skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually even more complicated than that. Modern printers include a raster image processor (RIP) [1]. This specialized software converts vector graphics, text, and pixel-based images into a raster dot pattern that controls the print head. The individual dots that get printed can't be varied in size or brightness, so the variations in image tone are controlled by the density of the dots in the raster pattern. This is called halftone [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_image_processor

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone
> into totalitarianism in almost the same way democracy collapses into oligarchy

And yet we have democracies that are 100s of years old and are still far more democracies then oligarchies.

While no communist state ever came even remotly close and essentially were never not totalitarian.

> Communism becomes a scare word that means authoritarianism which taints marxist ideas

Because Marxist idea are bad. That communism and all ways to get their lead to mass slaughter SHOULD taint his ideas.

He even privately admited that millions of people will die for his vision but he was sure that somehow once on the other side you would defently live in a utopia. Of coure he himself never bothered to explain how this happened beyond some vauge (and completely historically inaccruate) mussings about history.

> By using the word communism to describe authoritarianism, you damage the ideas necessary to prevent democracy from the same fate.

No it doesn't. The idea of democracy does not depend on any way on the ideas of communism and socialism.
You don't combat racims and sexism by being racist and sexist.
> WinRT

It was obvious from day one that this would be a failure since it was strongly tied to the Metro UI (awesome on mobile, ugly as hell on desktop) and the Windows app store, all only available on an OS that never was competitive against its predecessor. Also it shipped with a .net implementation that was incompatible with the real one. I'm glad I skipped that tech entirely.
So what's broken? I'd say almost everything. Like our culture around the needs of the tech giants. The way we fail to dominate technology. We culturally cherish compiled artifacts.

Our whole paradigm is wrong. We suffer from chronic cultural poverty. We lack self awareness. It's a clown show. Software was supposed to be modular and reusable. It's not. The reasons are not technical, it's us. We're exploited dummies.
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See the Soviet and East German automobile industries, and to a large extent the British one pre-European accession. Hideously outdated and uncompetitive, years behind the rest of the world, and both vanished practically completely when the protectionist systems which kept them alive collapsed. When the government more or less makes people buy your shit no matter how bad it is, on the basis that it is the only option that isn't taxed into oblivion, there is little incentive to make it good, and in practice this does seem to hold up to a large extent even when there are a few local competitors.
"Everyone". Everyone said there would be a run on the pound as well.

Stay delusional.
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Yeah, but it would be even worse if I collected everything about him, that would even lean towards obsession.
>And a dictatorship. Democracy does not fit very well with long term plans

Say again? If we're talking strictly about the United States as per the article that inspired this post, the U.S. is a case study of a prosperous, remarkably stable democracy steadily increasing its prosperity, wealth, influence and power while also for the vast majority of its history investing for the long term and in vital infrastructure. This process hasn't been constant or evenly incremental but it has been there for (now) literally centuries.

The same could be said of Britain and many other developed countries on shorter but still reasonably long scales. On the other hand when you look at dictatorships in the wider scope of the modern era, the vast majority of them either invest explosively only to fail catastrophically at some point before reverting to some other variant of government, or countries that see their biggest failures happen during periods of dictatorship, and their major socioeconomic successes happen during periods of something at least approaching democracy and openness.

There are exceptions to the above tendencies in favor of democracy, but China can't yet be called such. It has had only 80 years under its present dictatorship (preceded by decades of warlord rule, weakness and chaos) and of those only the last 40 have been ones of relatively stable growth, investment in major projects AND concurrent increases in prosperity. Under Mao it invested in certain major projects, but at nearly cataclysmic social, economic and human cost. Hardly a model, in those days, of dictatorship being applied to patient, wise planning.

>Concerning the USA, the divide between the extra rich and the general poor is nowadays too large to have a functioning country.

Really? Feel like sharing the mechanism by which these claims of overly severe wealth inequality will make the US collapse any time soon?

Note also that as another comment above this mentions, the U.S has had more or less similar levels of said inequality for the last 100 years.... in which it functioned as a stable, relatively peaceful, democratic, increasingly prosperous society in which overall standards of living in absolute terms have gone up enormously.
He didn't, otherwise you would have linked to a quote. But OK. Believe what you want.
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Lynx, TikTok's framework for cross-platform native UIs, is now open source
> I'd be curious about what happens when the ASR fails.

When, not if. The "artificial intelligence" as it is presently understood is statistical in nature. To rely on it for air traffic control seems quite irresponsible.
Trump and Musk both pattern-match to my understanding of clinical narcissism.

With the usual caveats:

1. I'm not a qualified psychiatrist

2. You could tell that without me saying so, because qualified psychiatrists know better than to diagnose people from public behaviours alone

3. Even private interviews for diagnosis are not perfectly reliable

4. Gell-Mann amnesia effect on public reporting
With the current communication capacity, "transport" isn't horribly relevant. Free exchange of any currency backing substance would be as bad as bitcoin for fraud. So why bother moving it? Oil changes owners all the time without going anywhere.
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At this point in time, US is the global leader in personal freedoms, culture and financial opportunities. These are the things people are looking to immigrate towards.

Personal freedoms can't be manufactured. They are a product of the underlying system governing a country. The US has very strong institutions and legal framework in the form of the constitution (again, at this point in time; I expect the current admin to weaken those, either directly or by eroding public trust in them).

Culture is something that's very hard to replicate. The language of the world in English, Hollywood is American, Hip hop is American and I can't really think of any other country in a position to globally influence and create an ethos in the same way US can. You can call it branding. US fully controls the societal narrative around the world.

Financial opportunities is the easiest one to manufacture (see Dubai). You can give incentives left and right and in few years attract investors and high earners. But without #1 and #2, you'll just attract transients, not people who want to become influential citizens.
Last time I looked at benchmarks, editors like Sublime, Emacs, gVim etc and even some IDEs had lower input latency. Zed is probably the most comparable editor that’s both faster and more power efficient.

Anecdotally on my previous laptop from 2016 it was often laggy and took longer to process a single key input than Vim took to start up and load plugins, and natively compiled editors like Emacs and Sublime tend to be noticeably snappier.

Whether that matters to you or not is subjective, but I don’t like editors pretending to be IDEs anyway.
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> 1) Brain drain the world. Work visas for [...] literally anyone who produces value.

So, to put it in terms of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, they want to drain the rest of the world of everybody but hairdressers and marketing experts?
That's badass.

Was it the stick on the earth and measuring the right triangle casted by the shadow?

IIRC you also had to do the same thing on another spot far apart and measure the difference between both triangles. At the same time.
geohot is trying to convince himself not to be drained..

See
https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2024/11/03/high-...

>Oh and in the IRL mean time, it’s very nice to be physically in a high trust society. Still working on opening an office in Hong Kong for those who want, salaries higher in person.

Personally, I hope he'd flesh out more of that Bretton-Woods vs inflation argument (instead of fixating on gold, build an argument on that energy graph in the middle of it all (blackgold? stargold? hydrogold? datagold? Transmuted silicon ingots?))
should we be looking to Japan for advice on how to grow an economy?
Reading the graphs I can see that you were making stuff up and can be safely ignored
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Or, cheaper electronics emerge that don't include any independent rogue networking capability!
Unfortunately he seems to be having the time of his life but that might just be the ketamine.
People like to forget China was aggressively combating financialization [1] long before Jack Ma was forced to step down. Ant financials ambitions were an absolute disaster in the making [2].

I still remember my wife casually mentioning, back in 2019 or something (well before Evergrande), that China was restricting property speculation. Prohibiting folks from taking out loans on third properties etc. As an Australian this was mind blowing to me, property speculation is a sacred religion there.

I far from agree with their politics on social matters, but their financial regulators aren't asleep at the wheel and haven't been regulatory captured.

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

2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgecalhoun/2020/11/16/why-ch...
Because China allows brain drain, seeing it as an eventual source of innovation, but North Korea doesn't. Building walls to keep people in doesn't work. There are many industries in China that only happened because of brain drain. If they followed your argument and stopped people from leaving like North Korea, all those industries wouldn't exist and they'd be a poorer country. Their missile program wouldn't exist or would be much weaker. Many such examples.
Has it been spent? Allocation is not spending.
Datasheets, documentation. I can't work on these with a laptop or tablet. Too clunky and too slow.
You won't believe this, but it looks like people who were born into a tiny window of opportunities to make large personal wealth out of thin air don't have a sane grasp on capitalism and socialism.
> Threatening to starve out a company if it doesn't implement these tariff increases in a more reasonable way than the entirety of capitalism history would be the only way to turn around the avalanche it has been

I mean, depends on the industry, but for instance take Target. Its profit margin is 3-4%, and that was in 2024, which was, really, pretty good times, all things considered. It doesn't have much room to absorb source price increases. Few industries dependent on imports do.
Protectionist polices can serve countries well. A lovely example is South Korea's entertainment industry (they prohibited displaying foreign cinema, and the resulting need to produce domestic cinema lead to them developing a strong and independent entertainment industry, examples: squid game, train to busan, etc...)

It looks to me like the countries in the pie charts are ones with protectionism (e.g., China), while you are seem to be implicitly advocating for the opposite...
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This depends a little bit on what the goal of AI research is. If it is (and it might well be) to build machines that excel at tasks previously thought to be exclusively reserved to, or needing to involve, the human mind, then these bitter lessons are indeed worthwhile.

But if you do AI research with the idea that by teaching machines how to do X, we might also be able to gain insight in how people do X, then ever more complex statistical setups will be of limited information.

Note that I'm not taking either point of view here. I just want to point out that perhaps a more nuanced approach might be called for here.
3D printers don't have anywhere near the resolution of 2D printers. Take something like a $300 Epson photo printer [1]. It has 5760 x 1440 dpi with 6 colours!

[1] https://epson.ca/For-Home/Printers/Photo/Expression-Photo-XP...
there's thin line between 'autoupdates consisting of security patches and bugfixes' and 'we will extract every piece of data we can and possibly remove features with no way to rollback'.

most apps fall into the latter, into the network blackhole they go. You give them an inch, they take everything.

You cant even get away from this by paying (and i'm willing to to so!) because people who actually are willing to pay are the most valuable ones to advertisers - so the incentives are there to extract even more value in such case.

In case of products from outside of software domain there's this consumer assumption that product does the thing and just the thing - food doesn't try to poison you, toys are just toys and so on.

they are aware of tradeoffs - something's cheaper, it might be less safe, less featured or maybe made a bit worse.

99% of modern software is user hostile first - data extraction and maximizing value for adverts and then it might do a bad job of actually fulfilling its purpose, with updates usually making it worse over time, or jacking up prices in form of monthly subscription instead of license sale.
What happened in 1929?
I think that's the crux though, for some reason companies think that a team of 3-5 engineers needs a full time people manager. Unless you are dealing with all juniors or a bunch of primadonnas I don't see how every team needs their own people manager.
I cant work for someone who doesn't understand what I do.

Why would you put a limit on your own progress like that?
Yes, you can add domains, add accounts (which contain the mailboxes and messages), and configure addresses for the domains with accounts. So one account can have many addresses, at one or more domains, including catchalls.
(Somewhat) related Schmidhuber https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360
The mikefive is my dream work keyboard. It's two keys extra from what I have currently but I know I can find something to do with the extra cluster keys
In the US of 50 years ago, democracy was protected by codes of conduct, honor, and most importantly, strong content moderation in the form of monopolistic legacy media. All of this went out the door with the rise of social networks and the demise of legacy media. I don't see how democracy has the tools to survive populists with direct connection to the voting public.
Even if elections happen in 2028, there's a good chance the pendulum will swing the other way and instead of thinking about moving forward we'll be locked in left/right destructive cycles, with the resulting purging of institutions, dramatic shifts in policies and just chaos all around.
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So how will the carrier strike groups be used? Sink Chinese navy ships? That's one step up the escalation ladder.

China will reciprocate with sinking some escort ships of the carrier groups, just to make a point and demonstrate their hypersonics. Another step up the escalation ladder.

At which point, the carrier groups either back off to de-escalate and avoid losing a capital ship. Or stay there and continue the escalation. As mentioned in another comment, this is projected to stop the Chinese invasion at the cost of losing two carriers. That is, if WW3 doesn't start first.
he's the lord of your time.

(do relate. progress on personal projects can be slow due to this kind of stuff sadly!)
They are hitting the plexiglass in front of the camera and crabs, so I assume it's nothing interesting to look at science wise.
Growing the economy is no longer an option for the US, we need to worry about managing our inevitable decline and likely collapse.
Her father is contesting the rationality of her decisions based on his very rational religious imaginary belief. What a world.
Well I meant code that panics intentionally, via a call to panic, I've certainly written my share of off-by-ones ;)
Your claim that good economicts "know there is no free lunch" is completely false, unsubstantiated and actively misleading.

Many impressive economists believe there are policies that could massively improve the worlds economy, but that implementating these policies is a coordination problem / hard to overcome lobbying / politically intractable, etc...

Radical Markets is great book on exactly this topic.
This is really impressive, especially considering the complexity of designing a wireless split keyboard from scratch! Having built my own mechanical keyboard before (though not wireless), I know how much goes into PCB design, key switch selection, and firmware development.

One challenge I’ve seen with wireless keyboards (especially splits) is managing synchronization lag between halves. Some DIY split builds struggle with Bluetooth interference, while others use NRF-based communication. What approach did you take to keep latency low and ensure reliable keypress synchronization? Also, how does the power efficiency compare to something like a ZMK-powered split?
One trust is lost, it's hard to regain it. The fact is, the WhatsApp client is not open source, there are no reproducible builds, and only thing you have is trust in them.

If you live in an authoritarian state with a track record of spying on individual citizens, and without legal protection for the privacy of foreign citizens, it's legitimate to decide not to trust a company like Meta headquartered in the USA.
Yes of course but when articles like this (and the general policy/assumption in the US) just blankly asserts that we can just “brain-drain” our way back to prosperity and dominance, there isn’t much nuanced consideration of the limits, caveats and tradeoffs inherent to that approach, which need much more than an HN comment or brief blog post to fully explore.
Ahh, I didn't realize "outlet" referred to just the socket, thanks. In that case, isn't the GP describing pretty much a level 2 AC charger? Those don't come with cables (at least here).
I tried to use it, liked the concept, but the way it handles email is a mess, making it unusable for my use case of trying to use it as an alternative mail client for my normal mail account.
> multiple separate components

Btw, I don't think it's better to have separate _components_ as in separate software packages. Integrating this functionality into one software package prevents all kinds of complexity that would otherwise arise in the integration points. Integrated software also allows for new/user-friendlier functionality.
The post has very less details about Architecture of Lynx and how it differs from RN or Flutter in terms of design
If people just want to stick it to the Man by moving out of the cloud, then the solution might be "medium email": hosted by a commercial provider, so you don't have to do all the admin, but not self-hosted.
It's not that I "don't like that one" - it was a tweet containing a headline that looked like it linked to an article about Ghost Cities but actually linked to something else entirely, and you didn't realise because you didn't open it. Maybe it hinted at other problems in China, I am certain there are many problems there! But you wanted to make a point about ghost cities, and this article didn't make that point.

And this next one you've sent me is just someone writing a "hey have y'all heard about those 'Ghost Cities' in China?" article. You might as well have just linked to your prior comment saying "google ghost cities china".
I do not disagree with your point, except, given the current state of US, it is hard to describe it as not repressive. I understand it's a spectrum. I checked on Wikipedia - abortion is legal in China. That's one right that many US women don't have. Which does not mean that China is a free country, but just to gain some perspective. The notion of some place being a dictatorship was many times weaponized to launch invasions and economic sanctions that left that place broken and impoverished.
it seems the chinese have figured out a different option, i wonder what institutional arrangements facilitate that?
Putting a bullet in your own head is simply impractical. You have to have a gun, then aom correctly.

I would absolutely prefer to be sedated and killed medically but of I do not have this option I will jump in front of a train, or build my own azote based contraption.

I want to choose for me, th1t's it. We have the way more difficult and impacting choice of having the ability yo have children, sucide is a personal thing.
> preferences about how desktop environment stuff works

Having used KDE plasma, I am convinced that there is no other DE that has more knobs to make things exactly how you want it. Though I never liked the global constantly changing bar on the top in Macs anyway so can't comment on whether KDE can be made to do that.
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There was visible arcing every time the toaster popped up the toasts though. Now that you mention it, I'm kinda curious what exactly was causing it. (Too late of course.) It's not the first toaster I've seen that produced a flash of light every time it was done though.

Here's a pic BTW: https://imgur.com/tZadj6N