skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that the Horizon system is just a simple accounting/POS thing. I can't understand how it could be built so shoddily. It doesn't even have that many clients: there are less than 12k post offices in the UK.
Exactly! Why let women vote, next thing black people will want it too and before you know it, something bad will happen.
Hey thanks for embracing the idea of what I was trying to say, I think in all honesty it was a little bit of an early morning, pre-coffee snipe and it is a reasonably interesting UI gesture. Fortunately the ever-vigilant HN crowd put me in my place! ;-)

But I can tell from the rest of your comment that you understand the main gist of where I'm coming from. Of course it's not Google's fault per-se, but as a megacorp full of big brains, many of them wasted on pointless, often-abandoned busy work, it does embody this idea that we've somehow lost our way as a species. We're on this weird treadmill of capitalism and we can't get off it, and while we're addicted to influencers peddling ridiculous sunglasses there really is some horrible stuff going down. We could do so much more if there was some magical way to re-organise the planet and its governance! Euughh, time for more coffee I think...
It's certainly not anachronistic in England in place names, nor as a name for a type of (water- or glacier-carved) landform.
It's feasible to have compilers automatically figure out how to use novel ISA features. But designing a microarchitecture & logic based on a proposed ISA is still years of expert human labor, so it's hard to evaluate the performance (both ILP and clock speed) of a novel ISA.
No. It's not there at all. And that's the point. No one ever told anyone to put one there.
The original piece was good at emphasising that enforcing extemporaneous politeness rules around what you're allowed to say to people in different situations wasn't a priority for the author.
So travelling for hours on the sunny side of the bus won't do anything to protect our kids’ eyesight?
We make Construct: https://www.construct.net

It has a capable block-based alternative to coding suitable for young people/beginners, and a "Behaviors" system that can get instant results (e.g. a built-in Platform movement). It's mostly 2D focused but can do some simple 3D (like retro-style FPS). If they want to go further, you can do JavaScript/TypeScript coding too!
At least for apps and photos you can disable it. For files I'm not sure.
There's plenty of data now from Nissan, Tesla and others showing that 10 year old EVs still often have at least 80% of their original battery capacity. Needing to replace the battery is not a given.
SeeAct GPT-4V(ision) Is a Generalist Web Agent, If Grounded
maybe one could use hardware RNGs? not sure if OSes can be made to not cache/buffer entropy, or be forced to reset RNGs?

EDIT: at least linux seems to be capable of doing that: https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/9-crypto_rng_res...
Perhaps it means cultures that look inward and constantly recycle their own tropes are more likely to be unstable than cultures that look outwards and have a positive attitude to novelty.

Whether it's an AI eating its own training data, a human stuck in an empty cell and forced to live with just his/her own thoughts, or a culture believing its own myths and aggressively punishing insiders and outsiders who challenge them - it's all solitary confinement. And we know how that goes.
Minimum amount for card payments , indeed because of fees, is not the same as refusing card payments altogether like the person I replied to wrote.

Cash only is not really about card fees...
OpenAI seems to be a bunch of people who spend 18 hours a day trying to bring about AGI, though. Driven, sure, but nobody is looking to solve world hunger there unless it involves a cluster of GPUs in some way.
If the source code was public, then it might be in the Software Heritage archive:

https://archive.softwareheritage.org/
> How are you supposed to do that?

By doing the tasks that don't require as much specialism, across more vendors. You can target who you like on a spectrum of niche but expensive jobs to mass-market but cheaper jobs. I would only object to people choosing niche but expensive, and then complaining about the niche.

> This is why Right to Repair is a thing, and it's weird that your analogy to something you think should happen is a thing widely regarded as deserving of scorn and opposition

Scornful people have always existed, but that doesn't mean they should be especially listened to. We aren't talking about right to repair. Anyone can repair a BMW, but they need more training and tools to do the harder jobs.
Providing your own documents to an LLM in your laptop
Yes, this is what I was referring to :)
Some recent iOS PWA bugs:

Dark/light mode switching does not work

Wake Lock API does not work

These features work in browser.
Starting with 2d games is very good advice however if the child is mostly interested in 3d, well not the most helpful advice.

Some people here forget that children are way more tolerant of not understanding things than adults are. They just want to get a quick taste not necessary dedicate their life to the study of game development.

I think something like RPG in a Box https://rpginabox.com/ is nice if the child likes Minecraft-style graphics. Alternatively modding an existing games is something that might be of interest. Also blender is perfect for those that are mainly interested in the 3d graphics aspect, as it allows to focus on certain fields like modeling first and has an amazing game engine that can be solely driven by logic bricks: https://upbge.org/#/

Still, I think even something like Unreal should not be ruled out if the child is dead set on making a "real" game (9 years is a bit pushing it but with help it might work out). For a visually-motivated child that has access to beefy computer, Unreal is the perfect tool to get things done early and fast. Load the starter template and they have a character they can walk around with in the first minute. Grab some free-for-the-month asset packs and they can make decent looking levels in a day or two that they can show friends and be proud of. And if they get to the point of needing logic, the visual scripting language is more than enough to make complete games in it.

Unreal is a monster of complexity but but perfect for just hacking together a quick asset-flip demo one can feel good about. They will learn about the realities of game dev soon enough, let them have some fun.
The progress in the sector is just explonential at this point.

We are at the same stage as smartphones back in 2010. A year old smartphone was very outdated and hence worthless.

Nowadays you can sport the same phone for 3-5 years without missing out anything important.
Thanks a lot for that write-up. Sent a very heartfelt prayer for your son. Life is hard beyond measure sometimes. Will give my daughter an extra hug when she is done with kindergarten later today; that much is for sure.
Wow, I didn't expect any of those things! Are they slated for Q2?
The charts on that site show that layoffs have been on a steady decline for a year. Now I'm curious why the talk about it seems so elevated when the data shows the opposite?
> we are all humans, we should not continue to wage war against each other for any reason

That is easy to say when you have everything you need. People whose grandfather's land was stolen have no other recourse than to wage war against the occupation.
But how do you sync it with your desktop browser? As in history, bookmarks, etc.
Google CEO says more layoffs coming in internal note
The kernel isn't all Apple, it's a fork of the open-source Mach kernel developed at CMU (which was a replacement BSD kernel). "Ground up" just isn't real!

The graphics libraries are definitely more custom... Although in total fairness they're not entirely ground-up Apple either; Quartz was based on Display PostScript, which was acquired from NeXT, and which NeXT built in collaboration with Adobe based on Adobe's earlier work on PostScript. It's obviously true Apple's done a lot of work since then (e.g. Metal), but in that case, so has Google since forking Webkit.
In general it's pretty hard to blame and guilt other entities into doing things. Hostility is met with hostility. Leading by example is the primary thing that is effective when it comes to rallying allies to a cause.
Instruction fusion is a perfectly cromulent approach. These days RISC-V extensions are even written with instruction fusion in mind, such as the recently proposed Zicond - which just adds a couple "conditionally move value or zero" three-register insns. It turns out that this is enough to support lots of "conditional insn" patterns that other ISA's have to encode explicitly.
This is the point of mechanical/electrical interlocks to prevent exposure to energized UVC. This is why I find the attempt to make 'far uv' safe in the public conscious even more dangerous.
I disagree: a lot of CPU ISA design decisions are a result of the state of the technology available to implement these CPU.
As the technology change, design decisions should be revisited: see here https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3639445 for someone saying the same thing.

POWER is an example of a modern "RISC" architecture with lots of addressing mode..
What brands are you looking at? I've been looking at Tesla cars, but they honestly don't seem to have depreciated as much as I would have expected / hoped.
There was also the OVHcloud data centre fire in 2021, although it's debatable if it'd fall under the same "natural disaster" category.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ovhcloud-ordered-...
Each to their own but a £13k Vauxhall Corsa doesn’t seem like a bargain to me.
I came into this thread with the intention of recommending LBP and possibly Dreams, although the latter is a big step up in complexity. LBP lets you do wonderful, creative things in 2.5D without any coding knowledge.

But seeing GBG being mentioned, I wish I had that growing up. Looks like the perfect way to get started.
You're missing the point. It's cheaper because there is a lack in consumer confidence in used EVs.

And that can impact the new market as well - people won't buy a new EV if they're going to take a 60% depreciation hit versus 30% on a similar gas vehicle.
I still have one of those small form factor Dell Optiplex 9020 (with i7 4790) and with the RAM upgraded to 16G and SSD this things feels super nice and snappy for what I use it for. I paid around $100 for it last year. I’m really starting to wonder if newer hardware has any real advantages for me.
Absolutely. Most books I read would be significantly worse to read without that static layout, pretty much every paper, every programming book, every science book, etc. I want books that are explicitly designed by somebody who gives a crap for a certain page size, not some automatic algorithm that gives me something that maybe fits the screen but loses all the context around the few lines I'm reading.

I can't remember a single non-fiction epub that was better than or even equal to the PDF.
In fact they are not.
To continue in this vein, djgpp is less like Cygwin, more like mingw and its derivatives eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingw-w64
Handy Google Meet timer and automation with Calendar
>>One of the things that makes me sad about this is that Sergei and Larry seem so checked out.

I think this one sentence describes everything, companies are all about the people at the top. Its these people that set the culture, pace and overall direction of the company.

If the founders tune out and outsource the very soul of the company to general managers, who can keep lights on rather too well. Well thats what you get. The lights will be on, it will be life as usual and gradual erosion of that very soul that was the company.

You can't blame Larry and Sergei either. There are better things to enjoy when you have billions in the bank and one life to spend it.
Was just watching the live version of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzXoVo16pTg
Have you tried the https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php on something like a https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-400/ ?
"Wrangling the complexity of distributed systems shouldn’t mean we trade away basic features like deletion, or accept data structures which can only grow without limit."

The CALM theorem would like a word with you.

You simply can't have consistent non-monotonic systems.

Forgetting is ok, deleting is not.
It's 13k for a nearly brand EV, I can't see how anyone wouldn't see that as a good deal? What specifically (besides the badge) is wrong with it?
The Conservative Party recently shifted very hard as anti-green and pro-ICE, after one candidate unexpectedly managed to win a race on those issues in London. It's basicaslly their only hope to not be wiped out at the next General Election this year.

Coincidence? I think not.
Look I didn't want to name names but if you willingly volunteer to serve as an example of what I was talking about I am more than happy to let you do that.
Right now, looking at buying a used EV, I am more scared that the battery or electrics fail for some reason than I am of their gradual degradation over time.

I don't know how likely that is, but it's putting me off anything other than manufacturer approved used with a solid warranty.
Because you can't get untrained 15 year olds to deal with your complex IT issues. The same with skilled manual work, if you get an untrained 15 year old to do your plumbing or electrics in a building prepare for the building to get wreaked. Cleaning, labouring - not so much.

We do this already with things like textile manufacturing, IT support, call centre work, and we profit from the labour of those less fortunate than us. Teleoperation is an attempt to widen this pool at the cost of those folks who provide labour locally to you and me who do skilled work that can't be replicated (at the moment at least).
Gasoline Superusers 3.0 Report
"The 21 million US Gasoline Superusers make up just 0.24% of the world’s population, but
they use 10.4% of the world’s gasoline – nearly as much as all of China"

(edit: ah, so that's what happens if you submit text AND url: the text ends up as the first comment)
The features you mention are mostly applications of compute shaders, which are fully capable of being written in WebGPU, as WebGPU supports buffer -> buffer compute shaders when the underlying GPU supports it.

I've personally implemented mesh shaders in my own project, and there are plenty of examples of WebGPU real time raytracers out there. DirectStorage I had to google and it looks like a Windows DMA framework for loading assets directly to GPU ram? That's not even in scope for WebGPU, and would be handled by platform libraries. Linux has supported it for ages.

Seriously I get the impression from your posts that really don't have any experience with WebGPU at all, and are basing your understanding off of misinformation circulating in other communities. Especially with your continued nonsensical statements about not supporting "post-2015 features." 2015-era chipsets are a minimum supported feature set, not a maximum.

Please just take the L and read up to inform yourself about WebGPU before criticizing it more.
HN guidelines suggest to not comment on the site itself, but I agree that the font immediately made me less excited to read this article even though I am interested about the topic.
No, I'm not confusing anything. I think you're trying distract from the incredibly antisocial effects this project will have. Everything I wrote comes from the position paper published on the Taler project's website:

https://taler.net/papers/cbdc2021en.pdf

Page 16: These denomination keys, and thus the coins, would have an expiration date before which they must be spent or exchanged for new coins. Customers would be given a certain amount of time during which they could exchange their coins.
It's 100% for pushing the Samsung phones, the whole galaxy unpacked event theme was "Galaxy AI."

Everyone I know has gone from upgrading every 1 or 2 years to 4+ years, including myself. Phones are much more expensive and iterations are fairly minimal, but over a 4+ year span it's pretty significant. I'm going from an S20 Ultra to S24 Ultra this year and excited for the better display, cooling, cameras, and having a stylus I can use for small pixel arty stuff without lugging my massive ipad around.
Hi, welfare.

My approach: 2d first. QuickEdit+, HTML Canvas, CSS, Javascript. On mobile.

3d scenes in between.

Everything from scratch, mobile phone always there to be seized and used for enhancements or little proof of concepts...

Start with a corn maze. Generation, cursor giving direction, a moving dot forbidden to touch or even hit walls...

Hope that helps.

Christian, Dresden

Edit, typo: dirst/f
I read it all through. Yes, there are no words. But seeing "Sign up for more like this." form at the end was so confusing.
What length does a cyclical list have?

(define l '(1 2 3))
(set-cdr! (cddr l) l)
It doesn't confirm either ways though, not good, not bad.
Airbus Is Pulling Ahead as Boeing's Troubles Mount
Sounds a bit like Mondex.
In a month, the Jira server is set to reach its end of life, prompting many customers to shift to their SaaS Cloud offering.

It seems customers are delaying the transition due to the extensive planning and stress associated with migration, leading to a noticeable increase in server activity.

Meanwhile, our company is scheduled to migrate next weekend. Despite investing over 50 consultancy days and engaging in thorough internal planning, completing the migration of our projects and customizations poses a significant challenge. The migration of our relatively small CMDB/CMD asset dataset within the weekend timeframe seems unlikely. We are employing both vendor plugins and custom scripting, as Atlassian lacks a dedicated solution for asset migration.
GCHQ Celebrates 80 Years of Colossus
Assuming that there are no differences in productivity, working remotely is borderline morally evil. It's unhealthier (loneliness, lack of work/life separation, physical inactivity), it's bad for the environment (climate control of a 100-people office is less energy intensive than that of 100 individual homes), and its costs are imposed on the worker rather than the business.

To be clear, I don't honestly believe the previous paragraph. I'm just using it to illustrate how one can pull out a "just so" story to argue the exact opposite that you're doing. I believe your argument is flawed in that makes a universal condemnation supported by generalisations based on local specifics.

I work in a company which, for all intents and purposes, allows its employees to be almost fully remote and yet a significant number of us actively choose to come to the office (partly motivated by things like free brunches from office management). The overwhelming majority of workers come to the office on foot, on public transport, by bike, or by electric scooter, and a tiny few come by motorbike. How is that "borderline morally evil"?
In contrast, all of Europe has demonetized its old currencies (Deutschmark, French Francs, Italian Lira, etc.) when switching to Euros, and a few times before that. I've just looked it up and one Napoleon Franc is currently worth ~20€.

So, it's not that uncommon.
I know about collecting data, but sending? how?
Moving to metric, the toughest adaptation has been going from Fahrenheit to Celsius. No idea why. Fahrenheit's a persistent bugger.
I also initiated some NetBSD mascot concept ideas but i guess people are not that interested in it

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2021/01/21/msg...
> There's something to be said for being in the same physical space as your peers and the social bonds that form

indeed it seems that effective remote only work requires a more coherent team or more formalized processes.
I don't see any evidence in the linked article that it's due to a lack of confidence? Could it not be issues like (for example), new models being released at lower price points with better range?
A good thing about PICO-8 is that it is a complete and closed environment, in that you do not need anything else and there's nothing to be added later on along the way.

It removes a ton of moving parts squarely outside the "I want to make a game from my notes" goal, like "Oh I discovered that Lua lib" or "which text/image/sound editor can I use" or formats or whatnot.
There's renewed excitement about synthetic data because of the Deepmind Geometry solving model that appeared yesterday - which was trained on synthetic data. I guess this is why this is being picked up again.
A long time ago, Mozilla had a prototype of this, but it never took up, in part because there was no standard for web payments. Then Brave claimed to be working on this, I don't know the status. I believe that Chrome had someone working on this, too, at some point, but the project vanished.
Etk – Ebitengine tool kit for creating graphical user interfaces in Go
Same here! But lower spec (486 DX2 66) and running Windows 3.1. But it might be able to do Windows 95.
In the UK the tax incentives for Electric cars may be skewing demand towards new Vs secondhand EVs.

I can lease a new EV via my employer's salary sacrifice scheme. I can pay my lease payments from my pre-tax income. There is an additional tax due on cars leased this way in the UK called Benefit-in-Kind tax (BIK). The rate of this tax is fairly high for petrol/diesel cars but for EVs is currently near zero (based on 2% of the car's value).

The problem is that most of the major lease firms that operate these programs for employers only offer new vehicles. Ideally I would like a nearly-new EV. I have escalated and apparently our lease provider (Tusker) are looking at rolling this out in the first half of this year. I currently know of only one other lease firm that offers this option. I suspect is in the interest of lease firms to prop up the value of the used EV market, but this depends also on their margins on new vehicles. I wonder if it would make sense for the tax incentives for used Vs new EVs to be rejigged to avoid incentivising unnecessary new car production?
wow, thus is crazy, I hope I can have one in my yard.
Bingo: pre-2016 cars.

Get a pre-Internet, pre-subscription Subaru; Foresters and Outbacks are both known to last 300K miles. Great in snow. Great resale too, far better than an EV.
> EV should be redesigned around a common core swappable battery technology.

I don't think this is very feasible. Different battery chemistries inherently have different voltages and densities.

So switching battery chemistry might require electronics with a higher voltage rating. And you can't swap in a battery with a very different weight, not just due to suspension but also structure and breaks if the battery is much heavier.

This is the case for the BMW i3 where the 94Ah model can get upgraded to the new 120Ah battery because it was designed with a sturdier frame, but the pre-94Ah models can't because they lack the sturdy frame.

And there might be additional concerns like different cooling requirements etc.
> Once the grandparents are on the platform it dies.

Really? I thought the point of Facebook was to be in touch with friends and relatives.

I would rather say that "grandparents" were slow to adapt Facebook amd likewise slow to leave.

The decline of Facebook seems to me to be related to the feed pushing crap people don't care about and competition from Instagram, TikTok amd whatever.
Wow, great answer!

I can apply this to some situations I have with my daughter. I have a tendency to get over-excited when she shows interest in my interests, and try and push her to do the things with me.
Those are very different issues. React, Angular, Ember and co don't help you with your data harvesting one bit.
Yes, please better support for arrays, mainly multidimensional.
Fortran is good for that.
With good arrays I think that strings comes naturally.
The whole confused and confusing epoch of "expanded" memory versus "extended" memory proved that Intel processors were designed by the Devil himself.