skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re just pushing a pretty blatantly uninformed opinion supporting a frankly indefensible position. My car had minor collision damage and it took the manufacture’s 1st party service center 3 weeks to fix it. The assumption that manufacturers are uniquely positioned to repair their products is a poisonous tactic being used by insidious players to discredit right to repair.
https://github.com/LedgerHQ/connect-kit/pull/30/files

Come on. This sensitive an application using a CDN at all, let alone a URL without version pinning?
The problem with playing competitive games casually is that the moment one player actually bothers to learn anything about the game, it immediately ruins the experience for the other player if they're unwilling to do the same.
you might be interested in "literate programming", a technique pioneered by Donald Knuth. the idea is to write your code in steps, inserting notes and documentation into each step. you can then use tools to "weave" (produce documentation) or "tangle" (produce runnable code).

note: to do this properly, it should involve more than just inserting notes into your code. you'll need to adapt the way you write and design your code too (for adding documentation to various intermediate states, rather than just the way it looks right now).

http://literateprogramming.com/knuthweb.pdf

http://literateprogramming.com/cweb_download.html

http://literateprogramming.com/tools.html
Love it! Some improvements are needed on search but is an amazing MVP, I'll use this for my late christmas shopping
Mass, angular velocity, and charge information "escape" just fine. And given LIGO's recent successes, I'd assume they're able to make significant observations about the insides of black holes during ringdown.
Have you talked to actual capitalists? Like, people who actually own capital? They don't want handouts to their competitors, but want them for themselves. If you own a business, of course you want government subsidies.

But wait, you are probably talking about market purists. Those don't really exist in the business world.
I always figured it was the closest they could do to the descriptions of hacking from Neuromancer. Especially since the computer was named the "Gibson", I figured the whole thing was a great big nod to it.
I dunno, it just feels some silly definition or thought experiment to define away the money missing from my wallet.

I'll concede all day long that i may be using the wrong definition, that's definitely not my objection. However free is pretty simple. Entrance fees or any price blocking you from the "free" thing is in any practical sense, hardly free. At least imo.

A lot of things are free if you ignore what you paid for in the first place.

Out of curiosity, how would you even define what is free and what isn't? Lets say a snickers bar released an April Fools edition where you paid the standard price, but only for the wrapper. The snickers bar inside is free. Or the silly paper clip example i gave, with beeper mini. Is there some definition that you would see apt to describe these as practically (as in, how people would interpret them) not being free?
We're talking about different things here. I was talking about building new fabs for 28nm nodes and you're talking about TSMC upgrading existing fabs from older nodes to 28nm production.

Of course upgrading an existing older "sunk-cost" fab to 28nm production will be profitable, but not building a new one from scratch just for that same older node.
Double Blue Ocean Event 2024? (Climate Change)
I suggest you read again about rollback input based deterministic simulation, it is the superior option by far, especially for competitive, you have in practice “no lag”.

That you never got any complaints doesn’t means your solution doesn’t have plenty of issues, also 20hz is pretty low.

There is a reason why no multiplayer fighting will even be considered competitive if they don’t use rollback netcode in this day and age.
Embedded OLAP Benchmarks
Seriously - whatever happened to the matter of fact paper titles. So many of these scientific paper titles are just clickbait now.
Do you build and program these laptops and USB drives yourself?
More like an opportunity for the substack platform, which doesn’t want to be left behind in this brave new world
This movie is the reason why I became a programmer.

I watched it when I was starting in high school and got inspired by it. Then, I literally googled "How to become a hacker" and found this incredible page by Eric Raymond [0], which I used as an mentor throughout my high school and college years. I ended up developing the recommended hard skills (learning programming, UNIX, open source culture...) but also the "points of style" (martial arts, science fiction, meditation, music). In fact, when I was trying to search for a hacker community online, I stumbled upon Hacker News and haven't left ever since!

As expected, I didn't become a black hat hacker as in the movie but, to this day, I still believe this movie changed the course of my life.

[0] https://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
> For some reason Apple devices are particularly poorly represented in emulators when compared to other systems

Must be all that lockdown they do. Which is a damn shame, as some early iOS games and whatnot were actually really cool and no longer exist in a runnable form except on those devices (and that is assuming you already had them installed!)
He’s the richest man in the world because we’ve made him the richest man in the world. Each one of us with our tax dollars.
I think a good comparison is how long it takes for people to make games on the PlayDate. The PlayDate has a weak processor by modern standards, but it also has a lot of modern little touches and a modern SDK.

Yoyozo[1] is a recently released PlayDate game. The first toot about working on it on Mastodon[2] is from Sept. 5 and it got into the PlayDate store on Nov. 21. Elsewhere the creator said he put about a month into it. So a lone dev working on a legacy-like platform can launch a game in a month. I think Yoyozo doesn't have quite as much depth as Donkey Kong (not as many screens, no enemies), but it was made by a lone dev, so it probably all balances out. I think people are basically still capable of the same level of output, maybe a little higher, if they're willing to work on a limited platform.

[1]: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2023/11/21/yoyozo-how-i-made...

[2]: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@gingerbeardman/1110136615210...
Tutanota has got a Linux app, and the Android app is available on F-Droid.

I love what both companies are trying to achieve with building private ecosystems, but for me Linux must always come first. Everyone who loves privacy has switched to Linux by now.
Since it is buying the whole gaming industry... there is a chance.
I’ve tried something similar on the frontend side: I decided to build a UI for Ollama.ai using only HTML, CSS, and JS (Single-Page Application). The goal is to learn something new and have zero runtime dependencies on other projects and NPM modules. Only Node and Parcel.js (https://parceljs.org/) are needed during development for serving files, bundling, etc. The only runtime dependency is a modern browser.

Here's what I have found so far:

- JavaScript (vanilla) is a viable alternative to React.js

- HTML entities (UTF-8) are an alternative to, for example, font-awesome

- Parcel.js is great for bundling cross-browser compatible Javascript apps: simple to install and no configuration needed. By default Parcel.js supports every browser having 0.25% or more of the total amount of active web users.

- The HTML template tag and JavaScript work well as a replacement for template libraries like Pug

- ChatGPT4 is great at writing the skeleton code for a project

Future plans include experimenting with `node:test` for testing.

I would need to add external libraries to fully support the following features, but I think I will continue on the zero-dependencies path:

- Sanitizing HTML

- Code highlighting

- Markdown rendering

The code can be found here: https://github.com/christianhellsten/ollama-html-ui/
Not nearly as much as the missed optimizations from not having this easily available.
Well, the thing I was originally suggesting was that people should not be so quick to call something unfalsifiable just because GR predicts we can't directly look inside black holes.
We can’t know for sure (can we?) because that class didn’t document. But there are songs and related matter I suppose.

I don’t find the idea that the serf/laborer class harbored “nationalist” thoughts to be very convincing, tbh. Conceptually, the critical attribute is group identity. For that class, religion definitively provided that (supporting proof being the European religious wars) but I wonder if non religious identity extended beyond the village or maybe guilds for the skilled laborers. In each of these cases, there is a structural basis for affinity — one being faith and the other profession.

In general, I wonder if there is any historical basis to the idea that nationalism was an artificial intellectual concept that later infected the general population. Also important to note we should distinguish patriotism (broadly read as support for the sovereign system) from nationalism. The latter more typically is suppressed by patriotic elements in any given society as national boundaries and political boundaries rarely are coincidental.
Yes. We use nVidia GPUs as they're the only products performant enough for our applications and the Wayland support is complete dogshit.
Not the OP but counting on an average of $3 dollars per click in the US across those channels, I'd say this pricing is way more effective with the amount of searches the site is getting.
Lightning AI Studios – A persistent GPU cloud environment
from the announcement tweet:
https://twitter.com/rasbt/status/1735293149965062476

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So, we've been quietly building something new for running AI experiments and deploying models ...

Our Lightning AI Studios let you switch between different machines and GPUs flexibly in the same environment without any setup steps.

Everything can be accessed via your browser and supports

- VSCode
- Jupyter Notebook
- a regular terminal
- a control pane for multi-node jobs
- ... many, many collaborative and extra features

And there's no installation or setup step required at all.

It's basically what I've been using internally as a productivity tool for the last few months to run AI experiments.

(*there's also a demo video in the linked tweet)

---

A persistent GPU cloud environment.

Code online. Code from your local IDE. Prototype. Train. Serve. Multi-node. All from the same place.

No credit card. 6 Free GPU hours/month.
Sounds like something a Corporation would say. You can have compromise and transparency, it doesn't have to be one or the other.
>> But you can only really make those profitably for a few industries

I think it's more like they're only profitable if the equipment is already paid for. And even then the margins may be low.
The other reason to love this place is OPs take rebuke with grace. Kudos to you sir.
RHEL Workstation is primarily used for graphics workstations to run ports of old SGI-compatible software, and in particle physics laboratories for loading all workstations with a standard set of science, mathematics, and TeX publishing software.

RHEL is also used in automotive applications, such as in-car entertainment systems, but this use case has already standardized on Wayland (it was one of the first things Wayland was widely used for)
How many hours of C-Span have you watched in your life? Detailed minutes of Congress proceedings from like 1800 are available for you to peruse if you'd like. Transparency isn't the problem – everything is happening fully out in the open.
If I try to follow your understanding, it would mean that "the feds punishing Musk for not participating in their well documented censorship operations" is about Musk openly sharing his views, not about censoring other people on Twitter. Can you share the documentation about censorship operations targeting Elon Musk?
Transparency would be transcripts of every communication the politician has. At the golf courses, at the bar, on vacation, etc. See Clarence Thomas for example.

Internet/bandwidth creating cost free video channels for politicians to advertise themselves is not transparency.
I'm very sure the 4px one uses more then 4 pixels height on my phone (firefox on android). The px measure is a lie!
You do realize that governments created both markets and capitalism right? Markets are older than capitalism and have been tools for governments to provision themselves. In fact, anthropologists couldn't find a society that voluntarily chose markets. Markets are a product of conquest. Capitalism is a product of the feudal system collapsing. Capitalism cannot exist without a strong government because it requires markets, a legal framework that allows you to own property, and a working financial system.
Riiight?! This is a really strong defense for the white hats. Either it’s your code and you are egregious slime balls doing illegal things, or “some third party interfered and hacked your trains like you said and we fixed it you’re welcome”.
> If one isn't trained as (or thinking as) a scientist, then...

Reaction: When possible, leave "science" out of any broad-based public policy discussion. Between the people with negative reactions to the word, and those who tune out "because science is hard stuff", and those who start judging the arguments by "how fancy is his lab coat?" criteria - it's seriously counter-productive.

> ...if one wants to argue against police claims that body-cams offer sufficient...argue from specific cases where...

YES, that is the right approach. Go directly there. And pick your specific cases very carefully, to make it extra-clear to your audience that naive quick fixes - which all-too-many of them really want to believe in - are nothing but different brands of square tires.
But fast fashion clothes are not much cheaper (or even not always cheaper) than non-fast-fashion-cheap stuff.

Maybe this is semantic argument only, for me:

fast fashion - fashionable (or at least trying to be fashionable), not essential, poorly made clothes

"cheap clothes" - non fashionable, often (but not always) poorly made clothes

Poor people buy cheap clothes and sometimes fast fashion ones. The main buyers of fast fashion clothes are people from middle and upper class.
They never qualified it as taking millions and not building out; the only qualifier included was not building out for a decade, which includes my ISP.

My ISP has applied for these funds to bring fiber to my property. The original statement asserts they should not be allowed to receive funding. You seem to feel the same way, unless you genuinely believe that Starlink is in any way comparable to fiber. To be clear, it is not even close, and it never will be.

Rural citizens do not deserve to be left behind with speeds that are an order of magnitude slower than what everyone else has. We subsidize other utilities to reach everyone, and we have decided internet is critical to our society. It is time for everyone to pony up to fund access for everyone.
Twelve Days of Pattern Matching
Stop putting shit on the open web if you don't want people to be able to view it how they choose on a browser they choose.

That's not even a viewer abusing the protocol, that's specifically how the web was designed.
Best I've got is

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step = 20, stop_after = 60 * 1000;

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```
You are also disagreeing with the owner and operator of the train, who is responsible for its safe operation.
It’s probably different for different areas of the world
> And so as policymakers rushed to equip the police with cameras, they often failed to grapple with a fundamental question: Who would control the footage? Instead, they defaulted to leaving police departments [..] with the power to decide what is recorded, who can see it and when.

I think it's incredibly naive to portray this as a "defaulting" or "failing to grapple with a fundamental question".

I am 100% certain "who controls the footage" was the first question out of the police brass' mouths, and the crucial point in negotiations, where conceding to let the police themselves control the footage allowed the use of bodycams in the first place.

Nothing was left to chance here, this is entirely deliberate.
Blindsight was the first book I read by Peter Watts. The vampires threw me for a loop when I was reading it too. They seemed like a weird element to include in a moderately hard sci-fi book, and it was a bit jarring. The explanation for how they were a subspecies that got resurrected was kinda weak, and for the first chunk of the book I thought they were only there because the author really likes vampires or something.

Later on it turns out that he had a good reason for including them! They’re included so he could compare and contrast human minds with other types of minds: the really alien (the Scramblers), and the human-ish (the vampires). The whole thing is a neat sci-fi story wrapped around a prolonged meditation on consciousness, which I think is neat (but I can also understand if it isn’t your bag).
Are you really a developer if you're not swimming in computers? Maybe it takes putting a few years into the industry before the disposable income is high enough to make regular computing device purchases relatively painless, but...
Maybe with a shitty boss and a complacent environment. Help them not squint at it and make a gut decision. Why not instead ensure the objective of the report is clear, there's a meaningful target around which to hinge on a decision, and present the data in a way that helps make the decision? And in lieu of the time or resources to do that, work on those problems?
Does anyone know a decent RISC-V developer kit that one can buy in the Bay Area today? Or rent somewhere in the cloud? I want to start porting our C libraries to RISC-V.
The key results are not a problem just for you! You are hitting the nail on the head. Check out section 6 of this study ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.00236.pdf ) - defining good OKRs is problem number 1, and data issues are the 2nd most cited concern!

I wrote a piece about the common issues that people face creating OKRs. There are a few common mistakes that people make which makes key results unmeasurable: https://koliber.com/articles/top-okr-mistakes

> the gradual accumulation of small fixes/hacks is not something you can put a metric on

I've done it before. On one team, we had a goal to reduce the number of linting errors and warnings from 18,000+ by 50% (while not growing the number of INGORES). The team was reluctant at first, because "it's only linting and it does not matter." But they relented and eventually started fixing things here and there. And the number started going down, albeit slowly. And over time we got the number of linting errors down to 18 (or something close), because people found time here and there to improve things. And the team learned how to use OKRs. And they put in place a style guide and an auto-linter. And they started using it so that the errors did not come back. And there were plans in place to put in more sophisticated style analysis and run another OKR agains that.

They literally matured in the code development practices way beyond just linting, just becuase of the relentless drive on one seemingly insignificant OKR.

This is just one example. You can use OKRs with engineering metrics to improve lots of things:

- fix the top 10 Jira tickets tagged with #techdebt

- reduce linting errors by 20%

- reduce number of functions with a cyclometric complexity of 10+ by 50%

- research 5 static code analysis tools

- increase unit test code coverage from 56% to 62%

You can go many different ways. I've helped engineering teams do this well, starting with deciding what makes sense to improve and getting buy-in, through defining the OKRs, building the system of measuring it, and most importantly, driving the OKR every week.

In the case you cited, with a bunch of hacks, I'd approach it like this:

- Create a OKRs like "Reduce tech debt".

- One of the key results would be "Identify 50 hacky places in code, and create Jira tickets for them" or something similar, by Jan 31st."

- 2nd OKR would be "Refactor XX out of the 50 hacky places identified by Jira tickets, by March 31st"

Pick numbers that work for you.
Imagine how storage we will be in 20,100 and 200 years :)
In web 1px defined as 1/96th of an inch

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_...
100% agree, same with online games.

I worked on a game called Minecraft Earth and it was a service-oriented game where you could collect things and play Minecraft in AR (fun project, not very fun game lol). It shut down a few years ago and we didn't get a chance to add an offline-only mode for even simple AR building, so now no one will ever be able to go back and play that game. It makes me really sad to see a whole product, a whole codebase just go poof.
>The problem is not the know-how but the massive investments needed to productize it.

Are you telling me the EU, the richest block in the world, has less money to spend on fabs than TSMC, as if the EU is scrapping for change behind the couch cushions.

If only you knew how much money the EU wastes through various useless and vanity projects that accomplish nothing except getting certain well connected people rich, we could have built 3x TSMCs.

But unlike Taiwan, we're lacking in visionary well educated tech leaders, and drowning in clueless politicians and established gentrified industry players who lobby the funds go to their projects instead.
If I have learned anything from Dan Carlin (and the excellent "Hardcore History" podcast), it's that the steppe people (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythians) were no joke -- so it doesn't surprise me that the oldest fortress would be located there.
I just this week finished Dr. Smethurst's book. It was good stuff, but it does focus more on a black hole's interactions with its surrounding galaxy -- presumably because that's her specialization -- rather than things like firewalls and "is there a singularity."

Would recommend.
But you hav to admire the opportunities that other obvious players like GoPro seem to have missed out on:

"Motorola Solutions Raises Spending on Body Cameras to Grab Market Share
The equipment maker expects revenue in its video-security business to jump more than 20% this year after a 30.7% leap last year"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/motorola-solutions-raises-spend...
I think this is an extreme view. I think we can all agree that body cam footage is an important tool to get justice, but in the interest of public safety I don't think providing bad actors real time information about police habits and location is a good idea.
pretty sure even if they have source code version control, the "funny" patches are outside of the version control and applied on top before making a build.
Not an expert, but there are additional start up costs that need to be spent to “start it up.” With any significant downtime, those could eat up any possible profit unless it’s a newest technology fab.
There are literally closed door legislative sessions that are not transparent. Plus the adage “business is done on the golf course”.