skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. There was no expectation of privacy on the internet at the time and THAT is exactly why it was standard to not communicate personal information you didn’t want to share. Pseudonymity carried onto the internet until the Facebook days.

I am still firmly in the Information wants to be free camp, and I agree with you that LLMs scanning it is a logical continuation of it all.
Maybe?

You still have to trust the original compiler, and you still can't rely on reading the source.

You just have to hope that the simple compiler is simple enough to read at the machine code level, and trust your file system / hex viewer / text editor.
I’ve heard of university courses which are taught from original sources, ie teaching calculus from principia mathematica.

I’ve had a fantasy about the same approach for computer science: learn assembly on the Manchester baby, write a C compiler for the pdp-11, etc.

How realistic would the first bit be? Are there simulators and programming manuals for the Manchester baby?
> Initially I planned for the game to be flat shaded and added textures as an experiment, then realised the performance wasn't as horrible as I expected,

Heh, same!

> so it's mostly just a leftover from that. I did end up writing a scanline renderer for the flat shaded triangles, I think for those the bottleneck was transforming the vertices though.

IME vertex transformation is not expensive at all, compared to actually drawing on screen, at least if there is HW support for multiplication. Optimizations like merging identical block faces next to each other also reduce the total number of vertices, but this makes the texture distortions more apparent.

> Maybe I can deal with z-sorting entities by splitting them on voxel boundaries, and I guess dividing them again at any boundaries within non-full blocks (is this similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_space_partitioning?)

Kind of, yeah. With the structure of blocks in a chunk there is basically already a layer of partitioning that can be used, though it might not help sorting that much. Is there enough RAM for a Z buffer? If so, it might just be fast enough...

> For the affine texture splitting, as far as I can tell your game is more focused on creative mode/building whereas I might also want to add a survival mode so for that you're more likely to be up close to the blocks (e.g. in thin underground tunnels) and then the artifacts get much worse so I guess it matters more for me.

I never really bothered with that also because in tunnels/caves there is a bigger issue: There is no hidden surface elimination, which results in overdraw and due to the rather low effective fillrate in FPS drops. I couldn't come up with a good way to implement that properly without hurting performance itself.

> The code is at https://github.com/Heath123/minecraft-casio if you want to look at it (textures are in a branch) but it is quite messy

I had a look, it's really not. The asm is also readable. Is it currently memory or CPU bound?
In French, it is a big one ;-) It changes the pronunciation of the word from \flɑ̃.bœʁ\ to something like \flɑ̃.be.yʁ\
It is very high quality. The explanation of climate change is the best I have seen in terms of clear communication of the facts. There is also balance in there too.

I would like to see if you can tackle more controversial topics. For example Gaza war (and history). Abortion. Taiwan. Good luck!
Here you go: https://www.justice.gov/action-center/report-spam

You can probably guess how effective that is.
In practice, unless you can get the FTC or a state attorney general to sue an actual company for you, nothing will ever come of it.
Better headline: “NASA can’t access asteroid sealed in alien force field.”
the latest date consent given (or taken away) takes precedence, consent requires an clear&affirmative action, so if that part can be recorded - do as you please.
That's what the critic suggests, yes:

> In fact, the only way I can understand Rodriguez’s incredibly thin-skinned reaction to my article is that he has managed to rise to this status of apex visibility without any kind of critical writing about him at all.

edit: oops I see in your other comment you quoted that part!

What's more amazing to me is that the artist doesn't even seem to understand what a critic _does_ - like what is the critic doing? He's not "gatekeeping" (what gate? the artist is famous, getting rich, and has a gallery show!) and not jealous or a 'hater'.

Like I understand that artists traditionally dislike critics, for obvious reasons, but usually they know the purpose of criticism. As the author says he is trying to both put the art in context of other art and to consider how social media figures into the art.
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It's great Apple realized cutting down on ports makes zero sense. My MBP has only two thunderbolt ports. I can see the new MBP also has HDMI, SD, and even microjack. I can finally throw my dongles and hubs away. That's the end of an ugly era.
Uh, no. Insurance is paying for unlikely events, as it was said above. Greener area or not, you can still get run over by a car, event for which you definitely didn't pay. Or you house struck by lightning, or any such insurance cases might arise. The green area only affects the probability of such events, thus the tailoring.
What do you mean, Llama 70b at full precision will barely fit ;-)
Given how much money Apple has, this is simple profiteering. Something governments should look at and come at Apple hard, given this behaviour is inflationary.
Having an additional dedicated modifier key is night and day in terms of creating shortcuts.

I don't see how they're equivalent. F2 is vastly inferior to pressing the enter key to renaming a file. Alt + F4 to close a window as opposed to cmd + w.

Can you name shortcuts that are more convenient on Windows than on Mac?
Or they might develop a "cure" that gives you the hard work gene, or remove your crime gene...there are 2 ways of looking at this.
This reminds me of Wildstar. The MMO was intentionally dedicated to hardcore players, making progression nearly impossible for casuals. They were pretty smug about it as I recall. It eventually died, as there weren't enough players paying micro-transactions to keep the servers online.
> So. Tempted. Decent ports again, decent keyboard again

Maybe I'm missing something but both of those things are unchanged from the M2 model right? Maybe even the M1 MB Pro had the same as well, can't remember
There is also http://mmontag.github.io/dx7-synth-js/ which has a much more feature-complete FM synth, but likely use WASM, not pure JavaScript.
82 US cents per unit is pretty impressive, and about what I expected when I read 99% cost reduction. (accessibility tech is usually terribly expensive)

Still some room for improvement though.
Depends what you mean by progress, but the flourishing of the arts and music in Vienna was possible because of the patronage of the Habsburgs.
The direction is the other way though. And it is a one way relationship. It is not the same concept as "influencer" fans, unless the diety is alive of course.
This is a skewed view - the critical piece that made Linux "enterprise-ish" was the memory management system that was contributed by IBM, part of the SCO lawsuit
I randomly mentioned Wise problems to a friend and she immediately said "Oh wow I closed my account in the US and used them to transfer all the funds to Europe. They just 'lost' the transfer as it's now gone from my US account and is not credited to my Europe account and they will not help me find it'

They should report this to their local state attorney, or the state attorney where Wise is registered in the United States. Also, if the amount is small enough, she can sue them in small claims court.
I'll never understand the degree of unearned trust start-ups tendbto get. Whatever they do, they have the benefit of the doubt. You want to contribute to research? Find and participate in a study for which you are a match. In that case, data is annonymized, and tailored to a specific disease / drug development / whatever.

Sharing it, in a personalized manner, with a for-profit start-up without an alternative path to profitability is just so naive... Giving your DNA profile directly to the likes of GSK would be better.
> “I’m so fit that I can afford to expend valuable energy to show you how strong and robust I am compared with the other gazelles.”

Is this why humans dance?
Oh I didn't realize, thanks for pointing that out. I guess they'll have to rely on the new virtualization framework going forward.
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That’s not what it says. Actual quote:

> The 12-core CPU design has six performance cores and six efficiency cores, offering single-threaded performance that is up to 30 percent faster than M1 Pro.
Which makes sense as it does not sell there so it does not want to bother with non US laws.
I don't imagine the world to be a nice place. I think we're coming from different philosophical view points.

Murder is going to happen, I would say we should try and prevent it, not just accept that it is going to happen. Yes, that attempt will never be 100% successful, but that isn't a reason not to try and prevent murders to start with.
> Note that memory bandwidth is down. M2 Pro had 200GB/s, M3 Pro only has 150GB/s. M3 Max only has 400GB/s on the higher binned part.

just contrasting this with the recent TR4 announcements from AMD, apparently their PRO variants top (theoretically at least) at around 325GB/s (non-pro versions are half of this), so just from that perspective alone M3 Max's might be better ?

i always have the naive assumption here that keeping the-beast i.e. the cpu fed with data is much better for overall performance than just clock-rates etc.
pretty much this.

It's a consumer OS, same as Windows, designed to be as idiot-proof as possible and protect the user from making stupid mistakes. I'm not in that target market (though I still make a lot of stupid mistakes).

Neal Stephenson said it better: http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html
> It could be experts in the industry

There is nothing to suggest that these are experts. The names in question have been so focused on researching AI tech throughout their career that it is highly unlikely that they have any expertise in subject matter we are discussing. There is only so much time in the day.

I mean, they are clearly experts in AI technology, but that is unrelated to being an expert in social and humanitarian issues. That is a completely different field of study. There is no doubt someone out there who is an expert in that, but I don't think you will find overlap with expertise in AI systems. Again, there is only so much time in the day. It is not practical to dive that deep into different subjects like that at the same time.

Hinton, at least, seems to have backed away from AI to work on becoming an expert in social and humanitarian issues. Perhaps someday, with enough dedication, he will get there. But that journey only just began a few months ago. Becoming an expert doesn't happen overnight like that. It takes time.
I've always thought that's a bit weird. I think companies ought to be able to give the customer a choice of "paying" either by consenting to spying or by coughing up some cash.
Completely wrong. Every skill, no matter how useless, generalizes.

Competitive team games are the best examples. Playing them well requires internalizing the concepts of probability, teamwork, mindset, efficiency, dealing with failure, etc.

Those skills come quite in handy because life is a game. It's especially obvious when looking at human-created systems like capitalism and jobs.
Not a lawyer, but basically the website cannot distinguish whether a DNT setting was enabled by default or whether the user intended to set it so it really does not matter. It must be assumed that the user enabled the DNT setting.

Let's assume Aunt Agatha reads about the DNT setting in one of her magazines, goes to the browser settings, sees that it's enabled, takes no further action. That is no different from Uncle Ulysses who has a different browser with a DNT-disabled default who goes to the settings and enables its.

My letterbox has a sticker on it that I don't want to receive unsolicited ads. I don't need anyone to try to presume that it wasn't me who put that sticker onto my letterbox.
The company I'm currently at has changed its behavior after court/regulatory decisions regarding google analytics. We are now using a cookieless solution that respects DNT. I have no doubt that this would not have happened otherwise.

Still sad that our legal counsel didn't like the idea of self hosting web analytics (since then we'd become a data processor).
Isn't the craft part harder than the art part though? Far too much craftless art out there imo.
"Gattica" is a great movie that runs with this. The entire society is built on separation on DNA and designer genetics.
None of that seems new. What would be new is if both gmail and Yahoo provided any means of allowing legit bulk senders to actually send properly.

The one-click unsubscribe is from 2017's RFC8058. Everyone that's sending in volume is already doing all the usual stuff - DKIM, SPF, DMARC, matching reverse IPs, etc.

The privacy-first email marketing service I wrote (https://info.smartmessages.net) implements account-wide unsubscribe by default (unsubscribing you from one list unsubscribes you from all). It requires double opt-in, and asks for explicit consent before doing any tracking whatsoever (so no Google Analytics, no cookies, no trackers), which of course is what the (at least EU and UK) law requires. You're not going to see shitty exploiters like MailChimp doing anything like this; abusing your data is just too lucrative.

It's still ridiculously hard to deliver messages at any volume, and there is zero recourse when you are penalised incorrectly. Gmail's spam filtering is just dire - if I send myself an email from gmail, it goes into spam. A large proportion of the spam I receive is sent from gmail.

Google's postmaster tools are a joke. It's entirely normal for them to give you a "bad" spam rating when you have 0 spam reports, 0 auth failures, strict DKIM and DMARC, and every single message has double-opt-in audit trails. This useless feedback makes it very difficult for senders to actually comply with their ever stricter, but ever more opaque requirements.

Proving that subscribers actually want to receive messages from you its difficult. So back in 2017 I wrote an outline proposal https://github.com/Smartmessages/subscriptionproofrfc to create a standard, possibly built on top of DKIM keys, to provide provable subscriptions. This would pretty much solve the entire thing for legit senders, but of course the industry is not really interested in cooperation or complying with any law that might reduce the number of people they send to by even the tiniest amount.

/cynicalrant
I’m sure the difference is GPU.
Then you go back to your other devices and get it wrong there instead.
You are aware that Gathaca wasn't a blue print to follow, right?
Sometimes just a simple 403.
Strangely, this reminds me of a book on relationships I read.

It said that only when people were safe and secure in their relationship, were they able to speak freely and voice their true opinions.

Maybe this is similar. If people are financially and physically secure can believe things openly, even if they have little to do with reality.
She likes gossip?
> If the user installs a privacy-focused browser (NB: not sure if such things exist, marketing aside), one could argue that there is still user choice involved even though the browser sets DNT by default.

it doesn't need to be argued as the fact that the user did not disable the DNT option in such a browser is the action that matters.
I work in infosec as well and I have yet to even look into malicious pip packages (although I've seen malicious nuget packages), with the last curl vuln it was chaotic, telling people a lot of things actually use libcurl. Can you imagine if something like the requests or urllib package became compromised, absolutley no real way to manage the patching, projects using old versions of it will be forced to upgrade and every package that claims it needs a specific version will break, pure chaos!
For me the weirdest one was the comment:

> "What if he was your son??"

I mean ... what of it? It's the strange idea that the critic is 'attacking' the artist and making him feel bad for no reason. So this random stranger is trying to make the critic emphasise with the poor smol bean artist. It's very odd.
This does indeed preserve the console experience, basically this is the gist of it!

Making gaming competitive kills one more way to have fun (competitive gaming -> cheats -> anti cheat measures -> less fun for the casual).
Wow you've captured well the feelings I have looking at modern gaming very well. In the 2000s I played on servers and chatted with people for weeks, over time we learnt how each other played and formed cooperative teams and had our own in jokes. Kind of like HN. Your description of "modern gaming" to get up a global ladder highlights the near equivalence of social media firms, facebook etc. with their likes, fllowers and doom scrolling. It makes me slightly sad if kids don't have those communities today.
Only a fool would run Android if they can avoid it, even more so when you get the opportunity to switch architecture and go vanilla linux.

The one problem is banking, at least in Sweden we are still dependent on mobile BankID (for online purchases above $20 f.ex.), which only runs on iOS and Android.
OP used the word correctly. It doesn’t HAVE to mean specifically “it’s like being a North American slave in that exact period of history” or something.

define:enslaving (2): cause (someone) to lose their freedom of choice or action.
I'm using an M2 Air professionally for around a year now, it's excellent and it makes me seriously question why developers need macbook pro's.

The only limitation I notice is that I can only have a single external display.
If you are based in Europe, then open a regular retail bank account denominated in EUR and transfer your money. It seems simple enough. Then, you can stop doing business with Wise. If you are not doing "digital nomad" legally, then I have little sympathy for your situation.
That's pretty much where I am too. Using a Purism 13 laptop at the moment which is great but showing its age, and I don't think there's a processor upgrade path for it. So at some point in the next couple of years I'm getting a new laptop, and Framework is the leading contender at the moment, but the Apple chips are looking mighty tasty.
I just bought a Thinkpad T14S Gen3 after evaluating a bunch of notebooks.

Compared to my Macbook Air the Mac excels in a couple of areas which Thinkpad is lacking in. Like ambient light sensor, port quality (ie. how recessed the USB-C port is and how much strain it can take), audio output quality (Macs have powered headphone jacks for high impedance headphones) and of course speaker quality which on Macs is second to none.

The Thinkpad by comparison has poor quality speakers, no ambient light sensor so it doesn't auto adjust the screen or keyboard backlight. Its USB-C ports are also not very strong so the any strain on them or wiggle will cause them to disconnect - they certainly feel very fragile.

I hear the Thinkpad Z13/Z16 is more comparable to a Macbook but again it doesn't have little details like an ambient light sensor which seems an odd omission in a luxury laptop and price wise it's practically the same.

That said, the new AMD Ryzen 7840HS and 7940HS chips are pretty competitive with an equivalent Apple M2:

https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/amd-ryzen-9-7940hs

https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/mac14-15
This is the first time that I saw this blog and I've now read a bunch of those posts.
There is so much gold there, it's incredible.
So much is going wrong in all those companies, that it is just frustrating to be working in those.

A colleague of mine and me got the opportunity a while back to basically work as wanted to in one side project.
So we just worked truly agile, without any of the "Scrum" bs around it.
Everyone involved was blown away how successful it was in terms of implementation.
Two companies tried it before in the span of a year, and they didn't get it working at all.
We worked just some evenings and weekends outside of our full-time job over the span of six weeks, and we got 90% done, with everything essential included to be able to start working with it.
We then implemented everything else the customer wanted within the next weeks by following the same principles.
There were no problems at all (apart from the customer basically almost running out of money because they spent most of on the previous companies which couldn't deliver).

At my day job, the managers usually argue against anything we want to do, question every decision from our side, want to have regular big meetings with 16+ people to talk about everything at length until no one wants to do it anymore, and then micro-manage everyone to death.
We tried to at least keep these guys out of the daily by pointing to the Scrum guide where it says that only people working on tickets should participate, so one of these guys just created a bs task for himself, then talked every day about it for a lengthy amount of time without providing any real value at all.

I never got those silly shows before, which play in offices where everyone just acts silly and they never really work.
But now I know why they are so popular. They just provide comic relief for people who really have to work in those environments and it is really as bad as in the television shows, if not worse.
Ok thanks, I use Anki a lot for various categories so it sounds familiar :)

> With a controller you have tactile feedback and better ergonomics. Plus it's easier to stay focused if you're using the controller, since you won't just unconsciously swipe away into another app/window; all your buttons are bound to Anki actions, so unless you set the controller down, you're in Anki.

Thought that this could be the case :) maybe I'll give it a try someday
Wait telemetry is opt-out?

And I've never heard people complain?

Genuinely surprised as it seems to be quite a commonly controversial thing amongst devs.
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you can go only up so far the country court chain before you either lose or EU courts get involved.

If this goes to the Federal Court (BGH) in Germany they will "ask" the European Court of Justice for their interpretation of the applicable Union law (in this case the GDPR) and other national courts will take this precedent into account.

If LinkedIn does not appeal they will be required to follow the ruling. Even in this case it's not uncommon that national courts will look across the border.
Because lots of things are written in it, it has good library/tool support, is pretty performant, lots of developers know it, and it's good/flexible enough for most tasks.
So an occasional firmware upgrade is holding you back? If you install the guest drivers, windows is superfast under UTM.

The docker thing is nonsense if you're using orbstack for example.
While I agree mostly, you can overdo the "grug". For example it is possible to underengineer (underabstract?) a software for years until realizing that simple things are still complicated, and you forget to built good abstractions once the patterns have emerged.
If you build abstractions, you need a way to correct them anyway, making breaking changes to their contract.
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Or put another way: after reality is removed, beliefs can become insane.
If you do not count forcing the user to click "I reject" 9000 times as a problem.
This. Serving cryptic error codes over issues that do have a proper wording is a big no.
Yeah, but version 3. I have learned over the decades to not consider a new tech product until it hits v3 ;)
> through tough, thorough thought.

Neat example. What's also interesting is that it's hard to parse visually too, so it slows down reading.