skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that difficult to be faster than MKL when you write the benchmarks.

MKL is a general-purpose library, it does compromises to be good for most sizes. If you care about the performance of specific sizes, you can write code to beat it on that very specific benchmark.

Interestingly, BLIS does poorly at small sizes, which is the area where it is easiest to beat MKL at.
To tie this to the software development community, I used to work in electronics manufacturing for a company that provided services to defense contractors. The vast majority of my dev team (SWEs, PMs, QA, Ops) were offshore, split between Latin America & India mostly. The product owner & architect of one of our team's key software services (shop floor test integration/automation tools) was Brazilian. In one version of the code he'd set some debug flags so he could triage an intermittent error. Unbeknownst to everyone (I mean, we should have known, but didn't think to check), the version was deployed to prod in a factory building DoD stuff.

We got called not long after by the site's compliance officer asking why classified data was being accessed by non-ITAR-compliant personnel. It was explainable and we got through it just by implementing and adhering to an additional deployment control, but I still remember him telling us that the products being built don't become classified until the serial number label is applied to the board. That label is what ultimately identifies the product and the program ... so if we had a way of testing things without labeling them (for example, by creating dummy labels that didn't mean anything but could still be UUIDs), it was no problem. So then we adapted our software to allow for these dummy serials for testing purposes ... and we also created a classified compliance trigger in our BI tools to prevent manufacturing history for any classified unit from being visible to an non-compliant personnel after the manufacturing step where the real SN label was applied.

Speaking of naval nuclear, I grew up in Lynchburg, VA, home of BWXT, and my dad is a [retired] naval officer & nuclear engineer who spent his career at B&W (commercial). I had several friends who went to work at BWXT and they took data controls extremely seriously. No computers (including cell phones) allowed through the gate. No paper allowed back out, and any new hire who didn't already have a security clearance had to work in a physically airgapped (trailers, enclosed in razor wire fencing) office on not much of anything until they got cleared. For some it took 6-9 months after they were hired.
I don't know what previous commenter you're referring to.

You wrote this, to the parent I replied to.

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Every time someone here mentions the heritability of IQ, I
wonder what they think that term means, because it clearly
does not mean what most people intuitively think it does.

The "issue" you are talking about has already been addressed ; it is not something that has an effect large enough to be relevant, at least for a small number of generations. We could talk about the very long-term effects, and the necessity of territory/environment control but that's an even more politically loaded subject and it doesn't change what I say.
You seemed even more confused about probability than you think I am about genetics, even if you lack that intuition, it does not make its effect go away.

Then again, since you seemd to have "forgotten" a previous comment of yours, I am inclined to think that you are either arguing in bad faith or don't really understand what you are saying.
I would be happy to argue those things with a trained geneticist but since my argument is probabilistic it wouldn't even matter that much. Research seems to say the same thing I do, abeit with a lot more politicaly correct wrapping.
That's the least charitable interpretation, I think. A more charitable read is that no system should be one-size-fits-all, so move outliers to specialized subsystems.
> the 2-color limit per 8x8 block. It's already a big issue with just lights and shadows as it is :-/

Well, you impressed me (and others) with your simple bet that "hey, what if I simply choose the two most popular colors" and just code that in simple BASIC. The same could be done with the shading. It would probably pick a good compromise when bright yellow meets dark red: by choosing to have the few should-be-red pixels become yellow, you avoid a bigger obviously-square-grid-based clash of colors.

Next step: error diffusion dithering would IMHO be a good bet. But maybe that becomes really to much for Basic.

I've been considering doing Raytracing on the Amstrad CPC, but in C.
Perhaps using integers only, for speed.

Done that instead: https://cpcitor.itch.io/just-get-9

Hey, found this https://bbcmic.ro/?t=9ctpk via "BBC BASIC raytracer in 432 characters (mastodon.me.uk)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39023056#39023768
"do they really expect this all the time"

This is an interesting question. I don't know if they believe but they def want to believe because without unicorns, they won't survive as most startups fail or have mediocre returns which is not enough for VCs to justify to their own investors/LPs.
No, I think the question is: if you're passing the URLs via email, WhatsApp, or anything else, then if that system is compromised then you've revealed the secret.

If you trust that system not to be compromised, then you may as well have just sent the secret plain-text.

In what way or in what scenario does this ever grant you MORE secrecy?
Judging by some freight hopping videos, they're still around on cargo trains, perhaps just less numerous.
I can get some decent speeds with the standard wifi card in the Framework 13 (Intel) and the new U7 Pro AP.

Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX210 160MHz

6GHz channel (mandatory WPA3). Intel iwd instead of wpa_supplicant (though it worked okay).

[ 5] local 192.168.1.232 port 59618 connected to 192.168.1.201 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd
[ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 95.0 MBytes 796 Mbits/sec 26 1.14 MBytes
[ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 96.1 MBytes 806 Mbits/sec 22 899 KBytes
[ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 98.2 MBytes 825 Mbits/sec 0 977 KBytes
[ 5] 3.00-4.00 sec 96.0 MBytes 805 Mbits/sec 0 1.03 MBytes
[ 5] 4.00-5.00 sec 97.5 MBytes 818 Mbits/sec 0 1.10 MBytes
[ 5] 5.00-6.00 sec 95.2 MBytes 799 Mbits/sec 16 863 KBytes
[ 5] 6.00-7.00 sec 93.4 MBytes 783 Mbits/sec 0 960 KBytes
[ 5] 7.00-8.00 sec 95.2 MBytes 799 Mbits/sec 0 1.01 MBytes
[ 5] 8.00-9.00 sec 94.0 MBytes 789 Mbits/sec 0 1.06 MBytes
[ 5] 9.00-10.00 sec 97.6 MBytes 819 Mbits/sec 0 1.11 MBytes
They are FOSS, but they are for a business, so yes, I will be affected.

Rust is unfortunately not a reasonable alternative in some cases.

As an example, my software needs just a C compiler to build itself. You can build my software completely with:

tcc -run bootstrap/boostrap.c tcc

This is because my software includes a build system meant to bootstrap other software. This use case is a good reason to avoid Rust.

Another reason Rust may not be reasonable is the pervasiveness of async. Personally (not in general), async does not work for me.

Rust is not the last word in programming languages. I am working on an alternative that will not only not have async, but will have more static analysis because destructors will be guaranteed to run.

If you had read my post, you would know that I am planning to rewrite my stuff in that language as soon as possible.

If Rust becomes required, I would be forced to stop work on that language, and progress would slow down.

There are valid reasons to use C, even for software that handles untrusted inputs.
That's not a corporate-law issue -- it's a First Amendment issue with a lot of settled precedent behind it.

tl;dr: You're allowed to lie, as a person or a corporation, as long as the lie doesn't meet pretty high bars for criminal behavior or public harm.

Heck, you can even shout fire in a crowded theater, despite the famous quote that says you can't.
now do almonds..... Which alot of people want to use as a replacement for things like Milk, or Flour....
> Work with code on any machine

> This is referring to remote editing support.

I agree with the OP, I thought it meant Zed was cross platform or something.
It’s about the power dynamics. Who comes calling first? The founder, needing money, or the investor wanting to invest?

The first caller wants something. The other has it. The founder can only play that game if the investor calls first.
Equating the provided memory safety of a Rust program without direct unsafe usage to a complex JIT built in C++ seems willfully ignorant. The attack surface would still be the mostly formally verified Rust type system and standard library https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/.
Yes, people don't understand that the increase in homelessness will certainly also increase dramatically the amount of theft. Middle class people with jobs and homes don't want to jeopardize their lifestyle by committing petty theft. People at the margins of society, especially homeless, don't have much more to lose, so this kind of behavior becomes the norm.
They should have rules preventing this from happening in the very beginning of that organization. The turn of events shows that their form of governance is not effective.
I used to hang out in an IRC channel, and the big CL proponent there was a Norwegian that would disappear for long periods and go boat / hang out in the woods on his own. Apparently those are common hobbies in Scandinavia but it also makes a lot of sense for a CL lover in hindsight.
> solar energy prices plummeting

Shopping for solar in California, prices aren't plummeting. With high interest rates, solar no longer makes economic sense. Its more expensive than ever. Many solar installers are facing bankruptcy because the market has collapsed.
On costly, but mostly hypothetical, settlement risk
Visa and Mastercard require card issuers to post billions in collateral to protect themselves from settlement risk. However, that settlement risk rarely materializes into losses for the schemes
Nix at Bellroy
Great, we're looking at deaths till the point of generation.

4.5 billion years, is the half life of uranium. Come back to me with stats then....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

We're going to be pouring money into that shit show for probably a 1000 years, and an exclusion zone for 20,000.

So if you want to move next to Fukushima or Chernobyl you can preach safe nuclear from there, other wise stop the nonsene. The same companies that kill people with coal, and gas lines, and Power lines (lookin at you PGE) dont need to run nuclear plants. They are untrustworthy.
> The student was ordered in writing to not read about nuclear engineering outside of the school building, regardless of the source. Even though it's all publicly available information that is taught in any undergrad engineering program.

that in particular seems extreme, but I know someone who worked on nuclear reactors for the DOD and they were told to not comment on/confirm anything related to nuclear as a CYA, even if it was widely available public info.
Didn’t apple do the same with 3nm?

Kinda feels like cheating.

I guess AMD will catch up “later” only because its going to get 2nm chips as well.

At least i hope TSMC is getting a shitload of money for this exclusive access.
saying the words "I'm not sure what you mean" doesn't give you a pass to speak with authority about the effort involved in getting the class keyword into javascript when you're ignorant of the history.

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edit: But also, let me point something out.

what you're calling "awkwardness with classes" is incorrect. they were _functions_ that you could attach state to, some of that state could, itself, be callable functions. That's a large part of _why_ javascript has prototype inheritance.

javascript was primarily functional with some features that allowed a bit of OOP sprinkled in.
Base model 3 doesn't qualify for the tax credit. The only Model 3 you can buy with the credit is the much more expensive Performance edition.
there are ~90M cattle in the US, so more than before ?
What do investors get out of that deal? Positive karma?
Performing a cryptographic penetration test every time you (or, behind your back, your browser) loads a page is a problematic strategy for deploying cryptography on the Internet.

I think the previous comment came across as snark, but it's not snarking; it's a genuine suggestion. The thing they're trying to build can work, and find users, without the performative cryptography.
Or make those darn new fangled vertical TikTok style videos watchable!
> The "alfalfa in the desert" stuff you hear about isn't for salads. It's feed for cattle.

Worse. It's feed for Chinese cattle in China. Alfalfa is shippable, and it gets shipped to the Chinese mainland. Economically speaking, alfalfa and water are pretty fungible, one's as good as the other, and they're buying it up subsidized by the US government to the detriment of American taxpayers. If we taxed alfalfa sold abroad to make the price reasonable, that nonsense would stop immediately.
How do you think they trivialize it? I've found them to be good for writing short scripts or answering a specific question. I've never seen one that you point at your own code base and have it do things like write a new endpoint that takes into account all the existing database and authentication code. If such a thing exists I'd like to know about it.
This is awesome! Frustrating they'd DRM lock the air purifier but looks like a fun hack :)
Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation (2021)
This video is almost certainly done mostly for Google investors: look, we aren't dying, search isn't dying! dancing bears!

That said, if this tech is as advertised, extremely impressive to me
My favorite thing from Euler's body of work is the circle-of-fifths on steroids, the tonnetz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnetz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nidHgLA2UB0
Honestly have never found a reason to switch from Safari, I trust Apple to make reasonable decisions about my data so I've never had to worry about it outside of normal cybersecurity hygiene (randomized passwords, enabling advanced data protection, etc).

I have no idea what people are smoking if they think any company that gives you a free product and makes money on your data would have your privacy as their best interest. I'm not saying they're straight up committing fraud, I'm talking about stuff like Opera collecting this to use for a future business endeavor. It's why I'll never buy an Android phone, Apple is expensive but at the end of the day Apple is already profitable without data collection, but most other companies can't say that, so they can never truly have your best interests in mind when it's a matter of survival.
It _is_ Unix.

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
I mispoke, there's the rank dimension, which would make this a big table. Still I think the animation took too long to settle, I was bored waiting and annoyance didn't add enough value to final infographic for me. It would be more justifiable if datapoints/balls dropped with the time axis since there'a might be an interesting story there that would warrant animation.
you're being hyperbolic, but the underlying idea is correct.

The thing is, most everyone understood what I meant, this other person is just trying to play ignorant.
Please explain what this looks like?
"Weirdly dark" is a pretty apt description of the Dutch sense of humor, I suspect it's mainly because of that.
> The kinds of theft happening in LA on a regular basis are essentially unheard of in places like Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong or Taiwan. Any such occurrence would be shocking news and police would be all over it.

That's more likely because these places (as does Europe, by the way - we also don't have people burglarizing trains!) have robust social security networks for their population. The homeless get at least basic assistance, the mentally ill get taken care of.

The US does neither. People who have fallen through the cracks simply don't get any help at all (except from some charities), and mentally ill people don't get any care.
> two more years before Toyota rolls out new batteries.

"Or the horse may learn to sing."
You can't install MacOS any machine. You can't install it on most machines. You can install it exclusively on a Mac, a hackintosh, or a VM.

I'm not trying to assume or criticize their intentions. I'm criticizing their unintentional mistake.
You're moving the goalposts again. Or is this the motte-and-bailey?

---

you: "Capitalism ended slavery and genocide"

me: "No it didn't"

you: "What I meant to say is that Western Values influenced global consensus"

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you: "Punctuality being deemphasized is bad"

me: "How has punctuality being deemphasized impacted you personally?"

you: "Abandoning merit leads to dysfunction"

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And you can not seriously be offering up the pretense of impartiality?

"Highlighting the positive does not imply denying the negative." Ok but highlighting the positive is by definition not impartial.

Impartiality would be offering up the facts and letting others interpret those facts to come to their own conclusions. You're offering up a biased conclusion and working backwards with very few supporting facts.

"And my stance isn't against inspecting our philosophical frameworks;"

... let me repost the longer quote

"In no other region of the world is the intellectual class arguing that their own culture's values should be deemphasized, and that includes regions that are behind the West in a myriad of socioeconomic metrics. There is no excuse for this, and it needs to stop."

Arguing that ones own culture's values should be deemphasized is inspecting your philosophical framework from an objective point of view. It is literally the process of removing subjectivity from the established merit system. And you said it "has to stop".
Yes, almonds require a lot of water to grow also. Oat, soy and coconut require orders of magnitude less.
They oversold the Cybertruck for how long it took and what it ended up being/costing. The market for it was maybe irrationally exuberant a few years ago, but a lot of that evaporated just from consumer ADHD and years of examples of new tech ideas with more options.

(Speaking of the ADHD customers, I guess I can get $100 back?)
A disappointing fact of chip fabrication is the minimum bar is high and expensive.

In other fields, a hobbyist can do wood/metalworking or learn programming or build a robot kit. There's an onramp for people to start learning the skills, which makes a huge ecosystem of gradually improving talent.

But in microfabrication, even though it's the only way to make chips, screens, cameras, inkjets, and LEDs, the minimum equipment cost is millions of dollars. Even worse, it takes even professionals months to fine-tune a manufacturing process to make a new thing.

As a result, R&D is much lower than it could be, and most fabrication is limited to circumstances with a high chance of mass production payoff.
I would, but my programs use structured concurrency; I don't know how well Frama-C would help.

If someone paid me to, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

For CHERI, I want my software to be safe on unsafe platforms.

I am building a memory-safe language that I will rewrite my software in.
Because it got you to hear the pitch. People hating on Zed is still
better than people oblivious to Zed.
We eat about 40 million cows and 125 million pigs every year, and more than 8 Billion chicken. These are just the ones that are killed each year, the actual livestock inventory is much higher for cows, around 90 million cows. We absolutely will have to cut back production if we want to "sustainably" farm cattle.
My chief recollection of the Clojure mailing list was countless explanations of what a stack trace is to countless people who had never worked with Java and who had no interest in learning about Java.

That was also around the time people had started hyping the JVM as a general language host. Seeing how people struggled on the Clojure mailing list made me rethink that proposition.
This really smacks of Brandolini's law, or the "bullshit asymmetry principle" where debunking claims takes much more effort than making them. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
Except Panasonic owns the cell-manufacturing portion of the Nevada Gigafactory. And Panasonic can sell those cells to anyone.
Using Feature Flags to Cut ChatGPT Operating Costs
It’s the American way.
Yeah I agree but obviously the Congress is taking all sorts of bribes from the tax return lobby in order to make the code increasingly more and more complicated every year and thereby extort more money from us every year, the worst part is the psychological fear generated by this torturous tax return extortion system
Tourism can also drive rider numbers higher, and may or may not really be "car cancelling trips".

After all ridership on rollercoasters is quite high, but they don't really transit you anywhere.
This didn't occur to me but yeah, abusive porn is about to be rampant with this sort of tech. Every single person in the world is soon to have graphic realistic looking pornography with their face on it
Tesla's end game is infrastructure, not cars.
Yeah, it bothers me. That is why I am working on my own language.
Huh? Golf courses I assume?

Not that I know, but it would be interesting to have a study of water usage for golf courses. I suspect it's mostly minimal impact, even if it's also superfluous use.
Most people already have something to lose. Giving them the fear of losing it has more to do with enforcement.
> I don't see any evidence of this.

> I've heard that [...]

This kinda sums the whole discussion really. We have an article that doesn't really go deep into the issue, and let's everyone come up with their own "all my homies say that XXXX" version of the root causes.

The best answer is probably that it's complicated, poverty plays a role, but so do many other critical factors (e.g. a decent summary of the studies in the field: https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PA00XGJN.pdf )
There's ample evidence from the time that rather than take credit, as _many_ unethical scientists have tried (*cough Newton), Euler was quite the opposite. I think one of his strengths was in his prolific collaborations actually, or taking up questions others sent to him which he did not need to work on, but would out of curiosity or decency.

I get why someone not familiar with him may think this, but when I think of the word "genius" only this man, von Neumann, Ramunajan and Grothendieck come to my mind. They simply saw the world differently.
>Firefox, Safari, and Vivaldi are all better alternatives, and Vivaldi is built by some former Opera employees, including former Opera Software CEO Jon von Tetzchner.
Fair enough, but then the title is a bit misleading - being a high school star in of itself doesn't give you more than a dream of making the NBA. Being a star at one of the few schools with a great track record for producing draft picks is a different story!
HN’s supposed to be a well-informed crowd but somehow the last half-year of Ukraine-related doom and gloom in Western mainstream media simply hasn’t registered. Since you’re asking.

Knowing when to quit—it’s a lesson for everyone, of course. Knowing that when you take a gamble you could lose it all.
Yes, I have a bunch of scripts that allow me to pick a Borg snapshot and then do stuff with it. One such action is `borg export-tar` that just creates a TAR file
containing a full self-sufficient snapshot of your stuff.

Then just listing the files in the archive is a not-bad way to find an obvious problem. Or straight up unpacking it.

But if you're asking about a separate parity file that can be used to check and correct errors -- I haven't done that.
Because it shifts the burden (or at least appearance) of responsibility from those experiencing homelessness to the government orgs tasked with housing them.
Funds Stolen from Crypto Platforms Fall More Than 50% in 2023