skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can agree things like sports are a lot better at high frame rates. You want to see what players are doing precisely in a live setting. But people don't watch sports in movie theaters.

I'd argue stylistically the lower frame rate works a lot better on a big screen. There's also the fact that high frame rates on a big screen seem to cause some people to get motion sick.

I personally have no issue w/ action scenes which are shot at 24fps. Yeah, there is a fair amount of blur but it all seems natural (at least on a cinema projector), and conveys the fast movement, even if it might not be precise.

Take Jackie Chan's Drunken Master epic final fight scene for example - yes it's a bit blurry but I can make sense of everything going on. If anything it enhances the feeling of action - if this was shot at 60fps, it would look much more "real" and be a lot less enjoyable.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwDU3IOBEIk
This. Firefox drains battery, but still less than Docker & a TypeScript dev environment. Using those three together means my M1 Air falls a LONG WAY SHORT of the 18hr battery life I was promised
Maybe I missed it but didn’t see https://github.com/divamgupta/diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-...
Quest users in VRChat are second-class citizens, it's true. The only way to experience that game is to play it on PC. Can I ask if you've tried Link to play the PC version with your Quest?
You can literally look up the numbers for budget allocated to SNAP and how much of it gets sent out via cards and how much of that gets spent at grocery stores. I'm not going to do it for you though since you can easily educate yourself, and you're the one initiating unsupported claims here.

So... yes? I _really_ relieve my tax funds are actually feeding people. It's a fact. Unless you're a conspiracy theorist who thinks the government is lying about the numbers and it's actually a slush fund for the CIA or something, but in that case there's not much of a conversation to be had.
it's way more likely to just be insufficient testing than anything on purpose imo. Those folks have deadlines just like everybody else.
How does this compare to Schemathesis [0]?

[0] https://schemathesis.readthedocs.io
Most software that is written commercially is closed source.
> The only reason to go there is if we happen to be in the area and/or if there's something we want that we know they only sell there, but that's no different than the 3 big-chain stores in our town.

Actually, there is a difference. The dollars spent at a co-op are far more likely to stay in the local community. On the hand, give it to the big chain, and it's far more like to make it back to HQ (and the shareholders). Not your local community.

"Local Dollars, Local Sense" by Michael Shuman was an enlightening read for me.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/local-dollars-local-sense-how-...
It's certainly crazy if you don't know better. The 48 billion in revenue the Play Store hit last year would tell you that regardless of security policy, people tend to use first party app stores on mobile.

But you know what? Maybe instead we should discourage people from clumsily trying to push their pet agenda the moment their favorite sports team (erm excuse me, Operating System) is painted in a poor light.

But we can't all get what we want can we?
UBI has to be done with a tax policy, basically, you give everyone $10k (as the article nominates as a figure), but you'd tax that back off a lot of people. Ideally you tax it back based on wealth rather than income.
Yeah its super easy to set up, but the biggest reason you would want to use it in addition to other adblocking stuff is that it works outside of browsers - you can block telemetry from your smart lights, you can stop a random app on your phone from showing you ads etc etc.

It does in theory also help block some malicious sites so you do get a bit of added security in that way. That can also be helpful if you have kids - block sites you don't want them on etc.

Personally I've also found their servers to be reasonably performant, no issues with query response times or anything like that.
It does grab your country from your IP address, while it's currently only optimized for the US because it's brand new, I'll have support for other major regions before the end of next week.
> A UBI that’s financed primarily by tax increases would require the American people to accept a level of taxation that vastly exceeds anything in U.S. history. It’s hard to imagine that such a UBI would advance very far, especially given the tax increases we’ll already need for Social Security, Medicare, infrastructure, and other needs.

The author's argument seems to revolve around the funding of UBI being unable to touch some categories of current spending ("as much as the entire federal budget outside Social Security, Medicare, defense, and interest payments"). But isn't UBI supposed to replace Social Security?
CesiumJS: JavaScript library for creating 3D/2D maps in a web browser
Citation incredibly needed. The standard view among policy wonks—backed by evidence—is that US social programs are remarkably efficient with their spending.
If what people say is true and that there is a housing shortage, then yes, landlords will basically extract maximum available cash out of their local market.
This is just one of the many fun projects Sam Chiet[0] has created. I also recommend his documentary/drama/comedy special/manifesto about the Xbox Kinect[1]. He's also the person behind Desktop Goose[2] which went viral a few years back.

[0]https://twitter.com/SamNChiet

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLDXLBxOI4E

[2]https://samperson.itch.io/desktop-goose
I'll let you know in a few weeks
From the blog post it seems like the team was using OSSpinLock, which was deprecated (for good reason) and then when trying to use the replacement (os_unfair_lock) degraded performance on some tests. I don’t have details on how they determined what the issues were but considering if the results were across a single change and one had access to the source it doesn’t seem all that difficult to see why there are performance differences. The various profiling tools on macOS (Instruments, mostly) would help confirm this.

Spinning in kernel space does require a transition into the kernel. But, critically, it does not require rescheduling another thread and waiting around, which is even more expensive. The kernel has the context to know what is running and what isn’t, as well as some information on who owns the lock, so it can do a pretty good job here. Spinning in userspace is bad because the thread holding the lock may be parked by the kernel, which means that you’re just spinning for no reason. If you don’t include any special instructions you burn power, and even if you do you don’t benefit from the knowledge the kernel has of whether you should just be scheduled off while waiting anyways.
You can run it with lower VRAM for sure, up until some weeks ago, I was using that repository with a 11GB card.
100%. Nothing to see here folks, let’s pack it up!
> regaining control of former colony

This is an oversimplification... How many countries have built nuclear power plants and missile assembly lines in their colonies?
The last batch of SocGholish I encountered had virtualization checks on each stage and required user interaction to run/open the payload. Used iframes or modified google analytics on the compromised site and used webpress plugins vulns to get access.
The sandboxing checks were crazy good. I ended up getting an old laptop to do the analysis as it detected every other security sandbox tool. The only positive is that the payload (6 months back) itself is easily detected by most edr. Defender caught it on download.

+1 to the enjoyable dissection. Rooting out the underlying infra was also very fun.
It does the masking automatically by doing face recognition.

That's why the mask and cutout are part of the output too!
If I look at all people born in 1960, living in NY, covered by BCBS, that’s a like group.

If I then split by “had a colonoscopy between 2008 and 2012, inclusive” vs “didn’t” and look at 2012 through 2021 outcomes to draw conclusions, it’s possible that that filtering makes them unlike groups (I mean, it definitionally does in at least the primary selection criteria). Given that the effort is approximately that of a SQL query, I’d be interested to know if there’s a possible signal there, which would need to be corroborated with other data sets to determine the repeatability of the correlation and then if there’s any likely causal link.
Thanks! let me know if you have any feedback or criticisms, I'd be happy to address them for you.
It felt like a trial balloon that was floated. If there weren't a ton of people that cancelled their PayPal accounts and raised lots of criticism about this, PayPal probably wouldn't have reversed course.

Still, while this policy was resisted today, I'm sure it will come back in a different form somewhere.
It's always nice to hear about someone writing a cool program just because they felt like doing so. Every time I think about writing a forum server, I find I return to the thought that Usenet was better, and that if I wanted a web forum, I'd consider putting a web front end on an NNTP server. That would among other things let people keep using NNTP clients (I like gnus.el) if they don't want to use a browser. There are a bunch of NNTP web clients already, but afaict they all needlessly suck.

You might take a look at Fossil (fossil-scm.org) which is not a forum, but is an all-in-one source control system, bug tracker, wiki, and web backend, all implemented as an SQLite client written in C. Its blurb says a scripting language might sound more attractive than C superficially, but in Fossil, SQLite does all the heavy lifting that would otherwise have been done with scripts. On my bottomless todo list I want to study its implementation sometime, since I think it would be a good example of "advanced" uses of SQL and SQLite. That is completely independent of Fossil's purpose as a VCS application. I'm ok at basic SQL but not so clueful about sophisticated uses.

One thing to watch out for is that since SQLite is an embedded DB, when you make an SQlite query, the overhead is basically a local subroutine call rather than the network traffic that a client/server DB would incur. That in a way changes the asymptotics of an application: particularly, the "N+1 queries" antipattern of some client/server DB apps is a perfectly ok design strategy for SQLite. I believe Fossil may rely on this in some way.
Let’s not pretend that Microsoft has an unreasonable deprecation strategy. I have a laptop from 2008 [1] that’s running a fully supported Windows 10.

After Apple abandoned my old Core Duo 2.66Mhz Mac Mini that was introduced in 2006, I put Windows 7 on it. Windows 7 got its last security update in January 2020 [2]. Yes my old 14 year old Mac Mini is still running. My mom just stopped using it right before Covid as a secondary computer for kids she was tutoring to use Chrome.

[1] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-Latitude-E6500-Not...

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-of-support
I think he worked on the browser at Nokia before Apple took over.
Well, a vacation probably isn't hurting their mental health. I assume it's short term disability insurance that's picking up that bill. I wonder who actually ends up working more days - a French worker who gets all kinds of leave by law, or an American who maxes out their private insurance benefits? I really couldn't say, but I just can't get all that angry at a worker getting the benefit here.
The point of Wine is to run older Windows software. Who needs the most modern versions, just pays for MS Windows.

Windows, like DOS before it, adapts to run certain apps more efficiently, to sidestep their bugs, or to fulfill their assumptions which generally do not hold.

I suppose Wine does a lot of the same. It pays a lot of attention tp running old(er) popular software smoothly. I suppose Wine has more adjustments to run Office 2003 without a hitch than Win 12 does. Same for older popular games.
I am not in the US, but I was very much at home in March 2020, homeschooling kids, and very much out and about in Feb 2022, taking them to birthday parties. I am in the "lockdown king" country of Australia, maybe only second to New Zealand in the zealousness of lockdowns.
Citations for this claim and the parent-parent comment claims that you made?
That's a clever implementation by hey. Isn't this what posterous was all about?
I'm working on better optimization for other regions, depending on your region I'll have it up between 1 week and 1 month from now.
Working on my psychological issues. I was too much of a perfectionist and had anger issues, now I can just let go and have fun writing code instead of worrying, that's how I got better.
I dunno what your expenses look like, but for most people, the couple thousand bucks of stimulus that the government reluctantly squeaked out, plus some half-assed extension of unemployment benefits, is a hell of a long way from two years of UBI. Tons of the "paycheck protection plan" money went straight into the pockets of business owners rather than people who were barely scraping by even before the pandemic.
How do woman learn to effectively handle a jambiaya in such regions? Are there woman sports gyms teaching self-defense, martial arts of any kind?
I've noticed pretty obvious performance improvements in Google Maps recently on macOS (with original M1 chip). Zooming and panning is much more responsive, akin to using Maps on Google Chrome. I wonder if this could have contributed?
If you're a small company, then you probably only have one database with a few tables in it. If that's the case, it really shouldn't be a huge burden to be able to run a few queries to export that data. And if it is, then you probably have other scaling problems that are an existential threat to your business.

As an example: assuming a standard RDBMS setup with a primary and replicas, I would expect that bulk operations would be done on particular replicas dedicated for that purpose. That way you aren't interfering with writes, or with the "normal" reads that come with regular website use.
If by "Americans" you mean "the vocal extreme minority on certain social media sites," then yes.
Sadly I can only upvote you once for using "off-piste"
I work part-time at a grocery store and government handouts are already running this country. Directly into the ground.

25% of the people that come through are < 40 and on food stamps.
40% are > 65 and on social security (disability/retirement)

Less than half the people pay with actual money and I'd reckon only 70% of that is earned as much as inherited or provided by trusts.

This isn't just about the people it's about the companies. The government is directly supporting companies that would otherwise be required to compete. Instead, all they have to do is be the cheapest - which is far easier when the government supports you.

Direct government payments have already created an income disparity so I can totally believe UBI would make it worse.

The only people who want UBI are those with money who don't have to give a shit and those without who want it for free.
There's a similar set of problems with .NET and BinaryFormatter and a few other things.

MS now have a security guide on using them: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/serializat...
>The state of California providing the living counterpoint that the other current alternative isn’t effective in solving the issues plaguing society.

Maybe it's just been a long day, but I don't get your point here.

IIUC (I don't live in California, but I do live in the US), California has a thriving (5th largest in the world, IIRC, if they were separate from the US) economy based on capitalism and free (as in at least paying lip service to fairness) markets.

And therein lies my confusion. Are you saying that "This seems inevitable for a global political movement with a mission of discrediting government by kneecapping all its efforts."[0] California is not trying to discredit government and failing to do so?

Also, are there really only two options? Those being government control of everything or anarcho-capitalism[1]? Not setting up a straw man here (or at least not trying to do so), I just don't understand what you're trying to say, and it's an interesting topic I wouldn't mind discussing.

I hope you see why I'm confused by your statement. If you'd elucidate, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33157027 (the comment to which you replied)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism

Edit: Fixed grammatical error.
I can't speak for all FAANG but it hasn't been my experience.

> pretty hard-working but over time become less so

If people start to cruise, they may get pressured by hard-working peers and management. Of course, those who are very good may get away with it as FAANG reward impact and not work, but there are many strong engineers there, so it's very hard to stand out. And those who do are incentized to climb the ladder rather than cruise.

> it doesn't make much of a difference how hard they work

It's the opposite. Those who manage to have good evaluations are rewarded.

> seeing highly-motivated people having their potential sapped by working on contrived pillars instead of using their talents to make cool and useful stuff

There are tons of cool and useful projects in these big companies. Basically any field of CS you may be interested in is there.

My experience is that people work hard when they get the job. After one year, they realize it's hard to sustain that pace and that they barely meet the expectation with all the hard work. Some leave, some get managed out, and those who stay many years are productive individuals.
This is essentially - don't be trite.

If you can make a substantive, thoughtful, relevant joke, then that joke will go gangbusters.
I don't think people think about rental pricing from first principles. In general, they look around, see what everyone else is charging, maybe nudge it up a bit, and charge that. If they don't get any tenants, they lower the rate until someone leases the apartment.
Sounds reasonable. I am complaining about infinite scroll on the web. But inside a native app it might be better since there is more precise control of that experience. Assuming the app creator has done a good job.
In the future you may even be able to save the handle and retain permission to the file or directory between page reloads or even browser restart. I've been experimenting with this in Chromium. There's a preliminary implementation behind a flag (--enable-features=kFileSystemAccessPersistentPermissions).

The preliminary implementation is still buggy, but it's an extremely useful feature. You could use it to e.g. make a web version of VSCode that only ever has to request your permission once, and can then edit any file in your workspace directory without spamming you with more permission requests, just like the Electron version of VSCode. (The persistent file access permission is displayed in the address bar and can be revoked at any time).
UBI would replace ALL other welfare type programs - Social Security would end, as would any and all other forms of government wealth redistribution outside of the UBI system. That's a ton money right there.

Additionally, UBI is a basic human right - you get it for breathing, so it doesn't require oversight. Lots of money saved right there by simply scrapping the expenses from all the strings attached to government handouts.

I really hope this article didn't change anyone's mind - it actually made laugh at it's sheer absurdity.

I just want to reiterate - there will be no jobs in the soon coming future. None. It's seriously smarter to invest in being an Instagram influencer than it is to get a medical or law degree.

Fight me all you want.
As a thought exercise, replace “programmers/employees/companies” with “criminals/inmates/prisons” in your argument and you will see parallels with modern law enforcement.

Law enforcement embraces rehabilitation, prevention, and other mechanisms as well as simple punishment.

Seems rather disingenuous to make a claim that negative reinforcement doesn’t work, vis-a-vis not having to be in jail.
> This has the whiff of someone discovering the basics of high-performance locking.

Came here to say this.

> So you need a startup calibration that measures it, otherwise it will have a random outcome.

I guess one question is if AMD or Intel plan to make any other CPUs with "fast" PAUSE. Looks like Intel has been consistently using the "slow" version since Skylake including on their little cores, while AMD has gone slow much more recently starting in Zen 2.

A reasonable approach with "slow" PAUSE expected but still with large gen-to-gen variation in timing would be to base your spin on a time period, e.g., measured with RDTSC after every PAUSE, rather than a spin count, which should generally preserve the spin interval at least measured in wall clock time.

This would have been a bad solution with "fast" PAUSE though since the cost of the RDTSC would have dwarfed the pause, so you might lose the "minimize load on the hardware thread" part of the PAUSE effect. Though I would question how good the "fast" PAUSE was at that anyway: perhaps RDTSC alone would be a fine substitute: it executes even slightly fewer uops/cycle than PAUSE on Haswell!

It would be nice if slow PAUSE returned a cycle counter or RDTSC-like time counter to enable this kind of spinning. Or maybe UMWAIT just obsoletes all of these spinning approaches? I haven't gotten to play with it yet.
I'm not logged in right now. What is this about?
So, for the sake of taking your...argument to its logical conclusion

Amazon sells an item I'm after

A physical store in a remote town in the African desert also sells it. But not online

Obviously it is my fault for not exercising my still existant, but "inconvenient" choice to not purchase the item from Amazon. Or simply book a flight across the atlantic, various other methods of transit to make the trip to the village and then return home the same way
Literally the Cavity Creeps from the old Crest commercials: https://theretronetwork.com/retro-commercials-crest-team-vs-...
> If you take the dollars targeted on people in the bottom fifth or two-fifths of the population and convert them to universal payments to people all the way up the income scale, you’re redistributing income upward.

Not discussed is the old Milton Friedman policy of a negative income tax, which I think would play well with conservatives. This looks the same as a UBI for low-income, and you can make it phase out continuously so there are no cliffs providing disincentives to start work at the margins.

Personally I think this is the most viable form of UBI in the US, since we already have the tax infrastructure to get the reporting on who earns what.

(Bonus points for combining this program with automatic tax filing so normal employees don’t need to send anything to the IRS, they just get the check/withholding appropriate to their earnings.)
@dang, have you ever considered making a comment always equal an upvote? If a user finds a thread interesting enough to comment ...

Just reacting to threads like this with a high comment to upvote ratio.
Is the SVG->PNG portion of the show handled by Satori as well, or separately as a part of the Vercel service? Asking because I’ve got code handling that part for this exact use case, which I’d be happy to either eliminate if I can use Satori, or I could clean up and open source my own solution if people would find it useful.