skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there might be a few problematic ideas in you comment

1. that the people using it [the more harmful roundup] pay the price

2. that the people making the decision to provide more harmful roundup for a high "short" term profits will be penalized in any way

3. that it wouldn't take many years before the more harmful roundup is banned/court rule it to be dangerous

4. that it would increase the development of new farming methods and research into different classes of chemicals

I think given how messed up things are there is a realistic choice a company would push a (under the hand) know more harmful alternative to gain huge short term profit in hope that when court ruling come in they still made a net benefit or at least the people which did the decision back then and now have left the company do.

I mean best example for this would be Teflon pans, long term known to be harmful in many ways but still pushed en mass because they know even with any penalties or damages they might pay it's likely still a huge profit (it was). Then once things went to bad the replaced it with a different chemical composition which supposedly is safe now but is in practice way less researched then what Teflon was made from (or glyphosat). In the end the made a huge profit became marked dominant and the harm done is just a food note forgotten in history.
>Something as common as a combobox (a textbox + dropdown, ideally with autocomplete) is still a pain to implement, requiring understanding positioning, anchoring, z-indices, scrollbars (and how they're different across operating systems), media queries, word-wrapping, box sizing, etc. And that's just the CSS side.*

Or you can just use one of the 20000 available such components. A combobox is a pain to implement in native code without a GUI library too.
TLDR: Major flooding, riots, earthquake, asteroid, nuke goes off in Portland and Cloudflare is down because they decided they could put their entire control infrastructure in a single location for ease of use.

Centralising the web is such a great move.
This looks really interesting. But that might be because I'm unsure of something: is this somehow a browser based proxy? Or just a way to securely generate wireguard configurations? I'm unclear but I'm always interested in wireguard or tailscale tools. I'm using headscale with a lot of success.
If you want to understand Kant in the language of (self-supervised) machine learning, I can highly recommend this rather astonishing PhD thesis:

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~re14/Evans-R-2020-PhD-Thesis.pdf
This reminds me of my favourite quote about standards.

>The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

And, keeping with the theme, this quote may be from Grace Hopper, Andrew Tanenbaum, Patricia Seybold or Ken Olsen.
InstaLOD is only used in the asset pipeline. I haven't seen any references to real-time use. Haven't found any evidence of real-time decimation either.

To be clear there are LODs, but only for some of the meshes.
I don't think this was meant to be a scholarly explanation, and the author hints as much at the end of the post.

Kant was my main focus (now some time ago), and I thought this was a reasonable explainer for an audience that probably hasn't read much metaphysics.
> Sounds like the problem is engineers aren't accountable for quality. Rather than prescribing a solution, these leaders should make sure incentives are correct in their organization.

A low effort management practice is to make engineers move fast at the expense of quality.

An even lower effort practice is to then turn around and hold engineers accountable for the choices made by management in the first place.
No problem whatsoever.
The best comment I’ve read in HN for a really long time.
Then they can literally write "Soda additive BVO linked..." and the headline has the same meaning. Everyone who knows what BVO is can decide for themselves if they're interested, everyone who didn't can still click to find out what this mysterious "BVO" is.

There room for 3 characters and a space in that headline. The only reason not to do that is to get clicks from people who wouldn't click if they knew what the article was actually about. It's clickbait.

Doubly so because it's not like BVO is the only dodgy chemical in soft drinks. Aspartame even is suspected of being related to thyroid wierdness.
I’m not proposing a tax, to be clear. One problem with these sorts of taxes on driving is that drivers often see them as a ‘service charge’ they pay to use the roads and they then expect governments to plot that money into road maintenance/construction. I think it’s not great to have a tax whose revenue that people feel should be earmarked for certain things. Perhaps something like an emissions/inefficiency levy on car tax (and based on miles driven) would help but I doubt it would be politically tenable, especially with the current government trying to de-boris their policies (and so walk back on various green things).

I think part of the solution would be changing safety standards to better capture the dangers to other road users, changing liability rules/penalties to make such cars more expensive to insure (though probably the effect is too small to make much difference), having some fines scale with the value of the car (on the one hand I think people speeding, etc, in flashy cars should be particularly penalised. On the other, the UK already has some fines that are meant to scale with income and letting people off by driving smaller cars seems bad. Perhaps an alternative would be fines for certain infractions that are higher for cars that would do more damage were something to happen as a result of the driving), installing more bell bollards on corners so the people who aren’t good at staying on the road risk big dents instead of running over a toddler, and more enforcement against minor violations. Lots of those don’t specifically target oversized cars though.
I really enjoyed this video even though he lost me with the SIMD code.
No, I didn't buy it because it's $50 and you have to follow guides and tricks to get it running optimally. That's not what I expect from a game released at full price.
What hoops?

Netflix 4k was intended for people using large expensive TV screens. All other uses are secondary to the designers of the system.

As for people using computers to watch 4k, Netflix supports the most popular configuration types. If you choose an unusual configuration then it’s simply not a supported thing.

It’s not like it’s bait and switch.
China has similar rules, but tighter u less it's for national security.
Nobody cares why a data centre died. It's like complaining one of your nodes in a kubernetes cluster has died, or one of your disks in a raid.

The problem here, which is 100% Cloudflare, is that their systems were not resilient across geography.
It's loaded, cocked, and pointed at all of us, myself included.
> run the company like Adobe (explicitly)

what does this mean?
It's sad. We live in a world we call free, yet most are forced (by jobs, governments, banks, etc.) to use a smartphone, but not just any smartphone, no it has to be an iOS or Android one, because you need you bank app to run, your government stuff to run, and so on. To do so you typically have to create accounts with these companies and accept their ToS. Why then do we not forget about that whole nation/country/state thing and simply declare the Dual Monarchy of Apple and Google?

[/rant]

I think with such hard requirements for so many things it would make sense to create rules to democratize smartphones, banks, etc. similar to other infrastructure. Right now it just means that Google and Apple have government sanctioned, yet international monopolies. You cannot compete, because al these institutions won't just create apps for you and you won't get users without that.

So in the end you have capitalism without the free market part.
Why is ur sense of childlike wonder so ant-sized?
Per another recent thread, I don't know if I'd mandate a kid today had a smartphone/smartwatch. But the reality is that, as an adult (or even an older student), it's pretty hard to opt-out and still participate in modern society.
Not everywhere though. The idea of an ISP in France injecting content is insane (and wild be completely illegal as well)
Thank you! I don't live in git and this helps! Normally under gentoo I shouldn't have to. This actual git https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo (as opposed to the gentoo browser view) plus this "checkout the commit" should get me much further. ... And probably deserve some space in the gentoo docs.
I was in a similar position in 2010. I really liked teaching but didn’t want to go through the education and credentialing process. I went to work part-time at an Apple Store as a Creative teaching folks how to use hardware & software. That six month experiment turned into seven rewarding years and many dozens of good friendships. I followed that with five years in Peace Corps (4 as a volunteer and one year working at HQ). If you’re interested in owning and operating a coffee shop, go work at one for a while to see if it’s all you expected. Good luck and congratulations on your success!
Why are they using parameters or ops using trained when an objective tests that exist or compare to other state of the art systems which makes more sense. This executive order is a joke when you could just almost train a bit less and get the same output…
current support for US interventions is about not emboldening China to invade China and that's bolstered by reliance on semiconductors in the latter China. we'll find other rationale easily, our defense contractors and their warhawk friends will find other rationale. but right now, thats the resource we want to protect and it'll be clear when that has no legs to stand on.
Suppliers are welcome to get into the dirty business of dealing with the retail public for 2% profit margins.
Any WGPU users among us? How does native and web performance, with the same graphics code, compare?
Tech job market in the uk is officially bust. Since many wanted to stop europeans coming in, the jobs went to them in return. Higher quality engineering anyway. AI in particular is a different story - other than pretty images and procedural text it offers no benefits, and investors know it. Also ai workers are likely the first to be replaced. The largest token database wins, making all else redundant.
Acid's First Convert, Cary Grant: On Edward J. Delaney's "The Acrobat"
TPM just stores crypto keys. It does so in a way that the user can't get them, which is my objection to the scheme (because it lets entities set up encrypted channels that I can't monitor).

However, that's the only way it can be turned against the user, and the other user security gains are real.
Exactly, hence it is currently impossible to use WebGPU without JavaScript's help.

There are some proposals regarding exposing the browser IDL to WASM via reference types, but it is far from happening.
I primarily use F# on linux and the experience is very smooth.

editor: VSCode + ionide extension

stdlib: F# has its own stdlib but it can also access all of dotnet's stdlib seemlessly.

libs: Many of the 3rd party libs are written in C# in an OOP style but you can still use them. Most of the popluar ones have functional F# wrappers if you don't like OOP.

build: the dotnet cli is very advanced and not too hard to grok.

pkg: You can use nuget but most F# devs use paket
Point me to the international standards for representing money.
Actually, I like random things like this posted from time to time. Not because of the content itself, but because of the comments where I can often read relevant and thoughtful insight.
To paraphrase, "Colossal Order's programmers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"
Amazon has never stopped anyone from putting up a website and shipping things to customers.
No, I think backdoor is the appropriate term, not least of all because the first sentence of the Wikipedia entry you linked identifies the Clipper chip as such.

As long as we're nitpicking word choice, the word allegory does not apply here. An allegory is an intentional narrative device employed by an author or artist. Two things you find to be similar does not constitute an allegory.

The link you identify is pretty tenuous. With the Clipper chip, the government wanted access to live communications, not information about the infrastructure the communications were passing through. That is not the case with the recent EO.
Your point is taken, but it's not quite apples-to-apples.

Therapy can be a deep healing process or a superficial fix, just as psychedelics like shrooms, LSD, or MDMA can be used daily by some (suggesting a shamanic lifestyle, in my opinion) or lead to profound insights in a single ayahuasca trip for others.

It's true we shouldn't judge what works for someone without knowing them well, and even then, we can only offer suggestions. But when comparing, we should ensure we're not misrepresenting the situation, whether intentionally or not.
"He set himself certain tasks in his education, and he calculated that he couldn’t give up nearly seven hours per day—the national average—to phones and other screens."

That's exactly what you get in middle school these days - 5 or so hours of Chrome book use at school followed by 1-2 hours of homework in it.
Occlusion culling and LOD should be handled by the engine, not the game logic, so the write-up really points to the problem being Unity's new and very incomplete rendering pipeline for ECS.
Don't know why you are downvoted, the article is quite bloated, summary like this helps.
I guess depends on the drug and the problem.

Daily use of lots of substances, e.g. alcohol, isn't necessarily a bad thing in itself (though it really can be), but if it's to escape a problem then there's a serious risk there. As the above suggested, the problem also remains unresolved.

So yeah, I don't think a person self-medicating on a daily basis is always problematic, but it's never worked out well for me, and it's not something I'd advise.

My original point was really that getting out of one's head once in a while can give a fresh perspective on a problem.
There's no ordering guarantee, just like there's no ordering guarantee across threads for ordinary variables.

This is what makes them hard to reason about. C++ makes “as if” ordering guarantees within a single thread trivial: If you can observe things happening out of the order in which your defined-behavior code sequenced them, you have a bug in your compiler or your CPU.

Relaxed ordering (on purpose) throws out all implicit sequencing guarantees when threads observe each other.

My confusion is that I believed this was all well-understood by implementers and programmers decades ago. That relaxed is harder than sequential to get right was as true on the Alpha as it is on modern ARMs. But this article seems to suggest what should be obvious consequences of relaxed semantics are unexpected & undesirable for C++!
The person you are referring to was likely also me. I do not know of anyone other than me trying to code defensively against supply chain attacks in rust. It is a lonely corner.

I ended up going with sigwaitinfo since the attempts you likely saw on matrix which is perfect for my application that will only ever run on modern linux kernels.

Combining that with the stdlib health check above and we end up with a dead simple health checking signal handling service pattern that works well and easy to confirm is free of supply chain attacks.

https://dpaste.org/z1cAz
I meant 2020’s as a decade, and the concept is Effective Altruism, the idea that a bunch of geeks sitting in a gaming chair behind a computer screen know better what to do with charity money than the people actually doing it on the real world.
> in order to continue exporting our culture. The more our culture is exported the better off Americans tend to be.

ah. *deleted*
It sounds like they need to implement easy to use Level of Detail (LOD) and progressive meshes. 100,000 vertices on far away objects will break most rendering pipelines that do not somehow reduce them. 100,000 complicated matrix interactions instead of the like, 8, it probably takes really far away.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_detail_(computer_grap...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_meshes
My favorite FTX fact is in the Going Infinite book, on the informal org chart drawn up by the psychiatrist to help him keep straight who worked with who.

There’s a biggish department of game devs that takes up almost the same amount of vertical space as the actual dev team of FTX. It’s the game studio behind Storybook Brawl. SBF purchased the studio because he liked the game, and it was rolled into FTX.
By hobbling American AI development, it just hands AI leadership to other countries.
This is not really true.
In the past, old stuff which already went into syndication was on Netflix. New stuff was on TV and only TV.

TV shows produced by HBO never made it to Netflix. Disney kept all their most popular movies to themselves. Blockbuster releases were only available on DVD.

Now all these things are available on streaming but just on different platforms.

We have the paradox of choice here, where more choices feel like a worse deal. In the past there was only Netflix, so you would choose streaming and voluntarily give up all the other content not on streaming.
Maybe 24/7 is impractical. But it is pretty easy to put camera into bedroom. And if you put big industrial label "This area is monitored by CCTV" as decoration, it makes recording perfectly legal! Nothing impractical on that.
The drug is just exposing these subjects to the experience of living fully in the present moment. This is not something that can be done as "one weird trick", it requires true spiritual maturation-- and yet, people who haven't learned how to do this are literally dying every single day, whether they realize this or not. Whatever time is past for them, is in Death's hands already. They can choose to dwell on this, or just not bother and live life to the fullest as best they can.
The quest for modularity (2022)
Try not fluoridating the water, defunding the dentistry college, and subsidizing sugar, so everyone's teeth fall out. Runs much faster then!

[Chill: it's a tooth joke, not a conspiracy theory.]
I'd advise that the demo links to a live demo, not a YouTube. That's one of the perks of JavaScript. You can throw up a stackblitz or whatever and have your demo for the masses to see.
Then leave whatever tech backwater you live in and move to the first world.
Replacing regexes by LLMs. What could possibly go wrong?
The CP2077 comparison is not hyperbole - it is literally how badly this game performs (or at least performed on launch) on top-tier gaming hardware (namely RTX 4090). I linked a source with the quote.
The New York Times' Book Review podcast recently had an episode on the first folio: <https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/books/review/shakespeares...>
> We don't have the data to claim this, this confidently, and the only way to get the data is let the experiment keep running in the real world (only place that matters).

How about we start with something simpler: have Waymo, Cruise and their likes produce a rigorous safety case[1] arguing why their vehicles are safe.

Once the safety case is in the open, we can also evaluate how well their system satisfy the claims in the safety case, and if the assumption do not hold, we can stop the experiment.

They are experimenting on humans. The usual requirement is informed consent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_case
You say "fine", and both of you are happier for it.
Thanks! Yeah you can use it anywhere with outbound HTTP network access, whether that’s a local VM, cloud instance, laptop, k8s pod, random managed SaaS, serverless function, Raspberry Pi, …
Sorry, if I can say it differently it reminds me of the Clipper chip because of the security concerns for the use of technology in a specific way. AI now, crypto before. Please take it as a personal connection then.
Whatever WGPU might do in addition to WebGPU is naturally going beyond the standard features a browser is expected to provide, thus no different from any other graphics middleware.
Google, Lendlease axe plans for $15B development in Bay Area
Alternative [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhaus_longimeter
They certainly have stopped people doing it at prices cheaper than they sell through Amazon. They're running a protection racket.
Was 9/11 a "invasion"?

Iran has turned "Death to the Americans and Israelis" into a motto. If we stop projecting power, they will certainly attack again. Which may not justify Ukraine, but exiting world politics will just turn us into a target.
> I think people should wear body cams, record 24/7, and store video for several years

That is a nightmare world that I absolutely would not want to live in, right there.
>a few lawful use cases that are impossible

This is not your original question -- you have smuggled the word "impossible" in there, hoping I wouldn't notice.

Plainly a thing can have value even if what it can do can be done in other ways. It might be more convenient than those other ways, or cheaper, or be more reliable. It might involve having to trust fewer commercial third parties like banks -- which, you'll notice, has no implications for lawfulness.

As I already stated, crypto can be used as a store of value like gold, or for exchange like cash or barter. Neither of these uses are necessarily illegal.

I'm done here.
Lots of companies pay little to no tax. Should taxpayers reward them?
I very much enjoy the dry hunour in this series of videos. The exciting tone for something somewhat inherently dry is wonderful.
I'd add a way to connect networks together so you can have devices see each other on the respective networks!
Yep, it was a big inspiration for this. tmux won’t sync window sizes properly between viewers though
PayPal to offer crypto services in UK; Taiwan to make Bitcoin legal Tender
Hey all: this is an interesting article. Can we please discuss what's specifically interesting here?

Threads like this tend to become occasions for responding generically to stuff-about-$THING (in this case, the game), or stuff-about-$RELATED (in this case, the framework), or stuff-about-$COMPARABLE. There's nothing wrong with those in principle but each step into genericness makes discussions shallower and less interesting. That's why the site guidelines include "Avoid generic tangents" - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Most applications read JSONs from networks, where you have a stream. Buffering and fiddling with the whole request in memory increases latency by a lot, even if your JSON is smallish.
At least they don't effectively make us use a landline from one company (AT&T). But, fortunately, they were a regulated monopoly that only charged 20 cents a minute or so outside of your very local calling area.