skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With my car, I don't have to wait at all and I can go straight home.

Manhattan, famous for its congestion-free streets :-)

Calling cars "decentralized" is funny, and more than a little ridiculous: American car culture is a result of centralized planning, both of highways and cities. It'd be more accurate to call them "individualized," with the misaligned incentives and commons failures that that implies.
HTC U23 Pro
Ever since I became aware of the backlash associated with saying "C/C++", I try to use it everywhere. Not because I don't understand the points, nor because I disagree with them.

Baiting pedants is fun, basically. They always go off and 95% of everybody does an eye-roll. Then I point out that there is a very significant subset of C that is also a subset of C++ and it's actually a very good and useful subset that we mostly always program in. And we could call that, very large, subset of C, C/C++. HAHAHAHAHA!
What I can't stand about a lot of audiobooks is that a lot of narrators have this weird way of speaking. You know how news anchors and reporters have a special news voice they go into? A lot of narrators do the same thing and it is so unnatural. It's awful!
Official OpenWRT builds do this by default (though you can turn that off in DNS settings), but many newer consumer routers that use OS based on OpenWRT might not have the option.
Appears to be a feeder community college so reasonably challenging courses. There's probably a fair bit of overlap between courses for the associate's degrees, and he probably just likes studying a ton.
The LNT is consistent with the real world data, cherrypicked bullshit from pseudoscientists notwithstanding.

This is why the NRC recently rejected a call to stop using LNT in setting regulations. Their responses to the details of the petitions are pretty damning.

https://www.regulations.gov/document/NRC-2015-0057-0671

Now, at the very low doses typical of large scale exposure from nuclear accidents, it's true that the evidence does not directly require LNT. That's because the effect predicted by LNT is so small at those doses that it's swamped by noise and unmodelled biases. No practically obtainable data could do the trick.

But note what this means: the data at those low doses is so poor that it's consistent with an effect greater than from LNT. It cannot rule this out.

I'll add that a favorite pseudoscientific claim from the radiation apologists, radiation hormesis, would imply a larger effect from radiation at low doses than predicted by LNT. That's because hormesis putatively acts by inducing repair mechanisms above some dose, bending the curve downward. Below that putative threshold, the curve has a high slope (and thus more damage per increment of dose) than the linear curve of the LNT.
> Why is every one saying seven years ago?

I don't know about everyone, but I'm just bad at arithmetic.
I think for most use cases overprovisioning a single instance to meet max denand will still be cheaper than dynamic provisioning with the synchronization overhead of a distributed system.
In C, "C/C++" is probably equal to 2 (unless C is 0 or NaN). In C++, it can mean anything.

edit: nevermind, it's undefined behavior in both, though likely equals either 1 or 2 in C... (2 on my system) :)
Man theres a ton of warehousey spaces on Mission. I used to rent a great on around 21st. Check out craigslist.
It seems like consciousness has a major role in learning and memory formation. It’s very much about attention to what is important. The thing is it’s also attention to the experience of paying attention to things, and I suspect that’s really all conscious awareness is when it comes right down to it.
The parent was talking about unified memory.
Interesting, I’ve not heard about this alternate path for smart kids before.
Looks like a magnet plus residential aspect.
Of course. I'm just explaining why it kind of makes sense that the student would be the customer in the current messed-up system.
The thing with locomotion is that you don't actually have infinite space to walk - if you did, or if a 99.9% perfect multi-directional treadmill was available, then it wouldn't be that big of a deal to just walk throughout the entire level. So developers have to offer some other way to navigate levels and mostly-open environments, that either being smooth locomotion (hold a joystick in the direction you want to walk/are facing) or teleportation.
Not true. Millions of dollars was spent on 8086 compatible software. Lotus 1-2-3 for example, and many programs bought new were 8086 compatible until windows finally took over.
Well, what other benchmark results say otherwise?
Ask HN: What industries need bare metal hand tuned performance optimizations?
I know that they do that a lot in high-frequency trading and in the gaming industry. Both of them are not an option to me. Of course, this is done in academia, but that's not "really" an industry.

I suspect there is a lot of real world simulation, especially of some physics (and graphics, but that is less interesting to me), where such optimizations are needed. But as far as I understand, in general such help is not really appreciated there. The cost of to other programmers to deal with necessary changes existing code, as well as the fact that hardware and compute time are cheaper than programmers, seems to make things difficult. I seriously consider learning to write python interfaces to do "magic" to python projects, but I don't know whether there actually is a market for that.

What are your experiences? Is anybody here paid to speed things up?

Edit: Typos
>I only need real navigation on holiday and I'm pretty sure not taking some expensive pocket computer on travel. Neither when hiking nor in a foreign country. I just print out the directions from MapQuest. K.I.S.S.

This is actually what happened historically. Various pocket devices existed for navigation (e.g. by Garmin), but they never got too popular until the smartphone became popular for entirely different reasons. Only after the smartphone become really common, then it was reused for existing applications where the benefit existed but was not that big compared to alternatives. AR/VR will need a killer application first, only then it might be reused for navigation.
When talking about "living in the city" one generally didn't talk about the postal address, but rather the density.
I like scooters on an aesthetic level, but I don't know if it's true that they pollute less: my understanding is that most scooters use relatively dirty two-stroke engines, and that much of SE Asia's urban air pollution can be correlated to heavy scooter use.
I’m convinced that just like how humans are attracted to little kittens and puppies, some technophiles easily feel the same attraction to small, harmless looking little computers running tiny software on tiny processors. I feel like buying this even though I have zero need for it.
The point I am making is that I believe photography to entail less artistic expression than other forms of art such as painting or in this case, coloring. Saying "pointing and clicking" may be too dismissive, but I am used to hearing this sort of language used to describe AI image generation prompting, which I believe photography is more akin to, than it is to other art forms due to the degree of reliance on a machine.

I understand there can be a lot of depth to photography, likewise there can be a lot of depth to AI image prompting beyond just typing a prompt, both require high degrees of skill to master. But in general, I believe these forms of image generation to entail less artistic expression than the other arts.
I find this article to be too high-minded. Most Americans don't own cars or support car-friendly policies due to some notion of car=freedom or some other culture wars nonsense.

Americans own cars because most of them live in single-family houses on large plots of land, and that doesn't make public transit for daily commuting a realistic possibility. In Paris car ownership is very low, maybe 1/3 of adults, but in rural France the car ownership rate is easily 95%+. I haven't seen a single developed area in the world that has violated the rule that low density = high car ownership and vice versa.

The other rule that I have never seen violated is that the large majority of middle and upper income people do not want to live near low income people, due to crime or other reasons. In Europe, poor people live in the suburbs, so the middle income live in the city with high density housing. In the US and some other places (south asia), low income people live near the business center, so the middle income live in low density housing in the suburbs. These are for historical reasons and cannot be easily changed.
When I was just out of school a couple years my boss quit and the company I worked for decided it would be good for me to manage a team of 5 developers. At the time I thought I did an OK job, but in retrospect I realize that there was no way for me to be good at managing people in their 30’s 40’s and 50’s. What did I know about being married, having a spouse, having kids, having to take care of sick people, having a home to maintain, etc. I knew nothing. That’s where I feel this kid is now. Lots of accomplishments on paper. Now go live and get experience to put it to use.
You're right.

> Associates degree in History, Associates degrees in Science, Associate degrees in Social Science, Science and Mathematics, arts and human expressions, social behavior and self-development

"Science" and "Science and Math" make me suspicious of their value and difficulty because they're so generic, and the humanities degrees likely have a lot of overlapping courses.

Plus it's at a CSU.

For a 12-year-old, it's still an accomplishment, but this wouldn't add up to a bachelors at a UC.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/hand-386-handheld
What should he be doing during the intervening ~6 years though? Just force himself to stop studying? Or study on his own and then be stuck bored to death when he finally goes to university and has to repeat courses?
> 5 degrees should not be possible imo.

They're associate's degrees from Fullerton, a community college.

> It feels manufactured.

It sounds more "enabled" to me. I'm jealous. I wish I had been able to take community college classes with a little more depth instead of boring junior high.
Now imagine a Windows user like myself.... :O
There hasn't been any compelling reason that makes it necessary for me to use VR/AR. It's still at the "fun" category, which make it hard to justify spending much money for "fun". Especially when the low-end headsets is about the price of a phone or a (low-end) GPU, which undoubtedly can have more uses And play more games.
I actually built it. It's a whooooole lot bigger than 45 KB. It's bigger than a 1.44 MB floppy.

bruce@rip:~/riscv/egos/egos-2000/build/release$ size -t *
text data bss dec hex filename
1552 8 3076 4636 121c cat.elf
2232 8 3076 5316 14c4 cd.elf
1440 1076 2048 4564 11d4 clock.elf
3692 2120 2104 7916 1eec crash1.elf
424 8 2048 2480 9b0 crash2.elf
4294256 2496 3400 4300152 419d78 earth.elf
224 8 2048 2280 8e8 echo.elf
7144 12 2380 9536 2540 grass.elf
1136 8 3076 4220 107c ls.elf
156 8 2048 2212 8a4 pwd.elf
2928 1076 3076 7080 1ba8 sys_dir.elf
7972 2120 2132 12224 2fc0 sys_file.elf
4340 24 3088 7452 1d1c sys_proc.elf
1736 8 2048 3792 ed0 sys_shell.elf
188 8 2048 2244 8c4 ult.elf
4329420 8988 37696 4376104 42c628 (TOTALS)

I'm not sure how the heck earth.elf text section is 4 MB. Sure, it's got a ton of libgcc stuff (e.g. mul/dev emulation) and libc stuff (e.g. big printf stuff). But it gzips to 100k and objdump shows 23676 instructions, which is 94704 bytes. Hex dumping the file, earth.elf is full of 0s from 0x1a9d0 to 0x4ab000 which is 4785712 bytes.

Changing the ISA in the makefile from RV32I to RV32IMAC reduces all the text sizes except earth.elf by 20% to 30%, as expected.

text data bss dec hex filename
1224 8 3076 4308 10d4 cat.elf
1694 8 3076 4778 12aa cd.elf
868 1076 2048 3992 f98 clock.elf
2712 2120 2104 6936 1b18 crash1.elf
324 8 2048 2380 94c crash2.elf
4264910 2496 3400 4270806 412ad6 earth.elf
164 8 2048 2220 8ac echo.elf
5346 12 2380 7738 1e3a grass.elf
928 8 3076 4012 fac ls.elf
110 8 2048 2166 876 pwd.elf
2066 1076 3076 6218 184a sys_dir.elf
6074 2120 2132 10326 2856 sys_file.elf
3474 24 3088 6586 19ba sys_proc.elf
1350 8 2048 3406 d4e sys_shell.elf
146 8 2048 2202 89a ult.elf
4291390 8988 37696 4338074 42319a (TOTALS)
The college has a story of their own that gives a little more detail: he was there 3 years, and got 5 degrees: all associate of arts, in history, social sciences, social behavior and self-development, arts and human expression, and science and mathematics.

I assume part of the trick here is that there's substantial overlap in the requirements for each degree: all of those but history are actually interdisciplinary studies degrees, each with a different "emphasis."

Not to put down a 9-to-12-year-old taking community college classes, obviously that's impressive in its own right. It's just that there's probably a little bit of a gimmick involved.
The nutshell takeaway here is that concrete reductions in costs will always outweigh greater but less concrete increases in costs, because... well George Carlin covered that.
Warhol was specifically commissioned to work on the photograph by a magazine, the photograph was not chosen by Warhol.
I guess you can do a lot of degrees with chapgpt and 27 weeks these days
It is a myth that radon collects in "low points", concentrations are low and it diffuses as the molecules bounce around. However, as you said radon is entering into those areas primarily, which means it will naturally be higher in those areas. Secondly basements often have poor ventilation, which is not to say that the radon cannot otherwise escape, but ventilation can disperse it much more rapidly than diffusion.
There probably needs to be a database of such bans faced by independent app developers by the platform app stores on the lines of the public CVE (common vulnerabilities and exposures) database.

Over time, it should act as a reliable source for a class action suit and further research into monopolistic behavior.

At the very least, it should help counter the propaganda narrative by the platform providers.
Community college, not CSU. His community college is a feeder college though, so many students there would be looking to transfer into UCs, not CSUs.
> A whitebox iOS could be downgraded enough[…]

And that’s a huge part of the problem. Any move like that would tarnish iOS in everyone’s eyes. Apple wants you to buy a real iPhone, even if it’s the model from 2 years ago, instead.

If BMW started selling a ton of $18,000 cars do you think that would help or hurt sales of the M3 and the 5 Series?

That bit then with the clones. The competition undercut them. You know what that high Apple price does? Help pay to develop iOS.

They would have to charge enough to make up for the money they would lose on the list phone sales. And seriously risk their reputation in the process.

Apple has been through a lot in their 40 years. They have an atavistic reaction at this point against anything that prevents them from controlling their own destiny. It’s hurt them too many times.

I suspect that’s why they’re doing this. They don’t want to be beholden to Samsung, LG, or anyone else for displays.
How much of this has to do with paper storage vs digitization of records? Yes, paper would be stored near the people who use it, but that’s not the only benefit of people being in one place.
Wow, TIL "balkanize" is a word. I love that!
Me too. OpenAI anyway.

I would like to get API access to more models. I am getting RSI filling out the application emails.

It is fun tho. Also being able to build what I want to use. Get what I need.
Everything in Bevy is organized as a plugin. Bevy's asset crate (bevy_asset) for instance exports the AssetPlugin, itself comprised of more sub-plugins. Bevy's rendering infrastructure is split into the following crates/plugins, each building on the layer below it:

- bevy_pbr: Bevy's standard physically-based renderer. Provides PBR shaders, user-extensible materials, as well as APIs for organizing draw calls and rendering.

- bevy_core_pipeline: Defines some standard rendering setups like "2d" and "3d - Opaque, transparent, etc", with the goal that you could plug your own wgpu-based renderer into this layer. Also currently holds all of our post-processing effects (TAA, tonemapping, bloom, etc).

- bevy_render: One part wrapper/helpers around wgpu, one part generic renderer utilities like a render node graph and 3D camera types.

There's also some extra crates I didn't cover like bevy_sprite for 2D, bevy_ui for UI, etc.

If you want to build a wgpu-based renderer, you have a couple of options depending on what kind of rendering you need. You can plug in your own custom renderer instead of bevy_pbr using bevy_core_pipeline. You can still use bevy_pbr and just add your own render nodes on top of it. Or, you can ditch wgpu/bevy_render completely and build everything from scratch (at the cost of losing UI/2D support).

Anything you do would take the form of a custom plugin. Bevy is extremely modular - plugins are how we organize and develop the engine itself, so removing certain rendering plugins and adding your own is easy.

EDIT: I encourage you to join Bevy's discord channel and discuss your project in the #rendering channel, it's much easier to provide help and give info than over a forum.
What are the best tools out there for activating windows 7 and 10?
Man, so glad I decided to finally click on the comments after seeing the article at the top of hn most the day - we don’t have radon where I live (I don’t think?) so I figured the dryer thing wasn’t applicable to me.

But for the vast majority of my life, I’ve always wanted a Geiger counter, and once they were cheap and readily available on Amazon, I was just about to pull the trigger. And then Fukushima happened a week later and sent prices into the stratosphere.

A few times recently I idly looked at the ones on Amazon but never got around to it because I couldn’t tell which were junky crap and which were somewhat more expensive junky crap.

But very cool to see a knowledgeable manufacturer explaining his product in a highly relevant comment thread. Finally, the radiation detector for me!

There’s a former 12 year old kid out there who still remembers the Geiger counter exhibit from taking a pre-9/11 NPP tour who’s going to be very excited for something coming in the mail in the next week or two.
I think the author is a little cynical. As someone with a handful of small open source projects, I know exactly what he is talking about but I wouldn't say it's driven by narcissism. It's mostly just people new to programming trying to contribute and usually learn something through the process of contributing. You can always just tell them they are free to fork your project, this may offend them but if you do it politely and explain that you do not feel like investing that much time in the project or that their changes are too complicated then they will understand.
Here’s another example: during the Victorian era, Alfred, Lord Tennyson revived interest in The Matter of Britain (King Arthur, Lancelot, etc.) by publishing, over several decades, what would become The Idylls of the King.

Thence T. H. White, thence Mary Stewart, thence Marion Bradley (an otherwise wretched person), thence that terrible Sam Neill vehicle, thence. . .

All of this to say there’s a flaw in your logic: financial incentives are not the only reason people create new things. Financial incentives in fact destroy other artistic incentives, and so we already lack the works that would have been created in their absence. The proof of this is the graveyard of Netflix series canceled in the second season.

(P.S.: Ah, here, in the acknowledgements to _The Mists of Avalon_: "Finally, I must express loving gratitude to my husband, Walter Breen, who said, at a crucial moment in my career, that it was time to stop playing it safe by writing potboilers, and provided financial support so that I could do so. . ." A potboiler is a book written to cater to the popular taste, so that the writer might earn a living.)
I personally think it's garbage. You do you. Don't let others control you. However, do understand what you do has consequences. :)
Is this the oldest Linux peripheral? [video]
I live in a midwest and rarely hear people complain about loneliness.
People who are healthy enough to live another 30 years will see people being born on Moon and Mars and food being grown in vertical farms on both Moon and Mars and in space. And then another 30 and we'll hit 100 billion.

Then another 30 years and 100 trillion probably.

This'll happen even if nobody explicitly tries to make it happen, just because the economics will work out.
Yeah...disinterest. Like you were once interested in something but not anymore is still disinterest.
https://archive.is/IbNCO
This is why we need independent marketplaces. Today’s options are really google or give it away for free (and the same for apple).
I mostly agree with you.

> These corridors remain as valuable arteries awaiting a return to their original designs. Simple and affordable upgrades like bus rapid transit, small apartment buildings and bike lanes could once again transition them into being powerful parts of a transportation network that does not rely on car ownership.

Throwing money at public transport doesn't have a good track record in modern North American (US + Canada).

Instead (or in addition) you can try things that are free or even earn money:

- charge for street parking (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking)

- improve zoning to legalise building (see eg http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html) and legalise density

- remove mandatory minimum parking requirements

- remove other subsidies for car ownership, both explicit and implicit

- consider congestion charges and tolls

Once you enact things like the above, bus rapid transit might even become profitable to run privately. After all streetcars were famously profitable back in the day.
> Perhaps a lawyer can explain a little more to me the logic behind the “transformative” rule when it comes to copyright protection

IANAL, but…

First, its not a rule of copyright protection, its a rule of fair use, which is only an issue when copyright protection exists.

Second, there is not really a specific “transformative” rule. Whether use is transformative is an aspect of the “Purpose and character of use” factor in fair use analysis. That a use is “transformative” (that is, that it has a different character and use – that it becomes a work of a significantly different kind) is typically, where present, a finding which ways in favor of fair use, but it is neither by itself neither necessarily necessary for nor necessarily sufficient for fair use (though in a specific case it can be either), there is no hard and fast rule, and fair use analysis is highly context-specific.

> So basically what I’m asking is why do judges appear to apply the “transformative” rule to visual arts but not to auditory ones.

The defendants in the Blurred Lines case did not assert fair use, they asserted that there was no use at all, and that there was no copying and no substantial similarity in the works resulting from copying. Whether they might have prevailed had they done so instead of denying copying at all is…speculation, but it is not an inconsistency that they did not win on an argument they did not make, even if consistency would demand that they should have if they did.
You were a much wilder 12 year old than I was . . .