skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are absolutely right. Once you decide to give social media less room in your life on the next day you already have more time. While quitting common drugs like smoking the withdrawal only really begins at this point.

However that was working for me, social media never being deeply part of me growing up. I suspect this gets only harder for the next generations
This. While one could argue the current conflicts we're seeing are the Thucydides Trap, as the US' power wanes and China rises, this transition from quasi-unipolar hegemony to a multipolar and multicentric is clearly being mediated by conflict.

Personally I think it's the only realistic way we could have a system of checks-and-balances. You truly need a set of superpowers fending each other off, keeping each other in line for there to be some stability, offsetting their influences.
Just about the last thing I want is for epub to stop working offline on my phone, because the damm book needs to download something.
I guess they make more than 0.50€ per install- makes sense
> PDFs are rendered consistently. A PDF specifies precisely how it should be rendered, so a PDF author can be confident that a reader will see the same document under any conditions.

And that is why PDF sux for reading on the phone. And why epub is massively better if you want to read articles and books.
It's a 4x4 configuration of the separately available Xilinx/AMD AIE-ML accelerator, available on Xilinx alveo platform IIRC.

VLIW vector units optimized for AI (-ML suffix) with runtime reconfigurable network on a chip letting you optimize "streaming" the data between individual cores.

The way "AMD IPU" device was implemented, which embeds the system in some new AMD CPUs, the previous drivers (which were Linux/RTOS only) didn't work.

I was actually in the middle of reverse engineering how it was exposed in Phoenix (7940hs) APUs to write custom driver for Linux based on the one shipped for windows.
Explicit AI deepfakes of Taylor Swift have fans, lawmakers raging
> I’ve spent time in some of the largest distributed computing deployments

Yeah obviously if you run hundreds or thousands of severs then efficiency matters a lot, but then there isn't really the option to use a single machine with a lot of RAM instead, is there?

I'm talking about the typical BigCorp whose core business is something else than IT, like insurance, construction, mining, retail, whatever. Saving a single AKS cluster just doesn't move the needle.
I only use iOS and know way too little about Android. I was under the impression that iOS had more quality apps than Android, just based on personal experience of (quickly and sloppily!) using Android apps. Could you give a few examples of the quality Android apps that are missing on iOS? Would be fun to check out.
>they need to cover all events impartially and equally.

A 100% accurate map of the territory is just the territory itself, and is useless as a map.
Its a perfect, self serving loop, if you think about it from a governance perspective.

Government takes taxes. It uses those taxes to spy on its citizens. This makes the citizens more compliant. Compliant citizens acquiesce more easily. Government therefore increases its power and does more of the same.

Greater invasive control results in more extraction from the citizens and more power to government.

From a governance perspective, this is a positive feedback loop. From a citizens perspective, it is a negative feedback loop.
Two lines is wasteful, but it does look nice that the input is always full width.

Another minimal prompt: https://lib.rs/crates/pista
It really shouldn't. Rust has internal sanity checks where C/C++ doesn't. C++ also has better abstractions often leading to better whole-program performance than C. In C you would have to obsess about each little thing to keep up. It's a red flag for the whole article.
I had a similar problem loading the page on Firefox for desktop with private browsing. It turns out service workers don't work in private browsing, which it seems Bene (the software rendering the page) requires. Switching to a normal Firefox window solved the problem.
I spent most of my career in ops, specifically packaging and deployment, and one of the most important things I learned early is to never trust commit messages. This has been just as true at places that spent an ungodly amount of time grooming their commit messages. It's pretty easy now to work with diffs directly, and diffs don't lie.
Eggs very pretty expensive outside of rural areas though (and even there they seemingly wasn’t close to being as common as now).

e.g. a dozen eggs cost about the same as a chicken https://www.luminarium.org/medlit/medprice.htm
Hard now to imagine but Lotus 1-2-3 changed the world and dominated the industry.

Lotus was on par with Microsoft, had the chance to be gigantic and somehow fumbled it when the world switched to Windows from text based DOS.

Lotus had some really innovative products like Lotus Notes ….. the first true nocode development environment.

Lotus also had Bill Gates as it’s competitor when Bill was at the top of his most ruthless business game.

Bill crushed them.
> In the same way NoSQL forced us to rethink databases.

Did it? After using Mongo in my current job (not my choice), I'd choose Postgres again for my next project.
The flaw here is only exploitable by (1) a malicious server, which could anyway just send a malicious binary, no need for header shenanigans, or (2) a MITM. Case 1 is moot, case 2 would be prevented by properly implemented HTTPS.

On the other hand, I don't think it's practical to actually implement HTTPS properly in UEFI, since you'd have to constantly update the trust store, and you'd have to have actual internet access to be be able to check the certificate revocation lists (otherwise, you are vulnerable to surreptitious malicious activity from otherwise trusted CAs).
Is there software that minimizes the fonts by removing code points that aren't used in the document?
Wouldn't it be the smell of space suits and space stations, rather than space itself? I don't think astronauts have tried to breath the few particles in the vacuum.
Ah yes, we don't get that often here. It's mostly dry cold. When it's humid some clothes quickly just becomes ice cakes and have no function any more.
Feels like negotations broke down, and Apple published this publically to put pressure on.
I'm old enough to remember the 90s and Microsoft.

The olden days equivalent of the HN crowd (Slashdot? Kuro5hin?) hated Microsoft's behaviour but had to build on their platforms because there wasn't an alternative that would pay the bills. So Microsoft kept raking in profits and probably thought that everything was OK and there wasn't an issue.

But that ill-feeling meant that as soon as an alternative emerged (in this case Apple, powered by open-source, Unix, the web - and later smartphones with the iPhone and Android) there was an exodus and Microsoft's attempts to regain ground (IIS, Windows Phone) were widely ignored.

Apple is on the same ground now (and I say this as an Apple-lover). They are pulling in huge amounts of money through their behaviour but I have no doubt, as soon as an alternative appears (probably through some platform shift) they will come to regret it.

UPDATE: and it would be ironic if the Vision Pro was the thing that triggered the platform shift. If the Vision Pro works well as a Mac alternative (a proper productivity environment but with an infinite screen), once others implement the same idea effectively (and maybe not quite as well as Apple has) it could be the catalyst for developers (and hence apps) jumping ship.
Science, art, entrepreneurship; I don't see much difference in these things at a fundamental level.
Those we'll probably need again in WWIV to fight with sticks and rocks - after our modern infrastructure has been pulverized.
Show HN: An efficient SRL32 (cascading shift registers) clock prescaler in VHDL
Having just started learning FPGA Hardware Description Languages by attempting to write a simple LED blinker, I found that the overwhelming majority of the Internet's solution to slowing down a fast clock (for making the pulsing of an LED visible to the human eye) was either using vendor-specific, proprietary clock managers and PLLs or implementing some twenty-something-bit-wide counter as to count hundreds of thousands of clock cycles and generate a 1 Hz output.

Although there is a world of difference between counters in hardware-accelerated designs and those in software-emulated ones, I nonetheless viewed the number of daisy-chained components resulting from a mere counter as far-from-ideal and absurd; I began searching for a more efficient method.

I came upon a rather obscure blog post from 2015 (http://www.markharvey.info/art/srldiv_04.10.2015/srldiv_04.1...) outlining the exact same issue while also referencing the Xilinx systems designer Mr. Ken Chapman's proposal: using FPGAs' shift register primitives (e.g., Xilinx's SRL32E) to alleviate that.

However, the method described therein would rely on the user to calculate the target frequency's factors between [2, 32) and painstakingly connect each and every instance of SRL32Es to one another, all in a manual manner, not to mention that the resulting pulse would have a low, one-cycle-long duty.

Thus, I wrote srl_prescaler.vhd, a fully automated template generator in VHDL for an efficient register-based cascaded clock divider based solely on SRL32 primitives alongside AND gates---the advantage of this module is that it is very generic and easy-to-use:

```

prescaler : entity work.srl_prescaler

generic map (100e6, 1)

port map (clk_in_100mhz, ce_out_1hz);

```

In the above example, an input clock of 100 MHz (i.e., `100e6` & `clk_in_100mhz`) gets divided into a clock enable signal of 1 Hz (i.e., `1` & `ce_out_1hz`). Among the other improvements, a third optional parameter (i.e., the duty cycle) may also get supplied as a real number (0.00, 1.00) to the generic map.

Overall, this small project makes an otherwise-niche method more accessible by actually making use of the many language features that VHDL has to offer (e.g., pre-computing factor results using functions, automating hardware creation via for...generate clauses, latching using registers and guarded signals, etc.), serving as a good yet practical learning point.
I'm currently considering various possibilities

1. You're actually trolling. You're writing maximally obtuse prose to poke fun at lefties, which you're actually not. In fact, if @pmarca himself had an HN troll account I'd expect it to look a lot like yours, incl referring to himself as @pmarca.

2. You're capable of writing deeply sophisticated text, with 5 commas per sentence and metaphors for metaphors for what you actually mean, yet you truly, genuinely do not understand the sentence "I do not understand what this means"

3. You're a deeply cynical person, who'd use "I do not understand what this means" as a tactic for undermining the other person's actual argument in a sleazy way, and you think other people would do the same.

Either way, I keep saying "I don't understand" and you keep layering on more of the same argument in the same incomprehensible style. Consider that maybe I, really truly, cannot understand what you're writing, and that I'm not the only one.

I'm leaning towards 2 - I think you mean well and that you somehow really believe that I disagree with you and need convincing. For what it's worth, I agree with most of the things you wrote that I could understand. I'm a lefty too, I think the bigcos have way too much power.
In Britain of all places I just cannot see what benefit this brings. All my payments and transactions are electronic in one way or another. I don't carry cash. Who's life will this improve?
One of my biggest fears is that I spend time building things that are useless and have no value for anyone else. I absolutely hate when corp reorgs and other major events redefine priorities and make everyone waste their time into something nonproductive. This person did that for 6 years and "would not have done anything differently".
It is called "Springer" (translates to: jumper) in German. Sometimes "Pferd" or "Ross" is also used (translates to: horse and steed, resp.). That's why "Knight's tour" is called "Springerproblem" or "Rösselsprung" (from "Ross") in German.
I just moved "up" from gfm markdown to asxiidoc and oh do I miss LaTeX.

html rendering of LaTeX is a godsend. and imnsho asciidoc a work around to not fully having that.
I like Dijkstra's quote: "The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim."
> The point of the Biblical story is, what can we learn?

That Christians worship an unreasonable, malicious or mad, god with unreasonable standards. "Even when you were a gullible idiot and faced an influence I'd not accounted for despite being all knowing, I'm still going to punish you and all your offspring forever for what you did wrong, especially the woman and that's why childbirth hurts."

That, even as literature, it shows the human condition is one of the vibes of a story without paying attention to details, one where just-so stories which get written backwards from observables don't need to make logical sense when read forwards in order to convince people.

Like I said, the difference world view is alien. I assume the same is true in reverse, and that True Believers (and perhaps not even casual holiday-only believers) can't understand how I might not see things the way they do.
Apple bullying Hey is the reason why I have never released anything for iOS and waiting on some other solution, be it Chrome with actually working PWA + WebBLE or sideloading.
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My impression is that fluor mainly shined in wet or dirty conditions, and weren't that big of a deal in colder temps other than durability. At least I've had problems with -20 snow all my life, so even before the prohibition, heh.

Maaaybe TS would make a difference, but no way I'm shelling out that kind of money for a normal day in the mountains. Mostly using PS6 as a base, and then perhaps something more specific for the daily conditions if warmer, but seldom anything more fancy than PS, maybe HS for a long trip.
What about Assembly?
I've had to dig through the history of a 5 year old project - it was much nicer when the commits were focused, the PRs has nice descriptions and even better if associated with ticket.

I will defend merge squash forever - low effort, good results. You do whatever you want in your feature branch, then merge squash. Everyone can do it. You want to split it in multiple commits? Then it probably should have been split in multiple PRs .

I need to write an article about this so I can just link to it instead of writing the same comment evrytime :)
Or like the United States with their military operations protecting w̶e̶a̶k̶ a̶n̶d̶ o̶p̶p̶r̶e̶s̶s̶e̶d̶ p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶ their interests around the world ?
It depends on sample location. After discovering patches of water ice, the planet is more interesting than ever.
PDF is an annoying specification, but there exists absolutely no replacement for it.

I have never seen any kind of technical documentation published in any other format than PDF that is comfortable for reading and searching, even when that is done on a mobile phone.

I do not want a document that changes appearance depending on the device used for reading or depending on its temporary state, like window size. I want a document whose layout has been well conceived by its author and which is fixed, regardless of what I happen to use for reading it.

When I happen to read it on a smaller screen or window, except for trivial text-only documents, I do not want changes in layout, but I only want a smart reader, with comfortable means for fast zoom and pan, and which does not have stupid behaviors (like some Android readers), for instance where scrolling vertically (including Page Up/Page Down) also moves the document horizontally (preventing the easy reading of a column of text).

The traditional recommendations for the maximum width of a text column are good enough, if observed, to ensure comfortable reading even on a mobile phone. Only when the author breaks the traditional typographic rules by making extra-wide columns, the reading on a mobile phone becomes inconvenient.
Yeah I see your point where it just doesn’t matter, especially back the the original point where it may not be at scale now, but you don’t want to go through the budget / approval process when you need it etc.

I think my original point was more in the “engineers want to do cool, scalable stuff” realm - and so any solution has to support scaling out to the n’th degree.

Organisational factors pull a whole new dimension into this.
According to Wikipedia, we have "some 3,700 M1A1, M1A2 SEPv2/v3 in storage". So we have literally thousands of main battle tanks we will never use we could just give them. It's a meat grinder because we're making it so.
Given that system failures have a significant cost associated with them, because people are the no.1 consumer of energy when idling around (still gonna consume wether trains go or not), there is a really good point to be made that the 5% overhead that rust adds is totally worth it.

Better software is also good against obsolescence, I feel like one of the reasons my Sonos experience has degraded over the years is because they realised that their initial product was too good, and people weren't upgrading ever.
If anyone wants to discuss the LOST finale, I'm here for it.

Let's start with the obvious:

They were not dead since the plane crash.

Basically every mystery was explained.

JJ Abrams only had input for the Pilot and very little afterwards. So no magic box bullshit.

Of course the writer were "making it up as they go", they didn't have a 6-years plan. But the themes and motives were there since the beginning. (in fact you can read the early outlines here: https://www.reddit.com/r/815/comments/13kr6ua/the_black_box/).

LOST was all about the characters _and_ it had a compelling mystery. It was perfect. Also it's one of the few media to get Time Travel 100% right (as in: internal logic).
Do you not believe it to be valuable to be able to write 5 pages of coherent text? Is that not something that schools should teach users how to do?
I for one does not miss having "big data" being mentioned in every meeting, talk, memo, etc. Sure it's AI now, but even that doesn't become as annoying and misunderstood as the big data fad was.
Yeah, there are tools that do this. I know nothing about this stuff, but a recent Tech Tangents video had him combining multiple degraded prints of Contact. It's the final segment and the tool is called Id-disc-stacker. You need a lot of time, space and processing power.

https://youtu.be/RduEpIiG0O0?si=uurvcfzVoOkf3zSW
Fun as it may be as a thought/UX experiment, I don't think it's a good design, because half-truth is usually the worst compromise.

This design doesn't account for many special qualities and behaviors pieces exhibit. It doesn't indicate that

* while pawns do capture diagonally (forward), they are pushed forward in straight line

* they can capture en passant

* they can move by 2 squares from their initial file, and only from the initial file

* they can be promoted to another piece

* Knight moves are not inhibited by the presence of other pieces (unlike any other piece, a Knight can "jump over" pieces)

* castling

* special status of the King (unless it's conveyed by that circle in the middle, but it's not nearly as readable a symbol as a crown)

So this design kind of works if you already have complete information from elsewhere, but isn't that great if it were your first source of info.

It also loses the poetic aesthetics of the traditional pieces, with queens and kings and bishops etc.
>Pretty confident this company discriminates against non-Japanese.

Why do you think that? Was the job requisition in English? Did it ask for Japanese proficiency? If the answers are "yes" and "no", respectively, then it's very unlikely they're discriminating against non-Japanese for that job. If they don't want to hire non-Japanese, they'll simply post the job in Japanese only, or put "Japanese language proficiency (N2 or better)" or something like that in the ad. The reality is that not that many companies have an English working environment; this is a country where the national language is Japanese, and not that many people speak English well, after all.
About time! I wanna see msEdge running in iPad and visionOS with vertical grouped tabs and workspaces
> You want to split it in multiple commits? Then it probably should have been split in multiple PRs .

Sure, but GitHub/GitLab/Gitea don't let you write multiple PRs that depend on each other easily, like Phabricator/Gerrit/email do. Either it's a mess of branches merging into each other, multiple commits in the same PR, or wait for one PR to be merged before writing the next.
You make little sense. What are they going to do about it?

Digitally lock down everything somehow? Outlaw encryption? Forbid VPNs?

Implement a massive, nation-covering firewall that actually can enforce any of that?
This is the problem. Microsoft does not have a strong product function in Windows so no one can push back on this bullshit in the first place.
> A PDF can include the fonts. But it often doesn't, and relies on system fonts.

found this out, after 20-something years of consistent pdf renderings, in a job interview because my docs allegedly looked odd :/

the daily wtf ...
The HTTP spec does say though: in HTTP/1.1, the HTTP body length is the value of the content-length header. Anything else coming on the wire is part of the next HTTP request/response (which may of course be invalid). Reading everything from the stream until the connection is closed is HTTP/1.0 behavior.

Of course, if the UEFI HTTP client is not correctly implementing the spec, it's up to shim to defend itself, so I'm not saying this change is wrong or unnecessary.
Still seemingly cheaper than pig, goose, sheep, etc (although hard to compare weight for weight).

Today, as then, be careful not to confuse a young chicken killed and sold for eating with an established reliable laying hen .. which generally won't be for sale until they stop laying.

A laying hen is valued more than a broiler chicken.
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Nobody would buy apple phones without the appstore. It's their selling point. So its very well in their interest to keep those free apps, and everything, alive without other devs having to subsidize it.

15-30% really is insane.
The afd is not anti democratic. Otherwise they would be banned.
Re-read what you wrote yourself.

You were using the NSF budget as a measure of importance of its work.

You also compared it to the GDP, which only makes sense if you think that all work done is equally important. How very socialist of you.

>Add reading comprehension 101 to econ 101 and then it will compute

What you say "computes" only after adding Dunning-Kruger to the mix.
New Room Temp Superconductor Throws Hat in the Ring – This Time, It's Graphite
Sure. And you'd think that is built in when an IOS dev pays their $100/year licensing fee.

If not, I wouldn't be opposed to the paying to review apps outside of the App Store (where their 30% cut assumedly takes into account for App store apps), as long as the review is purely for security and not to comply with App Store rules (since I am not hosting it on the app store). But charging everytime someone download a semi-popular app, or worse, updates that app (since the install fee is per year) starts to go beyond "what value am I bringing to this feature?"
The vast majority of the killing has always been via indirect fire. Drones and aircraft are just part of that.