skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have found the Cloud Shell on GCP to be much more convenient for a few reasons:

- You have to install CLI components piecemeal on GCP, and sometimes need to opt into beta features. With the Cloud Shell, it's all preinstalled for you.

- You have to "log into" the CLI if you're running it locally, which can be a minor annoyance. (I know the AWS CLI doesn't have this issue, as it doesn't use OAuth for authentication with the console.)

- All of the data transfers in Cloud Shell are happening between machines in Google's data center, so you get gigabit speed file transfers in the Cloud Shell. For example, this is super useful when you need to download a large bucket to a working directory to make edits to multiple files, or if you need to run scripts that pull and push to/from Cloud Storage.

I think a Cloud Shell for AWS is a net positive! It can make some workloads easier and reduce the amount of configuration you need to do.
It makes a tiny bit of sense.

Early digital cameras still had RAW files, if anything they were more important since the onboard chips for synthesizing JPGs weren't very powerful.

At the time, portable storage like Compact Flash or Sony Memory Stick was often formated in good ol' FAT32, so 8.3 file names using only capital letters was a longstanding convention.

They were .RAW files, not .raw, in other words, and frequently enough, still are.
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I don't think the SNES actually had anything in its design that made extensibility easier on it than the Genesis.

This and the Super FX - not to mention the Sega CD or the Sega SVP used in Virtua Racing - etc. all just uploaded video data via the cartridge port and blitted it to the screen console-side.

The only reason the 32X needed to do the weird video interception kludge was to get around the Genesis' poor colour depth, and exactly the same thing would be needed if you wanted to do that on the SNES (the SNES had less of a need for that, but...)
If you subscribe to the debt cycle theory by Ray Dalio [1], late cycles see a rise of inequality, populism and finally authoritarianism.
(I am skeptical.)

[1 ]https://www.valuewalk.com/2019/05/ray-dalio-late-long-term-d...
While we are at it, lets remember which political party runs the areas that are most dependent on the government.

Source: https://wallethub.com/edu/most-independent-states/36426#main...
Eh, I always appreciate the early adopters who provide feedback and pressure on devs to fix the games so that I can play a much better game 6 months or a year later.
Is there a way to get timestamp data from these threads? I'd be interested in analysing some of these and sharing some results and examples of this at work.
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In what sense is this "better"?

The generated code is like

__m512i wfs16 = _mm512_castsi256_si512(_mm512_cvtps_ph(wf25, _MM_FROUND_TO_NEAREST_INT|_MM_FROUND_NO_EXC));
fs16 = _mm512_inserti64x4(wfs16, _mm512_cvtps_ph(wf26, _MM_FROUND_TO_NEAREST_INT|_MM_FROUND_NO_EXC), 1);
_mm512_mask_storeu_epi32(wfPtr1+230400+38400*i5+768*c2+128*k1+64*m2+16*f3, 3855, wfs16);
_mm512_mask_storeu_epi32(wfPtr1+345584+38400*i5+768*c2+128*k1+64*m2+16*f3, 61680, wfs16);

(which is a set of 4 lines that appear in the middle of an ~800 line function).

That's not "human readable".

Sure you can use asan or gdb, but if gdb profiles slowly, what can you do? You're still at the mercy of the code generator to be able to optimize things.
The fact that you don't like it, does not mean that there are not people with access to IMEI numbers. Actually, it would be weird if there wasn't since it could be useful for research like this.

So why do you not trust it? You're only explaining how you disagree.
FTA:

> We have an internal QA department and we’re working with external companies as well. One thing that perhaps didn’t help us is COVID: internal testers are able to test the game working from home because we provide them with our own connected machines and so on, but external testers working for external companies were not able to test the game from homes –they have test centers and if they’re not there, they’re not able to work. So, we have seen a decrease in the number of testers, but I wouldn’t point to it as a major source of problems.
We don't have to sympathize with rent-seekers necessarily, but I would wonder if the rest of the city can move as adaptively to wherever opportunity beckons, and whether NY can downscale their city services accordingly.
Started sometime earlier today - we got alerted by Salesforce deliverability team around 11am CST.
Actually, it's not unions are bad, it's contractors are bad. Alon Levy's general thesis is that the Anglosphere (especially the US) stratospheric construction costs are mostly due to the Anglosphere-centric trend of contracting the design and planning of major public works constructions to outside firms, leaving the public agencies inept and incapable of properly evaluating how competent they are at actually managing their budget.
No autodiff for most of these though.
Don't the citizens create the government in a democracy?
"[Other place] is better than New York during a pandemic lockdown" is not a ringing endorsement of [other place].

It will be interesting to see what happens to NYC's population after the pandemic. I suspect most of the change will have been temporary.

Also, many people fleeing northern cities and California are ending up in Southern cities, which are (spoiler alert) run by the same party.
Seeing the same. Even email from Google f̶o̶r̶ ̶̶w̶o̶r̶k̶g̶r̶o̶u̶p̶s̶ workspace to gmail is having issues.
It is anonymized in the sense that they can't write your name into a search feature and find your location history.

However, they could likely ask to buy the all data for "57 years old males born in february with a history of calling to Alaska every 5 days" and single you out.
A big issue nowadays is that computational photography is now about as important as the camera itself, so the software and computational hardware including ML accelerators are a big competitive edge that’s really only available to the big hitters.
How would the spoils help them regain solvency? I see their behaviour RE Taiwan and Nepal to be more about expanding their empire, but it is not immediately obvious to me what financial benefits exist. Taiwan has a good economy but it is doubtful they would if China invaded.
Oh great. One more reason I’m not going to be able to sleep tonight.

Other people’s automation scares me. I’m sure mine scares other people as well.
>My hypothesis is that in those who are introduced to Gacha games, you will see an increase in other 'addictive' behavior, because the content they see will whittle away at their resistance to other addictive behaviors.

But we obviously tolerate this to some extent. I think it's reasonable to limit smoking so that it doesn't cause second hand smoking effects on other people. However, going further than that seems odd to me. If they're only hurting themselves then I don't see the problem with it. We allow people to do extreme sports, we allow them to drink alcohol, we allow them to do high stress jobs, we allow them to eat sugar, we allow them to do a long list of things that can hurt them, but we tolerate most of those because people should be free to choose how to live their life. Yet somehow on a small list of things we control people's behavior. If they don't follow it then they're considered immoral. (We don't call them immoral, but that's how we treat them.)
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I have the exact opposite experience tbh. It probably depends on the network of people you engage with. Twitter is, for me, mostly about professional networking. I just tweet about software development and follow other developers.

Facebook is where I am "friends" with extended family and random people from high school. This is where all the toxic garbage in my social media life comes from. Thank goodness for the option to "unfollow but don't unfriend" there.
Imagine you have a bunch of fishermen surrounding a lake. After a while, they notice that each year they catch fewer and fewer fish. One realizes that what they're doing is unsustainable and they need to change their practices. He buys a billboard that says, "We must stop fishing at the lake." The others correctly point out that he still fishes there. "Fine", he says. "I'll stop." So he stops, and his income stops. Eventually he can't afford to keep that billboard up. Meanwhile, the others are doing better than ever now that the man isn't taking any fish out. They use the extra income to put up billboards saying, "Fishing here is fine."

In general, I'm a big fan of leading by example. But in situations like open source where there's a tragedy of the commons effect, leading by example can simply mean deliberately putting yourself at a competitive disadvantage. Companies that pay open source developers are doing the right thing morally, but end up with less money available to compete against other companies that don't.

I don't know what the right solution is. Maybe it requires organized action and legislation. Maybe it requires the open source developers themselves to restrict who they let use their code. (Sort of like the fish choosing which fishermen get to catch them.) I don't know. I applaud what Cognitect is doing, but I don't know if it will have any ability to influence other companies that extract value from open source without giving anything back. It may just make them relatively more powerful.
well... I'm still not sure why the old content was scratched.
I mean https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Certif... wtf?! this looks like a placeholder.
It would be odd to see the Information Commissioner (the UK's data protection regulator) as toothless, given it has so far been among the most severe in penalising large businesses under the much greater powers it acquired under the GDPR.

This could be more of a strategic move from Facebook, anticipating the UK government wanting a quick post-Brexit trade deal with the US and having limited practical room to manoeuvre in negotiating one. In particular, the UK government presumably doesn't want to commit political suicide, so it's very unlikely to compromise on issues like the NHS or food standards. That means it needs something else, and probably something big, that it can bring to the table. And that could well be favours for US tech firms that are already here, such as agreeing not to go after them for extra taxes and brushing anything resembling privacy protections under the carpet.

Whether that is a good bet for Facebook to make is a different question. If the Johnson administration doesn't manage to seal a deal very quickly -- and it does have a few other things on its plate right now, not to mention a known-hostile incoming Biden administration across the pond -- then there is a decent chance that any future US-UK trade deal will actually be concluded a few years later. By that time, our respective governments might well be led by Kamala Harris and Keir Starmer, for example, in which case Big Tech might have much bigger worries anyway.

But since no-one has a crystal ball, presumably those tech firms are going to try to insulate themselves from unnecessary risk in the fallout from Brexit, and this move by Facebook probably achieves that at a reasonable cost right now, regardless of what might happen some years later.
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EFF have indeed diverged from their original mission, which was fundamentally techno-libertarian.

The EFF's changes are an excellent demonstrations of Conquest's Second Law of Politics, "any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing".
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Let me chip in with some self-promotion.

This book explains and executes every single line of code interactively, from low level operations to high-level networks that do everything automatically. The code is built on the state of the art performance operations of oneDNN (Intel, CPU) and cuDNN (CUDA, GPU). Very concise readable and understandable by humans.

https://aiprobook.com/deep-learning-for-programmers/

Here's the open source library built throughout the book:

https://github.com/uncomplicate/deep-diamond

Some chapters from the beginning of the book are available on my blog, as a tutorial series:

https://dragan.rocks
Same in the US.

But, people are required to obey police commands, unlawful or not, and then seek remedy from the courts afterwards.

And, there is usually a narrow self-defense exception. One can lawfully resist if the police are unlawfully trying to kill you.
Their pricing for these managed services used to be "no brainer" (something like the cost of compute only, or maybe a <30% upcharge). Managed airflow was similarly very expensive (maybe 3x the cost). Just not worth it. Bummer.
There is no such thing as a game that runs on a vanilla SNES. Every SNES game comes in a cartridge that includes additional technology built into it. You can take the technology that the author created, package it up into a cartridge and plug it into a vanilla SNES as would be required by any other SNES game.

The inherent limitations of an SNES cartridge are the power consumption (although some cartridges actually included batteries) and the memory bandwidth (it's a 16 bit system so the cartridges have 16 pins).
For many companies that have moved to primarily a chat-based first-line support model (e.g Intercom, Help Scout), this can help a lot with this concern. Many engineers don't like talking on the phone but IMing with a customer in real time is fine.
>In Tribeca, a wealthy neighborhood in downtown Manhattan, residents who left this year earned an average income of about $140,000, Walle said. The typical person moving into the neighborhood earned an average $82,000, he said.

I was going to ask if we might call this "de-gentrification" and if that's a good thing, right? I'm sitting here in disbelief after a quick search reveals that the actual average income is $879,000. So now I'm thinking those numbers above don't mean much of anything.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tribeca-new-york-city-riches...
I wonder what the point of the first optimization in this specific case was. Why is LLVM replacing iq with ip in the body? I'm not questioning why it should be allowed to, but I don't understand why it would do it in this particular case.

I also don't understand why that optimization is necessary to surface the problem.

If we simply had a program that was doing

char p[1], q[1] = {0};
uintptr_t ip = (uintptr_t)(p+1);
*(char*)ip = 10;
print(q[0]);

Wouldn't applying just optimizations 2 and 3 on this code surface the same bug as discussed in the article?
> Furthermore, the law specifies that local officials can send cross-border orders to make tech firms remove content or provide access to information, wherever their EU headquarter is based.

The article goes on to give an example of how Amsterdam could use the law to request earnings data for local hosts from Airbnb.

The way the BBC explains it, this law would give EU governments ready access to user data with no oversight.

This represents a huge loss of privacy and freedom for EU residents.
What do you think of the following: There's a range of different things one can get out of interacting with people—seeing a friendly face, intellectual conversation, doing an activity together, discussing problems, emotional support, things one would do with a lover, and so on. I'm certain that there is large variation in how much people need of each of these things, or how much it bothers them if they don't get it. Then I would define "loneliness" to mean "there is some type of interaction you need that you're not getting".
I wish you would be as concerned about the hundreds of thousands of poor and minority citizens who are denied their votes every election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/12/10/voter-supp...
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This is called "Regulatory Capture" and is a form of corruption. It is not /why/ regulation exists any more than the murder of Mr Floyd is why police exist.

Regulatory capture is utterly rampant right now and a huge threat to democracy. This is true regardless of one's personal politics or beliefs about big vs small government or political party of preference. It's a cancer and more dangerous than people think.
What is meant by 4)? So users have the right to see a web site without ads? I think if users don't consent, you should be allowed to block their access to your web site?
That would be due to this https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-us-automatic-e...
Apple Lisa? That’s something I wouldn’t have expected.

Anyone have any details?
I was thinking about a similar scoring strategy for comments as is applied to articles. Articles which generate more comments than upvotes are deprioritized. Perhaps comments that garner more comments than upvotes could similarly be deprioritized (not unlike reddit penalizing controversial opinions [those with both upvotes & downvotes] )

I'm envisioning a use-case for this would be when say, an article briefly touching on tech interviewing (or with a title about tech-interviewing) is posted, and immediately the top-comment changes the subject to "Boy tech interwiews really grind my gears!" Suddenly everyone wants to vent and the thread is overwhelmed.

One natural reason for this penalty is that a highly-ranked comment brings along all the comments that ride along with it to the top. The most extreme form is when the entire comment page is a single comment-thread.

Alternatively, a flexible proposal is to allow users to choose their sort preference, like they can on reddit.
I recently upgraded from an iPhone 8 to a 12 Pro. TouchID is the biggest thing I miss. It is particularly an issue with Apple Pay, since when I'm using it, I invariably have my mask on.

There are hacks to get FaceID to recognize a mask, but I haven't got them to work.
https://www.wired.com/2013/03/anonymous-phone-location-data/
It serves as a cautionary tale when your budget isn’t as agile as those who make up the tax base.
GDPR is generally based on where the data is located

That is not correct. Specifically, the counterexample is if you are a EU citizen living in an EU country and the actual bits are stored in a datacenter in Texas. GDPR still applies in this case, as long as the website owner accepts EU users. If the website specifically doesn't do business in the EU, things are different.
Not sure why you think they would? They're not breaking any regulations by doing this.
Looks like that guy's tweet was heard: https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1292260921893457920

But AWS made it more configurable, and not in a single region.
Or in context, they estimate NYC lost a net 0.8% of its residents and the average income of the incoming and outgoing cohorts differ by -$8,055/y. It multiplies to a big dollar figure because NYC is big and rich.

The original content marketing:
https://global-uploads.webflow.com/5dc3e2af6a906d9cc232e1bc/...

It explains that they're extrapolating from three NYC neighborhoods (Astoria, Tribeca, and Williamsburg). I'm not an NYC expert and I'm not going to research these claims further, but I think those are quite well-off neighborhoods and not likely representative of NYC in terms of income or pandemic mobility.

This article feels like Reuters lightly rewrote an ad for Unacast.
Why hopefully?
Isn't this only going to be the case for liars who haven't read this research?
Well yeah, same here. But seems like CDPR is happy about preorders. That's too many adopters to be called "early".
The whole project feels terribly mismanaged. Even from the character editor it is obvious the game had to be scaled down in the last year to even ship. Considering the amount of crunch, it is heartbreaking it ended like this for every interested party.

I find it hard to believe that the launch of the new consoles did not have an effect on the launch date. CD Projekt could have taken the Rockstar approach, release the game on the last gen or PC and Stadia first, then polish and release on the second platform and then finish with the next gen. Releasing on seven or more platforms at the same time would not go well even before covid.
> They gave away the OS and charged for support in large deployments. I hope they'll survive this acquisition.

I’m now imagining the announcement to existing support contract users.

“Your account has been migrated to Google’s legendary customer support platform. To receive support, ensure you’re logged in using your paid support email address. Google search will then unlock enhanced Chrome OS problem search mode, allowing you to find other user’s workarounds to your problems! In the event this does not solve your issue, please scream into the void as usual. Our support staff will get back to you never.“
Police have people hurling the most vial insults imaginable, for hours. As well as having to endure physical assaults.

This is going to cause some serious psychological damage down the road. No one takes that kind of abuse and comes away unchanged.

The fact that at no point did police simply open fire in mass. Well that is truly impressive.
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A couple of comments, it's pretty funny to say this site tends conservative when all the heavy downvoted comments are all conservatives. HN and /. "used" to be, not right wing, but libertarian, but since the escalation of the woke brigade most people have been silenced, it is not useful to lose your job over some comments. Btw, weird that the crazy story about the new McCarthy-style list of the NVIDIA researcher has not reached the site (or I havent seen it more probably).

The other thing to have in mind is that this exaggerated dynamic not only happens in the US. So everytime you read something like "500!!!! journalists detained" in China/Mexico/Uzbekistan, 10% are actual journalists, and 90% are people who was in the protests filming claiming they were filming with their phones. Far from me to defend an authoritarian regime, I mention this because it seems is a blind-spot many Americans have. The same exaggerations made by the media in America (the result of a polarized society) usually happen elsewhere too
I will say one major benefit of the cookie notifications is just raising the public awareness of tracking.
The top 1% of earners pay 40% of New York City's income tax. The real question is how will NYC cope with the decreased tax base.
> Try comparing the behavior of cp on macOS vs. a modern Linux distribution

Not many people are running macOS servers... and servers tend to be where most shell scripts are being used.

macOS has notoriously out of date versions of all system programs, CoreUtils and Bash among them, due to licensing issues with Apple's closed-source proprietary OS. BSD and Linux based systems, generally don't have this issue.

That being said, a regular Shell Script (not a Bash Script) will run unmodified on macOS. When people say "shell script", they usually mean an actual `sh` script instead of a Bash script.
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Far better in what sense? Almond "milk" has almost no nutritional content compared to real milk. It's useless for people trying to gain weight/muscle mass.

It has ~20% of the protein and fat content of regular whole milk, so at the very minimum it has to be 5x environmentally friendly.

In fact it is so nutritionally empty, that it is more fitting to compare it to slightly sugared water, and see if it beats that on environmental record.
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de-gentrification is a good thing if you don't like cupcakes and cafes and nice restaurants and nice shops.