skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pivot from “I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law”[1] to “I get to use censorship to kneecap a competitor because it’s my site now” was almost comically quick.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376
> Clang is way behind on implementing most C++20 features.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support#cpp20 begs to differ. The heck, even C++23 core language support is almost fully done.
I spend some free time reverse-engineering obscure game formats, and my observations is that this is universally true of everything.
What is the actual failure mode of these companies? The article cites ATI, Nuvectra, Second Sight, Stimwave.. were these companies expecting govt grants that never arrived? Did they overestimate how much patients would pay for these implants? Misjudge how much they could bring prices down? Were their devices one-and-done treatments so they had no renewable income?

Some of these companies were making truly life-changing tech that only exists because they made it exist. It's disheartening to read about them going under.

As for how to handle ongoing support for the patients of companies that do go under, the article already says all my thoughts on it.

> One proposal is that neurotechnology companies should ensure that there is money available to support the people using their devices in the event of the company’s closure. How this would best be achieved is uncertain. Suggestions include the company setting up a partner non-profit organization to manage funds to cover this eventuality; putting aside money in an escrow account; being obliged to take out an insurance policy that would support users; paying into a government-supported safety network; or ensuring the people using the devices are high-priority creditors during bankruptcy proceedings.

> Realeve’s interim chief executive Donato thinks that it will take legislation to convince investors or shareholders in companies to take on the expense of a safety net. “Unless, and until, the governments force it on us,” he says, “I’m not sure companies will do it on their own.”
MSX Basic home user here ;)

However, the big emphasis was on Logo in primary schools at my time.

Speaking of which, does anyone know of a MSX-Logo English version ROM available for download? Can only find it in Dutch...
There's a critical faulty assumption in your logic above ... we are on the verge of seeing multiple simultaneous technical barriers fall that will seriously alter your equation around comfort and immersion. micro-OLED screens are shipping this year which enable full immersion with pancake lenses at half the weight and greatly improved FOV. The next gen of chipsets will support resolutions and frame rates that eliminate screen door effect and nausea for a wide swathe of people.

Within 2 years we'll be looking at very different landscape for VR hardware. This is why people like Zuckerberg and companies like Apple are excited about it - they can see where the puck will be and they are skating to it, ignoring the critics operating on obsolete assumptions.
> 1. It's not an "anti-Mastadon" filter. It's a security feature of twitter's URL shortener for preventing spammers, malware spreaders, etc from propagating links to their stuff both on anb off twitter.

They've repurposed an existing Twitter tool (what else could they do, with nobody left to implement new tools?) to block Mastodon, but that's an active move to try and block Mastodon nonetheless.
>> But the culture of empiricism and willingness to nurture it probably were cultural.

If it was, then that culture wasn't British culture but some kind of central-European culture that flourished around the time of the Industrial Revolution. I was in Paris, recently, in the Museè des Arts et Mètiers, and I stood half a meter from a collection of Pascalines, the first machines capable of performing arithmetic operations, created by a Franch mathematician, Blaize Pascal.

Modern science and technology did not grow in one place, or in one go, and in any case, as we all know, it all started with the Greeks, ευχαριστώ πολύ. And then there was the Middle Ages.

[Incidentally, do visit the Museè des Arts et Mètiers and do visit the Science Museum in London, if you can. They are not nearly as well-known as the natural history museums but that just means they're not nearly as crowded. You can find ancient computers in both, it's like they evenly split the spoils of an era of experimentation with automating computation. Paris has the Pacalines and Vaucanson's loom, London has (a model of) the Difference Engine. They have more modern machines also; in London I saw a PDP-10, I believe, in France a Fridden Flexowriter right next to a drum memory. They are places to be lost in, if you like that sort of thing. Also: entire rooms filled with models of steam and hydraulic machines.]
Haha. It seems there is a DNS record for exactly this.
See linked article for good discussion:
https://www.devever.net/~hl/acme-caa-live
It is much easier to render a 2 pixel wide border on the CPU for a 300x200 window than doing gradients and shadows on a 4k screen.
Subreddits were banned for collecting publicly available on information in a single post. There used to be a subreddit documenting lives of Google CxOs, it didn't last one week.
The story from Carmack is also based on his word. Unless you've worked with him directly, everything you know about John Carmack is based on some or other's words.
I cannot access the URL either via browser. But I am not behind any VPN and not set any proxy. This is a brand new laptop and after setting up the account, this is the first step I was trying to do. Since it is a personal laptop, I dont have any company related setups too.
I don’t think those are all examples against euthanasia being available - they’re arguments for needing better support to be available for vulnerable people.

Very few would argue with your underlying point that euthanasia should only be used in the right circumstances. But anecdotes which may be to the contrary shouldn’t justify removal of the concept altogether - just examination and adjustment.

A mature and reasonable societal attitude to end of life care —including euthanasia where appropriate— is a force for good, not evil.
Spacekaren.sucks
QOI lies between uncompressed images and entropy coded compressed images. It also happens to work heuristically quite well for such a simple spec. Maybe its defining feature is its simplicity, foremost (and as a consequence of that, speed, secondarily)
They run offline and (presumably) keep data local.
Genuine question, IANAL: how is this different from car registration plates, which Google blurs out to avoid this kind of problem for normal people? Ditto all the data protection issues about ANPR systems.

(This isn't to defended Musk, quite the contrary given he tweeted a number plate).
Not everyone who was disgusted by this behavior is on "the left"
> if my VR headset was mine: like a computer I can install whatever I want there

fwiw - you can install anything you want on your Quest.
> Only the English language is supported currently.

Shame, but maybe not surprising as it can't / doesn't use gpu. One of the most impressive things about the whisper demo was its ability to do live translation IMNHO.
Whether or not stories are told has zilch to tell us as to the facts of the matter. But nevertheless, congratulations on a nice dinner party riposte.
>[ Removed by reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]

https://old.reddit.com/r/ElonJetTracker/comments/zofevu/remo...

UPD Original post title via Google cache/Internet Archive:

>Jet IS LIVE, TOOK OFF from [place], at [time] local time (PST), traveling [direction]. Tail [registration code]
NextJS and SvelteKit are same same.

SvelteKit might offer a slightly higher DX by being the new kid on the block that learned from NextJS and Co. The big difference is just Svelte vs React. Svelte is delighting to use but a headless UI library, or generally good UI lib is missing and JSX has its advantages. The advantages of JSX being more flexible and better TypeScript support. I decided to go with Solid for a new project. Solid combines Svelte's easier reactivity and JSX. More about the rationale behind choosing Solid can be read in an RFC I wrote https://github.com/inlang/inlang/blob/main/rfcs/002-tech-sta...
This is a nice assurance then, thank you
Me too - I try to avoid parentheticals in polished writing because they're usually there to avoid having to decide if something is really important. If it's not important, take it out (or if it's a very technical detail that can be skipped on first reading, maybe put it in a footnote (uhoh, I'm doing it)).
It very well might be, if you value publicity for your hobby, the greater reach might be worth it to you. If you can get 10,000 readers instead of 90 readers because your links are shareable...

If we think about potential dollars, though:

The bottomless pit isn't very deep, it's a few dollars a year.

If it nets you one single short-contract offer (nevermind a job) or worthwhile contact because someone found your work, it'll pay itself off many, many times over. Let's say one person found him and offered him a $3000 contract to do some electronic thing for a week, well, then the cost of the domain and hosting won't matter for the rest of his life.

The mere fact that this guy has an oscilloscope out means he has skills that someone might want to contact him about in relation to his blog.

Limiting yourself for want of a $10/year domain name is probably not a great idea, and again, it's something I learned the hard way.
I’m very proud of my site (and the URL) reboot dot love, which I haven’t done much with lately but I want to! Also yeah I need to fix my SSL cert. the server is giving me grief. Bottomless pit of time and money yaaay.
Spot on, but to me it's rather sad, and I wish I didn't have to read about it here, since I have no interest in celebrity gossip
I, on the other hand, would like people to stop naming their albums and songs using my Google search terms, but I suspect we’re both going to be disappointed :)
>private information

It is publicly available information.
Being open source doesn't help you much.

What will you do if they stop developing? Start maintaining the code yourself? Wait for others? Very few open source projects thrived after original author lost interest.
Its divide and conquer at its finest.
I think I read that it's not flat since a few years back anyway
Rendering pipelines are in linear RGB. Which has rgb(1,1,1) and rgb(0,0,0) the same as sRGB, but with 1.0 gamma.

When loading images into the GPU, you flag them as either sRGB or linear. When sampling from a shader the GPU will convert sRGB to linear (this is a hardware feature because many images are in sRGB space), and not make any changes to textures flagged as linear.

Rendering is done in linear RGB space in properly coded game engines, and the final output is generally also linear (with some post processing magic to stay in boundaries). The final swap will convert it to sRGB or whatever your display profile is set to, this is handled by the display driver as well.
I think the question is vague.
Native compared to what? Are Electron apps considered native under this paradigm?Native desktop apps have permissions and API access that are generally denied to anything running in a sandbox. On some platforms (Apple) they're also trusted (certified by the hardware or OS manufacturer) to have those perms. Users are generally not competent to decide what permissions to grant applications, and thanks to some major efforts at educating them most users know that, so they prefer apps that are signed and approved and which run "natively". That means there's incentive for developers to continue building native applications.
Any work-arounds for the paywall?
I love these people bc they do all the esoteric stuff so that I don’t have to.
Registration plates aren't already tracked and made available publicly wherever they are. Planes are.
There are some mesh protocols (ESP-Link i believe) but tasmota doesnt support them. It doesn't even support SoftAP for anything but initial configuration. However there are some wifi repeater projects for the ESP series that might be of use.
I would have agreed and recently made the same argument on HN re the Twitter bans.

What I’ve since learned however is that tracking his jet requires a combination of public and private information. He’s part of a privacy scheme which routinely changes the plane’s identifier: https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/160385752457453...

At that point, I think the argument that it’s doxxing is justified to some extent.
> I never understood this tribalism, doesn't the spirit of open source mean that I'm free to choose the tools of my liking

In my experience the only tribalism is people (in this thread as well) hating on several projects for God knows what reason.
>mentally ill teenager

Source?
Back to the Future: On misunderstanding modular synthesizers (2016)
Absolutely.

Eliminate MAID and these people will still suffer… because MAID isn’t the problem. They need better care and support in the first place.
Hi Dang,

I appreciate the desire for polite conversation. How though, maintain a veneer of curiosity when discussing the fact that people are freezing to death in their homes due to the actions/inaction of a specific, corrupt[0] group of individuals?

The only way I can imagine being able to do so, is to actively erase their role in the situation. I'd argue that to be much more harmful than a lack of curiosity.

Perhaps the answer is that HN isn't a suitable forum for such a topic. Although, I think the discussion around who's responsible for the current situation and their motivations is both curious and valuable.

For what it's worth, I entirely concur with GP's statement. The people responsible for this will likely escape punishment and continue impoverishing the nation for their own gain.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/09/revealed-the...
Yeah, specially with non native english speakers, it is hard to distinguish what they are talking about, and if I correctly remember they are totally different in approach.
Considering the data is already collected for every aircraft, the “collective time and effort” is so close to zero as to get lost in the noise.
It’s a means of control. Convincing everyone that the bad people are whoever is the other side keeps us divided and is very useful to the people who are actually in control.
What you describe sounds a lot like acme.sh. It integrates with a few DNS providers and is run as a simple cronjob

I tried certbot a few times, but never liked it.

Usually I use acme.sh on VMs and cert-manager on Kubernetes.
They did seem to work perfectly well, and the ad targeting was not much worse(Half the ads now are random startup gadgets I don't want).

But what about stuff like Google Assistant? Seems like Google does a lot that doesn't serve ads, so I assume it must be either to sell their hardware or to spy. Are the hardware sales alone worth it to a CEO?
Bicameral political Stockholm Syndrome at its finest, they know no better so that's all they have <shrug>.

( #NotAllAmericans, of course - but it's certainly a sizable and vocal chunk )
There's no indication that the teenager is mentally ill.
Not sure I see what's obnoxious here - they've just found a couple of neat ways to circumvent bans on tweeting some URLs.
You are correct in theory, it is certainly a technical possibility to avoid such a problem. In practice, this isn't done and isn't possible since the major factions are too at odds with each other to create such a situation. In particular, everyone in the center-left knows that there's no point in trying to cooperate with Binyamin Netanyahu because he is guaranteed to betray them and not uphold his part of whatever bargain they make. Everyone in the right knows that they can't cooperate with anyone outside of Binyamin Netanyahu because they'll be accused of being evil terrorist supporting leftists and will lose many votes in the next election.

The point I was making is that it is actually this dynamic (and the fact that it is legitimized enough that it is able to continue) that is causing issues and that whatever is creating it is the real problem. Proportional representation may be the superior system, but it is not the cure for the problems democracies are facing and so the specific system in use should not be blamed as the root cause of these problems and it is then in my opinion a contributing factor at best.
> Though the Camus entry is essentially on point, it glosses over so many more interesting and worthwhile insights from him.

Of course, it'a a short blogpost not a book-length treatment. Anything of comparable length would've "glossed over" the same things.
Thank you for saying everything I wanted to say.

I only add that the post above invokes some wildly spurious logic in counting the 5 instances of the same mistake as if they were 5 different mistakes. Such a basic error really makes me question his general reasoning ability.
You Shouldn't Use Public CAs for Internal Infrastructures
Yes, and in case anyone doesn't know of the New Statesman, it's very much the reverse. An not just that publication, self-hating & self-despising Britons are very much in the ascendant. Quite the evil empire in their view.
Look at an ocean-centric world map[0], and you will see why Britain could waive the rules[1], back in the day when she ruled the waves[2].

[0] https://porteconomicsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/Map-P...

[1] the Royal Navy of the time had a substantial advantage: its ships cruised needing to put into port only for food & water. The US Navy needs oil.

[2] ever since Suez, however, the mantle of Oceania has firmly descended upon the States, and Britain has been demoted from empire to Airstrip One.
Very interesting read. This is the first time I know about him but seems he was a tortured soul living between a disenchanted reality, the inability to change anything, an escape to nothing and a curse of long life.
how is this different from car registration plates, which Google blurs out to avoid this kind of problem for normal people?

Google chooses to blur it. I don't think they're legally obligated to.
Of course it's not that old, but considering 1992 is the year I started to play with computers as a kid, that's older than I expected, at least for me.

I've used internet for the first time when the The Register became an online publication.
1. It depends on the product. For a landing page go with zero javascript since you want things to load blazingly fast. I like static site generators for this such as Jekyll. For simple websites (e.g. small web shops), you might be okay just serving HTML/vanilla JS through e.g. PHP or Python. For apps that need to be an app, my go-to framework is Angular. I know I’m in the minority here but its tooling has come a long way. The developer experience is stellar nowadays. For CSS: Tailwind, which finally made me productive in styling elements.

2. If you don’t know vanilla JS it’s best if you learn that first before thinking about any “stack” – I can recommend Eloquent JavaScript. After you get the hang of it, pick any stack that fits your problem and interests you, and start building. :)
The site is already being hosted, I was only talking about a domain name, so at ~$10/year or whatever it is now, that's only $100 a decade over whatever he is paying now for hosting using a free domain.

That's 10 years of benefiting from a real domain name for the cost of... a very long list of pointless $100 goods and services.

It's a couple of cents per day.
I am the author, no it was written by a human!
If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.
GNU/Linux shell related internals
Ask HN: Why can't I enjoy playing videogames on my own?
These days, the only thing that makes we want to play games is the community aspect. That's obvious for online games or MMOs, but even for single-player games, most of the fun and motivation comes from engaging with the community around the game. I wouldn't even consider playing a game that doesn't have an active community. Even if the game was great, I just can't imagine having fun playing it all by myself.

Does anyone else have the same problem? Why is this? When I was younger, I could enjoy single-player games just fine by immersing myself in the world, so why is it impossible now? Did constant exposure to social media lead to this?
> The author is seriously suggesting Next.js to build a company website.

There are massive, hyper-scale websites built on Next.js: Walmart, Nike, Hulu, Notion, just to mention a few. [1]

Are they not "serious" to you?

[1] https://nextjs.org/showcase
The need for them wasn't that widespread until recently.

Heating was relatively affordable. People on low incomes and the elderly had enough assistance to stay warm.

The British government have taken very little action in comparison to other countries in protecting the population from rising energy costs.

British homes are extremely poorly insulated compared to our European counterparts.

Many older homes rely on electric storage heaters which are much more expensive than heating with gas.
Not exactly: https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/160385752457453...

What’s public is how each plane moves. What’s not is which one of these planes is Musk’s.
I imagine it is something similar to the following.

Preprocessing

1. Transcribe the dataset

2. Chunk the transcription into paragraphs.

3. Store the embedding of each paragraph into a vector database.

Querrying

1. Convert the user's query into an embedding

2. Query the vector database for the top N closest embeddings and fetch the paragraphs that correspond to them. To be robust against queries which you don't have results for you should limit how far away results can be from the user's query.

3. Using those paragraphs craft a propmt that you will give to a LLM.

4. Do any final filtering on the what you got back from the LLM.
Many aircraft, particularly those flying IFR, are required by law in many jurisdictions to broadcast their location to reduce the risk of collisions and facilitate air traffic control. Check aviation transponder interrogation modes and ADS-B in particular
In practice, linear texture means "don't mess with the data when sampling", and sRGB texture means "please convert to linear when sampling" (this is a hardware feature).

On modern engines, rendering is done in linear. A lot of older engines render in unmanaged maybe-sRGB and look like potato, in which case tagging the textures does nothing.

In general either the final render output is linear or "I don't care" probably sRGB, in the first case it's up to your display driver to do the final conversion to your display color space, in which case colors should look correct, but the game engine may have already limited colors (by some post processing magic) within sRGB boundaries if it's not aware of your display range. Or it may have messed up if it can't make sense if the display range. In the other case, I'm not sure if there's a solid definition, the driver will probably assume the color space is already good.
> Also why do you need to post links on Twitter, i though you were leaving the platform?

If you change your address, it makes sense to share your new address with contacts? If you change cell provider because they suck you probably would give your new phone number to your contacts. How is this not 100% obvious to you?
The U of I's own article has more details: https://aces.illinois.edu/news/study-canada-geese-beat-human...
Wouldn’t a 24 hour delay be enough to satisfy the curious about Elon’s flying habits, without creating a possible security risk? I don’t know how real the risk is, but it is certainly not zero, as he is a controversial public figure.
You could also just skip the CA part, and use DANE. Just publish the key in your DNS, and the corresponding self-signed certificate in your server.

Are there any DANE compatible clients today?
The rest of the world thinks in more complex terms than "the left" and "the right".