skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The theory you posit is that Semiconductors were key to the fall of the Soviet Union

Had the Soviets developed IC technology and the US failed to do so, do you still believe the Cold War would have turned out roughly the same? I suspect it would have bolstered the Soviet economy, allowed them to develop technology faster than their adversaries, and ultimately win. You're right, this is a guess, because it's impossible to know. I'm also not pretending it's an infallible argument, just as others have pointed out flaws in your theory (that the USSR failed because it lagged behind in terms of economic growth) elsewhere in this thread. I feel like you're focusing on the end of the Cold War, and I'm looking earlier and how it could have influenced those later conditions. It's like trying to understand Germany in the 1930's without considering WW1 - there's a reason it developed that way.

I don't think there was only 1 key thing that decided victory of the Cold War, I believe there were many key things. To clarify, a key thing is something important enough by itself to swing the pendulum either way. I already mentioned the development of IC technology by the US and the Chernobyl failure by the Soviets.

Anyway, I appreciate your perspective. Agree to disagree.
Puzzles don't interest me much, but composition, building and designing things does.

When hiring engineers, I sometimes worry that too much puzzle-orientation shows a bias towards "clever" solutions - and complex code - where not necessarily warranted. There's definitely a place for that kind of focus, but it's usually quite low down in the stack, and that's increasingly far away from business value these days.
A weak argument, maybe. The algorithm the pacer used seems reasonable in 99% of cases. Here's a fairly extreme case where it didn't.

But further, it seems fairly easy to fix and indeed it looks like the Go team are doing just that.
What I'd like to see is larger space for custom rules. You can't have a single policy that defines a whitelist of functions you can do on an EC2 instance per user.
While you are right Disney+ could open everywhere, it makes no business sense to launch in some countries with underwhelming media libraries especially when it's the crux of the Disney marketing.

Many countries that have "Media Laws" that define when movies can be broadcasted on streaming services.
The claims that nuclear has been "misregulated into a pulp" and that new designs can be economically developed which are much better than 20 and 30 year old designs, are also evidence free opinions.
Yeah, by skimming the article, it sound like making gRPC microservices 25x faster, not ML.
you need to find value of memory[1] & memory[2] where memory is the program from first part, which gets you 19690720
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> An astonishing thing happened when we finally made it possible for everyone in the world to tell a computer what to do: We discovered nobody knows what they want the computer to do!

I'm not sure if that's true all that much, if you take into account the scary things regular people do with Excel and Access, or did in the past with HyperCard.

I think a big part is that as an industry, we've told people that the right way to use a computer to solve your problem is to track down and buy some piece of software that does it (proliferation of open source merely made the "buy" part optional). We then proceeded to take away the means of self-sufficiency, widening the initially small gap between "end-user" and "programmer" into a chasm and hollowing out the middle. It's no surprise people only consume apps, when solving any problem yourself without an off-the-shelf solution requires you to become a programmer. And now the final nail is driven into the coffin with proliferation of SaaS which take away both your data and any ability to control and modify the behavior of an application.
How unfortunate that millions of Americans under your view are now bigots unworthy of tech’s attention.
Sorry. I meant 'abusing' in the context of the article: during a commercial operation adopting a behavior (towards the other party) which will be scorned at (scam/swindle, speculation...).

zwaps' interpretation is the right one.
https://m.alibaba.com/product/60768043977/full-spectrum-LED-...
That's like refusing bread because of all the holes in it. Yes, there are gaps within the goodness of human civilization, but outside it, things were typically much worse!

Surely you don't think the society we live in would be possible without having gone through the very real process of developing a civilization? It's hard to judge their actions by today's morality.

The important point is that the transmission of humanistic writing formed the basis for the enlightenment -- and the moral values of modern society.
Linus tech tips straight up called Intel out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuaiqcjf0bs

The best part is that he didn't wait out the embargo, and published graphs that still included AMD's Threadrippers at the top, just blurred out and unmarked, making it painfully clear that Intel is just beat and a very sore loser: https://i.imgur.com/RleR7Ou.png.
Ah ok, thanks!

My reading comprehension obviously needs some work :P
In python I can write code one line at a time and they are executed immediately. This means that I can write code to print the data if I want, or try different things etc without ever rerunning the program from scratch which can be very slow for training data.
"Boom, tetris for Jeff"
Yup. I'm pretty anti-puzzle, I don't like solving completely arbitrary, artificial, self-contained problems. I've always found them boring (though these days I appreciate their instrumental value). That's why in high school I could easily code circles around everyone else (including the teachers), but I never was the best in the algorithm olympiad. I learned programming to make games, not solve random word problems from exercise books.
Are there any slow release drugs that you can't do this with? Shouldn't this be obvious to the doctors?
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> no-one wants to write device drivers

I sure as hell do. I rediscovered my love for programming starting to integrate old hardware with new software after a few years of being burnt out working on trivial CRUD apps
Nice clickbait. A database from a B2C provider, not personal texts from a telco.
Not too unrelated, composting can generate heat around 60°C. Could save some heating
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If only interacial marriages were recently legalized and could offend Americans' sensibilities.
Yes, it is unfortunate that so many bigots still feel entitled to their prejudice.
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gRPC would account for very little time relative to the k-means algorithm. I think what results in the large speedup is the "embarrassing" parallelism that an async Rust server (gRPC in this case) would give.
Knowing the CPU time during the tests could confirm this. I'll try run the benchmarks on my machine this week to verify my assumption.
Sorry, I wasn’t clear enough here.

Objectivity in storytelling/journalism is a lie.

Stories are ALWAYS biased by what the storyteller chooses to show. It impossible to show everything. So what you choose to show is the bias.

Here’s an example: Is Shenzhen an industrial metropolis, or a green leafy jungle? It’s both.

I tend to make videos about the industrial side of Shenzhen, so I tend to choose footage to match that.

When I go walk in the park, I sometimes feel guilty I’m not showing how beautiful it is. That by not showing this side of Shenzhen, I’m presenting a very lopsided version.

But that’s not what people watch my videos for. They’re interested in the industrial side. I’m also not particularly interested in making videos about parks and beautiful landscapes. So I don’t.

“ And the fact that you admit that you’re afraid of angering CCP members - isn’t that terrifying to you?” Yes, of course it is. Why do you think I’m so careful about what I say and show? What do you expect me to do? Speak publicly about it and risk never being allowed back to China? What could I possibly say that’s not already been said by thousands of others?

Instead, I’m trying to make the most of the opportunity I have to say something unique, that few others are saying, and hopefully bring people closer together, rather than further push them apart. We need more of that in the world right now.
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The Daily Mail is scum, but the headline is correct if you understand the stats. There is only one age-group bracket that includes pre-teens, and this is it, and the rate of death for this group has increased.

The headline currently reads "Suicide is now the leading cause of death for preteens in Ohio: Rates among kids between ages 10 and 14 rose 250% in just over a decade, report finds" -- this is pretty clear.

US statistics prevent children 9 or under from being counted as a death by suicide, because the US thinks a 9 year lacks mental capacity to weigh up the decision.

The standardised stats released by the US bracket children by age, and the youngest age bracket is 10-14.

Traditionally this group has a very low rate of death by suicide. People under 14 are more likely to be unlawfully killed by someone else or to die by accident than to kill themselves.

It should be concerning that this age group's rate of suicide is increasing, especially with the way the US undercounts suicide deaths.
I'm guessing you didn't rediscover programming from first principles. There are always tutorials (or books) you learn from. Hacking starts when you start to deviate from a tutorial, when you have a goal of your own and have to figure out how to connect all the various pieces of knowledge and references you have available, and how to fill in the missing pieces.
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The rate of suicide is increasing. That's particularly concerning for this age group because they spend most of their lives under some kind of supervision.
What exactly is "true" hacking and how does it differ from "normal" hacking?
Solution: Sign up to an aggregator service that's say $15 / month and you can watch any streaming service. When the month is up your $15 is distributed between providers depending on how much you watched each of them.
Hence why 2FA tokens and reset links should have a short window of validity, and why shallow information such as knowing account name, or address, or mothers maiden name, should not be used for sensitive purposes.
And what good does setting up your own VPN instance do? Now people will be able to trace every single bit of your traffic back to your cloud instance and thus to you. The idea of signing up for a VPN provider like PIA or Mullvad is precisely that it's not a personal VPN and you get to hide among the masses / their other customers.
re: the actual bug - it took a long time for people to reproduce it and figure out what it was.

This article gives an overview of the bug:

https://www.bugsnag.com/blog/bug-day-race-condition-therac-2...

A much longer paper about the system here (linked from the OP twitter thread)

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs240/old/sp2014/readings/the...
See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21681481

Also when I google CrossRider I find tons of mentions on malware tracking sites, including Microsoft's, but nothing else really. On the other hand if I would google React I do not think the majority of the results would be from anti-virus and anti-malware.
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Is there a full list of the available titles somewhere?
I might be misinterpreting your message, but if not - Shakti is not made by Kx, which AW has been bought out of. Shakti is a new company (although AFAIK everyone there is ex-Kx)
Correct! They are indeed unworthy of anyone's attention.
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> "excess solar power from households and businesses spilled uncontrolled on to the system" ... Wow, that sounds like a great problem to have.

It's also a problem that has already been solved at the technology level.

Australia just needs an equivalent to California's updated "Rule 21" regulations for smart inverters, which came into force in 2019. These rules require inverters to support "remote control" management by utilities, so that their output can be throttled back in low-demand scenarios.

Rule 21 also specifies features like dynamic volt/VAR (dynamic reactive compensation), so inverters actively work to stabilise the grid in the event of voltage deviations, as well as ramping and "ride through" requirements to prevent large numbers of inverters tripping simultaneously during voltage/frequency deviations which could result in a cascading fault.
> There's famous examples of revolutions in science being claimed as mundane results. Topologists said Nash was just applying topology to economics and it was nothing new (to them). Mathematicians saw Einstein's results as unsurprising because of the tensor analysis. (Some of these are over exaggerated and there's definitely a post hoc superiority complex in play).

Relevant XKCD "Fields of Purity" - https://www.xkcd.com/435/
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The plant was active and very well-maintained, and its operator even planned to extend it (2 more reactors).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Powe...
Also often the puzzles have very little to do with your coding skills and everything to do with knowing some mathematical trick. Don’t know if it’s still the case but when I was in uni everyone told you to do Project Euler to prepare for interviews/learn coding. God help the people who had that as one of their first encounters with programming, I would have been turned off it for life!
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My walking schedule evolved somewhat naturally once I started. I had always been active, but normally sports or weightlifting. So when I started walking I didn't expect to gain much, I figured I was already fit. I was wrong, I gained so much cognitive clarity that I drifted toward walking more and more until I could easily be walking 3+ hours a day. It works incredibly as a clarifier, even if I don't figure anything out on the walk, when I come back to it later things tend to seem much simpler.
At present, there is a hard requirement, but from what I've heard, it is to be lifted in future
There is no reason for an 'a la carte' system to be cheaper. Actually transmitting channels is basically free.

So, assuming there is 250 channels, and everyone watches 5, but a different 5, it costs the same to let everyone watch all 250, or exactly 5 of them.
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highly unlikely it'll go that route IMO, the messages in google group are just wishful thinking
Sure sounds great, what are the best and worst case costs of storing that stuff for how long? And yes i know dry cask storage is much less problematic, but i would still want a realistic plan of what is happening to that stuff and what this is going to cost. What irks me so much is that i am not simply told, look here it what it currently costs, how it would scale and what the realistic liabilities are. If you were a nuclear lobbyist and those numbers would make sense, all you would have to do is to argue with them. I, and i think most reasonable people, would likely agree with you. But the problem seems to be that the devil is in the detail, and while nuclear makes sense with the best case, we dont seem to be at the best case most of the time. We regularly have major fuckups when it comes to long term storage that are incredibly pricey and just accepted as the cost of doing nuclear. All the while nuclear is sold and profited on on a highly subsidized price.

So the question whether we should go full nuclear is, what is the real price on nuclear per kwh with what liabilities? How does it scale? I think the post i responded to first was on an excellent path if it hadnt ignored the waste management problematic. I think research into bringing down cost of power plants is a field worth researching, as well as how to drive down the price of long term storage. But first we have to actually decide on the basis of realistic data and not just hope the future will figure it out for us.

edit: My comment is coming across a bit to hostile, just so there are no misunderstandings, i dont think this societal discussion can be approached by convincing individuals on the internet who are to lazy to google themselves(meaning me), but in parliament. I wasnt really trying to start a discussion but giving my 2cents of where i think the problem in the discourse we currently have lie. And thats more the lacking factual basis in arguments on the topic then the actual costs.
I think the key idea is systemic risk.

Insurance only works when a percentage of people put in claims, so house fires across a nation are mostly uncorrelated.

But if there's something that could affect every house and burn them all down at once, then insurance wouldn't really be an appropriate way to hedge that risk.

In this case, a coal plant needs to run fairly continuously for decades to be profitable. The risk is a combination of policy and ever cheaper renewables making coal economically unviable.

The term usually used is the risk of becoming a stranded asset.

http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/faqs/what-are-strande...
It's really weird to me to see US reporting on suicide.

Journalists understand that suicide is contagious, but take no responsibility to decontaminate their own writing. The report you linked is written in a dangerous way. It will cause death.
France, often cited as a sound nuke-advocate (world tally: second nation in raw amount of grid electricity produced by nuclear plants, and first by the part of it) is in fact...
... escaping from it!

A law (2015-992, from 2015, the "loi relative à la transition énergétique pour la croissance verte") states that the part of nuke-produced electricity must fall to less than 50% in 2025, from 72% then, and that renewables must replace it.

2 years later the government (lacking funds and unable to cope) reported it to 2025, then 2 years later to 2035 ("programmation pluriannuelle de l'énergie").

However the political and strategical orientation is perfectly clear, just don't believe France is on the nuke camp.
I wouldn’t say “want” so much as “it’s the worst except for all the others”.

Legal systems are like code, except interpreted by humans and “common sense” instead of compilers — we just don’t have a way to make it simultaneously easy to understand (legalese), hacker-proof (legal loopholes), and future-proof (implications of new tech).

Governments do try to clear out old laws and amend the ones they want to keep, but it looks like it’s as hard for them as preventing databases from leaking is for us.
NB: I've an interest in printing, I'm not an expert by any stretch.

Possibly, though fonts were already pretty modern by the 18th century, at least in significant part. Aldus Manutius italic font was a major step forward (~1449 - 1515). German was the odd language out, still relying on blackletter fonts through the 20th century. These had been replaced by the 17th century elsewhere in Europe. See:

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

If you go back further, there are numerous improvements to printing, bookmaking, and typography, going back to the invention of spaces between words, mixed-case (minuscule) type, and punctuation, as well as headings, chapters, and more. A good book on the history of the book should cover this (I've glanced at several, can't recommend any offhand).

Another amazing online resource is the History of Information, which covers the topic from the dawn of speech to the present: https://www.historyofinformation.com

Printing:

https://www.historyofinformation.com/search.php?str=printing

Bookmaking:

https://www.historyofinformation.com/search.php?str=bookmaki...
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The King James Bible also deliberately used a style that was already archaic at the time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version#Style_and_c...
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Correction: that should read "cast iron rather than wood presses".

High-quality steel (following Bessemer, ~1865), futher improved speed, quality, and reliability.
> the author describes CI as a sanity check

Which is a nonsense, since CI is the practice of merging to master frequently, in a state that can be released if need be.

We won't understand it unless we distinguish the practice from the supporting tools that help us do it safely:

in this case, the practice is frequent merge to shared trunk, and the supporting tools are as many automated checks before and after that merge as can be done quickly.

A "CI build" of a branch is a tool to help you do CI, but unless you merge that branch when it's green, you're not _doing_ CI.

Misunderstanding this and doing "CI on a branch" means that you are mistaking the tool for the practice, and not doing the practice: by delaying integration, you will be accomplishing the opposite of CI.
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There will be a BIOS option entitled "Fan Smoothing" or similar. On my ASUS board, it gives a range of times over which to average CPU temp rather than use the instantaneous value for fan control. I have mine set to 7 seconds I think, and it completely stopped the fan revving up/down issue.
I was a little surprised to see that instead of directly benchmarking prediction performance on a local machine, author chose to go through that complicated web-server route. I saw author saying this is nothing more than a remote RFC, still, a benchmark should try to remove unrelated factors as much as possible. I would be interested to see how the results compare when this web-service layer is removed.
> But if the media is unwilling to budge should we just make a new word? "Hack" was never a good term to begin with, originating from the model railroad club at MIT.

Well, one of my colleagues and I aspire to become techno-mages.

"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ, and we know many things."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjToVZTqCbw
Just asking out of curiosity. Could there be any patents that this could serve as prior art for? i.e. Does Boston Dynamics or so have patents for a legged cart?
I actually subscribed to PIA before realising this, too. It's weird nobody else is even mentioning it in these threads - trusting a proven fraud like Karpeles for your privacy and security needs is a bit insane if you have other alternatives.