skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And those billionaires did it with a fraction of the funds that the government could marshal...

Did what? The billionaires haven't even put a single person in orbit yet, something the government did within a few years of starting a space program. The US government went on to put humans on the moon (a feat yet to be equaled even by any other government, much less a billionaire), operate a reusable spacecraft for 30 years, and build an enormous space station in orbit and operate that for 20 years.

Free people do control government capital in a functioning democracy that has not been captured by billionaires.
Zen2 is on uops.info, it's 2L0.5T on Zen, 3L1T on Intel, so slight theoretical edge for AMD (2 vs 1 uops tho).

That said, I don't agree it's a tzcnt benchmark - there are about 9 instructions only one of which is tzcnt. I'm not sure why Zen2 is worse here.
This is well understood, as witnessed by this classic article: https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuiti...
People online choose not to separate fact from fiction and don't have a sense of humor because social media promotes outrage/cancel culture/instabanning/crybully victimology since that's how they "win" viral sharing and approval brownie points.

Budding/established actors and comedians won't comment, will think twice before doing a show or will quit... chilling effects. Remember how many comedians, Seinfeld included, who won't do college campuses because of thin-skinned audiences?
The Epstein Case Shows Paranoia Is the Only Possible Response to This Moment
Aphyr is the author of jepsen itself, and I believe all the tests as well.
That paragraph could have easily been written in 2019 - probably not surprisingly for McCarthy.
DoH moves the attack we're talking about to a place where the attack can't be carried out.
Absolutely. I’ve come to realise two things about humans recently, that are quite obvious really. We are social animals, and we are walking animals.
Every workstation in my office runs Elementary. Around half of our employees came to the company with little or no prior technical experience, and it's worked out pretty well.
These "blah-OS" posts are so disappointing.

You click--hoping for some new take on what an operating system should be--only to discover yet another half-assed linux distro.
Wow. I destroyed the planet I was on, moved outside the universe and then became God, destroyed the universe, then made a new universe.

Thanks for releasing this, by the way. It's incredibly cool.
Generating story...

You are thefifthsetpin, a ranger living in the kingdom of Larion. You have a hunting bow and a quiver of arrows. You spot the deer and are ready to finish your hunt when suddenly you feel something hit your back.

> take cover

You duck behind some rocks as another arrow flies into your back. The pain is excruciating, but it will be over soon. A few more arrows fly into your body before you can even scream out for help

That escalated quickly.

> die

Your last moments are a quiet one

> revive

The pain is gone now, and you feel refreshed. You walk over to the bodies of your companions and look at them all. They were good men, who died doing what they loved. You look around and see that this place has been abandoned. There are no signs of life anywhere else

You really can do anything! =)
I love this. The best software is created by people who intimately understand and live the problem it’s trying to solve. A+
If you're working as a researcher already, and have published in top conferences, why do you need a phd? Do you want to work as a professor?
Also:

> It would be a great relief to the rest of the workers in AI if the inventors of new general formalisms would express their hopes in a more guarded form than has sometimes been the case.
Now, it may have been a while since I looked at Elementary OS, but "half assed" is definitely not a criticism of it as far as I'm concerned.
Advent of Code 2019 in Clojure
Yes, note the “seen by many“ which is used because there is zero truth in the statement.
Yeah, considering it was an open question for 12 years, I'd be pretty surprised if you solved it immediately after hearing the solution. If you were provided hints by the interviewer and got to it with some directions, I most would believe it more.

What's more likely, somebody figured the solution out to a problem that previously took over a decade in under an hour and then felt the need to brag about it to strangers on the internet; or somebody lied online to feel better about themselves. People are certainly more likely to assume the latter.
The notion that the government wastes more money than the private sector is a persistent myth with little evidence to back it up. Private capital wastes enormous amounts of money on failed ventures, inflated salaries, and profit-taking, and is every bit as wasteful as any over-budget government project.
Will that be genuine or superficial? Will 'verifying the integrity of that DNA after these edits' become the new cryptomining? Here's a hard problem: 'integrity' and 'verfiy' and "good enough at creating" are ill-defined at best.

It almost reminds me of ...me. "I don't need to study and get good at studying, I just need to get good at self-hypnosis and instruct my brain to absorb things faster and remember things better." Want to know how that turned out? It didn't.
Currently, products that expire, are consumable or topicals aren't eligible for commingling (now called manufacturer barcode).

>Have no expiration date
Not be consumable or topical products such as skin creams, shampoos, or cosmetics

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/200141480?...
This reads like a cult of personality manefesto.
Will the world's 'first male birth control shot' work?
You have to have parametrized monad [1] - a type like M inState outState result.

[1] http://blog.sigfpe.com/2009/02/beyond-monads.html

This way you can encode current binding environment into state and state changing code and have operations that use existing type checking and inference facilities of current Haskell (or Agda, or something else) compiler to rule out violations.

[2] https://jpaykin.github.io/papers/pz_linearity_monad_2017.pdf

I keep saying that what is language feature in Rust, C#, C++, Java and some other currently hot programming languages is an ordinary library in Haskell.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02796 has a good intro referencing other work. The paper doesn't go into much detail on the borrow checking side of things, but that author is both thoroughly steeped in the linear types research tradition and knows Rust and mentions it a bunch.

The fact that that paper talks about the affine types far more than the lifetimes obliquely illustrates my point in my view, I'm not sure if it's been stated more directly.

https://gallium.inria.fr/~fpottier/slides/fpottier-2007-05-l... has some nice history. It wish there is a newer version for things that have been published since, in case the issue is more resolved and I'm out of date.

So in Rust today type inference strategies are less the point this hinges on. It's more about abolishing the difference between intra-procedural control flow / data flow / whatever, and their inter-procedural equivalents. Similarly, if we had an annotated version of the MIR which was borrow-check correct under composition that would also be good. NLL is great, and starts to clarify what borrow checking is, but running it in "whole" functions makes it to what clear it is a compositional analysis.
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A recent project I created: https://planit.com
Heck, sites can be faster if they don't use AMP. Sure, most sites aren't, but it's certainly doable. AMP, aside from Google caching your site on the SRP, doesn't really do anything crazy when it comes to site performance.
I don’t get anything about the code either, but the stuff around it is funny. I think it’s a bit funnier since I only understand half of it, which is exactly how the interviewer is supposed to be feeling.
Quoted in the paper, Bruse Moncreiff of Prudential Insurance, writing in 1955 to C.W. Adams:

> I have turned my attention to the problem of the day-to-day operation of an automatic data processor. The things that annoy programmers the most are operators, so I am attempting to all but program him out of existence. There are certain phases of his work, mostly involving manual dexterity, which of necessity have been preserved. I have tried to remove all the thinking from his job, since this is what people do least efficiently. I like to think of this proposed routine as an automatic supervisor rather than operator since it will be telling the human operator what to do.
The idea is good. But when I tried playing it, the story generated doesn't make sense. Looks like it still needs more work to be realistic. Is the AI keeping track of the story as it goes? Because the bird which attacked me with an evil grin and stole my fork asked me not to kill it when I asked him to help me working in the fields...

https://gist.github.com/AdrienLemaire/33663e9100c009b8ec3409...
I feel like there's a lot of assumptions in that suggestion that I don't necessarily accept. The biggest is the assumption that the minimum wage sets the market rather than the market setting the minimum wage. I believe the market conditions during a period of time have heavy influence on the legislated minimum wage.

Imagine if 50 years ago you could easily import millions of impoverished people willing to work for a lower wage and could also force your local worker to compete against a $0.15/day ($1 in 2019 adjusted for inflation back to 1970) foreign worker. Do you think that would have impacted 1970s minimum wage regulations? I do.
Assuming both Intel and AMD implement performance monitors the same (i.e. same notion of instructions executed, which may be hard to measure with speculative execution), the comparison is still flawed because it doesn’t matter if Intel can do more instruction per cycle if AMD can produce more cycles in a span of wall time.

> However, it is not clear whether these reports are genuinely based on measures of instruction per cycle. Rather it appears that they are measures of the amount of work done per unit of time normalized by processor frequency.

That’s precisely why nobody really uses IPC as a way to compare processors. “How much work done per unit of time” is a much better measurement and I guess for historical reasons, people conflate it with IPC.

But real textbook IPC is useless for comparison.
Yeah. Or they would have written Developers, Developers, developers. I mean it's just a GIF link.
Just an FYI but there's a bunch o weird shit indexed by Google on ml2.internalpositioning.com and ml.internalpositioning.com.
Open source project PGM2DNG to transform raw images from PGM format to DNG
Holy hell what did I just read
...which in turn reminds me of Exercises in Programming Style, which I have been meaning to read through: https://github.com/crista/exercises-in-programming-style
The western world is currently crippled by a large swathes of well intentioned idiots. Going green is no different than soccer mom's who preach anti gmo and anti vax nonsense. Meanwhile China sees that it's economic growth, military, and independence that made the USA number 1. Meanwhile again, the Europeans are busy clutching their pearls because they can't come up with a way to sustain their culture of laziness.
Monads are not about asynchrony or side effects or error handling. They're about uniform ways of expressing composition, which subsumes all the above. Monads are not even really about FP; they're just more obviously useful there. And without good static typing many monads are almost more trouble than they're worth, so I guess I agree with your last sentence.
There's nothing wrong with it, I've been using it for ages.
Ok so mine was basically soft core porn. I chose a rogue and I spawned in a tavern next to a girl named Aliza. She was super drink and immediately asked me to go up to her room with her. The door was cracked open already and we came in together and she immediately got in the bed and pulled her skirt up as far as it would go. When I didn't respond immediately she got up and put her panties back on but then we got back into the bed and started kissing. Then I slept and it ended. After that experience I was kinda hesitant to recommend the game to my coworkers :)
Or voice entry without checking the result.
Nearly 700k will lose food stamps with USDA work requirement change
Very cool! Couple quick thoughts:

1. I noticed some artists get added multiple times, so some deduplication may be needed.
2. Perhaps you could (optionally) scale the node sizes or border widths with their degrees?
There's a substantial difference between:

- I walk down the street and everybody can see me.

And

- I walk down the street and my moves are recorded and stored forever in some db which may be abused or leak.

The chances of that piece of information coming back to hurt you in the course of the next decades are so much higher.
You're right, I messed that up (though I'll leave it for posterity). I went into it with a bias thinking BMI was slow on Zen, since PDEP is 18 cycles vs 1 on Skylake, much to my disappointment back in the day.

After reviewing the example again, there's no obvious reason why Zen 2 is slower, although it's likely a rare edge case. Too bad there's nothing decent like VTune on AMD platforms.

I remember one session where my choice of temporary register significantly impacted throughput while implementing an unrolled int[] hash fn on my Kaby Lake processor. I never figured out exactly why, but sharp edges do exist even on Intel chips.
I have a similarly cynical take. It ensures successful candidates have studied a formal CS degree, and haven't "just" come in from a bootcamp or are self taught. It's not deliberate, but does ensure that exclusive FAANG jobs remain the domain of the privileged.
He's donated 5 percent of his wealth. Him and buffet are top of the billionaire giving pile at 3 and 5 %. that means 95% of their wealth is still tied up in service of further wealth extraction.
Author here.

This is a bit of a love letter to Space Invaders, and video games in general.

I started working on this as a simple emulation project, to rekindle my own passion in low level video game hacking, but then realized with a bit of care I could take it further.

So, this is not a simple clone of the game, but rather a painstaking recreation of the source code in clean, readable C code.

I wanted to make something nice that would last a while, as a tribute to the original, and hopefully function a bit like a rosetta stone for future audiences.

Enjoy.
The Meaninglessness of the .Org Domain
Benchmarking spreadsheet systems
Yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21719040
In concept, yes. My read of Amazon's argument is it's the buyer's responsibility to look for safety certifications and if that isn't available, the buyer shouldn't buy the product.

Relevant context: there were no UL certifications for "laptop battery wired to a gyropscope and wheels" in 2016 when the hoverboard craze happened. So the devices were not UL certified but that didn't concern people buying them.

Source: UL first hoverboard certified May 2016 https://www.ul.com/hoverboards
Centre Okays Bill Proposing Rs 15 Crore Fine for Data Misuse, Easy Storage Rules
Looks like we’re all talking about essentially UBI (Universal Basic Income) here... which I at least think is the solution to a lot of this!
"natural"
This is quite a long-running project, and has tens of thousands of man-hours invested in it. Yet you, taking several seconds to post an Internet comment, declare it a "half-assed Linux distro," without even having properly read the website.

The Elementary OS project develops many of their own applications, have multiple custom themes, does relentless work ensuring available packages are stable and usable for each release, and they have their own DE. Also, many of the applications that weren't specifically made by the project were inspired by the project to be further developed-- thus boosting their userbase and volunteer developers.

Now, think what you will about the project, but this isn't a valid criticism.
You avoid the close-to-work living costs, and also the close-to-work living benefits.

I’d save time, but then I’d spend it driving into the city, anyway, to do most of the things I want to do.
You are Dori, a noble living in the kingdom of Larion. You have a pouch of gold
and a small dagger. You are awakened by one of your servants who tells you that
your keep is under attack. You look out the window and see a large army marching
towards your door

> escape with the servants and the gold

You run to the servants' room and grab the gold and the servant's bodies. The soldiers fire arrows at you but miss. They fire their crossbows at the corpses
but they also miss. You throw your gold into the air and jump up and down as loud as you can

---

My servants became corpses before the large army even arrived xD
Has Tesla ever had their act together? They're a luxury car brand running one if the best pr campaigns of all time.
I hope the ui not built with vala
I think it’s all just a joke or satire where he’s technically very talented and optimizing the code ad absurdum which goes well beyond what the interviewer expected. This is slightly nuanced, but it also shows how inadequate the technical interview is for finding top talent because of the subjectivity involved.
Very cool! Couple thoughts -
1. I noticed some artists get added a second time as the network expands, so some de-duplication may be needed?
2. It could be interesting to (optionally) scale the node size or border width with respect to the node degree.. In particular for the nodes that were clicked on (and thus, have their degrees inflated).. this way it would be easy to spot artists that have a lot of connections just based on who else is currently displayed.
Remember when Dropbox was first announced? Reminds me of that.
Unicode 13.0.0 (Draft)
It’s pretty awful. I ride light rail to university because the parking costs are insane. Choosing to ride the train doubles my commute time and often leaves me in a terrible mood because of the trains awful service. It’s even worse because they recently increased the cost significantly with no improvement in quality.
You’re not wrong. It’s clear that their passion lies in the user experience and specifically look and feel.
Again, I don’t subscribe to this viewpoint which was my original comment. You can dress it up with hypotheticals but I don’t agree. Regardless of success or failure I think that “political cover” is a stereotype and not useful. Roll a dice as you say.
Show HN: NanoArgMode – A Macro System for Nano
Those poor publishers, really makes me miss the early 2010s internet.
The same debate occurred regarding innoculation nearly 250 years ago. In fact, it's still occurring. Moreover, we're still stumbling--just last week I think someone posted an article to HN regarding how the use of live polio (IIRC?) vaccines has led us to paint ourselves into a corner, perpetually unable to extinguish the last remaining reservoirs. So the original concerns about what we'd now characterize as "complex" and "nonlinear" have been validated. It was the conclusions that were drawn from those concerns that were invalid--in short, that it was too dangerous to be introduced and managed by humans. The benefits outweighed the harms, even though many of the parade of horribles exclaimed by the skeptics did in fact come to pass. Those horribles ended up being buffered and moderated, because that's how complex, nonlinear systems also tend to behave.

In Complexity Theory, one of the defining behaviors of "complexity", in addition to nonlinearity, is a tendency to return to a quasi-equilibrium state even though it can never reach, let alone stay, at an actual equilibrium. Absent the dual (dueling?) tendencies of spontaneous change and regression, you have by definition either chaos or stasis.
As someone who jealously guards their personal data, I agree with you.

As a product manager/designer, I think that would end in disaster for any consumer-facing company that implemented it. The number of people who would enter random places, forget they did so, and then complain that their phone is broken or the app doesn't work would be staggering.
Unfortunately Elementary has so far struggled with the 1920x1080 screen on my Huawei Matebook D (bought a few months before the scandal). I haven't installed Hera yet, but hopefully the new text size option works as well as I'd like it to.

Otherwise my experience with Elementary has been... not so bad. The speakers are too quiet for some reason, my university's Wifi won't accept my credentials (every other network is fine) and occasionally Firefox crashes the world, but that's all, so far.

Wish list: a stable, possibly read-only[-only], update of ext2fsd, and a proper Paintbrush clone. Also, .txt files should not automatically open in Code, which would probably scare my mom.
Why do you hope so? Vala is a decent language which let's users build Gtk applications easily.
Another benefit of this is that it improves scrolling performance on old hardware. I sometimes browse on a 2010 Mac mini (using Safari) and killing headers can make a big difference.
I believe you are incorrect about the US Army’s percent of the federal budget. Total defense spending (all branches) represents around 15% of the budget.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_Sta...
1-91. Everyone has an identity or a way they see themselves. Leaders internalize the roles, responsibilities, and actions that they understand of a leader to be, know, and do. Leaders who are unsure of themselves filling the role of a leader will be limited until they have confidence. Without a clear leader identity, others will question the type of leader they are, what they stand for, and the way they conduct themselves. What a leader believes about their role as a leader serves as a constant guide to behave as a leader of good character. Practice identifying as a leader—doing the right things in the right way—becomes habitual and helps junior personnel along the path to becoming seasoned, effective leaders.
China is anything but future over present. Massive infrastructures are a result of stimulating the economy for short term stats over long term economic sustainability. Same with terrible pollution and countless political and security measures that hurt future prospects, detention camps being one of them.
The documentation is not the best. CPU_CYCLES is genuinely counting cycles.

perf is all about reading actual hardware counters. It's awesome for this. There is essentially nothing made up about perf's output, except to the extent that the hardware itself reports inexact output. (For example, perf annotate may attribute events to an instruction near the instruction in question on older hardware, because older hardware has a small amount of skew when sampling.)
Don Knuth's 25th Annual Christmas Celebration – “Pi and Taocp” [video]