skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you're still not getting it. It's not about personalization, they're all wrong sometimes to everybody.

I used the window focus example assuming people know what I'm talking about but maybe that's now too obscure (which makes me feel old) so I'll explain it more carefully.

The correct window focus behaviour is called "Focus follows brain". Here's how it works, it's pretty simple: When you press a key, the window you were intending the keypress for reacts to that keypress and no other windows. That's all.

This isn't achievable because it involves mind reading, some sophisticated realtime brain scanning might be tried, but chances are this will reveal what you were looking at, and we know sometimes people do not intend the focus to be what they were looking at so that technology is too primitive, we need mind reading.

The most common focus behaviour today is called "Click to focus". This lands the onus on the user, whichever window you last clicked on has focus. Sometimes you will realise you "forgot to click" but that's really a symptom of the bad focus.

An alternative is "Focus follows mouse" in which the window focus goes wherever the mouse cursor is. This can feel better, since you're not clicking on stuff just to give it focus, but it will still get tripped up (and it's even more confusing for people who've learned "Click to focus") in many cases or various "Lazy focus" rules which make exceptions for windows that can't do keyboard input and so logically wouldn't ever be your intended focus. In each case you will sometimes be disappointed even if you are "smart" enough to blame yourself for this happening.

None of these deliver what users want, which is "Focus follows brain". We do not have any way to achieve this.
As a prank, it's fine. But they tried to make it a lesson about fake news, which is not very useful.
Again, being way way way too defensive, and completely missing the point because you're so focused on being as combative as possible.

Things like the Galaxy Fold are successful products aimed at non-mainstream scale.

No one is calling those features useless, or unappealing, it's the entire package that is intentionally not marketed for the mainstream.

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It's ironic because you seem to be getting increasingly upset thinking that this is all pro-Apple propaganda, when the reality is I'm saying Apple is afraid of taking risk and iterates internally instead of externally which isn't necessarily a good thing... we've seen that with AirPower for example.

Odd how some people get about these companies, this really shouldn't be such an emotional topic, it's pretty much non-debatable that Apple doesn't really do the kind of device in this post, while other manufacturers do.
What do you want to achieve by learning advanced Python?

What does advanced Python mean to you?

Answers will dictate what makes sense for you. Since you said you're a Django dev, maybe try re-implementing a library/dependency you use. Start with something obvious, and then maybe something less so.

You'll learn quickly how much of it is advanced Python vs advanced Django. Python is very deep, but you don't really need to know most of it. And the ones who do, know it because they were trying to accomplish something specific.[1]

[1] Tweet about slots by author of Flask - https://mobile.twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/5004329133817487...
I once went down the rabbit hole of anti-antidepressant “science research” (due to some internet argument), and what I got from it is that a) research papers often have “comments” in the form of other scientists answering them. The bad ones I read were answered in a very enlightening way! b) studies showing no or little effect may have bad methodology.

One prominent error is that the often used Hamilton test is only an ordinal value, its value should not be used to quantify improvement. The other thing I saw (and have some anecdotal experience agreeing with it) is that around half of the patients react very well to anti-depressants, while the other half doesn’t. It may be misdiagnoses in the latter’s case (or as someone mentioned in the comments, there might be another illness subtype under depression which has a different underlying cause), but I assume the bad name of anti-depressants come from the large number of people in the second group.
Goodhart's law in action. If the most relevant doc doesn't include all terms but there are docs that do, the 'relevant' metric is wrong.

I understand eliding articles and pronouns but when I'm searching for an exact string or you just completely ignore whole subjects and objects - what?
Overengineered? Maybe, depending on your use case. NixOS is pretty popular as a desktop OS within the community, for example, and I could see a case that its guarantees and strictures are overkill there.

But maintenance is really easy. You're basically never forced to rewrite or throw away tons of config. Doing literally years worth of updates at once is typically pretty painless. (Adding new packages to Nixpkgs or new features to NixOS can range from trivial to very hard, just depends on the details.)
> I can't remember the last time I saw a ban on SA that wasn't after a string of "stop trashing discussion" probes--sometimes in the dozens--or wasn't some flavor of FYAD-escapee bigot or death-threat-spewing weirdo.

Well, you made me curious so I looked at the leper's colony and looks like things haven't changed much:

- Ban for offensive joke: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&p...

- Ditto: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&p...

- Ban for insulting a political movement: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&p...

That was just on the first page, mind you.

There were some funny bans in there, though. "No, climate change does not justify pedophilia" and "Do not ever ask how to convert commercial drones to deploy grenades" are my favourites.
^ This. It's why I was upset when my alma mater added a "Data Science" degree. Dude. Just double major in CS and math and take a few specific courses if this is your bag, we don't need a separate degree for this.
ohh ok that makes sense, thank you
Not my field of work either but my understanding is that Unity, as a public company, should have no trouble competing with Unreal where cost is the limiting factor. They’ve got plenty of resources. Godot on the other hand has a totally different audience. So while they have far fewer resources/staff to throw at their product, they don’t need to try to achieve feature parity with Unity and Unreal. Part of why hobbyists and small studios enjoy working in Godot is its simplicity.
Are you sure it wasn’t Carmac referring to using vi (versus a modern IDE like Visual Studio) as something like “civil war reeanactment LARPing”?
>Or yeah sure, call it "economic health".

Economic health was my term to point out where people get wrapped around the semantic axle and miss what's actually important.

>This is treated as a technical term by economists, with an actual definition.

To your point, NBER has their definition of "recession" that uses a myriad of metrics beyond just "GDP-growth-over-two-successive-quarters". From my perspective, that "holistic" measure is likely more accurate. Like it or not, economics is more social science than hard science.

If recession isn't indicative of economic health, why do we bother to measure it in the first place? Put differently, if it's not a measure of economic health, why does the definition even matter?
AirPower is the example you're looking for. They decided to cancel it instead of shipping a product that'd not be up to their standards.
Many years ago people (including me [1]) started using the Skipjack cipher for the purpose of obfuscating sequential numbers when they needed to be externalized (e.g. putting auto-incremented ids in urls). Since it was originally designed to encrypt media in realtime on 90s era silicon it's quite low overhead. I've often wondered if/when a database vendor would get around to building similar functionality directly into their engine since that would make the approach much more practical to adopt.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/skip32
Why are you worried about the language it's written in? You have a few options when it comes to which languages to use when working in it.
That wasn't a prefab home. It was a kit. You can still get kits today if you are looking but they are generally not targeted at the HN demographics.
> The entire premise of the article rests on the context that most coverage about Woodstock 99 are exactly those things you're criticizing it for not being.

I mean, fair enough if you want to say that the author wants to talk about something other than those issues, but they do call them out and talk about them as real, like the sexual assault part:

"Tragically, following the festival, there were also reportedly allegations of rape. And while I didn’t personally witness anything as serious as those accusations, I don’t find them at all hard to believe, given the tenor of the event by the end of the weekend. You couldn’t go more than five minutes without seeing a topless woman being fondled by a random stranger."

Then literally the next sentence plays it off almost as if this was said just to say he's not denying it, only to brush it off instead:

"With all of that said, even after hell had broken loose, there were still some beautiful moments during the concert’s last day"

It's almost like saying, it was crazy, and a lot of people got hurt, but you know what? I had fun. And I didn't get hurt. And that's what I remember.

> The very point is that there are people who don't recall the event the way you want them to discuss it: as a sterile learning opportunity where every word they speak must be chosen to maximize the societal value they are able to impart.

I think the point of the article is he does recall the event the way everyone else does - it was basically a literal shitshow. But again, he had fun. I don't care that he doesn't want to talk about what he wants to impart, but he's writing this specifically to impart something. And what he's imparting is his nostalgia: nostalgia, that act of taking a memory out of the disposal bin, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts, and recycling it for more than it's worth.

There are so many better ways to write this article if you want to talk about something other than what the documentaries are talking about. Here's some ideas I came up with in 2 minutes:

- I found my old Woodstock '99 photos, #7 will surprise you!

- Looking back at my Woodstock experience, then and now

- Toss it up in the air like you just don't care, the best part of Woodstock '99

- What I didn't see at Woodstock '99 but everyone else did

Or you know, talk about the reason why he was there. The music? What made it great? Did he go with his first love? Friends from high school that he misses now? He could easily play to the hype by saying "well that's what other people saw, but from my vantage, this is what was going on in my life"

But by spending pretty much most of the article saying either yeah it happened, yeah it happened, and then kind of say but I had fun, implying that it wasn't really that bad. It didn't really happen. That leads down the "It's all fake news" path.
ok, so how about we set up a webcam in your bedroom and livestream it on the Internet?
Prefab wall panels are a thing, but I'm not sure I've seen ICF-form style ones. I have to imagine this should be able to do pretty much what ICF construction does but faster. On the other hand, I imagine transporting the forms is cheaper than transporting actual panels.
I never knew anybody who actually programmed their VCR, either. My family was an 'early adopter' and had one of the first VHS models released back in the 80's.

Are you sure you aren't exaggerating? 486's weren't released until 1989. Almost nobody actually had one until the early 90's.
when it comes together just right the huge crowd of strangers you're packed in with ceases to exist and that whole blob of humanity becomes one thing participating in an experience. It's rare but when it happens it's truly amazing, i think a lot of festival and concert goers chase that feeling.
does 'alcohol-fueling' increase one's chances though.

otherwise it would be like saying ' he is not a genius, he is just fat' , which doesn't really make sense.
It is far easier to get a blunt nosed syringe for $0.10 (not sharpened for medical use) and use it to quickly and cleanly refill cartridges with whatever ink you want.
384+92 is 476. 384 + 92 - 172 is 304. How does that add up to 528 or are apples and oranges being compared?
I’m not getting emotional. I’m simply tell you that you’re wrong.

If you feel there is an emotional component to this discussion then that is something you are injecting yourself.
The name actually reminds me of the awesome RenderMan-compliant BMRT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Moon_Rendering_Tools
My first encounter with a computer was somewhat unsuccessful until I was introduced to the concept of the double-click. You mean I have to click icons twice- and not too slowly- to make them do anything useful?
Not any worse than people who dream of being creatives but have to work a boring corporate job during the day in the meantime waves hand. Nothing stopping them from working on that in their downtime. Looks like they're doing much more fun things than people working corporate jobs also.

And they seem to be doing well enough they can probably take a break and focus on other creative things if they want to, and have a bunch of followers to direct to that content if they want.
I mean to contribute.
>MacOS is the largest target of choice for bad actors as late

I work in cybersec and am in daily contact with a few threat analysts. Not one of them has said this or believes this. Do you have some reputable source that can confirm this, or is this just a feeling you have?

>Note how the windows ones are more up to date and patched faster?

The presence of, frequency of, and patching of CVEs has very little relation to real-life attack frequency and targets. People are still getting owned by EternalBlue on unpatched machines from 5 years ago, doesn't matter how fast the patch is released if people aren't applying it.

>That's because Mac only does major updates on a cycle and doesn't patch out of band ever

Same with Windows. Heard of Patch Tuesday? The regular cycle of once per month that Windows does updates? They avoid releasing updates on other days unless it is high severity and there is evidence of active exploitation, and when they do out-of-band security updates it's almost always covered in some media and/or CISA releases because out-of-band updates are noteworthy.
Is Helium's New '5G Network' Just Hot Air?
https://www.pcmag.com/news/is-heliums-new-5g-network-just-ho...
Unity is still extremely popular. The Unreal vs Unity engine debate has raged with plenty of people on both sides for years now all over game dev forums.

I don't have any exact stats offhand, but I believe there are plenty of big games recently published that were developed on Unity. The only examples I remember rn are Fortnite (Unreal, but sort of doesn't count because it's made by Epic Games, the makers of the engine...) and Fall Guys (Unity).

Unreal may have an edge on certain areas, and might have a slight edge with AAA level game producers that haven't built their own engine... but Unity has a possible edge in ease of use, a very popular asset store ecosystem, etc that make it arguably better for certain projects. See above examples, Fortnite and Fall Guys both chose their engines appropriate to their teams and project sizes.

Godot is for sure more indie, but has a pretty good trend upwards. Unity had some bad press recently after the merge / acquisition that may push a percentage of their market share towards Godot.
i recently got an electronic product that said 中國 instead of 中国 on the label (traditional vs simplified characters). i wonder if this was meant as a subtle indication that it was from traditional-character land.
I'd describe many of the benefits for developers as like "docker, without containers".

e.g. if you want to try out helix, you could run `nix run nixpkgs#helix`, and it would download + run helix without installing it. (Or you could run `nix shell nixpkgs#helix` to add helix to the PATH in the current shell, without installing helix, etc.).

One use case I'm excited about for developers is the ability to declare the dependencies needed to build the project. -- So rather than copy-pasting `apt-get install` commands, you'd rely on nix to fetch the installed dependencies. (e.g. I love that I don't have to worry about what packages to install to work on qmk_firmware, or repos which provide a nix shell).

VSCode's Remote Containers supports a similar workflow to the latter.. but, it relies on containers.
Well, that comment is definitely GPT-3.
"Vicious" also means "full of vice", which is probably the more apt context here (since it's being contrasted with virtue).
Wondering if Notion might not put you out of business. I have the impression they make it super easy to publish a "simple" page (could have a database) and edit it. Has seen a friend us Notion for that but haven't tried myself.
The thing I really miss is in apple maps on car play. Until a few months back you could press the big direction button to turn voice directions on and off, really easy to do while driving without looking at the screen. Now it's press in the right part of the screen, press a tiny button, press another tiny button
No Windows allowed....
I would assume Unity has something in the works internally, but it looks like someone is creating a Nanite/Lumen equivalent for Unity here:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-unity-improver-nano-t...

As for Metahumans, Unity has started on an equivalent of that too:

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/tutorial-pr...

Character Creator is also looking like they're stepping up their game to match Metahumans:

https://www.reallusion.com/character-creator/default.html

That said, I'd love to see these things come to Godot specifically, including performance on the level of Unity ECS/DOTS.
If we're speculating, Pixar is also announcing it's Renderman 25 XPU cloud native render tech. If gpu cluster & virtualization continues to explode and transform the effects industry. I imagine all the major studios would seek ancillary revenue, farming out their cloud investments during idle hours, to third parties in gov research and academics to use for large scale data viz ;)
Not if you're doing any kind of accessibility testing, and considering they want to sell to the US government, they will have to at some point.

Screen readers are not consistent across platforms, and things that work on Windows sometimes don't work on other platforms, and vice versa.
iOS dev here who’s built apps using the force touch feature, in my opinion it never got much traction with developers because the standard ui toolkit elements were never extended to make use of pressure touch. So instead of being able to create UIs by connecting storyboard outlets to function calls like probably 95% of iOS app UI development, a dev would have to drop down to and override the lower level calls to touchesBegan, touchesMoved and touchesEnded functions that govern the phases of a touch where the force pressure information was available, a much more involved and tricky coding and debbugging experience.

But if you were willing to do that, whole new interface possibilities open up because you have an entirely new dimension to work with! I made a music instrument app where position on screen controls note/frequency and pressure controls amplitude and it works very smoothly[0]. But all the established paradigms that devs and users know revolve around 2D, so to take advantage of the force touch you have to both invent a new paradigm and teach it to users, all while supporting devices without 3D touch or losing that share of the market. There weren’t enough takers or it didn’t happen fast enough so Apple decided it wasn’t worth keeping, which is understandable but also kinda tragic in my admitedly biased opinion.

[0] Xalophone digital musical instrument incorporating 3D Touch: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/xalophone/id1420669553
I’ve definitely been at a point where notifications got overwhelming to the point I had to turn off the phone to get a mental break.

But eventually I found a system that makes me like them.

Contrarian take: I now prefer an app offering the option to send lots of notifications, ideally with an ability to control at the app level, or as a fallback the OS level.

I get home security camera notifications when something is in view - sometimes hundreds per day. BUT I use iOS settings to make those notifs only show up in my end of day summary, nicely rolled up in 1 notification. If I want, I can change the trigger area of the camera view and get fewer notifs (or disable for some cams).

Apps can create inventory for notifications and I use OS controls for what and how much I see.

Unlike emails and sms, notifs are nice in that they auto disappear if not acted upon making them more of a stream I can engage with (or not depending on priorities) rather than an accumulating task list.
Sigh, why does HN keep picking these editorialized articles up? I honestly expect the community to flag this as clickbait.

We have new evidence that invalidates our previous hypotheses, so we adjust course and keep going. “We all” didn’t believe a “myth about depression.” We believed that scientific findings combined with some relevant studies, experiments and feedback loops would yield a step in the right direction. We accept that the scientific method isn’t infallible.

I don’t understand what people are after. The further along we get in our exploration the more hypotheses we’ll invalidate. Which is to be expected. I would rather be outraged at ignorance than outraged at new knowledge that contradicts the old.
China has the 2nd largest military budget but only spends 1.7% GDP on it vs the global average of 2.2% and US at 3.5%. India the worlds 3rd largest spender is between them at 2.7% GDP, and #4 the UK spends 2.2% GDP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...

I may strongly dislike China, but a relative lack of military spending is one of their strengths.
As with so many things, they used to do this then inexplicably stopped.
>We expect to see the code base grow stronger with community involvement as DreamWorks continues to demonstrate our commitment to open source

Translation: we think making this open source will bring in significant outside contribution so we can get a better renderer with less investment ourselves while not having to pay external providers

Open source is a good strategy for the runners up trying to compete, you get the good will from giving something away in exchange for other people improving your product for free.
Who marks something as a duplicate? Moderators or is there some kind of a bot?
I really love one of the points Carmack makes: You are leaving productivity on the table by not using an IDE. IDEs bring you closer to the Lisp/Smalltalk ideal of live-coding a running system, but with programming languages people are likely to use. Text editor based edit/compile/run workflows are pointless grognardism by sticking with "stone knives and bearskins" tooling.

Use a goddamn IDE, you filthy barbarians.
/ˈɡɒdoʊ/ (read like GOD-oh)

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32358256
>> Korn
>> Hippies/Woodstock

Pick one. You can’t have both. :P

btw I am a huge fan of both Korn (they are the best-sounding act I have ever heard live, Daft Punk included) - and the psychedelic rock that is far more appropriate for such a festival, like MGMT, the Flaming Lips, Zeppelin, etc.

I’m just saying even though they were popular ‘rock’ acts at the time, I’d argue actually that these bands fall closer to the ‘metal’ and ‘nu-metal’ genres.

Regardless, Fred Durst literally told people to destroy shit, and they did.