skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went through this about a year ago, and while it’s pretty good to start, it pretty quickly ends up as “copy this magic boilerplate” without much more info. It definitely assumes some knowledge of existing graphics APIs and patterns, and doesn’t do a good job explaining some of its code. Graphics programming is full of historical nuances due to different apis on different hardware. Also don’t expect a simple draw api just because it’s cross platform, it still wants you to manage textures and shaders.
Sinclair TV stations disrupted across the US in apparent ransomware attack
Integrating Usability into Programming Language Design – SLE 2021 Keynote Talk
Yep, Framework (as far as I remember) intends to even create a public marketplace for people to sell custom-made addon cards. They have the dimensions on their github and make it pretty easy.
Haven't people usually paid about 40-60$ a month for TV? I don't see the issue.
Which is why a DHT system is not appropriate for web style uses. No one wants to wait multiple seconds for a page to even start downloading. It's fine for a large file download but not for frequent small requests.
If you have a hash of the underlying resource (note that this is different from how IPFS works) then http[s]://<authority>/.well-known/ni/sha-256/<base64-url hash> is supposed to enable this. The ni: URI scheme also allows for an authority field, which is used as a hint on how to locate the resource.
Dune (2021)
I'm a programmer, I know Word exists. If someone wants me to produce a Word document, I can take all my content that's in markdown and generate a .docx file. I can also generate dozens of other formats, all from the same raw material https://pandoc.org/demos.html

I haven't yet seen a tool that can take a Word document and transform it as neatly and automatically into many other formats, although it's gotten much better since things like Open Document Format compelled Microsoft to ditch the all-binary .doc format and move to the mixed XML/binary format used now.
You have just invented torrents!

> give them a multihash

magnet URIs

> place to request data from

trackers

> try local network first

Already baked in!
What if the "Global Interpreter Lock" needs to be removed for JIT?

It doesn't. PyPy has a JIT and a GIL. The JIT just compiles the byte code to native code before running, along with some tricks that are over my head.

Edit: Here is PyPy's FAQ about it

https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#does-pypy-have-a-gil...
Extremism Beats Moderation
A one letter error: Law firms sued for $300M
Worth studying the multiple mechanisms that drive the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Itayose vs Zaraba - and the role of the saitori. Here's an interesting paper from 1991:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24139396_Specialist...
Ask HN: Article with title like “Don't code with broken window?”
There was an article posted to HN within the last 12 months or so I'm trying to remember. Unfortunately I didn't bookmark it so lost it.
The title or at least the article content was about the "broken window" theory applied to code. The website has a white background, with a red line at the top. The links at the top are also in red. Overall an aesthetic site.

I believe the articles author is Dutch with a name that starts with a Y.

Can't remember many other details. Hoping someone knows the one I mean.
$ time ipfs cat /ipfs/QmQPeNsJPyVWPFDVHb77w8G42Fvo15z4bG2X8D2GhfbSXc/readme

(...)

real 0m0.219s
Sure. Did something substantial change meanwhile?
Shots fired: https://github.com/soofstad/react-oauth2-pkce/issues/1
Ever since mesa on Linux I’ve thought it would be cool to have your desktop in a 3d world to promote collaboration and fun desktop toys.
Facebook plans to hire 10k people in the EU to pursue its metaverse vision
It's because threads in Python are only really good for parallel I/O, and are ineffective for CPU bound workloads.

This can be a problem for a lot of treading use cases. If I'm working on an ETL app that parses large amounts of data, either the related CPU bound tasks need to either run sequentially, call out to C extensions, or use multiple processes which incurs an overhead.

It's a pain when you know threads would suit your use case well, but the threading implementation in the language you're working in isn't up to the task.
Lol, I just dug up the first article I could find, admittedly didn't check the news source.

But that source isn't for the claim you're quoting... that's for the (well known) claim that Chernobyl could have gone much worse if not for remdiation efforts, it shouldn't be hard to find alternate sources for that claim.

For the claim you're quoting, see the paper cited in the sibling comment to mine.

Edit: For completeness I'll relink that paper here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1...
fantastic! Thank you!
Putting what amounts to trading bot logic into the orders themselves seems like a bad idea for scalability. Is all order logic visible to all market participants? If so, then everyone has to run their own local market logic resolver to determine actual liquidity. If not, then true market liquidity is now opaque.
Microsoft Research is great. But Microsoft Research isn't Microsoft.
I had other intentions with my comment than what you insinuate.
Possibly of interest: SimulaVR (www.simulavr.com) is about to release a crowdfunding campaign for a portable Linux VR headset which will run NixOS stock under the hood (basically NixOS + Simula's window manager).
China won’t consider it an invasion.
Hitchhikers is more or less a series of vignettes that describe some human activity or historical event in such a way as to foreground it’s inherent absurdity. In a way, it’s meaning is to strip other things of meaning. Appreciating it goes hand in hand with appreciating Monty Python, who do the same thing. Hitchhikers is brilliant not insofar as it is layered with meaning as a work of literature, but in that it is quite dense with successful and memorable “skits” that poke fun at English society’s sacred cows. It’s a great example of science fiction as an analytical tool, where by redescribing something outside of its culturally weighted context a new perspective can be gained. I’d say that’s the primary “meaning” to be gained outside of the humor itself. As an example, one of the sections where he describes a whole series of absurd events that culminates in someone getting nailed to a tree for suggesting that everyone should get along, at which point you realize he’s describing the Jesus story. I think it’s a great read for someone in their adolescent years, to help them build some deconstructionist tools, but in a gentle way (Adams is quite humanist in the midst of all the absurdity).
From what I have read, following the topic for many years, the key is to have a (human) guide to help you if they see you heading in the wrong direction. Psychedelics can be thought of as emotional amplifiers; feed them bad thoughts for too long and you get a runaway spiral to permanently scarring your emotional well being. The same, however is true for good thoughts, leading to euforia, transcendental thoughts, etc., which I guess is why many folks come back to do them again (once they have rebuilt whatever reserves are needed). What any one person may experience on the same dose of the same chemical may vary wildly though, I imagine due to the levels of other chemicals already in the body, and the current emotional state.
True.. Though sadly the Windows settings screen is far from the only application doing this :'(

It's like everything has to be touch friendly. Understood that this is great in some cases. But on my desktop PC it's not. I didn't buy a big screen to have half of it filled with empty space.
World wide calamity is inevitable at this point. It doesn't really matter if we build nuclear or renewables or both, we cannot stop it, because the root cause is capitalism and we cannot replace that. So given that a calamity is coming I would rather build stuff that cannot melt down when unmaintaned.
But that isn't a spoiler alert, since it is a coincidence that the author didn't intend.
The scale is too large at this point and there isn't enough computation in the world to police the platform. The only way out of this mess is to open up the walled garden and let people choose how they engage with information available on Facebook. The issue is that their business model is fundamentally at odds with being more open because "engagement" metrics are how they convince advertisers to pay for ads displayed on Facebook properties. So forcing Facebook to open up will have to happen through government intervention and regulation. Cory Doctorow has a reasonable proposal for how to do this through open protocols for social media: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/twitter-and-interopera..., https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/interoperability-and-p.... [1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28871705
Last time I looked, Ruby had a GIL and JIT.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22466122 Might be of note here.
Amdahl's law? It depends on the code. If you throw 100 cores at half of your code, that part may get 100x faster. But if the other half is single threaded you'll only see overall performance double.
Manual or modern automated shuffles in a casino are NOT weak. Casino owners and employees aren’t dumb. They actually understand the math involved quite well.
I didn't know about qubes before this, but Edward Snowden's testimonial hooked me.

So, qubes is an OS where each "process" is more or less an isolated Xen VM, is that a good starting point?

I have so many more questions about qubes than your project, but I've been struggling to find a good way to run Windows VMs on Linux reliably and your project looks great for that. Once I get a qubes os box up, I'll give it a try.
If you don't like the company's decisions, you should stop working for the company - easy enough.

I feel like the social justice brigade needs to seriously lighten up - maybe don't watch content that sets you off so easily?

Just like everyone has had to do since.. the invention of television and other broadcast media?
There are better ways [1] [2], there's just no paying customers. You can express knowledge using a Semantic Web Stack[3], encode data in N-Triple/JSON-LD/RDF/XML and query it with SPARQL or Turtle. Wikidata[4] is an example of this.

But (afaik) nobody's selling a product that builds and queries a large semantic knowledge base for consumers. Some industries have Semantic Web-based solutions (i'm not aware of commercial ones but I assume they exist), but nobody has yet explained to the consumer why or how they should build ontologies or keep data in triples. The terminology itself is probably a barrier to market, and all the interfaces are (imo) clunky.

If I were to build a consumer product, I would hide all the technical jibberish and make a slick UI that walks the user through linking semantic data, leaning heavily on Wikidata to fill in gaps. Gameify it so that people can compete for points to link more data, add a subscription fee, add social components: poof! Billion dollar personal-knowledge-base app to replace Evernote. Value add/tagline: "Know yourself better." (inb4 selling the free version's users' anonymized data to advertisers...)

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L302468 [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90889591 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web_Stack [4] https://medium.com/@swaapniil/a-guide-to-using-sparql-querie...
Right.. so no evidence or data. Show yourself out
The drug liberalization experiment is immoral and must end
Yeah, looks like the answer to my question is their paragraph about "exact algorithm, exact solution" on page 8. Sadly their supplementary materials don't seem to be online yet, so we'll have to see how they're comparing, but it looks interesting.
The Times Astronauts Were Saved by Duct Tape(2016)
The more money there is on offer for nukes, the bigger the corruption problem becomes. There is literally no upper limit on how much money corruption is willing to absorb.

But there is a lower limit, below which corruption will look elsewhere.
> We really could have a share everything utopia

The Soviet Union also had a similar idea... utopia can only be approached across a sea of blood, and you never arrive
Not OP, but here is what I can think of:

- Low level

- great C interop

- Good toolchain ergonomics, except for no pkg manager yet

- Great cross-compilation

- Fast compilation (incremental coming soon)

- Ideal for things where ownership rules can get complicated (ECS e.g.)
good to know; didn't think about "empty" configs
Black banner posted.

To honor Roger's passing.

A time to reflect.
Perhaps better coverage on LWN:

https://lwn.net/Articles/872869/

The no-GIL version is actually about 8% slower on single-threaded performance than the GIL version, but the author bundled in some unrelated performance improvements that make the no-GIL version overall 10% faster than today's Python.
Is it even really relevant anymore?
How quickly to business requirements cancel out algorithm improvements.
A source (opensecrets) that is claiming as a source itself(opensecrets analysis). You win.
AFAICT it was only a tech demo. They describe it as a "research project" commissioned by Deutsch Telecom on their website. I don't see any indication that this company were actively marketing or otherwise deriving economic value from it when they did the lawsuit, or even when Google Earth was first announced.
n=1, but I've run fully-encrypted and /boot-encrypted Linux installs with the proprietary Nvidia-drivers without any issues.

Of course the low-quality binary blobs Nvidia ships can always contain some annoying bugs, so maybe this was fixed already and the author is just cautious or maybe I will run into those problems eventually.

I don't think it's a problem with the current iterations of Nvidia/Linux, though.

As for what can cause the problem, I have several ideas:

- Secure boot and code verification breaking driver loading

- The Nvidia driver, loaded during early startup, freaking out about config files not existing

- Some kind of handover problem between the fallback VGA driver and the proprietary blob that wouldn't exist if the boot files would be available from the bootloader directly

- Nvidia is known to track boot state in their GPU firmware (one way they used to prevent virtualizing consumer GPUs) so it could be related to a second attempt to initialize the GPU
I suggest everyone to carefully read the replies of the Facebook employees in this thread.

These data are being released in hopes of furthering the developments of these techniques - which ultimately benefits a future use by Facebook.

In turn, people like "presenti" have pointed out several times that the data were collected in Facebook offices or other places where all participants consent. The implication is clear: While the present data are legal, they would not be if shot in the "wild".

In many jurisdictions, there is no legal use case for these methods. It is literally not possible to have a widely-used implementation of these glasses that would not violate the privacy rights of "bystanders".

Of course, Facebook will work hard to make it legal, on all fronts. Whether laws need to be changed or, as pointed out by presenti, some innovation may arise to make you at least an anonymous blob, separate from name and address. And if you do not have an account - see in this thread - what is there to worry about?
Well, even if the association would only be indirect, any data collected from you (with increasing sophistication) would be part of Facebook and its models. Even as a group of anonymous users, you would become less and less anonymous and increasingly more explainable.

If you are so far unconvinced that this matters, please be also aware that the only thing standing between businesses and the extraction of the entire surplus (or consumer welfare) is asymmetry of information.
As soon as your needs and wants are sufficiently modeled, companies will use these data to maximize the profit from all their interactions with you. You will, in a sense, pay monopoly prices without facing monopolies.

Again, read the replies carefully. See how legal constraints are certainly something that is "to be solved in the future". However, whether you should ever be afforded privacy or anonymity in the face of facebook's algorithm is implicitly answered, with (frankly) a worrying amount of arrogance and dismissal: no, you and everything about you should no longer be any unexplained variation for facebook. One way or another, facebook plans to uncover you, and there is no negotiating this point.

You must now realize that Facebook is not interested in your name and birthdate, they are interested in being able to predict everything about you without these personal data. Faeebook wants a model, one that is fundamentally opposed to your welfare. And this objective will be realized.
Take heed of this, better now than later.
I was hypothesising the subconscious reason why Douglas Adams would think "42 will do". I find 42 funny for the conscious reasons I stated.

It's perfectly possible this did not apply to Douglas Adams. But a hypothesis around "eek I didn't do my homework but I winged it" seemed plausible for him.
For the iPhone itself you don't really get good competition aside from what Samsum and Xiamo offer for that price range. Though I've heard great things about the Asus Zenfone 8 as an all rounded and OnePlus as more of a "budget flagship"

iMessage: lol good luck if you can get people to switch to signal or something that would be ideal but most people just don't care in my opinion. Discord, telegram (depending on how much privacy means to you) can also be suitable alternatives. Though nothing really replaces iMessage's "sms if ded" functionality afaik.

Apple Wallet: Oof you've got me there, nothing really competes with it and yeah, a couple of my friends have complained about no passes on GPay as well, sucks.

AirPlay/Airdrop: Surprising this concept has only really been actualized in the apple ecosystem. There are 3rd party alternatives like netcat clients and qrcp and whatnot but nothing as noob friendly that I can think of unfortunately. I've literally never seen any other company implement something like AirPlay so I'll have to leave you hanging there. But a search for "airplay" on github does show some interesting projects if that rings your bell.

AirPods: UGH, you hit all the hard spots. God I love the way they connect without having to worry about going to bluetooth settings though I'm pretty sure that samsung implements something similar with their buds and phones. I guess this one's just which companys' implementation do you want. In terms of how good the headphones actually are, litearlly any $20 chi-fi IEM will objectively outperform the AirPods lol they aren't known for good sound (airprods pro rock though).

HomePod: Never used this but Home Assistant[1] setups are trending right now, give them a look.

1. https://www.home-assistant.io/
Was watching Apollo 13 with a friend from work and we were discussing the ever-versatile duct tape, and whether it had actually been used in space missions other than 13.

Sure enough =)
> New footage shows the tail-fins catch fire before the gas-bladders erupted.

In the film you link the entire rear half of the craft is on fire from the first frame.
Nostalgia factor is kicking into high gear on this one, as I haven't thought of L0phtCrack since the early 2000s.
That's true, although I'm curious if any compiler really understands the microarchitecture at that level without being coerced by a compiler dev writing a pass (i.e. won't happen straight from a pipeline description)
I can't respond in good faith without access to the source code. Everything that I would tell you is just conjecture based on either trust or hatred of Apple, which is equally useless to the consumer. Use your best judgement.
Is this what you imagine?

```

import gis

gis.renderGlobe()

```

the actual tiling logic, data storage requirements, performant rendering in something like a shitty 1990s browser... I don't think you have an appreciation for the difficulty of bootstrapping this ex nihilo.
Female Producer Explains How the Anime Industry Can Improve for Women
No. They seem to have been doing a few puff PR pieces recently. Can’t imagine anyone under 30 knows or cares about them.

I guess their main claim to fame was being the first “hacker” group to do PR moderately well and transition into decent careers. Not really even an interesting footnote in history.
Did DRM really kill sound cards or did motherboards/gpus/cpus just get better default embedded audio solutions?
The "expansion port" appears to be a sunken USB-C port that you can plug any old USB-C cable into.
Waterwheel, then, no?
I made the comparison because you are trusting your life to the government or corporation when you drive over a bridge or fly in a plane. Which is something most people do daily without thinking about it even though the death toll from collapsed bridges and plane crashes far outweighs that of nuclear energy.

Safety of later reactor designs is far improved from the earlier pressurized water reactors, although even those relatively dangerous reactors have been used widely in the navy without incident for decades. There are reactors already in use that are stable to perturbations, TRIGA reactors have negative temperature coefficients which make meltdown type accidents impossible. They are so safe, students are entrusted to operate one at Reed college. I would need to do more research to comment on perturbative stability of later reactor designs in use for power generation.

I share your concerns on the deleterious effects of economic pressure. Although my primary concern is that we will stop building them and decommission existing reactors, citing the high capital cost and cheap nameplate cost of solar.
Oh, very good comment. I didn't realize that trackers now incentivize availability (haven't used BitTorrent in a while). Very cool.

Reminds me of maker incentives in markets. Providing liquidity is sometimes paid for.
Store-to-Load Forwarding and Memory Disambiguation in x86 Processors (2014)
For folks interested in exploring Opensimulator on their desktop or vps, there's a easy-to-use package made up which includes a configuration creator and some utilities:
https://outworldz.com/Outworldz_installer/

There's a support forum for it on Mewe:
https://mewe.com/group/5bc12bdc322b35103f0965d3
The idea is to incentivise hosting via crypto - with ARWeave, there's a bigger upfront fee but no ongoing fees. In theory, it's meant to secure 200 years of storage by putting aside most of the upfront fees for later and (conservatively) assuming storage costs decrease by at least 0.5% per year.
This is the "Evil maid attack" [1] but it is avoidable. If you have Secure Boot enabled and are properly signing your Bootloader + anything it launches then your machine would just refuse to boot if anyone tampered with critical files in /boot.

The issue I have seen is that a LOT of BIOS (at least on desktop machines) seem to just let you reset the secure boot enforcement status via the BIOS reset jumper... which defeats the point although it does raise the physical access requirement to a longer duration.
recipe / assembly instructions are not quite right, either.

more like a process in a factory - material handling, coordination, input, output
Echoes of the dotcom bubble
The government has no business banning the way private companies operate. There is no quantifiable harm.

Instead, just stop using those platforms if you don't like them. It's just that simple.
> It's obvious Facebook sees the metaverse as the next big platform

I could see it- with business conferences and business travel, remote work etc. But I'd rather this go to Skype for business or zoom or linkedin etc or basically anyone else than Facebook.
I think you've hit the thing that many new techs have, they don't 100% cover old techs it's a bit of one and a bit of another, but not 100% of each.
Should include 2020 in title.
You can't post something like this and not post the video.