skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computation is only a small part of computing, addressed by languages such as OpenCL and by no means simple, observe constant GameReady driver releases from Nvidia to support each new major game. C is still pretty good at many other parts of low level computing, such as managing state of hardware or allocation of system memory to different tasks. Such tasks are not well suited to parallelism, as they must maintain a globally consistent state.

It is perhaps true that CPUs and compilers should execute C code mostly as it is, with only local optimizations to spare programmer of having to decide whether x + x, or x * 2 or x << 1 is faster for example. This would improve system security and reliability while freeing up time to work on great compute languages for vectorizable computations.

But, at the end of the day, CPU makers and compiler writers are humans motivated by both career success and less tangible bragging rights. So OF COURSE they will chase benchmarks at the expense of everything else, even when benchmarks have little to do with real life performance in an average case. I have a 13 year old 17 inch MacBook pro I use for some favorite old games. When I fire it up, I don't see any differences in my computing experience vs a 2023 laptop. So whatever advances in CPU/compiler design were made since do not seem to help with tasks I am actually interested in.
You may not know this, but there is no reserve asset on this planet any more. Central banks world wide use the dollar, which was backed by gold when this agreement started. But it isn't any more, and it is only backed by more debt creation/money printing.

Historically, money backed by weak reserves has always lost against money backed by stronger reserve assets. I find it funny that people believe that infinite debt creation is superior and will win against absolute digital scarcity.
Getting things for free isn't just realistic these days, it's genuinely become the norm. Competition is infinite and there's always somebody willing to bleed VC capital to offer things for free until they finally attempt proper monetization and everyone jumps ship to the next one that's earlier in the cycle. The one unicorn that does successfully monetize then subsidises all the rest through further VC funding in a roundabout startup UBI of sorts.

Besides, Stackoverflow runs ads and profits directly from users' posts. You don't get to own things just by the virtue of being a platform that lets people host things. Does Github own all the people's code they host? Does a cloud service own the software people put in their containers? Of course not. Stackoverflow themselves state that each answer is the property of the poster, licensed as CC BY-SA. Even Reddit's TOS states that "You retain the rights to your copyrighted content or information that you submit to Reddit".

Now whether there should be a class action lawsuit including everyone who's ever posted on Reddit or Stackoverflow against OpenAI is another story.
This article put it at >70%: https://cointelegraph.com/news/70-of-unregulated-exchange-tr...
> Weird thing is it was designed to model language.

Not exactly. They are designed to perform natural language processing (NLP) tasks. That includes understanding language and answering questions.
No, it does not. The length of the pattern isn't important anymore, only whether it overlaps with other patterns.
I was just saying in another thread how the big journals are click-baiting tabloids...
The article proposes putting "pollster" or similar into the standard library.

https://docs.rs/pollster/latest/pollster/

Technically pollster is a runtime, although in practice it's an anti-runtime.
Just for comparison, the US budget deficit will rise by approximately that amount($5 billion) per day every day for the next decade, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-u-s-debt-will-rise-by-...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/congressional-budget-offic...
A few months back there was some demo of a game (The Matrix Awakens) hooked to an LLM and some TTS.

It was cool. You could walk around a city talking to everyone you pass.

The most unrealistic part of it was also that you could walk around a city talking to everyone you pass.

Real people walking in cities don't have time or the desire to stop and talk to strangers about the meaning of life for 20 minutes.

unfortunately the chat is discrete from the NPC that represents it. It doesn't know where it is in the city, it doesn't actually see the player. You say anything to the chat that will change what the npc is doing? e.g provoke it to attack etc.

tl;dr the illusion falls apart when you take the LLM outside a chat window context. Even just to add dialogue for an NPC.
Interesting; I'm fascinated by the extent to which people HERE seem to want to stick their head in the ground on cryptocurrency. Which is to say, it's obvious that a lot of people here hate it -- which strikes me as reasonable -- but aren't willing much to think about about the fact that (like e.g. science) cryptocurrency doesn't much care whether you like it or not, it IS a thing, and it will continue to be a thing.

And if it is a thing, one has to be serious about understanding what one can and cannot do about it, love or hate.
You can enforce it in the US. Which I think would be a good idea coupled with a humane immigration policy that focuses on lifting everyone up.

You can also enforce it through trade laws, requiring imports to come from union shops.
> It was written to be read.

Artists aren't infallible; their intentions don't have to be held sacred. There is nothing wrong with someone not caring for a particular piece of PKD's writing or any of it for that matter.
Indeed. I just find it makes me feel more connected and closer to stories like this one, when thinking in terms of generations, rather than years.
If there’s one thing I love, it’s waiting on vendors when issues are happening.
That they bought fighter jets with crime, that bought bitcoins. I wonder what the money loops of corruption look like?
> It’s psychologically harmful to have a romantic relationship with someone who isn’t a real human. Plus it doesn’t lead to reproduction or anything good.

It might be bad for the individual, or even for the nation, but there are certainly going to be other groups of people out there that benefits from it.

I have read somewhere that Chinese kids are served with smart math tiktoks, while western kids are served with virtual hot dog eating competitions. I wonder...

https://nypost.com/2023/02/25/china-is-hurting-us-kids-with-...
Darwin is already working to filter these people out, so I don’t think this fad will exist very long.
> I have some friends I've made online I've never met in real life. It's people with whom I have a great affinity and it would have been impossible to meet IRL because they're so spread around the world.

I read this pretty often and it has always interested me, because I've been using internet communications for many years (chat rooms, message boards/forums, MMO games, Discord, open source, etc etc) but never found much real connection with the people I've met online.

Offline I have a good circle of close friends and find it easy to meet and get to know new people/enjoy social events, but it has always sounded really foreign to me when people talk about their close online friends, or when I read about, say, an in-game wedding between people who have only ever known each other inside a game world. I've had plenty of pleasant interactions and long-term acquaintances with people online, but never what I'd elevate to describe as friendship.

Obviously I understand that this is other folks genuine life experience and I am different in some way in that regard, it just makes me curious. I wonder if there has been any sociology/social psychology research on this topic.
Sounds like a joke but it makes sense, but it also says nothing because most places outside the city will have pristine snow than in the city as always
Let's make a 'tech CPI' separate from 'cost of living CPI'. Most people don't need the latest gadget, and we are starting to realize that most of these gadgets are downright detrimental to our mental, emotional and social health.
Im swapping it to softer rubber when she’s running. The tires will wear out due to heat cycles before it runs out to tread depth with as much driving as it’s going to see.
OK, but the question is, since Infocom's text adventures weren't particularly punishing, why the sudden change of philosophy in RTZ?

Lucasfilm was already doing very well with no-failure-state graphical adventure games in 1992.
> You won't get a direct answer for this. Only endless justifications

So... you will get answers?

That you disagree with the reasons give does not mean that they're not giving you reasons. It just means you disagree with the reasons that they gave :)
That's almost 1% of total BTC supply
This assumes that you're running in an environment where your servers are cattle and not pets, and in all fairness, not everyone is running large scale web platforms on some orchestration platform. I don't disagree that, even in a pets world one should know how to restore/rebuild a system, because without that, you don't have a sound BDR strategy.
> What's integer divide by zero in C?

It's explicitly left undefined.

> Would you consider that safe?

Yes, because, as all C newbies can easily explain to you, the general rule of thumb is that undefined behavior should be treated as a fault and thus should be handled as a bug.

Hence, your question reads as "Would you consider a bug to be safe?".

In case of integer division, you simply need to check that the divisor is not zero prior to executing the division. Done.
Although I'm sure that outsourcing made some difference, are we sure most of the benefits didn't just rise to the investor class?

TVs dropped in price due to the benefits of adopting moores law. Look into a modern TV and you see a symphony of integration and cost reduction thanks to moores law. I'd imagine the same applies to anything else that jumped on the moores law bandwagon. We need to measure appliances that benefited from this vs appliances that didn't.
Doesnt increasing earths albedo actually cause heat to be reflected from the earth (and lower temperatures)?
I've been working on making games for the Playdate (https://play.date) over the past few weeks, using their C SDK. it's my first time using C in a decade, since I first learned it in college, and I'm having a surprisingly great time with it. sure, there's tons of weird quirks that take some getting used to—but there's a lot that I've been surprised to find that I missed about it! it's fun to write code that does what you tell it to do, without having to worry about object ownership or any higher-level concerns like that—you just manage the memory yourself, so you know where everything is, and write functions that operate on it straightforwardly. if it's been awhile since you've touched C, I highly recommend giving it a try for a small game project.
"The remaining snowbanks". A lot have melted, along with the also reflective ice. The marginal increase in how reflecting they are just doesn't compare with how much heat absorbing are areas without snow or ice, there are in the order of thousands of millions of km2 less sea ice than in the past years (https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/seaice/) and ocean water absorbs a lot of heat.
I think it's mostly because while the internal parallelism of NVMe is fantastic our logical use of them is still largely sequential.
Github is fairly cheap, even at enterprise level.
Reddit mostly operates at the advanced beginner level. If you're a complete novice, it will help you avoid the most obvious mistakes, but it's not going to help you on topics where you already have in-depth knowledge.
Yes, exactly. It was a real estate company saying, "No, we're a tech company!" while contracting into an insane amount of real estate. Nothing about their technology changed the fundamental economics of corporate office space but they were building something that needed to do exactly that to survive.
It's been fun watching the goalposts move over the years.

2011 - it's a scam, nobody uses it

2013 - it's a scam, only criminals use it

2015 - it's a scam, no companies accept it

2017 - it's a scam, only small companies accept it

2019 - it's a scam, no countries officially recognize it

2021 - it's a scam, only small countries officially recognize it

2023 - it's a scam, it's not the world reserve currency
> They regularly modify the list of items in the cart […]

Yes? Of course? They are based on spending surveys:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Expenditure_Survey

When people change their habits in life the CPI is changed to reflect what that life costs. Up here in Canada, the CPI is also adjusted from spending surveys:

* https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/survey/household/3508

You can see the list of changes going back to 1913:

* https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/statistical-programs/document/2...

Do you think coal and lard should be included, like they were in Canada pre-1956? Or do you think the CPI should try to model reality?

> […] meaning the data isn't reliable over time.

It is meaningful in that life now and life ten or twenty or more years ago was different in what people purchased. That should be reflected in measures that model consumer spending.
Unless the AI relationship is going to be irrational at times it's not training for anything. People are complicated and we get irritable and hangry, AI typically does not. It's going to end up creating intangible, idealized relationships. We already have way too much of that with idealized images.
Earlier submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37899319
Would anyone be condemning people who paid for youtube premium and also blocked tracking with ublock?
Techno-optimism manifesto written by a multi-billionaire founder of a venture capital. It doesn't get more dystopian than this.

Where have the hackers gone?
Lakers legend Rick Fox built a house that can suck CO2 out of the atmosphere
The reason it sent that ad to you despite your phone being off and charging in the car is because the shadow profile has already linked you and your girlfriend together prior to your phone dying.

Your phone does not have to be on anymore for you to see stuff your girlfriend looks at. Once they've made a statistical connection (and your phones keep regularly reporting from same IP for the foreseeable future) you will get the ads she looks at if they seem relevant to target to you as possible gifts/things-to-buy.

I sat through a corporate "ads data pipeline" info-session from Google for my company. You do not want to know the level of architecture pumping away in the background that collects and correlates disparate data about you together. It's actually shocking how robust and complex it is. Trust me, I've seen it, they know almost everything about you consumption/location/device wise.
Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI
It's not my goal, and I'm not sure what yours is in this passive-aggressive commenting style that you employ.
There is a coffee shop in SE Alaska that was still selling $0.50 coffee as of Aug 2023. God bless their hearts. -- total anecdote, your point is overwhelmingly true.
Is there any example of a court case where they ruled that users are bound to those types of terms when they didn't explicitly opt in? Can I really set up a blog, put an obscure Terms of Service link somewhere, and legally obligate anyone who reads a single blog post to follow those terms - even if they never clicked the link?

I somewhat doubt it.
> Compelling alternative would be for it to return zero. Which is safe.

Is it? Or is it just another opportunity for a bug to hide?
Really more of an e/acc manifesto.

Interesting to see a twitter thing slowly leak into the mainstream one step at a time.
This is true for a significant percentage of VC backed businesses. Many could be great small businesses, but they get inflated beyond what is practical by investors seeking a return.

The founders $5m turnover business success is then relatively a failure at $30m and they are unceremoniously booted out.
As long as the system is fully auditable and open source, I’d be happy. Having the keys be external is a big plus, assuming that is fully auditable as well. Having no “management engine” is a big plus too.
It's not really a question of whether or not it's feasible, but rather: If the hardware were supports such operations, would they be expressible within the language? If they are, then we should point at the accessibility of the functionality rather than C.

In this case, I could definitely see `set_cache_behavior(ptr, len, options)` being perfectly reasonable, so I'd argue that, again, the fact that we can't do it is more a property of the environment than the language itself.
Disregarding your sarcasm, I did not call it tiring, and I've also never seen anyone make that misguided assumption.
> you cannot love a chatbot no matter how clever

That is the point of the post that this is just the stigma. This is just a belief and issue with the current AI like limited context and not always listening mode. If there is a 'Her' like chatbot which I think could be achievable in few years, then it is debatable that humans could love AI.
Yeah, but much of this is correlated. C Follows B which follows A. So lots of selling on "exchange A" will cause the rest (B,C,D,etc.) to move in tandem, so liquidity is far, far les than $24 billion, but rather the liquidity of only A or maybe some combination of A & B.
I think this is also good life advice generally:

> don’t be afraid! be careful!
2023 - its what intelligence services use to monitor and steer criminal activities
It's the upholstery I remember the most.

My girlfriend at the time was a redhead, and I remember glancing over at her and thinking "I'm not gonna peek under the bedcovers for a while, lest it reminds of that goddamn chair..."
"nointr", last time I used it, meant your program could never be interrupted by NFS errors under any circumstances. Therefore, if the NFS master went away, your program couldn't be killed either and would be stuck in D state forever until you rebooted the whole NFS client machine.
SpaceX followed the path of least resistance. First they developed launch systems that targeted the middle of the space launch system that weren't terribly "high tech" but were designed with cost optimization in mind. Then they developed a real business, and they pursued re-usability in a conservative way as a further cost optimization.

After all of that (and capturing a huge amount of the market) SpaceX began development of a truly radical system that promises much better capabilities and lower cost.

Blue Ocean has made the mistake that many entrants in this market have made by developing a super high tech system (reusable from the start) rather than taking minimal steps.

The market for orbital flights is real, the market for sub-orbital flights is not. Really some university team should try making a reusable sounding rocket because people launch a bunch of those, but rocket companies promising suborbital flight, like Virgin, chronically disappoint because it is a ride to nowhere. There's more of a market for a theme park ride like Disney's "Rocket to the Moon" than there is for a $100,000+ suborbital flight that might just blow you up.
How is the product so terrible that running a 100 person instance is a pain in the ass?
"Free Media Heck Yeah"
Microsoft plans to kill off NTLM authentication in Windows 11
A novel idea! As I work in this AI industry, I admit I prefer to listen to it when free in a day rather than reading newsletter which is longthy, it's made convenient. Thumbs up!
Yeah I think so. Honestly we don't really have much in terms of analytics but based on timing it was earlier than hacker news. I think the verge users were more likely to initiate a migration from Pocket or Instapaper. Imports can be quite intensive if we have to fetch the content, especially because a number of older sites might not exist anymore and timeout.
VC returns for the $975M loom sale to Atlassian
e/acc and its consequences have been a disaster for online technology discourse
Medicating loneliness with an AI girlfriend is like medicating depression with drugs, or horniness with porn.
Messaging in the US is the biggest area right now.

They also have extremely tight control over the app store to a much greater extent than what Google has asserted. They are both problematic, though.
The influence of climate change and human activities on wildfires is growing
It's mistake they can't fix without breaking existing code or introducing new function.

But I'd prefer just a bunch of mux.GET/mux.POST/etc functions instead of that.
> They can come at any time but they are only delivered to your process by the kernel during a context switch.

This is backwards and extremely misleading; a signal being queued can trigger an immediate context switch (effected via an inter-processor interrupt). See `kick_process()` in the Linux kernel [1].

> What you've done is turned signals into interrupts, which is .. hokey. And not how signals are intended to be used.

Signals are userspace interrupts. That's exactly what they are, and they're no more hokey than hardware interrupts (so, pretty hokey).

[1]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/kernel/sched/...
> "arranging independent blocks of code that can be executed in parallel, with only a handful of sequencing operations enforcing some kind of dependency order. Apart from honoring those sequencing requirements, order of execution or whether execution happens in parallel is undefined."

Isn't that exactly what is happening?
Reviving Meltdown 3a
Good, I hope they dump it suddenly and without warning.

The bitcoin trading market is much thinner than it looks -- wash trading is ubiquitous [0] and BTC's price is systematically propped up by a likely fraudulent stablecoin [1]. High prices benefit the organized crime orgs that transact with it [2], but none of the putatively legitimate web3 projects rely on high valuations to work, in theory. If blockchain solves a real problem, it should do it at BTC = $100 or whatever.

IMO, if the US government floods the market, it could do a lot of damage to organized crime groups, potentially lead to unbacked stablecoin's death spiral (as people attempt to redeem more cash than they actually have on hand), and perhaps lead to a healthier, less mania-prone crypto market.

[0] https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/wash-trading-centralised-cryp...

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2018/06/13/tether-manipulat...

[2] https://dialogo-americas.com/articles/china-sells-fentanyl-f...
There are extensions that can swap the thumbnails with a frame from the video. It's not as good as a handpicked frame, but it's a lot better overall compared to the garbage youtubers are making now. The one I use on chrome is called "clickbait remover for youtube"
It would be nice to have a riscV option that doesn’t include these.
Literally this is what they said for years.
If the government seizes $5B in cash, do they have a responsibility to invest it in bonds or something safe?

And if the government seizes $5B in something perishable like pumpkins, does it have a responsibility to offload those seized items before they're worth nothing?

Bitcoin doesn't exactly suffer from the problem pumpkins do, but I'm curious where that divide is between, "we've put it in the evidence locker" and "it will decay to nothing so we need to act on it, even if the legal matters have yet to be resolved."
I can say that after lurking various relationship related subreddits. The problem seems that folks can't have relationship (romantic or otherwise) in the first place.
Yes, that's the big evil on that side. :-)

(You don't need to reboot, though; you can “mount -o remount,intr …” to switch states and then kill. I wonder if you can also now actually do kill -9 specifically even on nointr, but I haven't checked.)