skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am reminded that we are on a tech forum :) Do they need to capitalize, scale, open franchise clubs all over the world? Techno clubs are not about that at their best.

Door policy is discrimination only in the sense that the very few people at the door have to make a swift judgment on whether your group will fit in. Can this be upsetting? Sure!

> In Germany. Let me guess, they look at your ID to check your name and nationality first.

By this logic liquor stores in the US also discriminate based on person's nationality since they check the ID.

KitKatClub has a strict dress code policy for their sex-oriented events.
N95 masks work. We have a handful of studies of sufficient power behind them to show that.

There are a lot of studies that have insufficient power to prove that surgical masks "work". There are a few studies of sufficient power to show genuine improvement from surgical masks--generally in the cohorts with greater risks.

As far as I know, there are zero sufficiently powered studies showing that surgical masks don't work or have a negative effect.

"Cannot prove for all cohorts" does NOT magically mean "does not work". The fact that some studies show that the masks have a provable effect shifts the Bayesian prior significantly towards "likely positive effect but difficult to prove without expensive trial".

After all, surgeons started wearing masks long before Covid-19.
> The Matic also doesn’t look like the circular robot vacs we’re used to. With a square, squat white body, big wheels, and a vacuum head that extends out, it’s more Wall-E than Roomba

One of the best features of my (low) circular robot is that it can clean under my sofa, chests of drawers and beds as if they weren't there.
The idea makes sense to me. It's basically Emacs, but using Smalltalk instead of Lisp. Instead of using plain text to create your user interface, you have access to a built-in UI toolkit. That's very neat!

What's more interesting to me is the fact that the Glamorous Toolkit UI looks perfectly crisp on my M1 MacBook screen, whereas the Pharo IDE is a blurry mess because it doesn't support "retina" screens. If GT is built on top of Pharo, then why does Pharo still not support high DPI screens?
No I think it's more likely that he is using the Pomodoro method.
Unity is older than the Core runtime. They had to use Mono as their base.
I didn't get de-banked, but I had a similar wacky experience last year with Wells Fargo. I was buying a car from a guy in Salt Lake City. Not a terribly expensive car. I live in Montana but at the time I was physically in Northern California on a trip. I'd driven to SLC and looked at the car, met the seller, and done various things to ensure I knew his identity (e.g. he used his work email and he had a medium profile media job so was listed on his employers' web site with a picture). (for people in other countries: banks in the US make it impossible for regular people to electronically transfer money to someone else, at least not car-sized sums of money) So I initiated a wire transfer to the guy online. Note: his bank account, the wire destination was also a Wells Fargo account. A few minutes later I receive a call from a lady saying she is from Wells Fargo, asks if I initiated a wire. I say yes I did. She asks do I know the recipient. I say yes, and provide some background on how I know him, and how I know he's not a Nigerian Prince. I also mention that his account is at Wells Faro so if they have any concerns, why not pop open his records and check him out. She says that's all great, thanks, good bye.

<hours elapse> guy emails me asking if I sent the wire because it's not in his account. I say sure did, but let me check if the funds have departed my account.
This is when I discover that WF locked all my online account access. And of course they did not send the wire.

This whole mess took nearly the entire day to resolve and required me to go into a WF branch to prove I was myself. And when I did that the helpful WF manager I worked with ended up exasperated at the WF department that had locked my account. She said they ended up suspecting that she was a bad actor, even though she was calling on an internal line!

This all makes me suspect that in addition to bad ML filtering, banks also have plain moron/assholes working in their fraud departments.

(Yes I got the car eventually and my bank accounts back)
But gamedev usually means, all new faces teams, as the old one quits in lockstep. So it's very likely a bunch of youngsters running around yelling "premature optimization" is the death of all good things. Mistaking that with needing no optimization plan at all until game is almost done.
Conjecture internal survey: AGI timelines and probability of human extinction
At some point, everything is something no one asks for.
Streetcars/Trams can have a lot mote capacity than a bus.

Cities such as Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Constantine use 7 section Alstom Citadis trams, and there is even a 9 section version. Articulated buses stop at ~3 sections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alstom_Citadis
Kitkatklub dress code is wacky. They're insanely serious about it but it's easy to conform to. It's a costume party.

As to the other point, you can separate the process to avoid the kind of blanket discrimination I think we can all agree is unethical. I bet they don't make the slightest effort. It's probably one guy that checks your ID and says yes/no and one guy that takes money. It could be 3 instead of 2 to avoid, just to be crazy, saying no to all the Jewish names, but it's not.

Next time I'm in Berlin, I'll try to remember to take a clicker with me and stand outside the place. I bet you'll start to notice a few interesting patterns that America has quite a few laws against. I've only heard them to be extremely proud of their bias so I'd be surprised if you didn't start seeing just classic discrimination because that's what humans appear to naturally do unless they work really really hard at it or have some structures to prevent it.
> Somehow somewhere along the way we as a society decided we were ok with criminalizing the types of transactions that can be used to hide crime.

It’s not criminalized. If it were, you’d go to jail instead of just having your account closed.

The real problem is that politicians made banks liable if an account is used for laundering, so naturally banks terminate accounts that look suspicious in order to avoid getting fined.
Yeah, I understood after reading your other comments.
But how often could that happen? I thought derailments are very rare in modern trains.
Long term, higher productivity is inevitable. That means more cameras on buses identifying bus lane violations, and cameras in random places identifying obscured plates, no plates, or stolen plates. Ya, we have this tech already, it’s used in some countries…but the USA will be slower to adopt it (but it’s inevitable). People’s labor is just getting too dear, and so we need to up productivity to compensate. For police, this could also be a win against police abuse/corruption, since the machines are unlikely to at least abuse their power.
Must be nice when your sole customers are nation-states and 3-letter agencies. Better B2B than B2B (or should it be called something else... N2B — nation-to-business?)
There's a really good Unsung Science podcast about a program related to this: https://wondery.com/shows/unsung-science/episode/12810-what-...
I've written software for decades and didn't find it very difficult at all to pick up HDLs conceptually. The idea that you're writing a circuit that all executes in parallel is really not a difficult one.

The biggest issues are really:

1. The tooling is generally awful. Open source tooling is very primitive and not usable. Commercial tooling is unaffordable to hobbyists. There are a couple of exceptions:

a) Vivado which I haven't used extensively but seems fairly nice. Unfortunately the FPGAs it works with are not cheap.

b) I discovered that Intel provides a free version of ModelSim. I've used Questa a lot (the "pro" version of ModelSim more or less; their branding is confusing) and it's great.

It also doesn't help that all the tools use TCL which is also awful.

2. SystemVerilog is just a really bad, ancient language. It wasn't even designed for synthesising ASICs, let alone FPGAs! You're writing a simulation of an ASIC, and then some other tool tries to infer how it should run that simulation on an FPGA. It's a completely bonkers system.

It's not just the system that is bonkers. The language is too. Implicit casts all over the place, undefined values as part of the language (though not in Verilator!), multiple assignment types, ridiculously flexible array indexing.

Maybe VHDL is better... but unfortunately SystemVerilog won the language war in the ASIC space so that's what I know.

It also doesn't seem like we'll get a replacement any time soon. You'd need buy-in from the big vendors otherwise debugging will always be a total nightmare.

Though it would be nice if there was something like Typescript for SystemVerilog - something that fixed all the very rough edges and footguns but didn't change the code so much that debugging is painful.
I certainly benefitted from both.

But history does not support experiments, so one cannot say whether something else would have been as profitable.

Staying married, going to college, living modestly, and working hard used to be the ticket.

These days, going to HVAC school or being an electrician or plumber might be preferred.

College seems to have become a dodgy choice, and one can always pick up coding on the side.
> In the end, the problem is capitalism.

surely, it is the underlying economic system ruining the art of modern video game development!
How much do you pay to use this site Freeloader?
"Relaxed with fences" is not always what the hardware implements. ARMv8 [1] provides straight-up load-acquire and store-release instructions, matching C++.

[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102336/0100/Load-Acq...
Wise was reliable and cheap up until October when they cancelled all the business debit cards and changed all business account/ routing numbers, both with a 2 day heads up. There’s no way to pay any of the bills that require debit/credit cards, so I just had to get a brick and mortar account. Wise said they’re “working hard” on getting to issuing new debit cards, but can’t give any sort of timeline.

I’ve moved the majority of my money out since it feels like they might fold soon, there’s just a lot of things on autopay with that account so it’s kind of a hassle to move everything off.
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The Soviet Union produced some of the best video games!!
But that doesn't directly relate to the verifiability of milliForth itself. An extremely shortened code can be harder to verify, for example it may work as intended unless a very specific input is used to break out of its sandbox (so to say). Bootstrapping needs a short and readable enough seed for that reason, and I can't be entirely sure that it is indeed the case for milliForth.
That forth system is also where Device Trees originated. Parts of the Linux kernel driver interface show that heritage in the naming conventions, OF_* == OpenFirmware.
Depends on what you mean by tech culture. That could be anything from IPA snob brewpubs to ML meetups at Goog or Meta or unaffiliated gatherings at Ihop to working 60 hours a week at Palantir or Tesla or Nv.
The peninsula is close enough to SF and PAMTVSVALE. Rents in the area are a human rights abuse as always.
You could read the final paragraphs of the article, which has some suggestions.
> “Whenever his facts are broadly correct, they are not new, and whenever he tries to strike out on his own he often gets things wrong, sometimes seriously,” the anthropologist wrote in a scathing review […] When a computer scientist sees that Mark Zuckerberg is calling not him, but Harari, to consult on the effects of technology on humanity, he’s understandably mortified, just as an epidemiologist likely is, when he finds out that UNESCO has asked Harari about the effects of Covid on international scientific cooperation. For a long time now, Harrari hasn’t been a simple essayist: he has become the Oracle of Delphi.

There was a post here the other day titled “A blog post is a long and complex search query to find people”. [0]

Well, perhaps a book is a long and complex motivation letter to get public speaking engagements and a career promotion.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38137377
I did say slightly more capacity? A tram in bern has a bit more capacity than an electric caterpillar bus used in Lausanne. They aren’t doing many 7 section trams in Bern because much if their routes aren’t completely grade separated. I’ve actually never seen a 7 section tram anywhere, including Paris…a new thing?
China and Japan also have numerical stock tickers, e.g. Sony's ticker 6758 instead of e.g. SONY.

I guess numeric IDs like that were a consequence of early tech making it hard to deal with more complex character sets ... maybe the association lives on in those cultures?

There's also deeper associations with numbers like 8 representing luck, 4 meaning death etc.
That sounds very familiar. As someone with ADHD when I get hyperfocused I can completely loose track of time. It’s a large part of why many ADHDers struggle with being on time to things.

However it can be great for getting into the flow programming.
I was just asking you to define your terms but I understand it's flowery language.
Well, this happened in 2017.. fast forward to this account closure effect on my life:

I had to go back to my country, without a degree, was not able to land any job. Unfortunately, good places require degrees. Stayed unemployed, hit with chronic depression as anyone would. Lost 4+ years of professional progress. When covid came, i was able to complete my degree online and graduated in 2021, but because all fresh grad programs require a certain age; i did not qualify. Was able to finally land a good job in 2023.

This issue needs a resolution, what happened to me might not happen to everyone, i know my situation is different. but financial institutions should be held responsible for actions like this, imagine someone else who needs to pay for his/her medication...
Fake news aside, this article features the politician Chen Chih-Chung, who is currently serving his one year sentence on charges of money laundering. Satire much?
It's an emotionally charged topic, so the up and downvotes are going to be flying around everywhere.

Yours is probably the most practical response. The technology isn't going away, and in all likelihood it is going to get more and more refined and better, faster than we think.

It's conceivable that in 5-10 years, there will exist software that anyone can run on a commodity PC or phone, that produces high-definition media of any target person doing or saying anything that the software user can dream up. The technology isn't just going to disappear. So it's up to society to figure out how it is going to deal with that reality.

Asking me what I would think if someone produced an AI nude porno of me or one of my family is irrelevant. If someone for wanted to make it, it would get made regardless of what anybody thought about it. So how do we respond?
Single as in Not Married, with no kids. Not like a single person colonizing a continent.
One person can make a house, not a nation.
If he was doing (1) that would preserve his integrity. Sure he’d get flack, but his position would be consistent.

Maybe Tesla had to use the tax money for competitive reasons and under investor pressure, and Musk personally disagrees with the general system of government handouts. Ok I’ll buy that but I haven’t heard such a nuanced take from him.
Microsoft has a now an hybrid format for ARM/x64, Arm64EC.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/arm64ec

Besides Windows NT has been designed and used for multiple architectures for years, Windows CE and Pocket PC were not the only ones with ARM support, Windows IoT and the original Windows 8 WinRT tablets did as well.

The biggest issue is lack of incentives, for most business there is no ROI to install ARM compilers alongside x64 for .NET and C++ toolchains, and yet another set of architectures to debug on, and take into consideration.

It is as you say, unless they behave like Apple or Google, imposing a transition, most of those companies won't care.

They have recently putted out a kind of ARM porting help center, but I doubt it will make any impact.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/10/16/window...
Doritos creates technology to 'silence' its crunch
Photorealistic fakes in particular only became a thing after the invention of photography. For something to be fake, you need the "real" counterpart that is assumed to be taken from reality and not just fantasized.
ha, learn something new everyday. Hadn't run across the --compressed option before.
Well, you can also be a "tourist" as a German visiting Berlin. And be treated as such.

I think speaking English in itself was never a problem to get in. But of course the tourist vibes get stronger if the person doesn't know the "definition of cool" that is expected and appreciated in that particular club.

Take this example [1] of a tourist they probably let in by accident and regretted it. :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy9GregPIA4
Mechanical and mechatronics design engineer here.

The complexity isn't in the manufacturing of the gears. It was extremely difficult back then, easy now.

The challenge is in the design. Even with today's advanced CAD software I use and access to CNC machines, etc. It would be quite the project for me to design one of these. A lot of it is that much of the real in depth complicated mechanical engineering isn't super common anymore, much of it has been replaced with electronics and computers. I've made a good niche for myself kind of being the old school mechanical engineer who knows how to design those old school type mechanisms, but with modern CAD and design automation software tools.
I've been using an ARM Windows machine as a daily driver (when I'm traveling) for a year. I do that because it has much better battery life than any similar Intel machine, and it has integrated 4G.
This checks out for 13 years ago. Not sure it's the same today.
That is not the issue, rather convincing the Windows developer community to actually care about ARM.

Traditionally Microsoft isn't like the others (Apple/Google), "take this or go away", which is why they became so big for enterprises in first place.
True, but we are talking about American trains.

Edit: https://youtu.be/7Ao-24274Jw

This example is not in Montana, but apparently minor derailings are a thing. And the cars that are not derailed don't really look much better.
huh?

I'm no crypto fanatic, but I call plenty of things a "space". It's basically a synonym for niche?
Disabling interrupts is a privileged operation (you need IOPL for the ability to execute the cli or sti instructions). Atomics can work even outside of privileged code.

Otherwise you could from any user program disable interrupts and give the operating system no chance to take back control. Xadd, cmpxchg, bts, btr and btc are all prefixable with lock to make them atomic.
Cutler is still there :)
I have no interest in whether crypto should be taxed based on value or the colour of the sky or anything.

I think I do now understand the point you're trying to make, which is that should you be taxed on your holdings of a commodity for simply holding them? Let's talk about something different - pebbles say, since crypto is so loaded. Do you think that changes the discussion?

That's a question I have no opinion on. It's just political. That said, tax has always been about taxing something that is valued by the tax payer not the tax recipient, so I see no inconsistency with a state saying they don't value pebbles but still taxing people based on their holdings of it.
EA were the culprit for those delays by forcing bioware to use frostbite. Blame rests solidly with some synergies savings suitsuperman.
Hard numbers are always going to lag behind opinion.
Sounds like you're dissatisfied with your current marriage. I'd look at addressing that problem first.
I don't fully follow the anecdata in this article. They mention that Berghain had to raise its cover charge to "deal with rising costs" (understandable, considering the inflation), not that they have fewer patrons.
Walmart does have banking.

https://www.consumerreports.org/banks/is-banking-at-walmart-...

"At its more than 4,600 in-store MoneyCenters, as well as online, millions of customers have access to basic, low-cost banking services, including the ability to withdraw cash, make deposits, and pay bills."
* It takes practice.

* Stop thinking in terms of classes/composition/modules. Stop crying about how hard life is, putting text to screen, and making excuses that somebody or some framework isn’t doing it for you. Get your head right.

* First, get cozy with the DOM. It’s a tree model, like a file system. This is the compile target of the browser. If this a bridge too far then thrown up your hands and just give up.

* Second, most, but not all of, CSS properties cascade down the tree. Practice will make this knowledge muscle memory.

* Third, learn the box model. This is tiny and should become second nature. Super tiny, so no excuses here.

That’s it. Really. Again, if this is a bridge too far maybe rapid experimentation in the browser is something you should out source at 6 figures or you could just spend a week learning it.
It been long since I have stopped following grsecurity, but I would not be surprised if segment registers are still used (e.g. Pax UDEREF)

https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3046

https://pax.grsecurity.net/docs/PaXTeam-H2HC12-PaX-kernel-se...
Yeah but like we used to come for the sound, not a light show.
The article makes a clear argument and the points can be discussed. I think John Mearsheimer's analysis is more accurate overall, but there are certainly blind spots there too.

And they are not mutually exclusive. Russia is imperial and Russia feels threatened.

Fortunately, I'm only following this from afar, but it's not nice to watch the disaster take its course. I found Mearsheimer's gloomy forecast from 2015 convincing.

I don't know the neocon milieu personally, but I really question their moral integrity. Always propagating escalations and wars that you lose afterwards.OK, if you get paid for it.
It's not about which one is safer.

At this point we have a deep understanding of what can go wrong in a PWR or BWR, with part of this knowledge deriving from accidents (TMI and Fukuahima) and smaller incidents.

And we've developed a significant amount of mitigations and operators training to cope with these potential failures.

Doing the same thing for breeder isn't trivial at all.

I studied nuclear engineering ( before changing path in 2011 due to Fukushima) with one of my teacher having worked on SuperPhénix, and my wife is a nuclear engineer specializing in accident scenarios and operators training at EDF, so I'm actually pretty familiar with the topic.
100%!

I've made a little niche for myself as a mechanical and mechatronics design engineer who has one foot in the old world and knows how to design these types of complex old school mechanisms but with modern CAD and design automation tools. Much of the old world mechanical engineering stuff has been lost in the last few decades and digging it up and finding uses for it in my career is a passion of mine.
Agreed. I don’t know go. So I still don’t understand what this is trying to solve