skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or they go on wild goose chases. We call those people cranks, and there are plenty of them, such as all the people inventing perpetual motion machines (which arguably could be AGI).

Also, if you address the fundamental question first, Carmack may unlock something even more powerful than AI. As it is, he's just following the crowd.
Wouldn't kilopower (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilopower) be an alternative? It used U-235.
And Apple, Amazon and Microsoft are nothing like that and two of the three are more profitable. Correlation is not causation.
Wasn't there some judge a couple years back who , in order to understand a case properly, taught himself java ?
> or create a byte-array of some sort that gets translated, which while faster, still isn't fast enough.

Except, of course, about 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than the best SVGA era cards were.

I mean, you got many GB/s bandwidth now. Yes, that Tseng Labs ET4000 was amazing, with 7 MB/s over ISA, beating most (all?) other cards I bothered to try back then.

Or some basic (but fast) later PCI card like S3 Trio 64+ 50 MB/s (IIRC).

PCIe 3.0 can do up to 16 GB/s over 16 lanes. Even if it were 7 GB/s in practice, we're still talking about 1000x improvement compared to the best ISA SVGA card. You have also bus mastering and ability to map buffers that way that GPU itself has access to the data.

Setting one pixel might be slow. But who cares when you can just have your "framebuffer" in system RAM and "MOV" away!
Just looked it up. Looks super interesting, I will surely give it a shot. Thanks
Good. In my view, the existing ruling desperately needs to be overturned.

And I'm cautiously optimistic. The Supreme Court has shown itself to be far more sane on IP than the Federal Circuit.
Romans did it to themselves by refusing to procreate, just like we in the west are doing.
Analyst believes someone big is buying Netflix
> Xerox

Which may become HP soon.
So easy for armchair quarterbacks to make snippy remarks. Truth is that fixing this kind of issue is probably way harder than you think.
How are they “more productive” than the other tech behemoths?

I would argue that they are less productive seeing that after all these years they haven’t diversified from advertising - where 90% of their profit comes from - as compared to Apple or Microsoft or even Amazon.
When you have to quote Buzzfeed as your source, you're doing it wrong.

Here's the person in question - they're a white house staffer:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/miles-t-65707671/
Travelling from the surface of Earth to Earth orbit is one of the most energy intensive steps of going anywhere else. -Don Pettit

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/exped...
I assume this was for a supervisory position or an HR position?

These aren’t really politically charged questions but rather questions about how to manage people and the issues that come with people. While the cause of the complaint may be politically charged, how one would handle the situation should be pretty by the book.
Heavily.
Indeed. The main goal of marketing is to create interest out of thin air and then maintain it. You don't find out what people want and try to give it to them; you program people to want what you have.
You, or an industry group you are part of, could file an amicus brief, but, yeah, there's not a lot.
Subcontrabass Tuba
I would disagree there's anything special about neuromarketing. I think there's an ethical question about the entire field of marketing itself, but using models of human behavior derived from neurology is not different from using models of human behavior derived from statistics or focus groups or any other way people try to manipulate other people into buying things they don't need.
The first one is not available via prime. The second one looks disabled.
The very same judge, Alsup, whose ruling was overturned, hence this Hail Mary/saving throw to the Supreme Court.
Exactly. An implementation of an API is copyrightable. Not the API itself. With a lot of goodwill, with some very generous interpretation, an API could be patentable, but copyrightable seems absurd to me.
I didn't say it was. But the GP asked:

> If you remove infinite money and market dominance would it still work out in the end ?

And the answer to that is clearly: yes. It would because it did.
"Probably". Hah. That just shows the ramifications of Oracle winning this case are fucking insane. We've been operating as if this stuff isn't copyrightable for the last 50 years. You may as well burn the whole industry to the ground if they have their way.
If you read the amici briefs, some of the people who actually wrote that API are explicitly disagreeing with Oracle's position.
do you mean the plutonium batteries or the probe itself?
Every company posts the same type of platitudes. Even one of the oldest, stodgiest companies in America.

https://jobs.gecareers.com/global/en/diversity-at-ge
Sounds like you'd be interested in Greg Egan's "Permutation City", if you haven't read it yet.
I went through my account's purchases, and I also found an old Anker cable that has been taken over by a different brand, but with the old reviews preserved: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019PZE0RO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
The Threat of AI
I can't remember where I read this, but there was an argument somewhere that worrying about downclocking only really makes sense when the instruction set in question is new. (Which AVX-512 certainly is, to be fair.) Eventually, when the instruction set is more widely used, you'll probably already be paying the downclocking penalty anyway because of someone else's code, and you might as well go ahead and use the fancy instructions in your own code. Do you think that's valid?
Nah, there's a much simpler and more factually correct explanation. Google developed a natural monopoly using smart people. It then had very high hiring standards and higher salaries, and hired more very smart people in order to wrap its tentacles and create more competition crushing apps and features. It gave these smart people more freedom and money compared to what they were used to, and allowed them to freely innovate and task risks. This all happened before the political era we know today.

None of Google's success it had to do with identity politics. In many ways, you could argue Google was a-political for most of its life.
The whole probe itself.
Scaling Instagram Infrastructure (2017)
Termux App will drop Android 5 and 6 support since January 2020
> This finding underscores the importance of making source code widely available for full public scrutiny before, rather than after an election.

And you are of course sure, when you cast your vote into a black box, that the correct source is running, that the compiler was not compromised [1], that the hardware can be trusted... And suppose you had a team of experts certify with certainty (Somehow! Currently impossible, as far as I know. Especially versus adversaries that include global superpowers such as the US, Russia, and China) one year ago that the machines were working as specified... is that still true? Or were they replaced with identical looking, compromised machines?

Having the source code available is laughably inadequate.

[1] https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html
And here is discussion on Reddit too.[0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/dnzdbs/end_of_andro...
Wanting to avoid paying licenses by doing your own implementation is perfectly legal and moral. Let's say we lived in a world where there were no Open Source RDBMS, and you didn't want to pay Oracle's license. There would nothing shady on you deciding to develop your own RDBMS.
That's funny: I read "Stripe," but was thinking of Square the whole time and asking, WTF, how did this functionality not exist? Wasn't that the whole point?

Now I think how the hell did Stripe even work without being able to accept cards? What's the point of it, then?
They are "obligate-GC" languages. You don't get a choice whether to rely on it.

It is fundamentally misleading to call C++ or Rust "lower-level" languages than Go or Java. (As it is, also, to say "C/C++".) Both Rust and C++ support much more powerful abstractions than either, making them markedly higher-level. That they also enable actually coding abstractions to manage resources (incidentally including memory resources) reduces neither their expressiveness nor the productivity of skilled programmers.

The point of Java and Go is that less-skilled programmers can use them to solve simpler problems more cheaply. Since most problems are simple, those languages have a secure place.
The #1 ESS telephone switch's processor used two types of memory. Ferrite sheets were used for read/write memory to store temporary data, in a manner similar to magnetic core memory, while twistor memory was used for rewritable but mostly read-only storage, to store the system programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twistor_memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_One_Electronic_Switchin...
Thank you very much for the write up! I had no idea that things had improved so much. I had switched back to glasses several years ago because of the complaints above. It sounds like I should check out contacts again.
Patterson RISC-V International Open Source Laboratory
Where I work we have a line item for every computer we make for a BIOS royalty. So this happens at least sometimes.
Perhaps “don’t be evil” was ill advised? “Evil” is rather subjective in many ways and invites a culture that maybe doesn’t scale.

Maybe google was a tad myopic to the realities of what it takes to be a high growth public company with a single revenue generating product of any significance which they didn’t really create in the first place.
> I wonder if companies like Google and GitHub that actively

> courted activists are now regretting their decision.

I think it's fair to say that there are a large number of people who are very invested in the answer to this question, hence it will be difficult to get a serious unbiased answer. It's also quite politically hot.

> For a long time it was common knowledge that you would try

> to keep stuff like that out of the workplace.

Activists and unions have brought many a company and Country to its knees. Companies that stay away from politics (or any statements at all) seem to be doing better, but somebody like Google or GitHub have so much financial and structural clout that they can afford to make mistakes.

> My guess is there will certainly be a shift away from

> other companies trying to do this in the future.

> Rightfully so imho.

I agree, but it's hard to fully quantify. I guess the real point is that politically companies and Countries are split approximately 50/50 between two main parties and any polarizing position a company takes will likely upset roughly half of the people. I think the only way to maintain a proper diverse structure is to not take sides.
I don't think the comparison with literature makes sense.

API is what defines a software. For instance, if someone copies Microsoft suite full public interface (including the UI which is part of the interface it would be a problem even if the implementation was different).

API signature is the UI equivalent for a library/programming interface software. So, I agree with the original commentors concerns here. Oracle's got a point too.
Security Hole in Heroku's Mailing Service
It's interesting to see how other GCs try to handle this. In particular the JVM's (awesome) new Shenandoah low-latency GC has a ShenandoahAllocSpikeFactor option precisely to deal with this kind of situation, where you can specify what percentage of the heap you're willing to sacrifice in a spike in allocation rates before the GC starts running wild trying to collect garbage.

The trade-off of the knob-less approach of Go's GC I suppose.
What the US government really wants is all your public online accounts.

They used the broad and not fully defined definition of the word to their advantage.

What a social media site is, is something I think we are all collectively defining. It's too new to be really set in stone.

Also, even though words have broad meanings, it doesn't make it right to use it that way, since social customs would make the person using such definitions unintelligible. For example, if I said in my introduction at a party to a woman "I'm gay", she will likely take it to mean 'I'm homosexual', not 'I'm happy'. Both are completely valid dictionary uses. Only one has a valid use in any modern context.

Social media is generally defined as media where the primary intent is socializing. For me, that means it is more about communicating with friends and family in a manner that is directed to furthering my understanding of them, and their understanding of me. These sites would be like facebook, twitter, instagram, etc

Sites like HN, webmasterworld, blackhatworld, etc... are more about advancing knowlledge in a specific area. Socializing is a secondary consequence. These could be considered 'quasi' social media accounts.

Based on the current definition of social media, even comments on a news site or blog, 'could' qualify. But then again we run into the issue that if you use words in non-standard ways you can become unintelligible to your fellow humans, undermining the whole purpose and concept of language. If I said 'I read a comment on social media' and really meant 'I read a comment on cnn.com' people would not understand what I'm saying. It would be odd and awkward.
> We have to be very, very positive that our deidentification process is thorough and accurate to prevent a HIPAA violation from occurring

If your model is any more useful than something trained on coarse aggregates, then it can be used to reidentify individuals. This is a pretty hard dilemma in the entire industry, not just health.

I hope my observations are skewed, but instead of trying to seriously address this issue I've seen an entire legal-loophole style data laundering industry emerge where highly identifiable information changes hands without it 'technically' changing hands in the legal sense. I'm talking about entities like datarepublic.
Why should this opinion (just for the sake of argument assuming that it is, which I don’t think) have any effect on his employment status if there were otherwise no problems?
That's a beautiful tool. I should collect and organize all my music links from the past six months or so there are all kinds of very nice tools out there.

For instance this one:

http://www.brandlew.com/keyboard/keys.htm
I thought this was gonna be just another affiliate spam site but was pleasantly surprised. I liked the kids section. For advanced books the main ones I was looking for were all there, with the exception of Programming Collective Intelligence (I would remove the 2009 restriction, it would be fun to see all python books, and maybe just opt-in to the 2009 filter but allow people to opt out).

I like the open and informative about page and the "Made while drinking in Munich." is a nice touch :).

Nice job! Thanks for making this, and I'll definitely recommend it to people because surprisingly often get asked book recommendations for Python.
Even if the book is wrong?
>"Teach them to crave fast data insight from the their analytics software for marketing campaigns" lacks the same sense of romance or moral imperative."

I'm not sure what your specific role in the industry was. However while it may not have the same sense of romance or moral imperative as something else, it can still help rally great teams around causes. I've found people, particularly teams of data-driven marketers, can get quite excited when seeing a business grow directly because of insights they distilled from data. It's the feeling of making a tangible impact.
Quoting myself:

> what the hell are these brands?

This is what 1-man-brands are. I myself used to run a sunglasses brand in my student years :)

Most are just dropshippers, or people working out of home.

Recipe was simple: order cheapest 1 dollar sunglasses on Alibaba, have them put into fancy packaging and silkscreened with something Italian sounding. Then you make up a generic website with stock photos for your "brand"

I was surprised with the amount of people keen to buy $100 to $200 sunglasses with nothing more than an Italian sounding brand name.
Additionally photo-report available.[0]

> Timur Fatkullin, 26-year-old pilot of EXTRA EA-330LX (r/n UR-TIM) - http://spotters.net.ua/search/?reg=UR-TIM

> Igor Chernov, 51-year-old pilot of EXTRA EA-330SC (r/n UR-GOR) - http://spotters.net.ua/search/?reg=UR-GOR

> Both pilots are members of National Federation of Aerobatics of Ukraine - https://nfau.org

[0] https://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2019/11/15/7231995/
> I'm not sure if the compiler is smart enough to do it for you, but you might be able to squeak a bit more performance by precomputing a partial sum (data + V_LEN - 1) outside the loop for this statement:

I don't remember last time when a compiler did not do this for me. Compilers are generally pretty smart nowadays.
Your thesis was that no large company would operate illegally because the law wasn’t enforced by the executive branch. Then you went off on a tangent about a change in the executive branch.

Is Koch Industries not large enough?
I find the Reddit moderator scheme both necessary and also toxic. I deleted my Reddit account a year ago and I feel my life is all the better.
I think it's more common to put the indentation before the '#'. either way it ends up looking a little weird, but I prefer to see some visual indication of nesting.
That's great! Having to take contacts out every evening and to then clean them was quite a hassle. I should try contacts again.

>makes getting up in the night to pee much safer

Is that really the case? My vision is only slightly better than yours (although my last check was years ago) and I feel like I could do most things without glasses just fine. Anything that requires reading is difficult though, unless it's on my phone where I can just bring it very close to my face.
Why would they? They will be very cold. Occasional cosmic rays aren't enough to evaporate them. They can last hundreds of thousands of years, if not millions.
Youre making up a mythical insecure map of useful info to worthless information. This is not a compelling reason to treat all anonymized data as useful or vulnerable.
If you don't mind expanding, interested to hear why you believe the current ruling should be overturned.
This, from 2009? "Badging today will allocate funds for your meal tomorrow". And I wrote about it eight years ago.

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/10/17/badging/
So tricky! Number 5 is the only one that works though I think
Ikr? “ballast is hacky! let me just build my own gc real quick”. Fwiw i think go 1.14 will have the required knob in the runtime package.
I used a Brother HL-L2340DW.

I goes to sleep a bit too often and doesn't wake up but otherwise it is low maintenance and the cartridges last forever.
Unions are specifically for topics revolving around the work: its conditions and compensation. It's not general activism for arbitrary causes.
"Or is that rephrasing your description?"

I think so? There is an obvious circuit equivalent where links are interpreted as one-way resistors. You get a charge potential automatically given the circuit and a choice of source / sink nodes (which you need to decide on anyway to apply pagerank).
I like the idea and implementation, but wouldn't use it in production. I can see pretty solid value in it being a QA/Beta tool to shorten feedback loops on non-prod releases.

If the motive is to help people achieve a product/market fit, using this in beta testing with real target personas would be far more valuable (to me, at least) than sticking it into prod and dealing with separating the signal from the noise.
"Customers" seems like a solid guess.
The API description of a single function seems too trivial to be copyrightable. All the functions combined could perhaps be covered by a database copyright, but I believe those aren't recognised in the U.S. Thus phone books or listings of television programs are not copyrightable.
we spent enough there that our rebate pays for the membership heh
Yeah, the issue here is this should be manageable via GPO or similar equivalent.
Theoretically that would be fine if you weren’t discussing skeevy things.
Unrelated, but you're the first person I've ever heard who had optical migraines, which I have too. I experience them as shooting lights followed by essentially a shut down in vision in the affected eye. Never thought about Lasik making it worse but glad to never have done it if that's the same experience. It's miserable when it happens.
Antitrust decree. IBM also did come back and collect royalties from the PC industry.
Nine-year-old child genius to graduate university
The upvote system is also basically useless on reddit these
days, the site is way too big to enforce any kind of
etiquette and people gladly upvote empty one-line quips
while they'll bury anybody expressing any form of vaguely
dissenting opinion. It's frankly toxic.

This.

I don't know what the rest of the people praising reddit's redesign are talking about. My experience has been that its so heavily sanitized that unless you say something saccharinely in-tune with the consensus view, your comment risks being banished to the nethermost regions of the thread.

Most of the comments are rehashes of the same groupthink, echoing the same banal and glib points over and over till they choke out any real thought provoking, refreshing and original insights.

If the cost of having a system that surfaces original and thought provoking viewpoints means living with _some_ borderline hate speech subreddits, I dont mind paying that cost.

The alternative is just feel-good insanity and a thousand times worse, in import.
I'm still unclear on what the badge for meal thing was, but apparently its come and gone before. It was apparently a thing in 09, went away, came back sometime in like 2013 or 14, went away again, and is now again a requirement (and has been since sometime in 2018). It didn't spell any particular doom either of the other times, and other than some dubious tax related stuff, i'm not sure what the impact is/will be. Seems like it will take more years to find out.
A few open solutions:

http://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/

https://github.com/jtsiomb/usbamigafloppy

http://cowlark.com/fluxengine/

And the kryoflux, which is proprietary but very good:

https://webstore.kryoflux.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=1
Wow, on par with Cormac McCarthy for sadness, ouch!

I don't really see it as tragic or sad, more like ... liberating.

Those sorts of thoughts remind me to not waste this precious time that we are lucky enough to have at all.
American Gothic: On America’s unease with the darkness in its past
It really is a complicated topic, and one we spend a lot of time thinking about. We're using a peer reviewed method for removing PHI identifiers, and are combining that with an approach that involves using the least amount of data possible to get results. Our models will also never be released to the public, but instead will have an API where we can see abnormal behavior (such as sending lots of requests to try and tease out other information) and intervene.
TGIF used to have a number of highly technical and informative main presentations. There was a great one by the self-driving cars team where they showed some of their tools and explained some of their challenges (great anecdote about why one iteration of the cars was afraid of fixie bicycles). And it wasn't just software - Patrick Pichette did really informative breakdowns of the quarterly earnings results, and the legal team sometimes went into surprising depth on major cases.

These were rarely directly useful, but the practice reinforced a sense of curiosity and mutual respect.
Is there a variant of Godwin's law/meme that all conversations on HN about politics degenerate to hitting each other over neoliberal economics, the CoC and men's rights?
Is it simpler but less civil to just to call out an entirely false representation of Damore’s position, than to entertain it asking for evidence?