skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was there for one of the times that Phil (from Apple) explained dominator analysis and why it's an added complexity of a binary language. Phil is the architect of our JS VM and one of the main designers of WSL so I think he knows!

Your claim that the WSL spec tells you very little seems off to me. The spec includes formal semantics for everything. If some things aren't in the spec yet they can be added. There is also a pretty extensive test suite. To me the level of specification rigor is considerably higher than SPIR-V, which has an informal spec with separate documents for adding web safety.
You think they are naming these companies on purpose after a glorious narrative of good vs evil that happens to coincide with racial characteristics, where all the good guys draw on Western European themes and all the bad guys draw on Islamic Empire ones? Nah, it’s just a cool sounding name brah.
Given past performance, I don't think there is any rational reason to believe that Israel risks America severing ties with it over incidents of espionage.

In any event, Israel has a nuclear deterrent, even if they like to coyly lie about it. In the fantasy scenario where America no longer supports Israel, they'd manage just fine on their own. But again, that's not going to happen. Too many Americans think it a matter of religious imperative that they and their politicians continue to support Israel, no matter what.
But could public prisons have even better results if there weren't heavy lobbying for various laws and policies? It seems like it's another case ripe for regulatory capture to degrade the public option.
Is almost 10% of prisoners really only baby steps? I understand your point, they will be transferred to a new prison that will still have private interests, but to call it baby steps still seems exaggerated and defeatist
Only states with taxes higher to EV vehicles than gas taxes are included in the map. Not all states that have EV taxes are included.
I used to live in the south (New Orleans) and their idea of work appropriate clothing is absurd for the weather. Long sleeves, ties, etc. Worst part is that no one wants to wear them, so they buy the cheapest, sloppiest looking version of them, which is worse than just letting people dress casually.
Would you go to a 50-year-old with a high-school diploma and tell them they only have high-school level thinking? Of course not. Colleges do not have a monopoly on your ability to learn. Many people read a lot of books, for instance, without a teacher telling them to.

Meanwhile, there are plenty of ways to get through college without getting past a high-school level of thinking.
The answer is a Brompton or other folders you can even get an electric Brompton now.
I feel like it's easier for a skateboarding miscalculation to slap you hard on the ground than a bike. A bike has really good brakes compared to a skateboard. Sure you don't need the helmet?
The algorithm seems to be at least quadratic in the length. On a 2014 i7 Mac mini, (n, time(sec)) = (1000, 0.29), (2000, 1.65), (4000, 9.70), (8000, 58.42).
The problem here is corporate capture. These companies are raking it in with huge margins which would be super attractive to large amounts of competition... if competition could compete in a free market instead of buddying up with government officials.

Offering cheap phone calls isn't exactly rocket science.
You must have not read the article considering it mentions at best

> eliminating “regulatory barriers” that White House officials believe increase the cost of building new housing. Developers have said these restrictions drive up prices on housing and limit the supply.

You can argue whether or not he's actually gonna do something or just tweet out hot air, but proclaiming concentration camps is not contributing any meaningful insight.
25 cert limit? When will something release that supports hundreds/thousands without having to manage it? Especially for hosting services in particular.
Speaking as a tourist, Norway makes Switzerland look cheap. Even the Swiss complain about the beer price in Norway!
25 years ago personal computers were just barely a thing

25 years ago was 1994. You're about 10 or 15 years off, kiddo :-) By 1995, PC's were in pretty much every office in the US. Most high schools had had them for a decade (I went to a small town midwest HS that valued football above all else... and we got our PC lab somewhat behind the better HS's in 1983). Around 20mil to 40mil PC's were sold every year during the 1990's in the US alone. From 1989 to 1994, 150mil PC's were sold in the US. I have friends now who have kids who are in university who will be third generation programmers. Digital computers themselves will be a century old in just one more generation (ENIAC came online in 1946, the 100th anniversary is just 27 years from now).

(I'm just being an old curmudgeon here, don't take it too seriously :-)
Your low-effort comment on a throwaway account is detracting from this discussion. I absolutely support harsh punishments for those who employ undocumented laborers illegally (why would I not?). That issue has zero bearing on whether Anduril’s work is “evil.”
> The idea that a special interest that is financially powerful and interested in high prison population, may inject wrong incentives into the society is real and understandable.

And well established as a thing that happens at all times in California, but the real major culprit of that type is the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, not the private prison industry.

> California's real problem is MASSIVE prison population

It's been declining for nearly a decade, and despite California being the largest-population state, it's got a smaller prison population than Texas. But, yes, the prison population is too high.

> Prison overcrowd is a feature of CA prison system.

This is true, though that has also been reduced as prison population has.

> I wish they ordered their priorities right and built enough prisons to house the population safely.

Better would be to reduce the prison population to the level that can be safely housed in the existing facilities. California's problem is too many prisoners, not too few prisons.
Just to note, "libertarian literature" is a very broad phrase, and there is certainly plenty of reasonably prominent literature from both the left and the right that describes itself as "libertarian" and would also oppose the idea of centralized state law enforcement and justice systems.

On the right you've got some varieties of anarcho-capitalism that support systems of polycentric law that emerge from markets for law enforcement and criminal justice. On the left you've got anarchist movements like anarcho-syndicalism which propose a decentralized or federated system of social institutions that would be determined by direct action and direct democracy.
Executives Demand Senate Action on Gun Violence
I am referring to the terminology used by the department of homeland security [1] and other legal institutions that oversee their cases. If they are predominantly asylum seekers, then why not refer to them as asylum seekers?

>Illegal usually implies something criminal.

No, illegality does not usually imply something criminal. These are two different concept that have precise definitions in court. Nor does your "usually" carry any weight, for else we should abide by this probabilistic distribution and call them asylum seekers.

[1]: https://www.dhs.gov/topic/immigration-and-customs-enforcemen...
Would you be for Mexico joining the union?
Sure.... what is the most environmentally friendly way to cook a burger is an interesting question too. Slow cooker? Microwave? Barbecue, but cook several at once to reduce the per burger emission?

But the reality is that barbecueing a burger is a common way to cook them and I maintain that it is an interesting question to contrast the barbecueing impact to the growing impact..
You may not like it but it's pretty clear that WSL is at least a starter. It has a spec, a test suite, and an implementation (which fully implements safety). And the implementation is pretty fast, and should at least dispel WSL vs SPIR-V performance concerns.

This is arguably ahead of the proposed web dialect of SPIR-V (which needs to subset the language, add validation steps, and insert safety checks).
AIPAC is a much more overt and pernicious form of a foreign government interfering in US elections. They donate money to many US politicians, and actively setup campaigns against those they don't like, such as Ilhan Omar. It's far worse than anything Russia has ever done. And it's out in the open, so people somehow assume it's OK.
> You don't hear a lot about the big wall we need across the Canadian border.

We don't have many people crossing the border illegally, at the canadian border.

Of course we are going to prioritize the location in which the vast majority of people who enter the border illegally, are using. Which is the southern border, in this case.
In the meantime, they never added support for WebGL2 and MSAA on Framebuffer Objects. Blargh.
Yes, this is horrible and more and more toys, games are like this. That's why such products should get the same license as gambling companies.

They should pay for license, they should have proper responsible gaming policy, ability to self-exclude, in case of products for kids, their parents should be informed that given product is a gambling product (older parents might not be aware of this), etc.
Simple is better than complex.

There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

https://xkcd.com/1987/
First of all, Israel and Saudi Arabia are the major sources of problems for the US. They US would need eyes and ears in the middle east if not for their relationship with these 2 countries.

The US spends billions on Israel itself, gives them more access then any other nation, they spend billions on paying of Egypt, the US lends international support on EVERY LEVEL, Israel was one of the primary drivers that got US into Iraq and tried their best (and they still are) to do the same with Iran. The relationship with Israel is one of the prime tools of propaganda for every single terrorist group in the Middle East. Israel is a rough stat that illegally acquired nuclear weapons and the list goes on and on.

9/11 was a direct caused by US the relationship with these nations. One of the main bombers prime motivation was revenge because of what Israel did in Lebanon, OBL own motivation was that US troupes should not be on Saudi soil (and that got him banned from Saudi Arabia). Because of the Saudi alliance Obama placated them by allowing a genocidal war in Yemen and people actually thought that is a reasonable thing to do. And I could go on about many more bad effects of this relationship.

Now I'm not saying these nations are uniquely evil and I'm not even saying the US should be allied with them in some way, but these relationships have grown far beyond what makes sense from the perspective of US population but not if you are in the political class.
Can you please file a bug report on crbug.com?
> Addictions can be hard to overcome for many.

I don't think this is "addiction". Its clearly operant conditioning. You aren't going to suffer physical ailments like an Alcoholic or Heroin-abuser (or heck: even a coffee-drinker) would if you "stop pushing the button"

I'm pretty sure that our concepts of "addiction" (including "willpower") are mostly pseudo-science. While psychologists are carefully studying the issues, the mass media needs to keep making movies and stories, and those stories do NOT reflect upon reality very well. Even well-researched stories, like Inside Out, or Finding Nemo (Dory's character is a very well researched example of memory loss) may end up obsolete as research moves forward. (IIRC: Inside Out was initially based on some psychology research. But the research already dramatically changed by the time Inside Out was out of production, and it was too late to change the story at that point).

The sad truth is: most of the psychology the layman knows is wrong. Its "story" psychology, created for drama and storytelling. Not "real" psychology, which actually predicts human behavior.

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In any case, I believe that lootboxes are a clear, and simple, example of operant conditioning. We know how to "deprogram" operant conditioning. You either:

1. Remove the reward entirely -- Without a reward, and people will stop. It may take 10,000 cycles, but eventually all subjects stop when the reward is fully taken out of the picture. Its surprising how long subjects will continue their behavior in the absence of a reward, but it will eventually stop.

2. Introduce punishments -- Shock the user, or cause other forms of pain. If the punishment is greater than the reward, the subject will eventually stop.

As far as I know, those are the two ways to stop a conditioned behavior. Social pressure may probably serve as #2, but in my experience, it puts a lot of strain on the social relationships (ex: subject may just start lying instead of telling the truth about their behavior). In effect, using social pressure to stop #2 may only cause the subject to become more trained in the act of lying.
Well, when we approach the problem from that angle, we have to ask what we value and why, and how that informs what work we value. Running that same analysis would find that a BA in education similarly underpays compared to private or academic STEM work, or finance, or law. So, we value work that, for example, actively undermines the stability of the economy for personal gain, or that often rent seeks on interpersonal grievances, or that drives climate change, over the raising and training youth to be positive and thoughtful contributors to society.

In that light, I wonder if that BA in art history is such a bad thing. Maybe we ought to value the work those people do more. It's a decision whether or not to do so, not some natural phenomenon of the "market" that we have no control over.
Yeh don't call a Vespa a Moped, might not go well in some areas.
Safari seems to be consistently behind these days, not sure why.
As I understand it, separating children from parents isn't some sort of arbitrary punishment, it's literally the only way that immigration laws can be enforced when adults are traveling with children. This is because of court decisions which say children can't be detained more than 20 days. The alternative is to just release the parents and children and tell them to show up for their court date, which they usually don't do. So if you're saying we shouldn't separate children from parents, then you're for defacto open borders.

The humanitarian crisis at the border is caused by lots of people showing up at the border, right? It seems like the only way to stop the crisis then is to get people to stop showing up at the border, and the only way to do that is to enforce immigration laws. Is there another answer?
This announcement not sure it will make things better

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-improved-vpc...
The standard counterargument is that not allowing mobility is what enabled us to have any nice places to begin with, in an "ant and grasshopper" way. Building a "nice" and affluent country is generally a multigenerational project involving plenty of individual sacrifice for the sake of a future that the sacrificing individuals will rarely themselves experience. If Norwegians knew that they all could move to any country they choose at their pleasure at all times, why would they save their oil money in a sovereign wealth fund instead of quitting work, blowing it all on blackjack and hookers right now, then taking out the greatest national credit line their country can secure to buy some more blackjack and hookers, and relocate a few 100km into Sweden once it's all used up? Knowing that the Norwegians would be thinking along those lines, what would stop the Swedes from racing to beat them onto the blackjack-and-hookers train?

Now, in reality, Norwegians and Swedes are sufficiently similar and familiar with each other that they probably would be able to predict the other's actions and jointly avoid racing to the bottom, but could you say this about, say, Germans and Egyptians, for more complex downward spirals than "burn through our assets faster than the others get to"? Add to it that the short-sighted policies that actually make the difference between successful and failed countries rarely are so straightforwardly bad as buying blackjack and hookers: more commonly, we'll be talking about economic experiments, corruption and kickbacks for interest groups, and really a handful of policies where we still can't confidently say if they were actually good for a given polity in the long run (space programmes, social programmes , infrastructure megaprojects...), but have to rely on history to naturally select for political processes that crystallise better instincts for their selection.

In less abstract terms, I think that especially many right-leaning Americans feel that Latin-American socialism gets close to being an instance of "blackjack and hookers" in the sense of the above metaphor, and in the same vein Germans feel that Levantine... sectarianism?... does. (As in, sitting down and negotiating a sustainable peace with people from other ethnic groups who might be heretics and devil-worshippers is the hardship-and-sacrifice option, whereas using any momentary advantage to enrich your friends and blow up infidels is short-term fun.)
Who said eviction? I said to charge to the property tax as it's valued today. Put a lien on the property and collect at time of transfer. There's no reason to evict people based on property taxes. Texas handles this just fine.
The only thing that already exists that is provably web-safe is the WebGL dialect of GLSL (which no one seems to like). WebSPIR-V would be based on SPIR-V but in many ways has to be a new thing as well.

Edit: I originally said "WebGPU dialect of GLSL" which is not a thing. I meant "WebGL dialect of GLSL", which is a thing and which works ok in practice.
I agree, I've been thinking more and more that we need to spend some serious time on defining what is and isn't best handled by markets and drawing clear bounds around those areas. I'm positive that there are enough real world examples out there to draw up the general structure of a system that would incorporate what we've learnt over the past few hundred years. I feel like most attempts to do so so far have been rather dishonest, naive, and/or biased in one direction or another.
No such thing as a healthy prison system. You'll need to call it something else. Prisons are inhumane full stop.
Landscape of Industrial Computer Science Research in 2019
A decade ago there were a few corporate labs that focused on medium-term applied computer science research, such as HP Labs, the IBM Almaden Research Center, Sun Labs, Intel Research, and others. In recent years, however, I have not heard much about these types of labs, and I'm seeing more of my colleagues who have PhDs work as software engineers rather than as researchers. It seems that a lot of newer companies have moved away from the IBM/HP model of research and have instead adopted Google's approach to research outlined in a paper called "Google's Hybrid Approach to Research," where researchers work on immediate projects rather than on medium-term or long-term research and where other activities such as writing papers are de-emphasized (although many excellent papers have come out of Google).

I'm wondering what are the career prospects for graduate students who still want to pursue medium- and long-term research in an industry environment that seems to emphasize immediate development.
The flashing lights are a nice bonus, but the comparison to trading cards is still valid imo. It's basically the same thing. Yes the technology has advanced, but the risks are the same.

Companies that sold trading cards, stickers, whatever did the same marketing and testing as video game companies.
MLK said something along the lines of, there is no problem with just laws (such as those upholding border security), but there is a problem when they’re applied unjustly.

There is nothing wrong, all other things being equal, with enforcing border security. I think this is where your perspective comes from. Nations have sovereignty. Therefore, they can enforce their borders. If all else actually was equal, it would be a sensible argument.

However, this new “virtual border fence” does not exist in a vacuum. The current administration - and the prior administration - has ramped up immigration enforcement efforts, in many cases tearing apart families who have lived in the U.S. for many years, had kids, jobs, etc., causing immense pain. Billions and billions spent to remove hardworking residents from the country and place them back across an imaginary line. Why? Because “law and order”. How will your children sleep, if an illegal immigrant is working night shifts to send money back home to his struggling family? The response (e.g. ICE raids, children in prison camps separated from parents without medical care/showers/hygiene, increased enforcement causing more dangerous crossings resulting in drowning) is clearly disproportional to the crime, even if you see illegal immigration as criminal and unjust. The “virtual fence” exists in context with all of these other realities. Perhaps you can see why myself and the parent commenter aren’t exactly cheery about our nation’s innovative, synergistic solution to border enforcement. All of the unjust measures mentioned above (minus perhaps more ICE raids) will be easier than ever to do. “How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world / with such efficient surveillance measures in ‘t!”

Even if you see the startling conditions/extensive surveillance measures as justified and deserved of people thrust into difficult circumstances beyond their control, the current administration is clearly incompetent and untrustworthy in the task of implementing such a border fence system. Do we really trust the people who separated parents and children without keeping track of which child belongs to which parents will use such a system in a just manner? I seriously doubt it, and therefore I doubt any argument implying that all enforcement measures can be justified because “order”. Breaking the law does not make you subhuman, and no new measure exists in a theoretical vacuum of just intentions.
I work because I love the problems I solve, I find them interesting. When I get tired of this, I'll start another career. I've got a few that I can't wait to try and I'm not sure which I'll do next?

I enjoy living, trying, learning, seeing, hearing. I love to go to live music shows, eat good food, travel, meeting people and learning what they know. I'm a little socially awkward but I do enjoy talking to people about whatever they are experts in. I love to build things, I'm not artistic, but I enjoy art. I like to be alone, and camp and swim and read. There's so many things I love to do in life I'll never get to them all.

So for the most part, I get up as early as I can bear, and I do as much as I can for as long as I can. I find very few things through out my day to be un-enjoyable.

My first attempts at having a partner were so focused on having a partner, that it was difficult for me or them to see through that. I had some unhappy kinda forced relationships. At somepoint, I relized that no one else can make me happy, and looking for that in someone else is a waste of time and a turn off. Instead, I make myself happy, I've found what I love to do and who I love to be. I'm fatter, worse in bed and have less hair, but I'm more attractive because I love myself, and I love life. That's something people want to be around.

So, when you're done feeling sorry for yourself, take some time to be the best you, be someone you love, learn how to make yourself happy without having to seek out your happiness from someone else. You partner doesn't want another chore. Life is just as hard for your partner as it is for you.
Why is markdown so popular? It seems so braindead.