skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> just 25 years ago the game industry was filled with people extremely knowledgeable in assembly. yet today it is viewed as a black art. sad.

> Why is that sad? It looks like progress to me.

It is progress, yes, and I wonder where compiler authors are going to come from in the future. If we forget how to write in assembly, we forget how to tell computers how to do it.

I think of it by way of analogy: I can buy bottles of water in the store, so why do I still want drinkable water from my tap? Bottled water is progress, and drinkable water from the tap is "the old way." The old ways are important. Especially when they are the foundations of our modern technical society like compilers are.

It is true that new people can learn assembly when it comes time for them to write a compiler, or contribute to one, and as the number of assembly authors falls, the fewer opinions we will have about things, and the more monolithic things will be. When lots of people are part of a community, there is great diversity of thought in that community. If it's just a few (hundred?) people who speak assembly, the diversity of thought, and thus innovation in compilers will be almost nil. It is literally better for everyone if there are more who can write assembly well.

Secondly, people are avoiding learning assembly because they are afraid of it, which makes some sense to me at first glance, and makes no sense to me after writing some assembly. There is literally nothing scary about assembly; it just SEEMS scary. It can be quite fun to see just how little it takes to do things, and then observing just how unbelievably fast those programs are when run.

Part of the sadness I mention above is just "old man yells at cloud," but some of it is, I believe, bad for us in the long term if assembly does truly become a black art.
>Politicians are the best marketers.

There's statutes and case law that make it unwise for real marketers to make claims the way politicians do.
Why is it so often "artists" that receive this kind of public funding? Why not open source developers? Hear me out, this isn't the "my hobbies are more important than your hobbies" kind of argument.

Art is almost always exclusively used for consumption. That doesn't make it worthless: it has value to the people who enjoy consuming that kind of art. But when an artist creates a work of art, that's the end of the chain – there's typically nothing that can build on that work, no other work that is enabled by this work.

The case is different for open source software, for example. Not all OSS is used productively by other people, but some of it is, enabling other work in sometimes completely different fields. For example, the Linux kernel and other OSS components which provide a versatile and free (as in free beer) operating system, have facilitated the creation of an incredible amount of value all over the world, in many different domains. Many of those thus facilitated works have themselves enabled other works, and so on. It's a source of value creation chains, not the end of one.

So, why start a grant program *cough cough* "UBI" for artists, but not for open source developers?
That's just a general statement of people who feel disenfranchised.

People are smart enough to know when they're being "lied"* to by the tv/teacher. Especially when the reply is "it just is stop asking"...

These same people are unfortunately often not driven enough, and/or in a position where they're able to disentangle the fact that "all of this _evidence_" on the internet, (which is deliberately written at an overly accessible level vs actual science) is ultimately incoherent nonsense.
Unfortunately on topics like this, the answer from science and describing reality is actually quite complex and requires time and effort to understand the details and implications.

*A lie of omission, or failing to acknowledge "I don't know" and replying with only solid certainty of "I've been told by someone" is akin to teaching from the bible and offers nothing toward scientific literacy.
(Deliberately drawing a line between this and theological debates)
Not quite. I had never heard of Maytag until I moved to the US. It isn’t a widely known brand in mainland Europe.

Whirlpool is, though it seems that it has been displaced a bit from the market by LG and Samsung.
“I Wore the Juice”- the Dunning-Kruger Effect
Why are you constantly ignoring what I'm writing?

> It doesn't matter what the OS does or doesn't do in the background, atomically reading and writing to memory is unaffected.

That's not true. If this thing is file backed there is usually no guarantee that the page of virtual memory (i.e. a page of the file data) you're accessing is present in physical memory. You'll cause page faults and data transfers to/from disk. This can delay the execution of an atomic read or write potentially infinitely, or even cause a "crash" of some kind if the disk transfer fails.

You can avoid the page faulting part of this if you somehow pin the memory. Which is completely ridiculous given that all you ever wanted is anonymous memory. I've looked up a website that seems to explain this better (but I haven't checked it deeply). Maybe it helps: https://eric-lo.gitbook.io/memory-mapped-io/pin-the-page
You cannot play Diablo 2 resurrected after 30 days of being offline
AFAIK the Wii is still mostly in the "no OS" era, the game replaces the system menu in memory and runs in kernel mode. With Wii games official games use a standard set of libraries to do things like show the exit menu / battery level when you press home, but that's part of the game disc / binary, not from an external OS.

There is however the ARM coprocessor that handles things like Bluetooth, USB, crypto etc. (basically, most of the stuff the Gamecube doesn't have). This does run its own IOS[1] software loaded from flash that is isolated from the PowerPC side of things where the game is running.

[1] No, not that one. Or the other one.
I always assumed that any money you earn would then be deducted from future payments

Not directly, at least not in most described implementations. Most implementations say that, if you qualify, you get 1000€/month every month no matter how much you earn. Now a lot of people add a secondary mechanism where some or all of that money gets clawed back, indirectly via increased income tax, if you earn 'too much', but the base idea is the 1000€ gets deposited into your account every month no matter how much or little you earn.

The rationale for this is a), not do disincentivize doing extra work and b) to simplify the system as much as possible and remove the need to spend a lot of extra time and effort on means testing, fraud detection, handling complaints etc.
I’ve never heard of Maytag before either. I guess they are not on the European market?
Is that sarcasm?

This is a positive externality for landlords and a negative one for tenant. It's a zero-sum game between the two groups.

And rent-seeking is a net negative for society.
Just like the trend with big news media in general -- they understandably care about popularity, not facts. Why do we listen to those journals then, for the topics we care about?
Modern art world is completely overtaken by cliques and is basically about marketing and who-knows-who. If you create something that is against the current clique that runs things (i.e. are curators in major museums, officials in Ministry of Culture, art critics in major newspapers etc.) then you're basically screwed. The art world absolutely eclipses academia in terms of petty politics.

The reason for that is of course the impossibility of objectively judging the value of a work of art. It's all subjective, and hence "emperor's new clothes" kinds of situation are commonplace. Also, subjectivity heavily supports no-skill fields like conceptual or performance art - why work 10+ years to learn how to paint properly, when you can do abstract paint splatters, and instead work on marketing it, building a clique (an "art movement") with like-minded allied "artists" instead?

IMO it's all fair game until taxpayer's money are involved. I for one don't want my taxes to be paying a small fortune for an empty piece of canvas, the "artist"'s canned shit or a "performance" of an "artist" sitting on a stool and peeling potatoes.
The short answer is that they can and do overlap, but the primary use of the site should be for intellectual curiosity, and accounts using HN primarily for political battle have very different characteristics than that. Besides the links in my parent comment, there are past explanations here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23959679

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

If, after reading some of those, you still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to try to answer it. Just please familiarize yourself with the material first, because all the obvious points have been pretty well established for years now—at least I think they have.
In general yes. In some specialty cases user agent detection is fine, e.g. if the application has critical and specific requirements on what software/hardware stack it should be ran on and has been tested for. Just because a feature has been detected to exist in the browser doesn't mean it works correctly, after all. But even in these cases, detecting a non-supported browser should throw a warning, not prevent you from accessing a site.
That depends of the the place where you live. In middle to the south of Spain, the floor of houses are normally made of marble (or other ceramic material) slabs on top of a little layer of some glue cement, on top of the armoured concrete slab foundation, but on the north is a lot common to have wooden floors with air chamber of a similar size.
If using a docker already why not just use postgresql and run go binary without the CGO overhead?
I like this, but it doesn't completely remove the "unintuitivenes" of relativity.

For example, why do we measure in fractions of light speed?
What happens when we are already rotated all the way to light speed and then fire another bullet?

I guess there are other ways to reason about this, but it still doesn't feel intuitive to me.
It's configurable, but in my instance at p.mort.coffee, it's 30 days.
1768 hours to be more exact, at least HR in my company (FAANG) in Germany calculates it that way (85%)
This is nice. I'm kinda opposite. I tend to be able to zoom-out in my mind, where I'm and look at my bearing from a bird's eye view like a map (positioning myself on a map such as Google Maps).

I like playing strategy games more than first-person shooters. I did played a lot and started with FPS but stopped after being rushed to the hospital after I collapsed playing a game way back in the early days. :-)
+1 for TRIZ. "Industrial" is maybe a tad too restrictive word though
We spend much more money on art than in 1920, yet the art quality does not seem to have improved proportionately, indeed it possibly went down.

I think it's hard to say because there's so much art above a basic quality bar now that it's next to impossible to experience, curate or judge a significant amount of it, even within a category.

We are so overwhelmed with creative output that even watching every "highly recommended" TV show or movie we're recommended on Netflix would be a fulltime job, let alone the hidden gems, or the millions of books published each year. You'd hope that someone would find the next Oscar Wilde and shout about it, but I don't like the odds.. especially as the gamut of what is considered good literature is now broader than ever before.

I frequently find some amazing new music that isn't popular and shout about it a bit but no-one really cares. There's too much music, tastes vary too much (what I find amazing could well seem like total crud to everyone else), and most people prefer to listen to what they already know over and over rather than keep digging for something new.
No, it throws an error letting you the the text is too long for the field
It is basic income, so presumably the artist will be able to make additional money their art.
Wow this is so naive… how are they gonna define who is an artist and who is not? Why taxpayers (who may not care about art at all) should pay for this? Why a government can define that this specific group of people should get some grants, but not for example teachers or Uber drivers? Utopia
China’s $60B Wind Empire Needs to Grow Its Own Blades
A @Bean method is a signal that a class is so complicated that Spring can’t figure out how to create a valid instance after @Import or @ComponentScan. For limiting use, package-private types and methods are better than creating components yourself and reinventing pieces of Spring like @Profile and @Value and @Scope.
That's too prone to terrain irregularities, and I can't imagine that there's a single area of land on earth that's remotely as smooth as the surface of an sphere. Further, even if you assume perfect instrumentation, how would one account for gravity?
art is monetizable
When I debug a well written C/C++ code usually the callstack is about 10 levels deep.

When I debug a well written Java code usually the callstack is about 50 levels deep.

It's not because of the Single Responsibility Principle.
I thought this was found to be a software bug

At the very least it’s a software removal. I hope it’s restored
Here's Philip Morrison showing how to do a similar experiment, from the 1980s TV series "The Ring of Truth". https://youtu.be/yRY2SkMTafc?t=567

They found a road that was almost due north and south (US 183 from Bassett, NE to 370 miles south in Coldwater, KS). They measured the elevation of Antares at its zenith one night, then again the next. From that they get the change in latitude. Combined with odometer data and some estimates for wiggles, and end with a result about 5% larger than the best-known solution.

Their measuring instrument was a Ryder van dubbed "The Van of Eratosthenes."

As an aside, later in the same episode is when I learned about GPS. https://youtu.be/yRY2SkMTafc?t=2968 . "This is the future of mapping."
> Flat earthers are proof that some people will just obstinately believe in complete and utter horseshit

"Flat earth" seems to be an example of an entire class of "big lie" beliefs. The "big lie" idea is that if you tell a big enough lie, with enough elaborate entailments, people will give up on critical appraisal because it becomes such hard work. Apparently a large proportion of QAnon believers are educated high-achievers. These beliefs are not caused by a failure of education.

* Our lizard overlords

* Alien kidnappers

* Area 51

* Illuminati

* Xenu (or almost any organised religion)

> actively and self-assuredly wrong

That is how I like to use the word "ignorant" - these are belief-systems that require active effort to sustain. To go along with them, you have to deliberately close your eyes.
> Art is almost always exclusively used for consumption ... Not all OSS is used productively by other people

If anything it's the opposite: there is more demand for software than art.

True, for most niche single-developer OSS projects is very difficult to gain an user community. But for a random musician/sculptor/painter it's even worse.
yeah as someone that isn't following this super closely it feels like the airlines are on their back foot and unprepared. These radios are days away from being turned on permanently and they haven't done any smoke testing? Why weren't they working with the telecoms 12 months ago to run trials?

I'm not sympathetic to the airlines right now.
I think this is another effect of the reality distortion field.

XO-1's resolution was 692×520 (1/3 of 1200×900 which is the black&white resolution). Apples to apples means RGB XGA vs 692x520 bayer or whatever layout Jepsen claimed was better than industry standard.

There were many XGA 7" and 6" panels in 2006 from Panasonic, Sharp and others.
> Sort of like how Anglos switched from boiled parsnips (have you ever eaten that? I haven't) in 1200AD to French Fries and Pizza now.

I would guess parsnips (I don't know about boiled (only) though! Meh) are at least as common here in the UK as frites, as distinct from chips to any Briton.

But then squash (off the top of my head not sure if it'd be NM's export at any time of year though) and mashed potatoes (and to a lesser extent mutton, much more lamb) are perfectly popular here too, so not really sure what my point is.
A couple past submissions:

Brian Eno: Composers as Gardeners - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14288339 - May 2017 (35 comments)

Composers As Gardeners - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3225675 - Nov 2011 (1 comment)
You are the only unhinged person here. I am having a calm conversation where you are ranting and raving... It is sad really

>>In no way do I "worship" Fauci.

Press X for doubt

>>You're projecting your own hero worship of Trump onto me.

Never voted for the man... I disagreed with him about 50% of the time, however I saw in real time the lies and misinformation the media was putting out.

>>It's you foaming-at-the-mouth Trump-worshiping Fauci-haters who are the deranged ones injecting disinfectants, popping horse dewormer pills, and drinking your own urine, instead of wearing masks and getting vaccinated.

Fully vaccinated, just do not support the mandates

//and for the record Trump also supports the Vaccines.. Much to the chagrin to part of his base

Also calling on of the most widely distributed human drugs, a drug that won accolades for saving peoples lives across the world a "horse dewormer" is unhinged conspiracy, and medical misinformation. Sure it may not be a treatment for COVID, that however does not change the reality that is a human drug, proscribed by doctors all over the world, and is infact on the WHO list of essential drugs...

>> disproven conspiracy theories that it was actually AntiFa who attacked the US Capitol

Where did I say that? There is clear evidence AntiFa violence all through out 2019, 2020, and 2021 with out having to talk about 1/6 protest turned riot.

>> So do you also believe the election was stolen from Trump, too, like MOST Republicans do?

Stolen in the sense you are talking about... No. However I do believe many states governors (on both sides) inappropriately (and IMO illegally) used their executive powers to change election laws under the guise of "emergency" to manipulate election turn out and other factors for their (or their parties) political advantage.

I also do not believe or support the narrative that voter ID is a threat to democracy, nor do I support or believe the narrative that the US has the most "secure" elections in the world.

>>Popehat's

Ahh yes... Ken White. another famous person broken by Trump. The one famed free speech advocate now fully supporting Censorship of all manner.
Same in Iceland. We have something called "artist salary" where every year a handful of artists are selected to essentially be paid by the government to practice their craft. Opinions are however divided as there's always this debate about who is deemed worthy and who is not.

This sounds very similar, but I think they'll have the same problem; who decides what art is worthy of being supported?
Well Pixel Qi seemed like a magical display at the time. I wonder if given a few more revisions it could have been more competitive? It always felt like a shame that we lost the option of having this display.

I have seen really cool stuff like Mirasol and CED displays come and go and it just sucks that we have seen so many nifty things never really make it. I am holding out hope for CLEARink ePaper and playNitride microLED.
Especially these days when the only sites you find if you google a product like this are seo spam comparison sites with affiliate links and some text written by either a machine or someone stuffing as many keywords in the most general article as possible.
EmptyStandbyList. I fell into the same trap as you and tried searching 'ESL Task', but it's in the post they were responding to.
A few times in the past 3–5 years I came across Europeans who would travel and do stuff like photography or filmmaking while being compensated by the government. I was told that those are programs where basically all you need is to be an unemployed artist. (Some of those people would also do remote software consulting or such, although I think that was bending the rules slightly.)

For a country that wants to start a similar program, mislabeling it (because of course it is not actually universal) as “UBI” could be strategic—make people comfortable with the term that could later be expanded to involve actual UBI with less controversy.
It's not like someone will invent these techniques in their basement, like you can with software. You need serious investments.
Because art is easy to appreciate universally ( anyone can like music or a painting), and software is not. It's an abstract thing for most people.

I do think it'd be a great idea to have grants / subsidies / UBI for FOSS developers. The EU is slowly walking in that direction with donations and funding a big bounty programme for FOSS they directly use.
"About the only part of a Californian house you can't put your foot through is the front door." 'The Big Sleep', Raymond Chandler (1939).

Good to see nothing's changed!
Not prepaid, just like a 12month contract but only 1 month, so you can cancel (or change the amount of data or whatever) any month and not pay (without penalty) the next.
If you have a large enough plot, consider building a home out of jumbo straw bales. Super insulating, easy and fast to build, cheap and eco.
A chronology of my Covid-19 bookmarks
Exactly what @ziml77 said.

Even in the case of simple "wd", sometimes I have multiple cursors I am operating on at the same time (e.g. from complex regex or just through selecting multiple lines at once) so each cursor could point to fairly different things. Then, the visual feedback becomes very useful.
The way we used arxiv worked well in physics, though this is 15 years ago now so might have changed since.

arxiv was about distribution. It didn't replace peer review - articles were still submitted to journals and published there too.

If an article was posted to arxiv and not a journal, the odds of a citation went down massively. And the journal it was submitted to was a factor in whether or not we read it. When articles were eventually published, most authors also updated the preprint with the post peer review version.

Basically it meant that
(1) it was easy to keep up to date with what everyone was working on, and pick up interesting new stuff
(2) most citations, post 80s, you saw in whatever paper you were reading, you could look up on arxiv and be reading it in seconds.
And you are the judge?
Draw a 6 on the ceiling, and the person opposite you in the room will see a 9. That doesn't mean the room floor isn't flat.
But who was actually genuine surprised or flabbergasted that there was an extra factor that in macro real life becomes zero but is there in extreme speeds? The un-intuitiveness is typically more to do with understanding what that factor means and where it came from.
> Because it describes movement as rotation from the infinitely far away point

Doesn't this also work in normal geometry as the length of a translation goes to zero and the distance to the rotation's origin goes to infinity... because a big circle looks like a straight line up close?