skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you please respect the site guidelines so we don't have to keep banning you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Technically correct, but misses the point :)
People are different but loneliness doesn't tend to make you productive on the long run.
7800x has an integrated GPU. If you are just coding, don't gaming or ML it's more than sufficient for day to day workstation use.
Why We’re Dropping the Micro to Become Acquire.com
> Ruby has first-class procs.

Procs are functions (at least, they are functionally equivalent to Python functions—as pure OO languages, in both Ruby and Python first-class callable entities are richer than classic functions, even when counting closures as a kind functions and not a separate thing that includes a function, because they can carry metadata besides the environment of a closure.)

> It's in the Wikipedia page.

The Wikipedia page is wrong in that conclusion.

> The identifier of a regular "function" in Ruby (which is really a method) cannot be used as a value or passed

A method is a very different thing than a function. But, on a deeper level, I think it is also a mistake to call the thing it is referring the identifier for the method, its just syntax sugar for a symbol passed to a #send call, which, if send isn't overwritten on the sender (which it probably shouldn’t be, overriding send is a good way to cause chaos) will result in the method being called, unless some other method has priority.

> The syntax for calling such a function object differs from calling regular methods

The syntax is different only inna waybthat reflects thebdifferent behavior. Calling #call on a Proc or Method object (again, assuming a sane world where the object’s send method isn’t overidden) does dynamic method lookup on the :call name in the Method or Proc, and its syntax is exactly normal method-call syntax for that behavior (unless you use the shortcut syntax of “.()” for “.call()”, but that's just syntax sugar).

Using normal method call syntax does dynamic lookup on the method name provided in the call on the receiver object identified in the call.

That is, Ruby methods are first class, but what it is a convenient shortcut to think of as “method call syntax” in Ruby is not really method call syntax, it is syntax for a message send that will (by overridable default) result in calling a method with that name if it exists in the ancestor chain of classes for the object, so it is inaccurate to view the “method call” syntax excluding any parameters as “the identifier for the method”.
>- re: waze - huh? Google Maps is just fine. The differences are such a personal preference that they are moot.

Waze tells you where cameras and cops are, Google Maps usually does not.

>- The touch controls on Carplay are not great. Try pinching and zooming on Google Maps in Carplay and its awful. (note - I do think Tesla misses the boat on having more physical controls as they almost rely entirely on touch...which is unsafe and not great)

I don't think I've ever needed to do this, it always automatically positions the map correctly.

>Looks awesome, but that appears to be on a €185k ICE car.

Pretty sure the pricing starts at €94,540. They also have an EV at around the same price, but it's an all-around worse car.
> I don't know how many "that's what was said of Airpods" are needed for this argument to die

Apple has always been the exception that proves the rule in the types of cases. Very, very few companies are able to create demand rather than merely satisfying it.

On top of that only experience with Airpods is as the current gen teenage reality blockers and older people screaming through static about how they must have run theirs through the wash.
previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34256210
Argumentum ad Pythonis! Clearly, the only way to resolve this is with a deep dive into type theory and the demarcation problem. In lieu of that, I'm happy to cede the last word to the wags in the cheeseshop.
Are you building your own rockets? Building a rocket to give you enough delta-v to get into low Kerbin orbit, or even to Mun, isn't terribly hard, just throw more boosters and more struts, go up for a bit about 80 degrees to the east, about 20k high start burning pretty much due east.

Remember you pretty much have to go up and sideways to get into orbit.
The company mentioned in the article (U-Blox) makes said GPS modules, however there are many chinese clones of these. Some rebranded, some passed off as legit ones. They'll mostly meet the spec and sometimes lack a rarely used feature that the original does have.

The same happens with microcontrollers. Take the STM32F103 from ST Micro, before the chip shortages this was a chip you could find in in heaps of random low cost electronics that required a bit of smarts. Same thing happens there, there are some chinese clones that are cheaper and almost perfect copies. The "legit" sellers will sell these as GD32F103 or CH32F103 for instance, but if you try to buy a genuine part from a less trusty source there's a decent chance you're paying the higher prices for the same chip, just someone laser marked it as a genuine one instead to make some profit.
Is it just market share? What do they do with your data?
Please don't respond to a provocation by posting in the flamewar style. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

I'm sure your long experience with IRC would be quite interesting to HN readers but for that you need to share information, not get into spats.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
FOSDEM should be in about a month so I'll let you know. Although I kind of hope the coof eliminates a quarter to half the crowd so you can move and get in to see some stuff.
Point the navball about 45° east a little bit after lift-off (and then straight east after you leave the atmosphere) and use a lot more boosters and you'll get into orbit easy
Looks like they discovered that nobody pays for subscriptions.
> A driver brings a truck to a charge location, grabs a truck that's been charging. Easy peasy.

Tell us you have no idea how much a garbage truck costs without telling us.

Must be nice to have a few million dollars in "spare" trucks lying around. Garbage trucks can run up to $400,000 EACH.

This is how you propose to waste taxpayer money, by replacing perfectly working trucks with EV's where you need to buy "spare" ones as well?
You’re not an idiot, the game requires you to understand some rocketry and orbital mechanics concepts which has a learning curve —- the concepts are not difficult but if you don’t understand them you the game can be rough.

Thankfully there are plenty of YouTube tutorials that kind of summarize the basics.
> There are 200+ jurisdictions in the phone network and everybody has their own conventions on what a "premium" number is.

They know how to charge you for these numbers so apparently they do have that data, no?
I could see these for some niche markets similar to Segway.
Personally, when I want to walk faster I jog.
If she did she’ll likely be NDA’d up to her neck to prevent her ever admitting it publicly.
As long as both feet aren't in the air at the same time it's walking.
from the site that lists brave browser, firefox, netsurf, all as spyware

also lists VLC as potential spyware

also lists the entire HTTProtocol as potential spyware
Yep, I remember getting pinged by a coworker asking why is our Twilio bill so high all of sudden. It turns out to be Toll Fraud through 2FA messages. Malicious actors sign up new accounts and setup 2FA number and just keep requesting 2FA through SMS to profit.
> At the time, the belief among most policy people was that China’s economic growth would lead to democracy. Obviously, that didn’t happen

A late point to this discussion. Democracy is the wrong bar. Increased liberalism is the measurement, and the vast economic expansion was made possible by the same exact (slowly expanding) liberalism that was going on in China in the post Mao era. China was legitimately on a liberalization path, quite clearly, prior to Xi.

People very commonly get all of this confused. The thing - the cultural decisions - that made the economic opening possible, is the liberalization (letting people be more free in numerous ways, simply put). It wasn't the economic expansion that might lead to democracy, it was the same thing that was causing the economic expansion, that made that vast expansion possible. That expansion would not have been nearly so powerful if Xi had had the same control, he would have (by necessity of his survival) smothered much of it just as he's doing now.

And now Xi can't turn back, they (the remaining old power in the system) will kill him at this point. Xi would be executed for "corruption." So he'll have to keep going forward in terms of more rigid authoritarianism to protect himself, and it's obvious what that's going to cause.
All the stats I've seen are that self-driving cars have had vastly more deaths per mile driven than human-driven cars average.

The US has about 1.3 deaths per 100 million miles driven. None of the self-driving car models have driven even close to 100 million miles. Waymo is supposedly the closest with about 20 million. If they were as safe as humans, we should have seen 0-1 deaths, but there have been multiple.
But piracy is cause to lose one’s clearance.

(Unfortunately, since the vast majority of them do so, they just treat it like extortion to remind them of that as they melt down at all the evil running roughshod over their previously peaceful lives because those who could have aided them got tired of being called communists and replied “eff you, pay me”.)
Svelte Diagramming Tool Svelvet 5.0 Launch
We updated Svelvet, a node based diagramming software to version 5.0!

Some highlights:
-Programmatic QoL features such as runtime editing, initializing a zoom and location
-Ability to save and upload diagrams
-Interactive drag from anchor node creation and linking
-Minimap with click to traverse
-Delete buttons either by specific nodes or for all

Check out our medium article here: https://medium.com/@efergus1/svelvet-5-0-a-community-driven-...
Check out our website: Svelvet.io
Great, your Tesla has better infotainment than ... a Toyota.

> * Waze is way too "chatty" for my taste

You can adjust that.
Sam is going to jail maybe for the rest of his life, that is a 'consequence'.

Elon is facing a $25B write-down of Twitter the moment, that's also a 'consequence'.

They are definitely playing 2D++ chess, and a bit of cheating, making us think they are playing 3D sometimes, but they are not stupid. Most of their glib stuff is calculated and it works to great effect.

Musk will probably pull through and still be one of the richest dudes ever with Tesla and Space X still floating, even if the rest burns, that's still way ahead.
National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) | Software, MachineLearning, Computer Vision, Simulation, IT | Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Full Time | ONSITE, Hybrid | H1-B VISA

Featured Openings:
DevOps Engineer (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/devops-engineer.html)

Robotics Engineer - Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/robotics-engineer-aav.ht...)

FPGA Hardware Engineer (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/hardware-engineer.html)

Research Programmer (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/cmra-research-programmer...)

User Interface Software Engineer (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/software-engineer.html)

Senior Robotics Engineer - Computer Vision (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/senior-robotics-engineer...)

Explore All Current Openings: https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/index.html

NREC, a robotics research and development powerhouse, is looking for experienced developers, especially in embedded systems, robotics, perception, deep learning, data science, and AI. For more than 25 years NREC has brought together a critical mass of software and hardware engineers to take technology from the laboratory to the real world. NREC maintains a diverse portfolio of projects, from Augmented Reality driver assistance to full off-road autonomy and from advanced teleoperation to full autonomous manipulation. We are part of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, focused on commercialization of robotic technologies, and employ over 160 people in our off-campus facility.

Questions about NREC? Interested in a position? Contact one of our recruiters Nuvia Nishad (nnishad@nrec.ri.cmu.edu) or Christine DeCarolis (cdecarolis@nrec.ri.cmu.edu) and please mention Hacker News.
> It's possible that some operations, particularly those that involve memory- or disk-intensive access, may actually be slower with the DX2/66 than with the DX/33.

Some things never change. The mechanical translation of "not faster than" to "slower than" is ever prevalent.
"You'd need a fairly drastic shift in the memory architecture of CPU". You mean like selling laptops (at 400GB/sec) and desktops (at 800GB/sec) with much improved memory systems.

I don't want to give up SO-DIMMs for a few mm thinner laptop, but going from the intel/amd standard 70GB/sec to 400GB/sec is a pretty big incentive.
But who and why? A company in china can legally buy them, ignore american regulations, since well.. they're not from america, and export them at a higher price to russia. Russians can even open a company in russia that deals with importing foreign components and then exporting them to russia. Most of the world doesn't care about american regulation and why should they?
Per that own history, the first version "Lisp 1" was written as a project in a single University semester. Compared to the many committee years of, for instance, ALGOL, that is "basically overnight" by comparison.
Solving this is squarely Twilio's business!

They know how much to bill the customer, so they must know how much it costs to send to a number.
The only people who are pure of heart live in a tribe that has never interacted with outsiders. Everyone else is tainted.
Users flagged your sibling comment, no doubt because it was unsubstantive and arguably flamebait. That's against several of the site guidelines; this one, for example:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
He likely won’t be able to comment without breaching an NDA — my recollection is that the guy who voiced the original SIRI got in all sorts of trouble for trying to capitalise on it.
I don't know you or where you are coming from, but it seems like you want people to take personal responsibility.

That's fine. People do need to take personal responsibility.

The answer can be more than that.

When I was younger, I wondered how any smart person could ever be obese. It did not make sense to me how someone could not figure out how to solve this problem. It did not seem at all complicated to me. Through my 20s and mid 30s, I was able to maintain a healthy weight, but increasing over time.

There are two different problems here that get lumped together: Why do people gain weight, and Why is it so hard for people to lose weight even after it's obvious that they should.

Maybe you want the world to be simple. That's fine. That's normal. It's hard to understand a complicated world.

Everyone understands that their own life is complicated, their own job is complicated, their own problems are complicated. Maybe other people also have complicated problems. Maybe.
Cannot recommend this game enough if you haven't played it before. It gave me an intuitive understanding of orbital mechanics. Few things more satisfying than nailing an orbital insertion by the seat of your pants.
It's not entirely the executives' fault. The ambiguities in civil rights law mean that often one has to employ a more politically radical HR department to shield against lawsuits.
The main thing that separates speed walking ("race walking") from running is that you must always have a point of contact with the ground.

That said, I've seen some articles of high speed video taken of pro race walkers and basically all of them have tiny moments where both feet are off the ground. Just not egregious enough for a referee to detect.

In general, seems like a really contrived sport, but to each his own...
laziness is a virtue.
Most likely a small country, population-wise. That’s where you expect the statistical outliers.

Looking at some currently rich small countries, I think Monaco wasn’t independent yet, but the Papal States were. They had been occupied by French troops recently, but I think they’re a strong candidate because of the money flowing into it from Catholic Churches around the world.

However, it’s quite possible that another small country elsewhere beats it. I wouldn’t know much about the kingdom of Hawaii, for example, or of Singapore (which was somewhat independent. It became a British colony in 1824), and there probably where small countries I didn’t think of (Italy was quite divided, for example)
On your resume you'd list the NDA period as employment by the other company in technical terms.
I second this. My field (applied math) isn't super-dependent on having a grant, and writing a proposal once every couple years isn't a chore, and it's a good exercise to put your plans on paper in a coherent way and try to trouble-shoot obvious problems. And I can always opt out if I don't feel like it -- I just have to pay my own way to conferences (no big deal), not have a summer salary (fortunately no big deal for me), and my grad students have to do more teaching and take longer to finish. The travel and student funding, honestly, are the main reasons I bother anymore.

OTOH, life scientists I have talked to or worked with (both in basic & medical research) seem to be writing proposals all the time, and that just seems really unpleasant in all sorts of ways, on top of problems that have been discussed here ad nauseum.
Nice to see numbers put to this. I remember thinking through a bunch of tech/science that I was familiar with, and realizing that most (not all) of the fundamentals in every case were known by the early 60's, and we've been working out the (very important) details ever since. Nuclear, electronics, chemistry, biology, etc.

plenty of counter-examples, I'm sure, but like once you know the structure of DNA and it's fundamental operations, the remaining discoveries will have a smaller impact.
When I was working in this space, all of my providers gave me a pricing feed which was essentially phone number prefix, price (and some text that my system didn't care about, I don't need a name, just a price, thanks). It looks like twilio doesn't offer that publicly for SMS, but you can see their voice price list by clicking "download voice prices (.csv)" on their voice pricing page [1]. The SMS page has a similar feed, but it only gives you price by carrier name, which isn't very helpful --- you'd need to pay to do a carrier lookup before you could use the price list; these lists don't feel complete either anyway, but it's an idea.

[1] https://www.twilio.com/voice/pricing/us
What We Do in the /etc/shadow – Cryptography with Passwords
How would they perform walking over unpaved gravel? It's difficult to imagine it going smoothly.

Day by day, the future of humanity is converging more and more to Wall-E:

https://www.thelist.com/img/gallery/things-only-adults-notic...
ok.

Then 8GB sram with a modern CPU, Zen4 for instance, is a die of ~ 9 top-of-the-line GPUs dies.

And now, with 3D? ... mmmmmh...

What is the size of the apple M2 die already?
There's also the media encoder hardware accelerator, which isn't quite `gemm`, but certainly contains hardware that performs `mm`s.
Make fists with your toes
That's all a bit beside the point. VSCode is written in TypeScript, and there's no easy way to compile TypeScript to Wasm as it is designed to rely on a full JavaScript runtime.
The more free games you have, the less time you have to spend on games you bought on Steam, slowly decoupling you from the Steam ecosystem.

Maybe this isn't a money play, but an attention economy play, in the short run?
CHIP-8 is another easy target for beginners. You're technically implementing an interpreter rather than writing an emulator, but 99% of the principles are the same.
> Mountaintop solar panels could produce the same amount of energy as urban installations, but with less surface coverage.

I suspect that the cost per unit area for solar installations on mountaintops might be a bit higher than for solar installations on urban rooftops, in farm fields, etc.
> Isn't the goal of a vaccine to induce a long term side effect?

No, long-term means something we can’t detect for a few years. You can detect vaccine effectiveness right away.

Especially in a pandemic when it’s easy to get challenged.
Has it launched? Where can I watch a stream? In their FAQ they say:

> The proof is in the data. We've been able to show that our streamers happily continue to stream on our platform and never look back.

But there is no list of streamers, or examples. AFAICT it's just a landing page?
It does make sense though, our home networks aren't safe these days when random apps on your phone and random websites on your web browser can just make requests to random hosts inside your network, possibly exploit your router and then snoop on traffic.
Cool idea but seems like the kind of product bound to have the same fate as Google glasses or Segway.
The key lesson you need to remember about orbit (in KSP or real life) is that orbit is sideways speed, not up distance or up speed. Going up, you will come back down. Go sideways fast enough, you'll come down but keep missing the planet below you, so you stay in space.

The most efficient way to do this would be to just go sideways really fast from the ground. Problem: there's a lot of air in the way. So the right thing to do (again, both in Kerbal and in real life) is to initially go just up, but as the air reduces, gradually switch to moving sideways instead.

Then once you're up there, you need to know the basics of manipulating orbits. Lesson number 1: you can increase the height of your orbit on the opposite side of the planet by increasing your speed in the direction you're currently going. So once you get your apoapsis (highest point) above 100km or so, you can turn off your engines, wait until you get there, then burn hard in the direction you're going and your periapsis (the lowest point of the orbit) will raise up like magic.

You'll be orbiting in no time.
I think it's technically walking as long as one foot is always on the ground.
Submission goes to run.app. Likely canonical URL of the article: https://acquire.com/blog/becoming-acquire-com/
Think of it less like “free games” and more like “buying market share”.
The key insight is that most of your fuel should be spent going sideways, not up. Getting to space is easy, staying there is what's (relatively) hard.

Even if you don't break out spreadsheets or game-specific calculators or whatever, you develop an intuition over time for what looks right as far as stage sizes, payload-to-fuel ratios, that kind of thing. I've done it all by eye & guesswork and have had successful out-and-back missions as far as Minmus and solar orbit (but my not taking it seriously enough and running some numbers ahead of time is probably why my attempts to reach the Mars-alike planet have just been big wastes of time—I just don't have the patience to figure out the ideal launch window and run the time ahead to then, to work out a proper budget for my fuel, and all that—plus those missions are easier with orbital rendezvous and I hate those, I can do them but they're such a pain in the ass)
I've never worked in a company where HR does flight and hotel bookings. Just how many people work in your company? Or are you using "HR" to refer broadly to everybody working in any type of administrative role?

In my (typical) company, HR sets travel policy but everything else about travel, down to approving expense reports, is outsourced to vendors or other departments.
> The physical realm seems largely picked clean,

Famous Last Words
I still refuse to support Epic no matter how many free games they try to entice with.