skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And you feel fine about it until convinced by science that you shouldnt.

Do you per chance also advocate against 5G?
As much as I have problems with their free speech, over a wider time line(multiple centuries) this seems like a progressive move. If this makes kids physically interact with each other 3 or 4 more hours a week it's a win.
It's not as simple:

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/4a76e64deddee2f5.png
> My wife once saw some AT&T contractors digging too close to the wrong fiber line at her facility when she was working for the Navy at a contractor site and unmarked black SUVs were there to take those guys away to God knows where within two minutes.

I used to do design/permitting for fiber networks and going around DOD areas/Fiber was always fun. You wind up having to submit your routes, and get vague feedback as to what you need to move, but never how far away/etc. Usually your best bet is to just go to the other side of the road if possible.
Agreed. I still don't really understand it, I imagined there would be lots of people working on off the grid houses who would be more than happy to pick up a free windmill but apparently that wasn't the case. So much work down the drain. Anyway, I shouldn't dwell on it, I've been lugging it with me from one residence to the next since 2008 so it wasn't for lack of trying.
That approach is good enough for simple forms ala HTML, but it's not effective for the sorts of full-featured TUI's with character-based graphics, drop-down menus, widgets, panes/windows etc. that are expected nowadays. Even writing a simple interactive text editor would be problematic using that model.
This is a fairly good idea. I think funding OS Office solutions would be feasible. It would be the cheapest thing any government ever did when it approached software.

And no, the average clerk can just a well use Word 95 and Libre Office is often just as feature rich as the MS alternative. The largest difference is Excel I believe. Well, then use Excel, but the rest isn't needed for anything.
Not everyone follows Pine devices closely. I was quite surprised to see someone announce a device and call it a notebook, when it lacks the all of the software that defines the category.
Are you really saying that salon is a front for big-real estate?
Singapore, from a Western PoV, is "draconian" (also Malaysia), but unlike the West, they actually have decent success in kerbing drug abuse. Of course, there will always be glue sniffers on the periphery, but the problem isn't wide-spread as in the West.
> GDScript is a language built for game engine scripting. It has deep knowledge of game concepts, as well as the scene graph.

Agreed, however it also being purpose built not only makes it so that your skills will be non transferable, but also that learning resources for it will be more limited in comparison as will code libraries.

For example, last i checked the language also has some interesting restrictions, like no Singleton design pattern for example; that alone makes managing global background services in games harder. Edit: seems like you can sort of have Singletons now, though having some that are completely separate from the scene graph would be even better: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_...

There are some really lovely people making plugins for Godot as we speak (the terrain one is especially cool), however it will take years for an ecosystem to be built around Godot. Historically, it has worked out for some languages nicely, like Lua, but less so for others, like ActionScript. For some people a purpose built language is a boon, for others it's a drawback.

> There is a GD build with first-class C#

I think our definitions of "first class" differ. In Unity, you don't use anything else apart from C# and even when there also was Boo or their version of ECMAScript, C# got a really large amount of love in regards to documentation, examples and tutorials.

Since C# support is so new in Godot, that's not exactly the case and for example, as of now i cannot yet open a project in JetBrains Rider and get information about which API methods are slow and should be used with caution, or common code suggestions like i can for Unity.

Now, personally i believe that C# being supported is a good thing and even Godot having separate builds for versions with/without is an idea that makes sense, but there's still a lot of refinement to be had before it is truly usable enough so that you can breeze through projects with it and be sure that both your code will be performant enough (without having to go down to a lower level) and that you won't hit snags along the way.

The efforts of Unity to have their .NET workflow be smooth and comfortable cannot be praised enough - if they gave as much attention and consideration to the actual editor and plugin ecosystem (as opposed to deprecating features with no replacement, or releasing features before they're stable), they'd really be in a stable spot!

Oh, and you can also look at Xenko/Stride engine to see what another engine that uses C# and has had a bit more attention given to it looks like (even though the engine itself is somewhat half baked and doesn't have terrain support out of the box, much like Godot).

That said, i'm sure that the situation will only improve in the coming years!
I use Lightroom enough that I don't mind the subscription but that's the problem with subscriptions in general. Assuming they're priced reasonably fairly (which IMO Adobe's photo subscription is), they're fine for programs you use routinely. They're not so good for something you just need now and then and only need to upgrade for specific reasons.
Correcting myself: California has corrected $7.4 billion _as of 2011_, after only six years of operation.

Note that the tax is not indexed to inflation: already, the million-dollar threshold is worth only $715k in 2005 dollars. After another ~17 years at 2% inflation, the same tax will be charged on earners of $500k+ in 2005 dollars.
Does any proof exists that humans think 'rationally' even when they are solving essentially deductive puzzles?

Im not an expert about neurological stuff, but did anyone discover any hardware in our brains that does something beyond 'induction'?

Is this notion of divergent/converged thinking based on anything objectively measurable? How do I make a machine that tells me if a given thought is convergent or divergent? Or is this all just cultural constructs similar to believe systems?

I'm especially tempted to be extra skeptical with anything that attributes a particular metaphysical superiority to human thinking over machines or animals. Is that skepsis an example of convergent or divergent thinking?

I'm sorry if my question make an actual expert cringe. But perhaps it can be an opportunity to enlighten simple minds like me further...
hahaha, I thought the same thing? "We didn't know glycornas existed yet? seems like it would be obvious that they would..."
Yes, in fact I have a blog post in draft (for years) already called 'crossroads'. I really should finish that and post it, it might be of actual use to some people.
Shh too busy coding to read pitfalls XD
Because it generates clicks and clicks generates ad revenue.

A longer answe is that a healthy lifestyle is more and more trendy and people want to know, why does walking help them also mentally. This is as they want to find an easy answer to their problems, such as stress. After reading the article, they will then share the article with their social circle with a message claiming ”This is so true! After I started walking I started feeling so much better”, which generates more clicks, since the other people want to get help too.

It’s seriously not that complicated.
This a thousand times. We also go to greath lengths to ensure there's no spam coming from our servers and then we get a notification and it's for a legitimate email that someone reported as spam for whatever reasons. It's frustrating.
Nginx proxy error: SSL alert number 40 while SSL handshaking to upstream server
When Lightroom CC first came out it had _very_ few features compared to Lightroom Classic. I don't need the presentation tools, but have the develop and organization features caught up at all?
Love seeing mentions of Firefox containers on HN. The native multi-account containers UI isn't able to do things such as container filtering, bulk rename/delete/recollection/etc, so a bit less than a year ago I wrote a lightweight extension to help manage containers here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containers-he...
The article starts really badly with "Music is generally defined as a succession of pitches or rhythms, or both, in some definite patterns."

The big three in music are pitch, rhythm and TIMBRE, guys, TIMBRE (the "sound" or "tone" of the piece).

Why is Beethoven's Ode To Joy somewhat annoying on the recorder, and can drive a room of hardened Germans to tears when played by a top-notch symphony orchestra? Timbre!

In the construction of classical musical pieces, this is controlled with orchestration. It's why a Hans Zimmermann score sounds punchy or etheriel or whatever is called for by the script.

I basically stopped there, because, well, if you don't care how your music _sounds_ it isn't going to sound very good.
Salon is garbage
Well...

You're right, of course. Development by definition requires novelty. If we just built the same thing over and over, we wouldn't be developing. We'd be manufacturing.

But development still does entail repetition on some level. We pull features through the implementation process, over and over again. We review code, over and over again. We hold retrospectives, over and over again. We do status updates, over and over again. We make supposedly backwards-compatible changes, over and over again. We deprecate features, over and over again.

If you look, you can find all sorts of things that repeat.

These things can actually benefit from being standardised. Standardisation does not mean preventing any future changes; it means doing things consistently, and systematically evaluating and implementing proposed improvements.

But why bother? You can't improve anything unless you can do it consistently. You avoid spending creative energy on repetitive processes, and can use it where it matters: on the actual development. You can learn faster what does and doesn't work, because everyone does the same thing on the same schedule.
Thinking Fast and Slow is also not scientific at all, and riddled with errors and a complete lack of statistical validation.

https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...
I used to run a very minimal desktop (cwm+rofi) what I used for screensaver was this :
https://github.com/google/xsecurelock
One really nice thing about ncurses (which I used in python to make an email user agent) —- you can run ncurses apps in an ssh session.
The trouble is that you need to distribute headsets to people, hope they don’t get broken, and then collect them back. If there is both an android and iPhone app, then you can let people use their own earbuds. You’d merely need to tell people “open Soapbox and pick #gymnosperms. We’ll set out on the trail on 8 or so minutes”
Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure.
The funny side of HN: the best reply is killed if it says you can do better for yourself.
>I show the long-term PR strategy that all Islamists use and the new, short-term one that the Taliban has developed.

Very quickly, this site tries to associate the Taliban with ALL Islamists. The readers of HN are smart - please DO NOT be fooled into thinking that the Taliban represent all Islamists.

I am not Muslim my self, but I know plenty of them, and none of them espouse Taliban sentiment. None of them have a "PR" strategy
I am not sure. Quite possible bad data was written over SMB, not necessarily that the drives failed. As you see in the article, the damage to images is systemic and drives don't seem to be failing. More like Lightroom/macOS/macbook RAM/Samba wrote (accepted) bad data.
Video Resume Job Portal
Hi Folks,
what u think of Video job portal for Javascript geeks?
Need comments.
Known to whom? And do you have a reference to this information from either Apple or Synology?
The "n" in "ncurses" is for new. Its not so new any more ;)
You say that, but AWS will provide satellite downlink as a service now, which seems almost the definition of a niche market.
It's a very poor "score" domain with no timbral information at all.

See my comment elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28355582
You can add descriptive error messages when an error happens (like multiple mutable borrows) during macro expansion. Macros are just regular list code, so all runtime features like printing functions are available.

You could even write a FPS using OpenGL where shooting functions, or pieces of suctions removes them from the current compile job (or even deletes them from the source code entirely). In a macro.
I am trying to design a solution to something I encounted a lot during my hardware development days - keeping track of inventory of small and large parts alike. Basically a shelving system with an app which a user can search and the shelf would illuminate the correct bin.

My problem is, would this be a viable product for companies? It was always a hassle when I worked in labs but I am not sure if it is a big enough problem to design an entire IoT product around.
Or you could pay for some third-party company to port your Godot game for you. There seems to be a few if you Google them.
You fail to grasp that moving to a city or deeper within a city might be an unacceptable quality of life issue, either because of unaffordable rents and house prices or simply because city life is deeply unappealing to many. People take it personally because not everyone has the means or the desire for city life, and going around acting as though cities are the only place one might want to live comes across as deeply arrogant. It's a very "let them eat cake" kind of sentiment which grates harshly against the ears of people who aren't on high salaries or wages.

For huge numbers of people remote work finally let them cast off the shackles of city life while retaining their professional jobs, the point you're not grasping as someone who actually likes city life is what an incredible improvement that is to many people's quality of life, and how jealously people guard this new feature of their lives.
Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes Goes on Trial for Fraud
Plex is kind of like this, though Plex Pass isn't integral to the base functionality and you can buy a lifetime membership at least.
A recent 99% Invisible dove into the history of standardized sizing that was really interesting (apparently most of the data on human measurements used in industry comes from US military research): https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/on-average/
Does boot/ethernet/PCIe/wifi/USB work with a mainline kernel?
Bookmarked. Will try immediately upon arrival at work.
Historical Jesus is just a few sentences by Flavius Joseph, a couple of references in the Talmud of Jerusalem. All the other sources are Christian.

So we lack sources to say if he was considered a magician or not to be honest.
I guess it boils down to personal preferences. I have come to detest passwords in general. Especially a new one for each website. (Because you don't know how the site is storing the passwords). I have created a Password Manager (HexaVault.com). If I am using a new service and it asks me to create an account, I go, "Oh man not one more password". Sure I can save it in my password manager which has around 500 passwords now I guess.

So if I see an option to login via some other service - Google/Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn/Microsoft I prefer that.

What I have come to like is the password-less email only login on a few sites. They either mail you a link or a code to login. Which I think is the way forward. Nothing to remember as a user.
If you workload is "expensive" you want to use a language that is more static like Java or Go.
We have had a few walking related stories on HN the past few weeks. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28268136 was interesting.
I was just pontif- er...talking about this, yesterday.

I am not a fan of the "MVP" concept, as it is defined in the software startup industry. I feel that it delivers time-delay disasters.

Mostly, because of the deliberate, and premeditated, willingness to ablate Quality, in a drive for deliverable.

We get bad stuff, fast. All too often, that bad stuff forms the nucleus of the product, for the rest of its lifetime. Basically, a foundation of sand.

It's hard to argue against the "dollars and cents" rationale for it. People make money, this way; lots of money.

As long as money and profit are the main measure of success (and it can be argued that they are the only ones that matter), we will have this drive to deprecate Quality, in favor of profit.

Quality is expensive. Real expensive. I've talked about this before.

But I've worked for hardware companies, for most of my life, and it's fairly rare, when hardware companies can get away with it; often, because laws and regulations. Also, tooling up a product line is a major commitment. You really don't want to cheap out on that. Distribution channels are also some heavy-duty overhead.

For whatever reason, software shops believe that we are exempt from the restrictions that have governed all engineering; throughout history.

In a way, this is true. Software is not hardware, and requires a drastically different approach. I always had a devil of a time, convincing hardware people of this.

On the other hand, I don't like the idea that we are also exempt from the requirement to deliver a baseline level of Quality.

Personal gripe. I'm an old curmudgeon.
The more I look into this the more it seems this inevitably (accidentally or intentionally) misrepresents data. Even the author highlights how it does this. All the options are in some ways effectively thresholding/binning ... but in non-systematic ways through the vagaries of the human visual system. Unless this is an art project, there are more systematic and honest ways to bin things.

I can see how it can be useful or even inescapable in some situations.. The most obvious being maps with different content that needs to be distinct and of course these bimodal "divergent color maps". But maps are already half-art :) and bimodal data you're effectively vaguely "pre-binned" the data into two equal halves. There are also situations where the color is adding an extra dimension (like these "cyclic colour maps"). The result with the fingerprint is honestly hard to visually interpret, but I don't see any clear alternative (other than a grid of arrows I guess)

But reading all this stuff leaves me with the impression that colors are dangerous. They really should be last resort. In simple/common situation like the probability densities of the mystery planet - grayscale looks like it's the only really honest option. Side by side with the grayscale, the linear colors don't seem to be adding all that much and are creating artificial "islands" (not to mention the colors are a real blast to the eyeballs)
My bet is the problem is related to the USB transfer. I've read about similar problems migrating data to Synology via USB. Don't remember where I read that, though...
It looks cool. thanks
why not switch jobs to different company ?
This is the reason I'm, and a group of people develop deployment methods for NEXTCLOUD.

We want to be able to offer PRIVATE solution that will be able to deliver both secure and private cloud infrastructure at scale to organizations that can't affort placing their data in the hands of neither Donald Trump or Xi Jinping.

https://charmhub.io/nextcloud
> It’s easy to think you understand the whole problem.

You don't think I understand what's happening to me? Well, I do. I know exactly the problem. I've been looking for a solution for years. I think it's easy to judge people when they are vulnerable.
Reverse engineering software licensing from early-2000s abandonware
must be some submarine pr from big walking
Sounds wise. Social media is cancer, delete your accounts right now
In Cartoons (and in science), wasn't this called Planet X and in other hypothesis 'Nemesis'?

I get that Pluto was demoted, but it's still a planet, if dwarfish, so it should still be Planet X (X as in ten, but X can also mean undetermined number, which is perfect).
Kids in China now restricted to just 3 hours of online gaming per week
Climate change linked to risk of viruses jumping species in the Arctic
Because they want people to read things, view ads, and maybe subscribe to their publication.

Its similar to the motive for mundane stories published in magazines 30 years ago: so people read them in exchange for money.
Why are cohort based courses so hot right now?
> At the end of that year, they can use the domain validation to obtain an SSL certificate that's valid for up to one year, even if they no longer control the website.

Can you explain this further? I don't understand.

Are you saying they could MITM the request that the CA makes to the website when it tries to do domain valudation? If that's the case, why is it limited to 2 years? Why couldn't they continue to do this indefinitely?
When the project was initially announced, Pine was claiming a 60Hz refresh rate, which sounded amazing but is essentially impossible for e-ink at full dynamic range. They've since clarified this:

>Edit August 16 00:09 UTC: A previous version of this post listed the e-ink panel’s refresh rate at 60Hz. This number requires much more context. It takes multiple frames to display most images on an e-ink panel. The visual performance of the panel also depends on the method of converting the screen image to data the panel understands. We will be unable to make estimates of the panel’s true performance in frames per second without much more testing and development. So we’ve removed the 60Hz figure for now. We apologize for any misunderstanding.

Realistically, the best you can do with e-ink is 1-bit with ~120ms refresh (just over 8 frames per second). If you want shades of grey it slows considerably. Dasung and now Boox Mira both support alternative modes that compromise on dynamic range, number of shades of grey, and amount of ghosting to be able to display video somewhat adequately.
You're Not Too Late
> May be to increase residential real estate pricing?

Only if the readers aren't paying attention. Research is also simultaneously showing that urban citizens walk more than their suburban counterparts.
I'm really upset that I took my old Commodore 8088 to the tip when it seemed obsolete. Not in the least because it had a few games I'd written in assembler on it.
Frequency Illusion
A friend from Shanghai tells me this wont be enforced just like the same restriction they had from 2 years ago wasn't: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50315960
Yes, I’d love to make the colours big and bold. No more mixing dev and production…
The brush can be easily rinsed out from the inside between refills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23lz6Ol_mqQ&t=7s
That's funny, I had this tab open this weekend while I was trying to make a silly terminal game, where each sprite is an ncurses window. I didn't really make much progress, but got the physics and sprite drawing working.

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/img/ncurses.gif
Thanks, will try it!
Sizing isn't really quantified at all. Brands use vague terms like "Small, Medium, and Large" that aren't even consistent within the brand, and depend on the cut and particular style.
OpenTable enlists Clear to verify vaccination status at restaurants
I don't think $79 is particularly expensive to recover half a terabyte of valuable photos, but thank you for the recommendation!
Thanks. I prefer to have everything from one source though. So I would not want to install a 3rd party screensaver.