skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s Intel versus AMD relative error of RCPPS instruction:
http://const.me/tmp/vrcpps-errors-chart.png
AMD is Ryzen 5 3600, Intel is Core i3 6157U.

Over the complete range of floats, AMD is more precise on average, 0.000078 versus 0.000095 relative error. However, Intel has 0.000300 maximum relative error, AMD 0.000315.

Both are well within the spec. The documentation says “maximum relative error for this approximation is less than 1.5*2^-12”, in human language that would be 3.6621E-4.

Source code that compares them by creating 16GB binary files with the complete range of floats: https://gist.github.com/Const-me/a6d36f70a3a77de00c61cf4f6c1...
It won't change the minds of the millions of people in political power in China. Lots of Chinese feel quite strongly that the Taiwan/Tibet/Hong Kong claims are legitimate and that the international community is attacking China.

I guess it would be like if the US was forced to cede Texas back to Mexico because they lost a war. Most Americans, regardless of political party, would hold the opinion that Texas is still American territory, regardless of international opinions on the subject.
> Do you think the whole world has a right to enter Europe? Isn't this an amazing form of entitlement?

As every European country agrees[1], refugees certainly do have the right to request asylum in Europe. There's nothing "entitled" about fleeing death, violence, and privation.

That's the base case, and the one this blog post seems to be opposed to. More elaborate cases require more discussion, but you'll have to forgive me if I'm not inclined to spend time on that with a throwaway account.

[1]: https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/1951-refugee-convention.html
Does anyone know if they archived gitlab code as well?
Edit: It wasn't because Github and Gitlab have different management.
> Buses are often called "pullman" in Italy. For long time I thought it was because the pull men (and women) along the road, but instead it appears there are named after some George Pullman.

Known in the US as the eponym of sleeper cars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_(car_or_coach) .
As a Papierli-Schweizer let me thank you for the most comprehensive & understandable description of the Swiss system I have come across.

I am truly appreciate for the time and effort it most have taken you and I am looking forward to your part II & III.
I would like Google to publish the report from its statisticians on this. They have an _amazing_ team who collect data and _really_ rigorously dig into questions that are important for the company to know answers to. They then publish some of their findings company-wide (I guess some are only seen by execs, since there are relatively few public reports coming out of that team). The quality of their work would always be quite obvious, and I always wondered how come other large companies I worked for do not have a team like this.
How deep into rubble could it get before losing signal?
Somewhat related, most modern paper currency has a pattern of rings on it that color photocopies will read, and refuse to copy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
The article starts with details from the author's biography of dubious relevance, and there's no table of contents.
“Anyone” ends up with cases where packaging operations are run right next to shipping, meaning all kinds of contamination can happen.

Avoiding this situation means costly facilities with costly, inefficient but necessary regulation.
What would be a more accurate and neutral title?
It's very easy to adapt (as an immigrant). It's not rocket science. I wonder what the argument is going to be since it's way easier with the internet now to be primed already.
node_modules should keep ice together

what about water chips?
Is this meant to be sarcastic?

(For context, the vast majority of the article was generated by GPT-3 itself).
Go read the entire thread then, because that’s all you’ll be getting out of me and probably quite a few others now thanks to your awful attitude.

Programmers like you are the reason I finally taught myself how to code, so I would never have to depend on your sort for anything. You’re a smug, condescending martinet with a grossly inflated sense of your own specialness, and the sooner you grow up/the world kicks you to the curb, the better.

So here’s me expressing my freedom of thought and expression by having nothing more to do with you.
As I understand, you're offering a limited lifetime packages (25 x $199 and then x amount of $499)? I guess it's for generating initial $$$ and validating the interest for the product?

And when you sell these out, you continue with monthly/yearly packages?

This is cool. But I'm sometimes thinking about these monthly prices. Can we sell products with lifetime packages instead? You know, like you can buy and download a software program, like Postico (which is made by an indie dev): https://eggerapps.at/postico/

I see the difference for the maker though. Postico's developer has built a software program (a file) that can be downloaded and used, but SaaS lives on the server and needs maintenance/updates.

I'm not a fan of paying every month for a lot of SaaS products. But something feels weird to sell an online product with one-time price only:

1) when I have monthly packages, I need to keep the product alive as long people pay me (or when I have only a few paying customers I can say I'll shut it down and they don't need to pay anymore)
2) when I sell lifetime packages, I need to keep the product alive for an eternity even though maybe nobody pays me

But as long as new users are signing up and paying lifetime money, it's okay!
> "I seen photos of bombed cities and read memoirs of people who went through it."

I have too, which is precisely why I'm greatly in favor of an extremely strong military. Sovereignty is a privilege enjoyed only by those with the means to enforce it.
It's also 80% off right now on humbelbundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/worms-armageddon
Not necessarily. The question that must be asked is, "Why did China institute such a system of authoritarian rule in the first place, and why does she allow it to persist?" The Chinese have yet to develop the same sort of republican values we have in America, so removing the current government alone won't do much good. This is the same problem as with the Middle East, Africa, etc.
If you love hackernews why wouldn't you tell anyone about it?
I’ve used Zapier for a lot of my low-volume email automation needs. You can have your email list on google sheets with dates for triggering a message, have a google doc email template with variables filled by the data in your sheet.

Probably doesn’t scale super well and mildly prone to breaking, but free and straightforward. Also easy to combine with google forms as well.
Authorization and Authentication for Everyone
They are allowing 32 pre-defined messages. Things like 'I can't breathe' and they do include black life matters.
Just out of curiosity, was this bug something related to an AMD GPU, or CPU, like it was the case in the article? And was it trying to play the game in Linux or Windows?
That blog post you suggest already had a HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23860659 , making this submission a duplicate.
You know, people are absolutely free to buy the shirt and stencil on any sentiment or message they feel.

Or is speech only meaningful if you added it to your shopping cart and it went through the pipes of commerce? Kind of exactly what people are upset about in the first place?
Ask HN: CS Researchers, why did you choose your subfield and niche?
My background:

CS rising junior, indecisive about choosing a sub field.

I want to pursue CS research before I graduate for its own sake and partly to compensate for my lackluster GPA for grad school. But each field seems to have a pet peeve:

1) AI/machine learning: too saturated, fear of an AI winter

2) Networks/security: boring, reading a research paper seems torturous

3) Bioinformatic/quantum computing: may never find their place in real world and die out

Etc.

It continues to amaze me how some people know exactly what they want to do in their freshman year or even earlier. My question is: what motivated you to pursue what you're doing right now and at what stage in your academic career?
Let's continue exposing leaders who don't know where money comes from.

"German states appeal to U.S. Congress not to withdraw troops"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-germany-military-idUS...
This is a couple days old. The NBA has since taken down the ability to customize jerseys at all. Not sure if this is worse.

https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/voa-news-china/nba...
It's pretty sad that "rebecca" is misspelled in the css-tricks.com URL.
The 0.7 unicorn example is doing absolutely nothing to temper my expectations. Quite the opposite in fact. (https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-3-experiments/blob/master/e...)
I think many people don't even consider bitcoin successful. I still see it as a solution looking for a problem, personally. It's not actually anonymous, it doesn't scale for transactions, it's still not used or even understood by the vast majority of people.

I've yet to hear of the killer app for blockchain technology.
Thanks, that tweet tempered my expectations much better than the article. Still nice to play around with it if I can!
Something like 60% of people going to Oxbridge went to private schools, despite 93% attending state schools, and this is after decades of campaigns, outreach, and adjusting entry criteria by school type. And this is new, the fraction from state schools used to be more like 10-20% if that in living memory.

That’s just one example of class.
If HN is going to spread Identity Evropa onboarding documents like this one, it would be incredibly immoral not to also spread my comment. (Or at least grant it the same policy of moderator non-intervention.)

This article is not worth engaging intellectually with; it is warmed over colonial racist drivel; it deserves shutting down immediately; it survives only because so many of HN's participants are deeply historically ignorant. If HN moderators won't get rid of it out of their own moral sense, we must force them to do it by driving the cost of such threads up until they cannot tolerate them for practical reasons.
The fist member of a struct is guaranteed not to have padding before it according to the C spec, so for this use case this is always true. Implementations are free to have padding in other places, but pretty much all implementations adhere to a ABI, and that forces the padding to be well defined.
Would future generations be able to run this code on future hardware or future development softwares or programming languages? That would be a challenging test of backward compatibility.
Monochrome laser output will also be fingerprinted by the uneven toner pattern from wear on the drum and the toner transfer roller.
On Becoming a Devout Pastafarian
Well, that's a bit complicated by the fact that a lot of Texans don't think Texas should be an American territory.
Prescription drugs in the US have weird pricing incentives.

Not a lot of people are paying the list prices. Insurers separately negotiate prices and insured people often pay much less out of pocket (but sometimes not very much less). There are a lot of free/low cost prescription plans that will get you discounts -- some pharmacies will be happy to sign you up for those at the counter. Drug manufacturers generally offer rebate/discount programs to consumers for their expensive drugs in order to drive sales.

It's a mess like most of healthcare in the US. Too little price transparency, too many companies between the patient and the care, too much complexity.
"Easy transfer to a competitor" could also be easy merge of two multinational corporations and their spy data. Easier access for the NSA.

Mostly I was joking.
I don't think it needs to understand what a divisive issue is to have an effect. If you've got a human operator who can pick a divisive enough prompt, this can dramatically increase their inflamations-per-hour because they don't need to compose the body text.
China has a long history with basketball. It was one of few western sports that was explicitly kept during the Cultural Revolution. I've read that teamwork and communal nature of the game appealed to Chinese leadership. If you visit China, you'll see recreational basketball courts everywhere. There are courts by the airport, courts outside the Forbidden Palace, etc.

Then with an NBA focused on expanding its international fan base and Yao Ming, popularity grew even more.
> You cannot export all your notes in a standardised format.

This!

When I tried to export my notes I realized how hard to impossible it was to get them out. An absolute no-go for me. So I gave up on accumulating notes in this otherwise beautiful and practical app.
As is the case with any job, be good enough, be amenable enough, and work hard enough. Nobody wants to pay an idiot who's hard to deal with and holds entitled beliefs.

Not sure about this situation here with the DD, but I'm sure you can cut yourself some slack. Being good enough means exactly that: good enough. And then a dash of luck on top of that helps tremendously.
Orange-man bad, am I right? #EUROPE
Interesting. n=1 and I’m pretty rubbish at it (just started a few weeks ago), but when playing fellow beginners I find it easier to reduce the total number of pieces on the board (makes it easier to think)
> Named after British general John French.

Who drove me crazy in an audiobook I listened to recently on WWI, whose author, one can only assume intentionally, kept deploying phrases like (very roughly paraphrased from memory) "As a British officer, French hated and distrusted the French, who resented being commanded by a Briton."
You don't watch YouTube videos for free. You pay by relinquishing information to Google with the implicit understanding that they can monetize that information. If you are okay with that, or aren't fully aware of the implications then that's a different matter.

In any case there are people who have decided that such transactions ran against their own interests and prefer to pay content creators directly. Now if Google offered a platform to discover content creators, and if I trusted Google not to try to profile me, I would gladly pay a premium to access it. But that's not the case, so we rely on services like Invidious and NewPipe to access the content while remunerating the creators through different channels.

In the long term we hope that people are going to take the issue of privacy seriously enough to either cause Google to change its model or to at least cause creators to publish their content on privacy-friendly platforms.
No, actually C was designed with this pattern in mind. That is why the C standard guarantees no padding before the first struct member.
If it is, the spies are doing a terrible job of it, as the league is attempting to prevent Americans from espousing messages that offend China.
This is great (I was actually just toying with the _mm_rcp_ss intrinsic)! It would also indicate that RCPSS is not the culprit.
If bitcoin is a long term store of value, it doesn't need to scale.

For the same reasons a person wouldn't expect a 401k to work like a debit card.

(((((:
I wish pods were fully restartable
I don’t think the Concorde was purely a financial decision. I think they also wanted to show they they could make a great plane (even if it cost them to do so).

It’s pretty depressing to make every decision on what makes the most money.
where’s the woke outrage about this and xinjiang death camps?

isn’t it weird no one cares? what about blm and doing what’s right?
I would love to know what kind of plastic film medium they tested and used to make sure it wouldn't delaminate/deplasticize/etc over 1000 years...
What did the Northern European say to the Southern European?

"You're doing it wrong, the debt goes in the private balance sheet, not the government."
kinda figured, but by submitting the link and quoting it that way, it seems you agree, or at least are pursuaded somewhat? or have different takes on these things?

a lot of politicoeconomic theory over the last many decades has been a one-sided push to justify rentierism, consolidate wealth/power, and corner sources of wealth extraction (e.g., globalism, trickle-down, labor movement vilification, etc.). it's a slow boil toward fascism, which is concerning to say the least.
If anything, it seems more like spycraft for Chinese culture and influence to penetrate the U.S.:

American Basketball vs. Chinese Hardball: Guess Who Won https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/world/asia/china-nba-cens...

NBA Stars Study Hollywood’s Playbook in China https://www.wsj.com/articles/nba-stars-study-hollywoods-play...

NBA, 'South Park' episodes spotlight Hollywood's China dilemma https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-hollywood/nba-south...

‘South Park’ creators issue mocking ‘apology’ after China reportedly bans sitcom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1KCVj_v0ik

Band in China https://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s23e02-band-in-china
One interesting use case I’ve heard about (for blockchain) is supply chain verification / provenance. Does anyone with more knowledge or experience have insights on this one?
And then there was VSCode Memo[1] on Show HN 2 weeks ago (but got no love[2]) - what's the reason that these similar tools are showing up?

[1] https://github.com/svsool/vscode-memo
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23752195
Games that keep giving patches and content after that long are something special! Clan Lord is another game that is over 30 years old and still gets (infrequent) major content updates: https://deltatao.com/clanlord/
I'm not really sure I understand the hype anyway. All GPT-3 does is generate text from human input to begin with, it's not actually at all intelligent as the person from the Turing test thread pointed out.

Sure GPT-3 can respond with factoids, but it doesn't actually understand anything. If I have a chat with the model and I ask it "what did we talk about thirty minutes ago" it's as clueless as anything. A few weeks ago computerphile put out a video of GPT-3 doing poetry that was allegedly only identified as computer generated half of the time, but if you actually read the poems they're just lyrically sounding word salad, as it does not at all understand what it's talking about.

Honestly the only expectations I have for this is generating a barrage of spam or fake news that uncritical readers can't distinguish from human output.
> GPT-3 itself, like most neural network models, is a black box where it’s impossible to see why it makes its decisions, so let’s think about GPT-3 in terms of inputs and outputs.

Spot on. Explainability is always glossed over in the AI landscape and generally neural networks used in CNNs, RNNs and GANs are still unable to explain themselves and their decisions.

On top of that detection mechanisms of generated content like AI-generated: faces, voices and now text are need to combat its use by bad actors. Otherwise, it is very dangerous when all of this is used together.

While GPT-3 is impressive in its capabilities, we must think about detections methods that distinguish content created by an AI or a human.
Yeah, Project Silica is another project within the GitHub Archive Program. You can see the microfilm in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzI9FNjXQ0o&feature=youtu.be...
That is not what the blog is doing. It suggests to provide a safe space, financed by Europe.

The entitlement is mind blowing.
i like using siri to add to apple notes, while ideas come to me or something during walks etc. works well with airpods pro.
As an immigrant from Europe, I see nothing wrong with patriotism. I also suspect that reminding the fans that they are citizens of one nation might be playing into the lack of pre/post game fights, quite common in Europe. Tbqh, there are still riots after some games in the US but they are far from organized beat downs of the opposing team fans.

> It's paid for by the military and not some spontaneous display of love for the country

Has the military really paid the audience here?

https://youtu.be/dll-gKgtBAM?t=108

There are dozens of such videos on Youtube, all the military-paid crowds singing the anthem.
I recently finished Outer Wilds (not to be confused with Outer Worlds) where most of the story is told through "journal entry" style text. I thought it was a very poignant, bittersweet story. I also appreciated that there's no combat in the game.
Now, this seems like something I would happily use! Is it possible to somehow export the notes (highligths included)? Do you also plan a Safari version?
“ The person he’s replacing, Michael Griffin, holds a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering and served as a NASA administrator. Indeed, Kratsios will be less academically credentialled than most of the program-managers he oversees. So how did he get here?”

It’s a big problem when you take people who shouldn’t be in a position and put them in it. It’s an even bigger problem when you do it in a place with a long history of pedigree. If I’m a director who was hired into the culture when that mattered, and now I’m several steps under a boss who flouts that, that’s a huge upsetting culture change.

Now luckily, he’s only going to be in this job for a few months so the damage will be largely mitigated, but still. This is an idiots game and it doesn’t make us smarter for trying to nit it to being acceptable. It’s not.
Sometimes if you write the manufacturer you can get sample amounts. They are priced much higher than normal but I’ve done this with LED components.

Edit: It may help to describe your sample order request as being part of an evaluation.
Keep the downvotes coming boys. Never ending stream... like the asset purchase programs of the ECB.
What does Erlang offer that the JVM or .NET don't?
This reminds me of a point Joel Spolsky made a long time ago. But I can‘t find it (Can anyone else remember?)

It was about how in principle he can reason about markets, but it takes forever and „it all becomes very sad“. Or something like that.

edit: found it https://www.joelonsoftware.com/category/reading-lists/recrui...

„ These softball questions seem too easy, so when I first started asking them, I had to admit that I really expected everyone to sail right through them. What I discovered was that everybody solved the problem, but there was a lot of variation in how long it took them to solve.

That reminded me of why I couldn’t trade bonds for a living.

Jared is a bond trader. He is always telling me about interesting deals that he did. There’s this thing called an option, and there are puts, and calls, and the market steepens, so you put on steepeners, and it’s all very confusing, but the weird thing is that I know what all the words mean, I know exactly what a put is (the right, but not the responsibility, to sell something at a certain price) and in only three minutes I can figure out what should happen if you own a put and the market goes up, but I need the full three minutes to figure it out, and when he’s telling me a more complicated story, where the puts are just the first bit, there are lots of other bits to the story, I lose track very quickly, because I’m lost in thought (“let’s see, market goes up, that mean interest rates go down, and now, a put is the right to sell something…”) until he gets out the graph paper and starts walking me through it, and my eyes glazeth over and it’s very sad. Even though I understand all the little bits, I can’t understand them fast enough to get the big picture.

And the same thing happens in programming. If the basic concepts aren’t so easy that you don’t even have to think about them, you’re not going to get the big concepts.“
I think dxvk is used a lot more commonly than Gallium Nine.