skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bill Gates is one of a small group of people I feel should be taking private jets. He and his wife are the world's biggest philanthropists and they do much more good for the world quickly meeting the necessary people to effect change than wasting hours at the airport.

For the vast majority of other ultra rich, they should be suffering through awful airports and airlines like everyone else. Partly just so there's a chance their collective frustration of flying actually results in somehow working to improve the broken industry.
Decency laws prohibiting toplessness were challenged back in the day under Equal Protection and Due Process. Both sexes have nipples, some men have larger moobs than women. There's just not much biological difference, and thus no basis to legislate on other than the sex of the person bearing their breasts - nipples are nipples, basically.

This was all back in the day, long before trans awareness even hit the mainstream.
"It's unethical to ask people to perform an action which you know they would never agree to if it wasn't for an imbalance of power or financial pressure/incentives."

Under utilitarianism you need to compare it to the alternative. You can't say X is immoral if Y is the alternative and Y is worse than X. In many cases, X=terrible job, Y=nothing. Otherwise you're actively opposing someone's wellbeing. This is the fatal problem with these ad hoc ethical rules that aren't grounded in actual outcomes.

Consider the reductio ad absurdum. Almost everyone has a job because of financial pressures. Even upper middle class people feel pressure to secure themselves for old age and unforeseen circumstances. Is almost every job unethical? If yes, then you're saying that our species functioning is unethical, which is an absurdity. If no, then you don't believe it yourself.

"Harvey Weinstein"

No because he violated two of the assumptions I laid out, making it unethical under utilitarianism. He often introduced it as a surprise after the business relationship started. And he engaged in what was effectively high pressure sales tactics which jeopardizes the ability for the person to decide whether it's truly in their best interests (this would be a form of compromised cognition, similar to mentally ill homeless people in the Bumfights example).

A third thing: the attempts themselves were a sort of menacing assault which subtracted utility from the person, which they didn't agree to be subjected to upfront.
> There's such a thing as "economy of scale".

Yes, it's what allows solar modules to see 10-20% yoy reductions in price per watt and 15MW wind turbines to be more cost effective than 1MW ones. You achieve this by doing the same thing enough times that you get good at it. This is something the nuclear industry has never achieved.

> You're not going to run an industrial civilization from a few hobby solar panels on someone's roof, any more than Mao was able to run an industrial civilization from crude cast iron smelted in people's back yards.

Good thing there are thousands of 10-100MW scale solar parks finished every year and several GW scale plants being finished each year. Almost all new development is completely unsubsidized and auctioned of for $15-40/MWh before completion.

> What powers heavy industry in your decentralized utopia? Some kind of reverse grid?

The 15MW wind turbines, 5GW solar plants, 1GW battery facilities and the existing gas plants running on green fuels. Putting more than a few hundred MW in the same place creates bottlenecks in your grid and reduces its resilience.

Rooftop solar can happily produce enough to cover commercial, personal transport/transit and residential with plenty to spare because you can cover worldwide average primary energy with about 50m^2 of sunlight per person. It's largely irrelevant at the moment though hecause costs are dominated by installation and coordination.

> Only about 34% of electricity is used for residential purposes in the United States, and I would be surprised if the proportion were much different in other countries.

This is entirely irrelevant
Where are you going to get that hydrogen?
There are a lot of retired people in the UK who are living off them at the moment, they were only really phased out for new entrants about 20 years ago, and for a lot of people they were able to continue to build them if they were already part of one.

So it's going to be a long time before all those people, both retired and not, are dead.

Plus the public sector in the UK still offers them.
I wrote a rant about the Windows Calculator change as well. They're loading things like Windows 10 Hello for Business login recovery assistant modules, NVIDIA telemetry, creating threadpools, writing multiple log files, and on and on.

If you asked me what a calculator app "should" do, none of those would ever enter into my brain.
Gravity isn’t a speed, it’s a force.
What's worse is that it actively tries to rewrite your query by dropping keywords (esp. ironic when it does it to the single most important thing in said query) and substituting "synonyms" which aren't, presumably so that the output would have more results.

I find having to quote things more and more, to the point where all or almost all keywords are quoted. Lately, somehow, even that produces results that don't actually include everything that was quoted.
What are your recommendations for those who want to join in on the fun?
Most mice used an rs232 serial port.
Netflix.com appears to be down
I'm seeing a message to download the page on safari and a 403 on Chrome. Anyone else?
I was curious about these competing claims, so I googled for the answer.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/317337...

Dated Sept. 28, 2022

"In total, the United States has now committed approximately $16.9 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since January 2021. Since 2014, the United States has committed approximately $19 billion in security assistance to Ukraine more than $16.2 billion since the beginning of Russia’s unprovoked and brutal invasion on February 24."

I'm not sure that all of the money/material has yet reached Ukraine. But that is what is said to be committed.
It is quite accurate, but only for the highly processed cinematic modes. Latency is essentially irrelevant for video content as long as the audio stays in sync. The game mode drops all the processing and is usually pretty low.

For example, my LG OLED tv is regarded as one of the best for gaming. Game mode latency is about 9ms. Cinema mode is about 90ms.
WTOI - Walkie Talkies on Internet
Io_uring_spawn
Ya, their predicted descent velocity/lethality is not right. Most ammunition will destabilize and begin to tumble long before it reaches its peak as it transitions from supersonic to subsonic.

My guess would be the dangerous situation here is intoxicated people shooting up in the air but then also in other directions in a careless inebriated state.
That's why I said "maybe", but you make a good point.

Although at present, what you say isn't completely true, because ISPs are not common carriers. Fixing this should be first priority.
There is actually a technical component to the Bucha story, as there seems to be controversy over the satellite imagery. On April 4, the NYT published a satellite photo of Bucha dated March 11.[1] However, a Russian OSINT group claims the photo dates April 1.[2]

Machine translation:

Thanks to the help of our team of OSINT and GEOINT specialists, it was possible to determine the time of the image for certain.

- A picture from the NYT allegedly from March 19 shows sand alluviums after a downpour that went from the 31st to the first.

- The attached comparison from the NYT is based on two images that have identical shadow positions. They allegedly compared March 19 and February 28. In fact, they compared February 28 and April 1 - the time and position of the shadows coincide. The original dates of the pictures are American time.

- The Maxar website provides information on which satellites have been surveying the Bucha region over the past period. A total of three satellites were involved.

- By checking the angle of inclination of the Sun above the horizon, the SunCalc program was able to find out by searching the exact time of the image and the direction of the shadows.

- The picture was taken on April 1 at 11:57 GMT (14:57 local summer time).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/briefing/russia-ukraine-w...

[2] https://t.me/rybar/30599
Feels to me like a boiling frog situation - they probably started with something reasonable and made a series of incremental changes, each of which didn't make it drastically worse, but by the end it looked nothing like how it started.
that is a very pedantic argument. you completely overlooked the point i was trying to make.

vector graphics are not rendered directly to the screen. fonts are rasterized first, then the rasterization is what the GPU receives.
Unless you are in a REALLY specific field (programming PLCs, interacting with weird hardware), everything is in a browser, an office suite or dev. You can stay corporate and run MacOS, or you could run Linux or BSD.
Don't fire guns into the air during celebrations.

(Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.)
Its been about every 5-6 hours today.
I'm pretty sure their calculations assume a perfect impossible arc.

A bullet coming down is catching the wind and spinning wildly directing force in all directions and likely not getting anywhere near terminal velocity. It's like dropping a penny off of skyscraper. Mathematically it could kill somebody, but in all likelihood it's not going to.

This has been shown experimentally time and time again.
I’m profoundly disappointed in the direction computing has gone in the last decade. It’s like Idiocracy actually happened and we’re living in that timeline. Desktop software is trash. Apps that worked perfectly well a decade ago on far slower computers run like ass on far faster computers. The new Mac Outlook sucks CPU just sitting there doing nothing. The new Acrobat is so bad I’ve gone back to emacs for reading and annotating PDFs. To be clear, viewing PDFs in Emacs is a total hack. It involves rendering each page to a PNG file in a separate process, and having Emacs display the PNG. And it still causes the fans on my laptop to spin up less than Acrobat. And don’t even get me started on all the pdf.js/Electron stuff.

What on earth is going on in the computing industry? Did all the smart nerds get siphoned off to hedge funds and machine learning, so Microsoft and Google can only hire the dregs to write boring desktop software?
You have to think of the counterfactual. If 1x emissions are required for, say, government advocacy, that reduces emissions by 100x, you would lose 99x of emissions reductions by avoiding the advocacy. It’s not hypocrisy so much as pragmatism
The way that game developers get their performance is more or less orthogonal to the way many other applications are expected to function.

It is impressive that they can draw so much stuff so fast, but there are actually very few objects on the screen that the user can directly interact with.

A specific example: in a DAW, you might have tens or even hundreds of thousands of MIDI notes on the screen. These look like (typically) little rectangles which are precisely the short of thing that games can draw at unbelievable speed. But in a DAW (and most design / creation applications), every single one of them is potentially the site of user interaction with some backend model object.

All those complex surfaces you see in contemporary games? Very nice. But the user cannot point at an arbitrary part of a rock wall and say "move this over a bit and make it bigger".

Consequently, the entire way that you design and implement the GUI is different, and the lessons learned in one domain do not map very easily to the other.
A subset of CSS is very easy. The rest of it is a complete mess.
> Gab created a shit platform for shit people to post shit content

I absolutely loved your hate speech. I do not agree with it but will always defend your right to say it.

Let me clarify just a couple of points.

1. Here’s what Gab’s founder tells about the purpose of Gab: Gab’s mission is to be the home of free speech online. It seeks to export American values and freedom to the maximum extent permitted by American law to Internet users around the world. Gab concurs with the Committee’s view that these values protect offensive and unpopular speech, but not illegal speech, such as threats. Unlawful speech is not and has never been allowed on Gab.

2. I am pointing at Gab as an example of definite *success*. It survives and functions despite being no-platformed and banned by 25+ service providers over the years including both App Stores, multiple payment processors, and hosting providers. The example of *failure* in this context is another free-speech platform… forgot it’s name - it was deplatformed in 2020 and stopped functioning for a long period of time. Very unprofessional.

(Edit: Parler of cause. Parler was deplatformed by Amazon and both app stores - and immediately went down. That’s what failure looks like)

So, you may think that they are shit people. Ok. But you’ve failed to silence them, despite trying heavily. Doesn’t it provoke your professional interest - how they managed to do it?
I’m flattered but I wouldn’t consider myself that big a deal
On top of that, if you have a Pixel, the only thing it can cast to out of the box is Chromecast. Miracast (which e.g. Roku supports) - nope. Hell, they don't even do video-out over USB-C.

And I remember that it was different back in early Nexus days - they had Miracast, but deliberately ripped it out.
There's no excuse for 2 seconds.
Machines are a thousand times as fast as in the 90s, and a text editor didn't take any 2000 seconds, or even 2 seconds, back then.

Now they load up the monstrous libraries they need to negotiate a way to communicate with the desktop, and then negotiate that. A screen buffer is so yesterday, so I guess they have a scene graph now that some library renders whenever a pixel might have changed, triple-buffered to prevent artifacts.
Gravity doesn’t have a speed. It creates an acceleration due to force. The bullet is accelerating over a great distance until it reaches terminal velocity (where the air resistance counterbalances any gains in acceleration).

The easiest way to think about it is in terms of conservation of energy. All the kinetic energy the bullet has at the muzzle is converted into gravitational potential until velocity hits zero. At that point, gravitational velocity starts getting converted directly back into kinetic energy. If not for air resistance, the bullet would reach the ground at roughly muzzle velocity. However, air resistance on the way up zaps some of that energy and presents a velocity barrier on the way down.
Bill Gates has also built a carbon capture plant. I believe it's still mostly prototype tech, but I have to assume it can capture enough to offset his private plane flight. I feel like if we taxed everyone who buys a private jet 1 carbon capture plant, that would be a good tradeoff.
> just GPL 2.0

perhaps you are not familiar with what the GPL requires of its users, and how wildly incompatible that is with what a company like Microsoft does.

Microsoft employees are forbidden from looking at GPL code (as well as other virally licensed code) because they may unwittingly reproduce some GPL code they saw in a large Microsoft codebase.

If that happens, and they are taken to trial over it, and lose, that entire codebase is now GPL. This is enough of a risk to them that MS employees have computers which simply can not view GPL code.

that is also why they would not watch the video; it isn’t about his voice, it is about the code visible on stream. additionally, watching a video of GPL code being written could be perceived as an attempt to circumvent the restrictions on viewing GPL code, and would likely get the viewer into trouble.

you not already knowing this bothers me a lot, given all the things you’ve said in this discussion. you are making a lot of assumptions that are just not true and basing your opinions on the belief that those assumptions are true.

this is very similar to why software at microsoft is as bad as it is generally; a lot of people assuming they know things they don’t know, and producing results which are more flawed than they needed to be.
I’ve long wondered about their liability here with respect to age verification, consent, etc.
No no you're so right. Let's have 500 packages installed to do multiplication. Zero performance impact, I'm sure.
The name comes from Phenakistiscope, an early form of animation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenakistiscope
I didn't get a chance to use the new calculator yet (I usually use Linux. Windows 11 changes make it unlikely I'll 'upgrade' a VM). Is it this one?

https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator
I own an IQAir AirVisual Pro, it has identified when the air from ovens affect air quality. And, I bought a Honeywell HPA300 True HEPA Air Purifier and you can see air quality improve significantly when it is on. Also, when a large group of guests come over the CO2 monitor accurately tracks the large increase. And, it detected when Elon's factories had their fires. In addition, anytime there were forest fires in California it detected the increased pollution from those as well. The air quality several states away is affected by those fires severely btw, pretty interesting. The smoke plumes travel all the way to Maine. I've been pretty happy with both products. When the air quality drops outside, I close the doors and windows and let the air purifier do its magic. I leave the HPA300 on "Germ" mode, it is pretty quiet and still gets the job done.
harfbuzz creator made https://github.com/behdad/glyphy/ which i integrated into GTK a while back (but we don't ship currently, because we still do the bitmap stuff).

the bitmap stuff still has major drawbacks though, like maintaining grid alignments and pixel boundaries where as this stuff (mostly) goes away using glyphy.

still work to be done around hinting though (hence not merged).
This appears to be a poorly-sourced "research" page put together by a marketing agency. There's really nothing there about the methodology of this work, and there's plenty to suggests the authors have very little knowledge of firearms (a fired bullet in the first animation is shown with a casing, there's no discussion of bullet aerodynamics which are going to be very different for most sharp-tipped rifle bullets and for handgun rounds, etc) or physics (e.g., no accounting for energy when evaluating the velocity at which a bullet can penetrate skull).
> i would be absolutely flabbergasted if there were someone on the Windows Terminal team who knew how to do what Casey did before he did it.

THAT is precisely the problem!

What Casey did was not some unique and special solution known only to dark wizards working on AAA game engines.

It's an obvious solution that has been implemented many times before by many people for many systems. All green-screen and DOS-era terminals work this way, for example.

Admittedly, I'm a former game engine developer, but I went into that career with essentially zero industry experience of any type. I just muddled my way through a C++ textbook and started writing a game engine.

I needed a text console for my game engine, and I also needed to display Unicode text because we were targetting an international market.

Completely naively I wrote a "text engine". It took about a week, and my solution was virtually identical to Casey's. The difference was that I was slower at implementing it, and Casey's is more feature complete, but the approach was identical.

I didn't go to Hogwarts School for Game Development Wizardry. I just thought about the problem and applied the obvious solution.

The difference between people like Casey and the Microsoft team is not necessarily aptitude, but attitude. The Microsoft team has no mechanical sympathy and no interest in quality.

They made arguments not just along the lines of "this is impossible", but also "nobody needs this".

Through every fibre of their being they believe that computers are slow and that this is fine.
in most cases i saw in build into the application.
Excalibur Is for Sale
> The velocity decreases to almost zero.

Tiny nit, but the bullet does reach a velocity of zero at it’s apex momentarily?
Stadia Announcement FAQ
> Q: Will I get a refund? What is available for a refund?

> A: We will be offering refunds for all Stadia hardware purchases (Stadia Controller, Founders Edition, Premiere Edition, and Play and Watch with Google TV packages) made through the Google Store and software transactions (games and add-on purchases) through the Stadia store.
So we're just making stuff up now? This tweet doesn't exist.
Wouldn't the exception actually come from throwIfFailed? Or does it come from resultNow? How does the tool show it as corresponding to the call to findUser?
Also the "developer's time is expensive" belief pushes developers to reuse layers and layers of packages and libraries whose behaviors are not well aligned with the goal of application, but hey, it's cheaper to just slap something on the existing packages and ship it. The "expensive parts" are pushed to the end users.
Based on the data in the article, it looks like Nvidia cards are holding onto more value than AMD cards.

It makes sense. There's still a fairly large gamer demand. Gamers prefer Nvidia cards over AMD cards. Gamers were priced out during the crypto boom but are probably buying up used mining GPUs for gaming right now - thus, preventing a full collapse in prices.

Nvidia cards have lost ~8% in value month over month compared to 20% for AMD cards.

I expect prices to fall at a faster rate next month, once the pent up gamer demand has been satisfied.
what? Alphazero trained via self play and in ~10 hours became unbeatable by humans
You forgot to mention the bioweapons developed by Ukraine, and the Nazi super soldiers :)
In the future children will argue over who inherits their parent's Hacker News karma. To avoid legal complications be sure to specify in your will which favorite child inherits your Hacker News legacy.
If you want high quality usb sensors: https://www.yoctopuce.com/EN/products/category/usb-environme...
> without a great graphics card

You can buy a pretty great console for $500, and it'll last 5+ years. Well under $10/month, even if you buy a little late in the cycle.

I just don't see where any cloud gaming service has room to compete with that and actually turn a profit.
The low inflation and high unemployment in 2008 came after Fed tightening took effect and the recession was in full force.

We'll almost certainly see the same thing this time within the next year.

The Fed let employment velocity and unemployment go far too low to avoid a severe recession. They should have started tightening far earlier
102% on-point recent video from composer David Bruce ("The DALL-E2 of Music?")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN0DDD7B3oU

Bruce makes the point that early "AI" image generation was pretty shit, but a couple of specific developments (especially diffusion modelling) changed all that remarkably quickly; the corollary is that we might expect that for music too.
this is a fucking meme at this point, the amount of assumption around this.

no, that is not what copilot does unless you check the box (or fail to uncheck the box) that allows exact matches of code from public repositories.

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/configuring-github-copilo...
NASA May Let Billionaire Astronaut and SpaceX Lift Hubble Telescope
When you signed up for an account you agreed to those terms, the api is not public/unauthenticated.
CBS retracted that documentary: https://www.businessinsider.com/cbs-partially-retracts-ukrai...

But you didn't bother linking that.

Of course this is all in the context of trying to excuse the Russian military raping, murdering and looting their way through Ukraine.

Go look at the pictures coming out of the towns that are liberated and tell me literally anything you said still matters.