skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It used to be that these gangs would kidnap wealthy people in ransom schemes, but that would be dangerous for both parties. If you kidnap the wrong person from a family with the right political connections, there’s a good chance that it’ll turn into a fatal mistake. However, when you kidnap helpless people instead then you’re not going to face the military hunting you down. Also if you fleece the rich instead of putting them in mortal danger, there’s also a chance that they might not report it due to embarrassment.

Going on a tangent, the title is horrible. It looks like click bait which doesn’t suit The Economist. They need to change it.
CPJ has its hands full (or should). At least once, if not twice, a week, I hear on Democracy Now! news of indigenous activists or journalists being assassinated.

I'm surprised Mikhail Khodorkovsky is still vertical and breathing. Perhaps he has some Kompromat leverage, he's very cautious, or Putin has too much else to worry about like cancer and domestic support.
Air pollution is estimated to contribute to 7 million premature deaths each year (https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution#tab=tab_2). That's about one in ten deaths where air pollution was a factor (obviously it's somewhat complicated because things like lung problems don't have a single clean cause).
I would eat a lot of iogurt and later try to find my gut feelings --- not a joke.
Lufthansa confirms ban on “activated AirTags”
The maternal mortality rate in the US should be a warning to all proponents of the current system...
There's a more detailed article on the UNSW website: https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/new-system-re...
Are we thinking about the same femtometer? 10^-15 of a meter?

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

I mean you can’t even fit a thermometer into a cubic femtometer..?
Wine Is Not an Emulator (that's what it stands for).
More like landlords of landfills. Big Data is a continent of useless ever increasing shit.
> most of your cells share a single common ancestor cell

We call her LUCA, last universal common ancestor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor
It's thoughtful, but clearly deputizing your own property against you is not a premise people are comfortable with.
I said what I meant.
OpenSea CFO leaves less than one year after joining
Outstanding work, I wrote an incredibly naive simulator of Starlink coverage using H3 over a year ago before we even knew that Starlink was using H3 internally. The community over in r/Starlink wrote some other simulations too and we all stopped short of actually calculating based on gateway reachability and ISLs weren't in use yet either.
Yep, this pretty much ends Ubuntu for me. It was a good run, 8.04 was a historic release, but it has definitely gone off the rails now.
> What an amazing language. There aren't many 3rd party libraries, though. And whatever exists is highly questionable.

Can't agree more. Such a powerful language but with an absolute meager ecosystem! No dogfooding.

GC and crashes are pretty common on long running high performance apps. They should just build things from the ground up using betterC.
Their tires are just as bad for you.

It’s all bad.
Oh, sorry on first read I thought link hints was an avy plugins, not the category.
>Why does this happen? No idea, but it's not lost on me that a lot of these things are backed by huge companies with giant piles of money who are using them as marketing.

1. New Tools, in the modern era means Promotion, VCs, Money, Prestige. personal branding.

2. Creating complexity, in the name of needs for these Big Tech is a great way to create a moat for themselves.

3. Ideology, web development is possibly the 2nd worst places if it wasn't for Rust evangelism strike force. The idea that every single god damn thing should be in Javascript or SPA.

4. The Act of design before coding is gone. Especially in the era of Web Development. Lead by Google and Facebook which later spread across Silicon Valley and later across the world. An Act which is even seen as evil or forbidden.
DNS based ad/abuse domain blocking
Elon Musk can’t be trusted to complete merger, Twitter tells judge
Uh...aren't they always on the same line? The ecliptic? Oh maybe not the moon but the others are pretty much all on the same plane.
If you type two keys and have to "select a label" as the README says, then you have to parse the screen to see what actually happened so you can decide what to do next. That seems to be what the parent commenter is saying slows one down.

This doesn't seem significantly different from, say, /<c1><c2><CR> and then hitting n to go to the next match until you've found what you want. It's only one more character than this project is claiming to require (the extra <CR>). With hlsearch enabled it also shows you matches as you type.
The Economist's propaganda is usually much more subtle than this particular instance.

Despite their neutral style, it occasionally leaks out, as in this instance. More often, it leaks out in their podcast, where the tone of voice used conveys their bias.
> Its just that MacOS, being run on almost entirely fixed hardware with off-brand/custom apis (Metal) isnt attractive for gpu makers in any capacity.

It has nothing to do with macOS and nothing to do with GPU manufacturers, only that Apple Silicon drivers for eGPUs do not exist, and there is no reason for them to exist because M1 delivers better performance than any eGPU.

> Otoh on Linux it should just work!

There's a diesel truck I want, has the power and performance I need, but I just hate diesel. Why are they forcing me to use a fuel I hate? What are the chances I can get this diesel engine to run on linux gas? Linux gas is such a cool fuel, I can do almost anything with it and not be locked in to the diesel walled garden.

I also have this compact car that I just hate the engine, it's only 1 liter. Why do car manufacturers force their stupid flashy engines on us? I want to put a 20 liter linux engine in there, but the engine bay is too small. What are the chances I'll ever be able to squeeze my linux engine in there?

Someone should just release a GNU/XNU distribution, call it "ARMac 'Linux'" and be done with it, because 99% of the cry babies don't really care about Linux, they just think that they do. All they really want is GNU. The other 0.9% can use MacPorts to build or install and run GNOME on macOS, and tell everyone it's Linux. Unless they saw the directory structure, Penguinistas wouldn't know the difference. For the remaining 0.1% that actually do want and need the Linux kernel on Apple Silicon, only they deserve our sympathy.
These are different technologies with different use cases. FDB typically is used when there are strict ACID requirements.

Apple uses both
Sleep on it --- not a joke! Take time off and do walking meditations about your life and your visions along it. Allow and follow the randomness of your thoughts. It will form, and the idea will come to you.
This is my first time ever using the phrase “signal-to-noise ratio”, but I think that Substack’s is starting to lean on the side of noise. There is something about consciously writing and publishing with a subscriber count and monetization model looming over you that may make writing poor or attract poorer writers in general. I reckon it’s 6 months away from officially becoming “Diet Medium”.
Not remotely. Batteries don't get used up in one cycle as with burning hydrogen. Batteries are far more efficient than even producing hydrogen let alone producing it and then transporting it and then burning it.
There are so many forks in so many languages. Many folks interested in these types of keyboards hang out at https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/
I like your analogy, but is it not more like having a sign telling you how the bullet-proof glass works without any evidence of actual bullet-proof glass.

And on the analogy of the bullet-proof glass. The bullet-proof glass is never there to protect you the customer. it is only there to protect the company.
Aljeezira wrote this up at some length 58 days back:

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2022/8/11/meet-c...

and it flew under the radar here at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32423206
Valve provides a way to use Steam as DRM but it's entirely optimonal. There are many games on steam where you can just run them directly or copy them on to another computer and they run fine. So its just up to the game publisher to decide what DRM they want.
That is what I noticed as well. The behavior of most of the people involved in these MRs were really toxic and unwelcoming whatever the reason might be.
Maybe it would be if nuclear plants would be dedicated to electrolysis.

But since electrolysis is inefficient, it would require a lot of nuclear energy.
:)

I started FB beta in 2004 and deleted in 2010.

I deleted my LI 2016. 2-3rd degree to 99% of who's-who in The Valley which made it essentially meaningless. Convo and engagement was basically none. It was 99% random recruiters and self-promo posts I didn't care about.

Ironically, I now work at the former without having either of the above. I didn't even have a résumé as I was freelancing and doing side projects. Macro conditions changed and a hiring freeze happened officially recently, so the hiring pipeline, apart from sr engineering, dried up.
A friend of mine who worked on eye tracking at Google (before his project was canned) basically said the technology can do exactly this, but there's no market for it at the price point required to do it reliably.
According to Dr. Jack Lewnard at ARPA-E, electricity costs about $100 to $250/MW-hr to deliver when amortizing the costs of the expanded grid infrastructure needed for electrification. The costs of expanding the gas grid for hydrogen (which is less energy dense than gas and requires changes to equipment) would be slightly less. Meanwhile, synthesized hydrocarbons (e.g. from direct air capture) could require essentially no changes to the gas grid

Grid concerns will likely be one of the factors that determines the energy carrier of the future.
> We don't know the revenue Nintendo derives from virtual console sales, but you can be assured that virtually none of it is making it to the creators which is who copyright is designed to protect.

I can almost guarantee that this isn't Nintendo's primary motivation for the behavior. There is much more money to be made with xplat games, and almost all (if not strictly all) consoles are loss-leaders.

Nintendo is ruled by dogma, nothing more, nothing less. Nintendo is much like Larry Ellison[1], don't try to make sense of them. If it wasn't for a core set of IP that their designers/developers routinely ace, they would be dead in the water.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246
It’s an interesting proposition.

I think it overstates the role of these entities. At end of the day, they exist to “launder” capital spending to make the corporate books of tech companies look attractive to Wall St. Their power lay more in reducing tax burdens than controlling property.
It always is! Status quo for Newton’s laws was the strongest it ever was in November 1916.
No, but they do require a lot of nasty metals to make, whereas hydrogen combustion can be done with more commonplace materials.
Hey, wasn't there a wink-wink LI insecure token login wall bypass around 10 years ago that made scraping easy if you knew how to get around it?
Nice personal insult with "quasi intellectuals" there.

It's because hydrogen has some serious problems as a power storage and recuperation medium. To the point where it has already lost. But there's some big reasons why the fossil fuel industry keeps pushing it. So yeah, you will keep seeing the same objections.

If people kept pushing the idea of heating our homes by clapping our hands you would also see the same reasons that won't work brought up.
My deep reading won’t be your deep reading, but the two standout books i’ve read recently and have changed my understanding of the world:

Parable of the sower by octavia butler

All about love by bell hooks

Neither of those were written in the last decade - but that’s a product of me not being very aware of the literary scene - it takes a long time for works to reach me, but by the time they do it’s only good stuff. I wonder if that’s maybe some of what you’re experiencing as well - older works that stuck around have stood the test of time, while the crap got forgotten.
Start crying every time you get interrupted
The video has been deleted, so, maybe it was just some hiccup.
Only if the house is less than 500k
The pictures on the homepage are astronauts and flamingos and stuff.

The homepage defines the process: "starts with a pattern of random dots and gradually alters that pattern towards an image when it recognizes specific aspects of that image"

So based on that description and context clues, I wouldn't expect it to generate a precise schematic.
I can understand wireless mouse and headset, but for a keyboard just having a detachable usb is fine incase you want to move it for cleaning underneath or something.
Some more reporting and past discussion on the topic

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31949731

https://www.propublica.org/article/human-traffickers-force-v...

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2022/8/11/meet-c...
Email PC Engines and ask/encourage hardware refresh. There have been shortages of Intel network chips which limited APU2 shipments.
Related, recently I've seen a lot of HN links to blogs published using this: https://bearblog.dev/

At first I thought it was a Bear.app feature but it's actually a separate free, open-source blog service: https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/
Stripe is PayPal circa 2010
This looks great, glad there is that listen feature.

I'm interested in the subject but it's a good read.

It is amazing the coverage of just one.
Use Web Apps Instead of Their Electron Desktop Apps
You made it “racial”. Until I saw this comment I thought it was a story local to some Asian communities.
This is beautiful. Is there a way it will lead to a ranking of influencers as per list inclusion?
> It is correct from every vantage point. Twitter lied about their reasoning.

This was right after the January 6th attempted insurrection. The concern about enabling that and more is justifiable.
I think the most practical use in consumer cases would be a portable replacement for desktop and mobile displays. Using everyday apps for desktop and mobile that are already established, as well as interesting AR apps for entertainment and productivity.

As with a lot of cutting-edge tech, it seems the most immediately useful application is beyond consumer tech in the world of military tech. Being able to send critical information to soldiers in the field and integrate with weapons technology has been a major focus of AR since its early inception. Early HUDs have their roots in fighter jets.

If you think about it, a lot of things we credit to the high tech industry had their beginnings in low-key and often confidential military research, from the internet to computers themselves. Although, an app for motorcyclists that displays speed, engine, and navigation data in your field of view would be seriously bad*ss and successful if it worked in a clean and functional way.

As with a lot of emerging tech, its usefulness often depends on the ingenuity of early pioneers. People thought the internet was a useless, passing trend as late as the 1990s.

Imagine silently controlling a fully-featured AR displayed system with a brain-to-computer interface and zero peripherals like some Ghost in the Shell futuristic tech. That would be pretty awesome and legitimately useful.
My understanding is that the "parsing the screen" step is slightly pipelined with the "typing the keys" step, as the labels you have to read/pick between show up after you've typed the first character of the pair — so in the ~300ms it takes you to type the second character, you've already become aware of the labels, and are well on your way to parsing them.
Protests in Iran: State-run live TV hacked by protesters
It's not actually a flag to the s command. It's a way to modify the address. So, for instance, if you want to delete from the third line to the third to last line in the file, you could run:

:1+2,$-2 d

1 is the address of the first line in the file and $ is the address of the last line in the file. Add 2 to the first to get the third line and subtract 2 from the last to get the third to last line. The d command deletes the lines in the address range.

You can also address lines with a regex, like I did in the example in my previous comment. You can even use regex addressing for ranges. If you wanted to delete a python method definition in between other method definitions, you could do something like:

:/def method_to_delete/,/def/- d

which would start the range with the line that contains def method_to_delete and delete lines up to the line before the next line that contains the def keyword that starts the next method definition.
I mean when you weigh pros and cons of using 3rd party AV software, that's a pretty reasonable idea.
What you're saying applies more or less no any NoSQL database. Unusable for your use case is a bit of a big statement. There's plenty of cases where you don't need the power of relational databases and relational databases can't/don't typically scale horizontally the way NoSQL can. And really NoSQL can because of its attributes. If all you need is key/value lookups or time series, you're not looking for any joins or random reads that don't agree with the native ordering/partitioning then it's hard to beat NoSQL scalability/ingest-wise.
Is this a shitpost? On HN?
> Sessions are state

Is database state?

> php-fpm, opcache

Nope

> countless parameters

Certainly not

> "mysql_real_escape_string" vs "mysql_escape_string"

There are only a handful of these, and you can learn about them with a simple google search.
Yep.

0. There aren't many antimycotics.

1. The extreme measures Mount Sinai needed to clean up after C. auris. (It has a 30% mortality rate.)
Free, for personal use only.
Microsoft Intermediate Language
Actual info is paywalled. Is there another source?
Maruti Suzuki India Limited
Yes, I felt the same back when I used vim+easymotion.

I've also gotten past the mouse allergy phase. Some editing operations are just faster/easier with the mouse and it's not worth the overhead learning a new plugin to try to optimize it.

Lots of these micro-optimizations are saving dozens of milliseconds. All it takes is a couple minutes of overhead from learning, setup, or debugging to wipe out an entire lifetime of saved time from such micro-optimizations.
From your link:

> Gaseous hydrogen is molecular hydrogen and does not cause embrittlement

This problem seems to occur when you have free H+ ions hanging around, not H2 that is found in liquid and gas used for fuel.
An experiment to prove that what? Humans are better at drawing graphs than computers? Well, Excel would like a word. That a neural net trained on photographs and artwork is bad at drawing graphs? Nobody expected otherwise. This "experiment" sets out to prove a hypothesis nobody had any doubts about.

A far more interesting blog post would have been looking at Fivr artists vs AI when it came to producing unique character artwork for games, or logos, or almost anything except what was done instead.
have you tried factoring in hookers and cocaine in your decisions?
Stop using utcnow and utcfromtimestamp
Based on this description, I should vary my playing of games.

Anyway, I find the usage of the term "game" to be quite odd. Why not "strategy?" I'm not sure I agree with the overall point, but enjoy how you've operationalized/categorized behavior in this way. There is value in that.
Verizon expands free Home Internet program to help bridge digital divide
What kind of structure can you avoid the initial flash and heat wave (if not the concussive / overpressure blast wave)?

Concrete? Brick? Can you just get behind a 6 inch concrete wall and you are OK from the flash and heat wave? What if you dive under the water (in a pool or whatnot)?
Medium was broken: it didn't bring enough revenue.

It's not because it was working from a user perspective that the underlying model wasn't broken.
I'm guilty.

> "How can I write 1000 lines of code to solve this problem?"

I opt for "Why are these libraries so complicated? I'll research all 20 libraries and take the parts I like and build a newer, simpler framework."
I don't think that's true. Can't speak for everybody but for the stuff I worked on. Quorum reads at RF=3 are only twice as slow as reading a single node and it's pretty practical, if you care about it, to write and read using quorum writes/reads. It's true there's many applications where you're ok with some time not reading your latest data, and for those you can get somewhere better performance/latency for a given scale by going CL=ONE...
Verizon adds 5G Home and LTE plans to its free internet program through FCC ACP
There are some great technical solutions offered, but the real one is to publish your data and your code, and be as transparent as you can about what you did.
Same goes for the Y2K problem: prodigious efforts went into solving the problem, which was mostly averted. But since "nothing happened", people started asking if the whole thing was overblown.

More on topic, web frameworks solve the following problems for me, which I guess are things now taken for granted:

1. Provide a standard API across all popular browswes by papering over subtle differences in JS- or rendering-engines. This is kess of an issue now worh the homogenization of browser engines

2. Provide components with out-of-the-box accessibility. For me, this alone is worth the price of admissions. YMMV if yiu don't care about your (potential) users who use assistive tech like screen-readers

3. Design systems, CSS frameworks and iconsets makw my webapps look much better than if I were to be left to my own devices. I'm no designer, but the added complexity is worth it to me (think internal tools, not public products with a design budget).

4. Job mobility and the ability to transfer knowledge from one employer to the next. When I put down "react" on my resume, the reader will know exactly what I mean (as opposed to "CorpWebVu revision 5". I am also able to get up to speed on a React codebase because I know the conventions. This also is worth the price of admission by itself.
It's extremely unlikely that we'll ever get anywhere near that. Even meter precision is impractical.
Writing for Substack isn't uncool. In fact if anything, it is extremely in vogue right now. But I agree with GP that eventually it will go the way of Medium, and a new "cooler" platform will take its place.
i say keep going until it hurts too much. question is, how much more pain are you willing to take until you actually get frustrated and fed up with it, that you eventually start taking the right actions in dealing with things.

we respond in pain and pleasure, gains and losses, what do you respond to?
Even before Grothendieck's scheme theory, algebraic geometry was already pretty focused on varieties in rings of polynomials and other such constructions.

The heart of the domain is still using abstract algebraic arguments to solve geometric problems.

E.g.; Euclid's method for finding the midpoint of a line is to draw two concentric circles centred at the vertices with radius the length of the line. The straight line that passes through the two intersection points of the circles, also passes through the midpoint of the line.

This is the same as saying the midpoint of a line is the intersection of an algebraic variety with a root at one vertex, and another algebraic variety with a root at the other vertex.

You don't need schemes, or projective curves, or local rings to prove it.