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I have the vision for VR instruments. I'd be very interested in creating something like Smash Drums or Paradiddle VR or some kind of VR-only instrument.
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You can't publish your own competing app. The desired behaviour requires running a background service (not allowed) that watches arbitrary folders (not allowed).
I "built" a static site generator because it was easier than learning to configure someone else's. It's basically a hundred or so lines of nodejs and a bunch of calls to pandoc.
Full title : Facebook told staff it would seal off some internal message boards to prevent leaking. The change was immediately leaked.
I'm not at all surprised about the response here. We are a community of people who love function over form (the perfect emblem being the purely functional design of our beloved HN). And in all honesty, my initial reaction was the same.

But we'd do well to bear in mind that:

- Most of us are not the intended audience.

- The purpose of the site is not what most of us expect. They are not trying to create leads from this page (hence the lack of useful information and call to action).

- And tangentially, the internet isn't only about function or utility.

I sympathise with the compulsive need to pull-apart a website with >300kb javascript, scrolling to get more information and unnecessary animation when it gets in the way of you using a site that you need. But surely this is not one of those times. Instead why not treat it like you are looking at an abstract piece of art. Sure a 3 year old could have made it but that's not really the point, is it?
> Yes, practices based in tradition and not evidence have that problem.

Let’s not pretend that education is a practice based in “evidence.” America has among the most professionalized schools systems in the developed world, and also among the worst. My cousin in Sacramento was complaining the other day about how far behind her kid’s school is in math compared to what she learned in Bangladesh in the 1990s. You think we have EdDs? No, just tradition (i.e. practices with a track record of working).

> Minorities (especially blacks and American Indians) are ghettoized by the status quo system, in which they do not have equal upward mobility.

And ethnic identity politics is part of the status quo system for those groups. At least in the last 30 years, that seems to have hurt more than it’s helped.

> You play a nice trick talking about immigrants (a small minority of racial and ethnic minorities) and the pretending that covers the bulk of the minority experience, but it does not.

Hispanics and Asians, the vast majority of whom have immigrant backgrounds within the last few generations, comprise 25% of the country, while Black and native Americans comprise 15%. By 2060, the Black and native population share will be about the same, while Asians and Hispanics will be nearly 40% of the population. The liberal approach of projecting the Black and indigenous experience onto all “people of color” is innumerate.

Hispanics and Asians are economically converging with whites over time: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/135/2/711/5687353. Possibly derailing that convergence (which is pretty much unprecedented in the world) is something everyone should be scared of.

The TV show White Lotus had a tremendous illustration of the problem. One of the characters, Paula, is a minority who is college friends with a white girl and comes to Hawaii with the girl’s family. Paula falsely convinces herself that her white friends don’t really care about her. She persuades a (reluctant) native Hawaiian worker at the hotel to steal from her friend’s family, giving some speech she learned at school about stolen land, but he gets caught and arrested. Liberal identity education hurts the affluent “brown” girl by driving an artificial racial wedge between her and her friend who genuinely cares about her, and destroys the life of the working class “brown” boy, by corrupting his traditional morality. I’m not sure it was supposed to be a conservative polemic but it succinctly illustrated exactly what I’m afraid of happening to my own kids as they’re taught to develop an “identity” around their “skin color” in elementary school (according to the email I received recently).
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While it sounds neat in its area, it seems to be the same philosophy than nest js: an opinionated way to gather a set of trendy tools (React, GraphQL, Prisma, Jest, WebPack, Babel, etc.) and enforce conventions around them.

To me, it remains different from Django (or Rails) in a sense Django developed all the framework components themselves, which has major implications.
It’s still just an airing of disagreement by the end of the day. The people who lash out on Twitter don’t have the direct agency to fire or deplatform the object of disagreement. It’s still the platform or the university that decides that, and those entities are not necessarily doing so for the same reasons as the crowd that’s disagreeing.

It’s not even as if the people who “cancel” strangers for deliberately making bigoted and hateful remarks or committing workplace sexual harassment are the same people who “cancel” professors from speaking about a difficult topic in the academia. You can call it a culture, but it’s not the same people with the same ideals. Plenty of those who are vocal against bigotry would agree that professors who research on difficult topics must be allowed to talk in universities, as long as the content of their talks are actually academic/scientific, and not just outright bigoted.
Not only that, but it includes functionality: it's clickable, to load the next two lines of text. Such a remarkable amount of work has been lavished on that comma. It probably explains why there were no resources left over to put commas between the listed items "designers architects musicians filmmakers writers engineers".

Whatever I, or anyone else, think of the site, it's grabbed attention and provoked reaction/discussion, because Ive.

(And those animations are kinda lovely.)
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Trustpilot - oh the irony!
Then to produce good design means becoming a monk.
I'm interpreting the comment above as advocating for the pre-Section 230 world, where as long as you didn't moderate at all, you were shielded from liability.

I'm not sure that's good for the world per se (there's also no obligation for YouTube to collect contact info, so either you've effectively legalized defamation/libel because there's no way to hold anyone legally accountable for it in order to remove it, or you're replacing it with a DMCA-like system where mere accusations of defamation are enough to remove a video, thereby increasing censorship). But it is true that it's specific policy choice by lawmakers and we could choose differently.
Do you think that the government should force HN to host child pornography and not remove it if someone uploads it? Or is that not how it works at all?
> Bonus points for anyone who knows why the classes in the source are prefixed with a 'T'!

Was it written in, or ported from, Delphi?
Hah yes I was trying to think of a way of describing that - our inability to be rude to people, or speak up about something that seems wrong. That should certainly be added to the list.
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I agree the unconscious is the one delivering the 'stuff'. If you know anything about neural networks, you may have come across an autoencoder. This is what I think is happening as information gets passed into the conscious mind. We are aware of the shifting patterns of non verbal thought within our mind, when we pay attention, this is viewing the compressed output of the inner mind - just as the second stage of an autoencoder views the compressed output of its first stage.

The unconscious is unconscious because it's machinations are not directly recorded into memory and so we cannot self reflect upon them. But of course in the moment that part of our mind is conscious just as we are, it's just that that consciousness cannot be recalled.

So this article is calling for the shutting down of the fore mind so that we can better listen to and interpret the output of the subconscious. And further to start to think in terms of the same non verbal architecture that the subconscious moves with.

It is also apparent to me that this matches with the MBTI personality classification system. Sensing types rely upon machinations within the fore mind, logic, verbal translations of inner thought - whereas the intuitives listen directly to the unconscious. I'm an intuitive and when solving a problem I will often simply wait for the answer to arrive.
Oh, maybe even go for something resembling "Antykwa Półtawskiego" if we embrace the Polishness of the source material (sure, as-is it'd need legibility adjustments, but it's a text font nonetheless)
Ultimately you can't really stop people from falling for con men, but I do feel part of the blame lies with banks and other institutions for normalising out-of-the-blue phone calls.

How would you know a call from the bank about fraudulent transactions was fake? They do that! I've even had legitimate calls from them where they refuse to pass my security questions because of data protection. Pure madness.
In the same way I should be credited for buying an expensive couch
The only advantage is the reduced CO2 emission, economically nuclear energy isn't viable. Sure, safety regulations play a huge part here, but they aren't optional.

Every form of energy production has disadvantages, but I cannot really say that ending nuclear was a mistake if it isn't just exchanged for coal and I don't believe this is the case. Maybe we could have opted to let remaining plants run for longer, but Germany actually never had that many of them anyway.

Uranium isn't available anywhere and some say it may deplete at some point. I think this problem is not in focus because nuclear is still a small part of overall energy production. But it could very well be a problem, especially if countries increase nuclear.

edit: A bit disappointed in Theo Sommer here. I think he got swept up by wrong information about costs and benefits here. Otherwise a great writer.

edit 2: They just argue to keep plants running, that might be a sensible decision, depends on the numbers.
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Then it boils down to the pricing.

I suppose I will at least drink something during those five hours anyway, so then the question is what is more expensive: three/four drinks at the coffee shop or 300 minutes at the anti?
Where I used to work my colleagues used commercially available game engines to build simulations for training purposes. Many of these were for military customers although some were civil (e.g. a safety trainer for coal mining). I therefore became interested in game development in general and played around with Unity for a while at home. From work, I'd gained an appreciation of the many different skills involved in game dev. In parallel I'd been using Poser and Daz Studio for 3D scene construction, with Octane for photorealistic rendering. I'm also a hobbyist photographer, and enjoy playing with light.

I eventually realised that I most enjoyed photorealistic rendering and that the asset marketplaces were often swimming in shovelware - so there was no real money in asset creation. Not that I was looking for serious revenue, but I had wondered if I could make enough money to pay for assets and licenses. I'd produced some promotional renders for asset creators and eventually came to the attention of someone who produces tutorials. So I decided to combine my 3D lighting knowledge with general photographic experience. I've now produced tutorials (sold on the Daz 3D marketplace) focussing on lighting 3D scenes using Daz Studio (and historically Octane). One of these has earned me enough money that I actually think I need to declare it on my tax returns!

[Edit] I sometimes use Blender to create simple 3D assets although I've never really gone up the learning curve. The 3D tools in Photoshop although simplistic are also sometimes okay for my purposes - e.g. if I want some 3D text in a scene. I keep meaning to have a look at Unreal and its rendering capability, but never quite get round to it.
> Should we "assume the best" by assuming this was taken down by AI,

Imo that would be the worst, because a human doing it can be corrected (more training, revised check-lists etc.), but afaik AI moderating in its current form is a black hole and it will remain a black hole for the foreseeable future.
I can't help but be heavily skeptical of approaches to a (traditional) roguelike that use ECS. The idea is very entrenched in the rust gamedev community, but for a turn based tile based game there's extremely little benefit and a lot of added complexity. Bob Nystrom has an excellent talk on roguelike architecture [0] and rust as a language itself doesn't prevent any of these approaches. If anything, the existence of sum types as enums make many of them all the more powerful.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxI3Eu5DPwE
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My intuition is that changing how the mind works in any significant way will destabilise it, long term or even worse. Techniques that mess with it, either psychologically or using drugs, are not sustainable. Using such techniques to correct a mind that's already out of balance isn't something I've got a problem with, but altering a healthy/typical mind is to be avoided.
I think the UK is a hot spot because its population speaks English, which means the same scammers that target the US can easily broaden their target market.
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Surprise, I didn’t know who was the maintainer and was still unheard of back then until I shared on HN and it was a like wildfire.
Yeah spam calls are a nuisance in this country. Oddly I've gotten far fewer recently. My technique for answering unknown numbers seems to get me removed from a lot of lists:

Pick up the phone, but stay silent. If it's an auto-dialler, it usually disconnects automatically after 4 seconds, and seemingly gets you removed from the list (as either a dead line or a machine I guess). Sometimes this catches legitimate call centres, but I probably didn't want to talk to them either.
I wouldn't assume they were just triggered by implicit patriotism of serving American foods.
Commonwealth should be unaffected, but if the perpetrator is in the EU, i guess it could be because British police can no longer access the Shengen information system (SIS) database, or issue European Arrest Warrants (EAW).
Of course not, the government is free to pass whatever laws regulating whatever kind of content is allowed, as they should and have been doing. What is your point again?
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I’ve set up a single always on desktop computer as my backup hub. Syncthing is used to sync everything I care about to that machine, and backblaze pulls everything to the cloud as versioned backups. I use a .stignore file to exclude some things from syncing (like node_modules) and similarly backblaze is configured to exclude some things from the cloud backup. There’s also a regular local backup to an external drive (time machine). The setup took some work to figure out, but it is effectively zero maintenance and robust.
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Minimum wage in Brazil would be less than USD1.50/hour (in today's exchange rate, assuming you are earning for 40 hours/week). 10x the minimum wage for a junior position is a great wage.

Also, I don’t think the american contractors earn the same rate of the ones in poorer countries. It seems very unlikely to me.
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I believe that there are enough examples in various niches.

One of the most obvious is APL and languages inspired by it.

While the original APL would not be a good choice today, due to various features missing in it, for managing program structure and more complex data organization, even the first version of APL had much more powerful methods for handling arrays/tensors than almost all popular programming languages used today.

When using a set of high-level APL-like operators, someone familiar with them can avoid wasting a lot of time with writing low-level redundant code, i.e. loops, like you are forced in most programming languages.
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I like to draw pictures for the kids school lunch boxes...
https://goo.gl/photos/LJ4GTMTBy1VvQHBk6

Though I haven't done it for a little while and really need to get back into drawing again :-)
The SC didn't rule that the obstruction of the highway offence didn't apply in cases of protest. The question is whether the exception in the Act applies:

“if a person, without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway he is guilty of an offence” (Highways Act, 1980, s.137).

They ruled that, under some circumstances, 'proportionately' exercising the right to protest could qualify as a lawful excuse. In the case in point, the protesters had blocked one of multiple entrances to an arms fair, in circumstances when only arms fair traffic was likely to even notice the protest (it was an entryway to the Excel centre). Also, the protest was of short duration.

The consequence of the decision is that the question of lawfulness is now case-by-case, as it is with other highway obstructions. There is essentially no chance that protesters blocking motorways are going to escape a conviction on the basis of this decision. They're also likely to be given post-conviction orders making repetition imprisonable.

FWIW I pretty strongly support the campaign's expressed aims, but reckon that this is some of the shittest praxis I've seen from protest group. Like the previous stunt by a bunch of XR-aligned people of gluing themselves to public transport, it's got a tenuous link with the aim pursued and is going to cost their cause vastly more public support than it can hope to gain.

[see https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/offences-during-protes...]
But the "Style Hymn" :)

https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#70

But hey, if the Artwork is the release point for you, that's fine with me ;)
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Yeah, Jim Browning definitely needs to go teach law enforcement how to do their job, preferably in exchange for the biggest consulting cheque the world has ever seen.

Ths problem, as always, is that they don't actually want to do that. They'd rather stay incompetent because it lets them let criminals off more easily. We have the same problem where I live but with illegal work for often far below minimum wage. The cops and tax inspectors keep saying they're understaffed, underfunded and undertrained to do anything about the problem, yet two journalism students have been able to catch and report more cases of illegal working conditions than the inspectors do in one year.

I used to wonder why, until I saw one of the main white collar cops in the city having a beer with the dude that I know for a fact regularly pays people minimum wage then has them give him half of it back in cash or they're fired. I asked around and it turns out they're childhood friends so he lets him do whatever. And we're not even close to the higher half of the corruption index! I can't imagine how things work in a country that's worse off...
I'm in this situation now. I have a mostly complete personal site/blog written with Nuxt. It's a Vue based SSG. Works well but overall I don't actually like Nuxt as it imposes some awful conventions that you "can" get around but what's the point?

The JS configuration file is a dumping ground of modules and objects that aren't even consistent with themselves and now Nuxt 3 is out and within a matter of hours had 100 bugs reported on Github.

All I planned on was a basic markdown blog with some interactive Vue components for things like diagrams.

Little bit tired of Node based SSG's so I looked at the .NET options (my prefered stack). There used to be one called Wyam that rebranded to Statiq and now you need to actually buy a license for (typical .NET shenanigans).

I ruled out Hugo and Jekyll because their template languages are certainly less ideal. From what I saw it was common in both to have starting blocks in one file and the ending of the block in another. Basically one file would have <body> and then another random file would have </body> in it, what a mess!

So it's either back to Node based SSGs or write one in .NET (I once did start that, a bunch of markdown files would be processed with a markdown library and then passed to the AngleSharp library to generate the HTML).

https://astro.build/ is next on my list and seems promising so far.

Overall, despite there possibly being thousands of SSG's none of them actually seem to please a majority of developers. I think that's unique, because for problem xyz there's usually maybe a top 3 or 5 hyped up popular options but SSG's are a wild west.
Kinda related to this - anyone tried to fix their xamarin app so that it'd work with letsencrypt? Developers told me xamarin tries to validate both chains so the hack breaks the validation. Not sure if they've come up with a workaround
The trouble is, it's not actually a fallacy when we're talking about the benefits of forcing the remaining people to get vaccinated. The main supposed justification for forcing people to get vaccinated right now is that it'll prevent the hospital system from becoming overwhelmed by stopping them being hospitalized, and this is why they're supposedly harming others by refusing to be vaccinated. Obviously this doesn't work at all once the vast majority of people who're hospitalized due to Covid-19 are vaccinated.

(The other misleading trick is to do stuff like quoting figures starting in January. What matters is the hospitalization rate right now, which is very different - less than 1% of people in the UK were fully vaccinated back in January and it's a similar story in other countries.)
In my world saying that "something may be something for other people" doesn't equal to "personally assuming that something is something". But I understand where you come from.

For me the thinking & debating exercises doesn't have to involve taking a position personally. Sometimes I just want to focus on the argument. My own position & assumptions are irrelevant.

For that reason I don't appreciate it when somebody makes an assumption regarding my assumptions to attack myself instead of focusing on the argument.