skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
*reduplicates

Anyway, deduplication can be recovered after a defrag by running duperemove or similar tools. But it's a lot of added work so it's only really worth it if fragmentation is an issue in the first place.
Why not distributed databases like CockroachDB?
> could anyone have imagined walking into a living room 30 years ago and seeing everyone hunched over a phone?

True, but I don't recall smartphones ever being unveiled with promotional videos of people all being hunched over them at dinner.

Smartphones were promoted by enabling us to do things on the go: making and receiving phone calls, getting directions, finding restaurants in the area. This is why this feels different: the experience that is promoted is one that feels already slightly dystopian.
Metal was launched before Vulkan (2014 vs 2016), Vulkan was before Mantle from AMD that they donated to the Khronos group, it was in development and Apple is part of the group so they were aware of it, but I can understand that depending on consensus across multiple parties could delay Apple agenda, same for Microsoft that could ditched Dx in favour of Vulkan, but they aren't.
For certain values of "food and resources". Incoming solar energy is 7000x humanity's energy consumption, while one trillion is merely 125x the current population, so it's physically possible. Probably the biosphere would have to be converted into a food-producing chemical factory, along with substitutes for oxygen generation, waste recycling, etc.
I'm using Stable Diffusion and I'm profiting. The difference is open vs closed source, not AI in general.
I'm not sure - Apple's marketing claimed that the M1 was beating top end PC parts. This isn't even close.
> Didn't mobile phones end up becoming the most intrusive

I mean intrusive in blocking yoru attention and isolating you from the environment and blocking sensory input. While it grabs your attention it doesnt isolate . Phones are attention-grabbing but nowhere near as intrusive as goggles
> There is a trove of independent historic stories and tales about child sacrifice in Carthage from Plutarch, Plato and even the Bible.

So? Historic stories and tales from a time when those things weren't written down but handed orally from generation to generation are generally far removed from the truth.

After all, even in an age where almost everything is written down we still battle to separate baseless accusations from substantiated facts.
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My own observations are that the wholesale price of beer in UK has not really risen much in the past 30 years. I was paying £24 for a 24 pack in the 90's and basically I still pay the same today.

Personally I find it difficult to justify paying something between 5 & 10 times the retail cost when I go to an event.
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> if they had just proxied cached versions of the most popular instances through a single larger server.

I mean, isn't any instance in the federation already offering a proxied cache of the content of all other instances you access through it?

You can just register/login in mastodon.social website the same way you can register/login in Twitter, and then access cached copies of content from the entire fediverse compatible with Mastodon.

If you are gonna make new accounts connect through a global mainstream proxy, you might as well just let them connect through a global mainstream instance. I personally do not see the problem with one instance being more mainstream than the rest as long as federation is still respected. It's definitelly still an improvement over centralization and if it ever becomes a burden it'd be easier to migrate.
Reblog of https://news.sky.com/story/royal-navys-experimental-ship-car...
"Unified memory" has been around forever in one form or another, as it's simply a single address space (and physical location) for various independent subsystems. In graphics, it's probably been used since Amiga. (?) This is common in console GPUs which always punched above their weight. The ubiquitous Intel shared memory has been around for ages, although it was not entirely unified (reserved area for GPU, which it cannot escape; zero-copy still possible by allocating inside it and addressing data on CPU).
Extend that too:
a) An alien civilization has overcome the massive problems of interstellar travel and is able to visit in a manner that doesn't create a second sun in the sky
b) then crash
Concert tickets are also increasingly expensive as is merchandise and travel. Could it be that the least well off demographic doesn't want to pay a premium for drinks when it means more queuing and inevitably a bathroom break during the performance?
This has been a long term trend in Europe and Asia as well, going back into the millennial era. I remember getting into arguments with American left wingers and LGBTQ Americans saying that the lack of gay bars in Asia wasn't a sign of homophobia because gay bars were in decline in Europe as well (but in fact were on the rise in the US). A combination of being able to socialise on the internet and at mainstream establishments, combined with declines in drinking alcohol, has led to a decline in gay bars in the respective regions as well.
This is why I dont understand why people expect UFOs to have lights on them. Or when they see lights they go to UFO.

Why ? Why would external lights be helpful when travelling interstellar distances. Then if you have the technology to travel these vast distances so quickly, why would you need lights when darting about at "slow" terrestrial speeds, the technology you must have to navigate and avoid things must be so beyond just lights... You almost certainly aren't navigating in anything that remotely resembles looking out your craft ?

It just makes no sense to me. IT's why I assume if anyone mentions a UFO when talking about lights in the sky I'm totally convinced it's terrestrial in nature.
Right now, the headset exclusively appeals to shareholders and apple cultists.
>> How are Wine and friends actually legal considering the Oracle v Google thing on Java?

>> I've always loved it but really do wonder. That was a blasphemous verdict.

So you think APIs and interfaces should be copyrightable despite decades of precedent?

If so, Oracle owes IBM a huge amount of damages for using SQL in Oracle database software without a license.
> I believe intelligent life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but that we’ve never been visited and will never be visited due to the distances involved.

I suspect that at least one and perhaps many alien intelligences have been here on Earth for a very long time and are observing us, but they're very good at staying hidden so probably we have never observed them and never will.

In the unlikely event that they ever did accidentally reveal themselves, probably they would cover it up to the extent possible while continuing to remain hidden.

Since these aliens will never interact with us in any significant manner, for practical purposes it doesn't matter whether they exist or not, and therefore I don't care very much whether they exist or not. Nevertheless, if, hypothetically, I had to make a bet with equal odds, I'd bet they do exist.
Well, i'm pro copyleft but in this case i have to disagree. This way Apple could develop D3DMetal much faster, and attrbution is given. If DXVK where GPL3 it might have happened years later if ever.
previously: https://gist.github.com/frabert/48b12088441f6195ea9292c2a5a7...
would totally love to read a modern `Hacker's Delight`. My mind was so blown away the first time I learned about low-level optimizations. I wish I did more of that on a day to day
It's always highly misleading to call the KMT "Beijing-friendly". They are not.

They were the Chinese government until 1949 and the ones who effectively lost the civil war against the communists.

They are absolutely not Beijing-friendly. The common ground is that they indeed agree that Taiwan is part of China (which is no more than a historical statement of fact). Of course they don't recognise the PRC as being 'China', though.
What workers own the means of production in the case of an AI? Democratization via open source works, but it actually extends beyond workers to end users. If all the workers at OpenAI were equal shareholders and owned the means of their production, this would not change anything about them profiting from the company and all of their users. Stallman was and continues to be right, open source and freedom for end users is really the only way.
Well, they don't exactly hide that they are stealing Ukrainian children.
> Wouldn’t this interfere with those measurements

Towed sensors and multiple passes over known calibration zones?
Rather than releasing a stand alone camera, I’d expect the vision pro headset to act as one too. In other words I’d expect it to be able to take spatial pictures whilst not being worn. Less creepy, and more like taking a picture with your camera / phone.
Yes? Do you think underground activities would care about what the law says about them being illegal?

Coinbase at least is a registred corporate playing by the rules, aside the SEC viewing their yield based or futures product non compliant, but the SEC also makes it impossible to achieve compliance, so we may might left off with no code base and totally underground offerings, instead of "some" businesses in the clear that operates within the confined of a justice system. If you feign to see the point that's fine, i just hope you are not so blinded by anti crypto arguments that you can't SEC actions using force and paid by millions of tax payers counter productive for both consumers and the opportunity for the US to remain relevant in the growing crypto economy.
You are unfairly associating the inconvenience of "tons of small databases" with SQLite only because SQLite is good enough to make such an architecture practically plausible; it shouldn't be assumed that it is a good architecture in the first place, or that problems are SQLite's fault.

If you start having trouble "beyond customer #5", you have a problem of labor-intensive manual changes and insufficient automation, not a task that a different DBMS could do better.
Couple of issues there; you’d have to question the independence (at the remove of time it’s impossible to know if there was a single source), and if you’re going to take attestation by multiple ancient writers as strong evidence of a thing, well, you’re going to end up believing some odd, and often contradictory, things.

That sort of evidence isn’t nothing, but _in itself_ you probably need to be very careful with it.
Even if he said that he saw it with his own eyes it's infinitely more probable that's a lie/delusion/a dream he misremembered as reality.
It's Wine with some special sauce (Apple couldn't reuse VKD3D because they chose to invent Metal rather than stick with OpenGL/Vulkan so they had to build their graphics translation themselves). Crossover is built on the same technology. In fact, Apple's brew script literally links to Crossover's sources: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apple/homebrew-apple/main/...

Things like the crypto API should be implemented if you can find the reference for your specific API calls here: https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/tree/master/dlls/crypt32

Apple's version of Wine is aimed at developers, though. It shouldn't take too long for someone to make an app or script to easily set up environments with the developer runtime, but I doubt they'll support it as well as Valve supports Proton. If your application of choice doesn't need any fancy graphics, there's a decent chance Wine/Crossover can already run it anyway, no need to mess with Apple's SDK.

With the M2 Max outputting 28fps at 1080p (screenshot linked), I wouldn't expect too much from the gaming performance of this thing, though.
No, I mean slightly patched. The list of patches is included in the Homebrew formula [1].

The D3DMetal framework and its DirectX 12 support are independent of that Wine work.

[1]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apple/homebrew-apple/main/...
> The biggest issue is that you also need to know absolute elevation very precisely to use the measurement of g that you get.

I don't think so. What you are saying is true if for some reason you want to work with absolute values, but nobody would do that. You measure many data points as your submarine flies over the landscape for a time, and then you match the measured curve with predicted curves from bathymetric maps. This is an optimisation problem where you try to find the best match. Precise elevation is an output from this process not an input requirement.

> but when things don't vary much (i.e flat topography and not a ton varying geologically), you don't have much of a unique signal to match to

100%. This is also true for cruise missiles which fly by TERCOM[1]. And there is an interesting consequence to it. Submarines and cruise missiles don't just bumble around randomly. The navigators also know this limitation so they set trajectories which plays to their strength. In the case of the cruise missile planners they have tools to evaluate the navigational quality of a terrain contour matching algorithm over a proposed trajectory with Monte Carlo methods. Probably submariners have the same.

This means in practice you can know that the submarines are more likely to take certain routes. They will prefer approaching from hilly terrain over flat, but also over extended flat areas they will prefer to overfly butes to regain navigational accuracy. This of course won't tell you precisely where the submarine is, but can help an adversary more economically allocate their ASW assets.

> At any rate, it's a very useful tool for many other things, but I'm skeptical it could be turned into a precise navigational aid

Yeah. I mean I heard that people proposed to make measurements of stars to find your location. The fools. Haven't they heard of clouds? Sometimes you can't see as far as your own nose for days.

Every navigational system ever devised have limitations and peculiarities. If you are comparing gravitational tercom with the ease and quality and simplicity of GPS then of course it will look crude and cumbersome. But of course GPS adds other complications and dangers to the life of a submariner. Used well, and in the right circumstances it can be potentially very valuable technique.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM
all while being emulated on rosetta
Pretty sure we'll stop wanting to reproduce at the required rate long before food/resources becomes the real issue (which isn't to say starvation etc. isn't likely to be a major problem for much of the world's population in coming decades, but it'll make less of an impact on population growth than the rate we choose to reproduce at).
Dunno about Apple's version but with Wine you can linnk native code against winelib, allowing you to test what you have already ported before you got everything up and running.

Of course if Vulkan was a suppoted API on macOS, developers could just port to Vulkan on Windows and then implement the rest on macOS.
> however when was the last time you walked into a room where at least one person wasn't solely focused on their phone.

Yeah and that's really bad.

I have a friend who used to do this, even back when phones first started coming out. He couldn't resist just being on his phone, trying to talk to him was a nightmare.
Sounds like a kernel bug ... If it encounters another filesystem with the same ID, it should warn in dmesg and assign a null ID to one of them.
Stop thinking and believe? Err... No?

Everything we know about the biology, chemistry, physics and astrophysics makes alien contact with the earth an extreme improbablity. Everything we know about government and intelligence agencies makes a global, mutli-national, multi-government, mass conspiracy to hide aliens an extreme improbability.

Against these mountainous-weights of incredibility one needs more than a retired 36 with a shiny badge who has "heard but not seen" some things.

The improbability of his claims is so vast that even "CIA psyop" becomes plausible against them -- not, least, since it's extremely likely the USA exploited the UFO mass hysteria to disguise its air force development programmes.

Nevertheless, the most probable explanation is that government employees in these agencies are often paranoid believers in the folk mythologies of these agencies --- and are able to maintain these superstitons because they never get senior enough to see they are false.
I thought craig ventner had a boat that did something similar to the ocean. It would scoop up genetic material on its travels, sequence what it found and store the data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Ocean_Sampling_Expediti...

(the page doesn't seem to explain it)
>Huh? It is quite easy to understand for me.

Imagine if someone came up to you tomorrow and said "God talked to me and told me I also need to sacrifice my child." You'd assume they were crazy, hopefully to the point of calling the authorities.

It's impossible to look at that story from a modern context and think Abraham's actions are remotely right or rational. Why would anyone trust a god who does that? But if child sacrifices are a somewhat common thing, Yahwe looks like the good god who doesn't actually make you kill your kid, just asks that you're willing to kill your kid.
Covered in a basic sense, but that's an extremely diminished experience which basically removes half the reason to use it
Why is this being framed as a bad thing? The article seems to be blaming young people for not drinking enough and people in the comments seem to be blaming high prices for them not drinking enough.

Alcohol is an extremely harmful poison and I'm happy that young people are using it less. They shouldn't be expected to keep imbibing poisons to help prop up an old business model. The market will have to adjust.
> So why tell others?

Some people just like having the attention of other people, so it could still be an invented story just to have a great story to tell to the few that believe it.
Just as a little comparison:

- AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX, released Q1 2023 has 2x the performance of M2 Max 12 core, also released in Q1 2023. Throw in a dedicated GPU, and certain tasks that would take 1 hour, will have you wait until the next day on a M2.

That isn't to say that one is better value than the other, all that stuff is subjective, and depends on needs, blablabla. Just that the original claim of "3x faster than what's on the market", was such a misleading statement when they were comparing it to their old antiquated laptop intel CPUs offerings.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5232vs5183vs4782vs3862v...
> Occam's Razor says the GP is correct and this is intentional deception

That's not how I read it. It seems to me that there are rather a lot of sane, intelligent people in the USG and especially the US military who believe in aliens with flying saucers, and alien abductions. From my perspective, it looks more like a "mass psychosis" than a conspiracy.

I suspect the abduction stories are related to evangelical beliefs in The Rapture.

QAnon tales of satanic pizza-parlour basements in a building with no basement seem to have many believers who are bright, and have no history of mental illness.
This is so insanely cool I don't even know where to begin.
If the brain is a physical object that computes, and we have creativity, it stands to reason that creativity is computable. Why would you assume that creativity is not systematizable when we already have evidence on the physicality of the brain influencing behavior (ie cut out one part, personality changes, take drugs like LSD that change the chemical components of the brain, notice that creativity improves)?

Your assumption is IMO unfounded, it actually seems like you have the burden of proof given what I said above. Just because it seems more in line with your sense of it doesn't make it true, seems like you think creativity is some mystical nonphysical force (because if it were physical, it would be able to be modeled and computed, as the parent says).

Edit, I see, you're an artist so it's likely why you believe in creativity as a nonphysical force. I've noticed that many artists say this, with no evidence, while most engineers say the opposite, that it's systematized, likely that's why we're in our respective fields.
Zero-cost abstractions are exactly that:

- you only pay for what you use

- if you use it, you couldn't implement it better yourself

There's no such thing as literally zero cost, obviously.

Graydon was saying that even this fairly reasonable pair of conditions got in the way of some nicer abstractions.
This guy got 30-40fps, idk what settings.

https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/1435ukq/cyberpun...
> However, developers often encounter problems with Arm NEON instructions being expensive to move to scalar code and back.

I remember talking to an ARM engineer easily 10 years ago and he told us in that nice british accent: "You know, NEON is like 'back in the yard'" :-D. This has changed a lot, but not enough from what you wrote... Bit sad that these SIMD optimizations are still hand written...
CPU maybe, GPU definitely not. In the end, M1's GPU is still a mobile GPU with a few desktop features bolted on (like BCx compressed texture formats).
> Nobody wants to choose a server. We just want reddit without the bullshit.

* If you choose reddit you are choosing reddit's server.

* If you choose ycombinator, you are choosing ycombinator's server.

* If you choose facebook, you are choosing facebook's server.

Just because those are not federated doesn't mean the user doesn't have to deal with the bullshit of having to choose to create and manage an account in one (or more) of them. Or possibly having to look for other alternatives (like many are doing now apparently).

You can just enter lemmy.ml or mastodon.social in the browser, press "create an account" in each of them and you'd never even need to know or care whether those federate among themselves or not.

Federation is optional from a user perspective. You could still have separate accounts in beehaw.org, mastodon.org.uk, veganism.social and mastodon.social if you wanted. You are not forced to look for content outside your instance. The same as you can have an account in reddit, another one in facebook and another one in ycombinator without ever mixing them up.

The difference is that in the fediverse you can merge them if you want to. Even if all new users exclusively used mastodon.social resulting in more de-facto centralization, I still don't think that's a big deal, personally. Just the fact that federation is possible at all as an option still provides more software freedom than Twitter, even if you don't care for federation or even know what it is.

Do you think that email being federated makes it less attractive for the average user? do they find it more complicated? ...I don't think the average user cares at all, all they know is they have a gmail or hotmail account.
Carthage was a Phoenician colony. The Phoenicians (Sidon, Tyre) were independently described by other cultures as having a national cult that sacrificed children. These descriptions are preserved in the Bible. The struggle with this cult was a significant formative experience of Judaism that lasted many generations.
Motorbike crashes: highside and lowside crashes explained
Stan Getz ensured Astrud Gilberto, singer of “The Girl from Ipanema” got nothing
Out of curiosity, why don't you launch on Product Hunt?
> hentai is only for porn and also won’t be understood in Japanese

Can you expand on this? Why not?