skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was given a nice mechanical pencil as a gift years ago and dug it up not too long ago and started using it. It is a .7 mm lead, which I believe is a minimum size for good notetaking for me. All through college I used regular wood pencils and loved writing with them. I believe the thicker leads are more forgiving for writting letters.
Because AppImages need no daemons and plumbing. They are self contained binaries which contain everything it needs to run.

Running a big infra to run a single binary once in a while feels like a burden to some of us.
Show HN: VR Development Resource
I've created a list/page of resources and materials for those who are new to VR development. I'm always looking for feedback and recommendations for additional resources. I hope this provides some value to the wider VR community.
You are being very patronizing. Other people in this thread have given reasonable explanations for not liking unions.

You are free to disagree, of course, but being smug about it is rude.
Ask HN: Is there evidence that layoffs work?
layoffs are often presented as a cost-cutting measure to save the business. I'm curious what research has to say on the efficacy of this, as opposed to other methods
Is there a good name for “two root causes” where they work in tandem? I am blanking on it. Contributing factors?
Necessary but not sufficient conditions?
Which somewhat reduce that risk. People on SSI are usually struggling, not affluent, and actually getting those benefits can be a struggle for people with conditions less clear cut than, say, losing limbs.

I’m not saying they’re not worth having but again that there’s a big gap between someone being rich and a middle-class worker with decent active income.
Now all we need is a Markdown dialect supporting illumination.
Yes, but it's probably good enough to fool the average crypto investor.
I'd guess that just means that non-smart phones are cheap enough to manufacture that they can make more money selling them than they would by refusing to. Especially since a lot of people who buy a non-smart phone already have a smart phone as well. They're so cheap I can get a flip phone for less money than an iphone case.
answered that already https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34031846
Reputation is a real thing.

Hyundai left the U.S. market in part because a disastrous reputation made sales difficult.

When they returned, they knew they had to overcome their existing rep. They offered warranties that meant the consumer couldn't lose. Then they proved that their new offerings were industry best at reliability and maintainability. Even today they put their money where their mouth is beyond anything "Detroit" is willing to match. And they have flipped the field. Now it's competitors like GM that suffer rep problems.

Kitchenaid built an amazing rep. More recently they have moved to plastic parts. Their rep will reflect that.

For better or worse, Linux and Windows still feel the effects of decades of reputation.
Depends, but on platforms like on social media, we definitely need more transparency at how all the content is determined to end up on your front page.
300 years is too short, but you've got the right idea.

Let's do a little experiment.

In the left corner we have a nuclear plant and reprocessing facility. In the right corner we have a coal power plant. The reprocessing facility removes the commercially useful isotopes and sells them, removes the unused uranium and plutonium and sends it to the fuel plant and sends the rest to the landfill. The coal plant sends it's fly ash to the landfill.

Round 1 (one year's operation): We have waste from each powerplant, we build identical landfills. The coal plant fills it's landfill, the nuke plant only uses a small bit of it's.

Round 2: The coal plant uses another landfill, the nuke plant is fine on it's original one.

Round 10,000: The coal plant is on it's 10,000th landfill, the nuke plant has finally filled it's landfill.

Round 10,001: The coal plant needed yet another. The nuke plant, however, we can take out the first material as it's now down to ambient (no more radioactive than an average bit of earth) and no longer a hazard. Thus we still do not need another landfill, nor will we ever.
I wonder if this could be used to reveal text that is too small or out of focus.

Also the example seems to go through one letter at a time, once the pixels become larger it might be required to cycle through entire words.
Ah indeed, I can definitely see that interpretation. I agree it's ambiguous enough that we don't know. Thanks for the discussion!
"is 3x the rate of SF" -- citation needed. I live in Edinburgh and have been in SF and very much struggle to believe it.
Can you confirm it works? Is from 2017 and afaik content bought through apple store has DRM.
Weird, I am on iOS 16 on both my iphone and ipad and i still have the swipe animation for books. Apple doesn't really do much A/B testing so this really kinda surprises me.

Edit: Think I figured it out - looks like PDFs still have the page turn animation on iOS but epubs are using the new animation
The difference is that stock, at its core, represents a claim on a portion of the future profits of a business. The business is out there building widgets, supplying people with a service, extracting raw materials, whatever. Most coins are just hollow marketing gimmicks designed to move money around.

Basically all the DeFi ecosystem boils down to trading one coin for another coin, there is no productive work at the core generating value.
My story: my first real job after grad school was at Texas Instruments. It was a good job, and I enjoyed working there.

A fellow new hire and I were tasked with fixing a machine that ran in a clean room where semiconductor wafers were made. On weekends while the line was down, we would go in, crank up one section of the line and let waste wafers travel through the line where very rarely they might get stuck in a multi-lane machine that would etch the wafers with some sort of acid.

The machine had over two dozen asynchronous motors, actuators, pumps, sensors and so forth. All generating interrupts and I/O events that were sent to a computer that ran the whole line and controlled all the machines.

We couldn’t slow down the machine, it had to run at full speed. The program controlling the machine was thousands of lines of assembly language—everything was assembly language, including the homemade OS that ran the computer running the line. It took like an hour for us to bring up the line and two more hours to see the machine do something strange.

The computer running all this had no user interface other than a some front panel switches and some panel lights that would reveal 16 bits of it’s 128K of memory at a time. This was in the 1970s before Ethernet had been invented.

It felt a bit like those escape room events where you know there is a solution, but you don’t know if you will ever get out. Without my coworker cracking jokes about our plight, I’m not sure we would have ever triumphed over that stupid machine.
Windows 8 was genuinely the only one I felt was objectively a step backwards.

Even Vista had its goals in the right place (it was a broken mess, but it meant well).

Windows 8 had so many improvements to the core O/S (even Task Manager was a massive leap forward in 8!) that were just utterly undermined by that horrific metro UI. It must have been so frustrating to have worked there at that time then have some idiot force a touch screen interface on to it that didn’t make any sense.

Windows 10 resolved most of this, and Windows 11 fixed a lot of the fundamental issues with the security model that have plagued Windows for decades.
Building unsafe power plants holds back nuclear power. Any nuclear power advocate has to realize that every failed plant is a permanent scar on the industry that will never heal.
Yep, LineageOS+Termux is serving me very well, still it is a lot of manual steps and hacking varying by HW vendor and model.
also annoying how when you "sample" a book the title of the book is displayed over every single page. certainly makes me want to buy it just to get rid of that annoying view... the update just sucks.
By randomize, I assume you don't mean shuffle the characters, but replace it with an entirely different string?
I think McNamara's Fallacy is increasingly becoming standard management these days. It's a growing annoyance for me sadly.
British empire killed 165M Indians in 40 years: How colonialism inspired fascism
That's a good point! I wasn't looking too closely at what I actually meant to say.
I switched to iPhone this summer for that very reason, after maybe a decade on Android.

Coming from the Essential PH-1 which I’d grown tired of maintaining past it’s official support life and looking for something the same size or smaller, I settled on one of the few options on the market that offered both small size and performance: the iPhone 13 mini.

Barring a vastly inferior notification experience, it’s a stellar device. I suppose I wish for something that was both small and well-supported on Android. If the timing was different, I may have gone with the Zenfone, but then again seeing Google send texts as me to their numbers sat wrong with me, so I may have switched systems anyway.
Thanks for the backup. Haha. But such is life in a technocratic society and on a technocratic forum.
Self-hosted Drupal is an open source, community run project, that is free as in beer. A lot of headless CMS are SaaS products, it seems. Apples and oranges.

Is there a good resource listing/comparing the headless CMS options that are equally open and free as Drupal?
The same impulse (force times time), not the same energy.
First of all, very cool little tool. I always suspected you could do this but it's really neat to watch it go.

But now just in response to the title... does anybody ever use pixelation as a redaction technique?

I feel like I've only ever seen pixelation for censoring nudity or a brand name or face or something. Actual redaction of text truly meant to be kept secret, I've only ever seen as black bars.

Are there notable cases where people have genuinely tried to redact something secret using pixelation?
Deal reached for new non-Russian power source for Europe
This also seems like something a [convolutional] neural net should be able to learn pretty well and generating training data could be fully automated. Throw everything at it - different fonts, different sizes, bold, italic, different colors, different anti-aliasing methods, sub pixel offsets, pixelation sizes and offsets, JPEG noise, rotations, ... - and maybe also give it some language model to better reason about plausible letter combinations. I would love to see, how good this could be.
Beware the Do-Gooders
From the outside, the most painful part of UK politics to watch is this instinctual reaction of "well, that didn't work, so let's do anything else." It takes a lot of luck to do that and land on a good idea.

Again, from the outside, the UK looks like a country that has a lot to lose but it's acting quite desperate and it's hard to see why.

> What worries me is that, if tomorrow our country came to its senses and asked genuinely competent people to take the helm, it would already be far, far too late.

I agree with much of the post, but it's this kind of statement that worries me. I think there is a lot of room for incremental improvement in the UK, the dull work of growing in competence, but the appetite seems to be for sweeping measures.
Highly reliable and down at the same time? Don't you notice a contradiction there?
If we're talking about binaries for game titles, meh. Load time for the executable is utterly insignificant compared to the load time of a title's assets. Heck, shared libraries probably slow things down.

Typical games I have experience with were in the 5-20Mb range for executables, with tens of GB for assets. Most titles I looked at the performance of were terrible at scheduling I/O, often leaving 80% of their available disk bandwidth unused.
Coinbase and Gemini are regulated USA exchanges. Gemini had been fined for violating regulations. (Gemini Earn was a third-party fraudulent investment product, enabled by Gemini company.

FTX was a fly-by-night international exchange like Binance.

I don't understand FTX.us . It was US regulated? Did people lose money in FTX.us exchange?
Coltan Mining and Ethics
I agree with this. There are many reasons why Binance would say they'd buy FTX and there are just as many reasons for why they would back out of the deal. Binance reneging on the deal doesn't say anything about the state of their finances other than that they might not have been in a position to take on 32B in liabilities.
Related:

Don't use text pixelation to redact sensitive information - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30350626 - Feb 2022 (163 comments)
Yes, but i’m finding, increasingly, that while we have the means to accurately record data, even accounting for float point errors by reducing area of coverage, things are simply not reported or cared about. It took us a considerable amount of investigation in using an rtk system to actually set things up correctly to get it to actually work within it’s 1cm accuracy. This is stuff like contacting rtk service providers to find out what system they actually correct their coordinates to.
To me, the greatest innovation any provider could do is just specifying the coordinate system used

EDIT: in fact i am finding it shocking, it’s even invoking government regulation, the simple fact is, even using advanced systems from leading suppliers, vital facts are just not recorded because geographic coordinates system are so numerous and complex suppliers just offer defaults and do the real work in the background

Even here, i hope you don’t misunderstand a geographic system as we talk about all coordination systems, as opposed to geographic vs projected coordinate systems
Exactly!

Comic Sans for when I’m happy, Papyrus for when I’m in a mood. Easy peasy.
Also, please write down what could you have done differently for an even greater impact to the KPIs. Don't hold back, it's important for you to reflect on your past decisions and make sure that next time you don't miss out on any opportunity to improve the toilet maintenance process when you're faced with similar situations.
Nobody lost an election because they were inspired by Le Corbusier. But they should.
It seems to be less than Klarna makes in an hour, before expenses.
Awesome and is there anything particular you took to reduce weight ? Or was it a whole lifestyle change ?
Good terminals support images, so I’d hope this would, too.
The regulation itself is security theater.
If they were weak, crashing FTX risks crashing themselves.
Binance just unverified everyone yet again, it's safe to say they're trying to prevent people from pulling out.
They weren't essentially communists, that is taking the Tory press talking point. They were further left than any other recent popular politicians. Left in the form of worker rights, unionism that sort of thing, not communism.

Given how far we've gone into a low wage and poor rights economy I don't think a hard left leadership would have been that bad, especially as it would have been tempered by the rest anyway. However, I don't like Corbyn's extreme passivism.
> They spend $550b a quarter on R/D. That’s likely mostly salary.

What does b stand for again…
What happens if the perspectives don't match?
I've read about 98% of everything Heinlein published[1], and don't recognize that quote.

An archive.org search find a few examples, like this 1979 Harlequin short story https://archive.org/details/romanticshortsto00harl/page/30/m...

If Heinlein did use a phrase like it, I expect my searches would have found it.

It doesn't appear to be a common saying, so I'm curious how you acquired the association between it and Heinlein. It doesn't seems like a common misquote people end up spreading.

[1] I've only read "Tramp Royale" up to the point where they left the US, I haven't read the "stinkeroos", nor his posthumous novels, nor most of what Wikipedia lists under "Other short fiction", nor a couple more non-fiction publications.
I got dumber after reading the article.
Britain's been decaying since at least 1940. Basically everyone left alive here knows only failure. The idea of any success is as alien and revolutionary as suggesting we all convert to a new religion or give up private property. So any time things look like they might be succeeding, people, from voters to PMs self sabotage.

The press helps by giving people plausible deniability. Letting them pretend they didn't know. Politicians help by enacting terrible policies they know will fail just to stay in power for 6 more months. And other groups help by blaming each other (the hard left blames the centre left, right wing nationalists blame right wing free traders).

That's why people looked at the expert advice (that we would be prosperous and successful and might end up part of a world super power of we kept this EU business up) and immediately quit. That's why people were so willing to accept the bullshit and pretend it was real (like that we could leave the EU and stay in the EU).

Brexit is but a symptom of this, a big one but just one. It infects every aspect of our national identity. From the housing market to jobs to education.

Until things get a lot worse people won't be ready to try succeeding. So here we are, 5 years into a(nother) lost generation.
Hi, feedback is appreciated!

https://mindscape.pub is an open source, nested graph forum.

The owner of a post can "open" the post, so that it contains its own subgraph of posts.

The owner is then the moderator of that subgraph, able to modify its overall layout (including removal of posts).

When a user posts into someone else's subgraph, they can modify the layout (including post removal) only for their own posts.

Posts that are removed from a local subgraph remain in the global graph.

Posts can be linked to one another, as well as pasted into subgraphs.
What is funny or rude about *******? Is this supposed to be some 7-letter curse word or something? I don't get it.
Yeah, nuclear-thermal is low thrust because you don't have the rocket exhaust to cool your system. You have to deal with the waste heat and that severely limits your power to weight ratio. I think all low-thrust KSP engines are way, way above real world numbers (necessary as the game engine can't handle burns in time warp and players aren't going to be able to plot them without MechJeb type assistance anyway) but I'm not sure on the nuclear-thermal stuff.
I have Alt-LMB for moving, but that all falls to pot when I remote into another machine -- alt-lmb moves my rdp/vnc/browser, not the one in the screen I'm connected to.
Chris Siebenmann has been blogging about how cold affects his workstation.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/ColdLockupMach...
IIUC, only the De-De reaction generates neutrons. This is the process they use for generating He-3 (and a tiny bit of power). The video mentions that their plan is to separate the De-De reactors from the from the power-generating De-He3 reactors (which do not create neutrons). Therefore, their main power-generating reactor won't have to deal with damage from neutrons.
This is really cool! https://www.gaisler.com/index.php/products/processors/noel-v
Meta has been heavily criticized on the poor quality of the graphics in VR. In this context poor GPU utilisation is a Very Serious Issue.

Carmac has been working with GPUs at a low level for 25 years. He's going to make a GPU analogy . Frankly, based on organizational dynamics, GPUs map fairly well. Work distribution, caches, warp fronts (aka 'sprints'), instruction sets.
I agree, just think about how many people play Leonard Cohen songs (esp. Hallelujah) in religious/spiritual contexts and completely miss the heavy eroticism.

I checked out "Show me the place" which is incredibly erotic. Leonard asks to be shown "where the suffering began" (painful childbirth is the first punishment God mentions for Eve) and "where the word became a man" (i.e. where Jesus was conceived-Mary's womb) because "his head is bending low." The AI, just like a lot of people, can't get past that use of religious terminology to realize the sexual innuendo.

https://www.songtell.com/leonard-cohen/show-me-the-place
Might be an exception that proves the rule. Killing a major initiative might’ve been a boon for sibling initiatives m — no wonder those leads applaud an underling who usefully twisted the knife. Politics — is Amazon known for it?…
I've lived long enough to see "guerilla activists" fight for the oppresive state now.
The Far Future – Coming Soon: The Road to Superintelligence
Maybe so, but please don't fulminate on HN. We want curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it looks like your account has been using HN primarily for ideological battle, or is at least uncomfortably close to that line. Please don't do that! We ban accounts that do, regardless of what they're for or against, because it destroys the curious conversation I just mentioned. Past explanations of this point: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Yeah this is self inflicted. Mastodon is not a serious threat to Twitter, but blocking it makes it seem like it is. Is there an official explanation from Twitter?
I have several large yaupons growing on my place and I use the leaves from them.

There are quite a few outfits selling yaupon tea now and they are based all over the Gulf Coast. I haven't tried any commercial teas since reading about yaupons several years back. It looks like everyone and his dog who has ever tried to figure out what to do with all the yaupons on their property has chosen to market tea leaves. Some look like actual orchards but many advertise they sustainably or organically prepare the leaves. To me that means that as soon as they get an order they head outside to the thickest place and trim some branches and then go roast them and bag them up for shipping.

There are several outfits that distribute through grocery stores here in Texas. They sell blends of yaupon with other herbs. I'm not really an herbal tea person. I like a Earl Grey, a Chai, a green tea, etc but when you start throwing flowers in I brew some coffee. I understand that Earl Grey has bergamot but it isn't the main character get to do the tea leaves do the talking.

https://catspringtea.com/ NW of Houston in the heart of the yaupon thickets.

https://lostpinesyaupontea.com/ Hill Country yaupons

https://www.ritualyaupon.com/ Dallas company with canned teas.

https://www.texteacompany.com/ Piney Woods in East Texas. They look uncommitted to the task since they are surrounded by yaupon but claim to be out of stock. LOL

Those are all Texas yaupon tea companies. There are also others in the Carolinas, and other Gulf Coast states.

It does make a great tea which you can drink alone or with a sweetener like honey.
Isn't Rust designed around things like immutable variables, where you need to copy and copy and copy the same things over and over, and therefore expect to run it on something with infinite amounts of memory? It might be suitable for modern desktop computers which have hundreds or even thousands of kilobytes of memory available, but not a microcontroller with 2kB of RAM.
I think its just a return to normal service after a spectacular period in the 90s and early 2000s. Back then everything was close to perfect, economy, music, politics UK became the best at everything. Now its kinda back to how it was in post war era which is fine but not great.
and 100 light year away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOI_700
I agree. I think Fukushima due to the more open nature and recentness indicates it as well, but yeah Chernobyl proved it, but with less transparency and etc.

Two real world / terrible runs at a full melt down scenario and it just doesn't seem to happen.
HN automatically hides your password when you input it into the comments, like mine is ******, to me it shows up as ******, but to you you see ******.