skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>some of them will die within perhaps a few years of starvation.

We can be fairly sure that before a group of humans die of starvation, they die of violence. Either from another desperate band of humans also starving, or trying to take those humans' land. This is certainly the pattern for hunter-gatherers living on marginal land in the last millennium. Presumably, this was also the case when they were hunter gatherers on prime land too - before they were forced out of it by more numerous, and better organized, agriculturalists.

There's no _good_ way of ever going back to a hunter-gatherer society, unless you want to kill 99/100 people (or tell those 99 they can never have children - and enforce it through child murder or sterilization). There's no _good_ way of going back to a pre-industrial society, unless you want to kill/sterilize 9 out of 10 people. Not saying you suggested these - but it should be pointed out.
Not just cyclists, of course, but also pedestrians and people living there.
Yea, for sure, it might sound very loose compared to something like a microcontroller. But embedded is very broad. Some of our devices run Chromium, for example :-)
There’s some value to being able to lock a device against somebody who physically has control of it. Like it is nice that stolen iPhones have reduced value.

But there’s a pretty big social harm to locking people out of their devices, like the generation of tech-illiterate kids growing up that haven’t been allowed to break their computers well enough to learn anything about them.
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From what I've read the whole thing is supposed to be opt-out (or maybe even opt-in). I guess we'll find out more next week at WWDC.
I don't think Colonialism is the correct descriptor these days for the global Oligarch class buying up all the land future generations would be able to use and locking it away. This isn't just an American problem and it's not just idyllic islands that are being locked up. It's the establishment of a new form of Feudalism.
You can’t re-enter if you never leave. If Falcon 9 “survives re-entry” then so do minivans.

Falcon 9 is an impressive and revolutionary vehicle. We don’t need to overstate the capabilities.
I'm not so convinced that Apple has missed out so far. Yes, OpenAI and co are handing tens or hundreds of millions to smart engineers to push this tech forward, and probably an order of magnitude more spent on tech. But show me the product. Go on, show me the Samsung, Xioami, Google phones that are taking market share off Apple with AI features. They don't exist.

So far what we have is companies like Microsoft rolling out poorly thought through "AI Clippy is going to fuck your day up and boost our stock price 10 fold" type campaigns. Apple is not going to do that.

I think the main interesting news here is that it sounds a lot like Federighi has let Giannandrea fail on his own terms and now is moving in to pick up the pieces. If this is accurate, it doesn't bode well for Giannandrea's tenure at the company.
On mobile the background animation makes scrolling a jittery and frustrating experience.
> the low potential sales numbers

All sales are initially low before a market is grown.

If Apple wanted a machine that was also a great gaming machine, they could have that, and that market would then grow. The fact that they even have a gaming market at all left, shows that the appetite is there. (Of all the machines I have it installed on, Baldur's Gate 3 for example looks best on my Mac screen thanks to the HDR stuff)
But what about Donald Trump's conspiracy with Russia? Or the Russian Hunter Biden laptop disinformation op? Or the Russian spy whale?

Oh whoops I guess you're right, all of those were lies about Russian perpetuated by US govt and media.

Side note: Russia has an economy the size of TX. Are they really wasting all of their money convincing Americans which octogenarian to "rule"?
This is lovely and well implemented.

I would take advantage of a metronome if provided one, but I at the same time I can appreciate happy timing accidents.

Nice work.
What to Know Before You Implement Public-Facing APIs
I'm basically saying the same thing.

agile had a lot of promise, though is definitely biased towards working with external devs, but in practice, in my experience, is boils down to the DM and PM roles turning the team into a feature factory 9/10 times.

That said, it isn't really about agile, it's about the specific people, and how suddenly adopting some framework doesn't really change them or their incentives.
Do you have any recommendations for sources? I’ve used Vulkan Tutorial, which is a bit stale but I suppose still good for exposure. I’ve also used Vulkan Guide, before its latest overhaul. That one was educational. Not sure if I’ll be able to do their new guide, my laptop can’t run some of the more recent versions of Vulkan
I don't love this. Informed consent is a lie and a loophole you can drive a container ship through. Anything less than right to refuse where services aren't allowed to deny you service until you accept is worthless. Also AI isn't special, I don't want to be profiled by humans or non-AI based systems based on my public data either. And for that matter public data isn't special either -- I don't want to be profiled via my private data sold though backroom deals between companies more than I care about my public data. At least I can can curate the latter.

The problem is that if you don't narrowly target AI you bump into "well this is what adtech does" and getting legislation that hurts the profits of one of the US's golden calfs is a nonstarter.
Unfortunately, dynamic rendering didn't come about until "recently". Many devices are stuck on Vulkan 1.1. Go to http://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/listextensions.php and search for dynamic_rendering. It's only supported on about 28% of reports.

If you want to support those other devices you have to have a non-dynamic rendering path, and then at that point dynamic rendering is just more code. VK_EXT_shader_object is even better, but availability is that much worse.

Edit: If you are able to find a tutorial using dynamic rendering, learn with that. Render passes obfuscate what's going on, and with dynamic rendering you can see exactly what's happening.
Big respect to that camera lens cover. The drama of seeing the camera get obscured and then have the cover crack was peak.
Anything Mars is pure BS. Just anything and everything.

The one way trip to mars is orders of magnitude more complicated than moon.

Keeping people from being riddled with cancer in 6months trip is not trivial.

Landing and then what you plan a flag and die?
The okupas are the ones running the extortion racket. If anyone is acting like the Mafia, it's the people illegally occupying the house and demanding money to leave.

What happens in the US is that the land owner hires people to squat in the house. They don't lay a finger on the real squatters. They just take up all the rooms and generally make it annoying to live there until they leave. Then they get paid by the landowner and move out.

This has resulted in lots of funny videos where squatters get angry at other squatters for squatting. The hypocrisy is astounding.
You can define a value (let's say a dictionary) in a .bzl file and load it from multiple BUILD files. This is safe only because the dictionary becomes immutable before it is shared.

Bazel is massively parallel. It has to evaluate a potentially large number of BUILD files; each file can have multiple load statements. You end up with a graph of dependencies and Bazel will evaluate as many files as possible in parallel.
Nixon - now more than ever.
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How is putting solar in space more useful than putting it on Earth? You still have the problem of a capricious atmosphere between the source of the beams and the place where you need the electricity. Sure, you can slightly modulate and do a few things, but the extra energy is extraordinarily unlikely to make up the extra costs even if the transport costs were 0.
If a major credit agency leak didn't do it, I doubt anything will... At least in terms of a large scale event. We went through the likes of melissa and "I love you" and several others around Y2K (and even that). In the end, life goes on for the most part. What people don't see, they're oblivious to and have short term memories on top.
>And we've got airplanes, but they're much bigger, and they crash far less often

And just about everyone who speaks English as a first language can afford to use them - for leisurely travel.
A bit like asking how many 30 story buildings are there when we first started building modern steel and concrete buildings. How many cathedrals could we possibly need?
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I would agree with the statement that money can't buy time that has already passed, because nothing can do that. Money can definitely buy time in the present moment, though.
I don't understand this question. What negative thing would I think?

If someone asked me for a pay raise and I turned it down, I'd also explain exact why I turned it down. (This is hypothetical as I've not turned down a pay raise). I wouldn't think poorly of anyone for just asking for a raise, but I suppose I'd start to get annoyed if they did it daily when the reason that I turned them down was still true.
It’s not clear exactly where to draw the line, but that’s true of all kinds of moral distinctions. So I don’t think that kind of slippery slope argument is very persuasive.
Mind that shelve, by utilizing pickle, is susceptible for arbitrary code execution when loading untrusted data.

Depending on the use case it might be better to just use the dbm module directly.
I agree with this - but there's far more prepared minds than serendipity, and I think the mistake we make is assuming people can control that serendipity aspect to produce repeat performances.
The door design isn't final yet, there's no point in whining about it. They need tankers and landers for NASA contracts short term (neither of which require payload deployment), anything else is a nice to have that can be tinkered with on the side until it works.
Sure, but I'm not convinced that those old burial grounds actually contain a representative population sample. It seems that some infants who died very young were buried more informally in other places. This would skew the results.
> Israel exists because Jews were prosecuted.

Israel exists because the West wanted a seat of military power in the Middle East. Just like America exists because various European powers wanted to exploit the Americas, until American leadership wanted to stop cutting them a slice. Just like Peurto Rico is directly under America's authority yet remains entirely unrepresented in it's government. Colonies all, of various justifications.

We exist in a world built by colonialism, by exploitation, who's foundations are lousy with the bones of cultures we dominated, some to extinction.

The idea that Jews needed a nation of their own after the Holocaust was debated at the time and remains so to this day, especially since the nation that was created is now engaged in it's own genocide. However there was no reason at all Israel HAD to be in the Middle East, apart from the fact that none of the colonial powers that worked to create it felt the urge to carve away their own land from themselves, and felt quite comfortable taking it from a bunch of nations who had zero say in the process.

I don't know if a Jewish state was needed or not, I'm not educated enough on the subject to have an opinion, but I know it was far from a consensus, and irrespective of how you want to slice that particular issue, the fact remains the powers that be at the time who were responsible for Israel's creation did not do it on land that was there's to give, but instead on other's. And said other's have had pretty understandable tension with Israel ever since.
sigh I wish I understood the math he talks about in this paper; I'm sure he's saying something cool but I'm also sure I'm not getting it.

Reminds me of trying to read Russian-language math papers back in grad school. I'm sure the people who translated them knew pretty much everything there is to know about Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. It was pretty obvious that they didn't understand a word of what they were translating though.
people keep confusing work and personal time/space.
personal opinions are personal and should be kept to your personal time.
and before anyone answers, always think what if the person would support something you don't at a workplace you work as well. you would not feel comfortable and since its your workplace you can't avoid it either. we should respect everyone and keep it to our personal time and space.
What you see in those cars is not FSD, but Autopilot that comes with every car. Autopilot is lane keeping + traffic aware cruise control plus a few small features like green light chimes and speed sign detection.

FSD looks very different and you can see everything in the road and what the car is planning to do. There's some good YouTube channels where they test different versions of FSD in different situations, AIDRIVR does a good job, eg https://youtu.be/rMDNFLsXFEU?si=SHWAm24ZY3psnO4Z&t=136. Nice thing about those channels is you can also look at old videos and see the rate of improvement.

I had FSD for one month on my car and it was really impressive. There were plenty of disengagements, but they were all what I'd call "quality of life" issues. Car was too hesitant during blind lefts, or advanced lefts, car slowed down too much for speed bumps, it got into turn-only lanes later than I'd like, etc, etc. The hardest part of driving in my town is a 3 lane roundabout where upon exiting the roundabout you have to very quickly and confidently change 2 lanes in order to get on the highway, it handled it with ease. Overall, I would not buy it today, but didn't see any reason why they can't solve the issues I saw.
There's a huge gap between "The ACLS thinks something is unconstitutional" to the thing actually being unconstitutional.

The ACLU is free to challenge the law in the supreme court. If the supreme court rules in their favor, then the law is unconstitutional..
TF2 is dead.

DeadLock is the main focus.
Gowebly: A tool to bootstrap an web application in Golang
It’s like shipping containerization but for actual food.

I love it.
No, I got it. I just think that would mainly mean investors exit the market.

If it is less profitable, they either further raise the prices or they get out of the market; the ratio of those two options depends on price elasticity. And prices don't have a lot of room to grow further in my opinion... unless of course the wages grow quickly (and minimum wage indeed has done it in the last 5 years). But then the country needs to be more productive or people get poor (fired!), which is also not good for the renting business, etc.

At the end of the day you're betting on the spanish market either squeezing people further, or gaining productivity real quick. And real estate is not very liquid, yet is typically long-term, and those investors are risk averse. So... there will be some that will exit the market.
This looks really cool. I wanted to try it, but it seems that version 0.53.0, which adds --tail, is not yet available via Homebrew.
Yep. I attribute YAGNI to a lot of my quickest prototypes and some of my best code.
Feasible but not likely.
Alongside the other comment, Hamas is far from popular in it's leadership position in Palestine. Probably something to do with the last election being in 2006. Saying it is representative of all Palestinians is a pretty tough reach.
the techbros downvoting this without leaving a comment as to where I am wrong just demonstrates how right it is :D
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No one (institutional or human), anywhere, can investigate themselves competently.

It should never be acceptable.
Did you ask what clues it used to determine the location? Would be interesting to know
Cubic Miles? Who does scientific measurements in Miles? Some people apparently.
A middle ground is webgpu. It is much less verbose than Vulkan and is guaranteed to run anywhere, including the browser. At the same time, it has access to "modern" features like compute shaders which would not be available in webgl. It also doesn't have much legacy cruft leading to multiple ways of doing the same thing, unlike opengl. The main advantage is that it's new, so there are many fewer tutorials available for it, and that is a very serious disadvantage.
What is causing your eye strain? Generally projectors have a much lower resolution and contrast ratio than a good monitor. They can make a much bigger image, of course, but if font size isn't the issue, it could make matters worse.

Have you tried experimenting with different monitors already? Bigger, better brightness and contrast, high resolution, etc.?

I use a QHD ultrawide zoomed in for bigger text, coupled with continual adjustments to room/window lighting and monitor brightness as the day goes on so ambient light isn't too bright or dim. That seems to help. Nicer monitors have a built in lux sensor that can do the same thing.

I've tried working on a projector before and the 1080p ones were super ugly and pixelated for text. The 4k ones were very expensive back in the day. Refresh rates kinda suck too.
The image recognition algorithm is probably good enough to fill it in at the application layer anyway, so if the firmware patches don’t make it in we’ll see if anybody complains.
Thanks! Other than a project not running as fast as necessary, do you have any advice on how to know when/if I need to switch to vulkan?
I'd love to have a bicycle, but battery powered angle grinders are too cheap.
> Landing and then what you plan a flag and die?

Pretty much, why do you think columbus set off? And he didn't even know if he'd actually find anything.

I don't understand your attitude and people like you, human beings have been explorers forever, and seem to value exploring even over survival potentially. I'd say it's pretty obviously evolutionarily coded into us. Maybe not you, but into many people.
I didn't push any conspiracy language at all. The market is a bustling place with quite a lot of collusion, conversation, planning and coordinating. It also has a number of macro dynamics that are ... not what retail investors think happens when they buy a stock. There's a lot of continuous process innovation, business model innovation, and new ideas people / companies / hedge funds try all the time. The system is immensely complex, and has some unintended consequences.

With all that, who needs weirdo conspiracy theories? I see this as one group of people found out they have more power than expected given some relatively novel market dynamics, and someone is very efficiently making a point about it in the capitalized market of ideas. No conspiracy needed. No need to be hostile about people marching behind RoaringKitty with pitchforks either though; this is fun and interesting stuff.
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You can now animate in CSS from display none to display block
> I either assume it’s because you’re intentionally underpaying because you think you can, or it’s because you don’t understand what you’re doing.

There are other explanations as well: for instance, just because an employee is worth a given rate to one company in no way means that the same employee is worth the same amount in another company.
They’re expensive (and often delayed and over budget) in part due to the ridiculous demands of fitting everything in a small faring and reducing weight e.g. needing it to fold up and using expensive high strength low weight materials. Lessen those constraints and things get cheaper and easier to build with standard methods and materials.
Imagine being the engineer who designed that flap.. Wow. What an incredible spectacle.
But you'd need other data to prove (or at least strongly suggest) that the data isn't representative.

You can't just say "the data COULD be unrepresentative", then just use some random guys anecdotes on the internet as more valid than national statistics.
There is a surprising amount of excellent computer science research that is done as a private hobby where no attempt is made to publish it. An important aspect of this is that the goal of the research is often to solve the problem. Publishing it is irrelevant to that objective and a tedious chore that can be readily dismissed if it is not your job. It may not be a satisfying answer but in my experience "I have better things to do with my time" is a primary reason to not publish amateur research.

This naturally creates two problems. The first is discovery amidst the noise of non-serious research activity. To find it you have to be aware the research is happening and you literally have to talk to the people doing it. One thing NSA used to (maybe still does) do very well was finding non-academic researchers doing interesting theoretical computer science work that was never going to end up in a journal. The second is that there are a couple domains where there are decades of accumulated research where almost none of it was published, so it is difficult to bootstrap yourself into the state-of-the-art because so little of it was written down. There is also the reality that some traditional sponsors of non-academic computer science research have asymmetric advantage as an explicit objective, which benefits from non-publication.
Other major cities must start making significant headway in this direction. As a New Yorker, I am very interested in getting rid of all cars in NYC.

NYC (Specifically, Governor Hochul) has "indefinitely paused" the rollout of a new congestion pricing system for cars in Manhattan, which was a step in the right direction perhaps, but certainly not a solution by any means.

Following Paris' lead and removing parking spaces, streets, and improving more sustainable transit is the only way forward if we want to start mitigating climate instability.

NYC I feel is one of the few (if only!) cities in America that has the ability to get rid of all private cars within 10 years. We could also become a cyclists' paradise! We need to give the politicians a mandate to accomplish this or they will flail about as always until we all get swallowed up by a tsunami or something.
I live in Sweden, but very early on in my career I was told that showing a competing offer would simply be viewed as "blackmailing" and you would not become very popular. I never used that tactic, instead just switching jobs.

Now the jobmarket is nothing that can be compared to the Bay area, for sure. For example many places more or less use the standard increases brokered by the union, even if you or the workplace is not unionized, with some skewing for being a high performer.