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I kind of miss LAN parties because our version wasn't just about gaming. It was about drinking, smoking good shit, having loud electronic music and lots of people coming and going all the time. I prefer dealing with alpha nerds.

Quake 1/2/3, StarCraft, NFS, Carmageddon, Star Wars Racer and lots, and I mean, LOTS of Mortal Kombat 3 (DOS version). We sure had some fun

Frankly, I don't have the energy to do any of this all night. Getting old sucks but it also injects anti-FOMO serum into your blood stream, making you regret missing fun less and less.
I'd recommend gforth. It runs on lots of systems and is well maintained.

https://gforth.org/

Eventually you'll build your own forth (seems to be a right of passage!)
Getir likely to acquire Gorillas well below valuation
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Until you dropped your screen on the drive way into your friends house and heard the magic sound a CRT makes when it implodes.
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I have very few use cases for a voice assistant, but like them quite a lot. Setting timers and controlling the lights without having to touch anything and while moving around the house is fantastic.

Having the voice assistant actually talk back and say anything at all more than the absolutely minimum possible response is unwelcome. Getting a 'by the way' response makes me want to chuck the hardware into the pool. That whole ecosystem is on my list of things to evict and replace with a self-hosted solution, but I've had too-limited time lately to go down that rabbit hole.
They've been on a tear getting rid of pedos since Elon took over; https://www.teslarati.com/twitter-taking-child-exploitation-...
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On one hand I love this, but most of these sites are terrible and would have benefited from changes that would push it above 10kb.

Small sizes at extreme cost to UX is not worth it.
I had to google to make sure these were real and not some sort of tongue-in-cheek comment.
I think Twitter will thrive (or just do ok) in the short term as there appears a new wave of conservative users will keep it afloat. But the larger timeline doesn’t look so good. Only time will tell.
Commenter: yeah, but he forgot X

Reply: He says X in the second paragraph. Did you even read the article?
"Builds" is the operative word there: that specific isolation is optional and only applies during compilation.
Certainly more specificity would be useful and I hope we get there someday. But that doesn't mean we should ignore the imperfect information we have in the meantime.

In this case, the link between processed foods (Nova groups 3 and especially 4) seems strong enough to warrant minimizing them in my diet even though the evidence for the specific ingredients or mechanisms is weaker.
The Life Wiki referenced in the article strongly implies that indeed some remnant of that time lived in the Life subculture. Incredible rabbit hole, that wiki.
For now my hopes are up, as it's been heartening to see this post upvoted to the front page almost immediately. That feels kinda incredible.

Yes, this was a very deliberate design, and I understand the desire/necessity. But it's also a dream. I guess I'll have to write a letter or something, though I have no idea yet to whom. I though of sending out a tweet (though not a user), but I'm afraid the recipient is too busy right now.
This is really cool. Well done! Congratulations! You should make more games and programs. :)
Quite a lot of the classics were written by hereditary dictators and aristocrats, members of tiny elites so the anti-democracy angle is incredibly common.
Amazing how much credit AMD gets for “open sourcing” things when so much of the functionality is in binary blobs.

Like this entire directory:
https://github.com/GPUOpen-Tools/radeon_raytracing_analyzer/...
> That's just not true. All but a handful of the smallest LAN parties I attended I the 90's and early 00's included console gaming. It was pretty much assumed there would be consoles at a LAN.

You should have gone to better parties.
There's cheaper electric cars in the market. Tesla is a luxury brand. It would be like asking why can't Mercedes make a cheaper car. They can, but that's not the product they're making.
which country are you from? Just curious..
This one is down, but there are plenty more movies linked just in the thread below that are still working at the time of writing. If this is indeed related to the layoffs (very conceivably so), this could easily spiral to a point where the objectively best option (financially, legally) for Musk would be to take the site offline asap.
The URL should be to an article from 5 years ago with the OP saying that he’s sure nobody has seen this before, and 15 replies with links to all the times that URL was mentioned on HN in the past.
Right, "finding a provider whose reaction to an aggravating quantity of incoming packets was charging money rather than throttling the connection" was basically the load bearing part of the solution here.

Fortunately, while said quantity was indeed aggravating, it was low enough that the cost was financially and logistically less than trying to do something more elegant.

Sometimes brute force and ignorance is, in fact, the right answer, and I don't have to -like- that being true for it to be true.
The rear seat headroom is going to suck for anyone above the age of 12
Forgot the:

Shameless self-plug: I build X[1] and I'm trying to solve the same problem as OP.

[1]: https://my-saas.com
I find Alexa/Echoes great for a highly limited set of use cases. Like, I use it all the time to set timers in my kitchen (it's really nice when you've got like four timers going and when they go off they say their name).

Adding things to grocery lists is great.

We use it to set the light level of our "smart" bedroom light.

Checking weather before you go out when your hands are full of other stuff is nice. A few other things.
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Wooooaaa! Literally just yesterday I was thinking about this and considering posting a "Ask: Hn" to see if anyone remembered the link.

Cosmic, man. Cosmic...
Golf carts are not street-legal in most places.

E-scooters are essentially street-legal golf carts, and they are exploding in popularity.

Unfortunately, US regulations and road behavior make small cars unprofitable to sell over here. See: the Ford Mustang EV, which is an SUV with a muscle car's name. Or VW, who will only sell the ID.4 in NA, no electric hatchbacks. Or the Chevy bolt, another SUV with sedan lineage.

IMO, plenty of people would jump for cheap small EVs if they could buy them, but nobody will sell us one.
And why are they assuming they are H-1Bs in the first place, based on the photo? They can tell immigration status based on what exactly?
The US is probably the biggest beneficiary but might have asked friends to help out so they weren't so obvious. I'm not totally ruling out the Russian allegation that it was a UK/Ukrainian job, presumably with the UK advising and Ukraine doing. Still who knows?
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I suspect this these mass job layoffs have less to do with the individual corporate balance sheets and more with a coordinated effort by shareholders and executives to align with the Fed's program to cut inflation by jacking up unemployment nationally:

https://thehill.com/policy/3658981-why-the-fed-is-pushing-un...

> "Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday it will be almost impossible for the central bank to beat inflation without hundreds of thousands of Americans losing their jobs."

That's what happens when your actual political system is oligarchic rule by a cabal of financial oligarchs, who own the vast majority of the politicians and bureaucrats.
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There is a lot of missing information in their probability of binary events presented. Presumably they polled N forecasters and are presenting an x/N prediction. The fact that each forecaster is estimating in a continuous space and then binarizing their result means that a lot of information has been lost.

To look at an extreme example… were all the “yes” votes 95%+ certain and the “no” votes just under the line 49%? Or was it more like a bunch of no votes at 49% and a bunch of yes votes at 51%?

Binarizing forecasts necessarily discards information. Aggregating a bunch of binary predictions into a percentage does no recapture said information, unfortunately.
The Intel "core" series is just stale branding. Really stale branding. That name started being used in 2006 for an iteration of the Intel P6 microarchitecture (first implemented in 1995 with the Pentium Pro). Intel's NetBurst (Pentium 4) wasn't great, so they brought something old back, made improvements, made it dual core, and we had the Intel Core Duo. They then did the usual licensing back and forth with AMD for AMD64, and they released the Core 2 (Penryn) just a little later in the same year. The Core iN series started with the Nehalem microarchitecture in late 2008. This was a major improvement over, but still an iteration on, P6. However modest these initial changes were, we are now so far removed from those earlier designs that carrying the "core" branding is just bad. Intel really needs refreshed branding. They should also do away with the largely irrelevant numbers and letters that they shove on the end of their CPU family names.nI would even be okay with just "Intel 8core 3.6gHz 2020" and so on, but Intel tends to prefer cringe apparently.
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That might be a very good idea actually. For me, it would be enough to get my money back. If I had paid by credit card, this would likely have been no issue.
That's the one. Nassim has blocked me on twitter so I refuse to google for his stuff.
Exactly. I can admit that it would be sort of cool to be around Elon for a bit, just to have a good story for parties, even if it means staying past 1am at the office. But let's not pretend they're building something earth-shattering that actually merits being there at 1am. They're there to feed Elon's ego and make him believe he understands the inner workings of twitter, which for some reason would help him make executive decisions that are less arbitrary than he's already made?
That market only exists now, way later in the adoption curve of a new technology. I am far from a Tesla or Musk fan, but even I can recognize that without Tesla showing up in the market, the best we had was Toyota's hybrid system - which is also still more expensive than regular ICEs and never meant to become a mass-market product.
In this case in Germany fathers are often ignored in topics about parenthood. Teachers dont call the fathers if kids feel bad, only mothers are asked in question of education, in case of divorce 90 % of all case only mothers get child custody etc.
There is much to do in case of sex equality!
>I’d rather work on a project that builds something and the effort accumulates into something more tangible than an analysis report.

Before deciding to become a Software Engineer I'd recommend you think about what that "something" is that you want to build.

There's a really broad range of jobs that require you to build ML based things that are deployed in a production environment, meaning your output is mostly code. In one type of job you are really more of an infrastructure building person. From what I've seen at some well known tech companies, a lot of ML Engineers are taking models built by other people and finding a way to run them at scale. So what they need more than modeling skills is the knowledge of building a scalable data and scoring pipeline that can meet a certain SLA and cost.

If you want to be more of an ML Infrastructure or ML Engineer (as defined by a company like Facebook), you'll probably want to focus on learning traditional software engineering, just with a focus on the parts of the stack relevant to data. You'll get asked algorithm and system design questions in interviews so probably it's good to focus on that.

There's another type of role where you build things. I work as a Data Scientist at a large non-software company that builds complex pieces of machinery that are sold to other businesses. The machine collect a lot of data and the team I'm on builds models to detect issues with those machines. Our team also builds the infrastructure to run those models. Every single person on my team is expected to be able to go from a conversation with an SME (e.g. a mechanical engineer) to python code that is running in our prod environment. My deliverable is code, but I certainly do a lot of analysis to get to the point where I'm ready to build the model and code.

I've done similar roles in Medical devices, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, and Industrial Manufacturing (e.g. car part factories). IMO what you need is a broad exposure to ML models, the ability to write Python/R scripts that won't break when they run on a schedule (e.g. every hour), and the ability to demonstrate that you have the communication and thinking skills to take a vague problem statement from a business person and turn it into a production model. I've interviewed for a lot of jobs in this area and I've never gotten any system design or algorithm questions. Usually it's ML based questions (e.g. what metric would you use to evaluate a clustering algorithm) and questions that try to see how you think about business problems.
If I had enough karma, I'd downvote your post.

Elon Musk has if anything made Twitter way worse for free speech. He is the most disingenuous, incompetent, narcissistic person I have ever seen head a social media company, and it shows. If Twitter even survives the next month, it will be a pale shadow of itself in terms of userbase, influence, and principles.
Have you tried a power limited version of Intel to compare?

I have my 7700x limited to 65w with very little performance loss -- it's very easy with eco mode. I've seen lot of benchmarks with 7000 series chips on eco mode but not so much on Intel side.

These chips really should have been power limited with a little less multicore performance instead of being power drains.
But for the sake of argument, I don't see why Forth isn't appropriate for learning programming.

I started learning programming in 2001 with QBasic. Didn't do "real work tasks" like downloading some files from server or parse a PDF file and upload some of the content to Firebase, but by doing "boring" things like printing various forms of pyramid, maze solver, etc. I'm sure you can do that in Forth.

Well eventually I tried Forth, and still doesn't get it. At least for me Lisp is more approachable, on certain degree :)
Yes, at which point you'll have to update the build script... but until you do that, the current build script will still pull in the previous version of the software and all of its dependencies, including system-level ones, so you won't have incidental breakage from the surrounding environment changing out from under you.

This works going backwards, too. If you need an older version of some software, Nix can happily install it for you in a way that won't conflict with other software on your system. The only requirement is that you can still get the original sources and you can get a copy of the nixpkgs repo at the time the older version of that software was initially committed.
r/Starlink on reddit may be able to help, at least with more information.
The "by the way" thing is awful. I would legit pay a $50 premium for a voice assistant that only tried to do the few things that voice assistants are good at and never bothered me with Amazon's attempts to get me to use it for useless crap.
"By 2018, the division was already a money-losing pit. That year, the New York Times reported that it lost roughly $5 billion. This year, an employee familiar with the hardware team said the company is on pace to lose around $10 billion on Alexa and other devices."

Clearly anticompetitive practices. It's about time the Amazon hardware division dramatically increases prices or gets fined out of existence.
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Some more:

- "I posted the same thing 3 days ago here: [link]"

- A person who knows the OP personally shares an anecdote

- "The YouTube embeds are breaking because I've disabled all Google domains"

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The topic of the geek/social IRC channel I run is currently Greg Bear and Fred Brooks.

I don't think I have anything useful to add beyond that statement.
Voice assistants will truly thrive when users have full control and all the data is local. We’ll never see this coming from a large player like Amazon.
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As a person running a single static website, I can confidently say that Kubernetes is the most overhyped technology ever. After having eventually realised that my tediously simple workload can be deployed effectively using a short systemd unit file and an even shorter ansible script, I no longer believe anyone actually runs production workloads on Kubernetes.

I will now be considering other options for the service mesh that my startup clearly needs to implement in order to send an occasional email newsletter.
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>open platform

>only for apple

????
We once had a LAN party in a barn. In October. I vividly remember the cold - it was the night of the first snow. But that very cold must have stabilized our hardware - we never had so few crashes.
> Firefox nightly does

Somehow took this to another level for me.
The numbers are too small. You're not going to drive unemployment up meaningfully by laying off 10k high-end workers. You do it by raising costs throughout the entire market, so hundreds of thousands of low-end workers are laid off.
Also in the "Silver Age" crowd that Greg Bear is part of

Joe Haldeman, William Gibson, Piers Anthony, David Brin. Lois McMaster Bujold, Orson Scott Card, KW Jeter, George Lucas, George RR Martin, Phillip Pullman, Rudy Rucker, Dan Simmons, Harry Turtledove, John Varley, Connie Wilson, Timothy Zahn are all around

Though it is sad he joins the ranks of authors from his generation who died earlier than expected - Pratchett, Iain Banks, Robert Jordan ..
Can't tell if this is a parody comment or not...
No need to use actual surveillance and machine learning to fill out time sheets.

I had a friend Josh who worked at Los Alamos National Labs, who wrote a script that automatically filled out his timesheet with plausible looking working hours and tasks, an emailed it in at the right time every month.

One month his boss was chatting with his assistant about how happy he was with how promptly and efficiently Josh always sent in his time sheets, saying what a good worker he was, and that he just received his timesheet on time that day.

The assistant explained to the boss that Josh was actually away on vacation that week.

So when Josh finally got back from vacation, his boss summoned him into his office for an awkward sit down talk.

And insisted that Josh set him up with the same system to automatically fill out and send in his time sheet, too!
I've frequently written about Mitch Bradley's Forthmacs / Sun Forth / CForth / OpenBoot / OpenFirmware on HN. I was his summer intern at Sun in 1987, and used his Forth systems in many projects!

https://github.com/openbios

https://wiki.laptop.org/go/FORTH

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29261810

Speaking of Forth experts -- there's Mitch Bradley, who created OpenFirmware:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21822840

Here's the interview with Mitch Bradley saved on archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120118132847/http://howsoftwar...

[...]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27484426

I wrote malloc.fth for Mitch Bradley's ForthMacs, which ended up in OpenFirmware:

https://github.com/openbios/openfirmware/blob/master/ofw/cor...

[...]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892629

In a lot of FORTH implementations, constant numbers like 0, 1, -1 and others are hard coded, not just for speed but also for space: a call to a code word only takes one cell, instead of using two cells with a LIT [value].

Here's some Breshenham line code I first wrote in FORTH (Mitch Bradley's SunForth on a 68k Sun-2 with cg2 graphics board), then translated to 68k code (using the rpn FORTH assembler) -- the FORTH code is commented out before the corresponding assembly code:

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/forth/cg/line.f

[...]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17480298

Cool! Does it include a FORTH 6502 assembler written in FORTH?
I love writing assembly code in RPN with Forth macros!

You can write FORTH code with loops and conditionals and any kind of logic and parameters, that dynamically assembles machine code! Much better than your typical macro assembler.

Here's some 6502 assembler for an Apple ][ SUPDUP terminal emulator that does ram card bank switching:

http://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/forth/supdup.f

[...]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22456471

In what way is PostScript worse than Forth? Please answer with specific details, and provide links to code if you can. I programmed a lot of Forth code before learning and moving on to programming a lot of PostScript code, so I've used each of them extensively, and much prefer PostScript, and I'm happy to show you why and explain by showing you code.

[...]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21968175

Kragen is right that PostScript is a lot more like Lisp or Smalltalk than Forth, especially when you use Owen Densmore's object oriented PostScript programming system (which NeWS was based on). PostScript is semantically very different and much higher level that Forth, and syntactically similar to Forth but uses totally different names (exch instead of swap, pop instead of drop, etc).

[...]
Maybe taking money from crypto gamblers and giving it to progressive political causes is the true effective altruism!
That well has been poisoned in the US. It's tough to find any extant union which isn't a corrupt sellout organization leeching off the workers they're supposed to represent. It's hard to change, because laws around unions are designed to lead to the current situation. Cross-industry/informal/extra-organizational action and coordination using the internet is probably a far more workable idea than traditional unions.
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I agree with this sentiment. Even the font is the same. Show some creativity.
This thread reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/SUBREDDITNAME
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As a JavaScript guy, does this really matter for 95% of the world?
Currently, manual cars still account for 70 per cent of the 31.7 million cars on UK's roads.

If you want to make it easier to learn to drive, break the British fetish for manual.
More like bribery

But according to the US supreme court, money is speech so it doesn't matter
Forgiven, as you are correct to check this off, as I forgot to mention I had done this already. Nevertheless I've filled in both my phone and email again. Didn't detect a response.