skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GDScript is essentially a slimmed-down Python with all the bad dev. experience stuff removed (version- & dependency management that is).

Godot has C# support since 3.0[1]. Though to me C# seems as arbitrary as any language – Godot doesn't strive to compete with Unity.
Why not use Scala or Lua?

While I'm not a fan of Python I think its a reasonable choice given the target audience of devs using a game creation IDE/editor.

Experienced devs who want to use the Godot ecosystem/frontend/engine can always use whatever to write their game in by adding the resp. bindings; e.g. Rust[2].

[1] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/scripting/c...
[2] https://github.com/godot-rust/godot-rust
I was curious too, and found this: https://www.damninteresting.com/reanimated-rodents-and-the-m...

Apparently, it was a thing!
> I had to disable font smoothing via the CLI just so the text wasn't a blurry mess.

This probably means it was trying to do subpixel rendering, but under incorrect assumptions about what the subpixel layout was. Problems of this type have recently become pretty pervasive.
> it is absolutely a constraint

For domestic-currency debt, no, it is not. Inflation and politics are always the constraint.
Huh? What a weird comment.

“[born with] no preexisting moral guilt” — Is that some attempt to re-frame ignorance?

I have teenage kids and they sure as hell have been raised to understand, from a young age, that while they are in an unfairly advantaged group today, a few generations ago and they would have been rounded up, stripped of everything they worked hard for, and put in camps. And yet, even that fate was objectively better than other groups at the same time. What you call “moral guilt” I call empathy. Maybe this is simply what you mean by “virtue signaling”, but I want my kids to always look for those around them who are stumbling, unable to get back up, or who may just not have enough, and then to give help. But they won’t see them without empathy for those situations, and they won’t have that empathy without an understanding of the struggles.
Believe it or not ... no, you did not eat dog meat.
This might be a symptom of jacobinmag being less well known. I had never heard of it prior to this post. I also think the discussion here is civil and most people seem to agree that the banning is justified. My experience with breitbart is that the articles are extremely flame-war-y
> If you're without a home, one house is very much like another. It's only once you have money and ambition that you might want a better view, better schools.

Particularly if you're poor, location matters a lot.

The very rich will build a mansion in a beautiful but inaccessible area and commute to work by helicopter. The merely rich have the nice cars to get to work. But the poor have no car so need to be either very close or within public transport (mostly nonexistent in the US) to get to that job.
Seems fairly linear no? Gut biome digests food to ingest nutrients which are used by the eyes and brain, ergo more efficient processes produce better results for them?
what you say is unpopular, but it's a lot more true than most people (especially front end people in this case) want to admit. Of course there are plenty of exceptions (people on FE who think about, care about, and know about what happens on the backend), particularly the Venn diagram of FE people reading HN, but the majority in the industry definitely do not. The bigger and/or more specialized the company, the worse that problem gets.

To be clear, this is not just a problem for FE people. extremely normal for humans to become myopic in the areas they spend the most time in. FE does it, BE does it, management does it, everyone does it. Find a standard mobile engineer doing native iOS or Android, and they're going to be even more disconnected from the effects on the backend, and they come by it honestly. If you tend to specialize more in one area, building an awareness of your own biases/perspective, and exercising intentional empathy, can make a huge difference in how easy you are to work with.

When looking at dysfunctional engineering orgs, one of the first things I do is figure out where the "power" is and figure out their backgrounds. The most extreme example might be a company founded by a FE eng for whom backend is just a necessarily evil to support their app. Or a company founded by a BE guy for whom the real value is the API, and the clients are just there to abstract it for normal people.

Taking this in and finding a healthy balance of the way things are structured can help improve a dysfunctional org a lot. FE, BE, DevOps/Infra, etc are important pieces in an overall puzzle. Without a well-functioning team behind each, the company and product suffer.
Are there any downsides to messing with your gut bacteria? I seem to see a strong bias of positive studies, but if our gut bacteria is as important as it seems to be, shouldn't there also be horrible outcomes to these kinds of experiments?
Use reading mode
William Blake's God was the human imagination, which he called "Jerusalem".

He saw the creation of the "Vegetable" physical world as the fall from this state, which is why he criticised those who thought they could be enlightened through only examining the physical world, which he represented through a characterised Newton.

There is a statue outside of the British Library of Blake's painting of Newton awkwardly--blinkardly-- examining the world at the bottom of the ocean.

His "prophetic" works become more comprehensible if seen in this light. The characters in the poems are parts of the human psyche in conflict; Blake's version of Paradise Lost.
In a world where CEO time is apparently worth like 300X worker time, how many secretaries is the right number? I guess it is however many it takes to keep the CEO completely saturated with work...
My dog loves eating the faeces of other animals, including those of my cats. I suspect the reason is to boost his gut flora and keep him healthy for longer than he otherwise would be.
I know this was a joke but there's quite a few medical conditions that recent research seems to think can be cured by a poop enema. There's surely a market for a company to do screening, storage, and sales of feces in a similar way to sperm banks. As for price, if you can get it approved by insurance, 1 BTC may end up being cheap!
Most people that come in contact with COVID don't get infected. Whereas everyone that takes the vaccine will get the spike protein.
Another peril with making engagement a north star kpi is that you quickly get into a local design maxima. I saw so much of this in my time at a well liked consumer tech company. It becomes almost impossible to evolve around new business requirements because the current thing has been perfectly “optimized” for “engagement”.

Here’s an example.. imagine a photo carousel with a critical button beside it that drives revenue for the business. At some point a PM spent a few months “optimizing” the photo carousel. Subsequent changes all tanked engagement on that magic button. Experiment after experiment all thrown out because they didn’t result in enough button clicks, despite huge improvements in photo experience.

Eventually I took over the team that owned those little revenue buttons and even more eventually I figured it out:

A lot of users fly through the photo carousel clicking the right-arrow very fast. At the final photo the right arrow disappeared and there was a small layout shift and it put a portion of the revenue button to where a portion of the “>” button used to be. Many many users accidentally clicked that revenue button.

You can’t a/b test yourself to PMF and organic growth, even when used appropriately it is only accurate but not precise.
The reason I hate plaid is that they are training people to hand over bank passwords/2fa tokens to 3rd parties. And sometimes there are no alternatives available to the consumer.
The article doesn't say and I haven't been able to find any information about that online. However it seems likely that it was purchased in Italy by Ludwig I of Bavaria, sometime in the early 19th century. Ludwig I made the museum in 1840, and was known for buying art and antiquities in Italy.
Thanks for the comment. I'm always hoping to learn about these kinds of experiences on HN threads like this.
> (I own both VAX and Alpha hardware and run VMS on both)

Lucky you!
Many youtubers use youtube to reach out to friends or make friends. For younger generations using the media as antidote to loneliness is more common. Unfortunately all the media rot after a sweet period
What a whirlwind couple of years for Plaid employees. First the Visa acquisition for 5.3 Billion that falls through because of antitrust, then a round that values them at 13.4 Billion, then fintech and SaaS valuations crater, and now this
It's really not that hard, especially if you can run them all from the same IDE. I can see how it starts to get out hand but it's not at n=2.
You fail to understand the difference between owning an OS and merely using it the way Apple intended. macOS is notorious for poor handling of windows, I don't need to explain that.
Please… my violin can’t get any tinier or we risk splitting the atom.
HiDPI is an accessibility feature for all kinds of scenarios. Not everyone has 20/20 vision.
the solution to the problem is simple and thus widely used in prior art. the person in question has written such a library (well, a reference implementation). the person in question is an expert in the field.
I think this refers to James Lovelock's work with radar in the 1950s. But it was hamsters, not mice.
Ok then. Go mess with one, and then stand there and be super cool while it attacks you because it's not hurting you.
The implication is how it holds for the most recent cryptomining cycle, since this settlement was for 2018 and we've definitely seen another surge in demand in 2021. Coupled with the chip shortage, this most recent cycle could well be bigger than this 2018 one.

Nvidia arguably hedged their bets better this time by 1) releasing their cryptomining-specific versions of GPUs, and 2) releasing drivers that tried to cripple the mining performance on the GeForce 3000-series lineup. But whether this was done in good faith is debatable and whether they disclosed properlyin the eyes of the SEC will be interesting to see.
If you have a 5K2K monitor, as I do, then you are unable to enjoy decent 1.25 scaling. Everything looks pixelated because Apple don’t allow a ‘proper’ HiDPI mode with M1s.

The same monitor is absolutely fine on a 2019 Macbook Pro.

If you use BetterDummy, it creates a ‘fake’ display to mirror to. The result is beautifully clear display on the 5K2K.

This is the crux of the issue. M1 macs can absolutely do nice 1.25 scaling on a 5120*2160 display to give crisp text in the 140dpi range but they disable it.

That is the issue IMHO.
The brain IS a computer.
Hey, I like what you're doing.

If you see this, send me an email (check profile).

Best!
It's feature-rich and has a huge ecosystem of plugins and developers.

This specific vuln is related to the fact that every install uses /wp-admin/install.php for initial setup. You don't need a "dedicated team" to protect yourself from that.
On of the best "third place" locations I've had was a gym as well. This was about 15 years ago, before iPhones and Airpods, etc. existed, or were as prevalent, so it was easy and common for gym regulars to strike up conversations and get to know each other.

I don't go to the gym anymore, but a few years ago when I resumed for a bit, everyone was on their phone, or dead-eyed while listening to music or a podcast, etc, and not interested in talking to anyone.
In my mind that's just an insert that joins the contracts table and makes a case active_contracts < 3 then true else false, for the require_sign_off column.
A century of pop musician/songwriters and you chose Paul McCartney as the greatest? That's a pretty high bar. His singing doesn't come close to the melodic, cat-drowning sound of Bob Dylan. I'd say it's much better in fact.
>I just massively unsubscribing, unfollowing, and filtering all the feeds.

Nothing has been more effective for me than this, as well unfriending/following people or accounts that actively make me angry. Had to unfollow like 10 people tops and the quality of my feeds got noticeably better.
A real world example: on my 24” monitor, 1080p 1920x1080 native has noticeable jaggies on kanji, it looks smoother rendering at 2560x1440 and displaying that as 720p HiDPI
Can't afford to move out to some place with land yet.

Otherwise I'd spend a lot of my time tinkering with stuff outside.

I always have something playing whether it's music or tv (form of YT or some Netflix-type place mostly YT though). Also my friends are not in the same state as I am so I don't really have a life.
Best is highly subjective by person so I will instead link Briggs youtube channel as he travels a lot and provides a lot of statistics. [1] Once you have narrowed down a list to a few places consider also searching sites like Reddit for discussions on that area. Very rural locations may not have many people discussing it online. Search Google Maps for the locations you have chosen for the services you believe may be important to your family to see how many options are available in that area. Yelp may have additional comments on those businesses and services.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/c/WorldAccordingToBriggs/videos
You're lucky (I guess?), I have yet to work on an organization that uses GitHub internally. I've seen gitlab, bitbucket, and, oh, the horror, Gerrit and subversion.

I try to give back to stuff I use when I can, too, but I'd love to do much more. Time is limited, unfortunately =(
1) When did this person insult him? Note that there was more than one microsoft person in that issue.

2) I don't get why so many people talk about this as if it were some horrible thing. I don't use my real name on discord the vast majority of the time, I don't see why you expect others to do so. The person in question admitted who they were when it was mentioned and later apologized for not stating it when they first joined.

3) I'm personally more mad about it not crediting the other terminals that have that kind of approach like wezterm, or whatever prior art they used.

My understanding is they thought DirectWrite did caching internally, which made the suggestion unnecessary, but it turned out that wasn't working quite as they thought it was. I didn't think the terminal people were combative at all until Casey himself was.

Ultimately, I think a big part of the outrage is just people assuming the worst interpretation of anything Microsoft.
I think you're looking at it somewhat backwards. Teens are welcome to experiment with identity - that's what teens do and have always done - but I know a shocking number of adults who didn't truly understand their own gender identity until well into their 30s, 40s, even 50s. Part of the reason for that is that without the internet, there was no place to find discussion about it beyond the typical binaries.

I remember many peers going HARD into goth or punk territory as teens, and most went on to become a much more whole and complex version of themselves as adults with that goth or punk side informing but not dominating their identity. They cherish it though, for what it gives them emotionally, psychologically, and aesthetically.

With a richer available expression of gender and sexuality now available, I suspect it's reasonable to expect that many teens will lean into it to the same degree, but in this case understanding that gender and sexuality are both spectrums will help them feel like more complete versions of themselves later in life.

I wish my peers (and older generations) had access to this when they were younger, because it would have saved them decades of confusion and suffering.
Can confirm. Getting developers (Nevermind QA's) to build data model savvy appears to be one of those things some have taken for granted right up until you realize other people really did mean it when they said you were nuts.

I've never seen it as nuts and a bare pre-req ofodern computing. Apparently this view is the subject of widespread controversy amongst peers.
There is zoom available under accessibility in the settings.HiDPI is not and never was intended as a accessibility feature. You want a feature like HiDPI for accessibility but that supposed to be feature is not HiDPI.
Building SaaS for the Notion Generation
I'm repeatedly amazed by what makes it to the front page on HN. I'm not judging, really I'm not, but this is the first post on a blog (so, basically unknown) and is essentially two paragraphs asking "why is it so hard to not stare at the internet all day?" I'm stoked for the author to be getting some HN love, but what about this deserves such an esteemed placement on HN??? It's literally the same question every single person is asking and has probably posted a thousand times before.
I agree. There's a great lesson here when thinking about the complexity of real world interoperability, and the ramifications of attempts to control information flows.

Frankly, this sort of thing has caused me to become a very regular user of Google Lens on my phone. I just copy the text out of the image and go on about my day.

Improving the usability of image -> text translation is probably the most effective way forward, as silly as that may seem.
CEOs are literally paid to deal with these emotions constructively. In this case, that would have looked like welcoming a competitor to the space and being ready to win on execution, because ideas are free.
Elon Musk probably got a tax break when he sold off Tesla shares
For anyone interested in more on tortoiseshell in particular, the Wikipedia article is a good starting point:

> Tortoiseshell was widely used from ancient times in the North and in Asia, until the trade was banned in 2014. It was used, normally in thin slices or pieces, in the manufacture of a wide variety of items such as combs, small boxes and frames, inlays in furniture (known as Boulle Work carried out by André-Charles Boulle), and other items: frames for spectacles, guitar picks and knitting needles. Despite being expensive, tortoiseshell was attractive to manufacturers and consumers because of its beautiful mottled appearance, its durability, and its organic warmth against the skin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoiseshell
I would think that any positive effect could be reversed by essentially giving the opposite. Want to decrease inflammation? Get a younger gut biome. Mess up and get an older gut biome and you probably end up with increased inflammation.

There is also evidence that fecal transplant recipients take on physical and mental traits of the donor.

Quoting from https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-09/faecal-transplant-sid....

"There have been people who have taken on the shape of the donor, such as if the donor is either overweight or underweight they've become more like that."

"There's even been reports of some people who have never been depressed getting a transplant from someone who's had depression and ending up with their first episode of depression after that."
The documentation was amazing. I did campus backups in the white room back in college, and for some reason that was the place they had shelf after shelf of these binders; while the Vaxen hummed, I read through them. It was something of a letdown to move to MAN pages when we got some UNIX boxen.
Im rolling my eyes at this. Dont get into business or politics if you have thin skin.
Discarding that this article is about Fed's nominal rate and instead discussing the general topic of market interest rates.

Another reason for higher market interest rates is it's a forcing function on entrepreneurs to make them think harder about what they spend social resources on.

Think of it this way with an interest rate of 0* , you merely need to trade a dollar for a dollar in order to service the debt. Many would be entrepreneurs will pursue ideas which have an EROI in the [0-1]% range just because they're expected to return _something_ . However this deploys many societal resources that marginally keeps them from better ideas, should they simply wait or innovate longer. If interest rates were, say, 5% then entrepreneurs must find ways to increase resources by 5% at a minimum just to service the capital. I think this is part of why we've seen so many shitty ideas come from startup over the years. Because a net 0 outcome has minimal repercussions . Yes obviously everyone wants to be a billionaire, but thinking of every gamble having a spectrum of outcomes, it means a gambler can continue to gamble on lower payouts if the "rake" is much lower.

* Consider all of this net of inflation and mandatory minimum returns etc. so that we can speak simply about interest rates.
I am pretty sure you can follow users and have their posts show up in some sort of feed but I think it might be a Reddit 2.0 thing and the UI is such trash that I never go there if I can help it.
This kind of shit really gets my imposter syndrome up. I got Direct Admission at UW back in the day, and I'm 1000% aware that it was a purely geographic decision. I was the only person in my cohort from that part of the state, and I hadn't touched code before in any real meaningful way (my school didn't have CS classes and I hadn't bothered to pursue it in my own time, not that I was lacking the opportunity to do so).

To be fair to myself against this kid, at least back in my day, UW CS DA was almost exclusively for in-state students, it is a state school after all, but I remember in one of the DA meetings having this guy from Bellevue sitting next to me lean over and say "It's funny to think, I bet there are people here who have never even coded before". And then in CS 142, when people I had been studying with who still had to fight to get into the program found out I was already in, the change in the way they treated me was, acute, for lack of a better word. In a lot of ways, that first year just sucked.

The moral of the story years later, knowing people who fought and got into the program, fought and failed, decided not to fight, transferred to continue the fight, none of this stuff actually matters at all. I know people who got a degree from community college who are successful developers, I know people with 4 year CS degrees who are Fish Mongers at Whole Foods.

Getting rejected sucks, I was rejected from some of my "safety schools", I was rejected from every internship I applied to in college, I was rejected from more jobs than my friends would believe. I think the biggest mistake I ever made in my life was internalizing that any of it mattered or said anything about me as a person. The world is too big, too busy, and too random to attribute 99% of it to anything except "bad luck".
Exactly. But with faster iteration speed, more type inference, less overhead, and a TypeScript-native DX.
This is a topic I truly want to become more mainstream knowledge. Wealth inequality only decreases notably during market corrections, which the Fed is determined to prevent at all costs [0].

The more the Fed distorts normal market signals, like interest rates, the less efficiently capital is allocated, and so the wealth distribution morphs from one that roughly represents human skill at allocating capital to an extremely top-heavy skewed chart that rewards incumbents.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBST01134
I would agree, but would add one note at the end: "Yes you can do this with REST by including query params to reduce/tune what gets returned, but that can quickly balloon into a monster when you get beyond pagination, ?expanded=1 for full objects (vs partials/abbreviated), etc."
> does SQL really have a strong learning curve

Depends. It's easy if all you want to do is select * from whatever;

When you get into subqueries and a whole ton of joins to get the information you need, it can get pretty complicated.

I mean, we have a full university course which was 80% SQL, spanning 6 months.

TL;DR the language is not complicated. Actually using it, can be.