skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to read a wide variety of genre from fiction to human psychology.

For the mind:

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg - A great book on how to communcate more effectively with others.

Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman -He is the only psychologist ever to recieve the Nobel Prize if I remember correctly. This book scientifically digests human biases and errors and how they influence our every day lives and decision making. Sometimes it a bit too technical for my taste and I like mostly the first part. (its not an easy read) I rarely had so many Aha-moments.

A random walk down on wall street - For investing your income in stocks. What to do and what no to do. Simple, with facts.

Sapiens by Harari -Interesting, I remember it was a great read and fun read. Connecting a lot of dots :)

On programming:

Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann - I am failry a junior web dev, so any material that is clear and explains well is a great source of information and inspiration. This is such a book.

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective by Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron - Teaches CS from the basics, which for me is a great source since I don't have a CS degree. I complement it with other materials from the internet (such as Harvard's CS50) for learning the fundamentals paralell working in my daily web dev job. Its a long book, so It will take a couple of months, years to go thorugh, but definitely worth the effort.

Fictions I love, without much introduction:
Lord of the Rings
Dune (first book)
Game of thrones books
For me JRRs storytelling is outstanding, the books are better than the serires IMO.

Spiritual Books:

(I am not a religous person by any means and I do not follow traditions)
Spirituality for me means a deeper connection with the universe.
If I really want to dig deeper than everyday work-life stuff I listen/read these books. Usually when there is a great emotional upheaval in my life or when I feel my daily distractions failed on me.

Power of now by Eckhart Tolle - This book gives me the occasional goosebumps, a great summary of all spiritual teachings (before becoming religions) in a really simple way. If you are interested in such, I highly recommend it.

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - I see it mentioned here already, no intro needed.

Letters by Seneca - This book is a proof for me that the essential human experience, the core of what makes us human does not change over time. Seneca was a great stoic thinker, who is very relatable by anyone even today (and probably will be for many millenia)

Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by Suzuki Roshi - All true spiritual teaching have the same source, but all are expressed differently. This is a great, simple powerful book to read if you lean towards buddhism.

A Course in Miracles (no official author) -Now this is a heavy read. It has a textbook with daily practices also. This is definitely not a book for everyone.
You mean the company that pioneered the single most fair microtransactions in existence? I've played many F2P games, and not a single one has ever been as fair as Dota 2. Short of giving away everything for free, there is no way they could've monetized more fairly.
I don't really use schedulers for work and have never really worked with them. So this may sound trivial but do i have to keep a terminal open and the script running for this to work? Or it works in the background like cron jobs? If i have to keep a terminal alive for it, what is a scheduler's advantage over using a good old fashioned loop with a sleep or time on the function call?
Some desktops? Sure.

But most of the desktops, notebooks, phones and tablets doesn't have 3GHz, 50Mb L2 processors coupled with Gb/Tbs of RAM and local (compared to the client requesting the page) storage.
Anyone else noticing the YouTube comments getting hidden?
Yeah but I'm paying for a music service I don't need. Gimme just ad free for like a fiver and I'm in.
I can honestly say, for a pen based system this is perhaps the worst thing that could happen.

"Hey here's a way to take notes with a pen, and have them digital. But of course only if you pay us monthly."

Subscription based paper. Well I mean I have to give it to them. They have gall
> two new media formats to offer HDR video and 3D audio

Taken into account what Youtube has to offer in terms of audio and video quality i would say they can claim they already have it. Scaling and prediction is cheap those days.
> being more apps than documents

Is “web application” not a common term anymore? Haven’t we always made the distinction between web apps and web sites?
For Chrome:

chrome.exe --app=https://teams.microsoft.com

you can also add these two for an isolated copy of each Teams instance:

--profile-directory=
--user-data-dir=
I like the combination of ‘pints’ and ‘vino’ here
What I love about these types of Japanese art is how the magic and the surreal become normalised in a way that western films rarely go anywhere near. I'm not a big anime fan by any stretch of the imagination, but films like Spirited Away and my personal favourite: Tekkonkinkreet just blow my mind with the sheer creative breadth of the vision.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfQjc2hs34Y
You mean countries? Denmark is the 4th country to consider Google Analytics unlawful. And my guess is that the others will follow. The Netherlands for example already said they will announce something regarding the use of Google Analytics.

If you could run GA4 on your own servers in the EU, it can be compliant, I believe. It's the involvement of the US part of Google that plays up.
Not sure why you'd want something like this. Imagine writing a book on paper, but instead of letters you're writing the binary representation of each letter. Wouldn't it be easier and more efficient to just use the paper as intended?

Just use good metal tapes, you'd be surprised with the quality (read: hard pressed to notice it's a tape). Plus, whatever circuitry you're using gives analog sound an extra bit of personality (though this isn't always for the best).
This has been running on my laptop all day for a 15 min mp3! Definitely not cheap to run then (wont imagine how much AWS compute cost is required).
With a setup like this, I imagine that the camera is far enough from the center of the monitor to make having "eye contact" impossible. Any solution to this problem?
Why would you buy two copies of everything? You buy a CD and dub the CD onto a blank MD. It'll still sound better than a cassette by a lot. Pre-recorded MDs were a rarity even in Japan. Part of why they were so popular in Japan is they made good quality copies from the CDs you got at rental shops.
New laws make it mandatory to report this major type of breach in Australia to the Australian Cyber Security Centre within 24 hours. They had no choice, or risk having the full weight of the government come at them for trying to cover it up.
Optimist view: Teams replaces desk phones at some (many?) companies. Relying on the average user to open an application to be able to receive phone calls is asking a lot, and is potentially ripe for abuse.

Pessimist view: Companies gain the ability to covertly track presence, which isn't feasible if Teams is left to the user to open.
Khipu: My Boilerplate Code-Free Implementation of Clean Architecture in Swift
an excerpt from my book-in-making: "The Declarative Revolution"
"yet all the language-speakers have vanished"

Now that is just false. [0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Russia

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_of_Russia
What forbids someone doing shit not answering to you truthfully? Or not answering at all or answering wrong because they would like for you to blame wrong people?

> I heard only nasty stories about Russian tourist

Edit: and this is doesn't answer my question: did you have been able to distinguish between them? Did the people who told you nasty stories could distinguish between them? In 2022 it is much easier because they haul their flag almost everywhere, but before that?
https://causal.app/blog/scaling
What are you doing right now? Sounds like you are chasing money.
if you take it as a boolean test it makes sense. it will be true for any timepoint that is after ten and is either on monday or saturday
As soon as I saw the headline I thought that it sounds like something Tom Scott would create a video about... and then there is his video right in the article.
Bojack Horseman used to be top of my list, but now enough has happened in my life I find it a struggle to watch certain episodes.
It's not a monopoly, you're right. I misspoke.

It's a walled garden, because you can't use their various services on their own or with third-party services. The games themselves are just rented to you, you can't run them without your Steam account.
In fairness the Google list looks similar.

- Hangouts
- Wave
- Plus
- Duo
- Meet
- Chat
I'm tempted to use it for the name alone, I don't even care what it does.
No, the other poster is right.

You had to use Steam to get HL2. This got them on enough PCs that they could build the dominance they have today.

There are obviously other reasons for their success, but the other poster is spot on both about what they did, and how many people felt about it at the time.
Actual camgirls usually get naked.
Frankly, it would be better to just spend the money on building political support for a monopoly case against Steam. Even though, technically, Steam is probably not in a monopoly position (afaik that would require for them to be able to raise prices high enough to get "supernormal returns", whatever that means).
I don't really read books, but I've really enjoyed reading a lot of Sherlock Holmes lately. The stories themselves aren't that interesting but the way Holmes collects, processes and works with data assisted by his methodical and almost pedantic approach to draw relevant conclusions from said data using his extensive knowledge of previous cases is extremely engaging. Now that the 21st century is entirely data driven, I feel these books give a very amateurish but still relevant perspective as to all the things we could do with the knowledge available to us.
You're talking about features that were all developed extra (aka they weren't gated), all of them using some kind of AI.

And none of which are even close to necessary.

The problem with selling convenience in F2P games is that the developers themselves created the issue they are selling the solution to. For example, having little inventory space. This isn't something that requires development resources to fix, so it's very clearly just there as a problem you can pay to solve. None of this applies to Dotas stuff.
You can't have privacy-focused and free services. You're either the paying customer or the product being sold.
Oh, right, there was the WoW launcher before battle.net. I think I have another game in mind which used this, but I can’t really remember. Would love to get more insights on the economics of this (p2p vs. cdn).
Oooh this would make a bit of sense. I am in a flat that shares internet with the rest of the building and I was always being asked to up to the family plan

.. YouTube, bro. I'm tragically single and live in a single room alone. I last saw family at Christmas. You're seeing a NAT connection mate.
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For those who do not want to scroll, here’s an absolutely brilliant video illustrating the scale:

https://youtu.be/zR3Igc3Rhfg
Idea for improvement: avoiding color blending in sRGB. A first step would be to work in linear space.

https://github.com/tsoding/olive.c/blob/43a67dd76760f915516a...
Wasn't Skype for Business just a rebranding Lync after the Skype purchase ?

This one was painful with your smartphone and computer not necessarily receiving the same messages. Also I never understood how and why my status was changing/not changing automatically.

I think Teams still suffers from similar issues. It happens that sometimes I open a second teams in a separate browser to have a full chat window while videoconferencing and both chats are not always in sync, sometimes I see a message has been sent from the notification window but if I try to see the full message it never appears on that window while it does on another one.
I love my Chromebook and I'm not looking for a replacement, but I do still like to look at new devices.

I personally think that this Framework Chromebook is way to expensive at 999$, but I do fine from a non USD economy, so many technologies coming from US are too expensive for me. That being said, my vision has always been that Chromebooks are light, affordable and battery life that will last longer then you. I paid around 400€ for my Chromebook, the most important specification was FHD IPS display and at least 12h of battery.

I'm aware that Google made Chromebooks with very high prices, but I don't think many bought those.

That's why seeing this laptop for 999$ seem a bit too much, especially now that you can get M1 MacBook Air for the same price! And it's just as user-friendly, if not slightly more.
Looks interesting but a few questions I don’t see answered in the docs:
How do permissions work? Ie if I had a notes app, and wanted users to only be able to upset and query _their_ notes, how do I make that happen?

Why no LAN for web browser mode? A pwa with offline support should be able to sync with other resolvable ips on the same pan, no? Hopefully WebBluetooth will be available soon too?
... or make CLI version of your tasks and let the system mangement daemon ("cron" or in my case systemd timers) handle it.

For clarity make a subfolder called "tasks" or something like that.

Then you get consolidate logging, retries and all kind of stuff for free in a battle-hardened setup and a standardized way to lookup what is enabled and what is not.
Sounds like a more dangerous version of meccano
>> The intent of that is to communicate that no matter what the OS is doing, the privacy switches for the camera and microphone are yours to control

Then why partner with such an OS ? It is not just the HW switches when I cannot use the very Framework chromebook without a google account - where is the privacy in that.

I was very excited for Framework and I appreciate your responses here but this feels too early a backward move for Framework. Is the market/partnership worth the trust hit ?

I hope I am wrong but this seems like going the Don't be evil way.
Yup. It might even be that while the engineering team is aware of the faults, the MS exec team considers Teams to be brilliant.

At the senior level the role becomes a sales role - you are continuously selling your output, team, product, vision, etc internally to the other execs, board, etc. It's important therefore to present whatever you are producing as exceptional. So you look for indicators that support your pitch. Sales and forecasts are far more important than product. Product is only as important as far as it directly impacts these numbers. And with channels / vertical integration / brand like MS, a core tool like Teams is almost a guaranteed success on these metrics as long as the product kinda works.

And then it's very easy to fall into the trap of buying into your own pitch. When you are continuously repeating how great the product is you begin believe it and ignore criticism, including public opinion. "What matters is the markets opinion not the publics opinion and Teams has huge market share".

So MS execs likely believe Teams to be brilliant, which is probably partly why there isn't the internal urgency to fix the issues.

Also - its a golden goose! Its good enough, generates tons of revenue and fills a strategic product gap. Why take a big risk and refactor it? This could be a disaster.

Takes a very brave, product focused leader to push on despite the above.
I loved my first discman. It had incredibly good earphones. Horribly expensive, though.
(Author here.) I don't use a VPN from my home connection.
Show me fully functional docker images that are 2MB in size...
It could still be much more efficient and less buggy. A sort of Zulip + Office 365 and external apps integration.
Framing SICP as a book is a little misleading. I mean, it is a book, but mostly it's a collection of ~350 programming exercises. Exercise solving time will dominate reading time like 10:1. It's worth it! But plan accordingly.
It's classic misdirection I know a lot of people like you don't have problems with using misdirection for personal gain but some of us have.
I remember going to the National Space Centre (there might be multiple in the UK, the one I remember was shaped like a giant white beehive) a lot as a kid. In fact, it seems to my memory that up until the age of ~14 every kids birthday was hosted there, and we never seemed to get bored of it.

Looking back on it, I find it funny that out of all the amazing things there (a full sized rocket, some kind of capsule you could actually sit in and play with the controls on), the thing that continually fascinated me the most was a little audio visualiser with a microphone, so when you spoke into it the line would deform.
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(Author here.) This is possible, but implausible. I log network traffic and haven’t noticed anything out of the ordinary. The point of the article was mostly to complain about the lack of information from Cloudflare, though. I don’t know what caused the blockade, and they’re not telling. How am I — as an end-user — supposed to do anything about the situation? I don’t even know what the situation is.
That's what it's supposed to do. Well, perhaps not prevent it, but add oversight and the ability to appeal.

The US is obviously not going to do this, so whatever agreement they come up with is bound to be struck down just like the previous two were.
It is not the case that cubic Beziers are 3D. There’s a good chance that the font you’re using to read this (especially if you print it out) defines the outline of (2D) letters with a sequence of cubic Beziers. Lots of 2D computer graphics uses cubic Beziers because they ~balance the needs of having lots of DOF for expressivity, while not being so complicated that they’re a pain to evaluate.

And the control points that define a quadratic Bezier could be in any dimension, including 3, or even 1, which is good for plotting the basis functions.

Where you are shapes how you make sense of things. As you learn to see Bézier curves from different viewpoints, the particular physical viewpoint you have now will coexist with others. It’s always that way learning math. That feeling of being disoriented is something to treasure, btw; you won’t always have it.

My hunch is that this video https://youtu.be/aVwxzDHniEw comes from someone who’s path through learning Bézier curves was non-traditional, but they do a beautiful job of explaining and illustrating things. It showed me that I have more to learn too.
I wish v4l2loopback was included in the kernel. I've wasted far too much time messing about with DKMS in the past that I now avoid any out-of-tree modules if I can avoid it. And with Secure Boot they become untenable.

To be fair there is an issue tracking progress - https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback/issues/268 - but it's had no updates in 18 months.
That’s one of the theories discussed in the article, yes.
> I want to like GoG, and do buy games there, but the client sucks. It's hard to navigate and for some reason insists on showing me 500+ Steam games rather than my smaller GoG library.

> Also, none of my friends use it, so if I buy a game on GoG, I'll eventually end up buying it on Steam too.

I was only addressing the longetivity requirement, not the UI or the network effects requirements.
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I remember that. While it might not have been clear at the time, Valve definitely made Steam a value add. Friends lists, cloud saves, etc.

I think we can get a clearer picture if we compare it to Epics launch: No cloud saves at all, shoddy service all around. The only thing they had going for them was buying up exclusives (many of which had already been promised as Steam releases). Steam/Valve is really a saint in comparison, even back then.
Is that a definition of correlation inside the field of mathematics? Because the normal English definition of correlation just means a connection, and absolutely doesn't mean linear.

"a connection or relationship between two or more facts, numbers, etc." https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/correlat...

edit: Ah, Wikipedia intro suggests that yes it's specific within statistics (though still seems to not be a hard requirement to call something a correlation?): "In statistics, correlation or dependence is any statistical relationship, whether causal or not, between two random variables or bivariate data. Although in the broadest sense, "correlation" may indicate any type of association, in statistics it normally refers to the degree to which a pair of variables are linearly related." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation
Just FYI, in totalitarian countries all people except gov't authoritatives, considered offenders.

As I know, this is first formulated by Mussolini: "For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law".
Oh TIL that Stadia didn't work as a game pass, makes it sound even worse!
Laura should join a union. if she's teaching so many classes she can't do any research it's her employer's problem not her weekends with her kids problem.

that's why usa academia is dead since the 80s.
Same here. To me Skype should have been the last mover in this space. Everything just worked. I actually had an investment meeting with a Skype competitor who took us through the whole infrastructure of why Skype worked and what he was going to do.

Now a few years later there's a zillion ways to do a video call, and Skype itself doesn't seem to be as good as it once was. I really wonder what on earth happened.
Add some logging and connectors and you have an airflow replacement with the pipelining or am I missing something?
(Author here.) Complain about in a blog post and hope it gets picked up on Hacker News?
I also found this Cairo-like vector graphics library that runs in a shader interesting: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lslXW8
Museums are like any other venues, you have to choose things that appeal to you.
There's anything from exotic life forms to experience centered modern art, science experiment expositions, ancient musical instruments...

As long as you have any interests there should be museums relating to those.
Steam has tens of thousands of games. Dozens if not hundreds of those are excellent. And at times very affordable. Average gamer really have no reason to hunt good games outside Steam.

And then when you get outside you have platforms like Itchio.io. With even more stuff and lot of it free..

For money you really need to be on Steam. Or be very prominent on level of Minecraft.
I guess what I'm looking and thinking about is just peer-to-peer MMORPG game, but because the data has to be stored somewhere, it could be stored everywhere.

That's is if the latency could be fast enough for normal gameplay.
Yup, FB Groups was really the nail in the coffin for a lot of forums. Source - Me, ex large-ish forum admin.

Reddit and Discord piled the dirt on top and added the headstone.
DataGuard locks down $61M for data protection as a service