skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the Red Queen effect ("running just to stand still")

It would be good if it were actually and deliberately properly designed this way to create an arms race of "who can get more general-purpose computing power for less" because it would accelerate technology development with this Red Queen effect...

Unfortunately they've missed the "general purpose part" - most mining todays is done by special-purpose hardware made for mining only, and improving it is generally useless for CPU / GPU / TPU design.

I'd fully support a similar coin that would be mine-able on GPU / TPU / other-general-matrix-multiplication-hardware because it would lead to a race decreasing the price of hardware that can run large neural networks :)
Apparently it's mostly a "when". https://twitter.com/kylealden/status/1115307632124780545
I think that screen share ability should be mentioned in features in prominent place, I was skimming website in order to find out what is it and seemingly non-existent screen share was the reason why I discarded it immediately without even trying anything. Now I'll give it a second look.
And before any architects reply smartly about the misuse of the term "blueprint" see here: https://socratic.org/questions/why-is-dna-called-the-bluepri...
(Not expert)
Does this have to do with Feynman's one electron universe (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe) that goes back in time?
Yes they are, UWP is the future of Windows APIs since Windows 8, like it or not.

Win32 is slowly being migrated into sandbox model with each Windows 10 release and hasn't seen any big update since Vista. All major APIs introduced since then are based on COM.
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Not a mathematician, but have spent some time self-learning math. I have not gone through the following books entirely, however I've used them when needed to learn or clarify a concept:

> Group Theory
- I would look for a good abstract algebra book that also covers groups, such as A First Course in Abstract Algebra, Fraleigh or Basic Algebra, Knapp. Another popular recommendation is Abstract Algebra, Dummit and Foote.

> Topology
I think you should first look at a real analysis course and understand metric space topology for Euclidean spaces. If you have taken calculus, you can try and go through Baby Rudin. For topology specifically you can look into Munkres or Introduction to Topological Manifolds, J Lee.

> Measure Theory
T. Tao has a good book on this topic.

> Differential Geometry
Introduction to Smooth Manifolds by J Lee

> Probability
Probability Theory, Achim Klenke

> Game Theory
Game Theory by Maschler, Solan & Zamir
Yes but at least you know the reading is faulty and avoid applying dangerous commands. Now I don't know if the stall it is meant to avoid is a greater risk than MCAS pushing the plane in the wrong direction.
This is such utter nonsense. There are a whole class of middlemen!

And decentralised currency is not useful or important, unless you've got some sort of decentralisation fetish, which most people don't.

This is honestly one of the most inflated, ridiculous claims I've ever seen in the cryptocurrency space. A space which is already riddled with ridiculous, overblown claims!
We had plenty of content on the web, if you make user count / content amount ratio, before it was overloaded with ads.

I spent hours a day on the net in 2000, and we had very few ads.

Even when google started showing ads, it was very discreet. No pop ups, modals, auto playing videos, invasive trackers and fake comments.
Oh, the number of hours of my life I spent debugging CMake files of third party libraries.

You are very fortunate if you import libraries that just work. This is also true for "modern" CMake.
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Bitcoin also provides very, very few of the features of the global banking system, which does a lot more than run transactions!
"Web 3 is an umbrella term for a set of emerging technologies intersecting cryptocurrencies, blockchains and distributed systems"

wat?
Correct. Cantonese and English are official languages.
Outside of commerce and the central districts, it's definitely Cantonese with a smattering of English - which is quite nice.
The U-2 is the only U.S. surveillance aircraft still flying a "wet film" camera called the Optical Bar Camera, or OBC. Ironically, this relatively old technology keeps the U-2 mission from being completely transitioned to other aircraft like Global Hawk, due to the film imagery being easily releasable and able to be declassified.

Around 2007, a PC-104 embedded computer running Linux was integrated into the OBC camera to allow correlation of flight data with the imagery, as well as supply an OBC camera status page on the cockpit multi-function display.
I've use those as well, bit of a pain to work with in non keyboard mode but they are at least accurate enough.
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>This doesn't seem to be a major problem for the EU

Are you serious?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_migrant_crisis
If you post on Show HN you can expect feedback and discussion about related tools (f.e. in threads about Ghidra recently, comparisons with IDA Pro and Radare are made). It is up to the readers value and moderate the discussion(s).
Two questions : How different is this reskined chrome different than brave if I were to consider using it?

Can we still rely on opera and trust them (after their Chinese acquisition)?
Do y'all just expect people to put their head in the sand, accept your currency of the future and accept their stupidity when compared to the crypto-Evangelists?
I'm in a position where being able to make fast and cheap transactions between countries would benefit me, I don't even care for anonymous. Can I use crypto for that without a massive overhead? No, I can't. Should I stop focusing on the fact that I can't? If I understood your beef, you'd suggest I do just that. Ignore the fact that it's not delivering on the promise and just focus on the pros of the system.

<rant>
I'm sick and tired of this anti-con attitude. I've been encountering it a lot while talking to people about their ideas, especially from those that can't hold their idea together.

As a product builder, I meet with a lot of people who pitch me their ideas and I decide if I help them build it or not. Now, I do spend a lot of times before actually building the product to understand what problem the customers solve and what solution they chose. That means asking a lot of questions and asking a lot of why. I've had a lot of clients become defensive and giving me the pros and cons to everything so why focus on the latter speech. This is before we even start building the product.

Asking for input on how something works, and they become defensive that I'm a pessimist...

I've had three outcomes from this:
* first is a group of people that will not work with me anymore, will tell their friends not to work with me and none of which I've heard a lot about after we discussed;
* second is a group of people that went with my analysis and most of them are still my customers and refer me to their network;
* third is a group of people that pivoted based on my analysis and work with me with open ears and trust; these are the customers that give me the best return on investment and the best referrals.
</rant>

While I agree that when someone showcases an achievement, it's rather bad to focus on the cons; when analysing a technology, a cult and or something that combines both of these, especially when it gets shoved down your throat every once in a while, I think we can assume a default not-interested position. I think it's in the people presenting the benefits to focus on the benefits, and the people that they want to convince to hang on as tight as they can to what they feel this technology is not solving for them.

Anyway, sorry about the unstructured rant, I just feel like this 'why focus on the latter?' attitude is damaging for products, for technologies and society in general. Don't focus on the good, or the bad, focus on whatever needs to be in focus to solve your current query...
"our build system runs on Linux"

I wonder if that was a "thing" a few years ago, or Linux being used as a build step in windows development a new thing at Microsoft.
but if it doesn't stick around for a long time, that's very useful!
I would go with corruption. I don’t see how it’s in anyone’s personal interest who works at the FCC to have reduced access to internet, and it’s super convenient for everyone, so there must be some side benefit to go out of their way to juice the numbers.
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What is the point of having crypto integrated into the browser? Native bitcoin mining malware?
Are you saying that any Chinese company is untrustworthy? Because most of our world runs on Chinese technologies, eg. the ZTE hardware a technician has just installed at my home.

Edit: that is NOT an argument for its trustworthiness...
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This. I was hanging on to Ubuntu 16.04 until a month ago just to keep Unity. After finally upgrading to 18.04, I spent a week on Gnome 3 and it was quite a frustrating experience.

Found Ubuntu Mate and am loving it! MATE Tweak gives you so many options to make the UI work like Unity, even better in some ways. The only thing I missed were application shortcuts, but now the fancy dock works just as well for me.
as you don't provide any elaboration to your claims i'll just disregard them as ungrounded and/or irrelevant. try again.
python and ninja are also bundled in the installer for meson.
Crypto's main issue is not the UX. It's the volatility and costs(i.e merchants pay less for the same crypto). Until these two issues are fixed it makes no sense to use crypto payments unless you are denied access to mainstream payment networks(visa/mastercard).

The VPN should be integrated at the OS level not browser level.
I doubt the corrosion and maintenance problems would be worth it. Most steam turbines operate on superheated steam, I vaguely recall 1200°C and 100 atmospheres of pressure being a working starting point for a lot of problems in college. Low pressure turbines are a thing, but that's not where you get most of the power. They're often, as much as anything, in place to draw down energy in the steam before sending it to the condenser.

https://www.steamtablesonline.com/

To get steam at 70°C you would have to draw a vacuum on the system. I see this ending expensively.
Yeah, seems like marketing bullshit (1) to me, even if the functionalities themselves seem pretty good (in theory, haven't tested yet).

(1) The term might be stronger than needed; I meant something a lot closer to "click-baity" than "garbage".
The meta programming approach is pretty unique.
They have been wherever I've lived, you only would ever pay a late fee if you dont return a book in time, or if you're printing something. The caveat sometimes is that you need to be a resident of the town to access the normal services for free.
They got a job at FAANG and stuck around.
Not always as we found out with the Icelandic banks
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You could argue Google is a religion for some people. Google Chrome is the popular browser. And doesn't #2 apply on Google Chrome as well?

> However you look at it, MS has not had a good run in promoting their own browser tech against competitors [...]

Recently, yes. Because they screwed up their MSIE market dominance with embrace & extend. With which market dominance they put the WWW in a dark age of incompatibility. From which Mozilla and Firefox (and Konqueror, Safari, and Google Chrome) eventually flourished.
I know Wikipedia isn't a reliable source, but:

> Ever since the 1950s, the Chinese government has continually threatened the British in attempting to bring any democratic developments in Hong Kong. Attempts to bring Hong Kong citizens on to the negotiating table by the British during the Sino-Anglo discussions were rejected by Beijing in the late 1980s. The last governor Chris Patten faced a great deal of opposition in changing the former colony's political system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_development_in_Hong...
By that same argument, we don't need to worry about accessibility.
The fact that they sell a lot of it does not mean it's trustworthy. That means it's cheap and cost-effective, all else being equal. Trust, and the use of information, however, are exquisitely difficult to assess until it's too late. And humans, as a species, are well known for trading less pain now for more pain later.
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I have been hired for more than 10 years, and I have this simple rule
It is if you run it inside a Docker container... no mess, no fuss...
do these calculations take into account energy equivalent of running all the armies in the world, funding their wars and conflicts? because entire banking system exists on a premise that there is an army behind every fiat currency, so it's not really honest to exclude that from communication.

bitcoin security on the other hand is backed purely by energy spent by miners.
> The fact that they sell a lot of it does not mean it's trustworthy

I did not claim that. I merely said that it powers most of the world - meaning that most of the world is compromised, if so.
Presumably it's the number which are not fit-for-purpose.
> Hong Kong, at least, is Chinese and always have been

That doesn't mean anything. Does it belong to the Chinese in the Communist party? Or the Chinese that live in Hong Kong?
For shame, really. A dereliction of duty by those vets.

Might as well base your health system on witchcraft.
Maybe not "the end of the world", but "the end of a world".
You seem to forget the actual function of adverts, an advert gets you more customers so they make more money as a result than they had spent on the advert. If running ads was a net loss no one would do it.
> I'm not sure why they're all like this, I would have though supplying a default build directory is something cmake could handle.

cmake -H. -Bbuild && cmake --build .

Will do an out of source build with the default toolchain on windows/mac/linux. Has the added benefit of being parallel, and working with Visual Studio/Ninja/XCode.
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Hey, I mean build it and I'd buy it
Kill it with fire. Lots of fire. There's nothing good to be coming out of this.
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That's a brilliant product
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Funny how they were named by "pilots who first saw them from the air in the 1920s" and not by the people who built them.
I guess identity and paying creators for content is the primary focus. ie brave.

their definition of web3 is kinda limited as it revolves heavily around cryptocurrencies instead of the more broad vision of web3 that is basically anything decentralized; ipfs, dat, zeronet, etc.
Utter garbage is a bit strong but yes a lot of people on that income will have additional private health insurance. Insurance which is cheap as chips because it only covers additional things. Even if you're buying privately (not as a company benefit) you're paying £900ish a year per person.
> Secondly, somewhat relatedly, but consider FF's primary funding/revenue: it's Google

I don't get that one because Chromium IS Google, it's not even a primary funding, there's just no separation between the two. They just handed the web business directly to their competitors, no matter how they try to spin it. At least with Firefox, MS could still have influenced the web, with Chromium, there's just no way, they are insuring that MS will have no influence whatsoever and Google is even closer to a monopoly.
In America corruption is not labeled "corruption" . It is labeled "lobbyism" . It is a legal mean to purchase your politicians. Now it happens to be the telecom industry that historically has been the biggest spenders across industries until Google came along. If you want to fix the sad state of the American political system this is very you should start. Make all contributions over, let say, 100 usd illegal and all contributions should go on public record. I believe it really would be that simple.
I had a similar adventure on the Vostro 230, followed by
editing the BIOS to activate the vmx flag so that I could do hardware virtualisation with the Xeon processor that it shipped with!
The interesting podcast "They Create Worlds" recently had an episode on this topic, it's worth a listen: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/e/computer-game-basics/

Growing up I had a Commodore 64 and for some reason came into possession of another of David Ahl's books ("More Computer Games" I think it was called). It contained Eliza as one of the listings and it was a program that fascinated me so much I ended up creating a ton of clones, in horribly nested BASIC (though, to be fair, is there any other kind?)
>> The initial studies decrying meat production were fatally flawed and had to be withdrawn.

Source for this claim, please?

I too think that there is a lot more that should be done to safekeep the environment that sustains us before we have to stop eating meat altogether but I have never before heard that particular studies were "fatally flawed" and were withdrawn.
Such nostalgia. That’s how I got into programming.
It's pretty easy to install Python on Mac (use Brew) or Windows (use WinPython), and most Linux distros include it by default... running an installer is hardly an onerous task.
“TV” is evolving to be less and less one-way with the advent of DVRs and streaming services that can, at least technically, track user engagement with ads and even offer customized ads.
I'm not a blockchain specialist, but I guess you can have native identity / wallet / interaction on a blockchain (like Ethereum) without having to rely on browser extension (like Metamask) !
I think in terms of track records there isn't a huge difference between a Chinese-owned and a US-owned company. If you're already searching outside that sphere of influence, that makes you a huge outlier. Assuming that you are not, I think putting just the focus on the nationality here is maybe not a strong argument in any direction.
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This is amazing, and something I have been looking for for a long time. One problem though, at least EDC, Govenor's Ball and Bonnaroo dates all seem to be wrong
The current federal administration has mandated the hospitals to publish their prices online since 2019.

I have no illusions, a person without a degree in accounting probably won't be able to decipher these prices, but that could be a step in a proper direction.
* They assume the proportion of CO2 emissions per kWh never improves over the next 100 years (great progress of renewables coming to a sudden stop?)

I mostly agreed with the first two bullet points, but please show me a significant country that managed to reduce their CO2 emissions with renewables.

For instance, in China, where a lot of Bitcoin mining happens, the share of renewables increases in many countries, but not even as fast as the actual consumption by the population, leading them to open more coal power plants as well.

I'll wait until I see it.
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In fairness to the python community by-and-large, they are very supportive of legacy users and niche configurations. Python 2.x seems like something like 15 years now past its sell by date and is still actively supported. There's a lot of patience there ... people will make the leap when they're ready.

I think the pressure to always be on the latest and greatest is what did for the ruby and perl communities, and this is why python, and to a certain extent javascript are still going strong!
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I wonder if it's an alternative take on payments, such as Apple Pay being integrated into Safari.
I totally agree. Probably a third of the useful answers I've gotten from SO have been cases where I asked Google, Google said "yes, StackOverflow has an answer to your exact question", and I am delighted to see that someone helpful and knowledgeable somehow managed to get the answer out before the guards swarmed in and demanded an end to all that forbidden usefulness.

What a ridiculous, hostile system.
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This is especially frustrating, considering that Sir Tim Berners-Lee himself has said, that “Web 3.0” should be about Semantic Web[1]. That does mean that it should get easier to build distributed and interlinked systems, but that seems to be a consequence, not the goal.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web#Web_3.0
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yeah, just assume all VPN are logging you for sure. That does not mean they don't serve a useful purpose though. Just not what is defined as criminal in whatever place your traffic goes through. (That being said, I think it is only the US that tries to get people for "cyber crimes" in foreign countries?)
Hope they haven't got rid of the killer feature - the offline dinosaur game.
I remember working in the early 90s on a training simulation of the reactor safety shutdown equipment for a UK AGR reactor - this device was pretty critical as it as responsible for sequencing the shutdown operations during a scram.

It was designed in the 1960s using technology they were completely confident would work and keep working - so it was basically 1940s electro-mechanical technology: relays, worm gears etc.

I don't think they really trusted electronics at that point, let alone computing devices for something so super critical.

No idea how that is done now though!
The last grafs bring to mind Arthur C. Clarke's Hugo-winning 1955 short story The Star. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_(Clarke_short_story)
Can you doubt that 2 and 3 = 5?
I'm keeping a close eye on the Golem network (https://golem.network/). However, they mostly concentrate on distributing heavy-weight computing like rendering or ML, not website hosting.
I believe Windows will sooner become completely irrelevant than UWP becoming the dominant API to write Windows applications. Also seeing how MS is switching the system browser to Chromium, and kills the UWP version of MS Office, it looks like most people in Microsoft have lost faith in UWP too.
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Well, depends on the quality of the documentation I guess.
It's very light on festivals outside of America. I didn't notice a single Dutch one. There are dozens and dozens, and that's just one country.
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It reminded me of the meeting location at the start of The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks.

[I seem to remember it was a sliver of a planet held around an exploding star used as a meeting location - largely because doing that kind of thing is cool if you are godlike AIs].
They will if you obscure the statistics enough and they're the only game in town (FB, Google)
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How easy is it to embed the Firefox core though? I know several projects embedding Chromium, such as Steam for example. Haven't seen anyone doing the same with the Firefox core.