skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have tried quite a few Pomodoro app and they are all good. Remember, it is OK to find your own time-break cycle and not stick to the standard Pomodoro. I'm more comfortable with a 50-10 cycle (50-min, then 10 for break). I don't care about the Pomodoro count or how many per day.

If you are working at home, I found that cheap mechanical kitchen timers are great. These days, I'm experimenting with an oversize hourglass. It makes no noise and no indication that it ended. However, the beauty I found is that if I didn't see the sand all over from the upper section, then I might been in a zone. When my mind gets back to distraction or normalize and see that the sand is over, I just walk around, have tea and get back to the next.

My personal experience and thoughts.
I'm not sure what you think "objective" means, but typically it means independent of experience. When you say "objective improvement," in what sense, independent of experience, is higher frame rate better? Obviously there are 2x the visual data because there are 2x the frames, but that's borderline tautological.
If a movie production wants a digitally produced thing to look like film, they can do that, to a degree that you can't tell the difference. So no, film doesn't look better than digital.
I'm skeptical, too, since a lot of things shot on film still went through a digital intermediate.

I think this is more about overall production aesthetic/budget/execution, than a film v. digital.
Trying to install it right now and wow it is taking some time. Running 'brew install Pango scipy' is taking more than 5 minutes(still counting). I knows its a one time process but still. The number of dependencies can be reduced I guess.
Do you understand how merge conflicts happen in the first place? If you are to be a senior leading others, you should be able to explain this to juniors so they don't shoot themselves in the foot.

Do you disagree that it's a fundamental tool to being a developer(today), or do you disagree that it's necessary to know fundamental developer tools to be a good senior developer?
shutterstock just introduced shutterstock AI partnering with dall-e

they will get it back quite quickly
I'm the same, I'll start coding and I'll stop for a second and it's been hours.

If I am finding it hard to focus then taking small short breaks helps me a lot
But if you look at the chart two years, you'll see how even if it's building up, it's still a steep drop compared to their high point circa in 2021.
> If you had a system with the same relationships as Imperial, but say all the weight units were of the form <prefix>pound, where <prefix> indicates the multiplier or divider to go from pounds to that derived unit, and the same prefixes were used also used with length units so lengths were all <prefix>yard, Imperial units would be a lot easier than they are now.
> The metric vs Imperial debate would then simply be whether factors of 10^n are better or worse than factors of 2^n 3^m.

I find the idea interesting, but it isn't about imperial vs metric, but about a base-(2^n) fantasy metric system vs metric. There is an appeal but of course it will never happen, neither will the imperial-unit world migrate to that nor will the metric world.
A case fan is around a watt[0] (0.6 - 6 depending on size and rpm) so I imagine it's in the ballpark, might even be a improvement.

[0]https://www.buildcomputers.net/power-consumption-of-pc-compo...
Ask HN: Why Python Django framework has so little references?
I recently used the documentations of both Django and RoR to build initial small projects for both in order to get a feel for each of these two monoliths. However, Ruby on Rails seems to have some extremely solid references including Airbnb, Twitch and others, why hasn't Django been updated to showcase, for example, how OpenSea uses Django for their marketplace? For such a reference-driven person like me, even when everything points for me personally to continue learning Django, this lack of references is putting me off. What are your thoughts on this?
Near as I can tell, a lot of the fraud is exploitation of the known and not yet solved ‘remote jurisdiction’ issue.

When someone is far away, and in a different jurisdiction, it’s hard to track them down and do anything to them.

Not likely to get better anytime soon, unfortunately.
Yeah there are a ton of offshoot projects that arose from Platform One for sure.
Sorry, I was also thinking of the same director’s City of Lost Children, which is 1995 and still has a teal/orange aesthetic. (Apologies to the French for using the translated titles.)

It looks like City of Lost Children was graded by Yvan Lucas via an analog process called ENR. Subsequently, Amelie was the first digital coloring he did, and, since it was before LUTs, his analog experience was crucial.

https://www.digitalmediaworld.tv/post/2917-colourist-yvan-lu...
I've seen a few demos of this concept https://youtu.be/akceKOLtytw
Yes, switch to Mac so you can get forced “Try Safari!” popups instead.
Is this any different in kind from the "visual blandness" of 3-camera TV sitcoms, or of prime time dramas?

Does it matter? It's a clean backdrop for a story.
** EXCEPT FOR SPLUNK ** (or applications which perform I/O on small bits of data)

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.3/ReleaseNo...

I have notes-to-myself which I can't find at the moment, but the TL:DR is know what you're doing. If you disable it make a note so if the server is re-purposed you don't hamstring an unwitting inheriting admin. I was up against the wall on a Linux indexer which was for mysterious reasons under-performing by a ridiculous percentage, all kinds of crazy latency, until I disabled the THP. This was years ago. If you disable, make it a systemd service so it can be discovered, people don't check /sys/kernel/ as a frequent place to look.

Edited: THP not TLB (the translation look-aside buffer).
No. Google gives you the source. ChatGPT does not.
I think you're setting an unreasonably high bar.

Christianity has a high degree of continuity with Judaism, but rejects important aspects of Jewish theology, such as Kosher and Sabbath-keeping. So while Christianity accepts large amounts of Jewish theology, and extends new ideas, it doesn't universally accept everything that came before it.

Similarly, Islam accepts large amounts of Christian theology (and indeed reintroduces some Jewish practice) and brings new beliefs with it, but doesn't bring every tenet along.

Admittedly Jesus' divinity is a very big part of Christianity to reject; but then, the idea of the trinity would be an equally big pill to swallow for a Jew ("hear, O Israel: the LORD your God is one").
In what way are they different?

It seems like a different description of the same thing.
It’s like they want us to hate them.

Microsoft Chromium, big deal…

What do they gain from use using it, browser tracking?
I recall thinking about this recently when watching a Netflix series. I'm far from a TV/film production connoisseur, but there's something about the aesthetic that makes it stand out. I wouldn't say it's better or worse, just different. With most things related to design, I'm sure the trends will shift over time as a means of differentiation. Perhaps, once AI video generation becomes more standard, we'll see entirely new production styles.
No, they blamed immigration, not immigrants. Stop using people who are hoping to improve their lives as a shield.
Also, attackers who are so diligent could often make more money not doing criminal things.
That tweet was crass, for sure. Surprisingly so for an adult who is also a professional, and what passes for a public intellectual in our sphere. On the other hand, I'm really not sure how you'd engage with someone holding a sign calling for decapitation. There aren't any points to discuss, really.

Tangentially, this is why Twitter has never made sense to me at a structural level, as a place where people go to discuss things. This exact interaction seems typical of what the platform tends toward: take smart people, reward them for making off the cuff quips, watch them act stupid.
Even chess grandmasters may rarely make illegal moves, but I doubt you can argue that they don't know the rules unless you also believe that humans can only learn surface statistics and not world models.
> does anyone else feel like using a pomodoro timer ruins any chance at intense focus during the workday

You don't have to use it for projects where you're naturally in flow and can maintain intense focus without productivity tools.

The Pomodoro Technique is for those who /get out of flow/ easily and can't be productive without taking breaks often.

I've used it, and it was for tasks where I was able to hold the state of a program's structure even when AFK for ten minutes. I've noticed lethargy and fatigue sets in every 10 minutes, since I'm usually chaired and my wrists have mild RSI which needs to be repaired via breaks.

There is a law of diminishing returns the longer you are stationed at a desk doing focused work. Your boss might not like all your breaks, but you can calmly explain 'It's science!' to them.
How is he weirdly pessimistic? He's consistently right.

Personally, I would be happy if there were fewer people moving into overheated areas. Every person working on crypto, quantum computing, AI, self-driving cars, virtual reality (among other things!) is a person who isn't doing something tangibly and immediately useful for society. And it's clear most of those people are in it for purely venal reasons: they want a big payday. It's not good to have so many bull shit artists in a society.
I saw The Pale Blue Eye on Netflix last night and thought it was very well done and aesthetically detailed.

But one example isn't a counter argument and I agree with OP's assessment. I just figured it was a production trend in general these days, with some outliers.
> Although I appreciate the work folks like Tom Brown do, the notion that he has actually rescued 1000 varieties is a bit of a stretch. An apple variety is only really rescued when it has found a home in commerce and some significant consumer base wants it.

This was a great article about someone putting in a lot of work to collect and sustain old apple varieties. I didn’t expect to come into the comments and find people gatekeeping the concept of rescuing old apple varieties, especially not on the basis of a lack of consumer demand. He has made these available to others who want them, per the article.

Come on, this guy rescued varieties from extinction. He’s not on a mission to restore their popularity among the general public. Heirloom varieties are fun and rare and unique. Let’s enjoy and appreciate this for what it is.
> The very fact that the Qing dynasty had effective immigration controls over a land they supposedly did not "control" or "rule"

I mean, they didn't. It was illegal for Han to immigrate there, but it happened anyway.
It's the same as with audio: Many people like the effects of common limitations of non-digital tech. Digital processes can choose to add these effects if the creators agree - but they don't have to. And just because something can be done with digital doesn't mean doing it is better (e.g. in audio, mastering for vinyl vs brickwall-masterings for CD releases)
> if the site at all influences what is shown to other users - essentially, moderation

Which is bizarre, given the legislative history of Section 230, whose entire point was to protect and encourage private censorship by sites and users.
Good point. I actually don’t have a huge problem with the “Netflix aesthetic”. I just try to mix in a healthy dose of older movies + newer indie movies to balance it out (think along the lines of Kelly Reichardt / Riley Stearns / Sean Baker / Lynn Shelton (RIP))
Why is digital trying to look more like film instead of the other way around?
Film looks better because it shows less information, not more information.

Gandalf's makeup and nose pores taught that to the moviegoing public.

Motion blur is a more common example.
Dutch could easily answer “I have no idea what you are talking about, son” and in other hundreds of similar ways.
Letting employers have a default of freedom of association was a mistake.
I have some bad news about programmers in every other mainstream language.

This confusion arises because “programming” is a broad, poorly-defined term. There are plenty of examples of projects which foundered because someone did what you described OR the inverse, because the underlying program is some combination of mismatched skills, incentives, and situations. There are people who’ve generated more business value with a labyrinthine Excel workbook than a room full of “real programmers”, and it’s always worth considering why.
A decimal value is just a form of approximate, decimal fractions.

Also fractions of metric values should be even better for the brain, if stuff does not cancel out as easily. so if you want to make the argument that not using a calculator is inherently better, its even better to not use a calculator using the metric system.
So we should all just hype things we don't actually think will happen (at least in a given timeframe)? Perhaps so we can get in on the grift as seems to have been the case in at least some cases with autonomous driving.

It's one thing to work towards ambitious goals. It's another to mislead people about what is realistically possible.
These Japan threads are always so fascinating to read. When pressed, everyone seems to roughly agree on two main ideas:

1. Japan has extremely low levels of many of the problems that we have in Western nations.

2. The reason WHY they're so unaffected by problems that arise in racially-divided societies with fluctuating gender roles, is because they are a deeply xenophobic monoculture society that restricts immigration and promotes traditional gender roles.

#1 plays into the common impulse on HN, Reddit, etc to dunk on the U.S. and the West in general. But #2 undercuts that, because Japan is far WORSE than us on many of the factors for which people dunk on us. They're MAGA Republicans with Pokemon!

People tiptoe around this without really engaging with it in depth. Either because the cognitive dissonance is too strong, or else they're afraid of what people will think if they look at it directly rather than askance from the corner of their eye.

For what it's worth, I'll take the messiness of modern Western society. Extreme fasciation with the Japanese way of life has always struck me as roundabout white supremacy or misogyny cloaked in a cosmopolitan facade.
it's happening already https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/ai/ai-characters...
> 24 FPS looks like garbage. Panning shots are a stuttery mess.

For what it's worth, I think 24 fps looks a lot better on my DLP projector—which has basically zero motion smearing—than on a standard LCD. (This is also assuming I've set my projector's refresh rate to a matching 24 hz.)

But I do agree higher frame rates are better.
GBP is a Google Business Profile.

Someone can create a bunch of them, using some evasive techniques to avoid Google identifying them as one person.

When people call asking for service, that's a potential lead. This info could be sold to a contractor.

The other piece is making the GBP compelling enough--through fake reviews, submitted by web browsers running on separate IPs--to have folks contact them.

More ambitiously, the person doing this creates their own business, hiring out service crews to do the work and capturing more of the profit.
How low frame rate looks is dependent on the display technology. It looks good when the the frame or pixels are displayed for a very short amount of time (like on a CRT or a film projector) or when the transition between frames is gradual (like on TFT and IPS panels). It looks not so great on an OLED screen where the pixels are continuously lit up and the transition is near instantaneous.
Not sure where you're going with that question.

Fundamentally the current accommodation of copyright has two main justifications:
1) Protect economic activity
2) Moral right to identify original author of a work

The point of ease of replication speaks to (1) fundamentally breaking. A human can only produce so much output compared to an AI system.

(2) is a much thornier subject, and not one I really feel qualified to speak on.
Even 48 is barely enough for panning shots to not cause headaches and nausea, I want at least 60. It’s only at 120 that diminishing returns really begin.
P&O famously fired a lot of people in the UK, a year ago, and immediately replaced them with agency staff.

This was widely considered to be fire and rehire, although the government position was that it was “just fire”. So companies are willing to skirt the intention of the law.
Just a current trend. You can watch older shows, wait a few years for the next trend, or watch shows made in different countries (not for netflix of course), if you like something else.
I guess they were counting on one of the moonshots to work out.
A tiny battery generates a very tiny amount of heat. Batteries have internal resistance, so charging and discharging is not perfectly efficient. Larger batteries generate much more heat by moving larger amounts of energy. Secondly, consider the relationship between volume and surface area. Volume grows to the power of 3, and area grows to the power of 2. A small battery naturally has a much lower ratio of volume to surface area than a big battery. With a higher ratio, it takes a lot longer for the heat to be lost to the cold because of how heat transfer works, and that's in addition to the larger batteries generating much more total heat energy. Thirdly, consider that the goal of an iPhone is to use as little power as possible so that your battery lasts as long as possible, which also means generating as little heat as possible. A grid battery does not have that same goal.

It is not a "hilarious oversight". Heat pumps are incredibly efficient these days even in very cold weather and there are ways to mitigate the heat loss, such as insulation. Grid scale battery deployments up to this point are typically already done in small structures, so the batteries aren't just sitting out directly in the elements. Obviously it's better if you don't have to do anything at all, but it is a very legitimate option. Every system will have some losses, no matter what. A very efficient heat pump could result in less losses than relying on the batteries to resistively heat themselves in extreme cold.

Just because it wouldn't work for a phone has nothing to do with how it would work for a grid battery, since scaling things up has a dramatic impact on efficiency for what we're discussing.

For how condescending your comment seemed to be, you seem to be missing a lot of basic points. Please give people the benefit of the doubt. I didn't come here to be a jerk to anyone, I was trying to help people understand things they seemed to be missing, but HN got super toxic over this topic. Some of this stuff is very nuanced and difficult to explain, which means that some people have no patience for it. If I'm wrong about things, or make a mistake in my explanation, I'm always happy to learn, but your comment was not attempting to teach anything.
Nut.js v3.0.0
> Crontab sounds nice but I probably can't give that to someone who has never used it.

Oh, no no, it's used in the background and the interface is nothing like it. Let me send you a screenshot of what the editor looks like. Feel free to steal it.

https://snipboard.io/Vsk60N.jpg

https://snipboard.io/c7wrKe.jpg

All this guy does is modify a crontab string in the background.
Try Singapore - what I would consider the model country. It’s what happens when a country decides that filthy cities with piss and feces everywhere, drugs openly being used in public homeless tent cities, and casual shoplifting not only tolerated but actually celebrated by some is not a measure of progress or w/e the hoards think it is.
There is you the individual and there is the group at work. I think this article is talking more about making decisions that impact the workplace.

Not all arguments between the individuals and the workplace translate because the workplace is a dynamic set of individuals. So any decision made for the workplace has to work for the people currently at work but also for future people you will onboard.
> Is getting a 40% pay cut worth

I didn't say we should get a 40% pay cut; that's a non-sequitur. I said we should improve working conditions.
What you're saying is equivalent to:

"Impressionism is objectively worse than realism. Look at a Van Gogh painting, there's hardly any detail. It looks coarse, and grainy and the brush strokes are so wide I can hard tell what's what. Starry Starry Night would be objectively such a better painting if he had just reach for a finer brush and included more detail. Adding more detail would have made it far more realistic, and thus objectively better"

You see your premised is founded on the false pretense that realism is the goal. The Cinema frame rate of 24fps (while not chosen to achieve this, but by a happy accident) happens to be at that perfect balance between too choppy and realism. It's just off from reality enough to trigger that "impressionistic response" in our brain. The same thing that happens when we look at a Monet painting. Out brains find impressionism appealing because it's specifically not what our eyes see in the real world. It's an interpretation. It's someone else's view of the world. More detail is simply not the goal.

24fps Cinema is impressionism.
Weakening Section 230 doesn’t just put dang at risk, it puts every HN user that takes an action which alters the visibility of content, like flagging.
Unison: A Friendly Programming Language from the Future (2021)
Looks like this was published shortly after GGPO was made open source in October 2019, along with a big wave of similar rollback hype. It has indeed become more commonplace in the last 3 years.
One is hyperbolic. One can believe that there is some bias against women without believing that they are treated as undeserving of having a career.
A "video representation" of the sabotage is still traveling through space and someone with a good telescope can pick it up.
If the chess grandmaster makes an illegal move, than in that moment, they are not playing by the rules. It's definitional.

The GM was, in that moment, operating by some other model to evaluate the board state, likely a pattern recognition/statistical model that did not fully evaluate the state of the board.

ChatGPT can, today, list all the rules of chess accurately. ChatGPT cannot play chess with any great degree of accuracy. "Knowing" the rules, in so much as the ability to list them out accurately, is not the same as following the rules.

There's no reason to believe that humans operate as rules engines in all things, and a great deal of evidence (as with your example of chess GMs making mistakes) that they absolutely are not. That human intelligence is itself partially, and perhaps even largely, statistical in nature.
> A less equitable world has Google or billionaires getting paid. A more equitable world has the artists.

Less equitable world has artists getting paid, in more equitable world, everyone can just use open-source AI tools like Stable Diffusion.
Academia folks love to hack on notation.

In a research lab I used to work in, my colleagues publishing papers could explain to me the core idea in 2 minutes and probably an undergrad freshman could also understand it. However, if you then read the paper covering the same idea, it would take hours to decipher a fuzzier version of the idea and a freshman undergrad probably wouldn’t bother reading it.