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Graphene's Coming of Age
>And America using court power to access corporate spyware data.

No, America doesn't need the courts to access the data from the corporations because the corporations just sell it to law enforcement.

Every single American company that touches computers has an enthusiastic side hustle as a snitch.
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
This is not a documentary about the human body. It's about computers, Bell Labs.
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Can you contact me through my email clickzyn@gmail.com?
I have not yet done this. None of the code is complicated, however the setup is a bit (needs an asterisk server, a trunk with a voip provider, an openai account, a text to voice service).

The actual code is quite simple. It's all just glue on the above.

I'll start a repo for the script and some instruction, though.
World Guessr Game is an exciting online geography game that challenges players to identify locations from street-level imagery. Inspired by GeoGuessr, this game tests your geographical knowledge and map skills. Whether you're a seasoned traveler or a geography enthusiast, World Guessr Game offers endless fun and learning.
And yet, you're threatened by an empty office, which is also trivial.

Introverts and extroverts will never understand each other. This entire thread is pointless.
Something I'd love to have is a version of counter strike 1.6 with open source assets.

Something similar to OpenArena for quake but for cs 1.6.

Could be built on top of https://github.com/Velaron/cs16-client
This is really a systemic problem and I'd honestly be shocked if it's even possible for Boeing to dig themselves out of the hole they've dug for themselves.

The core problem is the market demands ever-increasing profits and at a certain point the only way to achieve that is to cut costs. Executive compensation won't ever be cut. The management consultants will never be fired because they provide plausible deniability for the executives should anything go wrong.

The inevitable result here is that the financial people end up running the company, not the engineers. The old Steve Jobs Xerox quote [1] applies. No, Boeing wasn't technically a monopoly, but in a duopoly where it's supported by the captured US government, it really operates like one.

So you have a series of short-term decisions to increase profits that hurt the long-term viability of the company. Layers of subcontracting that add friction but marginally increase profits and lose quality control and institutional knowledge.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3NASGb5m8s
The iPod accelerated Apple’s growth but it did not save the company. Apple was already turned around and profitable again before they introduced the iPod.

People want what Boeing sells: airplanes. They just need to make better products, like Apple did.
why does it have to compete? can you get utilization out of it?
my desktop is 12yrs old, i5 quad core. my thinkpad is 9 years old, my macbook is 10yrs old. so yes, a 5 yrs old laptop is more than sufficient for you. I find that for laptops I need 16gb to be happy, and for desktops 32+gb
"Many hours later" is a great way to make it sound like a lot of time passed, but the creator said less than 24 hours ago they were open to adding a license and then several users accused him of essentially kicking puppies to death because it wasn't done yet.

He expressed anxiety and unfamiliarity with adding a license he didn't understand. Not to mention multiple users started arguing over the best license, further highlighting why he shouldn't just trust random internet comments and actually look into it. You're going to harass him for it? Do you own his time for the next week because he made a post on HN? Because that attitude is way more harmful to OSS than what you're up in arms about.

Furthermore, this is colloquially open-source to most people, and you're hung up on semantics. Anybody that needs to care about a license can look and see if one is there. If it's so simple to understand a license and add it to your project in such a short span of time, surely it's simple to check for the existence of one in the first place.
If you want flying cars, please invent a silent, energy-efficient and safe levitation technology first, then we can talk...
High atop Salesforce Tower, a secret club for geniuses from two shadowy VCs
> > LLMs are a tool, nothing more, they don't magically imbue the user with competency.

> Not a good take though, IMO. They're literally a tool that can teach you how to use them, or anything else.

I disagree. In their current incarnation, LLMs require a human subject matter expert to determine if the output is valid. In the project manager team lead example, the LLM won't tell you if the database is sized correctly, or if you even need a database.
> > Virtually all high performance processors these days operate on their own internal “instructions”. The instruction decoder at the very front of the pipeline that actually sees ARM or RISC-V or whatever is a relatively small piece of logic.

> You're talking essentially about microcode; this has been the case for decades, and isn't some new development.

Microcode is much less used nowadays than in the past. For instance, several common desktop processors have only a single instruction decoder capable of running microcode, with the rest of the instruction decoders capable only of decoding simpler non-microcode instructions. Most instructions on typical programs are decoded directly, without going through the microcode.

> However, as others have pointed out, it's not _as_ simple as just swapping out the decoder

Many details of an ISA extend beyond the instruction decoder. For instance, the RISC-V ISA mandates specific behavior for its integer division instruction, which has to return a specific value on division by zero, unlike most other ISAs which trap on division by zero; and the NaN-boxing scheme it uses for single-precision floating point in double-precision registers can be found AFAIK nowhere else. The x86 ISA is infamous for having a stronger memory ordering than other common ISAs. Many ISAs have a flags register, which can be set by most arithmetic (and some non-arithmetic) instructions. And that's all for the least-privileged mode; the supervisor or hypervisor modes expose many more details which differ greatly depending on the ISA.
We do overlapping inserts and let ReplacingMergeTree remove the duplicates. You can use the FINAL statement on select queries if you’re concerned about queries returning duplicates before the Clickhouse backend performs the deduplication mutation.
> I wonder if there's a way to efficiently implement it without resorting to monomorphization?

Depends on what you consider "efficient".

Monomorphization is necessary for the most efficient code. But you can have a vtable or a restricted type lookup.
Hallo2 – Portrait to Video with AI
If you want modern features and low power consumption you can get a new NUC style PC like MINISFORUM UN100L https://www.newegg.com/p/2SW-002G-000H0. For $ 151 you get a computer with normal full size ports (there are options with 2 LAN ports, etc.), storage expansion capabilities and maybe Windows 11 license that is mentioned in manufacturer website.
> “Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

Greeted with a paywall on the source. Hypocracy...
I mean - developers for your platform have always been a huge driver (something something developers, developers, developers - Balmer).

But I think it's a mistake to assume that the Play Store is equivalent to your developer footprint for a platform.

Google has been fairly insidious about integrating OS level APIs with the Play Store, so that's blurred the line a bit here - but if the OS is otherwise "Android-like" enough that it's just a matter of choosing a different target in your build and linking to different binaries... it'll be very easy to port over the developer base that's interested.

Seems like Harmony is doing exactly that, and already has a large swath of companies that are planning to support the OS - so while some of that is likely because of government influence in this case... it's not required (ex - I'm thinking of Google and the whole lawsuit with Oracle around the Java APIs)
Not just the abstract machines. CPUs don't guarantee constant-time execution for most instructions. And if you target wasm or some other intermediate compilation target then the first compiler can't do much about the 2nd compiler applying additional optimizations. And then there are post-link optimizations where any hypothetical "please don't optimize this" annotations would be gone.
In my experience people understand perfectly well but assume that you are ex-military.
chicken and egg.

You need people to use it to have value. It needs to have value for people to use it.

The use/value proposition will tilt towards it as a generation turns over from people who grew up with search to people who grew up with chat.

Suddenly itll be a commoditized free feature, that if you dont offer it, people will go work somewhere else that embraces. Give it time.
If you're looking for something different in AAA shooters, try Splatoon. It's basically the antithesis to classic shooter tropes and it has a whole world of art designed around it (with fictional bands, promotional art for in-game events, etc.)
Bringing full text search to Elixir's Ecto
"Hey creator, it's important for open software to be properly licensed, otherwise there can be legal issues. <Insert link to open source license references>"
> The reason why the PC is not normally exposed as a regular register is that the set of operations needed for the PC is different than for the regular registers.

I'd add to that, that what you give is the reason it's /okay/ to expose the PC as a special register instead of a GPR. The reason that it's /important/ to is that the PC is accessed on every instruction fetch, so if it's part of a uniform register file, it basically eats up an entire read port of that register file. Register file size scaled badly with port count (much worse than it does with register count), so this ends up adding quite a bit of area. (You can hack around this by having a single dedicated read port for just the PC register, but then you're half way to an SPR.)
How fast is the payload when it leaves the launch tube?
I agree.. While I think it looks amazing, it's a poor naming choice.
that's been my experience with chat gpt, it allowed me to write some kotlin and sql which I'm not familiar with.

I think it's important to remember how far and how fast these things showed up - in just a few years they went from toys to a solid beginning - I'm not sure they can progress the same amount again in the same time, but every s curve has to slow down and every s curve is followed by another eventually - so we don't know if/when the next step change will come, but if it does, it might well put us all out of business overnight.
> I seriously doubt there's very much highly relevant old knowledge locked away somewhere.

Interesting take on what "knowledge" means and what makes knowledge valuable.

If I understand "knowledge" as "information directly relevant to a technical problem", then:

- the knowledge which remains relevant to that problem will stay available to practitioners (i.e. the properties of a Gaussian distribution, from Gauss, 1809)

- the knowledge which is no longer relevant to that problem will probably be lost (how to compute the integral of a Gaussian using a slide rule. Slide rules first developed circa 1620, last used circa 1970)

In other words, yes, your point is profoundly true. Knowledge relevant to a specific task stays available, not relevant gets pruned quickly.

My question would be if we want to use that definition of relevant and that understanding of what drives value. i.e. I'm not asking if you are correct, I've just shown that you are correct. My question is if the assumptions/values which make this correct are assumptions/values we are comfortable with. In other words, is is wise?
Presumably Apple didn't violate the terms of their own licensing agreement with ARM.
What good is a top-world military if we can't win wars without resorting to ancient barbarism?

I'm serious, our absolute best loses to some AK-47 manufactured over half a century ago that's seen shit and a beater Toyota pickup that's seen more sand than sense, operated by someone shouting something about chocolate bars. We have 11 nuclear aircraft carriers and we can't protect a single shipping lane.

>Maybe that's a good thing.

Be very careful what you wish for. When Pax Americana ends, whatever succeeds it won't be kind to us.
Ovulation in Mice (Movie)
How Shadcn Cut Through the Noise and Became React's Default Component Library
Wow, I didn't realize they'd successfully put satellites in orbit already!

edit: turns out they haven't, the article is just poorly written.
"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."
Given that Tesla are under investigation by the U.S. auto safety regulator, I don't think you can say it's 'over regulation' yet.
> Dropping "C" overnight and thus making all existing Linux software incompatible is completely out of the question.

For general purpose Linux, I agree. But if someone makes Android devices and maintains that for RISC-V… that's basically a closed, malleable ecosystem where you can just say "f it, set this compiler option everywhere".

But also, yes, another commenter pointed out C brings some power savings, which you'd presumably want on your Android device…
What birthdays do fraudsters pick for synthetic identities?
That is a good example of how politics are much more relevant than technical achivements, and anyone that dispels technology based on failure to gather mainstream adoption is lacking the whole picture.
> The use/value proposition will tilt towards it as a generation turns over from people who grew up with search to people who grew up with chat

There is no possible way that the current level of money-burning can be sustained for anything _like_ that long. I'd say if major players don't start showing a profit on this stuff within a year or so, the bubble will become unsustainable.
Services are roughly a third of the revenue at Apple. Most of the services revenue are taxes on third-party developers, and the payola Google pays Apple for the privilege of Google Search being the default, and to prevent Apple from getting in the search market.

It's where all the revenue growth is at Apple right now. All their hardware businesses are enormous and safe, but basically stagnant. That the majority of revenue is from hardware doesn't mean the future of the company doesn't lie in its ability to extract ever more blood from a stone.
A child becomes bilingual – and what can be done to help them get there
how sure are you that library genesis will remain available?
> They can probably walk into other jobs anyways

None of them will need to.
I think Newton is on the phone...
Once the accelerating force is removed the object will go into an orbit that includes the point at which the force stops. This however is Earth
What the Sustainable Cities of Tomorrow Could Look Like
I wonder why Apple didn't go for glasses instead like the ones Meta is doing recently; a less bulky and cheaper product would have probably sold more.
I know this isn't Tollbits' intent and this criticism isn't really of them.

But if this is the way things are going to go, that seems pretty disastrous to me. What it effectively means is that website operators are being subjected to something that resembles extortion.

The choice appears to be that whether or not you give permission for that use of your content, your content is going to be used in that way. So your choice is either you get a few pennies from a use of your content you object to, or you don't get a few pennies from a use of your content you object to.

Services like this gives a bit of cover and undeserved legitimacy to the practice of AI crawlers just using what they want regardless of what the content creators wish. It makes the situation more difficult to actually resolve in a way that's fair for everyone.
It's a good thing I don't advocate for nihilism. You haven't asked what I advocate, which illustrates to me you're a dull, incurious person. And if you're seriously bringing up the "woke mind virus," I think that says all I need to know about you. I haven't even brought up matters of social justice. Many of the things I think are rather "unwoke" in many respects; however, if that's your paradigm, your brain is hopelessly broken. I don't particularly care that you have gotten "language" into legislation. Do you also have some patents in your name?
A thing that I've been wondering is, would it be enough in this specific case to turn off compiler optimizations, e.g. by using GCC's -O0 flag?
They haven't, the title is just horrible.
Not sure if it's enough for you but there is RedPanda, a Zookeeper-less Kafka.
The irony of blocking technology is that when the blocked ones are big enough, eventually this isn't a problem, and it will only weaken the position of the blockers, as their influence gets reduced.

And who knows, maybe this is the seredepity point to end US monopoly on mobile OSes.
Lawsuit blames Character.AI in death of 14-year-old boy
Farewell to Colin Robinson, the "What We Do in the Shadows" Vampire
Great quote. I often feel like the best learning occurs when I’m a little angry at the problem.
Well, we got a large number of mirrors. Just like scientific hub. But to be honest: We cannot be sure. That’s why I have my physical books as well ;)
And why I come here for... er, news.
that's a good question, this hurts the US by enabling China to decouple itself from the US. Thus Once they make their own OS and have apps joining in their own app store, they can expand their markets and compete on OS. It may seem ridiculous now, but in 10 years it will be a serious OS and you can have all the apps in a .apk file that exist on android already working on their OS. Everytime the US introduces a restriction you are making them self sufficient(see how they are making their own Chips and own space station because of restriction on ISS) which in the long term is more sustainable for a country since they are not dependent on other countries and international order if things go really bad a self sufficient country is on top(see China is the sole manufacturing superpower by from the center of economic policy research).
I think https://pinboard.in/ is the closest living replacement.
2.1 km/s according to Wikipedia
They haven't. They have done scale model and simulations, but nothing actually to space.

Article from 2022 said they planned on having a real launch by 2026:
https://www.space.com/spinlaunch-aces-10th-suborbital-test-l...

...however the company is struggling. No website updates in a long time, lots of C-suite staff changes.

Would love to see this work, but I think it's dead.
I expect the average person has never visited a library since school
16^6 == 256^3 == 2^24 == 16,777,216
How is this still possible in today's life? When browsing the site, you will be happy to know that the rate for German transcription is at least $20 an hour. And for anyone coming here to talk about cost of living...What can you do with 13 cents,anywhere?
I think the reasoning is that interfaces are implemented by a dynamic lookup. Part of Go's philosophy is that things that could be expensive (function calls) should be visually distinct from cheap things.

Struct field access is cheap, hopping through a dynamic dispatch table is less cheap.
in agreement bro. their ECS equivalent's pages are still in hanzhi making it quite a pain to use.
https://www.roblox.com/
I believe all the payloads will have a small rocket on them to boost the periapsis up outside the earth
Yes, https://9to5google.com/2024/03/01/fuchsia-16-nest-hub-whats-...

However it is quite clear by now, this is the best Fuschia will ever get, and it is mostly a top level software engineer retention program.
https://github.com/JonD-libera/sandwichbot
This is my take as well.

I see this as likely in the same vein as Google copying the Java APIs. The similarity is important because of the compatibility it brings.

So there's very much still an incentive to care about what Android does, and what API interfaces it exposes (at least in the transitional period).

Whether that will still be true a decade or two from now is a different question.
https://9animetv.to/
The state is the primary means by which wealth is siphoned from the public to private interests. You see it with lobbyists, Covid scams, politicians amassing millions on a 200,000 salary. The state is the enemy. If tech companies (and technology generally) are stripping power from the state, so be it. In 100 years we’ll look back at the carcass of the nation state the way we do the Catholic Church.
The article is a bit fluffy and the headline completely misleading. It's proposed to get things to orbit by launching them up decently high and fast where the device then uses fuel to actually reach orbit.

Articles around SpinLaunch seem to be popping up lately which is a bit odd considering it's been ~2 years since they've done any testing and I've haven't seen any actual new announcements in these new articles yet.
Accepting that the notion of "superior" has to be culturally defined (it is a value judgement), it follows that cultures will always observe other cultures as inferior or superior based on their own definitions.

Cultures are fundamentally incommensurable and cannot be viewed from some abstract or neutral viewpoint. That doesn't mean to say comparison and discussion isn't informative - just not conclusive.
Async Rust in Three Parts
How can this possibly work without at least some maneuvering rocket fuel? If the catapult is on the ground, any ballistic trajectory it can achieve intersects the ground. You can blast stuff into space, sure, but orbit? And the closer to a circular trajectory you get, the shallower the launch angle, and the more velocity-sapping atmosphere you have to plough through before you get to space.
I'm a lover of esoteric languages, and Piet[1] captured my imagination more than any other. So, I wrote a compiler[2] for the language, eventually writing a backend that re-targets Piet itself.

And since I love code golf, I wrote most of the compiler in the extremely tortured form that only fellow golfers can love. But I balanced the golf with extensive comments, as a bit of an experiment on the varied advice that we programmers receive about comments. Do they help? Can I keep them current as the code beneath them changes? (Jury's still out on both, but I find the juxtaposition aesthetically amusing).

Just recently, I made a friend! And by "friend" I mean that another human has written another Piet compiler[3] and it's a beautiful project and we were delighted to discuss our tortuous projects that we wrote for pure fun! So I've gotta plug his compiler too -- it's written in safe Rust! Too cool!

[1] https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html

[2] https://github.com/boothby/repiet

[3] https://github.com/pwang00/pietcc/
Isn´t this the entire plot of Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" ?
One of the commenters was thinking the same thing as me

> People are going to only read the headline and interpret it as “discontinue”. Like the article says, it just means they have enough inventory until they replace it with something cheaper. [https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/report-apple-may-stop-p...]

I wonder how Apple would go through with this, hopefully with a better form.
> We want free speech, but people use words to deceive and coerce.

They do.

> You can't make rules to stop this - people will always find ways around them.

Would you be pissed if you got penalized for this comment?