skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, remember that leaving a comment (even a thoughtful one) without also leaving an upvote acts as an implicit downvote and will eventually trigger the flamewar detector in a thread.

This happens if the post has at least 20 or 40 comments (I don't remember the number now). Most post in https://news.ycombinator.com/newest die with no of very few comments and upvotes, so most of the times it's not bad to add a comment to an obscure post. Sometimes a post is not good enough for upvoting, but it looks promising and the author may have some interesting insight.
I have no opinion on the effect of blue light on wakefulness. But I really really like the warmer, “quieter” screen mode in the evenings. It’s like having a dim incandescent lamp on in the corner. It’s cozy.
"and look, your competitors purchased this and they're using it (they weren't), so you need it too for compatibility reasons"
Blue light has more energy per photon (energy is proportional to frequency). Therefore, it is better at ejecting photons from atoms and damaging molecules than other visible light. UV is even worse.

Also, semi-related, eyes are less sensitive to blue light, so if you want to achieve the same effective perceptual brightness, you need more photons if it's a higher color temperature.
> Does it make sense to have another scripting language inside Python scripts?

Point of interest, Python already has another embedded language if you have Tkinter available: Tcl.

Larry Wall of Perl fame once said: “Tcl tends to be ported to weird places like routers.”[0]

Routers are just the beginning… see here[1] for calling Tcl scripts directly into a Python-embedded Tcl interpreter. I believe at least one of the Perl/Tk attempts did something similar (embedding Tcl wholesale) too.

[0] https://github.com/thibaultduponchelle/perl-fortunes/blob/ma...

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7362846/running-tcl-code...
> you can do everything you'd need Linux for on your Windows machine

On a Windows machine I’d prefer to use Azure cloud shell than WSL.
The sign I saw at a hospital in Toronto said no fabric masks, only surgical. It’s probably about uniform coverage not overall efficiency, a compromise of most big central systems.
Looks like no phone was the best for sleep, no surprises there
Ellis Island in New York harbour (AFAIK) used to be the main immigration center for people arriving by ship from Europe, and is famous (among other things, I assume) for having originated some weirdly spelled names when the immigration officials who registered the newly arrived got it wrong.

Don't know if the GP meant that they had soundex, or that they invented it, but in any case it seems they would have needed it.
This is the thing that is pumping the cryptocurrency markets and heavily inflating the price of BTC and is backed by absolutely nothing.

The scam is being finally being unveiled.
I never had an Amiga, but I don’t think the 500 owners necessarily interacted with the OS very much beyond launching programs. That kind of usage was commonplace since other popular computers (C-64, MS-DOS PCs) barely had an OS anyway.

I think it was fairly common to use TV output on the Amiga 500, since it was much more affordable than buying a proper computer monitor. You’re not going to do much GUI productivity multitasking on a PAL TV because of interlacing, but it worked fine for games and low-res text mode.

So really the Amiga 500 was directly for the Commodore 64 market, while the 2000/3000 were more like oddball low-end workstations — and didn’t have a clear market.
Is SpaceX still a startup?
From there, we get to https://www.google.com/about/unwanted-software-policy.html

which says

After installation, programs should not engage in deceptive or unexpected behavior. Some examples of deceptive or unexpected behavior include:[...]Preventing the user from controlling the software[...]The user must have a meaningful opportunity to review and approve any principal and significant updates or settings changes.

Disclosure is especially important if data collection is a non-obvious feature of the software.

Pure unadulterated hypocrisy. Not surprising coming from Google.
Agreed. It’s possible the improvement is due solely to a reduction in total light output (which I assume is a side effect of reducing blues) but something about it really seems to help. I still wish my monitor could go dimmer.
Most Powerful Radio WBCQ Fails in Purchase
"Mostly" is relative. The US still stores more than 330GWh of H2 on a constant basis, and distributes it through hundreds of miles of pipe running throughout Texas. The material problems are a known quantity with proven solutions.
I uploaded these a few years back. glad to see people running across them!

They came from a DPRK tablet, and it took some reversing work to recover the PDFs. There's a talk about what went into getting them uploaded: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9279-dprk_consumer_technology
> Saying that something 'glows in the dark' implies interference

Given that "glows in the dark" typically refers to fluorescence[1], where does the interference comes in?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence
Older people learn that, even if you have zero interest in politics, politics will still be done to you. And older people learn that they often don't like how that works out, and therefore conclude that they'd better start paying at least some attention to politics, whether they want to or not.
"strategic product strategy businesses feature decision" as literally said by their PM.
I assume you're also opposed to the charges he's currently facing? As none of them have anything to do with the Russian disinformation campaign you think he's involved in.

So push for the current charges against him to be dropped and then presumably the US will charge him with the crime you think he's guilty of. Until then the US is attacking him for publishing documents, which is journalism.
Is that what Google have been doing with Android? (Kitkat, Oreo, ...)
This has been around for a long long time now so it's super mature, and it's very cool! I've used it in the past to make some esoteric keyboard adapter.

You can do a lot with it, but you may run up against a ceiling once you've committed an AVR to V-USB use as the timing requirements even at low bit rates are very strict, and you might want to consider AVRs with built-in USB transceivers if this becomes limiting.
Have you considered sshfs?

I haven't used it in years but I recall it mostly working.
I can backup that experience with my own. I can also say my life has even more dramatically improved since I stopped paying attention to the news cycle. But nobody is going to study that.
Notably all these states have many apiaries.
I disagree about prosecuting him doing nothing. You can disagree with it, but jailing snowden and assange will reduce the risk of similar people committing similar crimes. If they don't do something now, more snowdens and assanges will emerge, they cannot let it go.

When was the last serious like from within US IC? They jailed reality winner and that seems to have worked the last couple of years at least. It wasn't that she was caught but that they caught her using a technique unknown to her. It has a chilling effect for sure.

It is a risk reduction and diplomatic strategy. It has little to do with the pursuit of justice.
What I like about a physical newspaper is that there is a completeness to it. I scan 2 or 3 sections, I know I have looked at everything, I am done. In an online website of a newspaper, there is no sense of which day the newsarticle is from unless you click on it, and it is easy to miss "minor articles" which are often of your interest, if not for the general readership.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Germany is a decent start.
That and who knew seals could stay underwater so long?

And how is it the camera only returned hours of video after filming for three years?
The study merely finds no significance difference. Which does not equate to no effect. More participants could have led to a significant difference.

If the authors wanted to claim that there was no significant difference they can perform another statistical test for that where you invert the null and alternate hypothesis. It usually requires a bigger sample size because it is a harder hypothesis to prove.
You can install Wine on Linux today.
"You too kiss" is "toxic"? How? Or am I missing something?
:puts on tinfoil hat:

This article seems to imply that these energy pulse weapons that affect mental state, like the ones rumored in Cuba not so long ago do exist or have existed since the 90s.
I also sleep better on days when I wear my glasses (which have a blue blocking coating) as compared to my contacts. Unfortunately the contacts provide better vision, thanks to my astigmatism.
I did this not for eye strain but so I would stop craning my neck forward, and it works fantastic.

I just put 2x scaling on all the screens (all 4k+, so do what works for your screens),

I’d say from there I slightly scale down most websites using the browser to 90% or 80%.
The vscode team needs to start treating msft as a threat as well
> high-resolution VGA modes were limited to 16 colors

The two highest resolution VGA modes are 640×480 in 16-color and monochrome; the only VGA mode with more than 16 colors is 320×200 256-color.

High-resolution modes with more than 16 colors are beyond VGA.
Yes I do this too, for exactly the same reasons. Also makes me feel like a grandpa, but who cares. Also it makes me realize how frequently apps fail to account for large system-level font sizes.
Yes, the official VSCode binaries from Microsoft come with a binary blob to implement DRM. From the documentation (https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between...): "The distribution includes a native node module that allows the extension to use a "handshake" to adhere to the license by ensuring it is being used from Visual Studio Code"
another reference, with video: https://aszdziennik.pl/116425,rap-prosto-z-pjongjangu-to-naj...
You should be concerned if you're China's neighbor. In addition to the ones listed above, China had a border conflict with USSR in 1969 in Far East - [0]. China invaded the contested Paracel islands which was under South Vietnam's control at the time - [1]. China killed 64 Vietnamese solder in the Johnson South Reef Skirmish - [2]

Worst of all, China directly supported and controlled Khmer Rouge, causing the death of at least a million Cambodians, 25% of their population. The worst genocide since WW2 that seems to have been gradually forgotten - [3]. Note that most Western countries also bore the responsibility, albeit indirectly, by the virtue of looking the other way.

All of that happened when China was only a regional power with a poor economy.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Paracel_Islands
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_South_Reef_Skirmish
[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide
Over time the clover was culled even in these neighborhoods. Seen as a weed. Sprayed over. Cut down whenever it bloomed otherwise. I grew up in a neighborhood that used to be dominated with these lawns when my parents grew up, and in my time ours was the last lot left with white clover, specifically because my father would cut the grass in patches to always keep some flowering clover available. No one else in the entire city was doing that. If they weren't spraying and something not green came up in the lawn, it was time to cut the grass for these other people.
Ah, my interpretation of an idiom created a negative connotation you didn’t intend. C’est la vie. Thanks for the clarification.
Alas, the linked google maps link for the towers is now 404'd. I was curious to look closer to see if any of the towers near me still existed.
Ask HN: Those who've built large projects on React, was it worth it?
It is an anecdote but I also much prefer redshifting all my displays. At this point, it is really uncomfortable to look at a blue screen on someone's phone. If the science isn't finding an effect, they are either not measuring the right thing or they are not measuring it with a large enough sample size.
The main downsides of Lua are the overloaded handling of nil, and the lack of a real standard library. If it weren't for that, it'd be a pretty nice general-purpose scripting language, arguably better than Python.

I probably disagree with 90% of the criticisms leveled against Python, but it definitely is slow in "loopy" tasks, and the indentation-based syntax can make for relatively verbose code in quick ad-hoc scripts. I'd be plenty happy using Lua instead, if only it had a more thorough standard library. The nil-handling thing is annoying, but fine enough for quick scripts.
These seals sleep on the ocean floor? Seems like tempting fate a little bit! Must be some strong evolutionary pressure not to just sleep on land.
Okay. I was confused since the negative list that I've heard of has always been for foreign investment in China, and this list was just updated, so I assumed it was referring to this list. I was not aware of a negative list for domestic investors.
I’d recommend you look up the polling on SB8, I think you’d find that enlightening.
Like a lot of early HN fans, I came from Slashdot which in 2006-2007 was having a lot of issues relating to user growth, moderation, redesigns, and changes of ownership.

I kept up with both HN and Slashdot for about a year, but then found that my need for tech news and discussion was served very well by HN. I remember Slashdot was a chore to navigate owing to the way they set up threaded discussions, which forced a lot of unnecessary clicking. HN was just easy to read, and a pleasure to participate in.

Through HN I was able to get to know more about YC's mission, and even visited the last YC summer session in Cambridge (2008, IIRC) on one of their open discussion nights, and met pg and jessica. That was pretty cool. I also applied to YC a few years later (didn't get in, which was probably for the better).
damn i was so close to forgetting about it

thanks
The scarier thing is that they also laid claim to the Ryuku islands. Islands that have never been considered Chinese and have been nominally part of the Japanese sphere for 400 years. They also threatened to nuke Japan into unconditional surrender.
Sadly the newspaper industry will never be restored.
I somewhat adapted my information flow towards ultra limited and clean experience.
My usual daily routine limits my news access to two cycles, early (5:30 - 6:00 AM) and late (18:00 - 18:30).

Yeas ago in search on how to limit the affect of "design trends" over my design process I started using Reeder, a RSS app for MacOS. Paired with adequate font it was a speedy and minimalist way to consume information.

Today I practically live half of my workday in Emacs, taking notes (org mode is a bliss) and making quick code edits (VS Code is still my favorite for long sessions) so naturally Elfeed is my news interface.

The limitation of news access for me is working perfectly. I cannot imagine going back to doom-scrolling on my phone or desktop.
Ah, but I've turned up this rather comprehensive site: https://long-lines.net/places-routes/
> I don't really see a place for it where another language wouldn't be an equally good or better fit.

Parsers/interpreters/compilers/static analyzers. It's solidly established here. The Web Assembly reference implementation is written in OCaml for example.

> "why not just use go/node/racket/haskell/fsharp/rust/zig/etc"

I think Python, Java, C# or even PHP will come up before F#, Rust, Zig, Racket and Haskell. As for the answer, you can just use the same language pretty much everywhere. I think OCaml is probably the most versatile language of the lot. You can program in any way you want, target pretty much anything you want. How important is it, to be able to use the same language everywhere? I honestly don't know.

> when you are on a timeline and you aren't Jane Street...

I'm not sure what you mean exactly with "on a timeline", I guess it's a reference to the lack of libraries/documentation? If that's the case, I don't know how much it matters once you're experienced with the language. I'm not saying libraries don't matter at all, that would be silly. You don't want to do JSON parsing or a HTTP server yourself. But for small stuff, you can just write a bit more code that you would usually do. It's going to be way smaller than a full library, and it's going to be easier to use since you don't have to learn a new library. This is however just me thinking about it, I don't have any hard data on this, and would love to know if some exists.
I'm glad they at least tried to please customers.

I just figured they still used florescent.
> Snow Crash plays with the idea of brain exploits using specially constructed sounds.

Images:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
The future of Linux is the cloud, and servers, and routers and IOT devices and well, everything except corporate desktops.
How stupid can one be? It is not about total people who died, it is about people who would not have died otherwise.
Oh! My mistake. I thought the article was about some newly-published German study and that the English links were just references to other, related studies. This is the other study they linked ("Does iPhone night shift mitigate negative effects of smartphone use on sleep outcomes in emerging adults?"): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2021.03.005

It's possible I'm missing something, as neither seems to be about retinal toxicity (i.e., "danger"), just eye strain and sleep duration/quality. The article you linked is about eye strain w/ "blue blocking" lenses, and the other is about the "night shift" feature of iOS.

(For reference, the blue-blocking lenses in the article you linked were ones that

>filtered blue light by front surface coating between 10% and 30% in the range of 400-500 nm. These lenses almost completely blocked transmission below 400 nm and had approximately 95% transmission between 500 and 700 nm.

so they are of the "Blokz" type that probably don't do much for computer/phone use. While displays do produce light in the 400nm-500nm range, the lenses described only attenuate it by 10%-30%.)
I recall that a paper published by Oxford in a journal related to gerontology claimed that blue light accelerated aging of the retina. If I understand correctly, this article doesn't counter that claim outright, it just didn't find that risk with the low intensity of blue light coming from a typical monitor.

Tangentially related, that same Oxford paper (sorry I don't have a link and no longer have access to the paper) did however claim that light generated by red LEDs with sufficient intensity to leave a significant persistence effect after 3 minutes of exposure can reverse aging and damage in subjects over 40 years old although the sample size was just a few dozen people IIRC. It does so because somehow the retina's mitochondrial function is improved by light in the 650nm to 1000nm range.

Continuing on this tangent, I am 50 and have been exposing my eyes to red light for 3 minutes a day for many months and feel like my night vision has been restored. If I wake up in the middle of the night I used to see gray noise and now I can see darker black with better contrast. But I may be kidding myself.
Sort of amusing in an earlier thread someone was lamenting how HN is more business and politics focused today. People have fuzzy memories. HN has always been about more than nutty gritty tech. VC, startups and startup life, including the business side has always been a huge part of HN in addition to the tech. Seeing this really brought that home for me (been here since HN started) :)
Is Discrimination Still Causing the Gender Pay Gap
The HN guideline says "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" can be on-topic. In my opinion this summary is pretty much correct and also useless, because hackers seem to be curious about almost everything. I am interested in politics after all. But I don't think HN is or can be a good venue for political discourses. Of course some links can be very political and yet marginally technological due to the overreaching influence of technology over society, but there are annoyingly political links that I used to flag immediately nowadays.

I'm also concerned that the front page seems to prefer topics that only make sense in USA and especially California. For example I found following links posted today to be especially domestic:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28806363 The Off-Grid Laws of Every State in America

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28809517 Tesla’s Texas Move Is Latest Sign of California Losing Tech Grip

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28812137 America’s unemployed are sending a message: Safety and compensation matter

Yeah, you can still argue that they somehow gratifify someone's intellectual curiosity. For me they don't.
I strongly disagree with the opinion that telemetry should be enabled by default. I feel that it should be the opposite.
I agree. https://github.com/jonls/redshift has been a gamechanger to me. Hint for those with desktops: redshift may fail to detect your location so you can use -l lat:long to set it.
Sadly the main thing I use vscode for doesn't work in vscodium, so it's completely useless to me: remote projects. Without that I may as well just go back to sublime, which is lighter and faster.
Do you wear glasses often, given that you have 20/20 vision?
> > North Dakota is generally considered the mid-west, no? […]

> So New Mexico is not part of the West?

Mid-west ≠ West:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_United_States
Pop-up from Hell: On the growing opacity of web programs
I liked some of the points in this thread https://twitter.com/g_s_bhogal/status/1438972527838117895

Like “Cumulative Culture: Humanity's success is due not to our individual IQs but to our culture, which stockpiles our best ideas for posterity so they compound across generations. The ideas we adopt from society are often far older than us, and far wiser.”
I don't know, this seems to me like a full electric car. Only the electricity comes from fuel cells rather than batteries. I personally don't have a problem with that.
> anyone who bothered to install an Insiders ISO

That is a big no from me.
I am not interested in being Microsofts unpaid alpha / beta tester, when I get in return in a less stable operating system and some unfinished bits.

I hate how Microsoft keeps running huge blog campaigns about this or that new features and once you dig into it "Just install the Insider ISO".

No. Tell me when you are done developing and it is ready for production.
Before Stack Overflow there was Experts Exchange. Their URL was of course those two words, all lowercase and mashed together into one... (Can't recall if they later inserted an underscore in between them?)
The first three I upvoted, that was a good idea to go back and look at:

2384.
Why Your Start-up Will Fail (forbes.com)
30 points by drm237 on Sept 25, 2007 | 15 comments
2385.
The Genius is in the Details (aaronsw.com)
43 points by brl on Sept 24, 2007 | 15 comments
2386.
The Age/Entrepreneurship Myth (kedrosky.com)
5 points by far33d on May 4, 2007

That first upvote doesn't even have comments, I don't know if that was before comments or what

I wish it were easy to go look at my first few comments!
I think it's almost the opposite. There are great subreddits for pretty much every niche in programming. HN is one size fits all, and a lot of content just never makes the front page, because of bad luck in the New queue, or it's too niche.

The front page is the way it is because the regulars and the regular content have reached an equilibrium.