skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is....just play it without raytracing? I love control, it's a great game, but the raytracing is such a huge gimmick(in this game) that I don't really understand why it dominates every benchmark other than as a curiosity. I have an RTX card and raytracing on/off in Control is noticable....for the first 2 minutes. Then it just blends in with the rest of the look and I don't even notice those super expensive effects anymore. Switched them all off, kept the rest on ultra, can easily game in 1440p at 100fps+. The game is still incredibly pretty and has plenty of fantastic visual effects anyway.
You can make 'modules', little repeatable chunks that can be replicated or turned on or turned off etc. OpenSCAD is programming so a 'module' is a 'function' or 'procedure' in other langs. My multi-part assembly is a bunch of modules that I have in one configuration for fit designing and one configuration for printing.
I definitely don't, but it doesn't change much to the parent's point; keyword I'd "blinded", not "hatred". There is a lot of hate but what is really appalling is how few trump supporters can be reasoned with. Or can see reason at all. The ones that could... are no longer Trump supporters. It is somehow easier to believe that it's just hatred misguiding people, because the alternative is worse.

Please do keep in mind that while it may be "half the US population" (it's not), it's definitely not half the world population. An absolute majority of the world is looking at the USA in utter disgust.
Accusation is not conviction though. I really hope that law still has power and meaning
Still wouldn't short it, buy some put options if you feel lucky but there were plenty of people holding tesla shorts last year that didn't go so well. The market can be irrational longer then you can stay solvent. A clever way of saying most individuals or institutions can't afford to maintain shorts long enough for them to pay out.
How? Deaths are still fairly constant

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/index.html#trends_d...
I don't think the intelligence agencies willfully produce false intelligence. They might be wrong but, as a matter of policy, they don't lie.

I think the lying occurs higher up in the command structure where some intelligence is omitted from consideration because it doesn't fit the narrative the higher-ups are pursuing. I suppose there's a question here about who, exactly, is involved in this process of filtering out inconvenient information. Are those people part of the intelligence agency or not? This is a tricky question but, even if they are part of the intelligence agency, the pressure to omit comes from the executive branch. The NSA/CIA/etc aren't pursuing a pro-War policy...the executive branch is.

For example, imagine someone in the CIA is asked to provide a report about the likelihood of Iraq having radioactive material that could be weaponized. This person performs diligent research and produces, to the best of their abilities, a factual report. The executive branch presents this report as a "slam dunk" which shows that Iraq has radioactive material. Who lied?

Toward the end of your post, you blur the distinction between "lying" and "having a duty to contradict false claims". I'm only talking about lying although I agree that people do have an imperfect duty to contradict false claims.
I've had many bugs since the URL bat went to the bottom -- it crashes on some websites and often has multi-second hangs. I had to go back to chrome (I will try it again in a month, and hope it has improved, as I prefer Firefox).
> Is Sharia law not a religious authority ruling folks who do not belong to that religion?

Absolutely not.

It specifically applies only to Muslims, while excluding others (known as dhimmi, which translates to something like "protected people"). Others have protected rights to live, have property, and freedom of religion, and in exchange they're expected to respect the authority of the State and are subjected to different taxes (jizya tax). Everything else depends on the implementation.

It's basically how you get a vibrant expat community in places like Dubai.
This solution is problematic because there's no one time limit that makes sense across all past and present CPUs that span orders of magnitude of performance.. your lua script would always fail on some CPU and there wouldn't be a way to fix it.
Bingo. ...and this point is made clear by the US demand that China fork over the TikTok source code - something China routinely demands of foreign companies.
Generics, and also heavy use of traits and macros can make code hard to follow
IMO.
Sure it does. Have you never heard of Tetanus?
It's literally caused by a bacteria that lives in soil.
I envy the naivete required to believe that the U.S. government's chief intent in this case is to maintain the ability to police bad actors who might abuse this data, and not to ensure it has total control to use the data for its own (often nefarious) ends.
Microsoft announces new Project OneFuzz framework, an open source developer tool
> One example of this is that there is no chance of bankruptcy from debts or negative equity

I think there are some dusty luxury cars at Dubai airport that beg to differ
wtf, people. thanks for the deep rabbit hole i've been stuck in learning about the geology of the region. :)
It could hardly be easier to do, just click the apk link and agree to the dialog box. The problem seems to be just that noone is looking for an app outside of the app stores.
He wasn't labeled a transphobe for being interested in a discussion of professional sporting rules, transition, and hormones. He was labeled a transphobe for using phrases like "a man in a dress" and carelessly platforming people who use similar phrases. We can observe a lot of people successfully discussing and navigating complex issues like sporting regulations without being called transphobic because they don't resort to nasty phrases like Rogan does.
Actually not. Octopuses (female) breed their young for months without eating and then die off. Seems like they have perfected this system over millenia via evolution?
If you like sci-fi, Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky plays with this concept. It's the second book in a series though, first being Children of Time.

Super imaginative and well written, I really liked them.
I've only skimmed so far, but insert ::eyes bulging emoji:: here
This is why I’ve been supporting Apple and their App Store. It’s the most effective way to isolate an evil, authoritarian regime.

Right now there’s zero reason to believe that the administration would target apps outside of China, and as long as that continue to be the case then we should cheer them on and be grateful we finally have a world leader willing and capable of standing up to China.
The main Invidious site just shut down, although various alternative Invidious sites still exist.
I really enjoyed that article, thanks for sharing!

A clarification: from what I can tell reading the article, hunting octopus was not illegal, but there were restrictions against big commercial style net and pot fishing of octopus.

I liked how the article juxtaposed the (presumed good) hip locavore restaurant vs the (presumed bad) redneck that just wades in and engages in octafisticuffs.
Mind that the USP of the iPhone was its ability to render a view into a full-size desktop view with full Webkit capabilities, which was meant to put an end to any special handheld formats like WAP and XHTML + handheld CSS for mobile. If it had been meant to require a dedicated skin, chances are that Apple would have specified a special multitouch media attribute for dedicated stylesheets. Whether rendering desktop views on mobile would have been ideal under the aspects of usability and/or UX, is a different question. (However, I think, developments were originally more driven by the want for a "native UI" experience.)

Regarding "not just a simplistic reflow", if you take this notion seriously, this applies not only to the presentation of content, but also to the content itself. Notably, shorter, less "baroque" copy text for handheld devices, but richer text and more related or in-depth information on the desktop. However, I've never seen purposefully redacted content like this, targeting multiple platforms. Instead, it's mobile first also for content on the desktop, where often a mere couple of paragraphs are meant to be a full article or blog post.
I still don't get why the article elevated what was essentially an illegal hunt by a teen idiot.

Nothing novel about it. Just breaking rules and conventions to kill a creature for food.
I was inspired by wormhole to make croc. croc does not use the wormhole spec. I found it necessary to diverge from the wormhole spec so I could easily implement features that I find important. AFAIK I've* implemented features in croc that are still not available in wormhole, including:

- resuming transfers [1]

- ipv6 support [2]

- local transfer without public relay [3]

- simple installation for windows [4]

- sending folders without zipping (i.e. send in place) [5]

*some features, like ipv6 support, were generously tested/coded/inspired by others.

[1]: https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole/issues/88

[2]: https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole/issues/354

[3]: https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole/issues/48

[4]: https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole/issues/208

[5]: https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole/issues/58
Tab ordering is messed up. Tab scrolling is bugged. Everything from before requires more taps than before. Pages randomly render blank. Normal and private mode gets stuck and next intent tab is opened on whatever mode was explicitly opened before.

I would count the bullshit extension whitelist as the single biggest regression. But it is not new, so its not counted as such anymore?

The worst part, I will still be using Firefox because of my principles. Mozilla knows that userbase like me isn't leaving, and those unlike me aren't staying. It doesn't matter how big of a screwup they cause next time. The writing is already on the wall.
>Boston tea party

The people involved in that did not go around destroying the property of random uninvolved shopkeepers, it was specifically a rebellion against the English.
If 2020 has taught me anything, it's that a surprisingly high number of people / companies / groups managers and/or leaders, do not think about or care about long-term repercussions of the vast majority of their decisions.

2020? I was thinking 1980. To my memory, it seems to have started with the Savings and Loan scandals, and gotten worse.

Companies went from optimizing for 100-year growth to optimizing for the next three months.
For the record, I did end up slapping this together with kore/sqlite.

48 src/301.c

Could be shorter (I did the error handling lazily over more lines), or the same length with more features. Kore is nice.

Anyone want to pay $15k/mo?
I don't know why this was downvoted, maybe people don't realize why this is so serious?

Sign in with Apple doesn't give you a user's email, it uses randomized forwarding addresses.

So if Apple blocks you from it, those users can never log in again, and you can never recover the accounts that used it

There's no way to send a link saying "Hey we got blocked from Apple, log in here". That's it, those user accounts are dead.

Combine that with a requirement that you use this log in system? Complete and utter insanity that Apple would try and use that to threaten a company.
The US government collects data which is arguably not legal to collect, and parallel construction schemes have allowed law enforcement to use data it would otherwise be unable to use.

I'm not defending the CCP's actions, but I think instead of banning specific acts, the US should change policy and guidelines to ban behavior, not specific actors.
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Yes, and keeping the documentation up to date - diagrams tend to go out of date.
California firefighter has died battling a fire ignited by gender-reveal party
I mean what's the harm to Windows though? The only money they make on sales of those games is $100 for the Windows license from an audience that loves to pirate it anyway.

They stand to make much more money by enforcing a 30% cut on a new, restricted platform and cutting some sort of deal with Valve.
Assange's prosecution can be bad, and yet attempting to gain favours from him with the offer of a pardon can also be bad...

In fact, in _very_ corrupt systems, it is common to put people you need something from in legal jeopardy _for the purpose_ of dangling a pardon to get the thing you wanted in the first place. To be clear, I don't think that's the case here; Trump was attempting to get a quid pro quo but probably didn't set up the initial situation.
Tabbed browsing: a lousy band-aid over poor browser document management (2014)
Right, like when Rosa Parks went to the front of the bus. It is a commonly used tactic to fight unjust laws by first breaking them.
If expansive inequality isn't the goal why does it matter.

What does the percent of the pie matter even if you slice is getting bigger at historic paces because the pie in general is bigger. Would you rather have a higher percentage of a smaller pie or a lower percentage of a smaller pie.

Equality isn't the goal, equal opportunity is and higher standard of living I'd guess and focusing on equity may not be helping.
Instead, the CCP can say "it'd be a shame if the US authorities found out what you're doing, but if you share some of your company's confidential documents with us then we won't tell."
> even on quite international resources.

By that, are you referring to National Geographic? :)
I've got news for you about our ICE facilities and prison labor system. Looks like it's time to dismantle the Utah Data Center.
I'm a privacy lawyer at a multinational company that has dealt with cookies for years. I created an account because none of the responses to you are correct. The ePrivacy Directive was not replaced by GDPR and cookie rules do apply to first party cookies.

We ended up with cookie rules because regulators were concerned about the use of cookies to create user profiles based on activity across multiple websites, especially for "evercookies"/"zombie cookies" where a user's cookieID would be resurrected even after a user deleted them. Instead of banning zombie cookies or cross-site tracking, the EU instead decided it was a violation of user privacy to place any cookies or other data files on the user's machine without their consent.

The actual language is "Member States shall ensure that the use of electronic communications networks to store information or to gain access to information stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user is only allowed on condition that the subscriber or user concerned is provided with clear and comprehensive information."

Cookie consent boxes are implemented at the website level because the law applies to website publishers, not browser makers. Website publishers were explicitly told that they cannot rely on a user's browser settings. This put the browsers in the back seat and ended up with today's world where you have to opt out of a service provider like Google Analytics on a site-by-site basis.

The vast, vast majority of users do not touch cookie settings. There are probably more users running scripts to disable cookie popups than there are users opting in or out of specific cookies.

It is an odd world where websites bend over backward to make cookie popups that actually work knowing full well users do not care. The average user doesn't really know much about cookies, much less the wide variety of activities powered by cookies. Cookie consent popups are publicly available, making them easy targets for regulatory audits. Ireland ran a huge sweep and sent out letters to a number of large companies telling them to clean up their act by October or else. We are a few weeks away from seeing what the "or else" will be.

I'm happy to answer any other questions you have on this.
I've concluded that for me the price that I should pay for good open source software is good bug reports. If I'm not contributing at the very least help the contributors make their project better. This can sometimes take a little time to get a reasonably minimal set of steps to repeat and appropriate screenshots. Admittedly this is easier as I'm a software engineer so I have decent intuition as to what is needed so they don't have to come back to me.
Honestly, many of rust’s safety promises don’t help the type of low level code I write, so I’m skeptical of the “embedded rust” push. But embedded is a huge field so some people will definitely benefit from what rust makes available.

But yeah, I think for some projects rust brings you a great type system, a gross syntax, and very little additional safety. But OTOH, on those projects writing rust will be not that different than writing C. Either language will still let you forget to sanitize a length value from an external struct that is put into a DMA engine. And either language will let you create a dangerous_u32 type that needs to be sanitized before your routines write it into a peripheral. But rust’s probably would be a little more ergonomic for the programmers, a little harder to use improperly, and involve pressing every punctuation mark on your keyboard.
Are you implying the Tulsa race massacre wasn't an act of hatred?
No business is forced to deal with anyone else. So google and apple stores are playing by the same rules as every other store in the world. Companies can't win a lawsuit against Whole Foods for not allowing their products to be sold in Whole Foods.

Apple and Google have both seen how the completely open app download model works (it's been how PCs have worked for a long time). Most consumers want their phones to work and not have any risk of downloading spyware or viruses or apps that brick their phone. Most consumers don't want to research every app to see if the app is trustworthy enough to trust with their identity information or payment information. That said, there's probably a middle ground between where Apple/Google are now and a completely open marketplace that gets most customers what they're hoping to get while also giving larger app developers more of what they want.
After the U.S. imposed tariffs on Canadian aluminum, Canada responded with tariffs on U.S. goods [1]. A reciprocal retaliation makes sense to discourage the other side from continuing to participate in these market practices.

If reciprocal retaliation to China's arbitrary bans on US and European Internet service companies is bad, then so is reciprocal retaliation to US-imposed tariffs; but that fails to appropriately discourage the US from imposing more tariffs, and leads to greater restrictions on free trade, not less.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/canada-to-impose-tariffs-on-...
It's just scalpers ran swarms of Selenium against every web storefronts. Happens for everything buzzes on the Internet these days.
This is tech from alternative reality where we're not forced to use Teams, GApps and other shit. It's a reality where you "croc" a screencast via shareable croc URL, posted via matrix chat to your manager.
When the risks of cutting these corners are significantly outweighed by the risks of getting to a vaccine slower.

With due respect to the many losses from Covid-19 - the numbers are not huge. 0.012% of the world's population has died from Covid over a period of about half a year. The annual death rate of all other causes in the world is 0.77%, or (normalizing to half a year) about 33 times as high.

So, Covid is a serious pandemic but not terrible enough to risk significant corner-cutting in vaxine development - as I see it.
Octopuses are so fascinating. We scour other planets and galaxies for life / mystical aliens sending aimless signals in search of reciprocation or even acknowledgement.

I wonder how amazing it would be if we had a similar grand undertaking in our oceans... With just octopuses (without interfering with them)?

They are perfect aliens we are seemingly looking for in the skies but living right alongside us....
Looking forward to when people recognize game consoles and general purpose computing devices that carry an LTE antennae are understood to be different classes of devices with vastly less competition.
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The Epic installer is also used to install Unreal Engine, I wonder if the actual Fortnite.app that it downloads is signed with the same certificate.
I don't understand why people read yet another story about FB's bad behavior somehow conclude all of big tech are bad guys.

For the same reason that people believe all politicians are evil, and the all lawyers kick puppies into a woodchipper for fun.

It's "otherism." Or to put it in gambling terms: Playing the odds.
That's a bit of a stretch.

Epic abused the security update workflow of the iOS app review system. Specifically, they submitted an update which was not a hotfix as if it were a hotfix. They (apparently) did that intentionally so that the update would not be inspected closely.

The signature system is built on trust. Apple allows trusted partners to submit hotfixes to address security bugs. Those updates receive expedited (read: cursory) review. Epic abused that trust to push an update which added their own payment system, not to address a bug (security or otherwise).

If Epic is going to abuse the trust of system for submitting security updates, why should they be trusted by the signature system?
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It sounds like you’re implying it should be safe to sign any contract you don’t intend to honor, so far as it’s your opinion it’s a ridiculous contract. I’m not certain that’s true in practice.
You could have a string.find C implementation which gets an additional budget parameter and depending on it might limit search or similar (and reports back how much "budged" was used)

Through always under the assumption that the C function is implemented correctly and adding need to do some explicit budged keeping makes it more complex and in turn more prone to errors.
> No the concern is they aren't subject to the laws of our land

What specific laws of the US land are they not subject to?
"Instead of preserving packets order, SRD sends the packets over as many network paths as possible, while avoiding overloaded paths."

From my naive perspective, this sounds like a great way to end up overloading all the paths that aren't currently overloaded. I suppose maybe this works out when you have global information about the network, unlike the regular internet though?
Also their Windows Terminal app which is, for some reason, very hidden. But it allows WSL, cmd, and powershell tabs all in the same Window.
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Really useful and intuitive to use. Can only recommand it
If you're going to shut down factories at night, that itself is a cost that should be accounted for. If you're shutting down for eight hours a day, you increase capital costs by a third.

That's worth paying if it's the only option to address climate change, but if the main argument against nuclear is cost, it's not a fair comparison if renewables externalize cost to the customers.

(Also, aluminum smelters in particular take damage if they shut down more than five hours or so.)
You're wrong.

"Suppose that we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," Trump said at the White House coronavirus press briefing, adding: "Supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way."

It was absolutely not considered a scientific impossibility that UV light would have an affect on the virus outside the body.