skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In these situations there usually is no actual logical reason.

The corporate "reason" is that a new CEO must be seen implementing dramatic changes (activity > progress).

In this case I'm not sure if Satya the Saint [tm] started this roadmap, but for sure he managed to associate himself with it and take credit for it.

As others said, a new CEO can easily reverse the whole process in order to have a "new" little triumph.

It is all meaningless...
Every time a company does something like this, I remember that I spend more and more time On the Linux side of my Dual Boot, and almost none in Windows (save for some time plying Eve).

Having worked in large enterprises like this, I can also picture some small team, or loud individual with a super ego, pushing for this kind of stuff as if it is a good idea.

For every... say 20 PM/Product Manager/Lead/Devs that actually listen to customers and want to create great software, there’s always Some Dunning Krueger clueless individual who pushes for stuff like this. Often they’re the loudest in the room, while everyone else is suffering from imposter syndrome and afraid to speak up.

[soapbox off].

Sorry. My rant for the month.
Is there anyone that even knows what "Domain join" means? If the button was there but hidden, would that count as "still there"? What if it was there but labeled "Click here to brick your computer"?
...and the over-engineered solutions are over-engineering outdated, inherently unsafe designs.
New Productivity
WTF indeed. Comment made me check out the source code..
I could only find some headerfiles which a) have the complete implementation in it and b) of course include all dependencies.

This is the exact nonsense that is happening all over the place, and why we need 512GB ram in workstations to compile something.

I can't help but think that some basic knowledge about libraries is missing.
Fusion or not, only an abundance of incredibly cheap clean energy is going to turn back the tide on CO2 and other pollutants, and who knows what problems that may bring.
Does the Model 3 have a concept of stop signs (not just recognizing them, but understanding arrival order and how long to wait) and right of way?

Or are they expecting to get away with just avoiding cars and pedestrians while breaking driving rules because it's a parking lot and blaming owners when it inevitably falls short.

Tesla's track record leads me to believe the latter, but I'd love to find out something to the contrary.

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Actually it looks like this is still controlled by holding a button? So yeah, guessing it has no concept of those andalmost-crash in video #2 would be expected behavior. Marvelous.
And your poll is showing most people here run Windows.
>Rendering text, how hard could it be? As it turns out, incredibly hard!

Related undesired complexities/heterogeneities I encountered while implementing a simple text drawing API on top of various libraries (cf. "Pain points", near the bottom):

https://github.com/jeffhain/jolikit/blob/master/README-BWD.m...
Wikipedia has some good content about this. Basically in the 80's petrol funded think tanks pushed the idea that global warming was an phenomena created from whole cloth by a cabal of globalist leftists. I'm not sure of the exact claim of what they were/are trying to achieve, but essentially they want to put the brakes on capitalism by making people consume less, and ultimately disrupting economic growth.

There are a few reasons why this was effective, especially in the US. The first is the most powerful, best expressed by the old Upton Sinclair quote, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." Second, many believe that God would never do such a thing to us - it states clearly in the Bible that the world is ours to do with what we want, and it would be unjust for God to let us shoot ourselves in the foot like that, and God is not unjust. And third, it's not even real science, just dirty red communists trying to psych us out, and feckless scientists out for grant money. Fourth, Americans seem very prone to believe on authority, powerful and wealthy people, even when the statement is self-serving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming has a lot of great content, and is well linked to, e.g., climate change denial articles.
Is it time to recalibrate rocket technologies with added metric of pollution. Does this mean that Project Prometheus (plopping out nukes sequentially and riding the nuke push https://youtu.be/njM7xlQIjnQ?t=544) might be back on the table?

To reach the moon requires
- By chemical rocket: 1000 tons of chemical fuel for each 1 ton of payload with 1000:1 ratio roughly linear with increasing payload. Max capability today is on order of 100 tons per launch.
- By nuclear detonations: fuel:payload closer to 3:1 with prototype design of 400 ton payload for single rocket, and later designs aiming for 100,000 ton payload/rocket.

Is 30x less waste by mass better even if that waste is in part radioactive? Water waste still seems pretty good to me.

https://newatlas.com/orion-project-atom-bomb-spaceship/49454...
I didn't learn much about software engineering in my "Computer Science and Media" degree. But somehow I have the feeling it helped me learn stuff in general.
One can see why historians like to describe mathematics in terms of second-order philosophical, cultural, socio-political effects (a clockwork universe, a rationalist garden, etc) but surely this is putting the cart before the horse: the biggest impact of mathematics is in the first-order effects: mathematics made solid, as it were, in architecture, engineering and technology in general - much more so than the surrounding aesthetics.

I guess I'm just not buying tendentious (and unprovable) connections between advances in geometry and reshaping of the social order. That said, I will check out the book.
It’s a lot of money, I’ll admit, but compared to the military budget it’s chump change.
Ah ! Maybe.
I only get Windows Pro editions, so i can't test this.
In both case, the outcame is sad:
Everyone here felt for something that is not checked(lacking vocabulary for this sentence), or Windows is getting worst for their users.
Some may disagree but I’d view someone displaying so many personal eccentricities as generally unprofessional. And (probably no one will disagree) failing to work as a team. And I do agree with you that contributing to and improving the culture of your team is very important. That’s something I’d care about as well. I guess I view it largely as part of the job rather than a personal thing if that makes sense.
I strongly disagree, also the way the article describes subpixel antialiasing is not entirely accurate. The thing is the boundaries between pixels don't actually exist, it's just a convention so we can address individual pixels and subpixels within them. But these subpixels are not at the same position within the pixels and this needs to be taken into account for antialiasing.

Also regarding hiDPI: I know that you just want to get rid of subpixel antialiasing but you really don't want to get rid of antialiasing in general. It's not really an issue with typefaces, but non-antialiased high-frequency patterns can easily generate unwanted Moiré patterns on you display regardless how high is your display resolution.
And their cousins, the Rust evangelists.
I was thinking about how far back should you really have to explain yourself. I think half your age plus 7 might work alright. [1] In this case, he would have had to explain if he tweeted such things past age 19. I want to emphasize this is only for simple word posts. If you ever post about actually harming someone or animals, the standard may need to be different.

For everyone who doesn't live in Iowa, how big of a story is this? Do you know people without Iowa connections who have donated? Ever since it all started, it's been a constant stream in my Facebook feed, often consisting of people commenting who haven't read the story.

And yes, Busch Light is as popular as people are making it seem. An old roommate literally had a fridge full after Hy-Vee, the Iowa-based grocery store, had a semi sale for various meats and Busch Light.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_disparity_in_sexual_rela...
Not as much as the title imply, but yes, it's another one dark pattern.
I feel the same way - Windows 10 is my daily driver, and mostly I love it!

But I use Pro and Enterprise editions - I would find it really irritating if my Start menu was spammed with ads and apps I didn't install.

And disabling local accounts (or at least making it even harder to use them) is a scummy move.
The better question is how much money can by made now by getting in on the hype as early as possible. Just look at the disclosures.
The nuclear industry report cited in that article (WNSIP) is written by an anti-nuclear activist (Mycle Schneider). His whole career is defined by it.
In fact, this is the first news I'm interested in because I use TikTok often. I'm sorry and I'm really just a beginner in programming. The website is used to decompile the APK file so that I can see through the XML file, but I just haven't figured out how they track persistent device identifiers in the XML file. Maybe just because I am not familiar with Android and I should do my research first...
I wasn’t being literal friend
Not all people are like your friend, not all colleges are like your girlfriends, and most importantly not all career trajectories benefit highly from a college degree. My wife for example, her degree gets her a poverty level salary in the states, whereas in Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, she makes near 6 figures. Going to school for CS, and having to take all the other dumb shit that will never, ever help you in any real world CS job, is why the alternatives are coming to a rise.
The problem is that Nuclear Fusion is always 30 years away. It was 30 years away in the 1970s and it's still 30 years away today. Can't rely on a solution that would probably not be available in time.
Even 3D NAND is not the honest monolithic 3D, as it uses edge bonding and not real metal layers for word lines
Humans are being completely irrational. Can we create a safe nuclear power plant? Yes, but that doesn't mean we will and it doesn't mean there will be no issues in operation. Not to mention the lobbying for changing rules of what the design life is to keep running the plant after the engineered lifespan has expired or lobbying to continue operation with larger concrete cracks than the engineers recommend. Both these things happen today. I think something like 80% of the plants in the US expired their engineered design life 10-15 years ago and many also have larger cracks than they should be operating with. This is because humans will always be greedy and put their profits first.

Then there's also situations where engineers just make stupid design decisions like in the case of Chernobyl. Or when there's something that engineers just haven't thought of like a failsafe plan for an earth quake as we've seen in Fukushima.
> A US Bachelor’s is not 48 months, at most 9 months a year is spent officially studying, the rest is holiday.

I went to college year round as it was the only way to balance my work schedule. I was a minimal full time student during the typical semesters and took classes all summer.

> because half of the average US Bachelor is general education with no professional impact.

I disagree. The general education is probably what everyone should go to college to learn. Reading and writing (communication) is the basis for almost every single job a person may have. It's also a skill that lasts forever. When I was in undergrad I took random business courses for my electives. I still use and have built upon concepts I learned in economics, finance, and accounting.
What we really need is Mega Maid, but for CO2 this time.

EDIT For the young'uns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7aeWQCF1jM
Dehydration itself can make a person nauseous.

You don't have to take anything orally to treat dehydration. A bath or shower can help with hydration at times when she can't stand to take anything orally.

Dehydration isn't always as simple as a lack of fluids. It can also be impacted by a lack of electrolytes and inadequate fat.

So it may help to add salt to the bath. Table salt can be problematic for someone in frail health because of the additives. Sea salt, kosher salt or canning and pickling salt won't have those additives. You can probably find the latter two readily at a local grocery store. Good sea salt can be ordered online.

If fluids and electrolytes are insufficient and you think she may need more fat, this can also be remedied without giving her anything by mouth.

Coconut oil is high in medium chain triglycerides. These can be used directly by the body without being broken down via digestion, so the body can absorb it if it is applied topically (to the skin).

Coconut oil has a long history of being medically recommended by the medical establishment for people with serious gut issues, such as folks being treated for stomach cancer.

Don't overdo it though because it can promote nausea and diarrhea, especially when taken in large quantities. You want to do small amounts regularly so the body can handle it, not start with a tablespoon of oil at a time. That will not go happy places.

Coconut oil is a little on the sweet side, so some people don't like cooking with it because of how it impacts flavor. As an alternative, butter is a decent source of medium chain triglycerides.

Clarifying butter to make ghee can remove elements that some people don't tolerate well. This can be helpful to people in frail health as an alternative to oils they aren't tolerating well while sick.
> Mercifully, subpixel has become less relevant over the years: retina displays really don't need it, and the subpixel layout on phones, prevents the trick from working (without major work). On newer versions of macos, subpixel-aa of text is disabled at the OS level by default.

Speaking of mercy, I wish Apple had disabled it only on hidpi displays and chosen a longer deprecation window for normal displays.

I prefer keeping displays at a distance slightly longer than my arm. This completely hides the slight blur of subpixel antialiasing.

Now a 1440p has significantly degraded text rendering (even though other graphics look great) and if you want to use an external display, it must be 4K or 5K to not get a blurry, thin mess.
First we must discover time travel.
Overengineering is not a bad thing in real-world engineering, to be clear.
Fusion is nothing like these things you listed - we can see that it can be done with our naked eyes each day, and we even managed to use it for weapons. The only thing stopping us from doing it now are engineering problems.

Limiting CO2 emission is needed anyway, I don't know why people feel the need to dismiss other parts of solution just to make their favorite parts seem more necessary.
Sure but the military... works.
Based on my experience (written about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17183682) I suspect they're one of the many companies pushing flyers to doctor's offices just to gather data. They do appear to offer some lower prices on prescriptions, not exactly sure how that works though. Maybe they have some type of Costco-like "members only" model, except anyone and everyone is a member.

In any case, I'll never use their service(s).
Try https://megacolorboy.com
That is pretty much all there is: If earth was more massive, the chemical rockets we've been producing wouldn't have enough thrust-to-weight ratio to reach orbital velocity (about 25k km/h). We would have to load the rockets with so much fuel to break free of gravity that they would be too heavy to lift themselves.

This is all assuming yields and fuels we have now. If we lived on a more massive earth and we were trying to escape its gravity, I'm sure we'd be using more exotic and dangerous fuels (like all those fun fluorine and boron fuels Dr. Clark mentions in Ignition![0]) to do the job. We just happened to have the capability in the middle of the century to use a fuel we were already making (refined petroleum) for jet engines.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Ignition-Informal-Propellants-Univers...
If four teslas arrive at an intersection at the same time, do they all crash? :)
You don’t run an effective propaganda campaign on resources you don’t have yet. The comparison in existing entrenched oil wealth to the money behind climate activism is absurd.
fission is already good enough. Let’s just adopt and build safe designs at scale
I think you mean an environmental catastrophe, which I would say 100% since we're pretty much there already with some key glaciers breaking away, the many species going extinct, and the collapse of coral reefs and plankton.
Agreed, but it is something of a technicality - for typical users, the result is the same as if the option was removed entirely.
Successful large scale fusion energy is not enough. It must be cheap enough to replace hydrocarbons and be viable within reasonable time scale.

If the cost and time scale does not matter, fission is already good enough. People are just irrational and can't compare things. Fukushima type accident every few years would be completely acceptable and compared to coal and hydrocarbons.
Are you joking?

In the first case the Lexus was in the wrong, but a human would have intervened with that loud auditory device affixed to the steering wheel, or moved further out of the way.

The Tesla freezes deer in headlights after it turns into the path of the car backing up. I wonder if it even signaled before turning. The fact the owner is worried that the other driver thinks they were driving leads to be believe it probably did something a human driver should have, not signaling makes sense

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In the second case it ignored right of way and almost caused a serious crash!

In another it ran into a wall!

If anything tuis article is being incredible charitable by trying to focus on the cases where it doesn't fail...
"Modern" Thorium designs (not really modern, but what people are talking about today) use liquid fuel, where as THTR-300 used pebble fuel. If you are comparing a uranium solid fuel reactor to a thorium solid fuel reactor, the differences are indeed marginal.

Most of the benefits people talk about with thorium are related to using a liquid fuel in the form of a molten salt (LFTR), which allows for things like continuous operation, 100% fuel utilization, and "meltdown-proof" designs.
Paint Drying
I'm not a user of MacOs, but does Apple allow to use their system without AppleId?
Why did php beat perl?
For certain definitions of “works”
True, but we raised the issue also that we needed to solve the dynamic alias name+@gmail for example, along with the free email providers @mailinator, all of this got rejected as a single feature. So yes just blocking dups on it’s own is trivial, it was wrapped in an epic around some other points.

But I want to echo that your comment is accurate, maybe not 10 minutes, but it’s a rounding mistake worth of time on it’s own. The results got emailed as soon as POST so we didn’t keep a db along side the app. Keeping the list of used emails would have been easy but it would mean keeping a log/db/redis/flat file somewhere. That ends up eating a little more time.

I think what we have illustrated here is exactly what happens in the bigger hacks. “Why didn’t they just... it takes 20 minutes to do that” and yes it does but it was packaged probably with other things that got killed.
You can't convert a bitmap back into vectors (well maybe image recognition of some sort). Once you render to canvas its a bitmap and stays that way all the way to printer.

SVG is turned into the appropriate PS/PDF vector drawing command by the browser print engine, canvas just gets sent as a bitmap in the printer language since that all that's left.

I believe pdf.js incorporated and modified https://github.com/gliffy/canvas2svg which implements the canvas api but instead creates an SVG dom.
If they bought a computer with it installed there wouldn't be an issue. Finding one in bestbuy is.
> In every application, any dependency to JSON should be minimized, contained and preferably eliminated.

how do you suggest interaction with $standardised_protocol which uses JSON in that case ?
Tesla is well aware that people will use the feature in ways that you describe, and its main concern, as with its other statements to the effect that drivers should pay as much attention to what is going on as if they were driving, is to avoid liability.
"You are still responsible for your car and must monitor it and its surroundings at times within your line of sight because it may not detect all obstacles. Be especially careful around quick moving people, bicycles, and cars."

Is this a joke? I have huge respect for Tesla and SpaceX, but how do they expect to release a feature that will self-drive a car (even tiny distance) and someone will oversee a moving car?

The software engineer in me just died.
Coal powerplants kill orders of magnitude more people and nobody cares. What makes safety of thousands of people threathened by nuclear powerplants worth so much more than the safety of millions of people threathened by the coal powerplants?

Because that's what we're doing in practice - assigning vastly different value for lives of people depending whether they live near a nuclear or a coal powerplants. And then complaining that nuclear power cannot compete on cost :)

Oh, BTW, renewables kill more people per MWh generated than nuclear, too :)

Energy Source Mortality Rate (deaths/trillionkWhr)
Coal – global average 100,000 (41% global electricity)
Coal – China 170,000 (75% China’s electricity)
Coal – U.S. 10,000 (32% U.S. electricity)
Oil 36,000 (33% of energy, 8% of electricity)
Natural Gas 4,000 (22% global electricity)
Biofuel/Biomass 24,000 (21% global energy)
Solar (rooftop) 440 (< 1% global electricity)
Wind 150 (2% global electricity)
Hydro – global average 1,400 (16% global electricity)
Hydro – U.S. 5 (6% U.S. electricity)
Nuclear – global average 90 (11% global electricity w/Chern&Fukush)
Nuclear – U.S. 0.1 (19% U.S. electricity)

Source (2012): https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

It's so frustrating how irrational people can be with good intentions... If you demanded same safety factors from other power sources as from nuclear - they couldn't compete with nuclear on cost. But people killed by radiation are much more important than people killed by falling from their roof while installing a solar panel :)
That's two very different kinds of 'slow'.

Nuclear Fission might be too slow to build - at least that's what the report claims. That would not be a problem with Fusion - its energy output should be so high that building it should still be worth it. The 'slow' regarding Fusion is the time taking to research it.

IMHO, researching Fusion is worth it, but we can't rely on it at all for solving our problems, since it's unlikely to be available in time. We'll have to handle our climate problem with more ordinary means.
This feature is a godsend when implementing your own language [0] on top since everything is wired up automatically when the application starts.

Compared to emitting C or whatever where you need to include code to stitch the runtime state together.

Makes compiling standalone executables so easy [1] it feels like cheating.

[0] https://github.com/codr7/lila

[1] https://github.com/codr7/lila/blob/master/main.lisp