skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend of mine's father was the head of Digital[0] in Australia and later sent to Boston after being promoted. I distinctly recall speaking to him in around 1995 regarding Linux. He, along with I believe a large number of commercial Unix vendors, snubbed his nose at Linux suggesting it was a passing fad and would never challenge their "serious" Unix. This is interesting because Jon 'Maddog' Hall[1], then CTO of Digital (before it was acquired by Compaq in 1998, acquired in turn by HP in 2002) certainly did get it... I interviewed him once in Sydney circa '99 and had a good long chat once in Taiwan circa '01 after crossing paths by chance. He was traveling the world proselytizing Linux in shorts and flip-flops, had a firm belief in embedded Linux changing the world (Android[2] wasn't released until nearly a decade later in 2008), but was yet to announce he was gay (took another decade). Fast forward 30 years: nobody younger than 40 has practically even heard of the company, Linux is in every household, and the very idea of a commercial Unix a joke.

Furthermore, in perfectly delicious irony, IBM's own modifications to Linux[3] to support the allocation of workloads to its giant server hardware have enabled the popularization of containers, further reducing demands for server equipment, increasing portability between desktop and server environments, and substantially drawing down the cost of provisioning for cloud services - the arch rival to traditional mainframe mentality. Today, in a world awash with dirt cheap and ever-present processing power and storage, as well as recently unimaginable levels of connectivity, we stand almost at the point where the term "server" itself has become an anachronism and consumption-oriented devices draw consumers toward "services" (often as paid for subscriptions).

IMHO some industries which will look nothing like today's version in 30 years' time: food, oil, transport, construction, clothing, health, and education. Carpe diem.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(programmer) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)
[3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
I may be alone in this, but I think these threats like jailtime for fraudulent research would have the side effect of discouraging researchers that don't even engage in that stuff. I think pulling out the pitchforks is a misguided idea, and it's a shame that it's so common today.

On one hand, these people have a big responsibility to do good work and stay out of trouble for the sake of the ones they're helping (i.e. Alzheimer's patients), but on the other hand their impact depends a lot on their mental/emotional state -- if you put more bs in their mental buffer, it's naturally going to mess with them and lead to a decline in quality. They have to focus.
Full of delicious invasive crawdads, too.
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Yes, Flappy McFlapFin for the win on that flight!
It is, Yabai can do it. I am currently using autoraise. Both work great, barring UI weirdness of macOS.

Example. Mousing over another window on the way to the menubar.

https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise
Got lots of down-votes. HN needs to implement a feature requiring a REASON for down votes.
I've been searching for a sloppy-mouse-focus implementation for OSX for _years_. Pretty sure there's something fundamentally incompatible in how app windows are managed.
Better not leave for work or anywhere else then.
A lot of it is wrong too. It gets my post total for the last 24 hours low by a factor of 5 or so. If it took a snapshot over the weekend it might have been that low because my submission queue bottomed out but if it is live it is wrong.

The list of posts by category has the empty string as a category.

Any kind of votes/submission, comments/submission, or similar ratio is going to be driven by luck in a 24 hour period.

They should fix the bugs and try it again.
Seems like at a minimum there might be some asset reuse (or recreation) that could violate copyright. And maybe a trade dress issue, creating confusion in the marketplace?

Whether either of these (if actual avenues for redress) are worth the financial effort it'd take to pursue them? Given how much money indie games make, I doubt it.

But, yeah, what a piece of shit move by Terry Brash. At a minimum this should be the sort of thing that's a huge black mark on your reputation. (And it's not just the ethical lapse of copying the game — it's the dumb "whatcha gonna do" shrug when called out.) I wouldn't go anywhere near someone so completely willing to be so publicly unethical. I wouldn't hire them. I wouldn't talk to them about any sort of project I'm working on. I wouldn't provide any sort of technical or business assistance.

Which seems fine with Terry Brash. '"The decision's been made," said Brash. "I accept my fate."'
Source: https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/
ANGLE is the (certified compliant) OpenGL ES -> Vulkan/Metal/Direct3D/etc translation layer used by your friendly neighborhood web browser. There are docs about how the Vulkan translation layer works: https://chromium.googlesource.com/angle/angle/+/HEAD/src/lib...
Have you tried https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar?
I like the website, very simple design. Maybe use a color like dark green? I think it symbolizes trust more than purple. And why/how is it so fast? What's your tech stack? I think your Google Play and App Store buttons are a bit blury. I noticed them right away. I'd fix those.
I was actually kind:)
Bad hygiene, unpaid debts, delinquency, women and child abuse, antisemitism can easily be added to the picture.
Yes, over engineering solutions is a constant thorn in my side. The end result is you get a lot of additional complexity for basically no benefit. In my experience, if new requirements do come down the pipeline at some later time, the generic solution you previously built will be completely inadequate and will need to be redone anyway. Solve the problem in front of you, not some unknown future problem.
Recent AAA games absolutely run on Linux using Proton. DRM isn't really a concern. The biggest and most successful DRM vendor, Denuvo, even goes out of their way to make sure their product does not interfere with Proton compatibility.

It's pretty rare for a new game to come out and not be playable on the Steam Deck within a week if not on day 1. And when that does happen, it's usually a PvP multiplayer game with kernel-level anticheat.
> or even convenient

Back before Steam, when I bought a game on disc I downloaded the no-cd crack before opening the box to install it...
For roads a camera on a stick suffices
Well, the same thing goes for you - just because someone posts on HN doesn't mean they know what they're talking about. And if I have to decide whose assessment I trust regarding AI, I take the Turing award winner who worked for almost 40 years on AI over a random guy from the internet.
Russia literally complained about Ukraine putting its military installations in civilian centers rather than putting them in the middle of nowhere (where they'd be more exposed and easier to destroy). "Human shields" have been a consistent talking point by Israel in its attacks on Gaza despite IDF infrastructure likewise being in civilian areas.

Most wars today don't occur in trenches in the middle of nowhere. Actually the most recent thing I can think of is medieval battlefields but even then a major component of warfare were sieges which targeted entire cities because it didn't make sense to have your military fortress out in the sticks where it was easy to cut off the supply lines. Even World War 1 doesn't count because the "middle of nowhere" where the trenches were were often only uninhabited because of the war.

That said, we won't see wars of Terminator-style killing machines pitted against each other just like we don't see genuine tank-on-tank duels anymore. It's far cheaper to put some explosives on a UAV and call it a day. Any evenly matched war between nations capable of producing battle robots is likely one between nations with access to nuclear bombs. If Indian border conflicts are any indication, those wars are more likely to be fought with literal sticks to avoid any action that could trigger a nuclear first strike.
Major disruption of the Atlantic overturning circulation (AOMC) is not expected
And who has to build that shelter, and what about their freedom?
I agree with almost everything said here.

But I can't disagree enough with the sentiment that you need to find hobbies that can earn you money. In my world, hobbies should keep you sane, grounded and serve as a reminder that there are things worth doing just because. Instead, find a job that you somewhat enjoy that can earn you money and then have some hobbies that you do just for the sake of it.

The moment money gets involved in hobbies, expectations start to creep in, and you will begin judging your own performance. Which is fine if you're doing a job but it's also nice to have things you do without judgement :)
Why does Google even work on this type of problem? I am genuinely at a loss here.
Ok, I understand how a TPM gets attached to a muxable GPIO block.

But, did no one stop and question whether a TPM should have been on a dedicated block that couldn't be reprogrammed rather than assuming there wouldn't be bugs or whatever in the GPIO pin muxing? Never mind all the additional complexity of assuming page permissions access/etc to shared purpose MMIO regions?

So, IMHO this starts as a hardware bug.
It's hard to do that. What you suggest would mean losing all your orbital speed before you hit the thicker layers of the atmosphere. You could probably do that, but you'd use a lot of fuel to decelerate. And then you are still being accelerated downwards by gravity, so you need something to counter that, which means you need to burn fuel all the way down. All that fuel adds a lot of weight, which cuts down on the amount of useful stuff you can take with you.
> Apple also offers a D3D12 porting toolkit now

Now they do. After 5 years of people begging them for DXVK, Apple gives us... a downstream fork of DXVK retooled for Metal.

I really just feel bad for Mac owners. Like; you could be playing Apex Legends with us, but can't. Like I said, these changes to Asahi will likely make it easier than MacOS to play games on. Who would use MacOS for gaming when Steam Play works out-of-box on Linux? A masochist, I say.
> I love how every American is so ready to jump on the China hate train for their social credit score thing when it's literally the same goddamned thing as a credit score in America, with like, some added shit about public shaming

The “added shit about public shaming” is not a trivial issue, and also Americans aren't particularly fond of actual credit scores or the broader credit reporting system they are part of, either.

Like, there is nothing hypocritical about viewing extra negatively another society that has taken a disliked element of your own and made it worse.
Nobody seems to be mentioning the therapeutic possibilities. I'd love to be able to make a bacterial infection dormant. Or a tumor.
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I don’t think it’s that uncommon. For one thing, it is listed in the NIST Guide to the SI (https://www.nist.gov/pml/special-publication-811/nist-guide-...)

It also, IMO, beats acre-foot as a generic way to describe volumes (who even knows an acre is a chain by a furlong?)
Krita! https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/tools/ellipse.htm...

> Use this tool to paint an ellipse. The currently selected brush is used for drawing the ellipse outline. Click and hold the left mouse button to indicate one corner of the ‘bounding rectangle’ of the ellipse, then move your mouse to the opposite corner. Krita will show a preview of the ellipse using a thin line. Release the button to draw the ellipse.
Even articles that publish legit findings tend to embellish data. I do this for a living, I often try to reproduce prominent results, and I regularly see things that are too good to be true. This is bad because it pushes everyone to do the same, as reviewers are now used to seeing perfect and pristine data.

I have been asked to manipulate data a few times in my career. I have always refused, but this came at the cost of internal fights, getting excluded from other projects for being "too idealistic", or missed promotions. Incentives are just perverse. Fraud and dishonesty are rewarded, pretty depressing.
Wealth always exists

No, it absolutely does not. Like civilization itself, it has to be intentionally created and maintained, and it can also be destroyed.

You and I live better than the Caesars did in countless ways. That's what it means to create wealth. Focus more on your own, and less on other peoples'.
Depends on your opinion on the "Great Man Theory of History".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory
Stella maris isn't even named after St. Michael
It's close to what Clayton Christensen describes as disruptive innovation (his examples were the steel industry and radio's): incumbents are forced higher up the chain by low quality competitors ("home computers are only good for gaming") that answer an unanswered need well enough.
Once these competitors gain a foothold, quality improves and incumbents have less and less of a market.
> SpaceX won a multibillion-dollar contract from the agency to use Starship as a crewed lunar lander as part of NASA's Artemis moon program

So four people would arrive at Lunar orbit in an Orion, board a huge prepositioned Starship, and fly that down to the surface?
And of course because we are explicitly forbidden from talking about such a problem, it never happens, right?
On the other hand of issues like this, is the people forced to move away from their neighborhoods because outsiders keep acquiring "investment properties" and price out the current tenants. We're finally getting more protections from this, but there been a lot of hurt because of this already. Entire neighborhoods in Barcelona (like Barceloneta) had generational families being forced away because of issues like this.

So on hand, it sucks for your wealthy friend that their investment only made X% amount instead of XX% amount. But on the other hand, I feel for the people who are being forced away from their home as well, because there still isn't enough protections for the people who actually live and work here.
"quantity has a quality of its own"
id assume those unchanging ipv4 addresses are not shared and natted with other customs and thus charging for them makes sense as you're consuming a limited resource they are paying for.

That's not the same for not changing an ipv6 address
> If you still have lorries and vans and buses then it feels like a lot of the safety and emission arguments fall apart really.

An engine moving thousands of pounds of cargo is a lot more efficient than an engine moving move two hundred pounds of flesh.
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Seeing Live HD video of the outside of the ship on reentry is just incredible. Here's a link to the timestamp: https://youtu.be/8VESowgMbjA?t=35093
Does that same reasoning apply to people who work in finance or accounting?

Distrust in science is at an all time high and these frauds cause incalculable damage to scientific integrity. They are literally poisoning the well of human knowledge. That should be considered a high crime.
> The major natural source of vitamin D is synthesis of cholecalciferol in the lower layers of the epidermis of the skin, through a photochemical reaction with Ultraviolet B (UV-B) radiation from sun exposure or UV-B lamps.[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D
I guess this sorta makes sense - the slightest slowdown starts to deorbit the vehicle, at which point a particular descent rate becomes difficult to maintain?
Funny, because Elon has said in the past he thinks induced demand is an “irrational theory”: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1211076829395738626
Yeah, I can't shake the feeling that while AI is exciting and can unlock new solutions to problems, too many uses of it will actually make our lives worse. The best uses of the technology seem to be when it enables coming at something from a whole new direction, not the cases where it is just directly replacing something we were doing before.
Wait. Why did China suddenly start producing so much?

Did they suddenly discover a major deposit?

Or did they just not care to mine gold at scale previously?
Tumors might be difficult, since afaik, cancer cells aren't working correctly by definition.
launch drone, crash it into a yard, enjoy the 4A workaround, as you retrieve critical gov property, harvest PC otherwise not legally available.
I think Vulkan was a mistake. Maybe I should say OpenGL Next should've been a (priority) thing and Vulkan could still happen on the side.. and not this, push towards everything Vulkan. It's not for everybody and not everybody needs it (nor deserves it).
I don't know how they had any communications at all, doesn't the plasma surrounding the craft act as a Faraday cage?

Edit: supposedly the Space Shuttle could also communicate with satellites during re-entry. There's a hole in the plasma behind the spacecraft and, Starship being large, must leave a bigger opening for the signals to pass through.
in my experience aerospace is way better in most ways.

there are a few oddities, and I need to file a couple of bug reports, but it has made macos so much more tolerable than amethyst.
As a one-time scientist, I think Asimov may have been tricked by extreme selection bias on "That's funny..." utterances. It almost always precedes a crushing realization that you have fucked something up and probably wasted a lot of time.

You're probably days down exploring that explanation before the eventual "holy shit" (that I never really had the benefit of experiencing).
`Bytes`: The Lesser-Known Python Built-In Sequence and Understanding UTF-8
They gave up in that target a long time ago
I know. I just remember the list monad is one of the few monads I actually used.
You can't have a freedom that's conditional on somebody else's forced labour.
Neither huge amount of somewhat legit cases of 'unused', nor media coverage doesn't make it right.
I also wouldn't easily compare the murder count (which are hardly underreported) and occupation count (which most likely are, because legal way is way more expensive and lengthy).
Unreal was designed for the Unreal games, the others I have no clue but I doubt Unity has had any guiding game from my experience using it. Unity was built with the unity-store as its guide imho.
I recommend talking to someone with experience shipping reefers in Europe because small seemingly irrelevant details will make or break the design. I assume that Europe uses a lot more international reefers that don't come with their own gensets so many trains would already have power in the form of generator cars. It might be impractical to hook them up to train power without a way to synchronize all the coolers so that they don't all turn on at once and brown out the train in the middle of a climb.

IIRC international reefers require three phase power with a 50 amp breaker so even 800 amps won't get you very far if they all start up at once.
yeah the thing did a soft splashdown with a leaking flap, the fluid in question being molten stainless steel.

this was hard sci-fi, streamed live for everyone to see.
Gravity is one you are still being pulled down.

The other is at too shallow of angle at high speed you bounce off like skipping a stone off the surface of a lake.
I'm no expert but I think reentering at a shallower angle results in "bouncing off" the atmosphere. So, even if you did it multiple times like a rock skipping on water, you'd have to have extra fuel to counter the bounce "up" and go back down for each skip. Thus, back to the same "bring more fuel/weight to orbit" problem.
> it's not the initial port that's the problem, but the long term maintenance and customer support

Which is why I ask; which should we prefer, a native port that Apple will depreciate for some reason or a community-supported translation layer that's based on a reasonable cross-platform standard?

I owned an iPhone, I know that the apps you pay for all eventually break, and instead of fixing it Apple will only tell you to complain to the developer. Compare that to Steam, where I can still play Far Cry 2 and Fallout: New Vegas in perfect emulation, likely for the foreseeable future.
Is the value of a dog's life subjectively tied to the enjoyment of the owner? May as well shut down when the owner is asleep too... or, get a robot dog instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_blackout#Spacec...

> Until the creation of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS), the Space Shuttle endured a 30-minute blackout. The TDRSS allowed the Shuttle to communicate by relay with a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite during re-entry, through a "hole" in the ionized air envelope at the tail end of the craft, created by the Shuttle's shape.

Starlink's just much higher bandwidth.
My guess: They are eager to establish gold reserves to back their currency for when the USD falters.
What's the point of this? If HN is a competition I must have missed the memo. Otherwise this is - how to win at posting interesting stuff and discussing it.

Am I missing something?
> Yeah, it would be shocking to those who are used to the godly rights of the property owners on their property like in the US.

It's important to remember property rights vary by state, somewhat drastically.
For those who were just as mystified as I was when I clicked on the link:

The main goal of EU.org is to provide free subdomain registration to users or non-profit organizations who cannot afford the fees demanded by some NICs.

EU.org is not endorsed to any European Union initiative, but it's also not a TLD, only a subdomain.

How is this different from.. Geocities?
He created Tesla.

Twitter is doing fine.
I think the definition of workable old ship is going to be different in space, but ultimately you can expand workable envelope for it by over-engineering critical parts. That's kind of what I mean. Right now we don't quite know how to do that efficiently or effectively.

Still remember that at one time moving faster than 15mph was considered insane and pushed the limits of materials and vehicle design. Same for high altitude flight, McMurdo station, deep ocean diving, etc.

In a lot of ways very deep ocean diving is harder than space. The pressure differentials are a lot worse.

The hard part about space is really launch and delta-V budgets.
Framework Laptop 13 Deep Dive – Creating a custom high-resolution display
Canada has admitted over one million refugees since 1980. Refugees are admitted under 3 criteria:

- danger of torture
- risk of life
- risk of cruel and unusual punishment
> Squatters fight against private property

Do they actually? Would they allow the previous homeowner to come live with them? Usually they seem intent on kicking/keeping the previous homeowner out, which is enforcement of their own property rights.