skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unlike aspartame, we understand the physics of electromagnetic radiation.

It's the same type of radiation as sunlight, but lower energy and lower intensity.
Starlink Surges but Still Isn’t Meeting SpaceX’s Goals
> You might have to scan your ID if you live in certain states

The “certain states” involved being “the United States” since 2006, unless you are buying a “single sales package” with less than 60mg of pseudoephedrine [0] (which is the dose in two Sudafed caplets [1].)

[0]
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/information-drug-class/legal-requi...

[1] https://www.sudafed.com/products/sudafed-sinus-congestion
Whether or not it happened exactly as described within the Torah/Bible, we have plenty of records to indicate ancient societies regularly overturned debts.

... Unless you're making a joke that it happened but was not "celebrated" because most people didn't like it.
It's occuring on the web application (https://messenger.com/ and https://facebook.com/)
>The new rules would not apply to products placed on the market before the date of application.

Source: The European Parliament website.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220930IP...

> Do you have a source for "newly released"? Everything I can find talks about "new" only.

Respectfully the only place you need to be looking for this information is the EU parliament website.
Unity to Godot Docs
Closed software in action!
Apple ordered to stop selling iPhone 12 in France
Totally agree - also beyond the coursework, explore other areas of interest and try to make friends who have diverse interests and backgrounds.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-panel-says-co... -- "Phenylephrine — found in drugs including Sudafed PE, Vicks Nyquil Sinex Nighttime Sinus Relief and Benadryl Allergy Plus Congestion — is the most popular oral decongestant in the United States, generating almost $1.8 billion in sales last year, according to data presented Monday by FDA officials."

* Wasting peoples time and money while consuming their $.

* key part is consuming their $.
Apple is offering satellite phone service. Starlink shown it's important in the Ukraine-Russia war. There is Starshield for the government uses. Whatever shortcoming of current telecommunication, Starlink can supplement it.
Unfortunately, this is the actual logic which will be used to justify it staying on shelves.

> The decongestant is in at least 250 products that were worth nearly $1.8 billion in sales last year, according to an agency presentation.

Look those yachts aren't gonna buy themselves.
I would be surprised if the older, higher costs didn't include broker fees for scarce ICs in the supply shortage. I'm sure they've gone through a few revisions but part of that cost drop is simply price of components dropping.
Of course, it only makes sense if you eat there regularly.
Some of my colleagues today were like, Is it happening to slack at your machine too?? Nah bro, I use linux . BTW is this theme update happening for linux users too? Cause all of my workspaces were normal (with old themes).
The whistleblower, who presents as a highly credible senior-level CIA officer, alleges that of the seven members assigned to the CIA team tasked with analyzing COVID-19 origins, six officers concluded that the virus likely originated from a lab in Wuhan, China.

Seems like there should be an easy paper trail on this, right? Why cite the whistleblower? Why not just go straight to the document containing the opinions, wherever that may be?
The world learns lua one game at a time. All it needs is decent standardization comitee and a better packages/module system. Lua rocks
Marvel Visual Effects Workers Vote to Unionize
The establishment in the government push lies, hard. Then they censor the truth. They label the truth "misinformation".

At least the CIA doesn't try to control (social) media, and control the message. (Sarcasm implied)
I can't help but wonder what would be the pros and cons of Godot instituting an Open Games project in the same way Blender has Open Movies[1]?

1. https://studio.blender.org/films/
Yep. Unfortunately it’s cost-prohibitive for most people.
Unity is finished. Right now.

The only question is how many people they will destroy on their way down.

Any game developer that didn't do it already should really look into creating a limited liability company of some kind and transferring the games into it. The software stores made it really easy and safe to just sell things on a person's name, but for Unity games it's not safe anymore.
The damning thing is that he's not the only one to say this. Ever since the Great Resignation many executives have echoed this sentiment of needing to gain leverage over employees, albeit using more diplomatic words.

There definitely seems to be a fair bit of group think among executives everywhere, whether it's irrational growth, knee-jerk layoffs or the unanimous ending of remote work. Even the statements they put out justifying these unpopular actions use the same rhetoric. So many executives across the world arriving to the exact same conclusion seems sus. Even if they were copying each other, it should take time for things to propagate through the network. It almost feels there is some greater force, above all these executives, who are actually calling the shots and enforcing policy across the industry.
I haven't had the same experience. Given that TOML is basically an INI file, I use it for data that's basically key-value with some categories. It seems fairly obvious, at least to me, that anything beyond that is going to be really ugly to represent.

If I want a key-value file (for some simple preferences), TOML is by far the best out there. For anything more than that, I use YAML (though I should probably reach for a simpler subset of it, as YAML is crazy).
> I may also still be salty about their inability to remember to put cheese in a cheese quesadilla

Wait, what? Did they just hand you a tortilla by itself...?

Has this happened more than once?

That's like ordering a hamburger and them giving you a bun...
I can't comment on what you said but I will say that I should have used a different tone and not imply being a gatekeeper.

It's highly likely my morning java hadn't kicked in properly and I just blurted it out. Sorry!
Thankfully, YAML supports SFINAE
Unity silently removed clause that let you use TOS from version you shipped with
Apple should use financial means to destroy these companies. Working at these companies should be a black mark on the records of the employees. I won't hire someone who worked at one of these companies. I know probably my own government tries to hack into people's phones, I don't want that either; my govt should not be selling their capabilities to other governments. If we make working at these companies something terrible on someone's jobs record, we might prevent people from going there.

Companies that do these kinds of things are a menace to society, because those tools get used for evil purposes (not just spying on terrorists). Plenty of other governments benefit from using these spy tools themselves, but we all know they fall into the hands of despotic governments like Saudi Arabia and they are used to harass and attempt to control journalists, people advocating against their governments.

What I'd like to see is Apple uses their enormous influence and financial power to sue these companies and drive them out of business. They should financially attack the companies doing this and make it known they will work to destroy them.
>> Therapy is a job that people do to pay the bills after the 10th person they've seen that day.

You're contradicting yourself. Either therapists actually care, or they wouldn't do their job without capitalist incentives. Which is it?
He said “you might have to scan your ID in certain states”; the ID and logbook requirements for a purchase of anything but a “single sales package” (basically, 2 Sudafed) of pseudoephedrine is a federal requirement applying to every US state and territory.
Apple is offering emergency satellite text service.
The photos in the article appear to be of legit notes, as I searched for the word "Angola" without success (they were able to explain away the fraud to the printer by pointing this out).
> gotta either grow revenue or margins more or less continually

Statements like this show how Silicon Valley, over the past decade, has stripped itself of foundational business acumen. A garden-variety MBA should be able to tell you that most businesses don’t do this. They aren’t expected to grow like that. Most businesses in America are steady-state, with low or no real growth. If you promise growth and fail to deliver, yes, you’ll get skewered. If you don’t want that, don’t promise growth.
> e.g. while Russia is responsible for invading, Victoria Nuland was caught red-handed orchestrating the Ukrainian coup/government that precipitated it.

The claim of "orchestrating a coup" is unsupported by evidence, and any both-sidesism does not do justice to the fact that:

a) Ukraine has the right to elect whomever they want to govern their country, despite Russia's preferences to create vassals of its neighbor states

b) Russia has twice invaded Ukraine (as well as other neighbors like Georgia) and thus directly caused hundreds of thousands of deaths on both sides

Between Ukraine and Russia, only one of them is illegally occupying the territory of the other, only one of them is operating torture chambers in the territory of the other, and only one of them has kidnapped more than a million children from the territory of the other. There is no both sides between Russia and Ukraine in terms of guilt.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/04/03/ukraine-apparent-war-cri...

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/03/war-crimes-i...

Israel is doing a great deal to support Ukraine with humanitarian and non-lethal military aid (like helmets) because Iran is on the other side, although you are correct to note that the situation is complicated, largely because of Russia support for a bloody regime in Syria.

https://kyivindependent.com/on-support-for-ukraine-israel-pe...

People focused on US actions during the Yanukovych years seem to believe that he himself was legitimate, when there is much evidence that he was corrupt, anti-democratic and supported by Russia:

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

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/yanukovych-luxury-resid...

As for the 15% claim, I would add that a large part of that 15% supporting Ukraine includes countries that share a border with Russia or its vassals, including eastern EU and NATO states, as well as Japan and S. Korea. Those countries have the most skin in the game, and their position and actions in this conflict should be given much greater weight than the rest of the world. It's not a coincidence that they want Russia's wars of expansion to stop in Donbass.

Ask Finland, Poland, Romania, or any of the Baltic states about who they want to win in Ukraine and you will get a very clear answer. Their populations have all been under the Kremlin's yoke or fought a war against Moscow in living memory.
Don't we have people shrieking on a regular basis about the WMF soliciting small donations from users? WMF doesn't demand donations, only attribution. As long as the license is followed, that is sufficient.

Now, TikTok, being of massive revenue streams, may choose to donate, and join the Benefactors: https://wikimediafoundation.org/support/benefactors/#section...

I see Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Cisco there already. I don't see Bytedance/TikTok, or Facebook/Meta.

It would be sort of ironic, of course, that Wikipedia is blocked by the Great Firewall, but TikTok is benefiting from it over here on the "freedom side".
The Dating Pool Dropouts
Ads are a subset of all communication. So no, communication as a whole isn’t evil, ads are. No cognitive dissonance required.

Nice fallacy though.
I am honestly not sure. Maybe to get people to upgrade to the subscription plans instead of sticking with the free versions by making the free version less reliable? Maybe to make sure telemetry in the free version of the editor works better?

I am also curious to hear from Unity what their reasoning is for putting excessive DRM on a "free" engine.
Unity Engine to Godot Engine Exporter
Really the distinction here is "where are the airports?". I think you're saying "if you're headed to a place with an airport, you'd fly there directly, otherwise the train makes sense".

Which is not wrong, but also doesn't quite capture all the complexities of flying, especially inter-continentally.
Dan Aykroyd does not get the respect he deserves and the title of this article is just one example.
The first organic oscillator that makes catalysis swing
The UK Government Knows How Extreme the Online Safety Bill Is
Unity to Godot importer has me a little excited
This is also a bad take.

GP specifically mentioned prescriptions, so the customer/patient is not at fault here, if there is a judgment here, it is toward the doctors. And just because something earns you money doesn't mean it is above criticism.

I still don't share GP's opinion in that most medicine don't work. I think some don't work, and some is misused or used preemptively, therefore showing no effect. And I am also dubious about a lot of comfort medicine, but for most people I know who are under proper prescription, it is obvious that it works, it includes psychatric medicine.
nice comment, thanks for the very interesting perspective!
No wonder, I recently installed the latest sonoma beta and couldn't for the life of me get Mullvad to work. Glad to hear Mullvad is working on a workaround. I even considered downgrading back to Ventura this morning. I feel validated!
Convert your assets from Unity to Godot
Am I reading this right that it's a binary format for real-time streaming data, similar to Avro, but can include arbitrarily deep nested structures unlike Avro?
Hi, it's you again :)

My aim is to build a open-source mini vercel and netlify alternative.

`x-server` is just a starting point.

I have even more "evil" projects,
like "using file system as database",
I will leave that for another Show HN :) :) :)
I wonder how effective this will be as, AFAIK, most people can't actually touch type.

Then again, I didn't know I could touch type until I did once have to type on a keyboard I couldn't see.

Perhaps this will spur a renaissance in touch typing.
Someone has to pay. If you avoid the business processes, and just dump your science project on “IT”, you’re not serving the organization well.
https://kdl.dev/ is an XML-lite configuration language with a pleasant syntax. It has a neat syntactic feature for commenting things out called "'slashdash' comments".
An example from the spec:

mynode /-"commented" "not commented" /-key="value" /-{
a
b
}

A problem with a node-based design similar to XML compared to something that parses to nested lists and dictionaries is that you pretty much need a query API.
Implementing it takes nontrivial extra work.
This affects KDL implementations:
KDL specifies a query language,
but I think no Python KDL library has implemented it so far.
It limits how useful KDL is in Python, despite there being multiple working parsers.

Edit: Rephrased the second paragraph.
I don't really have specific 'phone' accessories but $29 could pay for something instead of a dongle.
We've kind of min/maxed the design of the smartphone at this point. It's at a physical minimum: a touchscreen and maybe a couple of buttons, but it's also at a utility maximum: you can do almost anything with a phone that you need to use a computer for.

What's next would be what comes after an advanced computer in your pocket. Logically, that must be either a wearable or an implantable device.

At some point, they stopped being phones and became extremely powerful all-purpose computing devices. What comes next?

I just wish alternate form factors of phones had gotten more attention. A plain glass rectangle is absolutely a local minimum of design, but I think it's very far from the best form factor.

For my money, I bet we're stuck with phones until implants become commonplace. There's just not that much else you can do with the 'computer in pocket' form factor

My only other thought is if we discover a reliable method for producing holograms. Then we'll probably see something similar in form to a phone, but which projects a full desktop computer environment, or whatever computing environment is appropriate for the task.
Seems like a good way to teach about sub-pixel rendering and HighDPI. Perhaps abstract so the screen is an addressable pixel (so as not to break the world), divide each virtual pixel into, say, a 4x4 submatrix (or even 8x8, 16x16, etc), and have new (prefixed?) functions that work on the sub-pixels (which ideally map 1:1 to actual screen pixels). For back compat, address pixels with two offets..one in the virtual grid, and one for the sub pixel.
My kids seem to derive benefit from chewable tablets which I tell them to suck on. Curious if anyone has found different research on metabolization in the mouth versus gut?
Perhaps there is kind of a way to improve JSON without changing JSON: use the gron format [0] as config.

Tools can parse it as JSON and that’s it.

[0]: https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
WTF?

> who presents as a highly credible senior-level CIA officer

Isn’t this just telling us that the outlet was unable to confirm that the “whistleblower” was either generally credible or any kind of insider, while trying to put a positive spin on it?
On the one hand, this seems more real than a lot of promotion-ware I've seen: https://github.com/amazon-ion/ion-intellij-plugin#readme

On the other hand, they're not using this for the boto schemas, which seems like a natural place to show that it's able to capture real-world schemas so that makes it hard for me to think this has any traction
I would not argue against the value of professional services. Two that come to mind immediately are lawyers and accountants. It is probably a good idea to seek out professional advice for those. I think a similar case could be made for marketing and sales. One thing to note about lawyers and accountants is that you need accreditation to offer those services. That helps to keep the worst kind of parasitic behavior under control, although it isn't perfect.

But the real defense of my argument is in my own weasel words. "this kind of publisher business is parasitic."

Again, lets just consider the words in the article, starting with the quote I already cited: "part-time entry-lvl intern-like specialists firstly designed to fulfill simple scripted tasks". The CEO of this publishing house hired totally inexperienced people, gave them a couple of months of scripted tasks and then sold them to developers as experts.

Second, another couple of quotes: "That's how within two years we have cooperated with almost 150 studios and produced 40+ games simultaneously at the peak." and "all in all there were 6 ROAS-positive soft launches, none of which didn’t happen as a hit."

I find these a bit hard to parse, but what I gather is that they worked on at least 40+ games of which only 6 had positive metrics and none of which was a success. Imagine that in a world of professionals like lawyers and accountants: having worked with that many businesses and never won a case or successfully balanced the books.

The real tragedy, IMO, is that there are likely numerous examples of publishers with equal levels of inexperience (or incompetence) that probably just happened to luck across the right dev at the right moment. Once you sign a contract with one of these leeches you are on the hook to pay them even if the "expert advice" provided by their 6 month veterans is as worthless as you would expect.
Hopefully they won't break my current flow via changes to the auth/state model.

Currently, it doesn't seem to mind that each browser tab is a different login to a different workspace, so I can just ignore the multi-workspace features. This works even though they have the same apparent web origin, just different "client" IDs in the URL.
“presents as” is a pretty wild bit, too. They gave the impression of being a spook
And just like that it’s gone from the front page of HN even w/50 points in 20 minutes.
Your way of thinking, shared transparently not just in your "why not" section but throughout, is a breath of fresh air in the miasma of grabbing a tech because dogma or hype.

It's not that I agree with all your choices. It's that I'll defend to the end your method of making them.
I wish they added some way of exporting wasm funcs as well so that they could be called from host. Tinygo wasm target supports both "exports" and "imports". The other thing that is worse compared to tinygo is the generated binary size seems to be about 10x larger. From my brief look at the transpiled .wat printout a lot of included funcs aren't being called anywhere...
There is PGP you know?

EDIT: obviously this only sort of solves for the "individual" side of your remark but it is something at least.
The State of Async Rust
Compared to JSON, TOML is more complicated.

That means it's harder to learn, that it will be supported by fewer tools, and that the tools that do support it will have more bugs.
I always thought it was for Phenyl-Ephrine, but this is so funny/perfect I will use this when explaining to people to not buy Sudafed unless it's behind the counter.
The anglosphere (US/UK/Australia/New Zealand/Canada) + EU is 470 million + 448 million respectively. That's the entirety of the Western world, and less than 12% of the world's population. One of JFK's greatest speeches [1] hit on this point:

"We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient that we are only six percent [4% now] of the world's population, and that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind that we cannot write every wrong or reverse each adversity and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem."

The sort of wisdom and pragmatism completely absent from politicians since JFK.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc0WrPGvWOM
"And they might be right. But mathematical functions have one big advantage over non-mathematical ones — their type signature tells you everything that the function does. This is probably the reason why most functional languages are strongly-typed."

I'm confused about this statement. types give you important contextual information about the function in a summarized form, but surely we can have two functions with the same type signature that perform different mappings.
Because that is what they advertised they would do [1].

“Apple makes the most secure mobile devices on the market. Lockdown Mode is a groundbreaking capability that reflects our unwavering commitment to protecting users from even the rarest, most sophisticated attacks,” said Ivan Krstić, Apple’s head of Security Engineering and Architecture.

I mean, we know nobody on their team actually believes Lockdown mode can protect against state funded actors with even a tiny $10M budget since their Lockdown mode total bypass bug bounty is only $2M.

But they did say it in their marketing, so they should be held to it even if we know for a fact that they are totally incapable of doing so. This is not a question of money, it is a question of ability, and we know they do not have that.

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/07/apple-expands-commitm...
because its good for digestion