skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's rife across the whole benchmarking industry. Lies, damn lies, and benchmarks.

The massive problem, which has particularly afflicted Qualcomm and Intel in the past, is the difference between peak and sustained performance being absolutely huge, since running at peak would trigger thermal conditions necessitating dynamic down clocking to below normal speeds, which would then persist for a surprisingly long time before normal performance resumes. Certain groups would detect known benchmarking code and alter the acceptable thermal parameters for the execution of the benchmark tests. (i.e. allow the device to become unusually hot).

As others have mentioned this has all the hallmarks of an execution failure, either by Google, Samsung, both, or some unknown third party. Google have a cultural problem of believing way too much in theoretical untested potential solutions instead of aiming for the boring known to work but only 95% as theoretically good, only to find when building it reality is different enough to more than nullify the advantages. It has bitten them in this area before, and it more than likely will again.
From what I read and researched online is that probiotics aren’t the bacteria you need, but are sort of good neighbors to the needed bacteria and create an environment they need to thrive by balancing pH of the gut and outcompete the “bad” bacteria and yeast.
that's good, but it's also more movement than alt-d which I can do one handed without moving.

That was just one example anyway, other shortcuts are blocked too
TL;DR most developers don't need to know any of this.
> it isn’t the definition of fascism when corporations collude with governments

(As this question only makes sense to ask if you meant "isn't it" rather than "it isn't", I'm going to make the obvious assumption)

That's the first time I've heard this definition for fascism.

Normally it's defined as authoritarian nationalism, having a centralised autocratic dictatorial leader, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and propaganda to support the belief in some natural social hierarchy to maintain all that.
Even that biased sounding site doesn't come to such a bold conclusion as you do.

> Exploits the US civil rights struggle by accusing Israel of maintaining a “matrix of control” over the Palestinian population and enacting “laws that discriminate against [Palestinians], much as Black Americans had been treated during the Jim Crow era.”

"Exploits the US civil rights struggle"?
I really like the MathMajor channel too but for the moment it's very Abstract Algebra centric. For those of you who speak French I can also recommend https://m.youtube.com/@MathsAdultes with videos made by a teacher whose students are future Maths teachers and cover a broad variety of topics like Series, Number theory, Measure theory (from Lebesgue to the dominated converge theroem),...
The latest videos are about Topology.
"Awk-Apl SOLIDs, a logistician's tty take on analytic geometry"(unpublished) resources that might be of interest:

Techinques in the unpublished report make use of some solid applied analytic geometry regessions (byte sized pixels[2][3]) using sources of integer sequence[1] for a different mechanical engineering take on what CFR[] does.

Although, the overall goal was to maximize font type useage[4][6] while minimizing IRQ/type ball interuptions[5].
aka mechanical/impressionist e-ink. Takes less effort to generate striking details with CFR[].

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[1] : HN resource on integer number sequences : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038302

a few noteable websites :

The Cinco Library Encyclopedia of Numbers : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVtHrgdcvZA

On-Line Encyclopedia of Inter Sequences : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-Line_Encyclopedia_of_Integer_Sequences

offline/local dabase intdb : https://github.com/popey456963/intdb

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[2] 40 yr lang; https://www.fosslife.org/awk-power-and-promise-40-year-old-l...

[3] gawk chapter "11.3.11 And Now for Something Completely Different" program : https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.pdf

[4] DR thesis commentary : https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies...

[5] HN (char)0 = 0; (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37910983 )

[5] "selectric typewriter goes from trash can to linux" : https://hackaday.com/2023/07/25/selectric-typewriter-goes-fr...

[6] diy typewriter : https://hackaday.com/2023/04/11/ibm-selectric-typewriters-fi...
No comicon sans cast type example provided.
Reddit mods who are historically very power hungry and abusive acted in power hungry ways which abused their power to make money.

However they aren't paid so I could see how someone could easily justify doing this as "payment" for their hard Reddit mod work they have put in.
>> Most programmers have an intimate understanding of CPUs

I'd say the mental model for most programmers is: lines of text, in their language of choice, zipping by really fast.
Market regulation is only a worse idea for the people selling you something.
Before ever*
Stop Using Plastic Cutting Boards
> A lot of the newer/young employees don’t even seem to have a lot of OS/system understanding.

This is largely irrelevant to the concept of sequential programming.
Not 100% sure what you mean, but yes we need something similar to GDPR which allows requests for our own information. It's a mostly a matter of legislative interest, which can stem from demands from the public.
Is Shazam considered AI? I thought fingerprinting songs was a relatively straight-forward algo that didn’t require any training.
OpenAI Dropped Work on New 'Arrakis' AI Model in Rare Setback
I imagine it is healthy.

I think of my mom and brother for instance, versus my dad and other brother - my dad and other brother are blissfully ignorant.

My mom and younger brother get worked up over things they see in the news daily that don't affect them at all.

I'd wager that stress, depression, and anxiety levels are all higher for people like my mom and younger brother than for the former.
I've been playing around with writing an application-orientated Incremental View Maintenance library along these lines:

https://stepping.site

It's based off of the DBSP paper, which counts Materialize's Frank McSherry as an author. Definitely not ready for the prime time, but any feeback welcome!
I'm tempted to be sarcastic about it, but it's surprising to me that no has mentioned sales quotas being connected to bad behavior. The most important kind is deceptive behavior to customers, and not just the "ordinary, good for the company kind". I mean making promises the company can't keep, or selling future features that require a deathmarch, with the attendant loss of quality/sustainability, even if the C-level doesn't see it.

This isn't to argue that we should just believe developer estimates unconditionally. That's a bigger rabbit hole that I'm too tired to go down right now.
I love the idea of this site but I don’t understand the pricing model. It says 30$/month but I can only pay 120$ for 3 months. It should be 90$ for 3 month.
A monthly payment model would be more accessible. I do I misunderstood something?
Great article. The Sphere is such a ridiculous, hilarious and fantastic project. We should be build one in every city.
We can already communicate with animals. They don't have a secret language. We're probably better able to understand them than they each other because we research and look for signals that are irrelevant to the daily lives of wild creatures.

There's a lot of media depiction of scenarios where someone can talk to animals, either via magic or by technology (a different magic). So it does not surprise me that a lot of people just believe animals can talk to each other if only we could understand.

This isn't to say there aren't some unknown communications going on - we regularly find new ones. But we're never going to find what we would consider a language.
I sit and sleep on solid, hard surfaces.

None of that springy, bouncy, squishy surfaces for me.

My bed is custom build from hard oak wood with a very thin layer of cushioning.

And my main work chair has also a solid wood seating area, with some thin cushioning of the base.
I am guilty.

I do not use my local library.

I download books or, very rarely, buy a paper book and scan it.
Show HN: We built a new investment tracker
There is many portfolio and dividend trackers out there for investors. Lots of different kinds with different features. However we felt like something is missing. The trackers do their job yes, but not as well as they could. Most of them lack even the most basic information while still adding features that have a very little to do with actual investment tracking.

So what every engineer does at this point? Builds a new one of course!

What separates Stockle from other investment trackers? Here's a few key points.

- We don't aim to do everything. We focus on the necessary core features and we do them well, covering every little detail without missing any critical information. While you are not able to add your house or boat as an investment in Stockle, what you can analyse is your stocks, funds and ETFs.

- Portfolio aggregation in Stockle is actually aggregation. We don't just aggregate one chart or few numbers. If you choose to view the the aggregated total of all portfolios, we literally take every piece of data and cover every single detail similarly as in individual portfolios.

- We've put enormous effort into logic, UI/UX of Stockle. Every view, window, button and piece of information is laid out so that user understands quickly where the numbers are coming from. Single command menu handles adding transactions, dividends and portfolios and much more.
That is quite an achievement! It extends the range of fully realizable game consoles that are realizable in inexpensive FPGAs. At one time I saw a web article on FPGA versions of arcade game architectures (looking it up it seems that became the 'mistercade' project for JAMMA compliant cabinets). I'm always amazed at the creativity here, both in the original designer's part and in recreator's part of reproducing that same vision.
If we consider that Fungibility is on a continuum of very low on the left and very high on the right. Where do you think most sales fall on the continuum?

I'd claim that businesses are biased toward chasing a highly fungible sales model, to the point of eliminating the need for a salesperson altogether, and so naturally sales tends to the right.
Wait, I remember the site you're talking about. But it's been redesigned, as of me clicking on it now. It looks much more modern.
Did this lead people to buy surnames? I know buying (into a) surname happened —which is why like 80% of the pop has one of half a dozen surnames, rather than there being a longer tail of distribution.
FYI Window's clipbord history has better security than what desktop Linux has. For example desktop Linux currently has no way to copy an image and specify that the contents are sensitive and should not be added to the history.

Poor API design and the inability for APIs like the clipboard to evolve are part of the reason why desktop Linux's security keeps falling behind other operating systems.
I used to be bloated before my doctor advised me to try eating more bifidus with the help of a popular yogurt brand. It works like a charm: almost no bloating anymore if I got my morning yogurt but gaz seems to come back in a day or two of bifidus abstinence. I’d love to find a diary-free alternative.
> Contrast this with Russia, which increased it's production substantially after the start of the war in Ukraine. Most of the Russian defensive industry is run/owned by the government itself. Yes, there is obviously corruption there too but it's no where near the US defense industry.

The end-to-end corruption in the Russian defense establishment is much worse than in the US. Being run by the government doesn't help at all in Russia (unsurprisingly, since the government is pretty much a top-to-bottom kleptocracy); much of the corruption is in the military itself. Not sure its currently at the levels of, say, the first Chechen war where a serious problem was military quartermasters personally profiting from selling supplies under their control directly to the enemy, but its rather notoriously a problem effecting readiness, planning, and operations for decades.

Also, the US and other NATO allies have increased ammunition production and other defense production substantially since the war began, as well, even without moving the overall economy to anything even approximating a general war footing (e.g., US production of 155mm artillery shells had doubled from 6-8 months prior by September of this year, as part of an upswing targeting another quadrupling by 2025.)

> Since the social system in the US is so weak and the political capital is so low that the only feasible way to funnel a lot of money into the private sector is via defense spending

The US "funnels" a lot more money through direct, overt social spending than through defense spending, this argument is common, but absolutely disconnected from reality.
Which GDPR article did you have in mind?
Of course standalone is easier. But if you have a quest 3, would you get the best experience with streaming the PC version? Or are the graphics kinda the same?

I have a quest 3 and 4090. I prefer playing on the quest itself however if the PC version looks better I'd use that. Hence the question (though I'm not the person who asked first)
Not really.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210508125532/https://twitter.c...

https://godbolt.org/z/1q1bjn

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26498233

Nasal demons was an analogy, not something to take literally.
I am not a comic book person by any stretch, but I do visit Fantagraphics in Seattle once and awhile. What strikes me about the movies that they got stuck in this formulaic loop, where in many comics, the protagonist or antihero make an amazing personal transformation.

What I have seen of the new animated/rotoscoped spiderman, it looks pretty good in terms of arc.

the medium could be utterly amazing and touch on things you could never do in normal live action movies.
As someone posted Landauer’s principle, I’m going to elaborate. Computation is not zero entropy as many operations (the classic example is erasing memory, which you can think about as filling a buffer with a constant) is not invertible. You are mapping memory from holding any value to a constant. Given memory filled with that constant, you can’t undo that deletion unless you have a copy saved somewhere else (in which case the inverse requires extra knowledge than just the state of the memory).

This is also true for many more useful computations: OR and XOR and modulo are not invertible because they map many possible inputs to the same value.

Thus, if you have a distribution over inputs to your algorithm, the distribution over outputs cannot have more entropy and typically will have less.
>Refactoring happens because the model of the world that the software works with has changed since the software has been implemented. Maybe the way users and roles are represented was kinda OK 5 years ago, but the world (== business environment, understanding, requirements) has changed since. So the code that has been OK 5 years ago is painfully mismatched with the present.

Totally agreed. This is a practical reason for it. But much of refactoring doesn't happen because of this. The article says you should refactor all the time for "better" code. It's not talking about your use case where you have to update dependencies, security features and things like that.
Here is the mission for libraries: Libraries are places for students to learn on their own.

Libraries provide books, digital resources, maker spaces, guest speakers, clubs, and more to help students learn on their own.

Some of those resources can be used in the library, and some of them can be checked out on loan.

Please do not prevent others from learning or a librarian will correct you.

Source: I am a teacher this is what I hear from my students.
The Internet contains a lot of scams. Does that make the WWW, a scam? No. Same thing.
- Google (Search, YouTube, Android)

- Facebook (Groups, Messenger)

- Amazon (Store, Audible)

- eBay

- Spotify
It was both. It was the first game that offered a "multimedia" experience and yet a compelling gameplay.

Most of the early multimedia games were more like tech demos and were boring.
We're running .net 4.5.2

Source: trust me, bro
Almost all food can be considered "probiotics", as pretty much everything is covered in microbes and provides food for microbes when eaten. A diet that promotes a healthy microbiome is going to be much more effective than supplementing lactobacilli or whatever.
Beautiful Barns Tell the Story of the United States
No one shoots true 24. Anymore. Nor does any modern studio want to.

This is not true, where are you getting this information? Converting a high frame rate to a lower frame rate is not like resampling a high res image to a lower res image. You have to interpolate or throw out frames, both of which are terrible compared to just shooting in the frame rate you want.
"Bold"? Come on, it's explicitly mentioned in the link whereas you cherry-pick a small paragraph.

One director tweeted "F*k Israel every day until the fall of the zionist regime."

Then some members orgs "rejecting dialogue", "Promotes political warfare strategy against Israel ... with the ultimate goal of dismantling Israel as a Jewish and democratic state."

If you can be so blind I think this proves the point of what very nasty people are easily hiding under the "Pro-Palestine" umbrella. People should be extremely cautious and do their own research. Even the cursory one I've just done here already raises many red flags.
Acceptance of and capitulation to reactionaries.
I like to add that WG14 accepted my comment into the current draft standard that clarifies that UB does - in fact - not invalidate the whole program, and can not affect observable behavior that comes before it.
That's cool... it's like a terse version of the DSL that Lazarus uses for forms. (.lfm files)
But she is a trans woman, right? How can you say she is male?
Insider trading is when an insider knows the true price better than you do and takes advantage of that by making buys/sells on the market without disclosing the insider information.

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What happened here is a rugpull. Not insider trading. The coin was collapsing, but plenty of people figured out how to make money even in the collapse.

Rugpulls don't really happen in the regulated market. But they are a dime a dozen on cryptocoins.
That's a great position to have—anywhere in the developed world but the USA.

Here, it's a great aspirational position to have, but wholly impractical in the short or medium term.

Perhaps, if the Republican Party genuinely collapses within the next couple of years, it might become possible to pass the kinds of massive infrastructure overhauls required to make owning a car anything but a necessity in the vast majority of this country. Until and unless something that drastic happens, their adamant resistance to that kind of measure makes it very clearly impossible.
Yes.... and it was a terrible system, not having a money system with any sort of democratic political controls on its supply and demand. Through a modern lens, we should view the thousands of years of gold coin currency as a human system that was ripe to cause artificial limitations and excesses of resource availability for populations that participated in the system. With a time machine, we should advise people of the past that a much better (but still imperfect) system -- clay tablets with a list of creditors and debtors, with regular debt cancellations/easements as needed to maintain stability -- had already been invented, possibly thousands of years before the invention of coins.
I went back to 2014
Recursion: A Quick Introduction
That site is malicious. It tries to access your clipboard.
Oh, right. I agree as well. Git is not their kind of tool.
It’s the inevitable consequence of design by committee.

By layering on requirements unrelated to “fun”, eventually fun becomes incompatible with all the different needs and wants.

“Must cater to lucrative Chinese market.”

“Must have at least one of each race represented — even if they’re a single family from one village.”

Etc… eventually the singular vision is just one of many items on a long checklist.

The only good new Disney show is Andor, which was notably made by a small team with a small budget and hence little interference from “corporate”.

Thinking about it, all of the media I’ve enjoyed in the last decade — my middle age — were made with a single “dictator” in charge instead of a committee in charge. E.g.: I like Christopher Nolan or Ridley Scott movies precisely because their personal vision and style is apparent and beautiful.

Corporate committees have only one vision: taking your money.

That’s what comes through. That’s what you’re picking up on subconsciously.
It looks like most discussion has been deleted by the mods. They've allowed this one to stay: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrencyMeta/comments/17b8lqe...

Most of the mods involved are no longer mods. At least one (TNGSystems) is still a mod since they waited until the official announcement before dumping their position. Here is their explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrencyMeta/comments/17b8lqe... In this argument you can only see TNGSystems's responses because all the comments from the other side were deleted by moderators.

Copied for posterity:

> If I’m an asshole for selling my moons in order to provide a guaranteed safety blanket while my wife is off on maternity leave and I’ve got to cover all bills & upkeep & all the new shit we have to buy for a baby, then so be it.

> I hadn’t made my mind up on selling, even when the announcement was posted. Otherwise I would’ve done it after 10 seconds, not 3 and 6 mins after it was posted.

> At the end of the day I decided to take a guaranteed chunk of cash in return for my contributions, time and energy rather than wondering if the system can be built back up by mods.

> Crypto is a zero sum game.
It's probably misleading to use nominal figures to compare this, since there's going to almost certainly be a difference in the number of conservative and liberal leaning universities.
You might want to elaborate
> Since it was mostly symlinks in the standard /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin etc, the shell dutifully redirected garbage into each destination binary, rendering the OS unusable.

One must be root to be able to do that.
A real Hacker News would provide nothing more than a malformed XML file, and require users to clean it, parse it, and display it in their own artisanally-handcrafted client if they wanted to read it.
> modern software development is trivial to learn

LMAO c'mon. This basically undercuts anything else you say here. Go teach your grandma react and see how trivial it actually is.
I own two "Autonomous ErgoChair Pro" and I'm pretty happy with them. I have a standing desktop and I work standing around 30% of the time, daily.
You just keep checking more boxes into what fits the description of a vassal state.

Being a vassal state has benefits. Protection being one of them. The Japanese people are smart, they saw their options and realized being a vassal state of the US (and not the Soviet Union) was in their best interest.