skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, he improved it since the version TonyLobster tested. Quoting:

It's 2023 - is your 16x16=32 bit unsigned multiply under 190 cycles yet? What? No?!? Let me help you out buddy!
Much to my surprise, I have surpassed by previous best by 10.5 cycles or 5%, when I thought it couldn't be optimized further. How is this possible you ask?
The first trick had to do with how cycles are counted. As a shortcut, we usually average branches/boundary crossings. However, some carries happen only 7% of the time, so optimizing for the average case actually slows you down. You should be optimizing for the no carry case.
The other trick was playing with using registers to accumulate results. It wasn't as simple as it sounds; the order of multiplies had to be optimized to leave a target value in the A register.

The goal: multiply the two 16-bit numbers in x0, x1 and y0, y1 (low bytes and high bytes) and return the results in the fastest way possible (which may leave some results in registers, preferably in a useful way like the high bytes). I measure the timing in this convention to expose a timing which could be used in-line, as is often the case for demo effects. In this case, the 3rd byte is returned in A, which could be useful for a multiple accumulate where only the high 16-bits are kept.

The time is 188.1 cycles, averaged over all possible inputs. The (accurate) time of my version on codebase is 198.6

To be clear, z=xy or (z3, z2, z1, z0) = (x1, x0) (y1, y0).

;This section performs the 4 sub-multiplies to form
; the partials to be added later in self-mod code.
;Addresses like "x1y0l+1" refer to low(x1*y0) stored
; to the argument of a later "adc #{value}"
;mult8_set_mier_snippet {multiplier}
;mult8_snippet {multiplicand}, {low result}, {high result}
+mult8_set_mier_snippet x1 ;17
+mult8_snippet y0, x1y0l+1, x1y0h+1 ;35
+mult8_snippet y1, x1y1l+1, z3 ;32
+mult8_set_mier_snippet x0 ;17
+mult8_snippet "Y", x0y1l+1, "X" ;28
+mult8_snippet y0, z0, "A" ;28
;results in X=x0y1h and A=x0y0h
;multiply part total: 149-165, average 157
;z3 z2 z1
clc
x0y1l adc #0 ;x0y0h + x0y1l
tay ;6
txa
x1y0h adc #0 ;x0y1h + x1y0h
tax
bcc + ;9
inc z3
clc ;(+6) taken 7% of the time
+ tya
x1y0l adc #0 ;+ x1y0l
sta z1 ;7
txa
x1y1l adc #0 ;+ x1y1l
bcc done ;7
inc z3 ;(+4) taken 42% of the time

Column 1 takes 13 cycles, column 2 takes 16 cycles, and column 3 takes 2.1 cycles.
The total time to add the partial products is 29-39 with an average of 31.1.
The results are returned as a 32-bit result:
z3, A(=z2), z1, z0.
The total time is 156.96875+31.1=188.06875 (178-204).
Its definitely interesting how some places are outright banning tobacco sales, and other places are decriminalizing hard drugs.
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Samsung exists. China won't invade any time soon though.
I had some opium tea when I was in Egypt and let me tell you, it was so cheap, and it felt so good that I would absolutely do it every day if I had the chance.
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How am I going to sell wasm shovelware if people know The Truth?
> America has not filled that with anything else

That's not an issue that America has to solve (i.e. the government or the society). It's an individual need that every individual is responsible for.
It’s hard to measure education service quality at the scale of an entire province or state.

We use proxies like standardized testing to avoid each school self-assessing as excellent. But tests can be gamed through cheating. States distribute funding on a literal per capita per day formula. It’s much harder to commit time tracking fraud. Incentives that encourage butts in seats of course can be gamed. Snow days are avoided through half days and NYC once had a “school day” that was just a video call long enough to take attendance.

Attendance maximizing limits flexibility and greatness in pedagogy. However it guarantees a bare minimum service level. It also aligns with schools’ secondary function as daycare.
that’s true

the facts are different between apple and google
> I really wonder what kind of pen testing certain people might try on this

After getting spanked by DHS OIG in 2017ish, TSA has really stepped up their testing program. They have an internal DHS red team as well as hiring outside experts for regular testing. Additionally they have a program called index testing where they take screeners from one airport and train them to do covert testing and send them to other airports, to both increase the volume of regular testing as well as exploit insider knowledge.

Despite all the shit they catch, TSA has gotten really good at detecting some of the stuff that I would covertly travel with.
Most crimes committed by adults should carry much harsher penalties across the board. There's far too much sympathy for the criminals and not nearly enough for the victims and communities that have to tolerate their nonsense.
Epic Games wins Google Play Store Antitrust Suit
This is huge!

I've had so many business ideas that I've killed at the idea stage because giving 30% of revenue to Apple or Google made it not viable.

Might be time to revisit them...
United Kingdom and Canada, for example, have alphanumeric ZIP codes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_code#Alphanumeric_posta...
> How would the hijackers get into the cockpit?

When the hijacker is the co-pilot

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26222674
The Counterpoint is you have countries with lower incarceration rates like Singapore with the death penalty and other harsh penalties for drug dealing.

I personally think the use of drugs is something better regulated by social norms then the law. However, this changes if the law socializes the cost of drug addiction. That is to say, if I'm forced to pay for food, shelter, and Healthcare for addicts, then they also lose the freedom of choice.
Yes, that's how I understand it; you can't mangle one syscall into another, but you can still mangle the syscall's other argument values.
Maybe it's not an identical thing when you get into the details.
Because this breaks the C ABI, so you can only do it with programs that were designed to be sandboxed anyways.
> They have way more rules than prisons a

Rules are good for a well lived life. My house has more rules than prisons.
why? that's horrifying for privacy
Effective dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38607424

(both links are to the same site; this one is to an article; the other is to a live-updates feed that includes this article a few posts down)
DemoFusion: Democratising High-Resolution Image Generation with No $$$
That's a little bit like the football-betting-sequence fallacy -- if I send a thousand letters out, with 50% predicting team A wins and 50% predicting team B wins, and do so successively for 10 weeks, at the end of the 10 weeks a small number of people will have gotten my letters "correctly predicting" the football outcome 10 times in a row. But of course, I didn't know anything about the games.

You can name a few of the richest people ever to do drugs who haven't died -- but how many have? And how many people without resources to pull them back from consequences of an overdose have died versus have used long-term and lived?

(For the record, I think I'm not really on the other side of the larger argument here, but I don't think your argument here is a convincing one.)
>, the handymen, plumbers, and electricians of the world will be mostly unaffected.

I will actually then think that all this AI stuff is not smoke and mirrors, the way it currently appears to be.
Out of curiosity, are you Portuguese or do you live there?
Where can I set my TSA password?
X-Prize – Health Aging Made Possible
I don't want to disagree because you put a lot of thoughts in it obviously, but HTML also stands for? :o)

So although you're right that it does a bit more, it wasn't and probably shouldn't be used for other than document presentation over the web.

That's the reason javascript got introduced: the custom designed and dynamic parts.
Apple should be punished for this more than Google. Google doesn't ban competing browsers, Apple does.
Considering it as a good thing - less chances WSL powered system will be put into production by mistake.
I'm more of a fan of this than the separation; I'd rather have a generic library provide the data-* options for things and keep the semantics more local.
I want to read the paper further, but I have done similar things in the past using JSONB. Multiple CTEs to pull the individual parts, convert to JSON and then combine into objects keys of arrays.
2FA Requirement for PyPI
nanoGPT & micrograd are master pieces of code. Truly god level code.

Andrew Karpathy is truly a gem and super grateful he still publishes videos showing his art.

Cerebras showing their distributed architecture on that same piece of code is impressive.

All of AI is search for a god algorithm. An algorithm so simple it could be written on an A4 piece of paper in 12px font size - but with enough data and compute it can more intelligent than entire cities of humans combined.

NanoGPT is a glimpse of that.
"western" is too wide categorize for this topic because it's different per country.
Yeah... I went to also read the website where he's selling a guide, and there he is saying

"All it takes is a few minutes each day, at each property to keep the sites litter-free. If you’re looking for a simple, low-risk business with the potential to earn you a 6 figure income, order the manual right now."

So I had this in mind, because here he mentioned income, but I used the wording from the article.

It always irks me as well when people say "figures" like that because it's a range of 1 to 10x, and it seems he really enjoys doing that.

Another quote from him "I’ve been cleaning up litter in and around commercial properties for over 30 years and I’ve been earning a 6 figure income from it."
Idk man, I hate big corpos and suit and tie handshaking but isn't this the same as renting a car vs stealing one?

The t&cs of these companies probably specify that we don't own the content we buy. The problem isn't with the logic it's with the law; consumer rights should make it illegal to do what they do.

But guess what? Ain't ever gonna change cause like so many other problems it requires that we work together and our species only does that when it's self serving.
I suggest that this actually makes Sweeney _more_ historically influential than Carmack. They both have remarkably similar origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Sweeney_(game_developer)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36801491

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/about....

While true FedNow instant payments went live a few months ago, there is an adoption curve and a lot of banks and credit unions have to update their back office and risk systems to support instant payments. It will eventually obsolete checks. You can move up to $100k at a time today (and $500k in the future) for about five cents (bank/financial institution charge, most won’t charge you, some might).

If your bank doesn’t support FedNow, call them and tell them you want it.
SMS works quite well for what it was originally designed: Short, text-only messages to a specific mobile phone number. Using it for instant messaging has always seemed like a very weird usage of the protocol to me.

The two just have very different semantics, just like how it's generally accepted that email is not a great medium for group chat either.
> This is huge!

> I've had so many business ideas that I've killed at the idea stage because giving 30% of revenue to Apple or Google made it not viable.

> Might be time to revisit them...

name 3?
Ah duh, keep the public part on the device.

However, that very quickly gets into the problem of untested backups. I am then relying completely upon a private key which has never been validated to work.
Is it illegal for the government to purchase a company in order shutter it from offering services to the public? I know this is done for technologies, I suppose as a conceptual matter, and patents.

Similarly how far can USG go in putting the screws to a provider? If you don’t comply with our desire for visibility into your network, for whatever lawful purpose where that visibility facilitates it, we are going to use contract and regulatory decision making to damage your ability to compete. CALEA doesn’t go that far but if you’re following what I’m asking here this seems to be a boot strapping attempt.
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Hard disagree. Decriminalizing drugs has skyrocketed schizophrenia and homelessness. Drugs should only be legalized in specific, medically necessary situations. Recreational use should be stigmatized and dealers should be handled as Duterte advocated.

The crime of the War on Drugs was that we had double standards, not that we had a War on Drugs.
We seem to be going in the opposite direction of a “post scarce” world where everything is getting more expensive and most people I know are working longer hours or multiple jobs to survive.
Playing Devil's advocate, with an eye on the dwindling resources of the planet, perhaps we need a prize for accelerating the rate at which humans mature (including completing education/training/skill development) and shortening lifespan with a goal of accelerating evolution?
Epic suffered pretty hard vs Apple when internal memos came out that Epic was intentionally breaking app store rules to get a strike, with the intent to sue over that strike. That's the kind of thing that a jury is more likely to let slide than a judge, as well.
> but how many have

Oh, plenty!
I think you can provide services (shelters, etc) AND crackdown with a view to cleaning the city for regular people (rather than just specifying taxpayers).
Qualcomm is a patent troll in some of the worst senses.
During the cold war it was realized that unless the broad mass of people in Europe were reasonably happy / well off, they would turn to communism as it was right next door. The US had no such compelling imperative, so capitalism was allowed a freer rein.

Drugs+innovations are largely funded by the public sector (see a previous discussion on HN I can't find right now), but in Europe we don't have a predatory healthcare industry.

As for NATO, that was formed to stop the entirety of the Eurasian landmass falling under Soviet control. It is hard to imagine an isolated US fairing too well in that kind of world.
Pharma and bio patents are a troubling issue on their own. We're already seeing this with the patent issues surrounding the Covid vaccines in pharma and with Monsanto and their accomplices monopolizing the agricultural high-yield seed markets. They need to be broken as well.
History shows that making it illegal didn't work either.
I die inside a little every time I read a sweeping assertion followed by some contrived examples. Does anyone find this kind of thing convincing? You can make anything sound plausible if you pick the right cute little snippets.
I'll hear the research, but it won't change my mind. I just want them to stop because its killing them. They aren't young. Every time they use is a major rolling of the dice. Many an ER visits have occurred. I don't really care if the drug is legal or not. Same would go with alcohol if that was the poison of choice. And yes, it is an emotional place to make an argument, because its personal, not some stranger you read about on the 4th page of the Tuesday paper OD'ing (which probably isn't even news anymore).
You'd be wrong. Medicaid is fantastic. No copays (nominally there are, but you can just not pay, which obviously street junkies opt for), no premiums, full service.

The only drawback is it represents a kind of prisoner's dilemma defection and when a sufficiently high percentage of the population gets a clue and starts reliably defecting the whole system is going to collapse. Not for lack of payment, but simply for lack of beds, doctors, and nurses.
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What makes this book truly exceptional is its foundation in the personal writings of the Flying Tigers themselves. Kleiner weaves together the pilots' journals, letters, and first-hand accounts to create a narrative that feels incredibly intimate and emotionally resonant. As you read the letters these brave men wrote to their loved ones, you can't help but be moved by the depth of their commitment and the sacrifices they were willing to make.

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One of the book's strengths is its ability to transport readers back in time, allowing us to experience the adrenaline-pumping dogfights over the skies of China and the challenges faced by the Flying Tigers on the ground. Kleiner's vivid descriptions make it feel as though you are right there alongside these courageous pilots, facing the same dangers and sharing in their triumphs.

While the amount of research is impressive, it never bogs down the narrative. Kleiner strikes a perfect balance between historical context and the personal stories of the Flying Tigers, ensuring that the book remains engaging and accessible to a wide range of readers.

In conclusion, "The Flying Tigers" by Sam Kleiner is a masterful work that does justice to the bravery and sacrifice of the American volunteer pilots who waged a secret war in China during World War II. It's a book that not only educates but also tugs at the heartstrings, leaving a lasting impression on its readers. If you're a history enthusiast, an aviation buff, or simply someone who appreciates tales of heroism and sacrifice, this book deserves a prominent place on your bookshelf. Kleiner's storytelling prowess and the personal touch of the pilots' letters make it a captivating and emotionally charged read that is not to be missed.