skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a commercial extension: "Given C# Dev Kit builds on the same foundations as Visual Studio for some of its functionality, it uses the same license model as Visual Studio."

You have to sign in with a Microsoft account to use the new C# Dev Kit extension in VS Code.
If I hadn’t seen this post about UFOs and clicked on the comments I wouldn’t have read about this anniversary at all.
I think the AMD x3D line of chips is a great indicator of why intel hasn’t failed, and one of the ways that intel could move forward without directly moving in line with competition in the “nm space”. How has intel stayed roughly competitive in gaming despite having a worse process? Why is the x3D processors so much better than their competition?

Simply put, there is more to a processor than its IPC and process. Making chips that are better at niche tasks (especially business tasks as intel still has a large market, and laptops in the very low power and low cost space) is enough to keep them going healthily
If you're unable to hire quality talent, that's either because you can't afford the market rate or because you are incompetent. I don't know why you would want to advertise this.
It's unfortunate that coevolution like this usually lands in a very suboptimal start. If we tore it all down and started from what we knew we'd have much better things. Occasionally stuff like that happens, but it's really hard to fight against the momentum of decades of shit
Well, the top story right now is a major dam in a war zone having been destroyed. Given that this story is coming out right now... literally right now?
> With federation, there is no longer an incentive to do so, because you don't have a moat

Domination is orthogonal to a technical federation feature. Once there is enough imbalance you defederate and that’s that. There’s nothing that inherently prevents gross imbalance from forming and the natural forces favoring centralization - such as funding one beefy instance - still apply.

> value proposition for an instance to turn off federation today?

Maybe not today, but it would be the same as any historical netsplit.

> What do you think would happen if Reddit only had 1/2 of the subreddits anyone used and if you could keep access to all the same communities on a competitor?

I think that puts them still in a fucking dominant position. And why automatically assume competitor vs cabal?

Anyway good luck with your project.

I’ve been using the internet since IRC and Usenet - both federated in their own way - both completely marginal.
I don't think it was. Could be a great piece of fiction based on COVID lockdowns though.
Traditional programming vs machine learning shows the limitations of first principles thinking.

You can write huge programs with byzantine nested chains of logic. But you can't write an OCR with a bunch of ifs.
The most popular stable diffusion UI uses gradio, which is the same paradigm of defining a web frontend in the backend, and the performance just falls apart after the code reaches a certain size. The need for most interactivity to roundtrip to the server and back opens up tons of places where a bad connection could leave the whole app in a half-broken state. And beyond that, it's just slow. So much so that mobile use on cellular is out of the question. Other SD user interfaces handle parameter adjustment in the frontend, but something as simple as swapping two integer inputs requires an seconds-long API call unless you bypass the whole framework with custom JavaScript.

Then there's the fact that your backend framework has to define the subset of all frontend features it supports in Python. The moment you hit on a usecase that isn't supported in Python, you have to learn JS anyway and write code in the frontend. Except it's the worst kind of frontend code: hacks around broken or missing frontend features that depend on implementation details specific to the framework that are subject to change at any time.

I feel that these kinds of frameworks are better suited towards researchers or backend devs who really do not want to have to set up an NPM project just to have a simple (and I really mean simple) frontend UI to interact with. But don't dare try to write the next gigantic ML app on top of it or you'll have to deal with the performance and maintenance issues that follow.
Yes. This is like water -- keep it moving, find fresh streams.
As a user... Tell me why I shouldn't just run games directly on Windows, the native platform?

If you’re fine with using Windows then knock yourself out! I just came from another thread where people were complaining bitterly about the nonsense and dark patterns Microsoft is pumping into Windows to monetize users to the hilt. Frankly, I’d rather just avoid all of that!
pretty sure the issue is more processed food containing sugar and salt, and gm produce stripping goodness out. check out The Dorito Effect. US FDA are the worst.

more consumption hungry for nutrients you arent getting is more money for producers. now getting you to buy drugs to combat over consumption is just more economic slavery they benefit from.

when you hit 50 your metabolism slows. I was a stick now I get fat if i eat more than 1 meal a day. but I dont have the energy to burn calories like I did.
dont you people use ublock origin? browsing internet without it feels like having unprotected sex
But he’s got nothing but unnamed sources. The list of previously credible but now crazy people is long. The list of incontrovertible evidence of his claims is nonexistent. I want to believe just as much as anyone, but this feels like a nothing burger.
I think you’re looking at it the wrong way. If you’re happy using Windows there’s no reason to stop using it. But a computer is capable of many more things than playing games and many of us prefer doing those things on macOS. This allows us to have the best of both worlds. If you don’t want it you’re under no obligation to take it.
> There are a great many people who chose to see crypto as an existential threat to the earth because proof of work requires energy and energy is derived from fossil fuels and therefore any expansion of its use exacerbates climate change. (...)

Don't miss: and energy costs grow much faster than linear with that expansion, and the incentives are all wrong - with traditional financial systems, energy expenditure is waste, upkeep, something you need to pay but want to minimize; with PoW, it's value generation and something everyone wants to maximize.

Long-term, fossil fuels don't even matter here. Even with 100% clean energy derived from a Dyson sphere or something, it's still pure waste of energy, done for the sake of not having to ever trust each other. What crypto people missed is that trust is a feature, not a bug.
Nvidia has had unified memory for more than 6 years. This chip is just a faster interconnect for it.
》measure gravitational effects and make deductions from that ("measure extremely accurately the influence of gravity on their system

Aha! So it might be able to detect other submarines, even if they use some stealth tech.
Does that pressure go much beyond every YT channel with a Patreon mentioning it in every video? I really don't mind that kind of thing compared to "relevant" ads and all the tracking involved in that industry.
sigh .... I don't know why I didn't think of that first ...
I mean less forcing yourself onto others & coming to talk to therapist instead of internalizing. So no probs there. Obesity is again something that depends on which country you pick for these surveys
Latest beta OS isn’t necessary. It works on macOS Ventura.
I’m not saying climate change is incorrect, but I will say that the “overwhelming consensus” has resulted in a lot of warped incentives and weird results. The climate is really hard to model and in a rush to blame it for the apocalypse we have reduced a lot of critical thinking.
“Sorry, grandma, I can’t video call with you. I’m a Linux user.”
Virtual-Reality Internet Relay Chat
With a recent resurgence in interest in extended reality, the above project aims to create virtual experience in a decentralized manner.
> The Minority Report movie probably set the industry back by a decade or two. Waving your hands around to control stuff seems logical but is quickly exhausting.

The bad idea had waves even before that: Remember the gorilla arm.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html
> why then were you lying the up to this point then?

So it'll take a lot to convince me that this is real. But let's say for an instant that it is.

And you're the government, and you need to handle "announcing" this to the people without freaking them out. I guess you set the scene, monitor for a while what people do (decades of denial), then when it seems like the people are doing alright/don't care about it much, start to say you'll actually look into it (couple years ago with official release of documents). Then monitor the reaction... again people don't really care. Kind of exciting for some people for a day or two but still go work in the morning, life goes on. Then you start to drop the other shoe.

I guess? I'm skeptic but if there was a world in which there are alien UAPs, where the govt knows, where the govt hides it, I can construe this scenario as a good reason why govts would have gone about it in this way.
I really struggle to understand how ads are still as big as they are. With the number of bots, adblockers, and straight up lies about the age of users, how are people not realizing that ads are not what they were when google/facebook were brand new.
I didn't actually watch the Disney part. I saw the dad "working" in what seemed like a kitchen? Can't remember. The shallow interaction with the kids, though, gave me cringes.

Then there is the juxtaposition of, "this let's you present as if there" with the, "of course you have to fly places to be with people, so when you do, zone out like a champ"

Of course, zoning out better not need you to interact much, as hearing on a plane is tough, and pinching your neighbor is not smiled upon.

I will mostly have to take your word for it that hover actions are not observable by the application. Will make games... More amusing than usual, with no memory of being looked at for characters.

And not showing any extra peripherals is a big part of "dreams work." Physical feedback is huge, and a big part of why controllers are needed. Even just the vibration of the standard PS5 controllers go a long way. For driving games, a haptic wheel is more immersive than the vr.
Up until Windows XP you'd see Microsoft turning a blind eye to pirate serial keys.

This worked marvels for non paid mass adoption back in the day.
Same here on my Firefox/Linux, but I can't find a download button for this Edge browser...
And iso 42... Can't be adjusted for Bitcoin?
I can only point to this interview, which I read some years ago. Fascinating, in its entirety.

"In any event, large dinosaurs really required to be living in an oxygen tent. An atmosphere in the
neighborhood of 35 percent oxygen would be considerably more compatible with large dinosaurs
than one in the neighborhood of 28...

"When
the super plumes come and carbon dioxide increases, and the oxygen correspondingly increases
as a result of photosynthesis.

"The Cretaceous is clearly a green house
period as opposed to the present ice house that we have. The Cretaceous is a time of tremendous
biological diversity. It is usually said among ecologists today that it is not possible to have more than
seven trophic levels in a trophic pyramid. I would be willing to bet, looking at how I have seen
ecosystems in the Cretaceous, that there were at least eight and maybe nine trophic levels
possible, which would require very much higher temperatures and a much richer food supply than is
available at the moment. Well, the rich carbon dioxide of course provides for a much greater
biogenic diversity.

"One of the problems that people
have always suggested about these high levels of oxygen at various times in the past, is that this is
comparable to what you have in an oxygen tent in a hospital. And what about wildfires? What they
forget is that the reason for this high oxygen is that there is also a high carbon dioxide level. We are
talking about carbon dioxide levels 6 to 10 times the present carbon dioxide level. And that is more
than enough to essentially combat wildfires."

https://profjoecain.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/robert-e-...
I recall stumbling upon those too in the Win 10 mixed reality API docs. There were a lot of interesting things in there that never really saw the light of day/any significant use

EDIT: Found the API docs. There's some really interesting classes in there! I remember handling coordinates to be confusing/a pain though haha. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.perception...
WebXR is the way to do this, and a reasonable more supported equivalent to react-vr is probably @react-three/xr which where the stack is react --> three.js --> webXR --> WebGL.

https://github.com/pmndrs/react-xr

Apple announced support for WebXR on VisionOS as well.

I think it will be a lot more interesting once webGPU hits too, as it will be closer to native-level GPU programming but portable between both native and web contexts.
The curious case of the half-half Bitcoin ECDSA nonces
I find it laughable that they advertise “gaming performance” every year and fail to mention that they’ve actively kept gaming out of of the apple ecosystem for essentially forever (or at least as long as I can remember)
Human is special because human is the only creature that has "mind" , "consciousness" and "ability to do reasonings and make logical decisions". No way bees or AI is capable of learning and solving problems.

These claims are all from those humanities majors, not from me.
Client-side JavaScript is hard because of cross-browser / cross-platform / cross-device challenges.

Is it really? Or is it hard because people are under the impression that it's hard and thus jump into the quagmire of others "selling" grossly overcomplicated "solutions" hoping it'll be easier (when in fact it isn't)?

When I can replace something that a team of about a dozen needed several months to create using a few MB of frameworks that work only in the latest version of Chrome and somehow needs multiple seconds to load over a gigabit LAN (internal tool) with an HTML form and a few lines of JS written in an afternoon that will work in any browser newer than ~IE5 (and will mostly work even without JS at all), I don't think that's the answer.

I don't understand this take.

As the saying goes, "It is hard to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it."

I think that's ultimately what it comes down to: Developers justifying their existence. They're all enamored with the new and shiny, resume-padding crap that they forget the problem they were hired to solve and instead create more problems that they then solve to show how "smart" they are.

...then they all get thrown out when the company downsizes. That's why I ended up having to do some JS work. I don't normally work with JS but I can use it if I need to.

I never had a need to do server-side JS so I won't comment on that in specifics, but I suspect it's much of the same situation.
Ask HN: Bank Transactions to CSV
I was looking for something that aggregates my transaction informations across banks, and output to a database (or a csv, so I can handle it later). The point is to have this programmatically. This can be later used by the accountant.

Plaid was the go to tool for this. Unfortunately, many bank require OAuth2 now, and using Plaid with Oauth2 requires production account and jumping through a lot of hoops.

Are there anything else out there? I don't mind paying.

Currently, I just think about getting something like Mint, and then get some tool to scrape Mint.
This is the most obvious practical application of my PhD topic. A Bose Einstein Condensate is an extremely sensitive detector of gravity- a nuclear submarine could use it to make an ultra-accurate map of the world based on variations in the gravitational constant g. This would remove one of the primary reasons subs need to surface , in order to GPS lock.

It’s a naval chart that would not require surfacing.

A French postdoc in my lab swore this was the moneymaker for our entire subfield, and it seems he was on to something …
I 100% agree. I hate guns and love freedom of speech. As a centrist i got to say that liberals are just as cunning as extreme right.

For example, liberals support gay rights but don't dare to condemn muslims who hold/preach hatred towards gays and defend wearing burq as a good thing that ever happened to muslim women.
Not sure what maps your friend was using, Nokia S60 series has Google Maps, it’s not bad compared to original iPhone. I could use keyboard to zoom in and out, after log in all the layered map stuff works.
In comparison, iPhone’s Google Maps didn’t have turn by turn navigation till a while later.
Kagi has much better results. The index.html comes first, them wikipedia

https://i.ibb.co/2SxBTcV/Screenshot-20230606-230829-Firefox....
I’ve read a lot about the US govt. activity during the end of WW2 (op paper clip, moving Japanese scientists that developed bio/Chen weapons here) , the cold war (long list, but basically fighting a war for capital) , up to fighting socialist “land reform” in Latin America. Everything has a direct line to monied interests, it’s almost strikingly obvious if you have an objective view of what the natsec space is doing. This just doesn’t compute for me. How would monied interests be served by this?
everyone I've ever spoken to developing for Apple, including many of the biggest apps and technology companies, describe the horror show that is submitting to either the Mac or iOS app stores.

not only do you know that Apple is actively working to create internal copies of the best public work, but their policies are so opaque and anti competitive that it's just not worth it for most. Go onto the Mac app store, pick a category that Apple owns on its devices (so browsers against Safari for example) and see how many of the biggest ones are even available on the Mac App Store. None? That's not because they don't submit to the store, it's because some rejects them.
> Microsoft has no shame

Should perhaps read, “Microsoft has not changed”!
For VCs into this, see "The electrical manufacturers, 1875-1900 : a study in competition, entrepreneurship, technical change, and economic growth" [1]
This has, among other things, Edison's business plan. His plan called for the Pearl Street Station project to pay back its capital cost in one year. It took longer, a few years. ROI on early electric generating plants was really good. That's why capacity grew so fast. Electric lighting was far cheaper than gas or candles per unit of light.

[1] https://archive.org/details/electricalmanufa0000unse
Reform Section 5: Feel Free to Insult Me
I've never seen this usage of list comparison before but apparently it works in Rust (both of these print true):

println!("{}", vec![1, 2] < vec![10, 2]);
println!("{}", (1, 2) < (10, 2));
I would absolutely love to see these instead of regular QR codes everywhere
Sounds like a potential foot-gun for input validation by the backend getting missed. :(
In most civilised countries we actually care so much that we chose to spend a substantial part of our public budget on helping injured humans as a collective.
> Because if they are real you've been lying and lying and lying and lying beyond my capacity to express in a single sentence

When speaking of the us government and its agencies we must remain ever cognizant that the official story is rarely truthful whether explicitly or by omission. Relatedly, we’ve seen extraordinary measures taken against individuals leaking pretty minor and generally suspected details like wholesale warrant less surveillance via direct taps on arterial comm lines. Thus, it is more likely that this guy has nothing and no power, else he’d be in an Ecuadorian embassy/Russia or an as of yet unknown black site instead of doing interviews.
Not at all. It tells you someone didn't like your post. Don't think it's possible to infer anything other than that. Many times I've had posts oscillate between negative and positive scores. It's very likely there are people who agree out there.
Good thing they just bought Mint Mobile.
I actually had great success raising corn in a raised bed in western Washington state. Probably one of the easiest things I've grown. At the time we had galvanized steel mesh about 10 inches underneath the surface to keep moles out, so maybe that gave it extra grip if you're having a root issue.
> It is not reasonable for isspace(), a simple function call with no pointer arguments, to fault like that

Well, if it internally uses a lookup table and doesn't do bounds checking, then it can fail this way, and that failure will propagate to the caller.

> You are describing a failure mode for a bad pointer dereference, which generally should not be handled in-process and should take down the program.

Maybe this is where we went wrong? Bad pointer access isn't fundamentally different from doing a bounds check and throwing an exception. Either of them will tank the process if not handled up the stack. But when you do a bounds check solely to prevent a bad pointer access crash, you're effectively re-doing the work the OS already does for you, paying a cost at runtime just to switch to a slightly different semantics. Maybe instead of doing that, we should have the platform provide better granularity of protection (as to e.g. avoid bad pointer access targeted to overwrite some other memory), and lean on it, instead of bolting extra layers of the same thing, just Invented Here on top?
I find it interesting that Microsoft had _so much of this_ 9 years go. I developed with the HoloLens 1 around 2016 and I recall:

* Fingers together gesture clicking.

* Voice activated menu navigation. It was glitchy/I never used it though. In 2023 these sorts of systems are much better though.

* No controllers. It was all gesture based. Opening the start menu required your hand upturned, fingers together then outstretch. Kind of like an "open" gesture.

* "Pointing" based on head looking vector, which was annoying.

* Spatial anchors and being able to remember past spaces and how you used them. There was a whole set of SDK APIs for the spatial stuff built into Win 10

The Vision Pro iterates on some of these. Eye tracking for pointing and more cameras for tracking hand pose for clicking, to reduce the annoyance/strain. IMO all mandatory for long term usage (I frequently got motion sick with the HoloLens and the 3 months of debugging/developing on it were a challenge).

Maybe if Microsoft had switched to more commonplace display technology and continued to iterate on their product instead of let it languish, they could have had a solid competitor to this, if not maybe be first to the market.
How does that compare to duckduckgo? I use that almost exclusively these days...
Yeah, the earth has been cooling down and heating up throughout the history.

Yet, the spike in Co2 levels just after the industrial revolution is unlike any spike earth has ever had naturally. The Earth has never had this drastic changes to its climate as it had in this span of time. Earth's climate has always been changing, but the change was gradual. 200 years is just a blink of an eye in the context of a planet - changes as drastic as we observe today, have never taken place naturally before.