skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Realistically beyond Haswell there hasn’t been a ton of advancement in SIMD. Hawell introduced AVX2, which is what this blog post uses. AVX512 is certainly more powerful, but that’s not even available in the majority of Intel CPUs, even brand new ones.
Which is plausible and expected, since crypto is all about a smaller state which doesn't control money. On the contrary, most of the other players in the big tech sector exhibit a clear leftward bias. Why is crypto special? Because it's right wing? Or because it's crypto?
Neurocognitive trait linked to heightened creativity
> West Coasters should really stop getting defensive and take action, if it actually matters to you all.

As a lifetime resident of the northwest and a current resident of Seattle let me say, sincerely, fuck you too.

Your characterization of west coast residents as uncaring and inactive is inconsistent with reality. There is no shortage of people working on homelessness and related issues. Not every person has to spend every waking moment on your pet issue for it to be taken seriously. Everyone has different talents and homelessness isn't the only issue we face.
As mentionned elsewhere, we're renting most of our infra from OVH, and paying, monthly, for 40TB of SSDs or NVMes would simply explode our yearly budget.

Source: am président of the lichess charity (and also one of the sysadmins)
The US dollar literally is constructed as needed. It's pretty darn close to free thanks to electronic banking.

However, like all magic, using it has severe (and generally predictable) consequences.

Unlike fictional magic, the consequences take 4 years to kick in like clockwork. That, and the US's two term limit meant that presidents get to print money without political consequence. Worst case, they lose the midterms, then run again while blaming the next guy for the problem they created.

Hypothetically, of course.
Tokio's focus is on low tail-latencies for networking applications (as mentioned). But it doesn't employs yield_now for waiting on a concurrent condition to occur, even as a backoff strategy, as that fundamentally kills tail-latency under the average OS scheduler.
amazing, the one app that has access to everything that matters in your digital life, and you'd be willing to use a non-standard source?
Yes, that's the argument. Of course, some of it remains to be seen, because as of now we're not actually seeing more or more intense storms compared to historical averages (at least that we know about).

Houston has, on average, one large storm event every decade or so, and that hasn't really changed much over the last 100 years. https://www.weather.gov/hgx/major_events
The attorney general of Texas is openly corrupt and is in the middle of a criminal trial.

Acting like Texas isn’t uniquely shitty requires intentionally forgetting reality.
I think is a huge part of it. I saw a Houston area news channel interviewing locals and some said that they had requested clearing from Center Point energy on the property months/years before anything would ever get trimmed. Austin linemen who agreed to travel down there said they were told to pay for their own meals and hotels (aka no per diem available) when they didn’t -have- to go there and were trying to help sent by Austin Energy. Who is going to volunteer to go under those terms?
What do you mean not much good for AI? I guess it depends, 10 year old equipment is not great but plenty of 7 year old stuff is excellent. SN2700 switches for example are EOL, but that doesn’t matter because you can run mainline Linux
flawlessly, if you enable switchdev (I’ve managed to run FreeBSD too). CX5 and CX6 cards are used everywhere still. I don’t have much experience with Broadcom gear, but I hear there are good options there too, but they tend to require more to get the stack setup on Linux.
I also pay for Orion, but can’t use it much until the multi-container support is working well. Right now Firefox is the only browser that does this right.

Upvoting you in the hopes that more people in this thread will put their money where their stated principles are and help support a privacy focused browser with clear funding sources so that Orion doesn’t go the way of Opera.
For example, acquiring ad companies.
Q: How many people are using a web browser on a daily basis worldwide as their main window to the collective infosphere? A: Billions.

Q: What fraction of the corresponding GDP would it take to fund a serious browser-as-public-good initiative that would develop this technology to its full potential without the perverse constraints of adtech business models?

A: 0.0001%? Too small to compute?

The idea that critical communication infrastructure must be (directly or indirectly) supported by advertising interests is certainly not obvious.

Advertising businesses, like all businesses or individuals should be guests on that global platform, playing by the rules, not setting the rules. The status-quo is a unique and singular failure that has been normalized for reasons that historians will surely describe with gory detail in due course.

There are more ways to fund things than either adtech or dazed and confused individuals paying/donating directly for software. Especially when the stakes are extremely high.

Mozilla's attempt to provide a more palatable alternative while accepting the premise that the web is an ad-funded technology was, alas, always doomed. Its market share is trending to zero and it is just a matter of time before complete disaster...
I'm a C# dev, but I'm not up to date on the latest C#/.Net developments. Could you tell me more?

Specifically, I mean that by default, Rust and Go binaries only rely on libc, so you only need to download the binary and `chmod +x` it (on libc distros). No distro-specific dependencies, no frameworks like `java` or `dotnet`, etc.
> Switching between threads with the GIL is already fairly unpredictable from the perspective of pure-Python code.

But it still prevents multiple threads from running Python bytecode at the same time: in other words, at any given time, only one Python bytecode can be executing in the entire interpreter.

Without the GIL that is no longer true; an arbitrary number of threads can all be executing a Python bytecode at the same time. So even Python-level operations that only take a single bytecode now must be protected to be thread-safe--where under the GIL, they didn't have to be. That is a significant increase in the "attack surface", so to speak, for race conditions in the absence of thread safety protections.

(Note that this does mean that even multi-threaded code that was race-free with the GIL due to using explicit locks, mutexes, semaphores, etc., might not be without the GIL if those protections were only used for multi-bytecode operations. In practice, whether or not a particular Python operation takes a single bytecode or multiple bytecodes is not something you can just read off from the Python code--you have to either have intimate knowledge of the interpreter's internals or you have to explicitly disassemble each piece of code and look at the bytecode that is generated. Of course the vast majority of programmers don't do that, they just use thread safety protections for every data mutation, which will work without the GIL as well as with it.)
It's definitely a thing, in fact I wrote an entire album exactly that way! https://github.com/pac-dev/AmbientGardenAlbum

It wasn't exactly a hit, but then again promotion is the hard part. I'm finishing a lengthy write-up on the process, which focuses more on harmony (specifically freestyle just intonation) rather than programming. I believe the programming portion is highly personal, so it's more interesting to share general composition techniques that apply well to algorithmic music.

Executable music is also an established genre in the demoscene, but the music is typically written in trackers rather than with code. The extremely small intro categories do have fully algorithmic music, which can be really inspiring. That said the size limit often forces the sound into a "bytebeat" style, so I'd say size-unrestricted algorithmic music ends up being a rare genre that's not even found in the demoscene (as far as I know! I'd love to find more music like this).
Sorry bad spellchecker. Good managers.
Counterpoint:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=phD6UCECIig
How would you? These are completely at odds: async is about suspending tasks that are waiting for something so that you can do other stuff in the meantime, and low-latency is about spinning a core at 100% to start working as fast as possible when the stuff you're waiting for arrives. You can't do both x)
Torvalds has experiences of sufficient breadth and depth such that it is not unreasonable to take his concerns about reconciling hardware and software as being the concerns of an expert. And of course these days Torvalds tends to be more tactful in his criticisms than when he was younger.
Reminiscent of the tiny autonomous drones with shaped charges that could kill people in Slaughterbots.

https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU?si=bir6XrLskJIwXjnk
Mozilla Foundation did not acquire an ad company, and none of their dollars can be legally used to acquire and ad company. Once again, HNers fail to understand the difference between Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation, and conflate all their criticisms.
What makes you think that the thing you have to give up is related to model quality?
The Texas freeze killed/damaged a lot of trees that were just ready to fall on lines, and evidently Center Point Energy is awful at keeping the trees/branches trimmed back from where they can easily fall on lines/transformers
Why choose to believe this in spite of actual evidence to the contrary? People have Neanderthal DNA inside of them. We're in a thread about an article demonstrating that. We didn't kill them because they were different, the truth (as it always is) is more complex than that.

I understand being cynical about humanity this kind of performative misanthropy doesn't benefit you or anyone else.
This gives me impression like what happens to the nuclear weapon proliferation. At beginning, it is an arms race, between US and USSR, between users and advertisers. Either side thinks they can't survive without vanquishing the other. Eventually they realize it is stupid to continue, and reach a point to both step back.

I think Mozilla is at the point where they realize it is no longer beneficial to continue the race against advertisers. It is time to collaborate. This way both users, advertisers, and maybe Mozilla themselves can all benefit from stepping back one foot.

I personally support this move. Morally speaking, content creators I consume deserve income from my visit, as long as my privacy is preserved. Seems a good compromise if it works.
You might like this proposal:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/197809/propose-addi...

The idea is that some output is metadata (such as ps headers) and some is data. With stdmeta we could differentiate between the two.
Almost every “Show HN” that’s about a library has someone ask what the library actually does and why is it useful. If the only answer is “crpyto” and essentially all crypto is fraud, I can’t imagine why people aren’t more excited.

I think vague promises is exactly how you could sum up most crypto-related libraries as well. There’s supposedly some useful usecase, but right now it only contributes to North Korean nuclear program.
The WIV is 17 miles away from the wet market outbreak and they are on opposite sides of the river. The WIV did not do any gain of function experiments during 2019. Within a 15 mile radius of the WIV there were no covid cases during 2019. If lab workers had been the origin, the outbreak would have started near the lab, but it did not start near the lab.
"There is a huge volume of exploited laborers keeping the system afloat."

This is the problem that needs fixing.

And not with fuckin' robots with butt lasers.
I'm in South Texas (not Houston though) and same - I had trees growing into the power lines in my alley. I put in a request to trim them and was basically told nicely to pound sand (I think they said something like they might get around to it in six to twelve months). I ended up paying a trimmer to take care of it, but I don't imagine that everyone in my (lower-income) neighborhood can afford that.
We don't have a single stream - that's the point. stdout and stderr are already different streams.
> There are more ways to fund things than either adtech or dazed and confused individuals paying/donating directly for software.

Like what?
They have every right to not show their main content. Some content providers do that, but it's weirdly unpopular.
I'm commenting on Rome though, my city. Not Houston.
For some context, FGO Robin Hood (he actually hails from Fate/Extra) is not actually the Robin Hood. He's actually "a" Robin Hood, a random bloke out of many more "honorable thieves".
I like these proposals to extend the current systems. They will probably never lead anywhere, but they are still a nice reminder that we are still learning things.

My vacation plans include trying to grok at least a little bit of the xocb paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-30634-1_18
> I wish manufacturers would use AA/AAA batteries more to power their thingy.

My Razer Deathadder mouse has:

- Bluetooth

- wireless dongle for lower latency

- can be powered by an AA or AAA cell

Just an amazing mouse all around for both gaming and office use. I used to be all in on Logitech but they've just dropped the ball on their recent stuff.
Kosmi
https://kosmi.io
I can’t have kids; I’m single.
Besides money, market share must also be important for Firefox. Otherwise the web becomes Chromium-only.
As I said, I agree that extension security is concerning. But you concede that the specific example exploit you outlined in the article doesn't work in practice?
It's so, so complex! I confess I had a sense of this but had no idea. We don't even hear which MSA algorithm is used to align the protein sequences.
Profit does not rise proportionally with costs as reliability increases (i.e. it costs a lot of money to make it more reliable, but you don't get to charge substantially more). The electric company monopoly does not have incentives to spend money to be more reliable. All the downsides of widespread power outage are externalized onto the customers.
What do you mean by complexity? How is using any other solution less complicated?
I am the opposite. I think pedagogical materials like this should introduce things in the order that makes intuitive sense, and most of the time that means from the easiest to the hardest.
Don't worry, he saw a clogged storm drain in Pac Heights once, he's got this.
The elevation of Houston is _higher_ than the elevation of SF. Yes, there are many hills, and the _max_ elevation is obviously higher, but there are also plenty of low lying areas and areas at sea level.
Not true about California. Outages in storms are highly localized. Some rural areas get power turned off but only when fire risk is extreme. There have been no large cities without power for a week like Houston.
Mystery as 4k-year-old axe-heads sent to museum
Additionally most startups are somewhat niche in the beginning. As long as you are planning to use the brand/domain for a different customer audience I don't think it would be confusing.
> For example, you point out it would cost 2 billion to migrate Houston's above-ground to storm proof below ground.

The State of Texas had a budget of $188 billion [1].

In 2023 they projected a surplus of $18 billion [2].

Maybe they can budget it in?

What the federal government versus state governments should pay for is a big can of worms, but I'm not sure why it seems so easy to just look at the DoD budget and says "there's money there let's use that" as if it's not doing anything or it's all waste. If anything (unfortunately) the DoD budget probably needs to be increased quite a bit given the geopolitical challenges we face.

[1]. https://everytexan.org/2023/11/03/the-2024-25-texas-budget-t...

[2] https://abc13.com/texas-legislature-2023-state-budget-surplu...
> Fortunately, this should be a rare occurrence in the wild. It only provides very specific benefits to use postMessage in an extension to begin with, and developers who do need to use it are more likely to be aware of the potential vulnerability.

I'm not sure you're making a sound assessment of code quality in the wild. What a practiced and responsible engineer might do and what somebody slapping together an extension under deadline pressure or without a strong foundation in defensive practices might do are very different, and there's a lot of that latter stuff out there, some in wide use. That's why so much effort and attention is put into crafting systemic safeguards that (seek to ) prevent savvy people from exploiting mistakes by not-so-savvy people.
In spite of (or perhaps because of) the constant repairs after a major storm every 10 to 15 years, Houston actually has one of the lowest energy costs in the United States: https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices...

For some real numbers for Houston specifically in the middle of the hot summer months, input 77002 (a Houston metro zip code) into Texas govt's electricity provider search engine https://powertochoose.org/ ; it will show most plans are around 12-14 cents per kwh, down to 10.9 c/kwh on a variable 12 month 500kWh plan.
so, your main supposition about crypto being all fraud is inaccurate, and the standards you present apply to fields you respect as well. for example, north korean expropriation and fraud is happening across the entire tech space, even a bunch of remote roles in the US are and were filled with north koreans, hence supporting the nuclear program [1]

this is a common theme I’ve seen that reinforced my perspective: the criticism applies to things the critic respects and the critic saying it doesn't seem to know that, and they also don’t seem to even be aware of other benign things in the crypto space that are working fine and fit the social contract of all participants. I don't know if thats you, but it is applicable to the responses you chose

so that observation, in combination with how so many intelligent researchers and programmers take a different approach ultimately towards improving the crypto space due to its malleability, keeps me interested and confused by the unsubstantive and reductive nature of HN consensus on this one topic

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/21/north-korea-it-workers-us-h...
I believe the unbranded Firefox build on F-Droid (called Fennec) enabled it even on stable releases.
It's called a population pyramid because the shape of that graph for a growing population is a pyramid. If you look at some of the African countries on that site (like, say, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania, if you're starting from the United States page), you can see they're closer to a pyramid shape because they have higher birth rates and higher mortality over time.

Also, on the graph you linked to, you can click on the line in the graph of population versus year to the right, and if you start back in the 1950s and work your way along to the present, you can see the big lump of the baby boomers getting older. That's why people say the United States has an aging population.
If you can find a dental lab, the sort that makes crowns and bridges, they'll have this infrastructure, or at least they used to in the 2000s and before. My father worked at such a lab, and occasionally the dentists who owned it would ask him to cast wedding rings (no doubt made from the scrap gold leftover from regular work).
That's exactly what I did. My own experience with the first step is to write a TeX-like language with macro definition and macro replacement. About a few days into the project I kept running into so many bugs that really instilled a more academic culture in me and I started to read books. But it was still a wonderful first step: without it you might not have even realized that this is a book-worthy topic.
tactful - showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people.
Right or wrong, your comments do not contribute to the discussion. Open source development is about collaboration. Your irrelevant comments are disrespectful to all the hard working developers who have been working together to push the limits of what is possible with what may be the most widely used programming language of our time. I use Python for it's ergonomics and community, not for speed. Removing the GIL has been something we've been yearning for since the Python 2 days. And the speed has improved drastically in recent years with each release. You don't win a prize for being right.
Post again after a few performance improvements XD
Not OP but I can recommend this talk by Thibault (the founder): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZgyVadkgmI
Just one correction that Discord does not have to be downloaded as it works in the browser also. And you don't even need to provide an email address at first. As such, the barrier of entry is quite low.
> That would be a far cry from what AGI paperclip doomists imagine.

It is in excess of what is required for a paperclip scenario, despite the origin; paperclipping is a specific example in the category of "be careful what you wish for, you may get it", as it relates to our ignorance about how to specify what we even want to some agent that is more capable than we are (capability can be on any axis, even within intelligence there are many) when that agent does not inherently share our values.

In addition to the examples of smoking an fossil fuels where it has been demonstrated that the corporations preferred short-term profits over public health, there's also plenty of simply mediocre corporations and governments who manage to endanger public safety (and/or in the latter case cause new entries to need to be added to Wikipedia's list of genocides) without being chock full of domain experts — and although we can sometimes (but not always, e.g. Bhopal/Union Carbide) arrest mere corporate leadership, the west is doing the absolute minimum to prevent Ukraine from falling out of a fear that Russia might escalate.

> If simulating their brain activity is the same as what would happen if they were actually in the room, what we would get is probably 80% arguing over what to do, posturing, etc.

So the actual real humans that some AI would compete against are also easy to defeat, right?

That said, we do also have examples of people working together for common causes even when they would otherwise want to do all those things — that's an existence proof that it's possible for a simulation of the same to also get over this issue.
TLDR Texas is hosed as climate change accelerates and there is no will to pay to build resilient infra. Godspeed y’all.
Putting power lines underground wouldn't mitigate very much of that damage though, would it? I was under the impression that the vast majority of those multibillion dollar figures is water damage to buildings, cars, and other equipment.
Firefox Android to scrap URL from new address bar
Firefox Nightly now has a double-height address bar with only the domain, instead of the full url. And then a non-optional second row with a toolbar containing dedicated back and forward buttons. No option to turn this insanity off...
We had a forest of openldap trees in 2002. Openldap had a replication integrated. Slapd (its more than 20 years ago forgive me if I get things wrong).
You could use a counter or timestamps to resolf conflicts.
How do you solve conflicts?
If most of your audience doesn't use Discord, you're in a good spot. In the web dev world, so many projects use Discord that it's a massive benefit to just be in the server list with them. I felt my project had to use Discord.

It's been a while since I investigated solutions, but I really wanted Matrix to be viable at the time. I would check out https://element.io/ and see if it works for you.
Err, how? They are doing it voluntarily. They want these jobs. They can work at other jobs too, but that would be an education startup opportunity.