skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's tragic that all these chips are coming out with no POPCOUNT instruction, held hostage by the unfinished B extension.

We really need to get POPCOUNT into the base (at least) 64-bit core set.
Yes it's crazy how polarized popular U.S. media is. I'm from Germany but regularly check CNN and Foxnews since a year. I'm astounded how Foxnews is strictly positive about Trump and CNN is so positive about Democrats and Biden. (More in-depth magazines are more open though)

But being realistic, at least until the upcoming election is over they've reached a point of no return. 4 more years of Trump would exclude U.S. from international foreign politics.
This is actually very helpful to mentally understand why people who are not thinking with regards to the logic that software works at don’t see eye to eye on these issues. I would have never imagined something like nuance on copyright would somehow weave back around into opinion about obscenity law, and yet this is about as elegant as any explanation of it.

This is my first time reading this, but I suspect it has become a new part of my mental modeling of the world for years to come.
Sean Carroll has a great podcast episode discussing the results with Netta Engelhardt, one of the co-authors a paper discussed in this article [1]. He also has a great series on Youtube [2] that builds up modern physics from elementary ideas, up to and including AdS/CFT and black hole information theory.

[1] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/09/21/115-...

[2] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/category/biggest-i...
According to the creator, /u/T0X1K01 on reddit:

> No, that's what's so cool about it. I explain it in more detail in the video, but basically because the videos are created using 1-bit color images, it makes it easy to retrieve data without having to worry about how YouTube changes the video.

There's a video explanation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu_ZIr0q5rU&feature=youtu.be

Source code here: https://github.com/AlfredoSequeida/fvid/

An example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzZDFxM5Coo
I seriously doubt that you'll get that benefit from this service. When I use the Google VPN on my Android, my outbound IP is part of a completely separate AS they dedicate to this purpose, not on AS15169 like all Google's own outbound traffic.
When I was 11 (that was 1971) I did a school project on climate change. At the time the coming Ice age was all the rage. All pop science magazines I read wrote about it and it was also mentioned regularly in newspapers and in documentaries.

Apparently scientists had been seeing temperatures dropping for quite some time.
(I also remember winters having more snow than they do now).

Later all that changed to global warming.
It’s obviously hyperbole meant in jest
This looks amazing! Please consider making your website more accessible... the menu cannot be focused with the tab key, the images in your gallery do not have alt attributes. Those are some low hanging fruit you can correct. The overall strategy of toggling the main content with CSS might need some aria announcing so folks at least know different stuff is on screen as you move from one thing to another.

Again, AMAZINGLY COOL project, not wanting to take anything away from that. Just want everybody to be able to learn about it, even if they are not mouse users, not sighted, etc.
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They've always seemed terrible to me for speed and thermodynamics reasons (it's so much easier and faster to move an electron than a bunch of neutrons). I suppose from a computational perspective you could do a simple, or set of simple computations in a machine more resistant to, or at least more resilient against, EMP (as the thing that is easy to move in a B field, that electron I mentioned above) is easier to move in undesired wave when subject to a large external B field. I doubt it though.

However you do raise the possibility of longer-lasting computers in other harsh environments, specifically space. The Voyager probes work in part because the feature size of the components is huge (discrete transistors that are inspectable through a microscope and in some cases the naked eye). Such components are hard to come by these days. Micro mechanical devices might even be a superior approach. And for most space applications speed is not critical.
> My biggest concern is that the "they're private companies, they can do whatever they want" argument applies to ISP's, too - they're private companies as well. We've already seen Epik being "deplatformed" by PayPal (also a private company) for allowing controversial content to pass through their infrastructure.

This isn't new or unique to paypal. The Credit Card companies and banks that underly pretty much every fancy modern method of money transfer have and do "deplatform" people. And they've done it for ages. Porn companies can't use conventional credit card processors, and there's a long history of banks and credit cards refusing to do business with certain companies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deplatforming#Financial_servic...).

Whatever your overall opinion of deplatforming, the idea isn't anything new or unique to twitter. ISPs were singled out (they aren't anymore, net neutrality was rolled back, now your argument only applies to phone companies).
Nevermind that work on Yari started at least a year prior to the layoffs in question. https://github.com/mdn/yari
Also, Americans are wealthier on average. But I do wonder if Europe’s data regulations make it harder for Facebook to target ads as effectively in the EU...
Do you have any examples of features that haven't been added yet, which prevent Rails from being considered mature?
Is this satire? Reading your post I am still unsure about where the money would be coming from, or why would anyone pay it - what problem is being solved here?

Can you give me an example of a "smart contract" that simplifies a complex task and that can't be done with conventional code and a SaaS?
If coke labeled the cans biodegradable when they are not there would be a case against them.
Colour does exist. It's the Second Law of Thermodynamics: information cannot be created, only lost, and creating a faithful copy of document A requires you to discard an equivalent amount of information (usually in the form of “there's usable energy over here”, in a very lossy process, but physics doesn't require this) – which you can then recover by comparing your copy A with the original document A, and discarding one.

You're not going to get the Complete Works of Shakespeare by any means other than by copying an existing copy of the Complete Works of Shakespeare; the odds are astronomical. You might get a description of calculus by other means (expending the effort yourself to produce it), but it's not very likely you'd come up with it before somebody else made such a discovery public, unless:

• it's recently become obvious that such a thing would be useful; and

• it's easy enough to discover that you could figure it out in a year or two; and

• enough people were looking in that direction at the time (or one of them was a secretive sort of person).

That's not to say that authorial monopolies are necessarily a good thing. But they are a meaningful concept.
Inb4 Greenwald takes a job with Trump Campaign as Head of PR lmao how incredibly transparent.
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How Debuggers Work: Getting and Setting x86 Registers, Part 2: Xsave
Yes. Think of countries with a mandatory "impressum" (Germany and Austria)
Augmented Reality Is Revolutionizing Fintech and Payments Industry
You forgot soil depletion, loss of pollinators, and system ecological collapse, but yeah.

Food production per acre has increased by ~4x over a century, but that's the only 4x we ever got and the only 4x we'll ever be getting. We've been at diminishing returns for decades but will soon peak and experience lots of bad effects from unsustainable practices.
If anything, Greenwald comes off as compromised by his own political biases. The editor says fairly gently that there are concerns with poorly-supported claims and omitting key information -- such as the media reporting on corruption claims and the fact that media outlets have not been given access to the supposed hard drive of emails. This results in a meandering and potentially misleading article that leads readers to conclusions it does not actually support.

They suggest a way to focus it more on core points which are well-substantiated and get a solid article out of it. They're not censoring his political views, if anything they're encouraging him to express them in an article indicting liberal media for going soft on Biden. They're trying to get a shorter, more tightly-focused article for publication. Which is to say, a more solid article.

That sounds like an editor doing their job -- editing is supposed to be the art of removing words, after all!

Greenwald sends first a polite reply, then a much less polite one that jumps to this vitriolic claim:

> I want to note clearly, because I think it's so important for obvious reasons, that this is the first time in fifteen years of my writing about politics that I've been censored -- i.e., told by others that I can't publish what I believe or think

Followed by insinuations that they're suppressing the story due to their political biases. It sounds like Greenwald can't accept that there may be legitimate explanations for why the content isn't focused or solid enough.

That's downright nasty and unprofessional.
A few years ago, I had this idea of using identicons to visualize the host part of URLs: https://vorba.ch/2018/url-security-identicons.html

I still think this could help people realize when they are being phished at least for their most important sites in a privacy-respecting way, even if they don't use a password manager for those sites. I don't use my password manager for my banking account, for instance, since I don't want those credentials to be synced anywhere.
I may not have first hand experience with some of the older examples you give, but "vilification of Edward Snowden" makes no sense, considering 3 of the biggest news publications were the ones who were tasked with spreading Snowden's documents in the first place. How are they vilifying him if they're literally helping him spread the word?

I think you're using "The media" very liberally there. Were there pundits on some cable channel vilifying him? Sure. But that is in no way equivalent to every single major news publication refusing to back NYP on this report.
You really shouldn't send plaintext emails to anyone at all. It's rude.
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What it would take to use mutation testing in industry: A study at Facebook
It's impossible to nicely ask people to limit their consumption of resources to which they have unfettered access; it's very feasible to seriously limit their access to them. If meat (and other polluting products) were priced according to their emissions externalities, a lot more people would be vegetarians.
Peter maas' arguments seemed quite reasonable, but then so did the counter arguments of Glenn. Hard to take sides.

But that response from another editor Betsy was garbage- she threw around words like "offensive" and "unacceptable" and didn't even bother to explain her position.
Did you read the previous comments?

I wrote two (I think) of the words in my comment, the rest were written by the person I was replying to about someone deciding not to have children.
Abandon Gmail.
Not at all, this is exactly what I want, some good feedback, I hadn't even considered those things you mentioned, I'll look into it thanks!
Paparazzi actually operate under a more leinient set of rules because their subject has chosen to make themselves a public figure.
> I want to experience the site exactly like it was designed, ads included

> I like to keep up with ad trends

Do you work in advertising by any chance?
We're not even sure if they're going to phase out the old architecture or just sell them concurrently for an arbitrarily long period of time. What do they put in the next Mac Pro that can make it competitive with a 64-core Threadripper, if not a 64-core Threadripper?
THIS.

I can not believe how many people just blindly recommend VPN like some silver bullet.

Using untrustworthy VPN as a privacy solution is like jumping from the fire into the pavement 20 stories below.
The only reason to use V or B instructions would be for their performance. Trapping and emulating them would be a cruel joke.
I learned RoR from the wonderful Agile Web Development with Rails (2nd edition). David Black’s “Ruby for Rails” and a little later “Eloquent Ruby” helped me to better grasp the difference between Ruby the language and Rails the framework.

I was a kid, and read the first two books 14 years ago. One on a holiday in Kenya and the other in Egypt. No distractions, just travel, family and reading.

These days it seems like a lot of junior developers want to learn it more interactively. I hope books stay popular. In my opinion, they do a great job at explaining the why & the reasoning, instead of just showing you how.
The problem with tech hearings, and generally most hearings with subjects at all related to engineering/science/math, is that Congress is old and actually trending older on average (at least as of 2018, we'll see soon this cycle).

The hearing yesterday was always going to just be a political show due to the current election but remember back to Zuck in 2018 regarding Cambridge Analytica or earlier this year with Zuck, Bezos and Cook. These congressmen are just clueless about tech entirely and apparently aren't seeking expert help in advance of these hearings.

As a big tech employee myself, I absolutely believe that a lot of these big tech companies should be broken up and I can clearly see things that we are doing that aren't good for the consumer. Congress just isn't asking the right questions and isn't asking for the right information.
In 1999 and 2012, the more research you did the more obvious it was there was nothing to worry about. Now, the more research I do the more worried I get.

I'm not a climate scientist but I majored in physics and like to think I'm not completely ignorant. The IPCC reports have a lot of systemic nudges towards underplaying risks, as part of attaining consensus.
> When in American history would all of the major book publishers refusing to print someone’s words mean the publishers should be made legally liable?

I'd say that tech companies a. have more power than book publishers, b. are more concentrated than book publishers historically have been, c. are covered by section 230 safe harbor, unlike book publishers

Moreover, why are we constrained by American history given that the challenges we face clearly are not?
I was mostly joking but 10GB even in 2008 still isn't a lot. 300gb hard drives were pretty common. Although I bet you could've got a lot more out of that 10GB than you can now what with the absurd amount of ads and excessive bloat on websites nowadays.
Very good point! I'd like to add that potentially the reason why these institutions (parties) act that way is because, we as people that form part of them, also don't have or adhere to any strict principles.

Edit: Grammar.
Exactly. It's the industrial scale collection, storage, analysis, and sharing of data that becomes a problem. I don't care of Joe Smith the security guard sees me pick my nose or scratch my ass when they're watching security cameras because it's not noteworthy to them and they're not going to recognize me or remember it.

However, I do care if the cameras are feeding into a huge system for analytics and data sharing. What if I cough 2x more than the average person? Does that get tracked, stored, and sold to a health insurance data supplier that ranks me as high risk for respiratory problems?

Does the machine learning algorithm that analyzes footage rank me as a potential thief if the database says I hang out in a lot of poor neighborhoods?

These will turn into class profiling systems that will amplify everything in your life so much that whatever your economic status is when you're born is what it'll be when you die.
I heard sam seder break what he knew down pretty well a few days ago but I am having trouble finding the clip.
Every single one of your complaints, except perhaps the last one, are referring to a changing climate.

Do you not see the logical connection? How if global homeostasis system that regulates temperatures and weather across the entire globe suddenly destabilizes, you start to see changes in things like local temperature, weather etc?

How is that unreasonable? What kind of cause are you looking for exactly? That it's done by aliens?
I think yes in principle although this is why you test things thoroughly (In an embedded context there both probably won't be much data flowing around and the code will probably be simple enough that any glaring problems should be fairly obvious)

Ultimately it depends on whether you mean embedded as in a self-driving car, or embedded as in a microwave controller.
Sounds like GNFS is still better if you believe its conjectured computational complexity, but this still seems like a good advance. Paper's over my head for 10 minutes reading though.
Upwork is an absolute waste of time. Have you tried looking at conventional, local job boards? I'm sure there would be big businesses with legacy ColdFusion stuff that needs maintenance/rewriting and are able to afford paying decent $$$ for it.
I must have missed all the IPCC forecasts about the Mayan calendar.
I mean, we do fund geoengineering research. We subsidize fossil fuel production which is a live Earth experiment to see what happens with runaway CO2 production. Oops, we forgot a control and there's no reset button on this one.
Yeah that's why I wrote "revenue-neutral". I've no desire to finance even more corruption and wars. The only goal is to penalize carbon and incentivize less carbon.
They never did that in the past. Why start now? Entire articles I wrote from scratch... the attributed author is not me, it’s some bot.
Americans are somewhat wealthier than the average European but not by that margin. My guess is several things. European data protection is stricter so monetizing users is probably harder, but more importantly I'd say there is no unified market for advertisers. Europe has dozens of languages and different cultures that are much harder to serve with ads than you can in the United States.
You underestimate humanities ability to adapt. I’d bet in 100 years a lot of food is grown in vertical farms and those can be made (mostly) immune to droughts and storms. It isn’t going to be easy but nor is society just going to throw in the towel when it gets hard.
We wouldn't need this VPN if Google didn't suck up all our information in the first place.
Rails _did_ support multiple databases up until then, it just wasn't _as easy_ as everything else in rails. You just defined another database in database.yml (say "second_database") and then ran something like

class Foo < ActiveRecord::Base
establish_connection :second_database
end

Still pretty straight forward and simple - just opaque.

A lot was available in the Rails ecosystem or using Rails code without being explicitly supported by Rails itself. Much of the last few years has been including support for stuff like this that was already being used. To me, that's what a mature framework does.
Wow, it keeps going also with the further digits, e.g.

=14285712

+0000000224

=1428571424

+000000000448

=142857142848

+00000000000896

=14285714285696

+0000000000001792

=142857142857....
This is a great point.

Not to mention it is THE platform where ALL politicians, journalists and public reside. In that respect it has de facto become the public square for discussing politics.
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Yes, I noticed that as well, the lack of credit but I wasn't sure if I just hadn't seen enough of the site.
Your keystrokes are safely stored on Microsoft servers to improve Cortana and the advertisements you'll see
> is there a version manager I should be using?

> I am familiar with nvm and pyenv for managing Node and Python versions, respectively, however the tutorial I was following did not mention any Ruby version manager. I took to the internet and found the highly popular, rbenv.

If you want "just" a version manager for ruby, I'd go with rbenv. But if you use, say, node and python too - I'd go with asdf:

https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-ruby

Keeps the stampede of VMs out of your bashrc.
I am not surprised by the level of criticism in the comments here.

However, paid Google services may be cancelled but they have terms of service.

For example, Google Workplaces (used to be called GSuite) states that they use none of your data for advertising and make privacy claims. I am a relatively new customer and I believe it. On the other hand, there are good alternatives like ProtonMail and FastMail for people who don’t trust Google.

I have been paying for both ProtonMail and FastMail for quite a while, but I find my personal workflow better with Google Workplaces: things like automatic email and calendar integration and also Cloud Search that lets me search every digital artifact in my life from one place.

What finally convinced me was that both my former employer CapitalOne and also my current employer Olive AI trust Google Workplaces, so why shouldn’t I.
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They are still in the clear minority, just like those 3% of climate scientist who refuse to believe in climate change. The fact that the president wasn't given HCQ is all the proof you need to know how effective it is.
If we want different results then we need to change behaviour, that's a given.

But a ideological behavioral change ("eat less meat") enforced on everybody is much more political (ideological) than just implementing the required nudges/incentives (less carbon) and allowing everybody to adjust their behavior as they see fit.
The fact that this incident was newsworthy is a useful indicator that this kind of case is rare. That's a reason to trust media organizations, not to distrust them.

Similar: sometimes I see people saying "this publication had to retract or correct a story, which is proof that you cannot trust them!". The fact that they posted a correction is a reason TO trust them. You should be suspicious of publications that never post corrections, not publications that do.
Why can’t you distribute latest commits via a mailing server? git fetch becomes a “check your inbox”, git push sends an email to the list.
The explanation is simpler than that, they like to gamble.
This is how Wikipedia attracts and retains volunteers.
>He founded The Intercept and could have been the EIC choosing what gets published. But he wanted to focus his work elsewhere.

TBF, it sounds like he's barely involved (He does live in Brazil after all), and he just uses the intercept as a venue to post articles to which he has full editorial control.

If he doesn't actually have any ownership, nor a title, just a contract that says he can publish articles in exchange for the use of his name, then, yeah, they can tell him whatever they want.
Twitter says they can censor because they own the servers.

Looks like they're our self-appointed "Lords".

I sure hope AT&T doesn't realize that merely by owning the infrastructure companies get to censor all citizens, Presidents, and heads of state...able to cancel anyone.

...and based on the political whim of un-elected 20-something safe-space participation trophy kids in their Silicon Valley Ivory Towers standing in judgement over all us unwashed masses.

SOLUTION:

We simply need a user-threshold law for these kinds of platforms. Up to a certain number of users (like 1 million) you are free. But over 1 million and you get categorized as a national infrastructure and you loose your right to censor the public.

That is, the right of the many outweighg the rights of the few. Surely even the Silicon Valley socialists can unserstand the concept of "the many" outweighing "the few", right?
Love it, just don’t touch it ;)