skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supposedly a lot of topology problem is fixed in realthunders fork. https://github.com/realthunder/ https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3/releases

I haven't had time to look into it myself, so I can't comment how well it works, but people on other forums have suggested that it's more stable than 0.18.4 so I intend to try it out when I have some time.
ExGAN: Adversarial Generation of Extreme Samples
> I guess they want to pick a fight

Are you referring to Apple or Epic? It seems that Epic are the ones who wanted to pick a fight, for better or worse.

edit: it is amusing to see this post get so many upvotes and so many downvotes. Obviously this is a very polarized community w.r.t. Apple.
Softbank can do that themselves if that was the plan.
How will the US implement a ban of WeChat?
Supposedly the US will ban WeChat on Sunday. How would that be implemented? An order to Apple and Google to remove from the app stores? What about existing downloads?
And so it WILL happen. Oh dear.

A legitimate reason to jailbreak?, if you've never downloaded this app?

How far would you kids go to getting TikTok on your new iPhone 12 if you created a new account of if it was your first phone?

*Unless Trump agrees to the Oracle-Bytedance deal
After one year of full-time Rust (starting early 2019, details may have changed since) for web (API) development with Actix, I would not recommend to use it for any serious web project.

The language is awesome and the performances too.

BUT, there is too many things that will distract you from being productive (compared to Node.js + TS or Go): unstable libraries, compile time is atrocious, cognitive load required to read Rust is high (break your flow), toolchain (RLS auto-completion) is weak, CI/CD costs are too high. You will spend most of your time solving Rust's problems instead of your project's problems.

In my opinion Rust is good on a 10-15 years timescale. But your project need to survive 10-15 years...

You can read the details here: https://gitlab.com/bloom42/wiki/-/wikis/engineering/language...
If by CA you mean California, years ago they implemented strict rules on flow rate of shower heads in an attempt to curb water usage. Many companies added flow restrictors that customers simply removed. Other designs couldn't be sold at all.
I know very little about malware, but I tried clicking at @yakczar at the bottom of the page where it says "by all means you can send an Issue, a PR, ask a question, or tweet me (@yakczar)." and my antivirus software stopped me saying it was a potential threat (trojan). It points to domain ctt . ec (don't know if safe), different from all other usernames (github/). Seems to me there's something wrong, right?
I think this is partly the purpose. The US administration does actually want to cut off communication between China and chinese in the US. It's a feature of this legislation, not a bug.
I wonder what the Fortnite user base and revenue looks like by platform
Free speech is not defined by the first amendment.
Nearly all their "side projects" look like greenfields used by the project teams to boost their CVs so they can land better jobs. Those teams know very well that those projects have no use case, but they dont care. Foundation does not care either, since it is busy with increasing own remuneration and politics.

Meanwhile their core product lost around 10 percentage points of market share (from 15% marketshare to 5%):

1) Nobody works on Firefox any more. From 1000 people in Mozilla and how many working on Firefox? 50? and 950 doing various (useless) side projects?

2) they don't understand their own product and its user base: they killed extensions, killed ability to customize anything. Basically they rebranded to a "worse Chrome".

3) They dont care about quality and ship a half baked product. Recently they shipped Firefox for android that feels like alpha version. It is even unclear why did they ship it, they could have waited.

4) Countless bugs and problems caused by their own decisions (e.g. all extensions need to be signed - they forget to sign them so they stopped working..)

5) Not caring about the product at all because some people inside are stubborn dinosaurs. Firefox didnt have proper installers for business, just because someone inside didnt want to provide them. It's like sabotage.

Their tech savy user base gets alienated every day: no more extensions, no more customization, constant broken workflow (changes for the sake of doing changes, while old things are never repaired - greenfileds are easier). At some point you start to wonder, why use a Chrome clone that is worse than Chrome?

I expect that the marketshare will go from 5% to 0.% What will be terrible for everyone. We are already losing the address bar due to Google AMP. [on a sidenote: when Chrome pushed for Google AMP, Firefox didnt capitalize on it - in fact Firefox also changed the address bar as if the Firefox team wanted to secretly support AMP..]

Those teams probably know very well that Firefox is a sinking ship, since development teams are not working on core product; but they dont care, they will jump. Meanwhile those few who worked on Firefox are left holding the bag, while they were "paying" for all those side projects, that just siphoned money / development time from core product that is Firefox.
How do they find out your online usernames aside from Facebook and LinkedIn? I've never been asked to supply them as part of a job interview.
There is also Luau and Ravi but I don't think any of them is official which was the original question
You have to compare performance per watt though to see the real gains. They can't keep pumping more and more watts through these things indefinitely, surely we are already at the limit.
What's really freaky is that the RTX 30xx series of cards aren't even being manufactured on the current-gen process!

NVIDIA is using Samsung's 8nm process, which has about 60 million transistors per square millimetre (MTr/mm^2).

That's not cutting edge! The crown is currently held by TSCM's 5nm process, at 173 MTr/mm^2.

Some time next year, TSMC is starting "risk production" of their 3 nm process, which is expected to hit about 300 MTr/mm^2. That's a solid FIVE TIMES higher density than the process used for the RTX 30xx series.

Unlike general-purpose CPUs, where transistor density does not linearly translate to real-world performance, GPUs are designed for embarrassingly parallel problems and have nearly linear scaling. More transistors equals more "CUDA cores" equals more performance.

The only thing holding back GPU performance is memory bandwidth. Current-gen consumer cards are just shy of 1 TB/s of memory bandwidth, but to get 5x performance, they would need 5 TB/s memory throughput to match. That's... difficult. Even with HBM2E, you'd need to stack a bunch of them to get near that.

But yeah. 8K gaming is crazy. Real time raytracing was an utter fantasy just a few years ago, and I just played through Control at 60fps and it was a visual feast.

I grew up in an era where wire frame 3D graphics took seconds to redraw the screen. I used keyboard macros to control a CAD program because it had no hope of keeping up with mouse movements.

My unborn son is going to grow up to play in a world of 8K raytracing as standard, with visuals better than Pixar movies of just a few years ago. That blows my mind.
Why would Apple or Google do anything except comply? Apple already complies with Chinese iPhones in China. Google tried to build a Chinese Google.
Dominic Raab (currently the UK's foreign secretary) is (in)famous for having the same Pret meal for lunch every (working) day: a chicken caesar and bacon baguette, with a pot of fruit and the same smoothie.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/26/is-it-w...
How unpredictable! Where have they been since the Internet started being around?
Expect that to be pushed back if there are any hitches in what is, in reality a phase 3 trial. Which there probably will be; there generally are.
It's interesting to note that Epic managed for a short while to get behavior into their app on people's iphones.

Apple doesn't instrument apps, malware can be uploaded to the app store and as long as it's not widely known can exist for a while. The app store provides little benefit for consumers and only moves power from them to Apple.
I think the magnitude of vibrations felt on a ship in calm seas probably are an order of magnitude more than a stationary clock. Perhaps that is why it rates a mention here.

While I'm not trying to claim it has no effect, the effect must be slight enough as to be negligible, otherwise we'd have seen some kind of compensation as we see compensation for temperature, spring tension etc.

Perhaps I'm underestimating it though and the reason this is not compensated for is simply that these where the atomic clocks of their time. They would represent a significant investment, no idiot would install it in a building set back from a major truck road or expect to be able to run tap dancing classes in the room above. It's quite likely that the manufacturer set out standards for the building it was installed within, perhaps even down to the type of foundations it had to have.
Well, doesn’t seem like any additional action has taken place... it’s just an effect of revoking the developer ids used previously.

I wonder if they can just distribute the game as an unsigned binary from their website, post the SHA and tell uses to right-click launch the app. Sure the experience sucks, but it works
"One of EFF's first major legal victories was Bernstein v. Department of Justice, a landmark case that resulted in establishing code as speech and changed United States export regulations on encryption software, paving the way for international e-commerce."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...
Spotify now allowing to stream from Apple Watch apparently
it is in the works, the title is slightly misleading as it is just setting a deadline for when the takeover negotiations must be finished by - Nov 12
Look into hemisync/holosync/binaural beats. They create a beat in the music by pulsing a tiny delay between left and right channel. That pulse was shown to bring the brain wave frequence in sync with itself. I find the effect easy to discern when listening in a way where the two channels are clearly separated (as when via headphones).
With how horrible the trajectory of macOS has been due to Apple being almost exclusively an iOS profit driven company, this may be better for everyone by forcing consumers to move towards more open PC architectures.
This most certainly is one fight Apple didn't pick.
Pre Tim Cook, Apple just out-innovated, not strong armed. Terrible. I really wish they were an alternative to Facebook/Google.
It's literally Epic not wanting to comply with Apple's App Store policies and then crying that Apple is bullying them for not making an exception.
Has Occulus ever tried electromagnetic motion sensors. Sixense probably did that once, thought they never went into production but they said it was super precise and has very low latency.

Occulus is tracking motion with camera which is way more CPU intensive than calculating position based on electromagnetic signals.

One trouble they had though that it wouldnt work well with high energy electric items nearby.

So dooes anyone know if Occulus or HTC vive or other well in market consumer VR device ever tried that or has plans to do so? is this even possible?

EDIT: They also made controllers for Razer. https://support.razer.com/console/razer-hydra/
Are you saying that the executioner is not a murderer because he doesn't make decisions about who to execute and who to leave alive ?
20 years ago who would have thought that Apple would become the company that hides behind corporate talk about ToS and restricts what can run on their platforms, and Microsoft would become a company with many open source projects and an open platform?
Epic picked the fight but this is Apple's move at the end of the day. They could allow Epic to give the option to buy through apple or buy for cheaper skipping apple. It wouldn't be a particularly rational business decision to do so, but they do need to own the fact that putting their foot down is their call.
Thank you for taking the time to answer, and also to amw-zero below.

I think I understand more of the sentiment now.

> As soon as you pass around a `user`, someone will type `.posts` on it, or `.save`

I'm not much of a fan of the active record pattern, and I can see (have seen) how optimistic/naive developers can get in trouble - but I feel these are two separate problems:

> someone will type `.posts` on it

This doesn't have to be all bad, just make sure there was a join or include first - perhaps via a scope (eg: User.with_posts).

I suppose some rails apps end up doing "much more than crud", and then it can be easy to stumble. But I find that with some modicum of discipline, "fat models" can go a long way towards making "slim controllers" fall out naturally.

> someone will type.. `.save`, on it

This why I use AR objects, so I can do crud. Sure if dealing with "posts" (plural) you want to avoid: posts.map... save in favour of update_all.

And while there's save! - data integrity belongs in db constraints. But validations are a great tool for better ux and error feedback. The major problem today, is probably that you'd want to (only) run them as client side js.
Setting up the B.V. might not cost that much but keeping it compliant with the reporting requirements every year is very expensive in Holland.
Cutting you off entirely is not the same thing as chopping up what you're saying and selectively passing through parts of it and not others.
SQL for Redis
You think instagram needs to spy on you to get a picture of your face? Because the 1000s of photos you already uploaded aren't enough?
Unfortunately the EU is relying on the US to keep the bad apps away, I'm pretty sure TikTok etc. are in gross violation of EU laws but unfortunately nobody in the EU has the cojones to enforce max (or meaningful) GDPR penalties.
What does encryption have to do with you not having a label?
I would quit any job which made me do this while working remotely. I've been a very successful full-time remote engineer for over a decade and this is incompatible with my workflow and quality of life considerations.
This is an executive order, not legislation.
Apple have to maintain a vice-like grip on their ecosystem as their approach relies on controlling the entire vertical.

As more and more pressure is placed on them by the EU, the Right-to-Repair movement, big partners, etc. something has to give but i'm not sure Apple have the mindset to comply.
> why not just give the user a phpmyadmin login instead?

The guy at the previous company said we can't do that.
This is some really great trolling by the Department of Education.

It amazes me that elite institutions like Princeton were so quick to come out and call themselves racist. Aren't they opening themselves up to endless lawsuits by saying that?
Don’t ask too many questions! You could accidentally wake up and find out that this whole “coronavirus” thing is a giant scam!
And that would be SCARY wouldn’t it? ;)
> They could allow Epic to give the option to buy through apple or buy for cheaper skipping apple.

How do you propose that Apple could give this option to Epic?

If they allowed Epic to skirt their rules, they'd have to do the same for everyone, so it is a fight that Epic picked and Apple is choosing not to continue that fight, that's all. You make it sound like it would have been just fine if Apple let Epic do what they were doing.

We can debate that Apple should change its rules for everyone, but it sounds like you think they should have just let Epic continue violating their policies.
I wouldn't say Apple are being childlike at all. They're simply enforcing the policy they set and the consequences that Epic knew would come if they violated that policy.

The argument can be made that Apple's rules are bad rules. I think I would agree that changes to the rules should be made, and I expect that they will make some concessions eventually. But you can't fault them for enforcing those rules the way they are, especially when Epic are provoking Apple so brazenly and publicly.
You forgot the part where Tech Lead creates a YouTube channel. His Tesla is featured prominently.
But narrative goes beyond just logical inconsistencies. People can make entirely bs arguments that appear internally consistent to a surface view. Rogan is absolutely not doing leftists a favor by platforming right wing personalities, even if Milo did self-destruct.
I think it's hard to take the example of a poorly maintained electric tower in the middle of a poorly managed forest and extend that to all electronics a company uses. The comment I was replying to talks about windows computers, castings, and standard electrical panels.
Google Interview: Key Things (and Languages) to Know
Next time Epic will think twice about bullying platform owners.

Nope, they aren't special above anyone else.
This appears to be a link shortener service provided by "click to tweet dot com", which prefills some information into a Tweet for you to tweet at the author. It seems to be a convenience thing. Chances are your antivirus software is a little over-cautious and some malware has at some point used the link shortener.
That's like saying that a bully didn't pick fights because everyone could just back down and be abused.
Getting rid of the Google cookie consent popup
Ask HN: Is there a neutral social networks directory app/service?
Folks, I am considering deleting my Facebook account but I don't want to loose my lifelong contacts and family links from there so...

I wondered if there would be some app or service that is simply a social networks directory with your very simple profile info and avatar with contact groups for you to organize and show your connections and they all link to each of their own social networks they prefer to use (I would understand if it had some primitive chat system too, but nothing more than that otherwise it would be a real social network, right?).

This way we could all stay inside preferred walled gardens but at the same time be reachable and contactable from the outside.

No idea how it would be monetized but... well, any clues if such thing exists and if it's user-friendly enough?
Keeping up with the Quatorzes has a better ring to it.
Keeping up with the Bourbons would make more sense.
But, why shoe-horn your politics into this?
This isn't a good excuse for spying on people.
You clearly do not understand the economics behind renting. Wealth extraction as you call it, isn't pure profit for the layers above. Your rent pays for the landlord's mortgage, maintenance, inspection and risk being taken on from a tenant. Your landlord pays the bank, who use the money to pay off their own obligations, including your grandparents pension plan. It would never be possible to adjust that system.

The other reason things are so high is there are too many people and not enough houses, so there's little opportunity for competition.
You also don't need to match the profit entirely.

You just need to match it so it's worth more than what anything else would be.
For the Mac version, they certainly picked it.
> We got numba, which seems to work automagically in the official demo snippets and zilch in your own. 'That's because you're using them wrong', the smart people tell you on stackoverflow.

That's my experience. I was working on satellite image processing at the time, lots of Python loops in the code. Numba should've made a big difference according to the demos, but when benchmarking it didn't.

Adding a single decorator sounds wonderful and I never found an answer to why it didn't work.
Do you consider blueprints and mechanical diagrams to be speech?
Hahahaha. I have always thought this looked like a great product but never really had a need for it.

I had a file slightly too large to email last night and thought I'd try FF Send for the first time ever, only to be greeted with `Service Unavailable`.

It's a real bummer this is going away, and I hope this isn't a sign of more to come.
I may be wrong but it seems that the number of confirmed cases isn't a great indicator either because we've been testing a lot more so it's expected that we're getting more positives. What matters is the number of people who die or get seriously ill, isn't it?
I started with OpenSCAD but:
a) found the language to be clunky
b) had a hard time doing chamfered unions between objects (needed for sand casting patterns).

So - I wrote my own tool/library in Go and it's essentially replaced my OpenSCAD usage.

https://github.com/deadsy/sdfx
The last 10% comes from rare dark/calm periods. I requires a storage technology beyond mere diurnal storage (for which there are plenty of options and where continued cost decline will almost certainly address your negativity.)

> Why are you focusing on price? Renewables don't work. They could be free and you'd still be building natural gas plants.

If price is no object, then obviously renewables can be made to work anywhere. After all, one could dump heat into underground thermal stores and use that as artificial geothermal. The thermal time constant for a several hundred meter chunk of bedrock is measured in centuries.
That conspiracy theory assumes people are mugging for their news feed, which no one does.
I had the same experience, but did eventually find this blog post with some example code snippets:

https://www.blech-lang.org/blog/2020/08/12/push-button-handl...

Also, figured out the "compiler" transpiles to C. Which seems reasonable given that it targets embedded real time.
Windows with store?

ChromeOS and Android with everything going through Google servers?

Linux distributions with their 2% market size, going to take over the desktop since DX 10 wasn't available in XP?
The funny thing is, there is no Chinese version of Tiktok. There's Douyin but different.
Apple did not pick a fight. Epic did by explicitly doing something to knowingly break the rules to cause this issue and even had a heavily produced marketing video about it prepared day one. While people can debate the value of what is provided for 30% cut, intentionally breaking the rules / picking a fight has consequences that were laid out ahead of time.
> Joe should have a free and censorship free place to discuss topics.

He does. Nobody forced him to choose a contract with Spotify.
Because the Watch, the AirPods, are nothing - even though they both make more in revenue than the iPods at peak.

The iPad is much better than the pre-Cook iPad 2.

Apple’s processor lines are head and shoulders above the competition and the ARM Macs will probably be some combination of faster, cheaper, more power efficient than any x86 PC.

And then we have Epic.

Selling Carlton Dances with virtual currency.
A Legislative Path to an Interoperable Internet
The full wording is "Any provision directly contracted or arranged internet transit or peering services enabling the function or optimization of the mobile application within the U.S.;"

I've written my own BGP implementation and even I'm not quite sure what they mean by this. My best guess is this means ISPs operating in the US can't directly peer with a network that enables the functioning of TikTok, but probably doesn't go as far as requiring them to block any IP address ranges received indirectly via other networks.

This applies both to TikTok and WeChat.
This person has posted with her real name.
My desktop is an Intel 3700K overclocked to 4.1 GHz. So fast, but also ancient compared to modern CPUs. I have no issue designing models with many minkowski functions applied to them. The final build before export can take ~30s but that doesn't bother me.