skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have statistics on such things so I am not inclined to agree with such a generalization.
Reminds me of "Knights of Sidonia".
Most of us don't become overnight billionaires.
defaults logs what it is doing if you turn on debug logs for that subsystem.
If DirectX were an open source standard we would have had almost no problem writing translation layers between all the versions and other APIs. Unfortunately, since it's a reverse engineering hack job, there's still too much lost performance left on the table
Im honestly chocked that people react so negatively to this piece. Yes, the author expresses many negative and self centered emotions. He is very clear about that. It is part of the story. It is a story about being a flawed person.

I sympathize with him. I loved this piece. I hope he truly did let go of all the hangups he described. And it does seem that he actually did sell the the rights of use to microsoft, making this whole text a weird misunderstanding. But that does not mean that the text is bad, or boring, or uninteresting. Rather the opposite.
> Not if growth requires heavy capital investments. Build then sell

Revenue is, accounting-wise, orthogonal to capital investment. Hell, many definitions of profit are, too.
10 he codes in perl using Python indent layout

11 he uses ascii emoji to reply
But in the documentation[1] under the heading "Encryption of certain metadata and usage information" they state:

> Some metadata and usage information stored in iCloud remains under standard data protection, even when Advanced Data Protection is enabled. For example, dates and times when a file or object was modified are used to sort your information, and checksums of file and photo data are used to help Apple de-duplicate and optimize your iCloud and device storage

This checksum is described as:

> The raw byte checksum of the photo or video

This hash can technically be shared by Apple, since they own the key used to encrypt it. And depending on when the hash is computed (post-encryption it's no problem, pre-encryption we have a problem), this could technically be used to find people sharing known undesired images e.g. Tank Man or CSAM.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303#advanced
The normalisation aspect of this would have been the biggest horror. It would mean owning a device that doesn't do this becomes associated with criminality. "Don't you know that only pedophiles run Linux?"
> The CSAM scanning was only enabled if you had iCloud uploads enable.

This is nonsensical. iCloud Photos is not e2ee and Apple already scans everything serverside. There is no need for redundant clientside scanning of iCloud Photos.

The clientside scanning is only needed in the cases where:

1) iCloud Photos is turned off

or

2) iCloud Photos is e2ee
I have been using tutanota for half a year. It was something like 10 euros for a year. It has pretty decent regex filters so I can write filter by subject and therefore I get zero spam. I do not even have to pay them to get the essential features but I kind of want to because of the low price. Not going to go back to free email that is for sure.
If you have to check inboundness for all combinations of libraries, that's not really quick.
I wonder if this tradition of game-specific driver patches has even changed with the modern APIs though. If yes we would eventually see less frequent driver updates (which doesn't seem to be the case so far).
> Assuming the above is accurate, what advantage do you get by having "native" OpenGL or DX9/10/11 implementations on your GPU? Is there anything Intel is missing out on by using DXVK as opposed to implementing their own implementations?

One key issue is that Vulkan makes assumptions about the structure of graphics pipelines, which can make it harder to optimize the driver when an application changes a piece of state. For example, if an application changes the face culling mode, this may require recompiling the entire pipeline, which can be inefficient.

In contrast, native OpenGL or DirectX implementations allow for more flexible and efficient ways of managing state changes. For instance, they may provide hardware toggles that can be used to quickly and easily update the state without needing to recompile the entire pipeline. This can significantly improve the performance of the driver.

They're adding new VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state extensions to allow setting state dynamically, but the extensions don't support every single random piece of hardware state, and some hardware state can be limited or weird enough that it's hard to export in any sort of generic interface. Try explaining to a user that dynamic state A only works if there's enough free internal memory that hasn't been filled up by state B + C or D + A.

Also any abstraction layer will add CPU overhead because you need to manage/allocate more objects, process state through more layers, etc. It doesn't matter in every piece of code, but processing draw calls (which can happen millions of times a second) it can add up.

> Gallium3D

Is a lower layer below OpenGL. It was originally intended to be at a similar level to D3D9, so OpenGL drivers could avoid a lot of state tracking (e.g. texture dimensions are immutable open creation). It's still higher-level than Vulkan, since memory management and synchronization implicit (at least last I checked).
I think live chat is brilliant when I need it. But I partially agree with the article. Don't shove it it my face, that gives me the sleazy salesman feeling.

And I mean live chat. Me chatting with a bot is not a live chat.
Money doesn't buy happiness. Having Tony Hawk and Skrillex at your housewarming party is cool but they're not the same as friends.
What (barely) works for me is:

- Make a prompt with a similar structure to the ones that generated good images online.

- Generate a bunch of low quality images.

- Pick the low quality image that kinda sort of has the shape and colors I'm looking for.

- Iterate on that image with various other prompts and img2img, increasing how much the original image contributes as it gets better.
In polish Beijing is just Pekin after all those years. So I am confused why it desynced in english
So many future billionaires in the comments. Of course I expected that from HN.
What's going on recently with all the posts about "you don't need that" or "you don't want to be". Of course, I need a chat on my site - my whole business has been relying on this.
The metadata for files (checksum, filename) is not e2ee so they can access that info and be compelled to provide it when served with a warrant. This is quite a clever twist on a previous theme. The filename and/or checksum might be all it takes to incriminate.
I like the live chat option when it's just there and doesn't bother me. I don't like writing emails to support.
The difference with the benchmarks is that "games" are an actual work and a prime reason to buy the GPU, itself.
I play minecraft a lot with my sons. We actually never cared to finish it. I dont even know how to finish it. The game isnt made to be finished. Its a large maker playgarden. I think hardly anyone saw this ending.
Not if you use a smarthost to relay outgoing mail which is more or less a must on most IAPs since they block outgoing TCP/25 for domestic connections. Contact your IAP to find out which smarthost to use, many if not most offer this service. Assuming you have all the correct DNS magic configured as needed - DKIM, SPF et al - and assuming your IAP is not known for hosting spammers your mail should be ac

Source: experience in hosting my own mail since before the dawn of time, or at least since before the dawn of spam (and spamhaus).
Yeah, I have Ménière's, so I also have tinnitus. An important part of my own habituation is that I quit paying attention to all pop science news about it, including upcoming treatments, prosthetics, and clinical trials.

If at some future time an actually effective treatment, prosthesis, or medication is developed, it will hardly be possible to hide from the news. Until that point knowing about all the things that were tried and didn't work doesn't really help me.

Also, hopefully this might help someone: For playing my ambient sounds on loop, I use an old first gen Raspberry Pi with a set of USB powered speakers running mpg123 (a command line audio app) which I edited into the RPi's rc.local script (run on boot) and yt-dlp (YouTube download and transcoding).

There are literally tens of thousands of different audio ambience tracks on services like Spotify and YouTube of every possible description. It's astounding really. So occasionally I ssh in to the RPi, grab some track off of YouTube, rip it to mp3, and then play it for a while. Otherwise it plays the same heavy surf track I've been listening to for over a decade. I know every moment of that track and there's something weirdly comforting to that.

Right now I am listening to "Rain on Tent" and on my laptop is some sort of upbeat morning Jazz cafe thing which is probably not entirely man made.
> I have a strong feeling MS will put out a statement that they own the end poem and it is not public domain.

I don’t think they would do that. That would be unbelievably stupid from a legal department. The funny thing with this sort of IP in most of Europe (though this could be different in Sweden but I really doubt it) is that nobody except the author can own it. All they can have is an exclusive license. If they are convinced of this and wanted to clear things up, they will sue. But they probably won’t because the guy is probably right.

> it’s actually irrelevant because no one bought the game because of the poem.

That’s a very wrong take. IP laws deal with copying and distributing works. You won’t get out of a lawsuit saying that it was not significant (unless you are pleading fair use, but it clearly was not the case here).

Whether the work is important or not does not matter before we talk about compensation. And then, an insignificant fraction of a few billions is still quite a bit of money.
> case in point: these paintings have such striking similarities with (later) Byzantine icons (frontal representation, oversized eyes, stylistic choices for representing hair etc) there is no doubt they are part of a common cultural space that lasted for millenia and in some limited forms is still alive today.

Historians have long suspected that the authors of Christian holy books were inspired by several other religions. The parallels are so numerous it's hard to ignore (this wikipedia page [1] is a starting point but it's woefully incomplete, especially with respect to Ancient Egpytian religion and Osiris/Horus)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_comparative_mythology...
The most astonishing detail in this paper:

The researchers used Amazon Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform to recruit a sample of 201 women and 196 men who lived in the United States. The participants ranged in age from 19 to 77 years. Approximately 44% identified as heterosexual, 36% identified as bisexual, and 20% identified as homosexual.

According to this Gallup poll* from early 2022 at least 75% of Americans identify as heterosexual (percentage gets greater with older people). So how does Amazon Mechanical Turk's crowd skew to only 44% heterosexual in a sample of 400, between 19 and 77 years old?

* https://news.gallup.com/poll/389792/lgbt-identification-tick...
I think your focus on the financials, which was a very small part of the article is misguided. I'm under the assumption that the article is part of the author trying to "piece things together" - as a part 2 of his spiritual journey where he concluded:

> I wrote a story for a friend, but in the end, he didn't treat me like a friend, and I'm hurt.

By accepting this premise, these are examples of when he expected to be treated as a friend, but was instead treated as an outsider. As for the legality, I don't think a vague agreement can clarify if the work is licenced or if the licence was transfered.
To me julia is the perfect mathematical toy language with great fundamentals and prospects of becoming a serious language once the compile time issues are fixed.

It does so many things very right and always from first principles, not ad hoc (ad hacks).

some random examples that I love

sum(xs...) = reduce(+, xs)

julia > (6ft + 1km) * 1km/s
1002 m s⁻¹

julia> 'a' in "abc"
true

180° + π == 2π

map(x -> 2x, [2,4,6,8]) == [2,4,6,8].*2

julia> ⊕(x, y) = x+y

julia> 1⊕2

3

∑(xs...)=fold(xs,+)

julia> ∑(2,4,6,8)
20

∑(xs)=fold(xs,+)

julia> ∑([2 4 6 8])
20
That's not what he said, and no, Notch didn't do anything wrong here. He's referring to everything about current day Notch(sad, alone, transphobe in billion $ mansion that panders to the right on Twitter all day and hasn't had anything creatively interesting to say since 2015).
I think for email there are good alternatives, but for docs and sheets not so much?
Only as long as the chat immediately connects you to a human and you dont have to click/write through 10 bullshit messages about nothing with some half-assed bot.
Well, he also has all the money in the world to be distracted and surrounded by people who are in for the wrong reasons. So, let's see.
Now the App Store and Play Market platforms are throwing applications into a ban due to a similar code. For example, there are applications for carsharing, they have onid functionality, but they are produced by different companies. Accordingly, their code is similar to each other. AppRefactoring created a tool for creating unique code by replacing the necessary parts of the code.
1M Watts of RF – How the FM Supertower Works
Sounds like his art had a bigger impact on you than you realized. :)

I share your beliefs about IP, and I hope one day the world breaks free of the concept. But maybe try to be a little less mean. It’s worth it if only not to be one of those people that just post dunks for internet points. (I’ve done it a few times and usually regretted how I sounded after the dust settled.)

Cheers for openly expressing “down with copyright” though.
I never said that it's not an important issue and people shouldn't bother for the wellbeing of children.
We shouldn't make actual rules based on fictional situations. In a situation like this it would be trivial to exclude the obvious troublemaker for disruptive harassing behavior. You act as if managers,cops, and judges aren't capable of exercising basic judgement. If you did this tomorrow you would find out that this isn't true. It's a waste of my time and yours.
Don Knuth – Twintrees, Baxter Permutations, and Floorplans (2022) [video]
I would have accepted it if they bought a big space that's close to public transport, so that events can be organized often and very efficiently, with high accessibility.
Am I only one who thinks this is an over reach and there's no fundamental legal basis for these rulings... Like cookie banners
It's funny how organisations literally given legal status by states to accomplish things are no regarded as only responsible for their investors.
cool, I loved the RTS game Total Annihilation when I was a child, so cool that it can become a reality. I hope the west is Arm and not Core!
TypeScript: Advanced and Esoteric
So far, backward compatibility for D3D games on Windows has been excellent though. I really wonder why Intel is the only GPU vendor who has trouble supporting older D3D versions (and if this is such a problem for GPU vendors, why Microsoft doesn't step in and provide a generic D3D9-on-D3D12 driver).

(also I think the actual problem isn't a generic D3D9 emulation, but that a good emulation needs to implement thousands of game-specific performance and compatibility hacks which are usually taken care of by the GPU vendor or Microsoft)
I've just upgraded https://talktowalle.com/ GPT-3 AI Writer with text-davinci-003

See my prompt: Write lyrics for a dark-themed song about love:

I never thought I'd feel this way
Love has turned me upside down
My heart is broken, my mind is astray
My life is spinning around

Chorus

We were never meant to be
Our love was never meant to be
In a dark and twisted way
Love has taken me hostage

Verse 2

The love I thought I'd never find
Is now tearing me apart
My heart is shattered, my soul is blind
And I'm broken from the start

Chorus

We were never meant to be
Our love was never meant to be
In a dark and twisted way
Love has taken me hostage

Bridge

I can't escape this twisted fate
Love has taken me away
And I'm stuck in a web of lies
Trying to find the light of day

Chorus

We were never meant to be
Our love was never meant to be
In a dark and twisted way
Love has taken me hostage
What about the VC-25? What I read suggests that two 747-8 are in the boneyard, unsold to Russia and will be up-sold as replacement for airforce #1 but... they cannot be retrofitted for in air refuelling due to construction frame strength issues.

To me.. that's kind of defeating the purpose of the fleet. It's meant to be able to stay aloft.

But presumably they will come with a roof entry door and handles for Harrison Ford to hold on to outside.
Note: this is just an opinion.

Close to Oxford (aka PhD students, etc.), maintain the value instead of renting, good nature place for thinking.

I don't see the issue here if the space is utilized semi-effectively. They might need to think about how to get like 50% of the 15 million "out of the bricks" in order to utilize their capital better (assuming the house prices won't crash more than 50%).

EA was always Oxford-ish, culture is culture. No form of rationality will prevail from that (I'm looking at you HN! ;-) ). Given their cultural/emotional make up, I think this is an okay rational decision. It could've been way worse.

I don't get the fuss. It's kind of like being upset about the Kardashians or something (by that I specifically mean: it feels trivial and unimportant). It's a 15 million pounds decision that won't even make them lose 15 million pounds but a lot less. So who cares? Let's talk about CRISPR or something actually interesting. Let's live in the future.
I have been following all the screenshots on Twitter! Gave me some good hacks to push the limits of the tech.
> All of his problems could have been solved if he just did the sensible normal thing any person would do and have a lawyer help him figure it out.

Whilst this may have reached a better legal and financial conclusion, I don't think it would have helped the author that much. It's obvious that he cares of the art, and for his perceived friendship.
Yes this. If your thinking of incorporating live chat then make sure it's backed by humans or at least a way to get to human easily (if your AI bot fails to address the initial question). When you don't have a human available such as outside normal business hours just hide the chat feature, people can use your contact form.

IMHO this is the only acceptable method for having a chat feature on a site.
One can both be a small indie studio and also have sold multiple millions of copies of their game. Indie simply means you don't have a publisher. And Mojan didn't.
I quite like that idea of a party haha. I also don't know that my friends would appreciate it, but I'd love to see a website or something that lists works that belong to us now
But he was an outsider, he wasn't Notch's friend. Notch contacted him for the express purpose of writing the End Poem.

Of course, I'm sure they were friendly in their discussions, there's no point in being actively hostile to the people you're working with. But the idea the relationship extended anything past a game developer and a contracted writer seems to be entirely in the author's mind.
But not when you're placing e-commerce orders. Tutanota is often flagged because the same privacy-preserving features are also used for online fraud.
I also use Fastmail with custom domain and I alias every single new account I make to know who sells my data. Through last two years I think there's been only one major incident that made me unable to see my emails and it lasted like an hour or two. Otherwise it works properly, it's fast, Calendar integrates nicely with everything else I have(like Apple and Google calendars), search is insanely quick, it's easy to save/browse through files. It's also not that expensive for what you get.
Huh. I thought we'd run out of bizarre Minecraft development stories by now. It has to be one of the most documented ganes in history.

Anyway, I've personally always thought that the ending was rubbish but now that I know it was directly responsible for all those animated text effects I dislike it slightly less.
But then Mojang sent the money without a contract. The writer thought he was working under some conditions, the company thought he was doing it under other conditions and they never actually agreed to anything. Sending the money without a contract is just as sloppy as sending the work and I really don’t see how the author would be responsible here.

Not having a contract does not mean that Mojang’s terms are in force.
Unless they overshoot, end up on Urth and have to wait for a guy with a spare whetstone.
Twitter will reportedly charge $11 on iOS for Blue subscription
Letting your cook multitask while bringing water to a boil
Just a warning that owning your domain means also owning the security of the domain.

If you lose access to eg gmail or they ban you, nobody you care about will access your email.

If your domain gets hijacked or you fail to renew, now a bad actor could receive all your email forever.

(I use my own domain for email)
> is if it can't be trusted to return correct results

If you need correct results, the trick is to not trust anything. Any results that come out need to be validated. This can be done by running the equations backwards to see if the initial conditions and/or boundary conditions hold. For example, when I wrote matrix inversion routines long ago, I'd check that multiplying the original by its inverse produced the identity matrix.

I.e. do not trust. Verify.
its only a privacy-first device if you ignore how their treat their customers in china
British people don't care about the metaverse
A new survey of 6,000 people globally found Brits are among the least interested in participating in a virtual future. This could be down to just 2% of respondents from the UK having a full understanding of what the technology can do.
Does Whisper ever respond with "I don't understand" or does it always try to amble on and give an answer, no matter the confidence of the prediction?