skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d love to do this, but the web client is (as of a month or two ago) missing “grid view,” which makes it useless to me for team meetings. Seeing everyone at once is very nice
Not really? JavaScript doesn’t have conses so it’s not very lisp like in practice. What is gets from scheme is closures with lexical scoping (real closures). It’s closer in style to self, but js is textual instead of image based so that’s very very different. The other aspect of js that’s very different is it’s massive commitment to a synchronicity, which smalltalks generally don’t have
currently James Blake
The problem I see is that there will be less houses to live in if nobody's going to build them. This will result in more people having to drive cars from nearby cities to get to work.
Thank you for the reply! While I have the chance, allow me one last question: When it comes to AR15 platform, what differentiates a pistol from a rifle?
This doesn't sound right to me. Vulkan 1.2 has support for pointers through an extension[1], and that's getting more widely available (certainly a lot more cards than can run ROCm). There's also support coming down the pike for buffer device address[2], which basically lets you use pointers to refer to resources when submitting work to the GPU instead of having to create bindings.

If an open source project of this scope came to me for advice, I would absolutely 100% recommend they base their stuff on Vulkan. It's getting very good quite quickly; there's basically nothing holding you back any more if you're willing to use the latest extensions. There is a tendency in open source to move more slowly though, and I understand that.

I agree with you that GLSL/HLSL is a bad programming language, but you can still get your work done in it. I'm personally excited about rust-gpu, but that is not ready yet.

[1]: https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.2-extensions...

[2]: https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/graphics-gam...
I thought a mac might be involved somehow but didn't consider touchpads. I guess even PCs have annoying touchpads with no real buttons these days. I really can't stand touchpads in general and avoid them. Unfortunately even Lenovo seems to rarely have trackpoints these days.
Half of that applies just as much to the US, even more half of that applied to it not too long ago.

Which makes all this reheated cold war rhetoric really surreal to most third parties.
well, you are outing yourself as one who doesn’t recognize reality. now, if you are getting a paycheck from google, fine, feed yourself and your family. otherwise you’re a shill dude. live it, love it, waste the only life you have. your choice good for you. like heroin, but more profitable and not as fun.
>To a lot of people, giant military-looking gun = assault rifle.

Yes, exactly my point. It's cosmetically scary and calling it an assault rifle makes the minds of many of those hearing it jump to a fear-based response. When in reality an AR-15 is no more or less deadly than any other semiautomatic rifle in the same caliber. Slapping black plastic on a gun may make it look "scarier" to the uninformed, but it doesn't change the threat that Kyle did or did not pose by being there armed.
No, but in this analogy, bitcoin is american express, not USD. American Express cards are definitely considered less valuable to potential customers here because they're only accepted in ~70% of stores. It's been a bone of contention at my current employer as our corporate cards are American express but they consequently can't be used semi-frequently
The Dumang keyboard uses magnets: http://xahlee.info/kbd/dumang_dk6.html
I found the focus on first class passengers quite interesting. There are guidelines along the lines of "no provision to be made of toilets if there are no first class passengers", "make sure to have separate waiting rooms for different classes of passengers"..

The British era recommendations hadn't been removed by 1967 at least.
"Machine gun? Not a machine gun? What's the difference?"

You may not appreciate it, but there is a substantial difference, not just practically but legally. If you're ignorant of that difference, that's fine. Everybody is mistaken or ignorant some of the time. We're all human after all. But if you know the difference and choose to use the wrong terminology anyway, then you are being deliberately deceptive. Either way, it warrants a correction.
https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-14-and-16/specs/

It does not anywhere say it is made in China. Yes Apple is hiding this.
Tom Randele was dying, but he had to confess something to his family first
Very cool. I was impressed with the no-code aspect - especially for WYSIWYG based tech writers.

Have you considered integrating with DocFX, Jekyll, Read The Docs and the ilk. I'd think for a lot of Tech Docs where we have a ton of flow diagrams, would be interesting.
It makes a difference cause you buy food more than you buy say...Cars or Processors.
...or all public policy.
They didn’t install a back door for CCP.

Edit:

Back door exists for all gov, in that keys to encryption are stored in country.

So back door always existed. But apparently that’s only bad when China have access to it.

I guess because of the US long record of cyber trustworthiness.
I don't know for the other, but for chocolate, price _has_ an influence on the resulting taste
Is there perhaps a fundamental issue where some teams of UI/UX designers design for the sake of design? Maybe as a form of job preservation or having creative sessions on someone else's dime or something else?

I've wondered what happens when you stand up a team of people who mostly aren't necessary after a while and how good some might be at making themselves necessary.

I feel like a reasonably competent designer can make user studies and tests and research point to whatever conclusion they want about the need for more changes. But do we really need the change?

Or put it this way: how often does a team conclude, "our studies revealed that we're in good shape. Don't change anything!"
Would be nice to see Apple add M1 support
What languages, niche or otherwise, do you already know?

In the absence of context, I would suggest Forth or Prolog, as they are sufficiently different from any mainstream language.

Of course, Lisps and Schemes are always fun, and I think Racket sets itself apart from those with its language making capabilities. Logo is also very fun, but it is essentially a Lisp/Scheme. There are a lot of neat older books using Logo in various domains.

Pharo is also a fun choice.
Exactly. fast.com goes down the drain at exact same time.

That said it's pretty weird since there isn't much ATV users here.
Would what extend, my cynicism?

I am quite dejected at the United States' ability to do anything that's both difficult and unsexy, at this point. Anything related to boring infrastructure (replacing lead water pipes, bridges, leaking subway systems, etc) just seems untenable.

There are escalators in the DC Metro Area that are out of service for months and years while they get replaced. I can't even begin to understand what would cause a 1 year long escalator replacement in this age of unlimited power tools and incredible amounts of supply chain efficiency, when it probably took 2-3 years to build the whole metro station to begin with, in the 70s (including the escalator)
Yeah I mean car depreciation is usually so much that the standard 1-2% inflation that we are used to doesn’t seem to be that much. It’s similar to getting a 3% raise until you realize that it’s really only 1%(with 2% inflation).
Grid view works in Chrome but not Firefox.
Eh, I hide the tab bar anyway. Tabs are for your window manager, not to be implemented from scratch in every single app.
I’m with you. I like the direction it’s going in. I’m also Firefox as my primary browser after many years of Chrome.

The main tab-related visual I need is to see easily which tab is activated. That’s still easy to do with the new style.
It's pretty awful if you have some tabs open to sites without a favicon. Or some without a favicon or <title>. Like happens in a dev environment quite a lot.
According to other posts, this won’t support Vega graphics; RDNA1 is the absolute minimum, with RDNA2 being the oldest architecture officially supported. Guess we’ll have to wait for new APUs to see how this fares.
Hmm, I disagree, Windows 2000 had the "flat" IE4 toolbars which were less obvious (but looked slicker).
What is it with UI design slowly creeping to the extremes? Before "The Great Flattening" there was a series of prominent, increasingly skeuomorphic UI designs, culminating (in my mind) with the ridiculous Calendar app in OSX Lion[1].

Around this time, there seemed to be a growing sense that maybe things had gone too far. But instead of just backing off the skeumorphism a little we got a complete reversal and a trend towards increasingly flat and abstract UIs. Now most buttons have no affordances at all and we get decisions like this to remove useful visual cues for no apparent reason.

What's seems to be missing here is any sense of moderation or restraint.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/4485/back-to-the-mac-os-x-107...
If "provocation" is a defense for someone to follow, ambush and assault someone, wouldn't what Kyle did also be defensible?

You don't have to answer that, you can if you want, but I just felt the need to point out how ridiculous this "provocation" point actually is.
Cool. Just a note that if you’re modifying userChrome you need to enable
toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets

in FF advanced settings
Does anyone find the normalization of alcoholism as strange as a nation that takes Xanax?

I guess Vodka is more accessible than Valium.
It doesn’t appear that Thiel is saying AGI won’t happen. Rather he observes that people are talking about it much less now than they were (presumably because Strong AI is still far off); and furthermore that it’s not that important to him as a startup investor because of the massive scale of data and compute resources required. Implicitly, I take him as acknowledging that the multi-trillion dollar surveillance AI companies have the scale, the reach, and the time to make gradual progress towards AGI.

These are reasonable notions, even weak AI is sufficient to potentially upend the world economic and social order. Frankly, if true AGI were to materialize within the next decade, we would be ill-equipped to cope with the repercussions.

I do, however, believe that many if not most AI pessimists are disconnected from the progress being made on a wide range of critical fronts.
Exactly - the plants don't need to ramp up/down. They just throw away the output. ...which is fine because the main cost of the plant isn't the input resource of uranium (which is insane if you think about it).

That is how insanely energy dense uranium is.
Just like the Netflix/fast.com tests networking speed to Netflix, the cloudflare test is for networking speed to cloudflare.

Neither of those give you a general internet performance indicator. You'd need to run many tests to really know, and it depends on your ISPs network, transit and peering, most of which is pretty opaque.
AMD's close-to-the-metal was the blueprint for Vulkan, or at leat the majorest contributor (ed: oops, im thinking of AMD Mantle, a little bit latter & also extremely super low level). It won. It's ideas power almost all GPU technology today.

Vulkans not relatively easy to do from scratch, but it is cross platform, and again, most folks dont need to write Vulkan. They're using ML frameworks that abstract that away.

Vulkan will enable use of countless great extensions & capabilities that tools like SYCL wont be smart enough to use. Maybe the SPIR-V can be optimized by the drivers well, but the code SYCL spits out, i'd wager, will be world's less than what we do if we try. This is what CUDA does: it allows bad/cheap SYCL like code, but most folks use NV's vast ultra-complete libraries that are far far far better written in much lower level code & tweaked for every last oz of performance. CUDA is basically a scripting language + close to the metal library. SYCL might eventually be able to become similar, but only if we do the hard work of making really good Vulkan libraries. Otherwise it'll be pretty much trash.

There's a lot of argumemts in favor of being bad, of not going for thr good stuff. But end of the day, we just should do the right thing. Everyone other than NV should make a real start, should make a bid for their & the survival of everyone else. Vulkan is the only real bid i see.
I appreciate the thorough response! I was genuinely interested in the effects :)
What are you alluding to? You think a "weapon" or its byproducts travels much faster than regular debris? Or is more massive?

I assumed the size of the cloud, the quantity and dispersion, is what's making them shelter.

This from the article:

"It is standard space station procedure for astronauts to pile into their vehicles in case of any kind of emergency in case they need to evacuate the space station."

...suggests there could be factors other than the direct vulnerability of the people.
I like the Firefox UI as well
If you click on the domain you'll see that there have been 4 submissions from that domain. The first one from 2018.

That it's the first one you have seen is just one data point, not an unlikely one admittedly :)
Yeah, and a knife can kill just as well as a gun. Except it can’t. A medium build woman can break one’s skull with 2-3 swings of a skateboard, especially if it lands on the edge or on a sticking metal part. To achieve the same damage with fists, it would take years of training and would also cause a significant damage to one’s hands.
Call me old school, but I like looking at the number of lines of code to get a feel for how big of a project something is. Mako[1] is 265,618 lines of code. The most widely accepted Bitcoin implementation[2] is 639,074 lines of code -- that's 2.5x bigger and written in a slew of languages. Mako looks like a super-impressive amount of work (and by a single person no less).

[1] https://github.com/chjj/mako

[2] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

[3] How I calculated: find <source-directory> -type f | sed 's/.*/"&"/' | xargs wc -l

EDIT: Also of interest is this "from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python" that was discussed here on HN a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27593772
You've heard of levers, I'm sure. One classic 'simple machines'. Skateboards have more leverage than fists.
Ask HN: Best tutorials you’ve ever seen (in terms of production value)?
And some jail time for execs and managers.
It seems like the article itself updates the icon on the desktop to always use those specific processors, though, right?
It's not even necessarily about skill, could easily be that someone is already spearheading a higher priority or whatever.
Oh man, if you're surprised by Big Tech's active oppression of minority cultures, you should have been here when Apple handed over the keys to their digital kingdom to China's communist party.
The word "assault rifle" has a definition, and when you call something that isn't an assault rifle an assault rifle as pertinent to your point and someone points out that it is not an assault rifle and therefore your point is invalid, they have in fact actually won an argument.
For what it's worth, I saw this article and only just now realized there's a lack of borders on my tabs after looking for it.

And I'm somebody who likes to leave 200+ tabs open with a dozen pinned tabs, so I use them heavily.

I always use favicons to separate tabs, not the borders.
google search is so personalized now, you only get best in class search if you log out first.
Senior React Engineer – Infinite Blue
It's coming. Apple joined the blender developement fund and is contributing code to add Metal support to cycles

https://developer.blender.org/T92212
>Instead of thinking "9/10 people dislike this UI", it's probably closer to "9 people out of all Firefox users dislike this UI".

Yeah, even with your Bayes mention I'm gonna go ahead and get a second opinion on your statistical analysis there. I know, there's always someone in every crowd who quibbles with a poster's perspective, but you're hanging your entire sentiment on this one.
A lot of folks say the Chinese made Model 3s don’t have a the perennial panel gap and random quality issues the American made ones do.

China are the boss of manufacturing these days.
That is targeted for Blender 3.1. https://80.lv/articles/blender-3-1-to-add-native-metal-suppo...
I don't take it as negativity, per se, but in my opinion more often there are people expressing concern. For many of us, Firefox began as a relationship with Netscape; over the years this has been a living and evolving relationship, with a lot of positive things, but also a few more significant negative steps back in a direction that the community/userbase find to be antithetical to the spirit of what the project is/was/claims to be.

Thank you for this reply, and trip down memory lane; I hope it is well received. I'm not trying to be a contrarian, I just wanted to interrupt this glass of Metamucil to share an alternative viewpoint.
To answer your lower question since I can't respond directly, the legal difference between a rifle and pistol is pretty much only barrel length. Overall length also matters, and whether or not the AR "started out" (at manufacture) as a rifle or pistol determine if it becomes a "short barreled rifle" after certain modifications, but that's getting into the inane and nonsensical world of ATF regulations.

As far as what an assault rifle is, it's basically a rifle capable of burst fire or automatic fire (it's a bit more complicated than that but that's the basic idea). Rittenhouse's AR (and virtually all civilian owned firearms for that matter) are not capable of burst or automatic fire and are not assault rifles.
Good old "private banking services".
The problem I would have with this and Windows is, that Windows defines [crtl]+[alt] and [alt gr] to be the same thing... So if I wanted to type an ä ([alt gr]+[a]), my keepass global autotype ([ctrl]+[alt]+[a]) would pop up instead -.-'

So I had to settle with WinCompose to do proper non english languages.

https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose

Did anybody get this fixed in Windows? If so, please send help! Also if you are inside Microsoft and know the correct team to adress this to, please for gods sake, point them to this issue.
>Some people seem to view companies like a game of SimCity, where if you want more money, you can turn a knob, increase taxes, and get more money, uniformly impacting the city. But companies are not a game of SimCity. If you want more attrition and turn a knob that cranks that up, you don't get additional attrition that's sampled uniformly at random. People, as a whole, cannot be treated as an abstraction where the actions company leadership takes impacts everyone in the same way. The people who are most effective will be disproportionately likely to leave if you turn a knob that leads to increased attrition.

This gem applies to so many fields. It's bonkers that this has to be spelled out to people who are ostensibly experts. This is why you never, ever take anyone seriously who thinks of society like a model.
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Infinite Blue
you do know that any browser extension you use has a cleartext view of all your web content (on that browser).
Firefox has been my main browser for a long time, and I barely even noticed the UI refresh with 94.0. It is set to use whatever the UI defaults are; I've never changed them. My only customization is to use the extension for multi-account containers. Firefox looks nice to me, does what I want and expect, and it feels fast. I suspect that for many (if not most) people who simply want to get their work done, like me, slight tweaks to the UI are not and have never been much of an issue.
Eh, seems a bit dramatic. We had our Trump, the Soviets had their Stalin, China had their Mao, the EU had their Hitler and their Mussolini and their Petain and ...

Especially after the events of the 20th century, there's not much moral high ground left at the international level. Trump certainly sucks, but he's too incompetent to be genuinely dangerous. Strictly bush-league compared to some of the "enlightened" European leaders we've seen.
So why 10x rather than 5x or 20x?

Did somebody in the room say, "We've crunched the numbers, and our best estimation is that if we orient all our resources toward achieving this goal and put forth our best possible effort, we'll be able reach 5x."

And then did somebody else in the room say, "I agree. So let's be extremely audacious and shoot for 10x"?

Either the first person was miscalculating or the second person was being unreasonable.
The Indian Railways is definitely an interesting organization.

Doing a cursory glance at a Wikipedia entry, some of the stats:

1. Established in 1832

2. 3rd largest railway network in the world

3. 8th largest employer in the world.

I was hoping to see something about the actual Rail Track details but this is more of a civil engineering specs for building construction.

I am curious about when and how Indian Railways will incorporate high speed rail such as the French TGV, Japanese Shinkansen or Chinese CRH.

On a visit to China in 2017 and taking a short trip in the Chinese CRH, I heard stats about 2,000 high speed trains a day. It was an interesting experience traveling at speeds greater than 300 kmh and not feeling a thing.

Of course I am curious about when the USA will incorporate the same.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Railways
> Finance without KYC/AML is like air travel without TSA.

The real analogy here is that the ultra rich needn’t deal with the TSA because they fly private.
>that he was trying to beat kyle to death with.

So, let's continue to clarify the facts. I went and found the video of the incident, and you're stretching the truth to the point of being disingenuous.

Here's the video (obvious warning, it has footage of Rittenhouse shooting his victims) https://files.catbox.moe/ayaw6u.mp4

Considering he never even swings it at Rittenhouse, and merely has it in his hand when he tries to stop him running away, that's a real stretch to say he's "trying to beat him to death". I won't argue that trying to stop an armed person by jumping them is a bad idea, but that's not what you said.
I used to listen to a lot of electronic music like minimal, but in the last few months I just put on noise cancelling headphones and listen to silence (or a faint noise in the headphones). I can focus so much better when it is absolutely quiet.
That's a theme, for sure. "We don't have enough time to refactor!" is generally less true than "We need to slow down to go faster."
I know who Richard Stallman is, I've met him several times and I used to volunteer for the FSF. The GPL says that the user is allowed to share modified versions with other users. It does not say that the original author is required to accept some modifications into their version. If you don't believe me then the GPL FAQ has a bit more information about this: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.en.htm...

"Some have proposed alternatives to the GPL that require modified versions to go through the original author. As long as the original author keeps up with the need for maintenance, this may work well in practice, but if the author stops (more or less) to do something else or does not attend to all the users' needs, this scheme falls down. Aside from the practical problems, this scheme does not allow users to help each other."

It's pretty explicitly spelled out here that it is absolutely what they meant, it wouldn't work at all if it wasn't "here's some code, do what you want with it."

If someone is trying to get you to take a case along the lines, I would have to say don't take it, it's probably not going to be a winner.
> anything that weighs more than a couple of grams

So where are you reading about the size distribution of the debris?
Why would Spark trounce Snowflake. What makes it inherently so much faster at 100TB jobs?

Also what kind of queries are we talking about?