skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not brilliant, but hey, it’s a cheap Android tablet, what can you expect?

People on cheap Android tablets deserve the same experience as anyone else. You aren't rendering 3d graphics, you're displaying a few hundred characters of text.

There are hundreds of millions of users around the world with low-end Android devices. There are people in the world who are not rich white tech people living in suburbia, believe it or not.

> Are native apps dead? Not yet… but they’re going to be.

You don't have a crystal ball. What happens to all the legacy Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, and Swift code? That all just gets rewritten in JavaScript overnight? Right.

> You see as humans we’re comfortable with 60fps of animation performance. We don’t need 70fps

Bullshit. This person has never used a 144hz monitor. I'm never buying another 60hz display.

> Our reaction time is ~200ms, we don’t need 100ms

Our reaction time may be about this, but we perceive times much shorter in duration, which will matter if the tablet has a high refresh rate display like many of the iPads.
An awful lot of 3rd party "enterprise" systems have ancient, GUI installers. Particularly ones on Windows, although there are also occasional examples of this kind of silliness on Linux.

One timecard system we ran deployed a WAR in JBoss, but the associated DB schema upgrades were hand-compiled into a Java GUI with literally no externally-scriptable control surface.
bbedit

Does exactly what it promises
Australia has abundant uranium, dry geologically stable uninhabited space, bauxite, iron ore, and thermal and coking coal. Australia really should have developed large steel and aluminum industries powered by coal and uranium, rather than shipping all the raw materials out with no value add.
Fair enough. I’ve been using Linux on the desktop since 1997, FYI.

As long as you have reasonable expectations web3 exists as a choice that makes sense to me and, at the rate things are going, Web3 as a choice looks to me a lot like Linux on the desktop.

Problem is there is going to be a lot of heartbreak if web3 tops out at 2.5% market share in 30+ years like Linux on the desktop has. That said 2.5% is a lot better than the <1% anything blockchain related sees today (after 13 years).
Why do you say that? Has Tesla has a similar set of incidents (unrelated to its self driving features)
Impetus in the forms of 1) routine presence of nuclear reactors in Australia outside of lucas heights 2) trained people in nuclear physics and engineering 3) a probably high safety record, noting that nothing in life is guaranteed
The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision.
There's nothing "localized" or exclusive to India about RISC-V, it's simply the most prominent open ISA at present.
Interesting. How about selling crypto TO a local broker in exchange for fiat transferred to your companies bank account in that destination country. The crypto broker may or may not be fully licensed BUT you're just his customer, so I feel like this would be okay legally.
I think the parent agrees, hence:

> when the person in question was not previously known to the witness
So the phone was SL45i and at the time firmware was accessible over USB and not signed. (Or maybe the loader bypassed it?) Either way, I started with IDA, got the basic ideas from a forum where people actually knew what they're doing and learned to understand disassembly and hand-patch the code as I got deeper into it. No special equipment, just 3 months of a summer break that... disappeared. I started from patching a jump here and there, then understanding how the menus worked and changing them a little bit, then writing some trivial "games".
> The actual paper is https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2117465119

Paywalled, unfortunately, but a previous similar study by the senior author can be found at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10882-x
The issue is in the definition of "unborn human". Many people don't believe that something without a brain is considered to be a living human, in the same sense that people who are braindead but with a beating heart are considered dead.

The question is, at what point in the unfertilized egg -> fertilized egg -> clump of cells -> developing fetus -> viable infant spectrum does the being take on "humanity"?

Personally I think basing this on neurological activity is a reasonable line to draw.
I’m not sure which debit cards you’re referring to (e.g. Interac vs VISA debit) but AFAIK they all have fees, with possibly different structures, e.g. a fixed charge + lower percentage.
AKA not as impressive as it sounds
In terms of the 60 fps, he’s referring to apps on mobile devices, not your FPS game running on a PC. I think you’re being a little hard on the author.
Even if you're not webscale, modern tooling is just so much better for visualizing website stats. Even if you have only one server, how do you make visualizations from the log file? You don't have to use something webscale and enterprise-grade like Splunk. I do recommend finding a modern tool that you like though. Something better than `awk`-ing a log file into CSV, loading that into a spreadsheet, and then fiddling with it to get a graph.
One thing that confuses me about Git (but I guess isn't unique to it) is what happens when you merge and "git show" the merge commit. It seems the classes of changes are:

- things that were the same on both sides so aren't in the diff

- things that were different but auto merged, and aren't in the diff

- things that were different, were auto merged, and are in the diff

- merge conflicts

But how did it distinguish the last 3? And how does it get so confident about #2 that it doesn't show them and there isn't a single command to show them?

When hg was more popular I knew someone working on Google Code who told me it was better because it didn't have rebases, but I'm pretty rebases and linear history are safer than this.
That's experimental syntax that means something like "maybe const" -- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/67792
That is 2 years old at this point. It sounds like mRNA might be more promising now.

https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2022...
Your computer has way more than two hardware clocks.

Anyway, in Linux, clock_monotonic is nearly useless for distributed systems because NTP can arbitrarily screw up its speed.

Clock_monotonic_raw does what most distributed systems want, but for some reason it performed a kernel crossing last time I checked. (Clock_monotonic doesn’t do a kernel crossing.)

One possible solution is to use the TSC directly, but then apply an appropriate multiplier to get all the (heterogeneous) processors to run at the same speed.

I wish Linux’s clocks were better.
Gabe Brown seems to be pulling it off, but then again he’s not growing fruit. I’d be curious to see how much Shepard is spending on harvesting his fruit and nuts.
Mathematica has been on my mind since high school because we got it for free. I went through the free trial process recently and tried a couple of things I have been too lazy to manually code up (some video analysis). It was too slow to be useful. My notebooks that were analyzing videos just locked up while processing was going on, and Mathematica bogged down too much to even save the notebook with its "I'm crashing, try and save stuff" mode. I ultimately found it a waste of time for general purpose programming; the library functions as documented were much better than library functions I could get for a free language, but they just wouldn't run and keep the "respond to the UI" thread alive.

So basically all their advertising money ended up being wasted because they can't fork off ffmpeg or whatever. Still very good at symbolic calculus and things like that, though.
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all options either require them to 1) be illegal or “grey” legally 2) give up any benefits brought by crypto

Very well said and I agree. One clarification is that there seem to be some countries where everything is grey because the laws are impossible to follow as written; in those places maybe the risk of crypto doesn't matter. See also https://www.saveonsend.com/bitcoin-blockchain-money-transfer...
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned windows 11
The main thing that makes a non-native app stand out today isn’t performance, it’s all the little UI inconsistencies. And not just the shapes and colors; the font sizes, the types of transitions that happen between screens, the “pressed” and “loading” states on buttons (or lack thereof), etc. The modern web gives you everything you need to do all these things, but you don’t get them for free. And many devs don’t think to implement these details, and even if they do give them attention and make the experience good, it may still be inconsistent with the host platform. That’s what’s hard.

For this app it makes total sense, because it already seems to have a pretty custom look and feel; there’s nothing that needs imitating. Many others out there are probably in a similar boat, but certainly not all of them.
> People focusing on the leak rather than what was actually leaked is testament to

...the fact that standard politics tends to be off-topic here, but the meta about how the very unusual leak might impact the system is the sort of thing that's interesting to hackers.
IIRC the Shakti family didn't include the C extension, which would make it incompatible with most Linux distros who have chosen to require it.

Is this still the case?
Because the quality of the discussion is awful.
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The staging area is so you can get your upcoming commit pretty enough (by adding/removing hunks etc) ahead of time before creating it. If you were previously on SVN where there was no intermediate step between creating a commit and putting it in official server history, I think you'd appreciate all the safety you could get.

It does seem like it'd work without it, since there's commit --amend.
> If you have a long time horizon, Rust is the safer bet

I mean, maybe. Or maybe it gets replaced by something else.
Honestly Politico is one of the best news sources out there. I check their site every day. They are professionals, one of the last bastions of good quality journalism, and they wouldn't fuck up something as big as this.
Why would I want to cover the entire desert with solar panels instead of having one neat little tube shaped steam box?

You know three nuclear power plants (spanning 19 reactors) in Ontario provide electricity for 9 million people? How many solar panels and wind turbines would you need to put in their place?

A solar PV facility must have an installed capacity of 3,300 MW and 5,400 MW to match a 1,000-MW nuclear facility’s output, requiring between 45 and 75 square miles of land cover. That's twice the size of Manhattan. [1] Ontario has a generating capacity of 13.5GWe of nuclear energy. That would be almost 1000 square miles of solar panel - 4x the city of Toronto.

I actually don't really care that nuclear's more expensive. It's the better option.

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You should have the right to do what you want with your body. Yes vaccines too. And I am vaccinated
Await and explicit yielding do nothing as soon as you want to actually run multiple tasks at the same time in parallel instead of sequentially but interleaved.
It's super easy to watermark weights for ML models.

Just add a random 0.01 to a random weight anywhere in the network. It will have very little impact on the results, but will mean you can identify who leaked the weights.
Doesn't Apple forbid publishing web apps on the app store? How is it then possible that something like ionic framework and react native still work? Unless they literally translate all html features to native components but I seriously doubt it.

Edit: This is a "talk to sales" framework and ionic is 50€ per month as the absolute cheapest option. This is essentially an ad then.
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Native tabs, panes. And the keyboard shortcuts for handling them is super intuitive.

Some innovative keyboard functionalities. E.g., highlighting all the URLs in the current buffer, so I can open it in the browser with just keyboard shortcuts, same for file paths. One keyboard shortcut let's you open the last output in a pager. So I don't have to `previous-cmd | less` again. There are a lot of small stuff like this.

Configurable to its core.

Broadcast feature which lets you print output to multiple panes.

Plugins (called kittens!) which can extend the functionality a lot. Like ctrl+f in the terminal.

And as the sibling mentioned, well maintained. Kitty is one of the softwares on my "donate-to-when-financially-stable" list.
Earlier comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31241444
> Roe prohibited Americans from banning second trimester abortions, which most Americans think should be banned, and which most liberal European countries do ban.

It's even worse than that. As the brief for petitioners [1] notes, only three countries in the world do not ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The US is one. The other two? China and North Korea.

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-1392/184703/202...
The deciders of the nation are even further removed from the population.

If the state’s decision is egregious we have a constitution with amendments and other federal laws.

The federal government was incredibly limited prior to the civil war, and since then has only gained power and taken it away from the states. Our country was designed this way for a reason and I would personally love to return to it. If nothing else, different states having wildly different policies means that we can more easily see what works and what doesn’t.
Writing Scheme (Guile Scheme on Guix) has been the only time I've actually felt a "eureka moment" and feeling like I understood fully what my code was doing.
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Spacemacs had some Neovim-like fame at some point. I don't see it promoted that much anymore.
I used it sarcastically, there's always a better way to say it. Use your imagination!

"How we make life better for our team by setting deadlines"

The possibilities are endless.
I agree with you. Also, in a long term relationship it will become evident pretty quickly if someone is a good listener vs a good pretend listener.
Move fast and break society.
I don't have any resources, its more just something I monitor for when I speak or message people.
Perhaps because institutions care not about their people? Granted that Leaking of information by a law clerk when the clerk should be aware that they are not going to like many of the decisions made while clerking is unprofessional at the least.
This just reads like the slippery-slope fallacy. At no point will gay marriage and contraception be on the chopping block. I just talked to some conservative gay couples who align with this draft ruling, and they have no fears whatsoever.
Weighted random is still random.
>Are you going to care for the unwanted babies that now get born? Are you going to pay for their upbringing?

As an adopted child born prior to Roe v. Wade (and likely would not have been born post Roe v. Wade), I can assure you there are people who will gladly pay for the right to bring up and love a child.

Also as an adoptive parent, post Roe v. Wade, I can assure you there are people who will gladly pay for the right to bring up and love a child.

Also as a person who knows many people who cannot conceive children, including same sex couples, I can assure you that there are people who will gladly pay for the right to bring up and love a child.

I’m pro-choice, but no offense, you need to drop that argument. It makes an assumption that other people share your attitude about raising children who are not biologically your own. Many of us out there who realize that simply having shared biology may be the least important thing between a parent and a child.
Well, not everyone sees abortion as merely a medical procedure. The rights of the fetus and the father are the major concerns. How to balance these is, of course, controversial.

Similar issues exist about masks too. (e.g. concerns of immunocompromised people)
In big companies, something as simple as "host it on facebook.com/model.tar.gz" can be mountains of approval and paperwork.
The average Android phone is still potato slow: https://mobile.twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1233275220275...

I think a simple app like this should be no problem for most devices, but Notion (the app I work on) really struggles on those low-end Androids.
Yeah, an occupied nation with no sovereignty. Who has to beg for oil and gas from russia and when we tell them to jump, they ask "how high". Vast swathes of the US has higher life expectancy, healthcare, lower unemployement, lower inflation, lower crime than germany. And germany is the leader of censorship in europe. Certainly not a beacon of civil rights.

As for inflation...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/economy/german-inflation-indu...

The united states is a continental nation with infinite resources. Germany is a tiny european country the size of new mexico. Good luck to germany. They are going to need it.

Funny how we are so much worse than germany and yet most people around the world wants to move to the US?

"The U.S. continues to be the most desired destination country for potential migrants, as it has since Gallup started tracking these patterns a decade ago. One in five potential migrants (21%) -- or about 147 million adults worldwide -- name the U.S. as their desired future residence. Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Australia and Saudi Arabia appeal to at least 25 million adults each."

https://news.gallup.com/poll/211883/number-potential-migrant...
I doubt this will happen, even if they do issue a mandate.

Indian government computers are still running windows 7 or so and its hard to get them to switch to Linux.

What happens when theyre forced to run Linux and a new architecture ? All of them will just obtain exemptions to continue using windows + x86 claiming some software they need doesnt work.

Teaching a 50 year govt employee how to use QEMU + Wine to emulate x86 and then run a translation layer to run windows software is impossible.
The United State’s abortion laws are far more lax than most first world countries. Many don’t even have at-will abortions, and most are limited to something like 12 weeks - not almost double that.
>Some states ban it or near ban it

Well yes, this is the part that people are most objecting to and calling a human rights violation. How do you gloss over the fact that millions of people in the US will lose a basic right that practically all the rest of western world guarantees its citizens?
Crop rotation is not an old esoteric practice. It's widely used in European fields with 3 or 4 types of crops, including cover crops, and actually improves yield. The USA farming practices keep it to a strict minimum, I believe to reduce labor costs(?) but at the expense of soil health.
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from what i understand it's mostly to have a control over the air fuel ratio.
The number of "native" apps where I discover I can select and copy UI elements because it's all actually HTML...
> Historically, the rights and responsibilities related to GPL comes from the copyright holder. If the GPL was not followed, the person who wrote the code could optionally take action. This actually works out pretty well, because folks who actually code tend NOT to file frivioulus type legal cases and things were reasonable.

It is an important principle of the legal system that parties subject to an externality must be powerless to do anything.
That's anthropomorphizing them - a large language model doesn't have a bottleneck the same way a human does (in terms of being able to express things), it can get on a path where it just outputs memorized text directly and it won't be consistent with what it usually seems to know at all.

Also, you could break a discriminator model by running a filter over the output that changes a few words around or misspells things, etc. Basically an adversarial attack.
It's one of those issues that nobody who's actually owned the bloody thing ever worries about. A couple minutes charge, it's ready. Then if you need more juice, charge it up again overnight or a lunch break.

Same as the first generation Apple Pencil: it spends 30 seconds in the Lightning port, it's ready to go for long enough. The only people who think it's a problem are those who've never owned one and assume Apple wants people to leave it there all the time.
I worked on some components of SOFIA - the "garage door" actuators - at my first job after engineering school in 2008 ish. The actuators, 1 upper and 1 lower if I recall correctly, had large Titanium gears which required lubricant. NASA was pressing for a dry-film lubricant (something like what would normally be a backup lubricant in a helicopter gearbox if the primary lubricant failed) because large gobs of the lubricant might otherwise end up in unwanted places (the telescope!) with a large hole open on the aircraft. The company I worked for was against this, but was running tests on the gears with only dry-film lubricant applied at the time. I don't remember the results of the tests, but I do remember learning how to lock-wire on those test actuators which I had to repeatedly take apart for inspection!