skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your comments, but I still have literally no idea what you're talking about. I think you might be confusing contrast with something else, but I don't know what.

There's no difference in colors between LCD/CRT, as calibration can be good or bad for either, and you can calibrate yourself. The idea of color contrast between light/dark being better on CRT makes no sense -- the colors are the same, although LCD's are sharper and actually have darker blacks. Dimming zones can similarly only darken blacks even further which is desired for contrast. And when you talk about "Single-pixel lines also need to align perfectly with the pixels on my screen or require some kind of blurry processing" that's to do with anti-aliasing or scaling, none of which have anything to do with CRT/LCD. "Black lines over a grey background" will always be worse, not better, on CRT due to the gray blurring into the black since phosphors "bleed" more. And we're not talking about first-generation LCD's (or first-generation CRT's), we're talking about the regular LCD's that come on average computers today.

It's clear that you genuinely seem to be perceiving some difference that leads to a preference for CRT... but it's definitely not contrast. The only thing I can guess is it's a preference around disliking antialiasing or disliking "jaggies", or scaling modes, or subpixel rendering maybe? All of those are generally adjustable in system settings though. And the only one specific to LCD's is subpixel rendering, and you can always turn that off. (Macs got rid of it years ago already, anyways.)
I don't work for Tiktok so no clue about their actual implementation, but if they have what everybody else +-has, its a sophisticated statistical data model.

Some people put moniker AI on this, just like some people in marketing are putting AI into our TVs, toothbrushes, cars and god knows what else. Its got nothing with Artificial Intelligence per se, just a shortcut for 'something complicated I don't grok so its 23rd century magic'.
> Shogun: Total War...I am willing to put my money where my mouth is

Well, let's see.

This is a totally honesty-based exercise, but could you write two paragraphs upon the causes of the Tokugawa Shogunate's policy of isolationism (Sakoku), and its short- or long-term (pick your favorite) effects upon the relationship of Japan with the rest of the world?

I am actually interested to see how far you can extend the understanding from the game. In my opinion, this is a reasonably broad question which any adult who has studied the highlights of the history of the period that that game covers should be able to answer to some degree.
It's 2022, it should not take 20-30 seconds to transfer a small PDF between a phone and laptop.
ah. so he was a billionaire in USD a year ago, just not now. thanks, exchange rate!
prolly a bit outside the mainstream but -> https://gtoolkit.com/
No, my pinned repos are still there: https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY#github-stuff

I just don't have the stupid cat with the starry eyes.
Putting Kids in Debt (2015)
You mean imagery encompasses reals, I guess :D
well, and how do you solve excessive ram usage for a search engine? Generally you write the indexes/search trees to disk which, may or may not be ideal.
We could say that for pretty much any programming environment, couldn't we?

I feel like HN is often populated by rather skilled and rather disciplined software engineers, and for them almost any language can be a pristine tool and a code base can be beautiful and clean.

For someone who may be analytically capable but not a software developer, I feel that Excel can be the correct tool even if it yields some ugly "code bases". The tool you have at hand is often the most expedient tool to use even if not perhaps the absolute best.
Every new hire gets to watch this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c) then we go through daily Excel tips and tricks until they're comfortable with it. I know Excel is not the right tool for everyone or everything, but the amount of useful work you can get done quickly IF you know a few basic Excel text manipulation functions is crazy.

I even have an Excel spreadsheet that helps me solve Wordle.
In this context wouldn't MVP mean minimal viable product?
> I'm hoping one of these days someone on HN who is an authority will post a buyer's guide.

I’m guessing you would need to buy products from a commercial building controls line to get sensors that actually work. Alerton (Honeywell), Distech, Johnson Controls, Automated Logic, Siemens, Trane, and others have commercial building automation lines.
And who is now going to raise taxes for everyone else.
An argument for going deep on a career is that you can build relationships built on trust which let you climb the TC hierarchy. This then accelerates the warchest accumulation, and I'm looking ahead as a married man with decades available.
California Poised to Overtake Germany as World’s No. 4 Economy
Hey, an open source graphics engine that can compete with Meta!
Nothing new, it took Steam to patch this in steam user's artworks. People shared game hacks this way, hh.
Part of the reason HN works is, in my opinion, the fact that its demographic is already terminaly online. (Or at least terminaly at the terminal, lol.) It's also a larger demographic than scientists. But as others have said there are scientists on HN. I imagine a "science HN" would for the most part just be links to journals with comments? That could be interesting.
What’s in your NPM stat counter? A love doll store–we hope not
Dont forget about all those shitty clothes that dont get sold at Walmart/kohls/Costco/etc end up being dumped in a Chilean desert

https://www.insider.com/discarded-fast-fashion-clothes-chile...

Efficiency!
Started reading thinking, 'absolutely I do want that.'

>Somehow this has been construed to mean that Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other private companies cannot place limits on what can be said on their platforms.

Twitter can do whatever they want. Government doesn't seem to be involved or enforcing section 230. Therefore it's totally up to the owners.

><Cadey> Amusingly enough this person followed up to this email with "Just to be clear that wasn't transphobic (I am enby) I just think you know you're annoying and unfunny shark cartoons won't help", as if internalized transphobia is not a thing that exists. Internalized transphobia is a bitch and a half to deal with, but I've found it worth my time to fully dissect those feelings and then dismiss them properly.

I'm failing to see how twitter is involved. If you attract hate from trans people because you make offensive cartoons toward trans people, you'll receive this hate from wherever you promote the cartoons. I expect your target audience is trans people? Mind you, I don't have a clue who you are and I've seen nothing of yours. So I'm not commenting on your cartoons. Just commenting on the position of free speech zones.

>There are also politicians in my country of citizenship that want to make my existence anywhere near children a sex offense at the federal level.

What I read the legislation as saying is that federal funds cannot be used to fund the production of sexual context for children under 10. I assume your cartoons, which are sexual, are targeting children besides trans people? Therefore you make the association this legislation targets you. Fair enough, I understand the connection.

Mind you, I do believe politicians should certainly have laws indicating things like the age of consent and minimum age of pornography. As such this is the same as a legal thing to be defined. Which to me is quite reasonable. I hope politicians in my country implement exactly the same law.

>This is how you scare people like me away from the public sphere entirely.

“In a society that profits from your self-doubt, loving yourself is a rebellious act.”

You by accepting and loving yourself have made yourself a rebel. Surely you understand you are culturally way over the line? You are a rebel attacking society and earning the attacks that comes with it. You are the person who needs the free speech zone the most.

The hate from fellow trans is because the disenfranchisement of trans people, trans people WANT to be included in society. By becoming a rebel fighting society, you're fighting against them. This all makes sense.

Your blog from how I read it explains exactly why we need free speech zones.
Pretty sure it uses regular geo information as well because we travelled to France and immediately saw a bunch of French tiktok even though the SIM card was Canadian.

It's actually a fun quirk, you visit a country and you get to see their tiktok videos.
LEDs of a couple of watts do emit a noticeable amount of heat.

Being titanium doesn’t mean anything - here the heat has to go somewhere eventually. Either out of the front of the eye where it’s “uninsulated” or it’ll get hot enough internally that the body will get warm.
For some reasons I stopped reading after I saw it's about a fox news video.
I just love picking ticks off my children
It would need to be an IR laser, or the jig is up for being a useful bar trick.

Heck, the old skool 1st/2nd ACs in the camera department would kill for this. No need to "pull tape" any more.
haha thank you very much! I'm happy you enjoyed it :)
There's probably something workable between "$200k salary and great benefits" and "$10 a day to be traumatized" that works better than the current system.
In the case of fireflies, they lay eggs in leaf litter. So you need some unkempt properties or wild land.
p.s. is there a public version of your karma hiding scripts?
That’s very cool. I hope you consider open sourcing it so others can contribute.
It doesn't surprise me there's really disturbing content. This is the case for any platform.

But how much do moderators spend dealing with that rather BS reports? If you spend any time on Tiktok you'll quickly notice that reporting content is heavily brigaded and weaponized. The general process is:

1. Mass reports, probably from automated fake accounts, mass report one or more videos and/or the creator themselves;

2. As with almost all such systems, a certain number of reports triggers an automated response, such as taking down the video;

3. The creator then has to manually appeal the takedown. Sometimes they win, sometimes they lose. It seems to be really inconsistent;

4. Regardless of the outcome of the appeal, a certain number of reports will trigger a community guidelines violation, possibly locking or even completely nuking the account. The fact that every appeal is won seems to be irrelevant.

This problem is so bad that you can duet a video, say nothing and get reported for hate speech or harassment and lose your account.

What Tiktok doesn't do (like pretty much everyone else) is identify false reports and people who make false reports. It tends to be pretty easy too. Defining characteristics tend to be:

1. A default username ("user123239842");

2. Only follows 1 person;

3. No PFP.

Other sites (eg Twitch) make efforts to at least identify ban evaders. If you don't like someone's content Tiktok should make it hard for you to find it again and when you do, they should just shadowban you. Your comments don't appear to anyone else (which reduces harassment) and your reports are essentially ignored (while appearing to have gone through).

I'm actually amazed at just how easily and how often these systems, which supposedly exist to take down offensive content and protect users, are weaponized for simply saying something someone just doesn't like. This would surely reduce the time wasted for moderators (who often rule inconsistently on these issue) so the truly abhorrent content gets immediately nuked.
Analysis of Arguments and Logic
Depending on the science, but i often see amas or replies from scientists or paper authors on reddit (space, biology, history, etc).
I'm confused about how these AGs even have standing. If the government is coercing Big Tech into censoring for them, wouldn't Big Tech be the party whose 1st Amendment rights were violated? And if Big Tech was not coerced, how can it be claimed that this is anything but their current 1st Amendment right to perform this censorship?
So, i hope this is lightweight, cause heave "glass" eyes deform the skull over time, leading to eyesocket drop. One of the many reasons that becoming a cyborg aint easy.

But if it was a lightweight memory device with wireless connection to all devices of mine nearby. This would be neat
Direct link to the image:

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/221021163730-eugeniju...
That's definitely some Law of 5's probability field distortion there.
If you're eyelids are closed, you can't be looking at what your aiming. Your chances of hitting the target increase infinitely if you keep your eyes open.
Well, which case was it here? There's a neutral third-party ready to make that decision, having been presented with the facts of the case by both sides.
They could just use Visual Basic right in Excel instead.
>even if the general atmosphere is kind of oppressive.

Can you explain further and give some examples?
I hadn't replied to anything you said, but to api's statement:

> The right supports the right of private businesses to decide who to serve unless they are kicking out right wingers in which case we need government intervention to guarantee a platform.
No need for snide comments, especially when you're actually incorrect.

Hunt already said that there will be huge spending cuts.

What we're waiting for are the details of where these will fall, not if they will happen.

The increase of the corporation will hurt the economy further and remove a competitive advantage (new rate will be same as Germany's...). Again, this is not my opinion but what the reports from economists and analysists say.

This is a classic austerity approach to reduce debt. The conflict within the party is between that and reducing debt relatively to GDP (but perhaps not in absolute terms) by going for growth (making the cake bigger) but as we've seen that latter strategy is problematic because the markets do not really want to here about even further debt.
Paper bags available around here don't always have handles. As a result, you either can't carry as many (one hand holds a bag from the bottom) or you crumple or tear the bag at the top accidentally. Also, they tend to not hold as much weight as plastic bags.

What's worse is that they're harder to reuse. Since they aren't resistant to water, there are fewer other uses that they are good for.
I think the real interesting point is slapping the title of engineer/scientiest on to anything and everything regardless of the accreditation actual handed out. soon coming up.."cafeteria engineer", "janitorial engineer"...
In PostgreSQL:

SELECT to_timestamp(1666666666);
At the scale humanity is using plastics, 99% is lacking after-comma 9s in orders of magnitude. We're at 400 million tons of plastic waste a year [1], so even 1% inefficiency means that the VOCs of 4 million tons end up in the environment.

Yes, it's better than burning it outright in open fire pits (as it's done in an awful lot of "third world" countries to concentrate metals out of the waste), but it's way worse than a dump yard. And most of the places that have a lot of plastics waste don't have the resources to install decent scrubbers, much less perfect scrubbers.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/06/recycling-global-stat...
The article touches on this in an off-hand dismissive line, but anti-missile technology is destabilizing.

If the anti-missile system is effective, then it allows for a first strike without retaliation. I.e., anti-missile systems are offensive weapons. The largest constraint against using nuclear weapons in a first strike is removed for the party with the effective anti-missile system.

Even if it doesn't work well, or at all, you now need your adversary to believe that you spent billions on an ineffective weapons system. If your adversary is not convinced of this, then they have every incentive to react to (possibly false) alarms sooner. Incidents like the following might have ended differently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2020-0...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/us/false-alarm-missile-al...
Try not to blink challenge?
Show it to the users in person as soon as possible and ask for feedback if you can. I have personally carried around an iPad around an expo hall demoing an MVP multiple times.

You can also record a low budget demo of your product, and ask for user feedback. The best example of this is when Drew Houston created a demo video of what appears to be a working product. Apparently some of the video is mocked out and was edited and uses camera tricks. Even to this day, it looks like a solid working product.

https://youtu.be/7QmCUDHpNzE
Think high level, and review in low level. Battery’s energy density is not nearly closed to fossil fuels.

Question like this particular in a tech forum shows how much trouble we are in when actually dealing with environmental challenges.
I always wondered how far some companies will go to enforce this.

For example if my second job is as a professional actor in the local musical production, would all my creative IP and earnings belong to my main job? Maybe this example is too far remove from reality.
I would say that:
Israel has experienced realistic conditions.
Any of the local hotbeds over the last few decades (Iraq, Ukraine, etc) have had realistic conditions, which are now decades old or haven't resulted in any success (effective defense).

There's no good reason to expect to be able to protect any given area from a missile attack. If the coverage is good enough in a small area, a nuke right out side the defense range will do enough secondary damage to render it irrelevant. To illustrate, if you want to destroy Israel, the practical approach is to fire a nuke at Palestine.
I strongly recommend everyone read "The Gray Lady Winked" by Ashley Rindsberg. Eye opening stuff about the NYT.

https://www.thegrayladywinked.com/free-excerpt/
They're trying literally every possible avenue to socialize social media without doing the obvious (socializing social media).
nonzero imaginary and real are both disjoint sets, and complex encompasses them both
Isn't that true for software too though? You cannot ever rely 100% on any tool you use, so if you're serious about actually avoiding penetrations and not just about the academic discussion, you're better off using at least a bit of obscurity on top of your real security system.
The surplus wealth created by capitalism is the only reason why people have the luxury of giving a damn about the environment in the first place. Maoist China destroyed its forests to make charcoal for low quality iron and killed most of their birds in an attempt to slightly boost grain production. The Soviet Union drained the Aral Sea to grow cotton. The residents of Easter island completely destroyed their environment. They all cared about "short term profits" as much as any capitalist. They simply weren't as good as executing it.
There is a series of nested political dog whistles[0] that people are invoking when they use the word "globalist" to refer to - let's be clear - right wing conservatives who aren't right wing enough.

The idea behind these dog whistles is that multinational corporations and rich investors are actually a front for global communism. Yes, ruthlessly profit-seeking investors like George Soros, the man who broke the Bank of England's ERM peg[1], were actually "cultural Marxists" the whole time! Somehow. Ignore them being the worst examples of capitalism, an economic system Marx thought was evil that would eat itself. They said they like racial diversity and feminism, so they're clearly "cultural Marxists".

Anyone who remembers their WWII history should have alarms blaring in their head, because "cultural Bolshevism" was one of noted meth enthusiast Adolf Hitler's favorite phrases, and he used it in exactly the same sense I described in the previous paragraph. You see, it turns out this is actually just about demonizing the Jews, because it is always about demonizing the Jews. They may not know that they were going down that path, but that is where the logic leads.

"Globalism", outside of the dog whistle context, just means free trade and open borders; i.e. standard liberal[2] free market stuff. The people who lost out on free trade adopted the term to refer to the dog whistles I listed out above.

[0] I'm not even going to glorify it with the words "conspiracy theory". A conspiracy theory is a guess on what the rich and powerful are doing that may be right or wrong.

[1] European Rate Mechanism; it was the on-ramp to the Eurozone before the Euro was a thing. The failure to establish an ERM peg basically doomed the UK to never join the Euro.

[2] And right-libertarian.
Though I have to reach the heights of that formula, I keep coming back to Excel for the same reason that I come back to Perl. Not because it's always the best tool for the job, but because it's the lingua franca in many contexts. If I create the thing in Excel, then I know I can hand it off to someone else and they will both know how to run it, and, in a pinch, how to change it.

With any other tool, there would eventually be an onboarding process not just for the thing I built, but also for the tool I built it in. Not with Excel – that will just run, whereever you go.
>I don't know anyone who hates or wants to disable Chrome updates

That would be me for one. I hate it when google sneaks in privacy reducing preferences that are automatically turned on. I like to occasionaly go through settings to see what has changed and was surprised when an update showed up a whole host of new active features.

Why on earth should usb ports on my laptop be automatically exposed to any web page that demands it? Chrome can do that now. And not just usb/serial/midi ports, and motion sensors, chrome has also enabled 'presence' (a way for sites to know when you're actively using the browser). I found that creepy.
No its not. Scarcity in economics refers to when the demand for a resource is greater than the supply of that resource. The kids doodles aren't scarce because there is little demand for them. On the other hand there is demand for NFT's (whether you think there should be or not). The comparison doesn't make any sense and just makes the author look dumb.
Information Flow Control Challenge
You are correct. Apologies. It's a great film.
My personal recommendation is finding subreddits that are science centric, there’s r/physics r/chemistry r/science etc and I’ll bet my left but that any science subject you can think of has a corresponding subreddit you could subscribe to or browse.
The previous 'run off' had many candidates where the one with the fewest votes (by MPs) was eliminated until there were 2 and then those 2 candidates were put forward to members of the Conservative party (80,000 members).

Party members "overwhelmingly" voted Truss. Rishi Sunak isn't liked by the people that matter most - the party members, and seemingly, the electorate.

Basically the Tory party is back where it was under John Major in the 90s. In-fighting and completely ignoring what the electorate think. It's odds on that Labour will get into power in 2024, not because they have the plan and the policies, but simply they're not the Tories.

It really is a case of 'those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it'. And here the Tories are. Arguably the last time Labour got elected on their own merit was many, many decades ago.

Frankly it's tedious to hear adversarial politics in Britain. But that's all we're going to get from the Labour Party for the next 2 years. They could be laying out policies, preparing for government, being an adult political party, and ignoring the Tories, because frankly, no one cares about the Tories at the moment. But Labour won't do that.

UK politics is a sewer.
Closing in on the Y2K38 problem.