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https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/4kdnwi/alpha_ver...

Manually pulling in context:

First comment:

>We successfully ported simias' Rust renderer from Rustation over to Mednafen/Beetle PSX as C++ code.

May as ask - why? Why didn't you just add a tiny FFI layer to the renderer, set it up to compile as a static library and link that into Mednafen? Surely that would have been less work?

Reply (from dev or OP?):

This has existed for several months already, check the source. It is still possible to just make the Rust renderer statically link against Mednafen PSX, however it's hidden away in some branch of a fork simias made of rustation/frankenbeetle somewhere, so it wasn't really accessible.

Anyway I don't know what you're griping about, and the same goes for the guy below (SCO_1). Simias is in full support of this, and we made this specifically in a way so that we can still easily send code back and forth. Also, there being a C++ port means we can get certain devs to participate who wouldn't want to touch anything Rust-based.

That is not an indictment of Rust or anything, from my limited interactions so far I actually like it. It's just that certain very capable engineers might only know C++/C to a large degree and have no interest to be learning a special language specifically for PSX development. And this one guy in specific could make a very large difference. Nobody, not simias, not anybody, is opposed to that just because of it not being done in Rust. It can still be backported and it won't detract from Rustation, if anything, it helps build it up. This was also explained already in an earlier post.

Later reply from or OP:

1 - Users were finding it unclear and hard to compile the core with the statically linked Rust library.

2 - Some coders are mainly well versed in ASM/C/C++ but they still wanted to contribute to the GL renderer efforts, and we need to draw in as many capable devs as possible to improve the state of this GL renderer.

In any case, it can still use the external Rust static lib.

Then from a different thread:

I believe you might not understand what this post is about - the idea is to take the renderer from simias' rustation and incorporate it into mednafen, which is a C++ project already. Mednafen uses SW rendering and this brings in HW rendering to mednafen (beetle).

#### Summary

The original Rust project has had its code incorporated into a C++ project, which then converted it to C++ because all the contributors knew asm/C/C++ and not Rust. AFAICT. YMMV.
Thanks!

That's a great find, I'll add it to the test images. It might be b/w, it might be that shadow above the breast, I'll check and let you know. Usually b/w images passed the tests well, I might have not have enough in the test sets.
Gaining experience is another phrase for making mistakes.
You should push for them to change that practice. If your e-mail address isn't permanent, you probably shouldn't register it with other sites, or else track every site that uses it for authentication (account recovery) so you can update to your new e-mail address when you move on.

Out of curiosity, what do the usernames (aka local part) of the e-mail addresses look like? Are they based on names/initials? Are they arbitrary?
I guess if I were pitching PHX as a place to live, I'd say this: let's say you're 40, got a family, fighting it out in the Bay Area everyday for some little piece of the pie, a place like Phoenix could be a real shift of gears towards the better. This is an easy to place to live: commutes are fairly relaxed, real estate prices are low, everything is laid out in a nice big grid, so you're never really lost.

The obvious criticism of The Valley, as we like to call it, is that it's an undifferentiated sea of vitamin-c colored houses, that's totally true. Absolutely. And yeah, it's gonna be 108 here at the end of the week. Nothing but sunny days for the next three months.

The key to survival of an Arizona summer is to find a pool, grab a beer, and settle in.

Arizona is not without its obvious issues, but this place is steadily getting better. We've got a really strong outdoors community, tons of people up at dawn, running around in one of the really sizable parks which dot our metroplex. Our cultural scene has come together well after the launch of the Crescent Ballroom in Downtown PHX. We're centrally located with easy access to all the pleasures of the west, from the beaches at Rocky Point, Mexico and San Diego to the mountains in Colorado.
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The dataset was hacked years ago but only recently the data from that hack was openly available for sale which poses a significantly higher risk.
A lot of the history of mathematics is summed up in the last paragraph of this very interesting article. "The fact that the cap set problem finally yielded to such a simple technique is humbling, Ellenberg said. 'It makes you wonder what else is actually easy.'" Mathematical progress comes about by some mathematician noticing a pattern that makes solving a formerly difficult problem more easy than solving it used to be. (For this purpose, innovations like place-value decimal numeral notation fit the preceding statement.) Of course the hard thing is being the first human being to figure out the easy way to solve the problem, and then to embed that understanding in a technique that other problem-solvers can learn. But the increasingly rapid collaboration among mathematicians these days (mentioned in a comment posted earlier) speeds the uptake of new techniques and makes more likely that new understanding will rapidly spread among mathematical problem-solvers.
My method for facebook was to remove the application from the phone. I still use it on the computer but I do actually choose the time I go on it. The phone app is what keeps you hooked in.
Interesting. I'd love to see support for this view. Everything I've heard suggests the opposite. Especially if you consider worker productivity in addition to healthcare costs.
Could someone please help me understand why I would use Hyperdev over say JSbin or JSfiddle (if I were only using html/javascript/css)?

Also, would Hyperdev be capable of PHP, MySQL?
I think there's probably an uptick in closures, and the doomwatch media is pointing their attention at them, but I think a big part of it is that there have been so many, uh, "thinly-premised" companies that for whatever reason didn't fold over the past few-to-several years. That is, I think a lot of closures will be able to be boiled down to "what took so long?"
From the limited data I've seen, people don't blow the money. They don't make all the bad choices we assume - or at least no more often than today.
I've found enough issues in OEM-preinstalled/OEM-provided stuff that this isn't a surprise at all. (most have been fixed by now, at least. Not sure about the Asus one, as that got reported by someone else over a year prior to my full disclosure.)

http://lizardhq.org/2015/11/25/dell-foundation-services.html

http://lizardhq.org/2015/12/01/dell-foundation-services.2.ht...

http://lizardhq.org/2015/12/05/dell-system-detect.html

http://lizardhq.org/2015/12/05/lenovo.html

http://lizardhq.org/2015/12/05/toshiba-service-station.html

https://rol.im/asux/
It did not move from Rust to C++. Simias worked together with us to port it back to a C++-based emulator, and we also managed to improve several things in the process.

We are still keeping the two codebases moderately the same so that it's easy to backport stuff back and forth inbetween the Rust/C++ versions.

Mednafen/Beetle PSX right now is a more fleshed out PlayStation emulator that has seen more years in development and therefore is more mature, while Rustation is still a relatively new emulator with lots of parts (CDROM/SPU/etc) still not implemented. Backporting the renderer as a pseudo plugin to a more mature emulator has the benefit that the GPU part can be nearly finalized so that most of the hard work should be done by the time Rustation gets to the stage where the other elements of the emulation are mostly complete.

In short, it helps out both projects and we work closely together with the author. The port to C++ was mostly a team effort between him, us and several other guys.
how did you just do that?
There're random factors you can't control. Good example is post-partum depression. Every child birth is 20% chance; once happening, it can significantly change both partners.
http://www.sleepyti.me - a calculator to let you know when to set your alarm in the morning to maximize your chances of waking up feeling refreshed / not breaking a REM cycle
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Please don't. We're looking for thoughtful discussion, not extreme one-liners or snark.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11809297 and marked it off-topic.
I mean, it depends how you look at it.

I consider precomputed attacks a special case of these attacks, sort of. In the security world, most password-predicting attacks are linear with respect to the amount of accounts you're trying to get passwords for.

It's true that it will take a lot of hardware to efficiently attack all 65 million passwords. But in my field, big dumps like these are a godsend when doing a pentest.

Looking to compromise a sysadmin's account? Search his/her emails and aliases in as many DB dumps as you can find, then expend a lot of resources cracking that one hash. If it's just a SHA-1 hash and the password isn't very strong, you won't have much trouble.

Also a risk for people with vendettas against specific tumblr users (which, to my understanding, is a big issue on tumblr).
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It seems to me that a limited, 5-year Basic Income experiment is fundamentally flawed and will, at best, fail to predict anything important about what system-wide BI would have on society and at worst will be disastrously misleading and have an incredibly adverse effect on public policy.

What I'm reading scares me.

Oakland is a city of great social and economic diversity, and it has both concentrated wealth and considerable inequality. We think these traits make it a very good place to explore how basic income could work for our pilot.

To me this screams complete lack of any meaningful experimental controls.

If the pilot goes well, we plan to follow up with the main study. If the pilot doesn’t go well, we’ll consider different approaches.

What does this mean? If the pilot gives you the results you want? What kind of science is this?
"empathy has little to do with moral reasoning"

Yes, absolutely. And the glorification of empathy leads to immoral behavior. Empathy without skepticism, intelligence, or reason leads to being manipulated by immoral people into immoral acts.
Thank you. It's nice to see a post here that isn't trying to conflate "things people don't want to hear" with "death and rape threats" and assume they have to be dealt with the same way.
handle pretty much anything for six months

Check back in six years, then fifteen, then twenty
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RetroArch has an Emscripten port but it's in a state of disarray for a few months. It should be getting patched up again though.

Anyway, a more immediate priority once the renderer is close to being finished is a Vulkan port. There is also similar work being done right now on the libretro core version of Mupen64plus.
or VirnetX...
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I thought I had read something like this before. The Philosophers' Mail had some very thought provoking writing but it appears to have gone under.
False dichotomy A job is not either "feasible and necessary" or "unfeasible and unnecessary".

Ultimately, the idea is that creating a job at a loss would be preferable to "giving money for free" because it could/would cost less, but not less importantly, it would be a potential for wealth creation.

If, stupid example, somebody would be paid for running on a bike to produce electricity, that would create wealth by, say, reducing market prices, which the alternative, staying at home watching TV, wouldn't. Of course, I'm talking about large scale, and I stress that this is a st00pid example.

I personally like this idea, but it may be too complex to put in practice - even at a loss, it requires effectively handling a business. But at the same time, would that business be necessarily worse than the (perceived) government efficiency?
"Expensive" is terrible when talking about programs like this. This is not military spending - it isn't money just sucked out of the economy to effectively be dumped off a cliff with no economic return on investment (yes, military spending has a tiny rate of ROI, that doesn't change how absurdly inefficient an R&D program it is compared to, say, NASA). In a zero-overhead UBI system where you used existing databases to model who to send money to, every dollar in goes immediately back out to another taxpayer to spend.

There is absolutely no associated "cost" of the program, and there is demonstrable evidence that the poorer you are, the more efficient your dollar is at stimulating growth, because you are much more likely to have real goods demand rather than capital growth demand like the rich, where inevitably the money for a UBI comes from.

Everything a government does has some rate of ROI on it, determining how much it impacts the economy and how well the dollars are spent. Infrastructure and education are known force multipliers where every dollar spent produces many times more economic growth in return, making almost any infrastructure or education worth it until you get particularly exploitative. Likewise, having a good healthcare system compared to the American one would produce significant returns in quality of life, and economic factors like time working and it would cost less to use more preventative medicine to mitigate problems before they are life threatening catastrophes that cost the state millions.

In the same vein of thinking, healthcare is certainly a net positive investment. You spend a ton on it, but the alternative is people getting sick and dying and lost potential productivity from that outweighs the money you spend preventing it. In the same way, if UBI prevents social unrest, crime, violence, despondence, and death, then it also likely offsets the money going in and then some as well, despite possible overhead, since unlike healthcare / infrastructure / etc money going in does not take years to get a return on - the people who get it predominantly will turn around and spend it immediately on goods and services to keep your consumerism strong.
Maybe opportunity cost.
> just flat-out blows all their money and now can't afford rent and/or food?

I would hope we (not necessarily by way of government) still offer them help, but in that context it is clear the kind of help they need is not simply handouts.
Orthographic projection can be used (you could bake a voxel model into a sprite sheet like Doom used). Still, even with perspective it looks "ok" IMO - but then again I am hugely biased! :)
We had to block their domain in display campaigns because it was sending a lot of bad traffic. Have not had to do that with any other "real" job/career site.
A comedian once said "Find someone you can tolerate and marry them." The point being that we as society have put marriage expectations so high that they are impossible for most people to meet. True love, the one, etc... are all things that sound great, but just rarely, if ever happen. It will not always be rainbows and butterflies and there will be times where it is a lot of work. Knowing that going in will lead to an attitude of working together.
You can also retire from the US military after 20 years (so as young as 38), which would be a pretty large population to study.
Entertains the point of view/s in the article?
The format is `${firstLetterFirstName}${lastName}${int}`.

My high school followed a similar structure, but had the graduating year as a suffix, implying that they would never be reused.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was rampant in educational institutions who have to provision emails to people with identical names all the time.
BTW, I did read the book about 10 years ago. Like what Alan commented below, I recognized some of the paragraphs and stories in the book with a kind of dream-like déjà vu. Very interesting feeling.
I guess I should knuckle down and look at the survey methodology to see for sure. But given my time constraints, I'll just note that while I acknowledge the ambiguity, I read that statement as closer to "we don't count people that missed out on a better job or promotion" (emphasizing the word "opportunity", I guess), rather than saying "we discounted all foregone income".
Yes, fair point.
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I forgot to ask. It's been circulating in the back of my mind for a while now.

What do you think about Urbit?

It seems to represent a fresh new start!
I expect there's a reason many companies emphasize and encourage their employees take advantage of 100% free preventive care under their insurance plans.

Yeah, it is called brainwashing. I worked in insurance and was all tickled to see them offering "wellness" benefits. I was all "Oh, yay, the world is turning into a better and more clued place!" Then I went to the meetings. These were purely a sales gimmick. That's it.

You encourage people to go to their annual check up and they feel like you actually care. It breeds employee loyalty. It mostly does very little for actual health outcomes. If you actually want better health, you are better off promoting exercise, healthy eating, sanitation, etc. in place of preventive medical screenings.
I don't rely on text messages. I use Authy, and I've used Google Authenticator in the past.
> You can also retire from the US military after 20 years (so as young as 38)

37 -- minimum enlistment age is 17 with parental consent.
While I can't speak for everyone, I expect most proponents of "Basic Income" as a new social structure are advocating for "Universal Basic Income". i.e., everyone gets a check.

In addition to, ideally, providing for a basic level of needs, a Universal Basic Income also enforces a certain equality of social status - there's no stigma to getting your UBI welfare check if your rich neighbor across the street is getting the same check.

The most commonly proposed alternative to a truly Universal Basic Income is the Negative Income Tax. If implemented with a progressive tax system (like the U.S's current tax system), there's still no disincentive to work, as every marginal increase in earned income is associated with a marginal increase in real income (even as the negative income tax benefit drops off).

Actually, for what it's worth, one of the strong arguments for switching to UBI is that our current system of welfare programs actually disincentives moving up in income! In current implemented welfare programs, there are several income-tested thresholds where support drops out entirely - meaning that a marginal increase in earned income can represent a decrease in real income.
We have progressive taxes today, and the only people working under the table are predominantly the poorest, who cannot afford taxes and have less to lose. The richer you are, the more you have at risk getting caught for tax evasion, and the less likely you are to do it, until you get so rich and the amount lost in evasion so lucrative you can offset the risk by buying politicians, courts, and police while also writing the laws and having significant fail-safes protecting your money laundering.

But that would happen anyway. If you are taxing the ultra-rich period, at almost any % of income, there are strong incentives when the taxable total is in the millions or billions to evade taxes.
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Only if you ignore competition.
Meh, I've seen Facebook and Twitter's standard response to racially motivated death-threats. Deciding it's within the terms of service faster isn't going to change much.
I agree the analogy is loose, but your comment raises an interesting question. It seems like we're talking about talking about two different definitions of what FP is.

There's a strict, technical definition of "functions which have no side effects", which defines a coding style. But there's also a more subtle, ambiguous definition of "functions as the primary and most irreducible building block of code", which defines a coding philosophy. In my opinion, FP is the latter, so I'd actually disagree and say that your Scala code isn't FP, since it emphasizes transformations on an object.

Maybe I'm in the minority here.
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I thought some people understand code much easier than the mathematical symbols - the nested for loop kind of a gives more intuition for whats happening than two sigmas.

Ofcourse people used to mathematical symbols will not have any problems with them.
Though, on the contrary, you'd have to now pay people X amount above BI to get them to do menial jobs.

i.e. if you get $10k from BI or can get $12k from working building widgets, you'd have to decide if that time spent making widgets is worth the $2k extra vs the opportunity cost of leisure or painting or whatever.
Sounds ripe for "Uber for Ice-cream". Pull out your phone and the truck comes to you.
Good article. I also posted my comment suggesting it's a general-purpose, analog computer on his blog. It makes Epsteins claims make so much more sense when you think of it as a distributed, fault-tolerant, reconfigurable, analog machine working on models that approximate stuff. So, it's a computer. Just not a digital one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11731697
How about 3 times a day, while we are at it :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverworld#Grails
Wow, such characteristically overindulgent threats to life.

Are you by chance a tumblr user?
> If someone wants to not work and live in a bad part of town. No offense, by why do you care?

Sounds like "basic income will cover rent in the bad part of town" means that safety isn't covered in "basic"?
So don't have kids, we're not running out of people after all.
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> If the same inputs still give the same outputs you should be golden still.

That's dangerously subtly wrong. It only holds if your inputs include both positive and negative cases. If you only push positive cases through your code and it still gives you the same outputs then it might be broken in subtle but non-obvious ways, aka happy-path testing.

Better be very careful with this.
I'm not really sure where you got that idea, I never said that.

EDIT: I see what you mean. I think there's a huge difference between temporarily choosing to not engage in public discussions, and being shut out of said discussion.
> I was recently hanging out at some nightlife spots, casually talking to random millennials at bars and such and realized that nobody was using Facebook or Twitter. They were all using SnapChat, almost compulsively. (emphasis added)

I am nearly 40 and don't want my nightlife posted on Facebook where my ex-wife, parents, child, or potential employers might see it, either. Why do you expect millennials to behave differently?

I can't speak for all millennials, but I am currently attending university and have many millennial friends and contacts. Almost to a person, they all have Facebook. The only two people I can think of that don't are a 30-year-old and a guy in his 50's who is a conspiracy theorist. Facebook is used as a way to add soft social contacts as well as to coordinate and interact with a larger group of people. Facebook is the "public" social face, with things like Snapchat offering a more private face. And I don't think that difference is specific to millennials. My 50-something ex-girlfriend and my 23-year-old current girlfriend use these services almost identically, as do I.
Use an app that works offline. Most do.