skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a kernel and library really are always distributed together, so religiously iron clan that you can and should treat them as a single object, then why are they not in fact a single object?

A syscall may not be inherently too different from any other interface, but a single interface is certainly different from two interfaces.
You do know that Graviton is essentially a slightly modified Arm Neoverse core or that you can buy an Ampere CPU based on Neoverse today or that Qualcomm and Nvidia will almost certainly be launching competitive Arm based server chips in the near future. Nothing to stop other vendors coming in and licensing Neoverse too.

So tell me that isn’t a more open market than say 3 years ago when you basically had to buy Intel.

I find these arguments bizarre - we’ve had many, many years of Intel monopoly on the desktop and server and finally we have some competitors and people are worried about the market being closed up? Seriously?
They have not gone anywhere, not by any measure. You just need to go to the right place in the store. Mainstream (i.e. non-indie) movies are packaged food - they come with a long list of nutrition facts and warnings. This is industry, not art, we are talking about here.
does it matter if it's just used as a counterexample to make a point while speaking in general terms?
Macros are way more powerful than binding, for both the best and the worst.

Yes, you can use macros to add do-notation to a language. But you can also use macros to add things like type checks and new conditional statements. You can't add those with do-notation.
This isn't really that hard. Bridgerton, for instance.
The middle class in cities is probably doing fine. Rural areas not so much, and that's where the manufacturing base was gutted. Offshoring has had a large negative impact there and also made our supply chains more fragile as we found out during COVID. These facts are a big reason why Trump's anti-China message really resonated in those areas.
Obviously..?

What kinda of insane naivety is required to believe the opposite?
Honestly this can all be traced back to the fact that women and pregnancy is understudied in medicine. We wouldn’t be forcing people to go 9 months with a significantly reduced quality of life if studying female reproductive health was more prioritized.
Aren't there plenty of sex scenes in TV shows these days? So much that I frequently want to fast-forward. So much that I wonder if "sex" has become the ultimate plot device. Strangers? One-night stand, and they are best buddies ever. Angry at each other? Rage sex, and all the animosity gone. Not thinking clearly? Sex with your partner calms you down. Thinking clearly? Sex with a seductive villain dazzles your mind. Seems kinda lazy to me.

> Why bother showing men and women connecting emotionally and sexually when you can rake in billions by having Steve Rogers and Tony Stark punch aliens—or, occasionally, each other?

I don't understand sentences like these. That's like saying "why bother eating oranges when you can eat an apple?" It frames the comparison in a way that suggest erotic movies are more bothersome to produce, which doesn't make sense. Superhero movies are more successful due to many reasons: big budget, proven formulaic plots, fan base, etc. but definitely not because they are less bothersome to produce.
The violence often relates to the plot, and drives the story forward. The sex scenes generally add nothing.
I think in a lot of "markets", uselessly drawn out sex scenes were just never there. In fact, I find this trait of Western movie and TV making highly annoying. Because those sex scenes are always the same. If you have seen a few, you've seen all of them, more variety only to be found in real porn. After N repetitions, TV and movie tropes just become boring rehashed mechanics. At that part, might as well leave it out if you can imply in a different way "and then they had sex".

Having sex scenes in cinema does not make good cinema at all just because of it.
Stored offline or at least immutable, e.g. via S3 bucket lifetime policy. Lots of cases of casual backup servers being infected & encrypted as well.
Old- 2011? See also work under the term "mechanism design."
Those ratings are weird - but the Chinese basically hacking the US cultural export thing is a big influence. Many movies have subtle elements that are present for the purposes of sucking up to the PRC.
I'm having a hard time understanding because if DLL Hell was well understood by 2006, it seems I should have given him less benefit of the doubt, but you say I should give him more.

Apologies.
Some other really thought provoking books by Vinge which often go overlooked is "The Peace Wars" and "Marooned in Realtime"

My personal guilty favorite (I say guilty because he really buys into the outdated concept of the technological singularity) is Rainbow's End, which deals with notions of augmented reality, digitalization of books, and even touches on right-to-repair issues in a way.
"Alternately, find a way to prevent crime."

Easy. Stop criminalizing use of drugs and sex work. End the bullshit "war on drugs."

We have a huge criminal class in this country. Wage theft[1], for example, is a huge criminal enterprise but almost nothing is done to stop that.

We could also start working on real gun control like other countries that don't have a huge firearm homicide problem. That won't mean we end homicides, of course, but it would reduce the problem.

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/epidemic-wage-theft-costing-...
Good question. To clarify, in China any company or business enterprise has to have political officers sprinkled throughout. This makes sure that the organization is following the party line appropriately.

So when I said the problem was China, I didn't mean the Chinese market, I meant that a huge amount of money currently being spent financing film entertainment comes from groups like this. They kill these kinds of things before they ever get financed.

Most folks don't talk about the money side of movies. It's nothing like talking about which star is in rehab or where the MCU is heading with its reboot. But at the end of the day, that's the thing driving content creation.
It's not necessary it's just easy to explain.
Incorrect.

Ok fine, explaination: "Re:" are not art. "Re:" are not added deliberately and for intentional artistic effect, and are not references (despite the literal) or homages.
> Rich people moving to the few lucky countries that won on the global warming and now try to isolate. Everybody else fight for scraps.

Which, if you follow the projections, will include entire Europe and North America. Seriously, read the IPCC report: impact of global warming in western world will be rather superficial, if not positive. It’s not them who is most negatively affected.
I am objecting to the ad hominem attack on mask wearers and the suggestion that it is indicative of some kind of moral failing. That does not mean I want masks forever (I don't). Or that I have a problem with people who choose not to wear a mask (I don't). Or that I even support legislation (I don't).
Author here.

See my reply to https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28737279 .
If you like this game, you might also enjoy Ben Eater's breadboard computer! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2565d...
How would this prevent a shop from using stolen phones as parts for repairs?
It is my opinion that the “time value of money” is essentially an expression of optionality. All else being equal, it’s better to have money today than tomorrow (or ten years from now), because then you’ll have the options that come from spending it. Therefore optionality is the fundamental concept of finance.
Two words: Larry Ellison
I have to believe that this has been rigorously tested, and that a lot of viewers are lost when they see black bars on their television.

I remember back in 4:3 when it was far harder to find letterboxed VHS tapes, and when filmmakers often would make sure their scope movies also worked in 4:3 by filming in 4:3 and cropping to scope (with the exception of a few hundred accidentally revealed boom mics.) I have to believe that people would just get angry if they got home and realized that their tape wasn't going to utilize their entire television, so that's how the market shook out. The funny thing about movies from that period mentioned is that really both versions of a film were incomplete.

I also remember my grandparents watching DirectTV streams that were clearly stretched out horizontally on the screen, and how they didn't notice at all. They'd notice black bars.

Now that TVs are somewhere midway between 4:3 and scope, the problem has reversed itself. I've seen it solved by zoom, I've seen it solved by horizontal stretch, I've seen it solved by half-zoom and half-stretch, I've seen it solved by either half-zoom or half-stretch combined with half-black bars, even. Just showing it in 4:3 with black bars on both sides isn't significantly more popular than any of these options. And I have to believe that there's research, because, as this story shows, zooming can be expensive. You can do it automatically, and lose everyone's feet and the tops of their heads (or their whole heads in the right shots), or go over everything manually, moving individual shots that turn out badly up and down in a way that might depend on story. Also reducing the number of vertical scanlines makes old tv look like shit, so you might have to spend effort doing something about that. For that last, you can be saved if the series was shot on film and you have access to original materials...

All of this is good, because it is an impossible problem for industry to solve, therefore it will encourage piracy by purists, and piracy for things that aren't Seinfeld episodes will get a free userbase and attendant infrastructure. Also good for piracy are geoblocking and delayed broadcast times between countries. Here's hoping that the next Game of Thrones-type blockbuster series airs a day later in the UK:)

The funniest thing about 4:3 on 16:9 is that everyone's tv is the size of a bus now, and a black-barred 4:3 picture is certainly going to be a lot larger on those than the LP-sized screens families would have been watching the original broadcasts on.
Isn't it just a normal compression algorithm then?
Certain sectors, like the people who work on container ships and long haul trucking have been poorly served by society during Covid-19. They have not been treated like “front line workers,” with good access to vaccines, the ability to get off ships, etc. The global supply chain has extreme problems and I am glad to see as much news coverage as possible.
Norway’s EVs Break Through the 90% Barrier
Technology connections gives a great intro into this concept :
https://youtu.be/rVpABCxiDaU
Show HN: GitOops – map attack paths in your GitHub org
One of my favorites to be sure - I kept pushing this on my book club for weeks until they finally caved. Its one of those works where, when people ask "what is it about?" I can never land on a succinct answer, and I love it.
Very helpful answer, thank you! I suspected that it has something to do with "Tarski's definition of truth", but there seem to be different ideas around about what this means. While Wikipedia agrees with yours, I can point to at least one popular book ("An Introduction to Mathematical Logic" by Richard E. Hodel) that equates Tarski truth just with model theoretic truth.

I wouldn't fire the analyst in your example, by the way, because the fault would be mine: I should have just specified what complexity bound would be acceptable in a termination proof of the algorithm for it to be practical for my purposes.
I just upvoted for the headline, clickbaited by the article complaining about crooks complaining about other crooks.
I wonder if there is a name for this?
Yes, another example is the 90s show Beavis & Butthead. A big part of the show was the two characters watching music videos and making fun of them. It’s a licensing nightmare so a lot of them got cut out in subsequent releases of the show.
Sorry, just thought I was being helpful.
Change carbon accounting in Europe so biomass generation is not considered carbon neutral.
I don’t know if hollywood has ever been anything else. I watched a documentary recently on the action movies of the 80s and 90s [1]. The part that was eye opening was the interview of Mario Kassar, who produced some of my favorite movies as a teenager in the 90s: Rambo, Total Recall, T2, Basic Instinct, etc. He talks about what he puts in his films literally like a farmer talks about grain for his pigs.

It has always been primarily a business targeting the lowest possible common denominator of the largest possible audience. And as the developed world expanded, that denominator shrank. Hence everything Marvel now.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8840400/
This assumes current computing speeds. The comment above talks about the future so you need to assume quantum computing exists.
First world irritation - when I finally got a 16:9 television they started making TV shows even wider so still letterboxed! Why? Grrr.
No, a normal compression algorithm will often (as opposed to very rarely) expand the output when given a random input.
Right-wingers complaining about there not being enough "sex" scenes in entertainment are so pathetic.

The fact is there are are MORE sex scenes now than there ever were in the 80s and 90s, it's just that they've migrated more to streaming TV series that are too sophisticated for right-wingers to be viewing them en masse.

Not to mention, of course, that there's also about 100x the availability of porn now, and Washington Free Beacon readers are no doubt consuming a lot of that, just like almost all of us are.

So really, this piece doesn't pass the laugh test, just like most right-wing social commentary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Free_Beacon
Most compression algos have a simple flag to indicate an embedded file for cases where compression is not workable. All the same principles still apply, it's just that the compression algo is now meta of sorts.
> Paying a few hundred $ for a phone that lasts for just a couple of years never made sense in the first place

Except most people are not doing that.. I've seen quite a few iPhone 6, & 6s around and those devices are 7, 6 years old respectively.
Its not too much different to the car industry, you will always have a class of people who like to chop and change, they may be more the enthusiast market, but many will just use it until it dies or becomes an issue and repairing it isn't worth it.

In my circles buying a new iPhone every 2 years is fast becoming a thing of the past
Is it customary for you to dismiss reporting as propaganda without reading it? Understood about the paywall, and I don't always like NYT reporting either, but there are plenty of accounts of unvaccinated people getting COVID and regretting their decision out there. Often young and healthy.

News articles aside, state statistics of COVID hospitalization and death show a clear, dramatic correlation with % of the population unvaccinated. Is that all fake? Is there a conspiracy to fake all statistics that clash with your worldview? Wouldn't that be a bit too convenient of a way to dismiss anything that doesn't confirm your beliefs?

Do you ever wonder if the media people telling you about media deception should include themselves in the critique? There's no shortage of documented deception by Stossel and other Fox personalities. Who watches the watchmen? Can we dismiss some as propaganda without reading while blindly accepting others? Isn't that how progressives sometimes get in trouble, by summarily dismissing evidence that doesn't fit their beliefs? Does it make sense for non-progressives to do the same thing?

All vaccines are complex products of science and factory processes. Do you distrust all of them, or just the new one?
We already have tools for evaluating risk in health outcomes. We generally spend more to keep people healthy than merely alive, spend more on people with longer life expectancies etc

I work on the assumption that every nation's experts are working from similar frameworks.

We already encourage people to get flu vaccines, to be allowed time off work when infectious, run education campaigns on what does and doesn't help with flu, sanitize our hands when entering hospitals or care homes, wash our hands when preparing food and enforce a thousand minor laws, regulations and social customs around that to help keep people healthy from flu and a bunch of other things. All that takes money and time and we do it because the alternative would be worse.

It becoming common in more places to wear masks on public transport during flu season seems entirely reasonable to me and not something I'm particularly worried about especially as it might help with the next Covid, avian flu etc.
But that's just saying 'trust that someone else did' isn't it? I take the question to be, say USC discovers (thinks it's discovered) a new similar recording, what can it do to verify authenticity.
Very good point. Any type of disruption is beneficial. Especially when you start screwing over your affiliates.

It’s has been proven that affiliates are the main reason ransomware has been so successful. Piss off your affiliates and now you no longer have incoming victims/targets.
There is a huge correlation between people low in Vitamin D and bad COVID-19 outcomes, correlation != causation, sure. It’s usually too late to expect giving vitamin D at the point of hospitalisation to expect it to help. I’m for most people taking vitamin d regularly for all sorts of reasons. I’d be much more circumspect about Ivermectin but the studies are being done now to see if it can help, to say it absolutely won’t work is unknown. I think promoting it is pretty bad personally and I don’t take my medical advice from Joe Rogan. Medcram is pretty informative though.
Author here.

Yeah, there are reasons to use dynamic linking, but I'm still not sure why dynamic linking gives you better profiling and tracing.

> Unfortunately people typically don't follow Drepper's advice (as far I remember the article) on building shared libraries, particularly using symbol versioning a la glibc.

I mention this in the post, but I quoted another person, Ian Lance Taylor, who wrote the gold linker, as saying that symbol combining, a portion of symbol versioning, is an unsolved problem.

Even if developers don't follow Drepper's advice, I wouldn't put the blame on them because of that fact; I would argue that it's more accurate to say they can't really follow his advice.
Lets get concrete and make a simple example State monad.

You have access to an extra variable S, with getS and setS, and each of those return values of our StateMonad.

Using these (and >>= aka bind) you can write something which increments the number in the state by one, yes?

increment = do s <- getS
setS (s+1)

and this increment is a value of our StateMonad.

This doesn't run on it's own though, it needs the "interpreter" to run the state monad, and put in a initial value of the state, and maybe take it out at the end.

That's the way you can think of Monads as interpreters in a very rough sense.

Now, you can do fancier things, where you can set up a "free monad", which is basically going to record everything into a syntax tree, and then you really have an interpreter.

http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad...
Arrgh, matey! Conservation ahoy.
I think that it's much better for marketing it to a newer generation. I suspect that for somebody in their early 20s starting to watch Seinfield these days a 4:3 ratio would immediately make the show look dated. I mean surely they ran the numbers and figured out it was worth it? Otherwise it wouldn't be so common with so many TV shows.

When I was a kid in the 90's I remember that it was not uncommon to have black-and-white movie recolored to make them look more contemporary. This is arguably an even bigger betrayal of the original artistic vision and I expect done for very much the same reasons.
I maintain a cultural archive of about 60 terabytes for this purpose. I have both the original and upscaled Simpsons and Seinfeld, but I mostly focus on stuff that people never think about (ever hear of Jon Benjamin Has a Van, that sort of thing). As storage mediums and formats change I carry it forward, last year I started adding YouTube creators. Eventually I'll hand that task off to my daughter if she also sees that work as important.
> provided you follow Go's guidelines then a Go application should always be easily recompilable, and all external dependencies should always be distributed in source-form, not as binaries

So it's a human solution, and not a technical one, which means that it can and will fail.
I agree with you about the importance of the social and economic ramifications - after all, that's the main idea behind a lot of cryptocurrencies, conceptually. I guess you might be right though that this isn't obvious or some perhaps not think of it as an important objective.
I'm not sure about the trap though - or maybe I think of it differently - because what you're describing I associate only with some form of business bastardization of the idea where people are led to believe false things without ever actually grasping the underlying concepts. In which case, sure, there's your postgres or your web panel or whatever. But if you know any better you'll realize that if you *can* build something without requiring blockchain or other such systems then you're simply doing something else entirely and it might be completely unrelated. The whole point is that you can't just host an application with Postgres backend or create anything that is more efficient or "technically superior" (not easily, anyway) without compromising the uncompromisable which is some crucial property of the system, eg. decentralization, permisionlessness. I can easily conjure up "better" solutions to an infinite pool of problems if I can simply reject the requirements.
I didn't mention nudity, so yeah I'm including non-nude scenes where that's obviously what's going on and it's not adding anything useful to the story.
It is pretty amazing how well those sources have held up as other technology advanced.

Based on some googling, various sources indicate that 35mm film has a usable resolution somewhere between 4K and 8K video, so we're arguably reaching the limits of what we can extract from it (without consideration for "AI upscaling" and such).

Cinema grade digital cameras, like the RED V-Raptor[0] (MKBHD behind the scenes[1]), can now shoot 8K footage at 120+ fps with 17+ stops of dynamic range. As far as I can tell, those specs are objectively more capable than what you can get with traditional 35mm film. It has taken quite awhile for digital to outclass film across the board, but I think we're at that point now, and the results from these cameras are spectacular[2].

At this point, it's probably a question of how much storage you want to use and whether you have enough light in each scene to shoot at high frame rates like that. (120 is an even multiple of both 24 and 30, so you can always produce 'cinematic' frame rates just by throwing away other frames, without any stuttering, but then you have the option to remaster into higher frame rates in the future if low frame rates fall out of fashion, and you can easily add slow motion effects in post, as long as the final frame rate is intended to be less than 120.)

I'm far from a videography expert, but it is something I find interesting.

[0]: https://www.red.com/v-raptor#section-vr-tech-specs

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP3BT6kRJck

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPO6sVAMjOA