skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not going to protect the investors. If a company causes damages beyond its liability insurance cap, plaintiffs can sue the company for the difference.
>You're not wrong about control of Gtk

No, the parent comment is wrong. There is no "vertical integration" or control. It's just an open source project. If anyone was interested in maintaining the X11 support, it would happen, or at minimum it would happen in a fork, but there is currently nobody.

If someone is worrying about other parts suffering, they should start contributing now. I doubt this will happen though, nobody has turned up over the past several years, which is exactly why they consider dropping it. Honestly I think most developers who even bother with GTK4 are probably fully on board with wayland, the ones who aren't are still trying to use GTK2 and GTK3.
> It depends on the context: GPUs are probably the most complex chips out there, and if you want to them to be ready to render at power on, they probably need firmware

Nvidia believes in shipping a garbage, throttled down and limited firmware to get you some initial rendering, but if you need anything that's not basic rendering, you load a proprietary signed blob, with proprietary "microcode" for it's proprietary GPU instruction set when you initialize the OS graphics driver.

For AMD GPUs the situation is more or less the same, except that without said "binary blob" the GPU isn't on-purpose throttled down near as much.

Or are you implying that we need RISC-V success as a GPU ISA too?
A friend of mine worked on that. "Rotating the images 1° defeated our system completely," he said about his (then previous) employer's system, and he saw no way to really improve it. The Brits could hardly deploy something with such obvious known defects.
one advantage might be that getting kicked or banned from facebook won't brick your VR devices.
There's also tract, from Sonos[0]. 100% Rust[1].
I'm currently using it to do speech recognition with a variant of the Conformer architecture (exported to ONNX).

The final goal is to do it in WASM client-side.

[0] https://github.com/sonos/tract

[1] To be clear, I'm not saying that writing in Rust is some inherent advantage for an NN inference engine. But I personally gravitate to using libraries written in languages I know/want to learn, and Rust might be that for some people.
10 years ago, did you see all your family members keeping a computer with a constant internet connection in their pocket? I think our predictive abilities of the future are often lacking.
> immune system does wise up to the virus with repeated exposures.

“Repeatedly catching Covid-19 appears to increase the chances that a person will face new and sometimes lasting health problems after their infection, according to the first study on the health risks of reinfection.”

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/05/health/covid-reinfection-risk...
Is this a supply or demand issue? Do Africans want COVID vaccines from the west and do Africans want to be vaccinated?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOJr1dTPSis - Kaiba Sacrifices God
> Endemic COVID, which is sorta the endgame that people want/expect

Textbook case of a self-fulfilling prophecy. It was said from the beginning that would be the ultimate result and very little was done as a coordinated global effort to avoid it. And that inspired little confidence in regard to the next pandemic, whenever it may be.
Not sure why this is down voted.

In the most developed and transparent countries cause of death data leave a lot to be desired.
To add on to what others say, not only are children naive, but you have consider pedophiles as adversaries not unlike you would consider a skilled hacker. Just like a hacker may set up an entire company page and prepare a series a mock interviews just to get a senior engineer to open a malicious PDF; so will pedophiles who target children online. They don't wear an "I'm a pedophile badge", it starts with a slow build of confidence and trust that someone without experience will be vulnerable to.
Oh get over it, your hate for FB is noted. The title is accurate, the information is news, and IMO HN users are smart enough to know what a PR release is when they read it.

What are you worried about? That folks will walk this earth thinking you have to use a Meta account instead of a Facebook account to log into your VR app?
It's also a good reason to wear mask.
> blame the highly ideological stance on the way people rise to power in politics and administration in Germany

Don't be so harsh on your country. It's like that everywhere. But it gets better over time. It used to be a lot worse centuries ago...
Well the original trials only tested if there were symptoms, they never even measured the ability to stop transmissions. So it never really said on the tin that it did. It the bullshit echochamber of journalists and politicians that ended up defining the vaccine “working” as stopping transmissions, rather than serious cases. But that was not a claim from the manufacturers of the vaccines.
> and there's no evidence they did so in this case.

Indeed; the users probably wanted to make the data public, if scraper accounts could see it. There is a GDPR allowance for data "manifestly made public by the data subject".

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-9-gdpr/

Here, it's just Facebook wanting to keep the data inside a walled garden.

For the same reason, I quit LinkedIn and made my own site. I don't want people to have to sign in to see my profile.
So, the issue here seems to be that we are relying on giant corporations to do the due diligence of who our kids are talking to, and they are failing, because they don't have enough incentive to put in the effort.

I wonder if there is an opportunity here to get a fully distributed effort going, based on web of trust.

Most users don't do web of trust verification even in apps which support it, like signal, because it's not worth the effort for general low stakes communication. But people are willing to put in a lot of effort to keep their kids safe. And the requirement here: "I want my kids only to message adults I trust, or kids that an adult I trust has verified are kids" is a good match for web of trust, because it's basically an emulation of how the mark 1 meatspace method of doing it worked. (yes, my use case here is for younger kids, older ones should be able to explore more and I haven't figured out how that would work).
Seconded. Great, great book.
I tend to agree with your premise, though I wouldn't say the two are mutually exclusive. In fact, I imagine favoring authorship would more often trend to maintainable code than not, depending on what is being optimized for (writing less code, etc.)

I think in the case you described, instead of handling edge cases within that function, it might have been better to create an entirely new function to be called in those cases. You could then go a step further and identify shared logic, extract those and call them separately. At least that's what I tend to do when I find myself having to branch logic, especially established logic. Obviously I'm assuming a lot of the details here, and most likely what y'all ended up doing was the best right thing for your project/team.
So it is just alternate link meta then a bunch of heuristics for well known websites? IMHO, everyone should just do the alternate link meta and save everyone else the trouble. Once you made a special rule for someone big, you are just encourage them continue to be sloppy.
I'm struggling to find something useful in this comment. I'll just pick one point.

> Elder Americans are straight up grifters, free loaders with no ability to accept the rest of the world is not a post-WW2 crater

Compare against younger Americans who are straight up grifters, free-loaders making up crypto coins and NFTs and other garbage that wastes precious natural resources for their scammy activities?

In case my point isn't clear, you're attributing to some class of people an attitude that equally applies to all other classes of people, but in a way that somehow implies it's special to that one.

I guess the one useful tidbit I can get from your comment is... well... it's already a tired cliché, albeit true: neither American political party is the friend of the little people. And although those parties are dominated by Feinsteins and McConnells, there are still Bernie Sanders and Rand Pauls.

So... what do we do about that? Other than discriminate against some class of people that's your personal outgroup?

Maybe work at a local level to elevate more Sanders and Pauls?
Immune escape is not a binary. Natural infection produces t-cells trained on every viral protein rather than just ones on the surface, they don't prevent infections but get them under control. In the meantime memory b-cells accumulate and diversify with every exposure. Vaccine kick start was sure helpful, but natural adaptive immunity is not easy to outsmart.
I like the federation abilities of xmpp and ran ejabberd for a previous job. It’s perfect for an organization … in theory. Client support for the protocol was always hit or miss though.

Have file transfers over xmpp gotten any better in the last decade?
Isn't long covid still a common issue for young kids? And doesn't vaccination reduce the chances of having long covid? Admittedly I haven't done a deep dive on the statistics, just a quick google search.
Have you done side-by-side comparisons? I have compared the picture quality of 2015 MBP vs 2020 MBA vs 2021 MBP (16").

The 2020 MBA and 2021 MBP are pretty similar.

The new cameras have better low light performance and less noise due to pretty agressive smoothing. The consequence is that the picture lacks any detail whatsoever. The image from the 2015 MBP is sharper than the alleged 1080p image from the 2021 MBP.

With the smoothing my girlfriends face looks like she is wearing heavy makeup. My beard looks like it was painted on. In low light there are weird artefacts and glitches (especially in the area around my eyes, probably due to the ML algorithm).

Now maybe on a Zoom call this doesn't matter, if your face is just in a little matchbox-sized box on the screen. But on full screen Facetime calls the lack of detail and low resolution of the MBP webcam is very noticeable.
I think you're generally correct, but I've seen the opposite. Like when the Optimistic Ethereum people swore that they "did their best" to warn users that they would be (very avoidably) deleting transaction history from Etherscan, but that warning was nowhere to be found. Not on their site, blog, twitter, or even discord announcements. Just a few places within discord discussions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30293807
In theory 4% from yearly revenue (not earnings, revenue), in practice I haven’t seen it being applied.
The idea in sista is to do all fancy optimizations in the image by translating bytecodes to different bytecodes. The VM (called Cog, in this case) just has to translate the bytecodes to native binaries on demand.

This requires new bytecodes, like unchecked fast primitive calls, so that sista can have Cog generate better binaries.
The problem isn't that you need a Facebook account, it's that Meta owns Oculus at all. Call the account whatever you want; if I'm a record in any of Meta's databases then I expect to be linked to a shadow profile and surveilled for their profit. The only control I have over the situation is to never agree to any ToS relationship with Meta. There's literally nothing they can do to change this short of selling Oculus to someone else.

The day Meta bought Oculus they killed the platform for privacy-conscious webizens. I say this as someone who would love to try the Soda Island VR experiences and often lament the acquisition.
They send very little gas (much less than agreed upon) through NS1 to send a message and try to force-open NS2, which leads to very high spot prices
> If all you mean by "chernobyl happening again" is "a serious accident could happen", you've moved the goalposts beyond where I think meaningful discussion is possible.

WTF? Chernobyl will NEVER happen exactly the same way again, that much is obvious since

a) it was already a pretty rare event to begin with,

b) the event is likely referenced during the training of every nuclear operator _worldwide_, making an exact repeat of the human errors involved even more unlikely than it was to begin with,

c) steps were taken to avoid this exact situation to happen _even on the other chernobyl reactors themselves_.

I thought it quite obvious that no one would be worried about a exact repeat of Chernobyl like if you hit the "replay" button on YouTube. (But if you believe this is what people have in mind when they ask "can chernobyl happen again" then please do tell). Therefore the only remaining interpretation is "can a chernobyl[-like] event happen again" -- a category which would roughly map to "major historic nuclear accident, the kind of which it is still talked about several decades after on a non-nuclear discussion forum like HN".

Most assuredly, non-nuclear accidents, no matter how large, won't fit this category. But I have been wrong in the past, maybe people would call a dam breakup "a chernobyl" these days?
The two ideas of knowledge and attitude aren't mutually exclusive. And one isn't necessarily more important than the other. The context matters. But in the context of starting and running a successful business you need more than just skill or a good idea.

I find understanding people and effectively communicating essential skills in business. Also I think starting a business is different from running a successful established business, which is further different from running a large corporate entity. But in all of them you have to have a vision for where the company should go. Your idea should be something people need/want/don't realize they want. You have to be able to outline what's important and be able to get that out of others. You can't do it all yourself.

Though I don't think I'd call those interpersonal relationship skills "attitude".
Nobody said it was necessary. Hell, it arguably doesn't count as a rejection of neo-liberal ideology in the first place (see also: Guantanamo Bay, Japanese internment camps, and border camps all previously or currently existing within the archetype for neoliberalism).
Unfortunately the evidence is that prior omicron infection does not prevent BA.4 and BA.5 infection.
This is a sin this website often commits. They just assume we know what they are talking about and they sometimes talk about the most esoteric tech we muggles never get to see.
Operation of our economy relies a lot on free or paid labor from old people, though. We can't isolate them and keep the economy running normally.

How do you think poor people get child care so they can go to work, for one thing?

I do think there's room to criticize what was done, but I don't think "just isolate old people" was ever a practical option, and I don't think the alternative of "we're keeping things open and not isolating old people, so make sure you say anything you've been meaning to to your elderly parents really soon, because... well, you know" was ever gonna go over well.

> I think it's fair to question whether it was "reasonable precaution" to shut down schools,

I know enough teachers and was privy to their thoughts and observations during the pandemic that I'm quite confident schools were going to shut down no matter what official policy was. Lots of teachers are married to higher earners, and they're basically all working because they want to. They'd have stopped wanting to, and the schools wouldn't have been able to remain open with normal hours and procedures, with their much-reduced staff. A couple districts I know for a fact faced near-revolt over measures that were regarded as insufficient and coupled with tone-deaf messaging, and had to adjust or the scenario above was definitely going to happen and they'd have lost 10+% of their staff all at once, which is enough to completely mess them up.

Whether their opinions were based on reality hardly matters: fact is, schools were going to shutdown, one way or another.
You are not conscious, stop pretending.
I didn't realize the Index was still being sold - it was unavailable so long that I thought they launched it, sold the initial batch, then never made more and abandoned the product. As a result, I wrote Valve off as "launches awesome tech demos but doesn't want to make consumer products".

(I thought they also launched then cancelled another hardware product, but I don't remember details and can't find anything, so my memory may be playing tricks on me? Maybe I subconsciously mixed up the Nvidia Shield and Valve?)

The Deckard seems to be standalone too. That's excellent. In practice, being standalone was a killer feature. You can just grab and use it like a phone, instead of having to boot a PC, mess around with cables, make sure the lighthouses are powered up, inevitably spend the first 15 minutes debugging the setup... (and of course having to own a gaming PC in the first place was also a significant hurdle).
> I'm surprised that they haven't heard of the possibility of energy storage.

Neither have our grid operators it seems. Current worldwide grid storage capacity is so absolutely abysmal we could call it a rounding error.

In the end of the day, we'll need both renewables and nuclear combined to get us out of this fossil powered mess, and ignoring one of them won't exactly give us a good chance, with whatever tiny probability we still have left to unfuck the atmosphere.
I would like to NOT consume news (that garbage is everywhere). Good luck making that passible.
Email him using the email in his profile.
Missed this one:

> a US subsidiary of a "Chinese national" "high-tech" enterprise

Replacing it with "a business" would do just fine.
No I think that it's a clear sign of an adult. You don't see many 12-year-olds who can type at the speed that I can type at, although you do see some.
> Matrix.org which nobody seems to want to use and I’m not sure why

Lots of people are using it (and probably more every day), but there are also some quite vocal haters. Of course it has its share of problems (availability of non-Electron clients and different servers among then), but many of them constantly improve as the ecosystem grows.
Some cities are too big to cover by foot. So I set my GPS to route to home, and I just drive around a neighborhood randomly and when I get tired I follow the directions to home.

I did this in my home city of Chicago, and discovered so many new nooks and crannies and interesting streets that I would never had occasion to traverse. I also learned where major streets ended eg Michigan Ave.
No, because Apple has standards. Which is what Microsoft is trying to establish.
> a problem in our society or species in general that people simply do not read things thoroughly. And when confronted with a problem, instead of going back and reading things thoroughly, they blame someone else.

Is this really a "problem in our society or species"? I would say the problem is more that everything around us demands our attention and demands careful consideration, more than we have capacity of attention to give, to the point that we tune out most of it.

There's "fine print" everywhere and if we took the time to really scrutinize most of it, we wouldn't really be getting a lot done.
How can they tell how an email address is European?
> it takes a lot longer to build a nuclear plant (on the order of 10-20 years)

Because of the red tape the mob has strung up. China builds these in two years [1]. France does it in five [2].

[1] https://interestingengineering.com/china-moves-toward-nuclea...

[2] https://lemielleux.com/how-long-does-it-take-france-to-build...
Hi! Parent of a 12-year-old here. This summer I received an email about the intention of my local public school district to teach a unit on sex education in the fall, in SEVENTH GRADE.

Meanwhile, my daughter has had her period more than a year, as have most or all of her friends. She has multiple friends in her class who express either transgender or gender fluid identities. In fifth and sixth grade, boys and girls were already hugging in the hallways, "dating," and talking about things at a level that would shock most people. Seriously, even her siblings, ten years older, are shocked at how young some of this stuff is talked about, or the details of what is shared. This isn't just "old fogey" expressing shock, my 21-year-old is shocked.

The reason for the delayed instruction is simple: it's the result of a long legal battle that has seen conservative parents in my state trying to eliminate it entirely, and settling (for now) with gender-segregated opt-out instruction several years too late to do much good.

Fortunately, my daughter received good instructions from her parents beginning when she was eight, and professes to understand that whatever sexuality or gender identity one express when she is 12 may or may not be a sexuality or gender expression that they stick with as an adult.
Lingering after effects risk is not really zero, I would go for initial doses but not necessarily indefinite boosters of current shot. However slight is your worry about kid catching COVID, it will be a little less with some protection, resulting in fuller enjoyment of life. All in exchange for at most 2-3 days of side effects after shots.
https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/2400
From what I'm reading, that just means there are a couple of buildings (offices, warehouses, etc) left on the site. It hasn't been completely demolished yet, but it doesn't sound like there's anything extraordinary preventing that, either.
> 200 years is a fairly long "recency".

..and yet Pax Americana isn't 200 years old; and would be very lucky to get there. Which is exactly my point: just because it happened recently doesn't make it particularly notable/superior/longer-lasting conpared to other empires.
Yeah, so I'm hitting this again today, so now I can comment more knowingly.

> Generally you want to wrap your deployments in a script that takes the object GUID of the created group and feed that into the template. That works, because the GUID can be used even if the full object is not fully replicated around yet.

In the case I have today (wanting to perform an action on a newly created application), this trick doesn't work. (We make the call by specifying the application by ID, too.)

"Bad Request […] It looks like the application '[ID]' you are trying to use has been removed or is configured to use an incorrect application identifier."

It's not removed, of course, and the ID isn't incorrect.

Edit: actually, it is worse than that. So, there's the above error, and that's essentially a failure to have read-your-writes.

Our scripts retry on that, because our scripts have become accustomed to AAD's shit. But we eventually hit this sequence of events:

1. Create the app
2. Grant admin-consent
[other necessary setup]
3. Create an AKS cluster: <this fails>

And it fails because the App need to have admin-consent granted on it. But we do that, in step 2, and my logging is now good enough to show that we not only retry it after a read-your-writes failure, but that the command eventually succeeds, but the UI doesn't end up reflecting that. This is not a read-your-writes failure, this is a lost write!
Against a backdrop of a Republican party in a do-nothing congress which has been preaching against bailouts for 14 years with a Democratic president that they'd like nothing better than to hang an economic collapse on.

We're still only just starting to pop the popcorn here.
It's not clear that clause would be enforceable. Scraping has been found to be lawful in many jurisdictions, including the US, even without the consent of the host.
This paper compares the "blue book style" bytecodes (also known as V3 bytecodes) with the new ones used by sista:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280793584_A_bytecod...