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I suggest reading the statements of American generals which in both cases call it an occupation. If it were to protect they'd have gone long time ago, yet drunk American soldiers harrass or kill civilians when they get out of their bases for their weekly partying. Why edulcorate imperialism (again, cultural and economic) with stale heroism, when it's clear that what keeps the US economy running is constant war (for about 93% of the 200+ years since 1776)?

If you believe that states occupy foreign land out of anything but need to control land and resources, I believe you've been force-fed a tad too much propaganda.

> If they actually invaded them and overtook them they'd be part of the US now.

That's not how empires work, and that's why NATO has been created. You have the same contro, but can delegate administrative tasks to the invaded countries. It's how the Mongol, Roman and Großdeutschland empires worked (unlike the colonial imperialism you refer to with "overtooking").

When you have time see if reading about what is called "Pax Americana" can give you a different perspective, possibly that of those that have been invaded.

When you claim NATO has been good for the world aren't you forgetting about the political meddling, money showering and laundering, secret illegal perations, and puppet government instantiated throughout the subjugated countries in order to steal control from Russian control during cold war?

What about the military bases conveniently placed in Afghanistan to control resources? Or the crypto funding of right and left wing terror groups to instate a police state in Italy?

There's a reason why southern Europe is covered with "YANKEES GO HOME" graffiti, and they weren't made in the 50s.
Aria tags are useful, but properly used semantic HTML elements are better.
> it's only permitted when you're travelling to/from duty

Or from/to Shootingplace, the law infact say, if you have todo something with you rifle/gun (let's say repair your private one) you have to got strait to that place and strait back home after repair (no coffee break allowed)
This should be a huge wake up call for people to look after their health. We are going to see this sort of pandemic more and more regularly, so it's time to make those lifestyle changes you've been putting off! Lose that weight, cut back on the sugar, get some exercise and sleep more.
The HN link discussing that book is literally what I linked above!

Signed, the author of that book. :)
We will see if it's over after summer holidays ok?
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I just tried GPT2 at cover letters and I can't figure out a prompt that gets it to consistently write good ones, instead I can mostly get it to write bad ones (as in the sort of stuff you might see unsuccessful applicants submit).

My example problem was to get it to apply to Y Combinator. It managed to misspell the organization which isn't something GPT2 normally does.

Here are some examples:

https://0bin.net/paste/RzN1n+cubZwvHDKc#hV5+TXf4eNRRB9ROuXIT...

After the first time it produced "Dear Paul Graham," I stuck it on the end of my prompt as it tended to reliably produce a cover letter (and one for YC) rather than a blank job application form.

Other than throwing lots of computing power at it: I find that it's useful to include some largely irrelevant flavour text in your prefixes that you can stir until you hit on a combination that triggers the results you want (seemingly random things will send the model off in vastly different directions). When it has good initial output but goes off the rails to you can just terminate it at the last good part and continue from there-- a lot of GPT2's worst sins can be correct with fairly low effort that way.

As mentioned, I think these examples are mostly pretty poor. I suspect that if I worked on it I could probably hit on a prompt that caused it to generate better cover letters... That said, there are perhaps a few things I might not have considered without reading them.
But that's not a Porsche then. It's a cheaper car from the same manufacturer you have to buy, not subsidized by the gov or other car buyers.

I do find it hilarious that the Porsche cayanne is the same as the Volkswagen version but worst interior.
I tried the latest alpha. It works as expected. Thanks!
Thank you very much! I will check out their website.
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I didn't know that. I'll try that. Thanks for mentioning it.
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A better question is why this keeps happening? The only thing I can think is that most employees can't sell their stock on IPO day, they're locked in for months to years. So they don't care if the IPO is undervalued, they'll sell at the true value later on.

But what about non employee investors? Why do they sign off on IPOs knowing the stats?
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I was wondering about it for a while and while it seemed very reasonable, then I'm aware of very top level of security (basically top level CTF competitors) who are very active on the Internet

Of course they may be an exception, but generally I was curious.
They already asked permission, and you're still on the call.
Looks like this got bit by the HN title number ripper.

For the curious, the actual title is "128 bit division".
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Hi HN, I'm Max - I built PerfBeacon to automate running web performance checks after making webpack changes in a previous job as a frontend developer.

With the API set up to run at the end of CI/CD, it makes it fast to iterate on performance tweaks. It also runs on a scheduled basis, so you can catch issues between deploys.

It's build with React and GraphQL, with Google Lighthouse running in isolated containers.

Happy to answer any questions!
As an addendum, since the poor API keeps getting forgotten, before DirectX there was WinG on Windows as 2D API for gaming.

It was the first attempt to try to move PC game devs from MS-DOS into Windows,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinG
The price of the battery is like $250 and it includes the whole top case. It's the exact same part where the price depends on the CompTIA failure code selected by the technician doing the work.
I don't think these gpt3 comments will get many upvotes on HN anyway. I downvoted the first one for being incoherent, but then realized it was meant as an example so I undowned it.
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There's necessary and well-encapsulated `unsafe` code in the standard library. It's a tool.
An important consideration is corporate focus.

Any organization (not just a corporation) has to have a lodestar; a “shared vision.”

In some cases, this is a “boat anchor,” preventing the organization from moving forward, but in many cases, it is the thing that holds it together, and allows it to continue its existence; albeit, at a humble scale.

Sometimes, a “boat anchor” is necessary.

Not all organizations are about continuous growth, or even innovation. They may be a “do one thing, and do it well” type of shop, where growth and innovation can actually be harmful.

I know, because I worked in a company like that. They found a product line that was crazy profitable, and it changed the company culture quite drastically. For many years, the company grew like a wildfire. The focus became “blurred.” Lots of money poured in, but I feel like the company may have “lost its soul,” so to speak. The original “lodestar” was never sufficiently replaced with a new focus.

Then, the bottom fell out of the market, and the company suffered an implosion. They contracted back to their “roots,” where a conservative mindset took over.

Will they survive? I’m not sure, but over a century, they did weather numerous disasters and roadblocks (like having a lot of their assets turned to kindling in war). I sincerely wish them well. Despite my frustrations there, I have nothing but respect for them. I learned many important values that I never would have learned at other organizations.

But they are like a cactus; ideal for the harsh conditions of a desert. They are not well-suited for temperate rainforest, where so many other plants thrive.

Innovation and risk-taking was difficult (not impossible) at that company, and many of my efforts to introduce change never bore fruit. It was my decision to remain with them, despite that.

Basically, some organizations are just not places where innovative staff can thrive. They are stony, dry soil; ideal for cactus, but not for redwood trees. That is not always a bad thing.

In those cases, the innovators either have to accept that they will have to live within great constraints, or they will need to move on.
While we're on the topic - C++ doesn't do that by default, but since C++17 you can enable enforcing it on a case-by-case basis - you can mark functions, or even enums and structures, as [[nodiscard]], and then the compiler will issue a warning if you don't use the return value of that function (or whatever function that returns a class or enum marked as [[nodiscard]]).
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Older Children Spread the Coronavirus Just as Much as Adults, New Study Finds
The article’s title is actually “128 bit division” while HN currently shows it as just “Bit Division”. I suggest both be changed to “Optimizing 128-bit Division”. Nice article, btw.
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I installed the SyntaxFold package and customized the key binding. There needs to be 2 empty lines between sub/headings for folding to work.

It's not the prefect solution but good enough.
> in addition to a new copy of Visual Studio 6.0 (which I need to compile and run the decss program to decode my DVD's so that I can play them under Linux)

Why would you need VS6 to compile a program for Linux?
Of all the NSFW responses, Lile Elam's shows the most dang-like superhuman patience, moderation, and kindness:

>Please send your "fucks" via personal mail and refrain from using Kabuki-west for such messages. -Lile Elam
Everything I know (and my expertise on this topic is pretty good) indicates that a phone number cannot be registered for iMessage without a SIM carrying that number being inserted into an iPhone or iPad.

Other devices signed into the same iCloud account can then use that number as well.
I have to say, the article itself is also not very "scientific" though. The doctors mentioned that chemotherapy would result in a 50% long-term survival rate. So it is entirely possible that he could have gone with chemotherapy, and still died in the end. In the same way, the fact that he went with alternative therapies and died doesn't "prove" that alternative therapies are all effectless.

Though I also believe that in the case of cancer, until a definitive cure comes out, chemotherapy is probably as good as we can get, and I don't really assume any ill intent on the part of the people who invented it, even though it's perfectly understandable that people (even including Steve Jobs) try to seek for alternatives when it doesn't work out. But I do think that it is not entirely meritless to keep a healthy dose of skepticism on the drug industry, especially given precedents that are plain to see such as the rampant opioid crisis, as well as the dubious practice of using antidepressants on juveniles etc. etc.
Hint: once you click on the canvas, it's much easier to use the keyboard shortcuts to draw (arrow keys and space)
For example the UK. A few elections ago a minor but national party was in government.
The good news is that we have no idea at this point how long-term long-term will end up being; maybe they go away in six months or a year. Of course, that's also the bad news -- maybe they don't.
Yeah, in its initial study, the nanoneedle had a 100% specificity and selectivity, and according to Ron Davis - main author - the results have held up as they've increased the number of tested people. That said it might also give a positive result for other illnesses. Hopefully a follow-up will be published soon.
Perhaps it will destroy anonymity. Because the only way to be sure a human wrote something is if you somehow know who the comment came from.

We might end up with reputation based conversations.
That's not a very good summary at all. Most of the article is on the history/evolution of Internet addressing.
This way a combinatorial explosion lies.

Each library/system call you do can result in a set of possible consequences. We usually don't care about them equally, though: in fact, in the file example, 99% of the time we care about whether the file was opened or not - and in the latter case, we don't need to know why. So the asymmetry is already introduced by the intent of the program - there's usually only one path of execution we want; other ones are distractions. Error handling exists to express that asymmetry of caring at tool level.
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Link to the study:
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/20-1315_article
This entire thread is surrealistic and giving me Blade Runner vibes.. I love it.
DeCSS was a windows-only program back in those days.
Hi everyone, the author is here. Yes, I believe the title should be changed to `Optimizing 128-bit Division`

Yet, I was not expecting it to be here. Overall, I put some knowledge hidden in Hacker's Delight book, Knuth, GMP and GNU in the article with my knowledge of low level optimizations. In the end it turned out to be a good thing to write and to submit into LLVM
Fantastic read, thank you for sharing.

Content like this is why I joined Hacker News in the first place. I wonder how many other hidden gems are out there on the Internet.
The Linux kernel will keep going after the "TRAILER!!!" entry in the initramfs. This is useful in the context of initramfs because you can concatenate them together - a trivial way to add more files to the init ramdisk or even overwrite existing ones. You can even concat gz-compressed cpio initramfs files which causes a similar problem finding the uncompressed size because the last 4 bytes will only show the size of the last gzip section (try with gzip -l).
> This does not even give a warning.

Just to clarify: the "let _ = ..." construct is the explicit way of suppressing the warning in Rust. You acknowledge that there is indeed a return value but you choose to ignore it. Just calling the function without explicitly discarding the Result will give you a warning.
No, you can teach it a new task or to do multiple tasks, but it will never be able to independently identify what a new task might be and learn to do it. An important distinction when talking about AGI.
It is inevitable that we will soon be able to auto-generate a whole conversation tree between fake participants, each fine-tuned to the desired level of fallacious reasoning in accordance with which position the botmaster wishes to promote.
This happened in 1999/2000, maybe someone could add (2000) to the title?
>However, I wouldn't say it is good politically to only support local low-income housing conditional on the fact that there is no negatives.

It obviously isn't but the history of progressive politics demonstrates that ideological purity is a great way of never getting anything real done.

E.g. planned Parenthood's murky beginnings, food stamps (buyer of last resort for leftover agricultural produce), schools (training kids to be obedient factory workers).

I doubt there are any progressive institutions which aren't partly borne out of an uneasy alliance with some powerful but unethical group whose interests either align or are at least aren't all that badly affected.
Either way it's not a story of someone actually building a single broadcast domain with millions of hosts on
According to a Google search of class-central about 4000 Coursera courses match the "may be unavailable" distinction.

These are generally any class that was niche and traditionally taught. I.e. a philosophy class that covers prolog.

Classes that are alive since ~2015 or earlier are usually remade every year or two to be more like a video introduction and are in a theme of either universal interest or that is mandatory for a particular degree (the first being good for bringing in new users and the second being good for certificate income.)
You say you're human, but how can we know for sure?
This isn't as big a deal as some people seem to think.

Most people were not using the daily updates because the problems are well known. There's lags in the data (especially around weekends and public holidays), the data can't be compared across the UK, and this data (even with this method) tends to under count deaths. It's a mistake to think it has lead to an over count of deaths.

Most people are using the weekly ONS data instead.

EG, this tweet: https://twitter.com/ActuaryByDay/status/1284468751790936065?...
And yet OpenGL 3.3 is still what most would advise on GL forums regarding best market distribution on consumer hardware.

Which is why it is the chosen version for GL on Vulkan and GL on DirectX ongoing projects.
Are Lambda-to-Lambda calls so bad?
The question is not so much why it was like that, the question is why nobody fixed this yet

I like the Unix environment, but I can understand why stuff like systemd take hold, because the legacy is painful.

And any Unix environment has this weird mix of tools where the most popular ones got better over time (tar, etc) then you have the weird ones that didn't evolve so much like cpio
Ideas cost nothing.
It reminds me of the incoherent demented ramblings we've all been been hearing (but hopefully not following as medical advice) for the past several years.
To everyone who throws around the argument that "only x% of people infected with COVID die", please consider that many survivors are still experiencing major relapses 4 months later [0].

If you're guided only by selfish motives (as I suspect most of us are), at least consider the following:
- You'll likely experience internal organ pain so excruciating it feels like you're dying.
- There's rapidly growing evidence that significant damage occurs not just to the lungs but also the penis(!!!), heart, and brain. This occurs EVEN in asymptomatic cases.
- Organ damage may be permanent.
- There's a good chance you'll be so sick you can't work for a good chunk of the year.

And based on the literature + anecdotal experiences I've read, this stuff is happening to some of the fittest people in society (regular gym goers, triathlon participants, people in their teens/20s/30s, etc).

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19positive/
Too many googleable questions (like who was the president). Too little 'understanding' type questions like 'Why don't animals have three legs?'

In addition to nonsense questions, I think it would be pretty easy to knock it over with some deeper questions about things they were already talking about. Like asking 'Why don't chairs with 3 legs fall over then?'
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Beer and coffe themed Nerd Nite and Café Scientifique seminars
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd_Nite and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_Scientifique are common events in university towns. Lecturer: "Let me have the next slide... and a Guinness."
I think the issue is that text doesn't exist in a vacuum, but the corpus that the model is learning from does. A piece of human writing exists for a particular reason - to persuade, to inform, to ask a question, etc - and its value is judged on its ability to perform that task. But that's not a quality that is evident from the text itself, only from looking at the world outside the text. This suggests to me some limits on this kind of passive self-supervised approach. Perhaps it could be improved by augmenting the text with other forms of data? For instance predicting video from text and vice versa. But I think that to learn a true "theory of mind", it needs to use text like an agent - to influence its environment, not merely predict it.
Personal experience with this: I find a lot of AI articles to be low-quality, so I read the first paragraph, thought "whatever mate" and fast-scrolled looking for samples. Hit the bottom, read message, re-read critically.

So, I didn't think it was interesting, but it totally passed for blogspam for me!
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This is a worthwhile read too, about how COVID-19 is believed to cause a new type of inflammatory syndrome, in just about everybody:

Coronavirus warning from Italy: Effects of COVID-19 could be worse than first thought: https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-warning-from-italy-ef...

Also:

Older Children Spread the Coronavirus Just as Much as Adults, Large Study Finds: http://archive.is/D5wQn

(The study of nearly 65,000 people in South Korea suggests that school reopenings will trigger more outbreaks.)

I understand why people want schools to reopen. I also understand that it is a place where social services are executed.

But, this is extremely problemsome.
That's pretty neat, but I have never ever seen it used (not even in python projects). I'd be skeptical until I'd seen it used in anger.

It also would need to basically support virtualenvs and pip install to be really compelling, I think. Python without those is a pale imitation. That CSV module is known to be pretty bad, for instance (like many built in modules).
RPM hasn't used true cpio for a while [since 2013] because cpio didn't support > 4GB files. It now uses its own format which it evolved from cpio.
Sure, but then I might as well plant salad, rosemary etc (i.e. actually useful plants... along with some species that maintain / improve soil nutrition). In my view, the main purpose of ground cover is to be able to walk on it...
It used to be that nameserver changes with TLDs were measured in days, not minutes. Even today some TLDs continue to operate this way.
This is fascinating. It seems that GPT-3 does well with general, sensible questions that seemingly involve spitting out facts or short answers (prose, code), but does very poorly with tasks specialized programs could do.

I wonder what this means for the future of domains like automated theorem proving, logic programming where specialized searches are used everywhere, could there be a potential hybrid of that and more general language models such as GPT-3?
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We see a lot of tech conferences in 2020 go online as well as their sponsorship programs.

- As sponsors to a virtual event, is your sponsorship as effective as in-person event? Do you think the price of sponsorship should be lower vs. in-person event?

- As attendees, how's your perception on the sponsors in the virtual event? Do you visit to their virtual booths?
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More generally, the best commentary I've seen on GPT-3 comes from following @gwern and keeping an eye out for whoever else they frequently interact with.

https://twitter.com/gwern/with_replies

Most other commentary I've seen either goes too far into reactionary skepticism, too far into to-the-moon style hype, or just straight-up gets stuff wrong by not being aware of some technical detail (importance of prompt design, BPE limits).
NIMBYism exists because so much personal savings is tied up in real estate. This is mostly due to maybe tax incentives and government policy favoring landowners.

We need land value taxes to encourage the efficient use of land, discourage this ridiculous house-as-a-nest-egg system, and encourage housing development to match demand, but it won't happen until renters start voting more than landowners. (Landowners are technically outnumbered 2-to-1 in the bay.)
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