skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of high-end VFX is on Linux these days anyway... And a lot of the GPU stuff is CUDA, so nvidia only...

I know for certain that many VFX software companies aren't too happy about OpenGL being deprecated and Vulcan not being supported on recent MacOS releases.

IMO it's going to depend quite heavily on the demand for high-end VFX software on MacOS as to whether they bother with ARM ports if the MacPro does move over...
Caves of Qud [1] is a fantastic roguelike with procedurally generated backstory, quests, towns, etc.

If you like the classic Fallout games (1 & 2) and you enjoy roguelikes with a lot of weird stuff, I think you’d get a kick out of CoQ. The game has incredible atmosphere that gives you this feeling like you’re exploring a real, living, breathing world. There’s a lot of depth to the gameplay as well, with deep character building and a complex crafting system.

I really want to get back to playing it but I’m in school right now and have a ton of work to do!

[1] http://www.cavesofqud.com/
Wholeheartedly agree I worked remotely for the first 6 years or so of my career and hybrid approaches turn the remote team into second class citizens more like contractors.
Maybe someone trying to be epic, or funny
The best feature of safari is "Remove from dock"
Have not used TC, but I'll agree solely based on the fact that Jenkins UI is so bad.

Someone else mentioned groovy with a frown face, but tbh I much preferred writing all jobs in JobDSL, rather than in the Jenkins UI.
We have to first specify what you mean by amplitude of single photon. Are you asking what would be the E-field observed from a single photon? That is well defined, however it depends on what photon you are talking about. Is it a photon confined to a cavity made of perfect mirrors? Is it a photon with well defined "position" and poorly defined "frequency"? In all these cases you can answer "what is the E field for a single photon", and you need mostly classical electromagnetism to answer this.

Are you asking about the probability amplitude of the state? This can kinda be answered in the confines of Quantum Mechanics by talking about Klein-Gordon's equation, but truly, it is a mess and not a particularly practical approach. To get useful results you probably need to switch to a more general formalism called Quantum Field Theory, and in that formalism the pop-sci handwavy talk about wave-functions breaks a bit, but it also has a well defined answer.
What's the word for that? Astroturfing?

When a company needs to generate fake content pretending to be real questions from real users.

Would you spend an hour writing a really thorough answer to a question if the person who asked the question got paid to ask it, and never reads any of the responses?

It's fake.
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1926878614264962?id=1...
HN used to have higher standards for discourse than "there in an effect, therefore any cause is plausible" - I believe it still does
Asia stretches from Turkey to Japan has 59% of the worlds population. The idea that there is a single unified Asian culture is absurd. A salary man drinking with his workmates in Shinjuku has very little in common with a devout sober Muslim in the hills of Tajikistan.

Hell the cultural values of mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have diverged and they share a common history.
Or coffee shops.
>I don't know how you cans ay that, when the UN press briefings literally refer to them as a "UN expert".

His claim:

>Its not just my opinion, its the UN opinion.

It's not the UN's position, its a position of a Special Rapporteur for the UN. Thats why I can say it. You are arguing a different subject, if he is a UN expert. Notice I'm not debating his affiliation with the UN. A position of the UN would be a decision made by council, not by someone who:

>are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent from any government or organization and serve in their individual capacity.

According to UN, the body.
Repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23639090
Back in my day they used to add features in new versions
It is a neat trick actually. If you superimpose a few of these waves with frequencies that are fairly close, then you will see how they cancel out in the distance, while they reinforce each other in the center. This is called a "wave packet". 3blue1brown was somewhat useful, somewhat tangential video on the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBnnXbOM5S4

The more rigorous way to say "superimpose a few of these waves", is to say that there is some uncertainty in the frequency. This uncertainty in the frequency lets you have more certainty about the position (the wave packet is centered somewhere, instead of being completely distributed the way an infinite plane wave is)
700-km Brazil 'megaflash' sets lightning record: UN
I would never suggest that HN is being astro-turfed by FB, because even suggesting so will get your account banned. But, it would be neat to have a dataset of anonymized users/ip/votes to run analysis on.

Again, not suggesting this forum has been influenced by sock-puppets. I wouldn't dare.
It's not "completely decentralized" due to various realities, but federated and self hostable services such as Matrix, Mastodon, and PixelFed should mostly work for use with family and friends at this point.
Why has it become such an SEO driven BS filled website if the owner doesn't care about the financials? Why can't he pay people to curate the answers and generally drive up the quality?
I'm as big of a remote work supporter as you'll find. I'm often crucified for how anti-office I am. Having said that, a hybrid model is absolutely not remote work. It's not distributed. It's a nightmare. Every single person in the company, including executives, needs to be remote.
Should Those Passing Counterfeits Be Treated Like Counterfeiters?
> This is not reflected in statistics, because it is a personal preference.

What makes you think that personal preferences can't be studied? I'll tell you they can be studied because they are being studied.
> I am pretty sure you are confounding the basis of functions (harmonics) that one can use to describe an EM field, with the basis of a Hilbert space used to quantize them.

No, I'm not. The same mathematical functions can appear in both classical and quantum treatments, but I'm talking about the basis of the quantum Hilbert space.

> Two different plane waves are two completely different modes, e.g. two completely different Hilbert spaces

No. They are different Fock states in the same Hilbert space; in the Fock state basis for that Hilbert space, they are two different, orthogonal basis vectors. And that same Hilbert space can also have other choices of basis besides the Fock state basis.
So which property is missing? What you listed and explained applies to the Fourier transform. Isometries preserve distances which sounds pretty stable.
Indeed. As it stands, trust is merely being shifted from one set of parties (ISPs) to another set (big DNS/CDN providers). Apparently that's attractive enough to a lot of people who prefer to send their queries to a foreign company than to their own ISP, but has it changed anything fundamental?
Intel offers custom work https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/foundry/overview.htm...

You forgot Samsung as one of the big fabs.
Most companies don’t want their advertising associated with anything that will give them bad press. We saw the same thing with YouTube and “demonetization”.

It’s not they are ethical, it just doesn’t make sense from a business standpoint.
DarkLang downsizes to just one founder
Well you can think that way until you are the one they are protecting. Then it's nice having freedom of travel (thanks to the collapse of the USSR) or having the most progressive government in Asia (Taiwan). I'm really grateful to America for doing this.
Super-Earths that could be home to alien life discovered nearby
The big picture emerging from the Covid pandemic is, stop using biological interfacing. We need a mechanical firewall to survive!

The face mask is the symbolism for a larger meaning.

When humans became extremely toxic, tarnishing, targeting and frightfully self righteous omnivores, the nature has abhorred and grounded us.

Wake up and realize the big picture.
Am I going crazy, or did this change recently to become even worse? I know before it was pointless to even try to click into the middle of a URL, so my standard procedure was to click past the end to get a cursor and drag back to where I wanted to edit. But recently it changed so now that's impossible: if I click past the end of the URL, even if I'm very careful to avoid the Ⓧ it still just deletes the entire URL! Now I have to click the URL itself to select the entire thing and then drag the starting selection marker to the end. It's a small change but infuriating after years of the old habit.
Ask HN: How do I handle a $Ms windfall for the short term?
I’m coming into a low $Ms windfall from a personal investment and am looking for advice on how to handle the receipt and management of these funds for the short term.

This is the first time I’ve ever come into this kind of money, and want to take ~6 months to cool down and shore up my financial intelligence before making any moves. I’m deathly afraid of fucking up, and losing it all.

How do I handle the wiring process — send it all to one account? And how do I hold this money safely for the short term — multiple high-yield savings accounts, treasuries, money market, etc?

Any advice and stories of your own experiences would be greatly appreciated.
> SEE "realty.comm"

I don't see 2 ms, at least not in the first example in the video.
> I think the point is, that Pakistan and Korea are culturally very different.

No, we're talking about aviation, and the point is this.

Both have a large percentage of ex-military pilots in civil aviation. The military is hierarchical, same as Asian culture in general.

Both SK and likely Pakistan would fire a contract US CFI for busting a pilot on a sim ride, and then have a local massage the results into a pass.
The threshold would be beta_0 on every case or only when you have subtracted the mean from your data?
UK ready to invest millions to back OneWeb bid
Play-by-Mail Games
Provided we get eSNI everywhere too, or it is easy for middlemen to sniff out your actual hostname even though the IP may be shared with thousands/millions of other hosts.
That is more of a lack of power than anything else. Trump and Putin have the ability to end modern civilization in a matter of hours. The Finnish President has nowhere near that kind of power.
Olympus sold camera dept to Japan Industrial Partners, Inc that also had bought VAIO dept from Sony previously. I don't expect they sell the dept to China.
> the display is nice even tho its only 1080p

What's worse, they have zero information about the quality of this screen. It's almost certainly not HDR. Does it even cover the sRGB gamut? Plus there's no option for a glossy coating, no information about viewable angles, no option for 4K, etc etc.

One of the primary ways I judge the quality of a laptop offering is by the quality of the screen the manufacturer is willing to put in it. If they're not skimping on the screen, it's a good sign for the quality of the rest of the product. And every single Linux-first manufacturer has fallen down here. The general expectation from them seems to be that you'll pay mid-level Mac prices for mid level Dell-quality products, in exchange for first class Linux support.

It's really too bad, because I'd pay the premium for a high quality build with great components that would last me a decade. Not so much for this, though.
How does systematic inequality take root?
They have to at least pretend it is a real business.
One of my favorite examples is Garkov, the auto generation of Garfield strips using Markov chains.

http://joshmillard.com/garkov/
Everything WSL2 does has already been do-able with Windows for at least 10 years. It’s a VM with some file system sharing. You might as well just ask what advantage does MacOS have over Windows. WSL hasn’t changed anything really.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23640746
Why does x86 need a license anymore though? Any patents on x86 and its extensions right through to the first-gen Pentium 4 chips released in 2000 will have expired by now. Creating a clean-room implementation of an existing ISA doesn't necessarily mean you need a license - it's basically the same thing as reimplementing the Java VM specification: no royalties to Oracle required! (...for now).

I do appreciate that the x64 is more recent and will still be patented to heck - but there's only 3 more years until the first of those expire, methinks.

PAE for x86 means that programs needing more than 4GiB of main-memory can be run without needing a true 64-bit ISA - and PAE won't be patented anymore as that was introduced around 1995.
Seems like a lot of people like that idea, what a shame
So the hypotheses is, it’s doing a web search and google is doing an auto “I’m feeling lucky” redirect.
> Course, I’d still probably ignore them as well if I was an undergrad today, because I’m stubborn and prefer to suffer in weird ways...

I'm surprised--I remember the HP-28 coming out--those things went through engineering undergrads like WILDFIRE.

Mathematica came out about 2 years later--I can't tell you how much I abused that.

Matlab, on the other hand, just never seemed to be useful. If I needed statistics, there were better programs. If I wanted graphing, there were better programs. If I needed to do signal processing work, I was better off writing the algorithm program myself so I understood what its limitations and bottlenecks were.

The only time Matlab seemed useful to me was in modeling RF signal chains.
Yes, and anything less expensive is “a toy”.

Meanwhile, my teenage daughter is over here taking - IMO - close-to-professional quality photographs using an Olympus E-PL2 and the kit lens, available all day long for $100. It’s all in the mind of the artist.

Amateur photographers can be almost as bad as watch snobs, and with little more purpose.
Good to know, thanks. And I didn't suggest that you suggested that. :-)
++ for suspending judgement when one doesn't properly understand the arguments on both sides.

We could use some more of that.
A stick shaker for over speed on the landing gear lever (much like the stick shaker for stalls) seems a good idea.
On Intel unpacked BCD was specifically for working with numbers written in ASCII.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_BCD_opcode
A private company is deciding that it doesn’t want its brand to be associated with certain subjects. What do you propose? A law saying that Verizon can’t choose where to spend its ad dollars?

You have the right to say what you want. You don’t have the right to get a platform to publish it. People were getting their voices heard nationwide before the internet existed. During the Civil Rights Movement, leaders went to churches.

We can see in the last presidential election how little Trump spent on traditional media to get his voice out there.
I think the concern is that some people working in tech companies and media may define "hate" as anything to the right of Karl Marx, even well-researched centrist positions.

If this is true, then I can easily see why policing of political content is seen as censorship.
Yup! That's the one!
Trace Scheduling: A Technique for Global Microcode Compaction (1981) [pdf]
So although stablecoins exist which are great for predictable commerce (having a treasury of the amount value you expected), a key piece of the infrastructure is that Ethereum clients don't work over Tor.

Most stablecoin activity is on the Ethereum network, and the clients have never prioritized Tor use.

Ethereum also hosts privacy that all fungible assets can inherit, using Tornado.cash people can trade notes of unknown amounts, redeemable any time. Using Aztec people can make any token private, and communities can consider doing private-by-default tokens including with stablecoins if the issuer started it that way.

So its not as simple as Bitcoin OR Monero. There is a looming large piece of the puzzle that simply is missing one piece - ease of use over Tor. Layer2 solutions on Ethereum also inherit privacy inadvertently, while solving scaling issues on layer1.

Of course, sci-hub doesn't NEED Tor itself for donations, being fairly benign, but as soon as that piece exists, many tech savvy people simply use that route. Monero will likely remain superior but technically lesser solutions can solve the actual market needs better, since the attack surface isn't that consequential.
fun thing: executable application folders like in OSX were a RiscOS thing.
Wikihow is garbage though. How can you seriously claim it's focused on quality? What is this shit: https://www.wikihow.com/images/thumb/f/f5/Laugh-Step-6-Versi... ?
I like bitcoin but it's hugely wasteful.

Electricity required to process a single transaction equal the consumption of 18 days for an average US household (source: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption)

Not only power consumption, these things generate large amounts of e-waste too, comparable to the e-waste generation of Luxemburg (source https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-electronic-waste-monitor/)

It's also terrible to use as a peer-to-peer payment option because it's expensive, slow, and the value fluctuates (in March this year it lost 50% of its value in just a few days)
The encyclopedia seems to have been written, the mediawiki engine is working fine, so now they either have to rebrand, or work on a dark theme.
Show HN: Math Puzzle
Paste 'big.js' [1] into your web console. Run the following code - can you figure out WHY it works and what it represents?

let printN = (maxN) => {
let nextVal = (x,n) => {
let b2 = new Big(2);
let val = b2.pow(n).mul(3).mul(b2.minus(x).sqrt());
console.log(val.toString());
return x.plus(2).sqrt();
};

let s = (new Big(3)).sqrt().plus(2).sqrt();
for (let n=2; n<maxN; n++) {
Big.DP = n + 10;
s = nextVal(s,n); }
};
printN(500);

[1] Big decimal: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MikeMcl/big.js/master/big.min.js

[2] Try on JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/asgxL84y/

[3] The math: https://pasteboard.co/JeNGeB0.png
They are almost entirely pointless in my opinion I'm not sure why they even sell low end cameras anymore. The only potential benefit I see is the software allows a lot more manual control but it also doesn't have as good automatic improvements that phone software has.
This still does not seem to make sense to me.

Consider an oscillator with two modes, A and B.

Mode A has a Hilbert space spanned by the Fock states {|0⟩,|1⟩,|2⟩...} or equivalently by the coherent states {|α⟩, α∈C}. Mode A has its own creation and annihilation operator.

Mode B has its own Hilbert space for which we can use similar bases. Mode B has its own creation and annihilation operators that are different from the ones for A.

Let us just say both A and B are plane waves for the examples that follow.

If mode A and mode B are orthogonal (the way two different plane waves are, and this is a purely classical statement), then we have all their operators commute and their Hilbert spaces are completely different.

We can have a coherent state in mode A and it will still be a plane wave. Same with having a single photon state in mode B and it will still be a plane wave. We can not use kets related to mode B to describe anything related to mode A.

If we want the total Hilbert space, that would be the tensor product of Hilbert space A and B and the basis kets in it will be denoted like {|00⟩,|10⟩,|01⟩,|11⟩,|20⟩,|21⟩,|12⟩,|02⟩,|22⟩,...}.

I continue to claim you are confounding the basis of harmonic functions (modes) for the classical description of the EM field, with the basis of kets describing the quantization of one single mode. Said another way, a plane wave is a basis vector of the space of square-integrable functions, while Fock states and coherent states are basis vectors for a Hilbert space of a quantum oscillator.
Corporations want their customers to buy their stuff. It helps when you don’t offend your customers. Are you proposing that the government force companies not to discriminate where they advertise?
Wanting to abolish the military isn’t the only reason someone would claim it’s unethical to work for defense contractors. Two other reasons come to mind. Firstly, few if any of the conflicts the US is currently engaged in could be described as “just wars”. Secondly, the US is the largest arms exporter in the world, by a large margin. And many of those arms go to dictatorships, such as Saudi Arabia or Egypt.
Holy cow, yes. I switched to FF a while back, and your description of the behavior alone raised my blood pressure. They way return automatically opens whatever the first suggestion is immensely frustrating. The way hitting `return` is literally a race condition against how quickly the autocomplete returns its results.

There are some things I miss about Safari, but the search bar behavior is not one of them.
> Not perfect, but nothing much is.

Has anyone ported Plan9 to ARM yet?
This is Wikimedia changing to the name that a majority of people know it from, this is not them going from Netflix to Quikster.

If I tell my mom to look up something on Wiktionary, I don't tell her it's the same group as Wikimedia, I tell her it's part of Wikipedia, even though the former is correct and the latter is not. In her mind, and in the minds of practically everyone outside of tech, Wikimedia is Wikipedia.
I tested on my iPhone and it does not have this behavior. It went to the correct site on Safari & on Firefox.

Why is he demonstrating on random phones in an Apple store? That’s not really a good example of a ‘clean’, out of the box device.

A ton of people have tinkered with those phones. Isn’t it possible that some other people typed ‘realtor.com’ in all those phones in the past?

Either way it you type a specific, valid URL, it should never be overridden with an autocomplete.
Im a native mobile app developer, need something that works with swift on IOS.
Gee, that’s such a nice latency you’ve got on your game, there....

Sure would be a shame if anything were to happen to it....
Holy sh!&*@#!t thank you. I had similar behaviour with a different remote BMC thing.
Everyone is born with souvereignty, but tricked into giving it away to others who will rule over them by voting. Tricked again and again and most never learn, unfortunately.
I had heard of RISC OS but never used it. The screenshot looks pretty ahead of its time for 1989. Nicer looking than NeXT for example, though similar aesthetic.

[Edit: After some digging around it seems like perhaps the screenshot features the visual style introduced in the 1999 release or thereabouts?]

Seems like on HN of late there's some interest in 1990s UI revival. I'm thinking RISC OS looks like a good candidate for that.
From Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs

> Platforms: x86 / Vx32, x86-64, MIPS, DEC Alpha, SPARC, PowerPC, ARM
Here are places to start:

* the r/FatFIRE subreddit - many people have asked variants of the same question: https://www.reddit.com/r/fatFIRE/comments/hf99ez/large_inher... . The r/personalfinance “windfall” page comes up occasionally: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/windfall/ (it links to lots more similar questions).

* Past HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18600220

* If you don’t have any experience at all, you may want to start with an hourly financial planner who is also a fiduciary: https://www.napfa.org/find-an-advisor?q=&exp=Fee+Structure%3... (note: the “Hourly” filter is checked), https://www.napfa.org/financial-planning/fiduciary-101, https://www.forbes.com/sites/baldwin/2019/10/13/hourly-plann.... They’ll help you answer these questions and charge an hourly fee, much like an attorney would.

(The best-insured place to park it would be a bank/brokerage with multi-bank sweep account, like Fidelity’s FDIC-Insured Sweep: https://accountopening.fidelity.com/ftgw/aong/aongapp/fdicBa.... However, talk with a professional first.)