skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have hardware that has linux support then everything should work at install time or after install. Ubuntu also has a dedicated program to show you the available proprietary drivers you might want to use.

Unless you your hardware is so new that it requires the very latest kernel then you should be golden.
> Computer games of the era...

I don't think lightmapping went away. I still see it even in AAA titles today. Performance-wise, for a static scene, baked lighting is tough to beat.
Deep Blue analyzed some 200 million positions per second. Modern engines analyze a three to four orders of magnitude fewer nodes per second, but have much more refined pruning of the search space.
So it's the "Supabase of SQLite"?

Aren't there entire classes of problems that shouldn't exist for SQLite because it's intended to be an embedded database, as opposed to a client/server architecture like Postgres/Supabase?

And as such, I'm confused why this exists.
It's a tale as old as time. The NSA did it as well [1]. "Here's an example implementation with some example random seeds wink wink."

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_s...
I agree on the last part. I've been considering declutterring my desk by replacing my multi monitor setup with a headset, though. I like that it would be more portable, more dynamic, and take up less space than my current setup.
This wants a (1939).
A couple of years ago HPE sold VMS to VMS Software Inc, who have ported it to x86-64. So it’s three architectures ago.

The VAX version apparently wasn’t included in the deal (to the chagrin of hobbyists, as they can’t get a legally licensed version of VAX VMS anymore), which perhaps shows how relevant it is to modern VMS customers.
I've tried installing Windows 10 to my old ("old" as in Ryzen 2000 series) HP laptop so that I can give it out, and it took forever to install all the updates. Windows Update sucks even when you give permission to do whatever it wants; super slow, doesn't know what to prioritise, and unable to just jump to the newest release. And even then it missed some drivers, especially the fingerprint sensor, so to this day Windows Hello still doesn't work. Remember this device originally shipped with Windows.

I can install Fedora Linux on my Surface Go with my eyes closed, barely touching the keyboard. Everything that is supported works out of the box and it doesn't take a day and a half.
That's not true. There are several established and well supported libraries that actually work as expected. Then there are other, optimized versions of them.

The elephant in the room is the missing common build system, so folks engage in what's EASIEST - include just a header and you are done. This is awesome for initial development, gives you wings, but once your software has been deployed over and over - that header only library starts to show it's weakness - because it's header-only there are certain limitations - especially around how to handle singletons, initialization, and few other critical things.... And then compilation.

Some header-only libraries, realize that and simply asks the user to at least do this once somewhere:

#define SOME_HEADER_ONLY_LIB_IMPL 1
#include <some_header_only_lib.h>

and above gets code that needs to be compiled in exactly one compilation unit, and not multiple.

This is actually not so bad, if it was considered more... but it gets hairy when you have library that needs to use that header only library, and now up the tree of deps the top-most program has to do the above, and then it gets super messy.

Again, it's super easy, but not simple (long term). I've seen it happen with code that I work, I've also written tons of header-only libs - they are exciting!
Yea, It's really hard to get GPT to sound human because the RLHF really wants to let you know it's not a human.

GPT4 + a RLHF that was trained to think it was human would be a much different beast.
> Is this idea the progenitor of SoCs

No and yes. The idea of a SoC is pretty generic and existed in the industry at the time. But the Inmos team had an interesting mix of system and chip designers (some people who designed both) which led to an elevated interest in trying to get more functionality on-chip. E.g. the PLL clock generator, memory controller, on-board serial I/O. The idea that you could sell a custom chip with CPU and some application-specific peripherals onboard also existed. Inmos developed a disk controller transputer (M212) to showcase that concept.
While this probably makes it sound worse, since it projects two 1080 P monitors on either side of the one in the center, I'm often looking back-and-forth between the three monitors.

Essentially it's like having a large 1080 P monitor in front of you, and then two on either side at an angle.
I see nothing wrong with being sad that Microsoft is removing something from their OS and their suggested (but not included) replacement is a paid app which is at least an order of magnitude larger and more complex. Sure, WordPad isn't the best program of its kind (not the tool you need for every job), but still it was nice having the functionality there when you needed it without needing to install something (which in turn needs an internet connection). It was still an OK tool.
Well, I would say it depends. We have many companies using the AGPL version without buying a license. We also know that some companies have strict policies and will forbid using AGPL software unless taking a commercial license. We're happy with both users.

I like the example of Grafana with all their AGPL projects (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, ...). There are a LOT of companies using Grafana with the AGPL version.
I had an assignment in the OMSCS course where we had to turn the results of a project into a paper and a presentation. It was eye opening on why so many CS papers are difficult to decipher.

I’m used to writing on the web where the scroll is unlimited and everything is hyperlink able and potentially interactive. Journal papers are limited by length and so was our assignment. I had to cut virtually all helpful explanation needed to reproduce my results which was deeply frustrating. We were implementing an algorithm based on another paper and it was hard because key details were omitted or assumptions not stated. After that exercise I have to think some of it was intentional to get it down to size.

I find most people aren’t good at technical communication and teaching others without a LOT of practice. Even then it requires feedback and iteration to make sure the ideas are communicated well. Forcing people to be more succinct and omit details makes the final product worse to consume. I don’t know how common such limitations are these days, but I do know that the average paper is still out of reach of the average programmer (where it would likely have the most benefit).
Thanks for the typical Linux forum reply, not even mentioning that I have Linux experience since 1995 was enough to avoid it.
https://www.palantir.com/uk/healthcare/

They are using palantir foundry, which is palantir's big data platform, or how they call it: "The Ontology-Powered Operating System for the Modern Enterprise"
> > Maybe because I've been addicted to it for 20 years at this point so it's personal for me.

Without porn you would have been addicted to lingerie catalogues and failing that of course real p*y in the form of endlessly chasing girls and or prostitutes bringing financial ruin upon yourself.

Porn is just how sex drive manifests itself for men (we are visual creatures) in a frictionless world where there are 5bn cameras in our pockets.

There is no shame in going down because of sex drive, it has been engrained in our brains during the past 100 million years
I don't think this necessarily represents obsession. It just means they care about gaming at least as much "kernel level monitoring". As a baseline, I don't think there are many people who care much about that. I'm not sure what it is.
It's important to clarify why you think this standard applies to the things I've mentioned, but not to porn. There's some decision-making going on that isn't apparent.

I think porn is underblown, so it seems like we're at a bit of an impasse.
I’m also pretty perplexed regarding who are these people who come up with these ideas. Like, how and where did they grow up? Appeared out of thin air with absolutely zero street smarts? I don’t think I knew anyone so removed from reality when growing up.
It extends life by lowering metabolism. A "dead end" life extension solution.
because they already can "tornado cash" them so obviously they're worthless.

it's so weird the parallel AI and crypto currency are doing to public spaces.
Let’s hope we don’t find and extract so much subterranean hydrogen that we burn it into water and cause sea level rise.
I use a combination of:

- https://letsblock.it/ and Ublock Origin

- The Unhook plugin for Firefox

- Blocking channels on my YouTube account when I see something inappropriate

- Adguard Home also blocks certain channels

to try to moderate the YouTube content for my kids. It's not perfect, but it does get rid of a lot of garbage (like YouTube Shorts).
I’m not sure that making kids identifiable as such to any random website is a good idea.
Yes I suppose 'net-positive externalities' is the most correct - Thanks
You realize you're talking about a company that only historically releases a new product that they think will make billions of dollars and ship lots of units right? Vision Pro is shaping up to be the exception. The counterpoint to that strategy is Meta which is pricing the Quest as cheaply as possible and selling as absolutely many as they can. I'm really not seeing this pattern you're describing.

China historically just copies successful products and largely ignores IP, not coming up with anything novel. They are changing that pattern following the path America did to seize control from the UK (& arguably faster too). If anything, this suggests it would be more beneficial for us to have IP durations match typical market cycles for products rather than be blanket 15 years.

> The current war in Ukraine emphasizes the Western incapability to produce almost anything in volume

That's a different problem than manufacturing of consumer products. Apple ships nearly 1B phones each year. Yes, it's assembled in China but most of the components are manufactured elsewhere & they're standing up assembly plants elsewhere (e.g. India).
[dupe]

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38897876
I called it a "liberal" play because I dont see conservatives getting people cancelled, calling for their employers to sack them.
Yup. Back in the day VTune was useful and good, then I haven't used it for more than 20 years. It might be still good, but knowing how much more complicated the current CPU architecture is, and how much I've lost touch with low-level assembly I don't know if it's going to be useful to me. I'm relying now on profiling, and other programmers that have become way better in this than me to hear their opinion, and use that as basis (or others on the web).

Most of the time, some good optimized library would do pretty good.
He's as irrelevant as Adam Smith is in 2023. The world is much more complex in the 21st century than it was during that time.

Also, Marx and Adam Smith are as relevant to Econ in 2023 as Ada Lovelace is in CS in 2023.
Are there any downsides for doing work with these? I really can't wait for the first time I can work with a laptop from anywhere (just need multiple monitors and a Internet connection)
Just go to any of the thousands of porn websites that don’t ask for it.
Avoiding providing details is what gets you the standard Linux forum reply. Generic complaints foster generic replies
Awesome - I'll try it again!
It’s my belief that very high pixel density (and the GPU power to drive it) becoming cheap is going to be one of the factors that proves crucial to taking AR goggles/glasses/etc mainstream. The densities that’ve been economical thus far don’t cut it.
I was looking up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Sylvester_I recently (no points for guesses as to why), and was surprised to learn, en passant, that catholics simplified in the 1960s and now only have 4 different classes of feast days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_of_saints#Ranking_of_... ; I imagine whatever came before was slowly accreted over the centuries and, however simple it started, had eventually relied on people having lots of time to learn all its subtle corner cases...
When I looked at it I’d probably have gone with COBRA but just because it was short-term and it meant I basically wouldn’t have had to think about anything.
> Yes, renewables and energy storage are good things too but the modern world is built on cheap energy and the more the merrier.

Yes, this is also why China invests more into renewables than in nuclear: https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/06/renewables-in-china-tre...
Or another way to put this, it's not a binary problem, it's a probability continuum.

Even the definition of 'human intelligence' is a continuum from the smartest to the dumbest of us, that doesn't even stop there and descends thought all animal life.
Whatever the OS, if you’re still using the internal SD card, upgrade to an SSD ASAP. The SD card has terrible random IO. When I switched, I saw routine tasks like “apt update” drop from a minute or so to a few seconds.

That’s with a high quality SD card, too. I don’t have it nearby at the moment, but it was one of the ones the RPi website recommended.
My thoughts exactly. If the state wants to ensure that ID checks are rigorous (or otherwise monopolize them) they can provide an attestation API for that purpose, and legislate that only tokens signed by a cert trusted by the government’s root are valid.

This can be solved in a zero-knowledge way, and the government should commit to open source here. You don’t want the government seeing the sites you visit; the government should just issue a token associating the attestation (age, work status, whatever) with your private key. I think the details end up being non-trivial but it should be doable.
> Even today, BYD’s Dolphin hatchback starts at $33,000 in Britain, according to Reuters, or nearly 30% below the starting price of the VW’s rival ID.3 hatchback.

> Mexico has a free trade agreement with the U.S. and Canada. In November, House lawmakers warned about Chinese giants like BYD “gaining a back door to the U.S. market” through the southern neighbor.

Kinda odd for lawmakers to be the creators of that back door (in search of cheaper production for US automakers) and then complain that someone else might use it.
I've often felt that a better version is not whether a person can guess that it's AI or a human, but whether people behave and feel differently with an AI or human.

That's vague and covers a universe of criteria — mood, satisfaction with the conversation, actual behavior and so forth — but it also I think is a more realistic gauge of AI performance. It's probably unattainable but that's not necessarily a bad thing. If it is attainable within confidence then it's a pretty powerful AI.

There are probably some people who would be ok with some AI for some purposes.
the point of comments like that is to showcase the hypocrisy of a group that previously was about open, diverse thought but has now become incredibly narrow-minded.
Interesting. I think at least one Palantir's founder's hobby shares a strong overlap.
This is going the Slashdot way, thanks for bringing up some nostalgia back.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38848280
Everything either fails or succeeds long enough to become a poor version of itself.
Depends on what you mean. Younger companies are less likely to load up on expediently trained Scrum Masters and poison their development processes that way. Agile, in some form, however, is what most people end up doing when they realize they either don't know how to do other, pre-agile kinds of project planning and management, or they do know how and therefore also know why that works less well that agile.

You can also screw it up by running everything using agile, even when you should be keeping closer track of task dependencies, lead times, and other factors that ususally don't afflict software development.
Spain and Portugal adopted initially a system of rails that are focused on security (both for customers and national security). Spain railways were built wider than the European standard; while other countries ignored the advice to focus in economy.

Iberian gauge allows trains to run faster without losing stability. The more narrow the railway, the cheaper to build, but the less stable for trains crossing hairpin bends for example at a decent velocity.

The climate is also very different, so is not really fair to compare both, but Europe saved a lot of money when building their first railways (and have more problems with ice and snow now for this reason)
I could be wrong, but I think it's maybe because the creators of typescript aren't that interested in actively encouraging people to use this kind of stuff as an end to itself?

Typescript's type system is extremely advanced, but it mostly only has such an advanced type system because that's the only way to support patterns that people are already using in javascript.

So for example, typescript has stuff like row polymorphism, because you may need to be able to add and remove properties to javascript objects, and row polymorphism is the only way to make that type safe, but it's not a language like purescript where the whole language is oriented around using row polymorphism for the effect system and the documentation is going to actively encourage you to use row polymorphism if you weren't already as a new pattern that you should use for your code.

The official documentation is simply going to tell you, if you try to look up how to add/remove properties in a type safe way, how you can do that within the type system.

Unfortunately I think this leads to a situation where only people who are already familiar with some of these ideas from other languages are really interested in experimenting with it, which may be a bit of a missed opportunity.
"off-topic: Most stories about politics"

This is a continuation of Bill's campaign: https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1742441534627184760

Reminds me of a couple of other notorious political comments by VCs recently.
well I've now realized I've used the terms I now know, and looking at what I've read back then - it was roto zoomers (lol) and it looks like it was the "block" texture way instead of what's considered now the term - swizzling - https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Texture#Swizzle_mask
Recent polling suggests half of one of the parties would flee rather than defend.
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Tiny Computers from Texas: The Early History of the Microcontroller
There are no magical batteries that can supply the same peak current after two years' worth of charge cycles as on day one. There was no manufacturing defect in the batteries. The batteries were only 'defective' in the sense that their performance had reduced as the result of a completely normal aging process. The same thing happens to the batteries in all other phones. The only differences lie in how phones deal with this in software. As the raw physical performance of the battery degrades, this always involves some kind of compromise. Some people didn't like the compromise Apple chose and how they chose (not) to communicate it. But that's not a debate I'm trying to get into here.

>Fine settlement potato potatoe

It's quite different. A fine is something you'd get for violating some kind of regulation. This is a lawsuit that Apple settled.
> The US ban pork exports in response to Huawei. Europe is trading French alcohol export quotas for EV imports.

Might have to do with hitting China where it hurts - food imports might have a more pronounced impact
Have you learned empathy on the way?
Some of those are GREAT like the hallucinogens, but ketamine is potentially more dangerous and addictive.

There are MANY people who have done LSD, ecstacy and Mushrooms have gotten old and found it improved their lives, decision-making and perhaps intellect.

KETAMINE OTOH is newer and highly addictive. Some people can get delusional and unhinged on it especially if done often. Musk should absolutely limit the use of Ketamine to perhaps 1-2X/mo.

I have done interventions with people doing too much Ketamine so i speak from experience.

Cocaine is just dumb and pointless
Ridiculous and working exactly as intended.
I can't say I've ever done calculus on a fractal, but my guess is that most fractals have a fixed surface area ratio. Since fractals have infinite textural depth, there's a hard limit to their surface area compared to the overall area.

But what you're asking about is the inaccuracies in the Reimann Integral https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_integral

The short version is that you pick a reasonably small size for your rectangles, and it mostly averages out. The discrepancy is so small that it can largely be ignored.

But for argument's sake, you can simply imagine infinitely many infinitely small rectangles. That will fit the curve perfectly, but is impractical to compute. So we accept the slightly less accurate value.
More powerful tools are often more complex to learn. A car has more controls than a push bike, and an aeroplane has more still. I'm not saying all the complexity in C++ is justified (!!!) but it's not too much of a surprise that it's more complex to learn than assembler.
You very clearly haven't seen a single one, much less a bunch of them as I have. There's no generative AI going on with people on video telling their stories going back years ago. I'm a skeptic and I am pretty convinced at this point that something real is going on, here. They also actually are mostly ANTI-religion (in fact, the ones that seem very religion-slanted also seem false or fail to maintain internal consistency, so I've easily dismissed the vast majority of those). The testimonies in the playlist I put together almost entirely push the notion that most if not all religions are false in small or large part.

> but know enough about our brain to be fairly certain that there is nothing even close to any afterlife

You can't say that for sure. The brain might be a consciousness conduit and not a consciousness generator (which is pretty much what these testimonies are saying). If I step on a garden hose (assuming I can't see beyond it) and the water stops, and I stop stepping on it and the water resumes, you're basically saying the garden hose must be the source of the water, when we know that isn't true (but only because we can see beyond the garden hose). A naïve individual from, say, 10,000 years ago who has never seen seemingly unlimited pressurized water on tap who encounters a garden hose might initially conclude that the hose produces the water...

> it makes humans feel good

There's a large set of things that are broadly agreed to be true which do not make people feel good and a large set of things that are broadly agreed to be true that do. "Feeling good" is therefore orthogonal to veracity so this is a non-argument.

I'm disappointed that you're responding as a person who literally hasn't watched a single one of the videos (because the very things you said prove that). You're just yet another human who prefers to bury their head in the sand than confront evidence against their pre-existing worldviews, like most people. And "with all due respect," that's not rational at all.
I hope, for OP's sake, that it's not a bloated, corruption-prone, garbage-pile of junk. That would already differentiate it quite well from Notes.
I think that's what I was looking at, and read back then - it was only txt files :)
It was similar when wireless earbuds became popular and people were walking towards you on a sidewalk or standing next to you in a tram and started talking, without a phone in their hand. You get used to it.
sad to find that fsf and stallmanism is not included /s