skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a previous work, an adjacent team used the K9 mail source code to implement a secure mail client. The consensus among the team was that the source code was terrible in many ways. On iOS, we had written our own mail client, but on Android, for various reasons, it was decided to use an open source instead of implementing our own. Not sure what amount of research was invested in investing alternatives, but for years the team complained about the quality of K9. This was 6-8 years ago.
The amount of segfault debugging and managing memory is roughly linearly dependent on how much you pretend to not be programming in C but in an object-oriented programming.

Those languages give you syntax and/or runtime tools to get away with badly structured programmings (allocating / deallocating stuff like mad, lots of implicit behaviour). C is not like that. It wants you to think and learn how to structure programs (this is transferable knowledge, i.e. it gets much better with time).
A friend of mine did this during the pandemic. Asked for a rent reduction and the landlord refused but offered them an identical unit in the building at the lower price.
look at gun ownership in Canada vs USA. your comparison is nonsensical. furthermore Canadian police follow a single federal code meanwhile USA's police vary wildly per jurisdiction - this has affects both in law enforcement and training. if these facts offend you flag away if you like
Is it possibly related to the term “crip weed”, so named because it “cripples you”?
> Where can you buy a phone/tablet that’s capable of browsing the internet

CEX (UK secondhand games/electronics) will sell you a HTC Salsa* for £3 ($4.12) and Argos (generic catalogue warehouse) will sell you a SIM for £1 ($1.37) that you can then top up with £10 ($13.75) at ATMs, etc., for 7GB of data.

Total cost: £14 ($19.24) which is probably under a week's worth of lunch money these days.

* Should still work on 3G HSDPA 2100MHz.
They're uncommon outside of pricey prep schools. Interesting question, but the data would be tough to speculate with since there would be such an income difference between those girls and the statistically average American girl.
Looks like CannonJS [0] and CreateJS [1] are being used according to the Chrome dev tools "sources" section. If you look under "hplogo-complex" on the page it seems there a bunch of sprite sheets loaded.

Still not sure how it is all pieced together; I was under the impression that cannon was used in 3d. Would be great to hear more detail on this!

edit: a link to one of the JS files running it, seems to have references to all the in-game text, characters, animation states, ect. : https://www.google.com/logos/2020/kitsune/rc6/kitsune20.js

0]https://schteppe.github.io/cannon.js/
1]https://createjs.com/
What new situation did the scientists and engineers suddenly face on July 20?
I like Ubiquiti for tinkering around at home but the number of issues with hardware and software that constantly creep up has pushed me away from enterprise. A lot of users on reddit have a similar sentiment that Ubiquiti has an identity crises and because of it they're trying too many things and being really successful at few.

Because i'm curious i'll give this a shot to tinker but I'd highly recommend against any substantive deployments for a while.
K-9 Mail doesn't send format=flowed

https://forum.k9mail.app/t/k-9-mail-is-not-sending-format-fl...
The Central Valley aquifer does not extend to the coast and is poorly connected to the coastal aquifier: https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/c...

There is not enough flat, cultivatable land closer to the coasts to move much agriculture out of the central valley towards the coast, even if desal'd water was free.
Here's a 'Behind the Doodle' about creating the game, and at one point I see they're using what I think is Adobe Animate for the level design and sprite animation (it says Animate in the top left bar), but beyond that, I didn't notice anything that might give a hint as to what the game's tech stack might be.

Might be Haxe, since it's kind of a successor to Flash like Animate is, and there's a Haxe library to support the Adobe Animate texture atlas format. Haxe games also tend to have retro pixel art styles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy7tHQUR3TM

The video is pretty interesting and has a lot of concept art and storyboarding in it, btw, I recommend checking it out.
The vast majority of the water usage that's attributed to beef is from growing the crops that feed the cows. The amount of water that the cows drink directly is probably negligible in comparison.
> My media server setup far outperforms Netflix and Spotify

Every time I've done the math, this only comes out ahead financially if you already have a huge library or if you are willing to torrent.

Is there something I'm missing?
Yep same, maybe 4 years just using ddg. About once or twice a year I'll try a Google search if I'm really getting nowhere (sometimes helps, sometimes doesn't)
Nightclub owners aren’t the least shady people, I’m sure there’s already some on their payrolls so no need for more…
Edit: For context, my reply was to what OP originally replied to me with before they decided to make a sneaky edit

> look at gun ownership in Canada vs USA. your comparison is nonsensical. flag away if you like

We are talking about mental health in relation to policing and that is your argument? About the number of guns owned? That is not a conversation. That is you making zero point and again contributing nothing to the conversation. Just stop if you're not going to have a constructive conversation. You clearly have nothing of merit and are still just trying to dismiss an opinion you disagree with rather than having an intelligent conversation. Maybe Twitter or Reddit would be a better place for this.

In regards to your newly edited comment:

> Canadian police follow a single federal code meanwhile USA's police vary wildly per jurisdiction - this has affects both in law enforcement and training. if these facts offend you flag away if you like

This is only more support for what I said. That you're trying to dismiss my opinion because you say Canada is too different from America, yet you are okay with comparing state by state despite your own words acknowledging how even that doesn't make sense. Your own argument contradicts yourself. Don't try and dismiss my comment by saying countries vary too much to compare, but then in the same paragraph tell me how much America varies in policing by states.
Add Video to that list. Family movies, etc.

Or how about accessing your personal library of data while outside of the house (like while visiting family)?

Backups and professional media work from home? Those need upload too.

Consumers need symmetrical data connections, or at least something much closer to symmetrical, than any ISP (in my area at least) has been willing to provide.
How did you get access to Close.com OAuth? I don’t see it in their API docs.
CRM Wikipedia Speking
The benefit of CRM in managing business and emails and facilitating the management of communication and affairs
This decision has bit me in the ass so often.

I want to organize my code logically in directories. As a script grows, I want the ability to spin out parts of that file to separate files.

In order to do that in python, I need separate directories between the script and the spun-out functionality. This ends with a script that says "do function from module" and all code being in the module.

Having code in different directories for no reason except "the import system" sucks. How is this supposed to go?
> If you compare that with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_N... how much each party has representation in parliament at the moment, you will see that a large swath of the population is opposed to it.

The only way to show actual public support/opposition for the issue is to do just that, everything else is not really a valid substitute. You may be right about the actual public support, but without actually showing the data for it, it remains speculation.

> However, because of the way that the parliament system works here, this issue is not correctly represented in current policy.

How would you change the system to avoid such a misrepresentation of public opinion in actual policy/legislation? If there is such massive public support, what would be the fallout from just not approving north sea exploration?
> Ask HN: Who's Using NixOps in Production?

> 8 points by lambdaba *23 hours ago*

Ouch...

I've been looking into provisioning with nix integration for a bit and it looks like Terraform with https://github.com/tweag/terraform-nixos and/or https://github.com/andrewchambers/terraform-provider-nix might just be a comprehensive solution to the problem that NixOps aims to solve (I think)

I haven't evaluated it though yet
There is actually a phenomenon colloquially called "extend and pretend," where it's better for commercial properties to sit vacant or half-vacant than lower the rent.

The reason is, the building is financed based on it's calculated property value, and commercial property value is simply a multiple of the listed rent. Whether or not you're collecting the rent is immaterial -- after all it's perfectly normal to buy a vacant lot and built a building on it, or to buy an old warehouse etc. and refurbish it, etc., such that the bank has to make the lending decision based on projected rent rather than actual rent. So this is what they do.

The problem is only when the projections are proven false, such as when you lower the rent to fill the space. If you do that, the bank must now lower the value of the building, which can easily make the building worth less than the loan.

Further complicating things, commercial properties are usually on short-term financing, for example a 5-year "revolving" loan where the developer pays interest only for 5-years and then is expected to pay off the loan all at once (unlikely) or refinance (99% of the time).

So, suppose the building has a $8M loan based on a theoretical $10M valuation. The developer is making the payments, whether from the partial rent, or his personal bank account, even though the building is vacant. The loan is now due to be refinanced.

If the developer says, "I'll get a tenant in here any day now," the banker can nod and say "I believe you," and refinance the building. The developer keeps paying the payments and doesn't have to go bankrupt. The banker doesn't have to foreclose and write off the loan as a loss.

Conversely, if the developer had cut the rent in half to get the building full, the banker now has to lower the building's value from $10M to $5M, and therefore the maximum loan is reduced to $4M. But the developer owes $8M to the bank, and doesn't have the money to pay it off. Not even the $4M to cover the difference and refinance the rest.

In this scenario, the developer goes bankrupt and the bank has to foreclose on the property.

Thus both parties choose "extend and pretend" as the rational action, even though it's not good for the developer and terrible for the surrounding community.

From my friends in the real estate business, my understanding is that a shocking percentage of commercial real estate is currently operating in this "extend and pretend mode," which ironically just reinforces the pattern, since all the players involved know that if the banks started forcing the issue they would likely kick off a chain reaction of bankruptcies, write-offs, and a destabilized real estate market that would lead to huge losses for most or all of them.

So instead, "this is fine."
"John Wheeler, the famous physicist, put forward the idea that all of the material world is constructed from the geometry of the spacetime. Our research strongly supports this kind of natural philosophy. It means that the material world always corresponds to some geometric structures of spacetime."

This is also the Platonic-Pythagorean perspective, that the world is literally made of math.
Surely this is bandwidth limited? Any language should be fine as long as it's not gratuitously awful.
To NSO Group CEO - Go fuck yourself. You've got no right to snoop into my private life. Go back to that rat hole you came out from.
Lots of things you can do with Python but probably shouldn't and people typically don't. That's one reason I prefer it to Ruby, or even Node, where monkey-patching or otherwise exposing bad magical behaviours is common and even encouraged -- the power is all there, but the ecosystem encourages you to use it for good, not evil.

This sounds very much like the good kind of magic, though.
Here in Munich in the underground for a long time they advertised "walk on the left, stand on the right" however as a notable number of people wants to stand there are large clusters of people when a tran arrives at big stations trying to get to the right side, sonthey fried advertising "stand left and right" which would in theory be best use of capacity (still considering notable amount of people standing) however people didn't accept it and there always were people asking people to give was yin an unfriendly manner ...

This tabloid has a picture of the poster they used for that campaign: https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/muenchen/links-und-rech...
No, because it doesn’t apply to bezos’ first ~$50 million either. I’m good with him keeping that if we can redistribute the rest.
How would value be dropping if the commercial space has a $100/ft sticker on it and keeps going up. Its the same mechanism putting Tesla and shitcoins valuation on the moon.
I am interested by the technical aspect. Pass-through is not as obvious than sending the camera feed to the screen.

If the field of view, eye position, focus and latency are not right, the world will feel wrong. If it is way off, you are as good as blind. Close range focus is already a lost cause on current gen headsets. I don't know how tolerable the other factors are and how Oculus dealt with the problem.
Big fan of LVB, but not sure what to talk about here.

My mom sat me down in front of Roots back in the day. One of the only things I can remember was the iconic whipping scene. Was several decades before I realized he was the same actor on one of my favorite shows, ST:TNG.
Trebek was the very essence of Jeopardy throughout my entire life, and he can never be replaced. But if anyone could take the reins, it'd be Burton.

Trebek and Burton were a staple of my childhood years, and my career path is certainly somewhat indebted to them both. It feels so fitting to pair Burton with this role. He's such a natural choice.

If Burton can't do it, my other picks would be for Bill Nye or Neil deGrasse Tyson.
In some ways, I think we need a way to file a defensive patent, especially for a small player. So if you are a small firm, you can patent something and ensure that a big fish can’t also patent it and run you out of business, but without obligation (and maybe without rights to) enforce it if someone else uses your idea.

I.e., a patent that protects you against a later filer, but that’s it.
People have a script run with python, and want to use code in other files.

This is not supported in python. For reasons beyond my understanding, you are supposed to put the script with python, or with the shebang, in a different directory.

Alternatively, you can always use `python -m` to run your code.
how the hell did this post get 1.2k claps? It's terrible
There are many things that Germany and the USA can do more cheaply than China, and those are the things they currently export to China. This can happen because of local skills and knowledge, for example, or because of natural resources such as brines and geothermal energy that are uneconomic to ship overseas for processing, or because of existing capital investments like those in the Richardson Grating Lab in Rochester, New York, or because of favorable regulatory environments like California's prohibition on contractual employer ownership of the work products of employees outside work hours.

There's the Ricardian comparative advantage argument: even if, say, China can produce N95 masks more efficiently than the US, the US might still be able to export N95 masks to China, if all the Chinese are so busy producing more profitable products like solar panels and microchips that they don't have time to also produce N95 masks, as manifested by Chinese wages rising too high for N95-mask factories to produce N95 masks at competitive prices.

However, this does not seem to be the case at present. If anything, the situation is reversed: there are things Germany imports from China, even though Germany could make them domestically from less inputs, because German wages are higher than Chinese wages.
Revoking a CSCA especially towards the end of the lifetime (passports are usually valid for 5 to 10 years) is probably not economically possible since it would invalidate millions of passports all at once so you have to fall back to optical features anyway
Well, if small inventors can not afford it (what is approximately correct), then it should just not exist. We don't need more government-enforced restrictions on small enterprises, we need less of them.
How much power is required to pump so much water from sea level to the elevation and distance of the Central Valley?

Just as one example, Tulare is at 300 ft, ~100 mi from the ocean.
Yeah, sure they do.

Another country will be tolerated for outsourcing manufacturing, but not for competing on the same league.

When it reaches that level, the hypocritical talk about "free trade" (which was used against others countries trying to protec their markets) gives way to taffics and trade war rhetoric.

Same concerns where in vogue in the day with the Japanese. But the China is quite more powerful to be pressured to sign the equivalent of a Plazza Accord.
Do you pay for Github? just curious.
> Instagram was founded in 2010.

You may not be far from the truth: last year I watched a talk given by Jonathan Haidt (sp?) and he specifically showed the suicide numbers increasing when the "Like" button appeared... the increase was not an anomaly, it was obvious.

I can't find the video unfortunately :(
The strap upgrade is totally worth it. Much easier to find a comfortable, good fit.
It is certainly feasible to saturate NVMe with just index writes in many niche implementations today. The trick is usually copious amounts of batching so that IO can do more per unit.
Nothing wrong, but you’ll probably be happier achieving a little more.
You can put a sticker on anything you want. You already know the value is less than that because it's not being rented at that price.
Or

You can just STOP SPENDING FUCKING MONEY.

Most of the people in DC should hang.
Not to mention that official state travel to many of these states is banned...
When I saw his name come up on TNG as a kid, my thought was: It's the guy from Reading Rainbow!
Yeah, like a lot of large industries, big tech exploits the value of data and the erosion of privacy for profit while outsourcing the social costs for someone else to solve. Almost by design they have created something too big to control.
Come to Munich - there is a brewery right at the airport. Can't be more local.
https://www.munich-airport.de/airbraeu/en
You just gave a non-aesthetic reason to explore symmetry. I'm not saying we should only look at theories that are not beautiful, but instead we should not use that to evaluate if a theory is worth exploring.
Coerced with their livelihood on the line by an entity with much more power than them to negotiate, or forced for short. Don’t be pedantic
California typically orders similar or more severe restrictions during shortages, but residential use in total is such a small share of water use that residential conservation is mostly symbolic.
How Henry the vacuum cleaner became an accidental design icon
I don't know what point you are making. That's how observation works... The observer is always at the center of their own universe.
Retrocomputing is the programmer’s version of cringe. The very border of benign.
Napster was in 1999.
Isn't that what this thread is about though? The complete end of renting in this downtown strip. The buildings are sitting empty and not renting.
> # Add enough .. to point to the top-level project directory.

This suggests that there is more than one entry point to the Python project?

While I'm sure there are good reasons for this, and while I'm not criticising your instance of this specifically, as a general point of advice I've found this sort of thing to be a bit of an anti-pattern.

Having one entry that handles things like path setup and other global concerns, before delegating out to subcommands or whatever construct works best makes it much easier to keep the whole codebase aligned in many ways.

Django has a system for this and while it has its flaws, it is nice to have it. Using this, on our main Python codebase of ~400k lines, we have a single manual entry point, plus one server entry point. Coordinating things like configuration, importing, and the application startup process, are therefore essentially non-issues for us for almost all development, even though we have a hundred different operations that a dev can run, each of which could have been a separate tool like this.
And that was a complete mess if a system when you start considering moons orbiting around planets orbiting around the sun orbiting around the Earth. Not to mention anything outside our solar system.
The social aspects are pretty interesting. I game occasionally with my brother, who lives on a different continent... Chatting about life while shooting zombies or whatnot.

One of the best parts is hanging out, post game. Basic avatars and directional sound make the whole thing feel very different to video chat. A real world setting would give this a different dimension.

VR is in an interesting place. This initial hype has died down a little. Users no longer haul their headsets around for show and tell. Meanwhile, a bonafide juvenile market for hardware and content exists and incrementalism gets to do its thing.

Honestly, I'm kind of surprised there aren't more entrants into the hardware space.
Ideally, the OS should be an immutable image and the user partition completely seperate. Than a factory reset simply has to nuke the user partition and place a fresh template over the top.

I can understand how something not designed could have difficulty factory resetting when data can be scattered all over the place.
It’s not, especially in the Windows-centric corporate environments mentioned above. 0 not greater than 0.
I'm not so sure about that:

> Please don’t create a second Facebook account

> Avoid creating a second Facebook account
Hubris that what humans consider aesthetic is somehow important to the Universe.
HN is like coffee, use it with moderation and you'll be fine. Both are enjoyable.
For green house gas emissions, at least, it is absolute. See https://coolclimate.org/maps.

True rural and true urban (with public transit predominating) is good. But the suburbs where most people live are absolute trash.
https://youtu.be/CI6rX96oYnY

He talked about it here on the Joe Rogan Podcast
I understand what the kernel devs are afraid of. Rust needs to demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that it's a good replacement for C in the kernel, or they risk alienating people who don't want to learn another language, and losing those developers to FreeBSD or something.
Docker runs just fine on my Alpine box. You just have to ensure dockerd is started upon startup.

I don't faff about with GNOME or any of that, so if you want to run GNOME you may be out of luck. GNOME can be built without systemd dependencies, but it's probably a PITA, especially on Linux.
Show HN: Online Catalog of Dropbox Integrations
Python is 10x more popular than perl these days. None are installed by default on Windows.
The future could be humans inventing and learning new skills, then an algorithm quickly mastering and automating them (with the help of those humans)… makes you wonder if that kind of neural plasticity is even possible if your job was invented and made obsolete even faster than today. Can humans get better at this kind of creative flexibility?