skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Thirty people in the U.K. could soon receive £1,600 ($1,983) each month if the trial by independent think tank Autonomy secures funding."

Yeah, I'm running one of these too, and I'll give people £5k each month if I receive funding. How is this news?
Dang, I was about to turn my considering trying Nix into practice.
There was another reason Usenet died -- people want other people to do the work. Oh, they'll pay for it to a degree, but Usenet wasn't plug-and-play. To make Usenet work, everyone had to cooperate and most people just don't want the work. AOL wasn't even close, but it was someone else's problem to run and maintain. Hostly, my own vies here, but if Reddit just had an NNTP bridge, people would flock to it and never know the differece. I remember running a node -- it was a constant battle to maintain space on the spools and deal with my own users. And, for what? It cost us money and while everyone said they wanted it, no one wanted to help with the work or pay for it. Add to that the number of groups that just want "zombie" on us, and it died.
So how do you think the response would have been if a bunch of black folks invaded the capital or an armed group of Black men were in the state capital in Michigan causing them to postpone their session?
I'm not sure what the intended utility of "I am better than the target audience of this article" is, but I assure you it does not paint you in a positive light to other readers.
Apple unveils watchOS 10 for Apple Watch
Yep, you're right. Still they put a TON of work into this. Incredible.
Well, this is a nice change of pace of governments giving money and "get out of jail free cards" to their cronies that belong to the rich elites, who quite often are damaging to society, instead of simply "not contributing".
I know this is cynical but might a degraded experience for your Android contacts be a significant plus of this feature? (edit: I mean for Apple Inc, not for the end user). Like green bubbles.
That's not correct. It's entirely possible they got their on accident. There are engineers in this thread who would know claiming they don't have a real good sense of why things work.

And every big decision they've made has made it worse, not better. Do you use new reddit?
Here was their response FWIW [0]

[0]: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013...
Even if they didn't literally use customer funds to buy yachts and mansions, I have heard about pledging customer funds as collateral or using them for an acquisition which is then paid back using funds and revenue of the acquired company. It's sketchy shit that is not allowed in the regulated world that crypto companies have played loose with. Very dangerous.
I think I mostly want a language like Graydon-Rust, but not with the Expressivity tradeoff (or at least not as hardcore as it sounds like Graydon is).
> Because marketing works, companies like selling stuff (shared laundromat in the basement? Are you communist?) and because government likes selling dreams even if those turn to nightmare.

Come on, dude. A suburban home with a yard isn't a "nightmare," they're actually very desirable to a lot of people. They market themselves. Of course, there's a set of wannabe central planners that dislike that preference because it conflicts with their "vision" for how the plebs should live, so they try to deny that truth.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Assuming you mostly get a different driver each time, in a fairly random order, drivers who give better experiences would rise to the top. Drivers who give worse experiences would fall to the bottom.

You may have to do some adjustment to account for the fact that most drivers are more likely to be in certain areas, so less likely to be compared with drivers further away. Something like the algorithm they use for ranking chess players could maybe help here.
> we’ve gotten to the point of

It has been the case at least as long as there has been structured governments around.
It might do the wrong thing in some languages but wouldn't necessarily raise a compiler error, and I'm fairly certain e.g. sympy should have no issue with it.
CALM2-G114R genetic variant can cause sudden death in babies
Apple showed a lineup of compatible PCIe cards, with a variety of accelerators and I/O hardware but conspicuously no GPUs.

https://i.imgur.com/28J1KfN.jpg

The Apple Silicon transition ended support for external GPUs, so I think it's safe to assume they won't support internal ones either.
Cars don’t usually become obsolete and borderline worthless after 5 years.
> To move from place to place, it seems the average American prefers their car

I’m sorry but I really hate this argument. In most places in the US it’s impossible to use anything but a car to get around. It’s not that most of these articles want to ban cars, most are just trying get public transit/biking/walking as a second option.

You can’t have only one option then walk around saying “well I guess Americans really prefer this option, we shouldn’t give them any other options”.

> And it is not just an American thing. If you look at developing countries like India and China, car ownership and usage is exploding as people grow wealthier.

This is, as usual a thing in degrees. The number of US cars owned sits at 96-100% of the drive-able population. China is at ~30%. India is ~10%. A commenter mentions Europe as having “a lot of cars” but a quick eyeball shows that most European countries have roughly 1/3 fewer cars than America. These aren’t trivial differences that you can just handwave away.
That sounds like a cool development environment!

Yes, it would require extreme buy-in from senior management.
Well, this does not come as a surprise at all. The digital age totally passed these people without notice. As did many other things. Sad to watch, but this party is killing itself. This is what happens when you no longer can pretend, and would actually need to act, but then it turns out all your minions are pretty incapable of acting properly, so, this is what results...
Capitalism didn't work either. Maybe we should try a little of both at the same time.
What the hell is that cheese grater looking thing? I can't make out what that is.
Repeal the Second Amendment.

And don't flag this story.
Very reminiscent of Jeff Bezos' "question mark email"...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-explain...
Why? Do you want to save electricity costs?
The US is car dependent specifically because of the choice the government made to move people out of cities. Aggressively subsidizing suburban development and infrastructure was an intentional top down choice. No market would have ever supported the bond backed creep of development out further and further into the suburbs.

Precisely what you see now are wealthy cities (outside of the sunbelt) tearing down old and crumbling urban highways like the Embarcadero in SF and poor cities like Baltimore being stuck with 83 which it can neither afford to maintain or tear down. In the case of 83 it cut right through a thriving working class neighborhood called Old Town which is now abandoned and little more than a skid row. Whereas the neighborhoods around the water that were slated for razing for highway construction but spared are the most thriving neighborhoods in the city. Urban highways were always a giveaway to people who fled to the suburbs at the expense of people who did not. They involved monstrous acts of government takings through imminent domain and eradicated the wealth of generations of people who had their property stolen with only token compensation. And now in the case of Baltimore, no only were multiple neighborhoods destroyed, but the schools that remained near the highway have worse performance which has been repeatedly linked to air pollution from the highway.

My better idea was for the government not to steal peoples' homes and businesses to build highways for people it also subsidized to live elsewhere. This create a double drag on the economies of American cities by depriving them of tax revenue and destroying economic activity.
Its just a cynical power play as usual. "Vote for me and I'll give you money" is a platform as old as politics
My first CPU, the 6502, also used in the Apple II, had approx 4500 transistors!
https://twitter.com/SECGov/status/1665779371108335618

SEC just tweeted the quote
Firefox did most of the early damage to IE all it's own. Taking IE down from an insane 90+% marketshare position and steadily eating up 30% marketshare by the time Chrome even really showed up. And it didn't even have to stealth install itself with every adobe flash update to do it.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/worldwid...
Moderation isn't only about removing bad content, it's about removing content that's not necessarily bad but is unwanted. /r/gaming and /r/games are entirely different subreddits, with different content focuses and different communities because of their moderation. If I really wanted junk food content consumption I can go to /r/gaming. If I want to see news about video games I can go to /r/games. How do you accomplish that with client side filtering? /r/games has Indie Sunday where developers can post their own games on Sunday without competition from news about the massive AAA games everyone's already heard of. How do you accomplish that with client side filtering?
Not really, the only assets they have identified as securities here and the ones that were immediately obvious as securities (BNB etc.).

They have made no statement regarding BTC, ETH, etc.
There’s really nothing like them.
There's an unfounded assumption in what you're saying: people make mistakes. In the current system without non-repudiation, we can repudiate our mistakes and get our money back. In your crypto-based system, if someone tricks me into divulging my keypair and impersonates me, I can't repudiate that transaction so it's gone forever. And so you're perpetually one mistake away from losing everything which was what the consumer protection laws are protecting you from in the current system. They protect you from losing everything for one mistake.
I was curious and looked that up because your post sounds strikingly similar to corporate marketing material. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but it seems Comma couldn't find a buyer and just open-sourced the product. And Geohot seemed to have stepped down from the company completely.
Who says these 30 recipients aren't politically connected?
Same feeling here. They're precisely hitting every mark, every line and every smile. It's like they're trying too hard. It's so air-tight that they come off as dorks.

But it makes complete sense, these things have always been like this.
> How does "func EatADonut() async {}" aka "eating a donut is an inherently async action" even make sense to people?

Of course it does, read it as "beware, something blocking down the road".

If you can EatADonout without blocking, please do, but want it or not that's a different implementation, one that doesn't block and the signature it's telling you so.

We're so used to sync and having hidden blocking operations. I wonder if in an alternate universe the first languages considered the blocking/async nature of operations and then some newer languages considered hiding this information into seemingly sync functions would produce similar but opposite outrage against it.
For the financial system dealing with cryptocurrencies isn't worth the risk. The banks would have to perform all sorts of AML/CFT checks on every penny that has come into contact with an exchange, and they just don't have the resources to do that.
I used to work for a UK government ministry that has a budget in the tens of billions of pounds per year. I can tell you with confidence: no, there really is no linting, typing, automated testing, version control, nor any other tooling that you would consider "table stakes" for software development, when it comes to spreadsheets. Every single policy mechanism of that ministry relies, at some point in the pipeline, on at least one untested spreadsheet full of copypasted formulae, and inscrutable VBA macros passed down through generations. There are quality control reviews, of course, but they're manual. They don't scale. And these spreadsheets are used to make decisions that decide the fates of nearly 70 million people. And that ministry is not exceptional wrt other ministries, i.e. they're all as bad as this.

There were low ranking people who recognized how stupid this all was, and pointed it out. But hardly anyone with decisionmaking power even understood the problem. Nobody had even heard of git. So nothing changed. It was the dark ages, and a major factor in why I quit.
Apple's ecosystem and momentum is scary.
They can just take popular apps and features and integrate them into their own OS and instantly crush startups and smaller companies to irrelevance.

AirTags -> RIP Tile

NameDrop -> Any 'bump' based app startup

Journal -> Subscription based journal apps like DayOne, etc.

and many more.

Theoretically, nothing is stopping Google from doing the same, if they ever manage to release anything without a product expiry baked into it, or just release anything really.
Yeah, I think this is especially true when we're talking about the products that are almost exclusively used by creative professionals rather than other individual users, like Studio and Pro. It makes sense that they'd want to have waited a little while to transition.
With a unified 192GB memory, could this challenge nvidia's lock on ML training? Or is CUDA still insurmountable?
I mean, what is written on the internet you shouldn't take for granted either
High end consumer GPUs would be your 3090/4090 cards which both have 24GB.
That approach is marginally better. It’s still arguably unclear. The store could be your mom’s favorite store to get special gifts from

If you think using Grandma three times is too much, you could replace the first Grandma in the second sentence with “she.” For instance, “she, my mom, and I went…”
I know there were rumblings in the late 00's and early 10's about how McDonnell Douglas culture and executives were ruining Boeing.

But some people take a step farther back than this and blame Congress for the 737 MAX. They basically forced the merger, and unhappy weddings make for unhappy homes.
> Are there consistent major differences in time spent in transit for public transit / walkable cities VS cars? My understanding is that transit time is often similar, it's only the method that changes. E.g., most people probably aim to live within an hour of work regardless of commute method.

You're too fixated on one variable. You can decrease transit times by increasing density, but then you're cramming people into sardine cans.
fun fact: fq is kind of the spiritual predecessor of https://github.com/wader/flac.tcl, you can see traces of it in flac_frame.go in fq, was used to prototype some things :)
Its two of the worst yield chips. Its a lot more than a phone...
Do you mean last year's headlines? Or this years?
None of that constitutes actual evidence. Let's see some artifacts.
Care to expand on your thinking here? In what way do you think these recipients would be cherry picked, and what do you think would be the political goals?
If I get 5 people to fund you, can I get 5k a month? Perhaps we could design a tiered system based on how many people are brought in to fund your think tank, possibly in the shape of a triangle.
I disagree: between 1994-5 and about 2005 I made heavy use of a "private" NNTP server (for the Edge Magazine forums).

Compared to early web forums it was super fast - you could sync all of the messages in about two minutes. Then you could disconnect your modem, read + reply etc. Then go online an hour later to send reply + update the feed.

Broadband changed the game: once the internet was fast and always-on then web forums pretty much took over.

We lost something though: the beauty of NNTP was that you could easily keep your own archive of discussions of the groups you were interested in. Search worked and it as offline. Oh and no adverts or tracking!
From your link

Clinton: “I take responsible for the parts that I should”.

Has Trump ever taken any responsibility for his loss?
Socialism works fine for the rich in capitalist countries. The government is always quick to bail them out with everybody's money whenever something doesn't go their way. Remember that funky business of SVB some time ago?

I didn't even mention the number of loopholes and tax exemptions they get.

Maybe extending those benefits to lower castes of society would be a good idea.
This should be a bigger deal
Isn’t that true of any PCIe device? Is Apple supposed to develop their drivers too?
I'm curious why you think food prices will rise. Governments already fight hunger in various ways, so I assume you don't believe some people have to starve for food to be affordable to the rest of us.

I assume it's from the angle of: whose going to work to farm/sell the food if they get UBI?

Or was yours just a sarcastic knee-jerk response?
4080 is still a 16gb part, and still the 2nd fastest part Nvidia sell at consumer level (its a 1200 dollar part). The 3090 (for however long it remains on sale) and the 4090 are outliers.

The obvious counter point is an M2 MacBook in 14/16 inch size, where wallet permitting you can have up to 96gb of unified memory too...

I simply chose the Air in my example earlier because its incredible you can have that level of performance in ostensibly an entry level passively cooled machine.
I know it was rediculous! Biden was leading Texas and then all of the sudden we're supposed to expect a surge of red votes and now Trump carried the state?

But in all seriousness.

1) "Decades" is 5 elections which is a sample size of garbage.

2) The election results haven't been actually reported on the same day for a long time. Absentee ballots aren't countable until after Election day in many states making it trivial to demonstrate that they haven't been counted until the next day meaning you can't have reported the exact results on the first night.

Now, news media have been making predictions on who is going to win the election and they did refrain from doing that. But one big thing to remember is that states where Republicans determined the election process such as Arizona did not even count 100% of their ballots by Nov 12 (9 days after the 3rd, aka Election Day).
Show HN: Turning IINA player into the ultimate streaming service
Hello! I’ve been working on a neat toy for Raycast [https://www.raycast.com/](A MacOS launcher/spotlight alternative), it turns Raycast into a remote that lets you instantly play hundreds of TV channels in VLC or IINA player for MacOS. Search for what you want in Raycast, and hit ENTER to play it in IINA (Yes, it's really that simple). Check out the demo video in the link provided

Some background

Live TV

* A collection of 200+ live TV live stream links that I’ve been indexing and transcoding over a couple of months. The video quality is pretty decent too, about 60% of these streams are in 1080p, while the minimum quality of the remaining streams is 720p.
* You can toggle a TV guide view where you can see what’s currently playing, how much time is left, and what’s airing next. This guide is composed of data scraped from a bunch of websites. The guide is automatically updated daily for every channel.

Sports

* There’s a sports view that shows the schedule for each sport over a 3-day window:
1. Yesterday - If a sports event has ended, a hyperlink to the highlights is provided.
2. Today - If a sports event is airing today, you’ll get a list of all the channels that will be airing that specific sports event and you can instantly start playing the match in VLC or IINA player.
3. Tomorrow - If a game is airing tomorrow, you can set a notification to remind you. (I haven’t built this functionality yet)

You can map certain keyboard combinations to skip forward (e.g. ⌘ + ⇧ + >) and skip backward (e.g. ⌘ + ⇧ + <) so you can change channels without opening Raycast at all. You flip channels just like you would with a TV remote control.

Future plans

* I'm frequently adding new channels to the library and I have a discord server where I accept requests for new channels. The library keeps growing!

* I’m planning to build the same streaming functionality for movies and TV shows. Search for a movie or TV show and instantly play it in VLC or IINA.

How to get access

Many months of work have gone into locating and acquiring the data as well as building the infrastructure that makes this extension simple and seamless. I am very happy with the result.
I had no intention of sharing this with anything more than a handful of friends and family but I have received a few requests from people who really wanted to try it out. I'm opening it up to 100 people max. This is the number of people I can reasonably service(without degrading the quality of the service) and answer support for.
It costs me around $5 per month to spin up a new instance for each person. If you are willing to throw in an extra $2 to sponsor my coffee-drinking habit, I'll be happy to give you a spot. If this looks interesting to you and you want to get access, you can reach out to me at liklider@protonmail.com.
The size of a country is irrelevant to this discussion: it is about urban centers. The density of cities in both countries is relevant, and of course they are different: that's precisely what the conversation is about.

I remain unconvinced about the argument around climate: when it is too cold to walk less than 15 minutes, roads are also unsafe to drive.

What does altitude have to do with anything? San Francisco has plenty of hills, yet people still manage to move around by bike.

When a city was founded has little to do with what to do with them going forward. Many american cities were very walkable, and then urban freeways where built in them, displacing people and disconnecting neighborhoods. Amsterdam itself was very car-centric in the 70's, yet they are now considered the biking capital of the world. Cities are living organisms, that can and should change over time.

If you don't see how being able to walk when you need milk helps with having a good quality of life then I don't know what to tell you.

Edit: the comparison is relevant because it gives us a good idea of what the lower bound of what it realistically means to downsize the usage of cars in urban environments. It's a very clear example of a place where half the population (which includes children!) has a car, but cities are entirely navigable by foot, public transport or bikes.
Say what you will about the cheesey Zuck and Boz meta presentations/demos, they at least seem like real people even if a bit dorky.

These constant gentle grin + precise hand gestures + identical infomercial vocal tone thing is weird AF.
Nowadays usenet really is nothing but a binary transfer system. Such a shame.
People using crypto for funds transfer. Buy now, transfer immediately, with an expectation that the other end sells immediately. No desire or expectation of profit.
>People’s careers are being involuntarily set back already for reasons more physical and real than the risk of being scooped.

This bears repeating. I know of a fairly large number of people who left their public-sector research positions because of poor working conditions. I wonder if they measure that as better than having their careers hobbled by a strike-born scoop?
As a developer I'd be terrified if Apple was showing my app in one of these events.
The whole point of UBI is that it is universal, and therefore causes those at the very bottom to immediately renegotiate their pay to quality of life ratio. Without this action on a mass scale, it cannot flow up the chain to properly adjust the supply and demand curves to fulfill the goals of UBI.
Web apps on Mac, from Safari. Add any site to your Dock, and opened as a web app