skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Path loss, Shannon limit. Until we figure out how to build 150 meter parabolic dishes in orbit, or on the moon to supplant the NASA deep space network.
Good point, yes. As mentioned in a sibling comment, even 4k for one page of really allocated memory is significant.
Also the Sanic the Hedgehog meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sanic-hegehog
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You'd think after leaking private data for literally months less than 3 years ago (and only noticing because Google had to point it out to them) that they'd, y'know, have at least some kind of QA environment fed with sample traffic by now. Really hard to believe they're still getting caught testing in prod
And on a per capita, probably pollutes a lot more (I have no data on this). We just can afford to keep it out of _our_ water.
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Do you agree?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/politics/new-york-marijuana-legalization-bill-fails/index.html
I’ve seen a few outages that impacted HN from a provider standpoint. Good example is the CenturyLink outage a few weeks back. CenturyLink isn’t my ISP and neither is it directly HN’s either, but my route to HN was impacted by the outage.
Turns out this is the conclusion in CloudFlare’s update:

> “Our testing processes were insufficient in this case and we are reviewing and making changes to our testing and deployment process to avoid incidents like this in the future.”

They’re going after the definition of good for their deployments.
Technical debt is about the increasing difficulty to add features to a system.... if you aren't adding features, technical debt is not really an issue.
Go errors prioritize explicitness, in declaration of what functions might fail, and in handling of those failures.

It seems like a mistake to add a language feature that works against explicit handling. At minimum, the endorsement of returning the raw error reduces clarity on what "good error handling code" should look like.
The extra-painful part about this whole situation is that it's apparently only due to Apple blocking NVIDIA from signing and publishing their drivers. (for whatever bizarre reason they may have to do that)
I disagree that it's similar. It's one thing to perform surveillance on individuals where you have strong reasons to suspect they will engage in terrorist acts (meaning making plans to kill lots of people) and quite another to do so because someone disagrees with you being in power. I'm sure there's an overlap of people who do both but that's not the group I'm talking about and I'm also sure NSA/US authorities abuse their powers (hence why we constantly have to fight against power/survaillence creep) to monitor people that are simply political enemies but that doesn't negate the difference between the 2 situations (ie just because the US may engage in that type of behavior doesn't excuse the behavior China engages in). I grew up in an Eastern European communist dictatorship and I know what it means to be afraid to talk against the party and its leader. I'm now an immigrant to the US (so arguably no as many rights as a citizen) and in no way is there the same type of censorship and oppression.

Put it another way, where do you draw the line in terms of how the government is allowed to behave in regards to its citizens since you can pretty much excuse any abusive behavior under the reasoning of "security reasons"?
How well is that supported by the ecosystem?
CO2 and global effort were being talked about and the IPCC was being created out of UNEP right back when we were starting to take action on CFCs.

Reagan and Thatcher together pushed for global action on CFCs, and were pretty central to the Montreal Treaty getting signed. Only Thatcher pushed for global action on CO2 in the late 80s. Her speech to the UN from 89 is surprising, if naively optimistic about business' role in things, but she seemed very well informed about a then little known or understood science, and even talked of stopping forest and species loss.

Approach the mid 90s and Thatcher was caught up in her dogmatic, failing government, while science, CO2 and plenty of other things were forgotten.

Reagan wasn't at all keen, even of the then new IPCC. Maybe had he been interested too...

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/science/the-montreal-prot...
Whatever the poorest billion are doing wrong is likely far outstripped by a few big corporations. Or the US military alone.
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How many people are going to admit they are overpaid if they are?
The scary thing isn't the current state of the climate. The scary thing is passing a point of no return where climate change becomes non-linear and self-feeding. According to many reports, we are not far off from that point.
Still, we are in a world where a non-negligible portion of the population believes that climate change is fabricated, or at least overstated. Scientists won't be able to really do anything other than measure the problem until public sentiment gets behind them. Startups won't do anything until VCs see an opportunity to make exponential returns on their investments.
The best case is the linear portion of climate change hits us hard, corrects public sentiment, and we have enough time to fix the planet before true catastrophe.
How many of them are 64-bit ready? How many that aren't are likely to ever get recompiled for 64-bit? I'd bet that pretty much nothing but games currently getting regular updates are going to make the jump.
I'm not sure I see the parallels between an oppressive regime implementing it's policies within it's own territories that's also home to significant portion of already loyal citizenry (Han Chinese), and trying to annex a distant land with no shared borders.
Working on new hardware technology, it's really interesting for me to think about OP's call to only use "proven technology," but how do you get a technology to the proven state if everyone is only using previously proven technology? You can force it if you control a platform (e.g. stuff wireless hotspots everywhere and have wifi capability attached to new laptops), but that's pretty rare in hardware. https://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/intels-centrino-and-how...
This is sadly true although I think many in the rich world know but are in denial or choose to be lazy. There are really people out there though who just have never been exposed to the idea that you shouldn't do this stuff.
Umm... if you actually run the numbers than solar is cheap compared to gas and coal. Solar would take up half the area fossil fuel companies take up, and since it is solar it can be put in places no one lives like Death Valley. So the argument to not use renewable energy is actually... we’re too lazy.
Semantically valid as in valid D, not valid C.

> Dmd's backend was ported by hand

I stand corrected then. Visual D has one cpp2d built in, which I assumed was used
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(I just looked and saw that I didn't finish that sentence: since mobipocket was primarily a PalmOS application at its peak.)
Did a census bureau employee knock on their trees, driving them utterly nuts with redundant and intrusive questions? Questions like, "Did you gather nuts full time last week?", "Do you believe you've been given ample opportunity to gather nuts?" and "How many squirrels do you live with? Do they also gather nuts?".
I guess it's similar but not exactly the same. https://www.concur.com/newsroom/article/sap-concur-travel-bo...

I'm CTO at 8Common who own Expense8. We're a local player in Australia who compete directly with Concur. We hear all about peoples frustrations with Concur. We are also looking at interface and workflow enhancements too and I am interested to see how you get on with Carry. I do think there is a trend towards simplification of travel booking but I'm still not sure what the end (winning) result will be.
I was so disappointed when I found out that this is how my recycling was being handled. I had this image in my head of my plastic waste being recirculated and reused that was so completely false.

As I understand it, recycling is just the long road to the landfill.
Get rid of minority? You have no idea what the real situation in China.In China, minority has much better benefits than Han people. If a child born from a minority and a Han parents, the parents will usually choose minority as his/her ethnity. Because the kids can have additional points at the college entrance exams, they can have two or even three children when Han can have only one child in the past. When a Han and a minority commit the same crime, the minority get less punishment.

In a world like today, are you blaming people moving to other regions just to get jobs? Because that is what happens in China and else where in the world. It has nothing to with “getting rid of minorities”.
The author means real-time location of pupils. This is not gaze tracking though.
I actually see increased responsiveness on my MacBook Pro too, with an eGPU that is.
It is a quadcopter! Lesser gravity and denser atmosphere than the Earth's and here you go:

http://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/News-and-Resources/docs/34_03-Lo...

"After delivery from space in an aeroshell and parachute descent, the vehicle lands under rotor power and deploys a high-gain antenna for DTE communication. Powered by a radioisotope power supply that provides heat and trickle-charges a large battery, the vehicle can operate nearly indefinitely as a conventional lander but can also make periodic brief battery-powered rotor flights to new locations

...

... was the specification that it should offer revolutionary science mobility to access a variety of geological terrains, being able to fly, in one hop, farther than any Mars rover has driven in a decade (i.e., about 40 km). Flight performance analysis suggested that the maximum-range speed (Fig. 4) would be about 10 m/s, and that flight power for a representative 420-kg vehicle at this speed would be a little over 2 kW. A 30-kg battery at 100 Wh/kg could theoretically permit flight for 2 h and achieve some 60 km in range."
I work at Google on an open source project and comment on it frequently.

One of the things I really like about working at Google is that they place a lot of trust in the judgement of the individual employees. I generally make it clear when I'm stating my personal opinion versus the "official" (for whatever that means given how informal the project is) one, but I don't have to carefully go through an approved list of talking points, run my HN by the legal department, etc.

Obviously, in certain situations, things get more official and formal. For example, when I went to Google IO to give a talk, we did have some documentation and coaching beforehand about how to handle various questions we might get about non-public stuff, other projects related to ours, etc. We are also expected to run any slides by legal before being publicly shown in a venue with a wide audience like IO. But, even then, the legal folks I've worked with have been a pleasure to talk to.

The company's culture is basically "We hired you because you're smart. We trust you to use your brain." It would be squandering resources to not let their employees use their own intelligence and judgement.
There's also other similar things in this space, like hash table collisions that can eat CPU.
The full proposal is here: https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/32437-...
Pretty sure they're both based on the meme. Go fast and all that.
If the authors are here, you might want to add what cars are actually supported to the page. It doesn't say anywhere.

Presumably Tesla, since that's in the screenshot, but anything else? There appears to be zero documentation.
Actually you can make use of non-randomness in Monte Carlo simulations to get better results. There is various names for this, but the one I like best is "low discrepancy series". Have a look at [1] or [2] for a quick intro. These are sometimes also called quasi-random (or sub-random), but I find that a bit too close to pseudo-random.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence
[2] https://blog.demofox.org/2017/05/29/when-random-numbers-are-...
Yeah, it's strange. People think that tourists from cruise ships are destroying the city because they visit for several hours, but then they recommend that tourists should stay in the city for several days?

What's always funny to me is that tourists who are part of the derided "masses" always seem to have a lot more common with locals than the "elite traveler" types who preoccupy themselves with finding an "authentic local experience." It's hard to truly connect with the common people when you look down on the common people in your own culture.
OpenCL is a far cry from a replacement for CUDA. Like a really far cry.
It's all fun and games until you're the one in prison and sometimes executed for a crime you didn't commit. Why do I doubt the author would just accept their fate for the greater good of society if it was them wrongly convicted and imprisoned for a crime they did not commit?
As more businesses move their compute to the cloud, one might predict that more people will be impacted by outages in the large cloud providers. This in turn means that the affected people will start up-voting these threads. Expect these to be more common.
In the past ten years:

It’s happened more than once with Azure and GCP. I think it happened once with AWS, but not positive there.
This is one of the best indie trailers I've seen in a long time.
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Google Contributor already solved this problem in a way that every site that runs ads can handle without having to opt-in to an alternative payment universe. Of course, Google shut down Contributor, but if anyone has the ability to reimplement it on a large scale it's probably Firefox (or Microsoft, or Apple I guess).

It's pretty straightforward. You bid on ads on the user's behalf, and you show them cat pictures - or nothing, user's choice. The ad revenue still goes to the website and the user doesn't have to see ads. Everyone gets what they want and this is really important sites don't have to opt-in.

I've run large internet sites and we'd get email into our webmaster@ address saying we'd be tipped by some users and if we went to sign up we could claim our $3.35 or something. Nobody got time for that. Just use the existing payment rails (the ad system).

If over time the sites saw more people using this, they might change their business model to support subscriptions or something and cut the exchanges out of the middle, but to start, this would work.

I hate how everyone wants to reinvent the wheel. looking at you Brave. We don't need cryptocurrency to solve this.
Do I think the environment and humans will survive? Yes.

Do I think that we’ll enjoy living in whatever this new environment ends up being? No, not at all.
realclimate.org is great. Yes, not to be confused with a real resource with great discussions.
You need to do some research! Apprentices don’t pay. You pay them! You teach and offload boring work to them. That’s how it has worked for hundereds of years. Stop being a selfish greedy mortal.
I believe in cycles. Things get worse, things get better. You never hear about when things get better.

For the last several years, people were saying that CA was in drought and that this was the "new normal". I didn't believe it, and I was right. This year is particularly colder than last year, even though we had 2 extremely hot days. This is how weather works, it's always changing. I think the next few years will continue to be wet in CA and then we'll hit another cycle of droughts and back and forth. It's also safe to note that the drought we experienced wasn't worse than the 1930s due to weather, it was worse because more water was being consumed by humans, which is a different sort of environmental disaster.

I do believe that the Earth is getting hotter, but I also believe we will get cooler over the next several years. But no one will talk about that because it doesn't get clicks.

We need to plant new trees and we need to incentivize countries to not cut down their forests. Places like Indonesia and Brazil, etc, need to be incentivized to keep their forests instead of cutting it down for cash crops.

I think the bigger crisis is plastic, pollution and chemicals in our water. We need to stop creating so much plastic and make extremely draconian laws controlling this. We need to stamp down on pollution from factories. Companies that spill into our lakes and rivers and oceans need to be fined with extreme prejudice. If they go out of business I simply don't care, I would rather see them out of business than have our water and environment polluted.
With their deep discounts this quarter, Tesla is selling a dollar for ninety cents and will suffer massive losses. US Model 3 demand peaked in 2018, and Europe is down in Q2 (especially considering the two month sales window in Q1).
All of S3 has, but that’s because S3 had a single choke point in a single region for a long time.
Yup! I know, I was just bating him/her because they made little sense.
Yes and no...on the current course of denying global warming -- we're screwed. If we could somehow end poverty, and move a large swath of unemployed/undereducated people into science industry so they can focus on solving problems, maybe we can build a mega structure to block out sunlight, capture existing carbon in the atmosphere and figure ways to bring back arctic ice, --then maybe we can reverse things...we also need to backup species of plants, animals, etc via dna harvesting so things that are destroyed by global warming can come back if we do fix it. A lot of my hope lies in science fictiony future tech that is yet to be created, but I hope for my kid's sake we figure it out.

I think it'd be funny if we figure out immortality tech first and live long enough to see the world end in 150 years because of our own mistakes and lack of foresight... The rich want to live forever, but then they'll regret it when they destroyed everything.
> Honestly, I don't understand why

I can't believe you don't see the issue?
Amazon was almost always cash flow positive. Debts are not losses.
Removing a feature few know about for a small increase in performance for some?

Now that everyone knows about it people will start using it and people will start noticing the slowdown.

Somethings are best not mentioned
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Off-topic, but I noticed in your bio you wrote Game Programming Patterns. Was a great read!
Should we adopt GraphQL?
When I was a teenager, I thought I would never see my 30ieth birthday because of the hole in the ozone layer, or nuclear war, or something like it.

It was not a nice feeling.

Now I am a bit wary of doomsday scenarios. I am not convinced we have seen any real impact of global warming yet (higher temperatures perhaps, but no land has been flooded, for example. Nothing catastrophic has occurred).

I am pessimistic about human expansion, though. I think we are in the middle of a population explosion that started with the invention of agriculture and has not ended yet. Humans will consume everything that get's in their way.

That is the same as with all other species, though (like the classical fox and rabbits scenario - fox population growing until there are only few rabbits left, foxes starving, and so on). Once we hit a natural limit, things will balance out somehow. That doesn't imply that it will be pleasant.

I'm less worried about global warming. There are too many doomsday scenarios. I think if it was that easy to break the balance, it would have happened before. So I think there may be regulating mechanisms that we haven't really taken into account. "Hottest June ever recorded" may not mean that much. There can be smaller cycles (like some news now predict a coming mini ice age because of sun activity), measuring stations can have changed (cities are warmer), all sorts of things.

I think classical damage will probably be worse - agriculture, depleting water reservoirs, destroying top soil, depleting fish populations, deforestation, destruction of animals natural habitats... That's depressing for sure. Maybe the only hope is for capitalism to come up with better means of production. After all, the environment is actually doing better in some places than a couple of decades ago.

Ultimately I think it may also be an illusion that it would be normal for things to remain the same.
lmao

There are so many things wrong with this comment, but I think the most egregious is assuming the Imperial governments had any plans going into country creation other than getting natural resources and weakening their foes.
It makes a lot more sense with the web framework linked above. I don't see the connection with this new Sanic.
Let me share something related I learned about recently.

Mansa Musa was a king of Mali. He was the richest man alive during the 14th century, possibly the richest of history. He owned about half of the world's production of gold.

He is mostly known through the pilgrimage he did to Mecca, where he distributed gifts in such a generous fashion that he possibly crashed the Egyptian economy. He is also known for ordering the building of the Djinguereber Mosque.

Thing is, we only know him through the eyes of foreigners. Either because of his pilgrimage or because of the european architects he brought. We only know the things that involve foreigners.

I would like to know more about his predecessor, who, according to a single Arab source citing Musa, transmitted the crown as he was decided to sail west on the pacific to make a trip around the world. Unlike Colombus, he had calculated the trip duration correctly and allegedly led an expedition of 3000 (!) boats. They were never heard from again. However, some pre-columbian historians suspect they have found some possible places where trade occurred in south America.

Why have I never heard about it? Why don't we have more sources about it? Then I remembered another piece of news I have read a few years ago. My country (France) was involved in a conflict in Mali recently. I followed it a bit. I remember reading an article about a heroic museum director who, upon seeing islamist fighters approaching and knowing what they do to historical artifacts [1] decided to disregard all typical precaution, loaded all he could in a pick-up truck and drove like crazy to the safe territories.

A lot of what he saved were manuscripts from Mansa Musa's period and the next century. Most were undigitized and untranslated.

This is why we need to save knowledge of ancient languages. Can you imagine the numerous epic stories we are missing? Maybe along those burnt books are the discussions of the western expedition. Maybe similar expeditions are sketched out. Maybe they give insights of civilizations or trading routes we did not know exist.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/28/mali-timbuktu-...
Ask HN: Would you remove social login because of Apple sign-in?
Apple will make their login mandatory for iOS apps.
But sometimes you need the email of your users (and not for spam purposes).

Would you consider removing all 3rd party logins to avoid using Apple sign-in?

This is especially the case for enterprise and SaaS apps, where admins can log in and you need their contact details etc.