skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that OpenGL only mattered thanks to Carmack and id Software mini-GL drivers.

It hardly matters nowadays for most game developers.
Eh, read the CFR and tell me I’m wrong [https://www.faa.gov/documentlibrary/media/advisory_circular/...]

Remember ‘recommends’ != ‘required’, and ‘should’ != ‘must’. If it’s not required or a must, it’s not a rule. It’s a suggestion.

In these cases an exceptionally good one, but caveat emptor. Hard to find a clearer example of ‘obvious inherent risk’, after all, and regulations tend to focus on protecting those that had no idea, or innocent bystanders.

Even training for pilots on how to drop skydivers is a should, not a must. Which considering how much someone hanging off the side of the plane changes aerodynamics, and how unusual it is to suddenly lose hundreds of lbs of weight on a GA aircraft in flight, is actually pretty amazing. You’d have to be really crazy to do it without it, but eh.

I have yet to meet anyone who didn’t have any idea once the jump plane door opened.

Something about that roar of the crisp air at altitude clarifies the mind. Or shuts it down entirely, depending on how one is wired. I’ve never seen someone go out the door ignorant, either way.

Notably one of the musts for pilots is that anything dropped from a plane won’t strike something it isn’t supposed to. Even if the thing dropped is a human. And the odds of someone hitting an innocent bystander on the ground without trying are pretty low.

I’m not current now, but I did hold a USPA C license for a long time, and had my share of close calls.

And let’s not forget about BASE jumping….
The SC2K siren sfx file just played itself in my head.
I use Jellyfin and it defaults to direct play unless you need transcoding (e.g: the client device doesn't support the chosen format, Firefox with h265 for example, due to licensing) and it will just remux if the container is the only issue. The desktop client just uses mpv so it supports basically everything directly.
> browser sandbox escapes happen all the time

Far far rarer than downloading a virus.

> WASM is a malware author's dream weren't enough (https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/ecriminals-increasingly-use...)

Because it can run a crypto miner, really?

Using it for obfuscation doesn't really change anything. A coder that wants to obfuscate things could already run their own interpreter and/or use asm.js.
> almost no surprising, sudden weather thingies

I had never been anywhere near a hurricane in my life before I moved to NYC. I thought that was just something you worried about in the Caribbean or occasionally Florida.
I wish we could have a debugging view of the universe, draw a diagram with clusters of people labeled with company names, and watch them change over time. :-)
It's tempting to read this like tea leaves predicting our future, but to be honest, I don't think these execs know any more than we do. I think they're just speculating. They have the same technology available that we do. Maybe @sama has given a select few a technology preview.

All of this to say: it's still too early to see how this shakes out. AGI changes the calculus completely, of course, but I'm not so sure various flavors of GPT alone will disrupt the job market.
Are these execs willing to pressure the relevant political parties for higher taxes to support UBI and extended unemployment benefits? Are they willing to shorten the work week to keep more employees? If not, are they prepared to deal with shrinking customer base?

That all being said, I'll believe that automation has finally reduced human labor when I see it.
I'd also love to see what comes of this!
Most of my problems lay in the fact that I do not like the way I am right now but do not have the power to get there or the power to make peace with myself. It's cliche but it IS impossible. Yeah it is a bog I made for myself but I did not ask for it.

I kinda think this is a genetic thing. My father is like that too -- he is never happy, rarely content with himself, even when he already achieved a lot.
Surely we can be more flippant than that. There are three-ish types of languages:

C, Assembly: begrudging respect, they are ok for writing kernels (operating system and compute, respectively).

FORTRAN: the point of computers is to do math, why do you need any other language than the language for FORmula TRANslation?

Other languages: Bad.

Honorable mention: Matlab/Octave or Numpy because I can’t be arsed to use a proper language while prototyping. But you can also use them in REPL mode so really they are halfway between a programming language and a UI.
There will be a lot more competition in five years when the cost of running a company is much lower.
> Very little of skydiving is actually regulated.

…In the USA. In Europe it is a rather different story.
Generally, the VAE is mapping from a small latent space to a large image space. This means that there must be a large number of images for which no reverse mapping exists.

It should be possible to identify images that have not been generate by the VAE since they are not part of the set images that the VAE can generate. The other way round is a bit more difficult as there may be images that can be mapped to the latent space and back without loss but have been generated in another way

-> there may be false positives.
As an easterner who lived in California for many years, the breathless news coverage of a tiny thunderstorm in CA which had a bit of lightning provoked a bit of a chuckle. The report was accompanied with statistics about how rarely lightning injured people and there was no real cause for concern.
Sun really struggled to make full use of their multicore systems. That m:n process model is coming back with fibers and libuv, but we have programming primitives and a deeper roster of experienced devs now than we did then. Back then they caused problems with scalability.

There were times when Java ran better on Intel than on Solaris.
Recently did something similar in Rust but for generating SVGs. We've adopted it for snapshot testing of cargo and rustc's output. Don't have a good PR handy for showing Github's rendering of changes in the SVG (text, side-by-side, swiping) but https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/121877/files has newly added SVGs.

To see what is supported, see the screenshot in the docs: https://docs.rs/anstyle-svg/latest/anstyle_svg/
> scratching something with pasta and using yellowed book pages to give it an artificially aged look is dishonest

Unless she is telling people it is old when it is actually new, it isn't dishonest. Its not different than any other cosmetic choice.

My bass guitar isn't actually made out of red wood, it is just covered in red paint because I like the way red stuff looks.
Sorry didn't mean to offend, it's okay if you don't want help with understanding.
The article went very quick from rowdy teen throwing smoke bombs to... boom, he has a PhD in Computer Science.

Really interesting article that goes into depth regarding the SGI products. I didn't know Clark basically invented the GPU.

Speaking of exotic hardware, I'm actually sitting next to an SGI O2 (currently powered off). A beautiful machine!
Tesla Enlists Apple to Prove Driver in Crash Was Gaming
>Arguably, the original trilogy was simply dungeons and dragons in space. Wizards, rogues, and knights in space.

It was basically Flash Gordon plus WW2 movies plus samurai movies plus fairy tales and Arthurian fantasy in space.

I think one of the reasons why The Force Awakens is not good is that it tries to copy previous Star Wars movies, but Star Wars has always been best when it copies stuff from other genres and mixes them together into a new thing, not when it tries to copy from its own previous films.

>it's pretty much the only widely known sci-fi films from the last 70s early 80s

Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien, Blade Runner, and The Terminator are all widely known late 70s / early 80s sci-fi films.

Probably not as well known but still pretty widely known are Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Thing, and 2010: The Year We Make Contact.
Fortran on .NET and Java,

https://www.silverfrost.com/14/ftn95/ftn95_fortran_95_for_mi...

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/376656.376833
And this article is nine months old.
The grateful dead figured it out in the 60s. Noise cancelling. Wire up 2 mics, with the wires reversed on one, set them in the same axis, paralell, but an inch or 2 apart, talk into only one of them.
> Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed, without proof, that Reuters is “lying” in a post on his social media platform, X, and did not dispute any specific details.

This is wild to me. The CEO of the very company being discussed is saying that it is a false story and TechCrunch is saying that he made the claim without proof.

But they don't call out Reuters for posting this claim with zero proof.
Tesla will also suffer a reverse cult of personality problem.

I don’t know anyone at Rivian so my opinion of them is neutral. Meanwhile Tesla is run by the jackass who ruined twitter.
Agreed! I normally just raise exceptions all the way up until the method that called the function that errored, then handle the exception at the highest level. That way, I just get a stack trace if I don't have any handling. But I'm also an amateur, self taught developer who's probably doing most things wrong :p
In that case, true. I couldn't get past the paywall.
The History and Mystery of Eliza with Jeff Shrager
Hehe, I like that approach. I hate milk, so I'll try to come up with a lactose-free metaphor though. One of the funny things about alcohol as a drug is that if you tell people you don't drink, they automatically assume you have a problem.

I grew up and lived in countries with strong drinking cultures (incl. PL, UK, AT, PT) and I don't mind a drink myself. Having said that, the "cultural programming" (lazy expression, but I'm in a rush, sorry) is so hard to shake off. This stood out to me especially in the UK, where I felt bad for my muslim friends not being able to participate in many social events because they don't drink.
Good point, that’s a better approach. I guess for a multi-repo situation at work, you would need to create a base project like “postgres-lock-ids” so you can synchronize the lock across everything.
The difference with execs saying it is they're in a position to convince themselves they're right and act to make it happen. And it doesn't help that the immediate effect (lower payroll, higher stock prices) will "prove" them right, even as the enshittification of our entire economy accelerates.
> 41% of them expect to employ fewer people because of the technology

aka “41% of polled executives have read and believed marketing copy from AI companies”
There's a kid on youtube (username 'dodoid') who put together a series of videos on SGI. Neat to see someone young get super enthusiastic about computing history.
For a glimpse at Japan's future, look at its convenience stores
Metro: Exodus does it the same way. It's a lot of fun.
https://archive.ph/1dkY2
That doesn't even make sense.

What exactly are you trying to say? Please use sentences and explanations instead of links and analogies.
There's still hope! Star Trek has a societal collapse and a world war 3 before we get to the communist utopia so it seems like we might be on track.
The first time I visited Yosemite National Park after years of seeing it as the default macos wallpaper had a similar experience for me.
Makes for a good vertical screen background.
You have not watched Star Trek Discovery.
I highly recommend a book called "Spaceland" by Rudy Rucker. It's like a modern take on "Flatland". In it a Silicon Valley hotshot gets visited by a 4th dimensional entity called Momo.

He also wrote a book called "The 4th dimension" which explores the concept historically and in various ways.
It certainly got fewer complaints than HP-UX.
Data General?
'Outdated and misleading': is it time to reassess the concept of money?
> It is unclear to what extent the ANSI control codes are implemented.

The demo helps a bit: https://kubetail-org.github.io/fancy-ansi/
I think it's probable, even if AI turns out to be a giant nothing burger. Like all these companies that laid off tech support workers because they think AI is sufficient to replace them, and they didn't suffer any apparent consequences from the fact that every call now starts with 30 minutes of "We're sorry for the unprecedented level of calls". (Maybe they even benefited apart from reduced labour costs, since some of these calls end in costs like refunds or replacements)
I love this guy but some of his sentences, as a native speaker, are phenomenally difficult to parse; or is this just me?
Are you serious? Is this really a github issue? Thank you very much. I didn't realize this at all when I entered the page.
Elixir and Erlang not being E-languages completely ruins this post.
bien sûr
The Greatest Japanese Grand Prix [video]
Is that not what DLNA is?
Ask HN: Chrome Performance Tool - Time spent in each line has been removed?
Hi, I have noticed that Google Chrome and Edge have remove the time spent in each line when using the performance tool. Is there any configuration, plugin that is a replacement. That was a really useful information.
I guess the headline "A minority of execs think AI will shrink workforces" wasn't as catchy.

All their data shows a minority of the people surveyed agreeing with this take.
I don’t think there ever was an alternative to how they’ve handled it. There are times in the recent Disney SW material where I’ve thought “what the heck Dave Filoni!?” And realized that my understanding and version of Star Wars growing up was different than his.

This was the same schism that classic trilogy fans encountered when we all sat down in May of 1999 to watch The Phantom Menace. We were suddenly shocked with a different version of Star Wars than the one we’d constructed in our minds.

The trouble of course is that we all settle into “the way things are.” The EU was massively complex, and had its own bizarre establishments that I personally didn’t care for. But then, I wish they would’ve obviated a lot of the prequels too.

I’ve noticed that there’s an entire generation of now-adults who love the prequels, and don’t care much for the original. Which feels bonkers to me. We’ve reached saturation. There’s a Star Wars for everyone, and that means there’s a Star Wars for everyone to hate.
You should report it to Mozilla, nothing a site does should ever crash a browser.

(Also, it could be an extension)
This is discussing a euclidian fourth dimension, not time.
You don't know what the situation is.

It's in your best interest to take a step back and really try to be in your coworker's shoes. There's many unknowns that explain everything.

Despite your frustration, it's still not professional. You don't know what's going on. If you cannot empathize you're unqualified to be a software engineer and should pack up your stuff. It's not about you or a silly project everyone will forget about in a few years. Your coworker may be making up excuses because they don't want to share what's really going on with the rest of the team, especially if the other members are poking around. A close family member might be sick for all you know and management has enough heart to let their performance slide.
I've started to add types to log messages so they can be easily sorted with a nice GUI. Your way works too.
Because we, React developers, let them do it, unfortunately. The scam about Vercel controlling React development was done entirely for this, create a new cash cow.
Well maybe, but smart TV and streaming box browsers are unlikely to implement all the functionality pertinent to a high-grade home theater experience. Apps are better here, so what I had in mind was closer to standardization around existing popular protocols like that currently used by Kodi and Plex, both of which have high quality clients for just about every platform out there.
While I agree, the negative effect with letting it slide after X years would be that you're removing a lot of downside from the risk-benefit analysis of every prospective criminal. Fraud is already pretty easy to get away with. If there were a rule that all you have to do to face no consequences is get away with it for a certain amount of time, more people would do it.
My goodness, at a high school? Like Indys, or O2s? Was this a private school?
"At my job" is annoying and awkward too if you're not going to specify where when making grand claims. It's not quite as annoying as "In my country we..." without specifying where, but it's close.
You get the same benefit without the chance of collision with runtime-level names if you use single underscores like _array, _array_func, etc.
When I say "hardware graphics market" I'm referring to high performance graphics workstations, not gaming. There is a whole multibillion dollar market there (probably much smaller than games, but still quite significant). It's unclear what carmack's influence on the high performance graphics workstation environment is, because mini-GL left out all the details that mattered to high performance graphics (line rendering would be a good example).

In my opinion, Mesa played a more significant role because it first allowed people to port OpenGL software to run on software-only cheap systems running Linux, and later provided the framework for full OpenGL implementations coupled with hardware acceleration.

Of course, I still greatly enjoyed running Quake on Windows on my 3dfx card with OpenGL.
>> >95% of people used to work in agriculture. The machines took the AG jobs, and we're on net far better off.

That kind of argument is getting really old. It's not a given that there is always something else for people to do when a job is automated, and when there is it's generally not something of equal or higher value (hint, they would have already been doing it).
Lol, now you are making stuff up.

Most local magnitude scales are

>>> determined from the logarithm of the amplitude of waves recorded by seismographs. Adjustments are included to compensate for the variation in the distance between the various seismographs and the epicenter of the earthquake[1].

So unless people in the East have seismographs located farther underground with scientists staffing them really deep underground -for reasons beyond me- "Shallow depth" is irrelevant.

Also, there's no such thing as a "feels like X magnitude" earthquake [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_scale

[2] https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/22348/what-...
Kind of, but as I understand it’s pretty barebones and can’t support an experience like that provided by Plex.
Sad not to see any lisps or APL but in his defense it does say lazy :)
Yep, and it's disconcerting how much trust people put into this system. I've got a masters in engineering and some random guy would try to argue with me about something as simple as calculating energy consumption from wattage because "chatgpt said something similar, but your answer is a little off".

Articles, social media posts and photos are now often AI generated. There is going to be a certain percentage of today's students that will graduate "knowing" blatantly wrong things an LLM told them. These things will eventually make their way to books and society.

One thing the scientific community never got around to accepting themselves and admitting to the public is how much of the learning is trust-based rather than fact-based. Nobody can prove everything from the ground up, you need to put your trust into your predecessors. Eventually you'll have the capacity to doubt and check a percentage of what they said, but not everything. When this circle breaks and you don't know if your lecturer is for real or just parroting LLMs we'll be in trouble. The "financialized" ultra-competitive environment of higher education doesn't help with that either.
The Game Boy Camera and Printer [video]
I thought California had a lot of Earthquakes.

Oregon is full of volcanoes and about to slip off the continental shelf, right? But I guess those surprises just exists in potential form.
First iOS support 2 platforms since iOS 2: the web and the App Store. You deploy for the web, you deploy for iOS. (Direct quotes from a WWDC.)

Now assuming you’re talking about the App Store I don’t get your point anyway. For all platforms you’re gonna have to pay something at some point so all of them cost more than 0$.
On the third hand look at the Hertz execs trying to be visionary and where that led them.
Related:

How A Blind Developer Uses Visual Studio (2017) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94swlF55tVc - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14347908
You missed the indication of a shameless plug. This post was created to complain about abusive behavior, not to promote another way to scam more money after stealing an open source project.
Consider the following example:

Two competing companies have 100 employees, and make 50 million per year. They each have 50 "computer people" each making 100k per year. Every day AI gets a little better and these people get more and more effective, if they are empowered, know how to, and choose to use it.

Their roles are slightly changing every day, as perhaps they don't take as much time on certain types of tasks, and the productivity seems to be slightly increasing. This boost may or may not result in increased sales or profit, but it is real.

Now let's say there is a breakthrough in AI, and it is clear that based on the exact actions that these people are doing right now, they can all be replaced with AI. And also let's say that one company chooses to do this, but the other company decides to keep all their workers and asks them to use the AI to do their current job and also push it to do what they always wished they could do but never had the time or could figure out how.

I can't see a world where the company that fires all their people and uses AI to do what they have been doing always comes out ahead.

Simply, for all jobs like this to be a real threat, it has to be the case that AI would have to be so good that a group og highly skilled and specialized humans working WITH an AI, would be no better than the AI by itself. And I think this is almost a paradox or impossible situation. How are its tasks defined, requirements met, priorities made?

So many of the successful companies are successful in spite of huge doubters to their strategies like Apple and Tesla. It is unlikely to me that an AI would spit out a controversial vision when asked to develop a new company, or a strategy within an existing company.
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut's first novel in 1952, and ironically his least overtly wry and sardonic satirical one, really captured the listless drudgery of a fully-automated future without frontiers to explore.
That's definitely how it seems to me, which is why I focused on Commodores poor management decisions first and only mentioned the possible technical issues second
The eclipse chasers: Travelling the world for their astronomical hobby
I program because I could do nothing else. I do it because it is the thing I most want to do with any given moment. The fact they pay me to do it is fortunate otherwise I would be homeless and programming in a shelter somewhere. I over think work simply because the aspect of “work” is entirely incidental to what I do out of passion.

That said, I also never believe anything I do is useful and that also isn’t why I do what I do.
How are your files organized? Do you have them as one big mixed library? I use Jellyfin and haven't had any issues like that. I organize things into several libraries like Television, Movies, etc.
At the very least it led me to some self-reflection, was a short read, and very entertaining.
Here's a sample of the data in a google sheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1woeD_wHiTvjK9hT7yMzF...
It would be amazing if the code for working with arrow on GPUs could be made open source -- I think that would drive a significant amount of adoption
They are pushing their free with ads offerings and data gathering (Discover) far more in the past year or two, to the point where I have to give instructions to some of my friends because the defaults are exclusively their own offerings.