skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinatingly, quite the opposite! For example, the original Macintosh had only a small fraction of that to work with, at 128 Kilobytes![1]

Certainly a modern GUI a la KDE, Gnome and friends would be well outside of its abilities, but a functional GUI is possible on a shockingly small amount of memory!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K
I got to study with Foster at his very last Aestiva Latinitas Romae session, in 2008. (After his illness and retirement, he continued teaching in Wisconsin until last year.) He was a really amazing personality and so humble about probably knowing more Latin than any person in the twentieth century, as well as having had an inside view of decades of world events by writing several different popes' official reactions to them.

He also wrote, among other things, the Vatican ATM UI translation and the Vatican heliport dedicatory plaque.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/thrillho/2360283395 (literally 'please insert card in order to find out what to do')

https://orbiscatholicus.blogspot.com/2008/06/from-vatican-ci...

His death reminds me that he taught us to sing the "In Paradisum" Gregorian chant, which he considered very beautiful. Have a listen in his memory!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7F-N-Yd8dE
I'm only a couple of chapters in, but there's an interesting new book on wood throughout history: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Age-of-Wood/Rolan...

Among the arguments is that wood was far more important to humanity until about the 19th century than any other resource that gets its own age (i.e. stone, bronze, iron). There's some evolutionary biology stuff in it that I find a bit far-fetched, but at least is an original take on things.

If you'd rather just read a review, this one is pretty good: https://newrepublic.com/article/160298/age-wood-roland-ennos...
Something changed in the past 5 years or so. For a while, the American tech press was pretty doting on Alibaba and a lot of people in the west still had the hope that China was going to be a great new frontier for western products and cultural exchange, thanks to the booming middle class.

A lot of that goodwill started getting frittered away as the CCP were involved with events that appeared to threaten freedom/democracy and autonomy both in the China region and around the rest of the world. Just a few off the top of my head...

- 2016 Artificial islands and military bases built in South China Sea

- 2017 Four Corners report on CCP influence operations in Australia

- 2017 HRW report on Uighur reeducation camps

- 2018 Xi Jinping dissolves term limits

- 2018 Two Michaels detained

- 2019 Hong Kong National Security Law and protests

- 2020 Coronavirus

- 2020 Ladakh border skirmishes

There are lots more examples. Meanwhile, citizen journalists are being disappeared and foreign journalists are getting kicked out of the country, which is only making it more difficult to get independent reporting of what is going on.

Personally, I don't think it's so much that there is no positive reporting about China happening in the west any more, it's just that now the more optimistic stuff is balanced out by a more cynical take.
"Recoil: State Management for Today's React - Dave McCabe aka @mcc_abe at @ReactEurope"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ISAA_Jt9kI

Disclaimer: I co-organize the conference
Its not necessary to use complex numbers, its just convenient. Look into Euler's Identity.
In theory there is 1MB of hidden ram, used exclusively by GPU (9th bit). Wiki describes it:

> Differing memory countings are due to the 9th bit only being available to the RCP for tasks such as anti-aliasing or Z-buffering.

afaik there is no way of manually using this ram, its hardwired to fixed function pipeline stages of RCP.
>nothing in the developed western world can hold a candle to the CURRENT genocide of China

Things that the developed Western world are causing are worse though. The UN had repeatedly called the ongoing Yemen situation the largest ongoing humanitarian crisis, killing over 200,000 people with millions facing starvation.

The few mentions this gets generally are only used to demonize Iran when US generals have stated that we could end this war tomorrow if we wanted to. Yet you can claim that nothing the West does can hold a candle to China's acts. That is the aim of the propaganda.

Yes, China is committing atrocities. They are not alone in this and the methods suggested to combat these actions are likely going to cause far more suffering.
The limit of your vocabulary is the limit of your world. If you don’t know about fallacies then you don’t truly understand their existence.
Mitsubishi air source heat pumps maintain ~79% capacity at -22F (check with your local Mitsubishi diamond split dealer for deets).
If you liked the Game of Life running a Game of Life simulation
you might enjoy the YT video[0] showing someone's functioning
raycasting engine within the game world of Factorio using
thousands of machines and parts provided by the game. It blew my
mind.

What I also found quite amusing was the PowerPoint presentation
demonstrating the Turing-completeness of PowerPoint
animations[1].

I'll never get tired of this kind of tinkering walking the line
between genius and a healthy portion of crazy.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28UzqVz1r24

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8
+1 to software/hardware necromancy.

How does a Linux port make it easier to port emulators or console games?

Is this a step towards getting an N64 on a modern (?) stack like qemu+linux?
I am at dismay how few high resolution grayscale LCDs are left there, let alone good reflective ones.

Now, they actually cost more than 20 years ago.
> Certified Unix just means you've paid SCO enough money

Not SCO, the Open Group. The Open Group is a not-for-profit industry consortium that maintains various standards and conformance programs for those standards, among which POSIX and UNIX are probably the most widely-known.

Novell gave the UNIX trademark and test suites to The Open Group; all SCO actually got was the right to sublicense the copyright to the AT&T UNIX software (but not the actual copyright itself). The former is much more important than the later because there are operating systems which pass the test suite (and hence are allowed to use the UNIX trademark) but which aren't based on AT&T-derived code (e.g. macOS, z/OS, EulerOS)

Note that Inspur K-UX you mentioned is no longer a certified UNIX because the vendor failed to pay the renewal fees. The same is true of Solaris.
The price of the false or non-apology
Alternatively, methane is easier to create from Carbon Dioxide. Burning methane in an engine is practical. https://climate.miami.edu/renewable-energy/methane-as-a-fuel...
Sounds like a new field of software engineering in the near future. And I like how the author casually mentions that there's an unexplained "linker" code in the AAA sequence that controls the number of copies to be made, with an implicit assumption that everyone's acting in a good faith. Frankly, if I noticed a strange 20 byte sequence inside the tail of zeros in an executable file, I'd instantly assume it's opcode instructions, probably a function, that gets control by a "jmp" instruction hidden somewhere in the main code.
Are there features in WizFile that make it better than Everything?
Ask HN: What will be the 2021 trends in tech?
What I like about this time of year is that people tend to publish their predictions for the following year. While many of those predictions turn out to be comically wrong, I still find value in identifying some high level patterns in people's thinking.

Can you think of any interesting new trends, or did you come across anyone else's that are worth sharing here? To somewhat narrow the scope, I would suggest that we focus on the tech industry (although that's very very broad these days).
For what it's worth, I don't identify preoccupation with identifying fallacies, or with rhetorical classifications like "bulverism" or "steelmanning" with philosophy. At least, if you take a degree in philosophy I think you'll find that it's very much not like this. In my experience, this approach is much more characteristic of online forum argumentation, and subcultures like new atheism and rationalism. (Case in point: I mean "rationalism" in the LessWrong sense, not the Cartesian sense!) I agree with you that the style is irritating and superficial.
did it have binary data? if so try moving to lfs and running bfg cleaner and watch it shrink even more
texture memory would be difficult to use because n64 doesnt have any, its unified memory arch.
I find those are actually useful from the perspective of being mirrors of content that the real SO has deleted for whatever reason.
Pinterest is very good at SEO and does some things that I have found to be quite interesting.

I posted this before in another post a while ago, but it is still relevant:

“For one of my boards that ranks #1 in Google on some searches I've found that the page Google indexes is quite a bit different than the one I see as a logged-in user.

One of the differences is that they display the text content associated with the pin. This is also used as the image alt text, but then appended with a bunch of keywords.

They also link to other people's boards which have names related to the images so it looks like "tags", but I have the feeling it is probably a mix of keyword stuffing/linking to other content for Google to follow.

The page title is also adjusted to include something like, "237 Best ________ images in 2020" followed by the board name.”
> Apparently, “conformance statements” are different from “registered products”. I guess one is self-reported and the other is externally verified?

Products get dropped from the register if the vendor fails to pay renewal fees. The product no longer appears on the register page, but the page on the product is not taken down and can still be directly accessed. This is what has happened to both Inspur K-UX and Oracle Solaris (and I'm pretty sure a few more over the years).
I see that primarily in heated internet conversations that touch on identity and ego, such as politics and religion (programming language/technology religion included!). On such topics, there very often is bad faith, perhaps more often than not (feels like it!). In such cases, trying to pinpoint the intentions of every participant in every single interaction is exhausting and typically pointless. The solution is to avoid those topics like the plague in the first place, if you have a choice, unless it's with people you trust. In most other cases, you can (and should) productively assume good faith. Usually.
Maybe Craft is a little different than a directory tree, since the directories are external to documents, where Craft documents nest internally.

I agree that markdown in a git repo has quite a bit of flexibility. We use git+markdown for my software team's documentation. I prefer Evernote for my personal notes because of less friction when pasting in embedded images and because of better support for editing and offline access from mobile devices (also because of inertia).
It's nice and all, but it is unlikely to lead to a returning salmon population.

Even if the spawn make it through the dams, they won't be able to come back when they reach spawning age.

They need to invest tons of money in salmon ladders and naturalization, for example, like we are doing in BC. That would be quite the project for the Grand Coulee dam, as I remember it being quite large.

Hopefully this is the first step in the massive commitment that will be needed to restore the salmon population there. The salmon run is such an important part of the ecosystem.
If anything there's individual anecdotal evidence - people able to compare for themselves how their eyes feel using an eink screen vs. backlit; "better for eyes" I believe isn't meant in relation to physical effects (which may exist) but primarily for psychological/biological impact - including sleep patterns, etc.
It did have a keyboard released in Japan

https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Nintendo_64_Keyboard

No idea how realistic it'd be to get it working with Linux.
> Unless I agree that someone's beliefs/opinions/arguments are totally invalid because who they are or who they voted for, I'm also part of the problem..

Look, we've got a bunch of people attacking the foundations of our democracy.

If you voted with them, yeah, you've got a pretty steep climb to convince me that you're not part of the problem.

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."--Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
> TWIW has kind of painted themselves into the corner by insisting that anything except biological evidence is irrelevant.

I definitely don't know enough about this topic to say you're right, but as an avid layman listener of TWIV for 8+ months now, I've recently started thinking along the same lines.

With the greatest of respect, Vincent Racaniello, while being clearly a true expert in the field, tends to take a very quick and polarised view to newly presented evidence, and can often sound like he's being overly dismissive to my layman's ears. To the degree where I end up thinking, "it can't be that black and white".

I get the sense that sometimes the co-hosts would likely go for a more nuanced perspective, and often they do try to soften the edges around some of his opinions, but the podcast is very much his domain.

By the same token, I've often heard him admit that he was wrong. The sign of a good scientist! So there's that.

Being in the UK, and having received head-on the full barrage of "communication" from our Government during COVID, I have learnt to be sceptical of the messages they put out, and defaulted to "cynical" when first hearing their report of the new variant at the end of a recent press conference. The more time goes on though, the evidence does seem to be mounting that we should be looking at this very closely and not dismissing it out of hand.

> The problem is that action now is way more valuable than action in 1-2 months.

Completely agree. We have to use a balance here of scientific evidence, but also strategic thinking - which may not be 100% scientific - and the strategy may be that it's safer to assume this variant is more easily transmissible, and act accordingly, rather than wait for the science to catch up and prove it 100%.

All of that said, re. TWIV - it has been a game-changer of a podcast for me during this pandemic. I thoroughly enjoy listening to the hosts, all of whom are generally good natured, clearly very experienced, and doing a good job overall of science communication. No view on COVID is going to be perfect, and in my view their output is a net positive (by far) even despite the above.
Had similar experiences with games and gaming.

Until now however;

La Noire

Outer Wilds

Command and Conquer Remastered

Broken Sword

And so on

What a time to be alive
Sit eo terra levis.
I don't understand, so you just pick beliefs and ignore that the reasoning behind them may be fallacious? A fallacy might not point you towards the truth, but it can identify when something is not the truth.
They're all just buzzword shortcuts for rapidly dismissing people and arguments we don't like. If we're going to hold arguments up to the standards of pure logic during any mildly subjective debate, one can only conclude that both opponents are wrong and always will be. All that's left after that is the political game of winning over the audience, which is almost certainly the reason the debate has held in the first place.
Kudos for the fascinating article. Since you mentioned security, and the well known trick of sending an ambiguous message that is interpreted differently by different interpreters, I wonder what you might think of enlisting the hackers of the world to help in viral research. Seems as though adversarial thinking skills could come in handy?
Second this. Enjoyed this talk a lot and I’m also enjoying using the Recoil library on my side projects at the moment. Definitely hits a sweet spot for me in terms of productivity and intuitive conceptualisation of what’s happening under the hood.
Right, as do I. And "git fetch", as u801e was saying further up the thread, is perhaps what most people should actually prefer most of the time. Mercurial only has this pure fetch operation (although it calls it pull) and no combined fetch-and-merge operation.

There is no reason fetching and merging have to be connected, so perhaps the most prominent command (as a counterpart to "push") shouldn't be this combined operation.
Except if you read the papers they aren't saying that. You are trying to spread BS here. We can take a look at China where the lockdown worked quiet well.

>Official data from Germany’s RKI agency suggest strongly that the spread of the coronavirus in Germany receded autonomously, before any interventions became effective

>From both sets of modelling, we found that closure of education facilities, prohibiting mass gatherings and closure of some non-essential businesses were associated with reduced incidence whereas stay at home orders and closure of all non-businesses was not associated with any independent additional impact

>Conclusions: A national lockdown has a moderate advantage in saving lives
I think search at Google isn't getting the best and brightest anymore. It used to be the only product at the company, now it's just the oldest.

I also think there's a disconnect between how new algorithms are evaluated and real world results. Reverse image search is total trash now. Mostly returns annotations "red, dress, girl" instead of the pages where I can find the image.

Unless it's a brand name product, then it's exact matches.

So you're getting less than excellence in engineering, plus influence from shopping and ad dollar focused PMs and not much care is actually given to the search experience.

And it shows
Not really. Under the covers, it has always been an object database where the objects key is the hash of that object, and other than blob, tree, commit and signed tag they haven’t really changed since then.

The protocol has become a bit smarter, by allowing there to be additional options passed for different communications options, and there is a slow but steady progress of moving from sha1 to sha256 for the hash function, but that isn’t rolled out yet completely.

Different tools have been added over time but the internals are pretty much the same as they’ve always been.
Of course you can. Making equivalent what a government does to its country is myopic and racist.

American people aren’t against climate change and exited Paris Climate Accord, the Trump administration did.

Ordinary Chinese citizen did not censor the reporters, the government did.

Your Nazi example makes no sense. I assume you can put some blame on the people who made the gas if they know its purpose. But you wouldn’t blame every German national during WWII for Genocide.
Exactly. It's not "making fuel" in the sense that would be energy positive. It's using CO₂ as feedstock into an energy conversion process that transforms energy otherwise obtained into a form usable in jet engines.

I hope these misleading "turned into" style of headlines go away when energy input is required. Carbon + Hydrogen + Oxygen + energy + information can be "turned into" pretty much any organic substance.
"linux is a joke on daily desktop stuff too with exception for very narrow use cases"

In my experience linux has been better than osx by a long shot. For general uses and gaming. I only boot into windows for some games and programs like autodesk fusion.

My parents had very little issues adapting to mint with the cinnamon DE.

I fail to see how modern linux is a "joke".
Obliviously you wouldn't want to use those words exact unless the audience is a bunch of philosophy mayors. But for example here [1] is a video of Chris Christie effectively calling out a somewhat similar technique from Marco Rubio.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkdpzRDxTXU
I think what will kill git is integration with language servers and IDE's. The reason is git and everything before it doesn't capture high level change/refactoring information.

You really want to record, mapped X to Y. Not 500 files changed in 4218 places.
We already have that in the form of fission. The problem is our societal lack of interest in fission.
The problem with Teams is that Teams doesn't have to sell based on user experience. Its sales pitch is "you already paid for an Exchange server or Office 365, so this is ready to go".
Zuckerhütl could be a social network
Sounds like a gas plasma display.
Yeah, ironically I think for Apple there's Jonathan Ive, which did rose to higher C-levels but was a mere designer in some Apple team in 1997.

For Google, dunno, maybe Yegge?
Even if we had access to free electricity, wouldn't it still be cheaper to utilize existing
petroleum infrastructure?

I mean, until the reserves are depleted the energy is basically free, we just need to pump it up and refine it.

(Then again, solar power is basically "free", we just need to catch it and store it... so my 2nd paragraph is maybe kind of dumb.)
I grew up in a small town in the PNW that has a yearly salmon festival, and it wasn't until a post from HN[1] that I learned/realized that the whole system of "fish hatcheries" that my town celebrated is kind of a horrible bandaid over the ecological disaster we perpetrated.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21298472 , definitely worth a read if you care about salmon
peaceful protest too gives the same effects in another study
If the person chooses to opt back into the mailing list (all mailing lists should be double opt-in) then of course they can be re-added. There is nothing wrong with quitting a mailing list and re-joining sometime later, if that is what you want to do.
They use log-uniform and log-normal distributions, see page 10.
I don't think Apple is known for being particularly litigious when it comes to going after ex-employees (except in cases of fairly blatant industrial espionage, e.g. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/apple-concerned-china...).

In comparison, Apple's reaction to a prolific leaker was fairly mild, and left him far from unemployable (I happen to know what company hired him next), let alone homeless: https://www.macworld.com/article/1018725/workerbee.html
> By sharing your key between the devices.

That would be a nice feature.

> but it's not the cutting edge of security.

That's true.

> Not on desktop and not on GNU/Linux phones (which I use).

That's unfortunate, but luckily the clients are open source, and anybody can create a new client for the platform of their choice. Telegram even provides a cross-platform API library: https://core.telegram.org/tdlib

`
TDLib can be used on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, WebAssembly, FreeBSD, Windows Phone, watchOS, tvOS, Tizen, Cygwin. It should also work on other *nix systems with or without minimal effort.
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You could try it out and see if it works. My gut says that it's good logic, but poor rhetoric. Maybe something like 'My opponent sees conspiracies everywhere. Let them prove my motives rather than assume them'?
The logic of waiting to launch shuttles doesn’t apply to global warming and I’m not sure why you’d bring that up here?

If I launch a rocket now, it’s will take 50 years to get to Pluto. If I wait 10 years, we’ll have faster rockets, so it will actually get there sooner. The progress of my original rocket cannot be improved.

For global warming, progress we make now can be built on and improved over time. This is not the case with a rocket that’s already launched.
Ah, the cost of sovereignty. So much winning.
I don't think you're missing anything. This is a one liner without any weird stuff. I've never heard of the author FWIW.

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