skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is when hardware light rendering still existed. We haven't used that in about 15 years.
The standard is a mess. I love the connector.
yeah, and the interop with noscript/basic (x)html browsers?
That's possibly the worst thing that could happen to science. Academic research should not be an industry. The fact that it is now considered as such in the western world will be our downfall.
Just go full-audacity and drown people in drop down menus lol at least I know what to click!
"we have never observed consciousness in anything that does not have a brain"

how would you measure consciousness?
Raymond Chen commented on the fashion cycle back when Office XP started drifting in the flat direction[1].

[1] http://bytepointer.com/resources/old_new_thing/20040728_291_...
You realize that’s got the direction wrong? “Given the affordability of housing somewhere within a pretty huge circle, what must the local minimum wage be?”
Why do they need a place that doesn't have high taxes?
This comes up every time male contraceptives come up, it's emotionally compelling but just isn't true.

The safety equation for men and women differs vastly. The pill is acceptable at its current safety level because the alternative is pregnancy which can be lethal. Plus the various uses in cycle control, important not just for fertility but also hormone management.

For men there is no downside to not taking the contraceptive, so it must boast a much higher safety profile to be considered. As it stands, the current attempts were either much too dangerous (higher rate of adverse responses than the pill) or too permanent, nothing to do with the fragility of men - perceived or otherwise.
In Russian authoritarianism the great leader is essentially infallible. It is suspicious that in this narrative the great leader had a plan and thought it was being executed, but treacherous disloyalty ruined everything. Not only is there no incompetence or general morale problem, the one big failing to look out for is disloyalty from those who should have supported the state by supporting the great leader.

The Ukrainians said what they were going to do if invaded and stuck to that while the Russians couldn't even keep their convoys fueled and fed. The real cause of the failure here is not disloyalty but incompetence. Incompetence is almost impossible for authoritarians to deal with rationally.
Building a no-code toxicity classifier by talking to GitHub Copilot
Why are designers so different from the rest of us I wonder? They value minimalism above all else, with little debate, but everyone else has a lot wider of a range of preferences it seems like.
It seems plausible that the increase in heart rate, blood pressure slightly make up for our general lack of exercise. And when you are studying heart disease and end-of-life, pretty much everyone being studied has a lack of exercise by definition.
> I think they often scale badly (pretty much anything round will unless its a vector I guess)

I don’t think anyone makes UI these days and not makes it a vector.
In a standard harvard architecture that isn't possible.
> Many of the benefits can be had from decaf.

The problem with a statement like this is that their have been decades of studies with normal coffee while there have been far fewer with decaf.
> Anybody can write weird meaningless stream-of-consciousness stuff.

By chance I'm working on a public discussion site and would love to have some stream of conscious discussion with you! https://sqwok.im
Perhaps I can summarize my position more clearly:

1) We've fucked up in this area before (e.g. being gay was considered a medical disorder), so let's be really careful to not fuck it up again.

2) Humans are vastly complicated systems and our understanding has grown immensely in recent centuries. So arguments like "aspect X of the human experience has always been understood this way" should be taken with a huge grain of salt, especially when people are making scientific claims (e.g. in this case, about biology / psychology).

3) Unless if I have a good reason not too, take people at face value. Treat them with respect. Make small concessions even if I don't fully understand why they want it. It doesn't cost me much, and it makes them happy.
Exactly! That's a good expression of the underlying point- that's why we've got to be annoying in private. It's a scalability issue. If everybody posted stuff like this on HN, it'd be hard to talk about actual tech.

Of course, having understood this, a sufficiently annoying hacker will immediately go "Oh! I can be annoying in public if I really want to! And technically it's on topic, because it helps other hackers talk about actual tech" and then everybody else has to deal with this sort of comment. Sorry. So it goes.
Everyone in this thread ahould be required to read Das Kapital, Poverty and Progress, and Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren before commenting.

Your radical ideas about society, individualism, and economics have already occurred to others. Arm yourself.
apparently, a Twitter thread led to the writing of the linked article, which publicizes careful modelling done by science teams years earlier. The "gonzo enthusiastic" voice of the author strongly contrasts to the science museum core of the subject. Perfect? nah, but modern and .. now people can see it. "publicity" you might call it.. not bad, definitely worth ten minutes to see one of the great geological events of pre-history.
Inside China's electric drive for swappable car batteries
> I live in one of the highest–priced areas of the US, and a simple x–ray exam costs about $200 whether you have insurance or not. The difference in price is primarily due to the higher cost of living here than in Brazil

Well, most x-rays are free here in Australia I believe, thanks to Medicare, so that "higher cost of living" explanation seems not to be right.
Cultural acceptance of alcohol use is a strong confounding factor. It should be be in the same category as marijuana, smoking, and other harmful substances
I guess that is the reason why every musician should copy their master to a cassette tape and go to a shitty car with a tape-player and listen there, why every developer should have a very old crap-computer to run their software on and why every UX designer should have a crappy screen to view their design on. :-)
Alterative hypothesis: the reason we see fewer artistic geniuses is a result of the winner-takes-all nature of the arts. Before that happened at a regional level - one country had its geniuses, another country had its geniuses. Now, it happens globally. All the world's attention is on just a few people in each artistic field, and those are the ones we think of as being the geniuses. The rest, those who in earlier times would have been considered geniuses, are ignored. The Internet promised space for a fat tail of creativity, and has enabled the opposite.
Wordle on the Badger 2040
It's more that I never properly measured it, but I know that it doesn't use more than that :) I should probably get a more accurate figure in there.

EDIT: From docker stats, I can see the container using about 2.5MB RAM, which is more in line with what I had in mind. It might scale up a bit if you start having 100K users, though :D (but it's really not meant for this and the frontend will crash your browser way before because there's no pagination)
Yes there is. You may want to look into Deterministic and Non-Deterministic Finite Automata. They are foundational to computability and Turing machines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_finite_automaton...
Maybe reframe this to "War harms open source"?
Is this just wild speculation? I know those two people got arrested but everything else is new to me.
Prima facie this seems an unlikely causal direction.

After about ten days of drinking {an amount} of coffee, your tolerance adjusts, and you're aligned to someone who does not drink coffee at all. You're effectively just maintaining a new baseline, but have developed a regular expenditure / tactile ceremony.

The 'make themselves more productive' claim would need some citations to back that up, as I suspect most is self-reporting anecdata.
Here's what doesn't check out with this story.

All dictators have multiple spy agencies that spy on each other. That's the only way for a dictator to stay in power, and ultimately to stay alive. The goal of these spy agencies is to catch the conspirators before they can stage the coup. That's the one job they need to be good at. Of course, they also have an official job, but that's a secondary concern. Competence and integrity are optional, maybe even counterproductive.

So, how do all these spy agencies spy on each other? They keep files. Lots of files. Everybody has a file on everybody. And Putin, as a God from the sky, can see everything. One person can lie, but not 10 competing ones. So, he's going to know who embezzles money, how much, on which yachts and mistresses they are spending the money, everything, all the dirt.

The problem is not that his spy embezzled the bribes. For sure they embezzled some, but not all. It's that they were incompetent. They didn't know who to bribe, how to make sure those bribed will play the role assigned to them, and the bribe fund was probably not that large to begin with. Oh, and the Ukrainians are not that weak at the spying game either. Remember, they were part of the Soviet Union, they had all the playbooks that Putin's people had too.

As for the leaks to the US to dissuade Putin. Well, that's just a nice cover for US's spies themselves. You think the US really doesn't have any spies in Russia? Think again.
Balls are very fragile though
This is frustrating. Very realistic and true to what playing golf IRL feels like.
I think I definitely misspoke here - I really didn't mean the devs so much as the companies that employ them. I know full well how difficult such a transition could be. Native Instruments has a ton of resources, and you'd think at the very least their most recent "flagship" synth Massive X would have seen an update by now.. which definitely points to organizational cruft more than anything. Most of the plugins I use that are created by smaller teams have already been updated.

The fact remains though that a loooot of producers use Macbook Pros, and I'm assuming many will be upgrading to M1s within the next couple years. I'm genuinely curious when the pressures will actually force these large organizations to take the transition seriously.
> But it's odd that programmers always think they know more about usability than people who study it for a living.

I’m sure it has something to do with them needing to justify their existence. No reason to have a designer if nothing has changed in the world of design. Programmers learn new languages (or go back to old ones), designers do the same with interface design principles.
> Now one of the worst parts is that everywhere I only even hint at not completely loving the new libadwaita theme I instantly get shut down and disagreed with before I can even get the chance to give some feedback. Apparently not liking flat themes makes me a madman in this world. Why am I not allowed to even have opinions about the look of the operating system I'm using?

Ah, it was the same way if you didn't love the direction they went with GNOME 3. If you don't love the design-of-the-day GNOME is chasing, they don't want you. I recommend KDE.
Oh My Posh – Free Ukraine Theme
This lazy approach to road safety of putting increasingly complex speed cameras everywhere is severely negligent. Invest the time, effort and money to make the roads safer. Make them German Autobahn level safe. Are these profitable yet empty gestures really fooling anyone?
Pro tip: Put salt on them.
> What exactly has happened in the last couple of years?

Some subpixel rendering techniques became unencumbered quite recently. So newer versions of freetype should have nicer subpixel rendering enabled by default.
The best counterexample I can think of is the unwillingness of drug companies to produce new, narrow-spectrum antibiotics. We're facing a looming crisis of bacterial antibiotic immunity, we know that producing the aforementioned antibiotics will resolve it, but the low profit margins prevent pharmaceutical companies from doing research.

Capitalism pursues profit growth, not human need. There may be some correlation between these two forces but it's obviously not perfect.
Yup. their ad targeting is context. super basic 'interests' and specific sub reddit placements. I haven't found it to be valuable.

I just looked to double check nothing changed since I last bought something and it looks like the have a customer match but only as a holdout/narrow. Which is weird if true? as in can't upload a list and target those users if i'm reading their page correctly

pushing their s*t redisign and mobile app on us with more feed ads might mean they are trying to push for 1st party data based targeting though
Thank you. You're right sometimes we just need to stop and reflect on all that we've done. It's true, you can do everything right, but luck plays a big factor in how things turn out.
honestly i would rather remove the ability of developers to make shitty controls and widgets. GUIs either ask you for some set of data or display it to you. Weve had a basic set of controls that work great for decades now. Im all for a platform that just requires the use of those and maximizes the ability if users to theme away.
So you’re pro-homeowner and anti-tenant?
This term "cup" is kind of problematic though. 4 espressos? Which have about 120mg of caffeine each. Or 4 starbuck large size? Which have something like 400mg of caffeine.
It's a long article, but the author does make a point to contrast how much this place is not like The Villages.
> All of this stuff can be made to work.

We’ve tolerated a great degree of complexity just to make fonts look good at 96 DPI. Looks like we’re able to tolerate a bit more complexity to enable GPU rendering. However, many years into having high DPI displays, it’s not obvious people are willing to take the complexity to make low DPI and high DPI screens look good simultaneously.

The thing is, with fonts, we already bear the burden of font rendering being complex because that was needed for 96 DPI displays. But, we won’t need much of this magic or complexity when a vast majority of people are using higher DPI displays, because at >200 PPI the difference between a blurry line and a sharp line is basically nil. That is obvious enough on Apple platforms, where many are perfectly happy with the scaling even though it uses 2x as a base for all scales.

I think the future is simply pain. People want cleaner graphics pipelines, and only high DPI displays will get them anywhere.
Other studies have shown a correlation with mortality and filtered/unfiltered coffee. Which goes a long way to explaining how some coffee studies showed benefits and others problems, because the studies tended to be regional and were studying slightly different things.

https://www.wellandgood.com/unfiltered-coffee-study/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20474873209144...
The Enterprise Developer from Hell (2014)
"All the data is generally "commercial in confidence" so any old twitteraty can not download and misinterpret it."

This is totally the wrong attitude. Everyone should be able to look at the data. The established authorities are absolutely capable of totally misinterpreting data. The only hope is to let other people look at it.
Yeah... this makes you lose all your privacy, and exclude all the people in the world who either don't have a credit card, or don't want to use one.

Thank you, but no.
Where do you think the intermediate results of doing math on the two variables are kept?
I wasn’t a fan of Obama’s foreign policy, but this is a disingenuous, misleading summary which echoes Russian state-sponsored propaganda of recent years.
> I don't understand why modern toolbar icons are basically abstract shapes represented by lines

Much, much easier to style based on whatever the surroundings are. Also easier to maintain a good look if you switch to a completely different theme, and for third party icons to mesh with the OS set of icons (only so many ways you can mess up the sillouette of the shape).

Oh, and they scale to basically infinite proportions without looking weird, which cannot be said for color vector icons.
If someone is running a bot farm to do malicious things, they are probably the same types to have a list of acquired card numbers as well. Using a site like this would allow for users to be created while validating a new acquired list of card numbers.

A black hat's wet dream of a site.
Machines for removing CO2 from the air need consume no power at all. (E.g., a big fabric corral that waves slop into, connected to a fabric tube 10 m across that opens 1000m below.)

Machines to synthesize H2 and NH3 could be ramped up and down, but in practice will run 24/7 except when price peaks and stockpiles are burned for power instead.
A white collar worker in good shape going from, say, Rego Park to Wall St is a great candidate for the subway. But that’s the happy path. If you need to go from there to the far parts of Brooklyn, or any part of the Bronx or Staten Island? Virtually impossible (if you want to get to work before lunch time) without a car. And certainly many with disabilities would have a hard time (as much as the MTA is improving on this front).
That'd be because they are the only bitwise operations under which integers form an Abelian group.

Specifically, AND and OR lack an inverse operation.
That’s the difference between the person who made the docs

- Being a good technical writer.
- Being some who learned the tool/platform rather than someone who built the platform.

It much harder to write a doc on something if you’ve never been able to look at it from an outside perspective.
I tried to understand the point but failed. From the article:

"In brief, Crisan, chief technology officer of Netopia Payments, convinced the scammer to install a Lightning Network (LN) wallet, as he only deals with “LN assets.” So, Fake John installed a Bitcoin LN wallet, Blue Wallet. However, instead of sending Fake John the money, Crisan sent a message saying “Eat shit you fucking scammer!”"

So the installation of the LN wallet was totally unrelated to the purported "retribution" to the scammer, which only consisted of telling him off?

"Justice was duly served — all while providing a free lesson in how to use Bitcoin LN."

In what way was justice served, other than the rude sentence? Something I assume scammers get all the time and likely couldn't care less about, given that they would not scam in the first place if they cared about what potential victims think of them?
Or reversible infertility in males is much harder to induce by drug with relatively few side effects than in females. Hormonal birth control works by tricking the body into thinking its pregnant, a state in which fertility is naturally suppressed. There is no analog in males.
Extremely neoliberal perspective
Scientists have been collectively saying coffee is good for you, with more and more confidence, for about 30 years now. If you keep hearing that's it's bad, it means you need to improve your information sources.
I scope out unfamiliar routes with Google Streetview.
Yeah I was going to say.. where’s the confusion? Once you learn the 3 or 4 most used hooks you can pretty much achieve everything you would ever need in a web app. It’s not like they aren’t documented well, and there are tons of videos on them.
The original button has gradients and 3d-lighting effects. They're just subtle, but suffice to convey useful information.
So what if there are echo chambers? Do you deride them as much when they're called "best practices" in business, management, programming, HR, etc.? Unless the exception suddenly proves the rule, much of our lives is shaped by "massive" echo chambers.

I suspect there's the cliche of objectivity lurking behind this, an anti-intellectual mockery of opinions and shared values. Nothing having to do with human creation has ever been objective. Everything people think, is subjective. Start there, and tell me what's wrong with echo chambers as something that isn't just a restatement of the banalities of societal malaise.

But I also understand that shitposting can feel good.
People working at these places are highly dependent on transportation and hours.

When I worked retail, we were in sales and were top of the food chain. The restaurant people were a notch over regular mall workers in pay, but had to deal with different hours. Many people work multiple jobs… one line cook I remember did prep work starting at 6am at one place, painted, and closed the mall restaurant. He couldnt flip jobs easily due to bus schedules.
The article is talking about both coffee and caffeine. Quoting from the article: "Decaf coffee did not have favorable effects against incident arrhythmia but did reduce cardiovascular disease, with the exception of heart failure. Kistler said the findings suggest caffeinated coffee is preferable across the board, and there are no cardiovascular benefits to choosing decaf over caffeinated coffees."
>The main influence so far has been enabling smaller window sizes for gtk+3/libhandy apps

I don't think so, touch targets are a lot bigger. Using the default theme for both a KDE App with equivalent functionality will take a fair bit less space than a similar gnome app. Of course I think plasma mobile uses a theme that makes the touch targets bigger...

KDE also manages to get a lot more functionality into their similarily sized windows. Take a look at this page showing comparisons:

https://www.linuxadictos.com/en/aplicaciones-de-gnome-y-apli...
Right, any dollar diverted from renewables + storage to anything else, whether nukes or gas, brings climate disaster ever nearer.
I agree the data has limitations, but disagree that it is ultimately "terrible."
The obsession goes both ways, if you consider what those emperors sweetened their wine with.
Agreed. Ever since I started writing functional components only I’ve found less bugs make their way into my code.
this is probably uncharitable, but i can’t help but wonder if they’re true thoughts were with the addition of “We are still scratching head about what this gentleman was thinking saying this out loud.”
> but now everyone agrees that was a huge mistake

Citation needed. Not everyone agrees.

> Maybe there are genuine disorders affecting some aspects of the less commonly found gender / identity phenomena. I'm not an expert. I don't know. I'm guessing you aren't either.

You don't have to be an expert to see the parallels between this and any other fad we've seen before, such as hipsters and goths and emos and punks.

> I'd prefer to error on the side of respecting the way someone feels

We're witnessing postmodernism today, where everything is relative, and no absolute truths exist anymore. What you mentioned is a symptom of that way of thinking.
Batteries are the most expensive storage. Storage cost is plummeting even faster than solar or wind ever did.
So? Make them use those card#s, a limited asset, and put the banks to work protecting those interests instead of leaving all the load for us.
Yay, a study that actually talks about instant coffee too. Does anyone know where instant coffee sits in relation to filtered or unfiltered coffee in other studies? Yes, I'm a complete barbarian.
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