skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I caught Google a few years back with the same hijack, but then it was Metrolyrics: https://yvoschaap.com/weblog/misbehavior_by_google_lyrics_on...
In fact I found the second and third talks more interesting than the first! Which sadly are not included in the slides from the OP.
This is a very solid round-up of what faceless accounts have been spamming all over Twitter since this story emerged.

These arguments are weak enough to strain credulity. Almost all of them can be answered by saying "the context is very different"

1. Yellow Vests - no overlap in what is being protested. Dissatisfaction with policy vs dissatisfaction with fundamental political rights = very different context.

2. Extradition with rule of law abiding country that isn't explicitly trying to silence your dissidents = very different context.

3. Assange situation is complex and one-off, and the charges are more complicated than just reporting on stuff. It is also being openly discussed, scrutinized and will be prosecuted openly in a legal system. What routinely happens with dissidents and party critics extradited to China is very different.

4. HK was under British rule for a long time and there is a large English-speaking base.

5. Narrative about HK has to do with categorically different political / economic freedoms than the mainland. There's subtlety beyond a comparison like "what will be the bigger GDP"
In theory. I looked into emigrating to Switzerland a few years ago and I was told that getting a work permit was nearly impossible as a US citizen. Swiss companies have to prove that they can't find an EU passport holder with the expertise necessary for the job before they can hire an American or any other non-EU passport holder.

Unless something has changed?
"As far as replacing the software engineering work I do with "freelancers" is a sure way to put my whole company out of business. If there were any freelancers out there who could assist us we would have already hired them. We don't want "freelancers" we want people who will be around to build up institutional knowledge and perform because they know our company and our data. As it is, our office in India is about 30% as efficient as the one on the US, and that whole experiment has already been running for almost two decades. It's not just the timezones, it's just the whole nature of the job. We have people with 15-20 years of experience working with us. It's just too naive a picture to say "globotics" which is just a made up word--even says so in the article. If you want good outcomes in a corporation, it would be wise to hire good people and not just stock up on human cattle.
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You can see this at the IT department in my company. They are totally outsourced and offshored and it shows that they are not capable of doing anything moderately complex because every time they start something that start from 0. They have almost no people with any institutional memory so before they start something they have to spend an insane amount of time learning the current environment. If they had people who have experience from past projects they could do things in a fraction of time. But I guess the short term benefit of firing expensive experienced workers is easier to justify
than the long term benefit of keeping them.
Every weekend my wife and I host a Meetup group where we teach people Korean. Yesterday a high school girl came and started crying everytime she was paired into a group exercise, constantly apologizing for how bad at Korean she was (which was totally okay with everyone, we have had students come who didn't know anything). I'm guessing that she had an anxiety attack. My wife and I felt terrible because we didn't know how to make her feel better or even sympathize with what she was going through. Eventually, her mom (who also attended) took her home.

This game definitely have me a little more perspective.
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If anyone is trying to look it up (Google doesn’t know) DXRT refers to DirectX Ray Tracing.
> Galland's Aladdin was set in China, so actually the entire middle-eastern setting comes from The Thief of Baghdad.

Wikipedia seems to disagree:

> The opening sentences of the story, in both the Galland and the Burton versions, set it in "one of the cities of China". On the other hand, there is practically nothing in the rest of the story that is inconsistent with a Middle Eastern setting.
No, GCC has serious shortcomings in certain areas.
-flto=thin is better, autofdo/bolt is better, the jit is better, but the most important point are C constexpr which are implemented as in C++, but with GCC you cannot decide at compile-time if a constexpr is constant, so it misses out on many optimizations. It only has _Static_assert, but no usable __builtin_constant_p. With GCC it errors at compile-time, with clang it returns 0.
clang also has diagnose_if, e.g. to match user-defined compile-time warnings with user-defined run-time warnings.

e.g. the clang memcpy can be 100x faster than the gcc memcpy, when the size and alignment is known.

And gcc-9 added serious regressions on some platforms, that you need to blacklist it. gcc-10 probably not being better.
They have competition from Airbus. But this is too coarse-grained in time to provide the necessary incentives to improve safety.
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The American Revolution was basically a violent protest and is widely celebrated. One person’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter.
They do retain their principles of policing by consent. They are a citizen in uniform rather than a force in opposition to the citizens. It does generally change the attitude in nearly all dealings.

UK police can't lie to suspects in interview or bring out some false evidence to encourage you to confess, and interviews have to be fully recorded. Yes, of course there have been some that break the rules.
Not the Exception
Though sometimes people confess due to interrogation pressure tactics, there is still this phenomenon that the article doesn't touch on: attention-seekers who voluntarily call in and turn themselves in, claiming to be the perpetrator of some widely publicized crime, like a serial killing or whatever.
Since you mentioned the spine, you might find yoga helpful. I have found there is an interaction between anxiety and tension in the back (trapezius etc).
Really? You would rather have privacy invading ads everywhere than have well-researched paid content?
There is little distinction. One leads to another.

If you can dig news in well, you know that Syria began with some bakers protesting flour price hike and them roughing up some policemen.

A lot of revolutions stared with public disturbance events which had only tangential relation to political context, with Russian revolution being the best known example
I meant that there being three separate operators makes OCaml's design better than Haskell's. (Of course, this is just my personal opinion.)
It got pretty bad in the late 60s, ironically with pro Mao demonstrators during the cultural revolution (which had some spill over into HK).
The renewables depends on how they're connected to the grid. If they're DC charging a battery bank then presumably said bank can be treated as a single source so they'd be useful. Though it might be more efficient if they were also able to synchronize and direct-connect to the grid as AC.
It's not that easy. The whole legal system is based on finding the party to blame. With human drivers it's the driver or maybe the company but if something with an automated truck happens who do you blame? I am sure companies would love to be able to hide behind an automated system.
Plane scuttled to boost scuba-diving
Not sure how wide Apple has adopted it or how much of a 'distro' you could call their operating systems, but much is built using LLVM with clang where publicly visible.
The knowledge contained in the articles is very good but I got the feeling that it was written for an audience that already undertands the problems being solved. The Stack for instance is written in a language that only really makes sense if you've spent a lot of time with CSS and contains some extraneous paragraphs. I only mention this as the problems and solutions being explored are very valuable to learn but I think it could be written simpler and more succinctly so that meaning isn't lost for new-comers.

I'd be happy to contribute if it was open to suggestions.
Your evidence regarding 'most people'? Pew Research last year report that 63% of Americans say the the government is doing too little to protect animals and their habitat. They evidently do care about these matters.
Sure, they might not have predicted the extent to which knowledge could be "small pieces, loosely joined", but I'm not sure that in every case they are were creating centralized structures from first principles--generally there is one new concept they are exploring/pushing, and everything else is just rebranded things from their everyday life. The Encyclopedia Galactica is nothing more or less than "The Britanica.... IN SPACE!!!!" with no more or less authority implied.

That being said, the general concept of knowledge in earlier sci-fi does seem curiously impoverished--everything worth knowing often can be held within the brain single computer/robot/polymath, or quickly established by proceeding axiomatically from a few observations.
I don't think this is quibbling over terminology - "suspending" is a temporary measure, and governments being governments, there's every chance it would be "unsuspended" once the protesters melt away.
This isn't speculation as in speculative execution, it's speculation as in speculating that a condition is true that cannot be proved to be true, so it's not the same thing.

An example of this kind of speculation is speculating that there will only ever be one thread in a system, and removing locks. If that speculation ever proves to be wrong - a second thread is created - the locks are put back into the system.

That doesn't related to spectre, as when the speculation is reversed the whole programs is first brought to a safe halt - it isn't fine-grained enough to be useful for Spectre.

Unrelated, it is true that compilers need to be aware of Spectre-like vulnerabilities, and Graal does include experimental support for that.
Agenda-pushing is definitely not what this site is for. Even if it feels like other people are doing that, please don't.
The Americans chose a master of logistics (Eisenhower) as the supreme commander in Europe, and indeed delayed invasion by a year to minimize casualties and retain control of territory once conquered. That it caused more privation for the Russians was considered a convenient side effect, not a primary aspect.

The US was hardly hurt by the war at all, suffering comparatively few casualties; as their states were never actually attacked their primary contribution in Europe was to ship material from their factories to Russia and the other allies. Factories which after the war switched back to making commercial goods.

The war in the Pacific was a different matter, but again, only some US colonies were attacked and civilian suffering even in those territories was nothing compared to what other countries had to deal with.
Compare these numbers from the 80s-90s to current data.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/1999/sept/wk5/art02.htm?view_fu...

https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iagauto.htm
I’ve found writing in markdown and converting to other formats to be a very frustrating experience. It only works well for exceptionally simple documents. But as soon as you want something even slightly complicated it falls apart. Side-by-side figures, multi paragraph lists, footnotes, and numbered bibliographies are all trivial in latex and are a huge pain, if not close to impossible with markdown. I’ve wasted huge amounts of time on this.

On the flip, the latex syntax for super simple documents isn’t really onerous (especially if your editor fortifies the different elements).
So I just end up using latex for everything.
China has learned a lot since 1989, not necessarily the best lessons, but they at least have a well trained non lethal anti riot force (part of the PAP) and wouldn’t resort to the PLA unless as a best last resort even in mainland cities. One of the tragedies of 1989 is that China basically had no non lethal anti riot capabilities.
> to me this case is still a JIT jittin'

I think the point is that some JITs never do this kind of optimisation - they just produce the same code an AOT compiler would, but at runtime. Such as the .NET JIT.
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According to Paraguayan news [1] (Spanish), the failure was on the Argentina side of the Yacyretá hydroelectric (which is shared by Argentina and Paraguay), not at the plant itself. Only a few Paraguayan towns close to the hydroelectric itself were affected, while Argentina and countries it resells electricity to were out of power.
Recoding a viable subset of lens would have taken 50 locs in haskell.
Likewise, rewriting parser combinators would not have taken long for experienced devs. The problem here is that requiring people to recode the libs on top of the compiler is disingenuous. And if you ban idiomatic libs, you also ban most online help, tutorials, etc.
Yours is the first comment I've seen that expressed surprise it's so high. The most widespread perception is that HN users are largely based in SV. That has led to a lot of misunderstandings.
Though like so many it was not resolved on the battlefield but through lobbying and bribery in parliament. Unlike, say, the Viet Nam war in the USA, the American skirmishes had a negligible impact on the British purse.
As someone who runs a lot with a pack that typically weighs forty pounds, I highly recommend that you not do this. FWIW, I don't believe I'm damaging my joints by what I do, but I spent many years hiking with a pack and then many years running without a pack before I started running with a pack.

It can, however, be done: https://github.com/ctm/Bataan-Memorial-Death-March
For example a JIT compiler can, based on the runtime information + inference, discard multiple branches of a function that are effectively pointless and possibly even just inline the results if given those inputs the function is deterministic.

Of course, the function it compiled will actually not work with any different but still valid arguments, but that's not really trouble since the JIT compiler will simply evaluate that the already compiled version won't work for those as the function is called and compile a new version of the function for the new types just before. A pure ahead-of-time compiler wouldn't be able to optimize so aggressively since it would lead to an exponential explosion of possible inputs combinations most of which will very likely never happen.
This is a great summary, and I broadly agree with Jacobsen's take, but also took the time to read the primary source documents that he and others linked to. So, some finesse points:

2-3: I don't know that it's been well established that the student who sparked this incident and later pled out to shoplifting went into the store with the intent to steal. The other narrative presented is that he went in with a fake ID (so clearly had purchasing intent), the ID was spotted, the clerk attempted to confiscate it, and that's when things blew up. It appears undisputed that the student fled the store and was chased by Allyn Gibson, unfortunately resulting in Gibson getting beat down by the student and two friends --- the result was a felony robbery charge, at which point the student had immense incentive to plead out to anything the court would allow him to.

4: It's useful to know that there's a history of problematic interactions between Oberlin (the school) and the Oberlin Police (an unrelated department of the town in which Oberlin resides). That OPD felt the need to escalate a situation isn't dispositive. What we do seem to know is that, excepting an early incident where protesters entered Gibsons Bakery to protest indoors (and then left), the protests were not violent.

7: Oberlin didn't have a contract with Gibsons. They asked their cafeteria supplier to stop sourcing from Gibsons.

12: It's worth pointing out that the college didn't merely take the position that it had done nothing wrong, but also repeatedly in its own legal filings affirmatively supported the protesters claims --- apparently false --- that Allyn Gibson had "violently assaults" an "unarmed student".

Finally: I too have found Legal Insurrection's coverage of this case valuable, but anyone reading it should go in knowing that unlike Turley, L.I. is not "liberal", but rather full-throated conservative. It's always good to keep the agendas of news sources in mind, and that of course goes for L.I. the same way it would for DailyKos or PopeHat.

I think if Oberlin had been smart enough to redirect protest energy towards the Oberlin Police rather than to a private business, this all would have worked out better (and also, not for nothing, have been more just). As it stands, though, I'm shocked Raimondo still has a job; Oberlin's handling of the case was far more clownish than one could perceive from this summary.
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Given that the whole thing is being censored in the mainland by the PRC's government, why would they be protesting for the Chinese to listen?
I'm lucky that I'm generally met with people who trust me when I say the simulation is not the reality.
‘There was a historian in the time of the Britons, Gildas, who wrote about their misdeeds, how they exasperated God with their sins so much that He finally allowed the English army to conquer their land … Let us take warning from this: it is true what I say, we know of worse deeds among the English than we have heard of among the Britons.’

Note the use of "English" to equal Anglo-Saxons, and "Britons", the original inhabitants, at a time when they were arch-enemies.
Thanks for letting us know how you think.

As with other legislation, the devil is in the detail.

> An average Chinese: Its a shame that HK as a part of China has Extradition treaties with all other countries but not Macau/Taiwan/Mainland (historical law by british).

Such simplification--Hong Kong has Extradition treaties with all other countries but not China--is not useful in understanding laws.

I would cite below a point made by Leung Kai Chi (in Chinese [1], Question 6 there), translation mine (+ Google Translate):

> 6. But some Western democracies will also sign a transfer agreement with the Chinese government?
>
> Yes, but the situation in Hong Kong is different. First, when other countries and the Chinese government sign a transfer agreement, they generally stipulate that they will not be transferring to their nationals. However, under the Hong Kong Ordinance, both residents who are born and raised in Hong Kong, or those who only transfer at the Hong Kong airport, can be detained and handed over. Second, democratic countries have election supervision. If the government misuses the handover procedure, it will be punished by the voters. The chief executive of Hong Kong is appointed by the central government. Even if the transfer procedure is misused, it is difficult to open up the responsibility. Thirdly, precisely because the Chief Executive of Hong Kong is appointed by the Central Government, the handover arrangements in Hong Kong cannot be compared with other places. Leaders of other countries can independently assess whether a suspect should be handed over to mainland China. The Chief Executive of Hong Kong is responsible to the Central Government in accordance with the Basic Law and cannot make independent decisions. Under the framework of this system, all administrative examinations under the responsibility of the Chief Executive are tantamount to a false statement.

[1]: https://medium.com/@leungkaichihk/%E5%8F%8D%E9%80%81%E4%B8%A...

The whole article (in Chinese) is worth a read.
If you look at their actions, they do not care. You aren’t gonna vote or consume change into the world.

EDIT: to be clear, voting is useful, but politicians facing a complacent population will follow their own agenda—you need to act outside of the voting booth to push them in the direction you want.
Those are industrial equipment operational safety precautions, not a prohibition of cars and planes
"Onion Browser" seems to be able to do it...?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/onion-browser/id519296448

(i'm not implying they don't use WebKit, but i meant they provide a browser that uses Tor.)
Those two things fall under my second clause. "This has never been proven to differentiate from placebo" isn't "this has been proven to be indistinguishable from placebo." It literally just means "there's no solid evidence that it works." There might or might not be non-solid evidence; it might or might not have ever even been tried. But "we don't have any reason yet to suspect that it might work" is usually the best knock-down argument a doctor can give against something being worth trying (anywhere other than in a research setting.)

Also, re: the second point, you're talking about studies, but I'm talking about a much weaker criterion: whether any doctors have ever personally seen the treatment make a difference. There are a lot of things that have bad or no studies, but doctors swear by due to a mountain of shared-by-grapevine clinical anecdata. (Most treatments invented before the advent of scientific positivism, for example!) When something doesn't even have that, it's immediately suspicious—doctors really like talking about things when they work!
You may find your answer in this article.

How to roll your own backup solution with BorgBackup, Rclone, and Wasabi cloud storage

https://opensource.com/article/17/10/backing-your-machines-b...
And macOS. And iOS.
Thanks very much. I'm a NASA contractor now, so it it's partially a NASA project from that perspective. Can you post some examples of "slow entertainment"? I like that this website might be fitting a genre I didn't know existed.
I work in industry, and am amazed by the decline in use of things like detailed reports. Nobody reads any more. Someone might produce an in depth study of something, and present a summary as a PowerPoint, but that becomes the only documentary output of the work. If someone needs to know more detail, they go and ask the person. If the person get run over a bus, the knowledge is lost.

Even before this trend, there was a lot of documentation that was never intended to be read. Huge piles of what I call "ornamental" documentation, e.g., in fulfillment of ISO-9000 or other regulatory obligations.
As far as I know, only RPM-based package managers do symbol tracking at dependency resolution time. Neither Debian nor Arch package managers do this.
I love the concept. I think the story commingled anxiety and depression. This is common and could have been explained. If you want to know more I recommend learning about (and even taking) the GAD7 and PHQ9 tests for anxiety and depression. They’re used by multiple therapists to measure mental health at both a point and over time.
I’ve been investing since 2010, not “2-3 years”.

IMO you could sit on the sidelines and make excuses about “noise”, or you can get in and try to make money.
Looking at this, my takeaways are different:

Similar implementations in Rust(1) and C++ are roughly the same
Similar implementations in Haskell and OCaml are roughly the same
A similar implementation in Rust(2) to one in Haskell/OCaml is roughly 2x-3x
Don't underestimate dynamic typing, metaprogramming, and individual effectiveness

But for real world, long lived projects I still promote static typing with the exception of startup development (MVP/product validation, early iterations) of new product ideas.
Yann Lecun is also a fan of self-supervised learning:
https://www.facebook.com/epflcampus/videos/yann-lecun-self-s...