skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That doesn't seem to add anything to the discussion. I don't know what you're getting at.

I'm explaining why I'm against building nuclear power plants — it's a very simple point really:

- Do nuclear power plants require stability to be safe?

- Is the world becoming more or less stable?

All the other stuff sounds like a conspiracy theory.
LANtenna attack reveals Ethernet cable traffic contents
Yeah, everyone conveniently forgets what is the second sin of Adam from the Bible (if they're subscribed to that belief system)
I am interested in a lot of different mediums but I wouldn’t say I am great at any of them. I put a fair bit of time into it though.

I really enjoyed creating 3D art in Rhino, however my very old educational license doesn’t work on modern macOS. I have been meaning to get comfortable with other tools but have yet to find the time in my day to day. I'd be excited to hear peoples opinions on what's worth my time.

I sketch, and otherwise do the occasional digital work with my Wacom tablet though less often than I would like. I have had my eyes on a Cintiq for a couple months now thinking it would encourage me to do more, but I know the problem is less lack of tools than motivation. I have been a huge fan of ArtRage for years, although I have not tried the latest version. Photoshop is my primary tool.

I have been taking a near daily photo for over a decade now, every couple years I put out a video of them. The latest version I wrote some software to do a rolling average which ended up with a neat sort of painterly feel.

https://youtu.be/Zv6P0wNiZOA

I also messed around building some tools to convert bitmaps into actual available lego's - and rendered using Stud.io

https://noteof.it/post/184075469826/so-i-wrote-a-little-prog...
1. S3 Standby/suspend support.

If your laptop supports that, you can close the lid and it will power ~everything except the RAM down (sometimes a USB port still charges). In 'new' laptops, including almost everything Tiger lake and Intel, S3 is being phased out for Microsoft's "Modern Standby", known as S0ix (or sometimes InstantGo). This is much more like a mobile phone, where it stays on but attempts to use as little battery as possible.

So, peripherals might shut down, but you might still be able to get critical Windows Updates or receive an important notification -- all while your laptop is unplugged, lid closed, in your bag overnight. This is pretty bad for heat, battery, and often not what you might expect. My new laptop uses about 15% battery overnight, just doing nothing.

In the future, perhaps this mode will work as well as S3 used to for battery life, but finding your laptop fans on while it's closed inside your bag and getting really hot is not fun. This applies to lots of laptops currently.

2. A good screen. Brightness that goes high enough to be seen outside (400, or more) - and it'll usually auto turn down the rest of the time to save battery. Hard to go wrong on a Mac, but really variable screen quality across other brands and models. You'll spend a lot of time looking at the screen.
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> It's a mystery to me too how people do this.

Well, increasingly, they just don't – physically.

More people are living alone(1) – which I interpret as a decent indicator for decline of physical connections overall – but since the feeling of being alone is not increasing(2), internet/social media seem to make up for the difference(3, 4).

(1) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/one-person-households

(2) https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/12/declining-lonelin...

(3) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/users-by-social-media-pla...

(4) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-time-spent-on-the-i...
UK Mobile Data for most is unlimited. A few will have a data cap but those will be unlikely to watch videos on mobile.
>Honestly, I think 3rd party sellers are half the problem.

Totally agree. Right now there's a spread from anyone can review anything (yelp, Google reviews) to purchase required to review. What if only 1 out of 20 purchases, selected randomly, were allowed to place a review?

Single person review shops become easier to spot - they are suddenly ordering way more than typical. Returns might skyrocket, which is expensive for everyone involved, however there's now another signal available to spot odd patterns of behavior.

Inclusion of a restocking fee, which is obviously not popular with consumers, is another option which would help make it more expensive to fake reviews.
That would be too mainstream and plebeian.
Starting a modern web project: Should I "npm install everything" or "yarn install everything"?
How to Ship the World’s Largest Space Telescope 5,800 Miles Across the Ocean
Thingiverse Data Leak Affects 228,000 Subscribers
There are 13 variations according to the JS. Script URL posted above by jmkni.
"We had it tough. When I were a lad, there weren't no replicators. Our dad had to fight t'Klingons barehanded without spacesuit. Tell the crew of today, they won't believe you."
It depends on the place. There is a place I go to in Berlin sometimes where if you show up, they'll ask you what you want once, and never again, and they'll leave the cup on your table until you re-order through your own initiative.

This is a very nice system that I'm sure they do to attract laptop people during the day (it's otherwise always at least half empty during that time).

There is a sign on the wall that kindly tells people to put away the laptop after 21:00 which is when they get busy. I think it's a fair deal. You get office space for the price of a coffee and they get someone in an otherwise empty café during the day. (Who often order a bit more than just a coffee anyway).
Superstition is itself a term of Catholic theology and specifically targets veneration without a formal doctrinal framework, which individual Catholics certainly might be guilty of at times but Catholicism isn't.

While the foundational tenets of Catholicism are supernatural but the system that sprouts from it is highly rational, descriptive and formal. It's a religion of Roman lawyers and it shows.

As a result I have a hard time seeing anybody dismissing Catholicism as superstitious, even if they a priori dismiss the existence of God, unless they have no actual knowledge of it (which, you know, ends up being most people who feel to need to utter an opinion on the subject).
different animation the first 12 times you reload the website = much less impressive.
> Number two in my list. Hard to open? Hard to reach some parts? memory/ssd soldered on the mainboard? Go away. Number one is immediate global availability so I won't have to deal with the customs or pre-order. Sadly the the Framework fails both.

I fail to follow your logic. Do you mean that Framework has memory/ssd soldered on the mainboard?
I just use PicoCMS and I forget about it. Just upload markdown files, that's about it.
Being able to upgrade the memory or storage also dramatically extends the useable life of a laptop.
Working directly on encoded UTF-8 sequences is a nice trick that allows to lookup Unicode properties without even decoding a character. I did something similar for Apache Lucy [1]. Note that you can store the data for each "level" in a single table and compute the index with bit operations as explained in the article.

[1] https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=lucy.git;a=blob;f=core...
Each time the debate about free speech on social media comes up, people say: "well private platforms, they can censor whatever they want, they are not the government". Of course it only applies to the speech the former do not like: expediency.

Here is a thing: social media grew that big because governments created a legal environment in which social media could grow that big. DMCA, safe harbor, the fact that social media are not liable for the content their users post...

Are these social media entitled to all these favorable laws? My point is, it goes both ways. Yes social media as private companies can censor whatever legal content they want, No the government doesn't have to let them off the hook and doesn't have to keep a favorable legal or fiscal framework for these particular platforms to growth exponentially either...

I'm not saying governments should crack down on these platforms, I'm just saying that ultimately, the legislator makes the laws...

The platforms make money at scale, well how about they become liable "at scale" if the content is public?
Not fond of Pico.css’s weight, though: over 50KB, nowhere near as lightweight as the name suggests (even if it’s above-average compressible, 8KB gzipped—but I wouldn’t count even 8KB uncompressed as pico); in this case, if you flatten the variables and strip unused code, you’re left with under 4KB (~1.4KB gzipped). Lots of bloat from unused light mode support, things like form controls, and a fair bit of frivolous custom properties usage. This is the sort of place where I see the appeal of the likes of Tailwind, because they generate such huge amounts of CSS that you just about have to use an unused style remover. But it is another build step, and contrary to the deliberate intent here.
Unicorn is missing from that list.

The python CPU emulator with full program counter (PC) and general (and other CPU-specific) register set controls.

I use it to catch fileless malware in the second fastest dynamic manner. Also good for detecting Rowhammer/SPECTRE behaviors.

Disclaimer: one of the contributors and a contractor that frequently deploy this.

https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn
> A lot of them are niche use or only really exist to cover lack of features in languages (...)

This take is a reflection of a failure to understand the concept of design patterns, their usefulness, and their role in software engineering.

Design patterns are not features missing from a toolkit or language. This is perhaps the biggest miscomprehension regarding design patterns. It's immaterial if a language supports or not a given programming construct in it's core language or standard library. The whole point of design patterns is that they represent higher-level programming constructs that pop up often in implementations and are frequently used to address common problems.

Think about it for a second: do futures or promises or callbacks or sharex pointers cease to be design patterns or lose any usefulness if these features are supported by the core language? Is the observer pattern not a design pattern anymore in C# or Java once it was implemented into them as first/second class citizens?

Or do we understand what these techniques involve just by mentioning these keywords?

Clearly the main problem plaguing design patterns are those who feel entitled to criticize things they don't know and clearly failed to grasp even the basics.
The last great Elitebook. RIP
Framework is almost perfect. The only problem I have with it is immediate global availability. Otherwise, I'm very pleasantly surprised. Also by the price - it's not very cheap, but also not overpriced like Apple's equivalents.
Pretty sure GrapheneOS didn't even engage with GPU HW acceleration. Everything felt like software framebuffer.
Take consideration of the extent of public libraries, parks, actual cafes and co-working spaces that all provide these services in many places in the west. Many of those come with specific spaces for games and socialising and meeting rooms, and presumably often with a higher grade of food/service or are alternatively, free.

If you remove the semi-american notion of being 'stink-eyed' or hurried out of the cafe, then I become more confused about how such a space has sufficient demand to keep surviving.

I admit the thought of being charged by the minute irks me in a particular way...
So, would you ever consider buying a product that has less then 4 stars?

Very few would, which means that giving anything but a 5 star effectively means "I don't want you to ever sell this product again"
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Forward the email ;-)

Or just add an extra email to the account
Can someone explain to me how this makes sense when they are letting insulate britain block motorways? Like which protests are they trying to stop?

I assume blocking motorways is illegal already, yet the police are doing nothing, which is leading dangerously to vigilante justice as per some videos, which is only a question of time before it turns really violent.

Wtf is the UK government doing? Why do they need more powers when they don't use the current ones? Or is it for "other" types of protests? Shutting down motorways is fine.
https://archive.is/K3Vli
> I've played music my whole life, but have always suffered from stage fright.

The article seems to be tying the young Patrick Stewart's ease on stage to escaping his abusive home life. He is open about this painful topic (1)

> I loved to escape into the world of fiction and out of my dull, uncomfortable and sometimes scary home life, living with an abusive father.

> Perhaps it was because I wasn’t being Patrick Stewart (on stage)

i.e. His benchmark for "feeling "safe" on stage" was probably very different to yours, as he was not "safe" at home. It's sad but he worked with it.

1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPzVUGE3dds
Afaiu, they're planning on offering CPU upgrades/changes by having the whole system board replaced.

I guess in this age of soldered CPUs (and other stuff), it's as good as it gets, but I wonder about the price.
PeerTube doesn't scale with large number of users, period.

There's currently no way to horizontally scale an instance, so after an instance grows past a certain size it can't transcode uploaded videos fast enough. I love the project but if it can't utilize multiple compute instances to transcode video (or plug into a cloud platforms video transcoding offering), it's never going to grow past this blocker.
I agree with what you say in general, but...

One of the problems today for me is that most people is skeptic because they cannot understand the answer to the question they ask.

Sooner or later I have to rely on an expert in most areas of science. Which would be fine for me if I could trust that the expert actually answers in his expert opinion and not because he was bought to give a certain answer.

Schooling is mandatory up to a certain level in my country. I'm going to pull dates out of my ass, because I'm too lazy to compare them to what you actually learn in school, but the level of math for the average person is probably 19th century of science, as well for chemistry and physics, with some basic knowledge about stuff from the 20th century.

Most people are not equipped with the tools to understand most of modern day science. They approach it with opinions based on feelings or what their random favorite actor/actress or singer thinks. And we cannot expect them to be equipped with the right tools either.

Reality doesn't change even if people deny it, but is science as a field really resistant if most people just flat out deny science, especially if politicians starts doing it and deny funding due to it?
This video is still up. I'm not sure if I'm looking at the wrong video, if it was never taken down or if YouTube have changed their decision.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VidUXZjzNVk
What about the screen? High resolution, better aspect ratio than 16:9, oled, refresh rate,...etc.

You interact with the screen, the keyboard and the pointing device all the time and they cannot be changed, so all these have to be good. Things like good wifi or bluetooth are nice, but there are dongles.
Negative feedback means dampening, as in the severity goes down after a shock. The term you're looking for is 'vicious cycle'.
Caltech, right? Were you the author of Flippy? There's a new generation of AlphaZero-style ML bots that's managed to finally dethrone it :)

I've been working on and off on a Rust Othello bot aiming to combine AlphaZero in the midgame with a fast endgame solver [1]. Probably the coolest feature that's currently finished is that valid moves are generated and executed with SIMD instructions, so searching a new position only takes a few clocks on a modern cpu.

[1] https://github.com/maxwells-daemons/reason
Some people treat this as ambient noise that helps in concentration.

> A moderate level of noise enhances creativity compared to both low and high levels of noise. Moderate background noise induces distraction which encourages individuals to think at a higher, abstract level, and consequently exhibit higher creativity.

(Quote via https://rainycafe.com )
The whole advertising industry is an arms race.

Unless your product is so revolutionary or cheap you're gonna need marketing.
Swap the proportions! Do more Extra, less Normal Work. Worked for me, and most of the best I’ve known seem to do that.
> The issue that is if they are going to do this everyone should respond

"Everyone should" just doesn't work. It doesn't happen. The vast majority of people don't care, and the few who care are not going to change their habits and jump to a niche platform that maybe solves their problem. Network effects and the comfort of familiarity too big to ignore.
Questions:

Do you know whether SGIs, Alphas, or SPARC machines were used for rendering for Spirits Within?

How much custom software was used vs off-the-shelf for design, rendering, etc. ?

Were you working directly under Sakaguchi/Squaresoft or as a contractor/freelancer?

I just wanted to say I really enjoyed watching Spirits Within as a teen, even if the story wasn't very well-executed. And I certainly thank you for your part in it. The CGI and brilliant colors were mindblowing at the time and it still holds up somewhat today.
OpenBSD 7.0
It didn't happen with Syncthing because I'm not using it (yet!), but while trying to edit files normally which were watched by inotify.

I'm kind of assuming that it's the containerization of Samba which is causing the problem, since I have not installed Samba directly on the server, but it could also be the case when not using Docker.

Apparently any CIFS mount is affected https://lists.samba.org/archive/linux-cifs-client/2009-April...
When I was in my 20s in spain, we decided it wasn’t great to always hang out at bars and drink alcohol, and cafés offerings are too limited for prolonged time. We took out a rent of some half-cellar as a social club. We had pingpong, some videogames, and a mix of hobbies and tools around. We just pooled some money for rent, and additionally had some beverage/donations fridge for guests. It worked out fine for some years until some people moved out of town and it was getting too expensive.

I really loved it because there was always someone around, no need to arrange meetings with different people (which gets complicated proportional to age).
My sway config has `output eDP-1 scale 1.25`. I started out with 1.5 liked it but eventually felt text still a little too large. At 1.25 I am finding I need to bump font size up with some sites. I've not seen tearing or any other graphical artifacts in any applications.

I use fusuma for gestures. Had to change BAT0 to BAT1 in waybar config to get the battery to show up. Had to install Intel's WiFi drivers, probably because the Sway edition is on 5.10 kernel. I've upped to 5.14 without any noticeable issues.
Blender, Cinema4D, AfterEffects and
Ableton Live users here. Only a semi-pro in the music category (paid to do music but nowhere near my main income).

I started in the 90's with Sculpt3D and REAL3D on Amiga.

Started to do a lot more of Unity and Unreal because the rendering engines are becoming pretty good, even for postproduction VFX. Traditional renderers are much much slower.
Makes me wonder if using keywords like

var char foo; // foo is a char
pointer char boo; // pointer to a boo type

or something I want.

alias baz = boo.foo; // bas is actually just an alias for boo.foo
The best definition of simple I've found is "one that takes the least cognitive load to use/comprehend."

With programming it's actually hugely complicated, because are you trying to lower the mental effort to read, or the mental effort to write?

a + b is simple to write because it reminds you of high school mathematics.

However, I'd argue

from operator import add, mul
def square(x):
return mul(x, x)

def sum_squares(x, y):
return add(square(x), square(y))

result = sum_squares(5, 12)

Is an excellent way for newer programmers to read code, and learn what is happening.
I haven't checked but wasn't the Online safety bill the one which implied all kinds of age verification checks which either weren't feasible or, at a minimum, were a goldmine for identify fraud.
Fair enough. I suppose what I'm asking is whether it's possible to purchase a more modern CPU independently of a SOC and design my own single board computer built around that. Can you buy a naked Cortex M0 in a PDIP package? Are there data sheets for it?

A search of the interned didn't turn up what I was looking for, but I'm very new at hardware work. Perhaps newer chips have such tight timing requirements that you can't work with them without using a SOC?
Based on many HN comments about Modi and his anti democracy moves, I'm not quite sure India agrees.
There's some french guy who made some maths that might help with this, idk ;)

--pb, CTO of Fourier Audio Ltd.
Badly phrased. I meant inhabitants of all current and ex-colonies. Not just the remaining ones.

Although, the talk of blocking another Scottish independence referendum could certainly be used as evidence of holding on to a country against the inhabitants will. You can't know their will if you prevent them from expressing it. Yes, they expressed it 7 years ago but a lot has changed since then, most notably leaving the EU.
Excellent, that's good to know.
The first Anti-Café was created by Ivan Mitin. He is known (at least in Russia) for creating projects which look utopian at first glance but have a good business model inside.

His current project is a village in Georgia where you can buy a share in a house, so you can visit it for some amount of days per year, proportional to share size.

https://chateauchapiteau.com/en
Often overlooked things when discussing esbuild here:

1. It's not just a faster replacement for a single %tool_name% in your build chain: for the vast majority of cases, it's the whole "chain" in a single cli command if you're doing it right.

That is, you don't just stick it inside, say, webpack as a faster replacement for babel (although you can). No, you look carefully through your webpack configs and its myriad of plugins, ask yourself whether you really need to inline css in jsx in png while simultaneously optimizing it for IE 4.0, realize you don't, through out the whole thing, and use esbuild instead.

I have two 50K+ LOC projects using esbuild, and I would use it even if it was slower than webpack/babel/tsc simply not to worry about the build chain breaking due to an update to some obscure dependency or plugin.

2. It is fast because it's written from scratch to do a set of particular things and do it fast, not just because it's Go and parallelized.

If you look at the commit log you will notice a lot of performance tweaks. If you look into the issues, you will find a lot of requests for additional features rejected, often due to possible negative performance impact.

3. The most impressive part about esbuild development is not just that it's one guy writing it: it is the level of support and documentation he manages to provide alongside.

The release notes alone are a good course into nitty-gritty details of the web ecosystem: all the addressed edge cases are explained in detail. To top it all off--all opened issues, no matter how uninformed they seem, find a courteous response.
The notion that PulseAudio's introduction wasn't highly disruptive to end users is completely ahistorical. People were pretty pissed off about it, and not because something changed under the covers in a totally seamless and trouble-free way.

I sort of felt for Lennart Poettering for all the abuse [0] he got (I guess it helped that I'd already given up on using Linux as a desktop, so it could be as broken as it wanted to be as far as I was concerned) until he inflicted systemd on the world...

[0] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/jeffrey-stedfast.html