skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I have close Ukrainian relatives and friends highly affected by the war, and acquaintances renouncing and fleeing Russia.

I thought this was a pretty good article that nicely framed a nuanced situation.

I agree with you that there's a lot of xenophobia out there. It's unfortunate. A lot of it also comes from pretty justified places: A surprising amount of Russians are pro-war, and it is not inappropriate to say "fuck those people, even if they aren't on the frontlines".
Another large amount of Russians are, albeit not explicitly pro-war, implicitly support it by refusing to stand against it even when they have the means to do so (in other words, Russians fleeing Russia and claiming "I stay away from politics").

This is the key quote:

> They said the VC judges don’t blame Slush or Immigram for the situation but in light of the information about the bulk of it customers, “it felt inappropriate to invest.”

It's simple: If Immigram has a customer base primarily composed of people who support Russia's war against Ukraine (and consequently, Europe), then yes, why god WHY should Europe invest $1MM into it?
Google devices function the same way when configured properly. The mention of multiple devices responding, and some not knowing about the light, makes me think GP has something set up incorrectly.
I don't hate it, but it is a tool of last resort for me. It's interesting reading the comments here from people who like it. I've always been curious about what the appeal is.
I was never interested in Twitter before, but under Musk, it's become hilariously entertaining. If Musk can add functionality, like payments, crypto, markets, etc, I can see myself paying the $8 to subscribe.

The Babylon Bee should be getting paid for content creation. Best comedy on the web these days.
Elon Musk is laying off even more Twitter workers
How is this a complex problem? Having to secure one’s assets is a problem to even non human species.

The thing that makes it simple is that all the things Bob has are purely unnecessary. So if Bob feels overburdened by the task of securing them, then the simple solution is to jettison them.
I tried watching Terminator 2 with my son the other day, we'd had the DVD for ages to eventually watch. The mint looking DVD refused to load in the DVD player so we pirated it to watch instead.
Oh? And what's your proposal for re-achieving homogeneity? Send all the Europeans back to Europe?
And these arguments are being made just as the crypto industry is imploding all around us. Gives new meaning to the motto "move fast and break things".
> Twitter no longer has a communications department to contact for comment.

Unsurprising, but also darkly humorous.
For people like me:

BFT - Byzantine Fault Tolerant [0]

CRDT - Conflict-free Replicated Data Type [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...
There is a finite number of visitors a park can handle per day. Number of rides * capacity per ride per day / number of rides a visitor expects to experience without feeling ripped off.

I suspect that on peak days Disney will often sell way more tickets than this number.

The addition of the concept of fastpass puts even more pressure on this problem as fast pass holders get priority over the people standing in line. They have made some efforts to limit how many fastpasses can be given out per ride per hourbut those just lead to free fast pass "selling out" earlier and earlier in the day. The next logical step is to put a real money price on it to try to curb demand.

In an alternative universe, they would have made all the rides free fastpass only and visitors would go around the park collecting appointments for the rides they want. But the problem is that the overselling at the gate requires lots of people to waste hours standing in lines. If no lines, can't oversell as many tickets.
There's also the problem that people might be late or miss their appointment entirely and then the ride goes underutilized. So now we invent a standby line where people wait near the ride to get into a time slot that a fastpass holder missed and now we are back to having lines.
Reminds me of: https://boringtechnology.club/
Given that so many of these bugs are parsing bugs, maybe we should have a new emphasis on compiler compilers which generate fast, provably correct code? (Fast, because most of the bugs and exploits are accompanied by some form of optimization.)
> 100% complete compression artifact free viewing experience

That doesn't exist on 4K Blu-ray. 2160p titles use the HEVC codec in combination with discs up to 125GB in capacity to minimize the artifacts as much as possible, but they are never gone.

That's video, anyway. Both 1080p and 2160p discs usually include lossless audio tracks of at least one language. If your box uses terms like "PCM", "DTS-HD MA"/"DTS-HD Master Audio", "Dolby TrueHD", that audio track is lossless.
I think the original goal of having a shit shelf was so that you had something to talk about for the rest of the day.
Here's an example of someone already using multiple NeRF objects in Blender - https://twitter.com/jperldev/status/1594627208676605952
Nitpicking: Ferrero's not owned by either of the companies I mentioned.

But I take your point - it happens. It's really rare though, and it's always met by "oh shit, we'll fix this", not "well, we don't have a lot of money to make repairs right now, let's wait until we expand the factory several times."
Also, even though it's "expensive" for an individual user, you own a full version forever!!! That makes the several hundred dollar price tag much less of an issue.
98% of political donations from employees at Netflix go to democrat candidates.

Should we start calling them a partisan organization?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/02/most-liberal-tech-companies-...
We use metric in the "American Space Program".

I cannot think of an engineering or scientific endeavor in the US that DOESN'T use the metric system.

The US is officially, metric; ansi converts back for the uneducated.

Here's a colorful video: https://youtu.be/SmSJXC6_qQ8?t=63

Here's boring government text: https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/si-units-mass
What I'm more surprised by is Linux being at 4%.
Occlusion culling is still relevant and of course BSP trees help with that as well. What I meant is there is no value in sorting polygons any longer. (As far as I know; the last time I worked on a game was 1997.)
You don't, because you mostly don't have to unless you're installing random malware apps, same as a desktop computer. "If you use a phone that hasn't been updated in 2 months the evil hackers will hack into it and make the battery explode to kill you" is fear-mongering from hardware manufacturers.
Laptops partially fixed this issue - you can just skip the bad parts.

Higher end dvd players used to do the same, but players are a vanishing breed and consoles are not much more than dumb players usually.

Ofc it would be nice if there were just no skipping - there were a number of technologies being employed back when DVD was the pretty much the only format in town, I suspect the data redundancy may have been traded for cramming more features on a disk.

Back when ripping (my own) disks was a thing, you could compress a movie to half its size on disk (no coded compression just more intensive picture compression) and burn it twice to the same disk...

Ofc the problem with that was the consumer burnable disks use a degrading chemistry unlike stamped copies, so they would last 3-4 years before undergoing significant corruption.
This is great! Thank you for taking the time to create it.
Some places make money selling software, some places make money selling out their employees!
If I remember correctly, it's not even correct. The macro is supposed to be named BITINT_MAXWIDTH.
> What is Psychological safety? It is a belief that people are allowed to make mistakes, and it's okay to make them, and they won't be punished for it.

To me, your article feels like the first half of a good opinion, but you're missing a crucial second part.

I totally agree it's a good thing to have a culture where capable people feel like they can ask questions and discuss stuff in an intelligent manner without being punished for it.

That said, imagine if there was a doctor that continuously said stuff like "the spleen is directly connected to the ear drum, right?" or an airline pilot that said something like "That round orange light keeps blinking, but I don't remember reading about it in the manual, and the plane's been flying just fine for hours, so it's probably ok to ignore it and let the ground crew figure it out later." Would it be against their psychological safety to question their competence at some point? Would consequences ever be warranted?
I've also used mosh on termux with a small travel keyboard a number of times to investigate/fix outages while traveling. It's been a life saver!
I wouldn't put a whole lot of trust in that.
Thanks for the information. Very helpful.

My conspiracy side thinks NASA wants the opportunity to review the high resolution photos and video before they are revealed to the public.
Be a Good Interviewer
The kingdoms that are united are England and Scotland. It was originally:

the United Kingdom of Great Britain

then after Ireland was formally annexed:

the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

then after (southern) Ireland broke off:

the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
> Also may the product people who decided on "unskippable scenes" go to a purgatory where they're surrounded by nothing but copyright notices for eternity.

The first time I used Netflix about a decade ago I was surprised how fast play worked.

Now that you mention that, I was coming from a world of DVD menus and unskippable notices. So the Netflix UX was a great improvement.
I love this argument. Americans are dumb because they can't understand metric!

Why is metric better?

It's easier to understand, of course!

American's don't have a very intuitive understanding of metric because we don't use it. But every numerical literate American understands how to apply the metric system since that is all that is taught in schools (so much so engineer school grads are often unfamiliar with units actually used in US engineering).

We all know 130 KM is 130,000 meters, but we don't think in KM or M.
> when we actual humans going to space in real life, it turns out they are just rich ass-holes that we all commonly hate.

Like who? Don't think I've met anyone who hates astronauts nearly as much as you seem to?
Why is lightpink darker than pink?
According to this data, commutes are pretty much no big deal in all states.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/...
The high profile cases of recent human space travel is the Blue Horizon which generated a ton of buzz, mostly from people complaining (justly) about how out of touch these people are. I think the sentiment of human space travel extends from there. People cringe from seeing Jeff Bezos spill his champagne after landing and then if they hear about some people going to the ISS they ask: “whats the point?” I think this is a just question and a logical extensions.

Now for the excitement around SpaceX. There was also a ton of buzz around Perseverance. And think people were also quite excited—though not as much—about the Parker solar probe. For future missions I think more people are excited about getting back mars samples from Percy the rover, and about a hypothetical mission to use gravitational lensing from the Sun to photograph surfaces of exo-planets. The hype around Starship seems to me to be inflated by marketing, when talking to space nerds around me there isn’t really that much excitement about what we can achieve with a SpaceX Starship that we can’t with a regular old robotic state funded mission.
Clunkier story, but XMPP checks all those boxes as well, but there are better clients (sadly also crappier clients which is part of the issue) and it's far older.
You can with Samsung Dex.

I also did so using my pixel 4a (which doesn't normally support video out), a usb displaylink adapter and this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.displaylin...

But in reality you'd probably do better with just about any old Linux laptop.
... Maybe? This might be a case where an average doesn't tell the whole story.

45-minute to hour-long commutes each way have been the norm for me pretty much the entirety of my 20-odd year career in Silicon Valley. For me the outliers were the folk who opted to live 2+hrs away to afford a single family home, and were still commuting in - some did it daily; some did it weekly, and couch surfed during the week.

(The other outlier was the fellow who parked his Airstream in the back of the company lot until they told him he had to move.)
And that someone else will also have to pay the tolls.

Therefore both employer and employee will be incentivized to locate in places with higher density housing to reduce costs.
My issue is installing a package. Brew has a local state of the universe. It could just install the new package I ask for. Instead it installs the package plus updates for other packages I have installed. More than once I've had those unrequested updates break. Then I'm stuck yak shaving trying to fix some random package because I dared to install a new one.

I really appreciate the work all the Homebrew developers do. But I've lost a lot of time chasing down problems caused just because I installed some stupid utility.
FIFA tech promises faster, more accurate offside decisions in Qatar
Tailscale, DNS Rebinding, and You
> The same can be said for an "information processing" function on the space of possible sets of distinctions.

No, I don't think it can. "The space of possible sets of distinctions" is one of those nastily large things I'm not even sure is a set. I don't think you will be able to rule out that the drafts in a storm or the swirls in a stream aren't carrying out a computation, if you try to do it over all possible sets of distinctions.
It is a complicated set of circumstances to assess. But SA most certainly was a productive economy, even if you account for the abundance of labour.

I can argue that Apple and the iPhone as a product range is riding on cheap labour from Asia. And so are many products the rich world depends on. Would you say the US is not really a productive country because of that?
I've heard that they are working on C11 atomics, now that the C++ standard includes <stdatomic.h> for compatibility with C.
Are there any practical advantages to using Zig vs anything else? Presumably, the cross compilation means this should run everywhere for free, but would love to know if there was anything especially easy/hard with respect to the host language.
I really wish I had tried the Pebbles.

I want buttons. Not capacitive touch.

And I have a hunch the rotating bezel on the Samsung classic 4 (or whatever) is The Correct Answer™.

My Apple Watch 4's battery is now pretty weak. So I'm looking to replace.

I kinda hate my Apple Watch. Now it's just an annoying step counter.

It sucks for controlling audio playback. I'm walking the dog, in the cold, wind, and rain. So then I have to take off my gloves, look at the damn thing, navigate to the playback controls (because reasons), tap the button a few times. Etc. So now I just dig out my iPhone.

The Activity tracker sucks. If I stop to pick up some waste, it's smart enough to pause. But not smart enough to resume when I get walking again. So I have to hit Dismiss multiple times during an activity. Grrr. So I stopped using it.

Siri via the watch is turrible. I've stopped trying.

The one huge feature I want for a future watch (or whatever) is tracking my waking breathing rate. For pain management and other mindfulness stuff. I'm supposed to regulate my breathe. Like remind me to stop holding my breathe during a bad spell.
> if you need a loan you don't have to sell, this isn't a service any bank offers

I mean, the bank will make sure you aren’t North Korea first. Which crypto will not. So that’s a plus, if you’re North Korea. (Collateralised lending is incredibly commonplace in finance, including against crypto.)
This serves a great need and if I had a kid I would certainly consider using it. However, after browsing for a few minutes I don't see any way to actually preview the content. It looks like there are some helpful videos but I would suggest making at least a few available to preview so prospective customers can evaluate the quality. You might also consider a homepage video that features the same people in the rest of the videos. That would be an opportunity to explain the site and build some trust.

Good luck on your venture!
Also discussed / covered in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21906051
"Happy little JavaScript errors"
> Allowing smoking of marijuana wherever smoking of nicotine is allowed seems “only fair.”

I agree, in either tobacco or Marijuana, your not going to accidentally get high just existing in a smoking area. Marijuana however smells gross from a distance, I would be polite where you light up. Thats just common sense.

> I wouldn’t want to be driving on the road with someone after they smoked their very first cigarette. I remember...

As someone who had regularly done both, this is very wrong. First time smoking tobacco, yes I'd never want to drive in that state, but nicotine I would argue helps me pay attention, especially when driving for hours in a straight line. (Guess where I live) Marijuana however impaired me every time, and similar to alcohol I would never drive in that state.
ML text and image generators have a habit of regurgitating training data, especially if you happen to use certain inputs or prompts that also match said data even superficially. For example, type in "fast inverse square root"[0] and get out a bunch of Quake source code.

If you use code or art generated by an AI that was regurgitating training data, you can be sued for copyright infringement.

The way that AI gets training data these days is... questionably ethical. It's all scraped off the web, because the people who make these AIs saw court precedent for things like Google Books being fair use and assumed it would apply to data mining[1]. Problem is, that does nothing for the people actually using the AI to generate what they thought were novel code sequences or images, because fair use is not transitive.

[0] This won't work in current Copilot because a) I'm misremembering the comment phrasing and b) they explicitly banned that input from generating that output.

[1] In the EU, this practice is explicitly legal
Nice idea but in order for that to work you need to cut people off at some point like Windows used to. Otherwise you'll be giving out software updates gratis in perpetuity.
Honestly I agree with you, but I was one of those people who mostly cared about high definition TV because the sound was better. I think we're something of a rare breed.
The Interpreter Pattern Revisited (2015)
I mean this is explored in many critiques of IP rights, monopolies, and capitalism.
Vulnerability in Tailscale allows a malicious website to access the peer API
Search for Jeff Bezos space flight, look at news discussions and social media posts, and you will find more haters.
> He says it not for virtue signaling but literally the 2nd point is virtue signaling.

I think it means not for virtue signaling [about musk/twitter].

Avoiding brand damage and other “common” virtue signaling (like sticking American flags on things for July 4th, sticking rainbows on things for pride, etc) are just called “marketing”. It’s standard operating procedure for someone looking to make money.
Not the original commenter, but here's my stab at it:

> In the morning I bought stuff on Amazon, but it also doesn't solve any real problem.

Sure it does. It solves the problem of "I need something, I have money, and I don't have the time/ability/car/... to go to a physical location to buy it."

> Not sure AWS is solving anything since we can rent servers directly.

AWS gives you you

- The ability to spin up MANY classes of servers instantly, whereas traditional server renting is more limited ime.

- A host of extra services on top of it that all integrate fairly well with each other

- Paid support if you want/need

- ...

> I used Zoom for a call, but it solves nothing, I guess.

People like to see each other, phone calls can have quality issues and dead zones, ...

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Now, when I read the parent comments, I see:

> The EVM specifically gives you a Turing complete financial system and, hence, probably a complete expression of operations on financial structures.

And while that *sounds* interesting, I have absolutely no IDEA what the utility of this is. With AWS, Zoom, Amazon, ... I can point to things that very very directly benefit both technical and non-technical users day-to-day. That's not to say that there ISN'T use to the EVM -- I'm sure there probably is! -- just that imo it's less-obvious.
Hash graph reconciliation is generally the harder part of this problem as noted in future work, but this is a very exciting direction.
I agree.

But, my last 30 years of laissez faire has resulted in forums like HN becoming toxic with smug "Crypto is a solution in search of a problem" and "told ya Crypto was all a scam, yer dumb" Bros, yelling low-research insults without anyone pushing back on them...

So, I'll leave it. If only the "Eternal September" crowd is allowed to be comfortable here (because we all just "let them have their opinion", as usual), we know what happens.
Coinbase Shares Hit All-Time Low
Ukrainian Consequences: Nord Stream
It really is a revelation to watch an older movie on UHD Blu-ray after being subjected to the mush that streaming services put up.

Services like Apple TV+ do pretty well on 4K when it's their own flagship content, but none of them care about movies that were shot before digital. They'll serve a terrible automatic encoding that loses all the detail from the original film.

I just bought Lynch's "Lost Highway" on UHD Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection, and this 1997 movie has probably never looked this good in any format. Even the original film prints shown in theatres were second-generation compared to this 4K. It's mastered from the negative and perfectly encoded to preserve the massive film grain in the indoor scenes.
The issue with this story is this:

Governments will not protect something they have no control over. When they regulate it, that control will come in. Some of the things you speak about will disappear.

Kinda like if you have a wife and you care about her if she is loyal. But once she cheats you don't care anymore. Similar situation between unregulated financial systems and the government.
Smart home hubs leave users vulnerable to hackers
The strengths and limitations of approaches to detect deepfake text
Maybe all the people that never went from DVD to Blu-ray are still on DVD now that the others have moved to streaming?
Did musk take on the existing 5ish billion in debt that twitter had?
I feel the "value" of DeFi only appears once all the scams have broken - and then only if there is actual value in trading crypto beyond just buying drugs or whatever people used to do with bitcoin before it was "popular".
So familiar, but improved.
People in 3rd countries use pirate copies / cracks very often. In my country (Moldova) that's absolutely OK having everything pirated even in government structures. AFAIK all JetBrains products are available cracked.

I am an individual developer and I pay for my PHPStorm and GitHub CoPilot - it saves me so much time, I could never imagine. This software is completely worthy to be paid for, even considering "free" copies are available.
You guys are never going to get it, its hilarious.
Now if we could only identify some content that isn't offensive to someone..