skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Am I autistic?

I wouldn't assume so, unless you have other reasons to think so. I'm not diagnosed autistic, and I wouldn't self-diagnose either, though I do think I'm on the autistic side of 'normal' for some traits.
Memoir for Listening
There are many different kinds of loop unrolling, and RISC-V's V extension is not the only one. Itanium had the same issue: the loop unrolling assist in the instruction set was not viewed by many compiler people as being sufficient.
I have IBS because of severe social anxiety, but I don't have any anxiety because of IBS.
> Imagine a polynomial (in the smooth space). You can capture a particular set of points that uniquely determines the polynomial. In some circumstances you can use these samples to reconstruct the original polynomial by interpolating between any of the two points.

This is not duality though and you do lose information.

For instance let’s say one has a cubic polynomial and one samples 5 points from it and stores those points. If one didn’t know the original order was cubic, and if one tried to interpolate over the 5 points to fit a quintic, that would be an incorrect reconstruction.
As a kid we had 3 chickens in our garden. One day some farmer gave us a rooster that while small a small one, consistently bullied all the other animals in his farm. Our 3 black hens somehow decided to act together against him. Until we found him killed and half eaten. Nature can be nightmarish!
After all these stories I strongly believe that "self-driving, except when it's not" is even worse than manually driving, because supervising a computer is not too far from a driving instructor supervising a student driver; most of the time it's OK, but you have to be extremely alert to catch the times when it makes a fatal mistake. On the other hand, if you're "manually" driving, you are fully in control of and can anticipate the situation, thinking ahead with what's next. A self-driving car, like a student driver, won't tell you what it's going to do and ask whether that's OK --- it just does and you have to be very alert to instantly take control to correct when things go wrong.

Autopilots work in planes because the operators are extremely well-trained, and the reaction times needed are measured in seconds or even minutes. In a car, it's less than a second.
I think self-driving technology is worth the risk and worth the large amount of property damage and human injury that comes with it.

I’m guessing you don’t see your property or life as being worth sacrificing for this “noble” goal, right? I’m a little horrified at people who gleefully volunteer their fellow humans to suffer or die in the name of progress. If however you want to personally volunteer your person and property in the name of technological advancement, that would be a different matter.
Possibly. I have sadly known many teens that made poor choices as much to spite their parents or to "be themselves"/"develop their own identity" as much as anything else. I didn't blame the college, the boys were responsible for their own decisions. I believe this is known as the second-generation problem: the first generation is very successful due to their family's recent immigration. The second is often much less so (or even less successful) due to their taking everything for granted. And it's not just a theory; I've seen more examples than I could count of this.
Considering the list seems to contain both "big" and "large", my guess is that there's quite a bit of overlap in the words used because they expect the 3000 are generally known and can be relied on. This means that if we were going to optimize for size, we could probably get to a much small number of words, and use those to define the others.

I didn't go searching, big was literally the first word on the list I read after going down a few pages, and I wondered about large, so I searched for it. I just looked a bit more, and there's "child", "childhood", and "grandchild", which while not the same problem, does illustrate that they are fairly liberal with their inclusions because they appear to want to use the minimum vocabulary to define something idiomatically, which is a slightly different question than what's the minimum required.

This problem actually seems to share a lot in common with database normalization.[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization
wow, love that author biography on amazon! I like his chutzpah.

> This is awkward and a little creepy. They tell me I have to do it for promotional purposes, but I've already got a blog. I've already got a website. Being told that setting up an author page on fcuking Amazon is essential to success? A company that treats us all like such goddamn children it doesn't even allow us to correctly spell an epithet with a venerable history going back 900 years or more? That just sucks the one-eyed purple trouser eel.

> Still, here I am. But if you're really all that interested, go check out my actual blog/website. Google is not your friend (any more than Amazon is), but at least it'll point you in the right direction.
I took Junior and senior level history classes to satisfy my social science elective requirements. I found them very interesting and enlightening.

I tutored a few people who took the sophomore level "world history" classes that most kids took to satisfy the requirements. Those sounded like little more than brutal rote memorization exercises.
It really seems to depend on the city. For about $100/night in Zurich I stayed once in a huge top floor flat and once in a bedroom with private bath in a giant palace with plenty of room to entertain dozens, which I did. My company's negotiated hotel rate was $425/night and I pocketed the balance.

In NYC all of the Airbnb inventory is bedbug-ridden hovels. Perhaps this simply reflects the housing stock of the region.
Interesting. I actually charge much more for the room, and less for the cleaning fee. Charging a low cleaning fee sends the message that I'm not doing as much cleaning, and I don't. Fresh sheets and towels, of course, a full roomba-sweep, clean toilet/shower/bathroom sink and clean, scrubbed countertops are a must. But the fridge has some spots, the floor doesn't get mopped unless it's bad, and there's often dust on the windowsills, spiderwebs and dirt in the patio door cracks, the windows have streaks, etc.

I've found that if I charge less for cleaning, then do less cleaning (I can usually turn my one-bedroom space in about 75 minutes, if I get the roomba started before I do), I'm happier, and the guests tolerate it. It's not hotel-quality, but I'm not providing a hotel, I'm providing a short term home.
That installation has acquired a certain noteriety - when the White House requested an art piece, the toilet was offered...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/the-white-h...
See sibling comment that the security coprocessor is a repurposed A10. And then to answer the next question, because the HEVC encoder for iPhones has been optimised, and they can likely just use the same code that already exists for iOS.

I have wondered whether they should be using the GPU in the A10/T2 too, instead of the Intel integrated graphics. Would probably perform rather well!
Darpa Seeks Tools to Capture Underground Worlds in 3D
And New Jersey.
Okay, I think I understand what you're getting at. But if you've taken a set of points from a continuous set (like an interval on the reals) and you can put those in bijection with a discrete set, then by definition your subset of the continuous set isn't continuous. It must be discrete.

More succinctly, you actually can't draw an isomorphism between discrete and continuous spaces without losing information from the continuous space.
About Designing Everything
That thing had a locked bootloader, no matter how nice the hardware I am not buying a device with a 2-3 year lifespan.
Redis and MySQL have started to lock down with random passwords now when installed, which is nice.
Cloudflare Workers is a functions-as-a-service platform that runs on all the nodes of their CDN platform and works in the path of every request. Lambda@Edge, Stackpath, Fly.io are 3 similar options and there are dozens of single-region FaaS vendors. Fastly is working on a WebAssembly based compute environment.

CDNs are commodity so it's really the extra features that cause companies to move. With something like Workers that allow you to build whatever functionality you want, it actually reduces reasons to move in the first place. Also CF doesnt charge for bandwidth which is a unique advantage.
"The second vulnerability was in Microsoft Windows. It is a local privilege escalation in the Windows win32k.sys kernel driver that can be used as a security sandbox escape."

https://security.googleblog.com/2019/03/disclosing-vulnerabi...
Fax? Seriously? I haven’t used a fax with a hotel in decades. I’d probably try one or two major chain apps and, failing that, Expedia or booking.com. Perhaps HotelTonight has more options for last minute but there are plenty of other sites that let me book quickly online.
> If 20% of graduates are women, is that because of subconscious bias favoring men in admissions or grading?

I'm not sure I follow. At most American universities students don't declare their major until after they are admitted. Usually not until their second year. Women already outnumber men in university by a substantial margin. Women make up 60% of students in American universities.

There are some Universities focused explicitly on engineering, but many of those actually favor women substantially. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and CalTech for instance admit women at over twice the rate of men: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/03/1...

I really don't see the much support for the argument that universities are discriminating against women. In fact, there's substantial evidence of the opposite.
They used a project called Typed.js. https://github.com/mattboldt/typed.js/
What about Platform Security Processor and Trust Zone? Few CPU's lack a hardware rootkit now.
With chip based cards, cash has become faster. At least this is the case with the card reader at the cafeteria at work, where you can hum most of the Jeopardy theme while waiting for the machine to do its thing. Whereas cash customers move along in a few seconds.
Since we are just making things up, was can also say they father is in crippling back pain past his middle age due to all the plumbing work he did before. (This was from a plumber who was lamenting to me while repairing my water heater.)
> I bet they will go after the driver now and try to place blame on her despite her having an impossible job

What's impossible about watching the street and hitting the breaks if necessary, while testing a prototype self-driving car? I would say if you can't even do that, you shouldn't be in that seat.

This isn't the case where just one person is responsible. The system shouldn't have been configured that way. The driver should've been alert. The woman shouldn't have crossed the road like that. Everyone was negligent.
My two cents are:

1. Do not buy an expensive car;
2. Do not buy a car unless really necessary (of course not feasible/practical in many parts/cities of the world);
3. Avoid all kinds of subscriptions you can. Anything that consistently affects your income;
4. If you're making good income, don't act like it's going to be like this for ever;
5. Try to stay ahead in your career so that you're eligible for the upper end salaries;
The demand for evidence in the wake of all the NSA leaks is laughable.[0] What does evidence of the NSAKEY being a backdoor look like to you, a provably malicious CSA shim, signed by the key, hand delivered by James Clapper?

I'll tell you what it looks like to me:

After the debug symbol is found, Microsoft gives a seemingly very stupid explanation for it[1]: "It is a backup key. Yeah, uhhhh... during the export control review - the NSA said that we had to have a backup key, so we named it after them..." After being challenged on the plausibility of their backup scheme they refuse to provide any further explanation.

Here is the funny part: Microsoft might be technically telling the truth about it being a "backup". Consider what else was going on around this period: ridiculous export controls on key-length, the clipper chip... and finally: government managed private-key escrow[2]. At that time the export regulations did not specify a backup requirement, and yet Microsoft claims otherwise. You know who else was talking a lot about backups? The Whitehouse, in its proposal for allowing the export of key-lengths above 56-bits - so long as applicants implement "key-recovery".[3] Somehow I don't think that we share the same definition of the word "backup".

Also, ECI Sentry Raven[4], have fun with that.

[0] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/784280/sigint-ena...

[1] https://cryptome.org/nsakey-ms-dc.htm

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20000818204903/https://csrc.nist...

[3] https://epic.org/crypto/key_escrow/key_recovery.html

[4] https://archive.org/details/nsa-sentry-eagle-the-intercept-1...
I frequently wonder how much market volatility is amplified by High frequency trading and algorithmic trigger fingers. With most of the decline reference in this article returned (at least from an index perspective) by March, I wonder how much of this rapid-fire precipitous change was technologically executed without human oversight.
But you do keep your address private or at private as possible. You give it out only as needed.

If all twitter accounts had a physical address scams would increase, crimes, etc.
Same here. I used to always go for an Airbnb, now I generally do a hotel unless I'm staying with a large group of people and need a big house.

The early Airbnb days were great, because it was mostly people that were renting out their place while they traveled. They cared about their place and they wanted you to care about their place. It reminded me of how eBay was before it became just another marketplace, it was a more personal experience.

Every single bad Airbnb experience I've had has been with the people that are taking out second properties to rent on Airbnb as a business, so they are completely disconnected from it.
Why should an AirBNB be cheaper? In many ways, you're getting more. More square footage, more amenities, more options. Sure, I can stick a family of 4 in a hotel room with 2 queens, but we will be way more comfortable in an AirBNB with a kitchen, living room, etc.

I totally understand why a business traveler would want consistency and simplicity. When traveling with family, I'm happy to pay more for the AirBNB experience, even if one of the adults has to sleep on a sofa bed in the living room, while the other is in a king bed with the kids. (Assuming a 1 bdrm rental. 2 bdrms is even better.)
A thermite infested apartment would be pretty awesome, though.
One of the issues is that the car's stock system was disabled;
I worked with a friend who purchased from iBuyPower (shudder). But the experience turned out fairly well.

But Corsair, Falcon NW, and CyberPower are others.
> Give your users instructions for bypassing those warnings. If you trust them to manually verify your software then you trust them to follow those directions.

If your selling software, this probably isn't a good strategy. However, I consider it perfectly reasonable for software that's being created in one's spare time and offered for free.

(I think the current situation we have on Windows / macOS is a perfectly fine balance, btw—except for drivers, where installing unsigned copies is way too difficult)
The market should converge, and in fact we see this (and it's well attested in this comment section).

I like airbnb for a couple of use cases:

- parts of cities without many hotels (usually means without much tourist attraction). You can stay near friends without imposing on them.

- transient events. E.g. PAX sucks up all the hotel rooms in Seattle and there are nice AirBnbs that show up along the "traditional" model (they aren't professionals but folks wanting to make a few extra bucks opportunistically). They tend to love a business booking as they know I'm not likely to smoke crack in the living room

Apart from those cases, these days a hotel is likely a better bet even if the cost is comparable.
Look into Chu spaces.

> One cannot interchange the order of the composing morphisms while preserving the properties of the original.

Good observation one really can't but that was never a hard requirement, right? Ordering becomes actually more interesting because you can have interesting properties like anti-commutativity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticommutativity) which is a lot more useful than commutativity. Lie groups are anti-commutative groups btw.

> In optimization, the concept of duality is also a much stronger idea: the primal and the dual of a problem are opposing views of the same problem that correspond exactly (not approximately) in their dual properties.

My view is more general. The difference between these spaces lies in the idea of choice and in the idea of adversarial choice. You are correct, they are opposing view, like two players playing a game.

I control my moves. I do not have control over my opponents players moves, however I do have knowledge about my opponent's potential moves. Therefore I can do some sort of min-max optimization to figure out my optimal play given my situation and knowing my opponent's options.
> I recommend suffixing the user of all addresses with something you want to go to your inbox.

I use a subdomain. *@abc.example.com goes to my CatchAll folder. usernames@example.com go to their respective users. There are no equivalent names between @abc.example.com and @example.com so if anyone gets cute[0] and tries stripping out subdomains, the messages are rejected. Also, subdomains are common enough that no one thinks anything of it.

As a nice bonus, the subdomain can also be directed elsewhere. I've aimed it at various "we automatically file your e-mail" type scripts and services before, just to try them out.

0 - Spammers absolutely try to get cute and drop the subdomain. For example, in the Dropbox leak, dropbox@abc.example.com and db@abc.example.com of mine were leaked. I see tons of spam attempts to dropbox@example.com and db@example.com daily.
This convoluted idea is only getting purchase here because the idea of effective penalties for mishandling/misuse appears outlandish.
That's more or less what I was looking for. There's a SATA adapter for $10: https://www.pine64.org/?product=rockpro64-pci-e-to-dual-sata...

However, I'm not sure how it would perform compared to my somewhat obsolete AMD Athlon II X2 260, and other posts have convinced me the power savings wouldn't necessarily be significant enough to pay for it.
0) Initialize set X to contain every word.

1) Y = set of words in every definition of the words in set X

2) X = Y - X (all words in Y that are not in X)

3) Repeat from 1 if the set of words in X has changed

Does that reduce all words down to the actual minimal set of words required to define other ones? Since you can build upwards from the resulting set X to get the original set of words.

Also, this reminds me of the knapsack problem a little bit (for example what is the minimum set of coins required to be able to make $X).
Is the author getting paid by the word?
It is trying to be conversational or something but it just needs to get to the point.
Whereas I want none of those things. I want a living room I can hang out in while the kids are asleep, a kitchen where we can make breakfast so we aren't spending $15/head on food the kids don't like, a fridge and a microwave to store/reheat leftovers, and a nearby park or backyard to play in.

I agree that predictable check-in is nice, and I will seek out AirBNBs with code-based checkins.

YMMV.
I wonder why Uber (and other self-driving car companies) don't have remote employees monitoring the road who can take over in case the appointed driver doesn't react quickly enough.

The problem with these driver-assisted self driving cars is that the driver is unlikely to be paying attention at any given time since the system is 99% reliable.

By adding remote monitoring, you could even have multiple people monitoring each car. It might be impossible to safely steer the car from a remote location, but they could surely activate the breaks and/or trigger other simple directives to drastically decrease a fatalistic collision.

Given that the average driver reaction time in a car collision is 2.3s [1], I doubt network latency would pose much of a problem, and cost surely isn't an issue for these companies. A remote person could also use the car's cameras to gain a superior field of vision (especially at night time) when compared to the in-car driver.

[1] https://copradar.com/redlight/factors/IEA2000_ABS51.pdf
D'oh! I forgot that one, and gave an awk description instead.
One Does Not Simply Add Ethics to Technology (2017)
There's a long history behind education, types of it, and the reasons, rationales, and interests behind these. One of the better synopses of these I've found is Wes Cecil's "Myths of the Modern American Mind: Education" (61 minutes, audio only):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFiiOm6fB3c

He traces the history back to Babylonia and scribal training, Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, medieval education, scholaticism and the rise of the Seven Liberal Arts with their Trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric) and Quadrivium (Maths, Geometry, Music (or harmony) and Astronomy), the emergence of the modern physical and social sciences, and the Prussian Educational System which is the foundation of contemporary Western education.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education

Throughout virtually all of this there's been a sharp division between intellectual and technical education. The liberal arts were distinguished from the technical arts, also called Artes Mechanicae (mechanical arts), servile arts, or vulgar arts, originally: tailoring and weaving, agriculture, architecture and masonry, warfare and hunting, trade, cooking, and blacksmithing and metalurgy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artes_Mechanicae

Since 1800 or so, the distinctions have largely been between pure skills, including trade, vocational, and technical skills (including STEM), professional training (law, medicine, military, religion, and general administration), and humanities or liberal arts. The relative prestige of these has shifted fairly markedly over this period, as well as the increased specialisation within academic curricula and programmes, with the University of Virginia offering eight fields of study in 1825, and Johns Hopkins University using the term "major" for the first time in 1877. The emergence of technical schools, such as M.I.T. (1861) with specialised courses of study helped drive this transformation.

Cecil's treatment is on the light side, but engaging.
Perfection isn't required. None of the systems we design are perfect. What's relevant is whether or not it's better for the users. In a direct way, for the average user, I don't think you can reasonably argue that it's not. There are of course other issues with walled gardens, but security isn't one of them.
Impressive and hilarious.
It's a markets/economics analysis blog that takes some pride in staking independent positions. (Charitably put.)

The segue to blockchain/MBS wasn't a non-sequitur, it was the eventual aim of the piece -- that smart people will invent, nasty people will ruin, smart people will be ruined and the state will intervene and grow in remit.

As for the strikethrough, it was to compare the causes of the GFC with the (at the time of writing more current) blockchain fad.
No doubt in my mind whatsoever. Books aren't just the words on the page. They also rely significantly on implied cultural contexts, meanings, things that _do not_ need to be said.

It's not condescension, it's just a simple fact. This actually becomes blindingly obvious only when you move to live in another culture/country about which you might have had some preconceived notions.