> Those pointers point to undocumented functions forming CUDA Dark API. It's impossible to tell how many of them exist, but debugging experience suggests there are tens of function pointers across tens of tables. A typical application will use one or two most common. Due to they undocumented nature they are exclusively used by Runtime API and NVIDIA libraries (and in by CUDA applications in turn). We don't have names of those functions nor names or types of the arguments. This makes implementing them time-consuming. Dark API functions are are reverse-engineered and implemented by ZLUDA on case-by-case basis once we observe an application making use of it.
you know certain social media sites contain certain toxic conversants.
That's just people…
Eventually one of the NVIDIA engineers just asked me to join and I did. :-P
given how omnipresent she is with her live streaming, it's a bit like South Park's Worldwide Privacy Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N8_5LDkZwY
If anything, the Asahi devs are the ones acting out.
If they don't want HN to criticize them, then they should expect to not get the free publicity that HN offers. Seems fair enough.
Also, between accusing HN of "supporting trans genocide" (which is some mix between "impossible" and "false"), and poisoning links with HN referrer URLs, they don't seem like very good people themselves.
Yeah, most communities have bad actors, but in HN's case, most of the bad comments are either user-flagged or killed directly by dang. The crazy part is that some of these people (e.g. sussmannbaka in the thread you linked) actually think that that means that those comments are somehow endorsed or something, which is completely insane - the comment literally says "dead" or "flagged", that means the community doesn't think it's acceptable.
The behavior in both the Mastodon post and that thread is why I don't want these people on HN - they're not interested in intellectual curiosity, they just want to have a flamewar over nothing.