skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is why RMS and FSF tried to get the software under their control. Thankfully, they are much less adept at it than the commercial firms, so that attempt ultimately failed.
Chrome is investigating ways to mitigate bounce tracking on the web
> A windowless room with a community bathroom doesn't sound appealing,

It also likely doesn't meet Fire code, which is there for a pretty good reason.
He was not a Russian citizen living in Russia during that time. So there is a huge difference.
Which is totally irrelevant to the product, the company and the users experience.

This gossip costed Mozilla its last chance to get back on its feet IMO.
If a single executive goes to prison for something like this, even just for a few months, it will drastically reduce the willingness to break the law from these companies no matter how huge they are.
That's the use case where Makefile shines.

Though it's not a particularly good one, the dependencies are lacking. Eg, .html doesn't depend on .texi, and so this one won't work right.

IMO, Makefile is at its best on small projects with trivial rules and no configuration. Once you go to a generator it's a waste, because it's not human friendly anymore. And complex projects want something more like cmake anyway.
They had a similar issue with Stripe few months ago which was partly resolved (Stripe unblocked 70% of money which was enough to them to go on with production).
> Real "house price" for a given house should actually go down over time, because it gets older

House, as in structure, yes. Home, as in structure + land, probably not. Real wages are higher today than they were in the 80s [1]. One would expect some of that to filter into land value.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
No; Bauble doesn't know how to "rasterize" SDFs into meshes; it only knows how to raymarch them. It's theoretically possible, but it's a pretty complex problem that would take me much too long to figure out and implement. So Bauble is relegated to just making pretty pictures for now. If you want to produce meshes using SDFs, check out https://libfive.com/
For years, I had a poster which looked like your average Ishihara test in my office - an assortment of random dots. If you had normal colour vision, that is.

If you were the right kind of deficient, though, it read 'Color vision? We don't need color vision where we are going!'
I don't really get it. It seems like one of those theoretical potential privacy violations, but seems more like an academic exercise than anything exploitable.

I guess the idea is, someone can derive data about what you clicked based on some side channel (DNS queries? wifi activity? power draw?).
The reasons I like IPFS:

- The address of a file has no relation to the machine hosting it (it's just a hash of the contents). Unlike HTTP and DNS, which rely on machine-specific IP addresses

- I can host files on multiple unreliable machines (e.g. a powerful desktop, a mostly-always-on raspberry pi and a couple of frequently off/disconnected laptops). As long as at least one machine's online, the files are still available. Doing this for HTTP requires some sort of load-balancer (a single point of failure), plus mechanisms for discovery, authentication, etc.

- Since IPFS uses a content hash, all copies of a file will get served from the same address; hence anyone with a copy of a file can bring its address back to life. With HTTP, people can host their own copies of files that get taken down or disappear; but their copy's address will be different from the original, and hence all hyperlinks to the original will remain broken. (Note that it's not perfect, since IPFS can perform hashing in a few ways, e.g. to better support streaming; and that results in different addresses)

This is really useful for stuff like git repos, software packages, etc.
> Ebright simply stated what all existing evidence points to, that the closest candidate bats are 1000 miles away

You added the word "candidate". I agree with what you wrote. Your framing doesn't imply an incorrect conclusion, though it also lacks any rhetorical punch (probably the reason Ebright skipped it) since we don't have any "candidate" leak evidence either. Good job.
Any request you make to Google's servers, including something as innocuous as e.g. Google Fonts can be used to shape and track you, your habits, and so on.

When it goes through a proxy, that becomes much more difficult.
I think that would be quite difficult, as raymarching does not produce polygons, so you'd need a way to polygonize the resulting sdf. Maybe marching cubes?
> A phone (hi iOS), a video game console, a smart appliance, etc. are examples of this.

Related to this: iirc, games for the Xbox One (and presumable the latest generation 'Series' consoles) always run in a VM, with their own kernel and graphics drivers.
Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy. Thus the army will have food enough for its needs.

--Sun Tzu, The Art of War
I expected many things to be critiqued here, but this certainly wasn't one of them

Jeez.
> it only works for fixed-sized arrays

It also works for variable length arrays.

void f(int n)
{
float a[n];
int m = sizeof a / sizeof *a;
assert(n == m);
}
I love the idea of a good cross platform sandbox to ship apps. I think it's really unfortunate that we chose a web browser to be that application platform.

The underlying technology is terrible. HTML and CSS are for displaying documents. Things which should be trivial to add to an application UI (add a ListView, anchor element X to be left of element Y, etc) are nigh impossible without using some bloated toolkit anyway. JS is a slow and brittle language to work with.

The fact that the web became an application delivery platform is an unfortunate historical accident that I am not sure we can recover from.

If we devoted 10% of the engineering that went into "web technology" into an actual dedicated cross platform application platform, it would be way better than the web is today. Faster, less bloat, better technology so that we don't need frameworks on frameworks to do a hello world, etc.
Ah. That could also be it as I obviously didn't control for that and missed that critical piece. So maybe this study is legit after all. Hard to say.
I think this one is it. I'm an illustrator and it's mind-bogglingly cool how good these are even if they're still not really prime time. It makes me wonder what it can be applied to other than silly pictures.
Most people are constantly doing upgrades to their homes, as well as maintenance.
> It's more about the "feel" of the city than the "real", unfortunately.

Well, yes, that's the problem. It's a perception easily manipulated, by media breathlessly covering the latest incident, interest groups like police unions making false claims, etc. Americans have a wildly incorrect perception of what crime has done over the last ~50 years.
> It would appear us SQLite zealots have encountered the final boss.

That's cute. :)

There isn't much value in feeding it all into a conventional RDBMS. OLAPs and columnar stores are what is needed here. But first it will need a great deal of grooming and ETL work.
Yeah, that is probably a factor to some degree. I don't doubt it.

But the more salient one probably is the social climate of rapidly increasing public distrust, desperation, not giving a shit about each other in society, the zeitgeist as it were. These kinds of wooly vague things do really matter, you know.

For example:

Do you remember the 2004 northeastern blackout? Of course you do. A third the US/Canada population was without power for a day or two. Nothing terrible happened, no rioting or anything. A lot of observers were amused, relieved by this, because the last big NYC metro area blackouts in the 1970s immediately triggered severe rioting.

And clearly, the zeitgeist was quite different in 2004 than in the "End of Growth" supply-crunched 1970s.

Considering how dramatically the national mood was shifted by the pandemic, I would not actually be surprised if the rise in crime was largely caused by that.

Another example: Did you know violent crime and rioting are significantly more common in the summer than winter? A statistical fact that goes back a long, long time.

I advise not being so quick to dismiss the effects of such things, even if they seem more abstract and less simple to understand. The world isn't simple.
Title is from this tweet: https://twitter.com/wanderview/status/1567219437190643714 , but it seemed better to link directly to the document pointed at in that tweet.
Performance tuning is important. Things like `random_page_cost`, or `effective_cache_size` are important to understand – especially with nvme drives, or databases that partition data across multiple disks (eg. hot data on nvme, stale data on spinning disks).

But...

> Being a DBA is more than just writing queries

> I had to get help from the DBA to find where it was going wrong and rewrite it

Just wanted to chuckle at this. I agree with the point — you want to write as close to the metal as possible in SQL. It's the same with ORMs. That means... writing SQL, not an intermediate language. Although https://prql-lang.org/ looks great!
So what's your point then? Everything made by a Russian is bad or what? :)
They should just make it an option to opt into.
If the "the homeless, mentally ill and drug addicted" can live in a tent they can live in a house. They may need assistance, the house may be nearly a blast-proof concrete box, but it can be made to work.

Houston has done it, and it can be done: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/headway/houston-homeless-...
Chromium still allows Google to dictate a lot of the internet.

IE6 still allows Microsoft to dictate a lot of the internet.

the more things change...
The browser is inefficient. Use a modern website on a ten year old laptop and it is close to unusable because of modern web dev practices. That laptop is still perfectly usable for a lot of things.

The modern web drives obsolescence second only to gaming, but while gaming is user driven and entertainment focused (i.e. not essential), the web is megacorp driven and also includes necessary modern infrastructure.

That is all around a bad thing.
You say you know Facebook ”… a lot better than 99% of those who will comment…”, could you be a little more specific as to how/what you know? Are you talking about being personally acquainted with executives, privy to internal communications, or familiar with the code base?
Depends on the size of architectural changes needed. I've worked in industry a while though and architectural changes to enable better optimizations happen all the time. You can't know you need a v2 until you've built v1 and understand what the problems with v1 are in production / where things fall down.
2017: 56
2018: 46
2019: 41
2020: 48
2021: 56
2022: 50 (projected)

In fact, it looks like murders in San Francisco have been in roughly that range since 2009 (https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ca/san-francisco/murde...).
What's the threat model?

For McMurdo: is there a situation where neither the US nor New Zealand (partners, run the next nearest Antarctic base and technically "control" the land McMurdo is on through wild politics and loopholes in political treaties) can send supplies?

It's an interesting exercise, certainly, but the kinds of doomsday scenarios where that is likely to occur, humanity as a whole may have much larger concerns than if the people stranded at McMurdo might survive.

Planning a space base certainly has a much longer list of not even quite doomsday scenarios to consider where contact/supplies/cargo runs are all the more infeasible. You can't account for all possible scenarios, but what are the threat models worth concerning about when all of the nations with spaceflight capabilities and all of the private corporations now with spaceflight can't and/or won't help out if humans are stranded on a base in space without possible contact? What are the cases where problems on Earth dwarf any humanitarian missions to space? I'm sure there are such threat models. I certainly don't know enough about them to talk to them to any detail. It's a bunch of entangled, interesting questions. Preparing for those scenarios may not necessarily require, a priori, expecting a base to survive with absolutely zero contact from the rest of humanity for extended periods of time. We may be able to assume a baseline of contact and know that breaks from that baseline risks the lives of people. I don't know. What's the threat model?
Price transparency is an essential part of a healthy market. Or so says the theory. I hope they release it. I wonder what I can do to help? I’m capable in db design, sql, etc being a data engineer by day perhaps I can help this effort.
Yet, "this guy"'s comment was an interesting read, while yours was not.
I can read, thank you.
Ask HN: Why do companies want us “back in office” despite productivity costs?
I might be too 'junior' to grok what goes behind the curtains. When I did a quick survey amongst my software friends, all of their workplaces have been pushing for bringing people back in offices. Some are a bit soft and coy about it ("From November, we will allow you to choose WFH for half the week!"), And some are straightforward "you have to".

In my workplace, the management itself reported high remote productivity. Despite this, we will be asked to work remotely only half the time. They even have a big new building in city center location.

Is it simply something cynical, e.g. Trying to hold on to prime real estate, or somplyyabout control? Or is there indeed legitimate net benefit to working in offices?
in June 2022, i was in SOMA for the first time since Feb. 2020. it was like a ghost town compared to back then. absolutley wild.
MY first experience with Heavybit was working for a devtools startup as an employee. They have continued to provide amazing content and events for early stage devtools companies and look forward to the future companies that get added to their portfolio.
Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought Facebook's solution to the Washington law was to no longer run political ads in Washington.

Testing this out right now, from my home in Washington, if I try to create an ad and mark it as political, I'm told I need to get authorized to be able to run such an ad.
I think people in the comments are assigning "DCA" to either (3) or (4) below, but having different assumptions about what the alternative might be...

1. Have a pile of cash to burn and invest it immediately, to maximize time in market

2. Have a pile of cash and sit on it to "time" a later lump sum entry to the market

3. Have a pile of cash and invest it incrementally for some ramped entry to the market

4. Have recurring income and invest it immediately as it becomes available

5. Have recurring income and save/buffer it up to revisit the alternatives (1)-(3)

6. Use credit to obtain a pile of cash ahead of income and revisit the alternatives (1)-(3)
Ask HN: What would it take to go from 0 to contributing to fusion research?
Clearly very hypothetical but what would it take (time, effort, money, etc) to learn about nuclear fusion and become useful enough to contribute towards its advancement?

It strikes me as a key area for humanities advancement on and off Earth but one that doesn’t have much backing.

I was thinking if someone theoretically had enough financial security to not have to worry about money again and was starting over from scratch, would it be possible?
the flashing/buzzing/squawking device in your pocket does this quite well.
Having a strong opinion you're willing to advocate for doesn't make the opinion any less valid in my book
Is that really the case? Wasn't London Breed supposed to be ostensible a pragmatic centrist to solve the city's woes? During the 2020 election she ultimately backed Bloomberg after Harris dropped out.
Hello Haskell, Goodbye Lisp
> contempt of court

what
The answer is nothing, because a browser without significant adoption is bound to have some inevitable issues. I've tried Orion, for instance, but the fact that 1Password is not signing extensions so that IPC works on these browsers (rightfully so, because it'd be easy to grab your entire vault) already makes it not worth considering. It also would likely need to be proprietary, because selling binaries doesn't really work too well if your product picks up steam. Which then conflicts with the privacy promise.

Ungoogled Chromium is probably your best bet.
Unlikely. The tweet thread says they asked for compliance information related to the business (address etc), which to me indicates it was sanctions-related.

I don't understand how they left $1.3m sitting in a single account however. Surely they're not paying for bulk h/w component orders through PP.
I just spent a week in Minneapolis and the downtown core is as clean, new, well maintained and well ordered as I have ever seen it.

It was also dead.

Weekday morning skyway traffic looked like a weekend or a holiday. New office campuses … tumbleweeds. My hotel was almost empty.

That’s an enormous amount of (relatively recent) investment that is now of questionable value.
Where/how can I keep an eye on this? Also, as someone getting into C++ for graphics programming, what should I add to my curriculum?
> This type of scapegoating doesn't seem prevalent in other real estate markets like California

At least from 2012-2018 - in my circles - everyone was blaming "Chinese cash-buyers" for a lot of problems.

I think 3 things:

1) Vancouver has a MUCH higher ratio of immigrants - especially immigrants that feel comfortable enough with their long-term situation - to purchase than in LA or San Diego. The Bay area might be close.

2) Although the percentage of foreign buyers is less than 10% in Vancouver and not the actual reason for the problem - that ratio is a lot higher than in LA, San Diego, or The Bay. It's closer to 1% in CA.

3) Most importantly, Vancouver's price to rent & income (after taxes) are BAT$HIT insane compared to California.

So although it's not the reason for Vancouver's high prices - and no one should be talking about it - it's not surprising that people talk about it more in Vancouver than in LA.
I read the comment you linked. They seem to be eloquent and have good reason to dislike Facebook. Other commenters seem to agree with their views as well.

I’m not sure what your intention is here, but this makes it feel like you’re taking a stance FOR Facebook/Meta and trying to discount numair’s feelings about FB which seem valid.

This reads like a bot/paid commenter trying to de-legitimize real and honest discussion about the topic at hand.
I can see what you mean, but another way of looking at it is: Most investments are done with the expectation of it being worth more down the line, so someone(s) thinks there are a hundred million reasons why it is a profitable business. :-)

But maybe "are they profitable" is the wrong question. I remember 5 years ago my brother in law said "Tesla isn't profitable" and I countered with "They don't want to be profitable right now, they are growing an inventory and investing heavily in that. Showing a profit is the last thing they want to do." He seemed to be accept that answer, I mean now he has 2 Teslas. :-)
We’re largely in agreement, but I think words like “absurd” are too strong in an Internet forum no matter how slightly it was intended because it doesn’t travel well. I also wanted to preemptively explore a possibility; that wasn’t to suggest it was something you said (you didn’t) or something I was advocating for (I’m not), just to flesh out the discussion here for future readers of this forum by offering up another perspective. I just don’t think there’s a good universal fix for this whether it’s an essential absurdity or an inconvenience, but as you can see in the other responses to me, some reading this will take what you or I said in a different and entirely predictable direction.

I just want people reading you, before they get to the “what can we do to resolve this situation?” phase to think through the implications and knock-on effects of trying to address it at all and the manner in which they do so.

Cheers!
It doesn't take much "research" to arrive at "politicians will give voters what they want and pass the buck on paying it."
Rusty Vue Compiler: Vue Compiler Rewritten in Rust
Evan You says:

Maybe in the long run we want the whole transform (and even the Vue compiler!) to be implemented in native Go/Rust so performance would no longer be a concern ;)

Future is now!
I'm the author. A question I have is: how did so many prices ever get negotiated in the first place? What kind of systems are in place to do this kind of micro-negotiation?
They can be, but in large parts of Michigan they haven't been - a quick check says 15% of power lines are buried. So any weather event that risks damage to tree limbs also risks power outages.
Perhaps a Walter White quote is fitting here: "I'm in the empire business."
Using Coalton to Implement a Quantum Compiler
It pretty clearly means that Facebook makes conscious decisions on how to weight what is displayed to users with the intention of politically influencing millions of people. Examples are probably difficult unless there's source code available from different eras of Facebook with a strict chain of custody, which obviously won't happen.
https://peps.python.org/pep-0203/ says:

> The idea behind augmented assignment in Python is that it isn’t just an easier way to write the common practice of storing the result of a binary operation in its left-hand operand, but also a way for the left-hand operand in question to know that it should operate on itself, rather than creating a modified copy of itself.

Here's an example of how "a += b" is not syntactic sugar for "a = a + b". First, "a = a + b", which rebinds 'a' to a new object while leaving 'b' bound to the original:

>>> a = b = [9,8]
>>> a + b
[9, 8, 9, 8]
>>> a = a + b
>>> a
[9, 8, 9, 8]
>>> b
[9, 8]

Second, "a += b", which keeps both a and b bound to the same object:

>>> a = b = [9,8]
>>> a += b
>>> a
[9, 8, 9, 8]
>>> b
[9, 8, 9, 8]
I eat fast and spend less time in the shower to find the time to comment. A few moments “stolen” here and there add up.

I have not tracked my time spent writing comments or how often I comment. I will add those data points to my productivity tracking system.
Here is a longer presentation from same author from this year about lack of copper to even start with renewables as planned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBVmnKuBocc
Yeah I wrote a quick `all` rule in the Makefile:

all: c.info c.pdf c.dvi c.doc c.html c.txt

After building I am getting the title really badly shifted to the right and no contents page. It could be that my tex package is a little broken though.
Yup, I needed to replace my office music player so I picked up an Onkyo from Japan. Yahoo Auctions has good deals as well.
> Many companies use artificial intelligence systems to screen CVs. Here’s how to avoid their biases and exploit their weaknesses

You can be sure that the developers of those systems will start tuning them to counter advice like this. Then someone else will come up with other hacks, which will then be thwarted. And on and on and on in a strange arms race.
I was really into Scala from 2007-2011. I even presented at conferences. Still like it, but after a while it become apparent that is will always be a niche language and Java 8 and Kotlin (which I think of as kind of a 'Scala--') was functional enough for my tastes.
Lots of things would not have individual passwords,

Including

1. Hardware Passwords

2. BreakGlass Accounts (used if SSO Fails)

3. Vendor Passwords

4. Recovery Passwords

5. Local Admin Passwords for Servers

We also use it to store Backup Encryption Keys, VPN Tunnel Keys, SSL Cert Passwords, File Encryption Passwords, License Keys, etc etc etc

We also have our own Personal Vaults that are indivualized, so we can access both our Personal Passwords and Company passwords in one interface, that is Cross OS, Cross Browser, and has API for programming interfaces.

none of which is possible with BrowserBased or OS Based Password Storage.