skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds similar to a version control system to me - except that the version control system stores deltas. But there is nothing preventing it from periodically storing snapshots.

Snapshots in a journaled file system would serve the same purpose. Of course, journaled file systems could also handle the meta data snapshots
In our world the diffs are actually simply triples - the consequences of, for example, changing a class can be complex though but the diffs are just "these triples minus, these triples plus" which really helps simplify things.

We also support a bi-modal interpretation of ontologies - if you put them in a graph of type "schema" they are interpreted in a closed world way, in a graph of type "inference" they are interpreted as being open world.

In our experience the inference stuff is super cool (for example we use a property chain rule in our system database to allow arbitrary nesting of authority domains) but 99% of the effort is trying to make sure that your data and schema line up and for this, you really want to be operating in a closed world regime.
CS Portable! That was great!
Strategy: How to Trade Bitcoin in a Range on Bitmex and Any Other Exchange
Critical security issues 'in the wild' only come up once every few months, but yes, when they do, the Chrome team has someone on duty 24 hours per day whose responsibility is to patch the code and do a release to all users within a matter of hours.

If you submit a security issue to Chrome, they actually have a tickbox on the webform to say "this issue is important enough to get someone out of bed for", and if you tick that box, it will actually wake someone at 3am to deal with it...
A world in which everyone enjoys/is driven to complete meaningful work and doesn’t need to hype themselves up to get anything done.

Presumably this was implicit cultural knowledge in the pre-modern era, as the self-help productivity genre is a recent phenomenon.
The hacker news crowd isn’t too friendly to leftist content but I wanted to say I appreciate this article. It all makes sense to me and it gives me something to think about. I agree that licenses can not be used to force good behavior and we need to focus on changing norms. I choose licenses like CC0 for my work and focus on how to survive regardless of what big companies may do with the code. It’s tough to navigate but I think successfully doing open source is worth the experimentation.
When you have substantially overweight exposure to a few companies in market cap weighted indices, I think it's a fair point.

Apple's multiple shrinking would cause inordinate pain in a lot of places.
Regardless of whether you support this policy or not, the standards are actually very easy to hit. You only need 2/4 categories. Categories 1 (restrictions on actors) and 2 (directing, creative) are probably what everyone is thinking right now. But category 3 is basically hire some interns, and category 4 is about who works in marketing.

Seems like this policy will freak out conservatives while being effectively toothless for progressives.
It's common knowledge of the lack of security in IoT devices.

I suspect a hacker will hack alexa and start trolling your family.

Great idea....
The footprint of anything that stores enormous amounts of energy is enormous. (If you think it isn't - batteries, say - it's because you've ignored the socking great mine needed to extract the materials, the factories needed to make them, etc.). And we don't need it to be that near - we have pylons.

This seems to be one of the key indicators of green pseudoengineering - an obsession with avoiding transporting power. Pylons work. Really. If you can get large amounts of RELIABLE renewable power/storage, with low labour and machine costs, from a large amount of cheap land, land far away from people or crops or even trees, you do not have to worry about the rest. Worry about how to get those labour and machine costs down.
This is like buying a hair dryer and asking, “where is the cold air feature? If it can blow hot air, I should be able to disable the part that makes the air hot. I bought the product outright!”.

The reality is, you bought a product that accurately advertised its features. Were you ever misled into thinking that an iPhone could download non-AppStore apps? If so, please return your phone you are owed a refund and maybe even sue for false advertising.

Meanwhile, if you bought the product like me knowing the product’s features. It feels disingenuous to now want more from the product.

If you want to jailbreak your iPhone, do it. But you really shouldn’t expect Apple to provide updates or support your warranty once you choose to. The same as if you opened up a hair dryer, and disabled the part that heats the air the warranty would be void.
I wonder how secure new nvidia "security" features like MIG actually are. With people running real-time audio/video transcoders on GPUs for multiple connections, I wonder whether it is possible particularly crafted video connections to leak the video of other channels being processed by the same GPU.

Even if one were to encrypt all connections, these will probably need to be decrypted on the GPU for processing.
When I realized that my code won't last forever, and in fact shouldn't. My code will solve a problem now, but in 5-10 years someone else will rewrite it. The company may pivot, or get acquired, or merger. So build a solid foundation, but don't plan for it to become the next world wonder.
The creator economy is rising, but challenges abound
I asked GPT-3, and this was the advice it returned after a conversation about my goals/feelings and with me prompting it with, “The life coach begins telling you about some ways to make progress on your goals.”

“The life coach tells you to create a daily schedule and plan out your week, month, and year. He tells you that if you follow through on this plan, you should achieve something. He also tells you to meditate for at least 10 minutes a day and focus on your breath.”
This feature, at least in VirualBox, is useless. Machines that run hyper-v core do not boot properly, have their memory corrupted at boot, etc.

I wanted to use various things that rely on Hyper-V such as the Sandbox and WSL2 (last tried it in June), but the brokenness of VirtualBox forced me to abandon those technologies.
I am fine with this schedule.

Unless someone is actively exploiting devices I would prefer a well tested patch to a rushed patch.

Note that this whole issue is due a previously rushed patch.
Cybersecurity Companies Expose Data Online
You too can profit off mass surveillance.
VERY cool! Kids love when you create fun toys from seemingly nothing. The accompanying Android app seems to be free with tons of instructional videos.
The Biggest Lie in AI: The genius algorithm
> Ok so what is the alternative comrade?

Only privately owned companies - no PLCs. Only people can own companies, not other companies.

How does that sound, comrade?
- Picotorrent mostly, because of the simplicity

- BiglyBT sometimes, because of Swarm Merging
> In hot markets, the prices rise quickly to reflect that and everyone is in the same position as before.

Except for the government's budget, right ?
How to rise from WhatsApp PDF-file sharing up to $2m on sales in 2 years
Hi everyone,
I'm pleased to share an awesome startup story. Pretty sure it would be useful to read.
His point was more along the lines of it being poorly designed.

Evolution isn't going to nicely separate functionality into clean, single-purpose biochemical pathways.

It's going to overload something that it already has to support a new feature, leading to a rat's nest of intertwined effects.

The hard part in drug development isn't affecting your target: that's pretty easy to guarantee with modern tools. It's finding out that that target also governs 10 other, completely unrelated bodily functions.
Not sure it is that new - Constantinople had feuding groups who supported different chariot racing teams.

As a Scot I can't help be amused that the greatest rivalry was between the Blues and Greens:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Firm
They didn't help themselves after the fact either, by invading Afghanistan when the majority of the attackers were from Saudi Arabia.
> you didn't ask for proof, you asked for evidence

I didn't ask for evidence from you. I asked more specifically "Are there any studies giving strong evidence as to the causation for evolving white skin?

> do you know whether smoking causes cancer? Because all the evidence we have that it does is based on correlation.

That's wrong. We understand why smoking causes cancer. Just for example one of chemicals produced by tobacco smoke is benzoapyrene which is a DNA disruptor, producing mutations that can lead to cancer. [1]

> It's fundamentally impossible to prove, all we have is evidence.

That's progress. We've gone from "It must be important if it was worth evolving white skin over" to "we can't prove that's why we have white skin".

The Wikipedia sentence claims an "abundance" of evidence and then only gives one source, which is behind a paywall. So I'm going to recommend an edit to that article to either give more sources or change the "abundance" claim. Furthermore just a few sentences later it contradicts itself with this:

"This accounts for the development of dark skin pigmentation of people living near the equator but does not account for the increasingly lighter-skinned people living outside the tropics."

Yet more doubt as to why we have white skin. From your source.

Finally, the article that started this discussion provides strong evidence that our need for vitamin D is less important than we previously thought. For sure very low levels of vitamin D are dangerous. But the link between vitamin D and health could be reverse causation: sick people stay inside and therefor have less vitamin D. It could also be that exposure to sun provides something more important to health than vitamin D that we are not aware of yet. So the claim that we evolved white skin just for vitamin D is increasingly on less stable ground.

I'll stop here because I'm happy that you've gone from what seemed like a factual claim to you claiming that it's something we cannot prove. Who knows, maybe someone clever can prove it. But it sure does seem like the evidence itself (about both vitamin D and skin color) is fairly rapidly changing.

[1] https://www.mskcc.org/news/how-do-cigarettes-cause-cancer
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Civ games is not complex compared to other games like Europa Universalis, Crusaders Kings and EVE Online. I used to love Civ games but the newer versions are just not engaging for a long play time. It seems the permutation of outcomes are less compared to the other games or I know the result because I played hundred of hours so its less exciting.
If people are willing to install amazon microphone in their home. Why can't we call them amazon microphones?
Why does amazon try to hide that under a meaningless word like "device"?
Revealing a Forgotten Chinese Compute History: Stone MS-240x Typewriter
At the Gates isn't particularly novel, the problem with it was that it was boring. It is very similar to Thea: The Awakening but with a slightly different focus. Thea was developed by a couple of people on their free time and made them enough money to go full time for their next title, so it wasn't that At the Gates lacked budget instead it lacked a skilled game designer. Jon Shafer might be great on an AAA title with already decided direction, but it doesn't seem like he understands what makes a game fun.
That type of thing is generally acute, not chronic. If someone needs to duck out of work on short notice for the rest of the day to help a spouse in crisis, that absolutely should be generally permitted, and I think most tech employers would be ok with that.

If this crisis required the employee to take several weeks off, it would require scrambling and maybe require some unpaid leave, but it would get done.

But that has nothing to do with what's going on now. We have a chronic situation where parents need to take care of their kids all day, every day, for every week and month that this pandemic shuts down schools and other child care services. You can't address this with an afternoon off or temporary leave of absence. This requires a complete change in expectations. You can't pause child care for 8 hours while mom and dad work. You can't even pause it for 30 minutes.
Port forwarding and shared folders. Hyper-V has neither, and it's a pain to migrate, and also there's a perf impact.
In Europe there is indeed a market for new products that have been bought from manufacturers and resold right away, that's what's called a grey market. This happens because suppliers tend to use different pricing in countries with a different purchasing power, in order to extract more consumer surplus.

It's not uncommon that if you buy the cheapest product in a webshop in Northern Europe you will find it has a Polish user manual when it arrives. It's not illegal to do that (although suppliers would probably like it to be).

The same happens with servers, just compare USD and EUR prices on the Dell website.
Thanks for introducing this. (steering clear of comments section however)
> It is just a request. You can say No.

And when you do, they send their staff of high powered attorneys to shop for an amenable forum and file the SLAPP lawsuit that your org can't possibly afford to defend in a court you've never heard about with a nicely penned note of "Well, we tried to place nice! Now it's going to cost you." They then constructively work behind the scenes to freeze your org out of every future press event and make sure other companies they work with do the same - can't have any reporters not on a leash at these things, after all.

So you settle with changing the language and chilling your speech. America, land of the free.
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Then there's also Shovel Knight, Celeste, The Messenger, Stardew Valley, Undertale, and so on. We've never had it better as gamers!
Ok, so now they are following a journalist around to try and kill the people he is meeting, with no regard for the safety of others in the vicinity of their target. The targets that are also being targeted extra-judiciously.

Which part of that makes their behaviour ok?
It answers your question because it's a specific case of KA's compile structured loops with annotations to low level CUDA code.

If you could express the problem in generalized index notation, tullio.jl is an even higher level abstraction that uses KA

I don't know about the numpy function you mentioned, but here's a KA matmul. Definitely doesn't look like it has any CUDA specific things. Just a regular loop with some restrictions

@kernel function matmul_kernel!(a, b, c)
i, j = @index(Global, NTuple)

# creating a temporary sum variable for matrix multiplication
tmp_sum = zero(eltype(c))
for k = 1:size(a)[2]
tmp_sum += a[i,k] * b[k, j]
end

c[i,j] = tmp_sum

end

Wish I had time to write the code and compare to pytorch for you though
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The kind of elite that likes and actually reads books is still a better kind.

Also the existence of lots of poor people struggling does not mean you should live like them and imitate them. Some Christian sects and other historic cults do have this poverty worship in them, but it's fringe.

You talking about your latest programming project is just elitist posturing that you have a computer and stable electricity, which are not available to many around the globe. Therefore you should feel bad and get rid of your computer, sell your belongings an live in rags on the streets.
I vaguely recall something like that, a virtual file system using browser local storage. A search yields:

> BrowserFS is an in-browser file system that emulates the Node JS file system API and supports storing and retrieving files from various backends.

https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS

It supports storage backends such as: in memory, LocalStorage, IndexDB, HTTP, or the FileSystem API.
GitHub Pages only has a soft limit. As their documentation say:

> If your site exceeds these usage quotas, we may not be able to serve your site, or you may receive a polite email from GitHub Support or GitHub Premium Support suggesting strategies for reducing your site's impact on our servers, including putting a third-party content distribution network (CDN) in front of your site, making use of other GitHub features such as releases, or moving to a different hosting service that might better fit your needs.

I expect one-time hitting front page of HN or Reddit is something they won't frown on too much, whereas constantly hitting that cap on an ongoing basis is going to raise many more eyebrows.
You might be missing out on a lot of great games if you feel 'modern' games are ruined by graphics!

There are tons of pixel-art/2D/retro style games that rival the best of the oldies, but with 'modern' gameplay (or refined old-skool gameplay).
Slower spread of Covid in Africa might be related to more efficient immune syste
You should make sure that you disable "hyperthreading" on the Linux side for a like-for-like comparison. OpenBSD famously removed support for "hyperthreading" at the time of a "Spectre" vulnerability that you may have heard of. (-:

Linux tried the same approach, but it had a severe impact upon Linux performance. So "hyperthreading" got enabled by default again.

* https://mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg99141...

* https://theregister.com/2018/11/20/linux_kernel_spectre_v2_p...
This reminds me of Cory Doctorow's Unauthorized Bread (https://craphound.com/category/unauthorizedbread/), where poor people have to rent "subsidized" apartments and in turn are forced to use the pre-installed household appliances, which only work with "official", overpriced supplies from the manufacturer.
No, everyone with half a brain knew, but was called a conspiracy theorist for years. Then Snowden was a controlled release with virtually the same information, and it was approved by the mainstream media. Plus his stamp of approval was on Signal "for whistleblowers" :P
I think when you run this using npm, it will also show your local file system. It can be a really nice sftp web front end.
The realist painting style basically disappeared after photography was invented. Because what is the point of emulating a camera with paint? If you want realist imagery we have photography, tv, movies etc.

The natural succession to the classic "Academic" style is not cubism, its Hollywood.
That argument immediately slides down its own slippery slope to total control over information by government and corporations and their colleagues in the "news business".

Responsible disclosure of "secrets" in service of public interest is, to me, one of the defining characteristic of a free and thoughtful society.

[p.s.] It should be noted that your position is effectively arguing that 'Journalism is a component of state-craft and as such can only be practiced by official members of the governing class'.
and somewhat less precisely any PR person knows that getting your product mentioned in a controversial article will be more viral than anything else

compare Ryanair PR pieces on "paying for pee"
Hi, great setup. Have a question about data science. My wife is trying to shift into this field from IC Design. Do you have any tips as to what material to focus on? She's been doing the Andrew Ng's coursera machine learning courses. Also would appreciate tips on how to look for your first gig as a data scientist! Thanks and more power!
Australian laws can't stop spread of suicide footage on TikTok
I used this while working in IT support.

If I responded immediately people never figured stuff out.

I pushed it too far and the CEO threw a temper tantrum in my doorway.

Only use this technique on lower staff levels. :)
You are naive about the power structure.
Amazon have ways to retaliate if this request is not met.
It's not reasonable for a corporation to control the narrative about itself. Same way that it's not reasonable for a government to control the narrative about it self.
> It's not. It only has this Schmidt decomposition in one basis. In other bases there will be cross terms among the basis elements. What you're doing is privileging Schmidt bases as ones that give experiences. In another basis with states w,z say the state will be: |w>|w> + |z>|z> + |w>|z> + |z>|w>

The state's evolution will be completely equivalent to (a linear superposition of) the evolution of |x>|x> and |y>|y>. That's a physically observable fact that's independent of your choice of basis (it's less obvious in the |z>/|w> basis, but it's still true).

Any physically valid concept of "experience" would have to behave the same way. If your state is equivalent to a linear superposition of "experiencing x" and "experiencing y" then it can be characterised completely in terms of "experiencing x" and "experiencing y", and that's not dependent on your choice of basis (though it may be easier to see in one basis or another).

> No you can't, it's a direct consequence of the Kochen-Specker theorem. If the device is treated quantum mechanically and it enters an entangled state of the form you gave then you cannot perform conditioning as the Kochen-Specker theorem, via the non-uniqueness of Hilbert space orthogonal decompositions, prevents an unambiguous formulation of Bayes's law. I can link to papers proving this if you wish.

> The fact that we do experiments where we can condition is, in light of this theorem, a demonstration that our measurement devices do not enter into the kind of CHSH states you're giving.

I don't know what you're trying to claim here. All the available evidence is that measurement devices, being ordinary physical objects, follow the laws of quantum mechanics, and that includes conditioning behaving as entanglement; if you've got evidence that that's not the case then a Nobel prize awaits. Non-uniqueness is a red herring, because choice of basis does not and cannot change experimental predictions; the basis exists only in the map, not the territory.
Saddest part of speech recognition is with all the gigahertz and storage we have, we send it out to the internet to be processed by something else then get the result.
Can you scaffold an entire Application just by writing GraphQL Queries?
I've developed a new concept where we take Persisted Queries one step further.

Based on the Queries we might be able to scaffold UI components or event an entire Application.

Unfortunately I cannot post a codebox on HN so you have to click the link below for an example, I'm sorry!

There are a few questions I'd like to ask the community around this concept. We're mixing a lot of things together here. Data Fetching, Authorization and UI components, all in one view. Is this really something we should pursue? I see potential use cases for low code scenarios when you want to build Admin Dashboards but beyond that. I'm still not sure if this is a good idea. Would be great to hear your thoughts. If you want to get a bit more details on the idea here's a link to the full concept.

https://wundergraph.com/blog/2020/09/06/scaffolding_react_app_with_graphql
Ok, I wrote a blog post about it. Hope it's helpful: https://corebrief.com/2020/09/09/a-better-way-to-find-client...
I played quite a bit but gave up because of the inscrutable UI and ASCII graphics, so I'm quite excited about the recent developments. Can't wait to play Dwarf Fortress again once it has actual 'graphics' and (ideally) a better UI!