skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument is pedantic. It may not be Morse, but it's definitely possible to communicate by tapping on the wall. Imagine tapping out all of Anna Karenina to save a fellow inmate's life.

https://www.npr.org/2017/09/11/550058353/rough-translation-h...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03ttfks

One of my college classes was network communications and for a group project, we had to devise how to transmit a binary message visually standing across from each other by 100 yards or so. Four people to a group, split two and two.

The idea was to get us to strike a balance between speed of encoding/decoding, ability to distinguish symbols, and how many bits to encode in each symbol.

I think my group came up with a system to transmit 3 bits at a time which failed spectacularly on the windy day we had for showing it off. My recollection is we had a big box with neon colored flaps that we could fold in/out.

I wish we'd researched prior works of art. To this day, I have no idea why we didn't just learn flag semaphores. Maybe there was a rule against using existing systems though?
We had a crew chief ingested & killed by his F-16 at my base. He ducked under the nose rather than walk around the front of the aircraft (like he was trained to do) and the airflow caught his field jacket and pulled him in.

They are required to check the intake as part of the pre-flight inspection, and the bar down the middle will not save you. (image below is safe for viewing)

https://www.dvidshub.net/image/3143219/149th-amxs-maintains-...
I do agree the monetization ceiling of games is much higher. There's not much to infinitely spend on in a productivity app but you hear stories of whales spending thousands a month on a single mobile game.

And that does line up with the above link: most of that revenue os generated by a snall minority of gamers. Most games are indeed played for free for a few hours/days with no money obtained outside of Ads. But that whale market is small but insanely lucrative.
It depends on a certain consideration. If you take the argument (which I can't remember who laid it out) that (in Christian metaphysics, was the example) the experience of the individual (self) is replicable by God but the unique soul is not, consciousness experience (memories and sense of self) can be replicated by definition but the soul (necessarily unique) cannot. So soul and conscious experience must be distinct. The conclusion was that everything that makes an individual an individual as known (memories, experience, perception, personality) perishes with death and only the soul continues on and is completely distinct from the individual sense of self. So there is no experience of "heaven" by the self. Such is immaterial from the point of view of consciousness.

A version of this is what I took to be laid out by the 3rd question.

On this basis, the continuation of the soul is irrelevant with regards to the self. The death of the soul would be as immaterial to the self as the soul's continuation to "heaven" would be to consciousness.
I'm not sure how likely it is that they'll try to sue me for failing to take down content, but I don't want to find out.

Running an IPFS gateway doesn't make me any money and even consulting a lawyer is way outside my hobby project budget.
I was about to say that levels blocks too but as long as you hit the "I've shared my salary" twice they let you through. Which I find acceptable since they depend so much on that a little friction is okay.
He could have just sent it to a few friends at those universities/companies. Nobody should take those sorts of 'trusted by' sections seriously anyway.
Apple's Human Interface Guidelines

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

The Windows Interface Guidelines - A Guide for Designing Software (pdf 1995) (as @andai mentioned)

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/courses/ICS104/course-notes/M...

User Interface Design For Programmers (as @mmmm2 mentioned)

The cable modem example is one of my favorites

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/24/user-interface-des...

--- Topics:

Guidelines for Checkboxes

https://blog.uidrafter.com/guidelines-for-checkboxes

Radio Buttons vs Dropdowns

https://blog.uidrafter.com/radio-buttons-vs-dropdowns
Scientist Who Found the First Computer Bug Shows What a Nanosecond Looks – 1985
Why don’t they just make all the info fully transparent to all teams? Seems like it would make the competition even more interesting.
I too was baffled by this, in my experience modern paint isn't going to last that long. But I looked it up and supposedly:

> Because ochre is a mineral, it doesn't wash away or decay, allowing it to persist through the ages. [1]

> ...the ancient artisans of Babine Lake in British Columbia harvested ochre sediment... Then, MacDonald says, they carefully heated it to around 750 to 850 degrees Celsius over open-hearth fires to achieve the colour they desired... Not only would the process yield the vivid red, the ancient artisans must have known, but it would “improve colourfastness, stability and resistance to degradation”, the scientists’ article says... The iron in the material bonds easily to surfaces that are high in silica, like the rock faces, ensuring their durability. [2]

So it seems it's due to actual chemical bonding.

Which makes me wonder -- if you applied ochre to rock today, how hard would it be to then remove? Would it be impossible with regular washing, would you need power washing, or sandblasting even?

[1] https://www.livescience.com/64138-ochre.html

[2] https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2019/11/21/scientists-uncove...
I had something similar today with Microsoft. Just to use their OS, MS tried to force me to log into an account. After signing out and back in, I was able to bypass the prompt.
> Say, “Yes. What should I deprioritize?”

Dude. That is the most savage passive-aggression I have ever heard. Is this guy a brit?

> “You are welcome to borrow my car. I am willing to make sure the keys are here for you.”

Who would ever say this? An asshole, that's who.

Don't be a passive-aggressive asshole. Just say no. If this makes them upset, use language that expresses empathy and compassion. But don't avoid a hard fact by trying to be cute or non-confrontational.
I've been using flakes exclusively for project dependencies, not for system config. I've been doing this for a year or so but I still feel like a newbie.

What I like about flakes is that they (appear to) let you hide complexity.

I haven't seen this happen in a real community yet, but one could imagine JimBob's flake for foo-type work. JimBob has put a lot of thought into which tools you need and has his flake up on github for other foo-workers to use. JimBob is kind of a big deal in the foo community.

Then you've got Susie, who has been using JimBob's flake, but she doesn't really know all of its ins-and-outs. Eventually she needs something extra, because she specializes in bar (a subset of foo). With flakes, if I understand them, she can use JimBob's flake as an input, add the piece she needs, ad publish her own JimBob-with-Susies-tweaks flake.

In this way you can sort of imagine a constellation of flakes (I've been imagining the nix snowflake as a nix flake with three inputs and three outputs) which represent the various needs of the community that's using them.

In a config without flakes, my feeling is that there are fewer boundaries, so you have to keep more in your head about what's already in place. If you've enabled a service in /etc/nix/nix.conf and you're using home manager as a module, you can't disable it there because the values will conflict.

Granted, I don't actually know what a system configure with flakes looks like, but I hope it lets me compose flakes in a way that mirrors what JimBob and Susie are doing. I want to log in and say:

> give me base_system -> my_print_drivers -> image_tools

...and those flakes will compose so that I can use gimp and print photos. But since `my_printer_drivers` is a flake, I can also reference it from a different machine like:

> give me other_base_system -> my_print_drivers -> document_tools

This is unlikely, but let's suppose my printer is super fancy and can print in silver and gold ink, but in order to make this work the image tools flake has to change something about the printer driver. In a "flat" system config you're going to get a conflict, right? my_print_drivers to be one way, image_tools wants it to be another way, so you're going to have to sort that out.

But flakes are portable and composable in a way that lets you ignore the big picture and just focus on what you need. If you take something as an input and make an output where that thing is changed... it's changed. You can get away with ignoring more.

Of course that's the real question. can you get away with ignoring that much? I hope so.
Actually, IMHO it's even better to experiment/adjust with /set - then just keep the config folder in git.
I've never personaly seen any benefit from exponential backoff... constant backoff + jitters + short timeouts has always worked well for me.

If anything, people underestimating the ramp up of exponential back off(or not capping it) has left me waiting much longer than necessary
Did it work well for retaining good discussion and a community?

...or for making money?
I haven’t gotten around to documenting it yet. There’s a subdirectory “Morse” with an early version used in user testing, but nothing self explanatory. Plan is a 2-button (or 2 switch) design like Morse code, but without the learning curve and with auto completion.

Hadn’t seen Dasher but checking it out now!
on the flip side i've sometimes wondered how useful a syscall time manipulator that injects delays in order to explore the space of concurrent execution sequences would be.

either something systematic or a just a simple stochastic scheduler.
With :is and :where it is trivial to trick selectors

:is(selector_1, :where(selector_2))

Has always the specificity of selector_2, and if you choose an impossible selector for selector_1 (the easiest approach is to give multiple ids or use non existent classes/elements) it only select by selector_2
Awesome! I attached my PDF to the ticket for you to use for testing.
Because Apple's been a bit too effective in dominating the industry, for reasons other than usability or technical superiority; since growing to the top they can leverage inertia and other factors.

I have no idea what you think "ideals" and "being uncouth" have to do with any of this; referring to OSS as e.g. an "ideology" strikes me as a weird misunderstanding of its present role in tech. It's not theory, fam, damn near the entire cloud runs on it today.
> What games do HN readers like?

Nethack or ported versions of older games (just finished Planescape: Torment, what a ride!)
Germany Lost Its Solar Industry to China
What systems are you thinking if?

In my experience most actuaries I interact with maintain truly horrendous spreadsheets with labyrinthine complexity.
Only the ones who "didn't march" to Moscow, so roughly 20k are ineligible for these MoD contracts that are being forced on the rest of them. I would imagine those 20k are the more experienced, more loyal ones who are well paid and protected by Prigozhin.
this is so cool how it writes into the table, thanks for all the examples!
I've found a lot of value in using Zig as my C & C++ toolchain. I really like that my build logic is more procedural, which I find easier to comprehend.
Well that's very out of the way, can't believe that existed for 2 and a half years. I'll look into it.
They saw it incorrectly then. This has been one of the most tremendous unforced errors in Russian history.

Now everyone realizes that they are a weak successor state who has completely squandered their military inheritance from the USSR. Russian conservatives may not realize it, which is fine, as they are willing to rapidly expend away their soviet inventory. Their modern weak economy can’t afford to rearm. They have eliminated themselves from the great game.

Not only did they fail to stop NATO - it expanded and added 1,340 km of direct border contact.
Show HN: WordKache – A Chrome Extension That Auto-Saves Your Online Translations
Hi HN! This project idea has been in my backlog for a couple of years now, but thanks to the help of a couple of classmates, we've recently released this on the Chrome Web Store!

Key Features:

1. Supports auto-saving of Google Translate and DeepL queries

2. Folder organization

3. Export cards as a .tsv file to import into flashcard apps like Quizlet or Anki

As a spanish learner myself, I would often find myself looking up the translations of the same words/phrases over and over again, not actually learning anything in the process. Sure, I could just write them down in a spreadsheet and review from it periodically, but that required far too much effort/upkeep. I couldn't find any app that would automatically do this for me (other than Google Translate's "History" sidebar), so that's why WordKache exists.

Let me know what you think! If you're a language learner, have you encountered similar problems in the past?
Responsive email templates with react [Package]
Especially since it's not like there is a manufacturer for every cell of the feature matrix. Every single option has its downsides, and the optimal option most likely doesn't exist.
This is off topic but I’ve always wanted to know what hams talk about on their radios (when not using it for emergency purposes)
They don't use Wi-Fi.

There's a small battery-powered device mounted inside the tire, attached to the valve stem.

In regular passenger vehicles, it's usually woken up regularly by a signal from the car. It takes sensor readings, and transmits them back to the car (using that region's unlicensed UHF bands).

I imagine Formula teams may have need for greater frequency of sensor data, so there could be some variations here, but that's broadly how it works. In a passenger car, the battery outlives the tire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_TPMS
If you’re an owner who wants an attack dog pitbulls will be on your short list along side German Shepherds. Now, there are definitely some breeds that don’t have it in them to attack (and if they do it’s less likely to be reported). Even if you get bitten by a chihuahua you’re not super likely to file a police report. And I will admit that you would be hard pressed to get a French Bulldog or Pug to hurt someone. But I don’t think pitbulls deserve to be singled out.
I have a suspicion that you are not really interested in using the software which makes this discussion entirely pointless.

P.S. Debian's a2ensite and a2dissite also assume that your configs are in the sites-available folder, not elsewhere in the file system.
Population is decreasing in all four of California’s largest cities.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-popu...

And house prices are declining in Seattle.

https://www.king5.com/article/money/economy/seattle-housing-...

Why live in a high cost city when more jobs are remote?
Sorry, you are right I should have stopped responding to them. It is hard to resist the urge, but I should have.
See my other comment for a simplified explanation, or check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_TPMS
I have seen Shawshank probably more than 100 times and I cannot for the life of me remember a Morse code scene that is mentioned in this article.
Every DS could play the same games at the same level of quality. So, unless a kid really wanted a specific console feature, it didn't really matter if you bought the wrong one.

Xbox is the opposite, if you get the cheaper console games will look worse and/or run at lower FPS. It only has one option for internal storage, leaving you with ~360gb after accounting for the OS, five or six modern games can fill that pretty easily. Official external storage costs about as much as the console itself.

For many people the trade-offs won't matter but it does make the PlayStation a much simpler choice if you're looking for a console for a kid that doesn't already favour one or the other.
The scientist in the title is Grace Hopper.
Ayb: A multi-tenant database that helps you own your data
> The composition of a resume acted as a primary filter from people who couldn't even organize a few lines of information about themselves.

That's fine...but you have no way of knowing if the people you filtered out would have been low or high performing employees.
Ask HN: Why did the windows registry fail?
I’m pretty young so haven’t been around to see the historical context of the windows registry

From what I understand it’s basically a big centralized configuration system, rather than individual programs having their own config files/formats

It seems like now days most applications don’t use this

Why did it fail/not pan out?

And why does Linux not have a registry?
Seriously, what are your latest thoughts about tacos?
The original thing called "Metaverse", in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash from 1992, described users buying virtual land from a finite area and populating it with their own buildings, and creating their own Avatars. I'm pretty sure Second Life was directly inspired by the Metaverse.
IIRC Netflix has gotten unreasonably good at detecting VPNs, VMs and other traffic originating from non-consumer IP addresses.
This just had me reading about Livery Companies of the City of London for an hour. It's great that some history and traditions are kept alive. And now I can walk around the City and keep an eye out for their coats of arms on the buildings.
They didn't get live data, just the tire type. Shouldn't have had the device but it wasn't live data. Bad journalism as usual.
I recall in 2008 or so visiting the local Nortel office, they had a whole fucking lab room dedicated to second life.
Is there a search engine that shows only results that are free open access - no registration or paywalled sites?
Auto wipers will never be able to know how well I, the driver, can see.
Twitter has basically the same policy
Well the rural area where I'm living is booming, and all the people around me have 3 and 4 young children. And surprisingly they do it on 1 income.

That sounds sustainable to me. Can't do that in the city on 1 income.

If you like the city you should stay in the city. Don't listen to me. I don't know what the future holds any more than you do.

But I'm hedging against a continuing gradual decrease in the standard of living in the US and a decline in infrastructure and general lawlessness.

That is near impossible to do in the city.

You will be eating whatever is available. You drink the water that is available. And you get to depend on entirely on law enforcement for your safety and security. And if your roof leaks you pray that you can get someone to show up.

Me personally? I'm going to ensure my own well-being, not rely entirely on corporations and government.
The lacking scans might be because you can get them for free in most libraries round here. I borrowed loads of them at my local library in our tiny town, great comics! They were even translated to Swedish so I could start on them very early in life.
Yeah, from the outside, this seems like a very poor outcome for Prigozhin. Regardless of what money or access or whatever was promised in return to standing down, he is effectively trapped in the non-Western economic block due to his actions in Ukraine. In this part of the world, anything you own is only as useful as your ability to prevent politically-connected people from taking it from you. I can't see how his position now could possibly be construed as more personally advantageous than 72 hours ago, but I'm sure there's much more happening behind the curtain than we will ever be aware of.
No surprise from Penske. They have a culture, across numerous categories, of pushing boundaries like this.
The map shows numbers from speed tests, which is only to Cloudflare, yes. But IQI's bandwidth numbers are lower because it displays average utilization (i.e. shorter requests, like web browsing, mostly capped by latency) while the map displays connection capacity.

I believe the parent was referring to the lines for Oceania being surprisingly good considering we usually think of it as being far away from content (which is not true when a large chunk of it can be served from local datacenters).
Curly Hair Keeps the Head Coolest
Are you hiring for a writing gig?

If not, the bias could hurt.
It's like a leet code interview - artificial bar from highly biased interviewers which kinda sorta works but is buggy and a bit discriminatory.
You obviously weren't high enough.

It totally works if you are super high.

It works though the same way that I will think I made some masterpiece of music while being super high and then when I listen the next day sober it is just 4 bars of total shit. It still sounded like a masterpiece in the moment. Marijuana is amazing at finding and grafting meaning on to things that aren't really there or just totally ordinary.
In the UK, Kaufje (TinTin), Asterix and Suske & Wiske (Janet & John) are well known

So is the little rabbit thing I forget the name of.

They are predominantly children’s books, of course.

Now… Rooi Oortjes isn’t known.
My brain groks this by considering it pass-by-reference vs. pass-by-value. The original you is the first instance. It occupies a particular place in space which you move about, and also experiences a particular path and timeline. As long as I'm considered alive, I'm adding to that path by moving around and interacting with the universe. You can keep finding and adding more details to get a unique picture of the first instance. The challenge here is easy because you only have to find one unique difference between the first instance and your copies to figure out which is which. It gets harder and harder to prove that one is perfectly equal to another.

If you're building a copy of someone (regardless if the original is destroyed), that's pass-by-value. It's just making a copy at another memory location in the universe. If you're moving me around in a space ship, that's obviously pass-by-reference. If you're moving my soul (even with some limitations), that's pass-by-reference as well. What's convenient about this is that if you remove enough things from the soul enough that you can't know if it really is your soul, it casts doubt on how this transfer process was found out and proven in the first place, so we could reject the premise.

But if you go and make a second copy of yourself (regardless of destroying the first), memories and personality and other things might be equal, but you can't replicate the path you took unless you can go back in time, so that will always be unique to the instance you're making a copy from. Teletransporters and brain implants are far, far more believable technologies compared to time travel.

Experienced history is as much apart of you as your body and mind, and it's conveniently observable externally, so people don't have to trust your word that you're really 'you' or the first instance of you.
Is Morse code encoded in the lengths of the beeps or the pauses between the beeps?