skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was genuinely curious what type of politics a tech website like Gizmodo would get into. Then I saw they have a "politics" section, with 9 out of the 20 first articles with "Trump" in the headline. Now I understand.
Does SDL3 still use integers for coordinates? I got annoyed enough by coordinates not being floating point in SDL2 that I started learning WebGPU, instead. This was even though the game I was working on was 2D.

The issue is, if you want complete decoupling (in the sense of orthogonality) among all four of:

- screen (window) size & resolution (especially if game doesn't control)

- sprite/tile image quantization into pixels (scaling, resolution)

- sprite display position, with or without subpixel accuracy

- and physics engine that uses floating point natively (BulletPhysics)

then to achieve this with integer drawing coordinates requires carefully calculating ratios while understanding where you do and do not want to drop the fractional part. Even then you can still run into problem such as, accidentally having a gap (one pixel wide blank column) between every 10th and 11th level tile because your zoom factor has a tenth of a pixel overflow, or jaggy movement with wiggly sprites when the player is moving at a shallow diagonal at the same time as the NPC sprites are at different floating point or subpixel integer coords.

A lot of these problems could be (are) because I think of things from bottom up (even as my list above is ordered) where a physics engine, based on floating point math, is the source of Truth, and everything above each layer is just a viewport abstracting something from the layer beneath. I get the impression SDL was written by and for people with the opposite point of view, that the pixels are important and primary.

And all (most) of these have solutions in terms of pre-scaling, tracking remainders, etc. but I have also written an (unfinished) 3D engine and didn't have to do any of that because 3D graphics is floating point native. After getting the 2D engine 90% done with SDL2 (leaving 90% more to go, as we all know), I had a sort of WTF am I even doing moment looking at the pile of work-arounds for a problem that shouldn't exist.

And I say shouldn't exist because I know the final output is actually using floating point in the hardware and the driver; the SDL1/2 API is just applying this fiction that it's integers. (Neither simple, nor direct.) It gets steam coming out my ears knowing I'm being forced to do something stupid to maintain someone else's fiction, so as nice as SDL otherwise is, I ultimately decided to just bite the bullet and learn to program WebGPU directly.
Thanks for sharing, I was looking to something like this!

The installation docs point to a different app (gitroom), does Postiz have a docs page?
If AI can write better than the majority of their peers, they need better peers. Currently AI writes very blandly.

And, can you be a digital native, and not program at least some?
I'm not sure that will send the message you expect.

> most employees at the Wells Fargo office work remotely

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/investigati...
I did a quick search of the code, and only clesh[1] seems to be enabled by default for shelling out from the REPL.

1: https://github.com/Neronus/Clesh
> Might be a bit of a cultural difference though.

It is more of content owner trying to get what they can from different part of the world. There are places in third world where HBO would be $1 / month , same thing in US is like 15-20 dollars. Buyers/local networks can always say this is price local market can pay else they will pirate.
> If there was such a commitment to Rust, why not pull funding and cut a check to Redox?

You have an existent product line running on Linux. It looks like a no brainer to just get rust into Linux so you do not have to rewrite all your userspace code to work on Redox. You can keep your own drivers as well. You can gradually migrate piece by piece.

It looks simpler to fork the existing code base than support a brand new unproven OS where you do not even know if it will perform the same as your current one. The amount of investment looks smaller with the fork but maybe I miss something.
> The days of manually writing long things will probably soon be behind us anyway

Why would you want to be so low capability? How does this lack of capability help you?
> CIEL's REPL is more user friendly than the default SBCL one. In particular:

> ...

> * it has a shell pass-through: try !ls (available in the ciel-user package)

It was specifically mentioned as a reason why CIEL is better. But I don't use enough languages to know overall, sorry.
Reminds me of a recent quote:

an ungovernable, decentralized, general trust-less computation protocol/escrow/rep using zkp+ and hormophic encryption was not able to be realized before the alfabit bois got a chance to mole into the development pipeline and backdoor the inevitable Merchanti Ultimatum; anything less would be a massive national security threat globally.
Point, point, point, point, point, Game, set, Match.

"this is not going unnoticed." Oh thank god!

"the city of Columbus is actually inhibiting a proper response and perpetuating a cavalier security stance."

"On Aug. 13, Mayor Andrew Ginther said the data stolen by hackers was either corrupted or encrypted, meaning it was likely useless. Hours later, Goodwolf told 10TV that wasn't true and he showed what kind of personal information he was able to access"

"City officials announced they are providing free credit monitoring to Columbus and Franklin County Municipal Court Clerk employees and judges and have asked city employees to use different passwords for their accounts."

Elvis and common sense has left the building.

https://schneiderdowns.com/our-thoughts-on/city-of-columbus-...
A long time ago when I was a full-stack developer, my opinion was that the Closure compiler with its advanced optimizations was so worthwhile that I was willing to change my code style to make it work. That includes not using new JS features not supported by the compiler.

But then again my introduction to JS was Douglas Crockford's JavaScript: The Good Parts and I write a lot of C++ so I'm always content with the idea of using only a subset of the language.
Right, it's a perfect storm.

And I really do think we'll just give up on the idea of literacy being required in society as that generation grows up. Fixing it would be too much work and cost too much money/time, and would be incompatible with current American social values. I also genuinely do think a lot of Boomers and Gen X have mild lead poisoning, so our elders are probably also going to struggle more the older they get. (Who knows, maybe the microplastics are also eating the contextual reasoning parts of our brains and we'll have the same problem.) So if 80% of society isn't functionally literate, functional literacy will go away as an information requirement for the average citizen.

I wouldn't be shocked if literacy becomes a college level skill that's only taught until students stop having to consult sources/teaching materials from before the 2010s/2020s. There will be a few exceptions, like the historians, but eventually literacy is going to be seen as an eccentric skill that used to be a sign of culture but is no longer relevant. (As an example, my basic knowledge of Latin would be very impressive in a lot of historical periods but in 2024 America it's just a weird personal quirk.)
Maybe I somehow missed it but when did the 5G revolution happen?
> FWIW, it's practically impossible to provide that guarantee because the API necessarily provides at least the data point of, "Did they select an option in the permission notification?" ("If yes, what option was selected?" etc.)

If 99% of users will have permission disabled then it has little value, and only those who enabled it can be tracked. I don't give permissions to sites so this will not apply to me.

Also, the status of permission (1 bit) provides less information than API it protects (for example, list of installed fonts or GPU name) so it is a win.
I Improved My Tainted Reputation with Chatbots
Eh, doesn't this just increase the office politics when it's a free for all?
This is such an amazing engineering achievement, especially if you consider the technology available at the time (computers!) — I'm worried that we are unable to produce such wonderful work anymore. And that most of the effort seems to get invested into useless crap like adtech.
I was just looking what it would take to have a local LLM assistant and ended up on ReSpeaker too.

I am just wrapping up another Pi Zero W audio recording project (https://github.com/pseudosavant/ps-audio-recorder). I used the first-gen Zero W since I had one already lying around. I'd strongly recommend using the newer Pi Zero 2 W though.

The Zero W CPU is just so slow. It can barely (e.g. 1.05x) do real-time MP3 encoding, and the single core makes it prone to being interrupted by background tasks. It couldn't even do SMB/Windows file sharing faster than 0.5MB/sec without disabling encryption in Samba. Encryption kills this CPU.

I have a couple of Zero 2s coming in the mail.
Do you have a source on this? Most I know are impressed by SpaceX despite Elon’s public image.
This is fantastic. I really appreciate how the two audio loops take advantage of stereo and are on separate channels. Much more immersive this way.
As far as I can tell, darkweb has no actual meaning anymore anyway.

I saw an article recently claiming that something like 80% of people under 30 access the dark web at least once a week. 80% of under-30s use Tor? Seems highly unlikely.
There's some wiggle room, but if you want another OOM of advancement then it appears that you also need to move an OOM up, unless you started out at the upper end of the band. And even then the next one would definitely need more.

Of course this only tells us about the current state of things, but there are lots of things that would seem ludicrous today that would be feasible if we had a lot more cheap energy. Mass desalation, carbon drawdown, synthetic fuels, electric arc furnaces etc. will all needs loads of energy.

The signum is wrong. In the long term you want it to be one, not zero.
I still can't listen to these recordings without getting so emotional that I produce some actual tears.

I love it.
Third party plugins make an up-to-date WP install insecure. I think Core WordPress is probably more battle tested than any other framework. One could argue the core should protect against bad plugins, but a secure plugin API would mean a non-functional API.
Pretty sure this came from a senior executive and the people under him were staring each other wondering..
A long time ago, I worked as a bartender. Rules for checking ID's were very strict. If cops showed up and ever found anyone under age, there were serious penalties.

So yes, even if there's a fake only once every two weeks, or whatever you consider to be once in a "blue moon" -- that is the purpose of the system.

Believe me, bars don't check ID's because they want to. They do it because the legal consequences are extremely serious otherwise, and "but the ID looked real to our bouncer" isn't a defense, hence the scanning.

There's nothing naive. I think you just aren't familiar with the laws around this.
> Maybe 20% of the companies I work with have switched.

Smells like opportunity!
> They're choosing the curated environments

Ok, and if more power is given to the user and the user is additionally able to control their current curation, then that's fine and you can continue to have your own curated environment, and other people will also have more or less control over their own curation.

Problem solved! You get to keep your curation, and other people can also change the curation on existing platforms for their own feeds.

> The claim is that the curation is a problem

Nope. Few people have a problem with other people having s choice of curation.

Instead the solution that people are advocating for is for more curating powers to be giving to individual users so that they can choose, on current platforms, how much is curated for themselves.

Easy solution.
Turing was interested in lots of things. As a coincidence one of the small jobs I did many years ago was to develop the Turing Archive's web site, which I'm glad to see has since been substantially renovated: https://turingarchive.kings.cam.ac.uk/ - For that work we had a lot of high resolution images of non-Computing stuff Turing cared about, including Morphogensis (basically, why things are the shapes they are, for example why is a rose petal shaped that way? Why stripes on giraffes but spots on dalmations?).

So mathematics yes, Turing was always interested in that, but always applicability was on Turing's mind. In the early twentieth century Turing's "machine" in a paper he wrote at Princeton (before the war) was just an idea, but er, obviously with the exception of the need for an "infinite" paper tape you can realise Turing's machine, it's a computer, familiar to everybody today.

Even after Bletchley Turing wasn't a Software Engineer. The meta-applicability isn't something which would occur to a mathematician. That took Grace Hopper. Grace understood that the problem her people were tasked with (mechanically convert instructions to the code for the actual machine) is exactly the same sort of task the machine is doing anyway, and she invents the Compiler.
If someone is most familiar with Windows and new to programming, being new to programming will give them more than enough problems. Throwing Linux into the mix will just add friction.

Later, if programming sticks they might have enough information to decide learning Linux makes sense.
It is ok for a programmer to switch among OS’s.

Good luck.
Free speech absolutism in practice.
But it's not template magic. Not even something close.

It's just nested generic types.

How would you otherwise express all the constrains in a type?
Sharing this for a sample of the discourse, written in the NYT, by the NYT's tech reporter, that is just ... not even wrong?

> My theory about what happened next — which is supported by conversations I’ve had with researchers in artificial intelligence, some of whom worked on Bing — is that many of the stories about my experience with Sydney were scraped from the web and fed into other A.I. systems.
These systems, then, learned to associate my name with the demise of a prominent chatbot. In other words, they saw me as a threat.

No, Kevin. That is not how any of this works. As we are told over and over by the stochastic parrot people, Chatbots say what they've seen the most. I suppose that means they have seen people complaining about your writing a lot.
There is a form called whitepaper that is a kind of neutrally worded technical spec with a hint of advertising. I haven't seen many, but the ones that I saw I liked!
Taylor Swift has unusual market power.
The patent thing in particular. The drug companies are currently charging $1000 per MONTH which is an unimaginable amount of money. Therefore, a lot of people who would otherwise benefit (e.g. obese, prediabetes) simply won't have the option.

Unclear to me who has $12,000 extra they can spend on a non-immediate life-saving medication like these. There is technically market competition (wegovy vs zepbound), but surprisingly they all are charging $1K/month with a "discount card" which can be withdrawn at any time, and even that still makes is $6K/year.

Currently, many people are benefiting via legal compounding from safe US licensed pharmacies due to the shortages/FDA shortage list, but that route is very soon going to be closed. Then back to $1K/month Vs. $1K/month.
On Economic Coordination [pdf]
Well, one could argue obesity has as much to do with deregulating the advertising of sugary cereals as a breakfast food for children in the 1980s as the non-existence of a $10,000+ shot that alters human metabolism!
That's great! Is that described in the documentation? I can't seem to find it.
Motion (YC W20) is hiring TypeScript back end engineers
Not the op, but I will give it a shot. Free will relates to identity - there needs to be someone exercising the free will. So, what am I? I identify as the whole physical system of my body and especially my brain. The neurons, their connections, the atoms, the laws governing the interactions. I think people rejecting free will are considering physics to be some kind of external harness, constraint on themselves. But in my view, physics permeates my body. There's no myself without the physics (be it deterministic or not), it's an inseparable part of my system, ergo myself. In a deterministic universe, my thoughts and actions are driven by the configuration of matter, energy and physics in my body. But all of that is me.
Suffering = Growth (Dropping out for YC and struggling for a year)
Remind me to never try your pie.
Yeah, good point. I find most social situations and interactions tiresome and sometimes avoid them. But I do enjoy interactions with some people a lot, so maybe you're onto something.
Still waiting for good 3G
Driving along the (not gated) driveway of a home, walking around the perimeter of the property (which did not have a privacy fence, the legal terms here are "curtilage", public right of way, and easement) and hearing a cry for help and acting on it are not an invasion of privacy.

All of this was of course, a long time ago, and a further consideration was that the family whose phone was used were on a party line with the neighbor in question and specifically mentioned that a phone call for that neighbor went unanswered the previous evening which added some urgency to the matter.

If anything, Japan has a culture of privacy and respect of individuals which make this originally noted societal problem more likely.
One of the most profound lessons I learnt early in my career: if you give people a ”canvas” you will be surprised/blown by how they use it.

Found this out with one of the first Yahoo UGC products,Yahoo! Travel Trip Planner. Again with Yahoo! Pipes and then again with Polyvore.
The badging system will notice someone has not left. This should have made security panic a fair bit on Friday evening...
Just curious, what kind of companies do you find that are open to using Nim professionally? It's always hard with more niche languages.
>Does SDL3 still use integers for coordinates?

No, they added float versions for most functions and I think they plan on deprecating the int API in the future. The only exception I can think of offhand is still needing an integer rect to set a viewport.
TSA is security theater, it is there to give the illusion of security. In reality it seems more like the goal is the entrenchment of surveillance and the appearance of strength.
Please tell me I can still "WIN + R" -> mstsc
Reviewable got dark mode a couple years late
Can you describe what you mean by plausible deniability if in your example you can prove from any of the individual Shufflecake volumes that there's X amount of data in the others?

3-volume Shufflecake setup with on a 100 gb device. I put 10 gigabytes into #1, 20 gigabytes in #2 and so in #3, I can only store 70 gb of data before I get I/O errors, which leaks that there's 30 gigabytes of data in the other volumes.
As newspapers close, local corruption thrives
Makes sense, but I've also seen many brave fools meet their end rather young.
""This is not about speech. It's not. It's about the actual action of going on the keyboard, going into the dark web, gathering the information, downloading it to your computer and then disseminating it to people who are in the press or otherwise," Klein said"

No, this is about how you lied to your public about the nature and format of the data that you failed to protect
Just tried to order but looks like you don't ship to US yet?
> Poisoning with VD3 is objectively weird. It's not very effective

But they have small children, which are supposed to take vitamin D supplement that comes in this kind of bottle. So it's both easy for her and probably easier to explain, however vitamin D comes in an oil suspension, not water, so it seems to me that it wouldn't mix well in water.

She could have put potassium in his water and vitamin D in oil and food. That seems more likely to me.

Edit come to think of it, they did find elevated vitamin D levels in the water so I guess it was somehow a water-soluble formula. Not sure why she mentioned potassium then.
An integrated landfill gas-to-energy and Bitcoin mining framework. ScienceDirect
i wonder how many of these innovative early projects will eventually be a forcing function for FAANG to shed engineers that want to stay on top of the latest stuff. but then again, golden handcuffs are real so maybe not
Cache Energy's mysterious white pellets could help kill coal and natural gas
https://archive.is/dEBJT

(blocked in EU)
It’s $275 a month plus $99 every 6 months at SlimDownRX. The compounded pharmacies are helping.
The very best managers I've had, I only interacted with 2-3 times a week. They would tell me what the company's priorities were, and assign projects, then step back and say, "there you go, do it however you want, work with whoever you need, let me know if you need me to move any roadblocks out of your way."
Lobste.rs is basically HackerNews, but with some features that make it better for engaging in a discussion (you get notifications when someone reply to you for example).

Depending on the technology you want to discuss, there might be Discord rooms/Slack channels available. For example the Golang Slack is pretty active and it’s easy to find people to talk to. I guess it’s the same for other languages
ICE is a better tech for vehicle motors because IC compresses air by a factor of about 10 before combustion, which is much more efficient than combustion at atmospheric pressure as is done in a steam boiler.
Proposal for Standardized JSX
The point is that humans doing the work was the baseline control. If we invested $400M and got something for our money, then it's a good iteration.
I love that story, and that's actually such a fantastic punishment IMO (even if it was a bit unwarranted).

I did some similar harmless "hacking" in my high school that accidentally ended up crashing a major switch causing the whole schools network to die for the day. I told my programming class teacher right away, but unfortunately in my case the superintendent decided to press charges.

In the end all it taught me was to never never trust anyone, not exactly the best lesson for an already introverted teen to internalize...
> "Public health experts warn ‘overinflated view of abilities’ and restrictive laws could make next outbreak more lethal"

Yeah, no shit. That's what anybody with a brain said after the courts destroyed the United States' ability to respond to a public health crisis after Covid.

Just think, we could have Trump back in office when bird flu breaks out!