skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
xkobo in particular is a twitchy 2-D bullet-hell shooter, and the current version of it (kobodeluxe) is built with SDL and supports fullscreen mode. But I'm pretty sure xkobo did run in a window. Certainly the other games there I remember (xjewel, xgalaga, etc.) did.

I'm not familiar with Loki's work at all, though the name seems familiar.

I think the removed-code-paths thing is mostly an issue with libc5, isn't it?

I ran into a problem with really old code paths in August when I tried to compile PFE 0.9.14 (a Forth implementation, not a game) from 01995; it was trying to call `uselib`, which I think has never existed on amd64.

FWIW `ldd` reported that xkobo had successfully mapped "linux-gate.so.1 (0xf7f3c000)" (with no filename); as I understand it, this is the vDSO that replaced the vsyscall mechanism, so at least for stuff built for Debian Slink I don't think that problem in particular will occur.
> Distributed databases reduce a lot of the operational complexity

That’s a new one to me; never have I ever heard someone claim that making a system distributed reduces complexity.

I’ve operated EDB’s Distributed Postgres at a decent scale (< 100 TB of unique data); in no way did it enable reduced complexity. For the devs, maybe – “chuck whatever data you want wherever you want, it’ll show up.” But for Ops? Absolutely not, it was a nightmare.
Nvidia DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation
Except they weren’t protesting or inconveniencing the government or the oligarchs, just their fellow citizens.
Very fun, but also, it froze a couple times when I was doing well :(
>It also is way more likely to know at least _some_ of the best practices

What's way more likely to know the best practices is the documentation. A few months ago there was a post that made the rounds about how the Arc browser introduced a really severe security flaw by misconfiguring their Firebase ACLs despite the fact that the correct way to configure them is outlined in the docs.

This to me is the sort of thing (although maybe not necessarily in this case) out of LLM programming. 90% isn't good enough, it's the same as Stackoverflow pasting. If you're a serious engineer and you are unsure about something, it is your task to go to the reference material, or you're at some point introducing bugs like this.

In our profession it's not just crypto libraries, one misconfigured line in a yaml file can mean causing millions of dollars of damage or leaking people's most private information. That can't be tackled with a black box chatbot that may or may not be accurate.
Thanks for the evidence.
By un-disabling the stock market buy and sell buttons, I was able to buy even when I didn't have enough money (stimulation), and I was also able to short-sell shares. So funny!
> a mob that had arms of their own

Source?

While I’m sure there were people who carried illegally present, I don’t recall seeing anything about people being arrested or cited for carrying - or for that matter, anyone who claimed to have carried after the fact.
> "Chat-based LLMs do best with exam-style questions" really speaks to me, however I find that constructing my prompts in such a way where the LLM does what I want uses just as much brainpower as just programming the thing my self.

It speaks to me too because my mechanical writing style (as opposed to creative prose) could best be described as what I learned in high school AP English/Literature and the rest of the California education system. For whatever reason that writing style dominated the training data and LLMs just happens to be easy to use because I came out of the same education system as many of the people working at OpenAI/Anthropic.

I’ve had to stop using several generic turns of phrase like “in conclusion” because it made my writing look too much like ChatGPT.
This year, I push 50.
Ideal time to start learning c/c++ and watercolor painting.

Don't limit your mind to a predefined timeline.

I have a friend, his grandfather 69, completed a law degree and opened an office.:)

P.S. The tech industry ageism is standard which must be outlawed.
It is not objective and moves the industry in the wrong direction.
Google's Veo2: A Photographer's Review
> During rush hour, cars block the box and slow down busses, with cascading effects.

Then stop digging deeper and improve the car infrastructure instead of sabotaging it.
I was actually glued to that page for a few days recently, it's a great write-up.

io_uring is such a tremendous improvement over epoll, in both speed and user experience. With sqpoll, vectored ops and proper batching you can get some crazyy speed. I am definitely looking forward to seeing some of these seccomp and privilege issues getting fixed and getting container support in the future.
Not to mention Zapier and Make, which appear to dominate the same "proprietary solutions" space where this tool resides.
Perhaps there is a link between plastics and ADHD [1].

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8910189/
A better way to phrase it might be don't use it for something that you aren't able to verify or validate.
I installed Linux Mint on samsung 500c chromebook, 3 thinkpads, 2 optiplexes, an old gateway, an old lenovo ideapad, a new lenovo yoga, one of those weird Dell laptops, an x64 tablet, in a VM on my phone...

All of them, including the thinkpads with the weird hybrid GPUs, worked out of the box with 0 immediate issues. For the thinkpads, I did all the updates and chose the proprietary Nvidia drivers, rebooted, and...
Yup, no issues, the drivers work fine, I can switch power profiles and over/underclock the GPUs without any issues and without any extra software. Keyboard backlights work fine. Camera works fine. I can set up the fingerprint sensor to do fancy things like output the fingerprint to a png. WiFi has no issues.

I think most of the naysayers think it's still 2014 when these things were actually an issue.
Nvidia Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series Opens New World of AI Computer Graphics
*AI generated pictures
Responses like this are both why I chuckled at how many “don’t tell me what to do!!!” retorts I could imagine a sizable portion of the US would reply with to so many of these (like the eat fruit one), but also it was a great reminder of how square and absolutely fucked we are as a nation due to those attitudes.

Which get amplified. For political points. Actually almost entirely amplified by political points.
Stumbled across a waitlist for a book called SalaryScript that’s supposed to help software engineers negotiate better offers in tech. Has anyone signed up or looked into it? Curious if it’s worth checking out.
Well, https://hsbc.banklocationmaps.com/en/chn/shanghai only lists one branch at a street address of 666, and that one is really just sharing the address of the commercial center where it's located, but that still seems like enough for this point.

8 is heavily represented. 6 is a runner-up. 7 doesn't appear to be significant in this context.

Consider the branch phone numbers:

3888 3888

3888 8468

3888 8900

3888 1200

6279 8582

3888 3111

3888 1318

3888 1188

3888 6455

3888 8618

3888 8688

3888 1218

3888 6388

There is technically one 7 in there, but it seems clear that the bank would have preferred not to have it. Counting only the second halves, 8 is overwhelmingly popular, so is 1 (for reasons I don't know), 6 is only barely ahead of what's typical, but still in third place, and 7 doesn't even exist.
foobar2000 (win only), elisa, amberol, exaile, tauon, sayonara...

I didn't mention Clementine cause its on macos too.
Quartz crystals are inherently digital, where the quartz crystal itself oscilates at a stable rate, 32,768 Hz in most timepieces.

That's counted by a digital accumulator, and a one-second advance occurs every 32,768 cycles.

The display of a quartz timepiece may be digital (as in a liquid crystal display, or any other discrete display), or analogue, as with a watch or clock with hands. But the underlying timekeeping is digital at its heart.

(One might make a similar argument for a pendulum- or spring-driven clock mechanism, with discrete periodic movements, or for an hourglass (discrete sand particles flowing through an orifice) though the more variable physical process tends to argue against this.)
Top speed, sure, but for typical commuter heavy-rail, a non-express train isn't running at top speed for all that long.

Diesel-electric trains take a LOT longer to accelerate compared to a modern EMU, so much so that Caltrain's electrification project shaved 23 minutes off the SF to San Jose local trip, from 100 to 77 minutes.

Videos [0] [1] make the acceleration improvement pretty clear.

[0] https://x.com/Caltrain/status/1804278237486588179

[1] https://x.com/eiioth/status/1822814729079009516
My grandma is currently using Linux Mint with a Windows skin. She doesn't know it's not Windows. Automatic updates run in the background.
One challenge with your 100% logical reasoning is that it assumes wealthy and powerful people share the same priorities you do. Unfortunately, this is rarely true, and it often takes time to realize just how different those priorities can be.

I’m all for public transit myself, but after 25 years in San Francisco, I’ve only seen it decline. That sentiment isn’t just mine—many longtime SF residents share this cynicism.
Anogenital distance is likely the preferred measure.

> Males with a short AGD (lower than the median around 52 mm (2 in)) have seven times the chance of being sub-fertile as those with a longer AGD.

> Swan et al. report that the levels of phthalates associated with significant AGD reductions are found in approximately one-quarter of Americans tested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for phthalate body burdens.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anogenital_distance (warning on the header photos).
So, you're asking how enterprise class companies are using github for repos and gmail for all the enterprise mail? What's next, zoom/teams for meetings?
> Because police can't physically be in every intersection at once

They don't have to be everywhere. They have to be at least _somewhere_ and start visible enforcing. People need to know that they might get away with running a red light a couple of times, but they WILL be caught eventually, and there WILL be consequences.

> and there's research that shows that removing parking around intersections reduces pedestrian fatalities.

I read a lot of the urbanist propaganda research, and most of it is pure crap. Bad statistical methods, poor significance, P-hacking, biased tests, you name it.
Related reading (I would love to hear some feedback but I am NOT op)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42414911

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Write code and experiment instead of talking and planning

I want to have a chat with the computer in its own language right from the start. "But your attempts will lead you on so many fruitless avenues!" the committee heads admonish me. "You will waste so much time! Let's have a grand plan and write the perfect solution right from the start, ehh?"
NixOS and Flakes Book: An unofficial book for beginners
I love the Apple Music app too but the trick is to mainly use the songs tab and playlists and enable the column browser. Also, of the current widely-used options, Apple Music is second to none at this point: old apps like Amarok were nicer but they practically don’t exist anymore. Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, etc. are all much more annoying than Apple Music (in part because they are Electron Apps).
The spatial representation on an analogue clockface is far more evident. Each 15 minute interval sweeps out a quarter of the face with the minute hand.
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/to-reduce-ai-costs-g...

Which takes it from

> Broadcom generates a 70% profit margin from its work on TPUs, said a person with direct knowledge of the internal analysis. SemiAnalysis, a chip research firm, earlier reported that figure.

https://semianalysis.com/2023/08/30/broadcoms-google-tpu-rev...
> No way you could run Linux binaries or MacOS classic binaries from '98

The key problem for desktop Linux is that nobody knows exactly how to build binaries that will run on any reasonable Linux desktop system today, so it's hard to keep that non-existent reasonable subset of ABI stable for an extended period.

That said, you CAN do this. The kernel itself does present a mostly pretty stable ABI to userland applications, so you can grab a Debian chroot from 1998 and be on your way. Debian even still serves repositories for everything on archive.debian.org, and Dockerhub has OCI images you can `docker run` for Debian from 1999, under the debian/eol repo. You can `docker run` and `apt-get install` 25+ year old binaries on modern Linux!

What would be sweet is if we could build and ship compatibility tools that make these old binaries work mostly transparently. Today, double clicking a binary on Linux won't do anything particularly sophisticated, and there are no compatibility options. But actually, it would be totally doable to write a variety of useful compatibility shims without doing anything horribly grotesque. The DT_INTERP and DT_NEEDED fields of binaries would often give sufficient information for how you might get such a binary to run. It's not like it would be that useful, but I would personally be very pleased if you could just double click e.g. some old Kylix application and have it just run, perhaps after downloading some (shims for?) old libraries. You could extend this to transparently running CPU emulators too, not unlike the tricks people do with binfmt_misc, just possibly with more batteries included (and a bit less transparency.)

Another really great feature would be useful error messages when executing an application fails. Today if the DT_INTERP is missing, it looks like the binary itself can't be found since it returns the same errno, and you won't see linker errors if you execute a file in a GUI file explorer. What a great improvement it would be if all of that could be fixed, and there is no technical reason it can't be.

Of course, frustratingly, for more reasons than just this, the more likely thing to happen is that nobody bothers since containers are the future anyways, and Win32 instead becomes cemented as the true stable ABI of Linux. Which, in my opinion, is a bummer. We could always have two stable ABIs of Linux...
Thanks for your sanity. My wife is a (Canadian) Olympian and I almost feel betrayed by the level of condescension towards sports in this forum that I am normally aligned with. Like engineers denigrating the arts because it doesn’t generate value— it makes me think some folks are not experiencing what life has to offer.
If only we were a species with six fingers per hand.
Official release: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-blackwell-geforce-...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42618849)
32GB of GDDR7 at 1.8TB/sec for $2000, best of luck to the gamers trying to buy one of those while AI people are buying them by the truckload.

Presumably the pro hardware based on the same silicon will have 64GB, they usually double whatever the gaming cards have.
FIDO2 like auth. I'm not sure it will end up being FIDO or passkey, but it seems obvious to me the world does need phishing resistant, anonymous authentication that seamlessly supports multiple ID's, can only be used by the owner, isn't owned and controlled by our Tech Bro overloads, and does have a workable plan for what happens when the token is lost or damaged.

Like the internet, it will require everyone and every company on the planet to converge on the one protocol which probably will be FIDO2 or something very close to it. Like the early internet running over POTS (plain old telephone lines) we don't have the hardware yet.

Yet it seems like we are getting groping towards a solution. Surely it must arrive one day.
In what way is immigration not definitionally a federal problem? If you're referring to programs like OINP, note that

> The OINP recognizes and nominates people for permanent residence who have the skills and experience the Ontario economy needs, and the Government of Canada makes the final decision to approve applications for permanent residence.

(https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontario-immigrant-nominee-progra...)
The "last mile" of social change is the human brain, not consultants or LLMs.
> It's not mundane. The screenshots show Instagram displaying an ad for Meta AI.

Well, there it is again: what seems to make it objectionable is that it fits a certain definition, rather than it exhibiting some intrinsically objectionable features. (Note I’m not criticizing this; I just find it interesting.)

Since I don’t personally see this as an ad, I might describe it as “The screenshots show an example of output that the user can generate with Meta AI. The example shown isn’t emotionally enagaging, and it resembles placeholder content.”

What would make this stand out for me is if Meta owned a tooth whitening business, and then used this placement to show a version of myself with a whiter smile. Or any of the other dystopian examples in this thread. But the one that actually occurred just doesn’t register for me as a breach of trust.
I have no idea if this is true (and honestly can only barely remember the reference, which I read maybe a decade or two ago), but I believe I saw a comment that the interior of lead pipes eventually develop a "calcified" (don't know what else to call it) lining of the lead reacting to water, such that lead stops leeching into the water that passes through the pipes.

I believe this came up when reading something about how the trend of traditional historicity has always been to identify the Big Major Cause of the fall of the Roman empire, but that each explanation ultimately falls short. The followup point made by this, of course, is two-fold: that "falls" are often very complex and multi-faceted; and that the Roman empire never really "fell" in the Gibbons sense - it just slowly evolved, and eventually shifted east, finally becoming self-consciously retro-classically Hellenized, and just morphed to something new and lasted another thousand years -- but never actually fell during that time.

Anyone else have any thoughts or insight on the "lead pipes eventually line themselves with something non-lead-like" angle?
Is it a puzzle? It seems like how it should go, and be an example for more violent responses to learn from. You shouldn't escalate a situation unnecessarily.
I apologize for not attaching an unpaywalled link.

Here is a gift link, unpaywalled: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/style/virginia-dops-reinc...

Re: the point of this link? That was due to a lapse on my part. I will try not to make this mistake again.
This thread was posted first.
Not yet, I think the OP means it might in the future.
i'm pretty contrarian in programming as well, so it tracks:

https://htmx.org/essays/codin-dirty/

https://grugbrain.dev/

htmx is feature complete (see the article)

we can argue about stability, but we have lots of happy users
Are you implying everyone who gets in a traffic accident has full agency over the situation? Because that is laughably far from reality. It is infinitely easier to consciously avoid danger on the subway than in a car.
Not dead but disabled and dimwit, an annoyance to those who used to love the person you previously were, likely also short on money all the misery which
that entails? No, this is seriously worse than death to me.

Either it's a life worth living, or forced shutdown for me, while I still have a say.
Finally, Universal Paperclips for the brainrot era.
I not only enjoyed it as a satire on the overstimulation problem but also learned that my compulsive-obsessive syndrome has a high correlation with overstimulation.
Which games ported by Loki didn't require X11? I remember playing Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, and Majesty on Linux in mid-00s, and they were all X11 ports.
Sorry I really should've added /s

I agree with you.
He tried so much to look funny but it didn't look good on him. And at one point he said 4090 is like taking home an equivalent of a $10,000 PC, and he expected the crowd to clap, but no one, literally no one, clapped. Because everyone knows GeForce prices have been monopoly prices for years and 4090 is intentionally crippled by nvidia drivers to be less capable than it really is (see George Hotz in-depth analysis).
> People just say that because they were saying it in 2005.

I can confirm that QuickTime works wonders on Windows !

Source : me being amazed by it on Windows 3.11
> Kodak designed and standardized its color film to represent Caucasian skin tones.

That may be an urban legend. There was a popular reference card that had a light-skinned woman, but that wasn't the problem. This is closer to the old Technicolor vs. Eastmancolor debate.

Here's the trailer for Disney's "Song of the South" (1946) [1] That's three-strip Technicolor. Good dynamic range, with each of three colors on its own strip of black and while film. Here's the trailer from "Shaft" (1971) [2]. That's single-strip Eastmancolor. Dynamic range is not as good, as you can see in the street scenes where lighting wasn't controlled. Eastmancolor took over in the 1950s because the cameras are much smaller and production is easier and cheaper.

NTSC Color TV really did have something to standardize skin tones. NTSC color TV transmits an intensity value and two vector components which determine the color. The color vector components are rather low bandwidth (only about 10 full range color changes across the width of the tube), and so some NTSC receivers had a gimmick which, when the vector is near the "skin tone line" for a standard skin tone, pulled it to a fixed value.[3] The effect was that all faces had roughly the same skin tone in UV color space, but intensity could vary.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxwqH47Ne70

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlsufZj9Fg

[3] https://bramstout.nl/en/webbooks/vectorscopes/#yiq-and-the-s...
I did stuff with intercooler a while ago and loved it, I never got around to htmx, maybe now is the time
The harsh law of hacker news:
For any topic outside of strict software development, the strength, viciousness and certitude of opinions expressed is inversely proportional to the level of knowledge about the subject.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/3/3/the-fundamental...
There are different solicitation types. Not everything is Lowest Price, Technically Acceptable (LPTA). LPTA is not usually the solicitation types for anything R&D. It's more for "commodities", like tires, or bids against things with very detailed specs, like construction/infrastructure projects.

That said, it's a fair criticism that procurement specs are often poorly written, and the evaluation processes insufficiently rigorous.
I did a bit of casual research on premodern coinage and currency a while back, acoup and https://memdb.libraries.rutgers.edu/about-spufford-currency was a great launching point. I later compiled a bunch of findings into an incomplete webpage that I stored at https://github.com/Bashmelek/MakariosEngine/blob/master/arti...
> that's like complaining that Microsoft Remote Desktop (Now called the Windows app for some reason) sucks on Mac, right

Well, not quite, since RDP on Mac still works better than the native (VNC-based) desktop sharing feature.
This is bait, but it’s tasty, so I’ll take it.

> Ultimately, even as HTML has become the province of professionals, it cannot be gatekept. This is what makes so many programmers so anxious about the web, and sometimes pathetically desperate to maintain the all-too-real walls they’ve erected between software engineers and web developers. But people who write HTML know that hierarchies were made to be blown up. All it takes is a tag that doesn’t close where you’d expect it to.

Programmers don’t give two shits about people who write HTML. Furthermore, the idea that programmers are anxious to keep others from learning how to program is absurd. There is probably two orders of magnitude more free programming instruction material—often published for free by programmers who are just excited to share the joy that a particular technology has given them—than there is for any other discipline.