skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm sure it is already in the works.

Why? As I just said, this kind of hardware approach doesn't make technical sense.

> WASM is the key to be independent of the ISA and allows to switch to custom silicon without having the customers to know.

We already have ISA-independence with JavaScript, Java bytecode, .Net, Python, and other high-level languages.

Again, WASM isn't intended for direct execution on hardware, it's intended to be fed to an optimising JIT compiler. Direct execution on hardware isn't how you get good performance out of an IR like this.

> That's how cloud vendors will drive the future in the race to get independent from x86 and ARM

I don't think cloud vendors care all that much who they buy their CPUs from. AWS offer instances on Intel, AMD, and ARM CPUs. If they really want ISA-freedom, their best bet is RISC-V.

> even if there is no performance gain possible due to the reasons you have pointed out, it's probably the abstraction layer of the future for pretty much everything.

There will never be a single abstraction layer for everything. Compiler engineering doesn't work that way.
People say this a lot, but when is it actually a problem?

In this example, it's obviously Fahrenheit, since 130C makes no sense. From context, you can almost always tell whether it's C or F:

* < 50: C if it's warm, F if it's cold

* > 50: Mostly F, sometimes context-dependent

* And the closer to 0 the less it matters

For other values outside human range it doesn't make much of a difference. Humans can't appreciate the difference between 10000C and 10000F, it's just "really damn hot".
>This works because regular dicts have guaranteed ordering since Python 3.7

But the API is different! OrderedDict has more methods that have to do with order, and `reverse` works on its `.keys()` and `.values()`. Or did they fix this in 3.8?
How do you expect to convince the interviewer that your solution was correct without tests? How can you debug your code properly if you end up with a spaghetti mess instead of using a clean design?
I hope the client fired your company.
Australia is a authoritarian hellhole, check their Covid-19 response for example or the crazy society controlling laws they have in place.

A possible way to counter it would be for the big IT companies to grow a pair - when someone puts such crazy regulation - ban ALL the country from the services and leak ALL the citizens data they have - photos, emails, videos...
> Note also the default target is Chez Scheme (Racket and Gambit supported) instead of C (which it still supports) because its faster.

That was Idris 1 with the slow C backend.

I believe he needs help on backends as he is not an expert at that; Idris 2 really has a chance of becoming a quite optimal language. I wish Rise4fun.com (MS research) would fund this work; they are doing everything right (for a decade already), I just don't want a language like this to run on the jvm/clr, well, I mean solely; it should be a choice. But I do think the funding (it's MS...) and the people at this particular research dep could really help. For instance F* has really cool 'targets' like;

https://fstarlang.github.io/lowstar/html/LowStar.html

more info;

https://github.com/project-everest/hacl-star

https://rise4fun.com/FStar/tutorial/jsStar
I mean it's a search engine so it should rely heavily on third-party content in its search results.

Google links to these news sites in search results and drives traffic to them.

If Google grabs significant parts of news articles that users don't need to visit the sites, then Google should pay them. But Google is not doing that.
Syncthing is awesome. The next feature I hope they'll manage to get in is "encrypted devices", to allow the use of VPS and other less-trusted devices without losing much in terms of security.

I would be really uneasy to let a third-party have access to my files, when there are such good alternatives.
Thanks for citing this, and clarifying my ignorance! Your point is so obvious to me now.
I think the bias towards videos is because of the interactive and graphical nature of Smalltalk. Other programming languages, a simple text post with code snippets is usually enough but, with "environments full of awe and wonder" such as Squeak I believe only video can fully capture what is going on.
Tesla finally going to push two-factor authentication after 'embarrassing delay'
The paper Highly Efficient Knockout of a Squid Pigmentation Gene [1]

> two key advances have made it possible to develop techniques for the genetic manipulation of squid. The first is the CRISPR-Cas9 system for targeted gene disruption, a largely species-agnostic method. The second is the sequencing of genomes for several cephalopod species.

The point is not a clear squid lacking chromatophores, a rather discomforting thought, but creating a new animal model with knockout genes.

[1] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)...
This whole thing is really weird. We're bending over backwards to try and accommodate Google being allowed to profit from other peoples content. How about we simply ban Google and Facebook from reproducing news on their own site?

And if we are truly believe "A healthy news media sector is essential to a well-functioning democracy." we need to punish both Google and content creators for publishing things that are demonstrably false. Fake News in otherwords.
A number of reports suggest that the algorithm has (and will be, in the case of the coming GCSE results) been selectively applied too. So your academy's history will only be taken into account, once it's determined your school is of a certain size.

Which most state run schools are, of course.

This is a nightmare, really.
Like, no one can directly prove the malice here, but it certainly feels like there was an aspect of malevolence in the enterprise.
This really doesn't reflect my experience. I live in the Bay Area and have gone hiking every weekend since quarantine started, both in local spots in and around the Bay and excursions to relatively-nearby Californian parks like Sequoia National Forest.

In my experience, you bring a mask with you when you hike, and occasionally put it on for maybe twenty seconds out of every five or ten minutes (or even rarer intervals when hiking in the more remote areas like the national parks) when you pass by someone on a trail and can't maintain distance. You hardly ever have to wear it.

And aside from this past weekend, it hasn't cracked 90 in the Bay Area pretty much all summer IIRC, and rarely even gets over 80.
Australia has IP laws already.
Yes, it's being praised here (however this is also in the "hobby" context, supporting my argument somewhat).

But what I am saddend, more than annoyed, about, is that it's extremely lopsided in general.

I don't have a tally, but reading HN and other tech sources (HN is not an outlier here), these kinds of stories are buried under the mountain of articles and resources that hype up the "software industrial complex" (for lack of better description).
Well, that explains my IG account. They do seem to know something about me; and one point, they literally recommended some old friends (even tho I wasn't using enough of my name, or my history, or the same email address as in those days, and we had no independent friends in common).
They companies will still be under legal prosecution if they do something against the people that publish the leaks.
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My first thought was that Google would do as per Spain and just stop linking Australian news outlets. However, I was under the impression that the Australian proposition does not allow Google to treat foreign sites differently. Hence, if they carry foreign news they must carry Australian sites - and pay. Or else carry nothing at all.
I'm surprised that there seem to be no examples anywhere of anyone seriously using chorded typing for programming. After cheap chorded keyboards entered the market and the associated software became free, I assumed it would only be a matter of time before something like Travis Rudd's incredible demo of voice coding [1] came out. Perhaps that it hasn't speaks to how difficult it is to get real speed improvements with a chorded setup?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI
(La)TeX is a bad fit because its document model is based on paginated documents with a fixed page size, whereas HTML documents are intended for variable viewport size. LaTeX is to HTML as PDF is to EPUB.
I'm glad we're understanding each other, but I completely disagree with the conclusion you reach in your last paragraph. Networks are iffy. People already expect their signed MSI installer to be multiple megabytes of binary garbage and probably wouldn't notice it being a megabyte of two larger than normal, so that sounds like one of the best possible places for a payload to hang out and wait to be triggered. No competent attacker would make their payload-delivery and their command-and-control the same thing.
looks like our chinese friends already have the motors, ESC's and so on ready to buy, and there is open source software - so the project thankfully becomes more an assembly exercise, similar to building drones
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> The process of doing so made it look like she was reading the messages and still alive.

My understanding is that this turned out to be untrue. Wikipedia isn't super clear on this point, but I think it backs me up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacki...
No - because it sounds like middle-o-nowhere. Pretty cool that it was an apt choice. ;-)
that's just bog standard plausible deniability, when a journalist put two things in a single page you know damn well they want the reader to make the connection and fill in the dot for them, and apparently it works since there's people white knighting for them, which circles me back to the initial topic: it's so damn easy to manipulate people to defend opinions not theirs, it's a wonder society can still function under this constant siege.
That's 55° Celsius for all of you using intelligent units.
That's ... brilliant. Not sure it's worth keeping Amazon prime for, but a good idea.
You shouldn't assume the rename process or payload execution have to be manually triggered. That's what browser exploits are for :)
They've been decent custodians to data they force users to give.

Fair enough.

It's like complimenting whoever stole my bike last year for taking good care of it.

I don't necessarily buy this argument. They collect a lot of data, and we could argue whether they need to collect so much data, but that is not necessarily 'stealing' your data.
I see your point, I also got that feeling with the noting that him and Travis didn't get along in the article.
Much as I'm assuming the person you're responding to was joking, I've encountered a number of comments/commenters where I felt the same way I felt about GPT output.

The best way I can describe the feeling is that it reminds me of conversations and friendships I've had with schizophrenics, people in the process of having a psychotic breakdown, and people with alzheimers.

There's a feeling that what they're saying is not entirely non-sensical, a feeling of 'catching up' to what they're trying to say (akin to translating in a language one isn't too proficient in). But reflecting on the conversation, I find myself wondering how much I managed to understand what they were trying to convey, and how much it was just my brain trying to make sense of something that ultimately doesn't.

'Understanding' or 'communication' aside, I've often valued these kinds of conversations because they tickle the more free-associative side of my own thinking, and the results, however I/we got there, were useful to me.

As a result, I'm much more interested in how these developments in 'AI' might augment this creative process than I am in how they might convincingly appear human. Not that the latter isn't interesting too, though.
I saw 130 and assumed from the context it wasn't in the order of 40 degrees hotter than the highest temperature ever claimed to have been recorded
“Much lower” is still quite expensive compared to a mainstream platform: the absolute minimum if you already had all the other pieces would be the motherboard and CPU bundle for $2,133.77: https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/BK1B01/intro.html

That’s 8 cores, which since Power9 has SMT4 means 32 threads. The 4 core CPU bundle is a bit cheaper but when you add the 2u CPU cooler its price gets very close, so it’s not worth it unless your computer case is too narrow for the 3u (≃15 cm clearance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_unit) cooler included with the 8 core CPU.

It won’t run AmigaOS unless on an emulator[1], and then you’re better off with AMD/Intel: you would lose more performance in emulating the CPU, but you would get more raw performance for your money anyway.

[1] https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,75.0.html

If you want to run AmigaOS software natively on PowerPC your best option is a PPC Mac running MorphOS. It even runs on the PowerBook G4: https://ddg.co/?q=morphos+powerbook+g4

Or if a well-integrated emulator suits you better, take a look at AmiKit: https://www.amikit.amiga.sk/

I don’t think that this CPU would be a net advantage for those use cases. I did use Amiga computers even as Commodore went bust, hanging on, but the approach I’m going for now is FPGA implementations:
https://misterfpga.org/
http://www.apollo-core.com/index.htm?page=preorder

I’m in the waiting list for Vampire4 Standalone, but for now I’ve got a MiSTeR.

So no, don’t buy a Power9 hoping to run AmigaOS on it any better than on a mainstream PC.

P.S.: the $1310.99 price mentioned by aww_dang must be from a few months ago, the current price displayed in Raptor’s website is $1732.07. Prices went up due to the current COVID-19-induced crisis, which also made Raptor cancel their upcoming Condor platform (ATX Power9 but LaGrange-based: twice the memory bandwidth): https://www.talospace.com/2020/07/condor-cancelled.html

P.S.#2: for those in Europe, Vikings (https://vikings.net/) has been trying for a while to offer them here and they might be able do so it soon: https://www.talospace.com/2020/08/vikings-upcoming-openpower...

P.S.#3: used BlackBird with 8C Power9 for sale in Germany: https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,153.0.html
>Clash of the Titans: Telegram vs. WhatsApp vs. er... 'one nobody's ever heard of'. Strange definition of a 'Titan' there.

And a comparison of 3 messenger apps on a domain "utopia.fans". Hmmm... I wonder which one they'll end up recommending?
Well, yeah, but they'd really be thrilled at the school where they announced C grade students would get an A.

There is some benefit to society to matching up the right students to the right courses, so it's not completely zero-sum. But the cost of getting it a bit wrong isn't terrible: some marginal students get to follow their dreams and study medicine, some others miss out on medicine and have to try their hand at accountancy.
> How about we simply ban Google and Facebook from reproducing news on their own site?

You can. Just add the robots.txt to the website.

But the news sites need Facebook/Google more than the other way around.
Thank you for including the name of the phone in the HN title unlike the clickbaity original.
Thank you for pointing out the distinction between "direct" observation through human senses, and machine-mediated observation for accurate scientific measurements.

It clarifies the motivation for extension/augmentation of human perception through technology, from microscopes to telescopes - and spectacles/glasses for that matter.

It also implies a continuation of the trend, where more and more of human perception will be mediated by technology, to benefit from advantages like accuracy, long-term memory/storage for data collection and statistics.

I guess augmented/virtual reality is part of it, where we can now perceive and experience a fully technology-mediated world, both real and imaginary. I picture sci-fi possibilities, like being able to "zoom in" to see things at magnifications beyond human biological limits - all controlled by thoughts.
> If Google grabs significant parts of news articles that users don't need to visit the sites, then Google should pay them. But Google is not doing that.

So what is AMP then?
That is utterly false

The Australian government isn't forcing Google to index content, and I suspect what op suggested is what will happen and News corp will beg for reindexing
My take on performance using the slides mbrobbel posted, from https://regmedia.co.uk/2020/08/17/ibm_power10_summary.pdf

The dual chip module has 30 SMT8 cores running at 3+GHz, capable of 64 FP64 FLOPS/cycle when using the matrix unit. That gives 5.7TF of peak FP64 performance (Compared to 19.5TF on NVIDIA A100 when using tensor cores, and 9.7TF on A100 when not using tensor cores).

They say it has 3x the "general purpose socket performance" of power9 in FP workloads. Trying to make sense of this from the other data, they have 15 SMT8 cores per chip (12 on Power9). The single chip module runs at "4+"GHz and dual chip at "3+"Ghz. (4GHz on Power9). Each SMT8 core has 30% additional performance compared to Power9 (slide 13). If I assume the lowest possible clock that gets me to 2.4x comparing the dual chip modules to the previous single chip modules, whereas assuming 3.75GHz clocks would give 3x.
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The google letter makes non-existent claims that aren't part of the proposed law. Like that youtube and google will somehow magically offer worse results. They can offer the exact same results they do now - they might just have to pay for it.
"If we had to pay more for news content, we would probably just cut it out because we don't want to pay - thus leading to worse results" doesn't quite have the same ring, does it :-)

As such the ACCC response is also full of bullshit. This is how politics go, and the sad part is that most people seem to simply read one side of the argument and go ranting off angrily based on the bullshit claims, rather than investigating the truth behind both sides
While I don't disagree, if I were to have the same conversation I would probably be spending more time thinking about the appropriate response than trying to remember and simulate an experience even remotely similar. So I'd be more like GPT, perhaps?
I don't understand why people needed or used Zope. Can someone explain?
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Exams are already "social distanced". That was never an issue! Has everybody forgotten what exams are like?
There are exams taking place in the Autumn, so this is kind of what is happening.
I find the elected fascist to be an interesting thought experiment. If someone was fairly elected on a platform of genocide, would you comply? If someone doesn't, does that mean democracy is second to morality? And, if they don't, do they think that person should be allowed to stand on that plaform?
> But the news sites need Facebook/Google more than the other way around.

This is oft-quoted, but the media organisations seemed to be doing better before Google/Facebook became the middle-man siphoning off advertising revenue.
If a temperature above boiling point of water had been recorded it would have been headline news about the end of the world. Normal high temperatures are in the 30-50 range, I could believe 70 or 80 could be recorded, but 130 is so far above the realms of possibility that it's clearly not Celsius
Useful: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.13189
Sorry, forgot to add /s. Population density rears its ugly head again.
Let's put aside whether Google had justified concerns about this legalislation.

What's more appriopriate? Having a company incite the people in a foreign country to change laws or do it using diplomacy using experts in your state departement?

We are only talking about allied countries to the US because google doesn't do this with, for example, china, russia, north korea, etc...

I'm NOT advocating they should do this with those countries. Rather they should get out of the politics business or accept the regulations that come with it.
These predictions were not shown to the students ahead of the results announcement.
Operating a reactor designed for weapon grade fissile material production (which RBMK is) does not look too good, either.
If remote learning is going to continue for the foreseeable future why don't assessments adapt to that environment? Stop testing and maybe rely more on projects and prepared speeches? Maybe continuous in-class real-time questioning to see if the student is keeping up? Sounds obvious but I know for a fact that it's not happening.

I've always thought those things were better than exams before remote learning regardless and many school boards weigh them similarly in aggregate. Testing was always a bit of a flawed model pandemic or not.
> A fake paper is fabricated research, which falls under the definition of misconduct. So should the authors of such spoof papers, who write those with the intention to expose flaws in the peer-review process of predatory journals be accused of misconduct themselves? There have been many discussions about that, such as in the case of the Sokal Hoax, where the author of the fake paper was accused of deceit.

Another professor, Peter Boghossian, who did something like this was actually banned from further research by Portland State University.

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13489
Ah this seems to be new, thanks! That's exactly the kind of response I hoped I would get.

Unfortunately completing this flow - with the goal to get a temporary shell on a Power system running some Linux distro - requires me to authorize a payment of over 1300 dollars before I even select an image. That's for "reserving" 1 POWER core and 2GB of RAM... As an individual developer playing with this, that's way over my head. I'd understand very high end cloud pricing for that (tens of dollars per hour, I'd be happy to pay that for messing around a little), but this isn't even a cloud machine pricing model. For reference, $1300 is over half the price of getting a Talos motherboard with an 8-core POWER9 CPU you then actually own.

It seems IBM does not have the infrastructure or volume to permit cloud pricing here. I understand they might not have this, but in my opinion they need to work on this to make it accessible.
The Fortnite fight isn’t just Epic squeezing more money from Apple
Nope, none of them are really useful. The only useful folding function is casefold(str, locale). (if your str type doesn't know it's locale).

toLower and toUpper should only be used for presentation, but all case-insensitive operations need to be done with casefold.
Wow, that's vile. So clearly about incumbent media power rather than promoting diversity.

I wonder if eg wordpress, or ghost, would be able to create a situation for their hosted blogs in which authors were paid for their content by virtue of the organisation itself having the minimum level of revenue.
Tesla is finally bringing two-factor authentication to its car app
I believe it is 10-15 actually. If the class is more than 15 people then it uses historical grades. If it is less than 10 it just uses the prediction (which is obviously generous). In-between they are weighted.
So is it a joke on "Gilbert Ryle: The Concept of Mind"?

But it just reiterates his first example using breakfast instead of university...

'The first example is of a visitor to Oxford. The visitor, upon viewing the colleges and library, reportedly inquired "But where is the University?"[3] The visitor's mistake is presuming that a University is part of the category "units of physical infrastructure" rather than that of an "institution".'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_mistake
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