skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or DCA airport, maybe "National" if you insist.

Or perhaps more close to home here: Alphabet.
Not at all. It's just that writing drivers and supporting all the peripherals is a massive undertaking (even Linux is often way behind on support -- chips that came out years ago might have poor or no support for some peripherals and the only support you find is in some vendor fork of an ancient android kernel).

There's also the fact that compared to PCs, ARM boards are kinda special snowflakes. DOS could boot and run on thousands of different machines ("IBM PC compatible") from different manufacturers, in part thanks to BIOS abstracting out some of the core peripherals, in part thanks to (de-facto) standard peripherals. Your custom ARM OS? Well, it won't boot on the next board. UEFI is sort of changing that, but really it pushes the problem to the bootloader (until they start implementing UEFI in firmware).

In a way, I actually prefer not having to rely on BIOS or UEFI, because that protects me from stupid implementations and allows me to customize things. And on the other hand, if you want high performance drivers for modern peripherals, you probably don't want to rely on a firmware abstraction for it (but it'd still be nice to be able to boot and get a shell & some basic I/O going even without hardware specific drivers). But that means you do need drivers in your OS, and as long as chips keep changing as often as they do, it's a never-ending battle to stay on top of driver support.

PCs also gave you a nice escape hatch in that you'd plug in your peripherals to a slot and you could choose parts that you have drivers for. That's not really the case for laptops of course, and ARM SoCs integrate most of the peripherals so if you get a new chip, you get new everything.
The M is already Microsoft. I'm partial to calling the Netflix-less tech industry "MAGA", because they're the ones actually making America great again.

Also Google is actually Alphabet, so it'd really be like MAMA or something.
Your definition from websters is called "the essential meaning" and is literally not the dictionary definition. It is very similar to using definitions from what google returns at the top of a search page - kind of useful but not the same as the definition of the word.

Look below that in the next section. There you will find the definition of bureaucracy. That section is called "Full Definition of bureaucracy"

1a: a body of nonelected government officials
b: an administrative policy-making group
2: government characterized by specialization of functions,
adherence to fixed rules, and a hierarchy of authority
3: a system of administration marked by officialism, red
tape, and proliferation
an example of the complexity of dopamine: a study allowed animals to self-administer cocaine. Other animals were administered the drug in the brain on the same schedule but without 'choosing' to take it. The findings showed that the areas of the brain affected differed depending on these two conditions. This is a study with rats, and yet the effects of a seemingly small environmental/psychological difference changed everything

Another study on electrical brain stimulation showed that while animals would self-administer it, when it was automatically administered, the same animals would respond always to turn it off
Maybe whales are brilliant
The doctors don't seem to care about the side effects. All the psych drugs have horrendous side effects which get basically ignored. I've even seen multiple suggestions that mass shootings might be a rare side effect from them.
Or MAAAN, which has more of a ring to it.
I wouldn't say so. RPi doesn't discontinue products, but it doesn't really make sense to buy most older models.

In practice there are 4 RPi's: the Zero (5$ is hard to beat), the Zero 2 W (small, cheap, with WiFi) and the 4 Model B.

Then there is the Pico, but it is a microcontroller, a completely different product, and the CM4, for large scale deployments.
That really borders on the no true scotsman fallacy.

I agree with gp.
> Founders have just as much incentive to optimize the excess out of the system ... tweaking how the system works so that they can squeeze out profit for themselves.

So do workers, to be fair. The goal of workers in purchasing departments and HR isn't to make the business more efficient but to propagate a cushy lifestyle for themselves and their mates.

To an extent, that same misalignment exists in all classes of worker, including engineers.

SWEs are probably the worst at this; so many of the problems that we solve don't have anything to do with squeezing the most performance out of the hardware or reducing technical debt. Instead, a huge chunk of our time is spent on man-made bullshit that sysadmins don't solve properly because otherwise they'd be out of a job.
Regarding the phrase "I don't know how to count that low", here's the video where it originated. Frankly I'm astonished this hasn't been shared before, and I hope I don't get in trouble for posting it (it's like 11 years old, surely nobody cares at this point, right?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI
I find the trajectory between model railways and stamps sort of similar, in both cases they are linked to a phenomenon that has diminished from the popular view quite significantly and as such they as hobbies have waned also. Trains are not really the icon they were 50-100 years ago, nor are people interacting with stamped mail anymore.

Ham radio is sort of another hobby that kinda falls into the same category, although maybe for slightly different reason? But there too, just talking to random/local people kinda lost its luster; people barely even make phone calls these days anymore.
I guess it should be Alphabet in there instead of google, so it's like AMANAM
>"Does applying a longstanding technology to a newly needed purpose constitute invention?"

Yes, if the technology is new in that 'field'.
My understanding was Google's rebranding was mainly targeted at investors so that when financials were reported, it would be split out between Google vs. other divisions. It would make sense that most everyday people wouldn't know about this.

FB's rebrand seems targeted to everyday consumers, so I would bet their brand strategy would change to cater to that, in a way that Google/Alphabet never cared to.
Buddhism has been working on this for a couple thousand or so years. There are many different practices and traditions that have evolved in it, but many of them at the beginning will teach you to sit and observe all sorts of phenomena, or may even ask you to bring up uncomfortable, strong emotions to learn how to work with them.

And yeah, for sure exercise. Just remember the practice of training your body is a marathon, not a sprint. Consistent effort over years is what you're going for rather than trying to go hard at the beginning. It's a lifestyle change.
I mean the isolation of basically wearing a helmet for hours. It's exhausting to have your vision and hearing constrained to the digital world in this way for long periods of time. To me, VR is like a roller coaster. It's super fun but only in small doses.
Do you have an actual refutation though? Why does buffering perform better in real-world factories than the simulated ones in Factorio?
I dislike Zuckerberg as much as another fellow, but he is one of the few founder/CEOs who managed to not only maintain control of his company, but maintain complete, uncontested control over his company. There are so few businesspeople that can claim that, as it is typical that either fundraising or corporate politics (or both) eventually ousts the founding members or dilute their absolute power. To claim that he somehow accidentally negotiated and maintained complete control throughout the entire lifetime of Facebook is disingenuous at the very least. People do not accidentally maintain power. Any number of other ambitious people would have loved to become the power broker at Facebook by taking Mark down, and preventing that every step of the way is foundational to the definition of business savvy.
Calacanis Live on Meta
Yup.. watch out aws, gcp, azure
The WH is involved because it spiraled out of control. DoT should have resolved the issue without anyone higher up involved, that’s their job.
I'm actually on the lookout for a small case but for a different purpose - I want to build a NAS enclosure that will hold at least 4 full size 3.5" drives in the most compact form factor possible. I was hoping one of those might do the trick but they are not geared towards 3.5" HDD
I think you're missing the point. The issue is that with the advent of higher level languages, starting from Java, Javascript and on to Python and so on, most people have forgotten or have never learnt the skills to optimize code.

I'll argue that, as a percent, the number of people who can write proper multi-threaded code has only diminished over the years.

And we see the result, despite the massive increase in computing power, software in general has become slower and bloated.
I use Github Actions mostly for automatically publishing my website when I change its content. But I haven't fully set up my build pipeline to my liking. And getting logs and stuff when the pipeline goes sideways isn't very easy right now with Github Actions. If I hosted my own running, at least I could poke around my build environment to see why it failed until I have it running reliably enough to let the cloud handle it.

That's a long-winded way to say: debugging.
No, this simply shows that abstraction slows performance, which is usually a worthwhile tradeoff.

Leaky abstractions are a different problem altogether.
Alternatively, see https://www.programmingfonts.org/

Missing B612 Mono (I prefer it to Jetbrains): B612 is an highly legible open source font family designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens.

In 2010, Airbus initiated a research collaboration with ENAC and Université de Toulouse III on a prospective study to define and validate an “Aeronautical Font”: the challenge was to improve the display of information on the cockpit screens, in particular in terms of legibility and comfort of reading, and to optimize the overall homogeneity of the cockpit. https://github.com/polarsys/b612

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18946601

re: Site presentation, I think having sample prose as well as sample code is important. Spacey code blocks are largely non-representative when it comes to typography in context. Particularly when working on the console with high density information (SQL, stringy datasets, etc.)
RE: Quantity section. I wonder if the pharmaceutical amphetamines and/or novel 'research chemical' amphetamines metabolize into the same compounds that are being quantified in sewage. Are they detecting 'meth' specifically or amphetamines generally?

> only $1k per pound now.

Wow that's crazy. An equivalent quantity of generic adderall would cost ~$20k. Meth is effectively at commodity-level prices, if true - the drug war premium seems gone.

I'm skeptical about overdose rates being attributed to meth. Meth is fairly hard to OD on - it'll ruin your life and brain, but rarely kills acutely. I suspect meth being used as an adulterant mixed with other drugs (esp opioids), or novel non-meth psychostimulants, play a significant role in the increase of psychostimulant ODs by ~9x over the last 10 years.

I think a lot of this data is getting mixed up with the (at the time quasi-legal) pyrovalerones and cathinones that were widely available through the clearnet over the past 5 years. Those have much greater acute risks and were highly accessible to people without drug connections.

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However, I'm skeptical of the initial premise of the article:

> Ephedrine meth was like a party drug. […] You could normally kind of more or less hang onto your life. You had a house, you had a job. […] P2P meth was nothing like that. It was a very sinister drug.

Tweakers have been around for decades, I suspect this is just misleading anecdata.
Of course. However the parent stated it as a "We" that was implied to span humanity. It doesn't.
> It's actually an interesting example where undefined behavior allowed compiler optimization

That is literally reason why any behavior is considered undefined. So that the compiler can skip checks to produce better optimized code.
Maybe it’s just language in general. If I’m in a tribe with 100 people, and we all know to talk, not everyone needs to remember every single thing you might ever need. If you forget something, you can ask around, and probably someone remembers.
I replied on the other post regarding prediction markets. But going to reply here as well because you're highlighting something I find interesting.

When you use the term 'random' or 'randomness', are you using that as a synonym for 'complexity that is difficult to understand'? Or something else?
This is interesting:

https://tenetpartners.com/top100/most-powerful-brands-list.h...

Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft all in the top 10.

Exxon way more popular than Netflix.
Thanks, replied!
The pandemic didn’t kick the machine, the lockdowns and other unprecedented interventions did.

So this was a once ever event.
Inflation generally helps big business and its owners. They get to raise prices, and they usually get to raise prices more than the average firm does because they have little competition. You're seeing this now with record-high corporate earnings.

As long as the capital-owning class is holding equity (stocks, real estate) they benefit from inflation.
> "I don't know if Jon is a father..."

The article mentions that he is the father of three.

It's also worth noting that the article title omits part of the tweet; the actual text says "...any man in an important position...", so he's not talking about ordinary workers.

(On a meta level, it's actually kind of regrettable that there's a HN guideline against encouraging posters to read the article before commenting since it's clear that so many don't.)
I wonder how many are still actively being used. I bought the Oculus quest early on. Spent a bunch on different games, hooked it up and played PC VR games. Used it nearly daily for a few months but have since given it away. Partly due to the current limitations of VR tech (it's heavy, screen resolution is still very low, need a large space to really play it) as well as now having to use a Facebook account.
Then yes, you're excluded. Printing a page of courier is missing the point.
It is insignificant or even negative if you accept the statement that it subsidies cheaper hardware.
Finally, someone found a way to get everybody off "Facebook".
But memorizing oral history surely was a thing back there.

A single narrative for all things is probably simpler than having to figure everything out every lifetime, like octopuses do.
It's not a "trap". If you say something like this:

> This is another functional display piece for a designer's desk, just like the Playdate.

Then you'd better have something to back it up. And unless you're one of the few people who've actually used a Playdate (who actually had largely positive impressions IIRC) then what basis in fact, or even in subjective experience does your comment actually have?

Seems to me the answer is none. And that's worth calling out.
> I don't think failing to innovate and then buying your way out of the hole is a sign of particular acumen.

I guess Apple failed to compete and innovate when they acquired NeXT and Beats. Or Microsoft failed to innovate as soon as they acquired GitHub and Xamarin. /s

Very senseless acquisitions that have no long term strategy or reason behind it to sustain the future of the business or to compete in the market. /s
> the compiler cannot assume that adding one will eventually turn negative and then later on reach 0

Signed overflow is undefined behavior, so it is allowed to assume that. It's also allowed to assume anything else that it wants to.

Once you cause a signed overflow, all guarantees are out the window and the compiler can do anything it wants to.
> transforming them into the text to print

I think this nails it. Vectorizing the math problem is "easy" (send batches of numbers to cores, do the division) but then you have to re-order it for printing (not to mention actually print it), so paradoxically, it probably makes more sense for the program to be single-threaded.
The brain itself is the evolutionary pressure. It is often repeated that the brain takes ~20% of our body's energy despite being ~2% of our body's mass. If there is no need to have a brain so large (due to a lack of predators) it is beneficial to shrink it.
Because we no longer need to run away from predators and process information at the same rate we'd need to in a more wild enviornment. The survival pressures of our ancestral environment are no longer relevant. We've essentially destroyed and driven to extinction every other predator on the planet and now the only selective pressure is adaptation to the human created environment which is much nicer and simpler than the wilderness we came from. Simpler and safer environments make simpler brains and that's my best guess at why our brains are shrinking but I'm just an armchair scientist so it's better to ask the experts. The only remaining selective pressure is basically human predators, a.k.a. sociopaths.
On one hand, people say what benefits the position they're in.

On the other hand, people enter positions they believe will benefit them.
But this was known, and why many people (such as myself) opposed lockdowns.

It's stunning how much knowledge and wisdom has been lost about simple things like how to deal with plagues. This is not a new thing facing humanity.
It's time to drop apps that don't support Apple Silicon natively
Demography and Destiny
You see many examples of quiet famous people from Letterman, Carson, Conan or most politicians or most actors like Nicole Kidman. The ones making the headlines are a small percentage.
"I don't have time to fight with people who are trying to misunderstand me"

The face goggles are at one layer of the tech stack, and like the other layers, will be continually improved and swapped out with better implementations. See also: displays, or paper.
In all seriousness, this looks like an Hooli ad from the Silicon Valley TV show. I can really picture Mark Zuckerberg as a real life Gavin Belson surrounded by minions telling him all day long how great this Meta thing is.
>b) How much would it cost to just send every one of them an Oculus headset for free?

$300 * 3 billion people, so $900 Billion give or take which coincidentally is right around the market cap of the entire company.
> What problems would occur if we were just nat-ing everyone behind those 4 billion IPv4 addresses?

Because we're running out of IPs even with NAT, so entire ISPs have to implement it:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT

There are entire swaths of IPv4 addresses (100.64.0.0/10) reserved just for ISPs to assign to their customers' WAN interface which will not interfere with the RFC 1918 addresses people use on their home networks:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6598

We're doing NAT-upon-NAT.

Good luck doing hole punching on your personal firewall to allow connections in for games or VoIP.
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/dividend-tax-rate

These are lower than ordinary income.
I recently searched for this and couldn't find any device that actually implements this. In any case, Ethernet over HDMI still requires one of the HDMI devices to be connected to the network via some other way and bridge the HDMI connection with that network as to give the other HDMI device a way out. So something like an Apple TV which has no incentive to help spyware should be safe.
Everyone has 24 hours per day.
Snow Crash is literally the first thing that came to my mind when I saw FB talking about "metaverse".

And not only it is a dystopia, but the Big Bad in the story is literally the guy who owns the physical metaverse infrastructure:

> “I deal in information,” he says to the smarmy, toadying pseudojournalist who “interviews” him. He’s sitting in his office in Houston, looking slicker than normal. “All television going out to consumers throughout the world goes through me. Most of the information transmitted to and from the CIC database passes through my networks. The Metaverse — the entire Street — exists by virtue of a network that I own and control.

He's also pretty open about his methods:

> “Yeah, you know, a monopolist’s work is never done. No such thing as a perfect monopoly. Seems like you can never get that last one-tenth of one percent.” ... “Y’know, watching government regulators trying to keep up with the world is my favorite sport. Remember when they busted up Ma Bell?” “Just barely.” The reporter is a woman in her twenties. “You know what it was, right?” “Voice communications monopoly.” “Right. They were in the same business as me. The information business. Moving phone conversations around on little tiny copper wires, one at a time. Government busted them up—at the same time when I was starting cable TV franchises in thirty states. Haw! Can you believe that? It’s like if they figured out a way to regulate horses at the same time the Model T and the airplane were being introduced.”
You could probably to very close to this solution with C or C++, plus AVX intrinsics. Some might consider that "cheating" since intrinsics occupy kind of a grey area between a higher level language and asm.
Great. Now compare Sweden, Norway, and Finland.

The UK is culturally different and not a neighbor.
Fedora 35 Release Notes
You could probably get some blazing performance out of an FPGA. I made an FPGA version of FizzBuzz a few years ago, but it was optimized for pointless VGA animation rather than performance.

https://www.righto.com/2018/04/fizzbuzz-hard-way-generating-...
> Some people will perceive his rejection as bad hiring practices on Codecademy's part.

FTR, I have no opinion for or against Codecademy.

Whether it's a bad or good hiring practice depends on what you think of this guy. The information on whether any company hires or rejects a certain applicant is not a trade secret. If you read this and think, "this guy's a douchebag," then yes, the company looks sane and reasonable, the opposite of bad. If you read it and think, "this guy is perfectly reasonable," then yes, the company looks bad.

This poster isn't saying anything about whether Codecademy is good or bad, they're just stating the facts, which were created as a result of the company's hiring decisions. If the facts make them look bad, that's on the company for making the choices they did. If they make them look good, the same applies. Again, I have no horse in this race.
JDK VM Options Explorer
Read “English rectum predicted black holes” for a sec
> for a problem that doesn't immediately jump out as SIMD.

It's a single transformation applied to elements of a large array. Parallelization is obvious, and maybe the exact SIMDization is not obvious, one is certainly motivated to formulate it. And a scatter-like approach does spring to mind right away, I believe.
Why is React not in this list?