skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not terribly difficult. The standard library's benchmarking framework records allocations in addition to latency, so you can just look at that. Fun fact, you can use this to even make unit tests that assert that certain benchmarks don't allocate, or only allocate a certain amount.
but big corpos are pouring money in it instead of pouring them in own renewable combo. So maybe they know something?
And nuclear doesn't take much to run. EDF in France got 11bn profit last year and will beat it this year. And that's WITH govt limitation called arenh that forces them to sell 1/4 energy at lower price. EDF basically got f'd with foak builds in france,finland and uk, especially uk due to their overregulation and need for custom components but actually running nuclear is great business
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That Bloomberg article is provocatively named.

You need to have assets about US$13M per person to be subject to the estate tax. So if "only idiots pay" the tax, they are rich idiots.
Thank you for sharing some sources. To refute your first one:

- Jane Goodall in this 36-second clip does NOT advocate reducing the global population down to 450 million

- Jane Goodall speaking at a 2020 WEF panel does NOT imply that the WEF endorses any part of her comments

Your comment falsely distorts her words, and falsely equates her with the entire WEF.

More details: https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-jane-goodall-populatio...
Given that 99% of excavations don't turn up anything of significance, were these artifacts already known to have existed and were just "discovered" on the show as the reveal?

I'm truly not trying to create conspiracy theories, it's just the coincidence of this being found on a tv show seems unbelievable lucky.
Varsity Brands Data Breach Impacts 65,000 People
49% in the last year according to this https://www.airlines.org/dataset/air-travelers-in-america-an...

Statista survey pre-pandemic says majority fly every year https://www.statista.com/statistics/316365/air-travel-freque...

Americans fly quite often.
I think this has been posted before but I cannot find the link. FWIW you can make opioids (or opiates?) with yeast, too! Yeasts are interesting.
> I believe they also offer a "stop allowing charges by this merchant" feature

If they have this it's another reason to use them for automatic billing. I have tried to do this with a VISA card and they said they cannot do it; the only way to prevent future charges would be to close that account entirely and even then I might still get billed for some period of time.
Jetpack patches critical bug that exposed data on 27M WordPress sites
This is a very nice library; worked with it a few years back and really liked it.

Glad to see it's not abandoned (which usually happens with libs you haven't worked for a few years)!
That's a really interesting idea. Do planes have access to Starlink now? I could see a market for passengers to purchase a vr headset and decent inet connection on a flight. It would be tough to keep the headsets in good shape and clean though...
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Show HN: Runaway Tanks
Hey HN!

I just launched a simple little game called Runaway Tanks that I’ve been working on. It’s kind of like Flappy Bird, but instead of controlling a bird, you’re a tank collecting stars. The twist? It’s multiplayer, so other tanks are zooming around in your way, adding a fun competitive element.

The game is live now, but one thing that’s been bothering me is the input lag, due to the round-trip time (RTT) in multiplayer. I’d love any thoughts on how I can improve it or smooth out the experience.

Feel free to try it out and let me know what you think! All feedback is super appreciated.

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Both should worry about getting usurped by RISC-V.

x86 is getting cornered by ARM in consumer and data center. RISC-V is gunning for ARM.

While ARM is open-ish, RISC-V is more open than both. When you're not the market leader, that's the strategy to become market leader.

And it certainly helps that a major world power is putting in enormous energy to make their architecture the dominant alternative to "Western" architectures.
There still aren't ARM chips that can compete with the processing power of the highest-end x86 chips, if power consumption isn't an issue. It's nice that your iPad has an ARM chip in it, but nobody is going to be using an iPad for real workloads. And when it comes to available software, x86 just laughs at ARM.
K&R actually teaches this as a desirable idiom? People should not be recommending K&R to beginners today!
I still see awnings. Heck, one of my neighbors down the street has awnings over a couple windows. On a house built less than 10 years ago.

Though locally (PNW) they aren't really an ideal choice because it does not routinely get hot enough in the summer to really benefit but it gets cool and wet all winter long so they mildew. I just planted medium-tall deciduous trees in our west yard instead.
1.3 nines of reliability? Awesome.

Do you have a source for that, how wide is the variation for different reactor types and operators, does it apply to individual reactors or whole sites when there are several reactors on one site?
It's just overengineered. Many Rust folks don't realize it because they come from C++ and suffer from Stockholm Syndrome.
it's not coincidence, they got panicked after fk, just like the rest of the world
It’s perfectly valid to say they don’t care that this is happening. Software businesses carve out exceptions annd extensions all the time and have done so since the dawn of desktop computing.

Focusing on the tech is a red herring.
I think the standing issue would need to be reviewed by a judge. I don't think its clear cut in either direction. SpaceX will incur direct economic harm as a result of this even if the petition was not from SpaceX
Interesting to note that the A record for stallman-report.org was, up until a few days ago, the same as the A record for drewdevault.com:

https://i.ibb.co/RNBGcTJ/securitytrails-drewdevault.png

https://i.ibb.co/NYtTQnh/securitytrails-stallmanreport.png

So even though the report is anonymous, we can be almost certain that Drew is behind it, as he was for the previous hit piece.
> this is the actual faithful steelman argument for the people who vote against this.

My argument is different. There should not be any regulation except where existentially necessary (e.g. you need government to manage an army, because otherwise someone else will conquer the country, this sort of thing).

Sure, most rules sound good in isolation. But in aggregate you end up with huge administration and 50% marginal tax rate and massive regulatory burden to businesses. Not able to cancel a subscription easily after you willingly enter into a relationship with some business is too tiny an issue to merit expanding the government monster.
I have roller shutters, I like them, they're common where I live. However, they are not great for keeping heat out during the day; yeah if you close them you get protected from the heat of the sun, but also from its light. An awning will let the ambient daylight through and not turn your room into a cave
It's not like artists have a choice. They've been abused by Adobe and similar organisations for decades now, and remain locked in their siloes.

Sure, in theory they could switch to Linux with Krita and Gimp or something, but every time I've heard artists chime in on this, they claim that the software is to immature or lacks features that they need. I _wish_ they could switch to open source software, but they've been putting up with Adobe's abuse for a long time now. This new development is unlikely to change anything.

And just to be clear: I wish I was wrong here. I wish they could and did move to open source tooling.
Sounds like a lovely way to get pink eye.
How do they even pretend that works when some South Asians are shorter and the Danes are so large? Are the Danish just 100% obese?

This says it's <20% there[1][2]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_human_height_by_countr...

2: https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/33/3/463/7058153
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Any chance you could mirror it...?
It's obviously hyperbole. I'm a fairly frequent traveler at this point and probably will continue to be in another decade, and there is no plausible future in which I'm strapping on a VR headset for the duration of a flight. Sometimes I'll read a book but not consistently. More often than not, I watch the landscape pass and get a thrill out of recognizing landmarks from high above. I also like to count the rubberized tracks in a city as it consistently surprises me how many there are when I can never seem to find one to run on where I actually live.

On the other hand, I try to take a middle ground here. As much as I get annoyed and shake my fist at clouds these days when I'm trying to run past people on the sidewalks and they've got their faces buried in phones and don't see me coming, I can recognize a lot of people seem to have a deep-seated need for non-stop mental stimulus they don't seem to get from the real world for whatever reason and I'm not going to judge them for that. They're just different from me and that's fine.

But I do exist too and it'd be nice if reviewers like this didn't typical mind everyone, either.
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Yeah, but “Rest of World cannot afford luxury travel” is not a notable fact. The US is rich. Americans are rich. For many things, the US is the only market where it’s feasible. A self-driving car is useless in India (1/6 of all people), for instance. Labour costs are too low.

It’s clear the Vision Pro didn’t find its market but I don’t think it’s an air travel thing.
> as a former team member of a major package manager I can assure you we don’t vet shit beyond project notability, and new versions are accepted semi-automatically

An example that illustrates this: https://lwn.net/Articles/22991/

(And wow, it's been 22 years already...?)
Ok, replace that word with stable and trustworthy, which you did say. I get very frustrated with people who play pedantic games. I know you understand what I'm saying. You're not being clever by doing this. All you're showing is that you don't have an argument or any useful thoughts to add, but you love the sound of your own voice, so you'll butt in with pedantic bullshit. It doesn't make you look smart; it makes you look pathetic and conceited.
C11 gave us one very important thing: a standardized memory model! Just like in C++11, you can finally write cross-platform multithreaded code with standardized atomics, synchronization primitives and threads. Unfortunately, compiler/library support is still lacking...
hm I don't know actually. It's a good idea, I'll check.
That's the author commenting on something that they found.
Sorry, your site is unusable and largely unreadable without hardware acceleration - is that really necessary?
The Funhouse Mirror Factory: How Social Media Distorts Perceptions
Hard to see how can Mistral compete with Meta, they have order of magnitude less compute, their models are only slightly better (at least on the benchmarks) with less permissive licenses?
Often no.

Most gyms I've been to do not allow local residents to purchase 1-day passes.

They do often allow people visiting (on business etc.) to purchase a daily or weekly pass. But may need your ID to prove that, and you can only do that so many times. Like if you visit for two weeks once a year they're happy to. If you come once a month for business, you're gonna need a full membership.

And you've always gotta sign stuff no matter what. For liability, so they know who to contact if you keel over on the treadmill, and so forth.
Here's some "food for thought": Prozac is essentially a fluoride pill. Think about it.
Electrek, as a publication outlet, has basically lost all credibility and has been in a downward spiral for the last few years. I would take any of their reporting on Tesla with a heavy grain of salt.
See here for a rebuttal of the same argument on a different topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41626381

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41626251

Short answer is that you're just not paying attention.
you're lucky :-)
lol, ok. I don't know what a "tear" is but everything listed there is either a lawsuit or news that a court struck down their policy. I don't see other policies like this one. Also check the dates, way off. haha
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This should be caught by CHERI.
"Disabled" is far from completely removed. Closed, proprietary software with unlimited system access says it's disabled. Do you trust that?
>> All passkey sites also support fallbacks to just password or other auth mode.

Is this a guaranteed thing? Are we saying any account I create cannot be Created with just a pass key; and that no site or service is able to discontinue the password option?
Thanks for sharing, I for one found it relevant! I've always found it somewhat monstrous how much art is in museum archives -- surely "showcasing stuff behind glass" is something our civilization can manage??

I'd quibble that what you're really pointing to here is capitalism, though. Architecture isn't monotonous because of our cultural attitude towards architects/Architecture, it's monotonous because capitalists build most buildings, and they're predictably interested in perceived efficiency above all else. There's good reason to argue that beautiful surroundings augment worker productivity so it's not even a clean tradeoff, but in practice, only the richest companies and universities end up taking that risk with beautiful structures[1][2][3] and/or sculptures/fountains/gardens/etc. Obviously, the same dynamic applies to the exclusivity of contemporary art galleries and private collections.

In Apple's(/"tech"'s) defense, I think they'd absolutely love to sell integrative products whenever possible. The Nintendo Switch was originally marketed[4] as such, and despite being a bit goofy, I imagine it helped sell a lot of units. That's why Apple spent ungodly amounts of money trying to make real AR work before compromising with "passthrough" -- they know that people are social creatures, and that a huge driver of their sales is perceived social value.[5] Again: the problem is the system of incentives, not individual bad actors.

[1] Google's newest 'Bayview' campus: https://blog.google/inside-google/life-at-google/bay-view-ca...

[2] Huawei 'Ox Horn' campus: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1fuo1tt/huawei_has_bu...

[3] Vanderbilt University's main campus: https://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4...

[4] "The rooftop party" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzJdYXk6tjA

[5] The iPhone's status among teens: https://www.phonearena.com/news/Heres-why-iPhones-are-so-pop...
> Though I would argue that the issue being discussed is not short-term distraction in highly dangerous situations like driving a car or sharing a sidewalk in NYC, but rather the long-term psychological effects of filling every spare moment with entertainment.

Correct. And I also had in mind how those individual psychological effects affect our interactions with the rest of reality and other living beings, which collectively shapes society.

I’m reminded of something I read years ago (I don’t recall the source at all and am likely adding details) which argued that US politics were less aggressively divisive in the past because politicians from both sides regularly saw each other and spent time together, meaning they could form more empathy and see the opposition as real human beings and not caricatures. As they spend less time together, it’s easier to fall into the trap of seeing the other side as a “them” unworthy of respect.

> I thought it was a nice touch to clarify that talking to them with the headset for more than a phrase or two feels disrespectful.

Agreed.
This is good to know. I had Dropbox billing through PayPal and could never cancel charges in anyway through the Dropbox site. Realized I had to disassociate PayPal and the recurring charge said “payment failed”. Finally effectively canceled.
Not criticism, genuinely curious: why? I thought cabin air was exceptionally well cycled and filtered, much more so than other indoor spaces.
There's a reason people watch movies on planes - it's to distract you from the uncomfortable environment you're in. VR is more immersive than a 2D screen so it's more distracting.
Power management.
This is mostly a recognition of the shared threat that ARM poses to both AMD and Intel.

ARM took embedded first, then mobile, then gaming (on mobile and handhelds), then Macs, and now it is making real inroads into Windows laptops (e.g. Snapdragon X Elite) and servers (e.g. Graviton.)

The next shoe to drop would be a high-end gaming PC that can take an NVIDIA or AMD graphics card powered by a Snapdragon X Elite-like ARM chip.

Another shoe to drop would be a super-computer powered by ARM chips instead of x86. I don't think that has happened yet?

After that, the last refuge of x86 is in legacy software that hasn't been natively ported to ARM. But there will be fewer and fewer cases of this as the years go by. For now I think it will be mostly games.

x86 is under serious threat.
Nice. I canceled a service recently and I had to "continue to cancel" and click on other such "confirmations" such that I think I proceeded through 7-8 pages before my subscription was actually canceled. Truly manipulative and obtuse. That was Spotify btw. I should have recorded the process, as it was nearly comedic (if it weren't so hostile).
Some of the franchised gyms do this but in my experience local gyms often do not. At my local gym their memberships are for a "defined term" (3 months, 6 months, etc.) and if you don't renew, they end. I've never tried to end one early but knowing the owner and how he runs the place I am quite sure it would not be an issue.

You can also just pay as you go, i.e. per visit but that ends up being a lot more expensive.
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Such a long list you've shared. Besides lawsuits and policies already struck down what pro-consumer policy have the enacted prior to Nov 2023 (the start of the presidential election)
That's true! Unlike fluoridated drinking water, fluorine gas may remain in contact with your teeth long enough, and in a high enough concentration, to be clinically significant!
All software in EU under product liability from 2026
EU countries have 2 years to legislate the national implementations.

FOSS exemption but only for "outside commercial activity" - whatever that will mean.

I guess that guy in Nebraska is safe, but not so sure about my own one-man company.
>Emacs defalias

On Common Lisp too, by defining defalias as a macro:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24252539/defining-aliase...
For a while it’s my experience that 1Password doesn’t play nicely with… anything. I’ve had issues on Orion, Firefox, Chrome, Brave, Edge and Safari across MacOS and Windows machines.
> My prediction is that the experience would get even shittier. Since everyone would be tuned out, there’d be even less reason for the airline to care.

What can the airlines do to make it worse? I suppose they could cut out soda and pretzels. And get rid of the HUD on the back of the chair. But I don't think most people care that much about that stuff, especially since a lot of chairs have power outlets on them, even in coach.

IMO, the thing that people really care about is the amount of space they have access to - both width and depth. And I'm not sure how much more airlines can realistically squeeze that.
American Express is a very special card that typically comes with annual fee that is very much worth it. I would never book any hotels, buy plane tickets or signup in any form of membership with any other card because I got burnt way too many times with Visa and MC is even worse. Also that's why businesses typically do not like AE because how easy it is to dispute the charge.

But to add - I discourage you from using chargeback as a feature to stop future charges. Most banks will report it to your credit bureau - you won't see it in form of points being withheld BUT it might be adverse for you when you try to get a loan, etc. My mother disputed way too many things (memory troubles at her age) and they did not renew her CC after expiration date and MasterCard told her she is not eligible for card with her excessive CB ratio.
> Once it's in, even if there are insulating curtains, the heat is still in the house.

While I understand this “once the heat is inside” thing I still can’t help but feel closing the curtains (and blackout curtains) makes a non-trivial impact on the overall daytime temperature of a sun facing room.

I get the goal is to reflect the energy back out and of your curtains are pure black that absorbs all the energy it would, in theory, heat the room as much as just leaving the curtain open but it still intuitively feels like you should close that curtain anyway.

I mean insulation is inside the wall of the house and it keeps the heat out. How is that any different than a set of blackout curtains besides the R value? (Hint: it’s probably the lack of insulating properties in a curtain… though there would be dead air between the curtain and window and dead air is a moderately good insulator itself.

TC should do a video on that. I’d love to see some numbers on the effect curtains have on indoor temperature.
Yup, and instead 68k, PA-RISC, Alpha, PPC, and others all fell to x86.

ARM is clearly here to stay and took some of the 68k, PPC, MIPS, and low end/embedded x86 use cases.

Since the industry loves the idea of displaced incumbents we’ll see a lot of RISC-V articles for years to come.