skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there are a few problems with the article: first, busses in US cities are either too full on clogged streets or too empty on empty streets to have an average load factor high enough to make them less polluting than cars. Cars. even ordinary sedans, used as shared robotaxis could readily beat busses environmentally. But once you get purpose-built mini-bus robotaxis, that will dominate in efficiency.

I'm all for better social amenities, but, in the US, with maybe a couple exceptions, robot-rides-on-demand is the likely winner, and it will be a near ideal free market: No barriers to entry, relatively low capex to get started, intermediaries enabling any size fleet to get customers, etc.
What else is there to say? Humanity has proven that we cannot respond to this. Many many people and plants and animals will die because of this.
What happened here? I don't get either of these two comments.
I’ve tried many note taking apps, but now settled with Joplin. All other alternatives are on freemium model.

I’m glad we have something like Joplin. Kudos to the Joplin team & community.
>How about: We need fewer cars. Full stop.

This, people need to get out from behind the wheel and walk, bike. In the long term it will greatly benefit them.

The funny thing is, with auto prices so high, many people cannot buy new, and quite a few cannot afford even used. So maybe a trend is starting.
Yeah, but Meta will and rumors are you can get better lawyers that way.
> This is the problem with most VC funded startups.

At one level I shouldn't care. The VCs burn the money, the users make a bad choice to rely on something that will inevitably disappear when the profit-seeking crunch comes, not my problem.

But it's unfortunately for all of us because all this human energy (from users, developers) that gets wasted over and over on doomed-to-fail proprietary solutions could be so much better spent on developing, using and promoting open source distributed solutions that can stand the test of time.
I’d also add:

- The code is not self describing for some reason (eg duffs device, complex math, non obvious cases, etc)

- The code is correct but it looks intuitively wrong. This comes up every few thousand lines for me, where some conditional looks redundant or twisted up for some reason - like maybe there’s weird choices to keep the borrow checker happy. I leave a note to myself because next time I read that code I’ll want to “fix” it.

- Internal function preconditions / invariants. Eg, “this method must only be called while the XXX mutex is held” / “this code can only be reached when YYY is true because <reason>”. Sometimes these checks can be cheaply expressed in assertions, but not always. And sometimes you need comments as well to describe the nuances of what’s going on.

Rereading my comment, maybe these are all examples of comments used to support code that’s not self describing. I’ve been programming for about 30 years now. I don’t think self describing code is always possible or desirable. I prefer fewer, longer functions with comments than digging through dozens of tiny functions spread everywhere. Large functions are usually easier to write and to read.
You quoted my conclusion without any context and ignored multiple crucial details:

> You may have a chance to see justice because it won't matter if the cop and his 5 buddies say you provoked them with a camera. It's unambiguous that you can record them and there's no possibility of reasonable doubt if you're allowed to record them 100% of the time. There's no loophole they can use to say you can't record them due to privacy or safety or whatever other reasons they want to make up and they'll be in the wrong the second they take action against you.

There won't be a lie they can spin because they won't have any justification for attacking a cameraman. Note I also said may and spoke of probabilities. Furthermore, I admitted it's only a partial solution so I'm not sure what gotcha you're going for here. I know it's not foolproof or perfect, it's merely better than what we currently have.
Yes, fixed rail at a time when people no longer have to crowd themselves into cities. That's the ticket.
JIT compilation has the opportunity to do profile-guided optimization at runtime. JIT compilation is also simpler when distributing an application to non-identical servers, as it can optimize for the exact hardware it is running on.
I don't think it'll be a single point. The calamity has been happening, but we aren't super directly threatened yet. However, my more pessimistic view is that as the climate changes, those with more resources will be more insulated to the effects, and we'll likely see climate refugees first, then wars because of the climate refugees and a loss of natural resources (like water).

Something, something, interesting times...
This seems obvious on its face; it's just optionality.
I was thinking about HHVM, which I believed was essentially assembly for a VM. Am I wrong on that?
yes, or approximately so. many can also have the generator drive the wheels.
This is awesome. Maybe you can help me figure out the best way to search. The transcriptions are one row per word since each word is timestamped. I'm currently just doing client side search in JS for the titles and descriptions but I'll have to do proper SQL search for the body of the transcriptions. What's the best way to search for strings of text if the db is one row per word (~4 million rows)?
> Was the mainstream market interested in shmups or JRPGs (neither of which Sega of America brought over?) no.

One of the best selling games of that generation was a JRPG (FF7), and it was most definitely a popular genre. Interest in it didn't begin waning until the next generation.

> The kids wanted Mario 64, Mario Kart and [insert your favourite big 3D tentpole game from the Playstation side].

There were hundreds of "tent-pole 3D" games released for the N64 and PS1; yet people only remember a dozen or so. By your previous logic on JRPGs (which, again, were very popular in the "32-bit era"), this is not a mainstream..."genre".

Your memory of the whole era feels super anachronistic. The Saturn didn't fail because of it's games, it failed because it didn't have enough of them (by chasing third party developers away) and (as you touched on), the majority of the best ones never left Japan.
These aren't the droids you are looking for.
I find the links from where AI got information more useful than answer of AI.
Consult the geniuses (no pun intended) that patrol the Apple help forums!!

But yea it’s terrible. Whether intentional or not, ignoring “power users” cuz they’ll figure it out regardless vs coddling the rest and not overwhelming them sucks ass
Users are not stupid. They just don't share your world view.
My completely uninformed opinion is Zuck looks kinda ripped. Even though Musk is heavier and taller, I think Zuck could take him. But Newsweek, that bastion of factual reporting on objective reality, says London bookies are giving Musk better odds:

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-cage-figh...
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And if you look at the history of PRT systems, they haven't been terribly successful. It's not a new technology--it's 50 years old--and yet there are still so few examples of its employment.
Agreed.

I actually gave up Ubuntu when they moved to snaps as the primary installation mechanism.

Arch treats me just fine, especially with Gnome on Wayland.
I bought an EV without a range extender (an identical car with a range extender was a comparable price).

Why would I want to change the oil on the range extender, deal with emissions tests, and so on? That's a bigger pain than just renting an ICE car for the 1-2 times a year when we take a road trip.
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Sorry if I'm not getting something, but wouldn't dynamic dns help in your instance?
Next step "due to incredibly good reception, we are auto-creating a Thread account for anyone signed up in any of our other platforms - saving our users billions of minutes!".
I can type reasonably fine, but anytime there’s a skeuomorphic control (like a joystick) it all goes to hell. The screens are too small and my thumbs too large to get anything resembling accuracy. And so many huge developers are unwilling to put in the effort to support external controls.

Smaller fingers and better eyes are what’s required, I guess. So, not me.
The downside is that it's a pain to donate. Every place I've found is 8-5, which is when I'm working.

Also I have small veins, so it's gonna hurt.
Is it too late to get Bill Gates or the reanimated corpse of Steve Jobs to enter the fray?
Spooky tweet at a distance.
My issue is your claim the government has a monopoly on speech, not your other claims.

Imagine I'm a visitor from mars and you tell me the government has a monopoly on speech. I say, fascinating, so only the government is allowed to talk?

And you say, well no, anybody can talk, generally.

And I say, oh, do you mean the government does the majority of the talking?

And you say no, most talking is done by private individuals.

And I say oh, do you mean the government decides what people can say?

And you say no, no exactly, see there's these people called judges who are not quite the government who prevent the government from deciding what people can say.

And I'm thinking "?????????"
Thanks for the link.

The decision of burying these extra information in a support article, not cool!
Yes, but also, its more nuanced than that.

If you look at this in broad spectrum, its hard not to draw that conclusion, however, if you look at how the city tends to vote on a more issue to issue basis, or responds to issues like this, it tends to go up and to the right in terms of supporting liberal policies, by overwhelming majority. Then you look at housing, and they get more right of center to very conservative, depending on the neighborhood (California famous NIMBY stuff). Then if you pivot to say, gun control, you go up and to the right on the liberal scale again, overwhelming majority support further measures on gun control to limit firearms.

Then, if you swing back to issues like water rights, they get pretty conservative again.

Its not as cut and dry as those statistics suggest
This is sorts a prompting issue.

"Write in the style of Ernest Hemingway" works well for me, and prompts like "use simple english" would work better than specifying grade level without a grade level finetune.
Sadly, these individual contributions don't move the needle much. Like you, I've made many personal choices to mitigate my impact on the climate and environment, but humans are fickle and driven by game-theoretic pressures. If everyone stopped driving, we would see change, but without a law or forcing function, people will act selfishly, causing a chain reaction of inaction.
I suppose there is a lot of money waiting for you if you hide the free plan from your pricing page this month.

Not sure about the ethics of that, though.
"communications" is in the comment.
The Cameroonian art of spider divination is on display at London exhibition
leaded vs unleaded gas is the answer you are looking for.
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I don't see how this is any different than a product named "Websites" or "Blogs" or "Comments". It's like a genericized trademark, except there was no trademark to begin with.

There should be no trademark protection for companies which use existing words as their name, especially if the word describes their business. "Slack" as a software name is borderline; "Slacks" as a name of a clothing company is crazy.
I doubt this hold water, part because commentary that Mera doesn’t even have any ex-Twitter employees on this project, but especially because it’s a reactive lawsuit following the launch and the news it has been a big success.

If Twitter knew what Meta was doing, surely they could have shut this down right away?
You could have done this with the multiprocessing module. It interfaces like the threading library but it's launching new processes for each "thread". I've done a shitload of image processing in Python with it. You'll end up with a 100% Python version of what you did.
I don't think the law suit has started yet.
>look for blue reflectors in the middle of the road.

In marching band, we referred to those as Smurf Shit, and the drum captain would whack the snare a particular way to let the rest of the band know of its presence so nobody tripped over it
What's a drive? And how, and why, can a user be expected to understand this?
I agree.

It's like painting by numbers. Or drawing from one of those "how to draw a pirate" instructional guides.

It's a completely different thing.

I know a guy who prefers the instructions. He builds them and then keeps them on display, on shelves and such.
Yeah, it's worrying how many people seem to go: "I don't like this" => "Nobody else should be able to see it". I've had people be confused in conversations where I've confirmed I strongly dislike a thing/person/site, yet do not wish at all to see it banned or deplatformed. Not to do the whole generational sneering thing, but I do find the difference is often whether someone grew up with the pre-social-media internet, where it was common sense that not all of the internet would appeal to you, and you'd need to manage your own experience, or the modern "safe" internet, where people are accustomed to having a direct line to the powers that be to come and remove stuff that upsets them
Yeah, but OpenGL doesn't get updates anymore. My timeline goes like: I needed pointers(and pointer casting) for my compute shaders so I checked the corresponding GLSL extension, which was only available in Vulkan so I tried switching from OpenGL to Vulkan. After a week I gave up - the pointer/Buffer reference extension did not look promising anyway - and I tried out CUDA instead. That's when I found out that CUDA is the greatest shit ever. That's what I want graphics programming to be like. Since then I just render all the triangles and lines in CUDA, because it easily handles hundreds of thousands of them in real-time with a naive, unoptimized software-rasterizer, and that's all I need. In addition to the billion points you can also render in real-time in CUDA with atomics.
I've basically given up on AAA titles and don't bother anymore. The only games I can tolerate now are indie and story driven games like "The Quarry"[0]. I think studios such as Ubisoft are the biggest offenders in this space, if you look at all their latest release , it is all free to play, looter shooter "live service" games. On second thought, everything related to tech is becoming junk in general: from Social Media to Games to Subscription based Note apps to Mobile apps.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1577120/The_Quarry/
I totally get that, but XAES-256-GCM/11 is in an even worse situation than XChachaPoly since none are NIST but XChachaPoly has at least a RFC ^^

EDIT: I'm wrong, ChachaPoly has an rfc, but not the X variant
Nah, they released a bunch of the piping that goes around an ML model, but that's very boilerplate stuff to anyone with python data science experience. It's like if you made calculators and "open sourced" one by releasing the code that reads keypresses and does CPU scheduling. Like yeah, those are things a calculator does but not only is it code everyone else in the business could expect to write themselves in a couple sprints but it's also exactly NOT the magic sauce.
This sounds amazing! Thanks for sharing it, I will try it to see if I can replace it with the main python-docx. For my use case it suffices to have full text of each paragraph (even if it includes a hyperlink) and heading but also be able to have each of them separated when needed.
If I have gathered correctly, it's that Meta (Facebook's parent co) has launched a new product called "Threads", but there is already a company called "Threads" which OP linked with his or her post.

So the question is, how can Facebook launch without owning the trademark, which it is surely violating.
Has any country voluntarily decreased car usage? Even the Netherlands has seen per capita private car ownership increase over time. Cars are very compelling and useful products. That’s why they’re preferred by heads of state and rich people.

Car usage will only decrease when someone invents something better.
I've just confirmed your account (@dylan)

Thanks for your patience !
It's kind of relevant though. Germany had a very bad experiences with being spied on by gestapo informants. After the war, East Germany had a secret service, the Stasi, which massively spied on its citizens. Phone calls were routinely listened to, and countless informants collected information about people they were close to. Trust was a rare commodity. Americans (luckily) never had the experience of living in an authoritarian surveillance state, where everyone could be suspected to spy on you. So it not surprising surveillance isn't taken so lightly today as in the US.

Recommended movie about a stasi agent:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/
More of an opportunity than an issue. Now they can sell the company to Meta for the domain name instead of simply folding when their Slack replacement fails.
Apple records (Apple corp) had an issue back in the early apple computer days. Then when Apple released its itunes store, Apple records really had an issue, but there was some litigation and they settled..

"The settlement includes terms that are confidential, although newspaper accounts at the time stated that Apple Computer was buying out Apple Corps' trademark rights for a total of $500 million."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
Sorry if I was not clear, I'm saying that without hiring any Twitter folks, the Instagram folks could easily create a Twitter clone. Instagram posts & comments could be adapted pretty easily.

The question is whether the Twitter employees actually brought and used trade secrets for this effort.
It depends what you mean by “court costs”. There are fees to file the case, but for the most part the judges time is paid for by taxpayers.

The vast majority of the expense in a court case will be the lawyers on both sides. These are, by default, paid by each party. There are some specific cases where the loser has to pay the winning side’s lawyers, but it’s pretty rare.
So what if social media was spreading a rumor that the “secret Muslim president” was using troops to invade a state to impose marshal law.

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/02/40386...

Should the federal government intervene to keep citizens from attacking their own soldiers?
You shouldn't be able to get a trademark on "Threads," any more than you should be able to get a trademark on "Doors" if you owned a company that sold doors called Doors. "Doors.com," fine; "Doors.net," fine, "The Great ...doors," fine. Facebook will protect Threads with trademarked logos and color schemes, not by pretending that they own the concept of threads.

Also, if you want to name your car company "Threads" or even your clothing company "Threads," fine. If you want to name your thread company Threads, you can't have a trademarked word.
It still contains SALT and SECRET_BLOCK?
His 1988 memoir THE MOTION OF LIGHT IN WATER is pretty great; it's mostly about his experiences being young, gay, and black in the late 1950s/early 1960s.
If code is wrong or out of date, the program will fail or stop doing that it's supposed to do.
If comments are wrong or out of date, it will mislead the developer or at least confuse them if the comment says something else than the code.
A wrong comment is worse than no comment - and usually developers don't care about comments as much as for the code.
Why comment some code anyway if the code is easy to read? The only reason is to explain -why- something has been developed, not -how-.
Jackpot. Sometimes the startup name makes all the difference
How does someone who is not interested in computing supposed to know this?
I agree with you. I wonder what they'll bring out during the lawsuit.
The SIVs have somewhat different security properties than straight AEAD; they're usually a win, but not always. Moreover: the whole point of doing an extended-nonce AEAD is to avoid the extra mechanism of a nonce-misuse-resistant AEAD by giving yourself enough headroom to just pick huge random nonces.
Rearranging branches (and perhaps blocks too?) will definitely be done if you are building using FDO, because without FDO (or PGO) the compiler has no idea how likely each branch is to be taken. Cmov can also be enabled by FDO in some cases.

However, whether or not using cmov is effective compared to a regular test/jump is highly dependent on how predictable the branch is, with cmov typically performing better when the branch is very unpredictable. Since they got a 6x speedup with cmov, I assume that their test input (which isn't described in the post, and is also not in their GitHub repo) consists of random strings consisting almost entirely of s and p characters. There's nothing wrong with this, but it does make the post seem a little misleading to me, as their clever speedup is mostly about exploiting an unmentioned property of the data that is highly specific to their benchmark.
Your account is now confirmed ! (@jest)
Meta launched a twitter clone called Threads. An existing chat application (in the Slack vein) is called Threads. Meta’s Threads might infringe on the other Threads’ trademark in the US.
Similar to the strategy for Google+ back in the day. It didn't work back then, big chances are it won't work now, either.
That's a pretty rock solid and straightforward defence. Unsurprising too since Meta has had well a publicized hiring freeze since early last year.
No, you're right. HHVM was the 2nd iteration. I was thinking of the first project, which was for C++. Looking at wikipedia, that was called HPHPc.
And here we are today because of MySpace. Good ole' Tom.

MySpace concreted Web 2.0. Facebook came a year later.

MySpace sold, Facebook continues. Twitter and here we are today.

Nothing has changed in the grand scheme of things, well apart from your privacy and your data being sold as a commodity.