skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s an excuse to get more information about you in front of an employer. At worst it’s a minor waste of time, at best it provides a hook for someone.
Two wrongs does not make a right. For instance, I fail to see how you can fix things like racism, bigotry and sexism with more of the same.
so you are willing to publicly support demore but not answer the original question?
Depends on resources. When resources are plentiful, we happily work together to maximise them. But when you're starving, you'll kill your siblings and eat them.

With inequality rising, expect more anti-social behaviour.
> not critical to the original vision

riiiiiiiiight.
Canadian TV has made some iconic shows. I don't think any country has has a show like Kids in the Hall. Degrassi Jr High, Mr Dressup, Today's Special, Road to Avonlea, Being Erica, Street Legal, Beachcombers, Wok With Yan!, Babar, Trailer Park Boys, Edison Twins, The Tudors, Just Like Mom, North of 60, ENG, Flashpoint, Friendly Giant, My Secret Identity, Da Vinci’s Inquest, The Newsroom, You Can’t Do That on Television, Danger Bay, Traders, Fraggle Rock, Catwalk, Dear Aunt Agnes, Hammy the Hamster, The Littlest Hobo, Passe Partout, Polka Dot Door, The Green Forrest, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Corner Gas, Arctic Air. Show me something derivative in that list.
Personally I would be interested in the applicability of their model for testing helmets. If you could use these to economically test bicycle helmets, for example, then you could build a better helmet.

I'd also be curious how this compares to state of the art in helmet testing.
“Silenced” here means any manner of active suppression
(shaming, ridiculing, verbal abuse, social bullying, even physical violence, etc) of an idea, rather than simply (1) ignoring it on a personal level, or (2) responding to it with argument via evidence and reason.

If an idea we disagree with is rare or harmless, we often ignore it. If an idea we disagree with is more common and worth refuting, we should respond to it with debate. If all parties involved in a debate are reasonable, consensus is possible. In aggregate, humans are capable of being reasonable, thus society progresses over time (amortized).

Sadly, there is often difficulty reaching consensus immediately — especially with deeply entrenched viewpoints. However, given time, history has proven over and over that truth prevails though patient use of rational argument. It is only through presentation of evidence and calm, rational argument that society progresses.

Other, more heavy-handed means of ideological conquest have more often than not made the world a much worse place. In fact, more than just a few million deaths have resulted from what we could call “non-rational ideological conquest” (which inevitably manifests in progressively more violent ways).
As a 17 year old it's hard to make a good decision in what you should invest your time and money in, and we as a society aid them in making their bad decisions, it's not as if no one knew what they were doing.

HN recently had an article for educators that basically said they had no idea how to prepare kids for the economy of the future, and if they don't know, how do you expect the kids to?

I don't know about you guys, but I was interested in computers for their own sake rather than the cash, so it's not as if I had a crystal ball that software engineers were going to be rolling in money back in 2007. On top of that many tech communities basically look down on people only in tech for the money.

The article mentions a guy who got a degree in economics with a minor in business - a pretty reasonable choice for someone who doesn't really understand exactly what industry wants but is interested in making money - and he basically got fucked and is driving a bus now.

I don't fully agree with this article, but I don't think framing this as millenials' moral failing is the right one, even if it let's those of us in tech feel superior.
I get the feeling that they don't want to charge different rates to different customers (for some marketing related reason, perhaps?) and that they also want to minimize costs for non-commercial customers that are buying their costs (subsidize your complements?).
> On the contrary, silencing voices is a necessary thing. All societies have to determine what speech is allowed and what isn't. There are lots of things you can say in general American society that will get you censured.

In the 1950s, during the Red Scare, saying or doing things that showed that an indivdual was a socialist or Communist, including labor union activism, would have been enough to cost a person their job and get them ostracized from society. Quite a few were even jailed. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism)

Had you been a member of the left in that era, would you have have agreed that the loss of your job / jailing was a, in your own words, "necessary thing"? Would you have agreed that leftist positions were, again in your own words, "not really defensible"?

I mean, honestly, I don't get it. Do modern liberals really think McCarthyism was a good idea that just happened to be aimed in the wrong direction?
The fact that this post, and the Sam Altman posts, have been made invisible on this site is the millionth depressingly predictable example of why it's well past time for the people who are endlessly silenced to engineer their own solutions and not rely on the infrastructure of the current power-brokers.
so you are ok with the cdc not being allowed to use those words?
Author here. Didn’t expect this to be on the front page of HN. I have a flight to catch but I can answer questions.
Even the 1980s car radios with digital controls had no perceptible delay, despite containing microcontrollers with a tiny fraction of the speed and memory of the modern ones.

Maybe it's the whole "let's run Linux on it because we can" phenomenon. The microcontrollers in the old electronic radios didn't run an OS but interacted with the hardware directly. The number of instructions executed from sensing the dial change to updating the tuner and display would probably be less than 100. Now it's half a dozen layers of abstraction and millions of instructions to do the same thing, on a processor which is maybe "only" 1000x faster at most...
Some of those that do not want to associate with the unpopular kid genuinely dislike him, or the way she acts or thinks. But most ostracise the bullied in fear of being bullied themselves. I have not learned much in highschool, but I do remember that.
That's a good example, I can see how in general it is a bidirectional thing. In this case I think the outcome is that the carbonation lover who drank in public is then fired from their job (Denise Young Smith or D'Amore, not that I personally agree or condone what they said or did, just using them as examples here). Not only that even discussing carbonation at all is swept under the rug and covered up quickly (for example, this whole thread is already flagged). They probably expect to be able to say they like carbonation or even drink it in public and even argue and face criticism for it. What they don't expect is to be attacked, fired or punished for it.
Who decides what is the correct opinion and what is not?

There is a reason why advanced societies are ruled by the rule of law and not the rule of the mob.
> The reason, however (doubly so in Norway, which is basically as inconvenient as countries come for broadcasting purposes - lots of mountains and hardly any people) is that in DAB, you interleave a lot of channels in one data stream, transmitted from a single transmitter, whereas in FM, you need a dedicated transmitter for each channel.

Would it be possible to broadcast multiple FM channels with one magic sdr transmitter?
Your missing the point, and based on your other posts, your probably missing it on purpose.
The "majority" that believe voter fraud is massive and the deep state is real. Have you seen the comments on Trump's facebook posts?
For sure, it's possible. Like I said, I could be wrong. It just looks like the lean-in is one way. But yeah, it could also be exhaustion or other things.
It’s pretty rare, but it does happen every now and then. Arthur Andersen was convicted of criminal obstruction of justice. Because their entire business model was predicated on being trustworthy, they imploded really quickly. (Ironically the damage was mostly done before their conviction was overturned, but they were still guilty as hell.)

For Uber, since their business model seems to be completely unrelated to their inherent untrustworthiness, it’s unlikely that a criminal conviction would have such dramatic consequences. The FBI doesn’t fuck around with bribing foreign officials though, so it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see someone go to the pokey over that.

You never know, though. That might be enough to get local governments to ban them.

Also some states can apparently sue to have corporations dissolved. https://www.wired.com/story/equifax-deserves-the-corporate-d...
It was aimed at the previous comment, but it got flagged for deletion before I could reply.
Yes I support Demore.

It's not my fault you are purposely misunderstanding my comment in order to paint me as an idiot. You've obviously got an agenda.
I really wish Silicon Valley was a place where a man's ideas could be critiqued without the need to attack the man.

You have the base for a really good argument that could sway people who are on the fence about the issue but when you say things like "vagueness of his diatribe" you alienate the people you want to change the most.
i would widen the scope a bit. pidgin is a good example of the modular, open source model that used to be somewhat common in consumer software.

looking back, there certainly seems to be a correlation between the rise of Apple and the death of those kinds of programs. these days it seems like only products that target developers follow that model.

personally though, i think it was the transition to mobile that really did it. almost overnight people's expectations for UI design got way higher, and most of them don't really care about modularity or open source. they just want something that mostly works and looks designed. aesthetic appeal has never the strong point of OSS.
The proof of work determines consensus.
sure, you don't need to do that, but it's disingenuous if you don't and reveals a biased interpretation of history.

Communist _regimes_ have killed a a lot of people.

I'm not sure why the American Indiana genocide is in quotes. As if there weren't policies at the federal and state level that promoted the theft of land from the original inhabitants and the ensuing displacement and murder of them?

You're corroborating my point that those violent acts weren't expressly mandated by the underlying political philosophy but were instead carried out via the state powers who latched onto those philosophies in order to gain populist support for the policies that would ensure their power.
I have a long-bet that Uber will be out of business by August 2020. A friend and I have a decent bottle of wine (Grange Hermitage) riding on the outcome. And with every passing month I feel more and more confident!

It's obviously possible they'll limp through the deadline, or sell some assets like the brand. But I want to believe a company driven by ethics this bad from the top down, and which loses this much money month on month, can't survive. Bring on the fragmented second-movers in the space.
And thanks to Canadian patronage of the arts and media, creators of Fraggle Rock including poets Dennis Lee and B.P. Nichol played influential roles in productions of international acclaim like The Labyrinth and Dark Crystal. It certainly doesn't stop there.

Let's not forget Second City Toronto, Rick Mercer, and newer comedic hits like Fubar and Letterkenny.
I don't think Tesla wants to be seen as "ridiculous" in an anti-customer way.
I think the US is probably the most likely to require negotiating parties to change laws to benefit them, and because the US negotiates from a position of strength most countries have to bow down to it.
The indefinite perpetuation of a one-sided wrong does not make a right, either. Relentless oppression must be broken.
Someone alert Sam Altman!
> Additionally, with FM you need to make sure no transmitters on the same frequency can cover the same area, as that would lead to interference.

In the UK the BBC transmits their FM channels on the same range across the whole country [0]. In most cases the frequency between transmitters is only slightly different (e.g. 88.5 vs 88.1), so it can be picked up without having to retune the receiver. It requires a bit more thought up front, but it’s not that difficult (compared to other considerations you need to have for tranmitting radio), and it’s a much better UX than having to remember different frequencies for the same station in different cities.

[0] http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/reception/pdfs/FMradiotrans.pdf
A new low-cost, simple way to measure medical vital signs with radio waves
Are you Luke JR?
>silent majority that supports him

To be clear, Trump lost the popular vote (which is conducted with closed ballots so the silent majority can voice their opinion); and by all available measures has gotten less popular since then.

>And if you dummies think that speech isn't being stifled, look no further than James Demore being fired for trying to figure out root cause analysis of why there aren't more women in tech

Were you around HN when this happened. In my reccolection, there was a significant portion of HN that disagreed with the firing; and even many of those who defended the firing argued not that Damore was wrong, but that the PR against him justified the firing.

I am certain that my comments against the firing were well received (eg. upvoted) here.

Having said that, you are certainly correct that the left has its own anti-intellectual movement. It just hasn't penetrated into the political party as badly as it has on the right.
* CraveTV is from Bell Media, just to add context. And Letterkenny is one of my favourite new shows having grown up in an area far too similar in rural Ontario...
> Everyone agrees teen pregnancy is bad.

Apparently they don't agree, at least not as bad as teen sex since they are willing to, under false pretense, enact policy that factually increases teen pregnancy rates just to possibly decrease teen sex.

They are willing to lie to their constituents to gain support of their opposition. Not to mention that they harm both sides on yhe issue of teen pregnancy, not to mention actual teens.

No matter how you spin it it still doesn't sound good. Even worse. I'd prefer to think my opponent as misguided not machiavellian and malicious towards his own supporters.
I think the fact that this thread is already flagged says a lot. To keep silicon valley competitive we need to be open to diversity and also be inclusive to different ways of thinking, because in this way we are set up to learn and explore many different ideas.
No, they are not free anymore.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/support/supercharging
Both are absolutely terrible for painting (or any other human purpose, especially things like this scatterplot), and should be replaced with some perceptually relevant model.

(Disclaimer: I largely wrote the wikipedia article about HSL and HSV, years ago.)
> Imagine if today you had to get a list of host to try running your REST APIs against.

That's... exactly what we do, via DNS:

$ host google.ca
google.ca has address 96.63.131.14
google.ca has address 96.63.131.28
google.ca has address 96.63.131.26
google.ca has address 96.63.131.18
google.ca has address 96.63.131.22
google.ca has address 96.63.131.24
google.ca has address 96.63.131.16
google.ca has address 96.63.131.20
I don't think that was the point of the post you're replying to. The point was that you might be annoyed that an invisible hand reached out and plucked away part of the value of the thing you owned and were about to sell to someone.
I still don't have an answer, but here are some more readings that might give someone a hint. Fast is with .p2align 3, Slow is with .p2align4 as above. Measurements are on Skylake with Likwid (https://github.com/RRZE-HPC/likwid/wiki/likwid-perfctr).

Fast Slow
Runtime (RDTSC) [s] | 4.912542e-01 | 6.476124e-01
RESOURCE_STALLS_ANY | 135,743,115 |1,298,835,857
IDQ_DSB_UOPS |1,441,709,567 | 97,635
LSD_UOPS | 197,902,567 |1,999,996,841
IDQ_MITE_UOPS | 360,547,507 | 82,354
INSTR_RETIRED_ANY | 1600095725 | 1600095769
CPU_CLK_UNHALTED_CORE | 1662620966 | 2192914751

Again, these are the same instructions just with different alignment. I assume that Fast vs Slow is essentially arbitrary, although there may be cache line effects such that only the smaller alignment has the chance of being fast.

First, RESOURCE_STALLS_ANY is picking up some important difference. Slow has lots, Fast has fewer. Breaking these down to see what subtype it is might give an exact answer: https://download.01.org/perfmon/index/skylake.html. It's not RESOURCE_STALLS_SB that changes, but the others don't seem to be predefined.

LSD_UOPS is the number of µops delivered by the "Loop Stream Detector", which is the smallest and fastest cache for instructions. It's very small, and only works for tiny loops. Usually this is where you want the µops to stream from, but in this case using it results in a slower final result.

IDQ_DSB_UOPS is the number of µops delivered from the "Decode Stream Buffer". This is usually slightly slower than the "Loop Stream Buffer", but in this case using it produces a faster result. This is large enough to hold a reasonably sized function.

IDQ_MITE_UOPS is the "legacy" instruction decoder. This is the normal path by which instructions are decoded into µops. It's always used the first time instructions are encountered, but for hot loops and hot functions the results can be cached. Usually you'd like to see less of this, but here using the legacy decoding path gives a faster result.

What does this mean? It probably means that something about the alignment combined with the jump defeats what would normally be the fastest µop cache. This isn't that strange in itself, but the oddity is that for some reason, this causes an overall faster result.

Why? I'd thought it was something to do with "store forwarding", and it still might be, but I haven't found any counters that directly point to that as being the problem. Instead, I think it might have to do with the processor getting too far ahead on the reads and stores, and then having to redo them once it realizes that the data is out of date. Somehow having fewer instructions available in the reorder buffer (because they are coming in from a slightly slower decoder) improves overall performance. But I don't yet understand the specifics.

I'm going to stop for the night, but I'd love to wake up to someone revealing the "true" answer!
I have a server with ntalk for a few friends and it is my favorite method of non face-to-face communication.
Allow me to be a bit autistic here: these APIs are barely REST-ful. They are effectively RPC, which is appropriate, because REST doesn't easily apply to a non-hypertext data format, which disallows HATEOAS.

I wish XML-RPC hadn't ruined things so utterly, so we could properly refer to these APIs as JSON-RPC and leave REST for hypertext-based architectures (e.g. intercooler.js + html)
I'm not totally okay with blackballing brilliant people for touching someone's thigh.
Is this a joke? A troll? I can't believe I just read that whole article to discover at the end they are trying to sell a modern "authorized" reissue of the Beatles' Christmas albums.

With those graphics featuring Brush Script MT?!

It's a submarine of Christmas caliber.
The nodes validate that the work has been undertaken. Therefore, it is the nodes that police and enforce consensus in bitcoin.
Trustless Byzantine fault tolerant decentralized consensus as long as < 50% of participants are not acting in concert. That _is_ revolutionary.
To give another example, imagine if the in a short while the Supreme Court rules that in favor of the CO baker and says that he is not compelled to create a cake for a gay wedding. Would you feel safe expressing support for the decision at a lunch with your team?
But then we're using logic similar to Pascal's Wager to make important decisions.
Agreed. Amazing accomplishment that many runners even don’t know about. I had a friend running the same race and it took him just under 20 hours. A seven hour difference boggles the mind.
No. For the record his name is Luke Dashjr. He's a bitcoin developer, as you probably know.
Yeah. I recently read the book and amazed by how good of a runner he is, especially his discipline and dedication.
Inspiring, even might to the non-runners.
I think you're referring to progressive (regular) JPEG, which is not wavelet-based but just incremental DCT. JPEG2000 is wavelet-based, requires many times more processing power, and is hardly encountered on the Internet due to nearly nonexistent browser support(see https://caniuse.com/jpeg2000 ).

Why the digital FM standard doesn't do that, I'm at a loss.

The form of progressiveness in JPEG and other file formats is conceptually quite simple --- you send the "rough draft" first, then incrementally improve quality by sending more bytes. "Degradation" is basically limited to truncating the stream.

Broadcast radio reception degrades in a very different way --- (unpredictable) parts of the signal vary in strength or actually become corrupted. Either the decoder can decode the bits correctly or it can't, and which parts get weakened or corrupted is not easily predictable.
> were you around HN when this happened

Dude I've been around HN for almost 9 years.

And in that time this site went from pro free speech to downvote anything that isn't super left-wing progressive
The argument is that your carrier can now block you from getting information relevant to your rights. So you may no longer be able to search for an abortion clinic, or newspapers that have negative articles about the government could be blocked, internet services in poor black neighborhoods may have their access to educational materials limited, etc. While I think that's an unlikely outcome, it would be devastating to free speech, equality, and diversity.
Aren't they walking right into Trump's rhetoric is they want to subvert sovereignty? But then again, I'm sure we could comeback with something, something about Alberta sands being more carbon intensive or ecologically impactful than other sources of petroleum... Something about them wanting the KeystoneXL something something...
Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down
Internet communications are a critical component of trade. Why should Canadian companies fall victim to arbitrary barriers put up by US ISPs?

Treaties are powerful instruments, and require Senate confirmation. If approved, the US would be obliged to meet its treaty obligations.
What if the placards are removable?
Elon Musk's boring idea for car tunnels distracts from real solutions
A meme like "immigrants are universally good for our country" is also a dangerous idea.
Have you actually ever lived in Alabama? Or are your views based on anecdotes and stereotypes of the South? I lived there for a short while and it's not Deliverance. In my experience it's a lot more integrated than the Bay Area.

Note: (spoilers?) Deliverence doesn't actually paint the negative picture of the south that people associate with the movie. It's just as much about prejudices people have against rural people.
I've always been aware I have these subconscious biases. At a fundamental level, I think we are all racist and sexist.

But the special thing about being human is that we have higher level thought. When I see a black person at a party, I acknowledge my bias and remind myself that there is every chance this person would be interesting to get to know.

But not everyone does this, and many people "go on their gut". And ironically, this is one of the most significant us/them divisions; between head-rules-heart and heart-rules-head.