skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Homelessness is primarily a problem created by the requirement to continuously upkeep your shelter financially or risk losing it.

The ability to perform this upkeep can be wrecked by any number of things, which there is not enough space to list here.

The overwhelming majority of people who fail at this upkeep are saved by their support network, so the actual problem is several orders of magnitude larger than any official statistics.

Most people who lose their shelter fall back on family and friends and may spend years living on couches, in closets, spare garages, cars, etc., without ever being picked up by the "homeless" statistics.

How or why this system came about is beyond the scope of this comment, but it is an iceberg most people only see the tip of. And it is not a necessity, nor is it a reality in many other places around the world.
>> The highly skilled artisans got replaced by the diminishing demand for high end goods over cheap automation goods.

So... cars aren't as high-end as they were during the malaise years?
The retail box design [1] of the Voodoo 3 2000 is still burned into my memory even after 23 years. The purple woman's face, 6 million triangles per second... just, sold. 1999 was just an amazing time.

[1]: https://archive.ph/BNLiX/f3757388e1ee7008f0bad22261c625f1dcf...
Indeed. Although, sometimes the machine wouldn't fully crash. It was like the disk was corrupted, but apps were still running, which makes me suspect it was the lack of ECC.
I have a fancy fountain pen and was taught Gregg shorthand by my grandmother and have used it for note taking for most of my life. I still type 50%-75% faster than I write and can type for significantly longer than I can write.

If I learned how to use a stenotype I can imagine the discrepancy would be even larger.
"Homeless" refers to many things.

It can refer to a person living in a car, a person living in a shelter, a person living a tent, a person living in a homeless camp, a person living under a piece of cardboard, etc.

Some people become homeless at a point and manage their way out, others stay homeless.

If you are an alcoholic, or a drug addict, and want to get drunk or high or both in a regular basis, you don't like the rules at the shelter... what place is best for you? a shelter with strict rules where you can't drink or get high, or a homeless camp? The homeless camp.

The problem with people like the article author is that they try to monopolize common sense.

A person working at Walmart, earning minimum wage while living in their car, has a very different reality to a drug junkie living in a homeless camp. The term "homeless" refers to both. I would not try to begin a serious analysis by mixing such different things.
Chess AI Engine
Similarly, Apache Portable Runtime (APR) uses memory pools which is pretty effective.
can it run crysis?
Thanks I'll look it up!

Also, I took some time off the booze, oh the irony...
Somewhat related: I had no end of trouble trying to configure my locale on a raspberry pi. Tried everything I could find on the internet, still had inexplicable errors with environment variables not being set or being set differently than I had just set them.

It's because my ssh session was bringing variables from my laptop onto the pi:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2499794/how-to-fix-a-loc...
>Interestingly, 20 years later, the 3dfx Rampage was tested and found lacking against the NVIDIA GeForce 256 which would have been its competition had the Rampage been released.

Does anyone know where I could find out more about this? The prevailing narrative for many years has been that the Rampage GPU would have provided a technological edge for a few years.
The Grex system will be permanently shut down
Website says the store is in Austin: https://rossmanngroup.com
> I can't help but think Andreesen's gone off the deep end a bit

The first time I heard of him was in 2016: https://www.fastcompany.com/3056581/marc-andreessen-riles-up...

As far as I'm concerned, he's always been kooky.
> End copyright at death of creator might give people some ideas on how to deal with ideas of canon.

Problems with canon are possible regardless of copyright, and changing copyright durations does not add or remove these problems.

If it is made clear that any changes or new works made due to modified canon are not the work of the original (now dead) author, then this may mitigate some of these problems somewhat.

Abolishing copyright makes it easier to improve too, since then if someone thinks they have a better idea (which might or might not be true, but it can be judged by people after it is done, and it is OK if people do not all agree) then they can do it without a lawsuit. (Just, you will have to be clear than these are now new works rather than the original works. The original canon is not to be changed, but you can make up new ones which are based on them.)
My first video accelerator was the Nvidia NV-1 because a friend of mine was on the design team and he assured me that NURBs were going to be the dominant rendering model since you could do a sphere with just 6 of them, whereas triangles needed like 50 and it still looked like crap. But Nvidia was so tight fisted with development details and all their "secret sauce" none of my programs ever worked on it.

Then I bought a 3DFx Voodoo card and started using Glide and it was night and day. I had something up the first day and every day thereafter it seemed to get more and more capable. That was a lot of fun.

In my opinion, Direct X was what killed it most. OpenGL was well supported on the Voodoo cards and Microsoft was determined to kill anyone using OpenGL (which they didn't control) to program games if they could. After about 5 years (Direct X 7 or 8) it had reached feature parity but long before that the "co marketing" dollars Microsoft used to enforce their monopoly had done most of the work.

Sigh.
The thing about Chinas GDP is we don’t know their real GDP. We only know what we have been told.

Just like COVID. We are told there’s very few COVID deaths, but we don’t know how many deaths there are and no one talks about the days long queues for cremation.
This is much closer to reality. Markets are priced by demand far more than supply - if you have a perpetual source of demand to milk, the pricing isn't going to come down easily, even if supply could have been made more efficient. I suspect it's a bit of a mixed bag - regulations certainly can be (and are) used as a tool to lock in control in ways that benefit the corporations leading the industry and not the consumer - but abolishing said regulations just makes it even worse. Regardless, if AI is able to lower the bottom-line engineering/labor costs of producing these things (which it absolutely will) then you'll see pretty clearly where the corruption rests. We should expect far better as consumers going forward, and demand both better prices and quality.
Wow, that's maybe the dumbest thing I've read today. Not the part about the 'woke mind virus', that's just garden-variety lazy parroting of culture war slogans.

It's the part about AI noticing and understanding things. This guy is ostensibly a technologist or at least spends his time doing technology-adjacent business, but he thinks ML text or image generators are capable of understanding (and passing judgement on) abstract ideas?

It's like hiring a door installer to install doors on your house and finding out that he thinks doors are high-tech matter transporters that operate on exotic principles of physics but are only able to transport you the imperceptible distance from one side of the doorway to the other because of some technical limitation. Also he's confused them for windows somehow.
This dude looks like another “content creator” mission on putting out click optimized links with no substance, no data and no real research. These amature opinion distributors are cancer to information society.
Chase is terrible. For over a year I tried to get back $900+ dollars they stole from me (they closed an account with no notice or explanation, in the middle of the pandemic no less), to no avail (just endless run-around in overseas call centers, with no direct mechanism to talk to anyone with authority).
The floppy disk doesn’t mean a thing to younger generations, yet their icon representation is very common in a lot of UIs (save button).

So this point doesn’t make sense to me in this particular discussion - even though you may be right at the end of the day.
I think you would do well to make some friends in the bay area.
On-Chip ECC, it's an improvement but full ECC memory, which you can get for DDR5, also protects your data in transmission at 6400MT/s.

Additionally the on-chip EEC of DDR5 won't report the errors to your OS. ECC memory errors when corrected can be handled by the OS, and you'll even be informed of the uncorrectable 2 bit errors.

Want to protect for 2-bit errors? Make sure your platform has support for ECC-chipkill.
天 (and probably meaning heaven where the gods live).

A grounding would be to visit Mount Tai and see the clouds beneath you when the weather conditions are just right. You have the same picture looking out the window of a Boeing 737max8. Anyway the ruler and ruling elites used to perform ceremonies on Mount Tai, poeticly gods living in heaven.

天 looks a bit like the picture postcards of Mount Fuji from various angles.
He is just one of those people who will spread false information and try to bend standards and definitions even when sourced cited is the government they are covering for. His party can do no wrong. Useless to argue with.

Perhaps government troll.
A quick web search finds: https://hothardware.com/news/3dfx-rampage-gpu-performance-re...

But you could argue that the Rampage drivers weren’t optimized.
I have experienced the same situation at concerts. The worst possible scenario is you needed to pee but everyone that came with you is near the stage in the pit. Even in a small venue this is painful. My reluctance to push through a crowd before has caused people to push me and use me like a cow catcher. Crowds are funny things.
We have replaced human labor with machines that are way more efficient than a human for 250 years now.

Mass unemployment has always been feared as a result, and it has always not happened.

I strongly expect trends to continue.
> There are probably at least a dozen GC algorithms that provide sub-1ms pause times though

I'd be interested to know more about which ones provide this guarantee. This has been surprisingly difficult to Google for.
I have been thinking about friendship a lot recently. My regrets always center around not treating my friends as well as they deserve.
I’ve decided something that might be of help.
Simply be the friend you would want.
If someone doesn’t like me I wouldn’t want them to pretend. Not in a mean way, but in a clear way. There are 7 B people in the world. No loss of two of them don’t get along. If someone does like me I’d want them to remain steadfast and reliable. I’d want them to take a moment to think of me and do little things that show it.
That’s the friend I’ve decided to try to be. It has simplified and clarified my life. There’s no fear of pretending because I’m not pretending. Somehow that alleviates the fear that others are pretending. There’s no fear people won’t support me when I need it because I embrace the role of unwavering support. When I express the behavior I want to see, I feel it reflected back. Maybe because I’m the one I spend the most time with and I’m becoming better company. I become the thing I want to see in this world. And there’s comfort in that.
APL made a lot more sense in an era of 110 baud teletypes when brevity of a programming language was vastly more important than it is today.
No it wouldn't. The neutral was cut, that tool can't reliably identify that problem. The tester will see a voltage that depends on the other loads in the house, which might be lower or higher than normal.

Your tester would also still show the outlet as grounded, because it just checks for continuity from neutral to ground at the outlet, which exists even when the utility neutral is broken because of the neutral-ground bond at the service entrance.

A common misconception is that the neutral-ground bond at the service entrance is what makes the system grounded. That is not true: it is the neutral-ground bond at the transformer that makes the system grounded. If you break the utility neutral wire, the ground (earth) is too bad a conductor to work in its place, even if the transformer and panel both have intact neutral-ground bonds.
he led the mosaic project at ncsa, creating the first web browser most people today would recognize as a browser, with things like images mixed in with text

then he went off and founded netscape, creating the dot-com boom

since then he's mostly been running a successful vc firm

so yeah he's always been 'kooky'
I remember getting my first Voodoo card. After playing games, I couldn't stand software rendering anymore. Purchased a Voodoo 2 when they came out. Reminds me of Unreal, Shogo: Mobile Armor Division, Thief, Mechwarrior 2 - so many fun older games! My next card was a nvidia tnt2. I've owned nvidia cards ever since.
He moved (and moved his business) after bad experiences with the tax/business environment in NYC.
This claim that AI won't cause unemployment baffles me. I understand the argument being made that new types of jobs will be created, but what the people making that argument miss is the massive level of up-skilling/re-skilling that is required of the population whose jobs are replaced. This has not worked out well. Just look at the communities in some poorer parts of the UK, who were relying on coal, mining and steam locomotive(yes, for that many generations the effects of job losses are felt). These communities have not yet recovered.

The challenge with AI is that it is going to touch every spectrum of the jobs, and the people required for the available jobs will be far less and require very niche skills.
Is DE-10 Nano back in stock?
https://www.industryweek.com/the-economy/trade/article/22024...
I have fond memories of playing Quake 2 for some time and then buying a Voodoo card. It suddenly looked like a totally different game. It wasn’t just the resolution and texture filtering - Quake 2 in GL mode used a totally different, dynamic lightning system and back then it was simply stunning.

Comparison pics: https://www.marky.ca/3d/quake2/compare/content.html
It makes the Amiga relevant again. Web browsers, email, etc.

The Amiga series was not designed for the Internet in 1985.
This looks like an excellent tool for people repurposing old laptops as servers by putting their motherboard in a different chassis and adding some proper cooling of their own to the board. May need to cool parts close to the CPU as well if the board wasn't designed to transport that much heat.

If you try to do this to your laptop, well... there's a reason you can't legally sell laptops that heat up beyond 40-45℃. Expose yourself to that all you want, but be prepared for hardware damage, overheated skin, or decreased sperm count
due to putting an overheated laptop in your lap.

I wouldn't call this a fix in the same way I wouldn't call throwing out your smoke alarm a fix for the constant flat battery beeping.
I experience both. (Inner monologue and lack thereof) I prefer the company of my nonverbal self (I also think I’m more wise when I don’t think in words). Many of my hobbies are low thinking / high doing activities. Perhaps I simply don’t like the sound of my own inner voice which is weird because I write me speak with no hesitation.
I’m very grateful for the Asahi project, Hector’s leadership and everyone who has contributed to or supported the project. This care for the nitty gritty details, in my view, makes a big difference and is a true service to the world. It is a heartfelt gift to the community.

Thank you for caring.
Not too long ago someone recreated a Voodoo5 6000: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32960140

The (leaked?) datasheets and miscellaneous information for the GPUs seem to be widely available, but that's still quite impressive for a single person; on a similar level to making your own motherboard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29273829
Sounds peaceful
Sounds good, but who are my potential customers?

If I follow the "scratch your own itch" advice I ultimately fail because nobody wants to pay for e.g. a better register allocation algorithm for 6502 C compilers.

If I follow the "put yourself in the future and build that" advice I fail because nobody wants to pay for e.g. a library capable of guaranteed constant-time computation.

If I follow the "build products for your niche hobby community" advice I fail because nobody wants to pay for e.g. a better than state-of-the-art comb filter designed for NTSC laserdiscs.

If I follow the "capitalize on new trends in tech" advice I fail because nobody wants to pay for e.g. an ML model trained to invert audio cassette dub generational fidelity loss.

How do you figure out what people want when you're very, very, very different from most people?
Lijiang is absolute garbage, it's all night clubs and totally ruins the old town's feeling. I tried to get a beer for 120 RMB, but they said they were out and offered the 150 RMB beer, so I noped out. I got a cocktail for like 100 RMB, but they didn't even shake it with ice for me. WTF

150 RMB is $21.71 now, but it used to be almost $25 at that time's exchange rate

In comparison, I got some of the best cocktails I've ever had at a bar in Dali for 65 RMB
This Japanese is (just barely) legible and makes for a great example of what the OP is talking about. And since Japanese is a surprisingly popular language for HN posters - if you are able to read Japanese - I challenge you read this: https://imgur.com/a/lse8JR0

It was written by a JP native - using a mouse - but her handwriting is typically this bad so having to write using a mouse only made it very slightly worse than usual.

It made me feel better about my own handwriting. I don't sweat the details at all - writing better than natives might get me minor praise but doesn't really benefit me in the long run vs expanding my vocabulary or learning how to read more kanji by spending less time focusing on writing them. I only write kanji nowadays to help with memorization of new kanji and to make sure I can still write the first few "grade levels" of kanji for how natives learn.
One of my favorite DEFCON talks of all time.
Got to admit, the break from web3 was nice.
> Better socialized and behaved than a good number of pet dogs I see in the USA.

Free-roaming dogs (in non-threatening environments) can socialize much more naturally than city dogs, who spend most of their time isolated indoors with few people and animals to interact with (stunting their social development).
My motherboard isn't rated for more than DDR4-3200 with my old cpu, a Ryzen 7 2700. I could set my memory's XMP profile up and run at DDR4-3466 and memtest would be stable for more than 24 hours but would error before 48. I backed off, DDR-3400, DDR4-3333, DDR4-3266... finally stable in memtest for 96 hours, boot into Windows and run Prime95 Blend workload, 3266 crashes in hours. I finally find a little note in my motherboard manual that older CPUs are limited to DDR4-3200. Set that speed, rock solid, I was even able to tighten the JEDEC timings with guidance from the second XMP profile for DDR4-3133.

Gigabyte really did mean DDR4-3200 was the limit for Pinnacle Ridge and older AMD cpus.
We need a new human right to cognitive liberty
I wonder how much mental illness and drug abuse contribute to staying in a place you can't afford a roof?
typo: loose/lose
Add Drupal please. You have Wordpress.
> he assured me that NURBs were going to be the dominant rendering model

Wow, this sounds like those little cases where a few different decisions could have easily led us down into an alternate parallel world :)

Can someone expand on why NURBs didn't/don't win out against polygons?

Could this be like AI/ML/VR/Functional Programming, where the idea had been around for decades but could only be practically implemented now after we had sufficient hardware and advances in other fields?
This picture from the Japanese IME article on Wikipedia is a pretty good demonstration on typical use:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IME_demonstratie_-_Mats...
Does anyone remember Terminator? It was a VTE wrapped in Python IIRC and it allowed very flexible windowing of terminals.
I wish I could undervolt my laptop.

As noted by the author:

> ===== Notice that undervolt is typically locked from 10th gen onwards! =====

I can't even modify the BIOS due to BootGuard and the keys burned into the CPU.

Hopefully there will be a way to leak/extract the keys someday, as this create real e-waste for fake security.
I can't find myself through some of these searches, even when adding parts of my name in quotes. I wonder how fuzzy these results are, specifically from GitHub
> If you look at some of the online videos, you will see factories that are now requiring only female workers, workers under 23, etc.

For perspective, this is rather common outside China too. Working in a factory is hard work and factories often have severe age limits. China's demographic problems mean that its time as a factory hub was always going to be limited.
Interestingly, the transistor density of GPUs has been following a roughly logarithmic curve since 2000, compared to the linear increase in x86 processors [1].

I totally agree that the incremental innovations observed in earlier GPU platforms felt much, much more ‘obvious’ though.

It’s as if the ‘wow factor’ of graphics hardware doesn’t scale at the same rate as density.

Or perhaps releases were more spread out than they are today (compared to the annual release cycle expected today) making the jumps more obvious.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Comparison-of-NVIDIA-gra...
If those two pieces of code do different things, it’s a bad library plain and simple lol.

I’ve implemented this pattern with mobx and those two pieces of code are equivalent.

In my opinion:

- Unidirectional data flow patterns prevent a class of problems junior developers tend to make but require much deeper discipline to keep the app understandable

- Conventional bi-directional data flow patterns are susceptible to junior developer mistakes but generally are hard to make unreadable
Google account requires a phone number in all cases, which is a tracking tool.
I've had random crashes before that were one-off.

Like my desktop just froze, and then it never happened again. It only makes sense if it was a random bit-flip.

The actual RAM speed never mattered, you can't tell the difference with 150 FPS and 165 FPS (even though my screen's refresh rate is 280Hz)
Class warfare doesn't imply collusion. It's just people acting in their own self interest in a system where some incentives are aligned along a class system. The dichotomy between conspiracy theory and and innocent coincidence is false.

The point of class warfare is that no, it's not collectively bad for everyone. It's good for whoever wins the class war (see: the quote above).

By far what terrifies the average person in the shareholder class the most is having to live the life of an average worker. The revealed preference they have is that, yes, they would rather live as rich in a world with the issues that entails than as an average worker in a more equitable world. And from a selfish perspective that's a perfectly rational position.

When shareholders or whole owners decide to do something immoral for profit - or even to prevent bankruptcy - what that actually reveals is that they would rather hurt whoever it is they are hurting than live their life in your shoes. This is the essence of the idea of class warfare.
Yes its the amercans doing all they can to fuck it up ... poor CCP with all their homegrown tech and businesses. Why won't they let them be?
I remember playing Quake 2 and colored lighting followed your bullets! I was floored.
Wow! I love you..
https://github.com/Camplejs/Cample.js