skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have personally been responsible for optimizing unity games you haven't heard issues like this about ;)

This write-up really points the finger at not solving occlusion culling or having good LOD discipline.

Give a person a dedicated optimization mandate and you can avoid most of this. One of the first things I do when I'm profiling is to sort assets by tris count and scan for excess. I wonder if they had somebody go through and strategically disable shadowcasting on things like those teeth? I am guessing that they made optimization "everybody's responsibility" but nobody had it as their only responsibility.
Jail time and fines?
I don't get what you're talking about
"When kids are smarter than their parents"
On other hand if some people are doing the menial data entry work at this point on centuries old records. I say more power to them... Specially if the results are cheap enough to acquire.
Is it easy to develop in it without using Windows?
Yes

Hardlinking files would be a dangerous idea, in my opinion

What is good with the FIDEDUPERANGE ioctl is that everything is transparent from the user space point of view: whatever are the files, whatever they are used for, nothing have changed

When you hardlink, you see that, at the current moment, files are the same, but then you assume that userspace wants those files to stay the same

To me, this sounds like a recipe for a disaster

This ioctl lives at the vfs layer. As of now, btrfs and xfs has implemented it. There is a merge request lurking around for zfs, and I have yet to check what is bcachefs' status on this
The only top player left is ext4 :/

(disclosure: I work on duperemove)
> relies on a wholly imaginary choice between net neutrality and the the rights you would prefer

This isn’t how politics works. Crowding out an issue with a filibuster is a valid political tactic. Net neutrality seems, to me, like that when it comes to ISP regulation.
> That's what a vegetable garden is, my parents had one.

Did you get all your groceries that way? What about people who don't have vegetable gardens? You were claiming that all groceries are "natural resources". That claim is obviously false. If all you are saying now is that some groceries can be thought of as natural resources, since some people grow some of their own groceries, of course that's true, but it's a much, much weaker statement than the claim of yours that I objected to.

> Your statement exceeds the requirement to be in the primary sector of the economy

So what? That has nothing to do with what I was saying. Not to mention that such definitions are arbitrary anyway.

> I'm not denying that shipping is on the service-goods continuum.

I'm talking about wealth creation. If you agree that shipping is wealth creation, good.

> It's also: (1) not much of developed economies (~5% of USA for all logistics combined, including local transport); (2) not necessarily supplied by the western economies that receive the goods (where does the line get drawn? It's not as clear-cut as, say, looking at who owns the logistics firm); (3) useless in the absence of things to ship; (4) historically speaking, when desirable goods exist but cannot be shipped, the customers move.

None of these contradict anything I was saying. (See further comment below about "western".)

> Then you agree with, or are overlooking, the specific caveat "in the West" that was in TeMPOraL's comment?

Neither. First, "Western" countries trading with "non-Western" countries gives wealth to both, not just to the "Western" countries. (For example, a "Western" firm paying a "non-Western" firm to ship goods to the "West" creates wealth for both.) Second, you do know that "Western" countries trade with other "Western" countries, right?
The point is not your safety, but the safety of all your viewers.

The more ubiquitous http is for the average internet user, the more worth the squeeze MITM becomes for the targeted user.
AI companies monetising people’s IP need to pay up. End of story. Make smarter ai next time that can “learn” with less content - or as it stands, so called ai is just a massive database that procedurally mixes content to generate what looks like “new” content.
> I bought both when they came out, and the user hostile stuff didn't bother me at all.

“You" and “users generally” are different things.
I also found interesting the other devices that have no moving parts, like the Steinhaus Longimeter[1]. It's just a transparent sheet with lots of jumbled lines printed on it, and counting the lines somehow calculates the length of curves!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZE2Iv-8tsA
The same is true for Music. I spend ~$120 a year on music streaming subscriptions. That's somewhere on par with 8-12 albums per year, or 100-120 individual songs. I don't think I've ever purchased that much in my life. I'm definitely spending more on music now than I ever have.
> One requires reporting of any model trained using more than 10^26 integer or floating point operations total

On an unrelated note, OpenAI announces GPT5 will be trained with fixed-point arithmetic.
And further, while edge cases around MitM do exist, the reality is really that it'd almost certainly just fine if someone's personal blog was just http in 99.99% of cases. But most of the web traffic isn't someone's blog and it really should be encrypted, and it's simple enough to set up for free nowadays, so it's going to be far easier to get most of the web to be encrypted if we increasingly work to phase out http.

Yes, small blogs are a 'casualty' of this progression towards expecting HTTPS in that they have to put a tiny bit more work in, but if we didn't do this we'd be back in the days of nitpicking about every single 'acceptable' case of http while vendors use the fact that it doesn't have widespread adoption to leave session cookies in plaintext requests for tools like fire sheep to grab.
Generalization of 24/7 footage of infants <12 months could be a game-changer in the 50-year-long scientific and legal controversy around medical determinations of shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma (SBS/AHT) [1].

It is hotly debated whether the majority of these diagnoses (frequently relying on the sole observation of blood around the brain and behind the eyes in infants without any obvious explanation nor history of major trauma) represent actual cases of child abuse, or false allegations of abuse on infants suffering from undiagnosed rare diseases [2]. Legal and societal ramification of this controversy are unprecedented, with thousands of parents and caretakers emprisoned and as many children removed from their home.

The persons accused of shaking their baby because subdural and retinal hemorrhage were found are presumed guilty, and they have no way of proving their innocence, that is, that their baby was never shaken... UNLESS they're able to provide 24/7 footage of their infant (or at least, the few hours/days before the baby's sudden collapse).

I estimate that these events occur in 1 infant out of 3000 every year. I think we have the technology to generalize such recording systems dedicated to infants <12 months at a reasonable cost. With a few thousands systems in the US population for example, we'd have within a single year a few instances of babies collapsing (most often at home), brought to the hospital and presenting subdural and retinal hemorrhage with the videotaped proof of what happened before the collapse: abuse or no abuse. Whatever the cameras find out, this could be the final blow to this enduring controversy.

Of note, this recent article [3] showing exactly this, a history of short fall supposedly causing these injuries that was dismissed by doctors who usually believe short falls never cause them. Video footage obtained by the police actually proved the history of the short fall (the doctors thought it was an "outlier" though).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402

[2] https://shakenbaby.science/

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10918...
Lmao. This is often how everything seems from the outside, but the inside story is something else. Probably just too much work, not enough time.
I haven't used F#, but I have had to build OCaml programs from source on Linux and my god OPAM is the worst thing since Autotools. Maybe worse - Autotools actually works!

OPAM - despite the appearance of a modern language management tool - seems to fuck things up almost every time I use it. And not just me. The amount of time I was spending helping coworkers fight it got so much I gave up and just added a caching system so they wouldn't have to deal with the pain of OCaml at all.

So if F# manages to improve on that even slightly I'd say it's definitely worth switching to!

Plus it's more portable than OCaml, which seems to view working on the most popular desktop OS in the world as beneath it.
Electron's bad performance really poisoned that well early on.

Gameface's architecture is described in its documentation: https://docs.coherent-labs.com/unity-gameface/integration/te...

Most of its divergence from browser implementations are unsurprisingly in font rendering, which is generally a headache in games anyway: https://docs.coherent-labs.com/unity-gameface/integration/op...

And in RTL text rendering: https://docs.coherent-labs.com/unity-gameface/integration/op...

The Javascript DOM API is a subset, but pretty rich considering: https://docs.coherent-labs.com/unity-gameface/api_reference/...
I worked on a project where we handled the results of an API call. For testing we mocked the various API call results. When we went live, we discovered they had changed the results of the API call. All the testing was worthless.

Still, I hate having bugs in my code and strive to make sure they don't happen. Still I have had managers release my code when I tell them there are active bugs being worked on.
I screwed up the part number, the correct part number is Keystone 1025, here's the link:

https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/keystone-electroni...

It had the correct pin locations for my model of rice cooker

Here's the video that helped me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVege0o-quQ
I mentioned explicitly the word allegory.

First, the term backdoor applies loosely to the Clipper chip since it would have been public that this chip could be used for accessing private information. I think lock is a better security term. Backdoors generally are secret. My memories from that time are that the term backdoor was also an irony.

Second, the link is about informing private information because there is a security concern. It is not because the government want to have stats to inform the public about how to run AI nodes.
What people are worried about is the age old thieves stealing property and monetising it - which is what a lot of ai companies do. Pay up or create your own content and its fair game.
One common solution is the hospice system. There's no silver bullet for any of this and it's a bit irksome see so many comments treating this like a "5 whys" exercise
H1-B increases are a band-aid at best. They are a shitty, substandard substitute for an actual, proper, modern working visa system.
I just subscribe to YouTube now. There really isn't anything worth the subscription fee on all these other services anymore. At best I want to watch one show on each streaming service. But I'm not paying for a whole streaming service to watch one show, so I end up with not subscribing to any of them.
we could re-frame by distinguishing problem statements from implementations

Problem A: read a stream of bytes, parse it as JSON

Problem B: read a stream of bytes, count how many bytes match a JSON whitespace character

Problem B should require fewer resources* to solve than problem A. So in that sense problem B is a relaxation of problem A, and a highly efficient implementation of problem B should be able to process bytes much more efficiently than an "optimal" implementation of problem A.

So in this sense, we can probably all agree with the author that counting whitespace bytes is an easier problem than the full parsing problem.

We're agreed that the author's implementation (half a page of go code that fits on a talk slide) to solve problem B isn't the most efficient way to solve problem B.

I remember reading somewhere the advice that to set a really solid target for benchmarking, you should avoid measuring the performance of implementations and instead try to estimate a theoretical upper bound on performance, based on say a simplified model of how the hardware works and a simplification of the problem -- that hopefully still captures the essence of what the bottleneck is. Then you can compare any implementation to that (unreachable) theoretical upper bound, to get more of an idea of how much performance is still left on the table.

* for reasonably boring choices of target platform, e.g. amd64 + ram, not some hypothetical hardware platform with surprisingly fast dedicated support for JSON parsing and bad support for anything else.
I do make multiple data backups. Because something WILL (almost certainly) happen sooner or later.

I can't defend against every eventuality that may happen to me although I take mostly reasonable precautions. Which doesn't include recording everything 24/7.
Long-ass but eye-opening article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afgh...

It focuses on one woman who's a few years older than me, but has only known conflict and a lot of running away from bombs since she was five. Fucking hell!
There's lots of options? GPT, WINE Crossover, Luna, Boosteroid, Shadow.tech... none of them run as well as GeForce Now, though. Or a dedicated gaming PC.
Some political/social communities simply kidnap words and terms and use them as if their solution is the only solution to a problem. You are absolutely right to be suspicious; the fact that they are oblivious enough to reality that they really believe themselves to be more effective than others (simply because they hide behind arbitrary numerical computations) is reason enough to suspect that their numbers aren’t really covering everything.

It is a bit like the way feminists think of themselves as the only line of fight for women’s rights, or right-wing extremists and populists keep labelling themselves as “freedom fighters”. All of a sudden if you’re opposed to them you become a woman-hater, or a freedom-hating socialist (because they can’t understand that there are other alternative ways to defend the same ideas). These are just political groups with one specific ideology who are marketing themselves as the solution. Thankfully nowadays with the fall of SBF people are dismissing EA as the fad that it is, but there was a time when opposing EA would elicit reactions such as “oh so you’re against effectiveness/transparency?” or “so you are in favor of corruption?” Sigh.
This is a nice try, but there are a lot of parts that made me wince.

1. The essay starts off with "If you are interested in truth..." without ever defining what exactly they mean by "truth".

2. What is with this "inside" and "outside"? I don't think Kant ever used such philosophically imprecise terminology. They define rationalists as understanding the world "from the inside" and empiricists as understanding it "from the outside". By framing it in such terms, they have already put a metaphysical stake in the ground. And really, how do empiricists understand the world "from the outside"? Do they mean that the thinking is done from the outside, or that they receive sensory input from the outside and then understand it..."from the outside"? This is so ridiculous it makes me wince. Also, rationalists understand the world "from the inside" why? Because their sensory input comes from the inside? When they frame it this way--as inside versus outside--it really amounts to do the same thing, doesn't it? Kant is weeping in his grave.

3. It's too bad they didn't mention Kant's Copernican turn. Mentioning that would have been quite revealing.

4. This may have been too complex for such a short summary, but Kant's Synthetic Unity of Apperception is extremely important.
You are right. Thanks for the correction. I don't use either, although I have seen the Core install on someone else's Raspberry Pi.
When wasn't money involved?

Geocities was bought for $3.6 billion dollars by Yahoo in 1999. It lauched in 1994. The web is only three years older than that.

I had my first website on Angelfire in 1996 before my 10th birthday. WhoWhere purchased Angelfire a year later, and then they were bought by Lycos a year after that for $133 million.

Also, I don't remeber it being fantastic. To me, even with all faults considered, things are much nicer today.
1. Highest-end silicon is not strictly necessary. Most people here can surely appreciate just how fast microprocessors in general are today?

2. The export controls have exceptions, loopholes, and people with strong wills.[1][2]

3. China is slowly but steadily freeing itself from import dependence.[3]

[1]: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/08/21/203241/china-keeps-...

[2]: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/23/09/09/1849221/huawei-sh...

[3]: https://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23071327&cid=638...
IMO, the parent picked a terrible example. Comparing any game to "Minecraft" doesn't make much sense to me. What even is Minecraft at this point? There seem to be a multiple versions on a multitude of platforms, some on the same platform targeting different demographics. Different changes are need to keep the different demographics hooked. Of course the original was built by a single guy which avoided all the organizational complexities.
Doxxing is not good faith
Did a previous trip lead you to this belief are you just speculating on what your experience would be like?
Oh hell no. H1B isn’t there to bring in the best and brightest; those workers would qualify for skilled worker visas. It’s there for low-skill workers, who are set up to be abused by corporations under the threat of deportation, while replacing American workers.

The US doesn’t need to “cement itself” as anything. Thanks, but no thanks. Ironically, your kind of attitude is the same one that gave rise to the insane, populist politics of the last few years and has done more harm to immigrants than any other single policy.
Big landlords are colluding to raise rents, D.C. lawsuit alleges
So? That's even better. Doesn't use my battery life or create noise & heat. Netflix isn't run on my machine either.
Eisenhower noted in his account, Crusade in Europe, that (paraphrasing from memory) that "Few really understand the relationship between America's safety and prosperity and events far away in Europe."

Is this something that has been forgotten?
Which security issue? https://tailscale.com/security-bulletins/

None of these appear particularly severe?
> Only when I stumbled upon a random Youtube video of someone replacing the batteries in theirs did I get the oomph to pull the thing apart to change the batteries.

Same for me and the rice cooker battery, a random video convinced me it wasn't going to be too bad, Youtube is a great resource and I'm so grateful to those willing to share their experience!
> You try to build a nuclear power plant and it might not show up until after the politicians who pushed for it to be built have retired.

You can try to reactivate nuclear power plants that were shut down.

I state I live in (New York) closed 2 nuclear reactors in 2020 and 2021, each providing more than 1 GW of clean electricity. Both reactor were closed because of political pressure. If we were to apply the reverse political pressure, I think we could have them up and running in 5 years, if not sooner.
This paragraph seems pretty clear to me:

"Glamorous Toolkit is the Moldable Development Environment. Moldable Development is a new perspective on programming through which we create custom tools for every development problem. We find that this ability changes the very nature of programming."

It's an IDE that lets you easily create tools for experimenting with your code.
Thank you! Much appreciated.

Cancer has affected too many people in my life

I'm obviously interested in prolonging my own life in order to spend more time with Bess, but the prospect of helping advance science, in however tiny a way, is also attractive.

In 2020 I signed up for an organization that sought to do human challenge trials. I would've happily taken a vaccine and then been exposed to covid for the sake of ending the pandemic sooner.
Germany's "Green" City (with more bikes than cars) [video]
Sure, but then it does not have any relevance to the article.
> Fix your relationships with your colleagues and work together to make quality stuff. No deception. Only cooperation.

Can you tell this to my manager? Especially the "no deception" part?
Keep voice recorder on, run it through voice recognition, process notes, destroy records. Pretty simple method for taking notes.
Maybe it's easier to be releasing them somewhere else? Oxford based Oxitec also have mosquitos to counter Dengue but genetically modified rather than with Wolbachia. https://www.wired.com/story/genetically-engineered-mosquitoe...
> This lawsuit was later dropped, so it seems to have been without merit.

Lol the lawsuit against TK was filed because he refused to resign. If the lawsuit was without substance, then Sunsan Fowler must have been a conspiracy and all the Greyballing evidence also faked like the moon landing.

The top “victims” of FTX were VC speculator funds. Perhaps if TK had realized losses for Benchmark and Google like SBF did, then TK would be facing additionally wire fraud.
Effective Altruism: The Good It Promises and the Harm That It Does
Another one of these "let me tell you about this thing that happened to me once" article. Do we really need to read people's diary in an "article"?

Also, kudos to this kid, must have been tough keeping it so real with a mom that seems so self absorbed.
bootstrap-reagent-project: create a ClojureScript and React project in seconds
so would one get to opt out of funding social security and all of the other social services that the government spend money on too?
No need to decompile Windows since there have been substantial code leaks, and more recently the entire (or near?) WinXP source leaked. It's even on GitHub.

The problem is of course that anyone using the source code would be in legal trouble, and ReactOS has a policy of not accepting contributions from anyone who has as much as looked at the actual Windows source. How well they maintain their clean room is an open question, but an OS based on leaked or decompiled code would definitely be getting sued into oblivion.
Actually, you can, if you do offline deduplication, because memory can be replaced by storage
> long grain rice

Maybe you’re not the target audience. Cooking short grain rice seems to require more care, and a high end rice cooker is the easiest way to get perfect rice.
Frost giant is building stormgate, the spiritual successor of starcraft 2, with even better/smoother gameplay than sc2 with Unreal Engine 5, they picked what parts they reused such as the renderer and built the underlying stuff from scratch, but still
Boys graduate high school at lower rates than girls, with lifelong consequences
that perspective relies on being completely unaware of the conflicts that we don't get involved in at all (along with every other country)

first step is awareness, the second step is looking at the difference

and the only difference is if they're a well paying client for our defense contractors

the entire rationale of getting into a conflict just so an adversary there doesn't feel emboldened, or a completely different adversary elsewhere doesn't feel emboldened, is completely undermined by all the conflicts of allies that we don't get involved in

geopolitically this rationale disintegrates when a disruption in semiconductor production aren't the biggest threat to the US supply chain

what people need to understand that US support isn't about their cause. People seem to have misinterpreted that and are surprised by the reactions of the US people when they expected affirmation of their cause.