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I took HN’s feedback into mind and made site accessible without a log in. You can explore all the posts and members now. Log in and register links are in bottom nav; more info about Vers is available on the log in page.

What is Vers?

- With Vers you get a chronological feed. Only posts from the people you follow, in the order they are posted. No more sponsored posts, no ads, and no algorithm changing the order of your feed behind the scenes.

- Don't get sucked into a feed full of posts you've already read. The Vers distraction-free feed removes the noise by only showing you 1 post at a time. Once you interact with that post it will never be seen again. When you're out of posts your feed will be empty. Enjoy social media free from distractions.

- Vers is a social network for those who are tired of social networks. No worries about follows, likes, or any other superficial social media numbers that ruin the experience, it's just you and your content. Tell your stories and share your thoughts with the world. On Vers only you can see how many likes and followers you have so there's no external pressure to perform well.

- Ever get tired of the constant notifications on your phone? One notification, then another, and another. As the minutes go by it's hard to feel present in the moment you're in because of the distraction of the next notification. With Vers you can set it up so you only receive your notifications once per day.

- Studies have shown that vibrant colors are a crucial part of how social networks get people addicted. Enter Grayscale Mode, a scientifically proven feature that's able to minimize your addiction to social networking. By stripping away all the neuron-stimulating colors from the site you'll be less motivated to use Vers.

With lots of thoughtfully designed features that put you in control of your social media experience and help you foster meaningful connections. 3 more features I didn’t list are that the site shows posts in your timezone and the author’s for extra context. You can enable bedtime mode and the site will encourage you to log off and get 8 hours of sleep, and your profile will even let people know you’re away. Another cool feature is if you’re sad Vers will encourage your followers to cheer you up.

There’s no social network out there like Vers, and it’s even better because it’s not built by some big team or billionaire. It’s built by 1 25 year old in NY.
They likely would not survive on a meteorite in the sense of active metabolism and replication. We'd be talking about very dormant spores.
Causality is only useful in geopolitics on extremely large timescales. It's useful to inform future behavior to some degree (if someone replaces Putin, will they have similar motivations?), but most responses are, by necessity, reactionary (which action can we take that is most aligned with our priorities at the moment).

The events in Ukraine will inform future dealings with Russia, and other regimes we think might have similar motivations, but there isn't much use in asking "how we got here" when it comes to our goals for today, or this year. We don't want an expansionist Russia, so we have to make expansionism costly.

It's like having a broken arm. Causality will inform you how to avoid a similar accident in the future, but no matter what happened, you still need to go to the doctor and get a cast today.
UK supermarkets have been doing deliveries fairly successfully for a few years now. The difference is that they aren't instant (1-2 days delay), and that they're done by the supermarkets instead of being done by 3rd party startups.
There is no implementation problems and people do like the service. BUT people are not really willing to pay for it at level required to break even in most cases...
Though I agree with the general argument, I disagree with the necessity of glued components. When protective phone cases are ubiquitous (80-90% of all phones from a quick search), it shows that the trend for thinner and thinner phones isn't being driven by a desire for thinner phones. Yet so many of the trade-offs in phone design, increasing fragility and decreasing repairability, are being imposed by the relentless pursuit of a thinner phone.

Just as it is difficult to distinguish between effective design decisions and malicious manufacturing, I'd say that it is also difficult to distinguish between effective design goals and malicious smokescreens that hide malicious manufacturing.
How is this relevant? Which phone does not have a "user removable SIM tray". Usually they are sealed as well.
And in any case, how does this matter for the back of the phone?
> Once I hit the limit with jpg I switched to png

Since that it seems that you're okay with lossy images, have you've tried RDOPNG (https://github.com/richgel999/rdopng)? It won't be as great as JPEG or JXL but it should eke out better-compressed images.
Was Jack Welch the greatest CEO of his day, or the worst?
lol, I won't donate to wikipedia this year. Why on earth do they give grants out anyway? The only thing I want is wikipedia.
The most recent Annual Reports [0][1] list 43% and 42% "Direct support to websites" and has a brief explanation of how "Keeping the Wikimedia websites online is about more than just servers." But I do note that plural 'Wikimedia websites' and not just 'Wikipedia'. But even if your 2% figure is accurate for wikipedia.org, that's 40% on other websites, some of which is used directly by Wikipedia.

They same reports list ~32% of their expenses as "support to communities" which they say includes "grants, programs, events, trainings, partnerships, tools to augment contributor capacity, and support for the legal defense of editors."

The screenshot you linked [2] doesn't show anything about hosting costs. I think most people would expect keeping any organisation/website running to involve costs other than the cost of the internet connection/servers. But I do realise that I'm talking from a privileged position here.

> This is slowly being ruined by people, like I assume yourself, that are so blinded by the current political agendas that they cannot see the damage they're inflicting on the community. I understand that people always have had different political agendas but you used to be able to talk to people on the other side of the spectrum and accept basic physical facts about the world.

I'm not sure where that's coming from. All I am doing is talking, and calmly asking you to explain some of the points you volunteered in this forum.

[0] https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualreport/2019-annu...

[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualreport/2020-2021...

[2] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fex9854WIAIHSun?format=jpg
Breath of the Wild was originally intended to be a Wii U exclusive, with a 2015 release date[1], but it didn't end up that way. The developers had some Wii U Gamepad features in early prototypes but found that looking between the gamepad and TV was distracting and axed them.

[1] https://www.polygon.com/2015/3/27/8303247/the-legend-of-zeld...
I've been able to find pride in a lot of places I've worked even if they aren't the most obvious.

When I worked in retail IT, I found I could help and comfort people through some of the scariest moments. Tech and data are some of the most personal things for many people. I felt like a therapist half the time.

Now, Im a software developer working at a bank writing code for handling fraud. Even though banks are usually seen as evil, the work I do actually is actually too try to make customers' lives just a little bit easier when they go through a potentially tough time.

I think many jobs are like this if you look at it from the right perspective
Interesting. How would a meteorite pick something up in one planet to carry it to another planet? I'm presuming that the hypothetical meteorite does not originate in Mars.
That source confusingly indicates both that the scenario was underestimated:

>It was assumed that 131 nuclear weapons would fall on Britain with a total yield of 205 megatons (69 ground burst; 62 air burst)[1] with yields of 500 KT to 3 MT[2] That was felt to be a reasonably realistic scenario, but the report stated that a total strike in excess of 1,000 megatons would be likely.

But also that the scenario was overestimated:

>Square Leg was criticised for a number of reasons: the weapons used were exclusively in the high-yield megaton range, with an average of 1.5 megatons per bomb, but a realistic attack based on known Soviet capabilities would have seen mixed weapons yields, including many missile-based warheads in the low-hundred-kiloton range.
The “code” inside 2-XL's space age noises
Granted overtraining is a thing but undertraining or no training is also a thing. At the level most people are at (sedentary or undertrained) coupled with the fact that people have reasonable intuitions as to when they feel tired or not, the risks of overtraining is signficantly less that the benefits of regular exercise both physically and mentally.

You do mention inflammation in a previous comment and overtraining increases it but does the negative consequence of inflammation due to overtraining on how one feels subjectively outweigh the cascade of endorphins and neurotransmitters in response to exercise that correspond to an uplift in mood or an alleviation of stress? I'm not sure but in the given context (original post) your point is valid but of much less concern probabilistically and physiologically.

I do grant however that that is only my opinion and very much up for debate.
Terrible decision in my opinion but I'm actually glad that people expose their true feelings like this. It doesn't affect me because I don't host with sourcehut but this just makes it clear who they are and what they stand for.
You can easily expect more of these types of bans now, because why not?
Do you really think that he wouldn't also ban anti-vaccination information sites? Blogs that host antivaxx content? A crawler that caches anti vaccination content so it doesn't get lost?
That's just the most obvious recent example where a critical mass of society has designated something as 'the truth' and everyone who doesn't accept it is bad. I believe this is how he got to his decision about the cryptocurrency ban.

What about code that measures climate information and it happens to measure that global warming is no problem and proudly broadcasts that?
Anti-immigration companies? GOP campaign sites? The list goes on and on.
Oh sure, the point is more that Ethernet/IP has to coordinate two separate ID spaces at all, whereas AFAIK no other packet-based protocol like the ones mentioned does this, so in that sense those protocols are better.
Aren't most of these basically restating the 'open' element?

I get that it's good, but I don't think it deserves 4 of the 5 different reasons.

I assume the title was written first (5, V, gettit?) But the author couldn't actually think of 5 reasons
It'd be really interesting to see some performance numbers.

iirc, this was roughly predicted by Jonathan Blow who complained that in the 80s developers would routinely bundle an OS with the app and it would run bare-metal

This would mean you could take any application made for, eg., x86, and run it on any x86 cpu -- rather than being "windows-specific" etc.
It would only really work if browsers implemented tor support by default. But I can’t see that happening.

There is also the issue of it being super slow.
Base16 colors - https://github.com/chriskempson/base16
I would argue that if your "graphical user interface" doesn't involve any actual graphics, you shouldn't call it a "graphical user interface" ("GUI"). Zenity can't do any actual graphics, just text you can point at with a mouse.
The Perl Foundation will now be known as The Perl and Raku Foundation
You can often get same day delivery from Morrisons via Amazon.

Then, Deliveroo gets you under an hour delivery of a more limited range of items.

Not sure about the profitability of either, though, which is the key issue in the space.
Reading the paper, it's a reimplementation of Soundstream with a tweaked loss and layer norm added, and adds a 2-layer lstm to the encoder. These changes give a real quality boost over the quality of lyra v2 (which is also Soundstream, but lighter weight). Note that encodec is also using much more compute compared to Lyra v2. Additionally, LayerNorm is adding a lot of latency, which is why they advertise it as file compression instead of as a streaming codec.

The entropy coding seems like a lightweight version of AudioLM.
What if I don't care about water proofing? Should all phones be glued just because a very small minority of users actually want waterproofing?

I don't see why there can't just be a separate market segment for people who are willing to sacrifice some ease of repair for ruggedness.
Cost of living: Swansea estate cuts bills by generating energy
> "A much bigger component is our innate (evolutionarily acquired) understanding of basic mechanics, simple agent theory, and object recognition. ... they are interpreting the image at a slightly higher level of abstraction by applying some assumptions and heuristics that evolution has "found"."

Of course, and all this is exactly what self-driving AIs are attempting to implement. Things like object recognition and understanding basic physics are already well-solved problems. Higher-level problem-solving and reasoning about / predicting behaviour of the objects you can see is harder, but (presumably) AI will get there some day.
There's a typo in HAKMEM #70 [1]. The item is a mate-in-3 as described, but always seemed mysteriously mundane to me. One day I happened across the book that the memo cites as the source [2] and found that there's a typo in the HAKMEM version of the problem: they put the white bishop on KB7, but it should be on KB8. The original makes for a much more interesting problem.

I wrote it up in a reddit post [3] with some notes [4] (most of which I've duplicated here). Be warned that the first comment there describes the solution.

[1] https://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/games.html#item70

[2] Chess for Fun, Chess for Blood page 145; https://books.google.ca/books?id=y90UTQeLeeIC&pg=PA145#v=one...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/73h23o/problem_66_fr...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/73h23o/problem_66_fr...
UDP?
And I think that was a bad decision and a soft betrayal of Wii U owners.
https://blog.jgc.org/2022/10/the-hidden-code-inside-2-xls-sp...
I did some thinking on the Fermi paradox some time ago. I arrived at the following theory(I am probably not the first one), using these assumptions:

- speed of light(causality) cannot be practically broken / cheated

- current stasis technology theorizing is over-optimistic

- brain-computer interfaces are possible

- computational power/speed will continue to increase

I am assuming that some time in the future, a human will be able to process information 1000x faster than one is able to today, using brain augmentations anr/or brain-computer chip interfaces. This does effectively slow down our perception of time by a factor of 1000x (simplifying and ignoring inefficiencies of course). So if I lived in that time, and got diagnosed with a terminal disease and 1 year to live, I would spend my last year in VR, perceiving it as 1000 years.

Continuing that thought, I might spend my entire life inside VR, living a thousand lifetimes before my biological body gives in.

The galaxy might be full of life, but at a certain point in their development, they turn inwards, because it gives much bigger rewards (the first instinct of any life form is to survive for as long as possible).

The biggest flaw I find in my theory is the assumption they couldn't just VR on spaceships while they're exploring the galaxy anyway.
Why do you want 64bit specifically, for a keyboard controller? I've not tried making one, I struggle to think what you would need to do over and above 8bits even.
For those who don’t know, RoCE is somewhat of a failure in the marketplace right now.
Provide a link
You can of course use arenas in Rust just like in C. I think the parent was talking about support for using arenas as the memory for stuff like built-in containers (dynamic arrays, hash maps, etc.):

https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-allocators
Generative art Open Graph preview images
Personally, NASA, ESA or similar organization advancing science that will benefit scientific discovery and further development and understanding of current models, with a goal of sustainability for ethical social growth. I suppose the goal is more important than company/place/org etc. I just want to find somewhere I can make a difference, even if it's in the background. I'm at a personal point in my life where titles don't matter to me, only the positive changes I can bolster or create. Money is transient, I'd be happier with stability, i.e. healthcare, food and safe sustainable housing, general quality of life and the ability to interact with like minded folk. Titles and locations are great for representing my pride to others but for me that does not reflect my own personal pride in what I'm working on.
>It is a sticky gasket that is peelable and removable.

It is a gasket with a sticky substance to keep the back from falling off. This sticky substance is, as far as I am aware called "glue".

I do not know what your point is. If you want to say "phone backs are secured by sticky gaskets" instead of "phone backs are glued down", be my guest. Who cares?
Still, it is done for a particular purpose and shouldn't be legislated away.

>If you watch videos of people doing iPhone screen replacements, you can watch them peel it off easily and then replace it when they put the new screen on.

I am aware.
Yes, and seeing the total cost of running a website being significantly greater than the cost of the web hosting seems perfectly reasonable.
I stopped donating to Wikipedia after I learned that they were the organization behind the "Chimp selfie" lawsuit. I understood that my money was not going towards keeping the servers on, but instead in defending frivolous lawsuits like these.

In all frankness, I have no interest in letting Wikipedia die either. I just feel there are enough people who donate today that makes it easy for the foundation to do stuff beyond just keeping a Wikipedia on. Will probably donate again if their contributor pool ever shrinks.
Sure thing, but don't make waterproofing impossible in your fight for right to repair, please.
With the advent of any-arch binaries, and fast emulation (qemu wasm), it probably won't matter if it is x86 or not.
> I sometimes wonder if I am wasting away my potential to earn $$$ by pursuing a career in academia

I'd personally say both yes and no.

Yes, as in, you could be earning money right now and you aren't. And no, as in, your work in academia will most likely be recognized and valued by employers once you decide to join the industry.
From an american perspective where they stayed in the back during WW1 and had to be trained on the spot, and were perfectly happy to work with nazi germany in WW2 until shit hit the fan, sure.

For most of europe, it's a traumatic experience that led to dozens of millions of dead young adults, entire cities firebombed and razed to the ground, areas shelled so hard that even today their access is forbidden.

But I'm sure it's much easier from a position of a country that never had a single war on its territory.
Well, they apparently did donate to some woke-adjacent pseudoscience, which seems like a waste of money to me. Regardless, I agree with you that the question isn't where some $0.25 million went, but why they are spending $100 million and still asking for donations with that misleading message, while a few years ago they were spending a small fraction of that even though their hosting costs were actually higher back then. It increasingly looks like Wikimedia as an organisation has a parasitical relationship with Wikipedia, doing enough to keep its host alive with a small fraction of its budget, while benefiting from the work of volunteers and not even fixing longstanding issues with the software that the volunteers ask to be fixed. Even beyond fixing bugs, I'd be happy to add to their $100 million budget if they actually did useful things with it. I can easily think of 10 features that would improve Wikipedia. For instance, Wikipedia pages such as "list of countries by GDP per capita" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...) are useful, but the table UI is not that great and the map is a non-interactive PNG image. For $100 million, why can't we hover over the country and see its name and the exact GDP per capita number?
> or otherwise controversial

I find that articles about political theories and movements are usually fairly good. Articles about history, especially the history of regions where nationalist movements are active, are another matter entirely. Those are political battlegrounds. They tend to have 10 or more archives of the talk page, indicating that the article is widely disputed or even "owned".

Any article about the Middle East, for example, is heavily gatekept; I won't even try to fix punctuation on such articles, I treat them only as a source of links to more-reliable material.
Nobody has mentioned the experimental LPCNet codec yet, so here's a link to this: https://jmvalin.ca/demo/lpcnet_codec/

1.6kbit/sec for speech.
I still wonder if the 4KiB texture cache in the N64 was a cost-cutting decision. It totally defined the look of N64 games.
I saw a mention of this last night and honestly I couldn't help but cringe inside.

What will the Twitter timeline look like when everyone has a little bird next to their name?

I am not saying the current system is ideal but fundamentally it will have to change because at the moment the verified badge is seen as a "novelty" part of Twitter's identity as a platform.