skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but think very carefully about whether or not you actually want me to compare Apple to law enforcement. My feeling is that a different analogy would better suit your argument. Is your intention really to make me think about government 'security' talking points around encryption and terrorism?

In real life, if someone told me that murders and kidnappings were a good reason for the government to have absolute control over what computer applications are allowed to be built or what games/media are allowed to be distributed by its citizens, I would call that person an authoritarian.

That's because in real life we balance law enforcement with individual rights. We don't just claim that every single intrusion into people's privacy and autonomy is necessary because otherwise the murderers would come. We also view certain freedoms as inalienable -- we believe that protecting those freedoms is just universally more important than preventing murderers. In fact, many people believe believe that some degree of difficulty and inexactness and imperfection in law enforcement is necessary for the furthering of social progress outside of what the government currently believes is acceptable.

In other words, we balance between anarchy and authoritarianism.

In the same way, we don't only have two choices here. There is a middle ground between "only Apple decides what can run on your devices", and "everyone for themselves, forget trying to make anyone secure." We can get better sandboxing, we can learn more UX techniques around warnings, we can improve public education about computers, we can build out device administration tools, we can build very targeted escape hatches that don't turn the OS into a free-for-all. Even beyond that, we can decide that some user freedoms are worth an increase in malware, the same way that we've decided some security gains are worth a decrease in user freedom.

So I'm not really swayed by someone saying that the only way to prevent malware is if Apple/Google ban porn, and decide for users which payment methods they're allowed to use in an app, and decide whether or not online game streaming apps are allowed to enter the market, and decide whether or not serious games like Sweatshop can be considered art, and decide whether or not podcast apps will be allowed to include COVID podcasts in their directories.

At the very least, we could get rid of most of those restrictions, or we could move all of the security checks to a separate layer and allow people to bypass the content restrictions on their own, and none of that would impact device security.

That we want some security checks does not imply that we should never try to balance security with user freedom.
Looking at the census information, the first number is for establishments with employees. They apparently don't include single person businesses in that number. The census data also lists "total non-employer establishments" at 3.4 million.
I'm not at all surprised they killed Solaris. Given that Oracle was pretty much the only software that ran on Solaris (or that there might be a good reason to run on Solaris), maybe it was just a big support headache. As for MySQL? Not surprised at all. They pretty much just bought a brand name, maybe just to spite red hat.
Very fair point. There are other examples that go beyond DHCA, though, and point clearly in the same direction. One example is that sometimes people suffer cardiac arrests and lose consciousness for minutes to hours 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.06.015. Coordinated electrical activity stops after a few minutes following cardiac arrest, but people can (rarely) be revived with their apparent memories and personality intact.
Thank you, I obviously didn't catch on to that.
Would the crafting wiki contain instructions for crafting the wiki itself?

(An attempt at humour referencing the "set of all sets" paradox. That is all, as you were.)
Why inequality matters (2014)
I see. Looking at the methodology, they’re averaging out the state. This means that the average school district is better than any school district, on average.

But I wouldn’t go as far as saying “MA has the best public schools in the country.” It seems like they are just uniformly above average, whereas NY and Illinois have terrible school districts, mixed in with legitimately the best school districts in the nations.
The same sort of content (including many re-hosted videos) is available on his Twitter page, so I'm not sure this is evidence for anything.
Recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22473263
Absolutely, healthy fear is beyond valid. It's the fear from ignorance that I was referencing. A nuclear meltdown is not an explosion. It's literal a meltdown where the material burns through containment... there is no explosion. The fear of nuclear has prevented investment which could of resulted in far safer technologies entering the market. Technologies like Molten Salt Reactors that have passive meltdown protection[1] and thorium reactors[2] which utilized a material that can't be weaponized through enrichment. A passive safety feature in the Fukushima plant could have prevented that catastrophe.

People have a right to not approve of nuclear. I'm only saying that the technology is heavily repressed due to an uneducated public. The truth is that renewable energy will never be as cost effective as gas or oil for base load energy. Nuclear is a clear and viable option for the energy portfolio. It's a shame to see a completely valid option ignored because of unchecked fear.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_nuclear_safety

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power
I was getting concerned my kids were spending too much time on TikTok. I guess that problem is solved now.
Representing text isn't PDF's job. PDF is meant to be "virtual paper".
Letter to (New) Managers
TikTok picks Oracle over Microsoft in Trump-forced sales bid
> UB has nothing to do with optimization.

Other commenters already responded to this, but I thought I'd link an article I came across a while back that gives a concrete and easy to understand example of how UB can be leveraged for optimization by modern compilers. (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=63...)
>> it’s pretty mind blowing how little the districts prepared for and invested in a virtual year.

Is it? I have two kids in grade school and it was eminently obvious. My partner thought they'd get their shit together and was shocked when they didn't; school year delayed, laptops not ready (we live in a lower income area, not all families have means to afford devices), and the teachers completely unprepared to adapt to online learning.

I told my partner we should move the kids into private schooling that was prepared for it or just home school for a year while keeping them enrolled in the district to keep tax money local. They said to give the school a chance.

Government-run services are incredibly awful at adapting to anything in a "short" period of time, time and time again. Try getting permits for a house or business. Anyone who runs a small business inherently understands how generally useless government agencies are.
Producing a set of impactful decision boundaries as functions and then manually curating the functions reminds me how much work maintaining rule based systems can be. Moreover, so much time is spent on figuring out which rules might be helpful in the first place - this being partly what makes rule based systems traditionally brittle (It takes far longer to evolve the rule-based system than to work around the rules).

I really like the idea of models producing functions over values, thanks for sharing that insight.
Venus is hell, but science is seriously looking for life in its skies
Clear to everyone but you. Maths has clear and precise concepts so logic can be successfully applied in Mathematical proofs with the validity remaining stable line after line. Attempts to do this in natural language, as Wittgenstein pointed out, tend to fail except in toy examples, as can be seen by this nonsense written by Goff. After the first 3 words of the title, "The universe knows..", we have no idea what he is on about and know we are dealing with a crank.

The universe, like Philip Goff, doesn't know anything.
The app can access your microphone, camera, contacts, location services, and clipboard among other things.

https://www.rd.com/article/the-dangers-of-tiktok-that-are-wo...
Principia Cybernetica was one of the older sites on the web that I remember. Mirrored here: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MST.html

That's a link to the 'metasystem transition', a concept coined by Russian cybernetician Valentin Turchin (not mentioned in the article).

Cybernetics sounds cool (always has), but I think it lives on nowadays as control theory. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Seems like most control theory guys are working on autonomous vehicles now.
When Groupon pivoted from The Point it grew insanely fast.
2008 - $0
2009 - $15 million
2010 - $313 Million
2011 - $1.6 Billion

Source: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GRPN/groupon/reven...
Ah. If anything, the whole "rust as better than C for everything" thing is starting to hurt its reputation, regardless of veracity. People get so focused on its use in perf-critical applications they ignore its other strengths. eg I've never replaced C code with it, but we redid our whole PHP backend as a rust app.
Presumably (as someone who doesn't really know shit about this) it's fully possible to make a MIPS chip that speaks Arm instructions? Instructions arrive and are decoded to uops, right? So is the instruction set itself software defined?
> It’s weak companies fleeing to a place where the government is more willing to subsidize their operations at the expense of their residents.

A major problem of large public sectors and large tax burdens is citizenry that thinks a government not taking more than it needs to operate is "subsidizing businesses at the expense of residents". Consider the alternative where representative governments intentionally take less at the behest of their citizens. Granted it's not always that way, but much more so than assuming the residents and business interests don't ever align and the government is always against the residents.

This especially doesn't apply in Texas where many of these relocations, while abatements exist, are often in relatively small/growing suburbs and are often encouraged by their residents. If anything, companies are moving from away state level impositions to more local ones where representation is often clearer and it's easier to leave/avoid if you disagree both as a citizen and a business.
Depends. I know someone who has an open office floor. The benefit is that the floors that have open offices have newer cafeterias and more amenities than the ones without open offices. Plus, the offices are pretty empty, even if they are open office.
Yep. Had to delete a bucket with 100 million or so objects in it a while ago, with each having multiple versions. So it could have been a billion objects. It was something I needed to run every now and then (process to clear the production bucket while getting ready for the full cutover) and have it done in a few hours rather than wait for lifecycle policies to kick in.

I ended up hacking together this https://github.com/boyter/aws-s3-bucket-purger and then ran it on a few different machines to clear it out in under an hour.

Not having some easy way to clear buckets was very annoying.
> Or more recently, when Facebook bought Oculus for $2 Billion, did you expect Facebook to betraying the customer's trust and start pushing Facebook logins?

yes? I mean that felt eminently possible from the get-go.
No, but they might care about being able to get support.
Ah. If anything, the whole "rust as better than C for everything" thing is starting to hurt its reputation, regardless of veracity. People get so focused on its use in perf-critical applications they ignore its other strengths. eg I've never replaced C code with it, but we redid our whole PHP backend as a rust app, because it's great for rigidly defined business rules too.
> ... to the point where Apple flat out refuses to source Nvidia parts.

I've seen this argument made before.

It would be a valid point if Apple stopped using Nvidia GPUs in 2008 (they did), and then never used them again. And yet, 4 years later, they used Nvidia GPUs on the 2012 MacBook Retina 15" on which I'm typing this.
There was an article on earthsky.org [0], but it was taken down. It's available on archive.is [1]

[0] https://earthsky.org/space/life-on-venus-astrobiology-phosph...

[1] https://archive.is/L7MT1#selection-1846.0-1846.1
I think you might benefit from learning about literary devices like allegories and metaphors. You are taking that way too literally. The show is trying to explain complicated things to regular people.
Thanks for joining the discussion.

It's not about looking back at earlier versions that have shipped and trying to classify them, nor is it about asking someone else. Rather, when there's a disagreement as to whether we can launch what we have, with one side saying, "It's fine to launch, it's an MVP after all" and the other side saying "No it's not at MVP quality yet", take a step back and remember that both sides may mean different things by MVP, as the post says.
PDFs are terrible for screen readers for very much all the reasons listed here.

This article does make me wonder though if we'll ever get to a point where OCR tech is sufficiently accurate and efficient that screen readers will start incorporating OCR in some form.
Ah got it. Tuples come with their own challenges and are quite similar to structs, so I’m not surprised they didn’t make the cut. I’ve had to define structs like you say occasionally, but it literally takes like 2 seconds so I don’t really care, and appreciate not having to decide when to use tuples vs structs and argue with teammates about it too.
cybernetics links:

Second-order cybernetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order_cybernetics

Systems_theory: Cybernetics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory#Cybernetics

what is cybernetics? https://vimeo.com/41776276

design for a self-regenerating organization https://www.pangaro.com/ashby+design-for-self-regenerating-c...

notes 358 on the role of leadership & language in regenerating organizations http://www.pangaro.com/littlegreybook-dom.pdf

towards a theoretical foundation for agile development https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7302798

2017 cybernetics conference
https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/cybercon

2017 cybernetics conference - proxy politics as social cybernetics
https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/cybercon/videos/1662...

how cybernetics connects computing, counterculture, and design http://www.dubberly.com/articles/cybernetics-and-countercult...

a tale of the mirror world, part 1: calculators and cybernetics https://www.filfre.net/2017/06/tales-of-the-mirror-world-par...

Niklas Luhmann: Systems Theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhmann#Systems_theory
A little bit of a background on this project:
Myself and SJF (who created the music) decided to build Wander the Night while we were stuck in lockdown.

There is something special about that first night wandering around an unfamiliar city and we wanted to capture that essence, but during lockdown that all came to a stop. Back in 2019 we both had the opportunity to travel through some incredible places and it was those moments that inspired much of our work. We wanted to make something that people could listen / watch while working from home to bring back a little bit of that feeling.

We used the howler.js Web Audio library which proved to be very versatile: https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js
The proprietary driver also doesn't support fractional scaling on 20.04 and I've been waiting ages for that.
Currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24463423
This list is saas companies. Its missing all consumer brands.
>>By your metric, nearly every newspaper is a “left-wing ideological propaganda mill.”

No, my metric is whether pushing an ideology is the overt mission, which it is for ideological “think tanks”, including Hoover.
> Aside from ethics, a class of kids represents millions of future earnings and GDP, this warrants serious approach and best tools money can buy.

Indeed it does. Let's start with paying the teachers more instead of assuming they should pay out of pocket, then, we can have districts pay for the teaching supplies... Oh wait, that all costs tax dollars? Never mind, carry on.

Edit: Also, I had teachers who I know for a fact had wacom tablets available, as they taught the photography/graphics course, who still chose to use pencil and paper. I have to assume therefore that there is some benefit to using pencil and paper over a wacom. This being the case, why on earth would they spend more money?
Java is still the best choice for many backend systems. C# and Go still don't have nearly the breadth of open source libraries available. And performance between the three is very similar, besides Java's new GC's are far better.

For a majority of enterprise type integrations, which I would argue are the majority of software projects, Java and C# are still the only viable choices. And I don't see that changing any time soon. Go and JS haven't really touched that space despite widespread use for webapps.

If you need a big enterprise MMORPG type system with tendrils reaching across the cosmos into your stagnant data ponds, creaky AS400, and React customer facing mirage, Java is the legendary weapon. It's your only choice, your destiny.
This feels like a rehash of "guns don't kill people, people kill people".
It is really a case by case thing. I have ADD but with chemical treatment I'm basically fine and don't need other intervention. I go in to see someone a few times a year to get another prescription but I didn't really need any cognitive psych stuff.

All the "behavioral" problems I may have had were largely caused by the underlying imbalance and just stopped once I was on it. Or at least, stopped enough that they are no longer a problem for me, and I think really once a behavior isn't causing issues in your life it is probably hard to classify it as a "problem"
Sure, here you go: https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/raw_ops

In my experience, well over 80% of these operations are implemented on TPU CPUs, and at least 60% are implemented on TPU cores.

Again, if you give a specific example, I can simply write a program demonstrating that it works. What kind of custom reduction do you want? What's a peak search?

As for workloads that GPUs can't do, we regularly train GANs at 500+ examples/sec across a total dataset size of >3M photos. Rather hard to do that with GPUs.
University attendance may dip, but with the rock-bottom prices, and incredibly simple transfer articulation agreements with the Cal States and UCs, I expect to see the community colleges pick up the slack. That's what the CCs were originally intended for anyway. First two years, then transfer to a UC. All of the quality, none of the sticker price.

California Community Colleges already enroll over 2.1 million students. That's more than the population of the state of Idaho.

Port infrastructure is widely documented as a key driver of economic growth.

https://jshippingandtrade.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/...

The port of Los Angeles alone offers direct employment to 1.6 million people worldwide.

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

That's over double the population of the state of Wyoming.
Trump probably okayed the deal, or made it happen.

Now Tiktok has to please not one but two authoritarian governments.
Buck up and learn enough Java to write this basic program. It's really not a particularly complex or hard language.
I think your TL;DR is "shit flows downhill.". Teachers aren't near the top.
> so several generations of blacks were denied entrance, despite being academically qualified

Being an elite school, there's probably millions of people (of all sorts of backgrounds, etc.) that were qualified and denied entrance, or never sought out, etc.
Yup, the use case of PDFs is "export to PDF and check it immediately before sending to the printer".

All other use cases of PDF are better served by other formats.
One of the challenges with unorthodox ideas is that occasionally some of them lead to great new understandings, but it's a very low signal-to-niose ratio. The orthodoxy can perhaps be excused for their reluctance for entertainment.
Part of me reads this as ByteDance China getting the last laugh in the game by essentially selling to the least qualified buyer.
All VCs Should Offer Portfolio Services
Because Apple. NVidia was tried to support Macs but Apple stops support.
Why blur during a remodel?
Dissolving the Fermi Paradox (2017) [pdf]
It isn't just about security, it is about information gathering. If you give someone all the software used on and to communicate with your spy satellites, it reveals the capabilities of those satellites.
Currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24464933
There's a Reuters article that claims the Chinese government prefers TikTok close US operations like in India than go through with a forced sale and asset transfer, and they're willing to use heavy-handed policy to make Bytedance do what they want. Makes sense. Acquisitions should not be made under the barrel of a gun from the US government. It will be very harmful to the Chinese economy if more companies are required to spinoff US operations.
> A wacom provides a ton of value that you can't just get on pen and paper.

I had teachers who I know for a fact had wacom tablets available, as they taught the photography/graphics course, who still chose to use pencil and paper. I have to assume therefore that there is some benefit to using pencil and paper over a wacom.
Land can certainly be produced. It's very expensive, and quite limited, but things like the Dutch polders or Dubai's Palm Islands. Or for that matter much of San Francisco, Shenzen, and several other major cities.
For the WSJ you can just append this to the URL to bypass the paywall:

?mod=djemalertNEWS
And when Facebook bought Oculus, they said no FB login would be required to use Oculus. FoxConn was supposed to ramp up production in the US according to a press release. That was then, now time has passed. bigCorp hopes your short term memory forgets the woohooism from a foregone press release.
as an embedded dev, the last 2-4 years of STM (major ARM provider) have seen a large degree of integration of specialized hardware into 32-bit microcontrollers. e.g. radios, motor control, AI, 64-bit FPUs, graphics, low-power, etc.

I expect more of the same. The only way it could go wrong is if they lose customer focus. Microcontrollers are a competitive, near-commodity market, so companies have to provide valuable features.

I don't really know Nvidia well - I only buy their stock! - but they seem to be keeping their customers happy by paying attention to what they need. Perhaps their fabrication will be a boon to micros, as they're usually a few gens behind laptop/server processors.
SwiftUI provides a completely new UI programming paradigm using the reactive model popularized by web frameworks, RxSwift, etc.

Using UIKit is just Apple current implementation strategy right now. That doesn’t comprise the SwiftUI model & semantics in any meaningful way. It doesn’t feel at all like a wrapper over UIKit IMO. It’s a completely new beast...
I apologize and wish I could have presented it better. I first compiled this in 2019 and had been planning to summarize it more. Alas, I recently realized that I wouldn't have the energy for that and that I should simply publish as is.

I'm surprised that people care at all, but perhaps I underestimate how many are as interested in the content as I am.

Regarding the formatting, I will try to update the background to something more readable using wordpress, although I obviously lack your skills in this area. In the meantime, you're free to copy it onto your website or elsewhere.