skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I understand this is about assigning GPU resources (such as register files and other on-core memory) to shaders. Imagine you have a complex shader that has two paths, a frequently taken fast one that needs X bytes of on-chip memory to function and a rarely taken slow path that needs Y bytes (Y > X). Usually this stuff is statically partitioned, so you have to provision Y bytes for the slow path to run this shader. With dynamic partitioning, the shader will only allocate Y bytes if the slow path is hit, which frees the resources to load up more concurrent shader programs and improve the shader occupancy.

This stuff is only really relevant if you are dealing with complex uber-shaders and recursive function invocations, both of which are fairly common in raytracing pipelines.
i think c++ has the crown for longest very popular language
Yes it does, EU considers GDPR to apply internationally and "European user" is defined in such a way that it includes people physically outside the EU.
An aside, but I doubt that he got many hate messages literally via Facebook. After all only boomers (defined as anyone over 30) use Facebook these days.
Ask whom, though? It's usually really time consuming to determine that nobody is using something, and difficult to get permission. Hence in so many of these hero stories, the critical work is done without permission.

This morning on bluesky I saw a story of a very hasty onprem-to-cloud migration that was facilitated, and accelerated, by the rising floodwaters drowning the premises.
Ask HN: What is a subscription, software or product that you gladly paid for
What is a subscription, software or product that you gladly paid for?

For me it would be a premium rice cooker, Fastmail and Studio One (a DAW).
If you need nuanced behavior, you need a complex controller. And you always need more nuanced behavior, this is the inherent nature of software development. Sometimes the appearance of simplicity is achieved by making the behavior simpler (e.g. dropping the support for old versions, not implementing parts of the specification, and so on). This is degradation, not simplicity. The right simplicity is an art of having the required complexity yet somehow manage it internally. So complexity is not bad. It is given. What is deficient is our skill.
We must live in a different world. I’ve been reading articles for years about Tokyo house prices being a huge problem, and that young people are depressed and checking out because they see no way to climb the ladder in Tokyo. A quick Google search confirms I’m remembering correctly. Tokyo has the same real estate issues as any major western city.
>global wealth distribution gets worse

It's got hugely better over the last 30 years (poor countries vs rich) and I see no signs of the trend reversing.
The Halloween peppermints that poisoned Bradford
I presume, they use AI for that.
Let's do Microsoft next.
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https://devowl.io/wordpress-real-cookie-banner/ has an option described as: "Users can set the "Do not track" HTTP header in their browser to indicate that they do not want to be tracked. If you enable this option, users will be able to access your website with this HTTP header without a cookie banner, if there are no non-essential services that are used based on legitimate interest. Only the non-rejectable services will be used in the case."

geizhals.de shows a message that it honored DNT, but in the ideal case you don't even see it.
iDrive for backup. Digital Ocean for hosting.
There are aplenty of people who don’t believe technology has in any way benefitted humanity, some CS folks themselves even.
The same reason we put 2-3 of them in the same letterbox or we trashed some packs at the end of a street (yeah I did that back in the '90s as a teenager). To work less and earn the same.
In practice, "Keine Werbung" means "No advertisements except for moving services". These are the only ones that don't give a shit.
I bought a cheap Windows crapbook just to run the two Windows-only apps that I need (terrible apps for alarm systems and photovoltaic inverters).

Apple Silicon laptops are so much better than Intel-based machines, there is really no comparison.
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So I'm a bit out my field here but I've been wondering...

Is there something that prevents AI software from augmenting VRAM with system RAM? My impression was that for instance OpenGL doesn't even have a standard way to get VRAM usage because you're not supposed to care, stuff is just shuffled around in the background for you if VRAM runs out.
DT's persona isn't a feel-good wholesome diverse kid but a wrathful temple cleanser.
What makes iDrive stand out compared to other options?
Kinda useless at times. I eat hot sauces and hot chilis but can't stand normal green pepper in cream sauce :P (I like it, but it feels as spicy to me as habaneros).

Also what about Wasabi and horseradish? Scoville is good for chilis and hot sauce products with a rating.
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Saying "complexity bad" without giving a definition of complexity is not very meaningful. In reality it means "I'll use my personal judgement and anything I don't like will be marked as complexity".

Rich Hickey gave his own practical definition of complexity and followed it in his design, and sometimes the results are very unintuitive. For example, transducers in Clojure are actually simple (by his definition) because they de-couple transformation from the context. Also, by his definition HTMX approach (aka PJAX, aka HTML-over-the-wire) would be more complex then JSON + client side rendering, because it couples together multiple things: network, routing and rendering.
Meaning sitting under house arrest all the time?
I like this post. It rings true with me. One trend I have noticed in my life: If people grew up under difficult circumstances, it seems to sap their grit (ability to grind). They mostly give up more easily. However, at 1-5% of those can turn the difficult circumstances into a super power and "out grind" anyone. It is weird how it happens.
Microsoft still releases majority of games for Windows.

Sony buying them would be much larger problem.
King's English and Cockney replaced by three new accents, study finds
I work in the industry and I’ve never heard of spalling with relation to stainless steel fasteners. The effect that happens with stainless steel fasteners is galling, when there’s enough friction in 2 mating fasteners of similar material to break through the surface oxide layers and the mating threads weld together.

Lubrication helps but in aerospace there’s typically requirements to use dissimilar materials for screws and female threads. The dissimilar material can be a coating but I think they’d probably avoid unnecessary materials in this case and use (for example) titanium screws and inconel threaded inserts. Any mechanical engineer at NASA and its vendors knows this and it’s covered in detail in the NASA fastener handbook.
Hayao Miyazaki comes to mind.

Think "Studio Ghibli" if you don't know who I mean. And if you don't know that, watch some of his movies.
I doubt any of his tribespeople would have read it anyway. After all, it was not in the form of aTikTok or Instagram post.
Or to apt out.
We use Lambda monolith usually with a Lambda containing an entire REST JSON API node.js server.
It works very well.
I feel one of the reason why Lambda did not gain fast market traction is because all the initial tutorials focused on having an endpoint for each lambda, which is actually a special optmization edge case that can come later.

Services like Vercel just wrap the Lambda and indeed deploy an entire server to the Lambda and gained a lot of users this way.
Lambda Monolith are good replacement to the old Heroky dynos.
Lambda monolith are super cheap for B2B SaaS startups with little traffic
Good example to illustrate my point - coldest of the continent, best developed (still going to shit lately).
You’re basically just saying to locals what part of LA you’re from, but everybody knows LA is basically considered the whole county of LA (and yes, Calabasas is also part of LA County). I’ve lived in Calabasas and I always considered myself to be living in LA.
Indeed and Facebook is now doing this with Threads - "you can't use Threads in EU because we hate how they make it hard for us to sell your essence to the highest bitter" (hyperbole)
I am aware of my accent, but getting e.g. vowel colours exactly right is just too much work for too little gain. What would be the advantage to matching a specific dialect exactly? I'm not a spy trying to pass as a native.

On rare occasions that it matters, for instance for a play or for a song where people would notice a wrong accent, I can work to get it right on those particular words. It's a lot of work, but it's still easy compared to getting to the point where you do everything without thinking.
> And those who do have the app can disable Amazon emails

No you can't, that is the point that is being discussed.
As someone who just yesterday also went through the exercise of (finally) understanding how to package with pyproject.toml, I empathize with the author and agree with a few painpoints he mentioned. Namely the confusion caused when opening some pages in https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/ and seeing references to a number of soon to be deprecated tools and approaches to packaging, as though they still have a place in the horizon. It's especially frustrating because the website is versioned, so you would expect a deliberate use of deprecation warnings and clear recommendations to migrate to new approaches and tools. I opened that website with the understanding that pyproject.toml is the future and setup.py is out. Instead, I still saw pages where the two are treated as though they will coexist for a while.

Having said that, the author also sounds like he's ranting a bit. He seems to insist in finding specifically how to work the way setup.py used to, but without setup.py, instead of just learning how to use pyproject.toml. While learning the new way of doing something, how it replaces the old way is usually self-evident. The (official) tutorial he eventually lands on (https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/tutorials/packaging-p...) is actually a pretty good primer. Without previously knowing what hatchling, build, twine, or even pyproject.toml was, I was able to quickly understand their purpose. From clicking a few other links on the side bar, I understood that packaging is done with tools that present a frontend and interact with a backend. Sometimes a tooling set provides both. Hatch seems to be the frontend of one such project, while Hatchling is the backend.
As ever when new models come out I fully spec'd one out on the UK store. 128GB M3 Max, 8TB SSD. £6999 14", £7299 16". Ouch
It's not copyrightable. It's trademarkable. Completely different thing.

Just about every rule is different. E.g. anyone can copy trademarks as much as they like as long as they are using them to describe the actual trademarked thing.
Considering the likely quality of those - or actually the lack of it - I would wish to have J.T. Sexkik (of "pregananant" fame) read some of them.
> A survey from YouGov found that Americans in the highest income category were by far the most supportive of defunding the police.

> They can afford to hold this position, because they already live in safe, often gated communities. And they can afford to hire private security.

This isn't what defund the police was about at all and is just a strawman to stop inquisitions into the actual point of the defund the police movement.

> In the United States, "defund the police" is a slogan that supports removing funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defund_the_police

Defund the police was never a anarcho communist feel good movement despite what articles like this will guide you believe.

That said, the slogan was slightly ambiguous so it was absolutely destroyed in the "marketplace of ideas". Apparently defunding the police actually means get rid of the police entirely. I guess the slogan had to be "decrease the budget, not entirely remove it just less money, for the police and move that money into other prevention and treatment methods for community support".
It took me until I was 30 to learn that Brits spell enroll as enrol.
> (..) it seems like an entirely reasonable question to ask of someone on a forum which is largely comprised of computer and programming enthusiasts who has not upgraded their daily driver for nearly a decade.

Are professionals expected to mindlessly throw money around at the new shiny without having absolutely no compelling reason to do so?

I think my post was rather straight-forward: people buy things only when they feel there is a clear upside to it. If you made that purchase 2 or 3 or 4 years ago, you need a very good reason to just throw it away and buy a new replacement. You need to at least make a valid case for it, otherwise you are just wasting your hard-earned money for nothing at all.

> Every single person who spends their money on "the new shiny" has a reason.

Why was OP framing that question on whether no reason was needed then, and instead people had to justify why weren't they wasting their money on the new shiny? Why is being new and shiny such a strong rationale that the onus of not buying is placed on not buying?

These are simple questions. In fact, all it would take is provide a single compelling reason why it would be a good idea to waste money on a M3 Macbook Pro when you already own a M2/M1 Macbook Pro, or even a late 2010s Macbook Pro. Hell, why on earth would you even waste money on a M3 Macbook Pro if you already have a M2 Macbook Air?

If you cannot answer this question, why would it be anything than absolutely foolish to pretend that people should justify not buying a M3?
Or packages' need to support more than one version of Python.
I completely agree with you. As a developer working with containers; Linux is the only viable option.
> to make an obscure point which only tech nerds care about.

You’re making some huge assumptions here, as if people are on some kind of wild protest.

I don’t use Facebook just like I don’t own a boat or go to church. It’s not valuable to me, so I don’t do it.
More often than not it's other people putting the information on the internet. Celebrities and politicians already have had to deal with this but at least had some compensation/resources to deal with it. We need some protections or else existing in public spaces will become only viable for the rich. For everyone else you'll be 'caught' picking your nose in the sidewalk and then be fired from your restaurant job or whatever. Not to mention the ramifications for public protest.
so that someone else can decide that if you don't have that hard work gene you are unhealthy and need to be "cured"? Nice dystopia.
I've seen this play out for reals at a place a few years ago. Every team used a different tech, and all of them selected because of resume-driven development. People moving teams to get a particular tech on their resume. No common method for deployment, and endless issues getting things deployed. Everyone's a newbie because we were all learning a new, cool, stack. And everyone making stupid newbie mistakes.

Never again. When I build teams forevermore, I pick the tech stack and I recruit people who know that tech stack, or want to learn that tech stack. And we stick to that tech stack whenever possible.
Were they going to share their profits if they had made it? Didn't think so.
I have no idea if this still works, and it probably wouldn't work for a school, but 15-20 years ago the way to get Yahoo to stop blocking your emails was to call up your ad rep and say something like "Why the heck should we keep spending $10000/month buying ads on Yahoo when any new customers we get from those ads that use Yahoo email end up pissed off at us and maybe even charge back because it looks like we are completely ignoring them because they don't see our emails????".

That would get you added to a "never block mail from this domain" whitelist that had higher precedence than everything else.
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Yeah I can imagine that’s an incredibly niche setup. Maybe if you were editing on the go or similar, but even then, TB drives seems like a more pragmatic choice.
This is fantastic, and I hope it stands up on the presumably inevitable appeal. It's the most obvious way of eventually getting rid of per-site cookie notices - make DNT legally enforceable and cookie notices become irrelevant for people who have it switched on. I run an agency that builds websites for non-profits and we respect DNT by not tracking and not even displaying the cookie notice. The only thing I've wondered about is whether we show a one-off notice saying "we note your DNT setting and we've disabled tracking" just because I wonder if users become suspicious that we're tracking them by default if they don't see a cookie notice!
Does this prediction work well for others? For me it hovers between 48-51% so basically a coin flip...
Tell that to the trans people I've met who were physically beaten and mentally abused by authoritarian parents, unable to move out or find secure housing due to burnout, mental health disabilities, and a lack of aid or sustainable jobs, in both Western and third-world countries.
You are right, this isn't real. It's an 'alternate reality corporation'.
This is an excellent step towards more control for consumers/users. Next step should be DNT disable all cookie popups and assume that only essential cookies are acceptable.

Speaking of, I am expecting DNT to reset to disabled silently on next release of chrome. So people forget about it and tracking is allowed.
How I wish it was
"Auto-fire is trivial to detect, as is a KBM setup where it doesn't belong"

[..]

"if they cared to disallow them after only a few minutes of profiling the player."

Definitely not trivial and a gross over simplification. It will create a whole bunch of grey area's and endless tweaking. Which in turn will lead to people getting unfairly banned. Meaning Microsoft will then need to investigate these cases to unban them.
Yeah, that's kind of surprising, given that Apple is often hailed as a privacy champion.
> People have never bought Apple because of the hardware.

Actually, a lot of people do. Here's one famous example [1], and I also know people in my network who love their MacBooks for the hardware.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/linus-torvalds-uses-...
My bad, I missed that specification. I would agree with them, it would be nice if you could pay more for a MacBook Air with multiple external display support.
Up until the most recent Intel gen, Ryzen has been the clear leader in both battery life and integrated graphics, blowing Intel away. Pretty much any internet forum will advise you to buy AMD for the T series.
> sue the first two, get $$$. This is textbook discrimination

Ah but they did no wrong! They just licensed the AI du jur that functions pretty much like a black box, but just so happens to feed on multiple sources of data from dozens of data brokers. One of those brokers aggregates data from other brokers, including DNA data from DNA services.

Meanwhile, all the recruiter saw was "37% match" before reading your resume and moved on.
AFAIK Gmail downloads and caches all images server-side the moment it receives the email, then replaces them with cached versions when viewing. The only thing this tells you is that the address exists, not that anyone opened your email, which you already know since the email wasn't rejected.
> Heh, I recall seeing many posts arguing against benchmarks (...)

It's one thing to argue that some real-world data might not be representative all on itself.

It's an entirely different thing to present no proof at all, and just claim "trust me, bro" on marketing brochures.
That barrier to entry will definitely come down over time.
I have the same one and it’s neigh unusable. The memory is constantly maxed out and it freezes frequently while swapping. I can’t use it. It’s in a drawer somewhere.
Many of Windows games block Steam Deck linux distro to "preserve experience" and "prevent cheating".
And that's how you sow disinformation.

Wiping countries off maps.

Israel is getting the Taiwan approach.
So you’ve never encountered a situation where going against the grain, even if for completely good reasons, fails? I know I’ve been in that place more than once.

GP was only saying that going with the herd is most of the time a more successful strategy, and even if I don’t follow it, I’m not blind to my selection bias to say it doesn’t. As he stated, it wouldn’t have been selected otherwise.
https://archive.md/pFLaC
Suppose that you download (or transfer to Dropbox) all your photos on Google Photos. Now you want to delete them from the Google service. How are you supposed to do this? To delete photos in the web app, you have to literally click on each individual one to select it. There appears to be literally no way to mass select all your photos to remove them from Google Photos. The Google answer to thousands of people apparently asking how to do this is "you can use the storage management tools to remove some types of files". That is the Google wizard which helps you remove large files, blurry photos, etc.
Call out falsehoods when you see them. What "lies" do "scientists" tell in your considered opinion?
This saves so much of my time.
Its on the release linked. 15% faster than m2 for P-cores and 30% for e-cores, which is misleading, because it has 2 more of them so they're not necessarily that much faster.

For me, still on m1 is good news, one more generation I can skip without feeling too much FOMO. Graphics improvement are irrelevant since im not gaming on them and cpu difference is fine for being just <40% overall.
GDPR specifies tracking to be necessarily default-off and opt-in anyways. Therefore the browser sending DNT:1 by default would just repeat the legal status quo. A tracker could not successfully argue that this is to be ignored, because the technical default that the browser sends is the legal default anyways.
Girls' supposedly innate disadvantage over boys in spatial skills disappears after they play video games.
> legit bulk senders

Now who could you mean by those.

> The privacy-first email marketing service I wrote

Oh right, spammers.