skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And crypto wants you to think that unregulated exchanges are just as fair, honest and trustworthy as the highly regulated financial markets.

The question remains, who are you gonna trust?
You remember the recent terrible films and forget the old terrible films.

Also works for TV, music, books, plays.

Imagine all the crap that was on at the same time as Shakespeare that no one remembered 5 years later, let alone 400
In Germany protest against nuclear weapons and nuclear energy was one of the core issues of the Green Party for the last 40 years. Restarting or extending the lifetime of existing plants would be political suicide for the current government.

If they're smart they can build support for modern designs, probably small nuclear, as long as they can convince their voter base that the risk of accidents and the problem of waste disposal are much smaller than with the outdated plants they helped close down.

From an economic perspective it's a hard sell compared to solar and wind plus storage, but with the resistance to new windfarms by NIMBYs you can probably justify some subsidies. The timescales involved are still a problem though.
F# empowers everyone to write succinct, robust and performant code
There is not much request.
A collection of free Carrd website templates
I suggest they reintroduce Clippy.

"Hey there, looks like your system is unsupported"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant
Very cool. I was excited to try it until I saw you have to tap into the CRT cable bundle inside the Mac case. Actually, I think I'm still excited to try it — I need to recap my old Mac Plus and might as well make the hardware mod then.

(Debating whether to add a clean rear connector for the "video out" rather than the wires hanging out like in the article … it would require drilling a hole in the case.)

I'm surprised those video wires did not need to be shielded.

Flustered me would run a Mac emulator on modern hardware, capture the display that way. I know that's cheating though.
Turing's original idea of a "computer" was a human manipulating symbols on paper, so I would say trivially yes
I think Steven Pinker's book Enlightenment Now made a compelling case that the world now has basically never been better. You'd be crazy to wish be born in to any other time period. I find that comforting. There's good reasons to be glad you weren't born in the past, and the same reasons to be hopeful for the future.

Perhaps that's not comforting if you're suffering. But if the cause of your suffering is that you think the world is awful, give that book a read. Pinker does a good job of breaking that sentiment down in to chunks (exactly what part is awful?) and exploring those questions.

Personally, I do think that a lot of the "world is awful and broken right now" sentiment is a bit detached from the reality. Which is great news! Anyways, I'm not trying to come at you at all, just be helpful and challenge assumptions.
Flutter is great!

I'm working on a multi-front-end, multi-back-end UI framework called Nexus. The initial front-end will be Flutter and the initial back-end will be Nim (Python following soon).

https://nexusdev.tools
The first time I got an e-mail from Sven was, when he was scolding me because of an e-mail I sent to the mutt-user mailing list. Sven complained about my horrible English and told me that I have to take more time to edit e-mails before sending them to a public mailing list out of respect to all the readers. Afterwards he helped me with so many things -- as he helped many others. I wrote down some personal memories here: https://k7r.eu/command-line-tool-lover-and-free-software-ent...

Still proud he teached me how to do show "Vim" "eastside/westside style" with my fingers. RIP Sven.
How is this classical music? Grammys controversy
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My team has been porting our mobile product over to Flutter now over the last two years, and it has been interesting seeing what can be done with it.

The reason we are moving to Flutter is the limited size of the development team (only a handfull collectively working on both platforms). In that regard, being able to share the codebase has been a massive boon to productivity.

However there are tons of issues that come with Flutter, just like any programming language and framework. Like the article mentions, the third party plugin ecosystem is nowhere near the maturity and stability that one has come to know from the Android & iOS community. Packages sometimes get left behind and not updated for ages, which causes various issues as new versions of the platform OS's come out.

Dart is also a very verbose language, and it really took a long time to get used to the noise it generates on screen. The lack of proper null safety until only recently had also been difficult for the team to get to terms with.

In our case we are also integrating Flutter along with our native code base, which opens up all kinds of other cans of worms then when just using Flutter standalone.

To me it serves a purpose, and is another tool in the toolbox. I am however much more excited for the possibilities that come with Jetbrain's new UI framework Compose.
I check the box that says "I prefer not to say" whenever the question of race or sex comes up shrug.
In the US, the Video Privacy Protection Act has a pretty interesting history. If you aren't familiar with it, the Wikipedia page has a pretty good summary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act
Only having people working for them who want to work for them seems like an easy way to be sure of certainty and compliance.
Both are/were actually rich. The difference is that Trump was loosing money his dad earned while failing upwards again and again.
It really was an elegant instruction set.
I like Lenovo, even more since they started native and firmware support for Ubuntu on some of the laptops. When it comes to phones, I think a Pixel running a non-Google Android version seems to be decent. At least my old Pixel 2 is. Not really looking forward to replacing it... But the screen is shot (again... the main reason why I never come to sell a used phone...).
"Not slow, but full and continuous inhaling and exhaling to the boundaries of lung capacity."

Sounds like some serious hyperventilation - I wouldn't recommend doing that as it can lead to cerebral hypoxia
and the surge of gas prices will cause surge on literally everything.
> China is going to be more powerful than Nato

This is a weird extrapolation. Assuming Europe remains impotent, the UK, Australia and U.S. are going to have more mobile firepower than China has total firepower for decades to come.
> And the scope of games was much smaller, in complexity and game length, so it was easier to QA

Agreed on this point.

> End result is that on average games were much more stable than modern games are at 1.0.

Have you got an actual source for this? I think you're missing a large amount of pure crapware that was released. I have memories of playing the Sierra adventure games being incredibly unreliable for example. Ports for DOS were unbeatable without cheating because they were so sloppily done[0]. E.T. [1] which has been associated with the fall of major games companies and is widely known as the worst game in history, or Bubsy 3d which is literally meme material. 95% of boxed games that were released were complete and utter crapware.

[0] https://kotaku.com/that-time-a-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtle-g...
[1] https://www.npr.org/2017/05/31/530235165/total-failure-the-w...
Right, but then you might have to carry another device where just an app on the iPad would have been sufficient. Not to mention, that you would have to buy another device. And while that sounds like an incentive to Apple not to provide those capabilities to the iPad, I would have renewed my iPad Pro much earlier, if it were a bit more capable software-wise.
I usually don't need a laptop, just a little bit more capable iPad.
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How it logs me in via HN without having to submit my HN password to a party other than HN (the one thing I was interested in, buried somewhere in the middle of the post) is this good old hack:

> Provide[s] a unique code or phrase to put in their HN profile
Photosynthetic performance of foraminifera affected by sunscreens
Are you going to pretend that Germany didn't lobby for natural gas to be included by Europe in the green taxonomy ? Adding "but we know it's bad!" after the fact doesn't make it better in the slightest. German greens are hypocrites.
Because Poland let the long term contracts run out and also got cheered up for this by the US to not depend on Russia, Poland is the one who buys on the spot market.

The German companies buy from Gazprom under the umbrella of the cheap long term contracts and now are selling to Poland. The German companies order from Netherlands way much more then in previous years (almost double), because of long term contracts, that Netherlands has to fulfill.

Here you have the companies, which are really profiting. It is not so much Gazprom as you may think.
Unfortunately Early Access only work good for specific kind of games where continious support make sense. If your project is not built with unlimited replayability by design then it's doesn't work, e.g if your game is story-driven.

EA work realy well for titles that managed to get some community or media attention. For most of other indie game developers primary target is to attempt to get promition from platform itself (e.g Steam or console) since it's only way to sell something.

Also releasing in Early Access require very specific development pipeline where from very beginning you have to deliver stable builds with constant production quality (graphics quality, no placeholder art, etc). Most of players dont really give a damn about how game development works neither they want to play game that look incomplete or crashes often.

PS: My point is that early access work for some titles, but for every Rimworld or Factorio there are literally thousand of games that failed miserably because early access dont work for them.
It's probably true, though. I would guess that Russia didn't want to invade Ukraine. Russia wanted to extract concessions by threatening to invade Ukraine. But since NATO gave Russia nothing, not even some tiny symbolic concession that Putin could present as a victory, Putin, having painted himself into a corner (as per the Economist front cover), had no choice. And so some people will die. And other people (LNG vendors) will get rich.
I think it's a good choice if you're majoring in CS, or anything closely related where you are very likely to learn another general-purpose language anyway (or have done so), then it's an awesome way to see different paradigms.

I think it's a bad choice if this is your only programming course during your studies, then it would be much more helpful to learn something that is a safer bet you'll be using in your life continuing forward. Yes, even JavaScript. If you're interested, you'll pick up another language and apply what you learned here - but if not, then I think there's a better chance you'll recall what you learned with the mainstream model and work from there.

This is my unscientific opinion, but it's based on all my experience with non-programmers where you can be happy if they learned _something_ at all, they'll most often see themselves as "I learned some Python" for example, and are willing to expand from there, but they're more reluctant to transfer the knowledge to learn a new language. I don't think it's completely off, either, even drawing a parallel to learning natural languages (to a small degree, not full working proficiency).
And you remind me of a friend of mine, and a funny story about them - apparently they once threw someone's food out of a window, apparently unprovoked. A bit jealous, irritable or aggrieved about something, I'd expect - those happen to all of us. Ah, the joys of youth, I suppose.

What's the model of Serfas pump you mention? That sounds like a good problem to be aware of.
After having "Truist" close my account without telling me (but still let me deposit a ton of money into it) I think you might be better of without a bank account. All they do is fuck around with you and they're never open.

Crypto absolutely is the future weather the well connected people in the FED and their customers like it or not.
The issue between China (both PRC and Taiwan since they have the same claims) and the Philippines and Vietnam is with the South China Sea, namely the so-called "nine dash line" that includes areas also claimed by Vietnam and the Philippines.

Interestingly, the Philippines were previously invaded and occupied by Spain, the US, and Japan but never China although one of their nearest neighbour... Likewise although there were conflicts and Northern Vietnam was briefly taken over by China 600 years ago, Vietnam was only fully colonised by France. This is just to point out that China is not historically as aggressive as we are in the West.
Yep, whenever I do not want to feel cold, I can. Note: I wouldn't describe it as feeling warm. In fact, I'd describe it as a pretty adrenaline-like state [1]. That adrenaline-like state is much more comfortable than feeling cold. It's super practical to have this when you think about it, the weather's got nothing on me! It's really tough for me to feel unhappy about the weather, because whenever I do, I can use my superpower and go from a chilly/shivery person to a person that can suddenly handle -5 degrees celsius in their shorts (with shoes on though).

The only thing that still annoys me is rain and hail at times. But as a chilly/shivery person the issue was always cold temperatures for me. That issue is gone. I say it with surprise because I still think it sounds crazy. Before 2014 it had such an impact on my life and suddenly all that misery just drops to zero.

Spiritually though, I didn't notice a lot, I'd rather stick to meditation for that. And whatever people may say, IMO, the Wim Hof Method is not a meditation. It's a combination of two breathing techniques + an optimistic trained/taught mentality about the cold being your friend.

Oh, I also sometimes use it as a natural painkiller when I don't have one on me and start to get a headhache. You know since the adrenaline-like state includes some actual adrenaline [1] :)

One "issue" with the WHM is that you need to keep doing it to stay in the state. It otherwise wains after 5 minutes or so. Because of this, it's impossible for me to be social in a normal sense, since breathing in a very specific way + talking at the same time is about as tough as beatboxing while singing (which I know how to do as well :P). Which means: it requires a lot of practice and trickery.

[1] Research shows you get a lot of adrenaline in. It's in the publication I was a guinea pig for: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/111/20/7379.full.pdf
EU is improved LNG capacity (LNG terminals and LNG regasification capacity) as a policy. LNG imports will take over Russian gas over medium term. After regasification the gas goes to same pipes.

Biden has discussed with US energy companies on how to get them into providing LNG capacity to European needs.
rereading the link I guess there are some implementation specifics that are JVM. I'm not really familiar with CLJS to say how those translate - but in principle is sounds like it could work on both platforms
> Marriage helps there too.

Yeah. My “wife” (girlfriend of 22 years) was recently able to say F-U to her old hated job and start part-time growing a private therapy clientele because my pay has gone up so much in the past four years or so. Having a support structure really helps.

> I've found the reverse.

Agreed. When I had nothing external motivating me I became largely idle, despite my best intentions. I joke about early retirement but I’m not sure it would be good for me.
Ask HN: How I buy a TV that don't show porn ads to kids?
So I bought a LG C1 OLED tv... It has that shiny new WebOS 6 that seemly is plagued with ads even if you disable all permissions, and I heard reports it is circunventing pi-hole too (by putting ads on same server as content you actually want).

The Brazillian version of it insists in advertising content available on "Looke", with little filtering, it has no shame in just pasting there posters of splatter horror movies or adult stuff, for example ads for a documentary about Rocco or another named just "Porn" with a giant naked ass on the poster.

Anyone know how I buy a dumb TV? One that does not need internet, at all? Or if it does need internet to update its firmware, it won't spy on me or fill stuff with ads?

OLED TVs aren't cheap either, and I am very disappointed that even paying a ton of money I am still the product.
I think you got your numbers wrong. Even in the US, you are not allowed to sell gas furnaces with less than 80% efficiency. High-end ones reach over 99% efficiency.
The sheer number of local variables can be a problem, especially when you want to refactor parts of a function to their own functions. All those variables you're using in the scope of this big function become parameters to the subfunction so you can easily end up with 6+ parameters to these refactored functions.
Progress is like "wellness." If you have a bleeding gunshot wound, you are not well. But if there is nothing obviously wrong, are you well?

If half your population is malnourished and lacks basic services like banking and these statistics improve, that's obviously progress. It's much harder to pin down what progress would be for a country like the USA or Switzerland.
Speaking only for myself (pure anecdata), I can say that the last four years or so, have been the happiest of my life, as well as the most productive.

Five years ago, was when I left the company that I'd worked for, for 27 years. This was followed, almost immediately, by finding out that the tech industry really doesn't like older workers (which didn't make me happy). I floundered around, for a year or so, being insulted, ignored, and rejected, before I took the hint, and just accepted that I'm in early retirement; whether or not I like it.

Since then, I have been insanely productive. I spent a couple of years, "leveling-up," and, a couple of years ago, I found some folks with a nonprofit, that were being "gamed" by the same types of folks that rejected me, and decided to help them out.

It's been great.
Healthy? The linked post reads as very snide. Ben starts with claims that Chris isn't viewing his comments in context as being opinion. Rather than move on at that point, he turns around and decides to nitpick one of Chris' statements, characterizes it as hyperbolic and extreme (The extremely hyperbolic phrase in question was "betray a lot of expectations and introduce a lot of bugs." Wow, such extreme hyperbole).

Ben then goes on to call another one of Chris' posts as representative of a part of a broader trend of "performative misunderstanding", basically calling Chris and others disingenuous.

He then dismisses Chris' concerns out of hand as "a possible but frankly implausible misinterpretation", and says that his behavior is a "real problem" that worsens the goodness of other proposals.

I'm not saying that either party here is in the right, or that the discussion as a whole is in Chris' favor, but I would say this thread is definitely not an example of healthy debate. You don't call your interlocutor disingenuous in healthy debate hyperbolically nitpick their posts as hyperbolic. That's not debate, it's squabbling.
I maybe served too less of context, but another comment of yours indicates you know that I mean the fact that this trump stuff is a license-violating clone of mastodon? I have trouble making sense of your comment :)
At Least my LG TV shows up in the Offline Devices list on my router when it's turned off.
Nah, they were targeting previous gen consoles, probably signed deals with Sony and MS to deliver on those platforms.

They rushed to meet deadlines and got burned by the scope of the project.

Problem with C2077 is verticality of the game, Witcher was laid-out horizontaly on large plains. C2077 must have been optimization nightmare especially when you suppose to down-port it to last gen consoles.
> In fact, years ago I read an article about a psychiatrist or research who accidentally discovered that he was a psychopath himself, despite being a loving family man.

Psychopats as "loving family man" do huge amounts of damage to members of their families. Yes, it is way more subtle then killing them with chainsaw. It is very real too.
I feel like the key is found at this: "Which comes first, succeeding and then being happy, or being happy and then succeeding? And just how much does initial happiness matter?". Satisfaction in the workplace has A LOT to do in fostering motivation and therefore productivity, creativity...

The contrary is burnout, and I bet no one is brilliant in that position
The quote is reported by multiple outlets, and he doesn’t deny he said it.
I'm not sure whether China sees Crimea and the Donbas as "separatism" (not good) or as Russia taking back what it lost, in which case they may be taking notes...
I am usually using my Sony smart TV as a computer monitor, connecting a Mac mini to an HDMI port.

A smart TV wouldn't straight-out spy on an external use like this, would it?
> The subject looks to be the absence of competition to Chrome

The presence of a proprietary web browser that only works on a specific platform restricted to a certain class of individuals which can afford to be on that platform doesn't really add much to the competition.

> another reason might be handing Google de-facto control over standards

I don't see Apple having that control to be any better although from what I've been reading about web browser engines and the underlying technology, I doubt anyone else, besides a few behemoth tech companies, can take any sort of control. The web is too far gone for that.
If there were real plans to sanction people responsible for invasion, they should've sanctioned russian billionaires - cancel their residence, close their companies, liquidate their property, freeze their money in banks, forbid travel. But this looks like they are taking EU money to pay to US gas fracking companies
Towards a theory of techno-imagination (1980) [pdf]
I love Pixels, closets thing to be spyware free. If you ignore being spied upon by Google, that is. Also very easy to get other Android versions on them, and those other OSes offer great, long term compatibility.
Another site that uses this method is mmm.page.
Thanks Captain Obvious. Your deep understanding of western economy has enlightened me.
That’s a win in my books. Lots of other ppl actually lose money their first year.
Same here, I resigned recently from a company (nominally a startup) that behaves like a traditional company described here. After working in SV-like companies for 20 years, it was very difficult to be a leader in that environment, with heavy micromanagement and information filtering.
It still does, yes, :)
I wonder if the author's advice would have changed if the student was seeking transparency instead of "fairness". Would there be administrative resistance to publishing their goals and process? Does the secrecy of the process affect the success of the goals?
The student was upset primarily because the outcome was unexpected.
This is what Merriam-Webster says: "Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, together with its 1993 Addenda Section, includes some 470,000 entries. The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, reports that it includes a similar number." (That's different from the other list I saw.)

But absolutely agree with your point. It's not like Britain and US vocabulary differs markedly in books and speaking.