skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cheap hydro power

Hydropower from the Columbia used to be 1/4 of all electricity in the US. Now it's not even enough for the needs of neighboring states.
A prime example of this: many particle systems still use billboarding sprites to render thousands of particles efficiently.

Another example: when you want to render tons of folliage, then you can 'degrade' the meshes that are far away to use billboard rendering instead, and no one will notice.
> Yes, I'm well aware of what the "sources" are saying and it's bullshit mindfucking on a grand scale

You have other "sources", that you're of course willing to list?
I can see a certain poetic appeal.
> It’s not clear why you’re taking about warranties.

Because he referenced the GPL, which includes such a clause indicating that there is no quality beyond the source that constitutes the property.

> It's strange to suggest that bad code is good because it provides a chance for others to fix it.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/201cthe-printer-story201...

> It’s also obviously not true that if developers wrote great code the first time we wouldn’t need open source.

Moving the goalpost to another hand-wavy quality of "great code", is not meaningful. The fact you think this is some sort of concrete goal (as opposed to a quality about simple utility), is telling.

> He is saying it is necessary but not sufficient for empowering people.

That's circumstantial, like most things in life.

You continue to argue in bad faith along every one of these digressions from the article. Good luck with whatever.
Sometimes that works for the CLA holder, sometimes it doesn't. As the FSF discovered when they tried to force the issue for gcc.
What micromanaging from the top looks like
Merging a bug fix upstream relieves you of burden of maintaining it. It is good for both party, not just for upstream. I think signing corporate CLA, if required to merge, is quite reasonable in this case.
You should add a working rss feed link here:

`<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS feed" href="undefined/writing/rss">`
I was skeptical until I saw that you’ve included messages, a separate chat, and file hosting. It’d be hard to migrate an existing team over to this, but for new teams, this would be cool to adopt. One single “work space.” I
The old world notary concept is not the same as the new world’s or the crossdrift back to a modern UK

old world notaries are an entrenched protectionist industry that function more similar to what lawyers do, or at least have similar weight with the addition of being required

slow a lot of things down and will be unfamiliar to new world + UK

similarly, the new world doesn't require share capital anywhere. where it is a common “proof of stake” system to reduce spam and capitalize the country’s coffers in the old world
I don't think you need to spend millions to see the lack of capability in Tesla's supposed full self-driving. Tesla doesn't even achieve full self-parking. Other manufacturers are better at it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsb2XBAIWyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nBnZ7GqPiM
Garbage collection and just-in-time compilation in the kernel? I'm thinking you must be joking.

This mailing list article is about providing new or modified behavior in the kernel to guarantee behaviors - and security - to userland programs in any language.

Re: Disabling multithreading, I think you might be referring to disabling simultaneous multithreading (SMT) (edited: fixed thanks to a comment), also known as hyperthreading.
Robust Machine Learning Algorithms for Text Analysis [pdf]
11c is only available in certain markets at off peak hours. Our price in WA has never been that low.
I primarily need it for my mouse, but that's good to know for audio.
relevant: how to draw an owl
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/572/078/d6d...
Wow. Judge Stops the Looting of Albertsons (For Now)
Twitter holds talks and meet up style events for area developers. They provide food, and their offerings are among the nicest.

My data is a few years old, but I always loved the Twitter meetups for this reason, and I remember the food more than I remember the talks.
People expected Musk to solve hunger. Turns out he is unwilling to solve even the employee hunger!
You can still glitch the new releases with UART disabled.
Cannabis and creativity: highly potent cannabis impairs divergent thinking
Along the same vein there is that concept that there is no such thing as being "too busy". Anytime you want to say it, you can instead replace "I'm too busy" with "It is not a priority".
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Yes, migrating data from one app to another is not always easy.
this lecture on how "all of us folks in tech" are ungrateful bastards does not seem relevant to the question asked, or particularly necessary here.
> I'm not able to do that. If I want someone else to have $10, I have to hand or wire them $10 in currency.

Sure you can, just write a post dated cheque, or any other sort of IOU. Whoever you give the cheque to can use it like money by endorsing it to somebody else. As long as you're trustworthy that cheque or IOU can circulate as money.
Why is lead-free solder less safe for workers?
You're getting dangerously close to an idea I had back in 1991, when I was working at the Defense Information Systems Agency, in the basement of the Pentagon. I talked to our security officer, and he put me in touch with a guy from the intelligence side of the house. I explained my idea, he said they already had something in that space, and that I shouldn't say anything more about it to anyone.

I never heard anything further on that subject.

To this day, it is one of two things I don't talk about.
Southern California and Seattle are greater metropolitan areas, that coincide with job markets (the job markets are the comparison I drew). You don't rent IN Seattle proper. That's silly, when Renton gets you 2br or Kent gets you 3br. It's like saying "Los Angeles" when your rental options are cheapest in Downy or Anaheim.
I'd like to echo the thanks for taking the time to write everything down here -- I was only born in the late 90s, so these machines are all before my time, and I love learning more about them.

I'm stuck with exploring the odd workstations I could get before the last reasonably priced ones dried up, and my modern POWER9 workstation. Things are better in a lot of ways now, but there's something magical about computers that power-on to Forth prompts and have ring binders full of detailed pin-outs and board schematics...
https://www.uboatworx.com/news/u-boat-worx-unveils-the-nauti...

Good to know what any [wannabe] evil mastermind can now order a proper, comfortable submersible for a decent price and with a warranty from the manufacturer.
In Australia we generate 12 million metric tons of coal fly ash per year. It's our largest single waste stream, literally almost 1/5 of all waste generated in the country [1]. I'm sure in the US at least that amount is generated from coal. So 10 million tonnes of cumulative waste from solar panels is not huge in comparison (and this is before even considering the CO₂, NOx, SOx, etc. emissions from that coal)...

1. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-10/coal-ash-has-become-o...
Motivation is often just another word for ‘free enough from stress, exhaustion, and distraction to find joy in it’.

Really.

If you’re lacking in motivation, there is almost always something broken somewhere. If you think not, it’s probably because you’ve trained yourself to ignore it, or refuse to believe it.
None of the cool kids say “area code,” they’re NPAs.

Sorry, but I have a lingering attachment to telco industry acronyms. Let me tell you about my DNIS[1].

[1] pronounced dee-nis.
Invisible Computers
>We should not work, on the other hand, to be "rewarded" in a zero-sum game competing with others, to the detriment of the rest of the planet.

Not only is productive enterprise positive sum, its positive-sum nature is responsible for all the comfort and stability we have.

>The most productive workers aren’t people working for a reward, they are those who love their work and are happy with the comfort and stability they already have.

I have taken to thinking of this line of argument as "the group project economy." We're all getting the same grade, and we know the nerd is going to do the work; he can't help himself. So just leave him to it and we'll be fine. I have to admit they're not wrong! It works! At least in the short term. But I find it pretty astounding that serious people think we should make this the basis of our whole economy.
I think people are unaware how heat pumps get preposterously less efficient the colder it gets.

Once the unit ices over, it's not much better than a resistance heater.
Maybe read about the topic before immediately discrediting it entirely?

One example of decolonizing science is simply giving proper attribution for scientific discoveries that come from the global south, but are in the textbooks as being discovered by europeans. Of which there are numerous examples.
I'd love to see a display of absolute humidity for indoors and outdoors to see if opening the windows will reduce or increase indoor humidity.
The 8086 was (barely) capable of running Unix, whereas the Z-80 definitely was not.

https://github.com/chettrick/uzics

You're wrong ;-)

Neither the 8086 nor the Z80 have virtual memory. The x86 has a larger instruction set and address space (1MB) but as it turns out, early Unix kernels didn't need that much RAM either.
this. one of the best things i ever did was quitting caffeine. the benefits started after about 3 months. better sleep, being energetic throughout the day, more focus.
Wait time to get access for Facebook's OPT-175B
How long does it take after filling the google-form to get access to facebook's recently open-sourced opt-175b. Anybody tried it for MRC tasks?
Blown away by the creativity.
> What power is Microsoft “wielding”

Again, this is about historic context. They wielded power widely enough (monopolistic practices, predatory acquisitions, etc) that they earned the distrust. Every move, however magnanimous is carefully weighed as to how it can be monetize at a maxim (now, without drawing Govt scrutiny).
Spy agency uses 'computer network exploitation' to take digital information
I've had visitors complain bitterly that they can't get a pre-paid SIM without providing identity and address proof while apparently they can back home wherever.

The concept that rules differ across nations should not be so hard to grasp.
The movies never paid Verizon for that. They're just numbers that don't go anywhere
> What if we paid auditors by the fraud discovered.

IRS : https://www.irs.gov/compliance/whistleblower-office

> The IRS Whistleblower Office pays monetary awards to eligible individuals whose information is used by the IRS. The award percentage depends on several factors, but generally falls between 15 and 30 percent of the proceeds collected and attributable to the whistleblower's information.

From the annual report: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p5241.pdf

> Since 2007, the Whistleblower Office has paid out more than 2,500 awards to whistleblowers totaling over $1.05 billion and has led to the successful collection of $6.39 billion from non-compliant taxpayers.

---

SEC : https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower

> The Commission is authorized by Congress to provide monetary awards to eligible individuals who come forward with high-quality original information that leads to a Commission enforcement action in which over $1,000,000 in sanctions is ordered. The range for awards is between 10% and 30% of the money collected.

---

CFTP (Commodity Futures Trading) : https://www.whistleblower.gov/overview/applyforanaward

False Claims Act Settlements : https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-s-false-cl...

NHTSA : https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/whistleblower-program

... and more.
When using wifi that works [0] I actually quite like the use of ifconfig for making connections.

[0] I was actually surprised my particular ath9k chip was unsupported (it would panic the kernel is added) as it was fully supported in linux-libre.
>> Personal attacks are unwarranted here.

> Neither is hyperbole.

So we agree? Personal attack and unwarranted are a correct characterization. That's nice to hear.
it works if you need to not use the structured nature of the document

for $mp in /ls:live_stream_config/ls:mountpoints/ls:mountpoint
for $server in $mp/ls:servers/ls:server
return { concat(
"https://", $server/ls:ip, "/", $mp/ls:mount, ".",
local:codec-to-ext($mp/ls:media-format/ls:audio/@codec)
) }

is the core of my xqilla work, its something I could replicate in jq, I don't think I could replicate it in xq however
I think it's riskier to depend on external technology for child production. Not just at the first level (the "womb" part, the monitors, the process controllers), but at the second level, for the inevitable variety of complex consumables (media, fluids, hormones) which would be required, each of which will require their own supply chains and production processes.

Complex dependencies as of today tend not have a unit of production smaller than a factory, not just for assembly lines and such, but also because smaller entities cannot ensure the supply of a team of trained people who can continuously hold on to the knowledge required to keep the process going.

I guess it all depends how far down the "tech tree" you're imagining.

When you pack down a supply chain in the absolutely most advanced and robust way possible, IMHO it starts to look a lot like the biological wombs, eggs and seeds we already have.
The iPad pro tries to be a tablet and a laptop, but ends up just being bad at both
rather than this usage being unclear, i think the muddiness is more about the original concept becoming more difficult to reference- it has a name, but that name now refers to a much less subtle concept
Google only must comply with a non-contested DMCA notice. The moment it is contested, Google is done and has done their job. They are not the copyright arbiters - that would be the job of the court.

By executing a takedown, Google is not acting under the DMCA. They are executing a takedown of an app that may or may not be infringing. They can absolutely be sued or taken to arbitration (ToS withstanding) with no DMCA protection.
Frankenpi: Connect Raspberry Pi with a cheap FPGA board to an 8-bit ISA bus
> If you cut down portion size your stomach will shrink over time.

That too is a half truth. It's not just that the stomach's available volume decreases that a feeling of appetite is satiated. Smaller portions of rich foods can do this, sometimes. Eating slower can but only if the right foods are consumed to help trigger the biochemical response (not vanishing calories). There is actually a feedback mechanism and it's not as cut and dry as fill the space = I'm done.

I recognize I've only given a high level talking point and I apologize that I can't recant the physiology and chemical pathways that perform this function. Maybe someone in the medical field can chime and and fill the gaps we're both creating? I happen to be the skinny one in a very obese family and have probably spent too much time time to figure this out.
I love the clean UI. All the best!
It's rampant in the audio world, for similar reasons. Imagine after decades of low fidelity tape delay, followed by bucket brigade chips providing analog delay without the maintenance involved with tape machines, getting into the 80s and finally getting pristine, perfect echoes that can last forever... and within 15 years, people are clamoring for the old, error-prone tape and analog delay units, and by the early 21st century, there are high quality digital models that emulate things like splices in the tape, and the age of the components in the playback device.

Turns out they all have their uses. Why not give artists a more broad palette to work from? There's a place for documentary reproduction, and there's room for creative experimentation. When you get back to the basic idea, it's all goofy. With sound, you're, what, vibrating a diaphragm to create an electrical signal that passes through dozens, if not hundreds of components in a preamplifier, before it even gets to a tape machine, or a modern audio interface. And then playing it back pushes it all through more components in order to charge up a magnet and vibrate some plastic. What really is the most 'authentic' way to capturing an image to a medium?

Glad we've got choices. Mostly glad I don't have to pay to develop film anymore.
> But when you say garbage like "100% nonsense" it's just fucking rude and against the rules here at HN. Don't say it again. Speak respectfully or don't speak at all.

I found that commment to be seriously rude and disrespectful. Yes I should have avoided the "100% nonsense" comment. However that doesn't give you licence to be rude and abusive in return.
Isn't that just web hosting? You upload via FTP the .NET things, and after a first-time visit kicks off compilation, the web app is good to go.

If you're the web hosting provider, you may provide a frontend that shows billing info, a button to purchase SSL certs or provision a new database, and FTP credentials to upload code.
Yes this was translated using Google Translate.
If the aftermarket firmware doesn't support Netflix, then users will have to choose between not having Netflix and having the features the aftermarket firmware enables.

If that aftermarket firmware enables better playback of pirated content, and the Netflix catalog deteriorates more and more with time, it's more and more likely that of the people who'd consider alternative firmware in the first place, more and more will decide against Netflix in that scenario.

Not that that may be enough people for Netflix to care, but it could easily be enough that "no netflix" is no longer a blocker for acceptance of the alternative firmware.
Arguably not enough. You needed Zimbabwean dollars to pay for taxes in Zimbabwe, yet the currency collapsed.
Ubuntu !
Basically this, though Blink supports using VS Code now but I haven't explored that much yet. Also Working Copy for using git to bring code to the iPad and I've been mostly happy with Textastic as an editor if I edit things locally.

And Blink + mosh + tmux + Tailscale has been an effective combination.

https://docs.blink.sh/advanced/code
> So not just bad. And let's not forget that it's a small country. The US has 4x the population, even Japan has 50% more. To say nothing of China, India, etc. Yet Germany is still #4 in terms of GDP.

This can be corrected for by looking at GDP per capita, where the US is at $75,180 and Germany $48,398. Perhaps 2022 is a special situation due to the dollar surge and Ukraine war, but in 2021 the picture was different, but still not great: Germany $51,238, US $69,227.

My point isn't that GDP is everything (it's not), but if you say "the US has 4x the population", you should at least attempt to correct for that and look at per capita numbers.
One cannot provide AGPLed software to their customer without releasing the whole service code under the same license. Like, one cannot build cloud complier/linker to process one's customers' code. But one can link their compiled code using this linker and then sell that binaries or employ them in the SaaS all right.
You left out the last part of my statement, in context I said:

> by far a highly preferred environment for C++ programming on Windows

The survey doesn't split the responses up by OS. That's besides the point, I'm not trying to say MSVC is the most popular toolchain. I'm refuting the claim that if you only support MSVC on Windows that constitutes "poor windows support".

> Microsoft's msvc compiler is in 3rd place at 30%.

Yes, and the question for this was "Which compilers do you regularly use?". 78% + 43% + 30% = 151% which is greater than 100%. I'm assuming this means that respondents were allowed to select multiple answers. It seems to make sense to me that people that use MSVC commonly use other compilers when developing for Unix, but the reverse isn't true nearly as much in my experience. Besides that, MSVC is in 3rd place and pretty close to the same amount of users as clang which was the proposed alternative. In that case it really doesn't matter which one you choose to support because you'll be supporting about the same number of people either way.

Anyways, this doesn't matter to the claim that I was trying to refute. OP said that Odin has poor Windows support and pointed to an issue that basically said if you only support MSVC on Windows that's not good enough. As a Windows developer, that seems like an odd stance to take imo. This survey shows that a third of developers use MSVC across all domains, including Unix. This seems to imply that if you support MSVC, you're at least supporting a large percentage of devs.

Also, I didn't mention the build systems because that's irrelevant. You can use CMake and Make with MSVC or whatever compiler you have installed. I say this as someone that regularly uses CMake and/or Make to compile projects on Windows using MSVC.[0][1]

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/creati...

[1]: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/MSVC.html
Modern heat pumps have minimum operating temperatures below 0F so they're still going to be providing efficient heat during winter conditions nearly anywhere in the world. Whenever excess frost builds up they run backwards for a few minutes to clean the coils off. This is a far cry from the old days of units that didn't operate well below freezing and ran a defrost operation on a simple timer.
What is an example? I can’t think of anything that would cause a bad physical reaction in me.
This is why Bitcoin was invented with a finite supply of 21 million.
A rising tide floats all boats….. only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked." This is Warren Buffett's addendum to the famous 'rising tide' quote.
> That isn't the case.

Do you have data to back that up?

I'm not naming my company of course but anecdotally we're in the b2b space, IPO'd etc, and I know that a huge number of our customers are similar, non-profitable start ups.

Reflecting on it, all of the b2b companies I've worked for in the last decade have had this same situation.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the long tail of AWS was mostly unprofitable, VC funded startups.
Another way of looking at that up-front cost is that it's basically an extra $100 when you install an air conditioning system, or that you get an air conditioning system for free along with your heating system. This is very relevant in Washington where we historically didn't need AC but with hotter summers it's starting to become a requirement for comfort. So there are lots of houses that have never had AC that need a system installed.
s/security/scrutiny ?
Direct link to the curriculum that is the subject of this article: https://ncea.education.govt.nz/science/chemistry-and-biology

If this wasn't from an official government website, I would have sworn it was parody.
The $60 Monitor Worth Having on Your Desk
The dilemma of Chinese startups going global
> Charcoal requires a fixer (usually a spray) that prevents smudging after you are finished

My kindergarten teachers used sugar water sprayed using a home-made Bernoulli-effect mister made from two pieces of drinking straw meeting at 90 degrees.
The Mitsubishi that makes stationery (Mitsubishi Pencil Company) is completely unrelated to Mitsubishi Group, they just happen to share a name.
I can't speak for TFA, but for the team I'm working on, I think the split is going well.

Each of the subteams works on their part of the problem, and works closely with the members of the other subteam when there is overlap. But because the subteams are smaller, the stand ups are a lot shorter, the meetings are fewer and shorter, and we can get more real work done.
Even if we had memory safety I think immutable userland mappings would be a valid and interesting technique to implement.