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> GitHub is now a MS property, so in the future VS Code is expected to be more and more integrated into GitHub. That pretty much catches all the young and hip audience in a MS owned behavior loop. Which certainly shows some very competent strategic planning.

And so, it baffles me even more that AWS weren't in the conversation to acquire GitHub (or if they were, that they failed to acquire them). Seems like a huge miss to me.

> Meanwhile, JetBrains seems to be staying afloat mostly thanks to hard work and sheer luck.

Setting aside their colossal IDE efforts for a minute, Kotlin and the ecosystem JetBrain's building alone shows their level of competence. Truly amazing to put in so much effort while also making the business work. I mean, in a world of F/OSS languages, frameworks, and IDEs this is no mean feat.
Alas, there goes my post (currently at -3).

Although I didn't elaborate about the libel, I do believe there is a strong separation between a "malicious site" and a "site that has malicious content".

If someone encoded an image in an HN post encoded as base64, that could be definitely malicious content. But that would not make HN a malicious site. No reasonable person would argue that. I would argue that claiming it was a malicious site is the heart of this libel.

Now, as a converse, we've seen sites that are just textspam with links that are all .exe or .com or likewise. They have no legitimate purpose other than getting higher scores in search engines. And their content is full of malware of all sorts. This would be an example of a malicious site.

On top of that, nobody mentioned about my call to email the webmaster/abuse/admin contacts at a domain. Even an email and then 1h later would provide some sort of "whoops we didn't catch that" buffer. A legitimate site will respond quickly to warnings of malware or hacked site.

Of course, we all on HN know about the ills of contacting Google for issues like this. Unless you have a Social Media Escalation (aka: this type of post), you pretty much guaranteed will have no recourse. That is a whole another level of problem, especially if they control (they do!) the browsers of millions of people. Where are the checks and balances? There are none.

And we also come to the issue of secret charges, secret evidence, secret judges, secret punishments, and no appeals. The common saw here is "We dont want to tell bad people what they're doing bad". This doesn't fly with our government, and shouldn't fly with mega companies (read: monopolies or oligopolies). If I'm doing something wrong, I should be shown what I'm doing wrong, and a window of time to remediate. (And I'd argue that once something's detected, then enhanced scanning could be done.)
> Those don't go on my CV/resume, and if they did then people looking could look up the grant and see I am not in fact listed as an author or contact.

It's entirely expected to list accomplishments and responsibilities on your CV/resume. If you brought in $X, say so. If a prospective employer is skeptical they can call your references.

Edit: Many (most?) grants don't technically list any authors anyway, just recipients.
It's not "power dynamics", it's freedom to innovate
What I've found generally, is it's all about curation. You have to be ruthless about curating at all times. If some source that used to have a great S/N ratio, suddenly doesn't, then drop it.
Fully agree. Also, if you need to debug your code that runs in kubernetes pods, VS Code also smokes other IDEs. In my case, not only the API calls are forwarded from the cluster to my debugging session but I can also consume during debugging some Kubernetes services by using their DNS names. Just awesome.
I imagine that power consumption is proportional to amount of data and inversely proportional to latency and data rate. To minimize latency, the transmitting device needs to send smaller packets more often, leading to poor efficiency due to overhead. The faster each packet can be sent, though, the less time the transmitter needs to be powered on.

I suspect that the only difference in power consumption would be due to the modulations that wifi uses vs. bluetooth, i.e. wifi is able to cram more bits into the same amount of RF energy.

The tricky bit with radio comms is that you absolutely have to be able to cope with data loss. The easiest, lowest latency way is to just encode the data in a way that allows it to degrade gracefully. The listener is aware of the data loss, but isn't bothered by it. This implies that there's a lot of redundant information in the data. That is at odds with compression, though, because compression is all about removing redundant information; a loss of any bit of data results in severe degradation. Radio links that send compressed streams of data need to either rely on acknowledgements with retransmission on data loss, or they need to add just enough redundant information for the receiver to reconstruct the original data stream even after expected packet loss. The algorithms that provide that "forward error correction" work by distributing redundant information across multiple packets, which inherently adds latency since the receiver needs multiple packets to decode (or recreate) the payload of single packets.
be wary of bakkt, there was talk a few years ago about them issuing fake bitcoin and trying to valuate it like real bitcoin. caitlin long mentions it in an interview here. https://youtu.be/kxpVO6RE09E

proper custodial services exist with bank charters like avanti, kraken and anchorage if you want a bank that guarantees real bitcoin and not some paper derivative made out of nothing.
It can with BT5.
The article seems to be saying that there really is some physical phenomenon occurring here -- effectively, "cross-feed" between coupled fields -- but that this phenomenon doesn't obey the relations that define a "particle". Or, more metaphorically, a particle is more of a squishy, wobbly blob (with a rather ill-defined boundary) than a rigid packet, and as it wobbles "in and out" of the individual fields it's coupled to, its effect on those fields will vary.
Yeah, just provide like logs what specifically got you taken down or something. Anything.
Well whats the compound? Perhaps someone else reading it could benefit from this too.
Is anyone really of the view that most Chinese are evil? I don't think that's what calling them a hostile nation is meant to mean.

The problem is that the Chinese government, who ARE hostile, take advantage of the fact that we treat most Chinese as non-hostile. Nobody knows how many Chinese students and workers in the West are essentially spies for the Chinese government, but we do know it is enough to be worried about.

I'm not sure what we can do about that but I don't think we can pretend it's not an issue.
It's just a symptom of the pandemic and upper-middle class people having too much money and time. Everything about decentralized, blockchain, token, are just made-up words like you see around stock analysis. They do not exist, people just want to gamble. It'll go away when everyone can go to bars again.
Look around you.

The Bauhaus is everywhere.

Fuller nowhere.

Because the Bauhaus made stuff and Fuller had theories, and while fuller was stuck on domes the children of the Bauhaus were making hyperboloids. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hyperboloid_structures

Fuller mostly made arguments instead of changing the world.

The Dymaxion house is great if you have a helicopter and need to store triangles and don't mind the curves at the corner.

The geodesic dome house only sounds like a good idea if you ignore the idea of living in a building. At some point even stoned hippies return to lucidity.

His ideas were different in large part because they weren't very good and their best part was their conventionality...yurts and domes have been around for thousands of years.

Fuller was a clever engineer.

Clever engineering isn't usually an end in itself.

The Bauhaus wasn't tech posers.

It was artistic posers.
This is still 1997 for NFTs - there will likely be more to come in the next decade
Came here to say this - I was looking to see how compression compared to timescale’s stated 91% compression.

https://docs.timescale.com/latest/using-timescaledb/compress...
> We never allow anything other than video and image files either.

I would have thought this would be an excellent way to not host malware.
In my ten years of Clojure, half of them professionally, I can probably count the amount of times I've used recur (outside of playing around) on my fingers. I typically don't need to use it because the sequence functions provide a better, higher level alternative. I see recur as quite a low level building block and the last thing I'll reach for. I'm pretty sure I've never used a nested recur.
Upon coming up on sound guys article it became apparent why Apple has cut the cord. Their compression is top notch - I have experimented with various bt headsets/headphone/bt-amps. Apple AAC implementation keeps layering and detail much more compared to AptX HD counterparts - using same devices across the range.
This right here is what could get me to switch.

I could theoretically host an IDE on a workstation and develop from anywhere with a browser.

Unfortunately it's not ideal yet - remote editor wouldn't let me touch files not owned by session user (even when I could sudo) and similar issues.
As someone who used to develop in Delphi for my day job, but has been mostly out of the loop for the last ~10 years, this really got me curious: do people actually use VSCode for Delphi? I mean, Delphi already comes with an IDE, including a GUI ("Forms") designer - that was its killer feature back in the nineties, that you could slap together a GUI app as quickly as in good ol' Visual Basic, but backed by a compiled language. Maybe the text editor is better in VSCode, but still I imagine it's pretty hard to deliver the same experience as with the "native" Delphi IDE? So I can understand that JetBrains doesn't see a huge market for that (unless they could become the official Delphi IDE, like they did with Android Studio).
Hi all,

The Rijks Museum has an API which offers access to a large part of their collection, including high quality images. Now that museums are closed I wanted a way to experience art so I built Random Rijks. It will show you a random object from the Rijks Museum collection, including objects not usually on display.

Any feedback is welcome!
The magnets are the reactor.

But, building a whole new reactor complex would involve moving a great deal of money over a long period, which is the real point of the whole operation. Big Construction is synonymous with Big Corruption, the true reason for fission plant construction cost overruns, as for municipal tunnels and for military programs.

Meanwhile, renewables get cheaper every year, and projects produce marketable power immediately.

A recent development is floating solar on hydro and municipal reservoirs, and building it into roofs over canals, reducing evaporation, algae, and toxics production, without consuming land, and offering easy tie-in to existing distribution networks.

Such synergy is nowhere near exhausted. For example, a farm can erect a wind turbine far from distribution networks, and use the intermittent power to produce ammonia from just air and water. Ammonia is easily and cheaply stored indefinitely, and is directly useful as fertilizer injected directly into furrows behind plow blades. It is also directly useful as fuel for farm machinery, which can easily accommodate the somewhat larger tankage vs. diesel fuel.
You can run the pod service on your own computer as well or on your own VPC in any cloud. Our TrinPod Server can be run on any ubuntu machine anywhere, we plan to get it to install on Raspberry Pi too. The Solid protocol is a peer to peer protocol. You just need to have 80/443 open to collaborate with the rest of the world.
Yes I love it
Amazon’s Mars Rover Doc “Good Night Oppy” Will Tell Mars Exploration Rover Human
They provide some SSD-Mobilenet-v2 here:

https://github.com/dusty-nv/jetson-inference

Yeah, it works. I get 140 fps on a Xavier NX. It's super impressive for the wattage and size of the device. But they want you to train it using their horrid "DIGITS" interface, and it doesn't support any more recent networks.

I really wish Nvidia would stop trying to reinvent the wheel in training and focus on keeping up with being able to properly parse all the operations in the latest state-of-the-art networks which are almost always in Pytorch or TF 2.x.
Oh I guess I'll switch or get a new video player like mplayer.
Wow screw this channel for such dumb shit.
Interesting thing about the switch as a computing device is that it has no intrinsic size limits (other than physics itself).

The vast majority of machines cannot fulfill their function below a certain size. A car or a stove can't be miniaturized but "pure" switches can.

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> And that’s another observation that could only have been made closer to the start than today, with the perspective to see the before and after: if it served to entrench and not upend the existing class system, was the computer revolution a revolution at all?

Well, which existing class system, eh? Ask the East coast elites what they think of the new upstart West coast elites. Silicon Valley is young, the people who won big out here are the challenge to the old class system. It might feel like FAANG are "the establishment" but the fight is still raging.

As far as liberating the lower classes to upend the existing class system, yeah, that idea sure turned out to be incredibly naive. :(
Wow can you tell us more?
Evaluating Object Detection Models Using Mean Average Precision – KDnuggets
I signed up for HN 14 years ago yesterday (whoa!).

The biggest thing I've gotten out of it over the past 14 years is meeting a lot of interesting people working on cool gear. People who I wouldn't have known about at all otherwise.

The second biggest thing is exposure to all those cool projects. I love new programming languages and this has been the most reliable place to learn about them. Almost never from an announcement, but from the early users of those languages trying to convince everyone to join them.

I don't spend nearly as much time as I used to here, but there was one other intangible benefit early on -- HN helped me be more precise in my written communications. Not really knowing anyone here but wanting to contribute forced me to think through the things that I was saying much more than hanging out on irc or Slashdot.
Ironically I had the opposite issue a couple of weeks ago: I've found a phishing website (for Facebook) that was hosted on a Google server and was actively used. I sent an email to Google's abuse email address - got an automated reply back saying basically "use this other form instead". Did that, never got a reply back. I have reported the website to their SecureSearch (or whatever the name is) product, entered the URL and all the related infos: nada. The site is still up and running, phishing users, and no alerts are triggered for Chrome users... Sad, really sad.
As with many tools, it mostly depends on how you use it, assuming that there is something of value for you to start with.

Let me give you a few examples to illustrate:

- Reddit: mostly a waste of time for me; I rarely found anything of great interest; however, "killing time" sometimes is useful for me, even though I should find better ways to do so (e.g. take a 10 minutes walk, instead of spending 10 minutes of reddit browsing)

- Facebook: I rarely use it, because it's not only a waste of time, it's also a place where I see the worst part of my friends being shown. A lot of selfies, a lot of "let me show you how cool / rich / hot / lucky I am", even for people that I know aren't like that in real life.

I also recognize it as such, because at the beginning (8-10 years ago), I used Facebook that way. I used it to post pictures from exotic places I visited for work, diagrams of the globe with my numerous flights, etc. (at the time I was flying 100+ times a year, I had a very cool job (tech evangelist for AWS for a large chunk of the world), and I visited tens of different countries and cities each year)

- Hacker News, on the other hand, has mostly great content. I have been spending time here almost every day for the past 10+ years, and I pretty much don't regret any of it. To the contrary: me being extremely curious, I found a ton of relief in being able to read stuff not just related to work / software / IT, but also about other "geek" / "nerdy" things. I've learned so much. I even got to "know" a couple of dozen frequent posters, and with some of them we exchanged emails every once in a while.

But in addition to the links themselves, I think it's really valuable to read comments and participate. I think that the moderators (@dang, etc) have done an incredible job in keeping this place mostly civilized and high quality.

I don't think it's for everybody; and your experience might be different. But perhaps you should give it a proper try before giving up on it.

Hope this helps.
Thanks. Turns out I already have remotestorage.io bookmarked - clearly I need to get better organized.
> If someone wants a slightly more comedic take

it seems sort of rare on the Internet, particularly in videos, for someone to NOT be doing a 'comedic' take, along with a jump cut every 5 seconds, background music; all kinds of stuff that feels like it is desperately trying to do everything it can all at once to make someone not hit the back button. ironically, hitting the back button is the first thing i do when a video starts with 'Wats up Guyz' or something along those lines. the original post is a breath of fresh air, straight to the point. I wish the Internet was more like this in general.
Air Force Says Its First Hypersonic Missile Will Make Inaugural Flight
We have an advantage here because we are building on top of existing technologies (WebAssembly, Wasmer, …), but combining them in a novel way. Developers in our community are already building web frameworks in Rust, while utilising features of Lunatic today. I believe that being able to provide value this early is going to play an important role in widespread adoption.
IIRC, AppleScript was once usable in languages other than English.
Cryptocurrency is vulnerable to the situation where the only relevant stores of value are food, water, and weapons.
The first one, 100%.

The state where big companies are make the second option impossible. That may be unfortunate, I don’t know, but that’s really where we’re at.

There is absolutely no way to cure big companies from all the shit they have accumulated. For them, the actual restart is to go to Cloud. Hopefully they will not go simply bare metal, because then they can recreate the exact same shit but in the Cloud.
Like many others, I launched my startup here, and yes we got tons of traffic that week. There is another benefit, which is the validation that comes with having been at the top of HN.

It is very powerful to be able to say: “my Show HN post was at #1 for over 12 hours”. [1] It tells potential funders/partners that your idea is very popular in a community that they respect.

I have also found a couple important partners through HN. In December, I was deep in a thread when I saw a comment mentioning an extensible iOS browser that a YC company was soon to launch. [2] I reached out and they’re now one of our partners. Ditto for a popular podcast website. [3]

HN has a lot of visitors who are willing to embrace new things, and who are fast-moving. This can be very valuable if you’re looking for early adopters and partners.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6335784

2: https://www.insightbrowser.com

3: https://programaudioseries.com
Sanctions lead to widespread suffering & even death among the civilian population. Why do you want the Chinese people to suffer or die? Sanctions are scarcely less psychotic than bombing a school or hospital. The violence is just hidden in life expectancy reduction & many other metrics instead of "N civilians' bodies ripped apart by bombs".

Oh, and targeted sanctions - aren't. Entities will view any sanctions as a legal risk and find it easier to just stop trading with the country at all. See Iran with medical supplies during the pandemic.

This idea that sanctions are a peaceful or nonviolent alternative to bombing things needs to die. In the 90s the sanctions against Iraq led to the deaths of half a million civilians and caused multiple successive UN humanitarian coordinators in Iraq to resign, calling the sanctions regime "genocidal". How anyone can continue to view sanctions as a favorable option is beyond me.
Because the people who own and control everything would rather build up a government like the CCP so they can better control the "useless eaters" (as Henry Kissinger put it).

"Made in China" is exactly the type of curse that the global elite like to put on people. It's plain as day what's coming next and yet, everybody has just accepted it since the 70s. China will be the world superpower to replace the US and apparently we're all fine with that.
> One of the biggest contributors to developer happiness and productivity over the last 20 years has been to escape this tyranny.

We've only replaced the tyranny of deadline crunch with the tyranny of daily micromanagement. You can't even wipe your own ass without so much as a Jira ticket and half a dozen people signing off on it.

And despite all of the rigmarole and rituals, you still have deadlines. Doesn't matter what the Jira board says. If some upper management dickweasel wants their feature, they will get it. Forget the story points and estimates.
I agree, I'd love for this to not happen in the future. Let's provide extensive family planning education, those are excellent ideas.

Let's also help those that have been left behind though. We have the ability to help everyone.
Isn't eclipse also an open source ecosystem too? that said, I would rather work with either Jetbrains or VS code than eclipse.
Engadget confirmed it via Apple.

https://www.engadget.com/apple-imac-pro-discontinued-1551254...

> If you were hoping to buy an iMac Pro for some serious work, you'd better act quickly. 9to5Mac reports (and Apple has confirmed to Engadget) that Apple is winding down sales of its all-in-one workstation. You can still buy one, but it's limited to the base 10-core Xeon configuration and only available "while supplies last." You'll have to be patient, too, as orders are taking three to four weeks as we write this.
From what I see Google should now be considered an active threat. You have to design your system knowing they will eventually act against you, either your domains or your accounts. And your chances to get it fixed are slim, unless you’re able to get some public outrage.

Really a disgusting company.
Even just using the correct language terms is helpful. IntelliJ modules contain packages, because that's how Java works, which makes it super confusing when your modules are python packages and its subunit (called package in the UI) is a python module.
It still has the "social news site" vibe of the mid 00's.
As an only English speaker - this is lovely to see!
It's a question that a B+ student in high-school physics could answer with a few minutes of googling.

If that's beyond the capabilities of AI, then it obviously isn't living up to the hype.