skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using “ballpark figure” to explain “football field” is my favorite thing today.

I never quibble with these types of comparisons, except for Libraries of Congress when trying to convey the amount of data something can hold.

I have no idea how large the LoC is. My touchstone for data capacity is MP3s (128k/48kHz, of course :)

As far as football fields goes, I’d think it works best because gridirons and pitches are roughly the same size. Almost everyone has had experience with at least one of those, right?
Just curious, is there some sort of special license or permission required to get access to computing resources like these in Iran, like there is with the Chinese website license number thing?

I have thought about trying to run a VPN server on my EC2 web server for my friends in Iran but not sure if regular VPN protocols are even allowed through. I don't think they know what Tor is much less how to set it up with a custom bridge. They seem to be using some kind of proxy/bridge for Telegram, but didn't know the technical English vocab to tell me exactly what it was.

Ironically, I once talked to someone very pro-regime on HelloTalk and asked them why they were using Telegram if it was blocked/illegal there, since they would defend the regime on anything else you asked them about. They claimed to believe that it was blocked because of US sanctions and denied that the government blocked any websites. Is this a narrative they are pushing on state media there?
Oh, well, I agree that the Windows Terminal team overestimated their own competence. I just think they had to argue some pretty obviously implausible positions in order to do so. You have to dumb pretty hard to start believing that a 3 GHz 2-core superscalar i7 with AVX256, 24 MB of L3 cache, and a SIMT GPU can't handle the load of emulating a VT100.

And having the Windows Terminal licensed under the GPL instead of a Microsoft EULA would strictly increase the freedoms and abilities of its users: they could still legally do all the things with Windows Terminal they do now, plus lots of new things as well. Opt out of undesired updates, for example. Even the Windows Terminal team would have more freedom that way: they could go work at a different employer and keep hacking on the code they wrote as part of Windows Terminal.
>Casey Muratori excoriated the Windows Terminal dev team for failing to achieve a consistent 60 fps

Oh I remember that!

He even got lectured by some expert nitwits at MS which were making dozens of arguments about how it was allegedly impossible to create a fast terminal (on modern machines, most of them with GPUs in the TFLOPS range, LOL).

I have no idea why those "engineers" weren't fired on the spot.
Come on man, the fact he's able to use GPL2 to annoy you is your problem. Just stop hitting yourself.

I will restate what many others have said here, Microsoft has used and interacted with GPL2 code longer than I have been alive. There is GPL2 licensed software in the Windows Store released by Microsoft.

Microsoft is the one doing the "dick move" by requiring special permission for new GPL2 interaction.

If Microsoft can interact with Linux, the biggest GPL2 project ever, they can interact with whatever Casey releases.
Only a small matter of time now before we have Vec2TikTok (or similar) where you'll be served up videos specifically optimised with the kind of content that will keep you scrolling or watching more.

People will end up watching news about events that never happened or product reviews for things that don't exist.
One of the interesting titbits of all this is that even if the nearby port is considered not worth the nuke for whatever strategic planning reasons, it’s almost a certainty that, outside of a weird “you nuked once, so we’re going to nuke just once too” scenario, Australia (where I live) has at least one if not two or three nukes coming it’s way in all but the most limited nuclear war scenarios involving nuclear powers. (for instance India and Pakistan exchanging nukes could potentially remain a very regionally limited conflict despite the catastrophic death toll)

Depending on the exact planning and strategic goals it’s hard to imagine a significant nuclear war that doesn’t involve trying to eliminate at least one if not all of these three targets.

- Nuke 1 -> Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap - It’s got the CIA, it’s got the NSA and it’s got the NRO, its got 38 radomes housing antennas drawing down secret classified satellite data from the whole hemisphere of satellites and is part of the entire ECHELON/ 5 Eyes program

- Nuke 2 -> Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt - 1 Megawatt VLF Transmitter, most powerful in the Southern Hemisphere, designed for communicating with underwater submarines from the USA, Australia and likely capable of also doing so to any cooperating NATO nations … in short its for sending the kind of signal to an underwater submarine that would be used to tell a ballistic missile submarine to follow the orders in the green yellow blue or red folders. One of the highest likely targets for a nuke on the planet (along with its sibling VLF stations around the world) if you ask me…

- Nuke 3 -> RAAF Base Edinburgh, heart and home to the coordination centre of the Jindalee Over the Horizon Radar Network, a network of linked ionospheric frequency radar transmitter and receivers as well as ionosondes to monitor the state of the ionosphere which when combined give it a claimed capability to monitor air and sea movements over 37000square kilometres, as far as “3000 kilometres away” according to the official documents, and with a sensitivity that is apparently good enough the prototype was able to pick up a rocket launch in china 5500km away during testing in 1997 (so the real thing can probably do a bit better than the claimed 3000km range)
WPF would probably be that. In any case, modern UI toolkits often are vector-based anyway because of UI scaling. Heck, even ancient ones are, if you look at the Marlett font. That contained scalable UI elements for Windows 95.
Who wants or asked for this?
A 3-word reply: Duck Duck Go.
I guess this could explain it. I struggle a little with this explanation though, Larry appeared engaged in 2014. The problem is big and obvious. I guess there isn't an obvious solution though, so maybe they just kept kicking the can down the road?

Anyway, good insight, appreciate it. They both always seemed like smart dudes with a blindspot. Maybe it wasn't such after all.
The NRA is strongly pro 2nd amendment... Where in their recommended gun safety rules does it imply that firing indiscriminately in the air is acceptable?
https://gunsafetyrules.nra.org/

Or are you saying that some citizens breaking the law with a device should be addressed by taking away the legal right to use that device? Cars, shovels, knives, hammers, screwdrivers, bricks hvevbeen misused to kill people. Houses have been use to imprison people unlawfully. Should we ban those too? If not, what's the difference? Other than "I don't use guns and I do use those other things"?
I use ImgBB, they're probably stealing your images but did screenshots like this is doesn't matter.
TODR > Logic dictates that indiscriminately firing a gun into the air is probably not a great idea.

I'm sold. I'll never fire that gun I don't own into the air randomly like a psychotic toddler again. But I will feel better about staying inside on all those crazy PTSD inducing holidays to avoid stray bullet rain.

Side rant, why are holidays that are oriented around celebrating events credited to military personnel perfectly designed to exacerbate some of the most common chronic psychological ailments of military personnel?

Asking for a friend.
Remember that making optical copies of other people's chips was legal (and not uncommon) in the US up until the 1984 Semiconductor Chip Protection Act was passed.
Is Russian "New Year" really different from American "Christmas"? Both are about a certain old man giving gifts to children, both are about a certain kind of tree, etc. From what I gathered, it's not really a religious holiday in USA either - there's little about Jesus. The names are different, the dates and customs are different, but the essence is same.
Sundar's claim to fame is Google Toolbar for MSIE. It was a big deal at that time. It locked Google search on MSIE and ultimately enable navboost in search quality.

Then he was the product lead on the Chrome team. I don't know if it was him who lobbied Page to create Chrome.
There are floors in One Market that are the same and equally nonsensical. The kicker is that Google stocks them with tampons and toothbrushes and all that, even though they're communal, which makes the locking even more silly.
Maybe you are biased because you know that's AI?

A blind test would be better. A musical Turing test - whether you like music and can't tell if that's AI or real composer.
You seem sarcastic, but you're saying something very true. The number of packages installed should have basically zero impact on performance. What matters is how much code the program runs, and the only extra code you added was import statements. That won't do much in many situations, and in compiled code it will have zero performance impact. The compile will take longer but you're not even the one that has to compile it.
> 1) For harassment, it would be hard to do worse than the harassment we had in the past.

I'm not sure I agree. As someone who was bullied pretty badly in middle school, I don't think I would have survived with modern social media. At least when I was a kid, I got a respite from the bullying when I went home. For a lot of kids today it's 24/7. Certainly mental health surveys of young people show that something drastic has occurred in the past decade, and it's not good.

> Did you know that in 1970 30% of Americans thought the moon landing was faked?

What is your source for this? I tried to find this info online and couldn't.

> 3) The idea that foreign powers were influencing America was certainly a lot bigger in the past. The “red scare” was a thing.

The idea that there were conspiracy theories about foreign influence in the US, vs. actual documented foreign influence and its effects are 2 different things.

> I think the main thing the internet has done is surface the craziness so that more people know about the fewer actual number of crazies.

I do agree it's possible the Internet just makes the crazy more apparent. My fear, though, is that it makes crazies "easier to find each other" so that, in a pre-Internet world, someone might have a "crazy" idea but then re-evaluate after not finding many compatriots, but these days it's so easy to find thousands and thousands of people who can "confirm" any batshit idea.
Minor correction: should be ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/doc/programming/c-news.ps
I think that is very wrong. People very much wants to run better games on cheaper hardware.

People didn’t trust stadia to deliver and to not stop delivering. And I believe their pricing model played to their weakness and against their strength.

But of course I want to play cyber punk on max res on my Nintendo switch. What a silly thing to say consumers don’t want that.
Thankyou for posting that link.

I was not expecting a strong response to the post; I took no steps to handle additional traffic.

Experience is the key to performance, and this is the first time I've posted a noticable thread.

I've upped the number of Apache servers to four and increased the thread count per server to 32. Too late now, of course; but I'll know better in the unlikely event I should come again to post something of interest.
No doubt the pivotal importance of IBM's PS/2 range and I was instrumental in my organization acquiring many but that wasn't without problems as we already had many ISA machines so PS/2s weren't compatible at a board level. That increased the cost of maintenance amongst other things.

However, when I think back the two most disruptive problems for us were the development of the 80286 and the failure of OS/2. The 80286 was dog of a design not from its silicon per se but rather from a design concept. The switching modes problem, triple-faulting the processor and so on.

I understand the reasoning behind why Intel designed the processor that way as an explanation of why it did so took up most of the time of a long Intel seminar/presentation that I attended just when the chip became available.

It's easy to be wise in hindsight but it would have been better for everyone—except of course Microsoft—if the 80286 had never existed and that the 8086 platform had migrated directly to the 80386.
I never really cared much about promo and I haven't yet gone for promo with this new system so I can't really say. I think as far as incentives go in general nothing really has changed much, but what has changed is the amount of time we (ICs) waste on doing perf instead of doing actual work. From a manager's point of view it might be different, but for us it's more "forward" facing, we focus on what we'd like to achieve over the year and as we move forward we adjust our expectations and do regular check-ins to see if we're still on track or we need to adjust things. It feels more dynamic, but it's only been a few months so who knows.
As a loyal Google user from 1999-2021 that has now fully decoupled from all of it's services, it's a deeply tragic loss.

If Google is so large and so arrogant that they can't even take feedback from internal employees then it's probably game over for them. They certainly aren't listening to developers and power users on forums.
A roof might provide some resistance, but would it necessarily protect you from bodily harm?
There are lots of games with destructible environments and thousands or tens of thousands of interactive objects moving around, the static world you're describing hasn't been the Only Way for quite a while. Ignoring the obvious cases like Minecraft, Red Faction and Fortnite, even games where it isn't relevant to the gameplay still implement it sometimes - for example, The Division (2016) had fully destructible walls in many locations and if you fired enough rounds into a concrete wall you could punch a big hole in it that could be seen through and fired through to attack enemies or heal allies. This sort of thing doesn't have to come at the expense of visuals either, modern rendering tech along the lines of Unreal's Lumen & Nanite can adapt to changes in the environment and handle massive dynamic crowds of people or groups of cars.

You can quite literally point at an arbitrary part of a rock wall and move it over a bit then make it bigger depending on the engine you're using. It's why Unreal Engine has got a foothold in TV production.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33028738
I googled it and it actually seems fairly common. Example: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/undercover-cops-arrest/
What differentiates Github from any other git provider, except for the social network-isms?
Can't Gabe name a successor among the people he really trusts? Not all companies have to go public and become cash cows for investors.
ZMA would be aspartate. (And oxide)
I'll take it back a bit further, as someone who used voice recorder back in windows 98:

Why does a voice recorder program need to list files?

That's what a file browser is for.
Sounds like a good idea. I would like to join in as well.
My expectations from it would be something like having discussion topics around each chapter(one channel / topic) and people who are interested in discussing it would gather there and talk to each other.

Come to think of it, books themselves have forums which are moderated by authors and their teams. Maybe that is something that you are looking for?

What are your expectations from it?
> There was another story about a memo with “top secret” or “secret “ stamps on pages, that an agency had distributed internally. The information was like, use AES-256 for important data, or key length 3072 with RSA. It was all well known material, nothing secret. I was like, WTF!

Just because there are public recommendations now days does not make the information not classified.

There’s a chance that in the past the recommendation was set out because of attacks that the NSA thought only they are knew about.

Interestingly enough I’ve seen the recommendations change depending on the classification of the document in some leaked secret document there was a recommendation to use some algorithm (RC4?). In the top secret document the recommendation was the same but to discard the first 3072 bytes to avoid a key stream bias vulnerability.
I don’t like your implication that ARM is the only way to do this. The Apple chips are fast and low power because they are good designs built on a very modern fabrication process.

It’s perfectly possible to build such chips with other designs and instruction sets, for example x86_64 or risc-v, in the same way it’s pretty common to build cheaper slower ARM processors. Plenty of folks at Intel and AMD are doing that right now.
No really ... it sounds shitty. It's the same with images ... if a human would compose it a "story" or "intention" is behind the product. AI can't provide that because it's just a A without real I .
Whose full paper submission deadline was also 2 days ago.

This should be further up than all the speculation about AI accelerationism. There's a very simple explanation why a lot of awesome papers come out right now, it's prestigious conference paper deadlines.
Yup, a lot of policies are dumb and and you can’t tilt all the time. A useful heads up for some I reckon.
You give up too easily. Do you know you can download the sources via git? You can even pick and choose which Qt modules you want. No account needed.
Would it kill these guys to use real HTML video? I can't tell if the dithering and overall low resolution are from the model or the GIFs they inexplicably decided to use to showcase their result.
Aren't private profiles in the opposite direction of social network-isms?
Did Yubico need help clearing inventory due to passkeys?
I'd guess that at least in America drinking is pretty commonly involved so anyone spending half a second thinking wouldn't have made it past alcohol+guns.
You're right - my mistake.
What the hell is wrong with fondling big breasts. It’s asinine things like this that are pushing people away from the left into the arms of the fascists.
3-6 months
"THIS PRODUCT IS NOT SUITABLE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AS IT CONTAINS SHARP METAL AND OTHER SMALL PARTS." Yet they show a super young child on their page.

"give your favorite 7" records new life".
No thanks, I like them as they are.
Clojure is not dead. As a measure of community, the Slack workspace has around 25k members in it right now.

Even more, Clojure lives on through its various dialects: ClojureScript (JS), Clojure CLR, Clojerl (Erlang), Fennel (Lua), jank (LLVM C++), Ferret (LLVM C++), Babashka, Squint, and so on.

Definitely worth learning, as it will expand your mind; Rich Hickey's talks are some of the most influential I've ever seen.
So... Google Plus is actually one of the company's longest-lived services? The irony.
It can be worth a lot if we can root it and install our own software.
Another one that's been abused and thoroughly misunderstood is "correlation does not mean causation".

You could come up with data showing an R^2 of like 0.99 and there's always a smartass that immediately parrots "but remember that correlation does not mean causation". Ugh.
Bill calls for greater innovation, but as soon as we get more efficient things, we just consume more.

We have constantly gotten better and better tech, and yet our consumption of resources only goes up. It seems that resource usage has nothing to do with how efficient or advanced our tech is, but simply the maximum amount of human labor we can allocate to resource extracting.

So climate change can only really be solved by a lower population.
People were more economical then.
Adding on to that, “QA time is expensive” too. I’ve learned from experience that trying to tweak well established repos/libraries rarely gets management’s approval because the extra time it would take to QA and regression test is considered pure loss. Better to leave it be and force the new code to work with the old stuff. That way it is at least billable.
Wow thank you for this. Literally almost believed him. The amount of authority people speak with is just insane. Literally the truth was the exact opposite.

Goes to show people believe the thing that's most convenient for them to believe.
You’re right. I misinterpreted one of your comments
Or 2d strategy games. Which had very decent number of animated units each with their own actions and which you could click and select...
come on, man, the windows Terminal repo includes code that ships with windows and is not the windows Terminal application itself. cmd.exe lives in that repo, for example, along with some of the structure which supports all command-line applications on windows.

they can't adopt GPL in that repo and Microsoft has a very strong policy about segregation between developers who can read and write GPL code and those who cannot. those who cannot interact with GPL code get to work on stuff that ships with Windows, like the stuff in the Windows Terminal repo.

so, no. they can't look at GPL code, including Casey's refterm code. Casey knew all of this when he chose the GPL for that project.
I use ImgBB, they are probably stealing your images and not deleting them if you set it to auto delete but for screenshots like this it probably doesn't matter.
When you put every keyword in quotes it still incorrectly stems them, and it still ignores some keywords completely.

I also wonder why almost no web forums I use are coming up in results at all, despite their robots.txt allowing indexing. Feels like Google is becoming a bit like East Germany...
More interesting to me is this history on balloon animals:

> The Aztecs created the first balloon sculptures using wildcat intestines, which were then presented to the gods as a sacrifice.
Sorry, is not very clear in the article. One of the conditions of existence of the Bosch Foundation is that they keep pushing the homeopathy. The RB Hospital has a division for that (https://www.rbk.de/standorte/robert-bosch-krankenhaus/abteil...)
> Windows was at that point a 25 year old business, not one starting from zero. Why in the world would they have the same profit in that time period? Windows absolutely did not make $26 billion in the first 6 years of its life. Does that make Windows a failure?

6 years in the life of Windows , there was nowhere near the number of PCs being sold every year as Android devices.

But I can guarantee you that even from the day that Microsoft license the first version of DOS to IBM that it made more per license sold than Google makes from each Android sold.

> Again: what product that successful has Amazon ever launched?

I see that you refuse to compare Android to its most realistic counterpart - Apple.

The iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and even the Apple Watch (Cook said that Apple Watch revenues exceeded iPod revenue a couple of years ago) were all more successful in the first 6 years.

The entire point is that Google hasn’t been able to diversify at all *profitably”.
Dylan is correct. The impact of the packages will be disk space and perhaps startup time, but that's it. The add function gets inlined in basically any runtime environment or compiler, even at O0 most likely.
For me it is the interactions with everyone else that has fueled my burnout. Its not just work but living through the pandemic in the US with everything being so political on top of bad career moves.
I may be wrong, but I think it depends why you go.

I felt I had to go, and it is specifically a feeling, inside me. I've been trying to pin down exactly what it is, and I'm not sure I've succeeded.

It's something like where something so awful happened here, to ordinary people, the horror, the terror, the violence and death, it feels encumbent to - and grimly - witness what happened.
You can sum as many zeroes as you want, the result is still zero.