skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DRM too is also a pain.

The new Alder Lake CPUs apparently breaks a bunch of games, since their DRM thinks that the new Intel efficiency-cores are a second PC trying to play on the same license.

Some games will only work if you upgrade to Windows 11, and all games should work if you find a BIOS option and enable it, but only some CPUs support that BIOS option.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/11/faulty-drm-breaks-doz...

And there's also all the other older horror stories of DRM, like the Denuvo DRM adding a huge performance hit on some games. Or not being able to play your offline single-player games at all, since the Denuvo DRM servers have temporarily offline due to a DNS issue.

(Disclaimer, despite all the issues, I do personally prefer PC gaming over console gaming, but I'm biased that I already have a powerful PC for CUDA/C++ programming and development, so I've already spent a bunch of money and time into PCs already).
Right but you will never be able to deter everyone. In fact attempting to do so will encourage some people to seek out and try to get at what you are warning them about.

The source was protected by a shutter, the thieves forced it open. If it was locked in a safe, they would have cut that open.

I remember a quote about a large demonstration that took place in Afghanistan or Iraq after the death of a couple local people.

"Look at these people out here, all upset. Are they here demonstrating because we have are military in their country? No. Are they upset because we accidentally bombed a school or house? No. They are upset because a couple guys walked past 3 signs saying "Danger Keep Out" in 5 languages, climbed over 2 fences and got into the live fire range, found some unexploded ordinance and managed to blow themselves up with it. That is what they are upset about."
Tilde sites are very different. This is closer to NeoCities.

However, it's simpler than NeoCities, and I kind of love the more barebones aesthetic.
Not only this but for some games, the launch window is all they’ll have because the game is terrible. This works as insurance to make sure they make some money.
In a couple ways it could (see below), but the main idea is that the metaverse is a latent space "between" existing worlds. People already join virtual worlds out of their own volition. We are building the connection and the right way to think about connecting them.

that being said:
We built some tooling in rust for a mini game engine that people can built on top of of this system. This could compile using WASM and run in a browser (equiv for webgl).
Do you know what percentage of the non-western sources are outsourced emissions or if that was already included?
Sure, just as any other site is.

The source in the article speaking about “size savings” of reducing images is clearly non-technical. That was not the reason as our S3 and CDN budget was essentially infinite.

I would say the main negative of Pinterest in image search results is when the target of your search isn’t the image but context around the image. It’s often lost if the image is reshared from an unrelated site or directly uploaded to Pinterest without relevant metadata (like the site it came from). I think a lot of people forget that GIS often gave contextually out of place images even before Pinterest but now there’s a consistent domain to associate with the frustration of missing context.
I’ve never been to Algiers but having done a lot of walking in Bangkok, I like this metaphor.

The fact that I love to walk in Bangkok proves that I am into Walking in a way more regular, more fit, longer-distance, better equipped walkers generally are not.

Dunno what the programming equivalent would be… maybe if you’re into coding Windows apps in Brainfuck?
But the example given is quite literal. He described the inevitable development now being sold as "progress" or "maturity" when business takes a central position. This isn't rocket science.

It is an argument about who set the bound of acceptable speech if you are more precise.
To my (non-EE) mind, the flaw is the electrical leakage between the cells. Tight packing is a consequence of economic forces, but I assume there are also technical solutions that allow for tight packing (but either offset the performance or cost gains). Is that assumption wrong? (Genuinely asking!)
This is good news if they follow through. Likely to have a number of beneficial effects directly in China and as follow on effects globally.
Hopefully with MAUI + BlazorWebview component:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-maui-pr...

Unless it gets rebranded again before it's usable.
A bit offtopic, but I am disappointed that the the initial "winners" of this seal [1] seem to be almost all companies that are terrible for the environment and society.

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[1] https://www.sustainable-markets.org/terra-carta-seal/winners...
WebView2: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview...

For instance, in WPF applications: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/get...
If most data is common between people, then storing the diffs should be cheap.
TIL WW2 was fought for oil. I guess Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan were about oil, too? I'll grant that Iraq was about oil.

More likely, if the world was run on Uranium and Thorium then people wouldn't be able to blame wars on oil.
I don't think people would ever become accustomed to being losers.

It might work for fear of flying or heights

But being in a social setting and trying to penetrate into the "in crowd" and being rejected would only make things worse.

You need a controlled environment to exogenously make the socially anxious person "in" so that they then have enough momentum and confidence to go out in the real world and go through an X amount of rejections on their way to thier first real win.

If they lose confidence before achieving a real win because the X amount of rejections is too high , then you gotta go back to the controlled environment.

It's basically like baseball with Major and Minor leagues.

Minor league aces are way more confident than sluggish Major league players.
> The spokesperson did provide some guidance "For those who would like to see Pinterest content from Google Search without signing in..."

By "Pinterest content" you of course mean, other peoples images you don't own but have harvested?
Facebook Internal Researchers Found App Is Bad for 360M Users
From what I have heard, BuildKite seems to be a more reliable solution as it lets you spin up your own instances.
I fully agree. It is currently very annoying to get a small island nation.
As mentioned in the article, Pinterest also claims that the problem is Google's:

>A Pinterest spokesperson tells Input that the problem doesn’t lie with the company, but with search engines. “As a search engine, Google controls how results appear based on engagement and how useful searchers find the content.”
The Fukushima incident shouldn't really be compared with the Chernobyl incident. Chernobyl was very preventable. As for Fukushima, the earthquake science didn't realize that such a quake was possible in the region until pretty close to the event happening, meaning little time to act in it. While people will point out early reports and hypothesis, that's not how science works. We need to peer review. The science has come a long way since then (specifically from computational modeling), but that's different from building reactors with the potential to explode (something the west didn't do) and pushing it's bounds (even if we didn't know about xenon spiking at the time).
> It's a bit of a shame because it would be nice to have more startup opportunities in .NET

Even if you ignore the history of companies like MS and Oracle what it comes down to is vendor lockin. If there's a chance a vendor will pop up in 3 years time with a huge bill, why take the risk when there are plenty of free alternatives.
> Binary search always fails? “The Java compiler is acting funny today!”

:-)
Actually a pretty good idea for a business if I'm being honest. Like, it's horrifying, I don't like that this is a thing, but it's fairly valuable data for a business.
Many of the early software innovators names are known. Who was the team behind the 8086? Superficial googling gives all credit to "Intel" never listing any individuals who designed this thing.
It turns out to be more difficult than people want.

to be certain, some speed limits are low for bad-science reasons. But the other issue is that the speed limit isn't set for the average case; it's set for the safety-limit case. As one highway engineer's blog put it colorfully (paraphrasing from memory): they aren't set to keep your decently-well-maintained 4-door sedan with tires installed this year on the road; they're set to keep the 18-wheeler driven by a sleep-deprived trucker at night during a light drizzle on the road when one of their tires blows.

Variable speed limits that adjust automatically with weather and lighting conditions can help, but the signage to indicate them costs money... Way more money than a static metal road sign.
Doing a quick sanity check, I think you're off by about 10x.

93% capacity factor nuclear [0]

1 GW

8700000000 kWh/year [1]

440 Wp @ 1960x1308x40 mm [2]

1.96 m

1.308 m

2.56368 m2

440 Wp

0.85 kWh factor for the Netherlands [3]

374 kWh per year

145.8840417 kWh/m2

59636406.42 m2 for to match nuclear

59.63640642 km2

[0] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nuclear-power-most-reliab...

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+GW+to+kwh+per+year

[2] https://www.enfsolar.com/pv/panel-datasheet/crystalline/1049...

[3] https://www.tentensolar.nl/semi-overheid/dossiers/item/zonne...
Our team is working on this as well. We should chat :)

Link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/zUSZ3T8
Metaphors We Sell By
> Working in embedded Linux, I don't require experience in my exact technology stack for a senior engineer.

> An iOS app developer also wouldn't be a good fit. Either could be OK for a junior role maybe, but not a senior/staff role.

Tangentially related at best, but this is essentially my current dilemma...

Sr Android engineer, leading a team of 8 on a multi-million install app for a well known multi-national (not software) company. No one will give me the time of day for anything but Android work, and I'm really feeling the burnout.
Free software is an abject failure
Running Expo in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2)
I was hired into my current role where a lot of code is in C# never having written any C# in my life. That was about six weeks ago. The interviewers correctly assumed that since I have written numerous other semi-colon languages for 20+ years and know what I'm doing it won't be a problem. I use some modern C# idioms (because to me no idiom is more or less "modern" as I learned them all in the last six weeks) more than my colleagues do, and I think I'm perhaps squinting at the async feature wrong, but it's basically fine at this point.

I would not have taken a C++ role. But that's because I don't like C++. Could I learn C++? Presumably, I assume it'd take quite a bit longer than C# but I don't want to.

A lot of programming skill that's transferable from one role to another is also transferable from one general purpose language to another. Almost everything about programming generally is transferable. All the practical implications of architecture is transferable. All the theory is transferable. Data structures are transferable (albeit if you've got very narrow experience you may not be aware of just what's possible). A lot of high level APIs are transferable.

On the other hand corporate knowledge isn't. So, the fresh graduate hire who is an expert in your preferred language does not know that around here nobody above an Engineer Lead reads their Teams chat, and nobody above Group Manager reads email. They don't know that tweaking the CSS requires a Design Team Lead authorisation because once somebody made the text the wrong colour and branding were furious - and they equally don't know that "Normal Minor" changes take six months to approve around here so they should mark small changes "Urgent Minor" instead and then pester a Senior Engineer to OK them, but never pester a Senior Engineer if it needs a Config change because that is an ops problem and... you are going to need to hire internally if you actually need them to "hit the ground running".
When I saw the headline I thought the article was going to be about the ridiculously confusing tooling landscape around python development. I'm never sure what package manager or virtual environment thingy I'm supposed to be using.
China should reduce their stockpile to 1/3rd of US's.
"Even though the road was better than that"
Thank you! Currently it is +$7 per user seat per month BUT we are reviewing our user seat pricing.

Based on feedback, we'll likely separate out pricing based on user role i.e. a per editor/admin/builder user seat price and a much lower bulk price for 10/100/1000 end user seats.
> "python" shall invoke python2 and not python3

The current version of PEP 394 says:

] If the python command is installed, it is expected to invoke either the same version of Python as the python3 command or as the python2 command.

] Distributors may choose to set the behavior of the python command as follows:

python2,
python3,
not provide python command,
allow python to be configurable by an end user or a system administrator.

The part you quoted is from the section "History of this PEP". Just before your quoted text is:

] This PEP originally provided a very simple mechanism ...

and just after it is:

] However, these recommendations implicitly assumed that Python 2 would always be available.

This historic advice is no longer recommended.

The change was made on July 5, 2019 - https://github.com/python/peps/commit/ae932bd6fd2c493d7d64ce... .
Yeah, hopefully as others have pointed out, with .NET 7 next year all the version numbers align so that ASP.NET and EF can drop "Core" again.
I know people who shoot weddings. That's all day work from breakfast till the end of the reception. They all use DSLRs with battery grips. They are already hauling in many extra batteries and charger arrays into the venue, an entire pelican case worth. For them to switch to mirrorless would mean 3 pelican cases to haul from where the bride and groom are getting ready, to the chapel, to a photoshoot location, then to the venue. That would mean a second vehicle for them. And lets consider the number of shots too vs the absolute time. A mirrorless camera in terms of shots might be good for 400 exposures at best. Shooting something like a wedding ceremony is a one take thing. You gotta get the shot, there is no asking the priest to back up again and repeat the vows, so your camera is shooting off like a machine gun and you hope one of those moments you have everyone in the frame with their eyes open without a funny look on anyones face. 400 exposures would go by in no time at all when you can take a twelve exposure burst in a few seconds.

There is a reason why when you see any big sporting event or anything with professional photographers these days, you still see a sea of DSLRs despite mirrorless cameras like the A7 having excellent sensors on the market for 10 years now.
Looking at you:

- Crotch rockets (driven by dudes in jorts and a t-shirt flapping in the wind)

- Dodge chargers w/ aftermarket exhausts

- BMWs with iridescent vehicle wraps

- Lifted pickup trucks with massively oversized tires
Don't forget about taxes and fees. When you look at the price of a domestic (US) ticket, it's surprising how much of this is taxes and fees that the airline is passing through and not directly profit.
60 as a limit on any controlled access road is an absolute joke.
Similar problem I've encountered is AWS Athena not supporting Parquet files compressed with Zstd. I re-wrote files with Snappy to get around it.
I think you're probably right. And in order to bootstrap the necessary volume (and starve their competitors), they were willing to actually pay more than market (similar to Uber's investor-subsidized rides in their early years). So the problem isn't so much that they lost money (which they probably expected for the first phase of the program), but that they lost more money than expected (and could tolerate). The additional cost and carrying time associated with labor and supply shortages in the construction industry may have contributed in that case, though I agree with the article that the adversarial market aspect was probably the biggest factor: in a competitive market, particularly bad offers were particularly likely to be accepted.
If it gets them to shut down their coal plants, great. And I think that actually is the primary motivation. They need lots of power and they need to stop killing their citizens with smog from coal (as well as our planet).

I think it will cost them financially though. This won't come cheap. Half a trillion for about 1200 GW of capacity is a lot and not necessarily the best value for money. However, they have about that amount of coal to replace as well. The issue with wind and solar is that we're only adding in the order of a few hundred GW per year. China needs an order of magnitude more just to get rid of coal.

The interesting thing will be if production capacity for wind turbines and solar panels will grow quickly enough to make this investment unnecessary. One order of magnitude increase in production capacity would do the trick. Not trivial; and China is already going as fast as it can with this. But also not impossible. It's going to be a close race.

China might simply be betting on multiple horses here; which is the smart thing to do. I don't think they are picking winners here; just losers. Which would be coal. It needs to go, hence the need to fix 1000+ GW of power demand while also accounting for continued economic growth. They aren't ready to commit to that at COP 26 just yet. But the timing of this announcement is no coincidence either.

Another horse in the race would be fusion. Apparently there is some serious money flowing into some companies now. Helion just did a 500M series E: https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/05/helion-energy-will-use-500.... That may or may not work but it's kind of a really big deal if that hits commercial viability this decade rather than in 2050. And as the US has less of a coal problem at this point (most of it will be gone by the middle of this decade), nuclear is less urgent as a solution. And unlike nuclear, fusion actually might have a shot at being cost competitive with other renewables. Helion is pitching 0.01$/kwh. That's the right level of ambition here.
If everyone guns it right after passing the camera, you've potentially made things more dangerous.

Aircraft allow for a "you could get caught at any time" deterrent that cameras can't unless you put them literally everywhere.
But you're failing to recognize that some tech is almost synonymous with a domain.

In my experience I've seen very cocksure senior engineers come in with the mindset that "this is just another tech stack, that I can learn in a week"... failing miserably to recognize that said tech stack is exclusively used in a domain that they're not at all comfortable with.
If the US had built 500 nuclear reactors, I have no doubt we'd be exporting tech and basing trade agreements on getting other countries to buy our reactors. China might still use coal, but US manufacturing would be more attractive with practically free electricity. There are lots of reasons what OP posited would be true.
This looks great! Thanks for making it
They are able to identify speeders without radar using fixed distance marks on the road and timing cars traveling between those marks. At that point, they are then able to give information about the car to the police on the ground for them to be pulled over.
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29122072
There was. ASP.NET MVC 6 and EF6 were the last versions for .NET Framework 4.x. Hopefully with .NET 7 next year and all the versions aligned they will drop the "Core" name for just ASP.NET 7 and EF7.
Thank you for the kind words!

Now that you mention sharing with your kids, it brings to mind another idea that pops up now and then when thinking about such ideas: it seems to me that once people start to get older and more knowledgeable, it's like they lose the ability to even conceptualize ideas like this, let alone take them seriously. It seems like with age and experience, it's as if people get "locked in" to reality, eventually perceiving it as a kind of immutable, bounded system that is forced upon us, as opposed to an open, mysterious environment full of hidden tricks and tools that we can us to shape the environment to our will.

If there is some truth to this, my armchair theory is that it is in part due to physical changes in the brain, such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_pruning

Anyways, I think humanity would be well advised to put some effort into seriously listening to the perspective that younger minds can bring to this old problem, maybe your kids could come up with some novel ideas to contribute if they set their minds to it.
Good for China. I hope it works out for them. China seems politically stable and already has nuclear weapons so there's really no additional risk here. I'm happy to sit back and learn from their mistakes.

I'm honestly surprised at the rose-coloured glasses many on HN view nuclear with.

Like even if the US was all-nuclear, the change in global emissions wouldn't be that high because the US accounts for <20% of global emissions and probably only a quarter of that is from power generation.

But here's another factor: if the US wasn't a consumer of fossil fuels, the only thing that changes is it becomes cheaper for everyone else and that probably increases consumption to the point where the emissions are near net-neutral.

And for that we have a bunch of reactors with terrible failure modes and unanswered questions about long-term reprocessing and/or storage of enrichment byproducts, the same for waste and we'd need to trust governments and corporations to manage it all.

The resistance to wearing a piece of fabric on your face while out in public by a significant portion of the population should tell you everything you need to know here: no amount of altruism will solve climate change. Economics will.

My bet is the long term future here is solar not nuclear. That's a deep topic. Those pointing out that sometimes it's night aren't factoring in expected improvements in energy storage tech nor thinking long term enough. You put the collectors in space and eventually run transmission lines to the ground. And no, I'm not kidding. If you feel like going down this rabbit hole, look up orbital rings.
"increased relevancy" -- I have always perceived it as spamming Google Image Search into unusefulness. There has rarely been a site which I've come to hate as much as Pinterest. Even if you decide to click on an image hosted on Pinterest and land on that page, the user experience is beyond abysmal.

I really wish Google had a settings options checkbox labelled "Remove Pinterest results".
It’s also a matter of seeing your spheres of control. There is basically nothing a random peep can do about China as it’s state run. But at least in the US you can maybe have some marginal effect. Besides the US is nowhere near where they need to be just because China is worse
For me, transport encrypted (e.g. TLS) is the bare minimum everything going over a wire should be encrypted with, so encryption in the context of messenger is for me always about E2E.
As far as I know, Google and Apple don't even allow apps to use unecrypted HTTP if dev's want them to be in their respective app store.

As a term, e2e encryption is quite short, and is also easy to search for, if someone does not know what it is.
Maybe it's the other way around - your co unpublished marketing material has been co-written by AI?
They just keep recognizing that WinForms is the best. And you can still use it
I reworded my comment. Is that better?
High-Performance 3D Graphics Virtualization
E.g. accelerating video decoding/encoding, OpenGL applications, etc..