skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see where you’re coming from, but I disagree that the normalization argument is the only interpretation of whats going on here. Language is extremely fluid and its development often exceeds our own conscious understanding.

« A sustained campaign against something undesirable » is already a commonly accepted definition of the word war. It can grow to mean different things in different contexts just as much as any other word can. I think we need a lot more argument to prove the normalization of the word causes peoples perspective of conflict to change
I bet SpaceX could assemble a huge telescope in space from smaller telescopes, and they could do it for much less than NASA ever could. NASA is a jobs program.
What an excellent video. I know very little about this field but I was able to make sense of the things you've explained. I need to learn some more fundamentals I guess, but I'll surely be revisiting your video after that.
They do have a very proactive government that deploys experimental technology in highly public pilots. That you doubt it’s not true is purely because it’s an African country.
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For the overflow, Jagex with RuneScape did it in Java. They also did stupid Object arrays 7 or so levels deep, doing casts on casts in between. The bytecode itself made the actual runtime slow to a crawl (anywhere from 5 to 10x slowdown.) This was circa 2014.
When you make a statement like "99 times out of 100" it's up to you to prove that with statistics. My initial belief is that you made up that 99/100 number and evidence of people not getting their money back only reinforces that belief.
Yeah I agree with this . In NYC it’s not even that cheap.
I'm growing bloody butcher corn in my garden. It looks similar. I have a ton of seeds if anyone would like some.
Yes, I use one daily and haven't had any issues.
Could you maybe elaborate on what you expected?
How many lines of code can you make it in?
For me it all comes down to display size and density, and therefore out of all the monitors I've tried, I'd go 27" at either 5k or 2.5k resolution.

For me 27" is the perfect display size:
- Any bigger and I find I have to move my head to much to be comfortable in the long term and I get a stiff neck.
- Any smaller and I can't fit enough on the screen at once and my productive decreases.

2.5k (1440x2560) on a 27" monitor has pixels at a good size that most apps scale by default beautifully on.

5k is exactly double the density of the already perfect 2.5k, so (at least of MacOS) everything displays exactly as it does with 2.5k except really crisp!

Therefore, I now run the 27" LG 5k as my primary screen, and my old 27" 2.5k vertically on the side for all those status like things that it's good to see but don't require my focus. Also, since the size and "looks like" resolution is the same, I can drag windows between them without any changes and size/scale. It just works!
Don't get me wrong, I agree when the tech gets better, with none or few of the downsides others mentioned, going forward is the only direction. I won't actively shop for an older tech once the current one gives up the ghost.

I just disagree that it's "time to upgrade your monitor", or that the current tech is bad or makes it hard to be productive.
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The Fed bailing out corporations isn’t socialism. It’s the state working to preserve capitalism and preserve the status quo in which corporations run things. Watch, by the end of this pandemic large corporations will have come out ahead (since smaller businesses won’t be bailed out by the Fed). This is nothing like the USSR. Do you really think the Fed is going to ban private enterprise and not just hand all the assets right back to the failed capitalist institutions they bailed out?
Does anyone know why x86 systems are so slow to start up? I got a x570 mobo recently and it still takes about 5 seconds to get to grub.
>What is Russia's geopolitical angle here?

Nuclear reactors are big and expensive. And Africa will need lots of them for baseload if they are to catch up with the rest of the world economically.

Because unfortunately EU and USA nuclear industry is politically blocked - the competition in Africa will be between Russia and China
LOL, obviously the first entry should be "XinNlinesofY implemented in 1000 lines of Go!"
One interesting reason there's a been a bunch of progress in this space is that automotive systems are required to show the rear view camera in a certain amount of time. Progress driven by the oddest of things.
That's a fair point. I do place my laptop on a stand and use an external keyboard and mouse, even when I'm working from home.
Android was way easier until Google started helping out and introduced SafetyNet attestation. I think it was orginally coded for Google Wallet/Pay but Snapchat were definitely using it from early on. Pokemon Go use it as well.

Apple have no such system as far as I can know, and if they do, don't share it with 3rd party developers.
How close is Alaska to Russia?
I find their categorization amusing as this is there:

Non-fiction > Bibles > American Standard Version
There are already alternative front-ends for YouTube, Facebook, and Reddit. I’d love to see one for Snapchat and Instagram, although it looks like one for Snapchat would be incredibly difficult.
JS gets loaded from a sync server, no verifiable open source client, no documentation explaining security architecture.

It may or may not be E2E encrypted.
I'm not sure this analogy tracks very well. The government doesn't bother heightening the quality of one dollar bills, either. The government doesn't have information about every transaction, a web API does.
Those cars that are burning don't belong to the thugs. They belong to American citizens. They were purchased with your tax dollars. They will have to be purchased again with your tax dollars. It's also a crime.

I'm all for major changes to policing in the US. Our police departments are far to aggressive. But...seems like we are hurting each other.
Actually the main reason you see things out of order on a modern CPU are core-local reasons, like store buffering, store forwarding, load buffering, delayed invalidation processing and out of order execution.

If that wasn't the case, memory barriers would be very expensive non-local operations, but they aren't.

The cache and memory subsystem is basically sequentially consistent and the core is the one "causing the problems".
tl;dr: modernism, sprawl, and aesthetics the author doesn't agree with.
The converse statement is something like "Japan is not an eastern society" which just sounds... laughably incorrect.
You might want to cross-reference those deaths with the rate of wrongful arrest (don't have it in front of me, but high ~48% black), and a clearer picture will form: it is clear that black people are simply policed more and often for exceptionally petty charges. It turns out the rate of criminals in a place is directly related to the amount of police in a location that are motivated to arrest people. The number is highly misleading, purposefully so. And of those alleged "criminals" how many really deserved to die? So, yes, there is definitely a racial element to this.
The whole notion of startups is new ideas disrupting entrenched stalwarts. If it turns that there is a way to do things outside YC dogma, I'm sure a new VC will come along and disrupt them too.
Anecdote 1: I have a translation of a Russian book of high school physics problems, most of which I can't solve.

Anecdote 2: Michael Spivak's "Calculus on Manifolds" is famous as the hardest math textbook an engineer will have to tackle. Well, there are major theorems in that book that are "easy" exercises in Vladimir Arnold's Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics.
I've seen them in taxis once in a blue moon if their card reader is broken.
Some people are long on covid and think it'll go on for more than a year. It's a calculated risk. They could very well be stuck in the middle of nowhere with no one wanting to hire remote workers. Or they could be ahead of the curve.
> How many lines of code can you make it in?

xinylines.io - implemented in zero lines of code, and one large shameful html file.
I feel like I'm really missing something on why Yubikeys are such a popular form of 2FA. My previous employer utilized a phone app that would spawn a notification when you were trying to do something requiring a 2nd authentication factor. You had to either enter a 6 digit pin or use a fingerprint to authorize. My current employer utilizes Yubikey, and it just feels clunkier and less secure? I still have to have a piece of hardware, but its one I'm vastly more likely to lose or misplace and doesn't require any verification that whoever is activating it is who they say they are. Is there something I'm missing?
I'll be honest, I'm not sure what your point is. Your response reads a bit like a defence of the practice, but I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt (since there's an obvious language issue).

I will say... it's curious to me that you seem to be well aware of such practices but still challenged the parent to provide examples (the implication being, that they were misinformed).

Why did you ask the parent to provide examples if you knew of some already? What's your motivation?
>What does that software look like?

Since we're dealing with fiction, from a Deepness in the Sky:

>The Qeng Ho's computer and timekeeping systems feature the advent of "programmer archaeologists":[1] the Qeng Ho are packrats of computer programs and systems, retaining them over millennia, even as far back to the era of Unix programs (as implied by one passage mentioning that the fundamental time-keeping system is the Unix epoch):

>>Take the Traders' method of timekeeping. The frame corrections were incredibly complex - and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems.

>This massive accumulation of data implies that almost any useful program one could want already exists in the Qeng Ho fleet library, hence the need for computer archaeologists to dig up needed programs, work around their peculiarities and bugs, and assemble them into useful constructs.

So to answer your question, a mess of standards going back millennia with glue-code everywhere. I blame the separation of documentation and code for the coming dark age.
How would one know that this black box works the same for every user? What would stop Apple from distributing a compromised update to everyone or to selected users?
Not in the video I saw. She was using a lighter and spray can to do the job.
Hey, I love to trade seeds! I've got all sort of hot peppers. E-mail me at robb at rs dot io ? Other HNers welcome, too.
How to hold corporate US accountable for what they stand for during BLM
Extraordinary claims requires extraordinary evidence. Source? Or are you just making stuff up?
Even if this is true (which we cannot know since there is no pipeline of projects - so no economies of scale for nuclear) you deeply discount the price of reliability.

We need batteries that are order of magnitude better to have something that could produce 5GW of energy for weeks on end.
Liability shift or not some of these gas stations keep insisting on ID with credit cards.
Maybe what he's getting at is that the technologies the west "can't dream of" were invented in the west. Drones, for example. The west doesn't use drones to deliver medicine because it has very well developed infrastructure to deliver medicine.

It is cool Rwanda is doing this but I would guess the west has dreamed of drone deliveries of things and decided that its current system is ok.
> ... the only real gripe i have is the lack of delete & backspace keys combo

I’m not sure I follow. Are you complaining about the lack of a dedicated Delete key on Macs, having to use only one key for both Backspace (Delete key) and Delete (Fn + Delete keys)?
I have a feeling commercial real estate is next in about 3-6 months
This is precisely why black bloc tactics [1] are employed: cover tattoos, wear generic clothes and everybody looks basically the same. I'm sure it's far less effective today but avoiding this kind of thing was the original point.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_bloc
Doesn't matter, rewrite it and make the name a gortmanteau.
Weird that the site is still as slow as it's always been, how have they not fixed this, it's slow on desktop it's slow on the app it's always the slowest thing. Slower than local news websites. S l o w.
I largely feel that politicians answer to corporate interests, not citizens. As well, if both corporate parties do not want to end the war on drugs, you just vote for the one closer to your interests because voting for a third party is also a waste of a vote.

Corporations are our modern lords. I'm not happy about this but they are very much who is running the show.
https://sciencenordic.com/body-death-denmark/frequent-blood-...
A time-traveller from a thousand years in the future abducts you. You are informed that you will be dumped at one of two spacetime coordinates, but you'll be allowed to choose which – right outside Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant at 1:22am local time on 26 April 1986, or an equivalent distance from ground zero in Hiroshima at 8:14am local time on 6 August 1945. Which do you pick?

Neither choice is good, but the odds of survival are much higher with the first choice than the second. Nuclear power accidents and use of nuclear weapons are not really comparable – as bad as nuclear power accidents are, use of nuclear weapons is far more deadly.
does nobody tell them it's slow and they just don't know
Fireworks complaints are way up in U.S. cities
That’s interesting to know
>"Modern processors use these sizes to be compatible with the 8-bit byte, but older processors used whatever word size was convenient: 12 bits, 13 bits, 17 bits, 27 bits, or pretty much anything."

Indeed. I guess it's easy to forget that processor in the 1950s up until 1970's or
really before the microprocessor era were all over the map with word sizes.

Thanks for the clarification of the die photo. That makes sense.

By the way I really enjoy these posts and the discussions. Keep up the great work. Cheers.
Here's one in 100 lines of bash called, what else, "bocker": https://github.com/p8952/bocker
Nearly as tedious as listening to experts in lab coats make wild projections that were wildly off and basing policy on it.

I’m very happy that we get lots of opinions from non-experts.
Before grub you might have POST and possibly an intentional delay to allow for user input to enter EFI configuation.
Scientifically interesting. A lot of people that have acquired the wisdom of experience would probably shudder at the thought of living 500 years, though.
Some of techs I dream about are cheap personalized immunotherapies, batteries made out of simple materials with high densities, fusion, artificial general intelligences that are smarter than us...
It depends on the context really - I love the push-driven MFA products, but they specifically require you as a user to be carrying a phone with you at all times, and are usually considered "low" assurance of the user's identity.

If your business is seeking "higher" assurance (yes, assurance levels are very subjective) then certificate-based MFA can meet the needs better. Or, if your business is working with sensitive data/systems, phones may be banned from the office (e.g. military, intelligence, banks, etc.).
I think burning sage and eye of newt is involved too.
Meh, it was just some lawless mafia thug's car; I say we let it slide as she provided a net good to society.
Just remember to do what’s best for you, not what your boss would prefer you do. It’s ok to not want to be a C-anything. It’s ok to take a job because it pays a lot better.
I mean it’s more about tech that politics. That’s what I understand HN to be about. If the cop used a drone to kill Floyd you’d probably have seen more articles about it.
>"A 1970s book illustrated this as a puppet controlled by strings, with the puppet being the data path and the hands at the other end of the strings as the control. How many strings do you need?"

That's a great visual. I would love to find the original text if you or anyone else remember's the title.
“The FBI then got a warrant and the help of a victim who sent a booby-trapped video to Hernandez”

Seriously, Vice, “booby-trapped”..? It’d be funny if it wasn’t minors. Actually, it’s still kind of funny.
> I was curious why 21 bits? I would have expected this would have been a multiple or instruction size or perhaps also 16 bits. Or is there really no correlation between size of an instruction and it's underlying micro-ops?

From the US4449184 patent [1], the microcode format was:

5 bits - S (data source)
5 bits - D (data destination)
2 bits - TYP (microinstruction type, e.g. 1 for an ALU op)
5 bits - A (opcode)
3 bits - B (varies by instruction type)
1 bits - F (whether to update the status flags)

In the second figure of the patent, you can clearly see the source/dest controls (each 5 bits) leaving the microcode ("STG 2 ARRAY") and labelled "S-BUS" and "D-BUS". There's another 5 bits (labelled "A-BUS") going to the ALU opcode decoder, 2 bits going to the "CR INC" regsiter (for jumping/branching within the microcode) and a couple of other miscellaneous bits that seem to influence the decoding of further instruction bytes.

So why 21 bits? That's exactly how many bits were needed to encode all of the various microinstruction fields, no more and no less. Since the ROM is internal to the CPU, there's no need to fit the instructions into an integral number of bytes.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US4449184
Smart comments. I don't think you're being picky. I'm kinda shocked that this is the only thread about reading because that's what I think is wrong with the web: It's not good for reading. I'm 4 years into co-founding a startup that's solving this problem.
> The alternative is to not discriminate based on national origin?

It absolutely is not a protected class. There are no protected classes when I am deciding whom I trust with my personal data. I can discriminate for any reason, including national origin.

> I mean overall you really don’t find it an issue to blankedly judge an entire class of people based on what some people within that population does or could do?

I would find that an issue if anyone (including me) were proposing it. We are not. You're attacking a straw man.

Here are the facts, regardless of Yuan's citizenship, race, etc:

1. Yuan grew up in China. He still has Zoom employees and family there.

2. China is controlled by a regime that has no qualms about using physical threats and violence to maintain control.

That's it. That's all I need to decide that I don't trust Zoom, if all of their extreme dishonesty and malware installations weren't enough. They haven't shown good judgment, and even if they did, it would be easy for CCP to put pressure on Yuan (or any other employee living in mainland China).

If Yuan had no family in China, no employees, and enough bravery to speak against CCP, I would not feel this way. I am not judging an "entire class" of people.

By the way, every firm that requires security clearance does judge entire classes of people as security risks. The question I asked, which you didn't answer, is whether you think that's also inappropriate.
How accurate was the Chernobyl mini-series wrt damage caused by radiation, specifically to the firefighters? If it was accurate at all I think I might pick Hiroshima, at least it would be over quick.
You might take a look at The Bitter Lesson [1], it's referenced by the article and linked around on this thread.

> One thing that should be learned from the bitter lesson is the great power of general purpose methods, of methods that continue to scale with increased computation even as the available computation becomes very great. The two methods that seem to scale arbitrarily in this way are search and learning.

> The second general point to be learned from the bitter lesson is that the actual contents of minds are tremendously, irredeemably complex; we should stop trying to find simple ways to think about the contents of minds, such as simple ways to think about space, objects, multiple agents, or symmetries.

[1]: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
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Yes but not necessarily.

Yes, there is no satellite crosslinks in V1.

But you can bounce it off "ground" stations sitting in the ocean. For instance on barges and islands, or just on other customers ships. It doesn't take that many ground stations to be able to be routed to land. Or from land on one side of the ocean to the other.
That's what I've done with my email. It's either in my inbox, or 'archived'. Mentally much easier than deleting, but functionally the same
lol @ monitors, new OLED tvs have hdmi 2.1, barely any bezel, and way better response/picture than any "monitor".

burn-in isn't the issue it once as.

will take years for people to realize this, though. feels good to live on the edge.
You grossly overstate the cost of storage needed to back up renewables. And you ignore that batteries are not the storage of choice for weeks of backup -- hydrogen (burned in CC or OC turbines) would make much more sense for that. The efficiency is lower, but for weeks of storage capital cost is much more important than efficiency.

BTW, we very much can know that nuclear is more expensive than renewables. The attempts to build reactors in the west have been disastrously more expensive. It's not even close. It's because of this failure to compete that the pipeline is bare. And nuclear has historically shown lousy experience effects, so what economies of scale?

If you want to talk about woulda-coulda-shoulda cost numbers for nuclear, instead of the actual demonstrated numbers, then you must do the same for renewables, especially renewables that could be built in a year or two a decade from now when any reactor started today could come online. Unlike nuclear, renewables have shown Silicon Valley-style relentless cost decline.
I watched the first six episodes, the show is fine, not great and borderline not entertaining.

The cast is great, some of the jokes are great. But, Steve Carrell is by far the worst part of the entire show while everyone else is great. If the show didn't revolve around him and his character the show may be decent.
I mean yeah, if you force your kids to do this stuff they’re going to hate it? I think you might be discounting the fact that many kids love to do these kinds of things, and also the role the kids play in deciding what to do.

The idea is to expose your kids to a wide range of activities, and support them doubling down on an evolving handful of them. Avoid setting super specific constraints (you must play a team sport), and instead try setting goals (find a physical activity you enjoy and find motivating). From my perspective, parenting is about exposing children to their options, and making some choice recommendations where you have experience.

Parents can do that anywhere, and fail to do that anywhere. I do agree that if your parents aren’t doing a good job of that in a walkable city, kids are more likely to discover those options on their own.
Oh, that's right. It increases linearly with the size of the CPU instruction words in a dimension and the size of the microcode instruction words on the other dimension.

The entire exponential addressing space is not used, since there is an overall structure to both instruction sets.