skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is too general a blanket statement to be true. Plenty of wood in construction is not treated for fire. Fire ratings are generally done for assemblies, not components of assemblies, and there are ways to build fire rated assemblies without treated wood. Also, not all assemblies need fire ratings. Sometimes its just the exterior walls adjacent to neighbouring structures, etc.
What's going to be the cost of using this? Why not make a plugin in Unreal instead of having to learn and juggle a separate tool?
I don't see how animated faces brings anything to the table aside from novelty factor. People are already plenty comfortable communication with just voice and text. Faces can help with rapport, but if you know if it's a machine, why would you care. The biggest value here will be in entertainment (movies and games) or deception.
I wonder why they would use something so inefficient in this context. Are there phishing scanners that look for more efficient (high-entropy) strings of characters, like base64?
The tax breaks to Foxconn were just one aspect of the deal, and unless you're specifically interested in Foxconn, it makes sense to look at everything that happened.

Hundreds of millions were spent on variously infra improvements, eminent-domaining people out of the way, lawyers, etc.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/...

I actually don't know how much Foxconn did get out of it. They've apparently run similar scams elsewhere, it appears to be a Foxconn side gig.

There's a fun book in here for a scrappy investigative journalist.
multipatterning DUV will get you up to a point if thats what you were asking. You cant reach 5nm with that. (if that were possible you wouldnt see everyone jumping on ASMLs euv bandwagon)

As for lightsource, sure, that was/is a US company, but there's a lot more to a machine then just the light source.
I’m curious what aging infrastructure you’re referring to.

Where I live, things are very nice and it’s maybe fairly unique to my exact county.

But if you are referring to overall infra like highways or something- I don’t share the sentiment it’s in anyway a problem where we live.

Im not plugged into interstate trade or things like that. So maybe I’m not totally aware of the problem. But it hasn’t seemed locally problematic.

Edit: downvote, really? I’m trying to know more about crumbling infrastructure.
Widespread TVs, lowered infant mortality, women's empowerment and contraception education. Lowers the birth rate all by itself.
Suppose I use a public key authentication scheme to communicate with a collaborator, Bob. To avoid any possible failures of technology, we've developed a simplified scheme that can be done with pencil and paper and sent through the mail. When Bob receives the message, he uses his private key to decrypt the message, writing each letter in the plaintext on a piece of paper so he can read it. After reading, he burns the paper completely with a small fire.

Are you going to insist that this last step, burning the plaintext copy, is not "valid security"? If you do, haven't we so mangled the meaning of security that it's not even intelligible any more?

I believe that "Let's not keep around unencrypted / minimally protected copies of our communications after we're done using them" is a perfectly valid security measure for two people to use. No, it doesn't solve "trust issues", in that one of them could simply refuse to delete the messages, but neither is it intended to.
Why would we be extinct? This ridiculous eschatology doesn't belong here.
Funny how one can describe something and be blind to its most blatant example we had just in front of us for the last 4 years. 1/6 was the beer hall putsh, a dress reversal for a coup that only failed because of how incompetent its main instigator is. The same man who spent the last four years directly attacking the free press and anyone daring to stand in opposition to him.

The main reason it happened though is exactly what you demonstrated in your comment, namely how effective the propaganda has been in gaslighting and deflecting. I would have loved to read your comment if we had had an assault on the capitol from liberals because they lost the election.
> [Intel] cannot move from "hand polished" proprietary processes they've been developing for decades to anything else.

Later this year TSMC will be producing Intel CPUs on 5nm. Clearly contradicts your assertion.
Show HN: Hacker News Discourse turns HN stories into Clubhouse-style audio rooms
I'm Seth, creator of discourse.fm, a browser-based tool/platform to create live audio chat rooms.

I just launched an extension of the site - https://hackernews.discourse.fm/ - which pulls stories in real-time from the HN site using the public API, and enables anyone to join a live audio discussion about the story (think Clubhouse rooms autogenerated for HN stories). Once you enter a room, you can grab the link generated for a room and paste it back to the comments on the HN story to invite more participants.

hackernews.discourse.fm is both a full-fledged product and a demo of how discourse.fm can be used to create live audio communities. HN is an ideal for this, as it benefits from its synchronicity, similarly-minded users, and it's basically a non-stop source of interesting discussion topics. That being said, almost any consistently active text-based community, forum, or news site could likely benefit from integrating live audio discussions. If you're interested in how you can use discourse.fm to accomplish this, let me know at info@discourse.fm.

I'd love to hear feedback about what I've built. It would be especially cool (and very meta) to discuss this live using the room on the hackernews.discourse.fm site.

Link to site: https://hackernews.discourse.fm/

Link to room: https://www.hackernews.discourse.fm/live/show-hn-hacker-news-discourse-turns-hn-stories-into-clubhousestyle-audio-rooms
Respectfully, the thing is, back when G+ came out, myself and many others pointed-out how Google's real name policy combined with Google merging all the existing Google accounts into G+ sank the effort - 'cause lots of people didn't want all their youtube or other data available to their friends and lots of others didn't want strong real name policy enforced - and Facebook had a real name policy that was and is only mildly enforced.

I don't think I'm a genius here since many others said similar things. Rather, the G+ action felt like corporate policy stepping on sensible thinking. Yeah, youtube, gmail and etc are hard to run, hard to alter and so they weren't going to change. But someone also felt they need to leverage all those desperate things - that just feels like what middle management does, not simply what people with not that much understanding do.
V1Y1 tracks the Versions 1 and Years 1 of tech startups.
It's fair to point out that all Tesla employees have stock options, whose value increased 595% last year.
Huh, your LA note prompted me to say “That’s why I use US/Pacific”. But someone on the internet tells me I’ve been doing it wrong and US/Pacific has been deprecated for years / I’m not supposed to:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4309030/difference-betwe...
Possibly, I haven't looked in a few years.
> Is there no way to slim down the resource requirements to cut electrical use?

To put it bluntly (not meant to sound blunt, I just can't think of a better example without reiterating a technical explanation of how bitcoin works), that's like asking if people living in the Sahara can't simply drink less water to solve the unavailability of fresh water. And even that's a bad comparison because the human body actually can actually make due with less water. Perhaps it's like an electric heater (not heat pump, just a plain old heater), if you know how these things work: if you make it use fewer Watts, you get less heat, because there is no "waste heat" because heat is what you want in the first place. So fewer Watts is always less heat no matter how you spin it.

Similarly, putting more power into Bitcoin makes you earn more money (as a miner). If we make the hashing algorithm more efficient, then the hash rate will just raise proportionally to meet the new supply (supply being the block reward + transaction fees, both in bitcoin (or whatever proof-of-work currency you're mining) that you receive when finding a block as a miner).

No, the alternative is moving away from proof of work. I've been hearing stuff about proof of stake for years now, and afaik there are some currencies already using it. Not sure why Bitcoin doesn't switch to it, I'm not keeping up. Lost interest back when it became clear what a disaster it is and that it won't be able to fulfill its original purpose anyway. I'm very surprised the price is still soaring, shouldn't the best currency win? I guess people just don't give a fuck about their non-direct impact and see it as a way to get rich quick.
Right, and this is because of consistent components and internal APIs in conjunction with enforced deprecation. This was the goal of gnuStep[1] and (more directly) etoile[2], but those projects appear dead these days.

1 - http://www.gnustep.org/
2 - http://etoileos.com/
Have you looked at Pony?(https://www.ponylang.io/)

Here's what Graydon Hoare had to say about it:

"It's very similar to earlier versions of rust. In terms of actor local GC, language provided scheduling of actors, separated function and async invocation system, mixed structural and nominal types, and an overabundance of language supported reference qualifiers. I think they did a good job at it, certainly much better than I did, but I'd be nervous about the cognitive load of the reference qualifiers (capabilities). See this page for example, or the previous few in the tutorial. We had that sort of cognitive load on variables early on and people basically rejected the language because of it, as well as associated compositionality problems. The many years of design iteration had a lot do to with factoring that space into fewer, more essential and general qualifiers. Slow, tedious, world breaking refactoring work. I hope for pony's sake this doesn't happen to them too -- it looks really nice -- but that's my biggest worry for it."

http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/34rszb/pony_type_and_m...
As a 3D artist I remember being very very difficult to model a realistic human being. Then came zBrush and made it a little bit easier. I just saw the IGN video for this and I got to say, it's really impressive.
Awesome work! Mouseless is a deep passion of mine though I've never gone all the way like you have here. Will definitely take a look.

Have you ever used emacs? I am a relatively new user and longtime vim user and curious to get your thoughts.
The original poster was being pedantic in distinguishing between "Making transactions, relaying them, validating them" and "block production" (mining). So they are technically correct, but I'd agree that they're being disingenuous. Sure, "making a transaction" is cheap, as well as nodes "validating" transactions in produced blocks. But without mining to make those blocks to be validated, nothing would progress on the Bitcoin blockchain.
>but if you know if it's a machine, why would you care.

It won't be a machine in all cases. You have recorded stuff from mo-cap stages and maybe somehow you consider that a machine you don't care about but would care about a movie (not sure why the distinction?).

But aside from that, VR headsets are also getting mouth cameras and eye tracking cameras that can track facial expressions. You can also facetrack from things like an iphone with face id while playing a game in 2D.
I would agree with you, except for the application of capital punishment. Prison time, absolutely. Hefty fines, absolutely. Lifetime ban from any executive positions, absolutely. Murder? No way.
That’s called letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. The perfect doesn’t exist in this case.
While the phrase "a whole country" sounds dramatic, that doesn't really put the usage into perspective compared to those other examples.

For example MGM claims their properties in Nevada consume 171 MW. That's more than 65 of the countries from this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...
Would switching to say, Protected Unless Open have a negative performance impact? Otherwise, it seems like a kind of obvious oversight not to use a more restrictive data protection class. I'd be curious to know the Signal team's rationale for using PUFUA.
What's a good contemporary replacement for NPR that gives consistently unmotivated coverage?

It's a shame that I'm struggling to think of one example that fits into that category...
The Switch GPU is basically just an Nvidia Tegra, and the work on the open source Noveau driver for Nvidia cards made it easy to figure out the Switch's Tegra
Managing dependencies in Visual Studio C++ projects with property files
Here is the resulting discourse for this story - come talk to me!

https://www.hackernews.discourse.fm/live/show-hn-hacker-news...
We're all mortals :).

Like other endeavors of growth, a good approach is to regularly make a small effort to learn a little more about something (like your tools, which includes keyboard shortcuts).

As one simple example, if you have a URL somewhere and you want to quickly open it in a new window, you just use the keyboard shortcuts to copy (which hopefully everyone knows), switch to browser (alt-tab or cmd-tab or even [cmd-space fire return]), ctrl-t or cmd-t to open a new tab, paste, return). This sequence becomes so hard-wired that you can go from seeing a URL to reading it in a new tab in a couple of seconds. And since it is hard-wired, your train of thought is not interrupted with common small thoughts like, "hmm where is my mouse pointer? wiggle mouse - ahh there"

But like I also suggested, with left hand on the keyboard and right hand on the mouse, and knowing a few very common shortcuts, you can be very fast at getting things done.

In both cases, knowing keyboard shortcuts is... key.

Lastly, there are some awesome tools like Keyboard Maestro or possibly Hammerspoon (I use the former, but have heard the latter is decent). With a bit of effort, you can make some really useful macros and do a lot. Heck, even just using Automator can do wonders. For example, it's pretty easy to make a file right click action that will resize and export an image into one suitable for web publishing.

The summary of all this really is that learning your tools makes you much more effective and performant. Seems obvious, but it's easy to forget.
'hey we found a cool way to recycle plastic'

HN: NOOoooo!! ;____; NOOOO that cant possibly work!! noooo!!!

HN: I am not an expert but here is my totally unsupported speculation why this cant possibly work!!!! ;_________;

HN: I bet [this material engineer working on this for 3+ years in the real world] didn't even think about how strong the brick are!! --puffs out chest--

HN: It will still break down. Therefore SHIT

Honestly, what the fuck is wrong with you people. This isn't critical thinking its grandstanding. What a negative, toxic shit hole.
My read on the situation is they saw the opportunity to get subsidies and so negotiated to maximize what they were given. I imagine it comes from some maximalist position that says that if you plan to do X, you need to say you'll do 10X so you never 'lose out' on subsidies you might have been able to take advantage of in the good years.

A lot of the reporting at the time emphasized that Foxconn had a history of doing this in other countries. It seems like a negotiating tactic that evolved in an age of cynical political environments where everyone's proximate goal is to announce a 'deal' with the full expectation that they won't be in a position to take credit (or blame) for the quality of that deal.
Here in Russia was a time when Opera Mini mods were popular. There was even a WAP site where you could configure a mod and have the jar generated for you! I remember using one of these on a Siemens CX75. That mod had a very tiny custom font and the ability to download and somehow upload files. I stopped using the mods when an all-new version was released that could display desktop sites with a more-or-less correct layout, a "mouse" pointer and the ability to turn the display sideways. It was a godsend to use VKontakte especially — there was no mobile website back then because just the idea of using your phone to access the internet was rare and somewhat badass.
When there is a trade bloc that imposes tariffs on countries outside the bloc that don't have adequate environmental, labor or carbon laws.

Companies outsourcing their pollution or being out-competed by foreign companies that do pollute has to stop.
To make matters worse, some of those dinosaurs are senators.
that's a stretch of what fiat means. Fiat backing is not just the belief in the backer's ability to back it. Fiat specifically requires government/authority.

bitcoin acts more like a commodity than fiat. Bitcoin is backed by the laws of mathematics, rather than laws of nature (which is the case for gold).
No, I didn't make it clear. I did make it clear I have a personal experience living in a totalitarian county, but I also read books, articles, historical documents, and many other sources of information I encountered over the years that allow me to know about things I haven't personally experienced. I can also conclude since your only argument now is to personally attack me, you're out of ammo. Which is what usually happens to communist apologists - it's not something one can argue for very long without going dry on substance and having to resort to tricks.
Thanks for ruining it for us :(

Why can't we have our 50 seconds of lighthearted internet tidbit without some journalist trying to force a story about it? A random dude working as a kitten is all I want to remember about this episode.
It's plenty fast enough already for most things.
Nintendo Switch used the Tegra X1 model T210 SoC, also used in the Nvidia Shield and Pixel C. There's plenty of public information as well as support code in the Linux kernel
> regardless of the kernel

FreeBSD is not a kernel. It's a complete operating system.
Wow this is extremely comprehensive. I did a similar thing as many and went out and bought a Blue Yeti and like the author says, it picks up EVERYTHING.

Would have stayed away from a compressor mic had I known.
It looks like Snikket is trying to pull together the popular opensource implementations of XMPP ecosystem as one product.

It would be a lot easier to tell people to connect to a Snikket server for their Snikket messenger rather than Element messenger to connect to a Matrix server where I've completely lost their attention.
To be fair, Apple and Google both put a lot of effort into making exploiting a phone as difficult as they can even in the case of an attacker having physical possession.

I’d much rather have potential “evidence” against me on my phone, than on my laptop.

The stakes are very high though, and the attackers very motivated and well resourced, and I suspect there’s enough political pressure on them both to do only “a good enough job to make it look like they’re succeeding”. If anybody thinks the NSA isn’t several steps ahead of both Apple/Google and NSO/GreyKey, wtheyre fooling themselves...
Funny...but, come to think of it, some of those < 300 utterances of the word must have been in this metaphorical sense, making the paltry count an overestimate of paleontological content.
The local shows on WAMU, such as the Kojo Nnamdi Show, tend to focus on local issues— not news per se, but things like school board decisions and the new Amazon office in Northern Virginia. Lately, these local shows have also shifted more to an equity beat.
> This take seems trivially and obviously wrong.

I don't think this is obviously wrong at all. Dispersing a fine mist of micro plastics into the environment, where it can enter the air and water system, is very very different than sticking a piece of plastic into the ground, where it will comfortably sit for a thousand years with minimal decomposition.

For a good example, here's [1] a study about how car tires, which slowly disappear into the environment, are a major contributor to micro plastics in the ocean.

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/09/tires...
> you also have to have faith that your shares won't be diluted to nothing via new stock offerings

if the existing majority shareholders chose to do this, then it will happen, but otherwise, this can't happen. And i don't see a situation where the existing shareholders would willingly choose to do this dilution for no reason.
> Say you want to transfer a billion dollars 3000 miles.

I don't. You don't. Nobody does. In the one-off case that you do, we can special-case it, instead of blowing energy on every single transaction as though everyone did.

You’re arguing we should be zipping around town in a car with a W12 engine in case somebody wants to drag race an airplane.
I wrote up a series [0] documenting a CHIP-8 emulator I wrote that I hope explains how to get something like this working from the ground up, albeit for a much simpler system.

[0] https://river.codes/emulating-a-computer-part-1/
> People who say this seem to think they’re some pithy genius but it’s not a comment that advances the conversation at all.

Does the conversation really need to be advanced? The author has chosen to not include answers and gave an extremely valid reason for choosing not to and HN'ers are, indeed, getting pissy saying the author should do the "right thing" and provide the answers.

No. Just no. The "right thing" is to accept that the author is choosing not to and move on if you need answers. The author doesn't owe anyone answers.
Didn't downvote you, but its a pretty well known issue https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/wp-content/uploads/...

tl;dr the USA earns a D- in infra.
This is absolutely a thread that nails the “smarter than thee” HN toxicity. You hit the nail on the top.
decentralized financial protocols are making more bitcoin available outside of centralized exchanges than ever before. Ren for instance is a major custodial backing protocol that wraps bitcoin for trade through decentralized smart contracts representing market makers, lending protocols, derivatives, options, and other products. and people can buy insurance to protect their staked holdings against smart contract attacks; these policies are both fiat- and crypto-backed insurance policies, on- and off-chain.
We hearing about it is just what a water company such as Nestle would want as a ploy to get more customers buying filtered water..
It appears they now are going to manufacture t heir own designs through TSMC.
There's a ton of literature out there on America's infrastructure problems.

This is a good summary from a neutral source: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/state-us-infrastructure
are you saying the content in the communications materials emanating from the SFUSD are not very "mission oriented" for lack of a better phrase, for what you'd consider a schools mission orientation should be?
Spansion’s fab was purchased by Cypress, who were acquired by Infineon recently.
That's only viable if you're using AWS's load balancers or CDN, though.
PSA: If you use Slack on Android, you should update your password
Can't wait til they complain that Java is too verbose while they're manually writing for loops in GO.
Explosiv, a JSX static site generator (not React, just JSX)
https://www.npmjs.com/package/explosiv

Hey! I've been dealing with this project and I want to let it out in the wild and ask you all what you think.

Basically, Explosiv generate a static site, written in JSX. It is faster than React and has some nice features.

(also the README is the docs)
Step 1 Don’t get caught

Step 2 You’re screwed if you are
I'm just curious if you have any particular use cases you can't get the existing solutions to work with
do u want a flame war? because thats how you get a flame war