jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's as easy as saying that Aarch64 dropped thumb, therefore compressed instructions are dumb.

- Like somebody already pointed out, thumb is a different mode, whereas RISC-V C (RVC) can be freely mixed with normal 32-bit instructions.

- And speaking of higher end processors, x86 does very well in that space despite requiring much more complex decode than RVC.

- Aarch64 has more complex addressing modes (base + index<<shift in particular) whereas RISC-V needs both RVC and fusion to do the same with similar code size and execution slot occupation. Personally, I'm leaving towards thinking that it was a mistake for RISC-V to not support such addressing modes. Unless you're aiming for something really super-constrained in terms of gate counts, having an adder and small shifter as part of your memory pipeline(s) seem like an obvious choice. And thus, having single instructions to use those pipelines isn't really committing any sins against the RISC philosophy.
A fantastic book by Vernon Vinge called “A Deepness in the Sky” toys around with this idea a lot actually.

There is a virus that can release neurotoxins and it is flipped in very specific parts of the brain with a MRI-like device. This can elicit a state of “Focus” where the person (victim more like) becomes totally obsessed with a particular idea or subject. They devote all energy towards this subject and can make stunning breakthroughs on difficult topics because they are utterly and completely _obssessed_ with whatever topic they are supposed to be.

They are held captives by their own fascination and work as slaves.

I know this is taking the idea a bit far from the point, but it’s an interesting extension of the idea.
Thanks. My bad. I can’t seem to edit the url anymore.
Or the other option is you get funding for an idea that falls within the same realm as your unusual idea. Then you spend the money on those overlapping projects.

A great example is a chemist I knew that love research with selenium (an uncommon element). He was most interested in what role it plays in organic chemistry. That’s it.

But when he wrote up grant proposals it was always about the anti-cancer properties of selenium compounds. Never mind the fact he had zero plans to actually pursues that end.
My point is someone else has to validate the decision.

And when you allow it sooner or later you will hear "Epstein/Khashoggi/that Uygur/this narco cop" were troubled souls and we were just helping them.
Also a good 50% or more of people are immune to the flu at any given time because they got it in the last few years, while pretty much no one is immune to this one.
It’s en vogue to complain about Google, but the stream of data flowing into Microsoft is incredible and who knows if or how it is being used.

They have better competitive intelligence capability than any other company. Microsoft knows the org chart of millions of companies better than they do, knows who talks to who both in email and voice in some orgs, and knows where people work and where they move at work.

The telemetry sent up for Windows and Office is pretty comprehensive and invasive as well.

I wonder what they do with it. I see no evidence of improved product quality.
Would more inter-european coordination and solidarity make a difference here? Some countries are currently much better off than others (infection rate-wise). Are there good reasons for not taking in patients from different countries as long as capacity remains available? Not being able to do anything for (apparently) a large number of patients is a terrible situation.
The worst telemetry of any major browser so far, son.
"If an employee comes to me and asks for a raise then I begin the process to replace them."

That makes you sound like a horrible manager.
Who decides what work is equal?
I have a FreeBSD certification gained from an exam at EuroBSDCon some years (many years actually) ago. FreeBSD is great, and we still run it at work. Great docs is part of the reason we like it.

(Btw this page is extremely annoying to read on mobile. I get that we like the no frills console 1337 vibes, but usability is perhaps even higher?)
Perhaps a way to migrate this is to only allow tweets < a certain creation date. Would this make TWITCOIN have a hard limit similar to how Bitcoin has a Hard limit ?
> We have a company that seems to be combining blockchain and MLM

It's not a stretch to say that the whole Blockchain industry IS MLM.
If you do this, it's vital that you do not wash the bloom off. Once you wash eggs you have to refrigerate them.
To be fair, at the time of writing, it was pretty difficult to destroy another nation's cities/property/wealth without physically entering and being next to them.
The quality of the products is really poor. Cheap materials, sloppy tolerances and no longevity. The best team in Dyson is the marketing function to make people spend so much on so little. I won’t even comment on the man himself.
The most interesting characteristics appear to be missing here: Jitter and packet loss. Has anyone published tests on those anywhere yet?
Looks to be. Still very impressive!
This is a compilation of gotcha-discovery-reports, distributed across the surface area of K8s (which, since K8s is huge, covers many nooks and crannies). This is not a compilation of "K8s sucks, here are 10 reasons why", which is what my kneejerk expectation was. (maybe I am too cynical...).

Overall, this is a fantastic index to some very interesting resources.

There's an old saying that you learn more from failure than from success (whose analogue is a blogpost with a title "look how easy it is to set up k8s in 15 minutes at home!"). If you really want to think about how to deploy nuanced technology like this at scale, operational crash reports such as these are invaluable.
>If you view both parties as being purchased/owned by similar cartel of powerful entities, it makes more sense. Follow the money.

I dont think that's the right wording. I dont believe that these giant government contractors literally own politicians. I think they dont even need to try to own the politicians. Yes those corps have given Biden lots of money to keep war going. Biden looks like he'll be starting a new war soonish, by the end of the year.
I've muted most people in my network. The amount of self and mutual-mas2batory posting is nauseating.
I don't know about Skype or GV, but since I work at Twilio I can answer that for us. You can already port your numbers to Twilio. After creating and upgrading your account, you'll see a port a number option in the dashboard. It takes 7-10 business days.
I have no hard data, but I have 10 years of anecdotal data (my wife was a 4th grade teacher for ten years and saw just about 1000 students over her career).

She says the younger kids definitely do worse by all measures in 4th grade, in large part because of their lack of maturity.
What do you care who "wins"?
Yeah, that's true. It still seems crazy that they require users to do this.
My question: Can it fit a sheet of plywood in the bed.
> Why can't every VPN review site say the same thing? Serious review sites don't accept sponsorships. This one does. Should it be taken seriously? I don't take it seriously.

1. We currently get _no_ money from _any_ VPN provider (our site makes other recommendations too that are not related to VPN services), our finances are very transparent:

• https://blog.privacytools.io/privacytools-io-joins-the-open-...

• https://opencollective.com/privacytoolsio#section-goals

2. Being a part of the sponsorship program does not get you on the website, you must still meet the criteria which a VPN provider could do for free (so there's no incentive for them to pay us anything).

3. We don't use referral links

4. No single member of the team can add/remove things (everything is also logged in git commit logs). Pull requests also require more than 2 members to sign off. Technically jonaharagon as owner could add things, but it would be pretty suspicious if new VPN providers started appearing without any discussion.... lol. I know I'd be asking questions.
Maybe they were supposed to use the first ball that was smaller?

Certainly came as a surprise to Elon.

I notice they let the panel glass bounce in the drop test, which isn't similar to a window installation.
reminds me of the Aston Martin Bulldog concept from '79
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_Bulldog
That was my immediate thought. Granted, I've not watched the video as I'm at work so if it was covered then I've not seen it, but that thing looks like it has absolutely no crumple zones, and the lack of curved surfaces would cause horrific injury in a pedestrian collision.
I bet one of the key factors for this thing to be on the road safely was the development of some kind of unbreakable glass for the huge front window, so they "had to" make this new type of resistant glass. Some "yes man" at the upper management level must've decided to skip constrained material testing (Glass dissipates energy much differently when it is in a frame rather than just loose... pay close attention at the ball drop demo and you'll see the glass jump a few inches)
Can the US stay away from this?

> park an aircraft carrier group in HK waters.

This is called invasion.

What is your incentive in supporting an invasion?
They made it to erase any doubt about an electric truck being tough.
Elon keeps screwing up his presentations, and people keep buying his products. He give me hope that a sleek presentation isn't all that matters. That humanity still cares about content, not just the outward appearances.
QE? Is that a misspelling of QA, or is there another meaning beyond Quantitative Easing?
There has to be some standard. While I didn't use the word dumb, it is clearly careless.
Good for lulz, but this is really uninformed, if not made up from whole cloth.

The influence of Dart on ES6 and 7 apart from SIMD (John McCutchan shout-out, John did the Dart work and then worked on https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd; I had some small helpful role to do with the project involving Mozilla and Intel, too) and the courage and validation -- not the idea, which pre-dates Dart -- of giving the for (let...) loop a binding per iteration in ES6 as in Dart, there has been no influence or help from Dart.

Modules in ES6 have nothing to do with Dart, and the work started in 2010, well before Dart ("Dash") leaked. Classes too pre-date Dart, in some ways they go back to JS2/ES4 of the 1999-2003 era, and ES4 of the 2006-8 era.

CoffeeScript owes a lot to Ruby and Python, of course, and I did design-champion fat arrow functions into ES6, inspired in part by CoffeeScript. ES6's for-of loop is responding to the same gravity-well as CoffeeScript's for-of, but it differs in substantial aspects. And so on.

Languages influence one another -- news at 11 -- but Dart did very little intentional uplift work for JS. SIMD is the big and very good exception to this norm. Better late than never, I say. Now is a good time to help get value objects including bignums into ES7.

https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=1533
This is interesting to me, because I work at a large company and I've found it to be orchestrated slightly differently. If you want/need something done here, the fastest way is to set up a face to face appointment and put yourself in someone else's calendar. If you don't, things will drag on for months of email back and forth. If you do, things might last two hours, you'll probably leave with a solid plan, and then usually someone sends a 'summary' email that lists every commitment made in that meeting (which keeps everyone honest) along with the dates people agreed to get them done by. If there's disputes about that, they're then handled there, but if you seem to always get the wrong idea from meetings (or always dispute what you said in them), it'd probably reflect badly on you.
I'd imagine the EFF is looking for an NSA/Stingray lawsuit to apply this decision to right now.
I believe not only in 10X programmers, but in 1000X programmers. I work with a senior lead developer who has decades of experience, but asks for help with the most trivial issues (like, how an overridden method would behave and how to call the parent class implementation.)

I also firmly believe copy-pasting should be disabled on sites like Stack Overflow.
And so the cycle continues. AOL was an innovative place to work at some point, I'm sure.
Are there similar myths in other professions?

It seems like software as an industry is very prone to myths, poor introspection, and no-true-scotsman methodologies that purport to solve or harness the resulting "insights".
Lower than a totally random password. Higher than a readable password without leetspeak.
Languages should be criticized by those that have spent sufficient time in them to be able to really see their shortcomings. Having a little bit of experience in a language is not an automatic qualification for writing blog posts about what's amiss, for that you need more than just surface familiarity.
Absolutely agreed on your third aspect. Facebook is a global business, after all.
Diff based, but with snapshot "control frame" every N commits, like video?

Obviously joking though.
Is this new or just additional details on previous studies along the same lines?

https://www.nature.com/news/dna-study-links-indigenous-brazi...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2487-2

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/south-americans-may-have...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/native-america...
Make the swap partition equal to 1.5 times your RAM. That's always worked for me.
This makes anecdotal, qualitative sense: low-/medium-intensity cardio for extended durations. The challenge is to do volume of such exercise with minimum body impact (not running, especially not barefoot running downhill). Swimming, elliptical, and possibly bicycling seem ideal for least risks of debilitating joint wear and arthritis in later life.

Furthermore, exercise involves inflammation and cellular damage. Does extreme exercise volume increase the risks of cancer, aging, and/or reduction in lifespan?
Different people will draw the line in different places. Take your example of file management: since I'm usually in a terminal, it takes far less effort to enter a command than it does to open up a graphical file manager and navigate to the desired directories.

The other issue is that few file managers are as powerful as command line utilities. There are exceptions. I am quite fond of Directory Opus while using Windows since it feels like a program designed by people who understand the scope of file management. Alas, it is an exception rather than the rule. Most file managers facilitate basic functions then stop there. With the shell, that's not really an issue since you can always add another utility to your tool box.
> That's not really comforting to the minority people whose lives were ruined by them.

Actually, it probably is somewhat. I hate paying money but that my taxes go to useful things makes it bearable. I hate sucking up to a guy in a uniform but that he also arrests murderers makes it less infuriating.

But moreover, that's not the issue brought up originally, which was net damage to a group. The implication was that the justice system harmed minorities and as a group that's simply not true.

Also, the language used is trying to borrow outrage. Harmed minorities? No, harmed the poor. Many of whom were minorities. But there are rich racial minorities too.
I think you just created a new field/job.
Years ago when I was a green programmer filled with p*ss and vinegar - I had to write a system to send a few million emails every day.

That’s when I came across Qmail and studied it’s design. Qmail was designed so well that it literally absolutely would not send an email twice.

But my scheduler did.

To send a few hundred thousand emails more than once is not good is not good for your reputation lol.

It taught me a valuable lesson about Idempotency from an impressionable stage of my career and now, with creating workers running under Sidekiq, Oban and other job schedulers that run very frequently, this has become quite useful.

At one point I used to lean on Redis to “help” me be more idempotent. But with the high throughput of some systems I was working on, even redis with its atomic nature of put and get and handy dandy sets and lists, would have race conditions.

Now I hardly touch redis because my skills in making sure things get processed just once have improved greatly. And I can just use PostgreSQL and my code.

Being Idempotent from the beginning is now the center of my life.
Indeed, you can say something false because you're a liar (or bullshitter), but you can also say something false because you're just wrong.
Your argument doesn’t make the point you think it does. If someone maliciously placed convincing fake road signs on the road then they could easily cause severe injury or death. This would be a serious problem, not to be taken lightly.
I was looking through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_day and almost half of it had a [citation needed] tag, so I guess you could call it that?
As with any dynamically typed language, good test coverage is important.
This is really a crisis of modernity.

People just don't trust authorities anymore, because authorities time and time again have misled them.

That's not to mention that it's gotten easier than ever to falsify evidence using technology that was never before available in history, like image editors, audio editors, video editors, and desktop publishing software.

Astroturfing and fake grassroots campaigns further undermine people's trust in what they hear and read.

At the same time people want certainty and simplicity, and when they find they live in a world where nothing can be trusted they double down and cling to whatever reflects back to them their most cherished beliefs and what vilifies those they deem evil. It might not be true, but at least it makes them feel good, and so they can pretend it must be true if anything is.

Moderation isn't going to change any of this.
As a frequent traveller, I would be much more inclined to either pick the airports that are going to be relevant to me ever or pick the destination airport when I am at the source airport which Uber can easily detect. I am visiting ~10-15 airports most of the time. I would be happy to spend some time to set this up on my phone so i not need to waste a huge amount of space and bandwidth every time that I update Uber. For Uber it would be a win too, reducing the size of the app significantly. Maybe it is only me.
> I'm having a hard time imagining a scenario

Very easy.

Let's be honest, incognito mode is generally used for watching porn without worrying that it will pop up in the autocomplete box or history later.

But you log into the porn site, in incognito mode, in order to access your saved videos, subscriptions, etc. The porn site knows exactly who you are, tied to your credit card number, etc. Your ISP knows you visit the porn site. Your credit card knows you pay for it.

That's the main use case. The privacy is ONLY regarding local history. That's the only expectation there's ever been.
Sure, I don't have a problem with that. I don't sideload on Android either.
How would you trace $1000 to a larger source after it passes through a privacy coin? The only way to do that is either with some side channel information, or by monitoring the person selling the funds. In a cash economy in the third world the odds of that look pretty poor. I think what happened is large deposit in bank account caused some to start asking questions.
"hear" ASL
In the US, 0.01% of the population dies in car crashes each year (I didn’t misplace a decimal, it’s actually a fairly rare event).

If there’s a 1% annual chance of a single event where 1% of the population dies all at once, that makes the risk dying of dying in such an event the same as dying in a car crash. If if either of those numbers are higher than 1%, it’s more likely than dying in a car crash. I’m not sure if the comment you responded to is correct about the numbers for this particular risk, just showing how rare extreme events can be important risks.

I think people tend of overrate rare events that only hurt a few people at a time (like shark attacks and lightning strikes) and underrate rare events that hurt a lot of people at once (like pandemics, extreme weather events, or other society-scale disasters).
Agreed - whe I worked at Lockheed, there were a few Arabs who literally quit after 9/11 as they refused to work at a company that was selling weapons to the DOD to kill other arabs.

I stand by my statement: The Royal Saudi Family (the CIA, and the Clinton Bush Cabal) can collectively go fuck their evil selves. Fuck them.

MSB in particular.
Why wait 20 years? Look at Portugal or the Netherlands today.
It's becoming politically incorrect to suggest someone could perform better in a workplace. Curious this doesn't apply on the basketball court, but does apply in the conference room. Is it so unacceptable to drive for the collective win at the "cost" of acknowledging individual gaps?

If your team and your coach aren't a safe space to accurately explore your gaps in pursuit of shoring them up, both with exercises for you and with adjustments to the team play, why train pro at all? Anything less is literal amateur hour.

No professional athlete can afford to think "accurately explore the failings of" equates to "belittle", and no serious player would expect the coach to only give post- or even mid-game feedback behind closed doors.

Without that team discussion you're going to have a really difficult time knowing what to work on in yourself to be better, and your team is going to have a hard time knowing the watch-out-fors to collaborate on guard-railing your play.

(Not incidentally, basketball and baseball are near real-time stats driven. So is BW performance culture. We understand this for improving software by running it under a debugger or tools like New Relic, why not instrument your own processes?)

If you don't feel like opting-in to acknowledging and working on gaps as a team owning the outcomes, don't sign up somewhere that does.

If you do feel like opting-in, seek out teams and managers that believe in reality-based root cause feedback loops -- great retros drive greater forward looking results, for the product, the team, and you.
The thing that draws me to Cloudflare over AWS is AWS bandwidth charges. CF charge $20/mo for a basic business plan; fronting our domain with CF reduced our AWS egress bill by over $2500/mo.
I learnt Scala before diving deeper into FP, but I think properly learning/understanding Monads and some other FP concepts greatly help every sort of programming I do (even though it is mostly OOP nowadays). You come to notice it everywhere and even if you can’t abstract over them (there is no one `bind` or `join` function, so it may be called different with each Monad instance), but after understanding them you will gain a better reasoning power over them.
That’s nice. But I didn’t really take it literally.

Do you have some benchmark results by any chance? Although it’s a bit of a can of worms, and I would understand if you didn’t want to get into it at this time.
Not quite to that extreme, but both banks and paypal do the same with fiat too. They make A LOT of money on the exchange from one currency to another at rates that they determine.
Tesla seems to have a clean slate advantage.

Every established company I've worked for seems to have as many processes that get in the way as those that help.

also - nobody mentioned the amount of data collected. Is it good diagnostics or is it hoarding?

I remember the story of the guy who tried to return his tesla under the lemon law thing because of some weird failure. Tesla diagnosed it and found he would pop the trunk before every failure happened, and they used that to prove he was doing it. After that, I can see an engineering push to log more, not less.