skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe in your good intentions regarding this conversation. Why? Well because you constructed this straw man argument that I meant literally no one in Poland cares about the Western SJW values. It is obvious that you will find people like that - usually among 'grievance studies' graduates, or heavy social-media users that tend to become infected with the 'woke culture'.

Regarding misogyny, sure we have it here. Same with misandry, but somehow only the first issue is important according to the church of SJW.

Xenophobia is not an issue when you realise that Poland in the last years issued more residence permits to non-EU immigrants than any other country in the EU.

From what I see, you do what usually woke people do - they take some issue, fetishise it, misrepresent by a factor of 10 or 100, then claim whoever doesn't agree with their view is a fascist. And in the meantime people in Poland live everyday lives, not caring about all that stuff. Half a century of soviet propaganda made us more immune to the progressive socialist propaganda than most societies, I suppose.
If only. Also cocaine and marijuana, and of course all the excess coffee. I'd say almost half of people in the industry use something.
New Software Supply Chain Attack Dataset on GitHub
No, we just found a new way to identify exo planets. Specifically large Jupiter like ones. Though feasibly the methodology could be used to identify other types of exo planets as well.
Do I read the table on https://www.anandtech.com/show/16315/the-ampere-altra-review... incorrectly?

To me, it says they have a system with 32 CPUs at 1.7 GHz for $800, and a whole range between $2,200 and $4,050.
I really like Vonnegut and the 8 stories idea is nice, but I’m not convinced that he has covered all of the bases here, at least not according to the summary infographic. Two of the shapes (‘Man in Hole’ and ‘Boy meets Girl’) are actually the same. ‘New Testament’ and ‘Cinderalla’ also have the same shape (good-things-bad-things-good-things) but are step functions rather than smooth curves. The exception shape (‘which way is up’) I parse as ‘It’s complicated’ and is a repeated set of ups and downs.

Perhaps, at this level of shape, it’s a bit like saying that all software is just a variation on CRUD.
It doesn't really matter, you're still going to shop there anyway. They're making hand over fist in cash, the absolutely insignificant amount of people who even care don't really matter and are offset by new happy customers every single day, why change anything at all?
If pay to use is the only model, lots of developers would only target developed countries.
Copy on read doesn't even make sense, since a copy is a read.

Most problems people ascribe to reference counting have way more to do with excessive memory allocation and instead of fixing that problem and getting massive speedups of 7x or more, people try to fiddle with memory management schemes to gain 5% here or there at the expense of large unpredictable pauses.
We've reached a pretty sad point when whether a multi-billion dollar corporation gets to spy on millions (billions?) of people is decided by another multi-billion dollar corporation. It feels like we're moving closer every day to the cyberpunk trope of privatized everything, no government, and corporations running the show. Our governments are not doing their jobs.
Supreme Court: All Brazilians are required to be vaccinated against Covid-19
I think it is a different use, not a ”misuse”. I am ok with it
Why Rome Tools Isn't Ready to Replace Eslint, Webpack and Babel Yet
It's not always 100% correct, but when asking why someone didn't do the "right" thing you can usually answer with "their material conditions."
I've worked for a company that specializes in blocking certain websites for certain people (porn blocking stuff). The company used MitM-attacks with a custom TLS certificate, just like the Kazakh government uses.

There's two ways to deal with certificate pinning. The first is to apply SNI sniffing (which will work until eSNI makes its way into more software) to determine that a certain domain is related to a certain, permissible service and bypass the decryption filter. This can be coupled with certificate validation to prevent domain fronting.

The second method requires rooting the device and using a tool like Frida to automatically disable any validation checks. On Android and iOS there are special APIs to do certificate pinning but not all apps leverage them.

Many apps will also work fine if you install the CA to the system partition instead of using the user store. App developers often don't know that certificate authorities are even a thing that can be managed by the user, let alone that the set can be extended, so most apps use the default setting, which has been to only trust system certificates. This was changed back during the release of Android 7, before that time all apps defaulted to trusting user-installed certificates.

The third option, which any company or government can take to get off easily, is to blame the app for trying to break your righteous surveillance and to leave the apps broken. Netflix can be made to work any time, all they need to do is release a patch that disables certificate pinning, so if the government can get the public to blame the apps, they get off scot free.

The first method works transparently to applications. The second requires physical access to the device and rooting the OS, which can be impossible. The third only works if the people you're surveilling take your side. I'd guess they pick option 1 or 3.
To expand on the headline: "According to a government statement after the decision, those who fail to prove they have been vaccinated may have their rights, such as welfare payments, public school enrolment or entry to certain places, curtailed."
Rare earths aren't the big deal everyone thinks they are. Rare earths are more or less evenly distributed across the planet but do not form ores so you can't mine them efficiently. There is nothing about it that only China can do, they just do it the cheapest, in part because they do it an a more polluting fashion.

Yes there would be massive supply socks if we lost access to the Chinese market but they would stabilize (at a higher price) in time. This is different than something like a modern CPU which China cannot produce at any price.
I use firefox on mobile. AMP is completely unusable - I can't use google news anymore.
Do you have any evidence to back these allegations?
>Though this and AI may allow us to map out forest flora (fauna will avoid them)

Or map out and chase poachers
Yup! Martin Fowler mentioned them because they were one of the first people making automated refactoring tools. That sold me on their IDE, and I've been a happy user ever since 2001. Thee days I have the personal version of their all-you-can-eat license and it has always been worth the money.

I'm delighted that their smarts and dedication in building a high-quality, user-focused product has paid off in a big way for them.
Every president since we've had drones has killed more people with drones than the last guy. Bit early to call it a trend I guess, since we only armed the things toward the end of Bush's last term, but still seems worrying.
I can't see a good reason to assume an alien civilization would be industrial to begin with, whatever discovery path might lead one there.

And I don't even mean they could be underwater creatures etc., which is also a possibility.

Imagine Earth as we know it, inhabited by humans as we know them, but no fossil fuels (due to a different geological history), very few metal ores (making every metal as scarce as, say, platinum) - and you're stuck in an eternal stone age, possibly with more advanced social organization, but never getting beyond our ancient or medieval standards.
You entangle two systems but in order to actually complete the teleportation you need to measure one system and then convey the outcome of that measurement to the other party. This information is needed by the second party in order for them to be able to correctly collapse the state of their system into one that is identical to the original system being teleported. The information that the first party must convey to the receiving party must be sent in a classical way (e.g. a phone call).
They're also one of the best IT employers in Moscow and St Petersburg, and guys working there create a lot of value for IT community both local, and russian-speaking in general. You don't even have to work there to feel the impact on the whole programming culture here.
Maybe that was the case for some people, but personally I hadn't been paying any attention to the game. I like to go in with minimal knowledge. Helps keep story elements a surprise and I'm not let down about things getting cut.

I only ended up buying the game so soon after release because CD Projekt Red is well known in the PC gaming space and because I saw a bunch of friends playing it (which I guess means I got swept up in the tail end of the hype?)

Cyberpunk made me remember why I normally wait to buy games. I played it for under 2 hours before requesting a refund. It only performed decently on a GTX 1080 when set to look like a 10+ year old game and the mouse input was atrocious. Felt like there was both input lag and acceleration. Also the dialogue selection controls were pretty stupid. Q/E to navigate up and down? Why not W/S? Or even better, direct selection with number keys. (I know it sounds minor, but if I'm going to be making many dialogue choices during the game, it should be ergonomic)
Then please explain to me why people who don't care who the studio is are eager to shell out 50 bucks or more on yet non-existing product that won't exist for months or years, instead of waiting for an actual review?

Ie would you pay for a Bosch refrigerator 10 months before its release and delivery just because they wrote about it someplace? A bit ridiculous idea, don't you think?

You know, like we do with everything else we buy these days? (At least I don't just blindly buy stuff on a whim, and I don't think I am the only one)
I'm really lucky we got fiber connected a few weeks ago, I'm in the Netherlands so broadband is pretty decent overall, but in rural area's connection options lag behind. I tried the game Control streaming demo on a Switch on my previous connection (15/1Mbit DSL with 30/30Mbit 4G backup, avg 30-50ms ping) and though it did work, but it was far from how I experience Cyberpunk now. I wouldn't have bought into streaming gaming with that connection.
"knock knock" "who's there?"
Pffffffft I am resisting my natural tendency to get very angry at reading this. Sales is a profession where the top 1% of earners are like lottery winners and the bottom 99% of earners are like customer service.

In software engineering, the gains are much more equally distributed and the contribution to society is more valuable.
Many of those frustrations are with people or processes put in place that one can't change.

It's why many of us try to rise up the ladder to get some level of "control" in a company to fix those frustrations. But then many miss solving the problems they previously worked on and realize that creating change isn't so easy after all.

So that leaves us in search for a company that one can be themselves, provides a feeling of accomplishment, and creates happiness. That's a tough mix to find.

For me, the only solution to this problem has been to start a company of my own. Sure it brings it's own problems, but the satisfaction and happiness it brings is well worth it.
I've heard this advice many times over the years, and I guess I've really just never committed myself to meditation as a regimen. I can keep a fitness routine very well, I think that's as close I get with my brain to that place of reflection.

Did you have any like, significant trauma to deal with when you started meditating? I have some things in my past that I feel the need to run from when I am still and quiet in my mind.
> CDPR didn't create the hype. Witcher 3 did that.

Really? I've never played that Witcher game at all, but Keanu Reeves had caught my attention to Cyberpunk.
Primarily Unity and Godot, some GameMaker/Mono/Unreal.

My gripes:

* Breaking changes between versions.

* Semi-implemented features riddled with bugs, later deprecated by more of the same (see above).

* Obscure editor bugs arbitrarily popping up as project grows (like old NT Windows).

* Dependency on third parties, despite the game engine already doing everything under the sun.

* Drag and drop asset management with the occasional corruption causing complete reimport/setup.

* Proprietary languages, formats and workflows.

* GUI first.

Ebiten is a small, consistent API that solves just about the amount of problems you don't want to worry about. The website is clear and direct, the examples help to demonstrate pretty much everything. Single install, no dependency headaches.

Anecdotally, it's in line with my general experience with most things Go. I spend most of my time programming, instead of fighting against frameworks and runtimes, fixing problems I didn't create.
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Doesn't the fact that it's John Carmack doing this somewhat disprove your theory?

There's something to be said for writing where your audience is. Carmack isn't a blogger and doesn't often write longer posts.
Mostly off-topic :) but socialism cannot be "radical leftism" - because you're left like that without any "non-radical leftism" options. Is it left? Sure. But I'd use the labels "radical" for anarchism or marxism.
Does IntelliJ Ultimate include their C# functionality from Rider, as well? I used to use IntelliJ Ultimate, but I don't remember it including C# support.
Counting Software Supply Chain Attacks – It's Hard [pdf]
There was a time when corps pushed the idea that you'd need permission to link to their content, where does this begin/end? seems to me there should be some control on behalf of the user wrt to how data is displayed: It maybe your content, but it's running on my hardware; you say "3rd party not allowed to run ads, only us" I say "my hardware, you aren't allowed to run ads either".
Jetbrains is one of the few tool vendors that do not have to aggressively market their way into our tech stacks. That alone is a key indication of how good and useful their products are. Great that this is rewarded. I really hope that they will stay this way and grow organically rather than with force.

(Long-term user/customer here. I am using IntelliJ since like version 2 (with some gaps).)
The addreall comment blew me away too. When did smart people start taking PEDs?

My guess is that software development is a field where it is more common for folks with the ADHD hyperfocus to excel, but if there is a problem brewing it should be addressed.
Friendly reminder that in the 12th century central governments didn't have enough power for these kinds of shenanigans and the best they could do was get a crusade going which was massively taxing on the population and not at all sustainable.
For some reason storefronts don't seem to understand that when they all do this, it just pushes me to do my shopping through Amazon or some other online "everything store." I'm currently shopping for a new sofa, but the experience of finding reviews and going to individual sites is just so painful. I'm having to dismiss 1 or 2 modal pop-ups per page view AND dismiss a cookie notification bar. It's enough to make a man just go to WayFair instead, but then I'm never sure if I'm getting decent stuff or something off Wish at a 30% markup.

There is absolutely no pleasure in "surfing" the web anymore. If we still use the surfing analogy, it's like trying to surf but being swarmed by seagulls and jumping fish any time you get out into the water.
I'm immediately reminded of the "drones" in Half-Life 2. It really seems like the dystopia is here already.
If that were the definition of "government" then the word would lose all meaning, because it it generalizes to any collection of people in the world.

What I meant by "random" was that they aren't accountable to anyone but themselves, come from all walks of life, don't require anyone to allow them to engage and contribute, and completely self-organize. Most groups of people do not do all those things. And it really doesn't apply to government.
No. Long range quantum networking means that guarantees on the security of communication between quantum computers in the network can be made. Short range means that quantum compute clusters can be made, to make quantum computers that can process more qubits.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_network
> It just doesn't run on consoles. It's a very inferior experience, unless you're the type who can be happy with 2020 movies in .3gp format in your old Nokia phone.

Well, or if you're the type of person who can be happy playing Doom or The Witcher 3 on Switch. Which I assume is a substantial number of people—they keep porting those types of games to the Switch, which means someone has to be buying them.

Watching the Digital Foundry analysis, the main thing I'm wondering is if they should have allowed the dynamic resolution to scale down further at the low-end—for instance, let it go to 540p on the base PS4 and/or to 720p on the PS4 Pro. This, again, seems to have been the key to getting games like The Witcher 3 on Switch.
Absolutely agree. The amount of value that Jetbrains software provides far exceeds its price. Their existence is a net benefit to the whole software development field.
Why Windows Me deserves more respect (2008)
No really, it force you into pure, functional patterns. Frameworks build on top of JAX have done a lot of experiments to find a good way to deal with states while keeping the code clean and not too magicy.

Their is no clear best pattern at the moment. My favorite would be Flax and their recent Linen API which is a refined effort that pays off when using their framework.
I'm not sure what the New York Times app would give me that AMP wouldn't.
Thanks for the hint, indeed my big mistake was not keeping emotions in check. I think the mistake was driven by: 1) they are relatives of mine 2) Covid19 is a tough topic, so politically manipulated that it hurts me to know that people are actually dying from misinformed decision making. Your suggestion also reminds me of the book never split the difference (saw it recommended on HN few times), about a hostage negotiator sharing his lessons learned. one was keeping your voice calm like that of a night dj. hard but probably the most strategic thing to do!
No, while entanglement acts instantaneously across a large distance, there's no way for that "signal" to carry any information. In order to complete the teleportation the two parties must somehow communicate in order to convey an additional piece of information. This communication would be classical and slower than light.
The user seems to be posting about UX and navigability rather than ad tracking. Wikipedia's banner ads that take up an entire browser window before you can scroll down to the content is definitely a good example of that.
Yup. Finding out that Big Sur phones home every time one opens an application is a showstopper for me, never mind Apple's ever-changing ports and its campaign against the right to repair.

We've also already seen that Microsoft considers ARM systems to be "special" enough to require locked bootloaders as well. Don't get me started on the mess in the smartphone world. I'd hate to see a world where the only "open" computing revolves around either Raspberry Pi-class SBCs or expensive datacenter servers, with no middle ground.
Not only could we send those kinds of signals, we already have done it using the Arecibo Telescope (RIP), which h̶a̶s̶ had EIRPs ranging from 200 megawatts to 22,000,000 megawatts depending on the transmission frequency. In 1974, we beamed a short message to the Messier 13 globular cluster with a transmission power of just under half a megawatt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message
Agreed, there is a perverse attitude where people jump into Python for the “it just works!” mentality, and hate the idea of type annotations.
I don't think a bunch of little business are going to manage the kind of global reach sought here.
SW people are well payed to provide RoI for their company. If you get the opportunity to do something you like then that's great. But ultimately SW people left to their own devices will never ship product. This is why you have people like Program Managers and people managers to drive the product and the resources to deliver to schedule. Processes like Agile and SCRUMs are there to stop SW people from getting wayward and failing to deliver. It's how the business maintains control of their investments (i.e. SW developers).
> remaking the web as a consumer portal, not an open platform for information exchange and creativity

True, but that assumes without google, that's what we have. In fact, many of the content providers themselves don't want free exchange, every website trying to be it's own walled garden.

If google can force the hand of those trying to lock their content in their own formats, there maybe benefit to the clout of google.
For me the main point is that JAX is slightly lower level than Pytorch and has nicer abstraction (no need to worry about tensors that might not store a gradient or wetehr you are on the GPU: it eliminates lots of newcomers bug) which makes it a great fit to build Deep learning frameworks, but also simulations, on top of it.
For me, AlphaZero was the overwhelming proof that a game with a fixed board and a limited set of rules is fundamentally an exercise in pattern recognition and response, not of actual innovation or creativity. This applies every bit as much to chess and go as it does to checkers. I realized that I really didn't want to try to be a better pattern recognizer (aka computer) than other humans, so I stopped playing and put that time toward endeavors that humans actually excel at: creating entirely new things.
Doesn't it only affects like 1% of the general population ? It's an auto immune disease, not a "plants don't want use to eat that" disease. If anything it's the opposite of what you're saying, most people are perfectly evolved to eat seeds, a tiny minority have a genetic issue that makes them unable to.
Just for the record, I don't hate my job. I suspect many others don't. There's a saying that I recommend: either change your organization or change your organization.

I'm sad for this guy that he let the fat checks keep him in misery until he burnt out on the work. I get how it happens, but I don't think it's a good trade. I hope he finds his way back to health.
My advice:

1. Make sure you do what you love to do.

2. Make sure you constantly improve and try to do as good job as is possible.

3. Don't get distracted.

In almost any field, there is always need for people who have deep expertise and can do excellent job. It doesn't matter if you are developer or lawyer or a salesperson or actor. If you do world class job, your prospects are good.

It is hard enough to do something for entire lifetime. It is harder to do something you don't love.

It is hard to find strength to constantly improve in a field you just don't feel particularly interested in.
I think the positive approach (use amp, the page will load faster, which users like) is a good alternative to the negative (downranking). It's not just "make your page faster, or else!", but provides a good solution, too. As I user, I love amp. As a developer, I understand the concerns (though I don't think they materialized in the way HN sentiment goes).
Google says Australian law on paying for news is unworkable