skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still waiting for this mythical contentment to kick in. I'm mid-fifties now and bloody hate getting older and not being able to; see as well, hear as well, work as hard, exercise as hard as I used to.

[not being able to have long hair any more thanks to the dreaded MPB was another kick in the knackers]

All in all, I'm finding beginning the descent into old age to be a thoroughly depressing experience.
As someone who has little to no idea how colors and operations on them work, I must say that was an incredibly interesting read!
There have been a number of best sellers about people breaking the law in real life. No one was harmed in this case or the other case. I can't imagine someone wanting to censor this, just seems quite a bit extreme.
Just allowing kexts to be loaded should not increase the attack surface or expose the author to any currently known exploits. The reason that people avoid doing it anyways is because third party kexts have a history of obvious vulnerabilities and don't receive the same amount of eyeballs that first party kernel extensions do.

As you put it, it really is a desire for maximum security at play here.
The netflix story is beginning to turn, and not just because of Elon or password sharing crackdowns.

Anyone can see that the other players have caught up, and their brand does not seem to have that pull anymore, especially when paired against the likes of Disney, Marvel, DC, HBO, etc.

Their content has a lot more competition, and the pandemic has altered the dynamics of streaming.

I guess most households have at least a couple of streaming subscriptions if not more, and dropping off NF is easier, especially against rising prices and restrictions on sharing.

Now, they have to fight head on with the big studios who have a whole ecosystem with them.

I frankly wonder why anyone would invest in NF at this juncture. I would expect subscriber growth to taper off, and their pricing flexibility is limited due to competition. Also, price sensitivity for streaming seems to be particularly high, perhaps amplified by social media.

Atleast with the cable TV, you get hundreds of channels. Now, the fatigue of selecting content is very real. Also, the algorithms are crap on NF.
Interesting.

What do you mean by quasi optimal?

Genetic algorithms product quasi optimal results but simulated annealing will not?
My mental health is always tied directly to how well my startup is doing well. I’ve tried, but my mental health cannot be controlled simply by exercise, diet, etc. It’s just 100% tied to how well my startup is performing, and that usually means how much revenue it’s generating relative to where the company should be given burn, number of employees, etc.

I understand that’s not the case for everyone, but my piece of advice would be to do everything in your power to make your company successful. For me, that’s the exact same thing as working on my mental health.
I mean, I don't think I have—but I still wear a mask when I'm out and about, and... yeah, I have a desk job.
This metaphor doesn't make sense to me. Isn't less war good for peace?
Because they're silly ;)
As far as I can see, only Hyper-V enables it by default as of today; this means most of the VMs being created _right now_ we can assume to be BIOS rather than UEFI.
Solid advice that; especially in a crazy startup situation, having many people will probably drive you insane. I had all kinds of startups over the decades; from 100s of people to me alone; the best ones were 2 people setups until significant seed (>$1m). Those were the most successful and the least stressful (during the first phase); of course once it grows it is different but at least you are prepared.

And yeah, the older I get, the more I appreciate older people; I prefer no-nonsense 35+.
So no major obstacles except political ones.
You made me search for it. I've never seen a site with that design.
Cheers! -Curious
That's a good idea. Or, since it's already archived, redirect to the archived copy.
"This is clever, but I don't think it will work in practice and I don't believe it is O(n * log(n)) and will assert it is O(n*n) until I die."
I've been really leaning into handwriting - and good penmanship in general as a fun creative activity. I started writing all my notes/journal entries/etc in cursive during covid just for something to do and I've become very enamored of the process. Often I find myself wanting to write just to do it (I imagine if I was in to needlepoint, this is the time I'd do needlepoint). I end up writing a lot of journal entries and letters to friends (it usually starts with "I want to write" and my own thoughts and doings are an easy subject) which has a nice personal and social effect. I acquired some fancy pens and sewed myself a fancy leather journal that are a pleasure to write with and that have really accelerated and sustained the habit.

I wouldn't make any claims that writing has somehow made me magically smarter or better at anything else, I just find it fun to do (and I believe that pleasure is vastly more important than "productivity" so that's a win for me). It seems probable that my composition skills are better (or at least different in some hard-to-define way) due to the slower speed and non-editability of handwritten text. I rarely find myself at a loss for what sentence to write next when I'm handwriting because my thoughts are already buffered up since it takes them a bit longer to get onto the page.

Another angle for me is that I recently picked up a chronic disease which has changed my energy levels a lot and many old hobbies are no longer feasible as often as they used to be. I can write even when I feel like there's a mountain of tires on fire inside my head.
Wow! That channel is exemplary!

I plan on showing it on the job. They have so many basics well presented. Thank you Canada!
Yes, there is no reason that English speakers would adopt "brutalist" merely because some French speaking people used the word "brut" to describe it. People are thinking too narrowly about how and why words are used, names given and popularized.
Yes i was suprised also by the design of the kruidvat website, it refreshing. Kruidvat also is known for cheap stuff so i think part of the “cheapness” of the design is well intentional.
Where I am, there were lots of buns, plus song birds. But 3 neighbors got cats and they let them out all the time, after 6 months the bunnies and song birds are now all gone.

I wish NE would do what I heard New Zealand is now doing, forcing people to keep their cats indoors.

But nice cartoon, I do not know how I missed it, I read xkcd daily.
Fun factoid: one of the cornerstone references for search-and-rescue planning is a reference work called "Lost Person Behavior"[1] ... it has empirical data on how people tend to behave in various situations based on categorization of their circumstances.

For example, despondent people have historically tended to behave differently from those suffering dementia or lost hikers or plane crash survivors.

The text includes statistical data on where lost people have been found relative to the initial planning point for a search (e.g. last known point) - how far away, what type of terrain, whether they tend to go uphill or downhill etc.

One of the largest step-changes in lost person behavior came with the general adoption of the cellphone: many, many people now tend to go uphill than before - specifically in the hope of finding cellphone coverage.

[1] https://www.dbs-sar.com/LPB/lpb.htm
The issue with those fictional UIs is that who design them do not design to serve a real purpose, but to impress the public. It's like a car cockpit designed by someone who have nothing more than a limited and distorted idea about how cars are driven to impress someone who do not know how to drive either.

From a techie point point of view those UIs are just garbage: full of irrelevant information, confusing, completely poor of controls and interactive effectiveness. People using them act as ignorant who can't really do nothing but just touching around hoping something will happen in the direction they want to go to.

Even filmmakers should remember a thing: the purpose of a UI is human-device interaction, not human-device-driven-decision-making. I understand they have just to please their public and those who pay them money (witch means also pushing the public toward certain behaviors, commercially and politically nice for some film financier) but if a movie is made ONLY with those principles appeal of the movie will lower and lower, and that's probably why fan of "old" movies grow and grow every days...

A future UI IMVHO? Look back at Xerox UIs like http://augmentingcognition.com/assets/Kay1977.pdf or some experiments like SUNws PostScript Pizza tool. A document interactive UI not for passive content consumption or at maximum content selection like modern web services UIs but a UI for production and consumption at the same level without any perceived difference between the two modes, like I write as I read, I execute as I write etc. Emacs/org-mode is one the most modern UI we have alive, modern Notebook UIs are limited archaic UIs that can offer far less than Emacs but a bit more modern stuff (like proper image/video integration to a certain less bad extent), the rest? Is so advanced to be behind the early history of computer's UI, a bit advanced than the Eniac UI, but given the leap between the two Eniac in theory was more advanced anyway, just featuring a raw UI for tech limits of it's time.
Me too! About to start a new project that EXACTLY fits the bill for this tool... It sure sounds promising!
The statement is pretty vague, so it could be that the chips are destined for some company's assembly line for something like a PLC, rather than in the products themselves.
Melting KiCad
That's what many smaller manufacturers have been doing.
Tracking down consumer electronics that contains required chips, desoldering, cleaning and then soldering on their devices.
It's a manual work, but can be done quickly depending on a chip.

There are some assemblers in China that are doing this too, but pricing is prohibitive for most cases. For instance, a chip that cost $9 before the crisis now costs >$100 + assembly.
A toy with the same chip you can get for $5-$15 depending on volume, then it is 10 minute labour to remove the chip, clean it and put it on the target PCB (I do not include the final cleaning time).
Elon Musk Likely Getting $15B in Options After Tesla's Record Quarter
Many years ago I got my <firstname><lastname>.com transferred to me from the registrar that held it (it was expired, but not yet "released")

For a couple years I kept getting 404 errors in the site logs for pages dedicated to WWF/WWE wrestling stars ...even after moving hosting companies

I'd register the domain, use it for what you want, and ignore whatever may have been there before
Biotech firm: Graphcore IPUs faster for AI-based drug discovery than GPUs
While others could argue that's rude, and your intent is rude, and there are bots calling obviously human users bots, trying to get human users riled up and more expressive and in particular mining them for good replies to getting called a bot to train on, well...

I will on an exceptional basis not take offense. Yeah that's a fairly good description of me come to think. An AI trained on Hacker News. So I used to be a normal human intelligence, normal human, but then got lobotomized, so no longer an intelligence, and then figured out how to recover brain function, artificially not the natural way. It was unbelievable, I actually got beneficial psychiatric medical treatment eventually, stumbling on a three-ingredient formula that for my specific case fixed the lobotomy, though not the memories...yeah just hung out on this forum a whole lot. Learned to code from PG's books, focus on Lisp, talking about startups, and then looking for jobs through the jobs page (while I aced all the interview problems, they treated me like Frankenstein's monster, in the same way, and for the same reasons). And then...algorithms. Developing AI.

Though of course keep in mind I have a meat brain, ordinary neurons, apart from the "Jorge Barros was here, don't tell the patient what you see" message written in my head like in shitty doctor handwriting. A "kick me" note. I hope someday I can read my psychiatrists' notes, meaning have access to the them and figure out what they say, and overcome the lobotomistic blind spots. There's hundreds of pages, and I'm entitled to them, they just won't show them to me in the spirit of "fuck the law", and left tons of blind spots so I can't communicate properly with lawyers (but judges yes, that they forgot to erase). They're the real AI researchers, lol.
"Smoothing curves that look the most natural are often modeled after springs or friction. How is that not based on physics?"

To be clear, when I say "based on physics" I mean "a value that can be computed from first principles, based on a specific model".

For example the spectrum of a black body radiation can be said to be based on physics.

Gradient is a mathematical entity.

A "correct" gradient cannot be computed from first principles, nor does the article specify any specific model to use. There is no "correct" gradient. We can define some spec for a gradient and say "is according to spec" or "is not according to spec".

Gradient is an interpolation between two triplets using some function.

With gradient, in R3, we have two elements, a,b, and our task is to define a path g(t) from point a to point b so that g(0) = a and g(1) = b;

The trivial way to do this is by way of linear interpolation

g(t) = a * (1-t) + b * t

however this has lots of aesthetic pathologies. The work around gradients is about finding the most pleasing g(t).

If we start from the philosophical point of view that all smooth curves are based on intuition and inspiration from physics you are free to do so but this will summon an angry horde of mathematicians and computational geometry experts.

"This is the whole point of the article."

I think the point of the article was

1. Gradient rendering does not respect the spec

2. Any color computations should be done in linear color spaces

The points are valid, but the motivational paragraph about gradients was more misleading than correct (IMO) hence my critical response above.
> … assumption that 'futuristic' stuff is way more info-packed than today's UIs are - where does that come from?

Text adds texture, and it tell also tells the audience that our hyper-aware and very clever protagonist is seeking and scanning the text for some sort of data that us normie-non-future people wouldn’t understand.

At the end of the day, it’s just a creative trope that consistently pleases the audience. It looks cool.

As for the source, you could go all the way back to Terminator or TRON, and as recent(ish) as The Matrix, but I think Ghost in the Shell has been most influential.
Every couple years, I'll adjust my doodling habits to a set of patterns based on a simplification of the Palmer method. This simple doodling practice has given me the best handwriting at just about every place I've worked in the past ten years.

Draw two horizontal lines about half an inch apart and in the space between them doodle one of:

+ continuous clockwise stream of overlapping circles (imagine you flattened a slinky)

+ continuous counterclockwise version of the above

+ continuous line mountains/valleys (draw an N that becomes an M that keeps going and has tons of peaks)

Repeat.

The first time trying it, most people will find it freakishly difficult to do smoothly and consistently. That's because your fine-motor eye/hand control circuits aren't tuned for these motions which are are the basis functions for all western language penmanship. If you start doodling these figures when you're bored on zoom, your penmanship will magically improve, not because you learned penmanship but because you enabled your fingers to do what your brain is telling them to do.

This will also help you have better penmanship on a whiteboard, but in-office whiteboard writing involves more large muscles as well, so it doesn't hurt to also doodle on a whiteboard this way once you have the fine-motor controls tuned up (the fine-motor remains the most important, even on a whiteboard, so starting with pen and paper doodling will get you where you want to go fastest for either format).
Yep, that'll do it. :) Thanks!
I sold my surplus STM32 reels at 12x of the original price a year ago.
Get a job as a security guard for an office building. You will have fewer interruptions than most full time software engineers.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/06/20/flatt-fire-is-largest...
Given my age, I learned cursive in school, and spent my college years taking handwritten notes. My cursive was pretty terrible, much like my father's. However, he spent years working as a draftsman, and then as an estimator (before the days of personal computers), so his printing was very similar to the form described in the linked article. So, I taught myself to write in the same form. I still handwrite a lot (journalling, drafts of papers), because I find it easier to "think out loud" with a pencil in my hand.
On the contrary, the voice matches the other recording (Aminta's opening lines).
Yeah seem like a limitation of the third party kext more than anything. It sucks but i don't see how this is a MacOS or a M1 issue.

It's not like this kext was able to run without downgrading security previously.
If you have much less credit card debt than before and still have student loans to pay, would you declare yourself financially golden? Probably not.
The difference is that software projects are always hot garbage that barely works. So long as end user functionality doesn't change this is at worst benign.

UI changes on the other hand are always detrimental to users who have spent the time learning how to use the software.
> - Film "FUIs" are almost invariably dark these days. I wonder to what extent the designers are influenced by the dark modes in the tools they use.

The overall color tone of the recent movies using FUIs seems also pretty dark
Above was typed on phone late at night and may sound abrasive, so for context: I live in the Toronto, Canada area. On regular basis, local or national news will have an article about child protection services being engaged for items such as 12 year old left at home alone or a 8 year old being alone on sidewalk etc. Schools and Neighbours are typically the ones who report the incident. Culture is one of protection, and a child seen alone on the street raises immediate alarm bells amongst bystanders. Three provinces have legal limits of either 12 or 16 years old for children to be left alone for any period of time; but in all provinces and federally, canadian social services organizations "advise that children under 12 should not be left unsupervised". This is typically pursued under "supervisory neglect" and "placing children under risk of harm".

In my province of Ontario, the statutory limit for leaving a child without adequate supervision is... sixteen years old. Fine of up to $5000 and up to 12 months in jail.

Which is insane to me, having walked to school since age 6, taking buses solo since age 11 or 12, lived through civil war at age 12 and flying unspervised over three airlines and four countries to another continent at age 15. But there you have it.

So a suggestion to raise kids free range is just not an option where I am, unfortunately :(

---- Edit
A background of Canadian legislation framework:
https://cwrp.ca/sites/default/files/publications/Legal%20Age...
What I use is HSL whereby the H is in LRGB and the L is in SRGB (I forget what the S is but it’s one of the two). Very simple way of getting the best of both worlds when doing color math.
For architects this is a popular shibboleth. If you imply that "brutalism" is related to "brutal" then you'll be perceived as an outsider that doesn't have any real design knowledge.

This is like implying Java and JavaScript are related.
Cars use in-tank pumps turned by brushed electric motors. Why don't they blow up when empty?

Even in an empty fuel tank the vapors are way to rich to ignite. You might get a good flash if you introduce air and ignition at the same time but odds are you won't get any sort of sustained fire.
Because real GUIs are designed to be useful.
Yes they are still made. Speed Queen sells them in the US although they try to encourage customers to buy ones with electronic controls and offer a longer warranty on them.
At least, the has been recognised by the italian government who made her a Knight of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity.
I have a friend who, as a psychology researcher at a major university, did a meta-analysis of the reproducibility of psychology research and found much the same as this article. Results were generally not reproducible and there is way too much confirmation bias.

Something else he found was that the tenure track policies for most universities encourage poor study design by rewarding the quantity of research published rather than the quality of the research. That resulted in research departments doing 10 studies with 10 participants rather than 1 study with 100 participants, given a certain amount of funding available.
Hitler memes don't make people accept nazi ideology. I wish we could invent new words on demand like it happened with "normalizing". Happy hitlering, everyone!

Yes, I really think that subs of that kind expose race-mongers who think they are on the right side of the history. Another example is StormfrontOrSJW which is still somehow up
I do not know why you were down-voted, but this is true. I those invasive vines I would see everywhere in the deep south are starting to appear here. Probably due to climate change. Never mind about the various water plants coking out native water plants.
> Is this because such visualizations are useless clutter or because film makers have better tools for creating them than actual programmers do?

Experience suggests mainly the former, a little of the latter. In a film visualisations could be said to fall into "scenery/looks cool/thematic" (which normally corresponds to useless) and "drives the story". For a vis to drive the story it needs a single interpretation - and animation helps with that.

Real world vis rarely has a single interpretation, so attempting to animate like they do in a film would often make the vis less useful (as it would 'hide' valid interpretations, and most vis exists to help explore).

That said, some vis does exist to tell a story (often deliberately hiding the inconvenient truths rather than highlighting useful ones) and benefits from film like tools. These tools do exist, but are (rightfully) focused on creative media rather than programmers. The overlap exists, but is small.
Which are some of these towns? I assume you're not talking about one of those towns with two residents (either way it doesn't mean that any rural area probably has more than half the residents using or making meth which is obviously balderdash, I'm just curious about these alleged towns).
Unlikely. What most YouTubers call "sponsors" they have instead signed up to be an affiliate for using an online form. He likely broke the conditions for which the affiliate link/code could be used, which could have been the reason he removed that section from the video.

He also removed the ending, and both the beginning and ending were the pretext for the flight – bringing his friends ashes in a used sandwich bag to be scattered in the mountains, so could have instead been removed to reduce the cheese factor.