skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brings back great memories. Based on the article in Byte Magazine 1977 (1) I got Spacewar running (in assembly language) on my kit-built Processor Technolory Sol 8088 microcomputer. Also built the 8 bit DAC and two hand controllers. The display was my kit-built Heathkit oscilloscope. It was magical to see those satellites orbiting for the first time!

(1) https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1977-10/1977_10_BYT...
Imho the fact that porn-related “supposedly-technical” problems are still so prevalent, is an actual raincheck over SV’s claims of world-changing capabilities. In the end, SV dudes are mostly just pushing ads and marketing Chinese tech. When hard people-problems come up, be it fake news or scammers, they have no solution.
Both a bit before my time although if I can get my hands on them I'll have a play
I love this article and try to share it with whomever I can. It is unrelentingly cynical and skewers all parts of the corporate world, no one escapes being flayed. The insights are very good and the backdrop of an innocuous and very popular TV show makes the distinctions all the more jarring.

The Gervais Principle is a lens one chooses to view things in finer detail.

But like all microscopes, the choice of lenses matter very much. You must know what error is introduced before you choose the lenses.

That said, the Gervais Principle is a really good lens (a hyper-cynical lens); one that many people have not considered before.
If fraud occurs on your bank account, banks are only liable for a short window of time. After that, it becomes a criminal issue. Basically this all means, if you catch it within 24 hours, you're far more likely to get your money back within a faster period of time. Otherwise you're up shits creek.
Here's an open-ended programming project which, in a certain formal sense, spans the entire range of all difficulty levels: write an "intuitive ordinal notation" for as large of an ordinal number as you can.

What is an "intuitive ordinal notation"? Definition: The set of intuitive ordinal notations is the smallest set P of computer programs with the following property. For every computer program p, if, when p is run, all of p's outputs are elements of P, then p is in P.

So "End.", the program which immediately ends with no outputs, is vacuously in P (all of its outputs are in P, because it has no outputs). It notates the ordinal 0. Likewise, "Print(`End.')" is in P, because its sole output, "End.", is in P; it notates the ordinal 1. Likewise, "Print(`Print(End.')')" is in P, notating the ordinal 2. And so on.

The above can be short-circuited:
"Let X=`End'; While(True){Print(X); X=`Print(\`'+X+`\')'}".
This program outputs "End.", "Print(`End.')", "Print(`Print(`End.')')", and so on forever, all of which are in P, so this program itself is in P. It notates omega, the smallest infinite ordinal.

Here's a library of examples in Python, currently going up to a notation for the ordinal omega^omega: https://github.com/semitrivial/IONs
Beethoven was one of the first pianists to survive without a major aristocratic sponsor, so that was an accomplishment for his day even considering his stature. Not only that he was able to accumulate assets, like shares in a bank, that put him in middle class.

However he did have some unfortunate twists - war caused him to lose a stipend income, promised to him so that he doesn't take up a well paid position for Napoleon's brother. Then of course a period of inactivity due to depression.

For the sonata... are you referring to the Hammerklavier? That was simply a monstrosity of a piece, but it was played in concert only a decade or two later by the virtuoso Liszt.

I agree though, the audience that Beethoven could reach today would well exceed what he could from 1800's Europe, even if most people today prefer pop.
Yeah that was most likely autocorrect.
Yes, and it's dangerous to wear headphones while biking because it distracts bikers from the road.
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In light of the recent Ledger database breach (https://cointelegraph.com/news/ledger-users-threaten-legal-action-after-hacker-dumps-personal-data), I wanted to see if my address had been leaked after purchasing a Ledger Nano S for myself. HaveIBeenPwned unfortunately doesn't show if just your email or your email as well as address has been leaked, so I decided to set this up. I wish Ledger would just set this up for their customers, but apparently that is far too difficult for them. So here you all go, I wish you the best :/

https://www.didledgerfuck.me/
A thread that never ran can’t lock up, so I guess it’s still technically lock free?
It boggles my mind to this day that Krita even exists and nobody has even heard of it. It's a phenomenal piece of software and the devs should be commended for it.
I think it's saying that not _all_ blocking operations are inherently disqualifying. That doesn't mean that some (like acquiring a shared mutex) are allowed though.
Every Apple security developer I've interacted with has been astonishingly competent. Unfortunately Apple's corporate policies mean they're very rarely in a position to publicly discuss things they're working on, so their visibility is significantly diminished (one of the reasons I wouldn't work there)
An idiom rather than a word, but that’s exactly it. “Lilly-gilding”, then, might be the “word” that meets the requirements.
Can you explain a bit? Are you saying they send messages as Swift objects/structures directly? Instead of a serialization like JSON/CBOR/Proto/Proprietary/etc?
What was old is new again. -- someone else

(rephrased Aurelius? Probably)
Add to this the possibility of a "reverse stock split". My friend's old company wiped him and many of his colleagues out just prior to being acquired by Google.

https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/10/12/actifio-reverse-stock-...
I lack the affective ability, but I would say that it's not distinct from my cognitive ability.

I say to myself I can "understand it", but if I can't feel it, I didn't really understand anything.
European regulator says Boeing's 737 Max is safe
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Yes, it’s lock-free, but it doesn’t actually work.
Can you imagine if Google were the ones behind the great filter and panopticon that is the Chinese internet? Corporations are made up of human beings and at some point if you have any values you have to take a stand. The whole current philosophy of maximizing shareholder value falls apart when you realize the selfsame system that enables a free market is deeply intertwined with the impact powerful organizations have on society.
And history is clear about what happens when industry enables governments to oppress their citizens. It does not end well for millions of people.
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> If the idea is to get everyone on board with the idea that the deck is still stacked against minorities even in the absence of conscious contemporary racism (which I believe to be true)

Chinese Americans have higher incomes than white people on average. In terms of income mobility: Vietnamese Americans who came here in the 1970s as refugees went from being among the poorest groups in the country, to parity with white Americans today. Asian Americans are richer, have higher income mobility, and live longer than white Americans. Once you adjust for age and citizenship status, they’re also pretty close to evenly represented among billionaires and Fortune 500 board members.

That is not to say they don’t face unpleasant racism, xenophobia, and stereotypes. But saying “the deck is stacked against them” is a much stronger statement. It implies a structural racism that impairs prosperity. While some minority groups do face such structural racism, specifically, Black and indigenous people, others do not: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/135/2/711/5687353.
>You just said that a name, definition, question and assertion all serve the same purpose and can be used interchangeably...I mean what else can I say?

They can be used interchangeably similar to how people can choose to be wrong, right, stupid or smart. The ability to interchange techniques is irrelevant to my point. I am simply responding to a misguided concept stated by you.

A longer phrase can be used interchangeably with a shorter name. The longer phrase is superior to your misguided opinion on using shorter and as a result uninformative names. Donald Knuth agrees.

I am saying your way is the categorically wrong and worse way. You can't respond to this because you got nothing left to say. You're tongue tied.

>Exactly

Yeah you're exactly wrong.

>It was a nice exchange nonetheless but at this point it really looks like you hit a dead end.

Literally I have reams and reams of evidence, deconstructing each of your points and tearing apart every statement you made. You only have the capacity to respond to one teeny tiny snippet of what I wrote and your response is still misguided.

I'm sorry, but the dead end is you.
I think it's fine that they assume it; imbecile's need interfaces too.

My problem with GNOME developers is that they consistently deny that they cater to the least technically savvy base and use euphemisms such as “normal people”. They are not “normal” they are technically far less literate than the normal man, and they too of course should be able to own and operate a computer.

GNOME in fact seems to think it's own users to be even less savvy than I do, but they continue to deny this.

The other problem is that everything that Red Hat has it's tendrils in overflows with meaningless marketing language such as that, in general.
Surely if there is even 1 unbanked person in existence that is interested in cluster computing, then this is a worthwhile endeavour.
Diné are also quite active on the scholastic chess scene. Their chess teams were among the very best in the 1970s.

Chess just requires a board and some pieces. Math, some paper and a pencil. Any hogan on the Rez, with or without running water or electricity, can support chess or math. No need for English either. (And it just struck me that both use algebraic notation.)
I'm willing to go one step further and say that NSO Group is operated by and is a core part of Israeli intelligence. It just has layers of deniability baked into the business structure like any good limited liability entity.

What it comes down to is that with NSO group:

1. Israel has access to the best 0-days it needs

2. The knowledge to develop further exploits is maintained within the Israeli intelligence apparatus

3. Israel is able to dominate the digital intelligence apparatus of autocratic regimes and, as a consequence, be able to defend itself against those tools

4. Israel is able to use it as a back channel for establishing and maintaining relationships, as well as exerting power and leverage on those nations

Given that it is an Israeli-government entity, much like the rest of the Israeli government, it is politically untouchable and buried under layers of denial. It's a direct, toxic exploitation of the relationship that Western countries maintain with Israel.
I ran those Java benchmarks and they don't seem very good to test CPUs, also they force a GC after every run and used around 4GB of memory (I have 64)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25421028
For something with such a large spectrum, it doesn't make sense to assign broad generalizations. The lack of empathy in particular is almost too close to implying criminality as a common occurrence. Code perhaps?

Some people play the social games more than others and if you're not interested in playing along, you're labelled as the 'other'. Then all of the negative stuff builds from there and it tends to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Positive generalizations are harmful too, like it being a super power or you're going to be a wealthy inventor.

Autism would be just one factor among many for all of these things.
I think it might be a meteorwrong detector
I published this paper recently (1) in Biological Psychiatry. I bring it up only because unlike most neuroimaging research, we are able to image children at all levels of disability (since we image them while asleep). We argue that the idea that there is early brain overgrowth in autism followed by a period of regression or normalization of brain volume does not appear to be true, and the apparent differences in cross-sectional research are due to biases in most studies against including harder to image individuals with autism. In any case, intellectual disability is not 90% but it is quite substantial.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25462145
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Spectre mitigations can make it go from awesome to useful.

The documentation is also pretty dire, but it's mostly implement-once remember-forever in my experience - it's all there but kernel samples are quite hard to read, and I'd rather not guess based on struct listings (e.g. variable length structs aren't particularly fun when you're fumbling around)
I can't help but think the media is getting on a hatetrain here, I've not really heard anything bad beyond some hilarious glitches from the people I know playing it.

Journos have had it in for this game since they realised that, in a game where literally everyone is sexualised, trans people were sexualised.
That’s good value with the 2 hdmi adapters
Everything you said is right on but a small addition: RealVideo, and Sorensen Video 1/Spark were based on h.263 drafts. Sorensen Video 3 was based on the h.264 draft.

It's interesting because h.263 (coming out of the ITU-T) was developed for video conferencing like h.261. Real and Sorensen adapted it to streaming/disc delivery. The MPEG-4 spec was the first time the VCEG and MPEG got together and put the peanut butter and chocolate together from the start. It's maybe obvious in hindsight but I think it was the first time the needs of video conferencing, streaming, and disc/"digital" delivery really overlapped in terms of devices and environment.
It's important to note that your "average" customer is self—selected; the "average" Apple customer probably doesn't play AAA games (because anybody who does would have needed to buy a Windows machine with higher-end graphics). That is not the same as the "average" laptop buyer would not want to play them, though.

That doesn't mean Apple necessarily needs to go after those people, though, if they believe their current balance can get them customers they want.
>Orthogonal to your comment, but Apple could say no and walk away.

>On the other hand, Google did so, and the cost to them is staggering and the reward negligible - they probably regret that decision intensely.

Wait, what? Who did Google do that to that wasn't China? Because the only one I remember is China, and I explicitly acknowledged in my comment that they have the leverage to carve their own rules. Arguably even more-so with Apple than Google, that's one place where Apple's hardware and vertical integration strategy is a definite weakness vs other players rather than a strength. It's certainly not as if Apple has no negotiating chips vs China, but it's clear who likely has the strongest hand.

But for Google, was there really a "staggering" cost, or any real cost, over refusing the likes of Saudi Arabia or the UAE? I'd love to read up on that if you could point me to what you're thinking of.
"Malice" doesn't need to come into play. A thread could simply be waiting in line behind a non-preemptible thread which does not relinquish the CPU due to a bug.
Props out to Michael Niedermayer, he's been maintaining ffmpeg for years and does the bulk of the heavy lifting! Thanks! https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelniedermayer
Your observation of reality is racist /s.
When engineers make companies that sell tools like this, it makes all the talk you see about ethical AI and privacy look like bikeshedding.
It assumes that at least 1 thread is running at all times. There are algorithms that can make progress this way.
I found the source. He and Ranzato gave a talk at ICML 2013

https://cilvr.nyu.edu/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=deeplearning:2...

Slide #9

Let's be inspired by nature, but not too much

It's nice imitate Nature,

But we also need to understand

For airplanes, we developed aerodynamics and compressible fluid dynamics.

Question : what is the equivalent of aerodynamics for understanding intelligence
Writing even an extremely simple game without using a game engine or dedicated game library is quite an eye opener.

Make a small 2D platform game, and it covers so many areas (and it is a lot of fun!).
"It's not a suit. The human inside was the final weakness. They're droids."
Ever heard of Dunning-Kruger? Geez. Subjective opinion of one's self can be vastly different to the objective truth.

I wonder what drunk driving stats currently look like, despite harsh laws against them. These are people who believe "I'm fine to drive" and disregard the health of others when they get on the road. Imagine if in your magical world there are no drunk driving laws, because hey, let's trust everyone to be capable blah blah blah. On that topic, substance abuse.. but hey "my body, my problem?" right? Except substance abusers become a problem when they commit crimes against other people so they can get their fix, and when they fall over in public and start foaming in the mouth needing the ambulance. (Not familiar with the libertarian cult ideology, does one need a fat credit card before the ambulance start treating one's self?).

Whatever magical believe you have about those capabilities, yeah, most people in the world don't have them to the degree of perfection you think you have. Should I study more to advance my career? Yes. Should I have a better work-life balance? Yes. Am I doing those things? No, instead I'm spending time responding to crackpots on the Internet.

So yeah, trying to govern a society with your (IMO idiotic) assumptions is a stupid idea, because it's a society we don't have. Should we just cancel all drink driivng laws because we should assume right now that everyone will be responsible and not drink drive? To expand that, should we cancel all police because we can assume everyone will be responsible citizens and not commit crimes against others? What a genius idea. /s
There are costs to replacing and ramping up an employee. The company reduces pay for those who move because it assumes they'll accept that reduction based on the difficulty of finding a better paying job while working out of that new location. It wouldn't even surprise me if the big tech companies actually colluded on these market discounts to keep wages low, given the wage fixing lawsuit a few years ago. If Google, and FB both cut your pay 30% for moving to Tulsa then employers can keep a lot more of their money and their people.
Same here. Wife is first generation Chinese-American. All of the immigrant generation thinks MSG is bad. The family still in Hong Kong and Guangdong have said it, too. My mother-in-law believes MSG prevents her from getting to sleep easily at night. She can "always tell" when some restaurant uses MSG because of it. Lots of stories like that to be heard among this part of our family...
What you call not 'a huge mess' (NYC say) I call soulless modernity. It's not like it even has the advantage of relentless practicality, see Times Sq for example.
>"...compared to the nightmare of shipping code on internally created developer tool & deployment platforms..."

I feel sorry that it worked for you this way (well rather it does not work). I have totally opposite experience. It takes single click of a button for me to build, test, deploy a code change using on premises and rented hardware.

I did cloud as well when it was mandated by client and it did not feel any simpler, faster etc. More complex and way more expensive it sure was but since it was not me paying the money I could safely ignore that part (not for my own projects and servers though as I do count my money).
That’s in my original list from last year!
Very light on any interesting or relevant details.
At least in Big Sur, you can just place the override in /Library/Displays/Contents/Resources/Overrides instead of /System/Library/[...]. This may work in earlier versions as well, but it equally wouldn't surprise me if it was only added to Big Sur because of the Signed System Volume thing.
Comforting to know that a far more competent and less scrupulous government will have cybernetic abominations ready to sodomize me within 20 years.
Everything old is new again!

We may be back to vacuum tubes again soon:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/introducing...
> He has basically no presence online

Probably part of the explanation for the productivity XD
> While I am a long-time Gnome user, I don't think it has a bright future. The project leadership continuously makes weird decision rooted in the believe that Gnome is THE Linux DE and everyone should dance under their flute.

This is an issue I've found scaringly true.

I've debated with some of their lead developers and they really seem to lack perspective. I once talked about that I don't run either ConsoleKit or PolKit, this being before logind existed, and Bassi was competely convinced that I had broken my system and did not know what these things did — for surely everyone would run them, and would use the features he listed they would bring.

Of course, there is also McCann's immortal quote “I have no idea what XFCE is or does sorry.” — this is one of GNOME's leads who in 2010 apparently did not know XFCE even existed.

Talking with many of these persons often leaves one quite stunned at how they can be so ignorant about what goes on outside of their little bubble.
I think 16 is getting to the end of its usefulness in a laptop these days, but finding ultrabooks with 32 is still rather difficult (surface, XPS, ...?).

Truth is the OEMs are just trying to move product, their mission isn’t to be the rising tide that improves compute capability for society. High competition, low margin business in the PC world and most consumers don’t know enough about computers to understand what they’re buying - just look at how many people buy “gaming” computers at Walmart or Costco.
My unresearched pet theory is that, at least in mammals, males are risk-takers, do stupid things, and are where the genome gets to try new things, because they're more "disposable" when propagating a species.
The Journalist and the Pharma Bro
US administration says Russia behind SolarWinds hack. Trump begs to differ
Ah, good call. I missed the link that this was a follow up post.
"your worst enemy" can be a stand-in for "a faulty algorithm running on another thread".

Or, another way to look at it - a lock-free algorithm that allows starvation or livelock/deadlock.
They probably won't use DDR-on-package for Mac Pro tier chips, so RAM could be whatever they want, they could put an 8-channel DDR4 controller onto the SoC, or even DDR5 if they don't rush it to market ASAP.

But it would be cool if someone did a tiered HBM+DDR system already.. (AFAIK Fujitsu A64FX is HBM-only) maybe the Mac Pro could be that. I kinda wish AMD did that though.
People don't look down on your grandma they just recognize she had a hard and pretty shitty life and don't want be a ox that can speak English. Stop being such a incel loser jesus.
See my link to his 2013 ICML talk above. There's a very nice photo of L'Avion III de Clement Ader, a plane modeled as a bird.
Cohen has tended to be a bit of a firebrand, and although he is given to overstating associations, it has usually pushed the field forward in crucial ways.
Maybe it's better now. At least before Thanksgiving, it was bad:

https://abc7.com/coronavirus-testing-covid-dodger-stadium-ap...
Humans love to manufacture mysticism around the purely physical world. Symbolism is a terrifying thing. Nothing is anything more than it seems, and the sooner we get around to accepting that, the better off we'll be.
How about Python that outputs javascript? Would have many more use cases.