skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This guy invented the MOSFET, which is the underpinnings of pretty much every modern microprocessor.

Nobody knows his name. He is "Not as Famous as He Should Be."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_M._Atalla
Yeah, because Carlsen's is only a sample of 426 games

The first 4 are the most interesting, having same sample size of 4000. But across the board players tend to have little distinction between choosing moves between 0.0 & 0.1, except one player
Yes, basically the Biden government has been elected on this particular point.

The whole free world wants to reduce global warming, so democratic governments want too, in agreement with the population wish.

Same in France, where ecology has been a huge point of debate during the elections.

Same in many countries, etc...
Not unsolvable - just difficult. Systematic problems driven by social incentives are very difficult to solve. But they can be solved. Especially if the institutions in question get behind solving them.

In the case of science, a lot of the bad incentives are created by a combination of the institutions (university administrations and granting agencies) and by the scientists themselves. It'll take both working together to change the incentives and solve the problems. But it can be done.
I don’t think it’s the YouTube economy so much as it is the creative economy. If you produce creative content, you are at the mercy of the whims of your audience. Even in profitable or well-funded businesses, there’s a constant existential threat associated with the whims of the audience changing.

Yup. Generally speaking, people value content like this as pretty much having, well, no value at all. They don't want to pay for it, and they'll go out of there way to make sure they pay as little as possible for it.

In fact, I would even go further and suggest that many people feel that all jobs, except for whatever job/industry they are in, as having little to no value and should be done for nothing.
Because patriotic gestures make some people happy?

Its no "freedom fries," but when the UK is facing a record-cold winter without natural gas from Russia, perhaps some people are feeling particularly peeved.

It'll pass.
Not disagreeing with you at all. Just saying that "horror" and fear of the unknown was much more normalized in times where you could quite easily be lost in the woods and eaten by a bear (or witch or dragon). What they might view as normal life would be a horror or dystopian setting for the modern reader.

> The very voice of it even reads more modern and like something from that genre, in sharp contrast to the prior two sections.

I've read criticism that the whole thing is closer to the modern novel than virtually anything else for centuries. And it really rang true on my most recent reading of it, unfortunately many years ago. I'm going to need to revisit.
The winds don't seem to be blowing in the direction of true autonomous driving through. The hype cycle seems to have died down and the sense of reality is setting in.
The Russians blew up their own brand-new pipeline, which they spend billions creating (jointly with the Germans) and is one of the few major "hopes" to salvage that relationship, especially as winter dawns.

That's frankly absurd.

Russia almost certainly sabotaged a LNG terminal in Texas a few months ago (industrial cyberattack). This act was almost certainly done by Washington or their proxies. It drives the wedge further between EU and Russia and makes the EU further dependent on Washington. The cui bono is pretty clear.
I don't exactly see Apple as a AI powerhouse, maybe that's coloured by Siri though.
It was completely obvious at the time that people were buying smartphones because of the computer and not the phone.

Otherwise they wouldn’t have caught on.
Poland has an ideal device for this sabotage

https://www.gospodarkamorska.pl/zdjecia/artykul/25081/135779...
Those credits aren't particularly relevant any more. Several years ago they were essential and made up practically the entirety of their profits, but today they're just a side-gig. In Q2'2022: $300m credits, $16 billion in total revenue, 2.3B in profit.
Fair call Russia might have done it for those and other reasons.

However

1) Was there any gas flowing at all? Sure anything can cause speculation.

2) This also makes it a convenient timing for the western allies to do it, including Norway. Germany is way too complacent with Russian for US liking.

3) Such more so the US in terms of operatives in Europe and Russia. Who says the US is sensitive to gas prices in Europe?

Also Biden said they would do it. And at this point capabilities are not laking in either side.

But no we're not going to know for sure for a while.
What do you (or others) see as its advantages relative to other similar offerings like those of AWS, GCP, Deno, Netlify, etc.?
I don't think this was some kind of psy op to drive a wedge between NATO countries as there aren't any benefits from that in the current situation.
The only situation my tin foil hat could imagine this being useful is in the event of much stronger tension (like the constant threat of using nukes). This would need a coordinated reaction in which distrust could be fatal. For supplying weapons or sanctions that distrust is not doing much as politically Germany and its allies are more or less on the same page.

However, the blown pipes limit the movement of the German government. It is more stable towards protests if a cold winter occurs as there is no option left to appease Russia as the restrictions in the gas sector aren't a product of a revertible decision anymore. Being cold can't be ignored, which a war in Ukraine can be.
In addition, any half-baked compromise Russia could offer accompanied by influencing Germany's opinion with gas isn't an option anymore.

In the end, this could even benefit Germany which lacks clear and brave decisions of its leaders. Not deciding if you want to evade the wall you are driving onto right or left eventually leads to crashing into it
Eh, I tested it with a language I speak and it was almost comically bad. Grammar constructions nobody would use, mixing vocabulary from two different variants in the same sentence, etc.
It helps to be a bit more nuanced. I hate JS' guts, mind, you but even I know that Svelte makes things easier and more predictable.

That almost everything on the frontend is over-engineered, I don't think any reasonable programmer would disagree with. It's true.

But since people are stuck with HTML, CSS and JS they try hard to make it more manageable. Pieces of tech like HTMX and Svelte improve the status quo. Not everything is bad in there.

...That still doesn't mean I want to do frontend work though, heh.
So glad I was able to see it when I went to the British Museum.
Nah, it's quite the opposite.

It's getting cold now, there are internal pressures in many EU countries to fuck this war and sit down with putin and make an agreement so russia can reopen the gas lines. Putin knows that, and probably has a list of conditions ready to reopen them.

If the pipes are destroyed, even if people protest, there's no way to get russian gas again (atleast not fast and cheaply), and no incentive for EU to talk with putin... and the only ones profiteering from this are americans, selling overpriced gas to europe, even worsening the EU-Russia relations and destroying the european economy.
The "ecoterrorist" option is just ridiculous, the methane leak is disaster for the climate.
Will Apple and Google remove other Russian apps like FaceApp etc.?
GNU Make does not have a rule for “*.c++” files, either.

Do you have a reference to the advice to disable default rules? It sounds counterproductive to me.
This comment asks all the right questions!

This allows CF to construct a person graph, which is the only power Facebook have in the advertising business. ;)

This will also allow CF to police WebRTC and block people out, like they already do for the rest of the internet. Get ready to answer webRTC captcha(TM) on every call if you use linux or such.
The only problem I might have with Vonnegut is that I could use more of his novels. Some of his books easily derail into author's explicit commentary on things—which is fun too in its own way, but leaves less space for more subtle jabs in the course of an actual plot.
ed: got this wrong, ignore!

> Russia wants the taps capable of being turned ON at their discretion, not permanently broken. This hurts their bargaining position in a big way because they've just lost their biggest source of leverage against Germany.

As I understand it this leak is in the new NordStream 2 pipeline and NordStrem 1 is unaffected, so they can still supply gas in to the EU through NS1.
There are a couple of blog posts and associated papers on TAO:

https://engineering.fb.com/2013/06/25/core-data/tao-the-powe...
https://research.facebook.com/publications/flighttracker-con...
https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/18/core-data/ramp-tao/
https://engineering.fb.com/2022/09/07/open-source/taobench/

I work on TAO consistency at FB and we've put out a bunch more articles/papers in the past couple years. Until 2 years ago, there was just the 2013 paper on TAO itself.
Wouldn't people have said the same thing with cell phones back in the day? In fact I had a discussion with an Apple store employee asking what they thought about the rumor that Apple was going to be releasing a phone. He said that there was no way Apple would even want to be in that space. I'm not saying they will get into cars, but you just never know.
Yes, while the ångström is often used for bond lengths, I've only heard of picometers used for smaller lengths.
>I think we are all very obviously not at all talking about the kind of situation you describe.

Not really. My words were some people will hate you even if you do everything right. This was an example of a situation that was handled right but the person ended up hating me and slandering me for years afterwards. Just because I would not allow the company to fund their get rich quick scheme instead of their job.

I've even found people that I did not manage that got fired blamed me sometimes. Like all of mgmt was some evil cabal that conspired together to fire them cause thats what we really want instead of making the company money so we can all get out paychecks.

What people are doing is going off on a tangent of how they don't agree with how I handle the grey area stuff. There is a great deal of Silicon Valley worldview going on as well. The majority of the working world has lots of politics and pettiness going on along with power struggles and backstabbing. You cant be S.V. idealistic and keep your MGMT job in the middling business world.
What would be the reaction of the US population if this would have been done by some the US?

As an European, I'd see that as an huge act of treachery from one of our ally, but I'm really wondering if the US public reaction would be positive or negative.
The Bullshits I Did. Don’t Do You Too

This my best attempt at compressing my last 15 years into a single blog post.

It includes:
an unexpected success on YouTube
a TV appearance
a change,
and failure...
> The next question is, who did it? It doesn't seem like something in Russia's interest, they've been wanting to get that pipeline approved and operational. They invested huge sums of money to build it after all.

NS2 never entering service was settled for good over 200 days ago.

NS1 has been shut down by Russia, but it was at best dubious before this whether it would ever be used operationally again.
Designing an algorithmic cloud infrastructure provisioning system
A couple of years of ukranians shelling the prorussian regions were a good enough reason.... considering that nato used the same one to bomb serbia in 1999.
Makes me wonder if this will result in any computational chemistry projects needing to be reworked.
What happened to Tandy computers
Ask HN: Anyone going to the GraphQL Summit next week in San Diego?
The Oso team will be there and we'd like to meet some folks in person. We've found a lot of success with GraphQL users using our product to solve their authorization problem. Here's an article to read more: https://www.osohq.com/post/graphql-authorization

Feel free to reach out to me directly (erin at osohq dot com) if you're interested. Our co-founders, Graham Neray and Sam Scott will be there.

Cheers!
What's with this fascination with making python fast? It's not supposed to be fast, it's supposed to be simple. If you want speed use a compiled language. Trying to make python fast is like trying to strap a turbocharger to a tricycle.
If there's one thing I really want out of an afterlife it would be access to an objective history book. It would be so fun to compare to our history
And that could be the problem if you try to access an element by id but a variable has the same name.
This renders this option pretty useless.
I admire KV. We must also recognize he lived, that he lived in a certain time, and that some of his writings deal with some of the events and attitudes that existed in a certain time.
> Edit: these things are censored in google, Wikipedia etc by US state actors. We largely have to go on the words of people like Max Blumenthal and others who have been largely censored and scrubbed from easy access by these same state apparatuses or wait until foia requests reveal what they always reveal about our benevolent state.

Max Blumenthal is a Russian propagandist who is a regular guest on Russian state backed networks such RT and Sputnik. I wouldn't trust anything he has to say about anything.
Why would you use .c++ instead of the standard .cpp?
Honestly, we too often forget that science works in the aggregate. There are far, far too many things that can go wrong in any individual study - from biases, to mistakes, to outright fraud, to just bad luck and weird statistical flukes. It's only after we've had several replications that we can really say we think something might be true, and only after many replications that we can say we "know" something.

This aspect of science seems to have been lost both in the public's imagination and - all too often - in the institutions own understanding and approach.
I was just going to say this. The credits definitely do not double their margins, it adds 2% to their 11% base margin for a total of 13%
Stack Overflow trends: Weekday vs. weekend site activity
That's cool, but you can't run standards. I tried Mono since its early days and kept trying until .NET Core came, but it was nowhere near production-ready, it wasn't enough for my school assignments, much less production.

I'm not saying it changes anything. Wasm is just a more modern attempt, like .NET itself. I don't see any reason to prefer one or the other only because of its age.
VK has not been targeted with sanctions, despite what the article implies (though with scare quotes). VK's CEO is personally sanctioned due to being an "adult child of someone who had been a Russian government official" (source Reuters[0]), but VK the company is not sanctioned.

This is a shameful unilateral decision by Apple, let there be no ambiguity.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/vk-results-idINL5N2V601G
Let us know if you need any assistance. The above area all customers of ours.
Your manager gets all bonus, increments, etc. It is time for you to pack up and find another job.
Keep answering the questions, but include a reference to the docs in your answer.

Your goal is to introduce them to the usefulness of the tool that is documentation, not to simply unburden yourself of trivial questions. If your documentation is good enough to answer their questions, then sooner or later they will start to use it first, because that's easier than asking a question.

The next thing you can do is ask them if they think the documentation can be improved, so that the answer to their question is easier for the next person to find.

Usually, it's not the substance of the answer that they were struggling to find, but the context that would have lead them there in the first place.

When that happens, it feels like your answer is trivial, but that's because the real value of the interaction was encapsulated into the very act of you answering, not the answer itself.

Documentation can be a great way of referencing nouns and verbs. Good documentation will probably answer "what?" and "how?". Great documentation will answer "where?". The trickiest questions end up being "when?" and "why?".
You understand wrong.
inexorably, until it reaches 100%.

If they can find a way to have us on the computer while sleeping, it will be done.
The main advantage to me is the dedication to using standardized browser APIs. They have done a really good job of applying the Service Worker API to the problem of server side functions, and having the whole system be “MDN compatible” just makes everything more straightforward and leads to minimal surprises.
I think I’m playing a little loose with words here. A measuring cup measures volume of a liquid, which is three dimensions. It is a three dimensional ruler. A ruler only measures one dimension, but it is built from an object, and that object has three dimensions.

We (believe we) can only experience three dimensions plus time. So if the cup is four dimensional it may have topological holes we can’t see and yes, it will leak. Or it may be bigger or smaller on the inside, and we can put less or more of the fluid into the cup than we expect.
Probably too early although we've seen some attempts with AR apps on phones.

As you say, technical is a huge caveat. But it's pretty easy to see that IF we could have glasses that could overlay/enhance/record/etc. there are so many possibilities in a way there aren't with VR for example--for both consumer and commercial uses. By contrast, VR seems pretty limited; immersive gaming and virtual tourism just aren't that interesting for most people. And people don't want immersion in a lot of circumstances.

When you can envision a clear market based on "just" relatively straightforward (if significant) extrapolations of technology that seems something worth paying attention to.
But the main motivation for the Russians would be giving them a pretext to attack other infrastructure.
> Technically true points but not really supporting the idea that Go is the correct language to write web apps with JS in.

If the project is live and is serving its purpose, and if that doesn't convince you that $INSERT_LANGUAGE is the correct language (whatever that means) then I don't know what will.

Care to clarify that "correct language" thing?
> No country in EU will ever want to become dependent on Russia again after this winter.

Hungary and possibly Austria. Hungary even signed a deal with Rosatom to extend their Pecs nuclear powerplant.

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-approves-constructio...
vitess / planetscale might be a viable alternative set of open-source tooling for things like dynamic resharding.
Europeans prepare for winter energy crisis after Russia turns off gas
ecoterrorism doesnt mean that its beneficial for the environment.

It means that they want to terrorize polluters, regardless of the consequences.
One reason for Russia to sabotage it is as a show of force. "If we can hit our pipeline we can hit your pipeline, too".

In unrelated news a brand new pipeline going from Norway to Poland through the Baltic sea opened just yesterday

https://www.euronews.com/2022/09/27/baltic-pipe-norway-polan...

Talking about poor maintenance in a thread about registered underwater explosions sounds like FUD
Show HN: MockMechanics is now open source
Hey guys, a couple of years ago I posted about MockMechanics, a visual programming language/sandbox building game that I've been working on and there was a very positive response [0]. Since then I've been implementing most of the things I promised in my first youtube video [1] and making it ready for an open source release and I'm happy to say it's ready [2]. I've also been building new things and showing them in the youtube channel. It's written in clojure and you can use it to create all sorts of machines, games, musical instruments, etc using little to no code at all. You've seen the piano, the tetris game, the clock the combination safe and so on but since then I've built a 3d printer, a robotic hand, a bubble sorting algorithm, a 7 segment display, a ball cannon, a paint program and more, you can see all these things in the youtube channel [3].
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24934722

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrwxbQj5mj0

[2] https://github.com/felipereigosa/mock-mechanics

[3] https://www.youtube.com/c/MockMechanics

Channel trailer with some of the new machines - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQiA42ReNYE
That's a classic.

Get my hopes up finding an old forum post asking my question, hoping to find answers.
All the answers are "use Google/etc", which is how I got there.
Sure the US companies would love to sell more LNG, but my understanding is they don't have enough ships to sell them, i.e. they are selling every lb they can already and they just can't get capacity to sell more to the EU, which makes it a much less rational decision to do this.
What is the endgame here? Do I run all my backend stuff at some point as workers that are closer to the customer or do I mostly use it for server-side redering?
I believe Google Play is still available in Russia [1], just not the billing part. Since these are free apps that doesn't impact them.

Regardless, whether or not you allow Russian users to download apps is an independent question or whether or not you allow anyone to download these particular apps. As I understand it Apple's action is world wide. It does appear that the apps in question are still available from Google (though I didn't try installing them...) [2]

[1] https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=VK.com&gl=US
If it's something they officially give up on: Good. There's no sense in trying to further extend mega caps. If there were really a litany of issues with how vehicles were made, one would expect investment to appear in research and development that addresses those specific issues, not vehicles appearing out of capital groundswells from disasters.

It's alarming that the media doesn't call this what it is: a sell signal, and a clear sign that stock buybacks, collusion, and scared FTC beauraucrats who aren't willing to throw down the antitrust flag are making a sick economy sicker.
lol, I just searched "problem with referencing named element ids as javascript globals": the first result is the linked article and the second result is, you guessed it, this thread with your comment on top.
I guess none of this is Putin’s fault. Let’s blame Apple instead.
Maybe it could be interpreted at shilling your channel. I however thought it was a perfectly cromulent comment.
None of these make much sense. It's pretty idle to speculate, and the list is most likely incomplete and inaccurate. It only feeds the trolls. Then again, this whole thread is full of fingerpointing without evidence. If HN can't contain itself, what won't the twitter and facebook, and –may God forget– Truth Social do?
It doesn’t matter what form of government Russia has on paper when they’ve invaded a separate sovereign nation and worst than that: appear to be very serious about genocide and also appear to be very serious about using their nukes in some capacity.

They can stand equal among nations with advanced financial markets, medicine and technology if they want. I have no problem with that, but it comes with a price: checking their territorial ambitions at the door. At this point I would even add on to that fully surrendering their nuclear arsenal because the leaders they’ve either chosen or “chosen” (and for the purposes of this conversation it doesn’t really matter which anymore) have proven to be irresponsible caretakers.
I interacted a bit with the AI and the Portuguese is fine, it's just that it conjugates, uses the proper pronouns, etc. These things a typical Brazilian does not do.

The difference between standard Portuguese and oral language in Brazil is enormous.
C++ can be .C, .cc, .cxx, or.c++