skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the big lie: that there ever were more than a small handful of actual frontiersman, most people lived in civilization, but the people in power want you to believe you come from a long line of bootstrappers. In reality, we've all been interdependent for hundreds and thousands of years, being ground down by the elite.
MMX had nothing to do with games! It was a part of Intel _marketing scam_. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19468837 :

"MMX was useless for games. MMX is Integer math only, good for DSP, things like audio filters, or making a softmodem out of your sound card. Unsuitable for accelerating 3D games. Whats worse MMX has no dedicated registers, and instead reuses/shares FPU ones, this means you cant use MMX and FPU (all 3D code pre Direct3D 7 Hardware T&L) at the same time.
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Funnily enough AMDs 1998 3DNow! did actually add floating point support to MMX and was useful for 3D acceleration until hardware T&L came along 2 years later.

Intel Paid few dev houses to release make believe MMX enhancements, like POD (1997)

https://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/l/51358-pod-windows-...

1/6 of box covered with Intel MMX advertising while game used it only for some sound effects. Intel repeated this trick in 99 while introducing Pentium 3 with SSE. Intel commissioned Rage Software to build a demo piece showcasing P3 during Comdex Fall. It worked .. by cheating with graphic details ;-) Quoting hardware.fr "But looking closely at the demo, we notice - as you can see on the screenshots - that the SSE version is less detailed than the non-SSE version (see the ground). Intel would you try to roll the journalists in the flour?". Of course Anandtech used this never released publicly cheating demo pretending to be a game in all of their Pentium 3 tests for over a year.

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=65247&start=20#p... "

MMX was one of Intel's many Native Signal Processing (NSP) initiatives. They had plenty of ideas for making PCs dependent on Intel hardware, something Nvidia is really good at these days (physx, cuda, hairworks, gameworks). Thankfully Microsoft was quick to kill their other fancy plans https://www.theregister.co.uk/1998/11/11/microsoft_said_drop... Microsoft did the same thing to Creative with Vista killing DirectAudio, out of fear that one company was gripping positional audio monopoly on their platform.
Spring Financial gave him a loan but no cash upfront
Where do I attain the

REMARK_URL (url to remark42 server) and secret?
Professors don't "live on charity" any more than anyone else with a job does.

If you disagree, stop paying them and see how that works out for you.
But asians are in same boat as whites, lumped together in by the diversity promoters.
The game of life has catched on him
It's fine to speculate, but there is no real connection between these ideas and COVID beyond pure speculation. Vasodilation is not the issue with the lungs (unless you mean V/Q mismatch for specific vascular beds, in which case this is the accepted dogma and is unrelated to pulmonary hypertension). The other hypotheses are at the level of preclinical evidence. Some (e.g., zinc deficiency being a common cause of causing heart disease) would upend all known clinical data.
I thought those are all about your single markdown source file, not the HTML output. Still, this may work well when the website is sitting on your local disk, but probably not so well when it’s served remotely, especially not when it grows to say 10MB.
You’re missing the forest for the trees. Nobody saying this can’t be replicated. But Apple does it out of the box, and better than any alternative I’ve tried. That’s why people buy Macs. Time is money.
If you have not read _The hard thing about hard things_, you should. One of my favorites is this exchange when the company hits hard times:

Bill Campbell: "It's not about the money."

Ben Horowitz: "What's it about, Bill?"

Bill: "It's about the FUCKING money.
All Windows laptops are now required to have Precision touchpads and for older laptops, you can simply install the precision driver onto them and they work the same way.
Managing Shared Components in Go Microservices with Fx
Cloud is return of the "computer centre" model of old, similarly billed by usage and with various level of vendors services provided.
That would make sense if everything was produced entirely by machines, but it doesn't make any sense in the current real world.
I agree. The intro class should use whatever IDE & config will most enable them to teach the fundamentals.

Understanding the details of packages and javac and other things should be left for a later class which can put them in the context of other languages.
But presumably whoever is on the other side of those hedges does want production cuts, and might be prepared to pay mexico to do so?
POP3 client
No? TURN servers relay webrtc traffic and it’s still e2e encrypted
A couple of hours and an excited email to my fellow editors later: turns out Ingram Aerio only distributes to the USA and Canada. Deal breaker :(
Yeap, but note that modern hardware also allows simplifying the code considerably, thus making it easier to avoid bugs. As an example, Turbo Pascal used to have an addon called "Turbo Toolbox for Databases" (or something like that) that described using a simple database API to handle the customers of a dentist (that was an example) stored as B+ Tree indexed records on disk. This added a lot of complexity which was necessary due to the memory and disk limitations of the time.

Nowadays, the same "database" in Free Pascal can be achieved with a simple "array of TCustomer" type that keeps everything in memory and is loaded/written to disk with a couple of lines of code. Computers are so fast that unless you have every single citizen of a European country as a customer, you can simply perform linear searches directly in RAM without touching the disk. If anything this approach would also be much faster than if the Turbo Toolbox approach was used on a modern PC.

Of course a lot of software is very inefficient but TBH i do not ever expect this to change since people will always value features and convenience above performance - even when they do not use said features themselves.
How should one go about doing this?
Sounds like a security Perpetual Motion Machine.
You can do almost all of this within existing standards. The PGP identity token (AKA public key fingerprint) would be used as the primary email identifier. The embedded email address would then just be considered a technical routing detail. If you physically meet someone and want to "know" them in an email sense you just scan the QR code of their identity token (there is a standard for this too). When you decide not to know them anymore you just remove their identity. Knowing someone who knows you is a standardized process and technically is just an attachment of a PGP identity (public key). Knowing someone from their internet presence is also a standardized process.

This would be reasonably intuitive just as long as we were willing to give things sane names (e.g. Identity vs public key) and mail clients show clear statuses. We get encryption and identity reputation for free and can use it against spam as desired.

Those that do not know PGP are doomed to reinvent it...
This article is spot on. Verifying hardware is a much more complex task than designing it. I've spent ~1.5 years on verifying custom cpu core re-implementation (next gen) that was almost binary compatible with previous gen, we had own gcc backend and LOTS of legacy programs written in assembly. And even then it was a nightmare. Even after tons of time spent on covering most obscure cases, our FPGA platform, running our multi-task FW, would often crash: cue in hours of back-stepping FPGA trace dumps, where you have a total recording of program counter, load-store IF, internal registers for aroung 100k clocks and you have to trace back the execution and see where the fault occurs. Usually it would turn out to be some weirdly obscure combination of recently-fired interrupt, some pipeline stall with execution of some weird instruction. fixed in 3 seconds when found. goddamn that was exciting.
I wonder if there are any people here on HN that work on advanced HW verification techniques that are currently ongoing in the industy?
Does this work with pyenv?
Interesting to read about your experience, thanks for sharing!
Another website with light grey text on a white background. Come on people half the world can’t read this low contrast crap.
John Conway guest appearances on Numberphile
Notion of Progress and User Interfaces
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Step 1. Make sure everyone else don't do this or else equity will be worth less than wages and drive actual wages down.

Step 2. Make sure you yourself are exceptional as far as step 1 is concerned.

Step 3. Make money while asleep.
I'll zoom in on the diversity point, but I realise it's not the whole focus of the article.

Seems to me the real point here is both blindingly obvious, and for some reason never discussed. Education is a pipeline, and everyone is obsessing over the final stage, forgetting the rest. It's short-term thinking that misses the real problems.

If you want your society to produce successful university graduates from all demographics, you need to ensure all demographics have access to quality pre-university education. As I understand it, this simply isn't the case in the US today. No-one seems to have any interest in improving the state of affairs. (Perhaps because it's less glamorous than talking about universities?)

As it stands, the left-leaning suggestion is to explicitly weight the universities' admissions criteria to ensure an increased number of disadvantaged candidates are able to gain admission, despite falling short of the usual academic requirements (branded positive discrimination). A disproportionate number then fail in their studies, as the article says. The right-leaning suggestion is to do nothing at all, as far as I can tell.

Neither is a solution. Solve the pipeline problem. Invest seriously in pre-university education. I'm continually surprised that articles on the topic don't even mention this in passing.

Disclaimer: I'm not an American, I'm not an academic, I'm just a random muppet on the Internet.
Because those wouldn’t significantly differ from existing email?

I hardly think the gmail interface is the problem. All the things in the article can be completely transparent I think?
Apple has historically been lacking on proper documentation. Be that on errors happening during updates or proper documentation of what exactly they have changed in software updates. They have slightly improved, but still not great.
The parent mentions an alternative exercise, not one to be done with the other.
Wonder if this update could be related to an issue I had.

Installed Snap Camera a few days ago, was on a video call and when I came off it the green camera light stayed on. Even after quitting Hangouts and Snap Camera.

I restarted and the green light persisted throughout the whole reboot. I then shutdown, and it finally turned off.

After turning it back on, the camera didn't work at all. I uninstalled Snap Camera, reset PRAM, SMC. Nothing seems to fix it. Now thinking it must be a hardware fault, but think I was on the latest update already and just seems like a strange coincidence that it happened almost immediately after I used Snap Camera for the first time.
The majority of their income comes from government subsidies and from charitable donations. At some universities, over time, that's built up into endowments which support professors.

That's very much the definition of "live on charity."
I2P sites are centralized (as in no resources are shared between parties at all when serving sites; if the owner shuts down, their site does too), although it operates in a P2P manner (through an overlay network, of course). Same thing with tor. I don't know about Freenet nor hyperboria, to be honest.
Sometimes I wonder where the blame truly lies. Is it complacent developers? Or a decade of bad practices encouraged by big frameworks? Probably a bit of both and now we have a vicious circle. Unfortunately, there's real demand for poor software quality in our industry, for good and bad reasons.

I moved to Scala as my main language on the job because I wanted to make sure I'd work with coworkers who are open to adapt and learn new things. But I cannot deny the churn has a real cost if you aren't careful.
Agreed.

We might as well say, you're a slave to oxygen and water, then you die.
I understand. I think what I and perhaps many other readers are primarily interested in is the raw link-following interface that enables quick jumping around to and from interconnected things, rather than note-taking or the methodology or philosophy of note-taking.

For example, if TV Tropes switched to an interface like this, I bet way more people would get lost down rabbit holes, and they'd go deeper and last longer.

Admittedly, I'm not much of a note-taker, let alone an Evergreen note-taker, and so far I haven't been sold on the idea. Essentially, I'm just too lazy. (I've found a lot of other very insightful information in this quasi-blog, though.)

I'm more hoping for a good neural interface to come out within the next five or so decades, so that this whole process can happen with very little effort and work almost automatically. Potentially insight-generating prior thoughts are pretty lossy when they're just in your head, as you describe it, but a neural interface and associated organization system could possibly eliminate this lossiness problem. I acknowledge it may take a lot longer than five decades before such a thing is practical and seamless, but it's just a hope.

At the end of the day, what I think I personally want right now is a hybrid note-taking, list-making, bookmark/document-organizing, mindmapping, knowledge base/wiki, table/chart-making, scheduling, planning app with an interface similar to this one, where it's easy and fast to follow different nodes, see how they relate, and unwind the stack at any point. I understand such a project is probably way beyond the scope of anything you're trying to do, let alone something you want to build a whole business around.

For reference, a lot of what I do is investigative and research work (generally centered around network security). This rarely involves long-form prose, and is more like trying to map and discover connections between lots of different kinds of small entities and findings. But I'd also find this valuable for more typical business use cases, like what Notion is generally used for.

Basically, I just wish apps like Notion, Coda, and Nuclino would implement an interface that's as smooth and useful as this one. These apps are all basically just trying to clone each other and are using interfaces that could've been designed in the 90s, rather than trying to fundamentally alter the experience.
DNS + WiFi + Mobile phone masts etc. You could probably get some real location data by augmentation with coopted social networks add in some AI for expected locations and regular appointments. Do iPhone photos include location data in the exif data? I think the information exists but it’s just used by spooks right now is all.
Naval podcast is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jemPACNo1_I&list=PL5QAQBV5zC...
Money, particularly fiat currency, is a useful fiction. You're not a slave of money as such, it's a tool of enslavement by those who control how much money is allowed to exist and how much is allowed to circulate. As Iain M. Banks put it, "Money is a sign of poverty".
Good for him. It is none, of my business.
except I remember being 4 and I pretty much never touched that thing slippery bastard
Is Apploogle's Track-&-Trace the start of a biomechanical, species immune system
I understand your intention, the non-linear hypertext affects cognitive abilities badly in many ways. But your approach has limits. You might have 9000 lines of text now, but any non-trivial corpus of knowledge will make things explode. You have to split the file at some point. Otherwise - in your analogy - you will not read a book, but a library in a linear fashion.
Show HN: Zealchain – cryptocurrency and alternate Internet for the marginalized
Yes. That's my point. Even if you chose a ludicrously high value -- in this case approximately the entire population of the US --, you still get an amount of data that's manageable as evidenced by the fact that various companies manage it every day.
Government was always supposed to be influenced 'by the people' those people are usually aristocrats. That is fine if there are enough of them with different ideas. What has happened is the consolidation of the artiscroacy and thus the means of influence of government. This is where we are getting our ugly problems from.

What is the first step to fixing this? Bring voting into the 21ST century AND NOT HAVE VOTING SOFTWARE BE CONSIDERED A TRADE SECRET[1].

Voting shouldn't be as onerous today and things like the Sun Light foundation[2] should be a household name.

We have all met jerks in our lives. People who lie,deciet, and cheat to get ahead. How is having the government covered in obscurity good for anyone?

1 - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190706/17082642527/votin...

2- https://sunlightfoundation.com/web-integrity-project/
Does anyone know what might have caused this recent downturn in Apple's software quality?
Multiple people have asked you to support your claims with evidence. Why is it so hard for you to do this? Could it be that you have none?!
Not really. It's not like you are workibg all your life to "earn" oxygen and water. Fortunately(for most of us) we are living in an utopia as far as oxygen and water is concerned. You get them for "free"/with minimal effort.
> "Bricked" is relative, depending on your skill level.

You can always bring it to a repair-service.

I'd say it is "bricked" if repairing it costs more than buying a new one; i.e. it's a total loss situation.
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I've been working on Zealchain for the past 3 months and I've finally gotten to the point where I want to share it.

Link: https://zealchain.com

I created Zealchain not only so that poor folks can lift themselves up, but also so that marginalized communities can share wealth within the community.

Zealchain consists of two products: ZEAL, the cryptocurrency, and ZNET, the Zealchain network.

You will be able to buy ZEAL in a couple of days on the altmarkets.io exchange -- 1 ZEAL will start out as less than 1 cent, very cheap, as it is a new cryptocurrency. Alternatively, you can mine ZEAL with the wallet downloadable at the site.

ZNET can be thought of an alternate Internet. It is, technically, called an alternate DNS root. Essentially, sites on ZNET can only be accessed with the ZNET chrome extension.

Registering a domain name on ZNET costs anywhere between 20 and 50 ZEAL, depending on your TLD.

Please check it out and let me know what you think!
You wouldn't really. Because the current projections assume most people will "rent their time" and a minority lean towards equity.

It's like saying "everybody should buy second hand things to save money", ignoring the fact that the saving comes from many not buying second hand.
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I was interested until about half way, and then the author lost/bored me. Ah, the problems writing for the ADHD generation...
They most certainly do
Nothing revelatory but it's the truth.

Anybody seeking more freedom ought to attempt to build a system that generates revenue without your presence being required.

Investing, swing trading and software are the most straightforward paths.

Software particularly. A couple thousand hours of sweat, toil and despair and you might just create a perpetual cashflow generating machine.
We’re already at the bottom of the hill of that slippery slope argument. Nearly everyone already carries the tools of mass surveillance around with them everywhere they go already.

What may or may not be partially missing (don’t forget, cell towers are already tracking everyone’s general location and governments can get that data in various ways) is the software and backend systems to collect that data and make it available to governments... and this contact tracing system isn’t that software and doesn’t have back end components.

So again: while these privacy concerns are valid, they have nothing to do with this contact tracing system
Scaling Containers in AWS
By saying this, you are confirming the author's argument about how (recent) cultures interpret the role of markets in all of life
The act of enslavement is in fact a two way street. You have to choose to want whatever you can buy with money in order to be enslaved. It's a choice most people just don't know they are making. For many, it's also a choice that makes sense if they want to survive. Money lets you buy food, clothes, and shelter. Making a choice to be enslaved for those is clear(but still a choice). Making a choice to be enslaved beyond that is not as clear.
The guy who wrote this needs to put away his thesaurus
I have been using it for almost a year and I haven't find a single instance of what you're describing. I haven't been searching for it, either. It's a great tool with great promise with regards to avoiding censorship and surveillance. I wish more people tried it.

>I'd stay away from it if I were you.

I'd rather recommend anyone on this thread to try it and form an opinion for themselves.
If that's the only factual information worth taking away from the book, then what is the point of the book? I have plenty of anecdotal experience to suggest that sleep impacts my health already. A book that uses questionable data to back up something I can observe directly seems to have absolutely no utility.
Seemingly Popular Covid-19 Model Is Obvious Nonsense
That is no excuse to tell people to give up their privacy. Some people value their freedoms more than you, it seems.
Goodies star Brooke-Taylor dies with coronavirus
What are you referring to as "intellisense"? I'm sure people usually refer to code-completion ("intellisense" is Microsoft's brand for it in VS) and AFAIK no Borland Pascal product before Delphi 3 had this. Delphi 2 certainly doesn't have anything like that.
I use getmail[0] on my rpi. Download everything from gmail and fastmail using IMAP (sync) overnight into a truecrypt container, and then offsite backup to rsync.net. It's also storing everything into an mbox so you can easily import that file anywhere.

[0] http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/