skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why not state why something is done a certain way instead .

Because everyone else did that for me in responding to you. And if people are telling you you're wrong, you should be able to step back and analyze why people are telling you that and determine why it might be the case, even if it's for validating your own argument.

> Mail order is cheap and efficient.

Mail is cheap and efficient in areas that are not part of the Last Mile problem. The people without pharmacies are in the the areas most expensive and most inefficient for mail. This should be obvious. And for medications that are critical or same-day, you cannot rely on mail order in these areas which is a deadly problem. This is also without going into things like reliability and/or theft in lower income areas.

> My junior developers analyze why things are done a certain way and don't blindly advocate or prefer "new" methods.

And where is that analysis here?
AI Cartoon Generator – Turn Photos into Cartoons
The answer is not that complicated but people seem to make it so out of desire to either cover all the corner cases and/or tackle a more tangential issue related to free software (such as compensation). While valid areas of exploration, it can make one miss the forest for the trees.

I feel the question can be answered as simply as once upon a time a question like "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"

Who is free software for? Anyone and everyone.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.5358303
I do. The terms of the domain registration say that providing incorrect information can result in revocation of the registration. Not really worth the risk, IMO, for any domain I actually care about.
This was announced originally early last year. It removes the requirement for TLD and nTLD (not ccTLD) operators to have a WHOIS service available, but doesn't mandate they must shut them down.

So far the sunsetting has had little effect with most TLDs still having their WHOIS services online. In reality, I think we'll see a period of time where many TLDs and nTLDs have both WHOIS and RDAP available.

Additionally, since ccTLD's aren't governed by ICANN, many don't even have an RDAP service available. As such, there's going to be a mix of RDAP and WHOIS in use across the entire internet for some time to come.

Disclosure: I run https://viewdns.info/ and have spent many an hour dealing with both WHOIS and RDAP parsing to make sure that our service returns consistent data (via our web interface and API) regardless of the protocol in use.
> The guy came up to me in a very confrontational way and said, "Do you support Elon Musk, then, driving a Tesla?"
> I was quite aghast. I felt quite violated by the question and didn't know what to say.

I gave 65,000 pounds sterling to a guy who wants the German right wing to stand up strong against me, but I have no idea why people think I'm supporting him.

Oh well, to me shiny whiz-bang is all that is important.
Python Playwright E2E tests with the right amount of AI (almost none)
being free it’s probably for anyone including everyone blogging about it. Enjoy

“Winning” is not for everyone because in duality you need losers to define winners but that’s more like politics.
> Changing the algorithm to make it benevolent rather than polarising is easy for those who control the platforms.

I probably don't want a feed where someone else decides what's good for me to see.

> When the web started, you could make your own website so long as you had a computer and an internet connection (admittedly back then this was a big proviso).

Substack, Medium, GitHub pages, Blogger, several WordPress places, etc. Or a $2.50/mo VPS and a $10/yr domain name, or some of the big cloud providers probably have things they scale down even further.

> We did not insist that we could share our Facebook photos with our LinkedIn colleagues, for example. Nor did we insist that we could use the same identity and transfer the same friend list from Instagram to X and then to Reddit.

I specifically do not want all sites to be views onto a single global space with global identities and relationships.

> Another is to quietly build an alternative world using these standards and let people realise that it is better

Has ActivityPub managed to eat the world yet?
In this context, fundamental just means something inherent to the system, like a thing that can’t happen because of the way the system was defined. A boat fundamentally can’t fly, because it wasn’t made in a way that would allow it to fly. This is different from a plane which is restricted from flying because of a no-fly order. There’s no fundamental restriction (the plane was designed to fly, after all) but there is something keeping it from flying. And maybe one plane get special permission to fly despite the no fly order—that’s a carve out.
So with iPhones, they are built in such a way as to allow background execution (there is no fundamental restriction) but Apple has made it so they cannot do so, with certain carve outs for things that people will want to be able to do while the app is in the background, like listening to audio or tracking the phone’s movements with gps. So there isn’t a fundamental restriction to background execution, it’s just a rule Apple makes (and then makes some exceptions to).
There are other ways you could use the word fundamental, as in something that is important because other things rely on it. But that’s not the way it was being used here.
Hope that helps!
Oh? And how exactly do you suggest one override the electronics system of a drive-by-wire vehicle with integrated AI control, specifically?
One example is control flow bending [0], which uses carefully crafted undefined behavior to "bend" the CFG into arbitrary, turing complete shapes despite CFI protections. The author abused this to implement tic tac toe in a single call to printf for a prior obfuscated C contest [1].

Of course, that misses the real point that "formatting your HDD" is simply an allowed possibility rather than a factual statement on the consequences.

[0] https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity15/technical...

[1] https://www.ioccc.org/2020/carlini/index.html
I disagree. Law enforcement already abuses many data sources they have private access to, and use asymmetric information to their advantage.
Not quite correct.

For primary visibility, you don't need more than 1 sample. All it is is a simple "send ray from camera, stop on first hit, done". No monte carlo needed, no noise.

On recent hardware, for some scenes, I've heard of primary visibility being faster to raytrace than rasterize.

The main reasons why games are currently using raster for primary visibility:

1. They already have a raster pipeline in their engine, have special geometry paths that only work in raster (e.g. Nanite), or want to support GPUs without any raytracing capability and need to ship a raster pipeline anyways, and so might as well just use raster for primary visibility.
2. Acceleration structure building and memory usage is a big, unsolved problem at the moment. Unlike with raster, there aren't existing solutions like LODs, streaming, compression, frustum/occlusion culling, etc to keep memory and computation costs down. Not to mention that updating acceleration structures every time something moves or deforms is a really big cost. So games are using low-resolution "proxy" meshes for raytracing lighting, and using their existing high-resolution meshes for rasterization of primary visibility. You can then apply your low(relative) quality lighting to your high quality visibility and get a good overall image.

Nvidia's recent extensions and blackwell hardware are changing the calculus though. Their partitioned TLAS extension lowers the acceleration structure build cost when moving objects around, their BLAS extension allows for LOD/streaming solutions to keep memory usage down as well as cheaper deformation for things like skinned meshes since you don't have to rebuild the entire BLAS, and blackwell has special compression for BLAS clusters to further reduce memory usage. I expect more games in the ~near future (remember games take 4+ years of development, and they have to account for people on low-end and older hardware) to move to raytracing primary visibility, and ditching raster entirely.
https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

Ok, this is marketing.
You misunderstand what notion is
what is really nice about this one is that:

a) don't overestimate LLM
b) cache the right answer so you don't call the LLM api everytime
c) fast enough
Because someone’s RSU’s increase due to whatever metric it affects.
Old machines should not be used for anything serious anyway. It will lack firmware and OS updates, modern exploit mitigations and probably has a high power usage. The main reason gopher died was due to lack of openness in the protocol development. They corrected it in the early 2000's but it was too late by then
https://archive.is/O6Z3s
I've been the same thing now that I look for it. In a theater in December I saw at least 2 people scrolling through Google or Apple News. In the plane I saw at least 3 people on TikTok. On roadtrips people scroll through Reddit when there is a lull in the conversation.

I don't think it's necessarily worse than people reading a book! But it is certainly widespread.
The application package you're looking for is a single HTML file with no external dependencies, especially if it avoids minification, obfuscation, or the use of technologies like WASM blobs which require complex external toolchains to disassemble or modify. This is very achievable right now! See tools like TiddlyWiki or Decker, for example.

The primary barrier to an entirely server-free or server-agnostic webapp ecosystem is browser vendors choosing to seal the newest JavaScript APIs behind "secure contexts" which are only available to documents served over HTTPS.
Presumably a bounds check on the mask could be done or a safe variant exposed that does that trick under the hood. But yeah I don’t disagree that it’s “safe SIMD” is unlikely to scratch the itch for various applications but hopefully at least it’ll scratch a lot of them enough that the remaining unsafe is reduced.
Chromium supports brotli and zstd
> See Linux that gave access to an Unix-like OS at a time were it was unreachable to hobbyist.

This is revisionist history. Linux eventually supplanted FreeBSD, which was widely used and popular in the 1990s. FreeBSD was also objectively the better OS back then, a clean and reliable system.

What made Linux successful over the long-term IMO is that they evolved the kernel much faster and earlier than FreeBSD, particularly when it came to hardware scalability and performance, which was advantageous with the progression of Moore’s Law. The cluster-style supercomputers were developed almost entirely on Linux as a result, which created a positive feedback cycle. Second, the Linux user-land quickly became really pleasant to use compared to most other UNIX flavors at the time because they weren’t too concerned with purity or being strictly interoperable with some other UNIX.

Most people in the industry today don’t remember the era of at least a dozen different UNIX-style OS being widely used. I probably used half of them in anger at some point. In that environment Linux won by having a superior UX out of the box for a lot of use cases, even if you paid the absurd money for one of the proprietary UNIX flavors. Later Linux started demonstrating better performance too. FreeBSD was definitely tidier and cleaner with its much slower evolution but sometimes worse is better.
This is probably the right answer to all the other arguments I read above and below.

Just an easy target for haters now and then.
AI rewrote to avoid undefined behavior:

int average(int x, int y) {
long sum = (long)x + y;
if(sum > INT_MAX || sum < INT_MIN)
return -1; // or any value that indicates an error/overflow

return (int)(sum / 2);
}
>Free Software isn't for hackers. It's for users. Hackers are also users, but they're not special.

This is wrong. Hackers like to hack, which requires having control over their tech. So you get foss which gives you lots of control. You get things like GPL which tries to protect that control.

The control and freedom to hack is not relevant to regular users. Regular users don't want to modify and hack their software, they're happy to consume it passively. To them, the control is not a factor and foss is just another product. The pro is that they can maybe save a few bucks, unless the proprietary alternative is also free (they don't care about privacy or ads). The con is that it's less polished, the website is ugly, the docs are confusing and don't have cutesy cartoons saying to press the shiny button to make thing go brrr.

Lumping both of these in the same category just confuses things. Hackers and non hackers want very different and fundamentally incompatible things.
The things I’ve seen broadly adopted in the industry (i.e. sanitizers) are equally available in Rust. & Rust’s testing infrastructure is standardized so tests are actually common to see in every library.
This is the winning move.

Unlike keyword ads, brand name ads on Google are ludicrously cheap. You will probably end up paying $0.05-$0.10 per click for ’Autimo’, whereas broadly targeted ads for ’cloud services’ might run you $2.00-$20.00 per click.

It will also give you a lot more insight into the search volume!
Looking for beta testers for my GPS based game
They aren't wheel stealing jimmies, but they're definitely data railing bit bangers itching for their next fix. I think choosing to do business with Amazon comes with the same sort of reasonable assumptions. Lie down with dogs, and all that.

Y'all got some more of that data...?
In my experience, when developing software the hard part is implementing the actual logic, not the UI.

In this case, replicating Photoshops UI seemed to be the hardest. Maybe using something like MFC, Qt, C++ Builder instead of straight Win API would have been easier.

I remember a long time ago when I was in high-school and tried to implement a paint program under DOS, that had windows using Borland C++ and BGI graphics library. How hard should it be to implement windows, buttons and dialogs, I thought? After all, with the power of OOP and C++, every problem is easy to solve, I thought.
It’s true when one of them disproportionally brings most of the monetization
You're right that many people are fed up with this kind of stuff. But, to them, the obvious solution is to have laws that prohibit it, not copyleft.
> I thought the purpose of Rust was for safety but the keyword unsafe is sprinkled liberally throughout this library.

This is such a widespread misunderstanding… one of the points of rust (there are many other advantages that have nothing to do with safety, but let’s ignore those for now) is that you can build safe interfaces, possibly on top of unsafe code. It’s not that all code is magically safe all the time.
As someone that dual booted since 1995 to 2009, these nuisances are mostly bareable versus dealing with having 100% of everything working on laptops.

If OEMs actually supported Linux for consumers, outside Android and ChromeOS.

Instead Linux OEMs are companies relying on reversed engineered drivers and even them can hardly help when things go wrong.
just because QFT follows an internal logic, doesn't mean the jump from macro physics to quantum physics itself is logical. In my opinion we still don't have a logical explanation for why the model changes so dramatically from classical to quantum physics.
Maybe interfaces are self-interested instead of interested in the outcomes of the user, which might not align with the creators of the interface.
I’m noticing how comments with common sense gets easily downvoted.
>but they do want programs that won't betray them

Most people don't really care. In your link you mention cars locking people out, well, they still use them don't they? And they even pay huge sums of money for the privilege.
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Some people will say just about anything to blame the consumer. You know, like “it’s your own fault for buying a thing from a company.”
While the reason you suggest might be a good one, the repercussions of this change are clearly large. Unknowing customers now have their voice recordings sent to the cloud whoch could be leaked, have law enforcement get a warrant to take it from Amazon, or for it to be abused directly by Amazon. Those are huge. They might just have a good scapegoat.
> Why can't some reasonable degree of force be used to prevent property damage?

It can, of course. If a police officer sees an individual engaging in property damage, that officer may walk over to that person and arrest them. If that person resists arrest, the officer can use appropriate force.

If you're talking about using force against innocent individuals who happen to be nearby, of course that is both outrageous and out of the question.
Yes! You knew this was coming, why didn't you buy something from any other huge monopolistic tech-cloud-everything-store?! Oh wait...
> If injury is sufficient to resolve a situation, they weren't an imminent lethal threat.

That requires more explanation.

An injury could render someone with lethal intent and capability unable to perform.
did you find anything useful?
The apparent lack of any major uproar in the USA is worrying.

First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out -
because I was not an immigrant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
AI also has the potential to detect your every unique tic in a way that humans would be incapable of doing. You could be masked but your gait and other body movements will give you away, or at least place you in a statistically likely pool of suspects.

"Walk without rhythm and it won't attract the worm."
The only officials who matter here are congressmen, and there's no provision in the US Constitution that would allow for a recall. The only legal mechanism for removal is expulsion, which must be voted on by the rest of Congress, so...
Separation of powers seems pretty toothless if it operates entirely on good faith.
Putin has conquered more population than he lost (even just counting fighting age men)

What a weird metric. More civilians subjugated than soldiers lost?

it's war goals (destruction or total control of Ukraine

Russia wants to destroy the Ukrainian cultural identity. It's cultural genocide, and it's been a goal of theirs for hundreds of years. This is why they steal Ukrainian children and ship them off to be adopted in Russia.
Many lives of talented poets and artists were a mess. Many died young. I still don't know whether living a life of misery leads to artistic mastery or not.
Honestly, this feels so underwhelming. Nothing in this article mentions anything new, there are quite a lot of decentralized and p2p protocols already which have proven to work at scale. The web is far more complex now and from the looks of it, Tim is failing to grasp it
Probably could use those opto isolated Shelly relays and they run their own web server you can manage the state from
The entire industry is in a very cart-before-the-horse mode here because this is less "cool new tech being able to mature" and more "frantic economic bubble that happens to manifest through new tech"

New tech tends to start with garage scale startups and targeting the enthusiasts, the experimenters, the hobbyists, the ones willing to put the effort into playing with it, map what is and isn't possible, and file off the rough edges. And when you're making a product like that, you probably have to package and market it entirely differently-- a world of datasheets, programmer's references, and schematics, to give that audience the tools to get the most out of it.

If and when you're lucky, you get to the VisiCalc moment, when someone finds a way to deliver a mainstream value proposition so compelling that people line up waving their Mastercards. There's a 200% chance that value proposition will not be the one you put on the marketing flyer to sell the kit to early-adopters, and it may not even come from the firms who launched the market in the first place.

Apple, Microsoft, and OpenAI are all trying to short-circuit that process. You can't just throw a trillion dollars at a product and shove their early-stage products in front of customers and expect to magically win the future.

It's like trying to make desktop computing happen in 1977 by busting into every house in the country, bolting an Imsai 8080 to random appliances unsolicited, and telling them to enjoy their new computing-enabled future.
For every Monster, Red Bull or Rockstar there were probably two dozen energy drink brands that failed.
Government projects today, you mean.

The government could act like an immortal mega corp if it had the authority to do so. Such as pushing out competition via loss leaders. And as a bonus, with the government, every program can be a loss leader.

The funding potential for this pattern is constrained today, which is why government projects that compete with private industry are generally terrible. But, clearly, the money is there to be captured by this segment out of government funding generally, if the government is allowed to enter business directly.

The solid argument I see against allowing such actions is a slippery slope towards the above. Slippery slope arguments aren’t always correct, of course, but they aren’t always wrong either; they just point out a risk. Depending on one’s risk tolerance, it is wise to avoid slippery slopes when you can’t quantify just how steep it is.
>Yes but reputation is a factor. If you bought that car from wheel stealing jimmies wheel theft funded auto retailer you might need to shoulder some of the blame.

You think the same for food and medicine? remove the "evil" regulations and let the reputation be a factor and every individual should do their research ?
It's funny to see that a lot of services are finally moving from a human-readable / plain text format towards structured protocols right at the point where we can finally have LLMS parse the unstructured protocols :-)
Sorry, are you suggesting that a call center, including facilities, electronics, utilities and services, managerial and other operations expenses, are being provided for $9 per person per hour?
Free trade has always been self serving for every entity in all of history. Those who have an advantage in trade advocate it and start putting barriers in place when they lose it.

Much has been made of how tariffs hurt the economy, and they certainly do in the short term. In the long term everything is uncertain, you may win the trade war and position your country favorably or lose everything invested in the effort along with the opportunity cost.

In some ways it's surprising that it took the USA so long to decide to play dice. China is extracting far more value and at far greater velocity from the world order the USA created. Need to perturb the system violently in a gamble to gain an advantage. Status quo will see China dominant.
> I probably don't want a feed where someone else decides what's good for me to see.

I agree, but today you have a feed where someone else has decided what's good for THEM for you to see. Neither are good.
No, a bounds check beats the purpose of simd in these cases
Unfortunately not. It was quite the setup! The A600 had a built-in dock for a hard drive but the turbo took its place. I ran a long ATA cable through the PCMCIA slot and had the drive just sit on the table next to the computer. The turbo also ran extremely hot (it had a plastic cover that started to melt almost immediately so I took it off) which meant I couldn't keep the case closed. I propped it open by shoving a 3,5 inch floppy between the disk drive and the case and have it sit there completely vertically. This allowed for enough air flow to keep the thing from overheating too much. Good times!
Article on dotcom without mentioning webvan!

Lol those were the days...
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