skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I agree, however, with your self assessment.

Didn’t take long to go from glib self deprecation to judgy spectator sport.

Okay holier than thou pet owner, you tell me how I’m supposed to not feed my pup kibble. She has a prescription low fat diet and there are two vendors total who supply the prescription. One supplies only kibble. The other supplies kibble and canned food. She will only eat a few bites of the canned food each day. Should she starve because the kibble isn’t natural? The canned food isn’t either, should she just starve? Should I feed her chicken and rice which even with all the fat trimmed off is still too rich for her? Or should she be set free to eat whatever she can get sick on or get hit by a car trying?

I’m doubtful my pup will have rotten teeth at 13 because she’s fortunate that dental health has been among her better strokes of luck. But I’m sure as hell going to feed her the “unnatural” food she depends on to have a healthy life and not feel guilted by judgmental busybodies about it.
This is a little alarmist. At least for the US, there don't seem to be any losses because the FED just lets the assets roll off. I.e., it does not sell the treasuries on its balance sheet, it lets them mature and gets paid the principle back by the government. If you do that and you have not purchased treasuries at negative yields (which the fed has not), and the government does not default (thankfully it hasn't) then you do not record losses.

There is a scary graph in the article but this is just for mark to market gains/losses but the fed does not mark to market.
Nobody is saying batteries are no good... we're all saying they are a PART of the solution. AS. IS. HYDROGEN.

https://www.startupdaily.net/topic/climate-tech/elon-musk-be...
Glad they finally caught him. I hope they throw the book at him and make an example out of him and give him the max sentence for treason.
Only if you have a truly open purse. This is not using Spartan-6.
If the slowest part of your program is waiting for RAM to get into your CPU registers, then you have one of the most blazingly fast programs ever written. Grats! The vast majority of software has much, much, much lower-hanging fruit than that: things like O(n^2) algorithms where O(n) exists, SELECT N+1 issues, missing database indexes, missing easy wins with caching, repeated work, threads blocking each other, loading more data than necessary, throwing and then suppressing exceptions everywhere, bad netcode, doing work serially that could be paralyzed, etc. In this software, fixing these issues will be 10x easier and result in 10x larger speedups than worrying about organizing your data to get loaded from RAM into CPU caches more quickly. That makes this advice counterproductive for most programmers to hear.
Intel's new Sapphire Rapids Xeons will have special on-chip gzip IP: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17596/intel-demos-sapphire-ra...
definetly vision based
I'm torn, half of me wants to support them for the hustle but I can't shake the strong "accidentally swallowed the same BS we fed the VCs" vibes.

But also in the same vein nothing really is that unique, if they can make some coins this way: who are we to judge?
Beyond 5G
Is there evidence that the flights of frequent fliers can be significantly reduced without adding new flyers to do the same jobs, i.e., increasing the median number of flights and keeping the total number about the same?
I mean, isn't learning anything new after the age of 25 hard as fuck?
I don’t think there is anything stopping anyone from building a competing extension pack which is 100% open source, and includes whatever useful features Oracle’s has (RDP is the most obviously useful; some people would benefit from the PXE support). One could potentially reuse code from other (GPL-compatible) open source projects in doing so.

Also, one could make a fork which just rebrands it and removes all references to non-open source components - a bit like what Oracle themselves do to RHEL.
Nah, you're barking up the wrong tree entirely. I did have a very passing interest in crypto way back, when BTC wasn't yet at full capacity. I was sure back then the situation couldn't last, because paying $50/transaction was completely ridiculous for any kind of currency. People HAD to rebel against that and at least raise the block limit to alleviate the urgent problem now, even if that wasn't the long term solution.

Oddly, that didn't happen. The big players strenuously resisted any effort to alleviate the network congestion. I was feeling very confused.

It slowly dawned on me that my type of usage was a niche. The main players were interested in speculating on the value, and held huge hoards they intended to optimally sell once. They didn't care if it took 10 hours for the transaction to go through or they had to pay a ridiculous fee, because a $100 fee is effectively nothing when you're making a profit of $millions.

So far nothing has really changed my mind. If what Monero offered was what people wanted, they'd have switched over en masse, and they really didn't.
>or is EUR 20c per unit for hardware 'reasonable' -on Apple volumes, thats a lot of money.

Apple thought they should only paid $1.5 / unit to Qualcomm for all of Qualcomm's patents. 20c per unit is a lot for single type of patents with limited coverage. Their "reasonable" range is probably 1c per unit.

Which is still about $3M / year.
Australian Apple Stores staff vote to strike for better pay and conditions
No you're right it was mason, which installs lsp servers to a location it manages. I had set it up once and then forgotten. The complexity of all the interacting packages needed with neovim does add to helix's appeal.
*Sensible
Compared to Apple's profits, it's not much.
Could be mistaken, but this comment sounds like it’s coming from someone who’s either not used VR often or who’s closest 6DOF VR experience was Google Cardboard.

The most important things for immersion are the visuals, then sound, and then your ability to interact with the environment (more on this later). Being able to affect your smell and temperature is just novel at best. If you were very familiar with VR, your picks for missing features would instead be the following:

- being able to physically feel virtual objects like a soda can. (You can kind of feel things that tap or strike you now with speaker vests.)

- being able to physically walk an infinite distance in any direction inside of a room

Even without those features, modern VR is immersive enough just like the internet was useful enough in the last 90s and early 2000s
Software patents, and patents in general, are a plague on the industry and should be abolished due to a lack of empirical evidence to justify their existence. As a thought experiment they make sense, but thought experiments often diverge from reality.

The Case Against Patents:

https://research.stlouisfed.org/wp/more/2012-035
Hyper-V doesn’t support USB
Very fun game back in the day. They did away with the "ball sticks to your feet" thing that most footie games have, so it felt a bit different. You ended up having to shoot from distance and curling it in, which was satisfying. You also got a 3D replay of the goal somehow, probably a bit fiddly to code at the time.
irrational: false equivalency

nukes <> conventional weapons
I honestly believe SWOS 96/97 (Amiga version) is the greatest football game ever made. I've been playing it periodically ever since, whether through emulators (WinUAE) or bundles and mods like this that adds netcode and updated players. I'm not that great though, I played Playaveli (the guy behind this site) online about 12 years ago and he easily beat me - 6-3 if I remember correctly.
That is the question of the ages, many cheap things or fewer expensive things. Problem is the cheap things get better and better until the only reason you stay on the expensive thing is they're actively trying to lock you in in a desperate attempt to keep their marketshare
> You can’t keep it “truly democratic” - the owners are basically there to replace the management if they go insane.

In a sense, that's true of other kinds of business, which also allow their owners to vote. The difference is that in a coop it's one person one vote, and nobody can be an owner without being a stakeholder of another kind (such as an employee or a customer), whereas in a conventional business there's no reason owners must intersect with other kinds of stakeholders (though there might still be some overlap), and votes don't necessarily have equal value.
Presumably he's referring to Balbir Singh Sodhi.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Balbir_Singh_Sodhi
And who would take their place moving Java forward?

Since Sun went down, it hardly goes over 10% of external contributions, and no one else cared about getting hold of Java 6.
If he uses a nuke, even a small tactical nuke, nato and the US will respond with overwhelming conventional forces, destroying some significant Russian military assets. The world will be on a precipice of doom. I don't see how it will stop. Russia is too weak, their only response is more nukes, and then it's over for all of us.
Has anyone created an alternative banking system that is only using central bank money and skips over commercial banks completely?

I swear people have no clue how banking works.
I avoid shopping for food. I just cut out grocery stores altogether. Then when I get bored, instead of drinking I have a list of options at hand.
Ironically they were contributors to their own downfall.
Warren Craddock on Twitter: “I've worked on a number of high-profile failures”
Object representation/memory layout optimization is an area that has been really missed in the PLT field, in no small part because of restrictions imposed by specified PL semantics. There are huge amounts of slack left on the table for nearly all languages as currently implemented. Both vs compactness of representation and placement in memory for efficiency of access. The bag of tricks that low-level programmers use to painstakingly optimize memory representations and placement should be available from compilers as automatic transforms, incorporated into profile feedback based optimizer passes, etc.

These are not just memory usage gains but also execution speed gains since memory access is frequently the main bottleneck and cpu cache effectiveness depends on how many of your objects they can hold.

Java is actually one of the few languages that does at least something in this field already before this JEP: Compressed object references (https://www.baeldung.com/jvm-compressed-oops).
No, which is explained in TFA
Joscha Bach Bits
As tensions with China rise, life goes on in Taiwan
Solar modules + inverters are about 40c a nameplate watt (or $1.60 per net watt in good conditions). The land, installation and maintenance roughly adds half to as much again.

Onshore wind is about the same TCO. More up front cost for the turbine and construction at around $1-1.3 per nameplate watt.

Offshore is about double.

Wind has substantial advantages in terms of being uncorrellated with other wind and anti-correllated with solar.
Or it did happen, but no one's there to talk about it.
Can anyone identify this mystery item?
Never started
>There was a google+ bug that exposed info on 52.5 million users, one on 500,000 users' data, and other disclosures.

There was a vulnerability discovered internally by Googlers. There's no evidence it was exploited.

>A decade ago there were about 5 million Google passwords leaked online.

Those weren't taken from Google. They were stolen from somewhere else (possibly multiple places). Less than 2% were val

Disclosure: I work at Google.

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2014/09/cleaning-up-after-pa...
>I wish I could go back in time and just curb crypto from growing into the current tumor it has become.

I wish I could go back and time and just curb the federal government and the multitude of 3-letter agencies that make up the massive police into from growing into the current tumor they have become. Doing this would be far better of the country and the world than anything crypto-related. The problem isn't that power is centralized by corporations or a proposed "super ap" like Musk dreams of. The problem is centralized power - period.
Living in an Unreal World: A Film by Adam Curtis
We are too trapped in a system. We cannot see beyond it. But there is more out there.
Musk Claims Twitter Ordered Whistle-Blower to Destroy Evidence
Fair enough but it doesn't make the phrase "constitutional republic" any less meaningless in the context it was offered (saying America is not 'a democracy'), does it? Incidentally, aren't most of those monarchies constitutional (ie ceremonial) in which the public elect the actual government, thus in practice democratic?
It’s not a hardware feature and it’s not essential to Apple’s business. If the trolls insist that it is, Apple can and should nuke the extremely limited software support they have for it.
Perhaps the actual question would be why Rust is being talked about so much in online forums. The answer is possibly active marketing that went viral and thus organic, although I assume the active part has gone down after Mozilla let many of those people go.
Tell me why exactly do you need to take the medium of exchange hostage like people take housing hostage as a speculative investment?

Money is there to be used for transactions. Using money to save is literally the opposite how you are supposed to use it.

If anything, people witholding the medium of exchange against interest are what is causing business cycles and bailouts.
Well, their mission is to make it accessible to the French public.
I found the point of "lurking" to be very strange. Being invisible while standing right behind someone listening in to their conversation is creepy. VR is not discord, it's not text. Communication is more expressive. Even in voice chat (discord included) participates are aware of everyone present. The author's wish to be the invisible man in this situation is simply unfair to the participants.

As for the range of motion: input is the cornerstone of every game system and technology in general. The content is defined by the physical input of the device. That's why touchscreen games are different from console games, why you have autoaim in consoles while it's considered cheating on PC. In VR the input is your head and hand movements, and it extends to your movements in the room too.

VR is not missing the point. It might be missing accessibility features for disabled people (although some applications do try their best, like Half Life Alyx, and stationary mode is available for most applications). While I feel for the author for not being able to enjoy VR in their special circumstances, there's only so much the developers can do.

> Why is VR more restrictive than my 27” monitor?

Because you're trying to use it as such while being unable to use the intended input methods. It's like asking how is cycling slower than walking when you can't ride a bicycle.
Lots of interesting bits, but of course the most relevant bit specifically for HN is probably this:

"Morris Chang: If there's a war, I mean, [TSMC] would be destroyed. Everything will be destroyed."
Honest to goodness the results don't seem worth it for the power usage. Pre-baked lighting, environment maps, material shaders look _really good_ and are easy to get decent frame rates out of without sacrificing artistic freedom. Why are we making it more difficult for ourselves with global illumination which just introduces more problems. It's just very difficult to realistically light things while still maintaining high-visibilty of game assets in dynamic situations.

It sells graphics cards but I just don't think it's very practical.
Yes please, Quest should just allow me to lie down and then define this as standing. This should not be an app feature but a headset feature. VR is currently only usable while standing or sitting… why?
Note that html2canvas has a lot of limitations, since everything that needs to be rendered has to be implemented from scratch using canvas primitives. If you have (IIRC) shadows, more advanced CSS features, certain SVG icons, etc., your output will be pretty broken. I usually have to do DOM cloning and modify/hide the problematic parts before using html2canvas to generate an image.

It’s incredibly annoying that screenshotting isn’t a DOM API, while the functionality is clearly there in DevTools.

Edit: To add to the annoyance, iOS Safari is extremely stingy with canvas memory.
This was a side project.
Compared with German, it's complicated.
German has only "Past Perfect" and "Past simple" tenses.

English has at least 4.
NeosVR is p2p and has an embedded node based programming language. I’ve seen everything from yugioh-like card games to racing to a pokeball you can literally capture your friends in. All in a multiplayer, vrchat, metaverse like platform. You can be a non-humanoid avatar if you wish. It makes platforms like Metas a joke.
I suppose my honeymoon phase was when I was learning Ruby and a lot more articles about it were being upvoted. It was a great source of information and the comments a window into the assumptions that I would need to learn to either adopt or empathize with.

These days there are so many nice language- and domain-specific roundup newsletters that I mainly enjoy HN for the odd technical stories I never expected to read that day. I also enjoy watching dang moderate; he is gifted.

I’m still in the honeymoon phase with Ruby, by the way.
Another couple of good ones in Australia are:-
* Heaps Normal - Pale Ale (Jordy Smith pro surfer is a co-founder). They also have a lager but I found the pale ale much better.
* Hawkesbury - Prohibition Pale Ale
So both java and oracle die. Seems like a double win.
Most old games do not work because of old graphics apis. Wine emulates these apis on top of modern graphic apis. Windows users usually need to use wrappers, or wined3d from wine.
> There's no point in duplication.

Duplication is precisely the point of backups. Well, multiplication preferably, more than duplication.

The old chestnut is that 99% of restores are due to user error. There's still that 1% rump, though.
> Why walk around in some virtual space when you can...

This is the key question not only for engineers, and I don't think anybody has a good answer for it except for "we want to make more money and existing markets are already taken".
I know what you mean. I spent a chunk of my childhood years improving my cast-off pc(s) with random thrown-away parts etc. Which hard drives would work with which controllers, fixing (really just reconditioning) broken screens and dot matrix printers.

To be fair, I don't do that anymore. I simply get a pre-built pc, usually with minimal input as to specs.

I like to equate this with my father's upbringing - he built (rebuilt) a car from scratch - he had tools like valve grinders and so on. Clearly one can't do that today.

I don't know what the new thing is. Technically I could have built a car (it was still low tech enough) but I didn't have the interest. My dad introduced me to computers, and kept me supplied with broken bits from work, but ultimately it was my interest.

I think, as a father, my goal was to not really dictate their interest, but to nurture it a bit where it came up. There was no real hardware equivalent in my kids lives, so I have no advice from that point of view.

They may have interests on other areas, like music or sport - if I have any advice it's that they need to find it, you can't really "force" it.
The LWN article "Emulating Windows system calls in Linux" discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120066 (August 2020, 64 comments)
Because of the 'hardware' clause? What stops them from expanding the scope later?

Why would any business want to use a codec associated with patent trolls?

Are there other IETF protocols subject to retroactive patents?
Thats a very good take on things. A nice simple way of putting it.
Full-spectrum ANC would be a dream come true.

For now, I find that combining ANC with some ambient music/noise that covers the higher frequencies works well for removing distractions such as speech. For some reason, low-pitched sounds distract me much more than higher-pitched - in speech, it's the deepness that takes away my attention the most. And higher-pitched sounds are more easily muffled with external sound.
The competition is poor: Linux still has quite a lot to go in terms of distributing commercial software. Mac users are also probably more ready than Linux users to spend money on software.
So if you have many connections, you will spend gigabytes of RAM on compression alone? In the age of VM and cloud computing efficiency is important again.
> Few years ago reddit released the most active cities and top turned out to be airbase airlington.

I was curious about this so I looked up the post you’re referring to[1]. The actual statistic is about “most addicted cities” (which I assume means visits per capita) and Eglin Air Force Base, FL. All of the top 3 cities seem to be places with a low official population but a high worker population - Eglin had an official pop of 2,800 but over 80k workers, for example. Any reason to believe it’s not just a statistical artifact?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160410083943/http://www.reddit...
I believe they were phished.
There's some interesting pr work in describing her this way in a heap of articles on the incident. The article links her twitter profile, and her own bio there never mentions twitch or streaming.
I love alcohol. It gives me nice feelings, I relax and gradually become a brainless idiot thinking I'm all smart. Social drinking is also nice, because you get drunk with others on a very similar pace. What's not nice is all the lost days spending in bed with hangover.

I simply woke up one day and said it's enough. I get superb sleep, don't feel like shit,etc. Life does get more boring though.
Dart being a GC'd runtime makes it quite hard to use for low latency audio applications, probably not as critical for audio input as output, but still potential issue, for more details see: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/46943
Central banking is the central planning of the availability and price of credit.

Central planning of food production has created famines with no equal in history.

Central planning of housing created those lovely soviet style "housing" block developments while the beautiful inner cities of eastern europe rotted away.

Central planning of car production gave you cars like the Trabant which you literally had to queue 18 years for.

I am sure there is nothing that could go wrong with central planning the money supply but just in case economic live feels harder than it ought to maybe it's because of certain institutions continuously inflating away the value of your currency.
Politically Biased Treatment at Work Is Increasing Ahead of the Midterms
> I can just physically go play them

If you think about it some more, that’s not always true. Every player needs to want and be able to play at a specific time and specific location. With VR, both limitations are gone. While living in North America, I can play VR pingpong and chess with relatives in Asia, and VR poker with my old friends on the opposite coast. The immersion makes it a lot more appealing than playing in front of a flat screen. Even an 80 in flat screen isn’t as immersive as VR