skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shared as I have a huge respect of John Carmack for his dedication and tenacity to master 3d graphics programming and problem solving in general.

Considering that the engine of Quake was ready only 7 years after his first commercial release of the game "Shadow Forge", this was a huge accomplish.
Ada is better then Dada
Also, it still has a bunch of terms that ESR added that were not from the hacker community but from his circle of early 2000s pro-war bloggers:

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/anti-idiotarianism.html
This is the car, not the driving.
From the way that the parent commenter illustrated the memory layout I thought they were talking about SoA style but your comment is using AoS style.

So I would expect the code corresponding to their comment to look like this instead of what you wrote:

class ArchetypeABC {
A[] as;
B[] bs;
C[] cs;
}

class ArchetypeB {
B[] bs;
}

class ArchetypeBC {
B[] bs;
C[] cs;
}

But maybe I misunderstood?
Re 2nd link: and all of these workarounds to achieve what would have been a Flash animation 15 years ago.

We have lost something when ditching Flash, not only compatibility, but also ease of development. Simple games did not need much in the way of programming knowledge beyond basics; certainly not intricate knowledge of browser quirks.

Edit: needs (2011) in the title - I wasn't aware. Wonder how the landscape changed from back then.
> I feel like I’ve been reading about the demise of Uber ever since they graduated from startup darling to media bad guy, yet somehow they continue to operate.

That's easy enough to explain: Billions of dollars in the capital markets chasing ever-diminishing returns. But that music will stop eventually... at some point they won't be able to borrow money at vanishingly low interest rates, and their stock price won't bear raising capital in the public markets.

At that point, unless Uber has massive costs in other areas that they can cut, they'll have to stop subsidizing rides, which means either continuing to cut fees to drivers which will further depress the supply side of their market, or jacking up rates, which will hurt the demand side.

In both cases, there's an interplay--if the supply side drops off, wait times will go up and you'll have fewer riders. If the demand side drops off, you'll have fewer opportunities for drivers to make money so they'll leave the system. The result is a death spiral.
I don't understand the point that you're trying to make, like I never said that marketing owns everything and everyone bows down to marketing. That makes no sense. It's a discipline just like every other.

Most decisions go through many departments, each with their own arguments, each more important than others. Who gets the final call on pricing? Most likely financial dept. and any other price changes will come out of marketing budget.

Plus it differs from organization to organization. FMCGs, auto, media, all of them have different structures and relationships between these departments, each with different weights.

You gave me an example of people launching a product without a marketing department, nothing else. You know what? It's the product manager that will give support to customers, and that doesn't mean they aren't doing customer support.

I can give you a real example:

There was an American company called Hasbro that in the 80's bought the rights to sell some Japanese toy, made in japan, rebranded to Transformers and the marketing guys decided to launch an animated series to try to help with sales by giving a background story to the toys. I think it was an advertising agency that wrote the scripts but I'm not sure. So yeah... Transformers, one of the most popular media franchises, was literally content marketing to sell rebranded japanese toys.

So, no product development, no engineers, etc, an example without any of that.
Intel is not even manufacturing these, they are TSMC 7nm so they are competing for the same fab capacity that everyone else is using.
> ...SV just makes apps to snitch on people

Love that line. I'm filing it away for future use :)
I generally find it very difficult to read/enjoy old classics... I much prefer the analyses of those text that explain their relevance for our culture and the context in which they were written. I will make some time to read this article.
I'm thankful for this article. I've never explicitly searched the term bike-shedding and yak-shaving prior. I just had a rough idea of what it was. I also enjoyed the backstory explanations.
I assume signal is udp hole punching to get around NAT.
There was a story about China finally having the metallurgical skills to make domestic ball point pens with a certain longevity that was considered a major milestone.

Little things like that seem small but are huge, because the same skills for that type of precision can also be applied to military and other areas
PHEVs don't seem to be popular but my car (Chevy Volt) has been a great gateway to a future EV. The only times I use any gas is if I do way more driving than usual in a day, or when the "engine maintence mode" kicks in once a month! It has much less maintenance than a normal gas car (2 year interval on oil changes for example), but still more than a pure EV obviously.

I don't regret missing out on an EV since the Volt was significantly cheaper at the time, but I look forward to my next car being one.
20 Vitaliks per Elon.
I would mention it if they were his neighbor or a cab driver as well.

It's not a matter of respect, but this person simply installed a security system for their safety. They're obviously not extremely technical. They're just trying to go about their day, serve their customers and make a living, and go home.

My point in that wording is that it's some random local person in the community, not the head of the NSA's PRISM program. It's actually crazy to try and shake that person up for installing security cameras in their coffee shop and not getting everyone who walks in to sign a consent form to be recorded.
And more time for it to be mulled over. It was frustrating, but in college I found that the 16 week semester was rarely enough to actually learn something, only enough time to commit it to memory. It was often a year or more later that I'd have a sudden eureka moment while studying a separate topic. Perhaps something that was applying the unlearned material (like Physics I and Calculus, which were a semester apart for me since I took Chem I my first semester in college) or something related but not exactly the same (like Concrete Mathematics by Knuth et al. leading me to a realization about some aspects of calculus).
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Seizing on U.S. Weakness, China Warns Taiwan U.S. Will Not Defend Them
Biden is a national security threat. He must be removed immediately.
Perhaps, but we still have the old thing to fall back on for a little while if the new thing is really that bad. This will give it enough time to iron out the bugs.

For example, Linux is in the middle of switching out the display server for something more modern, but not everyone has moved on because the new display server is still missing features and interoperability that the old one had. Everyone will eventually move on from the old one, but it's not like it's automatically overshadowed just because there's a new thing.
Share Secure Access to Kubernetes Clusters
I want to know how it can be nutritional at all since meat from actual animals gets a lot of its value from the fact that the animal actually eats stuff from the ground.
The October before covid me and Mrs. Asciimov went on a cruse with Royal Caribbean. We got dropped off at the port, put our luggage in the loading area, and proceeded to walk inside, all without talking to anyone.

Not 30 seconds after walking into the Port Building, a RCL rep walked up and greeted me and the mrs by first name. Said please walk this way, I have you all checked in, you just need to go through the returning voyagers boarding line. (metal detector/contraband check)

To be honest it was both creepy to have them just know who I was, and kinda awesome to get to skip the regular check in step. I asked the lady how she knew who we were, she told us that between the cameras in the port and the photos we submitted during the cruise purchase they knew who we where, and the information pops up on their tablet when they are assigned the next customer.
Why bother reasoning with NP-hardness when you can just invoke incompleteness? No brain power limitations are needed.
Why Your Dev Board Won’t Catch On: A Retrospective of Arduino’s Popularity
https://www.dailywire.com/news/seizing-on-u-s-weakness-china...
Re: 3 - I was referring to (a?b:c), which struck me, as a pascal programmer, with horror. ;-)

Re: 4 - Immutable strings is the python oddity to which I referred

Re: 7 - The video (#4) in the series seemed to indicate that it was almost a requirement that any recursion be a tail recursion.
Just like EVERY Silicon Valley firm has for decades!
the sloths would be fine but not necessarily us. a differently-evolved monkey (maybe chimp or gibbon offshoots) might be, but likely not humans, as nature specifically selected us, from a biomechanical perspective, for efficient walking/jogging. we're not evovled to sit and stand around, as we're seeing very plainly in modern health outcomes.
On mobile they heavily push people to the app... this is the answer to most "just use the website" questions. Reddit mobile has been particularly bad about this lately, by blocking content. Instagram hits you with a login gate after viewing a few photos, etc... all of these companies are pushing their users to the place where they can siphon off the most data, which at the moment are apps.
I generally agree with this but I think it's also important to separate separate narrative from the reason.

I think what you wrote is more about the narrative. And while I think there are grains of truth in the narrative I don't think it does a good job explaining what we were doing in Afghanistan.

For example, call me a conspiracy theorist, but I would argue our primary motive in Iraq was securing oil access. But this certainly wasn't the official narrative on why we were in Iraq
I didn't find a perfect solution, but it goes like this:
it doesn't matter how many components an entity has, as long as all components are stored in corresponding arrays. So, you have positions array, velocity array, etc. Those arrays contain the data ideal for consumption by corresponding systems.

The problem here lies in linking those separate components (i.e. indices in arrays) to entities.
I confess to being quite amazed that you saw an innuendo somewhere I didn't.
What few seem to realize is that it's perfectly possible to abstract out some of the work and create an extensible foundation for manual parsers.

Since it's all regular code, you can use the full power of the host language to deal with the problem.

https://github.com/codr7/swifties/blob/main/Sources/Swifties...
Transcranial Focused Ultrasound to the Right Prefrontal Cortex
I understand that, but I’m the guy you’re selling to, and I don’t see any difference.

I need quality resources, and you can’t avoid the fact that you’re sourcing labor at the end of the day.

You’re effectively an agency to me. I pay you for labor. Whether I pay for labor on Upwork or your platform or an outsourcing agency makes absolutely no difference to me. I look at all of them as resource funnels.

And frankly, I don’t want to work with kids who call their company fucking awesome. Are you going to take my business needs seriously?

Imagine if Bloomberg called his company Jack-Off Capital. Or if Walmart called their business Cheap Bastards.

Is labor arbitrage fucking awesome? You bet. For the owners. You should call your company fuck the little guy. At least in western culture we don’t intentionally bring undue attention to the fact that we’re offshoring labor beyond a business transaction.
My current favorite is OpusModus https://www.opusmodus.com. It is a commercial app, which will dissapoint some, but is worth the price to me for the level of quality and capabilities. As an added bonus, it is written in Lisp, can be extended using Lisp and uses a S-expression DSL for composition. The development environment has a REPL and a variety of interfaces for composing and exploring music.
That does not require using conflicting assumptions though.
lmao almost all of the garbage crypto"currency" (most of them want to be a store of value and even fail at that) projects
it seems AMD manufactures most 7nm all at TSMC, but intel has a factory coming online next year in Arizona...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_si...

I could see gov/Military investing/awarding more contracts based on these 'locally' situated plants
Thanks for reading my blog :) There may indeed be quite a few errors in there. I meant no offense to Nvidia users, I just have fairly bad experience with that graphic card and console/desktop work on UNIX systems. By that, I mean, things like BSD's and Solaris. Naturally, Linux is your best bet for driver support.
I guess if you've never learned about the word 'plumbing' before?
TN also has a huge alcohol lobby that bribes legislators doesn't it? Surely they don't want any other legal drugs competing with them...
Congratulations on the launch @MahyadGhassemi!

Thrilled to a startup tackling browser innovation with such a strong emphasis on speed within information workflow. Best of luck with the years ahead.
The industrial revolution divided the world into those who had capital (owned factories, tools, land, etc.) and those who produced labor (worked in the factories, used the tools, worked the land, etc.). Those on the side of labor couldn't provide value without access to capital where it could be used. Conversely, those with capital need labor to extract value from it. The factories don't run themselves.

In theory, this would balance out and lead towards some level of equality. In practice, the high barrier of entrance and smaller numbers on the side of capital made it much easier for them to drive down labor prices and exploit. That led to massive inequality—think robber barons and the like—which in turn eventually led to the organized labor movement.

We are now recapitulating this historic arc in the information revolution. Now the world is divided into those who own data and those who produce it. Large corporations own giant fields of data and the computing technology required to derive actionable information from it. Everyone else gives up their personal data and attention to feed those enormous machines. This has led to the growing inequality that is causing a breakdown in institutional trust and is driving people out of cities that are increasingly affordable only to the elites who run the data factories.

At some point, we will hopefully have an "organized data movement" where people work together to be able to make effective demands about how their data can be harvested and used. We aren't there yet.
Not sure how I missed that – it was even in the proof of concept in the message I replied to. Thanks for the help.

There are multiple failings that don’t seem like a big deal taken in isolation:

- The PYTHONWARNINGS and whole Warning Filters system.

- The webbrowser module executing a given executable from an environment variable.

- The antigravity module running webbrowser.open() on import.

All of these sort of seem a bit like sacrificing good taste for convenience. But in combination, in a situation where you don’t control the environment variables, they do lead to arbitrary code execution.

In other words, it’s not all antigravity’s fault, but those side effects on import make this possible.
I'd be excited to see if you can run ARC on Intel ARC!

GPU Accelerated HN would be very interesting :)
what is maintenance like on a PHEV vs an EV or ICE car? My intuition says it has more parts than a either and is thus more complicated
By that argument, mobile OSes are unreasonable because they make it difficult to install fonts.
The saving grace of being able to survive in the universe is that it's possible to climb up NP hard problems far enough to get real results with hard work.
isn't it the same story repeating over and over, such as previous withdrawals from Afghanistan, not just by the US but Soviet Union as well, and going back all the way to the Anglo-Afghan Wars.

I mean, the way it was (mis-)managed tactically was a colossal failure by Biden administration but was there really another strategic solution, except for not invading Afghanistan in the first place.
> Billions of dollars in the capital markets chasing ever-diminishing returns. But that music will stop eventually...

Exactly. While it make be very difficult to pinpoint exactly when a Ponzi scheme will blow up, it's not hard to figure out that it will blow up.
Very great response to maybe not the most polite version of a good question, love the energy!
The US Government Lied for Two Decades on Afghanistan
You pay $500pcm for graphics design work on your side projects?

Are they income generating or are you just really committing to getting them/one off the ground without actually quitting 'the day job'?
and the design is very tired.

Notice how I am not judging on good- or bad-looking. But the Tesla design has been basically the same for many years and frankly all models look so similar (with just different sizes and door configs etc etc)
This is easily noticeable if you have experience visiting stores in poorer parts of a city and the same brand stores in a richer part of the city.
Many of the smaller Ford cars seem to be designed by the European subsidiary and then either exclusively sold in Europe or later sold in America, for instance the Kuga which is now being sold as the Escape in the USA. Ford obviously aspired to unify across the two markets, but the differences between them are so large it doesn’t seem practical for most of their range. Ford in the USA seems to make most of their money from pickup trucks, with the Mustang brand as a significant extra, and both of those are negligible here. And now there’s enormous pressure from the European efficiency standards, so that Ford is licensing some EVs from VW. I wouldn’t be surprised if the European division was sold off like GM with Opel.
Ah yes, Investopedia: The place all good marketers go to learn their trade. What was I thinking? And here I thought my 20 years in the field might mean I knew something about it. I should have just looked it up in a glossary and called it a day.

I'll inform my CEO that we've been going about it all wrong, because someone on the internet believes product development should occur in a vacuum without worrying about things like market research. That's totally reasonable.
In scripts designed to be run directly at a bash prompt by humans, the difference would absolutely be noticeable.
Exactly! Thank you!

Having sold high tech products B2B, I can confirm this.

Also "out of the box" can work with nerds if that feature allows them to do what they "really want to do" more easily and faster.
> Specifically which new algorithms would you like to see?

I don't have the answers, sorry, only the frustrations. I know it's a hard problem, and subjective at that. I don't mean to put graphviz down, it's still the tool I go to.
I don't believe that Walmart isn't using this data, they have way too many cameras in there stores not to be using it.

Not that it really matters anyway. If you use credit cards, they already know more about you and your buying habits than you could imagine.
Can modern cache hierarchies not maintain two parallel linear array iterations on the same core?

Or is CPU cache really so slow it can literally only look at one stride of memory at a time?

I'm skeptical this kind of optimization is necessary.
Verifying that an SVG image is 100%identical (with zero room for interpretation) to a picture in a public database (available online free of charge)?

And then clicking 'renew' once per year?

How could you possibly charge less than a thousand dollars for that...
The fit and finish on these cars is fine. Their cost of ownership is fine. The true difference between brands is very, very small.

That said, the internet fanboy talking points you're parroting are exactly why your first sentence is spot on. The new car market is chock full of feedback loops that make perception more important than strict "by the numbers" reality.
No, I prefer email signups.

I think you've just got too many "okay next" steps. Also, is account activation really necessary? Couldn't I just start using the app immediately and activate within X days?
Plaids terms are really concerning to me as a user and I’m not willing to give them my bank credentials. My main fear is that they get hacked and my credentials are used to drain my accounts. Plaid waives any liability and my bank doesn’t do much if my credentials are used to do stuff like initiate wire transfers.

Venmo is doing this weird thing where for some transactions they are saying they require plaid to get my bank credentials to log in and “verify.” Of course that breaks my first issue. But it also allows them to suck up and use all of my bank transactions forever.

Seems like a shitty tradeoff just to Venmo money to people.
https://www.oneapi.io/
Don't worry about it if you use credit cards, they already know a ton about you.
Which is bigger? The fine or my bazooka?