skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The xbone probably runs it as well since it’s open to homebrew. They stopped people from wanting to hack it that way too.
C/C++ cross-compiling toolchain for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, etc.
> To nobodies surprise, the culprit is pesticides. Interestingly the west's bumblee population isn't listed as being in trouble.

To my surprise. There is very little farm land in New Hampshire. For the East Coast, it’s very wild.
Presumably it can't just be a spring obeying Hooke's law F=kx, or else the camera would "bounce" back and forth, right?
I compared average temperatures with a few SV cities and the Seattle average is indeed lower than some. I compared recent years and it’s the opposite. Our all-time record this year (112-116 depending on where measurements were taken) certainly threw some of the averages off. But Seattle summers have been increasingly hot for the better part of a decade and I don’t expect that to trend the opposite way.
Biased source, but see examples like the sentence here: https://understandingdutch.com/why-dutch-is-so-easy-to-learn
> So much of what's wrong with software these days can be attributed to this "A/B test everything, the data never lies" approach to design.

Design by focus group where the focus group is the users who left telemetry on/unblocked.
Al Gore?
The Whim Wheelchair – A DIY Electric Powered Wheelchair
The onion?
This is deeply wrong. IRV is one of the most complicated methods, and most people in places that use it can't even explain how it works.

https://link.medium.com/mKcRWz0xR7
Lego's never had $500+ sets until fairly recently.
Maybe we're reading it differently? I read:

'Historically, outrage has accomplished things by resulting in laws. Today's outrage is ineffectual because it isn't resulting in laws.'
Wow, I never would have thought it would be possible to bit bang USB. Did it once for a serial port and that was a big effort in itself
He’s a backlash against the usual articles of showing the benefits of multi monitors. There’s so many of those, you can gain insight from him even if you don’t use everything.
"Google, YouTube acquisition announcement could come tonight"

Crazy to think how long Google has been betting on YT. Imagine telling someone 15 years ago that YouTube was going to turn into the biggest entertainment entity ever.
I asked you a simple question about your position, since you claimed I was in error about it. This is not a complex logical argument:

Do you believe or not believe that "people are not defined by group identity" and that "redistributing resources and position based upon group identity is wrong"?

If you do not want to answer that is fine, but treating people differently based upon unchosen identities is not “making sure everyone is treated equally”.
1. Any ATmega32U4 development board. Most commonly sold as "Arduino Pro Micro". Developing a keyboard emulator in the Arduino IDE is pretty easy; if you don't want to do that, LUFA is a great little USB stack.

2. Raspberry Pi Pico. Newer, so it's less well documented, but much more powerful.
What’s the physical layout of your screens?
I find this hard to believe. There have must've been 1-2 dozen solo circumnavigators in the 70's already.. how many people have been on the moon? quick search Apparently only 12 people have walked on the moon (24 total have "been to the moon")and I'd venture a guess that we hit that amount of solo circumnavigators in the 60's already thanks to the OSTAR.
Not even that, all we got was an article about a video.
> This is the only way for other phone companies to realise that their products are bad and that they need to improve.

If Apple charged less, they's have even more market share, reducing competitor profits even more. Other companies would get the message.
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/be75065e817ebd7b625...

If either are 'off', it's sending no data. The new one also allows you to only send error logs, so the truth table would be more complex.
Yep. I use it to identify which site has been selling my info to the 3rd party marketers.
My read of this article is that the camera was only turning on for short periods, basically sparse samples of time.
I wonder if there is sufficient correlation to investigate for causation from the total number of US infected of around 43M [1] and COVID-19 sequalae prevalence of around 80% [2], of which easily half comprise one or more of: fatigue (58%), headache (44%), attention disorder (27%), and dyspnea (24%). All of which are functionally adverse effects upon work.

Let's be generous and say 90% of the 43M infected come out 100% healthy. That's still 4.3M. I tend to give Nature articles the benefit of the doubt. 90% of 4.3M is still 3,870,000 able-bodied people taken out of the US workforce. That's enough to affect the margins.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101932/coronavirus-covi...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95565-8
(Lots of us rolled the dice. I bet if you ask about experiences in general, you’ll get a flood of replies.)
Yep! If you check out the iOS 15 page and scroll about half way down, it talks about extensions: https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-15/

I'm currently using HyperWeb[0], which does a great deal of automatic redirecting, ad-blocking, etc. (and other automation, if you get the pro option) though there's plenty of other extensions working their way into iOS support now[1].

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hyperweb/id1581824571

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/21/here-are-the-best-new-safari-...
That’s the point I’m getting at. You don’t because your workflow isn’t deep work. I just partition a larger screen myself for the same work but I’m interested in slow deep work.
PG made a second rate e-commerce site and sold it to the most gullible company in the world (Yahoo!). He’s never been anything close to what would be considered a “hacker”. This site’s purpose has always been to shill for YC investments. Sometimes there tech talk that occurs but it’s not the reason HN exists.
Probably not for FAANG who tend to not have clients with custom contracts in general. Unless you are going to spend 20bn a year with Google I don’t think they care about you enough for a special contract with deliverables.
Mind pointing us to a particular subreddit or item that didn’t make the front page?

More so that we all don’t miss out on those new opportunities!
Why don't you use an editor which has nothing to do with Microsoft? "generally fine" is not a good reason to be involved with a predatory company.
My point was: it depends, and analogies with static entities like organisms aren't useful.
You don't think companies strong-arm governments? I see it happen in the U.S. Imagine what they do in a small, poor country. The mining industry is an example.
I agree. Personal impressions are heavily influenced by mood.
> In the last few years I've been growing increasingly disillusioned with American culture though. My heart is just not there anymore.

HN has always been about disrupting everything, so that's not so surprising. When Uber can't hire drivers as contractors, or AirBnb isn't allowed to operate somewhere, or Tesla is scrutenized, this place can get wild. "Old tech" FAANG receives heavy criticism and "new tech" is lauded. I think it's leveled out in the last year though.
For what reason? Lost 2FA access? Triggered some kind of attack detection system?
It used the most restrictive setting. [1]

> @john-aws It does respect your prior settings. If you disabled telemetry before it will still be disabled even though telemetryLevel is set to "on" by default. We always take the most restrictive of the two settings. You can confirm this by setting Log level to trace and seeing no telemetry is flowing in the output channel. The old setting will never be completely removed to prevent enablement of people who previously disabled telemetry but it is deprecated so we recommend setting this new setting to "off" and removing the older settings from your settings.json

So the truth table would look like this :

telemetryLevel newTelemetryLevel result
off off no telemetry sent
on off no telemetry sent
off on no telemetry sent
on on telemetry sent

The new telemetry level can be set to Off, Error, On.

The actual code is on github[2] and looks like this :

const newConfig = configurationService.getValue<TelemetryConfiguration>(TELEMETRY_SETTING_ID);
const oldConfig = configurationService.getValue(TELEMETRY_OLD_SETTING_ID);

// Check old config for disablement
if (oldConfig !== undefined && oldConfig === false) {
return TelemetryLevel.NONE;
}

switch (newConfig ?? TelemetryConfiguration.ON) {
case TelemetryConfiguration.ON:
return TelemetryLevel.USAGE;
case TelemetryConfiguration.ERROR:
return TelemetryLevel.ERROR;
case TelemetryConfiguration.OFF:
return TelemetryLevel.NONE;
}

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/134660#issuecomme...

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/be75065e817ebd7b625...
For sure. Raven Rock is badass. As a kid my family used to go skiing in the area (Liberty mtn) so it blew my mind when I found out (via the Internet) that there was an "underground Pentagon" nearby.

Fun fact if you're curious about this stuff: Site R is pretty well-known, but slightly more obscure is the "Site C"[1] radio outpost atop Quirauk Mountain a few miles away. It's kind of funny since High Rock is a crowded day-trip destination, being right on the Appalachian Trail and all, but then just a few yards away at the edge of the parking lot, there's some stern-looking security dudes guarding the Site C access road. Also, Site R supposedly links into the "Presidential Emergency Facilities"[2] network, a bunch of weird grain-silo-looking structures historically used for communications and relocation https://coldwar-c4i.net/PEF/

The DMV area is dotted with all sorts of fun "spooky" stuff. I've always wanted to make some kind of website or map summarizing it all. coldwar-c4i.net is awesome and contains crazy amounts of information, but is admittedly pretty cluttered.

[1] https://aboutsiter.blogspot.com/2015/06/site-c.html

[2] https://coldwar-c4i.net/PEF/presidential_emergency_facilitie...
I Learned to Love Pseudoscience
Software & tech got boring & not worthy of discussing when it biggified & cowardly retreated to inside the corporate firewalls.

There's a lot less to talk about because it's all much more boring, much more is already on tap and available, much of what hacking is done is boring as heck now, inside the bowels of vast enterprises.

The hacker spirit is in jeopardy.
More than half of these links are dead. We’ve regressed on microfilm, honestly.
Unexpected to me. As a seal, I like my chances escaping from a wolf on a rock better than from a shark on the ocean floor. I can escape land predators by jumping into the water, but I can’t escape aquatic predators unless I happen to be able to outswim them to some nearby land mass.
It mostly has gone away. There is a certain type of corporation that we just have to trust now, since seemingly noone is qualified to judge the brilliant people who work there or the merits of their product. Some jurisdictions even require you to prove you use this product as a condition of employment or entry into business establishments.
QNX? - been around for a while - the first OS to run in protected 386 mode FWIR. (And I remember it booting from a single floppy :))
Same here. Can't go back, won't go back.
"But I thought the 4th dimension was time!"

Make sure to watch the movie Hypercube to fully appreciate this article!
I work in global logistics and supply chain. HK news helps me to think in the future/now.

I also enjoy checking it on the weekends. The community is helpful. I love that the site is simple and doesn't add new unwanted features.
It is illegal in most of the rest of the world to advertise/market prescription drugs specifically because it causes undesirable outcomes where patients are telling their doctors what to prescribe, which is backwards. And drugs still exist in those countries. I don’t think anybody is saying “make Facebook illegal”. The ask is to deeply explore our understanding of ad-based social media and consider whether such machines have any place in a healthy society. Facebook or some equivalent would still exist if you curtailed ad-profits, I don’t really understand the scare/worry that all our good internet things would just vanish if we clamped down on the harmful business model… Every law is a moral value judgement on the type of society we want to participate in (unless you’re an absolutist). I think your moral panic examples are generally unfounded concerns. I would have agreed with you 10 years ago that Facebook panic is also FUD. However I think we have clear a history of examples of harm to go off of now with FB. We clamped down on the Tobacco industry and it wasn't just holier than thou zealots having a field day as fun ruiners. Real harm lead to real legislation. We just need to realize things as they are and stop pretending that FB newsfeed style social machines are benign especially in the face of hard evidence to the contrary. I totally agree with your “I would rather” in the general sense. I simply think there’s a specific case here that warrants scrutiny.
And how about the constant bitching and moaning about capitalism, corporate taxes that are too low, and evil corporations in general, while at the same time upvoting digital nomad articles about ways to work remotely and pay less or no tax?

Or the constant praise for free software, while supporting all sorts of methods governments use to deny freedom to their citizens - from taxation to forced vaccination to 4 day work week?
qbittorrent is bloated.

The spiritual successor for µtorrent is picotorrent.
Yeah they're crazy. Super obscure bits of infrastructure and Cold War history.

It's interesting to me how all the signs in that Flickr album say "People" instead of "Personnel" (Delivery People, Authorized People Only). Was this an AT&T thing?
> You are now tainted and probably shouldn't work on code similar to Windows

This doesn't make sense to me. If I "decompile" my Toyota, should I never work on cars because I now know what Toyota did to make mine? Of course not. That's absurd. I'm not sure how it being Software changes that.
> They forget that copyright is part of a social contract. In its original form, it was something like this:

>> we'll pretend your work is scarce so that you can make money

>> after a while, it will enter the public domain

That is not even close to the original form of copyright. In its original form, copyright was a monopoly held by the crown (and granted to printers) for the purpose of censoring works the crown didn't want published.
Everyone in this thread so far says no. Existing marketplaces and companies have solutions to their problems. You need to look at important problems that can not be solved with standard tech and are trivially solved with web3 or blockchain. There are many examples if you look hard enough.
Set a timer ;D
Just use Emacs or Vim/NeoVim, they will never do that.
Len wasn't going to go around writing Windows software.
Crazy. Even on HN there are allot of spelling mistakes.
The phenomenon is known as blindsight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight
Do you find it strange because of the torrential mountains of pro multi monitor articles? Do you feel the same way about them? It was interesting to me since I use a single 4K and found the extra distracting, except he used 24in.

The idea that most people wouldn’t go for multi monitor is like the idea paradigm shifts don’t exist. Larger screens with high resolution are different from cheap 1080p screens. It was to me a coping mechanism for what I wanted: a bezelless large screen.
Not if you write one-liners like

if x < 3 then x = 3 end

I actually really like Lua's syntax, though I think a form for short Python-style lambdas would really help (short lambdas are the easiest ones to understand, so I don't see a comprehensibility objection, and Lua's grammar already makes the necessary expression-statement distinction).

The Lua ecosystem was seriously damaged by the 5.1>5.2 split for a while since LuaJIT (hence Torch/nginx) and LÖVE both basically stayed with 5.1 and those were major projects that drew people to the language. The other cool unique thing in the Lua ecosystem, the native-widget (Windows/Gtk) IUP toolkit, remains barely known about and never ported to OS X, possibly due to a lack of Mac users in Brazil. Hence the "language without an ecosystem": it didn't happen for no reason, though the willingness to make breaking changes is a reason the language became so popular in the first place.

NB. IUP is still around, but it still doesn't have a Cocoa port.
Did the deep work part interest you?
no, but you’re welcome to present your own perspective and rationale for discussion. research is ongoing, but we certainly have enough time and information to form and debate hypotheses by now.

for instance, this study did not link air filtration to a reduction in transmission, only that a hepa+uv filter can reduce sars-cov-2 from known aerosolized air, basically an expected result in a controlled study (not “real-world”, as claimed).
"Understand", "Story of Your Life", and "Division by Zero" are short stories by Ted Chiang featuring similar concepts, including a deadly information weapon and other radically mind-altering ideas.
What about his upbringing gave him the ability to recall pages from books he’d read decades later?

Nothing. They put effort into his education because of his brilliancy, and your standard Jewish-American household could do the same thing.
There's so much I love about this article. The contrast between shallowly & deeply embedded software, software that tries to use available abstractions & to integrate tightly versus software that rebuilds it's own microsm means so much to me. I'm so glad to have words for it.

To me, we have only begun to experiment with how to interoperate. APIs were what everyone was talking about & trying to do in the aughts, but sometimes after that, we started only being interested in driving our own products forwards, the APIs and extensions all shut down (Spotify for example had a fantastic extension system that got closed).

There's a lot of forgotten frontiers to the web. They still dwell there, with IMO high potential. Making the web less opaque, more genuine, more honest: it's what I see as one of the most promising ways to counter the curse of modern computing, to begin to illuminate what it is that computing is. Which, based off some recent coversations, seems like a topic quite a few others have interests & hopes for, feel needs some really radical help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28803455 .
https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/reference/us...
Very surprised to see this post and thread... Actually feeling a bit happy and vindicated.

I pointed this out very recently and got downvoted heavily.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28479960

I still believe that if the thread above can make it to the top then introspection is needed.

Peace.
> isn't that how camera/vehicles control work today?

And isn't it how the controls in, say, Minecraft work? One stick to rotate the character/camera and the other to move and strafe?
My recollection is that the process in Snowcrash is different in a significant way. The language that hacks people's brains is a protolanguage which the people hearing and speaking it don't understand. That limits who can wield it for their own ends. It works on a subconscious level.

Memes work on a conscious level in that people know and can explain what the meme is saying, and more people can create them.
I never realized just how blue many computer screens were until I got my first calibrator along with a new panel. In general these days I target all my screens to around 6500 kelvin/D65, screens could be easily be 9300 kelvin out of the box.

You get used to these color casts, but bright screens with blue casts do seem to cause more eye strain... unless you just turn the screens brightness down? like, to around the sRGB spec screen luminance level?
I don't even know what a garden cane is.
> how is lua doing these days?

Still heavily used in game development.
These point to deeper cultural issues in those companies
There's a few variations of really cheap 8051 MCUs with USB support. https://hackaday.com/tag/ch554/
Have you considered alternatively switching to a warmer colorscheme like Gruvbox in your main apps? That way only the UI elements are warm while your video and other important windows remain unafflicted.
rich is the carrot for the poor so they can live their life as a slave and be totally ok with it, they serve other people and don't even sweat

true rich people have a shelter, food, time, money is not even part of the equation

money is an allowance for poor and regular people so they can live a boring consumerist life
This is the response from Len's widow, Meredith, the last time a similar article was posted.

"It's a very well-researched and respectful article, but to the best of my knowledge, Len was not Satoshi. Worth reading for the history and the conclusions about mental health, though."

https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/1364325186372304904?t=yY...
|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.

I don't know the paper you're referring to but I'd be curious to read it. The most commonly espoused hypothesis that I hear is that increased exposure to blue light increases the rate of progression of age-related macular degeneration. Macular degeneration is essentially an accumulation of the byproducts of photoreceptor recycling in the retina. Certain people in the business of selling glasses latched onto this idea and it's spawned a cottage industry of snake oil salesman peddling dubiously effective blue-light filtering glasses and other gizmos. As far as I am aware there is no evidence that blue light actually increases the rate of progression of AMD in humans, and there's some compelling evidence that it has no effect.

https://www.aaojournal.org/article/S0161-6420(20)30727-2/ful...
Why would HN comments need to be Y10K compliant? What about catering for people reading your comments in the year 199999?
Does anyone want to write a 'Satoshi Nakamoto : Eugene Leitl'?
I can't wait for CPU-built-in TPMs to get hacked, rendering entire generations of CPUs "insecure" and "tainted" to these anti-cheat and DRM systems.
HN 10 Years Ago
This is amazing. Do you know if there's anything similar for Windows and Linux? I know there's flux, but you can't even go this extreme with flux.
It's not 16 dollar a slice good. Let's be real here.
>You’re not going to do much GUI productivity multitasking on a PAL TV because of interlacing

As long as you had a good PAL TV, such as a Sony Trinitron with SCART (RGB) input, it was VERY feasible.

On a composite-only TV, for actual work, you'd be better off with the Mono "composite without color" output A500 had than the horror which is actual composite.

720x256 (overscan and no interlace) & virtual desktops (screens) enabled effective multitasking.

720x512 (interlaced) was of course better, but with great care taken on selecting screen colors to minimize interlaced-related annoyance.

This is true even with an A500 with 512KB CHIP + 512KB SLOW RAM and single floppy drive, on AmigaOS 1.3.

I know for a fact, because A500+A501+Trinitron was my setup for several years.
Those insider builds became Windows 11. Windows 10 is in maintenance mode.
"Britain’s food and drink industry has previously called on the government to introduce a “Covid-19 recovery visa” to recruit overseas workers to temporarily ease disruption in the food supply chain."

More likely unintended consequences from unmeasured covid policies
It has done this for years. Its not new behavior. Also why I use Firefox and Comodo Firewall. I would remove all privs on the file in Windows to stop it. Deleting will only be temporary.
What’s RMS?