skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more like they need to compete with all the other ways of crowdfunding that are much more attractive than Kickstarter.

There are dozens in the crypto space, which raise billions for many projects at a much lower or non-existent cut to the platform, and thats just for the teams without development experience to copy and paste the same code for their own specific project.

The simple reality is that there are trillions of dollars within the crypto space now, and nobody needs to convert that to dollars when they can just support or acquire the goods and services they want already with the crypto they already have. For not-yet-existing goods and services, they can buy it in advance, and those new teams can liquidate the much lower amounts of whatever they need to dollars while inheriting all the advertising and marketing clout benefits of completing their sale.
> tripping over their shoelaces to be US states are Puerto Rico

That's inaccurate, repeated votes for statehood in PR have failed.
You know prior case law isn't the forever definer for future rulings, and has been overturned many times right?

Let's see :)
> A new entrant would come in and take up their gaming market.

Miners would probably find a way to use that new entrant's GPUs for mining too.

I think the real threat is that mining could chill the gaming industry as a whole. Either by pricing tons of people out of gaming so they find new hobbies and maybe never come back, or by influencing the direction of game development away from advanced graphics. If most gamers can't afford top-end GPUs anymore, then the perceived value of [Latest Game] having the most photorealistic graphics yet could be flipped into the negative by a change in gamer culture.
You may be missing my point, here.

From the Wikipedia article posted: "Fellow press outlets The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal stated that they could not verify the data provided by the New York Post independently" and "PolitiFact wrote in June 2021: "Over time, there has been less doubt that the laptop did in fact belong to Hunter Biden""

Contrast this with three years of mainstream media laundering absurd, and equally unsubstantiated stories of collusion predicated on the Steele Dossier.

My point has precisely zero to do with the validity of either story, but to do with the obvious full-court press by your side to smear the opposition and deny dissemination of reporting predicated on equally (in)valid source materials to point out that one side is not uniquely corrupt in the attempt to undermine democracy.

Everybody lies. And the OP's attempt to paint one side as some manner of angelic bastion of virtuousness is patently insane, disingenuous. and absurd. Human nature is what it is, and everyone involved here is evil. There are no angels. There are no good guys, but one side definitely has control of the microphone.
The "TPM" you know today started life as Microsoft Palladium, an attempt by Microsoft to create a hardware DRM implementation for "content producers" that could tell the OS what was allowed and not allowed on your computer. The assumed goal at the time was that once the frog was sufficiently boiled it would be used to enforce Windows licensing as well. After much backlash they diverted their efforts into a cabal with Compaq, HP, IBM, and Intel to make it more general purpose and actually allow the end user to store keys.

Secure boot was mostly just a toy until Google implemented it in Chromebooks and the large customers you speak of pointed and said "I want that!"
Scala, Akka, Postgres (or sqlite for smaller projects).

Dash/python for frontend.
> I have my doubts that a small drone carries enough firepower to damage a carrier. There's a reason why these cruise missiles carry 1000lbs of high-explosives (per missile), and no one seriously expects just one missile to sink a carrier.

Carriers are notoriously difficult to sink. But there's a well known strategy: 1) you destroy the carriers defence, 2) you target the direction (not the propulsion) of the carrier so it cannot flee 3) you send a shit ton of whatever you have to sink it.

Drones are obviously unable to do 3), but they are completely apt for 1 and 2. Small boats controlled remotely (which are drones, as a matter of fact) loaded with TNT would do the job eventually when all defences are lost. And even if 3) never happens because the Navy still manages to prevent those small boats from approaching (this is pretty likely, with air support), CNN looping on live footage of USS Gerald R. Ford stuck sailing in circle in the Gulf of Aden after a drone attack would be pretty humiliating for the US Navy to say the least.

Also, as I said earlier, cruse missiles are awesome against ships, and it is a well know fact nobody discusses. Nowhere in this thread am I arguing that drones are superior to cruise missiles. The question is: can a state with limited cruse missile capability piss the US Navy off with drones, and I'm convinced the answer is a big yes.

The US army would likely not taking a single casualty from a single cruise missile targetting air carrier convoy. But they are much less prepared against few hundred drones swarming upon them.
I fall back on real time neutrino event detection :-)
https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/amon_hese_events.html
Well Cloudflare has a proxy service called eth.link.

Basically take any ens domain and add ".link" to the end of it and it'll proxy to the ens domain.

But other than that, you don't have to use it if you don't want to.
We really need Starship in operation. It should be able to carry much larger objects into space - no need for complicated folding and unfolding mechanisms.

Starship could possibly take normal sized heavy equipment to other planets, such as heavy earth movers. (Not those with a combustion engine, but still useful.)
On the other hand interdependence reduces the likelihood of conflict somewhat.
Cases and excess deaths are up in many countries, so it's early to say that it's mild. There is an additional wrinkle: a lineage of Omicron (BA.2) has recently been discovered that requires full genetic sequencing to be detected as "Omicron" rather than "regular COVID", because it lacks a feature that allowed PCR tests to detect BA.1. It's becoming known as "stealth Omicron", which is a delightfully rad name. It's possible this lineage has spread widely, which could explain much of the recent rise in seemingly non-Omicron COVID cases and deaths.
SpatiaLite/SQLite
Nope, I would have used an existing search solution, like xapian. It does so much more, and much faster.

You need to support a proper query syntax, with tags, rankings, stopwords, stemming. Then you need to have a proper db backend (reverse indices). Trigrams dont help for regex. Then a templated representation. Google codesearch would do only the 2nd of 3. ElasticSearch is commercial, and only java.

Doing that from scratch is a bit silly.
Strange question, maybe? I'm an expat living in Romania and I always appreciate and marvel at the efficiency of Romania to have/enable providers to sell an unlimited 4G mobile service plan, that (for me) also works in the middle of nowhere here in RO for 5 euros per month. Thoughts? BTW, it makes buying a service plan in KS, USA that barely works in various areas feel a bit like a scam...
What? This could only be so naively said by someone who has never lived in a heavily prop labor socialist country like France. Les grèves are terribly adversarial and a near constant aspect of labor negotiations.

The only way they could be considered better, in the way you imply, is that the unions are considered something to negotiate with instead of something to destroy.
Linux has not had mainline support for s390 since Linux 4.1 (6 years ago). Only s390x is left.

You can still run 31-bit s390 usermode binaries on an s390x kernel, but that's a different beast.
Individualisation is just a step needed for collective change.

From the individual to the state and then the world, everything is continuously collective.

You just can't hope your institutions to change if a minority of citizen haven't proven lowering one's environmental impacts is possible, and made it socially desirable.

Then institutional change can happen.

In democraties at least, comsumer-citizens are necessary for the system to change.
I think there's a real argument for the efficiency of outsourcing many aspects of public works projects. But I think you make a good point, that doing things in-house is sometimes the right move. Obviously this applies to more than turnpikes :)
Cool - reminded me of this guy's project [1]. I had to mission about to find the channel again because I forgot the name, but his videos are (were? hmm it's been a while) really cool.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPzl9FmKVjI
Sounds sensible, but I imagine it won't do much good if it's just Sweden doing it.
I built UXWizz[0] for this exact purpose, being able to get as much data as needed without affecting your users. Not only you do not send the data to third parties (so your users won't be targeted by ads just because they visited your website) but you can also choose exactly what data you want to track (eg. track their real IP or not, track their city location or only the country, etc.).

[0]: https://www.uxwizz.com/
This guy now works for intel:
DEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - GOD MODE UNLOCKED Hardware Backdoors in redacted x86

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmTwlEh8L7g
This is one of many amazing videos this guy did before they hired him.
Someone else in another thread here that PS shines when you use the object models full-in. Personally I think bash shines in the opposite way as everything is a string and everything is a file, which as you mention, allows everything to work together
> 1. Red tape & public "input"

> [...] and bureaucrats and all of that.

On a recent episode of the Ezra Klein show, Jerusalem Demsas argued that part of the problem is that the bureaucrats in the US are too constrained in their powers, so e.g. when weighing an infrastructure project against wildlife protection laws, it's not a bureaucratic organisation making a final decision on how to proceed with minimal impact, but it's private organised interest groups litigating without any limits on re-litigation, and a ruling that does not necessarily weigh the public interest of having projects proceeding towards completion.
There are lots of different types of software.

There are phone note apps and control systems for jets and artificial hearts
Block the person. Problem solved
This model like its predecessor still lacks the ability to infer within constraints of physical world [1]. It does not have any notion of what a physical world is, and still is, at the end of the day, a statistical model.

Attempting to do recreate the entirety of the physical world by describing it in text is an impressive feat, but a futile attempt.

It is prone to inference errors that the model itself is not aware of. There are less and less of such errors, but the very inability to tell that what you are outputting is gibberish is one of the biggest problems of these models. In other words, if the model could simply say 'I do not know' or 'I am not sure' for every occasion when it is not 100% sure in something (like a human can), this would drastically improve the usefulness.

[1] Spent a lot of time pondering on this topic https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.01873.pdf
I compared the same area in apple vs google maps, the islands don't even show up in google unless you zoom way in. You sure about this?
I'll make a guess that matter is like bubbles in spacetime. For some reason the bubbles remain stable and due to cleverness of equations governing spacetime, it allows to form stable complex structures around those bubbles. This is even a verifyable hypothesis: check what happens with GR equations in topologies with tiny spherical holes.
China Will Soon Lead the U.S. in Tech
I never argued that the bill of rights is a reason to mistrust the government. I am arguing that the bill of rights is evidence that Americans have had some unspecified reason to mistrust the government embedded in their culture since founding, well before the lead paint guys started buying power.

> The government at the time of the Bill of Rights was voted for by, and therefore represented the interests of, about 6% of the population

where that population is

> property-owning or tax-paying white males

So are you arguing that mostly white males dislike government intervention? If not, what subpopulation are you arguing it is that dislikes intervention?
Depends on which virus. Flu shots have to be changed every year, but measles shots appear to give lifetime immunity.
From a non american viewpoint, I find it impressive that states like Florida and Texas have been able to do away with covid restrictions independently of all other states.
People have an equally hard time realizing that there is very little genuinely 'new' under the Sun, and today's 'wizbang' was yesterday's 'vozalm' with a superficial change to it.
>The responsibility of making code efficient (dare I say "green") lies in those writing the browser engines/compilers.

I don't get it. Are they not doing that? Performance and battery life is a major selling point for browsers. If anything the biggest failure is at the individual developer/site level, not that firefox causes your fan to spin into overdrive when it tries to load a SPA monstrosity.
We've had Slaughterbots for a while, they are called bullets, except bullets can penetrate a glass window.

I guess this is propaganda aimed at a stupid public that thinks Star Trek is real and batteries are magical and you can just replicate the explosives and software and drones needed here on mass.

At any point in time North Korea could drop a conventional bomb on NY or a school rather than using slaughter bots, fuck knows why they would do either.

Insurgents uses drones for fear. They are useless currently for structural damage. Slaughterbots helps them with the fear bit.

Loitering munition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loitering_munition are more real, view them on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/azerbaijan_mod/search?query=drone currently no one uses the loitering part in practice.

Slaughterbots is a really fun video. But it's not addressing any of the real issues. If anything it just makes the public fear technology without a framework of moving forward.

Drones are equalising power between countries and territories, that's scary and complicated, I guess beyond the general public.
This is my favorite way of blowing off adrenaline after an earthquake. It's also fun to watch the reports roll in and see how different areas were affected.
Not disagreeing with what Thiel is saying here, but it's pretty hypocritical for him to be criticizing here considering he's the co-founder of Palantir, a company that feeds some tasty tasty morsels to the surveillance state and military-industrial complex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Model
It's not just a flow of ideas; it's also a flow of web-page snapshots. IIRC, "Alexa" was named after the Library of Alexandria.
Yay, an XML v2.
https://archive.md/A74WR
UK voters (imho) were still stinging from the economic decline and austerity measures post-2008, and were led to believe that a divorce from the EU would restore their greatness. Now that that's been demonstrated to be a delusion, and with covid-related economic collapse piling on top of Brexit consequences, UK voters might be open to a dice roll.

This is obviously my idle speculation, and I think the UK voters would never be allowed to vote on such an opportunity anyway. Still, I think if it happened it'd be great for everyone.
Likewise... I was pretty impressed with myself in the 90s as a young guy passing the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer exam.

"According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the first recorded 'engineer' was Imhotep. He happened to be the builder of the Step Pyramid at Ṣaqqārah, Egypt." [link]

I look forward to drinking ale with Imhotep (and NASA JW Space Telescope engineers) in the great heavenly hall of engineers.

https://interestingengineering.com/the-origin-of-the-word-en...
The particular project highlighted in the article isn't one of those, though. Somerville (one of the cities reached by the extension) has the highest population density in the state of Massachusetts, and I think it's something like top 20 in the United States by that metric. This is not an "even more spread out populace", it's linking a reasonably dense bedroom community to a regional commercial hub.
We can have a very long debate about that but I think it's beside the point with regards to Apple's CSAM effort. The point is that Apple is inventing a tool that is very amenable to being wielded as a weapon of mass surveillance, and oppression.

The maps analogy is that it's one thing for the Chinese government to tell Apple to implement a mapping app from scratch so that it can be used to display bogus mapping data. It's quite another for the Chinese government to tell Apple to modify its existing Maps app data.

In light of the inherent amorality of companies that you are pointing out, the people working in these companies should be smart enough not to go out of their way to place themselves in situations with such moral hazards. Apple shouldn't be building weapons.
BufferInfo {
buffer_usage: BufferUsage::VERTEX,
..Default::default()
},

What is "..Default" here?
Your intuition is right but _every_ expression is bound by a variable in this representation.
When I see state capital or communist societies, I see "single whale that has to purchase at inflated prices"

I'll spin up a British Virgin Islands company or buy another passport first in response to any legislation aimed at preventing business with those whales

Others are already 5 steps ahead of me
Would a transpiler written in GCC compatible C, compiling Rust to C, solve this issue forever?
The $93M number in the headline is somewhat misleading, as it's cumulative across all the rounds of funding. Can the title be changed to state that the specific round raised now is a $68M Series B?

Article quote:

> We just closed a $68M Series B co-led By Lux and Tiger Global, with participation from Greenoaks Capital Partners, Lightspeed, Addition, and Haystack.
The difference is that Russia has been stuck in that quagmire for 30 years[1], whereas in China, most of those people would have been impoverished rural poor, 30 years ago.

When you have observed a colossal material improvement in your life, and you have hope for the future, you can overlook a lot of problems with governance.

[1] Yes, yes, Moscow is not an active disaster zone. Russia does not begin and end in Moscow, though.
According to NextDNS my MacBooks talks constantly with some apple.com subdomains. Some are blocked by NextDNS for privacy reasons.
Yeah, this whole New Yorker piece is not a new story. The James Howells story has been around for years and party inspired the Russ Hanneman plot haha
Simple:

NASA Systems Engineering Handbook
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20170001761

That's the 2017 version; maybe there's a later one. IIRC, it's an abridged from NASA Expanded Guidance for SE, but my link to that is broken.
Could ppt files be represented as pure text/strings? I believe docx can, as its some sort of XML structure

Where is the complexity and overhead? Ppt exports PDF files just fine, would it really be so complicated to move that to an external program?
Ask HN: What's the biggest problem you have and how have you tried to solve it?
Assume you don't want them, unless your usecase requires them?
There is absolutely no way at all to verify that claim - considering 'better/worse' entirely depends on the happiness of those individuals. Something we have no way of measuring.
>Markets work best when there are a range of restrictions and taxes for services and subsidies that tune outcomes

I'd argue markets work best when they're unencumbered. That means the range of taxes and subsidies are zero, because there are none. Literacy is a fine investment but shouldn't come at extraction of wealth at gunpoint.
> and Intel Pty Ltd tells you that this is an acceptable amount of risk for you to take

AMD does the same thing too. Ryzen APUs don't have (even unofficial) ECC support, except if you pony up for a Ryzen Pro one.

(and so do many other SoC providers...)
https://teknobird.com/canva-pro-ucretsiz-1-aylik-ve-sinirsiz...
https://teknobird.com/driver-booster-pro-ucretsiz-lisans/
> A handful

The reality is the statistics are always being revised and they are being revised in the direction that heart inflammation is more prevalent than initially thought.

According to the Australian TGA, this rate has been revised to 1/10000 for adolescent boys [1][2]. That is a pretty high value.

This continual rise in myocarditis incidence rates indicates to me that nobody really knows how prevalent these side-effects actually are.

I stand by my statement. People that did experience heart inflammation should not have to choose between participating in society and being boosted with vaccines that have previously injured them.

[1] - https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/vaccine-myocarditi...

[2] - https://www.tga.gov.au/periodic/covid-19-vaccine-weekly-safe...
Who’s “we”? You are going backward. NVIDIA’s profits are going forward.
In real life it’s even worse. None of the suppliers actually show up, they ramp up the price and deliver a failing product. Then they all blame the previous guy.
I don't do podcasts, but I read that that was a really good one, and everything she writes about housing is fantastic.

https://www.vox.com/authors/jerusalem-demsas
Fake/real is not the most precise terminology, but I think it gets the important point across, so I’ll use it.

In a "real 3D" rasterizer, you interpolate the depth coordinate for each individual pixel. You need this value to perform two steps in the pixel pipeline that are required to get the correct look: First, you use the depth coordinate the perform depth testing (reject pixels that should be hidden). Then, you use it to perform a perspective correct texture lookup (make straight lines on the texture obey the laws of perspective).

If you throw out the depth coordinate anywhere earlier in the pipeline, as the PS1 did, you can’t do either of those things, so you get artifacts where objects flicker and warp when rotating. The rasterizer really needs to be "3D aware" right until writing out the final pixel values.

Note that both artifacts can be lessened, to some degree at least, with workarounds. For depth testing, you simply sort the polygons (which doesn’t work in every case, as triangles can overlap in cycles). And for the texture lookup problem, you subdivide the polygons (this helps because the vertex calculations are perspective correct, but it's expensive and you'd need infinite subdivision to fully solve the problem).

As an aside, the PS1 had another issue where the rasterizer didn’t support subpixel precision, which also leads to artifacts. But IMO that’s mostly unrelated to the 3D coordinate problems — 2D games need that as well to get smooth movement.
I do in fact faintly remember Sonique, coming on a burned cd-rom with Sumerjam, Sandstorm, and a couple more tracks,which I ran in the background while playing Diablo 2. It was the time of the sony root-kit.
Things will bifurcate into remote and in-person teams/divisions/companies.
This is a very colorful view of history. You can also see that the first university in America was built by the spaniards. The first university in Asia? Also, built by the spaniards.

The earlier ships were a mixture of those "barbarians" as you mentioned, and very learned people.

The concept of international law and human rights started with the discussions in Spain after the discovery of America:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/school-salamanca/#IusGent...
Not today next year, am i wrong?
As someone trying to understand the space beyond trading/speculation, this is what I keep running up against. Philosophically I like a lot of the ideas conveyed but everything seems to keep going back to money and getting further and further away from the free and open web.