skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also in the event of an apocalypse - the first generation could have all the awareness of technology, knowledge etc but the people who are experts may die out? Even if experts exist the transfering of what to build into "how" to build may need a lot of nurturing - Eg a chip-design expert knows it all - but may not be an expert in building a fab (not even considering the resources needed) to build this chip. But in the world where survival is paramount chip-design is just now a luxury skill and very few incentives exist to urgently preserver/pass down this knowledge? My guess is if apocalypse doesnt turn into anarchy and a rort, you need stability and peace during which technological experimentation/building to florish. SO yeah 50-100 years seems reasonable.
How do you know this is their view? I don't have any strong opinion or evidence to argue, but I'm curious if this is conjecture or inference or actual knowledge?
Welfare queen.
I’ve paid no tax and I’ve paid lots of tax. I did not care in either case how much I was paying in taxes (it is what it is). What I did care about is how much of a pain in the as it is. Mail me a goddamn postcard telling me how much I owe and be done with it.

And then to find out one political party would prefer that I suffer so I’ll vote the way they want? Yeah, fuck those guys, I’m voting for the other ones.
Hertz is ditching even more electric cars
Unfortunately, an economy is now wholly peopled by shareholders, and the most important shareholders are usually the owners and corporate officers.

Software dev who's worked in both tech and finance. I don't measure things in just shareholder returns.
His views are linked within the very post you read. I would tend to agree with you if they weren't exposed right in your very face on valuable technical content.

The MAGA author is transphobic and accuses an MSFT VP of violence, with no proof other than the author's claims.
Late in the game, but OpenGL was not a failure. It was written for fixed GPU hardware pipelines, for which OpenGL was perfectly suitable. And one with which one could write application code for without middleware. And it was a lot nicer API than the contemporary Direct3D, which was forced down people's throats with the usual Microsoft monopoly tactics.

It started to break down with programmable shader pipelines. And got a bit weird, with most of the API being irrelevant for the programmable-pipeline hardware.

As for Vulkan, it's a very different type of API. It's a kind of hardware abstraction layer that's easier to write drivers for. You should not use Vulkan if you're not writing hardware drivers or middleware. It's an extremely verbose and cumbersome API to use for anything.

For a low level API it's probably OK to write other APIs on, although the extreme on-your-face verbosity seems a bit unnecessary. AFAIK widely used higher level APIs have failed to really materialize. Maybe WebGPU, which is still quite low level. Game engines did get Vulkan backends quite quickly, but I wouldn't call game engines APIs as they are nowadays.

So probably you should use a game engine, even if you don't need 95% of their features. Or don't want to use languages and architectures they are married with.
Because they have their own version called Douyin. That is the original TikTok, by their parent company ByteDance.
FTC says Amazon executives destroyed potential evidence using apps like Signal
It's not just the code base that needs to be maintained. I'm about to do a big release for my (not at all popular) JS canvas library and I've spent the best part of a week just updating the documentation surrounding the library: it is mind-numbing boredom, and far more (non-?) technical debt than I ever wanted to deal with.

But I have to do it - it's like a "pride" thing now; I'd feel ashamed of myself if I did a breaking release and left the surrounding documentation to rot.
Look at the size and weight of the Oculus Quest that Facebook started working on in 2015/2016. It was 571 grams. The Quest 3, about 4 years newer and shipped last year at 515 grams and the more capable Meta Quest Pro is 722 grams. The Apple Vision Pro is 650 grams of headset and another 350 grams of battery for a total weight of 1 kilogram or 2.2 pounds. These monstrosities are not shrinking yet because their capabilities aren't good enough yet.

They'll keep getting bigger, or treading water at best, for another decade chasing needed capabilities before they start benefiting from a tech shrink. Then, a decade after that, we might have some form factors people aren't embarrassed to be seen wearing.

Until then, these 1.5 pound face smashing strap on dorkboxes are not going to be a substantial market.
With voting to elect a representative, the point is to choose whoever you feel best represents your interests. A conflict of interest does not matter because the self interest is kind of the point.

With voting on passing legislation, the point is to choose what best represents the interests of your constituents, conflicts of interest matter because they may cause you to not properly represent the interests of your constituents. Self interest is not supposed to be the point.
Well I think the bigger issue is a "Kessler syndrome" type problem than meteorites (i.e space junk hitting the earth), although we've already seen issues with the latter..
> The Biden administration announced Friday that its first-of-its-kind free tax filing website...

In the rest of the world in many places we have been filling taxes directly online for many years. Sorry Americans, you did not invent free electronic tax filing. You are at least twenty years late to the party.
Yeah, there are definitely two camps on this. I personally love the uninterupted screen real estate of having a very large single monitor, and I'm not that into paying for more pixels below the threshold where I can't see them individually
Yes, I wish I had known about this before. In our case we weren’t hiring a full-time nanny, but a regular part-time babysitter (16 hrs/week) just often enough that we met the criteria for needing to file and all that, so payroll services would be a more significant part of the total we ended up paying for wages.
Some one else used a stepper motor actuated cam to open a dishwasher, could be used instead of a linear actuator: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/diy-automatic-opener-f...
That sounds really fun to use, I love it
Also, they dropped it on grass. I'm not say it'll break if you drop it on cement, but it won't survive "without a scratch".
What's sad to me is the level of apprehension people have towards doing taxes. It's not that hard! The first few years of my adult life I did it by hand, using the paper forms. It is very easy to do if you can follow basic instructions, yet people act as if it's super difficult and requires an expert.
I prefer the approach of an algorithmic challenge that forces the "new visitor" to spend some CPU cycles.

It's a clear process, doesn't involve privacy risks or strange sneaky games, and tends to fail in ways that a human can at least see and report, as opposed to mysterious outages.
No. Those other laptops WOULDN'T be dead. They WOULDN'T be dented either. ThinkPads from that era had a maganisum alloy frame. They are hella rigid but the plastic shell gives enough bouce so they don't dent when dropped.

And macOS software support is awful. It's completely random and up to the whims of Apple with some models getting only 6 or 7 years support if you bought at launch.
It takes great skill to lead a group of people and get the most out of them. That's not an engineering problem.
I mean, one way to block it is to firewall it. Another is to engage in data poisoning attacks.
> … read the article

>> "Crews reshaped the landscape, spreading fine sand across large stretches of rich topsoil, Duttlinger said"

Where did the fine sand come from, how deep is the [alleged] spreading of it, how much of it did the panel installers [allegedly] bring with them?

Can't help wishing we weren't quite so credulous....
I have to differ with you on AI. We seem on the verge of sci fi movie stuff.
If you're worried about energy, land use, and competition with farmland for food, there's one thing you should worry about: bioenergy.
If you worry about solar energy and land use, you haven't looked at the numbers.
Cory Doctorow, blogger, journalist, and science fiction author, talking authoritatively about the technology industry, products, business strategy, etc.
What about expenses for those that are self employed?

What about rental income?

What about expenses related to rental properties?

Lots of things the government doesn’t know…
Fwiw I really disliked CMU while I was there for its stratification. Get some education outside of CS as well!
"Do I think it's the best use of that land? Probably not. But our investors would kill us if we didn't pursue this," he said.

Psychotic “investors” have ensured the extermination of humanity
Costs me $0.5 to send an image or other MMS locally to Android. Even a txt costs me if the Android is overseas. I have a cheap plan in New Zealand.

Blue/green might be irrelevant to you, but it is definitely not irrelevant to many people.
I didn't say whether anyone should or shouldn't vote. I asked a question regarding whether people with conflicts of interest should be prevented from participating in a democratic society, through voting, or as a politician.

So should that be allowed or not?

I think people using roads, or schools, or getting welfare should be able to vote, I believe politicians getting monetary benefits from tax filing services should be allowed to speak.

I mean that's a pretty harsh decision, deciding that the government determines who is allowed to speak. That's what I was responding to.
Not OP, I use AirGradient recommended Senseair S8
Overuse of certain words suggests ChatGPT used in many scientific studies
Related:

Cisco says hackers subverted its security devices to spy on governments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40174207
Surely the system will be better if we make it so only the wealthy have roles in government.
Apple spent about as much on AVP as Facebook did on Quest, starting about the same time (10 years ago) and all Apple's done to date is release a Quest Plus with slightly better specs and premium materials for 7X what Facebook charges and that's why Apple only has tens of thousands of monthly AVP users and Meta has about 10 million monthly Quest users.
Russia rushing reinforcements into breakthrough at Ocheretyne
Well by definition their entire purpose is to reduce attention needed for driving which is an invitation for distraction.

I’d argue of distracted driver on autopilot than without one, but there’s more cases of abuse, and I doubt anyone has measured and compared net outcomes. Ergo it’s yet another moral panic about rocket-man-bad.
Adamlead
A key difference with Nadella is that as CEO he's earned credibility with the board, investors, analysts and many employees. Arguably, this should give him greater leeway to adopt strategies which may yield less immediate revenue (such as increasing investment in security) with the justification that it will pay off in the longer run.
-$70, not -$700, assuming the rest of your numbers are correct
>I cannot fathom why it is still done this way

*intuit has left the chat
No need for snark, you can change your Apple ID at any time.
Yes, and rather than a few keywords it will be full data poisoning attacks. Which, cool.
A: Wires

It really is a solved problem.
Is your address? Your ssn? Your phone number? In Sweden, anyone can look it up.

https://ratsit.se
If I could just have an enum restricted to the enumerated values, I'd be happy. It's pure insanity that even a c++ enum class can take on an integer value.
Already been done

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Tullock#Tullock's_spi...
This is great! I'm a little bit confused by the "You Ship, We Ship". It seems presented like a named concept of sorts, but the description when following the link is

> At Hack Club we're reimagining a new type of public education for technology. We believe people learn best by creating things they care about and sharing them with others. We build open source creative tools with young people all around the world. These tools are gateways to new subjects in technology like embedded systems, circuits or digital fabrication robotics. When teenagers build things with our tools we send them more creative materials for free.

> Our goal is to build a new type of library online that offers learners not just media to consume but tools to create. And it is free and open source to all. We're just getting started...

This is also great. But, I'm still confused by the name.

Shipping is usually referred to sending something through, well, ships originally, but postage in general this day. But, I don't think it has anything to do with that.

Am I missing something? Perhaps something lost in translation?

Edit: Aha. I just didn't read it correctly. The concept is that you contribute by sending materials to teenagers who are trying to learn this stuff? That's amazing!
> game development is also game engine development

not necessarily. Loads of games and game developers do not engage in any engine development at all, they just use an off the shelf engine and make their game, treating engine developing about as close as web devs treat database development.
It’s mentioned in the article. 1/3 of corn production goes to ethanol.
>Back then, buying a PC with windows meant having a lot of crap installed by default.

Maybe in the US/West when you bought prebuilt form the likes of Dell. But in my home of EE, most PCs we had for sale in shops were locally assembled with no OS, or just vanilla OEM Windows installed (sometimes even pirated).

Crap installed by default on PCs is not something I ever encountered where I live.
I used to run 3x 21" monitors, and at one point work assigned me dual 32" monitors. But I find I don't love the bezels inbetween, and I do like the vertical real estate of a big 16:9 monitor.

I also connect my MacBook to the same setup, which is somewhat... funky in its handling of multiple monitors (and I believe only supports 2 external monitors at a time)
More or less of a conflict of interest than members of Congress lowering their own taxes?
I built this weather forecast / todo list with the weather.gov and todoist APIs https://harrystern.net/halldisplay.html
I'm going to find a doctor who will admit a real disease exists and actually consider it as a possibility. Many don't, and it's irresponsible. Report irresponsible doctors. They aren't hurting for cash.
By far the weirdest thing to me in this entire thread, as someone who had long-term Lyme disease, is the dudes bragging about how often they remove ticks from themselves and their children, yet who are more scared of antibiotic resistance the Lyme.

Simply does not compute. Do you, like, get off on risking contracting infectious disease? I feel bad for your children.
The Light Herder [video]
My web cam on the T410 doesn't work under the Windows version it's running and hasn't worked for many years

The T410 works in Windows 11, so if it's not working for you, it's a simple driver update.

But on the note of Apple just working, there is an entire frontpage thread about how Apple isn't "just working" for thousands of people whose Apple IDs have been locked out. And The Verge currently has a front-page post about their Apple editor discovering that Apple doesn't just work and in fact has quite piss-poor speakers (https://www.theverge.com/24139303/mac-mini-laptops-desktops).
I’m not sure that needed clarification but sure
The two aren't really related. A implies B does not mean B implies A, ie negating B won't negate A, ie not having automatic tax filing won't remove the loss of privacy

Might as well say "Maybe instead of changing the way we file taxes, we solve world hunger"

(I say this while voting for small government & making efforts to preserve my privacy)
I didn't build anything yet with it, but I want to do something like this project:

https://www.instructables.com/ESP32-Bluetooth-Reflow-Oven/
One thing that the article didn't mention, which I think needs to be considered, is the savings if we can get rid of paper tax forms. Right now, the IRS has to have the staff to be able to process those. How much will they save there, and does it offset the ongoing costs of running the website?
Nice to hear! Really want to get into Rust at some point. This might be a nice segue into it
there are almost never ice storms here
Just watch out for the vomiting.
Gotcha, thanks for the explanation. Sounds like too much hassle to DIY for sure, I guess their classification logic makes sense.
If you're just hiring a dev as your first employee , it's most probably a bad decision. Your first hire should always be your co-founder.(unless you already have a product). It should atleast be someone who's willing to work with you on the product , who has or wants to share your vision . Someone who either loves your idea , or someone who's passionate in working in the industry.

Either way , the person should feel invested in the company , so just paying him for his code won't be a ideal option . I mean , think of it , if you're paid for your code , it means , you get paid almost $4000 /month even when the idea gets only 100-500 installs . So they guy doesn't need to work his ass off to see the idea succeed , so he doesn't have any real commitment.

So i would suggest finding someone who's passionate and giving them smwhere around 20%-40% equity , based on how much you think they wld be contributing . It is also important that they don't feel that they're being ripped off , cause they're your partners
The "Fun Side Note #2" paragraph? Doesn't really matter does it, just ignore if it you're not interested. That's what I did. Clicked the link, realised it was some extraneous rant, went back and read the rest of this article.
RFK to File Lawsuit Against TikTok Ban
Yes this would be a problem if for every module you had to create a lib.rs, which is not the case. mod.rs has a much higher # of occurrences.
I highly recommend just doing Doom emacs with evil as a daily driver (that's similar of what I did) and then going through the Emacs from Scratch series from Systems Crafters https://systemcrafters.net/emacs-from-scratch/
No 1099, it needed to be a W2.

What made it difficult was: finding out we needed to do anything at all, finding out what that “anything” even was, finding instructions for doing it, parsing the instructions and figuring out if we were reading the correct instructions, figuring out if the various exceptions and other special clauses applied, researching those, then figuring out how to actually do any of this, and so on, and then again a second time for state taxes.

Nevermind going down the rabbit whole of trying to figure out if we need an EIN and then repeating the same discovery and learning process for just that small part of the whole entire thing.

Honestly it would have been a full time job for me to successfully navigate it all. I don’t see how it’s possible to do without already being a CPA or accountant of some sort. It’s an entire domain of knowledge and I had almost none of that knowledge. There’s too much else going on in my life to begin to delve into all that.

All this for a baby sitter 16 hours a week.
Oooh. That's a very promising option.
Yes, there is far too much ambiguity in these licenses. Especially because you never know what will happen in the future. You could be found to be in competition after they launch a new product or new feature, years after not being in competition. At that point changing out their product could be too challenging, forcing you into arbitrarily expensive commercial license agreements.

Certainly one of the reasons why open source is popular in software is that it gives you options for maintenance prices. You can do it yourself or pay any number of consulting agencies to do it for you, or the creators of the software. When it becomes locked to one vendor suddenly the market economics change hugely. Now that vendor can crank the price up extremely high, basically until just before the point your willing to engage in a hugely expensive software refactor to move to a different product.

Open standards were supposed to help make it easier to move to new products, but in reality, it rarely is that clean. E.g. look at SQL, while it's easier maybe to move from one SQL database to another than from one completely custom database to another, it's still a massive amount of work due to details of each SQL server.
Twitter/X Post: https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/17840912416444579...
I would advise the author to read up on "asynchronous exceptions" and check out how many systems have had them at some point and removed them.

I'm not saying that's because they're fundamentally impossible, but because they have a track record of tripping up language designers and it's good to cross check against the experiences.

Recommended languages are Java (ultimately a failure despite vast effort), and Haskell and Erlang where they work, but a lot of work of very different kinds was put in to make it work. I definitely get Erlang vibes from this piece so it's possible the preconditions for correct asynchronous exceptions are met or can be met here. But they are very subtle and have a tempestuous history of working 99.9% but it being literally impossible to get to 100%. This could be a big, big, big trap.
Thanks for asking I could give a better explanation. We mean the participant ships a project (like shipping code) and we physically ship them materials (like a drawing machine in the mail).
A Doom tribute game. Nice.

Worked fine, cleared five levels, bored.
Following tax forms is so braindead simple, I honestly can't see how anyone can be that incapable without being mentally deficient enough to be under conservatorship. It's literally step by step "Add this" or "subtract that". If you have a calculator and a 3rd grade level understanding of English, I can't see how you'd have a problem.
As a member of the space station crew, with no room for an actual big screen, I benefit from strapping a tiny screen to my face. That surely means Apple's got a hit on its hands here. I'm a market, I'm the proof they have happy customers. Of course they will be successful, if I'm a representative example....
And you could just open the in-backup html file to decrypt and read your stuff in emergencies.

1Password has fallen hard from their earlier excellence.
A bigger issue would be how you handle not all of America being in sunlight at the same time, or what happens When that section happens to be freakishly cloudy.
Ukraine War: M1 tanks withdrawn, they're not a strategic fit
I know that both BBC iPlayer and YouTube support timestamp links.

For example, BBC uses:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001ttrg/mandy-series-...

YouTube uses:
https://youtu.be/PVemGumEEgo?t=13
But will it impact 0.0000001% of native desert fauna?

Perhaps we should keep burning coal then.
Yeah, to be clear, I'm not saying I agree with their goals. Just that making taxes more painful to file likely increases their salience.
I'm increasingly flexible on price. Let's say sub-$800 for now. Inflation appears to have hit monitors hard the last few years!
Wow, this well-made. Thanks for sharing!
> Historical events are biased?

It would be a mistake to take historical accounts at face value. They are written by humans, not some objective entity.
If nothing else, that significantly changes the backend scale required. You should trivially be able to host (show, timestamp, text) in a SQLite database for a very long time. Expanding to screen caps adds all sorts of complexity: legal rights, consistent resizing, CDNs, EXIF stripping, what if some joker uploads shots of pornography, etc
Yes, but a sweetheart deal to avoid a legal battle for the greater good with the few entities that have sufficient mass to potentially win at court is a scummy thing in its own right