skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree there are limits; there are no absolutes in anything. We don't have absolute free speech: you can't slander, commit fraud, conspire to commit a crime, incite a deadly stampede, etc.

I think the main concern is that the more powerful the actor (e.g., government is very powerful) the more important transparancy is, and the more vulnerable the actor, the more important privacy is.

For example, if an Apple (picking a random company) employee complains to authorities about dangerous working conditions, that employee may be very vulnerable - Apple could blacklist them; other businesses, if they learned of the complaint, could do the same, not wanting a 'troublemaker'. And that employee may be financially vulnerable, needing the job; their privacy should be maintained if possible. But Apple and the government are both powerful and there should be transparency about the working conditions, investigation, and outcome.
I have no game programming experience. What is a shader and what other things needs are required to make a 3d object realistic. I think wireframe and then lighting is another. Seems shading is yet another which provides skin. Other than animation is there anything else?
I agree 100%. Fine dining should really be framed as part of the entertainment category. You are paying for an experience. Just like people don't talk about the Incan Trail as a $1,000 hike, a Michelin restaurant is not a $150 meal. When framed like this, it is obvious that some people would derive more utility out of a Michelin starred meal as opposed to buying 2-3 new video games.
Not any way that wouldn't just let us move to a star that will go supernova, I don't think. I just looked up the mass of the solar system, and got the gut-punch answer of 1.0014 solar masses. Considering that it seems to take 8 or so times as much mass as the sun for a star to experience a supernova, we could trivially just move all the non-star mass in the solar system elsewhere for several fewer orders of magnitude of effort.
This isn't _exactly_ true. JS will await on anything that is Promiselike (an object with a `then` function that accepts a callback). See the TS definition of Promiselike.
Well...
I have second hand knowledge that developers and managers of www.programmzeitung.ch are satisfied with their good and modern website.
This is great to see. We have been using Conductor and I think having a dedicated company to support this will be a huge boost for Conductor OSS.

As Ingrid points out, it seems the need pattern. Build and open source something while at a big firm and then break out as a company.

I’m excited to see how the product will evolve with this news.
> I'd much rather that HN would just allow me to delete my account.

Agreed, but: remove your email address and change the password to random characters. The account may still be there but now you can't log in with it.
So if a large corporation with an army of lawyers uses your open source code, how successful do you think you will be at winning the lawsuit?
It can be legal for you to scrape something yet very illegal to reproduce it.

This applies even more when the site you scraped didn't have permission to show the data in the first place. Their mistake does not rise to be your permission; if it was my data, I would have as much a claim against you as them. "The software did it" is not an excuse.
You need UV light to generate vitamin D, which you probably don't want in your house (it will cause color fading and deterioriation in fabrics, upholstery, etc.)
Since you mentioned C# and most replies so far are about Javascript -

In C#, you can't use the "await" keyword, but you can use the result of a Task<T> in a non-async function with ".Result" or ".GetAwaiter().GetResult()". https://stackoverflow.com/a/47648318/5107208
It's useful for the estimation part of system design.
End to end encrypted with what key? What if the user changed their password? What if they got a new phone? What if the server is only pretending the user got a new phone to trick you into leaking your messages?

All of those problems are solvable, but "simply" is hardly the word I'd use to describe designing a secure end-to-end encrypted application. It's way, way more development effort than just "hash user passwords with bcrypt and don't allow access without the password", which is why it's rarely done unless E2E encryption is a major selling point of the application.
I work with blockchain, but I stay the hell away for anything related to selling tokens or investing for future , sadly that excludes 95% of the blockchain world as it is today. But in that 5% there’s some really promising awesome projects.

We all understand the importance of databases and in general storing state. Do you know any other paradigm/system where a database is not controlled by a ‘root’ user with god powers?

That’s what blockchain is. If people are going nuts using it to create currencies and selling each other JPGS, that’s their business. Doesn’t deny the usefulness of the underlying paradigm.
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> nor do I know much about its history, cultures or peoples

I think you added that part, not me
-When it refuses to print because your ink level is “low” but it’s still 15% full.

-when the option to print both front and back sides aren’t available with the default printer driver installation.

-when the ink dries out after 3 months of non-use in regular indoor conditions.

-when the error messages are cryptic and require a hard to find reference manual. (Ex: Error #36F just means no paper.)

-When the printer driver includes bloatware that frequently opens a new window or popup message on the computer.

-When you move into a new house and have to connect it to the new Wifi network for AirPrint / WifiPrint.
I've been to (as best I can remember) three Michelin starred restaurants in my life:
Sierra Mar in Big Sur, California, Il Bucco in Sorrento, Italy (for my honeymoon), and Schwa in my hometown of Chicago.

My wife and I had a lovely time at each place.
Im Germany there is the term "instruction to the offence" - that is a crime itself. Just saying...but I'm not a lawyer, dunno how that's handled globally.
Should be any day now for my local. According to this student newspaper article from 2018¹:

> With another drop not expected for at least another four years…

¹ https://universitytimes.ie/2018/03/why-trinity-prides-itself...
He was just participating in an online community, the same way you were both in that thread and we are in this one. I saw your link; he wasn't being an asshole - he was providing clarifying information.
Derivatives are not securities and are regulated differently. For example, futures are regulated by CFTC in the US.
If you click through to the previous article, it says they'll be launching a kickstarter campaign in spring.
> What happens to the content you are not willing to take the personal risk for?

let someone else host it if they think it's valuable

otherwise we are dooming the network to host everything forever
Looks like for LEDs at least that is not true:

"commercially available LED light sources (for horticultural or other applications) can be considered human safe when designed, installed and used in accordance with the applicable standards, regulations and manufacturer’s instruction"

https://www.valoya.com/the-effect-of-led-grow-lights-on-huma...
> decide to take the world with them?

Russia always threatens the nuclear option so while it shouldn't be ignored by defense agencies it also shouldn't be taken __too__ seriously. In order for the nuclear option to be used over sanctions there would need to be suicidally homicidal people in place from the top to the people turning the keys in the Russian regime and I think that's pretty unlikely. The sanctions can be unwound and Russia can at least recover to the point of getting by if not better, individuals with means can emigrate with their family, all for the price of one humiliating military defeat that is vastly overshadowed by the economic devastation their actions have wrought. I find it hard to think that most Russians would rather blow up the world than take that option.
Why should the USA maintain a merchant fleet? We already rely on foreign owned and operated ships for the majority of our shipping.
> A function marked as async will always return a promise.

I understand that async functions return promises, but why can't you await for a promise from a non-async function? For me it would seem logical since by awaiting you essentially turn a promise into a concrete result which you can then use in your non-async code.
Fair. I did search out myself and several others I know. Didn’t find myself, but did find out that there’s a guy with a very similar name to me (different middle name) that likes to live dangerously in the same State but in several different counties racking up speeding violations like there’s no tomorrow.

I was able to find almost every single other person I searched though, chose not to dig into it any further than I could confirm it was someone I actually knew, typically by birth date.
While true, the ability to work in a warm white atmosphere is a benefit not to be ignored.

(I'm using a 20W/m 5m strip of BC-series 1900K for my living room, along with a 10W 4000K bulb hanging from the ceiling.)
Hey, that's nice to hear. Have you seen some of the syncing alternatives? https://plainorg.com#cloud-providers

Mileage varies across iOS providers, but some users have reported being fairly happy with either WorkingCopy or Syncthing/MöbiusSync which would work on Linux. I'm on iCloud though.
very sad. It was in the bay area just a few years ago! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWmkKE-9FgA
obviously not, judging by his tone, people who optimize for money might only study leetcode. Algorithm skills probably account for at most 10-20% of the skills you need to become a good software engineer.
One example: Descent2 XXL open source game engine that can run the classic game if you have the levels of Descent 1 and 2.

In Windows, it works just as it worked in Windows XP, 7 and so on. Many years after, it still runs.

In Linux, any distro not 10 years old, it is basically impossible to make it compile. No binaries can be found that work in any Ubuntu or Red Hat that people actually use in 2022.

Whoever said static linking is bad never thought about these scenarios.

That's why both Rust and Go are using static linking. The future of not-ridiculously-slow software is going to be statically linked.

In a modern computer with modern memory, we should be using the RAM for static linked executables instead of bloated Electron runtimes.
This seems evident.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had spoke a few days ago that they respected the sovereignty of Ukraine.

"China firmly advocates respecting and safeguarding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries," Wang said, according to a statement from China's Foreign Ministry on Friday. "This equally applies to the Ukraine issue."

When Putin was talking about their 'no limit alliance' a few weeks ago, China was most likely aware that Russia was about to recognize the 2 new republics. China almost certainly didn't know Russia was about to invade Ukraine.

In fact, it looks like all this talk about China invading Taiwan was really Russian propaganda to turn us against China.

Really when you look at the facts, China really hasn't started aggressive wars.

I feel like we have all been fooled by Putin.
There is no inconsistency. EU is probably welcoming of Ukraine, but obviously it cannot be in a territorial conflict when that happens.

For NATO the apparent inconsistency is only apparent. It’s an important principle that Ukraine is free to apply or not apply for any membership they want. And similarly the countries within NATO are free to form alliances with whoever they want, so they are free to accept or reject an application from Ukraine. What’s the alternative? NATO accepting that Russia decides the international politics of other countries, because right now their opinions happen to align?

> It seems to me like the clear sensible political solution here is for all sides to guarantee the security and neutrality of Ukraine

It does seem reasonable. But how could Russia be trusted in the matter? And how could Ukraine trust the west to help them if Russia doesn’t live up to its part of the agreement? Ukraine gave up its nukes after the fall of the Soviet Union with security guarantees from the west. That didn’t work.

Any “neutral demilitarized Ukraine” seems it can only work if Ukraine is in a military alliance like NATO that would guarantee its safety. The negotiations about demilitarization make sense but would have to concern only what material can be on Ukraine territory, whether NATO excercies can take place there and so on. And on that it makes sense to go very non-confrontional. Norway has self-imposed such restrictions in the area closest to Russia for example: no excercises take place there and so on.
Not being satiated is also a sign of having low calories on a "good" vegan diet.

If you ate 500 grams of raw beans (cooked), having 1.5kg of excrement going through your bowels will leave you quite satiated.

On my plant-only days, whenever I eat that much volume of food to get to 3500kcal (I weigh 220lbs and eat 4000kcal+ on regular days), I am basically satiated after first 2000kcal for the whole day and have to force myself to eat more. This is whole plants, no oils.

Of course, the massive poop next morning makes it worth the trouble :D
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From another one of their posts: "We are launching a crowdfunding campaign in spring, and we will start production right afterward. Our plan is to begin shipping in late summer or early fall."
Well, this theory is easily refuted by the fact that there are governments that have the same degree of power and control over the economy and don't wreck the economy. Some governments cause hyperinflation, but most don't, even though all are in control of the money supply. The fact that a government can mismanage the economy doesn't mean that it will mismanage the economy. In fact incompetent governments such as the Argentinian government are not that common. In many parts of the world the rule is for governments to be competent, or at least to be competent enough to not cause an economic catastrophe.
> I have always thought the "subconscious mind" was a bit of a myth

I had an insight recently about this, because I also have a tendency to trust my conscious more than my unconscious.

What is the conscious made of?

sorry if that gets too zen/koan-y.
And a simple test for it would be to buy a $3 set of blue-light blocking glasses and see if that solves the problem for you rather than throwing out a bunch of far more expensive lights.
It also leads to greater predictability.

>The reliance on judicial opinion is a strength of common law systems, and is a significant contributor to the robust commercial systems in the United Kingdom and United States. Because there is reasonably precise guidance on almost every issue, parties (especially commercial parties) can predict whether a proposed course of action is likely to be lawful or unlawful, and have some assurance of consistency.[76] As Justice Brandeis famously expressed it, "in most matters it is more important that the applicable rule of law be settled than that it be settled right."[77] This ability to predict gives more freedom to come close to the boundaries of the law.[78] For example, many commercial contracts are more economically efficient, and create greater wealth, because the parties know ahead of time that the proposed arrangement, though perhaps close to the line, is almost certainly legal. Newspapers, taxpayer-funded entities with some religious affiliation, and political parties can obtain fairly clear guidance on the boundaries within which their freedom of expression rights apply.

>In contrast, in jurisdictions with very weak respect for precedent,[79] fine questions of law are redetermined anew each time they arise, making consistency and prediction more difficult, and procedures far more protracted than necessary because parties cannot rely on written statements of law as reliable guides.[76] In jurisdictions that do not have a strong allegiance to a large body of precedent, parties have less a priori guidance (unless the written law is very clear and kept updated) and must often leave a bigger "safety margin" of unexploited opportunities, and final determinations are reached only after far larger expenditures on legal fees by the parties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law
Just from the scale I think it's clear that CRI is not that good a measure. As you say, CRI uses rendition of a dozen or so colors as a measure. The scale is heavily compressed - orange sodium vapor streetlights which are almost monochromatic "achieve" a CRI of 30, which is nowhere near "colors are 30 % good". Similarly, mercury vapor lamps have a CRI of around 50, and yet are complete garbage. All cheap LED fixtures are CRI 80 or 85 which is also garbage. 95 and 98 sounds very close, but aren't.

SSI - spectrum similarity index - is probably a better measure, because it doesn't look at a few colors, but at the entire spectrum, and so heavily punishes peaky and discontinuous spectra as produced by many LEDs. High SSI values also result in much better mix-and-match behavior of light sources. Even CRI 95 LEDs often don't mix well, usually on the pink-barf-scale (tint).
I'm glad you're not doing my code reviews sheesh
From the article :

"Is it worth [it] for China to undermine its own credibility to defend the indefensible? I’m afraid they were fooled by Putin,” Xu said, emphasizing that he and his colleagues wrote this letter because they love the country, and they do not wish a potential worldwide tragedy to stall China’s future.

“This is simply a black and white matter,” he continued. “This is an invasion. As the Chinese saying goes: you cannot call a deer a horse. As Chinese historians, we do not wish to see China being dragged into something that will fundamentally harm the current world order. For the love of mankind, world peace and development, we should make this clear.”

But Xu and his colleagues’ open letter was quickly taken down by internet censors after two hours and 40 minutes online."
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> Don't go into a michelin level restaurant expecting "well it's expensive so it should be what I normally eat but better", think of it as its own category of food, that happens to have a really high buy-in price. Lots more crazy flavors, presentation, exotic ingredients, etc.

A hobby of mine is picking a neighborhood and going to every single eatery, from possibly-illegal hole-in-the-walls and popups to fast food chains to bakeries and delis to cafes to fine dining establishments. I think I've only been to one Michelin-starred restaurant though — there aren't a lot of those.

Restaurants have to cater to their clientele, even high-end ones. If you offer something creative on your menu, odds are there won't be a large market for it because most people want familiar fare. There are a lot of expensive-yet-conservative Italian restaurants in the US, for example — with lots of patrons who love them! The chefs may chafe at the constraints, but running a restaurant and bringing pleasure and satisfaction to your customers is a different endeavor than exploring the possibilities of cuisine.

If you want to experience unfamiliar flavors, presentations, and ingredients your best bet is to go to places run by and primarily frequented by first-generation immigrants. It's not that such eateries are any more adventurous — the same economic forces constrain them — but they target a clientele with different tastes.

The 80 eateries I've visited in San Diego's City Heights district offered way more variety and novel-to-me fare than the 70 or so restaurants I checked out on a tour of downtown San Diego. That's because City Heights has large enclaves of Mexican, Vietnamese and Somali immigrants, enough to sustain businesses which cater primarily to the tastes of those enclaves.

I can think of some high-end restaurants that had very interesting menus, but in my experience there is only a weak correlation between price and adventurousness. It may be different though for specifically Michelin-starred restaurants, since that's a curated list.
Curious if others have had this experience too - many successful founder CEOs I've known through my career (working closely with them) are excellent at ball-parking / order-of-magnitude / back-of-napkin thinking off the top of their mind.

There's something about it that IMO is an excellent 'tell' for a certain kind of intelligence especially for startups. I imagine part of it is that it's a good sign of 'technical skills' like fluency with math, and fluency with modelling scenarios. The other part is it's a 'demonstration of fitness' to others. Like, wow, our CEO is SMART and thinks FAST - great!
Well this gets messy. It doesn't have bandwidth to stream the full ADC data to PC, but it also doesn't have any capability on the device itself to do triggering. I tried googling around and the best guess how it is supposed to work is that PC periodically polls the device for data and looks for trigger points from what it receives. If the trigger point happens to fall within the buffer that was there at the time of polling then great, otherwise apparently it just loses that trigger(!). No wonder people are commenting that it is crappy, that sounds pretty dubious approach.
Dude yes! Haha I use this all the time! It's so nice to have the files in Git too and it's such an easy dev install.
Your comment made me think of Hundertwasser's architecture: https://www.hundertwasser.com/en/architecture , another example.
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I’m very interested to learn lighting design towards creating intimate, cozy, warm indoor spaces. Any advice on where I can learn more of the err “Art of Lighting Design”? I have a design degree so I’m across general colour and design theories but seeking resources specifically about lighting spaces using a more opinionated approach/ set of principals.
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My wife and I have gone to In-N-Out after fancy dinners on a number of occasions.
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Second this one :D
Can I just say this whole presentation (like the previous Lisp boot-sector one) is just astonishingly well put-together, on top of the tour-de-force achievement.
I feel this comment isnt going to get a lot of love but appears to be saying something interesting. Can you explain it further?
Have you tried an spectrogram? For example this accept input from the microphone https://auditoryneuroscience.com/acoustics/spectrogram there are many https://www.google.com/search?q=spectrogram+online
I’d like to see this adjusted by quality of life. My father has extremely poor health propped up by a terrible fatty meat heavy diet for his entire life. He’s in his 80s only thanks to medical intervention on numerous occasions and has precisely zero quality of life left.
They finally heeded my advisement and send now 2500 Valmet AK-47s and 1000 bazookas.
Could someone explain what this does?
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