skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't know what Semafor was. Turns out it's a new site called Semafor[1].
And their team blogged about it[2].

[1] https://www.semafor.com/

[2] https://al-lucca.medium.com/how-weve-designed-the-semafor-ex...
So not only has Russia destroyed more HIMARS systems than were sent to Ukraine, but those destroyed systems never made it to Ukraine in the first place because """corruption""".

Just a firehose of bullshit. It's insane how easily people want to buy it.
Crypto will always be a problem that can only be fixed with more crypto.
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I think everyone is confused of what is the left / right.

Traditionally the left has been associated with social policies (stemming from socialism/communism vs capitalism)

And there always was a part of the left which was anti-war, and always was a more "totalitarian" version of the left that felt it was morally justified.

But in every society the meaning of left and right has been fluid.
He was an Anti-Fascist, but wanted to prevent a war with the Fascists. In fact, he was so Anti-Fascist, that the US Government apologized to Benito Mussolini on his behalf, and court-martialed him over his Anti-Fascist comments about Mussolini.

Source: New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/1931/01/30/archives/united-states-ap...
Oh. With all the talk about national body comments I thought a freeze of some sort was already in effect. (Which did make the “nope“ paper on integer constant expressions[1] from Clang more than a bit surprising.) Thanks for the correction!

[1] https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3125.pdf
You know what would be helpful? A little tag or something at the beginning of each section that says about how long it's going to take.

From what I've seen so far, it looks awesome. I'm excited to dive in. Thanks!
More like stop trying to attack your neighbours and I'll stop choking you.

And nobody in this world including the US wants North Korea to continue to be a relic from the 1970s. Prosperity lifts us all.
Today's thread on this is doing wildly well, very rapidly upvoted. Well done reference. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36074845
Around the year 2001 my employer at the time was doing a Exchange mailbox migration from a datacenter in Connecticut to one in Atlanta. They paid for me to fly up there (coach fare), pick up the data on an external USB drive, fly back with the drive in my carry-on luggage, drive to the data center and plug it in.
> Kholsa?

Martins beach
I can't even read this. People need to spend some time editing their gpt-generated posts : - (
> Biden continues to fuck it up to this day

In what way? Don't get me wrong, I think Biden sucks. But when wearing a mask became an issue of deepest political ideology before Biden was elected, it's a tough task to change public opinion when you're a politician.
I see the same problem with the various lists of cognitive biases, rethoric devices, etc.

I think the trick is to see them as patterns which should allow you to more easily construct a counter argument - instead of pretending that merely pointing out the pattern itself would already be enough to disqualify the argument.

e.g., in the examples from the "perfect solution" section, they didn't just shut down the discussion with "well, that's a Perfect Solution Fallacy, so your argument is invalid!", they actually explained in each case, why a non-perfect solution is still desirable.

You could compare it with chess: An opponent is absolutely allowed to leave a piece vulnerable and you don't get an automatic win by just pointing out a bad position - you only get an advantage if you actually take the piece.
Oh. That Nirvana... Whatever.
Seeing as there is no evidence of these "blood suckers", what are we supposed to investigate?
What's Semafor UI?

While it looks nice, as others have pointed out it breaks regular web conventions (e.g. on mobile you can't long press links to get the context menu etc.)
And caused many unnecessary deaths by witholding the vaccine from less rich countries that couldn't outcompete richer ones, since the supply was very limited in the moments of most need.

If they really wanted to save lives they should have liberalized the vaccine's production, but all they cared for was profit, the life saving just a coincidence.
Yeah- we've been working on that for quite a while, and it'll take a few more years to finish it. I hope we can get some important parts into 17 though.

FWIW, there have been smaller prerequisites merged into 15 already, and 16 has a number of improvements that are part of that work. E.g. the more scalable relation extension (making COPY scale much better), and the related buffer mapping changes, come from the AIO effort.

Personally I think the feature is using asynchronous IO and direct IO support is part of that :)
It's not about OCR or dirt. It's about taking an image. I doubt OCR would work on any of them, whether you use a $$$$$ archivist to photograph the pages or not.

As for below the topmost layer, you're right, an iphone camera won't do it. But worrying about that comes much, much later.
> The "war on terror" was started by a Republican who invaded Afghanistan and Iraq and continued for nearly 8 more years under a Democrat.

And ended by a Republican
Or is it nadir a16z?
……Nevermind.
Fear of AI has been real and well-articulated for at least 70 years.

The current trajectory has done very little to assuage those fears and quite a bit to validate or even amplify them.
I watch long videos at any time. Usually during coding. For instance this summary and review of utopia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFx2QM0Z8Qo 7 hours : 41 minutes, watched it one go.
Do you understand the difference between writing a blog post about something and being able to talk about it in an interview? The majority of work in software is not being an "expert" on any one thing because the one thing that employers require is changing quite frequently. Rather it is being able to build up experience and carrying knowledge forward to new areas.

Most technical interviews are conducted in a completely inane way where the goal is to memorize pieces of information. If that was how software worked, the best engineer would just be Google. 95% of people who know enough to build this system would likely be unable to answer your questions because, more than likely, they do not currently work in a job that requires them to use this information every day. This does not mean they do not understand it or are unable to build it.

The reason why companies can't find people like this is a combination of not understanding what software development is (and not understanding people, it is really the blind leading the blind but technical people are often as bad as interviewing).

You are asking completely wrong questions. You aren't starting from the right place.
The US can cover debt servicing costs indefinitely without raising the debt ceiling. It would cause a lot of other cuts to essential services though, so obviously that is not a desirable outcome either. But it is incorrect to frame this as hitting the debt ceiling necessarily forcing a default.
I see this a lot when people are looking for some library / framework / programming language / game engine. You keep adding requirements and assume that you can spend some additional time evaluating alternatives to make up for the longer list of requirements you have. Reality is, there are often only a few serious alternatives in the first place. Adding more and more requirements to your search is, in some way, a stubborn refusal to prioritize among those requirements. Prioritization doesn’t just mean affirming that some of your priorities are important, it means acknowledging that some of your priorities are unimportant and can be discarded.

Related is the assumption that any custom-built library you write is going to beat an existing, well-known library that doesn’t exactly match your needs. It’s easy to come up with a list of problems with existing libraries, but your theoretical custom-built library can be perfect, because you’re not imagining that it has any serious bugs or design flaws. You end up building your own solution and, in the process, rediscover why the existing library was built the way it is.
That bluff deserves to be called.
Your comment reminds me of the classic example: Taken 3 where they used 15 cuts in 6 seconds[1] to show Liam Neeson jumping over a fence. You can barely hold people's attention for 400 milliseconds.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCKhktcbfQM
I love Nix as a package manager, and flakes are awesome for setting up environments. I wish it had more affordances for being a proper build system. If only there were a Buck2 and Nix hybrid.
Also, record of the apology from the Department of State.

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1931v02/d6...
AFAIK eGMP (platform for Ioniq, EV6, GV60) OTA updates are limited to infotainment system - you have to go into the dealership for major system updates. (I have an EV6)
Then lift the sanctions. How are sanctions going to protect anyone from nuclear attacks anyway, if NK already has an arsenal?
What do you think has been happening for the past couple centuries in the Congo (and various other countries of the global south)? US imperialism is alive and well and The Jakarta Method [1] by Vincent Bevins is a damning account of it from the cold war to present day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jakarta_Method
There are only 8 billion people on earth, so even if every single account were fake that's still a huge improvement over the status quo where someone can spin up 8 billion fake accounts in an hour.
> I doubt the billions in rent they must collect every year on app sales really go on improving the OS experience.

Google has huge numbers of engineers working on Android...

Although I do kinda wonder exactly what they're working on, considering each release of Android seems to be not very different from the previous one...
>When none of that happened he had to be a traitor since he didn't start any beautiful patriotic wars

Find me a quote of someone on the left saying Trump was bad for not starting a war
So they don’t actually have any principles?
I agree with Butler's point but think he's missing the forest for the trees by focusing on territory acquisition and profits from production of war materials. The real point of war is that it's a way to farm us (the masses) for rapid development of promising new technologies, e.g. —

— US Civil war: Rifles, telegraph, railroads

— World War 1: Optics, radio communication, aviation, tracked vehicles

— World War 2: Computers, cryptography, atomic energy, radar and microwave communication, global logistics (fuels, containerization, etc)

— Cold War: SPAAAAACE
Why would it need to be loaded fully into system RAM at once? Couldn't it be quantized on the fly, as it's being read from disk?
Just a reminder that biometric data (like iris or fingerprint scans) are "usernames", not passwords. If a site's password database is leaked, you can change your password. If a site's iris scan database is leaked, you're out of luck.
Assigning random stock portraits as the users' profile pictures isn't a very nice thing to do IMO.
This has to be the most re-posted piece on HN

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=War+Is+a+Racket
Sam Altman more and more seems like a potential Bond villain.
Example 1 is fantastic in that it clearly conveys how to avoid an oft forgotten portion of the XY problem: the XY problem problem. Personally, I think the amount of time spent attempting a literal answer before inquiring along the lines of if it's an XY problem should be proportional to the latency of the communication. Talking through a scenario where it turns out it wasn't an XY problem isn't really much of an inconvenience to do in person. Talking through the same scenario in a forum or email can be grating.
If our society was teetering in the edge of chaos because we couldn’t figure out how to prevent shoplifting maybe there would be a push to exploit the minds of people who can probe the dark mysteries of stealing Tide from CVS.
Or they’re true AI believers, and believe AI assisted chip design will erode NVIDIA’s edge
I would say, they are both complicated.

Afghanistan shows that trying "nation building" on a place where they don't actually want any nation doesn't really work. But it did work for Japan and Germany after WW2, so maybe it was worth trying. I'm sure the women who are now forbidden to learn to read liked the Americans more than they like Taliban, but does that mean extending the war was worth it?

As for Iraq, the WMDs were a complete lie and Bush and Cheney just wanted more war - some say Cheney was the mind behind and Bush was just idiot, some say Bush wanted to finish what his father started - but average Iraqi is now better off than with Saddam. That doesn't help those who died in the war, of the people who could have has better lives for the money the war had cost though.

It was actually Ukraine that changed my opinion on Iraq, because the arguments "Iraq under Saddam's brutal dictatorship wasn't that bad, there was no reason to war" started resonate with "don't help Ukraine, their lives aren't going that bad under Putin's brutal dictatorship, tell the to surrender" little too much. Was Iraq different from Ukraine only because in one the dictator was status quo and in the other it wasn't?

Yeah, complicated.
Then you are obviously running OpenBSD on ARM.
What kind of a car is that? I have 1.6l hyndai ix20 and I can let off gas at any time with zero issues....
The sad truth is that people nowadays can't even pass through a 15-minute podcast without checking out their Twitter feed multiple times. So, I'm not sure how many people would read through a 800-page textbook.
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> Afraid of deadlocks making in mutex code?

No. You literally cannot use a mutex in interrupt service routines.

If you fail to understand why, then you don't understand fundamental OS and/or device driver issues and need to study up on that a bit more. This isn't something you use userland tools to solve either.

You're arguing for a methodology in a use case where its literally impossible to use mutexes and/or locking. The only reasonable software engineering decision here is to write lock-free code with guarantees of forward progress in these situations.

Its not easy. A lot of people mess it up. But that's what you have to do. No one ever said kernel hacking was easy. Someone has to write this code, and whoever does will likely use a lock-free methodology. This is where atomics and barriers shine.

> Lock-free code by itself doesn't guarantee forward progress.

I don't think you understand what lock-free code means. It literally means code that has guarantees for forward progress.

Its very difficult to write lock-free code. Very, very difficult. But the methodology is well known and well documented. (https://preshing.com/20120612/an-introduction-to-lock-free-p...)

You use these guarantees of forward progress (ex: on a 128-core computer, if all are doing compare_exchange_strong at the same time, then 1x of them will succeed, and 127x of them will fail. This is guaranteed, _SOMEONE_ succeeds and makes forward progress with lock-free primitives like compare_exchange_strong).

That means that if all 128x threads/cores call "compare_exchange_strong" 1x each, then after 128x calls every thread will have succeeded (ie: worst case, one thread will have to call it 128x times).

No. This isn't sufficient to have lock-free code yet. You now need to prove that you don't deal with live-lock issues or other such complex issues that come up (and you'll only get here in the first place if you wrote your memory-barriers correctly and lined everything else up perfectly).

But its a start. And with enough effort, study, sweat and tears, you'll be able to write a lock-free something and have a good functioning interrupt service routine.
That feels like cutting off your nose to spite your face, since iOS is still way more locked down than Android. If your employer cut your salary from $100k to $90k, would you respond by quitting and going to work somewhere else for $50k?
So do they share their implementation of overlaying stores somewhere? It would be a huge benefit for the community to have it open source and available for being used in countless other use cases.
I recall using XP x64 edition on an Athlon64. I remember it having such poor software support that it was barely usable. I heard it was actually a version of Windows Server that they put the XP GUI on top of, but I'm not sure if that's true (Wikipedia only seems to partially corroborate it).
I have had that exact experience before. It is fine, you realise the company is toasted and you move on (the place that asked me this had just got rinsed by an offshore consulting firm, ecomm site built with a graph database, comedic stuff).
What real-world circumstance does this theory explain?
The OP quotes one of the investors:

"Worldcoin has a unique opportunity to establish and scale a new privacy-preserving primitive for the Internet...", etc.

I'm not going to quote the rest because everyone here is tired of corporate-speak.

Translation from corporate-speak:

"We're high as a kite on the vision of managing identification credentials for everyone everywhere."

---

PS. Let me add: I believe Sam and his team genuinely have good intentions. But good intentions do not guarantee a good outcome.
I threw away a Gravis Ultrasound with the 16-bit daughter board and a Terratec EWS64 XL a few years ago when we moved. .. oops ...
which do you recommend? maybe I get one as a toy project at first...
I've always called it that too. I suspect it is a common alternative name.
>Your facile equivalence is rejected with prejudice.

It's your facile equivalence, that because these specific things don't apply to the US, American imperialism was morally justified.

You could just read the Wikipedia article on American war crimes, or learn about how much of the Nazi's ideology was based on American eugenics and racial segregation, or take even a glance at the last several decades of American militarism throughout the Middle East, but I guess you won't.
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Interesting. What is the maximum SPI data rate you achieved with PIO?
Writing options is an incredibly competitive market, margins are very tight. The quant firms writing them only work because of the massive scale, they lose almost as often as they win.
I've spent some time as a civie on a Royal Navy warship. If anything, that was more cluttered than Nostromo (every bulkhead seemed covered with stuff). But it was a lot brighter!
That's fine, but for me, it stops being x86 if it can't run legacy code.

A 64-bit only CPU may be a sensible thing, and we can use emulators for old stuff, but when we are at it, do we really need x86 at all? If we are to break compatibility, couldn't we just switch to ARM, RISC-V, or something else? I mean, that's what Apple do, they did it successfully, and more than once (68k, PPC, x86, ARM), but Apple is Apple, and x86 is (was?) all about backwards compatibility.
Yes, that is how subduing a belligerent person works.
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I'd love to see it. Probably the quickest way to end imperialism would be to force Americans to do the dirty work themselves.
Using tagged template literals with Lit or Preact + htm is more readable than Van.js, is much faster on update, and is also completely vanilla JS (no JSX and so no build step needed)
> In one interview, their head of crypto investments main value claim was "monetizing the sharing of your home wifi," and after some pushback resorted to deference to authority by saying the founders they invest in went to the right schools and nobody else could understand because "they weren't in the room."

Chris Dixon ?
Before you sprinkle AI on all your analytics, check data quality
In both directions
You can change your account's country by opening the store and tapping on your avatar. It's a bit convoluted (requires you to make up an address) but it's not the end of the world.
Hell, plenty on the right want Trump as king, with his son as next in line. I don't think that is broadly popular Republican policy though, despite their official policy being "Do whatever Trump wants"
Welp.. lucky I updated a couple of days ago.
> Can a slacker goodfornothing McDonald's-working college dropout that only live day to day, party to party, feel self-worth?

Do they throw good parties?

Do they help their friends celebrate their successes and provide succor in times of need? If so, why shouldn't they feel some self-worth?
I was quite surprised to see Sequoia getting involved in crypto fiascos.

My data sample is very small but I have a pretty good track record of shifting career focus in the last 20 years. In particular, 2000 and 2008 were two HUGE shifts for me as the writing was on the wall before crisis hit. Common theme to drive change: too much competition. I jumped out from areas where there was still tremendous growth to be seen but no serious money to be done.

I’m calling a third.
I'm not really interested in that dead-end avenue. Bulk usage is all browser based, most basic applications that do have a desktop-based client are essentially packaged chrome browsers, and high-performance apps are so custom and so tied to old APIs that they wouldn't work with any of the new container methods Microsoft attempted over the years.

Windows workloads are getting smaller, not bigger.

This attempt at a yet another microsft iteration of things like flatpak/docker/dpkg/rpm/nix etc is no more likely to be embraced than the previous ones. There is a reason default packaging of popular software is still SFX packages spewing files all over the place and not MSI or MSIX. The former is usually only included als an alternative (i.e. Chrome's "Enterprise" version) because tools like SCCM are not very useful without it.
Those are not up for debate, as the US has never been properly attacked, as far as I know. (The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor might be an exception, but that wasn't the US mainland, though the US attack on Japan did involve the Japanese mainland, so this probably doesn't count as a purely defensive war.)
This future was foretold in 1993: [https://youtu.be/XoGkp7PPEfI]
The 14th Amendment does not authorize the White House to pay debts without the Congress. The debt ceiling debate is not farcical, it is congressional.
> In the coming weeks, we will be developing the Layered Store features, releasing a Nix Community RFC, and working to upstream it into Nix.

Doesn't look like specs or implementations are public yet.
NextLight is truly an incredible service.
Sure, my argument is that there is zero evidence whatsoever we will be able to prevent these from becoming dangerous or that we’d be able to stop deployment once they do.

All technologies are dangerous, and many of the most dangerous ones correctly have tons and tons of safeguards around them both as intrinsic properties of the technology (e.g. it takes nationstate resources to produce a nuke) and extrinsic constraints (e.g. it’s illegal to have campfires in many extremely dry locales).

We have blown through checkpoint after checkpoint and here, in this very comment, we have perhaps the most brazen example one could produce:

Well geez, now that we’re thinking about it beyond a cursory glance, alignment looks really hard and perhaps unsolvable. Does that mean we should perhaps slow at least widespread deployment of these increasingly powerful systems? Should we be evaluating control schemes like those that mitigate risks of genetic engineering or nuclear weapons?

Well no! We need to discard alignment!
> Running latest Mozilla Firefox on latest Apple iOS.

Shouldn't matter btw. On iOS everyone uses Webkit as that's the only engine Apple allows on the App Store.
> Firing rockets indiscriminately into a civilian area is not combat. Hiding your guns, bombs, and bases inside of civilian buildings is not some idle decision.

Dude this has happened in every war since at least WW2