skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a blast from the past. I was at Murray Hill around that time and remember the "Inferno" posters everywhere. It seemed like a legit project with some real corporate backing. From what I understood it was hoped to be used as a router OS in the core routers they were developing there.
That’s fair! I do think you could trigger events for that kind of thing in Universal Analytics though. Seemed to have plenty of affordances for use in apps as well. I still question whether going for a ‘clean break’ is the best idea. Obviously products have to improve, but I’m surprised to see them imperil their massive user base this way.
Yep, a JIT will typically use on-stack replacement to keep execution coherent. Hot code reloading has to deal with the semantics of the code changing out from under it, which is substantially more complicated to deal with (and many implementations do not really handle this very well).
This isn't a landmine in any normal threat model. The average person is concerned with identity theft and perhaps their local law enforcement, not the full weight of domestic or foreign intelligence services.
ugh... I really hate stupid comment about complex numbers

> The square root of negative one doesn’t correspond to any physical quantity

neither does pi
The otherwise quite good article repeats the common mistake of not understanding that what Intel calls the feature size (e.g. 10nm) is not equivalent to what TSMC calls it, giving the incorrect impression that Intel is further behind than they are. Intel 10nm is the same density as TSMC 7nm. But I suppose you could argue that this is Intel's own fault for not doing much about that misunderstanding.
> I never suggested this at all. I am just saying that there are externalities that our work generates and we should be critical of that instead of pretending that it doesn't matter.

I should have been more clear that this was a general statement rather than a paraphrase of you argument.
My apologies.

There is a qualitative difference between ropes and guns with respect to this argument. I agree with that. I would argue that there is less of one between that and the other things I listed.

> Yeah why not? Shouldn't we be trying to manufacture non-toxic chemicals that don't poison people and the planet.

To be clear: I was arguing whether people recreationally huffing paint thinner was a valid argument against working for a paint thinner company. There may very well be other, valid arguments for not working for a paint thinner company, but people huffing paint thinner contrary to all common sense and the instructions on the container isn't one of them. This also applies to the earlier point made in the thread about car companies: there are many potential ethical issues with working for them, some of which you have listed, but I don't think, say, human-stupidity-causer error by distracted drivers is one of them.

Also, while using non-toxic chemicals is desirable, sometimes it's not an option. This is why, in my example, I chose paint thinner (which AFAICT oesn't really have a non-toxic alternative) and not something like freon, which not only does have alternatives but is arguably much, much more environmentally damaging than, say, mineral spirits.
Why is memory safety still a concern?
Generally true, but harder to make this case for imaginary numbers, because we definitely didn't need them when we adopted them in the 16th century or whenever it was. We adopted them because we had already adopted the (very imaginary) rule that - * - = +. Had we decided to adopt a different rule, arithmetic would still have worked, and we'd never have needed imaginary numbers. That's why I find it hard to accept that QM needs them, even though I lack the capacity to really understand the QM argument.
I acknowledge that some people depend on Java and even C# programs.
Say Amazon Gaming runs a promotional NFT for an MP5 across both CoD and Battlefield. CoD and Battlefield teams both implement the MP5 and include them as a legendary drop in Lootboxes. If you get the NFT in either CoD or Battlefield it automatically unlocks in the other game. How? Link your EA/Activision account with a third party wallet like Ubisoft with Digits. That's just a bit of integration code. When you load the game look at owned NFTs for weapons in the wallet and unlock them in the game for the user. NFTs can be resold so a user might now sell that NFT to another user. On reboot of the game it won't detect the NFT so the weapon is now locked, with the opposite happening for the new owner.

Why would CoD and Battlefield want to introduce NFTs in lootboxes? By having a resale/collectors market on-top it'll drive sales.

Why would Amazon Prime invest in having these sorts of promotional items? They already do in Apex Legends with skins.

Why would Activision and EA want to have cross-game NFTs? Item longevity would inflate the price of the asset again increasing sales of lootboxes for collectables.

The perk of Web3/NFT for these things over say the CS:GO store is you get a lot of that for free within the ecosystem - for example storefronts. Also you don't have to handle payments yourself! And there's a whole world of additional meta one can include to NFTs that you can't get with game assets. For example, and yes I know this is stupid, if my solution above was implemented I could also add a derivative CFD of a Gamestop share in it as a 'Charged NFT'. Why? Fuck knows lol. But maybe someone will come up with some cool features in the future. It's just something that's unique to NFTs and shows additional functionality. (https://www.charged.fi)

> Go and work on it then.

I try work on important things and I don't think video games are that important, albeit they're fun.

> So far you've shown exactly zero understanding of the problem. You clearly don't even understand what NFTs are.

> since you are "not a total novice here"

I don't appreciate your sarcastic tone to be honest, I am not sure if it's intentional or not but you comes across as a jerk with your confrontational attitude.
I use BetterSnapTool and highly recommend it. Just set up some hotkeys and macros and you can do it all. I like to set up my hotkeys to be able to maximize for the whole screen, go to either vertical side, go to either horizontal side, or all 4 corners of my screen.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bettersnaptool/id417375580?mt=...
I would like an app that handles the functioning of my paid product locally without internet access. The product was sold with strings attached that was not mentioned.

Loading any framework script not hosted on the site the app originates is the same kind of leak as the facebook pixel. jquery gets my IP, access time and referrer. They can cross-site track me over all pages that load their scripts.

I also use frameworks scripts, only I host them locally to counter this kind of leakage.
That's a little difficult for 'official repo's that don't include ESR versions.
It doesn’t work that way. Everyone is connected, same software, same ecosystem, same network. If you attack one person with malware you attack the world.
That’s because GitHub Actions is Azure DevOps, or if you want to go back further, Team Foundation Server Pipelines.
It was predicted though. There are many roadmaps predicting the increase in use of semiconductor sensors (trillion sensors roadmap) etc.
To Russia with LOL
Dale Carnegey changed the spelling of his name to match Andrew's.
This sounds reasonable to me. So much tracking is used to target consumers. They seem to know the consumers better than the producers of these ads.
> Maybe they could both hire Brandon Sanderson to finish their works someday. He's both incredibly prolific and for the most part very creative and novel

Yes - Brandon Sanderson is incredibly productive and well-organized and also actually good. (Ironically my problem with his work is that he produces it faster than I am motivated to read it, even when I know I would enjoy doing so. Given this state of reading motivation, I'd like to see the return of fantasy/SF novellas, though perhaps they are no longer economical.)

In an alternate universe he would have helped to get Song of Ice and Fire finished before Game of Thrones outstripped its source material.
Or 19 for that matter, if one really thinks about it
Yes. Some big old companies have been family-owned for generations. You may be much more intent on keeping brand quality if you envision your grand-children prospering off it.
Hmm, off the top of my head I think that it takes as much energy to pump water down a 1-foot tube as it would for a 1000-foot tube. It's like rotating a long loop of chain on a pulley, but in three dimensions. One liter of water goes down the tube, one liter of water comes up around the tube. Both sides weigh equal amounts so there's no net force. Of course, overcoming inertia to get the water moving and keeping it moving despite friction might be significant. Ironically, a consequence of the oil industry is that we have powerful pumps that are proven to be economical in moving large amounts of liquids long distances through pipes :)
I bought a timeshare for $3495 on eBay. The seller had 100% positive feedback and a history of large transactions (watch out for sellers with 1000 sales of $1 items and then an expensive one). PayPal does not allow real estate transactions but I was able to pay directly using my American Express (I was willing to pay the 3% fee). The transaction went smoothly.
I also find it bizarre and think similarly... if you're going to cover up the person's face, why post it at all?

I have seen some people use these on dating apps where they don't want their own children's or other people's children's faces to be visible. I understand that use case a bit more from a privacy perspective.
They promote their product by claiming that it protects people's privacy. They do something that can be reasonably interpreted as tracking (which it is, whether it is download/installation tracking as they claim, or user tracking as some people claim).

For the most part, privacy is based upon trust. Trust is earned. You don't earn trust by doing things behind people's backs or claiming that they are technically telling the truth.
Thanks, Kevin, that was it. I didn't expect Rust to (still) move that fast. ;)
Isn't this exactly and example of looking beyond red vs blue (or east and west)? We should never have been doing joint space mission with Putin's Russia. It just fed Putin money, glory and technology. We lost some of our own space capability, and still got an invasion of Ukraine.
1-step closer to Topological Quantum Computers
They came up with a mobile chipset that has a GPU that isn't completely useless. That's worth at least $100B. My Ryzen 5 4500U+Vega 6 was close to the bottom end of the new chipset when it was new, and it does everything I ask of it whether that's a spicy Ableton Live project or an hour of Tunic.
Yeah the shitty terminology can be blamed on Descartes. I think Gauss wanted to rename them "lateral numbers" but I guess that never stuck
No. Geometric Algebra provides a nice alternative to them. See http://worrydream.com/refs/Gull%20-%20Imaginary%20Numbers%20...
The average person fears the domestic intelligence service and is not as concerned with local police.
I'm very very glad we migrated our customers off GoDaddy years ago. Their customer service was terrible and their web servers were shite. Good riddance.
> pick your battles

And your text-based diagram tools. Kroki[1] has merged block, sequence, Plant UML, packet, Mermaid, GraphViz, and numerous other textual diagram formats into a simple REST API. A while back I integrated the API into my text editor so that I could use variables inside of diagrams[2] (such as character names in a sci-fi story that are also presented in a GraphViz-based family tree).

[1]: https://kroki.io/

[2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/scr...
Pull Request File Tree (Beta)
I bought a refurbished iPhone screen to replace my GFs broken one. Seems legit. It was a seller with a lot of good ratings though. I also bought a ThinkPad there before, which was legit.
What you really need, of course, is a space based laser crossbow. It's like lasing a stick of dynamite...
Our definition of a “well written app” is different.

An app to me is well written if it is meets a need well enough to be successful. I would be much more impressed by an Indy developer who has a successful sustainable business without being slimy than a “FAANG” software engineer that got in because he can reverse a binary tree on the whiteboard while juggling two bowling balls and riding a unicycle on a tightrope.

I also know we are both talking hypothetically. If you listen to him about some of the low level audio processing he does, he’s definitely pretty good.

Before I get the expected replies, no I’m not “jealous of FAANG SWEs”. I work for BigTech myself after a very slight pivot from enterprise development.
People who believe that "art = figurative painting" think that anything else isn't art.

In reality all painting is distorted, abstracted, and stylised. That's what makes it interesting.

So when people believe this, it just means they aren't aware that all painting is abstracted.

Even if you change nothing else, composing something inside a frame requires creative choices.

And the point of both painting and photography is to manipulate composition, colour, tone, use of lighting, choice of subject, pose, narrative, and so on, to create an experience for the viewer.
uh, (-1) * (-1) = 1 holds in any ring.

If you have multiplication distributing over addition, then the product of (-1) and (-1) is 1 .

It isn't an arbitrary choice.
I just tested and you can do it in Photos.app (activate Markup in the top right).

That said, fully agreed the UI is very clunky compared to doing similar things in Instagram's editor.
To figure out locale of users.
Precisely the sarcasm I was suggesting.

Bosch and Samsung are conglomerates and make much more than even the list you've generated. Especially hvac and mechanical. Including non electronic.
Oh I would love for them to take action against the millions of adverts for mobile games where video is either unrelated to the game or stolen from other games.
> This book assumes existing knowledge of computer graphics at the level of an introductory college-level course, although certain key concepts such as basic vector geometry and transformations will be reviewed here.

Had this book on my "to read" list for a while. Given that it appears to be more rigorous than my previous contact with the world of rendering, and since this is just a hobby of mine:

What pre-knowledge (topics, math, other sources or books) offers a solid preparation to fully tackle the pbr book?
Setting thread names is quite helpful for debugging. One of the projects I work on hoists Linux tasks into native threads, and we use the task comm and PID as the name, which is super helpful for debugging. That being said, each platform has their own weird quirks when it comes to names: Linux only accepts names up to 15 characters, for example. And macOS only lets you set the thread name from your own thread, so even though it uses the same pthread_setname_np call the parameters it takes are different :(
Is anyone aware of something like Zotero that also supports ePubs and has mobile support?
A - Is it terrible? In most cases it gives you a rough idea.
B - Getting better than rough is probably, like self-driving cars, pretty hard, requiring understanding of what texts actually mean.
Can someone explain to me why "houselessness" is a term? Doesn't it refer to the same thing as "homelessness"?
If the title claims "lightning fast" or "blazing fast", I expect to see quantitative comparisons to alternatives. Which operations are faster than in other programs?

alacritty is a Rust program that is promoted as uniquely fast, but is substantially slower than (e.g.) kitty.
The best thing about dial-up was the sound of the data transfer. Ah! Those days!
You don't think that Intel spending substantially more on stock buybacks and dividends than TSMC and Samsung over the last twenty years had any notable impact on their competitiveness?

To me, the article seems spot-on.
Kolmogorov complexity is a good place to start.
Sweden’s 'speed camera lottery' hit a red light years ago (2021)
And used 3458As (in working condition) tend to go for between $5000-7000 these days. The HP ones, not the newer Agilent or Keysight ones.
No, the entire service is running in GCP as CloudRun.
If you have a public facing API with OpenAPI spec you can point and get a free assessment instantly.
What would one use Vite in place of?
These aren't arbitrary sports teams. The current world situation is right vs. wrong, not red vs. blue.
Related:

Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29774097 - Jan 2022 (201 comments)

Zotero: Personal Research Assistant - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22694891 - March 2020 (206 comments)

Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17606929 - July 2018 (163 comments)

GMU sued for Zotero - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=319975 - Sept 2008 (3 comments)
It may not concern the "average person", but it contributes to the omnipresent surveillance endangering the extraordinary people we rely on to keep an eye on our governments and corporations.

If we only care about the average person, we may as well have Firefox snitch to the NSA and their Russian, Chinese, Indian, etc. equivalents, plus Microsoft, Google, Raytheon, General Electric,..
Backstage 1.0
I have a synology NAS specifically to backup my google workspace.
You can submit this opensource API to see how the report looks like.
http://application.apisec.ai:8080/v2/api-docs
One possible solution: weight shareholder votes by how long they're willing to lock up their shares.

There's still an agency problem between the shareholders and board members, but at least the shareholder votes will be weighted for the long haul. Locked shares would have to be held in a way that prevents wrapping them in a salable derivative.
yeah, just wanted to try a 'typical' one.

I also tried 70% 444, still unrecognizable.
Wouldn't that have to be the other way around to make sense?
Saying that Intel caught up to AMD is like saying Ford is saved because they won Le Mans. Come back to me when Intel can achieve M1 performance with the same power enveloppe.
It's not obvious at all. There are many people who have all sorts of very specific ideas about language and how it ought to be used. They are usually ignored by everyone except themselves and people who agree with them already.

I don't get why so many people are so obsessed with language. Over the last few decades terabytes of data has been used to discus this, and to what effect? I would actually argue it's been a net-negative since it has put many people off, and has been a distraction from far more pressing matters.
Forget Patrick: March 17 is also St Gertrude’s Day, the patron saint of cats
I’ve been using zotero since 2010 … it’s amazing to see it’s still developing. Dying to try the ios app but I never received an invite,but when I request one it says it was sent. If anyone would like to sell me one let me know.
That is true, they will try whatever is needed to keep the UK market as UK eyeballs are worth more than other places.

It’s more like a required gate, like if the UK pushed it, I doubt we would see gates in other jurisdictions. It’s all very chilling effective. I don’t think it’s so much as a gain (why would you even gate it unless regulators were threatening IP and hostname blocks).
Let’s take the opposite argument. Is an app “well written” if it doesn’t meet anyone’s needs?
They’re designed to solve different problems, really. Kaitai is often used when trying to represent a binary format from a reverse engineer’s perspective, to allow for sharing this work and using it from whatever other tooling you have. Wuffs is more “production grade” and is intended to provide performant, safe parsing of known formats where one would typically use a language like C or C++.
"In one shocking instance, we are aware of a consumer who lost more than $650,000 due to one of these scams being falsely advertised as an investment opportunity on Facebook."

Brutal.

I'd be interested to know how much they're relying on "This was reported to Meta and they failed to act" and how much was the expectation that the publisher know which celebrities are endorsing what? Matt Damon is endorsing crypto and almost any crypto promos seem somewhat scammy, so it's not out of the question. Should a publisher know who is or isn't endorsing?

I've always wondered how far you could get using lookalikes but no names. Or random people with the same name as a celebrity, but not using a visual likeness.
Wow that's such an insightful comment. Never really thought about that. Puts my whole thinking about website analytics in a new light.

Really appreciate you taking the time to write this. After some initial research I see not using UTM tracking tags(1) in all my URLs (or redirects) is a big mistake. So duly noted. You're right about one thing though that since there is no direct integration with Adwords / GWM you're losing out on a lot of info using anything else other than GA.

(1) https://plausible.io/blog/utm-tracking-tags
“so-called satellite cities once deemed too far away from anything else to be desirable. These are places like Tempe, Arizona and Spokane, Washington…”

Those of us who have lived wonderful fulfilling lives for decades in exactly such places can only shake our head and smile.

The article is spot-on in most ways, questioning whether a densely urbanized life is worth it when considering the money expense, inability to afford a decent home with a little land, the time tax arising from congestion, money-stratified society, and the sheer aggravation of it all. The fear of the unknown that dense urbanites face when considering the migration to “right-sized” cities or village life isn’t much different than the concerns we all faced when we grew up and left home.

The language the author uses still presumes there will always be a single dominant economic engine located in a dense downtown area. “Polynucleated urban fields” are a Western US invention, and the author seems firmly grounded East of the Rockies, as evidenced by the citations to Bloomberg media.

And there is no content provider more gung-ho about ultra high density living than Manhattan-based Bloomberg. Hence the allusion to Tempe and Spokane as “too far away to be desirable [sic]”. My only doubts about the article(s) are whether it is an attempt by Bloomberg and his ilk to eventually control the narrative of people taking positive control of their lives and environments by moving to their querencia. Wouldn’t be the first time…
Very entertaining video explaining a bit about the HP3548a: https://youtu.be/upTgM_S5rAQ
or the 99.999...% of real numbers which are uncomputable
Here is the tool link: https://www.apisec.ai/free-api-pen-test
Bombardier is seen by Canadians as a Québec company. And there's no lost love for anything Québec-related.
You know, normally I agree with you. But I looked it up, and Intel has only barely tripled revenue in the last 20 years. Their stock price has followed almost exactly this increase in revenue.

These are not what I would call super gains, they are definitely good gains, but they are what anyone would expect from a blue chip company like Intel.

So the point is this isn't people looking at the short term, this is a company that used a strategy to optimize growth over a 20 year period. Yes they hampered future growth after those 20 years, but this is a technology company, most technology companies don't even exist after 20 years. I don't think there is really any policy or attitude or anything at all you can implement to get people to maximize revenue over a longer period than 20 years, especially in a technology company. No one would invest in such a company because, because such an investment would be extremely risky.