skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"History is written by the victors" doesn't mean it is only written by the winning side at that time in history forever. It means history is written by those currently in charge today. Meaning today's victors get to choose what is history and how to view history.

Imagine if there is a war between the US and Mexico and we lose and mexico takes over. The history of the alamo, mexican-american war, annexation of texas, etc will be quite different even though we beat mexico in the 1800s. Imagine if the south does rise again and the south takes over. The history of the civil war will be remarkably different even those the north won the civil war.

Doesn't really matter who the victors were back then. What's important is who the victors are today.
It's cloudy, but not necessarily rainy (though there's plenty of that too). Even measuring the "number of days of rain" isn't the right metric for how Seattle gets it's reputation.

Look at the "cities with the least amount of sun": https://www.city-data.com/top2/c475.html - the entire top 20 is cities in Western WA.
Because it turns out that "rub some AI on it, then MAGIC HAPPPENS" doesn't work in anything besides TED talks and marketing pitches.
Demand -> Volume -> Economies of scale -> Competition -> Even More Chargers

Many of the superchargers people use today were built by 2012-2019 Tesla, which had far less revenue, people, and fleet volume.
American capitalists, specifically Yankee Traders. Data literally says so in TNG.
It is possible to have the cake and eat, meaning: have performance and be first, as has been shown recently by Casey Muratori himself in a very public debacle.

People who care about performance also care about speed of development. The only people saying it's impossible to reconcile both is the people who religiously dismiss the need for performance in modern software.
I was highlighting a paradox in the postulate above mine, not expressing cognitive dissonance which is an ungrounded assumption to make based on such a pithy comment.
Some manager: We need this done yesterday.

Engineers: It's not fully tested--

Manager: Yesterday.

Manager: And make sure to stick to the script!
Also, games like Stardew Valley use pixel graphics (pixel art) and that hasn't hurt their popularity.
It's lacking in substance because those in Florida making the decisions aren't releasing their reasoning or even a list of the books they aren't accepting.

Some Florida politicians have asked for the info and the media has filed FOIA or the Florida equivalent for the details.
> How much of a speed up versus Python/Julia are we talking about? I didn’t see any direct comparison.

These things may not matter to your application, but performance for me is more than just linear algebra. With C++ it’s straightforward to manage the working set so I can keep data with computational locality together, manage prefetching at the like. I can run the algos on multiple cores (no GIL, for example). Etc etc.

There is plenty of performance comparison between C++ and Python on the web, but alone the statistics mean nothing. Is your speed of development more important than runtime? For many people that would make Python faster. In my case I don’t use C++ as if it is C with other stuff bolted on so my development is just as fast in either language, so I choose the one which gives me more expressive power.

It’s not like I’m dissing Julia or Python, though my go to for little explorations is Common Lisp. They are just designed for different points in the solution space.

> I’m not sure I understand what you mean by integration.

Sorry, I didn’t mean mathematical integration, I meant integration with OpenCV, various robot hardware etc, as well as deeper integration with the hardware.
I think we can all know why examples aren't being included, it's just egregious politicizing for personal gain. DeSantis wants to run for President, all these moves just improve his chances at winning the primary.

What's crazy is that he only won the Governor election by very small margins. He's acting like Florida is a deep red state. It's going to backfire on him IMO.
Any alternative to global heating?
The actual theory isn't so important.

It's a tool used by some politicians to paint the other side as insane radicals. Insane news stories are pointed at and accused of being a result of CRT, and of course their own side would outlaw it.

That's why they ban books without even saying which books are banned: so they are seen as taking action against the enemy, CRT. In reality there is perhaps some corruption and they want to help a specific publisher.
I'm pretty sure the point was that your average bodega doesn't accept cryptocurrency.
Entire call centers are setup in certain countries to prey on the elderly in the West (particularly the US). This should absolutely be treated more seriously than it is. Probably not terrorism, but whatever is between that and elder abuse.
You're right it's somehow weird. Perhaps the player shows decompressed figures? Check for yourself - right-click on YT video player, show developer/debug info, and there's a chart.
Those making the decisions to not accept the books didn't release that information.
That should be considered terrorism and the people spamming should be treated like terrorist and their countries sanctioned accordingly.
Catalonia has been trying to secede for longer than Russia has existed in its current form. It may well be that Russia is funding separatist campaigns like they've done in many regions, but there's a genuine desire for independence regardless of Russian activities.
> In conventional multiagent RL methods, the two agents would converge using 1 to represent one color and 2 for the other. …

> … But that approach wouldn’t work well in playing with humans or with another independently trained agent. Since there’s no way in advance to know whether an agent uses 1 to represent a particular color or not, they wouldn’t know whether 1 represented blue or red [action, sic]?

This last paragraph is not persuasive. With two representations (labels), it is easy for one agent to compensate if another agent uses a different label. Why? An RL agent pays attention to the reward signal and can learn beneficial policies (ways of acting based on its stimuli.)

Am I missing something?

Yes, it is harder as the number of labels increases. (If the communication is not grounded, an agent would need to learn another agent’s mapping.) But this does not seem to be hard enough to worry about … neural networks are excellent at such mappings with enough training data … unless there is some other simultaneous complexity involved making data efficiency difficult.
> is a meaningfully different experience.

You know what's a meaningfully different experience? A cab company scheduling a car for you at a specific time, rather that an app starting to look for a car for you a few minutes ahead of time, and coming up with something late or inadequate, something I repeatedly experienced with Uber.
My mobile phone’s voicemail is configured to accept zero recorded messages, and my no-answer/busy recording asks callers to text or email me. I’ve had no issues with this setup. Everyone’s in the same boat so I think people immediately understand.
You can't look at net contribution on its own. Catalonia didn't bootstrap itself into wealth just like that. There is infrastructure investment, which may be payed back net later. Other regions didn't get this treatment.
Ok, I'll give it a shot. Consider yourself the agent of destiny today, pjerem. =)
Does the Florida DOE have a set of guidelines for how they determine if material is inappropriate for students? Seems like if the Government is going to make decisions for the people they should at least have an idea on what grounds these decisions are made upon.
It's gotten far worse. None of the mouse events are working any longer in macOS. They done screwed it all up.
My undergrad degree at Cal was history. One of the required classes for the major was historiography, the study of how history is created. This quote from the New Yorker article sums up one of the key ideas of the historiography class:

> It’s that bias in history-making is as inevitable as point of view. You cannot not have it.

I imagine that anyone who majored in history in the USA over the last 20 years is familiar with this idea.

I'm not trying to make a value judgment. Just noting that it's a very widespread idea among academically trained historians.
> Not paying your bills is not a legally protected way of cancelling

In normal relations, when you pay you get the goods or service, and when you do not pay you do not get it, without presumptions. If you buy a carrot - or more relevantly, newspapers - everything but the cash is redundant: not everyone would accept to subscribe to a different model, if not on very exceptional services.
I remember this back then with a well-known Downloader, which I cannot recall its name right now, but if my memory serves me well the program was using a caching mechanism and some times would download faster than my 56k dialup.

It blew my mind every single time.

This kind of behavior of caching can be seen in programs like mpv [1]; with streaming works wonders.

[1] https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#profiles
You can't control if people think your viewpoint is extremist or guilt-inducing. Some viewpoints can be logically categorized as being at the end of a defined spectrum. Many cannot, and there is much room for debate on whether or not they're extremist.
> The problem is that C# isn't a language intended for embedding

It has always been intended for embedding, since netfx 1.0: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/unmanaged-.... Microsoft used it for Office, MSSQL, and probably much more. Netcore has been trivially hostable since 3.0: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tutorials/netco.... Both can be done under 50 lines of code, that couldn't be further from "not intended for embedding."

You'd still need to export your internals to the CLR, but you'd have to do that with any embedded language anyway.
Sounds pretty clearly like Apple thinks certain devices are non-standards compliant. And just because it works at full speed on Linux & Windows doesn't mean it's standards compliant.
I'm in the same boat, and I'm American. I don't really know how Gmail users manage to get non-negligible amounts of spam, given their filtering and the "Promotions" inbox auto-filter. And as far as phone calls: Do you happen to use Google Voice? I didn't even realize that robocalls had gotten so bad until a couple of years ago. I get maybe a call a month.
Maybe time to update your quote to say Buffalo instead of Seattle then, as it has more rainy days than Seattle or any other major US city.
That's a good illustration of my point. Something is very wrong when Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair are publishing the stories that should have been in the NYT, Time or CNN. Arguably, The Intercept and The Conversation wouldn't exist either if trust in the traditional mainstream outlets were still high.
He was a programmer at RAD game tools, which is industry standard for game tools. He also was the principal game engine engineer on The Witness, and has probably worked on other 3d games in the industry.
That’s right but the point I was trying to make that there are whole categories of features you cannot implement if performance doesn’t allow it.

I‘m not looking at this from a pure business perspective because it’s not fruitful. We all know that you can produce crap and make a huge buck, because of marketing, dark patterns, manipulation, exploitation, luck and so on.

I‘m saying there are good examples where building things from a lower layer up does not only make sense, but is necessary for creative freedom and quality they achieved.
Soon they will loop back around to banning / modifying the teaching of evolutionary theory like some tried in the recent past because of "religious" reasons.
Coming from Boston (and then returning to Boston), my favorite part of Seattle was the weather. It was so mild all the time, didn't need to think about it (except the one week in the summer everyone would melt because nobody had A/C).
That's a good thing. There are a number of mutually exclusive positions the left and right simply don't agree on. At this point the only way to achieve peace is if like minded people moved together and the ones that don't get along separate. That goes for California as well as Florida. It's painful in the short term but everyone will be happier long term. That's why it's the "United States" and not a "homogeneous nation state."
Why is /AppleInternal factory installed on new Macs?
Consider people like my aunt, who through decades of pre-2000 household conditioning, immediately stop whatever they are doing and rush to answer a ringing phone even though 98% of the calls are junk and the volume of incoming calls is 5-10x what they were in the 80s or 90s.

No matter how many times I suggest not bothering to even look at the phone, she cannot resist.

Further, this cohort is largely unable to use the tools we take for granted. Many seniors don't know how to block or screen calls, let along apply the phone's do not disturb features. She has been phished multiple times via email, and every time I check her Mac I have to uninstall scammy browser bars and search redirects.

It's not just the spammers who are the problem. Technology platforms, telcos, and policy makers have failed people like her. Hardware and software designers are part of the problem, too. It seems like every device and app is made for techie/hipster types, not the rest of the population who have no clue what a "hamburger menu" does or where the downloads end up on their computer.

I'm assuming many people on HN are their extended family's de facto IT support team. It's exhausting.
It's gross income, so no. For my acquaintance it was still better net income than the job he had been laid off from (we're talking a difference of more than 2x), the trade-off is that the income boost comes from opting into putting long hours. He was able to use the extra income to pay off some debt, FWIW.

If you're interested, some of the YouTube videos go into the earnings breakdown and take home amount after setting aside a maintenance fund.
Langley's Adventitious Angles
I can't reply to the branch comment so I do here: I have edited my parent comment to reflect the fact it's an opinion and might not be true. Thanks for bringing some insight to this.
I must also add I'm a bit disappointed that people are flagging comments they don't agree with. I thought users here value freedom of speech highly. My comments broke no terms I know of. Perhaps a bit passionate, if anything.
To expand on car_analogy's point: you're ignoring second-order effects. Look at the avalanche of user-hostile nonsense that has become the norm in non-Free software. Much of it is incompatible with the FOSS model.

* Microsoft is apparently pushing to make it impossible to install Windows 11 without a Microsoft online account. [0] I know of no FOSS with the nerve to try something like that.

* Non-Free games that charge real money for in-game cheats, and are of course designed to prevent you from manipulating your own game-state

* Mobile apps that request clearly unnecessary permissions, for reasons never revealed

* Mobile apps that sell your location data, and anything other data they can get their hands on, with minimal regard for how this might impact your physical security

* Lies of omission about fixes to security flaws, and their specifics

* Intrusive telemetry that can't be disabled (although FOSS doesn't offer a total guarantee against this, see Firefox)

* edit Lies about security properties that are hard to verify without access to source code, such as falsely claiming proper end-to-end encryption

* For more see [1]

If you only run Free Software, you get many benefits even if you're unable to modify the software yourself.

> Genuinely open computing would make customisation and sharing available to everyone, not just tinkerers who know what a command line is.

This cannot be done. You can't make a car that anyone can repair, either. Software development is a skilled craft. That doesn't mean there's nothing to gain in Free Software.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30387866

[1] https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary.en.html
If any apps work on the Samsung phone, it's because of the app developers' sweat, tears and cursing when they work around the phone-specific bugs that seem to be different for each model. Even Huawei and Xiaomi are better than that.

Source: I work an audio-related mobile app. The audio engine code is littered with comments that read like "On phone X, Y happens and we do Z to work around it". In about 75% of the cases X is some Samsung model. And before you ask, X is the phone it was discovered on so there's no guarantee that the same issues don't occur on other phones but somehow Samsung is the name that always pops up.
There is no details for the exact reason that Florida did not supply any details other than the negative hot-button words. Complaining the coverage is inadequate is silly since the whole story is that Florida banned textbooks without saying what. I can accept a detailed list of examples of things that are not acceptable. Banning books without any detail is the story.
Show HN: Rust userland container image with nsh, coreutils, ripgrep
> Animals, and mammals in particular, lack the cellular and metabolic level repair mechanisms that would make it possible for us to keep running at peak ability indefinitely.

Given some of the research on anti-aging, it's not clear that this is the case.
The PoC video showed that the current user isn't in the "Administrator" group (though there is another user "zeroday" in there), which makes it look like not a simple UAC bypass. Or perhaps I misunderstood something.
Spices make cheaply made, bland food taste better, news at 11.
Mileage driven depreciation is a real loss until the car is fairly old: More miles directly reduces the price you can get selling the used car. Uber won't accept drivers driving old beaters where that curve has flatted out.
This could be achieved if the phones supported a whitelist that would redirect any unauthorised senders to a non existent number.
I played some Tropico 4 and 5 in recent years and had a decent time of it. I think I ended up in a love/hate relationship with the mission structure, though. On the one hand, having a series of shorter "scenarios" with concrete goals is good for gameplay and helps give shape to the overall game in a way that old-school endless city builders lacked, plus it fits with the deeply cynical lore of the game, about you playing as a wannabe dictator bouncing between banana republics and doing the bare minimum to keep them afloat as you line your own pockets by sending cash to the Swiss bank account.

But that structure also meant that I struggled to feel as much long-term ownership over what I was creating. It felt like I could get away with cutting certain corners that I shouldn't have if the game forced me to sit just a little bit longer with the consequences of my actions. Maybe that's just a sign that I was playing it right, but I felt like I would have had a better time if I'd been just a little bit more accountable.
Previous posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31040838

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30896124
I don't think the physical mail problem gets talked about enough. Maybe it varies - because I actually don't have much of a problem with spam text messages myself - but one of the bigger chunks of my HOA bill lately is the cost of the daily emptying of a large trash receptacle by the mail boxes, because everyone opens their box and immediately dumps 90% of that crap into a shared trash can. What a waste.
IMHO there is nothing irrational about RMS position, but it is often impractical. That means we need to push harder in his direction because it shouldn't be a practical impossibility to do what he advocates. That difficulty is exactly the problem his crusade is fighting against.
Really? We can't discuss the fact that our government is making decisions about what teachers can and can't teach children, and have decided they can keep the entire process, including their decisions secret from us?

That feels like enough to discuss to me.
How many parallel differential pairs can you have before it's no longer serial? Hah.
> privileged woke leftists

Why don't we have a strong epithet like this for the right?

(also, I can't imagine anyone more privileged than Musk)
> Seems like the simplest counterpoint would be to demonstrate a M1 mac transmitting at the full data rate using a different cable.

Which I’d be happy to do assuming I knew the exact specs (brand/model) of the drives OP was using.

If you’d like me to demonstrate that MacOS on Apple Silicon correctly supports USB 3.2 gen 2 devices at 10Gb/s using multiple brands of drives/models, happy to do as well.
Not his philosophy; that is abundantly clear.

I too am completely at a loss for what his actual agenda is.
I would add to this that while knowledge of computer science algorithms and data structures is _absolutely_ useful, being able to implement a binary search tree RIGHT NOW, in under an hour, is not necessary for... pretty much any job anywhere.
Of the "I wish I knew then what I know now" aspect, the emotional intelligence would be the one area I'd choose. The absolutely stupid and meaningless things that would set me off back then just make me embarrased/ashamed of that behavior now. I'm practically zen-like now compared to then, and I have a much better quality of life for it now. I would stew on things and not let things that bothered me go then, where now I actually laugh at things instead.
Facebook has been doing this for awhile. It’s how they recommend friends that you’ve just met. Sometimes it’s way off, others it’s uncanny.
>vote with over 80% for their indipendence from Spain.

You should inform yourself before you talk. In Catalonia NEVER over 80% of the population voted for independence. This is BS.

What happened is that a 50 something percent of the votes(not of the population) wanted to impose independence over the laws of the parliament that require at least 2/3 majorities for anything substantial.

>And then stuff happens that I only read from bad China and bad Russia.

More BS. How many people died on that rebellion? How many died in the US Black lives matter incidents? How many people die on South Africa incidents each year?

>Spain then acts hard on the region, holds a gun against the head of many businesses located in the Catalonian region

Nobody hold a gun against business but the independentists. They just could move freely around national territory, protecting their assets against radicals.