skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol. A large amount of these Android devices are just $50 bare minimum specs phones being sold in third world countries, where the only thing they are used for is Whatsapp messaging.

Basically I would not even count this as a smartphone usage. More like the 2020s version of traditional dumbphones.

If you develop Android software you will get flat zero installs from the billions of this type of users.
I've been using a "fake" account.

I don't do anything dodgy with it, and my name is mostly the same as the credit card.

They are much more reluctant to kill a dormant account if you attach it to hardware.
It is good that rust is slowly being adopted everywhere. Gives me more reason to learn it..
It's more than the media. The politicians (at least in my country, France) are using it to take much more power than a democracy should ever allow.
The "pre post" is not much of a design, unless we've had a long-term practice to force random healthy people into scanning their brains, or we have a time machine.
Branch-Prediction and Value-Prediction are two similar fields but they are really different fields.

When a branch prediction is wrong we have to change the execution path and therefore flush the executed instructions (on the wrong path).

With a value prediction the execution path is correct so you don't have to flush the instructions, but you have to replay them with the right value.
These two techniques involve very different hardware.

Here in the article it is about value prediction emulated in software using branch prediction, it uses the hardware of the branch prediction therefore mispredicted instructions must be flushed.

The only valid example of value prediction you gave here is for prediction of the stack address for memory renaming. In all other cases you have to flush the instructions, while for memory renaming you can just replay it.

And this is a very restricted form of value prediction. There is no real complete value prediction mechanism in modern processors yet.
Actually, the aligned with "US democrats" (not the left, necessarily) made the whole thing political by going against anything Trump did (like banning travel From China being racist or the ties with the lab leak theory).

It used to be the left would stand against authoritarianism. Skepticism. Now it's seen as a duty to support corporate interestes, gov excuses, not question anything (or you'll help the right).

There's nothing logical about Lockdowns. It was never done before and has done nothing in terms of excess deaths while There's ample examples of the damage and inequality

But again, HN types from the laptop class are fine at home, advancing in life, not caring that much about others but pretending they do with the approved virtue signalling. It's disgusting.
What did they do that wasn't compliant?
First Steam game, others were mobile + Web Games.

I got even post about my other game stats: https://donislawdev.com/earnings-and-statistics-from-my-8-ga...

All released.
Anyone known if CudaText has features to edit Lisp or Scheme family of languages? Will be checking out the project.
a startup is a company that is trying a business model that hasn't been tried before.

The amount of money has nothing to do with being or not being a startup.

This is why you don't call opening a new restaurant a startup.
Yeah, not sure either. Suspecting it's some other Clubhouse, not the main (project planning) one (https://clubhouse.io).
That farmer then goes out of business.
Capitalisn’t: When the profit motive kills
My all previous games (mobile + web+ were failure.

From the blog

"Before the game launch, I knew that game will be a failure. I was expecting most sales from Latin America (low price), my all previous mobile games were a failure, wishlist number was low + in the first month of early access (outside of Steam) I sold 0 games copies. So, there were no success indicators. I got no problem with it, everything is running according to my plan, If my whole life is a failure, then a “failure” is something normal, it won’t affect me :-}"
If you /know/ you're in front of an english speaking audience and deliberately don't speak that language sure, but there's no specific programming language for HN. Hell, hackernews itself is written in a lisp.
The automakers can access cheap loans and even bailouts...so realistically, they are investing YOUR money with one level of indirection
In Polish it’s actually “cuda”, without diacritics (same meaning). Regardless, one often ignores diacritics in writing in English/Western context. My last name has “ń”, though all the airlines insist to put “n” there; same with Western European banks. While for some words they maybe ambiguities if you skip the diacritics they are usually resolved by the context. Polish ppl are def used to read a text without diacritics and not surprised by this. (Of course a larger body text is a bit harder/slower to read, but it happens often when text messaging or in a Western context). I don’t know for sure, but I suspect that Serbian is similar.
I'm not clear on what level of "pretty low" I'd have to see before being reassured here. I guess it's HN, where I'm the only dummy who doesn't know what acceptable changes in everyday metrics like "Parahippocampal gyrus thickness" and "Lateral orbitofrontal cortex volume" are.

Your second remark is also peculiar: the "obvious sampling problem" to which you allude is either (1) a subtler-than-expected-point about the UK Biobank's program (designed to be a mass participation program to observe longitudinal effects in previous healthy or as yet undiagnosed people) or (2) evidence you are just making stuff up.
> small, not-yet-peer-reviewed) datapoint in that direction

Since we tend to mock such studies when done by antivax, we should also reserve all judgement here. Let’s keep the bar high for good science, the last year has been a flourish of unverified correlated statistics.

> Given massive numbers it has affected already

I don’t think people optimize for normal life either. For example, lockdowns do provoke effects which are at least as dangerous: We spend billions a year telling people to move more to fight obesity, so we are 100% sure that lockdowns have a negative effect on obesity and cardiovascular diseases, but also families breaking up, unemployment, loneliness, lack of sports (maybe close to weight gains of a 5-10 pounds in average, I’d be curious), and all those factors multiply further in the future and increase the risk of asthma, cancer, suicide, mental breakdowns (including knife attacks), we haven’t see the real delayed effects.

So, overreaction already killed more than even the (reasonable) estimated worst case scenario.

Let’s not focus just on Covid, and let’s look at everything else we don’t generally care about. My rule is, since they don’t care for my suicide, which is about 2 orders of magnitude higher than my Covid risk, I won’t vaccinate.
Isn't this the effect that the web does make work, super-niche things work globally that won't work locally. I've heard of it, Yerba mate, but I've never seen it mentioned anywhere offline (UK).

Tea Tycoon, I'd have to presume has been done? Otherwise, it sounds like something people would go for.
I love the sentiments in this blog. I don’t put them into active practice, but I like them, for example I look to Twitter once every morning to see if there is any new tech I should look at or papers to put in my readying list; my Mastodan account languishes. I have small and free VPSs from both Google and Oracle which I appreciate. I totally rely on the publishing platform https://leanpub.com/u/markwatson for writing and publishing the books I write.

What her blog triggered for me is that we can have a better digital life by being conscious and taking control of our assets, control over interactions with people and companies, etc.
You might not. Other people do.
Your country created puritanism, which it exported to the US where it continues to influence policy. The US once outright banned alcohol.

Prohibition tends not to be effective when there's broad demand for the prohibited item, especially when applied only to a small segment of society. In many places, it's customary to introduce teens to alcohol under parental supervision, which I suspect reduces later high-risk behavior.
Thanks :-}
A lot more than 1% is playing :-}
No it doesn't. Both Windows and Linux have PAE.
It was already the case for many years.
I suggest grabbing a random DSLR with decent glass and trying to capture a bird in flight against the sky. Most of the time not even the species will be discernable. People with no prior experience photographing birds will have a hard time taking anything that is not blurry. It is actually not that easy even tracking something in flight through the viewfinder, especially at long focal lengths. Shaking, focus / depth of field, dynamic range, sensor noise and exposure time all work against you.

So I would be extremely suspicious of sharp clear properly exposed pictures of UFOs.
Exactly, at some point the cure will become worse than the disease. The fact this makes people uncomfortable is no reason to push it under the rug!
With so many variables to adjust for the error bars should be huge.
AR has been a game changer, via face filters. More stuff is possible with it everyday, but it’s already getting a lot of usage
I'm sure they chose the ones used for better CV tracking & properties, especially in low light etc, but could be easy to add a pair of true-color ones, especially for passthrough. Just checked again and the main issue IMO currently is the low framerate / blur when using it. The movement of the hands e.g. is quite uncomfortable this way.
Morality is a process rather than a result, and means nothing when not in a social context. There is no implied harm or distraction in contemplating one’s actions with respect to the larger community or to one’s self. It is debatable if civilization could survive without morals.
Have you read the diagnosis criteria and studies regarding long covid? I have read a few, and I see that many are using the widest net possible to define long covid, counting people who self diagnose symptoms such as brain fog and having trouble concentrating.

Ofcourse long covid is real. I am just a bit skeptical about the diagnosis criteria.
How does it work for the seller when the FBI is the one who ends up buying that list and then busted him in the auction?

Genuinely asking.. might be dumb question
Gandi is *not* a privacy aware registrar (rant)
I was told in the past that Gandi.net was a privacy aware registrar. Here's my experience with them:

I was trying to register a domain with a TLD that's only available in a few registrars. Njal.la was too expensive, and I hadn't heard much of Epik in the past, so after a bit of research I chose to sign up on Gandi and get things done as fast as possible.

As soon as I signed up I noticed there was no way to check if the domain being registered would come with whois privacy by default, which was a huge red flag for me as I don't want any of my personal details exposed. This red flag was enough for me to keep looking for registrars, so I started looking for the "delete my account" button, only to find out after 2 hours that there wasn't one.

I messaged them on their support email, from the email on which the account was registered, and they replied fairly quick asking me for a photo of my ID on top of all the personal data that I had already given them.

The account was also unverified. I imagine this can also mean that if somebody registers an account there with your email, you will need to send them a picture of your ID to get it removed, which in the end proves absolutely nothing because they could register it on somebody else's name and just use your email for some reason. I really hope it's not the case.

Sorry if the text is poorly structured or I have any grammar mistakes. English is not my first language. I just wanted to get this out there.
Even before Sun open-sourced StarOffice or even bought StarDivision you could get StarOffice for Linux with v. 3.1. The same time period also saw Corel WordPerfect officially supported and running on Linux.
Rich Text Format is the default representation for formatted text on the Windows clipboard. Any application that can paste rich text should accept it. When you paste directly into a content-editable the browser should convert the rtf into html.

Most modern apps will also copy an html fragment to the clipboard so the browser could use that directly.

According to stackoverflow, when you read from the clipboard in javascript the browser gives you access to its synthesised html version of the rtf content via ClipboardItem.getType. That's what you would expect, but I haven't tried it.
Definitely not a 100% success rate and I question "highly favorable" when settlements almost never result in a complete end to infringement by even the one entity settling and are so slow and expensive to get that thousands more spring up in the meantime...
I would've expected TUCOWS or Trumpet Windsock to be mentioned. I think those were so instrumental in expanding internet usage and usability to home Windows users.
I don't think it's isolated to the service industries, I think they just feel it more. I see people every time I venture out that just don't seem to remember what it means to live in a world with others. Some people seem to think masks make/made them invisible and gavr them license to be the worst versions of themselves. Others see people still wearing masks (like us) and glare angrily while making mean comments under their breath. It seems many lost their manners during this period, either because of the pandemic or the general split in our country and I don't think we'll be getting back to normal for a while.
All my friends with the quest upgraded the strap. Oculus doing a crappy upsale, just a cost you need to swallow
There are always medical studies running for other purposes that involve doing brain scans on otherwise healthy people. One of my relatives participated in such a study. Presumably those same subjects could be enrolled in a "pre post" study for COVID-19 effects.
Oh, if I could upvote you twice...

There are still nights I wake up screaming, remembering the time I tried to build an editor with contentEditable. Is there a special place in hell for those who forced this spawn of Cthulhu upon us? Or should we pity these souls, who were the first to lay eyes on these unimaginable horrors?

If you ever meet someone who thinks that the lovecraftian amalgamation of HTML/JS/CSS is a sane platform for developing applications, just tell them to build an editor using only contentEditable and the standard browser APIs. Then wait a few days. They will hate you, but at least they'll be forever cured of their delusion.

Yes, it's that bad. No matter how long you have been programming, no matter what you have built before, contentEditable will defeat you. Decades of experience, written your own programming language, database, editor? Oh you poor soul, contentEditable will laugh in your face, because there is no logic to it. It is the very embodiment of edge cases built upon edge cases, with a smidge of browser incompatibilities sprinkled on top, then all dumped onto the garbage dump that is caret handling.

I'm a contentEditable survivor. The dark episode is now behind me, yet no matter how much time passes, I will forever be scarred by the experience.
Many apps will refuse to work if you don't allow access to your contacts, so people just give in and allow it.

Google is the biggest abuser in this area just grabbing all your contacts and linking them to your Google account once you add any Google account (like Gmail or Youtube) to your Android device.
I know a lot about both Chernobyl and the real USSR, and while Chernobyl obviously didn't lead to the collapse directly, it absolutely played the key role in destroying people's trust.

>There were HUGE amount of very different (and quite known to citizens) disasters before Chernobyl

Like what? Three most known disasters of the late Union were Chernobyl, Spitak earthquake, and Ufa train disaster, and the latter only became known because of Chernobyl which opened the valve on the freedom of the press a bit. All three clearly showed three things:

- that government was completely unprepared to natural and man-made disasters, so that the Army had to be involved (MChS was created in Russia after the breakup precisely in response to that, other republics did the same, largely)

- that the party didn't have the interest of people in mind, and was concerned with covering their own asses up first. People responded in the same way - just listen to 'Я вынес из Зоны' by Sergey Uryvin, it's a nice illustration of the atmosphere during liquidation.

- that Glasnost didn't work very well in practice

>Moreover handling of Chernobyl consequences was a much better than handling of other disasters of the past.

Only because it happened in a populated area, was not restricted to military, and was practically impossible to downplay or deny due to that. They still tried, demonstrating that Glasnost was only a declaration with little substance.
Can Bitcoin be Paledtine's currency of freedom?
Can you name a major tech company not actively violating the GPL (not to mention untold MIT and BSD licenses on JavaScript...) I'm not sure I can
Mostly it's nostalgia. It was such massive leaps ahead at the time.

But there's a lot of quirks that still stand out.

Some of my favorites include datatypes - closed source Amiga programs released 30+ years ago can load things like webp images if they support datatypes, as long as you drop a datatype into your system.

And AREXX. The language is pretty awful, but the pervasiveness of AREXX ports in Amiga applications and how normal users took advantage of it is something I haven't seen since.

The openness (despite the os being closed source) of the platform is another one. Hardware schematics. A composable, modular well documented OS where everything could be patched and replaced. Where people kept experimenting with new file systems because you could just drop a file in and it'd be accessible. Or new device drivers, including virtual ones. Or plugged in new system wide file requesters, because they could.

A lot of it has more to do with the community around it than the machines themselves.
>But to threaten to be actively racist, without exploring any other solution is truly telling.

I assume you're referring to the practice of requiring higher scores for Asian students? And then doing away with the standardized tests altogether when it got too hard to get the outcomes you want? That active racism?
Legal requirement of the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005.

https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/meth/#sales
For me, the issues with Rust are:

- It is not fun but frustrating to work in Rust, and contrary to C, you are limited by the language/compiler on what you can do.

- building/compiling the kernel is not trivial, and you will add a new huge dependency that you have to deal with to build the kernel for whatever target.
Let's suppose you want to build for MIPS, then you need to have Rust supporting MIPS.

As an exemple, there is a common package in python that decided to start having their module in Rust instead of C. Now a lot of users of the module are pissed off, with good reason, because you can't build/install the module anymore in a little bit older or non conventional distributions.
We need to keep in mind that are 2 types of autonomus vehicles discussion. We have a company that uses a ton of hardware, radar, lidar and many cameras and then we have the other ones that want to move fast and break things using only cameras, a GPU and many beta testers. It is normal that the aproach of brute forcing it with ton of data gets a ton of criticism.

My other criticism is the bad statistics used. It is like I create the "robot athlete" and I compare it stats with the average of all athletes including the young children and the people with some physical problem. You should compare self driving with cars with exact same safety features and save driver demographics. Bonus if you calculate all deaths caused by illegal driving and then ask the giants WTF not put the money into first solve the speeding and drunk / tired driving , I bet ANN work better on this problem.

Rust in Linux seems to me a waste. IMO the Unix philosophy is great but it needs a better implementation , one that is based on the present day hardware and expectations.
I'm from Mick West "camp" ( https://www.youtube.com/c/MickWest/videos ) - you don't need to try argue with me that UFOs are not aliens, BUT "there are billions of phone cameras" is simply a bad argument IMO. My phone is quite old now, but still is way above what most people in the world have, and I know that I wouldn't be able to make good photo of something on the sky, because I tried (wasn't supposed to be UFOs of course). I'm sure there are ways to do good photos for objects from distance with this and even weaker phones, but I, like most people, didn't invest my time into it. Also - let's be honest - you see your supersharp, ideal photo/video of weird spaceship-like object from some random human with great camera: would you really believe it's real? I know I wouldn't, it's just to easy to fake things.
I need such an feature because google always seems to prefer the information that i already know.
Sometimes i'm looking for websites i don't know yet because the information is rare...

Sucks that it needs an Google Account (which is no option for me), but i can have a similar effect by using duckduckgo.
> being dependent of government have the same issues

In some societies there is a [more-or-less] democratic process that is completely absent in private companies.

> being dependent of a group

...that you trust. Unlike a company conglomerate that profits from selling your data.
> the NASA has

… been throwing money at SpaceX since (at least) 2006:

* https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/news/COTS_selection.html

The thing about R&D is that you do not know ahead of time what will work and what will fail. Some of NASA's programs failed and some have succeeded. But there was no way to know if SpaceX would be the winner, or SLS, or anything else.

SpaceX itself nearly failed:

* https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/29/elon-musk-9-years-ago-spacex...

> … and certainly nothing reusable.

Reusable was never done before (AFAICT). It turns out that it is actually technically possible and useful. But there was no way to know that ahead of time. It was a risk that SpaceX, and NASA by funding them, that just happened to work out.
> How did we collectively get to this point of not giving a damn about anything?

Sites don't target 2G, so your conclusions about what we give damn about are a bit premature.

You don't optimize a resource that seems abundant. It may be wrong, but it's economically the only common sense approach a system would take.
And even tbe FSF hasn't really done any enforcement in years. And major copyright holders on large GPL codebases (coughLinux) oppose any and all enforcement actions.
I think it is the fact that the Amiga platform was in advance on its time. A lot of amiga owners clinged to their Amiga waiting for the next revisions to eat the world. When the PC platform took over it was a step backward. All those projects are a way to rewrite history for the fans: see we could have had an amiga in pc form factor, see we could use the web, see we could have had graphic accelerators...

And the fact that today it is possible to do is a fun in itself.