skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point was that there is a way to do "objective" study of Human-Computer Interaction, with game controllers as well as everything else, and then there are random opinions offered as "objective" for no reason other than people not caring about what "objective" means.

But you're right about those controllers being somewhat shit. In fairness to the amazing Atari research labs that were used as part of a perhaps poor comparison, they had nothing to do with the design of those controllers and weren't around long enough to really affect much on the hardware side before their iteration of Atari died. For a couple of years Atari had some amazing researchers, but they would have benefitted from some amazing (or merely competent) senior management as well.
I remember the yellowish teletype paper rolls from when I was a kid. I always assumed it was just inexpensive paper that was not bleached to pure white. I have never heard of a reason it was that particular color.

Some quick searching indicates that yellow is easier on the eyes than pure white (that is given as the reason legal pads are yellow). Or that different wire services would use different color paper. E.g. news wires used white paper, weather services used yellow. So news editors would know the source by the color of the paper.
Yes, git has solved a big problem with version control: it has made transactional atomic changesets (commits in the git parlance) mainstream. A git repository is a tree of atomic changesets that group changes into meaningful chunks as opposed to a versioned tree of files where changes to each file are harder to trace back to the intent, i.e. whether or not they are related.

Atomic commits can also easily be moved around (since the repository is a tree of commits with the commits being leaves), and they also make merging simpler in many scenarios.

Larry McVoy was famously wont to engage in trolling upon the Linux Kernel Mailing List, whereupon he did boast of his BitKeeper, which possessed atomic changesets. Concurrently, he did deride Subversion for its lack of the same. Thus, a great drama did ensue, one which ultimately bestowed upon us the creation of git.

git has also succeeded as a DVCS where others have faltered, for various reasons. For there have been monotone, darcs and other such systems; yet, it is chiefly git that has endured.
That's a rip-off of International Mutoscope Corporation's "Atomic Bomber" of 1946.[1][2]
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk used to have one in their arcade.

[1] https://www.arcade-museum.com/Arcade/atomic-bomber

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGL9G9y_yiI
North Korea also probably wouldn’t nuke Seoul because it is 40km from the border and so they’d also probably not be doing themselves any favors. They’d probably nuke Tokyo or Okinawa though.

I don’t think that PRC would nuke Taiwan mostly because nuking does not mean they’ve actually secured it, and now they have to deal with the pain of a beach invasion into irradiated territory.
Can't say I understand it either, but I'm not Chinese and I think there are some cultural differences here. Politically, I think there's a tendency to overestimate and overreact (e.g. Tiananmen Square) and a tendency to get irritated easily. Again, fertile ground for diplomacy.
I would consider the Myhill proof to be constructive, curious why you don't think so?

Set A as desired that is non-recursive, recursively enumerable is conceptually easy to construct: let A be the binary encoding of all Turing Machines that halt. This is well known not to be recursive (computable), but you can recursively enumerate them by taking a bijection from s: N -> NxN (possible since NxN is known to be countable) and on step i emit M if Turing Machine with binary encoding M halts on step B, where s(i)=(M,B).

The resulting Myhill function f is indeed computable and derivative non-computable, but it is highly dubious that such a function would be physically realizable. Why and how would we expect such a function to possibly arise in nature, based on a non-computable set A? For one thing, it's second derivative diverges so hard it can't be bounded as x -> 0 by any computable function. Also, one very quickly is dealing with x and y scopes far below Plank limits.
This is true, but there's an objectively worse middle ground (that we're in now) where the US deterrent lacks credibility so random semi-functional states are starting shit and the US drains capacity by half-heartedly responding to them (aka Houthis, Russia, Hamas, etc).

If there was a firm belief "The US will respond in force to aggression" it would prevent the attempts, and the US would stop wasting ordinance responding in a halfassed way.

Alternately, the US could just do nothing outside of the 1-2 regions it cares about (ie, the pacific). But the current status isn't great.
It’s writing colloquially… the writer has the difficult job of describing something that’s happening inside this cabinet over time and space and other dimensions
Imposed by the game and players behavior.

Bear with us means, ‘I’m about to do a bunch of description… shore up your mental banks and prepare to reread the next bit a few times.

Man
each extra drone is more power needed to keep the drones and wire in the air. More power requirements means bigger wires, bigger wires mean more resistance, which means more power

In addition, every drone has dependency on all of the drones previously. Failure at any point in the chain will cause failure in the entire system.

So in essence, there is a limit to how far you can chain drones together and they will be very vulnerable to catastrophic failure.

You also have more and more drones to control and send signal to.

could it be done? yes. viable/useful? doubtful
The thing is that in EU they are two of 27.

Being 1 of 4 is not so good, particularly when 1 is so big and the other two (Macau, HK) are defanged, and a federal devolution to the provinces of China is not in the cards.
Nice. Btw, you should remove the local scripts injected by your AdBlocker, `src="//local.adguard.org`.
> Except that compiler writers essentially decide what's UB.

No, the C/C++ standards specify what is UB. So, as long as you don't switch targeted standard versions, the brokenness of your code never changes.

Compilers may happen to previously have never made optimizations around some specific UB, but, unless you read in the compiler's documentation that it won't, code relying on it was always broken. It's a bog standard "buggy thing working once doesn't mean it'll work always".
“Guarantee” has always meant ambiguity. The other word is promise. Or commitment.

Ukraine gave up its nukes to the russians after the fall of the soviets in exchange for such “guarantee”.
I don't believe that competitive players are unwilling to experiment with this stuff to get an edge. On the hand, if someone polled today's competitive gamers to see what they're doing with their keybindings, the results were not published in this article. The author might ascribe more importance to the defaults than is really appropriate.
Oldest boxes running are RHEL5 and Win Server 2008.
I was trying to explain to the IT Director that both were released when I was in elementary school so I'd have to brush up on them.
To each their own, but small gardens like this are about the journey, not the destination.
IMO, Taiwan has proven that democracy can eventually work in China too. The question is: how do they get there? And more importantly: why are we antagonizing and warmongering instead of taking actions that further that goal?
Russ Cox has a nice article about it: C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness (https://research.swtch.com/ub)
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OmniWeb was I believe the only web browser released for the NeXT/Apple merger Rhapsody project.
> curious why you don't think so?

Uh, because Myhill says so? "We first define the function f non-constructively..."

But I agree with your analysis. It seems constructive to me too.

I don't understand his proof that f is recursive though.
You speak as if there's possibly one or two alien species. But there are hundreds of billions of planets in the Milky Way. Even if life is 1 in a million, we should expect hundreds of millions of life bearing planets. The place should by rights be teeming. What are the odds that none of them want to explore and colonize? Is this an evolutionarily stable equilibrium we find ourselves in?
This keeps coming up. Is this depth story not simple to fact check with simulations? Are we missing something?
There is no end to the war in which Ukraine wins. If Ukraine is winning and Russia gives up, America will be worried and find a way to keep the war going. If Russia wins while Ukrainians are still alive, America will be filled with regret that they did not support Ukraine well enough.

Ukraine is like Afghanistan 2.0 ; the imminent fall/break of Russia.
Yes PRC knew, hence TW nuclearizing is non starter.

TW/ROC was/is still thoroughly infiltrated by PRC intelligence, if there's credible hint they're moving from nuclear latency/threshold to actual nuclearization (PRC redline), the relevant facilities would be destroyed - no need for PLA boots on ground or telescoped build up, every inch of TW is within 10 minute strike of mainland based ordnances. TW nuclear turnkey potential isn't as fast as PLA rockets/bunker busters.

Unmentioned aspect of US axing TW nuclear program in late 80s, was CSIST / INER (Taiwan nuclear program) was already monitored by PRC intelligence and post Nixon normalization US intel cooperated with PRC intel to shut the program down.

Unwritten between the line is PRC, having closely monitored TW program would have probably nuked TW first if US didn't compel TW to end the program. US Inspection / IAEA went in the dismantle the program, no doubt verified by PRC intelligence, it's unlikely TW can rebuild to nuclear turnkey faster than PRC can mount an invasion. And realistically TW can't fend off a PRC invasion without US involvement, and if US involves to assist TW nuclearizing then TW going to get nuked, and US + PRC will stare down MAD.

Also note PRC fought as in actually shed blood with USSR, India (both borderm skirmishes), US+NATO in Korea, armed Viet against FR, threatened UK over HK... aka every NPT nuclear state over sovereignty/security issues much less important than TW. A few of them when PRC had no/barely any nukes herself. Nuclear simply has never been a credible threat against PRC soverignty issues.
This seems like the kind of article that US intelligence agencies would seed in the media.

Prep the voters for mass support of Taiwan from the US.
But the story says the drum printer was selected at the last minute as an "interim" solution?
Well that depends entirely on what you consider to be the goal - as a software engineer, your role is entirely concerned with engineering excellence. As a member of a team, especially a team of extremely highly paid and highly educated individuals, it is your duty to spend your time (and thus, the company’s resources) efficiently by doing what you’re educated, qualified, and hired to do.
https://archive.ph/sNJgw (page hugged to death?)
Do what China does and incentivize the creation of the on shoring entity.
Building a garden robot and eating robo-spinach sounds like a super dank journey to me
Yeah, not great (and you can have PgUp PgDn still if you use a modern ThinkPad-style layout, let alone the never-gonna-happen-again perfect 7-row style).

Having the Home/PgUp/PgDn/End column on the right is the worst laptop layout to me though. I had a Vaio like that and even after using it as my main computer for 5 years it never ceased to annoy me that I had couldn't just put my hands down centered on the laptop, but had to shift my hands over to the left (or move the whole laptop right and tilt my head). And even Sony wasn't dumb enough to put a power button in the top right that you'll only hit by mistake when trying to delete.
You can probably get anything you need from practicalplants
These are export control from the US to China. As in US exports.

Why would their be onshoring?
Yeah they are loud. The printers used in data centers had soundproof (well, sound-reducing) enclosures. If you raised the lid while one was printing, it was very loud.
I think you have a good point. I'm sure there are caveats, but something about it does seem superficial.
Budapest memorandum-esque?
I've talked about this on this site over the years. My family is close to providing enough food on its own little farm for the whole family, all year (except dairy products and wheat products).

It has taken decades. And about 15 acres. And honestly I don't know how many hours. Tens and tens of thousands.

You can grow a small amount of your own food "without too much investment or work". To replace a substantial portion of your food with home grown takes a shit load of work and time.
> people decrease spending - why spend $100 on something today, if you can buy it for $85 in a year?

Imagine if everything suddenly was infected with the Osborn Effect.

Otoh, certain products like TVs do seem to get better and cheaper as time goes on, yet people don’t seem to delay purchases. It’ll be interesting to see if conventional wisdom about deflation holds, should it come to pass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
We wouldn’t get involved if tsmc hadn’t taken over the world.
I can't help but feel like this is a satirical send up of "tech bros solve farming," except it's not satire.

I am a software engineer, I also runs a small family farm. I have 3d printers and laser cutters and lots of aluminum extrusion and raspberry pis... but I keep those things indoors, away from the dirt, sun, and rain. I can't imagine a real farmer using a contraption like this. Tools have to be reliable to last. I have to replace my solid steel shovels every few years because they wear out, how is this supposed to work?
I feel like the only country that has guaranteed protection by the US would be Japan. Past that, rest of the top 5 would probably be South Korea, Philippines, Canada and Israel.
Did some digging (embarrassingly) and I don't think they are the same person. Regardless it's quite an interesting blog post!
There are different shades of net negative from Being HK, who are now happily partying in Shenzhen, or being Gaza.
"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me"
Communism is a hellavea ideological drug.
>The question there is _which_woman_? The one going to get the procedure or the one on the sharp end of needle? So the question one might ask you is "from whose perspective is murder trivial?" Neither seem trivial to me, which is probably why it's such a contentious issue. Framing it like you do seems mostly just to dehumanize the other side.

In what world is this a coherent argument that people should look past these ideological divides in their relationships? You know, the actual disagreement at hand?
There are no legitimate democracies. There is the west, those who align with it, and the rest of the world who dont, and the rest of the world who are against the west.

Taiwan is with the west. China is the rest. That’s your guarantee
WTF is this thing? That's just about what I think with every teenage engineering product. Some of their others have been something I'd actually buy were the price affordable, this one on the other hand is just a big WTF. I had to double check that it's not Αpril 1st.
The only businesses around the stadiums are a casino and refrigerated warehouses.

I’m basing this on going to games at these stadiums for 20 years, and never visiting the refrigerated warehouses afterwards. Everyone hops on the public transit if they live in the city or drives home to the suburbs afterwards.
Exactly, I remember so many of the mags being hot garbage, and the industry itself would gladly blacklist a journalist that said anything bad about them.

The thing with lets-players and different youtubers is there are a bunch of small time ones that like a particular genre and play things around that. If you don't like the ones you're seeing, search around and you'll typically find a number of different people playing the game and putting up on YT.
The biggest AI skeptics i know are devops/infrastructure engineers.

At this point i believe most of them can not be convinced that LLMs are valuable or useful by any sort of evidence, but if anything could do it, this article could. Well done.
This is not about onshoring but finding new customers.
I hope it kills the need for 10 layers of management above me.
“Without the need for any migrations” seems like a weird one to me. Of all of the things I don’t like having to do, migrations are pretty low on my list - far below any scripting-in-prod or applying hacks or even just rudimentary business logic changes. Granted, I used to fear them a lot back when I was expected to apply them by hand rather than use CICD and testing to validate/apply them
Dont leave us hanging. Give us the details why you think so. I haven’t read the article yet.
> You absolutely do lol, or you’re just straight wrong.

This is false, an obvious counter-example is an explanation that happens to be coincidentally correct (without being derived from any science)

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This seems like an attack on the notion of objective truth which while interesting in the abstract, is not particularly interesting to me personally.
Does anyone know when the next GPU (RTX) is expected? Seems like it’s also delayed.
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Zig will remove many UB but it will add a new nasty one in case of pass by value parameter aliasing with a parameter passed by pointer..

*: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#toc-Pass-by-value-...
Heh, I always thought "There is no way they wrote this article about the actual game, the game didn't work", and I guess it's true!
The State of the Postgres Community
Assuming bits are approximately square

They are actually not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39428728

That article provides the physical characteristics of a bunch of drives across several decades. The newest there is a 5TB drive that has tracks 85nm wide and bits 17nm long, so each bit is a rectangle with a 5:1 aspect ratio. The oldest is a 44.7MB drive with tracks 40um wide and bits 2.6um long, for an even more extreme ~15:1 ratio, but all the drives follow this pattern: the bits are much wider than they are long. The ratio for floppy disks is even more extreme; its calculation is left as an exercise for the reader.

Of course this doesn't change your argument that millions of heads would be necessary, at sub-micron spacing, to say nothing of how alignment could be maintained with continual thermal expansion and contraction.
Actually only the west is trying to stop the whole peace deal. Zelensky is asking for ceasefire. No one else wants it. No one wants peace.
> DO NOT PERFECT ANYTHING UNTIL DONE

> without caring about quality AT ALL

I really need to master this. I spend absurd amounts of time thinking about the littlest things. It can take a long time for me to mentally accept that the code is fine and ready to be committed to the repository and published.
Our internal makeup is not very cut and dried. We're a big ball of wibbly wobbly organic stuff.
Well no one is doubting that the federal portion of the framework would be mainland-dominated, just like Germany has way more seats in the EU parliament than Luxembourg. But Taiwanese democracy (and military control) would be unaffected.
Nice, very nice... I'm glad this exists, given Microsoft's bullish attitude towards migrating everyone to their cloud. I think projects like this one will help those of us who will remain off their cloud as long as possible. I think this software would go well deployed to on-prem installations of netboot.xyz.
Yea, there are massive piles of good games these days. With that said, there's an even bigger pile of total crap, so it really does take a bit of work to figure out what's good. But the thing is, that information is out there if you spend just a bit of time on YT looking for it.
We were always at war with those who dont align with us. Russia. China. Middle east nationalism.
This perfectly echoes my experience with AI.

It’s not perfect, but AI for working with code has been an absolute game changer for me.
Easter Egg in Gemini AI: The Magic History of 'Xyzzy'
A Nod to text-adventures and Unix CLI;

In Gemini running in browser : If you type the word "XYZZY" into the input field as the first "word" of your prompt, hitting enter or clicking to send the prompt results in literally nothing happening. The entirety of the text remains in the input box. Try it for yourselves it's an interesting case of nothing at all.

After some research, I discovered that "XYZZY" is a magic word from the classic text adventure game "Adventure" (Colossal Cave Adventure). It was also adopted as a placeholder term in Unix systems.

Some mathematicians and computer scientists believe that "XYZZY" predates its use in "Adventure." They suggest it was a mnemonic used to remember the cyclic nature of the subscripts in the cross-product formula.

The creator of "Adventure," Will Crowther, claimed he made up the word randomly. However, he was a mathematician, and it's possible he subconsciously drew inspiration from the existing mnemonic.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xyzzy>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xyzzy_(computing)>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure>

I suspect Google devs probably intentionally included this as a reference for those familiar with these historical tidbits.

It took me a fair bit of research to post this as an easter egg, as - having typed the command randomly myself* - I legitimately thought there was some strange linting or other security related issue going on.

Has anyone else discovered this Easter egg or other hidden command type features in Gemini or other chatbots.

*and i am not a mathematician.
Are you sure the drive wasn't just DOA?
From PRC perspective, HK integration went poorly for PRC interests because HK failed to implement national security law on their own (which btw they were suppose to pre 50 year handover) - they simply never took the One Country part of One Country Two Systems seriously. And TBH neither will TW with how much culture diverged over generations, hence the sweeter 1C2S deal PRC offered TW where they got to keep political system and even their own military got taken off the table a few years ago. Political reality is PRC T1 is pretty comfy now, mainlanders don't see TW/HK as "betters" like in 80s/90s, there's no appetite for PRC domestic audience to give concessions to TW or HK to have disproportionate influence over mainland with less than 1% of the population, especially when their system isn't viewed as particularly functional. Apart from baizuos, the amount of PRC who looks at TW politics and think "I want that" is smaller than than most democracygud crowd thinks.
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As I explained, you are describing processes, in the Linux parlance, with a shared mapping. Threads with private mapping (shared root, different sub-tree) versus processes with shared mapping (different root, shared sub-tree) are equivalent in what can be expressed, but only the latter conforms to modern MMU hardware. The details of your scheme, and how they differ from existing code as far as I am aware, are in how to keep the various processes synchronized with respect to the shared component (synchronized copies vs references to a single shared sub-tree, keeping the TLBs synchronized, etc.).

As to software-managed TLBs, very few processors these days support such functionality, instead opting for hardware mapping table walkers in their MMUs which is the context for my comment. I am literally the author of memory mapping code for multiple architectures in a commercial operating system and even I do not need to consider such hardware.