skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DNA ties Ashkenazi Jews to group of just 330 people from Middle Ages
This is how the politics of science can works. Masks may run out is the fear. Do not be honest and tell everyone they don't work. Masks are restocked, force everyone to wear a mask.
Residing in the country with the "longest, continuous minefield in the world"[1], I very much appreciate the harsh reality of "your first click could be your last".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan_Western_Sahara_Wall
Are instructions typically variable in the number of cycles it takes?

If, as the article claims, pop is truly aliased to ldm, then I'd expect it to be very fast.
On removal in ARM64: Do LDP and STP load and store fixed pair of registers? e.g. (r0, r1), (r2, r3) ..
Never mind. I want the flag back now.
The numbers used here are not for security they are just to make the scene look nice or to make the simulation more robust.
If I wake up early, at around 5am or 6am, then my morning is ultra productive.

If I wake up at 8am, my morning is subpar and I will perform best from mid-afternoon to late evening.
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'Fairness' has no relevance when it comes to a site's participants deciding among themselves what is and is not worth discussing. Perhaps those posts and commands that were flagged or downvoted were considered less legitimate than you might have suspected by the rest of the userbase. <insert xkcd 1357 here>
Twitter also blocked Bret Weinstein’s “3rd party” initiative in the same way, deleting the account and preventing linking to https://articlesofunity.org/

There isn’t anything objective about their moderation - they just want to help Biden win.
Prolog is... different, it's going to take some getting used to. The Art of Prolog is a great resource, reading the first few chapters should get you far enough that you can then roughly understand what the code is doing and Google (or skim forward though the rest of the book) to look up the unfamiliar syntax for things like arithmetic. You should probably ignore the cut (the ! Aisha adds) for a while and come back to it once you've written some Prolog and gotten a feel for how it works. cuts are simple, but only once you've wrapped your head around Prolog's execution strategy. A good way to know that you get it is that you no longer accidentally write infinite loops.

Of course, once you understand logic programming you still have most of this essay left to go through. Even if you've used lisp you've probably never had to implement one! And of course, after you've gotten through all that, now you need to read code written in this strange lisp. A microKanren. almost Prolog, but different in some key ways; it uses a different execution strategy which prevents those infinite loops. The Reasoned Schemer is the second half of this essay but expanded out to book form, it would make a great explanation if you're down for a nice read and you have a free Saturday.

Once you've gotten through all that the syntax has become completely unrecognizable but the final solution is fun, and makes all the ceremony worth it:

balanceo, [lambda, [tree, balanced],
[conde, [[rotso, tree, balanced],
[balancedo, balanced]]]]

`balanceo` is a relation which is only satisfied if `tree` is a tree and `balanced` is the balanced form. If you pass in `tree` it returns the correct `balanced`. I'm not sure, but it looks like it probably also works if you only pass in `balanced`, in which case it will return the unbalanced `trees` which correspond to that balanced tree. You might even be able to pass in nothing, in which case it will return a bunch of pairs of unbalanced trees and their balanced forms.

The definition of `balanceo`, essentially, says that "[balanceo tree balanced] is only true if balanced can be formed by performing rotations on tree, and balanced is balanced." MicroKanren figures out the rest. That's declarative programming! Pretty great! Though, it only works for small trees, which does tarnish the magic a little.
The Google Caliphate
You already do, don't you? Social Media created an algorithm based add industry that was and is easily highjacked for bad-faith propaganda purposes. A system that at its core is designed to exploit human psychology in ways and scales we never saw before. You cannot create such things, keep them under your control and just ignore the consequences.
"Google employees are free to speak up" ... I think James Damore would disagree.
Still works for me, FWIW. Would give you an archive page, but it's based on dynamically loading the image as you zoom in, so a regular archive page is not really a thing AFAIK.
I predict next move will be YouTube censoring video addressing some political topics, such as leaks.
Are all "web servers" connecting to the same database (cluster or instance), without application specific database partitioning ?
From the Swedish public health agency:

"We do not currently recommend face masks in public settings since the scientific evidence around the effectiveness of face masks in combatting the spread of infection is unclear. However, there may be situations where face masks can be useful despite the uncertain state of knowledge about the effects.

Face masks must always be seen as complementary to other recommendations: stay at home when you have symptoms, wash your hands regularly and keep at a distance from others."

- https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/the-public-health-agency...

As a source for this they have this page with 37 different papers/studies: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/smittskydd-beredskap/utb...

So... the science depend a lot of who you ask and the context of the statement.
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People always say there's a right and a wrong or that there are two equally valid sides to an argument but that's just plain wrong. The Earth isn't flat, the government isn't run by lizard people, and masks are effective at curbing spread of a airborne disease.

You make it sound like both sides are perpetuating hoaxes but YouTube is only censoring the hoaxes from one side.
Honestly, most people whose hearing losses are mild enough that vanity outweighs sheer need in their decision making have hearing losses that can be helped with a hearing aid that fits completely within the ear canal. These are effectively invisible (it takes a trained eye to spot them), even many hearing aids that fit behind the ear are now small enough with a thin enough wire leading into the ear canal that they are quite often simply missed by most people.

The real issue is cost. The cost issue persists despite of attempts to address cost concerns by granting people 30-day trials with full refunds if they decide to return the hearing aids, i.e. decide that the cost is not worth it. Convincing people to drop four figures on something that, by virtue of making the free and independent decision to purchase it, labels them as somebody with a disability is a hard sell. Able-bodied people don't want to give themselves the "disability" label. That's true regardless of how stylish the hearing aid is.

The situation won't change until there is greater media representation of people open with their hearing loss, living full and capable lives, to change the perception of a hearing aid to be less like a walking cane and more like vision glasses.
True. The goal of an independent semi-conductor industry has been a goal for the Chinese government in at least a decade.

The problem is: How do you convince a world class chip designer like HiSilicon that it should use a local foundry rather than TSMC? TSMC which is more advanced, more reliable, maybe even cheaper? Without breaking China's commitment to WTO and other agreements that facilitate open trade.

That problem is solved now by the policies of the US.

And not only for Huawei. Here is for example SMIC announcement of an improved "FinFET N+1" process explicitly without US technology:

https://cntechpost.com/2020/10/12/smic-achieves-breakthrough...
Seems poor of Amazon to do all that for following a GET request! Thought the most they'd do would be drop a cookie for that session.
They are, this one takes from 2 to something like 20 cycles, depending on the number of registers, an whether the PC is one of them.
That response by O'Neill is amazing. Solid analysis and response. Staying away from name calling, and actually getting new results and knowledge out of it all. It even ends with a thank you to Sebastiano Vigna.
Misinformation coming from some random youtubers is not dangerous as nobody really cares what they say.

The problem starts when you have a Yale educated doctor telling publicly that eggs (or butter, or fat) are unhealthy and then you have Harvard educated doctor who tells you the opposite.

Same with wearing masks. We heard from the official sources (WHO, governments) that wearing mask by healthy people does not help, while 3 months later we hear the opposite and then again we hear they don't help.

Censorship on YT will not solve the problem that people stopped believing in science and that happened because many scientists were working hard to lose public trust.
And youtube would censor everybody saying that masks don't help healthy people.

There's a mile-wide chasm between posting an opinion that differs from the official government line and posting something that's deliberate misinformation designed to harm people. YouTube are only removing the latter. The article actually quotes a YouTube spokesman saying as much "A YouTube spokesman told Reuters that general discussions in videos about “broad concerns” over the vaccine would remain on the platform."
Thanks for the info. I wonder why the openssl implementation wasn't used:

https://stackoverflow.com/q/9329631/830749
> Are instructions typically variable in the number of cycles it takes?

Very much so, either due to memory latency or just inherent complexity. For example, a single division instruction can easily take the same time as ten adds.
Someone I know runs their entire life on Trello. It's their digital brain, organised into a fleet of boards. Some of them serve as archives of various documentation and snippets of valuable info. Others are for tracking active projects, current engagements, etc.

Trello is flexible and simple enough to work well in a number of different capacities, so it's a great multitool for some. Especially if you're naturally geared towards organising your life in this methodical kind of way.
According to https://developer.arm.com/architectures/learn-the-architectu... , it looks like it can be any two registers
Looking at your and other comments there might be confusion about definition of unpredictability. Unpredictable for user which is pretty low bar or unpredictable using best known mathematical techniques and available hardware. Wouldn't the second category be more less CSPRNG?
As for first category and examples given. Requires is a weird question. Strongly requires as in it's impossible to make any game or visual effect without it - no. But in case of some design choices you might want some amount of unpredictability. You might want player not to fully predict enemies next move, or you might want a certain graphical effect which varies some parameter randomly within some distribution. Using a very poor pseudorandom generator there might became visible once it gets used in large amounts for placing objects spatially in the form of streaks, shapes or other patterns that wouldn't appear if true random or better quality psrng was used.
I’m honestly surprised something awful is still around at all. I thought it’d faded out years ago.
They lied because they didn't want medical professionals to run out of masks
Steve is not alone in his line of thinking. If you've experienced something better than what exists today you constantly question why the industry hasn't come to the sam realisation. It took Apple to really say, hey this is where mobile is going, here's the iPhone, nothing else matters. I think right now we're in the pre iPhone era where we're still hand crafting this stuff.

Certain developer experiences are drastically improving. The frontend (as fast as it moves) now has the likes of Netlify and Vercel. It's about saying, we just need to focus on frontend so give me the solution to that. I think backend is the same but it also highlights that there's no defacto standard for backend development in the cloud. When that's finally realised we'll see solutions that cut away all the non-essentials. Someone mentioned Heroku and one click spin-up of dependencies. Great, be everything to everyone, that's why Heroku is barely successful. Anything that was ever compelling was incredibly narrowly focused, opinionated and resonated heavily with devs.

My take. Go based microservices written using gRPC and consumed as HTTP/JSON APIs. A platform that offers access to underlying primitives for building those types of services and a complete lifecycle for build, run and manage. Look at Twilio, look at Stripe, look at Segment, look at Sendgrid. These are the companies of the future built in the Cloud. For the backend, its simply about building APIs and having platforms that enable that. Which means you need auth, config, storage, pubsub, etc.

Here's my piece https://github.com/micro/micro/blob/1166d15eff2015e32a9ed793...

Here's my effort https://m3o.com
I haven't seen the puck.js before but I really like that form factor. Are there any similar boards out there with the same sensors that also have wifi?
>Or even better: a Heroku like app platform.

So Hashiku? :)

Seriously Heroku seems to have stopped innovating. I wonder how much is Heroku worth now.
It happened in many countries around the world at all levels of government.

History has shown that blindly following uber global bodies like the WHO can have a massive negative outcomes even with best intentions.
Seems like a step backward. If the constraint was the number of bits in the mask then each bit could have represented a register pair.
I believe there wasn't much scientific evidence that non n95 mask helped. Especially because of the fit test. It was even unknown for n95.

I remember early on debating people whether masks worked and they pointed to the lack of scientific studies.
Banning misinformation: Great! Except:

Youtube, the company that can't even be trusted to keep the scariest shit possible off Youtube Kids repeatedly to the point where I won't even let my kids watch it anymore, being in charge of filtering and categorizing videos? Nope.
I'm pretty confident that Ubuntu uses CUPS inside.

dpkg -l "*cups*"

seems to agree, given the number of installed packages related to CUPS.

I never had to deal with CUPS directly in all these years. I always used the GUI in Settings to find and setup printers and I never had any problem. Which distro are you using?
Azure and Intel commit to delivering next generation confidential computing
It supports a variety of platforms including the latest ESP32s which are fairly capable. Anything higher than that and you are talking about an SBC at which point you can use any language you like.
But they're not banning random unknown sciences. They're banning conspiracies like tracking chips in vaccines or that the vaccine will kill people.

That's not untested science like masks.
So it's the "quiet" that makes your morning ultra productive in the former scenario?
You’re completely misinterpreting the mask situation.

Of course they say there’s no evidence that a mask will protect YOU. Masks aren’t supposed to protect YOU. They prevent YOU transmitting the virus to OTHERS. So of course it doesn’t reduce YOUR risk of respiratory infection. That conclusion has not changed.

The guidance was pretty clear: they didn’t want people wearing masks because there was a PPE shortage. Now there isn’t a shortage, so they want people wearing masks.
He also hasn't denied hunting deer out of season at Bear's Bend State Park, Coyote Corners, Maine. Your point?
Yes, even in very simple architectures instructions often take different numbers of cycles.
This is the first comment I've seen in this discussion that accurately summarizes what section 230 does, and what its removal would mean.

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It's rather sad that it has been downvoted, and those doing the downvoting should think a bit about their motivations.
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I think the idea is more to understand, "where is the line drawn" than to find a loophole.
I believe Teleport is SSH only.
>There's a mile-wide chasm between posting an opinion that differs from the official government line and posting something that's deliberate misinformation designed to harm people.

This is true, but almost no content would fall under your definition of "deliberate misinformation designed to harm people". That phrasing might be said to be the standard, but it wouldn't be applied that way.

Also, the quote from the YouTube spokesperson pretty explicitly says that if something is wrong with the vaccine YouTube will not allow you to say that. That would be something specific, rather than broad. I doubt that they would actually silence someone that points a specific flaw in the vaccine, but that's what their spokesperson said (read: their words are unreliable).
Next...Sweden is banned from YouTube.
It took some digging, but I found some bits! https://omar.website/posts/notes-from-dynamicland-geokit/#ba...
This exemplarises so well american exceptionalism.

We don't have to use our imagination. This sort of experiment is being run in multiple countries around the globe.
> or we try to move our society to be more techn savy as we are clearly moving to a more tech relying world

This is what I telling non technical friends for years now: as they spend more and more time with computers and the internet the investment to learn what is under the hood and to have more efficient interaction with better tools becomes worth it more and more. You can't say any more you don't fancy or care about IT when you spend hours each day on a computer.
FWIW, if I thought any protected class (or even non-protected) was the basis for a lower-than-deserved pay, I would take that to HR and/or file a whistleblower report. You're talking about illegal activity.

Casually surveying people's opinions on breaking the law and potentially leaving an incriminating paper trail that could harm the company seems similar the antitrust topic in the article.

I'd say discussions of any illegal activity on the company's behalf should be directed toward HR / legal.
What they tell you and what actually happens on the battlefield are two different things.

I've pointed weapons at people without the intention of shooting them while covering other solders and on occasions where they "just didn't look right" -- can't just randomly start shooting people but you also don't want to be caught off guard if they decide to start shooting at you. The last time this happened some car rolled up on our guard post and all of us were pointing our weapons at said vehicle while we sent someone out to figure out what they wanted (which turned out to be the main gate so they could find out what happened to one of their relatives who was arrested or something). Nobody intended on shooting them but if they didn't stop short or acted suspiciously we would've lit them up with the .50cal.
It's true that needing strict unpredictability, but not true cryptographic security, is rare in a microcontroller application. Though it can be nice to have.

What makes PCG attractive for microcontrollers is really that it's of known good quality, its implementation is very small and very simple, and it ends up generating efficient code for 32-bit processors (i.e., ARM Cortex-Ms). That is not, and can not ever be, true for something like a 128-bit shift register. PCG is great for just tossing in when I'm working on a platform that has no built-in library rand() function, or where it's busted, or whether I don't want to bother figure out if/how badly it's busted. (With how easy PCG is to use, that last one covers every embedded platform ever....)

PCG is not the best RNG out there: it's not the highest quality, it's not the fastest, it's not the least predictable, it's not the strongest theoretically. (It isn't the smallest, either, but it's quite small and the smaller RNGs I know of are either code-golfed, which doesn't count, or truly garbage.) But it is a nice equilibrium between all of those things. And did I mention it's simple? Simple is really, really nice to have :)
Chrome team isn't, obviously.
My issue is that why did US health officials say masks were not effective against respiratory infections, when health officials from Asian countries had deemed them effective.

Because Asian countries were basing their advice on science and the US was basing the advice on what would poll well with Republican voters who believe individual freedom is more important than community welfare. The US absolutely did have access to all the science, and chose to (temporarily) ignore it in order to try to gain votes the presidential election.

If Asian countries had been going in to an election and courting votes from a strongly conservative base their advice would have been different.
And this is exactly what social media does all the time, or rather their recommendation algorithms. Which, for some reason, is no problem at all. Now that the bias of these algorithms is changing, also by directly intervening, it is a big problem.
Jeez, don’t take your computer to Best Buy if you view the world that way: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/geek-squads-relationsh...
A signal does not require conscious intent. What you choose to wear says something about you whether you intend to or not.
Who cares? Feel that code density !

More seriously, yup: if you read the architecture manual this instruction can take a long time. It's also a pain for a OoO (not superscalar!) cpu to keep track of all the dependencies.

It made complete sense back in the early 80s when the instruction set was designed, but like universal condition code dependent instruction execution it was dropped from ARM64 for good reasons.
It makes one wonder in what other ways goodwill will be reduced by pinching pennies and how quickly it will start to look like any other exhausting, slow-moving, behemoth utility.
Zone Redundancy for Azure Cache for Redis Now in Preview
Why+does+Nigeria+not+have+a+unified+database?
TIL, very interesting.