skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Care to provide a URL?

Or well, I looked it up and this is 1 way: https://jilaxzone.com/2020/04/20/complete-guide-how-to-sidel...

It's a hacky workaround that needs "maintenance" every 7 days, but I guess you can call it "You can side load on iOS"
Trump to ban US downloads of TikTok and WeChat
Honest question: Can you just use email?
I hadn't even thought of this.

What if WeChat was a traditional installer (.msi, .app, .exe, .run) that you download from some sever and which is mirrored all over the place?

Does the same authority apply? Can the government say "it's illegal to have this binary executable?"

Or is this only possible because there's one central repository for these platforms, and the government can simply compel the platform (legal and ethical questions aside) to remove them?
Once upon a time it absolutely was about performance, but I would argue those days have long since passed.
Reddit is one of the largest sites that embodies the earliest and most Utopic use-cases of the Internet: largely anonymous parties discussing different topics. The size to which it has scaled makes it an inherently fascinating artifact.

At the same time it embodies the dystopic outcomes of the Internet as well. For example it does not embody the decentralization of Usenet and is instead run by a single company. Its back-and-forths about acceptable speech and moderator power remind us of the tension between everything goes free speech and formenting and abetting hate groups. The twist it added (while not pioneered) to historical discussion boards, the upvoting and karma systems, lead to a very interesting hive mind phenomenon where you can very much see a meta personality at play based on the actions of millions of actual personalities. And then on the other side of the count, you see sophisticated attempts by smaller groups to manipulate the larger groups' opinions through both fraudulent and overt means. Alongside that are the side effects of majority-rules opinionizing, where alternate narratives get vaporized, or seem inherently laughable because one knows they'll be downvoted, which seems like an offshoot of mob mentality and lends a weird causality shift to the discussion, where the focus turns to accruing social capital rather than sharing honest opinions.

All in all quite fascinating if you're interested in that kind of stuff; not fascinating at all if you aren't. But as Hacker News is structured in a similar fashion, it's pretty clear the general audience would have an interest overlap with Reddit (I certainly follow the programming section there).
That's exactly the point, it's a measure intended to cause pain so the Chinese will change their way and trade fairly. About time that somebody grow some balls and put the Chinese in their place. For too long they got a lot of leeway and while it made sense in the beginning to help them improve the life of their citizens, by now they are capable enough and should start trade fairly like any other country.
In international diplomacy these days you either have to tolerate bullying or be the bully yourself, and often both. For instance, the EU bullies American tech companies through 'litigation'.
It's the first time I hear HN has title autoformatting.
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I doubt Citymapper is a good source. No one really uses their app there; except for tourists and new expats, I guess.
$50 billion market value, 25,000 employees? This is for a short video sharing app, right? I'm confused both by the apparent market value of the company and the number of employees proposed for the US operations. Seems orders of magnitude off for what the app does, even at the scale that it does.
This is a bit of an interesting and somewhat unusual situation.

In most cases, your finance team (internally) will be the one to pick up on the fact that stuff doesn't make sense.

They won't be able to tie the invoices to subsequent payment to get an accounts receivable schedule to show who still owes what.

They won't be able to get the stripe reports / merchant clearing disbursement reports to agree to the GL clearing accounts.

It's also rare for the CEO to have the only access to bank statements. Fraud risks are often higher in finance team, as they are the ones who catch problems elsewhere, but can be hard to catch problems with them.

This make me wonder how experienced the startups accounting team was.
It's cause the banks keep getting sued by the US govt and the US govt keeps siding with the US govt that the banks violated sanctions.

So banks then do ridiculous things like checking your timezone and checking your name and the memo fields so they get to have a stronger defense in court.
[1] Aeons ago means litteraly nothing. You can contemplate gradual improvements to the EROI, but they don't change by an order of magnitude despite the metric truckton of money we've been throwing at the problem. The order of magnitude does not change, the output doesn't really significantly shift either.

[2] Land area occupied by renewables doesn't make it INFEASIBLE, can you stop putting it words into my mouth I did not say? Did you not read the literal dozens of times I've mentioned renewables are worth developing and using? Do you understand that when I compare one with the other, this is not a XOR but an OR and I am talking about orders of magnitude and controllability therefore what actually matters for the bigger immediate changes? Or do you want to wilfully continue to ignore that I've said that about ten times now and dance the same dance again and again?

It's not infeasible, it's merely on average impractical. That is, you need to identify the narrow areas where the installation offsets the CO2 output of the construction + materials + maintenance bill. Yes it does improve, and yes that ROI improves significantly too. Did you read my sentence right now? I don't want you to say again the same damn things, I'm just checking you even read the messages.

But no, the solar output is not what will allow you to keep your fridge running and your shower hot at all times. If you want to sell me the idea of not having power at all time I'm genuinely OPEN to it, but then actually have the sincerity of shifting the debate to something meaningful rather than the same points over and over again.

[3,4] Ad hominem, and you also happen to miss that yes a majority of PV as it stands does not use the awesome research that avoids using involving a decent amount of mining (and that research didn't come for free btw, and that could have paid for next-generation nuclear research for which the current generation already beats by far photovoltaic). So sure, handwave away.

[5 and not 6] So you ignore the IPCC reports? TL;DR am I right? I have nothing more to say to you.
Just because of the country names.
I don't know if "from scratch" is really a fair statement. React accepts HTML in the render function, so the only thing you'd need to do is modify the variables to match JSX's variable syntax, which is exactly what you'd have to do with Vue.

I think it's all pretty much the same deal. You might argue Vue's template syntax is closer to HTML than JSX is, but that doesn't really feel like the major issue when slowly refactoring a large application.
There are two ways to play pc vr games on quest. First is via wifi, with apps like Virtual Desktop, this gives you very good quality, but depending on your setup can range between perfectly acceptable latency, or terrible jittering and lag.

Oculus link gives you very good latency, but with the default settings the quality leaves a lot to be desired. You can tweak the render settings though, which fixes the issue, and it ends up looking about as good as Virtual Desktop. Only real unsolvable problem is the cable, but it's not a huge issue for me.

Alyx is quite playable through both of these setups (assuming good latency for a virtual desktop setup).
> because the so-called president wants to personally gain from these actions

I sympathize with your wife's predicament (I know people stuck in similar situations) but he is not the 'so-called' president. He is a duly elected leader of the American people. Perhaps this type of obnoxious attitude by us liberals towards half the country is what caused this mess to happen in the first place.
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Is thhere any way to use OS X on a Pi?

Asking for a friend
I don’t think we can control them, I do think we could ideally introduce sensible legislation and hopefully the bad actors would at least be incentivized to benefit their own country to some extent. Also, sorry if I somehow insulted your home country, was only trying to make the point of why Americans would want a Chinese company ran out of town.
What follows works 99% of the times with airbnb:

Customer service representative: "For training purposes this call is being recorded. Are you okay with it?"

Airbnb member: "Well, you know if you feel comfortable that we record this call for quality purposes, I'm totally fine with it, no worries."

CSR:"Haha, sure I am. I just have to ask, you know."

AM: "Sure, me too, it's important to me that you're comfortable with it, too. So... here's the issue why I'm calling..."
Hmm, why just foreign governments? The last 3.5 years (if not more) the US government doesn't seem to have been acting in your or my best interests, unless you're of the "Koch brothers"-class elite.

Meanwhile it's not the government, but Instagram hides unfavorable "related hashtags" when you search for Trump-related hashtags, but doesn't do the same for Biden:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/instagram-relat...

Viva la democracia! /s
I have seen that image of the woman wearing the round hat and looking in to the camera in several image processing articles or tutorials now. Is there a story there? Ie is it a/the standard image people use to demonstrate something in image processing (similar to writing "Hello World" for programming languages, or printing Benchy for 3D printing)?
> US apps from Facebook and Google collect far more personal data and use it more malevolently.

Source? What 'malevolent' use has Google made of your data?
And the day they do will be the last day I (deliberately) visit that site. The new UI is just so non-functional for me. Some quality-of-life improvements (I think there are some improvements in the markdown handling in comments), but beyond that the old one is just faster to load and much easier to use.
The bank does own own the house 100% in this case ... The distinction between profit calculated on de amount and duration of a loan and interest is the difference between 4 and IV. It’s the same amount, with the same reasoning behind it. It’s interest.
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Pretty much and I hope they pay for it. It would be nice if those companies be actually held accountable where it makes sense. They might as well be operating from China! :)
So this somehow keeps other HTML from rendering and CSS just doesn’t display correctly right? Look around, you’ll find very little care for that API except from sites trying to spam devices, something apple is against. So again, no, safari is following the spec just fine.
The damage that has been caused was created by Epic's breaking of the rules. If they had followed the contract they signed, their app would be in the store and earning money. They knowingly created this problem.

They "could no longer make any money" because of their own actions. Apple did not make them break the contract. I think we will see them lose big in the courts. Public opinion is a different matter of course.
and it shouldn’t be a thing.
> It's an absolute phenomenon, man.

It was. Now it's a cesspool.

> Recommendations, discussion,

It's become the worst kind of echo chamber. The comments feel like they're written by GPT-3, and there's a lot of prideful ignorance or confidence when it's undeserved.

I had to laugh when they added "avatars" and everyone started setting theirs to dancing seizure cockroaches.

My avatar is the Digg logo.

> backstage access to celebs

AMA was sincere when it started. Now it's just lame cash grab marketing and self-promotion.

> And it's YC.

Yeah. I feel like they exited too early. Conde Nast made all the money here.
I wonder what would happen if WeChat/TikTok opened up their protocols and let people connect with arbitrary software, including self written and open source stuff.

The malware vector concerns would be gone. They could still spy on communication that wasn't E2E encrypted or impersonate users but that concern arises with essentially every communications service.
There must be a distinction between:

1. Actions that are physically violent

2. Actions that cause physical harm, but the action itself is not physically violent

If 1 and 2 were the same, it would imply that voting for a politician that decides to kill people is just as bad as killing people yourself. The consequences of that wouldn't be good.

> You wouldn't say that someone firing a gun didn't commit a physically violent act just because all they did was pull a trigger.

If the gun is their property, it's their fault that their property is attacking someone. It's not pulling the trigger that's wrong, its that their property attacked someone else. Same idea applies to killer robots.

If the gun is not their property, then it's their fault that they used someone else's property.
In the great scheme of things, sure, that's true. But we need much cleaner energy at current prices.

If you watch from around the 1h22m mark, you will see that he conceeds there is no such thing as "energy conservation", and that what he argues for actually is an increase of at least three times the in price of energy and food. Well, that's a non-starter even if you accept the philosophy, it will lead to revolutions and regime changes, it cannot possibly work.

So we absolutely need to maintain the relative standard of living, while significantly cleaning up energy. A 5x drop of our carbon intensity can lead to a more or less ecologically sustainable world economy where billions can enjoy the western standard of living without fucking up the planet in less the a century.
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>Ernst-Young

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That's an interesting thought. Instant communication seems to pair badly with our inherent bias towards novelty and bigotry. In the past, we had gatekeepers (i.e media) that were educated enough to edit and contextualize communication to control that bias. Increasing the ability for everyone to communicate with one another has really unleased the worst of humanity.
https://argumate.tumblr.com/post/623899209993781248/argumate... is a really good post about this. Here’s the money quote:

“Naïve Westerners who want to know when China is just going to give into common sense and recognize Taiwan might as well ask when Rome is going to canonize Luther or Calvin. It’s not like the American party system, where American political parties are mostly just vehicles for people to raise money and get elected and don’t have any permanent long-term strategy measured in centuries. There’s real metaphysics here.”
Thanks! I had similar issues trying to jump into freecad to design a piece of sheet metal the other weekend for a classic car project. SolveSpace looks perfect.
Yeah, I can provide an alternative solution: ban its use within the government for sensitive uses, but allow its use by citizens. Issue a public notice to citizens that any wechat communications may be known by the chinese government.

If there's an actual national security issue with private citizens using the app, they should air it and give it a chance to be addressed, or succeed in court on its merits.

> I don't think that USG could achieve the goals of Chinese not being able to intercept US communication

Frankly, that shouldn't be a goal of the us government for private citizens. The us government can protect government communications all it wants, but private citizens should be free to use chinese services if they want. I know someone learning chinese in an american college, and one of their resources is using weibo (a chinese twitter clone basically, definitely hosted on chinese servers). If US private citizens using wechat is "china intercepting us communication", than this person using weibo and emailing chinese students to learn would count too, right?

It seems like a clear violation of the 1st amendment, and the justification seems very flimsy, at best.
This is why I exclusively stick to technical subreddits. r/programming suffered from severe moderation a few years back which knocked me out of even looking at it (posts were heavily moderated and their front page wouldn't change for days). But the various programming language subreddits (in aggregate) make for good reading for me.
I think if they had the following done right, it would be pretty much on par with open source hardware/software expectations:

1. Hardware datasheets for all components

2. Bootloader available to view the source for, if not completely open source. I understand bootloader can be proprietary tech and they can use non-commercial compete license but allow people to hack them and at the very least view it.

3. All PCB and gerber files available. Clean schematic documentation.

4. HAL/Middleware - this is by far the most crucial portion. The user should be able to write drivers for anything. Right now, if I want to connect a VR 2048x2048 LCD (3.5" square) with a DSI/MIPI interface, I cannot write a driver for this with RPi. It's not entirely their problem either - the DSI org gatekeeps the datasheet and development for it unless you fork out a generate multi thousand dollar membership.

That's all. Obviously they cannot compel each component manufacturer to open source their silicon... at some point the expectation fades.
I see in the docs for "Pi 4 Bootloader Configuration", under the BOOT_ORDER setting:

- 0x4 - USB mass storage boot (since 2020-09-03)

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
> You are nowhere near meeting basic needs yet with solar, wind, tidal, geothermal combined.

Ah, the old "it hasn't happened yet, therefore it can't happen" argument. I'm sure if you honestly think about it you can realize why that argument is nonsense.

> (3 out of the 4 can be intermittent/dependant on environmental conditions and are not reliable).

We're talking here about power for hydrogen production. Intermittency doesn't matter much for that (it requires the electrolysers be cheap, but their costs have plummeted recently, so that's no longer an obstacle.)

> Perhaps I'm unaware of some technological breakthrough which can produce hydrogen using little energy?

Perhaps you could stop using strawman arguments? Hydrogen doesn't have to be produced with little energy in order for hydrogen storage to be viable. The energy that is used just needs to be sufficiently cheap. You know, like that $0.013/kWh power from large scale PV in the UAE? And that's only the latest in a constant string of record low bids.

> Nuclear is great once up-front costs are paid.

Yes, if you can get the Nuclear Fairy to wave a magic wand and make the power plant appear for free, it's much less expensive (but even then, the operating costs will be much higher than renewables). In the real world where real money has to be paid to build nuclear power plants, not so much.

> I have pondered whether it would be possible to generate hydrogen more cheaply via concentrating solar or geothermal.

Neither of these are competitive with PV now. Hell, it's now cheaper to make domestic solar hot water with PV and a resistive heater than it would be to use solar thermal collectors (although a heat pump water heater would be cheaper still). PV has gotten THAT cheap.
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Who asked you to choose this engine over Godot, Unity or Unreal? And why would others make a choice for you? Such a choice would only be up to you based on your own requirements, nobody else can make that choice.

Also this post is really about showing off an engine made in Rust, a "hack" so to speak. You are in Hacker News where people post (usually technical) things that others might find interesting - but not necessarily useful. Consider we get posts about people writing software for retro computers, just for the fun of it.
Not long ago there was a similar discussion here because

> PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24450828

And one of the top comments said:

> PayPal gets a list of banned strings from the Office of Foreign Asset controls. If any match those strings it's flagged for a review.
Take a look at 29:40 in Carmack's video. The Quest 1 link was running at just 150mbps due to encoder limitations and it apparently ran on a USB 2 cable and you didn't even need their fancy long USB 3 cable. Sounds like there's a lot more available encoder bandwidth on the Quest 2, so I'm hoping link will end up almost as good as traditionally wired VR.
> Apple refused to implement 16 web API in Safari

OK and these APIs don’t stop real work.

> And that' s why big players like Apple hat control a closed ecosystem shouldn't be allowed to be assholes

And putting all that power into the hands of a single browser will not end well, so stop promoting Chrome or saying other browsers should be like Chrome. FF isn’t going to win.

> At least on Android I can install other browsers and other browser engines
Do you see the difference?

Yes, next question, do I care?

> that' s not true

100% true, read the dev blogs and understand the WM on linux is fundamentally different than windows or mac, therefore rendering is not exactly the same.

Standards help align, they do not force alignment. If safari implemented a p element as a span, then this is not following the spec. Choosing not to implement a portion of a modular spec, is still following the spec.
> total is known Int, so there is no need to run-time look up `+=` (which python does).

Total is known Int or any valid subclass. You can do a bit better for this particular example since it's possible to determine that it falls back to the built-in range (assuming that hasn't been shadowed or otherwise monkeyed with), but any language with operator overloading and without sealed classes has to do _something_ here. It doesn't have to be as expensive as a blind run-time lookup per se, but it's not totally trivial either.

> xs is known List[Int]

Same problem here with list subclasses (though once it was verified it was the built-in list you might have optimization opportunities that fit within the language's semantics -- I'm not 100% certain it isn't possible to redefine the thing you're iterating over in a way that might inhibit optimizations)

> cutting down on the pointer indirection would be a start

Even the problem of List[Int] being an array of pointers rather than an array of integers is kind of hard to cut back on when you consider that integers can consume unbounded space.

There are some things that can be done and still preserve a pythonic look and feel (as evidenced by many cython projects), but I think optimizing pure python is hard, especially when trying to make small changes that benefit most code (like changing how the interpreter handles lists of integers) rather than examining the effects of larger chunks of code.