skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Driver updates. OS updates. Driver update broke HDMI. OS update broke my controller config. Steam update broke my controller config. Bluetooth controller randomly unpairs every other week. Game picks the wrong sound device so now it's coming out of the TV instead of my wireless headphones. Some game doesn't work with gamepad so I guess I need a wireless kb/m now, too. Oop game lost focus because of a Chrome update dialog, guess I need to alt-tab back into it, shit the keyboard batteries are dead...

PC gaming sucks.
> There’s a reason the federal government started subsidizing home mortgages: someone who is bought in to where he lives cares more about where he lives.

Hasn't this thought process proven wrong in europe. Renters were similarly engaged in local communities where there were sufficient protections for long term renters.( I can't find the study now ).

I really don't understand why govt need to be in the business of providing home ownership subsidies. Seems like it has contributed to exacerbating current situation in US.
Both Deno and Bun are adopting APIs that are close to existing web standards, so Node is becoming the odd one out.
Brilliant. Already a user of both offerings.
A simple GUI would be great to let the user select high quality 3-4 matches (reference points) between the image pairs. Then the rest of the stitching pipeline could stay the same.
These publications are maybe better viewed as outlets for the wealthy to declare their intentions or explain their paradigms rather than journalism.
Listen to the full Reason interview with Nick Gillespie, it’s a great discussion.
I have a nice little script for managing "MISC" packages, which stands for "Manually Installed or Source Compiled".

https://github.com/tpapastylianou/misc-updater

In full honesty, I'm as proud of the "MISC" acronym as of the script itself. :p

I'm secretly hoping the acronym catches on for referring to any stuff outside the control of a system's standard package management.
oh, i didn't mention this isn't america, but instead a third world backwater country
For me it's because then I have to go buy and assemble a PC + another monitor and buy another desk and a set of peripherals. Whereas an Xbox Series X I just plug in to my TV and it works great, especially with GamePass, and it's way cheaper.
> What I am saying is that I am allowed as a human to ingest copyrighted material, learn from it, form mental abstractions and use those learnings to generate new art. Why then, would I be forbidden from externalising some of that process into an artificial system that operates on similar principles.

For the same reason you aren't allowed to make unlimited photocopies of a library book.
Valve is underway to change this common misconception. I got a Steam Deck last month and can't remember the last time I had this fluid experience with gaming, especially since I can bring it anywhere (in the house, and elsewhere). And the Steam Deck is a PC with embedded controllers (that by default runs Linux as it's main OS). Last night I hooked it up to my monitor, keyboard and mouse, downloaded Rust and used it for programming as well, without issues.

I have a gaming PC, a couple of consoles, both stationary and handheld but the Steam Deck quickly became the main device for gaming for me.
the sight and sound impact of a wind turbine is real though newer models are a lot quieter. if i lived out in the country where it was quiet i'd be against someone putting them up super close as well.

just calling everyone a "NIMBY" is not a valid response to criticism of externalities.
I've never been a big gamer but I was really into the Wii (mostly for sports-related titles) for a time. Pretty sure I used it a lot more than my Xbox 360.
Yes I’m using CAKE on the OpenWrt router/WAN interface. The screenshot is only the switch SQM.
Works fine from France
Not mine and I don’t remember the source, but really useful:

# Simple calculator
function calc() {
local result=""
result="$(printf "scale=10;$*\n" | bc --mathlib | tr -d '\\\n')"
# └─ default (when `--mathlib` is used) is 20
#
if [[ "$result" == *.* ]]; then
# improve the output for decimal numbers
printf "$result" |
sed -e 's/^\./0./' `# add "0" for cases like ".5"` \
-e 's/^-\./-0./' `# add "0" for cases like "-.5"`\
-e 's/0*$//;s/\.$//' # remove trailing zeros
else
printf "$result"
fi
printf "\n"
}
Yes, but 'the epsilon method' is a different name and branding ;).
Compared to the numbers I’ve seen here, my huge library of ~200 books isn’t huge at all. First lesson, buy all the books. Anyways.

I’ve taken the recommendation to own books further and now I own books in languages I don’t speak. Time to read those books is quadratic I guess (French might be easier to learn, I’m not too sure about Koine Greek). My girlfriend doesn’t like it when we walk by the Seine or Tiber (or in fact any river full of indie booksellers) because somehow I’m able to convince myself that this time, just this time, I’ll read these books immediately. Never happened.

I’ve devised a rule to calm myself in the meantime: I prioritize reading books of dead authors (figuratively they finished speaking). For authors still living, the book should have been published minimum ten years ago. For me, it’s a great sign that the book will survive a hundred years or so. I’ve seen way too many books expire after a year or two of publication (e.g. all the books on Trump during his administration).
It's not just the model publishers that profit from generative models, the users gain something as well. And the access barrier being lowered, now many more people can benefit. Even the artists can benefit.

Let's not forget the contribution of the prompt to the final result. The users have a finger in there too. That means they are directly involved in the creative process, they deserve a claim to the copyright.
what do you think should be the alternatives it should be compared to?
If you deep dive into bun, it only has the gained performance for certain features and cant really even be compared to deno or node at the moment because it lacks so many other features that would better showcase its speed.
The other classic from back then was Fugue: https://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/

Skeuomorphism died a rightful death but good lord could people design a good icon back in those days. My personal favorite designer of that era was Jonas Rask: https://iconarchive.com/artist/jonas-rask.html

You'll still occasionally see his icons pop up in TV shows and movies when they need to show a macOS-like design.
There's 1 in my city. $115/month gets you access to the woodshop and plenty of tools.
I'm a working father. I get maybe 20-30 minutes a month where I can play games. Previously, I had a PC that never got turned on except for gaming. When I would sit down to play, I would have to wade through ~30 minutes of OS updates, Steam updates, and then game updates. Every. Single. Time.

I got my son a PS5 for Christmas last year. I was able to play and beat Elden Ring over the course of a few months because I could sit down, open the game within ~30 seconds, and then go back to my responsibilities.

PCs are great, but they'll never compete with the effortless convenience of consoles.
The Mensa Fallacy
I don't buy it. These things have been way more accessible than people thought. Building your own PC has been stupidly expensive due the crypto crunch. Buying a midrange prebuilt has been fine. Play a console for several years and you'll also see several hundred dollars disappear to online subscriptions and controllers and what not.
Dead simple but serves me extremely well, and I haven't seen anyone do it:

cd ()
{
builtin cd "$@" || return $?
ls --my-usual-flags
}
Read until 'Taleb', then stopped reading. The value of not reading articles from people who talk and write mostly garbage.
> I'll have to think about this. My knee-jerk reaction was to call this "absolutely ridiculous". It may hold some potential upon further thought.

I'm not sure, but my gut feeling is that every roll above 3 and maybe even equal to 3 is an immediate checkmate or at the very least a crushing advantage. Like, rolling a 4 on the first move wins the game, rolling a 3 wins the queen, ... that much tempo is devastating.

However, it does remind me of a rather funny chess variant. In that variant, each player has three D6 and each face value corresponds to a piece - 1 for a pawn, 2 for a knight, and so on. Each turn, you roll your 3 dice and you can make one move with either of the pieces you rolled.

This ends up being pretty instructive, because you really have to activate all pieces because you might not roll your most active pieces on a turn.
Wasn't Xbox One defined by the massive backlash to its TV features, Kinect etc and Microsoft had to backtrack hard? It's not a Finland only thing you are seeing. Xbox is of course a American favourite but it faced the brunt there as well.

Not to mention that momentum was clearly with Sony towards end of the PS3/360 era and Microsoft killed all their momentum with the reveal. The results that we saw with PS4 and Xbox One are clear.
Script? Bash? TLS?

This one will generate any kind of TLS certificate: Root CA, intermediate, mail, web, client-side …

https://github.com/egberts/tls-ca-manage
Swiss Construction Site Tour
Alerts and a fire extinguisher are great, but what can you do about them if they trigger while you're away?

The A/C starting if things get too hot is great, especially if it doesn't depend on any of said things not being out of order (say because it shut down because of the heat).
deps.ts is currently the most common way, however new projects like fresh use import maps. the problem with importmaps is they are not composable, as such, using an importmap for a library is usually bad as said importmap is not picked up and used, so the end-user would have to add their own importmap with entries compatible for the library (this is what fresh does: it generates an importmap with entries it needs). due to this problem, deps.ts is the most common solution, however I do hope that composability issue with importmaps will change.
HN can't have that much egress traffic

Even if you have 100,000 simultaneous users egressing 10k/minute (which seem implausibly high, but usable for a quick approximation), you're only looking at 40 TB/mo

And that has to be off by at least an order of magnitude (if not 2 or three)

There's no reason, from a bandwidth perspective, you can't host HN on $100 worth of DO droplets and some Object storage/hosted db

If HN cost even $500/mo in hosting, I'd be quite surprised
It's much simpler. You turn on the console and go to the game you want, opening it. There might be an update, but nothing close to the annoyance of using a windows PC and custom launchers (linux is slightly better in this regard, but requires a lot more fiddling to get started & compatability). There are no launchers, no multiple stores, just a single, integrated UI that works great on a big screen with a controller. There are even physical media, if one so desires, and even better, most of it works offline (after getting the day one patch with fixes and blah-blah-blah).

There are efforts to replicate that experience on a PC (mostly SteamOS) but they still have a lot of issues. I like my Deck and have used other consoles way less after getting it, but it's not for everyone. It still requires fiddling to get "all the current games" and a lot of launchers don't work when offline without some extra care [1]. Regularly launchers want the password again, which is horrible to type in with gamepad-like controls. You also need to configure the games to work properly.
I don't want to configure the game so it looks alright at 30/40/60 fps, I want it to be done already.

It's like people preferring iOS for having less options, choices and being simpler in comparison to Android, but way more extreme.

[1]: How can it be so bad? Almost nothing with a launcher works right away, especially since there are separate launcher installations per game that need to be started regularly and have their own offline-mode settings
Cogito ergo sum.
You don't say if you'll be needing to earn money. That will make a major difference in what options you have.

I quit my last job in state government when I decided that I'd rather die than keep working there. That was July 7, 2005. As things unfolded, I haven't worked since. This was a totally stupid thing to do, but somehow I survived. If I had it all to do over, I would be a whole bunch smarter, but here I am.

I made it on savings to 2011, when I was eligible for Social Security at 62, and three years later at 65 I began drawing on my state pension. Now I'm living in Cuenca, Ecuador, where my monthly spending is under $800, around a third of my income. OK so far.

Mr Money Mustache is a good resource, and there are other similar ones. "Gringo Post" and "Cuenca High Life" are sites with some perspective on the place I happen to be now.

A possible source of more, employment-related info: https://grayshoring.com/
> The world's first completely private communication platform.

You have got to drop statements like this. It’s obviously false, and is embarrassing to read. I didn’t bother looking further into the software after this.
I don't think it ever quite works in practice. Letting teams come pick up the config module off the shelf in January is all well and good, but when the maintainers of the module issue a security fix in October how can you ensure the consumers apply it?

On top of that, how can the maintainers know if a change they make will be safe in the environments of the consumers?

IMO you either offer the whole service (i.e. a PaaS), or you form technical groups within the organisation which regularly share their learnings and experiences. Sharing code (aside from the smallest modules) when you don't have control or influence over the consuming team just doesn't work in the long run.
esbuild is so awesome... my steps towards web dev sanity are

1. Switch everything to esbuild, remove 10k dependency security nightmare, bloatfest and slugishness of pretty much every other node based build system / bundler.

2. Switch to deno.

Haven't quite got to deno yet, but #1 was liberating. esbuild also has some preliminary deno support, but not sure how stable it is.

The main thing I like about esbuild is that I feel like I wont ever have to "migrate" build system again (and I have to deal with an unusually high number of repos so this is a big deal), not much in my repos have anything esbuild specific, migrating was more a matter of removing build system specific smells from repos, it's all just a js and css bundle now. i.e there could be something better than esbuild in the future, and switching to that should in theory be effortless. This has never been true for all of the NPM build systems prior, (I was there at the beginning with grunt).
They mostly continue getting happier, and cling closer to each other. Beautiful.
I recommend AWS Control Tower for getting this all setup. It's also compatible with Terraform in more than one way.
I don't know about OP, but I've got a pretty powerful PC, and Windows loves to suck up unnecessary resources. The Desktop Window Manager (dwm.exe) routinely uses 1 whole GB out of my 8 GB of VRAM. That's not cool. So I have to go through a bunch of settings windows then tell windows to turn off all of it's hardware accelerated graphics rendering features for the OS to get dwm.exe to consume a more reasonable (I guess...) 250 MB of my VRAM.

Not only that, but windows anti-virus scanner runs all the time and routinely consumes about 20% of my CPU for no reason. I have yet to find a way to turn that off for a specified time period.

Consoles are built for games, so you can safely assume they're not going to consume unnecessary resources and tank your games performance. Games are (usually) built for consoles, so you can safely assume the game will be able to utilize the hardware much more efficiently than your PC that it has no clue about all the hardware/system specs.

That's just a couple reasons I can think of for not being able to just play a game on your PC, and I'm sure other people have more examples.
Perhaps hugin
Super informative article on the "myth" called Instagram shadowban. Let me know your best practices and your experiences with it!
Just logged in to tell you that I am working on an alternative to Xero and you just validated one of our UI designs.
AWS lambdas are available in Intel flavour. You don't need arm support for them.
Yeah specifically what I mean is that the median age in Lancaster is 33 and the median age in State College is 21.

So even if there are schools there the feel is more young adult than college student.
> So it's the fault of the left wing for not being left wing enough?

It’s the fault of the left wing for abandoning its traditional working class base to advance the interests of its elite donor class, which increasingly benefits from globalism.

Societies have groups with conflicting interests, and political parties represent those groups. Right wing groups will exist, and should exist, to represent the interests of businesses and upper classes. That’s not a problem. It’s a problem when left wing groups are co-opted by ideologies that causes them to turn on the working class people they are supposed to represent.
And for all those who downplay this process of deletion and think that's just how science works:

Where were you when YT and FB were deleting content and accusing people of spreading lies because they contradicted CDC information?

Where were you to say that error is part of science and people with a different opinion may well be right?

Where were you when people from the "team science" mob defamed people with an unpopular opinion and destroyed their livelihoods when they were blackballed by their employers?

So yes - actually, it would be a small thing if the CDC corrected this message after the fact. But after everyone elevated the CDC as the only incontrovertible truth, the fall down is now just a little longer.
Like the 2nd order effect of a modal popup while I'm reading?
Myself pulled in hoping for a historical tale of attacking vulnerabilities in Titan ICBMs.
Popsci Article says maybe: https://www.farmprogress.com/corn/will-you-grow-corn-under-s...
Are you in "upstate ny" by chance? I was going to suggest that area but read your post potentially covering that suggestion.
Boston's Longwood Medical area is a great example of a place you can stand and be within a mile of 4 hospitals. Brigham and Women's, Boston Children's, Beth Israel and New England Baptist.

3 of the 4 are Harvard Medical School affiliated and our outstanding hospitals.
Also check out Galesburg, Illinois. College town (knox.edu) and you can walk to most things on Main St. It is however a lot of Corn fields other than the college area but the last I was there was in 2002 so things may have changed a bit. Winters were brutal but lot of friendly people and back then as an immigrant, I always felt welcomed.
Can confirm - I'm young enough to have never used a map. If I did not have a GPS, I wouldn't be able to move anywhere.
At least in Oregon, I-5 is 50 miles away from the coast and separated from it by a small mountain range. I don't think we're too worried about tsunamis getting all the way to I-5. Definitely will get to Highway 101 in some spots, however. But a lot of the coastline is tall enough that you can usually find a safe place nearby if a tsunami warning sounds.
ARM64 builds are something that has been getting investigated. The biggest problem is that github doesnt provide any ARM64 runners, so workarounds around that are necessary
Basic critical thinking is "if the publication lies in every other article, the expected value of this one additional article is close to zero".

Critical thinking does not require you to carefully parse every bit of garbage on the planet.
It is unfortunate that the communications mode has been bound by convention to the medium. It should be bound to the message. The urgency of a message should be metadata associated with the message content regardless of the medium through with the message is transmitted and the client used to view it. How and when the content is delivered to a user should be a function of this urgency annotation and the trustworthiness of the sender. Someone who cold-calls you with an urgent communication is almost certainly a spammer.

Of course, this will never happen, but a boy can dream.
True, especially if the setup is directly in the living space.

I'm not familiar with any of OP's components, but it's absolutely possible to have a silent setup.

In my case, I have an HP EliteDesk (salvage from work) that does the routing, etc, which is dead quiet, and it's connected to a fanless Brocade (Ruckus) switch. There's no coil while or anything. The most annoying parts are the blinking lights, which I fixed with some red tape.
Want to check how your websie and hosting performs run a quick perftest. 12 global locations, google lighthouse analysis and realtime hosting performance test on world map.
Looks like it's IPv4 only?
> I get maybe 20-30 minutes a month where I can play games.

> I was able to play and beat Elden Ring over the course of a few months

I congratulate you on beating Elden Ring over a few 20-30 minute sessions.

> Previously, I had a PC that never got turned on except for gaming. When I would sit down to play, I would have to wade through ~30 minutes of OS updates, Steam updates, and then game updates. Every. Single. Time.

Idk man. To me this sounds like nonsense. I've got a big desktop machine I turn on once every couple of months to check out VR stuff and this doesn't resonate with me at all. OS updates, Steam Updates, and Game updates are very negligible to me. 30 minutes sounds very wrong.
Similarly, I don’t see why I shouldn’t be able to transform or straight-up copy and distribute someone else’s art if it provides people with happiness.

Would you stop doing it if the artists said “this is making me unhappy”?
I don't get why anyone would still do business with Adam Neumann.
>I saw a comment on HN about how airships would be better if scaled up, and we should build a 1km long Hydrogen lift airship with carbon fibre and kevlar.

Airships got a bad reputation because of the Hindenburg. Besides a few airships, they basically havent been touched in 75 years. Materials science has greatly improved since then.

A modern take on an airship should be super effective. The thing is... they arent as fast as an airplane but boy can they ever lift. You could move heavy goods across continents for practically no cost.

Personally I think Toyota's bonehead move to get into hydrogen cars was just a mistake. They could produce hydrogen based airships with their tech and become a giant.
> Are there any countries where I can live a modest quiet life, where I don't have to spend my life in front of a computer screen?

You mean, if you have the money? Of course. It will be much cheaper than in the US. For example, a ~$500-750k should set you up for life in Eastern Europe. Whereas, in the states, it's probably at least double that amount.

If you don't mind frugality, you could even make do with significantly less than that. But I recommend trying it out first before making this decision - living cheaply can become a drag after a year or two. Not everyone is ok with living in poor/crappy neighborhood, or sweating every small purchase at McDonalds etc.
Show HN: Create and share 3D dice
Fair, but that's even worse :-)
Deserts are hot and dusty. Efficiency falls quickly as temperature rises, and more as dust accumulates. Panels degrade exponentially faster as peak temperature increases. (Precisely: each fixed increase in temperature doubles rate of degradation.)

Siting panels on water and on farmland reduces operating temperature. Mounting vertically, in fence-rows, keeps off dust, collects more during morning and afternoon demand peaks, aids convective cooling, and protects crops from harshest afternoon sun.