skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These things seem impossible in theory but in practice you just set a time limit.
Actually, in the light of this, I wonder if the whole piece is not satire now.
I'm not so surprised given that the paper generator has been around for much longer:

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/

Example:

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/rooter.pdf

In a way, I find the output better than GPT-3's. GPT-3 output is always a bit creepy to read, as if you are talking to a deranged person.
>>> it's only like $500/mo

In France the large majority of workers make 1000 - 2000 euro a month after taxes. Half of it going to rent like in every city. That means people may have a couple hundreds euros left at the end of the month in disposable income after rent, food, gas, taxes, etc...

That is to say 500/month for childcare is insanely expensive and unaffordable!
Incredible, so now a punctuation mistake warrents deletion.....
Wechat should comply with local laws. I completely agree with that.

But at the same time you're also saying that, regardless of law, the fact that the Chinese government can monitor the data, is justification for banning all Chinese apps.

You're so proud of rule of law, but once it's about China you're throwing rule of law away, and the only reason is because you want to stick it to them?

If you limit your statement to "it should be banned because it violates concrete laws" then I would agree. But "it should be banned because it's Chinese" is absurd and unfair.

Look at the Tiktok ban: they accuse Tiktok of forwarding data to the CCP, yet no concrete evidence of such practice has ever been shown. Everything is based on the speculation that it could happen. Well, okay, we can solve that via a security audit, right? Audit all the infrastructure, all the firewall rules, all the communication channels, and exhaustively prove that privacy laws are being adhered to. But no, nobody's interested in such an investigation. Chinese apps are guilty until proven innocent, and nobody's interested in proof of innocence or proper due process. Is your belief in western values really that shallow?
the point is, it seems to be confirmed, what is more surprising China data seem reliable and there is only small discrepancy in Iran data
These kind of DRM-like 'security' features starting being implemented first with phones and consoles and then has spread throughout the entire industry like a cancer.

Many of the features of the AMD PSP could be implemented as hardwired logic, no need for a CPU for that. And thus no chance of malware being able to run undiscovered.

It's like Orwellian doublespeak, in fact the Platform Security Processor might well be making the entire system less secure. Because we cannot inspect the content of the eFuse ROM how do we know if a state level adversary has placed code in there to weaken the system security?

Note: On the nVidia Tegra platform the eFuse ROM can contain executable code to patch the boot-up process, as Nintendo has done with the Switch console. It's likely that AMD has such similar functionality.

So the PSP could be cracked, and then CPUs can be eFused with malware before shipping the server, and nobody would know that there's an easily exploitable vulnerability now present.

I guess one of the real purposes of the PSP is to protect AMD's security and prevent the user from unlocking disabled cores, boosting clock frequencies, retrieving HDCP keys, etc. on both CPUs and GPUs. So it's partly to prevent the owner from doing what they want with the hardware.
> What are the plans of the company to deal with possible huge amounts of theft complaints?

Probably "theft as a service", like KitSplit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20276631

Voluntary Parting, baby.
A close relative of mine swears by WP 5.1 and running as many programs as he can from the command line.

He also:

- Refuses to upgrade to Windows 10 (he's trying desperately to stay on XP for as long as he can, although I think either 98 or even 3.1 is his favorite. He has, however, made peace with Windows 7)

- Will buy out-of-date but refurbished laptops to achieve this goal.

- Prefers obscure browsers over Chrome, IE/Edge and even Firefox.

- Will actively block JS from loading in browser. It makes for a 'unique' browsing experience.

As a result, I get the impression that he's created some sort of high-end IT security policy in the sense that no nefarious hacker would bother even looking for hardware and software that obsolete and obscure.

He's in his mid 70s. I've tried to get him to migrate to a lighter-weight Linux distro running XFCE or MATE but he seems adamant on sticking to his guns. I kind of respect that dedication, even with the mind-boggling frustration it comes with.
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Uh, lack of insurers willing to backstop this kind of nonsense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20276631
Hashing email addresses doesn't really work. Most people don't use unique addresses per service and its easy to get a large list of email addresses that you can hash and do lookups in.
Firing perfectionists is a strange signal. If the customers are sufficiently large, you should do everything possible to please them; beyond revenue, they are themselves an asset (sometimes a company is acquired for this only). In many industries it can take years to establish yourself as an approved vendor for a large org, and especially to a large enterprise company, this can be worth more than the underlying business. Not suggesting that’s the case for Base, but if you’re not gunning for an IPO, your exit strategy isn’t going to be one that necessarily resonates with a product or eng team.
How can a rename not be atomic over a crash? What does a partially renamed state even mean?

Surely, if I do "write foo~", "rename foo~ foo", regardless of any crash, foo is either pointing to the old data or the new data. There simply isn't any inode with any "partially renamed state" mixing the two.
> I am not a religion apologists, but his videos and lectures are structured exactly the same way as sermons. He even feigns a false pastor modesty

I highly recommend Jacques Ellul's "Les nouveaux possédés." (translated in English as "The New Demons" [1]) an analysis written back in 1973 describing this exact process you're describing, i.e. modern stuff (rock stars among others) trying to fill the hole of the disappearing religion. Ever since I've read the book I cannot attend a big music concert or a crowded football match without thinking about it (before this pandemic started, of course).

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1362676.The_New_Demons
Yeah 90s with handful games available and rampart piracy its no wonder you could have been 'successful' back in the day.
Meaning become popular game/brand.

Today people expect quality, and something that caters to them. And you have plenty to choose from. That's why you cannot make game that everyone will play and enjoy (except of Portal, everyone loves Portal).

Games are widespread form of entertainment now. a 1% now is worth beyond imagination what 100% in 90s was worth.

In a way its easier for a niche game to be financially successful.
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If Murray's account is to be believed, it is the court's fault that no other sources are reporting on this:

> Once again, there were just five of us in the public gallery (in 42 seats) and the six allowed in the overflow video gallery in court 9 was reduced to three, as three seats were reserved by the court for “VIPs” who did not show up.

If there are exactly 8 journalists present, three of which can't ever hear well (from yesterday, "(6 others) were shunted into the adjacent court 9 where a very small number were permitted to squint at a tiny screen, on which the sound was so inaudible John Pilger simply left"), that only leaves 4 other voices to present this story.

I will gladly read other accounts if they are available, but I will not be holding my breath.
Pretty dumb because the damage from the real virus, both the damage from the illness and from the measures against it, is much worse than that.
I’ll take the rep hit.

But as a childless middle aged employee... I think we need to reign things in and less experienced expecting the world need to actually prove themselves beyond leet code and one prior couple year experience.

Those with families, should expect the younger snots to be sympathetic because during this time those same younger snots are bitching about being stuck inside with third roommates, hang outs limited, etc.

My point - regardless of your situation, Covid sucks. Those dealing with responsibility for others is a hardship; those expecting the world of opportunity and bitching about lack of progress, suck a fat one; we are all in this together.
It is not possible to run an open source OS for a broader definition of OS on almost any hardware out there.

You can run parts of an open source kernel and maybe open source user space. But forget about fully open drivers (binary blobs rule), especially remember resident platform blobs like Intel ME.
The remaining exceptions are librem and some hacked thinkpads or chromebooks equipped with coreboot.

And let's not ignore the fact that most cellphones are locked up or have hardware without sane drivers, only ones provided in binary form. Not to mention the kernel running on the DSP to handle modem. Or other things.

Even higher level, just Android, try running its applications without Google proprietary services. While there is a reverse engineered version, it always plays catch up...
for everyone that bitches about docker and ubuntu snaps, this is a perfect application of them
Well, he was arrested in Dec 2010 and bailed, it takes until May 2012 litigating his extradition to Sweden to the highest court (while bailed). In June he fled to the embassy. He stays in the embassy until April 2019 when Ecuador hand him over to the UK police. He is held without bail for breaching bail conditions. In May he is sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for the breach. He is now being detained pending the resolution of the extradition request which was delayed due to COVID.

So I think all in all, it's like what? A couple months detained for extradition, and only on the basis that he's previously fled to an embassy whilst on bail.
The Guardian (& many many others) certainly think so.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/23/julian-assange...

From https://www.mondaq.com/australia/crime/903612/julian-assange...:

> The line up of renowned Australian journalists on the stage at the Martin Place Amphitheatre on 24 February was impressive. Gathered for a rally, they included John Pilger, Mary Kostakidis, Quentin Dempster, Wendy Bacon, Andrew Fowler and Mark Davis. They were there to speak in support of fellow journalist Julian Assange.

> "He did redact"
I read some comments online that said the control group is being given a meningococcal vaccine.

Transverse myelitis is apparently a rare complication with that vaccine.

It's possible (although not confirmed), the adverse reaction may have been from the control group.
I couldn't agree more. It will only get worse if companies are allowed to create their own Appstores. Using these devices is already a difficult user experience we should be doing more to protect consumers who have already invested in the ecosystem. Apple is indirectly doing this.
ISIS was strongly emboldened by the withdrawal of US power in Iraq

Right. And why was US in Iraq in the first place? Yes. War on terror.

US started war on terror, destroyed a couple of existing orders; was not able to restore any order; left prematurely and irresponsibly, leaving a vacuum which was exploited by ISIS (and others).
Maybe country specific. Here any game was 80 (but probably i remember wrongly)
Don't know a simple example: when I did trivial encoding[1], it was by reading the spec. Dim memories for keeping it simple: choose an advantageous bit depth and palette so your non-lzw'd data can trivially be written out bytewise per pixel. If you can control width to avoid line padding, even better.

(Yet dimmer, possibly false, memories: by taking advantage of LZW literals, I think it's possible to unencodedly write supposedly encoded blocks?)

[1] 10-50 lines of python, depending upon fanciness, IIRC
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Maybe niche is ment for systems that should work properly. The following URL could give an idea:
https://www2.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html
Sure why not, let me just create a blog post, with exact steps on how to make your windows more colorfull, and make users inject my DLLs into filesystem.
The user will do exactly if i give him exact copy paste paths and commands. And voila.
>You need to be rich (kind of) to be able to have a minimalist lifestyle. The same goes with reading.

This is the second time I've seen someone make this claim and the second time I'll refute it: Minimalism is not a rich-specific ideology. Being minimal as benefits if you're poor, including making it much easier to move. Moreover, you might be "minimalist" without choice, merely because you can't afford to buy things. You could be angry at your lack of material possessions or you could temporarily embrace the ideology to help you get to a position where you can start collecting items that make you happy.

Imagine you are poor and have a broken microwave, but you've been holding on to it. Why? Are you going to fix it? Likely not (at least not well, and its a dangerous thing to get wrong). Just throw it out or sell it for parts. Just because you are poor does not mean you should hold on to things that merely take up space.
Has anyone used this, what's the experience? Is this a functional reactive style front-end framework?
Civ1 is one of those old games which I can still get lost in, almost 30 (!) years later (yes, I played it in 1991, I'm that old).

Interestingly, one of the things that puts me off playing anything even remotely modern is the graphics. Around the mid-90s it was decided that everything has to be 3D, everything should require the latest, most powerful graphics card, etc.

In contrast, what kind of a graphics card do you need to play chess? I think that Civ1 is a bit like chess, albeit more accessible, maybe a bit shallower, but endlessly fun. I can watch a fancy animation once maybe, then I no longer care. The gameplay, the balance, the complexity is what it is about for me.
Warzone is also:

1. Free to play.
2. Marketing budget in the 9 figure range.
3. Comes from a long established series with ~20 games.
4. Available on all platforms.

I'd be willing to bet there's more of an appetite for complex games today than when Civilisation was released from an absolute standpoint, just that there's also more people playing games in general so from a relative standpoint there's less.
You can buy it on Steam now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/526870/Satisfactory/
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Really nice!
No, it would be illegal to install those drivers. Not hard at all.

Radeon drivers specifically play nice with the ecosystem, but they feature crypto firmware blobs.

Network drivers tends to be good neighbors too.

Nvidia drivers cause more of a problem, as do ugly smartphone GLES drivers. (Not to mention very custom network chipsets there.)
Yes, and they should be more careful for their IPR stance not to become a mess. They demand a cut of the final price of the app product while they were fighting Qualcomm which also wanted a cut of the final value of the phone product. The demands for a percentage can be stretched only so far until they become totally disconnected from the reality and run the danger to be reigned in by a judge.
What would such an alternative implementation be?
As far as I'm aware piracy on PC hasn't decreased.
A Tesla is a consumer good, a child is an investment in the future of the society.

I'm childless, I will very likely be childless my whole life but this attitude is both: very naive, very ignorant and very very reductionist.

I'm happy that my taxes here in Sweden pay for child support, childcare and schools that I won't ever use, because that is the basic fabric of this society.
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The complaints are to be interpreted as problems in workplace I believe.

My last job people complained about printers being shitty.. they were fine. Jam would happen, bugs at times but really low error rate and proper function. The complaints were mostly due to extremely depressing work environment.

When work becomes too much a drag people seek scapegoat (organic or digital)
Does this produce bootable drives? Thought you needed al kinds of custom stuff for that.
> That being said, they chose to have children, and I chose not to.

I don't think we should disadvantage parents because they failed to take into account the possibility of a once-in-a-century pandemic when planning their family. This reads as "oh, don't want to have extreme work+family stress during a global pandemic? Don't choose to have kids!"

> Whatever I have going on instead can't have priority over my work schedule. Whether it's a side hustle or a little league baseball team, it has to wait.

You're mistaking wants with needs. Child care isn't optional. Parents don't want to take time away from their workday to care for their kids right now, but they have to. You can't just stick a 5 year old in a room and be like "mommy/daddy has grown-up stuff to do, see you in 8 hours, try not to kill yourself, and oh, learn how to feed yourself as well".

Your side hustle or baseball team are things you want to do, and can easily wait until the weekend or after hours. Child care is something that must be done, all day long, every day, whether someone wants to or not at any given moment.

> However, if this arrangement is to last, then childless employees should also get time for their personal obligations, whatever they might be.

Childless people don't have work-hours personal obligations unless they choose to. And I expect any employer, under normal times, to frown upon anyone, parent or non-parent, who tries to get out of work due to personal obligations they've intentionally set up to conflict with work.

As a non-parent, I have exactly the same amount of time for my personal obligations as I did pre-COVID. COVID has not given me new required responsibilities during work hours, but parents have gotten that in spades. If you do have a new COVID-related responsibility that needs to be taken care of during work hours (like caring for an at-risk relative), then I think your employer should give you some extra flexibility as well. But your side hustle or little league team is a luxury that didn't need to intersect with work hours pre-COVID, and doesn't need to do so now.
Clearly it doesn't suck to be them, if the only inconvenience they have had is to support their colleagues during times they have needed it then they are not doing too badly.

Also (unfortunately) people who do not have kids, particularly women, are more likely to progress in their career as they have not taken any career breaks, so I guess that could be seen as an upside, though in my opinion is very unfair.

Overall I think companies should be there to support people when they need it, as a company you should plan your resources so people can take paternal / maternal leave, and also so that the other employees aren't overburdened because of it.
iOS global market share is around 22%, plenty of countries to chose from.

https://leftronic.com/android-vs-ios-market-share/

Here a device atlas (2019) with plenty of countries for you to play with,

https://deviceatlas.com/sites/deviceatlas.com/files/images/m...
While I find the discussion of who is worse of PPP or MQM beyond meaningless, I want to state that this mean little when city's administration was effectively defunct for decades.

Up until around 2015, the de-facto Mayor slash Don of Karachi was Altaf Bhai, and Liyari gangs were his revenue department.

...

Only in the land of pure:

> Pakistan: Karachi mayor to run office from prison

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/pakistan-karachi-mayo...
Maybe niche means systems that should work properly. This URL might give an idea:
https://www2.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html
Just to clarify: This result follows directly from the definition of the derivative:

f'(x) = lim_{e->0} (f(x+e) - f(x))/e

If you're able to express f(x+e) on the form (f(x) + y e) then it follows that y is the derivative.

It also should be noted that auto-diff doesn't let you skip the rules for derivation and you're using the same calculation as you would to show that e.g. f'(x^n)=n*x^{n-1}.
"The cross-examinations showed the weakness of the thirty minute guillotine adopted by Baraitser, with really interesting defence testimony cut short, and then unlimited time allowed to Lewis for his cross examination. This was particularly pernicious in the evidence of Mark Feldstein. In James Lewis’ extraordinary cross-examination of Feldstein, Lewis spoke between five and ten times as many words as the actual witness. Some of Lewis’s “questions” went on for many minutes, contained huge passages of quote and often were phrased in convoluted double negative. Thrice Feldstein refused to reply on grounds he could not make out where the question lay. With the defence initial statement of the evidence limited to half an hour, Lewis’s cross examination approached two hours, a good 80% of which was Lewis speaking. "

Sad...
This is true, but I see this kind of self-protection and political awareness as just another career skill. Too many people try to avoid it instead of acting against it. Or sometimes you can ignore what the company does and focus on your own craftsmanship.
The judiciary of Berlin just migrated from Windows 95 to Windows 10. At the moment the system appears to be next to unusable, and some judges refuesed to work with the new system. Therefore they are considering migrating back to Windows 95 until problems are solved.

I am not making this up:

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/wieder-it-panne-an-berlin...
Integration and differentiation are opposites:

Integration is well behaved numerically, but poorly behaved algebraically.

Differentiation is poorly behaved numerically, but well behaved algebraically.

Therefore if one wants to do "automatic integration", one has to approach it in a radically different way to autodiff. And arguably, such a method does already exist; it's just very inefficient.
No, one is allowed to do something.

One could, you know, make a case that it should be illegal, go to court to get that official, and then the way to implement your own payment processing is open.

But beginning at the last step, is totally the wrong order to do these kind of things.

Besides that, Epic and Apple had an agreement the moment Epic published fortnite in the app store. If they dont like the contract, they can leave. Again, if they think the terms are illegal, go fight that out BEFORE you implement something that breaks the contract.
Not exactly a word processor but it seems to me like you could try (if you can find it) the TSE or QEdit:

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

what Qedit (often renamed simply to Q.exe) was capable of doing in the (good) old times was incredible.
> But I am not sure I can blame those front-end developers.

Also in a lot of cases you can build the fastest website with minimal markup and only the necessary CSS/JS libraries for the base functionality but if then for "business reasons" you need ad networks, google tag manager, analytics scripts, third party support popups there's only so much you can do as a front end developer to keep the site fast.