skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Refusing to show up on a webcam is undoubtedly correlated with liklihood of fraud and misrepresentation. I suppose "this is why we can't have nice things."
Applovin is bigger than both.
I think even bigger than them both combined.

And there are many other competitors in this field.
Love this idea. I also thing there is a great use case here for people in sales, customer support / onboarding. Listening as a skill is very important for roles like this, and anything that can help people be a bit more conscious about this is great.

A top bar icon for this could also be useful, so not to take up too my screen real estate, e.g. for example if you are giving a sales demo, you may want to hide the application, but still see visually how you are doing.
Is this still true after the IBM acquisition?
> 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.

Get back to me in a day or two after I've had time to read the documentation, play with it for a while, and, most importantly, think about it, and I might have some questions or comments. In the moment watching someone else dick around? No chance. Even if I wanted to participate beyond your expectations, my mind will be blank. Guaranteed.

> For me its frustrating

I too am frustrated by these types of meetings. An email/Slack/whatever message containing "Hey! Check out this UI testing framework. Think it would work for us?" would provide just as much information as the presentation, while allowing more time to actually investigate to a necessary depth and come back with a constructive response.

A followup meeting to discuss the merits of the technology after everyone has had a chance to consider it aren't so bad. When these are hosted I find people are much more engaged and interesting discussion comes of it. I have no qualms about being challenged or "seeming dumb" in these meetings.

> I wish I were surrounded by people that are more willing to give their 2 cents

Whereas I wish I were surrounded by more people who were interested in software engineering, not being an actor in amateur live theatre. Not that there is anything wrong with the latter, but time and place. Nobody wants to see your presentation at work. Sorry.
Hello HN, I constantly bookmark tweets on Twitter throughout the week. I realized that I never actually go back, even though I always find something interesting in there when I do.

To solve that I build this small tool which sends you an email once a week with all your newly bookmarked Tweets.

Let me know what you think!
Relatedly, here are some of the trends that I hope can be reversed. Pointing them out is a form of hopeful activity for me, because, like Rumplestiltskin, these are problems which cannot be solved unless they are named. Proviso: this list is WEIRD and is based on anecdotal observation from my own North American, relatively well-off life.

The skills we are losing were core human technologies, and, like reading and empirical science, hard-won. Specifically, we need to reverse declines in:

- Getting along with one another. Rapid differentiation of communities -- and indeed, the refactoring of the idea of 'community' as an affinity group -- has undermined the ability to do everything from build affordable housing ("NOT IN MY BACKYARD" etc) to respond to an actual, literal ground war in Europe against an unprovoked attack.

- One 'floor' down from that last point -- we've lost the ability to deploy what I'll call _imaginative_ or reflective empathy.

I'm using this term-of-art to distinguish what I'm pointing at from reflexive empathy, which is when you immediately experience slights to people with whom you identify as happening to you. Sadly, we've gotten a lot better at reflexive empathy, and a lot worse at its more cognitive, cosmopolitan sibling. This is a serious regression.

- Reductions in the number of close relationships. I don't have the stats handy but they are striking. Now, we all know that people who are lonelier tend to have worse quality-of-life and shorter lifespans, but what we don't talk about enough is the effect on thinking. People who are more isolated have fewer 'windows' on their train through life, and gain less understanding of this world. Every friend or social relation is a sort of window through which you get a fresh perspective, and with fewer windows, you will have less information, have fewer opportunities to practice vital skills, which, like singing, are either used regularly, or lost entirely.

Can these declines be reversed? Sure! Can we reverse them in time to fight climate change, instead of each other? ....Um! Let's blow on those dice and call it wind power ;D
Why is that horrible?

The logical endpoint is that my car just charges me per use for what I use. No money down, no repair cost, no buying a new one. Just like flying: I buy a ticket, I’m done. I’m not maintaining a 737.

Some might prefer that, and at any rate it’s not an example of OMG the world is going straight to hell.
Seriously. It's good to be cautious as a society but it feels like the general mood in the US has gotten way to anxiety ridden. We don't need to go back fully to the Reagan and Clinton absurd self confidence but we do need show some more vigor
FWIW, I'd bet I could replicate many of these games sans release polish in a weekend in Unity solely because of their expansive asset store. Building them from scratch would take longer, but not that much longer.

If Godot had even the beginning of an asset store, it'd be way more appealing to devs like myself migrating away from Unity. Especially with Unreal's recent megascans and Quixel integrations making their asset store look inspiring, I can't imagine many Unity studios (who, IME, primarily focus on rapid development and tooling over asset work) will be drawn to Godot.

Obviously context is important, though: the asset store isn't the end-all reason people use Unity and rarely the reason a studio chooses the engine, but it is still a big factor for both groups. Other factors will apply, YMMV, etc.
You can play a game for any profile on Twitter. The only requirement is that they've tweeted :)

Here's a link to the game for elon musk - https://tweedle.app/@elonmusk
The schema only allows one employee per department, so there is no need to look up the employee table.
Ghost isn't a human. It's a funded company. Those do things because they want money.
Exactly!

A couple of years ago, we invested in using the libraries from Microsoft Code Contracts for a couple of projects. It was a really promising and interesting project. With the libraries you could follow the design-by-contract paradigm in your C# code. So you could specify pre-conditions, post-conditions and invariants. When the code was compiled you could configure the compiler to generate or not generate code for these. And next to the support for the compiler, the pre- and post-conditions and invariants were also explicitly listed in the code documentation, and there was also a static analyzer that gave some hints/warnings or reported inconsistencies at compile-time. This was a project from a research team at Microsoft and we were aware of that (and that the libraries were not officially supported), but still sad to see it go. The code was made open-source, but was never really actively maintained. [0]

Next to that, there is also the static analysis from JetBrains (ReSharper, Rider): you can use code annotations that are recognized by the IDE. It can be used for (simple) null/not-null analysis, but also more advanced stuff like indicating that a helper method returns null when its input is null (see the contract annotation). The IDE uses static analysis and then gives hints on where you can simplify code because you added null checks that are not needed, or where you should add a null-check and forgot it. I've noticed several times that this really helps and makes my code better and more stable. And I also noticed in code reviews bugs due to people ignoring warnings from this kind of analysis.

And finally, in the Roslyn compiler, when you use nullable reference types, you get the null/not-null compile-time analysis.

I wish the tools would go a lot further than this...

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/code-contra...
[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/resharper/Reference__Code_Ann...
Aren't these just normal parser combinators?
This type of thing is currently useful for rapid prototyping, or building a quick framework. At the end of the day though, the experienced coders need to fix bugs, modify the features, enhance the efficiencies, and review if the program is doing what it is truly intended to do.
> Hacker News is almost entirely influencer marketing

Really? That's what this discussion is? Or, for that matter, every discussion I have participated in in the 10 years or so I have been posting on HN? Are we both posting on the same site?

I get that the existence of HN gives publicity to YC, and that every so often pg or sama posts a new essay and those always make it to the front page. But to call the site itself "almost entirely influencer marketing" seems to me to be, to say the least, highly inaccurate.
I always like to distinguish "with hindsight" from "at the time." Anyone can figure out what's strategic from hindsight.

At the time? I think probably Larry, Sergey, and Eric thought it was strategic then. Did they think it was more strategic than radio ads (a business long gone!) or TV ads (also gone!)? Not sure.
Maybe because Greenpoint and LIC became a lot more in-demand in those 20 years and development followed the demand?
Being able to customize my browser in lisp would be great, before I switch I'd need this browser to have something like:

- unlock Origin (for feature rich and sophisticated ad blocking)

- uMatrix (per-domain and subdomain Javascript blocking)

- NoScript (more Javascript exploit protection)

- Pentadactyl and/or Evil (vim-like modal browsing)

Lack of the first three was why I never switched to qutebrowser, despite it having a nice Pentadactyl-like UI.
Pretty sure im on stable - I guess I'll try a powerwash.

The biggest frustration is that all I use it as a glorifed PDF reader for sheet music- I use an Android PDF reader and the Scribd app and it's hit or miss it those work after waking sleep.
Timely thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32100777 (UK lawmakers tell Visa and Mastercard to justify fee rises)
Of course. I was referring to adding jitter to people's thermostats, which is not a bad idea, but would not solve the entire problem here.
Looks good. I wonder why this trick is invariably implemented with "do {" and "} while (0)" and never with "if(1) {" and "} else" ?
Lefthook: Fast, powerful Git hooks manager for any prooject
> Russia was on reasonably good terms with Europe for at least 2 decades.

Russia has been at war with Europe in Ukraine for 8 years you moron.
There is this app who is doing kinda that https://github.com/sz3/cfc
Words like "dehumanizing" and "trauma" have lost their meaning. I was listening to an NPR program a few weeks ago discussing the Uvalde massacre where the speakers described the Uvalde families as being "traumatized" while also describing themselves (the speakers) as being "traumatized" by the online political debates over gun rights. They very briefly caught themselves, and at one point of them briefly, self-consciously excused themselves (something like, "not [traumatized] like the Ulvalde families"). Yet they continued (I lost count how many times) using and relishing in the word as a descriptor for their experience of the debates.

It's absurd and surreal, and yet here we are. People think they're being empathetic by applying these words more widely but it's really reflective of how disconnected people are from reality, and how much narcissistic license they've given themselves. Social media gives people an illusion that they're connected to others, but the effect has mostly been to turn the vast majority of people and issues into caricatures. One might even say it's "dehumanizing", but what's the point.

A decade or two ago the word for criticizing the TikTok video would have been "objectifying". That word got overused, too, but it still had academic connotations (from the feministic movement) that better contextualized the point someone was making. Sadly the political left PC movement has created such an arms race in linguistic virtue signaling that more precise, descriptive language is considered lacking in empathy and therefore, well, "dehumanizing".
Are there some good examples of living artists/creatives who fit this description? I'd love to take a look.
Why private Billions are flowing into fusion
ChromeOS and all of its derivatives suck. End of story.

Every other general purpose OS, free or proprietary, is more capable.

Most other alternatives, I would argue, are better user experiences that are easier to use for the average person.

An iPad or tablet is more capable. A phone is more capable.

The sole value of ChromeOS is in the hardware: you get better laptop hardware for your money by buying a Chromebook. Why else would you choose ChromeOS?
Is this a reply to my comment?
> that gives the power plant time to ramp up production to meet demand

But the capacity isn't there, at least not if the article's primary claim is correct:

"the peak demands are concentrated primarily when renewable energy is unavailable"

It doesn't seem like the availability of renewable energy will be much better at 6:30 vs. 5:30 or 6:00. So once all the demand is ramped up, there would still be a capacity shortfall.
I'm extraordinarily pessimistic about North America in general and think the future probably belongs to the rest of the world. I have spent most of the past decade away from that continent, and my optimistic prospects have shot way up as a result, but I look back at that region and just balk worse every time. Visiting back to the place and it's just toxic bullshit everywhere, I even got punched in the head over a jar of peanut butter in my last most negative encounter. It's crazy how the pettiest of issues just balloon into the most horrible kind of drama out in that culture. I wish it wasn't so, but it's been really quite a breath of fresh air dissociating as far as possible when the writing on the wall for things not socially improving was clear enough for me to get a plane ticket and do my best to not come back. It's a place where you could get shot for too much mayonnaise on a subway sandwich. [1]

If they want to get with the program they'll have to do something about a giant portion of the population being horrible people. I don't know what to say about solutions regarding that but then again I go as far as pretending not to speak English when I encounter people from there while abroad so I don't have to have any bullshit. If I can sus them out as being alright (No utterance of bigotry as I hear them talk in English is a big one, basic international etiquette like not interrupting people on an automatic basis over everyone else in the room is too), I might be OK with them but otherwise it's just way, way more trouble than it's worth to bother too hard on that when there's a giant world of people who don't act like that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peUYpHbuu5w
If I'm remembering correctly the new UI elements in the remaster were done in Godot, but the actual game was not. The new Godot menus are slow and unresponsive, so Colors isn't a great showcase for Godot.
In Polish "zrób mi łaskę" means "do me a favor" and "zrób mi laskę" means "give me a blowjob".
See, what you said is exactly the problem i have with mainstream climate solutions. The choice shouldn’t be paper straws vs plastic straws. The choice should be no straws vs straws. Similarly, the question shouldn’t be “can I run a/c slightly off peak” rather it should be “how can I run less a/c”. This applies all over the place. Electric cars have lifetime emissions that are lower, but in the same ballpark as ICE cars - if everyone switches to electric and changes nothing else, we still have climate change.
>Do you have any actual numbers for what is up to code insulation in California? California is a very temperate climate. I wouldn't exactly expect their code to have the highest insulation requirements.

R-15 for 2x4 or R-21 for 2x6. Not highest numbers in USA I guess and after you buy house that already "exists", it's expensive to change it.

>I am keenly aware of how much thermal mass walls hold. My apartment is 3 external walls that are constructed pretty much only of a few inches of concrete, bare. The result is that after a full day of summer sun, even though it drops to 64 degrees outside at night, my air conditioner cannot keep it 76 degrees or lower inside. It's crazy. It's worse in the winter when I can feel the walls sucking heat out of my apartment.

Whole house fan is the way to go. If you can't install one, I think a couple of strategically placed window fans over night to create some air flow through the house might work better than AC

I did some research on preventing walls from getting too hot (my room wall on the outside hits 170F i think). Narrowed it to

- Transparent paint with some particles that reflect
sun/reduce heat gain

- Awning

- Shade sail

- Trellis and grow some vine to cover the wall.
I live in a fairly humid area, but the AC helps to drain the moisture out of the air so it's still livable. Ceiling fans on a low setting can also help you feel comfortable, especially if you don't have the sun shining on you.
Many of ChromeOS's security guarantees evaporate as soon as you install or enable the android subsystem.
"Microsoft has been killing it over the last decade regarding dev tooling and experience, so it is not a big surprise."

To be fair, for all the flack Microsoft got/gets, the dev tooling for Windows ecosystem is miles ahead of anyone else and world class. Perhaps I am biased as I worked there at one point, but since I don't anymore, I have also seen tooling from Apple and Google and they are a couple of decades behind. There is some truth to why Steve Ballmer went ballistic with his Developer chant, they really built great tooling for developers.
"Eugenics" is a wide term. What part of it are you against strongly enough to completely condemn anyone involved with the idea?

At the most basic romantic selection level we're all doing it after all... it's how evolution works.
I'm not OP but I live in Washington DC, where our summers are definitely hot and humid. I keep my apartment around 78F to 80F. I use a dehumidifier to keep relative humidity around 50-55%, which corresponds to a dew point of ~60F which is low enough to still feel comfortable instead of "sticky".

On especially hot days, I will raise the setpoint higher, and use a small fan to circulate air around where I am spending time, which is very effective when humidity is not too high.
Remember when fun and popular games were made by very small teams taking a chance? There was a particular whimsiness about them that I miss.
the gini coefficient disagrees. The US is the most unequal developed country, and continues to become more inequal. billionaires pay a lower effective tax rate than the bottom half of earners. if you think the economy includes all americans, then we’re doing horribly imo.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/08/first-tim...
There is no interpretation I can think of whereby Alan Turing or Daniel Kahneman could be considered eugenicists, so I have to assume you mean Scott. And no, Scott is not a eugenicist. He's a psychiatrist who is also extremely critical of statistical deficiencies and cognitive biases, especially as they play out in social science research and science journalism, so that is his goal with all of these think pieces on why some headline making the rounds is probably wrong. Not much different than Andrew Gelman in that respect, though far more of an amateur, that is, Scott is very far from an expert in statistics, though he's pretty good at reading scientific research.

What I imagine you've heard is people who have seen the way he treats his comments section and his approach to discourse as a commitment to hearing all sides. Before he went to Substack, he took down his blog because of a NY Times hit piece alleging he supported Charles Murray, which wasn't really true, but he was critical of universities not allowing Charles Murray to speak. He is also fairly known for his "tend his garden" thing on his own blog, which means he favors people who are polite in the way they comment over people who don't hold abhorrent points of view. For instance, his blog is about the only non-explicitly racist place you'll still see Steve Sailer on a regular basis, who is definitely a eugenicist. But to Scott, he doesn't really mind if you spend 90% of your commenting effort over several decades committed to the real problem with America being that our worst cities are overrun with genetically inferior black people, just so long as you're polite about it and don't start fights in his comments.

The unfortunate side effect of this that I don't think Scott has ever grappled with and maybe never will now that he's making money from it is that his blog has gradually fallen prey to the Gab/8chan effect that being the last person to tolerate bad people means your blog is going to become overrun with bad people. His comments sections have tremendously deteriorated over the years because of that. Everybody is very polite and friendly with each other while discussing incel theory and the problems of low IQ in the global south.

That said, Scott himself still overwhelmingly writes about nerd topics, like his absolute obsession with prediction markets. It's practically every other post. Just avoid the open thread posts that where the comment direction is entirely driven by the audience rather than by him selecting a topic.

And, I guess for completeness, I believe someone on Twitter once posted "evidence" of Scott admitting in private that he believed blacks were genetically predisposed to low IQ. He has never publicly said anything like that, so I guess take the word of some random person on the Internet that produced a collection of pixels with whatever size grain of salt you think that warrants.
> In the 70s there were racist shitheads, but they were pretty afraid to come out into the sunlight. Now they're just out in the open. I think I liked it better when they felt like they had to hide.

Just out of curiosity, who are we talking about here? And are we sure it's not just because of more coverage? Lots of racist stuff that would have gone completely unnoticed in the 70s now makes national news.
Microsoft Windows Network File System v4 Remote Code Execution
Cool. I trust the engineers at Mozilla far more than the politicians in EU.

You can’t mandate or legislate security from the parliament. It takes hard work, skill, education, experience, luck and visibility.

In my world, the law is just someone’s opinion. Security deals with systems, math, information, physics. I want the EU far far away from my root CA store pls.
I have to RTFM every time I get asked to write a Bind config.
Is the title a reference to the comedy web series of the same name from a few years ago?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQy1fPyHsOHhS8ODcqlGW9Q
Any hope to convince them their condition's not terminal.
Have you lived in or visited a world city? The feel and vibe is very different. It's why New York is called the city that never sleeps. When you get dense enough, there's always something to do and people out wanting to do it or at least wanting to serve it to you.
:-)

Megabytes. Yes. Oops.

I just bought some old Xeon CPUs on eBay that have 32 MB of cache. They cost rather less than $750.