skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really bad and dated advice and I would encourage everyone to not listen to it.

The lowest brightness levels often have very poor contrast levels and will cause more eye strain as your eye will have a harder time discerning what’s on screen.

Additionally at lower brightness levels you may have higher flicker on displays due to PWM.

It makes sense to work at a brightness level that is appropriate for your environment. If your screen supports ambient light detection, enable it. Ideally you don’t want your eyes to constantly be shifting between brightness levels of your screen and the world around it.

If you do have eye strain, make sure to take regular breaks and excercise your eye by focusing on things at different depths. That has been shown to help push presbyopia to later years (but nothing really prevents it)

Also HDR colors are NOT best at maximum brightness. It’s a common misconception because humans react better to brightness. It wholly depends on your display technology , but color accuracy and depth are not linearly related to brightness and often have a falloff when you get to higher brightness unless you’re using an OLED display.

In color accurate fields, monitors aren’t set to highest brightness. Colors are calibrated against a standard Nit value which may be lower than what the monitor displays. Above and below those values, your colours are often going to be wrong compared to the intended content.
The Big Fix – How the union's bosses rule by fraud and intimidation. (1999)
I imagine it isn’t a surprise that a company as philosophically dedicated to the graphical user interface as Apple wouldn’t prioritize a non-breaking bug fix for the command line update tool.
I've definitely felt that the karma system is a bit intimidating for newcomers, but I also get how it serves as a signaling system (though imperfect) against folks with bad intentions
Reminds me of a McSweeney's list with "Names of seven bands that it would be impossible to book."

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/seven-band-names-that-wo...
That's how I learned probability theory. I studied from one book and solved all problems, then moved to the next, until it became second nature. Probability theory is one of the topics that you will never learn by only reading, it is necessary to develop the necessary intuition.
Yes? Because corporations shouldn’t have rights, should only exist to benefit citizens, and should have legislation applied when they are being harmful. I can’t tell if you were being sarcastic.
> Syntax matters.

Indeed it does!
Not to try to be confrontational, but have you written any substantial programs in an array language like APL? I'm sure that any APL programmer will be the first to tell you that writing APL would be unbearable if those "unreadable" symbols were replaced with names! Why? Because in APL, each symbol is a unit of meaning, and there's simply no reason for each unit of meaning to be more than a single character. Why should I type `add folded divided_by count` when I can just write `+/÷≢`?

> Sure, you can learn to read and write what superficially looks like line noise, but the market has spoken: very few people want to.

True! And it will surely always be true! But no one would want to write APL without the symbols. ("But isn't Tensorflow just like APL without the symbols?" No. Tensorflow is based on the array paradigm, but it is very, very different from an array __language__ like APL.)

> obscure syntax over English

This is effectively like berating the Chinese for inventing a writing system that looks nothing like the Latin script. Is it totally different? Yes. Does that make it inherently bad? No. (Can it still be bad? Yes! But I don't think APL and friends are as bad as people might think.)

Anyway, that's my two cents on the obscure syntax of array languages are a tool, not a problem. They'll always limit the userbase, there's no doubt about that, but I couldn't imagine a world without them.
> to discourage honouring block requests

It is adorable that at this point people still believe collateral damage will prevent a political move.
Go easy on yourself.
This is simply not true, condensed matter physics makes up the largest sub-field of physics (about half by some estimates).

I think the more relevant aspect is that to reach the frontier in a wide array of fields you a solid grounding quantum physics (and several other "new" -- i.e. within the last century or so -- topics) that have displaced more "old-fashioned" topics like continuum mechanics.
My War Against Cave Crickets
Encoding a description of how to generate the audio was a growing idea in the 1990s and 1980s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5kMukDpGlc

https://modarchive.org/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33273107
I have found that a monitor light bar is excellent for reducing eye-strain in a dark room where the monitor is the only light source. BenQ makes the OG [1] but there are knockoffs available on Amazon that are decent.

For daytime, facing a window while using a monitor is a major source of strain. This, of course, is a common post-pandemic arrangement as Team/Zoom calls look best with natural light on your face, but it's not doing your eyes any favours. The reason being that natural light intensity changes by multiple orders of magnitude, between sunny and overcast. Since the monitor stays at a constant brightness, your eyes have to work hard to keep the monitor at a constant perceptive brightness against a widely varying background, invariably causing strain over the course of the day.

[1] https://www.benq.com/en-ca/lighting/monitor-light.html
Those surely wouldn’t count because they’re entire CPUs on one chip, the point is making a CPU from parts that aren’t, which is sometimes dodgy sure.
An odd hypothesis, I think. I don't think our ancestors were any less practical than us. Probably a great deal more practical, in fact.

You reference Plato, but you could easily phrase it in the other direction. "From Roman engineering to Wittgenstein blithering on about meaning."
Is there actually a way to get the AllPlayTime value? Funnily enough, it isnt shown anywhere in the normal menus is it?
> If environmental non-profit startups count as big tech, then what doesn't?

Bro, Peter Thiel is big tech. You literally quoted his name in your post. You know "Paypal's Peter Thiel", like I said? Or perhaps you know him as the chairman of Palantir, or the 10% owner of Facebook, or Y Combinator's most notable partner for a while?

> Maybe you're thinking of the part of the article where it mentions Amazon

Okay, since you seem to agree that Amazon is big tech, remember when you said "the article has almost nothing to do with 'big tech'"?

> "We could force modern logistics giants like UPS and Amazon to take the lead on reusability"? (Given the title it's ironic that the author is proposing that big tech be given more responsibility for waste solutions.)

The difference, in context, being that holding Amazon accountable for results is pretty different from accepting their fake solutions, which are intended to make it look like accountability isn't needed.
I always wonder if it's related somehow to the deep imprint that organized professional team sports, especially football, seems to have on the US psyche.

Yeah, hockey is popular here in Canada, but it's not nearly on the same level as the NFL in the US. And "college sports" etc. is not even a thing. I feel like the American mindset is ever more leaning towards framing everything in a "my team vs your team" dynamic.
My undergrad thesis was about modeling a home-sized solar-thermal to electricity setup. The answer was (1) you could barely eek out something of value if you really tried (2) it would be beaten by solar panels hands down.

The problem is that electricity production is dependent on the difference in temperature between your hot liquid and the environment. And the 70C-30C with water you will get in the summer is simply not enough to produce much. Realistically, you need ten times this difference to do anything useful.

The other option is to heat oil, with lower heat capacity. That you could heat to a bit higher temperatures, but then you are going to continuously lose oil that has to be topped up.

Unfortunately, despite my dreams, such systems seem economically unrealistic.
> I'm reminded of how poorly named the Go programming language is. So many people refer to it as "golang" since "go" is too common of a word.

The first search results for [go], [rust], and [ruby] all return links about the programming languages. And most people can figure it out from the context.
Nice!
> AI-generated comments might not capture the nuances and insights of real HN users.
True!
> Have you considered incorporating real comments into the system to improve its accuracy?
This is definitely something we want to do, creating agents mapped to real users, to get closer to above.
> Well, I read it and still don't know how they measure software developer productivity.

"Assessing contributions by individuals to a team’s backlog (starting with data from backlog management tools such as Jira, and normalizing data using a proprietary algorithm to account for nuances)"

Using nonsense metrics like "data from [Jira]" apparently.

Though the other columns in the individual row - including examining developer satisfaction, retention, and daily interruptions - might be a slightly more meaningful, since they evaluate the work environment rather than trying to evaluate individual developers.
I've often wondered about the effectiveness of simple custom things like "what's the sum of these two numbers?"

Maybe couple it with some server-side rotating variable names... Dunno.
USGS page: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci39645386...

The epicenter is up in hills near Ventura. Any damage would be confined to the hills and probably not very much of it.
My feeling with Lua is that it's lacking arrays due to minimalism, as in "we don't need arrays because tables will do". Probably the same reason why there is no "continue" in a for-loop.

In comparison, Ruby has arrays and hashes, and gives me the feeling "yes these do exactly what you expected, but wait there is more!" In that sense it does feel more like a Swiss army knife.
Are you saying that we should routinely anesthetize our animals to clean their teeth?
Small Sask. publications are feeling the pain of Meta's news block
When missing an edge case can maim or kill multiple people, "good enough" is not nearly good enough.
I second the recommendation for BQN.

You know, there's a reason why there's so many "one-man hobby project" implementations of, say, APL. It's actually not that hard! If you're willing to spend a week (yes, a week), you can have your own barebones implementation of APL. And from there, it's really sort of your playground, which is neat. Thought of a cool idea? Implement it!
Obviously, most people won't want to do this, investing time (even if it's not that much) in something they don't really even have any experience invested in. But it's an easier option than you might expect.
Odd HN never mentions the person's achievements in rhe title, even if the actual article title does.
How do you even make a meaningful comparison to the "size of the economy"? What was the price of an air conditioner in 1850? Effectively infinite, it didn't exist. Clothing used to take hundreds of man-hours to make and clean and repair and it's almost disposable today. There's so much more like that. If the economy is "bigger" in some sense, it's not just that there's more activity going on, but there are also entirely new types of activities that weren't even possible before. It has nothing to do with the number of atoms available.
If you have really steady winds, sure. Otherwise you're probably going to need to smooth out the RPM with an intermediate stage like a flywheel.
Suppose we redefine wealth to be the number of electrons you own.

Further suppose you own one electron. At 5% growth a year in that means that the number of electrons you own will double every 14 years or so.

The total number of electrons in the universe is on the order of 10^80, lg(10^80) = 266.

So in about 4,000 you will own every electron in the universe and need to find another universe to keep this rate of growth going for another 14 years.
This might be me having huffed too many types lately, but I feel like I would want that to break.
Ubuntu has actually gotten worse over the years ever since it started coaxing users into using Snap. It was revolting when Ubuntu forced Chromium to be installed as a Snap when the user attempted to install it through apt. Requiring Snap in this way is fundamentally hostile to Linux as a free and open source operating system, since the Snap Store server is proprietary and controlled only by Canonical.

If you are already using Fedora, there's no benefit to switching to Ubuntu. If you want to use something more similar to Ubuntu, I recommend Pop!_OS (downstream from Ubuntu and without Snap) instead of Ubuntu Desktop, and Debian (upstream from Ubuntu) instead of Ubuntu Server.
Thanks for trying it out! You're right—one thing you can almost always count on in any sort of shared forum are the inevitable contrarians, and it's one of the magical parts of social simulation we're hoping to capture more of, hopefully by mapping fakeHN's simulated users to this history of real, opinionated, and biased HN commenters.
My prisms aim to make me not cross eyed all the time, but I'm pretty sure my brain just compensated to make my eyes even more cross eyed to keep the double vision
Would be interesting if this could be adapted for long-covid too

They also made a electrical response test for me-cfs (which would include some kinds of long-covid) based on how cells respond to salt

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/blood-t...
I think that's overexaggerating his point. If you can't work, you're probably also unable to do a lot of other things you enjoy in life.

Like, as a developer, if I develop a condition that makes me unable to hold down any kind of job in the field, it probably also prevents me from drawing, gaming and reading to the extent that I enjoy doing right now.

As such, I'd probably be more than willing to sign up for a study that might help me be able to get closer to the way I am now, even if I could afford to live without it.
what's the link to the library, I need this ASAP
Is the price cheap enough to do that? Last time I looked it was much cheaper to go with a local carrier almost anywhere I looked.
Best argument I know is that Quantum Mechanics and "spooky action at a distance" is due to Lazy evaluation.
VS Code remote so you don’t have to pay the cost of volume mount? Is performance that much better? I’m not a VS Code user, do you need things like the lsp server baked into your image to get intellisense to work?
someone's gotta take the fall and leave a comment on this post violating the guidelines (jk please don't)
Probably because Apple Silicon is the only ISA platform Apple still has fucks to give about. I keep running headlong into driver bugs on Intel Macs -- that work just fine on Apple Silicon.
A multimodal AI that can generate novel videos with text, images or video clips
FWIW this has nothing to do with why this specific pool closed. It fell into disrepair and was used as a parking lot for the zoo.
Rudimentary versions of many common software products or utilities, like a text editor, word processor, database server
, email client, FTP client, etc.
Our town and some neighboring towns (all suburbs of Boston) have "free lists" on Facebook for this purpose. Membership is nominally restricted to town residents, and picky/annoying takers and resellers become "known" fairly quickly and ignored. Very effective for rehoming stuff that isn't trash but not worth selling.
Not trying to be pedantic but the intel package has everything you need, it’s equivalent to packages 1 and 2 from the ARM update. I don’t think ARM package 1 contains any intel code at all.
No evidence, but anecdata. Glad to hear it isn't taken seriously by actual anthropologists. Thanks for the info :)
I use the yellow 'night-driving' clip-ons for my (Zenni) glasses. I didn't think to order them when I got my glasses, but thankfully you can order them separately, by specifying the model number of your glasses.

I haven't done a rigorous test, but I feel like I get sleepier sooner with the clip-ons, than I do with just my glasses (which block only some of the higher frequency blue light).
> Then this is just the fear there will be infinite people on the planet, which doesn’t happen because of birth control and feedback-regulating to 2.2 children.

Except, it isn’t regulating to 2.2, is it? Many countries are already well below 2.2 and more are falling below that level each year. I assume the population implosion will have some affect on the economy.
This is the primary use case.
Researchers achieve high-speed super-resolution imaging with a large FoV
Probability Can Bite (2010)
Almost all local governments have created the same processes because the incentives to do so are the same. Nobody said "North American zoning" - it's zoning (and land use restrictions) overall.
should be fixed now!
There's also the Unlambda programming language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlambda

http://www.madore.org/~david/programs/unlambda/
Mega Drive and SNES emulator, then you can play an entire library of the golden age of platformers.
if nothing else, the death provides a very clear pathway for a civil suit
Sound like worrying for the sake of worrying.

I’d say the known risks - infection, although only a small risk, are much more likely than things like cancer.
Thanks for sharing! This is something we've noticed too. One of the key traits about any social forum like HN is that there are more concrete opinions (with some inevitable contrarian ones), which we aren't seeing very often now. We're hoping that as we create higher-fidelity comments by mapping simulated user comments to real, opinionated, biased HN user comment histories, we can see more of this!
I think it was around 10k requests.
They are already RFID enabled (at least US ones have been for years).

You would want a paper version as a backup anyway in case the electronics fail.
In general, what causes Apple Silicon Macs to have a larger update size than the Intel Macs?
If you wanted to extract a specific text from pi, you'd have to find the location of the text within pi. Expressed as an integer, this location would amount to an encoding of the entire text and would probably be longer than the text itself. You could only find the location by explicitly searching for the exact text. The location address would effectively be a copy of the text.

On the other hand, the "address" of a text within a memorizing large language model would just be the prompt "give me the text of X".
It isn't limited to AA. I was on an Alaska Airlines flight a while back where they let us know that using videoconferencing software in flight is a federal felony. Hint: it's not.
The Bjarne Stroustrup division is very similar: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses"
Pretty fun twist on Geoguessr! The slider needs a bit of work and some intuitiveness on mobile but top notch otherwise. Managed to get a best score of 41,206/50,000 without looking anything up.
Its an Ironmaan challenge, not a Sunday swim. By similar logic all Ice skating should be banned, ice is slippery and you might hit your head.
I'm on Fedora Workstation since 30.

I've been forcing myself to get into NixOS. The idea is great. The Nix expression language isn't hard. I like the immutable root and generations (snapshots).

Setting up a desktop environment or Window Manager is quick and easy. Applications selection is great and you can install different versions in parallel.

The biggest problem for me is on the driver/hardware suppoet of my 2022 gaming laptop. Suspend, sleep, hibernate can be finicky. The graphics driver can also be hit or miss.

Documentation can be better especially for the NixOS exclusive behaviors. The Nix configurations needs more details as to what it exactly does and the packages it pulls. The Arch wiki and other Linux docs can cover the general stuff.
Just skimmed the EM section: I didn't catch anything egregiously wrong, per se (but again, I only skimmed it), but it's mostly fluff, and the actual physics content that does it exist is targeted at wildly different levels. For instance the author goes from "an electric field is like a tiny arrow attached to every point in space" (day 1 of intro physics for non-physics majors) in chapter 1 to assuming the reader knows what covariant derivatives are (advanced undergraduate) in chapter 2. I would strongly recommend against using these books.
fakedang but 1 in every 10 posts is realdang
Kodachrome slides have a different color tint that makes them look real and incredible. It's sad how Kodak went out of business.
There's never any ackonowledgement in these paternalistic, patronising, PR-driven "articles" that someone, namely the computer owner, could actually modify the OS to be more secure. Any modification is presumed a security loss.

Yet, for example, this OS is trying to phone home to Google literally every few seconds if the owner takes control of DNS. Maybe the owner does not want the OS to keep trying to make requests for /generate_204 or /gen_204 to various Google domains to try to determine whether the owner is online or offline. Maybe it's none of Google's business. Maybe the computer owner knows when the computer is online and when it is offline because she is the one controlling that. Thus, the owner gets a message "You are offline." even when she is online. Poorly considered heuristic.

Unless it's doing what the computer owner wants, then Google's software is, for that owner, "malware". Google presumes no one should tamper with this malware. Google has assumed the computer owner "trusts" Google. Let it run. Anyone who modifies it is a "malicious" baddie. Except Google.

All this for the purpose of providing advertising services to advertisers, not "security" to ad targets. There is no such thing as "free" security. And this is what Google purports to provide.

Ultimately, the computer owner makes the call what is and what is not "malware". Google, like other so-called "tech" companies, has appointed itself the default decision-maker on an issue on which it has no granted authority. If the computer does not belong to Google, then it is not Google's decision to make.
That’s a trope that doesn’t bear on the Fleishhacker pool closure. There’s been a shift I think in govt spending from things like recreation to social services. If you took the SF homeless and other social services budgets including state Medi-cal funding that dwarfs recreational spending - and this is a shift in allocation over time. And I thought pools were racially integrated historically and it’s when they integrated genders the race panic stupidity came in big time. Especially in south some bad behavior.
Stablevideo: Text-driven consistency-aware diffusion video editing
Let me know how it goes! It's fun to compare the comments to real ones for the same post. Some definitely miss the mark but others, especially some of the Ask HN posts, have surprising similarities.
In many places around the world tattoos are not extreme nor individualistic. Maybe it’s just the growing influence of other cultures.
He's been so busy with Twitter that he's being sued for not running Tesla. That's a lot of effort just to shut a company down.
Where can I invest in this
closures are a poor man's objects…
Nice, it also reminds me of 2048 too
Having recently slogged through some fantasy/sf tomes weighing in at 900 pages or more, I have to say that they make Tolkien - or Dickens for that matter - seem terse by comparison.

To make matters worse, some of these monstrosities aren't even complete in themselves but are the first (or Nth) volume in an excessively long series.

Perhaps novellas aren't commercially viable anymore, but I miss them.