skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent essay. I've been asking similar questions myself in the past couple of months, but in terms of European history.

If I see a conformist activist, the first thing I ask myself: In a real crisis, would this person be the next Oskar Schindler?

The answer is almost always "no".

If I see an aggressive activist, the question is: Would this person still be aggressive during an actual crisis.

In some cases, the answer is "yes". But in the majority of cases I doubt it and think they would just switch sides.
Exactly! Every time someone brings up discarding standardized testing for college admissions, they ignore how the remaining admission criteria can be even better gamed by the wealthy and upper middle class. Standardized testing may be imperfect, but its one of the few ways an exceptional student from a less well off background can distinguish themselves.
In Daniel’s/(dang)‘s defense, he’s principled, but the users of
HN have the home field advantage in this regard, somehow hoisting the mods by their own petard when flamewars break out. Or are they set intentionally?

HN could benefit from user moderation and meta-moderation like Slashdot has. It’s a breath of fresh air (the implementation, not necessary Slashdot, sorry Slashdot), and I don’t know of any other platform, forum, product, or site that does it like that, but user moderation as an open source project would be a good place to start. Not sure if Slashdot’s source is open or not, now that I mention it. Oh wait, of course it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#Peer_moderation

https://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/
As a dumb marketer. I very much enjoyed John Foreman's Data Smart.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17682206-data-smart
Maybe back in the 1960s it was like that. Doesn't matter which branch I open an account at. I can walk into any branch and the teller should be able to pull up my info.
Just take all the theorems about prime numbers, multiply them, and ... uh ...
These equality & inclusivity departments do work. Not by including minorities mind you. They work by excluding white people, making them feel unwelcome by constantly reminding them how everything bad in the world is their fault, and firing them when twitter demands it.
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> the fundamental ideas that America is built on is focused so heavily on freedom that I trust the aggressively independent to protect, and the passively independent minded to innovate.

If you saw that essay as a defense of existing social structures, how are you so sure you're not just one of the convention minded too?
U.S. hatches plan to build a quantum Internet that might be unhackable
Browsing pages of Who is Hiring when the comments move to other pages sucks.
More precisely:

"inReach SOS and messaging continue to work."

"inReach SOS and messaging have been fully functional and remain so."

This is reassuring because people who go to remote places and rely on the inReach satellite SOS and messaging have not been affected. If they had been affected, they would've been cut off with no explanation--for example unable to relay status to family, or to request an early pickup. While not in itself life-threatening, it would cause a lot of unnecessary worry and possibly unnecessary rescues.

I had wondered if their satellite messages was affected. Obviously, a message goes from the unit in the field to a ground-station, and then to the recipient's regular messaging or email. The question is whether it touched one of Garmin's servers to do that, and if that server was affected--apparently not.
A lot of mainland Chinese people use a new version of exactly this. If Uyghurs are ever mentioned the first thing I hear from mainland people is "Yes but the US and Iraq" and similar statements.
Those Girard books that Peter Thiel wants you to buy because (1) Thiel got a commission and (2) Thiel doesn't know anything academic that didn't happen at Stanford.

Girard seemed to think that the great cultural problem of the world was "The Court of Versailles" where nobles who have no real problems just compete to be the same as each other. It's a compelling problem if you're a vendor who makes fancy stuff for the palace (e.g. one of those mirror makers who got assassinated to protect the secret of making mirrors) but for the 99% of people who grow rice, wheat, corn whatever it is that supports the life of most people and the vendors who serve the palace, it is just designed to erase your perception of your own life and make it a pale shadow of someone else's narcissism.
I don't know what @pg means by aggressive or passive. In what respects? Maybe I don't understand what passive or rules-oriented are like because I live in a VW that has disco bar lights, a train horn, and I do basically whatever, wherever I want.

Rules are for fools.
Hi! I didn't quite get it. What does it mean "designed by AI"? And do I get real jewelry if I subscribe? If so, who makes this jewelry from AI design?
Thanks for sharing, very good scratch-build on display with the track extension and cabin build.
> To be honest. This is terrible. The US China-relations risk spiral out of control and idiotic unrestricted nationalism will rule the day.

> Will

??? from my standpoint, it looks like it already does, and did for the last decade or so,
Have you been watching what's happening in Portland? Where on the spectrum do you put those folks?
"Yes we're all individuals" effect, or this https://www.npr.org/2019/03/10/702063209/man-inadvertently-p...
They didn't have a large majority consider them inferior for long, or being bitter that they are not longer their slaves (like they were for their grandparents and earlier) and thinking "how dare they not know their place".

Those immigrants also didn't have seggregation laws against them until the 70s...
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Funny that this didn't pop up on my Google News feed
No-platforming, amongst other things, I'd guess. And firing people for having the wrong views.
No but I do have a codebase to maintain and the more architectures the more work!

My underlying point was that there are trade offs - more architectures - great for some but a lot more work for others.

I'm sure the BSD's go a great job supporting lots of architectures - but they represent a small part of the overall software ecosystem.
Apple has started making its flagship iPhone 11 plant Chennai, the first time
"Here's a taxonomy of people that I just made up. There are four types of people, classified by superficial characteristics. Actually, this classification is an extremely strong indicator for behaviour, certainly stronger than other indicators. How do I know this? I am very smart and I say so.

Based on this fact, I notice that the social-justicy types of today bear some superficial and extremely tenuous resemblance to the pro-slavery types of yesterday. Really makes you think."

I'm sorry but this comes across as total nonsense to me. Any "there are x types of people" stuff always reads as astrology for people with STEM degrees, especially when it's as ill-supported as the types given in this article.

Also the article is pretty ahistorical: being "pro-slavery" was absolutely not the unanimous consensus that we like to pretend it was today. There was widespread opposition to slavery: many viewed it as an obvious moral evil. France banned slavery in 1315, for goodness' sake. People knew it was wrong.

In actual fact, the type of people arguing against abolition were people in a much more similar position to Graham: the Economist famously urged delay with regards to abolition, fearing what freed slaves might get up to. Graham's notion that "actually, I'm much more like the abolitionists than slaveowners because we're both such iconoclasts" is extremely weak and, on its face, a little ridiculous.

(also: does Graham really think he's going against the grain with this stuff? Last I checked, opposition to "cancel culture" and censorship is about as mainstream a position as there is. It would be hard to pick a more "conventionally-minded" opinion than "I think free speech is good")
Sorry... what do you mean by "flushing" (thanks)

BTW. Fantastic software, filestash - really really good.
I am just one of those people who can listen to Wagner without invading Poland ...
Why sadly? Political education is very important.
Following on from the essay, the ideas are adopted by aggressively conventional minded even if they are "non conformist".

Other aggressively conventional minded people believe in the the rules of ever explosive growth, exploitation and free market capitalism.

The ideas do conflict with each other obviously.

The essay gives the example of abolitionism that some aggressively conventional minds back in history would be in support of slavery and other aggressively conventional mind would be opposing slavery.

Within the concept of the essay what does non conformist really mean? Are social justice and true equality ideas that belong only on the independent side of the quadrant?
Cold showers are awesome! Get outta here!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5025014/
I enjoyed this essay, but I think PG missed one aspect of the recent cultural changes: Even though startups are founded by the aggressively independent-minded, they have insane amounts of ideological conformity.

Many people with beliefs that are widespread in the US (pro-life, pro-gun, Republican, etc) are now "in the closet" in the Bay Area. Don't believe me? 10% of San Franciscans voted for Trump in 2016. Yet of all the people I've worked with in the past four years, not a single one of them has publicly admitted to doing so. 14 percent of Californians own guns, but again, nobody I've worked with is "out of the closet" as a gun owner. That is an amazing coincidence. Let's say I've worked closely with 50 people in the past 4 years (the actual number is higher). If each one has a 10% chance of voting for Trump, there is a 99.5% chance that I've worked directly with a Trump voter. It's a 99.95% chance that I've worked with a gun owner. Yet based on everything I hear at work, you'd never suspect that such people exist. They're like dark matter.

If that's what life is like at companies founded by people who are aggressively independent-minded, I shudder to think how bad it is at companies run by the aggressively conventional-minded.
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> eg, no more than N minutes at X in the morning and Y at night

Since this community is all about using IT tools to achieve goals:

- There are some browser extensions that can do this, e.g. lock you out of Facebook, Reddit or $newswebsite after X minutes of usage.

- HN itself has the "noprocrast" setting in the user profile which I hear works similarly.
Exactly. But the mindset behind the above comment to be precise.
He is pretty horrible. An example of the Everyone Who Likes Music I Do Must Be A Good Person fallacy I held to when I was younger.
It's also the method they use to train military working dogs. Find dogs with a huge ball chasing instinct but only reward occasionally and randomly. The dog will work so damn hard to get that ball toss.

Poker machines are built the same, as are the recently banned loot boxes in video games.
1. It doesn't look like a comment, so it's less confusing to people new to the language

2. It allows the programmer to skip comments entirely, when reasoning about program behaviour

3. You can write comments without fear of the comment changing program behaviour (probably of little concern in practice, but still)

Putting directives in comments is always a hack. C and C++ get this right, with #pragma.
From the linked article:

> in addition to their normal log traces

Does this mean that normal logging happens outside the final log line? If so, then that sounds great. Otherwise I'd worry about losing state due to a bug.
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Agreed, I've had 2 in that family and never a problem in the field. I just wish it had the larger screen like the Oregon series.
And your employer will know which location you work with and use it in salary negotiation with you.
Thanks, this hits close to the bone. There's definitely a connectedness in the tragedy of it all.
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Does a voting and flagging system on a discussion board reward the aggressively conventional or the aggressively independent to a greater extent?

Which group does such a system punish to a greater extent?
Is it possible those who gave up on their life goals were forced to do so whereas those continuing towards life goals did so because they were making good progress? Could just be another 'winners are not losers' study
For a basic introduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber
It'd be nice if they did both. Have an easy to use experience and also a simple path to data access.

(Like the device could share the data over Wifi/Bluetooth)
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These comments read like the opinions of people in a post communist country. All the bad sides have been forgotten and all that’s left is nostalgia.
In addition, almost any control system with feedback requires some variant of PID control. “I” as in integral and “D” as in derivative makes it hard to get away from calculus concepts
> At 6am, trucks start rolling up and delivering food (although they are only supposed to do that at 7am, on some days they’ll start at 6). That means very loud beeping from the trucks backing up and shouting to the grocery employees above engine noise.

Exactly the same takes place in purely residential areas anyway because of garbage trucks. That's no problem if you shut your window however, modern windows isolate noises pretty well.
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https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/

This is wikipedia co-founder writing this.
Now the question is what is better for the students?

a) being visited and disrespected

b) not being visited at all
Not sure what you mean, we run everything on AWS, which is superior in every way to the competing offerings.
Repeatedly saying it with no evidence doesn't make it true. Stop doing this. The US has not to anyone's knowledge put weapons in space. Russia has now. That's a clear escalation.
I've recently learned and ported a few projects from Javascript to TypeScript and I'll vouch that, so far, it is much better and easier to reason about my code and what it's doing. I also feel I need less test cases to adequately test my code.

In saying that, I'm interested in if there is any accepted, peer reviewed literature with quantifiable data as to whether strongly typed languages are "better" (whatever the study might define as better such as being faster, more scalable, etc). From what I've heard and read, most of the better-ness that strong typing provides is related to people problems and being able to scale a team, not necessarily scaling a system or making the system better. When learning Go and TypeScript after primarily writing Ruby and Javascript, I'm convinced of the better-ness strong typing provides whether it's related to readability, better IDE intellisense, or speed (although Go for example is faster then Ruby and JS not just because it's strongly typed, but compiled), I'm just interested in if there's real data to support using them instead of anecdata.
NAT hides all devices I have in my network from the world.

Nobody from the outside will know who made request x from the n devices in the network.

NAT is mainly privacy/obfuscation.

Can you do that with a firewall?

Another use case is connectivity:

- digital ocean gives 16 ipv6 addresses, how can I vpn through it with more hosts without NAT?

- me as a lone node on another network want to host a VPN but have a limited set of IPv6 addresses available.

- tethering

Note: I will actually be setting up a network with NATv6, DHCPv6 and a firewall in about a month, so I do need it, and since tools are available, I am not the only one.
Even if this is true (I don't think they have that much power), why do you think this is what minorities would want? They don't want to be treated as equals and have opportunities, they want to make white people feel bad?

The issue is that D&I had no power to do things that actually matter. I've complained to D&I teams before and they really exist to placate people internally because leadership will never change. When something gets out that seems like a bad PR problem ("twitter"), then the leadership team will take acute action and fire someone and pin it on inclusion.

It's a bad system for everyone but it's born out of cyclical system where white people do nothing about racism until it reaches some breaking point, then they insist on taking immediate action to "fix it" for a month, then they go back to the same old.
You're right. The article is wrong. It said:

> A single A100 GPU’s 54 billion transistors can execute 5 petaflops of performance, according to Nvidia.

It is a single system of 8 GPUs that can do 5 petaflops.

I can't edit my post anymore. Multiply my numbers by 8, or a bit more if you want to take into account higher utilization and the other overheads you mention. So ~500 cars. This is my final offer.
Why do you say that? Wikipedia is vastly different from anything I’d normally recognise as news media(I guess that’s what you mean?). It puts content up front (except when asking for donations). It shows how the sausage is made (you can look at talk pages if you really want to). It sources claims. I guess at some point it’ll take a turn for the worse, but it’s nowhere close to there yet from what I can see. Am I missing something? I guess you could say that it’s part of the ecosystem in that it trusts it and news sources are an integral part of its fact-checking process, but I don’t see that that makes it resemble too closely the sources it uses for fact-checking. And companies use it for PR\allow-washing, which isn’t great. And subject-experts express frustration in getting their edits reverted by idiots. But, it’s still recognisably wikipedia from the old days. I don’t see how you get to “not much different from any other part of the media ecosystem”.
I think you are right in a subculture sense.

Many great progressive ideas and movements have been taken over by aggressive conformists. The ideas get perverted into something far less useful and overly specific.

Lets move the discussion into something less political!

In tech this happens too. Cargo cult engineering anyone? Agile methodology and OOP are two huge examples: they started as radical, useful ideas too. But often today people argue overly specific rules of implementation rather than asking why these things exist, where they came from and where they fit.
They do this for all new accounts. It's a way to harvest phone numbers from unsuspecting victims of this surveillance.

It doesn't matter from what ip, machine or whatever you register. It will automatically get suspended because I think they've realized it's easier to force people to enter their phone numbers in "protection" after they just created an account rather than to just ask for it during signup.

Less questions are asked. I wrote a blog post on my now deleted blog, but discussions on HN was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19487304
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For what it is worth I have seen Karen used as aggressively agender and aracially like referring to an obnoxious customer who was a black man as a "Karen".
"Deep Learning with PyTorch" has a freely downloadable PDF here:

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> - have rotate instructions in the core set

> - have popcount instructions in the core set

There is the Bitmanip extension for that.
Why it should be in the core ISA ? Microcontrollers don't always need it.
The purpose of the extensions is to keep the core ISA as minimal as possible.

> - represent bool `true` with ~0 in the ABI

It only takes one operation to emulate this behavior when you need it.
addi rd, rs, -1 (you also have to flip the comparison, but it doesn't cost anything)
Can you justify that we need "0/-1" more often than "0/1"?

> - have all the add, subtract, and comparison instructions set two registers (in addition to the destination), one to 0 and the other to ~0, according to a test of the result.

Why ?
Adding destination registers puts more pressure on the register bank and may limit future CPU designs.
Do you have an argument to show that it's worth it despite the price?

> - have two ISA registers fixed at 0 and -1

Which piece of code would benefit from that?
A good justification is required to remove a (non-constant) registre from the ISA.
Anyway, RISC-V already allows you to do that. Just write "addi rd, x0, -1" at the beginning of your code then use the rd register as a -1 register.
>Is it really plausible that no one thought to feel manly about cold showers until a bunch of nerds came along?

No, but it's quite plausible that it was a niche thing that might have been a fad at some points in the past, only to be revived by a new generation that includes many fad-chacing types, SV people, and BS-artists (aka influencers)...
A simple graphic of the four quadrants would have improved my experience in reading this article. I was surprised to not find one.
I don't think that has anything to do with "support". Intel had a sh*tload of problems with their laptop CPUs, (eg. bugs, coil-whine, security problems galore, etc.). The main reason is more likely long standing supply contracts of manufacturers. I'm not sure if AMD or their fabs even had the capacity to supply all the run-of-the-mill PC manufacturers.
Yes. It might still be mirrored on Twitter, but at least that would not put it as authoritative source and the people at the trigger would've a page too look beforehand.
Fine, porn or gore or profanity, list of slurs. If you want to begin curating other nebulous concepts like "hate speech" at scale, it should be explicitly defined and you should held to being clear when you are acting upon violations for it, and responsible for applying your policy broadly and not cherry picking. "There is no neutral" so we'll just make it up as we go is just a ridiculous pass that big platforms are exploiting to the ill of society.
Novelty is rewarding in itself, all kinds of novelty (Why did you ride out to the outback? because you wanted novelty of visual and other sensory stimulus as well as novelty in perception of place). Same way why simply driving somewhere new is rewarding. "News" is constant information novelty , it's not like the "olds". Rewarding things have the potential to be addictive. If they are easily obtainable they tend to become so.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24911320/
There are too many people named Karen for it not to become offensive to those people at least.