skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And "smarter" is not always better: the NEC 765 (and later compatibles) used in PCs would always interpret those header bytes instead of allowing the software to read and write arbitrary "raw" data. This made certain formats impossible to duplicate - a benefit for copy protection schemes, but not in the user's interest - and it also limited how much a driver could optimize disk access. There was one command to read the next sector ID that the drive head was passing over, and another to read the contents of all sectors in the order that they appeared on the disk, but no way to do both at the same time. You couldn't read an entire track in whatever order and sort it out in software.

Many disk formats had sectors arranged in an interleaved order to give slow computers more time for processing the data, or skewed the starting sector number from track to track to optimize for the seek time during linear reading. So just reading the sector contents without the headers wouldn't work, plus the "read all sectors" command always waited for what it assumed was the start of track.

Some other controllers (at least some of the Western Digital ones you mentioned) would instead just detect the sync pattern at the start of a sector, and then send everything including the control bytes to the host. They could also format and write an entire track in one operation, with exact control over the layout.

Still there was a lot of clever hacks to make the PC controller do things it wasn't designed to do. Like formatting a track with lots of very small sectors (128 bytes), most of which would then be completely overwritten - header and all - to become part of just a few large ones. That allowed different sector sizes on the same track to give a bit of extra space, but with very little possibilities to control the gap lengths (necessary due to the mechanical nature of floppy drives). So this format wasn't as optimal or reliable as it could have been with a "dumber" controller.

It's hard to believe, but IBM would actually use this crazy format to distribute their installation diskettes!
No. The workplace isn't there to teach you basic discipline, good faith effort, self-control over your urges and basic reliability. These things are to be expected from the very start. For every generation. This is the first to fail this lowest of all tests.

There are no mysteries here about what to do or how to behave. When you work at a place, you do the work. You show up and do the work. That's it. It's not a skill problem, it's a behavioral problem.

Are there larger forces at work causing this? Yes. Overprotective and distant parenting. Pampering. Addictive tech. Zero effort convenience services. No hardships. No accountability. No social skills. Spending 18 years of your life on easy mode, and then being plunged into the real world.
> On iOS, Cocoa uses WebKit to render text, and everything UIKit-based on MacOS

you are saying that nstextview and friends are rendered with webkit?
I had good results doing the exact same thing.
> The modern Level 2 car is already today at below 1 fatality per billion vehicle miles travelled (VMT)

Does this statistic count fatalities to people outside the car? I ask because (in the US, at least) car safety ratings don't take those into consideration.
What I don't get, is why he'd ban the account when there's such an obvious risk of the Streisand effect, especially when he'd offered to buy him out a few months ago. Surely he'd know that doing this would get a ton of negative attention for hypocrisy, and probably cause a bunch of copycat accounts and websites to be created.
Right because Elon is such a genius that of course he wouldn't just block links to the Twitter account he suspended and not also block links to an Instagram profile. :eyeroll:

The faster people stop being surprised, the better. I don't want to be too bold, but it's increasingly obvious that he's in the "double down on everything, at all costs, lest his ego explode" mindset. Interestingly, not terribly dissimilar from some OTHER richy-richy types lately that have lost all touch with public perception.
You could just pay for premium
I left the server after 2 years or something because I couldn't stand the abysmal signal:noise ratio (of many kinds), and that's as someone who dedicated their life to CG. Just my 2c.
so celebrity sightings are now illegal, lol
Tesla uses simulation to but there is no replacement for real world data. The real world is crazy and Tesla can see people driving in real condition from Alaska to Miami Florida.
NixOS fortunately solves this problem. Here's a daily rsync with some names changed to protect any innocent hosts on my network. Note that the contents of "sync.sh" could easily go in there as well, but I was previously running it via cron, so didn't bother to move that over.

systemd.services.somehost-sync = {
startAt = "daily";
path = [ pkgs.coreutils pkgs.rsync pkgs.openssh ];
environment = {
HOME = "/home/someuser";
};
script = ''/external/media/sync.sh'';
serviceConfig.User = "someuser";
};

Not everything in NixOS has been a "win" but systemd timers are so much more ergonomic under nix
I tried, but I couldn't get it to work at all. I don't really know what I was doing wrong, it just hung without connecting. It's been a while and I haven't tried since.
> Sure, but that's true of everything. The dollar is still worth one dollar, too.

It's not. [1]

> But we still say that the dollar is losing value to inflation, and we experience it every time we try to buy something else with dollars. (Buying dollars with dollars is rather pointless.) And I'm pretty sure you know all that, and the parent post was just an attempt at a deflection.

No, the dollar loses value to inflation because the supply of money continues to increase, therefore making an individual dollar less valuable (value of currency is drive by scarcity). The supply of Bitcoin is fixed, and therefore, anti-inflationary.

---

The price in X currency is whatever that market is willing to pay for Bitcoin, but that doesn't change the value of it. It's identical to the stock market. The stock market price of a company is not the book value of a company. Ironically, the money printing is what creates and worsens that disconnect as companies do stock buy backs with printed, un-backed dollars, artificially increasing their stock price.

[1] See "Buying Power of $1 over time, 1800-2022" here: https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1800?amount=1
That's so cool that there's a web version now! I was introduced to multisim back in high-school and enjoyed that unit a lot, will play around with it on the weekend :)
Original server here: https://mastodon.social/@JxckS/109513788818540405

Authenticity has been confirmed with an update on the personal site: https://grndcntrl.net/links/
Quantum Time Flip
Tesla stock is known to be very volatile. I would not read too much into yet, but Musk being distracted with Twitter is not helping.
I can't see that path getting taken without you basically losing ownership of the car?
Almost sounds like a supply chain/manufacturing problem than a software problem.
It doesn't try to protect you from the really deranged things. Every TS check comes with an implied "assuming you didn't use a Proxy to make this property accessor mutate state or something"

It does reach admirably far into checking the regular dynamic-language programming patterns like using string variables to index into structures. Which is where a lot of its complexity comes from, but I wouldn't call that stuff "deranged". JS is a dynamic programming language, and people write it like a dynamic programming language, and typescript decided to meet it where it was at, which is probably the only reason it's gotten so much traction in the first place
Or you can reduce your need for batteries by combining wind and solar with green, safe nuclear reactors - and smart grids capable of varying their demand instead of us trying desperately to adjust supply.

For example, as more folks move to electric cars, a smart grid would allow chargers to charge less at periods of intense demand.

We've historically focused exclusively on adjusting supply to meet demand - which is clearly very difficult and very expensive (especially if you look at gas peaker plants) - but we instead (or in addition) can adjust aspects of the demand curve to smooth out variability in load. This should be easier and significantly cheaper.
100gbe is pretty similar to infiniband no? Or does infiniband still kill it on latency?
He lost at trial on all counts.
ChatGPT to be employed in marketing positions immediately.
The best game I played in 2022 was probably Northern Pacific (which was made by Tom Russel, the creator of Irish Gauge and Iberian Gauge.)

Northern Pacific is a surprising mix of train games (which are often long and complex) and a party game with surprising strategic space. You only have two options, but the impact on other players is real. However, as the game ends in 15 minutes, you don't get the same feelings of betrayal and anger that you'd get playing something like Chinatown.

I strongly recommend it. I also recommend Irish Gauge and Iberian Gauge, but those require a bit more of a time investment (1-2 hours) and Iberian Gauge is a bit too complicated for even well-behaved children under the age of 10 or so.

-edit- I just realized it was released in 2013, but I bought it this year so :shrug:.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/138704/northern-pacific
Yes, but I’d like to be able to do my daily commute full EV and that is closer to 80 miles round trip.

Then for longer trips we have the convenience of not needing to charge.
> They can't have a bunch of lidar sensors on their cars

Why not? There are production cars with lidar now that isn't the big spinning thing on top of the car.
> Economists call this the monopsony problem (or, since we're talking about two companies, a duopsony or oligopsony problem). That's an unwieldy and esoteric term, so Rebecca Giblin and I coined a much better one, and wrote a book about it: Chokepoint Capitalism:

In Soviet Russia, where economics was interesting, terms like "monopsony" or "oligopoly" were known to (many) schoolkids. I'd still prefer them than this vague novelty.
If you have .NET 6/7 installed, give this a try:

dotnet new webapi -minimal
dotnet run

I know there's been a lot of discussion about whether .NET/C# are faster than X or Y or Z based on TechEmpower benchmarks, but this will give you a backend that looks more or less like Express with an OpenAPI schema built-in (generate TS bindings for frontend) and a runtime that is going to be higher thoughput than Express or Node.

dotnet watch

And you get hot reload.
One Trading Strategy Is Winning Big in This Nasty Year for Stocks
I see a comment like this every time someone mentions WASM and have to eye-roll a little. Yes transpile-to-WASM techniques exist, but as someone like yourself with a self-professed inability to learn TypeScript, I don't think you are going to enjoy living on the edge of webdev with WASM either... The tooling is nowhere near as mature for one, which is always problematic when starting from a position of little knowledge.

Just search github.com and you will find countless example repos for many languages, but understanding typescript first is probably a more productive use of most people's time.

If you work in web-tech, I consider avoiding JS and TS to be almost negligent to some extent in 2022.
Regulation is one of the major factor that slows down. You need more and more test cases to achieve higher reliability, but data collection at scale need approvals and regulators want to see if it's reliable enough to approve. This chicken and egg problem is not something easy to solve since at its heart it's a trust problem. Tesla was an exception because they choose to put all the responsibility to the drivers by making it technically ADAS but marketing it as "full self-driving".
Not the death, but AMD's chiplets at different process nodes is the approach of the future. One of the slides I remember from an AMD presentation in recent Gamers Nexus videos showed curves for cache, logic, and a third curve across process nodes.

SRAM has desirable properties; simplicity, self sustaining state, latency.

The flattening curves follow the approach to the physical limits of doped silicon. It'll be interesting to see if another electron based but different semiconductor or another method of computing entirely (maybe photonics or some other range of the EM spectrum?) continues the rise in density or if we instead focus more on optimizing hardware and software.
Is rap a melody?
I believe another web-based tool which can do this already is https://www.flux.ai

I've noodled around with it and I like it, but I actually find working with pencil, paper, and the actual components to be more efficient than panning and zooming around a 3d environment. It's not always an option so these simulators are very useful, but I've come to realize I'm far better off by planning not to use these tools, I guess.
Why the labor force participation rate is falling: some explanations
Teslas vision based system makes a prediction of what the environment around it is, how far away things are. A LIDAR based system knows with certainty how far way things are.

LIDAR may be expensive now, thats not to say it won't get cheeper, with fewer parts.

But the main issue is a social one, I don't think the public will except any fatalities as a result of a vision based system making a mistake. Even if the deal rate from accetends is lower than with a human driver.

A self driving car can't be 50% better, or even 200% better it needs to be thousands of times better than a human driver for it to succeed. I think the certainty of a LIDAR baed system is the only way to do that.

An AI based vision system is Tesla saying that can make a "brain" better than a human at understanding vision.

LIDAR is saying, humans can't measure how far away things are, we can do better than humans by doing something they can't.
I came to this thread to post a laundry reference, but cstross beat me to it. Can't complain :)
Researchers create a bio-solar cell with a succulent plant
From https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-info...

"live location information, including information shared on Twitter directly or links to 3rd-party URL(s) of travel routes, actual physical location, or other identifying information that would reveal a person’s location, regardless if this information is publicly available;"

Posting links to other websites that may enable sharing Elon's location is now a bannable offense.
> This is not really true.

This is 100% true.

The latest example is WebTransport. Which isn't even on the standards track. Yet Chrome already released it, and calls it "an emergent standard".

And this goes for multiple other Chrome-only non-standards.

Good thing you found an API that you decided was reasonable. Doesn't make it a standard, or that there's a consensus, or that other browsers agree with your assessment. Age of the proposal doesn't factor into it.
Here are a bunch of my favorites, in no particular order. I don't think any of them are brand new, though I only found some of them in 2022.

- I dissent

- Panamax

- Pandemic Legacy, Season 2

- Root

- Dice Hospital

- Cthulhu: Death May Die

- Food Chain Magnate

- Letters from Whitechapel

- Terraforming Mars

- Space Base

- Dominant Species

- Cockroach Poker
> As much as I like ASP.NET, Next has leapfrogged it for web apps.

Look, I like NextJS as much as the next guy - I'd say it's my main working technology right now. And I've never built anything on .Net - I know its characteristics from watching tutorials and reading docs.

My take however is that "web apps" is a very broad world. NextJS gives you a thin API layer. There is no model layer to speak of. You're left fending for yourself in the wild, wild world of JavaScript.

.Net Core, on the other hand, offers a batteries-included, heavy-lifting, opinionated framework, with an immense toolbox and many conventions to guide you. There has to be a reason why people speak such wonders of it. If I had to build something enterprise-y with more than handful of devs it would probably be my choice.
time for http://this_chat_gpt_does_not_exit.com
If you are wealthy enough to buy a jet, the public is entitled to know where that jet is flying, because such info has been shown to prevent accidents (which endangers the public and costs money to taxpayers).

If you are wealthy enough and that tracking rubs you the wrong way, you are free to take public transportation like the rest of us. If Congress can do it, so can Musk.
Follow the money, sadly.

Honestly, one weird/humorous/sad thing I've noticed is that -- for purposes of "what is actually censored," messing around with celebrity images is often literally the worst thing you can do, ostensibly worse than violence, racism, etc.
This is documented under the 'video' section on the publishing guidelines[0]. Videos are heavily dissuaded for a large number of reasons.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-to-publish-on-gov-uk/images-...
I did something similar, for a dashboard type of web app that involves a lot of graphs. JS graph APIs pretty much all expect data as JSON-formatted JS variables, not HTML.

So I use HTMX to make the server requests, using triggers defined in HTMX, replacing a lot of JS code. It's really only with the JSON-based responses that I'm going rogue. HTMX is so elegant, I feel dirty going against the grain.
This is the type of next-level ad blocking we need more of!
This is the gist of it, but you have to ask yourself why it's just the accepted wisdom that it's okay to have the massive level of failure we have now.
> There aren't any operating systems I'm aware of where paths are actually Shift-JIS by convention, so that seems like a non-issue. Using "UTF-8 by convention" strings works on all modern OSes.

Nonsense. Unix paths use the system locale by convention, and it's entirely normal for that to be Shift-JIS.
Oh, so that's the reason. I have a 6-button Saturn-style gamepad that I bought dirt cheap to play MAME. A year ago I wanted to play some Megadrive games. I tried RetroArch, and it's absolutely impossible to configure it, it insist that your controller has a SNES-like layout. What good is an emulator if it doesn't show you the real controls of the real machine? Also, I guess the interface is nice if you are playing on a RetroPi or similar connected to a TV, but on a PC with a real mouse is absolutely atrocious. And don't get me started on the million different cores and forks of forks of forks.

A few months ago I found Ares (https://ares-emu.net/), a fork of bsnes/higan with a pleasant UI and multi-system support, and I couldn't be happier. It is not perfect, but it is so much nicer.
Literally making their own AI training chips with novel architecture doesn’t count as participating in research?

Google has tried and failed at commercializing similar technology in other verticals (like building environmental automation from their DC tech). The reason is actual incumbents (rightly) see the value of their position while Google comes at it as “our AI is the value, you just make dumb things”.

I expect the automakers to ship mediocre stacks that are put together by existing players like Bosch.

As an ex-Googler I would be floored if Waymo actually lands a sell-into deal with an automaker. A fully vertical taxi service is their path today because they tried and failed to sign any partnerships.
The better question is why do TVs make the list.

I feel quite strongly they actually make life worse, not better, so they're a net negative.
> I wonder, what could be a rational hate?

Personally, I'm pretty much an "anti-hate" absolutist, but I recognize that a lot of people in this audience aren't, so I'm leaving room for "rational hate" which is maybe something like "this person did something bad, so I hate them" versus "this person belongs to a group, and some people in that group have done bad things, ergo I hate this person" which is the explicit reasoning in the comment that I originally replied to.

> Personally I also wonder what is the supposed rationality behind any society granting some becoming billionaires. All the more when there is no social enforcement loop that ensure that the gap between richest and poorest remain in decent state.

Yeah, I empathize with this.

> Otherwise the hate of the richest is an obvious outcome of the inequity structure.

It may be "an obvious outcome", but it doesn't mean it's rational. It's certainly not a moral outcome.
Those poisonings left 75% of victims alive, didn’t they?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/23/skripal-salisb...

“The unmasking of the Salisbury poisoning suspects by a new digital journalism outfit was an embarrassment for Putin – and evidence that Russian spies are not what they once were.”
Thank you, I appreciate your detailed input.
My guess is that it depends a lot on the driver. There are a lot of really reckless drivers, or really bad drivers out there on the roads right now. I know people who've been in several (relatively minor) car crashes, driving the same-ish sort of route to/from college and work that I was during the same period. I think they're just a bad driver. I feel like they're driving recklessly when I'm a passenger in a car they're driving. So a self-driving car might be a better driver than them, while also being worse than the median driver, and much much worse than like the upper portion of the human driver spectrum, like the 1st quintile of the 20% of human drivers who are pretty good.

Given how reckless some drivers are, I'd imagine the distribution of crashes among drivers is very skewed. I don't know numbers, but I'd expect to see something like 80% of car crashes involving (or objectively caused by) 20% of the drivers, with most car crashes involving people who have been involved in numerous crashes, and a large minority of drivers having been involved in zero car crashes.
Securities trader charged in New York with front-running employer's trades
I bought Tailwind UI and am using all their components (or as much as I can). I don't disagree with anything you said but I do like the tailwind features and design philosophy.

I have completely ignored web components and need to learn all about them.
Ha, they'll probably get credited by the FBI for assisting in the investigation, as they did last time.

Cloudflare gets the low-integrity prize.
What do you like about Viticulture?

I know it's well-loved, but when my wife and I tried playing it we found it dull and tedious. I'm curious if we're just missing something.
Unviewable for me. Can someone post content/screenshot here? Is it a recent change or something a few years old?
Re 1), I like Mike's talk from the 10th anniversary of D3. It came while working on Plot but before it was officially released; a few of the points relate to the high/low-level thing and anticipate Plot:

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqeymt1mqAw
Essay: https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/10-years-of-open-source-v...

Re 2), Plot returns a regular DOM node, so you can select any part of it and do anything you’d otherwise do with D3. Plots also expose their scales: assuming the DOM node of a generated Plot is named myPlot, you can call myPlot.scale("x"), and then feed that domain and range into a D3 scale. I can find some examples later if you’re interested.
> It's great if you're tired of making enemies during games

this is what my family needs.

also, i heard this is a good game. might get it.
Note that this policy also bans posting "Elon Musk just got booed at the comedy club." Nice broad policy for selective enforcement.
Also doesn't seem to work in Chrome: I see a toolbar and the rest of the page is blank.
Wow that's huge. Might need to find something to try out SvelteKit now. Loved Svelte already and I was only waiting for a 1.0 of SvelteKit.
This has the nice "benefit" of also making Twitter useless as a real-time organizing tool ("We're at City Hall demonstrating against the new ordinance. Come on down.").