skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the very first few lines of the description I was wondering how this could be possible. The problem isn't the NOR gate - that's definitely enough for all computation - but how to drive it. Looking at the schematic, it is only wired to bit 0 in the data bus, which is 8 bits. So how do you perform ALU ops on all the other bits? There is no shift data path. How can an 8-bit CPU use a 1-bit ALU with no barreling/bit multiplexing?

It took me a while to find the answer in the description of the add instruction:

http://www.mynor.org/downloads/The_MyNOR_ADD_Instruction.pdf

It uses a lookup table to perform bit rotates. Unfortunately, this kind of breaks the entire idea of a one-NOR ALU data path. Now you have a table-driven 8-bit rotate ALU op (which is the same amount of table space needed for a 4-bit add!), and at that point you might as well ditch the NOR gate and implement everything else in microcode tables too. You can use lookup tables to implement any logic function, of course.

IOW I bet you could just modify the microcode of this thing to make it much faster by replacing the core of the ADD with another table.

Conversely, you can also just implement the NOR operation (or anything else) as control flow in the microcode sequencer, if you have any way to test bits instead, giving you a "zero-gate" ALU (ed: yeah, there is a conditional jump microinstruction).

So while this is definitely a very cool project and interesting design, I do find the claim of one-NOR purity questionable. It cheats. In a fun way, but this isn't a 1-NOR ALU CPU, it's a highly microcoded table-driven CPU that uses a two-transistor NOR gate as a gimmicky ALU component :-)

For implementing a faster ADD with the existing design, tables, and ditching the NOR, the tricky bit is mixing the inputs. One simple optimization would be to have a table that implements "rotate and add one" and one that implements "rotate". Then you can just test bit 0 of one operand, use that to select a table (via control flow) to apply to the second operand, then rotate the first operand, and repeat (2 table lookups). No NOR ops necessary. You could test two bits and cut it down to 3 table lookups per 2 bits added, or 5 table lookups per 4 bits added by just adding more tablespace. The issue here is you still need the flop+NOR to mix inputs bit by bit (even if just as control flow), but since addresses are split into halves, you could also have a table that converts one operand into the right table address MSB to index a 4-bit addition with rotate, for each nybbke. That gives you 8-bit addition in 4 table lookups, 256+256+4096 bytes of tables, and no conditional jumps, flip-flop, or NOR necessary. I bet there are other better ways of doing this too.
Maybe I misunderstand your comment, but my point is they didn’t. Communism/socialism is red, and the US is blue+red. If the “left” side of US politics feel a need to distance themselves from socialism, they need to claim blue as their main color. No one is likely to mistake Republicans for communists so it’s safe for them to use red.

Another way to put the same argument is that Democrats are centrists/liberals rather than left wing/socialists, so the red used by actual left-wing parties in other countries just doesn’t fit.
My comments earlier were about CP/M's Ed. I've not used Ed on an ICL but presumably it's the same as the usual UNIX version.

What's the problem getting people to understand the commands? Is it that these days everyone is bought up on GUI pull-downs and that no one's prepared to take the time to learn them? Or perhaps part of it is that what I mentioned, there's too many different editors around and most will prefer ones without seemingly difficult/cryptic commands?

To me, learning commands/keyboard shortcuts is always preferable to just menu operation.
Across the whole of the EU this isn't legal (the legal minimum warranty period is 2 years[1]).

Legal aspects aside, it also isn't exactly a vote of confidence in the quality of the product. I mean, 30 days, really?

1: https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers...
But what if you are a minority in that community and they aren't dependent on your vote to be elected?
This is just so human centric surely you can see how caring for all of Earth's biome is important.

Personally, I care about Earth's biome in its current state, and do not want to cause unnecessary suffering to animals or plant ecosystems because people trashed the joint especially since we had the ability not to.
React hover animation effect with React Spring
You don't expect anyone to write up code to create image classifier for obscure category or the daily?
As a data scientist at the start of my career: why?
Why do so many people confuse supply-side economics propaganda with reality?

Government interference in the market isn't socialism, it's regulation. It's not socialism when the government ensures that companies have to compete fairly amongst eachother, minimise environmental hazards, safety test pharmaceuticals or respect labour laws. Even anti-trust laws or price controls aren't socialist. They're collectivistic, because they look after the greater good, but so are charities, some churches and , ideally, the justice system. None of those are "socialist".

Socialism (and only the statist variety, at that) is when government owns (part of) the means of production, and not even always in those cases, either. The US postal service isn't "socialist", it's a state-run public service. NASA isn't "socialist", it's a government agency funded with public funds.
step one: choose your learning media wisely. 5min youtube is high risk to be a waste of time, an article can be screened and skimmed quickly.
That is a bullshit assertion, proven by the fact that every cost conscious Uber and Minicab driver in competitive markets has switched to HEVs, and many to PHEVs. (Of course none of them are using HEV SUVs though).
If you are thirsty enough to test it yourself, please let us know if you find anything!
Thanks for linking the paper! I've thought the same delay was the case, but seems my knowledge is outdated by 4 years :).
Is make_date not available in your installation?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/functions-datetime.html#...
I agree. In this article, he generalizes the "quiet coworker". Really, there can be many reasons why someone stays quiet. It also doesn't mean that they're just not interested, it can but that's also a bit too general of an assumption.

I think it would have been better if he had made this article about the people who talk too much and about non relevant topics.
They are not going to such lengths to protect their data. They are going to such lengths to conform to regulations. Other organizations don't need to conform to regulations, so they put a fair price for their security (you might not agree with that price, of course).
Re: the frontend - Livewire components also work great, and might be an even easier leap.
The indie game Battle of Polytopia (iOS/Android/Steam) feels like that. It masterfully extracts the core gameplay of games like Civilization. It also has a matching graphics style.
There's a phrase "where there is rot, there is more"

You bet Apple has arranged bribes across the world and companies. Not saying any specific FAANG is better, but there seems to be a crowd of people who repeat commercials about privacy and security despite both being disproved on a weekly basis.
I can imagine this... two extremely thin foils separated by an insulating layer, one connected to a supercap charged at 100V at every time the stick is plugged in, the other layer connected to all pins of the flash memory via diodes. Then, encase the whole thing in epoxy. When someone attempts to cut it open now, the short between the foils will discharge the supercap to fry the memory.
Which makes sense, you have big security teams with the job to do security stuff. Then you have software and business teams who trying to meet certain targets, where security is normally an afterthought.
You're worrying about the wrong part of the equation, the main problem is going to be what you're going to do with the oxygen. There's a reason why so many things tend to react violently with pure oxygen, to the point that we have an entire vocabulary dedicated just to that one class of reactions.
I simply do not understand the ML hype. It's absolutely ridiculous. On top of that you have Elon Musk thinking we are a few months away from SkyNet even though we are decades and decades away from AGI.

Each and every time I see neural networks on some "techies" blog, I wanna vomit.
Soldering irons generally are not expensive. Antex which is a fairly reputable soldering iron brand (as far as i understand) sell them as low as 10$ on amazon
> The second thing I’ve done is avoid containers. VMs work fine for many types of applications. That’s especially true if provisioning and configuration is mostly automated. A product like Google Cloud Run looks interesting for a few low-volume backend services that I operate. Containers are a good fit there because it simplifies operations rather than increases complexity. The core infrastructure will remain VMs for the foreseeable future.

VMs (even self-updating ones) can be built easily using templates with tools like Packer.

And without containers, a lot of things can be done very simply, often more easily, using modern versions of systemd. You get ad-hoc namespacing, ro storage, resource (CPU/network/memory/I/O) limiting, CPU pinning, private networking, logging and much more by the power of a single line more in the .service file. Throw a tight selinux configuration on top of it and you got a pretty good per-service, secure "container" on your system. Additionally, you get smart .service dependency handling, service auto-restarts, notified restarts if you care to implement it, scheduled tasks, and so on in a multiprocess environment that makes you just sad thinking back to having to resort to stuff like supervisord.
This specially true for Cluster Headache (the worst kind of all):

https://clusterbusters.org/
I think if you read the parent comment it was a binary question.

Not disagreeing with your comment though.
So You Want to Code?
Yes, and it's enabled. That is the problem. Only users in shared servers are allowed.
Couldn't that be defeated by draining the battery, for example with low temperatures? Programming it to wipe itself when low on charge might cause other issues.
Just wanted to add my recommendation for Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" by Peter van Roy and Seif Haridi.

This is an amazingly thorough, comprehensive and erudite work. Highly recommended.
I think it's better just to hide the suggestions by default.
I use the Improve YouTube! extension

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/improve-youtube-op...
Uff this is really bad news. `After 2021-01-07 any purchase outside-EU will hit customs and taxed.`

It was already a problem ordering from Pine and this also exceeds the 22 Euros.
Discord took two weeks to get rid of it and still haven't answered any support requests about wtf happened or why it took so long.
Don't senators get (armed) govt security protection anyway when they are threatened?
Years and years ago I took an OS course and the professor made us use this weird language called concurrent sp/k

It was a language based on pl/1 with interesting parallel primitives, like cobegin/coend, monitor and a bunch of other things where you could express your parallel needs in different ways. Even years and years later I remember that experience.

Since then I haven't seen cobegin/coend anywhere except in slides, and I haven't seen monitor at all (If I recall correctly it was a critical section allowing only one process inside)

I think the library-based parallel programming scheme is ok, but it might be time to build it into common languages and tools.
There’s probably a bunch of ML they could use. I was just thinking CDN anything from popular artists, or with the string minecraft in the title ;)
If you feed it an N byte array it will have to allocate an N+16 array and memcpy. If you're reading from the network/disk/etc then there is no need to copy if you can allocate the larger array directly.
When I was working in the military industrial complex we paid Red Hat for Linux even though we'd never have been able to use their support. The reason was that "Freeware" wasn't allowed on the servers. Sometimes the appearance of propriety to people who don't understand the issue can become very important.
I don't know how people are eliding "forests" from my statement about soil. Soil is important and poorly understood[0], which is ironic because it's where most carbon capture is happening now. Forests are nice, and everyone likes forests, but soil is pushing the needle in ways that a shitload of 500 year old houses ain't gonna[1].

[0]https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2017/11/13/where-is-all-that-c...

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/115/46/11652
Indian government blocks access to forty-three mobile apps
vscode-triage-bot commented between bpasero marking it out of scope and bpasero closing it.
that can be interesting for F# and true cross platform applications. Can't wait to mess with it.
You're talking about a different market - the advertised mpg of the Prius, et al, might seem high in the US, but here in Europe / the UK, it is barely competitive with regular ICE cars.

There's also the various government incentives to run a HEV / PHEV.

FYI, here in tke UK, almost all Uber cars are older diesel saloons / estate cars, and mostly just a normal taxi with an extra "Uber" sticker. Talking of BS assertions, I doubt that many Uber drivers outside Silicon Valley (or maybe, to be generous, prosperous American cities) are using HEVs / PHEVs.
Generally it is easy to agree with the sentiment that machine learning is being used to solve problems where it isn't really needed. But on the other hand, the same argument could have been used when computers initially came along: "you don't need a supercomputer to calculate this function, I can do it with pen and paper faster". So the real value in projects like this is not that you can now drive 2d car game with a neural network, but that neural networks just took another tiny step forward and demonstrate that their capability to minimize error functions is in principle transferrable to real life problems no matter how stupid, and one day those small steps will have accumulated and neural nets will (and already have) supercede many limits that humans have.
Decades and decades? I wouldn't be so sure in such a bold prediction. One breakthrough in meta-learning and we could be well on our way. (Which is not to say that it will happen next year -- just pointing out that a development like this is nigh impossible to predict with the certainty your comment expressed.)
Even more interesting is to show that you can also optimize the neural network weights using a GA or even the authors own basic method. Would be interesting to compare the results of the authors method with the neural network optimized in the same way.
Gradient-Based Optimization
IMHO scala projects require company’s wide enforced coding styles. Otherwise one group will try writing it as Haskell while the other will run off with Java crap that is simply not needed in scala
> It is not disrespectful or unethical to espouse this view.

And rms would agree. In fact, you don't need to like rms or believe in Free Software to become a GNU maintainer. This wasn't about that.

> but it is disrespectful to the child victims

Yeah, no. When Nadine Strossen, former president of the ACLU, takes the time to weigh in on a personal title on the matter, that means Stallman has been vindicated. One can no longer pin their lack of reading comprehension on him. If someone only gets "the facts" from twitter, that is their own problem, not GNU's, not Stallman's.

> accuse the signatories of the statement of acting unethically or underhandedly.

They spammed all GNU maintainers addresses.

Not all the advocacy for their cause was transparent and above board. It's all there in the mailing list for anyone to see and make up their own minds.
Lots of News websites give month and day, but no year.
Python: Running Makefiles on Windows
From the outside I have to say one thing. If Intel went away we would all lose.

This isn't like the phone company where somebody has won and consumers take the brunt of it.

This is a situation where there's a struggle and Intel HAS to compete and AMD has to compete and the winners are consumers.

I also think what is probably happening inside intel is that the employees will benefit from the competition.

I think it might quell infighting and put good engineering decisions back above shitty dynasties.
I spent >5years solo building a game that you can probably complete within an hour. Based on the reviews though, 95% of people still really enjoy it, which was a relief. It also feels very validating to read the opinions in here.

the game: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/adventures-of-kidd/id111277721...
Fatality rates go down when people are tested early and hospitalized early. It seems quite plausible that income equality encourages both, since if you're poor and/or uninsured, going to the hospital or even the doctor is an absolute last resort.
Oops. Can't edit anymore, but yeah - this is the correct link :)
I think this answers the OP’s question: Conversations like this are really expensive to have.
I'd guess that a NN could be extended to "racing" multiple cars, where if that was your goal, a polynomial wouldn't be very competitive?
This part: "The Company may terminate your Account and your access to the Service (or, at the Company's sole option, applicable portions of the Service) at any time and for any reason."

https://discord.com/terms

They aren't against the TOS per se, just that they can kick you out at any time for any reason. They could kick you out for typing too slowly in the official client if they wanted to.
I see you're now confusing "raising the bar for a successful hack" with "must be guaranteed impenetrable". One can invest a lot into obtaining a successful hack so we might as well not even try to protect it? Let that sink in before your next comment. Standing against your own point is that your HN account password is not posted in your profile even if it could be obtained with the famous $5 wrench.

But to your point, at Level 3 it most likely means any normal attempt to open the case or rewrite the firmware would irretrievably destroy the device or wipe the encryption keys.

Flash freezing a device or drilling is likely to have this effect since some of the epoxy housing should be made to crack and sever specific connection triggering the wipe before all of the heat is conducted away from the inner components. Same for using solvents, acids, or radiation which may be more of a Level 4 compliance.

As for the power constant components (whether they are at L3 or L4), they may or may not be used. It may very well be part of the asking price.

Apple's T2 chip is FIPS 140-2 compliant and you can be certain a lot of money was invested in making it secure yet it was still jailbroken.
Plex Server Web Client Displays Content (Not Mine) Prior to Login
Not tech related: The power of vulnerability by Brenè Brown (audiobook/course). Worth every single penny.
You can get a glimpse of what's it about on the netflix documentary about her.
The linked jailbreak claims to be fully open source, although I haven't bothered verifying that.
Are people just buying more, or are they moving from buying in stores to buying online?

I don't immediately see how the latter would be bad for CO2. Online shopping is like public transport for goods. Instead of having 100 people drive their 100 cars downtown to go shopping, a delivery truck drives down the street and hands out packets. Returns are obviously more than when you buy in a store where you can try it on first, but how much impact does it make?
I think the fact that Flash was an one-stop shop for graphics, animation and coding made it very accessible to creatives/artists, who might not have had a strong technical background who I suspect were behind most of these games.
Wow. I wish there was something like this for other languages (like Python, Nim or Go).
Not a stats one for once
Increasing total biomass permanently, e.g. reverting the loss in planetary forest cover, or growing the amount of soil, is a sink.
Back when I had a jailbroken iPhone (4S I believe) there were many useful, or just cool, jailbreak tweaks.

Notable ones I remember where:

1. SBSettings, basically control center before Apple added the control center.

2. Flux, before Apple added Night Mode (or whatever they call it)

3. Winterboard, for theming the phone in ways

4. Gameboy emulator, though now I think this can be done without jailbreak.

5. Unlocking the carrier.

6. File explorer

I'm sure there was more too.

For me jailbreaking is partly a philosophical goal, but also I just like seeing all the stuff people come up with when they aren't restrained by the walls of the garden.

If you read above you'll see most of the good jailbreak tweaks were brought into stock iOS at some point, which is great too. Let jailbroken users/devs try new things and if they work well bring them in with some Apple polish.
Interesting! That looks exactly like the test I wanted to write.
This is an other good point. Not to mention secure key exchanges between users when necessary.
In the EU there's combination of spot market and strict grid management that involves all wholesale electricity customers. There are also attempts to manage households but no approach has clearly won. For example it's very inconvenient to move your cooking time according to grid conditions. It likely has to wait for proliferation of batteries.
Not if: low battery -> auto wipe

Also if the content is encrypted you don't need to auto wipe the 128GB, just auto wiping the AES key is enough.

EDIT: To clarify: Many systems like that have a stored AES key for the data encryption which then again is encrypted e.g. "with a password".
Correct. I was waiting for someone to point this out. He optimized the paramaters of a polynomial equation. The machine learned to effectively race around the track through this optimization. The machine learned
Books

Alain de Botton - The Consolations of Philosophy: https://indefenseofbatman.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/alain_...

Web articles

Maria Popova - 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/23/13-learnings-13-yea...

Philip Larkin - This Be The Verse: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-ver...

Bertrand Russell - In praise of idleness:
https://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/368/368RussellIdlenesst...

Videos

Bluebird by Charles Bukowski (read by Tom O'Bedlam): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVdpfhsj6uI

Autumn Song by W H Auden(read by Tom O'Bedlam): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwNpsUZlZpo

Alternate World by Son Lux (music): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1u79rmMd8g

Evidence by Faith No More (music): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHPlZjgfWh4
Does it support input anyway? Can a user choose a table row with arrow keys and press a button to do something or input a value?
I love that :)
I'm not sure that's correct as the safety data had been the last to come in. You still have to run a large phase 3 trial to collect safety data, challenge trial or not.
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If there is a distrust in government misusing taxes, i wonder why the solution is to have less taxes, as opposed to fixing the government? I'm not being snarky I'm just genuinely curious why that is the knee jerk reaction.
If this is intended to be a secure enclave, then it need to be pretty much a black box with a mininal interface to the outside world. Changing what is inside the box should be possible at any time then. On the other hand, why does it even matter that you know the CPU instruction set that's used inside the box when you can't ever have direct access to it?