skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been considering the "programmer" monitors from BenQ, but I don't know if they truly help.

[0]: https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/programming/rd280u.html
If you've got the budget for it, e-ink monitors are becoming more available recently, and I've heard that they make a huge difference for eye strain. There are still only a few companies manufacturing panels that large, and I think the framerate can be pretty jarring for anything other than text, but I have been keeping an eye out for when the prices drop.
Another tool, although I have only anecdotal evidence, is f.lux and similar software.
Heh, maybe a link to the respective manpage would be even better.
Big fan of Philosophy, not a big fan of Agnes Callard. I love Socrates as much as the next person, but there have been millennia of philosophical inquiry since.

I hate the trend among public intellectuals to pick some ancient figure and then project all modern questions and anxieties onto them. You end up not learning much about Socrates, but much about Agnes Callard.

I'll take modern academic philosophy with all its jargon and impenetrability over the simplistic parables of Callard.
We all have a dog in the race. Empires do not fall quietly.
Relevant given the Stargate announcement
Given the number of "roadkill" splice pedestals I see in my area I feel pretty confident the ILEC isn't doing any maintenance of the copper cable plant at all.

Yep. In a number of places the old ILEC's have publicly declared their intention to deprecate the old copper based PSTN. In other areas, they seem to be practicing a sort of "malicious neglect" and just letting it decay on the vine, to avoid spending money on maintenance.
Not 100% sure of the details but I think it’s more like a digital pwm system.

I had dimmers installed when we rewired our house and I thought they were rubbish. Replaced those with Varilight v-pro and they were noisy. Discovered that I could switch between leading edge and trailing edge modes (or something like that) and the sound went away. Love them now.
Here's my current status:

* Facebook

1. Step one was to delete the app, though there was a bit more friction, I still found myself opening Facebook in (ios) Safari
2. Announce to friends and family I was deleting my account (yup I'm that person).
3. Delete account
4. Success!

* Twitter

1. Delete account, Elon did me a favor here by blocking access without an account.
2. Delete second account,
3. Links into twitter are still a problem, but I spend possible 2 minutes on the site per week tops.
4. NEXT STEP: Block www.twitter.com, www.x.com, etc. from all devices personal and work via /etc/hosts, pihole, custom dns, etc.

* Reddit

1. FAILURE

* Instagram

1. Delete app,
2. NEXT STEP: block instagram.com from all devices

News

1. Block news.google.com from all devices,
2. NEXT STEP (WIP): Block all news sites from all devices

Hacker News:

1. UGH
berg didn't charge for use, just for the printer.. of course they also didn't last long.
How about this baby?

https://www.usedfoodtrucks.com/food-trucks-for-sale/snow-con...
Wouldn't a mono camera and filter wheel be ideal setup for this sort of purpose? Assuming you are interested more in the mineralogy than pretty pictures.
"Impossibru!!"

https://github.com/sunfishcode/eyra

Oh look:

> Why use Eyra? It fixes Rust's set_var unsoundness issue. The environment-variable implementation leaks memory internally (it is optional, but enabled by default), so setenv etc. are thread-safe.
I've seen some very large farms and they didn't seem like a horror show to me. Maybe they exist somewhere but I'm starting to get the feeling that "factory farm" is a term that people throw out to conjure a mental image of something that doesn't actually exist (or is the exception rather than the rule).
> An even, diffused lighting environment is best for the eyes

indeed. i am unsure where the love for those "spotlights" embedded into the ceiling comes from. every time i enter a room that has them i want to crouch like gollum. the only thing they seem to do is blind you.

indirect lights can be expensive and hard to find though. i built 12 hanging lamps that illuminate the ceiling instead of the floor myself, which saves a few thousand bucks but was unfortunately more work than expected.
go to the uk. they have all the free abortions, genders, and education you could possibly want. apply for asylum since you're clearly afraid for your life.
Who has a signal safe malloc?
You could write your own OS software that polls your browser for installed extensions and then nukes your internet connection through the host file if you disable the extension. Cold Turkey kinda does this by automatically closing your browser during a blocked session if you disable their extension.

The challenge is that there's always a workaround. The added friction might be enough to fulfil your need though.
Of course you can. Mutexes are system objects, so it's not a huge problem to sync across processes, if you really have to (is it really expected that one process can set env vars inside another process?).

Making global state, especially state that has no reason to be modified or even read very often like the env, thread safe is a trivial issue, well studied and understood. Could an intern do it? Probably not. Could literally any maintainer of a standard C library? Easily.

This is much more of a culture problem preventing such obvious flaws from being recognized as such.

Side-note: your set-then-get example is a theoretical problem in search of a use case. Why would you ever want to concurrently set an env var and expect to be guaranteed to read that same value? And even if this is a real thing that applications really use, exposing a new function to sync anything on the env mutex is, again, trivial. So, if you really needed that, you could do

lockenv
setenv
getenv
unlockenv

And problem solved.
...her?
The most effective way to get out from under someone else's boot (financially) is to work towards a spot where you aren't dependent on them or the job's income.

100% this but entire system is setup to make sure this doesn't happen at scale. even here on HN if you post something along these lines but in real terms you will get downvoted like crazy and get even crazier comments.

the system is setup to make sure there are workers, w2 workers. this is why there is student loans and this is why schools do not teach you to be an entrepreneur, to be a salesman, to hustle for yourself and not for someone else. I see so many people here talking about leetcode and faang and I think to myself that is just modern day slavery. if you are LXXX at say Meta making say $750k/year, I think the same - you are a modern-day slave. if Meta is paying you $750k/year that really means that you are worth twice that, if not more. no company is going to pay you more than you are worth to them and they won't even break even with you so-to-speak so you can bank on this fact whoever you work for and whatever you bank. though there is a big difference between working on someone's yacht and making $750k the principles are the same but system is working hard and succeeding in making sure it stays as it is...
Yeah, the cows have certainly gotten out already.
Book 1, chapter 7: The workers want to work as little as possible and get as high a wage as possible while the employers want the workers to work as much as possible and for as small of a wage as possible ... yet it is obvious that the employers have an upper hand in this standoff, being easier to organize since they are smaller in number, having more funds to live off of, and by the fact that they in practice enlist the state to go after workers.

I was talking about the only capitalism that has existed.
Not envious of multi-billionaire's companies gathering capital, IP, knowledge and infrastructure for huge scale modern day private Stasi apparatuses. Just bitter.
War clinics in Ukraine witness sharp rise in drug-resistant infections
> Already Russia is heading to the next panel in the cycle.
Curious if you could share some links, or readings, blog posts, etc. in relation to this
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/insight-therapy/20...
React doesn't have a tag and attribute sanitizer built in, so having non-js-programmers edit JSX isn't especially safe anyways, as an img or a href could exfiltrate data. If it were they could just block out an innerHTML attribute. A js programmer can get around it by setting up a ref and then using the reference to set innerHTML without the word dangerously appearing.
They did, it's called core. But it assumes no operating system at all, and environment variables require an operating system.
A lot of the guidelines that are used to light a scene for a camera are also quite useful for lighting a room for yourself, just with less light needed as the human eye has a much higher dynamic range than a camera sensor:

* Use diffuse light. This usually means multiple light sources bouncing and diffusing light off surfaces (ceilings, walls, etc) or diffusers.

* Minimize shadows. Shadows lead to contrast which can lead to eye strain. Use multiple, maybe directional, light sources to illuminate shadows.

* Minimize highlights. Windows without blinds let in lots of light which leads to contrast and can lead to eye strain. Curtains and blinds are great ways to diffuse light.

* Uniform color temperature. Try to make sure all your lights have the same color temperature. Small variations are okay but large color temperature variations lead to color contrast which also tends to be hard on eye strain.

* Select your color temperature based on needs and feeling. A lot of people prefer warmer color temperature lights and cool temperature lights are known to be more stressful for folks with anxiety-related conditions, but if your work requires accurate color representation, or you find yourself mentally trying to compensate for color temperature, then change the temperature to what you find most productive yet relaxing.

* Wall color. Remember that "white" light that reflects off colored surfaces will take on a hue similar to the reflected surfaces. Walls of different colors can cause challenges for uniform color temperature, and warm colored walls can take cold lights and turn them warm.

A side effect, of course, is that your room will become a lot more photogenic. It's no coincidence since photogenic rooms are often just easiest on the eye to look at.

"Golden Hour" is considered a great time for photogenic events, photographs, and videos. "Golden Hour" lighting tends to be diffuse, not too strong, and warm toned. Humans tend to really like this style of lighting and if you do too, you might want to recreate some of these properties in your office.
I buy Apple products because they are the best integrated and are better overall. But I hate how Apple deals with App Store.

I’ve make my living knowing almost everything about AWS. I like the overall platform. But the company is evil incarnate and I hate everything about the corporate culture (former employee).

I love Slack, notion.io, Google’s NotebookLM and GSuite in general, ChatGPT, VSCode.
Why is it talking about clouds and stratospheres then? strace is pretty far from "the cloud" isn't it?
There's a good chance its due to dry eye. If so, you need to blink more. Get an eye compress (heat it up in microwave, toss on eyes for 10 minutes). That can help release oils from glands onto your eyes. Artificial tears can help with comfort but wont solve the underlying problem--we don't blink (enough) when we focus on screens that are close to our face.
Cons are gonna con.

And what better way than creating your own crypto?

How long until every celebrity and corporation and "influencer" starts to follow his lead? All it takes is enough fools willing to buy in.

Is it possible to con your way to greatness?
> hypothetical example of a good preemptive pardon would be Congress repealing an unjust law, and the president pardoning anybody who broke that law before the repeal

Congress could do this when they pass the law. If they didn't, they specifically chose not to.

> less convinced about preventing family pardons. Those people (generally) aren't politicians

What if we invert the question: in what case would the family require a pardon such that their spouse or parent in a position of massive power couldn't help them out of a legitimate scuffle?

> Most people don't follow politics closely enough to know who's been pardoned

Then why do most of the controversial pardons come in this envelope?

> how about allowing the House or Senate to veto a pardon with a 2/3 majority?

I like this much better.
This has never made sense to me. If you are worried about the treatment of people in Gaza, and your choice is between a party who supports the current mistreatment and a party who supports even worse treatment, why would you protest-vote for the party who supports even worse treatment?
Exactly, I've had cases when half-assed "backup" components led to cascading failures that were horribly difficult to troubleshoot.
There is no coming back from this to be honest. America has been a silent Oligarchy (a government by the few, for the benefit of the few) for a long time and now its just mask off... and unfortunately, the large majority of Democrats have had no interest in making meaningful change, let alone undoing these highly damaging policy changes like Citizens United and everything after that.

Kakistocracy: Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens - also comes to mind here. No one in the upper levels of government care about anything other than enriching themselves at the behest of corporations, and at the expense of everyone else's wellbeing and livelihood. Instead we get vapid shallow identity politics and "culture war" garbage, and every once in a long while we get a gutted out compromised bill that addresses 1/1000th of the problem... only to be later overturned despite it being wholly ineffective.

I just don't see the government, in this state, ever having the faculties or incentive to "fix itself." These institutions and "norms" are irreparably broken, and some people still insist on holding them in the highest regards like they are some infallible mandate.
That's quite a trade-off
I don't think those can be considered zoos from your description.

And maybe stop going to them (you went to a few?) and they will become even less common.

Never seen one of those, but there's plenty of private animal habitats I've seen that take injured and stray animals.

Usually just ran/funded by someone who loves animals.
Yes I found the grayscale surprisingly effective. An additional tip is to bind it to the triple-click side button accessibility shortcut, so you can quickly enable/disable it if you need colour for something momentarily.
We're not all FAANG engineers.
Bailing him out comes at no cost? That's one way to see it.
In my opinion, it sends a message that as long as you can provide value to this new administration, you get preferential treatment - no matter how shady and unethical your business ventures are.
I am fundamentally incapable of understanding people who don't like philosophy. To me it's akin to being someone who doesn't like music or doesn't like art or doesn't like poetry. To be incapable of finding something that resonates with you in at least one of these domains is equivalent to being inhuman—I just cannot even comprehend how a living human being like that could exist.

My sense is that people who claim to dislike philosophy either had a bad introduction to it or have been so inculcated with a way of existence reduced to "problem solving"—life viewed as a "great entry examination" or standardized test—that they are no longer capable of actual abstract curiosity and thought and are only able to proceed in spaces that are already highly constrained. Philosophical viewpoints are highly varied and highly entertaining. In some ways it is far closer in kind to art even though it is the matron of all of our sciences.
What's the BOM?
I'd argue it's quite similar. Since Nixon, we've been in a hyperpartisan divide that doesn't permit Constitutional flexibility.
> The terms and conditions of both $TRUMP and $MELANIA bar buyers from joining class-action lawsuits against the project and indemnify the project against any claims.

Crypto could not have really thought "Trump would bring it legitimacy" in the ordinary sense of the phrase. It was always really nod-wink for "Trump will legitimize scamming".
The takeaway for me on all his videos is that yes, these things are different, and they make a difference. But the difference is so subtle and nuanced that its nigh on impossible hear it, especially in the mix, played on a CD, over a stereo in a less-than-ideal treated room.

In one of his amp cab videos he has the appiphany that all his tone chasing was for naught, because he failed to consider that each and every sound he hears has been recorded. He cannot replicate the tone of how an amp or cab or speaker or guitar sounded, because that sound was recorded, where the mic, preamp, console and recording medium all added their own influence, and him listening to an amp in the room is not how that amp actually sounded. And live sound is a completely different animal all together!
They better hurry if they want to be the team that creates the species that replaces us.
unfortunately there aren't many better ways to solve the absolute insanity of today's social media that identity proofing...
Gentle reminder that we have 1,459 more days of this shit. We really don't have to upvote every crazy fucking thing this guy does, or HN will be nothing but that for the next four years.
Many people overlook how spaces are lit from an aesthetic perspective as well as a from the functional perspective this article is written from. Lamps and other eye-level lighting sources do more than just help eye strain as the article suggests; they also work wonders from an interior design perspective, and make spaces feel way more livable. I always find homes overly reliant on overhead lighting struggle to shake the more sterile feel of offices, where overhead dominates.
There is a difference between a hard no (We are not doing that) and this softer no (We are not doing that but we are not committed to not doing that), and in less mature organizations that difference is important and very useful.
Kurzweil's predictions were spot on and stood the test of time. Sure you can nitpick some things that didn't happen but overall he was spot on. He was one on the first people who understood what became known as "scaling hypothesis".
> the same way as with Brexit?

We haven't done anything quite that irreversible yet.
AFAIK it's typical for whitehouse.gov to be completely replaced with every new president
Keep in mind the purpose of these satellites often isn't to intercept the communications. A major use of ELINT to to detect and locate active radars. You don't actually care what the radar is detecting or anything like that, you are trying to identify where the radar is, what kind of radar system, maybe measure the frequency and power to get a sense of its performance, etc.

And when you are trying to actually collect communications, sometimes you can get a lot just from the metadata. Even if you don't know the content of the communications, you can know that at time T, emitter A sent a message on frequency F using protocol P, lasting for duration D and transmitting B bytes. Depending on the communication mechanism, you could also determine the intended destination as well. Even if that data is perfectly encrypted, there's a lot you can do with just traffic analysis, especially when you look at patterns over time and try to correlate this with known events.

Imagine if the US tested some classified missile over the ocean, and some unknown ship nearby broadcast something, and minutes later a bunch of encrypted transmissions are detected at various places in China, places that don't usually send communications at that particular time or that particular volume. That would be a clue that those locations are related to Chinese military intelligence. Comparing exact timestamps, and looking at what happened during similar tests in the past, you can narrow that down further.

And that's just in peacetime. In an active war, this information becomes far more useful. Anything transmitting a lot of data near the frontlines is probably something worth targetting. Maybe just an information relay point, or maybe the headquarters of an armored division. You can also look at the volume of traffic and try to discern intentions. A big spike in the amount of communications in a particular region, followed by near radio silence? That's probably the start of an offensive.
I don't understand the relevance of the question. I thought the therad is about innovation, not "startups" (what's that? american style "supergrowth or you go to trash" VC funded companies?)
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Yea, I would almost be OK with security patches being automatically applied by default (as long as there was a clear way to turn them off). I'd grumble about it, because ultimately I should be in charge of what gets installed and run on my computer, and I feel my computer should not do things that I have not deliberately commanded it to do. But just force-feeding me software simply because the manufacturer wants me to run it? No bueno.
> Why is anyone using "setenv" anyway?

Because it’s there and it looks like a good idea until it takes one of your fingers.
Total ban of them? Which for me sounds like preferable option.
> "write" was used to DM a person.

Notably, it did so by literally opening up the tty associated with the user's session and spitting bytes directly at it. It was a different world back then.
The two way activitypub integration looks very practical, I didn’t realize this is an option; I’ll read more, thanks!
Japan gives every candidate an equal amount of time on TV. Its just one example of something that other countries do to make elections more fair. You could limit resources and give everyone a standard platform as a baseline so that anyone outside of the deeply entrenched dual-party system has a chance to win.
Thanks for the question. I'm working on compiling the BOM in these few days. A preliminary R&D BOM is here (apologies, it's in Google Sheets): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17arbJvPqW6koqEJwAzne...
Trump is pro-Trump. That's it.
There isn't any rule that requires websites to use a cookie banner. Your required to obtain explicit consent before reading/setting any cookies that aren't strictly necessary. The web came up with the cookie banner.

Google could've implemented a consent API in Chrome, but they didn't. Guess why.
In some cases this is true. In the case of setting and getting env vars, it is not. There is no comceivable reason for making a process that spends any significant portion of its runtime calling setenv() or getenv(). Even if those calls were a thousand times slower than today, it would still be a non-issue.