skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Intel compiler has a long history, at least going back to 2003.[1] At some point they realized that instead of maintaining their own frontend they can just use LLVM. So they ported their optimizers and backend over.

And on their own hardware the compiler is often significantly better.[2] This was part of their competitive advantage.

2x better is also a lot. It means that you only have to buy half as many servers. Even much smaller improvements are often worthwhile.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_C%2B%2B_Compiler#Release...
[2]: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/onea...
I wonder how desirable and feasible a [matrix] interop would be.
It's been like that for ages, just scroll through the giant blob of moderator comments I linked you - it goes back years. Non-english submissions do happen but are moderated away, it's just that the moderation isn't instant.
Even there many standard libraries provide very good precision at least within sane domain.
Most movies in 2005 were film. So the style in 2005 was the film look. Collateral (2004) was the first major movie shot on video and it's got a very different look and the tech was so new, Tom Cruise had to wear a certain shade of gray suite so as to not blow the highlights in some of the scenes.
> I never understood why people care to keep their private conversation history in the first place.

One reason that's understandable without relying sentimentality, is they're a record of what you were doing or thinking at a particular time, much like a private diary.

There's been a few times where I've gone back though stuff like chat history to better understand something that I didn't realize the significance of at the time.
There's something really appalling that I discovered lately and I can't believe there isn't enough uproar about it. Every attempt to talk about this gets ignored or buried (maybe by people who want this ""feature"" to be kept quiet) so I will take every opportunity on existing discussions about Facebook to bring it up:

Facebook (and TikTok) store tracking data on iOS that the user CANNOT SEE and CANNOT DELETE:

• It shows my previous account even after I delete the app.

• Clearing Safari's cache does not work.

• Disabling iCloud Drive and iCloud Keychain does not work.

• Even completely signing out of iCloud does not work!

• On a Mac in the Terminal, you can go to ~/Library/Mobile Documents and "ls -al" to see hidden folders like "iCloud~com~Facebook~Messenger" that you cannot otherwise view or delete.

• Someone mentioned that even RESTORING an iCloud BACKUP will resurrect these "eternal cookies"!!

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WHERE do they store this data?

WHY can't the user see this data?

WHY can't the user delete this data without going through the app?

WHAT ELSE do apps store on our devices that we aren't even aware of? (This is just what we can see: The list of saved accounts for "quick login")

HOW MANY other apps are secretly doing this?

WHY does Apple, parading around as a pompous paragon of privacy, even allow this in the first place??
NINA – Reviving Old-School AOL, Aim and Yahoo Messenger
You make a lot of categorical assertions here, but I don't think they're really all that watertight. If any individual "economically harmed in an intellectually honest sense" if PG&E overcharges every subscriber five cents on every bill?

No, and a class action lawsuit against that practice doesn't make anyone better beyond "meaningless psychological satisfaction". But it's still something we do as a society, for good reasons, right?

Here, you have a number of commercial entities that are poised to make a ton of money off individually small but entirely non-consensual contributions of other people. You also have a "data laundering" industry where the datasets of webpages, books, and images are published by notionally non-profit entities that are in one way or another bankrolled by the commercial players, keeping their hands clean.

Framing the debate as being about "human progress" is sort of goofy in that world. We're not talking about academics tinkering with wacky ideas. We're talking about an industry that takes your work without asking and monetizes it. Yes, the sum of it is greater than the component pieces, but that doesn't mean you get to do whatever you want.
California Program to Expand Zero-Down, Interest-Free Home Loan to Undocumented
Right - but one dude comes back non stop and telling me it's not too late to invest and the usual nonsense about the value going up.

I have nothing to add...
Yeah I thought it was a scam. To be fair some of the most ridiculous things they announced when they put up the website, like the IMAX camera with a sensor that would basically take a wafer end to end to cut, didn't come out.
I can also confirm this is true. Costs are sky high, there's accreditation corruption, and research is minimal if not fabricated.

The solution is to pull out gov funding and ban education loans across the board as predatory practices. New things can only begin when the old dies, and we are continually trying to life support a system that is so obviously dead.
I was submitting an interpretation of the standard.
I've never heard of that as a requirement for US citizens. I mean the government can't compel you to be a spy (industrial or espionage) last I checked. I'd be happy to be corrected. I mean you can totally volunteer for it though, of course.
Oldweb Today Netscape 3
Signal or matrix interop would be great. I use WhatsApp as the logistical tool of choice to communicate with my coworkers when away from the company but I wish I could uninstall it. Not my tribe.
What sort of defense is this? "Your honor, after someone broke in, they left the door open. Since the door was unlocked anyone could have committed the crime I'm accused of."
That determination got stronger after this incident.
I could only win because I found a trick to score when AI serves, jumping backwards one second after AI jumps returning long, but timing must be exact, also if you stay in the middle 90% of their shots are towards the back very predictable and lastly is about the timing every time the opponent returns the ball it jumps so when you see a jump you can meet the ball in the air for a quick return.
Not sure i am following, what problem your product is trying to solve? helping to write tests/run the tests/just organizing tests as a part of the CI pipeline? How is it different than just running tests? (Or is it the platform to run tests on?)
If you are trying to do CI for silicon, then what is your target market? From my experience, companies that design their own silicon are usually big enough to have their own custom pipeline for testing and verification and it would be quite difficult to convince them to switch. Smaller companies get help from larger companies in development and verification.

Do you have any tooling that won’t require the developer to write tests? (E.g. something that will ‘work’ with no effort from the developer’s POV - kind of sonarqube for vhdl/verilog)

In any case, good luck. Glad to see some HW-related startups.
Epic access to an Apple developer account was granted through a "click through"
Z-Cam has full frame 8K cameras for $6000 and full frame 6K cameras for $3000 which is sort of affordable.
I would love a feature that if I change the speed on a video, the setting sticks across all videos on that specific channel.
I'm having some trouble with the delivery, but OC seems to be making a joke that climate change didn't directly cause the paper to be written?
"You should invest" - "Yes". I'll try that haha, thank you.
I would love better playlist controls for Youtube. I do a lot of playlist shaping and even their web interface is broken -- for instance, if you have a playlist with 100 items on it and you drag-n-drop to re-order, the visual order doesn't match the saved playlist order. I then re-load the playlist and have to scroll back down.

I'd also like to shuffle certain playlists, not in playback, but the way it's stored.
And on the policy side:

The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
by Daniel Ellsberg
Yeah I completely agree. Simulink works quite well because it's modelling things that are naturally physical networks. DSP/Blender style node graphs also work quite well because you really want an interactive control on every node.

In contrast visual systems that try to recreate traditional programming (add, multiply, loops, etc.) seem to be mostly awful. LabVIEW is a complete disaster (probably not helped by its dire graphic design but even so). UE Blueprints are bad.

Scratch is not too bad, but only because it's basically building a normal text-based program with lego, rather than nodes and edges.
The output resolution doesn't matter. The reason you tile is to improve locality and thus have more cache hits. For mobile GPUs, the cache is literally a specific tile buffer, but for nvidia (who also do this) the cache is just L2. But by tiling the geometry, they spend more time in L2 and fewer times hitting DRAM. This is a performance and power win. The actual resolution is irrelevant as the tiles are very small, even on nvidia GPUs. 16x16 and 32x32 are common tile sizes, see https://www.techpowerup.com/231129/on-nvidias-tile-based-ren... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc6R1hwXhL8 where this was reverse engineered before nvidia actually talked about it.

You might be confusing tiled rendering with various upscaling technologies or variable rate shading?
Ignorant question:

Given the ridiculous number of transistors and so on we can use in CPUs and GPUs nowadays how feasible is a relatively huge trig lookup table burned into rom?
Escargot – MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger Revival
Ask HN: Why aren't Buildpacks more broadly used?
It's an interesting idea, but I doubt that many are going through with reporting a fake digital scam loss to the FBI without a lot of them getting caught in basic blunders, especially when the FBI goes to trace and recover the funds..

Our perception of losses based on lying in circumstances where there are no consequences may be higher.
> a lot of development happened in perforce

Interesting - that I didn’t know. Based on my personal p4 experience, I’m sorry anybody else had to use it.

That said - nobody has mentioned that git (and hg) was preceded and directly inspired by Larry McVoys BitKeeper[0]. Indeed, I’ve heard rumor that both “git” and “mercurial” were named after people’s perceptions of others personalities during the Linux/BitKeeper breakup/debacle.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper
Or invest in food producing company, better explicit than implicit
2019 they preferred to stay in China. 2024, I think the pendulum swung back again given COVID zero's fall out, but who knows how long that lasts.
Hey, good question, thanks.

We speed up developers in two ways:
For debugging individual tests, we have a web based log viewer and web based waveform viewer, so you can share test results or look at waves via a URL, instead of opening VNC.
More holistically, we're building a chip focused workflow that will make tests first class -- infrastructure to track tests, and by extension measure design health, will be in one place, instead of implemented with a bunch of handrolled, bespoke tooling.
I find any site that does this to be user hostile and minimize my time spent there.
Yeah, that’s kind of my point. 99% consistent isn’t.
To somewhat mitigate the link-loading bot issue, the link can land on a "confirm sign in" page with a button the user must click to trigger the POST request that completes authentication.

Another way to mitigate this issue is to store a secret in the browser that initiated the link-request (Ex. local storage). However, this can easily break in situations like private mode, where a new tab/window is opened without access to the same session storage.

An alternative to the in-browser-secret, is doing a browser fingerprint match. If the browser that opens the link doesn't match the fingerprint of the browser that requested the link, then fail authentication. This also has pitfalls.

Unfortunately, if your threat model requires blocking bots that click too, your likely stuck adding some semblance of a second factor (pin/password, bio metric, hardware key, etc.).

In any case, when using link-only authentication, best to at least put sensitive user operations (payments, PII, etc.) behind a second factor at the time of operation.
Great to see more people thinking about this space. Totally agree on the sentiment that we should be able to visualize/describe and build business logic in a very simple manner. The way I've been thinking about this is something like Legos where we can compose any logic, app, workflow we want visually and that anyone can build and share these blocks. This is almost similar to NPM packages, but for non-developers.

My attempt on this is https://openexus.com where the goal is really to create some form of universal plug-and-play building blocks. Your approach is almost very low-level with direct translation to code. My attempt is slightly higher-level (but developers can create as low level as they want). More importantly, the visual diagram build on openexus is a reactive graph (almost like spreadsheet), not a sequential directional flow graph (like node-red, or yahoo pipes).

Would love to chat if you are up for it. m at lominming dot com.
That's like asking a slave circus freak if he's running ads for the circus because you see them on his cage.
Odds are great the first time it happens. Past that it doesn’t generally go so well.
I think it's more likely that the interesting life would evolve from organisms that exist on the fringe and can survive and migrate to either side.
In the democratic ones it's just a ban on campaign ads and opinion polls for the 24-48h before an election and on the election day.
Unfortunately the Hacker News BigQuery dataset hasn't been updated since Sep 2022, otherwise this question would be as easy as a SQL query.
Think hard and write better solution.
No-Plastic and Low Plastic Pens and Refills (2022)
Inflection AI's chatbot could rival ChatGPT
> TikTok, which has over 170 million monthly active users in the U.S.—more than half the total U.S. population of any age—is owned by a Chinese company, ByteDance. We need to take that very seriously, not only because TikTok is generally influential with young Americans, but because we’ve already seen it drive political sentiment, especially on college campuses.

Then should rest of the world ban Facebook and other US social media platforms? They're foreign, influential and have been used to drive political sentiment perhaps even more than TikTok.

The article is very US centric. It does make sense, it is about US election year; still, reading it from outside of US feels strange.

In any case banning TikTok or any other platform feels like a temporary fix. I guess a long term solution should address all social media platforms somehow - but I don't know what that solution would be.
Is Hacker News testing a dark mode?
I normally use Safari on iOS, but happened to use Edge on iOS and Hacker News showed up in a dark mode.

I’ve used Edge within the last week and it wasn’t dark mode then and I certainly haven’t added any kind of extensions or anything like that.

I tried browsing in Safari in private mode and no dark mode and similarly tried Edge in private mode which again showed dark mode, so it doesn’t seem to be a cookie.

Anyone know if it’s maybe an Edge feature I don’t know about, or is Hacker News slowly rolling out dark mode?
I don't see a link being drawn between claiming TikTok is antisemitic, and banning it before the US election.

Is it that Tiktok promotes bigotry and division? Are Facebook and Twitter exempt because antisemitism there is more in line with Pew poll percentages?
Absolutely. This is very much like the answer you would get from a politician. It's proof by word count.

Q: Why do you think X is Y?
A: < 10 minute exposition that doesn't address the question > ... therefore Y.
This is not always a safe assumption (in certain scenarios floating point results being nondeterministic has the possibility to introduce bugs and security issues) and is also a kind of sad way to look at the world. The response to "I don't understand how this works" should not be to adopt an incorrect viewpoint, but to know the limitations of your understanding.
Ugh! I've had to deal with this in a situation where we needed two sensors to tell if an object was present or not, but there was only space for one. So we could tell if the payload was not present, but not if it was.

This meant that we would have to make assumptions like "you (other subsystem) say you had the payload and you gave it to me, and I believe you, but I can't prove that you did until much later in time."

And if it turns out that we weren't actually holding it, then recovering from that state required unwinding a whole series of decisions and actions made some time in the recent past.

Suffice to say, it made error handling for certain cases... challenging!
said with confidence, however Silverman et al Judge explicitly rejected what you just asserted AFAIK
Recently, I bought myself a new laptop - a Razer Blade 14 with AMD chipset - and had to relive the pain of stock Windows 11 all over.

In no particular order:

* The amount of “feature” bloat is ridiculous. Widgets, AI assistant, a whole bunch of packages that I have no use for. Uninstalling all this stuff takes TIME and quite some tech savviness.

* Speaking of useless things, there’s Edge and its own myriad of annoyances. In the US, Windows won’t let you uninstall it and even claims it’s an integral part of the OS… but did you know that’s not the case in the EU? I don’t remember exactly how I did it, but there’s a config file in System32 (I think) that you must edit to add “US” to a list of country-gated features… which includes uninstalling Edge.

* No matter how much I edit the registry or group policies, Windows will still try to contact telemetry services. In the end I got fed up and blocked them at the Host files level. My Pi-hole’s blocked traffic got reduced from 20% to like 5%.

I should stop whining and switch to Linux already, but right now I got Windows working more or less the way I want it to.
This is nuts. There should be a grand total of zero files on my personal computing device that I cannot remove (no matter the consequences).
Complete fail on the programming language homepage design scorecard. You need an example (ideally more than one) on the very first page.
Agreed. That is indeed what may happen. I'm definitely happy for the federal government to investigate the impact of these algorithms in cities with the fastest range of rent growth, however. It makes sense to ban it federally even if it's only really stopping price fixing in one or two cities.

To be clear, the million dollar scenario was intended as one in which the landlords collectively lost their minds and plunged themselves into long-term economic doom. In a more realistic pricing scenario, they'd collude to determine the absolute maximum price they could charge and still get tenants.

And when you think about it, that's how markets are supposed to work. Landlords want to charge as much as the market can bear, no more, no less. Renters want to pay as little as possible, and in a perfect market, it would reach price equilibrium.

But from the federal government's point of view, it's not as simple. Housing must be profitable in order to encourage new investment in housing. We're currently playing musical chairs with too few residential units for too many residents because there hasn't been enough housing investment since the 2008 crash. At the same time, they want to keep rents low, since money spent on rent isn't going into productive areas of the economy. They also want to keep rents variable, because strictly stratifying locations based in income has bad effects in society. (E.g. police officers not being able to afford to live in the large cities they work in.) Retaining the ability for lower-income renters to negotiate rent is helpful in that regard, but obviously not a silver bullet.

One thing I would be careful of though, is comparing rental prices to inflation. Housing costs are the single largest factor in the CPI-U, so it's almost a tautology that rents rise at the same rate of inflation, because inflation is largely measuring the rate at which rents rise.

Comparing to fed rates is more interesting. If you're getting less of a return on your investment than the current fed rate, you'll make more money by divesting yourself of your properties and putting the money into bonds. (And I believe this is the biggest driver of recent mass layoffs.)
Qt6 has had fractional scale early on and still supports subpixel AA. Qt5 near the end of its life got fractional DPI scaling support on X11, but not on Wayland. KDE generally seems to handle scaling better nowadays compared to GNOME.
Related:

Rivian Pausing New Georgia Factory, Offers New R2 and R3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39633146
Why would you ever use CORDIC if you had any other option?
Same for me, some of the images load in slowly, but this is mostly a blank page for me.
As noted above, the University of California is given special status by a section of California constitution, so it has special status through that. It's presumably clauses like that fact it's governed by the Regents "...subject only to such legislative control as may be necessary to insure the security of its funds and compliance with the terms of the endowments of the university..." that mean it isn't normally affected by new laws.

(https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...)
The most hilarious part:

"Partner represents and warrants that it shall not introduce into WhatsApp’s Systems or Infrastructure, the
Sublicensed Encryption Software, or otherwise make accessible to WhatsApp any viruses or any software
licensed under the General Public Licence or any similar licence (e.g. GNU Affero General Public License
(AGPL), GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) containing a
"copyleft" requirement during performance of the Services"
I am saying that you can be right that it is illegal, but nobody cares except for meaningless reasons.
scraping libgen and downloading copyrighted content and redistributing it isn’t illegal?

call me skeptical, seeding a torrent of movies that you downloaded from elsewhere on the internet isn’t “fair use” and the pile isn’t just code for transforming data, it is the redistributed data itself

by this logic i could legally run a libgen mirror
Agreed. Short term, NVDA.

Long term, VTI & VOO.
I will tell you the same thing I tell everyone making visual graphs like this:

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make the nodes snap to a larger grid, and have the grid browsable with the keyboard.

I'd rather use Factorio as an interface than an interface where the nodes and edges just float around.

Excel is a DAG that is browsable with the keyboard (Ctrl+[ anyone?), and that's proven very usable.
This is an outstanding paper; one of my favorites in all of computing. Read it and marvel at all that Kay has been part of.
Why should a dead person's wishes bind the actions of living people?
I think it would be much better if people focused downvoting on comments that go against HN guidelines rather than questions or comments they disagree with.
Sourcemaps and the browser inspector will tell you exactly where the styling for that element is coming from