skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So? My memory has gaps that can't be accounted for while I was awake.

Yeah, I can't tell you what I was doing at any specific minute of time 15 years ago but I can say I was alive back then, at least to a degree of what we generally accept as alive (ie. I'm ignoring any ideas of living in a simulation and not being alive, etc.).

I don't think memory alone is your identity but I personally think your brain needs to exist and be functioning in its normal state to be able to record and recall memories to a reasonable degree and if your brain decomposed to nothingness I don't think you can still have a brain driven memory.

It's also kind of interesting that we have this idea of your "mind's eye". We have a brain, we know a brain exists and we know where it exists within our body. One could say your inner voice is your consciousness right? It's your ability to understand your own self and world around you. To have an inner dialog and then dictate actions based on a combination of reason and impulses.

What's interesting to me is if you don't think about it, this dialog always happens behind your eyes. It feels like it's projected from where your brain physically exists. I think you can throw this inner voice to make it feel like it's coming from other parts of your body but that's only when you purposely try to do this.

To me this makes me highly think that your brain controls this inner voice and if your brain decomposes to nothingness then this goes with it.

Am I wrong? Maybe but I cannot accept that because something hasn't been proven then it may exist on nothing but faith alone.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220727215752/https://www.nytim...
> Shell have committed to being net zero by 2050, including the products they sell

How is this remotely possible in any real sense? It doesn’t hold up to any form of scrutiny. They would literally have to remove thousands of tonnes of carbon from the air every year and put it back in the ground. That is not possible.

No, they’ve built a few wind farms and intend to trade carbon credits. Pure greenwashing.
The 8TB Samsung QVO drives are quad level cell consumer grade drives, that's his main storage.
Actual article title: "Study Finds Another Condition That Vitamin D Pills Do Not Help"
web pages do NOT need cookies or javascript period.

and if you insist on that your users must use javascript to view your web site, then cookie is not even needed, one can do some finger printing and there is your permanent cookie!

This development of web has many tech savvy people stop using internet on their phone and switched back to old dump phones (and this comes from someone who has being promoting JS since before nodejs came along). Please bring back web pages that does not require cookie or javascript to function, a web page that can work in the terminal browser like lynx or links2 is the base standard for web page. JS and cookies are just icing on the cake not needed.
$80 Billion was spent between 2014 and 2017 on R&D of autonomous vehicles [1]. That's 12 Billion / year (& numbers from a while back - I'm sure investment has kept going). The US government spends ~18 Billion on the entire DOE, the majority of which appears to be keeping facilities running / maintenance (even though it classifies all of that as R&D) [2]. Fusion saw about ~4.7 Billion in funding in 2022 [3].

Orders of magnitude matter and fission / fusion R&D has been criminally underfunded for decades.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/research/gauging-investment-in-sel...

[2] https://www.energy.gov/ne/our-budget

[3] https://www.newsweek.com/nuclear-fusion-report-private-inves...
If that's big enough to worry about, then tax carbon at the point oil, gas, and coal, come out of the ground.
I don't remember MS being all that threatening, though certainly there may have been less public pressure.

The author worked for SUSE which signed an agreement w/ MS to sidestep any issue, so maybe that closeness made it seem a much larger issue than it was.

I don't even see much of a real change in the ecosystem: A single command or a few clicks in the GUI will get you LXDE on a fresh Ubuntu install. I certainly don't see any hurdles here that would have been a major set back for desktop Linux.

Desktop Linux was (is?) always just around the corner, but never quite got there for reasons unrelated to MS's actions. Maybe MS would have taken more aggressive action if it ever looked closer to mainstream?

I'd rather hear from Unity and Gnome devs though, what motivated them at the time? That would determine if MS threats were a significant factor. From what I remember of those times it seemed more like UI folks wanted to explore other options in general, especially after a very nice looking and usable non-MS example came along in the form of OS X.

There is also now a major commercial distro that does use an MS-like desktop: SteamOS. Around May I saw analyst estimates of about 1.5M units sold of the Deck. If the author's claim is still part of MS's playbook then SteamOS will be an interesting test for it. Especially because Valve's Proton development has in some cases improved performance above native Windows. SteamOS with wider hardware support to drive gamer's primary systems would be a larger threat of desktop Linux than I think has really ever been present in the past.
lol, not the person you responded to but very funny.

On serious note notable is relative in my opinion. There is also just the value for history wise. So being able to lookup a brief synopsis of someone who may only be notable in a small area or less well known niche still seems useful for an encyclopedia.
Do you disagree with what he said?

I don't see how the quote diminishes his qualifications to talk about macroeconomics.
I have to admit I had great help: the first half of the sentence is by Oscar Wilde.
... but it can also drag a lot more too.

Now, can our nag drag enough fodder to do the job? I suggest yes.
Meta doesn't use SREs. There is a position called Production Engineer[1] which has the same skills and does almost the same work as a SWE, but has different focus - scalability, reliability, security, automation. The ballpark ratio is 10 SWE to 1 PE.

[1] - https://engineering.fb.com/category/production-engineering/
In that scenario, I don’t see why your body containing alcohol would change your conscious experience. Surely that would be like being fully alert and aware, but not able to fully control your body. If your body were in its own world, then there would be no reason for drunkenness to affect your awareness or decision making.
Same story from a different source:

FTC files to block Facebook-parent Meta from buying a VR company: https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_4bcb8a532be33291f8543a8cf3... .
ADOM had a fancy re-release on Steam recently! It just showed up in my Steam queue.

Check out Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Feels like a much more modern Nethack, with convenience features (`o` autoexplore, `tab` autofight, etc.) and less of a focus on one-and-done intrinsic immunities in favor of tradeoffs ("this armor comes with cold resistance but vulnerability to fire").

For more of an "explore the world" feeling, Caves of Qud is on Steam and has a ton of depth.
Microsoft is the reason the Linux desktop is still not a thing in 2022. At every step of the way for many years Microsoft has always done some psychotic ill-intentioned thing to monopolize the PC. Even in 2022.

- OpenGL is crossplatform, we could have crossplatform games... but no. Microsoft didn't like that. So they made sure nobody used OpenGL so that Windows became the de-facto platform for PC games: http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/01/Why-you-should-use-OpenGL-an...

- Regulators demanded Microsoft to define an open format for Office documents. They did, by creating the most complicated standard they could in a 6000 page document, and then decided to not use it by default in MS Office so that they could keep an advantage over competitors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open...

- Internet Explorer for many years was the standard browser and internet browsing experience on non-Windows platforms had compatibility problems. They didn't pass Web Standards Compliance Acid Tests, so that a website that respected standards didn't render properly on Internet Explorer. Sometimes Microsoft websites would deliberately send broken CSS stylesheets to non-IE browsers.

- They tried to lock down the PC with Palladium, they failed. They now did it with Pluto and succeeded. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html

- They tried to compete with google by stealing their top results. https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google/

- They have bought every major PC game publisher: Bethesda, Activision/Blizzard, Mojang, and countless others.

But there's hope...

- Vulkan is the successor to OpenGL, and there is an open source Direct3D implementation on top of Vulkan. Wine/Proton uses this to run Windows games with a very low performance overhead.

- There are Open source office suites other than OpenOffice/LibreOffice with a proper UI that do not look like developer art. There are also cloud office suites like Google docs you can use for free.

- Internet Explorer is dead and their successors are dead.

- Nobody uses Bing and it will likely never be the top search engine.
I doubt it. The parallels of this rhetoric from the war on terror is stark. You can put anything under the umbrella of national security, and your average senator is perfectly aware of that. A theoretical threat to semiconductor distribution pails in comparison to the actual threat of climate change or the real threat of poverty which millions of Americans are facing.

No, I don’t believe the senators looked at this with an unbiased mind and came to this conclusion on their own volition. Much rather, they rely on some funding for their campaigning, and said funding had a deep influence on their decision. Not rational thinking.
This might be reflected in a rise of crime rates, as I suspect that criminals prefer not to commit a crime if they know for sure that they will be caught. Likewise if they know that they will be confronted.
It's been a long time since I've played Nethack. I believe the first time I was exposed to it was after installing my first Linux distribution. I forget which one it was (could have been Slackware or Mandriva?), but I do remember the stack of diskettes that contained the full distro.
Cows aren't adding fossil carbon to the atmosphere. They are a distraction from the real problem.
> Ethereum blockchain is the database, BAYC can't delete, modify or censor any BAYC users.

But why does it matter what the blockchain says? The bouncer hired by BAYC to stand at the door of their event can "bounce" you regardless. May as well save resources & complexity by having them run a DB since they can ignore what the blockchain says anyway.

> Getting a BAYC is as simple as transfering an NFT from one wallet to another, mint it with a wallet on BAYC website or buy it on a centralized or decentralized market place, anywhere in the world. There is no database with this type of frictionless.

Getting a brand new BAYC involves "minting it" on their website - no different than buying a ticket on Ticketmaster/etc, and I'd argue the Ticketmaster route is easier as you don't have to worry about safeguarding a wallet/installing Metamask/etc.

Getting a BAYC off someone else involves an Ethereum transaction with its associated fees - in practice those are usually mediated by a marketplace such as OpenSea so decentralization/etc goes away. There's no reason the BAYC website couldn't just manage those transfers directly and skip all of the complexity. There's a theoretical advantage where because it all happens on the blockchain you could transfer an NFT without any third-party involvement (depending on how the smart contract is set up, but I'm assuming good faith and no artificial restrictions preventing that) but how many people do this in practice?

Considering the true value of a BAYC is to get access to their exclusive events (I am ignoring the temporary speculation aspect which is is now on its way out), I still don't see what advantages the blockchain brings compared to them just running an old-school members' club with memberships in a DB, since in practice they can deny entry to the event to anyone regardless of what the blockchain says. If they want to make memberships transferrable they can trivially do so on their platform, since in practice most NFT transfers right now happen on a centralized marketplace anyway.
Having wasted decades on faith (both being manipulated and self deceived) I think some disparaging remarks are warranted. If there is a god it certainly doesn't need humans rushing to its defense. Unless it's the worthless imaginary kind.

Faith by definition cannot be based on physical evidence, and isn't falsifiable. Or else why does one need faith to believe? So whether that is reasonable is debatable. I'd argue you appear to be proposing a false equivalence.
You Might Not Need jQuery
I know nothing of Mitsuba, but one of the optional requirements is nvidia drivers for gpu compute. So it looks like it does.
Can you expand on this? Which instructions are you referring to?
Is it? I'm pretty sure I've formatted them to ext2/4 before and had no issues. Seems more like SD cards are used in devices, and devices stuck to exFAT. I had to format to ext to make my 256M SD card work in my N900.
Yeah @dang this title is terrible. Maybe "Upgrading from x86 Debian Jessie directly to x64 Bullseye" would be better?
That's also true for Foam, though? (At least it seems to work for me ;)
Their operations that caused wars have likely been responsible for millions of deaths.
There isn't a "wishy-washy attitude", there is respect for the fact that the questions of public policy can't be answered by the consensus or lack thereof.

Only politicians and policy advocating 'scientists' cough Fauci cough are confident enough to make proclamations about the state of science. To their credit, no one seems able to hold them accountable when they falsely declare consensus and silence the voices in opposition
This isn’t really true — in fact, it’s exactly the same fallacy as in Swift’s article. Certainly at a glance Greek and Latin look a lot more complicated than English does, and certainly this is true with respect to their morphology (how words are created from smaller parts), but morphology is far from the only part of language. For instance: word order is pretty much entirely unconstrained in Latin, but English has much more rigid rules about word order, which are nonetheless often fairly subtle and complex to delineate. Or: we can distinguish no less than 11 different tense/aspect combinations in English, but this is non-obvious because they rely on combinations of verb form and auxiliary verb(s), and the auxiliaries themselves nearly all have several different interpretations depending on where and how they are used (see Dixon’s A Semantic Approach to English Grammar for more).

Besides, even when you just look at morphology alone, ancient languages are no more complex on the whole than modern ones. Thus consider Russian, which has more cases than Latin (IIRC). Or Hindustani, which uses an entirely different case system depending on the aspect of the verb. Or Swahili, where the verb inflects for both direct subject and object (but not always!), which have no less than 18 irregular genders, as well as for 28 tense/aspect/mood forms (if Wikipedia is to be trusted) — amongst other categories.

What happens, it turns out, is that languages can grow more complex over time as well as simpler. People do tend naturally to simplify, delete and abbreviate syllables in words — but they also tend to merge words together and elaborate simple constructions to more complex ones, in order to retain the expressive capabilities of their language. I’ve already mentioned Deutscher’s bool The Unfolding of Language; I will recommend it again here, since it has a great summary of exactly how these processes work and interact with each other in order to generate complexity in language.
Really, it's ubiquitous. Qt and GTK use it extensively. You don't need HTML at all to use CSS, it translates well to a lot of other things.
For requests, I had to investigate a really long domain one time and both glibc and curl had limits less than the maximum of 256 characters unless you recompile stuff. No idea why to this date.
I feel the same way - at least once a week I think to myself, I should tell my mom about something her grandchildren did, and then I remember she's not here any more.
I can barely follow this myself. Gotta shorten down those long sentences. It comes from Spanish, I also speak perfect Spanish, there the sentences are much longer and have different "ondulaciones de frase".
It's frustrating because it's economically inefficient. It's also probably bad for the camera company's shareholders. It may be good for certain company employees - what economists call a "principal/agent problem".

Or perhaps the companies think they are not in a competitive market, and so can make more money by engaging in "price discrimination", where they try to charge customers more if they have more money (indirectly, via artificial software limitations, which they think has this effect). This seems unlikely to me, though. Customer "lock in" to one company's products must be pretty short-term nowadays.

If they treated cameras as a competitive market, they would be happy for software to be developed by others, if that's not their competitive advantage (and clearly it's not). They would make money from selling the hardware (cameras, lenses, other accessories). If they're the only company with open source software, they should have a big advantage when selling hardware, and could charge more for it.
Is this some weird SEO attempt?

The original, named similar to the chosen title: https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/
It does use the GPU, but this isn't really for production use (at all).

It's a research renderer and its key functionality is reversible rendering—going from an image to the scene parameters that would create that image.

The purpose of this kind of renderer is to develop research ideas that will eventually make it into a production renderer someday…
Discussed at the time:

How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25611053 - Jan 2021 (80 comments)

How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25604462 - Jan 2021 (4 comments)
Ask HN: Similar project for dotfile management exist?
Hi!

I checked a few project for dotfile management (GNU stow, dotbot, chezmoi, etc) but each very similar in operation: the dofiles are linked/copied based on a predefined config file or a folder structure.

I'm searching for a solution which operates something like this (lets call it foo):

1. a folder for the dotfiles initialized somewhere, but empty. For example ~/.foo

2. you can be anywhere in the directory sturcture, lets say you are in the /etc/ folder

3. If you execute the "foo hosts" command, (it may asks for root passwd) the following happens: mv /etc/hosts ~/.foo/etc/hosts, and link it back to its original place + write info about the files into a text based config file like ~/.foo/config.yaml

4. You can push all of it into git

5. Pull the configs into a new machine, and based on the config.yaml file "foo" can restore the desidred dot/config files

The important thing here is I dont have to edit config files manually while I can save/restore config files from anywhere on my system. Unfortunately I havent found similar projects yet, thanks for any tip!
> Unfortunately 52 senators get to control the agenda, and they get to decide what is "affordable" and "too expensive."

How else would you prefer this to be? Of course a majority of Senators get to control the agenda…
That is true... But in that case, double or quadruple your SSD...
They must be out of budget for paying fines for the fiscal year and expect to pay fines in '23 for other things?
They also have pretty active YouTube channel. Lot's of interesting talks and research projects. https://www.youtube.com/c/cloudflare/videos
I clicked a few from today and yesterday and some were filmed a long time ago...
> Intent, not language, should be the focus.

Changing the language with good intentions isn't a problem if intent should be the focus instead of language.

What is not ok is demanding that people be mind-readers and pull the "good intent" out of the people's heads who use harmful language widely identified as unacceptable. Language changes over time, except for dead languages.
> nobody has any reasonable excuse to use Chrome

Maybe they work at Google
Expectation of high variability or long time frame sounds different from what the other poster said.
This just in

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-pope-albert...
Unity was really good in saving vertical screen space. Invaluable on notebooks with 1366*768 screens that were typical on the notebooks of the day. Gnome3, on the other hand, wastes it like the user have nothing better to look at but panels, upon panels, upon panels.
What's missing in all these replies -- it depends on who you are :)

If you have experience and specialized skill, it can be worth it to go to Google / big tech. You can apply your skills (for considerable profit), and learn from others with different specialized skills. You can work on highly technical things that are difficult to find elsewhere.

If you're inexperienced or fresh out of college, I would say it's not worth it. You'll probably have a bad experience (and I've talked to multiple young people who this has happened to).

Google was good for inexperienced hires when I joined (2005), but it isn't anymore.

You'll learn more elsewhere in 2022. In fact, I'd strongly suggest that you'll learn the WRONG lessons at big tech. The real problem in those jobs is learning to navigate bureaucracy, rather than learning how to build things.

I talked to people who basically didn't get to build anything that anybody used for the first 5 years of their career, which IMO is basically a death sentence for an engineering career. They just shifted among cancelled projects and didn't learn anything. All their work was thrown away.

Good blog post about that:

https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16483241

(and the author was apparently experienced, so these bad jobs aren't limited to fresh college hires)
"face truth" is not exactly "anything". The desired outcome is - which is pretty damn obvious from the context here - that the system will need to face up to truth.

And I'm certainly not sure how any of this denies accountability.

Maybe you're just projecting a little bit much into a single sentence?
I'm not:

2) They will be facing increasing amounts of competition ex. apple. The metaverse is more than the hardware. The first big player in this space will be a game company, possibly one we aren't aware of yet.

3) Not enough to change anyone's usage habits. Just slows down the inevitable.

4) Privacy and the ads environment will continue to hurt them. There's no answer to this yet.
I already did: Novell paid $210m for SuSE, plus $50m they got from IBM. SuSE was always a key (if not the key) KDE "customer" and sponsor, beyond Trolltech. That was big money, back then.