skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see Blender as the GIMP of 3D, I've used many different 3D programs and blender just sucks all the fun out because I feel like I'm fighting with the UI instead of doing what I want to do. People keep saying the UI is better but every time I download the latest version it makes me appreciate 3DS max very much.

If I was to go back to making indie games or indie music videos I would rather pay autodesk $50 a month for a hobby/indie license than get grey hairs from using Blender. I would love to not give that money to autodesk and use blender instead but the UI pain threshold is still too high for me to bypass. I really hope progress continues and maybe in 5 years things will actually be better.
>that Medium offers very little control in this regard

I've used Medium to post, and it sure allows one no to use white on purple.

In fact, Medium's default, even if not 100% black, is more legible than his choice.
I don't think this is entirely right although it sounds logical at first. Modern displays can be extremely powerful in terms of back light intensity and contrast; you realize that when you switch on the average model from years ago. They need that power so users can watch videos with intentionally dark scenes and still be able to perceive details in less-than-ideal situations. It does not automatically follow that the maximum contrast is intended or ideal for other purposes such as reading text.

I might add that office-type programs were developed at a time where 14 to 18 inch color CRTs were the latest and greatest. The image that modern flat screens deliver is much more dynamic and has way sharper edges, to the degree that maybe we should consider to artificially blur the entire display ever so slightly just so the higher Fourier frequencies get a bit less dominant.
Everything¹ can be brighter than a screen if you just shine enough light onto it. The main issue with pure black and white on screens is typically contrast. Modern screens can have a much, much higher absolute difference between the brightest white and the blackest black.

There is such a thing as too much contrast. Typical ergonomic workspace regulations (like the ASR in Germany for example) will tell you how much contrast any given type of workspace environment should have between the brightest and the darkest point for a reason.

Now someone with an old, washed out TFT might get a much different contrast when viewing a #000 #FFF page of text than someone with a modern HDR display if this is not accounted for in software. Now you could say they need to adjust their screen – but text is not the only thing people view on screens. Why would you throw away image and color fidelity, because some website doesn't fit that setup? We are on computers, why not just support different contrast levels like we do with dark mode?

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¹ except maybe black holes
To be honest I’ve left Spotify for no particular reason other than that ive got a discount for Deezer with the phone subscription, but yeah it never occurred to me but I’ve continuously found interesting songs with Deezer like in daily basis
Is it my inbox or Google's inbox?
> Nobody is trying to force you to engage with anyone on Twitter.

Have you ever... been on Twitter?

Seriously, Twitter randos often consider it a badge of honor to get blocked by someone after they tweet unsolicited hostile replies. "Ha, they blocked me, what a snowflake! Can't handle any criticism."
Star Citizen is the pretty much one of the only visionary MMOs since the mid 2000s (except for maybe Darkfall).

I first read about it on Hackernews years ago - and ended up doing a deep dive on starcitizen_refunds. I watched a bunch of those videos about what a big failure it was. I kept wondering why people still supported it. My fundamental takeaway was that people didn't actually want their money back.

For whatever reason, I didn't realize the game was actually playable. The way people describe it makes it sound like it doesn't exist. Once I read about the vision for it, I decided to try it.

I was blown away. I'm not really into space or space games, but getting into a ship and flying it into space was insane. Probably one of the most interesting things I've seen in video games in the past 20 years. I stopped playing it but decided to subscribe to the $10 per month tier to support it.

The game itself is playable and fun (they need to tweak a bunch of economic parameters once they're ready to leave alpha, because right now it's too easy), the MMO part is lacking (and it's an unsolvable problem based on their current vision). There are tons of bugs. Some of the simplest things don't work at all, like the overworld map, or even the game downloader. In spite of all that, it's fascinating. You don't get worldwide meetups, videos like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRP9A8VQwIU or other Beatlemania fanaticism for other games for a reason.

The biggest thing is that Star Citizen is meant to be a high-fidelity simulator first and a game second. There are tons of people in the community who don't realize this and just want another pew-pew, instant-gratification space shooter game (of which there are many) with good graphics. Those are the loudest people with the least understanding of the vision.

Here's what I think needs to happen:

1) Put out the single-player version. This could realistically be done in a couple years and will surpass every space game ever made

2) Get rid of "sharding" completely, add caps to number of online players.

3) Change the mechanics for the MMO in a way that makes server meshing make sense. Develop some game mechanism similar to Asheron's Call portal storm that prevents mass gatherings of more than the server max.

AND/OR

3) Something crazy like create a city-based MMO. Make Star Citizen ISP in NYC, pilot the MMO there. Would solve some of the networking issues.

A lot of what Raph Koster has talked about in the past 20 years is being created in Star Citizen. It's the only thing that comes close to the vision of a "world" rather than a "game", that UO was able to capture.
They do well on their own so why would they join NATO? Probably so they can let the US handle things for them. I think long term this will only make things worse but I'm certainly not an expert.
Could a husband open an account without his wife's permission?
Performance is probably the last reason I use datatable.

I just enjoy having to read much less code when compared to tidyverse and SQL.

Plus the syntax difference between tidyverse and dt are overstated.

https://atrebas.github.io/post/2019-03-03-datatable-dplyr/
From the same author as "I don't care about cookies":

https://www.no-thanks-extension.com/

I haven't personally tried it yet, but I'm tempted.
Proof is not required. In the US, for example, you file taxes on an honor system.

If you've lied, there are periodic audits, and you might get thrown in prison.

I assume you can lie going to China. If you do and get caught, you'll probably never be welcome to visit China again (or fines, or prison, or some other consequence; but most countries would just keep you out).
In CMYK 100% isn't pure black either, neither is rich black (C: 50%, M: 50%, Y: 50%, K: 100%)
Microsoft and Java = ♡: a story told at Devoxx UK
They don't have nuclear weapons and they signed the non-proliferation treaty. Their neighbor is making nuclear threats, it only makes sense to get under a nuclear umbrella while they can.

If you want states to play for themselves only, the treaty will have to go. I think that's much worse than anything else.
I use fzf in multi-select mode

fza = "!git ls-files -m -o --exclude-standard | fzf -m --print0 | xargs -0 git add"

That lets you interactively choose which files to stage.
Salary was too “high”. Even though it was in their promotion bands.

It was very very strange.
Reproducing #ffffff and #000000 is relatively possible on higher level monitors that have HDR support and full-array local dimming or a dual-layer LCD. While these monitors shine in HDR mode, most of them are also useful for getting a perfect SDR image out of them.
> I accept your system is different and, likely, a whole lot better.

Haha, no, our system is likely worse.
I'm using uBlock Origin, don't get any of that. Be sure to enable all the "annoyance" filter lists in the settings.
Show HN: NFT Maker app. Create free NFTs without prior technical knowledge
No specific advice, though I see this as a general issue for DNS and domain registry generally.

For those who suggest hosting your own services on your own domain: the frequency and ease with which these assets can be lost and transferred suggests that any security afforded is at best illusory.

My view is increasingly that personal domains 1) should be available and 2) must be treated as intrinsically different from commercial properties. A personal Internet domain is effectively an identity, and we don't sell either names or personhood.

(This also means that commercial operations built around personal identity are not transactable. This too might well be a good thing. The assets can be sold, the identity, and its associated reputation, cannot.)

This would of course require legislated change.

Make it happen.
I suspect not too many did. Most probably switched to Windows 9x on the desktop with Windows NT being the next most common choice. On the server side most of my customers used OS/2 for running Communications Server or LAN Server. These were replaced by Windows NT and Windows NT running SNA Server. SNA Server was one of the worst products I have ever had the misfortune to have to support.
> Passengers who lost their lives included a 17-year-old boy on his first flight, six people traveling together for a funeral and a former accountant who had recently moved to start a new job with e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and marry his sweetheart.

There is no god.
I’m not sure, players like Reddit and Twitter seem dead set on purposely making their web experience as bad as possible to push people towards their app.
So? If some criminal usage is the price we must pay for real privacy, so be it. Total warrantless surveillance is the greater crime.
> My relationship with music is now more suited to listening to a couple of tracks on any platform, and then buying it from Bandcamp.

I think the music world would be considerably enhanced if everyone did this. Bandcamp is pretty damn artist friendly and I love that about it.
NLP researcher here. It's great to see many offerings for courses and tutorials, and NLP has made a lot of progress, in terms of both its science as well as its re-usable software artifacts (ibraries & notebooks, standalone tools).

But what saddens me is too many people are trying to dive into NLP without trying to understand language & linguistics first. For example, you can run a part of speech (POS) tagger in three lines of Python, but you will still not know much about what parts of speech are, which languages have which ones, what function they have in linguistic theory or practical applications.

What are the advantages of using the C7 tagset over the C5 or PENN tagsets?

Why is AT sometimes called DET?

etc.

I recommend people spend a bit of time to read an(y) introduction to linguistics textbook before diving into NLP, then the second investment will be worth so much more.
Well-calibrated but too bright?

My screen is fine, probably as good as or better than what most people have. We can't optimize for the almost 0% of people who have calibrated screens to the detriment of the big majority of people.
I wouldn't use this for system files, but I have the pattern "loz_*" and it lets me keep "my" odd scripts in the repo folder but permanently untracked.
If almost everyone uses some editor, then it’s not really “littered”. We do the same and it’s nice for new teammates to quickly get set up. If they are one of the few folks that want to use some other editor, who cares? Files are free.
Kabul brokers peace talks between Pakistani Taliban and Islamabad
Target=“_blank” – the most underestimated vulnerability ever (2021)
The following .gitignore is my favorite way to commit an (almost) empty folder to git:

# Ignore everything in this directory
*
# Except this file
!.gitignore

.gitignore can be present in any directory and there is a way to unignore a wildcard
This comes from the following enhancements:

- Cheaper, lazy Python frames: 3-7%

- Inlined Python function calls: 1-3%

- PEP 659: Specializing Adaptive Interpreter: variable

The interpreter changes work by generating specialized code so this might have a memory impact which they are working to offset and expect to cap at 20% more.

See the in progress release notes for details: https://docs.python.org/3.11/whatsnew/3.11.html#faster-cpyth...
That is false. That’s like saying most gym members become gym rats that take premium classes.

No, most users never use it and just forget to cancel and those are the most profitable users to have. Just like for gym memberships.
I am a frontend developer and could not tell you how to do that in Chrome.
Often such regulations inhibit repairs and easy access to parts but this regulation specifically just makes sure that online entertainment components aren't connected to online vehicle components as far as I know. Not sure, I still drive an offline car with a key. High tech usability, I am betting on a future value increase.
There must be a reason why Russia is trying desperately to make those payments

Why would anybody ruin a good business partnership? Trust is everything in commerce. Even in the deepest depths of the original Cold War, the Soviets always delivered on time, every time. And they paid their bills when they came due.

For Russians, a deal is a deal. It might take you a long time to get the Russians to sign on the dotted line but once they do you can take it granted that they will follow through. Some people in Western countries, on the other hand, often leave you counting your fingers after they've shaken your hand.
Resiliency of the Internet in Ukraine (Recording of Ripe 84 Talk)
Is there some headline reason for these improvements?

I remember reading about the GILectomy, and how actually many of the improvements, aimed at making GILectomy feasible, make single-threaded Python runs faster too. There was even the trepidation that PSF might accept these changes, but still say no to GILectomy. Is this at all related?
Self-plagiarizing anecdote: in uni we had a subject called "Technical English" where we had to learn amazing words like "printer" among other things. Obviously nobody took it seriously. About 5 minutes before class I realized a short powerpoint presentation was due that day on some "technical subject".

Fortunately our teacher was substituted and we had done a presentation like it before. So I took my last presentation, changed the name to something vaguely different (as I knew it would be written down), repeated my last presentation word for word and no one was the wisest. Saw a few grins as my classmates started realizing what's going on ^^;

_edit_

I'm not from an English speaking country in case anyone is wondering.
They try to make basic car without any modern features (like air bags, emission control). I doubt they can do even that. They try to source all parts from Russian manufacturers but that is likely to be impossible.

Kamil Galeev has great Twitter thread about this part of Russian economy.
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1501369950463836164?l...

Summary: Russia does manufacture stuff, but Russian manufacturing is deeply integrated into the Western technological supply chains. What Russia produces is produced on Western industrial machine with critical Western parts. That includes military industry.

Import substitution is a scam. For example Their 'home build' tractor АНТ 4135F is Zetor Forterra 135 assembled in Russia and rebranded as Russian.
English has a vast vocabulary of words and phraseology that most native speakers would never or rarely use in everyday speech--and mostly wouldn't in non-literary writing (and even then). Get into the really less common words and even very literate English speakers probably don't know and would certainly never use a fairly large swath of English vocabulary (e.g. the words in Merriam-Webster or the OED). And that's not even getting into slang which is often specific to subcultures or a particular age group.
One thing I don’t see talked about much regarding new housing is skilled trades. Where I live there aren’t enough doing skilled trades to produce the number houses that people want to build. That compounds the problem
When I broke my Pixel 5, I bought another one, even though the Pixel 6a was out at that point.

The Galaxy S22 has a similarly-sized screen, but the EU version is rubbish.
Why Warren Buffett Bought Paramount, Not Netflix, Stock
If you're in the EU:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrust_cases_against_Goog...
I grew up in the republic of Ireland and only associated the Red hand with unionism. ( I can find an article from 1999 talking about Sinn Fein complaining about the Red Hand in the north - https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/the-red-hand-of-ulster-1.... ). Don't know about nowadays though.

> is viewed quite negatively by the unionist community even though ironically it is supposed to symbolize peace (white) between the nationalist (green) and unionist (orange - a la William of Orange) communities.

In my (Catholic) school down the country we were (IIRC) never taught that the third colour was orange, but gold. Wikipedia gives two reasons for this, IIRC - one that it's easier to rhyme and the other being that people don't want to acknowledge the meaning/have to think about unionists when talking about the flag. (I don't remember learning the meaning of the flag either, but maybe it was covered once).
You mean $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore
Says someone who uses white font on purple background
It may sound weird but it's not about the intuition but your guts which is, I know it's weird, different. It's "how you feel" and your mood is driven a lot by your guts. It's really something which is more about the body than the brain if you will.

And if you feel very good with someone, very very good, well you either have your cofounder/spouse in front of you or a psychopath/charmer/salesman (because this is what they do, they hack your guts). I'm serious. It goes like this: you dont feel particularly good, pass, you feel good, psycho or spouse?.
I believe it was a reply to GP’s analogy of Slack vs IRC.
That was a cool read. I knew there were some American basketball legends in the 90s but I had no idea the sheer level of dominance they had over the rest of the world.

> The team has been described by journalists around the world as the greatest sports team ever assembled.

> The team defeated Cuba 136–57, prompting Cuban coach Miguel Calderón Gómez to say, "You can't cover the sun with your finger."[33] Marv Albert, who announced the game, recalled that "it was as if [the Americans] were playing a high school team, or grade school team. They were so overwhelming ... a blowout after blowout."[16] The Cubans were the first of many opponents who were more interested in taking photos with the Americans than playing them.
At least there is still https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot I just hope they don't rely on libspotify's api endpoints or I need a new solutions for my Raspberry Pi connected speakers.
Rekwest – Fetch-alike, highly likely fnc and e2u client for Node, w/ zero deps
The author goes out of the way to mention multiple times, the first at the top of the post, that Medium offers very little control in this regard.

Maybe true, but this is the first Medium page I've seen with this bizarre color scheme and I hit perhaps 50-60 Medium articles a week in my work. So it's certainly something to do with the theming of his site.
Take a look at platform.sh
China Southern Airlines Removes Boeing 737 Max from Fleet Plans
It might help to detail what is wrong with the current mail list stuff. The requirements are not clear here.
I have cancelled during COVID since I wasn't commuting anymore.

My rant is I'm fairly certain that I have less freedom with the app and more ads since I'm a user that used to pay than before I became a paid user.

I really smell a dark pattern in there and I'm not joking, the app was treating me like a back alley garbage sack after I stopped paying.
Strongly suggest using the Spotify desktop web client. Content plays in album order. Even on free tier no restrictions for skips or playing specific songs. Ublock origin works just fine but will sometimes need a nudge after a while if it gets stuck on an ad.
I'd rather buy dedicated hardware and have it just work.
Currently using portal from facebook, works pretty well but limited to the most used video calling like zoom. No google meet :/
The brightness of a screen is also well-defined in the respective DIN norms for workspaces, which I’m following exactly.

Those norms also set a limit for the maximum amount of contrast allowed at a workspace, which #000000 on #ffffff violates if it’s shown on a color-calibrated screen with standard brightness.

> We can't optimize for the almost 0% of people who have calibrated screens to the detriment of the big majority of people.

We can’t just change the meaning of what definitions and terms mean just because it’s easier than making everyone follow the standard.

Create a color profile for your monitor, so your OS can compress contrast if your monitor isn’t powerful enough to reach the SDR sRGB specs.
Microsoft is funding the work with Mark Shannon / GVR / Eric Snow. The project is called "Faster Cpython". Pretty excited for the 3.12 work, where they plan to introduce JIT compilation I believe?

I'm not sure about the progress on the new form of GIL removal, but as far as I've seen it's a separate effort.

https://github.com/faster-cpython/

https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/13/guido_van_rossum_cpyt...
These threads always degenerate into a general airing of grievances. There are multiple issues with Spotify (E.g. no lossless/HiFi, usability issues etc). But in this case I think they have gone above and beyond expectations by supporting libspotify for 7 years after it was deprecated.
Then unleash the full brightness when watching videos, and scale it back when reading text.

Until we get HDR on the web, one sRGB size must fit all. At this point, accessibility and readability are top priority. You can always tone down your backlight, while someone else might have it at full blast and still not be able to read without squinting in the sunlight on a cheap display. I know who I'm more sympathetic to.
Why stop using Medium???
I see. Seems like a factual disagreement, in that case:

> When viewed through the TangledWeb publication, we have set it to a dark mode, which is probably the best contrast possible per how Medium is configured.

I have never used Medium, so I can't comment in this regard.
I started doing the same. Use Spotify/LastFM/various sources for discovery and if I find something that I like, purchase on Bandcamp + download FLAC files. Started doing it just to support the artists, but quickly it became invaluable in replacing Spotify as the audio quality seems to be getting worse and worse, even as a premium user.
On iPhone, anyway, Spotify is much better than Apple Music.
I can't decide if this says more about the doctors you visit or the mechanics. There are also CVS minute-clinic doctors near me, where the "front-end waiting room" is the CVS store. There similarly are mechanics near me where the "front-end waiting room" is the gas station it is connected to.
Memory usage: zfs is still not neatly integrated and requires a big chunk of memory to operate efficiently.
Yes, this is necessary to avoid seeing quote tweets of them.
There's a reason most states in the US have laws protecting library records. I don't know who runs this site or what privacy laws and policies (if any) they operate under, so I don't know how they might feel about certain books I might send through it and what they might do about it.

I don't want to send a copy of "And the Band Played On" (for example) and start getting Chick Tracts.