skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NASA post Apollo 1 fire immediately comes to mind, not quite sure what Naval is on about.
> We need to spend more money creating better metropolitan areas that people want to live in, rather than using tax payer money to support fewer and fewer people.

I suspect the current trend is in the opposite direction. If self-driving cars ever become a real thing, it's all over for team urbanization.

If there was unlimited money, how would you even start to fix cities? A big part of the attraction to living in the 'burbs or beyond is cheap space and very little noise pollution.
You're right about literal Moores Law, but its benefits are much diminished, of performance, power usage and cost. My understanding is the main problem is heat dissipation.

I've long predicted macrochips to solve this, brute force of huge quantities of silicon, but it hasn't really happened.
This honestly sounds like rumblings one should have at a bar, not on a blog…

No part of the argument is backed by anything but vague personal experience, and the outcome is as far reaching as “for profits are better than non profits”
> Why didn't older languages get this far?

People are talking about Linus' opinions of some other languages, but more importantly the Rust folks have been prepared to put in a lot of work to meet Linus' concerns. You're now seeing all sorts of other language advocates pop up with D, Zig, and so on, but they've not put in the same work to convince Linus that anything else are real options.
The issue is not that Alexa is a bad idea. The issue is your company has bad ideas.
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Snaring the Bad Folks
My point is that OP's comment is not relevant. It's not like the costs are high per capita, the costs are high per mile. In which case, the population density doesn't matter.
> Apple has a business to run. They abide by all sorts of requests in various countries in which they operate.

And then people rightly condemn them for it. Because not getting a pass even when the pressure is strong -- especially when the pressure is strong -- is the only incentive we can give them to even try to resist that pressure.

That sucks for them. It puts them between a rock and a hard place.

Too bad.

Because the alternative is that nobody fights against wrong.
The old expression "we have the worst system in the world, except for all the others" .. comes to mind

That's what (I think) Winston Churchill said about democracy (might be true there). But here, I think you can just say "we have the worst system". Period. The US has a variety of sectors (public works, health care, etc) which aren't just bad but fated to get worse and worse through both through the particular way US ruling interests deal with each other. Each solution introduces more pork interests since each solution follows the haphazard paradigm.

For example; I think Yimby ("yes in my back yard") proposals have aimed to facilitate development in at transit hubs, a worthy seeming cause. But since there's no California state transit plan, this approach has to define "transit hub" haphazardly - "there's currently a bus stop there". This allows those aiming to sink a development to do so by removing the bus stop. Or oppositely, allows someone to facilitate a development by adding an otherwise unneeded bus stop. I'm not sure if this approach was implemented but just proposal illustrates the inherent problem of trying to solve transfic/housing/development problems by tossing random legislation at them.
Sub-headline of the article:

> Apple can maintain its App Store payment monopoly while the case proceeds

Literally both judges said it was NOT a monopoly, and the ruling is not "apple must stop being a monopoly" (which is the only way that sub-headline makes sense).

Is this a kind of "manifest destiny" kind of thing, where they are trying to will it into existence?
You are making a very good point. There's no Facebook, Google, Twitter, Snapchat etc in China. But there are WeChat, Baidu, Weibo, QQ, etc.

China is more than capable to clone and/or make its own version of these companies. And these companies will do as the government says. So, I think that's an excellent example to show that tech "boycotting" China does nothing to change them.

Separately, you should also keep in mind that a bunch of these companies didn't even have a choice, since they were considered a threat to national security by the state.
And to then provide roi on 93m
Not sure I’d agree Germany ever split or experienced a schism. It went one way for a while, then another, and the group as a whole admits not wanting to repeat it.
Fake Online Storefronts in 2021
Lately I've come across quite a few online storefronts that appear to be fake. Mostly showing up in Google Shopping results. They are fully-functioning ecommerce sites, with a realistic inventory, a full suite of active social media accounts, but with a distinct tinge of...fraud.

Take this one, for example:

https://homespacedecor.com/

https://twitter.com/homespacedecor

Street view of their address in Houston: https://goo.gl/maps/fakpcpmGyytGRt167

Is it just me, or has this problem recently gotten worse? Are these organized carding scams? Has there been any good investigative reporting about it?
(I worked on that system and the new one.)

Yes, sadly, that is literally when the file was _indexed_. So it's not particularly useful. It's a difficult problem to solve, but I'll bring up your feedback to the team.
sorry for the late reply, also forgot to mention that I use a fontconfig file, .xresources, other config files for i3 (the tiling wm), termimal (xst) and vim that specify the unifont font specifically.

here are a few images showing the setup and sites using unifont.
https://imgur.com/a/5gAZau3
I think there's also the difference between admitting failure and admitting failure publicly. Lots of groups will admit failure internally, but there's often not a good reason to admit failure publicly, because your adversaries will use it against you.
I suspect Tesla used bitcoin as an "indirect stock buyback" like microstrategy's CEO did to cause the short squeeze. Both are manipulating the market using crypto.

1-hr interview youtube video above of Michael Saylor with Fox's Tucker Carlson where he bragged about doing this removed recently- VERY SUSPICIOUS.
I wonder if the deal could have been restructured to avoid this situation.

For example, the 3rd party does not loan the the funds to exercise, but directly pays the cost. The 3rd party would then own the stock, but pay the engineer a cut if they are in the money
Working since FC32 with an AMDGPU on Wayland fine.
Much better than my previous Nvidia/Debian desktop.

I wont touch any nvidia nor x.org with a 10ft pole anymore.
Amongst retro gamers there is universal agreement that 5th generation console games(specifically 3d games) aged the worse.
And there will be bias. The contractor will be optimistic about their own abilities and excited about the project. The client will become emotionally attached to the end goal. And everyone will underestimate the overhead of communication. Human factors apply and cannot be engineered away.
It isn’t so much a knowledge gap as misalignment between patient and doctor interest: there is pretty much zero incentive for doctors to follow a non pharmacological path, limited incentive for them to follow a more difficult pharmacological path, and low to no cost to them for following that easiest pharmacological path.

Doctors are highly trained technicians who are well rewarded for processing patients quickly and are well protected (insured) against the inevitable occasional error, assuming such thing can be a) detected and b) proved.

We are better protected from our lawyers and bankers than we are from our doctors.
If you're going strictly on number of transistors, I think we're still going up up and away. If you're talking about performance, which is what most folks really care about, we really are hitting thermal limits especially with consumer hardware.

AMD, Nvidia and intel are all hitting the 'heat wall' with their hardware just trying to cram more into smaller nodes and boost clocks. Nvidia's 4000 series cards are rumored to be 500W cards which is well into 'space heater' territory.
TIL that Alexa is/was still alive. I don't think I've used that site for at least a dozen years. RIP
A Little Bit of Arima (AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average Models)
This is mostly worrying about hard to predict second-order effects. Exactly the same problem that caused various health organizations (including WHO and FDA) send misleading messages around corona and vaccinations.

> Issues around who is responsible when a self driving car which is known to be worse than a typical human is deployed, fails, and someone is hurt.

Even if insurance rates would be initially(!) higher than for a regular taxi driver I would expect it to end up cheaper overall and save lives.

Also note that "worse-than-the-old-average" may still end up improving the average because the magnitude by which they're worse is lower. Also, there's nothing magical about "worse-than-average" because for all distributions (except the dirac distribution) there is always some fraction worse than the average, so we always have to expect some fraction of drivers to be worse than average and there's no fundamental reason why they must be human.
In fact, if the fleet of all cars in the world consisted of very safe, very consistently behaving autonomous cars, except for a single vehicle driven by a very conservative human driver who only slowly circles in a fenced private community and never hits anyone then statistically the entire autonomous car fleet may be "worse than average" due to the single outlier.
So, as much as people like to throw shade at Google, we can say that they haven't caved on this. That's a plus for them.
It seems fashionable to preach helplessness. Apple can't change China by themselves, but they are not by themselves. If we all follow that reasoning, then nothing ever happens. To surrender and retreat from the field of battle is a sure way to lose. Despair is a leading psyops tactic - targeted at enemies; let's not help them.

It would be interesting to talk about what organizations like Apple can and cannot do; what is effective and what isn't. Is there any research?

Apple should not be deceiving people outside China with CCP propaganda, which is what the maps are.
I would be really interested in a write up of this!
Some thoughts about Veritasium's electricity theory
> The increase in living standards in China are directly caused by US efforts to open up China, to accept investment and liberalization of it's economy.

Equally, US maintains it's living standard, mostly because China did a wonderful job of producing cheap goods to sell to US.

> One is an ethno-nationalist state

According to wiki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_nationalism:

"""
The central political tenet of ethnic nationalism is that ethnic groups are entitled to self-determination."""

This does not have moral assessment. People in an ethnic group can decide for themselves. Seems reasonable.

But China is not ethno nationalism because of the explicit unified Chinese ethnogroups narrative. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_China

And Han as an ethnic group, is also not ethnic at all. It's like "white" people. Han people are no where close to be classic ethnic groups, other than being speaking in the same language (with numerous dialects).

> that is genociding a religious minority

I have stated multiple times that muslim or uygur genocide in Xinjiang is a laughable propaganda lie.

The population in Xinjiang has been growing faster than other ethnic groups, and are growing contiguously. https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3133228/...

Check your facts.
They are 100% doing it. A lot of really bright people work on the engines/compilers.

The problem is telling individuals to focus on optimization.

Let's use javascript as an example. Say you need to transform an array. You can use `.map` or a `for` loop in javascript.

You see a lot of articles like this https://dev.to/henryjw/array-map-much-slower-than-for-loop-5... that say a `for` loop is faster. And sometimes it's true.

By the logic of the original article, you should hyperoptimize your code. The problem is. If everyone writes `for` loops instead of using `map`. When map eventually becomes more efficient there's all that garbage code out there that has to be refactored.

Ignoring the problems associated with benchmarking - this for example claims map now being faster than for loops. https://leanylabs.com/blog/js-forEach-map-reduce-vs-for-for_...

It comes down to return on effort. We only have so much effort to put at solving this problem. You maximize your return on effort by having a clear separation of responsibility. In this case the individual's responsibility is to write code to the latest spec. The institution's responsibility is to make the code written as efficient as possible.

A single website saving .000000001 ppm of carbon (exaggerating) is just never going to be worth the effort. But a compiler improvement on all websites running javascript. Now that's totally worth it.

Further reading behind this logic:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3828902-thinking-in-syst...

https://stackify.com/premature-optimization-evil/

Code Complete (chapter 25.2) https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/code-complete-second/07...
I was only talking about JWST looking at Hubble for exactly that reason. Sorry you found my words confusing.
Ah, nah. As far as anyone can tell he didn't even know about Bitcoin until late 2011.

His claims of being Satoshi appear to have arisen out of a 2013-2015 refundable tax credit scam in Australia.

AU has a program where you can get a cash credit for performing qualifying R&D, like EITC in the US it's not just a deduction they can actually cut you a check. According to the Australian tax office Wright spun up a series of companies that conducted no business activity except claiming these credits.

Across several years he claimed to conduct about $200 million in research and intended to obtain $65 million in tax credits. The first year they paid out, but he requested much more in later years and triggered audits. The ATO noted that these credits appeared to be his only source of income and asked how this $200m in research was funded. Wright then claimed to have been mining bitcoin since 2009 and that he funded the research through some complicated web of loans in foreign shell companies. He claimed the money was used to purchase an SGI supercomputer in panama. He produced piles of forgeries to support hit claims and eventually started claiming to be Satoshi.

ATO found against him, demanded he repay the money. Wright then started selling shares of his claimed (but fictional) fortune in order to pay off the ATO and finance his lifestyle. He fled Australia while authorities were raiding his offices and since then seems to be engaging in one cover scheme after another to keep things going.

This US federal lawsuit came about because as a part of the forgeries he provided to the ATO he claimed his recently deceased friend co-created and mined Bitcoin with him. This eventually resulted in the friend's estate asking for their share, and after wright jerked them around for a couple years they sued.

The jury didn't seem to be convinced that any of the claimed mined bitcoin existed, but they did award $100 million dollars against wright for robbing his friend's company-- which he pretty much admitted to in court (but argued that it was an ordinary business practice to assume the identity of a friends company and file a lawsuit against it and represent both sides in court to agree to a judgement awarding all its assets to yourself...).

The real mystery here is why the media keeps treating this guys claims with any credulity. They don't pass anything more than most cursory of examinations.

It's particularly sad because there is a tremendous wealth of information available due to this trial. We don't have to speculate about a lot of what he's been doing as a result, the records are all there in the thousand and thousands of pages of materials attached as exhibits in the case.
From "The Demon Under the Microscope" by Hager--an interesting read on the history of Sulfonamides (the drug that kicks off the "golden age of antibiotics on the chart)--usage was entirely uncontrolled and people did not complete drug regimes. Generally (and I'll probably get this very wrong), that antibiotic worked by blocking uptake of external energy sources.

The drug was tremendously effective and widespread. The book made it sound like all of the strains that did not evolve a solution to that antibiotic were completely wiped out by the evolutionary pressure of the antibiotic.

I'd imagine (just guessing) that even if the antibiotic was stopped, the organisms would not have anything like the evolutionary pressure to change back (and the consequence of getting wiped out by the drug if they did). They probably get along "good enough" or the drift back is slow. In other words, the pressure to change was one of, essentially, absolute survival, while the change back is one of risky convenience.
In Russian, it would depend on the last name in question specifically, as well as the gender of the person talked about. I am a native speaker, but I don't know which specific grammar rule governs it.

For example, Zuckerberg absolutely gets declined and gets that "oo" at the end. "To Mr. Dorsey" doesn't get changed (i.e., no added "oo" at the end) due to declining (but it still gets declined), while "to Mr. Smith" definitely gets that extra "oo" at the end due to declining. But "to Mrs. Smith" is unchanged after declining, so it doesn't get that same "oo" ending.
The point about VAERS is that you do not need to be a medical professional to submit to VAERS. Joe Schmoe from down the lane can submit to VAERS and say the mRNA vaccine caused him to turn into the incredible hulk and it will be listed alongside people who had legitimate flu-like symptoms.
Nvidia isn't thrilled about crypto mining because it creates too many second-hand cards, that's it. They just want to kill the second-hand market boom that happened as crypto mining has high hardware turnover, and gaming doesn't. So gamers just pick up second-hand previous generation high end cards instead of buying current gen mid-range cards.

It's not a coincidence the software lockout landed right as Nvidia released an unlocked mining card without a display output ( https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/cmp/ ). And since it doesn't have a display output, all those used mining cards become ewaste instead of something that cuts into nvidia's revenue.
If this is what we did to other Homo sapiens, I have no doubts about the majority stakeholder* in the destruction of our related hominin populations.
> the overwhelming conclusions of all the experts actually studying the disease and the vaccine?

Forgive the snarkiness, but do you have some sort of machine that knows who all of the true experts are, and figures out the sum of all of their knowledge? Even better if it comes with daily updates. I'd love to borrow it if you do.

My point is you yourself would have to be an expert to be making the assertion that you're making. Are you? If not, it comes down to us just trusting different sources. I personally like published literature. I don't like the news or Twitter personalities or bureaucrats.

That aside, I think you're responding to something I didn't (or at least didn't mean to) claim. I'm not saying the vaccine itself makes you spread covid, I'm saying I wouldn't be surprised if the people who heard "safe and effective" and thought "great, no need for any of that other stuff, let's party!" [Edit:] might be generating more cases than someone who takes every other precaution.

I believe this because there is published evidence that these vaccines only reduce spread, they don't stop it. (More exposure + some reduction in transmissibility) could be greater than (minimal exposure + full transmissibility). I'm not claiming this is fact. It's just the prediction of some dummy on the internet.

> Why are you talking about spread and not also hospitalizations and fatalities

Can't have hospitalizations or deaths without spread. I'm talking about looking out for each other here, the social good that you referred to. If my own personal odds of spreading to other people is low enough (for example because I regularly test and have previously recovered, and all the other precautions I mentioned), I've done my part. If someone is vaccinated but engaging in high risk activities, I've done more than them.

> Tyranny is defined in many dictionaries

Lots of things are defined in the dictionary. It's then on us humans to interpret them and apply them. I'm not necessarily saying the mandates are tyranny, I'm saying they could be. The mandates may turn out to be illegal. If they do, that might be considered the president unlawfully enforcing rules, which to some might be considered tyrannical.
Not really. Doubling your commute length is not an improvement. I have noticed places with heavier traffic tend to have shorter distances to your destination. So your total time is the same regardless.
I have 2 home pod mini's, a homepod, an iphone and ipad and i just said "hey sarah" 5 times in different ways and I got no response.
Quizlings
PCR Tests and the Rise of Disease Panic
A webgl game is hard to monetize, specially if you compare it with other options.
mmm, I'd say that it would to be silly to complain about feedback but just posting something doesn't mean you're asking for it.
I can't go into it, but ...
Kinda.

I know that's what the developers claim, but the game looks so much better than a PS1 game. The only PS1 aesthetic the game can honestly claim to have is low-res textures. It doesn't have the weird texture warping, shallow draw distances, rigid animations, or really anything else that we associate with the PS1.
> CSAM

Thinking about this other than things like existing social media, satellites... I've recently seen ads where it's like "get paid to take pictures of your neighborhood". Was wondering about that as a means to export out high res images of locations through an app.
> Apple has a business to run.

"Apple" is not some abstract entity. There are people behind Apple (the shareholders, the managers, the employees). Real people, with real morals and values. I don't think that the only thing all of them care about is "running a business" and that all of them feel it absolves them from acting humanly. It's more complicated than that. (having said that, of course, greed is always strong).
It's possible to move an object, and return it to its original location, without expending energy. Ocean waves do this all the time.

Based on conservation of energy, I would assume that friction can weaken a gravitational wave by turning some of its energy into heat.

Though if we're talking about permanently changing the location of an object, that theoretically requires a negligible amount of energy... reminds me of the magic drive in https://qntm.org/frontier