skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your answer - great blog link - most relevant:

"Intel made more aggressive use of AVX512 instructions in earlier versions of the icc compiler, but has since removed most use unless the user asks for it with a special command line option.".

For other readers, short summary copied from the link with very light editing:

* There are heavy and light AVX instructions. "Heavy" instructions roughly are those involving floating point operations or integer multiplications operating on 512 bits.

* Intel cores can run in one of three modes: license 0 (L0) [normal], license 1 (L1) is slower, and license 2 (L2) is the slowest. To get into license 2, you need sustained use of heavy 512-bit instructions, where sustained means approximately one such instruction every cycle.

* The processor does not immediately move to a higher license when encountering heavy instructions: it will first execute these instructions with reduced performance (say 4x slower) and only when there are many of them will the processor change its frequency. Otherwise, any other 512-bit instructions will move the core to L1.

* Downclocking is per core and for a short time after you have used particular instructions (e.g., ~2ms).

* The downclocking of a core is based on: the current license level of that core, and also the total number of active cores on the same CPU socket (irrespective of the license level of the other cores).

The constraints and suggested workarounds are complex. Also the word choice "license" by Intel is bizarre (since it implies the throttling is to reduce performance for business reasons rather than technical reasons?).
How do you look for stuff here
I think the danger of neural network bots overrunning social media with garbage is entirely valid.
SQLAlchemy is far superior to ActiveRecord if you already know SQL and write fairly complex queries. Once you get past a certain point, figuring out how to write or optimize a query in AR (or, to be fair, most other ORMs) tends to involve hunting down some obscure Rails-specific incantations, whereas SA maps pretty nicely onto SQL and doesn't try to offer as high of a level of abstraction. I've also found that it's easier to shoot yourself in the foot with ActiveRecord, performance-wise (though this has gotten much better over time).

The downside of SQLAlchemy is that it's less pleasant to use for simpler queries/tasks, so which ORM is better depends on the project. I've worked on codebases that never crossed that threshold, and ActiveRecord gave a consistently great developer experience. YMMV.
I would assume the data would still be covered by copyright meaning they could use that data and maybe create and sell derivative works, but not just scrape and publish.
In my opinion, the rationale that the original GPT-2 is too dangerous to release is not good for two reasons: a finetuned small GPT-2 model on a targeted domain dataset (https://minimaxir.com/2019/09/howto-gpt2/) already gives better results than a large default GPT-2 model for targeted news, and despite independent researchers creating GPT-2 clones at a fraction of the cost of adversarial organizations, there hasn't been any evidence of mass-produced fake news in the six months since GPT-2 was open sourced and the paper was released.

GPT-2 will likely be used more for mass-producing crazy erotica (https://twitter.com/Fred_Delicious/status/116678321475044557... [NSFW text]) than fake news.
How to Motivate Employees? Don’t
See also: converting your current Kindle read to plain text and pasting it into your ide or email editor...

We need more "plain sight slacking" tips to be on the lookout for, so we can stay vigilant.
> the poorest people pay the price

In this case it was a middle class family losing their 4 bedroom house due to "$164,000 in medical bills for emergency surgery". It's not just hurting the poor, it's a relatively small number of people organized in a cartel ripping off the entire country.

Medical cartel needs to be investigated by FTC like any other cartel. Being under purview of HHS and state medical boards infiltrated with physicians is not working due to conflict of interest. Cartel can be broken down by rewriting scope of practice laws to focus on "standard of care" rather than "board certified license" as a gatekeeping regulation to practice medicine. Once the physician cartel falls everybody else leeching downstream (insurance, global pharma, PBMs, countless vendors, etc) will simply dry out.

Medicare for all (public option) could also have a similar effect if implemented properly in a way that strips power away from physicians. But if implemented by naively increasing taxes and throwing money into the current system it's going to do more harm than good.
> Lovable: Provides an elevated user experience that customers love as measured by NPS.

NPS = Net Promoter Score

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Promoter
I don't work for a company with an unlimited time off policy, but I've read (and agree) that the best middle ground is unlimited PTO with an enforced minimum.
Do you have a reference for that 50C summer within the century or is it just made up? It's way higher than I've heard of unless they'll live in a place that's already getting almost that hot anyway - in which case they can obviously already cope so it doesn't matter.
Belief that climate change is inevitable is not just a view, no, but believing that my company can do anything within it's power to have positive enough effect on climate change that is anywhere near noticeable on anyone that doesn't know what my company is doing, is. If I'm looking to blame someone for the effects of global warming on my health, my employer is last on my list.
Managers at Amazon are arguably under more competitive pressure than their reports; no one is going to fire their top performer for participating in a climate awareness march.

It's far, far more likely that the "strike" will be ignored than that it will result in anyone be disciplined or terminated.
The problem with most activism of any kind is it is done in a response to the actual authorities on the subject doing nothing to help. Activism almost by definition is done by people who can't directly make a change and just want to bring attention to a problem. That means focusing attention on one thing.

If the people who could solve the problem were trying to solve the product, activists wouldn't be necessary. As long as activists are involved, there's going to have to be a narrow focus excluding most of the problem.
How is our health system legally mandatory? Why do we HAVE to pay into medicaid etc. if the system is not run efficiently? Why is there not an alternative?
The moral of the history is: Not everything should be run by businessmen.
Would be nice if someone transfered 1B to my bitcoin wallet.
it prevents against `rm -rf /`, not `rm -rf /*` does it?
2009: 94k Bitcoin transferred - "whats Bitcoin? lol those geeks."

2019: 94k Bitcoin transferred - "whooooooooa"
Automating Your GitHub Routine
Timely announcement from Google today on MLIR:

https://www.blog.google/technology/ai/mlir-accelerating-ai-o...
Perl gives you the creative freedom to do nonsense like this or to be dead serious.

But I do agree that using Lingua::Romana::Perligata in production is not a good idea.
> - seccomp filtering (that is, check syscall arguments)

Small correction there, seccomp still uses BPF not eBPF. That leaves a lot of restrictions on what it can do and I believe the bytecode is incompatible too.
Can you define an alternative to '+' that explicitly accepts null?
You realize your microwave operates at over 1100 watts in a small enclosure designed to reflect RF, while 5G currently maxes out at 1100 watts in an open space that dissipates the energy in all directions, right?

You also realize that a microwave is designed to use a frequency band that sympathetically excites hydrogen atoms, while 5G is a collection of technologies that use UHF, high microwave, and submillimeter bands that do not sympathetically excite hydrogen, right?
Because the market has been fully captured by current players and new entrants either play along or are forced out of business - but generally don't even try to join because of the prohibitive barriers to entry.

Medicaid is one of the less broken parts of the system actually.
Is there any reason not to expand medicaid? I mean there's some bizarre claim that you have more freedom somehow if you don't have to have health insurance, but that's just idiocy. Everyone on each will die, and almost everyone will have a sickness or injury in their life.
What do you have to do to claim the airdrop?
Teaching Math Has a Guessing Crisis
Not sure that walking out is the best way to accomplish this, but I think something needs to be done.
What tool is this? Sounds interesting.
Meh, all this "we can't release it because it's dangerous" business is just marketing
> They're not wrong.

They're not right, either. What's far more important for farmers and loan officers is a market for selling the product.

Normally it's sort of silly to point a finger at the president for larger market trends, but if ever culpability for market trends could be laid at a president's feet, it'd be for something exactly like a poorly executed trade war. On the other hand, the market has been on a nearly 10 year run. Some sort of slowdown was inevitable.

The real story is that the tax cuts did squat to help the economy, and instead resulted in extraordinary deficits, precisely as predicated by everybody whose professional credibility was on the line.
That's the 2007 internet :-). Mourning...
Oh hey. I just used some SPI-based Nixie tube drivers that this same tindie user made. I've been super impressed!
I use it with DeviceIOControl for interoperating with a driver.

I didn't learn by following someone's example, in my case, I have to work with so many different structs in a high performance use case that I took the time to re-learn pointers. (Haven't used them in years.)

1: Memory is allocated using new byte[bufferSize]

2: That byte[] is pinned to a byte* or void* via fixed

3: The pointer is passed to DeviceIOControl

4: Traditional c-style typecasting inside of fixed

5: Traditional GC cleans up your byte[]. This avoids problems with managed programs that allocate lots of native memory.

I don't know how to use pointers with Span<T>...

BUT: I do similar things with ArraySegment<byte[]>. All that's needed is pointer arithmetic:

ArraySegment<byte> arraySegment = ...

fixed (byte* dataArrayPtr = arraySegment.Array)

{

var dataPtr = dataArrayPtr + arraySegment.Offset;

var ptr = (SomeStruct*)dataPtr;

}
Webflow, Airtable, Bubble.is are doing really well. I've used Webflow a few times, but nothing else.
I don't know why you think the author was trying to defend Django or "attack" Rails? It seems to me that they were simply trying to point out the ridiculousness of Rails threads always devolving into "Rails vs Django" flame wars.
More info: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/secure-erase-hdds-ss...

Also for nvme SSDs.
Lots of hip companies use the JVM, and sometimes, Java.
Sweet, that looks great.
I agree, this is basically the recipe to wither oneself. Getting lazy and doing nothing becomes a habit hard to get rid of...
To be fair, Mint was a mistake. It was always a mistake. Being ahead of hackers' time, it was successful. This is the only reason.
"There's no cloud: it's just someone else's computer (and it's run by people who hate your guts)"
By that same line of reasoning, one could argue that changing your url parameter in that twitter chatroom website is a privilege escalation attack that allows users to access protected information.

Absence of authentication means all access is authorized, otherwise just typing in random urls is a crime.
There's less death today than there was 100 years ago due to improved healthcare, food availability, clean water, etc. As things change in the world there will surely be some adaptation, some migration, some new technology solutions, etc. But I predict two things. First, the developing world will continue to pollute more and release more greenhouse gases as they industrialize. And second, that there will be less death in 100 years than there is today.
Why wouldn't it be? I mean, why is being energy intensive inherently not sustainable? Surely particular inplementations could be unsustainable, but that's true of non-energy intensive agriculture as well.

To help you along, I'll bring up the part that's most problematic, IMO: the production of nitrous oxide from nitrogen fertilizer. But N fertilizer is pretty much required to get yields sufficient to feed the world, so that's a problem that's going to have to be solved.
Germany considers 'shadow budget' to circumvent national debt rules
A Desktop Client for Borg Backup
I used ActiveAdmin a lot when I started and it always gave me a headache. From what I have seen of Django Admin (admittedly not a lot) it looks very similar?

I have found that at least for my users, admin type functionality and views generally require a lot of custom work that is not easily turned into convention. About 4 years ago I stopped using Active Admin completely and just started using Ransack + Kaminari gems on their own. I have been a much happier with the way that pattern has worked out.
There's been an ongoing shift of power and rights to the very wealthy over everyone else's interests. It's not new but it's becoming more and more obvious to the average citizen.

Here in the US, our culture still praises this behavior because it props up the carrot that is the American dream. It's a cultural problem where everyone has been convinced they're the next billionaire to reap the rewards of the broken political and economic system... they're just temporarily and shamefully poor for now.

So the problem runs far deeper than healthcare, it's everywhere. Healthcare is just an obvious target because it directly effects people when they're most vulnerable and it actually angers them enough to complain a little. We need a cultural shift that is reflected in our politics (if it's not too late already).
This president has had a lot of influence on the world economy with his erratic behavior towards China, the middle east, and even loyal trading partners in Europe. As a result, we're now in a trade war that nobody needed or wanted, there's a lot of uncertainty around Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iran, etc. This goes beyond the normal ebs and flows of the economy. If anything, it's amazing how resilient the world economy is against that all of that.
I think it should be, when the tax reporting requirements are so granular; and in such cases, the effect is analogous to a timing attack.
Scrolling through the comments, I reached the impression that "content camera" was an established industry term I had never heard before. But, a quick search only finds relevant results in the context of this particular product/feature, and the second result is the documentation page for it:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/room-systems...

"A content camera interacts with special image-processing software and a whiteboard to allow a presenter to draw on an analog whiteboard and share the content with remote participants."
We don't store anyones IP address and the results are only in memory cached.
Installing PFX Certificates in Docker Containers
Probably. The star would involve shell globbing. [edit for clarification: I meant that you’re probably right]
What are menstruation apps useful for? Is it a part of the "track everything about your health" trend?
Medicaid is probably the second best place to be in the US system after Medicare - but it suffers from extreme politicization of care (good luck trying to get HRT or an abortion on Medicaid), rationing, shortage of supply (not all providers are required to or will service Medicaid patients) and stringent requirements to ensure continued availability (these in particular are getting much worse under pushes to get rid of "welfare queens" _sigh_).

That said, the only way to win is to not play - never get sick and emigrate before you have any serious health issues.
eBPF does have loops and it is absolutely for general purpose computation.

The verifier that exists in the Linux kernel works very hard to make sure that you are not allowed to load programs with unbounded loops but you most certainly can when those restrictions are lifted.
She and her twin were indivisible, A shooter tore the 15-year-olds separated
Have you tried it? Is it any good? I've been looking for a simpler Kubernetes, although I don't know how much simpler it can be in practice and still do the same things.
SweedenCpp, Ancient C++
This case is so ridiculous on multiple fronts that although this procedural ruling (injunction) seems technically correct (to allow the case to proceed to actual court), it could just as well have been thrown out with no difference in or ultimate harm to the parties.

First, LinkedIn makes the claim that its users have a right to privacy against scraping by such a 3rd party. That's laughable. As the court saw, their whole business model is made on people sharing their profiles broadly and mostly to the public.

Secondly, HiQ claims that LinkedIn's efforts to stop it from using the data are tortious interference. That's bold -- suppose someone is taking your assets (you believe illegally) and selling them to others -- can you imagine the gall that the person taking your assets can sue you for interfering with their subsequent sale of your assets?

Finally, that LinkedIn resorted to using the computer fraud and anti-terrorism statutes to make their argument is ridiculous.

So much craziness to go around. I would've just tossed the case, but I guess there is the whole bit about due process... Maybe HiQ will fail anyway at the next substantive trial, but what a waste of time.
At what point down the rabbit hole of abstraction do we pull back and look at the complexity required to do simple things ?
Good luck if you're in an open office!
Apparently wage garnishment is allowed under Virginia law, as it is a "state institution" (the hospital system). That is what makes this story in particular unique. I anticipate something like this happening (or worse) in my state.
I didn't dig through the code too much but it looks like the receiver just acts like a USB keyboard. So, you could probably modify the script to send some innocuous keyboard "input" that would knock off the screensaver (to show your radiator) instead of sending the close window and lock commands.
The irony would be if they were under a gag order not to issue a retraction.

But that's diving down the paranoia rabbit hole.
I have to actually write things down 3 or 4 times to actually grasp it. The first time I memorized the formal Java syntax for FizzBuzz, I spent one week writing it down with a pen and typing it. Soon it was muscle memory, but it also reinforced my understanding of syntactical elements for Java,
Microsoft rewrote their native YouTube client so that it would serve Google's ads and disallow video downloads.

Google still disallowed it.

Google likewise disallowed various Amazon devices from accessing YouTube during their Amazon dispute.
The point is that if they really were logographs, and not just a complicated syllabary, you would get a lot more than the equivalent of two or three letters out of them.
Unfortunately that philosophy has been heavily exported and a lot of social welfare programs are endangered across the world - up here in Canada we still don't have drug, dental or eyecare due to strong cartels in those market segments - this is particularly worrying for Dental which is less cosmetic then folks thought forty years ago and can actually contribute to general well-being.
This is kind of the core of why I think maybe the moral failures of our time may uniquely condemn us.

In the past, the concious or wordy parts of our brain didn't exactly contain the moral philosophy we have now which is supposed to counter our basic cruelty.

We have hundreds of years of it. We call the enlightenment foundational to our governments and ethics. Many people hold the Bill of Rights sacred like a religious text. We have the most extreme examples of human cruelty to heed as examples. Anyone may read about them, most American school children are required to learn about them.

But even that knowledge, that programming is not capable of overcoming our basic tendency toward violence and cruelty. Maybe, there are some behaviors the wordy part of the brain just can't reason us out of.

I hope I'm wrong. Maybe there's an even better set of ideas than the enlightenment, humanism, and human rights that will be more contagious and more powerful to overwhelm our basic nature. Perhaps those ideas are already out there in some culture being drowned out by the hegemony of Western moral philosophy. IDK.
The US government is ultimately beholden to US citizens, who don't want to get hosed by inflation. People who can't vote in America do actually have a legitimate reason to be concerned: if the US ever can't maintain its debt, it will likely become in the voter's interests to devalue the currency to nothing. That's basically the "default risk" on Treasury bonds.
“It is less good at larger-scale structure, like maintaining a consistent topic or (especially) making a structured argument with sub-parts larger than a few sentences.”

Have you surfed Facebook recently? Shockingly few people are good at these either. The quality of actual human writing on social media is so bad that today’s neural networks can be of equal quality, which is very dangerous if used to make certain ideas seem more widely held than they are. After all, our morals/ethics are basically set by what we observe in the world around us (compare your view on torture, public execution, slavery, etc) to what your view would be if a baby with your exact DNA had been born in Ancient Babylon.
Until the ADA comes along and demands you create an accessible to the blind site.

I've often wondered when the laws would start to be applied and I think its coming
Naptha is the name of a character in Thomas Mann's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Mountain
Copying the inferred type is the same as copying your runtime outputs into your tests. It's a statement that you believe the result is correct and it's on you to make that judgement call. It's not a policy to blindly copy everything, because that defeats the purpose of type checking and testing, turning your tests into " verify that nothing changed", not "verify that the system behaves as intended".
I believe you have neglected to response to the most important part of my comment:

What, then, is your comprehensive alternative?
> A counterparty that is willing to swap anonymously acquired and sent altcoins for Bitcoin can provide a privacy conscious individual with anonymous Bitcoins.

Not if amounts are tracked, rather than addresses. "oh look, this gal X just lost 5.3876BTC and gained 3.76549ALTCOIN, and this other dude Y just gained 5.3876BTC and lost 3.76549ALTCOIN. Geeze, I wonder if they traded."

And with the proper graph theory tools, much more complex interactions could be tracked.
> It's likely not free

I can wire hundreds of thousands of dollars from and into my consumer banking account for free. At work, multi-million dollar wires transfer for free, with an email confirmation and virtually instantly.

Cryptocurrencies are cheaper if you're laundering money or move money around too infrequently to bother optimizing for it.
This is how CDNs always worked. The same “hack” can be accomplished by right-clicking and saving the image to your computer.
You have blown my mind.
Mother nature doesn't give a shit about "some adaptation, some migration, some new technology solutions" that you seem to imply will be used as band-aids.
I currently work at one of the largest hospitals in the country. Can confirm! The corruption in the healthcare sector is disgusting and hard to fight. I blew the whistle and got retaliated against, in complete violation of CA law. Tempted to go to the press.