skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now I'm experimenting with biochar production in small scale TLUDs, but I'm absolutely fascinated in scaling up.
Slightly on topic - has anybody here ever used Unity's WebGL export? Was it viable for your game or real-time 3D app? If not, can you provide reasons why?
Anal sex is what leftists base their political power around and yet try hard as shit to hide behind flags and "celebrations" because 97% of society is revolted by it. They will show a blurred murder footage on network tv any day of the week, but will never showed blurred gay anal sex. And, yes in a sense the gays are coming. Leftist scum came for our jobs, our paychecks, our homes. I for one applaud any advertiser who teams with beautiful prideful hetero women to display their bodies and celebrate beautiful hetero man-woman sex. At least they are not allied with hateful marxist political parties who have harmed millions.
Finicky is set as your system default browser and opens the appropriate browser based on the URL.
You know what they say, hindsight is spaceman_2020. Go get that job :).
It’s midtown so it’s a tourist hub. Tourists are more likely to be targeted for almost all crimes. Plus they report it more.
I miss XNA
I am corrected. Operated just D-rich enough to breed its own 3He (plus tritium, presumably for sale), the material damage, waste heat, and radioactivation from neutron flux produced by the D-D side reactions are much more manageable than for a plant relying on capturing those neutrons for their heat.

The waste heat from a 2 MW plant, ~200 kW, would not be negligible, but capturing and handling 200 kW in warm (guessing?) lithium-deuteride saturated heavy water is different in kind from extracting 20 GW (probably the minimum size of a the D-T plant) from thousands of tons of molten metal.
While I do occasionally encounter people rambling on about nothingburgers in meetings, I get more irked that the status quo at my workplace is people just sit there silently, contributing nothing in medium sized (6-12 people) meetings. It just seems like nobody wants to risk saying something that might be challenged or "seem dumb", as if they are all suffering from imposter syndrome.

Recently a fellow developer was doing a demo of an automated UI testing suite and how it could apply to our product, and when it came time for questions or to show any sort of interest at all, its just crickets. I feel obligated to participate in situations like these, reach for questions or at least acknowledge other's hard work, because nobody else seems to want to. For me its frustrating, I wish I were surrounded by people that are more willing to give their 2 cents, even if it means a little bit longer meeting, rather than staring at a sea of blank faces that don't bother to queue their mic for the entire meeting.
> - gdscript's heavy reliance on "magic" strings and lack of type-safety throughout

Yikes. I was like "eh, I could get over that for a good dev framework" until I hit this one. Dealing with that kind of thing is like driving a car with hexagonal wheels.
Discrete-Event Systems and Petri Nets – Lecture 1
Damn, yeah that's unfortunate. Yeah, I was going to say, if you were looking for sound, a rev 4 or an OB-X8 can't be beat... But if you're looking for a synth with deep functions but not a One, the Polybrute is growing on me. At first, the SP filter seemed too harsh for me, but their ladder actually does a pretty good Memorymoog sound. Arturia also hired the guy (sorry I forgot his name) that built mod matrix tables to make synths sound more analog, and it really can nail it.

Edit: obligatory Jump. It can even sound like an Obie https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2-1u1qJQMOs
Multiplayer real-time chess .io game
Lowering the load helps avoid needing the more expensive short term plants from coming online.

Whether you go from 76 to 78 or from 66 to 68, you’re helping avoid the burst in demand they’d get.
All this does to me is show that the author didn't really research and just brushed it off. It is quite the trend. "I'm not aware of it, so it must not be important" type of thing.
Godot also seems to be built in a way that creates friction for ECS style game logic. It's built around scenes that are trees of nodes that each have associated behavior and signaling/message passing between nodes.
If the woman hadn't spoke up, how would anyone have known the truth of what happened /her side of the story / the the immorality of the video creator's actions?
I've never heard of "commonsense.news" before, but it is by Bari Weiss[0] who is trying to create an "anti-cancel culture," "anti-woke" University called the University of Austin[1]. Her Wikipedia on her history kind of speaks for itself, in particular the "2017–2020" section[0].

Why does this matter? Because most of the articles claims are based on "spoke to us" quotes from anonymous staffers which cannot be independently verified. So it falls to the reputation of those publishing and their journalistic integrity/process, and at that point I leave it to you to make up your own mind.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss#2017%E2%80%932020:_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Austin
I am curious if anyone has used confluent.io (kafka as a service). Or is it too cost prohibitive?
Finding a big problem is actually optional, and often a distraction. Most companies that are already functioning at scale have plenty of medium sized problems that need strategic fixes. For example “sales aren’t growing in Japan.” Most small companies are happy to stay small and also need only solve medium sized problems. For example “there is no good construction supplies vendor in this geography.” It’s only startups looking for rapid-scaling venture-friendly returns who need a big unsolved problem they can grow into.

Of course, those companies get a whole lot of attention. But Google and Facebook and Twitter don’t need big new unsolved problems. They already picked their big problem, and solved it well enough to get big. Now they need strategies which address the medium sized problems that limit their continued success. When they go looking for big new unsolved problems (I’m looking at you Alphabet and Meta) it’s usually a distraction.
Finally Obtaining the Triforce in Ocarina of Time
Portland exploring ‘ShotSpotter’ technology to curb gun violence
Swift Extension for Visual Studio Code
I went to NYC many many times when I lived in New England, my cousin went to school there and took the train down multiple times a week for years, her mother worked and lived there for decades, my father went there every week for work for many years. Anecdotally our experiences have been that the city is generally safe, none of us have any crime stories to tell.

My parents also used to go there a lot in the 90s and the city has come a long long way since then- for the better.
Ironic literally means anything that Iron-man would find amusing.
> What is the unity CEO pushing for? Cookie cutter games?

Not cookie cutter. Cookie clicker.
This doesn't surprise me. The problems with school that cause teen suicide don't go away just because you've taught kids to meditate. And, yes, there is something about school that causes teenagers to kill themselves. Somebody actually documented this and published a paper in Economics of Education Review[0]:

There's data that suggests that the teen suicide rate drops when school is out. Basil Halperin has more[1].

I suspect, having been there myself, that Stephen King put it best in The Shining:

> "This inhuman place makes human monsters."

[0]: https://pages.uoregon.edu/bchansen/Back_To_School_Blues.pdf

[1]: https://www.basilhalperin.com/essays/school-and-teen-suicide...
> Well, with sufficiently advanced computers, your simulations can run as fast or your cyborgs think as fast as the plot demands.

We've reached the edges of Moore's Law. We're starting to see the horizon where "sufficiently advanced computers" end. You might be fine with plots playing fast and loose with physics limitations and optimistically still believe tomorrow's computers will be "magic". I'm just saying that it is starting to bug me versus realism in the exact same sorts of fashion as "humans only use 10% of their brains" tropes. "Computers only use 10% of their transistors." Just like the bad human trope, it ignores that most transistors are highly specialized (an FPU is not a GPU is not a general purpose CPU).

> The Halting Problem is barely relevant here: it only applies to arbitrary programs. It doesn't have any bearing on running one specific computation faster.

We're talking about extremely arbitrary programs from stories that are being done for the first time ever. "Hacks" that no one has ever done before. "Holodeck simulations" built in magic amounts of time just on a couple of spoken sentences. Humans "diving into" computer dreamscapes and doing all sorts of human scale simulation things in some sort of "quick time" which seems to be directly in the intersection of both the "humans only use 10% of their brains" myths and the "computers run really fast" myths. Those aren't just well studied apps running standalone without human interaction and with just "one specific computation". Those are REPLs and other human input devices including speech to text to ML (?) and complicated physics calculus that isn't just add/subtract things real fast and all sorts of other things that take wall clock time and are being "programmed" for the first time, on the fly. Of course The Halting Problem applies to all of those types of scenarios.

I certainly enjoy watching/reading such magic computer fantasies when I can muster a suspension of disbelief, but I've also started to feel like most of them are written by people that have never faced the contemporary realities of computer programming and believe in a myth of magically faster computers and human interface design that doesn't exist today and pessimistically may never exist.
Since you insist:

Any one of the aforementioned things could have been done at any time, anywhere, on an ongoing basis, that would have helped communities in a sustainable way.

When he gives the cars away, or makes loans to people, he often films people getting significantly different amounts (or items of significantly differing value) simultaneously. I would assume the reactions are more valuable when someone has gotten less than one of their friends in the same group - this in particular is cruelty, not kindness.

Even setting the above aside, the big issue I have with it is that it’s not charity or altruism but is masquerading as such for profit. This is his business. Every act is a carefully calculated profit/loss equation relative to how many views he thinks he can get.

Typically philanthropy would be considered willingly disposing of money you earned elsewhere when it’s not necessary for you to do so, in order to help a cause.

Beast isn’t doing this. He’s reinvesting his profits into growing his business.

You wouldn’t call a mechanic a philanthropist for fixing people’s cars for money, even though they’ve done something that people appreciated.

At best, Beast is redistributing the ad revenue from his viewers and skimming signifcantly from the top (given that it’s expected he’s approaching billionaire status).

For what it’s worth I do respect his business acumen. He’s found a good hustle and is working it very well.
Meteorite from Mars traced to crater where it was ejected by impact
Machine Learning algorithms are only as good as the data they are trained on.

For tasks like self-driving or spotting cancer in x-rays, they are producing novel result because these kinds of tasks are amenable to reinforcement. The algorithm crashed the car, or it didn't. The patient had cancer, or they didn't.

For tasks like reproducing visual images or reproducing text, it _seems_ like these algorithms are starting to get "creative", but they are not. They are still just regurgitating versions of the data they've been fed. You will never see a truly new style or work of art from DALL-E, because DALL-E will never create something new. Only new flavors of something old or new flavors of the old relationships between old things.

Assuming that it is even possible to describe novel software engineering problems in a way that a machine could understand (i.e. in some complex structured data format), software engineering is still mostly a creative field. So software engineering isn't going to performed by machine learning for the same reason that truly interesting novels or legitimately new musical styles won't be created by machine learning.

Creating something new relies on genuine creativity and new ideas and these models can only make something "new" out of something old.
Yes, that is literally how you solve interpersonal problems. You pull the person aside and discuss the problem.
There's also the Olimex boards (and related Freedombox project)[1], which can boot with no binary blobs :)

They have an interesting philosophy in their definition of OSHW includes making it easy for others to produce their boards. So not just publishing schematics, but facilitating manufacturing as much as possible.

> Olimex's A20 OLinuXino Lime2 is a fully Open Source Hardware (OSHW) single board computer. This means that the designer is actively helping people using the platform for their own designs, and supports them in adding hardware functionality and production advice. This is a part of freedom that is often overlooked, but very much aligned with the FreedomBox goals.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Hardware/A20-OLinuXino-Li...

[1b] https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXino-...

[1c] https://www.armbian.com/olimex-lime-2-emmc/
Welcome to Galt’s Gulch, where only millionaires can afford to live! Every minimum-wage is being filled by someone who’s constantly exhausted from their four-hour commute from Poortown.
Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself [pdf]
> I pulled my (meager) rev contribution out of their subscription service following the IronSource acquisition and this makes me confident that was the right call.

Yesterday, I took a 5 figure loss on my Unity position to get out from under this horror show. Still feel fantastic about it.
Love this iceberg with explas for PLs. Does anyone know another one?
Is this something where Google is going to be able to just pay a fine and promise to make changes in order to keep all services going or is this something that could really end up hurting the company?
>I'm very happy if Russia believes that NATO is an existential threat.

Logically if you want an existential threat to Russia to expand up against Russian borders you must want war, no?
> These days, new words are almost always combinations of multiple characters (often 2, occasionally 3-4).

Yep! For example, the most common Chinese term for "Internet" is 因特网. This is composed of three characters:

互: "mutual"

联: "join", "coupled", "allied"

网: "net" -- carrying both the meaning of a woven net and a computer network
Well this link is to a fluffy marketing piece that tells you exactly zero about what the product is, why I should care, or how it's different from ChromeOS. Must be nice to get paid to write lots of words without actually saying anything.

Some links that may be more helpful for the HN audience:

How to install it without handing over your personal info to a salescritter: https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11552529

Supported devices: https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11513094 (No information on whether it will refuse to install on other devices or whether it's more of a "it could work, but you'll be on your own" situation. Interestingly, there are Apple products listed.)

Differences between ChromeOS and ChromeOS Flex: https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11542901

Edit: One important difference that pretty much wipes out what a lot of us would be interested in: "Google Play and Android apps: Chrome OS Flex does not support Android apps or Google Play."
If I can understand how and why they would be hesitant to disclose salary information, but that doesn't mean that they should be given a free pass for it. Yes, this would change compensation negotiation, in the same way that cutting the deck changes a game of poker. It makes it harder for the deck to be stacked against you.

Hiding salary information makes it harder to negotiate and harder to see when you're being treated unfairly.
You’re fundamentally misunderstanding the units. I don’t know what else to say. “Watt hour of storage” is not the same as a Watt hour. You can’t divide by time to get power. That should be obvious.
Taken cynically, these full disclosure engineering stories are calculated to make the team seem human and trustworthy.

How much do you want to bet that the real story is that one of them drove past a grain elevator and wondered if they make a portable version of that equipment, or one of the frustrated/amused locals didn’t suggest it. Either directly or subconsciously. One of my coworkers has spent most of the last year sharing observations and ideas with the team that are things I pointed out three years ago. I don’t know if he’s giving me an overly subtle nod or he just doesn’t know he’s doing it. Like people who accidentally write a story/song they heard once.
Videogamers have improved decision-making abilities andenhanced brain activities
Jitsi Meet [1] has voice and video chat, screen sharing and speaker stats (showing speaker time) out of the box.

[1] https://meet.jit.si/
It doesn't seem to deal with consistency issues solved by the Zanzibar design, at least that I can see. While this is understandable since it is probably the most complicated bit of the Zanzibar paper, it is a bit disappointing that, as far as I can tell, nobody has really gotten that far.
Yes, it requires everyone to live in small houses or apartments adjacent to each other without large backyards and garages for cars. Hence it working well in Tokyo.
The best time was at the peak. The second best time is now (*)

* - not an investment advice.
Same hapens with Fairemail if you install it from Github.
> Is this even close to being financially viable if there is never any such thing as carbon credits?

You're right as far as your comment goes — it will probably never be financially viable to scale this up, and the companies funding the limited scale development are doing it purely for public relations purposes.

What your comment misses, though, is that to survive the coming century, we are going to have to figure out, as a society, how to do things that are not financially viable. Financial viability is what got us into this mess in the first place.

There's a quote attributed to Einstein that says, "We cannot solve today's problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." The quote is disputed, but probably comes from a paraphrase of something he actually said in 1946 in the context of the threat of nuclear warfare. It applies more generally to the multiple self-created existential threats humanity is currently facing, however.
And yet so many of them can't bring themselves to ask out that girl they've had a crush on for the last 10,000 years.
Could the CLI tool be combined with something like firejail [1] to solve the filesystem blindspot issue?

[1] https://firejail.wordpress.com/
Crime is up after the lull that was the COVID lockdowns. Less crimes occurred when everyone was at home and the economy was essentially halted. Great argument.
A non-trivial percentage of their revenue, however, is from Unity Ads.
> 100,000 years supply is dissolved in the ocean.

Yes, but that's not so easily mined. Point being that the cost of nuclear power will go up once the easily mined material is consumed.
If you find the quality of ddg results lacking, I know I did, they are basically just a bing wrapper after all, then give Kagi a shot. It's a subscription service search engine, but in my opinion it's more than worth the cost, especially for programming queries
The problem is that it becomes mandatory for browsers to include a list of root certificates that may or may not conform to standards, and are not allowed under any circumstance to remove those root certificates. This means that in a case like DigiNotar (root CA of the national QWAC issuer compromised) it would be impossible for browsers to legally choose to secure their users and remove the compromised root from the trust list.

Additionally, eIDAS CA requirements and vetting have not been as strict as those in the CA/B Forum Baseline Requirements and the other documents related to DV/OV/EV certificate issuance.

Apart from that, there are known problems with QWAC (mostly related to name collisions, and the mostly manual process of vetting information being prone to errors), but that is generally a lesser issue than the above two.
This will remove the "human decency" part of the system where sometimes judges will realize the person meant no harm or it was an accident and "don't" get their life ruined.
If companies think that this way of working is cutting development time and/or cost then it's the future.

I think most companies' management would still leave decisions like that in the hands of developers/development-teams. At the level of management, I think companies aren't asking for "code" but for results (a website, an application, a feature). Results with blemishes or insecurities are fine but a stream of entirely broken code wouldn't be seen as cost effective.
Congratulations! You're committing the Fundamental Attribution Error[0]!

Corporate meetings are traditionally structured to accommodate those who talk too much in meetings, but they could be structured differently. Deliberate facilitation, for example "taking stack"[1]," can help the puzzle pieces of panel of diverse personalities find their place in contributing maximally to the tasks at hand. Heck, sometimes it's as easy as setting expectations or as simple (albeit not necessarily easy) as establishing an environment of psychological safety[2] in which coworkers feel comfortable pushing back on antisocial behavior, eg asking "can you not interrupt me?"

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error

1. https://techresources.shoestringcollective.com/collaborate/t...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_safety
I was excluding the parts of JavaScript that don't compile to WebAssembly, dom manipulation for example
Amazon Handed Ring Camera Footage to Cops Without Permission
When a game dev says "vast area and lots of things to do", I hear "lots of walking across empty lands with sporadic fetch quests".
I made this because I've always been a little disappointed with the GUI effect used by other JS canvas libraries - which mainly present as a box around the selected graphic(s) with handles on the corners and edges for drag-drop scaling, another box sticking out a bit further for drag-drop rotation, and drag-drop inside the box for moving the selection around the canvas.

I wanted to try something different, so I came up with the idea of three circles in the center of the selection for move/rotate/scale, alongside lines connecting the circles to the selected items.

I also wanted to make the editing process as fully accessible as possible - I think I've managed to capture all the editing options in keystrokes but there's always a missed edge case somewhere.

I posted the ShowHN because I'm keen on feedback. Is this better UI/UX than already exists? What are examples of really good (and accessible) UI/UX for this sort of requirement?
Looks like only the monthly fee doubled from ~$40 to ~$80, but it's still $12/employee.