skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's conio.h (console IO), which used to be very popular on DOS for TUI apps (think edit.exe).

It's probably more straighforward to use than curses:

https://opensource.com/article/21/9/programming-dos-conio
i would also like an answer to this. Unfortunately it is getting even worse as I age.
I like where they are going with this but I think they should have embedded it in a type of lens system where you might shine high intensity light on one side and project the micro-etchings onto another surface rather than require a microscope.
Block 309 : Chess Symbols

Wow, Unicode seems to be expanding way out of the original goal of representing written characters - how often would these symbols be even used? And how many font sets would bother including them?
I have used Midjourney to create a wooden jigsaw puzzle for my wife
Watermarking. From an outsiders perspective, the issue appears to reaching consensus on how this can be implemented (but not in the technical sense). There's a game theoretic challenge in that if models define and publish detection mechanisms, this creates a motivation for people to use other systems that don't include this.

On the technical front there's a good paper here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.10226.pdf, and a nice very approachable video explaining it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZJc1p6RE78.
they shot the balloons as theater to show they are tough on balloons after the political opposition started hassling them about the balloon, I wouldnt call it a panic
Don't worry so much about it. Really. Stop worrying. Allow it to just be and surround you as a fact of life.
How the biggest fraud in German history unravelled
Typical Bristol Post article then.
Packetframe: Open-source CDN for technology enthusiasts
+1 to this.

They've discontinued Steam Controller quite a long time ago, but it is perfectly supported with the new Deck/BigPicture UI.
That would also imply they were specifically looking at lab protocols to determine if there was a possibility of leak and perhaps not fully evaluating the likelihood of other origins which would be outside their expertise. The CDC/NIH/WHO operate loads more labs and also employ loads of epidemiologists.
> nevertheless, Polish is written in a Latin script (for about a thousand years) and so I "can read Polish to some degree"

No, reading and being able to decipher script is different. I can read portuguese, spanish or italian (even romanian) to some degree because the languages are close enough to each other but I can't read polish, basque, finish or magyar despite them using the same latin script
Filmmaker Wong Kar Wai, who botched his recent remasters, and explained it with nonsense like

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”

“It is impossible for us to dance exactly like we did before. What has really changed is not the films but the man on the floor.”

and “The point of our restoration is not to confront or resolve any problems, but to keep the tree that holds these whispers well and healthy.”

Sigh.
> Clojure makes those exact changes you mention

roughly 25 years after Common Lisp introduced first,..,tenth, and rest
The sex lives of medieval women
Ok, these are all good points, thank you for sharing it. Just as the ones by WJW.

More broadly my underlying point was more as "don’t blindly follow the herd obedience".

If there is a small black box in multi-million generator stream process, no one of course want to be the guy unplugging it just to see what happens.

On the other hand, if really no-one knows the real impact of such a black box, given the resources at play, risk management should induce an audit and possibly a replacement management. To my mind that sounds very different from "no one know why this thing is there, those who dare to ask will be chastised with a burden of proof to carry alone".
I suspect you could remove the word "Data" from that title sentence and it will still ring true to many people.
The Science on Masks and Face Coverings: A Scientific Review
Go on, don't leave us hanging. Any suggestions on a workout to strengthen the muscles?
Only in passing.
The article provides a comprehensive guide for creating email templates in Microsoft Outlook, making it a valuable resource for anyone looking to streamline their email communications
Correct output will be desirable. If you feed nonsense either human or AI generated you might break it.
I think op meant they were carrying a portable tablet like monitor anyway (not a 27inch monitor and stand :).
With examples like that, I can't blame you at all for being skeptical. Architects should definitely deliver POCs and/or reference projects for totally new stuff.
many game offer an option that you can pay for remove advertisement.
> India-like verified identity scheme

What are you even on about?
To me it doesn’t mean either of those things. It means whatever it is serves as the basis of the thing. Evidence-based practice is based on evidence, it doesn’t comprise or consist of evidence.
Coran is traditionnaly taught in arabic even in non arab countries. Also I have no idea how these country can read or decipher arabic in general, I can guess where these number come from
Hilarious. This is what Strauss and Nietzsche and Bronze-Aged Pervert all claim as well. “Writing for the few who can hear” https://johnganz.substack.com/p/the-super-duper-men

What a joke.
As a former owner of a Steam controller:

Do games just work like a console? Or do I have to mess around like on a PC?

I’m old, and don’t have time to game. I don’t want to spend 20 minutes of the first hour in a settings menu.
nothing really to do with devrel skill level, just a noted pattern others before me have already observed. hn is a community of technical early adopters that care more than the average social network about substance. so likely to be earlier than most other signals in recognizing up and coming success particularly in the tech domain.

as for shortening... i'm writing https://dx.tips/ and have a couple of related posts coming up on that
> you're not going to get that

If you believe what the organization does furthers your purpose, then you are going to get that, although I agree that the day-to-day feeling may not be that "purposeful".

> Non-profits have ridiculous, completely unachievable goals

There a gazillion kinds of non-profits; some do, some don't.

If your non-profit is the town museum management foundation, you have a perfectly achievable goal (it's right there in the name).

If your non-profit is "the coalition to end world hunger", then maybe not so much. Then again, even such a non-profit might have the actual, stated, legally-filed goal of delivering food aid to areas in the world hit with natural disasters like floods or drought - and that's not an achievable goal in the sense of being ever done with it, but it is achievable in the sense of being able to do just that continuously.

> So what's so great about a non-profit tech job?

That there is almost never the situation of a huge pile of closed-source code developed internally which you have to live with; and no custom expensive hardware. So typically you need to both rely on, and contribute to, free software that basically anybody can use.

> Seeking to have "impact" through a data job at an average non-profit is naive

On the contrary. There is great potential of technological impact outside the organization due to what I said above; and there is potential for impact on what the organization does, because it's often more fluid, and using data, you can make convincing arguments about steering activity in a different way - appealing to your colleagues desire to serve noble purposes.
I joined Inmos in 1982 and worked on the transputer CAD system as part of a small team led by Miles Chesney. One of the things that seems remarkable, in retrospect, is the fact that we (the Microprocessor Design Group) designed not only the end product (processor, language and development system) but all of the tools used to design them: CAD system, graphics workstations, networking software, text editors and so on. I can't recall a single case of a software (or hardware) tool that was externally sourced. Whether this was an admirable trait is another question but it certainly made for an exciting life.
I’ve been doing “big data” in the retail space for almost a decade now and it’s pretty clear to me how it affects the bottom line. It really can be as simple as “we need more of this milk” and “the spicy queso is very popular”
Andy Holmes is the original author of gsconnect.
> Exactly if you aren't comfortable with the idea that glyphs are distinct and order can be assumed to matter.

But isn't that exactly what it's just telling you? The order is important and if you see this very simple pattern it's wrong.

If you read any latin character based language then you surely must be OK with the idea that glyphs can be distinct? Are there many people who exclusively read languages where the order of symbols is not important?

> There's a side note here, that dyslexia can become apparent in very different written languages.[0]

If the point is that dyslexia means some people can't see the difference then that's fair, I'd not come at it from that angle. I don't see any surprising pre-assumed knowledge in this IJ/JI distinction however.
"I wish mine was OLED too but I was thankful it wasn't when I had to keep it on for hours to download games. I could look around for a screen-off tweak but I didn't have to worry about pixel burn-in."

Is this a real concern? I have a 55" 1st gen LG OLED and haven't had any issues. The tv is now 7ish years old and still delivers an amazing picture.
Last time I saw a rabbit win at a track and field event the organizers were very happy to play it up. They had hired the rabbit to make it a fast race. When the stars didn't bother to run, it was they who were at fault, not the rabbit for finishing.
That is a great site indeed.

Here are a few from my bookmarks list:

http://www.geofex.com/

https://www.runoffgroove.com/
(this one also has audio clips)

https://www.diystompboxes.com/wpress/
Consoles are sold at close to loss or even at loss sometimes, inflation has certainly affected their plans.

Microsoft has also increased the price of their consoles in some territories. Meta also increased the price of the Quest 2.
So what's the point then? 250ms is enough to literally send traffic to the other side of the world. So why bother with edges if you can just have a single server where most of your customers are and get the same latencies?
I've tried that on like 3 or 4 different sites and it didn't work for a single one
Creating Technical Presentations with Vim [video]
The next generation of gaming platforms is really going to be heated. We basically have two philosophies in the field now. The Switch and the Steam Deck sacrifice high end hardware for portability and versatility. The PS5 and XSX are about as portable as a LAN party, but can theoretically push 4k@120hz for the cost of a graphics card.

Is there room for everyone next gen? Each of Valve, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have the expertise to field a machine serving one or both philosophies. But I don't think the customer base is there to support so many consoles. Which configurations will we see?

Is the next Switch as popular when the indie games can release on the much more open Steam Deck instead? Will Microsoft choose to compete with Sony, or with Valve? They've always been after Sony's market, but Steam Deck puts them on defense.
Be wrong as fast as you can
Being a data scientist is what I imagine being a lawyer is for idealists who go into the profession. They think there is an underlying reality that holds bad actors to account—for attorneys, this is the institution of “The Law”—but, in fact, most of the job is helping those bad actors justify what they already wanted to do anyway.

And just as most legal disputes end in settlements, most data scientists are excess capacity, kept around because the programmers who will put up with typical dev nonsense aren’t smart enough to hit the high notes… when the fact is that said high notes only need to be hit very, very rarely in business. Being a corporate lawyer comes down to intimidation—no one wants to face off against Apple’s team of lawyers—and 99% of being a corporate data scientist is talking in maths to impress (or defraud) clients and investors.
Ask HN: What's the best way to launch an easy no-fuss personal blog in 2023?
I was just curious what the thought-process for HNers would be to spin up an easily maintainable personal site right now.

Trying to err away from anything on a platform (Substack etc). Would you still reach for Wordpress or would a static site generator be the way to go?
Can't wait to read an appropriate version of Huckleberry Finn.
if all catholics were taught the bible in latin, you could make the assumption (true or false but reasonable) that all catholics would be able to read latin to some degree.
It has one of the worst screens of any handheld gaming device I own. I prefer my Switch OLED, but will be very excited for a future version of the Steam Deck with a screen that isn’t utter garbage. I understand some people don’t mind, but I just can’t immerse myself into the games I play with that bad of a screen.
I am not a lawyer from China and I doubt many posters here are either.

When you have imperfect information, trying to understand a complicated world can never be perfect, but we all still do that anyway because we have to. There's no other way to reason about the world because we're always going to have imperfect information about so many topics.

But I can use my limited knowledge of China, and a reasonable understanding of human nature, to understand that the polling methodology seems unlikely to yield trustworthy results.

Until proven otherwise, I think it is a perfectly reasonable to think that people in China who might deal in some quasi-legal trades wouldn't be perfectly honest in a poll due to concerns about what might happen to them if they admit to something that might be seen as illegal.
- OLED would be nice to have (though it has no impact in comparison with ps5) (same for HDR)

- Lack of dependency to windows and dumb windows11 requirements is specifically what makes Steam Deck “ultimate” (or maybe some less absolute term); some stuff has negative impacts via Proton, some stuff runs better via Proton than Windows

- There is no higher performance mode for docked because that would be an arbitrary limit to handheld that valve does not impose.

- fancier haptics would be nice to have, but they're not really what could break the steam deck as a champion product

- as said elsewhere valve didn't “abandon” products in any similar sense to what Google has been doing; and is actively building on prior products

- deck-exclusivity would literally break trust in the mostly open platform that valve is pushing.

You're mostly talking about hype aspects that really miss on what makes the steam deck stand strong. You'd like it to be more like existing consoles, but it is strong precisely because it is not like existing consoles.
I’d love to buy one of these, but I don’t understand how keyboard/mouse games translate to a gamepad without software changes.
I hope there are suitable caveats around the Genesis text being mythology - I'd hate to imagine far-future generations scratching their heads at how otherwise technologically sophisticated people could image that this stuff was true.
Worthless would be great. I struggle to find tech jobs, especially in data, that aren't worse than worthless - i.e. actively making the world worse.
> Your text inputs still need to flow either left-to-right or right-to-left though? In which use case would this be useful?

Anything that doesn't require input - particularly printed ones where you can't just swap with a button. Signs, menus, etc.
One of the best purchases I've made. It's so much fun being able to squeeze a few gaming sessions here and there, without having to be in front of a TV.

It's not perfect. Maybe the battery could last a bit longer. Maybe it could be a bit more powerful. But who cares? It's a blast.
Do you know why levantine arabic is more used for dubbing ?
Maybe it's just a profession where cunts can thrive so he fits right in
Upgrades can be fun for end-users, like anticipating a new music album. And after feature complete there are features that can be added without muddying a product, e.g., adding plugin support, skins, additional language support, new platforms, performance improvements. And at a certain point in time it's reasonable to no longer make bug fixes in legacy versions.
Wow, I think it's truly amazing that it seems like ChatGPT is the only one in the room mentioning, that «creating a supportive learning environment, building relationships with students» is key to success. I haven't read Bloom's paper in detail, but to me it seems very obvious, that the relationship aspect of 1:1 tutoring is a huge factor in the equation, which (as the AI rightly states), cannot be replaced by better machines.
This is not at all weird. The world doesn't need 2 billion text layout libraries. It needs a very small number (probably not 1 but there isn't just 1 as is) that actually work, are easy for devs to use etc.

If 1 person does the job very well others don't have to. That's the way we make progress in software.
In the context of this discussion I was using STEM in the most general sense, i.e. maker spaces tend to be more STEM or craft and technology orientated, as opposed to e.g. literature, social sciences, etc. That should be clear to most I feel - informal learning environments don't provide degrees (almost by definition), so the rigorous usage of the term does not apply.
Executives at those companies understand that risk and set up all kinds of landmines to scare private equity away.

A simple example would be, they could put the IT support department under the "VP of Crypto" instead of under the "Director of IT". So private equity comes in and fires the entire crypto department because they assume it is useless and then find out that no one can get their passwords reset or computer replaced.

More complex examples involve finance. You could transfer stock in your company to a banker as collateral for a loan with the condition that if the loan is paid off early there is a 1 billion dollar fee. Taking a company private requires that the buyer buy all the public stock.
RAF Menwith Hill
more like a console, except for games that don't support gamepads at all - but then you will probably have someone who created a specific configuration for them, that's available for the game in question
If you don't at least occasionally arrive at heterodox conclusions ... and disappoint someone ... then you don't think for yourself. Therefore if the people you respect don't occasionally say disapointing things then you should expand your respect to include more original thinkers.

And if people you disrespect don't occasionally say worthwhile things you're probably discounting their words without really hearing them.
The article says the author has no solution to propose.

I do have a solution to propose. Accept subscriptions, but be very selective about the apps that you use. It's what I do — I happily pay the subscription fees, because this is the only way to sustainably maintain an app. And I'd much rather have a few really good apps than a plethora of half-baked ad-ridden garbage.

In other words, I don't have "subscription fatigue", I have "app fatigue": I don't want too many apps, but the ones I do want, I'd like to see maintained over the long term.
Healthcare services are a right in many countries. Sex can be put in a similar category. Just like lacking access to healthcare can lower the quality of your life, so can being alone and sexless. Healthcare services are a very intimate activity as well.

It's like saying that healthcare access with attractive nurses is not a right. It's not, but healthcare in many countries is a right.
I recently discovered that I’m a slow metabolizer of caffeine. Via my raw 23andme data.

https://you.23andme.com/tools/data/?query=rs762551

C/C genotype.

https://www.geneticlifehacks.com/liver-detox-genes-cyp1a2/#C...

Instead of coffee being a net positive, it actually takes caffeine 4X the time to process through my body and increases my cardiac event risk by 2X.

I can drink a cup of coffee at 8am and it still impacts my sleep the following night. My blood pressure remains really elevated (20+ points for systolic) the entire day.

All these decades I’ve been ingesting coffee thinking it’s a “net positive” - not for my genotype.

When the reality is I sleep like shit, my blood pressure is through the roof, I feel awful for a day or two of drinking a single cup, and it all makes sense now.

I miss my coffee kick, but the fallout from it all, I just don't think it's worth it anymore at this stage of my life.
Jekyll site hosted on Github. Will probably work for the rest of your lifetime.
Adaptive Texture Cache
It's one of those "How to get better at x? do x." things

for running, lowering your pace to "just above walking" speed will help you run much longer, and develop the muscles needed
The MTA has many many problems.

Perhaps the main root is that the governance structure diffuses responsibility. When the governor is asked about problems at the MTA she points out that she doesn’t have full control of the agency and that’s true. Nor does any other elected politician.

But if we go beyond the root causes and look at the proximate causes—yes, that includes understaffed and incompetent management, too many contractors picked and supervised via a terrible bidding system, lack of cooperation from other government agencies, excessive litigation costs—-but also union/civil service featherbedding.

The people that live here see municipal workers standing around doing nothing. We read about those gaming the overtime system and building secret clubhouses. We know about rubber rooms where teachers sit for years while the process to fire them plays out.

A famous New Yorker once wrote a book titled “Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining!” That’s basically how I feel about the unions in NYC.
see my other comment, is it surprising that physical attractiveness influences sexual pleasure?
AWS regularly cancels my invoices if they're under 1EUR, I assume precisely because it costs them more to do the transaction.
If the men are happy with the situation, then no, they don't need to change.

Are they happy with the situation? The "incel" movement leads me to say no (at least for a number of men).

But it's not that simple. There are a number of women who aren't happy with waiting until nearly 30 either. But what there seems to be is a mismatch between supply and demand. And in every case where the demand exceeds the supply, the price goes us. If you're 25, male, and want a relationship with a female, you may have to be a real catch.
Such as..? I've seen Kagi as linked in a sibling comment which I'll give a go.
A consultant's incentives are not the same as a government employee's incentives.
not really the only criteria, but an important one. See my other comment.
> Signals are implicit GOTOs in the sense of INTERCAL's COMEFROM.

What?

> guard

How does it help to have an inverted if statement? Not sure what is the point, can do without.

Goto isn't necessarily for resource cleanup. The common usage is as an early break from the currently executed block, to what comes after the block. Which is often cleanup code, but not necessarily.
Speaking of which, I wonder if ChatGPT would pass the Voight-Kampff test...
> I don’t want to spend 20 minutes of the first hour in a settings menu.

Get a console (PS5, Switch, Xbox), they cater to alleviating exactly that!
I use a 15" 4k one, but yes exactly that, light portal, super thin, detachable full sized keyboard on it and slip cover carrying case. Great as a second screen or to use the deck in desktop mode... Plus on airplane I can just use the deck as is to game and pass the time