skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep several Chrome profiles specifically for different YouTube accounts. Different channel subscriptions and ad profiles. I used to enjoy the ads. It was a fantastic way to discover new products and services from smaller brands. But in the last 6-12 months, the relevancy of ads has declined a lot for my profiles.

I'm not sure if the decline in relevancy is due to more brands buying ads with broader targeting or if Google is somewhat losing ability to hyper target due to increased privacy regulation. Hard to tell. But the ads have gotten a lot more annoying IMO in recent months. I guess it's time for a new Chrome profile to run a test from scratch. lol
Its good idea, I never tried or probably didn't know much about nginx caching. Will Nginx cache webpage and serve directly without hitting much the esp32 server. I am going to read on it now
This is just learned helplessness. If loss of control is a concern for you, there are FOSS privacy-focused operating systems you can install to your phone. You do control your phone.
Javascript disabled and the result page doesn't even load. Does that mean I win?
This is weird, do someone have a working link to the book? The B&N one doesn't work [1] and it is not here [2].

[1] https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/disunion-visions-of-our-...

[2] https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1176
They shouldn't. NGOs can't buy weapons for the military. Ukrainians would be fighting US soldiers a couple of decades from now if Russia were able conquer Ukraine in a few weeks as they were planning.
I run a tech company and owe a lot of my success, social life improvements, and mental health of recent years to giving up cell phones so I am always present in one thing at a time.

I am online only when I am in front of a desktop computer, or rarely a laptop when traveling.

We humans are just not built to be efficient when constantly context switching.
DOTS/ECS has nothing to do with geometry LODs. Those are purely optimizing CPU systems.

Even if DOTS was perfect, the GPU would still be entirely geometry throughput bottlenecked.

Yes, UE5 has a large competitive advantage today for high-geometry content. But that wasn’t something Unity claimed could be automatically solved (so Unity is in the same position as every other engine in existence apart from UE5).

The developer should have been aware from the beginning of the need for geometry LOD: it is a city building game! The entire point is to position the camera far away from a massive number of objects!
The very cold days in winter in the UK are always still days.
A little while ago I was confused about why, given that watchmaking as a field exists, we don't have any other field of endeavour that uses the same techniques. Why is it that we can make tiny systems of springs and gears, and yet the only application we can find for these systems is luxury watchmaking?

Well, this documentary answered that question for me: there used to be other applications! And if you imagine how you would recreate some of these automata yourself, you'll work out why we don't use these techniques today: it's not because we are under-utilising a valuable craft; it's because we have software.

It's not that we can't find other applications for tiny gears and springs, it's that we have better options. The only reason to create things out of gears and springs is if you don't have software and stepper motors. But now we do, and we don't even realise how great it is!

It used to be that if you wanted to do something complicated, you had to painstakingly make it all out of bespoke gears and springs, because there was literally no other way, but nowadays we use simple generic components for the mechanical parts, and we put the bespoke parts in software, and we can get so much further with so much less effort.

There will always be a place for great craftsmanship with tiny mechanical systems, the same way there will always be a place for bushcraft and there will always be a place for retrocomputing. But that the mainstream has moved on from these things is not a step back, it's for a very good reason.
As an official backend, or just for a specific game?
"Our mind shapes the world".. Kant's psychology was foundational to the thought lineage of predictive processing. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2016.0007...
What is MHHC? I only found "Major histocompatibility complex"
Thank you for the feedback! Yeah, we're in the same niche: slow and costly pipelines are annoying.
If this works fantastically, then why is it at the top sellers list?

https://store.steampowered.com/search/?supportedlang=english...
> I've noticed Microsoft seems to think ordinary compiler optimizations are deep magic they're very proud of not implementing. Do they just not have good enough compiler people?

What in our discussion has prompted you to respond with an ad-hominem attack?
> I try to do something productive for others and earn a return on that.

This is how to achieve satisfaction with your work. Unless you’re sociopathic, knowing that your work takes advantage of others causes cognitive dissonance.
My favorite club visit was 15 years ago to jazzanova's venue. It was great. A great night.
It makes more sense if you realize that it's a reference to the Guide itself and not to the novels. The books are wonderful; the Guide (contained in the books) is obnoxious. There's a reason Arthur Dent is the main character and not Ford or Zaphod.
With solar time, computer is required to calculate times for everyone. Roughly 20 mi east/west is 1 min in time. It means that people in the same metro area can have different local times. This isn't a problem for spontaneous phone calls but is a big problem for meetings.

My team works from home but is mostly in same metro area. One person is 10:01 in their time, another is 9:59 in their time. The time depends on who makes the meeting. What time do you use when go in to the office?
You say enormous, but the stuff I want to watch is always on a different subscription.
> what realistic alternative choices actually exist?

Yeah, that's a problem. I certainly can't think of one. But even if there were, it would still be an enormous struggle just to shift to using it at this point. That struggle also means that there isn't a huge amount of effort being put into finding a better way.

The CA system certainly has great benefits in terms of delivering reasonable security in a relatively convenient way, but that doesn't take away from the fact that it still sucks in ton of different ways that are inherent to the idea. It also can't be used (at least not without great struggle) in some situations.
To give an example: You can unit test your OBD response parser all you like, at some point you have to actually get in the car and see what gibberish the OBD adapter spews at your app, what timeouts it needs, how reliable it is, etc
Yeah, I didn't mention TOFU because it's a non-starter if you're trying to get a secure introduction to someone you don't know.

The fundamental problem is that "identity" is problematic. How do you know someone is who they say they are? Perhaps you don't really know who you are. That's why I want a space for a certified identity that isn't tied to a government ID. Like, an instance of some software might claim an ID. Arguably, a domain is an ID. I don't see what's wrong with something or somone having multiple IDs that aren't linkable.
> and in retrospect wish I had gone with Nebula

Could you expand why (happy Tailscale user here, asking mostly out of curiosity)?
Author here: I never bothered counting the total vertices used per frame because I couldn't figure out an easy way to do it in Renderdoc. However someone on Reddit measured the total vertex count with ReShade and it can apparently reach hundreds of millions and up to 1 billion vertices in closeups in large cities.

Edit: Checked the vert & poly counts with Renderdoc. The example scene in the article processes 121 million vertices and over 40 million triangles.
> . Why write half an article?

Twice the page views? To "drive engagement"?
Very similar case against Las Vegas hotels for using software to raise room rates

“ The lawsuit was originally filed Jan. 26, 2023, seeking class-action damages from MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment, along with Treasure Island and Wynn Resorts. It alleged that the resorts’ use of software from Georgia-based Rainmaker to set prices constituted price fixing, and that supply and demand was disregarded. Customers paid higher prices because Rainmaker’s algorithm created a market that wasn’t competitive, lawyers argued.”

https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/judge-dismisses-law...
There are zero operating systems you can install on modern smartphone hardware that give you full control of your phone.

Even the most open of Android Roms still require giving a bunch of proprietary drivers, firmware, and applications root access for the most basic of hardware functionality.

A major reason I gave up on phones and got a tiny laptop to run qubes on.
The regulations as presently defined are pretty lax IMHO; it seems people jump to the all regulations are a unbearable constraint perspective without some measured look at what is being proposed?

I get the don't give an inch or they will take a mile, but also some regulation structures are probably warranted by such a fundamental shift on par with the advent of the Internet.

Back then we both got it right with DMCA in that big Internet companies could thrive in the US; but also problematic concentration of Monopolistic power in big Internet companies.

Will have to do some iteration to see what makes sense with the advent with this new computing model / capabilities at this scale.
I generally agree that these are all issues that need to be addressed if these bans are to be put in place.

But— my biggest issues with these bans (aside from the ban itself- I am pro choice), is that they were hastily put into place with little to no thought into the actual implementation of the ban. It’s not like they didn’t have time to come up with reasonable legislation as this has been a major discussion leading up to the reversal of Roe vs Wade. But instead of taking time to legislate this properly (or talking to healthcare providers or doctors about what an emergency in cases like these might look like), they instead just pushed through these laws with zero clarity— in turn, affecting the quality of healthcare that women can now receive.

I don’t want to be a conspiracy theorist or anything but leaving “emergency” in the legislation without a single definition of what that is suppose to mean, seems almost intentional. If that’s not the case, then these legislators are so incredibly inept at their job that they should not be legislating at all.

To your second point, I think it is unfair to leave any of the blame at doctor’s or hospital’s feet given that these laws don’t actually define in any specific way what would constitute what an emergency is. You cannot blame a doctor for not wanting to perform an abortion if it will land them in jail. Without certainty in the law, the risk is way too great. Your point might be more applicable if the laws clearly defined what would constitute a legal abortion. But right now, the law is so nebulous that it is basically up to individual judges and no doctor or business is going to risk their lives on such an uncertainty.

If pro-life legislators were actually concerned with their law being misconstrued, I’d expect that they would actually want to put more clarifications into the law, not less. With the recent laws an activist could right now rule that they think an emergency applies to an abortion case (just as much as a judge could rule that their was no emergency, even if there was one). As it stands, the current law creates so much uncertainty that doctor’s and providers will just not take any action that might put them on the other side of the law. I suspect that the purpose of this lack of clarity is to insert as much uncertainty into the law so that people will be just too afraid to act. To me, it appears that these legislators are not acting in good faith.
Read the comments on the article at the NYT, as well. Notice how many people take the banks' side.

Whatever happens to you is fine and dandy as long as it doesn't happen to them... and it probably won't happen to them.
Debanking is deeply unfair but more so in our society that is moving increasingly towards a cash-less society. A person can be debanked for no fault of their own and that causes them to be unable to pay rent, bills, etc. Like being arrested - there is little recourse without great expense or effort.
While this is great news in a vacuum this clould have serious implications for the drug market in europe where „real“ heroin is still more popular than fentanyl since its far more readily available (through countries like Afghanistan). This lower prod. rate might lead to fentanyl spreading in europe leading to more deaths like we see in the US.

While this is obviously speculation its still a very interesting case where a good change may lead to a worse overall outcome.
You’re arguing that govt action in 1911 effectively alleviated oil and gas industry influence on the economy and politics?

Why then did John D Rockefeller (correctly) advise “buy Standard Oil stock” on hearing the news?
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/20/business/us-v-microsoft-t...
Another possibility is Some stages lack the time pressures needed for that assistance.

Also, it could be in some stages if a single screw is not placed, it will lead to catastrophic failure of the product. (Hence the screw counter in that first stage shown)
From a few days ago:

Gaza-based Ministry of Health — an agency in the Hamas-controlled government — continues to tally casualty numbers. It released its first detailed report on the casualties Thursday, giving names, ID numbers, ages and gender for Palestinians it says have been killed. The total toll is 7,028 Palestinians, including 2,913 minors, according to the ministry.

So likely the numbers are rather higher than those, in the cases where there's not much left of the body to identify, to get the name, id number etc.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-health-mini...
To make matters worse when it just released, the two top games on Steam were CS:2 and CS:2.
Paul Graham uses Twitter still?
I agree, I'm on the 2019 16" MBP, the one with physical ESC and touchbar. I honestly love the touchbar once you spice it up with BetterTouchTool you can make it extremely useful.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9-B8VFZgc8
In my experience mmap is at best 50% faster compared to good pread usage on Linux and MacOS.
The distinction between platform and product is much hazier in software compared to physical industries.

For example, it’s taken for granted that most personal computing platforms have built in PDF viewers, but this wasn’t always the case and used to be a distinct product category (and still is to some extent). Similar for media players, some networking software, and spreadsheet apps.

Should Cloudflare be allowed to offer reverse CDN services for uploading content? Or would that unfairly compete with companies like Mux?

(Entertaining the notion that Mux is built on CF)
We provide CI CD services from a small data center we run, but the problem that we typically have is that cloud runners are:

1. Too cost effective to sustain a business competing against it (cloud) in terms of price

2. Too critical to business for us to cut costs by simplifying hardware requirements/cutting down redundancies (power and network)

I find the direction of your business fascinating because not only are you promising higher performance service (our main selling point is that we buy HW that cloud providers won’t buy.. like low core count high clock speed[1]) but you are promising to run the business on a fraction of the revenue.

We encourage our customers with pricing perks and deals to buy more than they need, because we need the consistently high revenue even if they don’t use their service to keep the doors open and the hardware up to date. Also there is not much difference in the power usage between idle and 100% usage, so our overheads aren’t reduced when they aren’t using. Surely you would need a HUGE scale to run your company profitably.

Are you hosting your runners in the cloud at a loss ATM? We should connect.

[1]: we can build SW in 6 minutes vs 20 minutes on an EC2 large with no IOPS bottleneck. Cloud is actually generally pretty slow.
Just started reading this thesis. I am absolutely blown away by the clarity and beauty of its writing. This is rare.
The fix fits into a tweet -> https://twitter.com/ColossalOrder/status/1716883884724322795

> If you're having issues with performance, we recommend you reduce screen resolution to 1080p, disable Depth of Field and Volumetrics, and reduce Global Illumination while we work on solving the issues affecting performance.

This is all I had to do to get smooth performance on an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
You can also have your money and property seized without charge or conviction by police, while sitting on the side of the road.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/the-gla...
I want to see a website hosted on a computer built entirely from discrete transistors.
We are lucky enough to have two tools at our disposal:

1. Cultivating the spirit. This is slow and has a high abandonment rate, but it is second-to-none in terms of living a fulfilling life. It is worth pursuing, but is unfortunately ill-suited for rescuing people who are in the midst of a mental-health emergency. It should be thought of as "prevention".

2. Cultivating psychoactive substances. This is riskier than the first option, but it has two main advantages: (1) with some precautions, it is immensely helpful in connecting people with their spiritual lives and (2) in an emergency, it is reliably effective. This is on par with the discovery of antibiotics, in terms of medical significance. It should be thought of as "intervention".

Why anyone would willingly renounce the use of either? On what principle? This is obscurantism.
I have some of the same concerns that Miraculixx iterated.

A small addition: I think it will lend itself to callers preferring to the use the same names in the calling function as in the parameters to take advantage of this feature, instead of using a name that is more appropriate for the context.

I wonder how scoping would work. That could result in the interesting bugs.

How do people who code in languages that have this feature like it?
Just a tip, stick with Bitcoin, not crypto.
Tech startups selling to police
It’s been a while, but I don’t think Kant has much to say about individual experience vis a vis interpersonal consensus. But maybe there’s something I’m not remembering.
If only there was a means to transact money digitally without the need for an interstitial.
There's a book recently published that goes over the history

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300271157/the-week/

tldr: here's an interview he did on a 50 minute radio show about
It (starts about 8.5 minutes in. I don't know why they distribute it this way either)

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-december-30-20...
There's an episode of BBC In Our Time about Automata: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bk1c4d
Intel 80386, a Revolutionary CPU
This explains why they merged the Realpage suits then and also initiated a similar suit at the State/Territory level.

It has a very chance of giving conflicting advice on whether a group of organizations using a singular algorithm are committing a form of price fixing.

Yea this is probably a Supreme Court case in 2026, and one that will definitely end up in AP Gov textbooks in 2-3 decades
Not an expert but from what scanty technical detail is presented in the article, it sounds like they're using:

* metal hydride to store hydrogen.

* a reversible fuel cell that can either split water to extract the hydrogen, or combine the hydrogen with oxygen from the air to make electricity

* using the "waste" heat as space/water heating (this is another variation of "combined heat and power" and is pretty widely deployed, though perhaps not with fuel cells).

There's been talk about using metal hydrides for hydrogen storage for many decades, and they appear to be commercially available [1]. That said, none of the discussion of hydrogen bulk storage at commercial scale seems to be talking about hydrides - it seems more to be about underground caverns just like natural gas, or tanks if you don't have a handy underground cavern. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles all seem to be using cryogenic tanks.

If this company has an approach that can lead to anything approximating seasonal storage in a home-friendly form factor at anything approximating a reasonable cost (and that reasonable cost could be pretty high given the functionality), the world will beat a path to their door.

[1] https://www.h2planet.eu/en/detail/MyH2300
Alternatively, an indexed browser history that allows for tagging and hierarchical organization.
When reading sections of the article about Unity's permanently experimental features, I was wondering why they didn't use a different engine (probably because their expertise is in Unity). Does Unreal for example have support for this kind of game?

Oh and I have to mention the cascaded shadow mapping: "taking about 40 milliseconds or almost half of total frametime. ". - 40ms is 25fps all by itself!
yes, I have a static IP and port forwarded. It IP can be mapped to website (dns name) via namecheap and godaddy like services. This is enough to put it on internet

In this setup I added a nginx in between (doesn't enable cache yet) for load balancing.
I wish there was a way to bookmark individual comments
What comes around, goes around.

Karma raises its head and strikes down hubris.

It's quite amusing to see the perpetrators of the Opium Wars (mainly Britain and the US) now crying bitterly about all the Fentanyl from China that's causing problems in their own countries.

Back around 1700-1800, China was the world's richest country, and India was up there too. A couple of centuries later, and both China and India are retaking their places at the top of the mound.
The author's point is that poor support for DOTS meant the devs had to roll their own culling implementation which they screwed up.
Game theory makes this very unlikely, but we'll see if they have a strong case.
Just tried this, it's 30% slower.

24GB of GGDR6X is $$$$. Especially if they are double density chips, to keep the RAM on a single side, important for cooling!

Again, NVlink is not required for 99% of people.
Did you forget to switch accounts?
Otherwise why are you critically commenting on an off-topic article you've posted yourself?
metal hydride hydrogen compressor
Haworth Tompkins unveils "UK's first multi-storey light-industrial scheme"
To quote from the blog post:

> Unity has a package called Entities Graphics, but surprisingly Cities: Skylines 2 doesn’t seem to use that. The reason might be its relative immaturity and its limited set of supported rendering features

I'd hazard a guess their implementation of whatever bridge between ECS and rendering is not capable of LODs currently (for whatever reason). I doubt they simply forgot to slap on the standard Unity component for LODs during development, there's got to be a bigger roadblock here

Edit: The non-presence of lod'ed models in the build does not necessarily mean they don't exist. Unity builds will usually not include assets that aren't referenced, so they may well exists, just waiting to be used.
MAGA chanting populists would argue that US is already being invaded by illegal immigrants. There's enough hostility between political groups in US to start a civil conflict if it can be fueled by money from a couple of state actors.
A big difference between then and now is there was more creating and much less to consume.
Interesting! I did not know that.
Yes. You choose your god(s). They're in your head.
If a company wants to hire you, they will figure out a way to pay you. That’s an implementation detail. Paychecks are still a thing.