skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I just find this kind of weird. Unless you had a plasma display in 2012 (or a CRT?) you were using an LCD which have a realistic luminance ratio of ~200:1. Even the good FFS/IPS panels weren't better and the rest of the luminance range was taken up in the backlight... and unless you're in a blacked out basement you have reflection/scatter off the screen, which is already additive.

Most screen gammas are/were roughly square law (sRGB=2.2) above a small linear region below 16 (8bit) so green 0xFF is more than 256x brighter than 0x0F. This has changed with HDR and modern OLED and miniLED backlights that in a perfect environment (not your office) can achieve >1000:1 luminance ratios.
I think Emacs is more like Lego. Vim doesn't quite feel so.
> Easy resets for when you fall off.

I like this feature.

When the pandemic first hit, I realized how important routines and (associated) metrics would be in keeping me afloat in a tumultuous time. To that end, I built my own little CLI-based habit/checklist tracker and started analyzing trends and habits on a weekly and monthly basis.

It worked great at first, I had a privileged insight into my week and could therefore fine-tune parameters to optimize for certain metrics. However, as the pandemic dragged on, the drudgery of waking up from my bed and working from my desk (which is a foot away [0]) eventually caught up to me and I started burning out. Looking back, a relentless pursuit to optimize for certain KPIs was part of the reason. Having successfully mechanized a large of my life with little room for error (for fear of rebuke from those pretty charts in Tableau), I started dreading those weekly-check ins with myself, eventually dropping the habit altogether. My tracker went poof soon after that. After all, there will be no rebuke from a chart if there is no chart to begin with :))

A couple months later, I cleared the backend database, and started anew. I had also come to realize over this "break" that I should not tie my self-worth to some graphs [1], and if I was getting the important stuff done, I had little to worry about. My "system" since then has been working fairly well, I use Trello to keep track of stuff, and if something super alarming pops up, I investigate. If not, I let things flow.

I believe it would help your user retention massively if you could remind users you are not a drill sergeant, but are there to help. And part of helping them is to sometimes remind them that (bad) metrics are not a judgement of their character and its okay to let things slide. You can always start anew.

Good luck to y'all, I wish you well! :)

[0] - I am an undergrad living in off-campus housing. Real-estate is unfortunately an expensive luxury at my time in life.

[1] - I recommend Jenny Odell's book "How to do Nothing" to anyone feeling like they are on a never-ending treadmill. There are parts of it that I didn't like, but all in all, it was a good read.
I would argue Microsoft is fighting fire with fire here. I don’t like it either… but I like Google and its tactics and policies even less. They’ve been on top for years with essentially nobody making any dents in their market dominance in either the browser or search engine sphere. I think getting the average mom and pop to switch away from Google, one of the farthest companies from being innocent, is ultimately a good thing.
Thank you, I completely forgot it was on Steam.
I disagree. I think a better "best practice" is to make the meaning behind the code as clear as possible. In this case, the code/data is less clear, and there is zero performance benefit.
I always loved the creative solutions ITA could find, like transferring to a ferry to shuttle to another airport. To the cost sensitive adventurers, ITA was invaluable.

The reboot is much snappier than the old ITA, and it now supports mobile properly! Looking forward to using. Glad Google engineers are applying their decades of experience honing Traveling Salesman type interview questions to the real life problem.
You will be downvoted for the lack of reference. Here is a link for you, don't forget to add it next time: https://www.yahoo.com/news/apple-knew-supplier-using-child-2....
I'm a beginner to intermediate level vim user (well, vim bindings user), and while this is true, you don't know what you don't know.
> But what is the lower bound where it starts to get that common, is the question?

This data is available at the NIH link I posted earlier, which breaks things down into 5 year spans.

The lower bound is 10%, since that's the prevalence by age 59.

> Does it affect people in their careers that often? probably not.

The data makes this assertion obviously wrong. A huge number of people get cataracts during their working years.

Fortunately, surgery to treat cataracts has a 95% success rate. Unfortunately, it's not 100% (and anecdotally I know multiple individuals in the lucky 5% whose vision has not improved after cataract surgery.)
Axe accessibility report on that website:

TOTAL ISSUES 220
AUTOMATIC ISSUES 220
NEEDS REVIEW 160
GUIDED ISSUES 0
Critical 1
Serious 55
Moderate 2
Minor 2
No problem! Also if you're into the music production end of it, check out adaptiverb. I use it extensively when I make ambient stuff and it is unparalleled for quality.
Injection moulds do have a finite life, but since set-specific parts are only used in a single set, those moulds won't wear out nearly as fast as the moulds for common bricks.
They have two different approaches to persistence, with different tradeoffs: https://redis.io/topics/persistence

Either would have the generic disadvantages of:

- Dataset can't exceed available memory

- The general disadvantages of NoSQL vs SQL around queries, transactions, etc, if you're expecting relational type functionality
Why are you more concerned about EV fires when gas fires have been a thing for the past century? We had a parked car go up in flames at work and nobody was calling for the company to ban ice cars.
If you have one group of coders writing new functionality, and another doing maintenance work on the application, you have diverging interests. The "new functionality" people have an incentive to rush stuff, because bugfixes won't be their responsibility anyway. The most cynical way to do this is writing a lot of new functionality, put it on CV, and leave for another company.
> I heard somewhere at some point that for organisational values to be useful, they need to provide guidance in making decisions. They need to be trade-offs. They need to reject something in favour of something else.

I think you really hit the nail on the head with this one, and it's why bullshit corporate value statements proliferate with ease: they can give the appearance of action without actually requiring any hard decisions.

If a company decides to spend times on these "values" exercises, I think it's important to phrase it in what the company won't do. I.e., if a potential client is offering a million dollar contract, but requires constraints X, Y and Z, which constraints would require the company say "No, we won't do this deal, even if it means we'd lose a million bucks in revenue".

Also, the other reason I get very jaded about "corporate values", is that it's easy to say that you have all these nice, progressive values, but when the shit hits the fan and the company is under duress, I've found those values usually go out the window, replaced by the only true value, which is "make money".
You need not only chemical fire retardants but a fume extraction system. Lithium battery fires are extremely toxic.
no, I didn't. I stated that maybe they (employees in general) knowingly go along with it for financial reasons.
> Google let it rapidly deteriorate after they purchased it.

Is that true? They have a team of people working on SBCL and at ELS a few years after the purchase by Google they were talking about SBCL work to support the app.
> So maybe China is sanctioning the EU as such accordingly, and therefore correctly.

In which case, the EU is bound by the terms of the common market to retaliate.
> Go back, pre-internet, and Bell Telephone surely had a sophisticated and expensive tech-support, customer-support department. They managed.

Those services were a lot more expensive to their users as well. If everyone paid $xx/mo to YouTube I’m sure the customer support would be a lot better. But then most people wouldn’t be users in the first place.
It could work with Inkscape. I'm trying to get some funding to hire a couple of devs, and PC support and Inkscape support are very high on the list of priorities.

I have had a lot of difficulty finding out how widely Inkscape is actually used. I look in the user forums etc., but apart from hobbyists, I don't hear about people using it for business.

If you have any info, links etc., I'd greatly appreciate it.
Upol Ehsan on Human-Centered Explainable AI and Social Transparency
Including the age restriction? I don't see how that's possible. I know some typical bypass methods work for some of the other checks but they've never worked for the age requirements.

I'll give it a try though, thanks. There are some High Boi videos I still haven't seen :|
Huh, it looks like suing a state-sponsored malware manufacturer doesn't prevent them from continuing to hijack your devices. Live and learn, I suppose.
The thieves use Apple's AirTags to track vehicles they want to steal to the victim's home. They then break in to the car and use the diagnostics port to program the car to recognize the thieves' key.

I thought Apple had features to prevent AirTags from being used like this?
I didn't use 3DS MAX for 15 years so I can't tell you how it is now.

Maya is the videogame industry standard for modeling, just like ZBrush is the industry standard for sculpting. It is almost 100% non destructive-editing and integrate with studios asset pipelines perfectly in various ways. It's paid and closed source.

Blender is a jack of all trades, master of none. Aside from a game engine (removed since 2.8) it has basically all that you need to do modelling, sculpting, physics,3D painting, 2D and 3D animation, compositing and even some quirky video editor with audio. And it's free and open source and it has the largest community, by far, since version 2.8.
PostgreSQL has the great shiny features, but still doesn't support zero downtime upgrades?
I would prefer a modular laptop where I can swap between OLED and liquid paper screens. Just snap another screen before going to work in a park.
The people have dramatically altered their behavior on a global scale (on average anyways) because of COVID’s lethality. There is absolutely selective pressure in that dimension.

If the lethality of Covid were to drop to seasonal flu levels there wouldn’t be anywhere near the amount of research into medical interventions nor would we feasibly maintain our current levels of public health interventions.
[EDIT:] Nevermind, I'm an idiot!
Still doesn't fix the problem of rather bright light being emitted from the screen into your eyes. Think also about all the power wasted on backlighting where ambient light could be just fine.

Also, I don't know if you have noticed, but you can't use f.lux and friends and grayscale simultaneously, because grayscale is applied after gamma change, making it pointless.
Well Masks Protect
try to explain it to proud owners of "standard Australian mini labradoodle" or something like this... they claim that it's a new pure breed
Well this post certainly aged well.

Context for future readers: the stock price for Docusign fell 40% in one day the week after OP asked this question.
You can pay someone, who has no objections to implemented safety measures, to provide you with transportation services.
Bingo. Air-gapped machines, by definition, have no connection to each other. Not so much as an audio cable between them. Everything that goes back and forth is manually transferred, either by eyes-on-one-screen-hands-on-the-other-keyboard, or by sneakernet typically of media which may be inspected at yet a third station en route.

This is a proxy or a bastion host, no more, no less. Calling it an airgap, even in "scare quotes", is clownishly terrible and serves no purpose beyond polluting the language.
Pedantically, it is "source available": https://gitlab.com/stavros/deep-dreams/-/blob/master/LICENSE

But I still appreciate you posting it, because it's fascinating to see how such a thing was done!
If you read the page called WTF, I talk a lot about accessibility. I totally appreciate the importance of it.

But, the fact that I don't a perfect solution right off the bat is not a reason to stop exploring!

Also: ALL CAPS.
I ended up setting GitLab pages to just curl the XML feed every time I publish, so now it's at https://deepdreams.stavros.io/feed.xml. Thanks for the help!
There's a huge part of me that wants to buy something like a Triumph Stag, Triumph Spitfire, or MG MGB for this reason. Yes they're practically hygroscopic, they're Biblically unreliable in every possible way (particularly the few rudimentary electronic components they have), they have a safety profile more akin to motorbikes than modern cars, they universally need either the valve seats replacing or constant fuel additives because they were built for leaded petrol, and on top of that pretty much anyone with a screwdriver can steal them but come on - look at it! [1]. There's literally nothing between you and the road either, almost everything is mechanical and unassisted.

In a world where most ordinary cars are bland appliances like washing machines or dishwashers it'd be a breath of fresh air.

[1] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pwm9E2bP1K8/maxresdefault.jpg
What mouse? The use case I have for an EPD is entirely terminal-based.
I have to be honest, the 'craigslist of web forums' is the entire appeal for me. It's simple, fast, low clutter and in my opinion benefits from great moderation and a general involvement from the community to avoid treating it like a gutter. I could be suffering from limited imagination, but I'm not really seeing major opportunities for improvement. Change? Yes, for sure, lots of ways to change the site but I don't know how they would result in an outcome of improved community or experience.
Antitrust fears?

Parent is referring to this, yesterday:

Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome (neowin.net)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29415031
A real scenario that actually happened to someone I was in jail with (and they were jailed for this). They were (legally drunk) passenger in a car on a remote section of highway late at night. (Sober, diabetic) Driver's blood sugar too low and driver fell unconscious. Passenger grabbed wheel, pulled car to shoulder. Dialed 911. Ambulance to take too long. Moves driver over and gets behind wheel. Gets most of way to hospital. Pulled over by cops. Cops arrest him and drive unconscious person to hospital.

I introduced him to the defense of "necessity" while in jail:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_(criminal_law)

My point is.. the driver might well have died if the car had totally refused to function because he was over the limit.
The Business of Knowing: Private Market Data and Contemporary Intelligence
Good vid.

Makes me think of @JohnBlair of Netflix... he made a blinky mesh-self-syncronizing-network of blinky LED objects for Burning Man....

He also built a really cool install of LED lights affected by touching contact points on a cross at Burning Man which made spheres light up in differing patterns...

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Where am I advocating for anything? Please don't put words in my mouth. What I am complaining about is people immediately jumping to completely dismiss the discussed laws and even the need for them just because the posters assume they don't cover edge cases. This is done without understanding or even reading the laws themselves, nor the legal process that will be used to enforce them, nor how the individual legal systems of each countries work in regards to those edge cases. The ironic part is that in the last two or three cases where I saw it happen, the laws themselves already had the edge cases covered!

And honestly, uninformed people talking about a law without doing an iota of research won't make a single difference in the world. Hacker News armchair amateur lawyers are not fighting for anyone, not even for themselves.
Dither works for images too, e.g. for cheap displays that only have 5 bits of color depth. It's hardly a problem for audio anymore which is now almost universally 24 bits (and arguably already wasn't an issue at 16..).
What defines a Github star is just a bookmark(therortically) ? Can you support this point with sufficient evidence? I have defined what factors will make it eligible for a star in Github. See my older comment.
Do they know how many years from 1918 it took before it got to be the normal (still quite lethal for compromised immune systems) flu?
This looks verrryy similar to https://www.vim.so
Rittenhouse:

"Facebook announced Wednesday that it will no longer block search results for “Kyle Rittenhouse” and will no longer remove posts praising his actions.

Following an incident in August 2020 in which Rittenhouse shot three individuals in self-defense, killing two of them, Facebook initially blocked search results for Rittenhouse’s name and removed posts supporting him, explaining that the incident was a “mass murder” and that Rittenhouse was placed on Facebook’s “dangerous individuals and organizations” list."[0]

Biden laptop:

"Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey acknowledged during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday that the social media giant was wrong to block New York Post tweets about Hunter Biden in the run-up to the Nov. 3 election."[1]

Lab leak:

"Facebook will no longer remove posts referencing the origination theory that COVID escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, a company spokesperson told Politico Wednesday.

This step marks a policy reversal from February, when Facebook announced it would root out what it called false and misleading health claims including those suggesting that “COVID-19 is man-made or manufactured.” The tech company maintained a list of debunked assertions during the pandemic in consultation with global health advisers."[2]

[0]https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/facebook-will-no-longe...

[1]https://www.westernjournal.com/twitter-ceo-admits-censoring-...

[2]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/facebook-lifts-ban-o...
> alleging that its pricing policy functions as an “anticompetitive restraint” that has “artificially raised the price of goods to consumers across online marketplaces”

They are arguing that Amazon policy of having the lowest price for listings, artificially inflates the prices?

So in order to not inflate prices, Amazon needs to raise prices???
Oh, I have a long history of telling the border guards in the USA (where they have to let me in by law) "none of your business" when re-entering.

I have also semi-successfully appealed their FOIA denials covering the incident.

It has resulted in the sexual assault of some of my traveling companions by US CBP (full and thorough body search, simply as punishment for remaining silent). CBP is lousy with criminal pigs.

You can't refuse to answer questions when entering most countries you aren't a citizen of, if you wish to be permitted entry.
Thats a lot of work for GitHub: 1) Find a backup from before this change was made. 2) Restore backup on new db instance separate from prod. 3) Export star gazers list for this one repo to CSV or something. 4) Destroy instance restored from backup. 5) Execute admin script with CSV against production database to insert lost stargazers.

This gets even more complicated if GitHub has more than one central database, which I’d assume they have something like sharded mysql.

Considering that they made the change acknowledging that it would destroy their stargazer list in the confirmation dialog, it’s unfair for them to expect any help from Github’s support recovering that list.
>Allows me to actually work outside!!!

This can also be achieved with a transflective panel.

Edit: Here's one retrofitted to a thinkpad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuegrU_kIq8
Fixed, thanks for mentioning that. I was experimenting with Youtube embeds and since the autoplaying didn't work on my browser, I forgot to take it out.
A colleague who's a CSS wizard was working on a site where a defined colour in SCSS was "black" and it was #333333. He added a darker black at #222222, and then didn't call it "dark_black" and I've never forgiven him.
“Middle class giving”

If you all couldn’t tell by now, the economist is a elitist British rag run by 20 something’s that don’t have the balls to put their actual names to articles.
After almost 3 years of work for huge marketplace I resigned because I didn't feel company goals. Took 2 months of vacation and after that, spent about month looking for job.

It was hard work to be honest. At first I scheduled interviews to "warm up" and get used to questions. It was for first 2 weeks. Then I felt that I was ready for real interviews. Have to say that I have list of companies where I want to work. Try to keep it up to date. It helped a lot, I knew where I should apply. Also Hacker News has great topic "Who is hiring". I had interviews for whole day, starting early for Europe and finishing late after meetings with North America. I admin, it was a challenge for me.

Currently I work for US based company that do good things for environment and have impact for many people lives. It feels good.
A Gallery: Periodic Solutions of the Double Pendulum
IIRC, ITA gave you the flight details in the special syntax (code) that travel agents use, and you could just give that code to a travel agent and they'd be able to buy that exact flight for you.
Osteguna, ostirala, larunbata, igandea. Not sure of the etymologies of those, but Trask's dictionary probably has them.
I purchased the Spring Lantern Festival earlier this year, and the decorations on the corners of the pagoda are blue bananas :-)

And the lightposts used paint rollers as part of their design.
Very sad. The attack is described as "random", but the profile of the murderer is predictable. The pendulum has swung too far towards lenience for criminals.

"Vincent Pinkney, a 25-year-old gang member with a lengthy rap sheet, has been arrested over Giri’s fatal stabbing and another attack that left a 27-year-old tourist injured, authorities said.

The Manhattan man has 11 prior arrests dating back to 2012 for robberies and assaults, as well as other alleged crimes, police sources said. He is on post-release supervision until 2022."
I'd still call that multi-cloud ;)

I've done something similar in the real world. We used cloudflare for our dns / application firewall, but we kept a route53 zone mirrored after cloudflare had a spat of issues. It would have let us switch our dns provider as quickly as dns would allow if we had to drop cloudflare.
> Dataset can't exceed available memory

From my understanding, they do support sharding
Preventing “Alien” Invasions
Show HN: One Time Note-Share an encrypted note that deletes itself after access
My last weekend's project: A service that allows you to drop an encrypted note. You will receive a link to the note that is valid exactly once: While accessing the note it gets removed from the machine immediately. The note itself gets encrypted on client side so that no note is transmitted unencrypted and the password has not to leave the browser window. To decrypt the note you need the link and the password (an empty string is a valid password). I tried to keep everything as minimalistic as possible. No fancy frontend framework, no fancy backend database, only express on node.js for the API and webserver for the web UI. The project is shared on github: https://github.com/dextreem/one-time-note
Feel free to have a look and deploy wherever you want if you think you can make use of it. Comments and critics are welcome :)
They could partner with framework to offer the one in their marketplace.