skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related, more or less:

Getting a Psion 5 palmtop from 1997 online via PPP (and a Raspberry Pi) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33946824 - Dec 2022 (26 comments)

“16 Shades of Grey” – Building a Psion/EPOC32 Emulator (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30835970 - March 2022 (1 comment)

Psion PDA – How does it look today? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29871609 - Jan 2022 (2 comments)

Raspberry Pi Helps Vintage Psion Find Its Voice - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20609493 - Aug 2019 (1 comment)

Former Psion designers return with a fresh take on the PDA - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16619449 - March 2018 (2 comments)

Gemini PDA: 20 years on, meet the all-new Psion Series 5 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15818324 - Nov 2017 (69 comments)

Motorola Buys Psion For $200m - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4126441 - June 2012 (1 comment)

Psion: the last computer (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=226305 - June 2008 (1 comment)
But that means the work being done at those companies is more valuable than the work being done elsewhere, and so it makes sense that those companies would pay more (because marginally better employees will add even more value than they cost, due to the org's over-size leverage of that work). That in turn raises salaries for all workers in the same market.
Google market cap: $1590bn, Google debt: $26bn

Please explain.
Unity3D Procedural Shader-based 3D Spectrogram
That is accurate, but most of the plans I've seen/been on are only about $1500-$300 deductible and $6-7k out of pocket max.

So while you pay the full burden of the first $1500-$3000, you only pay a percentage of anything after that and not one penny more than your max.
These are automotive factories... I'm not sure that the uplift would take that much compared to silicon wafer fabs. I mean newer machinery/robots, but the infrastructure shouldn't need to change all that much, should it?
>I didn't die on the hill, I conquered it. ;-)

Not really. They did. But I hope playing pretend moderator was fulfilling for you.
Because it's extremely unlikely that there aren't more such talented people than there are multibillion dollar companies needing someone to run them.
What keeps AMD from clean-room reverse-engineering CUDA, a la Compaq? Patents? If so, that's a problem caused by government, so I wouldn't look to them to fix it.
Related:

The Analog Thing: An open source, educational, low-cost modern analog computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28614840 - Sept 2021 (65 comments)
Hadoop is a great counterexample. They took some papers that loosely described an obsolete system that already had one foot in the grave, and reimplemented it badly for the public. It's what I like to call an "industry-disabling paper".

If you would like to use some 2002 technology by all means adopt Hadoop.
The following error prone: it can be mistakenly applied to a pointer:

#define LEN(NAME) (sizeof NAME / sizeof(NAME)[0])

I think gcc has a warning for this pattern now: when the size of a pointer
is divided by the size of its referent type.

More importantly, it has an odd extra level of indirection. The traditional definition is:

#define LEN(ARRAY) (sizeof ARRAY / sizeof (ARRAY)[0])

This means that to use LEN on an array, we have to take the address:

char *array[5];
LEN(&array); // -> 5

If we use

LEN(array);

which is an easy mistake, we get:

sizeof *array / sizeof (*array)[0]

which is

sizeof (char *) / sizeof (char)

which is

sizeof (char *)

which is likely 4 or 8.

I do see that LEN is supposed to be (only) used in conjunction with ARR:

#define ARR(TYPE, NAME, COUNT) TYPE(*NAME)[COUNT]

but that isn't enforced. An idea would be to add some "secret" prefix or suffix to NAME like blah_ ## NAME, so that name cannot be referenced without going through the macros; i.e. if we define ARR(int, foo, 42) then there is no declared identifier foo; it actually declares blah_foo, and LEN(foo) knows about that, also adding the prefix. Thus mistakenly using LEN(foo) on something not declared with ARR will likely be a reference to an undeclared identifier.
But Apple's Mx chips can't handle desktop workloads without active cooling, and are demonstrably worse at workloads that are demanding enough to require active cooling.
That's a disgustingly low bar. Have some self-respect.
Market cap isn't Wealth. It can evaporate at any time. I'm sure there's people more hidden that have much more real disposable wealth.
@dang this account appears to be low effort ai generated spam presumably to promote MirrorThink.ai (look at the past comments)

Regardless this answer does not responded to the parent comment's question at all since all of these papers are about radiance fields.
Yeah, so I don't agree with much of this.

I usually end up rolling my own abstraction layer on top of SQL in whatever language I'm using, and have been doing so for 25 years now; it's not that much code if you only write what you need.

First of all, it makes the same class=table assumption that's hurting every ORM I've come across. This only scratches the surface of what a relational database can do. You want support for records that may contain arbitrary number of columns from different tables on some level.

Secondly, while I agree that migrations should be first class, I also want support for them (and DDL) in the host language. My last project was based on event sourcing; which meant that to be able to replay the event stream reliably, migrations had to create events.

First class queries is another thing that I've never seen out in the wild. It's not that complicated to add a composable layer on top of SQL to generate arbitrary queries.

And while there are certainly differences between databases and SQL dialects, I've been involved in 2Mloc projects that ran on several different databases with a thin compatibility layer in between. It's perfectly doable.
> what the hell is the rest of the world thinking?

— “Who wants to work that hard for nothing?”

— “We’re a tech company? What do we actually do? Something that: atomizes social relations; enables the violation of people’s privacy and rights; or simply plays hot-potato with funny money? Yeah, pass. My friends and family would think I’m a chancer.”

— “What you’re doing goes against local laws and ethics. You can’t do that here.”

— “A business should help the country and its people; not the people that built it.”

— “Spending all my free time to become marginally more knowledgeable and skilled than my coworkers/‘competition’? I’d rather spend time with my friends and family — or a hobby.”

— “Money? What am I gonna do with money — buy a house? Then what.”
Oh, it's not an "interesting idea" that we're teetering on the edge of not being able to differentiate between machine-generated and human-generated content. It does seem that our AI learning models simply mimic our own thinking processes, absorbing and combining experiences to create results that sometimes outshine their origins.

The real question that'll soon dominate is, "How can we even tell the difference?"*

(* - Reworded with ChatGPT 4)
> What sort of jobs are there these days that use assembly? Is anybody still using it directly

I use assembly on the regular in my embedded systems work. It lets you get away with using a lower-spec (and therefore cheaper) microcontroller than you could otherwise.
Functional Equality: Why 2+2 does not equal 4.0
Given that the unmasked vastly outnumber the masked it's not for social approval. I still mask (N95) in places because I haven't been sick since 2019 and it makes me happy. There's very few people left who mask. The social pressure is very much to take off the mask.
Unfortunately, the ROCm stack seems to use a fair bit of separate kernel code and it's not nearly as stable in my experience. I have a 5700 XT (not officially supported by ROCm, but close enough to some other cards that some have had success). It's perfectly stable for demanding games, but just straightforward DMA is enough to cause GPU hangs with ROCm for some reason.
I believe this "dance" to be quite ineffective for both employers and employees, as the best strategy is standard 2 years somewhere then monkey branch for 20% bump in another company.

I guess this is a debate as old as time "invisible hand" vs "socialism". I understand both sides of the argument, but think it makes sense to have a bit of government oversight or workers initiatives here to make sure people are not getting shafted.
Lessons from Washington State’s New Capital Gains Tax
Things are worse yet in our post-modern post-WWII culture, where for 70+ years we've had an ever-growing schism between consensus reality and truth, thanks to the enshrinement of the premise that security requires secrecy, and anything of actionable value is stamped need-to-know.

And more! The interface between those who know objective truth, those who emit signals, and we who try to discern the former through the games of the latter, is now a state of permanent turbulence. When you say "testing out" that is even more true for the premise of sending up "trial balloons": you emit a message, observe the results, and then walk it back or obscure its veracity as needed. The actual truth is a footnote; the important thing is obscuring that from rivals (broadly understood as anyone who threatens the mission or at least the status quo, which has feature-crept to mean most of the public)...

In a case like this a cynic such as myself sees equal odds that what is reported in these two stories, is a decent rendition of the truth...

...and that the truth is elsewhere, e.g., the first statement was true; it was leaked either as a test or by actual misstep; and the machinery automatically kicked in to emit the second statement—because regardless of what is true, it is valuable for enemies to be unsure. Was this an accidental reveal of a capability far in advance of what the public knows? Or is this is an intentional bluff? Or...?

Who can say? None of us.

It bears saying,

the initial story was profoundly concerning in two different ways.

First because of the Cameron-ready simple existential threat posed by murderous paperclip maximizers, which most here are long familiar with.

But second, and much more interesting to me, and probably likewise to many here, is that the executive planning and scenario-finding implied by a a putative military AI, which is capable of concluding that taking the human out of the loop would best satisfy it,

...is suggestive of a type of AI very very different from what we see in the public sphere, or at least, what I have seen, following the horse race with some real attention.

That to me suggests that it's not even odds that this was a feint of some sort wrt AI and the foes of the West. As with e.g. well documented efforts to suggest to Cold War rivals that they were behind in the recovered-UFO-tech clandestine arms race, who knows what truth is in the basement, there is a lot of 9-to-5 life-and-death action and effort going on in causing sleepless nights over in the GRU and PRC.
Anecdotal: I wash my hands more now after the Pandemic. Not that I have OCD, but it's been documented that many OCD sufferers had very strict parents who demanded their children washed their hands at every instance, and that passed into adulthood. Maybe I'm a victim of the Pandemic era and continue to wash my hands religiously, often to the extreme?
Is there an algorithm to convince you?
HIP is AMD's open-source re-implementation of CUDA libraries.
We really ought to push for something better than Tails. I'd love to run something like it on an aarch64-linux or riscv64-linux board. I'd love to run something that doesn't have a hacked, nearly broken debian boot process, which broke the ability to kexec it many versions ago, etc.

/me keeps (semi-)patiently waiting for SpectrumOS... https://spectrum-os.org/
Is this Skybox also related? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35619119
Is 'Skybox' a term of art in 3D graphics or is it polluted namespace?
Granted, but neither is it feasible to locate, much less pursue, every person who contributed to the social trail existing.

I'd recommend you read OnX's report. They provide two examples of how the land owner is being harmed, although only one of them ("Bad Apples") seems valid.

Ultimately, the concept of American exceptionalism (that is, the belief apparently held by every American that they, personally, justify an exception to the rules, but not anyone else) needs to die. That national myth is the greatest obstacle to a viable American implementation of e.g. the UK's freedom to roam. Until then, the land owner has (and should have) the right to protect their property.

Years ago (ca 2009), I was training for the Laramie Enduro (now known as the Laramie Range Epic) mountain bike race up around Happy Jack, about 90 miles east of the ranch that kicked off this whole thread, when I encountered a no-motorized-trail sign, snapped off at its base, pressed into the mud in tire tracks left by car- or truck-sized tires.

I've been skiing up in wilderness areas in the Snowy Range (that is, the range that Elk Mountain is the northern terminus of), and had to deal with junked up snow from snowmobiles. Now, damage to snow is sort of ephemeral, but damage to the underlying trail because there's insufficient snow coverage?

In either of these cases, what recourse does the land owner/manager have? Do our courts really just "whelp, sucks to be you"? I really get how a few bad actors can really mess up an area. Because of that, I really do believe that if the law came down very publicly like the hammer of god on a few of those bad actors, the ones with the rotten luck to get caught, then people in general would be better stewards of the land.

I think limiting damages to real damages (like trail mediation), and excluding legal fees, means that the would-be plaintiff, bringing a civil suit, should have to weigh whether or not the cost of a suit is worth winning the actual cost of removing a trail. If its 12 feet of trail near the corner, its not worth it.

I recall an incident in Colorado, in 2000, where a radio station told its listeners about an unofficial gathering of off-roaders. Several hundred people showed up in trucks and jeeps and things, drove off road on federal land to get to private land, then tore up 7 acres of wetlands before leaving. A cursory googling of the KBPI mudfest incident didn't reveal the outcome, but at most a dozen people (out of ~200 vehicles) actually saw charges filed. If I was personally facing the remediation of 7 acres of wetlands, I'd be selling out every jackass who came with me and didn't get caught. That's the power of throwing the full cost on the unlucky one who got caught.
You don’t need to think too much, just go read the tweet. It’s pretty unequivocal. At that point the WHO was very adamantly against the idea that Covid could be airborne. That tweet thread is very strongly worded to emphasize that point.
Sometimes it is better to have rotten wood to build something than nothing at all.

If we want to encourage Rust adoption, it is by having a middle path, not via Rust Advocacy Strike Force.

That only shuts the audience off, specially when Rust has a glass ceiling of depending on C++ infrastructure for its reference compilers.
Thanks for sharing, I’ll give it a try!
The last few weeks I've used a similar framework called solara to convert my Jupyter notebooks into web apps https://github.com/widgetti/solara
Engine No. 1 (the activist group who "won" against Exxon) has an S&P 500 ETF that they use the funds for shareholder activism like this. You can read more about it here: https://etf.engine1.com/vote/
Yeah, anti-technologism is so niche of an idea yet entirely true. So obvious that is hidden in plain sight, that it’s technology and not anything else that is the cause of so many problems of today. So inconvenient that it’s even unthinkable for many. After all, technology _is_ what if not convenience? Humanity lived just fine, even though sometimes with injustice and corruption, there was never a _need_ for it. It’s not the solution to those problems or any other problem. I also don’t agree that violence is justified by the justifications of the author, even though I think it’s justified by other things and under other conditions.
Precisely my point as well. Everything is bad when done poorly. :D
> You can hardly work on any of the current models today

Tell that to the millions of people who work on them daily without issue.
Yes, but aside from string literals pointed out by a sibling comment, nothing in the language itself dictates this convention. The C library could be augmented with functions which expect strings structured in other ways.
I also did a little digging on this in 2018, this api allows more granular api control.

There's cool little parameters like rich text element, and other RPAN generally not available to the normal api.
My bad, try now
This "hindsight" distraction can literally be used to excuse any mistake. It always involves completely dismissing a large group of experts who were right at the time, and for all the right reasons.

> how were they supposed to know, by looking into their crystal ball?

They certainly pretended that they knew hard enough to react in an extreme way.
There are some good books to give you that kind of delta for C++11/14/17/20.

Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners
Modern C++ Programming Cookbook
et al.

I'm actually starting to like C++ again. Weird.
I agree.

However, a tool like Prisma only seems possible (with all its benefits) within Typescript, which is able to compute arbitrary types dynamically.
What's the most exported item from South America that does not get snorted?
I was a bit frustrated because I believe these reasons are not sufficient for declining a candidate who is well-suited for the position.

They aren't obligated to give you the job and the decision makers did think there were sufficient reasons to pass on you. Unless you think there's some protected class bias, chalk it up to "live and learn". As a hiring manager I've certainly walked out of many, many interviews and said "candidate is technically qualified, but they aren't a fit" for many legitimate reasons.
We have been doing all of this since the 90s at least on desktop computers. Smartphones today are far more powerful than desktop computers from that era.
If your base of comparison is Berlin, then Tier 1 metros in the US can come out to 3-4x as expensive, but Germany also has pretty bad wage stagnation so ymmv
while nerf.studio is impressive, the parent comment is asking about radiance field free methods. NeRF stands for Neural Radiance Fields and all of the algorithms in that repo use radiance fields
I'm not sure why people are so obsessed with executive compensation. Just because it's lower doesn't mean that the savings will be passed to the workers. That money is more likely to go to the shareholders.
>>If answers are good, keep them. If they're bad, downvote them.

>This doesn't work at scale... with LLM's all of a sudden there is a huge influx of mediocre content

The GP's answer may not work at scale - however LLM detection doesn't work at all. So the only semi-workable solution is aggressive filtering and banning users who post trash (LLM or not).

Also, there's a need to think about score and trust mechanisms - the same mechanisms which can be used for filtering also provide an incentive for LLM use, is there a way to avoid that?

>When someone posts a answer I assume they actually ran the code, and can verify the result

I wish we lived in a world where this assumption wasn't naive.
at first glance i thought may be its like tinygrad. but looks has many ops than tiny grad but most maps to underlying hardware provided ops?

i wonder how well tinygrad's apporach will work out, ops fusion sounds easy, just walk a graph, pattern match it and lower to hardware provided ops?

Anyway if anyone wants to understand the philosophy behind tinygrad, this file is great start https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/blob/master/docs/abstract...
The issue with being famous is the law of numbers, and it only takes one crazy hater to ruin or end your life.
Location: US
Remote: Yes (only)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Many since first touching unix in 1989.
Resume/CV: Email me for it.
Email: mikeegg1@mac.com

I have a side project that includes MySQL, PERL and AI(/ML). I've done unix for 34 years. I've done lots of things in those decades including building compilers, debuggers, subclassing X widgets and writing databases. I've written production code in 40 languages. I can and have done lots and still have lots to learn. I live in an RV and can go anywhere and I have a Secret and Security+.
Raising yet more questions about how AMT participates in enterprise WiFi authentication schemes. My laptop at work has a computer certificate which works for the OS, but how does AMT have credentials or even know which SSID to associate with?
Heh, different strokes for different folks. For me, the closer I am working to the metal, the more I enjoy the work. I especially enjoy squeezing every drop out of the system, so worrying about every byte, and minimizing cycles, is part of the fun.
Let's hope that if there's profit to be gained, it goes to the citizens.
I would happily be the CEO of Netflix for $500k.
It's near enough to current TC, and seems like a nice position to have.
No, what we need is someone who is just happy with a business that pays for itself and gives a healthy profit for the owner, not "omfg, shitloads of money". Reddit is - as far as I know - profitable. All employees are paid, all costs are paid, and the owners get their share. That's a stable arrangement. Greed is what's unbalancing it. And despite what some people think: Greed is not good. And Gordon Gecko was the villain.
More to the point, it's much better than direct democracy.
It reminds me Theano
> clearly an oversimplification for people who are only willing to read 4 words

It’s a lie. There are no excuses. It’s false.
I propose using Facebooks old name and switching one A to I (iThings?). Then we could call them MAFiA.
How's your eyesight?
> The 4-word tweet (from March 2020) is clearly an oversimplification for people who are only willing to read 4 words.

I'm not sure why you would make such a misguided claim.

>Two years after the pandemic began, we finally have a good understanding of how COVID-19 is transmitted: some infected people exhale virus in small, invisible particles (aerosols). These do not fall quickly to the ground, but move in the air like cigarette smoke. Other people can get infected when breathing in those aerosols, either in close proximity, in shared room air, or less frequently, at a distance. But the journey to accepting the overwhelming scientific evidence of how COVID-19 spread was far too slow and contentious. Even today, the updated guidance and policies of how to protect ourselves remain haphazardly applied

https://time.com/6162065/covid-19-airborne-transmission-conf...
I don't know what this comment is even trying to say, let alone how it relates to the one it's responding to.
Dontbuydell.com
UB is what allows `(&x)[1]` to happen at all. If you didn't have UB, there would be no reasonable way to allow code that messes up arbitrary pointers.

A typical non-UB language wouldn't allow `(&x)[1]` and it would be easy to allow the optimization.

It would be difficult or obtuse to design a non-UB language that doesn't allow optimizing y away.
I uh, y'all do know there are open source voip apps, right? You can fire up most any popular Matrix client and call me E2EE right now.
One guy ? Try ten different or more, from Apollo to Relay to BaconReader every damn one of them is better by a factor of 10x or more than the reddit app, which probably took a team of 20 six months.
I think the key objective at Netflix is to manage downside risks while globalizing their content supply chain.
We changed the URL from https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Disable-ME-RPL, which points to this and seems to add nothing significant.

I've left its title, even though people are disputing it, since the comments are mostly about that.