skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Royal Navy wants powerful crewless robotic submarines to support its wars under the ocean. However, it has to decide what aspect that war will take. On February 16, it publicized it will begin accepting submissions from corporations and universities, to get an opportunity to test sensors, computers, and other payloads on one of its robot submarines.

These robotic submarines formally recognize as an Extra Large Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle (XLUUV) and it is under experimental research. Numerous countries and organizations have developed these big robot submarines, such as Boeing’s Echo Seeker and United Kingdom-built Manta. The experimental submarine that will be used for this competition is about 30 feet long and weighs almost 10 tons.
It's important to note that there are a handful of negative externalities created by market dominance. Even if it's not anticompetitive, it still creates systemic risk. The blast radius of an AWS outage is quite large. The tax should be proportional to the systemic risk created.

This holds for tariffs as well. If we are overly reliant on imported facemasks, we should tax them to subsidize a small amount of domestic production in case of catastrophe.
Ohh thanks, this is also a good idea.
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Check out Labelbox sometime if you're interested in a UI for detection pipelines for video w/ a GUI/IDE

Disclosure: I work here

https://labelbox.com/blog/teach-your-ml-model-to-perceive-ti...
Many people don't know that you can actually see some of these satellites in the sky as they pass overhead, without a telescope or anything. I made a site to help catch them, which has been on HN before: https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/
We don't let them do our banking.

They are not doing our banking.

It is just a credit card.

The twitter post is wrong. The dude did not pay for a service and he stopped getting that service.

Stop being so gullible.
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If Apple put more memory in these machines there would less thrashing.
Unfortunately, the decision to ignore the autocomplete attribute also makes it very hard to help the browser pick up the appropriate autofill username/password fields.

All browsers right now basically assume that if you have an input type="password", then the previous input type="text" must be the username field. And there's little you can do to change this without resorting to substantial hacks like using a hidden username-looking honeypot field to eat the poor browser behavior.

For example, imagine a pop-up confirmation box that asks you for your password before continuing. Or really just a "confirm password" field on any form. It can be very hard to get browser or extension password autofill to only affect that one field and not inject a username into some other field on the page. Password managers in browsers and extensions are surprisingly brain-dead, and they give us no tools to help them out.

To put UX first, especially around something as UX-sensitive as password autofill, you end up needing to put in a lot of extra work to make up for the browser's confidently-wrong implementations.

The original decision to ignore autocomplete="off" was probably the right move. But now that the autocomplete attribute has been overloaded with password manager concerns built in to web browsers these days, nobody has bothered to revisit the ordeal.
And just because you don't program outside of work hours, doesn't mean you're not passionate.

You're allowed to be passionate about something during work hours, and then different things after work.
Fwiw, done - using link at bottom.
Some of this does exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault
Why would anyone use a complex disaster that people are avoiding like the plague when they could just use other cryptocurrencies that didn't intentionally cripple their throughput to sell that hacky second layer?

Ethereum dwarfs everything else in transaction volume and bitcoin cash has already consistently passed bitcoin in transactions per day.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-btc-eth-bc...
Man, this is such an excellent analogy. Well done!
It's really not about the word. The word was clearly a smoke screen for the NYT leadership to oust a labor leader. They even claimed they had handled the issue internally when it actually happened, and have a history of using the word frequently, when writing about it in the meta sense. By the time the Daily Beast got a hold of it--mind you, a tabloid that no legitimate paper should ever have to work about--it was a 2-year-old, cold story.

This is such a clear-cut case of railroading someone that the only reason I can imagine that everyone here is talking about use-vs-mention is because the author took so damn long to get to this point. I guess journalists really do need good copy editors.
Crypto imagines themselves as this, but in reality it’s got all the creative spirit and intellectual rigor of multi-level marketing. It’s the most depressing computer scene ever.

There isn’t anything with the same mystique as the demoscene because everything is so accessible. You can consume endless pages about any topic at will. It’s not like 1992 when getting copies of demos might require legwork around town with floppies in hand.

That said, VR is probably the closest thing. You need hardware and it’s immersive, which means it’s not something you can consume while switching between browser tabs. There are lots of creative people doing interesting things in the space, even at big companies.
My 5 year plans? Continue doing what I'm doing, but just be better at it
Oxford was going to open source their vaccine but the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (a big money donor) pressured them to sign an exclusive deal with AstraZeneca instead:

https://khn.org/news/rather-than-give-away-its-covid-vaccine...
"Kids these days":

> The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

― Socrates (~470BC - 399BC)
Do you have examples of the NYT cancelling someone for nonbigoted views?
Yeah, honestly I prefer to invest in companies whose founders are firmly in control so that they can take a longer, strategic view.
What they're saying is that malloc() can't be implemented in C, because C defines malloc() as having behavior that's not possible in C's memory model.

I think it is more possible in C++ due to placement new, though tcmalloc is probably still relying on language extensions.
Probably my favorite feature with fish is the improved globs. I can do

**.pdf

to recursively get all pdfs or

*{.flac,.mp3}

to only get flac and mp3 files from a directory.
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It's not. It happens to be an effective marketing vehicle for this particular audience, so you see it presented first and foremost, in an almost hyperbolic way. They conflate free speech infringements with basic service policies.

Doesn't mean that other Americans no longer consider free speech important.
Super cool. You should add college basketball ASAP - it's March!
> In this new broken up set of companies, what's stopping them from remerging like Bell? Also, what's stopping them from giving each other favorable partnerships?

The terms of the consent decree or judgement that gets issued. In terms of partnerships, the terms should require that all deals between the babyGs should be public, and a non-discriminatory, non-exclusive basis; along with requirements for some of the babyGs to not own or operate in some areas, or to only own or operate in some areas.

I think that could go a long way towards making things competitive.
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It's being removed from curricula because parents complained about the perceived racist effects of the actual teaching of the book done in the district, and the district leaders found it easier to ban the specific books than to either figure out if there was a pedagogical problem and, if so, address it.

The problem here is not “cancel culture", but “lazy elected politicians who don't take their duties seriously”.
This is whataboutism. Just because something may have always been, doesn't make it any less valid to talk about ending it.
That project is a great step forward to cutting the dependency on using fossil fuels as "reserve energy" for when demand exceeds what the grid of renewables can create. There are however some details to that design. The linked project storage is 75% capacity for 4 hours, and it usage is for solar and storage which has a daily charge and discharge cycle (customers will be daily buying the stored energy and thus repaying the storage investment on a predictable and daily basis).

In order for Germany to abandon the dependency of using fossil fuels for reserve energy the storage would need to have the capacity of the full grid, it would need to be able to last weeks, and the capacity of wind would need to be able to fill both the storage and grid demands at the same time.

If and people are willing to invest into wind power plants which overcapacity won't have a buyer but will simply be there in case the batteries need to be recharged, and people also investments into batteries which won't be discharged and generating revenue unless the weather makes wind production go below demand, then there exist a chance we can replace the fossil fueled based reserve energy with wind + storage.

Currently there does not seem to exist a single wind + storage project out there. I suspect the above economics is the reason for that.
This may not be relevant to your case but I don’t see it mentioned.

I have worked with several large tech companies where I did not sign the non compete. I didn’t bring it up as an issue but I very clearly didn’t sign or otherwise initial the paper work.
Strangely I have never once had one of those companies come back and ask me why I didn’t sign it.

I think that companies try to get what they can out of you.
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iOS uses ARM "pointer authentication codes". There's actually a newer extension called ARM "memory tagging extension" and it doesn't use it as far as I know.
Pretty incredible. I would like to see the assets to scale though, otherwise it seems crowded up there when it clearly isn't. It reminds me of all those graphics a year ago of the Australian bushfires where the fires were represented by huge graphics that were completely out of scale to the actual fire and folk actually believed that Australia was just charcoal!
> Turing being prosecuted for being gay

Excluding people because they exclude others is not the same as excluding people because of who they are.

Its the difference between ‘cancel culture’, and plain bigotry.

If you don’t want to be excluded, stop being a bully.
Well, besides things like Basecamp and HEY, I also use FastMail—which is where I store my calendars too. (Works just fine with iPhone/Fantastical/etc.) Currently working on a newsfeed reader which I dogfood daily. SkimFeed is a nice at-a-glance dashboard for tech feeds. Posting photos on a personal Tumblog after dumping Instagram. (As Automattic owns Tumblr, I'm glad to see the preservation of some nice old-school open web conventions.) I use DuckDuckGo for all my web searches. I don't know if Discord qualifies as "small web" but I'm grateful it's not polluted with awful ad-tech everywhere.
I would appreciate if you could indicate which comment you feel started the flamewar. I'm sure this is where we disagree.

And it's rather naive to believe you don't read all comments through the filter of your own worldview.
No, I haven't considered that shutting down expression was punk.

But I was never in the punk scene, all I know is that it was fun music that caused a lot of unwarranted fuss from those against punk music being heard. Maybe I'm wrong.

>punk rock was pretty much in line with what we consider cancel culture. It's an attack on the establishment

Calling cancel culture "anti-establishment" is like a congressperson running for reelection by campaigning against "washington insiders." Like, yeah, you can make the case that it's not a 1-to-1 match with the establishment status quo, but only because the status quo is the vector sum of a hodgepodge of mutually exclusive but still individually powerful components.
>They were tiny, and they were mild by comparison.

As I quoted in my other comment, there was a "great depression" and then another, and then the third, which is what we now know by that name. That seems to be the establishment view of history.
It's more of a problem with college sports, but I'd also love the ability to favorite teams so their games are always at the top.
Their single biggest expense is “commission and other transaction related expenses” which clocks in at just over 3B. I don’t know how much control they really have over commissions.
> I fundamentally don't understand why the Times didn't explain this early on. Not necessarily release these statements verbatim, but certainly provide some of this context.

This message is too complex to be accurately relayed across the Internet. It's a virtual certainty that it will be mangled into headlines like "NY Times reporter uses racial slurs, denies systematic racism, endorses blackface." If you've played the children's game Telephone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers) then you have seen this in action.

The message they released was simple enough to hopefully cause the scandal to go away.
> In this new broken up set of companies, what's stopping them from remerging like Bell?

Continued antitrust enforcement. Nobody should ever have approved those mergers. We can learn from our mistakes.

> Also, what's stopping them from giving each other favorable partnerships?

Why would they want to do that once they have separate owners?

> just create some sort of progressive taxation as a function of users.

How does this solve the monopoly problem at all? It has nothing to do with taxation.
I believe Namecheap only offers registrar lock (clientUpdateProhibited), not registry (serverUpdateProhibited). There are very few registrars that offer registry lock and they're all "enterprise", probably because the relationship required for registry unlock protocols to work doesn't scale with retail customers.

Off the top of my head: NetSol, MarkMonitor, CSC, maybe Cloudflare. There are more that will do it for specific ccTLDS (.ca has lots, for example).
We evidently need to self-flog, even when you're asian. ;)
Well, sure. Strictly speaking, jus solis or jus sanguinis. e.g.: You are born in international waters to US citizen parents.
The consequences aren't "natural." They are simply a consequence of the fact that there are more of them than there are of you, and they are brutal pack animals. You are right to not expect the world to change, but you must know that if the numbers were reversed it would be them who are "defective", not you.
Just in case you weren't aware - be careful copy / pasting into terminal.

https://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
I love projects like this, but an almost always present issue is a severe lack of showing the results.

I looked through the docs, through the other project links, even at the YouTube channels linked from other projects.

It seems that no one with one of these adapters has a decent phone camera and tripod or a hdmi capture device to show off the results.
For anyone to use it as part of their everyday vocabulary would be very problematic for them. This journalist uttered it in asking for clarification. “Did the person actually say ‘literal quote’?”

It’s like being offended by being asked by an investigator to describe a personal crime. Of course reviewing the trauma is not pleasant, but it may be necessary to establish facts. “Did they do this to you; what did you say to them, how did they respond, etc”
why do so many people confusedly assume free speech means forcing printers to print neo-nazi propaganda. Whatever happened to freedom of association? Some businesses and people don’t want to associate with neonazis and don’t want to be known as the company that helps neonazis.

Why do people who espouse free speech want to take away freedom to choose who one associates with?
Right, but you're trying to achieve your meritocracy by pulling people down instead of helping people up. This isn't a footrace, and it's not a zero sum game. When you say something like "we need to take money away from rich kids so they have to work like everyone else", you're doing nothing but harm. You may feel the people you're harming have it coming, but that's still what you're doing.

The idea that we have to come up with a good reason _not_ to heavily tax people is backwards. The only reason you need is that people have rights. A man owns what is his and you have absolutely no right to it.

This is all beside the pont anyway. Increasing tax revenue will not solve any of the problems you are trying to solve. As I said elsewhere, you could tax 100% of every billionaire in this country, leaving them homeless, and you would not have collected enough money to fund the federal government for even one year. You could sell off your entire "aristocracy" and it wouldn't make a dent. The strategy of "just spend more money" does not work.
> Don't pretend any other country have as much surveillance capability as the US does.

The level of surveillance in Xinjiang vastly exceed that of anywhere else in the world except for military installations.
The internet Archive has a repository of demos for DOSBox and various consoles:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_demoscene

https://archive.org/details/consoledemos

Looks like they also have a 2008 documentary(?) that I haven't heard of before:

https://archive.org/details/demoscene/demoscene.ogv
Twitter cracks down on Covid vaccine misinformation
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Ratting people out to the government is hip now... crazy times.
I don't know about what happened in Chicago. I'll take everybody's word for it that it was worse than Philly.

I wasn't quite able to articulate this last night, but the original comment I was replying to implies that random white people were subjected to arson, and that it was done retributively - because they were white.

If that happened in Chicago, I hadn't heard about it and I'm not particularly interested in arguing about it.

But, as I said in my other comment, nothing of the sort happened in Philly.
NSFW, true. I mispelled it.
I've been using fish for 3 months now after using Bash for 20. I'm probably going to switch back in the next few days.

I LOVE fish but they went out of their way to not be compatible with Bash (like (pwd) instead of $(pwd) for expanding) that break a lot of existing scripts.

The breaking point for me was when the rust/cargo env didn't work in it because they don't have compatible case statements.