skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GP already provided some "devil-in-the-details" line items to poke holes at carbon offsets (e.g. are all types of emissions being considered correctly)

The parallel that I'm drawing is that recycling was largely touted in the 90s as the solution to the world's pollution problems, but what ended up happening is that people's impression of recycling and their actual implementations turned out to be woefully out of sync. One can argue that the long term damage of this discrepancy is that people will mindlessly buy plastic bottles of coke, ultimately contributing to the microplastics problem because they've been largely trained to think that recycling plastics works (instead of a hypothetical alternative reality where people might instead bring reusable containers to stores to buy things).
>his is also why I always thought people were far too simplistic in assuming we would all just drop everything and unite as one just because life was discovered elsewhere

Usually in fiction that's because the discovery of alien life comes when they attack humanity. Hopefully these Venusian microbes don't have plans of Earth domination.
Unfortunately, if you have a subconscious, you have some degree of gullibility / susceptibility to propaganda.
Can somebody talk more about this? I'm interested and don't know much about it.
Google Abseil: Tip of the Week #140: C++ Constants: Safe Idioms
I don't get your point? Why is it that relevant to you?
Hardly anybody does the "when changing an email address on an account send an email to the old address to allow them to revert the change and temporarily lock the account". It seems like such an obvious thing to do.
Deferrable functions, kernel tasklets, and work queurd
You can maybe make some money by maintaining and selling a Confluence plugin for enterprises :)
How to automatically edit talking head videos
But he definitely had a technical background (working at Atari) and he knew his way around a circuit (compared to people one could classify as non-technical)
Not sure why, but that's the third time I've heard about Tool communities and their organisation this month.
That's a very complete analysis. Thanks. I really wish researchers could spend their time developing on top of open sourced CAS engines.
I'm completely unsurprised. I cannot be the only sucker in here who bought something off of a Facebook ad, and got a token piece of China-shipped junk instead. Mine was a video of a steel light saber being disassembled and put together, with all working parts. I was stupid, I paid $30 for it, and a month later, a box from China shows up with a $1 plastic sword.

After that, I started commenting on every Facebook scam ad I saw, and guess what? That just got me into the queue for MORE scam ads! Facebook sees me commenting "SCAM" on ads about cheap Legos, and it says "Hey, this guy likes cheap Lego scam ads!"

Plus, these ads go to different sites, have different company names, and different images every time, but they are the EXACT same scam, guaranteed. It's like Facebook is incapable of having a legitimate and ethical advertising business at some genetic level, and all the money from these obvious scam ads is just too good.

This shit is so prevalent and so brazen, I've considered setting up my own scam ad, maybe sell a Qanon book that's blank and say "Fuck you, idiot" inside... I mean, why not? It seems like people are getting rich by fucking over Facebook users, and Facebook LOVES it!

They have such utter contempt for their users. And here I am still using it because it's the only platform I can see pictures of my family members on, as they are non-technical users. Am I supposed to run some kind of internal family campaign to get them all to move to some non-existent alternative? I hate this so much. I feel trapped by Zuck's heartless machine.
It never occurred to me that a division of a company could just... secede from the parent company.

Typical in very corrupt countries. I grew up in one. People who lead big/important corporations are always part of the ruling party. And they do everything they can to stay in power.

And another data point, I was working for a startup one of who's investors was Sequoia, in a meeting a person from Sequoia advised us on some cloud company we can use, mentioned they are also investors in it. We asked about their China division, and he told us the China division while technically part of the same company, is in practice a complete separate thing and we shouldn't trust it at all.
These are the people who always die from diseases and yes people don't really care.
It's also fully embeddable - there's a version that runs inside VSCode!
Capitalism does not mean we can’t have legislation to protect humanity —- think of the clean air act and a host of others (e.g. OSHA)
>need to send a spacecraft to learn more

A sample of aliens can help leapfrog our understanding of biology, just like the study of terrestrial bacteria allowed us to precisely edit genes. Really interesting things happen biologically in extreme conditions.
Presumably they got the data they needed? Whether it's worth doing at scale.
Thank you - your comment is right and I conflated two things which are conceptually totally different.

For a given number of experiments and block of time (i.e. available samples over time), it's not useful to say that bandits have higher power / a worse FPR, bc the values are adjustable. F1 or AUC would probably be the right way to compare and it seems likely to me that bandits have better performing precision-recall curves. Basically, this is actually irrelevant to the point, and actually favors bandits.

I was totally thinking about the scenario you mentioned where the number of experiments are unconstrained and old experiments run long. Bandits will spend a lot of their bandwidth on very marginal improvements that are below the effect size cutoff that shorter fixed RCT will set. I think you can fix this with early stopping (or just stopping), so maybe it's not really an issue after all.

Thanks for helping clarify my thinking on this :)
Oculus Quest 2 “Accidentally” Leaked by Facebook
The K1 tablet was Nvidia trying to get rid of a bunch chips they were unable to sell.

You don't see Qualcomm out there making their own phones because they couldn't sell the chips they manufactured.
I'd be looking for the long form as well. Not a timed debate where we just get canned answers. I'd actually rather him do 2 separate interviews, each an hour or two long. No debate, just each candidate shooting the shit for an hour or two separately. Something a little more humanizing than the debates and polished political media machine we are overwhelmed with. Of course, no sane campaign manager would allow this.
Right. Just considering how Chrome uses energy on my Mac, I think they might have further to go before they are truly mitigating their own impact and reaching carbon neutral.
Feds: IBM did discriminate against older workers in making layoffs
The Largest Known Primes (database sumary)
Unusual Features of SARS-CoV-2 Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification
Unless you are building from ground up rules against types of mental virii, you are simply building a new circulatory/ neuronal system, without planning an antibody/immunity system.

Reddit USED to be relatively federated - dont like the subreddit mods and behavior, make your own sub, release hundreds of posts announcing it to users, and then users chose which sub they preferred.

Automod came along and white lists/black lists of words killed that system whole.

Now people send laborious messages on reddit to let people know of which new, new subversive subreddit has opened up. With all the credibility of a guy selling illicit goods on a street corner.

Not sure how you can prevent botting, and thence white lists/black lists of words.
> It is entirely unfair that the state of a person from age 15-18 leads to an opportunity gap that's this massive.

I was pretty lazy at that age, and I know that if I had applied myself a little bit more, I'd be way further ahead now (in fact, the way things ended up going in the 90's, I'd probably be comfortably retired by now if I'd been a bit more academically successful when I was a teenager). I'm not bitter or upset about it, though - I feel like I've gotten what I was willing to work for. I'm watching my own, much more disciplined and motivated, son grind away through his junior year of high school trying to keep his perfect GPA so that he can get into a top college and I can't help but worry that any attempt to make things "fair" would disadvantage not just students like him (potentially, anyway) but everybody: if there's an upper threshold of effort beyond which additional effort is ignored in the name of fairness, it becomes impossible to distinguish the really committed from the "just showing up".
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Netflix is also guilty of using algorithms to recommend content, but to be fair, they do not gather nearly as much data on your behavior and life in general as i.e. Google and Facebook/Insta/WhatsApp. They also have different incentives as all of their users are actually paying for their product, and are not shown ads to the same extent (only product placements in movies as far as I know).
We hired a guy who had been out of software for a decade. It was a risk to do so, because what if he can't do it anymore? What if he's so rusty that he's worthless? So we hired him to a three-month trial period, at a reduced salary. If he worked out, we would keep him and give him a substantial raise; if he didn't, well, it cost us three months of reduced salary, so the risk wasn't all that high. He worked out, and we kept him.

I think that structuring things like that might help if companies are reluctant to hire you because of rust.

As for leet code: There's plenty of places that don't interview that way. I couldn't pass one, either, and I've been coding professionally for 35 years. Don't worry about those kinds of questions. If you're and angular programmer, leet code isn't really what your job is, and therefore it really isn't what interviewers should be asking. If they are, that's their problem, not yours. Go somewhere else.
Latin America has a police brutality problem of its own
It's apparently powered by energy from the European Marine Energy Centre:

http://www.emec.org.uk/

I suspect there is simply more infrastructure for this kind of thing in Orkney that the other islands.
I think that's not enough. Our societies problem is not that learning (or information) is expensive and inaccessible. The internet has solved that problem already, with open access papers lagging behind general progress but that is now being resolved as well.

The problem is deeper. Critical thinking requires you to be willing to engage in criticism. Or phrased another way, it's about skepticism.

Skepticism is deeply unpopular. People who engage in critical thinking are shamed, censored, fired, sometimes punished by the police if their critical thinking leads to them to criticise the beliefs of those in power. There are a lot of people in the world, and especially in the sort of Hacker News reading social groups, who are deathly afraid of critical thinking of any form because they don't believe most people can really do it. They would much prefer blind, automatic belief and credulity.

This article is a prime example of the genre, but you can see this in the way Wojcicki makes YouTube block anyone who doesn't "believe" in the pronouncements of the WHO, even though the WHO has constantly changed its own advice and thus anyone engaged in critical thinking could easily have disagreed with it at any point. LinkedIn has the same policy.

However these people are usually the worst at critical thinking. The author himself is so poor at it that he's spreading misinformation and making loony claims, whilst railing against others he accuses of doing so.

For instance, he provides a list of things Americans supposedly don't believe or believe. He says, "Millions don’t believe in vaccination". What does it mean to "believe" in vaccination? His citation for this is a Washington Post report on polling that actually asked people two rather specific questions:

1. Should vaccination be mandatory? (~33% said no)

2. Is the measles vaccine harmful? (in the west, ~90% said it's safe)

The vast majority of people say no and no, which are the conventional answers. In fact the statement is useless - the population of the US is so large that for "millions" of Americans to believe something requires only 0.5% of the population to believe it, and in this case he isn't even precise about what he means by "believe". When you drill into the actual data it's hardly an issue.

As for "45% of Americans believe in ghosts and demons", does he really believe people will take a poll like that seriously? Only someone incapable of critical thinking would take such a claim at face value. If half of Americans believed in ghosts and demons, there would be a thriving industry of anti-ghost and anti-demonic services. There'd be ghostbusting shops in every town. There aren't, but there sure are a lot of people who will troll pollsters and fools who blindly believe them for a laugh.
if humans output the entirety of their energy usage into the ocean, it would take ~8000 years to raise the temperature by 1 degree.
Welcome back! Sounds like it was very worthwhile. I did something similar a few years back and felt similarly out of the loop.

What worked for me was briefly brushing up on my data structures and algorithms, and then bombing several interviews. After eventually not bombing a few real interviews, I felt like I was back in the game.

On a resume, I would list your time as a sabbatical if you did no coding during that time, and I wouldn't give it more than a sentence of space. If you did even a little coding, I would focus more on what you coded.

Your decision to travel doesn't mean that your career is in trouble! You may or may not run into obstacles finding work during this time. Just be sure to prepare for a possibly lengthy process.
Forth seems to have made its way into a lot of boot environments; it was also used for open firmware
We've outsourced the problem to China.
Trivial searches yield trivial results.

That [1] really only examines ratios of osmium to platinum-group elements is telling. At only one place in the paper do they admit that the osmium/osmium isotope ratios found in their samples, from the one cave, do, in fact, match a known bolide. They very carefully avoid addressing the extreme Pt abundances found in the YDB layer at dozens of sites. This is akin to others complaining that iridium abundance at the strata is not especially elevated, without addressing platinum, which lacks other explanation.

"Lack of clear consensus" cited in the paper is revealed to mean that certain individuals, like them, have disagreed, without addressing faulty details. Such individuals have made claims that spherules identified as carbon are spores, without having examined any of them, or that they are not present at all, but which turn out to refer to layers that do not coincide with the YDB.

The European volcanic eruption mentioned is known to have occurred some centuries before the YDB.

You can't refute results from dozens of sites with equivocal results from a single site.
>But longer term it creates a trend in which Armerican companies themselves will struggle in China. So what? Well, China will overtake the US so ultimately the US will have a disadvantage in the world's top market.

The Chinese market was never actually open to American companies. Not long term. They may have had temporary success but the CCP's goal was always to displace and replace with their own domestic competitors.

While the Chinese market may be close off to the US and foreign companies, the world market is greater than just the Chinese market and the American markets. For example, American companies are doing well in India, a market which is increasingly becoming closed to China due to geopolitical tensions.
The reason to be hesistant is /because/ we saw how it was dealt with before! If we had the same godawful most self-righteous prude standards we would be censoring the very concept of LGBT people as "corrupting". It is no accident that acceptance's first step was from unregulated media who slipped through the crack and was able to laboriously crack and pry through the societal bullshit.

Fuck the parents - they should be adults and taking responsibility for their life's direction if they have kids.
> Why call it 'extensible'? It's no more extensible than C.

Extensibility refers to the ability to extend the compiler directly in the language. Lisp supports this with macros, which are not functions and are different than macros in C because they alter the behavior of the compiler, and Forth supports this with defining words and compiling words, which behave differently from other forth words because they alter the behavior of the compiler. Compare this to a macro in C, which pre-processes the macro into more C prior to compilation rather than at the time of compilation. In this respect, both Forth and Lisp are more extensible than C because facilities to extend the language exist within the language itself.
I believe that social media is being used to try to influence American elections, whether it actually being influenced is unclear, and I believe overblown. I've been party to enough multi million dollar brand campaigns to know the results are hard to measure, often less than believed, and generally a waste.
[1] mentions "up to 5 five years". But your question still hold

[1] https://natick.research.microsoft.com/
Not that the US gov't hasn't tried on multiple occasions...
That's the point though, if the spouse cannot have a child, the marriage is annulled and the fertile partner gets a different spouse.

The idea is, "unwelcomed" is not an issue. In the Uighur regions, China is already practicing a form of marriage enforcement to make sure there's more han babies in the region.
The Great Filter isn't a thing! There is no Fermi paradox! The Drake equation is malformed; multiplying expected values is a bad way to combine probability distributions. https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
When standard machine code is written in a "Dependency cutting" way, then it scales to many different reorder registers. A system from 10+ years ago with only 100-reorder registers will execute the code with maximum parallelism... while a system today with 200 to 300-reorder buffers will execute the SAME code with also maximum parallelism (and reach higher instructions-per-clock tick).

That's why today's CPUs can have 4-way decoders and 6-way dispatch (AMD Zen and Skylake), because they can "pick up more latent parallelism" that the compilers have given them many years ago.

"Classic" VLIW limits your potential parallelism to the ~3-wide bundles (in Itanium's case). Whoever makes the "next" VLIW CPU should allow a similar scaling over the years.

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It was accidental: I doubt that anyone actually planned the x86 instruction set to be so effectively instruction-level parallel. Its something that was discovered over the years, and proven to be effective.

Yes: somehow more parallel than the explicitly parallel VLIW architecture. Its a bit of a hack, but if it works, why change things?
Facebook collects data beyond what you provide when opening the account; they can use that to either detect the fakeness of the account and close it or track its activity to populate your (real) shadow profile, or both.

Just like with radioactive sludge, the best way to deal with Facebook is to not get anywhere near it.
Visors and violence: we are returning to the Middle Ages
This is an utterly unscientific and healthcare ignorant view on the level of "spirits cause tuberculosis". Science and medicine have long past moved from the model of personal responsibility in treating addiction behavior. We now know that a wide variety of factors completely out of control of the user, such as trauma in childhood, genetic influence, isolation, depression, etc. contribute to someone's tendency to become addicted to something.

Additionally, we also know that it is possible to make something addictive by spacing out dopamine hits in such a way that can be designed to cause a person to pursue this over other necessary duties. Pairing this with people who are more vulnerable to addiction through no factors they could've possibly controlled essentially takes advantage of people.
That's a key part of the security landscape that many techie users just don't seem to get. Maybe you'd like to be able to run your own code natively without jumping through a bunch of hoops, and distribute code you wrote without it having to be blessed by some megacorp that might not care too much about you. And maybe you're doing nothing but good and useful things when you use those abilities.

But there are a ton of bad actors out there who will also use those abilities to scam and steal. You can stereotype it as only clueless users falling for that, and there's even a little truth to it, but 1. Some are quite good and nobody is perfect, you can still get scammed yourself, and 2. It seems not cool to just write off everybody who isn't a tech expert, throw them to the wolves, blame them for falling for any scams.
It's more the number of reboots and invocations of freebsd-update. Since these are all manual steps, you need to keep track of where you are and invoke the next step manually.

The current process for upgrading FreeBSD is roughly, assuming that you're just using packages and not ports is:

* freebsd-update upgrade

* freebsd-update install

* reboot

* freebsd-update install

* pkg upgrade

* reboot

* freebsd-update install

* (optional) reboot

In comparison, the process for upgrading OpenSuse Tumbleweed, assuming that you're just using packaged software, is:

* zypper dup

* reboot

If the base system were managed by pkg, the FreeBSD version of the process should probably look a lot like the OpenSuse Tumbleweed version. Condensing upgrades down to a two-step process seems like it will be a significant quality-of-life improvement to me.
I like it better, and the other developers like it better. It is a very good fit for our jobs, and has advantages that all of us very much appreciate.

I haven't done a company-wide survey :-D However, I have not seen complaints from anyone just dying to get back to the office.
Altair Acquires Univa
Methane dissipates in the atmosphere within ~12 years, CO2 takes hundreds to thousands of years.
I would imagine there's a strong psychological benefit to earning coins with "real" world value. People love the feeling of "winning" $10 of tokens; even if you can't cash them out...
The official site has the info you are looking for.

"Natick was used to perform COVID-19 research for Folding at Home and World Community Grid."

Also the data center designation for it was "Northern Isles" (SSDC-002).

https://natick.research.microsoft.com/
Another option of course is to change what's legal. Society could legally force Apple to allow and cooperate with real independent repair shops. It seems quite clear this would be a more efficient and fair system.

But yes we can also strive towards both goals simultaneously. I personally will never spend any money on Apple's products. I've inherited a few of them, but I keep myself as loosely tied to the ecosystem as possible.
I think it's relatively easy to con honest people because they tend to think other people have similar moral standards.

'we're inspecting your home on behalf of the government' [steal your jewelry]

'we're calling from your bank as there's been a problem with your account; we need you to read an access code from your phone'
(steals savings)

'we're calling from your pension advisor as you appear to have been missold payment protection'
(steals pension)

They're doesn't appear to be any need for dishonesty on the part of the conned.

It's possibly easier to con a greedy person?