skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do y'all think of Fastmail vs Protonmail?

Of note from a quick comparison... Fastmail is faster and more responsive. Which means a lot! Proton has second-order lag whenever I click a new message, folder etc. Noticbly less responsive than gmail and fastmail.
Tenant. Not discovery. Not "a logical consequence demonstrated by Shannon." Not scientific result. Tenant. Think about that. There are those of us who think it's trivial to disprove, too, by showing two different simple systems with the same end state consistent with all the laws of physics.

But we aren't members of the priesthood, so belay our logic.
Where does this extra water come from?
I don’t have much to add except to say this was enlightening and great to read.

My first thought is whether this could be used with ZKP at some point: one pitfall of ZKP is that you can copy a proof to other people and they could potentially reuse it to pretend to have the same knowledge/attestation. You can use a nonce/nullifier to force each proof to be newly signed, but even then the prover could just keep generating new proofs and send them out. Some kind of one-time ZKP generating program would be pretty interesting.
Appreciate the improvements to npm compatibility. Does anyone have a sense of how close Deno is their estimate that 80-90% of npm packages would be working? I think they said this was what they were hoping for back in August.
Are you so easily convinced you believe whatever political opinion Fox News is selling?

The dictionary says that to manipulate is to 'control or influence (a person or situation) cleverly, unfairly, or unscrupulously.' If you want to tack on 'when they're not selling products" for your personal use, be my guest, but then 'advertising isn't manipulation' is tautologous. And you really should have brought up that you have a special, secret definition when you told someone point blank that advertising wasn't it.
This is how Okta's Advanced Server Access works: https://www.okta.com/products/advanced-server-access/
> RBTree has been removed from the collections module in favor of RedBlackTree.

> direction has been removed from the collections module in favor of Direction.

> CSVStream has been removed from the encoding module in favor of CsvStream

Hmm I smell an interesting story here. If it's renaming for the sake of renaming then that's kinda dumb and breaks backwards compat for no reason, but presumably there's a better reason somewhere?
Exactly; while CDPR and Fool's Theory will be working on different games, they'll be able to share resources extensively given the common platform. I wouldn't be surprised if they divide up work on a lot of the Witcher-specific extensions to Unreal's scripting, AI, and so on.
>You can achieve that steady grid by over-building wind+solar,

No. You can't. There are times when you get neither wind nor solar. Overprovisioning isn't going to do anything for you there.
You're talking about genres, which is a different scenario.

This is more like Netflix raising prices for streaming subscribers to fund a new video-game studio. The fact that some people might enjoy both doesn't make them anything like the same thing.
That's the US wind belt - the Texas panhandle north to Canada, and east into Illinois.[1]

[1] https://www.kgou.org/energy/2013-09-03/oklahomas-wind-energy...
*Omicron
Tin foil and aluminum foil are two different things, although many North Americans do not know this. Tin foil (once commonplace, now hard to find) is made of tin, while aluminum foil is made out of aluminum, which is a different metal from tin. For many purposes the differences are not very important — both are low-melting-point, white, corrosion-resistant, food-safe metals that can take a high polish — but for solar-collector mirrors the differences in reflectivity and corrosion-resistance matter a lot.

This conversation reminds me of a guy on Reddit who learned that old-timey whitewash was lime, so he tried painting things with lime, but it was gardening lime (calcium carbonate) rather than slaked lime (calcium hydroxide), which is what holds whitewash together. As you can imagine, his "whitewash" worked very poorly.
I never wanted kids – number six is due in a few months
I'd want to see a signal analyzer result at 10Gbps before I trust that speed claim on their 5 foot and 2 meter options.

But even if that's true, that means it can't run at Gen 3 speeds (or Gen 4, which has the same cable requirements).
Bit off topic but a pet peeve of mine.

"A few bad apples", is only the first part of the expression that ends with: "spoil the batch". I think it is applicable here as well.
You realize that nowhere in the “mandate” are any speed requirements and most cheap USB C cords only support USB2 speeds?
Doubtful. Having little connection to reality and doing ridiculous things is much more likely than malice.
I don't see how one excludes the other. What do we need to do with Putin that excludes us fighting climate change?
Someone should glue their hands to an activist.
gluing themselves to masterpieces or autobahn won't help either
OK. Don't focus on the semantics. There are times when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow - what do you do then?
Linus Torvalds bids 486 Linux adieu
Still need to sign up.
Horses? Hard pass
To be clear I expect entry and mid level FAANG to be clearing 200k+. I agree the rest of the industry should be making about 150k. But in case it's unclear most of that 200k+ comes in the form of RSUs or other equity compensation. I don't expect Exxon to compete on that because their stock can't support it, they can probably compete on the cash portion though.

I don't expect FAANG people to have "rare technical acumen" I do think most people working at a FAANG are 80th percentile and up. So upper quartile in technical capability. Thing is Carmack and Dean types are 0.1% talent, they make anywhere from 700k to over a million at a FAANG. I don't think you're correctly level set on what people are earning. A person making 400k at a FAANG is like a staff engineer. But their base salary is probably 200-250k? The rest of that is bonuses and equity compensation in the form of RSUs.

For the record I'm in this earning bracket (not the dean/carmack one, but a high earning senior dev) so I have some idea of what I'm talking about with these numbers.
The 'mystery' chamber in the base of the Great Pyramid is a functioning pulse pump - this researcher measured it and built a scale replica: https://sentinelkennels.com/Research_Article_V41.html

The mechanisms of the Great Pyramid can only be conjectured about in the present day because of the extensive damage to the structure, but it's pretty clear it served /some/ purpose.
Site seems based on selling these custom tours, is there a link to all of the existing (free) ones?
Judging an individual by statistics of their group is pure discrimination.
Russia Strikes Ukrainian Infrastructure, Says It May Destroy Western Satellites
Yes, but if the electricity is made from gas, then 300% efficiency of heat pump is better than 98% efficient heat furnace only if generation efficiency is at least 33%.

Heat pumps are pretty great, but as of today, they are by no means necessarily more efficient than burning gas directly for heat, at least when it comes to GHG emissions. In fact, in very cold climates where air temperature is below freezing most of the time, air-source heat pumps are highly unlikely to be more efficient than just burning gas, unless we move wholesale to nuclear for electricity (solar won’t help you during winter, and wind is too fickle to solely depend on).
The model they describe is pretty much exactly how .NET Azure Functions works. (which is however currently switching to a slightly different hosting model)

but that wouldn't bring in VC money lol
Yes, but demand isn't. And nuclear can't be trivially shut down, the reactor stays hot for quite a while and that energy needs to go somewhere (which is the whole point of the iconic giant cooling towers these plants have). So if demand drops rapidly and your reactors are going full tilt, the price of electricity goes to zero.
Wow! Just wow! I really hope to see it in person now!

Quick question: Do you wear the Indiana Jones hat while scanning? Because I know I couldn't pass up that chance.
> An attendee draws on a tablet as she copies the famous painting by Vermeer 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' using THQ's uDraw Game Tablet which works on PS3 and Xbox 360 at E3

Uh, is this ad copy in the image caption?
I love the (cat) json response. Rock on!
When FiveThirtyEight asserts that voters don't think either party deserves to govern, can we reasonably assume that their survey respondents are actually voters?

If you drill through the link in the second paragraph, to the discussion of the composition of the Ipsos KnowledgePanel, https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/solutions/public-affairs/knowled..., it says:

"Built on a foundation of address-based sampling (ABS), KnowledgePanel provides a statistically valid representation of the U.S. population as well as many under-researched and often harder-to-reach populations, such as..."

One of the group sampled is "Young adults (ages 13+)".

You have to be 18 years old and a U.S. citizen to be a voter in the United States (see U.S. Constitution, Amendment 26.).
And this right here is why we shouldn't let Google, Apple, or Microsoft dictate what software we're allowed to distribute and run.

I wouldn't be surprised if Google put you through the gauntlet because your extensions either touch their products, or because they offer similar functionality.
Say what you will about the original protestor, they clearly spawned an entire genre of performance art in their own right.
A question for people who don’t think this is a good way to drive climate action: what are you doing?

These actions are coming from a place of desperation, and they aren’t going away until actual action happens. Don’t like them? Do something about climate change.
Cutting down large swathes of forest and building over the habitats of endangered species happen for both. Solar and wind farms both need large land clearances in areas that have a lot of their respective kind of energy, which animals also use.

Solar farms do best in deserts, which tend to be habitats for species that like extreme conditions. Several of them have been blocked in recent years. There was a recent huge solar project that was planned to cover most of the land area that an endangered desert tortoise inhabits.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-solar/exclusive-sierra-cl...

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/massive...

Aside from the large swathes of forest that have to be cut down for wind farms, birds of prey tend to fly into the blades of wind turbines. These are also often endangered species. The fish and wildlife survey estimates 140,000-500,000 bird deaths at wind farms per year, with most of these being birds of prey which have low birth rates and high conservation value (many endangered species). In contrast, cats kill billions of birds per year, but they are common small birds, not endangered predator species.

In addition, something like 800,000 bats are killed by wind turbines.

https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/wsb...

The solution, for solar, is obviously installations on top of human structures, like roofs and roads (but not on the road surface, which is silly). For wind, there isn't a good solution that doesn't hurt predator bird populations.
Midwestern USA has similar stretch of hot summer followed by thunderstorms.
> For what historians claim to be a monument, there's not a single hieroglyphic that I saw.

It's the pyramid of Khufu, 2nd king of the 4th dynasty.
None of the pyramids of the 4th dynasty have hieroglyphs. That slowly came into fashion in the 5th (or 6th? Too lazy to check) dynasty.
If you measure ancient egypt from the 1st dynasty to Cleopatra, you come up with roughly 3000 years. This pyramid was built around the year 500 on that scale. There is not much writing left at all from that period. The palermo stone being one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palermo_Stone
The most exiting recent find is the diary of Merer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_Merer
It seems he was a middle manager in transporting stones to this, Khufus pyramid, which makes his writings the closest you can get to an eye witness account of the construction.
Don't mention anywhere at all that you have any connection to cannabis.

Also, if I had known the block would lockout my name/namespace I would have entered with a throwaway, then get the real one in.

We moved away from needing an App and now keep it all web.
Google Shell Guidelines are really good if someone is looking for good practice and clean code.
Ditto. As an Android user, I am glad Pushbullet exists, and my whole daily workflow depends on it. Kudos.
You know there are:

- usb C headphones

- Lightning headphones

- lightning to Audio adapters
Are we talking about the same thing here?

I am talking about payment services. Most companies will do everything they can to screw over the consumer. Especially once they have you in a subscription.

As a consumer I would rather these companies be forced to not do shady practices and have to conform to a uniform way of purchases and subscriptions.

I have been in too many meetings about "User Retention", if given the chance very few companies will choose to loose the ability to bash the user over the head with "are you sure you want to cancel" or "please call to cancel".

Apple forces it.

Edit:

Put Another Way: Apple giving developer the choice of wether or not to use their system removes MY choice as a consumer to avoid scummy business practices (Which are often not on display until you no longer want to do business with them).
Not OP, I wouldn't call CP2077 "abysmal" but even looking outside the bugs the game just wasn't anywhere near the quality I expect from CDPR. The gunplay was actually pretty mediocre, "better than Fallout" is not high praise and that's the best I could give it; the environment was pretty but lacked depth; I, personally, do not care fo

* The gunplay was mediocre, in my opinion. "Better than Fallout" is the rating I'd give it, and that's a "you did better coloring inside the lines than the kid with a motor disability" on my scale.

* While I'm talking about gameplay, driving ranks as "Better than GTA4", and see above for where that falls on my scale.

* The environment was pretty as all hell, but it felt shallow and unlived in due to a lack of unique characters that weren't copy-paste NPCs populating the world, a few fleshed out characters relating to the main story, and some uninspired side mission fillers. Witcher 3 may not be as shiny, or as dense, but the world feels more alive due to the detail put into it.

* This is a personal gripe, but I really did not care for the story and ludonarrative dissonance it creates. I'm also not a fan of being given an illusion of choice, when all the endings ultimately play out the same way with a different skin (see: Mass Effect 3).

There's more, but those are my biggest issues with the game, even discounting the AWFUL state the game was in for a long time.
> Paypal deplatforms people. They also don't have a way to stream revenue as you play.

Then don't use them. PayPal is not intrinsically linked to Podcast 1.0, it's just an example of how you can use any payment (including crypto) without upgrading to Podcasting 2.0 or whatever. Adding YouTube style feature is something, but personally seems like a lot of hubbub for little payoff.

None of this strikes me as an upgrade over RSS, even still. XML trumps the Blockchain for this sorta stuff.
Except that absolutely sincere people do things that alienate potential supporters all the time. A lot of people (particularly people of Irish ancestry that live elsewhere) were sympathetic to the cause of Irish unification prior to the Troubles, but the terrorism committed by the IRA in the name of that cause pretty much destroyed international sympathy for that movement.
If you’re trying to wrap your head around this: keep in mind that being really loved by a small group is more profitable than being broadly palatable to the entire world.

The people who pull stunts like this get the most donations, have sex with the hottest activist chicks, and obtain the highest status in their in-group, something that you cannot get by writing position papers arguing “we should find a reasonable path forward to address climate change while keeping the oil rampdown slow and cautious.”
How many people were aware of that campaign? Maybe in the Witcher/CDPR superfan groups, but on the scale of 12 million copies I can't imagine it budges the number that much.

I don't know why we're only talking about the PC version anyway, there's apparently been 40 million copies sold across all platforms according to a quick Google search, so most people didn't even play on PC.
NASA’s Economic Benefit Reaches All 50 States
> Apple won't let them

Not true at all. Apple's rules haven't changed in ages, they've defended them against Epic in court, and Spotify knew what they were when they started down this road, just like they knew the last couple of times they've tried to argue with Apple publicly (they're 0-for-2 so far, last time I checked).

Spotify can get into Audiobooks in multiple ways, they just don't like any of them. Apple isn't stopping them, they're just requiring their usual cut on IAP, and enforcing the usual rules. As usual.
Bad Professor: The Rise and Fall of John Donovan
If there were empty ships that could be filled, then clearly prices wouldn't have gone negative. Surely that reservoir is filled already (or the ships are empty and enroute to gas terminals, and thus already accounted for, etc...)
Most of those aren't Cortex-A specific, you've just listed mostly peripherals that are typically initialized in the application space (except for a secure boot).

E.g. you aren't going to go into power savings mode during boot, nor are you going to initialize peripherals (because their contexts will be lost once you jump to the application).

Initializing assymetric processors can be done in application space with a variety of tools (AMP) as well. I haven't seen a need to initialize them during bootloader1 phase, but there are lot of use cases.
The Giza complex is right next to Cairo. Actually, it might be within the city limits. Far enough from the downtown core to survive a single moderate nuclear blast I would think.
And why do I care about a “license”?
Yes, peta are profoundly unlikeable people, back then and now. I don't like them, I think their holocaust comparisons are unforgivable and neither am i vegan. My point is that they are living rent free in peoples heads and do actually change attitudes. Because there was a huge change and i just don't see who else could have caused that.

My point was: Effective activism does not have to be likeable. Going for the opposite seems a viable strategy.
The reason you're so confused is because despite the development costs there really is that little substance to what they created. They rebranded Oculus and made a half-baked sterile meeting app for it that nobody uses. There is a lot of high level postulating about new standards of linking worlds together or something something decentralized blockchain something but none of that is a concrete reality. In the end, the actual "Metaverse" app represents a virtual world that is fundamentally worse at its job of being a explorable, collaborative, or social than a vr-enabled instance of Minecraft.
Damn, we are that close. We are using expensive, high-density batteries meant for electronics and transportation for stationary storage. CATL is already claiming $40-$50/kwh for sodium ion batteries that begin production next year. In five years there will be even more grid-targeting battery solutions on the market at low price points.
If that's the case, then plastic cars made of minimum cost products from Foxconn would be well-positioned to upset the market and eventually take over from the older business model.

If the value add is "no value," Chinese manufacturing has already demonstrated its capacity to dominate that game.
It looks like these TOS are slightly narrower than before — they removed the word "depict" from the clause about violence/discrimination/etc.

As originally drafted it would have included using PayPal to sell a DVD of a movie that depicts violence. The new TOS are still very broad, but they don't include these ridiculous cases, which obviously should never have been included.

Perhaps when they said "oops, it was a mistake" they meant that the inclusion of a couple words like "depict" was a mistake, but the general thrust was exactly what they wanted.
Bruce is great. Usually...

But unfortunately, he's got a belief that massive, fragile global-consensus machinery is "cryptocurrency". And that "wildcat banks" or random people issuing "money" is bad. Neither of these are universally true.

If a global-scale highly efficient program allowed consistent transfer of assets between agent's ledger balances, without possibility of interference by unrelated parties, and guaranteed that all agents followed the rules, how is this bad?

DHT-based agent-centric systems like Holochain now allow this to be built; every transaction -- and the full tree of all prior transactions -- is inductively proven to be correct. Even a single non-fraudulent agent in the DHT can detect and report any non-compliant transaction attempt. There is no "50%+1 attack": a full "blackout" of all correct agents is required to perpetrate a fraudulent (eg. double-spend) attack against any agent(s) in the system.

These systems continue to operate, correctly and efficiently, even in the face of devastating "Partition" attacks; your cryptocurrency "money" still works between you and all agents you can "see"; when the network "Partition" is repaired, you can proceed to do transactions with agents in the rest of the network. Very much like cash money, but with full and instant network reach.

As for "wildcat banks"; even Bruce would prefer to use money where every unit is backed by actual wealth, and there is no "fractional reserve" shenanigans, right? Well, governments are never going to issue money like that. But, cryptocurrency options like that are already available, and more are coming.

So, Bruce, if you're reading this -- perhaps it's time to get updated on the state of the art in Cryptocurrency. Because Bitcoin isn't it...
Have you heard of Elon Musk?
Very valuable feedback - thank you!
Way too many of you idolize Feynman and it shows. Could he be a good role model? Sure!

However, I'd caution you against rosey-eyed or overgeneralized interpretations, and against adopting wholesome whatever works for someone else!
People lose their gmail accounts all the time for weird reasons. Maybe you are specifically talking about a world where everyone self hosts their own servers?
Do you think high level (real) sports are different? That NHL players do it purely for the love of the game, with no corporate interests meddling?

Like i said, what is the difference?
What physical limit do you mean? There are lots of things that are deployed by the billions on short time scales. Seasonal foods or fresh flowers are an example of how feasible it can be to deliver billions of Xs around the world in weeks.
> has people talking about climate change

Incorrect. None of this has spawned a single conversation about climate change.

The only thing it has spawned is debate about how much moral justification one can receive from the existence of climate change.
Executing the Backlog
Thanks a lot for bringing this up! Yeah, you are right. Those were meant to be placeholders, not to mislead customers but should not be there. We’ll make sure to remove them!
There's always been something about the Source engine that felt distinctive. The lighting and physics feel weird and creepy.