skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well let's take Torrellas. Check out the two papers at ISCA'20 with him as an author.

Both use modified "cycle-accurate" simulators for the results. For now let's ignore all the issues with the accuracy of these simulators.

Let's validate how "solid" the work is. Drop an e-mail to Torrellas and ask for the code they used so you can see if you can reproduce their work. Hopefully things have changed and they'll send you the code but in my experience they'll just say no.

So they got two papers in which are unverifiable, and none of the reviewers ever saw the code involved. This bothers some people, but it's not unusual at ISCA.
Speech samples in the DeepMind publication post: https://deepmind.com/research/publications/End-to-End-Advers...
This is fantastic! Could you or anyone else share general resources that helped you in writing assemblers from scratch?
They don’t claim it’s to allow sideloading.
> what they were failing at was attracting hardware companies to ship pre-installed systems.

Microsoft told hardware manufacturers that if they ship machines with BeOS they would charge them more for Windows licenses.

https://web.archive.org/web/20131109045719/http://www.intern...
IDK that, I meant having carriers patrol the arctic.

Go big or go home!
Widespread mask-wearing could prevent Covid-19 second waves, study shows
So now in order to transmit the mnemonic you have to communicate the lineage of the command. "more" begat "less" begat "zless"...

Punny names stop being funny after a few years. How about a general principle of not using punny names in the first place?
Just like you, I use github pages for hosting my blog, but I also use a static generator called Pelican[1] to generate its contents (pages and blog posts). Its written in python and open source, although other options like Jekyll and Hugo are also quite popular.

Using a static generator gives structure to your blog content and links, its also easier to maintain a static site compared to any other method.

[1]: https://docs.getpelican.com/
I wonder if there is any comprehension metrics we could use in its place, similar how you can measure reading comprehension levels of certain text?
Bipedal locomotion is more efficient in that it takes less energy to cover a certain distance on two legs than four.
+1 for Laragon, simply a joy to work with.
Teen who spent 10 hours cleaning up protest is rewarded with car and scholarship
Unforounately, it seems that the IA is legally in the wrong here.

Controlled Digital Lending allows libraries use technical controls to ensure a consistent “owned-to-loaned” ratio, meaning the library circulates the exact number of copies of a specific title it owns, regardless of format.

The IA is saying to hell with the owned to loaned rato, and therefore no longer falls under CDL.
I agree with the network comment in this thread.

Also give yourself some authority, by authoring a book, and/or speaking at relevant conferences. The 10K could be used to hire a ghost writer, or for travel to said conferences.
Elasticlunr.js: full-text search engine in JavaScript
Does anyone know if its theoretically possible to run a cluster of Pi's off of the same external ssd at the same time? I'd like for say 4 Pi's to get a speed boost of not running off microSD, but I also don't want to shell out for 4 separate hard drives.

I've looked in the past and have only found links to partitioning the drive so that it could be used when moving from one pi to another. But nothing about using it concurrently.

I'm not even sure what this would look like physically. Like if a hub exists that could pass traffic to a single drive connected on the other side. Or how the drive would internally separate the writes. But im curious if something like this has been done before. Or why it couldn't be done
How much good do you think those disaster recovery datacenters actually do?

Adapting all our software for multi-region was an epic lift. Really, we had to stop thinking of it as "the backup datacenter" and instead run a portion of traffic there continuously. Most teams dragged their feet until we started weekly failover drills, which would usually break something in a big way. Application owners got embarrassed into compliance over the course of a few years. They're less exciting now, but still the proximate cause of some outages.

Given all that, I just can't imagine that a company which has never actually cut over (or attempts it only in quarterly/annual all-hands-on-deck events) is going to have a fun time when it becomes necessary to flip the switch for real. We fought tooth and nail to build this capability and it still takes balls of steel to press the button.
I wrote mine (https://gumroad.com/l/dDXav) using markdown.

I used pandoc to create the epub from markdown, a free online converter to convert epub to pdf, and kindlegen to convert epub to mobi.

It was really easy. I didn’t pay anything to make the book.

There are a number of Pandoc ePub templates floating around GitHub.
I would really like to use a Google Noise for meeting cancellation. Excessive use of meetings now "because we can" instead of thinking longer and harder and asking a well structured question.

Meetings should be for review/discussion and decision making not vocal exercise and grandstanding.

Would also be great if meeting providers would have a dial to show current latency for all participants to make easier to interject.

Lastly I do recommend using meeting tools that have features like letting you vote, raise a hand, chat all in a sync to main voice. Will make life easier for meeting moderators..... And if you don't use moderators then start the practice of doing it - quality of meetings will improve hugely.
This particular statement is sobering in an unexpected way. How the times change wrt software and personal sovereignty.
I think you're missing a lot. It might seem repetitive because in almost all the stories Jocko is practicing almost all the principles at the same time, but in different chapters he definitely teaches different lessons.
Yeah, it moved to the second link. Cheers
The Man Who Sacked Rome
> The revolution won't be the automation. It'll be in us accepting that the job wasn't who we were/are and it's okay to let it go

This is perhaps the only thing socialism got right. At least the flavor we had in Yugoslavia and the remnants it left on the psyche of my parent's generation.

You do your job, then you go home and live your actual life. The job exists as a way to "pay your dues" in society, but it isn't your life. Your life is home, family, the house you're building, maybe a little side business. That sort of thing.

My generation growing up in the 90's and 00's tossed that away and went full american. Hustle hustle. Doing your job is not enough. You must love your job or you are a failure.

We have more prosperity and I sometimes wonder if our parents didn't have more life.
Here's the original non-paywalled one.
https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/sensors-electronic-wa...

This twitter thread has most of the relevant new info that was added after the first article: https://twitter.com/TheDEWLine/status/1270068190224232450

OSD budget entries: https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudg... (feb 2020) & https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudg... (first public appearance feb 2018)

It could be a tactical ballistic missile (MLRS/HIMARS launched) payload because the slide's 100k-200k target can't include the launch missile (ATACMS missile 800k each, cruise missiles too expensive as well). Not necessarily just a kinetic one since ISR is mentioned. Surveillance platform that's sometimes a bomb, under an unclear amount of human control? Quite a terrifying idea.

At least one similar looking drone delivery project from the 2000s with an ICBM was terminated because it couldn't be guaranteed that it wouldn't look like a nuclear launch.

This article from May 28 is also worth a glance. "SWARMS OF MASS DESTRUCTION: THE CASE FOR DECLARING ARMED AND FULLY AUTONOMOUS DRONE SWARMS AS WMD" https://mwi.usma.edu/swarms-mass-destruction-case-declaring-...
Lunr.js: JavaScript search library that is a bit like Solr, but much smaller
Possible Australianism - netbank = a website + app by which an Aussie can do their banking, including transferring money to other people.

Definitely Australian. 'Netbank' is the proprietary name given to internet banking by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. I use it myself, its interface is very simple to use.

Money transfer to other bank accounts can be via Direct Credit to 'anyone', even to foreign bank accounts. Company Invoices can be paid using that same system or by a slightly separate system called BPay.

Paying money by cheque is now practically non-existent in Australia. I don't think I have written one in several years.
That’s a very perilous road. Not to mention expensive to maintain, slow to compile, with very little gain.
It looks like median wages for a programmer in SF are around $55/hr according to the BLS. So if I was hiring, I'd assume median plus 1/3 for a contractor is plenty.

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_41860.htm
Why would you need mingw on a Mac?
This seems to be a sensitive topic for you. Too much vitriol and straw-men. 'Only financial' is naive. Your life is heavily structured by the need to earn a living. You focus on how awful life is in SF and how nice it could be elsewhere yet you will only get to enjoy this life on evenings and weekends because you are working full time. A lot of people I know don't have time / energy for hobbies or friends outside of chores, family stuff, and decompressing from work. Most people are forced to play this game but if you have enough money you can start changing the rules. With enough money you can regularly take years off work to do... anything you want. Travel, meet people, write a book, deeply pursue hobbies, etc. With enough money you can work part time for the rest of your life and actually have the time and energy to enjoy it. And with enough money you can retire early, as early as in your 30s, to get unlimited freedom. It's not 'only financial,' it's paradigm shifting. It's 'only financial' if you are resigned to working until you are 65 or whatever and assume everybody else is too.
I would appreciate a response to this as well, from the author or someone knowledgeable on this subject
Would an easily navigable Arctic make China-Europe shipping cheaper enough to make a big difference?

A friend who's an expert in Russian oil exports said a navigable Arctic would hardly make any economic difference. Yet, so much of Russia's military history was driven by access to ice-free ports that they had an irrational attachment to it.

China has its own set of irrational territorial attachments, but is the Artic one of them?
Useful information but the results look like garbage in Chrome and IE. The multi-line titles all run together and would greatly benefit from a table outline.
FWIW - IBM Cloud today has basically no benefit over AWS, Azure or GCE or even against some of the smaller regional players like AliCloud. The notable exception would be if you need to run a bare metal solution and leverage their free backbone which is a pretty narrow use case these days. The main selling point previously was to stand up your own VMware environment but even that came with a laundry list of caveats (unsupported hardware, limited VLANs, non-flexible IP space) that made it painful to use. Today AWS is vastly more performant, flexible, reliable and has a bunch of useful services you don't get from IBM Cloud.
Writing a full-text search engine using Bloom filters (2013)
"Windows 10 would clearly be considered spyware 10 or even 5 years ago. Yet somehow Microsoft has convinced the general public that it isn't, and we are supposed to still trust them?"

No. Microsoft decided to go into the data business with Win10. They very publicly partnered with the federal government to feed them info from any Win10 system that 'might' have something illegal on it.
Go back and find their statements prior to release, they are downright dystopian.
So yes, Microsoft has publicly said if they detect a music track that may have been downloaded 'illegally', they will 'package it and all your info and send it to the feds'.
It isn't spyware if you partner with the spies.
Yeah I mean populist revolutions rarely work out well. But he's not recommending a violent revolution, he's just pointing out what's happening.
Don't tease me like that!
amazing as always, the current home tts is pretty good now as well
Not the big nuclear powers — they should be relatively easy to get onboard, because preventing proliferation of nuclear weapons is comparatively easy compared to preventing proliferation of drones. The ones to watch are the smaller countries who have in effect lost their sovereignty to the nuclear powers: maybe Colombia, but also Taiwan, Canada, Ukraine, Spain, Brazil, Iran, the UAE, Egypt, Bangladesh.

More worryingly: Daesh, Baruch Goldstein's fan club, the next Anders Breivik, the janjaweed, Boko Haram, Voluntad Popular, antifa groups, the collectively fired Minneapolis Police Department, the Hells Angels, MS-13, etc.
Nintendo now says that the accounts of 300k Switch users have been hacked
This is a cool idea, but requires some hooks. Otherwise, you also need api access and remake the UI. I guess you could intercept API calls with a browser extension, but having a hook for you personalization so would be great!
I think it's important to remember that unix-based operating systems are under your control. You can create aliases under any name you like, if you'd prefer a different name.
> We have more prosperity and I sometimes wonder if our parents didn't have more life.

When I was younger and naive, I judged the Amish. As I've grown older and wiser, I realize they had the right idea all along. Family, loved ones, community first. Everything else serves those.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, June 2020 Edition
If you need a more stateful version of requests:

import requests
session = requests.session()
# now use session like you would requests
session.get("http://httpbin.org/cookies/set/name/value")
print(session.get("http://httpbin.org/cookies").content)
Are you saying that you actually believe it is by definition ethical to do things that society agrees is good for people (regardless of what actually is good for people or for animals)?

Or are you saying that what society deems ethical (regardless of what actually is, in fact, ethical) tends to align with actions that are good for people?
Chinese social and ecommerce companies contribute new features to Mariadb (MySQL.)

Quora mentions GitCafe and Coding.net in China.

Chinese people write in Chinese mainly, but I imagine programmers can get around in English. (If you go to an airport in China, often none of the staff speak English except for perhaps the foreign visitor kiosks, but even then.)

Japanese Open Source in the 1995-2010 era always meant 1-way forking and localizing it in Japanese, but that might have changed as projects increasingly added i18n support. (If you're familiar with Japanese writing, there were obvious reasons for that.)

Most people don't consider programming science, but ok.
You're not going to get any significant biochar from burning the wood pellets efficiently, are you?
Window stacking is one of the best features of Haiku. Gnome should consider useful features like this to improve the user experience.
it isn't always that the work is bad, it's just the review process for getting in has always seemed to be easier for people with the right connections. Not necessarily in an overt conspiratorial way like the recent allegations either.

The reason people have latched on to the current set of allegations is there seems to be actual concrete proof of misconduct that can be acted on.
If email were still my main communication at work (it's now Slack), I'd seriously look into Alpine, I had no idea that Pine went to live on in spirit.
> We used to have informal contests for who could cite or arrest someone for the weirdest law.

There are books and websites written about the dumbest laws still on the books, which give police lots of flexibility to shop for a charge if they really want to get you.

> NEW JERSEY - All motorists must honk before passing another car, bicyclist, skater, and even a skateboarder.[1]

I've tried to figure out how to incentivize my representatives to drop useless laws, but I don't know how. I can't imagine basic old shame works these days when thousands of US voters send social media death threats to "the other team" on a daily basis.

[1] http://www.dumblaws.com/law/1293
Couldn't find the search on mobile :(
Install EVERYTHING (awesome windows search software).

Pin it to taskbar.

Rearrange the pinned icon so it's the first.

Now, Windows+1 shortcut key will open Everything.
I sure don't feel convinced that free will exists.

What do non-determinists think would be the testable or observable difference between a universe with and without free will?
I was thinking of this video, why don’t they just give all the gamers a replaceable robot to control from far away. Or why electronics are all? Literally just use an EMP and level the playing field. Mechanical>Electronic in this instance
This article comes too soon.

How long have we been able to use millions of entries to machine learn?

I'm still limited by processing speed.

I imagine between math improvements, electrical engineering, computer science improvements/discoveries, and more we can automate jobs that require thinking or fine motor movements.
The Right to a Nonconsensus Opinion
I understand your point, but that doesn't seem to be what the article talks about. From the linked article:

> Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that for many years the media has been almost screaming that we entering a big automation revolution, with huge associated job losses, due to new AI tech, especially deep learning.

Emphasis mine.

Their point doesn't seem to be that automation isn't happening, but that there is no revolution incoming that is driven by new tech. You can see that in their bulleted point summary:

> * Which job features predict job automation how did not change from 1999 to 2019.

If new tech was breaking the frontiers of automation and making it possible to automate jobs which couldn't be done before, these features should've changed.
Yev from Backblaze here -> please do not do this, we really like him.
Shareholders are not rational, and CEOs believe shareholders to be even more irrational than they actually are. There's plenty of research showing that CEOs do things they think looks good to investors, despite evidence to the contrary. What happens to come to mind is research of FIFO v. LIFO inventory. One understates income at the benefit of having a lower tax liability, and the other overstates income to investors at the cost of paying more in taxes. Statistically, investors punish CEOs for leaving tax cuts on the table for an amount greater than the value of the supposed tax savings, while CEOs insist the opposite is true and that investors are rewarding them for overstating income. Managing your books is widespread and commonplace. People downsize, hide liabilities, massage earnings, and do irrational things regardless of not just long-term consequences, but often on the basis of perceived consequences.

In this particular case, though, you're probably right. Android itself was one of those whacky ideas that no one expected to gain any traction. Google funds moonshot projects as a matter of company culture and self-identity and it seems to actually make them money. Of course, the possibility still exists to cut them for short-term gain and I doubt no one factors that into their equation at all.
Looks like their average during peak season 8 years ago was 550 and now it is around 200. That is an impressive drop
We cannot be sure of any being’s sentience without direct experience. Absent that, we are left to our best guesses. This is true of most things.

Our best guess is that plants do not experience suffering in the same way that animals do.
Except it is... It is implicit in the command being an acronym for "super user do".

`sudo X` => `super-user-do X` => `I really mean to do X`

For a user that has privileges to run a command, `sudo` is equivalent to Windows popping up the "Admin Privileges Required: OK? Yes. Done" prompt to run an app when you are already an admin.

If you are already an admin (or sudoer in the Unix world), why ask? Because the command you are running is potentially destructive and you want to double check? That's fine, but it is just like training wheels.

If a user is not a sudoer, the topic is entirely irrelevant, and if sudoers do not have permission to run certain commands that is a completely different question.

But to answer the original question, "Is Sudo Almost Useless?", the answer in most cases is yes.
there's a gdoc spreadsheet link at the end
> As far as I know

As far as I know (I read the article), the recordings were made available to random users due to a fault in the backend side. Whatever encryption and access control they are using is totally bogus.
I never thought about that. I wonder why it hasn’t evolved more often then? Basically limited to humans and birds. (I guess kangaroos too?)
Does a Martin guitar from the 1940s count?
Here is a 2016 paper about the changes to the OpenSmalltalk bytecodes:

https://rmod.inria.fr/archives/papers/Bera14a-IWST-BytecodeS...
I prefer the emacs bindings for the command line such as C-A, C-U (mostly due to muscle memory), but have set up my $EDITOR as vim. This allows me to do C-X C-E, which opens the current command in vim to be edited.

If you are using zsh, you need to add this to ur .zshrc

autoload -z edit-command-line
zle -N edit-command-line
bindkey "^X^E" edit-command-line
Bootstrapping a $650k/year transcription service
you should take rust for a spin :)
I’ve given up on the idea of free will. I think the illusion does more harm than good to society but everyone deeply has been conditioned to think it’s true and things will never change in my lifetime.

The article doesn’t do the necessary job of convincing me that quantum physics has any real impact on people having responsibility over their thoughts & actions. I’ve always wanted to see how a person could somehow not be effected by the system being the universe and where the person is a subsystem. I think that would be the most interesting thing for me. Sadly the belief that a God just made it so isn’t logical and not something I can even begin to see how it would work. Determinism being partially untrue by some outside force making the universe truly random doesn’t allow a person making personal choices they should be responsible over. In fact such an existence would be terrifying. Performing thoughts & actions that just randomly happen with no valid reason. I’m predicting society will eventually throw away the free will illusion when science destroys inequality.
The article is very confused. Just about every paragraph is confused in a different way, but I'll start with one simple point of confusion.

Constraints on physical systems (such as the given example of a string constraining the motion of an apple to a circle) are simplifications that we use to model the system. Nature doesn't notice the constraints -- the string is just a bunch of atoms, the same as the apple, and they're all following the same equations. But to us, it can be easier to model a system with a single degree of freedom and some constraints, rather than 10^23 degrees of freedom and no constraints.

The brain, and a CPU, do not generate constraints that overrule the physics of their base particles. The appearance of constraints is just the dance of many particles following the rules, just like everything else, but arranged in a clever way that matches the useful, more easily modeled behaviour of a constrained system.
Never. I assume we either all make it by helping each other or we don't. So there is no reason to prep. My prepping is looking for ways to create as much progress as possible and doing anything else feels regressive to me.