skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's always "too much secret sauce". I remember a time when CryTek published papers about how they implemented things, now they don't.

There's always in-house ways to deal with graphics drivers and certain effects. Remember how Source 1 was the only engine which was able to render HDR with measly ATI 9600XT, without a performance penalty most of the time?

You carry this know how in evolved form for generations, and it gets buried under as the foundation of the new things you're building on top of it.

This is what I remember from a friend who implemented his own game engine and created a company for it, and half the woes were making the graphics drivers and processors behave as they said in their manuals.
Would it make any sense for the Chinese to choose such a date?
Thanks for excellent breakdown.
I have a Garmin Epix Pro. I highly recommend the Epix/Fenix line, and these measurements / metrics are far superior to what you get with an Apple Watch (my wife has an Ultra). The differences become even starker if you are an avid athlete and use your Garmin to track your workouts/performances.
I have a better idea. Let's not normalize what is happening. Let's not try to make people feel like chumps for having standards.
That'a hard problem I spent some time thinking about and helping. I contributed to OSM surface type on roads. But we certainly lack publicly known user friendly software to mark surface for OSM and then to plan for your bike type. I am happy that work is ongoing, but unhappy with how hard it still is.

And certainly vwru unhappy when people help siloed maps and not shared ones like OSM.
Id were using a 3rd party sound library for Doom to handle the nitty-gritty aspects of DOS sound hardware, so the open source release was based on the linux port of Doom. People had to port it back to DOS.

They couldn't release the windows port of Doom either, as that had been done by Microsoft, and would therefore include Microsoft copyrighted code.

With Quake, Id did their own windows port, so it was possible to release the source code for winquake.
Biggest impacts on power efficiency will be the advances in node size and transistor type like nanosheet or forksheet. Algorithm will help just a little.
DOGE has revealed that 400 million are rookie numbers when it comes to phony deals.

Forcing the government to spend money has always been the infinite money glitch.

On one side you have healthcare and pharma companies making sure everything is excessively overpriced, then they lobby the government to make sure everyone has government sponsored healthcare, i.e.: turn all tax revenue into healthcare revenue. Then they pay the media to convince everyone that it is their moral obligation to subsidize $1000000 insulin while making it a taboo to ask why healthcare is so expensive.

On another side you have mass incarceration where each inmate costs more per night than a 5 star hotel.

On another side you have nonsense conflicts where the weapon of choice are thousands of single use weapons that cost at least 100,000 each. Or to simply leave it behind for the enemy so then it has to be repurchased.

On another side you have tax loopholes of billions of dollars.

Everyone is stealing. Did you pay 30% tax and then sales tax on everything you bought with your income? Is your effective tax rate around 50%? then you worked 6 months for the government so they can take that 6 months of your life and turn it into a dumb single use weapon to destroy a $1 tent.
Unfortunately people like that tend to run academia.
If that's all you do then your work is very valuable, but you have no business being a coauthor on any of the papers. The dean of the university also secures funding for the university, hopefully you can see that that doesn't make them a coauthor.
This seems promising. I agree observables are probably the right way forward, although I haven't used them much beyond svelte stores. Observables via hooks might be a good way to eliminate the bad parts of hooks too.
That is 212 papers, not 5000. 5000 is the number of new authors of those 200 papers.
> Sayre's law states, in a formulation quoted by Charles Philip Issawi: "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake." By way of corollary, it adds: "That is why academic politics are so bitter."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
You can insert dnscrypt-proxy inline between PiHole and an upstream server. So it'll work something like the following:

Client --DNS--> pinhole --DNS--> dnscrypt-proxy (localhost) --DoH--> upstream

Not the prettiest but it works.
Didn't Elon offer to pay people to vote for trump last year? How is this not a crime? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlnjzzk919o
I mean there is no cost for others, though. You don't have a right to not be "exposed". If you think the way we handle laws around photography or whatever should be changed, we have a whole democracy for brokering that. (Or at least we did until very recently.)
It is less about gaming but more about understanding what is best for the end users.
Ah yeah, I see I got off course. Thanks for pointing that out
It's insane how many people like that are out there. "Fission is bad, fusion is bad, we should only do renewables." C'mon, fission brought us where we are and fusion might be the future. I believe they both deserve further research and improvements.
Interesting.

Embrace & extend complete ;-)

This time it looks like 'integrate' will be the third step.

Thanks for the great info.
In some math books about markov chains
The next Oracle...
Maybe this one :)
https://www.soundboard.com/sb/sound/258364
Meanwhile... the "steam client" on elf/linux is still 32bits and hardcoded for x11/GL (nope, no tables of functions with wayland/vulkan/gpu fallbacks...) ... and don't forget about those bash-only scripts carefully using all those (often GNU) niche options of commands...

Oh... and pressure-vessel which pulls linux expensive "user/mount namespace" in for... a desktop system, only for what seems the "I-don't-why-they-cannot" generate clean 64bits ELF binaries, namely with proper glibc ABI selection (see 2nd part of the binutils ld VERSION documentation page, and the man page of the readelf command for auditing those binaries), dynamic loading of core video game interface shared libs (x11/wayland is statically linked/libasound/libvulkan/legacy libGL/libxkbcommon[-x11]).

Oh and lately, I had to build the original lsof command to please the steam webhelper... and there is a liblsof library they could have linked statically...

Valve "linux" devs should be worry putting "valve" on their resume, this could backfire... seriously.
Same except skipping AdGuard.

Having the DNS live on a pi sounded like fun for me but it gave me stress due to power outages. There is safety in knowing you aren't adding a point of failure that only you know how to solve.

I also had issues with adding backup DNS, since a backup DNS would be queried if the pihole blocked the DNS query -- so I would have to maintain two seperate blocklists, one local and one offsite.
When I was a grad student the only time my PI was listed first on a paper was when he actually did most of the work and I just helped with maths. Otherwise the PI was last and the grad students and post docs doing the research up front. People doing data collection or other ancillary work were mentioned in the acknowledgement section at the end.

When the author count is much higher, like in the thousands in high energy physics, there are different norms like listing the authors alphabetically if the paper summarizes many significant achievements.

In the in-between author order is negotiated.
Well it's a good thing he fired the FDA workers who were investigating Starlink. Definitely not something competitors can do.
Given that I don't pay to use signal, why should a bunch of words about governence convince me that I'm not the product to signal either?
Don't think that's the case anymore, "Game Porting Toolkit 2" seemingly opened the floodgates on gaming on a mac.. It's up to the developers if they think it's worth the time/ effort; but with how great apple the hardware is, and how easy it is to port a game, I think we're going to see a huge influx of mac gaming.
May be an opportunity to find talent for State or City governments that want to create their own digital services agencies?
TikTok user?
It's pretty tasty actually though you can only taste it once :-/
Strange capitalization of atm as ATM in the HN title, but great tips in there
This made me laugh audibly. Thank you.
Yeah, I opted not to talk about that in my post, but runes do tend to infect all of your code if you use them as intended.
I love PiHole.

I run my PiHole on a small cloud VM that I use for several projects, but put it behind a VPN that's configured to only forward DNS lookups, then VPN into it from my phone. So many advantages behind this setup.

- Since only DNS lookups are tunneled, I don't have to worry about tunneling ALL my traffic and paying egress fees

- Blocks ads in ALL apps, not just my browser

- If it's acting up, I can just disconnect from the VPN to disable PiHoling

- Don't have to expose my home IP address and open a port for the world to start banging on
Among the problems: people refuse to consider reasonable limits.

Let's suppose that we institute an income cap and a wealth cap. For the sake of argument, we'll call that 10 million dollars a year, and 100 million dollars. All the existing taxes apply. Nothing gets treated specially: your income for the year will always be capped at 10MM, and your total wealth will be capped at 100MM. It's a 100% tax and knowingly evading it is a crime. If you hit the income limit in two different years, the mayor of your city will award you a plaque, with an optional ceremony, and if you hit the wealth limit, the governor of your state will award you a plaque.

How much pain does that inflict?

None at all.

But nearly everyone harbors some secret hope of becoming a billionaire right now, and the thought of not winning that lottery is enough to make it politically impossible to enact this tiny reform.

And if you can't make reforms, the whole thing may need to be dismantled.
> where US liberalism is more about morals than economics

Unmooring politics from the economic concerns of the voter (or of the person who lives here if voting isn't a question) rarely bodes well for the long-term health of the state.

There are exceptions of course—North Korea, perhaps?
They are explicitly not assuming anything about the content of the auxiliary space (full hard drive).

So the data might be incompressible and thus compressing it and restoring it afterwards would not work.

Edit:
From the paper:

> One natural approach is to compress the data on the hard
disk as much as possible, use the freed-up space for your computation and finally uncompress the data, restoring it to its original setting. But suppose that the data is not compressible. In other words, your scheme has to always work no matter the contents of the hard drive. Can you still
make good use of this additional space?
Another resource posted recently (although originally from 2019):

* EEG Study of Buddhist Jhāna Meditation (2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43084349
What you probably mean is puzzle solving intelligence. Humor is a form of intelligence. It's just not only about intelligence - it's also about values, and context, for instance. But all this reflects a form of intelligence. Neverthless, intelligence shouldn't be ranked, at least not in the way we are used to talk about it.
Eliminating waste is a great idea. But it’s unclear that that’s all he’s doing, it’s unclear how or how well it’s being done, he’s brought in people without security review (which means they, and the systems they are opening up and creating, can be more easily compromised by our enemies), and he has enormous conflicts of interest.
> can be trivially attached to emails under the 10MB size limit, which other forms of media usually can't

The average pop song at average bitrates would fit that limit, though, too, even with less room to spare.
this makes me think of people who say "my refrigerator/bbq grill/air purifier smart features are really not worth it"...

when that's not the festure and they're not the customer, the other data and people buying the data are.
I remember reading the argument in the "dictators handbook" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictator%27s_Handbook), that foreign aid helps corrupt regimes.

"When aid funds are used to substitute for government spending, then few, maybe even no one, has actually been helped unless the government uses the freed-up money for other projects of benefit to the general population. Of course, they don’t. They use the money to shore up their political position and the loyalty of their essential backers."

So there is definitely an argument to be made, that if you are not careful with how you dispense foreign aid, you will definitely empower corrupt politicians.

The book discusses examples where foreign aid was used more effectively.
> as that had been done by Microsoft, and would therefore include Microsoft copyrighted code.

How does that follow? Normally copyright would transfer to the company paying for it.
I don't understand what this means though, almost all of our money passes an audit which necessarily has a paper trail. The few agencies which don't usually have very idiosyncratic audit misses which are, in any event, overseen by inspectors general (or were until trump fired all of them) which have been very zealous to jump on this.
> no developer enjoys updating docs

I must be weird ;)

I would be OK with AI doing it as long as it is more like dependabot and asks for a PR like everyone else.

Untruths is the biggest issue but then docs mislead anyway due to getting out of date.
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I am a bit confused by this approach.

From what I've read, the training isn't necessarily transferable. You just get better at these sorts of brain games, which doesn't necessarily mean your working memory is increasing.

Even while reading gwern's blog that seemed pretty positive of this kind of training, there was limited evidence that you shouldn't learn just a new instrument or language or new sort of math discipline.

Why do people keep thinking that "training" can improve working memory?
It's duck-typed
Why? Europe is getting extremely expensive on all levels. Time for a Musk there.
Right. A lot of folks sacrifice the good because it’s not unattainably perfect in tech, especially with security. I think the pressure to improve, on a whole, is a positive thing, but it often makes terrible practical advice.
I got a new puppy - Dogue de Bordeaux - some months ago and she was/is on a raw food diet, so I had to get that delivered frozen.

Couple of deliveries in and I got chatting to the guy bringing the food. He mentioned he had headaches constantly. I told him about the daith.

Days later he messaged me - he'd got a daith after we talked and today, for the first time in 10+ years he woke in no pain, no need to take codeine.

Just go to a proper piercing place, not some "Claire's" type place.
GSA engineering lead resigns over DOGE ally's request for access
The discipline line isn't even that high. Just stay down and stay quiet until you have a press release. Like every other billionaire did. But given his Twitter habits it's clear that he has this compulsive need to be in the limelight, no matter the method nor perception.
Good data point. Tire sets are similar prices, but EV tires tend to have to be changed more frequently because of vehicle weights and higher acceleration (driver dependent).
I don't think that's what DOGE is doing. Seems extremely vindictive and ideological in the way it's acting and time will tell but I would not be surprised if it ends costing the taxpayers more in the long run.
there is destroyed and then there is a smoking hole in the side of the planet:)
but I think it fair to say, that after 22 min running, that there is no way that it can be turned back on later kind of thing, fairly sure its a pwhew!, lookatdat!, almost lost plasma containment....
keep in mind that they are trying to replicate the conditions found inside a star with some magnets
and stuff, sure its ferociously engineered stuff
but not at all like the stuff that could exist inside a star
so all in all a rather audacious endevour, and I wish them luck with it
"But tech-NOL-ogy!"
> You don't. You're free to use iPhone all day for work and play.

You just said "The screen size is too small" when geor9e was talking about using the phone so I'm confused is a phone too small or just fine for this?

> The exact same things that are done on a laptop and desktop.

i.e. Not things people usually do in cars...
This is an interesting Matt Levine piece which observes this new thing which is a 'Zombie Unicorn.' I've seen a lot of zombie startups, they get their seed funding and a couple of rounds but then fail to "take off" so they sit there, breaking even or maybe making a bit of profit (but not enough to be sold at a profit). VC's hate them, they can't cash out, they can't write them off, and their 'value' isn't something they can pay their own rent with (like they do with fees on their uninvested funds). But startups that were valued over a billion dollars becoming zombies is a new thing. And the phrase 'unicorpse' (describing a dead unicorn) is another.

That there is all this capital that is worth over a trillion dollars "on the books" but, in the case of zombies actually worth much much less than that, is the kind of overhang that when it corrects really makes a lot of noise.
I read the whole presentation. The physics experiment criticism Guttman makes that I referred to is at page 16/30. Nothing after that engages with QC to the extent that the first half of the presentation did, so I didn't refer to later parts.
I have done the same, but it still takes a few hours of your time.

In comparison, you can buy a Rivian or Tesla from your couch in 15min on your phone, and picking it up at the service center is another 15min at most, with zero employees trying to screw you.

I don’t see the point in wasting my time dealing with a parasitic middleman in 2025. It would be nice if we could buy cars that cost less than $80k that easily and avoid a company led by a guy that makes Nazi salutes, though.
Damn, was hoping this would bring TF2 back to Mac. Haven't had a good LAN party in the office since Apple dropped 32-bit support.
I think you’re doing it wrong
What's wrong? Let me count the ways.

- Much of the spending they're eliminating is good and important (E.g. USAID).

- The way they're cutting is reckless (They accidentally fired nuclear safety workers).

- Many of the workers are Musk sycophants, who were hired from Twitter/Tesla/SpaceX.

- There's a tremendous conflict of interest in this agency being run by a massive government contractor (NASA and the military are both avid SpaceX customers).

- The workers are not experienced with the data they're working with, and misinterpret it constantly in public before verifying it.

- Despite claims of "transparency", Musk asserted that it was illegal to publish the names of his employees.

- Their one product, their government spending portal, is a worse version of a spending portal which already exists, and they didn't even secure their database.

- They say they "use AI" for their decisions. Which AI? Where is confidential data going?

- Do the staff have security clearance?
Yeah I'd be open to "more effecitve" rather than wholesale cuts.

But as for starving the poor to effect change you want, I think history has shown you just end up starving the powerless (folks in power don't care) and change doesn't necessarily happen. So who are you punishing?
When I have aura it's always morbidly fascinating to me how a part of my vision is not black, but it's just "missing"
They didn't conspire against him until he did things unrelated to his renown that is simply in bad taste.
Having played TF2 and such as a kid, the bottleneck was always asking your parents for their credit card or getting steam cards/vanilla credit cards for your birthday.

I think it's hard to form a gambling addiction if you don't really have any money for gambling. You learn pretty fast that you get better value trading than gambling. I don't see how its much worse than baseball cards (we also had "top trumps" and pokemon cards and such).

Looking back on my childhood, I think the effect of internet porn far outweighed the effect of gambling-adjacent stuff like loot boxes.

I think the real victims of gambling in games are usually adults who have a much greater ability to dump their life's savings into a game.
Running a shady "car company" for 15 years is a great way to build a roster of amoral freaks with technical skills.
> Software estimation is a joke because there's no penalty for underestimating.

In my experience, while this might be true in some companies, I noticed that most of the time the issue with estimations is the lack of clarity (=what do I really want?) and enough context (what's the impact in terms of scope to reach what I want?).

Most of commercial software, for whatever weird reason, keeps on being compared to other industries and repeatedly this fails.

It's not like building a car, it's not like building a house, it's not like shooting a movie, etc.
All I will say is, never work in compliance. You never have enough data or the data you need, because compliance is very important, but never as important as the actual job.
Depends on the EV and how you want to compare. Tesla's are running 19's stock which are gonna be a whole lot pricier than, eg a Honda Civic's 14's, no matter the rating (of which the Tesla's is gonna be higher rates).
Did anyone ever investigate if newer drivers cause older GPUs to perform worse?
Eeeeeehhhh I think you absolutely account for mouths fed and people are being fed.

I don't buy into the idea that this money always just vanishes.

I know some folks who actually ran charities that got some funding from the feds ... they feeding the locals.
Seriously the number of people willing to burn down the whole government over grievances that often haven’t even impacted them is incredibly scary.

You do not throw out the baby with the bath water.
If I write to the Mafia asking to confirm they won't burn my store to the ground, they won't write back saying "no".

They're not obligated to respond, and they enjoy the fear, uncertainty and doubt their non-response creates.
ICMJE guidelines are frequently cited by other publishers, with the caveat that it depends based on the field. (Which makes sense. A "substantial contribution" to the LIGO collaboration might be much less direct than one in ML or field geology.)

> Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND

> Drafting the work or reviewing it critically for important intellectual content; AND

> Final approval of the version to be published; AND

> Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

So you are right. The corresponding author who got funding for the postdoc who designed the experiment for the graduate student that supervised undergradutes and wrote the paper would have a pretty tenuous commection to authorship.

But good luck to everyone else in that chain publishing without them.

Ref: https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-respo...
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