skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with other commentators here arguing that there's no benefit this monitor would bring over simply reducing screen brightness. But I also think the claim made by the article here is at best, miscommunicated: that the bounced light improves the monitor light quality itself. On this point, I think the criticism from HN is correct, there wouldn't be a meaningful difference between equivalent bounced light, and light from the monitor. There might be a possible benefit from the lack of light flickering from AC-driven electric lights, but that is only true if the space is daylit.

However, I think there is a quantifiable benefit from making the monitor light directly dependent on environmental light, which forces our perception to adjust to a more, low contrast, diffuse environmental context.

Part of the problem is that "brightness" in the context of monitors is different from how "brightness" is used in science of light, where it is defined as the subjective perception of light that changes relative to differences in light levels[1]. So you can see your way to the washroom in the middle of the night with no lights, but can't see your way back after you turned on the washroom light, because your subjective perception of light (brightness) has changed, even though objectively the amount of visible light (illuminance) has not changed.

Therefore, having a screen lit by the environment, would shift your perception of light to better see duller, low-light conditions, which is better for our eyes, since more uniform, diffuse light causes less strain than strong, directed light.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightness

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_efficiency_function
Ok but can someone explain what this means
AFAICT the video is a modern take on Thomas Jefferson's arguments.

What do you mean by "the indivisibility of intellectual property." ?
Or that some towns may have... unusual substrings (Scunthorpe, Shitterton, Fingringhoe, and the ever-famous Fucking in Austria, now renamed to Fugging).
that's the definition of vested interest

it also does not bebefit the average homeowner - your house is worth more, but you cant sell ut or youll have nowhere to live
Probably territoriality started with early multicellular organisms around 500 million years ago.
No? That's like saying "if my glass can fit a drop of water, then it can also fit an ocean". There is an upper bound to how much processing power there can be in the universe, and 512 bit keys need more than that to be cracked.
Not the parent poster, but I wouldn't race to solve the problem via supporting many more connectors that require lots of config options. You'll just spend time supporting lots of connectors.

Instead, recommend that users use another (connector heavy) tool to get data in -- my mind jumped to using Benthos to convert a CSV or parquet file (or any other input stream) into a series of JSON calls -- and just ask users to hammer ingestion requests at your server. From there, your job is "just" to handle JSON ingestion as fast as you can, rather than maintain many connectors.

If JSON becomes a problem, then find exactly one other well-defined file format for bulk data loads (parquet, perhaps?), and support that.

When I saw this submission, I think I fell in love. JSON to get data in; SQL to get data out; what could be simpler?
I see a lot of people saying offensive things on UK sub-Reddits, often about Muslims, but sometimes about the French too. It's frightening just how much illegal speech is said in plain sight...

There was a video I saw circling on Twitter earlier of a hateful guy being critical of Islam and even going so far as to suggest Muhammad was pedophile... Thankfully he was swiftly attacked by those he offended and subsequently arrested for his hatefulness, but just imagine how many hateful things like this are said behind closed doors every day. The amount of offensive things said to English footballers on Twitter during the world cup was horrible for example.
Not to mention that for the user, Lightning was a much superior plug.

Small, very little chance to break or short a pin, and the fact that it had rounded corners meant it was always easy to get it into the slot.

The various USB connectors always give me grief at the time of plugging in. Some are worse than others (micro and mini are by far the worst of the bunch), some are ok though not great (C is ok IMO).
S&P 500 falls into correction after losing 10%
But humans are the easiest to con.

I've worked in fraud prevention professionally for years and adding a human verification layer to the equation would make me vastly less likely to believe a suspicious applicant was legitimate.
It's more satire than a joke.
https://archive.ph/IUf2E
> "That's correct; I'm not saying those things."

Then your claim "Society in capitalism is generally separate to markets, e.g. your local community, or charirites, or churches, or sport, or schools." has fallen over. Those things are taken over by capitalism-slash-markets because there is profit to be made, above all other concerns (e.g. the health of football players / brain trauma, the constant advertising, the promotion of players to celebtrities and the association of product with celebrity, etc. etc. These things are community-destroying but profit-making.
> The problem with NIMBYism can be solved with compensation

Does it work the other way - ifgovernment improves an area, for example builds mass transit, and property values go up, do homeowners pay?
The monarchy of Canada is the monarchy in the UK. But yes you're right. Pedantically we are both accurate as I intentionally didn't say they swore to the monarchy of UK.

In any case it's a distinction that leads to the same guy.
Started claiming to care about quality*
Nice with native desktop UIs! It's like a lost art these days.

Did a desktop app some years back using wxWidgets. Slightly less ambitious than doing separate native UIs for each platform like you're doing here, but still gave me a native enough feel that I was happy with the compromise.
Nice, thanks for finding that.

Excerpt:

> FreeFall’s antenna technology is unique because it is using a spherical reflector. In the past, antennas always used a parabolic antenna. A parabolic antenna focuses energy to a “single point” – while a spherical antenna focuses energy to a “focal line”. Parabolic antennas are symmetric about only one axis which severely limits field of view. It also requires precise pointing for high gain and has more complex packaging, deployment and on-orbit operations.
The spherical antenna provides a wider field of view for antennas and high gain without re-pointing of an antenna. Combining a spherical antennas with inflatables is the key to achieving a large aperture in a simple lightweight system.
Does it work if you have a work vpn like Cisco Anyconnect or Cato. Proxyman does not with those Vpns :(
Some relevant PL research

STM: https://cs.brown.edu/~mph/HerlihyM93/herlihy93transactional....

Region based memory management: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-based_memory_management

Rust lifetimes, originally from Cyclone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_%28programming_languag...

Mutable value semantics: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.12678.pdf
It’s The Register, a tech tabloid. You can trust that almost every headline is exaggerated for clicks to the very edge of truthfulness.
The king of Belgium has anything to do with Canada?
So your best bet for a modern language is one from 1966?
A pretty obvious consequence of the American war on funding scientific research.
Vector Databases (Are All the Rage)
Speeding and drunk driving are the two big ones that kill people.
This is exactly it. Nobody assumes these factors are always true. Absolutely nobody in the fraud prevention chain.

They're just true often enough that the company is better off declining to serve the few exceptions than it is trying to build things around the edge cases.
As someone who uses ChatGPT4 pretty much nonstop all day (I have a monitor dedicated to it) - it's almost certainly a 10-20x in fields I have no knowledge of (writing in languages I've never used, dealing with OS/Kernel/Network constructs that are unfamiliar to me) - I can knock off in an hour what might have taken me a day or two previously - but I don't think I've ever had a task where I could say that I completed in 1 hour what would have taken 100 hours - though I would love to hear of counterclaims from people who have been able to do so - definitely not saying impossible, just that I haven't had that experience yet.
> Geolocated IP addresses always indicate the preferred and correct human language of the person on the other end.

My Google Maps language (on my PC) is STILL in Portuguese, but I only happened to be visiting Portugal (for 3 days) when they did the subdomain switch... Every time I change it back to English, it changes the language back the next time I visit the site. It's super frustrating.
I like it so far, I've used it for my personal projects but it hasn't even hit 1.0 and is basically only developed by one guy, so there are still major dangers with using it.

Very easy to get started though, and even comes with stuff like cron jobs and email sending triggers built in and able to use in super simple manner https://pocketbase.io/docs/js-jobs-scheduling/

according to his benchmark you can serve 10,000 realtime connections on a 4 dollar a month server https://pocketbase.io/faq.

my basic deployment was just rsyncing my pocketbase folder into my vps and creating a systemd service. i'm now adding some github actions and docker files but it might not be necessary https://www.programonaut.com/pocketbase-as-a-framework-deplo...
You’re making my point. Humans are prone to this sort of largesse and they use human safety as an excuse to do so (“why don’t you want our cops safe?”).

Let’s remove that excuse.
In my mind the zune only came out a few years ago and I'm ready to buy mine but I just haven't gotten around to it.

I have a 'to find' list which is currently a brown zune, a very specific Mickey mouse shaped MP3 player sold in disney, a purple hong Kong edition Gameboy advance and a type of tamagotchi called a nekotcha in green which I actually recently found by accident on a Japanese gaming store!
> No.

a very similar scenario played out this way in another commonwealth realm in 1975

the monarchy endures
Do we know they were targeted? From what I have heard, the attacks have been so broad that anyone could have died in them.
On Territory of Nations
Nah referring to England's king.
> one has more horsepower, you would want the one with fewer?

Not necessarily, I would choose using other factors. I argue we should rely less on rarely practical characteristics (maximum power / brigthness) and add more day-to-day aspects into reviews and search filters.

There are few qualities usually mentioned along side displays: size, technology, resolution, colour rating, contrast ratio, and max brightness. I think brightness matters less past some point and we really should focus more on traits listed by @boplicity and @dijit (there's got to be more).

Similarly with cars: I don't care about top speed as long as it goes upto the motorway limit, I don't care about engine power as long as car feels nice in real life; I pay attention to size (will it be comfortable in the city and in my tight parking lot?), fuel consumption, interior quality, luggage space, steering sensations.

> Just like if a MacBook Pro came in either 1600nits or 400nits, you’d pick 400?

Well, if the 400 nits one has an advantage (for example it has OLED, so only the letters will burn my eyes in the evenings, not the whole area of the screen) then I would pick that one.
For a field in which a large fraction (if not a majority) of the people in industry have (nominally at least) science degrees, CS research takes a fairly long time to penetrate into industry. Rust 1.0 had few, if any, features that weren't demonstrated in academia 30 years earlier.
you think additional housing for other people and asbestos refinery plants are equivalent?
> industrial processing plants built next door, just like nobody wants a 5 story apartment building

English-speaking peoples have such crazy issues with apartment they compare them to carcinogenic pollution.
That's very much intentional, they often strongly want teams to be in the same room for a significant percent of the time, but vastly prefer internal remote to external remote.

There does seem to be a gain for the company, one that very often isn't necessary but all other things equal the company will try to capture. I see the argument that remote work should be mandated as part of labor rights in many more cases than it currently is. Until it is, companies like these will continue to favor on-site work.

I need to get out of the habit of calling it in-person work and instead call it on-site work in these cases.

Most on-site work has a significant telework component.

I should also call it telework when it's on site to avoid confusing it with true remote work. Or whatever the most clear terms are.
I love all these new noninvasive QS gadgets, but for me the problem will always remain that to find meaningful/useful correlations, you always need to input a lot of data manually (in your example:"I just drank a coffee".)

Until that's solved, and I don't see how it could be, they will remain mostly useless toys to me (who am utterly lacking the discipline to enter data reliably enough for statistical analysis).
(Without some truly insane set of circumstances) the biggest crisis since the abdication of Edward VIII. It would threaten the very continuance of the Monarchy.

Charles can withhold consent in the same sense as he can shoot himself in the face.
I'm not disputing the efficiency improvements, and it's not pessimistic. It's what happened. There's a few people recently commenting how there were no issues post takeover and how Elon made Twitter profitable and... no, neither of those is true.
That doesn’t alter the point that he’s still responsible for the things happening in his name.

Just because he’s selfish and doesn’t want to jeopardize the things his position brings him, doesn’t me he bears no responsibility or culpability.

Maybe refusing royal assent wouldn’t change anything (it likely wouldn’t), he still assents and the law goes forward with his name on it.
My point is that enjoying a free, cushy, completely out of touch lifestyle in exchange for acting as a PR figleaf for the government still leaves them responsible for the actions they allow themselves to be a figleaf for, even if they do nothing but go where and do what their ministers direct.
> Quality is an after thought taken care of by what passes for peer review.

Cynical and generally wrong. Peer review of papers and grant applications is obviously far from perfect—-just like humanity and our messy cultures—-but it often works well nonetheless.

We read the horror stories but read less about shining successes.
> There's something really important about that dual view of, this is what it's supposed to do, and this is what it does. And tools can help check that they agree!

Isn’t this the whole concept behind writing tests?
If you're taking about sustaining a culture change, the doctoral students must be selected such that they will both seek academic research and avoid grant-seeking behaviors. That's why I think it's a solution, but I suppose it's not THE solution.

A few more ideas which come to mind right now include:

- Stop treating the grant-seeking people as members of the faculty. If a professor is interested in doing academic research, the department funds a maximum of two doctoral students (something done at IIT Bombay, to my knowledge, though the exact quantity may vary). Hire grant-seeking researchers exclusively in a university-affiliated "research institute", physically and departmentally removed from the faculty. Don't call them professors; call them researchers.

- Make faculty prioritize. I know multiple computer science faculty who are tenured professors at a major institution but are actually working full-time for tech companies, yet they weren't on sabbatical. At least one of these professors moved across the country to the Bay Area, was (to my knowledge) relived of their teaching duties, and still tried to advise doctoral students. This practice should not be allowed. Free up the salary for faculty who care about the core mission of the university: education.

- Develop an intensive doctoral curriculum tightly focused on performing academic research. To my knowledge, the acquisition of academic research skills is arcane. Certainly the academic advisor should pass these skills to their student, but it seems that too many faculty are wrapped up in grant-seeking behaviors to show them. Doctoral students need to be explicitly taught the necessary skills to be a successful professor, which can only happen when the vast majority of doctoral students are attempting to perform academic research and not grant-seeking research.

- Create a researcher pathway in the "research institute." If a student applies for the doctoral program but doesn't wish to perform academic research in their career, offer them a junior researcher position in the research institute with opportunities to advance as a researcher, which is honestly what some students who get their doctoral degree actually want. If one was to award a terminal degree to the researcher, it would not be a PhD.

I am an eternal optimist on these topics. I strongly believe that universities can still thrive, but they need to adapt by making hard administrative delineations and creating alternative paths for entrants.
I think the implication is he wants to run industrial air-changers 24/7, basically turning his bathroom into a fume-hood, and then venting it outside.

So, same idea as bathroom fan but really big and running it less intermittently. He wants a big industrial air-changer so his bathroom is less dank.

One problem is this will definitely suck a lot of heat out of the house. You might want to only run it when a sensor detects humidity, and just give it a ton of hysterisis/etc so that it runs a relatively long time. Pulling a bunch of heat out of your house 24/7 will be expensive and will cause other problems (like extreme low humidity since the furnace is running much more, which will lead to crazy amounts of static etc). You can of course run a humidifier (or whole-house humidifier) etc but it's generally not without problems to just dump air 24/7.

(I had similar sentiments around my current house not having good air handling for the stove, if you are frying something it can get pretty greasy/nasty inside even with the fan on, and you can't always open a window depending on the weather.)

On the other hand, this also might help with CO2/oxygen levels, which might lead to better overall health/comfort too, because your air is being cycled more aggressively. The overall thrust that houses are getting too airtight nowadays is generally correct, and this has negative health effects too. It is, again, unfortunately balanced against heating costs (energy efficiency seals the house up, then we circulate the air out...) and other problems. If the house is super breezy (or has air changers aggressively changing the air) then you're also pumping out all your heat and humidity.

If you are going to have some strong air changers though, you could run a heat pump in the air changer stage too. Being able to spend 1 unit of energy to move 10 units of heat from the exhaust back to the intake would be ideal, and the air is going outside anyway so you might as well dump waste cold (or waste heat, in the summer) outside while you're doing it.

An easier step, if you have the space in your bathroom, would just be to run a dehumidifier in the bathroom. Obviously would be pointless/inefficient during a shower, but maybe you could have a switch where one pole is "bathroom fan on" and the other one is "dehumidifier on". Or get a timer switch and just run it for an hour after the shower is done.

It is also worth noting that if you get the humidity under control in general, that the house itself will act as an "anchor" and tend to resist changes from the mean. The bathroom is dank because all the building materials around it are saturated and constantly giving off water, if you can keep it at 40-50% humidity more regularly then eventually they will dry out and the system stabilizes at a less-dank humidity.
> they will bypass the monarch like they did

with brexit [1].

Royal assent is a hangover from the settlement of the English civil war. It exists as a backstop to allow the monarch to safeguard their rights and privileges from encroachment by parliament. It does not exist to prevent bad laws. The way to prevent bad laws is to not elect bad governments.

[1] https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/decision-of-the-supreme...
this actually feels like a lightweight feature-rich wrapper, unlike Burp (which I really love btw, not hating on it) which can cause my computer to slow down noticeably with extensions loaded. This is an unfair comparison though, because I derive a lot of value from Burp's BApps and choose to have quite a few of them loaded. The performance hit is worth it to me in this case, but I think it's fantastic to see more lightweight, WYSIWYG (dare I say frugal) alternatives to what's grown into a bulkier tool (Burp). Kind of like XFCE vs GNOME.
Isn't the solution to have a bathroom fan that vents to the ouside?
> if you're going to be forced out in the name of "productivity" once things are nice, and it makes sense to become anti-social if that's the deal.

i think we already seen people react like this in some areas to gentrification and inequality. The damage to society us considerable
Lightning just didn't have much to show for being an alternative to USB. It was license-encumbered, DRM-ridden and slow as all hell up until the very end. It was a good connector when it's alternative was Micro USB, but a baffling choice for my Magic Trackpad 2 from 2015.

By now I feel like Apple realized that making USB-C iPhone-ready was easier than making the iPhone connector a serious alternative.
Maybe install the ERV/HRV return vent into his bathroom wall?

https://www.aprilaire.com/whole-house-products/ventilation/m...
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No comments or ideas, but a question triggered by watching this video:

Two prisoners in soundproof cells are communicating through a shared underground puddle that has a small opening in each prisoner's cell. They communicate with Morse code, by repeatedly poking a stick into the opening that fully fills it. Water being incompressible, it causes the water level on the other side to rise slightly.

Please ignore the fact that sound travels quite well through water. Perhaps the prisoners are deaf.

The question is, what is the maximum bandwidth of this communication channel? Ignore any physical limitations on the prisoner's part with respect to the speed of poking their sticks in, and assume they both have a great sense of timing and can only either poke or not poke; they cannot do small vs large pokes.

Let's say the little underground water tunnel is exactly 1 meter in length, and the perfectly circular openings are exactly 1 inch in diameter, just to piss off both metric and imperial aficionados.
Yea, I don’t know anything about cars but I’m pretty sure all these mechanics could work naked. Praise me for saving uniform cost.
Belief in free speeh and other traditional values of academic inquiry is considered right wing at best, harmful at worst.