skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did the UK lose its status as dominant power? By being involved in two costly wars within the space of 30 years that, even though it won, left it essentially bankrupt. The US has already been involved in Afghanistan and Iraq, it has an incredible amount of debt, it has domestic problems and it’s now spending an increasingly large sum of money on the Ukraine Russia war. If China decides to kick off in Taiwan and the US gets involved in that one too then, even if the US ended up winning, it could very well be in so much debt that, like the UK, it is superseded by an emerging power. In this scenario, China would be depleted from the loss and it would likely be India that took the mantle as the emergent superpower.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into adding this.
Wild timeline: for ref. a HTTP webserver in C would run you under 1mb, all-in, if TLS'sn't required.
I wonder how this even works. I can still go straight through to the site on firefox and chrome on macos. I suppose they are making use of some tracking technique that doesn't work on my machine.
I’ve recently used a Samsung galaxy book 5g that goes currently for $260 on Amazon running windows on arm64 and I feel this could be an indicator of how they easily could do this.
> There are two types of people: Those who think VR will change the world—and those who haven’t tried it yet

Damn, I feel like they stole that quote from me. I used to (and still do) say that all the time!

I'll still argue that people here who don't believe in VR have either never tried it, or tried an old prototype. Owning a VR headset and being able to use it in your living room is future-like. Definitely an experience that people should try to have, that is if you want to live in the future.
When I was arrested the cop took the money out of my wallet and asked if I knew he could just take it, he didn't seem to concerned about "verification of ownership or any other exonerating circumstances" such as I just took the money out of an ATM. You have to wonder what fantasy world you people are living in.
Good.

I can't talk about what I saw while working there, but let's just say that I have a nervous tic when someone tells we have a team for security so you need not worry, and when can you have it done by
Analog and Asimov's were bimonthly last I had subscribed, just 7 or 8 per year. They're not even novel-sized. When I had more time to read, I could keep up with those and still read 5 or 6 novels per month.

Dunno what I would have done if I'd been alive when there were more titles in publication. I think of the old stuff, I like Worlds of If, archive.org has most of those. The new stuff's a little too pandering anyway.
Note that all emergency visits are always "in-network" regardless of your location and/or diagnosis/duration. It is the law. If you receive a bill saying not covered or out of network, contact your insurance.
Can you cite an Apple source that says that? Nothing I read matched what you’re saying. As another comment said foveated rendering and eye tracking to help with simulating depth.
“There’s an app for that”
Muslims have been very successfull in prohibiton of all kinds of drugs and alcohol since 15 centuries. Compare this with the failed American Prohibition. There are more factors at play than what the law says. What do you believe will happen if you drink alcohol in secret, away from the eyes of the State? Muslims believe this will have consequences in afterlife. Atheists don't. Many Christians believe they'll be saved and forgiven by God as long as they are Christian.

> A 2012 study suggested that belief in hell decreases crime rates, while belief in heaven increases them, and indicated that these correlations were stronger than other correlates like national wealth or income inequality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlates_of_crime

I live in Turkey, probably the most heavily and forcefully secularized muslim country in the world. (Ataturk killed half a million people for his secular reforms, Islamic alphabet got abolished, European dress code literally became law, religious clothing got prohibited, religion schools closed, scholars executed & prosecuted and Islamic prayer call was banned for 18 years).

It's free to drink here, but drugs are banned. Only a very small minority drinks alcohol in my region, I have no relatives I know of that ever drank. Drugs/weed/marijuana are horrible things no one ever wants in my entire social circle, I don't think I have ever seen a user of such substances in my entire life IRL. Western and some coastal cities drink more and there's more drug activity too (they're less religious too).

From here, it’s hilarious to see Westerners thinking prohibition is impossible and preaching against it.
Unless you have a tool that can tell the difference, they are.
This is actually one of the better use cases of generative AI that I've seen so far. The killer feature that would get me to purchase a $40 report is to see the competitor landscape - this is a big reason why entrepreneurs pay for Crunchbase Pro.

One annoyance I have with market research sources today is having to first select a broad industry, then narrow down the thousands of companies within that industry by quantifiable metrics (employees, fundraising, etc). It would be so much more useful to find the most semantically-relevant companies to the one I'm researching, and maybe even see an auto-generated feature comparison chart.
Ask HN: Why is open source vulnerability management still an unsolved problem?
Asking this again, hoping to get more responses this time.

We saw many startups (including YC) recently working on open source vulnerability discovery and patching. Curious to understand why this is still an unsolved problem when Dependabot (and other similar tools) can do this fairly well. Where specifically do the existing tools fail? Appreciate your insights.
I feel bad that no one seemed to get the joke. At the same time, that makes the whole thing funnier.
> Apple has never really done that (at least in the post Jobs return era).

The trashcan Mac Pro desktop was heavily promoted to tech journalists before release to try and keep pro users from abandoning Apple. IPads and iPhones were going gangbusters then, and Apple had gone a long time without refreshing the Mac Pro. The common sentiment was Apple no longer cared about professionals that required workstation-level performance. IIRC, this was in the aftermath of the release of a neutered Final Cut Pro which seemed to cater more to prosumers than pros, since it removed key features.

The intention was to signal pros to hang in there, and then the trashcan got released and had perf issues with throttling due to thermal challenges. Good times.
They can use whatever justification they like, however the constitution is the highest law in the land and what they say does not override it's text. They are behaving illegally and if I was in power they would be punished.

Also while I am ensured of this right by the constitution, the passage "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects..." affirms that these rights are not granted but instead fundamental. Like the first amendment and others this is one of the "certain unalienable rights" granted by our creators.
I really don't think Python is less maintainable because of its punctuation style. I worked on million lines of code systems in Python and lack of punctuation was never a problem. I think you could make a much stronger argument about lack of static type checking, which Python now offers, similar to TypeScript.

The only real pain point with indentation based languages like Python is when copying and pasting code you have to take care to put things at the right level. Tools like prettier mean this is pretty much a non-issue now for punctuation based languages. But there's still a lot of line noise to ignore when reading code.
I can't find it on meta's site, but Zuck also showed a couple of prototypes in 2022. Here's one of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLqEBCCV2SQ
> one that the 4th amendment doesn't apply because you haven't proved its yours. the text says "The right of the people to be secure in their" so it applies after you prove it is something you have the right to be secure of to begin with!

Wow, that's almost literally the logic of a playground bully: "well you can't prove it's yours therefore it's mine".
This is terrible. I use chromeos because I want a secure locked down browser not another shitty Linux distro.
> all of which are also spending a fuck load on internal AI research.

But their internal research stays internal. Sometimes, they put out "papers" which are glorified advertisements, often going as far as hiding the model architecture just to keep their competitive advantage.
What's the definition of binary you're using here? Because a model is an inscrutable blob of bytes that is used (with the help of libaries and other glue code) to perform a function.
I work for a FAANG and it's a violation of company policy for me to profit from privileges associated with my employment.
From what I've read, it seems sex workers hold that they are safer online because they are able to directly manage their relationships with clients. This enables them to enforce vetting processes before they meet up in person (impossible in the street), and eliminate abusive middle men (pimps).

We could do better than Backpage, we could probably make abuse of sex workers rare rather than a cliche, but it would require decriminalization first. For instance, that would enable them to hire their own security, or to press charges against abusers (though that's is own can of worms of course). It's also usually the sex workers who are in a position to understand who is being trafficked and by whom, but they are unable to intervene effectively without institutional support.
Consider how many people were dying EVERY DAY during World War 2. Sure, they may have been able to industrialize, but the world was in the midst of experiencing death on a scale we can't even really imagine today. The pressure to end the war must have been enormous. Which isn't to say that it was an easy, or even correct, decision, but we can't really do a simple calculation of "well they could have waited a few more weeks/months" and get a feel for the gravity of the situation.
People buy devices that do what they want, not brands.
This is awesome. Is there a version of this, or something similar, not using Perl? I have nothing against Perl other than I’m absolutely shit at it and have zero incentive to get better (except maybe playing with this).
How does that work? I thought there was no way to override the default dialer? Or is it just an app running over data?
Shame is social stigma, and sure you can be fearful of it, but it's not the same thing: being in the closet is/was mostly about fear for yourself of hard repercussions - disownment by parents (if young), getting physically attacked, that kind of thing.
> How do you make decentralized identities that are spam-proof? You have to make them cost something, that's how.

Not all costs have to be expressed as money or as a money analogue. For instance, a web-of-trust system could have reputation as the cost: someone who introduces too many spam accounts to the network could be marked as a spammer in turn.
Template Instantiation is suppose to be the answer at least in part, but it’s been held up since 2017[0]

The bigger problem is that the web platform stakeholders (IE the committees that industry influence and the browser makers) simply didn’t listen at all to what regular developers have been saying about what they want from the web platform w/r/t better built in platform provided primitives. It’s seems to me like web components have largely not taken lessons of component based development as everyone has come to expect.
It’s still a weird imperative API with no rendering or data binding primitives

[0]: https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/proposal...
Imperial Japan was something else, truly. I just finished Dan Carlin's six-part Hardcore History series called "supernova in the east" which covers a lot of context in an attempt to help people like us understand the zeitgeist in Japan at the time. I can't recommend it enough.
It seems to me senescent cells build up because we always have enough food. I wonder if we (and other species) would metabolize senescent cells during the famine part of feast or famine. or mindfully though intermittent fasting.
Web components don't solve any of the problems day-to-day devs ACTUALLY care about.
Not familiar enough with the person's history to know if they did bad things, or if they were uncooperative, or simply ran a website and became a scapegoat. Anyone got insight into this?
Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do

https://thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/cops-still-take-more-stuff...

"This process is called civil asset forfeiture, and in practice it often works very similar to highway robbery. Authorities can take literally whatever they want from you — cash, vehicles, your home, your Playstation 5 — and they can keep it, without ever convicting or even charging you with a crime. All they have to do is say they suspect you committed a crime. And here’s the kicker: if you want your stuff back, you have to go to court and affirmatively prove your innocence. Basically, you must prove a negative: that you did not commit a crime. It’s a complete inversion of the “innocent until proven guilty” philosophy driving most of the criminal justice system."

"Here’s one way to think of the scale: in 2019, the most recent year for which complete federal data is available, federal authorities took more cash and property from people than burglars did."
They can, as calculated by switching delays of simple circuits like inverters and NANDs (so simpler than a FO4).

Actually it's probably more like 200 than 300, I haven't seen 3nm models but transistors are still getting faster.
What did you confess to?
Funny, yesterday I got out my TI-89 Titanium to go over some linear algebra, and explore some ideas regarding exterior algebra and deep neural networks.

The big lesson is: my linear algebra is pretty rusty.
That's a little bit embarrassing for me then. Although as an intentional joke it's at least a little bit lame, so I'll live with the embarrassment.
meta is playing catch-up. with the brand.

apple can get away with being less polite. what it delivers is enough to motivate a certain level of tolerance.

apple is ecosystem. it is the front runner at the moment, and will be hard to beat.

ffs this is facebook and mark zuckerberg. how does the joke go? their faces are next to the word unlikable in the dictionary?

both meta and zuck are cultivating a rather incredible comeback story. for all the historical hateables, even with layoffs and rto, there are a lot of recent moves that are brilliant.

second place in a martial arts tournament. threads. llama. this.

both meta and zuck are starting to look downright likeable.

this is no accident, and no small feat.

tl;dr you seemed to have missed meta’s marketing tactic, possibly due to anti-apple bias.
There's a million cool things to do with VR, but one thing I see nobody thinking about: attending a concert or sport event front row
You might be right, but what makes you think Oculus can't grow beyond the gamer market? I ask because they identified a VR company that was focused on VR productivity as a competitor, so they're clearly thinking beyond gaming.
The price of that $3500 headset will also drop each year.

Let’s say it takes five years for Apple or Meta to be able to release this kind of hardware at $500.

Would you rather bet on the company with 5 years experience selling that class of hardware and software and finding real use cases? Or the one who is leaving the lab with it for the first time?

Ignoring Apple is a supply chain MONSTER that can get things cheaper and better than Meta can thanks to their volumes so the products might not be comparable at $500.
I am an industry veteran and can assure you this fact alone kills your guarantee. Pivot immediately.
The strange story of India’s wild water tank sculptures in a rural Punjab region
We still have a box of a lot of books on tape we found in a garage sale around here. Had to get a tape player for the kids to listen to them, as they were the kind where they had the books with them, too. Was a ton of fun, if a touch annoying to deal with rewinding the tape and such.

We also still have more than a few books on CD. We don't get as many as we used to, ironically, since it is far more convenient to use audible. Nice to shift from car to bedroom for stories.

I've been curious on why more "music players" weren't better at audio books. I'm guessing the ability to save mid track is just not nearly as big of a deal for most music applications?
Thanks so much for choosing to "bring the world closer together".
An apparent polyfill, FWIW: https://github.com/WebReflection/custom-elements-builtin
Biden Administration Announces Actions to Lower Housing Costs and Boost Supply
Not quite what I asked for, but close enough for now...

https://github.com/DTolm/VkFFT/discussions/126
>how much of the education market has been taken over by Chromebooks.

Why is this even a ting wherever this is(US?)? Mandating school kids use a platform owned by Google, a corporation specialized in advertising and data harvesting, feels like letting McDonalds's and Coca-Cola be in charge of the school cafeteria and educating kids about a balanced diet.

Am I taking crazy pills, or am I missing something and I misunderstood the situation?
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Chained means in your second example this would work without manually creating a new instance:

b.foo.lol = True
You can actually compute that! Model your agent’s dynamics (even just pick a double integrator, I.e., an agent where the acceleration is controlled, or something) and pick a value for the GPS covariance. You can compute the infinite-time limit of the variance of the Kalman filter exactly (your favorite numerical package has a function for solving algebraic Riccati equations which is all you need to do this). No simulated observations are necessary, just the dynamics and the GPS noise.

My guess is that you’ll find the filter converges to a distribution that has a decently large covariance if the military didn’t want other forces using it to make good decisions.
Apple had some demos of that for the lucky journalists who got a hands-on. Spatial video footage that was maybe only a few seconds. I’m pretty sure there was a concert and I know they also got to see a little bit of a Denver Nuggets game.

John Gruber and Ben Thompson were both amazed at the basketball footage and one or both of them said they would happily buy a season pass for it.
There's a lot you can't do with inline styles, e.g., media queries.
also in webcomic form: https://xkcd.com/435/
So when's Mark Zuckerberg getting arrested for all the crime that happens on his platform?
> sends postcards to everyone in the zipcode.

I literally own a bakery and I would be mad at myself if I wasted that much paper.

I also don't even know if this town has a printed paper I could still advertise in. Maybe? But I'm unlikely to spend our extremely limited advertising budget there.

I also don't want to use invasively targeted online ads. I'd be totally satisfied for keyword based ads - like if someone goes on Maps and searches for "bakery", "coffee" etc. I think that's the best middle ground in the modern era.

I don't care if someone has a history of following baking related Facebook pages, searches for bakeries every day or for the first time ever. I understand that would make our ads more efficient but I'm willing to accept in exchange for respecting people's privacy. Unfortunately, I don't think there's any way for me to make that happen - if I pay to advertise on Google Ads, which unfortunately is the best choice for us, then I have to let Google invade everyone's privacy. There's no setting that I am can find to disable targeted advertising for my campaign.
Well I can't argue with that, can I? :)
Ah yes, the US Strategic Bombing Survey, how could they ever be unbiased in concluding that bombing people to smithereens inevitably leads to surrender. No, I'm disinclined to trust their opinion.

We in the modern day have the benefit of being able to pull examples from more than just WW2. Before WW2, the predictions of air power theorists were that strategic bombing would end wars before the powers could properly start mobilizing (look up Giulio Douhet, this was seriously argued). Japan in WW2 is the closest any example of strategic bombing has ever come to compelling a surrender, out of a dozen or so attempts. Its exceptionality is itself a suggestion that maybe bombing's role in Japanese surrender is perhaps inflated.
I don't think we'll have 3D AI art anytime soon. Most if not all AI for 2D works on a pixel basis. 3D is more like SVG, except there is a whole third dimension to contend with. There are AIs that manage to produce SVGs, but I have yet to see a clean one where the objects are actually properly grouped and not just a bunch of random shapes thrown together to do a vector approximation of pixels.

If anyone finds an AI that can do reasonable SVGs, please do let me know.
Pure silliness. The problems at hand are political economic matters. Individualist virtue signaling like refusing distribution with DRM is a good way to build a brand but will have no role whatsoever in actually accomplishing said goals.
> No, Fedora is upstream. Nothing changes for Fedora.

I sincerely hope so - but after 2 significant rug-pulls, I'm not so sure of any forward looking statements by RH or about the RH ecosystem anymore ...
So other than less battery performance, what other notable differences should I expect from Fedora on M2 vs the native MacOS. (I'm not being snarky, just trying to get a feel for how similar I should expect the performance and peripheral support to be; not focused on differences between gnome and the MacOS UI)
Sell ‘em for $3000 to early adopters. It would still be something.

Instead it’s more “don’t forget us!” after years of nothing to show for the Metaverse after throwing away insane amounts of money and then having all the air sucked out of the room by Apple‘s announcement.
Where I'm currently living, we're experiencing very low rainfall and a heatwave. This area is a large food producer.

Hurricanes are the only thing that seems to be able to bring the rain, so please don't start advocating the bombing the only thing that's bringing water to crops
A shocking amount of Babylon Bee articles have predicted the future too.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2022/05/30/babyl...

Reality has really started to make satirists jobs difficult.
i am disappoint! you're a good freund, bc you didn't choose this moment to teach me the meaning of schadenfreude.
Having used both, it almost seems like it shouldn’t exist. I kind of wonder if Cardboard did VR a disservice by giving people terrible initial impressions.

A gimmick of a sort that backfired on real products.
Countries Raid Each Others’ Health Systems in Global Battle for Nurses
No clue but the “robots sweep the park” part is imminent.

We haven’t done it yet only because we require people to do menial labor for shit wages so they don’t starve.

Heck, several local restraints have done away with most wait staff. You sit down and order via a web site.
It's not that people don't understand, it's they're lied to. The wording the companies use are "buy this movie", "purchase this digital book", etc. You don't see a big green button reading "buy a license valid for undetermined time, that can be revoked in the future at our discretion".
You eat, you kill. You don't eat, you kill yourself. You're a killer.