skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why Didn't C-Span Fire Scully?
I think it's more that Germans, unlike most nationalities, had great psychological and political incentives to imagine themselves as the victims of human rights abuses, but unlike real victims of human rights abuses, didn't face an entrenched establishment designed to keep them from asserting their rights.

It's important to remember that Germans, as in present Germans, are very rarely descendants of those who 'saw first hand' the atrocities of the Nazis, unless you count the perspective of the perpetrators. A large part of the post-war German identity was based around the idea that they did not know what was being done, that they would have never allowed it if they had known, and so on.

My opinion here is obviously controversial (especially in Germany), but it goes a long way to explain why Germany, unlike most post-genocidal nations, has very robust defence of human rights at the core of its state. Most survivors of genocide (e.g. the Armenians) face an establishment committed to defending itself against any assertion of wrongdoing, and a society committed to keeping hold of stolen property and lands. In Germany, there were essentially no survivors, and no advocates for the dead, so there was no real pressure either to bring the perpetrators of the holocaust to justice, or to defend them. In Turkey, recognition of the genocide would have been extremely expensive, both in terms of reputations of establishment figures, and in terms of property and land. In Germany, most Nazis and Nazi businesses (VW for instance) could simply go on.

In any case, I'm not sure how you would respond to the Holocaust within the framework of human rights. Retroactive justice is against the german constitution, and what the Germans did in the second world war was predominantly legal. It would have been very hard, even if there was a great desire to do so, to convict anybody of doing acts which were fully lawful at the time.
Would you like your car to follow some laws or anything goes? What if it’s nearly the only car you can buy in the US?

We’re talking about access to the internet, something that people are increasingly acknowledging as a primary need. Regulations will follow.
Is there a modern "school" of philosophy that teaches people how to live? Stoicism, Seneca's school, taught people to value Good over health, wealth and pleasure. He, Marcus, Cato took up hardship instead of pleasure as philosophers.
A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison: I am the captain of my soul
Complex Contagion
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But not for the Pro or the Pro Max. Also, the iPhone 12 has an OLED screen now, a decidedly much more expensive screen.

To be clear I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't share your certainty here.
I see Rust is almost equal to C if not better in the graph, however, I think equally-skilled programmers in either language would show the Rust programmer spending more 'energy' programming and iterating than the C programmer, but then make the argument that the C program will use more 'energy' downstream if bugs slip in. In any case, an eye-opening metric on what I, and I am sure many, take for granted. Cool.
I have nails which are (evidently) really hard; if I try to use the standard American 89-cent "Gem" cutter, I can squeeze the handles until they touch and it won't go through my nail.

Mentioned this to a co-worker, and he pointed me to Seki Japanese cutters. Extremely sharp, extremely well made, fantastic. They go through my nails like butter.
a corporate strategy. We cannot blame engineer because we are made to believe they made it because of their manager. And we cannot blame those manager because we are made to believe higher manager did it. And ultimately we cannot blame anyway and just say Google did it. And now nobody cares because people think google is very large organization we cannot blame whole organization for small things.

I will blame them for making such system. If we blame them I think ultimately this issue is going to be solved?
We need ranked choice voting nationwide.
An example "hacker news vs" Google Suggest Query [1] with XML output designed for toolbar integration.

[1] https://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?output=too...
There is no Scoreboard of Life
Cant tell from website but most metric solutions do not do bad quality/status markers. This is fundamental to IoT data. Next most dont do time weighted averages correctly even timeseriesdb does this badly.
In the article you can see chrome deleting Apple's local storage, but not Google's.
Certainly my Ryzen 3700x has some degree of dynamic voltage scaling. You can see the voltage changing in Ryzen Master. I think intel has it too but not sure.

Also, I am not sure it is correct that energy / op is constant, even at a given voltage? I'm no expert but I read about this when I was thinking about overclocking my device. At a given voltage, higher frequencies still use more energy due to the capacitance of all the components on the device. This is why overclocked energy dissipation scales super-linearly with voltage. Because you aren't just increasing the voltage you are increasing the frequency as well.
It's like saying that ice is cheap in the winter then complaining when the refrigeration companies have gone out of business by the summer.

Yes, producing electricity when it's needed is more expensive to producing it when it's easy.
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Maybe if apple or google or FB or any of the massively profitable big tech cared to pay back fairly to creators there would be quality content. Right now with things as they are nobody seriously wants to join the crowd of beggars.
EDIT: I think Zig would come up pretty good here too:

https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1317586767260774400
One can argue the neural architecture + weights is the programming language of AI (for now).
That a compiled program runs faster, that is, requires less cpu cycles and consequently uses less energy, is not a very surprising result. This comparison basically then just benchmarks the different compiler outputs for the given test cases. Benchmarking is always difficult and often controversial, especially when drawn from the benchmarking game. Consequently, C not only wins in the speed but also the energy category.

But that is only testing the run time of a program. What this paper does not cover, is for example the energy needed to compile the program and of course, the energy needed to write and debug the program. The whole reason not to write "everything" in C is, that there is a real-life tradeoff between having the fastest possible program which also would be the most efficient, and the effort to create it. Higher level and dynamic languages have been created to create correct programs with less effort. Mostly of expensive programmers, but development time obviously goes along with energy usage for the development machine, compiler runs, debugging effort.
Regulation on electricity works no where. Germany being the best "European" example of how a government has managed to destroy a market to the point that the only reason Germany has power for half the year because France is next door.
> Not because of the crisis, but because of the response. 9/11, the 2008 recession (QE is still with us) and now COVID.

Is it a coïncidence that all occurred under a GOP/Republican administration?

Clinton treated the 1993 as a crime instead of an act of war, and prosecuted those that were responsible:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombin...

Meanwhile Bush (really Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz) went galavanting into other countries.

Obama was hamstrung by a GOP Congress with (so-called, supposed) deficit hawks that were screaming about deficits, debt, and austerity… which they promptly abandoned they were in power to pass the giant December 2017 tax cut bill:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act_of_2017

Of course now that Biden looks likely to win they're reverting to form:

> The short version: A Senate GOP strategist privately confided to Bloomberg that a key Republican goal right now is to lay the groundwork to revert hard to austerity, should Biden prevail, crippling the possibility of any serious stimulus efforts next year, even amid continued economic misery.

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/14/how-repub...

Paul Krugman has an entire section on this in his latest book Arguing With Zombies.
Yes we’ve all heard it before. It “strictly lowers the signal to noise ratio. We are trying to do something different here.”

No, this goal is not helping. This makes HN just like every other shithole online that censors its users. It makes the conversations inorganic and inauthentic. Ad hominems, while in poor taste, are protected by freedom of speech, and armchair expert white knights like yourself are only contributing to the lower SNR.
It’s almost like that’s their business... thanks for pointing it out
(d) it facilitates code obfuscation because you don't have to guess which instruction you have to use to confuse the debugger
I use unsalted butter for all my cooking and use. Never grew up with salted butter and don't miss it. The vast majority of my family and friends back home (new england) use unsalted margarine (which I refuse to allow in the house).

I'm interested though, I've seen salted butter and wondered who was buying it. Now I know—literally everyone around me.
I've stacked math classes for learning data science
https://kanger.dev/learn/mathematics-for-data-science-courses/
Area's of consideration would be in teaching the model what a human wants from a language. An AI might see that not everybody speaks one language and lean towards a symbol based language that transcends any individual human language bias.

Then how would you train that - show it what computer languages have come before, would it weight it upon how well they are used to get an idea of what humans prefer - the prospects of some java-C-Cobol mutant language do seem a logical output perhaps.

Area's in which I'd like to see AI focus would be - optimisation and code auditing. Which may well prove easier as you have a solid defined goal. Also such endeavours would prove invaluable down the line if you wanted to have AI come up with a programming language. As to do that you would need to train how humans communicate/think and how computers communicate/think and meet in the middle.

[EDIT - spelongs]
> They could have run their own servers

This is exactly what Apple does, and they even include some fallback domains in case apple.com doesn't resolve. Samsung's design seems less like the most logical solution than it does the laziest solution.
If you have enough money to pay. For many people watching ads is preferable payment method.
fullhn.com?
Continuous Integration for Serverless React Application in GCP with Cloud Build
Let me guess, SAP and Deutsche Telekom will grab the funding?

It will be the most expensive and unreliable "cloud services" with arrogant customer service and 24 months contracts.
Gish gallop comes close https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
I was under the impression that Tor hidden services were still safe since they don't rely on exit nodes.
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> Tor pretends to be secure, but is dark and compromised.

Citation needed. Please stop with the "tor is compromised" meme... and what do you even mean by "dark"? What the hell... Tor is by no means a perfect anonymity solution but it's to my knowledge the best we've got. It's certainly way better than a VPN or no anonymization at all.

More specifically, tor anonymity is limited by the fact that it's low-latency. This is a fundamental limitation of any low-latency transport layer and not the fault of the tor developers or any obscure forces. In particular, if your attacker has control of both your entry point (your tor guard node or your ISP) and your exit point (tor exit node, or the tor hidden service or website you are connecting to) , it becomes possible to de-anonymize your connection (to the specific exit point in question) through traffic analysis. There's just no way around that for a network meant to transport real-time traffic (as opposed to plain data or email for instance). And yes, it stands to reason that various intelligence agencies will have invested in running exit nodes or entry nodes but this is just unavoidable. What you can do counteract this is to run your own nodes or to donate to (presumably) trustworthy node operators.

I think it's also worth noting that although tor can by no means 100% guarantee that you will be free from government surveillance at all times, it does make mass surveillance more difficult and more error-prone, and to me that's the whole point. Furthermore, although government surveillance cannot be thwarted 100%, tor does make corporate surveillance basically impossible (assuming you can avoid browser fingerprinting; this is what the tor browser is for).

All in all, I can't claim tor is perfect (because it can't be!) but the more people use it the better it gets and it's certainly better than anything else, so please stop spreading FUD and encourage people to use it instead.

Also, it's unclear to me how Stealth helps at all with hiding the IP addresses of its participants... It claims to be "private" but the README doesn't say anything about network privacy...
Why do you think EU is testing less then USA?
I think that’s because population density is notoriously hard to measure. The problem is that most countries have a mixture of big cities, rural areas, and uninhabited wilderness. Taking the total population and dividing by the total land area does not tell you anything useful about the actual proximity in which most people live in a country.

On that scatterplot you linked, Canada is way down there in terms of population density. Yet the vast majority of Canada’s land area is uninhabited wilderness to the north. Most Canadians live within a narrow band of cities running parallel to the U.S. border. In addition, a significant minority live in many scattered rural areas outside of that band.

So the question is: how do you measure Canada’s true population density? Do you only look at the high density band? Or do you include the rural areas? Where do you draw the line between rural and wilderness? There’s no easy answer.
Check out the hill. They do a decent job of representing many different viewpoints without being alarmist. Opinion pieces are pretty clearly differentiated from reporting pieces.
Reduced? Probably. Meaningfully? I don't think so. It's baked in to the system: if your equivalent (nth party voter) on the other side of the political spectrum switches their vote to the mainstream party and you don't, then the mainstream party you're more aligned with is disadvantaged. There's nothing subjective here; it's just how the system works.

We desperately need a voting system that allows you to express your preferences honestly, and ideally across all candidates, without hurting the outcome. By far, score voting systems are the best at that. Of those, I recommend STAR voting (Score Then Automatic Runoff), because it has some actual momentum[1] (it also has some theoretical advantages, but both it and vanilla score voting, and even Ranked Choice with a Borda count, are such a massive improvement over the status quo that it doesn't matter which we pick).

[1]: https://www.starvoting.us/ -- no affiliation, just convinced by the research (edit: which you can mostly find linked from https://www.equal.vote/)
Based on other comments:

The Javascript spec decided to standardize float operations and (in part) opted for whatever x86 did. ARM had different floating point profiles so ARM processors had to emulate in software intel's operations. Thus ARM decided to simply implement intel's operation as an instruction and called it by the relevant use case.
Yep. First time we have BOTH flat sides AND "bezel-less" screens.
Is this behavior also present in the Chromium browser as well or is it unique to Chrome?
Use Chrome, they said. Use Gmail, they said. Use AMP, they said.

And in the end, the open web was gone.

Yours truly, 2025.
They don't make utility poles like these anymore ...
Theodore Roosevelt tried to impose simplified spelling on the Government Printing Office. Congress refused to fund any such printing, and TR's innovation took effect.
Well that's a nice way to say that its allowed for youtube and very few other sites... possibly none.

These are the kind of tricks a shady company would do. So disappointed what Google is doing to the web the last few years.
It matters not how strait the gate,
how charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

Love this poem by William Ernest Henley - “Invictus”
You can blame Justice Robert Bork for that (yes, he of Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre and failed Supreme Court nomination):

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/robert-bork...

The Chicago School invented the “free markets can do no wrong” ideology that denies the possibility of monopoly, but Bork is the one who weaponized it to cripple antitrust, in plain violation of the statutes. The article is from a right-wing site, BTW.
I don’t think right now. But earlier in the year. I explained in my comment the EU has fewer confirmed cases but more deaths. This implies that either EU citizens are more likely to die from COVID or that they didn’t test as much earlier. Today their confirmed numbers are massive and I suspect it’s because they are testing more than ever.
New “Spatial Reality Display” Unveiled by Sony
Nissan “Slapped on the Wrist” with $4M Fine for Illegally Repossessing Vehicles
There were plenty of last straws. The missing piece is a powerful enough entity that has interest in regulating them. No, despite the GDPR the EU is not that.
How effective are masks? If I can smell the guy next to me with my mask on, I am sure I can catch his virus also.
I've just investigated this - yes, there are more papers published. Just google to Wim Hof's site and check a page about science (I'm not sure I should post the link). There's an chronological list at the end of the page. Most of papers are open access, but there's one blocked, so Sci-Hub would help as always.
This should be a teachable moment with respect to their culture. Throwing up their hands without an understanding of what happened is unacceptable — if something that is believed impossible happens, it is important to know where your mental model failed. Otherwise you may make things worse by ‘remediating’ the wrong thing.

And while this sounds overly simplistic the simplest way this could have been avoided is enforcing production hygiene. No developers on production boxes. Ever.
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This has been asked several times in the past month. You should be able to see those responses via a search on this site.
Germany 1932 was massive mess. It was not rational place in a lot of ways. It was also quite violent place.

Physics and art mecca of few Germany cities were outliers within Germany, not the norm.
God, people are so quick to jump on the Google-hate train and then advocate for a politicized justice department to hop in and somehow make everything better. Mozilla is just as guilty as Google. Mozilla has Firefox sync and Chrome has its own sync. This is basically to stop clearing browser data from automatically disabling sync, which most people would want. There are a plethora of third-party tools that allow you to clear your browser data completely if you want. There is nothing stopping you from using them, and you'd also be surprised how much you can do (including disabling Google Sync) from a simple policy file.

Stop waiting on your government to fix things because they aren't going to. If you want to fix things, then build your own tools to abstract syncing, bookmarks, and other features from the browser. They exist, whether you've ever taken the time to look or not. Somehow it is easier though for people to simply say... The government will fix it for me, rather than fixing things yourself.
Is sainthood on the cards for a computer programmer?
In Windows a restart makes everything work properly. But it is a pain, specially in work setups where you return to your desk from a meeting and you want to plug-in your laptop to the Thunderbolt dock and then immediately start working.

Now I have come to terms. After a meeting I save everything and shutdown my machine. I connect to the dock and then boot.
> 22% of all US dollars that exist were created in 2020. Expect some serious inflation to happen in the next few years.

I think you're looking at M3?

Yes, currently 2.94T, up from 2.3T at the start of the year, so 22% of current money would be about 700B out of 3,000B.

From June 2007 to June 2008 went from 1.5T to 2.3T, so it was valid to say in June 2008 that "34% of all US dollars that exist were created in the last year"

On top of that M3 carried expanding:

From March 2007 to March 2009 went from 1.4 to 2.6T, where you could say "half of all US dollars that exist were created in the last 2 years"

Inflation from 1996 to 2006 was an average 2.54%

Inflation from 2006 to 2016 was an average 1.76%

So for the response to the pandemic, measured in M3, to have the same affect as the M3 from 2008, the US would have to create another $1.6T by January 2022. Then you could say "half of all US dollars that exist were created in the last 2 years"

So far the increase is 74B a month, or 1.8T over 2 years.
> laziest solution.

Maybe. But also probably shortest path, least amount of risk and resource investment.
Banning people from traveling, meeting each other, and working to earn a living and support themselves, are very much erosions of liberty, and people have been seriously impacted (particularly the poor). You are right, however, that they are not directly erosions of democracy.

However, there are plenty of direct erosions of democracy, even here in the United States. Our democracy in the US is applied through the rule of law, and many mandates have been issued in a manner inconsistent with the law: arbitrary, capricious use of power not authorized by the law. This is why, for instance, a court struck down Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer's extended use of emergency powers.
It had no general inflationary effect at all.
The article talks about the name recognition of Airbnb to drive the IPO but that didn't work out so well for Uber which still hasn't been able to return to its IPO price.

Hopefully Airbnb doesn't over value itself.
are you referring to the tweet linked there? That tweet is wrong in a lot of ways, because that instruction gives you a 1-2% boost, not a 30% boost like they claimed.
‘race to idle’ doesn’t seem to be the preferred approach anymore. Instead we’re seeing CPU designers go down the path of multiple different sized cores, with different speeds and power consumption.

So in this world more “efficient” task can be run on slower lower powered cores. Stuff that needs to happen as quick as possible is don’t on faster, higher powered cores.

When you can, you just turn off the bigger cores completely.

I don’t have benchmarks, but there must be some good power savings in it if ARM have built their BIG.little architecture around it, and Apple followed suit with their processors.
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White noise as sleep aid may do more harm than good, say scientists
On YouTube there is a show called Japanology that discussed such things. Very interesting, even the episode about moss.
If your pipeline depends on running inference on a single frame at a time, for example some kind of control loop, then you need to be a bit careful about how you measure speed; you have to use the effective time per batch (ie batch size 1), not the amortised frames per second using as big a batch as will fit. You can still interleave processing though.
So just set aside freedom of the press? You've stated a goal of suppressing polling; what's the legal mechanism you use to do it?