skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the pointer to Fox-Cabane. I'm going to read that.

I've thought a lot about charisma in the context of actors. People are drawn to certain actors for reasons that are hard to pin down. It's most explicit in film action heroes. They're often not the most attractive men and they're rarely good actors, but people will go see a Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwartzenegger film even after a long string of flops. They are certainly full of the "presence" and "power" part of Fox-Cabane's thesis, even if not the "warmth".

I most want to know more about the "presence" aspect. I'm certain it can be taught, but I don't entirely know how. I do think it ties in with another thing I've observed, that many of the most charismatic film actors have experience on stage, especially the UK stage. I believe it has to do with the way stage forces an actor to draw your eyes, where a film actor has a camera telling an audience where to look. I still don't entirely know what it is they're doing. Fox-Cabane may have ides.
Eh, so people are paying for upvotes, sock puppets accounts etc. but it doesn't work ? :o
Now don't quote me on this but I think you pronounce it:

Ffs Microsoft get your shit together, windows may be dead to you but there a over a million running systems that you bought your way into. So sit up straight in your chair and get through that decade long backlog...
Care to make any predictions then? I'm always highly skeptical of confirmation bias and I think when I ask people to make predictions they immediately get a bit nervous which hopefully is enough to help them recognize they're only willing to claim their methodology works and not quite so eager to prove it.
Depends how retro you're talking. Many GBA games still hold up excellently today.
FWIW, Great Cow Basic (http://gcbasic.sourceforge.net/) is available for both PIC and AVR microcontrollers and still actively maintained. I've used it a lot on several PIC projects.
Huh, I thought they used an alternator like design: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensated_pulsed_alternato...
I'd guess you could also hire local people. They'd cost money too, but $200M?

Similar things happened with eBay in Germany, the clone was named Alando (then sold for $43m in 1999 after running for a few months).
> I've been told "That's not an issue, just do your plan/apply manually in two steps" which is pretty contrary to what you should need to do with Terraform.

Is it? I've been contemplating using Terraform for my org, but I would really like a CI system that generates a plan, lets me review it, and then I can approve it and the plan gets applied. Ideally I think this is how I would like all of my infrastructure to work. (It's how I do changes to Kubernetes stuff; generate some resource manifests then apply the files.)
no, it is pretty good rng, but quite slow, and world move on since 80s
Do you remember printing in 2000? Literally every printer was suffering from constant paper jams and other mechanical malfunctions. In 2020 a top consumer or business printer will not jam on you.

The business printers in 2000 had slow processors and more ram. It was significantly bad that printing PDFs spent more time processing the file than putting toner on page.

Finally, the interfacing for printers today is fantastic. I know this isn’t about toner on page, but having wifi connection, an LCD touchscreen interface, and them generally being a little smaller has made the experience better.

The only thing that was better about printing in 2000 is that back then printing was more useful because so many people wanted paper copies.
Anyone not choosing STEM has done a major mistake. It wasn't by luck that I (and I assume I am representative) chose STEM.
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For reference, there's nothing new - the last stable is 0.4.13, from April.
> and prevent anyone from even private messaging the link to each other

I can't find this stated anywhere except HN posts. What is the original source for this?
Yeah, it turns out when something becomes mainstream, it becomes beholden to mainstream sensibilities. You could post anything you wanted on old YouTube because nobody cared. Now people care.
To add to this, I prefer Ubuntu MATE, where "MATE" refers to the desktop environment: it's exactly what it needs to be, light and responsive and useful, without the need for a GPU just to render you friggin' desktop. It's neat.
I played college volleyball about a decade ago and made the first team. We trained with the womens team on some days and as one of the more even sports - the chasm in athletic ability was insurmountable. So we mixed teams when playing and never one versus the other.

My point is, where one falls short, play to your strengths. Doubly so in a competitive environment. Nothing stopping female athletes from doing rings. Absolutely nothing. Just like there was nothing stopping women from joining the mens junior or senior VB teams.
My prediction is something similar with Twilio + Stripe. If Twilio wasn't already public with a higher mkt cap than Stripe's most recent valuation, I'd guess Stripe acquires Twilio, but as it is not sure. Anyway here's my thinking:

1. Complimentary businesses: Stripe is a developer interface for collecting payments from customers, Twilio is a developer interface for communicating with (and now understanding / "segmenting") your customers.

2. Similar culture: very high emphasis on great DX and developer evangelism. Shoutout to Stripe's docs for being the best in the biz, and Twilio's are not too shabby either.

3. Unique opportunities: Stripe collects payment for their customers, Twilio collects payment from their customers. If everything was under one roof, you could have a situation where Stripe becomes a de-facto bank account. Revenue comes in to your Stripe account and many of your consumables (paying for Twilio's services) could come directly out of that account, removing the need to egress funds to your bank at all, thus reducing financial transaction overhead (which at scale could be a sizeable gain in efficiency).
I don’t think the problem is so much social media, but the polarization of our epistemological institutions, which erodes trust in them and rightfully so—we now have to take our academic information with a particularly large grain of salt, accounting for the aligned interests of the media and certain departments in the academy. However, many go too far, moving from skepticism to positions which can’t be supported by the evidence. They throw the baby out with the bath water. The only solution in my mind is to restore heterodoxy to these epistemological institutions, so people of all stripes can trust them. I know this kind of comment draws out bad faith arguments like a moth to flame (“...biased against reality”), so I hope we can dispense with that and focus on solutions.
> The key innovation we require, as a society, are better feedback mechanisms to correct inaccurate beliefs.

I have come to the conclusion that managing our collective delusions is more important than correcting them. Reality is unbearable to the human psyche. Most collective delusions are benign or even beneficial to society.
Pretty awesome solution to a very relevant problem
Yup, do check out the product and let us know what you think.
The problem isn’t building an open source printer, the problem is building a good open source printer.
> And assuming that everybody who didn't show up to vote isn't associated with a tribe is just... you can do better than that.

That's not a thing I said.

I also don't assume that everyone who did show up to vote is associated with a tribe. A lot of people just plug their noses while filling out the ballots for the lesser evil. The enthusiastic party voters are a subdivision of the minorities. Indeed many votes are more defined by what they're against than what they're for.
By 'expected' I don't mean the models where wrong, I mean the country is on fire and the Democratic party could/should have run away with the election. Instead they lost seats in the senate and did not gain back all the ground they lost in the state governments.

For comparison, the Republicans did very well in the 2014 mid term, convincingly taking over both houses of congress.

The democratic party had every advantage for a convincing win in 2018 and they instead had a very poor showing. The party is not good at elections and I don't see a reason why we expect this election to be different.
If you say it is naive to raise the idea that free speech alone will solve all issues, that is quite reasonable — but I would raise that is just as naive to think that a carefully administered censorship is an effective remedy, either.

The only possible remedy in the end is to build our societies, our law, and our culture to be resilient against those cases when people are wrong, because they often will be.
I've been looking into this recently. The one complaint I've seen about the Enviro is that the pi's CPU throws off the temperature.
It was more a figure of Style.
I already had electronic temperatur sensor in my room.
But anyway soon after, i switched to an esp32 and a bme680 to monitor temp/pressure/air quality/humidity, uploading data to thingspeaks though wifi, and graphing those data there.
What is the price-point of what you sell? Do you sell a $20 product, a $200 product, a $2000 product? Google has gotten expensive, a bidding for adwords with a $20 product has never seemed like a good idea to me.
Having worked with Terraform for 3 years, I totally agree!

Hashicorp should put more money into promoting "healthy" terraform tutorials based on real world usage (maybe split for small/medium/large orgs)

My first setup was split into 10-15 repos and it was an nightmare...

Now I have a mono-repo (and some GitlabCI magic to handle different projects) + terragrunt and it so much more stable than my first setup!
As with everything, start simple, only change if you hit a wall!
So what constitutes as misinformation? Science Youtubers like thunderf00t have been making regular updates on the subject, would that constitute for fake news? What about videos discussing the effects of stuff like masks and so on?
Many aarch64 chips have no aarch32 support for reasons like this
Now donate the ad money you generated off videos that contained misinfo. Otherwise this doesn't mean anything.

Social media companies continue to profit off conspiracy and extremist content. Then when their position becomes politically untenable, they just say 'Oooops, our bad. Can't do post that anymore.' But they still get to keep the bags of money that content generated.

It's a pretty sweet hustle they got going.
> other than causing the story to spread like fire.

Does it really? I haven't seen anything on Reddit or the likes. Seems to me that the censorship has been rather successful so far.
Oh of course you did, my point was more that you got those questions but also a lot of your peers continued asking those stupid questions. I remember when I was hired after getting a manhole question; the genx managers (i was probably 19) used it as an inside joke, "gotcha" just to see how candidates responded. I always thought it was gross.

So I don't ask those questions to people that I interview, because I remember how stupid they made me feel and how unrelated to the job they are.

It's the genx'ers that were asking me that, probably asked by boomers. I don't know why you'd continue to repeat those biased systems.

Genx isn't exactly well known for standing up for itself as opposed to continuing to normalize trash systems, that's the entire problem.

Be better than those before you, that's it. Make things better for those coming up or going out. There's no reason work should suck.
The next desktop OS, I hope, will be a real, physical desk. I'd like a computer that doesn't have a glowing screen and a tortured simulation of a space that doesn't exist. Instead I would prefer that I could simply write on a sheet of paper under a calm lamp and move to the white board when I feel like it. I could use my voice if I needed to or gestures as my abilities allow. The computer is there but you can't see it and it doesn't have to impose itself on my and force me to adapt to its interface. It adapts to me, my space, and my context.

Prior art:

http://screenl.es/

https://dynamicland.org/
Interesting. Didn't know about Argon2

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/211/how-to-secu... a good write up here too of the underlying hashing implementations.
The pcg-random methodology is very good. The basis is the following pattern:

#1: Have a "counter" of some kind. The simple counter trivially creates a maximum length cycle. "seed++" is one such counter.

#2: Have a "hash" that converts the counter into a random number, using a 1-to-1 bijection. There are a great many 1-to-1 bijections.

So your RNG is basically:

oldSeed = seed;
seed = counterFunction(seed);
return hash(oldSeed);

------------

I used this methodology to make a pretty fast generator myself. The coding was done in a weekend, but it took some weeks to test: https://github.com/dragontamer/AESRand

For AESRand:

"counterFunction" is a SIMD 2x64-bit Add over the XMM register. I chose an odd number arbitrarily (which are just the first 16 prime numbers: 0x01030507...), which will trivially cycle after 2^64 numbers.

"hash" is aesenc(aesenc(seed, constant), constant), where constant is an arbitrary (chosen to be the same odd number that was used in the "counterFunction" step). The 2nd parameter to aesend is just an XOR.

I also run a 2nd parallel aesdec(aesenc(seed, constant), constant) to generate a 2nd set of 128-bit random numbers, for 256-bits to be made across the hash. Yes, a 128-bit seed "hashes" into a 256-bit random number. Since this passes statistical tests, its probably fine, and this is a good source of instruction-level-parallelism.

All in all, I achieved 30GB/sec random numbers. Or 256-bits of random numbers every 3.7 cycles that passes BigCrush, TestU01, and PractRand.

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AES is a 1-to-1 bijection: that's a necessary condition for AES to be decoded. Though I use AES, this function is NOT cryptographically sound. I'm just using AES because its the fastest high-quality bijection in the entire modern CPU instruction set. x86, ARM, and POWER9 all implement single-cycle AES instructions.

It is possible to write a portable AESRand across the different CPUs (ARM, x86, and POWER9). I got far enough to prove that its possible, but then my real work started to ramp up and I had to drop this hobby project. Its very tricky to do so: ARM, x86, and POWER9 implement AESENC slightly differently: shuffling the fundamental steps in different ways.

Or in the case of POWER9, it executes in big-endian mode instead of little-endian (like ARM / x86). Redesigning the algorithm to be portable across the shuffled "SubBytes" and "MixColumns" steps between the CPUs is tricky but possible.
This happens in the real world too. IIRC, Stonyfield yogurt had their friends and family buy the product when it was newly on the shelf at groceries to make it look like it was selling well enough to get picked up permanently.
Building the Fastest RaptorQ (RFC6330) FEC Codec in Rust
The End of Amazon's Dominance
Yeah and resolution is another issue.
Thanks. I don't know the whole story, but I cannot find Fauci's name (ctrl + F) in the last article you linked. It mentions a Surgeon and a Vice President.

Surgeon General Jerome Adams and Vice President Mike Pence have urged people against buying and wearing masks.
> why you'd treat the same policy completely different in a moral judgement.

Where did I take a stand anywhere here? My post above gave a reason why some would criticize nativist anti-immigration attitudes in Europe while being concerned with the Uighurs’ situation, but I have not presented my own opinions on the morality of either Europe nor Xinjiang in this thread.

> for Europe I think you're fundamentally mistaken.

The sociolinguistics of second- and third-generation language shift in Europe are well documented in innumerable studies. In cases where people think that immigrants in their country are failing to assimilate linguistically, their perception is skewed due to first-generation immigrants (whether the first to arrive, or those who come later on family-reunification grounds) or that portion of second-generation immigrants who maintains active use of the language. However, anecdotes from laypeople are not data.
Our fellow citizens elected a reality TV star as president of a country with nuclear weapons.

People are passing judgment for, I think, fully rational reasons.

The Atlantic has had several good articles on how fundamental societal trust is dissociating in America. The election of Trump isn't the only aspect of it, but it did scare about half the country into thinking the other half isn't rational in the same way they are. And the feeling is mutual.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/collapsing...
and since we don't use anything resembling the scientific method with our laws there's no way of knowing if hate speech laws are effective. Being a law doesn't make it good. e.g. war on drugs
I have a multifunction A3 printer / scanner from a major manufacturer with an auto feeder and 3 other trays/inputs. It has USB input, network cable, wifi, internal tanks, fax capability, a colour touch screen....

The hardware works very well. The software is weird and inconsistent. It can do some very useful things if you access the scanning function in one, incredibly convoluted way, but not in other ways. It can scan to a network share, but you have to put the password in every time. It's frustrating because it's so good and so bad at the same time.

I would love to have an open source firmware in it.
man you need to TL;DR, maybe some paragraphs

that's absolutely unreadable
I'm curious why didn't they just choose to shadow block it or de-prioritize it on the newsfeed? It would achieve the same thing w/o discretely taking a side.
Exactly, a segment of social media users don't mind or are largely apathetic to the advertising/data collection because it keeps the platforms free--that's all that matters to them.

The advertisers are effectively the customer, with the social media platform acting as a vehicle to reach the willing end-user.

With this model, a polished & efficient dashboard/UI for advertiser engagement is as important (if not more important) than the front-end experience that provides end-user engagement.
"The Thing" was invented by Leon Theramin, who invented the eponymous Theramin, one of the first mass-produced electronic instrument.
That's not completely true. MacOS has started this process where all apps are checked for safety prior to launching. It makes app launch seem slow, which feels like an app problem.
Should the nose touch the floor while in sujood and closing eyes in sujood?
I think one of the main criticisms of <random> is that the distrubutions are implementation-defined. That means you get different outputs based on your compiler, even if your seed and even the rng itself is the same.
Who is to say what is misinformation, the ministry of truth or what? This is getting rediculus. You can't barely comment on youtube anymore if what you have to say is even slightly un-pc or controversial.
I'm finding myself printing out code more and more these days, highlighting it and marking it up. There's just a different part of my brain that kicks in when I am able to get tactile with something.
Of course it has, now that Apple owns it. Open source is not consistent with Apple's culture.
> Fundamentally, I don't see a difference there. They are general computing devices, which are then restricted to talk only to a subset of computers, and only on a subset of protocols.

I would choose to disagree on this concept; from a business perspective, the hardware engineering design going into making the device has a targeted purpose from the outset, and is (cost) subsidized by that company specifically for their service (meaning, they could take a loss on the hardware and make up for it on the Service). Roku and RSA are extracting money for their service, not for their hardware - just like the Amazon Prime TV stick, or imagine if you will a Netflix stick made and sold by Netflix directly. The value to these companies is your service fee month over month, not the hardware they're providing - the hardware is just a delivery vehicle.

That does not mean the devices cannot technically do something other than what their primary intended purpose is; the alternative "TV in a box" projects can run on things like an Amazon Stick with a bit of work (I did it myself to mine, was neat to play with) just that it's not their primary purpose from the OEM. So can you use a RSA key without RSA? Maybe, but that's not what our primary argument is about here. The GP to this thread stated:

> Hardware requiring an online account to work must be outlawed.

This is what I'm discussing - the GP would have the government require a device which is designed to work with a very particular online service be able to work... without their service. "Netflix, your Netflix TV stick which is designed to work with the Netflix service must also be able to work without Netflix service." That is what the GP is proposing be made a law, which I very much don't agree with - it literally ignores the entire point for the existence for certain types of hardware such as a Netflix TV stick.
Regarding the link:

> Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.
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It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Docker
The "move fast and break things" is deeply ingrained in the company culture. It's probably in their engineers' training manuals, too.

They want to "get things done quickly" and inevitably break code elsewhere on the platform. The guy in the article is right - there's no other platform around where these sort of issues appear so often.
Having used conducto's predecessor extensively, I'd say the approach is more generic.

Buildbot seems very specifically geared towards a CI/CD type of workflow (like jenkins/buidbot), with the classic checkout/build/test/deploy(/notify) steps (cf https://docs.buildbot.net/current/manual/introduction.html#c...). Buildbot seems to allow you to customize some steps within the build part, that will run on the same worker.

On the other side conducto is meant to allow you to describe your workflow in python, without forcing you to follow a specific structure. It's up to you to decide how to parallelize things (I can think of build examples where conducto is used to build many objects (ParallelNode), then link). You just define the successsion of serial/parallel tasks that are needed in your automation, rather than trying to make it fit in whatever the makers thought was a proper way to build/test/deploy.
The Guide to OpenAI's GPT-3 Language Model
But you're counting on your intelligence to act as a filter. It has become very clear in the last many years that a non-insignificant percentage of the populace doesn't possess the knowledge or level of rational thought to properly evaluate what they are being fed en-mass. It's increasingly easy to exploit some people's herd mentality and lack of education to rise movements that can have significant impact. I often talk to people who suddenly spout off some random conspiracy theory because they read about it 10 times on Facebook and they lack the ability to evaluate it properly. I wholly agree that I'm not a fan of censorship but likewise I don't think private platforms have a responsibility to equally showcase what is known to be false.

It's all going to be a mess no matter how you handle it... but permitting an endemic lack of education over the last generation has brought the concept of democracy to this point. I wish there was a clearer solution.