skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
edge-sql [1] allows arbitrary SQLite queries to be executed over an immutable external data set. The demo uses a Forex data set stored in Workers KV.

Client issued arbitrary queries is one of the use cases for GraphQL and publishing immutable data sets on the web is the main use case for Simon Wilson’s Datasette [2].

In-memory SQLite compiled to WASM works in the browser and Node.js too. In the future, we can expect proper ACID operations on any WASM runtime that supports fsync in WASI [3], a POSIX-like API.

[1] https://github.com/lspgn/edge-sql

[2] https://datasette.io/

[3] https://wasi.dev/
That's actually what happens in cases of terrorism, too.

Law enforcement/spy agencies are never blamed for not catching them sooner, even though most of the time they were already on their terror watch lists and even arrested for similar stuff.

But "somehow" the discussion always shifts to the government needing more surveillance powers to catch them next time.
Ah sorry dang! Will take heed in future.
In the same way that I don’t think learning sklearn is the hard part of knowing ML, I don’t think 0 or 1 -based arrays is the hard part of any particular language. There are situations where both are appropriate. The choice of either as the deal breaker for a language is extremely superficial.
Tejotron, how did you build this? Is it Rust compiled to WebAssembly? The code editor is quite well-made. Is it completely hand-rolled? Curious to hear more!
I would agree and here's why: when compared to PHP scripts of old, the concept is the same. You have some bit of executable code that gets called when a specific URL is hit.
You really think people now use "OK", a sign used for years, to signal they are racist?

I think you're the butt of the joke here...
> The (1) case is a bit inaccurate/misleading.

No, its not.

> Gebru tweeted the name of the employee

Sure, more to the point Gebru tweeted that Mitchell’s corporate email appeared to be nonfunctional, sure.

> Axios then reached out to Google

That seems likely to be the sequence of events, sure.

Usually and ethically, a company that was in exactly the circumstances Google described would have:

(1) Declined comment, or

(2) Confirmed the email was nonfunctional and declined further comment, or

(3) Explicitly declined comment on personnel matters (especially if the framing of the question from Axios raised the issue of it being a disciplinary action of some kind; raising a personnel issue when it wasn’t part of the framing of the question would itself be somewhat unusual.)

> Context matters.

As an abstract truism, sure; while the narrative you describe is exactly what seems like the most likely scenario to me, I didn’t describe it because that fact was already considered in the description of scenario #1. Google’s behavior is (even assuming that they are being completely honest) grossly unethical in the context described.
I have distant relatives in a EU country who live in a mud shack with dirt floors. I think you underestimate how poor the poor parts of Europe are.
Hm, interesting. I made this, if you want to take a look: https://github.com/TomasHubelbauer/sqlite-javascript. You can test it using the Demo link in the readme and then use the prefilled value in the Load from URL prompt. Based on this I find your idea to be very doable. I didn't do it yet, but while working on this I had async fetching of pages using Range requests on my mind. Shame I didn't get to it when I was working on this project, could be easy to put together a demo. Similar to this I made https://github.com/TomasHubelbauer/fatcow-icons which parses a big ZIP file piece-wise on demand. As you scroll, new parts of the archive are fetched and icons extracted so you don't need to download the whole thing.
After Iran and many non Iranian businesses which have been cut off from GitHub because of an Iranian holiday or single employee I’m not surprised. In fact, any business critical service, such as GitHub and cloud hosting providers should have national or at least continental providers. Nobody would complain if China was to develop its own national electric grid or telecommunications infrastructure, because it seems obvious that these services shouldn’t be at the whim of a foreign nation. Guess what, cloud infrastructure powering million dollar businesses fall in the same category. The US has lost all trust to us, not just to Eastern nations but also in Europe we don’t want to expose ourselves unnecessarily anymore.
Reinvent http proxies, but now with additional code and data that gets out-of-sync and is harder to debug.
> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation

It’s horrifying that they think this is even possible. Some of the worst political divides are over which set of facts to emphasize (children in cages vs children separated from traffickers) or are speculation on ongoing events (Russian pee tape, Trump is a Russian asset, Russia stole the election, etc).

“Amplify factual voices” just sounds like more echo chamber bullshit where you follow your politically aligned fact sources like Twitter.
With the minor difference that in Taiwan you're safe from the virus and in Sweden you're absolutely not.
They had homemade bombs. They had firearms. They had bags full of restraints. Their intent was to kidnap and kill the politicians and they almost succeeded if it wasn’t for the hero that killed the terrorist that was breaching the only door left between them and the politicians.
You are disingenuous if for you this wasn’t a terrorist attack just because they didn’t succeed and only managed to kill some cops instead of some politicians.
Not sure if you're just trolling now... It's the same as 'arguing' with an anti-vaxxer at this point.

I'm not going to go into detail on the power relationship here. If you're going to deny that a university instructor and a student have a power disbalance between them, and that sexual relationships between them are usually illegal but certainly pretty much always inappropriate and against all policies, I'm not sure what to say anymore.

I linked AN ACTUAL POLICE AFFIDAVID that confirms that this woman not only wrote a lengthy document on their affair, but also how she posted that online, wrote the victim's job about it in an attempt to hurt him, and posted the victim's naked pictures online (among other things). I'm not sure what sort of evidence you would consider valid short of you being there watching it happen. And this is just the AFFIDAVID, there is a lot more out there, easily verifyable from various sources. But maybe someone should call the Tallahassee Police Department, ask for Kameron O'Hara, and verify that he actually wrote the affidavid, as you seem to think that someone forged this whole document including forging the name and signature of an actual office of the TPD (which he is, that's easily verified with a single Google search)?

"and the average person who has no legal background eats it up as the wholesale truth."

That's rather rich considering that between you and me, I suspect there is only one person with a law degree, and it's not you.

If all of this is 'hearsay' and 'made up', where did the mugshots in the OP come from? Let me guess, it's all deep fakes set up by the Cabal, as a pre-emptive move to discredit her in case she would go on 2 years later to become a whistle blower for a virus outbreak nobody knew would happen for at least 6 more months? Please.
Old Firefox was a platform that ran a unique ecosystem of extensions, had innovative features that nobody on IE6 had and represented a push towards a web that didn't quite exist yet - an open place with standards where developers were free of having some disinterested tyrant controlling what they could do.

It is still Firefox, but that battle has been won. Firefox won it, then Google came in with Chrome and pounded the old way into the dust. It is gone now, mostly forgotten and good riddance.

Brave is a more in the character of Firefox than Firefox in many ways. There is a vision in there somewhere of a new web where users are one of the primary beneficiaries of advertising dollars (!) and intermediaries like Google are cut out of the picture. That is a very bold vision. I don't think Mozilla is capable of that sort of out-there visionary approach to browser design. Succeed or fail, Brave is trying.
These aren't problems with the power, they're problems with people that abuse the power.

We've had presidential pardons for centuries, and they are both a carry-over from the time of kings, and they could arguably serve as a short-circuit against injustice at the hand of the legislature.

Not everything illegal is wrong. Not everyone in prison is serving a just sentence, no matter what the legal system declares it to be.

Left in the hands of the legislature, no one would ever experience mercy.
The ok hand sign can be a perfectly innocuous hand sign in some circumstances, or a white supremacist dog whistle in others. The very purpose why it was adopted by white supremacists is this confusion - this has been explicitly researched by human rights groups.

Of course, the symbol itself carries no white supremacist overtones, just like the swastika in itself does not carry any nazi symbolism (as opposed to, say, a crosssed out star of David, which would be an explicitly anti-semite symbol). However, it's association with and repeated use by Nazi Germany is what gave it a nazi symbolism. Even for such a widely reviled symbol, there are still non-taboo uses. In particular, a left-facing swastika (sauwastika) is a common Buddhist symbol, found often in Asian media with no Nazi connotation. That means that a bald person waving a swastika flag could either be a nazi skin head, or a buddhist monk - context will usually tell you which.

This is similar to "states rights" rhetoric - it has both its literal sense, the discussion of the amount of power states should have vs the federal government; but it also refers more specifically to the "right" to slavery the civil war was fought over. When you hear someone speak about it, you need more context to know which sense is being used.

Human language is complicated like this.
If you hired a researcher to find out the most effective strategies to putting out fires you might actually want a purely theoretical researcher. Advocates for air drops might be blind to firewalls and vise verse.

There is also a reason to be cautious if a sociologist studying the effects of poverty were basing their suggestions on what would fix their own poverty.
Well intentioned as that article may be, it makes plenty of mistakes. For a rather glaring one, no, uops are not linked to OoO.

Secondly, it ignores the existence of uop caches that x86 designs use in order to not need such wide decoders. Some ARM designs also use uop caches, FWIW, since it can be more power efficient.

That doesn't mean that fixed width decoding like on aarch64 isn't an advantage; it certainly is. Also, M1 is certainly a very impressive design, though of course it also helps that it's fabbed on the latest and greatest process.
There are more make believe libertarians than there are libertarian theorists and they like virtually everyone else want the board tilted to benefit them. The people that are most likely not to want the board tilted are however those who already substantially benefited by the current state of affairs.

It's trivial to forget that their isn't much in the way of ground truth underneath society what people think of as the government not meddling much with society actually usually means leaving alone the current result of centuries of meddling if if the current distribution of tokens and things were the result of natural law and any change or redistribution is the only coercive act. If you imagine a board with certain positions privileged above others and spaces pre parceled out to certain players all the existing restrictions on players movements and actions are all coercive its just coercive in the ways that is presently expected as normal.
"microlithic" a micro service which bundles multiple responsibilites.
Thanks for your perspective. I don't deny that China has many problems.

But on the topic of truth, some accusations against China are false. Are you willing to discuss them?
Why does it have to be one OR the other?

Even humans have created systems that sort of create other shit on their own.

Like the patterns that form when viewing prime numbers in certain ways, the fundamental laws of the universe could be some emergent properties arising from mathematical truths, and require no "god"
Forever. Site owners will shit purple Twinkies and put the developers under a copyright cosh if the feature is released or not removed.
https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/922563981826441216

Here's the photo of Palmer Luckey with Bannon. He claims in this tweet that he was flashing the sign "ironically" as a hoax in this reply: https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/922575384817950726
It’s still speech suppression and support of it, even if you think it’s justified.
I don't know about 'contemporary' but I always loved Heinlein
(Stranger in a Strange Land is probably appropriate for the HN crowd)

Also, really can't go wrong with Terry Pratchett.

P.S. - I have the same problem, its been years since I read for 'fun'. Mostly all tech stuff now.
> The idea that a fledgling social media company needs a moderation effort akin to Facebook in order to be allowed to even exist seems very anti-competitive to me

Moderation seems to be an activity that can scale linearly with users (content). So if you have 1/1000 the user base then you have roughly 1/1000 the moderation effort.

Of all the barriers to entry in the social
media market, moderation seems like the smallest one because it doesn't scale as well as other activities such as operation costs, development staff , and so on.

Of course, if you start a social media company with the intent to be a haven for content that "takes a lot of moderation effort" then obviously you are setting yourself up for a situation where it's difficult to compete. If you need 10x the number of moderation actions as facebook or twitter, then you have 10x the cost too.
The first death in a powered airplane was where one of the Wrights crashed carrying a passenger, and he died.

Should the airplane have never been invented and the Wrights jailed for trying?
The government should fear its people and not the other way around. The gun of the public's ire should also be focused on class instead of in-class fighting over race.

Who would rather be poor and white over rich and black? Exactly. Privilege comes from class, not skin.
I’m not sure which Google AI paper you’re referencing. The recent paper at the center of the controversy did have actionable suggestions regarding model training costs (financial and environmental), appropriate training sets, and generally incorporating domain expertise to avoid misinformation or mistranslations. [1]

That’s fair, I haven’t visited LW in a while. I did thoroughly enjoy HPMOR, but thought that most of Eliezer’s other work fell closer to speculation than practice.

As other commenters have mentioned, these AI algorithms are already being implemented in the real world with real consequences. Their associated ethical concerns therefore seem more urgent, and they can be acted upon.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-a...
> "publicly naming and blaming and specific employee"

They're not doing this if the press reaches out to them for comment with the specific details first. Given the bad faith actions of Gebru already (and apparently she's at least partially the source here from the other reply to your comment) it makes sense for Google to clarify with the response they gave (and in that response Google also did not mention the name of the employee).

This issue is way too heated for real productive discussion on internet forums. It's obviously tribal, flamewar bait, with a massive undercurrent of partisan politics (and perceived partisan politics on the side of the person you're disagreeing with).

I found what Gebru did earlier to be wrong, my prior is that the behavior here by the employee is also likely to be wrong. I've been generally disappointed in the level of discussion from the political fringes (both 'woke' and pretty much the entire GOP at this point). I find a lot of overlap between this Google AI ethicist community and critical race theory woke politics.

I suspect in the end when all the details are out Google will be in the right.

Without waiting there's no point for all the arguing that's going to go back and forth in these comments.
President Trump Pardons Ex-Uber and Google Engineer Anthony Levandowski
In the leaderboard, the images are too small. It would be nice to be able to see them without clicking on them individually.
Thanks - I suspected as much.
I really have no problem with people being both subject-matter experts and activists. Chomsky is the prime example: world-class linguist and outspoken leftist intellectual. But the one mistake he never made was to try to established 'leftist linguistics'. Contemporary 'AI ethics' feels like leftist activism with a very superficial understanding of machine learning technologies. Versions of "ML researchers are white males, so their creations inherit their biases"[1] are objectively wrong. Biases exists, but they come from the human-annotated training data fed into ML systems and not the gender of the programmer.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/sunday/artificial...
One theory: they're not in office anymore, so they won't as easily be bothered because [person pardoned] committed a crime, which of course they'll be chased like a hawk for doing, just in case, especially in the case of certain pardoned people.

edit: removed some inflammatory text that was unfair to all involved.
> people who bemoan that social scientists are activists

I'd prefer they label themselves as partizan ethicists or activists.

> , that they are not supposed to actually develop solutions to what they study

On the contrary, they should develop solutions, not just scandals. The problem is with activists who just want to criticize without contributing a solution. I suspect they are more interested in making a name for themselves and using ethics as a club.
The "Optional typing - Currently not implemented" not-so-big bullet point is under the big "Notable Differences" heading.

If it were not mentioned, the implication would by that it was available.
> The most interesting one to me was President Ford pardoning President Nixon. TIL.

Done in the name and hope of "national healing". There were even talks about Biden pardoning Trump in order to prevent the precedent of a new administration pursuing an outgoing administration by legal overreach... was utter madness IMO even before the attempted putsch by his supporters, but now it's untenable.

Personally, as a half German and half Croat I can only say one thing when I look at the histories of my home countries: for any form of healing to succeed, criminal actions by any government must be dealt with transparently and impartially by the appropriate institutions in a speedy manner, otherwise the only thing that will breed is resentment.

The Nazi regime crimes were dealt with by the Nuremberg trials and the supporters were assessed under de-nazification, the result was that every German could see that high crimes did not go unpunished and that our neighbor countries could trust us again.

Contrast this to the post-Independence Wars Balkans, where half the war criminals of all sides were not prosecuted at all as they died and not much research happened into what they did, and of the other half the majority was protected by their respective ethnic's governments for sometimes decades. The result? Ugly nationalism and hatred are as alive as ever in the region.
You can absolutely do that, and there are several potential license and license-free options. None of them are amateur radio, however.
Lovely, thanks for the info :)
Dunno about the catchy, but Runtime as a Service could fit the *aaS pattern.
Think they're referring to this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55236260
Well that sounds spooky af
Read Eliyahu Goldratt's books, these are novels that explain business ideas - but hardly can be called tech books.
Actual title: An abundance of caring (for yourself, and in turn those close to you)
Sorry about this Dang, the line is blurry on some topics and sometimes we get carried over and go outside the topic of the conversation.
I thought: "how bad can it be?" but that really is a rabbithole of almost limitless depth. It really drives home just how many species there are that we have no pictures of. And how far you have to zoom in to find anything you can recognize.
One interesting case is when partitioning on integers, but wish to compare with floats... How do you get all values in say in 0..9.9999 when using 0 <= x <= 9... it makes sense to use 0 <= x < 10...

Another case is when using datetime... how do you specify the whole day without knowing the precision of your datetime (seconds, milliseconds, nanoseconds...)...
again, specifying 2021-01-10 to 2021-01-11 makes more sense than using 2021-01-10T23:59:59.999 for the upper boundary.
Reminded me @kickscondor's slaptrash. I don't know why but this project got me excited. Simple and working with a perfect balance. Thank you for showing me this is possible with JS. Would like to create a pull request soon.
Last time I checked, I could find no MusicXML exporter that supported the latest syntax.
From your comment (on a different story):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843947

> All: I know this is a little late, but those of you posting ideological flamewar comments to this thread are breaking the site guidelines. We're trying to avoid hellfire here, and we're banning accounts that feed it. Please don't feed it.

> HN is not for all types of discussion. It is specifically for curious conversation. Here's a test you can apply: curiosity is equally open to what's true, false, or interesting about anything. If your position is that your side is right about everything while the opposing side is wrong about everything, you have left the spectrum of curiosity gratification and are functioning in the spectrum of political battle. Those do not overlap.

My ongoing issue, the "axe I grind", the "dead horse I beat" (refer to my history), is this very thing: the constant and obvious degradation of the quality of discourse on HN when it comes to Culture War topics. Most specifically: the homogeneous culture of refusal to even consider what is actually true. Not only is there little interest in what is true, but the very notion seems to be considered highly inappropriate for discussion, and anyone who dares mention it is considered an immoral heretic.

This trait has been sweeping through Western culture for years, if not decades - like a virus of the mind. HN was an outlier for quite some time, but as you know the infection has spread to here, and is flourishing.

From my perspective, there are at least two noteworthy issues in play:

1. The orderliness of HN forums.

2. The orderliness of the USA, and in turn the entire planet.

I imagine you may be less concerned about #2 than I am, but I happen to subscribe to the theory that "with great power, comes great responsibility". What if there was an approach that could plausibly "solve" (to a worthwhile degree) #1, and possibly also contribute to the solving of #2?

And if no one does anything different, where is the world going to be 5, 10, 20 years from now? Where would the world be today if it wasn't for the actions of a few key individuals at key points in history?
> Nobody will be making an mRNA vaccine in their garage any time soon.

There was actually a video on YouTube a few months ago about some biohackers, Josiah Zayner and others, who made a DNA COVID vaccine in their garages, and it actually worked. Granted it wasn't mRNA, but very similar.
Jack Ma makes first appearance since October