skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never been an avid follower of Cowan's, but have heard him from time-to-time on various podcasts and read some of is writings, and in my assessment, his standout quality is that he's just very mild-mannered and doesn't get enraged or dogmatic about anything, and demonstrates himself as being very well researched and considered in his positions.

For this reason he's able to engage in productive discussions with people across the ideological spectrum; his podcast appearance with Ezra Klein [1] was particularly gratifying in this regard.

We wouldn't want every commentator to be like this, and his manner doesn't mean we have to embrace everything he says, but there's an important role for someone like Cowan, who will allow their interviewee to express their position when most others just want to pile on and scapegoat.

[1] https://player.fm/series/the-ezra-klein-show-2468767/tyler-c...
That’s a damn good idea!
There are competing implementations of MongoDB's API. Microsoft's CosmosDB is promising but, last I tried it, not complete enough for Apostrophe. AWS DocumentDB may be up to the task, if the plaintext search indexing features of Apostrophe were replaced with an alternative.
This sounds like the "well they've already killed the cow" argument for eating meat. Conversely, by your logic, if you're the new hire that is the one person too much for the current office and they have to move to one twice as big for twice the price, they should pay you the entire price of the office to work remotely instead.

What they do for one person doesn't matter, the point is that if everyone were remote they wouldn't need to pay for the space.
Rewriting can be greatly automated. C2Rust[1] proves that. Just can be improved with new languages and refactoring capabilities.

[1] https://github.com/immunant/c2rust
!g redirects to google. How does that help your privacy?
There was a medium post about Microsoft's culture and their inability to move on past Gates and Balmer about 6 weeks ago [1]. According to that article you are objectively wrong in saying "it’s safe to say that anyone working there today has nothing to do with the time periods you’re referencing". The article claims that the majority of the power within Microsoft still lays precisely in the hands of people who worked for the company during the times referenced.

1. https://onezero.medium.com/speaking-truth-to-power-reflectio...
But Apple is a honey badger - it dont care about ads. Their whole differentiator has become privacy and putting the user first vs apps! Seems like a glorious feature for them no? Safari already leads the way with blocking ads and third party tracking cookies.
You can buy this in most of this countries legally.

I love coca tea and coca wine.
>> I'd argue that whoever understands the ring of integers modulo 2^64, will also understand the IEEE754 semantics

> I'm an existence proof that that is not true :). Although I'm sure I could learn the IEEE754 semantics if I put enough effort into reading the spec.

This was sloppy writing on my side. I wanted to say "whoever understands the ring of integers modulo 2^64, can also understand". And I'm sure you could :)

And you don't even have to read the spec. The core idea (mantissa, exponent, and sign) is super easy and writing a FP emulation for addition and multiplation is a really nice task to understand what is actually going on. The only really unfamiliar idea is binary fractions and I think this is a cool idea to understand on its own.

> But even if they don't know the word "ring", I think most programmers do understand how modulo arithmetic works, and they have algebraic intuitions about it that turn out to be true: both operations are commutative and associative, multiplication distributes over addition, equality is true if it's true in the actual integers, and so on.

Well that is all fine but scrolling back to the grand grand grand parent: That would also be a completely wrong abstraction to model financial stuff. I'm not saying FP is the solution, but for sure modulo arithmetic is also how you not want to do finance :)
FBI issues dire warning about smart TVs and hackers
Interesting game.

You can pretty much destroy by not bothering to interview and blindly hiring a giant crowd of engineers w/o regard for their salary. Dump them into high-paying projects and destroy really quickly.

I was also specializing them in a specific area up to 10 then rotating lower skilled out as they hit level 10.

This game is funny to abuse, but I am not sure the management style (birth 9 babies in one month with 9 women) is entirely accurate.
Infrastructure is far cheaper to provide per person at high densities. You need less of it, and things like electricity have less loss over shorter distances.
Imagination Announces A-Series GPU Arch: “Most Important Launch in 15 Years”
Two of my greatest passions, with the result of learning more about ML. Sign me up!
Hear here!
Patch to disable busmastering on PCI bridges before ExitBootServices() is called
Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1201668829308284930
Keynes identified criteria under which printing money does not create runaway inflation.

An excellent example was 2008, when printing $800B did not cause inflation. Printing $1.2T would also not have caused inflation, and would have ended the recession, but the Senate preferred to extend the recession, to blame on Obama, instead.
According to the article, FaceApp says they host in the United States, Singapore, Australia and Ireland. Whether that's true or not, I don't know. The problem the FBI has is no matter where the data is hosted, the Russian government has access to it as long as the Russian developers of FaceApp have access to it.
It says itself that it's a slight modification to a 2002 paper.

The 2002 paper was about a redesign. The original auth system was written up in 1995 by Pike.
Why is this comment getting downvoted?
You can get a larger error than that using one operation.

fn main() {
let x: f64 = 9007199254740992.0;
assert_eq!(x + 1.0, x);
}
This really does not look like a photo of a monitor. Looks instead much more like the original photo?
I concur, I’ve worked on at least a dozen “web scale” Django sites and I can’t think of a single one where we were CPU bound.
The FBI very specifically is concerned about public/elected officials. You don't think other governments might be interested in data about elected officials?
> If I were on crank stealing bike cranks to buy more crank, I would want to be arrested and sweat out withdrawal

You are speaking as someone who hasn't suffered from addiction. If you are an addict, you want drugs and you'll avoid withdrawl at all costs.

> Whatever the facility, I'd have medical staff monitoring my symptoms

You get the bare minimum in jail.

> The last thing I would want is to spend a night in jail then released for time served, wander back to my crank den, where after getting more crank into my veins

If you were an addict, that's exactly what you would want.
> I know it's against the rules to tell people to read the article, but I would encourage everyone to read the article.

It's not against the rules at all, so thank you for the encouragement! I will go read the article.

What the guidelines warn against is something different: Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
Yes. The latter works, the former further enriches the rich. Guess which they like better.
Changes to depreciation treatment in general, taxing revenue instead of profits above a certain target, lots of policy tools available to balance corporate and citizen interests.

A lot of damage to be undone, as you mentioned. I’m not against automation, by any means, just how the gains and productivity from it is currently distributed (versus more equitable models).
Just get it through
our even better then emailing yourself files, you can use something like syncthing and just drop the file into a folder to have it synced to another device. no need for importing and exporting from your email app
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Thanks for the EBS tips, I'll give it a go with these instances. Still limited by the EFS speed though, which means multiple EFS volumes to shard writes, additional code to handle that etc. (If anyone knows how to use a VFS/fuse adapter to stack/union these into one volume please shout out.)

Since 40-100GBE is extremely cheap now, I don't really see how the bandwidth can be so low. When we're building compute clusters it is multiple rails of 25/50/100GBE (or other fabric like IB). Is Amazon using anemic 2x10GBE LOM or something?

Relatedly, its always mysterious debugging on AWS because you have to theorise about the underlying hardware and topology. Maybe there is a VIP level of CloudWatch where you get told how it works underneath...
It's the same thing in Hong Kong, they have some prime real estate. I wouldn't say their offices are packed, but they're always full.

Startups or anyone in need of office space on a budget just isn't able to afford a proper office, especially if you're looking for something short-term, or unable to commit to 1-2 years.
The most important part of learning to program for a beginner is to master the logic and the general tools you get in a language to implement your ideas. Some people can get it right away others take a bit more but if you try to force the logic and the intricacies of a language like C++ at the same time then it becomes a more difficult task than it needs to be and it's a recipe for giving up because it's too hard.

I suggest you teach a language like Scratch. The ideal way to do it is to agree on a project that the 10 year old and you agree on and set a plan to get there. Working towards a goal gives you both a goal to work towards and a reason to continue forward. The project doesn't have to be unique but you both need to agree on it and develop a road map to get there. You should also set a deadline.

Once you finish the project you can move on towards a different language and more advanced subjects but always using projects to help you move forward.
Ask HN: Would you be willing to swap shares of your startup if
If you were a founder, would you be willing to swap shares of your startup with a group of other startups if you could not raise an investment round (of cash)?

https://www.startup1.co/startup-stock-swapping
I have a third option, work time. I have specific, inviolable times when I get on and off work. Past 8, I am off work and all work-related notifications shut off automatically. I've found this helps perfectly isolate work from life.

Working whenever you feel like it is hell, I agree.
I haven't seen any posts about this issue that don't address direct quotes and/or posts by RMS directly. I wouldn't call that a "rumor mill". Granted, I have not read everything written about the subject.
One of your points is that an encoding designed to handle languages has support for more than one kind of white space. Given that languages use more than one kind of white space, this is sort of a necessity.

Another one is that a standard designed to support all languages has a feature necessary for supporting some languages.

Those aren't inconsistencies, so do feel free to go on.
I think you might have misread the comment(?) The GP was describing good reasons why the App shouldn't be trusted.
They were responding to "don't not want" (as in, do want), not "don't want".
I saw below that you lost a brother to a drunk driving accident. I have hesitated for days about replying. I don't know which side of it he was on, but I know it could have been me who did that. I haven't hurt anyone, but I could have. I am so very sorry for your loss.
I’d think a Roman or Latin-descendant-language-speaking person would have coined the term, since it's based on the word liber, Latin for “free”. I would also think the ancient Greek word [1] would have been more commonly used in context of freedom from slavery than from any self-imposed restraint (or lack thereof).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleutheria
From what I have read, it's probably more like 4-8 floors. With 8 still being totally possible with with a podium floor or two and wood framing above that. (DC does this now)
Good reminder, thanks!
For the first, is it by hours? with or w/o shifts?
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I was you a few months ago. I had tried DDG on and off for years. It is significantly better now, though I can't say it's quite as good at google. For example, searching reddit is much better done with Google.

But in general, it is good enough that I switched and stayed switched. The most eerie thing, actually, is that so many ads have become de-contextualized. I no longer see ads for things I've recently searched for and it's so obvious that it's a little weird.
they're responding to "people don't not want kids"
This only works depending on how diligently you formatted those TODOs. Before you know it your regex explodes. I use IntelliJ as well, so I don't have to think about these problems.
I don't need to apply it to all my queries, maybe only 5-10% of them. It's a big win if I can easily complete 90-95% of my online queries without needing to worry about Google. Plus I'm used to all the other bang patterns at this point.

At the end of the day, though, it's a personal choice I make. I put in a small sliver of extra effort and get in return a big boost in privacy. It's worth it for me, but perhaps not for everyone.
Any reason why you singled out the NYT specifically?
Thank you very much. I like Harvey and will put it into our option list :)
Playstation Emulation Guide: implementation of an emulator from scratch [pdf]
Developer faces prison time for giving blockchain talk in North Korea
That's only the most obvious of targets - - there are many other possibilities, some yet to be imagined. What about mafia style hits ? As in the Russian agents who nerve gassed their adversaries in Britain ?
I wrote about this too - linked in the article.
https://lancewiggs.com/2019/12/01/did-isoc-leave-1-billion-o...

The travesty is that ISOC has given up a sure-fire stream of $55+ million/year in tax-free income, along with the ability to easily grow that to over $100m/year with price increases - all for just over $1.1 billion.

As any r/personalfinance reader can tell you a rule of thumb for endowments is to spend a maximum of 4% of your assets each year. This means $44m from the $1.1bn, which means ISOC is immediately worse off than they were forecasting for this year (~$55m). Alternatively use the Yale method, which in today's low-return market will yield similar or worse results.

Moreover it's clear that ISOC are not behaving as the sharpest of investors, so we can imagine that the endowment might be be poorly managed or over-spent.
The article says that a national bond fund may have fronted the endowment without turning .org into a for-profit. What does this mean?
This is in my opinion the best book about modern history. You can easily catch up with stuff you missed:

https://www.amazon.de/Rise-Fall-Great-Powers/dp/0679720197

This book was written in 1989 and was already skeptical about the stability of the soviet union and also thought what might happen to Ukraine if the the USSR disintegrates (attracted to EU/EC).
The father of a childhood friend of mine was diagnosed with a peptic ulcer and died of stomach cancer about six months later. The stomach cancer that actually wasn't just a peptic ulcer was only diagnosed a few weeks before his death once he was hospitalized because he was dying.

Surely, differentiating between a garden-variety peptic ulcer and stomach cancer can be difficult given the symptom overlap but that's why doctors undergo a decade of specialized training, right? Alas, all the doctor he scheduled a casual checkup with could see was that this patient's pedestrian problems were beneath their paygrade. At least as far as I was told, his symptoms were dismissed out of hand and he was diagnosed with an ulcer and sent on his way without any sort of workup being done. Presumably the doctor felt that spending time diagnosing someone with such common symptoms was not what they trained for.

I guess VC-funded tech-bro AI startups don't have a monopoly on making the wrong call. (Or on hubris!)
We had 3-4 decades (40's-70's) of 'lock in' when conventional computers were essentially 'big iron' that only large organizations had access to. If quantum computing ends up having useful general purpose applications, I'd expect it to start going down market once some combination of the implementation issues have been worked out, the big/easy money has been mined from government/corporate customers and patents expire.
1). It doesn’t work in all shells, so you have to think about your environment before you use it.

2). I often start with `bar < foo`, so if I need to add more arguments to `bar`, I need to always skip over the input.

3). If I just want to delete all processing and look at the input, I can’t just backspace away the processing because `< foo` is invalid.
complaining about people complaining about virtue signalling is virtue signalling
> That’s right. If SSE2 is reported, KiTryForceEnableNx does nothing. How does that make sense? I don’t know. It is true that all AMD processors which have SSE2 also have NX (and it can’t be disabled). But all Intel Pentium 4 CPUs made before late 2004 (and some made after) have SSE2 yet no NX.

This is an odd choice, and from the sound of it -- they're only checking SSE2, assuming its presence means that NX can be enabled, enabling it and ... nasal demons of some kind.

I'm guessing someone didn't read the specs carefully enough on the Intel processor side, but at the end of the day it ended up being a "Won't Fix" simply because they explicitly list both SSE2 and NX as required[0].

It's not great to fail with what I assume is some error message that doesn't simply say "Your processor is not supported, see our 6-page requirements document online on another computer". It'd be ideal if the OS could accurately check its minimums.

I think of the application's I've built (nothing deployed widely), it's rare that I've had to do operating environment validation (the need for it in the applications I write is minimal beyond "can I allocate a little memory"), and from some brief reading, it sounds like there's a more than a few edge cases involved.

If my experience as a user (who buys AMD products, usually) is any indication ... No Man's Sky and a 3D program who's name escapes me both required SSSE3[1]. Both blew nasal demons.

[0] Section 3.1 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/i...

[1] I seem to recall it was something like SSSE4.2 or some oddness, but I couldn't find a reference to it ... only SSSE3, which had the same problem of having an extra "S", confounding Google.

edit: and grammar and speling.
I lived in two of these in Madison, WI. I'm not sure if was legal, but my landlord rented each bedroom in half a house individually. Four men, one bathroom, beer cans in the shower (Why?), but the bedrooms all locked individually and we weren't mutually responsible for each others' rent.

Second one was a former HoJo parked while awaiting condo conversion. Imagine a hotel room stripped of all furniture, with a single kitchen per floor. Had to wash my dishes in the bathtub, but otherwise it worked for me.
Chip.
The flash reflection and the head and shoulders shadow suggest monitor mounted at the eye level.
Why F# was needed in the first place? OCaml[1] is vastly superior, and doesn't require .NET since can be compiled into the native code. Just in the need of the better Windows platform support. And they add more features with time than F# devs.
I agree. I'll be releasing an article about this tomorrow. There are in-fact many security ramifications that have not been solved in practice.
Good luck to you and your child(ren)!
Interesting, but a little Googling tells me that the writers deny that. It's just a coincidence.

Perhaps Jim Henson subconsciously remembered them though.
We're in a very similar business. And have embraced the existing broker network. gen220 -- mind if I ask what company you are part of?
What in the world is going on with those videos?!

It brought my gpu's (Radeon VII) video decode to 90%, and brought my whole pc to a standstill.

Edit:

Interestingly if I use OBS to record it happening, and use AMD AMF as the encoder, then the decode load only hits 73%. After swapping over to cpu x264 encoding, back to 90%+ (Peaked at 96%). Might have a power limit for encode/decode. Weeeeird.
Probably because of that part

well, most of them would otherwise be addicted to something else anyway.
TBF that is a problem with your company (many companies and govt), not non-cloud hardware. If you have good management practices then all the groups involved will share ownship of delivering the successful outcome (whatever you need your giant high performance filer for), which also includes empowering the lead engineer to hire/train (which is often better IMHO) people with the requisite skills.

So what you are arguing is that many places have limited competency, and you can outsource the need for that to AWS -- at significant cost. I dealt with a fair number of turf guarding drongos so I'm sympathetic to this idea, but it remains true that you can get much more peak performance, and perf/$ from your own hardware.
Also happens with the normal search results (both straight up porn and an odd priority for sex-related results), very peculiar.

Example for the latter: searched for "quadriplegic" recently (came up in the home assistant discussion on HN and I wanted to check if I remembered correctly what it means, not being a native English speaker). Comparing the top 10 results: Both Google and DDG bring up dictionaries. Both suggest videos about life as a quadriplegic. Google finds the wikipedia article, DDG doesn't. DDG has in spot 3, 8, 9 and 10 articles/videos about how quadriplegics have sex.

(Google also isn't perfect: way to many dictionary results IMHO, although it is set to search both German and English)
They could have sold bonds (raised money via debt) as an alternative to selling .org. They probably would have gotten a good yield considering the stability of the .org revenue stream.
It is awful. Javascript with JSX is awful, too.
Collectives and companies can keep the same culture and habits even if all people who worked there left. Because people come and leave not in the one go - they do it gradually, so every new employee is "indoctrinated" into the company culture, then indoctrinating new people themselves, even if their mentors left.
On the other hand consider all the ways in which our society is fundamentally unlike BNW. The big one: we are not bred in test tubes and raised in massive government-run factories with our destinies determined by a letter from alpha to epsilon. Families have not been abolished, nor has pair bonding. Our lives are not engineered by an all-powerful global government, not even by an all-powerful national government.

Maybe you could say that these are non-core aspects of the story, like the fact that in BNW they travel by rocket instead of jet, but I think they’re extremely central to the story.

These ideas didn’t come out of nowhere, many of them ( like the replacement of family life with communal life) were taken seriously by progressives of the day.

Huxley took the trends and novelties of the early 1930s and imagined what things would be like if they continued in that direction. Some trends continued, but others stalled out, and these trends are perhaps more interesting than the ones that continued.
For banks, data on your spending habits could be a gold mine
I was thinking more along the lines of hacking because now you have a face and can identify who they work for and that they may have valuable info being a part of X person’s political campaign. Potentially you’d then install some silent update or use some new exploit to gain access to the rest of their phone. Anyone know if that is possible?
People with severe, chronic and often debilitating pain for one