skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a thing that puzzles me is how https://bbcmic.ro/?t=9ctpk is only 4× faster in emulation (about 30 seconds per scan line and so on the order of 2 hours for the whole image)

i'm running this on a ryzen 5 3500u at 2400 megahertz. the acorn electron which supposedly takes 8 hours and 40 minutes is a 1 megahertz 6502 when running from ram, roughly, 262144 instructions per second. at 2 ipc one core of the ryzen should be about 4800 mips. if the emulation slowdown is 10× (10 host instructions to emulate one guest instruction), which is typical for naïve interpretation, it should be about 1000× faster on this laptop as on the original hardware

(possibly the basic is in rom and so it's closer to 524288 instructions per second)

emulation through qemu-like dynamic code generation should cut the 10× slowdown to 3×, so it should be 3000× faster than the original hardware

where did that factor of 1000 go? not the javascript engine, surely?

incidentally there is a rocket-ship button underneath the output screen image labeled 'send to beebjit' which runs the program in about a second
Kinda same as you, pushing 40, wish I had clients instead of a boss (or both) and a social circle with more nerdy people (or students). I was able to get one young intern started on coding and it was the most fulfilling thing I did. He's mantaining the systems I left behind on the old company, and pretty excited about improving (he's like 20).

More interestingly: I like running and also go the gym most days, but honestly not sure its a great idea since all my (physical) energy is gone after training. I feel like if I don't train I have more gas in my tank for family.
I like the name, has nice and badass vibe
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>This lack of taking responsibility for ones own way

I took a look at the community out of curiosity for a while and I noticed that the group is subdivided and lot of them do suggest taking responsibility for "Maxx-ing" (as they call it) while the others (the so called 'black' pilled, whom I think are a smaller subgroup) don't.

On a separate note: I think the western cult of personal responsibility also gets taken a bit too far sometimes and we need to be cognizant of this, because too often it encourages us to ignore real systemic (often highly profitable) issues. In this case, I think it's the toxic effect of swipe based dating apps and extreme market consolidation in the dating app market.
IIRC the standard for serfs was 2-3 days of labor per week (in some cases during harvest even up to 5), for a 6 day workweek. Add various random fees and rents and that's way more than 50-60%.

Of course everything improved massively after the plague. So it depends on which part of the middle ages we're talking about.
> That doesn't answer my question on why the EU turns a blind eye on other industries but suddenly focuses on those with local competition.

The answer seems obvious though, there will be more vocal and powerful lobbies in fields with local competition.

> Doing a good thing in one place doesn't suddenly absolve you of thousands of other poor things you did or not did.

I don't think anyone claimed that. But doing a good thing in one place certainly shouldn't be criticised just because in another place nothing is done, which is what you did.

> Is breathing in fossil fuel emissions less dangerous?

I think clothing is less dangerous than both fossil fuel and EV batteries.
Midi is also a word for south in French, colloquially.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_France
Lol, the entitlement. Nobody owes you a job, or their time for that matter.

And websites are not at all randomly designed. They share common concepts and design language. Buttons, dropdowns, hamburger menus, icons etc.

Just like a CV is typically chronological, because that’s what the reader cares about.
This is a small job in Wordpress. Just get hosted Wordpress (a bit expensive) or buy cheap hosting and host your own. After that choose one of the free themes and create a few posts and pages to get the desired results.
I know it is not what you are exactly asking but one metric is the Google Play Store download counts where Threads is by far the most popular:

Bluesky: 1M+ downloads

Mastodon (official client): 1M+ downloads (there are multiple clients but most downloaded one is probably the official client)

Threads: 100M+ downloads

As a user of Mastodon and Threads, I feel like Threads has the most active user base and also it is possible to find more popular or official Twitter users on Threads as well. The biggest lacking features are trending topics and DMs. Also the video player features are annoyingly lacking, can't even pause a video on web player. If they can implement these features quickly I think it is a viable alternative to Twitter/X.

I recently got invitation for Bluesky and briefly tried it, but unlike Threads, I couldn't find anybody who I was following on Twitter. Also it was a bit hard to discover new people, so I just left.
I prefer self-checkout and use it pretty much every time I see an opportunity to do so. Living in the Netherlands, somehow self-checkout in Dutch supermarkets is very different from the ones I encounter in France or UK. Every time in France or UK I have issues with it primarily because the self-checkout tills have a very cumbersome and poorly working area where I have to put the checked products. Either they're doing a weight check or something, but it just doesn't work 75% of the time, which is extremely frustrating. Dutch supermarkets went with cheaper tills without this weight-check tech, and it just works every time.
Yup, that's where I'm at now for email.
Oh I would absolutely 100% support regulations to force clothing companies operating in the EU to avoid slave labour and other horrific practices. Just like I (at least in principle, haven't looked into the details) support regulations to avoid similar things in EV batteries, another field that's way too comfortable with human rights abuses.

You're right that the EU is probably moving too slow on these things. But something is better than nothing.
Okay so because it’s never happened to you it’s unreasonable to happen to another and if it does to whom it happens must be “asking” for it?

Your thinking is so full of logical fallacies it’s hilarious.
Whoa this is really good.

I appreciate that the seeming non sequitur about Harvard disintegrating into the steppes is actually explained by the end of the piece.
> Dacha

Dacia :-)
Looks like .net to me: https://github.com/TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer
Hmm.... tidal power comes from the Moon gravity interacting with Earth. And the Moon was created as a result of an impact of Earth by a large mass early in Solar System's history. So ultimately it is derived from the potential energy of the cloud of gas that coalesced to create Solar System, and not from any fusion or fission inside Sun or other stars.
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Brawndo's got electrolytes!
Apple's policies for external purchases are hilarous. The only goal is to be punitive.

For the External Link Account Entitlement that "reader” apps can use to link to purchase flows off-app, Apple forbids offering IAP in the same app. Why? Because they think this will discourage adoption.

For the new StoreKit External Purchase Link Entitlement that other apps can use for the same exact thing, Apple requires an IAP alternative. Why? Because they think this, too, will discourage adoption.
I'm a front-end developer and I sometimes wish I was a game developer instead. App development seems just not technical enough compared to video games, 3D graphics - I'm not much of a gamer but this is the most impressive use of the technology to me. I know this is a passion driven industry and because of it the salaries are worse and so are the working conditions, but I'm talking more about the perspective of working on my own product (game). I have been working on a smaller product that I did not release yet, I love the craft, but I just see how much more I would enjoy building games. But it feels like it's kinda too late to switch and making a great game requires far more resources than making a great app. I stumbled upon this path sort of by accident, by random ideas and I just kinda wish that way back then I had a random idea to make a simple game instead.
Have you read these legislations? They're available online and fairly legible.
Is there a reference for this anywhere / secondary confirmation? Would like to understand risk exposure of relying on iMessage going forward.
I think you mean Graham Hancock. He has a couple of very interesting recent podcast appearances also, and was gonna do a debate with a mainstream archeologist (who unfortunately backed out for now due to health issues, but I hope it'll still take place at some point!)
Some dialects also say "i" for I. (but pronounces like an English "e")
It’s hacky to use a chat bot as a command line interface for a process that would greatly benefit from a proper GUI. It’s poor UX on purpose and it offends me.
There is an ace ted talk about a guy making a toaster from scratch...

only ~11 mins.. recommended

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ODzO7Lz_pw
I’m unaware of HFT systems running entirely on a JVM. Do you know of such cases? Safe Rust isn’t fast enough for HFT in my opinion. What kind of HFT?

Amusingly, though somewhat tangential, I observed a rather simple Go implementation (nothing fancy, ordinary channel bound message passing) outperform a fairly sophisticated Rust implementation for the same logic when we were toying with a prototype. But that was at an IO boundary. There are many other variables of course, but an amusing anecdote to share.
1000 streams per year for each song. That’s not just that auto-generated junk. That’s a majority of ALL music on Spotify.

So yes an individual song might be $3 per year but that just shows how poor their royalties are to begin with. And tries to obscure the fact that artists don’t just release one song ever.

There’s thousands of artists who maybe even were somewhat successful at some point in their career but would have a lot of songs in their back catalog that don’t get that many streams annually. Suddenly they’ve gone from not making enough per stream from Spotify, to just getting paid nothing at all.
I had a similar experience with sleep paralysis, although may have went a few steps further. Not only did I manage to replace my fear with curiosity about it and compile a file folder of info about sleep paralysis and hypnogogic states (all from that blessed early 2000's Internet and an old inkjet, mind you), but I went so far as to start seeking ways to induce it, everything from psychotropic cocktails to just trying to fall asleep in very specific positions. I never did succeed, but I still experience sleep paralysis about 2 - 3 times a month. Now, it us just sort of a boring/annoying experience.

I also suffer from GAD and asthma and believe them to be connected to incidents of sleep paralysis. Both actively work against achieving "restful" sleep, regularly interrupting the sleep cycle which creates a bit of a feedback loop, as you can imagine. With that in mind, I posit that people who experience a lot if disrupted sleep are more sensitive to the transition between the wakeful and sleeping states, which is where the sleep paralysis occurs.
getting the host to travel farther afield to distribute the spores is an interesting notion

i read somewhere that catnip is similarly defensive, causing amnesia along with euphoria, perhaps causing the predator to forget where they found it
Use Wox https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox
It launches any tool and if it doesn't understand, it starts searching all files using Everything
The cost is in loading the bounds (e.g. array size) from memory. If you access 100 different arrays, you get 100 load operations for the sizes.

A register would only help if you access the same array in a loop, but the majority of loops doesn't need repeated bounds checking anyway: list-map operations, list-reduce operations, System.arraycopy(), whatever -- these only have to check the bounds once before starting the loop. The JVM specifies that every array access gets checked, but since arrays can't change their size, the JIT compiler can move that check outside the loop.
Thanks a lot for this extensively sourced post, I learned a lot today! :)
I think every natural language is irregular when it comes to numbers.

And about Japanese: you forgot about counters for men, animals, flat things and so on.

You have ichi-ippiku-ippon-hitory - issai
And absolutely fascinating "system" for "years old" - everything starts with -sai but 20 years is "hatachi"!
That’s what I was afraid of.

This comic reads like someone complaining about an imaginary problem, not a real one.

(The images generated here are lovely though)
does anyone know where can i preorder?
I find Wox (which also uses Everything) a really great quick launcher, it saves a lot of time.

https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox
Interestingly, Marks & Spencer don't have scales for your shopping (unlike all other self-checkouts). I wonder if there's cultural and demographic reasons for this. M&S is a very upmarket supermarket, so a potential thief (typically quite poor) is going to stand out like a sore thumb and end up with a security guard stuck to their waist.

The larger supermarket chains (Tesco, Asda, Morrisons) have low-cost lines to cater for the wider market. That means it's harder to distinguish between a thief and a genuine customer, as they'll come from the same socioeconomic backgrounds i.e. they'll dress the same way.

I wonder if there's crossover with what you see in the Netherlands?
Powertoys Run (https://github.com/microsoft/powertoys) can do this. There are not that many plugins as Alfred but Window Switcher is built-in.
Besides that it's a bad ruling because the US spent years allowing mergers between large players that were clearly anti-competitive, and now in the environment of dominant airlines, it's applying the rules that it should have to the big players, but to smaller airlines who are now at a disadvantage due to their size.

It's an utterly feckless uneven application of the rules to everyone's detriment. You couldn't have designed a worse airline industry if you tried.
And society doesn't have to keep paying artists.
It's a terrible, distopian future, but there's nothing to say we can't.
That’s amazing. Wish we had an equivalent in the US.
If 60k requests hurts your infra, then your infra is poorly built and you cheap out on resources

Also straight out blocking the account instead of rate-limiting? Yeah, poor infrastructure

Kagi is aimed at power users, they should do and provide better
I really like the idea of separating storage from hardware. Unfortunately this relies on having Qemu installed on every machine you intend to use. Many machines don't fit that bill.
It is better than Gamer says Ubisoft Exec need to get comfortable with "gamers not paying their game".
UEFI is a necessary evil, we just have to get better, open-source implementations. Device Trees and alternatives are absolutely horrid especially in comparison.
Judging from first few chapters Seldon did manage to create probabilistic model, and not a deterministic simulation (he was not sure how the interview with government representatives will go in the end). So I guess even syfy writers do not believe that it is possible to simulate reality in deterministic way.
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Yeah that’s what I was afraid of.

It’s hard to be sympathetic to someone complaining about something that’s not actually happening to them :/
They have a custom bootloader https://github.com/oxidecomputer/phbl that runs without AGESA or any of the normal stack of stuff. From their podcast it sounds like it was quite a bit of work to get it working.
We don't need to remember that, good riddance and great that they were disrupted. How do you disrupt this market though?
> waste of money, time, and PR

That's exactly what cryptomoney has been about for years now, so it fits right in.
Not seen it on groceries, but I know Uniqlo use this same method and it's fantastic.
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I don't agree. Companies seeking to make money from their IP have good reasons to provide different prices for different licensees. Why would the NYT ask Mom&Pop-AI for 100M dollars for their IP just because it wants 100M dollars from OpenAI?
Imho this is a non-issue. Python's max-function isn't limited to numerical values, but can consume iterables of anything with a defined order, i.e., things that implement the appropriate hooks in the Python data model. For such inputs, returning anything but an error (or the optionally provided default value) doesn't make much sense.
"Hooked on content". Not sure society should have ever gotten to that point. You are talking about a small room of people who made this happen. It started at FB and perpetuated through to other networks. There was a time when everything was waterfall and you had to do a teancy amount of work to find things. (Just click the link in the share which you cant find anymore b.c the networks horde their traffic) Behavioral scientists have ruined social feeds and created conundrums like you describe above.
You may be right about generalizing the US, but

> even if out in the countryside with zero internet

I think I can safely say even the remote countryside of any part of Europe has card payments now.
Interesting point. I was thinking psilocybin was a poison for parasites/predators that just didn't work well on humans
In theory, it's really not much different than developing some website that has to run on mobile devices and desktops and all manners of browser implementations and versions and OS and screen sizes and be accessible to screen readers as well. Or is not JavaScript a "language that helps get things done"?

In fact, I'll take the stable, well defined compilers that I can actually test against any day.
Potential candidates should speak German.
> The problem is not that 30% is too high or too low, the problem is that it shouldn't be a % but a flat fee structure, like every other services ever.

I hate Apple like the next enlightened guy, but then banks and credit card companies should also charge a flat fee for their services. This isn't the case and probably never will be, however. But their fee is much more reasonable than Apple's fee.
>but it looks like they're going after phones instead

Not "instead" but in addition to.

Developers dogfood genode on both their laptops and phones.
> Blocked on this page0 (0%)

Please feel free to include adverts as a means to monetize your work, my first impulse was to disable uBlock on your page.
I'm surprised neither the article nor the comments here mention Adam Curtis, especially his "All watched over by machines of loving grace".
I don't trust Wikipedia for historical and political matters. A group of people can focus on an article and do whatever they want with it. They can even prevent others from changing it. Some countries have their own editorial groups and can easily form a closed group of imports that support each other and provide each other with endless resources.

https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-state-sponsored-disinf...
https://slate.com/technology/2021/03/japanese-wikipedia-misi...
The Machine Learning community is still overwhelmingly on X, which likely explains your experience. There are other communities, like that of Ape/iOS developers, that have moved to Mastodon, and for which the quality of conversation is now much higher on Mastodon than on X.
Shouldn't the link be pointing to https://blog.taoetc.org/my_new_computer/index.html and not the root website!
worked instantly! Where is the explanation for the calculations?
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