skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quora's algorithm definitely gets into "moods". Once it gets it into its head that you like something, it'll feed you a lot of that. Some days that mood is completely off base.

It provides tools to nudge the algorithm in a different direction, but it can take a while. And many of them are somewhat hidden, like topic muting.

I'm not sure it would be worth your time to learn it. The site still has valuable content, but it's harder and harder to find. The tools for helping are primitive, and not improving.

For what it's worth I can say that not everyone sees what you see. I have no idea why it thinks you like that. It's a machine learning thing, so they don't know either.
How the Covid-19 pandemic might age us
Space elevator on earth doesn't really make much sense. On Mars maybe, it will happen on Mars way before it happens on earth.
Habitable in a sense that we can stay away from the active star formation zones for a long time. Assuming those zones are deadly.
I've had a couple of dreams where I'm chopping up lines even though its been almost a decade since I've done hard drugs. The dreams were very disorienting because they never go further than the prep before suddenly waking up. Like falling and never hitting the ground.
I came across react-page[1] the other day, it seemed like a reasonably powerful block editor but was too much for our purpose so I haven't actually used it.

[1]: https://github.com/react-page/react-page
France has never generated more than about 75% of its electricity (not power which is much lower because of diesel cars, fossil heating etc.) with nuclear.

It regularly imports electricity from its neighbours, as well as selling its surplus (which it has even at only 75% electrical because the supply doesn't match the demand peaks.)

The current best nuclear rollout on the planet falls far short of your test for being able to run France for a week, has never passed that test, and will never pass that test so why is this considered an argument against renewable plans?
I wonder if we could use Deep Learning to improve ETAs on FTP clients and system installs and updates too. Maybe even make adaptive streaming that works reliably for small sites.
So, why are these noble, incorruptible EU-based companies selling out?
Congrats. You’re finally awakening from the Matrix. There is nothing…zip…zero…zilch that’s scarce about any crypto including Bitcoin. 21mm only yada yada yada. Yeah sure until you divide each by another 100mm. It’s just fiat distributed backwards and the early adopters are the only ones who’ll ever have anything of value if everyone buys in. So stop buying into their bullshit. Or if you do realize there’s a countdown clock that will eventually make them all worthless and be ready to get out when the signs are there that the end is near
To be clear, using canvas elements for UI is not inherently inaccessible so long as some accessible content on the page is also available to screen readers. Slint could in theory additionally render a kind of keyboard accessible overlay with invisible page elements, for example.

Edit: accessible -> inaccessible
China does plenty of overseas influence operations - they absolutely can leverage such data.
Unless my math is very wrong, at 0.9c the passenger perceived time is more or less half the perceived time from the departure point. That's already quite significant, although not something I could do over a vacation ;-)

In order to spend a leisurely "cruise-ship" week to Proxima you'd need to go very close to c. At that speed, even friction with a non-ideal vacuum is a problem :-D.
EU has an over-abundance of talent due to the great free schools. Finding people with skills is not an issue. It's finding the VC and investors willing to burn through billions in losses years on end hoping that maybe they make a profit one day, that's the problem.
Considering there has yet to be a dental crown that's as strong as a natural tooth, I'd imagine it's pretty far up there on the toughness chart.
I wouldn't say that a minor aesthetic difference is all that important if you want to fly air-air and air-ground with a load of people. My suggestion to the parent is that there are other fun flight sims to fly about in and do similar things if they find YSFlight lacking at the moment.
So they've invented... MDF?
Thanks!

I agree with you. My goal isn't to actually make it a closed system like this. I ultimately want to make it as easy as possible for you ppl to get content in and out of the tool.

Lurnby doesn't have the NICEST reading experience possible. It's better in some aspects, but struggles in others. The plan was always to figure out how to allow people to read wherever they are comfortable and still make use of the tool to facilitate memory and retention.

First step is to decouple highlights from in-app articles, and allow them to be linked to external sources instead.

Then it's just a matter of importing them into Lurnby. I actually set the foundation for that already with another script I wrote recently. https://github.com/Roznoshchik/spreadsheet-importer

This would also allow the web extensions to be more useful and allow sending just highlights instead of articles.

My goal is to make it flexible to integrate with any existing workflow, but also be self sufficient for people who don't use any existing tools.

But it's a long road to get there.
> RSS

Might be worth disambiguating that for the HN crowd. I'm sure most people would assume you meant the syndication format. I certainly had to read it twice.
People also moved away from that paradigm because databases are slow. I work in the world of optimizing TLP level communications over PCI-e buses. To me, a database access is already in the world of "why bother?".
The only clear conclusion to be drawn from this is - never marry the author of this piece!
From the passenger's point of view, yes. For everyone else you'd be veeeery close to c, but not quite there.
Nope! If you obtain the full speed of light then a) you're not made of baryons anymore so congratulations on that and b) no time passes whatsoever between your being emitted in some tight laser beam on planet A, and being transcribed on planet B, from your perspective.

None. Photons don't experience time, they are time.
How would you fix the query or indexes here? The CTE seems clearly a hack, effectively functioning as a hint. It doesn’t seem like it counts as fixing the query.

I’m skeptical of this rule of thumb. I’m sure people misuse hints. But if someone thinks they “need” hints, my guess is they’ve tried changing the query and indexes.
When Leaders Ride Shotgun: Managers and Mentors as Guides
Definite yes. We had a remote team at one job. I wasn't remote and got along really, really well with the higher ups. The remote team was doing all the work and were part of the company, but most were left out of everything.

It can work if remote is part of the company DNA. As in most communication happens online. Even then, I've noticed a certain bias; you're just bound to be closer friends with people you see literally every day, who are in the same room and not multitasking while on a zoom call.
I'd say this is actually pretty partisan if you ignore the mostly imaginary lines between the parties and think in terms of establishment vs. non-establishment.
What is "unconstitutional"? It's what the Supreme Court says it is.

The Court has had the opportunity on multiple occasions to rule that this domestic spying is unconstitutional, and has declined to do so. Ergo, for all practical matters, it's legal.
Easy way to control led's with a Raspberry Pi
Hey everyone,

I just want to share my project hoping someone can make good use out of it.

I always wanted an easy way to control an led-strip or led-panel with a raspberry pi, but coudn't really find an easy way with the features i wanted. Thats why i created LED-Engine!

With LED-Engine you can control an led-strip or led-panel with your phone or computer by simply entering the pi's ip address into a browser, so no need to install an app! Led-Engine is also really easy to install with only 2 command lines in a shell!

It has plenty of features, please take in mind that it is still in developement so more will be added later:

- Static Color (Led-panel) (Led-strip)

- Rainbow mode (Led-panel) (Led-strip)

- Conway's Game of Life (Led-panel)

- Langton's Ant (Led-panel)

- Brian's Brain (Led-panel)

- WireWorld (Led-panel)

- Drawing canvas (Led-panel)

- Display images (from image url or upload) (Led-panel)

- Display gif (from gif url) (Led-panel)

The zero player games and Display gif are my personal favorite (more info about the modes on the github page).

I really hope you will check out my project. I am still learning to code (3rd year into game developement) so not everything will be perfect. If you find any issues please report them on the github page. If you would like to contribute code then that would be amazing! I am always interested in learning :)
I've been making mods for Unreal Tournament 2004. It's a lot of work for a 14 year old game that barely has any active users and zero chance of monetization, and I don't care. I like the game and like making mods.
Has it been spotted though? Indirect evidence shows something is there. But no one has seen it, not any image has been produced.
Per the lawsuit:

As early as 2012, Black and/or African American Tesla workers have complained that Tesla production leads, supervisors, and managers constantly use the n-word and other racial slurs to refer to Black workers. They have complained that swastikas, “KKK,” the n-word, and other racist writing are etched onto walls of restrooms, restroom stalls, lunch tables, and even factory machinery. They have complained that Black and/or African American workers are assigned to more physically demanding posts and the lowest-level contract roles, paid less, and more often terminated from employment than other workers. They have also complained that Black and/or African American workers are often denied advancement opportunities, and more often and more severely disciplined than non-Black workers.

So you think the workers who stuck their necks out to file these complaints -- going back as early as 2012, mind you -- have done so to spite Musk for being a thorn in the side of ... "various hegemonic cultural narratives and political agendas"?

Or that if a lawsuit of this gravity and nature does get filed against lawsuit -- that the press should keep mum about it?
I'd laugh then probably cry.
Hopefully one day we'll have a perfect digital twin of the human body and can test drugs like this without harming animals..
Their competitors (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, etc) are all moderating the same people to about the same extent.

Are you talking about their clones, like Parler and Gab? They’re fulfilling their role fine as a platform for a niche user base, but they have no shot at competing with Twitter.
This is ideal. At times though there will be pushback by engineers and product teams drunk on the high of delivering fast and often.

It also requires knowing the approximate amount of debt that may be involved in any given work. Or else actual work may far exceed estimates so often they become meaningless.
Create a prediction market in two minutes on Manifold Markets
With alcohol, its not so much about the urge to drink when you stop, but how bad your withdrawal symptoms are.

I pretty much gave up in my mid thirties when I stopped for two weeks to deal with some life admin and found myself in withdrawal.

I've had a few spells off the wagon since, but now realise something is properly broken in me. Even small amounts of alcohol trigger hideous hangovers and anxiety. The only counter is to drink again.

Careful with the booze, kids. The danger is real.
Hmm, I took the words from `/usr/share/dict/words` on Ubuntu, maybe I need a more comprehensive dictionary.
You realize the yield on a 1 yr US treasury bond is currently 1%, and the yield of it one year ago was 0.1%? And that bonds pay coupons denominated in dollars?

The savings rate at Bank of America is 0.01% APY.

A person has no risk-free ability to save, and is forced to speculate in asset markets just to keep up with inflation.
I just called both my senators about this.
"Why isn't functional programming the norm" discusses your points. If you haven't seen it, it makes a great in-depth argument for why you're right :)
to be fair, I don't know EdgeDB's architecture but to the degree that a system can bring its graph structures into memory, using PostgreSQL as the durable storage but not for every on-demand query, it can certainly provide fast results. I would assume EdgeDB likely has concepts like this integrated into its design.
Crafting a Lox Interpreter in Rust, Part 1
The truth is that neither FP or OOP is the silver bullet.

Both have good techniques, that shine for certain types of problems.

The more important thing is how you do it, how good you are at it.

It's the same thing with e.g. Agile, some people make a mess of anything including agile, some people do it well, and the vast majority of average people get average results with Agile.

So don't waste time getting stuck on one particular school of evangelism, try a range of techniques and get good enough at all so you can match the ideal technique to the specific solution you're creating.
Thankfully, the Pinephone community has stepped up and made a FOSS firmware (mainly biktorgi, thank you!):

https://github.com/Biktorgj/pinephone_modem_sdk/releases

It still uses the ADSP from Quectel, but from my usage (and from other's reports), it is FAR more stable than the stock firmware. It is also immune to this vunerability (I don't even think it has atfwd_daemon).
> I'm also working on a free flight simulator lately, but focusing on drones/quadcopters/FPV and stick feel.

Guess, it would be better post it in "Show HN" section[0], beacuse your flight sim is online/WebGL-based — it is probably has nothing to compare with YSFlight.

As side note, it is not good to launch WebGL-app immediately after user just visits your site — my PC near stuck with full CPU/GPU load; it would be much better give a user button "Launch now" instead to launch WebGL without permission by user/site visitor.

N.B. YSFlight could be used with RC-transmitters connected to PC as joysticks, and even more, there are already a lot of drones "aircraft" addons for YSFlight too — so you may combining it with something like Oculus or Google VR Cardoard to use YSFlight for playing in FPV-mode.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/show
Get ready to scroll if you do. The first significant chunk of the document was around Nintendo's (in)famous licensing process and instructions. It wasn't surprising, but confirms a lot about what we hear regularly about Nintendo of the 80s and 90s being hard to work with because of licensing and the way they treat third-party developers.
Seem overheated. "Can't even sleep for the noise" has to be a lie - they haven't died from lack of sleep, which would happen surely?

No, they make noise, and they're resented, and any excuse is made to slang them.
>Why doesnt this succeed? I can't share it with anyone outside our non-profit membership.

Why?
Matrix keypads and passcode hashing in MicroPython [video]
Recently gave cannabis a break. Been using for years as a medical user. If flower, I would smoke < 0.3g a day. If vape, maybe 5-10 hits. Barely any compared to so many others

Felt like I wasn't anywhere near overdoing it, but when looking at cannabis withdraw symptoms... can confirm. Certainly had a problem.

Still wondering if i can even go back.
So you distribute rootkits to make money. Sounds unethical.
Thank you for your response. I see where you are coming from. I think because I don't interpret their text as saying that i is "half of -1" but "half of the rotation that would lead to -1" I consider your description equivalent. In fact I am struggling to interpret their text to say "half of -1". Regardless, I see your point.
You haven't explained how it works at all
CUE is much easier on the eyes, among it's other superiorities to JSON-LD
My understanding is more than the density configuration of the neurons matters most. The reason is in some cases neural network with drop out's perform better than fully connected neural network. This proves less dense networks can be more intelligent.
Not everything has to offer new info. Sometimes things bear repeating, it's how we add emphasis and continue the conversation.

Coming out with "Apple is doing a poor job" just once isn't going to move the needle. People have to hear it over and over in a relatable way.
A well researched article, includes two interviews with sex workers, as well as experts from the field. Not your standard Bitcoin puff/shit piece. Thanks to OP for submitting.

"Chaturbate and FanCentro accept digital tokens, and live-streaming webcam platform Stripchat tells CNBC that 23% of its active models are now paid in a mix of cryptocurrencies including bitcoin, ethereum, and USDC, which is a stablecoin pegged to the value of the U.S. dollar. Customers can also leave tips, and the company says its largest tip yet was $100,000 deposited in tether."

Worth reading for anyone interested in cryptocurrencies.
I’ll give this try. I hate whenever I have to use a spreadsheet and leave the comfort of vim.

Regardless, anyone able to write this much vimscript and remain sane deserves the greatest respect.
basically an ad.
How about two buttons, one to show answer and one to retry?
Don't forget Linux Air Combat: https://askmisterwizard.com/2019/LinuxAirCombat/LinuxAirComb...
That is a really beautifully designed website.

I was addicted to pornography. The way I knew was by trying to stop for at least a week, if I could accomplish that, then it wouldn't be a problem. I couldn't make it past one day.

I thought, maybe access was the issue - so I deleted my browsers, and within a day was reinstalling them just to watch porn.

I was watching during classes, and I would go late to events just so I could finish watching a particular scene, or explore a pornstar's catalogue.

It was only after confiding in somebody that I realised how deep I had sunk (watching and paying for snuff and gore), and it was extremely tough to come out of that.

I still get the urge when opening a browser to muscle memory type in a site, and it's constant vigilance and self-discipline that has held me at bay, but the pull has never went away.
> Weeeeellll, tips monocle, you must be uninformed of what TIPS mean, so I will take it upon myself to inform you, lest a know-nothing like yourself gets confused.

TIPS are overpriced because of fixed income fund mandates, moron. I worked in bond sales. You don't have to be such a prick, you know.
I have the exact same one. Here's the film that works with it https://us.polaroid.com/collections/film-for-polaroid-600-ca....
So your assessment is that the Black workers who joined this suit (or otherwise filed hundred of complaints going back to 2012, as per the DFEH complaint) -- did so out of a spirit of pure and simple vindictiveness, and to gain from the personal rush they will get ruining Musk's life, or at least a couple of months of it?
https://siastats.info/host_profits
What's with Wordle like games popping out here on HN
This is literally the plot of a very old computer game Alien Legacy. [0]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Legacy
“ On Nov 8, a user changed their name from tigertwo to Woflstar_Bachi.”

Horrifically inappropriate inclusion of PII in this post. Didn’t someone at legal go through this?
Thanks. I'll probably look into a dockerfile option.

Does format as a shell code block mean write it in a way that it can just be copied and pasted easily?
Wow, the premise of the game sounds really cool! Do you plan on adding a multiplayer mode to the game? Me and some friends have been on the hunt for a new fun mp strategy game for a while
Cool game!

My first thought is a button for [Add Extra Try] to add one row, and another for [I Give Up - Tell Me]

I also second the thought on not using red as the colors for the correct letters. Perhaps white-on-green for the in-correct-position count and white or blue-on-light-gray for the -present-out-of-place count?
Maybe not. Right now the traffic is manageable and manual rate limiting, blocking etc is feasible.
Is it just me or it's actually hard to find an answer "how to know if you're addicted" in the article?

I skimmed the article and thought I found it when I got to the section titled "Key points – How to know if you’re addicted", in the middle of the article; but again this section didn't give a list of things to look out for...

Maybe I missed it?
“If everyone else is an idiot, how come you’re not tall?”
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Showing my screen. Debugging. Well, any discussion in general.

At the office, you want to talk, just shoot them a message on slack asking when they're free to talk, then walk up to them and talk. Remote, you end up scheduling a meeting, then dropping everything 5 min before and after that meeting.

Also "hanging out" in general. No opportunities for lunch together. Can't complain about work without it being logged in a conversation. I'm excited for the monthly 1 on 1s where I learn that my boss is a human and likes skateboarding, lol. But even the hangouts are rushed and if a meeting is done 10 mins early, we end it 10 mins early.
I never said I don't like the NYT. It's important to read only what people say, not combine what they say with what you think.

I didn't realize he got over a million bucks. In that case, it was a good move. I doubt ads would've paid that much.
Next week, an article written by the husband on how to get a patio really flat in your garden.
Not exactly. For you to think you are traveling 20x faster than light, your friends that stayed at home would have to see you traveling at 0.99995c. For 233x faster than light, that's a lot of 9's in that number.
Indeed, I'm a physicist with a background in electronics, so I'm fluent in that stuff. The question is whether explaining complex numbers to a non physicist is really going to bring them any closer to physics.
It seems that we need another layer to tokenize according to context. I can see that breaking up a long number into 3 or 4 digits is the correct behaviour if we are dealing with phone numbers, but it'd be completely wrong if it's nearly anything else.
Constructive dismissal laws vary by state- but generally, if the compensation and job duties remain substantially the same, it won't be constructive dismissal in the US. The post alludes to the possibility that the new company will make changes after 6 months... if they substantially reduce compensation at that time or substantially change the nature of the job, their us employees would probably qualify for unemployment.

Notably, the Reddit poster is from France, so this sin't a "US vs Europe" thing as some other comentors are trying to make it out.

Also, looking at https://www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/social-security/unemploym..., seems unemployment in Germany is similiar, but in some situations less than in the US- though it can also, in some situations, last longer.
'detected' would be more accurate, but this is a pop sci take on a press release that says "New planet detected around star closest to the Sun" [1] of a paper called "A candidate short-period sub-Earth orbiting Proxima Centauri" [2]. That's often how it goes, each new medium picking it up adding more and more embellishment, graphics of green-and-blue planets, and breathless fantasizing about one day colonizing the stars.

"Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun's closest star" is a lot sexier than "We detect a signal at 5.12 ± 0.04 days with a semi-amplitude of 39 ± 7 cm s−1. The analysis of subsets of the ESPRESSO data, the activity indicators, and chromatic RVs suggest that this signal is not caused by stellar variability but instead by a planetary companion with a minimum mass of 0.26 ± 0.05 M⊕ (about twice the mass of Mars) orbiting at 0.029 au from the star. The orbital eccentricity is well constrained and compatible with a circular orbit."

[1] https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2202/

[2] https://www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142337