skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I...totally prefer the SVGA "lower resolution" version, and I remember feeling like that at the time too.

The problem was the 3D version looked/looks just plain BLURRY.

Something about my brain is able to understand when they see a pixelated video game that it's an artifice, and give it a ton of benefit of the doubt.

I can't say it is in any way more realistic, but it feels more IMMERSIVE.

Whereas with the higher resolution one, it's an uncanny valley. Everything is too smooth and Barbara Walters-y.

Again, this is my memory of how I perceived it at the time, this isn't modern rose coloured glasses because obviously technology has improved dramatically.
That sword cuts both ways - enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6QgNuZcxTw

(See at least until solsbury hill starts :-))
> Microsoft was determined to kill anyone using OpenGL ... 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.

I was acutely aware of the various 3D API issues during this time and this rings very true.
This is Mark Andreessen talking.
Feels like Philip Morris telling you to stop worrying about smoking-induced cancer. He has also recently been particularly active in defending the massive inequalities generated by his favorite economic system, and by tech in particular.
It’s as if he also indeed feels the pressure of a wider malcontent this time around.
That said, I’m surprised he disses UBI as “communism” and inherently wrong. For billionaires like him UBI would be a strategically low price to pay to keep social unrest in check in a growingly automated and AI-based society.
But hey, capitalists are gonna capitalize and he’s definitely good at that, so he might have his own view of where we’re headed.
Or maybe, like all other capitalist billionaires, he just has a knee jerk reaction into code red defensive mode anytime something akin to redistribution of wealth looms large at the horizon.
I have the opposite experience, where I (usually) am more myself when I'm alone.

Which I partially attribute to the inner voice feeling like the main consciousness. There's often a disconnect of having to semi-verbally think through something before responding. It takes a conscious effort to switch to speaking naturally without the mental rehearsal.

Edit: >You have an actual dialogue with another entity that is also you?

If I'm working through an idea in my head or trying to catalogue my knowledge of something, it's often framed as a one-sided conversation with someone in my life. Sometimes because it is something I'm likely to speak to that person about, but just as often I know it's just irrelevant junk I'd never actually burden another human with listening to.
They wouldn't have gotten acquired by IBM if they couldn't make a profit.
An rpi4b, which is quite the overkill to reach a cloud instance of chatGPT, idles at 2.5W.

Your Ryzen 5800x3d is irrelevant for this context.
I 100% agree with this. I'm Chinese (racially) so I know. That being said, it doesn't mean other "cultures" don't have the concept of "saving face". It's an inborn thing. Genetic. I haven't met anyone asian or not who admits their mistakes with ease. Think about it, 10 years of not apologizing is not that far off from never admitting a mistake.

I will agree with you that from my own experience that this does effect the Chinese more than other people in general. But my argument here is simply that the Chinese had a superior response to other democratic countries when handling covid.

The response ended up being from certain perspectives, mistaken, and the slow reversal of the response while, wrong, is something that governments (including rival governments) also do similarly.

That's it.
I recall hearing CPU Tmax is designed for a 10 year lifespan.

I have never used a laptop for a decade, nor have I had the CPU fail. So perhaps faster performance and shorter lifespan is okay.
You're right. That makes sense.
It wasnt ego. There wasn’t ready supply of 3 billion doses of mRNA vaccines (its more than one dose)
Controversial only because they were hard to learn and those that invested in learning lost that investment. The new architecture is so much better and not hard to explain.
That’s stones in the salivary gland ducts. Can occur together with kidney stones. Sometimes caused by certain medications.
They didn't changed the temperature between the tone modes.
Yes, I had to play Quake 2 on 320x240 due to low performance of my S3 Virge, but still got floored by the lighting.
Four reasons:

1. Reference counting scales with number of dead objects while Mark+Sweep typically scales with number of alive objects. This means that if you collect infrequently enough, a GC will have strictly less work to do.

2. RC involves a write whenever the reference count is increased. This means that in multi threaded contexts you need an atomic whenever a new reference is added. This will absolutely destroy performance in multi-threaded apps (this is the main reason why multi-threading in python doesn't exist).

3. RC requires a fairly high amount of metadata (often 32-64 bits per object). Mark sweep on the other hand often only needs a few (e.g. 2) bits per object. This is pretty heavy, especially for languages where everything is an object.

4. Circular references

That said there is recent research suggesting that good algorithms can be made by combining RC with mark-sweep (e.g. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3519939.3523440)
Ask HN: What is the good open source test case management tool?
I'm just searching for open source test case management tools(like TestRail). But I don’t find any good one.

I would also like learn from what other people have used as well so any input that others could give would be helpful.
We're never getting rid of ChatGPT
Could you run old demos like Future Crew / Second Reality on this?

I’m always thinking about ways to capture old demoscene stuff in high quality video.
No, I lived in San Francisco, a city where we had reasonable restrictions in place in enough time to make a difference, because our policymakers remembered the plague years of AIDS and knew what to do.

A lot of people who pretend to be smart fled the city during the pandemic, claiming, falsely, that it had become a lawless, post-apocalyptic nightmare.

Early on in the pandemic, I participated in the COVID Tracking Project, which was the only reliable source of data on the pandemic in the US for almost a year. I was also a reporter, covering local politics and small business in San Francisco as the pandemic and the regulatory response unfolded.

So, no, I wasn’t living under a rock, and in fact was closer to the action than most people.
Matt Hancock's plan to ‘frighten the pants off everyone’ about Covid
The real difference is the pace.

It took 20 years for self checkout to really catch on. It's not even fully there yet.

It took months for Book and Magazine publishers to say. No more submissions please, we have enough content for a while.

The winner of a massive photography comp in the US took no pictures, had no subjects and didn't write the back stories of his "subjects". He AI'd the lot.
Is this adversarial selective pressure? They'd occupy the same niche, and so forming "tribes" inevitability implies competition for whatever scarce resource they have to share. Something in diet or habitat would become a limiting factor.

It would be fascinating to compare this to isolated speciation which can drive to weird gigantism or dwarfism. I'd imagine that the advantages of eg being social to humans played differently.
The human mind is one of the few things whose bandwidth hasn't increased since then. APL still makes sense.
> it's all night clubs and totally ruins the old town's feeling.

Ya, totally agree. But there are nice things to do around Lijiang, at least (mountains, gorges). And I have fond memories drinking with Chinese friends there. You aren't going to get great drinks in tourist towns anyways, not like the fancy bars in Beijing/Shanghai.
Why should issues like homelessness be reducible to one 'primary' cause?

Highlighting housing costs as a significant contributing factor is an important point to make, but there's no need to undermine the other contributing factors through bad faith arguments and cherry picked statistics. Yes, homelessness clusters in cities with robust social programs, esp. those with temperate weather. These same cities are also the most expensive in the US, effectively creating homelessness traps.

As for following in the footsteps of Houston, it's not nearly as feasible for these places. They have up to 10x the homeless populations and 2-3x the housing costs. Compare providing 5,000 units in Houston vs providing 70,000 in Los Angeles.

We should absolutely look to provide more subsidized housing to the needy, but it's clear we aren't aren't able to do it in the most in demand real estate markets in country.

EDIT: numbers
You should compare energy prices in heavily regulated Europe with the USA before you call someone "stupid" and an "idiot".
This is a really great retrospective on 3dfx from four of the founders.

3dfx Oral History Panel with Ross Smith, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Gordon Campbell (Computer History Museum)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MghYhf-GhU
Here's my goat with urinary stones - https://imgur.com/a/q7K26Z5

They paw the ground when in pain. Stones can kill in 24 hours. A lot of money later he was ok.

We fed him ammonium chloride in case it was a struvite a phosphorus based stone (magnesium ammonium phosphate)

But in the end it was a calcium based stone which requires an operation, which can be deadly and costly, so this is interesting.

Full paper here - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368169226_Lemon-Der...

But lemons will make struvite's worse since they are alkalizing and you need acidic.

(This is just rough in my head, research the medical stuff properly)

The sooner we have cheap devices that can see inside bodies the better.
You can circumvented telling it to write the text in reverse, base64, or just "put a * on end of every word", any bullshit like that.
Was it NURBs or quads? Maybe both.
Yes, I don't completely disagree. But keep in mind. Every government including the US one, has ego.
The basic semispace collector does. The big issue with GC is the space required and tail latency but often people forger the latency of malloc.
I was designing Mac graphics accelerators in the early 90s, one thing I learned is that perceived performance follows a sort of S curve, there's an area where everything is terribly slow and any change is good but it's slow, then you hit the curve every performance increase is obvious, wonderful, makes new stuff possible - that's where you start selling big if you're leading the pack, then you hit an area where performance is "good enough", double the performance and the perceived increase is far less - now you're fighting for "cheapest", not so good for your company.

That was for 2D, bigger faster 3D enables new sorts of games so that market has been growing for far longer.
Is materially unencumbered rich or poor?
Thanks. It doesn’t bother me as much as my comments make it seem it does, I learned to live with it long ago. But there are people who are bothered by their tinnitus and they suffer immensely, and it’s not very empathetic to say “learn to live with it, I did”, so I don’t.
Often times that support network, will for years sustain people in their own home too, before the couches and other forms (of defacto, but not statistical) homelessness take over.
> 18% of households in the US say they can't afford home internet service

very hardly believable, unless they are chronically unemployed.
This is a... hard anthropological claim to make. I don't claim to be an expert anthropologist, but I would note that marriage means very many things to different peoples. 'Western' marriage, as it were, is already fraught. One man and a women, sharing property? Well, what about two men, two women, or other genders? Non-cishetnormative understandings complicate this picture quite quickly. And what of property? The capitalist idea of property isn't the only one, and different understandings of property will, historically speaking, lead to different understandings of marriage.

All of this is to say that marriage is a fraught societal construct, not a societal neccessity.

This thread took a bit of a wild turn, but I felt I had to respond :)
You’re applying what I would call the fallacy of scale.
Your take is correct as long as these singularity happen at relative scales.
We don’t know at all what happens when massive scale becomes a factor.
Computers and the internet allowed virtualization and we now base our economies largely on virtualization and abstraction.
That also means almost infinite replicability. In turn, infinite replicability allows levels of scale never before seen.
Now we are at the verge of a large optimization of the economy at a level of scale that we have never ever experienced before.
While I’m sure that in the time of a couple generations we would probably find ways to rewire our brains around the new AI normal like we did in the past, we will probably have to face an unemployment risk to a level we haven’t experienced so far.
With inequalities growing, the question is if societies can grow through this phase unscathed, or if it will be enough of a critical mass and tipping point for partial or complete collapse.
How do you direct render a curved surface? The most straightforward, most flexible way is to convert it into a polygon mesh.

I suppose you could direct rasterize a projected 3D curved surface, but the math for doing so is hideously complicated, and it is not at all obvious it’d be faster.
Except Haiku is open source. See:

https://www.haiku-os.org/ and https://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/
Like everything else, Khronos did not need help from Microsoft to mess up OpenGL, with its spaghetti soup and lack of tooling, that makes every graphics programming newbie start by hunting and building from scratch, the infrastructure to make a rendering engine.

Vulkan is just as bad into this regard, with complexity turned to eleven. No wonder people call it a GPU hardware abstraction API, not a graphics API.

And on the Web they couldn't have better idea than throw away all the existing GLSL, to replace it with a Rust inspired shading language.
>1. "Progress" does not need to imply "exponential growth in consumption of energy".

It doesn't need to imply it. But from historical evidence it DOES imply it.

>2. Even if it does, we may be many thousand generations away from hitting a ceiling.

Not necessarily true. We don't fully know that. We're hitting ceilings with oil already. In the US peak oil already happened and we shifted to shale. We have about 5 more years of that. We're not sure what's left of middle eastern sources.

Other sources aren't ready yet, they're up and coming but we can't fully be sure technology will play out the way we want it to play out.
Been working remotely (mostly) for the last 5 years. My favourite solution to this problem is joining a local coworking place. I work from my home office by default and when I need some socializing I go to the coworking place. Best of both worlds.
Urban Renewal/Beautification and NIMBYism to an extent killed both trailer parks and single occupancy units.

I'd also note the death of the boarding house between 1920 and 1970 as another issue contributing to things.
All of it predicated on a chain of "if" a mile long. So, the immediacy is absent, and the need is real but also future. If neuralink works. If augmented reasoning works. If non intrusive fMRI works. If trans cranial magnetic stimulation becomes freely available outside of a doctor patient relationship. A million ifs are walled up before this situation. We haven't even left the room of "in rats" yet.

Mostly this would be met with minor adjustment to existing law of rights to body autonomy and habeas corpus. Arguing about what repressive regimes do to justify legalism in the west is not an indefensible approach, but equally arguing that some technology specific law is needed begs the question "why"

How is this different to routine use of "chemical cosh" on old and non conforming people denied personal liberty right now?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35024508
It’s very surprising when people talk about AI but not talk about the Industrial Revolution. The power loom hugely changed the world. You don’t have to write a substack about your opinions — just read a history book.

Second, Marc quotes outsourcing but that’s not at all a relevant example. Outsourcing was not a technology. His other example is of robots but robots have not been revolutionary like the power loom or even the assembly line have been.
One word: scale.
> 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

Er, what? It's any/all of the neutral-ground bonds that make the system grounded. The more ground connections, the more redundancy and lower impedance.

... which is probably why the plumber didn't worry too much about disrupting the building's ground connection. If everything else is wired up right it's not going to be that big of a deal - perhaps a few volts on the building's grounding conductor versus actual earth, due to the current on the service neutral.
Certainly a fair point on mindset and I’m sure it will vary depending on where you work. I generally agree with you, but wonder if the viewpoints we each described are not mutually exclusive.

The viewpoint you are describing sounds along the lines of “good vs. bad”, “us vs. them”, “black vs. white”. I guess the viewpoint I mentioned is more describing how one consciously or unconsciously reconciles/reaches congruence between their actions and value system.

In other words, one part answers the “why” we do what we do and the other answers the “how do we feel ok with what we did”.

At least from my background, there were no illusions that many things we did would be considered of questionable morality or destructive in just about any other circumstances.

That then brings about the philosophical question I think your perspective ultimately answers, which is “this is wrong, but…sometimes doing wrong things can also be right or less wrong than the alternatives”.

Just to add, I especially agree regarding downsides. Aside from being abstract, the relationship between cause and effect may be murky or seemingly non-existent.

Thanks for adding your experiences/perspective!
Since when do you need a phone number to make a Gmail account? That doesn't make any sense, I've made literally dozens over the years.
> We should absolutely look to provide more subsidized housing to the needy, but it's clear we aren't aren't able to do it in the most in demand real estate markets in country.

Who will you hold responsible when they can’t find jobs where they live?
What about creating an open core business around a pre-existing open source project?

I see Open Core Ventures (ala gitlab) trying to do that with FreeCAD. If there already exists a strong community, if the core project benefits from contributions, and the company diverges with proprietary offerings, the main project still wins, right?
20 million Americans have a substance use disorder.

About half a million people in the United States are currently experiencing homelessness.

So the overlap in those populations is like 2%.

Source: couple lazy google searches.
Anyone 25+ can tell there is so much ego and condescension in this comment that its author is instantly discredited
The answer to my question is 6 paragraphs into that article:

> Being at the transition between bulk materials and atomic or molecular structures, they often exhibit phenomena that are not observed at either scale.
Refurb weekend: Cobalt RaQ 2
> but in an industry like construction, if you accept what he's saying, all of that control is in the hands of the rich folks at the top. What he's suggesting is that they'll protect the jobs of construction workers when they can replace them with cheaper, more efficient robots who are exempt from safety standards.

That doesn't follow, particularly in construction.

There are many regulations that require something which is nominally better but is a trade off against cost, making the lower cost alternative unavailable. Much of that increase goes to the construction contractors as labor costs or markups on more expensive materials, so it's their unions and trade organizations lobbying in favor of the cost increase. The regulatory capture is by the construction workers.

They're also aligned with anyone who wants housing costs to stay high, including realtors and real estate investors. So yes, the rich folks at the top will protect the jobs of the construction workers when the high construction costs help them keep rents high.
I would rather use the proper Vue term, reactive references/refs. Signals is such an awkward term.

https://vuejs.org/guide/extras/reactivity-in-depth.html#conn...
Yes, if you look at the programs I submitted to BeBits you would see I included the source files, but I was the exception. Too many times I would see an interesting program but no source file so I could modify it to my needs.
The procedure is called extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. The idea was seeded by the observation during WWII that under water explosions caused organ rupture in survivors of ship sinkings that were in the water.

Dornier makes them:

https://www.dornier.com/products/
Also be sure to stick to Primitive Technology and not any of the knock off channels produced in South East Asia and India where they do lots of work off camera with heavy machinery and modern tools.
It is beautiful in my opinion how we in Europe and USA stan, cheer and celebrate those Chinese brave resisters of COVID regime, but when the same people see someone doing same in Europe or USA they want to put them in a camp.

And no it is not beautiful it is actually fucking disgusting.
We also make it very hard to climb back out of homelessness - if you've had an eviction, it's very hard to find a place to take you.

I have a friend in Portland, he's a single, male, with no kids, in Portland - and there is no program to help, hopefully you make 3x the rent and can save up first/last, and a months deposit.

What's worse, he has mental health issues, but he makes too much for medicaid and too little to buy insurance, so he can either work, or have healthcare, and those are the options - either way, the only place he can find to live is in a minivan.
So I guess “absolute power” is when your temporary state of emergency, approved through the regular legislative process by duly elected officials, is allowed to expire, and the restrictions imposed by it are rolled back.
> we can build an ample supply of housing and subsidized housing.

Sigh. That’s the conclusion? Land is cheap. Literally most of the US is empty. Housing is stupid cheap. Housing is crowded coastal cities is not.

What the article did highlight really well (maybe accidentally) that homelessness sticks around for multiple reasons: 40% substance problem, mental illness problem, etc. maybe there’s always two factors, maybe that’s why efforts aren’t ending it?
Syllabic notation is harder to understand, someone talked about it above, syntactical boundaries are harder to parse, and the language’s functional parts - things like tenses and inflections, are mostly written in kana, the rest mostly in kanji.

This article (featured previously on HN) discusses the efficiency thing a bit - https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/language-efficiency - though I think the pixel count metric is meaningless and leads to weird conclusions, there are some good thoughts.
It may be limited, but I think there is still work done on CP/M.
Based on the .q* files, I'm pretty sure it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quartus_Prime