skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd say that assuming that nobody else has that kind of computing power is quite arrogant

Maybe, but there's also probably a team of very smart people whose job it is to consider all of the information and make that call on a case-by-case basis. I'm sure they get it wrong sometimes, but I'd also imagine they get it right most of the time.

> it's certainly not "ethical" to keep it undisclosed

Sure, but by that ethical posture nothing the NSA does is ethical. If you accept as ethical the NSA's mission of protecting Americans at the expense of other humans, this particular method seems pretty ethical.
BsnesHD RetroArch – Pushing the Limits of SNES Widescreen/Ultrawide Support
> How do you solve the "won't read my emails" problem ?

true end-to-end encryption is the only way?
Very nice story, glad you've found some success. One thing I try to be mindful of, admittedly not as well as I'd like, is paying it forward. Remember the feeling, the struggle, the journey, the people who've helped you along the way, and try to be there for those in the future who will fill your past shoes. Best of luck.
Books you aren't repeatedly stabbing with a finger.
> Would this NSA capability tell them how much compute capacity China has as result of being the world center of bitcoin mining? Would it tell them whether this capability could repurposed?

I suspect the answer is yes, and also that they monitor bitcoin mining rates to see if large bitcoin miners in adversarial countries suddenly disappear.
I've wondered occasionally if Rijndael was chosen over the other AES finalists so that the NSA would have a NOBUS backdoor in the form of the whole s-box timing side channel thing. Is there any good info/commentary on that possibility?
Try changing your viewpoint on real estate taxes. I assume you live in a city (or else you wouldn't be paying much). By allotting your parcel of land for private use, everyone else's destination will be just a little bit farther away on average when a trip from A to B takes them past your land.

(Ref: why were medieval cities so dense despite their low populations and plentiful surrounding acreage? Everything had to be walking distance, so a big manor in the middle of the city would place a major burden on everyone's commute whose destination was not that manor).

So the tax is what you pay for the burden that your exclusive hold on the land imposes on others.

Or, you could think of it as what you pay to maintain the right for it not to be paved over as a superhighway, plus what you pay for the government to agree to keep other people from trespassing.

Not the fee for living there -- the fee for not letting others live there.
> All you have to do is look briefly on the iOS App Store and you'll find plenty of games for $5+.

Yeah. They tend to have low sales numbers. I worked on one. Just because they exist, doesn't mean they make return on investment. When we switched to a free-to-play model for our next game, we made a lot more money in ads and IAPs.

> because people are still making money off those freemium games

Airlines took up of the practice of nickle-and-diming the customer to get the initial sticker shock down, since that's basically all anybody ever competed on. If that price gets any lower, the amount of extra addons and fees will have to go way up to compensate, or service will get cut.

Just because some people are making money, doesn't mean it's a healthy market. I think most experts would agree that the mobile game market is incredibly unhealthy.
> It's academics. Whether or not there is a use isn't really an important factor.

It certainly is to many funding sources, and academic research isn't free.
But we can test people who exist today who evolved independently over millenniums? Why is it nonsense to think that maybe humans who mostly existed in hunter gatherer societies for thousands of years would face different evolutionary pressures than agricultural societies?

Is it really insane to believe the Sentinelese have a difference in genetic ability to engage in abstract thinking compared ashkenazi jews?
Totally! I share your frustration.

And I'm cautiously optimistic that the recent conversation the GPU Web working group had with the Khronos liaison will spur some SPIR-V progress.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F6ns6I3zs-2JL_dT9hOkX_25...

The meeting notes also reveal a clue as to why Apple might be pushing WSL so hard:

> MS: Apple is not comfortable working under Khronos IP framework, because of dispute between Apple Legal & Khronos which is private. Can’t talk about the substance of this dispute. Can’t make any statement for Apple to agree to Khronos IP framework. So we’re discussing, what if we don’t fork? We can’t say whether we’re (Apple) happy with that.

> NT: nobody is forced to come into Khronos’ IP framework.
Surcharges were prohibited by merchant agreements until the big card networks settled a class action lawsuit. As of 2013 anybody can add a surcharge, provided they follow the card network rules. State laws prohibiting surcharges were struck down by the US Supreme Court in 2017.

https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/surcharging...

https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/merchants/get-support/mercha...

https://www.clearent.com/insight/surcharging/
Looks like he sold his medal [0] to ameliorate his loss of earnings; perhaps that's to what GP was referring.

[0] - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11261872/James-Wats...
I was curious — right now in the US store, 1/25 most popular (This War of Mine) is not freemium. 1/25 “Essential Picks” (Minecraft) is not freemium.

I think your second point depends on how you divide things: clearly there is money in gaming but it does seem like it’s hard to make a game which doesn’t rely on IAP and slot-machine design — so much so that Apple launched an entire service to change the market dynamics.
Congratulations!

I've always wanted to publish interesting projects on Github, but I find it hard to get inspiration. Do you have any tips?
I have a bunch of utilities I wrote from the late 80s/early 90s and use them regularly too; many of them are Win32 binaries which haven't been changed since they were first created and used in Win95, and still run on Win10.

Incidentally my car is also nearly 50 years old and doesn't need a computer to run, although it's received some powertrain and suspension upgrades over the years as well as computers in the form of GPS, cameras, and proximity sensors.

I recently finished restoring a refrigerator from the late 1930s. With new insulation and seals it uses less power than a lot of the "smart" fridges today, and doesn't need a computer to function either. It would probably last another 80 years.
Congrats and Where were you living before?

Im here in Washington DC but might be getting a similar job opportunity(similar circumstances) in San Paolo too.

How is it there?
People will take your idea and make it theirs if you don’t publish them (e-mail should suffice). It’s worse when they move up the corporate ladder on the basis of your idea.
There is undeniably a positive energy around HN. It has enriched my life in many ways and opened my mind to many different fields, niche communities and many historical facts.

The world is truly filled with good people.

I'm not surprised and very glad to read about this story.
This right here is why Software matters.
It's mostly been awkward at work when co-workers or my manager make comments like "you've shipped code like this before" that's followed with negative feedback and a implication that I should've "known that wasn't good enough" or "wasted the time of a reviewer" even though the code seemed simple enough for me and passed tests.

I really can't tell if I suck or just work in an incredibly toxic workplace?
> Applies to life too

That seems somehow wrong.

Part of deeply loving someone is really knowing them, and you can't really know someone if they don't share their deepest fears, frustrations, and angers with you.

And part of a life is, hopefully, deeply loving someone.

(Of course, the advice in the article still holds -- your investors and customers don't and shouldn't deeply love you.)
Ask HN: Have You Incorporated in Estonia?
Would you do it again?
Let me be frank. If you are a plutocrat, you are at fault.

You are at fault because you have the ability to redistribute your wealth which you know was unfairly gained. No amount of work by a single person can generate the wealth possessed by the top 0.1%, for someone to be that rich you had to have people work for you and you have to exploit their work and take an unfair share. That is reality.

The people who benefit from corruption and theft didn't invent theft or corruption. You don't need to invent something to be morally unjustified in exploiting it.

https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_hanauer_beware_fellow_plutocr...

"Many economists would have you believe that their field is an objective science. I disagree, and I think that it is equally a tool that humans use to enforce and encode our social and moral preferences and prejudices about status and power, which is why plutocrats like me have always needed to find persuasive stories to tell everyone else about why our relative positions are morally righteous and good for everyone: like, we are indispensable, the job creators, and you are not; like, tax cuts for us create growth, but investments in you will balloon our debt and bankrupt our great country; that we matter; that you don't. For thousands of years, these stories were called divine right. Today, we have trickle-down economics. How obviously, transparently self-serving all of this is. We plutocrats need to see that the United States of America made us, not the other way around; that a thriving middle class is the source of prosperity in capitalist economies, not a consequence of it. And we should never forget that even the best of us in the worst of circumstances are barefoot by the side of a dirt road selling fruit."
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If your side is failing to convince people, the solution shouldn’t be “shut up the other side”, no matter how right you may be. It’s intellectually dishonest.

By engaging in cancel culture, it gives the silenced side way more credibility, because they can say “why are they afraid to let us speak?” It’s not just that cancel culture is morally bad, its also ineffective.
It feels vaguely like Pascal's wager.

The payoff for anthropogenic climate change existing and us doing something is much higher than the price of it not existing and us doing something.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22051363
The latest numbers I've heard is that if you get 10% of your userbase to pay at least once, you're doing incredibly healthily. Whales tend to be a handful-per-100,000 ratio, but they spend like nothing else. Loot boxes are ridiculously effective because whales will roll for them until they get the rare prize, spending thousands of dollars in the process.
> I didn't know about the Show HN tag

Not sure why but that made me laugh and think that either says a lot about how HN has changed over the years or you just don’t spend much time here
> And part of a life is, hopefully, deeply loving someone.

Hopefully is the key word here. One may or may not find a partner in life that shares their aspirations. The only person you're guaranteed is yourself.
Not really, this is a tired trope, climate change mostly boils down to well-established physics relating to energy transference which is pretty consistent to my understanding, here's Nasa also saying as much: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-mo...
I honestly don't know what the context of your comment is.
I think you might be on the wrong thread here. That said - are you saying there is an alert mechanism to encourage brigading?
At very least, there would have to be apparently well-written source code and an apparently competent person who can't figure out the problem.
Resource is less specific, not more.
Don't worry, all that is coming this decade.

This is a positive note of non-invasive tracking (they knew each other enough that he shared his address) it's going to get blurry when you have companies doing the same.
They hinge on the idea that the greater the value of T or N, the less likely a conspiracy will remain a secret, where T is time and N is the number of conspirators. N is usually the dominate factor.
Not only that, but attempting to actually create a lunch shortcut on MacOS or Linux with custom profile is quite an exercise since it's not as intuitive to do as on Windows.
...or an older, larger one...

Just like VWs and other small cars, they're great for driving around the city but not ideal for extended high-speed travels. You would be far worse off on a motorcycle, in any case.
People who love you care, to a point. In the limit case if you abuse alcohol and can't get your act together, your line of credit with your loved ones will run out (with parents being the one exception)
Hey, im in the same situation and heres how Ive been managing so far. I downgraded everything in my life except for my family who take absolute priority. I live in a smaller apt that i can afford, we live in a safe neighborhood but not the fanciest one i could afford, we dont eat out and dont spend money on things that are not essential, we cook, and do a lot of things that don’t cost a lot of mondey. This has helped us save enough money (not a lot..) to be able to work less and spend more time with the kids, especially being outdoors. I find that these years are foundational for the kids and want to be part of it. Possibly things are going to be harder later, not being able to retire early or without a good nest egg, but once again, priorities are family, now.
> Rust has issues with String. Rust has 6 String types. String, Str, CString, Cstr, OsString, Ostr

Absolutely spot on! You add Path, PathBuf & ffi into this mix, it becomes tiring very soon. I think a quality of life improvement is needed in this area.
Well...I can.

The 8087 was basically obsoleted by register-based SSE2 and SSE3, and as I understand on x86_64 the vestigial 8087 op codes are decoded microinstructions executed by the SSEx unit. And the descendant of the B5000 (now called Unisys ClearPath) is a VM running on Xeons; they stopped making stack-based MCP processors in 2015 or so.

So I think the original point still stands.
Not sure about the first example, but Bret Weinstein was fired because his behaviour didn't reflect his employer's values, not because of the science he was doing. I also don't think Peterson is having particular difficulty doing scientific work, nor is the actual research he does "taboo".
Civilization 6 is available in the App Store for iPhone and iPad. However, on my 2017 10.5” iPad Pro I find it uncomfortable to play beyond a short stretch (15-20 minutes) because the UI obscures a good part of the map (even fully collapsed) and panning the board is not smooth because of the frame rate. My hand, wrist, and arm tire quickly from all the swiping and panning too.
An entomology etymology ontology difficulty-novelty hierarchy?
Maybe landlords shouldn't be getting much, if any, returns on their investment. That we even consider housing an investment is a problem.

You've framed your response using a capitalist response - why would I spend money if it wasn't going to return more than I spent. I'm suggesting you look through other lenses - housing as a necessity or social good. Housing as a coop. Housing as a charity (e.g. Helping a refugee family by housing them.)
Lex, you're doing an amazing job. The level of commitment and hard work you put in to make this podcast is incredible.

On the technical depth side criticism you're getting, I would say the one with Ian Goodfellow had optimal balance.

And don't take destructive criticism about bad attitude or tone etc by some commentors
. For someone introverted it's already draining to put yourself in front of a camera ...
Yes there is. I also have historical records of the brigading going back years as well it seems. I have the name of the clusters too and IP address. I am currently working with the non-technical old-guard newspaper on this so I have it very well documented...many screenshots.

Email in my profile. Can you reach out tonight?
“And one time, at Loudcloud”

Edit: enjoy - https://youtu.be/MH619vxtNdo
I have a theory on this and can speak from my experience.

The problem I think with NOT eating together is that it sews disharmony in the machinery of the household.

If everyone DOES eat together all the work related to it happens together as somewhat of a team. You do the thing once. Everyone is in a shared state of being. Specifically being satisfied in appetite and social interaction and ready to do there own thing after.

Otherwise Billy is hungry at a different time than Sandy and Sara wasn't hungry until it was time for bed. Dishes have to be re done for each person. Billy made a better dinner for himself and left none for his sister. Someone ate in the bedroom and left a glass of milk out over night and mom was angry in the morning...

I am rambling and maybe it's obvious but ultimately I don't think it's just the act of eating together I think it's the reduced friction and increased cohesion of the household that shared dinner causes.

To answer your question, Maybe family dinner forces you to be "doing it right" just by the act of having the family dinner.
I doubt it. Evan's algorithm optimizes for user satisfaction. Merchants optimize for engagement and conversion.
Because they do not charge. (For this part of their stack)
It's just as valid as evolutionary biology in general. You can say there are a lot of bad evo psych studies out there but that doesn't mean it's impossible to make scientific inferences about evo psych. You can run experiments with animal models and intervene on sexual selective pressures and see the outcomes.
We do something similar with logs. Everything gets fed into Splunk and we do analytics from there.
GitHub releases Android app preview with Dark Mode support
There is a live demo of client hints https://browserleaks.com/client-hints
I don't see how this should reduce fingerprinting if all sites start sending accept-ch headers by default
It does not need to be. The problem is that when a unit gets replaced, the tenants cannot get an equivalent unit in the new building at the same rent. So they are incentivized to try to stop new construction. By all means build more units in the same area, but guarantee that folks who will be displaced can move back in one of the units for their existing rent. Then everyone wins.

I encourage you to think beyond one or two examples where things have gone wrong and instead try to figure out how you could take the fundamental idea and improve it.
"it almost invariably winds up with smart programmers insisting that these have to be simple problems that would be easily solved if only we were using the right API"

Because they are. Make the common case fast. There is no reason to expose all possible complexity to every transaction.
That is a good question. My first intuition was yes. But Google has about 2.5M servers at say $2000 per. That's $5B which is chump change for the NSA.
U.S. Job Growth Is Great, but Boosting Wages Will Be Much Harder
How does that work, since in the common case the number of pixels would be rounded to nearest integer?

The article explains that this only works if you assume that there are much fewer sales than pixels, so that sales divide pixels.
> Our understandings of intelligence, social dynamics, genetic influences on behavior, sexually dimorphic psychology and performance, climate change, et al.

So... the correct results that are being suppressed all skew to the political right and in favor of established social order? Really? You're sure that's not itself an observer bias?
Interesting philosophical thoughts are not limited to philosophers. A philosophical question asked to a top-achieving person in any field often yields a thought-provoking answer. I have heard some of those in Lex’s podcast. A diversity of perspectives is helpful for such questions.

One can tell that Lex does his research and also asks specific questions pertaining to the interviewee’s expertise. I think he strikes a good balance in many/most episodes.
I gained it when I was 15yo and it followed me everywhere since (I am 40yo now), including work environments
Careful with the health ministry: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/health/christian-health-c...
Rasterization has some niceties for things like cache coherency. Since you're rasterizing a triangle at a time, all with the same shaders, textures, and buffers, SIMD techniques used in GPUs is very effective. But when you have ray-tracing, any ray can hit any triangle. If you cast 64 rays and each one hits a different triangle, you lost your entire parallelism. You possibly have to give up on SIMD if the material models between the triangles are different.

For this reason, and for the reason of real-time ray budgets barely approaching 1 ray per pixel at 1080p on the highest cards, ray-tracing tends to mostly be used for specular effects at this time.

Even in non-real-time workloads, this was a massive time sink until ray sorting and batching entered the common practice, collecting rays that hit a single coherent area to be processed at once. And the current RTX model has no strong support for ray batching.
It's more true. Unemployment dropped from 4.0% down to 3.5%.
Even a console-style controller would be a huge upgrade from a touchscreen and those are still very common.
Even if climate change wasn't happening (it is), it seems plain to me we'd all benefit from less sulfer in the air. Not even coal miners like smog (though if they live far away from the smog they may be apathetic towards it.) The universal appreciation for fresh air should be more than enough motivation for anybody.
Chinese Animation: In Search of a Style
This story is also covered in Hard Thing About Hard Things, chapter 4.