skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be a combination of tide, wave, wind and solar power on a floating platform.

It's not really clear what the benefits of combining all of them are - you end up compromising in every direction. The wind turbines in the illustration are comically small - wind power increases with the square of the rotor diameter and the cube of the wind speed - which is why modern wind offshore turbines are absolutely massive. They can extract so much more energy from the wind.

There's enough challenges in just solving wave or tidal power on their own - it seems like a waste of effort to try to do everything in one package.
Curious, did you think of moving also the repos and reviews to Phabricator, as I recall WMF using that for task management?
That is WILD. Thanks!
That's certainly fair, especially if the password is then set to some variation of "password"...

Although for some devices if you can root it, you probably also know methods of securing it.
I wonder how gerrit compares to reviewboard (https://www.reviewboard.org/)
It's somewhat understandable; on Ars, you can go to comments view and expand the full story, then forget you're actually on the comments.
HHVM got very little community adoption and never had strong promises to stay compatible with the rest of the PHP ecosystem.
Remote First: Can You Follow the Yellow Brick Road?
> Electron (MIT licence)

It's not 100% MIT. Chromium's Blink renderer has LGPLv2.1 code going back to the KDE KHTML days, such as some of the code for the DOM:

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/master/third_party...

Very rough way of going about it, but searching for files with copyright headers crediting KDE shows 832 files

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/search?l=C%2B%2B&q=kde....
Crickets in Moscow? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/science/sonic-attack-cuba...
Wanted to see redistribution rules, and was surprised to see there is no license anywhere for the binaries...
The closest thing I found is "copyright" file inside .deb:

Copyright: 2020 The Pyston Team <support@pyston.org>
License: Closed source, all rights reserved.

I guess it means no one should be touching the file, as they haven't even granted access to run it.
This is only the second-worst way to use C++.

The worst way is to emulate Java, putting everything in derived classes with virtual functions, and trafficking in shared_ptr. We call that Java Disease.

Using C++ as a "better C" leaves almost all the potential benefit on the table, leaving you hardly more productive than you were in C. Coding C++ as C++, you can be worlds more productive, making the compiler do most of your work for you, and leaving the bugs behind in the code you didn't need to write.
I'll be curious to see whether they even use GitLab user auth. For Gerrit (and Phabricator), Wikimedia already requires contributors to have a dev account on Wikimedia's LDAP system: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Create_a_Wikimedia_...
"Timely" is the key word when observing the battle between China and the USA.

China announced sanctions on Boeing's defense arm (among other companies) about a day before Boeing reported earnings.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/10/26/china-to-sancti...

Either there is a great amount of double-dealing going on behind the scenes, or both sides care more about optics than actually emerging victorious over their adversary.
Would you consider "The Communist Manifesto" to be part of Marxism? If not, why not?

And if yes, well, it ends by calling for the "forcible [presumably violent] overthrow of all existing social conditions". That has, in practice, resulted in totalitarianism every time it's been tried.

Now, you could say that there's a lot more to Marxism than that. And you'd be right. But "forcible overthow" is inherently part of it. And as long as it is, a bunch of us aren't willing to even touch the whole package, because we see it as having a bomb in it.
"The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed."

-- Balzac

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/09/fortune-crime/
Please don't go and do something crazy to pursue some kind of Forbes Magazine exit... "what if we did Artifact, but for the corporate training market." or VC bullshit. This is a genuinely important company to exist and you can make millions or tens of millions dollars doing it, I hope no VC invests to try to get billions out of it.
Ah, my bad, it seems this was the case for K&R C but the behavior was since standardized.
The git-review [1] tool makes it trivial to interface with Gerrit (it's likely packaged for your distro, see [2]). I've found many people struggling with Gerrit don't know about it and it has made their life significantly easier. It handles all the magic of pushing to refs so that you never need to know about it. You drop a .gitreview in your project and then your work-flow is literally

$ git checkout -b my-feature-branch
$ emacs ... <edit edit edit>
$ git add -i ...
$ git commit
$ git review
read reviews, edit
$ git add -i ...
$ git commit --amend
$ git review # push new change revisions

You can download an upstream change to use locally with "git review -d 123456"

[1] https://docs.openstack.org/infra/git-review/
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/git-review
Mikhail Gorbachev Believes ‘Dallas’ Partly Responsible for Soviet Union Collapse
Can you expand on the costs? Any numbers to share?
Good C is bad C++.
Thanks. Not sure why Stripe thinks that they have a recognisable logo.
I wonder this as well but outside the HN community. I don’t think many folks I know still attribute Google with the flakiness that this community does.
NZ Courts to determine extradition of Kim Dotcom, Mega Upload founder, next week
I don't know about those other features, but that definitely does not include the container registry.
Part of it is also AMD segmenting their gaming cards (RDNA) from their compute-focussed cards (CDNA).
It further highlights how Bitcoin has failed to deliver on any of the heavily advertised changes. Most people do not use Bitcoin and if you talk to to the few who do they almost inevitably are using something like this which keeps all transactions in a real currency.

The reason you should care about that is a pure fiat currency like Bitcoin only has value with other people who agree. Using USD for all real transactions means that merchants continue to have no reason to take on the additional risk and expense of directly accepting it. It lets some speculators cash out but it's not contributing to the growth of the system or give anyone who hasn't already bought in a reason to do so.
Suicide in Japan
I love the ones that show a big notice like "Your country is very important to us....you're blocked".
I think it's pretty clear that's exactly what we're doing.

BASIC on a 6502, Ruby on a VM atop an AMD Ryzen or some such.
Amazon Argues Users Don't Own Purchased Prime Video Content
I created a similar service Kontxt (https://kontxt.io) that converts PDFs to websites with Google Doc like shareable controls and inline annotations: highlights, comments (with @mentions & deep-links to page-parts), polls, and auto-scroll navigation.
iPhone 12 camera module is paired to phone and can only be replaced by Apple
I agree with you.

My partner left her phone home the other night when we went out to run errands. It felt like a pretty big step on her part.

I've been considering reformatting my phone and installing a bare minimum of add-on apps. Feels cleaner, and I have way too many apps on my phone to go and delete them individually.
Until everyone started wearing Apple watches ...
I genuinely don’t get the Dart hate, especially when TypeScript is the alternative. They are so similar.

But this is exactly what happened to Angular. There is a TypeScript version (fairly popular) and a Dart version (barely used outside of Google but is used for some of their biggest money making projects like AdWords).

I’ve only recently discovered Dart having come from Ruby land for the last 8 years and I could easily see Dart becoming my new go-to language in the future.

I think it’s currently criminally underrated and sadly doesn’t have a huge amount of adoption outside of Flutter at the moment but I’m looking to build my next serious web backend with it.

If you’re looking for a good introduction as to why I think it’s such a good language this video does a decent job of explaining the benefits https://youtu.be/J5DQRPRBiFI
This is false, none of AMD’s scalars have beat DLSS1.0’s quality, or the substantial improvement brought by DLSS2.0
The moon is getting further away, but slowing down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_acceleration#Quantitativ...
As-in-beer freedom.
A History of the Russian Bathhouse
No one is conflating consciousness with mysticism other than you here. It's not about feeling special like I'm sure you think it is. It's about a phenomenon that science cannot explain, and to think that it is explained by some low-resolution correlations or "intuitive" associations is indeed damaging what science stands for. This attitude is religious faith at its best (or worse).
As far as nature based solutions go, this study on the potential for afforestation is a good place to start: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.14887/. Simply put, there isn't enough land to plant enough trees to get us out of this mess. That doesn't mean that planting trees isn't useful, I think the paper makes a good case for why it's cost effective and buys time, but it isn't enough alone.

My personal take is that the cheap carbon credits are indeed a more cost effective use of money right now, but it's low hanging fruit that we will run out of soon.
Apple developing search engine to compete with Google: report
This is called "vasovagal syncope". [1] Certain emotional triggers, including the sight of blood, cause the brain to command the cardiovascular system to lower blood pressure. In some people this reflex is strong enough to cause loss of consciousness due to the decreased blood pressure.

There's a number of competing theories as to why this happens, possibly an evolved response to help control bleeding or vestigial tonic immobility (feigning death to hide from predators). [2] Either way, it's kinda fascinating.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflex_syncope#Vasovagal

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5135249/
Does that standard also apply to services like, for example, GitHub? Do you think that we shouldn't ever question if Microsoft would start kicking off open source projects for arbitrary reasons?
> And in any case since Unreal and Unity are integrating DLSS and other "GameWorks RTX" features more and more games will be able to implement them with essentially just a toggle.

That integration (UE4) comes uses the watermarked dll. Unusable until you get explicitly whitelisted by Nvidia. Only a few tens of games have been whitelisted.
If conservatives acted like progressives, this post would be flagged.
For the day to day user products I can see that not impacting sales much. But is their unwillingness to commit hurting GCP adoption? The people who would participate in adopting GCP (except in corporate environments) are people who might also frequent here.
We still need to fund those project, to make them able to be scaled and have ridden their learning curve when we have decarbonized our energy systems.
Because the study says this is the most effective wavelength.
You forgot the end:

- A true tech company arrives in the market

- They iterate faster

- Hire the few good members of your IT team, leaving you with the truly outdated ones

- Market share erodes

- "In this tough economy, we all have to make sacrifices"

- IT gets its budget slashed
What is Nest Secure? Is this what people call the "Nest" or some subsystem of it?
AMD had more powerful GPUs for compute than NVidia for all but the last 2 cycles, and yet it didn't materialize.
>Embedded doesn’t need wayland nor X.org

It depends. In this particular case, the demo seems to contain a launcher which allows to start multiple apps and switch between them. A window manager sounds preferable in this case.

Also, Flutter handles all of the Wayland/X11 implementation details. In this case it's less work to just use the already-existing backend.
That's just being silly.
With face id and the battery they claim it's about security and safety. How is this anything other than preventing repair?

If you don't let people fix your device you can not claim you care about the environment. Not including a charger is about making more money and nothing more.
Well, that's my point. If you can't detect it, it's not a difference.
On the contrary, Wayland is very much in the spirit of Unix & Linux philosophy, while X11 isn't. Wayland is an attempt to do one thing and do it well, hence why it doesn't have solutions for things like clipboard management. Because that's not part of display management & composition. Wayland only does that one thing.

By contrast the common complaint about Wayland is that it doesn't have the vast variety of unrelated features rammed into it like X does.

Part of the problem here then is that there's A) no big pushes for 'does one thing & does it well' for all the other X features (like clipboard or global keyboard shortcuts), and B) fragmented implementations of the wayland protocol. There really should have been a much better, and more singular, reference implementation that Gnome, KDE, etc... all just embedded instead. Which means the "does it well" part is taking a really long time, as developer communities are split up.
Is wlroots still incompatible with Nvidia hardware?
A tiny bit of lacquer grounded new Falcon 9 rockets for a month
> ... it's clear their intent was not to allow two or three megacorps to act in partisan ways by blocking access to journalism

From roywiggins' post earlier[1], a direct quote from one of the authors of 230:

"The first is that Section 230 does not require political neutrality."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24923980
I think they also fall into the "Seeing like a State" fallacy where they like to rank things that are measurable. So they look at things heavily like water consumption and cleaning ability, which are easy to measure, but not "long-term stinkiness of the gasket" which are hard to measure. But having a stink when you open the door makes you feel disgusting about your clothes, regardless of the stain removing ability or how little water it used.
Lua is not uncommon on embedded devices, even the slow industrial kind, as opposed to "embedded" devices with desktop- and server-class processors.

Independent of fancy algorithms, GC complexity, cost, and latency are straight-forward functions of the number of managed objects. It's not uncommon to use a "glue" language like Lua in a manner where the runtime only juggles a small number of objects, which in turn encapsulate and manage most of the application data independent of the garbage collector. Even in applications with complex, cyclic object graphs (i.e. the ones were GC makes sense), you can usually push the problematic edges into a small number of GC'd objects. Language GC (mark & sweep, reference counting, etc) can at least in principal provide a zero marginal cost benefit.

Java, JavaScript, and Python reflect poorly on the usability of GC because they're extremely object heavy and weren't designed with embedding in mind. Scalars and aggregates didn't figure prominently into their design, including C FFI (to the extent C FFI was even a consideration of their original language semantics). And they're too liberal with heap allocation in both their semantics and implementation, inducing unnecessary object churn.
Sure it is, thats the whole point of it. But nobody knows who I am.
Tyler Cowen's Debate with Eric Weinstein
I think this is beautiful idea and thank you sharing the link to the short film.

And yes, the little things are in fact the big things.
I agree with the second part of your statement, but I think being alone in acting in your own best interest still holds. Good projects such as those are a result of many similarly aligned self-interests.

I'll admit I was being a bit dramatic, and as you have pointed out it's certainly more complex than a single sentence. I was trying to highlight that blindly trusting another human or organization can leave you vulnerable.
Mine shipped today, think 10/30 is the official release date
And when you consider the probable sheer social consequences of those severe lockdowns in France, that number is absurdly little to brag about. I mean, really? 585 vs. 539? One country that maintained a policy of normalizing extreme emergency authoritarianism and extreme social isolation (with all its likely consequences to health issues both mental and physical) is only very marginally "better" than another that at least showed a willingness not to treat its citizens like cattle, and you consider this worthy of hailing for a comparison?

There are also a number of countries which have done worse than Sweden despite extreme lockdown measures, so either way, it's far too early to jump to rigid conclusions on what was justifiable for which prices.
I am surprised. The system I use is someone else work. I've brought nothing, got it for free.

Demanding users I see looks like spoiled web users. They expect free services, they pay with privacy or are clever enough not to pay (adblock). But Free Software does not sell their data.

Or they compare to Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS, quite profitable companies. But Free Software does not acquire telemetry, does not sell hardware or bundled services. There are some private companies (Red Hat, Canonical, Mozilla), their difference from my industry (web development) is they ship source.
https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython RustPython is still in active development, I don't know how compatible they are though
Thanks. I completely agree with the bikeshedding. We're playing with Prometheus/Grafana + ELK, and being able to visualise all this data, its hard to work out what is useful and what is just fun to play with.

I'm now wondering where the line is between necessary monitoring and bikeshedding? I could look at introducing distributed tracing, but will it actually add any meaningful value?
That's because they haven't quite done this to any of their big consumer products or their core features.

Anecdotally I know some people who express irritation at the rotating plethora of messaging apps. I also know some mildly inconvenienced by the whole Google Play Music/Youtube Music nonsense, although I never got the impression that GPM was a market leader in the streaming space.
Natural gas is dirt cheap in the US. Except in extremely dense urban environments with the physical plant already in place (NYC is the only one I can think of), it just would never pay back financially to use district heating. And if greenness/efficiency is the goal, using extremely efficient heat pumps and solar are probably a bigger win in most areas of the U.S.
Yeah, but it matters disproportionately to early adopters. If a brand becomes toxic with early adopters it never gets in front of anyone else. Except through acquisition, I suppose.

Cloud compute is an even starker example: Google lost the second-mover cloud space to Microsoft and they lost it because the relevant decision-makers knew Google's reputation.
I am going to advocate the other way:

https://qbix.com/blog/2020/01/02/the-case-for-building-clien...
> It isn't that people don't think they are being spied on.

> It is that people don't really care that they are being

> spied on.

Well, my experience is that people care but don't have an idea on how they could change that. They feel powerless, have no idea what to do, and they are apathic. They accept their shackles like they deserve it. They know they are abused but since they are human, they use coping mechanisms to continue using apps they believe are actually not so nice for them.

Of course they have thoughts like "actually, my picture is not private anymore", but for their sanity of mind they carry on because of network effects/ease of use/etc. They choose to push those thoughts off, as they are outside of their control. To us, it might sound like they just don't care. That's wrong!

At least, that is what I conclude after talking with non-techies about this stuff.

I am sure you can sell privacy as a big plus, but you need to deal with above aspects as well.
Well, I mean, they're presumably also keeping all of the messages you ever sent (for "quality assurance" purposes of course), so the privacy aspect certainly can't be the point of contention here.

The bandwidth usage on the other hand is a different question, this essentially allows a reflection-style DoS against any HTTP server hosting large-ish files. Presumably you can stick nonsense query parameters after the URL just to create distinct URLs for the single largest file you found?
The case for building web apps client-first
Probably plausible; that's basically what happens with the particulate matter from volcanic activity just on a finer scale i think.

On the flip side if we had a big volcanic eruption do we have any way to scrub particulate matter on a large enough scale to prevent catastrophic cooling?
I have yet to see evidence that Wayland has less artifacts/tearing than X.
Wayland does not has such a thing: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-T...
Also Wayland probably has less support for adaptative sync (which is the biggest feature regarding what you call a perfect frame)
The usual way to fix these sorts of things is to ensure there are multiple independent barriers to fraud. 2 factor authorization is an example. Double entry bookkeeping is another. Independent audits is another. Separate checks for unusual activity is another.
Go with a vendor that's serious about comprehensive security.[1][2] Google/Nest just imports the hardware from China anyway. Cut out the middleman and buy direct.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/PhilteqHikvision/videos/35218484261...

[2] https://youtu.be/-gAUW5tW4eQ
It's not perfect, but maxing a single core for 20 seconds on an older smartphone is a necessary evil for this kind of captcha.

The alternative: loading a third party script and multiple images (~2MB) to label for ReCAPTCHA and spending time performing the task also takes some battery (and mental) power.
> and there will be many conversations about how stubborn BSD (and Windows/Mac) designers are for not aligning to earlier decisions made on their behalf.

Windows & Mac are already on exclusively Wayland-style compositors, they made that transition years & years ago (Vista was Microsoft's transition, for example, which was 13 years ago now). Why would they have any issues here?
I don't think we'll get to 0, nor do we need to. We do need to get our net emissions to 0 though, or even drive it negative for a while.

I'm such a fan of carbon taxes. If the market doesn't account for externalities, then price them in with taxes. Then the market will solve climate faster than any amount of regulation or wishful thinking. That's an excellent use of state power. Or governments or our people are too shortsighted or stupid I think it's fair to say in this case to see that. I'm not entirely sure which it is, maybe both.

Working on carbon sequestration instead is also silly. I mean it's a typical engineer response of ignoring the messy regulatory and political world and trying to build our way out of the problem. But we need to focus on both, working on one approach does not preclude the other.
AMD is segmenting to Gaming (RDNA) and Compute (CDNA) - CDNA is essentially a continuation of Vega, which was a beast for compute.