skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And no one would be surprised, coming from Adobe - destroyer of souls.
Signal has 100 million installs on Android alone. Arresting people for having Signal installed is not a scalable approach for a totalitarian state.
Okay I concede that Visual Studio is also good.

VS code is another crappy electron app. Why anyone would want to use electron for a text editor is beyond me.

C#/.NET are crap. Especially .NET. And a programming language that is not cross-platfrom is a joke. I know they have made some efforts to get it to work on other OS's but those are just as crappy as all their other stuff.

Nothing wrong with typescript, but I don't really see it as any kind of innovation. It's just JS with some guardrails.
Are you saying you get 18-45 miles from 16kgs of gasoline? If so, that’s amazingly bad.
It would be lot harder to block Signal if it's federated. It's harder to block Matrix.

First they created the problem with centralized network (and phone numbers required for registration, my ass), then they ask people to run proxies for them. They can also piggyback on TOR and their bridges, they can make registration easier, but no.

Also many people won't be able to run the proxy anyways because they already got something listening on http ports and it seems like this crap doesn't cannot be put behin. a regular web server as a virtual host.
Most RPG's really boil down to point accumulation and skill trees that don't affect the plot at all.

Which is a shame, because roles and skills could play a huge role in narrative if developers are able to put in the time. Some games do, the Fallout series often gives you different paths through the story depending on the abilities you've acquired.
Mankind would find, and has found, plenty of ways to self-destruct without ICBMs
This still brings up one of my bugbears for factorio - the inability to write comments/documentation.

I want to be able to make blueprints with complex, but well-defined and documented, input / output structures that I can look at in six months' time and still know how to connect up.
Well it is a new movie, at least by period standards.

Broadly speaking you've got the B&W era until the 70s, the "old classics" recorded in colour on actual film up till the 90s, then the period of questionable CGI and campiness up till somewhere like 2005 when what we feel like is new/recent cinema starts. The ongoing era of decent invisible CGI, quality digital cameras, and post-9/11 hopelessness.

It's why I still watch a lot of 90s/early 2000s movies, there's just something different about that era that feels nice.
Tangential, but how much protein should a guy with a light running hobby consume? All the interwebs state a bare minimum of 1 g per kg but I can't hit that with traditional Indian rice diet with small fish and meat portions and extra legumes. It should also predict that strong and healthy acquaintances with similar diet should be dying.
Why do we need to keep plugging the GPU directly into the board? Why can't GPU makers ship cables that go into the PCIe slots, and then connect to the GPU, then we can mount the GPU somewhere else in the case (perhaps case makers can start adding GPU slots where the DVD drives used to go or something).
> Then he went on Braintrust and met Stardust, a US-based NFT gaming company. They paid Singh to work remotely, ... In his first three months on Braintrust, Singh earned $50,000

I wish the best to the guy, yet i'm wondering does anybody think it is kind of fishy?
NVIDIA makes a socketed version of their data center GPUS. The socket is called SMX. It would be cool if consumer board partners and motherboard manufacturers used it too.
I guess I assumed that doctoral training would be more likely to draw from a fully qualified pool than undergraduate studies.
Lithium is a very valuable commodity and it is present in extremely dense quantities in used up batteries. It's probably cheaper to recycle it than to extract it from very low concentration brines or deposits in nature.

Recycling is not a problem but a huge business opportunity; which is why there are a lot of very big investments in this space happening. There are going to be a massive amount of used up batteries in a few decades full of valuable materials that can be extracted and sold at a profit. Anyone that can figure out how to recycle them cost effectively will be making a lot of profit.

Seriously, nobody is going to dump EV batteries in a landfill; that would be extremely stupid (and illegal in most civilized places). And if people somehow did this anyway, companies would popup to mine those landfills. Because why would you leave batteries in the ground that are contain tens/hundreds of dollars worth of raw materials? That's not going to be a thing.

A dead EV battery is actually worth more than most second/third hand ICE cars changing hands for a few hundred/thousand dollars. And those are recycled as well eventually. Including their lead acid batteries which in comparison are almost worthless. Just look up the kilo price of lithium. It's around 70$ currently. Lead is worth a bit under 2$/kg. Yet lead battery recycling is very successful. Scrap pricing for lead batteries is around 50 cents per kilo and recycling them is a profitable business.

A Tesla has around 12kg of lithium as well as few other valuable materials (depending on the model). So, the raw materials in a dead Tesla battery is worth at least 840$ (just the lithium). So when it dies, you don't trash it but you sell it to the highest bidder. Even if that price comes down a bit eventually, it's still going to be lucrative. There is not going to be a shortage of demand for lithium for the foreseeable future. It's a growth market that will keep on growing for a few decades.
Germany and Sweden are not "the whole Europe"
Of course, if you accidentally pass aliased pointers as restricted pointer arguments to a function, "no diagnostic is required".
After that happens we switch to neural chips, using the pc.
Before I upgraded my macbook air 2019 to an m1 I could barely visit most "big" websites. I remember a redesign of a specific store that went from "perfectly usable albeit a bit outdated in term of design" to "10x slower, looks nicer but usability is dog shit"
Most of it is bots, which is common sense since it is 2022. I dont get the problem there.
See also this very natty shadertoy demo https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdfBRX
What makes it especially interesting is Facebook's legal troubles in this context. It hasn't occurred to me before, but a monopoly with the threat of anti-trust hanging over it is any government's best friend.
Any update on this 24h on?

It would be really interesting to understand whether Meta is playing an active role in blocking the use of Whatsapp for users with a particular country code, but who are currently outside the affected country (as some trending but unsubstantiated posts on LinkedIn/Twitter allege), or whether it really is that easy for a single government to block the service globally for a subset of its users.
> It's hard not to look at scatterplots of things like SATs, GREs, and GPAs, and see a lot of randomness. Not pure randomness but it starts to be hard to justify to yourself when correlations of .1-.3 begin to be interpreted in the general public as if they were .9.

Do you have a link? Be keen to read about this.
Whistleblower: Pentagon purchased tool collecting Americans' web browsing data
The technology already exists to efficiently transform solar power into sugar. If needed, and with 10-20 years of improvements, it should be possible to feed everyone with 100x less agricultural land usage.
The red line indicates the hard shoulder but yes, even after the law change here in UK I have not seen much actual change on the road tbh regarding middle-lane hogging.

People are either ignorant, lazy or don't care as there is very little chance of being caught.
I used to be bothered by this, but in reality it works like a filter. The crappier the website, the crappier the content.
Yes, and also somewhat baity. We've replaced the title with a representative phrase from the article body.
These are real issues. Saying nuclear is too hard/too dangerous/too expensive/takes too long is the real FUD, simply because it's a wide range of significantly different technologies each with vastly different properties (whereas solar panels are all pretty similar and the problems are not with one particular kind but external - caused by how the solar panels are used). We need both/all.
What is the most bizarre thing to me about the online zeitgeist is how so many people will allow comments of anonymous or pseudonymous strangers on places like Reddit or Twitter to shape their world view. Including journalists. An extreme or inaccurate view may start on social media and be normalised through repetition on social media and subsequent validation by main stream journalist.

In the case of Reddit in particular what is it that gets people to trust anonymous strangers? It is bizarre and seems like a mind virus. If an anonymous stranger tells you what you want to hear then you are apt to ingest it uncritically.

For example on social media there is a notion that nuclear brinksmanship with Russia over Crimea is acceptable.
Exactly, in reality we don’t know much about these diseases, the way they spread, the effects. But there has been some mass hysteria that made them appear much more serious than they are. It could just have made few lines in the media and everyone would have continued their lives peacefully. Instead we had borderline totalitarian policies, cops arresting people taking a walk alone in forest, ridiculous absurd policies (in France) banning non-essential goods to be sold in markets. I’ve never seen such a collective nightmare but now I perfectly understand past nightmare I learned in history books…
Oh my god you solved it, can't believe we didn't think of air conditioners! So silly, alright pack it up everyone crisis averted.

We can't air condition the crops and our animal stock. We probably can't even air condition all the humans in every location. Texas can barely keep it's grid going right now.
I want back to my ai creations on NightCafe which I did 5 months ago. Almost all of them now looked pretty ugly/stupid now.

It was same as when I saw game play of NFS most wanted it looked so realistic, now it absolutely does not.

This effect is amazing, don't know if it has a name though.
If someone wants to argue against the scholarly consensus regarding the role of racism in lynchings in America, I'm happy for them to do so if they do it properly. That is, if they take on the best existing scholarship on the subject and give references to support their arguments. The OP's comment simply asserts that the existing consensus is wrong. I see no reason to take such an assertion seriously, or even to debate it. In the absence of any real effort to engage with the historical facts and scholarship it's mere apologism.
I think the article is trying to encourage you to realize there is a lot more practical steps you can do to map out the space of possible paths forward (which is of course also one way of making headway), than many people realize at first.
And still I don't waste paper and come to HN every day instead.
Have you seen cases these days? They already account for this.
Eternal hellfire, presumably.
Wildfire smoke is exposing millions of Americans to extreme pollution levels
I never cheated through university but did a lot as well through high school and cegep (pre-college in quebec). Was more like cheat sheets but also just checking what people wrote next to me, or plainly just work with someone next to me where we would pass each other papers with answers.

I have zero remorse. Having to do so much memorization is just not how my brain works. Now employed, I rarely memorize anything but you can bet I can find anything very fast.

I stopped in university mostly because the stakes were higher (you can get expelled for real). I also had to work harder in university because engineering was just so much harder than anything I did before. Also, most classes in uni let you have a sheet of notes instead of wasting time memorizing all those concepts.
It's a wave-particle, but the bulk of the page is an article written in 1989, without which the submission wouldn't be here, so we've gone with 1989.
I’m imagining the dirty, smelly, damaged car that I get blamed for breaking which was actually ruined by the previous user. It turned up late as there were too few in my area due to an event across town. My ‘moderate user’ plan wasn’t a ’plus’ plan for priority access and anyway, I’ve been down ranked due to the damage I didn’t cause.

Customer service is non-existent and I can’t afford to pay to remove the down rank event.
"Affordances are so called because many contemporary UI designers have deemed them too expensive."

I do not understand this. I know what "affordable" means and that it must be a word play, but I have no idea what the other meaning could be.
> Florida is purging libraries of unpopular political opinions

I think the fact that you deliberately expressed what's been a complicated, and almost exclusively school-board driven, phenomenon in such a simple way shows you either haven't read much outside the headlines, or are just hoping to pull people to your side while discouraging them to do any actual research.

Either way, your comment comes across as just as transparently politically motivated as the actions you're criticizing. If you don't like DeSantis and want him voted out, please just say that, it's not necessary to beat around the bush.
People have been hyping up small modular reactors for as long as I have been alive. They make total sense. And yet, there is not a single one is operation? I don't really care what tech gets us to cheap, abundant power, but given the cost curves of solar and batteries, it's hard to see anything competing.

Both are here, right now, and getting cheaper every year. Nuclear seems to be something climate skeptics points to as a way of doing nothing.
I've used both and don't find Antd to be better than mui. I find mui more enjoyable and more feature full but it seems to be a marginal difference.
That's true. "Harvard quality" means either:

- Very smart

- Connections to wealth and power

A bit over 2/5s of the white undergrads are admitted for the later. That came up in the Asian law suit. Similar mechanisms apply elsewhere, but we haven't had legal discovery (note: not speculation; insider knowledge).
So there is more space in US cities, but it can’t be done?
https://www.newsweek.com/kill-mockingbird-other-books-banned...

Sorry, that one's actually a school board in California, but the same idea applies here, right? The state is to blame?
Even if it plays out that way, I wonder if it plays out slowly or fast. For example, it could play out as increased rate of death due to cardivascular issues, somewhat "invisible" over time, or that people die in droves on particular hot days. In the end, it is terrible in both ways, but the perception in news etc would be different.
Wikipedia can be show to be biased or unbalanced about political issues. Since wikipedia views newspapers as reliable sources their articles are often skewed by whatever is the conventions of the day.
UK's Kwarteng to scrap top rate of income tax, cut basic rate from April
I understand how making a tax environment will spur growth, but not how personal income tax could do the same.
Doomsday predictions about millions dying in India is an age old trope since 1947. You could find such tropes in "Moon is the harsh Mistress" or "Le Camp des Saints" which sounded like the doomsday scenarios being talked about in this very thread.

While I understand that the climate change will hit India hard, (I witnessed it this summer personally), I still think we should not be quick to jump to assuming the destitution of millions as if it was a simple matter of statistics.

I have faith in science, human resilience and ingenuity and I tend to believe that the future doesn't have to be so grim and humans will find a way.
Ivermectin is a generic medication, and the use as horse-dewormer has made it a low cost commodity. So you can't make big bucks peddling it. Unlike new and patented vaccines.
It's the same syntax. There are no special operators in unsafe rust. All unsafe code is syntactically valid safe code. The reason it will not compile it because certain operations are not permitted, not because of syntax errors
They call it a problem for this:

> At its best, trading volume is one of the most measurable signs of investor interest, but it can be easily manipulated to convince novice investors that it has much more demand than it actually does.
Adventure games are almost always narrative driven and puzzle-oriented though, and without RPG elements (because if they had strong RPG elements they'd just be called RPGs).

The games of the Quest for Glory series [1] are most definitely adventure games, not RPGs, despite having some RPG elements. They also happen to be my favourite adventure games due to the way most puzzles have multiple solutions (intended for the different character classes but not strictly required by them).

The series is also one of the very few where you have the ability to export your character at the end of each game and import him into the next, allowing you to play all 5 games with the same character. This is made particularly interesting by the wildly different settings of each game as well as the evolving technology of the series.

Not everyone likes all of the games, however. My personal favourite is the 4th game, Shadows of Darkness, which is fully voice acted and narrated by John Rhys-Davies. I think they’re all worth playing through, however, especially by taking the same character all the way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_Glory
> Apt’s dynamic library mechanism is designed around C’s dynamic library support. This doesn’t work with many other languages. It certainly doesn’t work with rust, which doesn’t have an ABI.

Nothing's stopping them from shipping them as static libraries - with some simple tooling it's easy enough to figure out what needs rebuilds and automate it.

> There are too many rust packages, and they update too frequently for apt to keep up.

And what do you think cargo does to keep up? It uses a metadata system and a common build system across packages to make automatic discovery of dependency trees seamless. There's nothing stopping a debian maintainer from writing automatic tooling around this, in fact, it already exists[1].

> A dpkg wouldn’t even work on every version of Debian.

And neither does cargo as soon as there's a crate that requires a too new version of openssl or whatever other C library. The reality of the matter is that cargo can't express the full dependency tree including any cross-language or system-level dependencies.

> We have a similar problem with ruby gems, nodejs packages (in npm), etc etc.

I can name a few problems that make nodejs slightly different, and it's the fact that npm doesn't deal with source packages the way cargo does, it deals with binary packages that can include whatever flavor of bundled shared libraries du jour, probably only built for x86_64 and if you're lucky arm64, and with unclear source and/or build instructions or OS compatibility. Its build system also has support for defining custom build procedures and calling random binaries during build like the npm package for 7zip, which is also prebuilt. This, and the tendency to make microdependencies just doesn't mesh well with distributions that need to make sure everything has corresponding source and can be built reproducibly.

Ruby gems have been solved since they've been around for longer, as have python packages, even though the latter keeps introducing wrenches to make packaging harder.

> Cargo, npm, and friends run rings around apt from the point of view of developer mindshare, ease of use, platform independent packaging, and so on.

Maybe, but they introduce their fair share of problems as well. I've already mentioned the piss poor support for cross-language dependencies, but let's mention that the "stores" the packages for these are published to are only moderated after the fact - it's really easy to introduce malware into these stores without anyone noticing, and it's happened a bunch of times. Distributions make sure the binaries correspond to the sources[2], and the maintainers are the first to spot any obvious malware or breakage in software as a result of a change. Sometimes it goes under their noses as well[3], but these cases are much more rare than npm breakage. In general, the distribution model allows for better trust and security, and I think this is something that should be valued more than it currently is.

[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo/

[2]: https://reproducible-builds.org/

[3]: https://www.theregister.com/2015/06/17/debian_chromium_hubbu...
Nitpick: latin.
The world is moving closer to a new cold war fought with authoritarian tech
> pudmed

A more appropriate typo I haven't seen in a while. I'd definitely read pudmed.

(For those with English as a second language, "pud" is a folksy abbreviation for "pudding".)
I guess it depends on the publication record. But a bad publication record from someone who came from a prestigious place gets an extra negative from someone who came from an average place.

On the other spectrum, someone from nowhere solving something big makes huge headlines (mathematician from unknown place solves millennia-old problem). At that level it doesn’t matter where you came from, you’re in.

It’s the muddy middle that becomes difficult to assess. Two people who have published decently but not great. Nothing remarkable about them. Then prestige may factor in to their benefit.
Nest Home Login page can be reached using the nest app. You can always download the app from the leading app stores easily. Search for the app and download it. Once installed, you can proceed with the Nest login process easily. You can use the default nest account credentials to access the Nest devices and begin managing them easily.
Nothing in particular - VRAM was the core of all the cards thise days, the serial port shift register (inside the VRAM) fed muxes that in turn fed luts and out to the display.

The VRAM array was 2 sets of 96 bits wide - the accelerator was in part a 1:4 24:96 mux that drove the VRAM array - that's how the dumb frame buffer worked.

I'd spent a year before all this writing code to grab stats figure out where the mac graphics code spent it's time, initially we'd expected to optimise drawing vectors (ie lines - autocad was driving the parallel PC graphics market at the time) - my big discovery was that for the sorts of workloads that our customers were using 99% consisted of just 4 operations:

- solid fills (>90%)
- patterned fills
- copying within the FB (ie scrolling)
- writing text (quite low by important for the DTP market)

I wrote the spec for the first 2 cards (to do the first 3 operations) and the went off to design the 3rd chip (modelled in C, turned into an inch thick spec describing the state machines and data paths and then passed to someone else to make gates)

I added a hack on top of the copy primitive to accelerate text hiliting.

So that accelerator chip also contained a state machine did 4 simple things as fast as it possibly could (solid fills used magic modes in the VRAMS, it could fill at 1.5Gbytes/sec - faster than the high end 3D hardware at the time)

In the end the text fill was useful, but not that much faster (it turned 1-bit font images into 24-bit pixels on the fly), all that cool hardware was pissed away by the way the underlying apps used the font rendering subsystem (page maker invalidated the font cache every line, quark did an N-squared thing, etc)
Thanks for that referral.

On a side note: I like Swift for the most part, but the last time I looked at upcoming language features they seemed like a kitchen-sink approach that's bloating the language and would better have been left to libraries. I've read this sentiment in more than one place, too.