skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He doesn't get a paycheck based on how many people use javascript.
I remember writing a tile-based game for Window98 using DirectX 5. I originally implemented something similar to what is described in this article. My case was not as complex because the screen didn't scroll but large numbers of tiles could potentially need redrawing.

I ended up ripping out all of that code because when I tried to profile the cost of drawing the whole screen with my RIVA TnT card I literally couldn't measure the tiny amount of time it took.

I am glad I missed the EGA period of PC development, I never would have gotten anything done.
Not true. The graphite needs two magnets, not one like in the video.
That's an interesting thesis: that everyone will want to use their own chatbot (gpt-powered Siri or Alexa) instead.

I suppose it's possible, but I suspect the author overestimates how much of a positive relationship most people have (or will have) with voice assistants.
> The irony of this moment

The thing about Sinéad is that she was, right until the end, a strong believer in one god and if anything more of a critic of the church due to their betrayal of religious/spiritual/moral principles as hierarchical institutions, rather than their promotion of theistic beliefs.

She always considered herself a theologian, she said at the time of the pope: "Why do we need a pope? Christ doesn't need a representative".

She also later said of converting/"reverting" to Islam:
"The reason why I like Islam is, I can keep Christianity and Judaism, which are two religions which I loved and studied.."

While her speaking out against the church would have resonated with many atheists and agnostics at the time, and even more with today's less religiously dominated Western society - it certainly resonates with me for this reason - I think her own perspective was a little different.
You’re misunderstanding the discussion. If you think of queuing as “waiting to process” then yes it’s slower than not waiting. But that’s not at all the necessary implication of these components. In fact “synchronous” requests are buffered (queued?) internally and can be delayed before processing. So the distinction is irrelevant to performance. And the implementation is what matters.
I prefer the rule in my own languages of "no arithmetic expressions whose meaning can be changed by adding parentheses". So `x + y - z` is allowed but `x - y + z` is not.
I did. And I stopped, switched back to paid Slack for private usage. Teams is awful.
One interesting thing that eSIMs enable is geographical arbitrage by the carriers.

When I was visiting South Korea last year, the (cheap enough) eSIM I got from one of those "buy sims for your travel!" services was actually from a carrier from Hong Kong.

Similarly, when I visited Japan this year, the eSIM I got was from a South Korean carrier.

Can't do that if you need a physical SIM!
Come on, tesla makes self driving cars and now they have trouble estimating range?
Last time I traveled to a EU country from the US I tried an travel esim service. For a single sample of an unlocked iPhone and and Airalo app it worked flawlessly. Not affiliated with the app, but I may use it again and am curious about different experiences.

I bought the esim about a week ahead and installed it and the validity period auto activiated when I turned on the profile in reach of a valid network.
Are you sure about @facebook.com?
>Why shouldn't I? You don't get to dictate how I "get" to feel.

No, but logic and society and experiences gets to dictate (even if in a slightly fuzzy what) what makes sense to feel.

Otherwise, feelings are like a*holes. Everybody has one.

>So long as you make an effort to learn someone's culture, I don't think there's any justifictaion to exclude someone on the basis of the brute facts of their body or upbringing. Actions ought to matter far more.

They don't want people merely having "made an effort to learn their culture" to immigrate in their country in any great numbers. They prefer people having grown into their culture - that is, their own people.

It's through this organic process (as opposed to some bro watching anime and watching documentaries about sushi and samurai swords who feels they've "made an effort to learn the culture") that they preserve their culture, their social cohesion, their customs, their safety, and other such aspects.
The older I get, the less "turn the other cheek" I feel like being towards bullies, and that's what this is, bullying. I want to leave a fair and equitable world for my (white) children, not one filled with hatred and racism.

And to answer your point, I say this in the context of an african country where white people are a minority and yet still discriminated against with laws passed by a "democratic" government. Of course, it's all under the guise of "Affirmative Action" and "Black Economic Empowerment", giving it that "noble" aura of "fairness". Meanwhile the country burns as the laws enrich the elite, keep the black people poor, make the white people poorer, and ultimately cause everyone to blame everyone else.
> are received by every NIC on the subnet

On the brodcast segment, usually L2 VLAN.

/nitpick
He is a treasure. His CPS1 book is outstanding.

If anyone knows other classic-gaming blogs, where there is technical depth, please do share. https://nicole.express/ and https://sudden-desu.net/ are my other favorites.
I felt like this before I used - of all things - Bank of America's "Erica" chatbot to find an option in their app that was eluding me. I asked how to change the option, and it responded with a link to the exact screen I was looking for. The reason I couldn't find it was because it was called something different than I thought. I never would have found it otherwise.

That's when I realized a core use case for these sorts of bots: Navigating complex interfaces. As much as UX designers want to make UIs "intuitive", there comes a tipping point of complexity where a UI can only do so much to guide you. Bots are like that kid next door who's "good at computers", or a tech support agent on the phone, who can help you do something you just couldn't work out on your own because of terminology or misunderstanding.

As much as people are wary of Microsoft's Copilot integration into Windows due to the legacy of Clippy and Cortana, I think it's going to be a huge success and an archetype of future HCI.
This is misleading. Carriers can impose restrictions on paid off phones like being subscribed to them for x months. My phone unlocked after 6 months.

It is only free and instant if you are in the military.
I think the point was that novel chatbots will still be created, but they need to be talking to your existing assistant (Siri/Alexa) rather than you going directly to them?
Did anybody actually RTFA?

The article is not arguing that chatbots are unpopular with users, as the commentators here seem to be assuming.

TLDR, didn't RTFA: The author is arguing that most LLMs that are fine-tuned should operate at a layer of abstraction beneath Siri etc, so that end-users can talk to the "AI Assistant" that they are used to, and in turn Siri or Google Assistant or whatever interface they're used to can query the LLM.
The way you describe it it seems like Mick West is the quintessential HN poster; thinks his success as a software engineer makes him a supreme expert on other fields.
i didn’t realize buying a tesla was a moral failing. i guess i’ll but from an ethical company like GM instead
It didn’t pan out as great value for the tax payer though.
> designed to be simple enough to be understood by a single person

Interesting that this was mentioned. Are there languages that are not simple enough to be understood by a single person?
Xenophobia is a content-less word, made to be sounding like a medical condition, to justify bossing people around based on what they want or do not want in their country.

It is, of course, a white invention, as we feel morally superior enough to do all the bossing around. Let's call it the "white man's burden" to show those people how it should be done.
Chatbot is fine as a search alternative, and there's stuff I find more convenient asking chatgpt than looking up and synthesizing myself to figure out the answer.

Chat is the worst possible interface to a fixed menu system, which is the only way it gets used in public facing customer service.

If a company had an optional "faq chatbot" you could talk to, nobody would complain. It's using it to block human interaction while pretending to be able to help that infuriates people.
... all of them? Ice caps are still there and the world still isn't that much hotter than it normally is.

and "thousands of scientists" lol sure... thousands of priests say that miracles happen.

Meanwhile... those same "scientists" are silent as the solutions to "climate catastrophe" are mountains of "green" tech that's unrecyclable after destroying the earth to create batteries, wind mills and solar panels that under perform and end up in land fills.

https://www.newsweek.com/nobel-prize-winner-who-doesnt-belie...

But... if that's not enough? What about scientists - including Nobel prize winning scientists - that say there are no crisis?

My opinion? "Climate Change" is a religion just like other religions - some truth mixed with a lot of "follow what I say or WE'RE ALL DEAD!". Literally 100 years of failed predictions making global warming... I mean cooling... I mean acid rain... I mean CLIMATE CATSTROPHE! wrong at every step.

Can't have real conversations about real solutions to real problems when you're dealing with religious faithful which is why green solutions are going to fuck our planet up more than oil could ever dream of.
> I'm grumpy about the recent trend towards apps living in one monolithic window

Me too. It's a terrible paradigm that I'd thought we'd left behind a long time ago. But I guess everything comes around again.
Ultralisp, Rowsell, Qlot, Quickdocs, etc. Virtually every modern project build/install instructions reference Quicklisp. You have no idea which dependencies you need to pull and from where, which can be a real PITA for a large project. A lot of project code I've looked at also has Quicklisp references in the actual code for whatever reason, usually for testing or building or whatever else, so to run those you need Quicklisp. It's really hard not to say it's taken over the ecosystem or that there isn't lock-in, I don't know what you mean to be honest. Quicklisp is also a curated list gatekept by one person, so whatever is on there isn't really representative of everything that's being worked on. You can publish on Ultralisp if you don't want to wait or if it wasn't accepted, but then you're still using Quicklisp under the hood. And it's hard to discover things on Github/Gitlab/etc because there's a lot of stub repos just trying things out, with little to no stars.

I'd love to see ecosystem support for other package managers. CLPM is still in beta and has been for a good while now. Quicklisp too. Quicklisp famously doesn't support HTTPS, version pinning, project locals, etc, which has really throttled any progress with the Common Lisp ecosystem. It's not like ASDF at all, which is become a standard that's built into a lot of the lisp compilers.
Yes. C++ is it’s entirety is (probably) not understood by anyone.
A couple brewery owners up in the Sierra near Truckee CAlifornia have been finding old hops fields.

It’s not uncommon to see abandoned old orchards in places.
Good insights here. I'm going to steel a couple of notes here and update the post if you don't mind!
F/S was used exactly one time, against one site. Past that your point is taken.
I'd say that many of the pro-gas-stove talking points seem exaggerated (i.e., some pro-gas points are true in some senses, but induction stoves do exist and address essentially all of these concerns -- that's the "novel technology" I mentioned).

And more so, the pro-gas side seems to be funded and organized in a coordinated way.

Yes, it's generally a waste of attention.
DRM (Digital Rights Management): The Definitive Guide (2023)
The US navy also has battle dolphins.

https://thebulletin.org/2022/03/how-dolphins-protect-the-us-...
Title says [fixed] but that's only for DDG - which despite all the flaming it's getting, somehow did fix it while Bing has not (will it?). My unfounded theory is that Techdirt is effectively banned on some country and that leaked to the global Bing index.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Atechdirt.com
Impending fork in 3...2...1...
The premise of the article is really "No one wants to talk to your chatbot, because users will already be primed to the chatbot integrated in their smart speaker or phone or whatever device they are using - which will be the device vendor's product (i.e. Google's, Apple's, Amazon's etc) and not yours."

That's a different premise than simply being pessimistic about chatbots as an UI paradigm in general.
FreeBSD Status Report 2023 Q2
Hacker News is a funny place. Few days ago I pointed out something similar - that first thing investors look at is how easily someone can eat your lunch? and got heavily downvoted.

These ideas are only bootstrappable, because nobody is going to put their money into it, apart from founders having a dream, but everyone else seeing that competitor can wipe them by just assigning a team to build that extra feature in their product.

Don't get me wrong - it doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. If you don't care much about money and value experience more, that is an extremely exciting journey to take oneself through and also sometimes dreams come true!
RR and Waco are fundamentally different because they involved the government cornering criminal groups and placing them under siege until they capitulated/died.

The scenario I'm talking about involves extremely difficult to detect and prevent vigilante action against corrupt individuals.

The kind of law enforcement that you're talking about who are itching for a 'war' will fold as soon as they face a threat like that. They're not actually there for a war. they're there to bully.
I've not read it. Certainly the colonies were made of different sub-cultures, and that would and did have a major impact in self-identity in the colonies. But even in the South there were large differences from one State to the next, and that leaves slavery- and climate-caused industrialization disparities between North and South as the main drivers of that resentment of the North, and that chip on their shoulder almost certainly exacerbated the South's cultural attachment to slavery. By 1861 the people of the South definitely saw themselves as quite apart from the people of the North, and even quite apart from each other (organizing as a confederacy was not just to be starkly different from the federal North, but also because they had and wanted to maintain very strong national identities in each Southern State).
Prob because this is financial news for wall street and boglehead types, not your average Joe. But I agree - I feel the press is very optimistic about things w/o going deeper into the systemic problems.
Yeah, but in Teams you have to have a Team to have a channel. It makes absolutely no sense.

So even if you are a small company, you'll have a default Team called whatever with a General channel in it. Bonkers.
For data-only SIMs while traveling, eSIMs are pretty great. I can just download an eSIM from an app and it's ready to go in minutes. Yes, it requires wifi or another working data plan to get started, but that's way easier than having to find a shop that sells physical SIM cards. If I didn't need to keep my phone number, I'd just stick with data only eSIMs. Unfortunately, I need to keep my phone number because a ton of banks and other accounts that I need to do business have required SMS-only 2FA. Recently, I bought a new phone while traveling and Google Fi wouldn't let me activate a new eSIM without returning to the US. If I would break my phone abroad, it would be an absolute nightmare. eSIMs shouldn't have this problem, but they do.
Again, it's all chainable. If an app is being controlled by accessibility software, the identity of that software can show up in the RA, so readers can say "it's OK if this app is automated as long as it's by something on this community maintained list of genuine accessibility tools".
I have 0 FAANG or Fortune500 experience, hence posting this here at this stage. I basically need to know whether this would work before i continue coding.
> If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares (and free up an area the size of Africa).

No we wouldn't. Everybody gets cause and effect backwards on this one. They see that we're using essentially all of our arable land for food production and draw the conclusion that's how much is needed to produce the amount of food we currently produce.

But it's actually the other way around. We use all the land available because that's the cheapest way to produce the amount of food we need. If we had more land, we'd use it and food would be cheaper. If we had less land we'd produce the same amount of food, but it would be more expensive.

For an extreme example, we could probably feed 8 trillion people on the same amount of land by covering all of our arable land with greenhouses.
What's his politics? I don't really follow his politics.
The market is weird.

It might have jumped because the market was pricing in a faster decline and it beat expectations, causing a correction.

It could also be because earnings reports are times of higher volatility for a stock, and people will use derivatives to make certain bets around it. And then the earnings results can cause them to take decisive action to exit those positions, which might not be happening in the spot market but the spot market can feel the ripple effects of big movements in derivatives.

Or maybe a bunch of meme investors are buying intel because it had good news and there's nothing more sophisticated than that.

The market is weird, and it's especially weird on short time scales. Let's wait a week and see where they land.
I'm nostalgic for the pre-9/11 flying experience well except for one thing: anyone being allowed to wait at the gate.

Imagine the mad house if friends and family could accompany a traveler to the gate, or wait for their loved one to arrive?
If this is the case, why is Tesla the outlier? Ford, Hyundai, GM etc. all seem to be able to accurately estimate range. In fact, as the article mentions, Hyundai is slightly inaccurate in the opposite direction (though not by the same margin as Tesla over-estimates).

If this is simply people getting used to a new technology, wouldn't it be a similar story across the board?
oh @meta.com?
I hate BAT too but comparing it to WEI is a crime.
Are you using permethrin as a bug spray on your clothing? I use it here on livestock and had not considered using it on myself, but I am intrigued given how effective it is for the animals. Gunna go read the label again, but I would wager that using it this way will be an off-label use.
>Using a more concrete example of, say, a device's camera and LIDAR claiming a living human is interacting w/ the device would require software and hardware attestation with a chain of trust extending to the camera and LIDAR hardware

Sure, but that sounds useful.

>Any architecture that requires the client to be "trustworthy" requires attestation and runs afoul of freedom.

Okay, but I would give up freedom if it means there are no cheaters. Not all cheats can be detected server side. The cost of stopping name cheats server side is more expensive to do than stopping them client side. If the cost of anticheat is cheaper it means that games can be developed for cheaper incentivizing more and higher quality games to be made.
From the article, it sounds like if they didn't choose the option they did, then they would have had to either close their business or largely cease it:

"He told me in plain words they don’t want us to continue operating and that they’re locking our API key for new installs as we speak."

That's the "Option A" in the list:

Option A - Stop what we’re doing, downscale the business and wait for the new APIs.

"downscale" there is a bit confusing, as it's unclear if that really means to comply with the "don't continue operating" desire from the Shopify people. I'm guessing it does, and that they'd look for other business ventures instead, thus not a complete cessation of the business.

So, it seems (to me) like they chose the right option. 2 further years of operating income and growth, though they didn't manage to figure out a working, alternative, income strategy before things went sideways at the end of the 2 years. :/
Well, he's actually a barista I think, lol.
> But if I had to have a floating window for every webpage I have open, I'd never find anything!

That's how I do it (and prefer it!)

I am very allergic to tiling windows and somewhat allergic to tabs. I want everything to be a free-floating window so I can organize things as I wish.
"There's no religious grounds for opposing it because marriage is a legal matter."

No, it isn't. For some it's strictly a legal matter, for others it's both a legal matter and a religious matter. That's why you can legally marry in 5 minutes by placing a signature, and separately marry "for church".

"The ceremony that many churches do that they call marriage has no legal standing"

That's not the point of the ritual.
I had a carrier outright take 40$ on eSIM and then fail provisioning because Pixel phones weren't on their whitelist. They refused to return the money or provision my backup Samsung phone.

This shit never happened with physical SIMs.
I've always been a fan of AMD, but I must admit, Intel is making some impressive strides in the Machine Learning field, especially with tools like OpenVINO. The process of converting models to ONNX and running them in an accelerated manner on Intel GPUs has become significantly easier compared to using ROCm.

If Intel continues on this trajectory, it wouldn't be a shocker to see them leapfrog AMD and give NVIDIA a run for their money.
That's why you're seeing more discourse about this in 2023. The pendulum is beginning to swing in the opposite direction, but it will take at least 10-15 years to see any impact.
Unproctored online exams provide meaningful assessment of student learning
It likely broke because the dev won’t touch macOS with a 39.5' pole, so they obviously don’t test changes.

I tried offering to help get the macOS build notarized (financially and logistically) so that it would work without disabling gatekeeper and was laughed out of the issue tracker for using a stupid OS. I tried explaining that I don’t always control which OS I use (not that it matters) and that since I use all of them one of the major advantages of a terminal emulator is that it works consistently across platforms. They basically told me that I’m an idiot for using macOS and put me in the middle of their ideological battle with Apple.
“Wifi calling” is pretty cool if your operator supports and you got 2 sims.
My mind has been changed on this recently after I showed a very close friend the Pi app [1]. Almost immediately they were using Pi all day everyday as a kind of "rubber ducky" to process decisions and just generally brainstorm with - the same way you would with a therapist, close friend or colleague.

For example, this person literally has an ongoing chat with Pi to "help find enjoyment in daily life" via the voice interface. Not only that but basic help with research etc... instead of googling. That's amazing and staggering. I mean it's literally like the movie Her (without the romantic subtext).

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pi-your-personal-ai/id64458159...