skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people driving GOP policy these days aren’t exactly rational.
Wikimedia Foundation 2021 IRS Form 990 [pdf]
It is far more dehumanizing to be so hopelessly addicted to drugs that you’ve lost all ability to support yourself and are shooting up in public. The filming of it is a secondary and far more minor indignity.
And so it is with consciousness. People place mysticism on consciousness because the idea that we are simply matter capable of knowing it is matter is disturbing. Season 1 of WestWorld used Anthony Hopkins to make this point well.
There's some interesting evidence suggesting there are 4 basic personality types with very different outlooks on life. If you're in a hurry, skip straight to the caption for figure 3.

Humans display a reduced set of consistent behavioral phenotypes in dyadic games

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451
I have enjoyed 5e greatly - I wish that Hasbro wasn't working so hard to kill D&D.
That's a hard read. A lot of new info for myself. Separating the art from the human is difficult.
Would that I be so innocent* as to be able to cast dispersions on another.

*regarding other things, not chaplin in nature.
As you pointed out, it's not veiled at all. And why should it be? We openly spend vast sums on nuclear weapons and people are fine with it.

But also, if they already have a weapons research facility and for a little extra money they can also research power production, why not do that?
That's great Looking forward to reading the blog. Do you plan to publish any open source libraries for it?
IIRC, non-Nintendo-licensed Gameboy games were allowed to reproduce Nintendo's trademarked logo because it was necessary for the game to run.

Trademarks are restricted to brand identification only; attempting to use them for anything else will result in trouble and wasted money.
I have a hard time believing this. Switch is 720p low quality. Anything should be able to match that. Edge case indeed though - why not just play on an actual switch lol they are like $200
I think you are imagining an aligned allocator out of an unaligned allocator, where the misalignment should be stored somewhere around the actual memory block, but if the main allocator itself is aware of aligned allocations it is not necessary.

I can still imagine the case where allocation bins are structured by the allocation size and alignment size and an incorrect alignment will result in an incorrect bin, but such bins are only beneficial when the alignment itself is too large compared to allocation sizes, and I'm not sure who really wants them in the first place.
> Seems kinda silly to enforce a country's laws on someone even when they're in another country.

It's relatively common these days. The US assumes global jurisdiction for anything that touches the US Dollar (as e.g. Kim Dotcom of Megaupload has been fighting for years now), and most Western nations assume global jurisdiction for a select few grave crimes (mostly murder, war crimes and sexual exploitation of underagers).
My Dad lives in a small Australian country town, catches something like 50-70 cats in cat traps in his house and back yard each year and offloads them to the local pound. I can’t understand how cat owners are allowed to let their animals run all over town at all hours of the day and night. They cause so much damage to the native animals, wiping out frog and bird populations.
Wow I wonder if this also affects the founder editions which have a stronger metal enclosure. I hope not. But i had better print a support soon.
Limitations in existing processes, sure. But not limitations in physics. If E=mc^2, we've got a lot of efficiencies still to find.
I think the other factor is there are 'types' of people that will comment online, and also only conditions in which some people will comment online, so we get a weird filter.

It's easy to think that you'll get a general cross-section of the population posting, and that they're relatively stable when commenting. But we can't see when people are drunk or under the influence of things, who the bots/psyops bad actors are, or the ages etc. Makes for a frothy mix. But I agree, much healthier to just avoid it and just interact in the real world where possible.
Are they repairing every board though or is it mostly the same boards in vulnerable areas getting replaced?
I think it's more so that you're not going to convince politicians to reduce it (they have no incentive), and even if they do reduce it, there's no way to stop them from raising it again.
Good that neither a bagel nor tranqs are addictive and that the user is totally in control with both products.
> a bug in safe code can easily cause unsound behavior in your unsafe code if you’re not careful.

I thought the whole point of safe code was that any bugs in safe code cannot cause unsound behaivor, so it's on the unsafe code to maintain soundness even if it's used incorrectly by safe code?
To me that just seems like the difference between usage of "fakes"/sarcasm for positive purposes and usage for toxic, bigoted purposes. In the example you listed - no, "people" (the audience to the supposed sarcasm, I guess) are not stupid per se. Indeed, despite the name's implications many people are acutely aware of these dog whistles for bigoted ideology.

I don't see how that relates to far less cruel sarcasm which largely requires a sort of mutual cynicism and shared context around a subject or current event. And in particular, this doesn't help me understand why so many internet commenters seem to mis-perceive sarcasm as literal truth when it's quite clear. Obviously there's Poe's law to explain this. That, and the internet can capture a strange bucket of people, not all of who are privy to the latest goings on.
Work for whom? All of the early employees and investors in Uber have done very well.
AMD's Response to Nvidia regarding H100 vs. MI300X on real world workloads

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38669440
Inference-only hardware like this could be a temporary cost saving solution to scale up AI infrastructure, but I think a chip the size of this should be able to support training, otherwise it’s just a waste of money and energy. I predict inference will move to edge computing based on mobile chips like the ones from Qualcomm in the midterm.
We had a cat that would regularly leave on our doorstep all types of dead bodies: birds, rats, mice, moles. Mainly mice and rates. It got to the point where we re-homed him to a farm that needed a mouser.

About two weeks after we re-homed him we noticed pest control vans outside of three of the homes on our street. We talked to the neighbors and they were now seeing mice and rats and needed to get them removed.
Some structures are quite repeated. The 16S rRNA genes.

A hydrogen atom.

An STL file.

Maybe they're all the same Ship.
Volkswagen will bring back physical buttons
> robbing the public of what should be in the public domain

I love your choice of words. These copyright monopolists are robbing and defrauding us of our rights. Literal robber barons.

The social contract was we'd pretend their stuff wasn't trivially copyable so they could make some money and then the works would enter the public domain. They have repeatedly failed to keep up their ends of the bargain while making fortunes off of government enabled monopolies on information. Therefore we should not be obligated to keep honoring their monopolies either.
Two things:

1. Nobody is entitled to venture capitalist funding. It is not an oddly named and run social works program.

2. VC funding is not a home run. It is not free money. If the only way you can launch a tech business is venture funding with the hope of hitting it out of the park before the funds’ cliff, perhaps consider if the return justifies the effort.
rachelbythebay: Virtual Terminal (2013)
I include mormons with the puritans
I'm a bit confused by the eavesdropping on thoughts conclusions being drawn. Did I misinterpret something, or wouldn't this be (currently) quite limited for "mind-reading" if it only picks up signals from reading and learns them. There is a difference between mapping "inner voice" and whatever is read.

Granted there may be chains of assumptions of advancement involved between them into actual thought-reading, but we've seen before how the devil has hid in those details in advancement chains. See all of the problems with autonomous vehicles in practice. People kind of suck at predicting what problems will be easy to solve.
That doesn't go far enough. Copyright terms should be on the order of 20 years or so, and should have nothing to do with whether or not the creator is still alive.
Do schools kill creativity? Very much so. My son is a school teacher and over the years he has had roles that were supposed to encourage teachers to be more effective in creating an environment for helping students to be more interested in learning.

The vast majority of teachers that he had to deal with have no interest is seeing their students become more interested or creative. The teachers were there time-serving their job or focused on political activism.

He and I have had discussions over the years and one of his concerns is that creativity and interest in learning had to be encouraged in the younger students (primary school, grades 1 - 4). Instead it appeared to be beaten out of the students (figuratively speaking by teachers having little or no interest in providing such environments).

Certainly, teachers were encouraged to do certain activities but these things were not focused on encouraging students to think, to be creative or to be interested in learning.

His view was that by the time students reached grade 7, they were no longer interested in learning or thinking as all of this "stuff" was just plain boring and had no applicability to their social lives.
Divorce is an excuse for hedonism.
Makes sense. His name is on some of the patents.
> Would the world be a better place if the technology for living a thousand years existed? Absolutely not, at least not at first, and certainly not today

If you want to sacrifice your life for a better world, that is your decision. But do not force that decision to other people.
Law Firm Edelson PC to Stop Campus Recruiting from Harvard Law School
Like the 'No child left behind' did wonders to education, maybe 'No startup left behind' is needed to fund all of them irrespective of business model or founders' background.
Yes, that was the takeaway by the MPAA-aligned laywers at the time.
They can argue about it on the disambiguation page.
Aside, I'd like to point out that some of the important aspects of marriage are things that cannot be accomplished by pure private contract, because the existence of the relationship puts obligations on third parties to recognize it. (Much like another special case, power of attorney.)

So if anyone says that government should not be involved in marriages/civil-unions/whatever, they're really talking about removing important features from the institution as well.
SG is good for many reasons... taxes, treatment of intellectual property, development grants, sound banking system, politically stable, and a legal system based on English common law (usually something people want to see in contracts).

Setting up a company is a quick process HOWEVER getting the business to a state where you can transact legally may take a while if you need special licenses.

Also, EDB in Singapore can provide quite a bit of support for SG companies. EDB can set up meetings in foreign countries for you to help drum up business.

A lot of Brits I met in SG also had BVI companies.
It relies on being dishonest about one's own intentions, which is manipulative by definition.
Previous copyright extensions were not constitutional amendments. Decreasing the length of new copyright terms could be done the same way, without any need for an amendment.

Reducing the length of existing copyright terms might be considered an ex post facto law. Those are explicitly prohibited by the Constitution.

The Constitution states that copyrights must be limited in length. Retroactively extending the duration of existing copyrights (as opposed to new copyrights) should be unconstitutional, but the Supreme Court said in Eldred v. Ashcroft that it’s fine—wrongly, in my opinion. Correcting them would require an amendment.
A fun github repo: "what would MISRA look like applied to Rust" https://github.com/PolySync/misra-rust/blob/master/MISRA-Rul...

(They're comparing with the C version, not the C++ version...)
We live on a farm, so we end up using the bed multiple times a week.

The main competitor would be a car with a nice cab and car seat, and then a second beater truck with a single row of seating.

Alternatively, if someone made such a thing, but of course they don't, I'd like a little brick of an EV sedan that could tow as much as a large pickup (> 12,000 lbs), with no bed but a nice cab. The Rivian truck gets close to the towing requirement at 11,000 lbs, but for some reason their SUV only hits 7700. The BMW X5 hybrid is also close to what I'd be looking for, but still only hits 7700 lbs.
Older D&D editions actually had a tactical miniatures game. Of course D&D originally evolved from the Chainmail miniatures rules. 4e had a miniatures game as well as some great tactical board games that are fun with friends and can even be played solo. With 5e they wanted to emphasize "theater of the mind" but you can still have fairly tactical battles with miniatures, terrain, etc.

All D&D versions seem pretty great. I've played the 2.5e CRPGs (fun!), classic Pathfinder (basically 3.5+ - also fun!), 4e RPG, miniatures game, boardgames (all definitely fun!), and lots of 5e (also very fun!) The classic rulebooks are baroque, fascinating, and immensely charming. The settings (Forgotten Realms etc.) are brilliant.
You are are literally describing a "lingua franca" here.

And there's no evidence that English is special in it's ability serve as a lingua franca. In previous eras, other languages held this role (e.g, French, hence the term "lingua franca").

The dominance of English can be far more certainly attributed to the geopolitical dominance of english-speaking nations...
Half a dozen commercial laser fusion projects disagree with you.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/13/science/laser-fusion-ener...
It needs to be in the right range to prevent food from sticking.
Apple handles that in part by fusing off the broken subcomponents of the huge die, though, which is how they end up with stuff like a 7-core GPU.
Seems like a compiler should be able to convert division to shifts and subtractions.

> u8 divmod 58 can be reduced to a u8->u16 multiply, a right shift, and three conditional subtractions; that's not great, but on a modern CPU it's a afterthought compared to the quadratic loop over the input size.

Same topic from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18409344
You seem awfully confident in the official data.

What makes you say that?
Very cool! It took me a while to figure it out, with Africa being on the north east sector. Once I spotted Italy it made way more sense! :)
From the thread it looks like AMD and Nvidia have something similar, maybe Intel is wants feature parity
What, the source code isn't documentation enough? (jk)

I vaguely remember critique towards PGP coming from Signal's corner of the internet (probably before it was called Signal) for having long-term stable keys and published fingerprints that make it so you want them to be long-term stable for verification purposes. Problem is, I looked for this critique a few months ago and can't find it anymore, so perhaps I'm putting words in their mouth that, instead, came from Signal supporters in a comment thread or so, though I also can't think of any other reason to hide your public key's fingerprint. Regularly swapping out keys protects from temporary key compromise situations, that's simply a fact, but it trades off being able to publish your key somewhere and people being able to use that to not have to trust "the server" (a central key distribution system) in an E2EE application. I have a different opinion than Signal seems to have on which variant is the lesser evil, but I can see why they've made the choice. (Imagine my surprise when finding out that Signal's public keys are long-term stable with indefinite validity.)

So, given that they seemingly don't want people to use their public key fingerprint the way that you can with PGP (printing it on a business card), I am not surprised if there is no user documentation on how to undo the concatenation. I'm not aware of such documentation myself, and it wouldn't be the first time that I have to dive into Signal's source code to find info on already-pushed-to-users functionality.

Let me know if you find any docs, though, because I seem to type out the explanation of how to use signal key fingerprints somewhat regularly (I should store it somewhere in reusable form, yeah) and sending a link with screenshots will be much nicer
> by encoding it into the returned pointer

More accurately speaking though, this information is not directly available from the pointer (unless we have a universal pointer tagging support today...) and should be mapped via the allocator internal data structure. This is what o11c referred by "arenas/buckets/whatever", and having a size information does simplify this process.

The metadata around the allocation is comparably expensive especially for smaller allocations anyway, so modern allocators would have at least two classes of memory depending on the size. So even when the allocator doesn't make use of any other size information, it is possible that the size information can still be helpful.
A sentient Ship of Theseus?
See -- the thing is; I'm hard pressed to see a problem with "drone" v "quadcopter" (though I'm not super into them)

But, for example. "Delete" is literally a problem. Like, people think they can "delete their pictures from the internet" because that's what the app said it was doing.

Same with "hallucination." There is literally absolutely no difference between what an AI is doing when it is "hallucinating" vs. when it gets things right, but the terminology implies it's possible for these things to know right from wrong, etc.
Not only that, but there is specific SCOTUS caselaw opposing the abuse of trademark to create perma-copyright.
Press x to doubt. The oldest datable example I can find of the Wren story is from 2000: https://books.google.com/books?id=L5n_uza-hl8C&pg=PA81&dq=Ch...
So, then what is this announcement? They're moving to WPP, which is... IPP but it warns on crypto downgrade, and is maybe incompatible?

I thought Windows defaulted to SMB for printer discovery, and not IPP. Anyway, from the announcement, they don't seem to be improving on what I'm used to getting from CUPS.
Nintendo did attempt that trick, although the case you’re thinking of is Sega v. Accolade, which as you said, ruled that forcing your competitor to display your trademark unwillingly doesn’t mean you can smack them down for trademark infringement.
Because the seller doesn’t want it to be and won’t proceed with the transaction if it is.

Imagine you’ve sold a car, the buyer drives off and later reverses the payment.

For very large transactions we have escrow—but isn’t quick by design.
> Divorce is an excuse for hedonism.
Sometimes? Absolutely.

All the time? No. Depressingly often, it is to escape a person and relationship they desperately need to be free of.

I know and am related to several people who are divorced. It was not hedonism that drove the proceedings, but exasperation and pain.

EDIT after further consideration: And even if it is - so what? What business of that is yours?
Well, I never really took to actual software development, so game dev is out though I feel like I dodged a bullet on that anyway; it's obviously an actual job (in an industry that I've also grown wary of) and not always fun and exciting as a child might imagine. Still, there are some really cool devs out there doing cool stuff.

These days I guess I'm a devops guy in medical software which is in fact aligned with what I value. Pay would embarrass most people here I think, but I like the people and am proud that we get to create a product that people value enough to pay for; we aren't trying to sell ads or otherwise extract value from people, so I am pretty happy with that.

It was not always this way; I worked with a lot of startups in the early 10's (not for, but with by helping them with infrastructure before it was all AWS) and quickly became disenchanted with the tech industry. Though I wouldn't have known about the idea of ZIRP back then, it was pretty clear that most every company I worked with was chasing the money and tech-startup lifestyle/image, whatever product they happened to be pushing often seemed like an afterthought. It seems that that attitude moved onto blockchain and now AI. I suppose it's the same old grow-up, lose your innocence story that most go through, but I do feel like the 90's, when I came of age, were a time of real breakthroughs and vision for a brighter future which has slowly dimmed in the intervening decades.
I realize now that some people might have mistaken my comment to mean that I'm the person who created the USB-C MIDI synth. I meant that I've been working as a software engineer and have plenty of free time.
They define lead free in the sentence that makes the claim. The last time I looked carefully at this part, I found it was illegal to use it for drinking water supplies. This would be less of a big deal if they stocked lines for potable water, but they do not.
Take it up with Germany, they're the ones that pushed life+70 on the EU, who then ratcheted it onto the US...
When visiting Europe I've literally had to get up and find my waitress after not seeing her for 40+ minutes. I'll take tip culture any day...in sit down restaurants, at least.
Or maybe there's more than one problem, and TikTokers exploiting homeless drug addicts is still one of them.
Show us on the doll where Elon hurt you.
Do you have an actual argument or are you too comfortable with always invoking a boogeyman without assessing the situation?
Many nightclubs and parties have rules against photos to avoid embarrassment, and they can do this because they are private.

But when people decide to behave indecently in public places, then I don’t think those sorts of norms should apply. An inebriated person on the street has decided to accept that people will see them in a compromising situation. Ofc publishing photos expands the scale of how many people see them in this situation, but that doesn’t change the fact that they choose to let people see them this way. It is good for society that people are aware of problems, and taking photos is the best way to communicate the reality of the problem.

However I don’t think Paparazzi should be allowed to harass people, because they take photos of people living normal lives. There isn’t any benefit to society to share such photos.
Nicely done !

As a solo indie hacker, i always thought these would be great when tied with a marketing automation tool (which is what I open sourced)

I found animstats.com has formats specific for social networks but their product ux was too complicated.

Good luck!
This. When I was still doing infra for a large recommendation engine, the training was what got the big GPUs. Inference was on CPU or (later) ASICs (may have been FPGAs?).
It's ironic because Quebecois French might be closer to the pre-Revolutionary King's French than the speech of the sans-culottes.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220829-the-royal-roots-...
I dunno, the morality police can be pretty aggressive if you leave the tourist areas.
Probably very little. This theory is pretty bad from many angles, including timing.
The viewer app for the Sony 3D monitor imports glTF files without any processing, and I can confirm that it displays effectively in actual 3D.
Nope. The time and space in which they exist acts as a unique identifier.