skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did I send money to Russians? If not, and you still wish to ban me from using crypto, it’s the redistribution of consequences.

“Why should I support ineffective policy” is precisely the moving of goalposts. Your original comment only said Russians using something is enough justification to ban it, you are now adding more conditions after the fact. You also conveniently ignored the point I made about constructing a scenario where your new goalposts are satisfied and just reposing the question. If banning encryption were an effective means of preventing Russian communication, you would support it right?

I don’t care if it doesn’t benefit you to pay your fair share. Yes, the military and courts have to be paid with theft, but you believe in those things too. Remember how I mentioned honesty and consistency? I’m honest where I’m not consistent, and since there are less instances of theft I believe are justified than you, at a baseline I’m always more consistent than you.
This is a really exciting project! I recently learned about https://github.com/vmware/database-stream-processor which builds on a new theoretical foundation and claims to be 9x faster than Flink. It is also written in Rust, and there is a compiler from SQL to Rust executables. Can you comment on the differences?
This, and also when you delete an "application", all its remnants clutter up the disk space.
So it's probably just alien kids tooling around after school.
To be fair, you opened with something that by your own words is not relevant, which is what this person was responding to. It's understandable that people respond to what you say and write, if you do not want to talk about it you should not say it.
Practically speaking a $300 (often sold at $250) Xbox Series S would provide a much better gaming experience than this.
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Do a scrub every once in a while. Mount with discard=async or turn on systemd's fstrim service if you're using SSDs.

If it would actually affect performance, turn on autodefrag. Be aware that running a manual defrag, instead of using the mount option, will break reflinks.
At least you made it clear you don’t read comments before responding to them.

Next time, don’t bother replying at all and save everyone the minute.
It must take more experience / tending and the correct cultivars and correct timing. When I tried it the results were poor.
CockroachDB is presumably what they’re referring to in:

> For Postgres-compatible NewSQL, we would’ve had one of the largest single-cluster footprints for cloud-managed distributed Postgres. We didn’t want to bear the burden of being the first customer to hit certain scaling issues

I find their claim a bit hard to believe.
what a sad outcome it is that research such as this is funded for, and classified by military interests such that it is barred from public collaboration and societal progress
Not all of accessibility is for those who cannot see (well). WCAG also has a bunch of guidelines for loss of dexterity and other ailments:

• keyboard support (being able to navigate to all controls as needed, not being stuck in a navigation island from which there is no escape with the keyboard, etc.)

• pointing device considerations (not requiring drag unless absolutely essential, no action on mouse-down, etc.)

• not requiring the simultaneous use of mouse and keyboard (e.g. via modifier keys)

• sufficient size for buttons and other pointer targets

• the ability to suppress animations, flashing images, etc.

• the ability to control colors and contrast of things on the screen

...

Of course, something like Photoshop, Illustrator, or the visual part of Google Maps is hard to use when you cannot see, but there are so many different disabilities that some or even most accessibility guidelines can apply to pretty much any software.
The last thing I'd bring into a space ship is a deep fryer.
It may have not been sent to reach us, they might not know there is an us. When was the probe launched? Did humans even have fire at that time?
extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

Other than working for the US Government, this guy doesn't seem to have brought anything, so I'm amazed this story has gotten the traction it has. It's not like it's been a slow news week or anything.
I somewhat agree, somewhat disagree. There was also some product-market fit, but they never entered a formed market - their specialty is creating a need for a product through marketing and product strategy.

When they released the iMac, they sold 800.000 computers by the end of the year, and that was 32% of those buys were people who have never owned a computer previously. So they were going for the Windows users, but also for people who have previously never seen the need for a computer. By creating an easy to use product aimed at the masses, they created a product-market fit in an untapped market segment where there was none.

When you think about it, smart phones did not exactly have a product market fit - there were mostly mobile phone users, and kind of smallish dying market of handheld computers, some Blackberry/other users that were I guess what you'd call a smartphone users. First iPhone did a lot for unifying those users into a smartphone market.

So I see some of that here as well. By introducing Vision Pro in a demo that showcases all the most popular uses of desktop/mobile computing, they are pushing the XR into the space of mobile/desktop users who were not interested in XR previously. It's the opposite of the killer app approach, but I think it can work for them and is a tried tactic. And it pushes bring XR closer to general use than gaming.

But definitely a larger leap of fate, as you point out.
The copy is in pretty rough shape. You should try to get a native English speaker to edit the contents for you.
Most SIMD and FP instructions are not microcoded in a modern mainstream CPU, FWIW.
Passive sonar in the SOFAR channel.
No. Just looking at demographics and making guesses based on them.

I'd never take a piece of propoganda like that seriously. It's true that the first people calling themselves Rus were centered around Kiev, but drawing the conclusion "modern-day Ukraine occupies historically Russian lands" is absurd.
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For many, that mitigation measures for which so much blood, sweat, and tears were poured into at significant cost and strife must have been worthwhile even given scant evidence.
Has anything been said about how the eye-display proximity might affect vision?

Maybe this is a better time than ever to start a new opticians.
Oh christ, this nonsense again. The switch to systemd was a practical engineering decision. Shoving ads into the Start menu has totally different intentions, and totally different effects on user experience.

I tried Devuan. It sucked. It booted slower, it was more difficult to set up, and apt upgrade made things explode more frequently that it does in Debian. If all you did on your computer was browse the internet, you'd never know the difference. If you use your computer for anything more sophisticated than that, Devuan offered a markedly worse experience. I don't care what you think of Poettering.
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The next big thing is Python-only frameworks that have react-like interfaces so you can do web dev without curly braces.
Remember the one where they experimented with giving spiders psychoactive drugs and observe the patterns of their webs? Quite fascinating, esp the cocaine experiment

https://youtu.be/sHzdsFiBbFc
Immersion.
Also keyboard and mouse!
Actually you can play these games with Xbox Series S at 1440p easily. I wonder if people would just simply buy a game console (if they don't already have one) for the more demanding titles. Most people don't need a processor that is nearly as powerful as M1 Max, and I doubt anyone is going to spend extra money on a computer just for its GPU that doesn't even play games as well as a $300 console.
Thanks for the TLDR!
For what I know dissections of human body are still restricted in most countries and is not a common form of entertainment.

What a fun epoch Franklin lived in: science experiments was a high society interest that people engage in. Now high-tech-apple-vision rhymes with consumption.
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I explain it due to attention deficit due to constant phone use.

I find that when I have high screen time I struggle to maintain attention and develop cogent, supported arguments.

When I’m spending infinite time watching 10 second video clips over and over until I sleep, I both 1) am greatly incentivized to not want to change this and 2) would rather quip out an immediate thought than respond with evidence.

Or, more scarily, schools suck too hard now that someone things an individual getting struck by lightening twice is more important than the data and statistical evidence showing the danger of lightening strikes.
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Falling back to emoticons is always an option ;-)
My understanding is that the nitrogen-fixing is actually done by bacteria that they have a symbiotic relationship with. How cool!
> You can still just look up and be present.

AV is slightly different b/c it's trying to let people still be present. Is it enough and will it work still remains to be seen.
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I mean, nobody is going to get a Mac Pro just for games even if it works...
This is a great read. I think we can learn as much (or more) from the failures as we can from the successes [1].

Developer tooling is also just a very difficult business to be in [2].

[1] https://codecodeship.com/blog/2023-04-19-parker-selbert

[2] https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/economics-developer-tool...
spend enough time in a (virtual) location and you might want to help improve the place/keep it tidy, or at least help the current owners/maintainers because you enjoy spending time there.

Or it can be just some ego/power trip.
The point is that rather than looking with curiosity at what life was actually like it is common for, say, a Brit or an American to picture a mental image of the most deprived community in a given Warsaw Pact country and project that over the entire region.

Like it’s not helpful to pretend that it was a utopia like some “tankies” insist on doing (they’re brain-broken). But it’s equally unhelpful to construct the fantasy that ČSSR was like a real-life Mordor-like state, yet many (not you) insist on doing so.

edit - Downvoted for suggesting we shouldn't just rely on lazy stereotypes. Folks, we love to see it.
Read the README and the code. This is a breathless pronouncement of a thin wrapper of some other wrappers. We really need to watch the hype, lest we kill the actually important stuff going on in ML
Yeah, I'm betting the next iPhone will have a new record mode.
"> Once they cross the event horizon, they are moving at the speed of light toward certain doom."

I claim no expertise about the internals of black holes but that comment also drew my attention as questionable.

First point, are we talking about a physical man comprising of atoms or the aftermath of spaghettification when much of him would have turned into EM radiation? Physical matter would be subject to Relativity therefore his v < c whereas the parts of him that had turned into radiation would actually travel at c.

That said, the point about astronauts moving at c speed to their doom and the article's thrust about a second law of quantum complexity leads me to ask what is c inside a black hole and to conjecture it's likely very different to that in vacuo. c in vacuum is one of the well defined physical constants but it's also directly related to other physical constants such as vacuum permittivity, ε0, and vacuum permeability, μ0, by the relationship c=1/(ε0μ0)^½.

The inside of a black hole is vastly different to the vacuum of free space, not only is gravity vastly contorting spacetime but the permittivity and permeability would no longer have the values they do in free space. In fact, we'd have to treat them as relative permittivity and permeability and given that black holes contain 'stuff'—which is more than does a vacuum. Light therefore, would travel more slowly than in a vacuum. The value of the relative permittivity and permeability would likely be determined by the size of the black hole.

This leaves the possibility the remains of the astronauts could actually travel faster than the speed light as in the case of Cherenkov radiation. In effect, their velocity in the 'dialectic' of 'black hole volume' could exceed the phase velocity of light through that medium. (Of course, I'm just extrapolating physics as we understand it from outside a black hole, those more familiar with the subject may wish to comment.)

This article also allows one to conjecture the possibility that the values of physical constants such as c may actually arise either directly from quantum information/"complexity equilibrium" sans heat or are emergent phenomena therefrom. With ε0, μ0 and c the 'quantum vacuum' providing a minimum 'circuit complexity' thus c obtains its maximum value in this universe.
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Well, the whole lifecycle carbon emissions for an EV are lower than an ICE vehicle. For example: https://about.bnef.com/blog/the-lifecycle-emissions-of-elect....

Of course there will be future improvements that might make emissions lower, but that’s not a reason to dismiss the advantages that are already available.
Similar journey here (yWorks, with a diagramming library, too). In our case the journey comes with drawbacks, though. Yes, WebGL allows for larger graphs, but it also does not support the flexibility (to customers) the other options offer.
I'm pretty sure that the total destruction of their cities, and all institutions of their society is one of the main reasons nobody was around to preserve their language or history. There are almost no primary sources of Carthaginian history, the only real close-to-contemporary sources are an incomplete account from Polybius (a Greek, who lived as a Roman slave), and Livy (a Roman aristocrat born 100 years after the destruction of Carthage). If you want to make statements about what Carthage and it's people were like, your options for source material are a mostly destroyed archeological record, or second hand accounts from outsiders mostly comprised of Carthage's enemies.
Right, but the use of bitwise AND, and the repeated conditional expressions are the kind of weirdness I’d expect a good compiler to not need.

I’ve worked a lot on the kernel and I’m no stranger to optimized code. This is still really weirdly written, and in fact the assembly is much more readable, which is funny.

I know clang needs a lot of prodding to output good code (compared to gcc), but I’m curious whether even clang really needs the logic to be so warped.
That's true. I think that in reality, the complex has to "live" somewhere.. It is inherently present in the world.
If the engineer simplifies their solution by relying on a dependency that abstracts away all of the complexity that doesn't mean the complexity is just gone. Should the engineer ever have to deal with that complexity, should that dependency break, they might be screwed.
On the other hand, if they over engineered a more complex solution themselves, the engineer would at least know how to deal with it and fix it if it breaks. I would say usually the issue is lack of time to generate quality work (even if complex) and lack of time to adequately document it, mainly due to the "agile engineering" trend.
It amounts to this: if there exists complexity, there must exist responsibility for that complexity (in my example in the form of the one engineer who created the complex component).
>In applications that actually use Metal natively, Apple Silicon GPUs do compare favorably to Nvidia laptop GPUs while using drastically less power.

Is that really the case?
I'm not being facetious here, I'd really like to see more useful datapoints.
There aren't many benchmark comparisons out there that strive for actual useful comparison, especially outside synthetic stuff with questionable applicability like 3dMark.

And for the "drastically less power" claim...it really doesn't help that most benchmarks are with decked-out "Gamer" machines using the highest available TDP configuration, despite most GPUs having their sweet spot significantly below - especially Ada Lovelace seem to scale down really well (from what I've gathered, still 60-70% performance at 60W compared to 150W with 4080 Mobile, for example).

>Even if you look at the raw technical specs of the M2 Max GPU, it's comparable to Nvidia laptop GPUs - with the exception of ray tracing.

The specs put it roughly between GA106-GA104/AD107-AD106 respectively, and I'd expect it to land there in the general, adequately optimized case.
Distraction from lobbying, e.g. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/our-right-challenge-ju...
> Ask any parent if a "one in a thousand chance" that their kid will be at school during a shooting makes them feel good or bad.

Of course school shootings make parents feel bad.

Having phones doesn’t improve the 1:1000 odds of my child being in a school shooting.

Ask parents if they’d like to have improved mental health and school performance. It’s the choice between phones not improving outcomes in a 1:1000 chance vs phones substantially harming kids at a much higher probability.

Phones are a poor intervention to ameliorate school shootings.
You can pair a mouse and keyboard with an iPad too. You can even plug them in…
> if you consider that the filament is in vacuum

Although it's possible to do this, I don't think commercial incandescent bulbs do, by the 1930s it was well understood that various noble gases work better and are affordable once you decide you're going to produce them in suitable quantities to make light bulbs. I'd be surprised if somehow those still produced don't use noble gases.

At the point when inventors are first trying to make electric light they don't know these gases exist but by the era of the mass produced light bulb scientists know the answer to "What's invisible and doesn't react with hot metal?" is actually "Any of the gases on this part of my periodic table of elements†" not just "A vacuum".

† In the late 19th or early 20th century this table would look all wrong to you, but it's clearly the same idea, and unless you remember your chemistry well or know from first principles why such a table must have a particular shape you can't fix their table, you just know it looks wrong.
If it was this simple, they'd have done it, right? The idea is that filesystems have have the same UUID are actually part of the same filesystem. It's a long-lasting hm feature of Btrfs.

I think the actual dynamic filesystem discovery is in user space and kernel just gets a list of devices, so it should be even easier to change that.
There is no invasion as there are no aliens. It is psyop. A genre (“platform”) of psyop has been tried out over the years, and a developing thread (based on other propaganda channels, such as fiction, and film) is the coming ‘encounter’. Here “US is urged to reveal UFO evidence” is published by a major Western establishment press, The Guardian, based on 2nd hand information and not on actual personally witnessed evidence.

The issue of having “major world religions” that are not in accord (per orthodox understanding of respective faithful) remains an issue for establishment of a uniform social order on the planet. It’s going to be difficult to have a world government without a unified world religion. “Aliens” can help with that.

As a thought exercise, imagine aliens have landed. Aliens could inform us that for example ‘angels’ were really the aliens and that we sadly misunderstood their messages. Various syncretic efforts have also been ongoing since at least 19th century (“new age”) so the ground has been well prepared. To conclude the exercise, ask yourself what impact this will have on your belief system.
Let’s see how it works before we start making all these assumptions. Apple has the best track record in the industry when it comes to accessibility, hands down.
Speaking only for myself, I use Macs to get work done. The lack of games is actually a plus, as I can get compulsive with games.

It's funny, when people denigrate the worst gaming platform in the world as a "toy computer."

People get Macs, that want to get work done. As noted previously, there's really nothing that can beat a well-built PC gaming rig.

I don't really think Apple has ever cared about the Mac as a gaming platform, and the low-key hype around these technologies shows that. These almost seem like "developer 20% projects," compared to the big stuff, like visionOS.

That said, I think that Apple wants iOS/iPadOS/visionOS to be gaming platforms, so they do dedicate a lot of resources to that.
Interesting. I sort of expected that for basic FP / SIMD but not for the full range - eg trig functions. Is that wrong?
The author is mistaken about fwrite() being exempt from locale conversions on Windows. Here's a snippet to test this:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <io.h>

int main() {
if (!setlocale(LC_ALL, "Japanese_Japan.932")) {
puts("setlocale failed");
exit(1);
}

// U+00A7 SECTION SIGN encoded in CP932
char cp932_string[] = "\x81\x98\n";

// this converts the encoding:
printf("%s", cp932_string);
// this too:
fwrite(cp932_string, 1, sizeof(cp932_string) - 1, stdout);
// this too:
_write(1, cp932_string, sizeof(cp932_string) - 1);
// this outputs raw bytes:
DWORD bytes_written;
WriteFile(
GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE),
cp932_string, sizeof(cp932_string) - 1, &bytes_written, NULL
);

return 0;
}

And this is the output (compiled with Visual C++ 2022 on Windows 10):

>chcp
Active code page: 852

>.\a.exe
§
§
§
üś
They're absolutely awful at online / web-based services though. Embarrassingly bad at that kind of software.
Sorry if hijacking,

I have a drone (DJI FPV) with a microphone. It can pick up some sounds, but the loudness from the rotors makes it really hard to hear in playback.

The rotor noise varies in frequency and has several harmonics as well, so it can't be band passed.

I understand that you can't get a clean or great signal from it, but something would be nice.

What tool would be good to use to filter out that noise?
Looks cool! Will try it out later this week to build a ChatGPT plugin.
What kind of applications do you see for training on mobile devices? Is anyone using this in industry?
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