skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep dreaming, WebGPU is a MVP of where next generation APIs were in their 1.0 version, almost 7 years ago.

It has taken a decade, it will arrive without proper tooling, and require everyone to rewrite their shaders as well.
This is a law of nature, as entropy always increases, freedoms always decrease. 200 years ago you could walk anywhere freely, now 95% of land is restricted, and even in public spaces you are constantly watched by cameras and increasingly restricted in what you can do.
Requiring handing over encryption keys as a requirement to do business there sounds like a good way to sanction yourself from the modern world.
What's the problem? You can exchange crypto for cash in Venezuela.
I am not saying Facebook should stop growing. It should just not keep dumping money in these unproven projects, and they should get some people on board to fix their cost structure.

Apple and Microsoft are much more mature companies than Facebook is. Microsoft had major restructuring a couple of years ago. And I think Apple also had some major reforms internally around 2015-16 to make its operations more efficient. Apple accumulated a massive amount of cash over that period.

I am not as much into it anymore as I sold most of my holdings near the end of the pandemic. So maybe things have changed since then.

Netflix is another company I have serious questions about. Not sure about their current situation but around 2017 when I looked into them, they were essentially a company that sells you a dollar for 99c. Their ratio internal content/external content was not high enough which meant they had massive recurring licensing costs which they funded by a mix of subscriptions revenue and debt (a lot of debt). The story was that that would be ok once they reached ‘scale’ as costs would be the same but they would have more subs. In my opinion that logic is flawed since presumably the cost of the licensing deals will also rise as more players entered the market and content holders got less money from traditional sources (because everyone uses those subscriptions services now). Netflix made sense when they were able to buy the content for cheap because they were niche.

My opinion of course. Im just a random dude on the internet.
I was the nerd-ish type as a teenager back in 1990s Eastern Europe and I don't remember getting bullied. I knew things were slightly different in the US, I mean the whole "cool girls" group thing and all, as we were able to watch stuff like Saved by the Bell [1] on TV, but that kind of atmosphere seemed strange to us at the time.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096694/
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=348678
How is the writing/drawing latency in practice? I watched some videos comparing the Remarkable 2, Supernote a5, and Boox Note 2.

From the video it looked like the Boox had a bad delay. Could appear worse because of the backlight which increases distance from pen to screen.

The Supernote and Remarkable also had visible delay that would annoy me, but the larger delay of the Boox looked like a deal breaker to me.
Yes, Elon has been and continues to be inexcusably optimistic on AI timelines. I think it would be reasonable to fine Tesla for false promises on timelines and on stuff like "all cars contain all necessary hardware for FSD". But being wrong about those things doesn't warrant criminal charges. I was completely aware that the timelines were wrong at the time, but I also believed (correctly) that FSD would be available in a testable form eventually and had no problem spending 5% of the purchase price of my car to participate in the future testing.
you have ten thumbs, that means 8.00000001 more than the average person, that's some high level of security there :D but you're right. I don't understand why face ID is supposed to be secure. Anyone can take and use a picture of you. Same with fingerprints. Some hackers from CCC in Germany detected Angela Merkel's fingerprint from a press photo a few years ago, just to show how easily it can be done. These auth methods all require an extra factor that proves that it's you, in front of the screen, and not someone else, which is then more tedious than entering a password.
Maybe its back but conducted to front through a piece of translucent plastic? I.e. still a frontlight.
I also use kitty + neovim. I highly agree.
I’ve bought myself a reMarkable 2 with the approach that „I’m just getting an expensive toy” (ie not an everyday work tool, just a nice gizmo). And it’s been great, if a bit pricey. (On the flip side, I have a free subscription.)

Some things I’ve used it for, so far:

- To write handwritten.blog.

- As a notebook. Nothing much to mention here. Being able to pick a page template (plain/dotted/lined/squared) is nice.

- Reading PDFs. Kindle won’t quite cut it, even with k2pdfopt – the screen size makes a difference. Plus, you can annotate them!

- Reading code. `npx repo-to-pdf some-repo` and then proceed as above. Great for getting oneself into a full-focus mode.

- Live-sketching at conference calls. I just share the reMarkable screen to my Mac and then share the companion app’s window on Zoom. Tried it out twice during internal brown-bags, worked very nice.

- As an actual toy. Getting grandma’s picture onto an e-ink screen and being able to draw a moustache lights up a big smile on my 8yo niece’s face.
I like how one of the books from 1971 is titled Compiler Construction for Digital Computers. Very important to make clear this wasn't for analog computers!
Little dated (2012) but basic material properties of eink has not changed:

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012...

Eink due to its USP and fundamental characteristics only reflects light and does not transmit (i.e., is not transparent. Transparency is needed for back lighting).
I used my recent migration from Android to iOS to download and clean my photo library. Even though I'm the kind of person who aggressively culls their photographs immediately after taking them for the slightest imperfections or redundancy, turns out that a very small part of my photo library are the "first trip with girlfriend" kind of photos that I like to go through every few months, and most of it are the "look, a nice tree" kind of photos.

After deleting most of the latter kind, my photo library sits firmly below one photo a day, and I can have a full copy of it on every device I own.

I don't shoot many videos though.
I'd trust a hovering one especially if it's more like a maglev pod and not a large drone.
Yeah! As long as we have fptp elections there will be two parties each getting about 50% of the vote, because they will evolve to be competitive.

The question is just should that 50% line be about the middle of all citizens, or should that “middle” be randomly skewed towards people who happen to live nearer to farms.
Is there actually people using siri? It’s pretty useless here in Italy. Most conversations I guess could be something like “raise the volume” “call mom” or stuff like that.
If my iPhone got run over by a truck, and I log in my apple ID to another iPhone, will I get my messages back?
Computing history: Geeks, Inc. (2014)
You might have a look at https://ddvk.github.io/rmfakecloud/ ;-)
The joke was that the very first screen in the game is blue text "PRECACHING..." on the black screen which stayed for minutes on 99' hardware, so it could also be an intro of sorts.
I dont remember of any credit system in emule, people upload and share just out of generosity. I guess it also contributed to bittorrent success - uploaders probably get some share of tracker site ad revenue.
This is what iGoogle used to be! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGoogle You could add your own RSS feed, weather, etc and it used to be awesome. Used to be my "home" tab for many years, before google decided to do away with it.

It appears there's a "replacement" now. https://igoogleportal.com/

Definitely going to try this one out
FSD works really well. I live in a suburban place so it works well almost 100% of the time. I haven’t “driven” to the grocery store in months.
Firstly, they invited themselves being deep faked in perpetuity. The average consumer who posts their face online doesn't understand the gravity, implications, and permanence that that entails... like their future kids and grandkids stumbling on their dating life, being deep faked in porn, appearing in chumbox image recycling on CNN or (insert ads-heavy site here), social media phantom profile stuffing, and the rights related to company acquisitions. That's just for starters.

Anyone who can't go outside, share hobbies with other humans in person, or connect with people organically probably isn't worth meeting. Dating websites are bursting with the lazy, the truculent, the undesirable, the unpleasant, and the under-socialized. To be fair, there haven't been so many (%) single and "childfree" (old-age misery-in-waiting) people in all of human history. I blame the myriad of distractions: first TV, video games, then VHS (porn), the internet, and finally smartphones. Now, combinations of all these together manifest as digital hallucinations consume the lion's share of people's attention and lives while they miss-out on genuine connections in the moment sharing something real.
>Unfortunately, federal law essentially prohibits cities from having subways connect directly to airports

Could you kindly provide a citation for this claim?
This rhetoric is already applied against onion websites and similar decentralized networks.
> Any public land hunters over there?

France is an infamous example.

Over here in Romania there are still pockets of "common people" going hunting, but they're on their way out, it has slowly become a rich person activity.
Ok, I didn’t know. I sold most of my facebook stock late 2019. And haven’t really looked at the company since.
> I don’t use spotify so I can’t speak for their platform but don’t they charge outside of Apples ecosystem

My point is that platforms cannot simply make their own phone/ecosystem to avoid clearly abusive behavior. Smartphones are already so much harder to make compared to 10/20 years ago, imagine in 50.

> No they are not. They are a convenience. People can and will continue to live without them if necessary. Even in modern society. Go a week without your smartphone before you say things like this.

Until you try to enter a restaurant where you have to scan a QR code, or when the government decide to track you using an APP because of a certain epidemic. Or when communicating become a struggle because all your contacts are using X third-party chatting service.

Sure, you can still call it a convenience (just ask the person next to you to scan the code, prints paper everyday or do whatever tedious task is the alternative, find new friends or force them to adapt to you) but it is not reasonable. At that point I could say that a house/place to live is only a convenience you could very well survive in a forest. And I doubt that our dependence on smartphone is doing to slow down any time soon.

A real convenience would be a dish-washer, I wouldn't care what horrible things the clear monopoly is doing as I could easily buy another brand without affecting anything in my life. This is not the case with a smartphone, companies are clearly encouraged/forced (there are exceptions) to support as many platforms as they can, hence why electron exist. And you can imagine that social media/chatting service cannot really afford to ignore half the world.
Foundle: Wordle-Inspired Game for Founders
inspired by the likes of wordle, tradle, worldle.

guess the company whose pitch deck the slide is from; new game every 24 hours.
Same for me. And I keep this in mind when trying to help or trying to not be judgemental of people who are less fortunate than myself.
Why doesn't govt improve its own machinery instead of trying to spy on its citizens? Do they think this way they'll improve the society? Like China?
I'm unclear about what kind of threat "freeze" protects against. Is it just protecting against your own mistakes, or against malicious code somehow running in the same JavaScript process?
People aren’t stealing for a lack of being told not to do so in America…
I agree with paxys here that this is generally not a great idea for most orgs.

IMO The better approach is for engineers to be on a rotation to support customer success teams. Unless CS somehow has every tool they need to solve all customer queries, they'll still need to divert to a technical expert if they encounter issues or need system updates that they can't action (whether due to permissions or lack of admin panel functionality).
Cars are still cars–even when they’re electric
My first Macbook was a tank that lasted for 12 years. The quality seemingly declined with every successor that I owned. Maybe bring someone in who is dedicated to durability?

If the argument is that Apple makes money by selling new machines, then my answer is that we are in 2022 and producing disposable electronics does not make you look like a company that has visions for the future.
Probably not popular, but it would be really easy for the state to do it. All they need is their larger media outlets to make a few daytime TV story lines featuring these apps in their narratives, a couple big budget movies, some exaggerated "criminal activity" headlines in the major press. Next thing you know we get the next Satanic Scare.
paperclip maximizers?
Amazon recently announced a similar product and it seems like Remarkable has increased their marketing budget because of this.
I honestly cannot see the value in ReMarkable after the Kindle Scribe announcement. The kindle has a newer faster, 300dpi display vs 226dpi on the ReMarkable. I am waiting on reviews before ordering one for myself, but I can already see that Kindle Scribe is going to be disruptive for this segment.
Can you give me an example of some of the severe limitations you're mentioning?
Doctors give assessments based on a patient's experiences, symptoms, histories that include trauma, these things are discussed and examined. Gender dysphoria is a diagnosable condition with defined criteria of symptoms.

> but I also think it's wrong to assume they don't (the position of GAT). In order to understand a person's ability to judge their own gender (especially an impressionable teenager who does not have all of their mental faculties fully developed), we have to understand any other factors which may have an effect on their feelings.

I'm not sure why you don't think this happens, and it seems to come from a weird strawman or misunderstanding of what gender therapy is, given that all of those things are explored in gender therapy.

> What gender therapy isn’t

> A gender therapist shouldn’t attempt to diagnose you because of your identity or try to change your mind.

> A gender therapist should provide information and support that can help you better understand and connect with core aspects of yourself.

> Gender therapists don’t subscribe to the idea that there’s a “right way” to experience, embody, or express gender.

> They shouldn’t limit or presume treatment options or goals based on the labels or language used to describe yourself.

> Gender therapy should focus on supporting your personal experience of self and relationship with your body.

> A gender therapist should never presume your gender, force you into a gender, or attempt to convince you that you’re not a particular gender

There are plenty of people who are questioning their sexualities and genders, many of them will not turn out to be LGBT, and there isn't an epidemic of therapists encouraging confused people to think that they're gay or trans.

I wouldn't say that's a neutral position for a therapist either, it's a bit like saying that if a patient were bleeding from a hole in their leg that the neutral position would be forgoing a tourniquet in favor of questioning whether they even need blood in the first place.

Neutral therapists would acknowledge that gender therapy exists, along with plenty of other options, and would help their patients receive the care that's appropriate for them.

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health/transgender/gender-therapy...
> thought about me long enough to do something specific and special to me

As someone who does not like presents, that may be the core thing about presents that speaks to me. Presents are a way, but maybe something else could work.

I'm fine with people just showing me they like me and hanging out with me though. And they don't have to do anything special for this.
Nope, unless you’re using iCloud backup, or your messages can be synced from other devices in the key ring.
How much do you know about the authors of go? It is objectively untrue that they don’t understand computers.

Maybe just maybe, people with decades of software experience might understand that the weak link in software is the editor not the author, and are optimizing for different priorities than you have.

But mostly I wanna to say avoid assuming someone else doesn’t understand something because they didn’t do what you would do. You should always figures out what they were trying to do first.
I wasn't making an argument against the point you were trying to convey, but the argument you were using. It is not Wyoming and Idaho's fault, but an erroneous understanding of the 14th amendment that caused California to lose the right to ban guns.

If the incorporation of the bill of Rights never happened California could ban not just handguns but every gun they wanted.

I agree that Wyoming, Idaho and like minded states are stopping an amendment repealing the 2nd amendment. The easier way to get rid of guns in California is to push for no incorporation of the 2nd amendment. The Supreme Court could do it if they wanted. You literally just need to convince 5 people.
It works really well in any place that isn’t a dense city. Out here in the suburbs it’s pretty fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuHX9s6ek2w
I disagree. Growth is an attitude. I worked at startups and at mature companies. In a growth company you usually do not have to justify work in term of profitability but in terms of growth. Then when the company is sufficiently large different management is brought in and the company is made profitable. Budgets are put in place. If you want to get something done, you have to ask for budget, and justify the cost yearly.

At least from my experience.
Which is why you create a "dummy" host VM that hosts containers. Nobody's saying "host containers on your prod webserver." On the other hand, spinning up a VM for every user seems insane to me.
Proud of Signal’s stance on this!
That's not how law works, you can't just look the other way. If you distribute money to random people without restrictions, records, or knowing who they are, that's called money laundering. That's what crypto tumblers are.
Navigate on Autopilot changes lanes automatically and takes exits, and even navigates interchanges (if you're lucky).
How is Signal tied to the region? What does it mean to “exit” India, exactly?
The big differentiator in these products is drawing latency. Currently there's only two with barely acceptable level IMO: Remarkable 2 and Supernote a5x/a6x, both around 30ms.

I can't find any numbers for the Kindle Scribe so I guess no one has tested yet. But I also bet if Amazon was proud of the number they'd be shouting about it - especially if it was better than the others.

So Remarkable and Supernote are probably fine for another generation at least.
Yah HN is gamed big time. Must be easy to get stuff to the front page.
The struck-through:

> and then receive a reply in the form of "here's what I found on the web...

Really made me chuckle. As a non-Apple user who has to put up with Homepods, this rings so very true.
I never really got this glorification of 'elite' universities. Like it's a cult. It's a social imagination that people think highly of for the sole reason that it only selects a small percentage of students.
Easy. Make everyone think that you have to hide something or create a fake stories that pedos use app X.

> if you have nothing to hide, why don’t you show it?

Is also “nice” rhetoric that laymen agree with.
Unlimited subscriptions cannot be resold.
Just stop trying to make developers solve 100% of your problems since they already solve 99% of your problems.
> The thing you should be thinking about when writing tests is how much confidence they bring you that your project is free of bugs.

Well said. I’ve experienced an interesting anti pattern first hand in my company. They hired “Uncle Bob” to give a talk on TDD. Then after that managers are talking about how we need 100% coverage and comprehensive unit tests. Most of these tests did not matter and did not give me any confidence in the safety of the program. Integration tests have immensely more value.
You may denote a prerelease version. Or not. But you can't just append any crap you like and call it the prerelease version.
App store, dns, routable ip-address.
I'm not worried about or bothered by audits. We put a lot of effort into license compliance and performing regular true ups with our vendors is the norm.

A large part of Oracle's bad reputation comes from a history of entering markets, gaining a captive customer base, and then engaging in blatant rent-seeking that squeezes every last penny that they can out of their customers.

As a direct example, I'm in the healthcare space and specifically work in a Cerner shop. Our quotes from Cerner for routine integration projects have gone up literally 5-10x since Oracle acquired them. An EHR migration costs well into eight figures, so Oracle is fully aware that customers aren't easily going to be able to move away from them because things that were $15-30K (and still are with other vendors) are now running into the six figures, but it certainly doesn't leave a positive taste in the mouth.

And we knew this was coming as soon as the Oracle acquisition was announced. Because Oracle has built a reputation for doing exactly this across multiple markets over multiple decades.
eh. good riddance. unless they move away from mobile number requirement, they are as bad as telegram or whatsapp as the local police has been known to phish for phone numbers and physcailly harrass them and what not.
https://thenextweb.com/news/kashmirs-police-want-people-to-r...
https://kashmirobserver.net/2021/12/23/police-warns-social-m...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/agra/in-up-district...

https://theintercept.com/2020/12/06/kashmir-social-media-pol...
this is for tweeting but twitter is a public platform, same as your "mobile number" because twitter forces 2fa that makes you put your mobile for "security" reasons.

what i am trying to say is, this is not about police needing 100% access to find pedophiles. This is about crushing dissent, about the same big brother type are what people in india are seeing unless they join the ruling party. This is out in the open now and has for some time.

This is the way of the government to force big players to comply.

lets say tomorrow signal and whatsapp BOTH remove mobile number requirement. Now, unless the ISP are made to identify their specific traffic and block them on demand, ALL the users would be independent from local indian administrative action
At the same time, the supreme court is just ignoring the law, over the objections of 66-75% of the population (depending on the ruling).

SCOTUS can be overruled by the states themselves via amendments. They’re not ignoring law at all.
This is an amazing article. Thanks for posting.
I apologize for not being clear. we have developed crypto using well-vetted and best practice crypto apis from android, iOS and web crypto apis available in the browser. some of the algos used for crypto operations involve ECC_NIST_P256, AES-GCM with HMAC-based KDF, RSA-OAEP, Shamir's secret sharing...
India wants to read everything? Why don't they just forbid the use of https. So that everyone can read everything on the internet
all about power