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Does anyone remember the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System?
Hi.

As mentioned, I have not touched Pascal/Delphi for around 20 years now. I dont have interest (re)learning this to use a 3D engine.

My reasoning is mostly due to popularity or, more specifically, job security.

Newer languages preferably, or keeping it C (atleast)

As mentioned in another reply above - I am learning Odin at the moment.

These are just my views. Like any view, can be scrutinised by anyone. We all have our preferences. I mean no ill towards Pascal in general.
Stonelifting Etiquette
> Unix processes have file descriptors which point to file descriptions (`struct file` in Linux).

Also known as file handles referencing file objects (on Windows). Unix terminology is unnecessarily confusing in this place IMHO.

On the subject of the article itself: why was this change introduced? To give kernel support for reopen(3) since dup(3) already exists?
The problem is that evaluating a skill takes very long.
Why should they? I get it with a general purpose device like a phone or laptop. But this is a PlayStation accessory for streaming games from a PS5. It doesn't claim to be anything else.
Nah, not for me.

Working class is the majority of people, maybe something like 3/5ths. Then middle and uppers are pretty tiny (not many royals/lords).

But there's lots of markers of middle class not just money.
At my last job I was hired to fix security issues found in some code being audited. I didn't 'write' or design the code myself. Yet the process was really just the same as regular software engineering. I wrote new code to implement algorithms that were missing, fixed validation logic, improved testing, and wrote some simple scripts to make working with some of the file formats easier.

I'd have just been a 'technician' to you but IMO: it involved all the same skills as if I'd have designed it myself. You still need to know what all the code does well enough to have written it and have the skills to improve it. So I'm not sure the distinction really matters here.
I found that nothing made sense until I learned the basics, which I did by buying the CCNA books. They start at a very low level, explaining things like what an IP address is, what a network mask does, and so on.

After you know that sort of thing, all the things built on top make a lot more sense.
> Dividends should be taxed as income

Why? Dividends are already taxed income - they are payed out from company's earnings after taxes (etc), so ideally there would be 0% dividend tax, because otherwise they are getting double-taxed (unless for jurisdictions where the company income/profit tax is 0%).
I wouldn't say being gods is that far, just many humans are dumb and on top of that even don't want to use whatever brains they got. It's self inflicted retardation really.
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of great and impactful games from recent years, I was just struck that the list of "recent" games were particularly old from the perspective of actual new games like the ones you mention. I missed the mention of Elden Ring in the original post, it wasn't deliberate on my part to skip it.

And indeed, PoE of 11 years ago isn't comparable, even PoE pre-delirium probably isn't recognisable to current PoE, and anything pre Incursion certainly isn't, but that's the nature of a live-service game. The power creep post-conquerors has been incredible, and there's been essentially no effort to bring that in after they decided that a reset with PoE2 would be preferable than trying to rein in power creep in modern PoE, and that adding upper end aspiration content instead was preferable.

The decision to rein in power with expedition backfired so hard that people still complain they don't have an item editor with harvest. ( Although with Locks it's come pretty close again at the right cost. )

I think they made a good choice, PoE is better than ever, but it's controversial, and every patch post 3.14 has had a lot of detractors claiming that "PoE is ruined".

In terms of cultural impact, it's still interesting that it's such an "old" game that's having an impact on (gaming) culture.

If we're talking about wider culture, you're right that "culturally significant" can take time to materialise. I'm not sure Alyx or even Hades really makes the cut. They're great games of their genre but I don't think they've had the cut through that the others you've listed have had.

Among Us was a cultural phenomenon that was immediately visible outside of gaming, akin to something like Fortnite although perhaps magnified by the pandemic massively boosting streaming audiences and people looking for some kind of social connection through the internet.

Survivors has had a massive impact on gaming, it's created a genre of it's own ("Survivors-like" is a thing) which can be seen with the release of "DeepRockGalactic: Survivors" which is a great improvement on the genre. It's fair to say that while Vampire Survivors itself might not have the cultural cut through, it defined a genre of games that have inspired clones from Brotato to DRG and deserves its place on that list if we're looking at gaming culture, but it's too soon to say if we're looking at culture outside of gaming.
This “others have it worse so I'll keep quiet” attitude is part of what’s gotten the UK into the mess it’s in.
You have nothing to complain about. The higher education is completely free, the healthcare is mostly free of the highest quality, the infrastructure is top notch and the salaries are amongst the highest in the world.
After looking at too many char arrays with fields indexed by various #define SOMEINDEX 6, and such, I have come to this conclusion. Code like that, where the knowledge of the data structure is "sprinkled out" in lots of code with if-s and other conditionals, which all have to be updated all over the code base, should one want to change what the data structure looks like.

I don't want to point fingers so I won't name names, but I took an interest in a certain file system for embedded flash because it was very good, struck a nice balance between features, size and speed, had lots of regression tests etc. In many ways a high quality product.

But wow was it coded very much like that, where to read the code you had to have a full mental model of the layout on "disk" and the layout of the data structures in RAM.

If it had set/get/manipulate_or_update functions operating on structs, then serializing code for the structs to disk, it would have been much easier to read. (And I don't mean heavy serializing, structs with appropriate packing instructions to the compiler would have probably sufficed.)

Edit:

Yet another reason to use structs, don't use naked arrays, put a size_t and the array in a struct.

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=39440071&goto=threads%...
Sorry bro, the8472 is correct on all counts. Misunderstanding DHTs and BitTorrent and how they relate is very common.
Can you really? I use DoH, could it be stopped? I don't understand networks enough to be sure about anything dns-related tbh,if you tell me you could block DoH outbound, I believe.

But freedom is only a part of human rights, there is also 'equality' in front of the law, and if you admit one exception for non-defense related reasons, you'll get censored by the echr too.
What are some of his older works that you'd recommend?
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I’m sorry you had that experience, it seems like it really affected your holiday.

I have been proactively notified about fraud by Amex, Discover, as well as other banks. Amex seems to be the loosest with allowing questionable but valid purchases, and my Visa cards the strictest.
The dividend rates are a few percent lower, but remember to issue a dividend you must first make a profit and profit is taxed at 20% flat.
In cake there is no temporal hole, we cannot reuse the deleted object.
This prevents double free and use after free.

int main() {
struct X * owner p = malloc(sizeof(struct X));

p->text = malloc(10);

free(p->text); //object text destroyed

//p->text is on uninitialized state.
//cannot be used (except assignment)

struct X x2 = {0};

*p = x2; //x2 MOVED TO *p

x_delete(p);
Preview edition of Microsoft OS/2 2.0 sold on eBay
Someone just bought a version of OS/2 2.0 from Microsoft, not IBM, on eBay...
Perhaps. But than that means what working class of 80s were able to afford homes/flats and now does not.
In what volume of space? You don't want them to be packed densely enough that the enemy can fire a buckshot in a random direction and shoot down two dozen drones.
Does any of it involve invisibility?
Training & individual user preference data - specifically the data being generated by people interacting with ChatGPT and DALLE. Maybe Google can out data them with all the data they currently hold, but they'd better hurry before the network effects get too strong in favour of OpenAI.
Pre 2008 crisis, that amount was equivalent to almost 120k USD and then just prior to Brexit it was about 90k in USD and today its about 75k US. So it used to be comfortable number.

Despite that, the UK is a fine country i will add. Things just work, cities are functional and livable, schools are free, and the NHS carries its weight - it is overloaded but if they introduce a small fee for GP visits and keep the big things like surgical interventions and cancer treatment free, it would maybe balance out its budget.
I propose to reintroduce the term FCB (File Control Block ) to help clear things up :)
I can't find the paper. Can you?
How long did downloading dependencies take? That's part of the build process.

As a maintainer of a project that includes another popular library from Google, here's why it's difficult to build:

- building requires downloading Googles custom toolchain and build system

- dependencies are huge, so you have lenghty download times even on fast connections

- it usually works if you are using a recent versions of OS and Python, but if you try running the same command in a year or two it might fail because they changed the requirements

- if anything fails you have to dig through multiple levels of abstractions to figure out where it failed and why

- if you want to maintain software for a few years, you'll have to keep fixing the build process because the build will suddenly stop working for unknown reasons once a year or so
Without sounding too much like a conspiracy theorist, the UK has always seemed to me like a fairly 'sewn up' place with a lot of sheep and a few wolves.

If you show too much enthusiasm for not being a sheep you're gently reminded that the exit is always open: before it was the colonies (either by choice or by transportation!) today it's Australia/NZ or America - the door is always open and it's trivial to get into either one of those countries (by marriage)

Thatcher fought the system and tried to free people (please don't laugh) and set a lot of people on an upward trajectory, being able to own their first home which is key to building wealth and a hugely powerful black PR network set about demonising her the moment she left office. She's now utterly reviled despite winning a gigantic share of the vote on several occasions and doing a huge amount to set the working classes free of rentiers. The 'public housing selloff' in the UK wouldn't have been a scandal if new public housing had been built but the idea of building that stuff just to sell it to the 'proles' really didn't go over well with those who hold the purse strings so they basically vetoed any more ever being built from that point on. Now it's even worse, many new housing developments are shared ownership, even with cash you can't buy outright, you have to accept owning only a share and paying rent forever.

Also it's virtually impossible to build your own house or even have anything constructed that has any sort of interesting architecture. The difference between UK small towns and French/German small towns is ludicrous - in Europe the architecture has long since adapted to modern living patterns and styles, in the UK the houses still need to be built with a certain 'look' because 'that's the UK look' and it's so tedious.

Vested interests in the UK have simply been there too long to accept any challenge to their power. They just point to the door.
That would work only for a planar distribution of material. A 3D distribution would require multiple layers (I guess it might quickly become infeasible if it requires thousands of layers).

In the case of 3D arrangements, I think some substrate materials (and also some properties of the particles) would be very difficult to get using photolithography (or some kind of micro 3D printing).
If a planet can be invisible, why a teapot can't?
I think it is more about not having moderates around to distinguish radicals and like make them chill. The "filter bubble" is working way faster than changing friends.

A radical group seem to self-radicalize in isolation, putting "moderate radicals" away, making the cycle self-enforcing.
I find selecting a block of code and hitting tab/shift+tab much simpler and faster than hunting down matching parenthesis, especially when adjusting longer sections or complex situations.

Of course this is mostly a tooling issue, since there is a shortcut for adjusting indentation but not for adjusting parenthesis. Or maybe there is and I just haven't discovered it yet.
This isn't middle class. It's less than average for dual earners. Single earners it's worse because of tax.
> We actually don't know.

Actually, i'm pretty convinced we do know, with very high probability of being right.

Our knowledge of physics is limited, but seems to be advanced enough (cfr relativity and astronomical distances) to make it likely that if there is someone else, they're just too far way, or else we're too uninteresting to be visited or else if we would be interesing enough, it takes so much technological advances to cross galactical distances, that humanity would be wiped out by the visitors before we even realise what's going on.
Adding keyboard shortcuts to a 24 year-old government website with userscripts
> which someone seems determined to bury for some reason

People may be downvoting the top message because it contributes nothing. It doesn't require some nebulous malicious actor somehow trying to keep you down.
I wonder how many of us learned how to program on the PSP. It's crazy to think how transformative this was for my life in the long run. It's also the same reason why I know Lua but went straight to C++ after that.

I wish I could bottle up the magic that was the PSP homebrew scene and give it to kids today. I'm guessing Minecraft mods are the closest modern version.
Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas
Housing costs - pure and simple.

In the UK - 60,000 a year is more than enough to live on - except if you have a significant mortgage ( or are paying somebody elses via rent ) - with average interests rates in the region of 4.5 % if you have a 90% mortgage on the average UK house price ( 362,000 ) then your available income after mortgage and tax is more in the 15-20K range.

In my view that's a combination of letting the banks create too much money, leading to 'investment' in housing, and limited housing supply versus demand.
Looks like it's hugged to hiatus in a different way. The inrush traffic created considerable cost for them, so they have turned image generation off.
> the infrastructure is top notch and the salaries are amongst the highest in the world

There is a reason why our economy is shrinking. Our infrastructure is eroding, our internet speeds and network availability are a joke and public transport is as chronically understaffed as it‘s late. Schooling is also among the worst in Europe.
Also, if you compare networth and savings to the rest of Europe, Germans tend to own little and have no savings.

High wages mean nothing if the government takes most.
I think this is the time where the idiom "it's good fishing in troubled waters" makes completely sense.

This is a moment where it is wise to wait and see. Investing in building AI/AGI startups now is like being a fish more than a fishermen. An outlier could win market share but will be only one within zillions. Google is catching up OpenAI but their competition is fruitful for all. Typical oligopoly. A single startup showing good traction will be immediately acquired.

From the business perspective it is time to focus on "go to market execution" and less or nothing on research. The research results are coming alone, except if you are one of the top scientist teams in the world or someone alike Ramanujan.
For an example of medical AI that delivers take a look at https://cydarmedical.com/

Real-time augmented reality for keyhole aortic surgery using machine vision to understand patients' individual anatomies.

Full disclosure: I was the original CTO.
Continuous Integration: That's Not What They Meant [video]
Musings about "On Call"
Either way, there's only so many hours in the day to watch video, and feature-length films are being displaced by 300 TikToks. Will that demand shift back to feature-length because of AI, or will AI rather change TikToks?
> The important thing is what’s being communicated, not the semantic definition. The above comment’s point was pretty clear IMO

But the argument is, that Nvidia should follow a standard valuation model, since their product is a commodity.

Those claims are both incorrect. This either rests on a misunderstanding of what a commodity is, or on a misunderstanding of Nvidias Position in the AI segment.

As it stands at the moment, they are not a commodity in this field, they can not be replaced, and thus you cannot apply a more standard valuation model.
But IQ is completely useless as a measure.

I've met people with really high IQ that were unable to do 1st year university math, and after a number of years dropped out of engineering.

And yet their IQ tests were amazing…
Based on my grandmother who was always very mobile well into old age and did eventually become at risk for falls: a lot of it is not lifting your feet anymore. As the leg muscles get weaker, seniors often don't fully lift their feet off the ground when walking and this drastically increases the risk of tripping on shallow obstacles like the rim of a rug.

She was able to put on a shoe while standing on the other leg but she noticed that she had stopped properly lifting her feet while walking and this eventually led to her first bad fall after which she physically deteriorated further. She had to consciously think to lift her feet while walking rather than "shuffling".

I think the root cause for this may indeed be balance issues though as the "shuffle" feels like it would stabilize and balance issues make it harder to prevent a fall when tripping up.
True, but inheritance tax pales in comparison to some of the other loopholes, especially around capital gains and corporation tax. I'll keep an eye on Labours policies, but every time I try to go and read about their actual concrete policies, there don't seem to be any. I'm guessing it will all become clear when all the manifestos are released. So, hopefully I'm proved completely wrong here. I want to be proved wrong because then there's a hope someone will do something about it.
Caches, register files, and coherency traffic all definitely include error-correction.
>How long did downloading dependencies take?

Around 5 minutes.

>That's part of the build process.

It's dependent on one's internet speed so I didn't think it made much sense to time it. If it took 20 to 30 minutes to download I would have mentioned it.
The tories seem to have given up all premise of actually implementing a single manifesto pledge, which is pathetic given their time in power.
Why the downvote? This is completely factual and on point.
The original transformer is an encoder decoder model, where the decoder model is what leads to first GPT model. Except you need to feed the encoder states to the decoder attention module in the original proposal, it is basically the same decoder only model. I would argue the decoder only model is even simpler in that regards.

When it comes to the core attention mechanism it is surprisingly stable comparing to other techniques in neural networks. There is the qkv projection, then dot product attention, then two layer of ffn. Arguably the most influential changes regarding attention itself is the multi query/grouped attention, but that is still imo, a reasonably small change.

If you look back into the convolutional NNs, their shapes and operators just changes every six months back in the day.

At the same time, the original transformer today is still a useful architecture, even in production, some bert models must be hanging around still.

Not that I am saying it didn’t change at all, but the core stays very much stable across countless revisions. If you read the original transformer paper, you already understood 80% of what LLama model does, the same thing can’t be said for other models is what I meant
Sir you are watching too much German porn and car advertisements from the 90s.
I'll give this a read, thanks! I'm slightly desperate to be proven wrong on that statement I made, gives me some hope
Yes, the Star Trek Destiny trilogy is really good, unfortunately for me that were some of the first Star Trek books I read, now all the others seem just not as good. Two days ago I started Federation by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, which was advertised to me as the better "StarTrek Generations", so far it reads pretty good.
Igalia and Collabora seem like pretty interesting places to work if you're doing open source. I've seen nothing but good come coming from there.
NVDA controls production and distribution of a limited resource.

OpenAI has no definitive control on the service they provide, eg any one that can provide more value or cheaper on Nvidia hardware is a direct competitor that may be able to afford to pay more for hardware, limiting OpenAI access to its critical ressource.

Hence nvidia is the elephant that structurally takes the money, the ones that make the safest big returns on long term.
Ah thanks, yeah a bit off, I hadn't looked for a while.
> They were college dropouts from the Ivy league not some non-name state school.

Steve Jobs spent 1 semester at Reed College.

> And the likes of Gates, Zuck and Musk came from wealthy and influential families.

So for non-wealthy people, dropping out of college is a sign of badness, whereas for wealthy people, it's a sign of goodness? That sounds a lot like discrimination to me.
The thing is, due to social policies and supplemental payments, there is close to no difference in net income when working part time as opposed to working full time. We have a part time epidemic in Germany, and economists have already begun rattling swords to decrease part time work possibilities in the future.
While the facts are largely correct ( though the government has moved to make it less attractive ) I think you have presented it in the wrong way - the problem is the advantageous tax environment for companies over people.

I tend to think the best way to persuade governments to close tax loopholes that the elite use is to encourage everyone to use them - ie if everyone had an offshore company trust then suddenly the government would stop dragging it's feet over them.
If you used taxis before Uber, you'd know. Taking taxis used to be dreadful, except for in a few cities, because taxi drivers were/are rouges, always looking to scam their customers in any way conceivable. On top of that it was insecure in other ways. In places were they were not scamming their customers, it would be very expensive. The person who has to take a taxi is generally a visitor to a new city, who is not familiar with public transit and doesn't have their own vehicles. Uber has been a blessing for taking a taxi in unfamiliar and unsafe locations.
As someone who has been working in AI for the past 4 years (before it became cool)
I almost always feel that startups are trying to hide behind .ai domain

AI is definitely more critical now, but if you are just making a few API calls then adding .ai in your website is not really going to help you much