skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm experienced in video engineering and calibrating displays. I also own a recent high-end QLED Samsung TV which I selected for a particularly challenging location and usage context - surrounded by large, tall windows and lots of off-axis viewing. This model had the best mix of characteristics for a decidedly non-optimal usage context, which is not to say that the results are "good" by any measure, but rather, 'least bad' for this location where deep black contrast performance isn't often relevant but high saturation brightness, reflection handling and off-axis peak luminance were key.

You're correct that Samsung's defaults over hype all the settings but there are alternate presets including "Natural" (less hyped) and "Filmmaker" (unhyped and targets film gamma response). There's also a Custom preset which users can adjust and save to their preferences. There's also an undocumented Service Mode where users who have appropriate calibration gear and experience can adjust a couple hundred parameters. While Samsung's defaults are particularly over-hyped, all the high-volume, consumer TV manufacturers do this to some extent and have been increasingly doing it pretty much since TVs started having digital presets.

As always, displays are imperfect approximations which involve a series of trade-offs. The key is to pick the optimal display technology and device for the context, content, user and use case. My primary viewing room is a custom-built, dedicated theater room with full light control and a 150" screen driven by a laser projector. Obviously, in that context I selected the gear very differently. For selecting TVs and monitors, the review site www.RTings.com is quite good and can be trusted to provide objective testing and analysis on displays that will get you in the ballpark since it's usually not possible to personally audition every option.
Once they started monetizing things got worse. Financial incentives led to people gaming the site, which always leads to crap content.

You need a low barrier to entry to get free content, but then that makes it easy to pump full of crap. But you need that content to get users and monetization <shrug>.

Quora has handled that much worse than, say, reddit. But reddit doesn't allow their users to monetize their content, which keeps the spammers at bay.
"The domain-specific notation in this paper is inscrutable to me."

That's almost every paper to me.
Why would that be astonishing? It's routine (EU).
Google ended Appen's Search testing contract
Really? There's two programs I know of that will take focus and they're both authentication prompts. The sort of thing that cranks my handle on Windows were mostly from the browser and almost anything else.

With XFCE though, I'm quite happy with the level of focus stealing, things that seem to be justifiable are at the right level, like authentication prompts.

Out of interest, what are the things that take focus for you? Maybe we're running totally different sets of programs which might give me an impression that isn't warranted.
"People SAY that want well made, simple things. But people will generally not PAY FOR simple, well made things when much cheaper options are available. You and I might, and many others as well. But the vast majority of folks will not pay more for a higher quality, longer lasting item."

One problem I see is that the higher priced items are not necessarily higher quality these days. A lot of brands are coasting on their reputation while selling cheaply made items at premium price.
Are Mozilla going to fund the same study into Chrome’s anti-competitive practices or are the only going to do it for the browser makers that don’t fund them?
Freezer for bread and there’s hardly a need to drink cow milk regularly.
What's sad is that it's a good browser behind all of this. But it takes a fair amount of work getting all the settings right to turn it all off.
It isn't only the twist, though, it's the timing of the twist. Plenty of movies with that kind of twist are re-watchable, but you have to put that twist about ... two-thirds, three-fifths of the way through. The rest of the film is devoted to the protagonist exploring the consequences of realizing that one of their big axioms was wrong. Shyamalan's timing puts the twist at the end, the characters don't really get to react, etc.
Doesn't Uber offer helicopter rides? I'd imagine those people are 100x customers.
mb: fast month boundary
If you are who I think you are, then the answer is "a lot".
It seems you’re struggling to comprehend the raw availability difference. Also kinda funny how you decidedly say they “have voted” because of an image you made up in hour head. Do you ever reach for data before making up your mind?
I am mildly concerned about the future of the Spring Framework.
I build React apps without SSR all the time. What has changed in React besides optional support for it?
Definitely! Anywhere I can follow progress?
There is nothing wrong with extracting as much value as possible from a small effort. It just seems highly unlikely anyone would sponsor it so the request seems somewhat ridiculous.

alias lsa=ls -a

Sponsor me!
Yes I absolutely do agree with that.

Designers and product managers may completely ignore people like me,
trample all over our needs and ignore us. Why would they care about
the one percent. All good luck power to them and their values.

But I am also not the least bit concerned with whether their products
are a success or not. Why would I care if they do not?

Yet I cannot concur that "almost every" site does. No, there are some
that do. Moreover, those sites seem to self curate as being of very
good quality. So I am happy that there are thoughtful, intelligent
people out there who "get it". When they stop, so do I, and just move
on. It's not personal and I'm not invested in them.
Just because it's bigger doesn't mean that the gravity is higher.
> Now they're focusing on Exchange support when the best email servers on the planet have nothing to do with Microsoft?

Well, I guess lack of exchange support in Thunderbird might blog migrations to Thunderbird / Linux on the desktop in places using Exchange.

If users are already using Thunderbird, switching from Exchange to a regular mail server might be more easy: the UI doesn't change.

(now, I don't see many places using Exchange switching to Thunderbird, but that certainly opens a migration path)
Even in this version of the free market, monopoly is still the incentive and end goal. Eventually, either a single player wins out (possibly by buying or merging with previous competitors) or a few big players agree that colluding with each other is more profitable then competing (remember there is no government interfering in this free market to prevent this). Once this happens, new players won't enter the market because they can immediately be crushed by the incumbent.

So either way, monopoly is the inevitable end point.
> Is turning the lock really that different to pushing a button?

I don't know what type of hypothetical disability the person above means, but I know the problem of round doorknobs and gloves so I suppose something like that?

But a horizontal sliding lock as seen on many types of bathroom stalls already should be similar enough that anyone who can push a button in the right direction can also push these in the right direction

However, does a mechanical lock glow and look fancy when you can sell your electronic high-tech locking system to the train manufacturer??
> Suspected spy pigeon released after eight months in detention in India

Unfortunately, they don't show him handcufted. And no information about his detention period in India. Did he have access to diplomatic assistance ?
It’s been washed outside the environment
Flux is a quantity of ‘something’ per unit time per unit ‘area’.

The value of flux measurements is to be comparable across different scales.

When looking at scaling software systems the equivalent is looking at ‘requests per second per process’, which is sort of a flux metric. One way to think of auto scaling is as a process that adjusts the number of processes to keep constant request flux as the overall request volume changes.
My test always used to be midnight, new years eve, when everyone wanted to say happy new year at the same time.

On 2G/GSM, the whole network would drop for 30 minutes, just zero reception on the phone.

On 3G, you'd have reception but calls were impossible and texts mostly failed.

On 3G+HSDPA, texts also worked fine but data became unusable as people sent fireworks photos

On early 4G, not much changed from HSDPA since the networks were busier from more people using smartphones and social media

On LTE Advanced and 5G it's all a non-event now, everything works fine
have heard similar feedback from brick + mortar businesses

go-kart track: folks who came in through groupon never converted to repeat customers at full price

boutique fitness franchise: classpass users have low or negative margin, and don't convert to full price. they may be useful to fill out a part-empty class because that incurs no extra cost, but if you're spending new money to host them it's not economical

opposite case of this is pharma, where the subsidies go up the stack instead of down. arguably goodrx is the 'true' price, and the retail price you pay as a walk-in is drastically inflated

there are also communities of people who rotate credit cards to chase the best reward / rebates deals; imo they are behaving rationally in the face of an industry that offers bundles which decline in value over time
Google's Gemini Advanced (Ultra 1.0)
In general, a lower temperature star (3075 K versus the sun at 5778 K) will appear larger in the sky on a habitable planet.
This is a good explanation. I think the word "abundance" is more fitting than "growth." I also like how you frame it as someone with an "abundance mindset" possibly being wrong, foolish, etc. to think that they can always get more resources whenever they need them. When I've seen this written about before, it really seemed like it was framing the "scarcity mindset" as being wrong; like the person with that mindset is just obviously leaving so much (money, pleasure, etc.) on the table.

> If you’re older but still tucking away money and trying to not spend too much, etc, then you still have a scarcity mindset

This does seem to become something of a problem when people earn and save prodigiously so that they can retire, but then never feel comfortable enough to actually retire and start spending down their savings. I don't want to be "the richest guy in the graveyard," dying at 80 with an 8-figure net worth (in today's dollars), but I see how that can happen.
Would it even be legal now?

As a child I burned myself continuously on that mofo.

I was running that Z80 hard though :)
>If you seeing this (and I’m not, particularly, but let’s pretend for a moment you are); maybe AI has an image problem.

Clearly. Look at the players and where the money is, and look at how those players were doing with other tech last decade. No surprise that their goodwill from the get go is not only drained but in debt. Even before going into the actual ethical and logistical quandaries of AI, I was already skewed to be skeptical.

So it is a shame when you see similar mannerisms dropping from companies you did trust. again, even without considering the idea of AI: the company provided a required update that added a new plugin in by default, which leads me to another subscription. This is how the nickel-and-diming starts.
> You should rather look at go.mod file

no. the whole point of go.sum is to see everything. you could have a go.mod with a single item, but if that item is a giant module with hundreds of third party imports (as in this case), its quite misleading.

> I've seen much, much worse worse, as a daily Go user I'd say it's fine

uh where? I am a daily Go user, both professional and personal. and this is one of the most bloated modules I have ever seen.
I remember reading a book that stated human socialization evolved when the primary interactions were between family groups and small tribal communities. Everyone knew everyone. Socialization with outsiders was formalized and much more time-consuming and awkward.

In the modern era, we are constantly interacting with strangers or people we barely know. Some gregarious people are very good at this, but otherwise it can be a challenge to find common ground for socializing. I don't know if any of this is true, but it strikes me as intuitively true.
I count ~125 bundled plugins for my install of Intellij IDEA 2023.3.3. JetBrains's problem is they bundle too many plugins. It's not a bundled AI plugin that requires a separate subscription to work and to be whitelisted for corporate accounts.
We have only 100% to give. To become expert at socializing costs in other areas, which is why many high performing people are socially awkward. It's a tradeoff
How NOT to get a job as a developer in 8 easy steps (2021)
Clickbait headline. The article itself is full of insinuation but doesn’t have any substantive evidence to suggest Ansar Allah is planning to attack undersea cables.
This is the crux of the issue.

Ultimately no impactful regulation of cars/drivers is possible because it's impossible to survive in most of the US without driving. You can take someone's license or mandate they have $10 million of insurance but at the end of the day they'll just have to drive without a license and drive without insurance because in most places there's no alternative.

The solution is to stop building out our infrastructure in ways that make cars a requirement for survival. Give people an alternative and maybe then you can start enforcing stricter automobile regulations.

As a benefit you'd reduce all the other horrible impacts cars have on our society (health, pollution, costs, anti-social behavior)
Windows is quite an explicit lift of the interface design guidelines specified by IBM as Common User Access ( CUA ).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access

CUA predates NeXT by quite a lot and so the influence would mostly be going the other way.

CUA was the design paradigm chosen for OS/2, a joint project between IBM and Microsoft. When Microsoft started the Windows Project ( after OS/2 ) they pretty explicitly adopted CUA for it as well.
Agreed, it’s a very poorly worded title.
.net would benefit from it.
> You have a target market and sometimes it takes time for a product to spread through its ideal users — this is magical because word of mouth is free. And when it happens in an organic way, the intent is even higher. But if these ideal users encounter the product via an incentive program, you often “pull forward” these users, thus costing you money, when you would have gotten them anyway.

It’s worse than that. Some of these users you think you pick up via an incentive program were already loyal repeat customers!

As a silly example, there’s a local cafe that is part of a small chain that roasts its own (excellent!) coffee. I used to buy bags of coffee at their shop. But their website often has promotions, which they market to me heavily, which makes it cheaper to shop online and even cheaper if I wait for the right promotion.

And if I go to the cafe, I don’t cost them money in free shipping and I might buy a drink or a snack!

The moral: set up your pricing structure and promotions to incentivize the behavior you want from your customers.
Yes, once we're commanding autonomous little bots in space, capable of also autonomously creating their own factories, we can build anything on a whim as long as we can design it and have the energy and materials.

(I may have played too much Factorio)
Wikipedia says this

The relative increase in solar irradiation at closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) compared to the irradiation at the furthest distance (aphelion) is slightly larger than four times the eccentricity. For Earth's current orbital eccentricity, incoming solar radiation varies by about 6.8%, while the distance from the Sun currently varies by only 3.4% (5.1 million km or 3.2 million mi or 0.034 au).[9]

Perihelion presently occurs around 3 January, while aphelion is around 4 July. When the orbit is at its most eccentric, the amount of solar radiation at perihelion will be about 23% more than at aphelion. However, the Earth's eccentricity is so small (at least at present) that the variation in solar irradiation is a minor factor in seasonal climate variation, compared to axial tilt and even compared to the relative ease of heating the larger land masses of the northern hemisphere.[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
I usually start with the `dh_make` generated skeleton and incrementally add overrides as I iterate with `gbp buildpackage`. It's not pretty, but it's what I know.
EWS is a SOAP-based web services protocol. Totally separate from MAPI.

What you're thinking of is called RPC-over-HTTP or sometimes "Outlook Anywhere".
FWIW, we've had an LG front-loader for the last 5 years and have had zero issues. They do have a wifi capability to notify, but we've never connected them or felt the need to. If we moved, I wouldn't hesitate to buy another one.
It doesn't seem like it would take much to make Earth inhabitable for us humans. Like if we wanted to we can do it pretty quickly using primitive methods. It's a very delicate system and we're completely reliant on it.

So it is a stretch for me to think there are even a few planets in the galaxy that could host human life as we know it.
Coupon programs are arguably a form of price discrimination[1]. It allows you to sell at a lower price to people who a willing to put in the effort while still being able to sell for more to people who are fine with sticker price.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
I've made, in the distant past, into the triple digits of RPMs. I actually really liked making RPMs: just a single .srpm file that included the instructions and postinstalls and the like. Fairly straightforward to produce.

I've also built in the double digits deb files, and I've always loathed the task. Even just starting from an existing deb src and trying to adapt it to my new package was always painful and as often as not I'd dig through the documentation and end up having to "phone a friend" for help. I'd get a magic incantation that would work, but I'd never quite internalize why or how I was supposed to know that.

I know there are tons of people who produce deb packages, so this is clearly a "me" problem, but as much as I wish I could contribute to the debian packaging world, it has just been impenetrable for me.

Kind of theraputic to hear others here saying similar.
ISO 80000 Part 13 gives some symbols within the scope of communication technology (its scope is more narrow than its title would suggest). The standard itself is copyrighted but the quantity symbols are listed on Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_80000#Part_13:_Informa...

See also https://www.nist.gov/publications/quantities-and-units-softw...
There's a similar differencen in impact between picking up a second shirt in the morning and $100+ of food spoiling, but that didn't seem to bother you.
Putting a simple contact sensor on the deep end of a mechanical lock (costs about as much as a button since it can be the same hardware, except it needs to neither be big nor have controllable lights around it) is more expensive than designing a whole bunch of electronic circuitry and state machines and figuring out the best text you can write to make (young and old) people understand the state machine?!

The doors are also slow as heck, both because they slide a large distance at the speed of a snail in a hairpin turn and because half the people don't get the system. I'd be surprised if these electronic systems merely halve a toilet's hourly capacity compared to it being fully mechanical besides that 10-pence "occupied" sensor in the frame/wall side of the lock
Yes, I thought you played with those apps and their proxies to get around anti-bot protection.

I also don't have anti-bot implemented right now, but that's my next step. I mean, my app "has one job" and it's not doing it well because of anti-bot protection...
Timely read; we’re in the process of replacing our $12k Thermador refrigerator 4 years after we bought it, and 6 months and a dozen trips by the repair guy.
And yet here I am, the annoying fly in the ointment of your
hypothesis, no?
C# has a garbage collector for specifically tracking memory, but lifetimes are more broadly useful.

For example, Rust lifetimes (this is also the case in C++ afaik) can be used to suitably scope the lifetimes of mutexes, to have temporary folders which are deleted when they go out of scope, to require that a connection pool is destroyed _after_ the last connection inside it is returned, etc, etc.

Mostly, garbage collected language do a bad job of cleaning up objects which refer to resources held elsewhere. Java had persistent issues with direct ByteBuffers (which were wrappers around malloc (but not free!)). Locks are easily held too long. File handles are easily left open. And depending on your GC settings, that file descriptor that's holding a 10GB file around may not get cleaned up for hours.

Refcounted languages can be somewhat better, but they don't avoid the bug, they just mitigate the effects.
I recall a few articles about similar designs back in the (?) 1970's. The big issue was that, flying over the ocean, the lift/drag benefits of the ground effect were offset by the dangers of being surprised by a modest-sized rogue wave...which could easily cause fatal damage. Both this article and the linked page at Aurora are too short & fluffy to meaningfully address that problem.

Perhaps this new design will have LIDAR continuously scanning the surface, and keep a "never less than X seconds ahead" computer forecast of wave heights running, so that they could climb out of danger in time?
Debit cards have the same processing fees, the credit cards are a complete red herring. If anything credit cards are much more evil than just charging the processing fee.
Yep, trivia* for instance is very impressive in performance, especially considering you can switch optimizers.

* <https://github.com/guicho271828/trivia>
Some states have weird laws that affect prices, too. I once got hit while in MN, and the insurance company had to pay out for the cost of a new body panel. The shop gave me the option of a new panel, or a refurbished one off of a scrap car.

It looked identical when they were done, but I ended up getting a check cut for half the value of the new panel because the used one was so much cheaper.

As I was in college at the time, a free $800 made my day.
There is actually some truth in the idea that developed countries suffer from more social awkwardness than developing countries. If you compare the north east coast to southern states, richer northern European countries to the poorer southern European countries, or urban areas to rural areas. A similar thing also plays out in East Asia where more developed countries tend to has more complaints about social awkwardness than less developed countries.
I get random emails from them about "popular" questions like "why has Javascript replaced C++?" Seems like ragebait.
I don't think it died. I get answers from Quora or Reddit for most of my questions. Nowadays, Google is also pushing forum websites.

The amount of questions being asked and answered is drastically reduced after GPT. So as a platform, it has died but still has the same amount of reach. They integrated AI. We have to see where this heads.
Not just California. In Arizona, I was looking to shop around insurance recently and couldn’t even get a quote from my home insurer (who also recently raised my rates, mind you).
Last week I switched car insurance company and coverage was offered in the literal same day, all over the phone. In comparison, three weeks seems like an eternity.