skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So this is a neat idea, but impossible and it demonstrates the very powerful reach of China.

Major American corporations have deep ties with China and China would pressure them to tamp this down.

Without some kind of institutional support from probably a few media companies it would be very hard.

The 'Tea Party Movement' was basically nothing until Fox News decided to put them up front, for example.

American corporations have incredible influence over media.

In particular, the massive hypocrisy over the NBA, and some players who scream about injustice, and then repeat Xi's talking points when it comes to China. Even NBA players have their marching orders.

Truly grassroots things are really really rare, it usually takes participation from aligned forces.

Do you notice how 'Tibet' used to be all the rage? It was the hip thing in Hollywood about 2000. The Dalai Lama was a thing. China put huge pressure on everyone to "Shut the F up about the Dalai Lama" and so corporations, NGOs, Hollywood, Governments, go the message. It becomes more rare to have him visit, and corporations no longer talk about Tibet.

Marc Benioff of Salesforce fame, is illustrative of this - he's ostensibly a big supporter of Buddhism etc. and the Tibet issue should be front and centre with him if he was in any way legit, but of course he keeps his mouth shut entirely, because, hey: it's just business.

Hollywood dutifully keeps their mouths shut and will happily kill anything in their periphery (i.e. documentaries) with the word 'Tibet'. Actors who want to not be blackballed/banned from China will stay the F away from the world 'Tibet'. Actors are corporations.

And of course the Uyghur issue - can you imagine any other major nation putting people in camps on the basis of their ethnicity? E. China is an open air police state, with stations every few hundred meters, propaganda everywhere etc.. There would be huge uproar over this if it were any other state. But we are told to keep our mouths shut, 'or else' - so we do.

All of this could change however - with a bit of coordinated action and political will, it could flip.

Lastly, Germany, which mostly controls EU, is one of the few nations to be a net exporter to China, and they don't want to mess that up and so they are the most likely to 'acquiesce' on the issue, which means the EU will 'keep their mouths shut'.
It depends very much on where you are in England. If you want to find the spots next to you where you can see the Milky Way, here is a project that maps the light polution in England: https://landuse.co.uk/portfolio-items/night-blight/
I guess those are the pipes through which water flows that is heated and turned into steam.
>Google funding exclusive games to be made for their platform.

Stadia had their own first party games that they canceled rather early - Feb 2021, year and two/three months after launch. The writing was on the wall. Stadia was a failure through and through, and they knew it.
I'm not getting that impression. For what it's worth, "woke left" has always been a minority, yet it hasn't lost momentum as much as it continually rotates in direction. Specifically, we're seeing more and more non-NA countries adopt these rhetorics from both the US and CA.

Politics is becoming more and more extremist too, with the extreme left lashing out and calling anyone who even questions the status quo an extreme rightist bigot, and the extreme right doing the equivalent. And the two are fueled by both one another, as well as increasing tensions due to national issues.
> “Equity” is actually about lowering the standards and destroying meritocracy.

The "meritocracy" that includes your rich parents into your "merit".
Yea, I've seen a lot of folks doing this and it's neat. Most projects don't really need REST/GraphQL. So many waste so much time implementing a perfect GraphQL setup even though they don't need it :sweat_smile:.

I don't think "API" just means "programmatic interface". It also denotes some kind of decoupling. A library API => decoupling between lib user and lib author. GraphQL API => decoupling between backend and frontend.

The point of Telefunc is precisely to not decouple frontend and backend. Telefunc is all about bringing backend and frontend tightly together.

So, the tagline is very much on point ;-).

But, yea, you make me think that "Remote Functions. Instead of REST/GraphQL." is maybe better. I'll think about it.
I believe these are all what is known as a "fire tube" design, whereby the water to be boiled surrounds the tubes (very visible in most of the pictures) which have the hot combustion gases passing through them. Because the whole outer casing needs to hold the pressure, they're weaker than the water-tube design, which is the exact opposite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-tube_boiler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-tube_boiler
Their products are fairly mundane and seem ethically neutral in themselves, so why do you suppose this is?

There are probably thousands of companies that do more damage to society than Palantir. For e.g., every company associated with an unhealthy vice, like alcohol, tobacco, opioids, and especially gambling.
Microsoft shops beg to differ.
It's Boiler tubes/Flues/Superheater tubes. Basically allows the gas to go from the back to the front producing steam along the way. Superheater does the same but with the steam.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheater#Locomotives
What does Palantir do? What do customers pay them for?
Without all that XML crap :grinning:
Bizarre is right. If I had to come up with a more precise description, I’d call it “Lovecraftian steampunk”.
It's not an either-or. You can't be tripping all the time, either.
I don't understand why techies keep working on these uncontrollable platforms, when they are clearly incompatible with how society works. What's the problem that they are trying to solve? "How do we change society to anarcho-communism"?

Stop making these decentralised uncontrollable platforms, they just get overtaken or shut down by authorities, because we don't live in a lawless society.

Currencies that can't be controlled, publishing platforms that can't be controlled, platforms where people can work for free. I mean, really, what's the idea here, I'm really losing my patience with these experiments.

They will never succeed anyway, because we still live in a physical world and even the most decentralised and uncontrollable platforms can just get shut down, as we have seen so many examples of.

Why not try to make something that is actually compatible with how society works?

Stop hacking for a moment and spend a little time understanding the domain.
At 17min they present the robot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODSJsviD_SU&t=1030s
Copying data between kernel and userspace, ie socket data handling.
> react with the pedantism…

Some pedant has to say it: shouldn’t that be “pedantry”?
Reinstalled this on iOS and resurrected my Feedly account. Bit of a wasteland to be honest. Lots of corporate feeds remain and what you would have called A-listers in the days of the peak blogosphere. But so many obscure jewels seem to have gone quiet. So it goes.
Hieratic and hieroglyphic are not fully phonemic, which is the distinctive characteristic of alphabetic scripts.
I'm not familiar enough with iOS, does Apple still allow apps to use a different web view that the filters do not apply to? If so is there any reason they shouldn't require Safari View Controllers for App Store submission?
Metal, DirectX 12, LibGNMX, NVN prove there is a better way in terms of developer productivity.
A computational perspective on the Nobel Prize
It‘s really a pity. Unfortunately the gaming market is so difficult to penetrate. It took MS decades and endless amounts of money. And it’s really shitty for cloud gaming prospects. Likely MS will take it all over the long term and there will be a lack of competition in the space.

Stadia was so far ahead technically. They just needed to invest 15 years and 100 billion in studios and a sub model. Gaming and cloud will be the future. And now they lost one them. I get that it’s really difficult to justify loss leaders for that long but you kind a have to in this case.

It’s funny that Google became so risk averse over the years while MS is just taking massive gambles and spending like they don’t have a care in the world. And MS seems to be doing the right things for them somehow.
It does require an enormous amount of practice, though. And knowing some theory and having a good teacher helps.
It would be interesting to see some data on how good the Vulkan support coverage is. And early Vulkan devices may have buggy or poorly performing drivers.

Apps usually go for the API that works on all devices.
> Make 1st party studios and show capabilities only cloud gaming could have

They started with 1st party game studios, they shut the bit more than a year after the launch.
I actually have plans to make Telefunc also have sensible defaults for network failure. So that the user doesn't have to take care of that (while the user can customize failure handling if he needs to).
It doesn't sound like they're sneaking their way in. It sounds like they are acquiring private enterprises that already deal with the NHS, therefore getting exposure to that market. The private enterprise relationship with the NHS already exists before Palantir acquired it.

The NHS isn't completely vertically integrated. They buy their gowns, needles, rubber gloves, thermometers, and bedsheets from for-profit companies too. Is that "pure evil"?
I grew up with the physical set. My parents even lashed out on the micropaedia and macropaedia 12 book set. Which had very handy articles beyond the normal Britannica. It was like having the internet in those days.

In retirement my dad took to correcting the Britannica- ie fixing facts or crossing out entire debunked articles.
Looks interesting. It both says that installing without sudo is a feature, which sounds neat, and that installing into ~/.linuxbrew is an unsupported feature.

# On Linux, it installs to /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew if you have sudo access
# and ~/.linuxbrew (which is unsupported) if run interactively.
HOMEBREW_PREFIX_DEFAULT="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew"
HOMEBREW_CACHE="${HOME}/.cache/Homebrew"
Just like it supports all the other APIs, hence Vulkan's market relevancy isn't as much as Khronos makes it to be.

Portable game code has survived with middleware for ages.

Vulkan is basically a bullet point on the API plugin selection dialog.
> At least if you weren't a terrorist or behaved like one.

Though sadly there are plenty of false positives here too...
Typo, read my answer to sibling comment.
Yes, and the same is true with music.
I, too, have been reading HN for more than 3 hours.
I get where you are coming from and agree. But why would saudi arabia attack the first world superpower, its biggest trading partner and biggest military ally?
Does the Google RSS Subscription extension do this kind of detection? If not, this would be good to add.
I use NNW on my iPad to subscribe to subreddits in split screen mode with Reddit on the other half.

You can click on the date of the subreddit post in NNW and it opens in Reddit. NNW keeps track of what I already read.

It’s like being back in the Usenet days using “nn”.

https://www.whitman.edu/mathematics/eegtti/eeg_70.html
I get what you're saying but I don't think it's about gamer focus so much as just gaming in general.

I wrote this on another article comment but I don't think it's just about Google not understanding gamers, but gaming in general.

- People who play games are fickle and distrustful (and rightfully so, cause gaming in general has a sordid history of screwing the player-base repeatedly). Google didn't understand this and seem to have understood it as "built it and they will come", ignoring the handful of failed consoles that claimed to revolutionize gaming

- People who play games are fiercely fanatic towards specific games/platforms (that the console wars still continue is very strange to me; preference sure, but the outright militant approach towards different platforms is just silly). Google didn't understand this and thought it would be enough to just put platform out there and everyone would switch over

- Developers understand the resource allocation for making a game pretty well, and they constantly are missing deadlines and/or releasing half-baked games. Google didn't understand this and just released a platform that was costly to port to and might as well have been another console

- The games that were the showcase of Stadia were not games you want to just pick up and play on the go, they're something you sit down and put a few hours into. Google didn't understand this and apparently just thought "well, AAA game X is popular, let's get that on our platform"

- Google already _has_ a platform for gaming called Android, and they didn't seem to understand what makes it work and what doesn't, or how to use that as a base for their idea, and instead tried to make a whole new platform

- Stadia was a new gaming platform no matter how you slice it, but Google seemed to have the idea that Stadia was just something everyone would love and convert to immediately no matter how complex it was to put games on it. Developers even as late as 2022 still had trouble porting games to Stadia and if it's hard to port, naturally they're not going to develop something specifically for it

The list can go on, but really Google just didn't understand what they were trying to do. The tech was pretty neat, but they didn't understand that what they were offering simply wasn't the way people wanted to play games or develop games for.

Combine this with the fact that _everyone_ (devs and players alike) knew that it had a limited window to be successful before Google shut it down due to lack of $$$, and not having a strong showing from day 1 was not even a nail in the coffin, it was shoveling dirt atop the platform the moment it arrived.

Google was never poised to disrupt gaming in my opinion -- what they were poised to do was to provide the datacenter and audience for developers to create their own vision of what Stadia should have been, but Google tried to make a video game platform, and instead made another entry in the "Failed Video Game console/platforms" lists that will be content for Youtube in the future.
> Use modern GPU hardware with ray tracing and dlss or the AMD equivalent.

DLSS, upscaling - but why? Just so the company can save costs. You should be able to get 60 frames without, and you won't get more than 60fps/4k with any latency. Upscaling will be even worse due to compression artifacts of the streaming. So in short - DLSS is useless. I guess nvidia ad division has a true power.
Realtime audio. Audio interface makers don't even release Linux drivers. I wish the situation could improve so that I can use Linux for both work and music production.
The Quest to Find Twitter’s Elusive Bot Team
To those of you who start MicrosoftTeams meetings 6 minutes early: Why?
That doesn’t seem like a good idea to me. You reduce latency by removing Wi-Fi entirely. The latency between the controller and a machine sending to Google is comparatively minor. And that machine can have a wired network.
Speculation based on a few examples.
I was thinking that you could embed the 3rd party code in your wasm file, but also you can do it in js, so I‘m also curious what was thinking GP, because everything goes through the browser then you would just block the request to certain domains as we do now.
This is the Motte and Bailey technique.

Attacking "Political Correctness" in a vague and non-specific way lets you sound noble.

As soon as you specify what that means in practice you just sound like a nasty bully (at best), so best leave that implied.

But a quick glance as the history of social science that these things are a direct response to, would reveal people "proving" that various groups are inferior in ways that mirror contemporary prejudices and reinforce right-wing politics that consistently builds hierarchical models to justify current social inequalities.
Stadia dying proves why people shouldn’t trust Google.
He's not only a man of principle, very prescient, but also 100% incorruptable. In other words, there's nobody to replace him.
I am still not convinced that Gen 1x2 actually exists. Sure, it's in the specs, but can you actually buy chips which support 1x2 but not 2x1?

Sure, in theory it is easier to design because you are dealing with two 5Gbps signals instead of one 10Gbps signal so you have a bigger error margin, but 2x1 was introduced in 2013 whereas 1x2 came along in 2017, had a worse real-world data transfer rate, and required way more complicated chips due to the mandatory USB-C handling.

Did anyone bother to build chips for it?
Sounds like a good idea for systems that are absolutely hammered. `htop` could add a `--kill` flag, or maybe `--kill-ram` / `--kill-cpu` which would first try to kill the most ram/cpu intensive application, and then load the UI.

I've ended up in a couple of situations where servers are so hammered it takes five minutes just to get a ssh session up and running because some process took up all CPU/RAM and was barely able to do anything in the server itself. Something like that could maybe help.
> How does this compare to https://trpc.io/ ?

Less boierlplate.

> so far, I'm preferring trpc, because it has support for zod

What's your use case for wanting zod instead of https://telefunc.com/shield#all-types?
Wikipedia does at least preserve history.
> Telefunc should support zod, why shouldn't it?

What's your use case for wanting zod instead of https://telefunc.com/shield#all-types?
> all the remaining tickets could cost $50.

What makes you think there would be any remaining tickets? I mean I don’t see how this system could increase the availability, it would only allow the event organizers to get all the surplus that goes to the resellers now. Also having a fair and transparent system would likely only increase the number of bidders driving up the price even more.
> For the study, scientists examined the brains of six SuperAgers, seven cognitively average elderly individuals, six young individuals and five individuals with early stages of Alzheimer’s.

I can see two problems here:

1. It's a so tiny sample this is anecdotal

2. All these people gave their brains after the death, isn't there the risk of bias?
And avoid seek. Pipes are not random access. I once tried to use a python library to convert a file from stdin but it failed on a f.seek(0) the library added 'just in case' in the beginning.
This is infamously used by Kiwi Farms after they were dropped by other DDOS protection platforms.
Plenty of comments here talking about using uBlock [Origin], piHole, disabling JS, and so on, but it doesn't look like anybody has bothered to ask specifically how TikTok is actually doing the tracking. And TFA doesn't explain the method(s) in any technical detail.

I visited several of the sites mentioned in TFA, and uBlock didn't show any connection requests being made to any tiktok-related URLs. Nor were there any unfamiliar websites commonly shared amongst these sites in case TikTok was using a proxy service to hide behind.
gRPC is nice for backend-side RPC, but the ergonomics of Telefunc are much nicer if all you need is your frontend to access data.
Sandy has his own agendas - since he started to buy tesla stock I take his commentary with a grain of salt.

You notice when he talked about a failed casting he didn't mention anything around the fact that castings are brittle relative to sheet metal and bits can snap off vs flex.

So something like a suspension mounting point can break off the casting and that's a write off as its very hard if not impossible to weld back.
Access is green, acidic is red, and my favourite, cabbie is a nice yellow!
No, that's relatively new.

The NHS used to own its radiography suites. It used to own its land and buildings. It used to hire doctors and nurses and support staff directly.

But because of a [also recent] forced-tender system, and high breakthrough prices on in-housing projects, it was deemed "cheaper" to let private providers burden the upfront costs of equipment, land and building management, and short contract management.

Shock, horror! Letting "interface companies" extract profit makes services more expensive, and now we're paying more, it's even less affordable to talk about major public capital investment to bring these critical, primary services back in-house.

The NHS needs to stand up for itself and politicians need to start talking about 20y plans. Making ends meet today isn't enough. Giving up, adding insurance companies to the mix won't do anything but make it even more expensive.
Cryptopot->honeypot
That was addressed in the long (and interminable) example thread linked in the article.

Because of RMS's opposition to making gcc usable in any context other than gcc, people just moved to llvm and clang.

The core issue is that these are people who care about FSF, GNU, gcc, etc running headlong into RMS who is forcing design decisions based on a threat that does not exist, leading to the gradual erosion of there relevance.

Take gcc as in the example thread: RMS intentionally hobbling gcc means that gcc is simply not involved in any significant amount of compiler and language research any more. Why bother? it's intentionally designed to make the kind of things that compiler researchers would want to do hard, to "stop it being used in non-free software", similar happens for new languages: why bother messing around gcc where by design your only real option is "compiling" your code to C, which comes with _many_ costs.

These are people who _want_ to use gcc, who _want_ to use gpl, gnu, fsf, etc software, but cannot because functionally RMS does not allow it.
By that logic we also don't use an alphabet because we have started using symbols like the smiley. Which non-phonemic symbol have they used that couldn't be replaced by a phonemically created word?
Because I own a m1 mac mini, I can work without issues and uses about the same power as the raspberry, I don’t know other cpu that’s capable enough and also is power efficient, intel and amd are huge power consumers, other arm processors seems to be bad for daily use as a power user, also AFAIK linux support for m1 seems to be better than the flagship arm processors of the competition and I do not know other pc like device with arm that is not dated hardware.
> without historical precedent w.r.t their cloud business

That’s not hard, considering they’ve existed for only a few years. In that time they’ve done plenty of things that make me feel like their behavior is questionable (the 10x price hike for maps API comes to mind)
Not everyone has 14 hours of trip time and another half a day of shock

With the risk of lifelong HPPD
I'm using NNW with FreshRSS on my home server. Great experience across operating systems. Miss the app on Windows and Android.
In gaming, Free has some bad connotations, especially for console gamers who are Stadia's target market
4, thats cute
Yup, glad there's no SwiftUI here.
> doesn't make bogus and weird claims on its website

Feel free to elaborate. I'm also the author of https://vite-plugin-ssr.com/ which indeed has no known bugs.
I find it interesting that a service not having lock-in is actually a reason for people to adopt and stay with it. In an industry where lock-ins are common, these lock-ins also effectively become lock-outs.

It is said the biggest motivator for people is fear and lock-in results in fear. It's powerful anti-marketing.
After kids go to bed at 10’ish.

We spend all the weekend together, the week is for me-time.
Your insults against people like Haidt for taking a stand against ideological bullying demonstrate exactly why such stands are needed.
I don’t think biological realism was the key criteria in 90s computer games.
I'd love for someone involved in the USB naming standard to come here and explain why being on coke when deciding on names is a good thing.
I'm also the author https://vite-plugin-ssr.com/, which I'd argue is rock-solid as testified by the companies sponsoring it.