skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uninstall has got to properly clean the registry, and filesystem, and should require manifests.
Yes, it's obnoxious. And so are the nonstop popups telling you to use Chrome that Google shows you if you're using Edge on Maps, YouTube, Gmail, Search etc.

Both of these companies should be slapped hard for doing this.
It must suck to set up from scratch every time.

What? If you haven't used the software before, what else other than defaults do you?

InstallShield was invented for a reason: the Win32 devs started dumping crap all over the system, all over the registry, and didn't bother cleaning up after themselves

That's a problem created by advocating for use of the registry, but not a necessity.

The single-file apps I have may create a config file alongside the binary, but that's it.
That’s a rosy hypothetical in which people get lower costs and better service through a change in payors.

That doesn’t change the fact that the costs of healthcare will still be “foisted disproportionately on employers and their employees” because those are the revenue generating population.

Government is already the largest payor in healthcare through Medicare and Medicaid [0] (funded by taxes “disproportionately on employers and their employees”). You’d think that they would already have the market power to do whatever they’d like with prices.

0. https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...
No, but since we are talking about laws, it is important to define the point beyond which a kind of behavior becomes unacceptable, or at least some set of criteria to determine when a specific instance is beyond that point.
I'm sorry but I'm not sure what you mean by mathematics not being 'natural.' Einstein, Feynman, and many others used mathematics to give us an amazing exposition into the universe. Feynman in fact has stated that a 'particle' takes all possible 'path' computations into account for every possible 'particle trajectory' that exists and that the path of least energy (i.e. least information exchange) takes precedence. If you're telling me this isn't mathematical then you honestly don't know much about mathematics.
But is there not 0-point crossing in DC currents ?
When trying to run one system at a higher rate than the other(whether it's render, physics, input) the principles of DSP come into play: you're running a bunch of things that can be coordinated together for maximum smoothness if you define the sample rates to be consistent and interpolate the sampled data appropriately. If you can run something very fast but you don't define a set pace, you don't have a theoretically sound starting point, and that's where a lot of game timing systems(from basically every era of gaming) fall over and accidentally drop information or add timing artifacts.

So, like you, I made a system with a target physics refresh that was above render, but I did it with the goal of visually smooth operation - and therefore, I derived a frame pace from time-from-bootup, and guided the physics refresh not around the direct multiple of vsync, but "how many frames do I need to issue to keep pace with real time as defined by the system clock". Doing this naively creates disturbing rubberbanding effects, since the pace naturally oscillates, but adding a low-pass filter to reduce jitter and a "dropped frames" adjustment produced motion with a very satisfying quality.

I'm forgetting precisely what I did with the input, on the other hand, but I think I determined that "as fast as possible" was still an improvement because the way I was issuing frames was reducing the amount of aliasing of deadlines on the margin.

It's an area where you can definitely get pretty sophisticated. Many emulators for older systems now are emulating ahead, displaying that result, and then rolling back emulation state to create a configurable negative input latency.
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I would venture to say you haven’t packaged or shipped any complex software or had to do so in a way that scales to hundreds or thousands of machines. This is along the line of “i could build uber with 50 engineers”.
From user viewpoint:

Starting to using Linux the greatest part was no longer dealing with insane install processes. For example, end of game where every Java update was pushing some unrelated software and you needed to be careful to not end with it.

Also, "is it official site for this software or some copy of website or hijacked site" (and around time I left Windows SourceForge was busy with hijacking open source projects and adding malicious software to this downloads, maybe it got better since that time)

If all software would be unpackable and require no configuration by default and leave no waste files over system it would be OK.
This article explains why you can’t travel with only an iPad (and a phone presumably) but doesn’t seem to bother explaining why you can’t just travel with a small laptop and phone.

What does the tablet add that makes it indispensable for travel? Just the media consumption?

I never used a tablet for an extended amount of time so maybe I’m missing something here.
there is nothing creative about swiping on an app to update a feed of algorithmic nonsense, true. which is 99% of what people do on phones in my experience. even tablets.
We also migrated all compile-time types and values to be stored in a similar fashion: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/15569

Perf was a bit of a wash on this one but it means we can serialize most of the compiler's state with a single pwritev syscall. For a 300,000 line codebase, this data takes up 30 MiB and uses the same format on disk as in memory. On my laptop, 30 MiB can be written from memory to disk in 25ms. This is one puzzle piece for incremental compilation. More puzzle pieces are listed in the PR description here: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/16917
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Did HN hit archive.org, of all sites, with enough traffic to do that!?

I can currently see other items on archive.org, but not this one.

Unfortunately but not surprisingly, web.archive.org doesn't appear to have archived itself.
The most fundamental change is the difference in what models are being trained on.

Little images of characters is a trivia type problem, very different from training on the linguistic and visual communication of essentially the whole human race.

Another 33 years of expanded computing resources won’t be training models to mimic the behavior and knowledge of humanity.

That problem (us!) will have been reduced to a toy problem long before then.
There is that.

And though I suspect dang would respond that everyone sees bias against their own specific viewpoint, this particular pattern seems persistent, plays into well-established truth-to-power dynamics (where truth is disadvantaged), and specifically as concerns policy, has been repeatedly defended by dang.

Put another way, HN's alignment is to curiosity and discussion rather than truth or fairness. I've already touched on many of the considerations that factor into this above, and why I remain unconvinced by those arguments.
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> told by people who are younger than my career that my use of a term is incorrect

Being old doesn't make you wise, or right.

It's nonsense to demand that meaning of words will never change, because change over time is just how language works.

That's how we got from Chaucer, to Shakespeare, to modern English. The changes do happen fast enough to be noticeable in a single lifetime.

As you grow older, it's important to track these changes. You don't have to agree with them or like them. But sometimes you might have to accept the new meanings anyway.
"This world is imperfect. If only I could wipe away the impurities, and make it as beautiful as me..."

Yes, that's the vibe I'm getting too.
> What? If you haven't used the software before, what else other than defaults do you?

On Windows it (by the time I left it, around 2013) it apparently meant bundling various unrelated stuff (like installing Chrome, toolbars, McAfee antivirus trial). Half of installers had minigame "how to spot and stop crapware bundling".

Or at least asking blatantly obvious questions and lying that I read and accepted piles of legalese written by their lawyers.

Not sure has it got better.

Linux style packaging eliminated this for user, at least in my case.
I was actually pretty interested to see the diagram in the article showing how delocalized the hydrogen nuclei are in NH3. I do have a science degree, and I’ve seen plenty of electron probability density renderings, but the extent to which protons “spread out” was surprising to me.
Not unless you’ve got a garbage bag. Running is good though but don’t think that heavy breathing is expelling any particulates faster than you inhale them. It can definitely create inflammation which can stimulate growth. Just as micro tears of muscle tissue during exercise increases muscle density and strength.

Run. Just don’t think to yourself you’re undoing anything. Think of it as extending. I wish I had the endurance to join you.
If I have one widget, and someone gives me a widget, I now have two widgets. If I then need to give someone one widget, then I will have one widget left. If someone else needs a widget, and so I break my widget in half and we share, I have half a widget left. Then five people turn up and give me three widgets each. I now have 15 and a half widgets.

The basic, most fundamental principles on which mathematics is based are surely natural and discoverable.

Other types of mathematics are born out of these principles.
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>The jury were shown Telegram group chats of the gang instructing someone they'd hired to call the Nvidia staff help desk pretending to be an employee in an attempt to get log in details for the firm.

>In other hacks the gang spammed employee phones late at night with access approval requests until staff said yes.

So basically Social engineering, both the traditional phone scam method and the MFA fatigue attack, and I can almost guarantee that the vulnerable part was Microsoft Authenticator App for Azure services, another reason not to use Microsoft since they can’t even use an open MFA standards and have to use their app. If you would like to see MFA fatigue attack in action, check this video: https://youtu.be/81zbtlOMTzU
Douglas Englebart's invention of the mouse, and Mother of All Demos in 1968 had mouse for the right hand, chording keyboard for the left hand. Seen here: https://youtu.be/UhpTiWyVa6k?t=1949

(It's still amazing to watch him explain that they don't look at the mouse while moving it, they look at the pointer).
there is something inspiring about someone living boomerness to the theoretical maximum. people say young people can't get off their phones but man, boomers can't use anything else but their phones
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Well you just sold me on reading Ken’s books. Out of curiosity, who was the father figure in cuckoo’s nest? For that matter, who’s the mother, there was no sex as far as I can remember.
hello,

idk ... just use a system from a cheap provider of "real" server hardware, a la hetzner in germany, ovh in france or some similar provider in the area of your choice.

but for hosting downloads: network-latency shouldn't be a big issue, so i would go for example with hetzner, because i know them already and they are dirt-cheap (not affiliated with them, just a happy customer since ~ 20 y ;)

ad generating download-links: depending on your needs, either there are solutions available or it shouldn't be too much effort to implement a small web-app, which covers your use-case.

btw. if you need (professional) help for all of this, drop me a mail ...

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Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14748924 and you may find a whole new world you probably haven't seen before.
I assume you're saying that in this hypothetical the hotel has so many rooms that it could host all of those people. In that case, no I probably wouldn't. Not because I think it's immoral, but because I don't know what repercussions I could face if I'm caught in my lie. If I knew for sure that there could be no repercussions then, yes, I probably would lie. I see literally no reason not to do so.
Not that big of a mountain, for a thing to exist it has to be implementable, and only computable things are implementable or else they would not “fit” into a universe.
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Those are all the main reasons I don't choose Apple devices.
This video is what got me to start doing pac-man style running in Santa Clara at the start of 2023 after doing the same routes here for a few years. Highly recommend.
This is interesting work - thank you for sharing!
national review told me to buy in bulk to achieve economic mobility so i think maybe you're right
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It's about margins. We have a box of paperclips that costs 10 euro. 100 people sell it for prices ranging from 11 to 100 euro. 11 is probably to low to build a reliable business, 13 is within reason, 15 would allow for some advertisement budget. Everything below is out. Then we have a market with advertisement budgets ranging from 1 to 85 euro per box. These expensive boxes make a hell of a lot of noise! The customer is left choosing between the 80+ and the 60-70 euro screamers.

And then, then they go to AliExpress and buy it for 8 euro from someone who wants out and you've made us all look stupid.

And now a moment of silence for the thousands who failed to want paperclips regardless of systemic encouragement.
> The legal theory is that the information on the device could be contraband.

If you have a kilo of heroin you want to get from Mexico to Los Angeles, you cannot get it there without physically crossing the US border.

You could be standing in the center of Nebraska, the only triply-landlocked state in the US and not with 100 miles of any border, and directly transfer arbitrary information via an encrypted connection from the International Space Station in orbit over the Indian Ocean on the other side of the planet.

The point is that there is nothing special about physical proximity to the border with respect to information.
I am one of those home users with an LTO5, but I do not use tape compression and I have no illusions about what it was made for. I write tapes without any compression, because the stuff I write can't be compressed. Tape compression wasn't made for my use case, it was made for organizations that generate petabytes of text data.
> config file alongside the binary

Which is already what it shouldn't do. The exe may live in a read-only directory that's accessible by all users. Putting config in %HOME%\AppData is not all that different from using the registry.
Yes but why is positive all we care about when it comes to the definition of space? If we fire neutrinos, basically 100% of the atom is 'empty space'. If we fire protons, 99% is empty. If we fire electrons, none is empty.

Why do we say it is mostly empty just because of 2/3 of these things don't interact? Disproving the plum-pudding model was significant but saying the atom is 99% empty space is misleading. We know there are billions of virtual particles appearing and disappearing all the time within the atom and space, they just cancel out.
I can't cite numbers but I don't think it's hyperbole. A friend of mine recently did her Master's thesis on the effects of Covid on international business in Guangzhou. She interviewed a number of business owners and the consensus was basically that a lot of businesses that shut down because of Covid don't seem to be coming back, with most seeming worried about Taiwan.

But still, there was one business owner arguing that there's never been a better time to do business with China because it's cheaper right now, so who knows what will actually happen.
I am bothered by the constant talk of "virtual quanta." They are in a way abstractions as the top comment mentions, mainly because there are terms in the perturbation theory that "look like" photons and leptons that weren't there originally in the starting state. However, the "virtual" part of this is key, you can't actually observe them, so they might not really exist. They do predict changes to the interaction however.

The important detail here that drives home how virtual they are is they only exist then when the regime is perturbative, for QED, at large spatial scales, and for QCD, at small spatial scales, hence why you can talk about them in hadrons like protons and neutrons as the author does. In the nonpertubative regimes, for example, strong QED, you cannot use perturbation theory and there are no "virtual photons" you can use. For example, the most basic strong field QED, the hydrogen atom, has no virtual photons in the coulomb field, you just solve the hamiltonian with the q^2/r potential given to you a priori. As the fourier transform of ~ 1/r shows you, you would need an infinite number of photons to make a couloumb field. This problem was already known from classical physics, in which the energy density of a couloumb field including the divergence at the point charge is infinite.
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> Even with vsync there’s up to one frame to recognize inputs, then another frame to produce new game state & submit the render, then 1 or 2 more for double or triple buffering, then maybe supersampling and/or denoising, then whatever the monitor does, and I might be missing some steps that add latency.

VSync introduces latency, so it always gets disabled, same with double/triple buffering. I don't think gaming monitors do anything to process the image, they're usually advertised with ~1ms response times.

> Does CS:GO and do other modern games poll the controller at the display refresh rate?

Modern gaming mice and possibly keyboards use 1000hz polling.

> I know it’s pretty common for a lot of games to decouple rendering from game state.

I think all modern games do. Some old games have issues running at fps other than 60 due to this coupling.

> I’m curious where the perceptual limits really are, and what the max framerate we actually need is.

I don't know exactly; there are definitely diminishing returns, like you've mentioned:

- 30fps: 33ms / frame

- 60fps: 17ms / frame (2x cost for -16 ms)

- 144fps: 7ms / frame (2.4x cost for -10 ms)

- 240fps: 4ms / frame (1.6x cost for -3 ms)

- 500fps: 2ms / frame (2x cost for -2 ms)

- 1000fps: 1ms / frame (2x cost for -1 ms)

Just from looking at those numbers, 144fps is still a clear win and 240fps probably makes sense too, if you've optimized your setup for latency. Everything beyond is probably pointless, unless it's your job to play competitive FPS games ;)
An infinite pyramid of abstraction. We’ll find more structures the farther up or down we look
https://github.com/antiboredom/ffmpeg-explorer

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antiboredom/ffmpeg-explore...

https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html
My surface is a whiteboarding tool.

https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/sketchpal/9MVT92NRF5...

Does a pretty good job
I think pretty much every mathematician and physicist disagrees with you on that one.
Is reverse a linked list is still a popular question on interview?
Functional lisp I think God used
Absolutely.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25427090
I cant remember the last time I've uninstalled anything.
Surface Pro has definitely materialized.
And yet we know that most* functions aren't computable. Are we saying most of mathematics doesn't exist? If that's true then how can we talk about it?

I'm asking these questions rhetorically, but they're serious questions that need to be answered (or at least attempted) to maintain even a pretense of intellectual coherency.

You certainly can make the constructivist argument that only the rationals exist and real numbers and everything that builds on them is some kind of fever dream, but personally I've never seen any even remotely compelling exposition of that position. Maybe that's just a "me problem" though? I really don't know I find that this kind of metaphysic pushes up to and sometimes past my cognitive ability.
Maybe it's an American thing but I don't think I know a single person who owns or uses an ipad, with the exception of rich parents who use them exclusively to distract children. I certainly don't notice a lot of ipad users in airports or trains.
the M1/M2 macs should be able to just run the iOS app. Not sure if it allows storing stuff. Or if netflix lets you run the ios app on a mac (probably not lol)
No they used the equivalent of a crazy, maybe infinitely, dense “bit” and all “programming” is things invented by the human brain to model this unknowable “objective” architecture. The universe isn’t actually a computer and even if it is it’s a computer so beyond us that computer science isn’t adequate to describe it.
100 years ago, we’re told, cars took the jobs of millions of horses, coachman, and the like. An it seems obvious, that this was the case because because cars could do many things that a horse simply couldn’t. I’d be remiss to point out, however, that humans took the horses jobs, because horses couldn’t drive. I do not know when or when we’ll see this technology start taking jobs, and much of the hype surrounding this innovation is coming from CEO’s who haven’t used it. However, when it comes to developing software, I do know that those least at risk will be those who learn how to use this technology effectively. As someone who uses it everyday for software development, I think the scale of the job replacements we’ll see in the next few years is either being greatly over exaggerated, or, I’ll be caught off guard by how quickly it gets to that point and I’m simply having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that I wont be cut out for this job when that time comes.
It looks cool...but where the fuck do I put my fingers? That's the difference between the old Walkmans and something like this. The Walkman was designed to fit in my hand and also realized my hand has some fingers that need to go somewhere. It can't just have a bunch of easily triggered buttons under wherever my finger might rest.

I find this to be a problem with a lot of modern ID. The fetishization of touch sensitive controls or just overly sensitive controls makes it just hard to hold a lot of gadgets. It also makes me paranoid about putting them in my pocket. Most Walkman designs had nice physical push buttons that you were in no danger of manipulating accidentally when they were clipped to your pocket or belt.
Generally speaking, this is how the immune system works. We get exposed to a thing the first time, our body doesn't know what to do about it, figures it out and future infections with the same thing are typically handled more effectively.

It's the principle behind vaccines.
casion, thanks for asking. I was baffled too by the same things you were, and the replies to your question clarified things.