skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do they? As I see it, they make it worse.

That may be because your development needs are well served already if you're a developer, so you won't see the value in such system. For people who rely on others to build every single piece of automation they need, being able to create their own small automatisms would be priceless.

> all in all they have more problems and limitations than a proper general purpose language with a good API

End users don't need a general purpose language with a good API - at least not as someting that they will handle directly. They need small, self-contained domain-specific languages that they can expand in areas where they fall short, but without the full power of a general programming system (which would overcomplicate the development environment and provide too many opportunities to shoot themselves in the foot).

> So the problem is not the language, but the support?

For me yes, partially, because I already know programming. I could work with a programming environment with complex syntax that autocompleted the required syntax to match my thoughts (something like GitHub copilot works in that direction). But that's still two points of complexity above the system I envision as possible.

Something like the classic Hypercard could be a good starting point for the mental model of such tools. A simple data model, integrated storage, and interactive processes using a programming language with minimal syntax. Expand it with hierarchical storage, expanded integration with other systems and a modern declarative language, and you're set.

Someone today pointed me to a system like this[1], Lepiter, which looks a lot like the solution end users could manage to create on their own on top of their knowledge systems: like a browser with separate cells, where each cell can run a different runtime, hyperlinked and with a simple storage mechanism.

[1] https://lepiter.io/feenk/introducing-lepiter--knowledge-mana...

> More autocompletion, documentation, automation, etc.

Those are good things but not enough. What end users are lacking the most is the possibility to create their own automated processes; most tools only allow them to choose among a library of predefined ones, without allowing them to grow the library.

> Another solution could be integrating an interface like Node-RED offers it. This seems to be quite accessible for casual experts.

Unfortunately, graph-based flow visual tools have proven to be useful only for a small subset of automation tasks largely consisting on data transformations using pre-defined functions. The most promising results in End-User Development point out that reactive, rule-based runtime environments like the spreadsheet seem to be better abstractions for allowing users to define their own computations.

> And Excel has good access for new users?

Yes, spreadsheets have a low learning curve and high ceiling. And compared to imperative programming languages, they're like walking up the slope of your house vs. extreme rock climbing.
I was aware of the ANSI escape sequences and even used them directly in scripts on occasion, but I still used ncurses "where it mattered" because I didn't know about compatibility. I didn't want to risk Windows or a random flavor of linux I'd never heard of or a group of anti-VT100 enthusiasts getting upset because I didn't use an agreed upon compatibility layer.

From the tone of this piece I gather that the ANSI escape codes are actually standard enough to target. Cool! Thanks for the heads up.
Being lazy wins again!
Too bad we can’t all be ex FBI directors
People who will happily continue using 15-year-old hardware are not a great market segment to target.
I find it powerful too and it raises the question of whether it reflects an artist in decay or an artist at his peak.

How would we know the difference?
Sometimes, the how is the why
If noone knew who Picasso was this could pass as a depiction of how dementia affected the work of an artist over time, like this one:

https://www.boredpanda.com/alzheimers-disease-self-portrait-...
Isn't worrying about someone else's grammatical use of capitalization when the piece is understood anyway a little too pedantic?
Well that was harsh! Why do you succumb to letting off your steam on a stranger who's already bummed he lost his project's home!

Man said should've read the fine print. Smh
You say “optimal” and “right” nonchalantly. Under what ethical framework are you trying to solve these “problems”?
I don't know whether MIRVs, each carrying a dozen or so atom bombs, compare to HGVs like the Amiga does to the iPhone. I'd like to say absolutely not but I can't. Either way calling ballistic missiles "obsolete" is incomprehensible to the dead.
There was VB for DOS which had a similar interface.
Sorry this might be true, but certainly never been true for me. I work late, cook dinner, do house work, do garden work, do all the life admin, organise any repairs or do then myself. I am the main bread winner too. Yes my wife spends more time with our daughter but that's only because she works part time.

It's feels a bit unfair to be told that because I'm a man I don't do enough.
I think this is a difference between the desktop and web experience because I don't see any "more tweets" section. If I scroll, I just get autoloading of more replies to the tweet.
So there’s material differences that supports certain prejudices; big surprise, turns out human societies have been (and still is) working very hard for thousands of years to craft those differences - isolating, separating, enslaving, oppressing, exiling their scapegoat “others”. The question is not whether the differences are real, but whether we can prevent AI from being used to perpetuate those differences. TBH, we don’t stand a chance; we live in a society where most people cannot even wrap their heads around why it shouldn’t perpetuate those differences.
There are many crypto currencies but only one bitcoin!

Art is my best analogy to crypto.
I can't believe this guy is writing software that runs on my computer and selling it for money. Feels like the good old days.
She disagreed with the constitutionality of the decision. Not with the premise of abortion.

For her not to overturn it would be a pretty significant compromise of integrity.

The fact that something can be unconstitutional does not mean the same thing is illegal.

It is not of federal jurisdiction to set the precedent on the matter.

Every pro-abortionist seems to casually brush aside the fact that this has more to do with federal power than abortion
Dbt Python Models
This process is basically what I’ve done for years. I don’t use tweetdeck though, I just manually curate my lists in twitter's own UI. Mostly works. Some stuff slips through the cracks but my expectations are just set such that nothing will ever be perfect.
If by mining, you mean cryptocurrency creation, the utility is effectively 0. You can achieve the same utility if a cryptocurrency simply credited all new coins to my wallet. If by mining, you mean validating transactions, then that's something you have to do all year round, even if it's warm. That makes about as much sense as asking VISA to send me a rack that does computations for them only when my home is under 20 C.
Same here, when my hours are up I'm done, work will be there for me in the morning. I'm surprised how many of my coworkers say they "feel" like they can't do that. I'm working in an engineering organization with major retention issues so at this point there's no way we will be punished for insisting on work-life balance.

I think at least 50% of the problem is on the employee side.
Show HN: Gestdown: Addic7ed Proxy to search and download subtitles
I use a Shure SM58 for voice chats. It works great. I have less trouble with my USB XLR interface than the people using Bluetooth
The Magewell capture card costs almost 300 bucks, finding it for 80 is quite lucky I‘d say. I‘ve just seen it for €260 in used condition where I live.
Does anyone know if after switching to "personal use" if you can swap the domain? That's not allowed with the legacy edition so I'm guessing the answer is no but wondered if anyone tested that theory. So I want to switch to "personal" and then change the "primary domain".
Tweetdeck isn't anymore accessible than Twitter; It's for powerusers. It's better than vanilla twitter the same way an F1 car is better than a Toyota Camry. If you can't grok a Camry, then jumping into an F1 isn't going to make your experience better.

Twitter's strength and "problem" (to me), is that its just a firehose of senseless data and you have to manually figure out what you want. I only started enjoying Twitter, by accident, when in college I blacklisted Facebook, Instagram and Reddit on my computer. That said, over the years I've come to prefer it's arguably web-1.0 style of discovery to the curated feeds of today.

I don't think Twitter needs the instant gratification hooks that other platforms have. Sometimes you login, and there's nothing going on.
I wouldn't call her a "random" grade schooler, but I did know a girl growing up who had mastered a similar style to Picasso: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Nechita

Wikipedia seems to be claiming they called her "petite Picasso," but I remember her being called "pocket Picasso." It was a while ago and possible my memory is bad. She went to middle school across the street from my high school and was friends with a freshman in my class when I was a senior, so I got to meet her and work with her a bit.

I guess it's an open question whether she would have been as popular and successful if not for the original Picasso already existing. There is always an element of luck in who gets discovered. It's not like she was the only uniquely talented person I ever met in all the years I dabbled in art. But people seem to consistently underestimate what this takes. It's not like you just wake up every day with no training or practice, inspiration strikes, and 20 minutes later you have a cubist masterpiece, and you can repeat that every day. This girl was legitimately special.
It's fairly widely concluded amongst free-thinking peoples that Veritas is not operating in good faith. They are a highly calculating group with a goal of changing public opinion through selectively interpretations. If you don't want to believe that, it's fine, but let's be frank here: it's fairly easy to understand who and what veritas is from the talks given by its founder.
My emacs ain't new enough to have memory-report. I tried just running memory-report.el from HEAD, but it errored out (after hanging emacs for like 3 mins!).

Anyway, here's the poor man's version:

cons-cells-consed is 38315202

There's probably some roughly accurate map from that to number of bytes of memory allocated, I will take a totally random guess it's 10, which would give 383MB of memory used.

I'm at half a day of usage, so figure 800MB by end of day. 16GB machine, so you can see why my "garbage collect once a day before bed" strategy is working out ;-).

(Plus also I wonder how much of the uncollected garbage just gets paged out by the OS and never touched again.)
It doesn't have the full camera.

Edit: I'm not sure what the disagreement is but it's objectively verifiable that the 13 Mini does not have the same camera setup as the 13 Pro.
Open Wearables Initiative
I guess that's one benefit of not having started earlier!
Sure: that's why we have the oracle text.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

To be fair these are quite old. I thought there were newer things as well but not sure.
Amen, my preschooler got a lot out of watching (quality) shows, learning about conflict resolution, expressing & communicating, and so on. Learning to relate with complex emotions that characters were experiencing was a big cognitive milestone.
Anecdotally, I wanted a Mini, but the lack of top-end cameras being available made me hesitant. I ended up buying a SE, since the neither phone was exactly what I wanted, but the SE was so much cheaper.
I think it's hard to argue that MAD isn't in effect right this second. If there was no threat of massive retaliation and possible resulting extinction is there any doubt Russia would have used nuclear weapons in it's Ukraine invasion?
Bandwidth requirements for Group HD video

Standard HD (720p)

- 1-on-1 video calls: 1.2Mbps (up/down)

- Group video calls: 2.6Mbps / 1.8Mbps (up/down)

Full HD (1080p)

- 1:1 video calls:

-- Receiving 1080p HD video requires a minimum of 3.0Mbps.

-- Sending 1080p video requires a minimum of 3.8Mbps.

Group video calls:

- Receiving 1080p HD video requires a minimum of 3.0Mbps.

- Sending 1080p video requires a minimum of 3.8Mbps.

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/207347086-Using-Gr...

I know it says "minimum" there but it's likely going around that rate most of the time or lower. I've worked in environments where they pay tens of thousands of dollars per room to set them up with professional cameras, high end plans, etc. Compression ruins it all. May as well be a $10 webcam. There are other requirements as to how you interact with other members. You won't even get high quality unless you full screen + make it to where you can only see one member at a time.
For the curious, here is a quick blog post I wrote about this side-project I've made:
https://www.aaflalo.me/2022/05/gestdown-addic7ed-proxy/

And here is the source-code. For now, no read me or documentation, as said, it's a side project.

https://github.com/Belphemur/AddictedProxy
I think part of the fear is that they will not stop at just overturning RvW. Once it’s overturned, there’s a risk of a federal ban being proposed by congress.
This feels somewhat like an announcement of an announcement:

https://lepiter.com
Presumably addressing this threat is what America's 50+ SSNs are for.
Economists cannot predict exactly when market crashes will occur. Is volcanology not a real science because volcanologists cannot predict the moment a volcano will erupt?

In both cases scientific study can help us determine when the risk is higher or lower, and can tell us definitively when one does occur. But no field that studies stochastic processes like markets or volcanic activity can make 100% certainty predictions years in advance.

These fields are all dealing with probabilities, asking for a yes or no answer is missing the point.
That can't be... the full picture.

Laptops have a decent amount of compute power available.

If you look at laptop webcams, they are much smaller(and thinner) and have way crappier optics than an iphone camera. And nowhere near the same amount of optics.

Look at this ancient iPhone 6 exploded camera view. Does it look like it's even close to laptop webcams? Let's not even go into the "huge" (in smartphone terms) lenses modern phones have.

https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/iPhone-2...
I'm sorry, where did anyone tell you that you didn't do enough (because you are a man)?

I think you might be reading things that no one is saying.

Saying, "this commonly happens" is not the same as saying, "you are doing this."
I'm sure there are people like that, but to be clear, I'm not one of them. There are many irritations I have with modern smartphones, but I'm willing to put up with all of them if necessary except 2: must be small enough, must have headphone jack. I'll buy any LineageOS capable phone that meets those criteria.
We've had a few video meetings at the beginning of this whole plage situation, but after a few weeks, cameras were left turned on just for the initial "hi!"s and "hello!"s, and after that, everyone turned their camera off, because everyboy was watching the shared screen, and probably because noone was wearing pants anymore. Now, we don't even turn them on in the first place.
They are expecting this downturn to last a while.
They really had the room to put a x2 zoom camera on there though... what a shame they didn't.
Speaking as one, a drummer must have something called limb independence, which means the right leg might be playing one pattern on the kick drum, left leg a different pattern on the hihat (or a double pedal etc), who knows what's going on in the hands, and yet it all has to come together and sound synchronized.

This doesn't seem so different, conceptually, from managing mental models of several independent processes doing various things on various schedules, while making sure the whole distributed program acts coherently to produce the expected output.

Just a theory! I don't know how much the two faculties really overlap.
Hey there! No changes to the api server configuration are required. We've designed Infra around this since AKS/EKS/GKE don't expose the ability to edit api server parameters to users.
Puppet has officially been acquired
Unraid 6.10.0 Stable
I think the article itself probably explains it well: you didn't get it for free.

>However, there was a reason this effect didn't take off until years later. The DirectX9 and newer forms of bump mapping are painless - developers can use them with very little setup and they are very, very cheap to run. Devs don't even need to think about it. But with this older type of bump mapping, developers had to build the effect themselves. And it was not cheap. For something that just adds a bit of visual flare, most GameCube and Wii developers decided it was not worth it and passed it by.

So again, Nintendo themselves probably coded it into the tech demo because they wanted to show off what was possible with the hardware, even if it wasn't practical (I believe there was a Dreamcast tech demo that bragged about how many polygons they had put into rendering a bowl of fruit).[0] And it is known that Nintendo worked with Factor 5 directly to provide them with prototype Gamecube hardware before the console was ready so that F5 could release a "killer app" launch title. It wouldn't surprise me, then, that F5 similarly threw in all the bells and whistles they could think of.

[0]https://imgur.com/HvQqYjT
Battery last _very long_. Probably 2+ days on a full charge. I don't actually know. It last so long that I don't really have to worry about it.

Size profile is basically the same as an old school Blackberry. No problems with it.
You seem to be building a narrative that fits a certain conclusion, rather than approaching the subject in an inquisitive way.
Paris just announced plans to ban private cars in the city centre
It's my understanding this can't be fixed; I intended to warn people that the previously open-source repository is now closed-source and therefore dangerous.

Mark has sole control of the GitHub organization and won't listen to anyone else. That ship has sailed. There is no fixing anything, just trying to limit collateral damage.
I was working on terminal code recently and had a hell of a time finding anything approaching an authoritative spec or reference docs. The best I found was this: https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html

I'd recommend that over the wikipedia link in the article, since wikipedia seems to be missing some things.
(I'm an engineer at Sourcegraph, but otherwise share your healthy skepticism of companies in general)

For what it's worth, I don't think that's accurate. I've worked closely with the team that builds Code Insights, and at pretty much every point they've been vehemently opposed to exposing any metrics that could ever be used to track/monitor devs.

On the contrary I've actually heard most use cases of it in companies are actually devs themselves showing leadership/management clear graphs of "look, code quality here is getting worse, we need more time in sprints to improve this"

Anyway, just my take, not commenting in any official capacity.
ToF Explained: iToF and DToF
Good eye! He was evidently a fan.

https://www.pablopicasso.org/picasso-and-van-gogh.jsp
He’s also an actor so they probably skew a little better looking.
Just a note - I had a Nokia D90 dslr that would overheat if left in video mode for too long (over 5 minutes). Check for any "max video recording length" mentions on the camera's spec sheet as a early sign that this might be the case.

A "yesteryear" smartphone that is collecting dust is also an excellent alternative, as they have surprisingly high quality cameras and lenses (on the rear side, anyway). I use a cracked-screen-not-worth-repairing Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 (about 5 years old now) placed in an amazon ring light (that conveniently has a phone-sized clamp-style mount in the middle). There is an android app that turns the phone into a network-accessible webcam, and a windows app to receive it and map it as a system camera input.

Quality (resolution, field-of-view, focus and light levels even with very bright background) is miles ahead of my logitech brio 4k webcam - to the point I resold the brio after only a few days. I can actually stream in 2160p from the device at a pretty respectable framerate.

Probably not on par with a modern DSLR but for something that most people I think have laying around - highly worth trying first.
Volcanologists cannot exactly predict when a volcano will erupt. Seismologists cannot exactly predict when an earthquake will happen. Both can only offer uncertain probabilities. But these are definitely both sciences.
Exactly. I'm currently getting downvoted elsewhere for comparing crypto-bros to art enthusiasts.

Are some crypto technologies cool and useful? Sure.
Are some artworks nice to look at and/or thought provoking? Absolutely.

But some are just hyped by people who are all-in on it, without any actual merit. And convincing someone otherwise is like convincing a devout religious person that there's no god. No amount of convincing is going to change their mind because they're all-in.
Wait, is the iPhone Mini larger than an iPhone 6/7/8?! I thought it was smaller.
Posted this since I am doing a little project around printers.
Respectfully, I have to disagree. I have a similar setup to the one in the article (Sony A6400 + Simga 30mm f1.4) and the difference in image quality is dramatic _even over Zoom_. It is such an improvement that, in my experience, almost every first meeting that I have with someone over Zoom the other participant will remark on how good my picture is. The perception of "quality" has little to do with resolution issues or compression artifacts and far more to do with good framing/focal length, focus depth and bokeh all of which a good camera setup has in spades and all of which webcams lack.
Ah, somehow I missed that.
So it is. I somehow managed to miss that at the top of the thread. My bad!
Yes, but it’s a meritocracy. I don’t control whether or not I look like Brad Pitt. I do control whether or not I am educated enough in this space to carry out a strategy like this.

If you can show that you have the knowledge to do it, getting the money to do it is absurdly easy these days. Crypto VCs are far different and much more accessible than traditional Silicon Valley VCs that only talk to connected startup bros from Stanford or MIT. They’ll all listen to what you have to say if you know what you’re doing. They also move with lightning speed relative to their SV counterparts, and they seem genuinely interested in helping those they invest in. My experiences with them have been off-the-charts amazing, compared to 100% disappointment I have had with SV VCs/angels.
If you don’t need a “pro” setup for the Zoom call, you don’t need video at all. Nobody cares to see your low resolution, grainy face.
IMO the game has been designed to fix those balance problems. There's various subsets of cards that are legal in tournament play and I think only "Legacy" includes all of the original cards. I used to occasionally attend new set release weekends and play some sealed duels or some 2HG with a buddy. It's a good time - you get a box with a few boosters and some time to craft your deck.