skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very minor correction - Nim tends to attract people specifically with its language power via its powerful Lisp-like metaprogramming facilities, static introspection, etc. These features are expressly there to automate away mundane repetition. I do not think it belongs in a list with Zig & C the way you use it here.

I also think users of C (not sure about Zig) are quite happy to automate things. Linus Torvalds is a big user of C. He wrote a little C-like compiler to check Linux kernel code called Sparse [1]. You seem to be trying to discuss maybe larger (but not very well articulated) subpopulations of "Users" than Apex Programmers like Linus. It is definitely easier to do this with C than giant languages like C++.

Why, the 1980s & 1990s were littered with maybe dozens of hacked C compilers doing "this or that" automation in a way you do not see for C++ (and will probably never see for Rust). In point of fact, C++ itself (C with classes) was an early example of such! The idea was to automate/codify the object-oriented style of Simula in C.

pjmlp's sibling & child comments are also some good color on the history/context of all this. { Of course, partly it all depends on what you meant by "language power" and "automate" - I am just going by what that seemed like. }

[1] https://sparse.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/
All I want from MicroProse is a modern Darklands remake.
It is really a shame that most people's experience of NJ is only the Turnpike and the refineries around EWR.
Things went too left, now "everyone" wants a republican to undo it. Well when I say "everyone" I just mean a lot of moderate democrats.
NAS + USB HDD docking station plus couple HDDs in rotation.

While NAS has mirror on it, I do not consider it enough backup. I assume it will not save me from ransomware or a family member stupidly deleting a lot of data or from fire or from theft. It is mostly to give convenient access to it for my family.

HDDs are in rotation and one is always offsite with my family that I visit regularly. Whenever I travel there I make a backup on one of the HDDs and then bring the "old" drive back home to be reused on one of future trips.
Bernie Sanders...
Depends on which letter of the FAANG pantheon you are in, but my understanding is that it is much harder (and arguably more prestigious) to get into some of the FAANG companies than most PhDs programs.

Personally, if I were in your shoes, I wouldn't bother with a PhD unless we are talking about something MIT level.

Also, I don't know your personal situation and capabilities of course. But all of my friends & colleagues at FAANG level companies swear that they would not be able to pass the coding interviews again if they had to redo it, and even if they could, it would only be after many, many months of hardcore grinding (leetcode, etc) that they'd rather not do again.
In who's favor?
Why do you say that? They're already responding to ARM with their big.Bigger architecture in their latest generation.

I'm sure people said the same thing about Intel when AMD introduced 64 bit procs or Sun introduced multicore processors. Intel has adapted and lead the field many times after being overtaken. No reason to expect them not to do the same here, or at least compete.
But those Arxiv papers which were not published elsewhere but which got many citations, those were read by others, i.e. reviewed by peers, i.e. peer-reviewed.

Arxiv only lacks the initial quality filter by peer review.

I'm also working in the field of machine learning. In those niche fields I work more specifically (speech recognition), I can usually still get a lot out of Arxiv-only papers. I can pretty easily see the main idea and see if there is some usefulness in the paper or not w.r.t. my own research e.g. by good experimental analysis. In don't really feel overwhelmed in the amount of papers. I don't really see the problem.
I'd guess this has something to do with the constant use of force.

Don't want to take the vaccine? We'll find a way to make you

Disagree with me politically on Twitter?
We'll look for your employer and coerce him into firing you

Stay two weeks at home, by the way stay in two more weeks and it's been two years. Some places even had curfews (but then if it's a BLM protest we'll ignore the existence of the virus)

We follow the science! (Except if the scientist disagrees with you. Check the interview with Don lemon and Sanjay Gupta when he's about to make a point about Joe Rogan. Lemon cuts him off and wont let him finish)
Is anyone here an expert with MySQL, optimization and replication? Please contact me at greg at qbix,com and we’d engage you to help solve a couple issues.

Our site is experiencing slowdowns and SHOW PROCESSLIST may hold some clues. We have had 10,000 downloads of our apps worldwide and collect ping statistics in MySQL so that may have something to do with it
Hopefully first they will fire everyone responsible for cultivating a toxic culture culminating in sexually harassing a women to suicide and having a "Cosby" room at events. Don't care how good of games they are when thats the company behind them.
John Carmack on (Antifragile) Idea Generation (2016)
More customers being able to be served from the same number of towers with better per-customer performance.

One challenge in rural broadband deployments is there are only so many good locations for the carrier to actually stick antennas. Maybe a water tower or two, you might get lucky and have some tall radio tower at the edge of town. So then all the customers in the area are essentially sharing a single tower, all needing to point their CPE to that one point. You can only slice the tower up into some number of sectors and once you hit that point the tower is saturated. Every additional customer is now diminishing the service for every other customer.

Having better spectral efficiency per sector means you can service more customers, have better service per customer, or even both depending on how you balance it.
At what annual income level? I'm not a tax expert, but that sounds like a couple times more than minimum wage.

Whereas 50% at all income levels is going to be very frustrating to someone earning $35k/year in addition to their UBI.
The issue is a bit more than that. To make gamers and normal users switch to linux we need to make more GUI apps for linux and increase the accessability of linux GUI / DE.

Just watch the LTT videos about gaming on Linux. Linux is a Cluster** of an OS to troubleshoot and configure.

I'm a dev myself I love my Arch and everything but this OS is NOT meant for normal people.

Its 2022, people don't want to fiddle around with a terminal.

Until Linux and its users don't fix the core problem of linux and thats usability, I don't see people switching to it.

Maybe steam changes this.. but we will see..
Please focus on providing those sources rather than trying to derail with tone policing.

To reiterate:
If it's undeniable, you shouldn't be the only one claiming this. Not even conservatives (in Europe at least) are saying this, even though it would be manna from heaven for them if it was true.
This is what I've been doing for the past couple years:

1. Pictures are either manually copied to a staging folder on my storage server (for DSLRs) or automatically synced there via Syncthing (for smartphone cameras). For the latter, Syncthing is set up to preserve deleted files in case of accidental deletion.

2. The storage server runs zfs and takes 10-minutely snapshots of all datasets, which are replicated to 2 servers using zrepl: one sitting upstairs and another I rent from Hetzner halfway across the world. Replicated snapshots are kept for 2 years. Everything uses zfs' native encryption, but the replication targets do not have the key.

3. For the really important pictures and other documents, I create 2 additional backups: an encrypted backup to Backblaze B2 via rclone and burning them to M-DISC blu-rays. This is sort of a last ditch thing in case a zfs bug renders the primary backups unreadable.
One of those Rare (rip Rare) moments where I want the old Microsoft back that killed off studios left and right. Blizzard needs to be put out of their misery.
> Steam tracks that without DRM, too.

Yes and no. They can track play time when you launch a game through the Steam client, and they can use DRM to enforce launching games through the Steam client. If you launch one of the few DRM-Free Steam games without using Steam, your play time won’t increase.

GOG also tracks play time if you launch a game via GOG Galaxy. The difference is, every single-player game in their catalog can also be played without GOG Galaxy (and indeed, this is explicitly why I buy games from GOG—I don’t like clients, I just want an executable).
I'm in my 30s and this is how American politics has been my entire life.
One thing that has been worked, at least with genetic codes, is mapping them to linguistics (or rather to text), although it could be argued that the scaffolding of this mapping is still mathematical. I guess in this case the analogy was already there, waiting to be leveraged. Mode info: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/enformer
I can only answer to the last question. Yjs uses several performance optimizations to produce small documents (both in memory and in the encoded state). Since humans type relatively slow (<60 actions per minute), it is impossible for humans to create a document that has performance problems. I showed this in [1].

Relm [2] even models a 3d world using Yjs. I don't necessarily recommend doing this as 3d applications usually produce a lot more actions per minute than text applications. This required some workarounds and deep knowledge of how Yjs' optimizations work. But it's definitely possible.

[1]: https://blog.kevinjahns.de/are-crdts-suitable-for-shared-edi...
[2]: https://www.relm.us/
So the reality of this is that this is the UK government not being able to spy on platforms like whatsapp. Remove the E2E encryption and five eyes gets it's eyes on whatever you're saying.

It's really scummy to use children as a weapon here e.g. Encryption allows child abuse.
Why the focus on child sex abuse? End-to-end encryption makes it easier to have all sorts of conversations privately, criminal or not.
> should be met with a carefully considered factual response

Engaging with baseless propaganda preying on the unthinking parts of everyone by "carefully considered factual response" means you lose. Every single time. For this reason it is a naive strategy.
First delete all the low quality shots, scale down low quality vids with ffmpeg, that reduces storage reqs. Then I copy to bluray 100gb discs. Once a year rotate to a relatives house.
However, we do know from Quantum Mechanics that the universe is probabilistic and not deterministic

That is not true, quantum mechanics - more specifically the Schrödinger equation - is deterministic. What is not deterministic is the wave function collapse but that is also incompatible with the Schrödinger equation because it implies non-unitary evolution of the wave function. And we have - as far as I know - no really good ideas how to resolve this. In consequence I think it would be premature to declare that the universe is definitively non-deterministic.
You can very much rent a passive house for significantly more by including heating and cooling costs into the rental price.
People can’t see what your heating bills are but they can compare with other properties that include heating.

Actual price differences at time of sale should be nowhere close to 30% not only because that’s an insane difference in construction costs but also because land isn’t free. A 200k house on 200k of land vs a 260k house on 200k of land isn’t a 30% difference in final price.
I've been touting the benefits of Spray Foam Insulation for years. It is actually incredible how much money you can save on HVAC every year. Your Heating and Cooling equipment can be halved in size and your living space is draft free and incredibly comfortable. Mate this with geothermal and your utility bills to heat and cool are equivalent to someones Starbucks habit (maybe less). If the North American building code was upgraded to a decent performance level (spray foam, triple pane windows, etc), we could probably get away with not having to build another power plant for decades.
I even prefer this to a complete passive house. To be honest I don't like the air from ventilation, although that probably depends on the system.
What if we look at ideas such as encryption requiring licensing such that there are valid use cases for it and invalid use cases for it. Things that automatically qualify as valid use cases would be things like login systems, payment systems, communication between certain parties deemed essentially private - for example client attorney communications, patient and medical team communications, reporters, whistleblowers, and other similarly essential services that require protection. I'm sure there are many valid use cases.

Invalid use cases would be things like social media platforms where children are able to communicate with unknown parties.

Could something like that work? How could a system like that be protected from abuse? Obviously pedophillic doctors and reporters would have an immediate loophole that would need to be considered...

There has to be a way where we can have legitimately end to end encrypted systems while preventing illegitimate ones. There's a massive grey area in between "ban encryption" and "let pedophiles do what they want without any oversight." There must be a solution that falls somewhere in the middle of those two things.
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I don't wish ill on anyone, but it's hard not to note hospitals being filled with unvaccinated people, pushing out operations, cancer treatments, other appointments for people who actually have no choice.

If that's a trolley problem where I'm forced to choose, I know what I'd choose.

That said, I don't care about going back to normal, but I would prefer if hospitals weren't clogged up because people can't be arsed to listen to science.
> But more asking than telling, why wouldn’t defaulting to sRGB for unlabeled buffers work?

If Wayland is to do color management, that's a reasonable approach. Doesn't work at all if the client is supposed to do it.

But are you sure Wayland uses sRGB now? I couldn't find any information regarding the implicit color space currently used by Wayland...

> but if they didn’t bother with it than they likely are okay with whatever is the default

Not like they had a choice now is it?
> It’s like teenagers gossiping about celebrity relationships, but with corporations instead.

I think that’s accurate. Whether there’s room for and value in these kinds of playful conjectures is of course up to each of us to decide.
Tim Sweeney maintains more than 50% ownership of Epic.
I would claim it is vastly simpler. going from one position to another in a aerial vehicle is much simpler than navigating a cityscape, a swamp, or even simply an uneven field.

In the aerial domain, your environment is for all intents and purposes empty, and you operate over and above a surface which may have targets on it. As long as you ensure your manuevers don't intersect the ground manuevering is mostly point in the direction you want to go. aerial -> aerial is even simpler, as these engagements are long range and often significantly above the ground, so other than maintaining altitude you can treat the whole universe as empty except you and your target.
Microsoft is a national security force first, now.

USA needs its Tencent.
What's your point? We already have that. Large bombers are used to deliver cruise missiles close enough to the target area. Cruise missiles are drones by another name. But they're hardly cheap. In fact they're getting more expensive.
If "worth" is a financial question, the answer is a clear no. In your situation, it would be a huge financial blunder.
It's hard to not feel like the US Democratic party is like Firefox: it exists to give voters the illusion of choice.
We already have piles of handheld PC's taking off with or without the Deck at this point. I'd love an AYA NEO if the prices weren't so high.
We pay for Apple iCloud 2TB plan. Sync all photos & videos to local external hard drive. And then periodically copy local Photos library to NAS.

Then I share my Amazon Prime backup with my wife. All our photos are backed up there but not videos.

For videos, I upload edited videos on YouTube as unlisted or private. And some of better videos as public on Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram.

And finally I try to share as many photos and videos in emails, Whatsapp, with friends and family. Sort of distributed back up in the worst case scenario.

(Also never delete any photo or video unless you really don't want anyone to see it ever. I used to extensively prune my library but wish I had not. Storage will likely keep getting cheaper. And AI will get better and it will be able to create better slideshows and edited videos.)
I wonder if video games will be more free to tell complementary "anti-CCP" stories now that games are mostly banned in mainland China anyway so the CCP has less leverage?
Same. I bought their lifetime 4TB + encryption addon during Black Friday. It's enough for all of my personal data, music and some movies / TV series too. And I never have to pay again, which is nice.
On one hand I feel that consolidation is bad for gaming when a platform is buying IP for exclusivity but on the other hand this was a great decision by Microsoft. Activation Blizzard has been is a slump and has been stuck in releasing or should I say re-releasing the same games for a while now but they could have done it much better. Any half decent version of World of Warcraft 2 will be worth more than 70 billion by itself. Seems to me Activision Blizzard did not realize just how much value in IP they had in their games and are selling based on their current cash flow only.
Ask HN: What do you use for parental control?
I want to give my kids (8 and 9) a computer that they can use on their own. I want them to be able to use productivity software, listen to music on Spotify, watch age appropriate shows on Disney plus, access certain educational websites, etc.

What I don't want is them to have access to arbitrary websites.

I've tried using macOS built-in screentime feature, but it's completely useless. I can't block Safari, and when I try using the whitelist mode for web content restrictions, Spotify stops working.

I would really like to give my kids a computer they can use without supervision, but not with the whole internet accessible.
I had an argument this past weekend with one of my former best friends from high school and through 10 years of watching the TV he has become a literal walking Fox News parrot. An incredibly smart guy and all he could come up with was 'look at the Fox News polls for this issue and if you can find me a counter CNN poll, we can talk'. It feels like a lot of people have turned like this, its almost like a zombie apocalypse of the mind.
Complaining about a bizarre world view and then dropping an equally bizarre and hyperbolic statement. I think this will be good, just as I think Microsoft's previous gaming acquisitions have been good.
Node.js – v17.4.0
Yjs looks interesting; I'm currently building a management UI that for now is a very straightforward set of REST APIs and a database, but there's a lot of concerns about people editing the same configuration simultaneously; I wonder if something like yjs can be used to create a collaborative editing environment.

I'd probably have to re-architect the whole front- and back-end though. Although on the other hand, there will be some code editors (currently using Monaco) where this could be usable.
So no acquisition of any company ever?
Congrats on building such a nice tool! I‘d gladly pay for something self-hosted, or some tool that allows me to download it on my own hardware.

I don‘t want to solve the problem by

A) paying even more money every month, much less even more than for Google Drive & Photos storage itself!

B) uploading my personal photos to a completely untrusted provider (at least I can trust Google to some degree to not leak my photos to any stranger on the internet).
Having children allows child abuse - do we ban people from having children? Of course we don't...
I assume by "truly indie" they mean "bootstrapped or invested by neutral/disinterested VCs" — as opposed to

1. invested in by one of the platform owners themselves, in exchange for a [temporary] exclusivity agreement, making them essentially a sharecropper on the platform; or

2. invested in almost exclusively by a single bigcorp publisher, making the studio essentially a secret marque of that publisher for projects they don't want associated with their regular brand image.

Many of the games that later make it to Steam, were originally funded by either one of the platform owners, or by a bigcorp publisher.
Randomness is also evolutionary. It's wrong to equate evolution with optimization
Text is accurate, headline is misleading. Deere has had this market cornered for a while and nobody has done anything to stop them.
> Personally I'm happy with other definitions, not because I feel I'm doing mental gymnastics, but because the version you give is clearly not what normal people mean by it when they refer to it. It might well be related to what philosophers argue about, but normal people who offer you a 'free choice' or who say that you did something 'of your own free will' do not mean anything like 'your choice was not a function of the state of the universe'.

There's certainly a duality here where it's fine to talk about people having choices even if one strictly believe they don't, but my experience is that if anything people tend to often get exasperated or outright agitated if you try to question to what extent their decisions are free. A whole lot of human society is organised around the idea that we have agency and that we're the product of choices we've made of our own volition.

E.g. if you genuinely believe the notion that we have free will is nonsense (and I do), then the logical extension is to be very uncomfortable with the notion of e.g. prison used for vengeance or anything at all other than to the bare minimal extent required to protect others, because the logical conclusion of thinking people don't have agency is that there was no way other than other external stimuli in their lives that they could have come out making other decisions.

It's a very uncomfortable thing to view society through a lens of seeing free will as an illusion. But it's also very hard to unsee the lack of any kind of coherent theory of free will that could justify anything else.

The reality is that if you actually talk to people about this, you'll quickly find that most people go through life with a very strong belief that they have agency and that people around them have agency, but the moment you start to question what that belief is based on, the basis for it tends to start to crumble very, very quickly. As I've said elsewhere, in decades of discussing this subject I've never seen someone come up with a definition of "free will" that still looks either "free" or like "will" under scrutiny. Usually you end up with people trying variations of arguments that just leads to infinite regress (e.g. arguing our soul gives us free will, at which point the question just shifts to a definition soul that would give it agency).
A truly "randomly sampled" phone survey would skew to a very old demographic, and successfully recruiting younger generations with this tactic is a notorious challenge (online works better).

What they don't tell you though is that it's not truly random as claimed. They recruit a representative sample of respondents. So there are young people in the sample, it just takes more calls to get the data.

Source: I run these surveys