skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh god no. Lisa Barett-Feldman is mostly marketing, I do not see any great additions from her to the debate regarding emotions. Don't get me wrong, the state of affairs of theories of emotion is lamentable. But her views are (mostly) either already established, or obviously wrong. She creates strawmen. "No emotion is tied to a single, objective state in the body" is misleading at best. Of course it is not, no one in the field thought so previously.

Stating that emotions are "cultural" explains nothing, and it is also demonstratebly wrong if taken to the absolute. Blind people do show facial expressions very similar to non-blind people (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/978111951934...). Barett-Feldman simply ignores the large amount of evidence for specific, biological foundations of emotions. That is why she is controversial.

Also I am not even sure she sees things that differently, just claimes she does. Her view, as I understand it: Specific body experiences (affect) differ in two main qualities, arousal (how strong) and valence (pleasantness). The interpretation of affect as a specific emotion is a culturally influenced cognitive act. Apart from the cultur-thing that is exactly Schachter and Singer's theory on emotion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_theory_of_emotion).

Is there a consistent mapping between context factors and affect? If yes, how can you claim that there is no biological, innate basis for emotion? If no, how can she claim that there is a thing called "affect", if you cannot consistently produce the reaction?

If all you do is say that affect and emotions are not the same, where is the contribution? Then you are over 2,000 years too late, the old Greeks already had some ideas on that.
For esprit de corps maybe Cyber should issue regimental robes and wizard hats?

ROBES AND HATS, BY NUMBERS — ONE!
Everything you need to know about running an A/B test. – Aanand Shekhar Roy
I know it’s correct because the rest goes off the page.
Oh yes that is correct. Sorry then I compared apples and oranges here. “Pharmacists” in Germany only hand out the medics and produce some.
Doctors are the only ones who can prescribe.
I don't think deaf users would agree with you. Because they are going to be trying to understand if they actually said lucky rather than fuck. Better to choose the best match, and fuck the prudes.
I haven't touched it in many years, but:

I think (a) it's still possible, per https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs... .

(b) Creating new .so files that shadow functions in others is an interesting idea! I think you're implying that the executable wouldn't pick them up for free, which I think is true, but I'm not actually sure. I forget the details of how this works but it might be that you could just play tricks with the order of the files to make them shadow.

In practice with a fast linker (I used gold at the time, but I think lld is even faster than gold now) it doesn't matter so much as long as you keep the component libraries small enough. But my info is also nearly a decade out of date now...
Enrichment of the population can be beneficial and worth fostering? This doesn’t speak to if we should do it, just that there are reasons to argue for it.
That is to be expected, similar to the way open discussion of salaries puts upwards pressure on salaries. When Bob sees Alice get promoted, he asks himself why. Maybe it's obvious that Alice is a better employee, but not by so much that Bob feels it's out of his reach. So he works harder and then asks his boss if now wouldn't be a good time for that promotion for him too.

Or maybe it's not obvious why Alice got promoted and Bob didn't, so Bob asks his manager. Hopefully the manager can explain the reasoning in a way that Bob can understand, and Bob can get to work to level-up or can accept that he's just not as good as Alice. (If the manager can't come up with a good reason...well...that's a problem. For the manager.)

If no one's getting promoted, then there's not much point in asking for a promotion. May as well keep your eye on jobs at other companies if you'd like to get ahead. Sometimes companies try to keep the promotions quiet, in an apparent effort to suppress the masses clamoring for a promotion. I suppose it works, as much as suppressing salary discussion works. ("Here's your annual raise this year, you did a _great_ job, this 3% shows that, almost _no one_ gets 3%, this is super high. Great job, Bob! Oh, and don't worry about that promotion, it's super rare to get promoted within your first x years at the company, it'll come...")
I think we left the holy land of pc overclocking long ago.. this dude just showed us chemical coating of transistors.. Even Applied Science would be jealous.
Would be interested in what that salary range is. I assume a larger part of their comp is RSU and options.
Is this a successor to PICO-8? Both projects look very similar.
Ask HN: Websites Like LWN
These days most of tech / programming related content is very shallow, and lot of it is written for resume padding or SEO purpose.

I like LWN articles, which are generally interesting and often cover technical topics that we don't know existed.

I also like some ACM queue articles, they are pretty in depth.

Usenix as well, while it is conference papers, I feel it has less noise than arxiv, and I am more likely to find an interesting paper.

Edit: John Regehr and Prof. Lemire's blogs are also very nice..

Any other similar sources?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3otqUu-7WUQ
Surprising for the flashy marketing style of the video it really explained to me the difference between FINFET, GAA and MBCFET really well.

Is Samsung and IBM stronger in structural R&D then they are at FABs?
Something worth noting, is that there are many social credit systems active in China. The majority of the rules are placed at the provincial level where the person's household registration is located.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System#Social_cr...
Standard guardian infomercial about standard pseudo science book that will blow your mind and hack your life. I really think they have a standard recipe for these by now:

Take some facts that are commonly known and accepted. In this case the body state (food, sleep, exercise, illness, etc) influence your state of mind/emotions. This is the hook that establishes trust.

Conclude what is obvious but completely unhelpful: you have to live a balanced life. No shit?! But present it in a long and pretentious manner that will make your readers have a ridiculous Eureka! moment.

Then add the twist. The completely unproven and unsupported theory that sounds good:

> instead of saying “I’m scared,” she blurted out: “I’m experiencing high arousal from uncertainty.”

> “Anger” is a cultural concept

Choosing different wording and expressions for emotions will not change how you feel or how you act. It will only make communication difficult with other people.

EDIT: a rose by any other name...
The vast majority of the train system in the USA was built with private money, so it's a poor example of capitalist failure. The fact that passenger trains are unviable in the USA is a product of the distances and the airplane.
They bury themselves deep so that other malware can't uninstall it easily, that's basically it

But yeah it's a pain
The non-internet "analog option" must be preserved. I can speak from personal experience that it is becoming more difficult. Unless more people need to actually use the analog option they will be removed in the name of "efficiency" and "replacing legacy baggage".

Asking if it is possible to opt-out of the increasingly digital, interconnected, and interdependent aspects of society isn't particularly important. We need to try anyway to preserve the possibility.

Dan Geer on this topic[1]:

> The most telling fork in the road of them all is whether we
retain an ability to operate our world, or at least the parts we
would call critical, by analog means. Analog means, and only
analog means, do not share a common mode failure with the
digital world at large. But to preserve analog means requires
that they be used, not left to gather dust on some societal
shelf in the hope than when they are needed they will work.
This requires a base load, a body of use and users that keep the
analog working. [...]

> What we have here is an historic anomaly, an anomaly where the
most readily available counter to an otherwise inexorable drift
into a vortex of singleton technology risk and the preservation
of a spectrum of non-trivial civil rights is one and the same
counter: the guarantee, by force of law where necessary, that
those who choose to not participate in the digital melange can
nevertheless fully enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness, that to opt out of the digital vortex does not
thereby require that they live in medieval conditions, and, by
doing so, we reap a national security benefit in the bargain as
those opting out are the base load for the analog alternative.
[...]

> And that is what I am here to tell you, that the future of
humanity and cybersecurity are conjoined, so that as we prepare
to make some decisions that are of the fork-in-the-road sort, we
need to think it through because in making decisions about
cybersecurity we are choosing amongst possible futures for
humanity. Those decisions will be expensive to later reverse in
either dollars or clock-ticks.

> The onrushing world of full personalization means the rational
decision for the individual or the small entity does not and
will not aggregate into the rational decision for society at
large. Perhaps that is the core effect from a rate of change up
with which we cannot keep. [...]

> You, we, are the masters of the universe now. What will we do
with that power, which we have but a short while more?

[1] http://geer.tinho.net/geer.ncc.8x18.txt

edit:

Video of Dan Geer's talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbDEbfijxNY
It seems like Uncle Bob is becoming more out of touch each passing month these days.
Epic already attempted to transition users away from the Google Play Store.

>“After 18 months of operating Fortnite on Android outside of the Google Play Store, we’ve come to a basic realization,” reads Epic’s statement. “Google puts software downloadable outside of Google Play at a disadvantage, through technical and business measures such as scary, repetitive security pop-ups for downloaded and updated software, restrictive manufacturer and carrier agreements and dealings, Google public relations characterizing third party software sources as malware, and new efforts such as Google Play Protect to outright block software obtained outside the Google Play store.”

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/21/21229943/epic-games-fortn...

Then Epic attempted to cut deals with device makers to preinstall their App Store on devices.

>Epic claims that Google forced phone manufacturer OnePlus to break off a deal that would have seen a special Fortnite launcher preinstalled on OnePlus phones — and demanded that another Android phonemaker, LG, abandon any plans to do the same.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21368395/fortnite-epic-ga...
On one hand, of course emotional palettes are cultural artifacts. On the other hand, though, by what logic does her choice of pop-science concepts lead to a deeper understanding of those cultural artifacts?

The way she talks to her daughter is pretty fucked up.
My friend wants some of his ashes to be put into an hour glass so that his kids can turn it over and spend the time it takes to drain thinking about him. I think it is kind of morbid but to each his own.
I think this is true in the pure educational sense. There's nothing in most non-research degrees that you need a particular person or scarce resource to learn. Everything is public and nowadays online. It's even better: If you don't understand one guy's explanation of vector calculus, you can get another guy's without getting out of your seat.

The problem is there are so many people with degrees, and there's a vague but established pecking order of universities. People still would rather hire someone from a top uni, especially in the Anglosphere. For most things that aren't dev work it's like the old IBM quote, you won't get fired for hiring the Harvard grad.

For not-top unis that teach you the same stuff, I think they're gonna be in trouble. The mini-mill has already been built, and there's a huge gap in price that will only make it more attractive to just do a degree online.

Even looking at my own education, it could have been done a lot faster. In terms of time it added up to 96 weeks of class time. At the time you needed professors meaning it had to be spread over 4 years, so you got a bit of socialising as well, but it's have loved to just do a massive intense 2 year course and be done with it. Fact is you socialise better at work: you'll have more varied people and a bit of cash to pay for stuff.
I didn't say anything about funding education, just the reasoning for it.

Having said that I do believe undergraduate education should be available to everyone. As automation continues to improve there is less and less need for labor. Why not reduce the supply a bit and get more educated citizens out of the deal?

If we say an undergraduate education is not worth taxpayer dollars then the real question seems to be "how much education is enough?" If 16 years is too much how do we know 12 is the right amount? The question leaves open the possibility that 8 years is just as good.

Clearly some amount of taxpayer funded education is beneficial. It seems natural to me that the ideal amount of education will continue to increase as we learn more as a species.
Yes. I used these instructions:

https://mudge.name/2019/11/12/using-a-raspberry-pi-for-time-...
I cannot agree with this enough. I'm 29 years old now, so not particularly old but not 21 anymore. When I was 16 working as a concert promoter all the hard working musicians from my middle of nowhere home town in Canada became successful, either in the music industry or in another industry. I'm still friends with people I let sleep on my floor during those times.

On the tech side I've stayed late to help push projects through. People don't forget. I have friends from 7+ years ago, some who's weddings I've stood at. We _still_ talk about the time we made a miracle happen and got the project out the door the night before. We _still_ talk about the time production went down in front of 1,000,000 users and we rage coded a solution together.

Compound interest works with relationships just like it works with money. Real trust builds over years. I've been the tag along for a few projects now that I never would have found without being friendly and helpful in the past.
>There is a field of academia which studies these ideas, and it is called Whiteness Studies.

Does this "Whiteness Studies" come to the same quality of conclusion of oh.... Say phrenology did with individuals of African descent? Or at distinguishing criminality from facial features?

Just saying a field in academia purportedly exists that studies something confers neither credibility nor protection against calling out of the fundamental precepts of said field as intentionally divisive, absurd, and the realm of quackery.
study -> try selling -> fail -> study

or the better one:

study -> try selling -> success -> study even more

My claim is you don't have to do, say, MBA to study sales.
If I understand GP's comment correctly, they're referring to the fact that Android lets you install apps directly from the .apk file without needing to get it though the Play store, and you can still have Android scan the app to see if it's known to be malicious if you enable that.
Bangs are the killer feature for me and I'm surprised google hasn't stolen it yet. Just kinda illustrates how entrenched Google's search engine is that it keeps removing features rather than adding them and still is number one search engine in the world.
In the US a degree is often used as the first filter. Without a degree your resume could just be rejected by a computer before a human even looks at it.
We raise ~36 Billion dollars in fuel taxes per annum. That's why no one complains about the Interstate Highway System, it pays for itself.

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2016/f...
What is the state of other operating systems on Android devices?

Since Mobian is bringing Debian to phones, I am playing with the idea to try it.

How easy/hard is it nowadays to just go to a store, buy a nice phone, go home and put Mobian on it?

I am not talking about how nice the phone experience is. Just how easy/hard the switch to Mobian would be.

I'm fully aware that Mobian is brand new. But I would like to have a phone where I can play with it and watch it's progress.
What you're describe is sort of the first and last steps. As I understand it, the solution involved comparing the pattern of sand in the pack world (that they figured out from the picture) against all possible seeds.

Doing all the initial detective work allowed them to compute the xyz coords in the world, which gives the location to run the simulations.

The whole thing was abstracted away, you don't need to run Minecraft at all (so it's not like they're rending billions of images), just the function that generates the sand noise. This got written as a parallel cuda kernel and they just threw iron at it.

That then gave the 700k possible matches which were searched more thoroughly.

The matching function is very simple, it compares the generated Perlin noise to a fairly small template and as soon as there's a mismatch, it stops early. Most of the complexity in the kernel is generating the noise from a seed.

https://github.com/minecrafthome/pack-sand-reversal/blob/309...
Well, for one thing, PICO-8 is a commercial product, whereas TIC-80 is free and open-source.
As I understand it, in Europe they give phd students canned projects to work on, which are designed to only take a couple years. It's just the whole plan of how long they want it to take. In the US doing a project of that size may be enough to get by at some schools, but it generally isn't supposed to be.
One word: flat tax rate
> they rarely go to the open market. They rarely respond to open casting calls and don't need to go through the broken song and dance routine.

I don’t know why people think this. Is there some data to back this up...? I’ve seen great engineers go onto the open market and have to go through the hoops...

Meanwhile I’ve seen plenty of terrible ones have no issues getting through side doors.
I’m a bit confused by this - are you asking people who have an otherwise full course load to additionally audit courses or asking people out of school to continue education by auditing courses?

Maybe I’m a bit of an outlier, but I still watch lecture series on YouTube long after graduating college and didn’t really have time to audit courses alongside my other courses in college.
I don't understand. If it's legal for some companies to use a strategy, that prolongs the usefulness compared to a world where it's legal for every company to use the strategy?
Apparently no contemporary sources place the Gardens at Babylon. The smart money is betting they were at Nineveh, instead.
RP4 has UASP, you can buy a SATA hat, and you can put it in a box with your drive if you don't want to look at it.

I have some netbooks lying around and I'd still prefer to buy an RP4 for little projects here and there. Reuse be damned I guess. For me, the main reasons to go with RP4 are gigabit ethernet, less power draw, less need for noisy fans, and a large community.
Reading this made me feel relaxed.
Why not use weighted market share scale then? In other words if you're not on the default option list you are weighted more for normalizations.
And Steam?
Maybe because Uber is just not a software company. We should stop sugar-coating that. That's my opinion.
That error means TM detected bit rot via failing checksums or due to an IO error during a read operation, usually because of a failing disk, or other software on the NAS you're using corrupting your backups. It's not caused by TM itself corrupting its own backups.
Consumer Crucial/Micron drives used to have enough capacitors on board to, at least in my understanding, never corrupt data on power loss (not sure if they flushed the cache, but I think they at least tried and guaranteed sectors wouldn't become unreadable/corrupted due to being partially written). They dropped this in later models, though, but I think they still claim they can guarantee non corruption/partial writes?

I stopped trusting Crucial when they released the P1 though. That QLC drive is terrible on every metric. Performance falls off a steep cliff once you do any writes at all, and often never quite recovers. Tail latencies are in the 1 second range, which is insane for an SSD.
I am wondering if he runs any OCR or object recognition on collected screenshots.
Assange Hearing Day 19
I like your statement 'the mini-mill has already been made'. The thing is though not everyone needs an employee with Harvard degrees. Small companies may be happy with a finance person with a 4 year degree from a smaller university for example.
The favicon seems to be lacking?
I'm going to open a competing university and sell mine for $124.
Hacker News always delivers, two comments and I'm already not buying the book (I'm a sucker for good science marketing, her book was in my basket when I decided to read "the comments")
That's like asking if we could find a virus on some old mineframe that by accident works better than modern computer viruses on the newest version of linux :)

It's very very very unlikely it will even be able to run at all. It would use a different machine code, even if it was by crazy accident the same it would use some long forgotten binary format instead of elf and depend on different directory structure. It wouldn't be adapted to modern protection schemes like stack randomization.
> This is the most "it depends on what consulting house you work for" thing I've ever heard. If you're at any mid or large sized consulting firm, office politics are 3-4x as important as anywhere else.

I don't mean to work for a consulting house. Instead one should setup it's own consulting company. In order to set your own rate. Determine your own wage growth, etc...
Double precision from ieee754 is 64bit, of which 53bits are the significand.

X87 uses an 80bit format with functionally a 63 bit significand (they actually use a 64 mantissa, but for that actually doesn’t gain you anything, and adds many terrible edge cases).

They use double precision values because that presumably provides more precision than they need, but 32 bit float would be woefully inadequate.

They could use more (x87 or software float for instance) but there’s not really an any advantage to the increased precision you get, and there are many downsides.
> There are plenty of big tech companies that pay well, offer a lot of freedom, interesting tech, but are also not FAANG companies with silly interviewing practices.

Names? I’m genuinely interested in places paying near 400k/yr but without stringent whiteboard exercises. Haven’t seen them tho...
> Accessibility features will always be low usage

iOS seems to have a lot of accessibility features, and without impairments I still find them useful.

Captions are great, who wants to listen to crappy audio all the time when one can read 5x faster?
It seems to me his main problem is that the medium brings expectations, and those expectations aren't healthy for the game itself.

The same way that online updating/patching is inherently superior to master-copy, but it also generates a culture of poor QA if you're not specifically fighting it.

Or another way: now that we have 1TB HDDs, game data is actually becoming 10% logic, and 90% assets -- namely cutscenes and voice acting and etc. The problem Carmack was complaining about has only intensified since.
https://www.online-python.com/OuZ0thRs6D
I do that too! I try to block all kinds of Related/Hot/Recommended stuff on websites. Those can be more distracting than real ads if you ask me. Most useful has been to block the end card recommendations after YouTube videos.