skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope I'm not drawing too tenuous of a connection to current events, but I can't help but notice the irony of so many Silicon Valley companies coming out in vocal (and financial!) support of the BLM movement [1], while turning right around and supporting a totalitarian regime in China.

It strikes me as deeply inauthentic that people can be so passionate about some social issues and utterly indifferent or complicit to others. I understand that people can prioritize different issues at different times, and some people say that it's even possible to care about one issue without the expense of another.

Nonetheless, that statement is not substantiated by the level of concern U.S. citizens and woke-minded folks around the world devote to issues like the soft economic power China wields over SouthEast asian countries, the oppression of Uyghur minorities in China, or the political status of pro-democracy countries like Taiwan (to name a few).

Do people only care about a political issue if people threaten to cancel them on Twitter?

[1] https://twitter.com/zoom_us/status/1266877451646283776?s=20
It's artificial if the entity loaning you the money and setting the rate has no associated risk.

If I loan you money there's risk you won't be able to pay me back. So I decide what interest you would need to pay me for it to be worth it for me to take that risk. Lots of other people do that, and you get a "natural" rate of interest as you call it. Everyone offering you the loan has skin in the game.

But if the entity that prints the money says they'll loan you money, it doesn't matter to them if you can't pay it back. They set the money supply. If you don't pay back, they can take the value from everyone dealing in their money by printing more. This lack of risk allows them to undercut the rates of entities who would be taking on risk. Now you have an "artificially" low interest rate.
Netflix aggressively compresses. HBO on the other hand...
It is true. I'm using APM as a shorthand, here, for mechanical aptitude.

Yes, the APM, in terms of raw numbers, was constrained. But the computer used its APM in a completely different way, one which players could not possibly replicate.

One obvious example: the AI doesn't use control groups. To anyone who's played Starcraft in a somewhat competitive fashion, that's a HUGE tell. Because the implication there, is that the AI doesn't need to make control groups, because it can just arbitrarily select whatever subset of units it wants to control, whenever it wants. Humans can't do that.

IIRC, the AI also tended to 'burst' its APM in the middle of fights. That's the opposite as what happens with human players. Human players often have higher APM outside of fights, when they're doing repetitive, simplistic actions (e.g. Zerg players slamming the "make lings" or "make drones" hotkeys on all hatches simultaneously) and/or spamming to keep up a rhythm. When they go into a fight, where they don't want to waste time on spamming and where commands to improve their position are less obvious, they actually tend to slow down.
I think of it the other way around: Until I can teach the thing to someone else, I am not yet an expert.
I prefer the term "embiggen", heh.
It's funny that several thousand words that laboriously reinvent the wheel about tacit knowledge could be summed up in a handful of words of declarative knowledge.
I have to be internally consistent and agree that it's at Zoom's discretion as a private-sector company whether to host specific content or provide services to specific people and viewpoints, just as it is for Facebook/Twitter etc.

Two things are additional considerations that may change how this sort of action ends up for Zoom:

1. Zoom will be judged in the court of public opinion for their decision to align their moderation of access to their service with the CCP. This is likely a different degree of backlash than you'd see with, say, shutting down the accounts of US-based hate groups.

2. Zoom may come under scrutiny—without concrete evidence—for introspecting the content of communications through its platform that would otherwise be presumed to be private. This is different from Facebook/Twitter etc., for which much of the content that drives moderation decisions is public.

Zoom is not abridging anyone's constitutional right to free speech, nor would they be able to. How they are judged for their specific actions, though, is entirely at the discretion of their user base and public opinion.
Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe Systems Programming
That's not really what has happened here.

Asset/fund managers buy all types of fixed income instruments - government bills, notes, bonds, municipals debt, corporate debt, mortgages, bank loans, on and on.

During the mayhem in late Feb/early March the secondary market for any and all of that debt for all intents vanished. This left many funds in difficult positions - their cash reserves are low and not sufficient to meet large daily redemptions therefore they need to sell assets they own. Those that also owned equities/commodities (balanced style funds) sold those more liquid assets, adding fuel to that dumpster fire. However, debt only funds were still left with no where to go.

Thus the Fed stepped in and agreed to purchase exceedingly large amounts of debt instruments - pretty much anything rated investment grade. Thus the Fed monetized those holdings and we are now seeing that cash pushing up equity prices.

The above is a little bit over simplified and leaves out many other players (ie repo problems)

Also - the Treasury issues debt every week to meet the regular financial obligations of the US government, not just for special needs (various bailouts)
To paraphrase a joke I heard before, the only difference between an Analog Engineer and a Digital Engineer, is the analog engineer knows they are working on analog circuits.
Yup, all true.

I'm not necessarily defending past or present fiscal policy. I'm pretty concerned about this stuff as well.
This is, no joke, a very big deal for me. Thank you.
Yes! Freem-form WFMU is an incredible station. Though based in NJ, it has a worldwide listener base. It is entirely listener supported, without even corporate underwriting, unlike other public radio stations in the US. It also has internet accesible archives of programming that goes back into the 90's. If you have a unique musical itch, just Google that song and add WFMU as the site. Click and enjoy the playlist that pops up.
Well one think I noticed with unscribing a email newsletter than after doing it you start to lots of mails and got to know unscribing something is a way to indicate that email is active. My two cents. So now just click spam and let email provider run some machine learning and pattern to figure out it's a spam.
The OP is on a brand new FTTH network. There aren't going to be many bottlenecks and any bottlenecks can be cured by inserting a new line card.

And, as I wrote before, in no real life scenario will all 100% of subscriber be running their line at full tilt 24/7.
Would we call that "intuition"?
No - but that just means that Intel shouldn’t do this at all. Either don’t support stuff like avx and avx2 in the big core by disconnecting those blocks or support a slow microcode version of avx and avx2 in the little cores. Supporting different extensions for a CPU used with modern preempting OS’s doesn’t make any sense.
Son, let me tell you about the early days of Bitcoin... I left the windows open that winter.
Makes sense to me. While there's practically an infinite amount of things that society would like to be done, it's not so easy to turn them into jobs. The exchange of money for labor is constrained from both sides - on the employee side, the job has to provide enough money for the worker to be able to live off it. On the employer side, most jobs only exist if the output of those jobs can be used to make even more money than it took to pay for it. This applies recursively.

In the end, the number of actual jobs available is very limited, and it's not so illogical to call the act of making such money/labor exchange possible as "job creation".
> "Do you think Americans are using free speech well? Do you feel like the government is accountable to you?"

Yes.

> "In America you have free speech but it's not practically useful for anything. Have a go at trying to stop some government abuse of power."

The protests happening now, civil rights movements in the 60s, the changes after the pentagon papers, the suffrage movement. "Me Too" and its impact on culture, awareness of the continuous lies coming from the current administration. There are an enormous amount of historical examples of free speech being critical to improving the society.

I think you're very wrong, but you're free to be wrong (at least on this website).
I could never really fall in love with Mac's OS, but I do wish windows would steal that idea.
It's quite smart, considering shaking the mouse is the first thing I do when I cannot find my mouse. And it becomes hilariously huge.
> automation hasn't proceeded across the spectrum.

Exactly. Its impact has been limited to areas where there is repetitive work on standardised, clean objects[1], in standardised environments, in product lines where volumes are sufficient to justify the investment in machinery.

> Yet automation equipment has boomed in the last 20 years.

Yes it has. The size of the needed investment has gone down a lot in activities where automation is feasible.

But manufacturing has been a minor part of the US economy for more than 30 years, and its share is getting smaller. "Services" is over 80 percent. Advertising, making movies, sports, construction... zillions of different things.

[1] If any manufacturing work should be automated, it's meat packing. Unpleasant, boring work that gives you carpal tunnel syndrome and other joint and tendon injuries. Plants are always short of workers and absenteeism is rife because of the nature of the job.

But automation is impossible, because animals are not standardised enough. Putting that another way: because machine vision is still so ludicrously bad. And so is the state of robotics.
The only two explanations I can think of are ignorance and laziness. Ignorance doesn't really fly, IMO, because when you have an input field, you should be at least thinking about validating said input. From there, the simplest of google searches will lead you to the checksum algorithm.

Laziness seems most likely for that reason, but, on top of that, it's not like you even have to go to Stack Overflow to find an implementation. Wikipedia has one! Wiki. Pedia.

Just take my input, run the checksum, check that my expiration date isn't in the past and that the CVV value is the correct number of digits, and just run the charge. It's not like if I mistype my MasterCard's first digit as a 4 that it's going to work anyway. Just do the checks that are feasible, and then just run the charge.
Well even bigger reason might be the overhead of php apps. PHP is poormans Lambda. It allows many apps to live on same server and only take resources they need.

It's not pretty but this allows shared hosting to exists. Those power big chunk of the content of the internet.
Also, its interface with the game is simply more efficient. The APM managed superhuman control without using control groups; for a human player, not using control groups at all would be an enormous handicap.

The implication here is that the AI can select units and buildings arbitrarily much faster than humans can, and doesn't need to spend APM on creating and maintaining control groups themselves.
Wow this spectacularly bad judgement on the part of LEO (FBI), right up there with the Waco siege (ATF). Thanks for bringing this up, I did not see it before.

Still, this looks like an improvised explosive device was used by the police, and it's not an off-shot of the US military programs.

So my point still stands - just because something is deployed by the US military abroad does not mean it will be deployed at home. To suggest otherwise is to spread needless gloom and panic.
The funny thing is I work so much better with just the single 13" screen on my laptop. Every window I work with is maximized and allows me to focus on one thing at a time.

About the only thing I use a second screen for is videoconferencing.

But, to each their own. Everyone's work style is different.
Even if the application is tiny, that's no excuse. It makes it even easier to chuck everything into a single struct type. It's not like there's any performance gain to having globally scoped stuff on a modern compiler compared to passing references.

One reason using global variables is bad practice is it makes testing harder. An unfortunately high percentage of embedded software doesn't have any sort of harness-based testing because it's written with globals spammed everywhere, which prevents you from using any kind of principled testing strategy where you mock out all the hardware dependencies. It's especially bad if there's globally defined MMIO stuff like "#DEFINE CCR1A (uint64_t)0x74FEA10". Good luck testing that!
Well, if it's a high-res display then there's a lot more pixels so a greater chance of failure.

I actually really like this system and wish that I could trade-off further down the spectrum on quality. After all, to get a zero-dead-pixel device you just have to check in the second-hand market like people do for high-binned CPUs. The volume of true demand for those CPUs is high enough that there are retailers like Silicon Lottery that explicitly look out for that.

It turns out that most consumers don't really want a zero-dead-pixel guarantee though.
There is a bug in meet where it suddenly decides to burn CPU like crazy. Can work fine for hours then fail
A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition
Definitely overly inflated.
I for one found this very useful
"Stock buy-backs and dividends" is what you are supposed to do when you have more cash than you can reasonably use. Give it back to the shareholders so they can try their luck somewhere else.
The "haircut" on risky assets stops you leveraging it too much. I think it's about 5% for US treasury bonds. So for every 100 I want to finance I need to have 5 cash on hand. Itsuch higher for riskier assets and that keeps leverage down. Also when things start to get edgy banks demand a bigger haircut further reducing the available leverage forcing you to delever (e.g. March)
How are you defining a successful democracy? If 20% of a nation elect a philosopher king type leader, is that more "successful" than 90% of another nation electing a tyrannical despot?
So you also don't believe in electromagnetic energy waves below 380 nanometers in length, or above 740 nanometers in length either, because you can't see them, even though a majority of professional scientists insist they exist?
I will say Google Meet has gotten much better since the pandemic started, e.g. support for many more participants in its grid view.
I've done something similar. I used to have a few Raspberry Pis with 3G modems attached to them, with prepaid SIMs that had "unlimited" SMS plans.

It actually did work for a while. The problem that you run into is that carriers rate limit the number of texts per minute that a particular phone number can send (this is a problem with Twilio too, but in that case it's much easier to spin up a new number).
The AI was really good at determining when a fight was winnable/unwinnable, I think. That was the most impressive part for me, usually AI's for BW/SC2 were awful at knowing when to push vs retreat. AlphaStar turned around on a dime when the human player had a better army.
all your arguments can be true or false. depending on the use case and the position you look from, a language can be defined good or bad. there is no objective answer. from a commercial point of view php is for example one of the best languages ever. from a technical perspective maybe not so much.
please accept different realities. don't get stuck in your own.
Uh, both of my main machines have bare-metal installs and I do develop from them. But when you are doing kernel development, it's much easier to "unbrick" a VM than bare metal, yes?
Reserve requirements != capital requirements. Reserve requirements are vs deposits, capital requirements are vs balance sheet items. Big difference between the two.
That's going to end. The UPU agreed to let the US charge 70% of its domestic shipping cost to foreign carriers.
Thanks for having the guts to share an opinion that's going to definitely be really unpopular here. Every decade, there is some new 'impending doom' prediction. I've lived through pollution, smog, acid rain, ozone holes, Y2K, probably more. They may be right about Climate Change, but at this point people are suffering doom-fatigue and I can totally understand the skepticism.

Additionally, I believe it is pointless to constantly worry about something you don't have the power to change. Even if you are a believer, the only thing you're going to get out of reading these articles will be stress and anxiety. There's no clear call to action for the average joe. The sun will explode one day too, but it's needless to have articles about it every week warning us of the dire consequences, because we can't do anything about it.

Exactly like my inability to stop climate change, I offer my single drop of upvote into the torrent of downs that you're going to get.
Most performance anti-patterns in almost any program are not important at all, as most of the code is not on the hot path.
FYI for those wanting to test in Chrome Canary, it only supports draft 27 and up so you need these command flags when you run Canary: "--enable-quic --quic-version=h3-27"
> I don't know if that is a helpful way of constructing the issue; it certainly isn't a neutral one.

Reading what I wrote again, I agree that it could have been expressed better. Sorry about that.

> If you are a physicalist (which I'm not) consciousness is not an epiphenomenon with no influence on the physical world, but a component of the physical world which takes part in and influences the physical world.

Ok. If I try to look at it from the physicalist's point of view, I have trouble understanding how the subjective side of consciousness is explained. It seems to me to be just ignored or waved away.

Why couldn't the functions of consciousness in influencing the world exist without subjectively experienced consciousness? What evolutionary value does this subjectively experienced consciousness have (as seen from a physicalist point of view)?

> All I am arguing this that the normal formulation of the hard problem of consciousness begs the question.

You're not necessarily wrong, it depends on what exactly is meant by begging the question.

What you wrote was:

> What is the relevant quality being distinguished between the description or explanation of the physical processes that correlate to certain mental states and behaviours, on the one hand, and the description and explanation of the conscious first-person experience of phenomenal states, on the other? <

Intuitively it seems to me that there is a difference of quality, even if I'm incapable of describing exactly what that difference is. I can't even imagine how one would go about explaining the difference in quality to the satisfaction of everyone.

This doesn't bother me too much though, because, put perhaps too briefly, philosophy is not science and logical arguments are not mathematical logic.

However, I can also see how someone could see not answering your question as begging the question.

> I am myself agnostic on the question of consciousness because we have so little knowledge of the issue. A lot of philosophy in this area is interesting, and fun to think about, but more often than not it is speculative and linguistic in character.

My way of thinking is perhaps not so different.

I think of philosophy as being constrained by science, in that you don't want philosophy to contradict well established scientific facts, but as being otherwise freer than science to explore how the world might work.
I also think of philosophy as having a role in dealing with questions that are largely outside the domain of science (beauty, ethics, etc.), but which can still sometimes be informed by science.
Try IFTTT or Automate.
After evaluating a number of solutions, we chose uberconference (no relation to uber). I really like it, especially that the conference is just a phone number.
Some comms you want to monitor, some you want to disrupt... And Chinese authorities like big gestures, sending messages, "we know who you are and what you do, we can get you anytime, you are not safe anywhere".
Survivor bias. For Rasmus there were 10000 other developers which have been relegated to just annoying their fellow enterprise coders.

It looks a lot more like someone there at the right place and the right time.
Better than nothing I guess but still not a perfect solution.
So, no answer to the actual questions, it sounds like. Got it.
It only needs to be done once at the process launch. Once the processor affinity is set, it will stick to the main CPU at full speed for the entirety of the process lifetime.
I'll dig up a photo of the battery / electronics and post it here soon. To give you an overview of it:
- 300W of flexible solar panels (~$90/pop, tend to get about 1.5kWh on great sunny days, enough to power my fan + fridge without having to run the van)
- Victron MPPT charge controller (pretty impressed by their quality, and their app that talks to the controller over bluetooth, nothing comes close to them in simplicity of setup)
- Victron battery to battery charger without ground isolation (gets triggered by engine hot signal, so I don't drain the van battery)
- 2000W cheap inverter for running instantpot / magicbullet. I prefer to have DC appliances, but hard to find DC pressure cooker / mixers
- couple of 12v regulators for 12vdc devices
- ofc the BYD Lifepo battery, I haven't deep cycled this a ton, but my suspicion is that it's around 3.5kWH usable capacity.

I plan to add a cheap 360 camera system from aliexpress and run it off the aux battery mainly for security monitoring around the vehicle, the standard backup cams on any 2017+ vans are decent. If I get to it, it'd be interesting to get a Pi in there with OBD breakout to read in car data / gimmick.
What an electronic and energy waste only to avoid doing some keystrokes!
Not only did they decide write a new render rather than evolve their existing one, they wrote two. Now we have to choose to stick with the old render that we know, or evaluate two new ones and try and pick one.
You are right about the double standard but using enclaves means restructuring your application. Even SCONE requires porting. SEV gives you the warm and fuzzy feeling that you are doing something to improve security without having to do a lot of work, assuming that your favorite OS version has been ported to run in a "secure" VM.
If you install to the HDD and don't use any binary drivers it works fine. If you're trying to boot from USB you usually have to disable SecureBoot in the BIOS.

I usually disable SecureBoot when I install a machine. The extra protections aren't worth losing the ability to run VirtualBox.
The Sandy Hook lawsuit might change things wrt guns.
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Did you just deliberately redefine 'reload' just to incite a flamewar, or do you really not know what's different in your example?
I think ad-blockers are bad for the web. I have nothing against people running them, but I don't choose to. It incentivizes an arms-race between clients and servers to control the content that gets displayed. The end game of this race is bad for everyone. That's my reason.