skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I HATE that I can no longer turn my WiFi and Bluetooth OFF from the quick-settings, with WiFi only turning off till morning (tee-hee!) and BT only going into some sort of passive mode
Because Apple needs my phone to be ever-present as a part of their zombie data mesh

At least I can still turn cell data on/off without having to dig through the settings, I wonder when that will be disabled
It's already been banned in various countries, including a number of US towns.
I’m exploring how reinforcement learning can be applied to safely carry out Solar Geoengineering in order to delay the damage from climate change. https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07366
My "boss key" was Alt+Tab. No need to reinvent the wheel
But versions are for human beings.

Otherwise, a timestamp, a date, a commit hash or an increment would do.
I like the format as well, but I'm having trouble understanding what Mr. Pueyo is an expert in.
An unearthly spectacle – The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb
> China's people shouldn't be forced to live in worse conditions because they live in more populous nation

According to the logic of degrowth, they should be forced to live in conditions that allow for net zero total emissions of the country they live in. If anything, it should be easier for them because they're a unitary dictatorship, so can degrow by edict. I can't see how not focusing on China in that regard can make sense, they're emitting more currently, they are rapidly increasing their emissions (unlike the US), and they have a great potential to increase it much higher because they have lots more people. Therefore any degrowth strategy should be first and foremost applied to curb their emissions, yet somehow the conversation is always derailed into useless per-capita emissions that do nothing to the planet.
The Truth About Prohibition
>I remember when I didn’t have to restart VS 30 times a day, and memorize which build errors actually aren’t errors, and do random sequences of events to work around bugs, and memorize which unsuppressable warnings are legitimate and which are not. Before those days, Visual Studio was indeed an incredible accomplishment.

This is because the software you're building today is far more complicated than before (from the IDE's perspective), and it doesn't do a good job of keeping up. There's a reason why so many people jump to VSCode these days - it gives you less bells and whistles, but it won't blow up on you when you try to do something moderately complex.
> Cities are subsidizing your excessive consumption and land use not the other way around.

You're making value judgments about me, and they're not even factual. I happen to live in the city. I just see the value of suburbs and the incredible waste, inequality, and ineptitude of cities.

Servicing suburbs isn't expensive. With wind and solar, they'll grow even cheaper. Suburbs often have their own municipal water supplies paid for by their tax base. Roads aren't as expensive to build or maintain, and many people own trucks that can drive on dirt, gravel, and potholes.

Cities have pollution that contribute to cancer and pulmonary diseases. Noise that increases stress. Busy people that have less sense of community.

Name a city where an average American can even afford to buy a home.
Be careful with floats:

20.40 == (20.39 + 0.01)
=> false

("decimal" can either be colloqually-equivalent to "float", or it can refer to a distinct data type which is supported by some languages and databases. A proper decimal type is currency-safe to use, if available.)
Fewer gatekeepers, more users, lower development costs, tighter feedback loops.
We doing a midnight deploy with 40 people. After boss explained process. I asked him, so are we deploying on the first midnight or the second?

Long quiet pause, then a series of curses. So we deployed at 2am instead.
Yeah, that Duolingo is a for-profit company that relies on volunteers to develop their courses is probably a mockery of someone, but it also explains why nobody has gifted them a Bengali course yet. On the other hand, people who learn a conlang are self-selected for willingness to spend a lot of time on something that's unlikely to gain them any material reward, so it's unsurprising some of them worked on a Duolingo course.

There are also almost three times as many Wikipedia articles in Esperanto as in Bengali, despite the Esperanto Wikipedia having less than a third the number of active users: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias/Table2
AI, VR and crypto all require GPUs and coming of age at the same time..
That sounds like a lot of work, I just want a zip with the compiler ready to extract into any project folder.
Its primary use is to transport airplane components between Airbus facilities, as Airbus has manufacturing facilities producing various components (wings, fuselages, etc.) across multiple countries. These things are not easy to move on roads.
> a story about misallocation of talent

I wish modern-day economists would be more aware of local maximums, which is the economic strategy the US seems to have adopted in the last 2-3 decades. Looks like China is targeting things beyond the local maximums, much like the US used to do back in the '50s and '60s, maybe also in the '70s.

Not sure things like the ARPANET would have been possible in today's world when the strategy of "looking for the local maximum" is the only one made use of.
> It does seem like things have settled down upon UWP finally

They officially cancelled UWP 2 months ago, after a few years of "not quite dead, not actively supported" limbo. I guess it's settled down, but not in a good way. https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/26/microsofts_uwp_unwant...
Spider venom holds key to addiction-free pain killers
I am working on a project whos intent is to harness unused computational power from unused/rarely used servers or other devices, and allows a business to run background jobs on this spare compute.

Think BOINC but for enterprise. I've never validated this idea if its actually something businesses would use, but I've had fun coding it so far as just a side project.

I have been overwhelmed since I have not built anything like this before, It would be useful to have someone to bounce ideas off of and work with. The plan down the line is to open source this codebase. It would be great if you are familiar with:

-IPFS

-Golang

-Decentralized databases

Details should be in my profile. Also, I work on VR browser Games so if you are interested in collabing on that let me know.
Domains are used for more than just webhosting. The owner could have email accounts, etc, that use the haiku.org domain that they don't want to switch to another less recognizeable name.
Setting aside the context of those quotes, which I’ll circle back to, both methylphenidate and amphetamine have been studied and used in children since the 60s. We have longitudinal studies looking at the correlational effects and outcomes of medication-based treatment, and we have robust fMRI studies demonstrating the neurological effects of these medications.

The first quote is a symptom of you choosing to seek your information from the “ADHD controvieries” page in bad faith instead of reading the normal, better-edited pages on the topic (note the page is flagged and not well-maintained). It’s not bad science, but the citations are outdated - from before the era of mainstream fMRI data, which has been arguably been the biggest new source of understanding on the subject over the past twenty years. Additionally, the second source quoted, which is by far the more relevant one, focuses on preschool-age children and makes its claim in that context - context which you chose to edit out.

Your second quote is a relatively mainstream finding. There’s not a robust linkage between academic performance as determined by grades and medication-based ADHD treatment.
> It creates a three-tier world. The big boys who have TLDs, the cheaper boys who have .com

The prophecy didn't come true. Granted the big boys got their .googles and .amazons, but good old .coms are still a thing and not considered "cheaper".
Scientists claim they've quantum entangled a tardigrade
>I cannot get a plain folder view

Yes you can. Change from solution view to folder view.

>The good parts of VS is hot-reload (when it works), the debugger, and the profiler

So everything you want from an IDE?

What are you actually angry at?
Just guessing, but there's probably more risk to running a mining operation than miners realize, and Nvidia doesn't want that risk. There are also PR issues with energy use. There's enough money in selling pickaxes.
Completely agree, I am not saying its a bad thing.

I do care for resolution in landscape photography, where I need to crop, and a modern high end lens+sensor lends itself to this usage pattern well.

For portraits, I think less resolution is usually better. I do most of my potrait shots with two decade old lenses despite having nearly all the modern Nikkors in my bag.
>Putting all preferences aside, American suburban living is fiscally unsustainable and supported by massive borrowing.

This is commonly stated but is not backed up by any real world evidence. Infrastructure costs are on the order of 10-15% of government cost. The cost of government is almost all in paying salaries (and pensions) to employees providing services. Governments that have gotten into fiscal trouble are there because of ballooning pension cost.
> Google in their wisdom decided to erase Play Music

I felt that pain. I would be interested in something self hosted that looked and felt similar to Play Music, but I have yet to find one.

Edit: Then I scrolled down a bit more and saw someone linked to Navidrome. It might suffice for me. https://www.navidrome.org/
I've been using linux as my daily driver for well over a decade and it's been great. I stopped giving a crap about games. I'm not trying to be a Linux salesperson here but I'm not going to use some crappy OS just because of games.
Cosmic background radiation is a thing and water is really good at blocking it, so it's not complete bullshit. Of course, without knowing what dose the GP received, it's impossible to say whether it's a comparable dose to what they would have received on the surface - but it's plausible.
Cool, might start using this instead of svgrepo
i appreciated this comment at the bottom of the essay.

Reader Dude - January 1, 2022 at 5:59 pm:

> Dan – I love your letters as always. In terms of China commentary it’s about as good as there is in the English speaking world, but unfortunately that bar is pretty low these days.

> I have to say – I’m a little disappointed re: your indictment of Chinese production of culture and some of the platitudes re: repression. The government can be heavy handed and has shown zero agility to respond when it comes to the propagandizing from the west, but you yourself are taking a western lens to what culture means and it’s embedded in your whole spiel (your references, your bit on classical music, etc.). In fact, writing from the states, one might even uncharitably call it the soft internalized racism (unavoidable) of ingesting a western standard of values.

> Why must the arbiter of cultural quality be what appeals to a commercialized western marketplace? Is it somehow a bad thing if China doesn’t produce manga or Kpop? Frankly it’s a failure of the state in some ways given that those cultural products help soften image on the world stage, but in short – Who is to say?

> Is not the rejuvenation of the Chinese people (something many subscribe to) a culture? Is not the rising patriotism and pride in China’s accomplishments by the vast majority of actual Chinese a culture? The rising “cultural level” (volunteers in Xi An delivering food as the area is in lockdown, the galvanizing of philanthropic attitudes after the Sichuan earthquakes) – Are those not cultures?

> Are we mistaking culture for entertainment? In 30 years are the artifacts you mention “culture”? Or some footnote in the history books, much as Madonna might be here stateside?
I think the GP was perfectly in line with what you're saying. They seemed to me to suggest that China will eventually invade Taiwan, and learn the hard way how bad that works out in the long run, and how costly this type of aggression is - just like the European empires learned for themselves from their own experience some few hundreds of years ago.
Which redirects to bing.com, proving that they really have no use for the .bing TLD other than to prevent someone else from grabbing it.
China produces a lot of costume dramas, which aren’t that popular in the west at but are popular in the rest of Asia. Actually, I have an American non-Asian coworker who surprised me by her interest in Chinese costume dramas, that was a first for me.

The other spice of life and drama formulas seem incredibly derivative. Japan does those better to my tastes when I’m going over the in flight media options on a long trans pacific flight.
For many kinds of application software the web is clearly superior.

(1) You can tell people to go to a URL and it almost always "just works". Contrast that to considerable work to develop a Windows installer, Mac DMG file, RPM/DEB/other packages for Linux, etc.

(2) Once you put installers and packages in the field you will discover some people have machines in an odd state and your software won't work on them. Some people will give up (either your competitor wins or indifference wins), others will lead you into a rabbit hole solving their problems.

(3) Something will go wrong with your software. For a low risk change, say fixing a typo, you can deploy a change to a web app in minutes even with the discipline of version control, automated tests, and cache invalidation in place. For other platforms the process of building and testing installers, wait for/fight with the app store, then getting the people to really upgrade is a huge hassle that could stretch on for days or weeks.

(4) If you don't have the software versions synchronized, client/server protocol mismatch will complicate your efforts to fix bugs and add features.

(5) Data is safer in a data center or a cloud than it is for a client device that could can be lost, stolen or destroyed in a opportunistic or targeted way

(6) No cross-platform UI framework is better than the web browser in terms of (a) UI quality (b) ease of development or (c) range of devices supported.

(7) Any system for e-commerce, internet of things, digital twins, machine learning, space travel, compilers, data structures, weapons systems, etc. has a user interface on the critical path

My heroes right now are people like Walt Disney and Jim Henson who built seductive systems and spaces to enchant people. I find that opportunity meaningful in U.I. work.
I'd certainly like to be able to write std::cmp::max(a, b, c, d) and find the maximum of the four parameters.

But even when I most want that, I certainly don't want it enough to use C++
Yea I think this is where I misunderstood by misinterpreting the word "conscientiousness"

It seems to me, and I might be wrong, that desire to do one's duty, If I am correctly interpreting the word "Conscientiousness" comes from finding one's specific purpose. When one is doing a duty that is not in line with one's particular purpose for being alive, then no amount of guidance is going to help. Instead, I would suggest that one go in search of one's purpose in any way that works for that particular person. This is why I think making a living without some focus on purpose is the main problem for many people when it comes to finding meaning in life. If there is no meaning in life, whats the point, hence the lack of "Conscientiousness" maybe.
The problem is that a certain slice of the population adamantly refuses to wear a mask or get a vaccine, thereby prolonging the pandemic.
also ...

> I don’t understand what you are refuting.

>> We would have built better cities if we wanted carless communities. But we didn’t and still don’t.
Or indieweb. Or making improvements somehow?
Go Fuzzing
>> Most european states prohibit abortions around 10 weeks of pregnancy

12 weeks is most common, 24 weeks is the longest (Netherlands) unless you count the UK as Europe, in which case 28 weeks.

>> It is quite disgusting that people actually promote abortions instead of birth control.

Who does that? Citation needed.
Ignoring the entire article, after using it for 20 years now, it rots my patience and will to live on large projects. It’s like driving a 30 year old car that was serviced 20 years ago and veers off the road uncontrollably once an hour.

I suppose the last feature is modern if you compare to a Tesla.

The twisted thing is that from what I have seen, the entire .Net development community is so compartmentalised that they think this is business as usual. Literally spending all day in pain with no idea there is a better life out there.
If you live up north, every autumn take off every lug nut on every car wheel, and one at a time oil it and put it back on. You'll thank yourself when you're caught with a flat in freezing cold and howling winter winds.
Did you check with the cat to see if it was actually 400 years old?
Optical Illusions of the Year 2021
I agree with this. I feel it takes away from the standardization or uniformity 2 and 3 char TLDs bring to domains.
Also it does feel like a bait and switch- where for so many years three character tlds (and then 2 char tlds) were so valuable and sought after, only to have these >3 char tlds come along and change the landscape/market.

Additionally, I always found it interesting how the .xxx TLD never took off (was essentially DOA), even after they were so popular and valueable in the pre-sale auctions icann and others conducted b4 their introduction/release several years ago.
Why those blogs? Without any context it's hard to know why they're good.
Text version: https://text.npr.org/1065246981/
im having a hard time to relate to this, i like vs for c# .net, where i can see it as a problem if its forced upon clients with js or nodejs projects these do not seem to run well.
Thank you very much. This just ruined my productivity for January :-)
Such as the title of this post.
How so? "First, do no harm" is the foundation of medicine.
If you’re interested in checking out new Taiwanese video games, I really enjoyed Opus: Echo of Starsong. It’s worth a go! The Legend of Tianding has a fun feeling to it as well.
I do a lot of road-trips through rural Oregon, California and sometimes Texas. I get middle fingers, angry truck drivers actively trying to run me off the road. Someone even hit me once, for no reason. I get threatened semi often in towns where I look like I don’t belong, but trust me they do it to each-other too.

Rural life has always been hard and rough but it’s sad. Their towns are dying and they look, act and feel miserable to each-other.
You’ve set up a bit of a straw man argument there. The person you’re replying to isn’t saying suburbanites should pay for city potholes, they’re saying suburbanites need to be able to pay for their own (suburban) potholes, and the ugly truth is that suburban infrastructure maintenance is economically unfeasible. Suburban development has only progressed as far as it has via ponzi-like borrowing schemes that are entirely dependent on new growth.

https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme

We need to place more emphasis on the efficiency of transportation and infrastructure in new developments, and density is a major factor there.
Agreed. It's not for lack of investment either; they invested staggering amounts of engineering time in WinRT and UWP and they actually built some cool stuff.

But, well... it certainly didn't help that they made it so difficult to adopt the new technologies. Project Reunion/WASDK makes it seems like they've learned that lesson and are trying to salvage what they can - but it's much too little and much too late.
“Not after 6 weeks” sounds fine until you learn pregnancy tests aren’t reliable until 5-6 weeks and some women still test negative at 6 weeks. The result is, setting the bar at 6 weeks is extremely close to a de facto ban.

Reminder: at 6 weeks the neonate is the size of a lentil.
Virtually everyone I know voted for Biden, doesn't hate black people or women, and is tired of covid measures. The virus isn't going anywhere, we're all vaccinated, it's time to move on. Even if the 10-20% of the population that isn't vaccinated gets vaccinated it would not make the virus go away. There is a optimal amount of risk like there is an optimal amount of dirt in my home.

Trudeau's rhetoric is shocking. Biden would never stoop to that level nor would have Obama. It's "deplorables" all over again and in addition to being cruel it's poor politics.
> Make computers that easier to understand

This piqued my interest. I've talked with some older people who had computers in their home during childhood and they told me about tinkering with them and so on. Those were of course much simpler machined than we have today, and I ended up feeling like they had a more intimate relationship with the computer than their younger counterparts. How are you planning to accomplish that?
Vimscript is like regex: no matter how long I write it I still don’t bother trying to read it. If something isn’t working I usually throw a good portion of my config away and start from scratch.

I’ve been using neovim for a while now but just switched my config over to Lua yesterday. I’ve never seen a line of Lua before yesterday but I _already_ find it way easier to write than vimscript—which I’ve been writing since the early 2000s.
It's true for nuclear reactor buildings where the walls block more background radiation as well.

I'd you are worried, avoid plane flights.

Handy simplified chart: https://xkcd.com/radiation/
This is sort of a great example of them shooting themselves in the foot...They can't name something right because implementations are already using the name...

if only the language had a way of putting names in some different area where they wont conflict with each other...

they could have done something like create a new namespace: std::maps, and then have std::maps::tree_map, std::maps::hash_map, or something to that effect, and use std::maps::tree_map as the implementation for std::map for backwards compatibility.

instead they chose to name something by what it isn't.
Show HN: Hillside Fireworks as a Fragment Shader
Roots of Progress: 2021 in review, especially in books
But Omicron is infecting vaccinated at a very high rate. At this point, damned if you do or damned if you don't.

We need to start moving on at this point.
Same. I said to myself, "Wow these people have taken good care of themselves to be contributing to Blender at 92 and 93 years old!" But then I saw 700 and had a split take.

It would be strange to say "Here are the names and ages of all of our contributors" As if Age is the most important factor.

They should put the number of patches in grey under the name and say X patches instead of putting the number of patches in parenthesis next to the name.
The answer to the original question is "yes," but growth of ML and covid supply chain issues are also to blame.
I can't use file view, since it has some side-effect that messes up our solution completely. And before you blame me, it's a cmake import.

I'm not angry, I just don't think it's fair to claim that VS is a good IDE.

If that's all you expect from an IDE, I understand why you're happy with VS :D