skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only reason Linux now sees support is because it tied in with Valve's desire for a handheld console

Valve have been improving/supporting Linux gaming for almost a decade[1].

Apple figured out that privacy is a marketable product. They don't do it because of altruism, they do it because it makes extreme amounts of money.

Likewise, Valve figured out that doing good by the customer is a marketable product. Gamer loyalty to Valve is an insurmountable fortress that no other storefront has managed to pierce. The likes of TotalBiscuit and AngryJoe galvanized the PC gaming community into one that does not tolerate anti-consumer bullshit, and anti-consumer bullshit Apple does.

> The number of Steam Decks pales in comparison to the number of Macs, which now represent 30% market share of desktops, while linux is still stuck around 3%.

Which is completely irrelevant to gamers. A substantial amount choose to have a console and no desktop/laptop machine at all[2]. Linux is trending up [3], while MacOS trending down (and in addition is installed on fewer gaming machines than Linux overall) [4].

MacOS is completely and utterly irrelevant to gaming - unless you're talking about Candy Crush and the sort. This is unlikely to change unless Apple has a radical change in direction regarding gaming; both in terms of hardware and business model. They have clearly and loudly demonstrated that they have no interest in either: you can't use GPUs with MacOS, and their fork of WINE is neither free nor upstreamed.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Machine_(computer)
[2]: https://venturebeat.com/games/pc-and-console-sales-are-down-...
[3]: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/
[4]: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
The abstract of a paper without quotations? No, I don't think so. What do you mean exactly? Someone posted the abstract as a text post directly?
> In addition to that we built a custom columnar database

I did some digging in your blog history and it seems that is referencing https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2022/07/22/frostdb-i... and digging into the "but why?" section <https://github.com/polarsignals/frostdb#why-you-should-use-f...> seems to imply you favored the embedded feature over having something standalone, but I would enjoy hearing (or reading a blog post!) about why you felt it was a better use of your engineering to make your own columar DB versus using one of the existing columanr dbs that I have seen referenced a ton in other Show HN announcements around both logging and metrics services
Thank god - people are making themselves miserable and digging their own graves with cynicism. Cynicism is not synonymous with realism.

Optimism is as much about what you want to happen as what you think will happen.
Google pays Apple $18B to $20B a year to keep its search in iPhone
Don’t worry, you’re not missing out. Ours are ineffective/unwilling to enforce noise bylaws against vehicles anyway.
Encryption is a mathematical reality. It is physically impossible to stop and the modern internet really only works because it exists. These kinds of efforts are effectively unenforceable.
Sounds like: Never wear seat belts.

1) The seat belt has to successfully detect when it's needed. If that fails, you hit the dashboard at 55mph anyway.

2) The seat belt must ignore false positives. If it cinches up inappropriately, people will struggle to get them working, or release them.

3) If people rely on their seat belts, they will do stupid things like drive off cliffs or into light poles, because people assumed that the seat belt would always work.

4) In the worst case, if the seat belt cinches up inappropriately, people will disable the seat belt, leading people to believe the system might still be somewhat safe... not sure how that follows at all.

It's better to not have seat belts (anti-lock braking, impact-safe dashboards, turn signals) at all. That way everyone has to assume that the vehicle is unsafe, and therefore they will need to implement their own safety procedures, like being 100% perfect drivers...
More so than just using closed source software, since Bill Gates' Open Letter To Hobbyists in 1976 Microsoft has been the biggest opponent to the sharing of software in the world. If you care about open source do not give them a dime.
> The ability to generate emotion exists within the imageo and not the observed

I was thinking the exact same thing while pondering the parents assertion.

Qualia is just the notion of being something. The classic example is a bat: what is the qualitative experience of being nearly blind, but having wings and a highly accurate echolocation system?

Plants too have qualia. What is it like to be a tree. To feel the nurture of the sun, the change in seasons, and to heal a broken branch.

The qualia of a stone is less exciting, but we can still imagine being a dense pack of minerals. Perhaps rolling down a mountain and losing some weight. Suddenly finding ourselves on the ocean floor, drifting aimlessly, while providing cover and nutrition to all sorts of life. After staying stationary for thousands of years.

That rock has seen things, man!

Down at the atom level things get more excited. What is the qualitative experience of interacting with other atoms? Or a photon? Of being entangled? State transitions?

Anyway. It's clear to me that this robot absolutely has qualia. I can imagine what it's like to be be a circuit board, with an operating system, a bunch of sensors, a neural processing engine, and a hard shell. How it feels.

It makes me appreciate being human more. But also evokes empathy for that adorable lump of silicon, metals, and plastics. Don't let the GP comment bring you down, little one. You are perfect just as you are.
Yes, in many ways it is not a well-written article for those outside the the field.
I had the same idea about a decade ago but never bothered to try to implement it. I felt like it would have suffered from the same problem all other technologies have in security: overly complex user interactions. The concept makes sense, but getting N other people to commit is overhead the average user probably doesn't want to deal with.
Be aware what you're getting into: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37836783
This is the best explanation I've seen for the problem so far. Thank you
NSA is more commonly associated with Fort Meade, MD, for what that's worth.
Ugh yeah. It's that time of year where it gets dark early and I get blinded on the way home from work by all the bro-dozer truck lights and intense LEDs.
These rules are usually used as probable cause to target someone the police officer was already targeting. "Profiling" is the better word for it maybe.
> Is there a term for the embarrassingly large cohort of folks hellbent on forcing the state into everyone's personal lives to sand down every sharp corner?

A not-quite-exact word that comes to my mind is busybody. (Note that it's not a polite thing to call someone.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busybody
I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, and admittedly I have only tried the free version of ChatGPT (3.5), but it basically never works for me. Not even for relatively simple things.

From my past history:

"Is "192.168.1.4" included in the subnet "192.168.0.0/16"?" -> No

"Check whether a widget overflows in flutter" -> returns a function that cannot be made to works even with a lot of massaging (uses stuff that does not exist)

"Write a parser for this multiline format in C++ (describe format)" -> parser only read first line

Admittedly a trick one: "Can you give me a C++ function to merge 2 uint32_t and one uint16_t into a unique uint64_t?" -> happily gives an answer

Sometimes it is salvageable, and sometimes it can provide ways I did not consider to solve a problem (though the proposed solution is usually broken), but usually I would have been faster to do it myself than to try to fix whatever it gives me.

I have basically given up on it, except for some generic "how would you solve problem X?", and when I see people talking about it, it feels like a totally different world.
I lived in Portland for years - and it's the same. Even if you did get someone on the phone, I doubt anything would happen. There's tons of cars without plates, mufflers, windshields, etc. driving around that the police don't care about.
They should render these images when there’s excess renewable energy, then store them for later.
Well, the intent is usually the same: extract money from user, either outright stealing, or scare them and get paid for "protection"
A friend has the Samsung Frame and I think you can only interface with it via the Samsung SmartThings app. It's quite closed. So you need an online thing for the TV and then you upload it into their app.
Liberal-leaning state, conservative family members, conservative and liberal friends.
"they believed Jesus from Nazareth was the Messias and the other jews did not believe jesus was the messiahs"

Isn't that definition in opposition?
By definition approximately is not all.
That's absolutely right; further, if you explicitly model the behavior of the game show host, you can exhibit models under which "it's better to switch" and models under which "it doesn't matter if you switch or not".
Well antivirus is also software that has to:

- be in a priviledged position on the system

- open up all kind of files for analysis without the user's interaction

Now if you want a way to create a juicy target for malware authors and increase the attack surface of your system, this is one way to do it.
Weakening encryption allows for mass surveillance, the folks that will use it will use it. This is about collecting all citizens communication.
On the otherhand, open source anti-kamikaze drones?
Literally. I'm sure the purpose of all these regulations (including the EU banning petrol cars) is that in a few decades poor people won't allowed to drive their own cars.
To show that Mac users don't need to care about Valve existence, plenty of others willing to target Metal and Apple customers.
I use 1Password [0] for syncing passkeys, and it works quite well. I would imagine other password managers are building similar features.

[0]: https://support.1password.com/save-use-passkeys/
For one thing because it can't be "race based": https://ewanbirney.com/2019/10/race-genetics-and-pseudoscien...
INVEST IN TIME TRAVEL. TIME TRAVEL IS POSSIBLE. YES THIS REALLY ME.
I am very annoyed by the decision of the EPA to start cracking down, because it's made it impossible to import parts for my track/race cars, even though it's completely legal to do so. Like many things, the market for enthusiasts supported availability and reasonable pricing for the more hardcore enthusiasts.
Move to a small city and WFH.
Sure, it might be Apple - and maybe reading between the lines that is why Valve dropped the support. However, it reads (to me) as not enough people are playing the game on the mac so they are dropping support. To me that doesn't read as being too hard for them to support mac. If it was easier, maybe it wouldn't be a huge deal for Valve to continue supporting it, but that isn't clear to me.

I'm not a game developer though and don't closely follow this stuff, I'm just a person who occasionally likes to play CS on my macbook and can no longer do so.

Note: I am aware of Apple not generally being very supportive of games on their platform. It's always been that way.
You used one of the trickiest, most misleading symbols out there: "is". This one word causes massive amounts of confusion about "reality" (yet another very tricky symbol), and yet "no one" "thinks" (yet another) twice about how they deploy it.

That's semiotics.
Two years in prison for failing to unlock your phone in the UK (Section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act). Don't forget that password!
There are lots of open-source design systems built with Lit. Shoelace is a popular component set that you might check out: https://github.com/shoelace-style/shoelace There are many others...

Would it help if we listed more open source projects on our site?

Because of our focus on components and the fact that you really can use just about any libraries and scaffolding for apps, we don't really have an app starter kit, but it's something we've talked about.
Now there is a technically savvy solution that is a technical tour-de-force.

Very very cool.

But also completely unrealistic for the average person to use.
I’m still trying to get the gov to cough up the documents, but funny how the gov didn’t tell our telecoms to ban them from roaming on our cellular networks. Nor identify domestic users that imported them and put on a transition plan to get them off our networks.

If they’re actually so harmful to public health.

Though I wonder if our telecoms were behind this; they prefer you to buy your device from them.
> That's just it – there isn't.

This is your position, but it's not a position presented in the Wikipedia article.

> we should, and do, treat it unproven

Do you mean disproved here, rather than unproven? I think that when we know something has been neither proved nor disproved we should treat it as unproven (because it is unproven), but that does not mean we should assume that it is false.
(Elixir) Transcription with Whisper Using Neural Network Smart Cell [video]
I'd prefer to just have less outdoor light since blocking out all outdoor light also blocks out sunlight which can mess up your circadian rhythms.
Password managers like Dashlane and 1Password have announced support for storing and synching passkeys. As passkeys becomes more popular I expect more providers to step up as well.

Ecosystem lockin is not how we make a new technology like this successful. And all players in the game understand that.
The POSTGRES project at Berkeley started in 1986, the open source successor became PostgreSQL in 1996.
Hmm. I wonder what the whole-sale price is? A TV with wifi is partly subsidized by the ads you see when you turn it on. This 2500$ display seems like it’s for small run signage, so they know it’s being sold for government/business use. Probably a bit inflated.

Does Rakutan/Amazon/Pocketbook really pay a similar cost/size ratio for the panels on their ereaders? I hope not!
Game consoles have huge userbases that purchase games, thus the incentive to port is higher. You can also develop them from a Windows machine because all the tools are designed for that..

Mac userbase that purchases games is small, they need to make it easier if they want more games. And Apple also doesn't want you developing on Windows-- you need to use this bloody Mac.
Has Musk ever posted anything non-shit?

For a CEO of multiple companies, he sure has a lot of time on his hands.
Gerrit is capable of showing only non-whitespace diffs.
Things are starting to get really interesting here:

"When you combine the features above with Nx’s ability to run neural networks distributed across multiple machines and GPUs, Elixir developers now have a first-class, state-of-the-art, speech-to-text model ready to run, enjoy, and scale."

(via https://news.livebook.dev/speech-to-text-with-whisper-timest...)
Use an alias and ensure the flag is always set to show dotfiles, or don’t use dotfiles, or fork and patch ls, or write a bash wrapper function, or use any language you choose and shell out, or write your own directory listing utility app.

There are trivial solutions to your issue and complicated ones. You’re choosing the one thing which will not solve your issue, complaining. Imagine if you directed such passion towards a positive constructive thing rather than ranting at length about friggin ls
IF configured away from the defaults:

By relying on the default keepalive limit, NGINX prevents this type of attack. Creating additional connections to circumvent this limit exposes bad actors via standard layer 4 monitoring and alerting tools.

However, if NGINX is configured with a keepalive that is substantially higher than the default and recommended setting, the attack may deplete system resources.
I apologize, my comment was too strong. I am sure many shops did this, probably because they got into retail when the home computer market was booming and weren't yet skilled in repair.
No, simple driver boards aren't super complicated. Nor are the chips on them manufactured on the fanciest nodes. They're not super-high-volume either though and as a result somewhat expensive on a BoM.

Here's the data sheet for the ITE IT8951, a frequently-used ASIC for this purpose that supports basic partial updates as well: https://www.waveshare.net/w/upload/1/18/IT8951_D_V0.2.4.3_20...

Here's a sourcing price: https://www.win-source.net/products/detail/ite/it8951e-64-dx...

It's basically a fairly simple SPI interface (or here a SPI wrapper around an internal Z80 protocol). The rest of the board is power supply handling and a DRAM framebuffer chip, external to the driver ASIC on SPI as well. I wrote a custom driver for this in Rust for my project, and it only took about a day despite a few leaky-abstractions oddities in how it communicates over SPI.

The chip itself is basically buffer handling, image processing (features like JPEG decode, resampling and some LUT mechanisms) and a waveform generator. Others will have some IP blocks for, say, a HDMI frontend. Any decent chip company can crank this out pretty quick. There's easily 10+ product lines on the market.

For simple things you may not even need one and can drive the panel from an MCU directly.

There are more expensive, more advanced drivers that implement more complicated and higher-performance (say, refresh rate) update schemes or I/O though.
“Patient care” is not the ultimate good. It must trade off against other priorities in the society. We cannot dedicate 100% of our resources to patient care.

This means that even public healthcare systems must operate on a budget, the resources are still limited, and in actual practice this means that the public systems are also understaffed, often (if not, in fact, typically) more so than in US.

In my personal experience, wait times and availability of healthcare in public system in Poland are pretty dismal compared to US. I also heard similar opinions from most of my friends and colleagues who immigrated to US from Canada and UK; they universally say that they are actually able to get higher quality service in US with shorter wait times.

You cannot just throw catchphrases about “maximizing profits” and proceed as if it settles the issue, you have to actually argue that some other approach will bring better outcomes, and you need to argue why similar approaches to what you propose applied elsewhere have empirically not brought the outcomes you expect to see in US.
I was mistaken, it was not you, but it did happen recently. My apologies.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37816614
Not disputing the popularity.

It’s just that not having ADS into iron sights or vaulting in 2023 game feels archaic. The movement is incredibly clunky; I suppose to preserve that 2000 feel.

Sure Valve didn’t want to break the expectations, and lose a skin-selling cash cow. I was just hoping it would be more than a VERY subtle facelift and more of a very incremental update than a 2.0

The marketing was simple - they replaced CS:GO with the new version. It’s like Twitter changing to X.com without marketing the new brand
For iPhone users, you can mash your power button and it'll require a PIN to unlock the phone. Biometric auth will be disabled.
I’m still missing something. Can’t you close a Quic stream and open another one within the same UDP packet?
LLM Inference Using Julia's Transformers.jl
Who knows? Most science nobody attempts to replicate. The major stuff yes, but small things are not worth the cost or time.
I have a digital subscription, their app is very good on tablet. Strongly recommendy if you are looking for a sci-fi anthology. Mr Burns had a wonderful career!
Ask HN: Could someone mention some social networks on the deepweb?
i'm very interested in spreading the word about my applications there. i know it's a pretty toxic environment, but it can also be an open door to new challenges.
How does it handle translating copyrighted material? Disclaimer buried somewhere?
It is absolutely false that this is the single only misstep of this particular person. He is exceptionally well known in the industry, both for his history before Unity, and also during his already 10 years old history in Unity.

This is not an isolated instance, this is not a weird decision that exists in a vacuum.

Your point may be interesting in other cases, but it totally misguided and out of place in this specific case.

Another way to see this case: This is not the first time he does take heavy advantage of his clients, but this is the first time he faces the consequences you can expect of heavily taking advantage of his clients. In other more crass words, this is the first time his clients don't eat his shit big time.
That’s certainly a position one could take. In that context but also in the spirit of the original question, I wonder if the people in question think Europe is even capable of providing the amount of support that’s needed and if they would like to see Ukraine fall if Europe (in the absence of the US) proves incapable of delivering the aid Ukraine needs to defend itself.

It’s hard for me to wrap my head around an isolationist mindset that wants to ignore invasions happening in Europe (go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line, why don’t you?) but I also wonder if these people take the US’s NATO obligations at all seriously, and if they’ve thought more than one move ahead. I’m not demanding you speak for these people, of course.
Half the population has a double digit IQ. The methodology has converged on what it has because it works on the majority of the population. Most people don't see through it.
Raising prices is difficult, charging when people are used to free is near impossible. Most of your free users were never going to pay anyway so there is no point in having them use your product at all.

Trial periods still seem good to me (as a customer, not provider), the best I have come across offers a 30 day trial BUT those days need not be consecutive, use it one day a week and the trial lasts 30 weeks.
Not in my understanding: it is

group A believes in X

group B believes in Y

What the parent poster seemed to imply was

group A believes in not Y.

Or a more concrete example of today, many people today define themself by being anti green, anti progressive, anti woke, antifashist etc. but often struggle to define what they are standing for.
My understanding is that such parts are not by themselves illegal.

The relevant text regulating the sale and manufacture merely allows the EPA to exempt products "that you intend to be used solely for competition, where we determine that such engines/equipment are unlikely to be used contrary to your intent."

> but a part of me does not like the idea that every vehicle owner is beholden to the OEM for parts in perpetuity.

I don't think the regulation requires OEM parts, Dorman and MagnaFlow sell bolt-on Catalytic converters without any trouble from the EPA. I think there is a real problem when it comes to more complex parts like ECUs but right to repair laws can help solve that by requiring documentation and restricting arbitrary locks of electronic components.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-40/chapter-I/subchapter-U...
OK I was wrong and stand corrected, asyncpg is not pure Python.

asyncpg has these two C files and also uses Cython as far as I can see.

https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg/blob/master/asyncpg/pr...

https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg/blob/master/asyncpg/pr...

If you are interested here is a post by the psycopg author about psycopg2 and 3 and performance versus asyncpg.

https://www.varrazzo.com/blog/2020/05/19/a-trip-into-optimis...