skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Dole certainly isn't some small artisan operation

Just for general interest, they've got quite the colonial banana rebulic oligopoly history (in surges).

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

The OG Dole brothers were part of breaking the back of traditional rule in Hawaii.

No comment or implication here other than, gosh, history heh?
People will complain no matter what title you choose—but I think the page's <title> element, "Fyrox - A feature-rich game engine built in Rust", is pretty good
I have 400 accounts in my password manager.

There’s no way I’m doing that for each of them (or figuring out which ones support passkeys).
So you want to scrape like the big boys (2021)
The Vision Pro is a flop
They correctly understood it to mean abolish the police. As was made very clear by those who created the statement as they carried it the BLM riots in 2020
I think it's interesting that the press call it a 'gamble' and the company execs call it 'strategic investment'.
Off topic, but for those interested, some Haskell game [dev] links:

- https://wiki.haskell.org/Applications_and_libraries/Games

- https://wiki.haskell.org/Game_Development

- https://hackage.haskell.org/packages/#cat:Game

- https://hackage.haskell.org/packages/#cat:Game%20Engine

- https://haskell-game.dev

- https://www.reddit.com/r/haskellgamedev/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/z98ubk/defect_proc...

Re the original post: This was a brilliant writeup with lots of insights for Haskellers as well. Thanks!
When will Windows NT 3.51 be open sourced? Windows 7?
That was poorly phrased. I didn't mean that the development of tanks broke the WWI stalemate, but that after tanks came into their own in the interwar period, WWI-style static trench warfare was no longer practical.

WWII tanks started to force everyone to be a lot more mobile on the battlefield at which point artillery lost utility compared to the WWI era (though obviously still very useful)
> I tend to agree about the "async contamination" problem.

Argh I have the same issue. Sure if you write JS or Python you probably need async. My current Java back end that has like 5 concurrent users does not need async everything making 10x the complexity.
There's a simple - but likely difficult - solution. I caught myself doom scrolling one too many times on Facebook, and finally decided to do something about it years ago. I put up a farewell message and quit, even though it meant leaving a bunch of contacts who I was primarily in touch with there. Only a couple made the extra effort to keep in touch via alternative means, and barely. But that's life; it was either get away or compromise my mental health.
Both things can be true. I'm saying it wasn't designed to be as such. I don't what you're arguing about.
And, of course, the malicious site can arrange for autofill to be broken.
If the service is like that, then I'm not sure being able to log in as you is a major issue...
This looks very cool. Are there more videos of glicol being used live?
you know stablecoin payments have as much volume as visa right?

as much as people don’t want crypto to be useful, it is. even “solved” problems can have better solutions
Fix pharma, new job or money back
This is the key reason: doxxing here has the glaringly obvious purpose of harassing the protesters. Nevertheless, while vile and immoral, and double so when it's likely a propaganda operation, it's a risk protesters should be willing to take, along with unlawful use of force. It has been this way historically.
Nothing surprises me in a country where a regulatory body (FAA) has it's client (Boeing) do it's own certification.

This reads the same way.
I wonder why they didn’t put cars they didn’t test in the list… strange…

They haven’t tested the current generation 3, S, or X.
I dunno, it's hard to agree that the outputs contain "no emotion" when you see these examples (scroll down):

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/opena...

In particular, the potato king, and the paper girl and cat have warmth and charm. (Do I have to say "apparent" warmth and charm?) The porcelain woman is beautiful and a little disturbing. I still have these responses to the art whether you tell me a human made it or not.

Is the important internal state in the viewer, or in the artist? (actual question!)

Likewise "It simply runs a program... It produces averages." don't match my emotional response to those images.

Simultaneously with this response, I do feel for artists, and the rest of us who are next on the list.
The vast majority of the reactions from Rust devs to that article - from core language people to random devs like myself - is general agreement. It's understandable why the overzealous-Rust-dev stereotype exists, but I would feel comfortable saying it's really not on display for this saga.

The article was incredibly well written and composed, and if you[0] haven't read it, I highly encourage doing so. I really hope it helps push for improvements at all ends of the spectrum.

[0] the royal you, not you raincole
That's certainly... a take.

Wilson had managed to wrangle the other Big Three into an agreement on an entirely new model of international relations, which he was in part responsible for coming up with, and which was actually somewhat popular. But he had to have the Senate ratify the damned thing. The Senate did not ratify it. That precluded our involvement in the whole business and effectively set us adrift from international concerns again. How it's Wilson's fault that he probably suffered a stroke during his address to the Senate arguing the case for ratification is beyond me.
There's a lot going on. Someone is doing a new third party viewer, Crystal Frost, in Unity. Linden Lab has a mobile viewer in alpha test. Rendering is PBR now for new objects. There are mirrors! Content upload is moving to glTF, to be compatible with everybody else.
Voice is switching from Vivox to WebRTC. Game controller support is in test. New users get better avatars. The dev staff is larger.

None of this is yet increasing Second Life usership much, but it remains the best metaverse around.

I thought the metaverse thing was going to be bigger. Meta spent so much money to produce so little.
> To me, government owned lines and connections makes the most sense for society.

I used to think that but now I'm not sure I still believe it. I worry that government owned lines doesn't result in "everyone gets fiber to the home now" but rather "nobody gets fiber yet cause we're still getting cable in Internet to the last X rural users."
The problem is that most of the gameplay code is linear, and people have already gotten good at splitting parallel work across threads. Serious physics engines (see jolt) are already designed to run on another thread and distribute the work across multiple cores. The main part of graphics drivers when using opengl or vulkan run on another thread and the UI you access just passes data to it. Rust's parallelism hasn't proven to be faster than C/C++, let alone less annoying to achieve.
It still seems super error prone:

It is very difficult to write general purpose C++ code that does not call malloc somehere.

Something fails and you want to display a message `"Error: " + reason`? Bam, malloc right here, serialisation process may hang forever in a malloc lock.

You quit the game, the parent process exits, and the serialisation process gets reparented to init, invisibly using up your RAM until you reboot.

fork()+exec() works in C because C has no invisible memory allocation, and even there you'd usually try to not call any function in between the two to be very sure.

Using fork() without being 100% sure there can be no malloc usually means inviting years of rare, hard-to-reproduce random weird bug reports.

Beyond that, as the post mentions, fork() needs "requires a significant amount of RAM to work" if many pages are touched due to copy-on-write, and copy-on-write also slows down the main game.

It seems much safer to use a thread for saving the game state.
It’s not a question, we can. I don’t think anyone here said we couldn’t.

But it’s also not a question of if we’re going to, we won’t. Meat consumption goes up a little every year (on average) and we’ve known these things for a long time, so clearly we’re not convinced.

As to the benefits and drawbacks of factory farming, there are a lot of both. It’s overly-simplistic to call it a problem.
RIP your spine for the foreseeable future.
Based on the contents of the blog (as that's the only think I can talk about -- I was in the team pre 2022), it's mostly dead.

JAX (and Keras) is where the push is now. And, grudgingly, PyTorch
> Luxury beliefs [...] they signal to others that you’re of a certain class

I suppose we need a different term for "norms which mainly exist because our civilization is doing well enough."

For example, "killing everyone in a conquered village is bad", or "don't eat fallen foes as food", etc.
The general conclusions on that thread are seemingly agreed upon by most of the Rust community, insofar as I've seen. YMMV, but I don't think they're premature.

That said, there's no real reason it can't be improved over time.
Try Infinifactory if you haven’t!
The last sentence there is an impressively neat tautology. I love it
I love Oklahoma. Wholesome, hardworking people in a beautiful state. My favorite drive is through Sand Springs to Cleveland and Skiatook. You wind through Keystone Lake and the Arkansas River. So peaceful and pretty.
But then why not make the problematic behaviour itself what is illegal? Aggressive panhandling should be illegal, regardless of whether the perpetrators were on drugs. It makes people, particularly those that are vulnerable to violent crime, unsafe. Make being raving mad in the streets illegal too. I am surprised that there isn't already a law in BC that does. With regards to being a zombie on public benches, it's hard for me to assess why that is problematic. On the other hand making drug use on children playground illegal seems like an elementary rule to me.

What I mean is that none of these issues seem to be really well addressed by the broad sweep of a "don't be problematic" law.
> “Of course”

Those words require “as proven by” and then the sentence that follows.

The claims you make are so trivial as to almost be tautological. You make no quantitive claims except “none” for meat consumption. The most extreme possible position.

Rationalists put forward measured testable arguments that can be defeated by fair reason. Rationalists don’t frame the arguments for what they oppose in purely negative terms and what they support in purely positive terms.

Factory farming has had massive benefits to the health and well-being of humans on the planet. It is undeniably cruel. No meat consumption for many would lead to mental and physical health issues for many. It would also end some of humanity’s cruelest practices.
Mostly I was reminded of the upside-down church zone of System Shock 2. That's one of the few FPSs I bothered playing.
I have seen the worst of it.

Too many companies running franken-software from decades ago.
When atrocities like fractional real state investing (aka house shares, for people who want to rent without buying a whole house) are starting to pop up, it's no wonder some groups keep pushing for rents to go still higher.

https://www.vox.com/money/23620847/fractional-real-estate-in...
According to the article/filing, she wasn't given specific reasons for the demotion, treated discriminatorily, and given a PiP that was unattainably difficult.

One would assume that choosing to file litigation against Amazon would be done thoughtfully / with a plausible rate of success; they have an army of lawyers. What informs the opinion that a PIPed employee isn't worth even listening to, esp. from a lawsuit? Amazon is not exactly a shining star for work culture, and this situation doesn't sound unfathomable.
XWayland is the exact opposite of what GP is asking for.
I'd say this situation has actually improved. Yes, Facebook in particular had had their feed become shockingly bad, but I can pop open Bluesky or Cohost and get a clean feed of follows.

I don't expect everyone to move to those sites, but you have more options if you wish for something better.
No blog unfortunately, the notes are all on paper. I have github page for the game where I ramble a bit: https://github.com/mikhmha/SWARMMO

But I'm planning to release the game for testing next month! Its a browser "MMO" game too so its going to be easy to try out. And then I'll have time to write some more detailed technical notes online.
Photoshop does crash. Trust me if you do enough image editing you'll know it's not even a super rare event. They're generally doing a poor job handling the situations where you have no enough storage or RAM.

It didn't stop Adobe from being worth 200B.
> I've heard [...] 'all cops are bastards' (whatever that means) too

Is that an honest question?

Usually it asserts that police institutions operate similar to organized crime, where some level of bad acts (e.g. perjury, evidence tampering, abuse of power) are a de-facto requirement of continued membership. Thus the corollary that anyone who survived there long-enough to be "a cop" must have become "a bastard" to do so.

Compare to: "All mafia members are bastards."

Such systems are self-sustaining because each cohort has the dilemma of defending itself against being denounced by the next. Forcing incoming members to commit the same crimes means they are "stuck in the same boat" , changing incentives from "reveal their crime" to "hide our crime."
I totally recommend this, especially if you haven't heard Dan's podcasts before. One of his best, next to Death Throes of The Republic (if you want a fascinating depiction of pre-Empire Roman history)
For this you have cash or bartering.

Regulation is not synonymous with tyranny. This is a dumb position and the people who hold it are dumb.
From the title it sounded like the fluid could be given procedural instructions and then carry them out, but after watching the videos, it seems that what is happening is that the pressure/volume curve can be modified in hydraulic systems by adding these spheres to the hydraulic fluid, which collapse at a certain pressure threshold thereby reducing the output pressure of the system around a specific range, to avoid crushing the target object. The spheres can't be given different code. But the pressure/volume curve of the hydraulic fluid can be modified by using spheres with different properties.
It's nice of you to say that but I really wasn't thinking much at all
You mean the brilliant plan of going to the literally middle of nowhere, in a state run by revanchist anti-government lunatics, that alternates between staggering heat and debilitating ice storms, all to escape taxes, didn’t work out as planned? Color me shocked.
Fyrox is an impressive achievement. It has a editor, so there's some hope for non-programmers getting things done. That helps a lot. Much of the power of Unreal Engine is in the editor, not the runtime.

Firox is still OpenGL, which is kind of retro at this point.
I think you're setting the bar far too low. An inability to explain why certain frequencies produce no EM radiation would be unsettling, but maybe reality is unsettling. It would not be enough to jump to the conclusion that nothing we've ever measured is actually real.
That is a lot of great work. Sorry to hear that it is gone. Take some time to rest and hope find somewhere with better vision!
Humaneval was developed for codex I believe:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03374
If you think that will increase their appeal then you don't truly understand why diamonds are valuable. It's what they represent.

The princess doesn't want a gem on her finger that has been cultivated by a nerd and comes with a "vegan, soy-based, cruelty free" approval on it. She wants a warlord to return from conquering and pillaging foreign lands, leaving rivers of blood in his wake, to deliver the prize to his queen as a symbol of her value and his material investment and dedication to her.

Obviously no woman in her right mind is consciously thinking that, but that's the psychology behind it. "Bloodless" is icky.
> if making new drugs was so cheap and easy, drug companies would be doing that in competition with each other

They are. There is intense competition and lots of venture capital and research grants to fund research.

> prices would be low as a result of that competition.

Why? Patents end competition as soon as the research is successful. They have to compete to research the drug - and we see a vibrant competitive market for research - but they don't have to compete to sell the drug. We see this even when there are multiple brands competing to sell generic versions of drugs they didn't discover or spend R&D on.

There is simply no market forces to lower medically necessary drug prices. The market is captive (people will die without certain medication), and thanks to patents, there is often no competition for years to allow people to price shop.

I can buy ibuprofen or acetaminophen or aspirin for cheap at any drug store, because there is a competitive market for OTC pain meds. There is no OTC market for insulin, and people will die without it. Unsurprisingly, insulin is much more expensive, despite being discovered by a university and being over 100 years old.

PreP (prevents HIV) research was entirely funded by US taxes, and the pills costs $2000/mo - despite being available from multiple companies including available as a generic. Why are companies that didn't pay to research the drug (and didn't take US Gov money to research it) charging $2000/mo? The only cost they incurred was manufacturing.
I agree with OpenGL being retro — that's why I'm using it too ;)

It's the only stable, copiously documented, low level (so less assumptions, not a game engine or even library) graphics API that's still usable by humans and relatively ergonomic. It dying out would be a tragedy — I've really loved learning OpenGL 4.6 tbh. Hopefully Zink keeps it available into the future!
Good that someone's getting work done.

I complain a lot about the ecosystem, but I'm doing big-world with remote content loading, which really exercises the underlying machinery. Most people don't push it that hard.
Say no more!
It’s the Cybertruck of VR.
APNIC: Big Tech’s use of carrier-grade NAT is holding back internet innovation
Oh wow, that's a wild idea. Wouldn't Haskell have the same iteration speed problems as Rust though?
TypeScript 5.5 Beta Release
This is a good point. Nobody wears uniforms that are just given to them
Is 1000km from 100kWh a realistic number?

My guess was a lot more kW than that.
I am wary of Creatine, it is bad for kidneys if you take it regularly. No long term study exists yet.
This is what happens when government sets clear goals for technological advancement and subsidizes industry to meet those goals. The US used to do that, and we made huge leaps in technology and science for decades with that approach. And then some movie actor came in and convinced Americans to divert the tax money to do that back to the pockets of the super rich, by saying that government was the enemy. And we’ve stagnated ever since.
Isn't DU still used? Uranium pierces armor terrifyingly efficiently.
They do it this way because it cuts manufacturing cost. Its cheaper to use POP ram when ram upgradeability is not in your design constraints.

Apple even has a patent (garbage one, describes something obvious) for second non POP slightly slower ram channel.

https://www.techpowerup.com/277760/apple-patents-multi-level...

"With two types of DRAM forming the memory system, one of which may be optimized for bandwidth and the other of which may be optimized for capacity, the goals of bandwidth increase and capacity increase may both be realized, in some embodiments,"

They are sitting on a solution while extracting value while market bears it.
The idea that 400K units of this is a "big flop" requires some sort of fundamentally broken thinking (that applies to AAPL as well, if they have a similar view), wildly out of touch with reality.

The reality distortion field is dead. Perhaps the memo was missed.
>Rich type systems make it easy to change your mind about things and make large changes to your code with confidence.

To be fair, they need to be able to make large changes with confidence because what would be small changes in other languages tend to end up being very large changes in rust like languages.
In the latest version, it only needs 64 review logs to full-optimize the model
I think why it's flopped because price and power. Whoever want to buy this heavy VR headset with over 3000$ when we have meta quest or something? Browsing when we move? That mission smartphone has do well and will do well. And you need plug charger or power bank maybe full time when you move and it's drain battery fast.
P/s: Remember Apple sell four wheels for 600$? That's Apple.
Because he actually said it, according to this:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#:~:text=Young....
How would you scale it if you had a $10 million check from a VC in hand?
Stripe and Shopify are such polar opposites. Stripes profit per web request is super high. Shopify has to monetize infrastructure efficiency.
I might be inclined to buy this complaint if tokio was part of the standard library. But it isn't, and I just can't see how its mere existence and tree of dependents has a negative effect on the "ecosystem", it's not preventing anybody interested in "embedded stuff" from producing high quality libraries that are not dependent on tokio, and I don't buy that there is some fungible mindshare being taken away. This to me seems more a gripe that Rust is not being adopted quickly enough in certain domains, which I believe has far more to do with both reasonable and unreasonable inertia.

(How is tokio fundamentally different than boost.asio and beast in this regard?)

> That is, Rust is the systems language that a wave of non-systems developers insist on using, leaving behind a trail of non-systems-appropriate crates and projects.

I have hard time understanding how this "trail" of stuff (evoking imagery of pollution) that no one is forced to depend on nor is promoted in any special way in the core library or language is any meaningful impediment to developing and distributing libraries more appropriate to the embedded domain, but perhaps one can explain how.
Both the Ukrainians and Russians have been using DU shells, but honestly tanks aren't killing tanks very much, so it's basically irrelevant. Even in the best case the DU is still hitting a 40 ton tank which is full of plenty of heavy metals itself.