skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gamers nexus video is worth a watch for entertainment. The marketing has been cranked up to 11. Graphics cards promising their buyers "absolute dark power". Honestly...
Do you know that since about two days ago Russian propaganda has been pushing exactly this scenario? See https://youtu.be/EoyNGHkjeyM for details.
Is 128 bit the limit of what we would need? We use 128 bit UUIDs. 2^256 seems to be more than the number of atoms on Earth.
I guess what I'm talking about is this:

1) PO wants feature X for customer P.

2) Architect in meeting with PM and PO indicates that feature X is a simple addition to Y

3) Engineer is assigned X and says no this isn't a simple addition to Y because on deeper inspection it will fail for cases 1,2,3, we would need a different architecture.

4) PM says build it the naive way, let the customers find case 1,2,3 before we fix, we are an Agile team after all.

5) I quit.
Geforce Now is not really SaaS, the model is more PaaS (if you consider what you're actually doing - renting a gaming PC with a graphics card as a platform to run Steam/Epic/whatever).
This is actually a very interesting point. Does monoculture somehow prevent propaganda from propagating, because existing 'culture' is already defined to an extent,which prevents opposing views? Or does it simply mean an influencer needs to check various internal checkboxes?

edit: FWIW, I regularly see people disclose their association if it seems relevant ( "shameless plug" is perfectly acceptable for example ).

edit2: I thought a little more about what you wrote and I disagreed with Linkedin/Nextdoor posts before, but the last thing that kinda turned me off is a clearly political message that you could tell was written in the most divisive way possible to drive 'engagement'. And short online trek later, it turns out, the same person posted the same thing on their other social accounts. Since it is genuinely harder to tell what is a genuine conversation, I just opted to stop it altogether. HN has its issues, but at least I can typically expect someone to make me hesitate based on their arguments.
The AS/400 and iSeries also use 128-bit pointers. 128-bit would be useful for multiple pointers already in common use such as ZFS and IP6 addresses. I expect it will the last hop for a long time.
And, surprisingly, Google has more employees on WICG (the W3C standards incubator) than all other relevant parties added together.
> The queue gets full and stops accepting input, and the prior machines stop sending input as a result

That is backpressure...

Interestingly I think if Factorio didn't have backpressure, and unconsumed items disappeared when they reached the end of the conveyor, the game would be easier because you could just put every kind of items on a single belt. Un-balanced consumption wouldn't stop down the next production stage because the conveyor would keep running, whereas now if you're not consuming one type of item from a mixed stream you will block it preventing you from getting the other types of items.
Fair enough. Jacobabad is absolutely an edge case. The question is, is it just an outlier or are other places headed that way? Are the conditions that drive up wet bulb temps increasing, thanks to human activity?

E.g. the number of Indian cities inching towards high 40s (Celsius) is climbing. Heck, New Delhi this year saw 49 C air temps, which was unheard of. But re wet bulb temps, the trend is troubling[1].

Plenty of Indian cities are crossing wet bulb > 31 C, which puts the elderly and infirm at risk when they're outside. Yes -- going from here to > 35 C is a big leap, but if you say it cannot happen that's ... a "hope for the best" mindset.

Who knows, nothing might come out of it, but if the climate change models are correct, there's more pain ahead.

Let's take a midpoint scenario between 'absolute best' and 'absolute worst' and assume summer wet bulbs increase slightly over time, not enough to breach 35 C. That's still temps in the 31...34 C range in major Indian cities, that basically makes it hell for the elderly and infirm. What are the social costs of that? Bear in mind, despite India's progress, it still has a fair number of people with limited means. And the number of elderly in India will grow over time as its "youth bulge" tapers off.

[1] https://archive.ph/sPVL2
> POLIO. In 2022. We did this.

First off there are two strains of polio. It will never be eradicated, it'll just mutate and move on. Just like the Spanish Flu did.

Second

> "State of Emergency" != Martial Law

It certainly was being treated like that early days during the pandemic. Shuttering all businesses, forcing people to stay home, and curfews.

> Emergency powers help us keep more Americans safe & alive.
> ...
> Can't wait to see what we manage to fuck up in the next 20 years.

You are being hyperbolic.
I can't imagine a single Linux kernel instance or single program controlling that much bus-local RAM, but as you say there are other uses.

One use I can imagine is massively distributed computing where pointers can refer to things that are either local or remote. These could even map onto IPv6 addresses where the least significant 64 bits are a local machine pointer and the most significant 64 bits are the machine's /64. Of course the security aspect would have to be handled at the transport layer or this would have to be done on a private network. The latter would be more common since this would probably be a supercomputer thing.

Still... I wonder if this needs CPU support or just compiler support? Would you get that much more performance from having this in hardware?

I do really like how Rust has u128 native in the language. This permits a lot of nice things including efficient implementation of some cryptography and math stuff. C has irregular support for uint128_t but it's not really a first class citizen.
> What's the average lifespan of a line of kernel code?

There's a fun tool called "Git of Theseus" which can answer this question! You can see some graphs of Linux code on the web page: https://github.com/erikbern/git-of-theseus

Named after the Ship of Theseus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
I use Vivaldi with NextDNS and LuLu blocking a layer up so between the 3 I get great blocking and love Vivaldi.
Fossil does that. Works pretty well, too.
The article touches on this but often, just having the appearance of somewhere that is serious about coffee or cocktails is enough. The owners probably don't care, so long as they do enough business to keep things going. People will go somewhere that looks like an excellent cocktail bar, order something called an Aperol Spritz, receive something that is mostly soda water, a bit of prosecco and a tiny dash of Aperol and be pleased because doesn't it look great? And if that represents value for money to them, then that's fine. The whole idea of speciality anything eventually has to overcome the fact it will be commoditised, and there will be an abundance of low to middling quality offerings that are using the signifiers of high-quality offerings to make money.
Recently I've been wondering why my internet seems to be getting so slow. It then dawned on me that webpage bloat has progressed to the point that my 2015 MacBook (the small one with the rubbish processor) really struggles to load a typical webpage in a reasonable amount of time.
I am curious how this effort will pay off because I feel the speaker and music app category is pretty crowded.

The app claims five ad-free channels and it looks to be more of a something you play in the background. Which is nice, but the speakers from a design perspective are loud and noticeable which goes against "background music"

I will be honest, I might not be the targeted audience for this product at all, but I do hope Polaroid succeeds in this new product/service portfolio.
At least for Telegram each time you go to pick a photo to share, it offers you the chance to "add more photos visible" or you can click Manage.

I assume Instagram and friends would do the same.

I often just take the photo via Telegram instead, which automatically adds it to your photo roll and gives Telegram access to it. It works relatively well.
Awesome take. Reminds me of a book that teaches us how one can lie with statistics.

While reading the whole article, I was convinced over the "data centric analysis". Afterall, how can data lie?

But, its revealing that cheating in a chess game with a GM is literally making the right guided move at the right time.
If you play at a grandmaster level, then sometimes you only need to cheat on one or two critical moves in the game. The rest you can handle yourself. A smart and talented cheater wouldn't use stockfish for 10 to 20 moves in a 90 move game, you only use the game changing move or two. This is likely impossible to catch and prove.
Are you under the impression that IQ scores don’t measure anything?
Judging by world history, the usual solution is crush the citizens.
Nor the regressive marginal 60% tax rate between 100k and 120k.
I actually enjoy the hubris.
Fusion plants according to current projected designs would not, in fact, be appreciably safer. It is academic, because they would be 10s to 1000s of times as expensive as what they would be competing with, so will not be built.

D-3He reactors might someday find uses in the outer solar system, or in military rapid-deployment corps, if they turn out possible. But availability of 3He will always be a problem. Probably it will be bred by using solar power to accelerate protons.
it would be nice if it display the lengthened url somewhere additionally to copying it to clipboard
786 days is time spent in the vicinity of the comet. From 6 August 2014 (arrival at comet) to 30 September 2016 (mission end).
What's ever worse is that FIDE feel justified exonerating people based on this statistical analysis alone, despite the fact there seems to be a general sense within the GM community that something is wrong and has been for a while.
Customizing the Python Import System (2008)
A Look at Slack's New GitOps-Based Build Platform
We learned that we don't need the threat of violence to establish a currency.
As creepy as this is whenever it happens, I remain convinced it’s observation bias. Because of how often it doesn’t happen.

Quoth Richard Feynman:

> “You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!”

You were gonna see ads, or news stories, or whatever. You happened to see this one. And it happened to connect to a conversation you were having. Amazing! What magic!?

Well how many other ads or other times didnt it connect to a conversation and you just don’t remember because it didn’t feel special? Probably many more times than it did work.

Lately I’ve been trying to find alternate explanations. Hm we were talking about going to a restaurant tomorrow. Why is my girlfriend getting all these restaurant ads on instagram all of a sudden? Oh right, because it’s Thursday, we live in a city, I searched Google for “Good Friday restaurants for a date” during our conversation, and we live on the same IP.
My wife has a modern case with a horizontal motherboard: Thermaltake Core V21. It's not short enough to put a monitor on top of (because it uses a dual-layer design with a "basement" under the motherboard for the PSU and HDDs) rather than being wider, but it does at least solve the GPU leverage issue.
I thought that too, but if that is the case then it should be relatively easy to find this hidden functionality by decompiling the APK and exploring it.
To be clear on language here as we're both technically correct:

- Unpaid "internships" are technically legal in Europe.

- It is illegal if "an employee is contributing to the workplace" for them to be unpaid

- Most interns are required to contribute to the workplace, which is an illegal use of internships by employers.

In reality, the law allowing unpaid internships is almost certainly a deliberate measure to allow employers to exploit this loophole by placing the burden of enforcement upon interns (since it can be technically legal if they're not contributing, the onus is on the intern to legally challenge their employer. Not only are they less likely to take the financial risk here, it's also somewhat paradoxical as presumably a would-by-intern intending to do that would simply turn down the opportunity (precluding any law-breaking by the employer). There's been calls to make such internships blanket illegal, but it hasn't happened yet.

TL;DR: there is such a thing in theory as a "legal unpaid internship" in the EU, but in practice a large majority of unpaid internships do not fall within the bounds of legal.
>Imagine having to sit through a game that you love to play, only with a nagging thought in the back of your mind that sucks the joy out of the experience and turns it into a chore.

That's a completely reasonable position for Magnus to take. It would be even more reasonable for him to simply state that that's why he's acted as such, and yet...
Move in a critical moment, speed of decision for said move, cheating at this level is probably extremely hard to do it alone which already creates space for leaks...
> Matthew Wilcox took the stage to make the point that 64 bits may turn out to be too few — and sooner than we think

Let's think critically for a moment. I grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, when we all craved more and more powerful computers. I even remember the years when each generation of video games was marketed as 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, ect.

BUT: We're hitting a point where, for what we use computers for, they're powerful enough. I don't think I'll ever need to carry a 128-bit phone in my pocket, nor do I think I'll need a 128-bit web browser, nor do I think I'll need a 128-bit web server. (See other posts about how 64-bits can address massive amounts of memory.)

Will we need 128-bit computing? I'm sure someone will find a need. But let's not assume they'll need an operating system designed in the 1990s for use cases that we can't imagine today.
Wishing doesn't make it so.
Yeah, the "1 in a million" hand-waving is weird. If I had a mechanism that allowed me to cheat at poker, I would only use it on a push. I certainly wouldn't be using every hand or even at all in penny ante games.
No, "privilege" in this context is a specific concept, not just any and all meanings of the word:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_privilege
How to Design the Perfect Queue, According to Crowd Science
There’s already a Mac OS version, so it they’ve presumably already handled that side of things.
Adding generational references needs to be built into the language at a very deep level to work properly, AFAICT.

One can almost do it by using "side tables" but it would come at a rather high performance cost for Rust. Since generations are located inside / next to the object in Vale, we can take advantage of the cache to avoid any significant slowdowns.

Additionally, one of the main benefits of this approach is simplicity for the user, and I'm not sure Rust can be made simpler by adding more mechanisms.
The Future of Cities and Human Capital
Regan's analysis is a good deal more detailed than that. He claims that if you check the computer just three times a game, he is going to catch you within three games. Now, if you check just once, it becomes a lot harder.

For the game against Carlsen, he looked at the key moves in that game. The first 20 or so moves were theory. You can't ever prove cheating in theory. After they diverged from theory, Regan said there were only two really key moves. For both of those, Niemann did not use the computers top choice. One of them he played a downright inaccurate move that could have cost him a tempo.

I don't know if Niemann cheated or did not, or even what exactly Carlsen suspects, but Regan's analysis seems to me to be strong enough that it counterbalances the known character deficiency of Niemann.
Absolutely, no shortage of aluminium, as I said, copper is the one where the mining is the bottleneck, for aluminium it is energy for the smelting.

Night time energy storage for the smelters is not a solved issue still and significantly increases the costs beyond just adding sufficient PV panels adjacent to the smelter. Storage is not "easy and cheap" as you assert, otherwise there would be no reason to build the longitudinal grid connections GP was talking about.
Itanium function pointers worked like that, so it could have been the new normal if IA64 wasn’t so crazy on the whole.
It's not even that. They had innovative things (arguably before the world was ready) and cancelled them.
Comcast rebranded as Xfinity because they knew everyone hated Comcast. Now everyone also hates Xfinity. It's fine.
Distributed Shared Memory is a thing, but I'm not sure how widely it is used. I found that it gives you all the coordination problems of threads in symmetric multiprocessing but at a larger scale and with much slower synchronisation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_shared_memory
> you can usually pay off 10% of the outstanding amount EXTRA per year

There is no limit like this in the US on most loans, right?
Wait until you find out about whole home vacuums! Then you can turn The Whole House into a vacuum!
Imagine I see someone after an event, flushing evidence of cheating.

I am completely certain, because I saw the evidence myself.

But to anyone else? There's no hard evidence - just he-said-she-said. Maybe I was mistaken - or trying to get my rival into trouble.

Knowing how it would look, maybe I keep my mouth shut rather than throwing around wild, baseless allegations about cheating.
Or point fingers and/or create a new enemy
As far as I'm aware they integrated Servo into Firefox piece by piece.
> a good junk of the west coast

What a delightful turn of phrase!
It seems to me that such a memory space could be physically mapped quite large while still presenting 64-bit virtual memory addresses to the local node? How likely is it that any given node would be mapping out more than 2^64 bytes worth of virtual pages?

The VM system could quite simply track the physical addresses as a pair of `u64_t`s or whatever, and present those pages as 64-bit pointers.

It seems in particular you might want to have this anyways, because the actual costs for dealing with such external memories would have to be much higher than local memory. Optimizing access would likely involve complicated cache hierarchies.

I mean, it'd be exciting if we had need for memory space larger than 2^64 but I just find it implausible with current physics and programs? But I'm also getting old.
I remember reading an article about the wildfires which was super eye-opening. Basically they said they could burn 100K acres a year, and still have an unacceptable fuel load for about 40 years.

While controlled burns are the prescription, the political risk is too high in the sense that if a controlled burn breaks containment heads will roll. It doesn't help that even during controlled burns that don't escape, localities will complain about the smoke to their local reps who put the kibash on controlled burns.
For anyone who does care, the answer is that String is not only mutable it's always heap allocated and can grow, whereas &str is just an immutable reference and so it could be pointing at the text in your String, but equally it could point to the stack, or your text segment, or a ROM.

C++ programmers might do OK to think of &str as like a C++ 17 string_view, except it's promised to always be UTF-8 text, and because it was provided from the outset in the language this type is always used where appropriate, so the string literal "Test" is a &'static str, and all the APIs you use work with &str and never some archaic pointer type.

Rust's String is a bit like C++ std::string, though deliberately lacking the Small String Optimisation but again always UTF-8, and String implements the Trait Deref<Target=str> which means most read-only methods are defined on &str but work fine on String anyway.

[edited: A handful of read-only methods make sense specifically for String, like asking how much space is allocated for the String, so those are in fact methods on String]
There’s no replication crisis in psychometry. It’s the highest quality area of psychological research, at least with respect to reproducibility. While there’s room for debate as to what exactly it is that’s being measured, there is none for whether something meaningful at all is being measured.

IQ measurements have strong predictive power too for various outcomes, such as educational attainment.

A civilization reduction of IQ by nearly 1/3 sigma is absolutely cause for concern.
Far from it. It's main selling point is that it's friendly.

I had C/C++ in college and spent most of my career in front-end.

In comparison to the Cs Rust at least tries to get out your way. Stuff generally compiles and when it doesn't, it tells you what might be wrong using human language.

I mean, it's the first time I've seen a compiler error start with "perhaps..." to tell you what steps could be taken to fix it.
Correction. ONLY the contacts WITHIN Signal contact address book is used.

Signal contact address book is wholly kept separate from your phone OS contact address book, even when you say yes to permission to share the OS contact address book.

If you say no to the sharing of contact, then ONLY those contacts created WITHIN Signal’s own contact address book would have each Signal contact’s phone number as numerically big-hashed (within your own phone), then only those hash value of your limited Signal contact address book would be (naturally) sent to Signal server.

This is why I said “if you don’t mind the obtuse associativity”. And that is OK for most OpSec.

What is most important here is whatever you typed, only that other contact’s phone would be able to see this, no place else. That is, until the adversary gets their hand on one of the phone before its timed message deletion period.

This is all in the source code here

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android
But that's not what the words say. "In space" is stated specifically, not "Time in orbit" or some such. You're being very very generous
Have you worked on multi channel encoding/decoding or mixed a multi-channel project?
The rapid expansion of human population since 1800 challenges this claim.

We don't need an ideal climate to flourish. That's part of our species' strength: our remarkable ability to adapt.
No warrant? And government folks wonder why they're not trusted.

And how many of these government data purchasers' next job is with these data brokers?