skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a photo on the homepage: https://www.cerebras.net/ It's just about 8.5" across. You could just barely print a 1:1 photo of it on a letter-sized sheet of paper, with less than a half-milimeter margin on each side.
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The weakness of this argument is that there has been no control for a rise in rates of disease over many decades it would take for a bio-accumulating substance.
This sounds amazing. I know it’s a personal project, but you should seriously share it with more people at some point.
I think the biggest realization I've ever had is that things take time away. The sensation of procrastination happens when you feel the "thing you need to do" should take some smaller constrained amount of time, usually in days or weeks or sometimes months.

But if you can stomach that the thing may take years or even a decade, you'd feel much less like you were procrastinating.

In addition, if you assume that the thing will always be done piecemeal, here and there, or when you can remember to do it say like cleaning a room or organizing a thing, then that can also alleviate the sensation of procrastination.

The sensation tends to occur when you maintain a false belief that the things you need to get done should take hours or days instead of weeks or years.
Found two articles that corroborate the numbers to some extent. The police say 100k, organizers said 400k.

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1UF07P

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/08/17/oppose-violence-save-h...

The original protesters are claiming 1.7M by comparison:

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/08/18/breaking-organisers-sa...

I find all these numbers to be incomprehensible. My whole city is only about 1M. Where do so many people go to the bathroom? Serious question
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1984 was published in 1949, 70 years ago. The author died in 1950. If it weren't for ridiculous US copyright laws, reputable public domain copies would be available at reasonable prices and there would be no black market for low-quality knock-offs.
You were going great until that very last part.

But, it is clearly true that China's current position is not unlike that of Japan in the 90's, or South Korea not long after.

I think China's advantage is that they are big enough to create a large consumer market themselves. The U.S. was once in this position, as was the U.K. before them, and they both managed to make the transition from selling to other, richer markets to selling to themselves.

The big problem is, that both the U.K. and the U.S. had periods of internal stress during that transition, and because they were democracies they could blow off steam with electoral "revolts" instead of the literal kind of revolt. Perhaps China has the internal stability to be able to avoid this problem, but perhaps not.
> Now let's say I work for a hypothetical Walmart union. 1 million members or whatever. What can I do to check and balance anything?

You misunderstand how unions work. Unions aren't monolithic organizations, but rather organized around locals (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_union), with a local being the unit of the union representing a single workplace. While locals are affiliated with a larger union, they also have some degree of independence (exactly how much depending on a variety of factors), including electing their own leadership.

For most union workers, while they are technically members of a much larger union, almost all of the ways they interface with that larger organization are through their local. So they're not one among a million members, they're one among (say) a few hundred, all of whom are people who work with them and live in their community. And if you're part of such a group and want to change its direction, you can run for a leadership position in the local, just as you would in the HOA.
I'm going to have to disagree on the right-leaning bias. News organizations have more-or-less designated conservatives: Nicole D Wallace had that role at NBC, Jennifer Rubin at WaPo until recently, Marc A Thiessen now has that role. At least the Denver papers were the same until the Rocky Mountain News failed (I quit subscribing after that). Nobody cares, in fact, everybody likes it.

Also, I'm going to disagree in "cases like this". This particular case, autocomplete on "Clinton Body Count" is nothing more (if it even exists) than stopping auto-complete on a unproven, highly unlikely, conspiracy theory. You might as well bring up suppressing autocomplete on "Elders of Zion" or "illuminati world control".
That and soybeans are the pussification of the western world.
Thanks George seros.
>China has always had incredibly high tariffs on US goods

Before the trade war, which US goods had tariffs in China and how high were they?
As long as we're on the topic of submarines you can enter; anyone looking to visit a Soviet/Russian submarine can do so in Germany. The Tango-class submarine B-515 (now known as U-434, launched in 1976) can be visited year-round in Hamburg:

https://www.u-434.de

I can recommend the guided tour. At 200cm standing room was limited for me, but the sub is quite accessible as long as you're not overweight.
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No threats are necessary if he still has family or business in China
Great article! I was not aware of China's need for dollars due to dollar denominated debt. One question I still have is how/why they ended up with dollar denominated debt as opposed to debt in RMB? Also, who currently holds this debt?
Do Google developers follow Google's advice?
Also Encarta was much more engaging. It wasn’t just a mass of text with a few token images thrown in. It was a carefully curated compilation of multimedia, interactive content, educational games as well as textual write ups. It’s content was also discoverable in a plethora of ways that the web should ideally be suited to yet Wikipedia doesn’t even begin to approach.

Sure, Wikipedia has more articles; but the content is of a significantly lower quality by every other standard going.
I also read it as "throwing tomatoes", as each commentator was criticizing the previous level as being unproductive.
In a sense of Hamiltonians as linear operators on quantum states (such as state of the universe)....
Also ironic is China's elite reaping the benefits of democracy while oppressing their own people.
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I actually think this is the most likely outcome as well.
It's probably 20mbps shared between the whole neighborhood with high latency.

At this point, we should have symmetric fiber with at sub 50ms latency and 100mbps down and up everywhere like we work to have water, sewage, electricity, and gas. Right now, all of our money goes towards maintaining an antiquated system for providing commercial laden garbage media.
> B Corporations have no special legal standing

You're correct that B Lab's certification has no special legal standing. A "benefit corporation", however, is a recognized legal entity in many US states [1]. Patagonia is both a certified B Lab B Corp and a private benefit corporation. I should have made this point clearer.

> No corporation is required to "maximize shareholder value"

The rise in benefit corporation legislation was in part caused by the 2010 eBay v. Newmark decision in Delaware, which included the statement, "Promoting, protecting, or pursuing nonstockholder considerations must lead at some point to value for stockholders." [2] Note that this is still a vague statement, not using "profit" or any specific timeframe. I know that this case is still hotly debated, and I don't know enough to comment on all its implications.

Outside of a legal framework, it can be argued that all corporate directors that are non-majority owners of their public companies do have a requirement to "maximize shareholder value", or, to radically oversimplify the process, they will be replaced by shareholder vote.

So I should drop the "legal" modifier to my comments, and just refer to "obligations" to the shareholders and "action" by the shareholders.

Again, I do not know what significance the recent letter has on any of this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation
[2] https://www.delawarelitigation.com/uploads/file/int51%281%29...
Oh man, many many many hours
> I wonder what kind of C++ you've been writing.

Last I checked there's still a lot of C++ code in legacy production systems -- and a lot that has never ever used a smart pointer.
Early versions of mio had a bunch of non-essential things like a timer wheel built-in, that were later removed.
Ask HN: Why Are Conditionals Important?
Quantum Computer Engineer here: Studied Computer Engineering in school (undergrad), now I'm working on quantum computers for an unnamed company. I thought I understood computers (having worked -albeit shallowly- on literally every level from silicon manufacturing to web-development) until I started working on quantum computers...

I'd like to get some varied perspectives (theoretical or otherwise) on why conditionals (i.e. the ability to write 'if -something- do -this- else do -that-') are important to classical computer architectures/languages. Clearly they're important - something to do with the fact that without them your machine isn't actually Turing-complete. Clearly there's something about them that differentiates them from other operations - see the limits imposed by branch operations in pipelining. Perhaps I just haven't found the correct description of why they are important yet - or perhaps I am just stupid (very likely) and am incapable of understanding.

Input welcome, references appreciated.
Yes, but I suspect you would also support lighter sentencing or even decriminalization of drugs. I don't think you'd think the same if it was concerned potential terrorists or child sexual abusers.

Basically, this kind of comment usually encodes some belief on what the law should be rather than a belief about how it should be enforced. And that's just not the issue at hand here.
Well, the word apparently has a bit unusual etymology:

> The word has been used as a euphemism for "poison" since Old High German, influenced by Late Latin dosis (“dose”), from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “something given; dose of medicine”). The original meaning "gift" has disappeared in contemporary Standard German.

So yeah, the word is the same, it just became divorced from the former meaning.
An aircraft carrier is expensive because it requires an entire fleet to support it. The carrier isn't the expensive part - the dozen screening vessels that protect it are.

That fleet can be taken out with a single tactical nuclear weapon.

A nuclear submarine can operate on its own, and carries more firepower (If we count by number of capitalists/communists/unaligned people it can kill) than an entire carrier group.

An aircraft carrier is useful for force projection on the other side of the world, if you are trying to bomb some stone-age savages, or to carry out some gunboat diplomacy to an uppity developing nation. It can't surprise-surface 30 miles off the coast of New York, and launch three dozen half-megaton nuclear weapons at six different metro areas in the span of forty minutes.

The Soviet Union was much more concerned about it's security than it was about power projection. It didn't need carrier groups - it needed a way to guarantee it's safety from nuclear attack, by holding the threat of initially Cuba, and later, it's submarines over the head of the US.

The former USSR's, and today's Russia's foreign policy become a lot clearer when you understand their primary goal - security of the homeland from attack. The country was absolutely traumatized by the Great War, the Russian Civil War, and the Great Patriotic War. All Soviet, and now Russian military planning focuses on preventing such disasters.

The US's primary goal, in contrast, is not homeland security (it is a secondary goal). The US's primary goal is making sure the world's oceans remain open to marine trade. That is why the USSR didn't invest in aircraft carriers, but the US did.
> So what's this nuance you're referring to? You spent 4 paragraphs talking about how nuanced the situation is, yet never provided any examples.

I thought I was going crazy too. Repeating "people just don't get it" over and over isn't an argument.
An interesting question that I have yet to have a good answer for. The fair use exemption was pretty good air cover for using the digitized data, but text book publishers are rather litigious bunch. Not a bear I want to poke just yet.
One of my favorite CD-ROMs from my childhood was an Encarta offshoot called Microsoft Exploropedia, World of Nature. Basically Encarta for natural sciences but tailored for kids. That game was the bomb.
This is not a very helpful comment. And nobody knows anything about JPEG when they are born.
Oh man, I still remember, my dad first showed me Encarta and he was quite impressed with how it can still be used offline. One of the best moments I had with my dad :')
Guidemaster: Navigating the hazy world of gaming laptops in 2019
Do you happen to know why the Omaha bombers missed as a group? The failure to 'lead' the target makes sense, I'm wondering why it wasn't individual to planes but systematic for the beach.

My guess would be that the time to drop was called wrong by a flight commander or computed wrong beforehand, rather than assessed individually in each plane, but if you happen to know more I'd be curious.
I’ve never seen this point made but: one response to the surveillance state is to push for more remote work. It’s infinitely easier to set up surveillance cameras in urban areas than in even a slightly rural area.
They are using vertical water pipes for cooling to solve the thermal density problem. At 15 kw they're doing OK there.
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Isn't BLAS a standard everyone has agreed on?

Making a matrix multiplication accelerator seems a pretty safe bet to me. I am less sure about sparsity optimization, but I guess it still works for dense matrixes even in the worst case.
This is fantastic, but they really need to work on the accessibility of their site. All of the most important text is locked away in images. No reason to do that in 2019.
Even as a young teen in the eighties I never understood that part of maps, they are so shallow and prone to bias. Even just creating a map with only on the ground facts is always biased, there is always bad editorialization.

I never used Encarta, so it might be great, but you can get better data today at the cost of being harder to use. But a lot less bias.

That said maps are cool, and they are still really expensive, even with http://openstreetmap.org and https://www.naturalearthdata.com
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Looking at the whitepaper, I'm a little surprised how little RAM there is for such an enormous chip. Is the overall paradigm here that you still have relatively small minibatches during training, but each minibatch is now vastly faster?
I'd argue "yes" to all those examples. Books, especially, have always been "data storage devices"; I don't see why a portion of a book couldn't be by reduction.

Back in the 1980s, some magazines had a scannable page of barcode-like print that were programs to load into your computer (I think it was for the Mac, using a handheld scanner). It didn't work as well as hoped, and didn't last long.

Some magazines also came with small plastic floppy records, that if you knew what you were doing, you could load programs from as audio (just like from a cassette tape). From what I understand, these were more common in the UK and Europe than in the United States.

Then you have things like punch cards and punched paper tape (and the plastic variants).

Where do you draw the line?
I've never been a fan of the idea that "the company's only purpose to deliver value to its shareholders."

So I'm glad that they call out additional stakeholders and put customers and employees at the top of the list. Customers who are willing to pay for some useful good or service and employees who are willing to do a good job delivering it also seem like pretty essential ingredients for a successful business.

Externalities are a real thing, so I'm glad they mentioned local communities and the environment.

However, there may be external effects on global communities as well. For example, Facebook delivers value to its customers (advertisers) but causes harm to Facebook users.

There are also companies that harm their customers directly, in spite of customers paying for the "value" that they deliver.
my code is open sourced, https://github.com/shi-yan/Swiftly

it's based on Qt, but my rewrite will be pure c++.
"China appears to be making rapid advances in the development of Ben Garrison technology"

https://twitter.com/hikikomorphism/status/116247064336062054...
Truckers can't pay off their fuel cards – signs for more trucking bankruptcies
I know very little about this sub-field, but from a layman's perspective, and given competition between Intel and NVidia in the field of deep learning, I would not be surprised if Intel tried to acquire or takeover this company for their single-chip designs.
> We’re facing down the imminent collapse of civilization due to climate change on a 30-50 year scale.

No, we're not. We have lots of ways to adapt, just as humans have adapted to climate change in the past.
Well, this is going to give the potential to collect an interesting data point, among Africans who have experienced European and Chinese colonization, which do they prefer?

For what it's worth, some Africans think their life was better under European rule:
https://rense.com/general32/aaprh.htm
Rust didn't implement async/await for fun. The team implemented it because it was perhaps the #1 requested feature from users, including me.

You can see it here on HN. What's the #1 comment that always appears on Rust async threads? Invariably it's "why not just use goroutines? That kind of code is so much easier to write!" Now for various reasons M:N threading like in Go doesn't work in Rust. What does work, and offers most of the ergonomics of threads/goroutines, is async/await. That's why the team has prioritized it.

There are people who care less about ergonomics than optimizing every CPU cycle for socket servers. For those people, the focus on getting the ergonomics right before microoptimization of mio and tokio might be frustrating to see. But the overwhelming majority of users just want easy-to-use async I/O. Async/await is an enormous improvement in readability and maintainability over hand-written state machines. Rust would be doing a disservice to its users if it focused on microoptimization of tokio instead.
Yes, USSR/Russia has never been able to build a Navy projecting power far beyond native shores, so as a result the Navy task in the modern times would be to protect the shores, present some "assymetric" response to the US carrier groups by means of the attack submarines and to play its part of the MAD using ballistic missile submarines for which the "bastion" strategy was implemented

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastion_(naval)#Soviet_and_Rus...
> "Why do companies find it so difficult to just say what it is they are selling in clear concise language, without being purposely misleading, or hiding things in fine print?"

because it's more profitable?

it's a pretty direct line between the pressure to produce profits and lying to people to get it, particularly as it gets harder to produce profits through honest means.

remember that capitalism entices participants with profits to spur innovation, not to indulge the profit-taking itself, so any temporarily profitable enterprise should attract interest and drive down profits as competition enters the industry. so professional managers (e.g., executives) sometimes (often?) choose to lie & cheat to lengthen the period of profit-taking.

it's inexplicable that we accept that as normal, as if holding people & companies accountable for their words would stifle commerce and descend us into a totalitarian dystopia. instead, such accountability would only mean that getting filthy rich would be harder, while attaining comfortable wealth would be unchanged, if not more attainable.
While I'm not an expert, I suspect you're right. Point being that some lakes serve a different purpose than supporting a thriving ecosystem.
At least on netflix, saw even worst shows there
The writer of this piece did not note that the pen-name of the editor of the "high school edition" of "Down and Out in Paris and London", Moira Propreat, is an obvious pun on the phrase "more appropriate". So obvious it didn't need to be mentioned?
On a side note, I've recently visited a coffeeshop in São Paulo where every employee has Down Syndrome and it was wonderful; spent almost two hours discussing with the waiters and the barista - a sea of kindness, really.
Is it really? Probable cause doesn't need to be a high bar, in my opinion. Contrary to what people here seem to think, I don't think a police search is that invasive and I'd rather we perhaps search some people on shaky grounds than we let people with drugs/bombs/whatever walk free.
> Search filtering requires UX/biz logic:

I don't buy that some specific biz/ux logic is ever needed for a list of textual entries. We're not talking about a general search engine here. I imagine a simple heuristic could cover most of the cases (eg whatever c-f does). Also, the control can have additional params passed in to configure it differently when needed. Stuff like hightlight/bold (and even the matching rules) are imho either configurable or a system-specific implementation detail - like how macos dropdowns center on the selected item, or how on mobile a dropdown shows a modal scrolling interface, and so on.
In that case, it may reflect well on a business if their CEO didn't sign because they weren't member in the first place.

They have a list of members here:

https://www.businessroundtable.org/about-us/members

So far, I've just found one company among the non-signatories I listed whose CEO is a member (Virginia M Rometty of IBM).

Micro, Qualcom, Oracle, Comcast, and Texas Instruments' CEOs are also member-signatories.
I'd love to buy a t-shirt with their logo (in Japanese), but it doesn't look like that's something they offer.
China has violated the WTO agreements for a decade and a half.

There are countless examples of industrial espionage as well as trademark theft. The Chinese refuse to do anything about it.

Americans finally wised up to this and the Chinese are now scrambling to find a solution, but the CCP has painted themselves into a corner.

Any concession to the US will be seen as an ultimate slap in the face to Chinese pride. The CCP has propped up it's legitimacy by blaming all their problems on "foreign influence". The US and the Japanese being the main two antagonists.

Well, if you tell your people that the US is fucking you, then you give in to them, then that makes you look weak and ineffective.

And it will hurt the CCP's political situation very badly.
Interesting - but many pro-HK bot accounts are still up and running. Indeed, there's a discord channel where many LIHKG (a 4chan-like HK site) users congregate to brigade Twitter and Reddit, and they've explicitly shared scripts and bots to manipulate or mass retweet messages in the channel.
When it comes to knowledge and data more is by definition always better.
How is this any different than the New York Times or the Nightly News? They control to a large extent the news people see.
Thank you,

- I don't exclude D but it means some untrivial learning in spite of its semblance to C. I don't have infinite time to learn all promising C++ replacements.

- Haskell.. really ? Plus it's not fast at all it seems.

- Lisp : interesting idea. I'd prefer a C-like language but learning it expands your mind they say.