skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for that update.

> It's not clear why you keep picking it over looking for reasons not to believe it.

Because that's what lots of people do - at best, and I believe a solid argument can be made that this seemingly simple fact of human nature actually brings with it significant and unrealized risk.

Maybe it's worth pointing out explicitly: I'm not accusing the University or the professor of significant wrongdoing, intentional or not. Rather, my concern is with the effects our various styles of reporting the news (aka describing reality) has on the beliefs that individuals hold in their heads, and in turn the cascading/recursive unintended consequences that result from that.

HN is a relatively sane place, but look around at some of the other conversations taking place on planet earth - is it terribly innacurate to say that signs of fairly severe delusional thinking and insanity are becoming increasingly widespread?

An alien from another planet might reasonably predict that an increasing occurrence of (plausibly) climate-related calamities would result in massive widespread/unanimous concern among humanity for the health of the planet....and yet, what do we actually observe?

The same alien might reasonably predict, considering what's at stake, that the response to this unexpected outcome would be widespread concern among officials and intelligent people about what the hell is going on with people's thinking, and perhaps even a few initiatives to figure it out and rectify it while there's still time. But instead, we seem passionately satisfied with "groups x,y,z are stupid, and if they'd just stop we'd be all sorted....end of discussion!".

If our alien had a sense of humor, he might find this situation rather humorous.
If anyone stood a chance to compete against x86, I'd think Intel would be it :-)
> In this manner one need not encode all of the information necessary for grasping, merely the conditions necessary to learn it by leveraging information from the environment.

That is all of the information necessary for grasping. By your own stipulation, it is sufficient to enable grasping. Nothing more can be necessary.

What you're talking about is the degree to which the information is compressed at rest. But index.html and index.html.gz don't contain different information; they contain the same information encoded differently.
Playing by the rules favors those who the rules were set up to benefit. Are you poor, "ugly", unlucky, "stupid", uncoordinated? Cheating is your chance to win when our "just" society tells you you must lose. The transgression itself feels right and good.
> I can escape from a city on a moment’s notice, travel 1000 miles on a whim in a day (and do), beholden to none.

Well, you're beholden to your mechanic, your gas stations, your insurance company, whoever you pay for parking at home (or the indirect cost you paid extra for a garage, driveway, etc) and parking away (or the indirect cost you pay extra for the goods and services you obtain at places that have "free" parking).

Oh, and the tax man, as America spends $66 billion dollars per year just maintaining the interstates.

> 8000 miles last summer thru remote spectacular regions, as we saw fit, was exhilarating.

Sounds nice!

> Transit is stifling, taking me nowhere at inconvenience and cost.

Well, if we didn't spend all that money on the interstates ($66B/yr), imagine how much rail we could lay down? Even California HSR cost $56M/km (where China's cost $17M), so we could lay down 1200km-4000km of high-speed rail each year. Standard speed rail costs $1.3-26M so we could lay down as much as 50,000km of new rail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jltnBOrCB7I
Iranian media is reporting that most passengers were Iranians.
Yup Sony's investment into technology and media is a very tough balance and pretty much the reason why their endevours can't excell even with some of the best ideas and talent behind them.
Hmm, maybe I'm misunderstanding? When you make a (single) patently large allocation, macOS will do nothing; it won't show up as used virtual memory and the swap size won't go up. As you write to the memory usage will go up ("Memory" in Activity Monitor) but then it will quickly start swapping out until the limits of your disk, at which point you'll get OOM'd (assuming that your memory doesn't compress well, that is…).
I made a statement about you made based on something you actually wrote. Quoting latin at me doesn't strengthen your argument. Nor does emotionally asserting I'm hurting people.

So despite being in favor of pedestrian safe zones while simultaneously wanting sane speed limits I'm, in your mind, resistant to change. Interesting. I've seen plenty of people dead at vehicle incident scenes. Often a call in the early morning. I know exactly what the cost versus benefit really looks like. Note that I don't use the term "accident". I think I've seen a bit more than you'd expect. My dot points still stand and you haven't eliminated any of them.

When I and many others got sane speed limits put in place so that people slow down around schools and nearby shops we completely succeeded no matter what you say. But nonsense speed limits that are intended only to raise revenue aren't about safety. I'm talking about examples like 5 speed limit changes within 300 metres. That's ridiculous. But that's the kind of idiocy involved.

I'm resistant to bad changes and poor legislation. I sense you don't appreciate that kind of nuance and anything other than black or white is unacceptable to you.
Interesting. But you have to register for this.

Does anyone have any links to some good compiler classes on YouTube or elsewhere?
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That's actually amazing music, though will blow your speakers at 1% volume ;)
> Who cares?

You said there are 60 million tourists, presumably to emphasize just how much traffic you'd expect NYC to have proportionally to Zurich. I'm giving you hard numbers to try to explain why Zurich's station has higher ridership than NYC, which is what I assumed you cared about.

> What I said was that the the NYC metro numbers was missing.

There's 60 million per annum from the two Penn Station stops. That's unlinked trips, so I don't know how many are transfers to/from commuter rail or Amtrak. But my guess is at least 50%, since there's not much in the area besides Madison Square Garden and Empire State Building (which is easier to get to from Herald Square anyways, if you can reasonably pick your midtown trunk line).

> Why?

So I can put into context where the 50% of Penn Station traffic that comes from the LIRR comes from.

> My point is simply that given the actual raw numbers, it seems highly unlikely.

And I'm trying to explain, using actual numbers, why this is the case. Mere size can't be sufficient, else you would refuse to believe that Los Angeles Union Station doesn't even service 10 million people a year.

So what do you want from me, if you don't want actual hard data, but refuse to believe that Penn Station is serving less traffic than Zurich's central station?
If Linux caused your house to burn down, who would be liable?

(Hint: I hope you have good insurance)
What's wrong with Power 8 & 9? What's wrong with ARM64? What was wrong with Sparc64 until Oracle screwed it up (well...register windows...ok). How is RISC-V intrinsically better than those architectures, considering it doesn't exist in a form that performs anywhere near as fast?
I wrote my first non-BASIC program ever on a PDP-10 or 11 and as I remember, it was one of those numberical programming for Engineers classes where we had to figure out why, when using floating-points vs integer math, that 2 != 2.0 (because 2.0 was actually 2.0000000000001 of course)

The funny thing was...no one told me the secret and I musta spent 5 long hours pulling out my hair.

If I remember right, one of the RAs running the computer center finally had pity on me and showed me what was going on...

I'm not really sure I can call them the "good ole days of programming", but that was how things were done back then.
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>And in my own opinion, many things about the way we live legitimately are worth abhorring.

Sure, but how can you argue that people are free to accept anything that is forced upon them? I'm not sure any large number of have true "freedom", but some certainly have more than others.
This is a great point. When I'm listening on laptop speakers, every little bit of extra loudness helps.
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'Reverse microwave oven' quickly cools drink cans
Before this, the last time I tried FF was when Servo was in it's early days, it was full of bugs and crappy performance. Couldn't use it for more than a few days and had to switch to Chrome.

But this time, the experience was a lot smoother. So it's not a natural switch which happens with time :)
Apparently that assault includes getting Forbes to frame the issue as "Warrant-Proof" encryption, rather than using the straightforward term: secure encryption. This is especially funny given the mainstream media's enthusiasm for talking up the necessity of security when the topic is security for the government itself.

By this disingenuous framing, a pad of paper is also "warrant-proof" - after all the government is unable to issue a single directive to the manufacturer and obtain a copy of everything written on pads they produced, or prevent their pages from being hidden or burnt. Society has gotten along just fine with the police having to do policework, rather than being able to just set up a panopticon.
I'm a pilot (commercial, former CFII, not ATP, no turbine), I don't really recommend watching the video. Basically it's 34 seconds of cell phone camera video, night, of a burning plane a little bigger than the size of an ant on your screen. But there is enough information to see that: it's flying (control surfaces are producing lift, the plane is intact) for most of this time and obviously the time before the video starts, there's a burst when it's maybe a couple hundred feet above the ground which could be an inflight breakup at that point and trajectory becomes more steep, and then it's hidden as it impacts the ground but there's a big explosion. Not likely survivable. I don't have the experience, and can't tell from the video, what exactly is on fire: engine, wing, fuselage. In the end it does look like the entire fuselage is on fire.
>You're making a lot of really wild assumptions... without a shred of evidence to back it up.

>Humans have two eyes... yet theyre so much better than Autopilot that it's unattainable for it to match.

These two statements are pretty ironic back to back.

I'm not sure if we are ever going to convince each other of anything if we can't agree that there is a clear difference in track record when one product has been used for 2 billion miles and the other for 6 million.
Cheating for gamers is like hacking for programmers, except you get points and there's a leaderboard.
No it would be like blaming a firearms manufacturer for a fault that causes the thing to blow up.
Given two genes, A and B, you could list out the information encoded by them as “A”,”B” and “AB”. Which is basically the Shannon estimate on complexity, right?

However in reality, the gene dose makes a difference - so it’s more like the genome (+genome architecture) encodes for capacity to produce different amounts of A and B. So, with high A expression you will see things like “AAAAB”,”AAAAAA” etc.

The point is that rather than encoding for different functions, the genome encodes for the diversity of different message queues - and it is the length of these queues and rate of message firing that encodes (as much as you can in a probabilistic sense) for our cell programming. The messages could be “build a transcription factor” or “put a receptor on the surface”, or “make a crank that increases the capacity of these queues”.
Instead of doing

grep 'plover' blah.log | cut -d ' ' -f 11

I usually do

awk '/plover/{print $11}' blah.log

Less typing, but probably not as easy to understand.
I never understood the fascination with domain names anyway.

I actually rather liked just memorizing IP's. I thought it had a nice parity with phone numbers, which we were all kind of used to anyway.

The whole "buy a name" thing struck me as little more than a land grab for speculators anyway. You already have a unique identifier to the overall network... Just use it!
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I was thinking Bangkok, where almost everyone is rocking some kinda wireless headphones. Lots and lots and lots of cheap AirPod knockoffs
With normalization, a track with excessive compression and a normally mastered track will have the same loudness. The compressed one will simply have less dynamic range.
Thanks. You can find the notebook here: https://github.com/TrigonaMinima/Notebooks with the name (Gradient Descent - Maximum Area.ipynb). Because of the embedded plots and gifs it's big in size so it's takes time to render on GH
+1. Maybe this is more important at a big company that at a startup where your business model and your tech is either good enough or it isn't. But even then you still have backers, etc.

Some people understand this stuff, and some people don't, and I don't see a lot of ways for someone who doesn't get it to become someone who gets it.
I guess if you listen to the top 40, any sound system is perfect.
I would think money plays a big role too. Back when Apex Legends exploded into the scene with the initial user base, selling a hack for 10 a pop would make a lot of money.
Fair enough. At that point, the term excludes so much that I don't think it really has much value. At least, I don't think it's easy to argue that "compiled to machine code ahead of execution" is something that a user would care about. If you define the things the user actually does care about (fast start up time, fast response to input) then you're back to defining things that are user-visible rather than things that are not.

If native means "fast and matches the default look and feel", then to the extent that the user can tell the difference, anything that is not native is worse. But if the user can't tell the difference, then it doesn't really matter whether it is "truly" native or not.

I think most people saying that Electron gives you native-like performance or look-and-feel are kidding themselves, which may be a reasonable criticism of Electron apps, but let's criticize them on the user-visible characteristics, not on the technology used to get there.

According to your definition, would MS Office be a native Windows app? I think not, on at least two counts.
This is a standard iOS pattern. Agreed that it's all but intuitive but that's how iOS is these days.
The concept of an information superhighway dates to at least 1964:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway#Earli...
> The days of walking to school, the local playground, or a corner store are very much in the past and one of the major reasons is because we have built a car centric world where you can't walk or ride.

No, they're gone because many parents don't want to let their children out of their sight because humans are terrible at balancing the tiny risk of a very serious negative outcome, and many Americans have lost all appetite for risk. What you're suggesting isn't strictly true, and is more of an American phenomenon. In Japan (which also has cars) children as young as 5 or 6 are regularly sent out to run errands on their own. [1]

This has nothing to do with cars, and independence comes with both risk and reward. It's not true that "any other independence is far too dangerous" and it's not "because cars."

In 1969, 44% of kids walked or biked to school ([2]) and America definitely had cars back then. Granted, fewer (500 cars per 1000 people vs 800 today).

[1] https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/09/why-are-littl...

[2] http://guide.saferoutesinfo.org/introduction/the_decline_of_...
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> Here's probably a silly question: Shouldn't this work automatically? I just assumed they would have an intermediate CA or whatever it's called and have that certificate be signed by some widely trusted CA.

Yeah, that would work if someone at AWS would make a bit of sense and would sign them using their pubic CA, but they decided not to and instead generate new RDS CA every 5 years.

Anyway at least with PostgreSQL clients that rely on libpq (the main postgres client library) by default while it prefers SSL when available it won't verify the certificate unless you explicit use verify-ca or verify-full sslmode.
Lefty climate change worshipers are doing the lighting... and then yelling: "MAN MADE CLIMATE CHANGE"
Are you saying the H1 and W1 could have been designed by a lower tier OEM?
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

Do you have public documentation. I'd love to check it out some more, but I don't want to waste anyone's time scheduling a demo.

I'm curious how your mesh networking works -- do you have to go into settings to connect every iPhone together manually or is there a way that this happens automatically?
Regarding the threshold, no, I’m not talking about EFail, I’m speaking generally.

Much of this thread predicates on your claim that an issue which could have been caught in an end-use implementation is only a flaw in that implementation. By contrast, I’m claiming that it’s the responsibility of a secure specification and ecosystem to guard against classes of misuse, such that end-use implementations are not each individually required to mitigate that class of issue.

None of the above is specific to EFail, but the resulting threshold is noteworthy for EFail. Even if, by your numbers, we’re talking about 26% (I’m not sure why it would be “or zero depending on what you believe happened here”, since there’s not really any interpretation of what happened here where 0% of implementations were impacted), that’s a quarter of implementations that were impacted by this class of misuse (the ecosystem/specification not enforcing that a MAC check pass before returning decrypted plaintext).

As tptacek points out in a parallel comment, this is a pretty skewed measurement, because that 26% of implementations accounts for the vast majority of actual users (for example, “Thunderbird” and “GPGTools” account for the same weight in your percentage as “United Internet” and “Mailpile”). But even so, if a quarter of apples in my basket were bad, I’d potentially stop blaming individual apples and start to wonder about quality control at the grocery store.

As is exemplified by newer libraries like Nacl / libsodium, a primary goal of a strong cryptographic library is providing interfaces which make correct usage easy and avoid classes of misuse, so that authors of end-use tools are not each required to replicate the same correct sequence of sanity checking and safeguards, with any misstep being a security fault for their users.

I’m still curious for your threshold. For example, by your measurement methodology, is the EFail attack on S/MIME clients purely a client error? In that case, 23 of 25 tested end-use implementations were vulnerable, or 92%. Is 92% enough widespread impact for ownership to bubble up to the overall S/MIME specification, to guard against this kind of misuse?
I wonder what the difference between that and those rapid chillers is, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Cooper-Cooler-Beverage-Chiller-Silver...
Google pours the concrete for its exhibit in the LVCC parking lot at ces2020
A list of great books for Makers, Bootstrappers, and Indiedevelopers in 2020
Lmaoooooooooooooo
>it's much slower and less interesting. But, still worth it....I guess. (second-guessing myself now?)

My experience at msft in a nutshell. They pay very well and their name brings prestige, don't forget that when you second guess yourself!
There was a company called reconfigure.io that came the closest to an accessible HDL (they compiled Go to VHDL/Verilog) but seems to have died and their founder is now with ARM.
Anyone admire forthchips? Such as the 144-core chip from http://www.greenarraychips.com
No one forces, or even pressures, anyone to play multiplayer video games.
Some might say the best way to preserve knowledge and culture for the long term would be to establish a successful cult. It seemed to work for the Egyptians and the Christians (experiment still ongoing). Just look at how we count years in the Western world.
'Parallel Reality' Display Debuts At CES
>As always, none of the numbers are official,

Not only were they unofficial, the guess work was wrong. And even the facts were wrong. What annoys me is the blog is actually for investment. ( With Email Newsletter suggesting sign up for insight )

>Since 2017, Apple has sold roughly 215 million iPhones per year. These phones cost roughly $1,000 each, and therefore generate $215 billion of revenue for Apple each year. This makes up 81% of Apple’s total revenue

There is no need to guess. Apple actually report ASP when they were reporting Sales Unit Number. In 2017 their iPhone ASP were 618 - 697 depending on Quarter. In 2018 their iPhone ASP were 728 - 793. They stopped reporting unit and ASP in 2019.

Apple Fiscal 2017, 2018, 2019 Revenue was $229.234B, $265.595B, $259.97B And iPhone Revenue was $141.29 , $166.8B, iPhone % of revenue was ~62% to of their revenue.

Not 80%.

The blog post could have been so much better if he spend 10min actually looking up those number.
You could use a faster sort implementation, such as radix sort which is O(n) and also probably faster in practice when well-implemented.

One option is this one [1] which I actually wrote as part of this exact task: de-duplicating a list of integers, as part of working on [2].

I wrote about the types of speedups you can expect with radix sort here [3] - it depends on the size of the input elements and their distribution (e.g., if many top bits are zero, radix sort will be much faster), but in my test case I see a ~5x speedup for moderate or large input sizes (thousands of elements or more).

Of course, the same could be said about hash tables...

[1] https://github.com/travisdowns/sort-bench/blob/master/radix7...

[2] https://lemire.me/blog/2019/05/07/almost-picking-n-distinct-...

[3] https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2019/05/22/sorting.html
For signal processing and machine learning, maybe you'd be better off with a systolic array processor or at least a bunch of deep Cray-style vector pipelines? And, like you said, GPUs seem to be doing better at those, in a vaguely Tera-like way, than the Itanic ever could have.
This is amusing but doesn't really prove anything special about GPT-2 or general intelligence. You can probably get similar results with an n-gram model.
There's a monetary incentive as well. If you can reliably produce new cheats that aren't detectable, people will buy them. There's usually an incentive not to share private cheats because once it's public, it will still probably work but will definitely get you banned. Amateurs and professionals both pay for private cheats so besides the technical challenge, there is some money to be made.