skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think on the whole you’re correct. However, Valve taking a cut of items bought on the market I would argue is actually a feature, because it gives them an incentive to work on the game. Players who invest lots of money and players who don’t both benefit from the arrangement. And if you don’t like it, you can trade in person and do bank transfers and stuff like that
FWIW Marco Arment and others interviewed Lattner in 2017 about the language in a podcast:

https://atp.fm/205
This is simply not true.

Practices may vary by organisation and type of removal requests, but the claim that no removals occurs is absolutely false.

For legally-proscribed content, platforms will go to extraordinary lengths to remove not only the backing store but all possible CDN copies of content. This can ammount to millions or billions of items of content (multiple sizes and versions, replicated across multiple geographic locations).

Other instances in which UGC / USC (user generated/supplied content) have been removed are quite public, as with Google's shutdown and data deletion of its Google+ social network.
https://youtu.be/ujMvnQpP528

Microsoft is saying that more parameters is inherently better. I'm sure there's reasonable limits that they need to be competently implemented.
As an American living in the UK, it's interesting to see the disparity in almost all aspects of the treatment of lead. In the US, for example, there is an abundance of research and activism coupled with laws and a huge abatement/remediation industry. In the UK, however, where there is a large stock of old housing that very likely contains lead paint, pipes, and other products, there is nothing comparable.

Are children in the UK silently suffering from lead poisoning, or "losing IQ points"? I have lead paint in my house and If I took my children to get tested at the GP, I would expect a strange look in response.

Compare this to asbestos, where a survey is always recommended when purchasing an older property in the UK. While I think a lead survey would be suggested in the US if purchasing a pre-1978 property (and is required in some areas when renting to a family with children), I would guess only a handful are done here every year.
I just want to say about time. A lot of the time when using libraries with inadequate documentation, being able to find usages of a method or class gives really good insight into the library. But the current code search's stemming removes all the context needed to find that and then gives alternate spellings too.
That's the mainstream narrative, which lags the actual reality (cutting through socialthink) by a good 5 years. Amazon needed to do something about this 7+ years ago, like introduce trusted supply chains and distill the gensym brands into useful singular results. At this point these problems have become embedded in their operations, and the incentives are such to keep them going while papering over ill effects.

But every large business ultimately relies on cognitive dissonance and reality distortion fields to maintain their relevance. Amazon has been seemingly successful at keeping people buying into their sunk cost fallacy ("Prime"), so momentum wise I'm sure they'll be fine.
> Also have you guys ever used McMaster's website?

McMasters website is the best kept secret in the ecommerce world. I always find what I need via search and the drill down options are always relevant. Plus they have an amazing variety of things making them a first stop when I'm fabricating something.
The plan is to use Scudo, which is the allocator that lives in compiler-rt.

Edited to include the link to Scudo: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/compiler-rt/l...
Perhaps I could've been more precise with my words. What I meant to say is IAM and r53 are two of many critical services that all depend on us-east-1. It goes without saying that if those services go down in us-east-1, the whole AWS is affected. This doesn't just happen "usually." When IAM goes down, AWS experiences major issues across all regions. If you were okay, perhaps you got lucky? Our team has 7 different prod regions and we see multiple regions go down every time a problem of this scale occurs.

If your product requires 100% uptime, you may need to look at backup options or design your product in such a way that can handle temporary cloud failures.
This is an excellent article, a good insight into the particularities of the hardware. I particularly admire the explanation of why the polygons snap to the pixel, and why that's not the fault of floating-point mathematics but rather the rasterizer itself. One thing the article approaches, but doesn't really quite get to the bottom however, and which is the crux of all the ps1's 'flaws' is that its GPU was 2-dimensional fundamentally. That's why things snap to pixels, that's why the textures do not have a depth component and are thus not perspective-correct, that's why there is no z-buffer, because it had no z-coordinate. Essentially, every single PS1 game 'faked' 3D by using the GTE (which was separate from the GPU) to project 3D points and polygons into a 2D rasterizer. And it worked quite well! For the time.

Another thought - I also wrote a similar renderer under similar constraints a while back, just for funsies, and I'm wondering what would have came if I thought "I should write an article about this". I generally don't think to write articles over every side project I do, what's the impulse for when someone decides to detail their work to the internet?
If you allow exceptions, people try to catch them.
people deserve more rights than corporations.
I don't know for sure. I'd like to try it out myself.
The closer we get to artificial intelligence, the more we raise the bar for what qualifies as AI (as we should). Gopher/GPT-3 are already much more accurate than the average human at technical information retrieval (trivial to see from the dialogue transcripts: how many Americans know what a Schwarzschild metric is?). The focus on ethics and equity for these algorithms is interesting too, as the average human holds multiple biases and prejudices.

There's a similar effect in self-driving car research. We will rightly hold the algorithm to a much higher quality bar than existing human drivers. Autonomous vehicles will only be widely deployed once they are at least an order of magnitude safer than human drivers.

Also, the implications of large language models for information retrieval are astounding. Assuming accuracy continues to improve, I see a few things happening:

1) search engines will be replaced with monolithic large language models

2) just as the average programmer now optimizes their workflow to look up answers on Stack Overflow and other websites, the average person will optimize their day-to-day work to most efficiently retrieve answers from large language models

3) instant fact checking of writing and speech will lead to faster feedback loops when learning
> timeboxed 2FA code

Would you mind sharing implementation details?
@jack was oft accused of abandoning the people and twitter's free speech principles, but with the changes we've seen since he stepped down, it now appears he was the only thing standing between dissident voices (including citizen journalism) and the ruling class establishment.
The Wikipedia page on gravitational memory effect [1] gives links to some actual papers, which might be more illuminating than the rather garbled description in this article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_memory_effect
`rm -r -fo` will work just fine on powershell, afaik: there is an alias for remove-item called rm, and flags are fuzzy matched. There are two flags starting with f, so fo is needed here, but I don’t think force is that often needed on windows, so in practise it is just as short.
People put value on weird random crap all the time, they arbitrarily decide it's worth tens of thousands of dollars for no good reason, and they buy it and sell it on trading sites. It happens. That's not the interesting part. The fact that the tech is quite boring and could be replaced by a MySQL database isn't very interesting either.

The NFT angle is essentially marketing. Ubisoft are cashing in on the NFT hype. As far as that goes I'm quite impressed, and maybe even happy for them. People making money by spotting an up and coming trend and executing an idea for it is very much the startup ethos I admire most.

What I don't understand is why you'd bet a company that has a $5bn market cap on it.
It's not the developers you need to worry about, it's the PMs or executives.
> There was this Oregon company - Mentor Graphics, I think they were called - really caught a cold trying to rewrite everything in C++ in about ‘90 or '91.

This reminded me of the very first industry conference I attended as a kid, Usenix C++ 1992, from where I seemed to recall a talk about Mentor dealing with static initializer costs. :)

https://archive.org/details/1992-proceedings-c-portland/page...

I remembered that paper about a decade later, when a related problem came up in an interview at a company developing a new Web-oriented programming language, when they were talking technical about how they do program loading. It turned out they had indeed anticipated and/or run into that, and had a clever solution for it, and seemed impressed that I'd asked about it (thanks to the Usenix C++ paper by John F. Reiser from Mentor Graphics).
The modern titans of industry are certainly answerable to their govt in one country at least.
Religion explains in context of an arbitrary belief system which is independent to reality.

It can only explain things inside it's belief system.
> The only reason why we tolerate such clear signs of market failure is because in the larger picture, Intel et al

Let's not forget our history here. I'm not a big fan of Intel but any techie will remember we successfully "tolerated" such practices decades ago when the Celeron 300A ran at double frequency, the Radeon X800 series got 50-100% more pixel shaders, or the Phenom X3s got 33% more cores for free. If anything customers were rejoicing.

The market was always artificially segmented. The only reason we don't know today whether disabled blocks are good or not is that manufacturers have gotten better at keeping them disabled.

You'd be hard pressed to tell me the actual real life difference for you between a $300 4-core CPU with 2 cores fused off, and a $300 4-core CPU with 2 cores licensed off.

> Intel uses wasteful tactics

Intel fashion dictates the user will see little benefit but differentiating SKUs in software is certainly less wasteful from the manufacturer's and OEM's perspective. The logistics alone might be worth it.

Software manufacturers ship full installers with features disabled in licensing. Streaming services store all content but serve you a lower quality one based on your particular "license". Car manufacturers sell essentially the same engine with different power outputs.

As I said, there are no bad products, just bad prices.
Hamachi saved many a teenage gaming session from connectivity issues. Thank you!
> Are there NFT plans that make sense?

I mean, it seems like an way for artists to collect donations, and to distribute the donations so that less popular artists get a larger share, because even the most popular artists only have 1 "you own the NFT representing the 'original' version of this piece" to sell per piece of artwork.

Unsurprisingly, all the scammers and get-rich-quick people are making a lot more noise.
Why can't we blame both? Why must we encourage a society that values wasting money as a sign of status? The only people benefiting from this are the people selling the bullshit.
the point is that you still need to know what you are doing. rust won’t change that. C is everywhere, and that is not going to change anytime soon. your time is better spent understanding more of the kernel instead of learning another tool set.

one of the biggest hurdles for me was the DTB declarative language. that was the most stupid idea ever to invent that and i lost 100s of hours trying to get my DTB files right for my hardware. so you can understand i don’t want more hipster shit to deal with.
What is the best deepfake audio software/lab?
Who is recognized as having the best deepfake audio software, or the most sophisticated research lab for this?

I'm thinking of material on the level of the Tom Cruise videos like this one:
https://www.tiktok.com/@deeptomcruise?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1
Yeah I guess my main point is all of this is fine and dandy and definitely works. But from a technical standpoint it’s just kinda stupid
Are charities really going to provide receipts that their donated NF-what?s are worth $180,000? Is the market liquid enough for them to resell them? If it is, then it's no different than if A & B resold them and donated the money. If not, why would charities go along with it?

It's easy to find a small museum to donate small amounts of artwork to at an inflated value. But what charity wants NFTs?
Weren't a lot of NFTs sold simply JSON blobs of metadata pointing at a web resource from some company? I remember seeing Cloudinary in some of the Beeple NFTs. I think some are pinned to IPFS now, but still that doesn't protect the NFT from link rot.
That would be a racket, not a paradox.
Good article. Don't know about some of the assumptions being made. For example:

> Statewide, California averages about 2 feet of precipitation per year

And then...

> California is about 100 million acres in area, so at 2 feet per year, its annual precipitation averages about 200 million acre-feet.

You can't apply the average to the entire population like this. This isn't how statistics work.

I don't think California has a drought problem any more than the Sahara desert has a drought problem. What I mean by this is that this is the climate here. This is how it behaves. Another way to put it is: If you are in drought conditions for an extended period of time, well, that's far more likely to be the new normal rather than an aberration, hence the comparison to the Sahara.

From my perspective the problem has multiple variables. The elephant in the room is agriculture. The author correctly points out utilization but fails to identify it as a problem:

> About 80% of that goes for agriculture and 20% for urban uses.

Going back to the Sahara, imagine insisting on using 80% of some water supply to grow crops in the desert. Crazy, right? Well?

One of the other issues I see is what I call the "ridiculous cult of the green lawn". Seriously. I can't even imagine how good drinking water is absolutely wasted every day on grass in front of homes. In my neighborhood the storm drain has a nearly constant stream of water going into it. All of that water comes from homes watering their front lawns up the hill. To me this is the very definition of insanity.

We have restrictions on flow rate for such things as showerheads (which I think is ridiculous) while people can dump tens of gallons of good clean water on their lawns (this is why I think showerhead flow restrictions are stupid).

Furthermore, I'll bet water utilization could be cut in half --if not more-- if we adopted a sensible water recycling program at the homes. Water from showers and sinks ought to be collected for irrigation. There's nothing wrong with this water, and yet we throw it away, every day. This would require a change in building codes and suitable technology (not rocket science!) as well, as perhaps, subsidies. If homeowners got a 30% tax credit --as they did for solar-- as well as a reduction in the cost of water when installing a suitable recycling system we could see adoption. Not the easiest to implement due to having to mess with pluming within the home, yet not absolutely impossible. Create an economic incentive and entrepreneurs will figure out how to do it.

In short:

- Should we really be farming in the desert?
- Should we really be wasting potable water on grass in front of every home?
- Could we implement a sensible recycled water program for irrigation?

I don't know the answers to these questions. I have my opinions, but that's worth as much as the paper this is not written on.
Security > Kernel compile time
And I know people who died from Covid, who'd be alive today if they'd took the vaccine.
I wouldn’t say that Linus et al. dislike object orientation - the entire kernel is built on a system of object abstractions which just happen to be written in C rather than C++ or similar.

The biggest reason why Rust is, in my mind, a contender for the kernel is that it genuinely adds a new capability that C++ does not: true and guaranteed memory safety, with an unsafe core that is much easier to audit. Drivers written in Rust will be much less likely to contain memory safety problems, and that’s potentially a big win for kernel maintainers and developers. And yeah, it’s also interoperable with C to a large degree, which certainly helps.
Retro gamer (UK magazine) did a great piece on indie Devs going for this look. Think this vice article says something similar:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3an385/were-in-the-beginning...
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Twitter added the rule banning pictures/reports on non-public persons on the first day of the trial.. which also coincidentally was the day Twitters and other companies CEO/CFO's all suddenly resigned; thus making them non-public persons..
Mens rea vs. factus rea.
I'm imagining another method whereby you have a high frame rate video that only displays part of the image on any individual frame. Because of the high frame rate, the individual frames appear to merge together as a single image to the human eye.

Any screenshot would only get one frame. You may have to stitch together multiple frames to get any useful data.

I wonder if this would work.
> It sounds to me like getting a booster is a safe...and typically very mild side effects.

Based on what, exactly? Also, you can drive a truck through the gap left by "typically", here. People with two doses of the vaccines will "typically" never become seriously ill.

We don't prescribe (let alone, mandate) medications because "it might help and people are scared". You have to show the benefits exceed the costs for everyone for whom you are making the recommendation. And the "costs" here don't just include things like heart inflammation (which is a real risk amongst young boys, in particular), but also the societal cost of otherwise healthy people being vaccine-sick for 1-3 days post-booster. Why do that, if it isn't going to provide a real benefit?

Also, I don't know if you noticed this in what I wrote, but the WHO is practically begging rich western nations to stop hoarding vaccines for healthy people, so that poor nations can get first doses.

Meanwhile, we have a new variant...plausibly out of a poor, under-vaccinated nation. Just a coincidence, though!
> Bitcoin alone consumes more power than entire European countries - including all the gaming, smelting, heating, industry, finance, data centers etc in those countries.

EU nations may be a poor comparison, as it has many tiny nations as members as well as a few big ones.

The first Google hit I got said Bitcoin uses 80 TWh/year which puts it around Belgium (9th in EU) for pure electricity, the second said Bitcoin was using about 177 TWh/year (bit more than Poland, 5th in EU, again just for electricity).

I don’t have exact figures for game consoles or power usage per console or gaming PCs, so I will do a Fermi estimate: 1 billion active gaming devices (PCs and all consoles combined), 200 W per device, each used for 3 hours per day. This is 219 TWh/year. As a Fermi estimate, take with a grain of salt.

(I don’t accept the general claim that BTC actually has real value; conversely I think most gaming does, including gambling although for gambling the value is much less than the cost, but that’s not the focus of this comment).
China is poisoning us with all their lead paints in toys and shit.
No, what happens is they eat the paint chips, because lead is sweet.

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/publications/health-matt...
Are there any citations to back up those claims?
I feel like this question is poorly formed in the age of resume-driven development. I prefer types of problems to tackle. But, I don't have preferred stacks so much as stacks I dislike less that are prescribed for my consistent employment.

My least disliked stack is the one that doesn't make me obscure, keeps my future career progression options sub-/Pareto- optimally open, while still making my pay competitive. So in essence I align with whatever is the easiest to adopt and train others on with minimal supervision.

i.e. JS, React, Express, Docker, AWS
> systems programming contexts

What does this mean?

> machine language

We're talking about C.
> When public health officials in New York, Baltimore, and Chicago tried to enact regulations in the 1950s that threatened the industry's interests, lobbyists visited legislators and governors to get restrictions lifted. They succeeded. When Baltimore's health department called for the removal of lead from paint, the industry countered by proposing and winning a "voluntary" standard, reducing the lead content in paint. When New York City's health department proposed a warning label saying that the product was poisonous to children, the industry rejected the "poison" label and lobbied successfully for another label that simply advised parents not to use it on "toys, furniture, or interior surfaces that might be chewed by children," and deliberately avoided mentioning that lead paint was poisonous. It hired public relations firms to plan out strategies to forestall threats to the lead market.

> The lead industry even sought to place the blame for lead poisoning epidemic on parents and children, claiming that the problem was not with the lead paint but with the "uneducable Negro and Puerto Rican" parents who "failed" to stop children from placing their fingers and toys in their mouths. Children poisoned by lead, the industry claimed, had a disease that led them to suck on "unnatural objects" and thereby get poisoned.

> But the industry wouldn't remove all lead from their products. It fought every attempt at regulation. Industry representatives threatened lawsuits against television stations such as CBS that aired popular shows like Highway Patrol in which the product was depicted as dangerous ... All this despite records that show that the industry knew that their product was poisoning children.

You know how many Americans have a weird dislike of government intervention. These are the guys that paid to make that happen.
This is the closest I've seen to a product that is intellectually honest in the space:

https://islands.xyz/ & https://blockblock.io/
Unifont seems very useful. Not pretty but definitely legible.

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FWIW, I ran across this the other day: "4x4 ASCII Font"

> Small fonts have always been fascinating to me, so I decided to make the smallest font possible, which turned out to be 4x4 pixels per character. The font covers the entire range of visible ASCII characters, and most are immediately recognizable.

https://simplifier.neocities.org/4x4.html

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For display from small machines I keep going back and forth between simple memory-mapped raster screens vs. emitting a stream of, say, SVG to an external "display processor" (following the "Wheel of Reincarnation": "On the Design of Display Processors" http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland... )
Colour Maximite seems like a practical piece of modern hardware that takes a similar approach to the classic 80s home computers.

https://geoffg.net/maximite.html
Personally I don't have the time to judge all the potential content I want to see on the content itself, so I have to rely on indirect factors like dislike to quickly dismiss a video.
Time to bust out the cork board and string boys!!! Hacker news is definitely gonna crack this case
Its funny how gaming the system is 'innovation' for bosses and 'cheating' for employees
That One Time I Found a Crate Full of Radioactive Body Parts in the Desert
Although the later models have fast enough CPUs to not need the hardware decoding