skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I use a color-calibrated screen and #000000 to #ffffff is a painful amount of contrast.

This seems highly unlikely if your brightness isn't completely off. What cd/m2 are you at? I'm on a Eizo CG277 with built-in hardware self calibration. It's set to 120 cd/m2 and I have hard time thinking it could be painful to anyone. I much prefer #000 on #fff over lower contrast alternatives.
I agree, it's the reason this year I switched to iPhone even if I clearly prefer Android :(
Maybe someone liked cars and he put a car inside their car!
I’ve seen opinion pieces blame the surge in road deaths on an increase in anti-social behavior because of the pandemic. People were laid off, avoiding family & friends, and stuck inside a lot. All things that aren’t good for mental health. So, that reasoning makes sense to me, but I don’t know how you’d ever prove it.
I think you wrote something other than you intended in the last sentence.
As a somewhat established researcher in the field, I second Jurasky and Martin. It is peerless and what I recommend to anyone joining my team if they think their background NLP knowledge is a bit on the weak side.
reminds me of this CD from the mid `90's >> https://youtu.be/YNM-BJ9JDKU
I once used facil.io and quite enjoyed it!
So we can stop reading at “I stopped reading at”?
Tell that to HN.
I believe AWS always gives you both hyperthreads on a physical core, you never share a core with another customer. That's why hyperthreaded instance types always have an even number of vCPUs rather than starting at 1 vCPU.

Source: trust me bro, I can't find the relevant AWS doc.
Great advice about caffeine. My personal limit is one cup a day, first thing in the morning. More than that has very noticeable effects on me - positive in the short term but negative in the long term. Don't listen to what other people tell you about it, and do the experiments on yourself. Like most drugs, people seem to like brag about being able to handle it, and like most drugs, it has wildly varying effects on different people.
To make that mess readable: `pre { width: 50%; white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0 auto 0; }`

I hate pipermail with a passion, it's 2022 and still it's a hassle to read mailing list posts...
Maybe this would lead you in the right direction: chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark

Though, maybe that only does the reverse of what you're looking for.
> It just baffles how much effort as humans of modern education and academia have put into being super mad for using other people's ideas. Sure, I agree that this guy is somewhat the victim and she shouldn't have done that.

Degrees are awarded off the back of people producing work. If you reproduce another's work instead of creating something original, even if you then go on to make superficial modifications afterwards, you have not produced work and gaining qualifications off the back of that is fraudulent. Citations of sourced work, among other things, exist to declare the parts of work which are not your own.
Makefile or adding those scripts to package.json is a much better idea than vscode's own task configuration file which might not work if someone uses another editor.
I keep hearing this, but if everyone has a megaphone, I don't see the issue... it's not like you have time to listen to everyone. In other words, you get flooded with information and it isn't really a megaphone anymore...
Only two countries in the world, apparently
Unfortunately its a bit unstable. I used to run raspotify and it always crashed due to some network issue or session timeout or whatnot and then wouldn't recover until the service was restarted. I'm glad it exists, but it cannot be relied upon. Maybe in a year or so.
... or use Firefox (Tor Browser after disabling tor) + uBlock Origin, and avoid all the unwanted crap most websites throw at you today. And train yourself not to automatically search for everything on Google. Instead use IMDB, Wikipedia, Stackoverflow / Stackexchange, Reddit etc. etc. by adding their search to your browser ( https://superuser.com/questions/7327/how-to-add-a-custom-sea... ).
The emperor has no clothes, and most crypto seems to be either a scam at worst or delusionally impractical at best.

Bullshit turns to dust in the harsh light of the sun, and i reckon a massive dust storm is what will remain of most tokens that were never really needed for any practical purpose whatsoever, except maybe laundering illegally gotten gains from drugs or corruption, IMHO
TLDR; NYAG knows where the tether collateral is stored. Now, you can too.
The problem with self-driving cars
you can certainly destroy money by stopping consumming as a group, which will make enterprises downscale or even go bankrupt, resulting in net losses and autoamplifying effects. Why do I even have to explain that..
The client - "Gitlab Pages" in this article - should be retrying 502s on a different socket anyway.
When this happens, I usually create ./tmp/ and add it to .gitignore.
I don't think anyone knows for sure. There is a decent chance that Tether is (or was before the crash) decently backed by "stuff" - just not with what it claims to be backed by. I'd imagine other crypto holdings were a significant part of it. In other words, it's not really a stablecoin, but some other complex derivative instrument. So it depends on how you define scam. It's certainly false advertising and has always been.
For years the major allegation has been that BTC price is artificially propped up by fraudulent Tethers. We finally get to resolve this point.
I have a bug in my Mazda 5 when my iPhone is connected to the Bluetooth. If I take a phone call, the volume is fine. But when the call is done, and either myself or the person hangs up, the audible "bee boop" sound is ridiculously loud and scares everyone in the car, no matter what the volume is set to.

It's like they need to really sort out and map every single "interrupt" sound that can occur e.g. hang up, amber alert, etc, and ensure that it maps to a correct volume setting that doesn't damage your hearing.
Tethers collapse or fall from the peg would be such a contagion within the entire crypto ecosystem. I would think all crypto holdings are at risk if there are large adverse findings in the disclosure.
> Documentation also just doesn't cover the kind of issue the GitLab post is talking about. Sure, good docs on what talks to what and so on will help someone learn the lay of the land but it's not going to pinpoint the cause of a spike of 502 errors.

And that's perfectly fine. This post was published so GL folks can say "we figured out something tricky/interesting and our scale is what made it more tricky". I love figuring out "Frankenstein" type of bugs, errors and problems myself. What I dislike figuring out is something that shouldn't require any figuring out at all.

I read GitLab or Cloudflare's posts with pleasure. These doesn't seem to be written solely as technical recruitment "we do cool stuff" posts.
Who please?
Personally I think some things are technical and self-hosting is one of those things. The main thing that makes it technical isn't the actual set up, that could be scripted so that it's as simple to set up as installing an app.

The technical aspect of self-hosting is understanding the risks and implications of what you're doing. E.g. what are you exposing to third parties, what do you need to do to keep it secure, what sort of backup process is suitable.
Netflix with VPN is vastly vastly better than US Netflix for sure. Of course they now aggressively block the VPN services for some reason :(
There are reasons to assume that data retention might drop exponentially as temperature increases. So if you care about the data, you'll want to avoid overheating your storage media.
I don't have a reference handy, but one can ballpark this by looking at (1) the concentration of water in the stratosphere, (2) the lifetime of a gas parcel there, and (3) the mass of the atmosphere there. This gives the natural rate of injection of water, and I think it would be a good idea to keep manmade injections below that level.

Some numbers I've pulled out of various places (not guaranteeing these are accurate): Earth's atmosphere is 5e18 kg, 99% of mass of atmosphere is below 30 km (so mass above that is 5e16 kg), lifetime of gas in upper stratosphere is ~8 years, concentration of water vapor there is about 7 ppmv. Given this, natural water injection into the upper part of the stratosphere is maybe 2e10 kg/year. A Falcon 9 produces about 2e5 kg of water vapor per launch (much at lower altitude, granted). So, it's looking like at most 1e6 F9 launches/year, perhaps less, would be over the limit I set.

Concerns from water vapor in the stratosphere would be ozone destruction and contribution to global warming (I understand 15% of the GWP of methane comes from the water vapor it produces when oxidized in the stratosphere.)
Yes. I use tamper monkey to write scripts for sites I visit frequently that have annoying popups, content blocks (like chat) and link-jacking (streaming sports sites).
You'd think Tether would be in favour of something like this as an investor confidence thing but they aren't. I struggle to understand how that can be without it throwing some doubt on the viability of tether itself. Does anyone know how to square this circle?
I was looking at someone's dotfiles on Github a while back and they employed this method. Essentially they made their entire home directory a git repo but used gitignore to ignore everything but the dotfiles they wanted to backup. It was a pretty nifty setup
By creating the stablecoin they got the funds to play with (invest, I mean...) Without it, they wouldn't be able to raise a simar amount without being more strictly regulated.
They've already revealed they're a scam, by admitting they're backed by "commercial paper".
Thank you for this wonderfully concise summary: it’s convenient to have all this in one compact document.

I suppose “flops” means “floating-point operations” here? Heretofore I’ve always encountered this as an abbreviation for “floating-point operations per second”.
It's a Java application, so it's actually OS independent.
Moreover, it is almost DMBS-independent thanks to JDBC technology.
Why would you need to document that?
There's big yield in stablecoins. But yeah, it seems likely that the risk is not worth the yield.
Same here :) It was my client of choice back 20 years ago when I used windows... Very nice to see that it still lives on
They use some of the darkest and most unobvious manipulative techniques to steer you towards some very nasty content - most of which comes in the form of their podcasts.

Edit: It doesn't seem to me like the content itself is of any particular interest to them beyond the engagement its resulting in. It's that same hateful and harmful content you see on all these platforms where money has become more important than humanity.
thanks!

i just looked, it doesn't seem to have this easy "route('/hello/world')" system, at least not in the main examples, is it included?
The main thing I found btrfs was good for was testing the restore process of my backups. I was using it in supposedly known-good configurations (RAID 1 or RAID 10) and it consistently destroyed data.

The fact that it turned out that the scrub function spent years corrupting data by mistake was only one of the many flaws with it.
Meta very publicly announced a hiring slowdown, Netflix is introducing levels and slowing down hiring, Coinbase is slowing down hiring, etc..

Even with the above names slowing down hiring, I would guess big tech uses this opportunity to stockpile even more engineers to come out of this stronger. I don't see the competition for engineers that can pass those interviews slowing down.

Startups? Yes, the cohort that raised 20+ million Series As in the last two years and spent lavishly at the height of this bull run will start being much more defensive.
I'm just advocating for a compiler flag that says "do_reasonable things" just like in every other mainstream language. Python must free himself from those idiosyncrasies if it wants to stay relevant, migrations are not that hard especially since those patterns seems illegitimate or workaroundable (e.g. use overriding if you want to replace a function or do extension methods). At worst at least tag the concerned functions as dirty via an annotation which will tell cpython to locally deoptimize.
I'm not arguing for an exceptional thing, just for conventionality and sanity.
You can edit the text. Just click on it!
I'm trying to think of what would be the funniest thing to be revealed. Nothing backing it or Russian money backing it. (Both the same really)
consider rather, certificate based identity management is used instead of passwords on these networks
Erdoğan blocks NATO accession talks with Sweden and Finland
Yeah. Needs some CDN love!
Counter example:

"what is an iris" when wondering about anatomy brings up Wikipedia as the first link. Perfect.

With the .edu trick the first link is about the flower, and there's nothing about the human eye anywhere on the first page of results.
You won't get a four bedroom in Mayfair with that salary, but living in Mayfair is not my idea of fun either.

Yet with that salary you can afford a very nice house outside of central London, you can travel, eat at a fancy restaurant whenever you want, get the latest iDevice every year and buy a new car with cash when the old one breaks, provided you're smart with your money. To my European tastes that's living like a prince (not a king)

In the UK £200k puts you solidly in the 1% bracket - that is, 99% of people earn less than you. If that's not princely, I don't know what is.
Using Snippets for Vim
I’m not a dwarf, but I do have smaller than average hands and really struggle to type on a phone one handed. I dropped my phone a lot trying to balance it.

Have you come across pop sockets? Small collapsible self-adhesive handles for the back of your phone. They’ve made an absolutely massive usability difference to my phone usage (although I aim for the smallest handset I can get without compromising too much on quality anyway). Total game changer
I earn in excess of 200K£ (So 300K$) in London and in no way I live like a prince. I managed to buy an average flat (at least for continental European standards) in a semi-decent area (Battersea) and that took 10 years of savings plus 3K£pm in mortgage (which is roughly one third of my net income) for the next 25+ years. I pay 2K per month for a random nursery and another 500-600£ for a baby sitter, because the nursery doesn't keep the baby after 1630. I spend in excess of 1K pm in food and bills. That’s a total of almost 7K£ per month just to put a (continental European quality) roof over my head and it’s 70-80% of my aftertax income. If I lose my job, I’m homeless in 3 months.

I’d gladly move to the US if I didn’t have to go through their hellish immigration system (and I may leave the UK if the Brexit madness keeps degenerating).
Still 010.

https://www.slant.co/topics/1775/viewpoints/3/~best-hex-edit...
One of Java's original goals was to work in embedded systems. As such, I think type erasure actually is helpful to reduce the size of compiled artefacts because you haven't monomorphised functions - hence avoiding potential bloat.

As in all of engineering, most things are a tradeoff.
That flag is nice, but it’s nowhere near the wonderful surreality of the Vovchansk (city in Russia) flag [0]. It has a regal squirrel about to do something awesome.

[0] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_CBsQoXoAA3I44?format=png&name=...
Congrats! What are you focusing on to differentiate yourself from Supabase?
> As others have pointed out, the pro-censorship activists generally also hypocritically support free speech when it comes to their issues

A few months ago I would have called the "pro-censorship" label hyperbole. The folks who support censorship on social media have a few decent, good-faith-sounding arguments in favor of censorship. The primary argument being something like "I'm not in favor of censorship, but censorship by corps isn't unconstitutional!". But as soon as it seemed clear that Elon would buy Twitter, the mask came off and those same people who claimed they weren't in favor of censorship were openly bemoaning the end of the pro-censorship regime.
Thank you, this solved a problem I was having with Citrix Workspace. Every ten seconds I would get a ping spike. It reliably destroyed video calls and made typing in the workplace a pain.

My old Mac does not have this problem. Makes no sense to me that Windows allows any random program to trigger wifi scans. It’s a performance issue and privacy issue too.
That's my point, that `echo .gitignore > .gitginore` as advertised as "a cool hack" in the article can lead to disasters.
Speaking about the country where I live (CZ), it's going to be very hard to get this information. This is not something centrally managed. Everything wrt. gas import, transport, storage, distribution and usage is done by private companies, and there's dozens/hundreds of them just in this small country, and of course their contracts are business secret.

There are estimates, but I wouldn't call that reliable information.
I mean we've seen this play out already, bankers have been forced to open their books due to shady dealings as early as the 14th century. What happens is that banks fall both legitimate and crooked, things get stabilised for awhile, time passes, everybody eventually forgets why such regulations came into being, greed happens again, and this continues on until the present day with the chaos becoming less frequent yet simultaneously spawning hilariously large black swan events.

I don't know how the fine details of all this will shake out, not well enough to make any money off the affair, but I know the rough outline of exactly what is going to happen. Read up on the early history of fractional reserve banking if you'd like to know too.
I really wonder about alcohol and drugs. When I was a paramedic, I recall about 80% of accidents I encountered were alcohol related, though not everyone whether ended up getting charged for one reason or another.

To be fair, that was in a rural area where there just aren't that many cars on the road.

But I know that first lockdown really set up a lot of people to increase their drinking.
> because it’s the lingua franca of conversations about compilers and interpreters

There are many materials, compilers, and interpreters that use ocaml and haskell, for example. C isn't the only one. That's why I'd prefer pseudo code instead of C, so that I could use this book without learning a specific language only for it.
> Some of us will NEVER accept ZFS's licensing.

And yet the kernel community has been remarkably relaxed about Intel's golden screwdriver code and NVidia's binary blobs. Nothing if not inconsistent.
That still leaves you going to sites who's only purpose is to funnel you through some sales channel and waste your time.

Edit: yeah that's good advice too. Though the *.edu trick also seems to be pretty useful so far.
I miss that show. It was so over the top and encapsulated it's own era so well.
They're quite mean to free users; ie. they can't listen to Spotify in other countries, and they have a song skip limit. But that's at least understandable from a freemium perspective.

The most hostile thing they do to paying users, IMO, is not implementing basic features that people have been crying about for years. One example: you can't just select a bunch of songs and put them into a playlist.
Agreed on the long history.

I'd still argue there is sizable "if" as one way to reduce government debt would be to use inflation (just like in the 1950s). So while rates will go up, the question is how much they will go up and if the level they reach will be high enough to cause substantial portfolio reallocations.
Looks nice! Just a quick note—when I hear "open source Firebase alternative" I immediately think Supabase. It might be good to call out the factors that differentiate Appwrite from other projects.
Qt is an amazing piece of tech that got many things right.

1. Performance that matches native speeds

2. Single codebase for multiple platforms (without relying on web technologies)

3. Not limited with a single language (has bindings to all major languages)

4. The core is written in a performant language (C++)

But recent developments in UI programming is sidelining frameworks like Qt with some really good innovations.

- Like React/React-native ecosystem pioneered the component based declarations of UI elements.

- Flutter pushed it to all platforms with Skia as the rendering engine

- Jetpack Compose is pushing it with a better language (Kotlin)

- State management had matured a lot with redux style immutable stores

The irony is even with all these recent developments there isn't a single UI framework that took the best parts of older frameworks like Qt and combined it with the recent ideas from Flutter and Jetpack-compose!

If it did it all, the multi-platform support is handicapped. Either the native strategy becomes an afterthought or the Web becomes an afterthought, hurting accessibility, etc.

We still have a long way to go in cross-platform UI frameworks :)
Is it actually surprising though? Doesn't seem to me, you quickly figure out in regular usage that it's not the committed content of this file that matters, and this is just a natural consequence.
You can also slap a thermal sensor to the SSD.
Or use contactless thermometer.
Coming from theoretical physics background, I find the mathematics and physics side of game development quite easy. Is this considered a real advantage if I wanted to pursue a career or something in game development? Is there some way to leverage my physics/math skills to do this stuff as a serious hobby, perhaps even making small amounts of money from it?

Like probably many people, I've wanted to make games since I was a kid, but somehow there is never enough time or energy to start doing indie development seriously and I always imagined there's no way I could get hired in a game company without a good developer or arts background.
My personal observation: Drivers in my state are legendary for being bad/aggressive drivers. That being said, I have never seen the level of aggressive anti-social driving that I saw in 2021. I expect bad road decorum in my state, but it was shockingly bad in 2021.
I get none of the same results as my top hit?
Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow? It's not so surprising actors get paid to promote something. But
how about Bill Clinton and Tony Blair? They both took money to speak at Crypto Bahamas this April.
I don't think they do. Meets and Zooms seem to be the way people have gone, I hadn't even heard of phone video calls becoming more common before this thread, and my family definitely hasn't done it.
Novices: keep in mind that this is actually just the minimum viable code to support a distributed system. The next thing you need is enough tooling and features to support integrity and reliability guarantees. For example, when network instability forces each of your operations to fail in an unexpected way, you need to be able to resolve the different failure modes and reestablish a consistent application and network state. The Raft algorithm doesn't do that for you.

It's like how TCP doesn't guarantee that your data will be written or processed or transmitted without corruption; only that it will be received without corruption. You will still get corruption after recv() and before send(), and you have to handle those cases, or your application will begin to introduce unknown data corruption. And when that happens you need the tooling and telemetry to address it after the fact, "distributedly".
Thanks for the pointer. Good non-English TTS is hard to come by, and this one sounds truly amazing!
"Lars Knoll is The Qt Company CTO and Qt Project Chief Maintainer. He has been working on Qt for more than 13 years starting as a software engineer to later leading the global Qt engineering team in Nokia before the Digia acquisition in October 2012."

From https://www.qt.io/blog/author/lars-knoll