skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There actually has been a lot of work done to make it suitable for use cases such as 2d, racing, etc.

An engine like unity basically provides utilities such as physically based rendering, camera systems, visual editors, scripting environments, a scenegraph editor, preview windows, io, asset import and conversion, audio, etc. Some games are of course easier to make than others in such engines, but they aren't that prescriptive.
The important part is at the end: "The calculus for politicians is different from those who write white papers for think tanks. The blue collar workers vote. Simple as that."

While that is true, the think tanks have the perspective right: the local government is spending (foregoing) millions in taxpayer money to channel thousands to a small set of people. I'm all for those people being paid, don't get me wrong. But it's an insanely inefficient and destructive way to do so.
> For example don't be a pleasure-seeking hippy like the Dude.

FWIW, I interpreted the Dude as not so much a pleasure seeking hippy rather as not a pleasure denying person.

He make an extra effort for people, which isn't pleasure seeking. For example he goes to see his landlord's dance cycle to show support, and in fact the dance cycle is hilariously bad. He also shows concern for bunny, even if it's misplaced.

When he stumbles across the german in the pool black out drunk and learns he's a nihilist and quips, "That sounds exhausting." In other words, the guy seems to have to work pretty hard (getting drunk to the point of being unconscious and proudly proclaiming his beliefs to everyone he meets) at not believing in anything.

The narrator at the end says, "It's good to know the dude is out there taking it easy for all us sinners." The dude simply abides.
What I find interesting is that equalization seems to be looked down on among a lot of audiophiles. If you don't like how your $2000 amplifier is voiced, get a different one instead of dropping a cheap equalizer inline.
I bet they could use contributors if anyone is bored
Great post. I tackle the problem of being aware of things I don’t yet know or fully understand by maintaining an [open Trello board](https://trello.com/b/cu32qF3q) that lists topics I want to learn in a visual way.

I then mark off topics I am focusing on learning now and topics I want to learn ‘Next’. This helps me greatly. I also try to learn things in context of projects I am working on and the direct knowledge I need to solve the problems I have.
As chobeat kindly pointed out, nobody is criticizing rationality or reason here. It’s the worship of rationality that I think is deeply problematic.

Examples? Economic models of society. Lesswrong.com. Joscha Bach’s talk.

Rationality is not the answer to life, the universe and everything. (It’s 42.)
>roll back at-will employment laws and give labor more leverage in negotiations with management.

Historically we've killed & bombed our very own citizens for trying to change things like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
Large scale industrial logging of some of the world’s largest trees
Ask HN: Jacque Fresco and Sustainable Future
I have been reading a lot in all kinds of places about what the future might hold for us a species, how we could go about becoming sustainable, do less harm to nature, fix the environment, help the poor, etc.

I understand that the fix is not something that can be applied to certain areas but rather a chain fix

For this post (one of many to come) i would like to know has anyone had the chance to:

-Read about Jacque Fresco and his work
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacque Fresco

-https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/

-Check out the Venus Project
-https://www.thevenusproject.com/

-Watch his interview with Larry King 1974
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBIdk-fgCeQ

-What are your thoughts on Jacque

-Are you familiar with any similar projects or anything related with the same topic (please share resources)

-Do you think we could achieve the Venus Project or Star Trek economics:
-https://www.amazon.com/Trekonomics-Economics-Star-Manu-Saadia/dp/1941758754

-Feel free to add anything that might be of value to the discussion

I am aware that there is so much in this web of life that we can’t just simple switch to a new way of life, or maybe even thinking about it is hard or not?

would you say that perhaps the way for a better tomorrow would start with a new way of education system? one which transcends borders, nationalities or anything else that might, how should say, in way cripple the logical and what is right thinking.

I understand it’s a bit broader topic, but it’s my first try so feel free to share constructive feedback on both the question and how to improve this and future questions to get the most out of it.

Thank you all!
VSCode really isn't even a same type of product than Visual Studio proper and it's nowhere near a replacement for VS heavy workflows.
OP here just to add:
Hello HN folks, i have been lurking around for a long time, before i start with the main topic as i would like to engage in more of these in the future, please feel free to correct me when it comes to posting guidelines or perhaps if there is some guide already share, i would like to get the maximum possible out of these engagements.

I am always amazed at the great response and different points of view and the resources that people provide in the comments, please let me know if the post needs to be edited as to attract the maximum in viewership and thus responses which i am most excited about. had a character limit :)
Thank you
Rules of Spycraft (2009) [pdf]
I'm implying that workers are often employed temporarily though a subcontracting agency, rather than being in a permanent role. The daily costs is fully inclusive.

Both companies should keep track of what resources are assigned where and paid for.
I made a plugin to translate NextJs apps: next-i18next
I think he's saying that near-monopolies should have to follow special rules because the market system breaks down
Ouch... That seems painful and really like someone made a wrong decision 20 years ago. Back then scheme was a pretty inane choice compared to CL. That is not as much the case today, regardless of what the CLers say :)
The question here is - what do you gain? You're giving up arguably one of the best developer tools available for what? A slightly different desktop skin? Remapped shortcuts? Using slightly different command line commands?
When you say "company" is it a start-up thing or a side project or how is it making money?

If there is any money, hire an uxler or a designer or use an ok looking theme to build upon.

I'm sorry to chime in with the other critiques here and on something so superficial, but I think making it to some baseline would greatly improve how the project is seen.

Can you also give an elevator pitch? People can't be bothered with watching a long video I fear.

What I quickly grasp from your website: 1 to 3 devs, technical non-pragmatic solution, something like facebook maybe, but decentralized.

How is it better than diaspora, mastadon, facebook etc.?

I wrote a concept for a twitter-like link aggregator with ratings, without democracy or machine learning and would actually be happy to chat about whether it might fit qbix.
Not to detract from your point but I seem to recall Doom being playable on PCs of the day. *

I remember some years after quake 2 was out (99ish ?) a friend showing off his new computer by actually playing quake 1 with all the bells and whistles turned on.

So yes the engines did develop quickly. Much quicker than the PCs of the day in fact.

*being school kids, these weren't gaming PCs, these were for 'homework' and 'research'.
Aside: Thank you for all the help here! These comments are amazingly helpful. Do you have a blog or other repository of this knowledge such that we can search for it there? Though I have no issues with Amazon now, I can imagine I may have some in the future. Searching through old HN comments to try to find this data is, well, sub-optimal. Again, thank you!
There's a whole lot of conspiracy speculation in there, especially the idea of "SPLC's anti-conservative purge".

Simply put, being associated with hard-right political figures is seen as problematic by Mastercard, Patreon, Paypal etc., and they are trying to minimize their risk, because they don't want to lose business. They have to do this, due to their obligations to shareholders, boards of directors and advertisers, who are all very concerned about public opinion's influence on their bottom line.

If you want to get to the heart of this "voluntary censorship", you have to either improve the public image of hard-right figures, so they're no longer seen as problematic, or break the reputation/bottom line relationship, or outright change the way businesses are run and held accountable, which would probably mean changing some fundamental things about capitalism.

Unless you want to abolish capitalism outright, I would suggest lessening the grip of corporations on payment services, and introduce a federal bank and federal payment service for the people. After all, isn't the ability to make and receive payment a public good on the level of water and electricity? Make it for everyone, equally.
the full-size globe itself looks cool indeed, it doesn't necessarily help the gif feel of the small one though :)
Related: I saw that Canadian astronaut, Chris Hadfield, is offering a class on "Space Exploration" on the Master Class site. I haven't used MC before, so I cannot attest to the quality of the offering, but it seems interesting.

> MC Course Site: https://www.masterclass.com/classes/chris-hadfield-teaches-s...

> Chris Hadfield's 'Space Oddity' music video from ISS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo
Pet Feeder: Arduino and 3D Printer
Interesting, cashback doesn't exist in the country I live in. You can get loyalty points from grocery stores and gas stations etc, you can even get a debit/credit card that doubles as loyalty card but it will still be points and you will only be able to convert them into discount at specific vendors but not to cash.
> One way or another, that landlocked oil in Alberta will make its way to market.

That's not necessarily true. The point of the capital investment in the pipeline is that the overall cost will be lower than shipping it from the pacific. If the pipeline doesn't exist, it may not be economic to mine the tar sands (this is especially true for tar sands oil which is very expensive (== itself consumes a lot of energy) to extract, so is only viable when oil prices are quite high.

> I think Keystone XL's real detractors are US oil producers.

Some of them, but the majors are integrated and having an alternative supplier to feed their refineries is good for them.

The other source of opposition is people who don't want to deal with the externalities: the pipleline itself, of course but more importantly leaks. Keystone's other pipelines leak and there's no reason to believe this one should be any different.
It's exactly apples and oranges being compared here. Languages and libraries or framework overhead is nothing compared to the toll of Big oh complexity. In fact the former doesn't even get multiplied that much as your input is pretty much constant. You start your application once unlike the input to your npow3 algorithm taking in a massive dataset. Also languages can make development more productive, which again is debatable but the slowness isn't comparable to Big O complexity. I am all in for leaner and efficient languages or stacks but I can live with bloated languages as opposed to inefficient algorithms.
Hobson's choice
>I can't go accidentally shooting people on the street and expect just a fine.

On the other hand if a gun range built a pathway for people downrange right by the targets, you wouldn't be the one responsible if you accidently shoot someone. It would be the gun range's fault for creating such a dangerous setup in the first place.
It is especially jarring when there is only one woman in the current top 100 chess players, Yifan Hou ranked 86.
Simply because an area of study and society share the same orthodoxies, I wouldn't say that's sufficient to qualify as research being agenda-driven, though maybe you could say there's a pressure to operate under a certain agenda, all sciences face the same in that scientists must first decide what to study before they study it, and as such based on the probabilities they can reckon with (being clever people) they can tell if something will lead to a "good" or a "bad" result. In fact, a recent study of submissions in Nature found that very few actually began with a hypothesis, and instead the research was exploratory.

So I don't think there's a direct causal connection, and in fact it could also be said that results from social sciences have influenced the political climate in turn, though the education system. It's clearly a dialectical relationship.

Harvard may be academia, but I got the impression you were talking about people being ejected not for coming out with a paper that challenges the orthodoxies of social justice (of which there are many, just yesterday I read part of a PhD which argued that many forms of hate speech should not be restricted in a liberal state) but rather something else outside of the academic process.

I can't say I'm very much in favour of liberalism in general, and I don't think that restrictions on some speech lead to tyranny as it's frequently alleged they would. One need not be a trusting citizen to hold this position, and I see no reason why the state (or an organization, of course) should not be very opinionated about what it allows and what it does not. The question "what if they start banning the kind of things you say?" is a moot point when I'm not arguing for such a ban. Just as any restriction on speech might be uncomfortable for you, only some are uncomfortable for me. You will protest when Harvard starts kicking people out for left-wing or right-wing views, but I'll only protest when they start kicking people out for left-wing views. I make no secret of this bias, and I think the obsession with being as abstract and neutral in general has taken a lot of force out of arguments for how we ought to run society.
it was this issue, I think: https://askubuntu.com/questions/892549/nautilus-so-slow-if-t...
> Electron text editors can’t resize their own window in real-time and drop frames while you just move your cursor around.

VSCode has no problem doing this on my Mac. I was scrolling through a 4000000 line file the other day like butter.

Win32 however can’t resize the most basic window without flickering - which is why every decent Windows app uses its own non-native GUI layer. There’s nothing wrong with non-native solutions - they’re often better. We can have the best of both words. Native on some platforms just isn’t that great.
As someone that learned music and several instruments before getting into computing, and having spent several evenings with musician friends, I beg to differ.

Writing a composition score for an orchestra falls under similar conditions, how each instrument sounds, how they sound together, when each comes and goes into play, and so forth.

Most complaints about C++'s complexity can be equally applied to languages that look deceivably simple like Python.

Complexity is like thermodynamics, it gets pushed somewhere, if it isn't on the code, it gets shoved either into boilerplate, or architecture.
Yes, this is hacker news. We've to find hacks in the capitalism to get ahead in life. As long as it's legal, it's good for us.

Since we pay well, don't see any problem.
Thanks! Since I wrote the book I try to take extra-care of the overall typesetting. I have an iPad Pro that I use to benchmarks the overall "appeal" of each article.

For a time I considered writing only one-pager that would entirely fit on an iPad screen without need to scroll (like an actual granite tablet). It is unpractical but keeps coming back to me every times I scroll down.
> Experts are telling you this is wrong.

So, first of all, I am an expert. I am not on the level of tptacek, but I did not just fall off the turnip truck either. I have a Ph.D. in computer science plus ~30 years of industrial and research experience. I've been studying security and cryptography for ~20 years. I run a company that sells a security product (https://sc4.us/hsm) for which I wrote much of the code myself. One of the reasons I'm skeptical about the security of iOS is because I know how easy it would be for me to conceal a back door in my own product, and my product has orders of magnitude less code and correspondingly fewer places for vulnerabilities to hide (which is supposed to be one of its main selling points, BTW).

Second, it's simply not true that experts are telling me that the "this" you are referring to is wrong. The comment to which you are responding is the first time in this thread that I have raised the amended claim that the rate of decompilation is <100 BPS rather than ~1 BPS. You are the only one who has responded to that so far.

Third, while it's true that tptacek has been telling me that I am wrong, he has been very vague about what exactly it is that I am wrong about. He has not directly challenged any of my claims, not even (if you read carefully) my conclusion. Neither he nor anyone else has actually made a made a statement of the form, "You're wrong, a reasonable estimate of decompilation rate is X", or, "You're wrong, a complete audit of iOS can be done in X work-days." All of the responses have been of the form, "You're wrong because you're an idiot," or, "You're wrong because you don't know the ins and outs of contemporary reverse-engineering techniques." But that, as I have noted before, is the courtier's-reply fallacy. Even if I am ignorant it does not follow that I am wrong. People get things right for the wrong reasons surprisingly often.
How did the original hampster dance song ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qN72LEQnaU ) morph into this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WptWKFk-C9Y

I'm not surprised their attempts to hold onto fame didn't work, it's like they completely forgot what they had made.
>Is this society’s fault that employees don’t contribute to their 401(k)s until they are in their thirties?

I didn't have the opportunity or even know what a 401k was except at a high level until I was 26 in my first 'big job'. I'm 28 and still haven't put any money into it because I cannot afford to in a corporate IT position. I'm still trying to pay down my health insurance deductible so I can get my medications. How can I ever retire? At this point, I'm going to work until I die.

Not sure how this is my fault when I'm educated and work 45 hours per week and am away from home for 60 when adding in my commute.
Your observation doesn’t change that OP hasn’t seen it.

Amex is a small card processor. According to the Nilson report [0], Visa and MasterCard made up 80% of global transaction dollar amount in 2016. Amex, Discover and JCB combined made up 5%.

You may know of Amex but they are a very small card, especially outside of the US.

[0] https://nilsonreport.com/upload/issues/1109_6392.pdf
Yes, I like them a lot. A formally verified OS should be the standard these days (and formally verified compilers). But for that to be so, we'll need new programming languages (not Rust) and toolchains I guess.
Can Flutter really be called "native", though? As I understand it, it operates like Swing: it draws all of its own widgets. They do their best to emulate the platform's widgets, but it's not using the native APIs for them.
So you can take the same codebase with these and deploy a UI plus libraries to Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and iOS?

In a production ready manner?
Please keep nationalistic slurs far away from Hacker News, regardless of who you have a problem with.

In addition, please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow all the rules when posting here. They include:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
Not that I'd recommend this, but my work MBP has 16GB of ram, and my typical software development setup (JVM, IntelliJ, Xcode, gradle) easily uses up 30GB. It swaps a lot but generally OSX does a good job of keeping the window manager and foreground applications at priority so I can still use my machine while this is happening.

I attribute this to the fact that the darwin kernel has a keen awareness of what threads directly affect the user interface and which do not (even including the handling of XPC calls across process boundaries... if your work drives the UI, you get scheduling/RAM priority). I don't think the linux kernel has nearly this level of awareness.
Forgotten Baroque Music
Good point. I forgot to mention that. I don't know if they're going for Instant Computing though. Are they?
Committee for Liquidation or Subversion of Computers (CLODO)
Yes, real mainstream use cases are a good measure of tech success. At least, I'd want to see some plausible early mainstream use and a path for it to broaden.

It's very typical that spruikers of tech hype cycles focus on the amount of press coverage, the number of projects rushing into the space, the amount of developer interest, or highly extrapolated market numbers. It doesn't prove anything about whether the thing has any real value or will be around in 10 years.

Given the allegedgedly vast scale of cryptocurrency deployments, there ought to now be some real uses and I don't see any, other than black markets, money laundering, speculation, and ransomware. Those are always going to exist and may be a stable base but probably aren't enough to justify the hype.
Theres nothing immoral about weapons development.

Warfare and its plagues has an always been a human problem.

Unless it violates personal beliefs akin to any conscientious objector.

I say this on a technology forum because, while i am a technologist now, i worked a past career doing weapons tech with bright and moral people.
Weapons tech development has an always been a scary realm bc any force/battlefield superiority almost ALWAYS results in its use...anf subsequent loss of life, combatant and otherwise.

Its a best of the worst kind of scenerios.
At work we often try to do a different color for each revision so you can tell at a glance what's in a given unit. It's definitely saved me a few times!
What is category in this sense?
Show HN: Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles
Aaronson is unfortunately in a sunk-cost position when it comes to D-Wave - he's been so against them for so long that even if they start to produce good results his bias is going to make it difficult for him to fairly evaluate them, especially if it means reaching different conclusions about their past work than he did previously.

Probably better to look to other commentators on this one, at least until he has enough time to emotionally process the situation and come around to it. It's not so easy admitting you're wrong in the shtetl.
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They screwed over Something Awful as well, due to a fundraiser for the victims of hurricane Katrina: https://www.somethingawful.com/news/paypal-fiasco-summary/

They simply froze the donated funds and kept them in limbo while forcing the operater of SA to jump through ridiculous hoops in order to unfreeze the money.

Don't use Paypal for any sort of fundraiser. Ideally never use Paypal for anything, ever.