skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All I'm saying is that the example is contrived, it streches credulity. You're making a marginalist argument where the cost of being slow is increased enormously.

Things like that actually happen. Hospital generators fail during a power outage. The floodgate machinery for a dam fails and if they can't get it open in time the dam will burst.

Instances exist of someone without lights and sirens on their car having a legitimate need to get somewhere quickly.

> I could as well make up a scenario where each additional kph increase costs some absurd number of lives, and then it balances wherever you pick the numbers to balance.

But then human discretion is deployed in the other direction, and you don't drive the vehicle that fast, even if the vehicle itself doesn't prevent you from doing so.

> And for your case, there is already a judicial system that will give you a break if these things happen.

What we are discussing is having a chip in your car that prevents you from exceeding the speed limit. How is ex post facto judicial understanding supposed to help with that?
It is a interesting notion to ask oneself how much these web services are worth or how to spell out contractual relationships for advertising.
re: 6: eh, it's less than that, as long as you're in the same architecture. Linux applications virtualized on M1, running on a Pi 4, and Graviton2 are going to be binary-compatible with each other, and although you'll get the extra atomic performance out of the M1, they won't be massively different other than just scaling up. Cross compiling after some testing to ensure the right atomic order was used should be fine cross-arch.

If one were to add more ARM extensions and actually push them for third-party usage, that might change though.
Maybe there are some chips with 8 functional cores but only at lower frequencies? ... just spitballing.
> How is this NOT an act of war?

Because spying is not an act of war.

If it was, the entire world would be at war with the entire world.
this is a reasonable test: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/ref.html

but it's pretty straightforward to just copy giant buffers in order/out of order and squint really hard at the results
Yeah I just imagine that its a worst case scenario for Rosetta there. Possibly a lot of SIMD that isn't getting translated to neon simd.
A gamified method to learn the base functions of a language. Great idea. I'd buy a Pandas pack.
I can't tell them apart. Maybe I just like them both too much.
I drink alcohol, and I am all for that freedom, but it's not "broadly harmless."
Guns, Germs and Steel is considered hogwash by pretty much all archaeologists. It's basically environmental determinism in the extreme. Don't let his Pulitzer prize fool you, Jared Diamond certainly is not an anthropologist, he is an ornithologist, and his application of ecological models to cultural phenomena really oversteps the boundaries of acceptable anthropological scholarship. See this article for a solid critique: http://www.columbia.edu/~saw2156/HunterBlatherer.pdf

Instead, if you're interested in reading more about ice age art, particularly in the Swabian Jura region, you'll definitely enjoy this upcoming book written by the leading archaeologists who work on that material: [Ice Age Archaeology: The Record from the Ach and Lone Valleys of Southwest Germany](https://books.google.ca/books/about/Ice_Age_Archaeology.html...) In 2018 I had the unique opportunity to visit Hohle Fels, which is where some of the oldest portable art was recovered, as well as the oldest musical instrument, a bone flute. The tour was led by Nicholas Conrad, the director of this project, and Ewa Dutkiewicz, who excavated and subsequently devoted a large chunk of her career towards studying the bone flute. Their enthusiasm during the tour was really captivating :)

I also highly recommend adding the forthcoming book The Dawn of Everything: a New History of Humanity to your reading list. It is co-authored by David Graeber, a fantastic anthropologist who sadly died this year. Check out [this article](https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/) by the authors published in 2018 for a prelude regarding the main objectives of this book
Kristof's end goal (at least as he states, and based on the reporting) is not to shut down Pornhub, and he tried to balance it with talking to Pornstars to make sure there would be a balance.

I think you are attacking the person instead of the issue. It doesn't matter what her background is as long as there are legitimate issues. And that was certainly the case with backpage, and seems like it was true for Pornhub as well.

I would say Pornhub either is more serious or learned the lesson from backpage, and is moving very fast in shutting illegal things down. I don't think it currently looks like the outcome right now looks like they will be declared illegal.
Lmao act of war. You going to fight?

This is just what countries do to eachother. Welcome to the 21st century.
Most don’t care either, just do it far as hell away.
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I'm saying they focused on real-world performance in the chip and therefore couldn't show benchmarks that would've represented well. Not that they should've had more specific benchmarks. In no way would this audience be able to understand something like reference counting.
I still don't understand why people can't get that not all i9s are the same. That's literally what this title is implying ... Which isn't even the article's title ... Maybe someone will edit it so people stop assuming they mean the i9-10900k ...
"Aborting male kids born to ugly parents would be an interesting idea."

In other words, eugenics except you're only selecting for beauty?
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I've tried

But the instructions are not clear.

Take for example the als benchmark for java renaissance.

It has a lot of options, one of them used to not force GC.

Was it set?

What version of Java?

I'm running openjdk 11.

When I launched it it gave me this warning

20/12/14 18:55:20 WARN NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable

Would a native hadoop library make a difference?

And how much?

There are other warnings complaining about lacking some additional library and switching to default, but what really surprised me is that on this particular laptop that mounts an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6820HQ CPU @ 2.70GHz with 8 cores, a CPU at least 5 years old, I could beat the i9 benchmark.

The als benchmark for the i9 completed in 3581.838 ms, on my (very old) laptop the running time was 3533.964 ms.

Raw data from here (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1g4U7LAImfEcXRihJbySZ...)

Tab "Java Renaissance (Chart)"

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I think these code schools are clearly defining the need for vocational programs to get into tech. I don't know why these vocational programs have to be fundamentally different from the vocational programs that exist for other industries. Code schools seem to be extreme, "4-8 hours a day commitment, 5 days a week", in my experience, which obviously means most students can't really have another job.

I wish there was a 1-2 hour a night, 2-3 nights a week program that took a year and output a reasonable junior candidate for most software companies. Meaning, not FAANG, not SF, not unicorn startup. A program to take a person with no background and make them capable of being entry level employees for local mid-sized insurance companies or banks.
It should be noted that everyone with a recent version of SolarWinds installed is considered exposed - not just the US gov
Every vendor does not have their own set of extensions. Different x86 chips have different extensions (from a pre-defined set) - I don't see panic about x86 fragmentation.
I couldn't agree more and created an account just to second your thoughts.

This is exactly why everyone hates using modern C++. Their standards committee has run amok with every fancy feature that every new language comes out with in the past two decades. And what has that wrought? A huge language that no one fully understands and is hard to read unless you happen to be the guy that wrote it and time since writing < two weeks.

C is simplistically beautiful. I can write it and understand exactly what the assembly will look like on the backend of the compiler (with the exception of nasty macros). Don't mess with that. If it doesn't feel like it belongs, that's probably because it doesn't! Know when to stop.
Despite people complaining about how draconian DMCA take down notices are, the DMCA safe harbor is incredibly generous. Service providers have no affirmative duty to police user uploaded content unless they have actual knowledge of infringing materials or "facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent."

It's basically a don't ask/don't tell system.

Courts have been reluctant to require any active investigation even when faced with very large number of valid take-down requests.

Youtube is more proactive than most (CotentID) due to settlements and agreements with its major partners.
So it's an act of war. Now what?

Does the US escalate to a shooting war with the second biggest nuclear power in the world?

So it's not surprising Russia thinks they can act with a lot of impunity without facing catastrophic consequences.
SolarWinds hasn't bothered to revoke their certs or remove the package

https://twitter.com/KyleHanslovan/status/1338360093767823362

Back in 2019 apparently their FTP server credentials were exposed on GitHub, allowing automated updates being pushed

https://twitter.com/vinodsparrow/status/1338431183588188160/...

Edit: If updates failed due to signature not matching, SolarWinds recommended downloading the package and installing it manually, LOL

https://twitter.com/KyleHanslovan/status/1338419999665508354...
I like the idea but the formatting is terrible and there are no carriage returns so if you turn off page style you just see a wall of text.
The insistence on the stupidly long passwords and 30-60 day expiration times created so many weaknesses. People choose obvious patterns for their passwords to get around it. Like `1q2w3e4r!Q@W#E$R`. Then they shift by one each time they have to update, by the time they get across the keyboard they can restart (or twice, in which case you swap the shift to the first half instead of second half). Or, this was fun, my first gov't job the guy had stored passwords on a sticky underneath the keyboard (I changed them all). They also used a shared account for admin stuffs, even though we were all given an admin token (like the smart card or CAC for regular login, but with admin credentials and issued separately).

In theory, the DOD CAC system (they've gotten better over the years) eliminates the need for passwords entirely, but somehow most teams never tie their system to it properly.
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What utter nonsense. Different ARM chips aren't "somewhat compatible" anymore than Intel/AMD x86 chips. It's a standard instruction set. And even if we'd get different instruction sets, we have much better toolchains/compilers to work with multiple architectures now than we did in "the home computing landscape of the 80s / early 90s" (GCC and LLVM aren't really comparable to Sinclair Basic).

The M1 has been out for a month and we already have hundreds/thousands of natively compiled binaries—and Windows and Linux are up and running.

Choice is not a problem and competition is good.
My point, is that you wouldn't do that if you thought the price was around 5k.

But then take the example of new technology: you wouldn't want to buy gore-tex shoes, which would be more expensive than the others, if you didn't know that they were both waterproof and breathable, something you would consider impossible before seeing the ad.

Apples M1 is a more recent example: until their marketing/pr blitz hit I couldn't buy a fanless laptop with anywhere decent performance and so because I didn't know it existed, I wouldn't have gone to search for it.

You can run a price comparison website for know old things, e.g I use them when I am after something specific.

Of course that leaves me the problem of which price comparison site I should use.
x86 line of processors is fragmented with tons of extensions.
And? How is that relevant?

I really quite loathe this line of argument that the source or even the intentions behind a probably factual statement should be taken into account when evaluating the truthfulness of the statement. It's textbook ad hominem, literally argument to the person.

PH has a demonstrable problem with child porn on its service. I don't care if it's the US government, a different government, a religious fundamentalist, a competitor, a lobbying group, or some random anonymous internet user surfacing that problem so long as it's verifiably true.

Intention factors into evaluation of the speaker, not the content. To do otherwise is to discard important, actionable facts because you dislike the speaker. In other words, it discards logic.
Not necessarily true. Some of these most certainly have been.
This is an interesting argument. It seems to boil down to, "I don't see the effects of this surveillance, so the trillion dollar corporations who employ thousands of engineers to design the systems must be wasting their time." I have a hard time squaring that circle. Entire industries have deluded themselves in the past, but I'm not willing to be my future behavior on it being the case this time.
Yeah, I've definitely grasped their argument, which became clear once they clarified that "allowing people to make up their minds" doesn't mean "allowing content the owners disagree with" but rather "we won't try to criminalize this speech on other platforms." After all, if I were a publisher who refused to publish books with a certain viewpoint, in what other way could I say I (as opposed to the government, say, or the publishing industry as a whole) am "allowing people to make up their minds"?

(Sidenote: I do think YouTube and other corporate-run forums like that would welcome some regulation in the area, for two reasons: (1) they'd no longer be blamed for how they decide difficult content questions, and (2) it might make it more difficult for small startups to disrupt this space by increasing the legal barriers to entry.)
C doesn't have to die. The point was just that many places where C is currently a good choice you'll find that Zig is also a good choice, and if you like the "but better" features it brings to the table then you'll be inclined to choose Zig. As another comment pointed out, you'll have minimal regret when doing so because the C interop is excellent.
I think it's pretty clear. Advertising is when someone pays to pass to you any information you didn't intentionally ask for. Banners and sponsored content obviously are advertising. Your friend telling you about some cool product is not advertising because he wasn't paid for that.
MacBook Air 2019 (Intel): 2.75

MacBook Pro 2019 (Intel): 3.02

As far as I see the M1 models aren't heavier than the Intel ones? But run much longer before they have to be recharged, spending much less power.
Here's how the name is pronounced in the native Hungarian: https://forvo.com/word/esterházy/

I'd consider anything else a creative approximation.
The probability that Apple will target HPC is practically zero. They don’t care about low margin offerings, and HPC runs Linux which they don’t support.
Tehran was made by Israeli KAN 11, a public TV channel roughly equivalent to a BBC channel.
No, GPT-3 is not superintelligent
I can third it. A great series, very understated, shoestring budget.
Clearly, though there have been many more nuclear-related accidents than public records show. False alerts were also pretty sensitive back when I was in the military. Most of them were not even shared internally at the time.
I don't think any of the major cloud providers would be interested in #5. Better to have a wide open list of hardware that can develop for your platform. You can still run Windows VMs in AWS, Oracle DBs in Azure, etc.
One thing I've always wondered about is what other worlds smell like. Currently we only know two, Earth and the moon [0]. It seems like something that would actually be a real big human factor but is completely glossed over in stories if it isn't about the planet smelling terrible and more a foreshadowing element (I do remember reading one story where it was mentioned in a casual but I forgot which one).

[0] https://www.space.com/26932-moon-smell-apollo-lunar-aroma.ht...
Considering the number of slaves you'd need to operate your own hypocaust system, I would classify that securely in the luxury category for antiquity.
I'm not a hardware review expert but I think one of the biggest advantages of the Ryzen 5000 series vs the 3900x is the CPU performance for apps that don't take advantage of parallelism across many cores. The 5000 series has a completely new architecture and is supposedly WAY faster than the 3000 series for single core tasks. That's partly why gaming performance is so much better with the 5000 series since it often comes down to execution speed on 1 core, but that would also apply to many programming benchmarks too.

It would be interesting to see the same benchmarks with the 5000 series. I know the author said he didn't have that CPU to test it against, but IMO it would be a more fair comparison considering the 3900x is using an older CPU architecture that has been drastically improved upon with hardware that's available today (ie. the 5000 series isn't the next gen, it's the current gen).
In some countries without sufficient landfill systems, the pervasive smell of burning trash also fills the air...and you also get used to it pretty quick as well.

It's both kind of amazing and kind of expected how quickly we adapt to different sent environments. Humans tend to saturate our ability to smell novel things quickly, which is why it's often hard to track things down by smell -- we quickly lose the ability to smell it.
Seems like this exposes the flaw in the dataset. Eg, searching for "cixin liu" there are many different variations of the same book that show up, lots and lots of duplication.
It works, but the video restarts at least once, sometimes two or three times, before it finally plays correctly. Its very annoying
Oh. It uses some kind of proctoring service. Those are bloody awful.

I'm a PhD student at Imperial College London. Last exams season was entirely replaced with "timed open book coursework", carried out via Blackgoard and Wiseflow. I'm not sure about the privacy record of the orgs behind these two pieces of software, but there was no proctoring of any sort and we graduates were spared from invigilator duties, that we'd normally have to perform.

Indeed, the College relied on the students' honour to avoid cheating:

A reminder about cheating and collusion

Students who are identified to have colluded will face disciplinary action.

You must not confer with fellow students or any other individuals during the exam. We trust you. However, if there is a concern that you have not followed the code of conduct expected, the College has a range of options at its disposal. The College reserves its right to impose additional forms of assessment including individual student vivas, if required. These may also be used to assist the examiners and the Boards of Examiners in assuring that the assessment process has been conducted fairly and in accordance with the agreed marking schemes. You are reminded that if we become aware of proposed or evidenced actions for collusion that such allegations will be reported and investigated in accordance with the College’s Academic Misconduct Procedure.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/electrical-engineering/internal/c...

Right? "We trust you". I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if that works for Imperial, it should work for a bootcamp.
The colors on those bar charts makes everything so much harder to interpret than it needs to be. The two M1 bars should have similar (but distinguishable colors). The two Intel bars should have similar, but distinguishable colors (they are the same!). They should all have similar luminance contrast with the background. Charts that use bars to represent things other than those categories should use different colors than the other bars (the blue and red are reused in the Go chart). The colors used for a given category should be consistent across all the charts (different colors are used when you get to the Redis test).
Fake news: "Regarding #JulianAssange tweet, Inadvertent tweet, faulty source, please disregard!"

https://twitter.com/pastormarkburns/status/13385436957428572...
Sounds a lot like lambdatheultimate.org.
Unfortunately insulating a building after the fact is extremely difficult, expensive, and depending on climate can approach the level of near tear down. I think it many cases it may ultimately be more environmentally friendly and cost effective to add things like solar and just brute force the heating/cooling.

The reason for this is that buildings not designed for insulation and air sealing can suffer from dramatically worse durability (mold etc) when just adding insulation. It is not necessarily wise to just add fiberglass batts to wall cavities.

The addition of insulation to our homes is a modern thing, and there have been significant issues even currently (the mold crisis).

The issue is that to build a building properly, it is necessary to address heat flow, vapor flow, air flow, condensation, drying, and water barriers. This means you often have to address the entire envelope of the building, which is very expensive, difficult, and means replacing a lot of material. Basically remove all cladding and sheathing and upgrade it.

Realistically most of these concepts are not well understood in the construction industry, and the expense is high so most corners would be cut leading to huge issues with mold and wood destroying pests down the road.
As I'm forced to speculate, because it is inconvenient for us to call it an act of war. We routinely conduct cyber espionage missions on other countries and "probe" their cyber defenses. If we were to call this an all out act of war, then we would also be found guilty of unprovoked acts of war on many other countries, including allied countries. So, too, would many other countries. This is the new spywork.
Seems like the major win for this chip is having Memory so close to the CPU - on the same chip.

This would also be a massive win for cloud computing too, does Amazon/Azure/GCP have anything in the works for introducing ARM chips with Memory on the same chip?
The one overnight train I took in Germany was one of the most unpleasant nights of my life. The bed was so small and uncomfortable, and the temperature so erratic, I spent much the night in a bathroom reading a book.

I'd only ever try it again in a premium cabin, assuming the cost isn't exorbitant.
I mean, structurally, you're right that police violence is a bigger problem, but I don't really understand the relevance to my comment when this entire thread was talking about cars.
Flying is a lot of hassle though. You need to go to the airport which is far away from the center. In most cities half an hour to an hour. And you have to arrive at least an hour before your flight takes of. And you cannot buy a ticket spontaneously.

I love trains. They often go every hour. You can spontaneously take them. Right from the center. And you arrive right in the center. And you can freely chose your seat. So you can pick a pleasant neighbor. Or just change seat if your neighbor annoys you.