skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are optical illusions where you stare at a highly saturated color for a while and then close your eyes, seeing a negative of the image you stared at in your eyes.

Continuous color sensing is just one of the fictions our brains tell us unfortunately. If you play outside without sunglasses you will find that everything inside looks extremely dark. That's not just pupil contraction, although that plays a role. The photo receptors in your eye have a recharge rate, and very loud colors can exceed that. Your brain keeps adjusting to compensate but you can catch it via rapid changes, like closing your eyes.
For litigation use, even semi-regularly keeping a daily log can help to show independent development. That can help defeat claims of misappropriation of another party's trade secrets and/or infringing copying of another party's copyrighted material.

I mean, whom are you more likely to believe:

1) someone who — when being sued — said, oh, no, we didn't steal your technology, we developed this independently, or

2) someone who said the same thing and also had at least some contemporaneous documentation to corroborate the assertion?

(Incidentally, this is one of those areas where perfect is the enemy of good enough.)
Because what is good for the user and what is good for company revenue don't always align (at least in the short term).
Stardew Valley is the perfect example. It took an indie game developer to make a game with broad appeal.

What are these big studios even doing? Why didn't their customer research tell them that there's demand for games like Stardew Valley?
> Compared to discord which feels near instantly loads whatever server/chat you click on (at least relative to teams).

except Discord sucks when you try to browse anything while offline. absolutely no caching whatsoever on their Android client which sucks. i try to load up some items to read while on the plane before take off and Discord is one of the worst apps to use while offline. the reddit client i use (Sync), Twitter, Chrome etc. does a good job of caching its contents for immediate use. Discord won't even load channels on the server let alone any messages.
If this doesn't get to install fail2ban don't know what will.
I love what yabai is trying to do, but it does really suck for no fault of its own.
Yes, absolutely true. I wasn't really saying that not being able to buy a house is a good thing, but I did speak before thinking here.
Actually, Apple should consider making iMessage open source.

Given it is such a popular attack vector, it probably benefits the ios ecosystem to take the benefit of open source scrutiny. There are other messaging apps like Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram etc., So, it is not like a copycat would suddenly emerge and threaten Apple's position. Apple hold the keys to the app store anyway and can review any potential copycat (supposedly malicious one) and prevent it from being released.
Apple customers say it’s hard to get money out of Goldman Sachs savings accounts
Don't think the FB association is helping. Most things FB are uncool among kids these days, even Instagram.
Absolutely! I ended up getting the "Timmy the power gamer" unglued card and put it on a landyard :-P - but in reality I'm a mix: I'm in it for fun like Timmy, but less with big creature and more with deck building and creative wins with unpopular cards that rarely pay off, like Johnny.
Have they tried building homes?
My bet continues to be optical phenomena - that's why the orbs and other phenomena resemble simple geometric forms, rather than anything with complex structure, service irregularities, etc. Happy to be proven wrong, as this is the most boring explanation, but that's my current hypothesis.
AMD's AI software efforts are so trash WebGPU will be the first API you can use to run PyTorch on consumer AMD GPUs, not because AMD put some effort in, but because people want to run PyTorch in the browser. AMD could have ported PyTorch to OpenCL. Could have ported it to Vulkan. Instead they've made their own shitty version of CUDA that works on like 3 of their professional cards and nothing else. Maybe I don't understand something. That's the only sane explanation for what I think is completely baffling behavior.
"known reserves" not "known supply". Lithium is a very common element on Earth, so the known supply is many orders of magnitude more than we need. "Known reserves" is defined as those that are currently economically viable to extract. Which is why the amount of known reserves can grow drastically when the price increases slightly or extraction methods get cheaper.
Have your query as a function in the database. BEGIN, do the migration, replace the function, COMMIT. Postgres DDL is transactional so at no point does the function stop working.
> Yep, that's one approach, though that's just as hard to compile as one that is defined to trap and end execution on an out-of-bounds write.

> As I said up-thread, it's possible to define a C dialect without UB, it's just not what most of its users actually want out of the language, since on current hardware it adds significant runtime overhead.

So my core point is this: It's not UB that enables this optimization. When you ask "how can that optimization be legal without UB?", the hard part is "without UB" all by itself. If you have a language with UB, the optimization is easy to enable. If you have a language without UB, the optimization is easy to enable. That optimization is not an example of why we need UB.

There can be significant runtime overhead to remove UB, but it's not in service of enabling that optimization.

> Isn't QEMU both the machine and the compiler (EDIT: perhaps better-put, what's the distinction? They're both just the implementation.) The bytes only need to be unchanged on read from inside the program; if you compile them to something else, that's fine. Prolog programs can introspect with clause/2 and it doesn't cause trouble there.

Basically, I don't think "The bytes only need to be unchanged on read from inside the program" is true. If you're compiling machine code you're not in charge of the entire computer. The code might depend on other code looking at the bytes, and you won't be able to intercept that unless you do some kind of ridiculous rootkit takeover when the compiled program launches, creating a virtual machine and moving everything that was already running into it. And I don't just mean that in a theoretical gotcha sense, real libraries sometimes need to alter function calls in other libraries.
Yes, someone got a word list.
Shame it's a Chinese one.
Two such studies are cited in the paper

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23462271

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26372583
And SSH key only login
> There is a strong "what were they thinking" behind this because we found out very early on that this virus didn't spread on surfaces, by spring 2020.

Is this a true statement? If so, do you have any sources to back up your "spring 2020" claim? Heck, I didn't even think this was a true statement now, that is my understanding was that airborne transmission was the primary route, but transmission by fomites was still possible, e.g. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/science-and-r...
People turn to pooping on the streets and shooting up in the middle of the street because they have nowhere else to go. Getting hoisted out of rock-bottom is extremely difficult, and the longer you slip through the cracks of any kind of support the more cemented you get there. If society is kicking the ladder out from under you like this then respectability is the last thing on your mind. Being shipped off to a desert concentration camp is really the icing on the cake here.
That is how many FUD tactics are done. It is a rhetorical trick to try and maintain an exit...
> I rely almost entirely on gestures on my trackpad (three fingers swipe up to see all my windows that are not minimized).

Swiping alone is unnecessarily slow so I don't do it unless I need visual assistance. I do them all though, in this order of frequency:

- Cmd+Tab for switching apps (most frequent action)

- Option+Tab (remapped) for switching windows of active app

- Three-fingers down to see all windows of current app

- Three-fingers up to see all windows (rarely used because I have too many windows open for this to be useful)

In addition I use Ctrl+{1,4} to move between different workspaces (although I sometimes use three-finger swipe left/right for this but too often I want to skip one (like going from 1 to 3) in which case swiping is annoying.

Moving windows to a different desktop/workspace I do by clicking titlebar and pressing Ctrl+{1,4}.

Relying on the "overview" (or whatever it's called) sounds convenient, but slower than what I do.
Assuming this is real, I would ask what could it possibly be. The whole popular culture "x-files" narrative doesn't make sense to me. If these are craft which are manned with some beings, why would they be leisurely flying around earth's atmosphere unless they have some destination. Why haven't we found the source or destination?

Perhaps it's actually Von-Neumann probes, or unmanned craft collecting data and observing. I would find this much more likely, but even still, why would they need to keep traveling on earth?

Personally, I keep an open mind about everything, regarding what is possible. I just imagine some civilization thousands or millions of years ahead of us could do things that would seem like magic. It certainly seems plausible in terms of the fermi paradox that we would be being visited. It's just incredibly odd that it would happen this way, and I have very basic questions as to the nature of what this phenomenon even is.
> who do you tax and how do you collect it

Social media companies with more than N users in the state. Simplest: user tax. Complicated: fraction of attributed revenue or a user-hour toll.
I was never much impressed with that article (too much irrelevant story for an “absolute minimum”), and by now it’s very dated. A lot of what it’s talking about (most notably code pages) is now completely irrelevant to the vast majority of developers, who might never encounter or need to worry about them in their entire careers.
or you could do what I did, wear a t-shirt with mushrooms on it because you're a big nutrition nerd, and then just watch the surprising but interesting questions roll in
i have mixed feelings about thin&light laptops... i thought i wouldn't mind a bit more weight, but after getting a 14" macbook pro for work i appreciated my personal x270 (and my old T440) so much more.

the macbook pro is crazy heavy.
Miyosmart lenses for kids have proven to be excellent so far, but I have become happy with my myopic superpower of magnification. Just hope my eyes don’t fall apart internally as I get old.
Interesting points. Are there more effective programs elsewhere that build more hospitable/restorative spaces? Put another way, are there organizations doing "the right thing" based on the most current research?

Having lived and worked near a lot of homeless people it's fascinated me for years but aside from volunteering a few times have not delved too deeply into the issue.

Anecdotally, much of the "disturbance" created by the homeless seems to stem from a small number of individuals that many would describe as "too far gone." Is that a fair take and is there an effective solution to that?

What is a reasonable estimate for the percentage of homeless that more or less prefer living peacefully on the street as long as they can get by? Is this a segment to be specifically facilitated, are there efforts to do so?
A very peculiar class of phong-shaded optical phenomena, in that case.
For this reason I've put `endlessh` on port 22 and moved actual ssh elsewhere...

Also started using Crowdsec recently, but not sure about if it's worth it...

fail2ban out of the box works fine for SSH, but for dovecot and postfix it's somehow broken, and the configuration scripts are just too obtuse.
Most of the $5k/tent was in the services required for a high-needs population. As someone who has been impacted by a building set on fire by a meth addicted neighbor, simply placing high needs homeless people who often have serious mental health or drug abuse issues, in apartments isn't the end of the story. In many cases, it makes the lives of other residents of the building worse, as evidenced by the issues (including high rate of nuisance evictions) plaguing SROs in SF.

Santa Clara County tried a random assignment housing first experiment in 2021 where homeless people given apartments died at roughly the same rates from drug overdose, etc. than homeless people who didn't receive housing.

For these reasons and more, it makes a lot of sense to not acquire one-off units in existing buildings for PSH, and Prop C set asides for PSH instead of shelter or whatever the city deemed most useful for homeless people is kind of downstream of nonprofit politics and not a statement about voter mandates or what's best for homeless people.
1. Gmail automatically classifying emails into 4 Tabs

2. Google shortcut tiles on launch.
Its just stupid at this point. You can put up a wordpress site with 5 daily visitors, and you'll still get thousands of SSH / xmlrpc hits per day.
Curious that this is considered new. When I was a kid in Russia (20 years ago), we had treatment for myopia that was basically applying a tube with a lot of red lights in it to your eyes for 3-4 minutes, 4 times a day.
They're probably mylar balloons. But some people love to cling to the idea that something unknown just must be something extraordinary.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-65771398
I don't get how this is compatible with copyright law or the First Amendment.

Copyright law won't allow copyrighting a link URL.

Fair use allows publishing short bits of copyrighted material (to varying degrees under varying circumstances).

The First Amendment allows me to publish links.

The First Amendment allows me to decide what I do or do not publish.

If news agencies have a copyright case, they should make a copyright case and get royalties.
It was a combination of abuses at psychiatric facilities and the belief that new drugs would "solve" mental health issues.
This is a beautiful product with excellent pricing and the design is lovely. Great work.
I await your feedback on the Framework.

I really like my Surface machine. I've got a Surface Pro 7 that I've had for 3 and a half years, but I don't really use the touch screen/pen as much as I should but I like the form factor. My type-cover has now recently died (the first one I've had) and isn't available from Microsoft anymore, though it's shown signs of giving up for the last few months with not working and needing to detach and reattach a couple of times before Windows detects it which has been annoying.

I guess I've done well for it to last this long considering, but I'm also thinking a Framework laptop will be my next.
And the related Radiolab episode: https://radiolab.org/podcast/169879-patient-zero
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> presumably, carried over from the notion of a PLL

yep, the article links to this Wiki article about the concept in control systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-locked_loop
No code yet, it was literally pieced together last night.

It is only processing SSH attempts from 3 hosts right now (one in colo, one EC2, one DigitalOcean) because when I pointed the full firehose at it the user experience of the website wasn't great.
When the real thing hits, a few carcinogens here and there will be ok if it saves civilization. The air in the average U.S. city is full of carcinogens, on top of volunteer smoking and drinking. Have you been as upset about that recently? Been out campaigning for more trains and less smoking?

And we won't have time for waiting for proof that it does or doesn't work. Of course in hindsight everybody is smart. But when the big one hits, there is no time for hindsight. By then we're all dead (or deep into a civil war).

Start with cautious. Adjust/relax rules when knowledge becomes available. Sanitizing your hands and wearing masks are the obvious immediate solution.

You make it sound like all companies suddenly poured toxic waste over the population, ordered by the government. Maybe it's not the government that was exaggerating here.
I think they mean building mass affordable/free new housing rather than using existing stock.
Why Do Movies Feel So Different Now?
If these are considered threats, have they tried shooting them down? Eg, is that what this tech is for? (Microwave attacks against drones)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36005787

An aside: while searching for microwave stories on hn, this turned up. Possible propulsion method? Just sharing because it’s a fun topic

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/nasa-validates-impossible-sp...
Exactly. As much as Republicans and Democrats may not want to admit it, we need each other for accountability.
There are still many people in the US (and elsewhere) that straight up don't believe in climate change and so there is nothing to prepare for. In some places (cough florida cough texas), even mentioning climate change gets you labelled as 'woke' and therefore as a nutjob wacky extremist leftist trans commi. Its not an atmosphere of rational debate and problem solving.
Quitting (and Then Rejoining) Stack Overflow
As with others, I'm not sure what you mean by pagination.

The lack of response notification is a feature, though yes, it can be annoying, and I find the degree to which comments or questions go unresponded is ... disappointing. That said, notifications abuse by modern Web / App systems is rampant. I'd like some sort of middle-ground, perhaps a responses / notifications link which would consolidate these. "Threads" is the closest there is to that, though it includes all a person's comments whether (newly) responded to or not.

Mobile experience is pretty poor, agreed, though it's sufficient for reading logged-out (my preferred mode). Composing text on mobile devices is a category error.

Deep threads (and greyed text with downvotes) is a very intentional site design. pg's discussed that in the past, see:

"What I've Learned from Hacker News" (2009) <https://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html>

Discussed at the time: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495053>

And four years ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19210923>

Some of the site styling can be overridden with CSS. I apply the following on desktop:

Dred's HN CSS Madhackery: https://pastebin.com/gLXiqKyd

There's also a dark mode I've created:

Dred's HN CSS Madhackery -- Dark Mode: https://pastebin.com/6PF3dCXH
- Good climate: Absolutely. It's much tougher being homeless in the winter in Chicago than it is in California.

- Legal weed: There's legal weed all over the country and the homeless aren't known for buying weed from legal shops are they lol. No 'open air drug market weed' for me, sir, I'm going to the Shambhala Healing Center, says the man strung out on fenty. [1] Missouri and Illinois have legal recreational weed and some of the lowest rates of per capita homelessness [2] so you can pretty much strike this theory off your list.

- Open air drug markets: again, drugs may be visible here, but you can buy drugs in any city in this country. Opioids are the real problem, fentanyl in particular, and if you look at this map of opioid deaths by state you'll see the real crisis isn't in California but in West Virginia, which has 4X the deaths per capita. [3]

- Soft on crime prosecutors: it does have these.

- Liberal population that wants to provide for them: does it?

Honestly if the maps say anything to me, it's that all of the US' homelessness is along the west coast where the weather's nice. I think that might be the entire story.

[1] https://disa.com/maps/marijuana-legality-by-state

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/map-how-many-homeless-americ...

[3] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/drug_poisoning_mor...
> Now do houses. Why is the first $500k of real estate appreciation untaxed?

Because it encourages liquidity in the housing market. If people had to pay taxes on the sale as soon as the house appreciates anything, a lot more people would hold on to the house and never let go.
I’ve been using BetterSnapTool for years. Can’t recommend it enough. It takes a bit to configure your zones, but it’s so versatile and easy to use. I have dozens of shortcuts to divide my screen into 3rds, quarters, 6 or 8 equal zones…

https://folivora.ai/bettersnaptool
I live in SoCal, and in the 20ish years I've lived here, it's gone from "Reasonable rent, but you can only afford to buy if you're a professional who's saved up for several years" to "Horribly expensive rent and you can only afford to buy if you are independently wealthy" I bought during the transition to this state, and made (on paper at least) almost as much money on housing appreciation in the past 10 years as I did from my software-developer job. It should be obvious that houses can't go up an average of 6-figures per year indefinitely. If I had rented for about 5 years longer, I would have been priced out.
interesting stuff. thanks for the links
I 100% agree. If you want to run for office here is San Francisco you need to be democrat. Which means that you need to be very nice to people which you know they are not good.

On the other hand one really cannot be republican because of things like this: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/anti-trans-repub...
Plenty of things are undefined, yet bounded. And being bounded does not mean that something is well-defined.

The number of elements of the set of real numbers between 1 and 2 is undefined, but we can say with absolute certainty that 3.5 isn't one of them.
And owned by China
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/wa-lithium-mine-sn...
Should a blue light filter in screens make any difference?
"I'm wondering how the people who ordered Intel to integrate spyware into their processors manages this?

Answer: order them to tape out N units without the spyware for only you. A new photomask isn't all that expensive.
Government spend X on problem, it doesn’t work and actually gets worse. In other news, water is wet. More at all.

Disclaimer: this doesn’t apply to when government is trying to kill people outright. Government is extremely efficient at killing people on purpose, and not much else.
The Werewolf in Your Support Tickets
I was actually thinking about that: OT1H, fail2ban would really clean up the list, so it's not monopolized by the one joker, but OTOH given sufficient spans of time it would make the output go quiet, which for this specific case defeats the purpose

I actually much prefer the projects that give the caller a fake shell, and watch what they type after "breaking in." It'd be the Kitboga of ssh attacks :-D