skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any entropy at all. Supposedly the old ones were an encrypted counter, so if that key had gotten loose it would have been bad.
I did a HN notification service to not miss this kinda good stories.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30153116
Sometimes discussion with other people takes more time than actually doing something. Trying to loop in other people make junior developers paralyzed of doing anything outside theirs tickets. You will create a generation of developers that are useless if requirements are not fully defined and tickets are not broken down into tiny increments by senior dev. I am tired of handholding people.
An aside: are you using an arcade stick? I’ve been thinking of getting back into STGs after a 10ish year break and can’t figure out which of the (pricy!) Switch sticks are any good.
It really depends, you can turn this into an advantage instead of a mistake. I think the element of it that is a mistake is the bit where its happening in a way end customers don't see, or the reason its done quickly is its for an MVP/initial launch and to speed that up as much as possible.

There is a certain threshold in a team where incremental communication yields increasingly decreasing returns very quickly, and slowly starts to become a cost. If you can find the sweet spot, and leverage your engineering knowledge to peek in, this 'mistake' can be an advantage.
I have the vision of hanging at the coffee shop, jamming to headphones, pop open the iPad, open the iCloud synced IntelliJ project I was working on my MacBook Pro in the morning. To those who would say, but that's not what an iPad is for - consider this thought: The iPad is a pretty good expression device. You can draw with the pencil in Good Notes. You can paint with your fingers in Procreate. You can make music with Garage Band. With the iPad keyboard, and Obsidian.app, it's a serious writing tool. So with all of these ways to express my passion, what I'd love to do is use the iPad to express my passion to code. Using my kindergarten brain, It looks like a computer that a person could use to code.

Apple seems to be investing in iPad software development capabilities - Swift Playground app. This is exciting - perhaps it will be the "iMovie" of Xcode...

An aside:
When someone finally comes up with an eInk laptop, we developers in Austin can chill at patio bars and enjoy the sun.
I think you're giving a big key that many of us as just developers/engineers miss some times, and it's the distribution part. For us, as we haven't trained in that area, it's hard to find a solution.

How would you say that's the best strategy to build this distribution?
Depends on surrounding environment.

If you are a dark area 200 nits would even be high.

If you are in a well-lit area or outside in a sunny day, 200 nits would be super dark, and by that definition if it was unhealthy, looking at almost anything in a well lit day would be unhealthy.
Would be interesting to see an idealistic 2d (t, angle) or (t, rpm) phase space graph. Which patterns could it have? Is it bounded, boring, hierarchical?
Wow, I had no idea things worked this way. It makes sense but is also terrifying to think about, that I might be copy-pasting some sensitive data and then accidentally tab into some app and it'd just ghost-paste the data into its cache.
Not sure what's with this "prevent" straw man, which seems to imply that vaccines need to be 100% effective, otherwise they do not work at all.

This is not true and has never been true.

Vaccines "prevent" the spread in many cases.

Vaccines not not "prevent" the spread in 100% of cases.

Just like they do not "prevent" severe outcomes in 100% of cases. You can be fully vaccinated and boostered and still die of Covid. It's just a lot less likely than if you're not vaccinated. This reduction is the vaccines working as designed and advertised.

Effectiveness at preventing spread was always less than at preventing severe outcomes, even with the original variant the vaccines were designed for (or against). This was in all the literature I read about the vaccines during early 2021 (which also showed that, for example, AZ was significantly less effective at reducing the spread than BionTech, although both were >90% effective [still not 100%!] at preventing severe outcomes).

In the meantime the virus has mutated significantly, and the vaccines are less effective than they were against the original variant, but still effective.
Since you are from Ukraine, a couple of questions:

1) Are you Ukrainian heritage?

2) I tries to read a Wall Street article, but was paywall blocked: The Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine’s Luhansk and Donetsk regions, are impoverished and need Russian subsides. Do you know anyone from there that can confirm or deny?

3) bout how many miles away from the Russian boarder, Black Sea, Belarus are you?

4) What has Zelensky done that was so bad? I never hear anything real about him.

TIA
100% not true for Aubrey Marcus
He wanted to point out, that he is several layers of counter-culture above other people. A phenomenon on the internet often described as being an edgelord.
I don't feel there are many "unsayable" things in Austria and Germany. We still have a vibrant right wing here and the left wing is arguably more left than most things found in the US. They just are not allowed to display Nazi insignia.

In fact when it comes to sexuality and nudity europe feels a ton more free than the US when it comes to speech. We don't think a depiction of a female nipple that kids used to suck as kids will corrupt society for some weird religous reason for example. The US is incredibly prude and in that area censorship is rampant, yet nearly nobody complains here.

There is always soft censorship going on in any society — it is just not visible to those inside it if the big majority agrees. You don't need a central, authoritarian censorship for this you need people that have a common shared minimum standard of what they think is acceptable. Or aa you called it: enough "mental defenses"
From the site:

Supported files include:

SRT / SubRip (.srt)
VTT / WebVTT / Video Text Tracks (.vtt)
SBV / SubViewer (.sbv or .sub)
SSA / SubStationAlpha (.ssa)
ASS / Advanced SubStationAlpha (.ass)
Compared to other sources I've used for tech (and other interesting) news, the discussions here are positively civilized on average, even when folks disagree. Sure, sometimes some folks (even me) get a bit "cranky" over certain topics, but I generally more often than not see even those sorts of "grumpy old man" comments get responded to with a great deal more civility here than many other places on the web where I could find similarly interesting posts. It's one of the main reasons HN has become one of my favorite sources of news-like content.
I think for a ranking the data should be normalized by population. If I calculate it for seven leading regions manually, the current numbers are as follows:

US: California 535 / 39.51 Mil. = 13.54 / Mil.
Canada 244 / 38.01 Mil. = 6.42 / Mil.
Germany 232 / 83.24 Mil. = 2.79 / Mil.
UK 220 / 67.22 Mil. = 3.27 / Mil.
US: New York 206 / 39.52 Mil. = 5.21 / Mil.
US: Washington 199 / 7.71 Mil. = 25.81 / Mil.
US: Texas 122 / 29.15 Mil. = 4.19 / Mil.

There might even be some hidden champions in the lower absolute numbers.
The vast majority of people do not have the financial power to make changes like this.
I think he wanted to know why you decided that you actually needed React on the front-end, as opposed to doing it «the Rails-way»: HOTwire Stimulus etc.?

https://hotwired.dev/
Rebranding to Joe's Virtual Meetings ought to fix that.
I skimmed your site and didn't really get it. Maybe that's what everyone else does. In case it helps, here are the thoughts that occurred to me, in the order they occurred.

0. To me "data format" makes me think of things like PNG, or the DWARF debug symbols format, or the MPEG transport stream, not general purpose text formats like JSON and XML (I'm not a web person).

1. A secure data format. OK, weird. I thought it was always the programs/libraries that dealt with the data formats that were guilty of the security bugs, not the format itself.

2. All the bullet points under simple and efficient are already true for all the data formats I know/use/care about. So already I've dismissed your project as interesting - ie the "simple" and "efficient" are already solved and I don't believe "secure" is a real problem. But I'm aware I might be jumping to conclusions, so I keep reading.

3. I skipped straight to "Security - Protecting your data". I thought the sentence explaining why security matters was superfluous - your audience already knows why security matters.

4. "The existing ad-hoc data formats are too loosely defined to be secure, and can't be fixed because they're not versioned". OK, this looks like the meat. I click the link.

5. "There are many vectors that attackers could take advantage of when they control the data your system is receiving, the most common of which are induced data loss, field omission, key collisions, and exploitation of algorithmic complexity". If the data is from an attacker, data loss and field omission sound like good things - I don't want their data or fields because they are an attacker.

6. '"change user" command with a group of admin\U+D800'. I'm still confused. It still sounds like the "admin\U+D800" string is processed by my program. Your data format doesn't know whether that is a valid string or not. Telling your data format is no easier than telling my program. Oh! Maybe it is. Because you only need to specify it in the data format, not in every program/library that implements the format. Is this the point of the system?
You are linking to correspondence, not to the study, the study suggests the opposite.

Saying they are completely ineffective is wrong based on what we know, to the best of my knowedge. I read, I talk to friends and family in the medical community, I am not an expert.

My understanding is that the vaccines have some effectiveness in preventing further infection but aren't fully effective, as evidenced by the study in Lancet which you indirectly linked to.

Your letter in reaction to this study:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/alrticle/PIIS1473-...

Here's the author's reply to the correspondence:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8694752/

Just because peak viral load is apparently the same doesn't mean infection duration or transmission rates are the same, and the study suggests they aren't, in part because of faster decline in viral load among vaccinated folks.

Of course that data is only about delta. The science may change, and I follow the science.

Getting back to what I said, you know that, in the US, vaccine hesitancy is correlated with both less mask usage and less social distancing, right? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33592035/

If your idea is true, and the vaccine is completely ineffective, that still suggests unvaccinated folks are more likely to get infected with COVID, and to transmit it.

Getting back to the article, "Bastian said Delta has placed nearly 1,900 people on Delta’s “no-fly” list for refusing to comply with masking requirements"

Those aren't people I particularly want to fly with during this pandemic, but I do find the scope creep of the federal no fly list, as opposed to the company's list, disturbing.
What is interesting is that I've never heard of hanko until today. It seems like it's usage is widespread, everybody carries one in case they need to sign something official. It's surprising how I never heard of or seen these seals ever.
Hong Kong & Macau are missed. Counting them as China would be quite a stretch.
> mostly bipartisan audience

Is it though? Before spotify deal it was definitely true, but recently I tried some of his new episodes and he's much more conservative leaning nowadays. So much so I couldn't really watch it, stark contrast to earlier episodes with Duncan Trussel, Bill Burr and others. I heavily doubt he has much liberal audience nowadays.
Wow, thank you very much for the detailed comment! What you're saying here makes a ton of sense, and I really appreciate the words you chose to describe the philosophy behind Open Source. "Gift" is very apt. That is exactly what many projects are to authors. It's just icing on the cake for them when a project takes off or they help people.

One area that I'd say comes to mind for me is: Many devs aren't even able to accept money for maintenance because their job prohibits it. Like at Google or other bigger tech companies. You just can't receive money and then you're already busy because you're working... why go do more grunt work for free when you could apply that effort to making more "gifts" to give to people?

It's an interesting dilemma to ponder about. What you said about the "market economy" is absolutely right when it comes to thinking about SaaS or other traditional proprietary licensing models. They're solving for the market economy exclusively and not for the Open Source one.

It feels like a fools errand to attempt to convince somebody working at Google to care about patching one of their side projects for free. I'm going to give that some more thought. Maybe some kind of package registry that allowed updates to a package by separate maintainers, even if the author goes MIA?
~vietnam~
Again this discussion? Does the booster limit spread? Go for it then as having large proportion of society on sick leave is destructive and for sure less spread is less dangerous for those who are at highest risk. Just do not force people to do it.
Well you're not asking me but this is a forum so off I go anyways. This can only be done with serious investment, so you need to ask your management if they are serious about the long term future of your product. If they are there's basically two options.

The first option is to develop an API layer over your old system, that is supported by a full integration test suite, and then either build a new frontend using that API, or port the old frontend over to that new API. As this effort progresses, your integration test suite and well defined API allow you to replace/rewrite portions of your backend as well.

The second option is to look at your most valuable customers, discern what features they use and rely on, and design a fully separate clean slate implementation of only those features in a new "V2" product.

In either case, what you're describing is a very tough situation, and any solution would be very risky. Management usually is not aware of tech debt, they might not know they've accrued a million dollars or more of engineering debt that they will have to pay off to solve problems like being able to quickly respond to new market developments, retaining high quality engineers or ballooning customer dissatisfaction.
Is there a technical reason for not enabling going beyond 500 nits when a user just ramps screen brightness? I'm no expert but if that can peak at 1600 nits for a while, it should have been able to sustain 800-1000ish for quite a long time?
> Rogaine also has plenty of sexist schtick[1] to rival Stern

Do you have anything from him later than the late 1980's?
For anyone else who was wondering what YAGNI is, You Ain't Gonna Need It - https://martinfowler.com/bliki/Yagni.html
My vote goes to Sunday evening
> The "disruptive passenger" no-fly list should have clear criteria for why people are put on it and for how long, and a clear process for challenging being incorrectly placed on the list.

Complaining about terrible service is certainly not a good reason to be put on the list.
Interesting point. Comments elsewhere in the thread mention console gaming. That seems like another good argument for closed ecosystems being able to support a big software industry.
They would abhor any other company doing the same, but for some reason Apple always gets a pass.

I know it's controversial to say it's fanboyism, but if this isn't one proof of it, I don't know what is.
Except, oddly, on Twitter and national newspaper columns. And standup comedy tours.
They work really well in Zermatt a large beautiful Swiss Ski Resort near the Matterhorn.
You don’t need to tab into the app (on a desktop os at least). It’s generally possible to read the clipboard from the background. The app mightn’t even need a visible window.
Can you tell me more about emotion? Could you distinguish between a sense of calm or excitement? What about confidence verses doubt?
If you like the electrostat sound, you should check out the cheaper stax models like the L300 or L500. Generally they are more resolving and have better extension at the ends of the frequency spectrum than the esp950, which is kind of "soft" sounding and has a mid-forward frequency response. The stax use a different connector and voltage, so they won't be compatible.
Good advice.

People like to say "survivorship bias" but those people usually aren't doing things and telling people about them.
ioreg usually reports the nits value in some property.

On an M1 you can run the following:

ioreg -r -c AppleCLCD2 | grep -i nits
I'd rather handhold juniors in a way that I know what they're going to fail on. I won't pre-empt them in all cases, because failing is such a good way of learning. That doesn't mean I just let them fuck around, it is the job of the senior to steer the junior.. if you don't like that part, say so up front to your team. I doubt that works in the majority of jobs.
The creator of the charts posted them on reddit and explained the data and methods a bit more: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/skhtz7/oc_...
Your uneasy vibes for longevity turned out to be prescient. Less than 24 hours after launch Twitter suspended the account and locked my app's API access.

I have appealed the suspension as I genuinely do not understand which rule the site violates, but I don't like the chances of getting it re-enabled.

Thank you for checking out the project and taking the time to write a comment, much appreciated.
> accidentally tab into some app

I think in most systems you don't even need to do that. The app should be able to get the clipboard while in the background.
I don't follow Alex Jones or Joe Rogan. What has Alex Jones been correct about?
At least where I'm from FinTech is harder, since there's a lot of regulatory hurdles that you are going to have to convince your audience that you've cleared.

Non-tech people don't know what it takes to make a blockchain viable, but they do know that you have to have licenses to operate a FinTech company.
Forget a permissions model. How about an informed notification model, where the OS marks the application with a badge notification whenever it requests a paste? And you can see a history of what it requested?

Generally I find it odd that there is so much hand-wringing over basic transparency. As with companies giving away private data to third parties, before talking about consent, how about a paper trail to start with?
An international team including NASA has plans in development for a follow up to JWST called The Large Ultraviolet Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR) [1]. There's two versions, LUVOIR-A with a 15m primary mirror and LUVOIR-B with a 8m primary mirror (compared to JWST 6.5m primary mirror) [2]

From the Wiki "LUVOIR would be able to analyze the structure and composition of exoplanet atmospheres and surfaces. It could also detect biosignatures arising from life in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet."

Proposed launch date 2039 (quite a wait).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Ultraviolet_Optical_Infr...
[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Comparis...
> Jointly taking such measures for the greater good - ending the spread of a virus - is not a "taking away of freedom".

It absolutely is taking away freedom. It is also taking away opportunity, damaging mental health, and stunting progression.

The trade off being made is that young people suffered so the old would die slightly later. I was fine, I had it easy, I am not young. The pretence that we are all doing this for the "greater good" is wild. The Quality Adjusted Life Year outcome from most lockdowns was negative imo. It is just coincidence that the active voting population was the segment of society being prioritised eh?
Yes that's correct. The value proposition of the site is a nice UI and access to Twitter data that does not require writing code or using a Twitter API key.
it happens.. former playboy playmate recently slapped an 80 year old man for not wearing a mask.. both sides are guilty
The death of the open web is actually the vanishing of the self educated power user culture.
Wasn’t there a big thing about him retaining editorial control? Seems like that went out of the window on day one.

Easy for me to say, but he should have stayed independent and tried to avoid dependence on one platform. He could really have put a dent in the MSM model, probably ultimately made even more money and not be answerable to anyone.
It would give legal basis to ban the virtue signaling trans-topic flame-baiting posters from forums without the fear of getting cancelled. This is a good thing. It helps gatekeep small, niche communities that have been infested by people looking to cancel top developers, maintainers, project leaders.
What? How are you travelling more during the pandemic?
These seem to be missing from youtube as well - are all the episodes archived somewhere? Is there some master torrent somewhere?
What I don't get, instead, are the people who, like you, find a no fly-list acceptable.

If you punch a person on the street, you get charged. Same if you punch a flight attendant on a plane.

You might even go to jail in both cases. But what you don't get in the first case is to be put on a blacklist that prevents you from using some services. If you punch a person in a supermarket, you are not banned from supermarkets.

What you advocate for reminds of proscription lists in ancient Rome or the social credit system of the CCP.