skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We just docked a carrier in ROC, if that's a chokehold, they got some tiny hands..
I did respond to that question, right at the start; but I must not have been clear enough, so I'll try again. You asked for an example of where you had talked about someone's country scornfully, snarkily, or aggressively. My answer is that you did it in the very comment I was replying to, when you wrote:

> No matter how self-evidently full of excrement their droppings here may be.

I know you didn't express it that way explicitly, but context is important, and given the context, it was bound to come across that way. At least, it was how it landed with me when I first read it, and therefore I was unsurprised to see that it generated https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40751052 as a response from the commenter most likely to hear it that way in this thread.

(tptacek gave you such a good answer about the other stuff that I don't want to try to add to it)
He didn't say "less effective than PrEP", he said "less effective", and PrEP wasn't the hereditary context of his statement.
Art isn’t keeping you inside, actually technology has made our lives more comfortable indoors, not that it’s always a bad thing. A world without art would be an industrial world where things only have utility and what the look like does not matter. Think everything being painted the same drab color because it’s efficient and cheap. Buildings having the same architecture, think people wearing the same clothes, same colors even because who would care about esthetics?
Thanks for your work!

From my experience, NERF works great, but depends on highly accurate camera location information. Unless the VR device has this baked in, one must run a Colmap-style or SFM-style process to generate those camera extrinsics. Is there anything special HybridNeRF does around this?
I'd be curious to hear where you find client-side fetching libraries like Tanstack Query and friends easier. Probably the biggest downside of React Actions right now is that they're still new, and not as well adopted in the ecosystem as the established libraries like SWR / Tanstack / etc. So it's a bit harder to find example and tutorials in comparison.
> the person running them gets fired or quits partway through at least half of the time

This is a good point. Or the migration appears to have been very successful to management (before it's actually complete from an engineering perspective) and they get promoted / moved onto higher priority work.

Either way: make sure you are keeping the rest of the relevant engineering organization informed about how the new system works and how the migration is going to work.
Thanks tamimio! not yet at the momoent but definitely doable:) besides luggage, were you able to get good flight results from the search?
In principle yes, you can use
Attribute optimize, but I wouldn't rely on it. Too many bugs open against it.
(I'm the author of the blog post) Yes, WebRender could repack it's texture atlases. A lot of stuff of various sizes go in there so I would not want to rely on repacking large amounts of pixels frequently but it could, among other things, help with more quickly converging back to a single texture atlas after an allocation spike. To my knowledge WebRender cannot move data within a texture using the OpenGL version it's restricted to.
Branches should be small enough and short lived enough that they are atomic commits. Merge early, merge often, don't break things. Work on small pieces that don't change functionality,
The missing part of this is that this causes you to need merge-trains earlier - You'll want to start "stacked" commits that are based on the pieces that are atomic but not merged. That sucks, because the tooling isn't yet great at handling that - It should be possible to mark and auto-rebase all your local branches in that dependency chain,
This is how modern roofing stackups work. They have a radiant heat barrier (layer) usually made from a thin foil shield attached to the roofing plywood. The only catch is you need a vented barrier below the foil to remove the heat. This is usually in the form of battons that are vented out to a ridge vent.

For this fabric to work, the third layer is acting like a thermal insulator - making sure the silver layer does not transfer the heat to your body.
Slow death by a thousand cuts?
I also think there is not much more effort to type °C than °F, unless the writer isn't familiar with the topic.

(The article does include both units. It is only the title trying to be sensationalist)
The AAAA record listing seems to only display the A record value(s).
You clearly didn't read the article, but just the title. What this is saying that creative workers, just as workers in other forms of labor, should consider themselves as workers.
A WeChat link under "community".

Without wanting to make this specifically anti-chinese, I really wonder whether that makes it better or worse than only having the Discord link.

I find Discord as a community platform already quite questionable. Now add to that the simple fact of fragmenting your community into two... I'm not convinced.
There is!

https://blog.kagi.com/small-web

https://search.marginalia.nu/
I love that interpretation.
The Internet is made up of corners and corners are created by intersections.

(Although I think I may have just reinvented the grid)
I disagree about giving them anything to suck on for the night. IIRC there's even research that could lead to late speech or trouble with speech later on.
I looked at how one might apply some order to them. It felt as if a revisit to the site would be needed, but then you need to classify it, which might not be relevant. Maybe it is a valid job for AI?
Firefox and IrfanView suck, but Blender Rules :)

https://i.imgur.com/tQPFUrx.gif
I don't know. This is ok if it's helpful, but reminds me of why I quit playing chess: the mystery was lost.

As I got more into chess and with the advancement of chess computers and championships, I felt there was little creativity left to have fun with the game.

So for dancing, it's literally meant to be "danced".

Of course you can figure out all the combinations and so on, but being overly analytical about it removes -- for me -- the entire reason to do it : to escape the intellectual world and do something kinesthetic.

I understand I am probably an outlier here on HN. :)
My dream is emacs keybindings in every textarea.
There are bookmarks. Google it.
MPFR itself is pretty easy to use.

Unfortunately, if your formula are ill conditioned you can get inaccurate results even using thousands of bits of precision... so there is no replacement for doing analysis and testing.

Perhaps if there were some interval-math equivalent of MPFR you could at least tell when your code might be producing wrong results without extensive mathematical analysis.
You clearly didn't read the article either. The studios still control market access, as they control Spotify.
I guess I don't understand why this comes off like a bad thing. What do you mean badly? We can make X12 that will fix the few actual insane points in an incompatible way (e.g. delete the concept of colourmaps, and declare some policy for window management events). Web apps are no better than X11, which is also cross-platform. Remote desktop only works better with apps that are developed to work better with remote desktop - which is all the major frameworks, but should we settle for the status quo or strive for improvement? (if we shouldn't strive for improvement, then why Wayland?). Other than moving the WM in-process and deleting the drawing commands you need to draw stuff and requiring co-operation of five different extensions for core features that are builtin operations in X11, how is Wayland's architecture much different from X11's again?
Several literary careers have been made on summarizing the main takeaways from LSD.
I thought that was safe because the voltage/current isn't enough to go through skin or something like that.
Which airport? I tested as many as I could, but I am sure there are airports missing and would love to add them.
It's funny to see how they highlight that it inspired Linux, ehile Tanenbaum heavily criticized it for not being a microkernel :D
Tell HN: There are way more cookie prompts in UK than in US
I just arrived in the UK. When browsing familiar website, I'm bombarded by cookie prompts. They're way more often than when I was in the US or Asia. It makes web browsing tedious. It really does.
I remember upgrading from a 4x to 24x, and being excited for the much faster data transfer rate. What I didn't anticipate was the fact that it sounded like a jet taking off when it spun that fast! I figured out how to ratchet it down to 4x and kept it there unless I knew I'd need a fast sustained rate for something like copying hundreds of megs. It wasn't worth the noise for smaller transfers.
> This is perfectly appropriate in many settings, but _especially_ video games where such deterministic results are completely irrelevant.

I'm not sure I'd agree. Off the top of my head, a potentially significant benefit to deterministic floating-point is allowing you to send updates/inputs instead of world state in multiplayer games, which could be a substantial improvement in network traffic demand. It would also allow for smaller/simpler cross-machine/platform replays, though I don't know how much that feature is desired in comparison.
Firefox's user base is also full of old Intel integrated GPUs that don't support bindless. The day WebRender can start relying on it cannot come soon enough but it's a long way off.
I think part of the reason is that people understand that while in games such as chess, etc the entire state of the “universe” of the problem is provided to the algorithm, in the real world, they don’t have that confidence.

There are all sorts of cofounders to algorithms in the real world and an expert human is better at dealing with unexpected cofounders than an algorithm. Given the number of confounded possible, in real world use, it is likely that there will be at least 1 confounder.
No! It's "cups".
Uhh, there are consequences to ingesting colloidal silver, if you look it up.
Ask HN: Suggestion for books on Voice UX design
Hey HN,

I've been working on a voice assistant. I would love to understand if there are any books or articles you can suggest to learn more about voice UX. I've learned a bit about voice activity detection or interruption handling, I would love to learn more about how we can provide best experience.
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Specific-Option-...
You can't trust "western" open source projects as well. It wouldn't be hard to just not mention China anywhere on the website or the sources so that most people would never know.
Maybe it's similar to tweaking the LLM prompts. A different set of words trigger a different pathway in our thinking.
Maybe it could fit into the `num` crate in some fashion? https://docs.rs/num/latest/num/
Hilarious. Have you tried downloading more RAM on your C++ multi-process desktop? Jokes aside you can do a lot of memory management in Chrome or Firefox for chrome the memory saver they added in December might be a good start or countless extensions on Firefox...(They don't work on iOS sadly).
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl0653

>.. spectrally selective hierarchical fabric (SSHF) with emissivity greatly dominant in the atmospheric transmission window through molecular design, minimizing the net heat gain from the surroundings. The SSHF features a high solar spectrum reflectivity of 0.97 owing to strong Mie scattering from the nano-micro hybrid fibrous structure. The SSHF is 2.3°C cooler than a solar-reflecting broadband emitter when placed vertically in simulated outdoor urban scenarios during the day and also has excellent wearable properties.
The Sweet Spot Between Too Much and Too Little
It's worked for me in the past but maybe I got lucky.
OP > Algorithm aversion is a product of diverse mechanisms, including ... (5) asymmetrical forgiveness, or a larger negative reaction to algorithmic error than to human error.

Related:

The legal rule that computers are presumed to be operating correctly
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40052611

> In England and Wales, courts consider computers, as a matter of law, to have been working correctly unless there is evidence to the contrary. Therefore, evidence produced by computers is treated as reliable unless other evidence suggests otherwise.
A different story [0] where an oil tanker rescued a NASA cargo ship at sea. After the rescue, years long legal battle where the company tried to collect $5 million. As I recall, NASA lacked the authority to cut that size of check and the overseeing body fought to deny payment.

Skip faced a difficult decision. A fully loaded, 688-foot oil tanker is hardly anyone's first choice of a rescue vessel. It is as maneuverable as a school bus on ice. And the Cherry Valley was carrying ten million gallons of heavy fuel oil. A rescue attempt would put them in dangerously shallow water. One wrong move, and they would have an ecological disaster on the order of the Exxon Valdez.
… At the center of it all, an impossible question: How do you put a price tag on doing the right thing?

[0] https://www.npr.org/2024/01/26/1197956698/planet-money-draft...
How many of them are happy?
I know it's a hard ask, but what I always think about is: do these programs affect happiness? Are they helping them achieve happiness?

When you get pulled out of the "standard", suddenly people expect more from you, forgetting that happiness is at the core.
Actually, floating-point math is mostly deterministic. There is an exception for rounding errors in transcendental functions.

The perception of nondeterminism came specifically from x87, which had 80-bit native floating-point registers, which were different from every other platform's 64-bit default, and forcing values to 64-bit all the time cost performance, so compilers secretly turned data types to different ones when compiling for x87, therefore giving different results. It would be like if the compiler for ARM secretly changed every use of 'float' into 'double'.
The GPL is a clever hack of a broken system. Given copyright existing, I like the GPL's protections. I would rather take no copyright, as that would address many (but not all) of the reasons the GPL exists.
Interesting, thanks for taking the time to type that.

So you really would have to change the basis of logic to get rid of the strangeness of Cantor's sets, huh? That's quite a leap, I wonder if that would lose other properties of mathematics as well, some that would be nice to actually have?

I mean if you insisted infinities don't exist, you'd get rid of a lot of funky stuff, but lose analytic derivatives and integrals, which definitely is not a good trade-off in my opinion. Some people actually advocate for this, all working on discrete math of course.
Yes. Similar to how "thinking step by step" helps LLMs achieve higher quality solution.
What really is the cause of extreme heat?
Amazon reconned that folks would shout "buy me xxxx" at it. They didn't, and the gamble didn't pay off. Not holding my breath for this latest effort.
Energy Company Finds Earliest Deep-Sea Shipwreck in the World, It's Canaanite
The Complete History of Brian Moriarty's `Trinity`
> You click the windows icon and nothing comes up?

Not the GP, but, yup. Got fixed about 6 months later in a routine update.

Wasn't just the start menu, none of the icons are responsive in the taskbar either, so I couldn't change the volume, or switch networks, etc.[1]

Luckily, for me, Windows is used almost exclusively for unimportant stuff, like games, netflix/disneyplus/prime, surfing, etc.

[1] Not a major issue: all my game (and firefox) shortcuts are on the desktop, my headset has a volume knob and the wifi can be turned off/then on again using the laptop Fn-key (which I only did when it lost a connection once).
It is people who feel inferior looking to attach themselves to something they perceive as great. It is very difficult for many people to find meaning in their lives, so they fall into the excessive fandom / tribalistic / nationalistic / etc mentality when they do not manage to find meaning and satisfaction elsewhere.

I don't find it weird, but it is a testament to many things about human nature, and the successes and failures of society and civilization. Some of those things are positive, many are negative.
it's nuclear powered, g is for grams of uranium
I do love the fencing analogy, but once again I caution against using physics as a highly reliable guide to practicing metaphysics.

"Looking at the cake is like looking at the future - until you've tasted it what do you really know? And then, of course, it's too late."
You mean the COVID vaccine that rolled out globally not just in New Brunswick?

There would be a bare minimum of tens of millions of such cases if the rate we see discussed here were global, probably much more. It would be impossible to hide.
I'm not a huge fan of social networks or tagging but I wondered for some time why social networks like Instagram and Twitter don't have "Global" tags and "Personal (Local)" tags. Let's take a blog for example; tagging on open web blog is by default "Personal" or "Local" because your blog is not in a some kind of network with other blogs so you are basically tagging to better organize your posts in a form of list or collection. But social networks are completely another story; your account is your social profile that is a part of a wider network or social graph but by default your tags are "Global" which is probably meant for content discovery but somebody else can hijack your tag and there is no way for you to let's say: Share a pic of a cat and tag it "Cat" as your personal tag which would link to your other cat pics which are tagged "Cat" and you could also tag the pic with "Global" "Cat" tag which would link to global discovery feed of cats for the whole social network.
According to wikipedia, sRGB is a standard created in 1996, so yeah, it just wasn't used earlier. However at the end of the millenium you could create software that opens an image file saved in sRGB, and unknowingly apply some algorithm, like dithering, without converting it to linear space first.
Probably in a similar way to learning Haskell, assembly, Erlang, data-oriented design, 4k demo programming, or any other thing that is unconventional enough that your normal patterns don't work and you are forced to expand the set of ways you know how to program.
Anthropomorphic climate change would be a good thing to solve before revising the capacity estimates upward.
Claiming national history is about the most common thing in the world for a nation to do. It's far from weird, rioting and unusual dismissal tactics aside.
> Is the 4c core slower in any other way than L3 cache reductions?

It's got a lower clock ceiling. Not much lower than acheivable clocks in really dense zen4 Epyc, but a lot less than an 8 core Ryzen.
Until this comment I never realized that there was a second interpretation of “my corner”.

I always thought of it like the corner in a room/cube vertex

But this suggests it could be like “street corner” which makes a lot more sense
Id immediately set the expectation that the process will be messy, take longer than expected, and require continued maintenance, iterations, and process improvements. Management usually tries to sell a transition as being great for everyone and will solve all problems. When it usually ends up being awful, painful, and take incredible effort. Disappointment is always better the sooner it is communicated. Align in principal for why an effort must happen and the realistic benefits to their daily life. Don't sell them a fairytale. I've found every transition is nost painful because expectations and communication is poorly managed.

I don't blame people. Usually the offenders are in a culture where telling the truth is unpopular. It just depends on if you want to have a successful transition, or make people feel good about a project that takes 6 years to not finish.
The difference is that usualy after a few days you resume your normal life. In this case, he was constantly reminded about his father death.
If several literary careers have been made summarizing it, and it still is not adequately summarized, that proves the point.
The same can be said of Israel and Palestine. The tribalism that existed there in ancient times has absolutely no bearing on the tribalism that exists there today. Yet, for some odd reason outsiders attach a wildly different bias to that issue compared to Greece and Macedonia.
I am sure they saved enough in 40 days to pay for the fine.

Also, while I have no love for these patent pools, the technology is clearly commercially restricted to license holders. Netflix should either license or stop using it.

Switch to VP9 and AV1?
Its fascinating how confused authoritarian government get by the real thing. They expect a sharade with some clever strong man in the shadows with ehom they can make deals. But ultimately, there is just none, there is none but us.

And ultimately, the people can not in the longterm: bribed, scared, subjugated and bamboozled. Its just that alien of a beast to them, such a mental abyss from alpha leader to omegamost unnecessary frontguy.
Most space junk either stays in space or burns up on re-entry
I have thousands of bookmarks....I keep my tabs open so that I can jump back in when I'm back to my PC.
Sometimes it does more than imply it. When wages are stagnant, that's the only way to sell more.
For C++ this goes to the question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8936549/constexpr-overlo...

Back in the days the answer was `__builtin_constant_p`.

But with C++20 it is possible to use std::is_constant_evaluated, or `if consteval` with C++23.

But this is for scenario when you still want to keep high quality of code (maybe when you write multiprecision math library; not when you hack around compiler flag), which inline assembly violates for many reasons:

1) major issue: instead of dealing with `-ffast-math` with inline asm, just remove `-ffast-math`

2) randomly slapped inline asm inside normal fp32 computations breaks autovectorization

3) randomly slapped inline asm in example uses non-vex encoding, you will likely to forget to call vzeroupper on transition. Or in general, this limits code to x86 (forget about x86-64/arm)

4) provided example (best_always_inline) does not work in GCC as expected
People often get intense over perceived heritage. That tends to be true from the US to Japan and everywhere inbetween.

The typical person will almost always seek to wrap their self up in - associate with - an identity greater than their own existence. Whether that's a sports team, or Alexander the Great, or a long dead empire or culture, or the success of another person/company/thing. It's seemingly so common as to apply to almost everyone on the planet I'd wager.

I think even unusual persons - those able to stand apart from standard tribalism - end up doing it to one degree or another. For example even if you focus on work, or art, instead of relating yourself to typically tribalistic things culturally, you end up wrapping your identity up in that work/art/stuff/hobby (consciously or subconsciously).

Have you ever seen people on forums lead a comment with: "I'm from such and such place, and here's how we do a thing" - they're borrowing credibility for their self, from some past people that built that credibility. I'm from Greenland and here's why we're so amazing and why you suck so much. It's exceptionally common all over discussion forums. They've wrapped themselves up in an identity greater than their self, they want to associate with it and steal some of the perceived value/amazingness (that they weren't responsible for creating).