skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any more open standard than Pantone that expresses color properties across viewing angles/lighting conditions? Like in the 3d digital modelling space maybe?
I do literally all of those things but Mac Preview.
Film festivals?

I think you and I have very different ideas what a "beginner film maker" means. If you have never told a story using the medium of moving pictures you should not worry about film festivals, or ISO, or t-stop, or colour spaces, or major releases / distribution, or anything like that.

Go grab the stuff you already have. Try to tell a story with that gear. Show it to your friends. Did they like it? Awesome, keep at it. Did they not like it? Get better friends, or tell better stories. Improve your art and craft as you progress one step at a time.

People who worry about film festivals, but haven't ever put two frames after each other are delusional.

There is a tendency in a lot of people to think that they should not try to do things until they are somehow anointed by someone or something. They think they could make a film, only if they would have a professional camera. Or they think they could do it only if they get into a school where they become something they are not yet. This advice is for those people. Instead of waiting around to do something some day they should start now and start getting better with what they have today.
If someone works for a surveillance company in a non-trivial role, they are furthering the progress of surveillance. They can't wash their hands of it.
Not everyone has the right software for pro.
What would this actually involve? Simply not be available in the region app store?

Actively refusing users from India?
I realise that you are making an off the cuff example, and I agree with your basic point. However, in the places I have lived, the babysitter would be an independent contractor and thus responsible for her own taxes. Moreover, it is unlikely that she would be making enough money to exceed the personal exemption, and therefore, it is unlikely that she would owe taxes anyway. An argument could be made that she should collect and remit sales tax or VAT where applicable, but again, there are usually thresholds below which there is no obligation.

My point is that well run, non-corrupt, systems tend to have exemptions to make everything sane and reasonable. If these exemptions don't exist, you can believe that it is because the system is corrupt and not because they are trying to stop corruption.
If you pick up a pantone book and flip through it, they put their colors opposite CMYK equivalents. Sometimes they barely resemble each other. CMYK is optimally expressive, not maximally expressive. To make all the pantone colors requires a wall full of sloppy cans of paint to be mixed through a book of arcane formulas. To make a CMYK color, you need four cans of paint and four percentage values.

edit: anybody who thinks the gamut of CMYK is anything like the gamut of Pantone, try printing out something purple on your printer. I worked prepress, and trying to get a good CMYK purple is my idea of hell.
What nightmare situations have you encountered as a developer?
He's said a lot of things. He said he was going to fire 75% of employees and now seems to be walking it back and says he plans on growing the workforce over the next few years.

I actually do think he's going to succeed, but he's in a weird place, which I think means he has to change the rules into what it means to remake twitter. Like a debate where the winner is the one who best redefines the nature of the debate.

If he just cuts moderation he will lose users and be further than ever from an idea of a public square. If he creates better tools for self-moderation, I think he also somewhat destroys the core of what Twitter is. It seems that people basically use twitter for two reasons, hot takes and self-promotion. If you enable greater self-moderation then I think you lose the hot takes crowd. If you just remove global moderation and make it a free for all you lose the self-promotion crowd.

If you do what Jack Dorsey does and try to remove all advertising then it becomes a money pit. What makes twitter so complicated and expensive to run is probably all the graph infrastructure and algorithms that allow you to figure out how to connect people. If you remove that you solve a whole lot of problems but again, then Twitter just becomes a chat app. Without things become viral or shared communication a la "What's happening" I don't think Twitter is Twitter.

Which leads to: I really like Tik Tok and Tik Tok makes a shit ton of money, but Tik Tok is fundamentally not twitter. It’s the only social network where I rarely read the comments. It doesn’t _feel_ like twitter. Twitter feels like I’m connected to the whole world which feels chaotic. Tik Tok feels like I’m watching a custom local access network customized to my interests. Something like this, changing the philosophical UX of twitter is how you succeed. But then it’s not really a public square so.
You know perfectly why, as your comment history shows.
It is another league, not like back home in Portugal, where everyone does everyone little "favours", you cannot even get into some hospitals without a little help.
I agree that that is the "point of Markdown", but that is also not as relevant as how it is actually used.

It's one thing to use it as a better BB-code in chat programs, forums and on Github, as other comments mention. However, the article seems to be complaining about how it is used to write websites and articles even when patching the holes in Markdown end up being more of a hassle than just using HTML (that MDN screenshot looks horrible). That goes beyond the example you are talking about.

The other argument, that perhaps the issue with rich text formatting isn't the rich text formatting, but the fact that historically rich text formatting tools tended produce awful HTML, also sounds like there might be something to it (not sure if that's still true though). I cannot imagine that it would be that hard to produce minimal HTML that supports 90% of basic rich text needs one has, in a way that is perfectly compatible with any classless CSS framework you then decide to throw at the output.
Not every, but most of them are, either explicitly (by design) or implicitly (by not actually checking if it was made secure). We're talking about secure systems, not any system that could also be secure.
You can also make the road narrower and put obstacles on the road to force to reduce the speed: it is very effective, and very cheap to install with little technology.

Here is a typical example of narrow street with obstacles in Switzerland: https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8111357,7.1507033,3a,75y,167....
> Are we doomed to never have technically competent leadership?

Arguably it has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with philosophy of government. It makes some sense that people in government optimize for government's needs and wouldn't it be great (from the government's perspective) if the government could have an eye in everything so it could try to be everywhere at once?

Of course that's antithetical to a free country, but from a pragmatic rather than principled view from the top it's not as apparent that the country _should_ be free, especially once the US changed from a federation (power largely in the hands of the states with the federal government mostly focused on legitimately cross-state issues) to a nation (power largely in the hands of the federal government)
> The implication that you cannot have an industrious society without a level of corruption is not supported by your argument (nor any I have heard of).

I’m not exactly sure what you’re saying here, but corruption does exist everywhere. It’s just a question of how pervasive it is, how much it’s actually enshrined in law, etc. (E.g. campaign finance laws in the US essentially legalize corruption, which could perhaps be argued to be like decriminalizing drugs in order to better control them, although whether that’s the actual intent is debatable.)

The Corruption Perception Index and the Global Corruption Index might help get a sense of this. As is typical with such lists, the top performers (last corrupt) tend to be countries with smaller populations. With bigger populations, the risk and incidence of corruption increases.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021
https://risk-indexes.com/global-corruption-index/
I'd be sceptical given just how greedy corrupt bureaucrats can be.

There's not much to stop a crook being both officially well paid and totally corrupt.
Outside, I’m versioning blob or encrypted data. I’m doing that for my password ( using the awesome “pass” cli )
And some pdf with PPI. Picture are backup non encrypted so It’s around 100mo since years. Checking… Less; 78mo.

But git annex look nifty! The use case is large file? Correct ?
idk, i think it would be really cool if more companies started closing any remaining eu servers and just telling these regulators to go pound sand. DSA is anti-free-speech so no American company should in good conscience comply.

always funny how the same people who support working towards open communications in e.g. iran and china by ignoring their laws get mad when somebody suggests this.
> Fails to be funny

Is this official position of some jokes association? I wouldn't want to laugh at unfunny joke.
Only if has improved in the last 20 years since I lived in Geneva.
Apple’s 10th-Generation iPad’s USB-C Port Limited to USB 2.0 Speeds
So we're going to have a second great firewall now?
How does this work? I have way more muscle than my wife, but she can eat way more than me without gaining weight. It can't be just muscle mass?

How many calories does extra muscle mass burn daily?
"The real problems however arise with trademarked colours (think tiffany’s blue, whiskas purple, kinder orange, etc.) "

Is it a problem, though? The only limitation is that you can't use these colors to misrepresent a product a product in a commercial setting. You can't sell an item wrapped in Tiffany's Blue.

" That’s where you literally can’t use a colour in a particular copyright category. "

No, these colors are not protected under copyright, only trademarks. The limits on using them only apply to particular context of trade. You can use trademarks freely as long as they're not misrepresenting the trade item. You can paint with them. They can appear in your photographs.

What you can't do is brand a product with them.
I try to avoid gear fetishism but those chairs are classics for a reason.
The anti-EU brigade in the comments isn't exactly giving a good showing of its intellectual caliber, with the most common arguments being that EU representatives are unelected (true in the same sense that the president of the USA is unelected) and that regulation is impossible because Twitter is an american company (self-explanatory).
Sure, but it is another league, not like back home in Portugal, where everyone does everyone little "favours", you cannot even get into some hospitals without a little help.
My 20D from 2004 is still fully-functional, as is my Elan IIe from 1995.
Asciidoc looks really promising. Thank you!
There is an org-mode port in vscode. But I haven't used it. I use Emacs!
Is this sarcasm? Because it's misplaced.
Send me a mail, ( contact in bio )
I will send it to you.
Yeah but that isn't like back home in Portugal, where everyone does everyone little "favours", you cannot even get into some hospitals without a little help.
No, these pre-date this performance work. The original 100g work was done on a Xeon e5-2697a with NVME storage and no mechanical hard drives. I still use this class of machine as a benchmark to measure performance improvements
An Open Letter to Elon Musk – What about Freedom to Seek?
HTTP is not “based on teletypes”. That’s just nerd hyperbole for a technical choice they don’t like, for irrational reasons.
SlimmeLezer integrates your energy meter with P1 port seamlessly
> However, for server-side applications, Rust also presents some challenges. Rust programs are compiled into native machine code, which is not portable and is unsafe in multi-tenancy cloud environments. We also lack tools to manage and orchestrate native applications in the cloud.

Can’t roll my eyes hard enough at this… sure, there’s some level of truth in each part in isolation probably, but overall how it’s stated is essentially FUD.
Alas, not perfectly, but yes. All of my repos have readme.org, not README.md
Reminds me of the Sun repairman who would order extra parts here and there for customers, and ended up building his own machine.
I thought it was well established that recipes (incl - formulas, compounds, and prescriptions) can't be covered with copyright - so I'm assuming this only applies specifically to the pantone names, as listed in a compendium with other copyright material?
It's honestly a shame that a company so dedicated to making private chats universal is going to completely kill their entire reason for existing and all potential growth by removing SMS.
But that's an average. You may have gained much more in one year vs the others. Plus you don't need to notice 4g a day even if that is the level, once you have gained about 1Kg then you know that on average you need to decrease.
> I try to preserve my arthritic hands for higher value targets than trolling hacker news.

That's a good bio, keep it up !
As a European living in the USA, I'm always baffled by anti-EU sentiment in the USA (and by anti-USA sentiment in the EU).

That's it, that's all I wanted to say about this.
The author profiled in the piece, Nick Lane, wrote a really thought-provoking earlier book called The Vital Question. Addresses some similar points, esp the aspect where biologists have (understandably!) focused a lot on information theory since 1953 DNA discovery. But that they have neglected integrating understanding of energy. By integrating both perspectives, Lane and his collaborators have generated fascinating (and testable) hypotheses about how/where life began in the ocean as well as the sequence of steps that led to eukaryotes and eventually multicellular organisms. Plus has implications for why sex, aging, and death might have evolved! Highly recommend it.

Although a pretty good HS or early college foundation in redox chemistry is pretty needed to get the most out of the book.
It's an idiom. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lose_one%27s_shirt.

And anyway, if all I literally owned was a shirt and I literally lost it, I'd be pretty pissed about losing 100% of my earthly possessions.
Some programs need gigabytes of memory, and all CPU cores, for legitimate reasons.

I believe the actual problem here is the UX. Modern operating systems aren’t doing a great job communicating per-app resource consumption to end users.

I think that can be solved at the OS level. Operating systems actually collecting that data: various task managers, powertop, netstat, etc. But they fail to present these values in a way which would alert users.

If the UX problem is solved, users wouldn’t be using resource-heavy apps for long. Then software developers would be motivated to pick better technologies for their apps, and/or optimize their code.
This reminds me of the 'Library of Mistakes' in Edinburgh, a free public library which promotes the study of financial history.

https://www.libraryofmistakes.com/
Since around 2011, Apple has allowed you to download the “last compatible version” of apps from the App Store.

As of 2019 at least, I was able to reset my first ten iPad (2010) and redownload and use Netflix, Hulu, Crackle, Apple’s iWork suite, Spotify and play music that I had previously purchased from iTunes.
This is why I love trading. You cannot falter. It has changed my personality as well.
That's an incredibly well written article. What an educator.
Real neurons are far slower (interaction is chemical vs electrical) and far less precise ( iirc something comparable to 4 - 7x less precise than 32bit float) than physical neurons.
River longer than the Thames beneath Antarctic ice sheet could affect ice loss
"I think goroutines are preferable in that context because async/await is a much lower level tool that is easy to misuse, but when it comes to writing code with critical requirements of correctness and efficiency, you need async/await and you need Zig’s philosophy that we all should strive to write robust, optimal, and reusable software."

I don't see how this follows. Async/await is a disaster in every way, M:N threading (which Goroutines are an implementation of) is the way to go. Not only does one get sane concurrency but also parallelism. Look at Ada tasks and Erlang processes for writing parallel code with critical requirements of correctness and efficiency.
"Yeah, I think that's a big reason we've moved on from chatrooms to networks like twitter, where everyone creates their own moderated space"

You can do exactly the same thing on IRC... and IRC had that a long time before Twitter even existed.
> I struggled for years to get my weight down. Then just walking every day to ensure I was at 10,000 steps managed to move the needle in a meaningful way.

Part of this might also be about how exercise generally leaves you feeling pretty good, usually better than after a day that is spent entirely sedentary in my experience. A lot of people crave the instant satiating feeling of eating. Eating often feels good. The exercise might then help by replacing the "make me feel better" feeling that food might give you, leading to you swapping out "unnecessary" feeding and lowering your caloric intake in the process.
> DSA is anti-free-speech so no American company should in good conscience comply.

American's version of free speech*, as much as Americans want it to be true you can't apply US laws in foreign countries
I mean... that's a clear GDPR violation[0] if it's in the UK or EU. Do we know if this is still happening, and if so, how do we get the ICO involved in this?[1]

[0] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

[1] The EU GDPR sets a maximum fine of €20 million (about £18 million) or 4% of annual global turnover – whichever is greater
Enforcing the ban would be the governments job, not Signals.
A few years ago I worked at a "normal" (non-FAANG), small-sized (~100 employees) British company. One policy was that anyone could take a 6-month sabbatical every 2 years, of which the first 30 days paid as normal holidays.

I took advantage of that myself to spend time with my partner and 6-month-old baby, one of my best choices ever. I've worked at other small/mid companies with similar policies.

Long story short: in my experience normal companies often give more work-life balance than FAANG (or other corporate environments), they just don't hit the news as much.
This a common problem with abstract art. I have seen examples of rotations over various angles. I also have seen mirrored reproductions in catalogues and even the wrong work being reproduced in publications, especially when the works are from a series of similar works or when the final work differs but slightly from a study and a photograph of the study is used as a reproduction. Sometimes it is even not possible anymore to establish the original title of the work due all the confusion and mismatches. I know of two art museums in the Netherlands who both claim to posses the same art work from a series, while the works are clearly distinct. I think I know which one is incorrect, and I did point it out to them, but they simply refuse to correct the title.
In his statement he already indirectly distanced himself from this promise. [1]

[1]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728
Plume – a federated blogging engine in Rust
I think I don't get the point in this video. Could someone maybe share more context?
Get a fitness tracker.

Seriously.

People always use these online calories calculators. And they can be off my more than 500kcal a day.

That's more than the recommended calorie deficit.
I use an old NUC with a i5-4250U CPU on an Akasa fanless case and it's pretty great.

One of the tricks is to run a very thin and simple stack to get really low latency. No compositor, no DE, just a WM and X. And Ethernet.

It copes with Google Meet or MS Teams just fine, as well as any light development. I do all heavy lifting by SSHing to a huge workstation.

There are lots of nice options if one wants to purchase a brand new fanless desktop: Cirrus7, Tranquil, CompuLab, etc. And of course, fancy DIY with e.g. a Streacom case.
I've mostly removed Google from my life at this point.

The first email provider I switched to was Protonmail. I set up my own domain for easier portability in the future soon after that switch as well, which turned out to come in handy.

About half a year ago I switched again, this time to Mailbox.org. The only reason I made this switch, was due to Protonmail not supporting IMAP directly, but requiring their bridge application on desktop and their own mail app on mobile. With Mailbox.org I can use whichever IMAP/SMTP client I want now everywhere.
Maybe the root cause is different for different people?
RSS Support.

If not, make consuming twitter more like Reading RSS.
That NextCube-esque case is nice, might get one for myself :)
> It doesn't have to be accurate. Anything close is better than black.

No. Because that breaks design intent.

If the client and designer agree on "Pantone XYZ", then you can't just go replacing that with "something that looks vaguely like Pantone XYZ".

That would be a breach of the agreement between client and designer. It would also, as explained further up this thread, "its not that easy". "Pantone XYZ" is not "just another name for C:1,M:2,Y:3,K:4", its all about ensuring consistent reproduction of that colour across all desired substrates.
European commissioners aren't elected in any sense of the word, they're appointed by national governments. Even if the US president is elected via an electoral college, the outcome of that vote is very much driven by the popular vote - it's in absolutely no way comparable to the way commissioners are put in office.
Not quite the same thing. Yes everyone can create their own IRC channel. But in practice ... On twitter everyone tweets and blocks people.
Towards debuggability and secure deployments of eBPF programs on Windows
I don’t doubt the author knows a lot about this, but the case being made constantly has things that even a cursory reading highlights as nonsense. Like RISC requiring a high-level language compiler and operating system, while the dominant “RISC” chip on the planet originally had an operating system written entirely in assembly. And the technical distinction between “real” and “not real CPUs” quietly ignoring the fact that the 80s and 90s were completely dominated by “not real” computers.
A succinct argument against regulation
Elon Musk’s Twitter Will Be Chaos
I've tried numerous people's recipes and couldn't stomach it. Further evidence that there's great diversity down here.
I think as you age you want to eat more food not less, certainly with the standard American diet. I really haven’t yet found a solution apart from doing up a house myself, 8 solid hours of DIY per day and you’ll lose weight no problem. I lost about 10kg during that time without even thinking about it.