skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google "diffuse reflection" and "specular reflection" if you're interested to understand why.

Things do not radiate uniformly, neither behave like mirrors (specular). The truth for most objects is somewhere in between.

You can see it with a plastic object as well, when it is positioned so that the angle to the normal vector (a vector perpendicular to the surface) of the light source and to your eye are the same (as in, you would be able to see the light source if it were a mirror), you see much more light than when you are simply looking at it "from the side".
Danny Taing does give off an Asian gangsta vibe. It wouldn't surprise me if he is a gangsta of sorts, in terms of business. It's not easy to be in a business that involves high risk international importing and distribution.
You're right, sorry got confused myself
This is the grandfather of AI is it not?
I never had a personal Facebook account. I had a developer account about 10 years ago when I was contracted to write an app for a client.

I was horrified at the level of information you could scrape using the API and vowed to never have a personal account.
+1!

I've always thought I was weird like this. My partner has a ton of friends and works at maintaining friendships. I read all the time how humans are social animals and need a group of friends, etc etc. I've never felt this, and have come to accept that's just the way I am. I still often wonder if this is something I'll regret when I'm old, whether I'll be lonely... No idea.
I use it and I like it. My feed is 40% animal posts, 40% what’s up with my family, friends and their families; and 20% physics and math jokes. Hard to see the downsides.

I do have heavy ad blocking so fb can’t follow me around the web. The ads I do see seem poorly targeted to me, so it seems like things are working.
What about real materials, e.g. not a black body?
If that's how it is for you - great.

The whole point of my comment is that people are different. I'd rather not spend my time configuring KDE as I did 15 years ago and be happy with minor issues of GNOME.
Vote-holding shareholders in a two-class share company, ie, Schmidt, Brin, or Page. Pichai just has to avoid annoying Sergey and Larry, really.
Why not simply auction off all of the low vin ones?

Simply get everyone to enter how much they're willing to pay, and give the first ones to those willing to pay the most.

That way, nobody makes any money reselling, and Tesla captures all the value.
I had to create one for work last Thursday. They still require either a phone number or credit card when creating a developer account too.
I really should just reproduce that output in its entirety for direct comparison.

If it does not produce pixel for pixel identical output it's a bug. But here is the first pass of code that uses the same approach to integrate it with X and use Xrender to output the rendered glyphs:

https://github.com/vidarh/skrift-x11

(EDIT: Fixed the issue below)
Note that the example contains a hard coded visual. I need to push a fix for that - it was last updated before I added support to the X11 client to look up the visual. In it's current form it probably won't work for you. Will see if I can push a fix for that today.
The same can be said about almost any KDE\Qt app though. It's nto about confusion though, mostly it's about aesthetics.
What even is the next step if everything's been changed?
Recently, I received a blocking request from facebook at the moment here in Norway - pay 110 NOK and my data will not be used for ads or keep it for free and my data will be used for ads. They say at the top of the box for this: "Laws are changing in your region, so we're introducing a new choice about how we use your info for ads." What laws? Meta is being fined actually: https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-data-regulator-fin.... (In Norwegian about this offer: https://www.tek.no/nyheter/nyhet/i/GMEqym/facebooks-abonneme...) Datatilsynet "doubts strongly this is legal".

So I still have it, but I think now it's time for a break. I like to just look at old pictures in some local groups. I can still use the mobile site though.
Using less energy makes perfect sense until we achieve this desirable future state of abundant excess energy. That state is not right now, however.
> except for the menus just as before.

that's a huge exception
Quoting Wikipedia article on shuttle, "there were about 24,300 unique tiles individually fitted on the vehicle". Starship is just a cylinder with pointy end, and tiles on most of the vehicle will be the same, so that will help.
It may very well not be the middle of the night where they posted from (it isn't here either).
I had one until a few days ago when I got a prompt that I had to pay to keep my privacy settings. I hardly used it for anything except messenger so I sent everyone my phone number and deleted it, along with an Insta account I occasionally posted stories to.

Still on WhatsApp though, so if not Facebook then still Meta. I'm in the Netherlands where WhatsApp has become the basis for messaging anyone basically.
No big deal TBH.

It was Pong in BASIC on a ZX Spectrum after understanding some simple max min bounds and then negating direction of a ball.

For Tetris it was again BASIC, now on a graphical calculator, but while I was learning basic matrix operations such as rotate in school.

I didn't learn better languages until I was 18 (Java and C).

I'm no autistic savant, I just have cool sound bites lol.
Interesting to see the original. To me, that one feels like a much clearer presentation of good typography. For example, in the "modern" version the first thing that crossed my mind is that ironically the quote at the start of the article isn't clearly presented as such. In the original it much clearer is presented as such.
What terminal interprets "\r" as "clear the line"? I would have thought that is considered a bug.
Various auto generated content from large language models
> Learn how to use it in almost everything you do. It’s a game changer.

This type of rhetoric is part of the reason so many compare the current crop of AI to cryptocurrency hype: proponents constantly telling others to shove the technical solution into everything, even where it’s not necessary or worse than the alternative.
This article strongly asserts that Hydrogen is the fuel of the future.

There is no evidence towards that yet.
You use them all the time in Haskell and OCaml. Cache locality isn't such an issue. You're not mallocing linked list nodes. You allocate by a pointer bump of the minor heap, and if the GC copies your list into the major heap, it's going to copy the list elements together.

You also use recursion all the time, and no, recursion is not generally straightforwardly optimised into iteration unless you're doing trivial tail recursion.
I usually have a couple of books on the go at the same time. So, right now I’m reading “A Month By The Sea” by Dervla Murphy. It’s a fascinating account of a month she spent in Gaza. I’m also reading “The Plague” by Camus.
Java was novel back then and managed to live up to its hype.

Go isn’t novel, and doesn’t provide anything new compared to even Java 1.1.
The cause is you got used to comically small text. That site is fine readable size (unlike the interface we are exchanging opinions on). Though it is still readable on 80% zoom, slightly eye straining on 70%, but it is far from oversized.
I'm not sure what you mean: ASCII text encoding is full of controls characters, most of them being only historical and not used by anything, including terminals.
The new modern APIs are not to be understood as graphics APIs, rather as GPU APIs, thus using them directly is more akin to writing a graphics device driver than a rendering engine.

Most people are better served by using GL 4.6, DX 11 and such, or a middleware engine.

Even console vendors have multiple APIs because of that, not everyone needs all little details of the GPU.

Unity is supposed to have good DirectX 12 coming up, by the way.

"Achieving Real Time Ray Tracing on Xbox with Unity and DirectX12"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giaEpbBGc6E
Doesn't Classic Shell (or whatever its follow-up is called) fix this like it did in Win10?

If not that alone is reason enough for me not to upgrado to Win11.
Sounds great, I how do I sign up for this ahead of time?
Deleted my hardly used Facebook in 2018 after a breakup to make things easier. Figured anyone who would want to keep contact would call or email me. I also made an effort before deleting to save friends' info in CardDAV. This worked out fine because I naturally like checking on people here and there to catch up or get lunch.

Don't miss it at all, but occasionally use my fiancee's Facebook to buy things on Marketplace.

EDIT: While we're talking about Meta products, I've never used Instagram BUT I do regularly use WhatsApp as much as I'd prefer Signal/Matrix to be able to message my grandma and parents.
I have one, but I really only engage in groups. Groups on Facebook are so underrated. They made a big push for them a few years ago, but totally missed the mark. After that push, most of the good content died, but I still stick around for the people I met.
The irony.

I am a bit indignant at having to call English British English, why isn’t it English English; to differentiate it from American English, decorated with a little US flag as a visual guide.
That was the trigger for me to finally delete it as well.
... unless you are uniformly refusing service to everyone.
Altavista was around for quite a while, and I liked its engine better than Google’s for a long time. Also, Yahoo’s directory-style thing was pretty decent if you knew your way around a catalogued library.
I have it, but I have not used it for the last 1-2 years. I need to have it active because I have some facebook apps in the account
Lufthansa Pilot gets Frustrated after long Delays [video]
I read The Power of Habit by Duhigg and it was pretty good.
Surely You Can't Be Serious - an oral history of how the Airplane movie got made. Got it on Audible and no idea how it might work as a regular book as the audiobook has so many different cameos and narrators. Great stuff.
Here's a link you can use to explain the topic to people who make this mistake: https://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Languages/persian_not_farsi.h...
I prompted it with “what is wrong with this code” and my broken sql and it told me exactly what was wrong.

I could have looked up the individual parts and found the problems myself, but then I would have spent at least 15 minutes on it instead of 30 seconds.
After having learned French, German and Spanish, I spent three months learning Chinese and could not speak it fluently, what a shoddy language
There are many open bare places on Earth where solar panels are useless because there are no electricity users nearby: any desert.

If all it takes is to truck the ceramic panels around and dump them to the ground, then it's probably not that expensive.
Many of today's popular programming languages are variations on the same theme, leading people to think that their experience is broader than it actually is.
Your comment only proves that one can write useful software with a restrictive language.
Honestly, I basically never use GPT. I tried, keeping it open and asking it questions and all that, but it just never provided me anything particularly useful. Just reading the documentation or talking to real people was just infinitely more valuable.

WolframAlpha and visual stuff have been more impactful for me, but they existed a long time before GPT. Even then, I don't use them that much.
Fulfillment winning and losing in one click America. - investigative journalism, Uses stories of the lives of those within Amazon's ever increasing orbit to illustrate the reality of the increasing financial divides. Impressive stats reminds me of the more compelling British alternative 'hired' six months in low wage Britain- i'd recommend that.

The dispossessed - sci-fi, surprisingly nuanced conversation of roles and society.
> Is there a tradition in the industry that prevents listing those kinds of details?

I noticed the lack of pay, too. Feedback given. When I say there is a signaling problem, I mean it both ways.
Of course. All my friends and people I have ever met are on Facebook. Not even the privacy argument is strong enough for me to just delete my account out of spite. Do I use the platform? Not really. I use it to stay in touch with people I know, but not to post stuff on my wall or mindlessly browse through the algorithm.
On the other hand, many HN posters never miss a chance to be a contrarian. :)
...get at least baseline training in typography and layout. It should be a short high-school course. The basic rules are not that hard.

Can anyone suggest a concise book/course/video on this?
Stopped using Facebook in 2013, never started using Instagram. I use WhatsApp, though.
I’m guessing that the use of pump driven wells chasing the falling water table in the US means building these today isn’t viable, which is a shame.

Were the Persians smart enough to consider ground water recharge to feed the aquifers?
Not weird at all, but if you ever lose your partner (in one way or another), I hope you will have some close friends.
Checklist Generator: Boost productivity with AI checklists
As an American, I highly recommend "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James Loewen.

And since you are reading 1776 then you might also like "John Adams" by David McCullough.
If you haven’t read all the Novellas, they’re totally worth a read. They’re some of my favourite parts of the Expanse universe.

I agree though. I’m a huge Expanse fan (read all the books/novellas 5 times over, etc) and not a huge fan of a lot of other space opera. It really is unique in how much world building they do, with realistic explanations of all sides of the story and a lot of relatable characters. So much other space opera is “this/these person/people took on the universe and kicked their butt because.. spaceships and guns.”
The Programmer's Brain by Felienne Hermans
I unfollowed everyone and everything using that chrome tool someone posted on HN a while back. News feed is now a ghost town except for generated content that I have no interest in. It makes it easy to not get distracted when I open the app to check Marketplace.
> That's why we see more monstrous "enterprise" code in Java and C# than languages like Go and Rust that lack inheritance.

Rust has a completely different niche, and maybe wait a bit before claiming anything like that about Go - it is not being used for that kind of enterprise systems just yet.
First sale doctrine is related to the sale of physical articles of copyrighted items.

The appropriate body of law for purely physical goods is "equitable servitudes on chattels" (aka post-sale restraints). Generally illegal, but some restraints are allowed.

For example, a ban on resale is generally not enforceable, but a right of refusal is (however, if the seller refuses to buy back the item, the buyer is free to sell to whoever they want). Additionally, sellers can simply refuse to sell additional items to the buyer, which is what Ferrari, Jaguar, and other luxury car makers do. (Watchmakers also do this.)
https://practicaltypography.com/
Finally!

With the number of complex and obscure features that C++ has, it surprises me it has taken this long to implement such obvious features as "enum to string", and "insert a breakpoint here".
Aqueducts would be far more vulnerable.
Ooh, a .au. Don't see them often in the wild.

Down now, but sounded interesting!
I haven't read Bolo novels in a long time. You're making me itch to dig some up again.
I think social credit scoring is another level closer to hell.
You wrote «meaningless», you meant along the lines of "open", i.e. "undecided (in its instances) outside complexity", like in "using butter can be both beneficial and/or damaging", "using water can be both beneficial and/or damaging" (Brooke Shields hydrated herself to seizures last week - she diluted her sodium concentrations to dangerous levels) etc.

But the meaning of "healthy" is well defined, as posted earlier: that which promotes wholeness (lack of damage) or avoids its opposite.

But in the context of the submission, if you had exceptions about the title - «Healthy food compromised», even there the term works: turmeric is one of the few substances that promote neural regeneration, adult neurogenesis, there where possible; similarly intake Omega-3 is as if required for good brain function, but if the fish in which it is normally found is lead contaminated then the healthy good is spoiled (lead burns neural axons like a fuse); rice has sustained human growth for millennia (fifteen, I think), so it is has titles for being considered a resource, etc.

> Not liking my point doesn't mean it's unclear, friend

No pal, it was really a stub, incomplete :) You went "A is B" without justifying your judgement. A statement like "Bob Shlecklemeier is a fool" has no content until it is clear why one would say so (the only content there is that somebody has an opinion). There is no «liking» or disliking, at least until the objected idea is defined: "A is B" is not unless what is behind it is clear; the substantial part is its justification, not the conclusion.
Beats me how "Andrea" became a female name. The name literally means "manly".
> English isn't her first language too and sometimes she can ask what a term means in English.

That’s a good example of a subpar use for an LLM. Dictionaries have existed since before computers. Digital dictionaries are faster, more reliable, and less power consuming than any LLM.
Well, that’s the core of the question. Isn’t a sale a transfer of ownership? Once it’s sold it’s not theirs any more. This goes both for Tesla and Ferrari, and everyone else.
A seemingly endless list of descriptions of open positions, just to be disappointed by "remote within US" buried somewhere within each and every one.
Isn't there also a video game but the same name?
Comics! I recently finished Wanted (which made for a shitty movie, but a decent comic) and Watchmen (I despair I hadn't gotten around to it sooner).

Now I'm planning to read V for Vendetta, The Killing Joke, Batman: Year One, and some more. I've finally come around to comics as an art form, and I couldn't be happier!
Possibly there is a correlation between public policy that promotes "jacking around" and the subsequent "finding out".

Restated: perhaps there was wisdom in prohibitions against drugs heavier than nicotine/alcohol? Maybe there was a line that stabilized society in general?

Will there be a sufficient level of "finding out" this side of the grave that will trigger thought?
I usually pipe to od (od -c) whenever I'm not sure about stuff like that.
C++ and Java are still eons bigger within Google, and plenty new software is started with those over Go.
Great video about making home-made high reflectivity paint: https://youtu.be/dNs_kNilSjk

Aluminium plate painted with this paint is cooler when exposed to the sun not only than unpainted plate but also ambient air which feels really magical for me.
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh.

I really like it. There are lots of popular science books out there, but very few popular math ones. I am grateful that this exists.

Read the author's Code Book before. Liked that one, too. I was also taking Cryptography and Cybersecurity as one of my Master's electives.

This book does not cover the journey of solving the Fermat's Last Theorem narrowly, but broadly covers a lot of history of mathematics in a very nice way. The writing is superb.
Can't remember the year, but I created a facebook account when it became possible to do so without invitation. A bit later, more people started to join and I got these friend requests, or whatever they were called. There was one in particular that stood out as uncomfortable, which made me think: is there anything I want to share with these people? It's going to sound phony. At which point I deleted my account. Never looked back. No need to, since there's still phone, email and text for more "personalized" conversation.

My SO created her account at the same time, and still uses it, and it has always looked terribly superficial to me. Keeping up appearances.
I am reading Deschooling Society [1] by Ivan Illich, published in the early 1970s. Even though I do not agree with everything he says, he does make some compelling arguments.

[1] https://archive.org/details/DeschoolingSociety
Seconding Zettlr. It also handles citations smoothly with a linked .bib file. The sidebar (a sidebar, there's more than one) also does directory tree structure like your favourite code editor too.
I still do, but the interface is a struggle session.
> Compiling is so fast I can write tests that run on save in ms showing me outcome before I start typing again and actually enjoy TDD. This isn't possible with TypeScript, C++, or Java

It is 100% possible with Java.
Yeah, just another niche high school course that everyone should follow, that’s what our schools need
Economists generally seem to love a contrarian take, but usually put more effort in than this.
Businesses can come up with their own ID systems. Google doesn't need your SSN for a Gmail account for example.
They may be citizens by naturalisation, or refugees.
Xenophon’s Hellenica!
I don't like Exceptions in OCaml (or Haskell or C++ or JS/TS) either. But they aren't unsafe, except for bugs in the compiler/runtime (in OCaml, in C++ there are of course some footguns ;).
Of course they add "bottom" to any function where an Exceptions can occur (and other things, see for example
https://markkarpov.com/tutorial/Exceptions) but for stuff like `0/0` there are 3 possibilities:

use something like `Maybe` for the result - clumsy.

return (for example) 0, which is what most theorem provers (like Coq or Lean and dependently typed languages like Idris) do, that need their functions to be total

or throw an exception.

(C's solution of declari g it undefined behavior is missing).

Now, with OCaml's effect systém, there also is no need to use exceptions for control flow - which you should have never done anyway.
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Good image showing the rows of excavation holes and tailings:

https://www.ancientpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/qana...
Do not read any of the books that came out after
Stieg Larsson died.

If you must read the first one, partially, allegedly
based on notes left my Stieg Larsson
Blindsight by Peter Watts and I’ve just finished the sea of rust by C. Robert Cargil.

Both are good, sea of rust was a quick read, informative on the world building with a fast enough plot that kicked in early enough to keep me read more.

Blindsight, is a bit unique so far. Definitely interesting but it’s the two parter firefall im reading which combines the second book too.
Right but in practice most OCaml code does not have explicit types.

Using an editor that shows type inlays (e.g. VSCode) helps a lot but not fully because a lot of types are inferred as generics.

You're also correct that you don't have to use lists, but again most OCaml code does.
They're citizens now, though.
The Gunslinger
If the 1.5 billion USD per event estimate is correct, it has to be banned because it's cheap enough that people don't need to make money on it — it's about what Oxfam raises every 18 months.