skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, points of light look like the canonical star shapes you see in telescope photos — which I don’t really understand because from what I’ve read, that effect is due to the braces which hold the telescope’s lens in place.
Rigour & information density ftw.
I didn't mean for the title to sound like that, but I can see how it can be misconstrued. But you can't call it clickbait when I added a link to the original complaint in the comment.
It strikes me that at least 16 seconds of screwing around could have been saved by changing the caption of the "Emergency Override - To Manual" button to say "Emergency Override - Take Control." The button's caption would then contain enough information for anyone pressing the button to know that they were responsible for all controls at the station after pressing.
Not to be even more pessimistic but you will find this happen everywhere you give humans authority over each other without full oversight.

I have a friend who worked in a prison as a psychologist, somewhere with a generally liberal attitude toward prison, and guards would deny inmates medication, therapy, or (bizarrely) suggest that a diagnosis was incorrect (and often deny the first or second based on their own "diagnosis").

In my experience, some people are just born this way. Stupid to the core, and cannot handle being in authority without doing weird stuff. More oversight is needed. This isn't just prisons: healthcare, police, law, etc. (weirdly, you find this behaviour everywhere, even in high-skill professions).
Not quite. He was greek and lived in what we now call the Byzantine Empire, several hundred years before it was invaded by arabs and turks.
I'm not sure I understand what you are asking - are you considering St Nicolas and "Saint Nicholas" two unrelated figures? Obviously the figure developed over time.
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While over 2/3 of US Murders involve guns. You can exclude gun violence only from the US numbers and the US still has a higher murder rate than the UK.

So, it’s likely a major factor but hardly the root cause.
I have a bunch of events and groups on facebook, what do you use instead of these?
On Facebook you would mostly encounter such people if someone you know shares their posts. Comments are buried too deep to have a widespread impact.

If a fake person writes the post and your friend shares it, or a guy named "Joe the Plumber" writes it, does it really make a difference?

It is also in the realm of possibility that a group of folks is "false flagging" these profiles to make the other side look disingenuous and shady.
I will definitely try it. It looks really nice.
This entire concept seems backwards to me.

The reasoning for author's premise that sigma summation and integrals are leaky abstractions is unclear.

The two are their own independent abstractions; while perhaps complicated to fully understand, they will work exactly as designed and, provably so, from a logical standpoint. If they were leaky, they would display some kind of shortcoming that didn't allow them to convey parts of the core idea they were created to represent.

On the other hand, an NN implementation of any sufficiently complex concept is almost guaranteed to be leaky as it is too complicated to be provably correct, and will have too great a test surface to verify exhaustively. There are likely to exist edge cases where the NN fails outright that will be never discovered until used in a specific scenario. That seems leaky.

Can someone set me straight on what the author was trying to convey?
> Its perfectly possible to bump into files like this.

Possible, sure, but highly unlikely. Unless you consider black-hat hackers, it’s pretty rare for modern software to be fed decades-old files.
Right? Clearly riffing on the 'happy holidays' message. I think it's a pretty funny post, and it's even more funny that it was taken seriously.

Someone could go stalk their account to check, I can't be bothered with that right now.
> many programmers now don't consider languages to be OOP unless they have the class keyword and inheritance.

If a language doesn't support inheritance, in what sense is it an object-oriented programming language?

It's true that you can use OOP principles in languages that don't have language-level support for OOP. The canonical example of this is the GObject library for C. That doesn't tell us how we should use the term object-oriented programming language though. I don't see why we'd use a more expansive definition.
The problem is that a lot of people can't even fathom the idea of automating something like account generation. It takes them two support calls and an 1 1/2 hour to log into their email. They don't even understand what's possible, and a blue checkmark won't/doesn't solve that.
Hey HN!

Not too long ago I began working on a distributed database, using Go. The goal of this project is to ultimately be for people to have an approachable way to learn more about the inner workings of a database.

Any contributions are massively appreciated!
>And the roads are garbage. I brought some friends over from Australia and driving on the US interstates they said "wow.. it's like everything is half finished"

Uh, the U.S. is huge, with 50 semi independently managed states and thousands of semi independently managed cities. Having lived and traveled all over, most places have roads in good shape - which is an achievement because many of these roads are quite remote.

>For what it's worth, the The US is at or very near the worst among OECD countries in: infant mortality, child poverty, child health and safety, life expectancy at birth, healthy life expectancy, rate of obesity, disability-adjusted life years, doctors per 1000 people, deaths from treatable conditions, rate of mental health disorders, rate of drug abuse, rate of prescription drug use, incarceration rate, rate of assaults, rate of homicides, income inequality, wealth inequality, and economic mobility.

Though unpopular, it should really be said that almost every one of these problems is isolated to one or two demographics in this country. That therefore is not indicative of a failure at large. If you remove the same couple groups of people from the various statistics, stats for the U.S. in almost every category are at or near the top for the global average.
No one did a reverse image search to find out Christian Shiffer probably doesn't exist - this was trolling https://tineye.com/search/f8144058b180a1d4df439745cfea4b1c8c...
lol, I came here to put that word in quotes.
I kind of understand it. From my experiences growing up around relatively hard stuff (first saw guns for sale in a backpack in 9th grade science class. This was my closest friend at the time, and didn't seem weird to me at all.)

Some of the people we knew, friends of friends, were cooking hard drugs, in their mid 30s etc. One of them, or many, "dating" my friends middle school sister.

It didn't take much to get a gun in your face just to emphasize the results of a debate. With this setting in mind my claim is that there are persons who are operating at their neutral/healthy. Not matter how many years of good behavior or words or programming or songs .. nothing per my experience removes the low bar option for gun in face.

So it's difficult for me. I know people turn things around. I have. I suppose it looks like a sort of spectrum with different gravities to good/bad behavior depending on so many factors.
I've never seen any phone get even half as good results as any DLSR released this decade. Just because the phone software can do it doesn't mean it's any good. I mean my phone has photoshop on it. That's pretty good, but nothing beats a proper suite of tools on a color calibrated monitor.
Quoting individuals who make blanket statements like that without providing any evidence (or possess authority on the subject of genetic testing) is doing a disservice to actual viable applications of genetic testing, especially in the health domain.
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meetup.com worked for me in the past
I'm offended by the removal of the hat! Check mate ;)
The world has gone full Philip K Dick
That was exactly my thought. The pattern of taking exaggerated but vaguely plausible offense to something, and then using any response (positive or negative) to that as an excuse to be hateful, is one that's repeated itself before.
It doesn’t matter how autonomous and free thinking you are or any other individual is— social media is transforming us into a collective. Like ants excreting pheromones, our actions in aggregate are more powerful than any individual, the result being whatever results from this untested cocktail of biology, language and global connection. It’s unprecedented and borderline unpredictable.

Nobody is in a position to directly manipulate our path... but our trajectory, if nudged in the right place and time, can have massive consequences in the future. Both the left and the right in the US are dysfunctional as a result of trajectories that were nudged decades ago.
Seems like an incredible amount of work for something that at the end of the day doesn't actually provide much value to users or the world.
There are open source versions of everything done within a GCP API call, but it requires multiple machines and lots of data to build an NLP model to be as fast and accurate as GCP, and cloud computing is relatively new compared to OCR.
The most powerful agent is the one which manages to confiscate our only real asset - our time.

Trump is pretty good at it with all the controversies he is generating.

AI-assisted systems will be targeted at maximizing this interaction metric. You are slowly cooked by your favorite entertainer of the day to be then fed with an opinion which you take as your own. It is not novel at all.
The US government has approved funds for geoengineering research
I think they handled this complex situation as good as they could.

Good job
> This is nothing new, memory space of a process in all modern OSes is protected so that segfaults are safe too.

Right, but look at what I'm replying to.

"The way they said it, though, makes it sound like WebAssembly is implemented with full process sandboxing or something, which is patently false."

Unlike with Javascript, the program hosting a WASM script is immune to corrupt pointers inside the script. That's equivalent to OS-level isolation, which is pretty good!

> But now the processes are behemoths with gigabytes of dynamically linked libraries that are too hard to secure and to restrict system access, we just enable everything. This will happen to wasm. I'm sure there are WASM blobs configured with unfettered access to DOM in the wild already.

There will inevitably be bugs in the code handling the html/css/dom/rendering. But WASM greatly reduces the attack surface of the scripting VM.

The types of bugs most likely to still exist with WASM are the types where isolating it in a separate process that communicates by pipes wouldn't help.
> Christmas's roots are from pagan traditions

So? Most religious traditions were stolen, whoop de do. What matters is how they're practiced in 2019, in which case Christmas is almost synonymous with Christianity.

> I'll just say that it's well known

There is no actual confidence in how all of this stuff came to be, just a lot of conjecture - and so no, it's not well known at all.
Your expecting a fake reply from a fake phone sending fake bytes through a fake cyberverse. The worst part of all the faking is the people who won’t fake their faking.
Didn't know that India and Pakistan are East Asia. Always thought East Asia would be Japan Korea and the likes
> Armchair analysis based on sparse information

That's internet in a nutshell, and HN is not that different despite pretensions to the contrary. What partly redeems it is the better than even chance that in posts with technical subjects, someone informed and/or competent will appear and write something worthy. You learn to filter out the rest.
This is the part where I suggest everybody read Corporate Cancer[0]. It's all about how to run a business in this day and age of constant outrage.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Cancer-Miracles-Millions-Co...
I commented on a similar case (on a gitlab thread) and got downvoted. I dont mind. it wont change the truth. my comment was:

"because it all comes down to the root cause:

the attack on an area which until now couldnt care less about politics. now in the context of "free speech" we try to brake the last known union out there in the world. developers, who have only let code speak so far."

we will see more and more attacks on free speech (in the name of free speech), open source and companies and people who contribute to open source.
IMO that post is specifically calling out the mutable part, not claiming to have objects completely without state.
Well, fake you!
Anybody know whether this can be packaged into a VPS with wireguard?
Care to explain how you think this issue is even remotely related to the grey market for Cisco products?

I'm having trouble trying to come up with any link between the two.

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In my opinion, with the exception of perhaps very small networks, no one who's "doing it right" should really be affected by this issue.

I can kinda maybe understand folks using self-signed certificates for VPNs but, really, if you're doing much at all with certificates you should either be running your own internal PKI and/or getting certificates by somewhere else.

My previous employer had literally hundreds of devices using their own self-signed certificates (for device management) on them. Many of them were the "default" certificates that shipped on the devices, so it was the same certificate shared across hundreds of devices. As someone who gives a shit about security, that drove me absolutely nuts but no one else gave a damn. (Even worse, since nearly all of these devices used the same credentials, you'd only need to MITM one of them in order to "pwn" damn near everything on the entire network!)
By us being here, that so many people objected to the removal of an easter egg in a developer channel release, to me, indicates there is a serious schism. I expect people are using this as a proxy for concerns about PC culture and "the war on christmas". This written description of what happened, and how the team is handling what happened going forward is transparent and respectful, that is what I am attempting to comment on.
I finally got the courage to deploy new version under heavy traffic, so it's mid 2020 now. No more snarky comments for half a year :)
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FYI Andrew Ayer said this change didn't go through: https://twitter.com/__agwa/status/1208066598407483393

It's not clear to me what the current state is
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Is it weird that John McCain got to be a traitor before and after his death?
How is this worse than tightly controlled mass media?

I think people like to look back on this non-existent golden era of News where it was fair and balanced and just reported the truth. That era never existed.

At least now you have options.

I hate social media as much as anyone, but it's not bringing an end to the world. It's easy to manipulate people of Facebook. But it's way easier on Fox News or CNN.
You do not get paid to review papers.
TLDR:

Tesla V100s have I/O pins for at most 6x 25 GB/s NVLink traces. So, systems with more than 6x GPUs cannot fully connect GPUs over NVLink. This causes I/O bottlenecks that significantly diminish returns of scaling beyond six GPUs.

This article provides an overview of their architecture that bypasses this limitation using additional high bandwidth links. Looking at the benchmarks, multi-GPU performance scales almost perfectly linearly from 1x GPU 16x GPUs.

I'm one of the engineers who worked on this project. Happy to answer any questions!
Anyone can see what it looks like to be (strongly) nearsighted by putting a magnifying lens in front of their eyes.

Anyone nearsighted can estimate the strength of their nearsightedness by looking at an object close enough to be perfectly clear, then increasing the distance until the farthest where it appears clear. Take that distance in meters and invert it. The result is the amount of nearsightedness in diopters. For example : you see clear up to 50 cm away, or 0.5m, you have 2 diopters. You see clear up to 10 cm away, 0.1m you have 10 diopters.

Anyone with normal (or corrected) vision can estimate the strength of a magnifying lens by the same method. Most magnifying glasses are 5 to 20 diopters.

Well, perhaps not strictly anyone can, but you get the idea.
That's what I'm wondering... And how it's still up here.
> "Happy Holidays" usurped "Merry Christmas" decades ago.

There are people who find "Happy Holidays" offensive, as they consider it part of the manufactured war on Christmas.

I guess this is why politics and holidays don't mix!
Except that this isn't an article about scientific research done in a lab resulting in peer-reviewed publications, this is about personalized genetics sold as a product to people, by appealing to people-feelings. Like how they feel about their heritage. Which makes it absolutely relevant to the topic.
Sounds good, thanks. Cool blog btw, I poked around for a while. Nice work!
The cynic in me thinks Facebook let this slide to hide the anemic "growth" of their userbase and activity. Bot accounts will still click on ads, like pages, and fake interactions that generate revenue for Facebook.
Not to mention automated aircraft landing systems, ambulance GPS, fire brigades and various cellphone and/or power grid synchronization systems.
I served in the Navy from 74 to 80, school for the first 18 months and at sea for the last 4.5 years. I worked on a nuclear powered cruiser in the engine room. It was not unusual to stand "port and starboard" watches which meant only 2 people were qualified to stand that particular watch and we alternated duty.
Isn't this guy extremely far-right? I wouldn't expect unbiased analysis here.
The author states:

>"The linker is still adding an interface to the OS for us, and it is that interface that actually calls main(). So how do we get around that if we don't need it?"

Is the author stating that _start is an interface to the OS then? It's interesting I never thought of this as being an interface. Is this an interface because _start actually sets up the stack used to pass argc, argv and the environment variables? I believe _start is found in the C runtime crt.o correct?

The author then states:

>"The actual entry point that the linker uses by default is the symbol with the name _start. When we link with gcc, it automatically includes a _start routine, one that sets up argc and argv, among other things, and then calls main()."

Is this just a long-winded way of saying _start sets up the stack for the new process? WIthout a stack you can't "set up" argc, argv etc. I would also be curious what "among other things" might include.
It's poetic really. I bet most of us saw that too but because of the all-too-familiar bot text didn't think twice about it. Kind of like banner blindness.

It makes me wonder just how much damage these influence campaigns do. For instance, if Russia spent $100k in FB ads to reach ~140 million people[1](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/04/18/w...), how much of that "reach" translates into votes? I'd like to think people aren't as dumb as people think.
or simply charge a few bucks for account creation.
Ah, I kinda forget when it’s not in the house, but randomly remember just now.

Try using meso instead of vegimite / marmite.
I am not saying its a good thing they do, but >85% of the population live in the northern hemisphere and thus experience the same seasons

https://www.themarysue.com/world-population-latitude-longitu...

Wikipedia notes it higher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Hemisphere
Email and Signal/SMS work very well for invites.
>We could be in a permenent election, with people slowly positioning themselves to be elected sometime later.

Aren't we already there? The current US president held his first 2020 campaign rally on February 18 2017, less than a month after his inauguration:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/us/politics/campaign-over...
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Let's not split hairs, Moore's law is the doubling of transistor count in the same size every 18 months.
It is not unusual (at least on some fields) seeing specific questions about grammar. It must be checked and maybe fixed, and in some extreme cases it can even imply rejection independently of content, but in most cases a revision is enough.
Yeah, it is on plus model including animoji
> social media is transforming us into a collective

Or said another way: if you play, you lose.

Your best bet is not to play. Quit social media. It’s actually not hard.
At least in my field, there is an option during journal submission to submit your work automatically to a similar archive.
I might be misunderstand but politicians have always positioned themselves to be elected sometime later. In fact it seems the opposite is just gaining some steam, first time candidates running for high office as first race, when it used to be slowly going from local to national.
it's actually hard to overstate how significant the effort of the epoch times is. they gathered billions of views on facebook, more than any other news organisation.

"In April, at the height of its ad spending, videos from the Epoch Media Group, which includes The Epoch Times and digital video outlet New Tang Dynasty, or NTD, combined for around 3 billion views on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, ranking 11th among all video creators across platforms and outranking every other traditional news publisher, according to data from the social media analytics company Tubular."

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-qanon-impending...
Take a look at the comments in this thread about how non-christians observe Christmas.

Christianity has no monopoly on Christmas.
Is anybody old enough to remember if people once had analogous reactions to software like photoshop?
Not proof. This is not mathematics. More evidence is required. Further confirmation. More work identifying potential confounds. But not proof.
The military has a higher bitrate (and encrypted) signal, which leads to higher positional accuracy if you have the code. It's no less vulnerable to brute force jamming though, which is why military platforms typically solve this by having GPS receivers with high receive selectivity upwards and very low selectivity in the horizontal plane (where hostile platforms carrying jammers are likely to be).

Source: studied weapons engineering in Naval College.
Those two suggestions, plus “always work in R1C1 mode”, are enough to supercharge most inexperienced users of Excel. If you take nothing else away from Joel’s video, get those three.
The context here is affecting American elections. Given that the only interesting FB demographic to discuss is the American one.

And I say that as a European.
If this is an irrelevant point according to you, then don't bring it up as if it somehow is extra evidence that the overall thesis of the article is incorrect.
If interested, two books on this are great:

“fortunes formula” for a more riveting story of thorp and Shannon

“Kelly capital growth investment criterion” by Thorp, Maclean, William — for the more technical take

I found this essay in this second book, and liked it so much I found the standalone pdf.

It’s inspiring how approachable and human some of the best minds in the world were
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> Stupid to the core, and cannot handle being in authority without doing weird stuff. This isn't just prisons: healthcare, police, law, etc.

And politics, most of all. Explains so much.
I love the “X influenced the election... because the outcome was not what I wanted” meme of 2016. And 2018. And 2020?