skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're no longer live in a world where someone who chooses to use the internet can assume the expecataion of privacy. But this is doesn't demonstrate the need to ban TikTok. Gathering data users are willing to give you isn't a crime by any definition. Users choose to create an account, supply personal infomation, scroll for hours, and even make videos. These are not security violations, the app has not sniffed packets on your wifi and decrypted private data or any used an exploit to mine data from your phone. Without technical motive for this ban, it seems nothing more than a political gesture.

It's important to make a distinction between a cybersecurity threat due to active exploits and attacks, and a privacy threat due to OSINT mining. I don't believe the second case, currently, justifies an outright ban. If the second also justifies a ban, then every single mainstream piece of software, from smart tv os, to social media, to phone apps, to laptop and desktop os, to entire governments, to even the DMV (for selling info) are should be banned.

In some of those cases, I'd argue they have already done worse than TikTok, the DMV currently sells personal infromation without your explicit consent to data brokers. The information the DMV sells access to includes, name, address, employment, voluneer organizations, and vehicle records to some of the same companies you metioned, LexisNexis and Experian. [1]

An interesting and alarming disclosure to me is WA DMV explicitly states "We provide data services for authorized recipients. For example: ... Research, such as an obesity study." You information can be used in a research study without your explicit consent. People are read open about sharing opinions on what they like publicly. I enjoy Harry Potter TikToks memes, I'm sure I've posted HP in my public Facebook likes back in the day, and I'm sure I've shared some book quotes on my twitter that's associated with my real identity. And now this post.

OSINT isn't just a part of the economy, it's also a part of the government. That's why this ban doesn't sit right with me.

https://www.dol.wa.gov/privacy/how-we-use-your-info.html
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A cool feature in recent ssh is SOCKS5 remote forwarding.

Doing something like this from host B:

ssh -N -R 1080 user@A

Will allow a browser running on A access network through a SOCKS5 proxy on B while setting the proxy as localhost:1080.
Wow, I deeply remember seeing these patterns in my relatively early computing days. I think it primarily was in Windows 3.x, back when graphics modes with 16 colors were still normal.

It definitely was not Floyd-Steinberg or anything else using error diffusion (which however I also remember seeing in those days, from some Windows applications' splash dialog for example), because there were these very characteristic stable patterns.

During countless hours staring at the dithered blue gradient of InstallShield, for example.
Context: https://futurism.com/the-byte/cnet-publishing-articles-by-ai
I don't think anyone fantasized about people seizing their lightbulbs. But given their finite life, it doesn't take long until you have to replace them.

Stoves last much longer, but if parts are not available it has the same effect over time.

I don't know why there are people here saying this would never happen. NY Gov Hochul literally just proposed legislation that will ban gas stoves in new construction. It will also eventually block putting it into existing buildings. If you can't see where this is going you have your eyes closed.
Is Microsoft about to get the deal of the century?
Neat. But these are paper models. Was hoping for 3d printable models as well.
The Thelio is quite nice
This reminds me of a similar scandal around Evergreen Solar in Massachusetts, though in that case, it was "only" tens of millions of dollars.

Rhode Island pissed $75M into the wind with Kurt Shilling to move his supposed "game studio" from Massachusetts.

NY getting fleeced out of a billion dollars (enough to buy an electric bicycle for one eighth of NYC's entire population) is truly spectacular. Just for the sake of comparison, that's half the entire state budget for health services.

But hey, what's another billion on top of tens of billions in handouts and zero-interest loans and subsidies and tax credits Musk has been given by US governments?

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-list-government-su...

https://www.grid.news/story/technology/2022/04/30/elon-musk-...

Funny enough, he's pissed he isn't getting more. https://futurism.com/elon-musk-starlink-grant-rejection-subs...
The Quest doesn't have the resolution, no. Common headsets for flight sims are the HP G2 Reverb and the Varjo Aero.

Serious simmers will usually havr a high end HOTAS and instrument panel set up too, which will reflect commonalities of real aircraft and be muscle memory.
I'm upset for such people too. Chinese smartphone manufacturers tend to say it.
What was alienating about it to you? We had our first when I was 21. I don't remember social alienation being one of the big issues (but that's just me) --- when you become a parent, your social circle changes and you tend get closer to other parents.
There’s no email in your profile :)
> I think it's an attempt to convey the level of effort involved

Exactly this.

Also it's a way to point out that I took no shortcuts. When you have a deadline with a client, you start dropping features out, and adding @todos to fix something sometime in the future. Since this is my own project, I took the decision to do it well, at the cost of needing extra time and effort (eg: adding hundreds of tests, making services injectable and reusable, etc). The payoff will come in the future as the codebase proves to be more sustainable, and I require drastically less effort to maintain it.
but how much does a normal tile roof cost? (no solar, no panels)

because the solar roof cost should not be compared to the cost of panels. Its not replacing panels it replacing the entire roof.
Might want to read the company's profile for more info: https://www.igalia.com/about/history

They are an open source software consultancy.

"Since 2010, Igalia has become the world’s leading web engines consultancy, and has been a top contributor to the WebKit and Chromium projects. Thanks to our excellent work, Igalia has since been accepted as a member of associations including the W3C, GENIVI, Automotive Grade Linux, the Khronos Group, and ECMA International."

But off the top of my head with their focus on embeddable IOT devices, that alone is a good business case. Having CSS/HTML available to render to OLEDs, eink displays, smart watches, etc, would be super nice.
ToS can't override statutory rights.

ToS are often made to be hard to understand.
This looks trivial now, but when you multiply the number of directories by 8 or so it becomes a very nasty mess very quickly.

I think that the idea of only running what changed makes a lot of sense, I just think that managing that in declarative yml falls apart VERY quickly once you hit an inkling of scale.
You're the only one who's brought up trans people so far.

Apparently in your mind "obsessed with pronouns and wanting to be celebrated" automatically means trans people. You realize that other people use pronouns right? And you don't have to be trans to narcissistically obsess over them and insist on being celebrated.

I hope you're able to overcome your clear transphobia some day.
It seems like the background measurements have a higher deviation from the truth. For example, it will ocassionaly read my oxygen level as <90% and that just seems really unlikely.

If I open the app and stay still for the full 15 seconds the reading seems much more accurate.
Not a big fan of democracy then I'll take it?
I don't think this has anything to do with what they can afford at all. More like someone in leadership thinks Node is cool and collected a bunch of unvalidated reasons to support it.
I'm both scared and peeking through my fingers at the thought of the evolution of vocal-tuning plugins like Melodyne. Currently you can basically draw the pitch of a vocal performance, however using AI you could re-render the wavefile and adjust more parameters than simply pitch - such as timbre, inflection, vibrato, dynamics, distortion, openness, softness, breathiness, or a bunch of other vocal attributes.
Which itself is based off the intro the film Contact: https://youtu.be/EWwhQB3TKXA
> People calling 1080p "2K" is a pet peeve of mine.

Can’t edit now, but clearly I meant to say 1440p in this sentence, not 1080p.
Everyone knows that general relativity is broken.

Plus cosmology has the problem that you can't really conduct reproducible experiments.
> The proof of human problems is actually addressable

I think it's fundamentally impossible and I have yet to see something that make me envision the possibility it could be possible.

The most important part of democratic vote is not the ballot box but the voting booth : the place where you have the guaranty that every citizen go only once per vote, is alone and can decide by himself without any external pressure what to put in the ballot box.

Every electronic or remote systems is subject in a way or an other to the risk of vote buying or threat to force people to vote against their will.
For the same reason cheap “smart” TVs do
There's nothing new about this. It's from 2020.
It is less funny once you've been exposed to these people frequently. I assure you they are out there, and yes they have used computers to do thing in the past, yet they behave this way still. This is kind of the point of the article.
My favorite poorly understood phenomenon in basic physics is the Mpemba effect, where hot water can freeze faster than cold water under certain circumstances. It's just phase changes of water in a simple experiment you can do at home, and I think there's still no widely accepted explanation.
Yeah agreed. But it's also ok to other one over the other on the full balance. But that also doesn't mean that either preference is the one true way.
You seem to be moralizing them, eg "then perhaps they shouldn't exist," "maybe its time to change the business model", etc. You said "then they need to be better at business" and when they changed their business model to be "better at business" by closing unprofitable stores, it's like you said, "no, not like that" as it sounds like you don't like how they took your advice. The fact is closing unprofitable branches is how many companies make money, they don't run a charity after all.
Interesting. I think the required computation is different for 2 different cases you have in your post.

Case 1: If you have = relationships (let's call the type of the relationship eq). Then what you need is to identify weak connectivity. If you want to do find the equivalence class of a single node, say with primary key "foo", you can do this with a Cypher query using Kleene star:

"MATCH (a)-[:eq*]->(b) WHERE a.pk = "foo" RETURN DISTINCT b"

This finds the "weakly connected component" of node "foo". If you want to find all equivalence classes, that's equivalent to finding all weakly connected components and you should probably call that algorithm from the algorithms library built over the GDBMS (e.g., https://tinyurl.com/mtx98c5s). You can do it in Cypher but it will be very slow.

Case 2: You have <= relationships, so relationships are not symmetric, so you want to find strong connectivity of nodes. I won't type it here but you could do this with a Cypher query for a single node but for all nodes again you can call the strongly connected components algorithm from the algorithms library of the GDBMS.

You can do some of these natively in Datalog, but if you implement it yourself in a native query language, but the computations is likely to be quite slow. So it might still be better to call a specialized algorithm that's implemented in a library above the DBMS you are using.

Hope this helps.
I'm not moving the goalpost, you are. You're not the only one with lived experience and having had a job and founded a couple of companies doesn't allow you to generalize to come to the conclusion that:

> Being at a startup is hard in a way that is almost indescribable to anyone who hasn’t experienced it.

Because this simply isn't true. The point is also not that my experience trumps yours - the point is that this isn't generalizable and you're not comparing apples to apples.

Being at a startup doesn't have to be hard, at any level. And you and Tracy are certainly ascribing difficulties that arise from having responsibilities that are at times beyond your own capabilities and being extremely emotionally invested in the success of the company to being at a startup.
They have mid-term goals at https://people.igalia.com/mrego/servo/igalia-servo-tsc-2022/... : "Web engine for some narrow use cases in small embedded devices (IoT)"

Given Igalia work on Webkit embedding, looks like they want to see if Servo could be a viable alternative in some contexts.
Only if you were already going to reroof your house.
I’m not even talking about just Tesla.
I know how to do that stuff, it just sucks more than having a monorepo with good tooling, in my opinion.
Untold story of Serhiy Korolyov – the Ukrainian who launched humanity into space
I am a CJK user, and I can definitely say 4K at 200% is much more better than standard 1080p.

Standard 1080p only looks good for English alphabets. Complex Chinese characters like `國` looks blurry(or even s**tty) on that resolution. Reading chinese charaters on a hidpi monitor is really a much better experience.
Godalmighty, Exxon Knew Everything
You absolutely can and people often do in VRchat.
Not GP but I would never use bare JS again for anything other than maybe like a 20 line script, for the same reasons as GP
They have a whole bunch of them too:

https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models/printable
No. This whole "aging is the result of loss of something" idea is outdated. The sooner we forget it, the better.

Aging is simply the continuation of the development process that starts with conception. It also has to be coordinated across the entire organism somehow so that all tissues and organs age at the same rate, like they do in reality. "There's something in the bloodstream that tells the organism how old it is so it could then act its age" the only plausible explanation for the results of heterochronic parabiosis and other related experiments.
It seems obvious that nuclear can not compete against natural gas when natural gas is priced cheaply and the pollution caused by fossil fuel is put on society rather than the operator. A combined grid of renewables and fossil fuels has been the primary strategy in most European countries and was working very well in keeping prices low until Russia invaded Ukraine.

The big problem is that energy prices are set based on the most expensive unit that needs to be turned on to meet demand. Renewables do not tend to be that during periods of low supply, as low supply of energy in the eu market generally means sub-optimal weather conditions for renewables. It is going to be either fossil fuels, nuclear, or battery. If we take out fossil fuels then that leaves battery or nuclear. Neither is very economical without subsidies. Governments (and tax paying citizens) are however very keen on grid stability and thus willing to spend a lot of money to keep it running.
A major, and accurate, point being made is that this can only work with and for people one is personally close enough with for there to be mutual trust. This implies the problem isn't that current elites are doing sensemaking wrong, but rather that at the scale of a society like this one, there exists no way to do sensemaking right.
ok, I gotta admit the binding art for this year is badass
And it's not just the Chinese scientists that are withholding data and research records. Western scientists that collaborated with the lab have also refused to share data/records. You'd think if their research was so vital and important sharing everything they have would be a priority. But not only do they refuse to share data, but the majority of outspoken virologists seem uninterested into looking into and studying all the data they have collected over the years.

It seems virologists value their careers over uncovering the truth. And if this dangerous research is so important, why would the virology community be so disinterested? To me that's proof enough to ban any research that enhances novel animal viruses.
What are your thoughts on EdgeDB?
I will not say why this plugin may be better as I'm naturally biased, but you can check the features from both plugins (mine under https://graphql-api.com/features/) and see how they compare.

I haven't tried, but I believe that you can actually install both plugins side by side (using WPGraphQL's single endpoint, and my plugin's Custom Endpoint under a different route), and using the same GraphQL queries to test them, check their speed, usability, security mechanisms, configuration, extensibility, and anything else that could be relevant for your project.
This seems incorrect as it’s just an imbalance of charge and isn’t a strange phenomena.

Can you provide a reference, please?
While I agree that simulation theory pushes the question up a level, that is not the case for the God of classical theism.
The plan in 2016 was for it to cost less than a normal roof + panels[0]. Then in 2019 they said that the new version will cost the same[1].

I guess they haven't managed to meet that price target otherwise they would have no shortage of orders.

[0] https://electrek.co/2016/11/17/tesla-solar-roof-cost-less-th...

[1] https://electrek.co/2019/06/12/tesla-solar-roof-v3-shingle-p...
So far, the Nevada Tesla Gigafactory stuff is still considered an enormously successful endeavor.

Probably the exception that proves the rule though.
But they are, in fact, not.
I think it's more likely a problem that the GP poorly worded their initial statement, rather than actually moving the goalposts. They were probably having trouble with a few thorny bugs, tried ChatGPT, got nowhere, and forgot to qualify their initial statement with "for the few non-trivial bugs I tried".

From the external point of view, the goalposts moved, but from within the GP's poorly expressed mental model, they haven't moved. But, that's just a guess.
I've experimented taking a rooted Quest 2 on flights before and have enjoyed it. 6DOF is a bit of a problem, but watching movies and non movement based games are great.
Does this show that current markets are working? Seems like the lowest cost energy storage solution are NG peakers, and it does seem like the US has a lot of gas energy production: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
Not at all. The article is saying, with a 'shortfall' of evidence, he thinks we should consider both possible sources, man made and from the wild.

That is perfectly reasonable to me.

We don't have enough information and it's pretty bad a lot of professional public spokespeople are saying we are sure. That's the narrative.

But, why does public opinion even factor in this argument? Like many people here I have closely followed a lot of the information published. I certainly feel I am much more informed about this than my friends. But, my opinion on the source does not count for shit if professional scientists say they don't know. This guy is a professional.
Not if the market provides incentives to curtail, which it does with negative pricing. If other energy sources can curtail enough at the same price, they’ll do it. Otherwise nuclear will. The costs you’re alluding to can’t be avoided, but they’ll be spread across the system.

This is all predicated on the market operator actually having the systems in place to signal the need for curtailment effectively, of course. That’s a whole different question.
I think you have that backwards. Wider screen formats allow for a proper size keyboard (and speakers) without having to have a massive palm rest and very tall screen.
This product has always been targeted on people who are building new houses or have to reroof a house.
> A panic that comes from a memory model violation (as one example) can change the value of anything in the memory space of the program ... This isn't a doom and gloom, sky-is-falling prognostication, it's literally what is defined by the spec and memory model of the language.

I do not think you are correct. Go has a class of unrecoverable panics for this specific reason. Go also runs deferred functions after a recoverable panic, so the notion that it's unsafe to handle it, or continue executiona after doesn't hold at all - it is literally a first-class feature of the language.

I have not seen an instance of a recoverable panic that is raised _after_ such a fatal operation. If you have an example of such, I would love to see it.
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This seems like the correct diagnosis to me. "Deeply held beliefs" are at play, at all levels and activities of the organisation, from coding practices, to hiring and marketing. The almost unstated, invisible beliefs destroy collaboration, since it is natural for them to come in conflict.

In a way, if we go deeper into why a religion works, and enables collaboration among large number of people, it is because it homogenizes "deeply held beliefs" through various shared literature and practices.

By extension, if an engineering team must work together in more cohesive ways, "the engineering religion" must be more explicit and there must be higher levels of bonding, more explicitly stated "deeply held values". It is difficult, since it requires excavating deeply held beliefs from individuals, finding common ground, or "installing" at a deeper level beliefs beneficial to collaboration.
Or they could have ported their Ruby to Crystal. That would have given the same benefits of Go when it comes to runtime, but with the benefit of only needing to do minor refactoring of the code instead of a full rewrite.
Sounds like you should work for a company that has only engineers and no PMs or middle managers. Maybe someone on HN can suggest a good one?
> The reason is that bugs exist primarily in new code, not code that has been untouched for a long time.

Think of WireGuard vs. OpenVPN. Sometimes when a lot of cruft and old habits have built up, there are significant advantages to starting fresh, with better ideas from the get go.
Two companies pay each other absurd amounts of money for their (nearly) zero marginal cost services, netting no money transferred, but loads of recurring revenue for each.

Your #2 hint at this, but paying more than lifetime value of a customer to acquire the customer.
Speaking as someone whose survival to $CURRENT_AGE was once so poor a bet that a couple of life insurance underwriters you've heard of refused to take it at any price, I feel okay about saying that, if life were otherwise reliably safe, your argument here would weigh more than it does.
Google3 is no joke 1000x larger than Linux.
Interacting with hardware is on another level. I remember taking some introductory hardware level classes, and we began to simulate our circuits, just combinations of gates and what-not and you hit a weird signal pattern....

"Ohh, that's just a gate-glitch, we'll discuss that in later courses!"

The way that physics interacts with hardware is incredible, and the dance that we all do back and forth between hardware and software really strikes me as magical. I love it.
We know very well how carbon dioxide interacts with infrared radiation (easily tested with an IR spectrometer), and we know human activity releases enormous quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which does not magically disappear.

Precise predictions are hard, but the general direction of travel cannot be seriously disputed without arguing against the above simple facts.
I remember listening to joe rogan when he interviewed neil degrasse tyson and he had some fascinating insights into the behavior of water with relation to pressure and temperature.

I can imagine ice on an iceskate wanting to be solid, but because that takes up too much space it becomes a liquid instead.