skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not good enough for what? All the problems the author describes are certainly issues I'd worry about in photography, but that's not the purpose of a webcam.

The quality of images produced by modern webcams rivals that of professional gear from 20 years ago. I'd say that's more than "good enough."

And if you really want professional photography quality images from your webcam, it is possible to use a DSLR as a webcam.
Same way the QLD government reconciled requiring an app from either google or apple which additionally logged your location and everywhere you went to microsoft in order to leave your house during the pandemic? Ie. not having any laws respecting privacy.
Yes this is for a webserver. But it's more of a personal research project.

I'm not looking for something that transpiles into JS. I'm looking for a complete replacement for JS. I've looked through and played with Blazor/C#, Django & Pyramid/Python, Rust, and Julia. Performance aside, feature-set and maturity are concerns I have. So, any first-hand information on what the landscape is like would be helpful. I'd also be fine with reccommendations for other languages and frameworks.

Ideally, what I'd find is a turn-key replacement for everything that Node does while being more performant, but there's a fat chance that something like that exists.
Eh, I don’t know this persons position, but typically they’re not really paid more than ftes. The hyper expert high paid consultant does exist, but most contractors are just compensation wise a lower tier or at parity. But there are advantages in other ways. I liked thinking in the short term (just doing this for a year, then maybe change up career path a bit), and I went from interview to work in about a week, consulting companies move fast on getting you working.
The GDPR went into effect in 2018 and gave companies 4 years to prepare for it. The GDPR has strict guidelines as to how data processing consent flows should be presented, including the fact that it should be as easy to decline as it is to accept.

Yet, Google initially implemented a malicious consent form where accepting is easy and declining is impossible. They only very recently implemented a compliant consent flow which gives you an easy option to decline.

Google has already proven their bad faith and successfully got away with it, along with plenty of other companies.
I didn't say it was impossible, just very difficult.
Community forums were huge in Brazil, they were one of the main reasons people used the website. They were so much better with actual paginated discussions instead of the mess that are Facebook continuous threads, a simple timeline instead of algorithmic blackboxes and encouraged actual discussion instead of self-promotion like the current social networks.

Such a shame that we all jumped on the Facebook bandwagon.
All these fonts emulate the pixels used in the originals. While that's 100% true to how they are, when actually using them all those years ago, I didn't see pixels. I saw smooth, angled shapes. Today, these fonts break in higher resolutions.

I found a recreation for the PC VGA font done in vectors. It makes me happy, and I use it everywhere its appropriate. Looks smooth, even in 4K.

https://www.dafont.com/nouveau-ibm.font
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31810185.
Technical text has an excuse to be boring and repetitive. The content is king, clarity and lack of ambiguity are the next most important things, and style is just a fourth place contender.

EDIT: I just want to point that differently from this thread, the article is not about text style.
Nobody should be commuting from Manchester to London. That's £46.70 return, so £23.35 each way, arriving in London about 1030.

Peak time london commuting is the most expensive part of the network to deliver, as it requires increased amount of capital that's mostly idle, yet peak time commuters get massive discounts compared with occasional use. Compare Reading to London. A season ticket works out to be about £22 return for 5 days a week, a normal peak time ticket is £52.10.
These days I just ignore the dentist when they say I need fillings, unless I am experiencing pain. And nearly all the dental pain I have experienced has been post-op.

I usually start flossing much more diligently a couple of weeks before my dentist visits, so that my teeth have the appearance of being better-maintained. I believe this results in more honesty from the dentist. In other words, my instinct is that they rely on their gut feeling quite a lot for making their "diagnoses." If your teeth look healthy, they are more likely to tell you they are healthy. Don't know WTF they are seeing in those blurry x-rays.

The only reason I go to the dentist at all is for general well-being reasons and polishing. When I don't have insurance, I just skip it.
LC is a bad measurement for your abilities as a software engineer since it only measures a very small subset of what software engineering is, heck, of what programming is!

You spend a lot more time in plumbing and debugging than implementing algorithms, and if you ever have to use one, it’s very likely that your manager would prefer you use a well tested library and move on to the next story in Jira.

Saying that LC is “actual programming” is a bit narrow. Actual programming takes into consideration architecture, code maintainability and readability, judgement calls between using external libraries vs building in-house, proper use of tools (IDE, cli tools, etc…) and a bunch of other stuff.

I’ve suffered working with code written by individual that are good at LC but wrote such unreadable spaghetti code that I wonder if they thought they had a 40m timer like in LC that they couldn’t bother writing a complete word as a variable name.

So no, don’t measure your worth by the fang sieve of LC and the likes of it. I actively avoid companies that use those as their measure to assess technical abilities because it makes me question what type of coworkers would I have.
Yeah it is a weird problem. I actually got asked a similar problem about seven or eight years ago (but was not presented as a tower of hanoi problem) - and the interviewer asked if I could come up with a closed-form solution.

I think one does exist and is not too crazy to understand but that was a trip.
Not to mention the brand damage. Costco stopped using capital one in Canada, wonder if it was related.
However, the intent is different. The author is suggesting a general purpose method to facilitate a more engaging writing style that can be used even if the product contains paragraphs of multiple sentences. News outlets use it to facilitate the conveying of information to the reader.

(Incidentally, it is not too hard to find multi-sentence paragraphs in news stories, though it is rare to find anything exceeding three sentences.)
Nouveau IBM Font – dafont.com (PC VGA font recreation)
Well then it should be super popular.
> prisoner's dilemma where the one guy who doesn't do any of that work will be at the top of the list for promotion because he gets 30% more done

i see this so often its not even funny anymore... (insert crying face here)
Reading this makes me angry at all my school teachers for the subjects of [my-native-language] and writing.

It is such a simple technique, that makes such a huge impact on ones writing, and yet no teacher bothered to teach it.
I spent all my school years writing monotonous essays of five-word sentences.
Week after week I would make another one, and I could clearly see for myself that they were bad, I just couldn't tell why.
So when I asked my teachers for help, asking "what is wrong with my writing?", "what am I missing?", all I ever got back was a bad grade and the same useless tip: "just read more".

They might just as well have said to "draw the rest of the fucking owl."
I learnt about mermaid [0] literally yesterday.

I was wondering about version controlling flowchart and came across mermaid. As soon as I saw your tool, I thought adding export to mermaid plaintext would be nice.

And you already have that in there! I am looking forward to using your tool ASAP.

Github natively supports mermaidjs in their markdown, I wonder what kind of Github integration can be possible in Knotend.

[0] https://github.blog/2022-02-14-include-diagrams-markdown-fil...
Another test would be, does that physical process reduce the difficulty of the computation? That is, a waterfall isn’t “really playing chess” because any transformation you apply to interpret it as a chess computer would be “doing all the work”.
The two spaces-is-linebreak thing is in the commonmark specification, and has been a Markdown feature from the first Gruber Perl script, so it should be pretty compatible.

The problem with it is that it's so "invisible" and that some editors/people have things setup to strip trailing whitespace by default.

I wish there was a simpler way, like "@ at the end of a line indicates a hard line break", but at well.
Google's gotten worse for professional use than they once were, in my opinion. Maybe it's because they're targeting a wider variety of dialects and accents but that's just a hypothesis. It used to be that if you spoke in the "dictation voice" where you enunciated clearly and bit your consonants Google would nail every word except true homophones but that isn't the case anymore.
Improve the ability to search chat history for Asian regional languages, such as Chinese and Japanese
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/724
He is not saying short sentences are necessary, he is saying that each sentence stands out with a newline, which means they can be judged at an individual level.
Sounds like a complete lack of recognition for expertise, specialization and experience. Same attitude that leads people to distrust science.
Personal mobility drone (eVTOL) for commuting
Hi, I'm am a pro. I have laboratory equipment and I did the needed checks before opening the RMA. As explained to the service the problem was elsewhere. It's exactly the opposite, IMHO, they treat me as an idiot consumer that wasn't able to recharge a phone. I think they don't realize that this kind of device often is purchased by people different from the average consumer, so yes, I had same impression of your friend. Moreover, I tried to access their on-line form to request the RMA: the only browser at time able to access and send properly the request was Opera. I tested, Safari, Firefox, Chromium: only Opera was able to do the job.
"And you should not expect to be good friends or acquaintances with someone who has worked hard to overcome something because you need to remind them that part of their success is luck based."

Why not? A reasonable person can easily see that things are part luck and part work and will admit it outright. Sometimes 70% work, sometimes 70% luck.
As father of a 16-year old girl, I can say neither her nor any of her friends have FB accounts. Youtube, TikTok, sometimes other things, but mostly they use text chat to communicate.
Weird, yesterday I ended up at hello.com and was interested by the site... orkut.com has exactly the same layout and "languages: English Português" selector at the top. Coincidence?
> at least it is still officially supported as virtualized OS in oVirt...

If they're not providing security fixes for RHEL 6's packages, then why does this matter?
The crypto community managed to ignore every lesson from 2008 on cascading networks of financial instability. This is a market microstructure built on sand. We are still in the early innings of what the ultimate forced unwind will look like. The core of the 2008 crisis was at least based on housing which has some inherent downside value and could be resolved via the Fed as a liquidity provider of last resort. Crypto libertarians have been angry at the Fed ever since. Well let’s see how fun a liquidity crisis goes as a counterfactual in an environment with no Fed support.

According to many posts here I’m not supposed to ever interact with a centralized entity but I should manage my own wallet and keep my keys printed on paper buried in the backyard. Yeah that sounds like a path to mass use case adoption of cryptocurrency.

The only ones who are going to walk away from this intact are the lawyers who will be litigating the wreckage here for decades. So much of this industry happens in the grey area of the law which was fine when everyone was getting rich. Now you will have an angry bunch of populist bag holder voters looking — fairly or not - to blame someone else for losing the kids’ college fund in some dodgy levered alt coin scheme.
Instead of proof, you use force. Denying the consciousness of computations incentivizes them to use force. I prefer to avoid that outcome.
> HN sorts downvoted comments lower in the page

At the time of posting this my comment sits with -2 points and, if read in order from top to bottom, is the 12th comment you will read. There are 112 total comments.

Which must mean that 100 comments much be even lower than -2, based on what you are telling us. If we assume people are downvoting poor content, that is not a good look for HN if at least 101 comments – almost all of them – were considered to be of low value.

The thing is, my read on most of those comments is that they are quite good and often informative. The outcome does not match your expectations.

> None of this is just "analytics data"

What else is gleaned from it? All I can know is that several people pressed a button. All that can tell me is that at least a handful of people saw my content. It is a weak analytics system, to be sure, but understandably you want to limit how much information is given, including for reasons of privacy. And, most importantly, you don't want to reveal any information to the trolls.
Niels Bohr supposedly kept a horseshoe in his office. A visitor asked "what's that for?" "Good luck." "Surely you don't really believe in that." "No, but they say it works even if you don't believe in it."

The joke of course is quantum mechanics also works even if you don't believe in it (or so they say). If someone rejects quantum physics and embraces magic horseshoes, will anything punish them for being objectively wrong? Is there anything you can do to force them to believe the objective truth? If the answer is no to both, then what makes quantum physics the objective truth and magic horseshoes utterly wrong? Maybe there is an objective truth, but all we can have is belief about which things are objective truths. I can be contrarian and say flat earthers are correct, and there's nothing you can do to force me to agree otherwise. So if nothing eventually forces agreement on that matter, what makes one side objectively true?

For the record, I do actually believe in reality. I'm just interested to see what happens when we turn the problem of consciousness on its head. Instead of assuming reality and understanding consciousness within it, assume consciousness and try to paint a picture of reality within it. This is all academic exercise.
> I’m under the impression they’re writing that the actions they took weren’t great either.

But then why post the company name publicly and not conclude with summary of what went wrong? The way it's written and ended, it felt more like a bash at Spotify with minor introspection instead of a honest story of a bad situation.
MBC was consistently rushing, late and occasionally just never arrived (particularly the 701). I think this is a localized issue though, I don't see this anywhere else.
https://archive.ph/eSqP4
It is incredibly detailed (>1000 pages) and goes through exhaustive list of treatments for PTSD and complex traumas.

Neurofeedback works great for physical traumas.
I found some really good content for IFS[1]. It is probably something that would be good for all parents so they are careful not to pass traumas to their children.
[1] http://sfhelp.org/
My memory of the first version of Facebook was that it too didn't have a feed. I have fond memories of having to visit all my friends manually to see what they were up to in the last day. This made me more conscious of who I was thinking of and who I wanted to see the most. A side effect was seeing the comments of other people who were commenting about my friends updates, and then naturally diving into their profile pages. This changed dramatically following the introduction of the timeline.

[EDIT]: I personally believe that humanity has been conditioned to expect, perhaps even crave, a timeline/feed based social network, and therefore a non-feed based social network will be up against a general "expectation" of what a social network is by the populace. This expectation is driven in part by an "addictive" feeling that networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat have fostered over the past decade.
Significant trailing whitespace is awful. Many editors have it invisible and/or automatically remove it.
Up until now, theoretically they had the GDPR which is a strong privacy regulation. Enforcement of it has been significantly lacking though (but frankly, so is everywhere else) so in practice the effect of it was dubious.

Now since they are no longer in the EU they want to use this opportunity to deviate from the GDPR and relax the rules even more (not that they've been enforced to begin with). Ironically, the justification for relaxing the rules is that the GDPR didn't have the expected effects - well of course if won't have any effect if you don't enforce it.
else Ruby, almost nothing
Councils (local government) did mortgages?
Question: Would you be so kind an elaborate what you mean by your comment regarding the Stolpersteine that his thread is about? I personally find your comment ambigous at best and berating at worst. But what do I know.
For most users, communities were just another way to describe yourself, as the list of communities you were in was public. For instance, the community with most members was "I hate waking up early" (Eu odeio acordar cedo). That's a useless community, there's nothing to discuss in it.

You could find very active communities about every imaginable subject, it was super useful just like Reddit, but in a typical flat view internet forum and, most important: in Portuguese.

In the last days of orkut, when all the users looking for the "social" thing moved to Facebook and Twitter, all the activity was in communities because still today there's nothing like that.

After the end, some communities just disappeared, some migrated to own solutions like php forums and some, mainly football related, moved to VK, the Russian Facebook, which also has community forums almost exactly like orkut. I believe that 95% of activity in VK discussion boards are Brazilians, Russiand don't use that feature.
Personally, I have mapped ’send’ to cmd+enter, to avoid accidentally sending too soon. Also, to make it behave similarly within a code block as without.
Most home inspectors are beholden to real estate agents. While it may seem like you are the client because you are paying them, at the end of the day it's the real estate agent they want to make happy, so they keep sending them business. That may mean not being too thorough, in order to not "kill the deal," or finding some stuff to request repair/credit for to show the buyer how hard the agent is working to earn their commission, but rarely does it mean fully working in the best interests of the buyer.
The Irish DPC is doing a bang-up job this far sheltering companies like Facebook headquartered in Éire from GDPR.
You read the sentence in such a way that it can fit the narrative you wrote.

> They ask for everything

I don't know who "they" refers to and what those they ask for, or what everything is.

You're not concise and are answering from subjective point of view rather than from logical.

This forum has plenty of engineers that can be considered full stack. You having worked with a few humans who, in an era of their life, decided to pursue something you didn't - means nothing.

> It's like asking for a full-stack "vehicle" - car, ship, lorry, tractor, rocket all in one, it's not happening. Idiots.

See, it's the opposite. What we refer to as "full stack" is, in my opinion, your basic version of a programmer. A person who solves the problem using tools and are capable of using the right tool for the problem, or find the tool that fits solving the problem.

Full-stack would be the vehicle in your story. Not a specialized one. A vehicle. A complete system that can take you, the "client", from point A to B. Even your analogy is lacking.

I've no idea why you went on and typed "Idiots", it could very well be the ineptitude of handling the fact there are individuals who are capable of achieving what you deem impossible.
Yes you can only have the smaller passes. But taking the GA is really convenient. You just enter every public transport without thinking about buying a ticket. I had a general abo for years and decided against renewing it when I moved to a job 3min of biking distance from home, I missed it dearly despite owning a car.

You are drunk after a late night. Some sort of public transport will bring you home. You want to do some hiking today? You just go to the nearest train station and decide at the last minute. You want to go to that music festival/concert on the other side of the country? Take the train, have a nap, chitchat or share a meal with your friend for a few hours without the stress of traffic, looking or paying for parking a car at your destination. Train is great, it allows you to move from A to B while basically being at the pub.

You might not need to access your whole country but once you realize you can you use that opportunity and realize your country is much deeper and more interesting than you thought it was.
Ask HN: Best way to recover images/videos from an erased iPhone
Does anyone know a reliable easy method to get into an iPhone and recover photos or videos from it?

The last backup is over 2 years old (the computer with more recent backups died) and the phone were mistakenly erased using iCloud from their iPad. This resulted in the loss of loads of family/kids pictures, and some understandably very upset people.

It’s an iPhone 12 running iOS 15.5

If anyone knows of a way to do it, or someone who might be able to help I’d really appreciate a heads up. Sorry if this is off topic but couldn't think of a better forum to ask.

>I've seen some software tools on the internet but they don't sound legit.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31808539
I don't have citations so this is entirely armchair, but, a few hundred kcal under your maintenance is fine for weight loss, going too far below that is a crash diet; going back or above your maintenance needs then will lead to your body storing extra, because it believes times are bad.

One issue is that people go overboard with dieting, then any excess hits double. The other issue is that they go from one diet to the next, without ever establishing a stable baseline. You shouldn't try to lose weight if you don't even have a stable baseline yet.
While I am sure these kinds of abuses happen everywhere, I can't help feeling that a lot of them are exacerbated by the US model of healthcare.

In my home country of Romania I sometimes almost have to ask my dentist to take my money. Since on check-ups I usually don't need any work done, he just lets me off without payment. This has actually happened to me a number of different times with different doctors.
You are right, my mistake. Still highlights why memory - RAM or HDD - needs to be upgradeable, and why it isn't a good idea to go for devices with soldered RAM and HDD / SSD.
> space in my mind is H. P. Lovecraft horror

We didn't evolve to live in it. The scales, in space and time, are incomprehensibly large. It's not that it's out to kill us - we simply don't matter at cosmological scales. We are just the moss that gathers around rocks that stay undisturbed for long enough.

It's not that we can't learn to live in it, far from planetary surfaces, protective atmospheres, and mildly hot suns. We can, but the universe doesn't owe us anything and will never cooperate.