skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you going to develop this project solo?

Actually, publishing a game is already a challenge, and adding mod support is a very nice stretch goal. But unless your game is wildly successful, it's very unlikely you'd actually have an active modding community.

If I was in your shoes I would use whatever game engine you're comfortable with, if Godot works for you that's awesome. Once you sell a million copies, you can hire someone to figure out how to add a modding component. Godot is also completely open source so you can change the engine to allow modding if your game takes off
Immutability is probably the most powerful concept that applies to how modern technology can be used. Versioned, immutable, and cryptographically-signed artifacts do a bunch of things for you.

From an operational standpoint, it allows you to roll out a change in exactly the way you tested, confident that it will work the way it's intended. It also allows you to roll back or forward to any change with the same confidence. It also means you can restore a database immediately to the last known good state. Changes essentially cannot fail; no monkey-patching a schema or dataset, no "migrations" that have to be meticulously prepared and tested to make sure they won't accidentally break in production.

From a security and auditing standpoint, it ensures that a change is exactly what it's supposed to be. No random changes by who-knows-who at who-knows-when. You see a reliable history of all changes.

From a development standpoint, it allows you to see the full history of changes and verify the source or integrity of data, which is important in some fields like research.
what he said is true, and therefore what you said is less than true.

the GPL requires source corresponding to distributed binaries be released. They distributed GPL binaries and they have not been required to release the source.

They are allowed to make future binaries which are not GPLed, but the users of the GPLed binaries have not had their right to see the source satisfied.
Stuff like this impacts people at almost every job I've seen (and I've been contracted out a lot of different places and watched what employees do).

It turns out that it is typical for these behaviors to occur in workplaces, hence laws to prevent it.
Thoughts on Lex Fridman's Interview with Pfizer CEO
Is Bach well-regarded in the AI community? I found this podcast a very interesting listen and checked out many of his others. He is a compelling speaker, but I am in not any way qualified to verify his claims. He also seems somewhat categorical in his statements about things that perhaps don't warrant such confidence: e.g. his view of the nature of mind, consciousness, the self, dreams, etc.
I don't have any inside information but in my experience lurking in the amateur radio community the answer is 'it depends' and there is a lot of downlink that is not encrypted. This will get you into the graph:

https://twitter.com/usa_satcom

https://twitter.com/uhf_satcom

https://twitter.com/r2x0t
> But lately organised religion has been bothering me a lot. It is just so obviously a form of controlling people: you have to believe this and that and also hand over some cash and vote for such and such.

You can find organized religions that don’t feature any of those that bother you (quite a lot are really mostly concerned with only the first, and there are some where even that is not all that much of a concern; I personally would suggest avoiding the ones that drop the first but retain either of the other two.)
It looks like blackbird hasn't been updated since nov 2020, while O&O shut up was updated just last month. One thing I wish O&O had was a feature / taskbar version that watches if any setting has been changed once an hour / restart, alerts you, and asks you if you want to restore that setting, along with auto update.
Obligatory: If you use org mode, you can use the Capture templates to conveniently capture data.
Science has its methods, but I think that saying "science is a method" is too reductive.

Much like visual artists need to master the brush or the pencil, but this technical mastery isn't enough to produce lasting Art, the method itself does not produce good Science.

Maybe the long list given by Wilson is too long (there are definitely extroverted scientists out there), but at the very least, a good scientist needs to be curious.
> The overall level of intellect displayed in Hacker News COVID threads is of the holy shit, there goes my faith in humanity level of quality.

Weird, this is one of the only forums online where I can read relatively civil, data-based discussions between people with opposing viewpoints that don’t devolve into calling each other anti-vaxxers or sheep.

Sure there is the typical HN Dunning-Krueger noise from computer scientists discussing biology, but overall I enjoy reading the exchanges in these threads.

There’s really not an equivalent forum on Reddit or Twitter with this high quality discussion around narrative-busting data.
We might be talking about different things: one off export is possible like you mentioned but no way to sync saved links to the reading list continuously as there’re no API’s for that from Apple
I don't understand this comment. How is it exactly religious?
The Real Story of “The Central Park Karen”

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/honestly-with-bari-wei...

Remember the story about the off leash dog walker and the bird watcher in central park that went viral right around the time when the murder of George Floyd took place? In all of the ensuing frenzy I had personally believed the horrible portrait the media painted of this woman, but this podcast showed just how wrong that portrayal was.
Nothing. I am ignostic. An interesting benefit of this position is that when the religious folks in my extended family ask about my religion and I tell them I'm ignostic, they 100% of the time misinterpret that as 'agnostic'. For some reason they can totally accept this position, maybe they just figure I'll eventually come around.

I do not disabuse them of this interpretation, because I avoid conflict. And religion, much like politics, seems to result in conflict most of the time.
Metrics driven software development
gets more meaningless, the bigger is the customer base, and frequent are releases.

A good way to make a big organisation chase meaningless things without your bosses realising, and even get a promotion for it.
> everything that has been hidden away

It's not hidden, it's stripped according to actual product specs.

Industrial cameras (Basler/IDS) will give you access to most of the sensor capabilities if you want to prototype something.
This point is being made each year again and again, that it is getting more and more political. I also had that impression myself.

However, I was surprised to see some actual statistics that it was already political right from the beginning (sorry, no ref, I barely remember).

And there are always also a lot of technical talks. It is not really phased out. Maybe just some of the political talks get more attention. Or the attention to political content increases. Or maybe my own attention to political topics, and I just ignored that earlier. But when you look for technical content (at least on a regular C3), there is plenty.
> maybe 10-20% of shelves of any grocery store?

Maybe not. Not at any grocery store I go to, anyway. I might give you 5%.
Nym Permanent Testnet Sandbox
You can skip the MakeMKV part and directly encode through Handbrake if you add the required libraries (libaacs, libbdplus) in your Handbrake install directory and grab decryption key database (which I won't link here). You can do the same with commercial DVDs and the libdvdcss library.

Then it's just a matter of opening the disc directly in Handbrake.
There aren’t that many places where “drive to an airport/heliport [or landowner and local ordinances approved landing area], get flown to another one, and then finish your journey from there” is a massive convenience.

Commuting from an office building with a helipad to an airport to catch a private jet? Makes sense if ground transport is 45+ minutes.

Building a helipad on your lake property and commuting to the local airport via helicopter? Makes sense if the local airport is 45+ minutes away, but otherwise it seems like a car is a better option.

I just don’t see that many helicopter flight pairs making sense to justify having a lot of on-demand helicopters. (And if you don’t have enough to make the latency low, it makes even less sense to the users.)
Er, you may not have been a young adult with l33t hardware hacking skills, but others were.
I have some passing awareness of Flickr. I worked a while at 500px. What I heard at the time was that photographers put their good work on Flickr, everything into Google photos, and their best examples on 500px.

I also remember (IIRC) that Flickr did a site redesign going white background rather than the 'light table' black background. I'm not their target user but that would have ended it for me.

My conclusion would be that Flickr could have co-existed with Google photos serving a more active/engaged audience but not if they want to have the same brand (most used, approachable white background, etc).
I appreciate all of the conversation below, although the dynamic in the majority of comments seems to be Christianity vs atheism/greek philosophy largely stoicism.

There is so much more out there and often has endured for longer periods of time. Other religions, hinduism in particular but also buddhism, allow for an incredibly large number of permutations of practice and adherence while still assuming association. Worth considering.

I defined myself as an atheist in the sixth grade. I do not believe in a or many gods that concern themselves with human appeals or behavior or the institutions that proffer the word of god. As Kazanstakis would say: Without hope, without fear, I am free.

Still, IMO our actions remain internally debated because we have a collectivist spirit at our core. Those without the core, the ability to relate and take on concern for another are considered psychopathic.

A self defined morality is something I've chosen. My spiritual practice is very animist as a result. Hiking in the woods, submerged in the ocean, looking to find a calm or balance and identifying the fears, questions, goals that motivate me like other living beings on the planet. Appealing to the reality that these forces are in many ways, beyond my comprehension and much stronger than my will and capability.
They even mentioned Windows 10 would be the last major version number.

That was a master troll move by Apple...
Yeah, it's important to point out the difficulties that can arise. Though I'd say that the framework could also cause problems if your experience falls outside of it.

I had an experience along these lines when I was 22 and meditating daily, which ended up turning into anxiety and somewhat frequent panic attacks. I ended up giving up my daily practice for about 10 years because of it. My frame of reference was the very common Theravada practices you encounter in the west, but my experiences didn't make sense to me until I began reading Mahayana teachings and found my way to Vajrayana practice.

So I'd say the framework is important, but to be flexible with it as you encounter things that aren't maybe a part of the core teaching. In my case it was the teachings on emptiness that opened things, which is something the Theravada doesn't emphasize (although it's there).
> If this mutation gives a health or fitness advantage it would be selected for.

That’s not always how evolution works, especially when you’re talking about characteristics that (as the writer pointed out) were not present or used during evolutionary selection. Adaptations that are selected for can and frequently do have byproduct effects that are not selected for. There are words for these effects, like “vestigial”, “tag-along”, “spandrel”, “byproduct”, “non-adaptive trait”, etc., etc.
It does. GP's entire argument is that power that can be abused should not exist.
I've also found the tests for the standard library pretty useful when digging around trying to figure out how to use stuff.
Yes, dependency injection (without DI frameworks) is pretty much what it is! Just taken a bit further to the logical conclusion.

I would point to an online resource, but honestly I haven't run across any that does justice to the simplicity of the concept.
I think it's a normal thing in Hinduism. There's a rituals where you offer the cooked meal to God first, then you eat. The offering is accompanied by a bell.
Would it be possible to go for a lower framerate and gain more flexibility regarding the resolution?
It is on-topic :) Thanks for saying that, I felt a bit like that when designing it but the feedback we’ve gotten so far was really positive.
Might consider something less in a good sense overwhelming for the next version
"Torpedo in the water!" would probably be sufficient.
Glory to God! I agree with you about the reality of Christianity. It took a long time (and I'm still working on it) for me to see the broken nature of my materialist viewpoints. By "broken" I mean there were SO many facets of my life as a human that I could not account for materialistically without invoking magic words like "emergence". Reading the Life of Moses by St. Gregory of Nyssa is what really started helping me understand the traditional worldview, and thereby understand scripture as well.

I would like to go to Mt Athos soon, but international travel is getting more and more tricky.
I hear this sentiment quite a bit but I don't understand still. Can you explain a bit why (strongly) not believing in a deity is religious? I can hate God, because for instance I think religious belief has done a lot of harm, but how does that make my stance a religious one?
My kid has an autoimmune (not genetic) version of this. It almost killed him. He is 5’ 10” and got down to 105 lbs, was severely malnourished and dehydrated. Couldn’t keep food down without significant medical intervention. He spent a month in the hospital and another month in an inpatient clinic to start to address the resultant eating disorder.

Also, without insurance, the drug to treat it (sucrase) is $4000/month and is available only in a liquid form that has to be refrigerated… and you have to take it with meals. Which means you have to carry a small cryo bottle with you wherever you go.

Don’t wish for this to happen to you.
Yeah, the courts generally ramp up non-compliance damages like that with continued non-compliance.
I love this practice. Not so long ago I had a nice, slow stroll through my neighborhood, looking at each house and every sidewalk tree. I saw so many pretty things that I'd never noticed before, like nicely painted trim on some homes, or fairy door (which are pretty popular here), or funny bumper stickers. I felt like a part of such a rich and interesting community.
Aren't they using the Deep Space Network for this?
Interestingly, eVTOLs are likely the answer to solving world hunger. We are already able to easily cultivate more than enough calories to feed the world, the problem is efficient distribution. Cheap air-based transport could go a long way in solving the distribution problem.
In fact is getting more and more difficult to avoid it. If you have a company In Spain now you must to provide an internet email If you want to talk with the government, so you need to have internet. And now you need also a smartphone (Do you want your covid certificate or not? Try to download the magic app in your old Motorola).

Is getting more and more dystopian by the day.
I disagree.

Advertisers usually buy ads to encourage the purchase of a product/service. It is not sustainable to spend more on advertising than what the revenue you get back from it in the form of purchases - over the long term, the ROI has to be positive. Ad-supported services still exist in poor parts of the world despite the advertisers only being able to pay very little (as it has to be relative to the local price of the advertised goods/services), so the prices of paid services can similarly be adjusted to compensate.

> heavy region locks

This is already done, I'm pretty sure Netflix in India costs a fraction of what you'd pay in the US for example. While it's not an ideal solution, it's mostly a solved problem.

> Paying for things online is still a terrible experience.

Agreed on this one, but again the reason it isn't is because currently ads are a "good enough" model that there is not enough market pressure to develop something better. If ads become unsustainable, the content industry will have no choice but to either die out or compromise and collaborate to develop a payment model that has better UX.

> you would have even more of this

Only if it's allowed. If ads are nuked out of existence due to enforced regulation (promoting products makes you a reseller from the eyes of the law and you need to assume liability and provide support & warranty) or even just platform rules (posting commercial content on YouTube requires a costly subscription - shilling sponsored products without it will result in a ban) you wouldn't have it.
Doesn't seem to be a JS specific criticism, testing application performance on typical user hardware is a key responsibility of QA regardless of the language or platform.
I embedded Python and it was not easy to embed at all.
Also see CHDK [1], a FOSS firmware replacement for Canon point-and-shoot cameras.

[1] https://chdk.fandom.com/wiki/CHDK
> here are no official tracks and therefore no official call for paper. Thats why only the local CCC Clubs (erfas) offer talks.

There was a CfP process and speakers could pick one or more channels they'd like their content to be with (channels are not just individual Erfas too, many streams are run by many different groups together), and the channels coordinated who picks up what talk. At least the channel where I have insight in the process, the majority of talks is by people who aren't "members". So while there are no "main stages", the other channels are open to all (just as many usually are at congress).

EDIT: CfP announcement for reference https://events.ccc.de/2021/11/10/rc3-2021-meta-cfp/
How do you see the flags?
FWIW I've had the opposite experience. The stock firmware on my TP-Link router was awful. It was a pain to update and I frequently had to reboot the thing because it decided to stop working. Installing OpenWRT took maybe 15 minutes and an hour or so of fiddling and setting up my port forwarding and static IPs. Now my router's uptime is measured in months (and that's only because of power outages)
Why? Many professionals use the unit Tesla on a daily basis. It's like someone claiming the word Pixel for their company or product which I'm sure already happened.
Ah great, thank you for sharing!
I haven't read the article, but the parent comment makes it sound as though it's not so much the capacity of the bus, but rather the speed of the bus itself. This is usually expressed in terms of a combination of CAS latency and frequency in MHz, the Pi 4 being DDR4, is likely in the neighborhood of 2133-3600Mhz. We don't often think of reading/writing to RAM as taking any time at all, but in all actuality the speed of memory is often a significant bottleneck in high performance systems.

If we are just talking about 720p 30fps, then we likely aren't really that close to those memory bottlenecks, so the only limiting factor would be how much storage space you have available to that device.
Now that I'm on meds, I only get a day like this maybe once a month. If someone is kind enough to want to help, I definitely ask they first and foremost try not to be ambiguous, or at least to be patient with me when I rapid-fire questions at them to try to resolve the ambiguity. But sometimes ambiguous things just happen, so understanding is also appreciated.
Ignosticism is the ultimate "I've had enough of this shit". I too take advantage of the hard of hearing to get on with my life both in peace and a sense of superiority.
OMG you've actually done it! That's outrageous!
I recently started working at a place which is like this, and the code really shows it. It really does not matter what language is used, it's not going to very maintainable if written so quickly.
Suffering is the nature of life.

We all suffer. To be born is to suffer.

Just how many people who call themselves Christian are actually practicing and living the message of Christ?

If they truly had faith in a higher power they would realize how selfish depression is. Of course we all become depressed from time to time.

To have real faith is that powerful. It is a cure.
Wonder if they pay any attention to who wrote it as well. :)
Have you reinstalled windows from scratch, or are you running your 10 year old gunked up corrupted install?
Been there, done it (Southern Bay Area 2005-2007). I am honest by default when it comes to questions. There is practically no interest in a conversation. You are supposed to say 'fine, how are you'. Its like regarding tipping culture as voluntary: fake.
But they would be paying the same money without the DRM too; they're paying to be legitimate, regardless of whether the DRM is there.
altruism
You can check this course I made recently [0]. It has lots of exercises you can use to practise as you go along.

In the resources [1] you can also find my full-speed python ebook. I use it to teach python to 2nd year CS students so they start programming with sockets after 3 weeks (~10 hours). You can stop after the classes chapter and you’ve learned basic python..

[0] https://pylearners.com/courses/python-intro/

[1] https://pylearners.com/resources/
This is the one that I use to control video speed pretty much anywhere (works on any Chromium based browsers): [Video Speed Controller](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...)
I practice my religion, believe in god, and pray for some minutes during the evening.

Believing in spirituality without religion leads to a cognitive dissonance.

My philosophy is that there are too many things that we simply cannot observe due to the limitations of our senses and thought/imagination, so to dismiss god is not truly rational.

Spirituality is removed from any material success, so to go into any spiritual practice for an "edge" is not right.

If you want an edge in the material world then persuasion psychology and probability theory are your friends.

Also we tend to forget that science is a philosophy that does not say this is how the world is, but says this is how we understand the world. It's important to keep that distinction in mind.
But in a really open project, the design of the whole lot would be on the web, and the data sent back would be sitting on an FTP server somewhere for anyone to download and use.

In many ways, an open project is cheaper to do than a behind-closed-doors project where every new contractor needs to get access to only the bits of the project they need access to, and misunderstandings happen because not everyone has enough of the big picture.

The only bit that needs to be secret is one private key used to sign the commands sent to the satellite, just so one random Mallory can't 'steal' it.
Color me skeptical. Security is not sexy. It is expensive to do right, so most of the time it is not profitable. I expect nothing will change until legislation gets passed.
Way back in 2009 I helped design and implement basically "Firefox on AWS EC2" - I had YouTube audio and "video" working, in the subwindow, not Fullscreen. It was roughly 5-10FPS, about what you'd get with VNC, with perfect audio.

I had an idea that thin clients were going to be big - and I stupidly pitched ideas for cloud based software to Adobe, Newtek, and Autodesk.

Never gunna do that again.