skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My theory is that those able to do delayed gratification are happier. Or it could be that being happier makes delayed gratification easier. Not sure, but either way there is a link.

In specific terms an early adopter risks disappointment and at best gets an early version of a product. Subsequent upgrades provide marginal enjoyment and often feel more like obligations than anything. The late adopter comes in when they know they need/want the product and they go from zero to a much later, more capable version of the product. And then get to enjoy just as many real quality of life improvements, they're delayed but the frequency can be the same. Plus they save a whole load of money.
The CFO was on the call. You just say "cool I'm sending a 4 digit code to your mobile phone, read it back to me".
The timer thing was the most impressive and useful thing I’ve seen so far. Which in a way is kind of sad, but it does hint at where things can go in the future.

The big leap that still need to be made is the jump from VR to AR, and much smaller. I think AR will make the idea of people wearing this stuff all the time much more socially acceptable. I can’t see an average person putting on the current AVP to cook dinner.
Your sacrasm reveals your ignorance, not an exaggeration or a hole in the story.

Yes, environmentalist movements in 1989 were all across the country, and were significant. It was 2 years into Perestroyka and Glasnost [1] policy, and such things were not restricted from discussion, and 1989 was the year when a lot of non-CPSU new local politicians were elected in local councils and the soviet deputy council [2].

In my region, people would protest a projected Katun river dam [3]. It's not clear, whether the pressure stopped it, or financial shortages, but it was noteable -- at least I as 1st grader saw it discussed everywhere.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Soviet_Union_legislative_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katun_(river)
>> There's a database of over 500 known airplane wrecks in the territory.

Well, this was unexpected. On the one hand, Yukon is larger than the surface of Germany. On the other hand, were there 500 plane crashes in Germany, excluding wars? Turns out far from it: almost 10x less with 62 fatal crashes since 1945: https://www.statista.com/statistics/262867/fatal-civil-airli...

Now maybe not all the 500 plane wrecks were fatal but still that's a disturbing likelihood of a crash. With Germany having some 100x-1000x more intense traffic than Yukon, that's easy 1000-10'000x times more likely to crash in the Canadian wilderness. I think I'll pass visiting that in a plane :)
I'm surprised nobody has posited an "obscurity" rationale.

When the majority of your information is vertical/horizontal (such as text, window elements, etc), an angled cursor makes it easier to interpolate what's underneath. And the arrow shape keeps the bulk of the icon out of the way of your point of interest (compared to, for example, a reticle - although I expect we'd adapt just fine).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172858

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From their demonstration videos, I don’t think Tesla has proven particularly adept at detecting pedestrians.

And I don’t know that they’ve shown this for pedestrians on the pedestrian path, at distance, at night.
Could you elucidate how exactly "standard crypto" would stop such a thing?
Every EU country is required to have laws providing for some level of basic account.
Can anyone ELI5 what the issue is; I understand/assume larger Earth increases gravity so more for rocket to overcome, but why doesn't that also affect jet aeroplanes?

Or does it, it's just that this is space.SE so naturally they're asking about rockets specifically?
I recreated an entire Steam Locomotive in 3D [video]
On the importance of proper note-taking.
Did the Future Already Happen?
Standardization on 8-bit multiples only really occurred with the IBM 360 in the late 1960s.

Before that, six bit words were very common with plenty of 12, 18 and 36 bit machines (every PDP besides the 11, CDC 160, UNIVAC, early IBMs)...

Some also had variable word length like the IBM 1401 and 1620.
Or here: https://x.com/andy_matuschak/status/1447710247712280578

> there's a (pre-release) 1985 HIG that's quite different. It includes e.g. case studies (useful!), and an extended discussion of Jung's theories of intuition and how they should influence your designs (!!)

The most modern "designers" read is the labels on grocery store items.
Exactly. There are programatical barriers you cannot bypass alone.

I can imagine a scan where the fake CEO gets a phone or laptop outside of the process "because CEO". This however will still be limited to generic, low value stuff handled by single people in a company.

There is no way that a reasonably organized company can leak 40 MM USD.
I’m curious as to the limits. I have very high myopia (10+ diopters) and would never consider a VR headset where I can’t wear my glasses.
As someone who has extensive experience in dating IRL and Tinder, be careful with that analogy.

Problem in romance: rejection

Proposed solution: Tinder allows you to swipe so no rejection is felt because no one rejects you in your face.

The current reality: most men get very few matches. When they do get a match, it converts to a date at a 10% rate at best.

I think a similar unintended thing will happen with Tinder co-founders.
Yes, Australia too. You can take my medicare system (NHS equiv) from my cold dead hands. It's the only way you're going to.
I'm currently reading Nation by Terry Pratchett. I have previously read all of the Discworld novels and thoroughly enjoyed them. Then last year I read the Terry Pratchett biography (also worth a read, IMO!), where it is mentioned that Terry himself thought Nation was probably his best book. Had to give it a read after that! So far it's pretty good, but I do miss the characters from the Discworld universe to be honest.
Also I can't imagine a real world scenario in which we can safely ignore what happens inside the container. Really reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1200/.
I really applaud this practice, except I have needlephobia. Let us imagine a top athlete suffers from this, too (hypothesis, irrelevant if subject is genuine). What would happen? And at which point do amateurs get tested?
Agreed - Data center design would make a lot more sense than fk around with 8 bit stuff
> perceived as useful idiots by the empire

The empire is not a person to perceive something -- inside the communist party and government, there were many of points of view on the eco-movements. The "empire" had no single stance on the question.
And if I'm not wrong, it still applies to today's Mac interface. The cursor still has a white outline all around.
The article explains the choice of 60 bits, which was indeed because of the many factors of 60.

"60 is a multiple of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Hence bytes of length from
1 to 6 bits can be packed efficiently into a 60-bit word without having
to split a byte between one word and the next. If longer bytes were
needed, 60 bits would, of course, no longer be ideal. With present
applications, 1, 4, and 6 bits are the really important cases."
The Anatomy of Peace: How to Resolve the Heart of Conflict
Though it’d probably take 666 days to see a sleep specialist and get your first CPAP machine… (which I suspect you’d agree is part of the stealth dissolution plan)
A hobbyist can definitely do the proper research and build perfectly safe high-voltage / high-current installations, no doubt about that. Electricity is indeed not magic. The key part here is knowing what you are capable of, and more precisely knowing where your limits are. However, it is quite obvious that this person has not done the proper research, and their work is held together mostly by hopes and prayers.

The problem is that random people on the internet see "guides" like these and treat them like an Arduino project: just something to mindlessly copy in a spare Saturday afternoon, and the worst that can happen is that it won't work. They will not do the research, and they will not take adequate safety precautions - they never had to do so before and they never had any issues, what's the big deal?

That's fine with most DIY projects. Heck, it's even fine with most DIY projects involving mains voltage - a guide for installing an outlet will always tell you to turn off the breaker first, at which point it really isn't all that dangerous. You're just plugging some pre-made and known-to-be-safe parts together, it's less complicated than building a computer. You have to actively try to screw that up.

This is a different beast. You're building a new thing which is handling mains voltage out of the cheapest parts you can find. You can totally do an Arduino-like project with that mentality - the average Arduino project going horribly wrong will result in a brief spark and some nasty smoke coming out, it's no big deal. But a project like this going wrong? It will set your house on fire.
Rye: A Vision Continued
Even better. If you're happy for those 10 years then that's a good life. That's all there is to it really. Realistically there is going to be some balance between living a totally simple, low tech life and wasting money on the hedonic treadmill. It might be 10 years for some things (like cars) but perhaps much shorter for others, like going from dial up internet to broadband.
PowerShell isn't bad. It's a paradigm shift, but the concept and execution are god (not great, but good). I recommend you seriously give it a chance, it's probably one of the only Microsoft things I miss on Linux (other commenters, i'm aware I can use PS as a Linux shell, but that requires trusting Microsoft to keep it good.)
I'm saying Microsoft's actions are rich, not his comment.
Corporate email clients usually have a way of marking non-internal emails, surprised this wasn't used.
The word “rendering” isn’t specific to pixels at all.
To be fair, compared to most EU countries, the level of accuracy and fairness of news in the Anglosphere is abysmal. If Die Zeit or Le Monde (Diplomatique) report something, in my opinion they tend to set the standard. In most (large enough) EU countries, people tend to have 1 or 2 decent sources for high quality news. Factual, avoiding emotion, reporting on what happened.

In Dutch, there is a word for English news: "hijgerig". The type of heavy breathing you do after running a sprint.

Unfortunately, that style is increasingly being copied.
Sounds like you are in the US.
I think the poster meant the prior meaning of the word 'crypto' -- cryptography, in which the CFO could sign and encrypt some message and then the message's authenticity could be verified.
> But how would you know if your work is better (and safer) than what a professional delivers?

Common sense?

> The professionals, in theory, have more experience and more knowledge in depth than an amateur; and if an amateur has greater knowledge than a professional, is he really an amateur still?

An amateur is someone who doesn't do what he does professionally, a professional is someone who makes a living with the thing they do. That doesn't say anything about their knowledge level. But when you're a professional and you claim that you are 'done' with the installation and I spot: a HV DC wire pinched between a panel and the mounting rail, a HV DC wire (the + terminal) run through the cooling ribs of the inverter (sharp af near the ends) and a mains cable whose connectors aren't torqued down to the point that I smell ozone then you have to wonder. Note that there is a distinguishing factor with solar installers: they are not afraid of heights. Electrical knowledge is apparently secondary.

> Of course, some things might be obvious to an amateur or a lay person (walls not straight, for example), while others might be more subtle and deadly at the same time (foundation issues).

The above are a mix between obvious and non-obvious but those guys probably did 400 installations last year and if my n=1 sample is any indication then I wouldn't be surprised if they left some latent problems behind them.

> Now let me connect this beefy microwave oven transformer to the mains and do some electrical wood burning, surely it will perfectly ok

If you insist on being stupid then I don't think that's a fair way of conversing here. You can use common sense, read the electrical code (though it's an expensive book, which is kind of weird, you'd expect it to be free) and you can get yourself some basic knowledge about electricity and electronics all the while doing nothing more 'scary' than using batteries or sitting on the far side of an insulation transformer.

If and when you feel ready for it you can switch to mains powered stuff.

The scariest stuff to work on: old fashioned tube based color TVs but I haven't seen any of those in a couple of decades. Other than that, I would be very careful with a microwave because it is probably easy to create a radiation leak and I don't have the proper gear to detect one. So I'd stay away from that. Again: common sense.
That's awesome.

Also, I misread your last word as "fish" and for a moment there it was even more interesting.
It's explained in the article. But the reason is partially the same:

"60 is a multiple of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Hence bytes of length 1 to 6 bits can pe packed efficiently into a 60-bit word...
I'll take the issues with Medicare (Australia) and the NHS (UK), both of which I have dealings with, over US healthcare problems any day of the week.

Every healthcare system has issues, but universal healthcare beats the pants off the US system any day of the week.
Yes, although:

"The Times and the FT are the only papers that even attempt neutrality, really."

... this may be a case of not being able to hear your own accent.
The original comment said "One bit flip and it's game over". Which is clear nonsense, I don't have to specify that there's exactly one bit flip, I just need to know that the key is in that general neighborhood and its security is already compromised.
There is an actual Doom clone game that runs in a A1200 and has equal or better graphics than the original Doom. And, I say game. Not a demo.
Light bar money for on road use is misguided money - there isn’t a light solution that can beat night vision systems.

You get an infrared camera and on the screen a coloured bounding box is drawn over each identified pedestrian or animal etc. Green no threat, red sounds an audible alarm so you don’t need to drive looking at the screen to get benefit of it.

It sees things that just cannot be seen by projecting a light source from near you, no matter how bright.

EDIT: see from 2:25 in https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kQqCDjxYFVc
I completely agree.

I suffer from sleep apnea and I too had an issue with my CPAP machine. The NHS fixed it within a week.

I can’t imagine spending 2 years chasing different health providers to sort a simple repair.
Mostly agreed but:

> But a project like this going wrong? It will set your house on fire.

No, the most likely outcome is that it will either cause a breaker to trip or that it will simply stop working. 'it will set your house on fire' is only one of the three possible outcomes and the least likely one. It can happen though and that's why this guy should be doing his stuff for himself rather than broadcasting it to the world because the final product isn't 'good enough'.

Apropos Sonoff, the brand you advertise in your original comment: they had a pretty serious issue at some point where they had a fuse in a holder inside the devices that got excessively hot because it wasn't rated for the current of the socket. And that is a fire risk.

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/as26oj/sono...
Doping is banned mainly for PR reason. The audience don't want to watch a sport where every medalist gets something injected into their body and people who refuse doing that have no chance.
USPS is an example. It's sort of a public utility that has some strange requirements, like it _must_ __offer__ service to everyone. In some places this is less profitable, and private postal / shipping firms might not even offer their own service (or pay USPS for the last leg instead).

However, because USPS exists, there is a ceiling to how much other firms can charge without differentiating their services to make it worth the difference in cost. It helps ensure the market functions with proper competition.

For any other market where distortion (dysfunctional market) is observed, the solution is not to mandate the impossible from the existing players, but to modify the market conditions where they are broken.
Until Plagiarism Happens to You
At larger scale factors, Windows renders the cursor from an SVG source. It's not clear if there would be a compatibility issue with straightening the arrow image at larger scales since it uses a hardcoded .cur image at small sizes.

Additionally, Windows 10/11 go to some extent to hide cursor scaling from applications. Win32 GDI/USER calls only see the base 32x32 arrow cursor and only DXGI Output Duplication (screen capture API) can see the real cursor. This causes other problems, though, such as various bugs and inconsistencies with custom cursor images.
Show HN: Vue Watermark
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Correct, but those are pre-built parts which have been certified. They are designed to be safe, even when mildly mishandled. Plugging in a toaster or installing a wall socket is indeed pretty safe.

In this project, on the other hand, you are building something new which will handle mains voltage, using the cheapest parts you can find on AliExpress. It's not designed to be safe, and it's definitely not certified or even tested. That's not something you should do without doing a loooot of research first.
True. Nowadays we have de-icing system that need to be turned off within 5 minutes of encountering dry air, to avoid catastrophic disintegration.

"We encountered dry air, but otherwise, all is well."

You cannot stop progress!

https://archive.is/9BWCD
Annoyance as a Service
No, that is not part of a pitch to VC. It is my name for content services that have ads for services including a premium version that you pay for directly and which do not have any of those “annoying” ads (of course they do not use the word annoying).

The Internet needs a sustainable ad model that users/consumers also find to be useful not annoying.

Financial results will be positively impacted in the short term by Annoyance As A Service, but this leads to a spiral of doom. The annoying ads become more frequent, leading to a short term financial boost but also to users/consumers leaving the service which leads to the annoying ads become more frequent which leads to…

Have you noticed this in any services you use or work on?
I wonder if there's DNA markers that predispose people to this type of "hobby". There's evidence that humans lived in caves and underground bunkers for extended periods of time. There's even ancient underground cities with dedicated water sources and ventilation systems.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu_underground_city
That is like blaming Oracle and JetBrains, for whatever Google does with Java and Kotlin on Android.
Well Java has Swing that, iirc, works on all platforms OpenJDK runs on and Go doesn't have a sanctioned GUI in it's stdlib.
- Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare

Excellent history of firearms and war tactics from around 1300 to the present day

- One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon

How can 400k people collaborate to achieve something so big? Fascinating read.
I have to disagree that the high CPU usage I mentioned is an issue with Skia in the case of Avalonia.

Other frameworks like Flutter which use Skia don't have such a high CPU load on my computer so I'm pretty sure the high CPU usage is because of Avalonia specifically. (Although Skia might very well contribute to it.)

Just opened Chrome and Firefox (both of which use Skia) and both used about 1% CPU while idle while Avalonia is there with up to 70% CPU usage while idle.
You require that people sign messages cryptographically, including video calls, to validate their identity. You can't fake that.
I’m listening to “the creative act - Rick Rubin”, the audiobook is narrated by him and he has such a soothing voice , highly recommended
I've been considering subscribing to newspapers again to avoid the bombardment of news online. I used to love waking up, making coffee, and sitting with the paper for some 30-45 minutes to start the day. Reading the news online in the morning has the opposite effect, I just feel drained and scatterbrained.
> Typical store bought smart sockets are 1.5A

That sounds like a raw deal, just off the top of my head:

Shelly, 12A - https://www.shelly.com/en/products/shop/shelly-plus-plug-s

Local Bytes, 13/16A - https://www.mylocalbytes.com/en-eu/products/smart-plug-pm

Sonoff, 10A - https://itead.cc/product/sonoff-s26-wifi-smart-plug/

Athom, 16A - https://www.athom.tech/blank-1/esp32-c3-eu-plug-for-esphome

(Most of these have US equivalents)

> this is from a brand with a reasonably good reputation

Please name them.
Watered to a standard strength? Wtf are you talking about? And grapes get water from the rain.
Everyone in the call has a cryptographic ID that can be authenticated with a trusted authority. Your device would just ask all the others for a one time token that it then submits to the ID server. The server tells you public identifier of the person associated with that token.

We already have infrastructure for bus and rail tickets, for logging in to banks, tax authorities, health services, etc. in Norway and other countries that could easily be extended to cover this use case..
Still, is it $3400 better than “Siri, set a timer for 5 minutes; Siri, set a timer for two minutes”?
At least people who don't have your means have another option.
By using it? This was a social engineering attack against an otherwise unprotected service, if you manage to trick the security guard, you are in.
Having worked on node and .NET on Linux professionally I vastly prefer .NET

JavaScript and typescript exist in a bizarre netherworld of not really being type safe and not really being type free. It makes for some truly strange code bases that reflect whatever is cool but none of it aged well.

Npm is hideous. Dreadful. It’s a daily struggle especially if you have to deal with private repos (azure specifically).

C# is just a better language. Better, more expressive collections and a type system that has consistency. EntityFramework for databases is fantastic, node has nothing remotely as good.

.NET and Nuget are a breeze. I would go as far as saying Linux is the superior experience when programming .NET since you spend a lot of time with the CLI and power shell sucks.
Fukushima reestablished this green movement.

Who benefitted from the green movement then and now? Fossil fuel. Putin and his cronies, just to name an example.
Maybe not always, but surely in most cases of too complex a config, it is a case of ad-hoc grown config, representing what one wants to actually configure badly, and/or underlying abstractions of the thing one wants to configure matching badly what one wants to do. In most cases it would be good to take a step back, or multiple ones at that, and really ask oneself: "What is it, that I actually want to configure here?" and think about why it cannot be a simpler config. What abstractions would actually make expressing that config easy.

Often one will get to a very simple config format in the end. Of course, when one has to deal with very complex formats created by others, already widespread in use, on cannot easily change the format. Maybe that is the reason we get these meta config tools.
There were Dutch computers with weird combinations like 27 bit registers and 15 bit address lines made by Electrologica.