skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, free speech is a right in this nation. But, when I go to work I would leave my views of religions, politics and now guns at home. I just want to go to work, get things done and get the heck out. Heck, I don’t even want to stay after dark to socialize anymore. I am really concerned that if I say something stupid after a few drinks, I would be vilified like a sexist, antisocial or whatever the label is nowadays.
Awesome. I love projects like this.
Mind, though, that your presumption is that they are walking in and bringing political opinions into a non-political square, when in fact he was bringing political opinions into a dedicated political square within Google.
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How typical posting in a controversial thread, get upvoted then downvoted and flagged, silencing my thoughts on the subject. I said there were other forms of mass disinformation that should be addressed too and that people should think for themselves, not let large entities suppress freedoms on the internet.
Here we go again, the downvotes started.
There are a lot of changes from Vega: Warp32 to match NVidia (although Warp64 is still supported for backwards compatibility). It seems like Warp64 has some nifty tricks in it still, so anyone writing for Vega can still rest assured that you'll get benefits in RDNA / Navi.

The L0 / L1 / L2 cache structure looks complicated. The "s_waitcnt" instruction can now wait for loads vs stores, which is kinda nifty. I'm wondering if that's how memory barriers are supposed to be handled now (Vega compiles into an L1 cache flush. But that buffer_wbinv instruction no longer exists in RDNA).

The main issue is that bpermute / permute will only function across a Warp32. I'm pretty sure this will break my code, but it makes sense because RDNA executes severely differently from Vega.

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DPP has changed. DPP8 is an arbitrary 8-way swizzle, while DPP16 are a very limited 16-way swizzle (designed for "scan" or parallel prefix sum algorithms). I'm curious what the plan is for broadcasting: maybe SGPRs are the faster way of doing things rather than the old DPP32 operations.

EDIT: I guess V_READLANE_B32 and V_WRITELANE_B32 would be better "broadcast" instructions in theory than the old DPP commands.
It's the nature of work today. The lines between "work" and "life" have been blurred. The whole "burnout" phenomenon is a direct result of the fact that people are more emotionally invested in their work than ever, so it's not really fair to suggest that employees leave "politics" at home when society is prodding you to bring your whole self to work everyday.
That may be what you define as a miracle, but there are a lot of people who regard 'coincidences' as meaningful and evidence of synchronicity and the supernatural such as ESP/psi, and love to recount stories as proof thereof. (These days, the spooks now have names like 'racism', but the logic is the same.) If you trace Littlewood's law back to the Freeman Dyson essay which coined it ( https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood#origin-of-littlewoods-law-o... ), you'll find that it's a review of a book titled _Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience_. You can easily surmise why the book would go into discussions of how unlikely coincidences are actually likely, but Dyson makes it clear what is being debunked by Littlewood's law:

> The book also has a good chapter on "Amazing Coincidences." These are strange events which appear to give evidence of supernatural influences operating in everyday life. They are not the result of deliberate fraud or trickery, but only of the laws of probability. The paradoxical feature of the laws of probability is that they make unlikely events happen unexpectedly often...

So, since people do regard these coincidences as 'miracles', it is necessary to point out that they would happen frequently in a world completely devoid of any kind of 'supernatural influences', and thus are poor evidence for the supernatural.
The resolution of the Halting Problem shows you can't even determine whether the complexity is finite!
I've seen a lot of solar panel installations around Massachusetts highways. It seems they got put up on otherwise unused open areas around the roads, such as clearings between the shoulder and the woods, or the area inside the clover leaf ramps. [1]

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I'm biased (no degree) but I feel this is bad advice. You can learn everything you need to learn online.
The companies that stand to gain are likely to be publicly traded as well.
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I've been developing like this for the past few years now but at my previous jobs people still used feature branches, so there are definitely other styles out there.
> pointless expenditure on an ultimately meaningless arms race

What about price discovery is pointless? Would you prefer that prices update only once a day? Once a week? Once a month? Realtime pricing of securities and derivatives is critical for an efficiently functioning economy.

> if we imposed reasonable limits on the time required to hold an equity in order for a trade to be legally recognized

This would damage the ability of market makers to function, ultimately driving up the cost of offering pensions, 401k plans, retail investing, low fee ETFs, etc. If these companies are willing to spend their money competing for the ability to offer you a better, faster price, why is this upsetting?

If you're opposed to the emphasis on latency in equity markets, focus on rule 612 of Reg NMS, which prohibits showing more competitive prices.
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Patents are not for ideas, you can only patent processes, which one could define as the execution of the idea
So then that's maybe another thing unclear about the video. I'm certainly no reliable source.
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My guess is that it's because these the particular voices you're standing up for happen to be associated (sometimes strongly, sometimes not) with white supremacism and racism. I don't think you should have been downvoted, let alone flagged, but that's my only guess as to why; the alternative is conspiracy.
The article lists specifically 5 conspiracy theories: QAnon, Pizzagate, some kind of “Zionist Occupation Government” theory, Sandy Hook "Crisis Actor", and New World Order theory. Some of these I've never heard of.

I'm concerned what this will do to squash legitimate criticisms and questions. Recall, Pizzagate accused Epstein and his associates of pedophilia (and described his airplane as well). If the FBI considers accusing epstien and his associates of pedophilia a national security threat, we are in trouble.
I generally agree with that characterisation of C++, but it’s not at all what I was trying to get at by suggesting that Go generics should copy ideas from other languages.

It’s good that they’re being careful and conservative; but I feel that they’re going out of their way to avoid all existing paths, whereas it would actually be safer to use some existing system(s) as a starting point, as both the advantages and disadvantages -- in practice, not just theoretically! -- are known.

I definitely agree that interactions between features need to be carefully thought through. One likely wart with the current proposal is that user-defined generic types still won’t look or behave quite like the built-in ones, as those have special syntax and special operators. Will it be considered good practice to expose raw slices, maps etc in APIs? Or will people start wrapping them (just as in Java, an array would most often be wrapped in an ArrayList for convenience)? This might have been easier to resolve if generics had been thinkable much earlier in the language design.
If you get along well with your coworkers otherwise, it might be you expect they would be reasonable conversants in a company-internal forum. It appears that assumption does not hold once some level of physical interaction is removed from the picture; certainly it can't be argued that anonymity is the factor, here.
I heard good things about Chessmaster's teaching features, way back from the time of Windows 98. So now I get another thing to lament—that Ubisoft seems to have forgotten about Chessmaster, and it's not on mobile platforms.

(Upd: apparently there was an Android release by Gameloft in 2004, but it looks very questionably: https://www.mobygames.com/game/chessmaster___)
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Preventing HFT would mean exchanges make less money, meaning they'd either have to charge more or find a new way to subsidize market activity. It's akin to how Robinhood sells data to trading firms to subsidize trades for long-term retail investors. "Economically productive" isn't always black and white.
No, the point of lambdas is you didn't have to write the full class syntax.

Like in other OO languages, every value in Java is an object [1], and every object has a class.

[1] Except for the 8 primitive types.
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Bucky Fuller calculated that we could achieve this by sometime in the 1970's, if we applied our tech and resources efficiently. ("Therein lies the rub!")

He said that we could work two hours a day, and retire after just a few years, having paid for our living expenses for the rest of one's life.
Aggregating results of computation performed via standalone complex [0].

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Which company is winning the food delivery war?
Secretary of Defense is reviewing $10B Amazon contract
I should have probably said that I also keep 6-9 months of living expenses in a traditional savings account for emergencies. It didn't even occur to mention it since it's a minuscule portion of my net worth (< 2%), compared to the amount that's invested in the market, but that's definitely a good observation and I should have specified that to begin with.
What genre is that? I tend to listen to different ones, but no one genre manages to get me into the flow every time.
So some quick Googling shows that the neutrino beam fires every 1.3 seconds[1] and the 'near' detector on average captures 20 neutrinos, the 'far' detector sees <1 detection [2]. Note that the latter paper is from 2005 so this may have been substantially upgraded.

Each 'spill' takes 8.67 milliseconds, so if you simply vary the firing time to send a signal using coordinated clocks, naively you could send up to ln(1000 / 8.67) = 6.8 bits per second, but at the cost of the very latency that you're trying to minimize.

I'm sure there are smarter schemes, like also varying the neutrino beam density, but at 20 neutrinos per detection there's not much channel capacity in the amplitude either.

It looks like the main bottleneck is in the neutrino generation though, you can use more accelerator beams without needing to build more detectors right away.

Note also that the 'far' detector is only 500 miles away, so depending on how collimated the neutrino beam is you may be losing a lot of signal to get all the way through the Earth.

[1] http://nusoft.fnal.gov/nova/public/neutrinos.html

[2] http://neutron.physics.ucsb.edu/docs/MINOS_info.pdf
It might not be for you, but I would recommend reading through this https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-highlights.html

I personally find the following either cool or really productive;

Open Quickly,
Undo close,
Triggers,
Smart Selection,
Instant Replay,
Regular Expression Search,
Save Mark/Jump to Mark
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There's loss of fpgas in space already. Space micro is one example
> Why did Silicon Valley happen in California rather than Japan or Boston? Why was early-20th-century science in Germany and Central Europe so strong?

In which the authors conveniently ignore the existence of a number of disciplines, like the history of science and technology, addressing precisely the questions that they're asking.
OK, what you write makes sense, although my argument is not about motion, but rather about Aquinas's argument, so the meaning of "motion" is not relevant to my argument (whether that premise is true or false is also not relevant); rather, I am commenting on the form of the argument being illogical.
Actually you have to make an effort in Ethereum's PoS. For each 32 ETH of stake, you have to run a validator node.
Domino’s asks SCOTUS to shut down a lawsuit requiring its website be accessible
Good point with the flexible BFT paper. I didn't realize casper pipelines, I'll have to look into it. I'm working on IBFT (fixed to be more pbft like).
> "this conspiracy involves a documented series of facts that are hard to explain together"

I mean, that's a pretty good summary of the 'government surveilance' conspiracy theory, right up until the point Snowden proved it true.

As I read someone else say, some people are more attuned to much fainter signals; most of them are false patterns in noise, but sometimes they aren't. I just don't think we should throw the occasional baby out with the bathwater.

EDIT: I also don't think discussing such things should be a national security threat, which seems to me the actual story here.
I mean, I think the underlying issue this person has (and others, most likely) is the perception that it is "OK" to be very vocal about left-leaning views in the workplace but it is not okay to be the same about right-leaning ones.

The whole point is that it's unfair to those workers to have to "hide" in anonymous forums to express views that are held by half the country, especially if the workplace has made it clear there are no consequences (or that it's encouraged) to vocally express the views of the other side.
Solution for coordination problem https://issues.org/climate-clubs-to-overcome-free-riding/
I disagree, and history does not show this to be true. We have been more fickle when it comes to instant messengers than almost any other technology on the face of the planet (pun intended). From IRC, ICQ, AIM, Facebook messages on the website (not Messenger), WhatsApp, Telegram. I count 6 major shifts in the last 19 years. This would indicate that the over/under lifespan of a messenger is roughly 3.5 years.

All it takes is a usable interface, general availability, and a reason to change. If WhatsApp starts doing content moderation, of any form on the client, I am of the strong opinion that users will find this to be "creepy" and will immediately start shifting. As it is, all of my technical contacts have already left WhatsApp for Telegram. Since that group/audience has been the bellwether for all of the previous instant messaging client shifts over the last 2 decades, I imagine it's only time before "everyone else" also shifts off WhatsApp. I don't necessarily think it will be Telegram, but they definitely have the most momentum today when compared to, eg, Line, Zalo, Viber, Kik, et al.
Show whether extensions are certified by counties with similarly ridiculous laws and wait for that to become a required after the first 100 million people get pwned.
It implies no such thing. There is no blame because this is a contrived hypothetical that makes a number of ridiculous assumptions.

1. That someone going to a gay club in NYC later decides to go to Saudi Arabia, knowing full well that the government there is actively hostile to them.

2. That the government of Saudi Arabia somehow has access to facial recognition data from the NYPD.

3. This data for some reason includes not only mugshots directly collected by the NYPD (which was what TFA was actually about) but also private survellience footage from gay clubs, and this footage is clear enough to make a match (remember people tend to go to clubs at night)

4. The government of Saudi Arabia decides that they need to expend a tremendous amount of computing resources to run facial recognition of all of their survellience footage of every face in their country against this fictional database that they somehow obtained.

5. Further they conclude that a single facial recognition match, which is known the flawed, of a person in the vicinity of a gay club is sufficient to convict someone.

There are real privacy concerns yes, but this is absurdist fearmongering and deserves to be ridiculed.
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The FBI announcing this now, given there is an American President obsessed with internet conspiracy theories and theorists, to the extent that he invites QAnon supporters to the Whitehouse, does perhaps feel a smidgen like shutting the stable door long after the horse has bolted. And as others have noted here, the QAnon nonsense itself is just malarkey in the first place. The only ultimate point of QAnon is that of a collaborative joke to reel in media and idiots. Is all quite strange really. Is an online hive acting as a farcical Rasputin on modern US power structures, for the most part as a practical joke.
> Wait wait wait what? Surely this can't be true? What's the justification for this?

The stated reason isn't to deprive you of money to fund your defense, it's something like an allegation that the money is the proceeds of a crime or whatever other pretext. Which you might have been able to disprove if you had the money to hire a lawyer. But now you don't, which is really why they do it, and then you can't adequately defend yourself against whatever other charges they levy on top of that either.

They also commonly try to keep the money -- even if you're not found guilty of anything:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
Guess their moat is drying up...
There was a big heatwave in 2017. I can't find documentation, but "highest since 2017" might actually mean "Second-Highest Ever"
It's not about giving anyone assistance or an advantage, it's about giving people representation. With single-member districts, if a group makes up, say, 20% of the population in each district, they don't get 20% of the representatives, but 0%. If we had proportional representation, they would get 20% of the representatives, but we don't, and majority-minority districts are basically a bandaid to simulate it in a subset of cases.

To be eligible for a majority-minority district, a minority group must be "politically cohesive" and "sufficiently numerous and compact to form a majority in a single-member district", while the majority group must "votes sufficiently as a bloc to enable it [..] usually to defeat the minority’s preferred candidate". (Thornburg v. Gingles) In other words, there must be a political bloc that (a) is not receiving any representation in the area and (b) would have representation with a majority-minority district. Letting them have that in no way gives them an advantage over the majority, whose preferred candidates will still control all the other districts.

Why not apply this to political blocs that exist based on factors other than race – like plain old conservative versus liberal? Well, I think we should; again, I'd prefer proportional representation. But the current rule is enforcing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which specifically calls out discrimination based on race – something that was a huge problem in 1965, and is still a problem today. Compared to other types of political blocs, racial ones are disproportionately excluded from the political system. And morally speaking, although being discriminated against due to your political beliefs is bad, being discriminated against due to your race is somewhat worse, because you can choose one but not the other.
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> The whole peer-review process we have today is stuck in the 19th century.

Peer review as something associated with getting a paper published dates from the mid-20th century. The 19th century used the superior approach of publishing whatever and letting interested parties review it then.
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That is a technically correct but useless statement. If life continues to exist but human civilization is wiped out (a possible outcome) is that good?
Already has. The first notable example that springs to mind is "message queues" which were pioneered for use in finance. Companies like TIBCO grew fat on such software and now they are commonplace.
There's a certain amount of irony here given the FBI's history (I'm thinking of COINTELPRO).

I support conspiracy theorists. I think they are canaries in the coal mine of free speech. Right now we seem to be wrestling with the fear that someone can write something online, someone else can read it, buy a gun, and go do something illegal. While I find this worrying, I think any cure would be worse than the disease.
> The encryption . . . debate is already over – Facebook ended it earlier this year.

[...]

After all, if either user’s device is compromised, unbreakable encryption is of little relevance.

[...]

The problem is that if Facebook’s model succeeds, it will only be a matter of time before device manufacturers and mobile operating system developers embed similar tools directly into devices themselves, making them impossible to escape. . . . effectively ending the era of encrypted communications.

I guess FB is one of the more visibly monstrous instances of surveillance capitalism so it works well as an example, but I don't understand why the author is acting as if what it allegedly aims to do is unprecedented. As if similar phenomena hadn't already been happening surreptitiously throughout various other hardware/software for quite a long time.