skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could sorta kinda claim that most OLED displays are not rectangular [1], since only green is at full resolution, with blue and red being at a partial resolution, by sharing those sub pixels between "logical" pixels.

[1] https://www.oled-info.com/gs5-diamond-pixel-architecture-not...
Germany checks in.
Super complex, but could the fuel & thrusters be staged -- waiting in lower orbits -- so you don't have the mass of all of them at once?
> But at some point, a bunch of financial sharks got involved into the crypto pond.

It’s not like things were any better before the sharks arrived. In the old days you had Mt. Gox where they lost your money through rank incompetence. Now you have FTX/Terraform/etc. where they lose your money through evil (and also rank incompetence). At no point was there a golden age when crypto wasn’t a shitshow.
They are busy performing lobotomies on that thing
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My KSP-fu tells me that you could definitely get a corona-crossing periapsis without zeroing out the velocity relative to the sun. You aren’t trying to land on the bastard.
The CPU for this computer is microcoded and is made out of a small number of discrete logic chips, plus an EEPROM. The data and address bus are 8 bits wide but the NOR unit operates on one bit only. The microcode has to loop in order to perform an 8 bit add.

I was looking for a hardware shifter in the diagram, because I figured it'd be necessary to access bits D1-D7. But there is none. He uses a lookup table in EEPROM to do the shift.

If you're interested in nice CPU designs, here's another one: the Novix NC4000 (also RTX2000), in which the bits in the instructions lead directly to control various muxes and units inside the chip. There's almost no decoding.
Oh that's Celine Dion minus the consonants
I have thousands of dollars in my Steam library. Don’t want to purchase it again in order to get rid of my windows system. Steam has a ton of other benefits. I can literally stop playing computer games for years, and when I come back to Steam, I just click install and everything works again exactly as it did before. Compare that to almost every iOS game I’ve ever bought for $1 or $2 years ago. Now all of those have become loaded with ads or paywalls to unlock content. Angry Birds I’m looking at you. Garbage.
So modern society and many of its ills.
That's in water, https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2023/03/epa-releas....
Either way, sign me up!
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> You seem to be comforted by the idea that China isn't actually deploying renewables at the rate they are

No, I'm concerned that for all the amount of renewables they're deploying, almost none of it is getting connected to the grid and the amount of fossil fuel usage is unaffected by all this solar capacity they've installed. I'd love it if solar actually helped us get the grid to net 0 by 2050. The problem is that right now we're way off track to achieve that goal.

According to https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-battery-storage-ca..., China's expected to install less storage in 2024 not 2023:

> Growth in China's battery storage capacity could slow down in 2024, according to an industry association, as energy storage struggles with low profitability.

Confusingly other sources claim that they installed 10 GW in 2023 so it seems like for all of this concrete reliable numbers may be hard to obtain. Anyway, the point still stands - battery + renewables remains a pricing challenge vs fission and renewables alone cannot supplant the equivalent amount of fossil fuels in the grid due to how complex the grid is & gris are fundamentally not designed for intermittent sources like renewables & the more you install the more unstable & expensive it gets trying to stabilize it.

Thus my concern remains that solar has failed to demonstrate a power to actually displace fossil fuels within the grid reliably at scale whereas nuclear has a demonstrated track record of doing so consistently. I worry that deinvesting in nuclear in favor of renewables is going to continue to pour good money after bad and thus result in a prolonged decarbonization plan. It'll be the irony of ironies when we'll end up buying Chinese nuclear reactors so that we can actually decarbonize our grid.
Half-Life and it's failed OS 9 port
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https://archive.is/bN5VR
horseshoe theory. no one stopped to think it would impact their future because they lack conviction and choose optics over authenticity. hacker news also embodies this when it comes to anything controversial to this community.
Actual Intelligence + Logical Language Manifestation
How long did you spend crafting this comment? Be honest.

I could imagine doing that with Vim, but I don’t think I could do it in less than ten minutes. And then I’d get sidetracked about whether to represent empty checkboxes with _ or - or a Unicode box.
> If you read the blog post it's pretty obvious what happened. Someone at Mozilla.ai had an extra day on their hands and ran a bunch of text they'd collected through a few models.

That's certainly a possibility, but the post sure looks like it's trying to claim otherwise.
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Cloud-Based web service that detects automatic full-range Blind XSS
Welcome to the effects of two decades of ZIRP with a Trumpflation cherry on top. Farm stuff, or really anything that isn't plastic consumer crap, has shot through the roof. Steel has practically become a precious metal. Imagine if all that monetary creation had at least been spent on infrastructure, rather than being mostly squandered on the Manhattan welfare program.
Not an expert in the field, but from what I understand the idea is very contentious with sizeable camps on both sides, especially noticeable if you are talking to an Alzheimers scientist, or a immune system scientist.
Harrison Bergeron and Windows
Back in 2004, a Microsoft researcher "re-discovered" the Kurt Vonnegut story about dumbing non-average individuals to make society more even. Microsoft has finally achieved this, and I wonder if the researcher in question was being prescient of just clueless.
What on earth are you rambling about?
You have two bits, which clearly results in four shirts.
I think this is the original source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8RxkpUvxK0&t=8m50s
Random fun theory. I wonder if there’s any connection to light shows at EDM concerts inducing specific effects
I am reminded of this immortal koan:

Sussman attains enlightenment

In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.

“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky.

“I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied.

“Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky.

“I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.

Minsky then shut his eyes.

“Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.

“So that the room will be empty.”

At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
It comes with a demo, which does not do much (edit text, run a python REPL, record and play back audio). Since you've ordered one, you have a few options; use the pretty solid ESP/IDF IDE to program it in C and start familiarizing yourself with the M5unified stack*, or if you are more of a Python person check out M5stack's UIflow tool.

This implements a Scratch-like component-plugging interface, but also gives you access to a Python editor that works in parallel with it. This makes prototyping very easy and is a handy way to get familiar with the CPU modules and built-in peripherals because most (though not all) of the functionality is implemented there.

* https://github.com/m5stack/M5Unified
If anything I'd like SpaceX to attach some cameras that live-stream the ISS breakup through Starlink the way they've been filming their re-entries.
FSVO fine.

Software bloat and general lack of performance continue to be among the chief complaints end users have.

Not saying you're wrong, of course. The guy who passes the finish line badly wins the race, not the guy who fails the race goodly or the guy who doesn't even start running perfectly.
I actually think this is a great reminder to how much things can be optimized. Especially if we are talking about research code. All too often I see people point to python code and talk about it being slow as if someone couldn't rewrite it in C for massive improvements. llama.cpp is a great example of this and there's lots of similarly low hanging fruit in ML
It's gonna take me a while to precisely measure the gap of our disagreement on strategy (or basic tactics!) but note that fanatics, possibly only the reproductively talented, of Ms Bechdel, ship this nonironically

https://youtu.be/8wKnPYTd9UM

EDIT: couldn't find the longer exact clip i was looking for which included the crucial section.. YT has a knack of losing the critical snacks

PEDIT: pls note my amusement at the translation of "foundational" into "basic"?
What variable are we trying to understand? Probably ones that we can influence through car safety, lighting improvements, crosswalk design, barriers between cars and pedestrians. But if the exploding homeless population are stumbling around drunk, it’s going to obscure the data on the above improvements.
Here is the blog post the author is attacking: https://blog.mozilla.ai/uncovering-genai-trends-using-local-...

Is it groundbreaking? No. But the author's overwrought political rant about Mozilla, AI, the internet, and probably capitalism seems unwarranted based on a small blog post. From the "about" page of tante.cc seems like they are some kind tech/political/leftist/"luddite" commentator.
Huh? I thought it was caused by chairs.

That said, I don't see any difference between dot-com bubbles busting, regardless of decade, and them not busting. From my perspective, I see stupid(along with good) all the time.
Like most things, it would greatly benefit from severe punishments for rulebreaking. Sadly, that won’t happen, since as a society we seem to be afraid of ever reprimanding anyone for anything ever.
But can I mint an NFT of my checkbox designs?
gg stuff
This is ten years old. Needs a date.

Was hoping for some new tips on what to do about government agencies demanding information from constituents and then storing it in MS Windows.
> The same justifications we’ve used to restrict conservative speech are being used to silence us on Palestine. We need a different approach.

Literally "We made our bed, now we have to lie in it. We need a different bed."
I can’t think of an enterprise use case where someone would be upset they did that. can you? I’m struggling. I helped triage the log4j incident in a pretty traumatic week and was pretty happy they took the steps they did. It’s like, kind of what you are paying for.
By going on the official blog Mozilla is putting their reputation behind it, be it one person or a team.
The ability for a phone to give away a victim's location to the perpetrator as well as encourage parents to get in the way of first responders.
I think this is closer to what was intended:

Molecules that appear blue must absorb very small amounts of energy, while reflecting high-energy blue light. Since assembling the molecules that are capable of absorbing this energy is a complex process, the color blue is less common than other colors in the natural world.
Is Nvidia Like Sun from the Dot Com Bubble? [audio] [video]
How to not find this amazing?!

We are just a couple years of really good anime/manga "live" action movies!
A Real Dragon Ball Z or One Piece movie.
Never before have ruminants existed in the numbers we have today.
> It is possible to request the high performance GPU in javascript, but it is up to the OS to grant it, or not. In windows one has to explicitely choose for each app, which GPU to use.

This seems somewhat at odds with the fact that changing a Firefox setting addresses the issue, though I don't know how it addresses the issue.
Something I've experienced first hand. Programming the ps3 forced you to manually do what CPU caches does in the background, which is why the ps3 was a pain in the butt for programmers who were so used to object-oriented style programming.

It forced you to think in terms of: [array of input data -> operation -> array of intermediate data -> operation -> array of final output data]

Our OOP game engine had to transform their OOP data to array of input data before feeding it into operation, basically a lot of unnecessary memory copies. We had to break objects into "operations", which was not intuitive. But, that got rid a lot of memory copies. Only then we managed to get decent performance.

The good thing, by doing this we also get automatic performance increase on the xbox360 because we were consciously ? unconsciously ? optimizing for cache usage.
It required very specialized knowledge to keep those computers running so this is a very keen take
Blog article is a bit edgy. It's more like modzilla.ai is an AI consultancy, that just uses AI for The buzz word effect.

Man, modzilla really do the most useless things. I'm really surprised just how bad they're at generating any profit, the silly ideas and products are wild.

Can't they just try and make Firefox the best, ubiquitous and one day content actually against Chrome?
Haha that was fun. Very old school feeling when the internet was new.
There’s still one painful workaround to get SVGs into Google Slides! I actually posted it in that bug thread at Google and then ended up with people attacking me like I was on the team and claiming the workaround is good enough. Anyway, here’s how to do it:

Download Inkscape and then convert your SVG to EMF (some PowerPoint vector format I think).

/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape file.svg --export-filename=file.emf

Upload the EMF file to Google Drive with content type “application/x-msmetafile”.

rclone copyto --http-headers '"Content-Type","application/x-msmetafile"' file.emf gdrive:file.emf

Right-click on the file in Drive and open in Google Drawings (if Google Drawings isn’t an option, you don’t have the right content-type set on the file.

Copy from Google Drawings to Google Slides.

Enjoy your painful-but-at-least-possible vector objects in Google Slides!
Ah yes the United States, famous worldwide for its empty prisons and lack of overreacting to minor offenses
Vancouver scraps minimum parking requirements citywide
> "brand identity tied to fonts" sounds like more of a problem related to your company culture/ego of the marketing team than a shortcoming of the tool.

I mean, first, I'm not so egotistical as to claim tacit knowledge of domains that aren't mine. Corp Comms and Marketing deserve to work with good tools, the same as engineers do.

Second, I can't imagine a marketing person coming to me and forcing me to use a different IDE that didn't permit debugging because of their personal preferences.

I would (rightfully) chew them out for being so arrogant to have an opinion on what is useful for my work.
I wish these compiler protocols and interfaces were better documented. They just assume you're using glibc for support. I want to fully integrate them with my freestanding nolibc C projects but I can't figure out how to do it.

The compiler's stack canaries were simple enough. The only issue was the ugly symbols. I requested that a feature be added to override the symbol generated by the compiler so I could use good names instead.

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113694

Things like instrumentation and sanitizers though? No idea. Even asked about it on Stack Overflow and got no answers to this day.

https://stackoverflow.com/q/77688456

I assume these object sizing builtins make use of function attributes such as malloc, alloc_align and alloc_size. I've added all of those attributes to my memory allocator but I'm not quite sure if they're doing anything useful.
That's probably true for some uses of logging, but for information about historical events you're stuck with whatever information you get from the log level you had in the past.
JS is quite performant, and a 600ms tick is nowhere near “performance critical”.
Interesting! Can you reference some numbers? Other processes such as SLM and DED require a powerful laser, starting from 3000W. When talking about copper specifically and especially when wanting higher processes speed, you need higher wavelength blue laser reaching 10000W of power. But on the flipside, the process can be quite quick. Non-laser alternatives like Metal Paste Deposition need a furnace, though I'm unsure of the power requirements there.

Any idea or references on how ECAM would compare to that?
> But you're also right in that it wasn't made in the context of healthcare, but is actually a (priviledged) case of homicide law - which is obviously federal.

That's only 'obviously federal' in Germany. In eg the US manslaughter and murder are handled by the states.
That dumb money mountain will go to fighting legislation as we have seen with big oil, telco, pharma, wall st etc. The money always flows and aggregates around anything that promises to become a monopoly tomorrow. And monopolies can then collect rent at whatever rate they want. This end state is what attracts money more and more. The money is not just to replace the existing solution, its reqd to capture and lock in talent, attention, suppliers, lobbyists, politicians etc. The more the spend the more competitors exit too, the closer to market capture. But they have been spending for a long time to end up in just 2 cities so the pressure to scale, monetize, compromise will keep growing.
Will orbiting solar panels ever work? Now that starship is viable, payload cost to orbit will dramatically drop. Is it cheaper to have orbiting solar plants than solar/battery(or whatever long term energy storage)?
It’s that baseload problem which makes the manmade fusion/fission attractive.
Yet, manslaughter and murder are handled by the states in the US, and that seems to work out just fine.

I can hardly think of a human right more important and fundamental and universal than the right not be murdered.
I should have mentioned this is really only an issue if your business has regulatory requirements that necessitate tamper-proof logging.
I don't know, but a hypothetical 'implicit' would mean converting all unmarked constructors into explicit constructors... which would have broken a lot of existing code.
Is there a source, or is this made up?
The liquidation value of the average middle-class house is $10k - according to my divorce attorney.
Meta-point: If the people within an ideological camp are willing to drop a principle to favor their own position, the penalty for abandoning aid principle should be heavy enough to make people think critically about the principle itself.

Most people nowadays are now treating political positions as if they're fashion statements, despite the wide-reaching effects said principles can have on the structures & systems that surround us.
I'm here reasonably often but have missed prior posts. I love these old school (literal in this case!) presentations. Information density is off the charts.
Is that true of the Chinese?
Computer: advises users to eat rocks
new docs are out if anyone was still wanting that, thanks.
Also: "Truth is really inconvenient."
Yeah anything can cause it, chairs, houses, people rethinking their investments:

> On March 20, 2000, Barron's featured a cover article titled "Burning Up; Warning: Internet companies are running out of cash—fast", which predicted the imminent bankruptcy of many Internet companies.[48] This led many people to rethink their investments. That same day, MicroStrategy announced a revenue restatement due to aggressive accounting practices. Its stock price, which had risen from $7 per share to as high as $333 per share in a year, fell $140 per share, or 62%, in a day.[49] The next day, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates, leading to an inverted yield curve, although stocks rallied temporarily.[50]

Keep the kool-aid flowing to avoid it, this can't happen twice, wait, what was that in 2008 again?
Fast yes, but the voice sounds robotic.
The danger there is that the phenomenon of throwing up roadblocks that are purely motivated by greed but are claimed to be for good reasons is common enough that we've got a phrase for it - regulatory capture. If the belief is that these companies are actually simply not motivated by anything other than pure greed, which I don't think is unreasonable, then it's also not unreasonable to be skeptical of any roadblocks they propose. Responsible forestry is a pretty great example actually - not that there's regulatory capture there, but in terms of it being an industry that pretends that it's planting forests and restoring ecosystems while actually taking rich, dynamic ecosystems and turning them into biodiversity-free monoculture tree farms. But the branding of 'forest' means people think it's something other than miles of high density monoculture agrigulture of neat, soulless rows of trees. And if those companies began talking about 'higher standards' in forest cutting, I'd pretty much immediately want to dig into who they're trying to lock out of the market, if it was some sort of protectionist thing, etc.
Is there anyway to replay an error at the moment of a crash? I found just logs alone aren't that useful, it still takes eons to find out wtf happened.

Almost like a local breakpoint debugger on crash, but for prod.
So, what is the estate going to do with that money? Surely the family has billions they will never be able to spend, but they must liquidate everything that Paul built and loved?
I think it’s more for MEMS and RF applications. These techniques don’t have enough conformality for modern fin and nanosheet based transistor logic.
Only in movies can every defense be breached. It is in fact possible to write code that can’t be hacked.
It's amazing how blind some people are to reprisal. If you punch someone in the face, you're going to get something back. It might not be immediately, but it's coming, rest assured. Every action has an equal or opposite reaction, yada, yadda. This phenomenon is so common, it spans multiple clichés. How do people smart enough to get published in The Harvard Law Review underestimate this fundamental human reaction?
This is so sad, Living Computer Museum was one of the best places I've ever been.
It might be useful to solve the problem of improperly dimmed headlights of other cars interfering with proximity detection.
Yes, I came to similar conclusions after digging into the topic a bit more.

It was an interesting learning experience.

I wonder if/how much the Brazilians are influenced by the Americans here.

(Going on a tangent: I remember during a very brief stint working at Facebook, when they were blathering on about 'Black history month' or something like that. I have nothing against 'Black history month' in the US. But this was in the Singaporean office, and we have more relevant issues in South East Asia, including issues of local racism, too. I can see why Facebook (or Meta..) would care as an American company, but it was really weird seeing corporate project that into South East Asia.)