skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Profiling and replacing the algorithms that matter is much more efficient than looking at each usage.

I think this speaks to my point. If you are deciding which algorithms suffice, you are creating standards to be followed just as with other engineering disciplines.

>Then you start having discussions about every algorithm being used on collections of 10 or 100 elements, it doesn't really matter to the problem to be solved

If you’re claiming it didn’t matter on the specific problem, then you’re essentially saying it’s not risk-based. The problem here is you will tend to over-constrain design alternatives regardless if it decreases risk or not. My experience is people will strongly resist this strategy as it gets interpreted as mindlessly draconian.

FWIW, examining specific use cases is exactly what’s done in critical applications (software as well as other domains). Hazard analysis, fault-tree analysis, and failure-modes effect analysis are all tools to examine specific use cases in a risk-specific context.

>But here again, at least for the systems that matter, we have specific rules.

I think we’re making the save point. Standards do exactly this. That’s why in other disciplines there are required standards in some use cases and not others (see my previous comment contrasting aerospace to less risky applications)
Weaving a product into a film or television program may be just about acceptable - whether payed for or not (the Modern Family Apple episode or advertising in Blade Runner stand out).

But adding/replacing ads in “classic” well regarded movies really destroys any notion that these are works of art or classics in any way.
To exist, or not to exist?

Or perhaps:

To continue to exist, or to cease to exist?

Or, if you want to make a phone call in one of Vonnegut's stories:

2 B R 0 2 B
Should companies like Shell be compensated by the positive externalities of fossil fuel production?
An IRC network without its users is worth nothing though. Anyone can trivially spin up a new IRC network for the cost of a domain name and a VM to host it on. The hard part is getting anyone to care (and thus to use it).

If you run FreeNode into the ground and cause all the users to flee, there's nothing left, just a name with negative brand value (like Enron).
Yeah, I felt the same way. I think, however, that smartphones will change as humanity spreads out a bit. On mars, a smartphone will need to deal with only local servers. On deep space, it'll need to mesh network with surrounding devices.

Needs drive innovation.
Both economical and political, as it will increase Belarus's dependence on Russia.
Hugh Hoppe, from Microsoft, wrote some fundamental progressive-mesh code that he showed at SIGGRAPH '97 using this model. Instead of the code having to choose from different model resolutions (like the original four bunny models), the algorithm would allow DirectX to reduce the vertex count based on the rendered size of the object (1 pixel only needs 1 vertex!) to save compute cycles.

I wonder if geometry compression is still a thing given the performance increases of GPUs. I haven't done 3D driver work since DirectX 5....
Do we need any more reason to completely abandon mass media movies, music, etc.? If nothing is sacred to them, why should it be to me?

I am well aware of the history of product placements, but this just brings the reality to the forefront: you and I are viewed as nothing more than marketing targets and advertisement receptacles. It's dystopian.
neovim 0.5 is not quite out (but it's real close).

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/milestone/19

I've been using a neovim nightly along with VSC and Alexey Svetliakov's Neo Vim extension. His extension requires 0.5.
>I still think DRM should be banned and paying for content should be super cheap - say per movie $1 for HD file download and $2 for a 4k version

Sounds like you need to go and produce some content and distribute it this way to show the world the way to englightenment. Please come back and post a Show HN on how well it worked out for you.
That may have been helped by the fact that SG-1 got the green light for 4 full seasons right off the bat, so it gave showrunners the opportunity to write a cohesive and comprehensive story which really laid the foundation for the franchise after the original movie.

I don't have a source handy, but I recall reading about that many years ago.
Yea this has been happening in F1 broadcasts for a while already.
Overwhelming and Collective Murder
> This is known as the Lost Cause myth

No, the Lost Cause myth is not that the North was fighting for the Union, it was that the South was defending against Northern aggressionn rather than to prevent the perceived threat of future abolition.

The aims of opposing sides in a war are often not simple inverses of each other. The South fought for slavery, but the North (especially the slave states in the Union) did not fight against it.
Wide deployment of a scalable and useful crypto will make a lot of things obsolete.
A brand new account to spout climate change denialism... how brave of you
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_Netherlands_v._Ur...

> The case, while not the first climate change litigation,[16] the original 2015 ruling against the Netherlands was heralded worldwide as the first successful tort action against a government to address climate change to protect human rights, an area otherwise known as climate justice.[7] The ruling on the Netherlands case led to similar climate justice lawsuits in other countries, including Belgium, France, Ireland, Germany, New Zealand, Britain, Switzerland and Norway. [11]

Hopefully there are ongoing litigations that will hold Norway liable as well.

https://www.urgenda.nl/en/themas/climate-case/global-climate...

https://peoplesclimatecase.caneurope.org/

http://climatecasechart.com/non-us-climate-change-litigation...
The same thing happened with our local linux user's group #cialug
Does it matter that much? Both are good.
Constellation Games, The Martian, Too Like the Lightning, Moving Mars, Nexus, Blue Remembered Earth,and The Caryatids are some hopeful SF that's come out recently that I recommend.
From the Wikipedia article:

"These authors observed that a communication under the copula ban can remain extremely unclear and imply prejudice, while losing important speech patterns, such as identities and identification . . .Bourland sees specifically the "identity" and "predication" functions as pernicious, but advocates eliminating all forms for the sake of simplicity. In the case of the "existence" form (and less idiomatically, the "location" form), one might (for example) simply substitute the verb 'exists' "

From the Appendix of 1984:

"So did the fact of having very few words to choose from. Relative to our own, the Newspeak vocabulary was tiny, and new ways of reducing it were constantly being devised. Newspeak, indeed, differed from most all other languages in that its vocabulary grew smaller instead of larger every year. Each reduction was a gain, since the smaller the area of choice, the smaller the temptation to take thought. . . Like various other words in the B vocabulary, duckspeak was ambivalent in meaning. Provided that the opinions which were quacked out were orthodox ones, it implied nothing but praise, and when The Times referred to one of the orators of the Party as a doubleplusgood duckspeaker it was paying a warm and valued compliment."
I was also put off by it, but it does end up going in a nice pseudo-hard scifi direction once you get to the end of season 3. It respects the physical limitations of human technology while providing a pretty neat what-if.

I was also ok with the Epstein drive. It's a nice little plot enabler. "Yeah, space colonization is laughably implausible, but what if we had just this one piece of magic technology?"
Oh! I thought qntm was familiar. I think I read Ra a while back (probably also on an HN recommendation).

I only read the blog version, I'll definitely pick up the kindle version.
While I think this would be great, is there any example of this in the real world? I can't think of anything that is gaining even a minutia of traction that is like this.

And I'm not going to count people hoping the technology catches up with the ideals here.
We Just Held the Biggest In-Person Linux Event of the Last Year
Beef, at least, contributes in an outsized way (per kilogram, say) to climate change-related disasters and water shortages. While there are many causes of these harmful effects, it makes sense to address the biggest ones, including banning them.
Never heard of that. Just made it up :)
Even the 3.5" were floppy inside, they just had a hard case around it.
> while what they're doing is trying to build their own new house.

I'd say they're just trying to rebuild their old house. Once all the dust settles in a few months, I expect Libera Chat will be pretty much the same as FreeNode was, with all the same channels being run by the same people, with the exception that I'll have to register a new account with NickServ.
I suppose their VR hardware would be the exception.

SteamOS, Steam Machines and their controller all got abandoned even though they all seemed like pretty good ideas.
Just another variant of deepfakes. All movies are “fakes” by definition. They also retrofit ads into live sporting events covering other billboards for over a decade now. None of this is new in fact.

Some people might even prefer the tracking part:

“So if you like wine then the hero of a film could be drinking a particular bottle that you might be tempted to try. Or if you are teetotal the star might be sipping on a bottle of branded water.”

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Wonder how they will redo the dystopian The Running Man with ads:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running_Man_(1987_film)

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And while at it we already edit text and whitewash news and books. How about adding product placements from finance companies to The Merchant of Venice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice
Even good medical masks didn’t protect Li Wenliang. There was always agreement about well fitted n95 but we’re told, even by your linked article not to use those. Sorry but this seems like politics not science. Obviously if you layer enough masks you can almost get to n95 levels of protection but why not just use an n95 at that point?
> Safari is the new IE. It's stagnated in the same way IE did, which has slowed the progression of web standards.

Chrome is not like IE in that it stagnates the web. It's like IE in that it reinforces the dominance of nearly the entire web by a single company - Google.

Chrome, also much like IE, has a stranglehold on what makes it into new web standards and what doesn't. That the web standards are technically open is irrelevant, if Google de-facto rules the whole standardisation process. What they decide goes, goes. What they decide doesn't go, doesn't. The W3C standards process is neutered at best, and corrupt at worst.

Hypothetically, even if they weren't the dominant W3C stakeholder, their market share gives them control over the experience and control of an enormous amount of users. They can trial and enforce FLoC, Manifest v3, and other changes that take away user control. Once user expectations get readjusted, culture around such toxic features shifts and they become acceptable. I'd be surprised if that's the end of it.

Some websites only get tested on/built for Chrome ("works best with IE"), because "everyone only uses, develops and tests on Chrome anyways". Non-Webkit/Blink browsers are collateral damage. Most webby runtimes like Electron, and most third party browsers, will also embed some variant of Blink these days. This leads to browser engine monoculture, and is capital-B Bad. Firefox managed to outmanouver IE by being bug-for-bug compatible enough, but these days, web standards are two orders of magnitude or more complex. The effort needed to build a new, compatible browser engine is more akin to building something like Wine[0] from scratch.

[0] winehq.org

> The code is open-source, but they aren't obligated to grant access to their services.

Of course they aren't. But this is after letting open source projects do it for years. What changed now, all of a sudden? Besides, the open browsers that are more-or-less straight-up Chromium forks usually are not materially different. Just a different logo and maybe some telemetry ripped out, big deal. The kind of person that uses Google sync in a fork is the kind of person who already's in deep into the Google ecosystem. They really don't have a reason NOT to let people use FOSS-specific API keys, especially since any abuse they might get because of these is so miniscule it's not worth mentioning.
It's true: it is, but you have to strip away all the shit that's been piled on top to find the beauty. It reminds me of beautiful natural places like Yellowstone that have been ruined by over-tourism and careless people.
I find it hard to believe as well, although of course if you subscribe to prime for movies and TV you're probably more likely to use it for free deliveries as well.

But if the plan is to make Prime more popular there seem to be many, many simpler and probably cheaper ways to do that. It's as if McDonalds started a movie studio in order to sell Movie + Big Mac bundles.
In a similar vein, psdoom as an FPS for process "management": https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html
I'm not familiar with Gates's finances but are they as liquid as articles like these make them out to be?
I'm disappointed it seems nobody thought of the "Don't go to irc.libera.chat, freenode.net is much better!"-Topic joke yet.
That's correct. The республика(republic) in question - Kalmykia, is part of the Russian *federation*.
Why did Valve get out of the AAA game development business? It seems like hardware has largely been a mistake for them. Sure, I can have 20 different variants of an x86 computer and various HMD interfaces, but if all the games suck ass what's the point?

Valve is still surfing on the inertia of their initial software-based innovations, and is only continuing to cruise along by siphoning off others in their (lightly) curated market.

How much money is sitting in the coffers at Valve Software? What practical force prevents leadership from allocating just 1% of that pile of cash to something like TF3? It almost feels like we are being intentionally suffocated by our entertainment industry these days. It's the exact same story at Blizzard/Activision, EA, etc., but at least in those cases you can blame the publicly-traded aspect of the organizations.
Note that this relates to its collision history not being special as it relates to thin/thick disk. I believe the Milky Way is still thought to be atypically large for a spiral galaxy, well above the median size. It's small compared to the large ellipticals like M87 but they are relatively rare. Be proud that we live in a major spiral!
Surprisingly, there's a connection to the topic at hand if you look at the parallel of prohibition and economic situations resulting from highly regulated markets.
IMO pinnacle of UI/IX is the F-15 cockpit: https://youtu.be/zikI2fazPLo

Completely opposite of what the Expanse UX/UI is. No touchscreens, no transparency, no sexy decoration, zero ambiguity, no distractions. Everything is functional first, ergonomic, clear and straightforward.

I kind of wish Sci-fi authors would propel analog UIs. Touchscreens and manipulating things at an arms length - try it for 10 mins and see how tired your arm gets.

I’d like to see a future that’s totally opposite of what everyone is praising in this thread.
Carlos Maza's video on the pandemic (and Trump) provides a good explanation of this phenomenon IMO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJaE_BvLK6U

Basically we all see ourselves as the main character and don't think boring (i.e. systemic) problems will affect us. I'm not going to die from COVID like the rest because I'm special -- I'll die in an important way when it's narratively convenient, not like an extra killed off in act one to establish the stakes. Evil mega corps won't creep up on me, they'll introduce themselves spectacularly in a way that directly challenges me personally in a way that still allows me to defeat them and complete my hero's journey.
S1E3 Emancipation... one of the most disliked episodes by most fans but I agree that the scene was handled well... but the rest of the episode is not good. The writer of the episode (Katharyn Powers, who only worked on SG1 in season 1) was also the writer of the Star Trek TNG first season episode "Code Of Honor", which is frequently considered in the bottom 3 episodes of any Star Trek series, and many find very racist.
The Black Death ended. And yes, in those cases, herd immunity did it.

Did the Black Death really end because of herd immunity?
Giving Nheko a spin right now and while it is somewhat better than some of the other matrix clients I have tried, the UI is still much too close to discord/slack for my taste. And doesn't have enough knobs to disable features I don't want(*) (hopefully that will change over time). It feels quite a lot snappier than the other clients, which is good.

It wastes quite a bit of vertical space per message, but it's still somehow hard to see for me which lines were said by which person. Something with relative placement of avatar, nick and message is throwing me off.

(*) Granted, it may be a bit odd that I simply want to disable _all_ matrix features (avatars, replies, displaying images, honoring redactions, large multiline messages/embedded texts, typing notifications, etc.).
I haven't heard of any strains that were not seriously harmed by the vaccines.

We are going to put the vaccines in the arms of pretty much the entire western world and a good part of the third, with more to come.

We can, and should, kill this sucker just as dead as we did smallpox.
And it's time like these where you immediately get banned for ignoring said rules.
Amazon and Apple also have stream rentals. That said, I have Netflix (free with my T-mobile phone service) and HBO (free with my AT&T fiber internet) and Apple+ (free with the recently purchased iPads for the kids) and Hoopla (free from the library) and Kanopy (free from the library) and Disney+ (we actually pay for this one) and I never feel the need to say, I must watch this movie which isn't available on one of the services right now. If anything, I have too many options of what to watch.
Open the pod bay doors, Alexa
My point is that you won't fix ransomware by banning cryptocurrencies. A global cryptocurrency ban is very difficult to envisage, and will do very little to stop ransomwares. Offshore exchanges will still be a thing (it's already very common for US citizens to use offshore exchanges via VPNs in a regular basis), local p2p markets will still be a thing. But you now also banned honest actors and lost your main tool to regulate strictly what is happening domestically (i.e exchanges under your jurisdiction).
All of those are still supported. Pulling a Google would require them to stop supporting them.

Everybody stops building things that don't sell well. Very few continue supporting them.

I would not hesitate to buy hardware from Valve.
Isn't this a natural progression as the business grows? They specialized and now, they're expanding to fill a broader market? Similar to AMZ being a platform, but now they also sell and compete with sellers directly with AmazonBasic
Instagram lets users hide likes to reduce social media pressure
Do you have any citation? This is a common claim by deniers, many of whom are paid to create the illusion of scientific disagreement, but it's not true.

If you look at, for example, the 1990 IPCC report the subsequent 3 decades were within the report's estimated ranges:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/12/ipccs-climate-projec...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

Similarly, while certain people like to repeat the claim that scientists predicted global cooling in the 1970s it's grossly overstating the degree to which that was taken seriously by the academic community back then and how quickly it was conclusively rejected long before the turn of the century.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/that-70s-myth-did-cl...
Why is a channel needed? You can go straight from copyright holder to viewer.
How far away are we from adding product placement to reprints of art like the Mona Lisa, Sistine Chapel, etc?
Of course, but many services would require a registered VAT number to be able to fulfill a purchase or transfer to an organisation. Or rather, to set up such an account in the first place.

Frankly, WHOIS records is to crude a metric to really pass judgement on anything nowadays. The masked entries in the lookup for libera.chat i.e. "REDACTED FOR PRIVACY", are typical of registrars not overstepping GDPR compliance when making them public.
Differentiation might include some sort of game+device compatability badge or certification, built in steam controller and all that customization, and game discounts/rental program when played on the device.
Nonetheless, have the plaintiffs proved that Shell is responsible for plastic that is burned or thrown in the ocean, as opposed to those that burn, dispose or produce plastics? Have they proven that there is NO legitimate and lawful use of oil?

This is most likely a vacuous decision of one trigger happy judge with an ax to grind. The idea that global climate change is "tort" is absurd, the phenomenon is a defining feature of the Anthropocene.
I wonder if we’ll see some kind of cable box equivalent where private companies will go ahead and bundle a subset of all the content on the streaming service into a package to sell you. Possibly subsidized with ads…
1) Terminal

2) Neovide :

https://github.com/Kethku/neovide

3) Neovim-Qt :

https://github.com/equalsraf/neovim-qt
No issue with movie product placements in general, though they are sometimes a little bit absurd. Film makers should be a little bit more discerning. But i think to revise old movies is unacceptable. For one thing, the actors/ directors may not have agreed with the ethos of the products they are "advertising". And i think it would be plain vandalism almost revisionism. I don't particularly want to watch the great escape and be forced to see a great big "drink heineken" sign, or a billboard promoting Amazon Prime. It's a no from me.
Spectral Passages (2013)
It isn't, though... connecting to a new Discord group is basically a one-step operation. Connecting to a new IRC server might require some setup of the server, and possibly registration with Nickserv, which is a bot pretending to be a user that you interact with via /msg. And you need to connect to individual channels, and there's often no good way of sorting them by purpose rather than by what server they're present on, something that most users probably don't care about.

I use IRC every day, but I'm not going to pretend it's straightforwards compared to the alternatives. It absolutely is not.
I think in the near term a combination of good content and enjoyable user experience with viewing application is going to drive adoption.

I have a Roku and Samsung SmartOS TV. The only independent playback experiences that come close to Netflix, Prime Video, and Paramount+ in my limited experience are Plex, Apple TV, and for legacy stuff, TiVo.

I'll take this weird world of locked-in distribution channels for a few years while innovation progresses, and hope Plex and Apple TV win once innovation stops.
Judges hate this trick.
Having worked at Amazon, things that are doing fine will definitely get put on the back burner, but I don't see why that's a problem. Why the need for everything to keep changing if it's working fine?

Amazon has plenty of problems, but they're not Google; products stay supported for a long time. My three Echo devices are 5, 4, and 3 years old, and of them all work perfectly fine.
Huawei pushes into software with new smartphone OS
ok i get the sql over spreadsheet but what about actual spreadsheet features? will i be writing spreadsheet-esque formulas? adding visualizations directly in the spreadsheet? can i create custom formulas? etc... very promising thank you.