skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also have a database I created with Airtable! Although I’m rather weary of using “free” 3rd-party systems and considering using one I have better control over.

I’m thinking an SQLite db with a separate open source data viewer/editor
I'll keep it in mind, but right now I'm trying to only use the classes that are provided by the engine or my own code as much as possible, since adding a dependency becomes a whole /thing/ in cross-platform game engines sometimes.
Dziga Vertov's Long-Lost Films
What’s Her Secret - It is that she is computer generated
It really depends. I took an entire geography class back in college called "The South", and a big part of it was defining what exactly the south is. Some people would consider Texas and Florida to be parts of the south, but most do not. Florida and especially Texas, are part of their own thing. You're also right that its partially an urban versus rural thing, drivers in Atlanta or Charlotte can be very aggressive, but its nothing compared to trying to commute in Boston etc.
Ask HN: What are open-source tools companies use?
Hi there,

I'm looking for a list of of web-based open-source tools that companies usually use?

For example:

- Wordpress/Drupal/Joomla/Ghost

- Piwik/Matomo

- Woocommerce

- ...

Please help me compiling a list by writing down what comes to your mind or is used at your company.

EDIT: Formatting
Actually that’s not it. It’s not suitable because of the modality, window management and state and data management concepts which are all compromises required for high efficiency touch driven mobile devices.
Except it ain’t satire!

Cue argument about non typed scripting languages with garbage collection not belonging on long running server processes, etc…
“There’s this thing called the stack, a request response cycle fits inside it and actually http is stateless probably due to contemporary stack limits”

I agree, and found the article funny.
Well, did he sell it for 79k? :)
We have automated pictures/registration and ticketing for cars that blow past a red light or somewhere else a camera is installed, if you have enough of them nobody speeds anywhere (without punishment)
That would be horrible. My handwriting is terrible.
I think professional is that you're not only paid, but that it's your principal form of income.
I don't think the two are comparable. Military training for medical staff in the British Army is nothing like that for special forces, the fitness training that Preet Chandi did will have been mainly driven by herself.
I keep a birthday calendar, also for my friend's kids. I stay in touch over the years this way really well, along with the occasional 'something popped up that reminded me of you'. For closer friends, it ebbs and flows naturally or as we travel.

How do you get someone's birthday? Ask them! Everyone is delighted to tell you, even if they are shy. The possibility of a future greeting is very meaningful.
Pop music rots your brain (yes, country is just another kind of pop music.) it’s fake culture pushed by the same well connected people that run the news.
In Toronto there are paid people with fluorescent traffic warden clothes and signage who attend all crosswalks and traffic light for the student travel periods, AM, Noon, PM. Other times they have walk buttons that start flashing lights and an overhead banner (flasher lighted)
This is great advice for a young rookie, Bogle would be proud. Folks later on in life may not have the timeline to stomach that risk, however.
>What exactly is the limitation that makes them not suitable for a world accessible SaaS app?

Mostly that they can't figure out how to price it. The tools typically charge a lot per user ($20+/month/user). If you make external users cheap, then customers will just enter internal users as external users.
Yes, this is actually not unusual. People need food, water, shelter, and suchlike in order to survive, and so they exchange their labour for goods and services. Money is a helpful token now rather widely used in this bartering process.

I know it's quite common in the web development community to take a lot of freely provided code which took immense labour to write, and then stitch it together, in a way that requires very little skill or effort, in order to sell the result - but this isn't the norm in the world at large.
It was roughly on par with iOS development now strangely enough. But with a light weight windows forms abstraction.

We did unholy things on CE which were quite impressive.
I've expected English and German as languages but I must say that I was surprised with Russian.
Those are actually just regular l's, and the "upside down n" is just a regular "u". The more interesting letters are from the Unicode IPA Extensions range: https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/ipa-extensions/
Some of my favorite gaming memories! Swapping IPs in chat rooms before MSN Zone picked it up. All the "hacks" were so inventive and fun - the Jail Hack by EaH in particular blew my mind. I remember some clan having Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise playing on their page :P

Edit: I wanted to say too, that I think for people of our generation, we understand completely that much of what goes on here will eventually be lost. Almost all the websites or forums that I participated in the 90s and early 00's are gone. And I think I prefer that to everything be recorded & saved for posterity.
Inner Exceptions
> Separately, it would be nice if we had more sidewalks, but they are financially unsustainable in low density areas.

That is complete nonsense. Sidewalks are not a significant additional expense to the road it’s on, even at a much lower level of build quality / complexity require very little maintenance as the only damage is environmental (pedestrians and cyclists do 6 or 7 orders of magnitude less damage to the surface than sedans do, per unit of distance, add 4 for a loaded truck).
I live in a dense, walkable Boston suburb that is served by the MBTA commuter rail. But it's also full of "Masshole" drivers and adjacent to a couple of high-traffic major highways. I've observed a sharp increase in impatience and road rage, both on our 25 mph city streets, and on and off Rtes 1 and 93, in the last 2 years. Not to mention ever-more inattentive driving with eyes on phones. It's pretty alarming. I don't let my kids bike around the neighborhood anymore, I'm worried they will get hit.

It does feel like the one-two punch of [Trump + pandemic] has led to people feeling more entitled to let their rage and impatience out in public. I don't know how we recover from this as a society?
I agree. The thing that most damages GIMP uptake and development speed is pirated Photoshop.
Not really, he has an interesting point. The US permits Nazis openly under free speech laws, and holocaust denial and soon, while Germany bans it. However it is a serious problem in Germany and Europe whereas in the US its just kind of laughed at.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/621/567/bdb...
I sold a .com back in 2008 via Sedo - it was very straightforward. The buyer initiated it, I think all I had to create an account and populate it with a few details and they (Sedo's service) took care of everything else.
I guess python was around then but certainly not like it is now. I wonder if python 1 even had a regex library?

My lab, that does a mix of bioinformatics and population genetics, has people who know bash, python, and R. Honestly, I think bash is probably the one that gets used the most. So maybe my command line wouldn’t look that different to the ones used in the human genome project. Although technically I am using zsh most of the time.
I've got really interesting perspective on how it could've been by reading (fictional) "Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Book_(novel)
The similarity between AirPods and the in-ear Radio device in the book is striking. That was something I never thought would exist or become popular.
If you need the content of messages sent within COD, then you need to MITM it. Game companies archive that stuff now, but they didn't used to.
> it seems a bit like we are regressing as a society to animal kingdom behavior

Hey, on behalf of my animal brethren, I resent that! ;-)

Seriously, while nature can seem cruel --- red in tooth and claw --- there also exists in nature a definite "politeness", i.e. the context for aggression is well defined (for example, predator-prey, maintenance and challenge of group hierarchy, defense of territory) and outside of that context violence is generally avoided. Humans, both primitive and civilized, are among the more aggressive of animals and in particular display aggressive behavior with less reason or provocation than most species. To some extend civilization actually makes this worse; it's easier to act aggressively when the aggression is less likely (because of existence of laws and police) to turn into deadly violence, and violence is less likely to be deadly because of hospitals and antibiotics.

Otherwise I agree completely with you. In particular, I also suspect that Trumpism has done more harm to polite civilization than Covid.
I use retool a lot, you can "hack it" with js code in the frontend, eventhough i load a lot of the code on my backend apis.
All the income from people in London is extracted by those owning the land, because you need to live somewhere to earn that money. It's basically monopoly, doesn't matter if you pass go and collect £200 or £2000, all that happens is the people owning the properties around the board take it until you run out (or if they want to extend the game
Thanks man, great to hear that!
If you have zero experience or knowledge how are you so sure it is a bad idea?

It's not healthy conduct to express strong opinions on things that you have zero experience or knowledge about.

Healthy conduct would instead be to ask questions and try to learn about those things, prior to holding a strong opinion. Or leave them alone if you don't have the time.

This unhealthy conduct is precisely one of the huge problems in society today, and i'm somewhat surprised you can't see this.

See, e.g., people in the US holding super-strong opinions about universal healthcare despite having zero knowledge or experience with it.
> Why bother investing in GM through a broad index fund if I know for sure Tesla will eat their lunch?

Because even bad stocks are an essential component of a balanced portfolio if they reduce overall portfolio beta (volatility).

The name of the game isn't pure gains, because the gains are not guaranteed. You want to make gains and hold onto them.

And no, you don't know for sure that Tesla will eat their lunch. You have a very high level of confidence that they will. So does the rest of the market, that's why Tesla is trading at a huge premium relative to its financial fundamentals. But this wasn't always the case, and there were more than a few times when Elon Musk brought Tesla to the brink of bankruptcy. If you were confident that Tesla was going to pull through, even back then, you either a) knew something the market didn't, b) were mistaken/wrong (but luck pulled through for you in the end), or c) you were reckless / irrational.
Thanks man, really appreciated!
Plus built-in UPS
There are 3D Sonic games on the Saturn:

+ Sonic R

+ Sonic Jam

I don't like Sonic R personally but some Sega / Sonic fans think it has an unfair reputation. However technical issues and game play aside, it's definitely a 3D Sonic .

While most people will remember Sonic Jam for the Mega Drive era games that featured on it, Sonic Jam did have a 3D level used to select the different content in the package and that 3D level was the prototype for one of the failed attempts to bring a 3D Sonic to the Saturn.

I also think it's worth highlighting this projects namesake too: Sonic 3D Blast. While it's isometric rather than "3D" it is definitely more sympathetic to the 2D Sonic games (which is unsurprising given Sonic 3D Blast was originally released on the Mega Drive too -- the Saturn release came later). There's also an updated ROM released from one of the developers from Traveller's Tales (the company behind Sonic 3D Blast).

Personally though, I do think Sonic Adventure keeps a lot of the original feel too. Albeit you need to look past the City parts of the Adventure Stages. Even 20+ years ago those City levels feels weird.

At this point it's also worth mentioning Sonic Generations (PS3 / Xbox 360 era) as that has some very nice moments that could be described as "Mega Drive in HD + 3D".
Lol. That’s what I keep telling my friends after my third mug of vodka.
Wow, that’s active, unbelievable, nonsense.
Because unlike someone trying to keep in touch, you always knew they were just angling to sell something to you.

Not because they kept a rolodex or used manual or computerised CRMs.
No, it's people. Everyone is so fucking angry now. The only (convenient) road out of my neighborhood is through two school zones. People will PASS me in a school zone. Not the normal pass, but the floor it I'm angry pass. It's happened multiple times. They're so fucking selfish they would endanger CHILDREN just to not have to wake their sloppy ass up 10 minutes earlier so they can get to work on time.
> I suppose the real problem is that it's too difficult to provide appropriately-sized images for different user agents.

I use a <picture> element with multiple versions as a <source>. This allows the browser to choose which size and format is best automatically. Many site generators will set these up automatically, with the right plugin. See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/pi...
Definitely agree with this sentiment. My perspective on receiving more respect in the South probably has a lot to do with being a redneck looking white guy.
It's also temperature. I'm not walking in 100 degrees, even 3 blocks because I'm soaked when I get there and stink.
That was not the kind of meat juice I was expecting (the Internet has ruined me), but it was somehow more horrifying. How did the meat juice not go quickly rancid without preservatives?
No, I said different and I meant different.
Ask HN: Can I filter submissions by domain TLD?
I’d like to filter the HN submissions where the provided URL ends in .fr, to find blogs or personal websites of Frenchies. Is that possible?

I tried the obvious /from?site=*.fr but it doesn’t seem to be available
He probably meant to say that Vanguard is owned by the funds themselves, not by some external private entity. That makes their incentives be more aligned with making the funds cheap and efficient.
You know what also "just worked" on Windows, Linux, MacOS and mobile? Skype.
I can't stress enough how this is gross neglegience on the side of the prosecution and justice system, I'd even say treason towards the affected citizens. Having a criminal record denies you opportunities in life and some countries won't even ever let you work or travel within their borders anymore, regardless if after a period of time a criminal record has been cleared in your home country for example due to expiry. For example, the disembarkment card for air travellers of any kind to Japan includes a mandatory question "have you ever been convicted of a crime including countries other than Japan" yes/no and the text of card leaves you no choice but to circle yes and guarantee that with your signature (or circle no and lie, running the risk of committing a crime in Japan if they do a check). Based on that info alone, they may cross-examine you or deny entry even to tourists at the airport.

Again, leaving innocent citizens with a record cannot be excused on any level after the problem has become known.
Great, that's all I wanted. I hope it didn't take you more than a few minutes to do.

> I didn't know how small the MIT license was!!!

This is kind of a problem, before you were saying its like the MIT license but if you didn't know how small it was, you couldn't have read it, so...

Anyway, no point in beating a dead horse, you have corrected the issue I had, so thank you!

> laws are really the most superficial waste of time

Until you need them, at least.

In any case, good luck with your project. It does technically look very interesting.
All cars could be fitted with black box trackers under new tax plans
> of course if fujitsu engineers testified that they would jail people based on data produced by their software, that makes them responsible...

The engineers would not have been testifying about sentencing, but about whether the system output was accurate. You yourself have just argued that all accounting systems have flaws, the engineers undoubtedly knew that, and if they testified to the accuracy of the output, then they would be culpable of making material claims that they knew had not been verified, and could be wrong.

> ...but the judge is equally responsible not to have independent experts (plural) verify those claims.

It is very obvious in retrospect that quite a few people should have been more suspicious, but that would do very little to absolve Fujitsu of the high moral and legal responsibility of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth if they were called upon to do so. "You should have checked what I said" is neither a legal nor a moral excuse for perjury.

Update:

"The data used in court has since been proved to be wrong and former Fujitsu members of staff are currently being investigated by the Metropolitan Police for potential perjury in the trials of subpostmasters that were blamed for unexplained losses."

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252509066/Fujitsu-escape...

To be clear: None of the above in any way absolves the Post Office of its much greater responsibility.
> It seems so many people in America are so fat now they don’t imagine people would ever walk,

As a fat person and I think I can take the liberty to speak on behalf of other fat people, you are absolutely correct.

So be sure to please get out of the way and stay out of the way.

Another good option is to go to the city council and have them rope off areas of the town for pedestrians only, if you want to be safe.
You’ve been able to cross a road anywhere since the dawn of time in pretty much the entire of Europe (U.K. included).

The changes in Highway Code really just say that cars should give way to pedestrians that are crossing minor roads, while walking down a major road.

I.e. the general rule is that all traffic going down a major should wait and give way to continuing traffic, regardless of if it’s a car, bike or pedestrian, when they enter or leave the major road to/from a minor road.

There’s is still an expectation that all road uses take care and respect other road users. You don’t ever have a “right of way” only the obligation to “give way”.
"In most places in America walking is not a practical mode of transportation because of distance; it’s miles from your house to the grocery store, for instance. If you live in a city this might not be obvious to you but half the country lives in the burbs or rural areas."

That seems like a problem that could be solved through zoning. Solutions that by your definition inherently put people at risk seem an easy thing to re-evaluate.
> it would be nice if we had more sidewalks, but they are financially unsustainable

"No way of preventing this, says person in only country where "this" happens."
I think you're somewhat confused by the fact that the parent organisation for the the Royal Mail[1] was called the General Post Office until 1969 then the Post Office [corporation] until 2000. It was then briefly Consignia in 2000, then Royal Mail Group in 2001.

The Post Office retail chain was split into a subsidiary of the Post Office corporation called Post Office Counters Ltd in 1987, which was renamed to Post Office Ltd in 2001.

When Royal Mail Group was privatised in 2013, the loss making Post Office Ltd retail business was retained by the government.

[1] AFAICT the prominent use of "Royal Mail" for the postage side of the business seems to be fairly recent, post-GPO era thing as well?
I think that's a consequence of another network principle: default deny. In practice anything that doesn't look like a standard and common protocol gets firewalled out into oblivion at some stage or other: first anything that doesn't look like TCP, and if you are lucky UDP, then block everything but well known ports. Then block anything that doesn't look like HTTP, and so on and on.

So we end up with a matrioska stack of encapsulated protocols.
Oh this article is back! This is a shot in the dark, but perhaps someone could help me; I remember a link was posted at one point or another about font rendering as well, but from a design perspective about the considerations that need to be taken when designing a font, how glyphs are connected for different languages, etc. - it was presented quite beautifully, with many highlighted examples. Unfortunately all I remember from the site was that it had a green/teal theme to it :( and I haven't been able to find the link ever since

Does anyone have any clue what I'm talking about? Pointers would be appreciated :)
Since when have gun grabbers have any success in the US? From the outside, it seems the US has decided it would rather just live with regular school shootings than deny its citizens access to lethal weapons. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_To_Prevent_This,%27_...
Because I don't want to live in some 3x3 postage stamp with close neighbors and people peering in and no yard, let alone an apartment sharing walls between people. Screw high density, I've lived in it and it sucks. Oh and I am extremely fit, obesity is bad choices not "car culture".
What about the largest 50 person village?
As a user (not developer) I liked Silverlight at the time, compared to Flash. Flash applications made my computer run very hot and the fans go loud. With equivalent Silverlight apps on the other hand my computer didn't break a sweat.
Maybe. Again, there have been ginormous trucks and SUVs around the rounds since the 90s, why would we see a sudden spike and not a gradual increase since then?
An odd way to put it, since there will be 50-odd gold medalists and 50 physical gold medals handed out to ice hockey players. If Canada picks up some of those it will be a more accurate representation of the level of participation in winter sports in that country.

The "two medals" is a quirk of one particular way of displaying medal tables.
As I recall, Computer Weekly and Private Eye have been reporting this for over a decade.

This is the second major scandal in recent decades where Computer Weekly, a trade rag, have doggedly held truth to power. The other case I'm thinking of is the Mull of Kintyre crash and the terrible state of the firmware in the helicopters.
A bit tangential but I've never understood old school sonic games. So much of it seems to be blindly running or being funneled through a chaotic level. There's this sense that you have speed and it feels good, but because you don't know what's coming next, it's very easy to lose that speed, which feels really bad. I feel like the intention of these games was to memorize the levels so that you could actually play them quickly. Whereas in a mario game you can generally improv your way through a level on skill alone. I generally only wanted to play through a game once, and sonic always felt very jarring, like the level design forced me to stop because I didn't know there was going to be 3 random reversals and a loop. The good feeling parts were almost autoscrollers. The challenging parts tended to involve sonic moving very slowly with his awkward jump physics.

Curious if someone can fill me in on what I was missing. I tried Sonic Mania recently and felt the same general frustration.
thanks, hope you like it
Sure, the standard is called ISO 666.
Sidewalks are an optional extra on road building so...in his defense...you can't build a sidewalk without a road, which makes it significantly more expensive.
If it's capable of representing a two-dimensional array where each element can have at least 2 values, we will get Bad Apple playing on it.
In my experience, subpixel antialiasing works reasonably well for dark-on-light, but it looks terrible for light-on-dark.