skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't get it ; how could "locking a mutex" not be considered as an "operation that are designed to block" ?

That's not what is being claimed here. What is being said is that an algorithm that blocks a thread can still be considered lock-free. There's a difference between lock-freedom and wait-freedom.
Sorry I was asleep (in China). Fair question. Well, the guy grew up on the border: he was talking to us in Chinese ... this was not a major touristy area, it was between the Japanese railway that comes down from Tonghua to Ji'an (Chinese side) and Manpo/만포시 (NK side) at https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/41.1369/126.1751 and the town of Changbaishan at https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/41.4239/128.1771. In this area you can literally look across in to North Korean villages and pillboxes, and in Changbaishan you can look across in to what I have read is allegedly the biggest NK town on the border. Along the way there is a failed attempt at building a train and the hills are denuded. Poverty is immediately evident. People are fishing with crap equipment because there is nothing else to do and they are hungry. Nobody has adequate clothing. I did not see glass. All the roads are dirt on the NK side. And so on.
The Eight Secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled Life
Here's a list of laptops that I would recommend:

Gaming / Software Dev ($399):

Dell Precision m4800/m6800

Supports docking station

Field work ($199):

HP Folio 9480m

Supports Docking Station

Offline Laptop($149):

IBM Thinkpad x220/x230

Supports Docking Station

Supports Pixel QI display (Direct Sunlight Viewable).
Not a Trump supporter, but I’ve been trying to find direct evidence as to this attack being from Russia and I haven’t found anything beyond speculative statements.
Even if this attack isn’t from Russia, they’re the best country the US can blame because there are no political repercussions if they’re wrong. We don’t conduct any trade with them (unlike China) and have already laid down heavy sanctions.
Erm, these sorts of results are achievable with potrace, which integrates with Inkscape .. and doesn't require a GAN .. but can also be run at the command line ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrace
How do you become a successful creator if the search algorithm has changed into a social engineering / propaganda / corporate shill experiment?

See this new video today by an independent creator. He may be a satanist but I believe satanists deserve to have their voices heard also.
"Youtube Has Basically Shadowbanned All Independent Political/News Commentary"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsuq9-pGdWo&t=710s
Does Reddit do a good investment
It's beyond suspicious that 4 newly created users all have positive experience with PJON and only posted on this submission.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=vt_rack

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jdaandersj

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=gryzli133

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=BoldAndBald

I wonder if there are other similar submissions that also "creates more accounts" than usual and why that is.
https://archive.is/dil8Z
New Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNNNj9AZisM
>(in this case, lightning)

I suppose you mean Thunderbolt
You are misrepresenting the results.

“ Although the difference observed was not statistically significant, the 95% CIs are compatible with a 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection.”
Perhaps I'm lucky, but my LG 5K has aged really well. Fantastic upgrade in 2016 and still going strong. I'm surprised there aren't more 5K 27" monitors because they are great.
Forgive me but I honestly don't think you've read much code. There's a large field of talent in all languages.

That list is the classic "first language" list, the one that is taught to beginners and amateurs.

It used to also be Basic and Ruby. Every "first language" gets the short end of the stick.

You can add Swift and Kotlin to that as well, any language where you might find room full of children twiddling with computers.

You can also be an adult and use these tools, but that's really a personal decision.
Awesome! Let me know if you have any questions when the time comes.
That's not true, EU healthcare is excellent.

But if you have all the money of the world, you could get an extra bit in the US for some health issues. In most cases, it's not worth the cost.

Even then, some Arab sjeiks regularily travel to europe for advanced surgery. So I think that would contradict the first statement.

Eg. The severely sick sultan of Omar last year in Belgium with a 1700 person delegation.

6 covid vaccines have some dependency on Belgium. The Pfizer one was shipped from Belgium to the US.
> Stuff like switch to Wayland takes decades because of this split.

My understanding is the switch to Wayland has taken ages because basically everyone who thought it would be a "quick" thing vastly underestimated the number of stakeholders they would need to get on board with the change and how much work would need to go into making those people consent to switching.
AI surveillance to keep a watch on fire-hit Australian wildlife
Fantastic learning experience if nothing else!
This is an incredibly misogynistic post.

1) Assuming that making money from OnlyFans is "ruining their lives" is taking a moral high ground based on disallowing women to have control over their sexuality

2) Assuming that these women are performing just to buy handbags..... As if women don't have other reasons to need money just like everyone in society.

3) Assuming that women are searching for a "high quality man" who would disapprove of them having made money off of OnlyCams because it's "filthy". Again, places women in the passenger seat, assumes that they are only around to try to find a quality mate (male) and that their only desirable qualities are their "purity" that has somehow been tarnished.

I could go on. This is a disgusting point of view.
NYC is a prime example of also having non-seasonal factors: Through the early Fall, there was significant opportunity for true outdoor dining. As the weather got colder, that "outdoor" dining often took on the form of fully-enclosed tents that are nearly indistinguishable from dining indoors. Even with similar social-distancing requirements handed down by the state, even assuming people did not relax their guard, following the guidelines would still result in a different models of social behavior, more in-door gatherings that still met distancing guidelines, etc.
Seeing as it's called the "Gervais Principle," I'm 100% positive this was written primarily for David Breen and not Michael Scott. Which I'd highly recommend watching the british office to get an understanding of what is so different. The american office is like the the big bang theory and the british office is like silicon valley.
Past discussion (2013): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6145429
But if you want or need 500k I’m guessing your list of potential companies to work for is small, and you’d have to work for a FAANG style co.
It seems a little extreme that honey is not considered yo be vegan.
Wouldn't it be more likely that such hibernation (if real) was during the 8-10 coldest weeks of the year (Dec-Jan depending on location)? That would make it on the order of ~23kg which is a much more reasonable amount of fat to store. Six months seems like a very long time for anywhere south of the Arctic Circle.
> We need to actually coin a word to describe "company solved their use-case wonderfully and can't resist fiddling around with it for reasons that don't align with their user-base*.

Can't help coin a new word, but Ralph Caplan described this phenomenon really well. I'm a (software) designer, and I think about this all the time:

> When cuffs disappeared from men’s trousers, fashion designers gave interviews explaining that the cuff was archaic and ill-suited to contemporary living. It collected dust, contributed nothing. When the trouser cuff returned, did it collect less dust and begin at last to make a contribution? Probably no fashion designer would argue the point; but the question never came up. Designers got rid of the cuff because there aren’t many options for making trousers different. They restored it for the same reason.
What's also good is that we won't need as much vaccine as originally intended, what with everyone already having had the virus.
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I agree. It seems like a hoax
Random search is a technical term in optimization with a very specific meaning (which unfortunately does not mean searching random locations in parameter space a la brute force). It’s more in the spirit of randomly deciding the direction in which to try to take the next step, thereby implicitly deriving a gradient component by sampling.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_search
But isn't it easier to detect nearby signals from ones of equal power from further away?

If so, why should we be surprised that we detect those signals which are easier to detect before those which are more difficult to detect?
That word is: lack of market research.

I recently finished up shopping for a Windows laptop. It took awhile, as I balanced price with features. You'd be shock how many otherwise decently config'ed offerings lacked a key and basic feature (e.g., backlit KB), or was deficient in some key way (e.g., mid-priced models with only 8 GB RAM soldered, no ability to upgrade).

I agree. Some might not need backlit or more than 8 GB but if they do that machine - to them - becomes useless. Lack of sufficient RAM will cuts years off the usefulness of a laptop.

I'm not sure how such small thinking helps the brand, loyality, etc. Do these companies not understand?
That looks like an interesting course, would you recommend it?
There was a thread the other week debating this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25389583
Gearing for Real Cyclists
Thanks for the honest reply! To be clear, I do not doubt the extreme poverty you describe.
The difference from 60k must be huge to retire after "a few years" though. Even if you live somewhere super cheap and don't spend any money and don't have any family to care for..

I should have phrased it differently. Of course there will be people that would do it. I am not one of them.
It sure looks like Gnome 3 took the wind out of Gnome's sails. This correlates with my experience as a Gnome user, as it was Gnome 3 where the project really took on a condescending user-demeaning attitude. Gnome 3 is where the project shifted from 'user friendly' to 'assume the user is an imbecile.' I now tell novices to use XFCE instead.
> The "cashing on genetics" part bothers me the most

Well, welcome to all of life. More attractive people, taller men etc. get hired, promoted and trusted more. Not just in porn, not just in regular modeling or acting or singing, but also in any job. They get better options in the dating market.

Genetically more intelligent people have higher chances at high earning jobs.

The pattern on cashing on genetics is extremely widespread and it's also not entirely clear it can be abolished without screwing up society. We do need the right people for the right jobs. You don't want to watch ugly people's porn (except if that's your thing, no kink shaming implied!), or marry stupid people etc. etc. You may try to console yourself that individual hard work can override all that, and it can to a degree, but we like to kindle ourselves in the fairytale of the "just world fallacy". Reality is harsher.
If there really was collusion between FB and Google (which I’m willing to believe) I’m quite disappointed the CA AG wasn’t the one bringing suit.

The Apple (civil) case being brought by Epic feels utterly different to me and I feel the word “monopoly”, as a term of law, does not apply.
Link: https://rhizome.org/editorial/2020/dec/16/did-we-dream-enoug...
You also have to leave some room for ports.
She's got it all wrong about the music business. It used to be that artists made most of their money from records. They toured merely to create more fans that would buy their music.

Now it's flipped 180 degrees. Musicians make all their money from touring. They release records to find new fans who will buy tickets to their shows.

We live in a golden era for the little guy. Before the Internet if you didn't own the means of production no matter how talented you might be you made money for those who did.

Now you can start a SaaS company and bootstrap your way into a living because the means of production have become ridiculously cheap. A musician can release music on the Internet and go from a local following to a regional one and if they're good enough a national one.

I well remember it taking Bob Seger ten years to go from a Detroit artist to a regional success and another ten years until he was 'discovered' and overnight became a national one. Bruce Springsteen did it faster because he was on the east coast and got a Time magazine cover.

The only difference now is that the young want success overnight and that is rare. Are you committed enough to work for ten years or more to reach the level of finding a thousand fans? Sometimes that means taking a lesser paying job to learn. Or to have the time to code or play gigs on the weekend. Thing about the Internet is you find your true talent level fairly quickly and you might not always like what you learn;<).

Do you want to know Vine's biggest problem? They were owned by Twitter! There is room for only one product to succeed there despite its best efforts to continually sabotage themselves. FYI I do like Twitter.
Looking at /usr/bin, /usr/lib/ etc. it's not quite as big as I expected. Going fat might be feasible, especially considering how large storage is at this point.
Sounds like GauGAN.[1][2]

[1]: http://nvidia-research-mingyuliu.com/gaugan/

[2]: https://github.com/NVlabs/SPADE
Yes!

The trap people fall into is an is-ought fallacy, where because they consider corporate dynamics immoral, they conclude that they are false.

One should work hard and be kind, but the determination to do so shouldn't cloud one's vision.
Thank you for your answer. It appears to me that we are trying to achieve an algorithm that has better time complexity than the one that we have right now(reverse mode differentiation with gradient descent).

Is it possible to combine these methods in a straight forward manner with methods that try to reduce the space complexity? For example, Lottery ticket hypothesis(https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635) seems to reduce spacial complexity(Please do correct me if I am wrong).

Also, based on my rather poor and limited knowledge, it appears to me that set of proposed methods that reduced space complexity and set of proposed methods that reduce time complexity are disjoint. Is that the case ?
FC is a dumpster fire.
People have more than one tool, because a single tool isn't the solution to every problem.

The law helps with many social problems, but it's rather frequent to hit cases where it's either outright innefective, or the cost of enforcement exceeds the cost of the problem itself.
What's your method for measuring that? The general personality models that I've seen really only seem to be testing for a minimum amount of self-awareness.
This is so incongruous. First we had Russia in league with Trump, now we have them hacking the government.

Its like the 2016 election had massive fraud due to the results and now the 2020 election couldn't possibly have any fraud at all.
Iirc the law on fraudulent activity is based on DAYS (not month as the article tells) when it's your actually bank account.
Yeah, Wayland is mostly a regression for my use cases: client-side decorations, breaking screen recording/sharing etc. I know there are theoretical issues with the X security mode, but this replacement is a classic case of “security” producing something that’s basically useless for what people use the software for.

Also, because X works over a socket, it’s language-agnostic in a way that a library just can’t be: libraries like CLX allow Common Lisp graphical applications with no dependency on a C library.
This is super nice so congratulations - but I wouldn't it use self-hosted version of Twitch to sell it. I have a few friends who use Twitch and they don't use it beause it is easy to stream, they use it because of all the features related to their suscribers. Email notifications, payments, donations, etc.

Sayings this is the self-hosted version of Twitch is like saying a Wordpress with password is a self-hosted version of Patreon.
Yes, I also think first intelligent contact will be life forms with different physiology than us somehow
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Probably can't do that. If it was fracked, the area where it was found is now full of a denser slurry of water and minimally-regulated hazardous chemicals[1].

1. https://www.fractracker.org/resources/oil-and-gas-101/fracki...
Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit
Zoom also runs on the web browser last I checked. It's a hidden feature, but you can join meetings without the native app.
Wow, that brings back a lot of memories! Waiting for the dilating camera aperature to open at the beginning of each level. The digging and falling sounds. The reflexes needed to move, drill, and trap the bad guys. This was definitely a classic.
> Even if this attack isn’t from Russia, they’re the best country the US can blame because there are no political repercussions if they’re wrong.

But the US isn't blaming Russia, the media is.
I immediately thought of this. Thanks for the link!
I have heard that it might be possible to hack your Mac laptop (using a setting in System Preferences>Security&Privacy>General) to allow it to run code on that isn't from Apple's App Store.
Ah, yes. The Dropbox comment!
Journalists can't seem to keep up with the latest threat model material. I'm wondering if a resource for journalist training is a good idea considering the resources stacked against them.
> There’s a limit to this, but it’s further back than you might think. I also have a 2012 quad-core Mac Mini that’s still in regular use. It’s also fine!

No recent version on Xcode would work on this one, though.
of course it is wrong. One nice thing about math is that thing are defined precisely and back propagation and, say, SGD or Adam are different things
Zero-click 0 day in iMessage used to infect 36 ppl at Aljazeera with NSO spyware
I mean. That statement tracks pretty well if you look at our government, where the elderly are represented in elected offices at double or even triple their actual share of the population.

According to the 2010 census Americans over 65 make up under 15% of... well, Americans[0], but currently occupy 147 seats in the House (out of a possible 435) and 48 in the Senate (out of 100), along with executive branches in 15 states (out of 50).[1]

[0] https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-03.pdf

[1] https://www.quorum.us/data-driven-insights/the-115th-congres... (note that this was originally posted in 2017, but was later updated for the 116th)
I ran a few bulletin boards and definitely remember a few high dollar diner's club bills after discovering all my favorite high school PLATO games were available on a service of some kind. Later at college somehow a MUD ended up on one of the Decstation 3100s in the CS lab. That was the glory days of everything having an internet-exposed routable IP before the Morris worm proved what a bad idea that was.
They could sell [access to the compromised systems] to the highest bidder, and in that way make instant money?

Just like stocks are traded now, altohugh the payout is in the future.
Trump has had a much bigger impact on America than Obama did... whether that’s good or bad depends on your perspective. If, say, your mother was one of the villagers raped and murdered at Dos Erres in Guatemala, you might feel some catharsis from the hastened demise of the American republic.
> Here we have the richest country in the world, inventor of the internet with the most innovative tech companies with the absolute worst internet experience among developed countries

It makes sense when you consider that the US has a much higher resistance to business regulation and consumer protection- less overhead for innovative new businesses but also allowing entrenched interests to consolidate as much as they have.
Like anything "upcoming" announced by Tesla, to me it's all marketing no substance until proven otherwise.
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GNOME has become more conservative, certainly much more so than it was a decade ago in the run-up to GNOME 3. The rationale and phrasing in the announcement of the new versioning scheme (e.g. “Radical technological and design changes are too disruptive for maintainers, users, and developers”) seems indicative of this trend[1].

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This is very perceptible in many projects. Quite a few projects are not willing to innovate - use new and better tools, migrate to a new language standard, drop legacy compatibility and so on. Thankfully the nature FOSS allows new forks to emerge and slowly get rid of the dead hand of the past.
Totally applaud the effort of bringing old laptops to life and I would do it too but what am I to so with so many laptops? I do let mine rest in peace if they’re too behind and as a rule I try to not accumulate too much hardware as where i live space is expensive. If i had plenty of space I’d probably build more dedicated machines, perhaps airgapped to avoid distractions.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Russia.
That, with an API would have me as a paying customer. We have a project on our backlog to build this ourselves - I’d rather pay for a SaaS and concentrate on other things.

Happy to discuss our use case, email is in my profile.
The original article[1] from Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has better content and presentation.

[1] https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2021/
I unfortunately need to due to professors not being OS friendly...

If there is a software they want us to use, you're gonna use it. Oh you use Linux or mac? Sorry, you gotta go to the computer lab at the school or find a windows machine.
My house was paid for by someone who was that arrogant :)
I toured this complex with a telecom industry group around 2011. Such an awesome setting, nestled in the trees. Awe-inspiring airy architecture.
> I've read various theories about the right memory clock speed to use for Zen, but in all the gaming benchmarks I've seen, faster RAM clock speed ends up resulting in higher performance.

Got citations? Better yet if there are any developer-oriented benchmarks.

I'm building a Zen3 machine to use as a workstation. I just ordered DDR4-3600 RAM (but can still probably change the order if I made the wrong call). The specifications [1] only mention 3200 Mhz, so I think even that is overclocking the I/O chiplet to run at 1:1. I want a stable development machine rather than a toy so I wasn't planning to go further.

I also read an interview [2] (most interesting part quoted below) which suggests there's diminishing utility in going beyond 3600.

> Okay, so what’s the best price/performance?

> DDR4-3600 continues to be a “sweet spot.” The kits are inexpensive, widely available, perform well, and have good compatibility. Is it the best in every category? No, but that’s not what the sweet spot is. 3600 is a good bet because it’s a good value in perf/$ for someone who wants to plug and play. Is it the best possible performance? No. Is it close? Yes, and without tinkering.

> What’s the best memory, even if i have to overclock?

> Probably very tight timing 3600 or 3800, just like the Ryzen 3000 Series. The timings on these memory bins can be super aggressive versus higher memory speed grades, and that usually overpowers frequency.

My RAM is actually CL18 DDR4-3600. Maybe I should have gone with CL16...I'm not sure how much it really matters for development though, and I'm getting 64 GiB of RAM so the cost per byte adds up a bit more than it does for a gamer buying 16 GiB.

[1] https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-9-5950x

[2] https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-robert-hallock-promises-ryze...