skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sometimes wonder why the so-called quantum computing field is not considered fringe science by the mainstream media.

It is, in my opinion, not much more credible than perpetual motion or free energy, and less credible than cold fusion...
Bash History
Idling RAM has to be continually refreshed. In that sense RAM can't really ever be idle. A CPU can be literally off and turned on almost instantly.
To be fair, Go has typed maps and slices. You just can’t implement your own generic collections, or generic operations over collections. Those two will get you decently far.
> To me the ideal economy has multiple choices for regulations so that there is regulatory competition.

That's called free market. And voluntary certification (by independent standards committees) for the "regulatory part".
>as a “surprise guest” to drive home the point that VW needs faster decisions and less bureaucracy for what he called the biggest transformation in VW’s history

So was cheating on their emissions testing a slow bureaucratic decision? I sure hope dropping that caution will allow them to develop safe, environment friendly cars in the future.
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-chilean-scientist-metal-bacter...
>map[T]interface{}

If the semantics desired are merely those of a simple set, why instantiate storage for the value side of the map? An interface{} consumes 16 bytes. Instantiating a struct{}, i.e. with no fields inside, consumes 0 bytes.
The high-frequency trading arms race: frequent batch auctions (2015)
This is not only Netflix. French media do the same using exactly the same Widevine DRM, which simply doesn't work on Firefox.
My sister couldn't watch some replays of her shows on my laptop because she couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work
You shouldn't.

IMO it's kind of understandable, at least on the individual level, that people don't know. I probably didn't know until I first travelled to Asia. However, it doesn't take a genius to realize that a map (or whatever) in an Asian country probably isn't full of Nazi symbols, or that there's probably some kind of an explanation for them.
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When you interpret this meeting, take also into account that Germany is right now constituting a new gouvernment where the green party will play a big role and that Tesla opened its factory in germany last week.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/10/tesla-hosts-festival-at-be...

"Tesla submitted plans to invest around $5.8 billion in a battery plant with a capacity of 50 GWh next to the 300-hectare site, and Musk promised volume production of battery cells by the end of the year. Volkswagen’s planned factory in Salzgitter is expected to produce 40 GWh."
> Land is not the same everywhere. Low humidity, Mediterranean climate, coast California views are extremely scarce and in high demand. How are you going to fit 8B people onto the worlds desirable land?

If you want better than median living conditions then you work for it. There is no reason why it should be free to live in the best parts of the world if not everyone can, otherwise the privilege of living there would be a source of injustice.
Well, given that the SpaceX rocket engine runs on methane and a lot of it, it makes sense that they'd need a cheap and plentiful source of that methane (aka natural gas). The cheapest way to get it now is by fracking - the infrastructure exists and is cheaper than technologies (and reserves) used 50 years ago.
I am watching that from Belgium. What would happen if Macron did more ?

Are we just (not) talking about financial compensations ? Is that why it's so hard to talk about it ?

Or does it have something to do with pieds noirs and what it meant(s) to be French ?

Algerian and french relationship is thorny but what's preventing - on the french side - things to get better ?
They solved the problem by increasing the work unnecessarily. So to explain the issue with more detail and not requiring peeps to jump to wikipedia, 2:3 pulldown is how 24fps film was converted to 29.97 fps interlaced video. This increases the number of frames roughly 20%, but it does this by repeating fields of the original progressive data. When you step through this 29.97 video frame-by-frame, you will see a repeating pattern of 3 progressive frames followed by 2 interlaced frames. To do this asinine made up workflow, they then increased the number of frames again. Instead, they should have done an inverse telecine (IVTC), which reverses the 2:3 pulldown returning 24 fps progressive frames. When rotoscoping, you definitely do not want to be creating additional frames "just because". Applying a small amount of logic should have suggested that these interlaced frames are odd since the orgininal source had nothing but clean progressive frames. If this was introduced in the conversion to video, surely it can be undone.

They, as you, decided it was acceptable to do whatever needed to be done at whatever expense rather than taking 10 minutes to find the proper workflow which would have saved them money. A simple phone call to the company they used to transfer the film to video would have been able to explain to them how to do this in less than 5 minutes. I know because I worked for the company doing the film transfer and had helped several other clients with the video for film post workflows. Today, it's even easier because there's like a bazillion write ups on how to do this posted on the web.

Edit: I didn't answer the question directly after pontificating. IVTC is the process that needed to be applied. Many many tools exist(ed) for this. The tools at this company's disposal would have been After Effects, Avid, etc. Later more tools became available like AVISynth, FFMPEG, and other dedicated tools were created by people to tackle this directly.
I’m not interested in animal rights so I’m not bothered by this.
Not if you show a really long example with algebra where you are not using any variables, and show how it can be simplified with variables.
I don't think it was "well governed". It was bloated and inefficient. Look at the operating ratio over time between CP and it's direct competitor CN - the lower the better.

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/C...

CP was languishing until Ackman fired their CEO in 2011 and put Hunter Harrison at the helm.
Netflix has made a significant dent in piracy, but DRM will fix that...
In order, Very good screen nits 400+minimum( I think its improving with mini led) , high ram 64gb+ better 128 ( would be good with dd5 I think), efficient sleep and working hibernation, replaceable battery , usb3/4 charging of the battery from a power bank and power supply
> If you use your notebook primarily on AC, battery is charged and kept on “storage” until you unplug from AC. Over the years, this is equivalent to a battery stored on a box.

I'm not sure what you mean, by default most laptops will charge to 100% and keep trickle charging it to that level consistently while on AC.

Setting a charge max of 40% would be ideal, but there is point where you want to maintain some level of runtime when removed from AC, so 80% is a reasonable compromise.
Ocean uproar (2019)
Most of the transcripts of computing interviews that I see could use some proofreading by people who know the subject.
this is a really underrated comment. there's always a lot of entitlement when it comes to software. why doesn't x have y?

...because x doesn't have y yet....this stuff doesn't build itself, and it certainly doesn't get built overnight.
"If I learn C I would be able to understand the Linux kernel"

It is but a first step, and particle physics/C is the lowest level, we have to understand the complex code written with them and the emergent phenomena.
I disagree. I think there is enough vested interest in keeping the open web from turning into another google property. I strongly believe that regulatory forces will take effect before google owns the entire planet.

DRM-controlled media content covers just a tiny fraction of what the open web offers and represents the only hard barrier to entry in development of a new browser from scratch. Yes, the technical challenge is extreme too but not impossible. There are large organizations that are making serious headway in this space right now:

https://www.ekioh.com/
It's definetly hard to enforce, but not impossible, if EU is dealing with a party in a random country which clearly shows no intention of doing business in the EU. I.e. the internet is practically lawless a lot of the time. But it depends on whether you're accepting payments and whether you have paying customers in EU.
Obsidian in laptop -> OneDrive -> FolderSync in Android works fine as long as periodic sync is ok.

Syncthing may be even easier, but I didn't try it since I am not sure if I can restrict it to LAN only.
Nostalgia is high with this one :D

I've started with gwbasic, then QBasic and moved up to "Visual Basic for DOS" (ncurses-style UI stuff, similar to Turbo Pascal iirc — I don't think many people even knew it existed since Win 3.11 was already big, but I loathed it and only switched to it because of... Trumpet Winsock for the internet!), but that did not stop me from playing with driving serial (COM) ports or parallel ports (LPT) with printer escape sequences. Not really FPGA level low (not even close), but DOS-based stuff was really easy to start hacking up!
Chrome browser share has slightly dropped over the last year. Ex: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
Netflix's player has been awful for years now. It's soooo heavily modified web UX that it just takes me back to the days of websites being built entirely in flash.

I wish we just had a normal player and a normal website and not this disgustingly over-engineered ad-delivery experience. But I don't expect this to change every. Netflix will do everything they can to control their content.
What incentive do they have? Some good feels don't compare to that sweet remuneration package.
It happens that you don't get the insight into how to do something right until after you've made a few messes. I think Kay takes the view that the act of generating that insight is ultimately more valuable than the act of producing any one particular software artefact.
For every engineer that says no, there’s thousands of other engineers willing to do whatever’s asked for $400k+/year
Italy has more than 50% (could be wrong, but high number) of population considered old, but politically it hasn't been stable.

While writing I'm guessing you mean "externally", but the two things might be related
Agree. We desperately need something like Tim Berners Lee's Solid. A way for us to take control from the centralised data silos owned by big tech. I know its almost mission impossible to turn the tide, but if the alternative is giving in then engineers worried about this must fight for alternatives, however grim the odds.

As for this specific issue, of course there are the usual massive issues around data privacy. The major issue I was alluding to here is ad tech AI processes being fed an unimaginably rich source of intimate data. It's a horrifying prospect.
Thought: They should give some cash and instruct the participants to buy a specific OTC brand that is known to be placebo themselves so they have confidence that it is a placebo.
Cool and what happens with security updates?
+1 for channels, a simple task like duplicating a channel is surprisingly tricky, verbose and error prone
It turned into that (more than) a decade ago.

I was still browsing the web with links2 and a tiny text mode browser (similar to w3m) of my own writing until around the time google said "let's kill IE6." Shortly after that, the web at large started becoming unusable with simple browsers. It was still reasonably usable with script blocking, but that ship sailed too, and the vast majority of sites now absolutely require some scripts before you can see the text and images or navigate at all.
I've been seeing a lot of these sorts of articles recently (time online is ruining your life; here are 17 ways to disconnect), and I have to say I simply reject the premise. Once again, it's binary thinking creeping in and human brains generally being far more receptive to arguments along the lines of "this technology/concept/ideology/whatever is bad and you should reject it" over ones that say "this technology/concept/ideology/whatever is a tool and its value is dependent on how its used and when it's applied".

I've seen the binary thinking problem applied to the internet/online life quite a bit recently, and it bothers me because growing up my experiences of the internet/web were almost overwhelmingly positive, constructive, and developmental in nature. It was instrumental in my development as a person because it's a tool that allows you to read constantly. For people with lots of innate curiosity there really is nothing more powerful than that. The encroachment of the social media/video streaming/adtech companies into the space doesn't negate that use case, so I'm extremely hesitant to say if everyone would just unplug the world would magically be better.
The pain in the Python 2->3 conversion I found came more from in house packages being written in Python 2 rather than public packages.
> ... Yes, but [1] also seems to be the kind of websites that promotes mystical/conspirational stuff...

I can't vouch for the site [1] itself, I just wish the BBC Travel article was more illustrative about the subject, it kept me wondering what the described staked fish traps were supposed to look like.
Slides from a talk by Dr. Jessica Rose. Slide 12 seems relevant; 24% of cases of myocarditis reported to VAERS occurred within 24 hours of injection, 43% occurred within 48 hours, younger people more susceptible. Rose says that the Bradford Hill criteria are all satisfied to implicate the vaccines.

https://covexit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/slides_Dr_Ros...
Netflix made a dent in piracy when they were the only game in town. With the fracturing of streaming services leading to the very thing Netflix solved piracy will be on the rise again.
Wait... I first heard of widevine last week when I tried watching netflix on my work's laptop (debian), using firefox. It didn't work so I googled, found out about widevine and special settings. I tweaked some chrome/chromium parameters but it didn't work.

All this in a private window.

Once I used Netflix in a normal window (Firefox or chromium) it worked.

Worth a try ?
It had multiple meanings, one of which is quite offensive.
> Corporations literally buy laws via lobbyists.

Both elected and unelected officials are so corrupted that they take money from the corporations to choke the competition on the free market. To fix this issue, let's give them even more power. That will show them and they'll stop being corrupted.
What is your point? I've moved my obsidian notes to vscode and back without any issues. Is closed source software somehow incapable of having true statements?
Maybe they are scared by your track record and the fact that nobody funded you for it? If you ever complain once to founders about "others not funding us despite quality <product>" they may be scared away as well.
Human metabolism, and also the brain, needs rest after exertion in order to be able to do more work. Some people have it easier in that regard, but everybody has their own limits. Discipline in that context means pushing limits, which is not advisable long-term. Every system eventually fails when put under too much ongoing stress - burnout (/overtraining) is one of the lesser problems this can create.
Right, so what vendors are doing now is calling batteries consumables that last one, maybe two years with the default 100% charging limit to get max run time on battery.

Consumers can either accept this and pay for a new battery every few years, or if they want they can limit to 80% and get way longer life battery life if they can live with the reduced runtime.

I'm not aware of any vendors claiming x capacity battery with mandatory limiting charging to 80% of x, rather its an option you have the choice to explicitly enable.
An historical fact is just a fact. There is not point in being outraged by the truth that Irish (as many other places) eat lots of some particular food.
They haven't even necessarily changed the state of their mind. It's hard to accurately report your own subjective experiences in a measurable way. Maybe you're not sure where your pain falls on a 1-10 scale. There's a range of numbers you think might fit how you feel.

Before a placebo treatment, you pick something at the higher end. After the treatment, you think maybe it helped, so you pick something on the lower end despite feeling the same.

Maybe you even feel worse than you did at the start of the study but you've gotten used to a higher baseline amount of pain and you're having a relatively good morning compared to that so you report a low number.

This is about how your self-reports change, not necessarily about how your state of mind changes.
New portable nuclear microreactor company from ex-SpaceX team
It's very British slang which is why many people are probably not understanding
It appears he was replying to someone else who had the same issue and was attempting to explain why that user’s comments were being deleted. I doubt those comments also contained the word “poof.” Also, the video in question contains numerous comments with the word “poof” that remain visible.
VW is a far larger company, including when it comes to sales networks, distribution networks, and manufacturing. If there is any scenario - looking out a decade or so - where they don't always outsell Tesla in EVs, it means a horrible disaster has befallen VW as an operating business.

Given the size of the global automotive industry and the major players, most of them will end up outselling Tesla in EVs. It's an inevitability. And it says nothing inherently about who the best EV makers are (that goes for Tesla as well). Plenty of mediocre vehicles get sold in volume every year (just look at the garbage sedans GM and Ford produced for a couple of decades).
Success.

Mots people work hard because they want to succeed, not because they want to get rich.

You never become a great athlete for the money, you become a great athlete because you want to win. You never start a business for the money, you go $BIG_CORP if you want money, you start a business because what you want is success.

In 90 years the western world has never been as inegalitarian as today, do you think people in the sixties didn't create anything?
A Mathematician’s Lament – Paul Lockhart [pdf]
"Almost there". Silverlight was not working in Linux afaik.
A great deal of maths is that you get to use theorems for purposes that they were not intended for. Presenting the theorem in a "pure" form thus allows to approach it without pre-conceptions.

I love the analogy with cooking recipes in another comment. Math papers are like recipe books, deliberately devoid of their social context. The same recipe may mean different things to different cooks, even contradictory! Having a clean, neutral description of the recipe allows both cooks to safely refer to the exact same recipe, without endorsing contexts that they may find odious.

I agree that knowing the context in which a recipe was created, and the contexts where it has been used, is very useful. But it would be extremely annoying to have this explanation interleaved with the recipe description itself. This information is best kept separate. Then, at the beginning of the recipe you can have a list of links to cooks who have written different things about it.
M1 with official Linux will be perfect except for price (especially ram and storage price , I need 128gb ram and 2 tb ssd), I think m1 is 'cheap' because Apple is buying apple customers not just selling laptops..
At least where I have worked, by the time it gets to me the decision has already been made that X feature will happen.

So you could voice concern there, but it wouldn’t matter.
Who Decided How Much Beer Is in a Beer?
Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important carbon sink
How much ram is on the Macbook?

What use case do you find yourself needing more ram for?
I remember when this first came out, it's an astonishingly cool hack! What a triumph of "because it's cool and I can".
> that in an organization of that size, the people making personnel decisions are likely several degrees removed from the people making product and customer support decisions.

This is morally and ethically wrong. If you run a company it is _your responsibility_ if your employees are mistreated.

More, why exactly is this happening? Do you think the lower-downs make policy like this about healthcare?

No. They are given unrealistic financial targets by management and can choose either to leave, or to grind the workers for every spare penny.

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The people who run these companies take the lions' shares of the profits and yet when their companies deliberately do something horrible, they shrug and say, "Not my fault."

It's simply evil.
Is the FDA going to follow suit or pretend this is not needed in the US?
A final note to this thread

I've seen a number of comments criticize the reporting, inferring that it's the press that's generating the fear and confusion here.

I think this is in error. The press may be guilty of amplifying FUD but it is obvious that the creation and shape of this particular narrative is from the LAPD.

Is the LAT guilty of parroting LEO w/o providing sufficient analysis? That sounds reasonable to me. News orgs republishing Gov/Biz/LEO PR - w/o analysis or related context - happens pretty much every day in every US town.

But criticizing the press (again, reasonably) while giving the cops who designed and crafted the FUD a pass - I think this shows us that tribalism is rating higher than fixing broken things.
The rise of Trusted Computing where users are considered untrusted and perhaps even criminal by default. It will only get worse: playing any kind of media with a browser and OS you dislike.
This should invalidate any argument that the UK does not need to accept Indonesian immigration because it's not their problem. Clearly the political and economic situation in many countries is shaped by powerful countries. That does not make the UK responsible for all problems, but it does not acquit it either.
You’re probably right but I have yet to meet anyone who loves podcasts in Spotify. The two groups I have encountered who use it are those who never listened to podcasts at all before so don’t know any other way, and people who begrudgingly use it because some podcast they like went exclusive there. Which I guess are both good for Spotify but it puts them in a weaker position than if people actually did truly like the experience.
The browser is becoming a TV. In the future, computers with keyboards and actual user control will be specialty devices for experts, quite separated from the content you can access today.

It is really sad to see what humankind is about to lose in the name of copyright and content ownership. We really could have a share everything utopia, but no, our societies are built on adversarial competition and our politicians are unwilling or simply unable to stop the unending barrage of overreaches.
The only reason you would ask this is if you had never had a truly good cronut =D
Interesting chart it looks like Safari picked up some share around the same time Chrome dipped. Clicking through by platform it looks like most of that was on mobile. I’m guessing some iOS change did that more than anything else.
Californians, please move if you can
I don't understand. I was responding to your point above:

> But if the sensor suite would miss a hazard, it's not an issue unless the human does too when it comes to passive aids.

That certainly sounds like you're saying that FSD is "machine only", since you're ignoring the ability of the human driver to correct it. If that's not what you meant, maybe you can start over from scratch and explain your point?
obsidian, linking files cost extra?