skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it depends on how you look at the the percentages.

Lots of people _use_ Apple’s developer tools, Google Chrome and other Google products. But in each of those cases, I believe the actual group of people directly dealing with C++ and Clang are small relative to the global C/C++ developer population. Android has a strong argument since Google can force the hands of OEMs. I don’t see how the size of Chrome’s user base will bring about an LLVM monoculture if 99.999% of C++ developers on earth never build Chrome themselves.

The majority of electronic devices on earth have (non-Android) firmware or software written in C/C++, written by people all over the world who don’t work for Google, Apple or anyone you’d even consider a tech company. You will never hear about these projects on HN because they’re closed-source, proprietary and (frankly) boring. But almost all of those projects use whatever toolchain their vendor provides, and more often than not (in my experience), thats GCC.

Like I said, I don’t have any numbers to back this up. I’m not claiming that GCC reigns supreme and that LLVM is irrelevant outside of academia. I’m just saying that if you’re really concerned about LLVM _support_ in the kernel leading to an LLVM monoculture, you might not understand how widely used GCC is in “boring” tech.

[edit] Adding to this, I guess it also depends on how you view a “monoculture” w.r.t compilers. I could imagine a not-too-distant future where LLVM gets the vast majority of research effort, and you see cool new optimizations brought into it while GCC stagnates. We’re arguably already there. But I don’t see that driving thousands of low-margin hardware OEMs to switch over from GCC to LLVM. Maybe that will happen one day, but I think we’re pretty far away from that.
And I thought a four-hour flight I once took in a 172 was far too long!

Good little airplanes, they are.

I suppose they chose their engine airspeed to achieve the lowest fuel consumption rate https://www.se.edu/aviation/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/... See pdf page 132, book page 5-18. It looks like they could use as little as ~6 gallons/hour at 1900 rpm. You can save a lot of fuel by flying more slowly; handy to know if you need (heaven forbid) to stretch that 45-minute reserve when your destination is socked in.
Similarly there is https://text.npr.org/
I used win2k for like 10 years and continued to play games it as well. I was able to ride on the XP coat tails because between the two, there were only a handful of win32 APIs that were not implemented in 2000. I ended up having to patch a few DLLs to ignore these missing endpoints, but it meant I could use legitimately the best windows there ever was for a few more years. Eventually I "upgraded" to windows 7 to get reasonable driver support because manufacturers finally stopped shipping 2k compatible drivers.. what a sad day that was.
How much have you followed along with the progression of grey area drugs over the last 30 years? Who was it that started the opioid epidemic again?

Yeah, I'm thinking the solution is ban more stuff and then hand the reigns back to the regulators who have definitely not been subject to regulatory capture by the companies that started the opioid epidemic.
Looks like some of these laws have been struck down (for violating the freedom of speech clause of the First Amendment). [1]

It seems that some of the enforcement mechanisms of surviving/new laws revolve around notifying the families of the victims when a convict receives a large sum of money, from any source. The goal is to give the family a chance to sue in civil court.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Sam_law
This is genuinely the biggest barrier to a new viewer of CS. Until you physically play on a map, it is very hard to understand by watching alone, especially as the perspectives are largely first-person. It can take dozens of hours to build a proper mental model of a map so understanding the game as camera angles change in a flurry is very difficult.

Traditional sports all have the same (or routinely similar) "map", and they're mostly made up of a simple geometric shape that can generally fit in a single overhead frame.
Years ago I worked in the VAX/VMS development group at Sybase where SQLServer originated. SQLServer was basically an SQL interpreter consisting of several layers of loops. The innermost loop was written in assembler for speed.

I was able to remove one (1) machine language instruction from that innermost loop. I no longer recall if this resulted in a measurable difference but I've always been proud of this.
The original point of LLNL was to develop nuclear bombs. There is such as thing as "mission creep", also the challenge of maintaining the ability to develop bombs in the future if we need to.
Ah ok.

FYI I should have referenced the dissassembly that Scott and Sean did, you can see the actual algorithm better.

Start here http://seanriddle.com/robomame.asm and jump to the player start routine at $2B0B.
All those activities requires lots of focus. If we don't focus when doing them we will spill out stuff, or miss stuff when cleaning etc, and that makes people angry. Trying to do the right thing and focus on the task is basically impossible, so then there is no choice but to get screamed at by angry people who thinks we are lazy and defiant, no wonder we get angry and irritated...
> no prohibition at all

Prohibition is black and white. You can’t have a little prohibition, that’s on par with ending a ten-day detox with a mouthful of pills.

The war on drugs enforced a prohibition. Most of this thread advocates for regulation. I suspect you and the comment you’re responding to do as well.
my brother in Christ, where do you think you are?
Minecraft is the obvious eSports example
I think too many have ignored a classic logic: do your best to avoid SPOF.

Globalization is the extreme evolution of works specialization, instead of being "different States in the World" anyone as autonomous / self-sufficient as possible we have reached a point of being a "single system all other the world" where States blend a bit their role and no one is anymore self-sufficient. Such model works beautifully well until it breaks. Like any hyper-centralized systems.

Doing the best to being self-sufficient is expensive, slow, complex etc. BUT pay off when things goes wrong. That's the very same principles of having lifeboats&c on ships: 99% of the time they are just costly useless tools. We can spare more space and reduce costs cutting them. That's works very well until something goes wrong.

That's is and that's also why the WEF corporatocracy model is equally crazy. They want the power of course, but they forget the fact that companies are not different: they tend to be all on the same line of thought. Witch means they inevitably copy one another, they are a single entity so a SPOF. WE NEED VARIETY to maximize evolution and chances to survive as a spices. That's the real missing point.

That's why is terrible to see a Chinese leader with an English dress. We need to be different, very different, see each others and share, but anyone with a path.
> The main difference being, it gave me a reason to listen (sparked my interests because 1-person is generating $100,000s with a simple PHP form app”.

That's kind of clickbait topic?

> As opposed to “Meteor Cloud Is a Full Service Hosting Solution for Meteor Apps” which just sounds like an ad for their app.

That interview is long high quality podcast with a lot of very interesting information to me. I'm in target audience, developing software with Meteor. And it really is not required for every company to describe exact financials.
It was indeed great for seeing the country when I was a teenager. These days, the idea of living out of something similar to a first class airline seat does not appeal and sleepers are outrageously expensive.
Quoting from Wikipedia [1]:

The conviction rate is 99.3%. By only stating this high conviction rate it is often misunderstood as too high—however, this high conviction rate drops significantly when accounting for the fact that Japanese prosecutors drop roughly half the cases they are given. If measured in the same way, the United States' conviction rate would be 99.8%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate#Japan
> Society forces everybody to interact socially.

No, the premise you require in order for me to be wrong is that society forces this on everyone, but I live with a woman who has crippling anxiety to the point of being on disability for it and I can tell you that's emphatically untrue. Even SSI related meetings happen over the phone because of her disability.

Those with ADHD have many challenges that other people don't have, but asking the whole of society to suddenly be able to understand them better is like asking all women to be start preferring short men. It just is, and those with these challenges will have to learn how to deal with them (and you see posters on HN all the time talking about how they've done just that). For those for which it's truly debilitating, we need to make sure they don't fall through the cracks (and for the most part we do this).

It's as much a part of reality as the person with 2 missing thumbs having more difficulty grasping things than someone with both thumbs.
>Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah essentially neutered the ability of the federal government to take most any useful action against supplements unless they are proven to cause harm.

Would you rather that the federal government can shut down any company they want without having to prove harm?
Small tangent. Would you mind sharing how you calculate CPI? Do you just do timing and use some base clock rate? With the CPU frequency being so variable (with boost clocks) I imagine the correct way is with some fancy instrumentation.
> and partly because I have no faith in the NHS giving a shit

If you have to deal with NHS for ADHD, them giving a shit is the least of your problems. Getting an appointment with a dedicated specialist is the hardest thing. Currently the waiting times are 6 months to 2 years.
I recently watched the following series of videos by Russell Barkley who I believe is one of the world's leading ADHD researchers. I think it's a good place to start because it describes the scientific understanding of what ADHD is, which I feel has given me a more solid grounding to evaluating other things I read and hear about ADHD, some of which turns out to be innacurate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T9LQ5kqOqo&list=PLzBixSjmbc...
Just need a giant soft e ink display.
You're probably having trouble because neither Musk's narrative nor edge have come from being a cunning salesperson. This is “Tesla stock price is too high imo” Musk, robotaxi next year Musk, other person is a pedophile Musk, yell at legal authorities Musk.

Musk's edge has come from tackling hard, technical problems, and doing so successfully, for long enough, on enticing enough problems, that people started to buy the dream.

Contrast, leftist flamebait is just Musk being impolitic on Twitter, and an increasingly-hostile anti-left Musk is just what you get when the left runs campaigns specifically attacking him. It's not a smart business move because it's not a business move, merely a reflection of the increasing polarization of America.
No zoom/pan baked in, not interesting to me
I'm fairly certain afluenza is a thing, and instead of allowing it to run roughshod over society, it should be a tax.

Almost every in modern America is designed increase the rate of influenza in a minority of wealthy people through lack of anticollusiin law enforcement.
https://www.nrel.gov/geothermal/resource-assessment-mapping....

https://www.nrel.gov/geothermal/assets/images/resource-asses...
> This website is seriously infested with reflexive contrarians and it’s a not healthy.

I can't imagine what it is like to be in their heads. Even for things I am skeptical about, I still want them to be true if they are truly transformative. My worst case scenario is being cautious, but never, ever, negative.
While I agree Win2k was in all ways better, it wasn't cheap relative to ME.
There comes a point in any massively scaling networking project, and here I speak with some experience, when you realize that your goal, while admirable, has no bearing on the lessons learned over the last few decades of MMO development.

I fear this is a handwave.

What I mean by that is that its addressing the wrong problem for the Metaverse. Being able to implement an ECS model, for instance, where different platforms have common system requirements but because they're both built on Verse they can easily glom/reduce/map components and functions so entities in one ruleset can interact in the other... that's neat, but not a technology problem.

It's a combinatoric problem. And a game design problem.

By the time Verse is built up enough and has enough market penetration to try to take on this sort of role as a bedrock foundation layer for the Metaverse I think we're going to see two major shifts that make it obsolete:

1. The rise of AI-aided design and programming (think ChatGPT on steroids) that makes it pointless to worry about having One Great Solution when the AIs can just interop/translate and all the platforms (even competing corporate interests) can be "Metaversy" with their entities/players.

2. Either the combinatoric problem gets solved or it doesn't. Game designers have strong opinions on NFTs, for instance. The majority recognize them as incapable of solving the item portability problem (or as Raph Koster says, is it even desired?). Either novel ways emerge to do so and it's solvable, or they don't. I suspect either way the heavy lifting is not a programming technology problem, but a contractual/API one.
Nitrogen is inert. Combustion doesn't need nitrogen. It just basically fills space.
The problem is that there's not enough audience. It's a niche thing compared to big sporting events like F1, La Liga, Premier League, NFL, NBA, etc.
Is this cold fusion? The article contrasts this experiment with a plasma tokamak in the UK. I suppose the lasers require a lot of energy but it doesn't sound like there is a plasma is there?
I don't care what the carrier agreement says. If they want to send me the warnings, fine. My phone is perfectly equipped to receive them and will happily display them should I choose to allow it. What's unacceptable to me is forcing my phone to do anything. It doesn't matter to me if there's some piece of paper saying I can't turn them off, I will turn them off and I will resist them if they try to force it on.
Totally different issue.

To sell a drug, you need to demonstrate therapeutic effectiveness. Someone demonstrated that beta blockers lower blood pressure, for example.

But I can sell a jar of bone meal mixed some ramen chicken flavor, and say that cavemen ate soup made with bone broth, and some people have reported developing caveman strength by consuming bone broth.

The loophole is that products have dual use or traditional use. For example, isopropyl alcohol isn’t a regulated “pesticide” for disinfecting surfaces because it predates the regulatory process. Or honey can help with a cough, but you can’t label honey as a cough suppressant. Scammers abuse that loophole.
This speaks more to the lack of technological progress in US rail than anything else.

Foreigners from nations where state of the art HSR is commonplace probably do bat an eye upon seeing such things, in the supposedly modern and progressive USA of all places.
> But if that gives everyone something to do and flattens the social hierarchy, that would be better.

It won't. It will just make 90% of people poorer.
The flip side is that the earning potential of the top players are incredibly lopsided, whether that be the top competing players in terms of winnings, or those most able to be a personality in terms of streaming. It's not clear the teams themselves contribute much to either of those areas - training is most often self directed or with play groups that may not align with teams, and it's not like e.g. soccer where there's big physical infrastructure like stadiums that clearly the players need an organisation to provide. Instead the venues for in-person events are provided by the tournaments, not the teams, and pretty much everything else the players need to earn money is online.
You’re just a reflexive (reflexive contrarian) contrarian
Can't remember the brand, but it certainly wasn't buffered. And probably (relatively) cheap.
The article talks about offices but most of the pictures show data centers. As nobody (except administration, IT personal or "operators", how they where called back then) is working in data center today, most folks did not work there back in the 1970s. There is literally only one photo which seems to show a cubicle.
Recyber.net
Has anyone else received large amounts of scan traffic originating from IPs associated with this organization?
Yeah, I thought that was a neat idea until I looked at it. It shouldn't be so wide it looks like there's an actual space character there.
> swapping out gas radiator boilers for electric options can be very difficult and costly

Something like €5000 plus labour in Lithuania, around half days work. Gov subsidises good portion of it.
There are vision defects that are attributed to misshapen lenses/cornea that seem to be common with astigmatism, and it's those defects that flare up under the conditions I listed in the OP.

I don't have conclusive proof, of course, but in my experience it is those symptoms that get exacerbated.
So the two options are to believe everything unquestionably or be suspicious/cynical about all new announcements.
Venus has a CO2 atmosphere, so the upper bar is very high.
Ok?
So our only problem is climate disaster and it’s not gonna happen?

I’m genuinely trying to understand your point but you seems to copy paste lists a lot.

Can you expand on what they mean for you?
>The US was not founded on slavery and genocide, this is bullshit history. Half of the original colonies barely ever had slavery and had banned it before the revolution.

>Half of the original colonies barely ever had slavery and had banned it before the revolution.

>Half of the original colonies

So.... you're saying that half of them had full on slavery, and the other half had reduced to no slavery....to me it seems "founded" on slavery is absolutely accurate, especially considering that is literally enshrined in our highest governing document via the 3/5ths compromise, and went on to be the heart of the southern economy, becoming near and dear to enough people's hearts that half the country went to war to preserve it. And what would you call what we did to Native Americans if not genocide?
No he's dead
Fossil Files: My .Emacs
I did not read the article but the title of this post begs the question “Why?”. While I can understand the value of entertainment , I think it would be better to have robotic replicas of dinos rather than the real ones. Just my 2 cents.
> You absolutely can write a formula that matches observations without justifying it or deriving it from first principles, ie. "hacking" Newton's second law is totally fine if it works.

Physics is an interconnected whole. You cannot simply hack whatever formula you want. Newton's 2nd law is a consequence of Relativity, in the low-velocity limit. You cannot hack Newton's 2nd law without changing Relativity, which means changing basically everything in physics, including extremely precisely measured quantities like the energy levels of the hydrogen atom.

That's why MOND itself isn't a theory of nature. You have to modify General Relativity to produce MOND-like effects. It's very difficult to do that without messing up other parts of the theory.

> Don't pretend there aren't huge gaping holes you could drive a dump truck through

Every precision test of gravity produces results that match GR to within experimental precision. No, these are not just tests within the Solar system. To give you one example, gravitational waves have now been verified to travel at light speed, which rules out large classes of modified GR theories.
Yeah that’s the exercise I fear they did, especially if management believes they have more recruiting leverage now than before due to slowdowns in hiring.
Yes. The first time it happened was in the Hudson River in the NYC triathlon. I thought for sure that I'd just ingested some sludge, and I went on to complete the race, after which I was sent to the hospital (I walked). My pulse ox was 86. Most triathlon deaths occur during the swim portion of the race and are attributed to cardiac events, often SCD, but pulmonary edema may actually be the primary cause. A teeny bit of education (chest congestion? get out of the damn water!) could save lives, but nobody in the business of triathlon wants to scare off new participants, since the amateur fee-paying end of the sport is really the whole game.
If the Antarctic thaws, it would be probably the best place for them.
I think I’d you’re selling me a cure, you should prove that it cures something and is safe.

Safe needs to be defined as well. As we learned during the pandemic, there’s a spectrum of risk tolerance that individuals have.
> Would you rather that the federal government can shut down any company they want without having to prove harm?

No, not "any". Is that really what you meant to ask?

Supplements, though? Whether extracts or synthetic chemicals that don't have evidence of being safe in that form? Yeah probably.
| FTX US did operate in the US, but I'm not sure how fucked they are relative to the main FTX exchange.

I'm going to go out on an amputated limb here and say...right well fucked.
That’s kind of what happened in Australia after the explosion of research chemicals and “technically not xxx” alternatives were being imported legally.

They banned drugs based on ‘having an effect’ as opposed to the chemicals they contained.

https://www.justice.vic.gov.au/psychoactive-substances-laws

I knew a lot of people importing research chemicals from Chinese websites prior, and a lot of that stopped after these laws came into play. I’m not sure how wide spread the related issues were, but it was definitely a thing.

But Australia never had the synthetics being sold in service stations like the article stated. That was a big thing in New Zealand tho, until it got clamped down on.
My main argument against esports is somewhat similar, though in a different direction. It's odd to me to watch something anyone can do, with minimal investment. Why watch when you could just play?

With baseball, football, or basketball, I'd have to not only find a field or court and a bunch of willing participants, but also be in good enough shape to run a bit.

Watching Esports is essentially watching someone sit at a computer - something anyone can easily do. I don't mean to discount whatever skill is involved in being a good player, only talking about barriers to entry.
He never was. The real rich people you'll never hear about or see in media.
People have just become unsensitized to clickbait, it's mostly the media's fault, they always use titles like "cancer cure discovered" to get more views and thus more money, the viewers see a thousand articles like this and keep getting disappointed to the point a real cancer cure could be discovered and no one would believe it. tldr:crywolf
When you consider that his PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel is deeply embedded in the American extreme right, openly advocates abolishing democracy and worse, it starts to make some sense. Musk in solidly in that orbit and always has been.
I think I got to point 2, found no reference in the form tag section, and gave up.

But what's fascinating is that it describes the html parser effectively implementing "overlapping markup", as in the Wikipedia article, for this edge case for backwards compatibility.
For what it's worth, it's possible to get a NY -> DC ticket (or vice versa) on the NE regional for about $30. You just need to book sufficiently far in advance (IME, around two months). Usually not a weird time either -- I paid $64 for a round-trip weekend ticket during normal hours (early afternoon both ways).

Source: I've taken that train at least 150 times at this point.