skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always say “congratulations” to people who have been fired or let go from a job. While the process itself can be painful, the act of letting go of one part of our lives and moving on to the next can be an opportunity to grow and find lasting joy. Hanging on will just bring suffering and delay the joy that is possible!
Funny considering a spokesman from BMW boasted on Deutschlandfunk (German broadcast), that they selling a lot of cars because they aren't affected by supply chain issues because they, contrary to the other car makers were having fair agreements with their suppliers... Yeah. So much for that :-)
We're giants, with no scars and no disfigurations. Wouldn't that be enough magic? Most of us are utterly ignorant of the most basic skills that would be universal in such times; further evidence that we must be if not Gods then the swaddled products of some form of divine grace.
the person sending the dm is clearly trolling/joking. wild they wrote an article about it, but i guess the idea that people are angry gets clicks.
I have zero information about (due also to little interest for) computer games, so this is just a wild speculation: maybe the visuals in terms of "levels/textures/objects/mesh/characters/voice/audio" dominate the planning, now?
In many EU countries it's definitely not illegal to use your smartphone while driving. Distracted driving is illegal, but using your smartphone doesn't automatically mean that you were distracted any more or less than using your car touchscreen would.

The real truth is that enforcement is non-existent and almost nobody gets in trouble for using a phone while driving even if it's specifically forbidden.
People get pissed off about downloading movies and books from the public internet. The precedent has been made.
Hope anti vaxxer will take it. To free up hospitals.
Exactly. This is already a serious problem without Wikipedia giving wrong information a stamp of credibility.

There's a man with the exact same name as mine (not a common one) and the exact same age who is a disbarred attorney in Arizona. More than once I've been asked by a prospective client if I ever was an attorney even though it's not on my C.V. (I would love to find a way to put these wanna-be Sherlock Holmeses who don't know how to google in their places!)

Imagine if I had a Wikipedia page and the names got conflated. I'd never be able to unwind that.
You could use https://briarproject.org/ for decentralized messaging. Once someone in your decentralized network has internet connection (by moving closer to Kenya for example) all the messages they collected would be relayed to the internet
As a gamer, Discord is great for small/medium social communities where chat is meant to be ephemeral and fleeting, and where voice is important. This is what Discord was designed for and it works great.

The problem is that Discord is increasingly being adopted by communities where voice isn't used and where ephemeral chat isn't helpful. E.g. All these crypto discord communities where it's impossible to find out what's going on unless you check the channel 24/7. A traditional forum would work much better for most of these cases.

The fact that Discord are trying to grow aggressively pre-IPO isn't helping.
When I was inexperienced the best thing for me was to be paired with someone very experienced in a mentorship type of way. We would get a task and he would do it with me watching and asking questions. After learning a bit I would do similar tasks myself and still ask questions if I got stuck.
> Voice chat is unreliable, often requiring 2-3 attempts restarting the call to work. The calls often die midway without telling you, until you realize you're just talking into the void. Tried on multiple devices (including mobile), same result.

YMMV

We specifically switched one group to Discord just because the voice/video chat works every single time.
Is the general discussion channel the main channel that is not muted? Where 90% of activity is happening? Or something different?
99.9% cryptocurrency do not touch cryptography. be sure what you're looking for.

cryptography is very niche. mostly because it is widely known you should NOT roll out your own encryption. that being said, there are fields of research - trying to break known ciphers, or improving implementations for speedups, sometimes implementing from scratch for dedicated hardware, but again is very, very niche, and the bar for entry is probably very high.

on the other hand you might have meant cryptocurrency, in which case is a whole other topic.
> If the artists made too many textures, everything started to look bad because everything got downsampled too much.

That's really clever. On the surface of it, it's "just" about dynamically adapting fidelity to fit in the available memory.

But really, it's a deeper organisational solution: it pushes the breadth vs fidelity of assets trade-off back to the designers, who are the ones that should decide along that curve anyway. It provides a cheap way for them to visually evaluate various points on that trade-off curve. Very clever.
The control dial on BMWs is incredible. Having used both extensively, for both in-car entertainment systems and CarPlay, I far prefer to use the control dial. Even if it didn’t have the safety advantage, I would still use it — it’s just so easy.
I've never had any of those issues on the desktop or phone app, and they're not spyware by any but the most overreaching definition.
> They literally murdered babies regulary.

We’re going to collectively suppress discussion about this statement.
Im not necessarily talking about Firefox (which i don't use.) Of course on the spot I'm not able to think of a big list, but my bank, the payroll company my employer uses, and Hulu.

Opera is basically Chrome, and supports the same features, but alot of websites will complain to high heaven, or somehow find a way to break a feature due to whatever it thinks the useragent means.
I suspect oriettaxx is capable of asking an Ethiopian tech forum and Hacker News. HN might not be as aware of local conditions, but might be more aware of modern solutions to net blocking.
On the C64 I will change the border color when my frame routine starts and change it back once my routine finishes. This will tell me how much of a fraction of the total frame time I use, in quite literal terms. I wonder if similar tricks were used for VGA. I think you could change color index 0 to the same effect.
One thing that I find still both fascinating and shocking at the same time is how little we know about learning. If you look at the literature on learning, there are lots of schools, theories... almost all with only very little empirical work to verify and falsify.

Take something relatively simple like learning to read. It's relatively straight forward to test, it's usually learned in relatively tightly controlled environments (schools) and yet we har no idea what is the best way to teach kids how to read. It would be comparitavely easy to conduct large scale experiments: make several groups of schools use different approaches to teach reading over several years, conduct standardised tests and compare. The populations could easily be large enough to average out other variables and after some time we would have a reasonable good idea which approach works and which doesn't.

Instead we have a bunch of deductively derived theories paired with small scale qualitative studies ("it worked for me") , with dubious statistical significance.

It is quite frustrating really.
Proofpoint Phish Harvests Microsoft O365, Google Logins
Definitely hoverboards too.
Don't mean to take a side here, but just because a rule sounds hard to enforce doesn't mean it doesn't have an effect in practice. People will often change their behaviour out of sheer societal pressure if something is explicitly banned, even if the ban is not enforceable. Saying "our society does not want/accept this" already accomplishes something, regardless of enforcement.
An example would be the banned disposal of certain substances in residential solid waste or sewage systems.
Not satellite phone; satellite internet. But it's definitely expensive.
I mean your criticism in the abstract applies to basically any source. The argument is very general and applies to everything out there!

Hell, for contentious articles given you have antagonistic co-authors it’s more likely to be fact checked than in the Wapo “2 Pinocchios” echo chamber.

Words are written by people…
Ha! Just as I expected, a bill that mostly builds infrastructure that corporations/Wall Street wanted, not much for the slave class (also known as the “middle class”).

As Warren Buffet once said “there has been class warfare and my class won.”

Biden should man-up and issue executive orders to satisfy at least a few of his campaign promises to the non-elite class.
I see. Is there any chance that we could use Brave's adblock? (probably not trivial because it's for Chromium)
Oh well, I am autistic then :( I honestly can’t tell if that person is joking.

But hey, we live in a world where even The Onion is struggling to keep up!
I rented a car in Germany ones but unfortunately I dont remember if it was a BMW or Mercedes. It had a fancy but horrendous touch nob and I just couldn't figure out how to move the car. Car makers consider everything touch a premium feature. The more touch the better/expensive. But to be fair I'm also extremely turned off by how Tesla "reimagined" the door knob.
Forums seemed dead before discord was a thing. I think Reddit and Facebook groups killed them off, and discord is what popped up after the fact.
Hat tip for the public handling of this issue. Second one for the initiation of a bug bounty, while not the end to all, it does help to get critical hands and eyes to your code.
Well, legal rulings aside, it's clear that Black Lives _don't_ matter to the Wikimedia foundation, who has the power and resources to try to make this man whole, even though they have no legal liability.

I'm glad I've never donated to this organization, and now I certainly never will.
Very helpful response, but generally I think the set of people who refuse to learn vi/vim is orthogonal to the set of people who are willing to go seek support!
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same thing for any other NFT: nothing.
Show HN: I used ARKit to make a “selfie fixer” app for newer iPhones
The shift to pay transparency: Undermet pay standing expectations & consequences
For me, this article was quite confusing and hard to follow. In contrast, CNN’s article was easier for me to understand:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/05/politics/house-votes-infrastr...
So if an otherwise good person can sell their soul to the devil and then be subject to eternal damnation upon death, could someone sell their soul to someone else and thus avoid damnation even if they were a bad person?
I don’t think knowing the “internals” is really necessary. I like git and use rebase frequently. But I know almost nothing about the internals.

To me, it’s just a convenient way to keep track of big stacks of patches. That’s enough to understand rebase and most other commands.
Good luck enforcing 'ownership' of an 'NFT' that is 'downloadable' and 'right-click-saved' on anyone's computer.

Better not click on a random NFT giveaway. You might lose more than just your expensive certificate of purchasing a useless JPEG minted by literally anyone.
I'd agree. Staff aug roles for individual freelancers are always easier to find, but good luck getting a team of those unless you're a more established firm - plus, the rate and work isn't all that great. We avoid them as much as possible.

Sell project work that's strategic (ie: solving a business problem and coming with a solution), as opposed to 'We need a frontend developer for 12 months'. Better rates, opportunities to work with business instead of IT, etc.
Java 8, if you use corretto, is supported until 2026.
It's totally fine to use and support. And java being java and jumping to 11 won't be that bumpy either.
BMWs have a touch nob clickwheel thing, there is no part of the UX that requires or even strongly encourages you to use the touch functionality.
In an ideal world, these are in no order:

* Safe

* Affordable

* Great weather with no extremes (snow, storms, heatwaves)

* Close to the sea with beaches and piers for walking

* Not overcrowded

* Great public transport

* Close to mountains for hikes

* Good pubs and restaurants with lots of variety

* Good looking women

* Good internet

If anyone has any suggestions please say! I don't think a place like this exists.
Ask HN: Is there any interesting philosophy about randomness?
Tsar Bomba [1] is a good example of energy release from fusion.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
Oh well, there's no harm in trying Firefox.

For anybody who are similar to me and has a similar workload, Firefox is still much better, it just isn't order of magnitudes anymore.
It's pretty easy to forget that the sun is a ball of gas. It not very dense (roughly 1/4 the density of the earth). So it's extremely unlikely that a specific hydrogen atom will undergo fusion during the lifetime of the sun. However the sun is also ENORMOUS. So in the aggregate there is a lot of fusion going on and a lot of energy is being produces. However its not super dense.

From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#cite_ref-power_production_...

The large power output of the Sun is mainly due to the huge size [...] Theoretical models of the Sun's interior indicate a maximum power density, or energy production, of approximately 276.5 watts per cubic metre at the center of the core,[77] which is about the same power density inside a compost pile
> I'm not sure about MacOS since I don't use it much, but most Linux distros do not forcibly apply upgrades like Windows does;

Eh, not very accurate in my opinion. If you want to use the latest software you are very much forced to upgrade Linux because they have no concept of separating the platform from the applications that run on it. Either everything is bleeding edge or nothing is. Or you compile things from source like it is 1979.

There are Windows programs released today that will run just fine on Windows 7. How many Linux programs released today will run on Karmic Koala without recompilation?
And it appears to be FREE!
I hope something will be done with Chinese speculators who buy all stock of certain components as soon as it becomes available and then resell at 10x margin.
What is a chip manufacturer gaining when they sell components to them rather than to businesses that actually use them in their products?
Currently my friends company had to hire two more engineers to redevelop product to use a different chip manufacturer who so far has not been badly affected.
But this may become a kind of whack-a-mole game.
If this causes so much harm to businesses, why agencies don't treat this as a national security problem and actually put these Chinese companies on terrorist list?
Exactly. There isn't anything "exclusive" about the content referenced in an NFT. The closest analog in physical artwork would be a signed & numbered print from a limited series—there may be many other copies of the same image, but this particular one is yours.

The protocols for NFTs basically dictate that the underlying image must be available to everyone so that whoever purchases the NFT will be able to access it. Usually this means publishing the content on a decentralized network like IPFS. For the particular NFT in this story, the metadata can be seen here:

https://api.opensea.io/api/v1/asset/0x8943c7bac1914c9a7aba75...

Note that there is nothing in the metadata about a transfer of copyright or an exclusive license. The original image was shared to the world by the artist through IPFS here:

ipfs://QmaeqEgbu2sEHpJ9ghur44kcvGqBc5cvRTTu3YsRzkGFSh

… which you can access using your own IPFS node or through any IPFS gateway, for example ipfs.io:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmaeqEgbu2sEHpJ9ghur44kcvGqBc5cvRTTu3Ys...
Just wait until people discover you can essentially clone not only the image itself but also all of the metadata and simple mint it again on the same blockchain, a different blockchain and/or marketplace.

Additionally, while the original creator always maintains copyright ownership any terms associated with the purchase are essentially lost when it’s resold because presentation of the terms and agreement to them almost often aren’t always presented and agreement enforced, acknowledged, and recorded.
People who have lived experience of rare events are the people who have the least rational outlook on said events. Someone who’s child is mauled by a dog is going to have an unreasonable opinion on dogs, letting them have a say on policy just leads to overprotective laws.
This has all the hallmarks of liability shift as well. Akin to the "superfund" sites. While I dont think this will be that extreme I can see more than a few of these companies that just house this kind of thing quietly going bankrupt leaving the local (or federal) tax payers holding the bill to do the proper disposal
Nokia 8210 over GPRS and connected to the PC via Bluetooth is perfectly fine for reading email and text web sites.

https://kikuyumoja.com/2006/10/31/how-touse-gprs-in-kenya/
Not OP, but this rant is too good to miss.

1- Memory hungry and laggy: 1st one is expected from an electron app, but VS code is an electron app (and fairly memory hungry) but also works like a charm once startup is done.

2- Network hungry: I literally don't know what it's doing with the bandwidth, when zoom and google meets both work fine for 50+ people (as far as I saw it) with only the occasional cough, why the f* is that 4-person meeting lagging and cutting off audio out of nowhere every 3 minutes ?

3- General awefulness and user-hostility:

- Updates are always the first thing to do at app startup, "f* you user, you don't get to see the UI before I'm done!". I have even heard from a friend on windows that the app launches at computer startup to fetch updates, even after the app's "launch at startup" was disabled from the task manager !, thankfully this never happened with me (also windows, but older). What is that weird fetish anyway ? the app was working before the updates perfectly fine, you would rather block the UI thread for a non-critical update ? hijack computer startup (an incredibly annoying and slow process especially if the OS is on hard drive) to fetch the update that adds that extra dumb colored widget to the UI ?

- Discoverability, maybe I'm missing the point a bit since discord is about privat groups, but is the search feature literally useless ? I swear it has a bunch of hard-coded channels for advertisment and replies to any other search with "not found". Privacy is compatible with this, you can make people ask to join things they find interesting and wait for approval from admins, I don't see why you have to implement whatsapp's invite-only groups - which makes sense only in the context of an addressing scheme based on phone numbers as they are inherently invite-only and can't be collected and indexed - in a web app. Maybe this is a fundamental limitation of IRC somehow ? it just sucks, it's the reason I don't use it as anything other than an inferior version of a zoom/whatsapp hybrid.
Haven't read the article ... But I am always taken aback by these "and now we look at the complete life of the guy that did whatever the article is actually about"-detours.

When I read an article about about ... fishing in Alaska ... I was btw born in the last millenia and had a pretty normal childhood. But if you dig out school colleagues of mine you will find somebody who will tell you I was a strange kid in school .

5 minutes later I have still not read anything about fishing in Alaska.

Feels like complete filler material to me, probably to increase "engagement".
Right, many seem to have forgotten that Getty Images exists and is still probably more foolproof than NFTs at regulating ownership, at least in the commercial space
You just need your code to finish before the next frame. Then you wait and start the next cycle when you receive the interrupt from the start of the next frame from your graphics hardware.

Of course once you start writing for heterogeneous hardware like PCs with very different performance between models, you may use adaptive approaches to use all the available resources rather than just providing the most basic experience for everyone.
The thing that many modern people believe (incorrectly), is that primitive folks are not as smart as more developed people.

They are every bit as smart (some might say, “smarter”); they just don’t have the social, physical, and logical infrastructure, or access to resources, that more developed societies have.

I think that was the premise of Guns, Germs and Steel.
Firefox and uBlock Origin is a convenient and effective first line of defense.

My personal concern is the smartphone. Apple concerns me less than Google, but not by much. Android has the better potential for full, verifiable independence-from-the-Mothership (via LineageOS, GrapheneOS, F-Droid, ...) but it all feels early, amateurish, almost like an ambitious project that advances only when capable strangers volunteer their spare time.
My LEAF had that repair done under warranty (cell #17 was dramatically weaker than the rest, resulting in the pack suddenly having around 33% range and 50% power). Repair was disassemble, change module #9 (cells 17&18), reassemble but took about 2 calendar weeks for parts and trained labor reasons (repair itself was done in a single day).

3.25 years later there is no evidence of recurrence/spread and battery diagnostics are all good. That’s an N of 1, but I don’t see any structural reason to think my battery would now be any different than the sibling car’s battery that was next off the production line (assuming there was no additional fault introduced during service).
> Nice, this may be worth a Show HN.

smallstepforman has submitted it before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513557. Unfortunately, it didn't garner much attention.
On 9/11 I was pitching website development at a large architect bureau in the Netherlands. As internet was pretty new for the "normies", the ceo insisted that visits to the site would cost money for the visitor so he could make back the money he spent on having it built and that all images cannot be saved (including by screenshot) in any way. We got interrupted when the first plane went into the trade center and the day ended there as it did for most people.

We got a call (guy didn't use email yet) that he talked to a few companies after us and he was having a custom Windows application (there was a company actually in NL that did not believe in the web and made website 'apps' and had a framework in Java swing to make them; you had to download the jar and sometimes pay to view the 'website' content) made which would act as his site which worked as he specified. I am guessing he sold (it was E1 per download) zero, but it is not that weird actually. I still encounter the request to make it impossible to download anything from a site at clients ceo/cfo or lawyers this day.
That and Reddit isn’t real time communication. Discord provides better real time communication that Forms don’t always provide. Not every thread has active refresh the same way Discord channels do.
Make sure you read this all the way to end. It made me chuckle, and not just a little.
My upgraded scooter wheels on my office chair means it should probably just be illegal altogether.
No it's not. Car manufacturers and regulators have been trying to make cars safer for decades and won't just (require to) add some feature that is as unsafe as your proposed "solution"
And the solution here is simple: do the check when the car is starting and don't drive when alcohol is detected. That's how current alcohol locks work.
Nobody is suggesting to test when the car is already driving and nobody is suggesting to slow cars down.
That’s why a fusion reactor would use different fuels than a star.