skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actual article title is: “ India suspends visa service operations in Canada until further notice, says BLS International”

This nuance is important as Indian has e-visas, so can’t tell what happens with those when the physical application centres are closed.

This might not impact tourists so much as work/study visitors or others excluded from e-visas (like those with some Pakistani blood).
Thanks!

I ran into a little trouble where I tried to long-press the link here on HN and use that share sheet to open in News - it’s not there

I eventually got there after clicking through to the paywalled article.

I kind of wonder what’s different between the two.
These products are mostly targeted at the the Youtuber/streamer market that need to add variety to their backdrops.
This money isn’t buying power stations, it’s funding efforts to influence policy.
I think the point is more of a "so what?" Windows' backward compatibility is completely irrelevant and uninteresting here because we're not talking about backward compatibility, we're talking about long-term support.
What did the UN Secretary general say the other day?

He said "Humanity has opened the gates of Hell", which, I think, is a much more sensible and down-tempo way to phrase it.
Agreed on how I feel most people perceive this stuff - they care but they are also resigned, whether that's expressed as active disapproval or accepting cognitive dissonance. To me the real crux of the matter is how to turn that caring into any sort of feeling of having choices.

It's not even a terribly hard model - if a device has an Internet connection and is running proprietary software, it's only a matter of time until it spies on you or otherwise betrays your trust. But it sounds way too abstract and technical for the average person to act on it. And even in the case that there are off the shelf libre solutions, they still don't compete against all of the advertising pushing surveillance based solutions.
There's roughly 50,000 coal mining jobs in the US[1]. Saving those is not worth setting the world on fire. I would happily support giving every single one of them an immediate, life-time, full-wage pension, if it means ending coal power plants tomorrow. It would pay for itself immediately.

[1] https://www.ibisworld.com/industry-statistics/employment/coa...
not picking on it specifically but I just recently saw that flatpak is written in C as well despite the fact that it was released just eight years ago. Red Hat is one of the companies that also has a strange C addiction for almost anything.

There's pretty much no reason to not use a memory safe, performant language like Go at this point for infrastructure-ish software.
Fines need to be percentage revenue based so they have some teeth for the big players.
It's unclear whether it makes sense to engage with folks who question the effectiveness of COVID vaccines, especially if they are not trained in the medical research/sciences. merely for the practical reason that historically, these discussions/arguments aren't productive, quickly devolve into people calling each other ignorant idiots, and most of the "facts" people cite are really just strongly-held beliefs which are not totally inconsistent with the observed evidence.
They are not wrong…
I also had no problems with Hetzner's 16-core ARM cloud instances. Maybe just a faulty server.
I recommend the reading of Atlas Shrugged to really understand why this is a bad idea.
It's hard to evaluate this without seeing a screenshot of your game, but 360 raycasts per bot per frame for a basic 2d game is INSANE.

It sounds like you are trying to query every angle in every direction for every character. This is madness.

I have a 3d space game in Unity which uses raycasts for navigation. Each ship fires a maximum of 1 navigation raycast per frame with a sweep pattern. In addition there are anti collision thrusters placed around each ship which fire roughly every second in a staggered pattern to prevent ships from getting stuck

In my fully 3d game, that's effectively ~1 raycast per frame per enemy. To locate hostiles, each ai character scans a runtime set of potential hostiles and does a line-of-sight query roughly once every 5 seconds.

There definitely is another issue going on here with your setup that is independent of the extreme overhead in Godot.

I would recommend Sebastian Langue's excellent boids video
to get a sense about other strategies to deal with these types of queries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqtqltqcQhw
Apple's gross margin percentage for its services segment (App Store, Apple Music, AppleCare, Apple Pay, iCloud storage services, AppleCare warranties, Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Apple TV+, and the Apple Card) is almost twice that of the products segment.

In 2021, the gross margin percentage for the services segment was nearly 70% as compared to the 35% gross margin percentage from the products segment.

https://www.globaldata.com/data-insights/technology-media-an...
As long as the Rust community doesn’t fuck up Rust, it looks like that transition, and more importantly the broad recognition of its necessity and feasibility, is well underway.
> Outside of Matrix 2.0 work, other big items on the horizon include:

- Adding Rust matrix-sdk-crypto to matrix-js-sdk, at which point all the official Matrix.org client SDKs will (at last!) be using the same stable performant E2EE implementation

- Continuing to contribute Matrix input to the MIMI working group in IETF for > Digital Markets Act interoperability

- Working on MLS for next-generation E2EE

IIRC, the rust matrix-sdk-crypto was their intended fix for the vulnerabilities.
I have been directed by google down roads marked "private".

I have been directed by google down roads that weren't actually roads.

When I was in Arches National Park, I noticed google trying to direct me to take an actual jeep trail instead of a paved road. Like, big sign at the turn out that said "high clearance, 4wd required. Do not attempt when wet" (the jeep trail actually crossed a river, which at that time was about 3 feet deep). And when i deliberately modified my path on my phone to not go down the jeep trail, within 2 miles of driving, google maps helpfully interrupted its own directions to say "we've found a route that will save you 30 minutes. If you don't want to take the new route, press ignore", which directed me back to the fucking jeep trail.

I feel like Google does have some culpability here, since they make it so hard to actually avoid hazards while still using their tool. Like, how is there not an option to just avoid dirt roads the way I can avoid toll roads? I don't dispute that it is ultimately the driver's responsibility to validate the program's outputs. But if the only way to use the app at all is to not validate the outputs, then I don't think a single line clause in the EULA is sufficient to shield google from liability.
Soooo insider trading?
Leave him alone. He already made up his mind, you're just confusing him with facts.
If the publisher published a new paper map release, including that bridge 2 years after the publisher was explicitly notified of the problem, and someone died using that new map, I wouldn't be surprised if they would get sued just as Google is now.
You think they will all be dead by 2033, from climate change?
No this would not be insider trading. You have no idea if these people even work for Splunk. And they could have just been speculating.

The SEC could still sue you and turn your life upside down by investigating every aspect of your life to try to find the connection that gave you that information, but if they can’t come up with the proof then eventually you would be fine.
Text-Guided Generation and Editing of Compositional 3D Avatars
I don't think we can infer all that much from the version numbers without knowing Microsoft's internal processes around this sort of thing, and exactly what those version numbers mean in the context of Microsoft.

To me, though, 6.1.7600.16385 -> 6.1.7601.21701 does sound like long-term support for a single "version" (whatever that word means in this context).
It's a HTML version of the SICP textbook. This version replaces the Scheme code of the original with Lisp Flavored Erlang code.

While it's a tutorial for Lisp (LFE in this case), the book itself was a first year CS textbook intended to teach you how to think about programming in general.
Those not self aware of rhetoric are doomed to repeat it.
I think kids act like this because society has created this problem, and continues to ignore it because it's financially expedient.
There's a great deal of frustration about their impotency to affect environmental change - hell, any change that would result in less money for the wealthy. Pessimism and hyperbole is a natural outcome.
> Gnome has had configurable keyboard shortcuts for years now.

No, since the moment they retired the shortcuts CSS. There is no replacement for it. You may only configure WM shortcuts and local shortcuts in select apps.
I offered a simple fix: delay notifications on all except the active client for 30 seconds, if a read reciept gets triggered from the active client then cancel the timer. I couldn't even get anyone in the team to even look at my solution 3 years ago.

Not sure why this feature keeps getting defered for "just about to land and things might be better after" server-side features (see how it has 7 out of 9 "dependencies" resolved) when none are needed.

I've had a couple of friend actually give up on matrix due to this. I also have to keep my phone on silent or else I can't be chatting on matrix without the constant bzzzing.

I'm also amused about the ever growing (currently at $760) bounty on this feature.
People aren't going to die within a decade.

That is hyperbole.

Our planet and the natural world are facing their biggest threat in millennia.

Not hyperbole.
> IMO, configuration file formats should only ever have text as primitive type. Anything else should be defined in another layer.

I very much agree. If you haven't checked it out, NestedText is an excellent format that takes this sentiment to heart.
yes, I use home assistant cause I don't need any cloud based stuff for it to work, though I did have to buy a raspi and a zigbee stick to run it on (or if you have some extra hardware laying about, I just like having it separated from my other stuff). I have a few cloud based things attached to it, but I'm selective and don't buy things where essential functionality requires it, but it's a extra & optional feature on something I was going to buy anyways (and that I don't care if data is shared on, like my automatic litter box dump box being full).
The article does not explain how sharing the voice between devices work, whether it uses iCloud or could the voice be exported directly?
Yeah, makes sense if you put it that may. Maybe it's just my PTSD from late 00s wireless stuff, now that was magic.
Question for any IQ skeptics here (e.g. "it just measures your ability to take tests" or "it just tells you how rich your parents are"): what's your response to studies like this? Is there anything that can be said about the effect of lead on cognitive function? Why might IQ be a good measure of lead-induced stupidification, but unreliable for literally anything else?
It's not, but in this case I suspect it's giving us a clue as to how the algorithm broke. Here's my imagined failure mode:

1. Google collected new data in 2023

2. That data didn't include a turn down the busted road (because why would they bother, they can see the bridge is out from up the hill)

3. Since there was no turn down the busted road, there was no new data collected for the busted road

4. They ran a fusion step to build a connectivity graph from snapshots of traversible world. Here in particular, that would have been necessary because there isn't much visibility on the road from the sky either, due to the tree line.

5. Their algorithm considered street-view-collected data to be highest-quality. Especially new street-view-collected data.

6. The connectivity graph went "Hm, I'm missing new data for this road segment... Oh, but I have some from 2012. I'll just assume we missed collection here and fuse the old data in to build a coherent map."

7. This fusion step killed all the "Hey this road doesn't exist" edits because it kicked out a new, "pristine" map from real-world measurements. In essence, the fusion step improperly updates the system's belief on recency of data so that the 2012 data is treated as fresh as the 2023 data and overrides older (2022 etc.) reports the bridge is out.

Steps 6 and 7 here are bugs, but it's a subtle enough bug that I can imagine the Maps team failing to catch it until disaster hits.
It does seem extremely odd.

I always assumed Google detects things like temporary road closures because suddenly nobody is crossing a common road, in order to reroute people.

Does it not? And if it does, wouldn't it be doing the same thing to detect more permanent road closures in less busy locations?
Until there's an incompatibility, upgrade, exposure, memory overflow, or some other security issue/exploit. Unless you're saying that it's immune to everything and will never experience a change or issue.
As a human, I would like to be able to treat user interfaces as predictable, physical objects.

Unfortunately programs are built out of math and so I can’t usually do this.

Apple iOS actually does do a pretty good job of it, and that is a huge differentiator that I think is a large part of why iPhones feel great to use.
https://archive.ph/Hpkcl
I really did try to switch to Firefox, but it’s buggy on macOS. Tabs keep hanging in air. Also screen sharing is primitive compared to Chrome…
We are already paying for it.

This is the same argument against universal healthcare: “oh but look how much it will cost”. Yeah, it’s a lot. It’s also less than the price tag of the current system.
I have no great love for billionaires, but if they're gonna do stuff, it may as well be this.
Oh right! I edited my math. Thanks :)
It's not purely marketing; they actually did integrate the Movidius VPU.
> The development of better power technologies is ~necessary, but not sufficient, to eliminate coal

Why? Are there not other plant technologies already in existence that can pick up the base load and produce less pollution?

> There are all sorts of friction effects which can delay a migration to clean power

Okay, so what are those? This article and it's backing material don't go into that at all. What did this money accomplish that would not have happened on it's own?

> so direct efforts to push the decision forward are an important piece of the puzzle.

As I stated, the backing material makes it clear these decisions were happening anyways. So, again, what is this money actually doing?

I get that there are issues, but I'm concerned that we're actually addressing them and not just green washing. Do you want to address that specific point?
> Whether it's ok or not is a different matter. But it is definitely _different_ if you tell the whole world "if we find this person, and you don't hand them over and we have a warrant, we will kill them on your territory or not

I think you're simply not aware of the facts in this case. The Indian govt certainly appears to have done the first part of what you said, including putting out an Interpol notice.

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/canada-allowed-hard...

Meanwhile the Canadian govt lied about when he got Canadian citizenship, first stating on Twitter it was 2015, and the next day that it was 2007.
Consequentism.
What goes around comes around yada yada
Nice! Will try this out
The premise is wrong. It's like saying that we need to more carefully design the copper wires so that they don't touch anything accidentally, instead of... you know... using insulators, and circuit protection.

You should be able to run any program you want, no matter who wrote it, nor the language used, safely. If you can't do that, your operating system sucks. Security is the operating system's job.

Just because we're collectively hotwiring everything to the computing grid, and just telling programmers, admins and users to be more careful, doesn't mean its a sane way to live.

To cope with our current insane situation, we've all discovered coping mechanisms, like putting things in VMs, Containers, using Sandboxes, etc... none of them are as effective as specifying at runtime exactly what side effects are allowed. The user can do it using powerboxes, the admin can do it in a batch file.

We can have easy to use, secure, general purpose computing, but at present, the Overton window is too far away for most people to see it as even possible.

I supposed it was like that with the electric grid at some point, too.
Is it insider trading if the information is leaked publicly, like on Twitter?
The ABI stuff is taken care of at runtime.
I wonder what kind of crunch time is going on at Microsoft, and also Google with Bard
And that's all on MSSQL or RDS, right?
So you consider your phone vibrating loudly on your desk for every recieved message while you're actively chatting and reading the same message on your desktop a correct implementation?
Catala has similar goal than OpenEdge ABL[1] which is prose also.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEdge_Advanced_Business_Lan...
And this is why this sort of thing will always keep happening, especially in new fields. It's like an anthropic principle of competition. If you're willing to cut corners in a way that could blow up the whole company, you can get ahead, therefore the leaders in a new field most likely cut a lot of corners and may be at risk of blowing up.
Maybe I'm making too much of it, perhaps it's just the modern style to use hyperbolic rhetoric in movie reviews.

But for new movies to make old movies worse used to be an uncommon attitude I think. I remember in the 90s and 00s, lots of movies had really shitty sequels, often straight to DVD, but nobody talked about these cash grabs ruining the original movie. For instance Aliens 3, Alien Resurrection and then all the AvP crap... some people like these (I think Aliens 3 is defensible FWIW) but a lot of people really don't. Still, nobody talks about Alien or Aliens (e.g. 1 & 2) being ruined by the later movies. Aliens 3 is frequently criticized for the way it killed well-liked characters from Aliens, but that doesn't stop people from still enjoying Aliens. People just choose to ignore Aliens 3. And why shouldn't they, because Aliens 3 is canon? That's just a legal IP relationship, that doesn't matter.

And Disney has dozens of straight-to-vhs/dvd cashgrab sequels of their classic animated movies, people who don't care for them just ignore them and they aren't said to ruin the originals. There used to be a general understanding that sequels are very rarely good, people were pleasantly surprised when it was otherwise and nobody said their life was ruined by a bad sequel. Because who cares about cannon in animated disney movies?

I've seen Lucas's Clone Wars, but if I watch the original Star Wars I'm not compelled to relate it to the Clone Wars movie. By simply choosing to ignore it because I don't like it, I free myself to imagine my own clone wars.

I think new movies ruining the originals is some relatively recent cultural phenomena that was brought on by internet culture's obsession with canon. The existence of popular sites like wookiepedia both evidence it and drive it. If I'm wrong and it's not an overabundance of respect for IP laws that is the root of this, then why isn't bad fanfic also said to ruin the original?
You're saying you think defective planes/poorly trained pilots would be less common in the complete absence of rules regarding certification of pilots or airframes?
The hardest part of this whole thing is finding someone who a) gets regular access to potential useful information, b) talks about it in public, which most of them probably don't, c) you can generally be close enough to overheard consistently but without being "that weirdo that always wants to sit behind me", all while being lucky enough to hear something at the right time.

If this guy had bought these calls last week (at same DTE) all he would have accomplished is donating $22k to some bank or hedge fund somewhere.
Yeah. My town has a population of 7,000 and is within an hour of Boston. I also have a Christmas tree farm on one side and an apple orchard and horse farm on the other. 75 acres in all and probably over 100 acres when you add some conservation land. Not what most people consider urban.

But we don’t have a meaningful commercial area at all in the town.

And I’m not walking anywhere except recreationally in the woods.
Is it a bad sign that I thought of this first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)
So, around 98%+ of companies?
There have always been people on this site who think RoHS was a conspiracy. There are a few people who do not take the public health problems caused by lead very seriously.
I'm sure it has been suggested, but are we sure it isn't describing the flooding of Doggerland?
I don't know about their router/switch OSes in particular, but a lot of their products already have Splunk integration and they seem to have a couple of products built on top of Splunk.
To be fair I am not talking about small indie games with creative gaming aspect.

Go to steam, sort any 3d category by price and be amazing by the amount of reskinned unity shooters, RPGs, whatever.
ESG is entirely bullshit, why shouldn't the marketing around it also be?
Red Hat should switch to Zig.
From simple observation, my concern is that this always pushes food and bacteria *toward* the gum line
I feel like the SEC must have already taken into account the possibility of a "Strangers on a Train" situation where an insider tracks down an anonymous third party to commit the crime with the expectation of being paid back a percentage at some later date.
Do you believe that US govt gives advance warning when it carries out assacinations. Western govt would have done thousands of these kind of operations.

Your orginal assessment is correct. Extraterrestrial are not justified and it applies to West as well and foremost USA. Whatever Russian have done I assume USA has done worse. That is its reputation!
There's two VSCode vim plugins, one a native one and the other actually uses neovim. They're both pretty good. The main downside is that VSCode plugin can take some time to startup.

I use the native one as it's a little less "pure" about VIM and integrates better with VSCode things. Overall it's less evil than evil. ;)
Unless your wife is the leader of the house.
Why is it right to give someone a lifelong preventable debilitating disease that will drastically reduce the length and quality of their life?
The webpage leak would be considered public: anyone in the world can load up the page and access the information.
Corporate Feng Shui gets pretty technical, but that’s basically it. Spirit medium con is more seance than size. Amazing times we live in!
I considered doing it the way you described, but then you need to deploy software on every single one of your machines and make sure it's running, that it's not accidentally using up 99% of your CPU (I've had bad experiences with the monitoring agents for Splunk and Netdata misbehaving and slowing down the machines and causing problems), etc. Whereas with the "pull" approach I used in my tool, you don't need to deploy ANY software to the machines you are monitoring-- you just connect with SSH and grab the files you need and do all the work on your control node.
NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa
isn't this antithetical to the spirit of obsidian?

tossing one's private notes to openai seems odd for such a tool that is marketed this way:

> Obsidian is the private and flexible writing app that adapts to the way you think.

> Obsidian stores notes on your device, so you can access them quickly, even offline. No one else can read them, not even us.
Sorry I had more than one tab open and originally meant to link to this article (1) but copy pasted the other url. Hence the discrepancy.

(1) https://www.ft.com/content/9f9a1c55-1079-43a3-973c-11443e660...