skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the Index fault, just modern VR tech hasn't taken off. The Index is a great piece of hardware. And my prediction is that the Steam Deck will sell like hotcakes.
> git branch blah_branch_backup

Don’t forget to commit your changes if you’re going to `reset --hard` later!
Yes I have heard of them, only through HN. It is like the US Western district of Texas but in Germany right?
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Good luck with that for them..

Java is in the unique position of excellent performance (state of the art GC, very good JIT compiler) and observability with no-overhead real time options. Due to the language having multiple implementations of a standard and it being one of the top 3 biggest ecosystem, it is nothing like Cobol. You can say it is legacy for 3 decades to come, but it will not die. Hell, it improves with a never-before seen speed.
> vim, iirc, defaults to automatically adding a newline to any file without you explicitly asking for it, unless you do set noeol and set binary or, in versions newer than 7.4, set nofixendofline

which, IMO, is the right way to do it. In kakoune however, it isn't just the default, there is no way to turn it off.
I could see using this for work with office 365 integration but that’s the complete opposite direction of gaming for me.
The site you look at is a product of the browser after it interpreted the HTML. While the HTML may be protected by copyright, whatever the browser makes of it is not touched by said author copyright. The browser is free to manipulate it however it wants, and therefore the user is as well. This includes the free use of adblockers. JS just does not matter here as it also only manipulates HTML, CSS is just important for styling the HTML.

That would be my guess without having read the decision.

Also, no derivative work because there is no work that is published. You are always free to modify copyright protected work, publishing it is the problem. It seems like this would have been a second hurdle for Springer, but they got stopped before this important fact even came up.

Utter defeat for the evil ones.
Love this question - been through a few iterations. For context I'm an amateur photographer (portrait) so I have a lot of RAW files that I tend to keep (almost 3TB now since 2010) from my various Nikon cameras (D90 and D7100 - not amazing but they do the job!)

I have a primary SSD for my OS and applications, a secondary SSD where I store my latest/active Lightroom catalogues/files and a large 4TB (spinning disc) hard drive for local backup.

After a shoot I'll import the files onto my secondary SSD and then manually copy them over to the local HDD once I've done my picks and culled things a bit. That HDD is automatically backed up to Backblaze so there's always an original copy of the files either local or in the cloud. Any images that I edit/pick/export will be manually uploaded to Google Photos (usually in it's own album) and I try to annually pull down files from Google to go into another 'jpg/exported' folder on my HDD that's backed up to Backblaze. My wife and I also have our iPhones backing up to Google photos automatically plus we have Apple storage/backups - so we tend to have double coverage on most things.

Some of it is a bit overkill probably but I'm particular about having access to all my photos and I've definitely gone back to look at and edit old photos/shoots so it's worked out ok for me so far.
> JSON maps well to JavaScript types, but not anything else.

I grant you that JSON might be equally as awkward as XML languages like C but pretty much every language -- Python, Ruby, Java have very sane mappings to and from JSON types. You don't ever really have to "query" a JSON object, you just `json.loads` and `for item in obj["key"]:`. Even in the cases with schemas you're still usually only working with primitive types.

> Such agreement is never necessary, it's up to the programmer what to write...

What I mean is that there's not weirdness like having to encode types in the base document. You don't have to do things like

<blahblah type="dict">
<item>
<key>dlkj</key>
<value>kjdf</value>
</item>
<blahblah>

where different projects / parsers might do it differently. The "abstract JSON types" are actually useful and expressive where in XML everyone has to carve out their own way to represent lists, mappings, and numbers out of trees because basically nobody works with just trees in day-to-day work.

I think we might be talking about two different use-cases. If what you want to do with XML / JSON is serialize arbitrary classes in $specific_language and then read it back then nothing really matters; the on-disk format is just an implementation detail. But abstract JSON works really really well as a schema everyone agrees on and supported by every language.
jfyi, HDDs do break occasionally, even when rarely used. I had an external multi TB drive that one day just stopped working. It just wouldn't spin up. The heads got stuck to the platter. Stiction, it is called. Luckily, I got it fixed for enough time to make a full copy to a new HDD.

Lesson: never rely on a single backup for what's important to you.
Name a single place in US where you need a permit to buy a car or drive it on private property (which by the way, isn't an explicit right named in constitution as keeping and bearing arms is).

Permit for a protest is also utter horseshit on par with restrictions on 2A.
Is there a reason that some Asian or even European competitors can't just come in and offer the same kind of features and services without all the lock-in, actively taking market share by being the anti-monopolist?

Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't see the brand loyalty to Deere lasting too much longer, especially if some of the Asian competitors can make offerings without all the shackling.
lol ublock origin blocks that second link
It's funny how you're finding more and more excuses about how your hate for this one group of people is different from anything else. Because it's always different; that's just how tribalism works.
Ask HN: Worried about Domain Transfer
About a month ago I (attempted to?) transfer two domains from Hover to Cloudflare (both nameservers and registrar). These domains route my emails so they're very important.

It seemed like everything worked fine, and I just confirmed that Cloudflare is all green for both (it even says "Registrar: Cloudflare" in one spot in the UI), but a couple things have shaken my confidence:

1) Hover is still sending me renewal emails about them. It shows a warning that one of them is about to expire, and in the dashboard it just says "About to Expire", with nothing about it having been transferred or no longer being registered through Hover.

2) I've had a minor DNS issue for quite some time, where if I visit http://mywebsite.tld/ (with no www), it doesn't route correctly to the server and instead shows a Hover "site under construction" page. This is not a new issue, it's just something I need to fix, however it's worrying that it still points to the Hover fallback page when I'm supposed to be fully moved off of Hover now.

Any advice or insight would be welcome. My knowledge of DNS is pretty basic so I'm feeling around in the dark right now, and one of the domains expires tomorrow according to Hover (Cloudflare says it's good for another year?)
Or my own project: https://github.com/martinvonz/jj.

I think https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide also plans to provide a different CLI, but I don't think they've started working on it.
For Fortran, a code to answer this question is at https://twitter.com/fortrantip/status/1477985901145993221 .
> How is this different from VidAngel

Because Disney got involved with VidAngel, and Disney always wins.

The problem is that there's basically no way to stream arbitrary video content you own in a way that VidAngel can access it client side for filtering. This is because the content owners make deals such that the content is only able to legally be streamed by certain vendors (Netflix, Amazon, or other) and those vendors can put it in their ToS that you aren't allowed to modify the stream in any way, etc. VidAngel tried to get around it by streaming ripped DVDs and got nailed by Disney. They might have been able to last longer had they not gotten greedy with the dubious "sellback" program that allowed you to remotely buy a DVD and then remotely sell it back after viewing it.

The only way I see viable "Family Home Movie Act" style video filtering is if you build an open source DB of video metadata and use that in conjunction with a VLC plugin or something. Then you are responsible for obtaining your own video content, which you can edit on the fly with the VLC plugin + open source metadata DB.
Yeah, and more importantly, was the equipment designed to exist with that much guard band? And isn't the cell equipment specified to throw off only a certain amount of harmonics, or whatever the out of band noise would be? This seems like without either a massive engineering mistake or a tempest in a teapot?
GPS applies the theory of relativity directly to your everyday life... pretty cool!
Try http://www.querymongo.com/ :)
The fun here stems from the fact that many small business owners use the friend-to-friend side of these payment services. These services either will be cracking down on business use of those accounts (and thus push people off their platform), or they will be forced to report all transactions across all accounts.
> and people have said that their business model is based on extorting ad companies to pay them to not block their ads

i mean, it is. ABP is basically modern day protection racket
The summer of 2020 included a number of radical opinion shifts among politicians. Or maybe, since we can't know a person's mind and what opinions they'd previously quietly believed, more like radical shifts in publicly stated position.
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Separately, even though selling used goods at a loss is deductible on income tax, you can still get chased own for sales tax, thanks to USA's absurd non-VAT sales tax system.
I'm not that big on FPS games. When I play Nintendo I generally play things like Mario Party or Mario Kart. A friend recently gave me an Xbox Series S, and off the top of my head I couldn't think of a single multi-player party sorta party game. I'm sure there are plenty of these games, but they definitely don't have the same type of draw as Mario.
> If you're sick and go to a homeopath, there's no chance that the homeopath will find a way to cure you

Wrong, sorry. Disclaimer: I'm not a homeopath and don't go to any. Most of them are, in fact, quacks.

There are, unfortunately, chronic diseases which can be treated but not cured. Mainstream doctors and Big Pharma make a living off of those. If you have one of those, "well, why NOT try a homeopath?" is a perfectly rationale response.

"Sinus rinsing" is something that might be termed "homeopathy." It IS medically respectable, unlike most of their "treatments" (like magnets).
It's not surprising in either case, you have a surgery that can be put off so as to not risk spreading a deadly virus in an environment with compromised individuals. Meanwhile the same hospital probably has a major need for staff, so your wife is allowed to continue working despite the risks because she has been trained on how to properly use PPE, and follow safety procedures where everyone else working there is doing same.

Of all the places to complain about, a hospital seems one of the least warranted
Hi all,

I wanted to play with blockchain data at scale and ended up making this "endless waterfall" visualization of recent NFT events. Hopefully it's fun way to poke around at the sometimes amusing, sometimes disturbing world of NFT imagery.

Under the hood, ChainDisco talks to an Ethereum node that I run myself; every time a new block is mined, ChainDisco looks for NFT mints/transactions and for the creation of new ERC-721 and ERC-1155 contracts. From there, it grabs metadata, imagery, and pricing information. The metadata lands in a PostgreSQL instance.

I think of this as an anti-portfolio toy: as I mention in the "about" dialog, ChainDisco offers little help with purchasing or deciding what to purchase. That's intentional; you might say I'm... uh, a touch bearish on essentially all crypto assets.

Happy to answer any questions. This is one of several toys I've built while trying to wrap my head around the madness that is Web3/crypto.
It's true. You can toboggan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with a blood quantum of zero.
Where should the line be drawn? Are terms like stupid, idiot or moron also unacceptable? All of these words have very similar origins.
Alder Lake is efficient at the low end; the 12100 and 12400 are really good against AMD.
> There is a stable duopoly, where Microsoft can reap the benefits of competition between the two, without wasting any resources.

The huge competition where both charge 30% of gross sales, far higher than even the federal corporate tax rate, which is only charged on the net.
Yes, those events happened but that was over 20 years ago at this point. I often see people utilizing an argument that either minimizes/trivializes modern cancel culture by invoking either "conservatives did this in the past, just look at when they got mad at [x]" or "this is actually what conservatives have been doing the whole time". Yet, whenever I see examples like the one you have posted, they seem far more mild than some of the recent cancellations that seek to un-person someone.
It’s just that people put up with a fact that offline-first games started requiring logging in with an account. Why do I have to do that for Doom Eternal? And this enabled publishers to push even more rediculous online handicaps. Their wet dream is to make every game “a service”.
It does seem like an overreaction to me but there is a big difference in cell towers and satellite uplinks/downlinks

Radio towers (sites) have widely varying quality control of their tenant's installations. Other transmitters can mix and amplify signals from other carriers without well designed and maintained RF filtering on each and every antenna. The more transmitters at a site the more carrier frequencies that can contribute to the mixing, and the more opportunities for poor or broken RF filters. At some busy sites there is almost nothing you can do to prevent this. Anything on the tower that acts like a diode can cause mixing, even without being amplified by another transmitter.

This usually just harms other receivers at the site however. But an airplane flying close by could theoretically be affected depending on how close it is.
Gaming companies are incredible. Anyone who loves games tend to hate the large gaming companies. Yet they print money and will continue to put out shit products year after year. So people can say X company is dead while they get aquired for 70 billion dollars.

What a crazy industry.
He's a senator from Vermont, a constitutional carry state and one of the most pro-gun states in the country. He wouldn't have survived if he was anti-2A. His positions as you note as pretty clearly "toe the party line on the limited gun issues that democrat voters pay attention to" but pro gun on literally everything else.
Microsoft seems likely to support at least Nintendo. With Game Pass and Minecraft, they've leaned more towards gaming as a platform. Some Switch games have full MS support including Achievements, which was surprising.
How are these interactive visualizations made? As a senior machine learning engineer (with only rudimentary JS skills) it would be fantastically fun to make something like these.
Their customers are largely moving away from cash.
We sort of inherited a relatively new-ish SQ with our house, and it's been an interesting experience.

I was aware of SQ before, but only minimally so, and so looked into them, finding out there is a split between a sort of SQ fan base and review outlets like Consumer Reports, Wirecutter, etc. At the time, I was skeptical of the fan base, trusted these review outlets more, and had a modern front-loader before that, but figured it didn't cost us anything so would give it a try.

I really love the SQ washer actually. I don't know that I like it more than the front loader before it but it's been very reliable and cleans well.

I've noticed that SQ seems to treat its washer design as if washing machines are tools to be used, rather than as a device that washes your clothes for you. So, for example, I do think a modern front loader would clean clothes better on a default setting, but I can customize the cycles a lot more with our SQ, so in the end they come out the same.

If you have reviews that are standardized so the testers push a "normal wash button" and evaluate the output, it's misleading, because that's not really how SQ machines shine. They're also not very water efficient, leading to some controversies when they started to be reviewed by popular review outlets.

Anyway, it seems like some of the newer electronic control models aren't quite as popular, and there's some issues along these lines with how review outlets evaluate products. The even newer ones that are more like they're older ones are more popular, and I'm not sure the way consumer sites review machines is quite right for something like SQ anyway. If you look at front-loading machines, for example, SQ is a higher-rated brand; I think this is partly due to smaller differences between brands in how controls are implemented.

I think if we had to replace the machine, I'd probably get a front-loader, but I'd probably want a SQ again.

In any event, it (along with some other similar issues with other product categories) has really convinced me that these standardized product review sites aren't quite picking up on certain things in the way I might have thought 10 years ago. Something seems off to me about them in a way I can't quite put my finger on, even though in general I think those kinds of review processes (third-party standardized product testing) are essential and usually the bar to meet.
Are you referring to the authorities that have authority over The Atlantic or the authorities that have authority over death reporting?
We're way past the point where government is meant to be a check on unchecked capitalism. Mega monolith corps are the now and future.
This is the most recent rating action RE: El Salvador I could find on the Moody's website:

https://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-downgrades-El-Salvado...

It is from July of last year and Bitcoin appears to be only a small part of the rationale.

If a new action has been taken please link it, I'd love to read it.

But I don't know why I would want that when you can provide me with AN UNSOURCED ALL CAPS TWEET WITH #HASHTAGS AND EMOJIS!!! HIGH QUALITY POST!!
This seems like a direct a attack on small businesses, it looks like neighborhood kid cutting grass has to pay taxes while Amazon doesn't. The opposing political party is going to get a lot of press out of this one.
Embedding JavaScript snippets in C++ with Emscripten
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I can see that, maybe if you figure that Italian-Americans eat more eggplant than the average American?
Migrating a Firebase project from TSLint to ESLint
It took us a while to actually take on the task to migrate our Firebase project from using TSLint to using the now recommended ESLint. It wasn’t a trivial task, but in the end it’s absolutely worth it. We documented the process so you too can migrate if you haven’t done so already.
China Investment in U.S. Plane Maker Draws FBI, National-Security Reviews
Lines and Colors is a great blog to dip in to find some visual inspiration. This blog has been going since 2005 - impressive longevity for a personal blog.

Description:

> Lines and Colors is a blog about painting, drawing, sketching, illustration, comics, cartoons, webcomics, art history, concept art, gallery art, digital art, artist tools and techniques, motion graphics, animation, sci-fi and fantasy illustration, paleo art, storyboards, matte painting, 3d graphics and anything else I find visually interesting. If it has lines and/or colors, it's fair game.

http://linesandcolors.com/
Well, I'd suggest a basic introduction to optics. You seem unaware of the existence of lenses and mirrors.

"What kind of mirror we would need to send a signal 10 light years away" is a much more reasonable question. And one of the answers there is about it.
It can be fun to play with, but if you need a telephone, you should look elsewhere. It is a coin flip whether an incoming call or SMS will be recieved.
Considering he wasn't actually describing someone with intellectual disabilities, and the word shouldn't be used to describe someone with a disability now, why can't the word be used as "foolish"?
Valheim, developed by a new indie studio of 5 people, just won PC Gamer's GOTY
> Are you really shocked that someone would make a backup before doing something they are unsure of?

No, but I'm shocked git is so misunderstood that this would be considered a time to do this.

Keeping a backup of previous versions is git's raison d'être. If you can't trust git to do this, how can you trust "cp" to make a copy of a file? I would love to get a genuine answer to my question: what do you think git is for and why do you use it? This would help me enormously to understand where you are coming from.
I'm curious to see if this impacts eBay and the high dollar transactions.
Duo is an utter facepalm. What are they thinking. It doesn't make the device cheaper or lighter, in fact it makes it heavier and more expensive. It constrains your interaction and UI model. It introduces unnecessary mechanical complications and points of failure. It made sense for Nintendo on the DS because it did reduce costs and the device could be small and light enough for it to work. The Duo is just different for the sake of being different though. Classic solution in search of a problem.
Also Outer Wilds, Subnautica. Small teams that have made Game of the Year winners.
Europol takes down VPNLab, a service used by ransomware gangs
> But a retrospective look at his work shows that much of what was read at the time as an ironic deconstruction of comic book tropes (the same sort of thing Watchmen is rightly praised for) is probably non-ironic; it's just straight-faced pulp id.

Yes but that is actually really interesting! We thought he was really clever by ironically exposing the inherent fascist tendencies in the superhero genre. Turns out he wasn't ironic, he just wrote what the liked. But...why does that change the quality of the comic? It still does the same thing, he just removed the excuse that allowed us to enjoy it "ironically". Frank Miller is the honest one, it is the rest of us who have been exposed.

Also notable how Rorschach is everyones favorite character in Watchmen. He is obviously intended as deconstruction of the vigilante hero, exaggerating all the negative traits and unfortunate implications of the type. And everybody loves the character!
https://archive.is/HiTXS
And get a free bobblehead with a minimum eight-gallon purchase.

When I lived in New Jersey, the gas stations in New York would offer spiffs with a fill-up, and there was always a disclaimer "offer not valid in New Jersey," which made it seem like the spiff wasn't available at all in New Jersey. For those who knew, the rule was actually that gas companies couldn't require a minimum purchase to get the spiff in New Jersey, so if you knew what you were doing, you could put a gallon in and still get whatever the free item was.

But I haven't lived in New Jersey since gas was priced in ¢, and not $.
Sweden drones: Sightings reported over nuclear plants and palace