skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> drunken partiers continuing to fire off shots as they're lowering their guns without thinking

This is important. I'm not a gun expert, but I feel like if the safety is off, you should be aiming the thing. Aiming keeps your focus on where the bullet may travel if you pull the trigger.

I did a short stint in the US military, but I wasn't infantry. It would be interesting to see how they train "muzzle discipline" and under what conditions the safety should be taken off.

I saw some videos from the invasion of Ukraine where muzzle discipline was a problem. This is a training issue, but even the US military isn't immune to this. If you Google "Veterans React to 10th Mountain Division Room Clearing Video" you'll see the same issues, called "flagging." I'm assuming US infantry doesn't get much training in room clearing operations (maybe a special operations thing,) but it seems like "flagging" should be something they are taught to avoid regardless. I don't recall that being part of my own training though.

It's a bit unsettling to be thinking about people with ADHD carrying loaded weapons all around you.
At least in the UK there seems to be some push back. PayPal recently cancelled (but re-instated after pressure) [1] the Free Speech Union [2]. This seems to have got the attention of quite a few MPs who are looking to pass laws banning politically-motivated cancellations.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/09/27/paypal-reins...

[2] https://freespeechunion.org/about/
It still hasn't recovered from the catastrophic crash the week prior.

Overall, it's still a slide.
Actually incentives have shifted a lot. Personally I now skip a lot of work that was useful only for perf purposes.
>maybe next time don't quote something author made up and quote actual study

thanks for pointing out the author was untrustworthy, I didn't know that!

>*for nitpickers - there is extremely small chance you will change color, if you start with color other than brown or blue

it seems a little bit much to nag about reading actual study but then noting a 'for nitpickers' that contradicts your TLDR. I mean nitpickers is generally where the science is found at.

>But it's truth same as with hair you don't go from dark to light, it's possible only the other way.

maybe nitpicking, but most people go from dark to light eventually, unless they just go to bald.

two last points, as I noted in other post I went from blue to brown/hazel to blue and that my eye color now varies between various lightness of blue and I don't think the study you refer is that overwhelming that one can say only for blue eyed given it seems to be for a very limited age range in a study that is not very large and probably not especially diverse.
<insert ancient aliens guy>

I feel like this might be slightly retconned to fit nicely. From what I've read the Egyptian cubit sticks actually varied in length by a couple of centimeters.
Well, it's their business, so fair enough.
But that means that lots of projects can't and won't even look into using Qt.
>EU wouldn’t ban homegrown technology.

EU would ban any technology that disrupts the labor market to an extent it leads to widespread protests among a segment of society. For how a somehow similar thing has played out in the last 40 years (instead of banning technologies, it has mostly been instituting quotas, paying subsidies and banning/taxing imports), you can look at its agricultural policy.
It doesn't matter how dangerous it is vs flying in an airplane or having surgery since those activities serve a purpose and there aren't equivalent alternatives that don't involve risk. If everyone in the world suddenly stopped flying or getting surgery tomorrow deaths and suffering would increase. If everyone stopped recklessly and needlessly shooting firearms at the sky, deaths and suffering would decrease.

It doesn't matter how many deaths celebratory bullets cause. Any number of deaths greater than zero is too many deaths because celebratory gunfire serves zero useful purpose beyond "I think it's fun and I care more about that than I do about human life and the suffering this activity causes" and alternative options exist for "fun" that don't cause deaths and injuries to innocent people.

If people who were irresponsible with firearms only ever killed themselves I'd be much much less concerned, but the lives of others will always win out over someone who just wants to celebrate with their favorite way to make bang bang noises.
Yup, both the mechanics and incentive structure have changed. Nobody knows the outcome yet, but the intentions were to align personal incentives with business goals. Seems promising thus far.
Not sure that article is making the point you have in mind:

“people let playlists run on in the background when they serve inoffensive, bland music they can’t be bothered to turn off. If you look at the music Spotify has broken, it’s all chill-out stuff. That isn’t art, it’s wallpaper.”
Maybe you were living in a big city like Bucharest, Timisoara ...

I was there before 1989 and grew in the small town in a house. Not a village, but a small town.

We had electricity only a couple of hours per day.

I don't know of any specific rule against refrigerator but it was not useful to buy one as you cannot connect it to anything.

The main source of light during winter was the fire and some kind of liquid gas (I don't know exacly what was that) that we used with a gas lamp.

The same goes for kitchen: most of the cooking was done using the stove or using some gas tanks that were limited - I think one per family per month or I am not sure. But the gas tank was a precious possession there.

The same was true for bread or any other food that was produced by the state. There were rations of how much we can buy.
The Geneva Declaration on Targeted Surveillance and Human Rights
> Unless technology is created to immortalize Gabe in a machine

Ah, this is what Valve is working on...
Aha thank you, this is helpful. Agreed there is much research needed to get this working but hopefully not too far off: https://twitter.com/kkpatain/status/1575758085821706240
Agree. And maybe it will encourage Europe to build out renewables and heat pumps faster.

Apparently it has not had that effect in Romania, yet. But they are by report still happy with their Canadian CANDU reactors.
Is it possible that the eye colour relates to health, eg toxicity? That there is a physical cause to eye colour changes, and that you eye colour provides an indication of what your body is dealing with?
I want to say I have seen 16MHz ISA bus somewhere but that in reality you could not use any ISA cards except some VGA cards at that speed.
I get 406 Not Acceptable over there, but ... yes, the whole Envoy-sidecar-per-Pod thing is heavy in latency, management, and userspace processing overhead.

Istio is already shrinking this overhead ... a bit ... with Ambient Mesh: https://istio.io/latest/blog/2022/get-started-ambient/

... but in the end I expect this all to happen in the kernel.
Specifically, the problem is that a lot of these pension fund investments are in long-duration government gilts of a kind which are mostly useful to pension funds like them, and when the margin calls in and they had to sell there was not enough of a market for them and prices collapsed, which would have lead to more margin calls and prices collapsing until a substantial proportion of their investments had been transferred to bankers and speculators for much, much less than the actual value. Supposedly there were literally no bids for some of the gilts at some points.

I don't think there's much moral hazard in the Bank of England stepping in here; the duration structure of available gilts is a government creation anyway, a big reason no-one else wanted to touch them was because of uncertainty from the Bank's aggressive interest rate increases lately, and if government gilts aren't a safe, liquid investment we're all in deep trouble.
Just curious, what happens to the engineers when a project is cancelled at Google? Mass exodus to other projects? Do they get notice? Are they left with weeks of nothing to do while they search for other teams to join?
AirSensEUR is an open framework focused on air quality monitoring using low cost sensors. The project started on 2014 from a group of passionate researchers and engineers. The framework is composed by a set of electronic boards, firmware, and several software applications.

https://airsenseur.org/website/airsenseur-air-quality-monito...
So what you are saying is that engineers at Apple have nothing to say about this?
Also AwesomeWM [1], to continue the "Lua scriptable Unix desktop".

[1] https://awesomewm.org/
Of course it is false but the regime was definitely monitoring private power consumption (I'm also from Romania).

My dad told me relatively recently how sometime during a winter from the late '80s a lady from the power company showed up at our apartment's door and told my father that we should lower our energy consumption, i.e. not use an electrical heater to, well, heat the house. That would have course meant having a freezing house, which wasn't ideal for kid me, so my dad, logically, called that lady some names and invited her inside the apartment to share the bed with all of us (because of the cold I was sleeping as a kid between my parents during the winter, we couldn't physically heat two rooms at the same time). Interesting times.

Bonus points for us, kids, booing and swearing out loud when the power was being cut off in the evening, and cheering when it was being restored, like true "freedom" fighters against the regime (I'm talking about the summer months when we were all outside to play well into the evening/dark hours).
Replace “Twitter and Facebook” with “printing press”.
Many thanks - totally missed that repeal.

I am trying to figure out what replaced it, and it appears the only way is for an election to occur is a) the Prime Minister to request and recieve consent from the Monarch, b) it has been 5 years since the last election.
> Which is far more draconian and intrusive.

That will enforce less monopoly in social media, I am perfectly fine with that.
should work, and there are tons of new differentiable mesh and volumetric representations to try!
So much comments on open-source:)
That was really funny and imbarassing for the BBC [1] when they interviewed them and they. I remember this and was so fun I watched their movie after.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszDiLiY7EY
AirSensEUR – an open framework for air quality monitoring
From the article:

As is often the case, Emacs users present their own special challenges. Emacs uses control-C for its own purposes, and remaps SIGINT to control-G instead. In cases like this, the user almost certainly wants control-C to be passed through to the target. The answer is a GDB command that allows the user to specify which key should interrupt the process and return to the GDB prompt.
Yes. 60 Hz is the NTSC update rate and was very common.
No, it's not. Not at all. I care about performance in my architecture, design, and code. However I _don't_ care about eeking out every %ge in every scenario.

The difference is caring where it matters. Bugs and mistakes happen. The measure of someone who cares and someone who is improving is how they handle it when these issues happen.
xbox game pass is an amazing proposition and cloud gaming is cool
Totally agree, they're getting these for a few bucks a part,maybe 10 bucks total for the kit. If they're paying any more they should not be.
The singer is having a good time with revealing more details about the album and keeping her fans informed every step of the way with her ongoing Midnights ...
Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Acceleration Robotics announce and open sources ROBOTCORE®, Acceleration Robotics, AMD partner to design robotic compute architectures with ROS, Acceleration robotics partners with PlanV for a robotics-specific open source RISC-V Microcontroller
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5774918 - 9 years ago - 13 comments
> Fireworks are more fun than flashing lights, because they’re explosives.

This is not objective; e.g.: fireworks are fun to me because of the light show and explosives are not a factor at all (I'd prefer aurora to fireworks).
Yes. Especially if you were putting an image back to a harddrive of the exact same size and specification, it was very doable. You could keep an untouched hard drive with a known install and copy it block for block.
Have you considered a daily newsletter from a well-respected and comprehensive news publication? For example, the daily world headlines from Financial Times. It's once per day, and it's bounded. You read it and then you're done.
I wrote the comment and the blog post. What wording are you referring to?

Yes, Windows supported the 286 too. There was a special Windows 2 version for 286s, and a different edition for 386s; what was novel in Windows 3.0 is that one edition and one install on disk supported all three: 8086, 80286, and 80386, all in one. Windows 3.0 had 3 modes:

- if it had <2MB of RAM or just an 8088/8086/NEC V20 etc. chip, it started in Real Mode.

- if it had 2MB of RAM and a 286, it started in Standard Mode. No 386 features enabled.

- if it had >=2MB of RAM and a 386, it started in 386 Enhanced Mode.

https://komh.github.io/os2books/gg243731/214_L3_386EnhancedM...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20130208-00/?p=53...

I have written about this, too:
https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/78006.html

It wasn't well-known even then, but Windows 2 and 3 could multitask DOS apps without a 386. V86 mode wasn't needed for the multitasking, but for the memory management. The multitasking worked, the problem was trying to fit several DOS apps into the base 1MB of RAM for them to multitask.

What the 386 delivered was separate 640kB slots for each DOS VM.
I've flagged it; the github page is better, as are previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Well, there's education - that's net good. And I think entertainment is pretty neutral (even slightly positive) if it doesn't involve gambling or rely on player addiction. Fintech and adtech are where people bright enough to contribute positively to society go to make money instead, kind like the oil industry. All IMHO, YMMV, etc.
I use it as the modifier key for my window manager shortcuts so I just think of it as the lowercase w windows key and not the uppercase W Windows key and it's fine.
I'm old enough to remember my Mac G5 keyboard which still sported an Apple logo on the Command key before they did away with it for `cmd` instead.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mac+g5+keyboard&tbm=isch
Remember that buybacks are another way of returning money to shareholders, and Meta bought 10% of it's shares this year. A 10% yield is pretty significant and reflects its high PE ratio.

However, they took on 10bn in debt this summer, joining Apple and the other FANGS. These companies claim to have high margins.

For me, if Apple claims to make a 20% margin, but then spends all that money and needs to borrow more, and its revenues are shrinking - that's not a growth stock and that's not an honest earnings. If you need to spend the money to continue to make sales, it's part of your operating costs. If you need to borrow money to continue to operate, you don't have a margin.

At least Meta is genuinely spending its borrowed money on future growth (trying to build this VR thing) and is continuing to grow revenue in local currency terms . We might not believe it would work, but it's honest margin. Not a zero profit growth stock - yet.

I think we are in a wierd situation where some companies are being more honest than others, and the honest ones will be punished until the pendulum swings in the next 2 quaters.
I am not an expert but if someone managing a pension fund makes it less underfunded by using some of these instruments/techniques they might get a bonus for good performance, don't they? Or am I misunderstanding something.
My eyes have been shifting from brown to green for some time now. They started identical do my sisters dark brown by look completely different in our late 20'.
Spy x Family season 2 coming this weekend. Oh boy!

Currently listening to Ya Boy Kongming Opening Full『Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - QUEENDOM』
Because those are not publicly shared where nonconsensual stuff is profitable and uniquely damaging with no inherent need for sharing them. The keyword is share. Less people get hurt and some people get less porn, what am i missing?
Maybe because you said "Metaverse" (and to some extent "VR") making it sound like sci-fi nonsense. You could have just said:

How long then until we get photorealistic AI generated 3D games and experiences?
The body politic.

People program computers to exchange messages furiously, to no external effect besides power consumed. Then they go buy yachts. It's all perfectly legal, of course.
Well, there is no need to put a ban on refrigerators or vacuum cleaners if you could not safely assume that there will be electricity in general.

Also for other people reading this, please note that all stores in most of the country (with exception of capital city and a couple others) were controlled by the state. Leaving the country was forbidden in general.

So if they wanted people not to use refrigerators on large scale or vacuum cleaners they could just decide to not sell them. It was that simple to restrict something like electronics.

Just add more: again in most of the country there were very few cars running as there was a limited supply of petrol/gas for cars. You could have a fixed amount of gas.

They even decided at one point that on Sunday to restrict circulation of cars the following way: one Sunday cars that have an odd number are allowed, the other Sunday cars that have an even number were allowed.
> Blindly applying one explanation without a bit of investigation is the software equivalent of a cargo cult.

How is this a "cargo-cult"?
Twitter is a terrible piece of garbage website, isn't that why everyone uses it as the ultimate example of the web sucking?

Twitter wants you to download their app and sign up so they intentionally neutered their web experience. It would probably require 0.1% of their 7500 employees to spend 3 months to fix it entirely, but it's business that drives the bad tech, not the developers

I build internal apps that load collaborative an entire app with MBSE capabilities that have a time to interactivity of < 10s. Google docs takes like 7s to spin up a new doc and interact with it. I can promise you Twitter could reduce rendering some stylish HTML/CSS and a 280 character tweet to a single round trip and see maximum 0.5s browser parse & paint if they wanted to
I didn't like it. It was too much theory based without enough recognition of practice. I and a very small company used it ~25 years ago. It wasn't good enough & we eventually dumped it. I can't give you reasons why as it was too long ago but I don't have a good memory of it.

I do remember of the Eiffel book that Meyer was a bit too keen on emotive arguments over factual.
Nice - I use Blanket[0] sometimes, but having something context-sensitive is interesting.

[0] - https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.rafaelmardojai.Blanket
This is all normal in the Philippines. Electricity isn't limited, but many households only need to run phone chargers and a light for each room. Most people have fans, but you can get by without if you have an open design and some shade. I'm not sure I have ever seen anyone use a vacuum here (not many people have carpeting.) You might be surprised at how well you can get by without a fridge. Buy your meat and veggies fresh. Cook only the food people will eat (no leftovers.) Buy ice and other cold things from a community store. I'm assuming the hot water thing is for bathing during the winter, this isn't an issue in the Philippines.
> Games are something where ms count.

Some games are. There's lots of genres where it doesn't matter much. Basically not everything is fps / racing / fighting.
Not for long, unless...
Ah, the magic way your computer actually uses 0 power when off. Maybe we should go back to those. Imagine how much energy could be saved in the world.
So what is false from that expression in the article?

That the access to electricity was limited?

You are saying

> "the power was being cut off in the evening"

How is not the power limited if this was happening? :)
This is slightly off topic, but beyond the protests, there may be other reasons the powers-that-be are trying to control the information space. Khamenei may be dead or dying. Changes of leader in these sort of regimes are always a fraught time at best.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-up...

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-up...
When my IBM PC 5150's CGA monitor lost its vertical sync (and I was on a BBS and vibrated my lips so I could read the text to logout properly ... really!) I got a Cardinal VGA card for the 8-bit bus.

So yeah, VGA was possible all the way back to the original.
You're just smelling what you want to smell.
Earlier it was Amazon, now it is Stadia. What is going on?
That's the problem: it does not work. I don't care if the programm is written in assembly or in rust as long as it functions properly.
But when the blinking cursor stops blinking, when the scrollbar or window border is so thin that i cannot select it with a mouse, when the title bar is so cluttered with buttons that any click brings up a menu instead of being able to double click or click and hold, then _it matters_.

I stop here in order to not throw profanity at MS engineers.
Yeah, you're right about jQuery. I got fooled because the page is loading the following URL:

> https://thebestmotherfucking.website/js/jquery-3.5.1.min.js

But the response to that request is not an actual copy of jQuery, which it seems when you just look at the URL, but the following body instead:

/* NO, really, NOBODY NEEDS TO INCLUDE A FUCKING FRAMEWORK TO MAKE A COOL WEBSITE. */
console.log("Don't worry, no jQuery was used in this website.");
var $ = function () { $.fancyRainbow = $; $.html = $; return $ }

I got fooled by it, should have verified it was actually jQuery I guess. Now the other comment about jQuery (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33020599) kind of makes sense, almost.
I don't get all the griping about "Wasted development effort" and "Apple doesn't have documentation".

Linux was about making it work on different platforms from the very beginning. There was never any vendor support.
Well, it may be just planned obsolescence, or a system-wide bug. Chances are it would be mostly as snappy as new, if you were to reinstall it and start anew, for example. In my opinion the problematic layer is usually the highest one, the kernel/low-level OS layer doesn’t have too many performance problems.
So you'd prefer to see millions in negative equity unable to sell while companies buy up the ones that are repossessed? I think that would actually be worse than the current situation.
because Tiktok is a reputable source.
Housing is a supply problem. Unless we all learn from Japan and Singapore, there is no other way to increase supply
Simple 3D visualization with Jax raycasting
Poaster app raises $2M after just a few weeks of coding
Why read Dostoevsky? A programmer's perspective
Open development RTS game coded in JavaScript
A dead 11 y.o. young boy outside a school and a now 95% paralyzed 7 y.o. girl are two examples off the top of my head which happened in Greece within the last five years. The bullets fell on the upper part of their heads. In the latter case, the mother said she heard a sound similar to piercing an egg's shell. In the latter case the murderer was actually found.