skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes they think this, but not in the way you or I think about it. At least this is my admittedly cynical take. There is a strong push across tech to erase the concept of a Personal Computer, and make everything function like a tablet. Calling tablets/phones PCs is part of this, by muddying the water, as well as attempts like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfR_Jj4grZE

Interfaces and functionality keep being dumbed and locked down like they are on tablets and phones. Microsoft and Apple are watering at the mouth for the day when the true personal computer is gone and every computing device is a walled garden where every user uses their pre-approved apps doing only the pre-approved tasks, preferably as thin clients into their controlled cloud.
> If I want to share my code freely with hobbyists and individuals, while ensuring that Amazon can't just steal it, pervert it into something I hate, and then borrow my own reputation to help them sell it, is it morally bad to add a license that stops this behavior?

This is where the AGPL (at least for code) comes into play, which mostly is enough to prohibit Amazon from taking your code and hosting (a modification of it) on their servers.
> Pro cyclists sometimes die from crashes

The difference here being the cyclists are not purposely driving their bikes into cars/objects vs being rugby being an actual 'contact sport'
You got to deal with them the same way you deal with a herd of Buffalo. As long as the herd is running in circles, its not going to run of a cliff or into the sea.

So keep them running in circles and stay out of the center.

Stone age man knew how to do that, so I am quite confident we will survive Twitter and the stampeding herds it generates.
Ask HN: Tracking Popularity of URLs in 2021
I'm getting back into analyzing share counts of urls across social media and while it used to be easy for FB, Twitter, Linkedin, etc. they all have since shut down the possibility to get share counts via their APIs.

Has anyone come across tools/services that would allow this in 2021?
> "PCs are going to be like trucks," Jobs said. "They are still going to be around." However, he said, only "one out of x people will need them." (https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-at-d8-post-pc-era-is-ni...)

This feels true more and more.
I invented a new sport a few months ago; extreme rock balancing. It's like regular rock balancing except I did it at the bottom of the sea at least 10 meters deep without scuba. I stacked 4 rocks.

It's a combination of freediving and rock balancing.
But I don’t want Windows 11. Windows 10 works just fine.
This isn't just a modern trend. The XP everyone remembers is SP3 and that came very late in the life of Windows XP. It's first release, however, was an uglier version of Windows 2000 (albeit with a few bug fixes here and there). Most insulting of all, XP had twice the CPU and memory foot print of 2000.

The Win ME crowd loved XP but many of the Windows 2000 folk ended up waiting it out for a few years before upgrading (or switching to Linux in my case).

I expect the same will happen here. MS will still officially support 10 for a few years but not really show it much love. Eventually 11 will diverge into something worth upgrading to (or the last stubborn few will have migrated onto another platform entirely).
My Surface Pro 4 won't be getting Windows 11 either. However, Windows 10 will stay supported until 2025 which by then I will have upgraded. I'm not happy about it but it is what it is.

Yes reports suggest you will be able to download the Win11 iso and manually install or upgrade the system, but I haven't seen any guarantees that those systems will continue to receive security updates or support.
> At the time of his death in 1525, Fugger's personal wealth was equivalent to 2% of the GDP of Europe. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Fugger
There are no mobile PFAS chemicals in nonstick cookware. Nonstick coatings are made from PTFE, which is a completely inert polymer that cannot be broken down into mobile components unless it's overheated. The fluorinated chemicals used in the manufacture of the coatings (largely surfactants) are completely removed when the coating is baked on, and they have to be or else the coating would fail.

PTFE is used in medical implants. You can eat it. In no case that I'm aware of have these things resulted in detectable fluorinated compounds in someone's blood stream.
Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) takes a pretty good look at that. It has a neat POV segment at the beginning that shows a fight with Cassius Clay through the eyes of the main character.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056406/

And well... there's also Rocky V...
us = the left or the right; the system; etc.

You're basically advocating that someone should be on one pole or the other. I think your premise seems dishonest:

First you gave an assumption about an 'unjust' system and explain why not choosing a side is bad, but then later on you say that not choosing a side isn't 'inherently wrong' to try to not seem judgemental. It comes across a little manipulative tbh.
Docker with Multiple IPs and Network Isolation
I always though the way Windows' Geometry3D[0] element worked was really nice. You define a list of points in a particular order. Whether a face is on the "inside" or "outside" depends on the direction you "wind" a metaphorical string around those points. After defining some primitives you can start to compose them into a single model.

[0]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.m...
We ran a series of experiments with our chosen EPYC 7713 processor and 256GB, 384GB and 512MB memory configurations.

Why 512MB? Typo?
Nvidia are also leaning very hard into USD with their meta- verse project. In that case USD matches requirements perfectly.

glTF 2.0 is widely supported although the quality of that support is variable. The spec is fairly large and every tool that exports glTF does so in a subtly different way.

For instance Blender adds a rotation transform node before every mesh to convert from Y-up (Blender) to Z-up (glTF). Animations run in Y-up space and target the node before that final rotation node. The BabylonJs exporter for 3dsMax converts its meshes and animations to z-up as part of the export process.
Many glTF loader implementations get tripped up on this (failing to support more than one model mesh or failing to respect the full transform hierarchy or failing to support animations). There are similar complexities and support issues around vertex data formats, buffer layouts, punctual lights etc

My limited reading of the USD format is that it has an even wider specification. My concern is that browser support will splinter even worse than it would with glTF. The' model' proposal doesn't dig into what USD nodes will and won't be supported and exactly how the data is expected to be rendered.
Our benchmarking infrastructure was pretty internal-specific so we didn't want to release a bunch of numbers from that. Ideally we'll integrate into some already well-known benchmark infrastructure, like smarr's, for a fair comparison. But up to ~5x CPython on some benchmarks!
If Apple wants to license theur libraries and dev tools at FRAND rates, I'd have no problem with them charging for those.

But pretending the current cut isn't supported only because of their platform control is crazy.

Form an open market for app distribution, and then see what the market sets competitive rates at.
My initial reaction to this was "just use WebGL", but they've made a pretty compelling case as to why that's not ideal:

> Consider a browser or web-view being displayed in Augmented Reality. The developer wants to show a 3D model in the page. In order for the model to look accurate, it must be rendered from the viewpoint of the user - otherwise it is a flat rendering of a three-dimensional image with incorrect perspective.

> A solution to this would be to allow the Web page, in particular the WebGL showing the 3D model, to render from the perspective of the user. This would involve granting too much private information to the page, possibly including the camera feed, some scene understanding, and very accurate position data on the user. It should not be a requirement that every Web page has to request permission to show a 3D model in this manner. The user should not have to provide access to this sensitive information to have the experience.

> Furthermore, there is more information needed to produce a realistic rendering, such as the ability to cast and receive shadows and reflections from other content in the scene, that might not be on the same Web page.

From that perspective, having the rendering handled by the browser seems like a smart idea.
Regarding the church tax, if you move to Germany you'll be ask what religion your are and unless you answer atheist you'll have to start paying a church tax and it appears to be quite a hassle to get out of it.

https://www.settle-in-berlin.com/stop-paying-german-church-t...
Uh, okay. They could also have made it proprietary.
Numworks is not open anymore: they closed it for avoid cheating
My phone isn't even slow and ad blockers are required for most sites to be usable.
The difference between boxing and MMA is not just punches vs kicks.

For example, the two rulesets are different with regards to how a fight ends. In MMA there is no count if you get knocked down, you either show that you can defend yourself immediately after being dropped, or the referee will end the fight declaring a TKO. In boxing this doesn't normally happen, after a knock down the referee starts counting so you have a few seconds to "recover", and often you have to be knocked down more than once before the referee declares a TKO.

There is also a difference with regards to punches specifically, due to 4oz gloves being used in MMA (they allow grappling but they have less padding than the gloves used in boxing). Is it more damaging being punched once with little padding, or a few times with more padding? I've seen arguments one way or the other and since I'm not a doctor I don't know which ones are correct.

Anecdotally, Olympic boxing removed head protection gear a few years ago because they conducted a study where they observed that not wearing headgear, counter intuitively, resulted in fewer injuries[1].

I know nothing about medical topics but I'm curious and would like to read more studies about brain damage in combat sports.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/08/olympic-boxers-arent-wearing-h...
Is it surprising that it feels like our society is drifting closer to anarchy when hundreds of millions of people spend hours a day on platforms that are inherently not democratic?
Well sure folks who didn't leave aren't refugees. But New Orleans after Katrina lost a third of the population. Those were refugees.
> This means record the interaction

Friendly reminder: in several states it’s illegal to record the interaction if both parties haven’t consented so you should record yourself asking the other person for consent and their agreement if either one of you are in one of those states.

https://recordinglaw.com/party-two-party-consent-states/
I have a guests laptop running Mint, every upgrade means wiping everything off because there's no human way to do otherwise. My Windows laptop has seen upgrades in-place since Windows 7. And then while on Windows the updates happen in the background (from time to time asking for a reboot) on Mint I have to start them by hand, using one of the three update managers (still no idea what's what) and every time they throw also some errors, usually about outdated update sites/links but not only.
Non-programmers I know who have a personal desktop or laptop, it's always for gaming and/or piracy, and that's it. Everything with a "central role in [their] lives" is on their phones.

Hell, I am a programmer, and those are the only reasons I have anything other than phones & tablets. Computers are for computer-focused nerd stuff, phones and tablets are much better for interacting with the real world thanks to their form factors and attached sensors & gadgets (home projects, hiking, gardening, learning, playing music, communicating, navigating, budgeting & bills, and so on).
I am sure there is a little bit of that, but only a few shares have to trade to push prices up. My point was that Bezos' wealth didn't come from his savings. It also doesn't match up with the argument that excessive savings are pushing interest rates down, because buying stocks doesn't push interest rates down. That's why I said something seems off in what they are counting as savings.

The article states:
"the savings of the American rich reappear, instead, as debt, owed by the government or by lower-income US households"

I really don't see how they are claiming this would work. The rich I know are not mainly buying consumer debt or treasuries- maybe the occasional tax free municipal bond. On the other hand, the Fed is buying tons of corporate bonds.

It seems a lot of handwaving is being done about a supposed 21.1% savings rate for top 10% in income. The claim is that they are using that to buy assets that reduce interest rates. I finally read the paper and see the definition of savings rate is very weird (to a non-expert). It could be completely explained by people in the top decile of income paying more for houses and having less debt on them.
Correct, fraud isn’t the correct term here. The op grabbed the first word that probably presented itself, and others nearly ad nauseam (lowercase) have discussed its merits as the term.

What’s needed is a better term.

I propose either AdTurfing (hat tip AstroTurfing) or AdLighting (hat tip GasLighting). My personal preference is the second.
I have done remote work for a long time (because ...Canada), and the real issue is that it requires management to have their shit together. I also assess companies for acquisitions now so I talk every month to companies about what's working and what isn't. I've seen some very successful companies with partially remote or even 100% remote teams. And... they have their shit together. Managers have to actually know what the hell they are going to do tomorrow, instead of making stuff up when the stand-up happens. Workers have to be lined up in their swim lanes and the whole thing has to be orchestrated... you know, like actual agile instead of the reactive pfaffery that everyone passes off as "hybrid agile" (boy do I hear that phrase a lot in diligence!)

Given how much I've seen it work, and how bad the tech talent war is right now, I'm pretty confident there will be lots of remote only options in 6-12 months when upper managers finally wrap their heads around the fact that this is what they have to do to find and hold top talent now. At the competitive companies, upper execs/board members will start dropping middle managers who can't hack it when they see their attrition numbers in the losing part of the spread.
I have bought their shoes for awhile now. I like their shoes and the expansion into other shoe types.
Same with my 4 y/o i7 Kaby Lake. This is simply unacceptable.
J. Paul Getty
No, you just don't understand the argument. Copyright is not a EULA.
> What makes dollars unique is that if you inject more dollars into the free market for a good, then ceteris paribus, you will cause more of that good to be produced.

Markets don't actually work this way in practice. That's the theory, the theory rarely actually pans out. We could look at US healthcare, which is an insane mess, but it's pretty easy to argue that it's not actually a market due to insurance and opaque pricing and all the same problems. We've kind of got the worst of all worlds over here. But dental and vision care, which are closer to real markets don't actually work any better. They're still expensive, in accessible, and pretty non-responsive to price signals.

Instead, take something like food, where it's a commodity. That's a place where markets should be the cleanest and most responsive to price signals. We produce 1.6x the amount of food the world needs. And food is some thing where there's a literal cap on the ability of any individual to consume it. Our stomachs are only so big, there's literally only so much each of us can consume in a day. By market theory, prices for food should be almost negative and no one should be with out food given those facts. But that's not how it works out. As always, there are too many confounding factors and the profit motive causes rent seeking at every layer.

By market theory, there should be over production of food, which should cause everyone to have food and food producers to drop out of food production until prices rise to equilibrium where everyone has food and the people producing food have a good living.

Has that happened anywhere? No. Instead, you have corporations standing between producers and eaters finding ways to make food more expensive through value add and marketing. You have producers struggling to get by, buried under a mountain of debt, and often effictively in indentured servitude to the processors. And you have hundreds of millions of people food insecure, tens of millions even in a rich country like the US that massively overproduces food. Because markets in real life don't work according to the theory.

And that's why we can't just approach economic problems with the idea that we can just throw more markets at them. And why we have to think about when systems like single payer, for all their faults, are better than what we'd end up with through markets.

Trust me, if you'd ever had to deal with the American health care system, you would long for the Canadian one.
Have been in the lab for last 14 hours (thinking that this will be my last contract before retirement) just watching stuff to be certain that all is ready to go for the client's first production shift, so some time to think about this..

1. A cousin in the old country that is a strident anti-vaxer.

2. An 80 year old guy about 2km down the road that, while reclusive, refused masks and vaccines.

3. My beloved wife - well educated at two of those 'progressive' east coast schools, took me three weeks to convince her to get vaccinated.

4. A long-time friend and colleague (we met on the USS Midway in the late 70s), that had a PhD in biology, died two months ago from cardiac arrest - I suspect that it was related to covid. He was black and distrusted governmental bodies.

The common thread for these four example cases is the confused 'data' and 'guidance' from organizations such as WHO, CDC, FDA, etc during the past 15-20 months. And last week, my wife showed me a table she built of contradictions from NGOs and internationals and national organizations. When looked at logically, I can see that some people (not necessarily the people that are the subject of the linked article) have a valid reason to doubt.

Final thought. I have a very rational neighbor that is both self-taught and well-educated (three university degrees). He confided to me recently that he distrusts the medical community and life scientists and social scientists. There are many reasonable people out there that have been shaken by the last 15 months such that they no longer know who or what to trust.
People seemed to have forgotten the Diebold voting machines, and their provably insecure implementation... and the conspiracy theories about Bush benefiting from it. Odd how that was a liberal position at the time, and nobody called them names.
Most of it doesn't. Take a look at net/http. I'm not aware of anything it does that your package could not. Certainly nothing that would move the needle on succinctness.
Presumably if Apple is proposing it, then they are already implementing it in Safari and will eventually enable it, and either it will be terrible and nobody will use it, or it will be great, and the rest of the browser vendors will need to catch up.
Thanks! Separate device is used so your flow is not interrupted. And since iPad sits beside your main computer it really feels like you are sitting at the same desk with your team.
Very excited to see belief propagation again. I thought it might disappear with all the nets being used lately!
If I am not wrong, a functional version can be written in plain JS (+ WASM?) using Custom Elements (tho tag names must contain a hyphen). Except I don't know why all the non-Google stakeholders are hell bent on sabotaging Custom Elements. While Google is doing so much innovation in that space. Strange.
Outsourcing- boo!

Lost a job to outsourcing and set my career back at least 5 years.
I'm not convinced a lot of these trends stick post-COVID. A lot of people like the in-person part of the spin class and probably would prefer it to the highly-paid video pro.

That said, behaviors will have changed for a lot of things over the course of a couple of years. People have developed new habits. Not all of that--including going into an office five days a week in many cases--are going to just reset.
Maybe use an RTG - just for maximum extremeness?

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

Edit: You could just cut out the generator bit and have a nuclear iron.
So does your cable provider's set top box. So does your Roku/Fire/AppleTV/etc, except it is at the app level.
Well, yeah, but you wanted your nephew to be a bishop or a cardinal not just for the prestige, but because he could sell or rent lower positions in his own diocese, or collect indulgences himself. It's feudalism all the way down.
Hopefully this starts a domino effect in other countries passing the same law.

We have Epic to thank for this!
Audience engagement chases entertainment (and thus reproduces CNN/MSNBC/Fox etc). You won't get what you want by tweaking that metric alone.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/239535273909285486/
Looks like those guys are too lazy to rub it a bit.
You Won’t Believe the Clickbaity Chaos of Chinese Apps
There's also 'AX_APPEND_COMPILE_FLAGS' [1] (and its dependency 'AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG' [2]), next to many other (related or unrelated) macros in the autoconf archive.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_append_comp...

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_check_compi...
> Windows 11 is optimized for speed, efficiency

So why does it not support five-year-old hardware?

I realize it's all just marketing, but I'm actually really frustrated with how developers seem to be defining "performance" nowadays. There's nothing impressive about running fast on a fast machine. Not everyone has access to the latest and greatest hardware, nor should they, lest we want to ruin the planet.

If you're doing complex 3D modeling, that's one thing, but please tell me—what is the average office worker doing today that wouldn't have been possible on a PC ten years ago? And then please explain why Windows 11 needs a minimum of 4 GB of memory.
Visual Studio is still the best IDE for me (IntelliJ gets close, but debugger is still lacking).

Updates in Windows do not break graphics mode.

I wrote a custom tiling WM for Windows, and can't find Linux replacement (predefined layouts, tabs, multimonitor support, free-float allowed, also widgets).

A few years ago Ubuntu still had problems with multiple displays on Nvidia driver.

Recent: me & my friend do deep learning. I am on Windows and he is on Ubuntu. When I run an experiment, OS is responsive. When he does, DE slows down to a crawl. Looks like OS does not schedule GPU.