skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And we wonder what 7k employees are doing at Docusign... so many useless positions, people gatta find something to do to pad that promo packet.
> Facebook being still founder led and having the advantage of knowing how fleeting social media networks have been in the past, keeps Zuckerburg paranoid.

Them going all in on the 'metaverse' is basically 'microsoft missing mobile'-tier. I'm interested in it and even still I haven't seen a single impressive thing yet. It seems like a worse product than VR second-life. They're trying to sell an MMO to people who don't play games.

The internet is already a 'metaverse', and I think the role of our digital lives will continue to expand with increasing proliferation of consumer electronics, barring a major world war or natural cataclysm. But Meta is just trying to force a paradigm shift and EVERYONE sees right through it.
Having been fired at 88 degrees from the horizon, the bullet is still moving (slightly) sideways.
a huge amount of emoji are embedded png in font files. newer ones, however, do require more work.

> figure out which glyphs are required for your codepoint and use your font metrics to composite the glyphs appropriately.

this is all done in shaping though, the renderers just see "put this thing there" and (at least in GTK) we just maintain texture atlases that are updated on the fly.

you're correct that it doesn't solve the same glyph at lots of scales though. but glyphy does (and at high FPS too).
> that'll be the day when music will be truly disposable

I would say we reached that day quite some time ago, due to a variety of factors, none of which included AI/ML/correlation analysis.
There are two components - horizontal and vertical. For a bullet fired straight up, horizontal component is negligible, as the bullet will spend enough time in flight for it to decrease due to air resistance.

The vertical component is primarily determined by sectional density. Tumbling bullet spends a lot of time flying sideways, so its terminal velocity (where air resistance equals weight) is way less than muzzle velocity.
The good work to slim down and better compartmentalize the JDK has historically created enough backward incompatibility risks for me that I prefer staying on the same version longer than 6 months. If I want security updates for the version I’m on LTS is the best (only?) way.
They signed up for Bandcamp (or at least, the Bandcamp religion)
What makes it strange is that Jesus was a Pisces. Christmas, Christmas trees, mistletoe, carolling, wreaths, and even gift-giving became part of the Roman cover-up of a pagan ritual occurring on winter solstice.
And TVs in hotel rooms taking up space. If I could choose rooms with no TV, no alarm clock, no house phone, I would.
Yeah, I'm using Windows Home at the house of the person I'm working for and It's remarkable how much worse it is than either my Linux laptop or Windows of ten years ago.

Media Player has apparently been replaced by "DVD Player(free)" which is not only intentionally crippled (you have to use the keyboard to access the DVD menu and if the Menu begin with no item having focus, you're SOL) but also crashes 75% of the time upon attempting to play the disk (I spent five starting the thing until I installed VLC).

The entire scheme is apparently to try to leverage the monopoly MS has on low-end systems.
but it’s vector graphics, right?
Google Photos was itself a (poor) replacement for Picasa, which they acquired sometime in mid-00s.
This. It's more about avoiding bad PR. And it doesn't have to be porn. It could be guns, vaping, violent movies, gambling, whatever.

If you're selling baby shampoo the last thing you need is some parent posting on Twitter about "Why is this baby shampoo brand advertising on a sight that promote horror movies about human centipedes?"
I dont think that's a correct assessment of HN. I would wager that if you polled the community you'd find a very high ratio of some of the earliest adopters here.

Many of us are very analytical and looked closely at how bitcoin works wrt energy usage and decided that it's not a good technology, and sold our stacks long ago.

Personally i got out just before the peak in 2017 or 2018 whenever that was, and this was an ethical decision based on the energy usage. My first btc purchased was probably around 2014, so I made some money, but it feels dirty and I dont want any part in the scheme.

The reason I share my anecdote is to provide a counter example to what I think you imagine. I'm quite sure there are many people like me on here. HN as a whole is pretty on top of tech and areas of high growth obviously.
This domain does in fact point to a potato shaped like genitalia. Either someone had $10 to spare for a laugh or the bot does exist
I got reached out multiple times and got hired twice based on my public repos and contributions. While I’d like to enable this option for privacy purposes, seems that the only way I’d use this if my employer requires me to do so.
Companies should market their software based on celebrity programmers who wrote it. Similar to Shelby cars or warren Buffett stock pics.
There are five cases supporting the concept that blockchain games can be fun.
> Instead they managed to create a military traffic jam the entire length of the highway trying to force the issue.

That’s decisively not what happened. Ukrainian army and in some cases territorial defense blocked them
Meanwhile, Reddit has r/shoplifting.

For all that it's been cleaned up and nerfed, it's still a delightful time capsule of an earlier Internet.
If by "controversy" you mean disinformation techniques designed to cast doubt on credible reports of war crimes, you are correct. See [1] for an analysis of this claim, including tracing it back to WarOnFakes and denials by Peskov. One of the great things about that report (making it I think particularly suitable for a Hacker News audience) is that it invites skeptical or critical readers to check the evidence themselves. Likely there is a reader of this thread who is competent at analyzing satellite imagery metadata and figuring out shadow angles.

[1]: https://www.info-res.org/post/disinformation-denial-russia-s...
It's not 'trivially solvable' because a huge portion of the population will strongly resist the change you're advocating for. Social, political & cultural constraints are a real, serious thing- large-scale civil unrest is very very bad. The rest of the industrialized world didn't have more guns than citizens and a deep culture of gun ownership & resisting the government, hence why your analogy falls apart. You have to work within the social realities of every country, so incrementalism is basically the only thing that really works, as frustrating as that always is for more ideological types to hear
My engineer friend, with whom we develop the first phones on the 8051 processor in the 90s, left Bucha a few hours before the Russian invasion. In fact, russian governmet destroyed the Ukrainians at the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet Union. More than 50 programmers suffered. We asked for help for many years, but the russian government made Ukraine an outsider and this buried a lot of projects that could have been successful like WhatsApp the founder is from Ukraine.
Unfortunately, russian government look at Ukrainians as slaves for all 30 years of Ukrainian independence. Thank you for your visit and support
Just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU
Well, there's always the V-Joke:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funniest_Joke_in_the_World
You can legally invest into a new business with revenue from your existing business. What's not legal is running a line of business in a way that's inherently unsustainable.
Apple is a private company, they decided to limit the current mechanism through which adtech tracked people, and if people dislike it they can switch to more advertising-friendly devices. What I like about the current situation is everything is done freely - no law was passed to make Apple do it, nor make Meta use it.

As consumers start understanding exactly how adtech works - and such education took decades - they are freely choosing devices that limit tracking, and when given the option to opt-out, are opting out at extremely high numbers. This tells you something about what consumers want.

Businesses would be more viable if they learned to market through mechanisms that were less distasteful to consumers.
Nature flagellates itself for creating “harms”
> To run a pension

Taxes. You need taxes. Just like how you run the military.

> then what happens if tax revenues are low one year

You tax the top iter of the society to make up for it. Just like how it is done for the military.

> Even communist countries own assets

In no communist country, the well being of their people or societal infrastructure ranging from transportation to military to police or education, was tied to the market. Even today there are many capitalist countries that dont do that.
IF THEY COPY IT VERBATIM.

They're free to look at the approach and simply rewrite it.

They'd have to anyway to fit in with their codebase.
> > The problem of relying on Russia for energy was obvious.

> Put together, 6.5% of gross available energy in the EU was from Russian gas.

In case anyone is curious, the sources I find suggest the following about the sources of the primary energy in the European Union:

~38% from oil, of which ~29% is from Russia = ~11% of total energy, plus

~24% from natural gas, of which 39--45% [note this is higher than in the parent comment] is from Russia = 9+% of total, plus

~14% from coal, of which 46--70% is from Russia = 6+% of total energy, plus

~11% from uranium (nuclear), of which ~20% is from Russia = ~2% of total energy,

altogether totaling >28% from Russia.

Other sources may disagree on the particular numbers, but the rough estimate of "one quarter" is in line with other sources: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/04/europe-russia-energy-...

Some sources for the individual numbers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_policy_of_the_European_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_...
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/infographs/energy/bloc-2...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1034930/eu-hard-coal-imp...
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-ban-on-russian-coal-imports-comes-i...
A 4% yield is not very good when you can buy risk free treasuries yielding more.

Meta's shares outstanding have barely changed over time. Issuing equity to employees dilutes share count, buybacks counter this somewhat.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/META/meta-platform...

At current valuation multiples buybacks are pretty smart for Meta, but many of these companies were doing buybacks at 3% yield valuations
They got taken down again a few days after that, although they've occasionally been back up since. I don't think of them as a big site, although I could be wrong.
Seems fine. Next time check https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/netflix
The owner had their domain name, CDN/ddos protection, post box, personal phone number, legal aid, and likely other services canceled. All within a week.

They now are struggling against a constant stream of DDoS and targeted hacks due to a lack of protection previously provided by CloudFlare.
The #1 rule of optimization is that it's only 10% or 1% of the code which matters. You only need to optimize the code which runs 1000 times a second, the code which runs 1 time every 10 seconds in a background thread can be inefficient and nobody will notice or care. You don't need to rewrite your entire app to make it run substantially faster, you only need to rewrite the hot-paths.

Another key rule is to limit the "main loop" to as little as possible: don't run big computations which don't affect what the user is focusing on. For example, web browsers will pause and unload tabs when you have several of them: this means you can have over 100 open tabs and your web browser will still run fast, because the unopened tabs are not doing anything, they are just caching the URL and (in some cases) whatever is rendered on the site. Similarly, most games try not to render or update things outside of the player's vision. You don't have to go to extremes like this, but if something doesn't affect the user's flow (e.g. an extra feature only a few people use), its performance impact should be negligible. Specifically: don't put code in your hot-path that doesn't need to be there.

Another key rule is to use well-written libraries for your algorithms. I assure you a vector-math library with 1000 stars implements vector-math operations much faster than you can, and those operations are neatly wrapped in easy-to-use functions.

When you have code in your hot-path which needs to be there, is too slow and you can't replace it with a library, then you bring out the big-O and zero-allocation techniques. And also, caching. A lot of optimization is ultimately caching, as computation is generally much more expensive than memory. Those super pretty render engines all use a ton of caching.

You can have a piece of software with tons of bloat, extra features, inefficient/redundant computations, and an Electron back-end, which is still fast (example: VSCode). Even the Linux kernel has a lot of bloat in the form of various drivers, but it does not affect the main runtime as these drivers are not loaded. Even graphically-intensive games and simulations have redundant computations and excess allocations, they are just not in the hot-path.

And last tip: don't write exponential-time algorithms. The above doesn't apply when you have an exponential-time algorithm, because even when n = 30 it will slow your computer, and when n = 75 it will run past the sun burns out.
You shouldn't even need a GPU for basic UI like this, especially with "modern" ultra-minimalist flat UIs.
Will there be an inheritance tax on HN karma?
Yes, but all in service of what amounts to automated stealing (cough) supplying liquidity.

Better than adtech, anyway. Or nukes. Lots of things, really. (I would have said weapons, last year.)

The only really defensible tech activity these days is things to help get off carbon-emitting processes. Making factories to make electrolysers. Making wind turbines better. Adapting airliners to carry liquid hydrogen in underwing nacelles. Making robots to put up solar fences on farms and pastures. Banking energy for nighttime without lithium. Making ammonia on tropical solar farms for export to high latitudes.

It's even money whether we can get it done before civilization collapses. I guess we will need plenty of liquidity...
If Copilot can look at GPL code and use that to synthesize new code, why can't a Microsoft employee?
> A democratic country that shells its own civilians for 7 years

Do you also believe the ridiculous claim that the torture chambers that were uncovered were planted by Ukraine? And the mass graves?

> and allows neonazi groups in its military?

Have you heard of the Wagner group? Russian military openly carries nazi symbols, yet Ukraine is the Nazis?

Russian propaganda is just ridiculous if you stop and think for a second.
I wonder how people will react when this does become "good enough".

I'm thinking of those that consider themselves prompt artists or prompt engineers, and consider DALL-E/SD to be merely tools that creatives use to create their art, just like photoshop, and how dare you insinuate that the work isn't my original creation...

If I type in "Symphony, Beethoven, dramatic strings, romantic theme turning dark then triumphant, tenor flute solo in third movement" and such a thing is produced... am I a musician? A classical composer perhaps?

I'm not trying to say that there is no act of creation on the part of the user of such systems, but I do think it's an interesting area of discussion, because to me there is some sort of qualitative difference here.
Casey did choose to help - explaining the issue and potential solution on github. It was only after his solution was dismissed, then catching the microsoft engineers using his solution and making a blog post about it that he complained.
I also got a premier kit, got the nice hardware, then got an error saying the workspace I signed up for the promotional offer with is not eligible for using stadia.
People can protest without the Internet. However, they’re at a greater disadvantage than protesters in the 80s because the government does have the Internet.
One of the reasons you may be having a problem with radon sensors is that most radon sensors will report results with a resolution in tenths of pCi/L (in the US) while the statistical variance in the range below 4.0 pCi/L (where most houses should be) is +/-25% or more for many common sensors. So you can have two readings which are e.g. 2.4 pCi/L and 1.9 pCi/L, and from the standpoint of a radon measurement specialist, these readings agree!

You might say, well, +/-25% sucks. You wouldn't accept a thermometer or pressure sensor which read +/-25%. And you are right, it does suck, but then try to design a radon sensor with a sensitivity of more than a few counts/hour per pCi/L but which is also affordable... you could spend $10k+ and get an Alphaguard which has a huge sensitivity and thus very little statistical uncertainty, or spend $25 on a charcoal kit which is +/-50% if you are lucky, or any of the options in between. If you buy a detector which does not explicitly list the sensitivity in the specs, you can be sure it absolutely sucks.

Because many detectors are measuring in single counts per hour, you have to measure over many hours (usually 48) just to get enough statistics to make a decent estimate of the radon level. Decent in this case being +/-10 to 25%. Then you add other sources of error like temperature, humidity, air speed, etc. If the sensitivity is absolutely abysmal, you may need to measure for weeks or months to get enough counts to know what your radon level is to +/-10%.

Often the best bang for your buck in radon measurements is to hire someone who has a really nice radon measurement system for a short term measurement. However, if your radon level changes over time then you get a good snapshot only of whats going on right then. For most homes this isn't a problem, but occasionally you run into a situation like one guy I remember whose well system had radon saturated water, so his radon was fine except when the shower was on.
Prohibiting civilians from fleeing to safety as Zelensky has done is not good guy behavior.

The Far right militas took over the Ukrainian government after euromaidan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_Ukrainian_Nati...

Bandera groups have american cells operating as lobbyists
https://banderalobby.substack.com/p/right-sector-usa
https://archive.ph/tlo1V
Is there code or notebook for this paper?
What? What are you talking about? Games handle thousands of colliders and raycasts just fine. I thought you would mention that games get to use dedicated GPU hardware and apps might not be hardware accelerated but colliders? Very odd take.
“Go down” presumably meaning stock goes down, not “goes bankrupt.”
If he ends up being right, we'll all praise him as a great visionary. They have the means for what it would take. But since I'm not a great visionary, I'll just go on the record with: no chance, there's no real addressable market there...
There are also bash scripts to stop Windows from force-updating. Its a lot less work than switching to an entirely new OS and doesn't require giving up video games. But if someone can afford to learn Linux, or any OS that doesn't force updates, then its probably better to do so in the long run.
This product has a monthly subscription.

The nibs also run out, and life time supply only lasts as long as the company supports them.
There can be late night disaster recovery scenarios where logging into an under-resourced virtual machine and using Notepad to view a huge log file is the difference between success and failure. Failure can mean huge companies going under, life & death, suicides, end of careers, you name it.

The new Notepad is not fit-for-purpose. You cannot use it to open a file several gigabytes in size. It'll just die, take minutes, fill memory, and even if it opens successfully, it'll be unusably slow.

It's the Windows equivalent of 'vi'. It has to work, all of the time.
I'm in the same boat as you, but I have been mostly just floored by #2. The lack of critical thinking ability amongst the general population is just shocking.

The fact that social media companies optimized for screen time just exacerbated the problem.
Well, it is still an an autocompletion bot...

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Typical Elon Musk as I remembered him.
Line 1. Consider removing "would like to" and writing the next verb directly, e.g. "We (would like to) emphasize that"
> I'm curious if this could be addressed with laws

In some cases the laws are front-running the tech companies, and in other cases it's the reverse. The problem (hand-waving warning) is the vocal minority of the easily-offended enforcing their sterile worldview on a political class too scared of being seen to be permissive of anything less than that which would paint them as puritanical.

Despite the realities these laws and policies are incompatible with.

Having said all that, yes, it _should_ be laws that address these things.
The void in the market would be quickly filled by a competitor (users in other threads have mentioned TikTok...). Whether or not this is a negative is an exercise left to the reader.
That’s not usually how file systems are organized; modified date and such are part of the metadata along with the filename so that you don’t have to scan the contents of the file just to list it. If it’s really that slow for a dozen files, using some kind of performance tool may be in order to figure out where the perf is going.
I had unfettered internet access at 10. I picked up programming and hacking by age 12, watched fetish porn at 14, figured out Tor and FreeNet, then got into (learning about!) clandestine drug synthesis by age 16, rhodium and the hive and all that. Very formative years.

Sure, I got myself into sketchy situations, but I wasn't at risk of getting murdered. The worst that would have happened is being emotionally scarred or going to juvy. A good exchange, for me.
Modern Java people are a lot less boilerplaty than old enterprise Java people.