skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I get the impression that Intel overextended on their 10nm process, in that they were perhaps a bit more ambitious that other manufacturers and it came back to bite them when there were scaling problems.

I’m no micro-electronic expert but I wonder if we are hitting limits in clock speed scaling with regards to feature size - i.e. shrinking pass a certain feature size clock speeds actually have to drop for the chip to be stable.

Intel’s priority is clock speed first and foremost due to what they produce - desktop and server CPUs. A new process is pointless for them if they can’t get at least equal clock speeds out of it as their old process.

TSMC caters to mobile CPU and GPU production - those will never boost to 5Ghz like CPUs; the former for power efficiency reasons (and heat) and the later tends to go for more “cores” as it focuses on parallizable workloads.
Thanks for taking a look at it. Your position is perfectly reasonable, but given the fact that (at least in my case) the results I got back were subtly wrong, and there's a good chance someone wouldn't notice, it might be a good idea to default this off if it isn't already, with a really stern warning in the config.
Probably blood.
I am not sure if I understand your criticism, but by virtue of not having access to time travel as of yet, most studies tend to be limited and in accordance to our current understanding of the world and humans.
While timelessness is an admirable virtue, lack thereof nonetheless does not render a study useless or idiotic, in my current understanding anyways.
No fun. Just pseudo-academia. Keep it civil.
This is really great to hear. The different internal string representations really age a language:

- C sort of assumes all strings are ASCII

- Java, C#, Obj-C, Javascript and Python2 were all written when it was assumed Unicode would have no more than 65536 characters. They all use 2 byte encodings, which has become the worst of all worlds. ASCII text is twice the size it needs to be, you still need to handle the mismatch between array length and codepoint length, and errors are harder to find because there are very few common characters that actually cross the 2 byte boundary - although the popularity of emoji has changed this.

- Go, Dart, Rust and Zig all return to single byte encodings. They all use UTF-8 internally, and have different functions to interact with the string as a list of bytes, and the string as a list of unicode codepoints. (In Go's case its because Rob Pike was behind both Go and UTF8.)

Its delightful to see Swift stepping away from Obj-C's mistakes and improving things internally. Although in Obj-C's defence, NSString has always hidden its internal representation, which did a lot of work to protect developers from the footguns.

One of the big ironies of all this is how well C has stood the test of time. C strings interoperate beautifully with UTF8 - all thats missing is some libc helper methods to count & iterate through UTF8 codepoints. strlen / strncpy / strcmp / etc all work perfectly when dealing with UTF8. The only change is that you need to supply lengths in bytes not characters.
I prefer a Dark Forest strategy for approaching the universe.

If anything, we should be thinking about how to emit less radiation that can be traced back to Earth into space.

Best case: aliens send us technology via morse code.

Worst case: relativistic projectile from advanced civilization destroys Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest
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After a particularly terrible uber experience in Miami (driver swerved terribly the whole time, didn't understand english enough to recognize that we were asking him to pull over because I was nauseated), I thought this would be about drivers intentionally making passengers motion sick so they could extort cash from them (ie: pay up or I'll report you). But this makes a lot more sense. I don't see a fair solution other than requiring video footage, which unfortunately would just be another expense for legitimate drivers.
Well what else would you use as a heuristic? If you don't have a lot of time to know a person, then in some cases a personality profile might be a good idea. If you have 8 hours worth of free time on a given day to know a person, then having a chat helps a lot more.
This seems to me like shining a laser pointer randomly up into the sky and hoping someone from a passing plane sees it?

Is this practical given the vastness of space and the directionaality of this laser?
Python (as of version 3.3) does something similar. Source code is assumed UTF-8 by default, and all other string creation requires explicit conversion from bytes. So when creating and storing a string object, Python looks at the widest code point that will be in the string, and chooses the narrowest encoding -- latin-1, UCS-2, or UCS-4 -- that can store the string as fixed-width units.

This gets all the benefits people usually want from "just use UTF-8", and then some -- strings containing only code points in the latin-1 range (not just the ASCII range) take one byte per code point -- and also keeps the property of code units being fixed width no matter what's in the string. Which means programmers don't have to deal with leaky abstractions that are all too common in languages that expose "Unicode" strings which are really byte sequences in some particular encoding of Unicode.
> Huss says glaciers are essential to feeding Europe’s freshwater rivers, which provide drinking water to millions, especially in the summer months when there is less rainfall. “The summer is when we need the water in the lowlands.” he says, “If the glaciers are gone, this can have really serious consequences.”

What to do? Once actually "solving" the problem becomes a critical political issue, will there be anything left to "solve"?
Pretty cool. Could the following be used as a baseline to create the same functionality?

async function * nextStreamEntry() {
while(true){
const entry = yield;
const result = await processEntry(entry);
}
}

// Initialize the iterator
const iter = nextStreamEntry();
iter.next();

// For every entry of the stream
for (const monster of results) {
iter.next(monster)
}
Do you have a link to that show? Seems like a good one to hear.
A temporary diversion, as Uber and Lyft have made no secret that they're eager to replace all of their drivers with autonomous vehicles post haste.

I only recently read Manna, and it was terrifying and inspirational. My concern is that only the inspirational is fictional.
Jokes are totes allowed. They just have to be particularly high quality, including civil.

No Beavis and Butthead. A lot of humor is only funny if you are cool with being monstrously ugly about specific topics. That type humor tends to not fly here.

I'm okay with that.
The way I use autocomplete is that I type the entire word I mean really quickly. I get most (or all) of it wrong, but the autocompleter has enough information to substitute that with the correct word. It's much faster than the read-evaluate-correct loop you're describing.
Yeah, I'm sure some incidents of this kind of fraud have happened, but I'm skeptical it happens often, simply because of driver incentives (ie, why make a quick hundred bucks if it's at the risk of never making any additional Uber income ever again).

Also, I'm totally skeptical of the guy complaining of two vomit frauds committed against him in one evening. Far more likely is that he blacked out and then threw up twice in different vehicles, or he's simply too embarrassed to admit it.
especially if those astronomers live in nearby systems, such as around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth, or TRAPPIST-1, a star about 40 light-years away that hosts seven exoplanets, three of which are potentially habitable. If the signal is spotted from either of these nearby systems, the study finds, the same megawatt laser could be used to send a brief message in the form of pulses similar to Morse code.

“If we were to successfully close a handshake and start to communicate, we could flash a message, at a data rate of about a few hundred bits per second, which would get there in just a few years,”

40 light years in "just a few years"? So this laser beam travels faster than the speed of light?

In any case, I don't open my front door and flash my lights to invite strangers off the street, and I don't think we should be doing the same thing to strangers from outer space, you never know if it's an interstellar axe murderer and if they meet us at our planet, then they are already known to be far more technologically advanced than we are so there's nothing we can do to stop them.
I suppose it is fair to call FPTP "pick one" in some contexts, with people who aren't familiar with different voting systems, but it is possible for a proportional voting system to be implemented with "pick one" ballots.

A relatively unknown voting system is Direct Party and Representative Voting:

http://www.dprvoting.org/

which basically involves giving voters two ballot papers at each election: one a simple "pick one" for the local candidate (counted like a normal FPTP election), and the other a "pick one" for the party that the voter prefers at the national level (if any). The proportions for these second ballots are used to adjust the "voting power" of the MPs or Representatives that were elected for each constituency / district by the first ballots. For example, each politician from an under-represented party could be given effectively two votes in the parliament / congress.

An even simpler approach (which is a variant of Mixed-member Proportional Representation) would be to use the same ballot papers (and constituencies) as now, and produce the same set of winners as a FPTP counting process produces, but add an extra 20% of representatives to parliament / congress to readjust the composition of that house to reflect the national vote totals. In particular, these extra representatives should come not from a party list (since those give parties the ability to give seats to unpopular candidates) but from the "best near-winners", that is, the candidates who did best in their elections without winning the plurality vote. Such a system is already implemented in Baden-Württemberg.

Both of these systems have a clear benefit over Ranked, Score, and even Approval voting, which is that the vote counting process involves putting each piece of paper into one of a few piles, once. There are no extra rounds, and the only information that needs to be communicated for collating is the number of votes for each candidate (which correlates well with the size of the respective piles).
> Playing with the meter...

Which you report to Weights & Measures if you suspect that since the meters are supposed to be certified and untampered with -- back before uber defanged Weights & Measures (at least in Arizona so they would quit hunting their illegal livery vehicles) this was a serious offence.

> ...intentionally taking a longer route

Everyone has a smartphone and generally don't trust cab drivers so have their google maps open.

The main difference is with a cab the only way they can charge you extra is to call the police and have them make you pay (or give you a ticket for "theft of service"), with uber they just tack on some extra charges and you have to fight them to get the money back. The police are going to ask a few questions and not make someone pay $150+ for a couple mile trip when they can look in the back seat and see there's no vomit.
I don't think it's supposed to be zero-config, it's just supposed to come with sane defaults.
What's the best that could happen? No such thing as a free lunch.
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A 1% failure rate is not safe.
Stop reporting this absolute non-sense.
I thought bears shit in the woods! Have I been mislead this entire time?
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You’re getting caught up in the “graph” part. GraphQL is unfortunately named, because it doesn’t actually have any “graph” related semantics or features in the graph database sense. The “graph” in GraphQL just refers to the fact that you can use it to retrieve nested data. On the other hand, SPARQL and Tinkerpop (the “true GraphQL” imo) are actually about graphs and related data in the graph database/semantic web sense. GraphQL and SPARQL have nothing to do with each other.
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But's what the value in practice? Is there any real proof that we can achieve superior results by interacting with colleagues in different ways based on their Myers-Briggs personality test results or whatever? People seem to take this stuff on faith but the actual evidence is distinctly lacking.
This is so fucking dumb.

You don't think Uber won't catch on when they have a driver accused twice of vomit fraud and just fire him destroying his job? (The cost of setting up is probably around two vomit frauds worth off $)

Do people really think this is a fucking unsolvable problem. Do people really think this is happening on mass?

Compared to a normal taxi that can continuously take people on long routes.

Compared to a normal taxi that can assault and rob you and no one knows what car did it? Yes, this happened a lot before Uber, but now Taxis are starting to put measures in place.

The real fraud here is the users claiming the drivers are lying, and the drivers have to take it. They can't risk their jobs over it.
> I'd also argue that we're actually more likely to experience another AI winter.

We'll experience an AI winter again like we experienced an Internet winter in 2001-2004. Which is to say, not really at all. AI is now being widely commercialized for the benefit of consumers and businesses. That process will not stop, even if the hype train deflates before rising again at a later date. There is large, tangible commercial value in AI at the current general level of capability and near-term potential. That will result in pursuing maxing out whatever this era is capable of, before the next leap occurs at some point down the road. It's a progress track of higher highs during the exploratory boom and higher lows during the winter.
I enjoyed reading the author's motivation for posting as a 0day vs Bug bounty.

https://github.com/MorteNoir1/virtualbox_e1000_0day#why
What is this "push ahead" crap? I have no idea how that's different from the Amazon analogy.

You should come to terms with the fact that whatever you mean is completely unintuitive to many/most of us, and that almost everyone will just this like they use Amazon. Whether or not the page says "it's like Amazon" or "it's not like Amazon".
If someone thinks that they may be an impostor, then they probably are.

Firstly, it means that they think that our society is a meritocracy (or close to it); this shows that they lack life experience/wisdom. Once you realize how far society is from being a meritocracy, it's literally impossible to feel like an impostor. There are so many successful people who are idiots that even if you were an idiot yourself, you would still be within the norm; I.e. not an impostor.

Another thing about people who have impostor syndrome is that it shows that they feel insecure about their intelligence and/or abilities. Insecurities are typically rooted in past experiences or traumas. Smart people often get positive reinforcement about their intelligence; they don't have traumas or insecurities when it comes to their intelligence.
Well not just a plane passing overhead, a plane passing overhead 200 years from now.

Maybe we should be aiming the big laser at Oumuamua. With a big HEY COME BACK HERE message.
They're frameworks to help you...
Don't call it fundamental then. Not about to get in a pointless argument over vernacular
It's not that uncommon actually.

E-commerce, viral, social media, news are all examples.
I would venture a guess that all so-called intelligent life seeks make use of anything that it can get its hands on and order it according to its will. If this is true, then you really don't ever want to meet other intelligent life. At best they would integrate you into their economic system, just like we integrate people with lower intelligence into our economic system... or underdeveloped countries for that matter. A bit worse would be making us into slaves, which might appeal to their humanity. Most likely is simply to eliminate us and take the planet for their own colony and keep us as pets.
Okay but https://www.google.com/search?q=fake+vomit&tbm=isch
I had an Uber driver tell me years ago he would sometimes shake people up extra hard when it was his last ride of the day at 2-3am Fri/Sat and the passengers looked like they were ready to pop. He claimed to know a guy who would be able to clean up for only $50, and Uber would pay him an extra $200 for the inconvenience. It was a nice occasional $150 boost.

Still, doesn't seem scalable. Also not super pleasant to have that done to your car unless you're renting it. Every time I would tell other Uber drivers this story, they would just laugh and not believe it.
Thank you, Randall
Lot of surprise about something that I thought was not particularly controversial to say. Google has been using vendored dependencies in version control for years[0]. It's also going to be the default behavior in Jai[1].

Is there something I'm missing that makes those examples particularly abnormal? Has consensus radically shifted since the last time I looked into this?

[0]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-dev/nMWoEAG55v8...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TwEaRZ4H3w
Ah, such a simple oversight on my part! Thanks for illustrating why the two systems are equivalent.
You should see if there's way to circumvent HR or even have them work with you on hiring candidates. At my company, all engineers are VERY involved in the hiring process when it comes to new additions to the team.
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So happy to know I'm not the only one playing Airmash who isn't in high school!
There is no organized body of workers in the private EMS industry in California. Unions are extremely rare in private EMS.

The group behind Prop 11, Californians for Emergency Preparedness and Safety, is an AMR shell corp. AMR provided all of its funding, and it's CEO, Thomas Wagner, is the CEO of AMR's Western Region operation.
I'd argue that if the president is intended to be a position of power, then a separate election is good - otherwise, one party (presumably the largest) in the ruling coalition has power far beyond what their vote count would justify, and the person gets power without real input from the electorate.

Especially with many parties, if parties A and B are reasonably similar, it's quite plausible to like party A's platform while preferring party B's presidential candidate. A separate presidential election accounts for that, allowing you to elect A for the house, and B for president.

Note that parties A and B are similar - I'd argue that they'd have to be, and that it's extraordinarily unlikely to get a president the ruling coalition is incapable of compromising with. This works out because overall, the vote for president should be ideologically similar to the votes for congress/parliament. (That working, of course, is contingent on some form of ranked voting for the president, rather than the FPTP system the US has now.)

All that said, I'm from Canada, and I don't really agree with the idea of a single person with large amounts of power, but that's my take if there must be one.
If you actually read, e.g., Socrates, you’ll find that his idea of wisdom is actually pretty consistent with the typical Western view. There’s some discrepancies, but the overall shape is the same. Look to Eastern cultures and there’s far greater difference (and perhaps even less agreement on what words should be translated as “wisdom,”) but there’s an obviously parallel concept.

Further, wisdom (like related “social” concepts) points at some thing or pattern in the “objective” world. That thing/pattern/what-have-you is, at least putatively, there, and will be there as long as there are humans to be wise/unwise- even if our idea of it is lost, and even if the idea was an arbitrary division of the universe.

And even further, there’s nothing stopping these researchers from making an operational criterion that matches the arbitrary definition of wisdom we have right now and finding something out about it. Even if humanity decides tomorrow that wisdom should actually mean something entirely different, knowledge about today’s “wisdom” was learnt.
It includes a copy of GPL. The README tells you what it applies to, and what it does not. It tells you where to find the original project it was forked from. And all the files that the TabNine guy did not write contain their original copyright notices from the YouCompleteMe authors.
Always enjoy this article when someone dusts it off and shares it anew. You have to appreciate the problem solving skills he demonstrated in order to pull of a viable fission reactor in the basement. The ultimate maker!
I see plenty of ML researchers in person and online who think we are getting closer to real AI and it just requires some evolutionary improvements over current techniques.
Well they were adults during the whole process. Climate change was starting to get some attention back in the 80's at least, and there were definitely warnings in the 90's. Not nearly as severe or conclusive ones, but still.

Millennials were children at the time.
Let's hope that there are no interstellar laws against shining lasers at other star systems.
> If they become wide-spread companies and governments will inevitably start tying services to chips

Yes, Christians have long thought a chip will fulfill this prophecy: "Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark," --- The Revelation
> such as around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth, or TRAPPIST-1, a star about 40 light-years away...

I don't think they are asserting that the laser beam travels faster than the speed of light. I think they are referring to Proxima Centauri being about 4 light-years away from Earth [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri
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Heinlein knew it in 1973:

Age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit.

Robert A. Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love"
Am I missing something here, or would a mark of chain be much easier to write and solve the problem just as well?

Seems like much less effort. Of course, maybe the author wanted to work on an RNN instead?
Every party-affiliated "expert". IIRC the intelligence community didn't actually present the case itself. Just people like Colin Powell going up and lying to Congress.
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