skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What we need much more from here on are deterministic processors. There are awesome optimizers out there, including programs with genetic algorithms that find the best way to do a micro task X or Y (part of a much bigger program).

IMO we have a ton of slightly-higher-hanging fruit that we can pick in terms of optimization but the relentless march of the X86 / X64 architecture obstructed that innovation.

Might be time to look inwards and start working more on squeezing the CPUs we have right now for maximum performance.
Fast food joints are not safe. You can get seriously injured working a fryer or grill, and a 16 year old is less likely to be able to operate those things safely. Keep in mind also that a 16 year old is almost certainly going to school, so they will be working while already tired.

I say this as someone who started working at age 14: Children should not be allowed to work most jobs until they are much older than that.
It's a criminal outfit masquerading as a domain registrar. They go out of their way to protect blackhats using their services, refusing to adhere to their ICANN requirements of blocking users or domains registered through Namecheap that carry out major scale phishing and fraud. So much so that, with blackhats, it's the domain registrar of choice. Stolen credit card? No problem. SMS scams? Sounds good!

Do a WHOIS the next time you come across a phishing website or receive an SMS with an odd link. And then disappoint yourself with the complete lack of care when trying to report it to Namecheap's support.

Their CTO or whoever considers this form of enabling crime to be 'free speech' or suggesting registrars shouldn't 'police' or something equally as stupid when it was raised on HN a few times.
I wouldn't spend this kind of money on a domain name, but I guess you have to ask what else you'd use the cash for. 6 months of software development? When put like that, it's not clear to me that this is a bad idea. You can write a lot of code without attracting any customers.
Neither the BBC nor Channel 4 are state broadcasters.

They are both editorially and operationally independent from the government (which is why this government hates both of them).
Honest question - why do you care? They're bootstrapped. It's their cash, not yours. If you were a shareholder then fine, but by definition you're not.
There's no such thing as "machine-generated, without human intervention". Even something as seemingly simple as "most-visited websites" involves measuring choices. (Fundamentally, this is indeed about responsibility. Until a non-human gets some form of citizenship, they have none.)

Furthermore, we now know that in practice "machine-generated" seems to be even worse, because too many people are fooled by the "the machine did it" 'excuse'. (Like you seem to be doing here ?)

For instance : https://thedataist.com/book-review-automating-inequality/
I agree with OP. The security model is similar to kerberos tickets or ntlm hashes.

Revokable Private key authorizarion is the best way to go imho. I don't mean at the transport layer but at the HTTP/app layer. This should replace not just bearer tokens but authentication cookies as well. Each connection is authenticated by the final server.

Hopefully you can store the private key on fido or tpm as well to make theft harder, forcing attackers to maintain persitent compromise of your host.
I decided to use Godot to make a lowpoly online FPS, I don't think it's a great choice, but I've read good things about godot networking...

I first wanted to make it in C++ and opengl, and it did not look like a difficult thing to do, but godot is good enough for a lot of things, it's small, and it allows me to do multiplatform, which is such a big bonus, since C++ is never easy to use on several platforms.

I have no idea if I will be able to implement network prediction with godot.
My main pain point with USB-C is all the confusion and missing specs. Often, advertising uses Thunderbolt and USB-C interchangeably. It is not. Don’t label my USB-C + DisplayPort hub “Thunderbolt” when it isn’t.

And then there’s the specs. Which DisplayPort version does my laptop support? The answer may surprise you. I have experience with Dell laptops. Rather recent devices still only support DP 1.2 over USB-C. How can this be? GPU and everything supports DP 1.4, and have been for years.

Because most DisplayPort over USB-C equipment only carries two DP lanes, using DP 1.2 massively limits the possible display configurations. Adapters that forego USB SuperSpeed+ for more DP lanes are extremely rare. Finding them is next to impossible too, because who puts that in the specs?

With DP 1.4 you can easily power two 1440p DP 1.4 displays using one USB-C connection and still have USB SuperSpeed+. How nice that would be. I don’t need expensive Thunderbolt devices!

USB-C can do everything and it works well. However, for consumers, it’s just a big bag of incompatibility and opacity.
Same, I like their service but I'd instant drop. Have you try watching TV those days ?
To be fair, it's not up to the BBC to criticise. They should be reporting impartially and let the folks make up their mind.
I think that's structural. My understanding is the bound is based on structure, as there is no way to differentiate between a Summary + Display in a function and a Summary + Display in another. On the other hand, with Rust's enums (that are nominal), you can have enum A { Toto, Tata } and enum B { Toto, Tata }, and both with be different. A function accepting A will not accept B. A function accepting T : Summary + Display will accept any type that implements both traits.

From my understanding, nominal vs structural typing is about how you consider group of types. For structural typing, types that contain the same thing are the same. For nominal, that isn't the case.
You are talking about SGX-style TEEs, is that correct? Effectively putting hardware manufacturers as ultimate issuers with corresponding ultimate authority (ie spoofing, revocation, tracking)

Or if not, how would you envision it?
Vinegar Tasters
The discussion is about growth, not profit. They are almost orthogonal concepts.
Curious where you are? I run a threadripper workstation with a 3070Ti and 2x 1440p monitors for ~10 hours per day, and my household's electricity bill is ~£40/month.
I'm not confused as to the difference, but thanks for the concern!
The BBC has been pretty anti-government since about the time of Brexit. It was really obvious in particular during the pandemic, which had many decisions where all options had major downsides - and they spun whichever the government chose as obviously bad, focusing entirely on the downsides of that particular choice, then forgot about all those downsides and switched to spinning the new choice as the bad one the moment the government changed their mind. They also tend to just outright parrot opposition talking points without questioning or challenging them in any way, because that's reserved for stuff the government does. They even managed to outright knowingly lie about how the UK's Covid response compares to other countries in Europe during the early days of the pandemic, and apparently this doesn't violate their standards in any way.

They're just not anti-government enough for a lot of people; for example, their journalists don't get to tell readers that every single Covid death was caused by Boris and he should go to jail for criminal manslaughter, even though that's clearly something they back given... certain retweets.
Oh that looks great, thank you!
I certainly prefer iPlayer interface to Netflix's one.
Not to mention, consent can be revoked at any time in the future without reason. Giving consent once does not mean you have consent forever.
Before C and C++ became widely acceptable for game development, we used to read these bibles like these,

https://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book

https://www.amazon.com/PC-Intern-Encyclopedia-Programming-De...

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Art-Game-Programming-High-Speed...

Very little regular C and C++ code, plenty of inline Assembly.
"Channel 4 called it "disappointing" that ministers had made their decision despite "significant public interest concerns" over privatisation"

This is what our elected representatives do though, and it never ends well. One day we'll actually elect someone with a brain, but it may not be in my lifetime.
DS9 was never remastered to HD like TNG was. The quality of DS9 you're getting is the best quality that exists.

Also this has nothing to do with codec; Netflix doesn't send anything using MPEG1, as it's an old, inefficient codec.
Very well put. (all of it) It's astounding how many people can't look past the little things they don't like in order to see the ridiculous level of danger that comes from an anti-speech POV.. ESPECIALLY for minorities and other so-called marginalized groups. I mean we are at the point of critical thought where "all i need to do is stop people with the wrong opinions from talking" is seen as a sane, healthy and safe POV! What if YOU aren't the one making the decision though?
> in the UK you have to pay a TV license

You have to only if you watch broadcast TV, live TV, or use iPlayer. If you're not doing any of those things, then not paying isn't really a boycott. On the other hand, if you are doing them, then you're likely to get fined for it eventually.
> Google search is worst than ever

> My experience as a customer in Amazon is equally bad

But is that generally the case? From what I hear, non-tech people still love google (the vast, vast majority of people) and my personal experience with Amazon is pretty decent as well (though I’m not in the US, so maybe it’s not as much of an issue here) despite their search being bad.
I wish there could be some shopping platform that respects their employees even if my order takes 3 weeks to land.
I have mostly stopped buying small electronics on Amazon, going to AliExpress instead. You get the same thing for much cheaper. The value Amazon has is in shipping time, but you pay a hefty premium for that.

It is important to note that the cheapest, unbranded (or counterfeit) products may actually miss components. Looking at the PCB, you may see an empty slot where a MOV or a filtering cap should be, underspecced components or blatant counterfeits (no, that cap is not a Nichicon!). They may be from the same factories, but brand names usually don't get that low, and they have people on site making sure the factories don't pull these stunts on their batch.
Because to netflix it is supplemental income, to fb and google it is their main income. Google and fb run their own ad network as well. Why would netflix not sell your interests in movies and habits to allow better targeting in their platform? If you get a no ad experience, why waste the opportunity? Sell it to others so they can target you elsewhere. That is, if they go down the ad road.
As a non criminal, this is a major selling point for me. I for one do not want to lose my entire business because I offended someone or failed to moderate a comment or whatever. And it’s smart business for them too - stay out of the censorship game as long as you can, because you can never win.
"It’s not true on Reddit. Not even close. Reddit has been the only platform of the people, and it is slowly censoring."

Fixed.. Even though it's no real difference.
They do not receive funding from the TV license. However channel four is owned by the British Government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Government_Investments
Media Websites: 70% of the Carbon Footprint Caused by Ads and Stats
That show was certainly an eye-opener for 12-year-old me.
We're coming full circle again. Netflix was the reason to stop pirating content, and now Netflix is the reason to return to piracy.

And to reiterate what many have already said, this perpetual growth and scale mentality is so so toxic.
Compatibility is part of it. The VPRI project to build a personal computing experience in 20kloc never proposed to include a web browser because it'd take dramatically more code than that to support all the crap in HTML5. And that's without even getting into USB, my God, or GPUs. Or fucking ACPI. And, Jesus, those fucking Broadcom Wi-Fi cards. Even keybindings are a compatibility problem; Engelbart didn't have to worry about whether his users were conditioned to use control-W to delete the last word while he was using it to close a window, because his users weren't conditioned to use computers at all yet. And did you know that PDF files can embed TrueType fonts, which include hinting programs for a bytecode virtual machine? You have to interpret those too. Also, JavaScript.

Secrecy is another part of it. Speaking of GPUs, NVIDIA won't tell you their instruction set, and they're busily trying to sabotage your attempts to run code on their GPUs they don't approve of, such as cryptocurrency miners. Only the Raspberry Pi is fully documented as hardware, and that requires giant undocumented GPU blobs to even boot. Intel was founded by a group of deserters from Fairchild, which was founded by a group of deserters from Shockley; today they'd end up in prison like Anthony Levandowski, who tried to do the same thing. A lot of what we know about the history of computing comes from papers engineers took home and kept when they left their companies; nowadays that too could send them to prison. Did you know there was a time when signing NDAs wasn't a routine part of taking a new tech job? And you could just walk into the offices at HP and start helping out?

But a third part of it, and I think the biggest, is that people stopped believing in progress. Up until about 01769 if someone got themselves killed trying to fly or heating up the wrong kinds of rocks together, if they were lucky their neighbors would just write it off to stupidity getting its due; if they were unlucky their family might be burned at the stake for bringing down the wrath of the gods with their impiety and witchcraft. Roughly from 01770 to 01970, they would instead be lauded as martyrs to the noble cause of human progress; kids grew up wanting to be "inventors" and "engineers". But, in part due to the actual Manhattan Project, since about 01970 progress has become unfashionable again; people dismiss as naive the idea that you can just make up new rules for how things work and make them work that way, or that this activity makes people better off, or even that it is a coherent idea for people in general to be better off than before in absolute terms (as opposed to some people being better off than others).

And so we see political obstructionism; people like Aaron Swartz getting prosecuted; nuclear power plants no longer getting built; mass homelessness; Beechcraft going bankrupt; endless wars against abstractions like "terror", "poverty", and "drugs"; ruinous regulatory burdens that amount to paying some people to dig holes and other people to fill them in --- and no new Engelbarts.
It always amazes me to learn to what lengths end users of software will go without asking for simple fixes like these.

Some years ago, my team created a web-based portal for a local ad agency. Long-running actions that triggered ajax calls would display this hideous, too large, black spinning wheel. Probably there was a bug that caused the spinning wheel to sometimes remain on the screen until you refreshed.

At one point a user contacted us and asked how long the "black sun" as she called it was supposed to be there? We shrugged our shoulders and thought, "maybe a few seconds?". She said she had been working in the app, navigating and clicking right under the spinning wheel, for two whole days before contacting us!
Spotify seems to have been successfully doing it as described for many years now, no?
If property rights were viewed as immutable it would be aboriginal land.
Official: Pentagon can't independently confirm atrocities in Ukraine's Bucha
Second this: recently, a startup of mine let summer domains lapse and bought them back for the same price, when NC could've easily squatted them.
> You have to only if you watch broadcast TV, live TV, or use iPlayer. If you're not doing any of those things, then not paying isn't really a boycott.

I disagree by not paying the yearly TV sub, they are not getting my yearly sum of money via protest. No, I don't do any of that, if the content was worth watching I would be paying for it.
Not GP, but doesn't this just kinda follow from the definition of inflation? If you keep offering the same value but the currency it is priced in inflates by N%, you "should" be able to raise your prices by N% and not gain/lose any customers since the inflation adjusted price remains the same. This will obviously result in revenue growth of N%.

If you want revenue growth above inflation, you will need to either acquire more users, charge them more for the same product, or both. Building up the value of the product you're offering can help with both. Of course in the case of facebook these points get a bit muddled, since the users get the product for free anyway and they have such a giant customer base that finding new users is becoming an issue.
I always enjoyed driving down Tapleys Hill Road at night under the very short street lights at the south western corner of the airport.

The lighting affect always reminded me of car racing games.
You may have different personas that you want to separate. Ie your identity as a local county representative, your identity with a socialist online forum, your identity as employee, your identity as someone discussing weird sexual kinks.

For all you need to identify but you don not want them to be linkable to each other or your government-issued ID.

This is part of why relying on phone number validation for gatekeeping is an issue. (Try registering at Discord or Twitter via tor. I'll wait)
Discrimination is explicitly forbidden by Airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/against-discrimination

Please remember that even according to the official polls, at least 28,000,000 (20%) of Russian citizens do not support the war.

I feel the need to repeat this in every message: I am a Russian national, living outside of Russia, I do not pay taxes in Russia. I am strongly against war (this or any other). The war is causing massive death and destruction to the country where half of my friends come from, and indirectly to my own country. Regardless of that, I am ready to accept any hate coming towards me due to my place of birth.

Having said that, I am in the position to understand where people are coming from. My late great-grandfather hated not only the Nazis, but all Germans because of what they leaders did to his people. Decades after the war, he still wanted all Germans to die. I couldn't blame him, nor can I blame the rest of the world today.
The Balkanization of streaming services has me ready to try Netflix DVD again. Anyone out there still subscribing? How is it?
... I mean, this is very cool and definitely good work, but I'm pretty sure I remember transmitting data via audio quite a lot back in the day, and it sounded like BEEEEEEEEPBOOPCRRRSSSHHHWRRRRTTSSSFFFTHHHHH.

(Ironically, I often then used the audio-to-data connection to download audio that had also been converted to data. I think I still have those old MP3s of Orbital's set at Glastonbury 1995 somewhere.) :-D
I'm assuming Google doesn't squat.
> Why would netflix not sell your interests in movies and habits to allow better targeting in their platform?

Why would they need to sell that data to allow better targeting? Doesn’t make sense.

> That is, if they go down the ad road.

Why would adding ads to Netflix force them to do these things that they would already be perfectly capable of doing? Netflix collects tons of data, could sell it if they wanted.
Thanks. I was looking for an audio sample of this data transfer and hoping for something like the old modem dial-up sound.
So surfing with an adblocking solution actually is green/carbon saving?

Am I reading this right?
Is this a wholehearted departure then from the whole "Simplicity Principle"? Not to be a complete ass, but in your view is there a defensible reason why every single layer of the entire network stack does not guarantee integrity? It would make things more reliable, after all you would still be guaranteed integrity even if TCP is broken! But we don't do that because we acknowledge that maybe we should be solving issues at the poignant location in the stack rather than just haphazardly shoving things in because we need said things in general.

I'm not disagreeing with your underlying point, really. I do agree that authentication is broken in that it fails to provide the actual guarantees we think it does. This is what I was getting at with my point above about issuing a right to talk to my service--that is, in reality, all any practical authentication system can provide today. You simply can't be certain the TPM your service stashed it's keys is secure without forcing attestation (again, problematic). Therefore, as far as your service can assume, your client may have just published the keys for the world to see. This leaves you in no better a theoretical position and it does not solve any of the problems identified with any other auth mechanism purely because it is not fundamentally.
What's really interesting is how cheap it is being sold for. The current figure being given is "around" £1 billion, which seems like low ball offer for the third biggest broadcasting company in the UK.
Oh hey! I figured I'd bump in to a local eventually :)
The result of lots of people "boycotting" the BBC is that it won't be funded and will end up being sold like Channel 4. Many in the current government would love to break up and sell off the BBC. I agree that the Beeb is largely garbage at the moment, but I hope that it can recover from it's current malaise in the future.
I ordered this one, thanks for the tip, can't go wrong at that price. If they really enjoy it we can look for something more fancy :)
Five is still reasonable. I know several that paid seven, after entering into rent-to-buy schemes.
Hm, might this be a problem with the limited bandwidth? I missed the whole USB-C hub hassle (though normal, cheap USB 2.0 hubs are already a PITA, and that's old tech) because my monitor has a built-in USB-C "dock" at USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gb/s. But when I put the display into 100Hz mode, IIRC the USB connection degrades to slower speeds (even USB 2.0?). This especially seems to affect the integrated Gigabit Ethernet port. I didn't test it in detail since I only have a few 2.0 devices connected to it and don't use that Ethernet port at all (works poorly with KVM), so I don't really care and that's only what I recall from when I bought it.
>If the Emoji Subcommittee recommends the addition of a Catalonia flag emoji, then it looks like favoritism unless all the other subdivisions of Spain are added

There already is a subdivision of Spain in the list of emoji flags: https://emojipedia.org/flag-canary-islands/
Do I correctly understand that you are advocating for a collective punishment of all Russian and Belorussian people, 'because airbnb can't know who of them are murderers'.

So, for example if Airbnb will deny access to black people, because there are violent criminals among black people in the US, you would support such policy, too? If no, I'd love to hear your argument why it would be any different.

You do make many emotional appeals, describing the untold horrors inflicted upon Ukrainians, and to make up for that you suggest punishing my friend who resides in South Africa and hasn't been in Russia for almost 10 years now. She just had her booking cancelled in Kenya.

I would add to the absurdity of your position the simple fact that among Russians travelling abroad, the support of Putin's fascist regime is almost non-existent. (it was high among Russians living abroad, who liked the idea of him projecting the strongman image, but people who really experienced his regime knew better).
Microsoft Makes Android Move to Challenge Apple
Just stick it behind a cloudflare and give up on decentralised internet, network neutrality and all that jazz