skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many safety issues in complex compute environments are predicated on the notion that many different threads/contexts can manipulate the data structures in somewhat arbitrary and unpredictable orders. This is approximately correct for classic multithreaded software.

In some software architectures, there are schedulers with a global view of the entire (potential) conflict graph and they have complete control of what gets executed when. These architectures don’t even require locks because the scheduler has enough visibility and control to guarantee that execution won’t be scheduled such that there would ever be a contended lock or some other concurrency conflict. No amount of mutable references to the same memory will break these models, and the correctness of some implementations have been formally verified. The scheduler can always dynamically reorder execution to guarantee the invariants of the system. These models have the added benefit of having insanely good locality properties such that throughput is excellent.

These software architectures originated in HPC over a decade ago and eventually bled over into high-end database kernels. I learned it from when I worked in HPC many years ago and have used it every since, due to its unambiguous advantages.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24828731

(The indictment PDF is linked by that press release.)
Major Retailers in Britain Say No to Glitter for Christmas
Older children learn things faster than younger children, why would reading be an exception?
I agree with the you in the general sense here, and want to point out that, in my opinion / experience, this:

> The solution is actually to experience more of that fear - in a controlled, gradual and safe manner, which is what exposure therapy is all about.

is true for some of the people some of the time. There is a wide range of approaches that will work for some and not for others, in various circumstances.
This is really cool work. What kind of speedup does the GPU give for this kind of workload, e.g how long does a CPU-only implementation take?
Apple's claim is false: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/131134525357683097...
The main difference is that the user can start using the service right away and can secure the account some time later.

You can use firebase accounts to manage that. Start with the anonymous account which will create an account with a random UID and use the mechanism to convert the accounts into “registered”. Pretty easy, you don’t even have to create your own custom solution.
Can Julia Rival Python for King of Data Science?
How does it compares to Disqus?
I agree with your point 1 and would go even further. With some people it is impossible to have constructive debates because they reject the fundamental premise of there being arguments that are supported by facts. Such people will reject any fact even if it is counter their fundamental believes.

In such case you are not arguing with the person but your argument is with the observers which might not be so fundamentalist in their views. There is in fact an excellent book that lays out this argument. Unfortunately it is only available in German, its called "Wie man mit Fundamentalisten diskutiert, ohne den Verstand zu verlieren: Anleitung zum subversiven Denken" by Hubert Schleichert. The rough translation of the title is: "how to argue with fundamentalists without loosing your mind. Instructions to subversive thinking".

He discusses some of the rhetorical tricks used by fundamentalists of every color using some historical examples and how to counter these strategies. For everyone who knows some German this is a highly recommended read.

That said, I highly appreciate the OP blog, because the arguments with fundamentalists are definitely in the minority and a more constructive argument culture is needed, especially online.
Apple's claim is false, and can be shown to be false via documents in the court filing: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/131134525357683097...
I'm a leftie, but to be honest I have a left-wing and a right-wing uncle and they're both completely disinterested in the truth.

One thinks Trump is god, and the other feels the same way about Noam Chomsky. One thinks Hillary eats babies, and the other thinks the CIA did 9/11.

Meanwhile, the landscaping guy at work seems to have a pretty balanced take on things and he doesn't vote because he's not a citizen. He's one of the few people I can talk politics with over a cup of coffee and not want to pull my hair out.

I think it would benefit us all to be able to take a disinterested look at this whole deal.
Just tried this with one of my servers and they definitely do this. They seem to be probing from 94.46.249.204, 94.46.121.19, 94.46.121.141 (and probably many more).

The setup behind it looks malicious. All of these reverse to subdomains of random, nonsensical two-word domains such as "motley-row.com" with no indication what-so-ever about the company behind it.

If they were operating a legitimate service I wonder why they go through all this trouble of obfuscation? Unless they're white-labelling some third-party service and that third-party might not only be used for legitimate purposes? I'd assume sysadmins might be more tolerating of these attempts if they were forthcoming about who they were and what their purpose was instead of looking like a black-hat scanner or spammer (in fact all these IPs are on spam blacklists already).
Likewise, if you are going in already convinced you're right there's also no point.
What we mainly need is cheap/free non-coding users. I'm really not comfortable paying for a gitlab seat per support staff we hire.
Show HN: HR extension for Google Calendar
Would you please share the names of the wet trousers, overshoes, and jacket that you use?
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I taught a 5 year old to read to a 15 year old level in 20 contact hours for reference. Still room for improvement qualitatively but I think an observing scientist would say that they can read well, but not smoothly like an adult.
I’m not suggesting they’ve violated laws. I’m suggesting new regulation targeting “censorship” might not be the best approach. They’ve cornered a medium of communication. People are upset by their moderation policies. By breaking the users out of the Facebook silo, through regulation, you can create a marketplace of experiences where there was once a monopoly. Each experience comes with its own moderation strategy.
This sounds like you're in agreement. The big companies will benefit, at the expense of the small companies
And some people have nothing better to say, over and over again, than "That software you like is [...] because my Grandmother does not use it."

This is a tired trope and it's time we put it to rest. There is nothing wrong with software not intended for a "mass market".
Happy to push the shopping cart thru the shop.. want a solution that can be done in any shop
Without corporate personhood, you wouldn’t lose any of your rights as an owner (stockholder), employee, or officer of a corporation- you just wouldn’t get to magnify your individual rights by using the power of the corporation. As an individual, you’d still get to speak your mind on whatever. In my opinion, you just shouldn’t be allowed to take the enormous financial power of a corporation and turn it towards your own ends and call it “individual rights”.
I've had gout for 10 years, both when I was fit, and unfit.

It's terrible to get flareups, but medication and pre-emptive tactics work. So I drank a lot of water, and just have to feel my body. Used to be my left toe at first, but then it started to spread.
Are you referring to Blooms 2 sigma problem (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem)?

While it did show that, that research was not done until the 80’s.
Ask HN: Realistic space colonization video game
Space colonization may start in the next years, it seems we have most technology to do it.

As a management video-game fan, I feel I ABSOLUTELY WANT a game where I can build my space program and my lunar / mars / space / asteroid base with realistic technologies, carefully selecting what I put in the few tons of payloads on the rare rockets I can afford and optimizing the architecture of my bases to shield astronauts for radiation...

Current games are too far in the future, in my opinion cutting the fun.

Do you feel the same ?

If so, would you be ready to support building such a game through a kickstarter campaign, or just buying the game when ready ? Would you play such a game on a computer, tablet or mobile ?
AB5 already has a bunch of exceptions. Idealism is great, but not practical
> Google screwed the recruitment irrevocably and what's worse every minor shop attempts to copy their processes.

Can you elaborate on that?
How does this compare to MacOS? I haven't gone through Apple's default CA roots.
May i suggest working on becoming a teacher / mentor / enabler for your teammates and pitching this plan to managment?
Lots of stuff used to work this way I think.

Anyway, that’s great. Do this. Maybe more people can do this.
From personal experience I would recommend two things:

- a solid core routine. Here's a good example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4988649

- if it persists, reading the book "Healing back Pain" by John Sarno (Countless people seem to have begun the book highly skeptical and finished it pain free)
Are you really arguing that laws restricting or compelling the speech of media outlets is fine? That, eg, it would be perfectly constitutional had the Republicans passed a law making criticism of Trump by newspapers or television channels illegal?

I assume you would NOT be okay with that, but keep in mind that in the US, the first amendment applies to us as individuals. If those rights are forfeit when exercised collectively, then the result is a world where only the very, very rich can speak without the permission of the government. That's a horrifying outcome!

The rich, I would argue, have too much power already, and stripping the ability of the non-rich to band together to act as a counterbalance does nothing more than cement that power.
yes, at the very least there are open source alternatives with vastly better ux, for example securimage
I qualified the statement as the "worst of the 21st century". If you were to compile a list of worst decisions ever, I think most lawyers would say Dred Scott v Sanford, Plessy v Ferguson, Korematsu v United States, Bowers v Hardwick, and Buck v Bell.
Thanks for sharing! I enjoyed looking through all your links. Amazed you found amazon links for all of it.
If I understand this correctly, he renders the whole scene in batches to reduce the memory requirements.

Since this is path tracing, how does this work in terms of instances from one batch influencing the lighting of a different batch?
A question for the lawyers among us: is there any effective difference between granting all these permissions vs actually putting them into public domain?

Tom says “In other words, all the lyrics herein should be treated as though they were in the public domain”, emphasis mine. That’s what got me curious.

Does Tom effectively still hold some rights that are not afforded by “true” public domain?
Following a link from the article, I'm surprised that someone with the post of Director of US Strategic Initiatives at Foxconn would have such an unprofessional twitter account https://twitter.com/alansyeung
I commonly argue positions I don't necessarily agree with.

Often these are ideas that I don't agree with, but I can't articulate exactly why I disagree.

When I argue it, I can get others to argue against the idea, and so I can discover points that I may not have been able to put to words.

It's essentially idea farming.
I don’t know about android but on iOS, restoring the new device through an iCloud backup will bring back the app data too.

So, the users who switch from iphone to an iphone don’t loose anything if they follow the default upgrade process.
> Is email SPAM really a serious problem today?

Spam in email is basically not a problem anymore, in my experience.

~15 years I would get literally thousands of spam emails per day in my spam folder. But this was the days when email servers were configured to accept anything no matter how malformed. And many people had misconfigured smtp clients, thus attempting to enforce constraints would drop a lot of legitimate mail. So spam was a huge problem.

Today it's very different. I no longer see any smtp clients from legitimate senders with any protocol misconfiguration. So for years now I enforce every detail at the smtp connection level (with postfix), before the email is accepted.

I still see failed attempts in the postfix logs but they get blocked right there. Actual spam getting through to the spam filter is down to a few a week.

Then checking DKIM drops all of these in the spam folder.

Spam that gets through these steps to my actual inbox is now so rare that it's always a surprise. Less than ten a year, tops.

So from my perspective (running my own email infrastructure for a handful of domains, personal and business, friends and family) email spam is no longer a concern.
I've got quite a lot of hope that a "sufficiently smart compiler" is not a pipe dream, just an idea well in advance of its time.

I think eventually we'll be able to describe data structures and algorithms in very high level languages in an architecturally neutral way and spit out near optimal code for the desired parameters.

Although I wouldn't be surprised to learn it does happen, but not in my lifetime.
I find this to be relevant to the self driving problem - Apple/Foxconn could not detect when things had gone wrong on the automation line and stop it, let alone have the line's robots fix it. However, we expect a self driving car to detect when it encounters a novel situation on the road? And it surely will.

If they could not detect it in the confines of a highly controlled factory assembly line (not manufacturing but assembly) then how can a car detect novelty on a cityscape or even a highway?
"...homeschooling teaches you nothing about career readiness without experience..."

But homeschooling gives you the flexibility to pursue experiences that would be hard to manage if on a traditional school schedule.
This is true, but having a phone number requirement lowers accessibility to the server for users who either don't have a phone or aren't comfortable providing their number.
I think in many ways discord hits it's peak when it can separate easily into multiple voice channels each with about 4-10 people each. I really like nested voice channels (like Mumbles linked channels) but really they don't show their benefits until you're deep into more complicated stuff (raids/etc) then the average person hits.

I think discords biggest (gaming-related) pull is that it's so simple to onboard someone. Once you get someone through the "two clicks" of on-boarding, it's much easier to get the them to say, especially since it's cross platform.
Anyone know what was in it for Terry from the start? It sounded like access and favor from Trump, but the trade war still happened and he’s still saying there’s going to be a LCD factory to this day.
Here's what I just noticed in a paper that's was linked at the bottom of this article.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.02620.pdf:

"Although OSPRay already supported textures, it only supported image textures, however Ptex is a geometry based texture format baked on top of the underlying meshes [Burley and Lacewell 2008]. Not only does this
mean there is no reasonable way these textures could be converted to 2D images for use in OSPRay, but that OSPRay’s entire view of how textures can be applied to geometry—which was inherently based on image textures—would have to change."
Free speech as how some people like to define it now (anything can and should be said) was never an ideal, and certainly never reality.

It’s funny how the people complaining about “cancel culture” (usually a roundabout way of complaining you can’t say racist things anymore) are completely fine with twisting especially history to benefit themselves.
Ah that's good to know. Thanks for the correction.
Can you elaborate, for the non-linguists? His prescription seems sensible:

i. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

ii. Never use a long word where a short one will do.

iii. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

iv. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

v. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

vi. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

... but I'm well aware of how sensible an asinine prescription can seem to a layperson.
Fwiw, I have had some discussions on FB that seemed to improve with some of these strategies.

This goes a bit against the spirit of the thing, but a side-effect seems to be that if one is using these tools in a public forum like FB (which of course goes against this article's advice), one does come off as more reasonable to anyone in the audience who is undecided. (I think...)
I'm not blaming it on lazy americans. Huge difference. I blame the chinese directly. They never had the intention of hiring American workers. They know American workers are capable but inferior and they screwed them over on purpose.

>Every single thing in this lengthy article comes together to make one clear point: they had no plan at any step of the way and just tried to BS it all, and they've done it several times around the world.

And I'm saying there's a reason for this. It's not an accident. It's because they don't give a shit about American workers. They think American workers are inferior. They don't want to put any real money into the project they bought it up for some ulterior motive.

Not only American factory workers. But many places in the world. It's hard to beat the industriousness of Chinese workers.

I'm not gonna lie, I don't have hard evidence. I'm just guessing the situation but it's also somewhat obvious. You seriously think if China (taiwan technically) was serious about investing in blue collar workers in America they would let it just slide like this? We're talking about the fastest growing economy humanity has ever seen that has transformed from a backwards 3rd world country to a super power within your lifetime. They will eat up and devour any opportunity or deal in front of them. Why would the Chinese miss out on the American Factory Worker???? Probably because they don't give a shit.

The following isn't evidence but if you read my post and watch the linked video... it is an actual short snippet of a real life example of a serious chinese investor who tried employing American factory workers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24834199

American factory workers can't hold a candle to chinese industriousness. You think those Asian dad memes don't have an actual origin?

https://www.pinterest.com/lindaschloss/asian-father-memes/

Those memes aren't that far from the truth.

watch the movie if you're interested.
We don't have an open req for our chat infra team right now which heavily uses Elixir. We are quite committed to Elixir, actually, we were interviewed by José Valim about how we use Elixir :)

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/10/08/real-time-communicat...
He even includes pastiches of pastiches:
https://tomlehrersongs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Elemen...
Laptev sea ice levels are alarmingly low this year
First - 'Licking the boots of politicians' is something that happens in every country involving politicians of ever stripe.

"but perhaps benefit greatly from avoiding trade sanctions." - I don't think this is the case directly, there doesn't seem to be evidence of that, however, it might be true. Trump hasn't really singled out Chinese manufacturers.

Second - the populist/lazy/naive theme here is the supposed belief that 'political bootlicking magically prints money' - which is ridiculous - businesses have to make money somehow, there are generally no easy/magic handouts of this kind.

So the bootlicking in this circumstance enabled Foxconn to take on some really nice subsidies (!) but there is no way Foxconn comes out of that in the black without doing something productive. Even if it's on the margin.

Foxconn blew this, and possibly lost money on this and we can all agree that 'bootlickers' do not like losing money.

Nobody does.

Foxconn makes the #1 consumer product on Earth - the iPhone, and that is definitely no joke. There are divisions of Foxconn that are not only not fuckups just the opposite, are world leaders in manufacturing, probably surpassing everyone of their peers, anywhere.

So given that 1) bootlicking gets you nice things but not free profits and 2) Foxconn has operationally superior divisions ...

... the story runs short.

There are just as many question marks as answered questions.

Finally, I would say that whatever one thinks of this guy Scott Walker is besides the point - superficially this was probably a reasonable deal. Such subsidies are not uncommon and usually done with credible companies. There was risk obviously but what happened is outlandishly weird. I don't think the politicos who made this deal are so much 'to blame' other than the subsidy thresholds should have been tighter obviously.

I would say this is a good example of 'How even good Chinese companies do Business in 2020' and the results should be on display for bureaucrats and would-be belt-and-roaders everywhere.
It didn't take long for the ASCII porn to start. But otherwise, a fun couple of minutes.
Biofuels are a gigantic waste. At some point I did the math for Germany. If we took the land used for energy crops and instead covered it with solar panels, that would produce enough energy to basically cover Germany's energy needs (or a least a large part of them, depending on eg storage efficiencies).
This is pretty neat, though I do have mixed feelings. On one hand, HN is great because it's more like a "fun things to read" aggregator to me so I don't want HN to become like a psuedo reddit. On the other hand, I feel like I have missed a lot of fun conversations because I didn't know someone replied to me and missed the window to reply since the other person wouldn't know about my response either.
It has to run at 60 degrees Celsius at full speed to maintain longevity, that might not be important for electronics that will have more performant replacements later, but with 1Gflops/watt 32-bit operation the raspberry 4 is peak humanity performance/watt/memory/longevity/simplicity/size/weight/$ (smaller lithography might actually reduce lifespan) so it needs to kept at a cool and silent TDP usage by design, specially since the form-factor has non standard heat-sink attachment.

Fans are not a long term solution to anything and that is what makes the raspberry 4 really valuable; namely it's on the limit of what _can_ be cooled enough passively without adding too much weight/size!

I'm all in on the standard raspberry 4 for server clusters and gaming clients for my 3D MMO that I'm writing from scratch! Sad that the mounting (plastic is not long-term, the SO-DIMM was better in that regard) and form-factor of these are a bit odd, we'll have to wait and see if someone makes boards/heat-sinks for it!

They need to be compact even when stacked like these: http://move.rupy.se/file/pi_4.jpg

The home computer revolution started with the C64 and peaked with the raspberry pi 4, everything in-between has just been revenue landfill.
If you are part of a serious debating society you will be expected to be able to form an argument for or against a concept, viewpoint or position regardless of your personal beliefs.
This is arguing constructively without the entrenched partisan foxholes people dig for themselves which makes it so hard to have civilized discussions and conversation with many people in our current febrile social climate.