skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I feel the use of the term "far uv" is very misleading because the 220 nm wavelength is within UVC, and not too far away from 254 nm germicidal UVC.
It is always helpful to consult a chart:

http://www.drb-mattech.co.uk/uv%20spectrum.html

So, from a public health/public education standpoint, I find it troubling that scientific research, which the article points out, is limited in this area. For decades, general advice has been that all UVC is dangerous to all life. We don't know below which wavelength does UVC no longer become harmful to animal (human) cells. Nor do we know if 220 nm wavelength light damage/weaken other materials. I'm not a chemist/engineer so I don't know if theoretical calculations can be made or if a massive scientific effort needs to be done to verify the impact of 220 nm UV light on lots of materials/life.

If there is an animal/human cell safety region, perhaps a rebranding or subdivision of UVC into a "UV-D" is better than calling this "far uv". This has the added benefit of the "D" meaning "Death to germs/viruses".

YouTuber Big Clive has had several videos on UVC lamps, I'd like to see someone get a 220 nm light into his hands to see if he smells like burnt meat.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1m0TQjBRcFo
https://youtu.be/6DlfLthx89E?si=V4FD0DO4l09w2Wlr

Edit: maybe I am a bit alarmist, some comments did share additional information about products offering this technology... I still hold that the branding/messaging is a problem by lumping it all together
Sad, I was devoted to Pitchfork from the early 00s to early 10s along with a few other indie music blogs. Was always excited to read new reviews. Been years since I’ve read one of em. Spotify algo just been playing continuously. Maybe it’s why library of albums on my computer is essentially frozen in time
I wish Apple could do 90% cut. Serves their users and developers right.

If you don't think it's worth it, no one is forcing you to use it or developer your software for them. :)
You can use the combination of SingleFile ( https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/) and Obsidian/Templater for that.
The cruelest thing of all is that, technically speaking, his son is still alive. I’d imagine this to be far more torturous.

I have lost many close family members, but they all lost their biological lives. This just seems to be one of the worst experiences you could go through.
Bah, thing of the past! Now it's mostly organic breakthrough moments of creativity. At a few places it's serendipitious collaboration, of course.
Ha, I love it. I imagine spraying those into the rooms would be even worse though. And if you do it in an HVAC system you might as well just do the UV there too, in which case the ozone would break down before it was an issue. (And in fact could even be beneficial killing pathogens itself.)

The main advantage of the near UV lights is that they can be inexpensively placed in locations that don't have good HVAC systems.
I also appreciate the discourse (:

>Fundamentally, I disagree with the assertion that because a minor consumer purchase goes south and charges an unarguably illegal processing fee (for interchange) now deemed legal for hardware providers that the usual moral justification for this, consumer welfare, is harmed as the BATNA is simple - get a different maker's phone. Varying qualities of substitutes are easily attainable.

Honestly we may just have to agree to disagree. Both from my own personal experience helping friends and family as well as professional experience working in IT the act of switching away from apple is always an incredibly stressful and more often than not a significantly disruptive event for the user.

A good example here is the elderly. The energy and effort that goes into learning how to use a new phone is significant for most people 70+ and a huge factor when they're trying to decide to upgrade or switch their current phone. Very often, this daunting task is legitimately not worth it for them even if it that means letting apple take advantage of them simply because they don't think or truly know that they don't have the bandwidth to take on learning another smart phone.

Here you have a vulnerable class of people who just can't simply switch over to another OS even when they have the means, ripe for financial abuse. Apple is a multi-trillion dollar company and governments ought to be doing whatever needs to be done to protect the millions of people who are functionally stuck using their platform from being abused.

In regards to the rest of your comment I don't feel knowledgeable enough to comment. All I really wanted to say is:

(a) millions of people are negatively impacted by this to the benefit of a small few.

(b) a huge majority of those people likely aren't aware that they're being taken advantage of and even if they did, a meaningful amount of them couldn't do much about it without some help and/or incurring considerable amounts of stress throughout the switch.

(c) What Apple is doing here is exactly the behavior I believe governments ought to be trying to prevent.
That's awesome. I build my own desktop for $1700 in parts in 2012. Not unsubstantial, but definitely not breaking the bank either. I had really come to take it for granted over the course of the last few years, as it's just one of multiple boxes I work on these days.

I started working on it pretty intensively again in the past few months and... man, for being 11+ years old it keeps up. Turns out I got lucky with the longevity of the i7-3820, GTX 770, and (what at the time was a ridiculous for a home machine) 32gb of ram in it.

Benchmarked (anecdotally) against a more modern (2021 build, 3x the cost) desktop, raytraced renderings still take 8x as long. But if I'm designing / modeling in 3d or BIM there is LITERALLY no dropoff.

I'm still going to make a new build soon because I'm getting back into not having time for that 8x hit on renderings. But I had no idea when I put this thing together 11 years ago that it would serve me so well for so long.
I could be mistaken but I think your micro biome mostly doesn’t depend on external input in the form of microbes.

Rather, you have microbes, and these depend on external input in the form of nutrients.

There are exceptions such as yogurt and sauerkraut etc. but those are kept in a fridge and would not be exposed to far uvc most of the time. It would be interesting to know how they are affected during meals.

Skin micro biome might be more affected. I could not find much information on this point.
> The justification is that you're getting access to Apple's network of customers as "leads" and by referring them to you for purchases, Apple is justified a 27% commission.

It’s actually more poignant than that. The court established and the appellate affirmed that the commission is primarily payment for Apple’s IP:

“First, and most significant, as discussed in the findings of facts, IAP is the method by which Apple collects its licensing fee from developers for the use of Apple's intellectual property. Even in the absence of IAP, Apple could still charge a commission on developers. It would simply be more difficult for Apple to collect that commission.”

All the rest is bonus.
Rpgmaker, super easy to build a game with all the default assets that come with it, but also quite customizable, especially once you start exploring with downloading plug-ins or writing your own
So because of some turn of events, I was enrolled in a privately owned school in Shenzhen, China, around the year of 2010, for a year.

In the primary school, all classes have UV lights to kill germs. So upon leaving the class, the last student would turn off the (normal) lights and turn on the UV lamps. In the morning they would ofc turn off the UV lamps and turn on the normal lighting.

I'm not gonna talk about efficacies or whether it causes harm, it might as well be placebos, but from what I know, it's kind of common to have.
This is not a scientific journal, anyway I read the article and it is mix of unrelated sources:

- a test on certain UVC wavelength radiation on *MOUSES*

- a study of UVC filters for eye safety

That to conclude that we should use UVC as anti-virus measure.

Has the journalist a degree in biology or medicine ? Are his conclusion supported by a serious medical study , with peer review ?
* I don't think so, IMHO , is one that write stuff on Internet, so for someone he is a reliable source. OH PLEASE !!!
If you have tried Dreams, I would recommend Little Big Planet. It has a game builder that is a step down from Dreams but they were both designed by the same company, Media Molecule. Not to mention LBP is just a magical game all around!
DTC: Deep Tracking Control [video]
On the site "Care222modules use an excimer lamp in combination with a special optical band pass filter that blocks the ultraviolet wavelengths that could have a harmful effect on people. Care222 is the only Far UV-C product in the world with this key technology." why is this key technology so difficult? And why is the product so expensive?
That you Brandon? How you been?
GDevelop. My son has used that happily. Meant for no-code development, so no real programming experience there, but good to get something out quick.

Nowadays supports 3D also, but that is recent feature and will definitely evolve for some time.
DJGPP
That is so cool to hear!

I had one of those `63 Darts with a straight 6 in it back in the 80s. It was a blue four door. I put snow tires in the back and drove that car all over the dirt roads in the Tehachapi Mountains north of Los Angeles.

One day I drove to the very end of a dirt road way up near the top of a mountain there and was just sitting there soaking in the view when I heard two big 4Wheeler Pickups rumbling up the road and when they came around the bend in the road where it ended and saw me in that old Dart sitting there it just crushed their egos.

That is truly a great car!
Surveillance isn't the reason. It's a means to a goal, which is to sell people stuff.
Does an RTX A2000 even fit? I'd consider trying to find a pair if so. It's hard looking at the two machines I have with 192GB each doing nothing.
Not only creative work, but manual work too. It's been over 100 years that Frederick Taylor showed regular breaks reduces fatigue and increases productivity. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management
My 9 and 12 year old have both played a fair bit with Pico-8, and while the music and sprite tools are neat, I think there's a lot that it leaves on the table. The Lua environment is a fun puzzle for seasoned developers to reason about how to make the most of it, but for a novice, stuff like physics, collision detection, and an entity system out of the box is more like the right starting point. You need a lot of boilerplate to get a sidescroller off the ground in Pico-8.
I'm not an expert in CSS, but I don't know how I can use that to refer to pages.

I mean, I'm not creating pages with `<page>...</page>`.
> That last sentence is truly one of the most deranged things I’ve heard all year.

You’ve really got to figure out how to disagree with somebody without being insulting.
flex and gap-5 are king
That means I was wrong in my original understanding!
There is a nice wrapper on top of Godot called RGP in a Box, I think it's around $30 but will kickstart any game dev on Godot with some nice features... out of the box!

https://godotengine.org/showcase/rpg-in-a-box/
I also have a 7 year old laptop I bought for $140 new that I've put #!++ on and which keeps up just fine for most things the average punter would need in a machine.
Mi más sentido pésame.

I'm sorry for your loss.

It's sad to hear that you won't be making the game, but it's completely understandable, one has to focus on family.

this doesn't mean your career has to be boring, the job is boring if we make it boring.

I would respectfully suggest, from my ignorant and disconected viewpoint, that I sincerely hope that you at least consider making indie games from time to time.

perhaps making games is therapeutic, I do not know this, but it's a hunch.

I sincerely hope none of my remarks are considered insensitive, please keep in mind we belong in different cultural backgrounds.
On consoles I can buy a digital copy, and I believe the 30% does not apply.

On Windows I can buy a digital copy on the devs website and MS gets nothing.

On Steam, I could buy the game in another storefront (GOG), or Direct, and Valve would get nothing.

On Android I could use a separate AppStore and Google would get nothing…

In other words, in all those platforms devs can opt in to participate on a centralized store taking 30%, or keeping an alternative channel with higher revenues. On iOS, not so much.

Years ago, Apple had a loving relationship with Devs. Now Apple is an over demanding Karen yelling over her alimony payments every end of the month.
The problem is that when people start installing these but accidently brought fakes/cheap, you'd get sun burns and eye burns and won't know from where.
Lambdas / functions are another common basis type
> Curious how this is taken when you say it to a woman in person instead of online in a tech bro echo chamber?

My wife doesn't seem to have a problem with it. And some of my female friends have made similar comments unprompted. But I'm fully aware that many women will find it highly offensive.

Are you making any point here besides "I don't like your observation."? A fact can be offensive/uncomfortable, and still be true.
Don’t be fooled by “web” in the name. Just like WebAssembly is/will be a better JVM, WebGPU is already posed to be a better OpenGL/Vulkan. It is a full graphics API unconstrained by browser implementations, and available without a browser runtime.
Well, we’d be rebuilding it a lot.
The oldest boomers were mid-career by the time financialization took hold.
People are downvoting you, but yes, his situation is worse than death in a sense. In some ways it's a comfort to still have what's left of him with me, in other ways it's worse. I definitely have a DNR in place for myself. I have complicated feelings about... well, everything, which I did my best to exorcise in this piece I posted a few days ago:

https://www.fortressofdoors.com/four-magic-words/
Off topic: How does the EPUB compare with the ZIM format used by the [Kiwix Project](https://kiwix.org) to create offline Wikipedia dumps? Can EPUB handle extremely large content size like hundreds of MBs or even few GBs?
This is probably the best channel to get started.
https://www.youtube.com/@ClearCode/videos

Tutorial how to make a mario style game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWN8GcmJ-jA

Flopyy Bird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUFvY349ess

Uses pygame and Tiled.

Step by step, a 9 year old could follow along
Show HN: I Built a JavaScript Console
I needed a convenient way to quickly run JavaScript code without having to open VSCode or a terminal. Other alternatives I found were either too bloated with a heavy focus on HTML and CSS, or too basic with unreliable logging. So, I decided to build my own JavaScript console using the same editor that VSCode uses, which provides a lot of handy features right out of the box.
This is the structure of revolutions, particularly of this kind. Exponential growth looks like this.

In particular with the generation / recognition abilities of ML models, they have this feature of being a curiosity but not quite useful... so if a speech recognition program goes from 50% accuracy to 75% accuracy it's a huge accomplishment but the program is still approximately as useless when it's done. Going from 98% to 99% accuracy on the other hand still cuts the errors in half, but it's super impressive going from something that's useful but makes mistakes to making half as many mistakes. Once you hit the threshold of minimum usefulness the exponential growth seems like it's sudden and amazing when it's actually been going on for a long time.

At the same time, we've had a few great improvements in methodology with how models are designs (like transformers) and the first iterations showed how impressive things could be but were full of inefficiencies and we're watching those go away rather quickly.
Yes, and none of the three main science/math high schools (Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech) are lottery schools, they all rely on the SSAT exam (and a similar student ranking system). As an applicant you rank your HS choices and those plus your score determine where you are offered a space.

Also, having attended one of these schools (admittedly in a different decade), students who were not ready for the work didn't do well. Not to say those kids weren't also smart kids, but you had to be a certain kind of kid to mesh with the school.

It was a fantastic place, not just for the education, but for spending 4 years with a gigantic group of diverse, interesting kids, almost all of whom were truly brilliant. To this day I think it had more to do with my success than college or grad school.
Idk if it would out of the box, but it should be possible. I know that Whisper (and some variants) run on both x86 and silicon macs.
Metric has more noticeable drawbacks hen we go from distance/temperature/mass to electromagnetism, in this sense CGS has some advantages. The reason CGS or natural systems are nowhere near being popular is that their area of use is narrow, too specialized.
> That said, I eventually tired of the obtuse error messages and felt I was making things more complicated for no real gain.

The error messages are pretty poor.

> Even keeping a BasicTex environment working requires effort that HTML does not.

I've been told, by Mac and Winodws users, that it's a pain.

Personally I've never had to download extra packages/styles directly on Debian. Performing `apt-get install tex-<whatever>` normally installs everything (where `<whatever>` is something I find from a search in synaptic).
People who are in happy relationships/marriages probably disengage from the platforms and focus more on the real world. There is an incentive here to be reprehensible.
That just calls for the purchase of 2 copies and the application of the learnings inside. A near infinite source of inside jokes. I know well who I have to make.
It seems appropriate to share the epitaph of P.D.Q. Bach, as given in Schickele's biography of his character.

Hier liegt ein Mann ganz ohnegleich;

Im Leibe dick, an Sünden reich.

Wir haben ihn ins Grab gesteckt,

Weil es uns dünkt, er sei verreckt.

Translated:

Here lies a man with sundry flaws

And numerous Sins upon his head;

We buried him today because

As far as we can tell, he's dead.
> makes me wonder why anyone would take a 5-10 year old car for not enough of a difference from new

Here is one reason: New cars are riddled with phone-home spyware. Cars from 10 to 15 years old today are the sweet spot of having everything as modern as you really need, but none of the bad things.

While I'd like to get a good deal on those used cars, I would pay more for them than for a new car if need be. Unless some manufacturer starts building simple cars again, I'm never buying a new car and will keep looking for cars from ~2000 to ~2015 forever.
> The only two real big success products to come from Google that are still around are Search and Gmail.

Chrome. Photos. Hadoop. Kubernetes. Brain. Spanner. T in GPT (Transformers). And lots more. Google's real contribution was internet scale systems and how to run them reliably.
Exactly. And epub will be an option for that just as soon as we have an html+css format that renders exactly the same on different clients and platforms when authored by someone who doesn't know what they're doing... so roughly never.
Back when I had zero experience coding games, I strongly considered Construct2 (https://www.construct.net/en , now Construct3) since it seemed particularly aimed at beginners, requiring no coding experience and using visual scripting.

Haven't used it though, since I already had programming experience and just ended up using SFML in C++ or Monogame in C#.
For #1, I can’t imagine either switching over to open source or an Adobe competitor isn’t going to easily surpass CS6 with how old it is. I have to think GIMP has caught up with and surpassed CS6 by now.

For #2, I think if it was me and I really wanted to stick with the Mac and upgrad I’d just run Parallels. Sure, it’s yet another license, but it runs a lot of stuff pretty well, including some 3D games, so I think it might be worth trying.

Another part of me wonders if Crossover/Wine could run that CAD software.

Of course, you want to be able to run these on a trial before you buy any hardware.

If you’re not aware of OpenCore Legacy I might as well mention that in case you need a newer version of macOS on that hardware.
Rashida Tlaib would bring about some balance in leadership at Meta /s
Done to death in this other thread 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38991317
In fairness, there does seem to be a lot of concern amongst the management class around keeping their jobs if they don't get back into the office.

Historically, offshoring's biggest struggle has been finding a cultural alignment with those still working in the onshore office. But when everyone is remote there is no such barrier. That is, in the grand scheme of things, something new.
Pain, applied surgically, by people you trust.

That previous sentence describes my father who was abusive in many strange ways. Sexual molestation was not included, so I can’t relate there.

My best advice is to succeed in spite of the barriers God placed in front of you. Ultimately it is you and God who care about what is happening moment to moment. Good luck
Dominic Giampaolo (the author of BeFS) did essentially that with Spotlight (also the author of Spotlight) on HFS & APFS (also the author of APFS).
This doesn't bother me. If there was a FOSS alternative I'd be all for it. But I can't fault them for charging for good software.
101% cut FTW
For survival, for my own life, I would. It's not a fantasy or something I enjoy. It's just a realistic self awareness I have about my own priorities.

Most people would kill to save their own lives.
i was thinking carborundum, diamond, or materials that aren't even semiconductors at room temperature, like zirconia. i don't think cadmium telluride will survive sunlight at the orbital radius of mercury, but plainly some solids do
Yeah, I don't think there will be a lot of overlap between Delorean lovers and Cybertruck lovers.

I don't think the comparison is saying they "look the same", but rather "they're both niche".

(Personally, I agree, the Delorean looks great, and the doors man, the doors. The cybertruck is just ugly.)
:( rest in peace.

The classics I grew up with:

- The Seasonings S.1/2 tsp.

- Iphigenia in Brooklyn

- The Unbegun Symphony

- Quodlibet

Quoting Robert Schumann on PDQ Bach: "Hats back on, gentlemen: An idiot!"
Yeah it's just not meant to do that. That's how these apps have worked for over a decade. Obsidian is far from the first app to work this way. Notational Velocity, nvalt, Bear, Ulysses - they all worked that way IIRC.

Having used these apps for a while, your comment sounds like “these fishing poles really suck as tent poles. Sure, I made them work by tying twigs to them, but they really don’t seem designed well for my use case of holding my tent up.”
To put it pithily: it uses proxies of both dependent and independent variables, which increases the noise of both, in a study to determine signal-to-noise ratio.
Yeah I laughed a bit when I saw Rudin’s book on that list. Understanding Analysis would be a better choice, even the end chapters of Spivak’s Calculus are a great into to Real Analysis.
I mean the interesting bit of this conversation is about intelligence not laws. If you want to debate that talk to someone else I guess.