skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are far more small projects in the world than ones that need to scale to be huge, while at the same time every developer working on a small project is trying to build their resume so they can one day work on one of those big ones. So that leads the every small project using these huge stacks for no technical reason, and bogging all those users down.
Terrible idea. Why would anyone want to deal with interfacing a bunch of randomly structured databases whose tables can change at any time without warning. Nightmare.
This isn't a game where you win if you "damage" your "opponent" a certain degree.

Individuals, countries, have goals they are trying to actualize. Accusations are made if the accuser believes it will serve them.

Throwing unprovable accusations at China helps with nothing western countries are trying to accomplish. The most you can get out of it is some points during an election - it is helpful in painting a bogeyman draped in Chinese colors.

Even if the goal was to reach an international treaty banning such research, it would make no sense to alienate China this way. It would put China in a position where they could not sign such a treaty without appearing weak during a time in which they are putting a lot of effort in appearing strong.
I read this mostly as a semantic difference. Both supply and demand generally exist as curves and changing the position of the supply curve changes the position it intersects with the demand curve. The demand curve isn't actually changing. Whether we call that move from the first intersection to the second "induced demand" or "release of suppressed demand" doesn't really matter in my opinion. The concept is the same.

Jevons Paradox is a little different in that it doesn't change how we traditionally model the supply curve (that is probably why the two graphs on that Wikipedia page only show the demand curve). But the end result is the same that we have now moved to a different spot on the demand curve.
I'm up for doing both!
I'm more than happy read walls of text like this on HN. That's what it's for imo. Thank you!
> Mass transit can handle much more than one lane worth of traffic.

It's not about how many people you can physically fit on a train car. They all have to be going the same way or it doesn't work.

There could be one lane worth of people who are doing that and the others are going to thousands of different places.
While that may be partly true, Electron inherently attracts low-skilled, incompetent programmers due to its 'easiness', while in reality JS isn't that much easier than, say, Python. Not only do you have to deal with dumber programmers writing the code, but what people forget is that CPU and RAM usage isn't just some metric you see in htop or Task Manager. Electron apps are much slower than native apps at doing almost anything, sometimes to the point of obscenity. That was a big reason we were forced to ditch Electron, the WebKit bullshit was just too much for what we were trying to do. No matter how many bugs I fixed, it was still a bloated sack of shit. Qt was easy to write. Sure you had to put a few #ifdefs here and there, but for the mostpart, it was portable, easy, and Qt Creator saved us a ton of time compared to baking our own. If you write any application in "native" widgets for the host OS, shame on you. That is definitely the wrong way to do things in almost every case nowadays. That said, Qt and GTK+ provide so much better of a user experience with only slightly increased difficulty. It's hard to justify Electron.
If it's streaming data like dashboard statistics then going forward the new WebTransport API might be a much better base: https://github.com/w3c/webtransport/blob/main/explainer.md At this instant it's hot off the assembly line though having just shipped in Chrome 97, Firefox is still working on it.
It was like that for me too when I worked 9-5 (or more like 6). Now I work "biphasal" days so to speak, from 12:00-16:00 and sometime later in the evening for a couple hours. I find that splitting it up helps me be more productive, I have more of my "software development energy" to spend. I'm lucky that my work offers very flexible hours since we hire around the globe and nobody in my team minds that I review their MRs in the middle of the night.

I usually use the day hours as "open office time" for support requests and meetings, and the later time as "proper work time". This helps me avoid context switches.
The tab key moves to links for me in chrome and puts a border around the current one.
Well that Wikipedia page exists so I wasn't the only one running into the issue. I will note that the time period you listed is a few years after this problem peaked. These issues were a lot more pronounced in the VB Classic era and were greatly improved in the first few releases of the .Net Framework. Your timeframe is just after that.
This needs to be higher up. It's not just about color interpolation - this is a problem with nonlinear color spaces. If you interpolate in a proper linear colorspace, you still get a desaturated color in the middle, but it's the proper brightness and it looks a lot better.

Gamma correction is the bane of computer graphics, and in 2022 there is absolutely no excuse for not using linear colorspaces for all image processing. We have the RAM. 8-bit non-linear colorspaces are a compression technique and should be only used for file formats, not image processing, ever. So many things would look much better and correct if we stopped trying to incorrectly process images in a compressed representation without uncompressing them first.

For comparison: nobody has used A-law or mu-law audio compression ever since digital POTS lines, and we certainly don't process audio in that form, ever. It's the same exact concept as storing pixel values in 8-bits with a gamma function. But somehow we think we can get away with processing images in that domain. I guess it's because if you try to do that with audio, the result is obviously wrong to any human ear, while if you try to do it with images it only looks somewhat wrong, not completely wrong...
It's currently close. Bitcoin alone uses 91 TWh globally [1]. US dryers consume ~60 TWh [2]. However, one of those is seeing exponential energy usage while the others is very mature and stable.

I'm also shocked that people do laundry so often. Not sure why people are doing more than one or two loads per week and that's a problem the government could look at tackling (not so much with PoW coins).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/03/climate/bitco...

[2] https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/ene_14060901a.pdf
Not when compared to alternative of accessing random, misdocumented, randomly limited, arbitratily formatted subset of that which slowly bit-rots.
Agreed with the "waste" argument. I won't defend the huge power consumption but the energy spent is strictly useful in a utilitarian sense - every joule spent makes it that much harder to perform a 51% attack. Ideally, the energy used to secure the network is widely/evenly distributed among nodes for maximum security benefit (though not usually how it plays out).

However, to say it's all a waste is just an emotional argument because you don't like it. That's fine but it's opinion, not objective fact.
I've heard that this theory is true, I've also heard that it is a myth that it is true, and I've even heard that it is a myth that it is a myth.
And truth is, as long as you have exclusive content on a service, the quality of your app (and thus the satisfaction of your end users) doesn't matter all that much.
Wordle has been remarkably popular for a free app without any marketing effort behind it.

By my reckoning it crossed the International Adele Line on 2022-01-04:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=wordle,adele
The big problem with his argument against PHP being a template engine is that it hasn't been developed with that in mind for quite some time. I think it's just a legacy feature to just echo out anything after a closing php tag and before a new open tag that WordPress still enjoys.

I'm of the opinion that anyone now who calls PHP a "template engine" hasn't actually looked at it since 2001.
So many broken pipelines. Thanks for posting this to bring me sanity.
I don’t even know what messaging service/app google uses NOW, and I use google and gmail every day
I don't think you're representative of the common case
A sumptuous banquet of mathematical tools.

Not that I'm a real mathematician but I think I can add one more.

Roughly, Suppose you have a group of axioms and you want to show that a minimal set/system satisfying those axioms exists. Define your objects as the object that exist according to the axioms plus every application of an operation specified by the axioms. Then show the set itself is closed under those operations. The sort of approach used to define the real numbers, for Godel's Constructible Universe [1], the Löwenheim–Skolem theorem [2] and a variety of other places.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructible_universe
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6wenheim%E2%80%93Skolem_...
You better make isolation a subpart of 'some signal conditioning' or you'll be looking at some expensive repairs. That's the hard part of making a scope: isolating the source and the scope guts while maintaining signal integrity.
It's the land version of the Clathrate Gun.
Let it be ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As luhn said, it’s more about a standard data format than a db choice. If every client has to figure out what schema a website uses for a recipe, let’s say, then Web 3.0 is still unrealistic.

Schema.org exists, but all websites adopting it seems unlikely.

That being said, I can maybe see a world in which one company adopts schema.org schemas and the rest have to follow suit to be competitive in that particular domain.
Yup. Ideas are a dime a dozen. Which is why I oppose a lot of IP law.

For example, "internet on a phone" is an idea. Getting it to work is another matter entirely.
Exposing you whole database (or subset user is allowed to see) as GraphQL is way better as it is engine agnostic.
By shifting the bottlenecks elsewhere, in the case of bandwidth. People would totally use way more download bandwidth, for videoconferencing / streaming if nothing else, but you run into latency and upload limits first, rendering the idea of nice 4k streams impractical.
Impossible color – Claimed evidence of ability to see colors not in color space
They are very time efficient, though, and people tend to care about time efficiency too, not just about space efficiency.
You can use iMessage with an Apple ID without having any phone numbers associated with it.

There's no carrier required at all with iMessage. With RCS you HAVE to have a carrier.
No part of our problems involve street congestion.
Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
I do think I'm still missing something, because if I wanted to travel the other way, from O'ahu to Marqueses Group, I should be travelling south-southeast. But I don't see how that can work out on the Tupaia map.
Best free repo to quickly save, get the link, then forward few small images?
What is the best free repo to quickly upload, save, get the link, and forward and share others to instantly access or download some small image files?
NKVD
Removed - too negative.
2020,8,11 https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-lays-off-250-employees...
Skipping the part where I discuss my general doubt of intellectual capabilities of the fellow commenters here.

- Datum uzorkovanja (Date of sampling): 22.12.2021 14:12:10

- Datum izdavanja rezultata (Date of issuance of results): 22.12.2021 16:15:49

=> I will ignore the time needed to get the actual swabs to the laboratory and do the necessary paperwork etc and round this to ~2 hours of time available for testing.

- Vrsta analize i proizvodjac testa (Type of analysis and test manufacturer): Real Time PCR test-SARS-CoV-2, , Sansure Biotech INC; Hunan Province

See, unless my fellow countrymen have developed a way to do PCR tests 5 times faster than the fastest tests available in the (rest) of the world, this test in itself is a joke. This is the reason PCR testing: costs, is usually indicated by symptoms already present/positive antigen test.

You're welcome.

Take care
Interview about the history and future of GNUStep
LAB is good but not great. If you do a gradient from pure green to pure blue, you'll see some purples and other color oddities in the mix.
It’s conspiracy theory to suggest without evidence that “anti-narrative” information is being “removed”. Yes, big tech is certainly shaping results, but they’re doing that in both directions. They aren’t simply suppressing data they (or the hypothetical overlords) disagree with. They are feeding the info that people want. (Which is still bad)

The existence of that article in the New York Times would certainly seem to indicate a lack of suppression.

I do appreciate the link, though. That’s interesting and I hadn’t heard that was a concern. I wonder if there is science evidence that or if it’s hypothetical. The article doesn’t indicate one way or the other unless I missed it.
Well yeah, because it means that I just message a contact in my default messaging app, and if they use Signal it goes over Signal, and if they don't it falls back to SMS (just like the experience of the system messenger and iMessage on Apple devices).

But you're right - what we really need is a way for each messaging app you install to be able to inform the system which contacts it can reach, a simple way to set a priority order (eg. just a draggable list where you can put iMessage above Signal above WhatsApp above SMS), and a single messaging frontend which can render all the ongoing conversations in each installed messenger. (I believe AppleTV attempts something like this for video streaming services?)
I'm sure; I didn't mean to imply otherwise. The appreciation in RSUs can have a staggering effect on total comp even to those of us who should know better :)

Regarding IP: Yup. It's true. If you're willing and able to do the work to make millions in ARR from your IP then academia can break even. (beware tech transfer... universities can be more predatory than the slimiest of VC firms!)

Even at tippy top R1s that's a tiny fraction of faculty and requires a ton of extra work. But, yeah, it's a good case where academia can make sense.
Google Chat, it actually loads on the sidebar of gmail unless you disable it... though I can't blame you for never noticing/caring.
Here we go again. GitHub Pages, Actions and downloading asests all down or degraded.

Time to complain to the CEO of Github again?
"Before the term was hijacked by crypto-grifters (and, admittedly, a few genuinely neat projects), web 3 (point oh) referred to Tim Berners-Lee's project to promote a standard way to expose and parse metadata on the web."
Hey HN, one of the team members here!

I hope you all enjoy playing with the new and improved generator! We've been hard at work improving the model quality since the last time the site was posted[1]

As both a professional fantasy illustrator & software engineer, I find the concept of AI creativity so fascinating. On one hand, I know that mathematically AI only can hallucinate images that fit within the distribution of things that it's seen. But from the artist perspective, the model's ability to blend two existing styles into something so distinctly new is so incredible (and not to mention also commercially useful!)

Anyways, happy to answer any question, thoughts, or concerns!

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20511459]
RF Sensing Event: 802.11bf Wi-Fi sensing, UWB, Lidar, Terahertz radar
Service appears to be back up
I suppose it depends on whether you want to do something you enjoy, or follow the crowd.
After developing equations through 100 lines and few pages or blackboards, you’ll see that dropping letters is inevitable.

You shouldn’t really read the equations before understanding what they are about.

They are usually written down to get rid of ambiguities of the natural language.
I run my own wallabag instance. I love its integration with my eReader. I can save articles to wallabag and then next time I open my eReader all my articles are there for reading.
Nice! I also built a similar app but it is an offline desktop GUI app, not CLI.

https://superintendent.app

It seems a few people here also built a similar app...
One way I see `.env` files used is with NodeJS webservers which will read in the .env file.

But more generally, in shell usage: On Unix machines: direnv https://direnv.net/ (It doesn't support powershell; but I see there are scripts for powershell inspired by this). -- Just be very certain these won't get committed into the repo if you're going to put secrets in them.

I think it's preferable to have different secrets for different machines. (e.g. different SSH keys, or different AWS IAM users - which can each assume a shared role if that's easier to manage).

If you want to sync secrets, one easy way is to use a password database, and then use Dropbox whatever equivalent solution. Another way would be to use e.g. PGP keys. (The public key of a PGP key can be shared between machines, and can be used to encrypt contents for that machine).
What gray zone?
Oh wow this is going to be useful
Yeah, our builds are working again
In a world of automation and "bullshit jobs" Japan somehow manages to find roles which are sort of sysadmin-y and very hands on. Multi skilled, interpersonal, service industry keeping the wheels turning smoothly (or in this case, the coin mechanism dropping smoothly)
Discussed on HN back in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071521
There are many more issues with deliberately misleading employees:

- Some workers will see through the lies and adjust while others won't. The general version of this problem is that there are many lies but only one truth, and lies don't have any self-correcting mechanism built in, resulting in more variance, and in extreme cases, chaos.

- If you mislead people into always-on crisis mode, they will get desensitized and won't trust you, which is especially important when there is a real crisis. The general version of this is crying wolf.

The fact that a cultural phenomenon is irrational and self destructive is perfectly compatible with success, because of noise. Cultural norms do not converge towards optimum quickly, there are too many other factors at play, and social evolution is veeeeery slow. Evolution is probably the most misapplied theory ever proposed.
Insider Tokyo's Weirdest Tiny Apartment
BetterC got a lot of resistance at first, along the lines of who needs it. (BetterC is a subset of D that only relies on the C standard library.) But over time it has accumulated a lot of users, as being C without the troubles.

We've gone a step further with ImportC, and now C code can be imported directly into the D compiler, which makes it easy to interface D code to your existing C base.
came here to ask the same thing! :D

"How to solve it" [1] was helpful for me in this regard, but it isn't really condensed like this blog post.

After you finish "how to solve it", you can read the more advanced "Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning" [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-Mathematical-Princeton-Scie...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Plausible-Reasoning-Two-V...
I'd be ok paying for BW, the issue for me is not knowing what's going to happen if they close down or decide to pull a LastPass. So I've transferred my stuff to KeepassXC and been pretty happy with the ux. Having to deal with syncing the password database across devices is a bit of a pain but it's one of the things I absolutely need control over.
The next big Wi-Fi standard is for sensing, not communication (2021)
Gotta head over to Reddit for those posts.
As I see it, the cause isn't industry-specific, it's just incredibly apparent because of how fast our industry repeats the cycle of:

- Make thing
- Thing becomes ubiquitous and widely used
- Thing has warts and limitations
- Make new thing on top of old thing, because old thing can't be reworked without major consequences because of its ubiquity. Repeat.

If you've worked in any job with reasonably complex processes, there's likely a few procedures that no one really understands, but when people try to change them or build on them, they only break things or get more confusing.

Not sure what can be done about it, but I have a hard time blaming anyone or anything.
He's not wrong, but that also has me thinking that they should actually pay their workers more
It can be a little easier to ignore the ongoing pressures as well when you are more senior. You’ve seen it all before and know how it ends, not to mention being able to switch jobs more easily. I see a lot of junior engineers very stressed out about not delivering “on time” regardless of how ridiculous “on time” is. I find myself fixing these “on time” deliverables regularly.
GraphQL is not a standard, it's just a technology for building custom API's which are far from "agnostic" in practice. You can use SPARQL if interoperability if your goal.
One of the quoted GA pilots told to land in another story was in Oregon, iirc.
I mean, it still exists, but approximately no-one uses it. There was a time when you could talk to people on Google and Facebook's chat systems with it.
Well it's a net negative for the end user, which should have been the priority for everyone involved, and what you're describing sounds like a corruption of this system. So I wouldn't call it an engineering thing, it seems far more general than that.
The Paradox of Value
Remix vs. Next.js Comparison
I think there's already more than enough quantity; what we really need more of is quality.
+1 Genuinely wanted to have a conversation about the intricacies of the Intel supply chain that may have led to such an apology. Certainly, some hacker news community members could have shared some insight from practical experience.

Instead, the conversation was constantly being derailed in a concerted manner. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29892254
Just move the decimal one place and add half of that value to itself. 15%. Ez

It amazes me that people can't calculate this, even roughly. Its a tip, it doesn't need to be exact
OK. But who is "condemning" here? Floridians, looks like.
Been getting non-stop workflow failure emails for a good half an hour now. Seems to be more intermittent in the past few minutes.
Yep! This cli is actually based off of libraries within a gui app as mentioned in the article.
The comment you're replying to is an example of what they meant by Trump derangement syndrome. People convince themselves of things that are blatantly just not accurate because "orange man bad".
I agree witht the latter part about Hyper-V or ESXi, for it to work one would need a virtualizable GPU or two GPUs, so that both OSes can have a graphical environment concurrently.
Hehe, yes. Since the literature is split I can offer my anecdata from living in low light conditions (in the mountains of Eastern Europe with no electricity):

It happens rarely. But enough times that one might notice it. If you experiment with lucid dreaming, you realize that the time you usually wake up is in between your REM cycles at the 4 hour mark. If you take a 15 minute break from sleep in your bed at this time, then fall asleep while trying to keep your mind awake (by, say, counting backwards, or just "willing it"), you can fall directly into a lucid dream. If you try this at the beginning of your sleep, you just fall into a long sleep paralysis and hypnagogia session. Your next REM cycle is too far away.

So, yes, it's real. But I think it's more likely that it was experienced much like nowadays, as a rare occurrence rather than a standard.
That's what it is for everything, no? Something is "enough" when it moves the bottleneck somewhere else.

In the end it becomes humans. What's the resolution of your eyes? How many streams can you watch at once? It's less bandwidth than fiber has, isn't it?
Maybe they didn't live that long due to this being a factor of lost REM sleep?