skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watch more YouTube than anything else on a daily basis, and I would be perfectly fine watching my favorite creators on another platform. If it actually works and keeps those creators happy, then I'm happy. Competition in the marketplace used to be smiled upon.

I will not be downloading TikTok
> Since you mentioned this in the same breath as GPUs, I feel I have to point out that according to some reverse engineering paper, Nvidia's Turing is a VLIW architecture. (I'm talking about the actual hardware here, not PTX.)

NVidia Volta / Turing has been reverse engineered here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06826 . EDIT: I'm talking about the actual hardware, the SASS assembly, not PTX.

It doesn't look like a VLIW architecture to me. Page 14 for the specific instruction-set details. I realize this is mostly a matter of opinion, but... those control-codes are very different from the VLIW that was implemented in the Itanium.

> On Volta, a single 128-bit word contains one instruction together with thecontrol information associated to that instruction.

So NVidia has a 128-bit instruction (16-bytes) with a LOT of control information involved. The control information encodes read/write barriers, but there is still one-instruction per... instruction.

The "core" of VLIW was to encode more than one instruction-per-bundle. Itanium would encode maybe 3-instructions per bundle for example.

What NVidia is doing here is having the compiler figure out a bunch of read/write/dependency barriers so that the GPU won't have to figure it out on its own (I presume this increases power-efficiency). The only thing similar to VLIW is that NVidia has a "complicated assembler" which needs to figure out this information and encode it into the instruction stream. Otherwise, it is clearly NOT a VLIW architecture.

> Presumably they have some reason for that that's unrelated to increasing IPC, since AFAIK their GPUs aren't superscalar.

NVidia Turing can execute floating-point instructions simultaneously with integer-instructions. So they are now superscalar. The theory is that floating-point units will be busy doing the typical GPU math. Integer-instructions are primarily used for branching / looping constructs (and not much else in graphics-heavy code), so they are usually independent operations.
This is why I like tiktok more, I rarely see the same people twice. Kills the whole "celebrity" aspect entirely for casual users like me. It's comfy to sit just before bed for about 15 and laugh a bit with tiktok.
why no ac wifi? even my 6year old s4 has one
How does one prevent saccades? I didn't think there was any conscious control of them.
Iran helped Hezbollah bomb US citizens - hundreds died. First the US Embassy in Lebanon and then the US Marines Barracks who were on a UN mission to protect Christians during the Lebanon Civil War. Iran also sponsored and trained extremists in Iraq responsible for killing and maiming thousands of U.S. soldiers.

You can count up the death toll, and you'll find that nearly as many US citizens were killed by Iran-backed operations over the decades as were killed by Wahabbist operations (including 9/11). https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/american-victims-of-ter...

Mohammad Bin-Salman is getting the realpolitik pass because he so far is significantly more secularist than his rivals and predecessors and is relatively tolerant of the US & Israel compared to his rivals. Regardless of your feelings on AIPAC, that's a necessary step toward peace in the region. The Muslim Brotherhood and other Sunni fundamentalists despise him for that (and for how strictly and sometimes horrifically Saudi agencies are treating them). The current Prince deserves criticism, but you're lumping him in with the wrong faction.
Back dating stock options (i'm still assuming that is what the situation was, I do not know) certainly was commonplace, I don't know how many people really knew the law.

I DO think there is something that should set off someone's spidy sense that "Wait, we're changing the dates on these options that already exist?" or "We're lying about the dates / price these options were really granted at?".

To me at least that raises a lot of questions just changing the date on something financal to say it happened in the past like magic. I'm not a lawyer, but I'd be very nervous about that.
The Aesthetics of Programming Tools
What would stop them from releasing a GPLv2 port, with source, other than their own stubbornness? The Switch's DRM would preclude GPLv3, but not v2, no?

Also it would be easy for them to hire somebody to write a new port the right way with whatever license they please. It's freakin Doom!
yeah, but having travelled around some of these regions, the power is never reliable. The people who live there have adapted some amazing ways of adapting to it, and there are all sorts of jury-rigged solutions.

I didn't mean to be so flippant. But honestly, this article deals with an incredibly unlikely combination of events in a very small area of the world, and is then labelled with "the human body is close to its thermal limits because of climate change". This kind of sensationalist crap is not helping anyone.
No you use the AI to help the human. And you use the human to spot check the AI. It’s totally scalable.
First I've heard of that; interesting. From what I can tell, that's something software can potentially mitigate and smooth out on some displays?
The fact that inside the USA, northern states have on average a higher IQ than southern ones, is that a racist fact too related to European heritage?

> A paper recently published in the journal Psychological Reports concludes that of the 48 contiguous United States, those with cooler average temperatures tend to have populations with higher IQs.

https://psmag.com/education/a-compensation-for-cold-weather-...
I implore anyone considering the SMACHZ to do your research. This is one of many, many videos from independent journalists showing the company is beyond shady, misrepresents their products, lies about timelines, and throws red flags all over the place.
Damn. Microsoft still convoluting matters with their "editions" and tiers for everything like it was still the 1990s. This is yet another mess that I'm glad to have left behind in the Windows world.
A software's usefulness is not correlated to how well it was architected. What I like about Laravel is that its fairly complex code base that is mostly composed of tiny and expressive functions
On top of the requirements engineering that's left implicit here, there's still the matter of understanding the event trace that you're supposed to be modifying. If every patch is a transformer from traces to traces, then it stands to reason that you must understand the event trace at least as well as the program you would otherwise be modifying. And program traces are an inherently dynamic thing -- how do you gain an understanding about the potentially very complicated, interwoven traces you're developing with if you can only see one trace per execution?

A great deal of the problem of concurrent programming is just coming to grips with these traces, and decomposing them in a comprehensible way within the structure of your codebase.
You've raised a very good point, and that's something I spend a lot of time thinking about. Zynga is a great example because there's a serious chance that they could go out of business before paying a single penny to shareholders.

However, for those with fear of that situation, there are saner equities on the market.
Every reality TV show is heavily scripted and edited just as much as a regular show, so it's really the veneer of reality that distinguishes one from the other.

Actual reality is incredibly boring. I'd say that's what networks learned a long time ago.
I experience the same one week delay with an extension. The publishing delay is always about a week, and that is highly unusual.

They state that the extension update is under compliance review, which may take several business days, though the similar approval times indicate that this is actually an arbitrary publishing delay, and that no human review takes place in all cases, otherwise there would be more variation between approval times.
Holy shit, that quote. Did absolutely not expect that (even though I assumed thorough telemetry is sent to Microsoft itself).

I've been sitting for months on this article explaining my belief that advertising is a cancer on modern society, and I can't get myself to publish it, because literally every other day brings another thing I want to include on the list of damage being done. I'm not even actively looking for examples anymore; I just open HN and - lo and behold - top story tells me that MS Office mobile apps send data to US predictive profiling company, because of course they do.
thats really cool, i never knew i could do that. just told myself it wasnt moving and it stopped. stopped thinking about it and it started again.
It's not weird at all.

Caloric intake in children correlates to height very well below the median(+), and then it stops. You can't grow arbitarily tall by eating more food, but if you underfeed a child enough, it will end up shorter than its more-fed siblings.

In case you need some justificaiton for this intuitive claim, here's some tangential data: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-of-human...

" In contrast, in developing countries, nutrition deficits lead to a lower heritability. The fact that the mean height of the U.S. population has almost plateaued in the past decade suggests that the nutrient environment has almost maximized the genetic potential of height, at least in this country. Improved nutrition elsewhere may have similar benefits in terms of stature."

(+) I use median here to mean some unspeicified percentile, as you did.
"ETL developer" was (and still is) the industry term for more than 10 years before this new wave of buzzword spam came along (i.e. when "data science" was "data mining"). Most of these roles focused on using low-code tools like SSIS to build business-focused data transformation workflows faster than with any code intensive approach (e.g. Hadoop ecosystem and derivatives).

Business intelligence consultant/developer was a blanket term used either for 1) people that can model and translate business requirements into data platforms/components; 2) poorly targeted recruiting; 3) more rarely, to describe people that work both in 'frontend' (reporting and dashboarding using tools like PowerBI, who are "data analysts" in newspeak) and 'backend' (ETL developer).

"Data Engineer" today is, sadly, too often synonym with "solving solved problems using an unnecessarily complex approach and toolkit"; and then there are the cases where the volume or complexity of the data actually justifies the cost of using "big data" platforms. Not to sound harsh; the article discussed here illustrates my point using "simple" unix tools: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14401399
I also like the C source for Tcl/Tk which I think also follows similar engineering/style standards.
This is a little too cynical for my taste. Google isn't exactly a monument of ethical business, but I seriously doubt that Google would intentionally demonetize videos for the purpose of stealing from content creators.
They write an article on polygraphs and do not mention Aldrich Ames?

WTF, NYT?
Farmers engineer their fields to drain excess rain water. That is part of the reason major floods happen along rivers more often than they used to. But then they need to pump water out of the ground more often to water crops. Is there a way to get the rain water to go into the ground instead? That would help with both problems.
> - At least in the EU, more privacy is where the puck is going. They could take on Google's weaknesses.

Ironically, it's Europe where privacy championing Apple is way less of a player than Google when it comes to smartphones and services, especially compared to the US market.

So I'm not sure if a privacy conscious approach would buy them much in the EU, at least among consumers.
Doom has its own characteristic 2.5D rendering engine, which may be difficult to replicate in Unity unless you write it as a two-triangle shader.
Kubernetes for Golang.
This has been brought up as an example of fine documentation:
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/ec2e767e593953...

Requests for Python
https://github.com/psf/requests
Those who believe clinching works also believe polygraphs work (except when clinching)

Remove the clinching illusion and you restore the polygraph illusion to that group.
The PLA will happily storm HK if the HK govt requests it... but they won't. The reason is money.

If the PLA move in, the wealthy elite in HK will start moving their assets out -- likely to Singapore. Political instability is never good for investments and when a handful of the millionaires/billionaires start migrating their wealth, it'll become a mass exodus.
Totally agreed. If users can’t consume the data then whats the point of the website.
There are two different answers depending on who you ask.

The more ignorant will answer: it’s obviously true because they confessed. Nobody would confess to a crime they didn’t commit.

The more evil answer is: who cares? The public is reassured by a self-admitted criminal going to prison and I get re-elected.
When I was a young kid, I spoke with an agricultural engineer once that came to our school and he gave a talk about his career and what he did and the things he was finding (this was in say 2007/2008)

The part I remember the most and what intrigued me is when he was talking about ground water supply. He said that it would be unwise to keep digging into ground water supply for fresh water, for agriculture or otherwise, and what we really needed desperately was a nation-wide grid (I live in the USA, for reference) of pipes similar to how oil gets pumped for hundreds or in some cases thousands of miles, to supply desalinated water from the coasts to every part of america and to use properly use desalinated water to re-hydrate American rivers and wells, otherwise we will find ourselves in a situation of hastening a cycle of pumping ground water at an unfeasible pace, which to me is suggested in this article.

Seems relevant now, and I imagine the long term sustainability of such a thing would be much higher (and less depleting).

Looks like that guy was right. I wonder how many people have been sounding this alarm over the last decade.
Can someone tell me what a Lambda school is? From the comments here it appears its a specific class of school. From their site it just looks like a regular online learning company.
Apple's have an exhausting list of ingredients. Thankfully we can just list "Apple".

Alpha-Linolenic-Acid, Asparagine, D-Categin, Isoqurctrin, Hyperoside, Ferulic-Acid, Farnesene, Neoxathin, Phosphatidyl-Choline, Reynoutrin, Sinapic-Acid, Caffeic-Acid, Chlorogenic-Acid, P-Hydroxy-Benzoic-Acid, P-Coumaric-Acid, Avicularin, Lutein, Quercitin, Rutin, Ursolic-Acid, Protocatechuic-Acid, Silver, Vitamin A, B1, B2, and B6, Niacin, Pantothenic acid, Folic acid, Vitamin C and Vitamin E, Calcium, Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Phosphorus, Pottassium, Selenium, Sodium, and Zinc. Lipids, saturated, unsaturated and monounsaturated fats, Tryptophan, Threonine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Lycine, Methionine, Cystine, Phenylalanine, Tyrosine, Valine, Argenine, Histidine, Alanine, Aspartic Acid, Glutamic Acid, Glycine, Proline, and Serine. Trace amounts of Boron and Cobalt. Soluble and insoluble fiber (cellulose, pectin and lignin). Sugars of fructose and sucrose. Malic, tartaric, and citric acids. Tannins, Amygdaline, Cyanide.
Top 10 Uses of Wireshark for Hackers Part I
NYC. Yes.

There's a calendar date selector which shows history. NYC, Chicago, and LA are strong CO emitters. SO2 is emitted by coal-fired pwerplants, ships (you can literally trace out shipping routes), and volcanos.
> From at least three of the mobile apps on iOS, data about the use of the apps goes to a US-American marketing company that specializes in predictive profiling.

Can any MS employees jump in and justify how you find this acceptable?
i poked around the website and forum a bit and one thing I missed was a way to see community libraries and projects. check out the euphoria site for instance: http://rapideuphoria.com/archive.htm
Usage climbing as they become a mainstream choice... what we call a "nice problem to have".

Of course they do have some funded fast followers now; eager to take on any defecting users.
License discounts have been Microsofts strategy to persuade organizations to stay.
“China's Waste Ban Is Causing A Trash Crisis In The U.S.”
This statement is also disingenuous. Consumption and general lack of care in the US is causing the crisis in the US.
http://matematicas.unex.es/~navarro/res/
Yeah, but I run Firefox, Slack, Skype, Discord and VirtualBox. Together they can peak at like 10 GB when stars align badly and I only have 8 GB RAM.
Tigers are twice as heavy as lions but still the same size. With a single swipe of a claw, a tiger was able to slit a lion’s throat, killing it instantly.
Mostly JS and its bucket of related architectures and connections, since that seems to have the widest applicability. Also considering C++ and Java since I already have some experience in those.

My parents are bordering on elderly and need more and more help, so I'm probably limited to the Rocky Mountain or southwest regions of the US. Although in this early stage when I'm just trying to get a feel for the market, I've not been limiting my searches to any specific region (other than US-based).
Velocity 2012: Richard Cook, “How Complex Systems Fail”
You aren't logically wrong, but you are invoking the Strong Anthropic Principle very heavily, which is a rather poor rhetorical basis akin to to using Efficient Market Hypothesis to prove that it's impossible to find a $20 bill on the sidewalk.
MFA Is No Cure for Phishing
Microsoft is all about telemetry to improve its products, and it's a slippery slope and some of the instances pointed out here are way beyond what one would consider useful (for feature developmemt) telemetry. This might cost Microsoft a few billion.
Glad to hear you're working through it.

At Metis, state and federal regulation (we're accredited) is a big burden - but something I as an instructor feel is in the best interest of my students.
You don't know whose units were used to fill an order for your listing. You can't blacklist scammers. You don't know how many of your units remain in stock, and you can't get just those back.

If every lot of units were individually tracked, why would barcodes even matter?
I've always been impressed by the quality of Three.js - https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/
Sorry, what? We should not have solved those problems because being able to solve those problems makes it harder to solve this problem? How does that work?

You've got to remember, the Hole in the Ozone Layer was just as threatening at the time as Climate Change. It was literally going to fry us all within a decade because of extreme UV. We'd be living in underground bunkers by now. And then we stopped using CFC's and it stopped growing, and we're all good now, thanks. Except the next disaster that was going to kill us all came along...
People are not their governments. Disempowering the very people most likely to be building communication tools that route around their broken-ass governments is just stupid.
I also got a similar result with this:
Question: Write the command that reads the file that has the name (text.txt) and shows only one page each time you hit space and it allows you to explore the file back and forward.

Your answer:
less test.txt

Correct answer:
less text.txt
Browser extensions are being underrated deliberately by browser developers. Ever since we lost XUL Firefox, anyone who wants to really do anything worth doing around a web browser should have already switched to Pale Moon. Doubly so with Google's Manifest v3, which is going to kill selective content download management.
The author of Tcl/Tk wrote a fantastic book recently called "A Philosophy of Software Design" and it's brilliant, hands down my favourite programming book of the last decade.
What I really like about Go is the consistency of their tooling. gofmt, godoc, the GOPATH convention, single binary deployments. I like all of that.

Maybe we could port some of those ideas to other languages so that Go programmers will feel at home :)
> (or, better, internal auditor)

An internal auditor will forever be at risk by executives focused on the short-term. So long as executive compensation is decoupled from long-term health, no auditor can endure — eventually somebody's going to force out the auditor for the sake of padding their paycheck.

This is unfortunate because external regulation introduces lots of inefficiencies.
A thought struck me while reading this piece. That these UAVs make the world a lot safer.

Countries can surveil, do reconnissance, and remotely monitor better without risking human life. This enhances security and stability because there are less surprises.

Also if a drone gets shot down, even though it's expensive loss and the gesture is hostile, it's not so hostile that a lethal response is warranted in return. We saw this play out in the mass media recently.

I guess what I'm saying is that I never thought about these machines like this before. Even though they are military hardware, they are conflict-reducing military hardware.

In the same way we discourage the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction maybe we should encourage nations to develop high-level military-grade UAV capabilities?
> Access to RAM on a MOS 6502 is about 2-6 cycles, isn't it?

The 6502 accesses the memory bus every cycle, although for some cycles of some instructions, the value read isn't used; as a result, RAM and ROM in a 6502 system needs to be fast relative to the CPU.

Perhaps you're thinking about the instruction latencies, which are 2-6 cycles, depending on the instruction and the addressing mode and what not. (BRK (0x00) aka software interrupt is 7, though)
I don’t think it’s this simple. Ultimately stability is paramount and more important than wealth. Self preservation of the CCP may require intervention.

I’m sure they’d prefer to avoid having to use a heavy hand, but they will if they surmise that they have to.
The 10.1" seem carefully chosen so that on Android, most tablets and phones are covered by the "free" edition while Chromebooks (that can run Android apps) are not.
"Realistically these protests cannot lead anywhere and the only ones they hurt are Hong Kong people themselves and their future at a time when Hong Kong is no longer strategically important (although still important)."

Ding ding ding. Tough pill to swallow for anyone walking in the same shoes but it's the pragmatic truth.

Analogously, high-flying startup gets bought by mega corp. News at 11, and the human story repeats itself.
A lot of assembly code was being shipped before we had better languages. That's no reason to be stuck with a type system of the previous millennium.
There's a lot of hyperbolic claims being made in the article and these comments which seem unsupported by science. The answer to the question, "can polygraphs be utilized to draw out truth?", is a resounding yes:

>Notwithstanding the limitations of the quality of the empirical research and the limited ability to generalize to real-world settings, we conclude that in populations of examinees such as those represented in the polygraph research literature, untrained in countermeasures, specific-incident polygraph tests can discriminate lying from truth telling at rates well above chance, though well below perfection.

https://www.nap.edu/read/10420/chapter/2#4

Although it is not a silver bullet, it certainly has its applications, especially if the person being interviewed believes it works. Thus, the polygraph test makes sense in questioning sex offenders, for example:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1348/135532508X29...