skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if it is viewed as a software problem - figure out how to program two boring chips rather than a single, faster one? People used to program way closer to the bare metal so there’s all sorts of inefficiency that choice be squeezed out of how programs run if need be.

Money and fear, as we have seen, is a powerful motivator.
> I don't think that's the reason, as it wouldn't be any more overeach than mandating the current cookie notice

As viraptor says, cookie banners are not mandated; they're a crappy UX invented by ad companies.

In any case, regardless of one's personal opinions on user tracking, I don't understand how 'cookie notices' are at all equivalent to a flat-out ban on all tracking by anyone ever.
Ask HN: What percentage of developers switched careers after the 1999 crash?
> at's objectively untrue. This is a new rule, and as The Verge correctly says, "it’s the first time Apple has directly taxed advertising in iOS apps".

Whole point is that is not objective, it's subjective, and FB is in the minority for considering it true. It's bad reporting by Verge to report it so, but good for their clicks and controversy. There's no story otherwise.

The Verge sentence is the untrue statement, if the position is that a user boosting the user's reach is a service, not an ad. It never occurred to me that tapping to give my post more visibility was an ad, but rather distribution or shelf space.

Goods in a grocery store, brands can pay for shelf space. If you see one mayo placed at eye level, vs. one by the floor, is that an ad? I'd argue it is not. The thing in the TV or magazine or back of your receipt is an ad.

Similarly the "pay for play" radio payola scandal was not considered ads, it was considered unfair/deceptive/monopolistic, but not ads.

Apple is doing none of the things Verge tossed out as clickbait, or you allege as bad faith. After pressing FB to behave, for a while, they eventually closed a loophole. This happens in business contracts routinely.

This is why almost all legalese is a Chesterton's Fence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...
Remembering Professor Kathleen Booth, 1922-2022
The Gnome Project is closing all its mailing lists
I'm honestly torn. I love the positive statement of minimalism.

But I think a product category has grown up around them and eaten some of the lunch that they decided not to eat. Even if they continue to differentiate themselves from other e-ink tablets, they are still in the same market category. So, competetively, if they differentiate on fewer features, they should probably do so at reduced cost.

Which puts them in a bind, because the hardware isn't simpler so the raw materials don't come cheaper. And even more irony, their software is custom, so it's not even cheaper to build or maintain than the Android based ones.
It will amount to something.

It's inevitable that the "Metaverse" (VR, AR, sensation tech, smell tech) will get big. But just when? And will Meta be the winner when this market gets big? Look at the companies that contributed to the early World Wide Web. How many still exist?
I used to handwrite my game design journal (should probably get back into that again, I got out of the habit), in part because I could illustrate game concepts with diagrams wherever it made sense and include them write there as I was writing the journal. It took a lot longer to write it by hand, and was a pain to transcribe it after the fact to digital notes, though (I still haven't fully transcribed all 200k+ words I wrote during that several year time period), but the handwritten journals feel like they have more personality to them than my transcriptions.
Well, iGoggles are coming soon.
Turns out, at least in my own personal experience, that’s not how it works. I don’t think this has been well studied, especially in the context of driving in a vehicle with gaze / attention tracking features.

While my Tesla is working to keep the car perfectly centered in the highway lane, it frees me to focus on higher-level situational awareness during the drive.

In particular, I find I can more quickly and consistently identify and avoid other distracted drivers, because I can look more closely at those features without drifting a few inches out of the middle of the lane.

Just because you are not steering does not mean you have to disengage from driving. The focus on steering as a proxy for engagement is over-simplistic. Manual steering just to lane center can lead to “blind stare” which causes many accidents, so it’s a lossy proxy for attention / focus.

As a new technology is adopted and people become less scared of the change, it eventually comes to a point where a new generation laughs at how things used to be done.

What HN consistently likes to frame as a fundamental human limitation (“driving without actively steering can never be safe”) is in fact just a faulty assumption and purely conjecture in the context of a modern car cockpit with advanced lane keeping, adaptive cruise, object detection, and driver gaze & blink tracking.
For example, $100000,8000,365,100 fails even on 128 bit, 256 bit, even infinite bit length registers. Because your algorithm itself is bad.

Really? So now we've progressed from $100 thousand to $100 million to the national budget?

Anything that can't handle the national budget is "bad"?

Every algorithm "fails" when pushed beyond it's limits --- even the ones you use based on double precision floats but they do so silently by losing precision in the mantissa which is only 52 bits.

Out of sight, out of mind don't mean it's always "right". By the standard you're applying, your own algorithm itself is equally "bad".
If you care about privacy, stop using your phone and any app. There, problem solved.
My favourite one has to be this: https://bash3boilerplate.sh/
What if my team assumes that my functional JavaScript is slow
https://quakejs.com/
I am looking at this as a person, who is intrigued, but who effectively is hesitant to lock myself into another long term relationship with a corporation.

The opening page says:

"Try reMarkable and Connect risk free. If you decide to return it, we offer a full refund within 100 days. After your 1-year free subscription ends, Connect costs $2.99/mo. Cancel anytime."

This may be intentional, but this does not automatically alleviate my concerns.

<< I will not consider an eink device of this type that I cannot ssh into.

Other posts suggest I can, but there is nothing indicating this on their landing page. I think it is safe to say, techies are not considered an important target demographic.
It's not supposed to measure real energy output, it's about predicting the capacity increase. What the actual energy output will be is a lot harder to predict and there is a lot more uncertainty regarding those numbers. Regular power plants are denominated in the exact same way, even though the actual energy output will be lower.
Four years after being acquired by Microsoft, GitHub keeps doing its thing
it's really interesting how polarizing of an issue this is with engineers. I definitely think it's a good idea, but you can really mess it up royally with bad implementation (plus there are scaling considerations). considering how polarizing it is though, it might be one of the best signals to attract the kinds of engineers who care about how their product is used.

actually I think the best targetting is for all engineers to play a support role with their stakeholders, whoever they may be. devops supporting with full-stacks, data eng working with DS, (these already happen), and UX working with the masses.
Love this one:

Five precepts of the Soviet intelligentsia (intellectuals):
Don't think.
If you think, then don't speak.
If you think and speak, then don't write.
If you think, speak and write, then don't sign.
If you think, speak, write and sign, then don't be surprised.
Studies don’t investigate something as complex as the total impact of video games or anything else in all contexts.

You get individual studies of the impact in terms of say specific reflexes or some aspect of depression for some subset of games, but you would need a comprehensive set of studies for every single context to build a holistic picture which we simply don’t have.

Occasionally it’s enough to find major downsides such as with smoking’s really negative health impacts and say it’s not worth it. But for most things, including video games, there isn’t a single overwhelming downside just some negatives and other positives.

People want a black and white world where they can say “_ is good/bad,” but in the real world meat, carbs, video games etc isn’t that simple they are good and bad at the same time. Many people would be better off by reducing meat and carb consumption but that doesn’t mean a worldwide ban on consuming them is a good idea.
The worst engineers provide negative value, the metaphorical guys rowing the wrong way. Certainly some managers have experienced this.
Yet another compiler how-to which pretends to be a design. There is no usage design as such, not a word on semantics, even the work "semantic" is not mentioned in the whole text.

The only design here might be the verbatim copy of a compiler architecture which is explained over and over. And some people might call architecture "design" and "programming language" a syntax compiler.

</rant>
It's a case of knowing the wooledge website (and working with shellcheck), or not. Picking snippets on stackoverflow will probably do more harm than good, tbh.
https://quakejs.com/
https://play-cs.com/en/servers
PayPal might be one of the worst company out there, but criticizing them on their contribution to the afro-american community is not one I'd make.
Well that's a very surface-level take on my comment, and after your extremely surface-level take on OP's comment.
> Crime virtually disappeared after Prohibition was passed until the apparition of organized crime

I have never seen this claim made before and would like some evidence for it.
Honestly, if Taiwan wants to fight then just watch the start of 'Saving private Ryan' for a good idea of what establishing a beach head look likes.

China needs to do about a millions things very competently and quickly to take Taiwan. The activities involved are things that would be hard for most western militaries today, even with all their money and skill.

Here's a list of difficult things for china to do:
1. It's got to stage it's troops in a way that's real but maintains the element of surprise against an actor with US Intel backing it up. Even if it's just 1 guy from the NRO with a satellite phone and a laptop. The edge for Taiwan will be massive.

2. It's got to be able to cross 100km of open ocean with about 10-20 thousand troops as a first wave that can be dropped off rapidly to fight and survive on it's own.

3. Then those same ships will need to return and onboard more and more waves of troops that will need to be landed until they can safely establish maritime operations. In land warfare gaining air superiority is a first major goal. This is one of the reasons the Russians have gone so badly in Ukraine. For China, they will need to be able to own the sea and provide safety for their own ships as a highest priority.

4. The fighting on the beaches, will turn into fighting in the cities, and then fighting in the hills. Each one of these is a real challenge on it's own. It took the US military years to get good in Iraq.

5. Whilst China has lots of cash, and lots of men, and lots of tanks etc. The will power to fight may be an issue. For the Taiwanese soldiers, fighting and dying may mean independence for their family and nation. For the Chinese soldiers, fighting and dying probably just means they die. Its kind of a pointless activity for the soldier on the ground who just needed a job when they signed up for the PLA.
> Parliamentary systems are generally considered more stable

Hm... Germany's system changed at least 3 times in the 20th century. France is on its Fifth Republic. Italy is a shitshow.

To me it seems that the oldest democracies (UK, US) are the most stable (even today!) and they're majority systems (first-past-the-post).
Thanks. To me it looks like client side encryption should be fine, or real P2P for that matter.
Officer: give me the messages

Service: here they are

Officer: decrypt for me

Service: Sorry, don't have the keys.
> We want to be able to restrict what gets synced to where. (eg, not dropbox or box or google etc)

Can't that kind of "strong security measure that is absolutely critical to our business" be circumvented with one single bash command that takes data from the "totally OK with our super strong MDM rules service" and copies it to the "absolutely forbidden by our MDM so surely no one is using it service" ?
Would you mind sharing concrete examples of SQL Server deviating from the standard ?
I live in America and leave my valuables unattended in public all the time. It’s locale-specific.

It’s always a culture shock for me to travel to other places in America and see bars on store windows, homeless people, signs telling me not to leave stuff in my car. I can’t understand how people let things get that way or why they allow it to continue.
There’s no real reason to think of column vectors as points in space rather than the other way around when you’re doing linear algebra. It’s just a convention. If you wanted, you could think of a row vector as a point in space and transpose everything. In that case, your dual space of linear functionals would consist of column vectors rather than row vectors.
> This died a long time ago with the pervasive use of NPM and PIP and the likes.

When a malicious package is found on NPM or PIP, it will get removed. However, it is quite unlikely that a website will be taken town for a malicious script (or only after a long time).

I really doubt that most readers of HN would run a random script unless it comes from a source they trust (trusted enough to least to remove a malicious script in a timely fashion).
Have this device. I (wrongly) subscribed to the cloud service but never signed in because of security and privacy. Since this is a very personal device, not having strong security (e.g. your own repository as alternative) is top.

The device is good for drawing and taking notes, IMHO is bulky. From the software perspective it lacks shape drawing tools and other ideas that came easy with a device like this.

Battery duration is great because of the eink screen. This is an important feature but the device is expensive. I would say that battery duration is what is making a few devices different (M1/M2).
sure, this is why depression cases are rising
Both were titans of arts. I wouldn't compare one to the other, I wouldn't say Caravaggio was a Michelangelo or Michelangelo was a Caravaggio. Different styles, different time periods, different personal philosophies, different principles and different ways of working. But both are great.
Futuure: Write Now, Reveal Later
AI Predicts What Chemicals Will Smell Like to a Human
Oddly enough, it's not in https://killedbymicrosoft.info/
It's tricky to criticize them for that though - few experts would have predicted the precipitous price drops of solar & wind tech.

Nearly nobody in an industry that manufactures goods can foresee a way to sell the goods they make for less than ~half of what they currently sell for. Yet sometimes prices can go down by a factor of 10x or 100x or more in ways few predict.
The design is super opinionated but I LOVE IT! Especially the colored dark - I really do hate how dark modes really muddy out a lot of colors (I often find myself using the Windows High Contrast mode, especially in VSCode). Love the amount of customizability to make it exactly what I want. Will start using this!
> It appears there's a "replacement" now. https://igoogleportal.com/
Very non-obvious that this is not affiliated with Google, I'd think twice about giving it your credentials. Honestly surprised it hasn't been C&D'd based on the URL alone.
Are you sure that's how to interpret it?

The way I see it is:

- From Jul - Sep 2022, the net cash provided by operating activities minus their purchases left them with $173M.

- From Jan - Sep 2022, the net cash provided by operating activities minus their purchases left them with $13,151M.

So yes, this quarter wasn't great as they only had $173M cash leftover. But their previous two quarters were good enough to leave them with $13,151M - $173M = $12,978M free cash flow.

It's just that in Q3 they only produced $173M free cash flow. They still have $13,151M free cash flow produced since Jan 2022.
The difference is around a factor of two between the US Southwest deserts and the German north sea coast [1]. So tracking installed peak capacity is not an ideal metric, but it is very simple and gets the order of magnitude right.

[1] https://globalsolaratlas.info
Well, the first famous "demake" was fan version of GTA for NES. But the project really dead...very cold dead.

I am not sure but I think that the developer changed the game title and the platform.

https://www.grandtheftwiki.com/Grand_Theftendo
Also “were”, not “where”.
You're just _asserting_ that "the brain is not a machine" . if not a structured lump of matter that does stuff, then else could the brain be?

and the rest of your paragraph is about artificial vs natural, which isn't even relevant, even if it could be clearly defined. Asserting "Proof by assertion is fallacious argument" is a fallacious argument.
I have the best of both worlds: my Boox Note 2 is an android tablet but is a 10” e-ink Wacom note taking device too. It’s been brilliant, albeit less polished in some corners than the RM2 of course — but the note taking experience (and reading experience) is not one of them: it’s fantastically polished and performant. And got crazy good after sales support with firmware updates too to add new features to their notes and reading apps
But if you're worried about greed ruining a good product, Kindle Scribe is an Amazon product and Amazon isn't exactly known for being a champion of its customers (though maybe I'm unfairly conflating their web store with the tablet branch).

> or put it in writing that they will not change their service offerings

Also I put zero faith in what a company puts in writing unless it's in a legally binding contract. Anything else is trivial to change or ignore.
Hands down, shell scripting is one of my all time favorite languages. It gets tons of hate, e.g. "If you have to write more than 10 lines, then use a real language," but I feel like those assertions are more socially-founded opinions than technically-backed arguments.

My basic thesis is that Shell as a programming language---with it's dynamic scope, focus on line-oriented text, and pipelines---is simply a different programming paradigm than languages like Perl, Python, whatever.

Obviously, if your mental model is BASIC and you try to write Python, then you encounter lots of friction and it's easy for the latter to feel hacky, bad and ugly. To enjoy and program Python well, it's probably best to shift your mental model. The same goes for Shell.

What is the Shell paradigm? I would argue that it's line-oriented pipelines. There is a ton to unpack in that, but a huge example where I see friction is overuse of variables in scripts. Trying to stuff data inside variables, with shell's paucity of data types is a recipe for irritation. However, if you instead organize all your data in a format that's sympathetic to line-oriented processing on stdin-stdout, then shell will work with you instead of against.

/2cents
The cutscene experience was funny if one happened to have both legs shot—so JC crawls around for hours, then stands up during a cutscene, and afterwards plops down again and proceeds to crawl to completion of the level.
The Turbo Pascal IDE. At first I thought it was stupid to have to compile a program instead of just writing it in BASIC, which was what I was used to. Then I learned to love that almost instant compile and insane speed compared to BASIC.

When I was forced to move to Windows, Delphi was there to make it damned easy to build GUI apps, which was about a similar step in productivity as Turbo Pascal. They used the perfect amount of OOP to get the job done, but not bury you in abstraction.
Mad. Bet that Taiwan lacks nukes? Maybe not enough to matter but (rogue) states have surprised people. And Ukraine demonstrated that there’s no other option to guarantee borders. I think they have the tech chops to do it. Material can be “found”.
> The second biggest missed opportunity is battery swap.

It isn't missed. It's happening. The time wasn't right for it before.

Gasoline cars had the same sequence of events. Early adopters bought cans of gasoline from their local general store and stored it in their stables (now a garage). That's where we are now with predominantly home charging.

Eventually there were gas pumps at general stores ( = public chargers as we have them now), and later specialized service stations (battery swap stations). The same incentives that led us to large specialized service stations are there for EVs.
Ask HN: Do you know of any web app that is usable despite having no CSS at all?
Is this not the exact same feature-set the browser's built-in 'start pages' already provide?
Because my wife has been retired for a long time, we subscribe to just about every streaming service. Whenever other services’ prices go up, I sort of resent it but not with YouTube.

It is true that “internal ads” that people place inside of their content seem to be more prevalent. I don’t see other ads on YouTube.
I have one stuck to the fridge for making shopping lists. Apps are cool and all, but sometimes it's just easier to jot things down
I have had a Supernote A5X (https://supernote.com/) for about 3 years now. It is good for someone focused on writing, it lacks a lot of the drawing/sketching capabilities and its cloud storage offerings are sparse. Both of these are pluses to me as I don’t sketch or back up to the cloud for security reasons. Unlike the Remarkable the pen nib does not need to be replaced regularly (mine is fine after extensive use for 3 years). The writing feel also differs from other e-paper writers and feels like a gel pen rather than a pencil.
If someone wants the flexibility of android but the experience of an e-ink reader, I can vouch for the Boox Note models (I have the note 2).
It has politically appointed judges! I doubt the US constitution is even in the top 50%.
1. If you have to start with a template, then shell script is not the right thing for whatever you're trying to accomplish.

2. Shell scripts are wonderful, but once they exceed a few lines (give or take 50), they've entered the fast track on becoming a maintenance headache and a liability.
The idea that the Constitution is somehow directed by the security of individual rights doesn’t pass the most basic reading or history lesson.

It’s a delineation of governmental responsibilities between the various federal branches and the states. It wasn’t until the Bill of Rights was later ratified that it has anything to say about individual rights other than to deny them.
Wow, I love those Raf Peeters games! More than one of them will end up under the Christmas tree for sure.
> that hasn’t represented a national majority in several decades

You can't really make that claim, objectively.

US elections aren't decided by national majority, so you can't use them as a measure of national majority.

If the game was different, people would play it differently.
A $500 PC/gaming laptop and pirated games can occupy a kid for thousands of hours over a course of years. Sure, it requires an up-front investment, but in terms of dollars per hour it's hard to beat.
The recent abortion ruling disagrees with you. Same with the Patriot Act.