skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of that talk about people making assumptions about you over the internet without knowing you, and you begin this conversation with:

> You are projecting your personal framing of a particular problem space onto all other people and then further framing it as some kind of objective and irrefutable truth.

You're already projecting, already assuming, already attempting to paint me negatively before even beginning the discussion. This leads me to believe you must partially be projecting when you tell others they don't know you. Because here you are doing the same exact thing!

> I spent a lot of time in therapy, so I don't suffer a lot of existential guilt. I've generally walked the walk on things I believe in, so I don't have a lot of guilt of the type you are describing.

And with the second sentence, we've already made this a conversation about you. What follows, surely, will be a large personal anecdote, which the act of dissecting would cause you to claim that I am personally attacking you or silencing you. And remember: You approached me first.

How is engaging in conversation this way either constructive or relevant?

> My last boyfriend spent three years in prison in his youth for his political activism. He also was trying to talk me into illegal activities that would have benefitted him and not particularly endangered him. He tried to justify this with reasoning similar to yours.

You very unsubtly just projected your boyfriend onto me. I'm not your ex-boyfriend, honey. I am not trying to talk you into committing crimes for my benefit.

All of the issues I listed revolved around human rights. If you think those issues aren't important, that's your own issue that you need to work out, but don't compare them to whatever ideology your ex-boyfriend supposedly espoused. That is just not relevant.

> ut perhaps an anecdote will have a modicum of value.

Perhaps not. This is typically the case.

> A lot of homeless people break the law regularly as a matter of course merely to survive or merely by existing. I no doubt was breaking the law every single night by sleeping someplace I wasn't supposed to be.

Yes. This is an extension of my last post. The government has created criminality out of necessity.

> But I didn't use that as an excuse to justify doing any damn thing I wanted and to hell with the law.

You're strawmanning my original discussion now. I never made such a ridiculous assertion. I only listed a set of legal concepts which revolve around human rights. You are now deliberately coloring this discussion, and since we're no longer talking about my original post, I will stop reading your post any further.

You need to kick this dopamine feedback loop where you get off on being victimized. You're derailing discussions and attacking people like me under the veil of being attacked yourself.

> If you worked on your framing, you might find that we agree on a lot of things.

Yeah, if I just thought the way you did and framed everything the way you did, we most certainly would agree! I thank the heavens this is not the case and that I do not frame online discussions in the same manner as yourself.
You mean the service that just got hacked for poor security?
I could be wrong, but I believe they're using one in the NES Classic.
Well, a few years ago I might have agreed with you, but even MS knows that Linux and open source have won the server. This is a company that open sourced .NET and sends people to Unity (not their product) for game development.

The issue is, "What do (desktop) users want?" And the answer is obviously Windows. If they can have their Windows cake and IT can eat Linux, too, what's not to like?
> a xor r32, r32 is 2 bytes, not 1

Does the article imply otherwise?
It eliminates the idea of a disconnected area.
No, I didn't choose not to respond. I noticed it second because it was second in the thread. But that's cool, another assumption for you!

> Your comment is a personal attack

I guess you didn't read anything I just said. I'm not personally attacking you, get over yourself!

> I have no plans to try to take your claimed "help" seriously.

And that's the problem. That's why you will stay the exact same and never progress as a person. Disregarding everyone's criticism.
I did not approach you first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19889103

I'm not your ex-boyfriend, honey.

Also, don't call me honey. You aren't my ex boyfriend, nor my future boyfriend. That's both overly personal and generally dismissive.
I should also mention that the RT approach isn't the holy grail either for time sensitive robotic control systems. Read up on the Pathfinder/vxWorks priority inversion bug if you'd like to see how hard deadlines can sometimes cause more problems than they solve...
Fair question, yes it does. We've pivoted quite a bit so where we landed has nothing to do with optimizing ads for campaigns, even though it's where we started. What we sell now is much closer to "Slack for political and nonprofit organizing", and it works very well for helping our clients retain their volunteers!
Maybe they are confidential because they can corrupt a jury before the information can be presented by lawyers? Just a thought.
And they probably all have a connection to somewhere else :-). Paris - Lyon for example is only Air France flights for people with a connection.
It's not that there's a law (that I'm aware of) forbidding baseband software where the source is public - it's that operating a device with uncertified firmware is illegal. That means that devices with user-modifiable baseband firmware are also illegal (or at any rate, no manufacturer will take responsibility). So open community development of baseband firmware, in the usual model, is impossible - you can't legally test it (at least not without a questionably-legal SDR, a femtocell, and a faraday cage) and you can't certify it.

So while it might, technically, be true to say that open source basebands aren't illegal per se, the fact remains that they are functionally impossible because of the law.
Feds Warn of 'Electricfish' Malware Linked to North Korea
Perhaps this is an intended consequence of trump’s high protective tariffs.

Back when America was great a union auto worker could have his wife stay home in the house he owned and afford to send his kids to college.
That explains why a small elite who likely don't need assistance with loans don't avail themselves of community college, but doesn't say much about the general case.
Ah, I didn't catch that. My apologies. I typically don't look at usernames until conversations like this form. I thought I was replying to someone else. And my comment was not talking about anyone in particular, especially not you, so you are in fact the person who decided to turn this into what it is now.

Now why don't you actually respond to the contents of my post instead of taking pot shots at easy targets?

> Also, don't call me *honey."

How about this: Don't tell me what to do, and I won't tell you what to do.
Yes.

> So Clang can potentially save you a single instruction (xorl %eax, %eax) whose encoding is only 1B, per function call to functions declared in the style f(), but only IF the definition is in the same translation unit and doesn’t differ from the declaration, and you happen to be targeting x86_64.
> I'm also the one who evaluates them... different dynamic.

This is major difference from my experience. My math students are examined externally so I'm the one helping them achieve their goal.

My experience of teaching math is more similar to your experience of teaching snowboarding. Your last point drives this home - in my experience, anyone around average intelligence can ace school math if they have a coach who helps them approach it in the right way.
haven't read the whole paper, but the single pendulum, double pendulum analogy caught my attention (took me back to grad school). they use it to talk about complex systems (like a double pendulum) arising rapidly from simple systems (2 single pendulums), which defies basic intuition about systems.

and then (on p.27)...

> "the very dimensionality of ABMs is striking. The largest in physics can now simulate interactions of up to 400 billion distinct particles at any one time."

and...

> "If the largest ABMs have a dimensionality greater than our population, why not model the economy at its highest possible resolution?"

so they use agent-based models (ABMs) (figure 2 is simcity!) to uncover unintuitive emergent behaviors underlying the highly complex system that is economics, things that just can't be understood with the simple macroeconomic models based on a few variables like GDP and inflation.
I don’t really know either. Obviously a degree isn’t a necessary or sufficient condition for competence, but I don’t know why a lot of people seem to pretend it’s borderline useless, a scam, etc.
The Eurostar is a specific beast.
Matlab's First Customer
I've just tried this on my apps which I've done no accessibility work yet. It's not perfectly accessible (would need to add some annotations to some text) but they are mostly accessible
This is about nuclear waste that came from power plants that massively helped the amount of greenhouse gases we emit (cause the alternatives were fossil fuelled plants) so I’m not sure what you mean exactly
Not all community colleges are excellent. The local community college here is referred to as "the 13th grade". Its cheap but not very good at all.
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A comprehensive study (not Russian) recently showed that there are several potential risks with 5G, not only from the higher power transmission which it requires but also by the proximity to users. A cell tower could be miles from you but 5G only works over short distances.

I don't think we can totally dismiss the possible health concerns around 5G. That seems premature. I'll try to find the study again and post it here.
Lots of people advocate for abusing others because they benefit from it and never see any consequences.
I fear the general difficulty of this means nothing will happen...until something really different happens. Let's get our programs in really high level languages in the meantime that will compile to wildly different architectures.

I've compiled Haskell to CPUs and Haskell to FPGAs, but idioms don't overlap except for the most foundational libraries (Functor, Applicative, Monad). That's still great, but that's nowhere yet near "let me compile my CRUD app to my FPGA." More FRP for the CPU could change that, though. FPGAs can do self-rewriting circuits since they are programmable.
Keep launching vollies instead of being actually respectful. Eventually someone other than me will notice it.

I'm done talking to you. None of this is remotely good faith engagement.
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> The idea is to transmute this nuclear waste into new forms of atoms which don’t have the problem of radioactivity. What you have to do is to change the makeup of the nucleus.

Ok, but what exactly is it transmuting the atom to?
Yes, since Android apps on Chrome OS actually have the most access to the system, more than websites.
You don't even need a test. Just drill down on one particular area and see how much they know.

For example, get them to explain a model they would use to represent user login. Then get them to explain how that would link to their use info. Then how they would display that on a login screen. Then how they would save that into the database. Anything to watch out for? Any security concerns?
It doesn’t matter how long the trains are, but how often they run. You need trains running every few minutes to approximate the functionality of cars, and every one of them must honk at every level crossing.
How a nonprofit trained an army to stop Uganda's atrocities
Ask HN: How common is it for web agencies to grant repository access to clients?
Lack of trust between client and web dev agencies seems to be a common thread.

For me, the most important issue is code quality - all I see are the defects discovered by our internal test team... often functionality is broken that has no apparent relationship to the features being worked on.

I would love to see who is approving pull requests (or if code is just being merged without any checks).

Has anyone heard of clients getting read access to their dev agency's repository?
Ah! That's it, thanks! edited the article
>This problem is accessible to anyone who knows basic high school algebra

Are you sure? Spotting the pattern isn't easy and I imagine a lot of high schoolers would give up in frustration while going down wrong roads. A good portion probably wouldn't even write down the numbers without errors. And even if you get past that, most high schoolers don't know how to do/write proofs. I'd be shocked if more than 10% could actually complete all your steps.

With challenging problem solving like that I'm afraid you're going to breed a lot of resentment.
Way to disregard everything I said. There's no need to be respectful because you aren't being the remotest bit of respectful to me.

Do you always just say you're done talking after someone shuts you down like that? I thought you would at least bare your claws and teeth a bit more before using an escape hatch. Don't come into my threads and attack me like that if you don't expect the same in return.

P.S. Thanks for totally derailing and ruining my thread! :)
>This is stupid. All the demos are on public roads. George Hortz needs to chill before he ends up in jail.

There are literally thousands of community members using this software on a daily basis, driving thousands of miles in real life situations daily. I've been commuting to work with it for 3 months now and it's the most lifechanging piece of tech I've come across since the iPhone. I get on the highway, engage the system, and sit back sipping my coffee for the next 45 minutes. It costs $800 to get fully setup with an EON/Panda/Giraffe and almost every Toyota, Honda, and Hyundai since 2017 is now supported. Check out some of the videos on youtube and you'll want one too.
>I’m pretty sure we’re inundated with violent entertainment because powerful people want us to kill each other.

If there were any evidence of a correlation between violent entertainment and actual violence, or that all "violent entertainment" was somehow being created by "powerful people" with some organized agenda, you might at least have a rational premise upon which to base this conspiracy theory.

Human societies have been violent, and their entertainment has been violent, since the dawn of language. If anything, there's far less violence in modern entertainment... there just happens to also be more of everything as well.

>Ever wonder why this stuff is considered ok, but a glimpse of a woman’s nipple is not?

Christianity.
You had me at "spin the wheel of discount".
Several people on here seem concerned about this no longer happening due to restrictions on ivory. You can still get these in other materials like stone. I have one that is "jade" (more likely some random cheap green rock) that I bought in Hong Kong about a decade ago.
This is satire, VanillaJS is literally JavaScript. The import file is empty.
There's an undercurrent of existential horror entirely intrinsic to Thomas the Tank engine which already contrasts with the superficially happy and brightly-colored children's show. Putting Thomas in incongruous or unsettling situations throws this into sharp relief. Just what is Thomas?

tl;dr trains with faces are creepy
Yep: https://godbolt.org/z/BMjD0Y

sorry, I must've misread the output from godbolt from too many window splits. Will update the article. Thanks for pointing it out. :)
Once upon a time I worked as a postman. It involved sorting all the letters for the day into their slots for the tour. I had dreams of that.

Work has a habit of sneaking into dreams. I have dreamed of shifting computer commands around, too.

From the trailer, MK is absolutely not appealing to me. I also don't like horror movies. So I wouldn't be keen to work on such games or on horror movies. Other people might feel differently.

I think people who don't enjoy the work should just quit and look for another job. That goes not just for MK, but for any kind of job.
Hmm okay, I guess I'll just have to play around with it and see.
Body language is very important and sits between Action and Words.
I think there's also the uncanny valley creepiness of Thomas's face, particularly within the context of an actual horror game. Hilarious to think that something so genuinely terrifying could come out of a children's show.
Very appropriate domain name to answer the question.

Thomas' face, particularly his expression, is what makes these mods amusing.
> To say that Marx wasn't critical of inadequate explanations is false

You'll have to take that up with Popper, not me.

> science was rigorous and systematic study

That's ridiculous on its face: theological study can be rigorous and systematic, but it's clearly not science.

> To say that a particular (Popperian) vision of science ought to claim authority over science is ironically a claim lacking in much explanation itself.

No, that's not true. One of the reasons we can have confidence that Popper's version is correct is that we can apply it to itself. It is actually possible to explain why explanations are so powerful in terms of concepts from computability and complexity theory. The details are too long for an HN comment, but if you want to find out more read David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality", particularly chapter 6.
That's what I'm saying. You can do this Android loop now, (and work on windowed UX) but they do plan a full web stack later.
What are some topics which were covered in your siblings' high school math textbooks which weren't required for your degree from a university? (You say "from an engineering school", but it's not clear if it was an engineering degree.)
I can't tell if this article is a joke or not
There seem to be three kinds of parties here, the advertisers, the exchanges, and the websites. An advertiser places targeted ads with exchanges. The websites send bids, potentially with user info, to the exchanges.

I'm finding web pages at Google showing that they run their own ad exchange, and they integrate with other people's ad exchanges.

I don't know how to find out if Google makes bids using any exchanges other their own, or whether the information from Google's bids could otherwise leak to advertisers.
> Mourou and Tajima want to create a high-speed laser-driven accelerator to produce a beam of protons that can penetrate atoms.

Is it only me who is reminded of Iron Man 2 and the new element created by that hacked together accelerator in Tony Stark's basement?

As for the topic of the article: I would really find it interesting how much "bandwidth" (=kg/day) such a setup has and what the energy requirements are. If the process consumes more than half the energy that the fission process generated, is it still profitable then? Also, what are the byproducts? I can't really believe that this leaves stable lead and other things only behind.
I couldn't seem to find that bit, thanks for pointing it out to me.
> Is working for Gitlab remotely in Vietnam on a localised salary as good or better than most local job opportunities?

I think Gitlab aims to pay top rates on the local market if I'm not wrong.

What I'm saying is that, even with the top rate in Vietnam, it's still small compared to being an average engineer in Bay Area in terms of saving performance.
An interesting situation is when the app has cues to a user's current intent. In such cases it wouldn't want to totally rearrange the UI on the fly (move the food court) for the user as the user expects consistency (and the cue might be wrong). Maybe this is a case where contextual messaging makes sense.
You get that sort of thing all the time. Games in the genre of DayZ and Rust, where the default is trust no-body, shoot people on sight and loot the tins of beans off their corpses- every now and again, someone takes a newbie under their wing, or shows someone mercy when they didn't need to, or helps someone get revenge against someone that wronged them, and you get a great little story of kindness in a harsh world.
>well beyond what was ever countenanced by Carmack and Romero.

Do you recall the first FPS that id software produced? It's a game ostensibly set during a certain war in which you shoot at decidedly human figures.

Doom benefits from moving away from human figures, because projectile weapons are much more interesting to dodge and make more sense when wide varieties of demons emit them (rather than the hitscan and more or less single enemy type in Wolfenstein 3D). Heck, the remade Wolfenstein games are significantly more detailed in their violence, and their scenarios much less out of the realm of disbelief than Doom is, even though it occurs less often.

I'm not convinced that more realistic violence wouldn't have been added to such games had the technology been available to do so early on. Of course, games that are solely about inflicting highly graphic violence without an explicit purpose are few and generally not as well-received as (for example) the remade id games are; and it isn't a moral panic that the ability to portray violence in that way exists.
Control as Liability .... unless you are the government!
Not to mention kidney disease
I was surprised that they didn't say "only 1 left at this price!" and have a chatbot pop up to say "click here to buy my book on dark patterns!"

I went looking through the code to see if the "wheel of discount" always gives a discount (it should, of course), but couldn't find it. There is a lot of Javascript on that website. So it goes, I guess.
Yeah but most nuclear waste came from the US, UK, France and Russia.

As for a better idea, molten salt/thorium reactors, they can eat at least the highly dangerous/ultra long half life stuff.
I'd love to know more about how the server is run on exclusively green energy.
Nuclear energy has its advocates—it spews little by way of emissions and is produced relatively cheaply.

Nuclear is anything but cheap. It's a net negative energy source, meaning the the electricity costs more to produce than it can be sold for. This is why the industry requires massive subsidies to stay alive. (If I recall correctly, the last round of subsidy in the US was over $50 billion.)

Nuclear power also requires massive amounts of carbon, as the uranium fuel must be mined and extensively processed before it is useful. The mining and milling process is horribly polluting and has ruined the land and water in many places on Earth.

Now, having said that, I certainly hope this guy can come up with a way to transmute radioactive elements with lasers. That would be terrific. But I'm doubtful.
It’s kind of a relief to see so many other people say that the violence is too much for them.

I was 8 when the original MK came out. It was gross and extreme, but it all felt like a cartoon, it didn’t seem threatening. When it showed up on Genesis, I found the blood code and learned every fatality, knew the game inside and out. When MK II arrived on SNES, it was even better!

By comparison, my impression of modern MK games is that they aim to creat the experience of actual human suffering. I guess it’s unavoidable that the detail of the violence would have to grow with the technology, but it makes me uncomfortable, I find it too unpleasant. Watching it is the difference between the heart removal scene in Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom and a recent Saw movie.
It is time things became as precarious for those at the top of the pyramid as they are making it for the people and species farther down.
What I would like in C is a way to specify an argument list. And be able to slop them around and call functions with them later.

So perhaps foo(args) means foo takes a list of arguments unspecified.
It's not just games - the Oigawa Railway company in Japan does this in real life:

http://oigawa-railway.co.jp/en/thomas.html
I just updated the article, too, sorry if that caused confusion.
How is saying "I endorse using Signal" a lie? Seems like that's a statement of opinion.