skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of it is Blink-specific, but some of it is silly Javascript stuff. How else do you explain a shopping cart final payment button not working.

I like development in Firefox too. When I was doing it intensively (just ~2 years ago), I found some of the CSS I was using behaved differently between Gecko, WebKit and Blink, though (and differently again in Android's pre-chrome browser), so I reconfirmed that I do need to test some things across all browsers. By differently, I don't mean prefixed browser-specific CSS (although there is that), I mean standardish things like table row height calculations showed up significantly differently, certain border highlights, and a number of WebKit rendering bugs that Gecko did not have. Key-event based text editing and wheel events are also significantly different, even more so when you include the common mobile browsers.
It already is. For example, on Arch Linux, Electron is packaged as a separate binary and the eg. VS Code binary is just a shell script that points electron to the right entrypoint

#!/bin/bash
ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 exec electron9 /usr/lib/code/out/cli.js /usr/lib/code/code.js "$@"

But most Electron apps prefer to bundle the whole runtime with their app.
This was a brutal takedown of Garriott, which I think is fair. The guy was a visionary, but lost touch with what made Ultima great after Ultima VII.

What's not mentioned is that Ultima Online destroyed any chance that the Ultima franchise would ever come back as a single player game. So much was left on the table after Ultima VII that this is really a shame.

I'm working on something that is highly inspired by Ultima 6 & 7, but is it's own thing. These are my takeaways of what I set out to share and improve upon (from the U7 model):

- shares the skewed 45* orthographic view... I love this perspective.

- world is much larger than Ultima 7's, underworld is substantially larger.

- NPCs have needs (think Tropico) and that will influence what they do

- story driven, but many in game events are unscripted

- similar inventory style to Ultima 7 (bag if items), but much easier to organize

- everything is interactive (bake bread, forge a sword) but not streamlined like a modern crafting system

- camera view is further out, so the game feels much larger than Ultima 7 ever did

- more consistent pixel art (not a mix of scanned graphics and hand drawn pixel art)

- real-time pausable combat- combat un U7 is terrible and a step back. I'm attempting to make it less chaotic, but not take away from the immersion.

- the world has a stability factor, so good and bad events can happen if the conditions are right

I think, if done right, one can take the spirit of the Ultima series forward from where Ultima 7 left off. What I'm doing is currently at the stage of mechanics building, but I encourage anyone to make the development effort if they are so inclined. There's a great game to be made if someone can take the torch from Ultima 7 and made a proper modern inspired game.
> replicate the whole fault tolerant culture and ecosystem

I think the idea is to move the general SaaS industry from the local monolith optimum to the better global distributed optimum that Erlang currently inhabits. Or rather, beyond the Erlang optimum insofar as we want the benefits of the Erlang operation model without restricting ourselves to the Erlang developer/package ecosystem. So yeah, the broader "micro service" culture hasn't yet caught up to Erlang because industry-wide culture changes don't happen over night, especially considering the constraints involved (compatibility with existing software ecosystems). This doesn't mean that the current state of the art of microservices is right for every application or even most applications, but it doesn't mean that they're fundamentally unworkable either.
If someone paid me to do something similar, I would probably be building on top of this: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac

There’re two hard problems there.

One is how to render vector graphics and fonts. So far, only web browsers do that in a cross-platform way. Windows has it’s Direct2D and DirectWrite, while Linux has nothing comparable, unfortunately.

Another higher level one is how to build easy to use GUI library on top of that. Have not approached that one. I have a few ideas but did nothing so far to address them, lately I’m too busy with other projects.
The grocery store across from my apartment takes BTC. QR code you scan on the POS when you checkout.
No one wants to be in situation like this (: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP31lluUDWU&t=30
* Fictional market value
It was one of those old DOS games where the gameplay sucked, but it kind of contributed to the difficulty and ambience of the game somehow. Fun times.
What changed is that the Wayland world keeps evolving, and things aren't always as dramatic as they first appear.

Bridging the windowing semantics is difficult indeed as the Wayland approach doesn't let clients introspect the windowing system or absolutely position themselves, but it doesn't mean you can't get quite far with the excellent relative positioning provided by the xdg-shell/xdg-popup protocols, for example.

The video in the article demonstrates Notepad and other windowed apps.
Similar. Built a very complex app officially aimed at oldIE but made a point of ensuring it worked on other browsers too, largely on a skunkworks basis. A few years later (when we're no longer actively working on the app) everyone switched to Chrome and it Just Worked. Someone tried it on an iPad and it Just Worked (modulo some fat-finger challenges with small UI affordances).

At the time, jQuery was a big help in this, especially in hiding the event model mess. Things are a lot better now. Although I do wish we had a strict compatibility-checking layer that'd warn you if you used any feature of the web platform that wasn't supported by everything you wanted to support.
The only planet completely populated by robots.
To a degree, but there are some real whale accounts in question. Satoshi alone may have access to 1.1mm coins — or maybe not.
People supporting policies with race-specific effects don't need to be racist, but they should own up to the fact that they're enabling and extending structural factors that disadvantage minority groups.

Are you racist if you oppose opening up low income housing in a nearby black community because, and only because, it would lower the value of your home and you can't afford that? No, I don't think so. But you gotta own it. Deflecting to a problem that solves poor people problem's without addressing critical issues specific to the poor black community is going to extend, or at at best ignore the unique factors that make it difficult for poor black people.

Structural problems aren't caused by people in white hoods waving tiki torches. But often they're not untangled without acknowledging that a lot of specific prior wrongs that enabled modern day imbalances need current sacrifices from the groups that benefited from those prior wrongs to be corrected.

The left is too keen to throw out the term racism for actions that don't actually imply a hatred of other races. The right is too eager to say "I'm not racist" as a defense for indulging in activities that exacerbate structural problems with plausible deniability.
It also auto-calibrates to the typical granularity of your tasks, assume you decompose with similar concerns across the board.
Most likely easy and/or cheap will get you the same results.

(i.e. you get what you pay for and having good lawyers is worth the costs)

Ask around your network, talk to a few
Stompenberg FX: Testing guitar effects pedal remotely
Wasn't it the first?
PWA is useless if you need to bypass CORS(i.e you can't develop a general rss reader for example). In practice PWAs are just a shortcut to a website.

On electron you get closer to native apps in terms of network and OS access so I believe the PWA are and Electron are quite different platforms.
Would anyone be interested in a desktop application with similar functionality, accessing [multiple] hosts via SSH?
Exactly. They are actually efficient enough to be quite competitive in the private sector. They have large contracts with Boeing, and they manufacture a wide variety of things like white boards, backpacks, shovels, canteens, etc.
There's a big difference here in that NFTs as currently implemented are nothing more than an a trend. They don't have any actual value, or function. At least with BTC you could buy drugs.

What can you actually do with Nyan cat other than just sell it on to the next person. I can enjoy the image and I don't even own it.

NFTs are neat, don't get me wrong, but to have any value or use, they require an element of trust behind it.
Ask HN: How to market and sale SaaS product?
The classic problem: we have a product, 4-5 people validated it and two bought it. But, how do I market my SaaS product?

Without spending thousands of dollars on user acquisition, are there any ways new founders with little network can employ?

I have tried posting to Reddit, but mods removed post aggressively. I haven’t tried PH and HN.

Any other suggestions for solo founders?
No, the entire reason to fire first is to try to win a war.

You will not attack first if you have no confidence in gaining even a marginal victory, or solid favourable stalemate.

You don't want to weaken you enemy's reluctance to engage in attrition warfare if your objective is to win a battle, and not a war.
In that case simply don't use that much wind or hydro. It seems that the costs outweigh the benefits when hydro and nuclear are so cheap and provide such low emissions.

Either that, or structure the grid so that wind and solar are used to power accumulative loads.
Most likely not, the new guys were phd-types that was ultra smart but did nothing except have meetings. I think they were over-engineering it completely which made it impossible to deliver something of value.

However, I think that is often the case of a microservices architecture.
Abuse of Force
Am I reading this correctly that some volunteers are upset that their edits represent a smaller proportion of total edits because big companies are adding lots of data? But in absolute numbers the volunteer edits are still the same?

If that’s the case, is that essentially asking for a map with less data so their own contribution can be a bigger fraction of the total data?
Bitcoin Hits $1T Value as Crypto Jump Tops Other Assets
Even if it would be lying, not every lying is gaslighting. Gaslighting is very specific abuse tactic.
This is all new to me, and I don't have any interest in BTC at all. But volatility and crazy inflation does happen in the realm of real currencies. BTC is unique because it's happening at the start of its existence rather than in the traditional death-spiral. Nor is currency speculation unique to BTC, it happens every day with traditional currencies. But maybe BTC can be forgiven for its volatility since it's such a unique and new concept?

As I understand it at some point there will be no new bitcoin left to mine, and it will just be available as a store-of-value currency -- if I have the concept correct. And the early adopters will be financially rewarded for helping to get it off the ground as they spend their BTC away into circulation.
Ok, but I think something more convenient would be better and help adoption.
Looks quite interesting, already pinned this in the relevant slack channel :)

To be honest I'm rather happy with how the internal benchmark suite is turning out, but to some extent you are inviting bias by creating them yourself. On top of that, it doesn't hurt to have more benchmarks.

At the end of the day it's a combination of:
* How much work is it to integrate (easy to measure)
* How visible is it, i.e if we actually find something interesting will be visible and legible to others (ify to mesure, citations, stars, etc are some invitation)
* How useful it is to "improve" the library (hard to measure, and what we aim to be good at is a moving target)

So realistically that's the equation I have to judge in terms of adding a new benchmarks suite, and it's very annoying because you'll note the most important things are the hardest to measure.

Would you want people to integrate with this now or would you rather wait a few weeks/months/years until it matures more? If the former, can you give a few details regrading where to start (README is fairly barren), if the later please ping me (george.hosu@mindsdb.com) when you think it could be ready to try.

Anyway, any open benchmark library is a step in the right direction, thanks for working on this :)
I'm a bit surprised the Rover talks directly to Earth for the high speed data transfer. I would have expected a large dish in Martian orbit being used to relay the signal down to the rover's relatively tiny high gain antenna. Even when you account for the fact that the satellite will only be overhead part of the time the link budget calculation would be enormously different.
I'm as skeptical as you are but the recent article by Ray Dalio explained well its value, which is still rather unconvincing to me. Still, I liken it to Monopoly money a group decided was worth actual money, obfuscated by technology, distributed systems, and other buzzwords.
Hi Raph! This was a fun read, and I have some questions to help me contextualize this post with respect to your other work.

* In terms of mathematical technique, this is a "sister post" to https://raphlinus.github.io/graphics/curves/2019/12/23/flatt... , because they both use the idea of using the relationship between arclength and curvature to determine how best approximate one type of curve as another curve?

* Have you done the analysis in this paper with a Euler spirals -> cubic Beziers because they are the "cultural norm", or because quadratic Beziers are problematic here for some reason?

* When you say that you look forward to exploring using Euler spirals for other "classical 2D geometry problems", do you mean "classical 2D geometry problems, related to 2D graphics rendering", or are you actually thinking more generally? If you're thinking in terms of 2D graphics rendering, do you have a short-list of problems in mind?

* Here's an idea for a book. On the cover, a thousand cartoon Raphs are pictured, each equipped with a typewriter. The title is: "1000 problems your 2D graphics renderer NEEDS to handle (no solutions included)". Do-able for 2021?
I Sucked at Relationships
That sky crane shot blows my mind. Knowing conceptually how sky crane works and that it does work autonomously is crazy but then seeing a picture makes it even more real.
I share the same fear farmers have in regards to corporations taking over things. I have seen documentaries that talks about how chicken farmers are at the mercy of 3-5 corporate monopolies in USA. So I don't know if the Indian farmers fear about corporations are entirely wrong.

Having said that, I think the new laws are good for India. These are the arguments I have heard in favor of the new laws:

One of the main arguments against the farm bills is that it will remove the minimum support price (MSP) guarantee which the government gives the farmers, and will put them at the mercy of corporations. India introduced the current MSP related system back in 1960 to inspire farmers to grow some crops when India had a huge shortage of food grains, and was importing grains directly from US (referred to as 'ship to mouth'). That is not the case now. India actually has a surplus of those grains.

Also, MSP covers only 23 crops produced in India. For example, onion prices dropped to insanely low prices last 2 years. There is no MSP for them.

Also, the MSP cover is available only in certain states, which puts other states at a disadvantage. To make things complicated, there is a law that guarantees certain grains at low price for the poor. For example, the law guarantees rice at 3 rupees to the poor. Govt has to buy the rice from the farmers because of the MSP system (say at Rs 20), and then in turn sell them to the poor at Rs.3 in a state which doesn't have MSP, thus putting the farmers in the non MSP states at a huge disadvantage.

Another reason is that farmers are producing huge amounts of MSP crops such as wheat because the price is guaranteed, while ignoring other crops that India has to heavily import (such as pulses and oil seeds). The govt has to purchase the MSP grains no matter what, and the godowns have way more in stock than India could distribute (almost double or more last year).

Also, some of these MSP crops like rice require lot of water for cultivation, and considering the shortage of water in most places in India, govt wants to reduce the farming of such crops.

I got most of these info from this video (I believe this channel is neither right wing or left wing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9hSADKW3Cc
Does it come in stick?

If not, then hard pass. I need the control that a dedicated stick and clutch pedal can give me. Using an automatic transmission - or worse, one of those fake-standards without a clutch pedal - is like trying to do brain surgery with boxing gloves on.
Large multinational organizations can have significant value, as NATO and the UN have shown in the past. But once the "regulatory capture" effect happens and the UN becomes a platform for genocidal dictatorships to spew anti-Semitic propaganda, we should discard that organization in favor of something better (even if "better" hypothetically had to be "nothing"). A truly global organization is, as you've explained, probably impossible because the bullies won't participate in a fair organization. But large regional organizations can still have value, as long as we recognize their limits and don't look to them for leadership that they can't adequately provide.
The smallest Trane air handler/heater combination I looked at (https://www.trane.com/content/dam/Trane/Commercial/global/pr...) is only around 6000-7000 watts; you'd want a 10kw generator and a Genrac portable would run you about $1000.

Keep up with the maintenance; you'll probably want to try filling it with fuel, running it, and draining the fuel a couple of times a year.

Note: this is just for heating; don't plug anything else into the generator while you're heating---the peak startup loads make generators sad.

If you've got natural gas (uh, whoops) or propane, a whole-house generator would only be a few thousand more (not counting installation). (I've considered one, but we don't have either, which means either getting a propane tank and service or going with diesel, which has maintenance aspects.)
I'm increasingly worried about the decentralized mob-like "consequences" for problematic speech. Sure, it's not the government taking away tour citizenship or committing violence against you, but it's easy for your life to be destroyed by a single tweet or Facebook post. If tensions are especially high, you could have your home or business vandalized or burned down.

Social media can whip people into a frenzy and create a tyranny worse than what the government can do because there is virtually no accountability. The court of public opinion doesn't let you appeal your sentence.
> In the US vote rigging conspiracies are impossible

No, they aren't, which is why our most recent ex-President (who also was notorious for inventing fantastical vote-rigging conspiracies out of no evidence in the same election) is currently at the center of a criminal investigation for one based on fairly hard evidence, and his political party is trying to change the Georgia State Constitution to derail the investigation.

There's a difference between “That vote-rigging conspiracy is an unsubstantiated fantasy” and “Vote-rigging conspiracies are impossible.” Pretty much no one in the US has ever argued the latter.
VxWorks has been battletested in NASA space probes for over 30 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_embedded_compute...

I recall an early bug in the 2004 MERS duo. They were the first to use flash memory and its new drivers. The file freelist busted and the OS kept on rebooting. Fortunately a fix was uploaded from Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_(rover)#Sol_17_flash_me...
The companies you mentioned also thought they were doing “the right thing” in the name of civilization. Clearly they were mistaken. Times truly never change.
Bootup / checkout for a rover takes longer than you might think. Day 1-3 are probably (I have no special information) verification activities and "commissioning". Some of that will involve taking images, yes, but it'll take time. Watch for them to say the mast is unstowed / operational. That has the images you've come to expect.
Nice. Wish I'd seen this ~15 years ago when I was doing a font renderer.
I think it's only for Launch HN (show HN is a link post, not a text post).

It doesn't seem to be for YC only. Here's an example from a non-YC co: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23466470
As far as licences go, though, the terms and conditions regulating usage of OpenStreetMap now fill not three documents, but three SECTIONS on the OpenStreetMap Foundation's wiki. However liberal these licences may be, for the money it would cost me to hire a lawyer to read through them, I could just buy access to a commercial service.
They do, from the link in the comment you replied to:

> Most often, Mars 2020 uses its ultra-high frequency (UHF) antenna (about 400 megahertz) to communicate with Earth through NASA's orbiters around Mars. Because the rover and orbiter antennas are within close range of each other, they act a little like walky-talkies compared to the long-range telecommunications with Earth provided by the low-gain and high-gain antennas.
The bias is against electoral manipulation and fake news. Hence the "hacked" materials removal.

> The policy on “hacked” materials is a good example that was selectively applied only against one side.

On the side that pushes fake news, yes. That's a good bias to have.
apparently list price for the RAD750 is $200,000! could you not externally harden the snapdragon for less?
I see it the other way around.

Some gamers are switching to AMD now that Nvidia cards are sold everywhere.

Meanwhile, companies are tied to CUDA, and AMD still doesn't have a similar API offering. There's some progress, but they're not there yet.
Perhaps when Russian or Chinese probes successfully land. They are both notorious for "borrowing" US software.
It's radio waves. I'm not sure what other transport layers you are expecting to use between Earth and Mars.

The latency is measured in minutes. Obviously something like TCP won't work. Typically they would use something like DTN.

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/engineering/techn...

Edit: Corrected hours to minutes. Brainfart on my part.
Catching Cyberbullies with Neural Networks
One should frame this quote and hang it in a hallway.
Where'd you get that?

> The mass- and power-constrained rover can achieve high data rates of up to 2 megabits per second on the relatively short-distance relay link to the orbiters overhead. The orbiters then use their much larger antennas and transmitters to relay that data on the long-distance link back to Earth.

> Transmission Rates Up to 2 megabits per second on the rover-to-orbiter relay link.

And using DSN Now, we can also see that the speed from Earth to those orbiters is also 2Mbps.
lol, so in other words, you're exactly the reason they're doing this.

Why did you think your university account was for "whatever random crap I want to put in it", and also as much data as I could ever want to use"?