skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole affair is about sigint, electronic signals monitoring in the hope that something worth of more intelligent processing pops out. This works, but the amount of funds required versus the amount of output given all of the sigint operations at work today is enormous before you start moving the needle.

It's the human intelligence gathering where these groups are deficient, but that doesn't scale, so just like the start-up investors the governments believe that they will be able to do this on the cheap by widening the net. But that won't work, it just means they'll catch a ton more krill, and very few extra fish.
I like the idea of a ringed station made of starship shells. But I wonder if instead of making hollow starships and then having to deal with all the engines and fuel tanks when converting to a ring segment, perhaps it would be possible to make a tubular section which fits over the outside of starship like a sleeve? I suppose it would need cutouts for the flaps since that starship would ideally be reusable, and it would need to be two halves since there is no way to slide it off if there are flaps there. But IDK maybe it could work!
No, not really.

The projects do rely heavily on Nix for infrastructure stuff, and I have to explain it to unprepared developers often.

The best angle is to explain it as "like Python venvs, except works for any combination of programming languages". That sets for correct expectation for feature set and complexity.

P.S. The single biggest huge blocker is lack of support for nix-shell in VSCode and JetBrains IDEs. Every other complaint is a minor trifle in comparison.
You need ongoing security patches these days, and updates for compatibility with platform changes.
I don't understand why you can't go for a walk while WFH. You're still the same distance from the cafe. If anything, with less constraint on your route, it leaves you more time to walk to more varied and nicer places
Hmm ... how does that work? We are obviously not eating cow stomach when eating a steak?
Thanking the political commissars?

I’m glad to see them resign, and I hope open source can ultimately route around the unearned power grab that the “CoC” movement represents.
You write views, and they render templates. There's a file called `urls.py` where you import a view and attach it to an actual url.

So

appconfig/urls.py depends on
yourapp/views.py which renders html using a template at
yourapp/templates/sometemplate.html

Presuming that you want to interact with the database `yourapp/views.py` probably also depends on models from `yourapp/models.py` or some other apps database model.
10 years from now there will be something else that people complain about in unison. This rule isn't helpful nor forward-thinking.
Ex-FB here. My guess is that it's primarily a combination of two factors:

1) Someone / some org was slow to notice that this was happening.
2) Bureaucratic muck slowed resolution down. Even once escalated, there would be a lot of red tape to go through to make the necessary changes to how things are ranked. The people noticing the problem most likely aren't the people able to make changes, the changes would need to be tested at scale and their effects evaluated, and the people making the changes would have a lot of deliberating, politicking, explaining, and appeasing to do. Add onto that that everyone is stressed out of their minds, worried about performance reviews, and having to balance changes they want to make against how they and everyone else are evaluated at perf time...
Project Hail Mary is worth a read. Totally different vibe.

It felt like he was trying to do something very different with Artemis and failed. I rarely have to put a book down but I just couldn't finish Artemis. The whole scene with the "strong" cop holding her down had my eyes rolling so hard they almost got stuck.
sub 100$/kwh retail price LFP battery with 10k cycle life will be a reality in < 10 years

Look on Alibaba. You can buy that right now.
"Microsoft does something bad and so anything Apple does that is bad is okay, because Microsoft also does it."

I don't see the logic here.
Vulkan and OpenGL are provided by drivers, not by the OS. It's a perfectly normal situation, what else _could_ Microsoft do?

> OpenGL compatibility pack

This is using the Mesa Gallium state tracker with a DirectX backend. It's not meant for vendors with a native OpenGL driver.
The infrastructure is subsidized, local transit is subsidized, but long distance and high speed rail operations can be profitable, even including the capex of rolling stock (In fact EU rules stipulate that they should be unsubsidized).

Also, the EU mandates open track access, which means technically it's possible for private companies to compete (and they do, there are several private operators like Flixtrain, RegioJet, LeoExpress, even a high speed one in Italy, Italo).

It's also possible to have rolling stock that is fairly usable all over Europe (RIC carriages, usually 200km/h). There is even a bit of a market for used vehicles. As for locomotives, traditionally they only work in one country, or perhaps two. Now there are more and more locomotives that work in multiple countries, e.g. TRAXX and Vectron. It's possible to rent carriages and trains. It's also possible to rent traction.

In some sense it's getting close to possible to do a startup in European rail. I'm thinking about the problem a lot.
Working remotely last couple of years. Other than that, similar to what person above me
wrote.
Pittsburgh Left
Confused - in what way is that sarcasm?

The amount of packages in JS world is truly impressive, while their quality... usually not.
I hoped that someone finally got the right idea, and those djinn-pads are touch-pads. Alas, no such luck.
I think he's right that we're headed to neo-feudalism. Already in Canada the price of housing has spiked so high and so fast that regular people pretty much have no hope in hell of buying anything without parent help (ie. dynastic wealth).

Wasn't even 20 years ago that housing was affordable by working class people.

We seem very far away from any sort of political shift that would change this.
That’s not a thing (Re: dod)
Didn't their own research show that it made 13% of teenage girls who use the platform seriously depressed?
Vulkan becoming the default cross platform GPU API, while using MoltenVK on Apple operating systems, may be a more accurate way of saying this.
I agree coordination is needed for cross-team work, but why must that involve people on the product side of the house? In the same way a team can internally prioritize particular technical work, the technical people can coordinate between teams.

I agree that if a mess is particular large, or cleaning it up will have product/schedule impact, sure, the you have to talk with the product people. But the converse it true: if you can find ways to do the necessary technical stuff while still producing sufficient business value, then the product people will never notice.
This is precisely why he is a poor “password” / secret replacement.

Whelp, your fingerprints have been cloned. Time to go get them burned off and get some new ones. Yeah, that’s not gonna work.
Interesting; I was wondering if they had added some magic feature to Clang to enable Objective-C in pure C++ mode, but no, it really is C++. It just directly calls the Objective-C runtime functions like sel_registerName, objc_lookUpClass, objc_msgSend, etc. The expensive lookups like sel_registerName are performed in initializers of global variables, whereas for 'real' Objective-C code the dynamic linker does essentially the same job itself. I believe this has the disadvantage that unused selectors can't be fully optimized out, as C++ doesn't allow removing global initializers even if the global in question is unused. Therefore, any program that includes this library will, at initialization time, look up all ~1100 selectors defined in the library, regardless of which ones the program actually uses. But besides that, this approach may have equal performance to native Objective-C.

Also - throwing a zip file over the fence, really? Can't you put it on GitHub?
Inarguably though Apple not supporting Vulkan is a huge stumbling block for games on macOS -- even if the common engines support it, a lot of game studios who aren't using something off the shelf aren't likely to support a Mac-only target.
Have you ever seen the Charlie's Angels movies?
They where taking the fingerprints using a beer bottle.

Same method but 21 years ago.
github mirror: https://github.com/bkaradzic/metal-cpp

i'm planning to use this to rewrite the metal backend of my rhi abstraction.
Yes. The problem you then have is that adding additional values to the enum then either breaks compatibility or relaxes that guarantee. Since Java tries to run old code for as long as possible the only option for switch statements is to ensure there is a fallback so that you at least know there is a problem.
Just paying a clerk eliminates the risk of a software development project blowing out the budget or alienating customers used to the convenience of ordering by email.

If whatever that company does is meaningful the poster contributed the same as anyone else.
From your source:

12 states impose a duty to retreat when one can do so with absolute safety: Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin. New York, however, does not require retreat when one is threatened with robbery, burglary, kidnapping, or sexual assault.

No mention of domicile in this text.
You’re missing the point.

Biometrics are not the weakness. Current implementations are.
> I haven’t seen one yeti.

This doesn't mean they don't exist.
Soon: low overhead C++ interface for all of UIKit and Foundation.
And somehow I'm able to buy a return ticket from Paris to Prague on my national railways' website without a single issue.
Finally some benchmarks beyond just encoding video (which is admittedly a huge use case for these CPUs). I've been on Windows for decades, and this step change in computing performance is a Siren's call for me to switch, I've never wanted an Apple product so much as this before.
> Googling facts is akin to using a calculator.

An important distinction is that calculators tend not to lie or make honest mistakes when producing facts.
With remote work becoming more common, I'd expect to see companies that embrace it refuse to hire remote-only workers who live in HCoL areas, or at least cap the number they're willing to hire.
Is 'Jrnl' the Best Journaling App for the Command Line?
And, apparently, volunteering to be on the moderation team.
I've accidentally taken knives and ammunition through TSA in a carry-on bag, but the only thing they've ever stopped me over was steel toed boots in my bag.
Right after 9-11 my dad went on a trip and after getting off of the plane, put his coat on and realized he had two six inch box knives in the pockets, the only thing they took from his bag was his shampoo.
You are saying that you always live near your office, so who is stopping you from going to the same park or cafe while WFH?
Er, no. I do that stuff (well, I'm not clever enough for C++ generally, and it would be OpenMP rather than plain pthreads) on the sort of nodes that Sierra uses. However they mostly use the GPUs, for which POWER9 has particular support. Then I can tell there isn't currently any GEMV or FFT running on this system, and not "all the time" even on our HPC nodes.

While it isn't necessarily clear what peak performance means, MKL or OpenBLAS, for instance, is only ~100% of serial peak on large DGEMM for a value of 100 = 90; ESSL is similar. I haven't measured GEMV (ultimately memory-bound), but I got ~75% of hand-optimized DGEMM performance on Haswell with pure C, and I'd expect similar on POWER if I measured. Those orders of magnitude are orders off, even for, say, reference BLAS. I don't know why I need Python, but the software clearly exists -- all those things and more (like vectorized libm). You can even compile assorted x86 intrinsics on POWER, though I don't know how well they perform relative to on equivalent x86, but I think you're typically better off with an optimizing compiler anyway.

I've packaged a lot of HPC/research software, which is almost all available for ppc64le; the only things missing are dmtcp, proot, and libxsmm (if libsmm isn't good enough).
not likely. the more likely scenario is webGPU becoming one, and i'm mad about it because they couldn't use spir-v for shaders, for legal reasons.
Then I've done a bad job communicating what I meant. My point is, (virtually) every single product can make the claim they are making a bet on something that doesn't change. Both good and bad products. Failed and successful.

The entire article says nothing of practical value. Everyone is betting on something that doesn't change and something which does.
> I'm fine with the built in `man` command, and of course offline documentation for almost everything. It's actually kind of weird that our first instinct is to waste internet bandwidth while we probably have a copy right with us.

Exactly, yesterday I wanted to to have DNS over HTTPS and if you're going to search for it, you have to do a lot stuff. When there's the manual and literally and says that you need to add two lines and uncomment the specified comment.

I'm happy with man.
This writing reminds me of when popular science was good.
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Agree, but Weir isn't very good at writing women. I'm glad that he kept her character relatively simple and as a sort of driver for the narrative. Had he attempted adding more depth she'd end up in a cringey love triangle or something.
Someone decided to stop paying the riot corps, so they had to come up with their own funding scheme? Or someone missed a "contribution" to their upkeep?
> Seems like achieving their goal got easier, not harder.

Nope. E2E communications have buried a lot of stuff proverbially underground. The leaks are reduced. Hence, governments lost the ability to monitor as they liked. There's much more and invisible communication going on when compared to the past, and it's much more detailed and direct. Also its volume has increased exponentially.

So monitoring that stuff got way harder, and they want the easy way back.
Aw, that's a bummer. I'd definitely participate.
That only works if these people only have one source of income, though, right? If people hold more than one job, or have a part-time side gig, or have investment income, that would inflate their income tax paid, and you wouldn't know what portion of that is paid against the salary for the primary job that you're curious about.
> My concern is the difficulty of tracking down sources years later without a means of reference.

Also when the "facts" in one's sources change, as we've seen in journalism in the past few years.
A group being "above the rules" is, I think, a statement about what the rules are and how they are enforced. It doesn't really hinge on whether any members of that group have, up to this point, violated the rules.
The best user tracking method is a real phone number.
So all germs and viruses can be killed with 100% certainty simply by freezing, no ifs, no exceptions, is that your claim?
Do you know of any uart hardware that'll only latch on /SS active?
I think these meet the criteria...

P. J. Plauger's "Programming on Purpose" series of essays.

Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki.

I would put both of these alongside Bentley's "Programming Pearls" books which I saw mentioned in another comment.
Sure! I definitely get that. And then you have to have the conversations with stakeholders about why best practices are actually best. And those conversations have to be had in business terms. E.g.: https://www.infoq.com/news/2010/03/code-quality-cost-mapping...

It's also possible to be both meticulous and flexible. Sometimes when I've gotten that "can we worry about it later" question, I'll tell them yes. If we have a big external deadline or something, I'm happy to treat tech debt like a high-interest credit card. We run up the bill in an emergency, and then as soon as the emergency's over, we pay off the credit card.
Fair enough, but I guess my point is more that, technically speaking, Windows and MacOS are actually identical in their OpenGL and OpenCL support level. The only place this really shows up though in Windows is software rendering - which lacks OpenGL because Windows lacks OpenGL whereas Windows can software-render DirectX AFAIK.

Apple didn't allow AMD though to continue updating OpenGL in their MacOS drivers, possibly because (I'm just speculating) they decided to invent Metal to replace OpenGL around the same time as their NVIDIA spat when they stopped updating OpenGL. Metal came out in 2014, the NVIDIA spat + OpenGL abandonment was 2012. Just my suspicion that MacOS's OpenGL is NVIDIA-based.
Could this work on degenerative discs?
That's a rather uncharitable take on ASCII when you consider the context. Going all the way back to the roots of encodings, it was a question of how much you could squeeze into N bits of data, because bits were expensive. In countries where non-Latin alphabets were used, they used similar encoding schemes with those alphabets (and for those variants, Latin was not supported!).
> lower power, proportionally lower performance

Except it's not. The performance per watt is significantly better on average. Only one of the examples in this post really talked about power usage and that example also says that the 3090 is using a special compiler and gets to use the special tensor cores in the 3090, but for the M1 Max it wasn't able to use the neural cores or the special compiler and still achieves a similar performance per watt.

If you look at more detailed benchmarks from Anandtech:

> In the SPECfp suite, the M1 Max is in its own category of silicon with no comparison in the market. It completely demolishes any laptop contender, showcasing 2.2x performance of the second-best laptop chip. The M1 Max even manages to outperform the 16-core 5950X – a chip whose package power is at 142W, with rest of system even quite above that. It’s an absolutely absurd comparison and a situation we haven’t seen the likes of.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...
Exactly, every keeps going on about magic social engineering attacks without providing details.

Anyone who has had their fingerprints taken by the FBI knows that there is a solid procedure that will detect fakes. The idea is to replicate this near perfection, not bolt on some revocation system for fingerprints (ouch!)
could a flash attack be used to steal computation from the block chain?

could I run a proof of work on eth blockchain if I find block great collect my fee pay the loan then complete the transaction. but if I can't find the hash in time just fail the transaction and not be out anything.
Or as Deming put it: long-term successful organisations need to find their constancy of purpose.

Kodak didn't find it: they were in the business of analogue film; they could have been in the business of capturing memories, and survived the digitalisation of photography.

Manufacturers of carburetors generally didn't find it; they were in the business of carburetors, and not stochiometric mixtures of air and fuel, and they didn't survive fuel injection.

The list could go on and on. Focus on "the job to be done", not the way you're currently doing the job. That lets you find constancy of purpose.
Honestly speaking, the fact that they are not giving any details makes me think that it’s either something minor (but sides were taken) or it’s something political and divisive.

One would assume that the Mod team would be the first to air something egregious. The fact that they aren’t tells me they don’t like the optics of the issue and they’d rather stay silent.
Isn't that just... normal? Windows and Linux also have weird delays sometimes. It will happen on any hardware.

And if you're paying more than 3k for a laptop, you're either rich or an idiot. Anything over that price is just brands price gouging for minimal to zero functional return.
> Purely Functional Data Structures

A classic! Good suggestion.

I'm curious to check out Programming on Purpose.
Any disk block which is used or modified is stored locally into an IndexedDB instance. You can find more info in the accompanying blog post: https://medium.com/leaningtech/cheerpx-using-webassembly-to-... ("Data Storage" section)
What is it that Cloudflare does that is similar to this ?
No obligation, but if you want a resume review and/or quick zoom call to give you personalized advice, my email’s in my profile. Put “HN resume” in the subject line. (I doubt I’ll get inundated here, but if I do, this offer is good for beepboop, ryan, and the next N until it gets overwhelming at which point, I can only commit to emailing back “sorry, this blew up more than I expected” but nothing more.)
JIRA? Most of your coworkers just couldn't find the right project and then fill all the necessary tags/fields correctly.
because he is a moron, evidenced by the fact that he is involved in crypto
The issue being that it isn't an accurate representation of the lived experiences of women at the time. It is my instead the perceived experiences of women from the perspective of misogynists.
That just begs the question, authority to do what? If there are no specific incidents on which they disagree today, then is this just an attempt to position themselves better should any such incidents occur in the future? If there’s no problem today, why all the fireworks?
In theory Mars can put stuff in orbit for a much lower cost than Earth can. The delta v is so much lower that you could supply Earth orbit from Mars with less fuel than launching from Earth.
What prompts?
Nice. Does the charging process report your whereabouts?
For sure. And for me, key to making this strategy work is delivering early and often in ways that build confidence. E.g., your 20% ad-hoc requests is a great way to keep unplanned, urgent work from eating up the time necessary tech stuff.
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I thought it was intentional, won’t lie, I laughed.
Glad to hear you're in a better place!