skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did some programming around light sensors calibrated to match human eye sensitivity, so I’m very much aware that outside sunlight (>50k lux) is much brighter than a monitor backlight (<1k lux measured at a distance of 30cm).

But I can stay outside in very bright sunlight for 12 hours (which I did 6 days a week before college while working in agriculture with my parents) and not have a headache or feel my eyes tired afterwards.

That’s contrary to what the monitor backlight does to me when staring at it even 6 hours at a time.

Not blinking often enough is probably the biggest cause, you are kinda forced to do that when reading/writing code and have to consciously make a decision to blink more often.

Focusing your mind very hard on the task is also probably a big cause of this and unrelated to light intensity or energy.

But having the monitor backlight adapted to the ambient light is what helps me the most to end up in a relaxed state after I finish working. I know it’s not something that will work for everyone, unlike most blue light filter ads going on nowadays about solving your sleep and vision problems.

I think using low brightness screens/bulbs/strips may have also increased my light sensitivity, because now I can’t stand a normal TV blasting its light into a dark room, or >1000lumen overhead light bulbs or staring at my phone in the dark without having the brightness all the way down (and sometimes using Reduce White Point).
There do need to be intermediate products between (all to partisan albeit accurate) popular level writings and then real papers.

I`ve found technicalish podcasts to be a good approximation thereof but audio generally has lower information density than text.
I think WSL3, or should we call it USL from UNIX subsystem for Windows, should be a POSIX layer on top of the NT kernel. That way we should have better performance and better integration.
The real thing still has lots of issues, specially on laptops.

Using Linux distributions since 1995.

And I really don't get WSL, other than Windows trying to cater to the macOS crowd.

I have been using VMWare since 2010, when I need Linux on the laptop and have never felt I need something else.

For me the only thing I would get from WSL is not having to fight with IT for VMWare licenses.
Could you provide a source for that? Couldn't find anything on Google about that
Main incentive to keep Taiwan independent is for the USA to use the island as a literal aircraft carrier that cannot drown. It is military strategic point for the USA.

Also TSMC is one of the few thing that keep Taiwan protected.
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Maybe I’m not reading it properly, but in part 5, where he deals with transmission of continuous signals he doesn’t use his entropy formulation. He uses a distance metric, showing the difference between the sent signal and the received.
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Just as thousands upon thousands other people, that fail to become geniuses. So that’s more like a small semi-necessary part, not at all close to sufficient, which welcomes some awe.
That’s really weird comparison to say “it’s been cheaper since new technology didn’t exist”… well of course.

I’m not sure where salt cavern hydrogen came from…

Batteries 100% scale better than gas, you don’t need gas stations and we already have electricity running across our cities.

We have plenty of lithium and it’s recyclable, unlike oil.

I’ma but lost at your point to be honest… my whole point was you don’t need to transport energy (plug a big solar panel into a car), to which you responded by saying transporting energy is inefficient???
I use Waterfox and Waterfox Classic, along five other browsers, on a 2008 iMac.

Waterfox is stable and workable for me. I use Vimium-FF for keyboard things.

My use case: I only visit a few sites, including this one, and rarely click the article links here.

I really like it, it is like a Firefox which has been through obedience school, and now knows how to behave itself.

Definitely in my top-10 favorite post-2015 browsers.
Do you really think they would allow HTTPS if they couldn't read it?
Any virtualization solution has the complexity of the sum of the environments being run simultaneously, the virtualization solution, and the surface where all 3 interact. Furthermore the guest solution inherently deals with the system at a higher level wherein you are stuck with how the host handles lower level aspects.

Such a system is simultaneously worse and more complicated as a necessary price for running both native windows applications and linux ones. In most cases you would be better off just running Windows or running actual Linux.

For example my Linux system has a ZFS root filesystem which provides a lot of interesting features including the ability to boot a prior version of my install at startup, along with 37 other useful things. Running a linux VM with that feature wouldn't magically port this functionality to the rest of the system.

My Linux system is vastly less likely to fall victim to a cryptolocker or other malware situation but running a vm under my Windows desktop wouldn't deliver this benefit.

My Linux system handles virtual desktops per monitor making it easy to swap one monitor at a time to a different workspace or all together if I please. Again neither running an app via a compatibility layer nor a fullscreen VM would provide this functionality.

WSL is Linux light without most of the interesting features and able to be withdrawn any given year by Microsoft. Worse it could be extended in ways that depend on windows features in a classic Microsoft move.
Most people prefer Windows over Linux, even if they work on software that is deployed to Linux, or maybe they just have a single Linux application that they need.

In my experience, there are a lot of tools that are easier to use on Linux, or are Linux-only, without a proper Windows alternative. WSL(g) allows seamless experience for running such apps, with some caveats (such as USB access.)
I was one of those techs, 29m
Neither of them have demonstrated any significant knowledge of the extremely sophisticated, cutting edge crypto and anonymisation tech involved.
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When mainstream finance magazines tell you what is the latest expensive "must-have" item to a party some still believe to be the ultimate alternative gathering.
People seem to forget there is this thing called offshoring when employees get too picky, and that's been going on for several years in this field.
Given the popularity + its utilty form, Tailwind is now becoming the platform for others to build their "Component CSS" libraries off of.

We have recently seen this[1] Flowbite[2], Daisy[3] and material[8] for "components", and TailwindUI[4] and others [5] for templates (which are just "framweworks" for css instead of "libraries")...

And other projects inspired by Tailwind[7], and spoofs (lost the link, was on HN a few weeks ago)...

[1]: https://tailwind-mobile.com
[2]: https://flowbite.com
[3]: https://daisyui.com
[4]: tailwindui.com (the "official" framework)
[5]: https://www.tailwind-kit.com/components
[6]: https://www.tailwindtoolbox.com
[7]: https://www.pollen.style
[8]: https://material-tailwind.com/components
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I do think the presence of politics and other "normy" attracting things will trigger and hasten the decline of HN.

A social media site is only as good as its users and sadly the average person has a short attention span, poor reading comprehension and a preference for anecdote and feelings over data and substance.
>They still haven't corrected the SEVERE disk read speed when accessing a Windows directory.

I got this when I tried to npm install a project and it was taking forever.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/68974497/3983822
So the developed world could also enable cheap, clean energy production in the third world.
ZeroTier might be of interest.
how is pricing by vcores make it serverless? you just took a legacy RDBMS and made a different pricing model
What do you mean by "over focusing on the peripheral parts of the retina"? And if this is true, could one reverse myopia progression by doing the opposite?
For those who haven't tried gaming on Linux for a couple of years - things have gotten a lot better. Most games basically run flawlessly, with the notable exceptions mostly being multiplayer games with incompatible anti cheat solutions (and even that's recently gotten a lot better - EAC officially supports Linux now).
There used to be a filesystem on top of FAT/NTFS as well, that used a Linux allocated directory for it.

Don't recall the name any longer.
I have heard that authorities also plan to impose taxes(stealing our money), driving passes, border entry passes as per their whims and fancies. Shocking what the future holds.
We've been hearing about this inevitable collapse since Malthus, yet is never comes. And yet, like the brainwashed follows of a doomsday cult leader, anti-human environmentalist types keep up the faith even as the predictions keep failing. It's embarrassing.

There is no particular reason to believe that we've overshot the planet's carrying capacity, that our technological ability to deliver prosperity will break down, or that some kind of collapse is about to come.

This belief in imminent ecological collapse is just a rebranding of eschatology, the idea that the end of the world is coming and that when it does, the good and bad will be separated and judged. It's an aesthetic judgement --- you start with the premise that industrial civilization is bad, understand that bad things must be punished, and hope for Gaia to be the instrument of that punishment.

I don't subscribe to this kind of thinking. I don't see any limits to human ingenuity. There's no need to limit growth, and anyone attempting to do it is committing a crime against the future.
Well, on Ethereum, it's possible to do things that I never anticipated would be possible, despite programming nonstop for 20-whatever years: it is now possible to deploy a smart contract that does something useful and then lock yourself and everyone else out of it, forever. If there are no bugs, then it can be expected to do its job indefinitely without it being possible for anyone to change their mind and use their privileged access to change how the program works. This is called trustlessness, and it's the basis for a new kind of confidence.
>You can only run command line programs, although I understand this could be different in Windows 11

WSLg solves this, apparently

https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
It’s a strange headline: the article has nothing to do with Burning Man or the people who go to it.
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> Neumann was supremely intelligent, beyond the conception of regular people

And they would be right. This sort of genius is not only nurture and hard work, but nature as well. Like no matter what I do in my life, I will never even approach that level.

Of course he is still human, and someone will born (rarely though) that will achieve similar feats, but let’s be honest and just say that what he did is well beyond the reach of the average people.
I was using Lua in the same ways for years, but after all that came to undeniable conclusion: you spend too much time writing

static int l_foo(lua_State *L) {
size_t len;
const char *s = luaL_checkstring(L, 1, &len);
luaL_newuserdata(…);
return 1;
}

luaL_register(…);

much more than appropriate. It feels like you are serving Lua, not the other way round. Reimplementing basic functions that Lua doesn’t have, writing too much glue in C to make it look like native interface. It is also very un-crossplatform when you use rocks (Lua’s PM). Lua is nice and fast and powerful with its metatables, environments and true coroutines, and I miss that in other scripting toy-languages like python and js. And if Lua took place in js ecosystem, we’d be much less fucked on the frontend side, exactly because of these mechanisms. But it is an engine without a cabin and wheels and nothing changes.

As of nil, “:/.” and others like local…in, table=array, it just becomes an always-itching scratch after years. Lua doesn’t even respect full backwards compatibility (not that it was claimed) but its authors stick to the principles that many folks tried to un-convince them to no avail.

language must be good, if that s the best criticism anyone could come up with

That’s only the shallow surface, the real talk always goes in the mailing list before the release.
> Canadian data now provides real world evidence that vaccinated people produce more antibodies if their second shot is delayed

This was decided in March 2021 but the UK introduced a three month delay between vaccine shots in January 2021. What was it about the UK data (btw I'm British) that meant it didn't count as "real world" despite being months ahead of Canada?

Don't get me wrong, the UK was laughed at for doing that so it genuinely was bold for Canada to do the same (as they added a fourth month onto the three the UK was already doing). It just seems a little dismissive of the UK who took the decision months earlier and had all the international flak (including from the manufacturers) for doing so.
Small addition since I completely forgot it: Since here the attempt is to fix caps lock issues the upper case of ß also depends on the users keyboard layout, for my keyboard ß would map to ?. Does anyone even have a list of all the keys that map to ? in different keyboard layouts?
Tailscale?
If you are interested in comparing curves, here is the djb page on the topic https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/index.html
Because those devs have proven they only care about POSIX, if it Linux or something else they don't care at all, otherwise they would be giving money to Linux OEMS.
If average people cared about security like they do real time video conferencing then Keybase would have not been for sale.
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WSL1 was an implementation of Linux syscalls on top of NT.

They redesigned it as a VM (WSL2) because of compatibility and performance issues.
I was having horrific migraines triggered by light. 5 minutes was sufficient to turn me into a mess.

Glasses with blue light filter helped some if all lights but computer are off.

Fl-41 glasses that covered side and tops would give me hours of normal functioning.

Eventuality got migraines mostly under control, I can go to the store without them for for a hour or two most of the time.
The software for those 10% desktop users has to be written by someone.

The only developers jumping ship are the ones that only care about POSIX, no matter where it is available.
So how do you “import” the results of those SQL statements into your general purpose application? Oh, so you need a mapping for that, let’s add some abstraction for that so we don’t have to repeat ourselves for each table and TADA, you’ve got yourself an ORM.
> You won't read about the habits, diets and anxieties (housing, options, politics, tools, city life, commute) of people from berlin , moscow , paris, melbourne

This seems like a non sequitur from your original complaint (not enough obscure tech content).

But still, this is not my perception at all. HN gets many fantastic comments from people sharing their perspective of their home location and culture. I’m in Melbourne and over the years have written plenty of comments about life in my city and country that were solidly upvoted and well received.

It’s natural that a lot of the discussion on a tech forum will focus on SV being the place where most of the biggest tech companies are, but the real value in HN is the long tail of unique content and comments from all over the world.

As I mentioned in another comment [1], the “notice-dislike” bias, often mentioned here by dang, is a powerful phenomenon, which can lead us to focus too much on what we dislike and overlook the stuff that we do like and that is right there to be found if we take a moment to notice it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28814878
Two actually, Sphere OS uses the Linux kernel.
I find it fascinating to know the same university department that is affiliated with lua is related to other well designed languages. See also, Terra:

https://terralang.org/

Easily interoperable languages present an interesting proposition: a vertically integrated approach to language design where tools are more specialised, but designed from the get-go to work together. Fascinating, and awesome.
Our of curiosity, how would I do that? Or is this just something I should look up?
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what sold it to me, is the long time it is around already, so it is reliable for long-term endevours.

And it can be used functionally and statically compiled on even the smallest devices like the raspberry pi zero.

That combination appeared unique to me.

Edit + Spoiler: and they sport friendly discussions on https://discuss.ocaml.org/u/mro
Whose creation is running happily on tons of Intel CPUs, putting Linux on its place.
If 10% are located in and around one location and the rest are spread around the world, then that would definitely count as 'heavily concentrated' in my book
I agree. I use seperate computers for each operating system I use; which is currently Windows 10 and FreeBSD. I don't use MacOS much any more and Linux seemed to be edging closer towards Windows, so FreeBSD brought me back into a more traditional Unix world with TWM and command lines. I enjoy it.
Now that CloudFlare is a thing there is an incredible obvious way to snoop encrypted data..
I use WireGuard with a server in my pantry as a router. Dynamic IP of the server is handled by DuckDNS, and WireGuard gracefully handles client roaming e.g. I can switch from home wifi to mobile internet without interrupting my SSH sessions. Would recommend.
Yeah, lsp-mode for Emacs exists because Microsoft created LSP for VS Code, so I'm glad VS Code was created even though I'll never use it.

(I installed VS Code to see what the fuss was about and the first thing I wanted to do was hide the tabs because tabs are a useless eyesore in a text editor. But when I searched for a way to hide them, I read that it wasn't possible. Madness. I'll never understand how tech enthusiasts can enjoy using software that provides them with so little control.)
Well if you explain to me how can I use Linux desktop without configuring it a lot, how can I run Visual Studio, Photoshop, Lightroom, Adobe Xd and 3ds Max on it natively, I will give it the 101th chance.

On the desktop I care about applications more than I care about the operating system. The operating system should just not stay in my way, complicate things for me or consume my time.
Yes. There are many HN users who would happily go over hours of boring seal video. Several times.
My dermatologist insists screen light causes skin damage given the number of hours I'm at the computer. I'm skeptical but on her request added a UV blocker as daily care instead of only before going outside. Recent treatment has improved my skin and I'm interested to maintain it but am not sure if wearing sunblock for screen is just a waste of time. Research suggests it is neglible but then again, my skin is sensitive so what's the harm I figure.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6280109/
Larger? I feel like Slashdot has shrunk tremendously over the last 10 years and I believe the shift to politics is the main reason.

I have screenshot that I took a couple of years ago where the entire "Most discussed" section had the word "trump" in it. Every single one. That was the tipping point for me.

Maybe the site is larger now than it was a decade ago but it sure doesn't feel like it.
I'm not sure I understand your question but there has been only one "noob green" since I've known the code.
The only benefit of https today seems to be planned obsolescence. There are a lot of certificates issued by states or organization which cannot be reasonable trusted. Also in case of a lot of OS' (android, ios, Macosx, windows) you do not control your endpoint. So i do not see any added benefit for https.
If any part of it was converted to any non-distributed security, then it would likey be confiscated along with interrogation to get the rest.
Is a red bulb enough or do you need a 670nm laser?
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The trick here is to not use a random number as the input. Instead you pick some meaningful input. Say the string "secure random 256 bit curve parameters". You then hash that meaningful string to get a random number that is much harder to manipulate by brute force.

Parameters generated this way are called "nothing up your sleeve" numbers.
But server space is increasingly replaced with cloud. And MS has Azure.

They don't care about the technology if they make money from it.

They used to sell an UNIX OS called Xenix.
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Cornwell implemented the BBN pager in his KA10 emulator, and it's in use running WAITS 7.x.

Plenty of files from TENEX tapes are here: https://github.com/PDP-10/tenex
All of these are impacts of lockdowns, not the pandemic.
With most of the comments here criticizing blockchains, it's hard to get any meaningful discussion on the topic.

Having set up a lot of SSO and other auth mechanisms, I think there is a good opportunity for a combination of NFT-access-token + WebAuthn [1]. The nice thing about that would be a secure login without email/passwords combination that you can access with your biometrics. Imagine the same flow as login with 1Password without having to fill the form.

On the developer side, you don't have to setup the OIDC flow, database, or anything. You just rely on a generic service to provide you with a token. Less opportunity to mess it up, and it can work on localhost too.

Now, would be the question of a similar exercise for authorization.

[1] https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAuthn
Nil serves as non-existence, so cannot be used as a normal value. You can’t have a table (an object/struct in other languages) that has “existing” nil-valued key, so it breaks json schemas. You can’t have an array that contains nil, because arrays are defined to be continuous tables if consecutive indices that do not have nil. #-operator may return either 3 or 1 for {1, nil, 1} array. You delete keys and last array values by setting to nil. People tried to introduce special NIL values (an globally-available table with clear testable indication of its purpose), but it never becomes a standard and as a result every lib that requires it uses it’s own.
I know that some cryptography protocols have intermediate results that need to be deleted. This is sometimes referred to as 'radioactive waste'
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Mobile App Social Media like FB is more like a micro-reality-tv channel in the form of text/image/short-video posts which are co-"produced" (like a tv show producer) by AI algorithms (in ranking) and yourself (in who you friend/follow) and others in your "network" (what everyone comment/like on more vs less).

Just like tv channels optimize their content for TRP ratings and for ad sales, FB does the same – except its engagement optimization cycle is super-micro and super-fast and super-scalable and its ads are super-cheap and super-granular and super-micro.

Its the same business model followed by newspapers/magazines, other forms of content based attention grabbing and holding mechanism which make money through ads. The older business models are more coarse-grain in everything (cost, price, target size, targeting precision, time-cycles etc) and newer tech-enabled business-models are fine-grain everything.

Obviously, the same old social/behavioral/moral rules that worked (or didn't work, but didn't matter) at coarse-grain/slow-cycle/less-massive/more-local won't work (or needs to work better because it matters at scale!) at fine-grain/fast-cycle/huge/global levels. And the answer isn't obvious.

It is obvious same notions/rules/mechanisms won't scale (like content editorialship/moderation etc).