skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a Inigo Quilez link, I upvote! He's one of those incredible artist-engineer out there always pushing boundaries further and sharing his ideas and techniques publicly.

If you have some time today, watch a few of his videos on his youtube channel, it's incredible to see his creation process in action: https://www.youtube.com/@InigoQuilez

For example, "Painting a character with maths" is mind-blowing and packed with SO MUCH educative content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--5LwHRhjk
That's not the case for billions of people on Android or macOS and their respective app stores.
Depends on which part of the big ball you are located. If the nights are smaller for you, there isn't really a way to get good long sleep.
It's mostly semantics for this context. You purchase the right to use them for an unspecified time, not the game itself. Steam can revoke that access by shutting down your account or the service at any time. DRM will make sure that not even games you have installed will continue to run.
Why Russia Won’t Disintegrate Along Its Regional Borders
Gold mining and violence in the Amazon rainforest [video]
Yes, based on Juno’s observations it has become more likely that Jupiter’s core is also "fuzzy", having been slowly dissolving into the surrounding metallic hydrogen sea since the planet’s formation and may even have completely dissolved and mixed by now.
Sorry, I just saw this. It's kagi and I love it.
iPhones are behind on including ray tracing acceleration in their soc.
Give a child a cartoon in a language they don't understand and they'll do their best to figure out what's going on. Try that as an adult and you'll think it's a giant waste of time. A child can do that for the entirety of the day, an adult will feel completely exhausted after an hour, couple of hours tops.

I am confident that was the key difference amongst my pre-Internet generation. I had access to Cartoon Network, therefore I feel very comfortable with English. Some of my peers had access to German TV channels, therefore they speak German. Lucky ones had access to both.
Not to mention the video style itself, which appears to have been portalled in straight from the 90s.

In most examples the Imagen examples are actually closer to what I'd expect to see as well. Less detailed, yes, but a better and more pleasing result overall.

I expect these kinds of single chunk meshes are not that useful. Things will really get interesting when someone creates a model that can generate 3d objects from individual primitives.
I see Rust and Go as the best high-performance high-concurrency programming languages today, and choose between Rust and Go depending on the bottleneck (Rust – CPU / RAM, Go – I/O).
You have to take classes while you are immersed. You can't just be immersed.

Living in a place where the locals don't speak English you only have two options: 1) gesticulate and talk in English, 2) make loads of mistakes while trying to learn the language. I guess you chose option 1.
How would "charging for sideloading" work? If I publish an app on my website, I wouldn't have a contract with apple, right? Would they charge the user?
Linking is very easy if the format doesn't unnecessarily make it difficult. Which JSON does.
But then we need to take the ability of gatekeepers to forbid random things away. Why can’t I run docker on my iPad?
Here's mine:

fisher install PatrickF1/fzf.fish
fisher install urbainvaes/fzf-marks

# These two to get sdkman and nvm to work in fish, IIRC
fisher install reitzig/sdkman-for-fish@v1.4.0
fisher install jorgebucaran/nvm.fish
> In all scenarios, taxes decrease consumption.

Not always. For example, an increase in the tax on a popular but very low-priced subsistence food can increase its consumption by reducing the amount of higher-priced alternatives that consumers can afford.
Not sure that means much, arent those interview questions meant to be gamed by memorization?
Worth noting maybe that although iOS 15 came out only in 2021, support for iOS 15 goes back to the iPhone 6S from 2015. Not very many people actively using iPhones older than that today.
> the direct biosphere effects of exterminating disease carrying mosquitos are basically undetectable

I would say basically unreported

Near one third of the species of freshwater fishes extant in the whole planet face extinction currently.

Of those, all the freshwater species of megafishes (all species reaching 30Kg) reduced their population by 94% in the last 50 years. Some, like the Chinese Paddlefish (one of the biggest freshwater fishes known in the planet, 7m long) went extinct.

Rivers provide a 25% of the food that we humans, eat, and 200 millions of people rely directly on freshwater fishes as main source of proteins in the diet.

Before to start rolling this shitball of consequences downhill, we need to remind ourselves that the danger is not negligible, not at all, and that the outcome would be unpredictable and irreversible. There are "a million multiverses" in what such drastic and irresponsible actions could return and bite us hard in the gorge.
I'm not sure what I want. I'm not against sideloading, but I very much like how Apple forces the developers to comply to their rules*.

I don't want to download Instagram from Meta store where anything goes. (And yes, perhaps someone is going to tell me to simply not use Instagram. But I _want_ to use Instagram, I just want to do it on terms that Apple negotiates for me.)

*ofc I don't agree with 100% of their rules (especially the way they split revenue), but I'm mostly happy with them.
It only pencils out when you don't have to worry where your power is coming from at night or on a cloudy day.
Not everyone is American. The author is British: https://lithub.com/author/darmonrichter/, https://www.forbes.com/sites/annabel/2019/05/31/finding-beau...
So apple is actually guilty of false marketing?

So if apple accepts returns for their products for a reasonable amount of time, you don't really have a problem?

You definitely wouldn't buy a second iPhone either since now you understand what an iPhone is, when you didn't before?

What you're saying is your core problem with an iPhone is not structural, but semantic?
It's astounding to me we still have people who don't understand the role and power of media, including social media, in modern society.

They think it's all about memes & jokes, it's just for fun, it's not serious, it doesn't matter? Then you're a tool in Musk's hands.

You don't pay $44 billion for memes & jokes, genius. Think.
I agree (hence the whole topic) however in practice steam has full control. If steam servers shut down tomorrow and the client destroys itself most games will refuse to start.
i love it when innovations in a new application are carried over to older tools. zsh seems especially suitable for that. it soaks up good ideas like a sponge and finds a way to integrate them. on the other hand it does make zsh feel kind of overwhelming at times in terms of options available.

my favorite part besides autosuggestions is the way history works, not incremental but i can type out a search term, and then start searching up and down the history.

incremental search is always irritating me by showing me irrelevant stuff while i am still typing, which i find distracting because i have to process it while at the same time focusing on typing the search term right.

now if only i could also have multiple search terms...

(i also prefer the fish syntax, but that is more of a matter of taste and getting used to)
> Sideloading is like buying a car and upgrading it with NOS. Yeah it's wonderful. Your going to have a very powerful car. But the risks also increase. Most people don't need NOS in their car.

No, sideloading is freedom. Imagine that car manufacturer put a part in your car that only works if:
* watch ads or pay $ every month
* collects all your information
* has fake freedom to install only parts from their store that follow previous two points
* extorts authors of parts for 30%

all while smugly saying "take it or leave it".
I speak French and it's typically used in that context indeed.
Security features should be there to prevent a user from accidentally letting malicious things happen. Key word: accidentally. One does not accidentally enable apk installation from untrusted sources on Android. If you spend the time going deep into the settings of your phone, and dismiss two massive security warnings then I don't really have any sympathies and those users should have some more common sense. It's like wanting to close down a metro system because some people are incapable of reading the warning signs and jump down to the rails.

With these kinds of security problems you need to decide where the restrictiveness is best for society and I would very much argue that in the case of phone security it's on the side of sideloading.
As someone with a high signal lesion in the genu of the corpus callosum caused by childhood head injuries I think the brain split in two halfs is simply an impact "kill switch" for severe adult head injuries.

Ergo extreme impact trauma to the head results in the brain breaking the connections between the two hemispheres at the corpus callusom, resulting in immobolisation. However this could also be a temporary kill switch which immobolises the body until such time as the brain's neuroplasticity has restored the corpus callosum.

In such a condition the individual would likely be left for dead, be going hungry and quite likely thirsty which creates an increase in phagocytosis which in turn causes an increase in h2o2 and then catalase the enzyme from the liver breaks this down to water and oxygen, ergo the conditions to help the body live, if not in a slimmed down form (pun intended) still exists and lends credence to fasting.
Europe’s CERN takes first steps toward building giant particle accelerator
> That shockingly simplistic models and the barest of data don't actually have predictive power wouldn't surprise people in any other scientific discipline

This is dead wrong. It's a source of wonder in most scientific disciplines that heavily simplified models can have amazingly good predictive power.
The competition is back, with China this time.
That limit doesn't exist for phone payments.
My answers refer to ihatepython's original comment, and own software is understood there as "software I develop myself". I am not talking about own software in the sense of software you obtained from other people, which is what sideloading is about.
kitty’s completely borderless mode, hyperconfigurability, and general aesthetics (and GPU rendering but it matters little)
We have hundreds of thousands of people, including many dead people (or their supposed teams) suddenly deciding, within hours of each other, to sign up. We have had enough people explicitly say they'll never sign up ahead of time, and after their check showed up, they said they didn't sign up. And we had Elon Musk himself admit he's "subscribing" people objecting to the program.

I mean... how much more evidence do you want?

It's mass, MASS false endorsement. And that's highly ILLEGAL.
Sometimes im flabbergasted on how the most basic html knowledge is lost on newer generations.
Knowing how they work makes it easier to use them effectively. That does not imply knowing them well enough that you could implement one. In general understanding your tools better helps use them better.
It’s the biggest and most capable rocket yet and it flew higher and faster than the second most powerful (the N1) ever did. It’s progress. Success or failure of the test itself is secondary. We’re getting closer to the stars.
But you would need to somehow get in touch with said carrier. Granted, you could probably do that over WiFi but if my phone breaks when, say, I'm out camping I'm SoL.
ex-Twitter engineer here. +1 to this, having a bunch of bot followers wouldn't get you verified. There are internal metrics that show what % of followers are likely bots and other metrics are taken into consideration.
Btw, how would one authenticate to the carrier? Concerned anything not perfect would make sim swapping a even bigger problem…
> https://www.osha.gov/etools/machine-guarding/presses/two-han...

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockout%E2%80%93tagout

Not sure what those links are supposed to show, but having safeguards and completely disallowing something is a different matter.

If all, you're just proving parent's point.
Navigating the Negative Curvature of Google Maps [pdf]
Interesting math paper from Yuliy Baryshnikov and
Robert Ghrist about the connection between hyperbolic geometry and the UX of Google Maps
https://xinf.dev/rand/cint and https://xinf.dev/rand/ufloat and https://xinf.dev/geox/ all always return zero for me
Historically, ideological purity spirals rarely end well
You need to do random access to the memory buffer, and random access to virtual memory is slower than random access to actual ram, by enough to make it slow.
> Engineering disagrees. Having safety interlocks on machines is seen as necessary and sensible to prevent accidental harm.

> safety interlocks

That's what sideloading switch is.
You can atomic swap BTC to XMR to obscure where the coins came from but you would have to then launder them to get fiat. I'm not sure how that's done, buying gift cards could be part of it. I think in many cases the coins are just funnelled to a jurisdiction that doesn't have KYC.
GPT-2?
As pointed out in other replies I don't think you're doing a good job to connect bank fraud to sideloading here, and therefore I don't really believe that they are so directly connected. But for the sake of discussion I can assume there's some truth to it. It is true that Apple's restricting freedoms could have some positive side effects, so I'm happy to go along with this gut feeling.

> I suspect that the EU will regret forcing Apple to enabling sideloading when the number of fraud cases go up.

Maybe some degree of that is worth it? The functioning of digital markets and preventing platform monopolies seems very intrinsically valuable for both ethical and economical reasons. Moreover, it's highly unlikely this will be in some cartoon situation with some massive explosion of fraud.

What if this is just a small price worth paying? Something we need to accept in our lives and help further focus education efforts? That seems like a more valuable discussion than most of the discussion going on in this thread.
The most useful razors and rules I’ve found
> I think, in an age where ChatGPT can point you in the correct direction in niche questions, that popularity of a tech stack becomes irrelevant to whether you can find answers or not.

It's the exact opposite. I really don't know how you got this conclusion.

The quality of the answers from ChatGPT/Copilot/whatever highly depends on how many learning materials in the training set. In other words, popuplarity matters more than any time ever.

If you don't believe me, ask ChatGPT to write a Blender addon, then ask it to do something similar but for Houdini. The difference is day and night. By the way, Houdini is basically used for every single VFX studio. Even that doesn't reach the "large enough userbase" needed for ChatGPT to generate quality answers.
I do recognise it; large iPhones and Apple Watches are still about twice the price of the competitor. And people with Android phones are considered poor here.
>Not long ago I was living proof that you could live in Mexico for 5 years, be fluent in reading/writing Spanish, yet be unable to understand native speakers.

Same here. I've spent years in school learning Spanish, a semester in Spain, a decade of passive learning with audio books and reading novels, and dozens of trips to Latin America.

I can read an adult novel in Spanish fine. I can speak well enough to accomplish any basic task. I can understand the news and very slow Spanish e.g. the link above.

But no matter how much I practice, my brain will not process regularly spoken Spanish well enough to understand it with more than 25% accuracy.

I used to think I needed more immersion. Maybe, but not likely as I don't think it's possible as an adult to teach my brain the "rhythm" of Spanish language.

I also lived in Germany for a year. And with no prior German lang. experience, I was able to understand spoken German after that year better than I can Spanish after 20 years of learning. The German language seems to flow in my brain the same as English, but Spanish is just on a different frequency.
That's survivorship bias. The ones that didn't collapse are still there. You don't know about the ones that did collapse because they aren't there to see.
Love how we're equating sideloading to school shootings.
It's simpler than that. It's an <input type="range"> element with a 'change' event listener, which is the most obvious way to implement a volume slider. The 'change' event fires on mouseup.
The concurrency control is managed by the server that manages access.

All databases that are any different than these two points are just bad.
In the second part of the essay the writer mentions the statisticians fallacy.
"Adding more hyperparameters leads to overfitting."
This is not true with large neural networks anymore and is part of the magic.
Good point. On the other hand, for every business that sticks to a less advanced model, there might be a competitor around the corner running the cutting-edge one in an attempt to serve customers better.
Mine isn't stuck in one place all the time. When sleeping it has time to sink/move to the side where it doesn't bother me that much.
Eh, we use plenty of petroleum based fertilizer to grow animal feed, so it is still there.
This is what you get if you learn everything by just googling exactly what you need for the moment. Reading proper books and RFCs are underrated these days.
NASA gave SpaceX billions, at a time they were near bankrupt, and with no final working products, with the idea at some point in the future SpaceX will do something in return. Investors that fund a startup also give money expecting something in return in the future.

The difference between investor and customer is only one of scale. How much money and what timeframe for return. As that increases risk, accordingly.

When you pay for a house or an apartment that's not built yet, you're investing in construction, you're not a "customer". Of course you expect a house and/or an apartment in a few years. But you invested your money, and that house/apartment may not materialize.

So NASA was an investor. Today they're also a customer, but they're still an investor. Some of their money blew up two days ago.
> The app has a secure token only the app has

What kind of token? How does it obtain it?
Here is another great plugin that pairs nicely with the above.

https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab
The United States does not do anything other than what serves it's own interests. If those interests align with what is moral it's just convenient and an easy way for the US to get other to go along with what they are doing.
Ha! Sideloading!
Yeah, but if you speak to Cubans they really think it become Miami overnight if they get rid of the Communist Party.

Whereas the reality is probably much closer to Haiti.

It'd be best if there were a steady transition of ending the blockade, allowing markets in non-natural monopoly industries and services (in practice this largely exists already), multi-party democracy without persecution. Cuba has pretty great education in comparison to similar nations and a relatively large population, so I think there's a lot of opportunities.

I can understand why they're so defensive though, the USA has openly admitted to dozens of assassination attempts on the Castro family, etc. - literally no different from Russia poisoning Yushchenko.
There is no requirement to have the file fit in RAM to mmap it, that's the point.

Obviously you'd have a file per column (or index), and use directories to represent tables.

This is the correct way of doing it and yet so few databases do it.
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” attributed to Henry Ford.

While listening to feedback is not a bad thing, design by focus group rarely works out well. You risk ending up with things like this https://i.imgur.com/IoPkza2.png! While this is obviously a joke, it does contain grains of truth.

The other problem with this argument is how the question is framed? Are the majority of users armed with all the facts and details? While I'd agree many are overstating the issues, there are equally as many dismissing any issues out of hand. IMHO, it behooves any one suggesting what "the majority" want to at least do a thought experiment around the pro's and con's and be honest about what they are. We cannot have this here, sadly. This should extend to any government that are enforcing something like this to transparently lay out the pros and cons and maybe accept some of the liability. That though, is asking too much of politicians...
Because the situation for trans people in the US is horrific and only getting worse and worse each week. Last example in date: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

If I were trans in the US I’d honestly just flee the country before the next elections, and start over somewhere else.
The USSR held back a huge part of the world. The Baltics, the whole of Eastern Europe, East Germany, all suffered immensely under their influence, and are still feeling the consequences.

The USSR created ruthless regimes all over the world, some of which are still standing: Cuba, North Korea. Even after the partial collapse of that Empire, Russia degraded to openly being a terrorist state, sending Wagnerites all over the world, attacking its neighbours, destroying marvels of technology like An-225, bringing nuclear power plants to jeopardy.

From the perspective of this Eastern European, the collapse of the USSR was a huge improvement for the world. I can only hope the collapse continues.

I'm not a fan of the world being lead by the US, I'd prefer it very much if the EU could take that role, but even so, the US-lead world is infinitely better than the one where the USSR has any influence.
While this is true, I'd like to point out that the switch to the currently prevailing flavor of OOP also didn't really fit that description all that much. Note that by now, other advancements like assembly vs. raw machine code would be pretty much a no-brainer.

The 90s-flavor OOP we're stuck with in many places is objectively bad for performance (see e.g. Mike Acton's takes on what he calls "Data-Oriented Design") as well as readability/understandability (where I'd say languages with a culture around more FP concepts and immutability have a way better track record) and concurrency (see Erlang/Elixir).

And, as always, you can simulate the useful properties of other paradigms, but that only goes so far. I think what the original quote laments is that the median software developer is leaning way more on "we've always done it this way" as a way of guidance instead of better ideas replacing the old ones.

Edit: Also: I totally agree with you about Rust, but I can't help but notice that Rust mainly stops you from doing dumb things (no inheritance, borrow checker…), which effectively dials back many of the… more unfortunate concepts/idioms of 90s OOP.
The full screen feature works fine on websites for me? Well mostly fine, it's rubbish for games in particular due to a user hostile feature that forbids rapid screen taps, insisting that you might be using an on screen keyboard and denying you the autonomy to tell Safari to please not. But ignoring that, the feature seems to exist. What am I missing?
> I wouldn't be surprised if Google pushes its own iOS marketplace: first by making an exclusive Blink-based Chrome to get people to open up their phones if they want to download "the real Chrome".

Who even cares about Chrome on iOS?

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/north...