skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 6 pro is 0.3" taller and 0.1" wider than the 6. But both are also significantly larger than the previous generation pixels. The Pixel 6 pro for example is 0.8" taller and 0.2" wider than the Pixel 5, which is a significant difference (especially considering you lose the rear fingerprint scanner that gave the ability to swipe down notifications from the unreachable top of the screen).
I don't think this will be a success.

If I get to choose between this and my own local installation, of course i will run the local version.

Why would I want to sit in the browser? To continue on the same cursor position I was if I switch computer? Not worth it at all.
App updates on my phone sometimes silently revert permissions back to defaults.

I just turned auto-updates off after that, and stopped downloading apps for stuff that has a perfectly serviceable website.
It’s pretty simple. Every person who is bigger and stronger than another is something who can maim or kill another.

Firearms simply level the playing field.

Domestic violence against women is a thing because men are almost always bigger and stronger than women, meaning without access to a weapon every woman is potentially vulnerable to the violence of a man.
And yet we still have people making the "but the science on climate change wasn't and still isn't absolutely definitive" defense of Michael Crichton in a different thread yesterday.

Climate change denialism is the lead poisoning denialism of the modern era. You can actually see the denialism happening in real-time with actual posters here on HN, this is the same way it worked back then, this is how people delude themselves into thinking they're making a scholarly defense of "facts and the scientific process" when in reality they're just buying into industry propaganda designed to play on that instinct.

Nobody need wonder how it might have happened, it's happening right before your own eyes in these very threads.
> I very much question the one made from @ signs

There are limits to what can be expressed in an HN comment. If we were standing at a whiteboard I could draw many more different variations on the theme than I can here.

> you have a non-standard definition of "symbol."

A symbol is a physical thing that can be unambiguously mapped into one of a finite set of equivalence classes. ¼ and 1/4 and even "one-quarter" can all be unambiguously mapped (within a particular context, i.e. people speaking English talking about math) onto a single concept which is denoted ¼ or 1/4 or "one-quarter" or "one-quarter".

> It seems like you're conflating "signifier" with "signified".

No, I'm not conflating them. It's just very hard to talk about these things because the only tool we have at our disposal is signifiers. I can't actually show you the thing that is signified by ¼ and 1/4 and "one-quarter", I can only talk about its properties (and I can only do that using signifiers).

> math seems to derive from pre-existing mental processes

That is a very human-centric view of things. It happens to arise in humans from pre-existing mental processes, but that doesn't mean that math necessarily or inherently arises that way. In fact, math arises in nature in myriad ways, many of which are not even mental processes at all.

> Recognition and manipulation of symbols seems to be no more special than other mental processes.

Oh, that is where you are very, very wrong, my friend. Manipulation of symbols is very special. There's a reason it's called the "computer revolution".
India will start allowing sale of EVs without batteries so user can purchase/ lease batteries including third party batteries...

"This will make the upfront cost of the electrical 2 wheeler (2W) and 3 wheelers (3W) to be lower than ICE 2 "

https://www.livemint.com/auto-news/indian-govt-to-allow-regi...
No. Unleaded aviation fuels have been available forever. That certification helps people convert obsolete aircraft to unleaded at lower cost, a thing which should be a non-goal of national policy. The federal government should outlaw leaded aviation fuels immediately and let the hobby aviation community figure out how to proceed from there.
80 char title limit https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc#L14...
YAY. Missed that!

Drop in replacement, no engine changes, no performance changes, no compatibility issues with storage tanks, pipelines, anything.

They are claiming it will even increase time between overhauls, prolong spark plug life, maybe even increase engine life and require less oil changes.

Seems more costly though. But if the above materializes it might offset the costs too.

That sounds like the holy grail - if more airframes are issued STCs
I hear this argument from zsh purists all the time, I'm pretty sure it's made up. I've used oh-my-zsh for years with several plugins and the startup time is basically imperceptible. Maybe it's slow if you're running on raspberry pi or something.
This source makes that quote even more damning.

The same logic Liu uses here is the same argument slave societies used to justify themselves; that: "If China were to transform into a democracy, it would be hell on earth," is exactly the same logic that Slave Owners used to justify the permanent enslavement of millions of people.

These are some profoundly shameful words. I'm genuinely shocked that anyone on Hacker News would consider Liu a decent human being.
Yeah, the first thing I tried was to install some Go extensions. I guess they'll need to have separate web versions (or some sort of extra qualifiers)
There is so many other factors at play here than lead levels. Lead levels are tied to calendar - many MANY other things changed with the calendar in line with that which could have affected measured IQ. This feels like a millenial/boomer rally tweet masquerading as science.
Yeah, that was my solution as well. It's much easier to destroy a small secret key than terabytes of data.
Yeah I agree there are examples where types are not enough to disambiguate arguments.
FYI: You can't run/compile your code (yet), and by extension it means it won't show any error/warning (I tried deleting some lines). I'm guessing the next step is cloud build.
We continue to see capitalism choose profit over the health and wellbeing of _every_ living thing on the planet. Industries suppressing anything that paints them in a bad light, lobbying to get laws favoring them passed, and ignoring and actively lying about the long term harm that they perpetuate so they can have _number go up_ in their bank statements.
Or you could get TSA
Greg Egan's diaspora is fantastic. I can't stop thinking about that book.
I'm sorry, I'm not enlightened enough to go down a rabbit hole of made-up categories invented by academics trying to justify their salaries in suspect disciplines. It would be like discussing the characteristics of a divinity: just accepting the debate means legitimising the unprovable.

And yes, my guess is that black comedians as a minority are more worthy of protection and support than (activist white) trans people. At least they make me laugh, instead of making problems.
Alibaba open sources four RISC-V cores: XuanTie E902, E906, C906 and C910
Yes, because FB, Amazon and everybody else invest in constant PR to assuage people's concerns. That messaging is much more common than stories of people discovering what they actually store.
One nice feature of VHDL we could use in modern software is different styles of descriptions of the same object in the same model: behavioral, structural, dataflow. The model can be given to tools operating at different levels: synthesis, simulation, verification etc.
As I mentioned before; I didn't really like TBP and it's siblings.

I can however recommend Diaspora by Greg Egan. Or Blindsight and Echopraxia by Peter Watts. "Human" beings in "extreme situations", indeed.
This is a pretty worthless take from the HN community that Facebook==Bad. I've been watching the investments in VR, and I think it's a pretty bold move and only one that a founder-led company could even do. Fact is that Facebook has been largely responsible for VR up to this point and has sold the vast majority of all the HMDs out there. The VR/AR tech is brimming with possibilities and even a few days spent playing with the Quest 2 makes that obvious for anyone paying attention. They'll soon have 20k employees working on VR/AR. They are releasing a new HMD in a week that's rumored to bring face and eye, and potentially body tracking. They are announcing a company rebrand at the VR conference. Zuck has every indication of being all in on a pivot, from stale and dangerous social media that may soon be regulated out of existence, to fresh new pastures.

Tech companies already sit in the middle of so much of our relationships with each other and each one of them delivers a terrible low-bandwidth experience. I believe Facebook's end game here is no less than digital teleportation. Put on a pair of sunglasses and you can be in the room with anyone in the world. It will be radically personal and intimate after decades of impersonal, disconnected, inhumane and isolating tech.

And anyway, regardless of outcome, it will surely be more entertaining to watch a trillion dollar company go fully down the rabbit hole of some kind of cyberpunk fantasy than to watch them continue to dig the hole deeper on their society destroying social media tech.
Sex and gender issues in the modern era move only in one direction when looked at over longer periods of time. Progress isn't strictly linear, but that doesn't mean we should assume it swings wildly back and forth. It doesn't.
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Good points.

Personally I think quality is really hard, we don't do it nearly enough. And it will be increasingly important.

There are firms who ship outstanding UX and tech. They will eat everyone's lunch if others don't manage to catch up. Reliability, consistency, responsiveness, performance... These things add up, because users apparently really like tools that are polished, just work reliably and perform well.

So many horror stories have been piling up about just plain bad software and so much just doesn't work as it is supposed to work. There will be a turning point where we can't keep only throwing things at the wall and see what sticks.

I think this kind of stuff will become one of the primary distinguishing features for products and services as expectations go up. People are getting tired of software that doesn't work and countless apps that crave for user attention and needs constant fixing. It's too expensive and useless. Useful, really well made stuff is going to dominate.

That's not what you're criticizing directly here. But in my opinion this goes all the way down. Broken window theory and all that. Framing it as "developer productivity" seems wrong to me and perhaps reveals where the issues are. That's not what quality is primarily about I don't think.

We're in midst of a revolution, but at some point we need to grow up, take more responsibility for what we make and be _actually sure_ that we can do that with confidence.
You have a good point, but based on his pre anti-corruption (political purge) writing, Liu Cixin agrees with the party line.
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I would challenge the use of word "cost" here, unless you have corroborating data.
It's entirely cultural, and both government and private enterprise will follow the culture, just as they have for the last 100 years.
In 1995 I "invented" Navigation Meshes. But I didn't call them Navigation meshes because I didn't learn the term until I read about them in AI Game Programming Wisdom in 2004 (a book published in 2002).

Likewise there are plenty of people who have learned database design through a combination of optimizing execution plans and dealing with the practicalities of schema changes. Such people may never have heard the term "Third Normal Form", but will run absolute rings around a college newbie who has. Indeed, in my career I have met at least two people responsible for database design who did know normal forms but did not know about execution plans, or covering indexes for that matter. Or had a nice normal set of tables, and then proceeded to build a reservation system (hit by 100,000+ users when registration opens) that takes a transactional lock on a single row using an ORM. They understood database theory from 1971, but they didn't know what this specific database implementation actually does.
That just proves Siri is disabled, not the microphone.
Your solutions are to problems that a decent developer doesn't accept anyway.

Working on locked down machine where you are not allowed to have visual code? Seriously?

Working on a chromebook? Why?

Sorry to be negative but I feel sometimes you tech guys get excited about solutions to problems that doesn't actually exist in the real world.
Mulford Act
Ask HN: Best places to discuss database internals?
I‘ve got some ideas for a new kind of database and want to run the concepts by some database folks.

Where are the best places to discuss database design and internals?
Ancient-DNA Researchers Set Ethical Guidelines for Their Work
That may be, but the report had a striking effect.

This is a thread about Tether, another company that is an obvious scam, that even once admitted in court a few years back that they were only 74% backed.

If Hindenburg makes a report formalizing everything and getting some new research, that might well have a similar effect.
> I was talking about a person who looks at the options in the job market, and figures all on own their that prostitution is the least shitty option available to them.

If prostitution, which is heavily stigmatized by the society a person lives in and is illegal, starts looking attractive, then there is something wrong, don't you think? The problem is not decriminalization, the problem is that people don't have anywhere to look at if they want a decent life.

> And some prostitutes reportedly even like their job well enough.

Which part of it, stigma, having no rights or a fair chance to get degraded/killed/catch STD/highly reducing their chances of having a romantic relationship?

>they can join the large group of other people who do not like their jobs either, but do it anyway to provide for themselves and loved ones.

You can't provide for yourself and, even more so for you loved ones, by working at McDonalds. You can barely survive.

> There is no coerced consent.

Sure, if you have 2 choices - prostitution or dying from starvation, then it's not coerced consent. You always had a choice to die.
I guess I was lucky to be born in a communist country, where cars were pretty rare...
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That's so clear that this article had no intention to inform, but to generate traffic to his twitter and own startup, that we should have something against it in the guidelines. I don't like his product already, even not really taking a look on that.
> They have no duty whatsoever to make their platform healthier...

Of course they do. They may have no legal duty to behave morally, but they, like everyone else, still have a moral duty to behave morally.
Well, GNU's Not UNIX after all...
> 2. We already have existing ways for people to immigrate here legally outside of H1B that includes the low-skilled.

You don't know much about immigration in the US.
I pretty much only use facebook to talk to my grandparents these days.
Greg Egan is so good. The last few books didn't quite click with me, but Diaspora is a book I return every few years.

If you are reading this, Greg: I want to have your book!
That was my reading of it too. The suicides were only a side-effect of the real objective, and perhaps more credible in Asian culture where historically, suicides were a means of redeeming oneself for a great failure, shame, or loss of face.

But they were not the main objective of the Trisolarians’ intervention. The main objective was to sabotage particle accelerators and thus prevent humanity from understanding the full subatomic structure of matter, which is the key to scientific and technological advancement. Thus humanity would not be able to defend itself when the Trisolarian fleet arrived to colonize Earth 400yrs later.
crazy ..also tesla doign well too.( I would rather own tesla than BTC though. )
It's been since the fall of the Roman Empire that we've been waiting for sexual freedom and appreciation of the body in its entirety, genitalia included, to be acceptable again. Two thousand years have passed, any day now...
We're going around in circles. If not all mathematics is symbolic thought, then, unless you're a dualist, there is nothing that can be meaningfully distinguished as "not mathematics" (because Turing completeness) and the whole concept of mathematics becomes vacuous and useless.
I also recently built a similar thing for SMS: it just creates a JSON file (for extra metadata) for every reply
I have a suspicion that they went with the Amazon App Store because it removes the dependency on Google Play Services. Is that just me?
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Pity the generation whose elderly parents will have been raised on leaded gasoline and whose children will have been raised on smartphones.
The PM on the live share feature only gets a promotion if they can prove the value and engagement of their feature. Sadly this leads to very close-minded and hostile attitudes at different levels in the product. You want to talk to the group PM for the VS code product to pitch an idea about new features (but you aren't going to see this person spending time at a trade show booth).
Honestly, I think it does work. Not perfectly, but somewhat, and that's enough to be worth doing for them.

People will continue to associate Facebook stuff and some of the parent-company shenanigans when they hit big news events, but it gives them another name for news releases and forcefully correcting news outlets that "Alphabet did X, and Alphabet is not Google".
Statistically, to more than a few sigmas, most attempts to build a different type of social network fail.

In the tradition of putting armor where the bombers are not missing parts, this suggests that, at best, conventional criticisms don't hinder success.

The landing page makes it clear it is different. And you're asking for it to look the same. Asking for it to be filled with chart junk.

Or when I looked at it, it looked a but like HN. It was probably because the call to action was reading.

The reason I am not in the intended audience is I like HN, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and StackExcange. I'm not looking for an alternative.

The dog gets me away from the screen.
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> Unleaded aviation fuels have been available forever

True. But irrelevant if most aircraft cannot use it.

> That certification helps people convert obsolete aircraft

Obsolete? Is a Cirrus SR-22 obsolete?

> The federal government should outlaw leaded aviation fuels immediately and let the hobby aviation community figure out how to proceed from there.

The government also uses planes. Whole industries use piston planes. And helicopters. Why are you singling out 'hobby' aircraft?

Mind you, experimental aircraft have been able to use unleaded fuels (including automotive gasoline) for a while now. The reason most can't is that there were no fuels certified for use in their aircraft. Certification requirements come from the government, so the government has to fix it.
Peter Watts; Blindsight, Echopraxia.

Be prepared for a wild ride.
All the various gif sites that make it nearly impossible to get an actual gif. Why the fuck are they showing up on image results if the thing they serve to actual humans is a video? I thought tricking the Google Bot was supposed to be bad for SEO, but I guess not.
Appreciate their contributions to the metaverse, but they'll never build "The Metaverse," or "A Metaverse." They definitely will never own the Metaverse.

The metaverse is open, collaborative, privacy focused, and free by default. It should be a public good. The walled gardens, and efforts to control are really part of the metaverse, rather than the entire metaverse itself.

There are so many other orgs and people working hard on ensuring that it can't be owned. They can hire 100,000 more people, and they still can't own it. It's bigger than that.
Except if you are from China, or India.
Sure do. Was lots of fun, even though my skyscraper plans failed as there was a limit to how man objects we were allowed to stack in the Z-axis.
What are you talking about? Using reverse-r search in vi mode requires a single line config, no hacks involved.

bindkey -v '^R' history-incremental-search-backward

I'd say that if you want vim-like bindings, zsh is a much better option. It provides Vim's text objects, surround.vim bindings, and visual selection which bash does not. Also unlike bash, you're free to create your own keybinding if none of the builtin ones suffice. I did exactly that to get an increment/decrement operator that behaves exactly like Vim's ^a/^x.

It's like the zsh folks said, "I like those vim guys".
the idea was just to make ad to his product. Article at HN: free and targeted ad.
Because of the parent:

> I posted a similar article by the same author a couple of years ago called "An Overly Analytical Guide to Camgirling" but it got flagged to death
The challenge is social acceptability rather than legality. Being topless in public is already legal in most of the US. It's our culture which hasn't budged since the 60s (and in fact has regressed in a lot of ways).
Today, I realized that I am now old.

Bubbly startup pitch: “… WebGPU, WebXR, and WebAssembly are going to replace the photo, text, and video sites you use currently into 3D spatial ones that you can experience and live in...”

My reaction: “Aw, hell no! The flip to video was bad enough! Leave text alone!”
Conservatives are against the status quo in many areas. Immigration, globalization, outsourcing of industry, public housing used as residential desegregation.. I suppose if your stereotypical, borderline strawman conservative wants nothing other than lowering taxes, starting wars in the middle east, busting unions, and keeping healthcare privatized, they would be very happy.
Community enables users to build and share AI resources throughout their enterprise or organization, and even in collaboration with the public at large. We’ve also launched a new category, the AI Lake. Now, developers everywhere can collect all their AI resources in their own lake (inputs, concepts, annotations, datasets, models, and workflows), and collaborate with anyone in the world with speed and ease.
The end of the article teases a post on the Phantom Builder pattern. With a bit of googling, I found an astonishingly similar looking blog post about the Phantom Builder pattern: https://freemasen.com//blog/phantom-builder/index.html
As a side effect, this would completely destroy the pipeline for commercial aviation (think big jet) pilots. Pretty much everyone starts on small crafts and then proceeds to burn hundreds of hours of avfuel in the process of getting to their commercial licenses. Considering the scale and importance of the aviation sector, as well as the ongoing shortage of trained pilots in the field today, the results of your policy would be catastrophic.

The industry is rapidly trying to move to do two things, 1. remove lead from the fuel, this is noted by other commenters. And 2. Pushing for more electric GA.

Pilots don't exactly like getting their hands covered in lead when they check fuel, much less dumping it into the atmosphere when they fly, but it's still an unfortunate fact of life. Times are absolutely changing though, and the future looks bright.
It’s pretty obvious how that is helpful to protect users’ privacy, isn’t it?

Or why would they do it, considering it’s extra work compared to the status quo?
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