skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> AES Encryption/Decryption (aka: every HTTPS connection out there),

that already have dedicated hardware on most of the x86 CPUs for good few years now. Fuck, I have some tiny ARM core with like 32kB of RAM somewhere that rocks AES acceleration...

> So even if GPUs are faster, they still can't hold modern movie raytraced scenes in memory, so you're kinda forced to use CPUs right now.

Can't GPUs just use system memory at performance penalty ?
It's a logical contradiction. There seems to be some overloading of the word "tolerance".
Elon seems so paranoid. No potential Tesla customers are going to see the california high speed rail project and say that because of this project they are now out of the market for a Tesla which they will mainly be using for sub 20 minute trips around town.
See https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi...
I am confused, CPUs have dedicated instructions for AES encryption and CRC32. Are they slower than AVX512?
For many years, Koyaanisqatsi was the marker in my Netflix DVD queue between "movies I actually want to see" and "movies that I probably ought to see one of these days but don't really want to".

Whenever Koyaanisqatsi got near the top of the list, I'd find something else to bump above it. Then some new films would come out, and it would get pushed down more.

Eventually, though, enough new stuff came out on streaming that I needed the Netflix DVD service less and less. I'd watch it occasionally... and then one day Koyaanisqatsi arrived at my door.

As expected, I didn't really care for it. Not that it isn't brilliant; it's just not my thing. I'm glad that it brings so much pleasure to some people. But I won't be adding the other two to the queue.

(And in fact it's rapidly reaching time to jettison the Netflix DVD service. There used to be many things available only that way, but it's just not the case any more. Not only have they substantially pared down their once-vast catalog, but I have realized that I'm just not a movie buff who wants a vast back catalog.)
Is your implication that Vietnam was a UN-backed war? You may be thinking of Korea.

Or is your implication that the US didn't use the UN to fight wars before the 90's? Because then I think you're forgetting about Korea.

Maybe NATO is the org. you're thinking of? Because they did invoke Article 5 for Afghanistan.

So I'm not really sure what difference I'm supposed to be seeing.
I can't think of a case like that, where the difference between AVX512 and other instruction sets would be humanly perceptible. Those situations usually end up constrained by memory bandwidth, not CPU or cache throughput.

I'm sure those cases exist, but they don't justify such a large chunk of silicon. And they definitely don't justify slowing down the rest of the CPU.
Fukuyama's theory was always badly named. It would be better respected if he called it "end of autocracy" or "end of tyranny," which are better names for his theory.
I've heard that there is a powder processing device called entoleter that are typically NOT used in Europe for grain and powdered food products, as ambient temperature is low enough for bugs to hatch and grow on such food in considerable likelihood.

What I'm saying is, the chance of that happening IS considerably high elsewhere, and in such elsewhere it is imperative that oat, rice, not sugar but pasta, and chocolate, must be denied of life under sterile light of an ultra processing foodstuff factory and somewhat hermetically sealed. Otherwise you wouldn't know what you'll be getting later.

Just something which reason isn't immediately obvious sometimes.
Google builds phones at Foxconn too.

Google has also worked on many projects in order to appeal to China's government as well.
He didn't buy a majority stake, he bought the entire company.
That's very likely, ask and ye shall receive is very common here, and the company gives the resources to anyone and everyone to learn.

From my POV, this is like university, but easier, and I get paid.
Is this possibly protective to the user?
Last time I looked, parts were fairly expensive. They are excellent otherwise.
I can guess why.Probably the same reason they blocked Parler. Probably the same reason they block Truth Social in the EU.
Reading something dry and technical puts me right to sleep.
OP here! #1 was my motivation, though at the moment I'm definitely feeling like #4 played a role.

My rationale was that crypto just sitting in cold storage could only gain value if the underlying asset appreciated which is effectively currency speculation. By storing it in a crypto "bank" my money could be working to generate actual value via. liquidity and loans akin to a real bank.

If the money was earning a modest amount of interest it didn't feel like as wild of a risk. Even if the exchange rate to USD is unstable I can still see the amount of crypto going up each month.
which is scary in that also probably means we have no way of recovering Earth from what we continue to do to it
Eh. I've had a paycheck miss by half a day or day twice now (I think first was a fuck up with entering payrolls, second was a whole bank outage), and it's usually relatively benign.
Is this true even if say you use GrapheneOS?
Most US states don't remove the right to vote from a felon unless they are incarcerated or on parole (and many not even then). Employment discrimination is generally more of an issue than civil rights for felons, because almost noone supports hiring felons anywhere.
Ah, the halcyon days of thrusting off the shackles of capitalism to have freedom in a decentralized digital environment where a new Social Contract is being negotiated! There's no way our idealism will feed a new class of nouveau riche that will sacrifice community ideals for profit.

Or to be more clear, Google ("Don't Be Evil") was founded in the same year that John Perry Barlow published A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996). Barlow is dead and so is his dream. The Empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide.

Which is to say, federate the web all you want, but a Hamilton is inevitably going stomp on your Jeffersonian dream (and vice-versa).

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
I would love to agree with this argument. And maybe 5 years ago I would have. But so far crypto has not demonstrated that it can really solve the issues you are listing. Yes, it can result in some capital outflow from oppressive countries, but that does not have a big impact on these people or the regimes. The stories that are being written are not of a hard-working farmer who was able to save some monero and move it to a different country anonymously. Instead, we are seeing millions of people lose their savings and/or investments. I acknowledge that things might change in the future. But as of now I am not optimistic.
> If I need to crunch large amounts of data in a hurry, I'll send it to a GPU. The CPU has no chance to compete with that.

PCIe is real bottleneck that affects bandwidth and latency. It only really works if your data is already resident on the GPU, your kernels are fixed and the amount of data returned is small.

With HBM and VCache, we will see main memory bandwidth over 1TB/s for consumer high perf cpus in the near future, at those rates, GPUs won't make sense. GPUs are basically ASICs that can take advantage of hundreds of GB/s of memory bandwidth, when the CPU can do scans at that same rate, the necessity of a GPU is greatly reduced.
I have to admit that when you actually look at the details this is a rather perplexing change. Ditto for reading the comments here.

Is Apple being Pro-CCP with this change? If you open airdrop to everyone, your device can be tracked and identified individually. When this setting is disabled, this becomes far harder.

I'm of the opinion that this change is good and actually increases security across the board, including for the people who are using it to exchange information during protests since it disables a vector for tracking devices.
> It's a tough pill to swallow to learn all our tech stuff we all enjoy is built on the backs of poor people on the other side of the planet.

Watching some in depth documentaries on the global low-cost-fashion trade in textiles and garments is also a real eye opener.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Rana_Plaza_factory_collap...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Dhaka_garment_factory_fir...
They look like they are good at privacy simply because they are so possessive and controlling of their users. Of course they stop other companies from getting your data, your data belongs to Apple, not to the other companies.
Somewhat related, whatever happened to Honor? I remember them making a big splash about reinventing senior services some years ago but feel like I don't hear much about them anymore -- their website (joinhonor.com) is live so I guess it's a going concern but I do wish there was more action in the industry supporting the elderly.
It's not intended to mean "dislike" but rather that you believe it is a violation of the guidelines. It's part of the system for keeping the front page clean.

Anybody who is posting anything about the twitterpocalypse however is pretty oblivious because if they were reading the front page they'd notice that nothing about it is making the front page, including the people who posted an "Ask HN: Can you knock it off posting about Twitter?"
I think that inclination is enough to provide such coverage. Maybe with somewhat reduced accuracy in the northern areas.

Also, everything north of ~62°N is basically a wasteland.
This is super-amazing and removes the main excuses why I've been reluctant to do any kind of video-casting. Thanks for sharing!
Two weeks

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnight
Sounds just like Hacker News.
I've long suspected the start menu was intended to be on the top of the screen.

In all other applications when you want to shut it down, it's the last option on the list. If you move the start menu to the top, then shutdown does indeed become the last on the list and the most common option, "Programs" becomes the closest by Fitts Law standards.

Even in the Program Manager in Windows 3.1, the Run and Shutdown options were the same place but the menu was at the top. From the beginning (of public releases) in Windows 95 you could in fact move the start bar to the top.

Having it on bottom was legally much cleaner, especially on the heels of 6-year saga of the classic Apple vs. Microsoft "look and feel" lawsuit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Micros....

Anyway, this is 100% speculative - there is a few builds with it on the top, such as Windows 95 build 90c https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_95_build_90c but it starts on the bottom and quickly moves back there: https://betawiki.net/wiki/Category:Windows_95_builds

But really, menu bar on the top, colorful rainbowish icon on the left, clock on the right, it's very System 7.5 (https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/System_7.5)

Reminds me of McDonaldland vs Sid & Marty Krofft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_%26_Marty_Krofft_Televisio....), and I quote: "We do not believe that the ordinary reasonable person, let alone a child, viewing these works will even notice that Pufnstuf is wearing a cummerbund while Mayor McCheese is wearing a diplomat’s sash."
Another vote for this. We saw it at friends over Thanksgiving, and immediately got our own.

It's local, and does logging. That's what I really want.
Thank you for doing the research!

The big problem with current transformer-based models is the input limit. We'd probably need to split large articles and then summarize the summarizations of these chunks. And yeah I agree, Unclutter should work on any kind of article, not just on factual news.

Please let me know if you're still using Summari in a bit! They seem to focus on their hosted version, I'm curious why.
As long as Vanguard doesn't file for bankruptcy!
Exactly. It's good at providing speed improvements which will never be noticed in the real world.
Yes such overloading leads to paradoxes.
My favorite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox
I'm assuming the standard driving profile imitates an automatic transmission with a torque converter, which continually creeps forward if the brake isn't held down. As opposed to a manual or dual-clutch automatic transmission, which does not creep (except by gravity).

Is disabling this "creep" independently of braking with the gas pedal an option in any electric vehicles? I seem to remember that some cars with continuously variable transmissions had this as an option.
I believe I have been to the same restaurant you're referring to, and honestly I believe that the WNFA chicken is likely to be a psychoactive substance. I've only had the barest bite of it, and it is enough to scar me mentally; and to eat an entire meal seems like it would be prone to mind-altering, just like how a stab wound is body altering.

Hyperbole aside, it is interesting to see the sheer breadth in tolerance across friends and family. I'm far from a spice masochist, but I've never shied away from heat since my teenage years. What I find more interesting is the amount of stereotypical spice and heat avoidance I've seen from white family and friends; an example of which I recently heard from a friend, “I don't add spice to my chili, since I know some people don't like that.”

I'm genuinely confused by people who avoid adding additional flavour to their food. Heat avoidance I can understand to an extent, some folks are more sensitive to heat and pain sensations than others. But spice avoidance even from your garden variety spices genuinely befuddles me; and I can not understand how some people do not come across using things like Rosemary, Basil, or Cumin in their cooking.
Plus one for intentional relationships. I've become much more careful about who I form bonds with as I've grown older, and I've left a handful of long-term friendships behind when I realize I didn't want those people in my life. I'm not an extrovert, but I do make friends easily and I learned the hard way that if you just make friends with everyone who comes your way, you'll end up with some bad friends.
They're still trying to get back in. See project Dragonfly for example.
I think it's fair to point out these inconsistencies but what do we expect them to do? China is a sovereign country _and_ it's the one where they make most of their hardware. It is unclear to me what options they have other than expanding manufacturing in other countries, which seems to be in progress.
I remember reading some reports that actually looked at suicide rate based on the number of people working there and didn't find it that elevated compared to the average. Fact is, anytime you have a big concentration of people in a small place you will have some suicides just by virtue of statistics, so I'm not sure if there's really a much higher number of suicides or if the few that did happen were sensationalised because it sells.

That's not to say that working in a company like Foxconn is the nicest possible job (it's not but it seems to be better than a lot of places) or that China is great and can do no wrong (I'm generally very critical of the CCP) but I do think that sometimes it's easy to just spin up a story to shock people because that sells.
> I say this nearly every time something like this is posted. The isn't isn't so much open source, it's that no one is getting paid. We're constantly relying on projects that we get for free where in esscence we're relying on goodwill. So much so, that people say don't add new features because you're depending on the goodwill of that contributor and they may disappear. Which is basically the same was the open source maintainer may disappear.

I have no problems with open source maintainers charging for software, but I think the bigger problem is people having incorrect expectations of the open source model.

The main point of the open source is that if the software isn't doing what you need, then you can fix it yourself. Developers often act so helpless when it comes to dealing with bugs or missing features in their open source dependencies. Obviously that involves work, as you can't rely on some third party to maintain the software (or at least your fork) for you. On the other hand, you can't always rely on the vendor of proprietary software either. But at least in the open source model you can rely on yourself, and you can still incorporate any upstream improvements that do come along.

In my view, if you are releasing software as open source then it should have "paid for itself" in some way. Perhaps it was internal software that is used at your company, or perhaps it was written to scratch your own itch. In either case, the work is done and the cost is paid, and you are just sharing it because there's no added cost to you and maybe someone else will benefit from having the source code.

As a final note, it's not just the goodwill of open source maintainers that we are relying on - we also depend upon their desire for status. Being a maintainer of a popular open source project is high status, and something many people covet. That's why many maintainers will put in so much uncompensated time and put up with demanding users: they want the status that comes with having an "important" open source project. Smart maintainers will either learn how to profit from that status or learn how to tell demanding users (politely) to "fork off".
Chromium Web Store (for ungoogled chromium)
For me it is usually religion that someone is pushing.
I have been using second hand phones for a while. My current phone is running Android 5.

I don't treat them as secure, however. I have not entered credit cards nor my Google account.
This is why on-die crypto accelerators make so much sense.
NFTs are probably the most interesting and legitimate use of these kinds of computer systems. For example, I could see a lot of value in specialized Yu-Gi-Oh projection card tables installed at game stores that only worked with officially issued NFT virtual cards. Players could rent out their virtual cards to other players and turn their purchases into assets. There are already companies in the MTGO space that rent out virtual cards but the whole trading system is (poorly) managed by Wizards of the Coast and lacks programmability.

I think the biggest problem with crypto is that it was way overhyped for anything outside of having fun online.

It's like meme stocks. It's fun to waste $50 playing some silly online game! It's not fun to waste $50k gambling on something that you think will change the global financial systems.

I also think there's plenty of room for fungible tokens that represent ownership over digital content, eg, buying 4% of the rights to the future profits from the monetization of a digital video, as opposed to the patronage system of platforms like Twitch or Patreon. If we truly are reliving the existing financial system shouldn't we expect to reinvent a marketplace for intellectual property?
What do you use for fertilizer today, and where does it come from? Is there a scaling concern there, as well?
For people curious about Herb's Cpp2, here's a presentation he gave at CppCon 2022: "Can C++ be 10x Simpler & Safer? (Simplifying C++ #9 of N)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELeZAKCN4tY
This is a surface-level meme that just doesn't reflect reality. In old C++ you had to spend all your time worrying about manual ctors and memory management. These problems have been erased by improvements to the language. You don't even use raw pointers any more. The language is less complex to use now than it was 10 years ago.

If you've moved on then your insight is outdated.
‘Flubber’ turns 25: how ILM made the shape-shifting green goo come to life
Indiedevs.net – comfy old-school forum for gamedevs
My little attempt at community building. Creative people who enjoy old-school bulletin boards welcome! :)
I owned a Pixel 1, a Pixel 2... and now a Pixel 6. Pixel 6 is by far the worst. It is extremely low quality and the screen has broken twice in a year just sitting in my pocket. It runs slowly and has frequent bugs. Garbage phone.
I agree that making the same volume of food is probably cheaper if you're processing vegan only ingredients - but if you look at the amount of nutrients / $, vegan substitutes are nowhere close to meat
I learned a little jingle growing up that my mom passed down from her mother, and presumably some even older source, but I can't find it with a quick Google.

> "I like to hit my head with a hammer,"

> Said Johnny one day to his pop.

> "The reason I like to do it," he said,

> "Is, it feels so good when I stop!"
Microsoft tries to compete with Apple’s integrated hardware-software experience with their Surface line, but in the context of general wide-spread Windows usage, that’s really more like vanity hardware. As long as Microsoft hardware, along with the marketing, remains touch-focused, they can hardly change their UI design trajectory. Yet the vision of Windows as a touch-heavy user interface remains a wishful-thinking fantasy, and works against what used to make Windows a productive UI. It’s really a tragedy.
Screw vulnerability. Of course, I have problems like everyone else. But I have given each one a lot of thought and decided what's the best thing I can do right now, or that there is nothing further than I can do. I don't really need advice or practical help, it's a matter of me allocating my limited energy and willpower. On giving side, there is also so much I can offer to someone outside my immediate family. And the last thing I want to do is to pay MORE attention to downsides of my life by talking about them to others.

What I really wish I could have is camaraderie in personal growth, which for some reason seems to be impossible in Silicon Valley. For example, I have been taking photography classes, but when I ask other students if they want to go on a hike, shoot pictures together and improve our technique, nobody is ever interested. I can understand that women might think I am hitting on them, even after I mentioned I am married and have kids, but not even old guys? I don't know if it's something about my appearance or mannerisms or if people only live through organized events and have no interest in just hanging out with others based on mutual interests. Maybe they also outsource their vulnerabilities to professional therapy? :-)

Now of course nothing is black and white. Being able to give someone an unfiltered account of one's day is a testament of quality of the relationship and reassurance that if I faced a truly overwhelming disaster in future I might have some help handling it. But overall, I would rather expand my life than dwell on aspects of it that either can not be changed or are already being worked on.
Elon Musk implying he will build a smartphone to compete with Apple/Google
How does this actually limit the dissemination of information? You have 10 minutes, and then can reinitiate? Seems like a reasonable security precaution.
The milk helps some, but in my experience on absolutely can blow past that point so that the next day you're getting the same tingles from the other end.
Things I've noticed:

1. Obtrusive messaging / sign up modals / exit intent modals work. I hate them. But they convert.

2. There is a large group of people who don't blink at the 'account required' messages. They just sign up.

3. If you don't have an account, you're not a useful customer. There is no reason for the company to cater to you.
Except Discord views that content as a problem and Parler views it as a feature.
Are Voyager's individual creditors getting 60% of their money back or does bankruptcy only pay out to the largest creditors?
Yeah, when things are otherwise ok a paycheck miss is likely just a snafu. When there's financial trouble a paycheck miss is a huge red flag.