skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is simple enough if you're okay with intermediary files littering the entire codebase. Targets and their intermediary files will be written right next to their sources and the whole tree will be a huge mess.

The makefile quickly gets complicated if one wants an organized source tree such as:

source/module/file1.c
source/module/file2.c
source/main.c
source/tools/tool.c

To be transformed into an architecture specific build tree whose organization automatically matches that of the source tree:

build/$arch/prerequisites/module/file1.d
build/$arch/prerequisites/module/file2.d
build/$arch/prerequisites/main.d
build/$arch/prerequisites/tools/tool.d
build/$arch/objects/module/file1.o
build/$arch/objects/module/file2.o
build/$arch/objects/main.o
build/$arch/objects/tools/tool.o
build/$arch/executables/main
build/$arch/executables/tool

The general solution to that is the explicit path method:

https://make.mad-scientist.net/papers/multi-architecture-bui...
> Why are government resources invested in protecting something that private companies and individuals have the responsibility of protecting themselves?

How can an individual protect themselves if a big company steals their ideas?
Nah, piracy is cheaper and better.

I can download whatever I want, in a world wide scope, for free, with no DRM shit. And no ads or other onerous garbage bolted on.

And I keep what I download, rather than "stream" (download every time, with no ability to save).

So this 'pay more for less'? Nah, y'all pushing me to piracy. And I have NO problems doing it. And no, I'm not going to pay $150/no for streaming crap that I end up with nothing when I cancel.

So, yeah. I pirate.
Question: the outside circle is a tire made of rubber, which wears down at a known rate.

Which tire wears down more:

A tire that rolls around a circle of circumference D.

A tire that rolls down a flat surface, total distance D?
"Because I like money" is how corrupt practices generally sustain themselves. That doesn't mean the participants aren't complicit.
Agreed. Our computers are so powerful, do we really need this additional complexity?

And of course, if performance becomes an issue, we can make minor improvements then.
This becomes even more apparent when you turn the circumference of the fixed circle into a straight line. (As the video suggested but didn't show in the same way.) The center of the rolling circle will trace a line parallel and equal length to the fixed line, whether above or below it. If you reform the circle the outer line will be too short to form a complete circle, and the inner line will overlap itself.
There isn't a single thing I made more than 15 years ago in my house which:

(a) required an operating system

(b) still works

It all bitrots to hell. For comparison, everything I've made on a PIC, Atmel, ESP, etc. continues working.

FPGAs have a more mixed track record; the devices work, but they're unmaintainable (the dev toolchains require e.g. Windows NT and some activation server which no longer exists).

Things I've made out of wood, metal, and similar materials work too, as do PCBs I designed with analog.

My point is I want a piece of hardware and not a computer.
I have a USB power meter that also acts like a data diode. I like it a lot, it can shows graphs of current draw.
"Attack surface" in this case, boils down to bugs and fuck ups. "Massive" is subjective but justified in my opinion too. A message delivered via http or https is the same - one is encrypted on wire and one is not. There is a minimal cost of encryption these days. We are long past the point where a CPU gets bogged down with it.

I still contend that "everything should be encrypted" is cargo culting:

An unencrypted webby stream does not expose a browser to anything nastier than an encrypted webby stream. The eventual payload is the same, regardless of the transport. The difference is that the browser has to use vastly more code paths to do the same job of receive -> display. It has to decrypt the stream. That additional complexity introduces vastly more possibilities for bugs.

So, I think you should pick your medium with care. I do think that https is a safe transport for all messages and do routinely use it myself. I have done a risk assessment on it - I don't simply use it because everyone else says its a good idea 8)

I deliberately used the pejorative term "cargo cult" in this discussion.
Right. Colorado law should not be enforced in Wyoming. An animal call in Wyoming isn't hunting in Colorado.
The printing press didn't do it, the telephone didn't do it, television didn't do it, the internet didn't do it, moocs didn't do it, why would we think ai would do it?
I agree on the average level of pizza here being low (grew up in Chicagoland, now east bay resident for 9 years) but there are some bright spots. Zachary’s specifically is the best Chicago style deep dish I’ve found outside of Chicago. In fact it’s better than most I had in Chicago, not all to be clear since Uno still holds it for me. Patxis is pretty decent too, though less traditional it’s still on the level of say Giordano’s (roughly third tier Chicago style IMO). Oddly though, if I want a good New York style or tavern style slice, that’s much harder. Mountain Mike’s at least uses good pepperoni, but the odd crust depth is not ideal. At least there are options.
None of these theories pass the sniff test to me. Is there any evidence to them?
Perhaps I should have generalized to "cartoons", or whatever watch-once fluff you might spend an hour or four a week on.
I am - literally - heating my condo with my ML training workstation right now. Works great! I have electric wall heaters, so I might as well get something out of burning 1000W of electricity.
This one's good but pretty advanced. We haven't implemented a lot of these techniques in our games. This is a great starting point:

https://gafferongames.com/post/introduction_to_networked_phy...
I think it’s kinda true that poverty is psychologically sustained in the US, if we allow that making very cold choices (let mom die some years sooner and in worse conditions; let a son or cousin rot in jail rather than paying for expensive rehab required for release; let your nephew go to foster care rather than stepping in to help; that kind of thing) is psychology, of a kind, and discounting disability or nigh-disability. Though that’s already a lot of caveats.

I think it’s far less-true that not-poverty is sustained by psychology. That is, a fair proportion of the not-poor would remain poor if placed in the circumstances of poverty.

This suggests that removing or relieving the circumstances of poverty might also work, at least for some set of those in poverty, even if it is indeed largely (within some substantial boundaries) sustained by a kind of psychology.
Unfortunately, DMCA abuse rarely has consequences for those behind it.

I think with this sort of carelessness, it's only a matter of time before they mess with the wrong people and incur some real-life consequences. As much as I'm against doxxing in general, there are certainly those who will take that route of revenge.
This would be a really good case to push the Department of Justice to investigate. There are criminal penalties for false claim of copyright infringement, but only the Attorney General can initiate a case. For knocking NASA PR out of search, that just might be possible. Complain to NASA's PR people. NASA still has some political clout. Enough to take on some Instagrammer.
No I don’t have that choice; I have to play fiat wealth accumulation to buy land. An ideal system for fiat wealth game players.

I can’t force you, but society at large can put upon you whatever it wants and you have no choice but to accept it.

For example; status quo socialized meme of your ideal society is none of us have to lift finger to heal or feed someone in need. Including you should you find yourself penniless in alleyway.

You don’t define for others where “idealistic” applies. This is an ideal system for some and I don’t have to accept that. You don’t define language associations for others.

You might go meditate on the depth to which physics like relativity and entropy apply to social life. Also how socialized discovery of goods, services and prices our system is ostensibly built around isn’t at all hardcore free market capitalism.

Whatever message wins over the aggregate wins. Gen Alpha is just a few years from graduating HS and running into the same systemic issues as GenZ and Millennials based upon politically contrived ideals that insulate a minority from real work keeping themselves alive. If that is all Gen Alpha is going to get out of the system after watching the same put upon their elder siblings, good luck keeping your ideal system in place.

Inline with the logic of the system you prefer, if you end up in the gutter; oh well.
It would be great for you to share the code
We need to have severe penalties for negligent DMCA takedowns, not just willfully malicious ones. Including disbarment and possibly imprisonment for any lawyers involved. Taking down pages about NASA rocketry because they shared a name with a social media model was probably an accident, but it's an inexcusable accident that never should have happened. These kind of accidents wouldn't happen so often if the people issuing takedowns were forced to have skin in the game.
What's absolutely brilliant about the development of the original Game Boy is that at the time, Gunpei Yokoi's team was facing significant incredulity. "Why play games when you're on the bus, or on the toilet? It's going to be so uncomfortable. Play at home on you couch in front of the TV with family and friends. Play at the arcade for cutting edge experience. Nobody wants to change batteries and see just a few shades of grey".

Their vision was to take "withered technology" and package it in a simple to use device, with simple, short games.

That team single handedly started mobile gaming. Much respect to everyone on it.
Things software developers should learn about learning
>These are all issues that can be overcome with an absurd amount of effort

[...]

>I find "pre-existing wealth and opportunities" a much lazier answer

How is this consistent? It seems self-evident that if one person faces issues that the other didn't and those issues require "an absurd amount of effort" to overcome, the first person was at a significant disadvantage.
Are you sure kids like having their own room? I shared a room with my older sibling and consider it one of my foundational influences.
Claiming that the small amount of $ handed out to people during the pandemic in the US (less than $2000?) enabled millions of people to retire is obviously silly. Which shows that the talking head is ideology driven (anti-government intervention) and not facts driven. Which makes the interview a waste of time. However the comments are spot on and worth a read.
Merrill Markoe was an early writer for and big influence on David Letterman.
Why wouldn't you include the "LLM" part in the title?

Hint for everyone else here:

It's about scaling LLMs.
> Japan has a lot of very specific features that phones need to support[0] and Apple is usually ahead of Google on implementing them.

It hadn't been true until iPhone 7. There were features lacked on iPhone but available on JDM Android phones: Felica, IrDA, TV tuner. Thankfully both supports emoji from early. In 2016, Felica was implemented on iPhone (in far more elegant way than legacy Android Felica). Rest of the features were no longer wanted by people.

iPhone had been loved even before iPhone 7 because it works well than many crappy Android phones. Galaxy phones are tend to non-crappy but Korean brand was unpopular in Japan. After iPhone 7, iPhone officially become the national loved phone.
We have an Amazon-branded Chase card that gets 2% back on Amazon purchases if you're not a Prime member. There's no annual fee for the card.

If you are a Prime member, it's 5% back. $139 is the annual fee for Prime. $139/3% difference = $4633.33

Somewhat to my surprise, we spent about $3700 on Amazon this past year, meaning $139-$111 or Amazon Prime cost us $28.
> Modern medicine is expensive. For profit or not, expenses must be covered.

There's a ton of bullshit that goes into "medical expenses" in the US. Not the least of which is the inability for people to pay for care and end up in the ER for urgent non-emergency services because ER services are required to be provided. Hospitals need to foot the costs of those people that literally can't pay. Those costs get amortized over every other service (plus plain old margin and gauging) increasing the overall costs.

Besides eliminating unpaid emergency service public health coverage would let people get regular medical care without plunging into debt so they'd go sooner before conditions become acute. Private insurance could even still exist, but as a premium add-on to statutory coverage.

More doctors and nurses is just supply side economics applied to healthcare. Those jobs will appear naturally with the entire population completely covered. Rural hospitals could even open back up since they'd be serving people with actual coverage.
http://9p.io/sources/plan9/sys/src/mkfile
Is anyone actually surprised by this? Since PE is all about shaving pennies and maximising profit for the PE partners, of course they're going to sacrifice actual patient care.
+1 correct! I loved the UI and libraries like the grapher, etc.
I mean the person i was responding to said "Moderna gets a big influx of money from all countries in the world" - i assume that cash would come from tax revenue. Money doesn't just magically appear.
> if the requirement was for all the parts to be made in the US, then it would probably use an Intel chip, since those are made in the US

Intel both has overseas fabs and contracts some parts to TSMC, especially for their latest processes.

I'm pretty sure the dies in Meteor Lake are of Irish and Taiwanese origin, and have nothing made in the US.
Can you give a real-world example? Most code-bases have massive inertia that resists complete re-writes using new features.
> I wonder if anyone else other than me was insane enough to try and use GNU Make to manage dotfiles?

Not a bad idea IMHO… thanks for the blog post. I'm tempted to try something similar.
You should engage with the part of the article that talks about this.

> Now, I can hear some people saying, people like cars and houses and privacy. That’s all there is to it. Was air conditioning a “revolution”? Stop telling people how to live!

> But here’s the thing: when we permit people to do urbanism, even in America, they do it! The New Urbanists had to fight very hard with zoning boards and other skeptics to be permitted to build a few small housing developments that resembled pre-revolutionary places. Immigrants from countries with a stronger tradition of public space and small-scale commerce recreate that in America, even in deteriorating suburban landscapes. Our old towns and cities—remember that “historic district” is a euphemism for “not destroyed by urban renewal”—are some of the most desirable places to live in the country.

> All the evidence suggests that typical American car-dependent suburbia is not the affirmative preference of the majority of Americans. And yet we’re not allowed to fully test that claim, because we’re not allowed to build in a pre-revolutionary manner in most of the country. And even if we were, the decades during which traditional urbanism has been out of practice mean that the continuity of building and placemaking knowledge has also been broken.
I don’t know about the ones you’ve had, but I’ve installed a few not “real” range vents in my house over the years, and they vented into the wall, not the room itself.
Garth: Garmin SSO auth and Connect Python client
So why are foreign nationals that are not permanent residents or citizens allowed to own property? At the very least they should have to register their land property purchases with some department. The problem here isn't actually the money used, it's the fact that the US does not genuinely care if foreign agents own property inside the US.
> Removing all agency

Could you point to someone who has advocated that? IME it's a strawperson.

> is VERY easy to give an abundance of support for addiction

My understanding from people who work in that field is that it's very hard. The evidence seems pretty overwhelming: Lots of addicted people and despite efforts around the country, over decades (centuries?), in communities desperate to solve the problem, nobody has found a way to do it. If you have the answer, you should share it.

YouTube is laughable as support for addiction.

> it's most often that rich families meet inter-generational demise.

Are you saying that children in wealthy families "most often" end up poor?

> It is much easier for us all to be poor, than for us to all be rich; we can take comfort that "we just got dealt a bad hand, it's not our fault".

Who has said that?
Prime video is garbage anyway. They’ve already stuffed it full of ads and the UX experience is cratering.

Useful things that made it tolerable “free to me” were removed to facilitate ramming the buy & rent stuff down your throat and series seem to get phased out even faster than Netflix which is a feat.
eXoDOS 6
Martensitic Stainless Steel
CyberTruck panels are martensitic steel.
I'm posting from rural Nevada and barbed wire is absolutely a thing.
Can you share secrets for shelling hard boiled eggs? It takes so long, the shell sticks to the egg or it brings too much white with it
Sure. After all, you can use evil-mode to give emacs vi/vim keybindings.
That's the point of this post. Look at the packet headers for each return packet. Look for a difference in TTL, for example.
It'd be especially good for setting case law precedence since it isn't a multi-national megacorp with an army of lawyers. It's just a shady small company hired by a person. The case could probably get a fair hearing.
Breaking up Microsoft wouldn't necessarily produce more proper Office alternatives. And we already have multiple alternatives from Apple, Google, and LibreOffice. Those don't have all the same features but they're good enough for basic tasks.
Not raising their prices to a level that enables their employees a decent life seems unethical to me. This also reeks of cutting off their nose to spite their face. That is, it's a childish act of retaliation for not getting their way with wages.
> by definition a vaccine should NOT be a treatment

Umm. You have never heard of rabies or tetnus vaccines?

This is not a change in definition.
Edwin Black is usually quite good so I’m disappointed in him here for focusing on the Banu Qurayza and ignoring the Banu Qaynuqa (and furthermore conflating Mecca with Medina)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu_Qaynuqa
autoconf's principal purpose is to waste time.
I agree. Fast food used to be cheap; back in the late 1990s I remember promotions such as 29 cent and 39 cent hamburgers and cheeseburgers from McDonald’s, 99 cent promo items from Taco Bell such as the introduction of the Gordita, Subway’s $5 footlongs throughout the 2000s, and the various dollar menus that McDonald’s and their competitors had in the 2000s. Even outside of promotions, even the most expensive combo meal didn’t exceed $10 until just a few years ago. Yes, I understand inflation exists, but fast food prices to me seem to have undergone dramatic price hikes since around 2010, and the hikes since the pandemic started have made fast food ridiculously priced when considering the low quality of the food. Nowadays fast food combo meals in my area (Silicon Valley) have exceeded the $10 mark. Even Sacramento, which has lower housing prices and generally lower wages, is no escape; a week or so ago I pulled up to a McDonald’s and was shocked to see that the prices were higher than the already sky-high prices I’ve seen in Silicon Valley. These days I find myself going into a grocery store and getting grab-and-go items whenever I need a quick bite; it’s generally cheaper and the options are healthier anyway. However, sometimes when I forgot to plan ahead or when I can’t plan ahead, I have no choice but to buy fast food and pay today’s insane prices.

Interestingly enough, I recently returned from a trip to Japan, and was amazed by how cheap fast food was there. $10 barely gets you a crappy combo meal in California these days, but ¥1400 in Tokyo gets you some delicious, filling meals, not just from McDonald’s, MOS Burger, and Yoshinoya (just to name a few of the more traditional fast food places), but also at some sit-down chains such as Yayoi-ken, which specializes in set meals (teishoku); I had a wonderful sukiyaki plate with extra beef, rice, and miso soup for less than ¥1400, including tax (the 10% consumption tax is generally part of displayed prices in Japan), and there’s no tipping in Japan. The same plate would’ve easily been $20 before the 9-10% sales tax and an 18% tip in California.
Well, surely these are the same. Right? Haha of course they are. This is silly. Right? RIGHT?!?
It's rich that someone on Instagram picked the name of a Greek goddess and is able, through the insanity of the DMCA, squat on that name.
Great idea for another country, I the US there are just too many laws.
I like this perspective as well. If the coin is rotating around a point (radius 0), the point on the coin edge touching the point will not move at all, yet the coin will make one rotation before returning to its original position.
Handling finances well enough that you can safely afford a luxury car is an example of good money management, no?
> custom software requires using a proxy server managed by the device creator

Ugh, otherwise sounded attractive.
Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animals (2023) – Ludicity
Thanks for the feedback. What do you think about the SELECT function? Should I drop it in favour of the extended WITH statement?
Hands down the worst take I've read here in a long time and there have been some doozies.

Aside from the detailed rebuttal someone already gave, can you explain in this world of higher salaries what incentive any company not named Apple/Google/Microsoft would have to bother doing R&D if the big boys can just come in and steal your IP and talent?
Windows 11 will let you reinstall your OS without wiping your files
This is why I wrote https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/ninja-is-enough/ :)
Citation on that, please. I've never heard of these "large corporations" investing...at all...let alone "heavily" in REITs.
Indeed. This was my favorite part of the video. The discussion of the problem and SAT part are interesting, but when it delves into the sidereal time aspect, it just flies off into a direction where never saw coming and presented some fascinating aspects I’d never had need to consider.
Well we exist too, but it makes it a tiny bit harder to sleep at night having nightmares about trolls. Thankfully we haven’t been targeted.

I do think a better system exists, and I’m all ears for any ideas around patent reform/USPTO funding.
If it was an issue, and a simple gap buffer isn't fast enough, you could do a linked list of gap buffers. Would still be pretty simple, and probably very fast.
I wish I could work at a place like that.
> I bought her a $1500 computer so she can learn about emails, and she hocked it for $300 because she was short for cash one day.

You are so concerned about respecting agency, but then this also? Like this is so at-odds I’m not entirely sure whether you’re presenting it as an example of how aid to the poor doesn’t help, or an example of how if you’d respected this person’s agency your $1500 spent could have been $1500 in aid instead of $300.