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You're right in that there's nothing stopping one from doing so (I even use an integer scaler for old games on my main computer), it's just a tradeoff between "doing what's possible" and "having the most authentic experience one can".

If we're talking about the subjective experience of recreating "a child's bedroom computer" from the mid 90s-early 00s, a widescreen aspect ratio alone would be jarring, since my conception of a monitor for such a system is a 4:3 CRT. So for me, little else would reach that level except a system with the same aspect ratio and a similar DPI.

Not only that, but UI design itself has undergone many shifts since that era to account for the types of monitors those UIs are being designed for. There's not as much of a need for pixel-perfect design when vector-based web UIs dominate the desktop application space nowadays, relegating those that go back to older UI paradigms to enthusiasts who still remember earlier times. Or maybe people who develop for fantasy consoles.

I should mention while I'm at it that those sort of faux-pixel art shaders used in some games come off as quite jarring to me since I expect UIs to be meticulously laid out for the original screen size, not just for blowing up arbitrary content 2x or 4x on a huge widescreen monitor. I sometimes feel those are meant to represent a nostalgic feeling of some kind, being pixelated and all, but really it just makes me wish there were some alternate reality in which people still designed games and desktop applications for 800x600 or 1024x768 monitors again.

It's interesting at present how there's stuff like 4K and then there's the playdate with a relatively tiny handheld resolution, but relatively little interest for new content for those types of resolutions in-between.
https://highviewpower.com/news_announcement/highview-power-t...

...for example!

"LONDON – 15 October, 2024 – Highview Power, a leading provider of long-duration energy storage (LDES) technology, announced today that its plans to develop four new 2.5GWh power plants in the UK by 2030, have taken a crucial step forward following the launch of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s (DESNZ’s) new investment support scheme. The scheme will use a “cap and floor” mechanism which will unlock the next stage of investment in the multi-billion-pound LDES programme, enabling the technologies vast potential to underpin UK decarbonisation.

Two of the 2.5GWh plants will deliver more storage than all of the UK’s existing battery storage, using 100% sustainable technology, with a 40-year lifespan. The addition of these four plants by 2030 means the government’s target to achieve a net zero grid by 2030 is achievable. Two of the 2.5GWh plants will be in Scotland and the other two in England. The first new plant will be located in Hunterston, Scotland."
How about the men already mentioned who have been shipped off to El Salvador? Action taken, people imprisoned in a foreign country where they conveniently no longer have access to the rights (until recently) afforded to them by virtue of being in the US, no evidence of any crimes committed has come out, yet the punishment is already locked in.
This has zero to do with ICE. FBI does counterespionage investigations (among other things,) but doesn’t have anything to do with immigration.
I think the core problem is that administration would not allow you to do this.

> What am I supposed to do? Keep standards high and fail them all? That’s not an option for untenured faculty who would like to keep their jobs.
I see it as one of the consequences of freedom, but perhaps also a gap in packaging where they can't bundle up their changes in a form to be applied onto another base.

That 'base' is one issue I've been thinking about with linux, I have similar concerns about the cost of everyone being able to make their own distro for their own slight variation on something else. It's not that I think it's a bad thing to pathfind in new areas, but the replication in building/supporting it all, getting users to pick between 4 similar variants of the same thing, and accounting for "you're using KustomLinux, which is 2 steps removed from CommonLinux" and all the little differences between them. It's an interesting contrast against standardization, but I can't help wondering how it would change the approachability of linux if the starting point was limited to one of the big distros and then variants are layered on top of that.
Who knows? The "advanced notice" (I'm assuming here you're referring to IU's decision to place him on leave, remove him from their web pages, and notify his colleagues, more than week before the raid) makes this look less like some extrajudicial ICE-type thing, not more. But nobody knows anything right now! We know he has legal representation, from the story, and competent legal representation is going to tell you to shut the absolute hell up in a situation like this, so there's not much to learn from the fact that Goodin can't raise him for a quote.

My only take here (besides the certainty that the shadowy hand of the FISA FISC court is not behind all this) is that it doesn't look like another ICE raid.
There was an interesting follow-up to this post that adds more context to the incident and problem space: https://lemmy.world/post/27522773
I'm taking figures from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational_energy

Moment of inertia of the Earth: I=8.04e37

Angular velocity, with sidereal rotation period of 23.93 hours: ω0=2π/(23.93 × 3600)

Angular velocity, with sidereal rotation period of 23.93 hours plus one second: ω1=2π/(23.93 × 3600 + 1)

Rotational energy difference: .5 × I × ω0 ** 2 - .5 × I × ω1 ** 2 ≈ 4.96e+24 J

For comparison, according to https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption the total amount of energy consumed on Earth in 2023 was 180E3 TWh i.e. 6.48e+20 J

Slowing down the Earth by one second would be equivalent to 7661 times this amount.
I’ve landed on a few similar techniques and have been using unit tests quite a bit as a guardrail for LLMs. One thing that’s useful when using aider is alternating between the /add and /read-only contexts so that it can only edit the tests or the code but “see” both.
I find that with Paul Graham's writing, once you stop and think about what he's saying, almost nothing he says holds up under scrutiny. He's basically just a propagandist for VC-backed startups and a certain concomitant worldview.
A deep, deep dive into the logistic, intelligence, and kill chains. Well worth the read.
I have a problem with any of this being secret one way or another. If someone is detained the public has a right to know about the case. Otherwise it's all abductions as far as I'm concerned.
They all get “vanished” before the media-heavy trials. You normally find out at the end not when they’ve been arrested.
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I like the "police your area" approach.

> "I was in the Air Force a while, and they had what they call 'policing the area,' and I think that’s a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area, then we won’t have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you, and see what needs to be changed."

-Willie Nelson
The fact that they are so generic is what makes people misunderstand them: They focus on 1 or 2 examples, without seeing that the same concept works in all kinds of other use cases.

People realize a list can be a monad, and they they imagine option and set are also monads. But then you have to tell them that the same applies to Future, and Either. That you can have a resource monad that closes resources.

This is when the fact that something is a monad starts to matter, because of generic concepts for transformers. Every language that has promises and lists will give you a way to turn a List[Promise[T]] into Promise[List[T]], written ad-hoc, but it doesn't have to be quite so ad-hoc. It's when you are stacking 3 or 4 different properties together that the abstract concepts matter. The lack of the abstraction is what makes some language have trouble doing more than just a little bit of functional programming, as going deeper becomes unmanageable without some help.
I have no idea, but nobody is "tried" at FISC. FISC has no jurisdiction over any criminal case and is strictly ex-parte.
It's actually driving north south that changes the rotation speed. Because your 'real' speed gets higher as you get closer to the equator, you 'steal' momentum from the earth as you get closer to the equator.

Its effectively the same principle as a figure skater pulling in their arms when spinning, to spin faster.
Sure, but the natural consequence is that they will be more inclined to distrust society, authority, and vote for anti-estabishment populist parties.

To quote a great man, we live in society. And it's better to work within a system and get to know it rather than it is to just hate it. And if the first experience of a large portion of youth is system beating them down, you can see how that's gonna grow a strong "tear it all down" mentality.
It makes me so sad how correct this is. I don’t know what the proper term for it is, but it’s the dynamic where everyone works 9 - 5, and then someone wants to get ahead so works an hour later, and then in 2 months everyone is working 9 - 6…until someone else wants to get ahead and starts working until 7. The competition is so stark and the perceived penalties for not meeting a base level of success are so unpleasant, we all need to descend to the most boring and lifeless versions of ourselves to match those who are naturally boring and lifeless.
Sure, I mean, the FBI's involvement makes it not look like another department's case. I am saying that on top of that, an arrest of any kind would (normally) go differently than whatever happened to this professor. The idea that the FBI would call the employer of a suspected spy, inform them that something was going to happen, that all of his colleagues would be informed, and then after a week they'd search his home, stands out as not a full explanation.
Most issues are multidimensional but lets simplify. The most extreme pro gun rights position would see militias with machine guns, felons with guns, teachers and a small army of security guards packing heat to fight school shooters.

The most extreme anti gun rights position would see few private citizens without a specific need armed.

A centrist position has typically been to do almost nothing to allow some states to do minor reforms so long as gun rights aren't impacted.

The fact that the developed world virtually all exists towards very highly centrally regulated to nonexistant gun ownership and isn't constantly burying children suggests that this is the right strategy and that deviation is defect worse many strategies for handling many issues require commitment and half measures do nothing.

Take a wife beater who hasn't caught a felony yet but whose history of violent behavior ought to disqualify him. Banning his gun ownership due to misdemeanor and denying him or seizing his registered guns might statistically save his wife but a waiting period for a new handgun won't.
"ENVY/Manager augments this model by providing configuration management and version control facilities. All code is stored in a central database rather than in files associated with a particular image. Developers are continuously connected to this database; therefore changes are immediately visible to all developers.""

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope...

~

pdf 1992 Product Review: Object Technology’s ENVY Developer

http://archive.esug.org/HistoricalDocuments/TheSmalltalkRepo...
Were the files lots of smaller files or lots of large files? I imagine if lots of small files requires a lot of concurrent threads to utilize a 10Gbps connection.
The whole education system and its purpose is crumbling. Not just the universities but all the way down to preschool. It started with the internet, gained steam with top notch content being available on YouTube, and it's properly dying with the advent of AI.

If the purpose is to learn, you can do it better with YouTube and AI. If the purpose is to have fun, socialize and network, that is better done elsewhere, doing sports or other hobbies with other people. If it's babysitting you need, there are cheaper, better and more fun ways for the kids to spend their days. If the purpose is to learn a job, again, education is a terribly wasteful way of achieving that.

Then there's the fact that we'll all soon have to come to terms with, which is that most people are already barely able to contribute value to a white collar job, and in 20 years I'm pretty sure that number will be down 99%.
>The header only fad seems to because of a lack of one? IIRC they're more costly compilation wise too.

Templates cannot be compiled. They have to necesserily be distributed as header files. Furthermore, header files, unlike compiled code are easier to support on a wider variaty of platforms.

They are more constly to include, as you said.

You could technically create concrete classes or functions from the templates by supplying all the necessary type arguments, and compile that. But then the developer using your library will only be able to "use the template" with those particular type arguments. The flexibility that the templates offer is removed.
We don't even know that he's been detained!
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The article missed the biggest thing:

SequenceEquals is SIMD accelerated. memcmp is not.
I'm pretty sure the marshaling code for the pinvoke is not creating GC handles. It is just using a pinned local, like a fixed statement in csharp does. This is what the LibraryImport at least and I don't see why the built in marshaller would be different. The author says in the peer comment that they confirmed the performance is the same.

I think the blog post is quite good at showing that seemingly similar things can have different performance tradeoffs. A follow up topic might digging deeper into the why. For example, if you look at the disassembly of the p/invoke method, you can see the source of the overhead: setting up a p/invoke frame so the stack is walkable while in native code, doing a GC poll after returning from the native function, and removing the frame.

https://gist.github.com/AustinWise/21d518fee314ad484eeec981a...
Neat idea!

This brings back an embarrassing memory from childhood.

Playing football in the yard, a careless neighborhood kid accidentally knocked two of my baby teeth out.

I remember scouring the grass for them to no avail, then getting in a rage about how I wouldn't get tooth fairy money, so punched the boy, and he started crying and ran home. I don't even remember who it was, but to this day feel bad about that.

When I got home, my parents said it's no problem, just write a letter explaining what happened and the tooth fairy will understand. And that worked.

Being a deviant, I decided to test it a few days later with another letter in secret, to no avail. And that was my first inclination this whole thing wasn't real.
Why force those two to compete, uberman? assuming your stat is correct, both seem like amazing good ROI, compared to what we spend most of our money on?

The below lancet study (2023) puts a the cost of creating a marginal year of life in the US at >$95K
https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/langlo/PIIS2214-109X...

so whether its $1k, or $4k, those both sound good!

So while I wouldn't assume anything about what a country might do, I might hope that we might spend our money on things that have evidence of saving lives, without unreasonable expense.
You're saying the prior arrests failed to be a deterent, so presumably these arrests won't work either.

Given that the goal of the group is to draw attention to their causes, and police action caused them to recieve a huge amount of attention, the whole thing seems rather self defeating.
> which are likely increasingly obsolete with fluoride being in tooth paste and many other sources besides water.

See the rest of this thread. If you think the group (at RFK doing so in an official government capacity) using such inflammatory language is going to stop at removing fluoride from just water I don't know what to tell you.
That Reddit discussion is from 9 years ago. There is a new constitution _possibly_ coming up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Haitian_constitutional_re...
The city of Houston has stopped adding fluoride to water but allows natural fluoride levels to exist[0]. We are going on year 6 and the only thing we have noticed is harder water.

There is probably more nuance to both stories tho.

[0] https://houstonherald.com/2018/11/lindsey-and-long-win-count...
> Turns out monomorphization isn't all you need. Turns out that it is, in fact, occasionally useful to unify an object and its behavior in a runtime-polymorphic way.

This actually gets the history backwards. Ancient Rust tried to do generics in a fully polymorphic way using intensional type analysis, like Swift does. We switched to monomorphization reluctantly because of the code bloat, complexity of implementation, and performance problems with intensional type analysis. "dyn Trait" was always intended to be an alternative that code could opt into for runtime polymorphism.
If business costs are lower offshore, that raises the profit margin for the busines to go there. It doesn't mean that offshore businesses accept lower margins.
One of the most commonly cited drawbacks about C (limited standard library and package management) is something I’ve grown to enjoy when working in a well-loved C codebase.

Instead of learning and working with bloated tool chains, every tool in the repo has been built or added carefully for the task at hand. Simplicity provides a lot benefits over time.
> we don't even know if Wang is in custody

so you're saying he vanished...?
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My guy, every LLM has read Wikipedia
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Why not integrate into sandstorm [1]

[1] https://sandstorm.org/
I think people are being a bit too negative and maybe that is because they are not used to pg's style of slogans in baby talk.
I think the gist of what pg is saying is that you should have some agency and initiative and not spend your whole life being the side character in other people's stories. This serves two purposes. First of all, it maximizes your chances of gaining wealth, power and influence. And secondly if you care to make the world a better place, it also increases your chances of having an impact.

The novelty is important, because, tautologically, if your are just copying others, you are still a side character in their story. However, I do not think this should be read as, "create the next unicorn startup". I think it is rather a principle to live by. Like for example, if you have three job offers, go for the one that allows you to build something new, rather than the one where your task is to manage a legacy product. Or for example, let's say you move to a new city and you are a bit disappointed with the activities that are available for your kids. You can either try to convince your kids to attend the available activities or you can try to organize a new after school club.
Still not sure why you chose C though? You could have chosen anything which meets all your requirements.

Many languages have markdown parsers in them, produce binaries, and are portable.
Yeah that's fair.

I still don't believe that it's worth it, with the exclusion from their social circle causing a bigger health issue than social media, but I get it.
Probably being downvoted for the deadpan naivete. Nobody wants to hear "let's just trust the government" right now.
But didn't they include handcrafted hinting bytecode models something like that?
The Moon's tidal forces are already slowing down the rotation period of the Earth, which was apparently only 5 hours long about 4.5 billion years ago.
And don't forget the tides, both solar and lunar.

I'm sure a large enough mirror and photocell could get power out of the aurora borealis.

An argument that the magnetic field in a location remains completely constant as the earth rotates seems bizarre, but so does the idea that it's large enough to economically extract power.
By any chance, have you watched the videos from the recent conference?
https://ctr4process.org/conference/metaphysics-and-the-matte...
> The idea that the FBI would call the employer of a suspected spy, inform them that something was going to happen, that all of his colleagues would be informed, and then after a week they'd search his home, stands out as not a full explanation.

I don't think anyone, least of all OP, is suggesting this is what happened.

Everything is rank speculation at this point, but if I were going to speculate I'd speculate that Wang suddenly left the country of his own volition and the employer began investigating his disappearance and stumbled on things that led to them calling in the FBI.

That's still purely speculation, but it would account for the sequence of events and the manner of investigation way better than any ideas about him being "vanished" by the US government.
I agree with you largely, but I think part of the problem with flagging these sorts of topics every time and so early is that the flagging in itself is coming from a political stance -- that is, instead of attempting to engage with the non-political aspects of the story, people will just automatically flag it because they themselves see it as just political content.This story for example has a lot of meat we could discuss without needing to devolve into the politics of it. I think the topic of the pros and cons of privatizing government services can lead to some interesting discussion.

My quip about the LLM stuff is me venting my frustration a bit about how HN relatively often will end up with multiple articles from different sources about the same little bit of tech news, and the comment threads will all look largely the same, with some flavour of "I like this because of XYZ" or "I don't like this because of XYZ". Plenty of comment threads on more HN-relevant topics turn into perhaps not flaming cesspools, but pits of unoriginal and uninteresting banality.

And I understand the moderation aspect of it, I've moderated on large public forums before, and I have nothing but the utmost respect and understanding for dang and HN's position on this topic, but in my experience when you have so much pressure to discuss a topic that affects so many people, even if mostly off-topic, it can be a good idea to provide some relief valve. Back when I was doing forum moderation, we sometimes ran "Unfinished Business" threads (named after the BSG episode of the same name where the crew got to basically spar against each other in a boxing ring, disregarding rank, to work out interpersonal frustrations.) We still moderated the thread for things like people posting illegal or spammy shit, or doxxing others, but otherwise allowed the discussions and tempers to run as they would for the most part.

Maybe something like a once-a-month thread that is allowed to get a little nastier to provide some avenue to discuss these topics would not be a terrible idea. One could even make it so that at the end of the day, the thread is erased along with all the comments and none of the upvotes/downvotes are retained. For me personally, I would also much rather have a 'cesspool discussion' on HN rather than on random news sites simply because I can expect that even when the discussion devolves from HN's relatively high standard, it will still exceed the quality of discussion I could be having in most other places.