skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also having a cheap phone from 2015 is quite an outlier.

Nobody would deny that, at least not in Europe, North America etc. But I don't think I miss a lot of "modern civilization" by not participating in evey aspect of surveillance capitalism and used mostly apps from F-Droid.

Remember that it was possible to fly to the moon in 1970 with less than a Megabyte of memory. The efficiency of additional resources poured into scientific seems to go down all the time. Not at all sure it is worth ruining the planet by ever increasing resource usage for small gains in knowledge.
This is why 25 years ago in 1997 I proposed BSML:

https://web.archive.org/web/19970113025507/http://www.art.ne...

And also AIML (Artificial Intelligence Marketing Language), an obvious application of BSML:

https://web.archive.org/web/19970112152156/http://art.net/St...

(Actually a parody of VRML, which I did by copying articles hyping VRML, and replacing VR with AI):

https://web.archive.org/web/19970113025339/http://art.net/St...
Title is inaccurate. They are not auto-deleting searches, but location history. Also, it isn't "health clinics", but a set of places that they are not being completely open about (but which does include some health clinics).
If you are open to another viewpoint, that free will is an illusion, listen to Sam Harris’s take on it (he’s a neurologist). Here’s a summary of his book on the topic as well as mentions from a few other cognitive psychologists and neurologists who came to the same conclusion: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6701738/
Don't forget the aqueducts! And sanitation!
Closest to Broken Sword I can think of would be Runaway series by Pendulo Studios, All three episodes are awesome.

Anything published by Wadjet Eye is amazing - Blackwell series, Gemini Rue, Shardlight, Primordia, Technobabylon, Strangeland.

The Book of Unwritten Tales 1, 2 and prequel are my absolute favorites.

Harvey and Edna 1 and 2 are close behind. Deponia is supposed to be good, but I couldnt stand the protagonist :(. The Whispered World and A New Beginning were ok, but very German.

Captain Morgane and the Golden Turtle is great. Its a prequel to So Blonde, havent played, made by lead designer of Broken Sword.

A Vampyre Story is hilarious.

The Longest Journey 1 and 2.

Secret Files series.

Syberia, altho it was too French/weird for me.

>Like Blake and Mortimer series, or The Adventures of Tintin.

you can try Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure, except its located in US, but similar art style?
This concoction is "the regular" for me.
probably->problem is a typo, and prop drilling is lingo for digging down a large chain of components I think.
Snack Stack: Hacks for Ramen, Beloved by Coders and Kids
> If there were broad consensus to change the law as written then presumably the legislature would vote to do so.

The legislature does not represent popular interests any more and hasn't for years [1]. This is widely studied and accepted. You can see it plainly even in its demographic and socioeconomic composition.

We don't have enough of a shared reality here to come to agreement and should agree to disagree.

1. https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba/
Yeah I agree. Lots more bloat now, but I'm not often waiting for images to render or sites to load in general
I haven't seen one of those.
> Is an old late-'90s version of Microsoft Word that could run on a machine with 4MB of RAM really a thousand times better than one from today that requires 4GB?

100,000x even. Obviously yes! Even the web -- the things the higher resource caps enable are unbelievable. Yes bottom feeding news sites are worse for it, boo hoo. Have you see the shit you can do in a web browser today? On any device? It's so, so, so much cooler and better than anything the 90s had.
> This gamut sanitization is the third and last to be added to darktable, which now has a fully-sanitized color pipeline from input (color calibration), through artistic changes (color balance rgb) to output (filmic v6). Users can now color-grade pictures safely in the knowledge that invalid input colors can be recovered in the least destructive fashion possible early in the pipeline, and valid colors can’t be pushed out of gamut along the pipeline.

Oh my goodness this sounds amazing
Mister, I deal in lead…
See I think your take is naive.

Treat people like children and let the government decide what's best for them.


That's always worked out great


I prefer treating people like adults and letting them make their own decisions and keeping the government around to educate people not to control them.
There are definitely examples of UI programming that is more complex than certain APIs that largely perform basic CRUD operations, but I'd strongly disagree either is inherently more complex than the other, it's just that human behaviours and preferences are messy and unpredictable, which means conceptually "simple and elegant" UIs are often not what users actually enjoy using, and this inevitably has impacts at the code level. APIs don't have to designed to deal with human eccentricities as they're written for developers, and we aren't like normal people.
Might it not be possible to have your doctor write some "PT not possible"/"PT may result in additional injury" note? Failing which, is it possible to speak with someone higher up at your insurance company?

I do not know your background, but if you have sufficient resources (well, mainly money) it might be easier to contact an injury/similar lawyer and have them represent you to talk, and perhaps go to the legal dept of the insurance company. I am sorry for what you're having to go through, healthcare is unfortunately far from perfect (even outside the US).
I don't think this is called practicality. React is neither even good in practice nor in theory. "Hiring pool" reason is not backing practicality at all. React Native fall into the same "Hiring pool" argument which is not practicality.
> The profit motive ruins a lot.

"I think it's fine for me to make money off certain things, but not for others" and "You're not doing it the right way" is just not a defensible position.

It's like those teachers from an earlier time. Yes, it was really nice for some. We had small classes and a very high quality of instruction, but at the expense of some people were not getting paid what they were worth.

NCAA is another good example. You may like the idea of the student athlete or playing for the spirit of the game, but is that fair to a kid who wants to use his name, image, and likeness rights to make money for himself? Does it make more sense for the university or the NCAA to own these rights?

> I've run into issues trying to contribute back upstream because it didn't meet the needs of their corporate sponsors.

What you're saying is -- the problem will exist no matter what we do. I think it's better that people get paid, if we can pay them.

> And devs are hardly starving to begin with.

And software companies are definitely not starving either. The most advantaged persons in this distorted economy are the users. Having Amazon pay a few dollars is not going to hurt anyone.

> The small ones aren't making anyone rich and IMO they shouldn't.

I agree the article's particular model is not the one I would have chosen. I think there are better ways to do this. See my other comments for how I might do it.
It's also true of Forth and derivatives.
Prop drilling in this context is just passing both state and update function(s) for that state into a component via its props.
Title is incorrect and nonsensical. Google is removing health clinic visits from location history, not searches.
I would agree that on average each bus rider has a billion dollars, but I can't find away to justify that each person is a billionaire on average. Maybe it is because money is continuous whereas billionaire status is binary, so averaging it out doesn't really make sense.
Niiiice calling people from poor countries “the dregs”
I know we all want to believe we're the next Carmack but if there's a ton of solid engineers willing to work for a lot less money than you & at the same time global barriers drop that means downwards pressure from lower cost countries and upwards pressure from higher cost countries. I think the last decade or so was an anomaly due to the asset bubble inflating how much money (and how cheap that money was) tech companies had to spend.
GitHub action for comparing OpenAPI specs, based on oasdiff tool
I was always bemused that the average family size was 2.4 children as no family fits that average ever. With mode and medium that would not happen.

Of note I have no idea what the average family size is children wise, just going on longstanding data from UK that in itself may be out of date, though does highlight the point.

[EDIT fixed typo]
Can you not ban truly abusive individuals from a project? That’s surprising.

On the other hand, ignoring the merely annoying is free. And happens to me all the time.
I am curious to see how this plays out with the coming recession (hiring freezes instituted already). I suspect that #3 segment will prove to be ephemeral - a result of fed's QE unlimited regime.
If you pushed the consent button when prompted on your Android phone, yes.
"Nuclear power can play a major role in enabling secure transitions to low emissions energy systems"

No it can't, it has fundamentally lost the LCOE war with Solar and Wind, and those are still improving in cost.

The steady drumbeat of "please save the fundamentally uncompetitive nuclear industry" is getting annoying.

This is an industry that, probably due to its regulation, is used to lobbying and astroturfing to try to sustain political relevance.

But it has no economic relevance.

China is getting an MSR/LFTR power planet up soon. That will be fascinating to watch, but just doesn't work in free markets. And you can't even legally research them in the US. I would recommend research and development around next gen nuclear, but all the regulations in the US are so poisoned we'd never accomplish anything radical that would be needed to make nuclear competitive.
I shoot Sony and use Darktable exclusively.

I think your problem might be the base curve module and its default "Sony" preset, which looks like garbage. Try setting it to "neutral", it should look a lot better (presets are under the little arrow next to the "base curve" header).

The base curve presets, if I understand correctly, aim to make the photo look similar to the out of camera JPEGs. In my opinion, they look like garbage.

But these days I use Filmic for everything. My process is basically switch off base curve, switch on Filmic, adjust exposure so that mid exposure looks reasonable, adjust white and black exposure in Filmic to taste and done.

The important thing to me is that this works for every photo, not just the easy ones. ETTR photos of high dynamic range scenes work just the same.

I'll occasionally run the photo through DXO and export a DNG with DXO's noise reduction for further work in Darktable too. Makes the shadows noise-free no matter how hard you push them.
I use a mix of google email labels, apps script, spreadsheet & drive folder to download every email (older than 15 days, so that I have enough time to delete it) as .eml files in Google drive folder, which by turn downloads it to my local disk.

The spreadsheet keeps log of each msg in a thread.

Labels marks the downloaded emails.

Apps script run on a trigger & does the heavy lifting of actually downloading the .eml.
> Using an identity provider is not only more secure than email and password ...

It's also a pretty effective way to limit the amount of tailnets a user can have.
Ironically, as I read TFA, that post about the newest React state mgmt fad appears just below it on the front page lol
The Half Gallon Ice Cream Challenge (2019)
I did used to have some spoilage/lack of freshness but overcame it by trial and error.

I like greens that come from those robot farms. There have been a few different brands over the years. I have 10 square pyrex containers with lids that clip on all 4 sides. They've lasted about 5+ years so far. I put a small piece of paper towel in each to absorb extra moisture. Add cheese in the morning. Haven't had any spoil really but they sometimes taste less fresh and I eat them anyway.

I do my dressing in an oxo shaker but it can just be whisked in a bowl. Divvie it into Sistema dressing containers for the week. They're cheap and they've lasted years as well.

I've tweaked this a lot over the years but I've basically eaten a salad 5 days a week for 5+ years at this point. Be prepared to be the butt of jokes at work for sticking to it.
I did indeed :) it as his presumption that I didn’t know who he was that made me connect with the OP’s article.
I guess its called Stokholm syndrome for a reason :)
Also: if you have to tell me it's simple, rather than showing me examples that make it apparent, I assume it's not.
Unless you're a student and want to hold up a sign saying "BONG HITS 4 JESUS" outside of school property.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_v._Frederick
Polars and Modin support multiple cores and have optimizations. Modin has most of the Pandas api supported. Pyspark api for pandas supports multiple cores and clusters.
So it’s a game, like poker? Not the kind of concepts I mentioned earlier? Because poker is /none/ of those.
If you ever check the average, always make sure to _at least_ add in the median. I don't know if there's any special syntax for this with symbols or whatever but having the median,average,and possibly even n together is way better than just the average.
Another humorous example from the second page of that thread:

> speaking of which, did anyone else who owns the 2e Wizard's Spell Compendium notice that the term "dawizard" appeared wherever "damage" should have been?
I didn't say a good lawyer will achieve the settlement. I said they could.

Keeping costs down and only spending enough to acquire the absolute key arguments, research and evidence is how you get to discuss a settlement with leverage.

A large corp can still pepper you with motions then push into trial, but a great lawyer will be limiting how quickly you burn through your war chest and fight battles judiciously instead of throwing the kitchen sink at every motion.
> The only thing worse than no documentation is incorrect documentation," he said. "Because no documentation means I go somewhere else to look for it. Incorrect documentation wastes my time."

Basically: yes. Some here on HN will disagree, but they are IMO wrong. Another big time-waster for users is failing to write a document intro that identifies the target audience and the document's target information goals; it sucks to get 30 pages into the document before you finally manage to figure out that it's not the document you want/need.
Yeah, no sympathy with Erik here. Feedly is —for free— polling RSS feeds for you and giving you centralised, platform agnostic access.

They want you to pay for it, and features like an increased polling rate are the soft features they use to tempt you up to a paid platform. Adverts catch some of the users that don't want to pay. I assume you still use Google et al? Why is a search engine or Amazon janking up their SERPs with inline ads better than the odd ad on Feedly? You still use them? I think you're holding Feedly to an unfair standard.

Don't get me wrong, a desktop client is great iff that's all you need. Feedly is providing one more feature: network centralisation. I check Feedly from my desktop, my laptop and my phone. I could host something myself but for free (or pennies a day), Feedly keeps everything in sync.
Content modification usually leads to vulns (e.g, XSS filters, possible bitsquatting enabled here if they change URLs or breaking array bounds checks in programs). Classic 90s security. Too bad 90s security never went away.
Apparently you don't need to debug if you're a good programmer. This explains why many modern tech stacks (JS, Scala, Kotlin, ...) have a horrible debugging experience.
As someone who used Google Plus heavily for Android modification/custom ROM forums, I'm sad at how they ended up closing. The lack of popularity meant that there were much fewer if at all any (noticeable) bots, or low effort content. I wish companies like Google believed in their product(s), especially when they were amazing (looking at you, Inbox).

(If anyone's got a good Inbox replacement, especially if it's FOSS/self hosted, please let me know!)

(Edit - if the title could be edited to add 2016, that would be great!)
Growing up in the 90s I was told that marijuana was medicine and non addictive.

Today I have a thirty year marijuana habit that I can’t quit and now it’s being linked to the rise of schizophrenia.

Does anyone else feel the current topic of “MDMA medicine” and “mushrooms are medicine” may in fact be as wrong as “oxycontin isn’t addictive” was in the 90’s?
Ofc VCs would prefer ceo they fully control ;-) what else is new?
Most Wanted: Ruja Ignatova (Onecoin creator)
I don't think this is likely to be true at a population level; Austria is a much richer country than Poland; has a much higher standard of education and in other sectors salaries are usually higher in Austria than Poland.
Yes, familiar with his take. I honestly don't see any alternative hypothesis that makes sense. But the illusion is too good to allow me to believe that it is one.
And yet if I did the math right, the gold mined each year still has a market value around $350M. Gold is really expensive.
Further, people are too quick to dismiss the culpability of engineers in the design and implementation of these technologies. It was programmed by software engineer; people like many of us on HN. This should serve as a cautionary tale for us and not just written off with the familiar "they were just doing their jobs" meme.
Because if I need to deploy some tech for a company with a thousands of clients I want something what doesn't need my attention for every other client station. I need something robust what would work 99% of times and for a 1% what disbehave I can OR just change the environment so the client would run or drop a ticket to the guys who I am paying for diagmosing these things and after a couple of days or weeks:

Just install a new version which would work OR

Have the understanding how I can change the environment so it would work.

The thing is what I don't need to spend my time on solving these things.
You're experiencing the cognitive dissonance from trying to understand unnecessary complexity.
Yeah - I think people forget, things were really slow back then.
Upon reading the submission title, first I tried to notice if I do smell toast right now because I know all of the words there yet it makes no sense taken together.

Reading the article helped unpack this particularly egregious title, yet it let me baffled because surely websites aren't limited by column inches like the papers of yore. While no doubt those past constraints have birthed wonderful examples of brevity like "Foot Heads Arms Body" and the like, these days I see no purpose in giving one's readers a mild sense of aphasia for no reason.
Maybe you have to shift a bit more ...
lmao the free market does not exist.
I believe jwz coined the term "brand necrophilia" for such things.
> your code is not fast, efficient, reliable, convenient or secure because you say so.

I often would be in meetings where tech folks would introduce their code (to non-technical audiences sometimes) as 'tight' or 'super fast' or... similar. It was cringey every time, and... often wrong. Yay - you got a query down from 8 seconds to 2 seconds. That's not really 'super fast' though - with a bit more work (or experience) that would be 300ms or less (which I eventually did with about 30 more min of rewrite and indexes).
Not sure about 3rd party, but I know another built-in one.

print(f"log_func: {var_a} not found!")
If free will is an illusion then racists have no choice but to be racist, and our system of systemic violence, poverty, and oppression can never be changed as a result of our will because (as evidenced by its existence) no one has any ability to make the choice to change it. If it ever does change, it will happen for reasons entirely outside of our control and therefore there's no point spending time worrying about it.

You seem to be saying that its wrong for us (white people) to hold a single domino (black people) responsible for falling on those in front of it, after we've spent centuries laying out the dominoes behind it that caused it to tip forward, but certainly those white people laying out those previous dominoes were themselves tipped forward by the dominoes behind them stretching back to the earliest humans. Every domino is as culpable as the one before it or the ones centuries ahead of it.

I'd reject the idea that we should ignore the issue of black on black crime, or that it's pointless to try to improve that situation, or that there's nothing black people can do themselves to further that effort.

I'd rather trust that people can make their own choices, while acknowledging that those choices will be significantly limited and influenced by a person's circumstances. We're all influenced by our pasts, our environment, and our abilities, but there's still room enough there for choice most of time I think. It's better to look into why and how people make the choices they do and to try to help people make the best choices for the situations they're in, than to throw up our hands in despair over choices we're powerless to change.

Either way, it seems we can still hold black people who commit murder to the same standard as racists who commit lynchings. In the end, it doesn't matter if they made that choice or it was made for them by a deterministic universe and the simple law of cause and effect. Either way we have no choice but to acknowledge the reality of what they've done and try to limit their potential to harm others in the future.

If you're correct that a person's biology and their circumstances can make it impossible for them to do anything except murder others, once we know how to identify the set of conditions that invariably lead to that result we could justify punishing people for crimes they haven't yet committed, but I think we'd need a whole lot more evidence before we go down that terrifying path. Right now the available evidence would suggest it'd result in a lot of marching into black neighborhoods and rounding up black children so they can't grow up and murder other black people.
Microsoft has had a similar policy, although they entirely delete the account instead. Same for smaller companies like GMX.

Definitely a contributor to sticking with Gmail.
It says you can't even taste the crab? Then what's the point??
> But on the whole I don't really remember the web being slower or less usable than it is now

We have very different memories then. I very clearly remember everything but very simple html taking forever to transfer over 56k connection
I noticed this pattern of development in my town of Livingston, in Scotland. it's a "new town" i.e. was planned and built in the 50s to support the postwar boom. It is one of the few places in Scotland that were designed as suburbs around a big shopping mall, which makes it a distinctly soulless and culture-lite town.

The channel this video is from is out of this world. It redefined how I think about the cities and towns we live in and what is the objectively correct way to build them - with waaaaay more mixed use walkable residential.
Booking.com, quoted in the article, is a prime example of what happens when those companies are squeezed. They let a lot of people go in 2020, haphazardly, then they scrambled to re-hire as wheels started falling off their platform. I turned them down despite them offering a good salary bump.
Why the "vaccines" in quotes?