skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lego Mindstorms is probably the reason i got into programming.

Moved from using the visual editor as a kid to learning that I could use this weird language called "C"(?) to do even more complex things with a few sketchy libraries.

Amazing
It seems like people have suggested multiple times to you to open a pull request with your suggested changes, rather than keeping them in your own repository. You asked for a merge in the comments too, but didn't address the concern regarding backwards-compatibility.

The ball is in your court

Edit: Your changes are also not cleaned up, https://github.com/node-ffi-napi/ref-napi/compare/latest...a... < includes adding a templating engine as well?
Your official local weather site.
I've only seen PVC toilet flanges. Not just in mobile homes but in regular homes also. I'm no plumber though, but when I lay flooring in the bathroom I have to pull the toilet. I honestly didn't know there were other choices besides PVC.
I picked a random house in Austin, TX.

In 2013: Land value $154K, House value: $100K. Total assessed: $254K.

Same house in 2019: Land value: $312K. House value: $117K. Total assessed: $430K.

On the market now for $850K.

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/5015-Avenu...
First, the attitudes around film v digital in still photography don’t have significant overlap with that of motion photography. Trying to clump the two together with a smug superiority is a misfire. The separation increases when talking about hobby/art still photography and comparing it to commercial cinema.

In fact, decommissioning of cinema film has been a boon for the quirky hobby photography market.

The superior process is the process that works for the person doing it. A photograph is ‘technically superior’ than a painted portrait but it is not a replacement.

> “Note that a Canon 40D, an APS-C camera that came out in 2007, had the image quality of medium format film, with greater dynamic range.”

Yeah, no it absolutely did not. It was 10 noisy megapixels and I have had one since it came out. The 5Dmk2 was close enough to be equivalent if you didn’t like grain. Also, a great deal of 40Ds just broke for no reason while sitting quietly in the shelf, quite literally dead. I have unmaintained cameras from the 60s that work fine.

Long before digital was a high fidelity choice, plenty of people intentionally chose ‘inferior’ video formats because they wanted the look it gave. People sometimes cut and paste with scissors and magazine pages, even if Photoshop is ‘superior.’
This sounds like hindsight bias. Of course, looking back at these things, they are missed no-brainer opportunities.

But back then, there was probably a lot more uncertainty. Ethereum could have easily become a $0 like 99% of other coins.
I was specifically thinking Hornets vs Wasps, but sure, that works too. Although, is a leopard also a panther or vice versa? Not sure where the leap here happened...
Calling the authorities under _any_ circumstances where the person is not planning to harm anyone else is unacceptable. The way you talk seems to presume that all suicidal people are out of their mind and irrational and need to be protected from themselves, which allows you to rationalize neglecting respect for their bodily autonomy. My body, my choice. It’s a person’s goddamn right to make the choice whether it’s better for them to continue living or not. How can we call ourselves free persons if we’re not even in control of our own body?
Google Game Builder what I really like to use to teach because it’s using JS. Not that I used it many times but it’s really engaging and at least you interact with a “real” language.

It was killed by Google (ofc) but still available and works perfectly https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder

The last full build (binary release) is here https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder/tree/master/bui...

Here is the original trailer https://youtu.be/l9Mf_XEZq-A

And some of the tutorial videos are also available https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuYHfxlxFzb25nWnevSN5wQVO...
Taking the Sting Out of Wasps
I fell in love with FORTH recently and wrote a bare-metal "OS" (barely!) for the IBM PC based on it. Funny how people are mostly implementing Forths rather than writing programs in Forth. Why is this?

I looked to see what Chuck Moore was up to; he's in his 80s and still tinkering and chatting with fans of his work, as recently as late last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI0soDMg28Q
https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Kleinber...
I use the same CO2 meter as the author has showcased. It's amongst the most accurate ones on the market at the moment (home grade). It uses a The Non-dispersive infrared sensor (NDIR) which is much more accurate than most sensors on devices sold online for $100-200. In fact, it actually measures instead of "estimates" the level of CO2 (as most cheap ones do).
I'm actually really surprised about this. Is it really still possible to take photos of someone via their webcam without the webcam recording light turning on?

I thought those things were hard wired in these days to prevent people spying like this.
Interesting, and that thread contains some great links. Reformatted: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1501360272442896388.html
I'd imagine retrying/reconnecting is compatible with the general "let it fail" approach. If you just sent a message/request to an actor/server and it still hasn't responded after 5 seconds, you can send another.

It wouldn't matter whether that actor/server died from a regular error or a "let it fail" error, the retrying would still work the same.
A lot of people in the US who bought shortly before the US housing crash in 2008 paid a lot more money than what they can sell for. Sometimes they can't even get half.
I think they might mean agriculturally. I have seen tomato hornworms parasitized, and various types of wasps carrying things like grasshoppers or caterpillars. So they can be beneficial.

I hate yellow jackets, but most other types seem pretty docile.
If it didn't lie, there would be no test, as you observed. Turing didn't try to show that machines could think -- only that they could act like it. In that sense, we already have machines that (unintentionally) mislead us. But they will never demonstrate true intelligence. Even Descartes knew that.
You can take the same patterns and apply them, it just takes a little more rigor since beam/otp had this built in.

My favorite is hardware (or software) watchdog timers. Very simple to implement and surprisingly effective.
Ha. From now on, we should refer to badly written services as "sodware". Sounds like something The Register would use a lot.
The problem is that while Java the language itself does support that distinction, a lot of built-in stuff really messes it up. For example, exceptions from closing a file are unexpected, but are an IOException which is checked anyway. Also, even the support that is in the language isn't first-class; e.g., lack of exception polymorphism.
After using the term spotted fucking moron, I don't mind anything else as I now have a new phrase I can borrow/steal/use to describe people of a certain type that couldn't be more appropriately named.
I think it’s meant to say (with an example given I believe) that they didn’t tell her they would be the arbitrator of how many hours she worked, regardless of how many hours she actually worked.
Here's a telling bit:

"Musk tweeted about their process, which he said involves a random sample of only 100 accounts per day. "That's it. No automation, no AI, no machine learning," the filing said."

The sampling process he's talking about is a reality check on all that stuff so of course it's done manually.

First Twitter uses every tool they have to identify fake/spam accounts, probably including "machine learning", certainly including automation...and then they do a manual sample to see approximately what proportion they missed. Can't imagine how else they could do it.

But I would like to know what his strategy is. How does playing at being a demagogue help him in court?
crypto and trading mostly
Denver 911 now sends out social services as first responder if judged non-life threatening. For example a common 911 call asksfora ride to health service.
Wegman's hasn't been particularly pushing it, and it's not dependent on hardware scanners—it's an app for your phone, that just scans barcodes with the phone camera.

Works great.
Some of the magazines around the maker world have been decent ... but it's hard to support a magazine these days.
I feel like that would contradict the information in this article, which says:

> Ng said. “In this demo, as soon as you walk out of the viewing area of the display, the system forgets everything, and all of the data is purged.”

If the system tracked you throughout the entire airport, it would not be forgetting you once you walk out of the viewing area. Not to mention, the airport would lose track of you once you enter a bathroom, which afaik don't have cameras
Mitch Bradley singing the Open Firmware Song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Wyvb9GotM

I've written lots more about Open Firmware on HN before (I was Mitch's summer intern at Sun in 1987):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21822840

>Here's the interview with Mitch Bradley saved on archive.org:

>https://web.archive.org/web/20120118132847/http://howsoftwar...

>[...lots more links and info...]

Mitch's programming and debugging process has to be seen to be believed. Open Firmware is definitely a highly polished work of love. Its well-commented and meticulously organized source code reads like fine literature or classical music! Stuff like the metacompiler and kernel, for example:

https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware/blob/master/for...

https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware/blob/master/for...
Does this use holographic displays similar to Looking Glass to show a different image to people in differnet spots?
Don't do business with family. "got it writing" doesn't help if you're not willing to sue your dying father.
How do I point something out to my wife?
Ask HN: What's the best way to up-scale an image?
I have a few 256 px x 256 px images. I need to enlarge them as much as possible while minimizing distortion. I'd like to turn them into a wall poster.

Do you have any advise on what to do to get the best result?

I've tried to directly enlarge them with photoshop but the details gets lost and they look terrible.

Is there a better way to do it?
Does anyone know if there have been any breakthroughs in communicating with submarines underwater?
Ask HN: What maintenance should a dedicated server have?
After a few years playing with VPSs, I find alluring the offers coming from Hetzner/OVH and similars.

I am worried about the new responsibilities that might come with it such as checking Disks and RAMs.

Those of you with experience: What maintenance do you do? What's been your experience?
Looking at the most well-known assassinations in the Netherlands (Pim Fortuyn, Theo van Gogh, or Peter R. de Vries), there is always something of a "post-assassinations shock" period, where the victim is praised to the point it becomes a bit silly. I suppose it's something of an over-compensation in response to the gravity of the crime.

Over time, things calm down and a more level-headed assessment of their lives and legacy prevails.
Computing also wasn’t a large, lucrative profession before the Web. Anyone involved in hiring knows how many more marginal candidates there are now.
Some people don't like the user experience of doing everything in the default browser. It's subjective.
Logo can also fill that gap, as it has for a very long time:

https://turtlespaces.org/weblogo/
Waifu2x is what the cool kids are using, YMMV though. It's a fairly generalized model that gets a lot of stuff wrong. Have at it: https://waifu2x.io/
A Look Back at the USSR Computer Industry
Having a problem does not make you qualified on what steps would be effective in resolving it at large.
The great: Scratch has some hugely good things going for it. The community sharing model is ridiculously good. The ease of being able to jump in, put up a sprite and make it do something is super. It is so easy to go from kid-style ideas to something that happens on screen: "there is a castle, and a dragon, and it flies over and makes a noise...". They did a great job of making the sprite actors easy to use with a small number of programming blocks. The actor/message model is nice. Importing images and making them into objects is easy, and there is a big enough library of built-in actors to get you started.

The not-so-great: if you try to do something outside of the range of what Scratch really tried to make easy, it quickly gets hard. Moving 2d sprites around in simple patterns using built-in collision detection: peachy. Pretty much anything else: not so much. And as projects get large the block-based visual programming is a frustration. There is no text mode.

My wish: It would be great if someone would make a one-level-up version of scratch, with great community sharing features and sprite/object/message based library with super-easy graphics programming but text-based source code and with the ability for add-on libraries to be part of the ecosytem.
I could not care less that doing the scanning myself saves Wegman's money. It saves me mental energy and time because I don't need to deal with a human cashier, and I don't need to spend 10 minutes emptying a full cart, scanning every item, then packing them all back into bags and fitting those back into the cart.
I think that the "let it fail" approach is often inevitable, even when we try to use Result<T, E>.

Often, we see an "unknown" variant in the error enum, as a catch-all for a library's unexpected errors. Then, anyone who calls them must also have an "unknown" enum. And anyone who calls them, and so on.

In the end, this "unknown" variant is similar to a panic, in that there's very few reasonable reactions to it: Log it, cancel the request, return error 500, perhaps retry.

For this reason, I often recommend people to just use assertions and panics.
An evap cooler in a dry climate can cool indoors to maybe 20 F lower than outdoors, but when outdoors goes to 100 F, there's not much that can be done by adding water vapor.
1400 sensor rural air quality network for 300M people in India
Lots of people feel the way you do, and that kind of thinking is one reason why someone might hesitate to have that black mark on their record for the rest of their lives.

If we want people to get help we need to think very carefully about what getting help will cost them, because the higher that cost is the more people there will be who are unable or unwilling to afford it.
If I recall correctly, Scratch existed before Blockly, which was developed by Google. The excellent Microsoft MakeCode environment also uses Blockly and looks like Scratch with the important distinction that you can switch back and forth between blocks and Typescript anytime.

Even with that feature, there is no "UI" capability. Getting stuff on the screen still consists of putting up sprites with words over their heads! I ran into this while developing two games on the platform, like this one: Mathtown Alley[0]. It's a crippling limitation even for me, and I write TS professionally.

[0] https://arcade.makecode.com/59845-44370-91548-60605
having grown up around farm animals I never really felt either dissonance or the need to compartmentalize.

You can have a relationship with animals and raise them but they are also food. You can ride horses and eat them, to me that isn't contradictory because killing for sustenance isn't an evil act, and if the animals are raised well and kept in good conditions and live happy lives there's no issue.

I think the psychological issues are mostly about anthropomorphizing animals and not having personal experience with the food chain, killing animals for sustenance or quite frankly death which most people now have a completely pathological relationship to.
All "properties" are functions too (methods, to be exact). There is no difference.

`attr_accessor` is a macro which defines two methods.
But how would they know who is entering the viewing area without facial recognition? Eg if you go to the bathroom, come out, and walk to a viewing area
I have a fantastic way that I’ve trained my CO2 sense: an Italian greyhound. Anything above 900ppm and he barks and gets quite frantic above 1100ppm. I’m now able to anticipate the barking and normally realise at about 850ppm that we need to go for a walk and open the windows.

A vet friend theorised that because they have a completely disproportionate and crazy cardiopulmonary system (huge lungs and heart compared to overall volume) they are particularly sensitive to CO2 because they inhale more of it and it goes into their blood and brain much faster.

As soon as we open a window he calms - in winter I don’t take him out, I just ventilate the room.
Pretty sure they're owned by BYJU'S now, an Indian Edutech firm. Lookup some of the horrible reviews about how they run business.
You cannot. A sprite can "say" a value by showing it near them, bit that's it. There's no place to write anything or create a UI, hence the complaint.
Even our libraries do social services now. Libraries have become street people congregation places, especially in bad weather. Ours (Denver) has security force of 30 to escort out misbehaving patrons. They also have a couple social workers that step in when helping a patron makes more sense than expulsion.
That's not without its drawbacks however, especially when you consider tools like swoole and laravel octane that keep your application in a long running process, so if you use die you actually kill one of the server workers instead of just terminating the execution of the request
Yellow jacket traps are awesome. Put them out early so you catch the queens. I caught 13 queens this year. That should hopefully mean 13 fewer nests. I'm starting to catch some workers now.
Pretty much all Arizona cities are continuations of mining towns. It's a combination of gold rush, capitalism and path dependence.
The browser lets you do this interactively with a web page too in console tools.
I’m not sure people are getting that the display is tracking your position, recognizing you, and displaying in such a way that you see something different and customized from people to your left and to your right. They see their own customized info, or the default.
Increasing the energy efficiency is not exactly a lavish gift. Maybe some materialls that went into the project were even manufactured/provided by "you".

Somehow you see your neighbour a "foreigner" that eats your dinner and steals your money! You are not a nice guy.

Without cooperation you can't acomplish much as an individal human being nor as an individual country(bigger or smaller).

Maybe your neighbour is already helping you with cheaper food or whatever he is producing since his energy bill is now lower.
Much of the US rail network is still piece-rail; it's only CWR when replaced, because most rail-miles in the US are freight-only, and almost all are freight-primary.
What AI Still Doesn’t Know
Here's what they look like wired up.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1A5LF7NIWnw/T-M82wntRaI/AAAAAAAADZ...

Supposedly you can just press the insulated wire into the splicing jaws but I've found that only works about half the time and I need to slit the insulation for the splicing jaws to make contact. And then sometimes the screw clip things that hold it in the wall get messed up so it probably needs to be ripped out of the wall, which means the wall needs repaired before putting it back in. Regular outlets are preferred.
And yet I can only read Dante’s original work in Italian!
Entering an agreement with expected benefits for both parties isn't some libertarian concept.
McNamara Terminal is also extremely easy to navigate, so it's kind of an odd example.
Do “regular folk” really do this though? It is a serious, non provocative question. I strip all cruft off URLs but consider myself privacy aware and technically adept. I don’t think my non-technical friends have any idea about this.
I don't know, I'd be willing to guess that the majority of developers in the US would love to be able to do this very kind of ponzi scheme as accepted and gov't approved business model
maybe you could have a automated drone "chaser" caboose that follows a train a few miles behind looking for buckles and breaks.
>Nuclear can be great at eliminating scarcity. And it can be clean in use (if you ignore extracting and refining the fuel. And ignore contamination. And ignore waste storage. And ignore decommissioning).

Now apply the same analysis to the manufacture of solar panels and lithium batteries.
Negative interest rates would be both an inflation incentive and an direct money transfer to banks?
It would be better to just provide it instead of asking.
I had read somewhere a while back that some tribe of native Americans had written in their lore that when the tops of trees start dying, the end of the world is near.
I love the skeuomorphic design of the Boya Gongdao Robot Technology Robo-Shark shown in the article. Looks like they anodized it into a Space Gray shade too for that extra touch, at least in the render.

Expectation:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-photo-of-a-robotic...

http://www.robosea.org/sanguanjie.html

Reality:

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article24540301.ece/AL...
sleeping outside a lot, whether country or city.

https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/how-nyers-endured-u...

https://www.history.com/news/heat-wave-1911-weather-insane

https://original.newsbreak.com/@pink-politic-1592786/2618190...
The article propagates a key element of the EM PR campaign which I think is at odds with reality:

"Weeks later, Musk said the deal was "on hold" while he looked into Twitter's claim that spam or bots make up less than 5% of its user accounts."

Twitter has made a completely different claim, which is in SEC filings.

They claim that about 5% of the accounts determined to be real were misclassified, from random sampling and manual examination.
Buy/save scrap metal the market fluctuates a lot. (aluminum cans and copper
Study more math. You will like it more later on.
Bitcoins early.
It's possible there are a handful of houses at one site with some structural walls built around 1400 that are currently inhabited. There's no direct evidence for that claim except oral tradition and reports from 140 years later. Claiming that "There are still people living in medieval-era houses in the US" is misleading, and a lack of awareness of these houses is not noteworthy.

The reason Americans don't think about old buildings the way Europeans do is that there aren't any anywhere close to where most Americans live, and anything older than 600 years requires an extensive intentional search to find. It's not a lack of awareness, as the GP implies.
> Mobile homes generally have little no insulation of any kind underneath, and their subfloors are exposed to exterior air, so the heat would be quickly lost to the outside environment.

Almost every one I've worked on has a 3/4" sub floor (probably cheap press board), loose fill insulation in between the 2x6 joists, then plastic (5 mil maybe?) attached to the under side of the floor joists. That plastic tends to be very ripped up so much of the floor has exposed or no insulation under it.
How about a Genius Basic Income?