skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unity moves robotics design and training to the metaverse
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/us/wildfires-carbon-offse...
good.

my quick and superficial observation is that the landing page is very cluttered. the search is buried.

however, i do like the idea of a search engine for devs. as a dev, i should be able to create a custom search engine for, say, knitting for my wife and her friends, obviously skinnable. i would spend time investigating such an engine.
If you connect windows 2000 to the internet, you're probably owned within a few minutes regardless. Similarly for xp pre-sp2.
You would be surprised then :)

Looking forward to adding multiplayer soon! I actually added websocket support last week and I'm currently running a test in the background to see how many I can handle concurrently.

Other than that, I have many ideas to make the paid plan more valuable too!
When a company (like Facebook) or a nation state (like Russia) is deeply dysfunctional and it has for a very long time been ruled by only one person, it is in fact fairly reasonable to conclude that the root problem is, at present, that one specific person.
At least in the Netherlands, you don't pay energy taxes on electricity generated "behind the meter", ie from solar panels on your own house. Electricity that comes from the grid, no matter how it is generated, comes with grid fees and energy tax. Seeing how the price for bulk electricity is currently ~0.09 EUR/KWh and the taxes+ grid charges come to ~0.15 EUR/KWh for a total price of 0.24 EUR/KWh, electricity from solar panels on your own house instantly becomes about 3x cheaper than if you put the same panels elsewhere in a field. Thus, many people opt to put the panels on their home since the installation cost is not that high and the financial benefits are substantial.
Hah, Death Proof is a classic, there’s the scene in Texas Chilli Parlor where Stuntman Mike talks about how CGI is replacing what he did… was that the scene you’re referencing? Or is it that the movie itself is made with no cgi? Those last scenes couldn’t have been easy.
Solo queue is why Western teams failed at Worlds
Absolutely.

One of us, one of us, gabba gabba hey!
I think there are different kinds of better, so for some people the answer is definitely yes.

I think CGI is coming up on "effectively perfect", especially with the way it has gone from a post-production thing to becoming part of the world around the actors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StageCraft

So once people get used to perfection, I expect there will be a revival of "practical effect" productions, where people go for intentionally imperfect but more "human" approaches to making scenes. It'll be niche, of course, like low-fi games or fancy barista pourovers. But that's what feels like "better" to some people.

I'd certainly love that in the right context. In the same way Stranger Things was a success as an 1980s revival, I could imagine modern takes on sci-fi films of the 50s-70s that are intentionally done without CGI.
IMHO it's security updates and therefore unavoidable.

Why do I say that? IMHO it boils down to attack surface and counter measures. Any strategy an opponent is using to get your information is going to require energy and or time to fight off. Voilà.
You should take a look at qovery.com - quite simple to deploy a containerized app on AWS
Global CO2 taxes would be augmented with CO2 tariffs, imposed on countries that didn't impose the taxes or tariffs.
> Avoid the debugger.

People who don't use the debugger, do you generally have more/better logging? What other advantages would there be to not using a debugger. Perhaps simpler code, so that you don't need to use a debugger to debug?
Agreed. I work with an internal system unfortunately called the Digital Asset Manager. So all day long we talk about adding things to the DAM database and editing the DAM record and so on. It never gets old - to my juvenile sensibilities.

However, the term does occasionally slip into external meetings and interactions with people. It's not a good reflection of the company for sure.
Ask HN: Getting started with my technical blog. What to write? How to start?
I am thinking of starting my blog solely for advancing my career and putting myself out there on the internet. I am a frontend dev and will mostly write posts on JavaScript.

I am not a native English speaker nor have I ever done any serious writing before. Looking for some suggestions on how to get started. What sort of process do I have for making post, should I start posting about basic JavaScript stuff or go with explaining deeper concepts of JS.
> Solar panels are still way over hyped in a stupid marginalist way

Talk more about this, I’d be very interested to understand your thoughts
Hm I don't know whether that post was worthy of a downvote. Its author raised a couple of valid points about privacy and agency, especially when viewing the issue from the perspective of pressure exerted.
Interesting they went with mud. I'd be curious what it would look like if you shot a block of gallium. I couldn't find that, but did find a video of someone shooting a block of lead(Pb): https://youtu.be/lCMUrp58cPg?t=325
> No one has ever successfully retrieved a high-pressure calcium silicate from the lower mantle before. This is because the high-pressure CaSiO3-perovskite is “unquenchable,” meaning that it cannot retain its structure after being removed from its high-pressure environment.

> “When we broke open the diamond, the davemaoite stayed intact for about a second, then we saw it expand and bulge under the microscope and basically turn into glass,” says Tschauner.

Science paper (paywalled): https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4742
I get that, but what are the implications? Consider that the vast majority of CO2 emissions today are coming from the countries that are still developing to that standard we enjoy. We have no right to ask them to cut down. Therefore, we have no choice but to invest into sequestration, because that's the only way to pay down that "debt".
How about this?

Treat software engineers like they actually know something.

If an engineer thinks something is a bad idea, actually listen to them instead of pretending to listen. It amazes me how many companies see software engineers as extremely low tier, but I think a lot of that stems from most engineers lacking direct involvement with decision makers and other personnel.

This is why I am pessimistic about the concept of having project managers act as an interface between engineering and the rest of the company. On one hand, it relieves engineers of a certain amount of responsibility but the tradeoff is that now one or two individuals have an incentive to do things to please both parties at once. The result is that no one really knows what that engineer guy Al actually does around here.

Perhaps a lot of problems around engineering morale would go away if we eliminated the middle men and only engineers themselves to interface with the rest of the company and advocate what they think makes sense rather than what makes sense to a project manager who will only do what results in the least amount of hassle for them. It would be up to the engineers themselves to make sure they aren't culturally segregated and made low tier.

If you're an engineer and your company gives the sales people their own desks while you have to share a desk, consider how much that company actually values you.
Wait until you hear about how Cameron filmed the scene with a helicopter going under a highway overpass.

https://filmschoolrejects.com/terminator-2-helicopter-stunt/
The Rubik's cube is even simpler than the sudoku, if you're willing to memorize a bunch of steps. It becomes a matter of looking at the state of the cube, and applying the same set movements.
Picked up this book just now... Seems full of red flags. In the first few pages:

- Accepts Descartes' "I think, therefore I am" without skepticism

- Aims for a scientific theory to be "respectable"

- Concludes that because sensory input to a brain seems infeasible using 1990 simulation tech (Not considering advances, using sensors etc), simulating reality to a brain isn't possible; Makes a comparison to a ladder-to-the-moon.
Familiarity with S3, Route53, and CloudFront was a draw for me personally.

AWS is all about abstractions. Some of them are worth learning but increasingly there's a wall of options in AWS and, for me, it's not worth spending time staying on top of all of them. The few services needed for this setup are some of the most popular and will be there in the future.
From my experience as a student in a college town. A awful lot.
This is just the bill that some Republicans could get on board with. The Build Back Better bill that actually helps people is supposedly going to be voted on in the house tomorrow, and then it has to get through the Senate.
The Psychology Behind Meeting Overload
> You can work through the concepts and delude yourself into thinking you understand something when really you're just hand waving it

I keep seeing this and I don't quite understand how this one works.

If I were studying math on my own (which I've done and still do), I'd do the following:

1. Pick a book. Say, Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis[0]. Read a section, then attempt problems. Pick a problem. Say, "prove {1/n: n is natural} U{0} is compact directly from the definition(not using Heine-Borel)". It's guaranteed your "proof" is not a proof.

2. Compare your solution to existing solution manuals or ask a question on MSE[1]. Since the given book by Rudin is super-massively famous, each question has probably been asked/answered about a bagillion times each on MSE, so just searching MSE alone would likely to spit out many answers to your questions. People on MSE will tell you exactly why your "solution" is wrong and where you tripped up. Sometimes even the clarifying answers are hard to understand. But then you can ask new questions, think more, correct your misconceptions until it all finally clicks. Do that with all the rest of the problems[2].

I don't see how the process above is delusional.

[0] This book is not a realistic fit for a novice, though. Instead, one would start with books like [3], [4], [5], [6] to learn how to prove things and think like a mathematician would.

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/

[2] In reality, the more math you see and do, the more mathematically mature and less dependent on others(to check your work) you become. In fact, if you can solve any problem in "B@by Rudin" and some famous abstract algebra textbook (say, Dummit & Foote's "Abstract Algebra") cold, you're way ahead of most any undergrad math major in the world! Because standards on undergrad math majors are not that high, nor that brutal the world over no matter what they say. If, additionally, you can solve any given problem in a book like, say, Hatcher's "Algebraic Topology" or any other famous grad level textbooks on, say, differential geometry or, uhh, functional analysis, you're officially in the big leagues. Again, if you're worried about being delusional about your proofs, you can always present them on MSE.

[3] "Book of Proof" by Richard Hammach. It's online free.

https://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/

[4] "Discrete Math" by Susanna Epp

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Discrete_Mathematics_wi...

[5] "How to Think About Analysis" by Lara Alcock

https://www.google.com/books/edition/How_to_Think_about_Anal...

[6] "Linear Algebra" by Kuldeep Singh

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Linear_Algebra/BJNoAgAA...
That bring me a memory of building something very similar to this at work. So back in time I worked on an online game server framework and we needed some sort of technical demo, and it occurred to me that a multiplayer jigsaw puzzle would work. I quickly prototyped an JavaScript client and that eventually became a fully-blown online social game, but the project was shelved because we had other things to work on. A glimpse of that client can be seen in my website [1]. (The prototype was built in my spare time so I could release this in public. It was a mistake to build this on SVG, by the way.)

[1] https://s.mearie.org/jigsaw/
I wouldn't consider this “extreme writing style”, author define what this so-called “ad-economy” then they get into, every one tries to show that they aren't part of it, but they are.

Then there is the main point of the article, which is Vizio doesn't care about being clean and undercutting competition.

A good chuck of Vizio's customer knows what they are buying, unlike companies like Samsung; charging premium price, “caring” about their customers but still involving in the same practices as Vizio.

And the author gets the point across, so this is a decent article.
Learn Piano via Automated Music Transcription
Does Amazon take a 30% cut of every transaction made on that laptop in perpetuity?
I'm not arguing for a giant solar array in the Sahara, just using marginal farmland that surrounds many cities to put solar panels instead of scattered about on roofs in the city. And with most solar installations it just dumps electricity back into the grid so I'd think losses would be similar.
I'd guess that the "don't expect any security" comment above meant exactly that. Not that you should forgo security, but that you should expect this to provide no security at all.

Some other comments mention browsing with IE5. You should expect that to provide no security either.
ime, this isn't totally accurate in the world of usb-c HDMI dongles. I've had the same 2 monitors plugged into the same 2 ports since the machine went to sleep, and it will occasionally switch their positions upon waking.
Did anyone frequently run into ntoskrnl errors that prevented Windows 2000 from booting? I ran into that error every six months but to be fair a number of the incidents happened after a power failure with no UPS.
I still remember seeing Tron as a 11 year old with my Dad. His reaction as we left the theater: they spent millions of dollars on special effects and a couple thousand on plot.
If you're into this kind of thing, the Corridor Crew youtube channel will likely be right up your alley: https://m.youtube.com/c/corridorcrew/videos They have a long running series of "VFX Artists React" that are fun and lightly educational.
Yeah, we’ve just entered the world where you will get shown ads if you don’t pay more. There will always be some top price point that has an ad-free experience available because the Koch brothers won’t stand for ads.

Are the ads only on the versions that cost $99, or are they on the $500 and $1000 models? Did the hardware significantly change for the price point, or did the ad-free price point rise?
Yeah, in my case I'm thinking of it for weight loss, so that could be a positive. Controlling eating hours for me is much easier than other things I've tried. I'll have to try 23:1 and see how it goes.

Thanks for the details!
I am an expert. I have a PhD in experimental atomic physics. My work thesis work was on laser cooled atoms and ions. I have multiple publications in this topic area^. I started and run a company that is making the first commercial instruments that rely on laser-cooled atoms.^^

There is nothing wrong with making few conversational comments without being aware of the details in a particular paper. This is how scientists talk to each other BTW. If I was at a conference with the authors I'd say something similar to the OP above, then they'd agree or disagree.

^https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mBN1xwcAAAAJ&hl=en

^^https://www.zerok.com
“lowbrow polynomial abuser”, gonna have to remember that one!

what sort of work do you do?
Think I've read somewhere that those can be reloaded with pure Linux to replace Chrome OS. Not saying you should, only nothing that one probably could.
What are these 32-bit apps people seem to keep running?

If they are games, Boot Camp is an option on Intel macs, and CrossOver [1] is an option on Apple Silicon.

https://applesilicongames.com/games
Show HN: Atomic Life – to-do with auto reminders, data tracker and network
I created an app based on widely accepted recommendations on getting disciplined. The app is free. It has a todo list that automatically creates reminders in your calendar using natural language processing, trackers for monitoring progress of anything you can think of, and an accountability network to share your daily progress in or to find others.

here's an intro video: https://youtu.be/p8xpBj1HZSc

app info: https://www.atomiclife.app/

iOS App store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/atomic-life/id1594368125

Android App Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atomiclifenoexpo

You can provide feedback at feedback@atomiclife.app or https://www.reddit.com/r/atomiclife/
Hello! I'm the author. This is similar in vein to useful-sed, a surprisingly successful github repo (which can be found here https://github.com/adrianscheff/useful-sed).

If you have any questions, suggestions or simply feedback - let me know.

Thank you!
Check your battery
> how long

I think we can assume Apple is getting enough out of it to run this scheme permanently.

Unlike Tinder, they can get extra revenue from the user staying in the ecosystem (active credit card registered for IAP), getting used to Apple’s service, and keep buying Apple devices. Their LTV of the user is not just the 30% cut.
It's like having a big family dinner with your crazy uncle Bob who spends the entire meal working themselves up into an angry froth spouting a vast assortment of conspiracy theories.

It's possible that there is some nugget of value in that mess but your eyes have long since rolled so hard that you're worried you've sprained an optic nerve.
Is this different from a tv store buying ads for specific tvs that link to that store?
Which is why I see this will be a non-issue if on Dec 9th the anti-steering goes away. Then Apple places ad->user downloads->app says “hey it’s cheaper on tinder’s website”->user decides for themselves
Even when they did, it was often more a case of 120% time, ie you were expected to do your normal work (which would easily fill a "normal" 40 hour workweek) and then the "20%" part would be in addition to that.
Was it the IDE reg tweak to fix it? (Search mergeide.reg or something). That was a common issue when hardware swapped.
I would have to disagree that I am oversimplifying it. We are talking about a casino vs a player. Most players betting $5 at a time are not losing because of bankroll considerations. They are losing because the game they are playing is negative ev for each individual bet.

A casino would much rather play against a player with $1,000,000,000 than a player with $5. Sure the player with $5 is going to go broke nearly 100%. And the player with more money will never go broke betting $5 at a time, they will die from old age way before that happens.

The fact that a player with only $5 has almost a 100% chance of ruin is absolutely not why a casino is making money. A casino is always going to want a player with a lower risk of ruin than a higher one. When a player goes broke they can no longer make money from them.

Do people really think a casino would prefer someone going broke 100% of the time with $5 then a player going broke 0% of the time with $1,000,000,000? That they are making money because of players losing their bankrolls and unable to bet?
I don't think you're talking about the same thing as the GP. If you bet $5 and lose, you can't double your bet, you have no money (which is exactly the GP's point).

It's a random walk, and it's much more likely to take you to -$5 way before it takes you to +$1000.
Alternatively you can just encode them interlaced as that's what the camera recorded the video as - AVC supports this, don't think HEVC does. My DV archives are encoded as interlaced AVC and I let the player's hardware or software deinterlacing take care of it.
More like a general complication with SEH. One of several reasons why I don't allow it in any code I touch.

Anything that obscures the flow of control is a violation of literate programming principles, and exceptions are pretty high on that particular shit list.
This is covered in the article. It's high value apps like Tinder and HBO Max.
Perhaps the vaccinated won't be required to wear a second mask?
Yes. I meant private bank as in "not a government owned bank".
Do you mind sharing a bit more about your Synology Sync setup, especially your cloud backups if you do that.
So 130,000 households in the United States, mostly in Pennsylvania, heated their houses with coal in 2019.

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/03/699325560/for-the-few-who-hea...

And for those 130,000 households you would prefer to screw over the remaining 127.9 million so they can keep doing so. If you bothered to read the article some of those houses are 2400 square feet so I don't think the guy's poor at least in that case.

Or for $6.5B we could implement cash for coal and subsidized adding solar to their house and an electric heat pump or heater. And for those are solar isn't feasible we could just subsidize the electricity and give them the heating for a lot less. Compare and contrast with the $1.7T budget for the f-35 stealth fighter and this is chump change. And before you whine about jobs and other canned talking points to keep doing exactly what we're doing, we can early retire the entire 42,000 coal industry workforce for $12B. Now for the 2.4 million houses heating their homes with wood, those are bigger numbers but at least it's not coal.

As for the vaccine mandates any violence perpetrated on those who won't get vaccinated is vastly exceeded by the violence they are inflicting on spreading this pandemic and murdering Americans and destroying our economy and geopolitical competitiveness. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Get used to it. Or move to Pennsylvania and build a house heated by coal in a town that hates vaccines. There's a whole bunch of them there I used to live there.

And yes remove all the energy subsidies and stop getting in the way of nuclear power as well. We're long overdue to disrupt the energy industry and it's just not that expensive to do it.
Disregarding taxes and financial incentives that may bias things, putting it in a field means you don't need to work on a roof to maintain it, you aren't limited by roof area, and you don't need to worry about the roof weight limit or damage during installation.

I think there is no question a field is preferable if there are fields to work with. Of course, in a city that isn't much of an option and there are significant advantages to point of use generation (i.e. no need to upgrade power lines from rural solar fields to a city center).

I used to live in Boulder, and while I'm not sure exactly which field they're talking about it was not a long bike ride into farmland. I can imagine it working much better there than a bigger city.
Possibly just for me, but joining pieces doesn't exactly feel right. Specifically the distance required for snap feels random. Also minor annoyance: it seems that you can't join more than two pieces at once.
How do you know that? I’ve only seen vague stuff from Roblox about the outage. Did you read between the lines in one of those posts and conclude it had to do with Hashistack interoperability? Would love to know what you read that implied that.
I'm in the demo and trying to click and drag pieces and all it does is pan the screen. I'm using Chrome on Windows 10 if it helps. Also, I noticed that maybe 10% of pieces actually do let you move them around, but the other 90% only pan the screen.
This is fascinating in that if the davemaoite wasn’t encased in a diamond, we’d never see it. It came back to the surface in this perfect little package to be discovered.

I wonder how often this happens. Is it normal for minerals to occur inside of other minerals like this? Would davemaoite occur outside of diamonds? Or is it common for diamonds to be imperfect and contain other minerals, but I’m so used to them being advertised and worn in their perfect pure form?