skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. Having written quite some Z80 code and 68k code, I need to think about this. This is decades in the past, I think outside of demo code I often used move.l in 68k so it would be a 32bit CPU to me, but seldom used double registers on the Z80 so it feels like an 8bit CPU. Perhaps that was one of the reasons the jump from the Z80 to the 68k felt so huge (perhaps it was the number and flexibility of registers). That said, "Z80 assembly language subroutines" is my most precious computer book still, the one I would take through the apocalypse.
Define what safety wise and engineering wise things need to be solved to give substance to that claim.

Notice we do not have self piloting planes, or train engines ( ah ah, the non manned power units always run coupled to manned train engines)
This is missing the context of there being an active sense of disdain for artists amongst many people pushing AI. The tone of such comments range from near "learn to code" levels of dismissiveness, to snide comments about how art is too expensive, how artists are too entitled, art takes too long to make, etc. In the meantime, we see artists actually losing work to such tools already, so it's certainly understandable that they're upset, and that's not even touching on the training data issues. Events like the one in the article are an example of AI being used as a hammer and everything becoming a nail; we very much seem to be in the techno-euphoria stage of this thing.

Unfortunately for artists, I see no legal framework for them to get protection or compensation for their work. I think the prime focus right now for those whose careers are at risk needs to be evolving their style and practices to place them ahead of this technology. I also am disappointed that people have expended so much effort to automate art instead of some of the awful manual jobs there are on this planet. If the meme of the techno-utopian post-scarcity future is supposed to be a race of bored, comfortable creators and artists who have automated all required manual effort, automating the thing we're intended to be doing at that point seems counterproductive.
Can You Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of These?
Personally I'd be satisfied with just being able to hand the highway driving over to the car. Keep me in the middle of the lane, don't let me hit another car or any object in the road, and sound a chime when I'm a mile from the exit.
Do you have a link to the patents in question? Articles I've seen about this are not clear about what is patented and I'm suspicious about whether it would pass a novelty/obviousness test.
We should use different terms for what is currently covered by "bribes":

Money paid illegally to gain an unfair advantage, that will result in local prosecution if discovered and is not the usual practise is a "bribe". No one should pay those.

Money paid illegally to gain normal access/approvals/licenses etc, where it is entirely normal to pay and unlikely to lead to local prosecution is "extortion".

Op isn't really paying a bride, he's being extorted.
Uh, speaking as a mere human, can you actually hear the music shift in tempo from 99.5 to 100.5 bpm? Or does this become apparent when using tools/mixers/whatever to work with the audio stream?

I just quickly tried this on Google's built-in metronome widget (TIL) [1] and I can't hear the difference between 99, 100 and 101 bpm. However, the switching is discrete (the audio stops and restarts) which probably makes it much harder to detect change, of course.

Just curious, not trying to question your comparison of course.

[1]: https://g.co/kgs/Qqdz4d
It simply means the respondent checked the "moderate" checkbox when asked.
GDP isn’t the total revenue of a country, total tax receipts are.

If you think of the German government as a business, they generate roughly 2X the revenue of Apple, but with 5 million employees vs. Apple’s 150k.

Of course, the German government doesn’t optimize for growth and expansion like a company does (at least…not yet in this century… nervous laugh)
Did you really compare having an iPhone with abusing your wife and heroine addiction?
True in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh as well (have lived there for years).

Between these four states alone, we're talking about 40% of the country's population.

If more than half of your country believes something, it can be said to be the majority opinion.
If you include Slack's Markdoon then they default to the WYSIWYG editor so probably > 1%.
Letter Frequency
What Happened to Hu Jintao?
This!

Send them a random number. If you really need it time-based then store the expiry time along with the code you sent them.

Anytime you check the code you see if $current_time is greater than the $expiry_time.
I think there won't be a big bang where we go from no self driving to fully self driving vehicles at once. It will be many small changes, that taken together will slowly transition towards full self driving cars. Since quite some years we've had cruise control, now there's adaptive cruise control. Then cruise control became able to overtake other vehicles. Next up, they may be able to take a certain exit based on satnav, etc.

It's hard to say when, but chances are that at some point in time we'll simply have FSD, while nobody realized that's where we were headed because it was all marketed as small(ish) individual features.
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What is the point of Mastodon? (not a flame bait)

It has a character limit, it has separated instances on which you really can't subscribe (at least I couldn't a few years back), and it is realtime feed.

So who is the target audience really? Big influential public figures with millions followers? - not possible due to federation

Small thematic communities or specific professionals, not popular with masses? - very problematic due to federations first (all need to get on the same instance), then due to character count (no longform posts by professionals), and real time, so that rare good posts of people you care about are simply lost in the feed.

Even smaller groups of friends? - none of the problems above are blocking, but now the question is why Mastodon specifically, instead of a more usable and friendly chat room in any of the messengers.
No, that's what you call it. The rest of us call it racism, sexism and discrimination against innocent people who did nothing wrong.
"The street finds its own uses for things"

- William Gibson
> Argo AI was considered a leader with solid technological fundamentals by most experts in the field, so its shuttering is a strong signal not to be ignored.

I thought Cruise was the leader, with Waymo next.
It’s a separate path, the sensor is under the camera (this allowed it to work with film). 2 sensors per autofocus point which it tries at align. It’s actually kind ofvv be amazing it works.

Gordy details, but the image helps see:

https://photographylife.com/how-phase-detection-autofocus-wo...

On camera sensor focusing was slightly different “contrast detection”. My understanding is modern cameras integrate those phase detection sensors on the image sensor itself. It might effect image quality but nobody notices and focus is fast and reliable. It’s tech that works well so generally nobody cares how it works.

https://www.usa.canon.com/learning/training-articles/trainin...
How can I about this to put your words to reality
Now they ask for "official Aadhar". Even though its a digital document and Aadhar website explicitly states that every copy of Aadhar is an "official" copy.

If you get a color print and get it laminated, your unofficial Aadhar suddenly becomes "official".

I've had so many arguments with officials about this its unreal.
> Isn't there a massive security concern in exposing the username of whom you share a password with?

The big security problem there is that the stored password hashes are not salted with the username+$RANDOM_NUMBER. If it were, there'd be no way to check if two users shared the same password.
"ok guys make me a regex that replaces @realDonaldTrump with @BillGates. make it global and multiline"
This person seems to have greenspun themselves a JIT.

> It is difficult to get the boundary right between code which can and cannot be dynamically loaded. This is the same issue with using embedded dynamic scripting languages like Lua or Python—how much of your application should be written in them?

All of it.

> JIT compilation requires generating machine code, which is usually a complex process and a large maintenance burden. In practice this means shipping out to a 3rd party library for JIT, and the libraries are typically very large dependencies.

Is a c compiler not a large dependency and a maintenance burden?
> Which is already happening under permissive licenses.

Sure, nobody claimed otherwise.

But putting "innovation" as an ideal is a red herring, designed to misdirect attention from the fact that "innovation" in proprietary technologies in general does not benefit the general population, and in some cases even stifles their freedom. Innovation, in order to be a worthy goal for a society, must serve the society in its whole, not just a couple of businessmen.

> You have enough interest in this software to debate it, while not caring at all whether software continues to be made?

I care about whether software continues to be made, but that's beyond the point, since the Free Software has succeeded in being developed even without support from for-profit companies (and sometimes even despite their sabotage - remember "Linux is a cancer"?).

Implying that software will somehow "not be made" without for-profit corporations employing programmers for peanuts is an old and tired argument, proven false by the very existence and triumph of the GNU system over most commercial systems.
Who was that?
Who gives a shit, if Elon drives Twitter to the ground that's be the best $44bn ever spent and a great contribution to humanity.
Amazon Q4 revenue is only expected to grow 2-8% from the already massive covid increase of last year. And Q3 online store revenue is up only 7%. What a disaster.
> it has separated instances on which you really can't subscribe

What do you mean? You can subscribe to people on different instances.
> Exactly. This is what the rest of the world usually says on the first encounter with "tips culture" in the US.

I think my shock was greater when I discovered that lobbying in the US means "literal legal bribery". In a lot of the western world that word it means things "having meetings" and perhaps "organizing PR campaigns". Straight up giving money to politicians is against the law.
> Studies don’t investigate something as complex as the total impact of video games or anything else in all contexts.

Why not? What's the purpose of saying it's good for cognitive performance if cognitive performance isn't tested seriously?

Try at least two or three dimensions of it. Outside the video gaming context of course.

Otherwise just say: video gaming is good for getting better at video gaming.

That would be an honest conclusion.
I think the reason is, pumped hydro competes with fossil fuels as a storage mechanism, and it's very hard to compete with fossil fuels as a storage mechanism on economic terms. In terms of clean tech, it's probably still the best in pure economics, but batteries are currently getting more attention because Tesla found that by bundling its batteries with wheels and motors it can sell them as luxury goods. That circumvented the need to store energy cheaper than fossil fuels, but it's obviously hard to do anything similar with pumped hydro storage.
I am okay with progress but it is sad to see so many finely engineered mechanical things go the way of the dodo.

Not just film cameras but VCRs, consumer grade time pieces and much else that the Japanese are experts at mass manufacturing has been replaced by a circuit board.

With digital things, either it works or it doesn't (once you have taken it apart and put it together again). With mechanical gadgets the same applies but there is usually more to it than 'drat, I forgot to plug that bit in'.
I wouldn't say so. To get the appropriate doctor to check my brother's broken arm and shoulder sooner than in more than a month (he needed surgery within 3 weeks max to avoid permanent damage) we had to employ personal contacts and gifts. I live in EU and this happened this summer.
I use 19" 5:4 Eizo and 15" 4:3 Beetronics, they are 9-21W and 13.8W respectively.
Also the father in law of the new UK prime minister...
„Musk bought Twitter. Let that sink in!”

As usual, Musk fails to be funny.

You’d think he could afford some good gag authors but that probably goes against his ego.
Slow clap for not making it first four digits.
I spent some time listening to Radio Sputnik earlier this year. I was curious to hear how their mouthpieces were spinning the war, and Radio Sputnik was the only one I could find that hadn't been shut down. I was surprised to learn that they actually broadcast over the air in the US (D.C. and one other location).

It's a pretty creepy channel. A lot of the programs are just re-runs because the hosts quit over the war (which they of course don't announce). One of the hosts is clearly dying from some disease (I once heard him throw up on the air). Some of their pundits I'd characterize as downright evil (Mark Sleboda...). There's also a surprising amount of American academics that come on, which is kind of odd.
2% accuracy in displaying time means that a day might have +- 30 minutes. I have never seen that bad clock, even a clock ticking from AC cycles shows time with a significantly better accuracy.
the self-driving myth has pumped countless startups in the past 15 years. i guess the downturn is a good opportunity to move to some different myth (i suggest longevity, which is more likely to happen).

I wish some of the investment was used to create semi-autonomous vehicles for the disabled instead.
I am very sure that the Firefox/Chrome developers have written more efficient GPU accelerated rendering for CSS then I am likely to bother writing in yet another custom WebGL renderer.

I am also sure that a dedicated renderer optimized for one subject _could_ be even more efficient.
Yeah, I think that's a big reason we've moved on from chatrooms to networks like twitter, where everyone creates their own moderated space.
> Markdown will never get beyond developers.

Did the author just look past Slack, Reddit, Discord, Teams, and more? I am honestly lost how one could make such a statement when its already in so many places where the primary audience is non-developers. They even list Reddit in their own post, but still make this statement?!
I like to use Serato with my decks, I just prefer it to a pure digital controller, feels more physical/mechanical?
> train engines

Singapore MRT is completely driverless. Over 200km of track and 120 stations serving a city of five million people, intrigued how you wouldn't deem it fully automated?
I don't like how this article wants you to waste time getting tripped up and frustrated with basic problems just for the sake of figuring it out on your own. There are major companies doing research on wheels in a variety of contexts and constraints (trains/planes/automobiles). The folks involved all likely have engineering degrees which taught and challenged them in more effective ways than just having them sit down and reinvent wheels on their own for 4-8 years.

>You should reinvent the wheel because it’s fun.

Passion is great, but it can wax and wane because we're humans, and that's where discipline keeps you moving forward so you don't drop out of reinventing wheels and waste all of that time you invested because it stopped being fun one day.

Discipline means you block out some time, do a wheel iteration knowing it'll suck to do and it isn't fun, then forget about it.

Only the luckiest people constantly have fun with a subject and then actually contribute to the state-of-the-art.
Memory in the brain has a tree-like structure, kind of like an abstract syntax tree. When Starship returns to the launchpad and sticks the landing on the launch tower, I guess A.I. will have progressed a little bit more.
> Also was being pressured by the government (indirectly) to take it down

Do you mind sharing how?
Same for Othello: https://www.hanshq.net/othello.html#bitboards
That's the reason (at least in the store I used to work).

Also, in some stores, the clients drop the items they don't want, and the employees have to fold them back (or put them on a hanger) and to put them back at their correct place in the store. It builds quickly, and you want to keept it manageable.
> Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced changes to its news media guidelines that, for the first time, expressly prohibit members of the Department from using subpoenas or other investigative tools against journalists who possess and publish classified information obtained in newsgathering, with only narrow exceptions.

Good stuff. Strong whistleblower protections are always necessary.
Ha! :-D Exactly so.
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Agree that reading books is a great habit to take.

It's sad that an injury from a physical exercise can cause a lot of trauma indeed, but I don't think practicing it is inherently bad because of that.

An accident can happen related to anything in life. People die from coconuts or tree branches falling upon their heads. We won't say trees or coconuts are inherently bad because of that.
In India they optimize for maximum employment.
It's the only place I've seen 7 people needed to refill a soda vending machine.

Once I ordered some drinks brought up to my hotel room around 10 in the evening. It took forever - turned out the guy who made the drinks was sent home for the day.
So the hotel called him back and had him return just so he could come and make the drinks and bring them to my room. Because that was his job - nobody elses.

This was at a five star hotel in Amritsar.

Our driver slept in the car outside the hotel and was on call 24/7 for our entire stay.

Quite different from western countries for sure.
We have already reached the point where the best AI driver is better than the worst human driver, so I'm hopeful.
At that price are they lined with gold thread? At ten times the cost do they actually last ten times as long? (I have some Levis that are ≈20 years old and are still wearable!)
pretty sure the universe will ensure it happens in the the next 5 yrs just because this guy said it will never happen.
The question to ask is whether or not any algorithmic system is capable of exceeding the programming on which it is based. This question applies to every kind of system we have developed over the years.

The other point to make is that we already build systems that can exceed their programming and they are called children.
> (Also, given Adams wrote a few Dr. Who episodes, one which turned into Life, the Universe and Everything, the "Time Lords" reference could be another.

Nice, a good point, well caught.

> As DNA is my favorite author bar none, I like this post a lot.

Me too.

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Asciidoc starts out great but has a lot of surprising gotchas and complexities.
I’m not saying that ads have no positive value. I’m saying that their positive value is lower than their negative value and that they are a net detriment to society and technology.

I’m not for banning them. Like I don’t want to ban added sugar or drugs. I just wish we’d use them less. And I would never advise a friend to work on ad tech. It’s not quite as bad as working for a spam company, but maybe up there with making weapons of war or something.
That's a real piece of shit move. Why not make a lookup table to convert to regular colors?
tcc (The tiny C commpiler originally made by Fabrice Bellard) is still actively maintained and is surprisingly fast.

tcc does compile, link AND run the program directly on several platforms, including windows.

If you can live with C99 it is a very good fast-iteration system.

I think the codebase could also be used as a starting point for a fast linker-loader.
why is it time to admit that? it may not make anyone as rich as they hoped but I cant imagine we won't solve the problem
Do you mean shopping malls?
Good opportunity for someone to make a pantone -> non pantone converter. Pop in your file, convert all the Pantone colors to similar free colors. Profit.
Yeah, I'm hoping I could use it to get to the shops in a few decades when I'm 70+ or so.
I hear much more in person than virtually.
Same, and current tech is more or less doing this. Even my 2016 Toyota Rav4 has lane departure assist and dynamic cruise control. I still have to keep a hand on the wheel and pay attention to the road of course, but road trips are quite nice just with those 2 features.
Wait, everyone gets frisked at Indian malls?

Was certainly not my experience 20 years ago.
>The fact is that these existing services are extremely constrained in terms of geography and operating hours (though the latter is arguably a regulatory issue)

Is it though? Cruise would like you to believe that the only reason they don’t have fully driverless cars in SF during the day is strictly regulatory. However, it is far easier to drive in a dense urban environment at night when roads are empty than during the daytime when roads are crowded. I bet the disengagement rate is so high during the day (when the cars have backup drivers) that fully driverless operation would be impossible.
If you look closely, it isn't hard to see that sports became major industries, collectivelly moving trillions of Dollars worldwide every year.

If you are interested in economics, you can learn a lot from it.

In an intersection with behavioral economics, you can even learn a lot of business from observing sports.
maybe the A.I. affords every human to be an affluent retiree/philosopherking and have free-will
Interestingly, my photos didn’t make it. But the voice memos and other app settings did. It’s actually neat because it’s the only recordings of loved ones who are no longer living and discovers serendipitously.

Originally it was syncing through iTunes but the past years it’s been iCloud syncing.
Presumably it's better than someone who is blind. That's something I guess /s
Now if only those systems would dodge debris on the road, like a truck tire or a piece of lumber.
> Notice we do not have self piloting planes, or train engines

Wait, what. We absolutely have both of these things.
I think that we won't be able to have full self-driving on standard public roads, for a while, where non-self-driving vehicles (and pedestrians and cyclists) mix with self-driving cars.

I think, if we had fenced-in and dedicated roads for self-driving cars, we could have had them yesterday.

But that ain't gonna happen anytime soon.

And we definitely won't be getting flying cars (for the general public), until we have full-self-driving.
Good on them! I wish Denmark would do the same.

Though, as a software developer, I'm slightly worried how many weird/interesting side-effects it will have, how many places are there strange hardcoded edgecases due to this..
While that was very important, wasn't the ARM2 with no cache significantly faster than contemporary CISC processors like the 80386 with no cache?

I know Dhrystone isn't real but https://www.realworldtech.com/arms-race/2/ says an 8 MHz Archimedes got 4901 Dhrystones per second to the 16-MHz 386's 3626 Dhrystones per second. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second gives the 8-MHz ARM2 4 [Dhrystone] MIPS at 8 MHz and the 16-MHz "i386DX" 2.15 MIPS at 16 MHz. In fact, the cacheless ARM2 even beat the CISC 68020, which did have a tiny cache!

Also, I think squished RISC instruction encodings like Thumb, MIPS16, and RVC seem pretty competitive with popular CISCs on code density; RVC even seems to best them. So even if your data access is competing with instruction fetch for memory bandwidth because you don't have an icache, you'd probably still get more instructions per memory cycle out of RVC than out of i386 or AMD64.