skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are players under 6ft, but not 5ft 3in players.

It is not a hard cutoff, but the probability of success with a certain height can decrease exponentially as height decreases.

Kevin Hart is not a leading actor either, he is the comic relief. In the movies I have seen, Dwayne Johnson is the lead actor. For example, Kevin Hart would not be Captain America, or even Black Panther. In fact, I think one of the Captain America movies showed the guy being short before he was enhanced and turned into Captain America.

You would not be able to sell a 5ft 3in actor as the fantasy escape for who people who want to fantasize about who they could be or the leader they would have.
To add on to this:

There's also the path that--even if you have a permissively licensed project--$corp will see your thing, like it, and decide to just copy it, to overall avoid having to deal with dependencies they do not own. In other words, a lot of places are unwilling to play in anyone else's backyard. They "support" open-source, but only when it's on their terms.

They might even call you, under the pretext of a job interview, and of course they want to discuss in detail the most significant project you've worked on! But you find out there are all kinds of awkward conditions on the job offer, like a cross-country move, or much lower pay than you were expecting, or no actual commitment that you'd be working on your project but just a vague, verbal statement that you could continue "during 10% time". You'll have to interview three more times with 15 more teammates. Everything gets dragged out for months and then you see them announce their own project in opposition to yours.

That is, if anyone pays attention to your project. Most open-source developers are categorically averse to anything resembling advertising. Try building a thing and then posting about it on a topic-appropriate sub-Reddit. So many of them will delete your post or ban your account from the sub for "spam".

The vast majority of the market--including other open-source developers--want open-source developers to write code, shut up, and go away. The minute you start talking about maybe wanting some remuneration for your efforts, you're suddenly "ungrateful" or "shilling" or "spamming" or "selling-out". (EDIT: It's happening in this very thread, further down the page)
Uh, AAA game developers not using NVIDIA-developed tech? Yes. Tessellation was a huge fail that didn't deliver on performance. Geometry shaders were another huge fail. Mesh shaders are shaping up to be pretty unimpressive. Pretty much all of NVIDIA's middleware (Ansel, Flow, HairWorks, WaveWorks, VXGI) haven't really caught on fire; usually they're placed into the game through NVIDIA paying developers large sums of money, and usually ripped out upon the next game release.

What instead happens is that game developers are developing large bunches of tech in-house that exploit new features like compute shaders, something NVIDIA has struggled to keep up with (lagging behind AMD in async compute, switching compute/graphics pipelines has a non-zero cost, lack of FB compression from compute write).

I say all of this as a graphics developer working inside the games industry.

Ben makes a bunch of historical errors, and some pretty critical technical errors, that I consider it to be almost a puff piece for NVIDIA and Jensen.

(NVIDIA definitely did not invent shaders, programmability is a blurry line progressing from increasingly-flexible texture combiners, pioneered by ArtX/ATI, NVIDIA looooved fixed-function back then. And raytracing really does not function like however Ben thinks it does...)
Just want to remind you that `-Og` in Clang is not representative here, as it's exactly the same as `-O1` -- they implemented support for the flag just to ease transitions between GCC and Clang without having to filter out flags, but it doesn't provide any debugging-specific advantage.
You can add “The Doomed City” to the list as well. It's an interesting take on the “aliens pull people from different places and times to conduct a social experiment” trope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doomed_City
not for long ;)
The keyword there was innovative, I'm sorry. Like imagine Portal, an innovative rendering game - now, is there something innovative that is going to be done with a raytracing feature like accelerated screen space reflections? No, probably not, people could render mirrors for ages. It's going to be like, one guy who creates cool gameplay with the hardware raytracing APIs, just like it was a small team that created Portal.
Study seeks to explain the phenomenon of shared false visual memories
Getting a lot of:

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at wss://haveibeensquatted.com:3000/ws.

and

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at wss://haveibeensquatted-xca5n.ondigitalocean.app/ws.
I ran into these problems with std::unordered_map. While developing my game, I would always run it in debug mode because I need to debug it. Loading a game world was taking around 12 seconds, and it was beginning to grate on me because of the increased iteration times. So I decided to profile it and see what was taking so long. I compiled in release mode to begin debugging, and it magically took the world load time down to 2 seconds.

I wondered what code I had written that caused such a massive performance hit in debug mode. So I went to profile my code in a debug build to find out. Lo and behold, something like 90% of the CPU time was wasted doing lookups from std::unordered_map because of debug iterators. I tried everything I could to just turn debug iterators off, and eventually gave up and switched to robin_hood::unordered_map which runs great in debug and release. Now I have an unwarranted aversion to the std lib, even though it really is great so long as you're running it in release mode.
Second this. Several years of use with nary an issue, plus Linux support.

Speaking of which, as an aside there's no excuse for big tech to not support the Linux desktop (I also use macOS and Windows 11 so not a die-hard fanboy). It doesn't matter if the userbase is tiny. Linux enables massive profits in the cloud so any cloud provider that supports multiple platforms but not Linux, whilst also generating huge profits from it, is doing a very bad thing. And that includes MS, Apple, and Google - full support regardless of the (comparatively small) cost as thanks for the profits they generate from it.
omg the instananeous page load times. surprised this wasn't mentioned. would love to read a piece on how they engineer the site to be so fast.
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It makes sense -- as the underdog they need to erode entrenched advantages, starting up a standards-based compatible approach is a cheap way of doing so (on top of being totally laudable and good for the community).

I wonder if we could ever see Radeon Rays on Intel's GPUs, or even their iGPUs. Raytracing in every low-resource-requirement MOBA, I say!
Hi! Thanks for your feedback, this is appreciated.

While there is no background information about the game in the DKC repository at the moment, the game comes with a set of cards where the equipment, rules, and finishing criteria are described [1]. If there is interested for that, I will add more context on the game and its contribution towards understanding secure multi-party computations for the youngest. I may still have the slide deck I used to present this work at the end of the hackathon, which may provide some further introductory material.

[1] DKC's rules https://github.com/secYOUre/DKC/tree/master/self-print/300-d...
Interpol alert issued for crypto founder who says he’s not on the run
Why do you continue to provide services to 0chan.life who openly post massive amounts of monkey torture videos?
Pennsylvania school district bans Girls Who Code Book
Collection of Radio Producer Jim Metzner Acquired by Library of Congress
That we could make an authorized free library for everyone in the world is just one benefit. If we also eliminate patents and all intellectual property restrictions we’d see a much higher rate of innovation. Contrary to the fairy tales we’re told by those who benefit from holding patents, I’m convinced that intellectual property restrictions dramatically slow down the rate of innovation.

But there is a big difference between an illegal pirate library and an authorized global library. The latter would be much better for everyone.

And you might be surprised to realize that providing a basic standard of living for every person does not require dismantling the larger capitalist system. Corporations buying raw materials could still pay in currency. I’m just describing a world where food and shelter and clothing and individual transportation and medical care are provided to everyone. This doesn’t even require dismantling the broader capitalist system.
A perspective from someone who hasn't been super involved in network security:

Historically, many folks would treat a VPN as something like a moat around the castle. If you're on the VPN, you can access stuff, and if you're not on the VPN, you cannot. However, this leads to a sort of ambient authority: break into the VPN, and you've broken into anything.

"Zero Trust" is a model closer to capability-based security than to ambient authority: just because you're inside the VPN does not automatically mean that you have access to the servers inside of it, you must also authenticate with them, specifically. It's "zero trust" because no user is trusted by default, not because you as a user cannot trust the network.
Wouldn't someone who conforms to the norms tend to become the average of that environment?
I would try to find a better word for it but unfortunately all my free time is allocated to frivolous arguments about semantics at the moment.
The tweet has no information other than the headline. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-grants-russian-ci... might be a better source.
I have to admit I'm puzzled at why you think the title is "completely opposite."

But thanks for the compliment, anyway.
This is the Cost of having a subpar HRM product. What does Amazon uses?
For China’s Auto Market, Electric Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present
To answer your edit:

I think you are understating the difference this "more efficient time" makes. SRS outclasses every other approach we have for long-term memorization by several zeroes.

Bringing your car to the shop when the "check engine" light is on and bringing it into the shop after every single drive is superficially the same, but only one of them makes actual sense...
Make Stable Diffusion up to 100% faster with Memory Efficient Attention
Just in time for the draft. Wouldn’t that be a strange end to the story…
I'm not surprised, it sounds illegal for the purpose you described. It's illegal just to own plate flipping devices without even using them in some states. Surely that would be too.

> A person commits an offense if the person with criminal negligence uses, purchases, possesses, manufactures, sells, offers to sell, or otherwise distributes a license plate flipper. An offense under this subsection is a Class C misdemeanor, except that the offense is a Class B misdemeanor if the person has previously been convicted of an offense under this subsection.

https://law.onecle.com/texas/transportation/504.947.html
Software and Adventure
It's great. They need to build out more integrations to get to parity with Segment, but I was willing to overlook that for the ability to "escape"
By the same logic a writer from Turkey which was part of Western Bloc should be called a western writer? What about a writer from Japan?
> Sorry, but in the real world, "finders keepers" rarely applies

If Bob signs a contract for Alice to paint a fence for $800 and a copy-paste error transfers her $1000 instead, yes.

But if the copy-paste error happened before the contract was signed? Leading to Bob promising Alice $1000 and signing a contract promising it? Then in all probability, Bob will end up paying the contract amount.
I've heard that the original PS2 Architecture was similar to program for as modern vulkan based rendering. Any truth to that? (I have 0 experience in game/3D programming)
Where are you getting that they'd want to "dismiss you?" Smart and well-informed people can come to different interpretations of reality that are accurate in their own ways. It's interesting to know what sorts of consequences to such interpretations a person finds to be important for their worldview.

Once we're talking about dismissing someone, we've long left the realm of good-faith discussion, which was assumed in the situation you're responding to.
Stroke order sounds like a burden to Westerners but it actually helps with memorizing characters, and makes your handwriting less awful.
The National Archives is equally incredible and responsive: I made a Twitter bot[1] to automatically post photos from the DOCUMERICA project[2], and found handful of missing scans (just a few dozen in over 10,000) in the process.

I emailed them to ask about it, and they responded in a handful of days[3].

[1]: https://twitter.com/dailydocumerica

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documerica

[3]: https://blog.yossarian.net/2021/10/25/A-small-documerica-twi...
The pound has fallen against almost every currency, not just the dollar.

It's almost as if you can't run Reagan-style deficit spending when you don't control the world's reserve currency.
Then again, I have 2 420mm Black Ice Nemesis radiators in my custom loop - even at relatively low speeds it can keep the 5800X in there and 3080 Ti cool under constant high loads.
While developing locally on K8, I was suffering from long pull / push images times, until I discovered the minikube registry plugin.
There are a number of seriously conflicting stories. Some of them say "the cards were individually tuned and undervolted to run at maximum efficiency to make the most money so they'll be fine" and some say "these cards were overclocked and left to run in a boiling hot shipping container then they washed them off with a water hose".
Not even a designer that can code? Care to explain?
Didn't something similar happen at Intel recently? IIRC in their case they are cutting in other areas to make up for the "excess" raises and telling folks not to expect raises for a period of time.
It would make sense to adjust the "line width" (focus!) of the scanlines so they blur into each other. But on a multisync monitor, this would be matched to the highest resolution it can display. Without fancy defocusing circuitry, of course if you display only 200 scanlines on a monitor capable of 5x as many, you're going to get a lot of black space between them. This bothered me personally, in those days, in my case with a 20" CRT monitor and emulation of my old C64 environment. Modern "CRT emulation" is better than the real thing, in this case.
Immersive Learning Experiences
Good point. It would become dramatically more useful if netizens just ran license plate scanners on their dashboards that regular report the timestamped geodata of marked/government vehicles.
I'm a big fan of the typo in the title :)
Shoe that can grow up to five sizes
Did you get the idea that I'm not happy in Europe? If you did, I'm not sure why, as I am quite happy here - I just don't feel comfortable having large amounts of money sitting around denominated in Euros, as the value of the Euro is rapidly depreciating.
After crypto it will be ML and general cloud computing.
Electric cars charging at night could make America’s power grids unstable
It's similar to them, sure. you could build an ngrok alternative on top of OpenZiti. In fact we might be working on something similar that you might seeing as a Show HN soon :)

SSH tunnels are similar in ways, yes but they'll suffer from the same "you need an open open port" problem that OpenZiti doesn't suffer from (excluding the overlay nodes, I can get into that if you want)

tor is an anonymization network - utterly different. With OpenZiti the network needs, and must know what identity is connecting. it's really not the same, very different. some similar privacy type of overlap might be out there, but in general that one feels really different.

libp2p is new to me. I have seen that coming up lately but I don't know much about it yet so i can't really comment on that one. sorry
I dislike writing unit tests, but after a while I end up missing the unit tests I didn't write. This is my take on making writing unit tests easier.

This VSCode extension records the function execution, and based on the recording creates the mocks and other necessary elements to create a unit test automatically.

The user first gives the inputs he/she wants to create the test with and then the extension handles the rest of the unit test writing.

Please let me know what you think about this approach.
I got psychologically abused in a very extreme form by everyone i liked 5 years ago, hackers and sex and feminism and trolls are involved ofcourse, and all that got me through that was humor. If i didnt have that, I'd have killed myself. Fuck those tasteless assholes some of which called themselves "friends" for what they did, but I like movies and i love music, and I still got those even when I lost everything else including my flat, my library, my job, every friend in this city, every professional contact and all hope about any future. Now I live in a homeless shelter (i was a respected nationally known blogger once) and I still write and have found something like new friends here. I laugh every day, and I bet i laugh much louder than those traitorous assholes. Everything is better than the Chaos Computer Club and the Berlin Elite and their aristocratic secret society that treats people like animals, if the people perpetrating the violence are female and leftwing enough. This is the truth. They know it, I know it, everybody knows it, nobody talks about it, because it isnt allowed what cant be. Humor, my dude. Get a bunch of these, they work wonders.
With gfx slowly trending towards cloud and edge computing, I wonder how that benefits them, or not?
I agree with this assessment.

My philosophy as tech lead was this: every time we wanted to start using a SaaS product, up to and including cloud hosting itself, we needed to have a Plan B to migrate to in case the service suddenly went away for any reason.

Eg.: we needed a message queue, we picked up an Azure product because it was the most convenient and covered all our requirements at low cost. But we coded against an interface and we implemented a proof-of-concept RabbitMQ implementation as a backup plan (also came in handy for local testing!). If we had to drop the Azure service for any reason, we knew we could install RabbitMQ on a VM and tune it up to production standards relatively quickly.
Not OP, but have similar behavior. Maybe I'm overthinking things, but I think you're blowing the gripe out of proportion.

Showing me a newsletter signup before I've read the content implies that I'm interested in getting more of what I expect the content will be about, not what it actually is. Asking me to sign up for more interesting sounding titles before I've even had a chance to decide if I enjoy the content within implies that you, the content author, don't actually care if I enjoyed the content. What you're most interested in is pushing more clickbait titles in my face.

Put a newsletter sign up button near the end of the content, or in a side bar next to the content- anywhere that makes it seem like I'll get more of the content I am enjoying.
Unrelated recommendation - 1Password will scan QR codes and can store TOTP 2fa tokens for you. I assume other password managers also have similar features.
I hope they keep that easter egg.
Yep, the playstation 2's I/O processor was just a playstation 1 CPU, I believe the emotion engine still handled the graphics though.
FreeBSD just recently [0,1] removed support for booting with the FreeBSD 1.x-4.x bootloader.

[0]: https://twitter.com/bsdimp/status/1570987021031866369

[1]: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36550
> I said the issues are different and you disagreed

I disagreed that things are all that different "if you have a support contract."

> It’s also not reasonable to require the government to just get 10,000 support contracts just to implement a single application.

I agree, but I'm not sure that's relevant? If a single support contract is sufficient for proprietary software - making them responsible for addressing (incl. possibly working around) issues in any dependency - why is that not also viable for FOSS software?

I don't disagree that what they're doing here seems likely to be a good idea, I just think you were initially selling "pay for support for the software you rely on as a big organization" a little short in its general applicability; indeed, this probably be viewed as providing that service internally.
Of course, all the problems mendaciously blamed on the EU to justify Brexit were always really problems with UK governance in the first place, and Brexit was not going to make a difference.
Informally, big-O and limits have a similar smell to them, calc might have helped get some wheels turning in your head for that.

I do recall taking a "probability in CS" as an electrical engineering student -- it was pretty mind-blowing to me the extent to which the CS students did not like to talk about any continuous math. It makes sense, though, these are different specialties after all.
I was just thinking; maybe large font size, wide margins, and bigger line height may serve to inflate "engagement" because they make it more difficult for a user to be able to glance at the majority of the page and get a sense of whether it's worth reading. If scrolling and getting a big picture view of an article takes some effort, users may be more likely to either read through the content or scroll slowly. Either way, it's a win for the designers because whatever tracker being employed will provide some fancy charts to convince the suits and ties that their work "increased engagement." It may also get users to look at more ads. All of which will certainly be pitched under the idea that it's accessible.

I really hate this if that's true, because the net effect does seem to be that I have to spend more time on a page to determine if the content is garbage or not. With physical books, you could flip through pages and catch things you're interested in by glancing over large areas. The modern web, for whatever reason, is doing quite a bit to prevent that from being possible on our screens without hacking our own browsers to fix the mess.
You might like running Typescript on Deno[1].

1. https://deno.land/
I hate this! Nothing is FREE.

My income is well above the state median, so no way I qualify.

But I'm paying for yours if you do qualify.

Call it what it is - transfer of wealth, for political gain.
Is there a way to set a global timeout now? Last I checked, you could only set them per job, i.e. you have to copy-paste "timeout-minutes: 15" to every single job in every single workflow in every single repo, and hope you didn't miss one. That's been the case for years[1] and a quick search shows it's still true[2]

The cynic in me thinks they like having the extra revenue.

[1] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/25472

[2] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10690
Titles like this are worst than clickbait. It should be mandatory to have descriptive titles on HN.

To save everyone a click: "The Holonforth programming systems combine browser, editor and umbilical target link. And in the DOS systems also: assembler, compiler, linker, debugger and interpreter."

I would literally rather have the title be "This programming system is going to change the world and put you out of a job if you don't learn it" rather than some random name.
I meant the Business Source License, and I'd be willing to bet that the person I was replying to did too.