skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But in the context of what an individual can do 10%-20% is nothing to be sniffed at.

If collectively it means 0.00000001% change I don't find it provides much "I did a good thing" value and the time would have been better spent fundraising, petitioning politicians, or maybe even just raising awareness towards say... improving a law that makes a collective 1% difference.
Do you look like Neil Young?
RM user base seems like a very niche Venn diagram:

1) People that love the feel of fountain pen writing.

2) People that love having all of their notes electronically.

I love what writing feels like, so I have a pen and paper and study offline (I typically throw out my notes). Generally, if you belong to just one of the two categories, you don't need to pay the RM premium.
There wereample solutions that already addressed this use case - hence me saying "there was no reason" for USB to implement it :)
I still use mine occasionally. I'm not using it for anything spectacular, but every once in a while there's an AR thing or a Youtube video that's worth watching that way.
This is absolutely amazing work. I have been searching for something exactly like this for quite some time. I am beyond thrilled that this now exists. THANK YOU.
> Apple made it significantly harder to track

I think that's a dangerous way to frame it. It's certainly the narrative Facebook wants out there.

Apple provided their users with more control over how their data is shared and those users overwhelmingly said no to Facebook and Google tracking them.
I can email grandma and get directions to the park on my smartphone. The value proposition is clear.

I can ??? by strapping an enormous headset to my face, flailing my arms around, and getting sick to my stomach and lightening my wallet by $500-$1500 with VR headsets. What do I gain by doing this?
Some tips:

- start on paper (or something analog like a whiteboard)

- focus on the essence of what you want to convey, the big picture of you will, not all the detail. Focus on what you want the audience to remember. Less is more

- iterate. If you see your audience isn’t grasping what you convey, you’re not clear. Edit

- draw real time as you explain, which allows you to draw based on audience understanding and what you want to focus on
Social media reveals differential language of loneliness from depression
Even when nuclear power was enthusiastically embraced as the future it suffered from cost overruns, hidden and underestimated lifecycle costs, security problems such the possibility of a worse Chernobyl event as a result of an ongoing war, nuclear proliferation enablement, etc.

Blaming the resulting skepticism about nuclear on the "Green approach" is backwards: Fix the things that made nuclear expensive first. Demonstrate that the lifecycle works, from mining to waste handling. Show it costs less than putting the same capital into renewables and can come online in time to be relevant.
The brain cells needed for fever
John Berger on Caravaggio

http://timothyquigley.net/vcs/berger-caravaggio.pdf
I don’t understand where this comment is coming from. There’s not a lot of context around it in the article, it’s just kind of plopped in there and not expanded on. Was this some kind of defense being made on behalf of the teens, or was it solicited by a lawyer from TikTok?

Regardless, it’s a silly take and I assume the person saying this doesn’t have children. These “challenges” are pervasive; I’m constantly receiving notifications from my children’s schools that someone has hurt themselves attempting a TikTok challenge and some item or activity is now banned as a result. Right now it’s the “one chip challenge” and a bunch of kids from just one school have made themselves violently ill as a result. I think the last big one was “vandalize the school bathroom”.

It’s also silly to call it “a specific video”, as the challenge videos are a trend. They’re very popular on social media and past challenges have a multiplying effect on the likeliness of future videos getting participation.
Unfortunately, both for fracking and renewables, technical problems are the least of your concern when you want to build anything in Germany.
Yeah I'm a little skeptical of how much this goes on (outside of a handful of specific industry thought-leaders who aren't moving the needle on hiring costs), but this is a good example because if this is worth doing to companies in terms of their bottom line, then it's almost by definition _not_ over-staffing.
I'm going to have to read that book, because that's exactly the path we're going down. Without geoengineering, we're looking at a world probably ~ 4c warmer by 2100, and when developed nations start feeling real pain, I guarantee you this will be tried.
20 years on FF here, I just switched recently for the exact same reasons as you. I got tired of their antics (not political, just goofy stuff like Pocket) and feature cuts. I tested every browser available, and came down to my preferences being Edge and Brave. Can't say I had an inkling of attraction to Vivaldi, Opera, or any of the rest.

I'm currently using Edge with uBlock Origin Lite. I can't tell the difference between uBO and uBOL. AdGuard MV3 also seems to work fine but I've used uBO so long that I'm sticking to it out of comfort.

That said, I keep Tor installed for as close to perfect privacy as possible. It feels academic though, as everything I do is pretty pedestrian and I generally avoid Google's services. I do prefer Edge to Brave, there's many features that I like here, but it's my backup plan if somehow Edge's adblocking doesn't work as well as it does today.

Even though I don't use it daily, I promote Brave to anyone that would normally be inclined to use Firefox. Otherwise, I push native browsers for all the inherent advantages they have. For me that's Safari on iOS and Edge on Windows. There's no doubt that built-in adblockers like Brave has is the future, they're just ahead of everyone in many ways. For me, Brave is what Firefox should be by now, in all regards.
Adobe Flex Builder and AIR runtime.

Building desktop apps and hybrid desktop/web apps in the same language that could talk to each other for the first? time was so much fun. I built some cool apps.

Have been dying to build a desktop app again and dig into what the js or other world has to offer but haven’t had time.
It’s never been safe to leave a car with valuables in big cities. That’s not an SF thing, and even if one insists it’s an SF thing for the sake of argument, it’s not a new SF thing it’s been like that for decades.
I suppose the Python side is a strawman then - who would do that for a small dataset that fits on a machine? Or have I been using shell for too long :-)
Clickbait headline, better headline: A California cannabis company is being sued by two local consumers for allegedly lying about the potency of its products.
Completely agree with you. My point was that for the majority of workplaces, the choice of introducing or not such invasive tracking tech belongs to the employer. Employees sadly (at least to me) may not have much say in it if Meta puts together a convincing platform for employers.
What Xi Jinping’s third term means for science
>> "Use set -o errexit"

> Only if it doesn't matter that the script fails non-gracefully. Some scripts are better to either have explicit error handling code, or simply never fail.

Then handle those errors explicitly. The above will catch those error that you did not think about.
Outside of gaming ... I don't understand who the current efforts in VR are FOR?

There was an arstechnica article about Carmack giving a speech about the state of VR.

Apparently he was dismissive of some controversy regarding avatar details. And was disappointed that they weren't yet at the stage where they could hold "arena-scale support with thousands of avatars milling around".

Who wants that? I don't want to put on a headset to sit in the nose bleeds of some virtual world with Zuck or Carmack ... that only seems to appeal to: 1. Developers making the cool thing work. 2. The person on stage talking who gets to just put on a headset to appear before thousands of people.

That's it.... who are these efforts all for?
And VR will continue to suck if it remains tied to Facebook, like the Oculus stuff.
When Johnny Crackhead leaves the store with a garbage bag of loot, the officer goes to arrest him, and the guy offers some level of resistance. He gets wrestled to the ground cuffed and arrested.

The guy getting arrested files a brutality claim, and the cop is jammed up for a few days with pay. Because the garbage bags of shampoo and shaving cream are <$1500, it’s petit larceny, and the DA won’t prosecute. So the guy gets printed and released assuming no warrants.

When the cop gets off of the leave, the sergeant sits him down and says “Hey asshole, officer bob over there missed his kids concert covering your dumb ass. The lieutenant is pissed because you’re burning his budget.”

Police aren’t idiots and faced with knee-jerk policy, they take the pragmatic approach - do nothing. Same thing happened with shootings. Pre 1990s, people pulling knives on officers would get beaten with a club. Lawsuits/liability made it more pragmatic to leap to lethal force.
I posted that video to HackerNews, it was very good but had a very low key title.

I probably have to watch it again since I can’t remember what it was about.
Ah, the ol' earth has been as warm or warmer before claim. This is true - absolutely true, but it misses one critical, I daresay crucial, point: earth's climate has never changed this rapidly in the past few million years. It's the rate of temperature change that's the problem, not necessarily the actual temperature itself since, as you've pointed out, earth has had these temperatures before. Given time, the biosphere will respond positively. If not given sufficient time, as measured in geological time units, the biosphere responds poorly. That fact is the crux of the problem. Also, with regards to your claim that earth was warmer 8,000 ago, that's a bit nuanced. You should check out this article for more details. https://reason.com/2013/03/07/earths-average-temperature-low...
Interesting question. Are there any restrictions on the relationship between t and n, i.e. can I have 1 <= t <= n? I had a thought for solving your problem but it might not work for arbitrary t.
Once-in-a-Generation Wealth Boom Ends for America’s Middle Class
How is it a 'trick'?

Building a wind turbine isn't shuffling emissions anywhere.

Neither is solar. Or a more efficient boiler, or....
"Carte blanc opportunity to deliver violence on anyone you hate"

"Must make split second life and death decisions, and you've qualified immunity to protect you even from deliberate wrongdoings"

There was a good Radiolab episode on training that police are given on how to convince juries that they were afraid for their life when they fired their weapons, because the law gives them immunity in that case.
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Your 'controversial opinion' is incorrect.

We live in a world where THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE. Not withstanding the negative environmental, social and psychological effects that advertising can have .. I simply don't care to live in a world where I'm sold products and services 24/7.

"Then pay for the content!" .. fully subscribing to every publication I read isn't viable; financially or practically.

How is anyone expected to navigate a world where there is no alternative?

More importantly, if we follow "don't use websites with ads" logic, we could also logically end up with "don't live here if you don't like the politics".

The way the world is shaped, should be a conversation .. I categorically refuse to put up with a world view that's been put upon me by a bunch companies I had no part in choosing or guiding.
you use some static analysis tools like phpstan and psalm - I personally use phpstan and it helps a lot. Obviously you must use all the type hinting where possible and use annotations where the native ours are limited
I've been using DDG since the first outage. Works almost the same.
It depends on the team workflow, php can be very relaxed or very strict about types, to check correctness when you pick strict modes you have tools like PhpStan, but you can also verify correctness with PhpUnit
Still holds true for instagram, ad revenues will be down as a matter of apple limiting info, basically nothing has changed between since this article came out, there are others if you care to google for them https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-blames-apple-10-bil...
If you're doing development for a VR application it's the way to go. Having to put the headset back on repeatedly to check out a change is annoying. I'd prefer all my meetings to be in VR as well since zoom is such a soulless and anti-social experience. My current work setup involves a 43" TV used as a main monitor so I can actually have enough room in the Unreal Editor to do shit plus 2 more monitors on the side for reference and other tools. I'm thinking of adding a couple more monitors since I still have to juggle windows sometimes. Being able to just have as many monitors as I needed at any one time positioned and sized perfectly would be a dream. Even when I'm doing non-VR development work I believe I'd benefit from this. The dealbreaker is how comfortable the headset is, I haven't tried the Quest Pro yet but it looks like they're moving in the right direction for comfort.
PHP has static types.
PHPstan (or Psalm) catch any type safety issues for me. I use types extensively in my PHP code.
> But most of customer support is "they didn't read the docs/googled hard enough" type.

I'm a strong believer that those are UX issues which should be addressed in the product as well. I'm aware of the Rick Cook quote and while I don't disagree, if your product requires educating the general population in how to use your tool it's likely not going to work too well and you're going to have more support issues.
Use the type checking features of the language. They may be optional, but they exist.
Seems that we are already 1C degree above preindustrial levels.

https://theconversation.com/what-is-a-pre-industrial-climate...

Doesn't seem unlikely that temperature will increase 1C more. Wonder if it's going to be just as destructive as the first 1C of warming holocaust?
I have worked on a large PHP monolith with 100+ devs. We rarely had any major bugs make it to production. I think unit tests really helped there. Of course, having QA department helped a lot too but unit tests are first line of defense.

And we also used all other best practices such as PSR code formatting standards, linters, code reviews, etc.
Covid was it’s gleaming opportunity too.
I am sorry, was it you that wrote "I don't think they were saying there was a legal agreement, just a moral and social one. It's like taking all the eggs from an honesty box outside someone's house - you didn't sign anything saying you wouldn't, but it's pretty clear you're in the wrong."? If that’s not putting moral and social burden onto tracking blockers, I don’t know what is.
The problem is not capitalists or communists or whateverists. The problem is sociopaths in power. Until we, collectively as a humanity, won't start regularly vetting people in power for the mental disorders, of all types - genetic, old age, chemically induced, regular mental illnesses etc. we will continue to suffer. And political compass of they day won't matter at all.
Won't that lead to the facebook issue where the incentives are for facebook to not show anything that isn't boosted? And you ahve to "boost" your posts jsut so people who follow you can see them over teh other boosted ones?
>You can not ask for cloud-enabled conveniences, as well as bug fixes, security updates, and product improvements for years to come for a one time fee.

Of all the products I own, this one has delighted me like no other - specifically because they are constantly updating the SW for free. I have bought every HW release from them for over a decade now:

https://www.fractalaudio.com/iii/

From the site:
"Fractal Audio set a new precedent for the industry with the philosophy of free updates. Historically most companies have been content with one or two firmware updates over the life of a product (usually to fix bugs), or even charging a fee for updates. At Fractal Audio we believe a digital audio processor is a platform that grows as our knowledge and expertise grows. Just as personal computers receive frequent updates to improve performance and add features, we steadily release firmware updates to improve the capabilities of our products.

The Axe-Fx II series received no fewer than 29 major (and dozens of minor) firmware upgrades over its life cycle. The Axe-Fx III is designed with the same anti-obsolescence in mind."
I like C4 for system design overview and sequence diagrams to show detailed process of interactions in one particular scenario.
I found these two the most useful for me.

I also like to write diagrams as code with https://plantuml.com/sequence-diagram cause you can then add it to git and easily version it. Also, a lot of tools on the market have support for PlantUML
That's cool!

Thanks for sharing it!
Is this a substantiated claim in any way?
Ask HN: Ok, Who Works at Bungie?
I'm asking this here because it seems like there arent any good search results for this question, but I swear I saw some bungie commentors on here in the past.

I have a friend who constantly gets exotics (approximately 1 per hour playing heroic nightfalls) in Destiny 2. Another friend and I have never had one drop (only given in storyline/quests rewards) after 50+ hours of play, including playing dungeons and nightfalls with this other friend.

I'm wondering if there are individusl player factors that heavily weight drop rate... or if the universe just hates some people more (aka how can a randomization algo sustain these sorts of streaks without individual player factors)?
No, this is the rapid realization that “absolute” free speech is not protected in the US, or in any legal jurisdiction.

When you buy a company and now have skin in the game, idealism turns into realism.

It’s a good lesson for anyone that follows anyone that doesn’t have skin in the game but is just pontificating. These rabble rousers seek attention which is converted into money. All while not providing a product or service but just selling you the privilege to listen to an untested idea that they have no intention of implementing.

“Absolute” free speech is a popular catch phrase. It’s also illegal:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_ex...

Musk has skin in the game with many of his endeavors and they’ve worked out brilliantly.

But, it was clear to see from day 1 that “absolute” free speech was a pie in the sky idea that he couldn’t possibly implement legally or palatably.
That's not how NSLs work.
High-severity vulnerability in GitHub was susceptible to Repo Jacking
On the subreddit for Magic The Gathering, people unfamiliar with Magic regularly ask what to buy someone who into Magic as a surprise gift. The top voted answers tend to be gift cards to their local game shop. I think this applies to all of "those X friends". The thought is always there from the giver and the receiver gets to pick out what they want from their local shop.
I admittedly haven't looked very hard, but the current push towards overall reduction and renewable sources (solar, wind) and long-timescale sources (nuclear) feels like much less of a trick than CO2 sequestration. Last time I checked, most sequestration efforts involve some kind of logistical sleight of hand (like ignoring the energy required to crush and spread out rocks, or the fact that most seedlings don't grow into mature trees).
because it's Google
DDTS is almost CSS free.

https://ddtp.debian.org/ddtss/index.cgi/xx
I can give you a bunch of things that can't be simulated in a container:

* Boot problems, such as: GRUB config/install errors, kernel parameters, init startup errors, blocking processes

* Many network scenarios, such as: PXE issues, multipath, load-balacing, anything requiring configuring network interface settings, firewall configuration.

* Resetting an unknown root password

* Booting directly to bash

* Filesystem mounts through fstab or systemd mounts

There's probably more I could think of, but I think that's a good list.
Hmm. I'd only thought of "factoid" in the sense of the B definition:

> a little-known bit of information; trivial but interesting data

It hadn't occured to me until seeing it used here that it also suggests something resembling fact that isn't necessarily, which seems to be the original meaning.
(2020)

> Second generation reMarkable 2 was announced on March 17, 2020 (…) and sold in batches since mid-2020 for 458 €/US$ including the pen.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remarkable_(tablet)
There is no chance of removing existing CO2 from Air to make any sort of difference.

There is no chance of meaningfully reducing CO2 emissions, because outside of Nuclear (and hydro/geothermal but only if you have the geography for it) there is no alternative to replacing fossil fuels. At some point the public will realize the lie of solar/wind as a replacement. We lost 50 years of greatly reduced emissions had nuclear power continued to be rolled out at the same rate as it did in the 60s/70s.

There is possibility of geoengineering (e.g. emitting some sort of sun-light reflecting gas into the atmosphere to cool the climate) but that suffers from a potential "law of unintended consequences".

It seems like we're going to have to deal with it.
Noone wants shitty VR, which is what current generation VR is.
I only did it on new pc's that had never been in customer's hands, not existing accounts. If computers came in for repair I didn't touch the settings.
Eh, this is true but I dont think its because of the programming model of bash. I feel like this is conflating the *nix ecosystem with bash. If every programming language was configured by default and had access to standard unix tools with idiomatic bindings, Shell's advantages would be greatly reduced. You still get a scripting language with some neat tricks but I don't think I would reach for it nearly as often if other things were an option.

And sure sure you can call any process from a language but the assumptions are different. No one wants to call a Java jar that has a dependency on the jq CLI app being available.
Ok, but what about the other 95% of emissions. We could just ignore what Russia does and still make a big impact.
Cisco AnyConnect Windows client under active attack
Answer: An open-source knowledge based community software
Poor people take public transit, drive small cars, ans buy less. Obviously not by choice but this tends to be much more environmentally friendly.

Middle class Americans drive lifted pickup trucks without using the main functionality. That harms the environment
It's not replacing fossil fuels, merely freeing them for other uses. In fact it's even common now to build wind turbines around coal mines to produce power to extract coal...

We must reduce our fossil fuel consumption in absolute numbers. So far we're merely adding more energy resources; that way political and corporate PR representative can make triumphal announces about how we're reducing the part of fossil in our energy mix... But we need to reduce our fossil use overall, and REALLY REALLY FAST.
I don't know what code their sites will send my browser until they send it. But I do know that my browser tells them not to track me in its initial request, so they are free to send me away and not let me "in the door".

But they don't, they let me in despite me being very clear that I am entering on the condition that they don't track me, so here we are. They don't get to pull the surprised-face card when I then proceed to not let them track me.

Adjacent to that, I think a "I'm not going to display your ads" or bluntly "don't show me ads" header would make perfect sense and yet I'm quite sure that webmasters would treat it the exact same way that they've treated do-not-track.