skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example no Porsche Taycan buyer is ever going to choose a Model 3/S just because it has a few extra kilometres of range.

Would you be willing to expand on this? The reason I ask is that there are plenty of ex-Porsche (and ex-BMW) owners over at TMC and /r/teslamotors. Are they the minority, or are the brand loyalists the minority?
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The director needs to take a break from Final Fantasy style RPGs.
The problem isn't data collection, it's data centralization. Decentralize (or encrypt) and conquer.
It's even worse. That slide compares number of computer elements vs. number of cells in human brain. The graph starts at 1x the amount (CPU == brain), and ends 10^60x the amount.
> It's immoral to teach your kids anti-science truth or co-science truth.

You mean "co-science" truths such as... morality?

Or to take it one step at a time:

* You have proposed a moral precept.

* By attempting to apply it to people who clearly disagree with it, you imply that this moral precept is an objective truth -- that like physics and math, it applies to everyone whether they like it or not (as opposed to personal preferences or conventions such as whether to drive on the right or left-hand side of the road)

* But science itself does not deal in moral precepts. Therefore, the moral precept you propose would count as "co-science".

* So if you teach your kids any morality, then you are violating the moral precept you propose.
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I would help you with making of frontend for your project and backend too if it involves one or any of these - reactjs/jquery, scss/css, redux, redux-saga, mongodb, nodejs/express, mysql, socketjs, firebase, react-native, js/es6, responsive web development, single page applications, material-ui, ant-design, mobx and more!

I would help you from setting up a simple-blogging site to making complex admin-panels for the application.

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Mr. Snowden is right. If you don't start with the assumption that ALL SECRETS LEAK SOONER OR LATER, your information security plan is definitely flawed.

Not even state actors with unlimited resources (that's you, NSA) can prevent stored secrets from leaking. It's ALWAYS something, whether teenaged hackers or far-flung contract system administrators with too much access (that's you, Mr. Snowden).

Rule 1. Don't collect data you don't need.

Rule 2. Don't store data you don't need.

Rule 3. Assume all data you store will leak, according to Murphy's law (at the worst possible time).

Rule 4. Make your stored data has limited utility. Eternal Blue (hi again NSA) was not such a secret.

Rule 5. Make sure your stored data has limited useful lifetime. US Social Security numbers do not have limited useful lifetime. Strangely enough, credit card numbers do have limited lifetime.

Rule 6. Do your best to set up leak detection. For example, seed your financial secret caches with fake social security numbers that raise flags when used.

Rule 7. See rule 3.

Secrets should be stored under the legal concept of strict liability. They're just like bulls in a farmer's field. If the bull escapes and causes damage, the farmer pays for it. No excuses. No need to prove negligence.

We have, up and running at scale, workers' compensation and the vaccine injury fund. Both of those assume strict liability. A dangerous factory sees its premiums go high enough to put it out of business. Same for a sloppy vaccine manufacturer.

Why can't NSA and Equifax be held to the same standard? (I'd hate to be POTUS announcing a tax increase to cover the damage caused by Eternal Blue.)
That does not make it the 'real name' and it's not for a government to decree how foreign languages in foreign countries should pronounce the names of local cities.

In this case it is really just a political move to push back against colonial times by changing the English names of Indian cities (not only Bangalore) to strict local orthography. The fact that English is used as a common language in India may play a role in that push because they probably see a need to define names in English (which is ironic).

It also depends on the language. China also did that for Beijing, Guangzhou, etc. It worked in English but e.g. in French nobody cared and the 'French' names are still used, the same largely goes for the name of Indian cities.
Jokes aside, anyone who solves the loneliness problem for remote workers (something that WeWork attempts to solve) will benefit itself and society a great deal.
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I didn't say anything about Democrats or Republicans - both parties have blood on their hands in this case, and city-level planning decisions are often disconnected from party-defining policy issues anyway.

Regardless of which party it was, the executive failures - which is what you agree is the problem when you say "they're just incompetent at their job" - cannot be in any meaningful sense a local problem when the executive is being run by a state appointee and not an official elected locally or appointed by one. The emergency manager system is just another case of the nepotism you mention.
Do you do this regularly? Do you know anyone who does? I’m not sure I’ve seen it even once because it would be uncomfortable even if it wasn’t damaging.
> They asked Tesla some data for analysis

So you're saying they're investigating if further investigation is warranted? Wow, man.

Wait for the 15th of December. The "non-investigation" will have reported back by then.
looks like a form of Ascetism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asceticism
Slide 43: Contention that Transistors are comparable to cells. This crazy talk is continued throughout the presentation.

Slide 44: Contends that Moore's law will continue for the next 300 years.

Slide 58: A fantastic butchering of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Slide 61: Unsubstantiated (probably wrong) claim life expectancy is going to linearly increase for the next 300 years.

Slide 73: Contention that storage scales at the same rate as number of transistors on a CPU and apparently conflates that with the power of a CPU.

Slide 82-85: Contention that we'll acheive VR in... 2040.

I mean this presentation is just laughably shit. It's like it's written by someone who has no interest or understanding of the complexity of the things they're meant to be talking about. You would have thought that people would see some of the absurd things that are just obviously rubbish and have it damage the credibility of the presentation, but apparently not.
300 year plan. No wonder they fell for WeWork.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21297789

Adam Neumann: “It’s important that one day, maybe in 100 years, maybe in 300 years, a great-great-granddaughter of mine will walk into that room and say, ‘Hey, you don’t know me; I actually control the place. The way you’re acting is not how we built it,'” he said."
It doesn't remove the ability to collect, but requires consent. When something is technically possible, and there's a monetary incentive, consent is easy to arrange, either with misleading popups, or by just making the product so sweet that the user forgets about privacy
Columnstore and Rowstore = Real HTAP
> There were no classes at university that taught it.

So? You don't leave university and expect to be "done", right? You learn, learn, and learn - your whole software dev life. Even better, your whole life.

And no - nobody teaches you how to professionally handle a hammer in school. Now you are simplifying here. In school, they show you a hammer and nails. That's it. As much as they show you a compiler, a programming language and a basic architecture in university.

There are a ton of different hammers and nails out there, each with their own special attributes. You have an engineer's hammer, a tiling hammer, a rubber hammer, a roofing hammer, a splitting maul, a sledgehammer and so on... And I won't start talking about nails.

It's up to you to gain knowledge when to use what, and how to use it. That doesn't mean it's useless per se. Or overly complicated. It might just no "be your thing", which is fine.
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Is there a mathematical explanation for this?
Young hungry minds like the WeWork guy? It seems to me the money might be largely staying in the circus.
With plenty of disclaimers to not imitate Buster Keaton, I hope
This looks like 133 startup memes rolled into a PDF.
EFF is at a public hacking conference, publicly shaming individuals
In my opinion they tried hard enough. Here are the links to the discussions of that time if you are into that kind of thing:

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-November/00...

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-November/00...

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0230-remo...

It is clear that they really wanted to make green threading work, but in the end it proved incompatible with other goals of the language.

The main problem as I understand it is with the stack: you can't make the stack big from the beginning (or your threads wouldn't be lightweight anymore) so you need to grow it dynamically. If you grow it by adding new segments to the linked list, you get the "stack thrashing"/"hot split" problem: if you are unlucky and have to allocate/deallocate a segment in a tight loop the performance suffers horribly. Go solved the problem by switching to contiguous relocatable stacks: if there is not enough space in the stack, a bigger contiguous chunk of memory is allocated and old contents of the stack are copied there (a-la C++ vector). Now there is a problem with references to the stack-allocated variables - they become invalid. In go this problem is solvable because it is a managed garbage-collected language so they can simply rewrite all the references to point to the new locations but in rust it is infeasible.
Amazing job by the discord team having the patience with the available tools to analyze these problems and the stamina to dig deeper and deeper. Well done!

It is quite interesting to see that the re-frame and fulcro authors were on the right track adding their own 'componentNeedsUpdate' layer which is very fast and will minimize the repainting React has to do. (Mostly thanks to immutability)
The Ministry of Truth won't be deciding what is and isn't allowable political speech. They will tell you what is true. And you already have that.
> "we collect data, click OK to accept

That's not compliant with the GDPR plain and simple. For example ads on a website are not required for that site to work (even if it's the only revenue), so the site cannot store data only to track users to show ads. The way a complliant site should work is it can say

"if you want to allow tracking cookies to get more relevant ads you can do so in settings".

I.e. no must be default in case of non-acceptance - and the site must still function.
I remember there was this blog post about making iphone apps with Smalltalk or something like that.

If I'd ever want to learn Smalltalk I'd want to start there. It's hard to prioritize though, there's so much I want to learn.

But since I already bought The Little Schemer to just have something lying around to seduce me to learn more, I wonder...

What's a good book for Simula or Smalltalk?
Are those traits becoming more common? Darwin called - he read the census and the UN population projections and said you're wrong.
Valentine's Day text glitch causes mass confusion
I think he doesn't. GDPR could outright ban the collection of certain data. Instead (and because this data is useful for govt. purposes) they chose to go with consent.
Don't forget the sanity check at the end. If other people also add a lot safety hours then you will end up with an inflated estimation that is hard to sell.
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This morning a humanities teacher named Richard Horan, having read my NYT op-ed on quantum supremacy, emailed me the following question about it:

```

Is this pursuit [of scalable quantum computation] just an arms race? A race to see who can achieve it first? To what end? Will this achievement yield advances in medical science and human quality of life, or will it threaten us even more than we are threatened presently by our technologies? You seem rather sanguine about its possible development and uses. But how close does the hand on that doomsday clock move to midnight once we “can harness an exponential number of amplitudes for computation”?

```

I thought this question might possibly be of some broader interest, so here’s my response (with some light edits).

Dear Richard,

A radio interviewer asked me a similar question a couple weeks ago—whether there’s an ethical dimension to quantum computing research. I replied that there’s an ethical dimension to everything that humans do.
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In my opinion Scott was really generous even answering. Horan makes no attempt at supporting his claim that QC will move us closer to midnight on the Doomsday Clock.
the problem is that any regulation that affects FB will affect the web
Has anyone written about the earliest origins of Softbank's massive war chest?

You'd on occasion hear about Softbank in the late aughts but nothing worthy of note. And then suddenly just like that it was everywhere.

They hired Nikesh Arora who was let go just as swiftly as they hired him.

As President & Chief Operating Officer of SoftBank Corp.
Arora received over $200 million in compensation over the
last two years" while at the head of Softbank's operations.
This pay package made him world's highest paid executive.[1]

Is there a rhyme to any of the stuff they do? Or is it on the whims and fancies of Masayoshi Son?

Is there an exhaustive read somewhere, on all of this?

[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikesh_Arora#SoftBank_Corp.
As learning curves generally flatten out, that is to be expected.
Oh, it does have some banana-gorilla-jungle problem, it's just not at the same place.

If the types are computationally equivalent, there is a plentora of type classes you must inherit, there is a lot of packing and unpacking to make them work with standard libraries (how do you print an address?), and if the values are not completely separable, there are plenty of conversion issues.

It is an improvement, no doubt about it, but the main benefit of the languages with advanced type systems is that you can refactor code easily to add them only to the places where it's a win, only after your code is complex enough to make it a win.
While I appreciate the objective behind the study, it's kind of disappointing that it is even done.

"Serious" mathematicians are hopefully like "serious" coders, they read the math and when they happen to meet the person they are like "Oh, hi black/indian/asian/white/A man/woman/X not that I want to chit chat but what does this line here mean exactly..." The analogy does break down due to the sheer number of mathematicians being men, which is probably why some people need these kind of headlines in the first place (to challenge their bias).

I personally believe that all mathematicians have poignantly different ways of going about their work, so my real issue with studies is that personally, I wouldn't like being a test subject.
If you view most golden age and resurgence Disney it's glaringly clear. By and large the women are shoehorned into submissive, weak characters at the mercy of a white knight.

The thing is, this really wasn't just a Disney thing, it was largely a Hollywood thing in general. Strong(er), three-dimensional women in film narrative didn't hit major motion pictures with significance until the late 60s and into the early 80s.

The late 1980s was an unfortunate time for Disneys resurgence, because somehow there was also a revival of strong man/weak, beautiful woman tropes in Hollywood. So when movies like The Little Mermaid, The Princess and the Frog, Tarzan, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast came out they very much followed this template.

The plots of these and previous movies hammer home that the young women are meant as prizes for men who come and save them. It's in the stories themselves.
Absolutely. In startups, I've seen two of the most valuable skills in a team member is (i) proactivity and (ii) the ability to learn fast. If a founder values (ii), they should pay for something that accelerates it.
Or because they genuinely don't like it, like a study in Sweden where a lot of women are free to chose any career they won't and avoid STEM, because there are a lot of other ways to be successful when there is more equity than STEM (industrial military complex has its toll)

Or because they aren't the only one leaving it in the first place!

Thinking that any man or boy is the same, act the same, think the same and like the same things, and STEM faculties are the worst a woman can find, is naive at best.

Men suffer as women.

The survival bias make people think that only women leave STEM or leave it at bigger rates, but that's not true.

Statistic says that less than 5% of boys and less than 1% of girls think of a career in STEM, it is already largely a field for a few (an élite if you like) and it's dominated by two kinds of people: people obsessed by the topic, in the autistic spectrum, that is mostly a male disease (people in the spectrum gravitate around STEM majors 14% more than neurotypical people - 22% Vs 36% - it means almost 2 times more).

Competitive assholes who like other competitive assholes, who are mostly men.

But the bulk of the students are regular folks like me, who just wanted to study the field but didn't like the academia shit and hence left (and I am in the spectrum as well).
2 Windows programs that I've been using for ~15 years have done a great job at avoiding the abyss.

They would be IrfanView[0] (image viewer) and foobar2000[1] (mp3 player).

Both programs are very minimal and have stayed true to their vision. Using them today feels similar to how it was 5 or even 10 years ago, but at the same time subtle improvements have been made too. Both are still under active development, so it's not a matter of them not being updated for years.

[0]: https://www.irfanview.com/

[1]: https://www.foobar2000.org/
Especially those drop bears.
Silent films are great even if a kid can't follow the title cards. Without dialogue, so much of the story is told through the action and expressions of the actors.

While not silent, as a child I spent many a weekend morning watching The Three Stooges on our local PBS channel.
OpenMP does not handle nested parallelism.

Compute-bound parallelism is not always data parallelism, for example a tree search algorithm would need to spawn/async on each tree nodes.
OT: but WP paywall is by far the most hostile of popular news org paywalls out there IMO. Using an addon like 1blocker is thwarted by virtue of the site redirecting to the homepage (although you can hide element screen a couple of times and view the entire article from within there).

I wonder if this strategy was pre or post Bezos purchase. Either way, I avoid WP at all costs. (I know clicking the ‘web’ link here can bypass - I’m just venting and I apologize for that).

Thanks for the outline link.
They’re too nice and they work too hard.
> It's like it's written by someone who has no interest or understanding of the complexity of the things they're meant to be talking about.

Marketing today.
Dictionary.com claims it dates back to at least 1977, but I have no idea.
Is this for real? Whoever made the slides was smoking some good stuff.
The issue I have with Mastodon is that a pod admin can prevent me from following people from other pods they don't like. I understand blocking whole spamming pods, but when they start blocking whole pods because they're too right wing or left wing, one might wonder what's the point of switching from Twitter?

Now, you would say, I could run my own pod, but they could still block me from following anyone on their pods just because of the people I'm following or because they have white lists of pods allowed to follow people. This makes the whole experience even more restricting than twitter and creates insular bubbles of opinions where you are only allowed to follow people you already agree with (boring).

I guess, a truly decentralized solution would be something like a blockchain where they will not be able to prevent anyone from following anyone when using different clients. Haven't seen any working solution yet.
This is such a good point. When we don't set up a pattern of regular feedback and the expectation that everyone can improve (even at the top) then feedback takes on a different meaning. I see feedback and learning deeply intertwined in any system... companies are no exception.
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Thanks! I am second-generation Dutch living in South Africa. I speak Afrikaans, so that translation sounded fine to me. Your translation does sound much more flowing.

I hope my point still stands, that what's important ultimately in Ecclesiastes is not so much any superficial style or dialect, but the substance being conveyed.

Of course, Ecclesiastes is full of beautiful poetry, and I appreciate it on that level, but the book is my favorite because of the ideas and lessons being taught, which I think transcend language and culture.
I have used an herb Corydalis Yanhusuo [1] a dopamine D3 antagonist [2]. I buy the plum flower brand of tea pills [3] and take the normal recommended dose. It feels like anhedonia, relaxing, sort of similar to antipsychotics if you have ever taken anything like valproic acid. Don't take an absurd much or you'll get seratonin syndrome.

p.s. it is also a great non narcotic solution for pain relief, more effective than NSAIDs alone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corydalis_yanhusuo

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine_receptor_D3

[3] https://amzn.to/36LNdJa
Haskell avoids state.

When I say state I meant "shared state" is the bane of multithreading. Amdahl's law show that if 95% of your code is parallel you limit your speedup to 20x even with thousands of cores, any shared state contribute to those 5%.
Care to explain e.g. the difference in size with men having larger brains on average? (between 8% and 13% larger)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_difference...
That's why the claim that it's an advantage of statically typed languages.
Most of these are basic mad libs.

Young, beautiful girl runs into conflict because ____. Foolishly and/or impulsively, she attempts to solve the problem herself by ___, but of course she is too weak to do so. Luckily, she is saved by the charming man, who resolves the problem by ____.

Wrap it around details of a fairy tale and bam: $300M+ profit.
> Current Dropbox versions are incredibly invasive.

OT, but does anyone know if there is an API-shim for dropbox integrations? I use YNAB classic and that’s the only reason I have dropbox and it is utterly horrible.

edit: I just deleted dropbox. I’ll sync YNAB manually instead. Dropbox behaves like malware.