skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would the union help get the game shipped on time?

This is such a weird logic. Since when should the company financial incentives have higher priority over the employees well-being? Arguably, if the existence of the company is threatened by a few delays and that the only solution is to exploit people, it should instead close shop and let people get other jobs that will make them happier.

So no, a union would probably not help the game be shipped in time, and if it did, it would be the shittiest union. And if enforcing humane working conditions against the profits of the employer makes the business unsustainable, this means the business should not exist in the first place.
An interesting question here is: which of the big Arm customers are going to trust NVidia?

As far as I understand, Arm's license requires licensees to give Arm
detailed and advanced information about implementations (IIRC long before
they are fabbed). This would give NVidia unprecedented insight into the
competition's processors long before they hit the market. Will
Samsung or Apple be happy about that? Will AMD be happy about that?
Given the tension between the US and China, it's almost inconceivable
that the Chinese Arm customers will be happy about this. China is the world's biggest processor market, with a government mandate to reduce dependency on foreign technology!

Hello RISC-V!
> Still I expect US intelligence would know all the side effects of this weapon and not have to struggle identifying it, I expect they tested it 50 years ago already

You seem to be assuming US intelligence is as scarily competent as it is in the movies.

For instance even if they did test something similar 50 years ago, in the real world, all the people with that expertise would have retired long ago. To put it in perspective (with an imperfect analogy): 50 years ago, software engineers were writing code in COBOL and IBM 360 assembler, how quickly would a senior Java developer be able to parachute in and figure out and fix a subtle bug in an application written with those technologies?
Yes to all.

Mainly, American culture could use a strong dose of reality check. This appears to be the case in terms of publicly stating that we are retooling global intelligence missions from Cold War (t-40yrs) and War on Terror (t-20yrs), to the China threat.

Awareness of strategies, capabilities of the enemy, and what's at stake will help reduce Western complacency.
Yeah that's true, but the problem with your version is it loses the homogeny because an empty list can't simply be a Node, it has to be represented in some other way (as an Option<Node> or something), so we're back to square one. Maybe I was wrong and this can't be done perfectly even with union types.
> Air industry insiders say something like this would never be able to happen now ... and a hidden person would be found.

Challenge accepted?
It makes no sense to commute the work 5 days/week for 8 hours a day by spending 1/2-2 hours extra commute time. It’s time to move away from this system and going remote.

Perhaps it won’t be possible to entirely cancel workplaces but the notion of full time ‘office’ is done. It’s toast.
These attempts at procedurally generated music remind me a bit of twelve-tone technique (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique) where Schoenberg and other composers came up with new rules for writing music. The resulting twelve-tone music sounds awful (to me), worse than the procedurally-generated examples from the article.
First, you haven't demonstrated at all that the "elegant" solution is slower. Between `remove_cs101` and `remove_elegant`, it looks like they are equivalent (in particular, the inner loop has the same number of instructions) except the former uses more instructions.

Second, I think you're missing the point by focusing on the code generated by the compiler. Clearly the two algorithms are equivalent, and a good compiler can generate equivalent code for them, up to an instruction more or less. The bigger concern here is about the source code: how can we express the algorithm in the most elegant (think: clear, concise, and correct) way? The exact generated bytecode is irrelevant, so long as the compiler is able to generate something reasonable, which is clearly the case here, as you've demonstrated.
A Day in the Life of a Valley Pig
I wonder how well several hex-head bolts superglued to the chip would work...

(Or some kinda metallic epoxy, even JB Weld is part iron oxide, but a thin layer of superglue may be sufficiently effective)
An easy way to understand the M1 is that Apple simply "iPhone-ized" the PC (or the Mac). Instead of having the modular architecture that PCs are known for (motherboard with separate CPU, RAM, hard drive, GPU, and chips for ports etc), everything is mashed together. This gives the best performance but very little modularity and zero upgradability. It's great for Apple but kind of shuts out all other ecosystems. It's unlikely anything but macOS will ever run on M1 since Apple won't open up the specs, and why should they? It is also another step into the direction of total throw-away culture.
For the first one, it depends on the local population and the type of restaurant. There is documented evidence that dining in bars in the South have resulted in hundreds of cases of COVID transmission, while at the same time there are few documented cases of COVID transmission related to outdoor dining in CA over the summer.

For the second one: 0. There have been 0 known instances of cast or crew getting COVID while on set, because upon reporting a single instance of a positive result, they require the cast/crew member to quarantine. In some cases, they have even shut down production for the quarantine period to prevent spread, see, e.g., The Batman.
Prediction: the company will request for and obtain permission to convert the space into housing or work/residence spaces. Within five years.

pinning it here for future reference.
The documentary of Steve-O's (from Jackass fame) descent into madness via nitrous oxide and other drugs was terrifying. The way he would convulse and then have conversations with his Mom and talk to the voices in his head? The whole thing left me speechless.

Steve-O Demise & Rise [MTV Special]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1ulzP2XUOg
Great idea, let's call it PiperNet.
Getting to Paul Graham levels of wealth and influence is, in fact, very simple:

1. Be white and well-enough off that you know how to talk to rich people.

2. Be in technology on a US coast (West is better, East also works) during the late 1990s— an anomalous time and place with a level of opportunity that appears about once in 250 years.

3. Get really good at programming and use a "10x" programming language like Lisp.

#3 is actually optional, but it's the one people can control so it's the one you get the most fans if you talk about.
I think this hits the nail in the head. Lots of comments here seem to dislike option 2 on the basis that it’s a “clever trick” and that those should be avoided for reasons of readability and maintainability. But this second approach would be the _right_ answer in a exam about algorithms, and that’s what Linus is really hinting at here.
I think the key point in regard to your question is this line

> Cyberpunk 2077’s advertising has been saying the quiet part loud. It has maintained the spiky, anti-SJW, anti-woke persona throughout its marketing campaign, careful to always pepper any diverse characters’ inclusion with stereotyping or humor designed to mock its own ideas.

As the article concedes, these pieces individually don't have to be bad, but they are always presented by the overall marketing as something to make fun of or stereotype, not as something to take seriously or positively.
hey if stimulus and turbolinks are your jam then rock it!

I would at least give this a look though, it's super easy to use: https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails
This is the first thing people said on Hackernews, when the news first came out, but those comments were downvoted and/or deleted.
It's also outright false - AMD licensed GPU tech to Samsung for the next generation Exynos, built custom SoC for clients in console.

I don't know if AMD could license x86 cores since I don't know what their deal is on x86 IP with Intel.
Yep, I was thinking along the same lines. The music we hear in day-to-day is often very simple.

Besides structure, chords are often the same. Most of the time it's I-IV-V, sometimes I-IV-V-vi... I even saw a video today mentioning how the I-ii-IV-V of Cure's "Just Like Heaven" is an uncommon progression. For soundtracks it's often just two chords vamping. Melody notes also rarely stray from whats sounds consonant with the current chord. Dissonance is only for passing notes. In the strong beats it's certainly something consonant. Sometimes it's all just a pentatonic. You also gotta emphasise that tonic everywhere. Melodies also need structure: you gotta have that AABA (or something like that) in your verse/theme/phrase, almost like a fractal. Broken rules only happen once or twice per song, or not at all.

The more good music I dissect the more impressed I am with how simple it is.
Here they are[0]. The 4 performance cores + 4 efficiency cores of the M1 hold up pretty well against the 8 core AMD chips.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
D614G was already in nature before this study, and is now the dominant mutation. There's nothing wrong with this research.
Did you forget when the CEO of Microsoft laughed it off and said it was crap? [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
The comments certainly don't detract from the code in my opinion. They may not be _helpful_ per se to an experienced developer, but there may be a chance that a more inexperienced developer will read this code in the future, and it could benefit them.
Yep, hardware matters though. You need one that can work with the DRM.
They were selling $200 gold-plated HDMI cables back then too.
I don't think they've compromised on SPEC performance at Apple, but I think they've chased it too hard at Intel. I'm sure I'd rather have more iTLB entries and more L1i cache than that third 512x512 FMA unit, if that's a trade that can be made.
The Man Who Mailed Himself From the UK to Australia Extremes
In the 1964 Reg Spiers was in London, trying to make the Olympic javelin team. When he didn't make the cut he found himself stranded, with not enough funds to get home to Australia.
As the other person said, it's not really about complexity. Complexity isn't all that different here; personally I'd find something like the following to be simpler (I imagine others might disagree):

remove_list_entry(entry)
{
for (p = &head; *p; p = &(*p)->next)
{
if (*p == entry)
{
*p = entry->next;
break;
}
}
}

However, what the choice does objectively impact is performance. Being able to assume the object exists allows you to avoid checking against NULL, which removes instructions in the loop. I'd guess they anticipate this code might be called from performance-critical code, and that might be why they coded it like this.
Sell their Goodwill.
I don't see any point in the article where the author says that PG is a _bad person_. Just that perhaps we shouldn't take him seriously as an intellectual, which is perfectly okay. You can be a good person and but "unserious" w.r.t. being an intellectual - I mostly am!

The only way this is can be seen as a personal attack is if PG (and his followers) identify with being a "serious intellectual." At that point it makes sense that it would seem like an attack to point out that no, he is not a "serious intellectual." Someone's character is only tarred if they insist that they are while being demonstrably not.
They were motivating examples of both the Algebraic Geometry and Differential Geometry courses that I took. They were used in multiple homework/exam problems in those courses. And I didn't go to some fancy private school, this was senior level math classes at a flagship public state school in the south.
I think one "advantage" could be that it's an invisible drug. People don't know that you're doing it, unless of course you have neurological or organ damage, but even then it could be explained away.
Maybe he meant to say micro-operations.
The Pi 400 has been extremely handy. It's nowhere near as fast as even a low-end new i3, but for things like "Do such and such task on Linux" it's compact and quick to boot.
Here's some Magenta-generated music played through a Moog One[!]:

https://soundcloud.com/zndx/20201102-01-415v2

I think it would be great to set up a studio with a few modern analog synths 'in the loop' for automated training.

[!] recorded through a Tascam 688 I found at a thrift store.
The faster local control is taken away from these people the better.

I live in Palo Alto (coincidentally in the area pictured).

Hopefully one day something like SB50 will pass.

My preference would be policy targeting prop13. Basically if you fail to build X amounts of new housing (where X is some large value) your property tax goes up 20% per year until it’s at market rate.

If you’re going to constrain supply for you own benefit you should at least have to pay the costs you force on everyone else.
The Development of Quantum Mechanics – Heisenberg Nobel Lecture (1933, pdf)
Yes: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-death-of-zappos-tony-hsieh-...
> The only news here is that the company seems to have reneged on the promise it made, but it's not obvious how a union would have solved this problem. Would the union help get the game shipped on time?

Quite likely yes, though not directly. Foreclosing avenues that management tends to fall into which are both empirically not particularly effective and also miserable working conditions, like more than brief crunch time, probably does improve delivery, though that's not the main goal.
Every year seems excessive. I know people who've replaced artificial trees every three or so years because they don't take care of their things, but I also know people who use things until they fall apart so I could see 10 years being the average between the two kinds of people.
Restaurants aren't food production. Farms are food production. Slaughterhouses and meat factories are food production. General Mills are food production. And all of these actual food production facilities and businesses are considered essential and remained open during the lockdowns.

16 million people work for restaurants. Many more are part of their supply chains.

True, in the entire United States, 16 million people work for restaurants, most of them in part-time positions. Hollywood employs more than 1 million people in California, and several hundred thousand in LA alone.

You may not consider Hollywood essential, but it absolutely is an essential industry in Los Angeles.
For elegance, it's a bit artificial, being tied to the technology of things that use pixels and popular software that zooms in on pixelated images as a grid of single-color squares. Maybe some unintelligible character-like symbols would look more elegant?
For GTA, that's probably also because later updates has worked extremely well for GTA V. The online aspects of it, with regular new content, have taken over the single-player side by a lot, so it makes sense double-down on that model.
Only the kernel can use the value, but the kernel could just store whatever it gave to lgdt/lidt.

User and kernel mode were far less isolated in those OSs. Also, write-only registers are usually discouraged.
A very powerful weapon? Should be difficult to arm but easy to defuse.
This is a terrible situation. I think leadership bit off more than they could chew. Releasing a polished game on PC, consoles and Stadia simultaneously is nigh on impossible for a large, open world game.
I bet Google offered them a bunch of money to launch simultaneously on Stadia, but they still should have said no.
There is a reason Sony games are so polished. They release on a single platform.
ask them to expand on any of their views/probe for more nuanced opinions
> Morehead's allegiances and work are relevant biases, as are Gruber's. But Morehead's review wasn't of the M1 processor or architecture as a technology. It was a review of the 13" M1 MacBook Pro as an end-user device.

Moorhead's review literally contains this sentence:

> The new M1 processor is impressive, but far from perfect- it has many warts, that nearly nobody is discussing.

He then proceeds to describe not warts of the M1 as a processor, but rather warts of the 3rd party software ecosystem. I think overall the review is fine and not in bad faith, but it's easy to see how people are latching on to that sentence. If he were honest about making it a review about the overall product experience, rather than the silicon, he wouldn't need to write that sentence.
Here is a dailymail link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9015711/Leaked-phot...

It made me think of this : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethered_Aerostat_Radar_Syst...

Lockheed Martin’s long term observational blimps. LTA.
I’m not a fan of everything Bukowski wrote, but I wouldn’t try to censor him so that little Jimmy could read it, and I liked the movie Barfly.

Similarly, I’m not a fan of everything Linus wrote, but I wouldn’t enforce bad CS101 code on him so that little Jimmy could read it, and I like Linux.
It's pretty amazing to see this project still going. I remember Sauerbraten more because of its unique engine. Maps are basically a big octree with something like marching-cubes applied, and can be edited in realtime (and in multiplayer).

The developers have many notable side projects in the gaming space, too. Aardappel has a programming language, Lobster[0]. And eihrul created the ENet library for UDP networking[1]. I think Sauerbraten itself uses ENet.

[0] http://strlen.com/lobster/
[1] http://enet.bespin.org/
The photonic quantum computer generates up to 76 output photon clicks, which yields an output state-space dimension of 1030 and a sampling rate that is ~1014 faster than using the state-of-the-art simulation strategy and supercomputers.
Plus, in some cases it is perfectly fine to integrate technology by soldering a discrete package on a PCB. It is not superior to a SoC in all cases, but neither is the inverse true.

In that sense Intel, AMD, or Nvidia are absolutely conveying their intellectual property to end user products through OEMs.
The thing that's novel is the fact the Pi Foundation finally (tacitly) acknowledged their official Pi 4 case causes CPU throttling.
You can actually run both Windows and Linux containers at the same time. You don't need to pick "one of these". I think the flag to switch between them on the fly is "--platform".
Those stories only mention Google Photos though. For those who only use some of Google’s services, it’s much more alarming to hear that the new storage policy also applies to Gmail and Drive.
yup, and if you want to really optimize it you could use functions as a service like lambda as your react rendering layer, which forwards to heroku or fargate or beanstalk or vanilla ec2 or whatever for your backend.

and if cloudflare workers ever support metered usage you could use that too for the react layer.

and if you want hyper performance you could use lambda@edge and intelligently route to your backend running on fly.io to minimize the distance. the somewhat unsolved problem there though is multi region master master replicated databases which are cost effective.

to my knowledge this is the current state of the art for that https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...

problem is you have to pay for each region so it's not really cost effective.
Well "next_ptr" is also a bad name, I agree, but I'm trying to name it something that indicates "this is a pointer to the 'next' pointer in the linked list".
> Us software developers are too smart for organised labour

Too smart to from cartels instead of being played off against each other by labor by buyers with greater market power?

Nah, just too many have bought into propaganda being spread from the other side of the negotiating table designed to preserve the existing power imbalance.
I keep seeing this divide where people that are used to Apple products using Intel chips are only capable of comparing the Apple Silicon M1 to Intel products.

Here, in response to someone discussing AMD processors, the Intel Xeon is raised as an example.

Sorry, no - the Intel Xeon is not an AMD processor. To be sure, the comparison between the APUs found in $999 laptops should be compared to the M1. The AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS, for example, is a 35W part though that's more of a $1200 laptop part. The Ryzen 7 4800U and Ryzen 7 4800H are both found in $999 laptops though. There are definitely cases where the M1 wins (many single core benchmarks, and efficiency) and other cases where the 4900HS, 4800H and sometimes even 4800U wins (several benchmarks that take advantage of the 8 cores/16 threads, and the higher TDP.)

You don't need to go to the high-end server chips, like the 128 core EPYC to find competition for the M1, but you do have to take a step outside of the Apple ecosystem that only has the old Intel and the new Apple Silicon.
Per the article, candles were relevant to his fire fixation. He also had a fixation on figuring out what his body could live without. Including food and oxygen. Nitrous oxide was one of the ways he would deprive himself of oxygen.
> Maps are basically a big octree with something like marching-cubes applied

I could be totally off on this, but isn't this a classic way of encoding levels?
Tiny fans aren't necessarily whiny, but the quiet fans generally don't push a ton of air. My RPi4 has a Noctua 40mm x 20mm fan that is inaudible from more than a couple feet away.

Sure, it would be fairly easy to design a die cast housing to cool the RPi silently, and the part cost would be about the same as a fan, but the tooling costs are going to be fairly high for a product that really won't sell a ton of units.
Not certificate pinning, but a lot of devices (particularly old Android devices) no longer work since their CA store doesn't have the Let's Encrypt Root CA that LE themselves run.
The author went as far as to call him "profoundly unserious public intellectual".

IQ-wise, Paul Graham is probably above 140— possibly well above 140— but that's not the same thing as being intellectual. No one who follows him will say that he's not intelligent.

Paul Graham is no Noam Chomsky. I think we can all agree on that. He's not even in the same category as "He Who Must Not Be Named" (whom I should probably shut up about, lest I risk being banned or accused of being him).

PG has nerd credibility because he got rich in technology and may or may not have had something to do with the Morris Worm. He's charismatic by nerd standards because he probably would break 165 on a GRE-V and because he's learned enough about how rich people talk and think to bridge the otherwise impassible chasm between money people and makers. He made a shit-ton of money by coming of age in the year we all wish we had come of age in; he made that an even bigger shit-ton of money (YC) by monetizing the reputation he earned by writing half-decent essays and knowing the right people.

Paul Graham is like Jordan Peterson. In his native field of expertise, he knows a few things and he can present them very well. When it comes to politics, his opinions are poorly-thought-out, self-serving, and generally worthless.
The barrier to entry with a microcontroller is at least one order of magnitude beyond "I can plug a keyboard and monitor in and type in some basic Python to do whatever I want."
I would respectfully disagree with your premise that there is such a thing as "smart". Ie. if you can do one thing well that requires a specific skillset, you can do another thing well too.

That's why Elon Musk got asked about COVID and Kayne about foreign policy. We need to stop doing that. Musk is great at building companies, knows nothing about virology. Kayne is a good at music, end of list.