skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a very good question, made all the weirder by even Microsoft's own cross-platform apps using %Home% instead of %AppData%. VS Code uses %Home%/.vscode/ and dotnet (.Net 5+) uses %Home%/.dotnet/.

One of the things that made a work computer more complicated than it needed to be was that part of the network setup redirected %Home% some of the time to a network drive (Z:) (a "Home" drive) and other times %Home% was still on the default drive in the default user folder location. I'd constantly have to copy files like npm's .npmrc from one folder to the other to make sure that every use of npm found a right copy of .npmrc.

That "home drive" setup is a relatively common in my experience ancient Windows corporate hack for hand roaming some user files (sometimes including %Documents% which was likely the real intent but %Home% used to be easier to redirect than just %Documents%), so there is a sense of irony in some tools using %Home% as a non-roaming storage only to have it haphazardly roam due to some ancient corporate policy. It's also funny that it is possible for there to be two %Home% folders on Windows in competing locations with different contents, because the %Home% redirect seems buggy.

I think part of it is that there is a growing sense on Windows that %Home% is for "non-roaming, developers might to text edit this" configuration and %AppData% is for more UI-driven config that is less expected to be edited. A lot of developers learn %AppData% just fine, but there is some cross-platform convenience for developer life if you can always in PowerShell (or bash) just vim `~\.somercfile` and expect that to always work. But I still think using %AppData% more consistently is possibly a better thing for Windows apps to do.
That's what they did though. It was several hundred thousand dollars in revenue before any of it kicked in.
Only property? Don't keep all eggs in the same basket. I keep my net worth in both property and bitcoin.
> your data shipped off to a company that knows how to use it against you

OK I hate Google as much as the next guy but that's just ridiculous. In what way does Google use your data against you? How would that be profitable?

I guess you might consider targeted ads as being assault against you?
"We used 2 definitions for depression:

(1) a strict definition requiring self-reported clinician–diagnosed depression and regular antidepressant use and

(2) a broad definition requiring clinical diagnosis and/or antidepressant use.

We estimated hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% CIs for depression according to quintiles of UPF intake using Cox proportional hazards models, with adjustment for known and suspected risk factors for depression, including age, total caloric intake, body mass index (BMI; calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared), physical activity, smoking status, menopausal hormone therapy, total energy intake, alcohol, comorbidities (eg, diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia), median family income, social network levels, marital status, sleep duration, and pain."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
A lot of the relevant Java projects either started there or got brought in pretty early.
> Loads of housing is getting built

Read more.
You're correct ... in theory.

At least in this project example code, i see tons of empty class like Result.java with empty content, on separate file.

So is this normal convention for Java dev ? No eslint (or similar tool) to prevent boilerplateness ? That's my point.

Do you Java dev have strict standard on prevent such things spread on all codebase, ecosystem,... ?
I haven't seen a DVD drive in a computer I have bought in almost 10 years.

I only see one today in the PS5 and Xbox Series X, and from the recent Xbox leak it looks like that's going away.
I've bought 2 books because I saw them on tiktok. Seeing as there is nothing special or unique about me, I'm sure thousands of others have as well.

Now I'm curious how much HN is a driver of book buying. I've bought books solely based on praise from an HN comment.
Expressive Text-to-Image Generation with Rich Text [video]
The man is 68 and preparing for an apocalypse for when he's going to be 95?
After the rug pull of the Pixel Pass, I'm done with Google. That was one of the scammiest things they've ever done. I'm still fucking pissed about it and it's been a month.
`kotlinc-native` is one of the slowest compilers out there. Try compiling a "Hello, World!" program. It's slower than `rustc`. By a lot.
Could it not be argued that the situation they're in is exactly because "big number go brrrr" over building a sustainable business?
> Why do you think that reading in general is good?

Seriously? To quote Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary:

>> You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
This is easy to understate, given how panned fiction and YA both are in other venues. Even Reddit's /r/books is (and long has been) absurdly stuck up when it comes to YA novels.

Dear YA prudes, remember that Heinlein and Asimov (and so many others) wrote books aimed at that demographic too.
I’m not referring to the argument in the abstract, but the specific case of making unemployed 3.5 million truck drivers and the cost savings getting passed onto consumers in the form of lower-priced goods. If this was a realistic scenario (setting aside that the driverless tech is not there) then why are the cost savings from exploiting truck drivers by making them all over-worked, independent contractors being passed on to consumers now? Instead, what we have is unrestrained corporate greed, with companies jacking up the price of goods to obscene levels and keeping the profits for themselves.
The use case I’m referring to has:

- a paper letter with an audit trail through the postal system

- a printed out email to include headers that has the customer service rep +1’ing a total loan payment went through

- etc

It’s not an everyday thing but it seems like lunacy to rely on essentially a servicenow queue for any important state change that relies on corporate trust of your actions that took away a revenue stream for them.
It would be somewhat less insane to say the Fifth than the Fourth, but its insane either way.
Still, making billions with your data and a failed promise of privacy.

https://proton.me/blog/apple-ad-company

They are no better than anyone else, they just convinced you so.
(deprecated)
Wave looks really nice, though it’s a shame they only support US tax. For Australians the accounting package has to support “STP2” which is the governments API for reporting payroll and super, otherwise it’s borderline illegal to use.
I thought it was just me! Search on the Google Play store is just useless. It shows you 1-2 relevant results if you're lucky, then a few pages of ads, followed by completely unrelated results. When I know full well that what I'm searching is there (and indeed it shows up in Aurora Store or even google search no problem).
the prosody seems a little robotic, and kind of jarring. maybe I'm spoiled by Bark, even in its rough and slow state, but is this really that much of a step up from Tacotron2?
Being able to spot a small white object in the sky and hearing it are very different things.

I put drone operators on the same level as those who hike with speakers blaring. No one is being hurt, no laws being broken. Just inconsiderate considering a large part of the experience for most in nature is the serenity.
I am hopeful that in the event of the resource wars, I live close enough to a juicy first strike target that I'll be dead before I have to inhabit the hell that will follow.
Since we're sharing anecdata: I eliminated all sugar from my diet for a month[1], it didn't change a thing. I didn't feel better or worse. I didn't have more or fewer sugar "cravings". Food didn't taste more or less sweet than before.

[1] This was during the early pandemic so I was staying inside, cooking all my own meals from scratch, and since I was dieting I was strictly controlling what I ate.
The dude who's been hunting for his hard drive with his wallet keys on a dumpster yard would like to speak a word with you. Or those who had their disks seized by the government and the coins auctioned off. Or those where someone placed malware on their PCs or phones and exfiltrated keys.
I find it hard to argue with his reasoning. Temperatures are rising, we know why, and we are not doing anything about it because too many people make too much money from the status quo. We will most definitely not hit any targets that will meaningfully slow the increase of heating, and society as we currently know it will change, and not for the better.
Probably more for his children.
My single feature that keeps me on Android is notifications. I want an unobtrusive visual only (I never want my phone to vibrate or make a noise unless my wife or kid is calling) indication that there's something needing my attention. On Android a tiny icon appears in the status bar. On iOS it's an obnoxious pop up banner or nothing at all.
in my experience, technical details have been figured out on a whiteboard before, and then it can happen that a PR is just going to be LGTM and merge. not all conversations happen on a PR system. people talk IRL too
Self-reported data, it seems if someone is asking you about any changes in your period, you might just start to notice if its heavy or light, and reporting 'unusually heavy' might just be a side effect of being asked the question.
Is this CGI? The shadows and movements of the block pieces don't seem real at all. Almost like they're from the PS3 tech demo era.
I wonder what the engine does to the road during takeoff. How many times can a road be used this way?
Absolute fear mongering.

https://fee.org/articles/rejoice-the-earth-is-becoming-green...
This is perfect. Not a single wasted syllable.
sometimes i feel thr best person in the world would be the one who makes a transpiler for inefficient languages into a thing like go or such. maybe also packing microservices into applications... it might sound a bit cynical but looking at results of big players savinf 60-90% of costs. how many coals we burn for wasted cycles...
i know its perhaps an unrealistic goal, but you cant stop me from dreaming :')
A great example. Here's a similar one from me: https://cloud.typingmind.com/share/d2000ffc-a1bf-4b71-b59d-c....

Context: had a bunch of photos and videos I wanted to share with a colleague, without uploading them to any cloud. I asked GPT-4 to write me a trivial single-page gallery that doesn't look like crap, feeding it the output of `ls -l` on the media directory, got it on first shot, copy-pasted and uploaded the whole bundle to a personal server - all in few minutes. It took maybe 15 minutes from the idea of doing it first occurring to me, to a private link I could share.

I have plenty more of those touching C++, Emacs Lisp, Python, generating vCARD and iCalendar files out of blobs of hastily-retyped or copy-pasted text, etc. The common thread here is: one-off, ad-hoc requests, usually underspecified. GPT-4 is quite good at being a fully generic tool for one-off jobs. This is something that never existed before, except in form of delegating a task to another human.
screw the drone, anybody know what the motorized surfboard things are?
Absolutely, that's why STOVL is the defining feature of the F-35B. It's common knowledge where American and allied air bases are, by making them able to base anywhere with modern infrastructure it makes "zerg rushes" untenable. The astute reader will note recent examples of countries with outdated airframes being vulnerable to massive surprise attacks.
Propaganda and misinformation is apparently ok when it's part of a popular religion?
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/20610/why-are-nu...
Maybe. I think we're going to buy time with geoengineering, but it won't solve everything or actually fix any core issues.
Now that I think of it, it reminds of me of the notorious case of Dan White who shot Harvey Milk and George Moscone who invoked

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

There was a lot of anger about him getting a relatively short sentence leading to

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

but his mental health struggle may well have been real because he died by his own hand less than two years after he got out of prison.
Should I worry about noise pollution?
Totally agree, nobody can manage that amount of containers, it doesn't mean if it was self-hosted would excuse the deployment is not necessary to be easy, always the deployment of self-hosted should be easy with sample CLIs. and also providing pre-configured instances on the most popular cloud services like on DigitalOcean to deploy the app with sample clicks (instead of CLIs) that would great additional for non-techincal people and that's what we're seeking for, in terms of 3 instance actually we used Mongo for Agenda.js but we want to get rid of it ASAP.
What the hell are you saying?
Having spent the last two years reading news about Russian-Ukrainian war it's pretty refreshing to see how many people still associate DJI drones with peaceful life and entertainment. And seeing a drone flying in the mountains my first thought was about Karabakh.
I mean, not to be morbid, it's hard for me to imagine doing anything but the "easy way out" (suicide of some form) if society does collapse in my lifetime.

My thoughts are based on two points:
(1) Much of the richness of my life comes from the comforts of modern society. In a world where all that is ripped away it's hard to imagine having a ton of will to go on. Family would maybe be enough, but I live hundreds of miles away, so it's unlikely I would ever be able to contact them.
(2) Anything I can do to prepare tautologically increases my value to raiders/anyone able to use violence on me, and often increases my visibility. If I save and grow seeds, I will have a valuable cache of calories. If I stockpile weapons, I will have a valuable cache of weapons.
Yes, I liked it when I encountered it a few years back. Lately been using redis and rq on a recent project since we're already using redis for caching. Is there much difference other than that?
IPCC and other reputable groups estimate deaths due to climate change at 0.25 - 5 million per year in 2050. That's less than COVID, but in the same ballpark. It's significant, but hardly society collapsing levels.
The Fairphone is aiming to upstream their new phone's drivers. Chromebooks typically run a much closer to mainline kernel than Android devices.

https://liliputing.com/fairphone-5-is-a-repairable-e699-smar...

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20230830-fp5-initial-v1-0-5...
This was more relevant before CC but I still tend to include EPS in exports as a fallback option.
The Catholic Church has a long history of actively protecting child abusers, and it keeps happening. They then, as one of the richest organizations on earth, set up their organization to allow them to "bankruptcy" their way out ever having any consequences.

Couple that with the catholic church's long standing stance of "anything LGBT or adjacent is child abuse" and you have an organization who's stance on "stopping child abuse" is "we must criminalize anyone or thing that is LGBT, but abusing children is a-ok, and we must make child victims feel like they are the guilty party, and making them aware that telling anyone about the abuse might send them to the 'police' is absolutely something abusers use".

It is absolutely correct to call out the involvement of any such organization in any claimed "child abuse prevention" system, especially a system that has no path to stop actual predators and criminals and by design has no possible mechanism for checks or audits.

I won't even consider trusting the catholic church's involvement in child welfare until they: compensate every victim, publicly report every abuser they have protected and provide all documentation to police, and they send every single person involved in covering up and protecting these child abusers to the police (because jfc they are child abusers), and then we can start addressing the various "schools" for native children that were basically torture centers for children that abused, killed, and raped hundreds if not thousands.
This site's so good. I use the Ian knot every time I wear sneakers. It is, by far, the best knot for keeping shoes tight...but it takes some time to get right.
> My opinion of Google has gradually deteriorated over time to the point now where I actively avoid using anything made by Google

It's worth pointing out the Nexus 5 released 10 years ago and things have definitely changed (improved, IMO) in that time.
Not sure that it will happen, but there's a good chance of unforeseen and/or 2nd order knock-on effects.

A good example: crop failures happening not in some areas once or twice, but simultaneous in several important areas. Potentially taking out a good chunk of an important crop like maize, soy, wheat or similar. A recent study on this:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38906-7

Things can turn ugly pretty quick if people go hungry.

Other possibilities: out of control wildfires across the globe, mass deaths due to a high-humidity heatwave combined with power (read: airco) failure in a big city, another pandemic (or combo of multiple diseases going pandemic), methane releases kicking climate change in overdrive, the list goes on.

Maybe it won't be so bad. Or maybe we've seen nothing yet. But you can't really rule out anything.
What a ridiculous article. One of the temperature predictions hinges on us burning all of the fossil fuels. Poor article quality to see on HN.
I've had a Mini V1 since 2020 and here are my uses:

* Fun Flights
* Aerial photography of yard projects
* Towing fishing lures way beyond furthest castable distance
* Fireworks videos
* Hiking Scouting
* Surveillance drone ( Caught some motorbikers trespassing on property and tracked them back to house )
* Firewatch
* Pester folks safely from patio
Wow. That’s amazing. I have a bunch of Hollerith punched cards from my dad. I guess my kids will have a bunch of jpeg files from me…
His estimates are based on “burning all fossil fuels on earth leading to a 16 degree rise in temperature.”

By his reasoning, if all we do is figure out how to grow enough crops by 2050, this disaster will be mostly averted.

This seems trivially easy if the alternative is total societal collapse and the death of all mankind.

Once it’s in rich people’s best interest to fix the problem, it’ll get fixed. Rich people don’t want to get eaten in the apocalypse, and total societal collapse would hit the richest the worst (most to lose when money is meaningless). By rich, I am not just talking about Billionaires. Americans earning a median wage are rich by global standards.

Not convincing at all.
> because too many people make too much money from the status quo

Yes, this is why. Not because it’s an incredibly hard problem affecting all 8B people on this planet. Glad you sorted it out!
> git/cloud/external drive backups, you are unlikely to lose them

I can guarantee with total certainty that github & cloudprovider & your external drives will not exist in 200 years. Probably not even in 50.

If you want to leave anything at all (photos, documents) for your grandchildren to see, how would you do it?
That article says nothing about human society. The Earth will always be just fine. It's us that won't be.
First Vlog – Miami Entrepreneur (10M) [video]
Posted my first vlog. Selling my software company and doing 10mil in ecommerce before that.

Would love any feedback and comments
Providing these links without context, after claiming that MIT licensed engines won’t have any issues, sort of implies that open source engines can be used fine to target consoles.

The fact developers have been able to ship Godot games on console doesn’t help much unless those developers are willing to share whatever proprietary engine-to-console-SDK-interface code they wrote.

Unity and Unreal, in contrast, will happily license equivalent code to you.

I think this section of the second Godot link is worth pulling out and quoting:

> … it is impossible for Godot to include first-party console support out of the box. Even if someone would contribute it, we simply could not host this code legally in our Git repository for anyone to use.

> Additionally, it would not be possible to distribute this code under the same license that Godot uses (MIT) because this is in direct conflict with the proprietary licenses and non-disclosure terms that console manufacturers require to have access to the knowledge needed to write this code.

> To make it simple, it is not possible for Godot to support consoles as an open source project.
Before you recommend anything, read this about MSSQL's dangerously borked MERGE https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3074/use-caution-with...

Anyone using MSSQL should read it.
I guess it's kind of hard for me to imagine any city so amazing that people are not just willing but grateful to live in a literal pod. I've worked remotely for SV companies and I just don't get the appeal in the internet era. To each their own, I suppose.
> I guess recently realized how consumer market in west isn't as profitable as enterprise/defense market so they shut down their consumer division.

Subsidies and regulation played a major role here, although probably not the same kinds the parent post is whining about.

The US government and enterprise market requires drones which are compatible with US Federal requirements ("Blue UAS") as well as state-by-state bans on DJI drones. It's a lot easier to compete in a space where your primary competition is being made illegal.
The band should be what the company is willing to pay the new hire, not what everyone with that title is making.
In an inverted pendulum the support pushes up, in a rocket it pushes along the direction the rocket is pointed. You only need to steer the rocket, not balance it.
That is a big jump to make since you don't know what else they are eating.

This is like assuming that because I may have gone to get a candy bar or desert with dinner it means that I am not getting my proper nutrients in other places. Which is absurd.

Personally I feel like it is likely the other way around (and actually seems to be backed up by part of this artless with some calling question.
Not quite. Dedenting template literal is a pain in the ass, which should have been supported from day one.

The TC39 committee actually come up with an additional proposal for that use case.
those are just some examples of things i have used it for! when you login, you can fully configure the topics and the data sources that each agent has access to. so you're spot on that it does a pretty good job of navigating the web if you just give it google access.
the other sources in addition to google that you can choose to let it access are:
News API
arXiv
Hacker News
Financial Markets News
According to the article he has a 13 year old, so that would make sense.
I've seen a ton of press from Mozilla recently and none of it has been about Firefox. It's all been shitty virtue signaling like this.

I don't give a shit about Mozilla's lofty ideals when they aren't actually doing anything to achieve them.

I disliked Mozilla enough years ago to switch to chrome and now that I want to get rid of chrome I have no other options.

It seems clear that Mozilla doesn't care to or feel the need to actually improve the product. They'll continue to exist because they must so why bother with a product? Yeah sure, just blow a ton of money on some modern art exhibit why not?

God, it's bad enough that we have a chrome monopoly. Does Mozilla really have to be actively shitty in response? Why can't we have an actually good alternative?
As a photographer, just a few years ago this would seem like a crazy move to me. But these days with AI image generators producing gorgeous images, I see a lot less value in landscape photography every day.