skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe so. But it benefits from the larger ecosystem that it can piggyback onto. This is often important to people selecting a language bound by constraints in their product, company, etc and can't be dismissed.

.NET/JIT/GC improvements, improvements to core API's, enterprise libraries/SDK's, etc. C#'s improvements do tend to flow into F#, if not from a language/syntax perspective from an ecosystem perspective. An upgrade of .NET version for example also benefits a F# developer greatly even if no work is done on the language at all for example. A performance improvement in say ASP.NET Core benefits many of the F# web frameworks too. A language/tool is more than just its syntax - you need to learn the libraries, package management, build tools, etc as well and be confident of their long term support/improvement. All dimensions are important.

At this stage F# does have more broader technology support and interoperability as a result of this "second class" status. Whether this matters depends on the use case, company, and engineering resources at hand. Being second class may be more feasible for a language that can ride the tail wind may be better than standing on its own two feet? Right now in my context personally I could use F# for my company's apps and not hit too many blockers, I probably couldn't use OcAML given the technologies we use day to day.
Stocks give you share of ownership over the cashflow that a company generates from its business. Theoretically, that is where the value of stock comes from. Crypto does not generate any cashflows (due to selling no goods or services). So crypto is not like stocks. If anything, it is more like commodities than stocks.
> We can detect when dreams are occurring in the brains of sleeping people.

A scientist has the subjective experience (qualia) of observing a person sleeping with certain scientific equipment attached to them, the subjective experience of observing that equipment produce certain results, the subjective experience of waking the sleeper and asking them if they were just dreaming and getting an affirmative response, etc. If the scientist claims that "dreams are brain activity", their claim is referring to those subjective experiences of theirs, and has those subjective experiences as its justification. And that's all fine – there is no problem with any of this from an idealist viewpoint. "Brain activity" is a pattern in qualia, "dreaming" is another pattern in qualia, some correlation between them is a third (higher-level) pattern in qualia. It's qualia all the way down.

But, to then use those subjective experiences as an argument against the existence of subjective experiences is profoundly mistaken.
Astound/Wave Broadband. From whatismyip.com:

My Public IPv4 is: 198.244.xx.yy

My Public IPv6 is: 2604:4080:redact

My IP Location is: Seattle, WA US

My ISP is: Wave Broadband
> Mr. White said, part of the problem is that many police and city officials, rather than denouncing scofflaws or enforcing the license plate laws, are some of the most brazen offenders. He and other advocates say they frequently observe high concentrations of illegal plates around courthouses and police precincts.

Who will watch the watchers?
Our legacy governments make this very difficult.

Sadly, while many of our governments readily adopted the concept of representative democracy, they retained other oppressive aspects of the ancient systems which they replaced. The old monarchies claimed a right to rule their subject peoples in perpetuity, deriving their power directly from God. Our modern governments claim the same thing! Instead of that divine right flowing directly from God to the state, it flows from God, through your forbears who created the government, to the state. Isn't that slick? They derive their legitimacy from man's divine right to choose his own government, while simultaneously denying that YOU have such a right! It's the 'ole divine right to rule with extra steps.

So while you can choose who controls your government via democratic means, you'll have a helluva time choosing a new government, since the old government will waive the crusty old document that your great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather signed and say that you are committing treason.

See the Catalan independence movement[0], or the official position of the UK government on the most recent Scottish independence referendum[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_independence_movement
[1] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/11/23/u...
Such a great clip.

I’ve been on both sides of that one. Plenty of times where I’m trying to get some advanced tech into a given component, and the manager says No, it’ll increase our risk. “But this tech will enable advanced features A, B, and C.” And the reply: “We don’t need to have A, B, or C … we need the product to deliver on our earlier promise of the baseline capability.”

And a few times when I’m on the other side, shutting someone else down. Never as clearly or succinctly as this, of course. Definitely makes me feel like a turncoat in the tug of war between technologists and product people.
Two bits of lego.
I agree, pre-referendum he backed Remain, but after that his position was not so firm https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-corbyns-ch...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/22/jeremy-corb...
Interview with Kurt Vonnegut (1970)
User Interface that is easy to imagine as a physical object is easier to figure out. It doesn't matter if the user is familiar with the physical object being emulated on the screen. Because laws of physics are still applicable even if you haven't seen such a physical object in real life.

The human mind is always building models in our minds, based on observations of how things look and work, and then using those models to predict behaviors of things that we are yet to explore. For this to work well, appearance has to imply behavior. Instead of starting with a clean slate each time it would be helpful if we can leverage the mental models we have already built of the physical world. This is where skeuomorphism is helpful.
I don't have a problem reaching the bottom of the screen, and also generally use my left hand for one-handed use. The phone rests on my pinky, with the middle three fingers supporting the body.

If you use your phone one-handed often enough, iOS Reachability works pretty well: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/iphone/iph145eba8e9/io...
Jordan bans TikTok after police officer killed in protests
How would you feel if someone taxed you an absolute amount that would leave 50% of your countrymen penniless? And they denied you tax breaks, like the child credit, that they grant themselves? And then that same 50% vilified you to boot?
Exactly. Optimising care and attention to detail out of product design because it's too expensive is one of the reason technology today is absolute crap anywhere you look.

A decade ago I used to view Steve Jobs as an a designer that was a little too full of himself, today I see him as an extinct breed of people that had a vision and didn't compromise in the name of revenue and cutting corners.

Many engineers and managers nowadays think good, opinionated and well-crafted product are a waste of time and money. Shipping early is the only metric that matters, and the various Tim Cooks in charge are a sign of the times.
All of these costs need to be adjusted for capacity factor. The 3.2 GW is the maximum rating of the line. The line will almost never be at the maximum rating (due to security-constrained economic dispatch). And obviously solar only generates when the sun is up (a mid-30s capacity factor is very good).
>> The former gets the fruit of their labor in full when the job is finished and paid for, the latter is suffering from a systematic exploitation as each time the stock goes up in price (or when dividends are issued) the shareholders get the fruits of the worker’s labor, as opposed to the workers them selves.

This is a bit hard to parse. Isn't the developer's work also paid for after each unit of time served. And why exactly is the developer being systematically exploited every time the stock price increases and the carpenter is not if the house appreciates? Doesn't the developer literally live in the fruits of carpenter's labor?
Probably very very little... there just aren't that many Firefox users to begin with, and the number that are going to alter the User-Agent is a tiny subset.

On your second point, I use a mix of Chrome and Firefox... can't remember the last time I ran into something that didn't work on Firefox. Is mandating Chrome really particularly common?
I use AVR Rust and have dumped the resulting assembly output and I was suitably impressed. It optimized the living daylights out of the code and the resulting assembly was amazingly short and did exactly what you'd expect. It didn't really waste any stack space or RAM. It's truly amazing to see modern rust running on an 8 bit CPU in such a reasonable way (of course it also helps to write in an 8 bit friendly way, like using u8 or i8 for things that don't need to be big), but it's also nice to know I can just use a 64 bit int and it'll do whatever it has to do to work.
I can open private browsing on my laptop, and Google Shopping shows me Seattle results.

But again, my gaming PC, which was offline in my apartment in Seattle, has been showing me Mexico/Spanish results in Edge. And my TV, which sits in my apartment in Seattle, is inundated with Spanish ads.

I'm starting to suspect that different Google properties are using different signals, too, which makes this extra confusing.

It's really as if YouTube has modified it's profile of me and said "oh, since he was in Mexico for 2 weeks, he must speak Spanish now" the same way they *infuriatingly* insist on switching my results to Spanish whenever I first landed (which literally was why I started using the VPN).

It's a kafka-esque nightmare of them trying to be smart and absolutely making things harder.
You must not know much about actual PG&E equipment.

A neighbor here told me there was a 6-month wait to get solar & its associated metering, because PG&E doesn't have the equipment on our lines that can accept power back from the customers.

Sending humans out to fix things is costly.
Would using a structure-of-arrays (instead of array-of-structues) make this less of a problem?
Just a heads up that the styling and the JS doesn't work on Firefox.
Seems similar to my own script: https://github.com/tyilo/apkmagician
Wow, that sounds really cool! Searching around i found this list: https://github.com/dweinstein/awesome-frida
Electorate has moved on since Brexit has actually happened, even if the number who would vote differently given what they know today is much smaller than you might expect given how few think it was done well.

Labour's highest poll result this year was 57%, which is kinda nuts even given who was PM at that point — 20 Oct, Omnisis: https://www.omnisis.co.uk/media/1133/vi-005-full-tabs-201020...
Did he? Any support he gave was so tepid, I barely noticed.
Meta could have a subsidiary that does nothing but stamp out manhole covers.
That subsidiary would have a far higher compliance burden than any other manhole cover manufacturer.

Their past choices have consequences. It’s too late for them to “just not” do anything to reduce that burden.
Thus: link to random blog from social media.
I don't normally downvote so I want to explain why I did it - I think your Rousseau quote is very specific to the historic events and discussions that it came from. He is essentially arguing that democracy is not as good as what we would now call a dictatorship of the proletariat - "The Terror" that he is implimenting in france.

It's not really useful for understanding French attitudes to the English at that time, and it isn't particularly about their honesty.

This... context blindness makes me wonder if you are an algorithm or something. It's hard to believe a human would be reading a book about that period and think "this is a good quote to show the British have always been considered untrustworthy".

There are many examples of historic British untrustworthyness. I'll pick one - the fate of Duleep Singh. I'm sure that you can come up with others. Why these?
You reminded me of an Alan Kay quote:

"Then we had Dan Ingalls whose job was to be smarter than me and make it all really work,

and his favorite line was you just do it and it's done... and that's what he did and and so we had it almost right away"

("it" is an early Smalltalk interpreter).

Source:

https://youtu.be/Odmx-ScL-8o

(51m52s)
I'm saying it's cowardly to aggressively half-ass your "competition" and then act like you're being bullied by someone who now has a monopoly because they cared more about making a product than you did.

It's a bit rich to claim that Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft were cowed by Google being too resourced and willing to run things at a loss when that's essentially how they built their entire businesses too in the modern era. If it was just OSM or some small dev complaining about Google, then sure, but this is 3 of the biggest, most well funded, most willing to do things that lose money companies in the world complaining that another of them had better planning than them.

I'm not in any way arguing that Google Maps isn't a monopoly, or that someone other than OSM would have been wise to compete with them over the last 10 years, (although Apple has been, and notably doesn't seem to be a part of this).

This feels more like all these companies going "damn, we kinda just expected the OSS community would do all of the work for us to beat Google". Clearly Google Maps is providing value for Google now, even if it's peripheral value for interoperability and improving Search and other services. This just feels like all of these companies going "Wait, Google was right. Accurate geospacial data is valuable to a business even if we're not directly selling it as a product." That feels like something where it's a bit rich to complain about it being a monopoly when you didn't have the foresight to see that it would be valuable.
Yes, you can do that, but it's a way of complaining, not adding any value to the discussion. We don't know anything that we didn't know before.
Back in the dark ages when I fixed avionics (I grew up and went into software) I was faced with many intermittent hardware failures. The standard procedure was to use freeze spray. One component at a time. I had a lot of theoretical education, but I loved freeze spray
My preference is to buy eBooks from non-DRM bookstores. That allows you to donwload the books and use any ePUB or PDF reader you link on whatever device you like. If a book is not available in a non-DRM format, I would rather buy the actual book or borrow from my library.

Libreture maintains a list of such bookstores [1].

[1] https://libreture.com/bookshops/
https://www.dailycal.org/2021/10/06/come-join-us-three-uc-be...

> Since their departure from campus, Workman, Giffin and Andere have begun assembling a team of engineers and designers to execute their ambitions. They are now working closely with some of the leading research institutions in the world — including Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and UC Berkeley — to build out data platforms, Workman added.

> Eventually, the founders hope to create a universal platform for biocomputing that operates as the “de facto place” for scientific analysis, Workman said. In the short term, they will continue establishing connections with laboratories and researchers around the world while addressing as many of the community’s software concerns as possible.

> According to Workman, as soon as early (2022), they hope to have complete coverage over relevant codebases in academia.
Actually, I just thought it was a useful concept for anyone arguing about the literal meaning of the constitution. Wasn't especially arguing for either side.

Though having the FBI and Twitter policy people being in such close communication must be eyebrow raising at least. And it a little bizarre honestly.
Is there a reason why you couldn't potentially use this same effect to switch the lasers?
I agree insofar as it actually involves people being in constructed environments. Houses are an anti-individualism ideology in all their forms. The only individualistic people are the homeless, who heat themselves with their own body, and and cover themselves only with what they can bring with them on their person.

To rely on wood and concrete to protect you is the death of self reliance
> we could disincentivize the existence of trillion dollar corporations

What does it help Apple that they have hundreds of billions of dollars sitting somewhere in their offshore accounts if they cannot use that money?
I was going to say, having read the chart: a little surprising that Windows 11 isn't on here somewhere, wonder if it just advertises as 10.0 still. And apparently it does.

I wonder if we can get to a default User-Agent string for a browser where just none of the information it contains is accurate. Lying to say you're "Mozilla 5.0" is ubiquitous, now we've got lying about the version of the OS you're on and lying about the architecture... the only stumbling block is that browsers pretty much all admit who they themselves actually are and their version somewhere. So we need to get a browser that's lying about those things, too.
The human cost of neurotechnology failure
This is one of those technologies that gives me pause and wonder why it has not already been created.
Managing to include the chemical name of MDMA in a song lyric, in a rhyming position no less, is pure genius.

Thanks for sharing.
Proportional representation also has its problems. Look at the Netherlands, which has 17 different parties in parliament and led to it becoming increasingly difficult to form coalitions, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%932022_Dutch_cabine...
I also hate page turning animations. Maybe it's my dumb brain but it's super distracting and I never could learn to ignore it. I finally found an e-reader app that let me disable all animations and just immediately cuts to the new page. When I'm reading and I hit the end of the page, by the time my eye has moved back to the top of the screen the new page is there and if I time my tap correctly I don't even see the page change. It's the only way for me to read now.
Consider that Google might know best here, and it's high time for you to pick up Spanish.

J/K. Have you tried all the stupid stuff like clearing your cache and logging out and back in?
could one insert empty bytes to make it evenly distributed?
I'm based in Ireland, and travel regularly to both Britain and California with work. I've always been shocked with the poverty and sense of systemic decline I witness in San Fran. Visiting London and being part of the tech industry can insulate you from just how grim things are in large parts of Britain as well though.

Not saying Ireland is some sort of utopia by any means, and we have our own enormous challenges with regards to things like housing and healthcare, but life is noticeable better here for the average citizen than it is in Britain. Which is such a turnaround from the 80's and 90's.
And to that point, that money piled on solving the problem goes back into the economy.
Pretty sure that's the Edge on Mac user-agent.
Not you IP address but your router/access point's MAC address and been doing it for many years.

For example, I receive quite a few devices for reviews, and I mostly give things away after using those. Many years ago, I gave a friend in another city a router. For a few weeks his computer and other devices reported his location as being my city instead of his. It took a couple of weeks for Google services to catch up.

Google logs your current location and the MAC address of any access point visible to your phone. In your case, if you used your phone via the VPN for more than a few hours, Google associates that MAC address with the finer location from your phone's GPS. It may not link that data to your account, but it uses it to help getting a GPS location.

If you live in a location with low traffic/human density then it may take longer for Google to change it back.

This information is also used for a GPS cold start. Actual GPS takes a few moments to get a fix, even more if indoors. A GPS get a fix faster if you are using it close to where it was last used, or how fresh the stored almanac data is, otherwise it may not find expected satellites in certain locations in the sky. While a fix is not available phone GPS uses any visible MAC address to determine its coarse location.

On laptops and desktops with no GPS, browsers will use this access point data to set a location - IP addresses databases are not up to date enough and sometimes they are linked to the ISP office address and not to specific towns and cities and certainly not to a specific address.
Like a sibling commenter said, commas are not enough to be unambiguous. Ambiguity is fine in prose, because we can resolve it from context, but computers need something clear and well structured.
https://twitter.com/CubicleApril/status/1603805037372784640
Imagine there were 100 constituencies, and in every one party A secured 51% of the vote and party B got 49%. Under our current system, party A would have all 100 seats, and party B would have no representation at all; whereas under PR, A and B would (simpisticly speaking)split seats 51-49.
Curious to see what HN's opinion on mandatory voting is. We have that in Australia and the sense is that it tends to dull the extreme fringes of the party platforms since they need to broadly appeal to the mainstream.
Looking from outside, it honestly doesn't seem that's what's going on. Here in the Netherlands we have proportional representation, and while our democratic system does show signs of decay, it still feels way more healthier than the British one. Here we have 20 parties to choose from, which always leads to coalitions and compromises. Having to keep deciding between only two would feel incredibly constrained to me.

And I say this as someone who keeps voting, unsuccessfully, against our incumbent PM.
The person’s whole story was entirely based around their anonymous word. The follow up comment reads to me like a narrative way of pointing they out.

We don’t really know, I guess, what happened internally. But:

* Carmack has tossed some grenades as he left, so if there’s a real story there I guess we’re likely to hear about it from some non-anonymous sources soon enough if he was a real pain.

* He’s gone now, so we’ll see to what extent he was holding them back shortly.

I bet we hear nothing and they never release anything, but I won’t claim to have an uncle who works at ~~Nintendo~~ Facebook.
Uh...no. Better players make more money (due to meritocracy). Do you think the better players should make the same as the worst players?
That is what freeze spray is for
Democracy is remarkably robust and people fighting is not an indication that it is faltering. The UK has a long and proud history of tenuous balance between different groups that are all on the verge of doing violence to one another, the current era is remarkably peaceful and cooperative.

People are undercalling the effects of a multi-decade campaign against energy security in favour of environmentalist goals. The driver of the environment of cooperation post-WWII has been abundant cheap energy. That meant there was always a path forward where everyone was better off - which is no longer so obviously the case.

To be fair, it isn't just a policy problem. The UK is running out of fuel. But this article isn't going to the root cause of why people can't find an easy grow-the-pie solution to keep everyone working together.
Meanwhile, actual lemmings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z2-vPg1_nw
I've worked for many hardware companies. Thermal chamber testing is pretty standard. When doing a design it usually has a requirement for temperature range and the parts are specked accordingly, and thermal testing is done before release.