skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They "compete", but that competition doesn't have to be a push-based model where products insert themselves into unrelated parts of your life vying for dominance (between themselves and over the things in your life you actually care about). If there were a place you could search and have a reasonable expectation of finding just the subset of products worth the price for you personally and able to make your life better, would that count as an ad to you?
I would suggest we wait until you realize that advertising in 2007 was nothing like advertising in 2023, so counting the first 5-10 years is wholly inaccurate.

You may feel differently about that, since you're defending a company you apparently have loyalty to.

GL with that.
I tried to switch back previously due to some issue, but when I installed the old Mail app, it was barely functional and full of issues. Once you install the new version, it will be hard to switch back. Also, it's still lacking in many areas.
> If that's the problem, then the solution would've been just adding more address space to ipv4, preserving all existing addresses and pretty much everything else about it.

That's not possible. IPv4 addresses are 32-bit numbers. Once you change that, you're no longer "preserving existing addresses".

> once enough routers are updated to support them.

That's actually "once all routers and end devices are updated to support them". As the classic spamsolutions.txt says, "requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once".

> This could've even used the exact ipv6 packet structure, making it quite similar to v6 under the hood but more like v4 from the user's perspective.

Changing the packet structure means changing all hardware and software (yes, software too, the API for IPv4 uses 32 bits for the addresses). The changes visible to the user are the easy part.

> Instead, ipv6 created a separate world, with extra goals like making every device addressable (aka removing NAT),

It's more like "not needing NAT" than removing it; port mapping NAT is not a part of IPv4 (it's a hack on top of it), and it can be done identically in IPv6, but few do it on IPv6 since it's not necessary.

> using randomized addresses,

This is an optional thing which was added later; nothing in IPv6 requires randomized addresses, but IPv6 makes them possible by virtue of having enough free bits in the address. Were randomized addresses possible with IPv4, we'd see them happening.

> and resetting all ownership of existing blocks.

IPv6 has done no such thing; the existing IPv4 blocks are still there.
140-year-old ocean heat tech could supply islands with limitless energy
Your app seem to be using cloudflare, is the origin in cloudflare IPv6?
Can you help me out with the threat model for encrypted DNS?

As I see it, the model is that I need to contact a site, and use DNS to get the IP - but either my ISP or my VPN provider can see I’m visiting that IP whether I looked it up just now, or knew it already.

So unless the model is I’m using a VPN, but am leaking via someone else’s logging DNS, I don’t really get it.
A few things can be true at once.

1. Majority of Russian population supports the fascist regime and the invasion — about 70% IMO. These Russians are usually less educated, less wealthy, hold conservative values and have never been out of the country. They depend on the government for their livelihoods, by either working at state-owned companies or receiving money from the state in other forms.

2. There is a sizeable minority (30% IMO) of Russians who don't. During 2022, 30 thousand Russians have been imprisoned at anti-war protests, and up to a million left the country. These Russians are usually more educated, more middle-class, usually hold western socially progressive values and have been out of the country. They are usually employed in private business. These are exactly the people who have migrated out of Russia in 2022.

3. Sanctions against Russian government and military complex are morally good. They are effective at stopping the current war and deterring future invasions by Russia and other bad actors. They take power away from Putin and his fascist regime.

4. Sanctions against regular Russian citizens are morally bad. They stop Russians who flee and protest the war from moving to other countries and give more power to Putin and his fascist regime, and make it easier for it to wage war in Ukraine.

5. It is very hard to make effective sanctions that work like 3 but not like 4. But it's still worth trying.

Any statement about "Russia" or "Russians" as a whole as if it was a singular subject is false by definition.
Exactly. It's pretty easy to understand why narcissists and sociopaths behave the way they do when the masses are so dumb.
VB6 all the way, baby!
They aren't normal anymore. From my observations, 43 out of 51 people I questioned do support the war in various forms, many even making donations. It wasn't like that in the beginning but now they say that they have to.
Even so-called opposition (pro-Navalny people) say things like "if Navalny was a president, we won't be humiliated because he would win the war quickly".
I agree with this. I do like the general points about AI in the original post but writing your own compiler doesn't seem like the best solution.
Sure, it's unique and people can't just copy it but it will also be a massive amount of work to maintain it, considering all the languages it supports.
For me this additional layer of abstraction does have a bit of the 'factory-factory-factory' vibe.
What do you mean "or"? Did you read my comment? :)
This website is unviewable on mobile, I don't know about desktop.
The system of reservations with no cost or cancellation fee actually seems like it ought to provide more-or-less no signal, come to think of it.
Charge a reservation fee that is can be refunded as a credit that can only be used at the restaurant. It will be deducted from your bill or can be used at a later date. Real customers won't object to that.
> No, but Russia is running out of steam

source?
you could argue he's criticizing my intellectual capability, but whatever
Most of the issues I've seen have been in the Outlook client app.
How about some random young adult novel from 1975 that never got popular? Or an old magazine on microfiche?

Internet people overestimate how much of the world's information has been digitized, imo.
From what I've read so far, the data doesn't really support that argument. Even in my circles, the richer the couple, the less likely they have kids and so on. I don't think it's just "if you have money you'll have babies" scenario anymore. All the countries that have tried to be super-pro-baby, so far, have failed to reverse the trend as well.
Today? My 5-year-old oneplus6 has 8G of RAM and it was like $600 five years ago. It also has a headphone jack BTW.
Didn't Starship blow up the pad?

From what I've heard Starship had a lot more input from him personally, and isn't going as well as the Falcon 9 did.
Ahh. ok..

Thanks!
Curious, how did "received" end up with multiple spellings then?
Seriously. It legit gives Ready Player One vibes where irl living standards are subpar for the majority and live in a virtual world to escape that reality/make life bearable.

His rhetorical questions are valid, but he really doesn't dig into the obvious questions everyday people want answers to, whether now or when shit hits the fan.

Personally, I'm quite pessimistic in terms of the government addressing the issues people will face in the near future, in a meaningful way.
I mean you can separate a screen out into a bunch of pixels as well, or specifically blue, red, green pixels.

Even on the vision front, we have rods and cones that works differently to generate ONE vision.

This is entirely semantics.
Adventures in measuring the CPU cost of JavaScript
Looting was in large part the payment for soldiering. Whomever raised the army might pay a bit regularly for maintenance, but all the real money was in the spoils, and everyone involved knew it. Many is the army that failed to destroy a defeated foe because the victorious soldiers mostly wanted to loot the enemy camp.
> Similarly, having job tokens independent of any kind of deposit or incentive will not prevent anyone from spamming applications.

People will still have to find a way to get the tokens. They are not going to be creating them out of thin air.
So sick of reading this idiotic take EVERY time IPv6 comes up
Giant Floating Hand of God is kinda Peter Molyneux‘s thing. Going back to Populous.

Lionhead Studios was a spin-off of Bullfrog Productions that made Dungeon Keeper.
> But in modern liberal democracies, the real enemy of free speech is not the state but the pressure of opinion from our fellow citizens.

It seems the post is equating "freedom of speech" with "right to be heard", which is not part of the deal. My freedom includes the right to ignore you and society decides what speech to promote and demote.
> Meanwhile I can build a gun with not much more than a block of wood and a pipe

hmm doubtful. even with a musket you need gunpowder, primer, trigger mechanism, some sort of boring inside the barrel

in short a lot of specialized materials and equipment are needed for even the most basic gun

A bow you just need trees and some woodworking tools and some sort of metal for arrowheads.
I think soon AI will be build into a lot of different software. This is when it will really get awesome and scary.

One simple example are e-mail clients. Somebody asks for a decision or clarification. The AI could extract those questions and just offer some radio buttons, like:

Accept suggested appointment times: [Friday 10:00] [Monday 11:30] [suggest other]
George whats to know if you are able to present the draft: [yes] [no]

I think Zendesk (ticketing software for customer support) already has some AI available. A lot of support requests are probably already answered (mostly) automatic.

Human resources could use AI to screen job applications and let an AI resarch additional information about the applicant on the internet, and then create standardized database entries (which may be very flawed).

I think those kind of applications are the interesting ones. Not another ChatGPT extension/plugin.
Building it is the same amount of work as building ipv6 support. Adopting it is not the same work as adopting v6. We already have ubiquitous v6 hardware/software support, but it's a whole 'nother thing to actually use it.

1. Add v4.1 support, but keep using 32-bit addresses.
2. Start using >32-bit addresses when ready.

By the way, the WWW has gone through transitions like adopting HTTPS and banning old versions of TLS with it. Crucial to that was having transitional periods where both things work. This step was missed in ipv6 rollout.
Not really, no. In a normal development project last 20% take just as long. But AI applications are a very special beast.
The 'Introduction to Philosophy' and 'Philosophy of Science Fiction' elective course I had to take as part of my engineering program may not have done much to develop my career but I think have definitely helped me (or at least set the ground work) develop as a person.
Would it not make sense to use a text to image generator, then convert the image to svg using normal methods?
also https://colobot.info
> Known as ocean thermal energy conversion or ‘OTEC,’ the technology was first invented in 1881 by French physicist Jacques Arsene d’Arsonval. He discovered that the temperature difference between sun-warmed surface water and the cold depths of the ocean could be harnessed to generate electricity. [...]

> For OTEC to work it requires a temperature difference between hot and cold water of around 20 degrees Celsius. This can only be found in the tropics, which is not a problem in itself.
BitTorrent pirates won't receive ISP warnings in NL, but details can be revealed
I wonder if they interpreted your “charge” as more like a surcharge or fee, rather than a deposit.
One part of this came up at the end of the article, namely that increased childhood survival rate leads to decreasing number of births. It makes a lot of sense to me that this would correlate with overall improvements of living standards.

If you want to have a family four children, I'd think it's pretty universally agreed that it's better if you only have to give birth four times to do it than five, because all four babies survive childhood.

That doesn't negate that there are other factors, especially in countries that already have low birth rates and high childhood survival rates. It was just a factor I hadn't paid much attention to before or heard people mentioning very often.
A little late and a little stupid, but current year, ok.
Ask HN: What purchase under $1000 has changed your life the most?
I'm showing a little over 5.5 gigs memory used after a fresh reboot on my M1 Pro MacBook Pro w/16 gig RAM. No apps running, just Finder and the base OS. I'm not counting the cache, just "app" and "wired" memory. Of course, some of this can get paged out, but still, that's a lot of stuff running!!
No or I should say it wasn't in the early days of the Internet and Web people seemed civil. Then it was just online where people seemed aggressive and arrogant. But now I see poor behaviour in real life every day.

People seem to "tribal" and self-centred. People don't hold doors for people, they walk past people struggling like say their hands are full and they drop something but people just walk past not helping them. In stores people walk in front of little old ladies nearly knocking them down. Just a total lack of innate civility.
Yeah, I use an M1 machine for work, and you’re right about the efficiency. But as a creative pro or a developer (two of the target markets for Macs), your machine is the main tool you use to get things done. Calling a machine “Pro” and shipping it with 8GB of memory in 2023 is a slap in the face to those professionals when it’d be less than 1% more expensive to double it to 16GB.

That’s why used the term mediocre, and I stand by it.

I don’t have much to say about the terminal stuff other than that my personal thinkpad that runs Linux does the terminal thing a hell of a lot better than my Mac does.
I don't think those people are getting targeted for "presenting a positive outlook," and the dire outlook is not (solely) because of commentators' pessimism.

Both pessimists and optimists need a bit more of a clear-eyed view of the problems we have in front of us (many created by technology) and the solutions we have available (many of them... also technology).
I love my Chrome machines; they really are diamonds in the rough for simple tasks, and you can take them much further with the built-in Linux VM/environment.
>failure of socialism to produce anything useful

The Soviets were kicking America's ass in the space race up until Kennedy said "Fuck everything, we're doing five blades[0]" and shot for the literal moon. They absolutely could produce useful things, the problem was that those useful things were produced at the expense of other, possibly more useful things. Eventually the US was able to exploit this by electing a crazy person to spook the Soviets into overspending on their military, which is why we survived with merely a huge deficit spending problem rather than extreme rationing and starvation.

However, the gross misallocation of resources done under Soviet communism is not unique to Soviet communism. Capitalists do it all the time, the only difference is that free markets usually punish them for it quicker. But they don't always punish. People like Musk can still spend loads of other people's money on useless bullshit, like Twitter, or sending people to Mars[1].

[0] https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-bla...

[1] Mars is a dead rock covered in poison constantly being blasted with radiation. It wants to kill you in more ways than regular ol' space wants to kill you, and making it not kill you is likely impossible given our current technological capability. Anyone going to Mars today will be condemning themselves to living the rest of their lives out in a very small bubble of rad-shielded underground bunker.
OpenTable does this. It’s easy and a great suggestion.
For all of the US's problems, Pax Americana has been statistically pretty damn successful.
Isn’t that statistic basically the population growth rate?
I think the point the comment is trying to make is that these politicians are not stupid, they are corrupt. They are not doing it because there is a problem to be solved, they are doing it because there are bags of money to be had. A smarter politician in this context would just mean a smarter burglar.
These are almost always run full power, and if you want less light, you just flip some of the bulbs off. (You can actually see two bulbs off in the far middle fixture in the photo)

An yes, they are probably going for an orange glow inside.
It does and that's what makes the nonsense of cookie consent laws. How are you going to keep track of the user's preference of "no" to cookie tracking? It's the browser saving the data, not the website.
Are there others like me, who never reserve a table at a restaurant?

I find it much more fun to meet friends at a restaurant without a reservation. Less obligation to follow through. If one of us has a last minute idea to do something else, we go with the flow. If none of the available tables are to our liking, we go with the flow and go elsewhere. If there is no available table, we go with the flow and go elsewhere. So much more serendipity and freedom.

One time, we arrived at a restaurant and were told that there is no available table. Since I just read in a book that you usually can bribe the waiter, I jumped over my shadow, said "Maybe we can wait a few minutes and see if something becomes available?" and put a €20 note into the hand of the waiter. Pointed at the best table at the window and said "That one would be perfect of course". 5 minutes later, we were sitting at the table at the window. I was a nerve wreck and felt like a king :)
I've been to a restaurant that already does this: pay $X a head, with that dollar amount applied to your bill. I want to say one of the big restaurant POS providers (maybe Toast) provided the infrastructure behind it.
> I dunno, this looks a lot like decompiled code.

And what if it is? At what level is using decompiled code copyright violation as opposed to just replicating an algorithm?
NAT is a more desirable form of security than a firewall for most users, despite it not being intended for that purpose. It should be the default, and if you don't want NAT, go ahead and don't use it.
Ah yes, that one was pretty silly. Partly due to not spreading out alpha test hardware wide enough to catch a more obvious bug like that. Also up there with 'don't take pictures of the Pi 2, the camera flash will reboot it' :)
Multi-user graphical computing seems to forever sit just outside the more common use case lexicon.

Being able to ask another machine to run something and display it where you are is a seriously great feature.

These days I have largely given up. Too many just don't see it. Sad day.

One of my favorite X11 setups was engineering CAD software for about 30 users. I had a beefy SGI running the program and data management system.

No user could ever touch that data except through the program. Better, the data goes where it is supposed to go with the user more concerned with just doing the work with few worries.

One happy side effect was users were largely free to run what they wanted as their desktop computer. As long as a respectable X server was available for their machine, they were good to go.
“Why the world population won’t exceed 11 billion” - talk by Han’s Rosling (7yr ago)

https://youtu.be/2LyzBoHo5EI?si=ezHx2TfJa4-llCzX

He was popular at TED and built gapminder data viz tool when web2 tech started becoming popular.
It doesn't need to be perfect or even "good", anything would be useful.

Even if he had a dozen or so random nerves form connections and supply signals to be brain, that'd still be massively useful compared to nothing, and the brain should be able to figure out how to use that to reconstruct limited depth perception that wouldn't be possible with just one eye.

I've heard of crazy experiments done in the past, e.g. one where a blind subject was given effectively a braille device on their tongue fed from a camera, so effectively a very low resolution (it might have been 8x8), and the brain was able to start correlating the pressure signals from the tongue with "sight" and the recipient learned how to avoid obstacles using their new tongue sensor.

I just googled it and came up with these links:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/device-lets-blind...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainport
My first $150ish electric guitar and/or my $995 Commodore PET.
nothing would be better for spreading E2E encryption than making it illegal.
That's hilarious because that sounds like the old sync-on-green problem that Macs and monitors used to have. And that used to happen a lot with Dell monitors.

How very odd.
I kind of think it's to our benefit to have a handful of guys like this around--they remind the rest of us that money isn't everything.

(To be clear, speaking from experience, poverty isn't so fun either.)
Swap memory use is worse than actual memory use. If it just reserving a big block and not using it then fine whatever but if it's using a lot of swap that means ram is probably bottlenecking you since swap is slow.
Fixed! Sorry about that. The rustrepo stuff confused me!

My question is — was solving the edge bleed worth the (assumed) performance tradeoff? There were a couple vendor APIs that seemed to have smarter edge bleed options, but they performed worse. I never got around to actually visually comparing the images, though...

Thanks for all the great comments in your repo, they were quite helpful when trying to figure out how Stack Blur worked!
> I don't even understand how its possible to think this.

Are you intending to come across as so rude? Because I'd say this sounds like your problem. Perhaps English isn't your first language, so I'll forgive your tone.

Anyway, it seems apparent to me that an academic who struggles to land a job researching or teaching after graduation is not "top tier", but as a non-academic, perhaps I misunderstand.

Famously, the man didn't fully understand the mathematics (tensor calculus and differential geometry) required to flesh out his obviously profound ideas about general relativity, so he learned them, and then proceeded to change how we think about the universe. It's completely fascinating the drive and effort required for such a thing.

I realize the profundity of the photoelectric effect, but I've read that had Einstein not figured out relativity that Poincaré wasn't far behind. Also, Einstein commented that he felt von Neumann was the "cleverest man" that he had ever known so curious what these guys thought of Einstein? I like to imagine it rather like the tensions between impressionist musicians where Einstein is the scrappy Satie and the establishment try-hards like Ravel are smugly casting judgment on his lofty ambitions, but this may not be correct.

I maintain that I am asking a fair question about how he compared to his contemporaries.
True. That’s not the level of compensation I’m looking for.
The Cubans don't have to deal with snow and ice that requires a corrosive brine on the roads.
OpenTTD lets you use either the base graphics, which require Transport Tycoon Deluxe, or OpenGFX graphics, which do not.