skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are adapting by getting subsidies from the US government, which implies that US based manufacturing will never be cost effective. When the money flow turns off, these fabs might fade away.
Australian law and courts has no jurisdiction over what happens in American or European data centers, so long as those bits never deliver to Australia.
The saying makes less sense to a modern audience. We can all pull out our phones and likely show the same time due to network time sync. BUT, what if we have 1000 phones all showing the same time, and they are ALL wrong? New layer to the sentiment....
The basics, JIC anyone here is still unfamiliar with the Game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

And generalizing Games from there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-like_cellular_automaton

Question #1: How far has Lifeology(?) advanced since 2001, for people similar to your younger self (without awesome skills, or huge time investment) to have a chance at making their own lucky discoveries, and becoming modest Somebodies in the community?

Question #2: How highly (or otherwise) would you rate Wikipedia's articles on Conway's Game of Life, and closely-related topics?
I agree that there should be an "escape hatch" to implement stuff that evaded the great wisdom of the commitees. The Houdini project may become such: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Houdini

But I do also see the benefit of a declarative system for most cases. Adaptive layouts are hard to do with imperative code, and very easily lead to e.g. infinite loops, so it's nice to work with a declarative system that guarantees a stable layout. That said, CSS is far from an ideal such system with so much ad-hoc and legacy baggage.
> I really wish there was an LTS strategy

IMO, macOS is the only consumer LTS desktop around these days. Windows UX is going a million miles a minute with new Copilot junk every other day, intrusive widgets, and an exceedingly unpleasant browsing experience with shopping, coupons, MSN and more Copilot.

Edit: forgot ChromeOS. It’s a proper mainstream LTS desktop.
My favorite video so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rHEpNwkWc8
Thanks for pointing that out! It's been fixed now. Just a heads up, the document pages are still a work in progress. Apologies for any inconvenience!
> IMHO there's no analogous reason or app to buy VR headsets in general much less the Vision Pro in specific.

And until Visicalc there was no reason for most people to buy a (micro)computer. The only folks that bought them were (homebrew) tinkerers that couldn't afford minicomputers (PDPs) or mainframes, where there were "real" applications.

But things eventually trickled down to micros and people found uses for them.

The Vision Pro may simply be in the minicomputer stage of development.
The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language
Letters l and I are visually indistinguishable when written in Arial.
That's the last entry in the list, so it's not very supportive of the idea that they are "best" called that.
Another option is to pony up for youtube premium, which eliminates most ads.
While the pedantry is whatever to me, they're not misunderstanding the usage of "take" they're pointing out the missing subject of "I". Leaving out the "I" like this turns the sentence from describing a personal opinion to commanding someone else to have that opinion.

I put the pan on the stove.

Put the pan on the stove.

I talk to your brother.

Talk to your brother.

Leaving out the "I" changes the meaning of the sentence here. "I disagree with x" means something else entirely than "Disagree with x."
Please. Casus belli doesn’t matter these days. You just do enough propaganda with a number of justifications and control the news coming from the other side until the poll numbers look right.
Interesting, so it takes a screenshot of the page in playwright and then asks the LLM to parse the image and find the values corresponding to the keys in the schema? How expensive is it to run it per webpage? Does it sometimes hallucinate, and if so, have you tested how often?
Last time I cared how much RAM any phone had, iOS or Android, I was working at Augmentra on the ViewRanger app, and we were still supporting older devices with only 256 MB.

That was… *checks CV*… I left in April 2015.

I think RAM is like roads: usage expands to fill available infrastructure/storage.

That an iPhone today has as much RAM as the still-functioning Mid-2013 MacBook Air sitting in a drawer behind me is surprising when compared to the 250-fold growth from my Commodore 64 to my (default) Performa 5200… but it doesn't seem to have actually harmed anything I care about.
I genuinly don't understand why North Korea and China have such a... "good"?... relationship.

Since this seems like an open secret, idk it just boggles my mind. Like I constantly see articles about it happening, but I have yet to see anything about why it is the way it is.

Obviously cheap labor is one thing, but I wouldn't think even China can ignore the threat of North Korea working on missiles?

It also makes me wonder, if the people writing these comments know that they are working with people from North Korea or if they just assume its another company.
Heyo! Appreciate the kind words!

- I'm really behind user education at the moment. Have a few docs (similar to git sync) that I want to put on the site, since there's a few automations already in place (like one click move unfinished tasks from yesterday over to today) that aren't really visible unless you scavenge through the changelog.

- Did you try the command bar (Cmd + K) should bring it up, that should give you access to almost all settings/navigation/actions in the app. The setting button was actually outside below Attachments, but I moved it under the workspace button (which I feel now is a poor choice, since there's no place to immediately find it)

But great feedback! I'll try to address them in the next release, along with some cool stuff!

Feel free to email me, or drop a message in the discord if you have more requests/issues/anything!
The response to your comment thread here is some pretty high flying conspiracies. The thought that those in power would try and make the country illiterate is straight up ridiculous. That would completely undermine the competitiveness of the country AND the time line to get any benefit for the "elites or whomever is behind it" would be significantly long.

Now if you are talking about a country like India - sure I could see Modi doing that. In that case it would be more about restricting growth and investment into education then dismantling an economy built on knowledge.
Can you ELI5 why this is desired if you are not building a nostr app?
> Lol, roads. Taxes should only cover public walkways and public transit between walkable areas.

Whoa, I don't want to pay for you to walk around, I personally glide inches above the ground.
Do not create (inside of Russia) anything that an average Russian can not fix. That means if a Russian injection car has a computer block (such as a well-known "January" one), so the spare part has to be fitting to any other car at least slightly similar. Western cars have way too many different subversion of anything (especially anything Turing-complete) even when the parts are indistinguishable by a bare eye.
I read the article and I found it quite lacking. Why on Earth would you force your LLM to translate sentence by sentence? It ruins the whole interest of LLM, which is to use large contexts to drive your generation.
I used Deepl a lot in the past and I had a recurrent problem when translating from French into English, computer related texts. In French, a "chaine" in the context of computer science is mostly translated as "string", however, when translating with Deepl (or Google translate) since the model would not take previous sentences into account, the system would loose the computer context and translate "chaine" into "chain", which of course was usually wrong.

But the funniest part was when I wanted to translate "jeûner" in Greek. "jeûner" in French means "to fast", in the sense of not eating. However, Google translated "jeûner" into "gregoria" in Greek, which means fast in the sense of speed... It went through English to translate "jeûner" into "fast" then "fast" into "gregoria"...
Three js has quite a few examples of collision and LOD in its examples folder, I feel you are underestimating it
The word "boojum" originates in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark," an amusing epic poem about the importance of negative testing.
tldr: MS Windows can be configured to trigger crash from PS/2 or USB or VM bus keyboard by 1) RCtrl+ScrLk+ScrLk, xor 2) combinations of (L,R)(Shift,Ctrl,Alt) + [KEY2] + [KEY2] e.g. LShift+RShift+Backspace+Backspace.

note: the `Dump2Key` keycode may differ from OS-reported codes on non-ANSI keyboards(ISO/JIS).
TSMC has had brilliant success, but this kind of work culture tends to negatively affect creativity and agility. TSMC seems to have found some way to either avoid that or compensate for it, possibly by having the ability to hire only the top technical talent in the territory/country.

And moving forward, people are starting to realize the risk of having TSMC manufacture everything in Taiwan, given how little competition they have. If TSMC wouldn't start to move some of their production abroad, they would risk facing import restrictions to western countries or (as already happened) government subsidies to local fabs.

To retain their market share, they were probably forced to set up some fabs abroad.

In the end, I think it's really good for those new countries to have TSMC set up fabs in their countries, both since it guarantees that some production stays available in the case of a war, but also because the TSMC workers will gradually naturalize in the US or Europe and start to work for companies like Intel or ASML and contribute to crosspollination of ideas abilities.

Short term though, cultural conflicts is exactly what one would expect. It's probably very similar to what Western companies experienced when first setting up shops in China or India.

In the beginning Western managers would try to have the locals behave like Western employees when it came to initiative and willingness to "say it as it is" when managers were giving impossible orders.

Over time many would learn that finding really good local managers able to bridge the east/west culture gap could be really helpful.

I'm guessing TSMC will need to do the same thing. Find Western managers (for instance second generation Asians) able to understand both cultures, so they can deal with local employees the way they're used to while also able to work productively with upper management (who would presumably still be Taiwanese).
Moon phase is caused by moon position, relative to the sun-moon-earth system.

My point was that the moon can be directly above or below, regardless of phase.

.... but thinking about it a little more, the tide probably gets an additional boost when the sun is contributing (i.e., the 3 bodies are lined up)
I thought this reddit comment was kind of revealing:

>My dad worked at MS in the 90s writing kernel stuff yet completely swore off windows as soon as vista hit. I remember his exact words were “what the fuck”.
It’s never going to be cost effective if you can outsource to a country that has less stringent laws and regulations.

The government has other levers it can pull, such as tariffs.

It also looks like the Taiwan employees are reluctant to transfer domain knowledge, based on the article. They don’t want to have to compete with U.S. workers.
I see minimalism, not brutalism and, comparing Vercel's design with Netlify's (from your bio), guess where I find the brutalism...
For me, this took me back to Marble Blast Gold. An early 2000s game with essentially the same concept.

Great fun :-)
The only thing worse than no benchmark is a bad benchmark.

I don't think this really shows what `final` does, not to code generation, not to performance, not to the actual semantics of the program. There is no magic bullet - if putting `final` on every single class would always make it faster, it wouldn't be a keyword, it'd be a compiler optimization.

`final` does one specific thing: It tells a compiler that it can be sure that the given object is not going to have anything derive from it.
I’d love to hear the mental gymnastics involved in blaming this on Hertz.
If the US starts shipping nukes to Taiwan, we will for sure have a repeat of the Cuban missile crisis, with the roles reversed. Unless hundreds of nukes can be installed in full secrecy, China will almost certainly try to sink ANY ship trying to deliver anything from the US to Taiwan, using nukes if necessary.
I think it all depends on context. It is lonely if you are the type of person who wants to interact physically. I work at home, and it can get kind of lonely here physically but there are some guys on Horizon I chat with from time to time as a break from work, in that sense it's the opposite of lonely.
> 1) List Organization

I don't keep any such lists, aside from bookmarks which I keep on a bookmark server that I run.

> 2) Content Capture

Extremely rarely. If I come across something I want to save, I prefer to rewrite it in my own words because that increases my understanding and retention.

> 4) Knowledge Storage

I keep everything (except bookmarks) on a wiki server I run. This includes specialized knowledge, notes about projects and research, manuals, datasheets, etc.

> 5) Challenges

Honestly, I don't think of anything about it as challenging, but if I had to pick something, it's probably the mechanics of using the wiki. But my process is one I've honed over decades and it serves me extremely well.
It has been apparent for quite a while that these privacy-violation-as-a-service companies will suck up and monetize every bit of info you give them. But people seem to keep using them for whatever reason. I think it is totally nuts, but for some reason people just don’t seem to care.
Inline assembly arguably not needed, and of debatable merit, vs. writing assembly code.

> an instruction set reference

I think the programming manual just as important, especially if you're working with mixed asm and c code.

One way to think about it: the C programming language has a runtime environment that is everyone's responsibility to maintain. A bug-free compilation should ensure this is protected.

Without the all seeing machine help, it's all on you not to interfere with this environment by following the specified calling conventions.

Also, don't try to get too tricky. I saw a really bad bug where someone thought it wise to use a macro, to place a (C language) add operation directly before a function, then it calls it, and first instruction checks the overflow flag. The thing is C has no idea what you're doing, and doesn't guarantee that it will happen like that. In fact the assembly language couldn't even do certain register swaps for function calls without clearing the flag.

So, basically it "seemed to work" for years. A new compiler caused it to fail testing. Yes, this was a terrible idea and you should no better, but it's important to understand this challenging to predict and "testing resistant" risk. Extreme misuse can help illustrate the point.

P.S. I actually have come to favor asm code for asm, for the writing of asm code that is not trivial. It's mostly a preference and a style thing. Developers are more likely to think about the fact that the code has to play nice with C, instead of assuming some help. You should know better, but it can feel like everything is playing nice.
It's hard to choose one these days -- a whole pile of open problems actually got solved in the last few years, like omniperiodicity, glider syntheses of really complicated things like spacefillers, fixed-cost universal construction (it only takes fifteen gliders to build anything buildable) and still lifes and oscillators that solve the "unique father problem" (i.e., there are groups of cells that, if they're found in the Life universe at any point, they must have been there from the beginning of time.) So now I don't know what to wish for next!

I suppose if I get a free wish for anything I want, I'd love to see a glider synthesis for Sir Robin, which a big oblique spaceship discovered in 2018. It's currently way beyond our ability to figure out how to build it out of gliders -- but twenty years ago the same was true of just about every Life spaceship, and now we have recipes for dozens of them.
>Downside is that config is a lot of work.

Consider sharing the work as open source. I think that too often people think of "mere configs" as something less than programming, not valuable and not worth sharing, when they are in fact really valuable. Not just the configs, but the curation, too.

If such a project caught on, I bet others would pitch in to smooth down the rough edges. In fact, it might be nice to merge and/or utilize a recovery distribution to restore such a configuration in the event of an issue.
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What’s the largest world we can run these days?

Are they run on gpus now?

Has anyone looked into ASICs?

Is caching heavily used for optimization?
A lot of non-fiction books--especially in the business realm--have always been a long-form (or short-form) article padded out to book length for publishing economics reasons. And, if you look at the programming realm specifically, a lot of reference books are essentially available online.
If I'm alone, I read, sometimes with music or TV on in the background. If my wife is home at the same time and we eat together, we chat and be all lovey-dovey and maybe hold hands.
Nice work! Some thoughts:

The camera is tilted instead of looking straight down, and my phone needs to be flat to be in the no movement neutral position. This is unpleasant in to ways: How I'm sitting right now makes it hard to look at my phone while it's flat; it would be much nicer to be able to set my neutral point so I could play with the phone mostly vertically. The combination of flat phone and camera angle is awkward, as when you're looking straight down at the flat phone it looks like the level is tilted, and the ball should be rolling. If you're sticking with flat always being neutral, the corresponding camera angle should be from directly above, imo.

After trying the phone and dying, I ended up playing on the desktop with the arrow keys, much more pleasant.

Your light is coming from a direction where the magnitude is the same in x,y, and z. This means there's no difference in shading between three of the visible faces. (Or, you're using shaders which does this for some other reason.) This may be an intentional choice on your part, but I think it'd probably look better with a light angle which gives more definition to the geometry. Especially the level text suffers from this.

On the last level, is the spinning obstacle at a slightly offset pace from the first moving platform? When I first saw the level, they were very poorly timed with the obstacle sweeping past where you'd go to get on to the moving platform right as the moving platform came closest. Waiting a bit seemed to slowly improve the situation, and I eventually got tired of waiting and just went for it. Still unsure if they're actually in sync or not.

I died the third time on the last level, and called it quits when it put me back at the start. A very harsh punishment.
Typo on https://doesitscale.dev/auth

-> "Authenicatication Services"

Would be interesting (and tough) to compare VMs and containers across providers.
They are both prime numbers?
Given a torus what initial configuration yields the maximum number of unique generations? :)
"Telsa"..
When I was learning Green Day's "Longview" on bass I thought it was hilarious that if I wanted to play it album accurate I would have to play "out of tune." When they recorded the album they didn't have an electric tuner and just tuned to each other.
And you didn't even bring in LLMs into the equation having hoovered up most books ever written
One man escaped from the top of the World Trade Center [video]
Written by a robot that was written by Amazon and runs in AWS. Vertical integration indeed!
Reminding Myself to Take a Break - The Hard Way
It's the biggest solid piece of shell in English. Like the stuff over a crabs pincers is still shell but only the stuff that surrounds the main body is the carapace. Often used as an analogy for other sorts of armor, like a knights breastplate being his carapace or a tank's hull armor.
Also doesn't seem to work on FF for Windows. Can click thru initial [Start] screen, but no clicks are effective on the initial game screen showing the layout and [start] (at least none that I could find).
I e always wondered are there setups in GOL that seem to go on forever with new patterns or does everything ready a static or repeating state?
I wish I had the free time to keep up with the mathlib project - this is so cool. Is there any way someone can get involved in a super hands-off way?
> To maintain reasonable wait times

Cutting the queue to an arbitrary number does nothing for wait times!

All it does is throw away information about the demand.

If there is a 15 hold limit, and it's fully occupied, we don't know whether the demand for the book is exactly 15, or whether it's actually 45, with an invisible backlog of 30 people having been turned away from being formally registered in the hold queue.

Those waiting to read the book now face an extra hurdle: they must repeatedly play a time-wasting lottery in order to obtain a spot in the queue. Someone who had been trying to get into the queue for weeks can have it sniped away by someone who gets in on the first try.

The only reason for trimming hold queues is if there is some resource problem; like they are running out of space in the database for tracking holds or something.
I guess the main question is why do you want to get tested? What are you seeking to get out of it?
What is in common between the bazillions of CGoL implemetations? Is convergance possible?
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