skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing that this is from Microsoft research, and that Microsoft's font renderer has always looked nicer (and is known to be GPU-rendered to boot) makes a lot of sense.

Still, my point stands that this is relatively uncommon even in the realm of 3d programmers. Unity / Unreal engine doesn't seem to do GPU-side Beizer curve processing, even if the algorithm was researched by Microsoft from 2005.
From my experience, these play-to-earn games (like Axie Infinity) are mostly played by people in poor 3rd-world countries like Vietnam[1] or Cambodia. Where if they can earn $5/day that's enough to live off of and replace any type of local job they could get. I highly doubt they care about nor pay taxes.

1 - https://fortune.com/2022/05/04/axie-infinity-sky-mavis-vietn...
Imagination has no borders.
I am more than capable of finding other things I value to do with my time. Not everyone is that way, especially when peoples lives are set up from a very young age to "work" for a third of the hours in their life.
The science of their method to disprove dark matter is really pretty good. The problem is how they present other scientists as foolish for holding onto dark matter theory. More researchers should definitely take a look at the evidence. There are some strong reasons why dark matter is the favored model, and it needs to be a strong refutation to rule it out. If other contenders like MOND didn't also have significant problems of their own, people would also be more eager to lend them credibility instead of dark matter.
Show HN: My Gaoler as a Service (GaaS) company scaled to $1MM revenue overnight.
>would be extremely vulnerable at war with modern weaponry.

the point of those enormous ships is to minimize the chances of war happening.

>More, smaller, near-coast ("littoral") ships would be much more effective tools for wartime

Russia lost the big ship on the Black Sea and have the situation you're describing - ie. their fleet is several missile frigates, and such their situation is very weak. The fleet can't really operate. (And with recent successful attack on a Russian airfield in Crimea the air support for those remaining ships is expected to dwindle which will be a clear show case of how [in]capable fleet without air support (which we do actually know since WWII really), and that air support usually, until you operate near your shores, can only come from aircraft carriers)
Minimum time to failure seems to be 500 in either unit, so it makes sense to move manufacturing (or at least testing) the the region that uses the larger unit.
Just a note to say that even though the name "Sematic" is the same, this is not the same open source project as mine that I posted to Show HN about a week ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32364193.
I personally think that time, and all dimensions (including the 3 that we typically thing of as "space") are simply caused by a few axioms: there is the concept of "something else" (that is, 1 != 0, there is at least 2 possibilities); there is "something" of which can we in at least 1 of those 2 possible states, but not both; there is something to a way in which the answer to the question of state can be known; there is cause -> effect. When taken to the infinite complexity, you end up with coalescing densities of state all of which cannot be simultaneously true and there fore
Except that's not a reasonable ask when you have a global presence and meetings into the evening. Saying no to an over-scheduled calendar is the mechanism by which you gain control of your life.

My measure of a meeting's worth is: if you were shackled to a chair for the scheduled duration of this meeting, would you get anything useful done, from a discussion perspective? If not, simply decline the invite; your brain is not important enough to have been productive in that context.
I'm a little surprised this is not mentioned more here. It's one of the best tools for scraping.
First Instagram is not a browser.

And second the browser manufacturer (usually) doesn’t make any money by tracking their users. They provide them with a tool, a browser.

There is the browser Brave, that replaces ads on websites (and makes some profit with that), and there are some serious legal issues coming with that.
> 8) He was very funny without being mean. Sort of like Cosby before we found out what Cosby was really like.

I shouldn't laugh but this right here is gold. Also, love all the points you laid out.
It appears to be mild snark about the mixed units (km vs miles) caused by quoting two different sources.
There was a lot of work done by the Switch hacking community, which uncovered some fatal cryptosystem flaws w.r.t. secretful FALCONs. It is apparently possible to leak the hash against which the secretful falcon compares against in the hardware from the High Security side of things to LS.

It's a fairly in-depth and tricky thing though. Basically you're having to do firmware reverse engineering and basically chaining together ROP gadgets to figure out what the FALCON expects to see to transition into HS mode, and then retrying/cleverly orchestrating things to make it happen.

The write up in question was

https://hexkyz.blogspot.com/2021/11/je-ne-sais-quoi-falcons-...

I haven't had the bandwidth/life situation to really sit down and cobble together the requisite set of skills to make inroads on proving my hunch that one could use some of the methods described to front-run the HS signed firmware check with the right gadget. Heck, last note I have, I was still trying to figure out how to setup linux kernel code such that I could get a reasonably ergonomic "attempt load firmware blob, gracefully fail to try again" to get a decent test rig going for the experiment to at least make the requisite facechecking of my own ignorance required endurable until I could get a PoC sorted. If I could manage to do it, I guess I'd be in a decent position to hit up EFF and see if I can be a decent legal test case to see if I could squeak through in terms of the exception for reverse engineering something to restore it to it's previous functioning. (Older cards not having secretful shenanigans to deal with) or something. The legal nastiness is actually part of what has kept me from making much in the way of progress even though I really, really want to do it.

If my reading of supporting documentation is right though, it's technically possible, you just have to be really patient and not give up.

Also note, this would almost certainly attract legal attention, because it is HS mode that secures a bunch of the HDMI related DRM functions as well. As demonstrated in that write up, you can bubble out the hashes of keys burnt in in the manufacturing process. Just because you don't have DMCA to worry about, doesn't mean it won't rear it's head elsewhere. There's a lotta money at stake.

I don't care half so much about that the HDMI though as the power management and reclocking shenanigans; there was absolutely 0 reason to lock that behind HS mode other than Nvidia wanting to create vendor lock-in, and prevent users/non-Nvidia developers from being able to write their own firmware.

If you beat me to the experiment, go with the knowledge you're doing $deity's work, and good hunting.
You're right, of course, that this is an open question. But the posted article saunters about the fields of an incredibly deep question by glibly asserting idealism about mathematical structures. It is an awfully weak foundation upon which to build an answer to such a fundamental question.

It is _at least_ plausible that numbers supervene upon existence and not the other way around, which makes the entire exercise in the article seem suspect in its presentation, at the very least.

Would you _really_ say that the case for mathematical idealism is that strong? The Philpapers survey seems to suggest philosophers are approximately evenly split on this question (idealists at 39%, nominalists at 38%).
Banality of evil and all that.
And the closely related concept of being able to transfer functional game items between games, or sell them on the open market, is even more ridiculous. Not only is it completely incompatible with any concept of game balance, but it's really just a roundabout way of saying that every game should be pay-to-win (by buying items outside the game) -- which is a mechanic which most gamers hate.
I picked up some very neat new SQLite tricks from this post independent of the extension itself (which is very cool) - I didn't know about the "define" module which lets you create new table-valued functions that are defined as SQL queries themselves.
Rice and beans are tremendously more protein than meat... per dollar, which is what we care about, right? Also, they keep longer, also they are more nutritious.
There is no reason threaded, async, or easy need to be requirements for all types of communication.
In other news, gravity held us on the earth's surface for yet another day. Who'd have thought of it?
Don't get me wrong, I run SQLite in production with millions of records, but it seems people have discovered it just very recently.
All of the sudden, there's always a post about it with hundreds of comments.

What changed?
Same old "no one wants to work anymore" bullshit from the ruling class. They've been saying this for over 100 years.
I'm not sure we still call them 3rd-world, especially on the new world order. Do they still 3rd-world or now upgraded some levels ?
China would likely also had a much different situation in Xinjiang if not for 9/11.
Yes, assuming the lines are of reasonable length.
How about services like luna, stadia, etc which can render any sort of interactive content (typically games)?
With this string design the end of the string is fixed to the freewheel. So they don't have wear related issues that regular chains have like skipping gears, dropping a chain
What makes a phone call 'scratchy'?
I just placed a call from my cell phone to a well-known 1-800 number, and the call quality was very scratchy.

I hung up and called again, and the call wasn't scratchy at all.

My sense is that nothing really changed on my end, but I guess it's hard to be sure. What typically introduces interference to a call?
> My question is: is this even a problem worth trying to solve?

And even if it is, why would we need The Blockchain to solve it?
We used to exploit these types of paths when school IT admins didn't know how to filter traffic properly but knew to block proxies.
managers are employees too
Yep. This isn’t some harmless thing you can just not report either. If the current administration has shown anything, it’s that they’re fully bought into finding every single tax dollar they can, even if it means hiring 100s of thousands of IRS workers.

Your only hope in this situation is some tax software add on for the game. I’ve used current crypto tax software, and it’s a complete joke. You might as well just assume you’re going to be audited if you do anything with crypto.
did you just suggest that moving countries is an easy way of getting an abortion? First of all getting a doctor in a country you are not a citizen of to perform it in the first place is difficult. I am also unsure if a country like Denmark would prosecute a woman for aborting at 24 weeks outside its borders.
Technically, RDOF ISPs have until 2028 to provide the promised service but Starlink's application was denied because their Ookla speed tests are slightly low in 2022. Appearances matter. If they provisioned slightly fewer customers per cell they might have passed.
Don't post this like it's something new. It has been around since 2019. With all the usual pushback and everyone being annoyed it even exists. But has adoption picked up? Probably no. It's not new.
> your argument rests on the axiom that tornado cash protocol is only being used for illegal money laundering, which is not supported by the evidence

If it was only being used for money laundering, it wouldn't actually be laundering. To launder money you need to mix up your illegal funds with a larger pool of legal funds to give some plausible deniability to whether your funds are legal or not.
Also on Android-based kiosks, you can get into the OS through the on-screen keyboard if they're using it. Try long tapping the buttons around the spacebar, one of them would usually get you into system settings. From there you can as much as completely take over the device if you wish.
Hackers and fraudsters used crypto bridge RenBridge to launder $540M
> You are literally talking to the Pathfinder author.

No worries, I think they know :)

And yeah, I considered doing fancier partitioning, but really toward the end (before work stopped due to layoffs) I was pushing on shipping, which meant deprioritizing fancy partitioning in favor of implementing all the bells and whistles of SVG. I certainly believe that you could get better results with more sophisticated acceleration structures, especially in cases like texturing 3D meshes with vector textures.
Yeah I'll just stick to my one time purchase space pirate game on steam

Every time a company comes around mentioning buying NFT's in games it sounds more dystopic than innovative, and games in general which require you to spend actual money on every little thing in game.
Not at a FAANG but at a large company that has its fair share of world experts in various technical disciplines.

At least in my company, the path you suggest will make you miserable (it did me). You are not seen to be at their level, and you will more likely become a pawn and someone to offload grunt labor to. Yes, you will learn, but you have less than a 10% chance they'll let you use that knowledge to do work at their level: They need grunt laborers, and you are more valuable to them as one because you've gained that knowledge.

Oh, and they always had more pathological behavior amongst them. Very poor at teamwork, etc.

There are exceptions, which is why I said "10% chance" instead of "0%" :-)

The good news is whenever I went through this and switched to a less sexy team, I was seen as "the really smart guy who worked with the smart people" and the new team would value more than they should.
There are several differences, but I'd say these are some of the main ones:

UI: whereas Metaflow provides the ability to build your own result visualizations explicitly in your workflow (via their "cards" feature), Sematic makes it so that your outputs (and inputs) get automatic rich visualizations based on the data type of the data being passed around.

API: Instead of being based around explicitly building up a graph, where you have to explicitly specify the I/O connections between steps, Sematic makes defining your steps look like writing/calling python functions.

Packaging: Whereas metaflow requires you to include packaging information in the code defining your steps (the @conda decorator, etc.), Sematic plugs into your existing dependency management to bundle up dependencies for execution in the cloud.
Uber and WhatsApp work well on /e/ and other Android distributions with microG.

For microG compatibility, Plexus rates Uber 3 out of 4 (good), and WhatsApp 4 out of 4 (perfect).

- Plexus: https://plexus.techlore.tech/

I can confirm that the map in Uber can be janky at times, but the app is otherwise fully functional. Both the Uber web app and the Lyft app (4 out of 4 on Plexus) work flawlessly.
The thread is about the price of meat and storing it, so it makes sense to consider how much protein is in the food and how much it costs. To not do so would be like saying, "We need to spend less money on a car. Should we get a cheap car? No, it's not red."

Also, see my response about "protein quality".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32417603
I mean it’s not unreasonable to think they needed those people then, but now they don’t. If you’ve got 40,000 people worth of work and 70,000 people some of them aren’t going to be productive. Just because you had 70,000 people worth of work last year doesn’t mean they’re still productive this year.
This just forbids developers to write their own browser engine. It is OK to use the iOs provided webbrowser as a control in your app.
I suppose we have a challenge in our hands.
Spyware is huge threat to global human rights and democracy, expert warns
The US tries that all Latin America will respond. What a disgusting take you have made. Why are you in so much need of keeping the US as the imperalist machinery that is today? you neoconservative, bloodthirsty fucking loser.
Yesterday I was reading that Facebook shares DMs with the police to find people that are thinking of leaving the state to get a medical procedure that is illegal in that state. Data privacy is now deeply relevant to 50% of the population that have reduced rights relative to the other 50%, they just might not know it yet.
>Excessively loud noise in residential areas is banned because it releases hormones that make you feel bad. Although there's less room for such a ban to go wrong, obviously.

"Excessively" loud noise in residential areas is banned for a bunch of reasons, none of which have anything to do with hormones:

1. It's annoying and disruptive to the residents of the area. No hormones required;

2. It's often selectively applied to harass members of less-favored groups, to make them uncomfortable living in that area with the hope that they'll move out.
I'll tell you one thing though, EHRM user interfaces would almost certainly be less dogshit if the hospital admins who procure them had to actually use them.
I am not a fan of the "Password Fabric" - if you are, you are not my friend...
Sounded more like errands than personal projects
>just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it's a vulnerability.

Technical Vuln or Business Vuln?
+1 - The surest path to having someone copy your data and monetize it better than you is to present it in semantically sound ways.

Imagine a stock site that made real time prices readily available in a common format! Oh, it exists, but you have to pay for it...

And you don't need semantics for that, you want something more like Swagger.
The first paragraph resonates with me so well. I'm sorry that you went through a burnout.

+1 to the rest of the post. Very well said.
It's not the same thing though, accidental/incidental complexity is a much broader term.
Switzerland has a much more distributed system and that certainty does not lead to "optimizing for bill passage rate".

> because we've been doing exactly that since the 80s

One can do the right things badly.
Despite the popularity of Kubernetes health checks they are often not well understood. Take a deep dive and learn how incorrect usage can cause outages or worse in this DoorDash incident case study.
Of course. That's the point of in-app browsers right?
Jeff Geerling Is Sick
Jeff's been a great member of this site, so I thought I would at least post a call out - maybe do something for our resident Pi Master, instead of just noticing he hasn't been around.

Get better soon!
How does this compare to a timing belt?
> Everything in the universe is contingent, except for one thing which is necessary. Everything relies on that necessary foundation.

How do you know this?
I thought non-safari browser engines were banned
NoSQL is no longer cool
I think "universe" is an ambiguous word that is not helpful when we talk about this stuff. Like, for instance, you've probably heard of multiverse theory, where there is not just one universe, but many. In which case, "universe" means the subset of physical reality that we are a part of. Maybe there are other universes that truly exist, but there's no door between ours and theirs.

So maybe we can more precisely talk about all of physical reality, regardless of whether they exist in our universe or an alternative universe, or a realm that exists outside of the universe but influences or produces the material of the universe. Clearly, that includes all material things themselves, but might also encompass the non-material but very real and observable physical laws that govern how reality operates.

How can there be something outside of that physical reality? Well ... the Greeks had a word for that: meta-physics. And generally, when it is posited that something necessary exists (whether it be God or something else), that necessary thing exists metaphysically. So yes, as you are suggesting, a distinction does need to be made between physical reality and metaphysical reality for it to make sense that the universe (comprising only physical reality) is contingent.
I have a bad habit of working on important things that don't actually glitter, unblocking other teams and people constantly and recommending against shiny cool solutions, so promotions this year went to my two colleagues who took a glittery project, recommended a shiny shit idea, and have now delivered shit covered in glitter that is immediately getting sales/support feedback like um but it doesn't do what we needed and it is missing what we asked for.

I complained about a bug that blocked our CI for a week, which I'd shepherded around; that the company needs people to be prepared to work on things that they "don't own" because surprise, we don't have anyone assigned to owning the interaction of those six systems! Actual response: well, you didn't have to do that work.

Now let me go back to waiting for anyone to respond to any of the EIGHT CRs I have out, just as well I'm working from home so I can use the time to clean the toilet.
Still remember those days when overseas fax and phone require special permission (not sure about cable :-))) as they are expensive.

As IT guys, we start to do something new called internet which seems can connect to overseas !! And the admin guy found out … and they sort of require us for every dial up “request” to ask senior management approval. You know overseas. Expensive. to avoid the expensive fees. Need a bit of fight for awhile.

Those were the days.
"Top crypto VCs are constantly touting the potential of video games as one of the most compelling use cases for blockchain technology. Andreessen Horowitz partner Arianna Simpson, for example, who led the firm’s investment in crypto game Axie Infinity, has given countless interviews citing the play-to-earn model as a key catalyst to attracting “hundreds of millions” of people into web3."

Axie Infinity is a Ponzi scheme in the collapse stage. It has two tokens - AXS (peak around US$150, today US$18), and SLP, the one gamers earn (peak around US$0.36, today $0.0048.) Anybody plugging Axie at this late date is either clueless or in on the scam. Probably the latter.

“There’s a lot of cultural momentum around people equating blockchain with openness and trusting things that are decentralized on the blockchain.”

Now that's an insightful remark. The blockchain crowd has convinced many people that they have something decentralized when, in fact, it's usually very centralized. Try, as Moxie Marlinspike did, to do something with NFTs that OpenSea doesn't like. The people buying "virtual land" don't get anything that can't be taken from them by the system operator. It's possible to host NFT images on IPFS, which is distributed, but someone usually has to keep up the payments on the IPFS bill.

As for trust, that ship has sailed.
France and Norway are cushioning the impact of high energy bills in particular:

France: "..forcing the state-owned energy provider EDF to limit electricity wholesale price rises to 4 per cent for a year. The move is expected to cost €8.4 billion. The French government aims for this move to limit electricity price increases to 4 per cent, compared to an expected 45 per cent.

Norway: "According to a scheme introduced by the government in 2021, Norwegians only pay bills in full when prices are under 70 crowns (€7) per kWh. When energy bills pass that threshold, the government covers 80 per cent of the total."

Meanwhile in the UK, we have a self-absorbed government that has effectively 'checked-out' with no urgency to tackle cost-of-living crisis.