skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hitler: What's a monad anyway? No one who understands monads can explain what they are
Underling (hurriedly): A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors

This caused me to choke on my coffee.
It isn't corruption, but an example of the systematic advangages some of have because we have connections. People we know from school, university, work, sports clubs, the goddamn Masons. The Chinese call it guānxi and accept it as the way of things. I think it sucks.
Press release: "A sophisticated cyberattack has breached our system. Although we assure you that no public data was accessed, we are advising those who have traveled within the last 10 years to assume a new identity."
In my experience the warnings tend to pile up. Once you have a few warnings in the codebase, what's a few more?
Good friend of mine from Pakistan got married last year (via matchmaking) and I wish them happiest days. Besides small set of culture differences their values (family etc) are almost no different from other friends say from catholic countries in Europe. Of course I didn't want to generalise but that's how I feel.
I've always said traffic laws mostly encourage a disregard for the law. I think they should set things like speed limits high enough that there is no reason to break them. They are LIMITS, not normal speed. Maybe post a recommended speed too.

If someone breaks the speed limit it should be 30 day license suspension and impounding their vehicle.
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That's a complete mischaracterization. The point of any and all HLSes is to raise the level of abstraction so you can be more productive. Even for highly skilled Verilog "monkies", writing in an HLS is a great deal faster and less error prone (assuming comparable mastery of the language) simply because you do not need to deal with a lot of low level details.

The $1M question however how this experience pans out as you try to squeeze out the last bit of timing margin. I don't know, but I'm eager to find out.

ADD: this parallels the situation with CUDA where writing a first working implementation is usually easy, but by the time you have an heavily optimized version ...
The difference is that US arguably has long been "great": great educational institution, great high-tech corps, great cinema etc.
> that is actionable for a lot of people

Really hoping this is better by the next few months or my Seattle winter will be even more pill popping to maintain basic human functionality....
They're really throwing everything they can at "the AMD problem" in hope that it goes away.
Apple assembles phones in India, it doesn't manufacture in India yet.
>He said single core synthetic benchmarks were higher, but not by much.

Really? i7-9750H (from 2020) scores more than twice as high in cinebench single threaded than i7-3615QM (from 2012)

https://hwbot.org/benchmark/cinebench_-_r15/rankings?hardwar...

https://hwbot.org/benchmark/cinebench_-_r15/rankings?hardwar...
Mostly they are "secret".
Edit: didn't read the article, but I still think they fly under the radar for the vast majority of people and they should absolutely be a career ender for Police to hand out. Sounds like low fruit for cleaning up America.
This is probably the friendliest fork I've seen happen. There's even a comment where someone points out he's been active on other projects, and is thus alive and well and still coding, but just obviously ignoring htop specifically. The general response to that news seems to be relief that he's okay and that nothing (obviously) bad has happened.

It's nice to see users of an abandoned project happy that it's because the developer (apparently) abandoned it, as long as he's okay.
Um, what attempted assassination?

I think what's really going on is the usual. If you're stealing your country blind, manufacture foreign enemies and blame them, so the people at home think you're a hero instead of a villain.
This is not good for any demand-driven economy.
Why not just hold the tests, except outside and far apart. They have stadiums and stuff. Honestly, this whole thing seems like a manufactured problem.

You could hold them outside, and stagger them so there are ten papers, and then just normal-curve-adjust to the first paper.

Other countries already do multi-day tests easily. And if you don't want to do curving, just treat it the way you treat GREs/IELTS/TOEFL etc. Don't curve and just use overall percentile.
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Let's take it one step at a time.

Lending with interest is taking advantage of the needy, it's predatory and immoral, that I think we can all agree on.

If we ban lending with interest, then you're right, there is no financial benefit to be made. So the lender would be lending out of good will. However, the seller might also be willing to let go of his product on installments (without raising the price, that's also usury). For example, if I go to purchase a car from the dealer, given most people would not be able to afford to pay cash outright, he'd be forced to give it out in installments, otherwise he wouldn't sell. The entire system must be set up properly for this to work.

Introducing easy debt just ups prices for everyone, and pushes the poor deeper into misery, exactly as you note: car loans, mortgages, etc.

There are solutions. Instead of business loans, the person providing the funds would get a share of the company in return. That way, if the company succeeds, he'll make a profit, and if it doesn't, he'll lose his investment. We can come up with similar scenarios for personal loans.
In a word (that I recently learned myself), haecceity
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Sure, we'll just have the police arrest the police officers who give them out.
The people we put in place to protect us think they're gonna make it out just fine either way. It doesn't matter who wins, because the real battle the next few years will be about defining the new rules, not playing by the old ones.

The right wing is an extreme minority that has obtained influence mostly by hacking the system. Anyone who stands up to them and patches the exploits will have a post-facto mandate, but that only happens if they have the guts to do it ("it" being things like passing airtight restrictions on legislative procedure; packing the bench; and dismantling the means by which representation is warped, like the electoral college or the filibuster).

This is why as a liberal I have little faith in Biden, Harris, Pelosi, or Schumer.
Is a video game, or any digital file, "an import" anymore? There's nothing physical to be imported so what the government is really "banning" here is access to information. That makes me a little uncomfortable, especially given India's reason: "they are engaged in activities which is prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order".

I'm not even sure what that means but I suspect that's intentional. From my reading though it doesn't sound like India is doing this as economic sanctions or for the health/safety/welfare of citizens (which would be the typical reasons for a democracy to ban an import). Instead it seems the government has decided that allowing citizens to access this information presents some sort of national security threat.
Yes please! I am all for anything that helps users own their own data. See also Solid (https://solid.mit.edu/) and "local-first software"/CRDTs (https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html).
Which is probably true normally to a lesser extent. If you don't have a good place at home to do your homework.
Is there a term for something illegal recognized by the courts as legal? TSA searches fail to catch 95% of illicit objects (including bombs) according to their own tests and require detaining hundreds of millions of people per year who have not given any indication that they've done something wrong. If those searches aren't the "unreasonable searches" mentioned in the 4th amendment I don't know what is.
I wonder if https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_29155 is also behind this assassination attempt. But until now they used to work only outside of Russia (Skripal, Gebrev, ...).
In the same way you can already do that on DNS, and no browser support dns lookup in any sane way except dns over http.

So no.
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I think a good compromise is warnings aren't allowed in the final committed code (this can be enforced either by convention or with git hooks), but whatever you do locally is between you and your compiler. "What happens in the devbox stays in the devbox"
TikTok/PUBG are "bannable" items; banning physical items that people need/use daily, most of which are made in china, will majorly backfire. The average voter doesn't care enough about these apps to raise a stink.
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Webflow is pretty good. Also competing against squarespace and wix.

What's the value prop? What do their users want? Do you have different users from them? Do they already have this and then some?
> https://internetfreedom.in is doing important work in challenging the Indian government's surveillance and censorship apparatus.

> They're active, from time to time, on r/India as well.

I'm all for challenging government surveillance and censorship. But the irony here is laughable given r/India's propensity to hand out bans like chocolates for anyone not subscribing to the groupthink.
ICYMI, Microsoft is putting a lot of eggs into the LTO/PGO basket to try to improve Linux performance: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Microsof...
In large bodies of code, you might not notice the warnings if they weren't errors.
Yep. I've been thinking about retiring, and almost certainly would have already if not for the twin spectres of private health-insurance cost vs. unreimbursed medical expense risk. And I'm one of the lucky ones, with healthy savings and no significant medical issues. If it feels like Scylla and Charybdis for me, how terrifying must it be for those less fortunate?
It's a good point, because you remind us that domain matter so much. Outside of gaming and some other places, I don't think people would, for one second, care about the relative performance in this scenario.
I consider the i9-10900K good at that particular attribute! But it lacks the AVX-512 and is still that same architecture we've seen so many times now. i9-10900X has AVX-512, but is slower.

I'd love it all in one package, fast single threaded performance when needed, fast multithreaded compiles, and ability to experiment with and benefit from AVX-512 specific workloads
Sounds like the CHP 11-99 Foundation license plate frame, which could (allegedly) get you out of speeding tickets [0]

[0] https://priceonomics.com/can-you-buy-a-license-to-speed/
Its a pretty broad claim because a lot of countries have a different idea to america on what modern policing means.
No price transparency, no ability to choose between doctors, your job decides your insurance.

There is no room for a market to function in our health system. With no ability for consumers to move around or even see the differences between different providers, prices will naturally go up, and there will be no pressure to improve care.
God bless the USA
I'm curious on what evidence you base the statement "white people are more likely to have drugs on them than black people." When controlling for socioeconomic status I would expect no difference by race, and honestly when controlling for socioeconomic status I would only expect which drugs were found to change, and not necessarily the rate at which they were found.
People like conciseness.

"A person used a supercomputer to analyse Covid-19" conveys no more knowledge than "A supercomputer analyzed Covid-19".
> there's no question the algorithm's estimates were more accurate.

Some people were predicted A's and given U's by the algorithm. It might have been less biased as an average. But it's results were nevertheless completely unacceptable.
SEOs happened
I got out of a speeding ticket once because the officer was into the classic car I was driving.
The US takes localism to extremes in order to preserve historic fiefdoms and injustices.

The stated desire is to prevent government abuse of powers by keeping the governments small and limiting the powers of the larger ones, but if you look at actions rather than words, it's less about restricting government and more about preserving existing power structures.

Reconstruction is one of the most egregious examples.
> For Fukushima, it seems that the panicked response of the local authorities (evacuating the whole area ...) was what caused the most problems.

Great. In the future let’s just avoid making wrong decisions then. Problem solved.

/s
Newer processors do the same amount of work faster using multiple cores, so they burn same amount of energy in shorter period of time.
God Bless America! Land of the rich, home of the sick and poor.
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It's surprising to see people in the US defend tiktok without realizing what's actually going on behind the scenes. Every company that does business in China, especially if hugely successful, will have the government step in to intervene and spy.
I don't understand how this is downvoted, it wasn't uncommon for people to marry a first cousin not very long ago
Physically attractive people are more likely to engage in giving
Unions don't necessarily exist to protect people. They protect members. Which is an important distinction.

Just in our area there was a case where the longshore union organized slowdowns at the docks that eventually made them lose their contract with the only shipper in the area.

What they were fighting for? Stealing two jobs from another union: https://www.wweek.com/news/2019/11/29/longshore-union-faces-...
Let's just hope that all these people get out and vote this November. This is a fixable problem.
Have you considered retiring in a different country?
Every health event is literally a blank check to multiple unknown providers. There's nothing to stop them from charging whatever they want.
I'd translate it as "rookie".
Yeah this is 95% of what my fiance and I talked about when deciding whether we wanted to have a baby. It wasn't about paying for the kid's schooling or where we were going to live. It literally boiled down to whether we were willing to potentially wipe out our entire savings and go into debt to have a child.

And when she quit her job earlier this year it was mainly because we didn't want her to get sick and hospitalized because then I would get sick and hospitalized, and that would completely erase our savings.

Thank god her previous employer had good medical insurance so we could do COBRA. Now we just have to have a kid within 18 months of her separation date.

The insurance system in the US is completely broken because it doesn't actually insure you against catestrophic costs.
Open source projects interact with users
I disabled my Quora account when I discovered it was selling my data.
There was reasonable reason to believe Berezovsky was responsible for the Litvinenko poisoning; it's not inconceivable something like that is going on here with some other oligarch Nalvany pissed off; he is a corruption reformer more than anything else. Since the BBC is a propaganda organ rather than a news service, they are singularly unlikely to present us with any of the other potential candidates, but I could probably think of a few that Nalvany might have annoyed.

It's also kind of weird they'd use such an apparently ineffective poison when prussic acid or ricin (or car accidents) would do the work rather more reliably. Novichunk didn't work on the Skripals either. Where are the Skripals anyway?

Whatever happened: one thing is for certain: Western media, the BBC in particular is an enormous basket of fail in reporting on anything out of Russia. No shortage of numskulls who have never actually visited the place or talked to any of its people who seem really sure of themselves though.
No, for the privacy reason pvg mentioned (edit: since deleted, but he made the simple point that it would violate users' privacy), and also for a different reason: it would convince no one. The only people with enough time and energy to bother looking at it would be people who already have strong views, and they would inevitably pull their preconceptions back out of the data and claim that they'd proven something.

And there's a third reason: sooner or later (maybe we're already there, maybe not yet) we have to assume a sufficiently smart manipulator (SSM) who's able to do whatever they want and be indistinguishable from a legit user. This is exactly what your phrase alludes to, I think: "regularly contributed extraordinarily positive engagements, existed solely for the opportunities to frame certain conversations". Once we're past that SSM threshold, all we can do is fall back on what the community ought to be doing anyway: answering false information with correct information, answering worse arguments with better ones, preserving community-ness without falling into war.

Since that's the only long term solution and it's what we want anyway, we might as well be practicing it now.
First, I was replying to someone who was talking about this.

I agree about the ergonomics, for most people. Im the odd one in that I really like Sony ergo.I disagree completely about colour. All three cameras brands have the exact same colour, the only difference in colour rendition is dynamic range and JPEG processing (which you shouldn't rely on).

I went with Sony because Canikon didn't have a mirrorless camera at the time, are much more expensive, (Sony makes by far the cheapest full-frame camera, new and used), and you can't beat Sony for adaptability. You can adapt essentially any lens to Sony, and even add AF.

Also, sometimes these techniques just can't do it.
I got invited to do a tour of the CIA headquarters and the security was less strict than what the TSA does to let you into the airport
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The officer puts you in a category within seconds of meeting you - citizen, perp or 'blue line'. Their response depends upon this judgement call.

My son the disable vet could not seem to get a ticket. He occasionally speeds, not egregiously, but the Fort Benning parking sticker on his truck window and the military ID in his wallet made a difference in the attitude of the officer.
I haven’t done a ton of research - do you know of any big healthcare bills have been proposed that resolve these issues?
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That's basically how the phone company gave us Unix.
Sure, just like they "freed" eastern europe from the Germans...
Most police aren't federal employees and thus have no "Federal employee protection".
Yeah. But I think 4 cores at 50% higher base single thread vs 8 cores is actually a pretty reasonable tradeoff for many workloads. If they managed 6 cores though... would have been pretty awesome.

I hope this delivers. I'd hate to see Intel go down in flames.
Can you at all justify the all the moralizing and value-claims in this comment?
If recursive resolvers like Cloudflare, Google, or your ISP stopped caching _num.* records, the servers wouldn't go out of sync or falsely return negative results, since DNS caching and updates are more of a "pull" model than "push" with consensus (so it's just like your computer's L1, L2, L3, memory, and disk caches, but with eviction based on TTL).

So _num records would end up forwarding all the way to the authoritative DNS server for the zone you're trying to access. You'd just have a slower experience than with your normal DNS queries, but you wouldn't observe anything weird.
This is ridiculous. I'm what most here would consider pretty conservative, but even I have trouble understanding the arguments against universal healthcare. Do that many people exist that really vote against it? Please don't point at ACA, that was nothing close to it.
There is a difference, and there are lines to be drawn, and different people will do it differently.

If Patreon sub-contracted a large project to Nazis Developers Co., then I would be mad at them.

If someone wanted to create Nazi propaganda, with a YouTube channel for patrons, all about racial cleansing, I personally would want Patreon to say, "No, thanks."

If that Nazi group wanted to receive donations, I'd want Credit Card companies to say, "No, thanks."

This is where I stand. That's my morals. I don't want companies to normalize Race War propaganda, providing a platform to it. I may well boycott a company that doesn't try to de-platform Race War advocates.
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The human brain has certain data structures which it naturally parses and stores well. "Character with motivations taking actions" is one of them.

When you try to describe a complex or subtle thing concisely, you might find it hard. Even if the system is neither animal nor human, you too might notice yourself reaching for "character with motivations" to describe it.
I agree with you in principle, but the way you expressed it reads too much like a personal attack for my taste. I don't think it's a good way to make the discussion more rational after the initial accusation of astroturfing.
"Don't worry, Haskell transpiles to Java now."

And the last line....
It's interesting to hear that the 3DFx adjusted the clock that way. Coincidentally, I was just reading about similar clock adjustment in the Pentium II and 4. They had "adaptive deskewing", where a phase comparator would adjust the clock delay as needed. It sounds like 3DFx did the adjustment at startup, but the Pentium did it during use so it could compensate for temperature drift. The Itanium 2 had similar deskewing, except the value was set during manufacturing by blowing fuses.

Source: "CMOS VLSI Design", page 806.