skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Mervyn King's take in "The end of Alchemy" is a better approach from a practical perspective than Taleb's though. Essentially that we just need to stop kidding ourselves that we can predict the tails, and to build greater buffers into all our assumptions from the beginning. He calls this "Radical Uncertainty" which I think is better as a practical foundation than attempts to model black swan events. Definitely worth considering both, though.
> neither would 99% of users.

That sort of statement requires data to back it up.

> would you be willing to subsidize the other 99%

That would just mean that facebook is an unwanted and unprofitable service which then wouldn't exist.

Which is not a problem at all.
If you want to understand distributed-memory parallel performance you're probably better off with a simulator, like SimGrid. I don't know what bog-standard hardware you'd need to get a typical correct balance between floating point performance, memory, filesystem i/o, and general interconnect performance otherwise. No toy system is going to teach you about running a real HPC system either -- you really don't want the fastest system if it's going to fall over every few hours or basically fall apart after a year.
But can you have a 3rd party browser or just an wrapper around Apple's Webkit?
No questions. Just wanted to thank you for sharing. People like you make the world better one tiny bit at a time.
> same thing is happening with Ruqqus

Can confirm. Checked out Ruqqus out of curiosity. Racist content right there on the homepage.
What changed to enable this?

I was told a decade ago by my professor that chip makers were facing an issue with electrons jumping across these tiny circuits, and couldn't go much smaller. I'm continuously surprised.
No, that’s not what I meant. The little comment about ‘I’m learning Chinese’ was pretty deliberate during the scribble demo.
They do it because that's how much people care.
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”
I agree that transparent pricing would be an excellent option to have, but based on some quick googling, FB's net profit is only something like 25 cents per monthly active user per month (assuming I did the math correctly...).

If FB gave people a rebate in the amount of their net profit, the whole transaction would round out to FB operating and people getting it for free, so it's not obviously that bad of a deal for users, at least not with profit as the metric.
No. First you hide in the closet while your brother goes on a slaughterfest because he can't die until the script says he does.

When bro, the great pacifist, has killed absolutely everything in the hotel, walk out together with him through the front door, where he spontaneously drops dead for no reason at all because the script says he should.

I did love that game
“The End Of Times is Neigh”

Times New Roman
Times Magazine
Times Square
Hmm.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/1884/main-dish/sandwiches...
> Their customers dont' give a shit about muslims in Chinese camps so they don't "run ad campaigns for saving muslims".

By this logic no one should work for or do business with American companies for all our atrocities in the middle east. There are a million issues in the world. You have to pick one or two if you want to have any kind of messaging other than "shits fucked up yo"
Speaking as an Indian

There is a presumption in that article that population numbers are all that matters.

There's a lot more that needs to be analyzed - for example the natural resources available and the productivity and availability of education and healthcare for the population.

To be clear, I believe there is plenty of opportunity as well as risk for India. The article seems to gloss over the risks

For example India's biggest threat might actually be its depleting ground water

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/why-india-does-not-hav...

https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/videos/indias-disappearing-wa...
I assume the Air Pods spatial audio update is setting up the release of AR/VR goggles or to support iPad AR.
We are doomed to a future of exploding drones
Not sure you are thanking jonath_laurent (original author of package of discussion) or ViralBShah (co-creator of Julia). But I concur on both accounts :D
what can you use besides an app to get your mail on iPhone?
In a weird way, this would be a regressive policy -- the data of the richest people is worth orders of magnitude more, so this would just make the rich, well, richer. Increasing corporate tax rates would help the poor much more.
Tankie feels like it became a near useless term. Some well known liberal paper (maybe NYT?) published some article that insinuated that maybe US cold war era propaganda on the USSR wasnt nessicarily always true and someone linked it to me referring to it as a tankie article.
But of course if a female CEO works the system and exploits it the way men does she is highlighted online for lacking morals and ethics even though plenty of men run businesses the same way all the time and are either not even noticed for doing it or otherwise glorified.
I lived in India in the 80s. Hindu fundamentalists drove home ideas of caste-ism to exploit the populace. The southern states luckily called out “Brahmanism” and their populace didn’t suffer quite as much. Under Modi, it’s like history repeating itself.
It was fantastic!

Driving wasn't available and that is what I would miss the most. But it isn't dependent on street view either.
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This HomeKit presentation is such a Silicon Valley dream. It's almost like a 1%-er thing. Just feels unreal, average people are not like that. Interesting to see who really is the target.
> I'm inclined to agree, but I do wonder how we avoid people just adjusting their risk threshold to account for the welfare state.

Which direction are you picturing this going?

I would be a lot more flexible in what jobs I would take, what things I would consider doing with my life (starting my own company, taking time off and pursuing some sort of artistic side project...) if I had a good health care safety net.

So that adjustment to my risk tolerance would be good if you're pro-entrepreneurship or pro-arts, but bad if you're pro-giant-faceless-companies-that-can-treat-employees-like-crap.
A robust outlier detector for software performance distributions
Ah but does it run Linux?
[probably but couldn't see in the link]
Looks like another nail in Intel's coffin...
What seems to be happening with CTH looks like a positive sign. They're not really less toxic than the others getting the boot, and the admins kicking abusive buddies while they're cleaning up everyone else says they have a (somewhat) functional internal process. Less room for toxicity in the world!
That doesn't sound so bad on the surface, but it would mean that most of my friends aren't on facebook, or any other social network, which would mean that it is close to pointless.
Film adaptions of Asimov have been pretty poor but this could be interesting.
Summit and Sierra, for instance, actually run a fair range of applications fast, though Sierra is probably targetted mainly at weapons simulation-type tasks. A typical HPC system for research, e.g. university or regional, has to be pretty general purpose.
Ah, ok sure.
> Surely the best way to make virtual events feel familiar is to have actual humans interacting, touching, etc? Instead here you have isolated individuals floating in computer generated environments.

To be fair we are still in the midst of a pandemic and should be practicing social distancing. Having Craig and co giving high-fives as they hand off to each other is not appropriate currently. Sure it is weird but it is how the world is right now. If they didn't do it people would say "omg Apple staff think they are better than everyone and are not socially distancing, so irresponsible."

Honestly I don't have an issue with the production. They are going over the top with the transitions but it isn't really a problem.
Right, and those are the areas that have the most problems, but they are a small part of China as a whole. India is made up of a bunch of such places.
5 nm in reality is not a 5 nm, but just a marketing name suggesting further optimizations by about 20-40%.
What else would it be? The authentication code would live somewhere. And for debugging someone could change it to always return successful for an empty password. That debugging change shouldn't be checked in of course, and it should have been caught in code review. (It's a reasonable oversight for the authentication unit tests to only test incorrect passwords rather than the edge case of empty passwords)
So that means Apple is actually making apps enforce GDPR? Interesting
In many countries (except US) such course would be free or quite affordable. It's just a matter of policy.
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If the industry was gender-biased, then that would mean you would see more female founders, not less.

Between this and the issues black CEOs face [1] the industry isn't biased in favor of minorities. As an aside, when we see articles like these and people jumping in to say 'if I were a woman, things would be easier' the implicit argument at play here is that she didn't get to where she's at because of her own ability, she got to there because she's a woman.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23540162
Are you aware of how many idiots have millions in funding for a dating app a chat app a blockchain or ai company that is just a knockoff of others with no working MVP and now many of those young male founders have thrown expensive parties rented expensive cars then bankrupted the company and chalked it up to a "downturn in the economy"? If a woman did this, she would be nailed to the cross in silicon valley for being irresponsible with money and never get funding again.

If you believe just because noone gave you funding that there are not a ton of young males being thrown money in VC with low quality knockoff products you are wrong. Your views on this are incredibly anecdotal with broad claims about both make and female founders and provide no data and seem to just support you wanting to lick your wounds, which is exactly what selfish makes do, take a valid woman's platform (this article) and somehow turn it into a pity party about themselves and use that to claim all women have it easier.
So you have the option to leave an institution, which distinguishes it from a population.

When you generalize about a population of people, you're unfairly attributing characteristics to them which weren't decided upon by them (and likely doesn't apply to all of them).

When you generalize about police, you're fairly generalizing about a group of people who have decided to be a part of that institution, have decided to behave in such a way that would not get them kicked out of the institution (ie. they haven't agitated for any significant change in almost every case), and have decided not to leave it with full knowledge and in spite of its abuses.
Old reddit says “removed”, which implies it was done by the moderators
https://imgur.com/a/jowwaq6
> Clang (not LLVM) was made by Apple [1, 2]. They specifically hired the lead developer of LLVM to build it

No, one cannot claim "Apple makes Clang" (which was your original claim) just because they funded the initial effort many years ago. It is not their product and they do not control it. It is like saying Blender is made by the original company who developed the initial version.

The LLVM Foundation (a legal entity) is the actual owner.

> because they were not happy with GCC

Many companies are not happy with GCC due to the license. Which is why so many companies work on LLVM.

> Clang is first and foremost developed as Apple's compiler.

False. The Clang version that Apple includes with macOS is not even close to the latest Clang.

> It is a safe bet that they will optimize it for new Apple hardware.

False. Optimizing is mainly the job of LLVM, not Clang.

Further, most optimization passes are independent of architecture. Codegen targets Intel, AMD, ARM, etc. hardware in general, not Apple’s in particular.
How would you optimally go about verifying Apple's iPhone privacy claims?
e.g. how would you ensure personal location & biometric data aren't being sent to apple servers?

I don't see any feasible way to do this, especially when iPhones have a secure enclave processor.
> 5x higher than pytorch, and I couldn’t fit my models on the GPU for flux. For large models, I had to compromise on batch size in Julia

I had the exact same experience. While I like Julia and Flux I can't use it in this state for my models.
That's actually not the point of Section 230. The point is that if you remove Section 230 and then you accuse someone of trolling, flaming, or swearing, that could be considered libelous.

If you would like to learn more, and see exactly what happened when Section 230 was not in effect, check out this case:

Stratton Oakmont, Inc. and Daniel Porush,
v.
Prodigy Services Company, "John Doe", and "Mary Doe".

Stratton Oakmont (yep, the one that was made by Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street), won that case against Prodigy and, yes, John Doe and Mary Doe. You, the user, are John Doe or Mary Doe. Section 230 protects you.
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Separate reply for the other side of this thread. I honestly don't know where you're getting it with your comments re: trolling.

Do you honestly believe that a discussion forum site that wanted a family friendly policy shouldn't be able to have any liability protections? That if someone started flooding them with child porn, say, at a rate they couldn't keep up with, they should have to shut down because they'd otherwise be liable for all that content due to their having a content moderation policy that forbid certain types of legal speech (say, swearing)?
The PRESIDENT is a dalit man. It would have been impossible for him to become the president two/three decades ago. This shows that we have indeed improved in certain aspects. It's true that a lot of work still remains.

That temple incident is certainly bad and many social evils still persist in the society. The only way to quickly get rid of them is to have a China style 'cultural revolution', which involves destroying temples and other religious sites. But I guess it's not something which will go well with any Indian.
Secretive?
I think the causality works both ways. If you have an ethnic identity, it's easier to assimilate new arrivals, especially when you are numerically superior. This has been the history of China for a long time.
I did not see an evaluation of how close to perfection the agent becomes. Did you compute any sort of error rate (by finding moves that turn a won position into a non-won one or a drawn position into a lost one) ? And how this error rate drops over time as learning advances? That would indeed be very interesting to see.
That "system" seems to be bleeding into every American street. What do you make of the white square facing right at the top right of the image? What is that one "sensing"?
How would one verify these privacy protections are as they say?
Agreed, now if only they would stop blocking competition in browser engines...
I think it depends on what annoys you. I find myself annoyed by any kind of cultural tick. Phrases, mannerisms, cliches, tropes, all bother me to the extent that they are common and pervasive (in any culture).

But by far I see this the worste in youths. Highschoolers and undergrads are so painfully unoriginal. But, that's life. Better to focus your attention on people who you find unique and impressive than to worry about people who are still finding themselves.
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It's odd to me how "experience" has replaced "education" as the goal of universities. Like the comment says, "y'all are using it wrong":

"University is a place where teachers and students who are interested in a field meet to learn and research together."
You get to choose between this Safari skin and this other Safari skin. What a giant leap.
What you're saying is that because they've decided to take a political stance the current law should be changed to impose new consequences on them. As the law stands today there are no consequences.
Gigantic wolverines, otters the size of wolves: fossils offer insights into past
No question "deserves" rudeness.

Sure if it's obviously spam, or some kind of ridiculous screed, it should be deleted asap-- without votes, answers or commentary.

The problem is when people write questions earnestly, but because they lack subject-matter orientation, aren't able to formulate their questions in a way that SO experts would like to hear. Too many questions are smugly dismissed this way. It doesn't help anyone and it pisses a lot of people off.

I think many of these earnest but "bad" questions just need answers in the form of heuristic advice or pointers to get them on the right track. Being able to formulate a question is half the battle. Understanding ALWAYS begins with some amount of confusion. Admittedly, that's not optimal for a site where well-defined questions are supposed to get crisp answers that others can use over and over. But that still doesn't excuse rudeness.
The ideal way for most "control something" widgets to work is the way the iOS "Apple TV Remote" app already works, when added as a Mission Control button.

It's 1. a regular app; plus 2. a shortcut to get into that app that can be accessed with one swipe from the lock screen; plus 3. a lock-screen widget that displays if the phone fell asleep while the app was in the foreground; and finally, 4. a separate "lock-screen embedded pseudo-app" (sort of like the Camera one you get to by swiping left on the lock screen), which you get to if you tap the "Remote" Mission Control button without first unlocking the phone. This last view allows people to still use your locked phone to pause the Apple TV it's controlling, if you're not there to unlock it for them.

It's too bad that no third-party app on iOS can achieve this same level of integration.
> your decision to live in a high CoL city is no different from your decision to live on expensive oceanfront property.

That's certainly possible.

Of course, that would incentivize people to move out to cheaper areas, which would reduce the demand on expensive big cities, with the end result being that the price delta would become somewhat reduced.
Those are perfectly reasonable names since they're standard convention in engineering and science. It's like using i, j, and k for index variables in iterators; the meaning is clear due to convention.
DIY ARM64 IaaS Cloud Using RaspberryPi4 and CloudStack
They're fast, have lots of memory and IO bandwidth and can do some cool other tricks (I can't remember the name right now, but they have thing for PCIe devices to participate in cache coherency, their in-system protocols scale better to more CPUs, ...)
This sounds wrong. The value of data is in the massive amount of datapoints. If I had a data company I would always pick the large masses and discard the outliers if given the choice.
Elm's got questionable support; I wouldn't feel comfortable recommending that at work, it'd be irresponsible.

PureScript I really like but it's a massive jump from JS/TS to PS/HS.

All of these languages are harder to abandon than a library in the same language you'll keep using if you decide against the paradigm down the road. Do I like this compromise? Not really, but it makes sense.

Also, advertising use of a functional language might open you up to candidates who wouldn't otherwise apply.
You mentioned "sticking an app in a folder" -- that's as much a computer metaphor as anything.
A full redesign of Mac? Well, this can't go well.
More or less yes. The idea is that a framework (ideally) does some feature A the "right" way and programmers using the framework gain the benefits of convenience and safety, often at the cost of flexibility. Frameworks will usually try and balance the power or depth of the domain its abstracting with ease of use.

A good framework will stop beginners from making critical mistakes, decrease the amount of code its users have to write, and offer professionals well-constructed ways around its handholding as needed.
So if the goal is to discourage wide-scale collection of data without making it illegal, or at least to ensure that we benefit collectively from it, there's a much more obvious model, which is taxation. It's much easier to administer, and you end up with real money to do something with, instead of buying everyone a drink. Tax any company collecting, storing and analyzing user data some small amount, say, $1 or $0.1 or $5 per year per user-month of data stored, and use the tax revenues for ... something.

So what would that something be? Is there any obvious way to spend the revenues to further discourage tracking users and storing user data? Or would it be best to just plow it into the education budget or general fund?
The underlying topic here is free speech. I'm sure you were on-board with YouTube censoring the "Plandemic" video last month, right? You probably said "YouTube is a private company and they have the right to do whatever they want". Well, Facebook is a private company and they can also "do whatever they want".

But at least Facebook is letting natural market forces play out rather than become a subjective information gatekeeper.
In particular, locks or ownership do not protect against re-entrancy errors.

Recursive state change calls can end up applying multiple changes either in the wrong order or not at all.
I wonder how long it will take for some fortune 500 company to get sued by their white collar office workers who catch COVID.
Yeah, Justice Served definitely looks like it needs to be looked at.

I think there's two separate issues here:

1) There's probably not enough manpower to be able to do this evenly and consistently across all of Reddit. They're not ever going to be able to do everything all at once. If efforts are ongoing, I don't think it's fair to penalize Reddit for not having taken care of everything that needed to be taken care of all at the same time. If we get to the point where Reddit says "ok we're done we've taken care of all the bad communities and are scaling back down the moderation team" and we see that it still is uneven, then I think we're at the point where it's a problem.

2) The mega subs are tough to deal with in general. Politics is absolutely massive, and from a practical standpoint as one of the core subreddits, is going to be handled differently than a non-core one. Reddit is ultimately a business, and even if from a moral absolutist standpoint it should be treated exactly the same as any other subreddit, realistically it's not going to be.

I do feel like CTH might have been targeted a bit specifically because so much of this has been focused on far-right subreddits, and there was some desire to "balance" it out.
It's meant to be nebulous, since that's how such a standard inevitably ends up. You and I consider racial hatred to be beyond the pale - but others say the same thing about calls to send in the National Guard, or opposition to Israel. If you can't say anything that any of your second-degree connections would find terrible, you can't really say anything controversial at all.
As someone with no knowledge on the subject, why would accepting payment increase liability? As in, the target of the lawsuit would also be liable for the money they received, or something else?
Coinbase:usd2btc -> Binance:btc2xmr
Well, it's fastest number crunchers, not fastest file servers.
That was me, and again "decent sized" is nebulous. Either way, you said:

>certain areas of the US (parts of certain large cities)

So unless we're counting Boise at 220k and ~100 others like it as "parts of certain large cities" then your statement isn't accurate.