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41,809,100 | comment | popcalc | 2024-10-11T13:00:32 | null | It's not volatility, rather underlying real value. You can't live in a bitcoin. | null | null | 41,807,191 | 41,802,823 | null | [
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41,809,101 | story | rpastuszak | 2024-10-11T13:00:42 | Celebrating World Egg Day | null | https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/celebrating-world-egg-day/ | 2 | null | 41,809,101 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,809,102 | comment | gambiting | 2024-10-11T13:00:50 | null | I always wondered - is there some physical limit on how close we can zoom in on the moon? Or is it "just" that building a large enough lens isn't technically feasible? | null | null | 41,771,709 | 41,771,709 | null | [
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41,809,103 | comment | talkingtab | 2024-10-11T13:00:52 | null | A better title "A proposal for Shared Memory Multi-threading". The term "struct" has a meaning in the C language that is somewhat misleading since the purpose here is not organization, but rather to enable shared memory.<p>In my experience, the positive of JavaScript over other languages I have used- COBOL, Fortran, assembly, C, C++, Java - is the fine balance it has between expressibility and effectiveness.<p>I am not opposed to shared memory multi-threading, but question the cost/benefit ratio of this proposal. As many comments suggest, maintaining expressibility is a high priority and there are plenty of gotchas in JavaScript already.<p>As an example, I find the use of an upfront term like "async" to work quite well. If I see that term I can easily switch hats and look at code differently. Perhaps we could look at other mechanisms, using the term "shm", over a new type, but what do I know?<p>[edit for clarity since I think faster than I can type] | null | null | 41,787,041 | 41,787,041 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,104 | story | sergiuchiriac | 2024-10-11T13:00:57 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,809,104 | null | [
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41,809,105 | comment | sergiuchiriac | 2024-10-11T13:00:57 | null | [dead] | null | null | 41,809,104 | 41,809,104 | null | null | null | true |
41,809,106 | comment | traceroute66 | 2024-10-11T13:01:02 | null | > instances aren't possible to live-migrate<p>Some of the cloud providers don't even do live-migration. They adhere to the cloud mantra of "oh well, its up to the customer to spin up and carry on elsewhere".<p>I have it on good authority that some of them don't even take A+B feeds to their DC suites - and then have the chutzpah to shout at the DC provider when their only feed goes down, but that's another story... :) | null | null | 41,807,398 | 41,805,446 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,107 | story | cainxinth | 2024-10-11T13:01:42 | Curly-Cue: Geometric Methods for Highly Coiled Hair | null | https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/wu-haomiao/publication/curlyCue.html | 3 | null | 41,809,107 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,809,108 | comment | vt85 | 2024-10-11T13:02:01 | null | [dead] | null | null | 41,800,045 | 41,800,045 | null | null | null | true |
41,809,109 | comment | spiderfarmer | 2024-10-11T13:02:03 | null | What a legacy. He achieved so much. | null | null | 41,807,201 | 41,805,706 | null | [
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41,809,110 | comment | vjulian | 2024-10-11T13:02:04 | null | Cannot access article due to paywall. | null | null | 41,806,932 | 41,806,932 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,111 | comment | inSenCite | 2024-10-11T13:02:11 | null | yeah this seems like a massively biased data-set.<p>1. limited to those that choose to tweet, and therefore
2. limited to the projection of personality onto a social media platform (which does not need to be genuine) | null | null | 41,808,984 | 41,808,282 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,112 | comment | rcarmo | 2024-10-11T13:02:18 | null | Yes, and? You only need to move the window you want to share to that, and at that resolution, without retina, things are pretty readable. | null | null | 41,803,104 | 41,800,602 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,113 | comment | JambalayaJimbo | 2024-10-11T13:02:22 | null | Do you think that older generations never sandbagged at their jobs? | null | null | 41,789,588 | 41,786,818 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,114 | comment | Cthulhu_ | 2024-10-11T13:02:24 | null | I mean sure, with issues like plastics, global warming, ozone layer hole, melted polar caps, extreme weather events, bug collapse, etc etc etc, life will find a way. It's not a "final" extinction event per se, nor one as catastrophic as the meteor strike from back when.<p>But we are living in a mass extinction event. Billions of crabs died. Bug population has collapsed. Biodiversity has nosedived.<p>Humanity hasn't suffered yet in terms of total population, but that's because we're able to adapt our environment accordingly. That said, we will see famines and scarcities in our lifetime. Hell, we already do, but it mainly presents itself in day to day life (in "the west") as some products going out of shelves (the UK having supply problems due to brexit / long border queues) or prices spiking (e.g. produce from Ukraine). But worldwide we will see more of that.<p>As for (micro)plastics, IIRC we've yet to determine the full impact. But we know these nurdles break down into microplastics over time due to UV exposure and the like, but they don't disappear completely and find their way into everything. We'll only know the full impact looking back in a few hundred years. | null | null | 41,808,452 | 41,806,629 | null | [
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41,809,115 | comment | enragedcacti | 2024-10-11T13:02:25 | null | "The new Tesla Roadster can fly"<p><a href="https://electrek.co/2024/06/15/elon-musk-tesla-always-coming-next-year-roadster-can-fly/" rel="nofollow">https://electrek.co/2024/06/15/elon-musk-tesla-always-coming...</a> | null | null | 41,806,688 | 41,805,706 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,116 | comment | ribit | 2024-10-11T13:02:39 | null | M3 GPU uses a new instruction encoding, among other things. Also, it has a new memory partitioning scheme (aka. Dynamic Caching), which probably requires a bunch of changes to both the driver interface and the shader compiler. I hope the Asahi team will get to publishing the details of M3 soon, I have been curious about this for a while. | null | null | 41,803,915 | 41,799,068 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,117 | comment | KeplerBoy | 2024-10-11T13:02:49 | null | Are the chips really fundamentally better than their AMD and Intel counterparts made on the same node?<p>Sure it's a great design, but I believe x86-64 will catch up once again now with everyone using TSMC. | null | null | 41,809,076 | 41,799,068 | null | [
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41,809,118 | comment | ribit | 2024-10-11T13:02:55 | null | No. | null | null | 41,807,506 | 41,799,068 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,119 | comment | specialist | 2024-10-11T13:02:56 | null | Tesla's autobots are free?<p>Waymo & Hyundai announced a partnership. IIRC Waymo has always intended to work with OEMs, vs make their own vehicles.<p><a href="https://seekingalpha.com/news/4156375-hyundai-motor-joins-forces-with-waymo-to-expand-autonomous-vehicle-foundry-business" rel="nofollow">https://seekingalpha.com/news/4156375-hyundai-motor-joins-fo...</a><p>Having no opinions about the IONIQ 5, I've gleaned that it's well regarded. Maybe not a Model Y, but close enough.<p>Of all the legacy OEMs, Hyundai has a fair chance of surviving the Tesla (& BYD) juggernaut. So I think Waymo chose wisely. | null | null | 41,806,570 | 41,805,706 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,120 | comment | Shawnecy | 2024-10-11T13:02:59 | null | I guess not enough people believed his word that ElonBots would walk among us. | null | null | 41,808,357 | 41,808,357 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,121 | comment | kmoser | 2024-10-11T13:03:03 | null | Also:<p>> As it turns out the entire flow at the post office (or DMV or tax office) is about exception handling. No amount of software is going to get you out of there because it is piecing together a bunch of inputs and outputs that are outside the bounds of a system.<p>Not sure how the author arrived at this conclusion, either. Both entities (USPS and DMV) have elaborate rules for how business gets done. The USPS in particular has rules that cover shipping everything imaginable, often via different methods. The outputs are quite simple: USPS ships your package; DMV provides your license or vehicle registration. | null | null | 41,801,873 | 41,765,594 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,122 | comment | ptk | 2024-10-11T13:03:24 | null | What do you find vague about the studied effects of smoking or asbestos? Or did you mistype and mean “unlike” instead of “not unlike”? | null | null | 41,809,063 | 41,806,629 | null | [
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41,809,123 | story | hacxx | 2024-10-11T13:03:25 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,809,123 | null | null | null | true |
41,809,124 | comment | thinkindie | 2024-10-11T13:03:28 | null | I came here to say the same. That's where I stopped reading the whole thing | null | null | 41,809,082 | 41,808,282 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,125 | comment | codegladiator | 2024-10-11T13:03:31 | null | The scientists of today are the priests of tomorrow.<p>The only reason we don't use "religious" method is because science has taught us to only believe "data backed evidence". Also at the same time we are moving fast into the era where reproduction of most "papers" being published today is hard and unlikely if not impossible.<p>That "day-to-day" people neither read science papers in depth nor religious scriptures in depth is a common problem as well. | null | null | 41,809,033 | 41,776,631 | null | [
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41,809,126 | comment | bogtog | 2024-10-11T13:03:31 | null | Here is the actual paper. It's just 4.5 pages (excluding the Methods): <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2215829120" rel="nofollow">https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2215829120</a><p>I figure that the inverse association between conscientiousness and exiting is the most peculiar result. The Authors state:<p>"However, as the startup matures and moves past the initial
stages, the dynamics between founders and investors might change
in several ways. First, the same ambition that led conscientious
founders to strive for success via IPO or acquisition at the begin-
ning of their journey, might later prevent them from selling their
venture once it is successful. For example, founders scoring low
on conscientiousness might be more interested in quick financial
gains (thereby aligning their goals with those of investors and one
interpretation of startup success promoted by management schol-
ars 41–43), whereas highly conscientious entrepreneurs might
pursue long-term goals that no longer equate success with selling
the company as fast as possible. Specifically, the combination of
ambition with the desire to retain control over the future of their
business might lead conscientious founders to place greater
emphasis on long-term profitability and impact. Second, while
the early stages of developing a business plan and gaining investors
trust may have benefitted from the meticulous and organized ten-
dencies of the conscientious founder, the later stages might favor
founders with the flexibility and ability to adjust to new challenges
and opportunities as the startup matures [e.g., through rapid ide-
ation and prototyping rather than rigorous forecasting and stra-
tegic planning (10, 44)]. Finally, the advantage afforded to
founders scoring lower on conscientiousness could also be driven
by shifting investor and market incentives that align with the
(in)famous Silicon Valley “move-fast-and-break-things” culture
(45). Potential acquirers, for example, might prefer a founder who
they view as disruptive and adaptive, as a means to inject their
own company with innovative capabilities or culture (46)" | null | null | 41,808,282 | 41,808,282 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,127 | comment | Jeramyrenner | 2024-10-11T13:03:43 | null | [dead] | null | null | 41,790,619 | 41,790,619 | null | null | null | true |
41,809,128 | comment | Shawnecy | 2024-10-11T13:04:07 | null | We're living through Idiocracy. | null | null | 41,808,566 | 41,808,283 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,129 | comment | Jeramyrenner | 2024-10-11T13:04:12 | null | [dead] | null | null | 41,790,619 | 41,790,619 | null | null | null | true |
41,809,130 | comment | thenoblesunfish | 2024-10-11T13:04:20 | null | Very interesting, and aligns with what I would expect in terms of the type of "thinking" LLMs do. I think that it's also the type of "thinking" that will let a student pass most school courses, except of course for the ones where the teacher has taken the time to pose test questions that aren't as amenable to pattern matching. (Hard, but I assume most readers here are familiar with leetcode style interviews and what makes questions of that kind higher or lower quality for assessing candidates)<p>(And yes, I know people are hard at work adding other types of thinking to work along with the pure language models) | null | null | 41,808,683 | 41,808,683 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,131 | comment | bluGill | 2024-10-11T13:04:27 | null | There is always corruption. The question is what level. A blog on medium is not where I'm going to look for unbiased answers to that question. | null | null | 41,804,780 | 41,787,798 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,132 | comment | bonzini | 2024-10-11T13:04:34 | null | If we lost access to electricity, we'd be completely screwed; we can't even get drinkable water in many places without electricity.<p>For example where I live there is water around 10-20m depth, but it's polluted (it may be usable for agriculture but not for human consumption); you'd have to dig a well over 100m below the surface. | null | null | 41,808,209 | 41,807,681 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,133 | comment | austin-cheney | 2024-10-11T13:04:42 | null | Extroversion is lightly negatively correlated to intelligence at around -0.10 - -0.11. Time/interest/motivation spent charming people is time/interest/motivation not spent solving challenging problems. | null | null | 41,808,866 | 41,808,282 | null | [
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41,809,134 | comment | LoganDark | 2024-10-11T13:04:57 | null | Is it? It looks like a plan to port Micrograd to Rust, but it looks like not much works yet. Even GPU support is missing, which is arguably the most important part of anything in this field. | null | null | 41,808,663 | 41,808,663 | null | [
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41,809,135 | comment | marcosdumay | 2024-10-11T13:05:08 | null | That's because people in tech and business are overwhelmingly biased into inaction. | null | null | 41,806,482 | 41,786,768 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,136 | comment | bspammer | 2024-10-11T13:05:33 | null | He’s certainly more jingoistic than Harris, as his slogans and supporters make evident. | null | null | 41,808,643 | 41,807,681 | null | [
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41,809,137 | comment | mark_l_watson | 2024-10-11T13:05:38 | null | You ask a great question, and I wonder how the push for more privacy will pan out (pardon the gold mining analogy). I am almost done with the very good new book The Tech Coup by Marietje Schaake, and I have also read Privacy is Power and Surveilance Capitalism. I think more of the public is waking up to the benefits of privacy.<p>All that said, I am an enthusiastic paying customer of YouTube Prime and Music, Colab (I love Colab), and sometimes GCP. For many years I have happily have told Google my music and YouTube preferences for content. I like to ask myself what I am getting for giving up privacy in a hopefully targeted and controlled way. | null | null | 41,807,718 | 41,805,446 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,138 | comment | 082349872349872 | 2024-10-11T13:05:49 | null | Public libraries were famously subsidised by Andrew Carnegie (†1919): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library</a><p>Dolly Parton (*1946) is a more recent literary patron: <a href="https://imaginationlibrary.com" rel="nofollow">https://imaginationlibrary.com</a><p>Who else? | null | null | 41,771,774 | 41,771,774 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,139 | comment | idiotsecant | 2024-10-11T13:05:51 | null | I think its entirely possible that he's an old man settling into a 'shakes fist at clouds' mindset and justifying supporting it by telling himself its the right business move.<p>In reality I think he's a narcissist who is getting addicted to the limelight and this is just another stunt to get people to talk about him. I don't think its a business decision. | null | null | 41,808,409 | 41,760,971 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,140 | comment | monkey_slap | 2024-10-11T13:05:57 | null | Love being a traitor. Just can’t look at $META and do the math. | null | null | 41,808,748 | 41,805,009 | null | [
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41,809,141 | comment | cherryteastain | 2024-10-11T13:05:58 | null | MI100 is hardly the first AMD datacenter GPU. The first Instinct branded card, MI25, is from 2017 [1]. But ATI/AMD had FirePro/FireStream branded GPGPU cards going back to the mid 2000s [2,3]. They just never caught on because AMD's software, support and marketing was not competitive with Nvidia's.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-instinct-mi25.c2983" rel="nofollow">https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-instinct-mi25.c...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_FireStream" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_FireStream</a><p>[3] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_FirePro" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_FirePro</a> | null | null | 41,809,066 | 41,808,351 | null | [
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41,809,142 | comment | aurareturn | 2024-10-11T13:06:21 | null | Yes, M3 is still 2-3x more efficient than Lunar Lake’s GPU as long as it’s not games that were more optimized for x86 and or DirectX. For example, M3 generally wins in compute with a lot less power needed. | null | null | 41,807,646 | 41,799,068 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,143 | comment | saalweachter | 2024-10-11T13:06:30 | null | Are you familiar with the Three Stooges? | null | null | 41,807,334 | 41,798,027 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,144 | comment | Izkata | 2024-10-11T13:06:38 | null | Well, these have the same result, so if the two types of arrow functions don't count as different then neither should these two assignment versions:<p><pre><code> const foo = (function() {}).bind(this);
const foo = () => {};
</code></pre>
Edit: And speaking of assignment versions, there's a new comment that adds a third of the same. I kinda get the feeling a lot of the "multiple ways to declare functions" is just people who don't understand how the pieces of javascript fit together and think these are all independent. They're not. Just declaring a function has only a few ways, but declaring a function <i>and</i> giving it a name multiplies that out to some extent.<p>In javascript, functions are first-class objects: they can be assigned to variables and passed around just like numbers or strings. That's what everything except "function foo() {}" is doing. | null | null | 41,806,834 | 41,787,041 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,145 | comment | aristofun | 2024-10-11T13:06:50 | null | One of the reasons is that FP languages just don’t feel natural to most beginners. It gives the language a very niche vibes. And rightfully so, I suppose.<p>But the key reason is that no giant has sponsored and promoted it.<p>Products are virtually never popular because of their internal qualities. | null | null | 41,792,304 | 41,792,304 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,146 | comment | from-nibly | 2024-10-11T13:07:03 | null | Why not just throw your vote away anyway? Whats the point unless you live in a swing state? Also why give the government any ammunition to legitimize their existence in the first place. | null | null | 41,808,262 | 41,804,460 | null | [
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41,809,147 | comment | neom | 2024-10-11T13:07:17 | null | This reads <i>exactly</i> like what people said about DigitalOcean when we launched it. | null | null | 41,807,088 | 41,805,446 | null | [
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41,809,148 | comment | j_maffe | 2024-10-11T13:07:23 | null | This is simply false. Reproduction of papers is an academic issue but your claim is at the very least hyperbolic. The scientific method has proven to be by far the most successful method of investigating the world around us. | null | null | 41,809,125 | 41,776,631 | null | [
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41,809,149 | comment | mrkramer | 2024-10-11T13:07:24 | null | Game looks awesome....release it on Steam. | null | null | 41,808,917 | 41,808,917 | null | [
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41,809,150 | comment | patrakov | 2024-10-11T13:07:26 | null | Well, the whole point here is that somebody else (not you!) runs it, at which point open or closed source is irrelevant as long as it works. | null | null | 41,807,906 | 41,807,702 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,151 | comment | sumedh | 2024-10-11T13:07:28 | null | > The people involved are not to blame<p>You can blame the people as well. Some of them will have a preference for people from their own state and who speak the same language compared to a non Indian or even an India from a different part of India. | null | null | 41,795,219 | 41,785,265 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,152 | story | bbstats | 2024-10-11T13:08:08 | O Flappy Bird, the Pipes, the Pipes Are Calling (2014) | null | http://thebasketballdistribution.blogspot.com/2014/02/o-flappy-bird-pipes-pipes-are-calling.html | 1 | null | 41,809,152 | 0 | [
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41,809,153 | comment | pamoroso | 2024-10-11T13:08:14 | null | One year ago or so one of my posts ended up within the first few items of the home page and my blog got about 35K views over 2 days. The blog is hosted on a commercial platform and had no server issues. | null | null | 41,808,941 | 41,808,941 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,154 | comment | null | 2024-10-11T13:08:15 | null | null | null | null | 41,809,013 | 41,809,013 | null | null | true | null |
41,809,155 | story | pantalaimon | 2024-10-11T13:08:22 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,809,155 | null | [
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41,809,156 | comment | heartag | 2024-10-11T13:08:22 | null | Related: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41764590">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41764590</a> | null | null | 41,809,057 | 41,809,057 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,157 | comment | null | 2024-10-11T13:09:08 | null | null | null | null | 41,809,152 | 41,809,152 | null | null | true | null |
41,809,158 | story | samsolomon | 2024-10-11T13:09:13 | Rethinking School Design | null | https://architizer.com/blog/practice/details/education-architecture-changing-views-childhood/ | 2 | null | 41,809,158 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,809,159 | comment | goodoldneon | 2024-10-11T13:09:20 | null | If performance is so important for your app that `var` is causing issues then JavaScript is likely the wrong language | null | null | 41,804,107 | 41,787,041 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,160 | comment | bubblesnort | 2024-10-11T13:09:23 | null | LibrePress | null | null | 41,807,850 | 41,804,706 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,161 | comment | LoganDark | 2024-10-11T13:09:23 | null | Yes. That's what the other closets are for. Redundancy. | null | null | 41,809,070 | 41,805,446 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,162 | comment | nordsieck | 2024-10-11T13:09:41 | null | > in practice, all the complexity of C# building disappears into Visual Studio<p>IMO, that's even worse.<p>It means that when you want to learn C#, you're also forced into learning a complicated tool that isn't really useful for much else.<p>At least when I'm learning Rust or Typescript, I can keep using my existing editor.<p>> A lot of people seem to think that the overall size and "complexity" of the language (and only the language) matters? Personally I don't think it matters how long the spec is if you and your team aren't using those features.<p>That works until you have to use code that does use those features.<p>> The ecosystem matters more. "What should I use to write a GUI in C#?" is a complicated question with tradeoffs, but none of them have anything to do with the language per se.<p>That's fair. At least to an extent.<p>The further you stray from the ecosystem's intended use cases, the more you have to depend on the quality of the language itself. Thankfully, for mature, mainstream languages like C#, there are a lot of things you can do before that point. | null | null | 41,807,998 | 41,787,041 | null | [
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41,809,163 | comment | aapoalas | 2024-10-11T13:09:45 | null | 1. Unsafe blocks only apply to shared structs, and shared structs are basically only relevant with unsafe blocks. This is somewhat two proposals in one: Shared structs which require more restrictions to be shareable at all but are still kind of unsafe (because data races), and then unshared structs which adopt those same restrictions without being shareable. In exchange, they become much easier to optimise for engines. Unsafe blocks are there for the first part, unshared structs kind of come as a two-for-one prize on top.<p>2. Indeed, structs are rather an entirely different track to classes. Only the syntax is borrowed from them.<p>3. There's a bunch of stuff that the engine will do for you to try make your code faster. The most important thing (arguably) is inline caching: When you access `foo.bar` inside a function, your engine will remember the "shape" of the `foo` object (if it is an object, that is) and where the property `bar` was found inside of it. Unfortunately, objects tend to be pretty fluid things, so the shape of an object changes. This creates a "transition" graph of shapes, and it's pretty hairy stuff. It's also a source of memory safety bugs in browsers, as browsers want to avoid re-checking the shape of an object if it cannot have changed but this is mostly a manual optimisation, and eg. Proxies really make it so nearly everything can change an object's shape. A misapplied shape caching optimisation is easy to turn into an arbitrary read/write primitive, which is then a great way to escape the sandbox.<p>Imagine then that an object type existed that could be primitively guaranteed to never change it's shape? Oh, the engine would loooove that. No worries about memory safety mistakes, just cache the shape when you first see it and off to the races you go!<p>This applies doubly to any prototypes (which here are proposed to be only sealed; I'd personally want to see them frozen so that not only the shape can be cached but also the value): An object's shape may stay the same but the prototype may change with key deletions and additions. This means that looking up that function to call for `obj.hasOwnProperty("key")` needs to, theoretically, be redone every time. Engines of course optimise this into a fairly complex linked list of booleans, but by golly wouldn't it be easier if the engine could just statically cache that the property we're looking for is found in this particular prototype object at a particular memory offset?<p>Source: I lurk around in some adjacent circles, and am writing my own JavaScript engine built with potentially peculiar ideas about what makes good JavaScript. | null | null | 41,808,937 | 41,787,041 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,164 | comment | jerf | 2024-10-11T13:09:46 | null | The tech to keep your eye on is orbital refueling. If someone can finally crack that, all bets of this sort are off. While I'd love to see a nuclear rocket or something, even just the energy advantage of being able to refuel in orbit rewrites all our intuitions about time and expense of exploring the Solar System. We are so bound by having to launch things as single bundles of stuff from the ground... the rocket equation does not like that. | null | null | 41,808,271 | 41,760,971 | null | [
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41,809,165 | comment | rendall | 2024-10-11T13:09:55 | null | This kind of policy and publicity leads to drops in app quality. Seems quite risky to spend time and money on mobile app development. | null | null | 41,808,917 | 41,808,917 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,166 | comment | mark_l_watson | 2024-10-11T13:10:05 | null | Yes, a lot of the money to be made is in the middleware and application sides of development. I find even small models like Llama 3.2 2B to be extremely useful and fine tuning and integration with existing businesses can have a large potential payoff for smaller investments. | null | null | 41,807,505 | 41,805,446 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,167 | story | lobo_tuerto | 2024-10-11T13:10:14 | Why Elixir? | null | https://whyelixir.dev/ | 6 | null | 41,809,167 | 2 | [
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41,809,168 | comment | flir | 2024-10-11T13:10:18 | null | > Low bar for your ethical framework<p>Or highest. Puts overall species diversity ahead of the future of a single species (us). | null | null | 41,808,701 | 41,806,629 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,169 | comment | null | 2024-10-11T13:10:24 | null | null | null | null | 41,809,155 | 41,809,155 | null | null | true | null |
41,809,170 | comment | adrianN | 2024-10-11T13:10:26 | null | No form of transport works without subsidies, except maybe walking. | null | null | 41,803,505 | 41,797,719 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,171 | comment | lolinder | 2024-10-11T13:10:26 | null | After spending a whole lot of effort theorizing about why politics would affect library usage, this is their conclusion:<p>> But then we found a much simpler explanation for the party gaps in library use. They shrink right up when we account for just one variable: the urban-rural divide. About 30.5 percent of city Republicans visited libraries in the past month vs. 35 percent of city Democrats, a difference that’s within the margin of error. For rural folks, the blue-red library gap was 16 percent vs. 9 percent.<p>> Democrats, packed into urban areas, may simply have access to more and better libraries.<p>More, better, and closer. It's easier and more worthwhile to visit a library in a city. That's all, folks. Nothing to see here. | null | null | 41,771,774 | 41,771,774 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,172 | comment | bitbasher | 2024-10-11T13:10:45 | null | Steam is a mess. It looks like it would do well on the Switch and you'd make a lot more money on console. | null | null | 41,809,149 | 41,808,917 | null | [
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41,809,173 | comment | neoromantique | 2024-10-11T13:10:46 | null | If they insist on using a pseudonym it is their right, going out of your way to unmask pseudonyms is scummy(akin to doxxing). | null | null | 41,803,975 | 41,799,068 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,174 | comment | dTal | 2024-10-11T13:10:50 | null | On Linux, a simple solution for this particular use case is to run a VNC server inside xvfb. You get total isolation between your real desktop, and your "sandbox" - no embarrassing notifications! Of course you can't drag windows around from one to the other, but that's what a sandbox does... | null | null | 41,801,444 | 41,800,602 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,175 | comment | neom | 2024-10-11T13:10:56 | null | As an advisor to those guys, I take a great deal of objection with you calling it a scam. It's not a scam. They're testing things out, so the price is low and not many people can use it... because they're testing. That isn't a scam. | null | null | 41,807,040 | 41,805,446 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,176 | comment | bamboozled | 2024-10-11T13:11:01 | null | Eventually they subsided, I don't even remember when, and I've never really had them since...unless I have reflux, which does happen for me occasionally.<p>I'm learning I just can't really do coffee / caffeine though, I don't think it's ever really been good for me, it causes reflux and anxiety for me, but I just loved coffee to much. I gave up recently however!<p>You might have heart burn occasionally too ? | null | null | 41,808,667 | 41,799,324 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,177 | story | mrkramer | 2024-10-11T13:11:03 | Xbox will sell games directly in the Android app next month | null | https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/10/24267339/microsoft-xbox-android-purchase-games-us-court-ruling | 5 | null | 41,809,177 | 0 | [
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41,809,178 | comment | null | 2024-10-11T13:11:05 | null | null | null | null | 41,809,167 | 41,809,167 | null | null | true | null |
41,809,179 | comment | null | 2024-10-11T13:11:17 | null | null | null | null | 41,809,177 | 41,809,177 | null | null | true | null |
41,809,180 | comment | bellgrove | 2024-10-11T13:11:33 | null | I feel like there’s some software adage about the last 10% being the hardest. It certainly holds true from my experience - even if they are 90% of the way there, it’s not a linear path to 100%. | null | null | 41,807,877 | 41,805,706 | null | [
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41,809,181 | story | superfunguy_94 | 2024-10-11T13:11:49 | Help Needed: Programmatic Email Creation and Management with Custom SMTP Server | Hi HN,<p>I've been working on a project where I need to programmatically create and manage email addresses under my own domain for each user onboarded. I currently use Resend for sending emails (e.g., welcome emails), and my domain's DNS is managed on Cloudflare. However, Resend doesn't seem to support programmatically creating email addresses.<p>My goal is to programatically create emails, monitor email and parse them to LLM etc<p>I've done some research and considered setting up a custom SMTP server to handle this. Has anyone here implemented a similar system? What are the best practices for setting up a custom SMTP server for this purpose? Any recommendations on tools or libraries to make this easier?<p>I'm looking for advice on the best way forward. Appreciate any insights! | null | 2 | null | 41,809,181 | 3 | [
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41,809,182 | comment | klez | 2024-10-11T13:11:53 | null | Exactly. This article starts with a misunderstanding:<p>> In Scrum, Product Owners have sole authority over the Product Backlog<p>While, as per your quote (emphasis mine)<p>> The Product Owner is also _accountable_ for effective Product Backlog management… The Product Owner may do the above work or may delegate the responsibility to others. Regardless, the Product Owner remains _accountable_.<p>Meaning they have the final say, not that they decide on their own without any input from the team.<p>My impression is that OP just had to work with bad POs who didn't understand their role. | null | null | 41,800,389 | 41,797,009 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,183 | comment | farceSpherule | 2024-10-11T13:11:56 | null | Let's see. I am on startup 5. The other 4 went bankrupt.<p>Common denominator: founder hubris and founder's syndrome.<p>Dealing with it currently. It's painful to watch people who think they know everything run a company into the ground, decimating investor money. | null | null | 41,808,282 | 41,808,282 | null | [
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41,809,184 | comment | mensetmanusman | 2024-10-11T13:12:18 | null | Yes, let’s implement this so that all farms are owned by large corporations. | null | null | 41,784,260 | 41,780,569 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,185 | comment | bryanlarsen | 2024-10-11T13:12:18 | null | Interesting paper: <a href="https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-illusion-of-moral-decline" rel="nofollow">https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-illusion-of-moral...</a><p>Ask "Are people getting less moral/kind/respectful/honest?". Almost everybody will very confidently reply "yes".<p>The most correct answer is "I don't know", although there is good evidence for "no". | null | null | 41,808,980 | 41,807,121 | null | [
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41,809,186 | story | bilsbie | 2024-10-11T13:12:20 | A conversation between Tesla Optimus bot and a human | null | https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1844610934670590184 | 2 | null | 41,809,186 | 0 | [
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41,809,187 | comment | nataliste | 2024-10-11T13:12:27 | null | fragmede, 2017:<p>>I’m not sure what’s turned the tide for me, but I now believe there are limits to free speech. It turns out that some ideas are toxic, as in, people get sucked into them, are too stubborn/whatever to admit they were wrong, and become rabid believers of nonsense.<p>>Witness the adherents to the flat earth society or those that stringently don’t believe we landed on the moon, never [sic] the Googler’s sexist manifesto. Anti-semitic screeds like “the Jews run the banks and this is why you’re poor!” frequently leak into open comment sections of your local news’ website, or YouTube comments.<p>It's not just Americans. The worst offenders tend to be those that believe that they are immune to it. | null | null | 41,808,262 | 41,804,460 | null | [
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41,809,188 | comment | Cheer2171 | 2024-10-11T13:12:28 | null | No. | null | null | 41,808,118 | 41,808,118 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,189 | comment | floodle | 2024-10-11T13:12:51 | null | This comment is ridiculous. What are the units of intelligence? Since when is charming people a trade-off against solving problems? Why do you equate extroversion to charming people? | null | null | 41,809,133 | 41,808,282 | null | [
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41,809,190 | comment | jszymborski | 2024-10-11T13:12:59 | null | I understand now, thanks :) | null | null | 41,808,523 | 41,798,359 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,191 | story | PaulHoule | 2024-10-11T13:13:10 | Belief in a Just World Decreases Blame for Celebrity Infidelity | null | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/14/10/893 | 1 | null | 41,809,191 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,809,192 | comment | andsoitis | 2024-10-11T13:13:24 | null | > Rotation is one of those fundamental things differentiating our technological civilization from Nature.<p>Rotation is very common in nature.<p>Planetary rotation, inner-core rotation, spinning galaxies, dung beetle rolling, Keratinocyte migration, Rotifers, spirals, rotational symmetry, etc.<p>What isn’t common (but not non-existent) is using rotation for locomotion in biology. | null | null | 41,807,162 | 41,805,706 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,193 | story | markx2 | 2024-10-11T13:13:24 | Steam now tells gamers up front that they're buying a license, not a game | null | https://www.engadget.com/gaming/steam-now-tells-gamers-up-front-that-theyre-buying-a-license-not-a-game-085106522.html | 11 | null | 41,809,193 | 9 | [
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41,809,194 | comment | markx2 | 2024-10-11T13:13:24 | null | They need to change the text on your profile - it still says "Games Owned. DLC Owned" | null | null | 41,809,193 | 41,809,193 | null | [
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41,809,195 | comment | fransje26 | 2024-10-11T13:13:31 | null | Could someone explain the difference between the PWM mode and the pattern mode?<p>To me, the example of the PWM wave [1] looks like the VFD mode, but:<p>- instead of varying between [-V..V], varying between [0..V]<p>- instead of having a regular variation of pulse pattern to get a regular wave, having an irregular pattern.<p>But that irregular pattern (or non-recurring pattern) only seems to be an illustrative example to match the brown wave shape, and I assume you wouldn't want to have irregular wave patterns to drive your engine?<p>[1] <a href="https://youtu.be/IRJIJPTUXXE?feature=shared&t=406" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/IRJIJPTUXXE?feature=shared&t=406</a> | null | null | 41,757,808 | 41,757,808 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,196 | comment | rsynnott | 2024-10-11T13:13:45 | null | I mean, you've got to look at the context. This isn't happening in a vacuum; they've been promising this any minute now for the last eight years. At a certain point, the benefit of the doubt becomes strained, and every ostensible delay starts to look like a delaying tactic. | null | null | 41,806,107 | 41,805,706 | null | null | null | null |
41,809,197 | comment | iamwil | 2024-10-11T13:13:51 | null | The Breath of the Wild game design has a concept called the "Chemistry Engine". In that game engines usually have a physics engine to figure out how things interact in a motion sense. The chemistry engine figures out how materials interact in an alchemy sense. It's kinda like a rules-based engine to figure out how different things interact with different other things, so you get surprising interactions between everything in the world, like being able to light arrows on fire, because arrows are a "wood" material.<p>The Youtube link is here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyMsF31NdNc&t=2354s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyMsF31NdNc&t=2354s</a><p>It seems like most rule-based stuff in games is just hand-coded, as it's relatively simple and doesn't need to be general. When I asked the author of Baba is You, if he implemented a datalog engine for it, he said 'no'. I suspect it's the same for Breath of the Wild.<p>But still, I've often wondered if that sort of chemistry engine would be best implemented in a logic language like Prolog or Datalog, for fast experimentation. Just like how we use SQL to keep the flexibility of our queries, and we end up just shipping that. I'm sure, back in the day, lots of people lamented how slow SQL queries were. The flexibility was useful enough that we ended up pouring man-centuries into making them fast. Now, we think that's just the way you ship things, and (almost) never think, "I can hand-roll imperative code that will be faster than this query". | null | null | 41,800,764 | 41,800,764 | null | [
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41,809,198 | comment | dr_dshiv | 2024-10-11T13:13:52 | null | It seems incredibly easy to generate an enormous amount of synthetic data for math. Is that happening? Does it work? | null | null | 41,808,683 | 41,808,683 | null | [
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41,809,199 | comment | null | 2024-10-11T13:13:53 | null | null | null | null | 41,809,048 | 41,809,048 | null | null | true | null |
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