skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But billboards are generally placed in areas of higher traffic.

Great. High traffic areas are the most dangerous places for distractions.

> why they are implicitly more distracting than the myriad road signs, bumper stickers, car decals, etc that drivers already navigate.

I'll list the reasons:

1. Road signs are standardized in a given state, and they're designed to be extremely easy to understand at a glance, so their meaning can typically be understood without the driver having to actually read anything on them. They're also pretty close to where you should be looking already.

2. Bumper stickers and car decals are necessarily on the objects you're supposed to be watching most of the time. (But, yes, they can still be distracting.)

3. Billboards are often not in line-of-sight of the things you're trying to avoid crashing into, and can be wildly distracting. The fact that they're regulated for levels of visual distraction is hilarious news to me, having seen billboards in real life. Calling them "fairly highly regulated" feels disingenuous; others might say "barely regulated."

4. Having fewer distractions is less dangerous than having more distractions, so we should try to reduce distractions. We're not going to get rid of road signs, because that would be insane. We could get rid of bumper stickers, but they're orders of magnitude less common than billboards and they're less distracting and they typically don't have all the other negative effects of advertising that billboards do.
An argument that doesn't contain adequate context to be understood is a bad argument. You can't expect people outside your exact bubble to have enough context to figure out things you're literally not saying.
A complete nightmare. In the past I had to work on an IO-heavy system with 1-5ms read-latency guarantees and the only working solution was to completely manage all writes in the userspace. Manual buffering, manual throttling, manual fallocate, then either DIRECT_IO or mmap+sync_file_range depending on whether you need the written data to be readily available for reads or not.

There was a kernel patch though that solved around 95% of issues with no userspace changes: vm.dirty_write_behind. Unfortunately it never made it into the mainline kernel. [1]
For strong latency guarantees it ws insufficient but it greatly improved the typical network/IO spike alternations described above.

I'm surprised it was never fixed upstream despite that fact that even most basic and simple scenarios like "nginx writes a log file to the disk" sometimes explode with seconds-long lockups on memory-fat machines.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/156896493723.4334.1334...
Seems like you should ban the manufacturing methods, not the end product. Like, if I invent a way to safely manufacture and do on-site adjustments of engineered stone, shouldn't I be rewarded by the market for it? The material itself is not harmful, just breathing the dust of it is, which can be said of a lot of things in a common household.
> It's 2023 - even MSVC has supported C11 and C17 for a while now. C89 is no longer a feature to advertise, it's an unhelpful constraint forcing poorer quality code.

Oh come on, let's not play the language police... You are entitled to your language likings, others are not. C89 is simple, straightforward, no bells and whistles, and some people like that (I do).

> There's nonstandard nomenclature in "_dispose"; if the constructing function is called _create, the common pattern is to pair it with _destroy.

"Nonstandard" says who?

In my 20 years of C I've seen all possible combinations of _init/_create/_new/_alloc _free/_deinit/_release/_delete/_destroy/_dispose. As long as it's consistent across the codebase, it's fine.

> typedefs ending with _t are reserved for standards extensions, though these days people ignore this a lot because it feels like general practice to add _t.

Not really. The usual convention for _t is to differentiate between raw struct names and typedef structs, such that you know whether you have to prefix "struct" during declaration. i.e. `struct foo {}`/`typedef struct {} foo_t`

> Both _select functions fall short in that they do not allow select'ing on channels + other file descriptors simultaneously.

Good point
https://nitter.net/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1734993768980402467
This is an interesting edge-case, thanks for sharing it. This brings up the point that there are many common medical events that FSD mitigates or contains that receive very little attention. The only one I can remember reading about is from 2016 when someone needed the Tesla to drive itself to the nearest hospital.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/08/tesla-mod...
Not going to argue, but this comment is fascinating in light of your public HN activity history.
Firefox
https://streamable.com/5omhv0

Maybe I'm an idiot but I literally can't navigate your website lol.
Where it’s probably more useful is for places like the northeast, where we typically will have a tornado warning or two a year. They aren’t the storms of myth and legend you find in the midwest, but they do cause damage and can kill people. For a population who aren’t as attuned to the signs of tornado formation, external signals from experts can be useful.
so it IS only in our heads?

on the other hand, nobody would read a manual these days anymore...
Lucas' best transition was when Luke and ObiWan pick up C3P0's damaged torso and lift it off the ground at the same velocity as the vertical wipe from the bottom edge. It looks like they squat down and pick up the very frame they are in.
Unless they're heavily retooled (which is possible, I guess), historically they haven't been able to fit a large enough LFP battery into the Model 3 to meet the EPA range of the 'Long Range' version.

Also, the Performance version of every car Tesla makes has used an identical battery to the 'AWD' (or, Long Range) battery. You can tell, because the range is slightly reduced due to the additional motor and/or larger tires.
No loss of face. Some regulators perceive a problem
and have proposed (and mandated) some measures to alleviate their perceived problem.

These measures will come in the form of a software update, something that is totally business as usual for Tesla, with zero car owners needing to do anything they wouldn’t already do anyway in the comfort of their own homes, much less needing to take the car in for service somewhere… they don’t need to do that either. Basically zero impact on owners. Tiny tweak for Tesla. Not a big deal.

The measures in the update simply add more reminders for humans to do the things they are already aware they are responsible for doing such as watching the road. On top of the reminders that are already given when an inattentive driver is detected.
Google only needs to make money on average.

It's not at all unreasonable to think a company might offer a service where they make a profit on the average customer, but make a loss in some edge-cases. It's not such an uncommon model.
Not every traveler - only the ones who don't opt for the free massage instead!
> Earlier this year workplace ministers tasked Safe Work Australia, a government WHS agency, with investigating how a ban could work and whether low-silica engineered stone could remain on the market safely.

> The report found there was no safe level of silica, concluding: "The use of all engineered stone should be prohibited."

I don't understand this logic. Silica is also present in natural stone too! If they are not going to ban natural stone countertops, I don't get why the industry was not allowed to pursue low-silica engineered stone that met or exceeded real stone.
Tesla Recalls Two Million Vehicles. Probe Into Autopilot Crashes
What's the best way to get up to date info for specific cancers? A relative has one (bladder) but web search does not seem to suggest anything effective for his version apart from bladder removal.
> Are there opportunities, where they exist, to not use optimization or tuning methods for reconstructing a model of a scene?

If you know a way, let me know! Every system I'm aware of involves optimization in one way or another, from COLMAP to 3D Gaussian Splatting to Instant NGP and more. Optimization is a powerful workhorse that gives us a far wider range of models than a direct solver ever could.
> Can we still achieve the great look and details of RF and GS without paying for an expensive reconstruction per instance of the scene?

In the future I hope so. We don't have a convincing way to generate 3D scenes yet, but given the progress in 2D, I think it's only a matter of time.

> Are there ways of greedily reconstructing a scene with traditional CG methods into these new representations now that they are fast to render?

Not that I'm aware of! If there were, I think these works should be on the front page instead of SMERF.
A fair number are based in Europe. That's actually one of the things we're looking at figuring out how to include in future versions of the report.
https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-functional-programmin...

the concepts here are re: functional programming, but they apply to everything tbh.

whether your system is a single monolith or a bunch of microservices, the core ideas hold true: think about your system in the form of actions (mutations), calculations/computations (reads), and data as data.
Did you get raised reading only economic and game theory texts? Real people in the real world don't have as much agency as you'd like to think. Sometimes you take the job that you can get. See Amazon warehouse workers.
I have a free account and this option was turned on by default (with the option to disable it).

Talk about scummy....
It’s also possible that you would not have gotten fiber in the same timeframe if Starlink hadn’t competed for your business. Companies like Windstream are notorious for gaining regulated monopolies in rural areas, gobbling up government subsidies, only to deliver low bandwidth, saturated service to customers.
Fed holds rates steady, indicates three cuts coming in 2024
I have real trouble with "the ends justify the means" arguments.

> Is it scammy? Probably.

It's the behavior of a con artist.

> But he likely got more out of people by pushing this false narrative than would have been otherwise accomplished.

Even if that's the case, he could have had the same, or better, effect without the lying. The lying is clearly aimed at gaining investment money and preorders, though, not at some bizarre attempt at motivating engineers.
Your argument just makes no sense. Exclusive deals are extremely different from a game simply releasing on one store out of convenience.
> (disclaimer: I'm not a Rust or C++ developer!)

You have not shown the Rust or C++ code, nor how you compiled it. Did you turn on optimizations?

If you want to know why some code is performing the way that it is, you have to give folks a way to reproduce what you did. There is simply not enough information to answer your question.
This is cool but the AI is not very good :)

I got a corner after like 5-6 moves.
Unfortunately GOST is already an acronym in use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOST
Spilling to an XMM register instead of memory is an option.
I've heard the same about Google. It's definitely not untrue at MSFT today either.

My hot take is that 2018 Google was late 90s MSFT more or less (juggernaut resting on their laurels and cashing in on their monopoly). Today, they're more like mid 2000s MSFT. Here's hoping 'tomorrow' they'll have a similar comeback.
Do you think that folks will install it on site without cutting it?
I can only speak for myself in this thread, but my issue was your referring to something that was cheap as free, as if the customer was freeloading. Google is able to leverage probably the greatest economy of scale in the cloud industry (maybe Amazon is better, but that's it) and so its cost per gigabyte of storage is either the lowest or 2nd lowest on the planet. It can and does provide storage services at a very low cost to itself (hence its margins).

It is able to provide services very cheaply and it is for that very reason that paying customers are attracted to it - and of course, even if a service is cheap, paying for a service creates a different relationship between the service provider and the customer than does a relationship where the customer freeloads. In my view, if this had been a free service the terms of which had changed, there wouldn't be the same scope for outrage. But this was a paying customer, even if he didn't pay as much as you think would have been reasonable - or would have been obtained - elsewhere in the market. Google voluntarily chose those prices for its unlimited plan for competitive reasons and in its own corporate interests. That's on Google, as was Google's subsequent unconscionable behaviour.

In Australia, I suspect this sort of behaviour would provoke very close scrutiny by our antitrust and consumer protection regular, the ACCC. We don't seem to have the same problem with regulatory capture that the US does currently. At the very least here the consumer would have arguable claims under the Australian Consumer Law relating to consumer guarantees and misleading and deceptive conduct in trade or commerce.
Sure but the iPhone 15 Pro costs 3x as much and came out years later.
Both exist as a thing explicitly because of the amount of ads. No one goes to Time Sq to have "authentic Italian" meal at Olive Garden.

They aren't a proof of ads being too much noise. Not any more than a lion at a zoo is proof that lions have overrun the city.
Same could be said about developing with Notepad as opposed to modern IDEs though.
Axolotl != axlotl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axolotl

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Axlotl_Tank
Studies looking into the issue have found non silica compounds cause issues too, and its the engineering process rather than the silica that causes the problem. This is why they haven't created an exemption for low-silica products.

> "It's not just about the silica, it's something specific about the engineered stone products that's causing such a significant issue in workers fabricating these products."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-05/study-finds-safety-co...
> Some individuals within that collection are going to act different than other ones

Actually, no, they seem to have been acting as a (predictable) monolith for at least the past three years...
Can it? Maybe. Should we care? Probably not. Why? Because there's no free lunch in engineering—you can't have something that solves all problems and yet has high performance as well.
Workers often don't have much choice, even if they knew the harm being done to them.
tl;dr: 10-15 Hz.

In case you were looking for a number.

I wonder if existing weather stations might be able to pull this from their existing barometric sensors, with nothing more than software.
I feel like this comment could be best structured in the form of a series of commits sent as a combined Merge Request.

First, a commit to change the docs to say it's a pure C99 (or C11 or C17) implementation.

Second, for each of your points, a single commit fixing each style issue (_dispose -> _destroy, typedefs).

Seperately, another MR with the commit for _select improvements.

Or maybe just send the C99 one first, and if that gets rejected, don't bother with the rest.
The best way to opt out of Dropbox's abusive practices is to pull all your data out into a self-hosted or trustworthy e2e solution and close your account. You should need no more proof than this incident that Dropbox will not ask you before doing things with your data that you would have strenuously objected to if they had.
In principle, there's no reason you can't fit multiple City blocks at the same time with Instant NGP on a regular desktop. The challenge is in estimating the camera and lens parameters over such a large space. I expect such a reconstruction to be quite fuzzy given the low space resolution.
> anecdotally the developers I serve want point & click over terminal & cli

I think it's due to a lack of familiarity, as the CLI should be more efficient

> I've been seeing less and less enthusiasm for CLI driven workflows.

Any CLI is 1 dimensional.

Point and click is 2 dimensional.

The CLI should be more efficient, as you can reduce the complexity: you may need extra flags to achieve the behavior you want, but you can then serialize that into a file (shell script) to guarantee the reproduction of the outcome you want.

GUIs are harder, even without adding more dimensions like time (double click, scripts like AHK or AutoIT...)

If you don't have comparative exposure (automatizing workflows in Windows vs doing the same in Linux), or if you don't have enough experience to achieve what you want, you might jump to the wrong conclusions - but this is a case of being limited by knowledge, not by the tools
Markets have market failures like externalities and information asymmetry
Actively deprecating random stuff for no reason
I want tech to figure out what I want and do that invisibly. I don't want all the data collection. I also don't want to have to tell the clothes washer to do laundry, I want it to detect clothes on my floor and return them to the correct place clean. Note that this needs to be correct, it needs to understand the difference between clothes I'm going to wear again and cloths that I want washed.

Similarly, the kitchen robot should figure out a healthy meal we will enjoy, get it on the table for our dinner and then clear the table when we are done eating: putting the leftovers away and clean up everything else.

The above is what slaves could do 150 years ago. We have lost much - it is worth not having slaves in society, but if you would have had a slave (or servant) 150 years ago your life is worse in some ways for that progress and I want it back. I also want this affordable for everyone.
You don't mention where you're at.

You're describing a major part of Software Engineering. Most reasonable university/college SE 101 courses will focus here. Which is to say, if you haven't (or it's been a while), check reading lists for university SE classes and pick the ones that focus on modeling. steer clear of process/agile material.

Commonly used and recommended books would be GoF (if you're not familiar with the patterns already), Code Complete, and The Pragmatic Programmer.
> How come Zombiezen came out faster ? I’d expect the opposite

(OP here) Honestly, me too. Maybe it has to do with leaving out that database/sql driver layer. I guess it would need another round of pprof to find out the real reason.
Dating Statistics in 2023
All skills that the AI facilitates will be like this until all we can do is operate the AI
I'm following this through two minutes paper and I'm looking forward to using it.

My grandpa died 2 years ago and in hindsight I took pictures for using them as in your demo.

Awesome thanks:)
Word of mouth is the best advertisement. Focus on quality (product, support, etc.) is the best marketing strategy.

Best wishes for your continued success.
Way to completely miss my point.
If you see my other comments in this thread, does that help contextualize my position?

Basically, my thesis is we probably don't need to increase physical supply, we can probably get away with increasing market supply, and that the physical supply is actually probably sufficient to satisfy the physical residential demand.

If that isn't the case, obviously you have to build. But I don't see high prices as evidence that the problem is the lack homes for residents. It could very much be that the problem is that physical supply is over-consumed.

I think we tend to reach for high-density supply as a solution, without thinking about whether that's actually the best solution. It's definitely the simplest, but we don't even explore the other issues that cause distortion in the market. Like prop 13, the retiring generation treating their homes as retirement vehicles, etc.

It doesn't seem implausible to me that if we solve those distortions in favor of resident homeowners, that the "affordable housing crisis" goes away without requiring high-density housing in downtown Santa Cruz.
Yes, I think the difference is something like classic Apple viewed computers as things within a lived in external environment, classic Microsoft (Gates, at least) views the physical world as merely an inconvenience getting in the way of your connection with the metaverse, for want of a better term.

The big balance to make with ambient computing is to ensure the humans using it are the entities that have agency, and they don't merely give it up to the system. Arguably things like Tiktok, Facebook etc. demonstrate people already have.

There was a project in Japan called TRON, at least superficially a sort of academic/industrial operating system research effort, however, the leader used to write introductions to their annual conferences, and one of these contains a rant about why virtual reality is misguided and the internet of things is the way to go, and this is from like 1995.
I mean there's almost certainly crime that happens in contracting but there is a real risk of being caught if you commit fraud. Do remember that companies such as Google do pay out literally millions of dollars to random people that send in invoices for work never requested or done.

Cost+ at face-value isn't that bad of an idea. An alternative to it is the government hiring a bunch of people to do a project and ideally the government only pays Cost in that case. For people that don't believe the government can do anything this is a pretty good trade off.

IIRC, the `+` part is capped at 15% profit so IIUC that's similar to an operating margin of 15%. Although IIUC, executive expenses and a ton of other things come out of the `+` part so it should be lower than 15%. But the point I'm going to make here is that an operating margin of 15% isn't really impressive and that's the best that the contractor can do.
The opposite. Channels are often used to orchestrate higher-level structures/abstractions; not 'low-level' stuff where more common primitives such as mutexes/semaphores are sometime preferred.
Right-o. The web viewer is swapping assets in and out of memory as the user explores the scene. The Network and disc requirements are high but memory usage is low.
I started Detroit: Become Human last weekend and it dabbles in a lot of relationship possibilities so far, quite dystopian. It's going to be really hard to not have slavery considering we cannot even get all humans to stop making other humans slaves
I just don't see it happening. I remember the days of dial up internet - when I would be paranoid every minute I spent on the internet because every second I was online was costing more and more money. The sense of freedom I felt when I got fixed cost, always on broadband, was liberating.

Nobody wants to go to a system where for every single article you click on you have to go through the process of deciding whether it is worth the money or not.

Plus, how many times have you read some article, only to realise it was clickbait that did not really give you anything of use or substance at all; how much worse would that be when publications were literally trying to get you to part with some actual cash.

I'm also not convinced the economics would work. The reason paid print magazines are stuffed full of adverts is that the cover price did not cover the cost of publishing them. Even online, proper journalism costs quite a bit of money. Writers, editors, proofreading: it all takes time that needs to be paid for. If you pay per article, do those who worked on the article only get paid if the article actually makes enough back to pay them? Do the publications aggregate all the payments and pay everyone out of aggragated sales? If an author is particularly popular, how do they negotiate a bigger fee? These things are not impossible to sort out, but the economics of publishing would require a big restructuring and all these things would need to be hashed out.
As your second source notes, the Dune thing uses both spellings.