (etc, etc). I think a lot of the confusion on this topic is due to this inconsistency. What if we're being visited by multiple types of interstellar life?

Anyway, some life in the universe might be more easily anthropomorphized in this way. Some not at all. I certainly don't want to anthropomorphize this phenomenon fully; then I would have to assume that there is a colonization ship on its way and we're all doomed. I hope advanced life in the galaxy isn't the same as humanity, otherwise our planet probably has a very violent future.
> what percent of molecules in the body aren’t involved in biology. The answer to that is probably something that approximates 0%.

I think the answer might be different (and more interesting) if constrained to human biology. What percentage of the variety of “stuff” in our bloodstream/tissues, that came in from our air/water/food and then maybe got metabolized a bit, is now of a form entirely inapplicable to anything going on — or that could even potentially go on — in a human body? How much is pure “waste to be excreted” from the human perspective, with both no use in keeping it around, but also no danger in keeping it around?

(I know that this is at least what allantoin is for the species that make it; but we’re not one of those.)

I presume a lot of toxins that get inactivated by the liver end up in such a form.
And I thought with Juicero we had reached peak stupid…
No, I do not. You didn't read my original comment, I asked if apple selecting them and are they paying them.
Giant rock slab slid on hot lube
re #2: what's odd is that it is equipment failure that's been occurring for decades. One would hope that JIRA ticket wouldn't keep getting pushed back to the next sprint for 40+ years.
US based recyclers sell their plastic to companies that then pay to have it shipped elsewhere for reuse.

Is the theory that the government (or some other entity) was paying those companies to pay to ship the plastic to China for no reason?

(It's very true that most plastics aren't worth much for recycling, but there's considerable use of recycled PETE and HDPE, #1 and #2.)
I'm not sure that is the "right" way (if there is a "right" way), because ideally you would find the expected utility of that equity. What I mean is that a scenario with a 100% chance of making $10 million and a scenario with a 10% chance of making $100 million and a 90% chance of making $0 hace the same expected value. However, many people will be happy to retire on $10 million or $100 million - so a 10% chance of retiring is a much worse option than a 100% chance of retiring even though they have the same expected value (the guaranteed money has a much higher expected utility).
The name Dflat name is already taken by a GUI system for MS-DOS apps. See the FreeDOS EDIT.COM replacement or early 90s Dr.Dobbs Journal articles about it.

https://github.com/alexfru/dflat20
The example in this tweet is amazing: https://twitter.com/CRTpixels/status/1408451743214616587

Single red pixels bleed into each other, creating eyes that span multiple pixels. It's an incredible effect.
Flamewar comments like this will get you banned here. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Lots of trans people have depression or anxiety disorders. Not personality disorders.[1]

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-...
And an obnoxious GDPR message with intentionally confusing sliders (am i disabling all tracking or enabling all tracking? Why is the ‘accept all’ button in the placement of the ‘accept’ button, why can I not just hide this form and not complete it at all)
Product managers want a faster, smaller install. It means less cancelled/failed installs. It's a metric they'd love to optimize for.

Why are you bashing PM's?

At the end of the day, if delivering a new feature on time adds another 5 MB, it is what it is. Pretty useless to try to assign blame to either devs or PM's, or portray them as somehow opposing teams. They both want success for the business.
It applies to farming in general. You really need to consult an agronomist for better answers (which can be very specific/different depending on which part of a field you are asking about )

I was hoping you would notice the exercise connection. I don't have answers to that, just an interesting consideration.
Biofeedback breathing app to relax: VaYou App (iOS)
I am not affiliated but use this app regularly and find it extremely helpful. VaYou uses the gyroscope to detect breathing patterns and gives immediate sound feedback. Very relaxing.
A boring dystopia indeed.

One day someone will be hunched over on a sidewalk, dying of thirst, and a patrolling Nestle®-branded drone senses (using state-of-the-art machine learning "customer needs" technology) his predicament. The drone hovers there projecting a holo-ad about Nestles hot product "Nectar of Life" which is just water from the region's last remaining aquifer cut with brackish water from the coast. The ad ends with a map to the nearest vending machine and buzzes off for it's next engagement. The man, too weak to move, just sits there, nothing he can do except wait for another ad drone to come by.