skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The sad reality is that we are not using any new or novel products/services compared to 5 years ago. If you exclude the mRNA vaccines the pipeline of innovation is also empty.

I'm sorry, but do you expect us to take this comment seriously? This is frankly absurd.
Couldn't agree more, the beauty of a picture cannot be meassured in a lab. That beinh said, apparebtly lab tests show that some old f-mount lenses don't use the full resolution of 36 MP plus sensors. Whether or not that is actually bad, or if you would notice the difference with the naked eye, is something different.

Thay being said, I'd never replace a lense unless it either broken or I see negative impacts on image quality. If none of that applies I don't see a reason to spend a fortune on new glass just because. Unless of course I want that lens.
WSL 2 runs on top of Hyper-V.
Ok, 2 points:

1. I'm surprised LiveJournal still exists. Genuinely. I used to have one, a loooong time ago.

2. I was always fascinated by Bombadil, he seemed to me like the embodiment of nature itself, or forests. At least, that's the concept he seemed to represent to me. I admit I skipped reading the lyrics though. This is a fascinating theory although it is quite different than what I would conclude from the same evidence.
It is a tiny amount of money comparatively speaking. They should not put a freeze over a couple of days. If there is no dispute, then their risk drops exponentially. If the amount were much higher, they should just devote more human resources to verifying the charge, and still keep the frozen period low.
You're right, the meaning of the word has been bastardized by tech and design people. In fact it feels like the only time I ever even hear it nowadays is from a tech press release or from an overwrought tech conference presentation.
As an aside, the protein structure visualizations in the article are pretty. Is there a good source for more?
Press and hold back on iOS to choose the page to return to
Crazy reply to read here on hackernews where we're discussing innovations every single day. We are in the middle of a software development golden age and the amount of innovation happening is absolutely absurd.

Just because you haven't found some new gizmo to make your life easier in the past 5 years doesn't mean our entire society has stagnated.

Just because you think making webapps is milking the internet doesn't mean that software is trivial or can't be a force for good, a force for change, a force for innovation, or a force for making peoples lives better. Like why are you even here?

When I think about 5 years ago, I think basically 0 electric cars being sold. I think basically 0 electric charging network. I think basically 0 grid scale solar panel build out. 0 compared to today, at least. We are in the midst of the electric car revolution, the petrochemical refilling grid is being deprecated IN REAL TIME all around us, cars are having AI models updated OTA to achieve lv3 or 4 driver assistance or even to drive themselves.

Where's the innovation?? Open your eyes!!
Gawker publicly bullied and antagonized their victims. Doesn't matter what the law says its incredibly immoral, there was nothing to report.
There's a few things that could be used to complete the mission significantly faster with basically-current tech (e.g. NERVA, or Project Orion), but even for deep-space missions they are unlikely to see use any time soon.
How do you define "consciousness", though?

If we define it to be just a human interpretation of an observed physical process, and we believe subjective experience to be an illusion, then the hard problem is not a problem at all. That's comparable to calling an animal a horse: we define "horse" to be a category of animal, but we don't expect it to have any "special" properties for being a horse, and we can relate to lower-level processes all the properties that lead us to define it as a horse. Such properties are empirically measurable and don't behave in any way that would be expected from the laws of physics.

But if we assume subjective experience to be real and to be more than just a description of the physical system, then we do have a problem: we have the burden of explaining where it comes from (which is why theories like emergentism, panpsychism, etc. were created). We can't test such theories empirically, as the only subjective experience we can perceive is that of a fully conscious (in the medical sense) human brain, and we cannot share such experience. That's why the metaphysics of consciousness is not considered science.

> Just because consciousness is a result of information processing, that doesn’t mean all information processing systems are conscious.

Indeed. But if consciousness is anything more than a label to describe a specific sort of system, and subjective experience is real, then we have to show such special "consciousness" (with subjective experience) exists in the first place, and how it can emerge from parts without any form of consciousness. As we're unable to do that in a way that can be empirically tested, such theories are not scientific. Panpsychism is of course no exception to this, as we cannot test whether lower levels of information processing are or are not conscious either.
Yes, I’m aware that we do. I’m just trying to give an analogy of what I’m trying to convey.

In the case of job levels, employees really shouldn’t be shortchanged into believing the job titles given to them. The remuneration is a better indicator when in doubt.
>That the definition of a recession has always been 2 quarters of negative GDP.

Well, if you want to be specific, the NBER (which calls the game on what is a recession or not) defines it as "a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and that lasts more than a few months."

The "two quarters of declining real GDP" (GDP increased by 7.8% in nominal terms) is the pop-economics yardstick.

Are you aware we had a recession in 2001? And yet that managed to happen without having two consecutive quarters of negative GDP.
TLDR + rebuttal combo that also isn't chock full of ads and doesn't break your back button: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/p3mh4m/comment/h8t...
You're changing your story now though. You now have new information that wasn't available at the time of the transitory comment. Information that would all but guarantee large inflation problems.
No, I’m saying there is not one, and defining it strictly as two quarters of gdp decline removes much of the utility of the business cycle dating process.
Nudge does seem to imply some degree subtlety. In a colloquial sense, >100% tax rates on cigarettes is more of a shove than a nudge.
I pity the poor elf that taught the Ents speech... even for an elf that sounds like the work of a lifetime.
>> Threatening withdrawal from NATO, withholding Ukrainian defense aid, and not
>> promising to defend Taiwan are not positive features for many in the USA.

Correct, in the USA, It it NONE of the world problem, like in EU we have done business with Russia for decades without issues, we got gas, companies got energy and everyone was happy, except US, of course Europeans are also supporting it (politicians) but they are doing it without going through people, they didn't campaign for it, and if everything goes well, they will see the effect of their loyalty to US interest at next elections

I just wanted to say that USA interest are likely to match the interest of EU, but it is not always, EU interests were more likely to keep making business with Russia in peace
> We made all efforts to support guests impacted, including providing overnight accommodation on board

Well, I guess that’s one way to justify the situation!
While I do believe supply chain issues had a lot to do with triggering, I cannot look past the invention of 1.5 trillion dollars that were injected into the economy, nor can I look past the hit to labor resulting from government policies around covid . The use of "temporary" or "transitory" was political damage control, the tail wagging the dog.

I view your comment as more of the kind of spin that we're seeing in the media right now; conveniently ignoring larger and more obvious sources of trouble, in order to deflect and downplay the seriousness of the situation.
Correct, it was a mix of Digg, Slashdot and old-school message boards. As far as I remember, it was the comment section that most people were interested in. The link itself came second.
Hi! First of all - thank you for your reply.

I still don't think the portrayal of these events as stemming from patent issues is realistic. First of all, that Acacia Research lawsuit concerned some 1980s Xerox patents "that protect computer GUIs that span multiple work sites and that allow users to access icons remotely."[1] How would changing the GNOME UI to remove a Start-button-like menu protect Linux distributors from such litigation?

That lawsuit was filed in October 2007, and would be accurately described as patent troll litigation. While it did not have Microsoft as a party, nor did it claim infringement of Microsoft's IP, that article does note that only days before Ballmer had warned that Linux vendors could face similar patent troll litigation as Microsoft had faced in the past and that the patent troll had hired a senior Microsoft IP manager.

While this would have surely prompted some warranted speculation in the community, was it - or the threat of direct M$ litigation - the impetus for reworking the GNOME 3 Shell and building Ubuntu Unity?

GNOME 3 was announced in summer 2008, and at least this one in-depth articles I could find makes no mention of any patent litigation connection.[2] Instead, it notes that the progress towards the "audacious reinvention of the desktop with completely new interaction paradigms" had started already in 2005 with a concept called ToPaZ. Mind you that's well before the whole Acacia Research lawsuit.

GNOME 3 was released in April 2011. Ubuntu Unity was an alternative version of GNOME 3's Shell. Its development forked in the advanced stages of GNOME 3, in late 2010. The cited reason was "tension over design issues" between Canonical's and GNOME's designers.[3] Nothing seems to again hint that Ubuntu would have taken this step to shield itself from patent trolls or Microsoft.

Maybe the reason why nobody can remember this is because it did not happen? We're talking about events well over a decade old after all. There could have been speculation at the time that it was all connected to this lawsuit, but I don't think Canonical and Red Hat would have really done it for that reason. Software patents are terrible because any non-trivial piece of code almost surely infringes on some patent, and defending against patent suits is expensive. Surely these companies would have realized that even if the desktop UI was changed not to supposedly infringe on one patent, there would soon be another troll claiming infringement on another patent?

[1]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-novell-win-verdict-in-...

[2]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/07/gnome...

[3]: https://www.pcworld.com/article/504223/article-3057.html & https://www.pcworld.com/article/504253/is_unity_the_right_in...

P.S. Here is one of the patents cited in the Acacia Research lawsuit: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5072412A/en
I intentionally avoid SO. The S/N ratio is terrible.
Fantastic article. A clickable TOC at the top would be a great addition.
>Plenty of capitalists are happy running businesses at steady state.

There are plenty of business owners who are happy to run at steady state---sole proprietors and family businesses, for example. These kinds of businesses can exist without capital per se, they can be financed with debt. But for businesses with investors, which is to say businesses backed by capital with the expectation that there will be a substantial return on the investment, growth is imperative.

So no, I don't believe there are plenty of capitalists happy to run a business at steady state, because one of the requirements of a capital investment is that the value of the investment grows, and the more rapidly, the better. A business owner may philosophically believe in capitalism, but that does not make them a capitalist in the active sense.
>Why ?

Because ideology is wrong.

>..because most of modern wesern democracies is a pathetic and transparent sham...

I wouldn't argue with that, but advantage of free society is that you, as individual, can do something about it. In totalitarian state your attempts to change something that is against state ideology would be suppressed. If we, in democratic states, let others people do nasty things, than it is only because we let them to do it. Is it laziness? Is it lack of responsibility? Or maybe that image that media told us every day... "Don't stick your nose here and there, you wouldn't be able to change anything anyway. Stay scared."
I couldn't read the story, as it has been deleted from reddit and maybe I am missing something here, but why don't these companies offer reliable one-time human support for a suitable fee?
The Modern Metadata Platform: What, Why, and How (Data+AI Summit)?
https://text.npr.org/1113649843 <- direct link to nice, simple, fast loading, text only version, without gobs of stalking third parties.

Would be nice for other outlets to provide such a facility. (even better: for modern stalkiness and over-scripting & over-graphical-jigery-pokery-ing to be rarer generally).
Over-Promising on Electric Cars Is Holding Back Progress on Climate and Safety
The first Isilon system I worked on was in 2008. It was less than 60TB and more expensive than 115k and used Gigabit connections. The first fibre connected SAN I used was in 2006, and was closer to 300k by the time all of the HBA cards, SFPs, 1000 per seat licenses, and the drive arrays were added together for around 48TB.

And peeps wonder why we think $4500 is cheap!
Possibly. But I know a lot of people who find Tom irrelevant to the plot. It looks more like a silly digression just at the time the book had shifted from "Hobbit sequel" to serious epic. He talks in poetry that can feel singsong and childish.

Tolkien fans seem to focus on the bit with the Ring, which is an engaging enigma without a resolution. It makes him seem very important and powerful, but the story doesn't explore it much. It's a small part of a chapter that otherwise can feel like a distraction.

So a lot of fans, I think, are happy to see him go so you can get to better developed characters like Elrond and Aragorn. There is a lot more going on in that chapter, especially if you read it closely, but I can see why a lot of people are happy to skip on to the barrow wights, where the stakes are higher. Even if the ending to it is just "Tom comes back to fix it".
Many seem to believe this is the solution for inflation. Which was "transitory" before it was "illusion," as I recall, and a little before that was impossible due to the new understanding granted by MMT.
No group of people, Republican or Democrat, can stop the perpetual cycles of human history. At best, we can only delay the inevitable.
But it is not the objective definition:

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jul/27/instagram-...
Max Headroom?
Are there existing tools that help debug compiler time properties (e.g. reference counting) easily? I know of many interactive debugging techniques for investigating runtime errors, but when I'm faced with a compiler error it seems like the best interface I have is just an error message and then meticulously reading the code. I'd find something like that really useful for type-related errors too.

Even something as simple as breakpoints and printlns let me inspect the intermediary state of these systems.
I really like this. In many many many works of fiction, if you are presented with an odd detail that seems extraneous to the plot or the aesthetic, there’s a huge chance that this will turn out to be some kind of pivotal point later in the story. I love that Tolkien was introducing them simply to create depth - and to a great extent - to provoke the feelings that bring about posts and discussion like this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impression_of_depth_in_The_Lor...
Having traveled overnight on trains several times, I can confirm that I would regularly wake up when the train stopped at a station. But this was probably because the train's state _changed_ from moving to stopped. In this case, since the train presumably never even started, I can understand why the passenger didn't wake up.
Previously discussed (186 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17900759
> And his absence from the films was remarked upon, negatively in my circles.

Yeah, same. On Tolkien forums in the early to mid 2000's, I think these were the most commented on complaints about the movies:

* No Tom Bombadil

* No Scouring of the Shire

* Movie Faramir vs book Faramir

* The Ents deciding to not help Merry and Pippin at first (tbh, this is the one that still gets me the most. It sort of ruined a key attribute of the Ents just for a tiny bit of extra tension for a short scene.)

I'm probably missing some, but those were the ones I remember coming up the most.
If we survived the economics of the 80s, we can survive the 2020s.

Next, pick a country and its inflation rate. The Euro? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/business/eurozone-inflati...

Pick another currency that meets the requirements of being a reserve currency and then look at its inflation rate.
Hahah hilarous - just change the definition and problem solved :)
I don't know why you're being downvoted, but I agree, the more a whisleblower brings to light the more they are treated as a traitor.
I was in a band and we created our own website. There were a few problems around a PHP contact form and we all took turns trying to fix it. I realised that I was enjoying something that drove everyone else mad.
If that is true, should that waive his rights in the american legal system?
I wonder how much faster we could get there with solar sail and laser boost from Earth
It's not, but the question is (and has long been) whether the energy expended by folding@home is worth the scientific result. IMHO- probably not.
Cold showers as German city of Hanover reacts to Russian gas crisis
My first tech question I got asked at an interview 20 years ago was:

> Is this number positive or negative?
> 0101 0101

They expected me to ask about things like endianness and to know the least significant bit is the only one we are about to answer that question.

While bits in a byte "is" a "low level" topic. It is one of the more useful ones even for CRUD.

My instinct is that "yes"... basic knowledge like this is important. After all, even as an API developer I have often had to know things like how many bytes an int is on my machine, how bitwise operators work, whether the system is little endian or big endian, etc.

Also, how do you understand Unicode (something very important for i18n) if you don't know the answer to this question?

But then I had to go back and second guess myself. Most of this stuff is abstracted out now.

I would say it comes down to what type of data you are dealing with. If you're dealing with files in binary formats, compilers, etc. Then yes, you need that stuff. And yes, a simple CRUD app does sometimes need to deal with that stuff. But if not? I guess it's fine not to know.
Can I run analytics without defacing my website with annoying consent banners?
Which “old ones” are you referring to more specifically?
if you want to learn low level programming learn C and C++
But GitHub doesn't offer its source code. Did you mean to say just "source code"?
> Crazy reply to read here on hackernews where we're discussing innovations every single day.

I don't want to discuss, I want to use. Aspirational stuff doesn't improve the quality of life of anybody. It's the equivalent of small talk

> I think basically 0 electric cars being sold. I think basically 0 electric charging network. I think basically 0 grid scale solar panel build out. 0 compared to today, at least. We are in the midst of the electric car revolution, the petrochemical refilling grid is being deprecated IN REAL TIME all around us, cars are having AI models updated OTA to achieve lv3 or 4 driver assistance or even to drive themselves.

That stuff is not for us, it's for people who'd be alive 150 years from now. All the energy transition stuff won't improve our lives one bit, it just prolongs the churn rate of the planet. It's like when AiBnB raises the cleaning fee 1000% and unluckily you are the first client ever to have to pay it. It doesn't add anything to your experience and your staying at the venue. It's a cost, hence it's a minus, not a plus.

mRNA is an example of stuff that it's for us. Matter of fact I have it in me right now and I suppose so do you

> Like why are you even here?

I mean...somebody is being aggressive for no reason. I think making tons of money with software and copying app or by playing the poker game of founding>raising>exiting is nice and all. But at the end of the day making money is just step #1, you still need to have something worthy to buy with that money once you leave the poker table.

That's why Vegas has tons of venues, resturants and nightclubs and stripclubs in the proximity of poker tables. Without all the amenities Vegas would not be different than Oklahoma's Poker scene
In this specific case, the OP claims that the call and chat options are greyed out, leaving only e-mail and social media. E-mail, they claim, is bot responses only.

While I understand you can't comment on the specifics of this case, can you speak generally about whether or not disabling the phone/chat support buttons is a part of some standard process?
Must be a slow news day to recycle events that happened a month ago.
I was disappointed he was not in the films, however everyone else I know was glad of this omission. I think his character adds a certain something- maybe something a lot of people don't appreciate. Not including him in the movies, I thought, was a missed opportunity.
Any website that produces articles sauced with that kind of stalker vibe is not one worth reading. If everyone kept that in mind, they'd die soon enough.
As many as you wanted to throw at them, considering the vast majority are open source and could be run on your own server cluster. CASP15 is ongoing so by the end of the year we will know how much absolute progress has been made by others.

Google has the advantage of the biggest guns here: the fastest TPUs with the most memory in the biggest clusters, so running inference with a massive number of protein sequences is much easier for them.
The only thing they did wrong was fool you into believing that a private corporation can be a bastion for free expression. Sorry, that is what academia is for.

Corporations are just organizational machines for making their shareholders money. I'm sorry you're just now learning this, so late in the game.
Yeah I mean bad things can happen to anyone, but relatively speaking enterprise tends to be safer all else being equal. A great consumer company is still probably safer than a decent enterprise SaaS company.

"losing a few big customers could be fatal"
For sure, but there's also a long history of enterprise companies weathering this just find (eg Twilio famously churning Uber). There often is just less pullback than one would think as well, it's typical to see 3+ year contracts in enterprise.
I believe they had numbers on how much money was injected into the economy from the money printer, they had numbers around how many people had exited the workforce and available jobs versus filled. These folks are supposed to be analytical, intelligent, skilled statisticians. Instead, we're getting politically-minded loosely-defined-economists that are ignoring the breadth of information in favor of a cozy narrative.
Aside from the other alternative listed below, even within the Chromium universe you have options like Brave and LibreWolf which are very privacy oriented - https://privacytests.org/