skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These, sometimes, look a little better than electrical tape. I haven't used this brand, it was just the first one I found. [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/FLANCCI-Blocking-Stickers-Dimming-Bla...
Sadly, the spherical “scientists” in a vacuum rigorously and unselfishly digging to get closer to the “truth” is only a fantasy found in school textbooks. What is called “science” has nothing on “truth” or “reality”, it's a specific method of creating virtual models that are many many degrees less complex than the “real thing”, and then treating real thing as if it was its model to achieve some outcome. In some way, that's how humans adapt to environment, and change it. Even a commoner can read 18th and 19th century works that spread those stereotypes on “Reason”, “seeking the truth”, etc., and see how rosy the initial reasoning was. Despite the fact those sources are long forgotten by the public, the status quo of everyone's education has been formed by them.

Phrenology was not an “error”, “bad page”, yada yada on the Glorius Path of Progress. It was The Science. (Well, maybe some “overconfident” scientists disagreed with it for personal reasons, but they were “not representative”.) It was evident that all those unfamiliar people from far away lands, and all those lower class social parasites were less developed than the Educated Man armed with Scientific Knowledge, and if was perfectly reasonable to try finding the source of such a pitiful condition inside their skulls.

It shouldn't surprise anyone that multiple generations taught to think like that resulted in people casually talking about races and signs of degradation at dinners or, well, political rallies. They were given that model as truth.

By the way, archaeologists and biologists still use observations and concepts from phrenologists without ever “cancelling” them. Squint your eyes one way, and it's “pseudoscience”, squint them the other way, and it's “science”.

Or the idea that makes any pop-sci nerd twitch and giggle in anticipation: so there is no success in finding the material soul, but maybe we can study what that soul thing does by looking at its interactions with material world, and using scientific method? Let's call that… right, psychology.
NAppGUI: ANSI C SDK for building cross-platform desktop apps
> It’s a programmatic targeted ad, brother. What shows up in that space is a fault of your own browsing history

That'd be startling. I'm as deep blue as it gets, I've never opened any of that Alex Jones stuff, I don't use Facebook, and I was getting "let's go brandon" shirts.

Absolutely nothing about my browsing history should lead to that. I mostly look at math stuff, programming stuff, video games, and Netflix.

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> What shows up in that space is a fault of your own browsing history

I understand why you're saying that, and it makes sense in context

But also, I got a four friends on Discord to try it, who are just as blue as I am, and three of them got similarly horse apple paste results.
I’m working on one.

https://www.networksfromscratch.com/
It is very dangerous to advocate government prohibiting access to care based on limits they choose. be very wary of unintended consequences, and potentials of abuse

It may sound find and good to impose limits in this way, but I can think of all kinds of ways that could be abused
I actually love being on-call, especially as a part of a "you build it, you run it" kind of team.

You essentially get a week to find bugs, fortify the application, and make it so that the next person has an easier on-call.

If everyone goes into it with this mindset, eventually on-call becomes a quasi-freebie week where you can either work on "fun stuff", or it becomes invisible.

Not to mention that no product can survive without love and support from its devs.
There is an unfortunate effect that that kind of success record produces:

The judge figures that you must be guilty, or they wouldn't be charging you.

There's an old baseball story, where Rogers Hornsby (one of the greatest hitters of all time) is up, a pitch comes in, and the ump calls it a ball. The catcher turns around to complain.

The ump says "Young man, if that was a strike, Mr. Hornsby would have swung at it."
This is why I started my own contracting/consulting company, I hate on call and it always gets abused.

I mean, really, what's going to happen if you can't see the score of a baseball game until tomorrow?
> Optimal for what?

Useful or correct targeting.
That's pretty much what AlphaFold has been doing for protein folding. It has been more successful than any other approach so far, but it hasn't yet "solved" protein folding, despite what some marketing materials and naive reporting has suggested. Last I heard, it was around 60% accurate when compared to experiments.

It does now seem like protein folding is within reach of being solvable, and that will be really cool and likely help advance our understanding of this part of biology, and possibly develop some new treatments for some diseases.

There will still be many more biological processes left to solve, however.
Yes, it causes issues today. But tomorrow, I'm expecting that the transformer will be outside the device (as now with wall warts and most laptops) rather than inside (as with your TV). And that minority who are handy enough with tools can patch past the internal transformer with a soldering iron and a screwdriver in the meantime.
I’m surprised these credit agencies haven’t found a way to require forced arbitration as a terms of service of possessing any of your data or giving it to a lender
I can not take seriously opinion about programming languages from the person who thinks that Kotlin is DSL for mobile programming.

Also, person who thinks that "Java is in every way worse than C#" don't know a lot about VMs and runtimes.

Sorry.

Edit: and spell Perl as PERL. Oh my.
Tooling for developing real-time collaborative remote working environments is about to take of dramatically.

CRDTs [0], while complex to work with untill recently, are now so much easer for developers to use with toolkits such as Yjs[1] and AutoMerge[2]. SAAS and PAAS companies proving tooling around these, enabling developers to easily build collaborative tools for specific niches and verticals are going to explode into the market.

Every 5-ish years there is a big “new” database tech that receives massive investment for both enterprise and small business. Real time CRDT based data stores are the “next big thing” - in my view.

CRDTs are often only talked about in relation to rich text editing, but “generic” CRDTs that represent “standard” data types (think JSON), and basic operations to them (inset, edit, remove) are able to represent so much more. You can use them for building so many CRUD type business apps, and by using a CRDT as your base data representation you get conflict free collaborative (and offline) editing for free.

The nice thing about both Yjs and AutoMerge is that they provide both Rich Text and JSON-like data types, covering 95% of what people would need for building business apps.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_dat...

1: https://github.com/yjs/yjs

2: https://github.com/automerge/automerge
There’s another way: pass a pointer to the cleanup function as an out parameter – if it’s a struct you’re returning, just return the pointer as one of the struct fields. This is, of course, how "OO" as in methods and polymorphism is sometimes simulated in C. This way you don’t need to pollute your API with a zillion different `free_foo` functions.
Where do we find your podcast? http://localhost/ shows really weird contents, I probably have the wrong URL.
The idea being that consumer items will, more and more, be able to take DC directly instead of expecting AC.

For example, any device that takes in USB power with a 120VAC "wall wart" plug can just be used with a buck convert plug instead or being powered directly from the DC current.

LED lighting is taking in AC then converting to DC to power the LEDs. Your phone is taking in AC then converting to DC to power it. Your laptop is taking in AC then converting to DC to power it.

There are some household machines which will require some heavy duty power draw but much of the consumer products we use is powered off of DC to begin with. Powering directly off of DC would be cutting out the "middle man" of AC.
I had the same confusion as gp and spent a couple of minutes resesrching to figure it out. The reason the above quote didn't help me is that is clarifies that this isn't about review comments or other PR comments. But commit messages are neither of those.

Root cause? I didn't even know commit comments were a thing that GitHub had! I assume it was much clearer to everyone that knew about them.
After Blender got it's long-overdue facelift with the 2.8 update, I think it far surpasses the capability and value of every other 3D software on the market. The learning curve is steep, but the return-on-investment for learning it's interlocking tools & systems is pretty significant.

Obviously there's the parable of Linux slaying the proprietary Unix fiends too, but I'd reckon most people on this site are well-familiarized with that story already.
I bet metaverse archaeology becomes a thing in a university department before 2030 -.-‘
Evading a punishment is pretty universally seen as a crime, not sure why you'd think otherwise.
Tangentially related, there are a bunch of calculators out there for ROI on installing solar, but there doesn't seem to be one that will take into account the opportunity cost of installing solar now instead of waiting until it's cheaper. I would love to see one for that.
The "fat acceptance" definition you use, I can totally get behind that. No one should be shamed for being depressed or being fat, they deserve support and help, as well as being treated as a normal human being deserving the same respect as everyone else.

However, the issue is that a lot of times when someone says "fat acceptance", they mean it in a sense of accepting that being extremely overweight can be totally healthy and fine. With a giant dose of anti-doctor sentiment mixed in, because "i know more than doctors because I use google to find other opinions supporting my current opinion".

If we want "fat acceptance" to be taken seriously, there needs to be a clear line drawn between those two usages of the term. The one you propose (aka the one in my first paragraph) is extremely reasonable and humane, and should be taken seriously. While the one I mentioned in my second paragraph should be separated as far as possible from that term. It just taints the definition you propose and makes people take it less seriously, which slows down the needle of progress that your definition is supposed to accomplish.
It's not practical because HATEOAS and "Uniform interface" are unrealistic cyberpunk(in the 80s philosophical sense) pipedreams.

But people who hype graphql seems to imagine graphql solves such things. Which it doesn't do at all.
Honest feedback, the whole point of this is to make things easier, but the examples on your post seem quite contrived.

Some APIs today are literal one-liners, I wouldn't change that for another abstraction layer in between that requires me to write 1K of boilerplate.

I think it's a good idea, just work on making the user feel like it's actually easier to do the same stuff with wunder.
I don’t understand, is on-call not in addition to your normal duties where you work?

I don’t understand how it could tuen into extra time to work on fun stuff.
Pattern recognition, eh?
Doesn't the lid get pulled off every couple years and then nothing? I feel I read about a few cases over the decades. Somehow Nintendo and Anime seem to overpower that quite well. ;-)
We will likely have sufficient battery storage where 1.5h would be acceptable though not quite ideal. It still requires quite a bit of storage, but its entirely doable for seasonal variations (the harder problem) and perhaps even daily cycles (the lesser problem).
Particularly when you look at modern septic which do tertiary treatment with inputs of power and a chlorine block every six months.
Maybe I’m one of the disagreeable people this article is referring to, but what is a scientific “consensus” exactly? A consensus in your country? A consensus in your region of the world?

Fact is we live in a post modernist society. There is no such thing as consensus, only what particular bubble and social framework your frame of reference is operating from.
Yes, his book Programming Windows was what took me from hopeless newbie to half decent self taught dev while I was still in my teens. Taught me loads that I still find use for to this day in my career (which involves a lot of Windows development).

I wonder if he gets nostalgic for that era of programming, and what stack he would choose if he was writing a Windows app today.
I think my wife would divorce me if I told her I loved being on-call.
I certainly believe that's true for you. But in the case where engineers choose not to ever run what they build, how do you reconnect the feedback loop?

Put differently, I think one of the ways somebody goes from the "shiny/trendy and unstable" side to the "boring and stable stuff" side is by experiencing the operational pain of their choices. If the pain falls on others, will they still learn?

Of course, the way you talk about your job makes me wonder if you are already experiencing so many systemic/managerial issues that there the feedback loops are already pretty broken, so this one may not make a ton of practical difference.
I agree. I was not arguing against digital storage. Only against the sentiment that "just do digital and all problems are solved".. well, the storage, transport and editing is solved.. The analog problems are not solved, nor solvable, only optimizeable to a degree where further optimization becomes irrelevant, microphones/ADCs/DACs/Amplifiers/Speakers still have analog components that are inherently imperfect.
How would giving people more money decrease obesity and alcoholism? The richer our country has gotten the fatter it has gotten!
It depend so. The amount of trust I want to give. By citing an obscure book I can judge the fact "hm, that book sounds obscure, why isn't there some other source?" and then decide how much weight I give to it.

And if I don't have the book at hand I can identify the person who added the citation and can see what other edits they did to judge their domain knowledge.
I agree. So this whole article is moot.
Very popular, as you will see in the near future.

US military complex is like a hydra, in my home country we are paying for the second time for f16 fighter jets, which are not existent at all.

We are the poorest EU country, with record high mortality, with corrupt government coming one after another in the last 20 years.

We have more than 400 million dollars given to our local media outlets and NGO's, for the period of 2009-2021 by foundation which is named "America for <insert my home country name>".

My country joined NATO without any form of referendum. The list is long. And we are not alone. Europe will form a real defence Alliance in which we can have some form of control, instead of being colonial outlets for American interests in the region.
(Sorry, replying to myself but by way of example I recently discovered that "old"-style UK plugs -- BS546 ones -- are still rated for DC domestic supply. So in at least one or two corners of the world this whole notion is already supported with a semi-familiar interface.)
Unless of course you didn’t build the system, just inherited it
I made a quick comparison with midjourney, without going as much into picking pictures.

https://hackmd.io/@einarmagnus/midjourney-hallucinations

It's quite fascinating to play around with this tool. Like user `stared` mentions below, there are words like epic, realistic etc that you can add to shape the pictures quite a lot. Auto-generated text like this is not so great at producing interesting results.
> Not to mention that no product can survive without love and support from its devs.

That's independent from being oncall.

I prefer to spend my non 9-5 time with my wife and daughter. Sadly, many 'innovative' companies out there don't like this mindset of mine and reject people just because they don't want to do oncall rotations.
When using Windows I make it a point to use the Device Manager to disable anything other than the intended audio and video input devices. This way you either get the right sound and video or none at all. No more whoops, fall-back to the crappy built-in mic or webcam on the laptop or even the crappy mic inside the add-on USB webcam. The latter being a little trickier to manage if you've got a lot of USB ports and you're not using them consistently, but still do-able.

My spouse does a LOT of video conferencing and has, time and again, gotten compliments on how well her audio comes through. This using a SoundBlaster USB dongle with an old-school wired analog headset. Though the favored headset has long-since been discontinued and finding a good replacement (comfort and audio quality) has been a bit of a challenge. No luck with NOS searches via ebay anymore either.
Ugh. Just get over it and use parens! I promise you will love them once you get used to them, and will never understand how you lived without them.
Gnu ed.

Ed is the standard editor.
AR seems a pretty safe bet, things like HUDs for warehouse workers to improve their productivity.
Thanks. I’m just starting on a long road of self improvement which began this month, after a metaphorical train of realizations (in the shape of sudden depression/anxiety) regarding my life hit me once my girlfriend left me and explained why she did.

Those 3 points about those disciplines are really interesting, I’m going to have to read more about them.

>I believe that pain doesn’t leave the body until it’s done teaching you.

I’ve slowly been coming to the same conclusion over the last month, indeed.
So the people stuck sorting out his mess, having to spend weeks in office going through the paperwork generated by one shell company after the other, should also file charges against him for aggravated assault?
Peoples usual struggle is to make a difference between the language and nixpkgs’s or nixos frameworks (mkderivations, makescope, override, overrideAttr, overridePythonAttrs, flakes, overlays, modules, services… etc.)

The tutorials try to teach a soup of functional programming, build systems, configurations, nix language and nix framework, and that’s somewhat difficult to disentangle and tell what’s what.

Anyway I use it as my daily driver now, and overcame almost all the difficulties, but one still remains: the lack of static type checking. It’s hard to build and validate modules without having this built in the language itself.

I’m hoping that you’d accelerate the work on nickel and try to automatically translate the current nixpkgs/nixos.
Don't look up?
Ooh, fascinating. AC is better for long distance transmission, which solar + local storage obviates. Do you happen to know of the efficiency we might stand to gain from switching appliances to DC?
I like that the Bluetooth part on the board is blue.
I'm sure that if you think about it, you'll realize it is not the very wealthy that are getting more obese or drinking more alcohol.
There are only facts in my response.
Whataboutism is closing your eyes on USA actions in Iraq, Libya and Serbia.
It allowed me to use a separate Wireguard tunnel with a VPN. I found that Tailscale wouldn't let me do that.
About videos: I would argue it have a overlapping niche position with (either in-person or virtual) conferences. In optics community, SPIE and OSA do publish recordings of some (mainly hybrid) conferences. Those videos are indeed useful for learning about quasi-real-time works in progress from fellow colleagues (in slightly more depth than the PDF abstract) and save you from traveling.
TortoiseSVN
Yeah - I've got no problem with video as medium - it's the "listen to someone talking instead of reading words" thing that I've never understood. But as others have said - it's the effort needed to produce that might be the key factor here.
> I mean, really, what's going to happen if you can't see the score of a baseball game until tomorrow?

Well, nothing. Unless you’re MLB.com and have tens of millions of people paying you >$100/yr to have that information readily available. If that’s the case, you’re issuing credits (which is a huge time and money sink) and losing customers.
Also a Pittsburgher and I find y'all and you guys to be much more natural and widely applicable than yinz.
Yes, ok thanks that’s the one. I’ll have to buy the first edition. It was very impactful to me.
How health insurance shifted from protecting patients to seeking profit (2017)
Ask HN: How do you manage to do FOSS personal projects?
Dear FOSS devs, how do you manage to find time to do FOSS personal projects?
Does your company fund them or let you work on them on company time?
Or do you work less than 40hrs/week?
Do you get any significant income from Patreon or GitHub Sponsors?
> Distros ended up actively sabotaging Java with GCJ because of FREEDOM(TM).

For many years, Sun refused to provide the TCK to certify Apache Harmony as an official Java (donated to Apache by Sun's erstwhile foe, IBM[1]).

Sun's official version of Java was nor open source then,so Linux distros had limited options for open-source Java compilers, and their actions cannot be justifiably called sabotage.

Incidentally, Android tooling was initially based on Apache Harmony.

1. Many years later, I read an angry missive by someone at Sun who alleged that Eclipse (the IDE) was maliciously named by IBM. I never would have guessed it, but Sun/IBM were frenemies then.
This "watching your own mind" seems problematic. Either your consciousness is disconnected from your brain(has a brain on its own) like a player playing a game and his virtual character or your mind creates a mirror of yourself so as to be able to watch itself.

clearly, in your examples some entity is thinking (and even makes decisions) about your internal chatter and must therefore be more than just pure consciousness. Or is it just an additional layer of chatter?
Yeah my brother had a child with his Japanese wife last year, and she became very unwell mentally post-partum, but won't seek treatment. He's desperately unhappy, but he has to stay in the marriage, as he has no chance in hell of seeing his son if he leaves, foreign spouses never win a custody dispute in Japanese courts, and Japan does not do shared custody.
Being honest it's not a massive amount of loss if your entire supply is coming from the grid. But if you're generating and storing energy at home, then it's much more significant because you add the transformer's losses to the additional losses spent in your inverter.
This may be a very cynical take but I believe "society" has move to "embrace" depression as something to be accepted and treated because there are BILLIONS of dollars in treating depression with medication. Doctors are far far far far far to quick to peddle a pharmacological solution to anyone everyone, the number of people on some kind of "anti-depression" medication is unreal, and unhealthy IMO

If we get a "fat pill" one day like we have for depression I would expect a similar trend
Yes, but that is something you can change with practice. It's going to be hard at first though.
See - that doesn't make sense to me. It's also the difficulty with random access that really annoys me about video tutorials. I can jump down a page of text+images and quickly figure out where to start. If I lose my place in a video I inevitably have to roughly find the spot and listen to some stuff I've already heard.
Why not: Permitting our children to breathe and eat, maybe? You had your 80 years. Get out of the way.
I will assume you're a fellow Bulgarian. At least find comfort in the fact that we've sold billions of USD worth of weapons to all those conflicts of the last 30 years. The part with the F16s is bullshit, as is most of your post.