skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox on Android has a nice feature among the accessibility options: every site is user-scalable, in the zoom-in direction.

(I do sometimes wish, however, that zooming out was also always possible: some site authors seem to love children-book-grade font sizes, which fit about three words on a line and ten lines on the screen.)
The obvious way to both utilize the unique properties of lasers, and solve the diffusion problem, would be operating this at a larger distance.

What he has can probably cook the steak from a hundred meters away.
Out of curiosity, would you be willing to expand a bit on what specifically what you liked (and maybe didn't) about The Witcher 3?
It amuses me that a company literally founded from pinching someone else’s idea still surprises people when it acts dubiously.
(Pianist here) But there is no objectively correct fingering, it's just what feels best/easiest/smoothest for you, personally. Having to read the fingering as well as the notes just seems to make it more complicated.

Even for the simplest music, say a C major triad chord in the right hand - C-E-G - you could play it 1-3-5, 1-2-4, 1-2-3, 2-3-5 etc. I have big hands, so 1-3-5 feels the least comfortable of those, although it may be the 'automatic' choice. I agree with what others have said, that learning scales and arpeggios teaches you almost all you need to know about sensible fingerings on piano, and then having fingering pre-written on any music is entirely unnecessary. Books of scales and arpeggios have fingering written in, which you should learn.
Google May cut Physics professor off because of 2FA error
MATE is fantastic, I've been running it for the last few years. The central feature is that it gives you a desktop with familiar features and idioms; it doesn't try to "reimagine the experience" or reorganize all the functionality or any of the other stuff that drives me crazy about e.g. Gnome 3. It's the DE for people who want to spend as little time as possible thinking about a DE.
Weeks or days?
This isn't a clickbaitey video. This is styropyro, one of the most knowledgeable YouTubers when it comes to lasers and the related engineering. He's not just some dude who hooks up lasers to a wall outlet. He knows very well what he's doing. He always makes a point about proper laser safety.

Another one is Photonicinduction, an electrical engineer that plays with insane voltages in his attic basically. I'd never want to replicate anything he does because I would surely kill myself doing it.

That doesn't mean we should censor such channels. They're insanely educational, insightful, and fun. If some idiot thinks they're god and wants to emulate something they're clearly not capable of doing safely, that's not the fault of all of the rational viewers who know better.
I did buy a power supply for my laptop on lenovo.com recently, just because I had 0 confidence that if i bought it on amazon it wouldn't be a fake. I checked out the site for a local electronics retailer first, but apparently they also started allowing third party sellers on their platform. In any case, it ended up being half the amazon price anyway
I’v commented on this before, I wish Ableton would phrase this differently.

This is the basics of a certain very narrow subset of music making.
Isn't it reasonable to assume that the value of every company will eventually go to zero? In that case - and for simplicity assuming that a share is just a share of the company assets, no dividends, no voting rights, no whatever - wouldn't the shares just transfer money from later shareholders to earlier shareholders until the share reaches it maximum value and starts its decline towards zero after which everyone just loses money? That seems zero sum to me, from the perspective of all the shareholders, the company can of course provide value to its customers and employees. Things would change if you could exchange your shares for the corresponding company assets. In case it's not obvious, I have no clue about financial markets.
> I have got enough value out of Google search, Gmail and Google docs over the years to make the privacy trade-off worthwhile, personally.

This statement assumes that Google services are of high quality because they exploit users' privacy. I don't think that trade-off is necessary. Google could offer its services with high quality and without violating users' privacy.
This YouTuber really seems to be taking the piss. Most of the others usually make it clear that they’re taking safety precautions far beyond what’s obvious in the video.

Do the experiments in the video safely requires strong knowledge in RF safety, laser safety, and high voltage electronics/power safety. And hopefully good knowledge of the underlying fields of work as well. It’s easy to get wrong with terrifying consequences, and takes time to get right and properly test your safety processes.

Having worked with high voltage systems, and laser systems (separately) it terrifies me seeing someone take such a casual approach. I spot all the safety precautions he's taking because I have the experience needed to look for it, but he’s blends it so well into the chaos that you wouldn’t notice them if you weren’t looking.
Alternative titles: Billionaires decide they are the arbiters of morality
Haha, what are you even trying to say here? That mobile users don’t or can’t use Linux as their desktop environment?
Sc3nius
> is inhumane

So is killing other people. It’s one of the few cases in which I agree with such a penalty (in theory, in practice I’d still not want it for fear of making a mistake).
Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air (Revised, Community Edition)
Yeah my thoughts exactly, how are they going to commit to telling the truth when it goes against their economic interests?
Chip built by UCPH physicists resolves quantum headache
I never understood this line of thought. Economic growth is not a growth of raw material consumption. There has been some correlation but you could imagine a forever growing GDP with shrinking raw material usage without any major problem as long as there is technological or organisational progress.
The alternatives are much better. I try to cut out all middlemen and buy from the brand directly if possible, assuming that I will get the highest quality product / least chance of counterfeit that way.

Then I go to the big box stores’ websites that do not have 3rd party sellers or offer the ability to filter them out.

And then I might go to Amazon. Amazon prices are notoriously high for any liquid or household product bought regularly, Costco and Target and Walmart are way cheaper for those.
Yup.

> And then it's 'oops we leaked all your kids audio'

Especially that this has already happened at least once - there was a company storing unencrypted audio from a plush teddy bears in a publicly-accessible MongoDB instance.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/iot-connected-teddy-bea...
Mention does not work, only hn@ycombinator.com
Did Vikings and their stowaway mice beat Portugal to the Azores?
Is Binance engaging in Insider trading? The infamous 5 minute delay
And where's the proof they modified it? ( Incorrectly explained as a fork in this article)

The host doesn't have to share the code unless they changed it.

Is AGPL that hard to understand?

I get HN is not very technical but the license is written in pretty plain English.
I'm sure the target audience knows it's not the only kind of music.
But then you make it easier for corporations and wealthy individuals to "steal" active names from hobbyists. I own <my name>.com and have used it for over a decade to run my personal site, resume and personal services. There's a more publicly known and wealthy individual who shares my name and has expressed interest in it with an offer of like $100, which I declined.

Why should he have more right to it, or my renewal costs go to $100/yr? I could afford that now, since I'm a software engineer, but when I was a broke teenager?

This type of behavior exists for many of the new TLDs and for a lot of the blockchain proposals and is one of my big reasons for avoiding both.
The Galileo Project Welcomes Christopher Mellon and Luis Elizondo
There was of course Habitat, and later World's Away. I came across this 1996 wired article about the "metaworlds" of the time:

https://www.wired.com/1996/06/avatar-2/

There's also the classic:

"The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat"

Chip Morningstar and F. Randall Farmer
Electric Communities

> This paper was presented at The First Annual International Conference on Cyberspace in 1990. It was published in Cyberspace: First Steps, Michael Benedikt (ed.), 1990, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

http://web.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/Virtual_Wo...

Ed: see also this comment for habitat revived: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29055742
I would not be too surprised if we setup a ministry of truth.
I mean, it's a bit the dilemma posed in Brave New World: what if we can create a veil that restricts our views / thoughts, but in exchange grants us happiness? When someone, for any reason, breaks out that veil, the realization that happiness only exists behind the veil and the lies is quite shocking and unacceptable for us as humans: the very realization that our happiness is built on top of lies will make us unhappy, and seeing it from the outside will often make us claim that that's a false/fake happiness.

But then, what about religion, or blind optimism, or the innocence of children? About ignorance itself? Is it acceptable to let people choose their own veils, but not to have them imposed? And if everyone accepts a certain lie, is that fair to the remaining minorities?

That's what happens when you let evolution run wild. We might have the desire to be good to others and ourselves, but we don't have the power to go all the way through.
I have a two letter .org but in 25 years of using it as my primary domain name not one financial offer for it has turned out to be in good faith / not spam.
I'd like to see the translation of Steven Wright's joke about

"The feeling when you're sitting in a chair and lean back on two legs and then go too far and nearly fall over but just at the last moment you catch yourself."
During the covid lockdown, I had some fireflies in my backyard. Gone this year, and I haven't seen them in any of the other years I've been here. I wonder if there's a correlation?
Japan is a mess. Most of their "markets" are owned by the govt now, something like 80%.

It would take a few hours to understand what happened there, since it's a unique situation. It involves numerous scandals, suicides, near bank runs, etc.
Epilys/rsqlite3: sqlite3 Rewritten in RiiR Rust
Question: with pre-made loops it seems fairly
easy to make something that sounds decent. Is it okay if it’s really that easy? Could you put a few of these together and release a track? Should it be “hard”? I’m sure most producers have fiendishly complex arrangements. But do some producers basically paint by numbers?
People are irrationally afraid of being near dried body fluids inside mattresses.
Apologies if this is not quite on topic, but this definition of shame really spoke to me:

“When a person feels that he or she is becoming his or her undesired or feared self.”

I feel like a lot of my motivation to better myself and help improve my environment comes from that feeling. It's as if i have a very clear picture of who/what i dont want to become, but not so clear on what the "ideal me" would be.

Is this something that motivates HN as well or do you try to realize an ideal(?) version of you through your thoughts/actions
Sometimes teachers have a negative net value huh?

Brings up the point that if the education system can't properly teach a subject, maybe we're all better better off with it just not teaching the subject.
> I installed FL Studio and tried my hand on making some beats (https://youtube.com/channel/UClKt2vzomuegCDA45SU6FbA/videos). Before I spent too much time on it I released

From 1990 to 2007, I owned a (vinyl) record store (B&M then ecomm) that catered to DJs. I got to listen to quite a bit of "dance music". The early, mid, and even late 90s was jammed packed with creativity and innovative sounds.

Eventually things changed (as Ableton and similar became popular). More and more tracks were "half baked". As you noted, workable / good enough, but the extra time to create magic was not being invested. As digitl came along, it got worse because non-vinyl releases lowered the bar further. In a addition that noise, that glut made the good stuff hard to find.

I'm not a snob. Taking anything more accessible is generally a positive. That said, for "dance music" too easy cause problems. The higher bar of the 90s was a form of quality control. If you invested in gear, you generally did your best to get the most out of it. The culture was quality. Then ease and a lower investment bar put the emphasis on quantity.
> If some idiot thinks they're god and wants to emulate something they're clearly not capable of doing safely

It can be difficult to know if you’re capable of doing something safely. Unfortunately you only find out that you’re not capable when it goes wrong.

There’s a reason why labs and engineering firms force people through long detailed safety training courses. There’s a lot of things out there that can kill or serious maim you, which look completely innocuous at first sight. Additionally there are many naive safety protocols that create the appearance of safety, without actually protecting people. Normally people only recognise poor safety setups because they’ve either been shown why it’s bad (plus accompanying horror story), or they’ve suffered the failure personally.

Simply opening up the side of a microwave while it off and disconnected exposes you to a shock risk capable of killing. Unless you take specific steps to make the microwave safe, it’s not hard to imagine someone taking the side of a microwave off after watching this video, without realising the danger within.
Oh look George Soros who led (indirectly) [1] the private MH17 investigation..now i am happy, everything is fine.

Maybe the Atlantic Bridge should be part too of that "media firm"..oh wait, i smell russian hackers ;)

[1] Search for Bellingcat, and who s one of the owners/financier of it.

https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/bellingcat-die-rechercheure-si...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellingcat

From Wikipedia:

The head of the Netherlands' National Crime Squad, said they officially concluded that the missile that shot down MH17 "is from the 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade from Kursk in the Russian Federation".[47]

[47] https://web.archive.org/web/20181218102201/https://www.washi...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/investigat...

Oh look the article is not there anymore..not even on archive.org ;)

Sorry, we can’t find what you are looking for.
Take a deep breath. Everything’s going to be okay.

Some Founders of Bellincat are:

-Cameron Colquhoun -ex-MI5

-Nur Bakr -ex-foreign ministry-UK

-Chris Bigger -ex National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Sounds like a lovely and trustfully bunch:

https://archive.md/GV7jr#selection-386.0-386.1
Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring Data Engineers
Would that actually be more humane? They’d feel compelled to spend those three months with their family member, instead of getting to start grieving/move on.

I guess I still lean towards giving people a choice, but I’m not sure it’s actually better.
Good for you I guess.

I replaced Google search with Brave and DDG, Google Docs is not so useful for me (bad support for math formulas) and Gmail is just a default service I use from a client

I don't happen to see much value in the product you mention. The main reason I use them is because of inertia and the need to jump through hoops with my Android phone to use alternatives.

And interestingly I see Facebook and Whatsapp as very valuable for keeping in contact with people I am physically far from.

So I guess my experience is sort of the opposite
Indeed, why he would say anything about a place where he lives and that provides him with both income and legal protection. Snowden is not my enemy and I’m not spreading propaganda. All I’m saying is that a person under complete control of one country does not offer a trustworthy perspective of the strategic adversary of said country. He might be right, he might be wrong but you and I will never know if and how deeply he is being influenced.
How do you know what people mean in this case and what they don't?

The details of how data gets passed are technical, and users might not be aware of them. However, the end result is the same.
But for that we need a nato firewall so we cannot compare it to chinese and russian media outlets.
>I’m going to get skewered for saying this … but the story feels like it’s pandering to current social political trends - i.e. the obsession with diversity

How so? I didn't get that feeling at all from Horizon Zero Dawn.

If someone told me HZD had an obsession with diversity I'd react with a standard "wat?". I do agree that some of the forced diversity in modern stories is annoying, mind you. I just didn't get that vibe from that one story.
Yes, live TV shopping channels had been a Long term stable in many (all?) EU countries and beyond.

Moving from live TV to streaming allowed a bit more flexibility in being able to try it things and sales people in parallel.

But this isn't the main point of why is so successful in China.

The main point is potential reach, China has a population of 1411 million the US one of 333 million, and the EU is split in many countries and languages.

Another factor is that at least in Germany most younger people grew up with live tele shopping being a thing, a thing which they are good it's a skam they should not bother watching.

This had the effect that most of it still targets older generations.
NIH, FDA and 15 organizations join to accelerate development of gene therapies
Let me help you with the finger placement: you can stop taking pills, but I doubt you could take off implant!
Performance wise, if this was done in production for all queries, do transactions make queries noticeably slower?
Making definitive claims about plans of intelligence services is not necessarily a very useful endeavor.
The economics of pumpkin patches
From a naive perspective it might. It doesn’t work like that in practice though, as it wouldn’t be cost effective since it’d require lots of extra overhead. Most any complex system will face a trade off between latency vs throughout. Shipping isn’t much different mathematically from a system of queues much like a database or network. There’s plenty of math for it: http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~dima/ep01.pdf

Optimizing costs requires keeping work queues as full as possible which requires increasing latency.
> It can be difficult to know if you’re capable of doing something safely

Not really. Opening up electronics, fiddling with them, and then plugging them in, is pretty typically considered dangerous. It's such a ridiculous argument to say we should be censoring this stuff because it's dangerous to the untrained.

Should we censor professional cooking videos where they chop food really fast with sharp knives? Someone could cut themselves!

Should we censor videos of people who free climb large mountains? Someone could fall and die!

It's this sort of collective dumbing down of people that results in us having warning labels on hair dryers that say "do not use while sleeping". Censoring instead of educating is directly part of the problem.
But the reality is those features were added to the first thing for reasons. Which means there's user pressure to add them again... which means the second system effect is virtually impossible to avoid.

See for yourself:

https://wayland.app/protocols/

And unlike the first system, it doesn't have the experience of use to refine it.
Assange is a criminal. He's not a freedom fighter. He's not a member of any formal press agency. He's not even a seeker of truth. He's a distributor of stolen information. He now has the life he earned.
What I failed to say with the last points is that in China a lot of people didn't grow up with a "live shopping is a skam" and "live shopping is for old people only" mentally.
The left hand fingering of the example puts the thumb on a black key and trills fingers 4 and 5: not good.
I’m someone who needs to take such medications. Medication can be stopped voluntarily. Removing a implant, not so much.

Many people would argue people with my condition should be implanted, so we can’t go off our medication.
Let's be a bit more specific here: The first scene where the player encounters the marines is one where a scientist runs up to one of them, and gets gunned down by the marine.

That kind of scripted event, and environmental story-telling, was extremely novel in a FPS game back then.

It's easy to nowadays handwave that away as merely "Marines shoot player, player realizes Marines are enemy" like that kind of heavy scripting is just something mundane. But back then it wasn't mundane, it was quite revolutionary.

Before that the norm in the genre was mostly maze shooters with very limited NPC interactions, like certain Doom enemies fighting each other or some wall or another blowing up in Quake, Half-Life took all of that and brought it to a whole new level.
Spoiler alert : they won't
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That would hurt!
Also agree but the author makes (among others) a couple of excellent points worth emphasizing: anyone (if they're motivated) can learn to play the piano well and acquiring technique is mostly a process of brain/nerve development because the you are improving your brain while learning piano.
If you think these laser vids a bad, don't look at the chemistry ones. A laser might blind you or give you a nasty burn, but it won't kill you. Chemistry will see you, and potentially some of your neighbors, dead on the floor very quickly.

And those skydiving wingsuits channels. That is very dangerous. And the skiing ones. And don't even talk about all the crazy drifting/stunting/driving channels. I once saw a kid on a snowboard break his arm attempting a trick on that he had seen one youtube ... or was that the olympics coverage? Either way, such stuff is far far too dangerous to be allowed on the internet.
I agree, WhatsApp is (or was historically) a great product I got value from.

Unfortunately I think Facebook's incentives will compromise the product's quality. It's why many move to signal and telegram.
Most people tune in to a weather channel to get the weather over the next few days, not to learn about climate.
It's kind of ironic even to ask that, i think.

The press is to make the world not to document it, that's what good historians are for.
news.google.com makes me fairly said but i have to go out of my way to see that. although sometimes google forces to to see trending stories as to which i cringe especially when i really don't want to care about what bad things are happening on a particular days. it sounds selfish but if i could block all news sites i would
We really want to reduce this to a littering problem?

After the NYTimes, about 159000 people were killed by drugs between 2015 and 2017 just in US. 591000 Americans had problems related with Heroine abuse in 2015, how many of this people are dead now, or will end dying under a bridge? Their predators will not stop just by asking nicely.

I don't agree with the punishment, but something must be done and either you send a very clear message of non tolerance with traffic or you allow the drug lords to take all, infiltrate in the government and corrupt everything in a few years.

The best solution would be to legalize, tax and regulate what could be regulated but in the meanwhile I don't have a lot of sympathy for this people. Better to save it for the real victims.
How about Billionaires set up 'Ministry of Truth'
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