skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SoCs are a good vector of this. Once a technology like this makes it into a space it’s unlikely to ever get removed if it’s actually useful (ie good perf/cost/power wins) as there’s a competitive advantage to having a better one. The longer it’s around, the more second order-effects you have (eg if you need SW integration, tooling etc) entrenching the tech (the same forces that make it difficult to get off the ground in the first place). Apple is a great example of being a company that can pull this off as they have the vertical integration to get it off the ground AND the commitment to ensure a consistent application within a vertical. It may not be within Apple’s business interests if this is primarily useful for “big data”. That seems unlikely to me though so you’d need other applications they might see as strategically useful. SQLite is used heavily at Apple, so accelerating such workloads may be useful. A good chunk of what an OS does overall is largely manipulate memory, so something like the Os scheduler could be bifurcated to pick the next task and have that ready, including modifying the various lists, so that the CPU is doing even less (although unlikely to be a good example as I suspect this is a relatively short operation since it happens so frequently that there’s not really any room for a win).
> A paradox is when two contradictory things are true at the same time.

> The grandfather problem is a paradox if time travel is possible. If it isn’t possible then it is simply an impossibility.

It's only a paradox if you're making certain assumptions about how time travel works.

You need to admit that these are assumptions.

Consider the airplane on a treadmill paradox. There is a hidden assumption that it's possible to accelerate the treadmill in isolation to match the wheel speed, but the logic fails because the speed of the treadmill is entwined with the speed of the wheels on the plane.

> So you agree that time travel is impossible. Great... we agree.

No, that's not what I said.

> I was demonstrating how their theory gives rise to paradoxical scenarios.

It doesn't.

You're assuming you can choose your actions independently from the time travel. The theory says that every choice is entwined with the fabric of the universe, so that by the time you see that an instance of time travel exists, the critical non-paradox-causing choices are already set in stone.
Being black is a protected class. Being an asshole is not.
Wow, he died mere miles from where I live yet I had never heard of him. A fascinating tale, thanks for sharing.
It seems that something like Loon is much more risky and large scale than those Bell Labs projects - which seem like regular r&d risks (although many of them).

And if it have worked reliably and affordably, they probably could have found some way to monetize it.
News Corp [1] is pretty much the definition of the Australian news companies, because of the stranglehold they have on news properties and regulators in the country.

Google has been fighting this basic idea across Europe as well, and just recently came down on the side of accepting French antitrust terms to pay out news publishers for snippets or even headlines of news in search. I personally think the French antitrust regulators held their ground well in the sense that withholding search access to further a Google news property seems clearly like antitrust abuse.

That said, Australia's news market (as well as many other European news markets) have so effectively captured their own regulators that it's just likely all downside for consumers all around. Access to independent news will decrease, competition will decrease, and everyone will rejoice at the Pyrrhic victory over the global behemoth that is Google regardless of the benefits to the consumer, which were never the concern in the first place. Facebook will quickly follow suit, and there will be another celebration of the loss of independent media access by the masses.

IMO, this kind of thing is really the true censorship apparatus at work: the censorship of ideas across journalism broadly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation
The other aspect of it is that modern bureaucracies, especially in the United States, are strongly tailored for equitable interactions with the public, and employ rules and processes designed to minimize corruption by minimizing discretion.

Unfortunately, in political discussions "bad" seems to be synonymous with "corrupt".[1] Bad government is corrupt government, and corrupt government is unsalvageable. End of debate. (Particularly unsalvageable in our strongly individualist, low trust society. Modern civil services were, of course, designed in a higher trust era that managed to more-or-less eliminate most forms of corruption through radical reformations of government.)

[1] For example, recently an HN commenter drew the conclusion that California's infrastructure project cost inflation must be a result of corruption. I'm sure lots of people believe that, especially considering that in California there's a single contractor that wins most large projects in the state even though they're notorious for inflating costs during construction. But one of the principle problems, in fact, is that procedural rules--rules designed to prevent corruption--make it difficult for bureaucrats to question, based on past performance, the credibility of and preference for the lowest bid. (Of course, perhaps the relevant decision makers could try harder. But by exercising greater discretion they open themselves up to accusations of corruption if a project goes bad, or to delaying legal challenges by the loser. This reinforces the norm to simply mechanically follow procedure.)
Intersecting politics, worldviews, ethics, business and whatnot
For a type safe approach to functional programming in python, try returns (https://returns.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
The built-in Firefox password manager does not work with other browsers (kind of obvious, no?). I use different browsers on different devices, and Bitwarden just works on all of them.
> It provided the platform for organising the summer of rioting the US has just seen.

Twitter was literally closing accounts and deleting tweets that called for violence during that summer. There was quite a lot of complaining where twitter done it in ambiguous situations. Twitter was not perfect. But twitter was definitely at least trying. Twitter would not had issue to delete clear calls for violence that Amazon would point to them for weeks - the way Parler acted.

The fact is, it is simply not true that twitter would be acting as parler regarding censorship of calls for violence. In fact, it is a lie.

Parler did not done even token pretend you are trying to effort. Literally only issue here is that you dont care about left wing radicals being censored, which is fine, but then you pretend it does not happen which is not fine.
I discovered SSC through this blog: http://www.wall.org/~aron/blog which I discovered thanks to this HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18176929 and I can heartily recommend it.

That comment, and more specifically, Aron's blog have made a huge impact in my life. I've spent hundreds of hours reading it and losing myself in intellectual rabbit holes, I've been introduced to many interesting topics, books and authors (such as Scott Alexander, G.K Chesterton and Gödel, Escher, Bach (which I have on my nightstand)), and I've come to truly believe in God.

The comments section is usually very interesting as well.
Measuring the energy consumption of the tech industry backstages with Scaphandre
As you’re talking about Apple, I find System76’s Linux computers, especially their notebooks [1] and their Ubuntu-based Pop! OS [2] a breeze of fresh air. This hardware/software combination gives me an Apple-like experience while committing to free software. The OS’s UX is very developer friendly as windows can be moved around and tiled using keyboard shortcuts. Then there’s a launcher bar similar to CMD+space on macOS. Pop! OS comes with their own app store (pop shop) which makes discovering and installing more apps dead simple. And the notebook’s build quality and performance is really good.

[1] https://system76.com/laptops

[2] https://pop.system76.com/
The full self driving product that people expect isn’t a beta product that’s only available in a special region. To be accessible as running water, decades away is probably accurate estimation.
Probably because he is more intelligent that the mob and has taken measures to hide his identity.

Notice that those who carried hand cuffs, guns, etc always wore a mask, where as the dumber rocks of the lot openly celebrated by shouting out their names and locations.
I really respect X and Astro Teller. We need this kind of optimism and radical exploration for social benefit.

Did you know that his grandfather was Edward Teller, inventor of the hydrogen bomb? In one of Edward's final contributions [1], he mathematically modeled the cost and effect of pumping sulfur-based compounds into the upper atmosphere to reduce runaway feedback loops of global warming. On paper, it works. Solving global climate change is a real moonshot -- but too bad it is so taboo, because it could dramatically benefit all life on earth, if done right. Looks like balloons could be helpful for the implementation, too [2]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160127185550/https://e-reports...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_geoengineering
Our skies and space shall be the “playground” of military and police though, until the day of international peace.
> Because they're making use of a government granted monopoly on a physically limited common

Sorry dude. You don't believe in free speech. You are contradicting yourself.
I don’t see why it’s irrational to believe that you can overwhelm the information channels a large amount of people have access to so that your hype gives you a market advantage (or in 0-sum situations your competitors end up making incorrect chooses).. You know the saying “perception is reality”? That’s not an irrational position and failing to acknowledge this is just leaving money on the table. To me the question is whether such unbridled hype is actually worth the cost. To me it seems to come with a lot of degradation in public trust, a commodity that’s perhaps the most important when trying to building a lasting, cohesive society.
Spacewatch: Bezos's Blue Origin 'close' to flying humans
I’ve been using Notion as a personal knowledge base for a couple of years now, and I still feel a sense of joy every time I fire it up (countless times a day). It’s simple, yet elegant.

That said, I don’t know anything about the company. I’m excited about the product and where it’s headed.
The proposed Australian rules specifically disallow this.

Google isn't allowed to simply not pay some news outlets. They must all be paid and treated equally.
As long as third of Russia wants a Tsar (or another authoritarian strong man) some other 20% want USSR back (remember how corrupt that was too) and most of the rest is silent nothing will change there. Oppression was standard in both of these setups.
I think 3D Hubs(https://www.3dhubs.com/) is pretty exciting!
Yeah, the training data is basically useless:

1. Extreme imbalance and survivorship bias. The dataset is unwieldy because of the imbalance, no matter the algorithm; and too small if you balance it.

2. I would take a daily/weekly/monthly diff between different values and time to failure, and obviously only from drives that ACTUALLY failed. All drives fail, but data from healhty drives is useless as it lacks the target value. In practice you want to predict how close they are to failing and act preemptively, tagging them as OK and KO completely misses the target (hehe) IMO.

3. Drive maker and model should be vectorized and fed into the model. Mandatory. Different manufacturers and models show different SMART behaviors, and while some stats are red flags in certain drives, they mean nothing in others.

4. This is more of a personal preference, but I like random trees to test whether the dataset is useful. They're not perfect but they give reasonably good results for most tasks, and tend not to overfit, so you can use it as overfitting benchmark vs other algorithms. If they don't either the dataset is shit or it needs some transformation, or the model needs to be more complex (but that's easy to see). Obviously this applies to classifiers and regressions, and not to many other ML tasks.
I am waiting for the time when every "normal" website is so censored and shitty that the average joe is using tor. Then we can create a truly free internet and the cycle starts again. Seems like I have to wait just a few more years.
There is a difference between a protest going out of control and a planned insurrection.

Those at the protests were protesting their ill treatment or ill treatment meted out to others.

Those at the capitol were explicitly planning to do exactly what they did.
First of all, thanks for sharing because it's such an insightful paper!

Some thoughts/doubts on it:

1. It's unbelievable that in a world where we promote privacy and freedom of individuals such cross-country trackers exist. It seems more an Orwellian story rather than reality.

2. I'm a bit ignorant on this theme on a technical level (I have a business background, even if working at a tech startup focused on security). There is a growing concern globally over an increasing sensitisation over privacy and over the importance of security. Even Google has promised to remove third party cookies within 2 years, and there is going to be a migration from Whatsapp to Signal (even if Whatsapp clarified a bit on that). Do you think that such fresh tools like these "favicons" or simple tracking will remain long term?
The product is ready, I tried it. It works as advertised.

They're attempting the search problem is a completely different way.

They're getting ready for public launch.
Google overplayed their hand, they'll pay the price rather soon. Do not ever blackmail countries.

Facebook and Google search have no leverage like they think. Any country can insta ban them like China did, and have their own alternative at this point if they talk too much and don't follow the local laws. They'll figure it out rather soon.

They need Australia more then Australia needs them.

In the past only China scale countries could afford to ban companies that bully states. Now even medium sized countries will have a level playing field. Follow the laws or get out.
The List<Object> cannot hold int, double etc. It can only hold the boxed variants. Auto boxing takes some of the pain away but it's still not a heterogeneous list which has the requirement that it can hold values of any type.

I'd wager that the up and coming inline classes in java also can't be put into a List<Object> but maybe I'm wrong.
Adams doesn't say he wasn't influenced by Vonnegut in those quotes.

Also, here's another quote[1]:

> "I've read The Sirens of Titan six times now, and it gets better every time. He is an influence, I must own up. Sirens of Titan is just one of those books – you read it through the first time and you think it's very loosely, casually written. You think the fact that everything suddenly makes such good sense at the end is almost accidental. And then you read it a few more times, simultaneously finding out more about writing yourself, and you realise what an absolute tour de force it was, making something as beautifully honed as that appear so casual."

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070302103312/http://www.darker...

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But I suppose there is a difference between "influenced by" and "trying to emulate" isn't there, and I absolutely should have said the former. They are books that have some similarities, each in their own style.
Surely that's kind of the point of X and moonshot projects? If they weren't taking on projects that required large scale, risky technical innovation then they'd just be...a normal company?
Disallowing such content then might be the right solution if you view the societal trade offs as not being worth the increased economic activity.
> 90mA in full-speed run mode.

Keep in mind that's at maybe 2 volts rather than 5 volts. Still, it's 360uA per MHz, counting the two 125MHz M0+ cores as 250MHz total. That's pretty power hungry compared to other Cortex M0+ products which tend to be in the 100uA/MHz range. I think the real product here is the RP2040 SOC and the Pico board is described as a breakout board for it. I like to think the RP2040 will find its way onto future RPi Linux boards, to give them some analog and realtime capabilities.
Bringing Spacer GIFs Back, to Handle Spacing Elements in React and CSS
ButtonBuddy – Accessible button contrast generator
Doesn't exist yet but something/handbook to consistently create a reliable backend for X amount of usage & customise other aspects of a SaaS without worrying about the stuff under the hood.
Most companies while started on technical innovations, gradually move to “MBA” driven organisations that usually try to secure their revenue, instead of taking risk. In that regard, open source itself is the biggest innovation of the 21st century. And I’m hopeful that open source will move to other technical area of innovation also.
„Galaxy ‚Fornax A‘ investigated […]“ might be easier to understand. I failed to parse the title until I knew what the article was about.
Your sarcasm detector is broken. Here's some context: https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/ipv4leasing/
Perhabs you could Take an one hours lunch break and use 30 minutes for your side project.
This could help you to be more motivated in the evening.
Still not enough to force the hand of the ruling oligarchs just yet.
When it's closer to half they're on to something.
Did they?

Is there a breakdown somewhere of their patent licensing revenue from Linux licensees, and the legal expenses they have in enforcing it?

Did they give up Linux patent licenses from Android makers? They had billions coming in from Samsung and LG in the past but that was all under NDAs, we don’t know what patents were under discussion.
Ok but dropping the National Enquirer would make Amazon look even worse.

And keeping National Enquirer doesn't make Amazon "look bad"... you are mixing issues here. National Enquirer itself may not be pro-Amazon, but they'd be that way whereever they are hosted. Their existence on AWS, though, does not impact Amazon one way or the other, because even those who dislike what they publish, aren't generally claiming they should be denied hosting.
Surely the ones that run your payroll and 401k benefits are okay.

The old "Personnel Department" did that perfectly well long before HR was a thing.
Unsong is an absolute favorite. I would love to pay $$$ for a printed version.

Its target demographic miiiight be specifically Jewish, atheist, programmers. Who think about those three things a lot and in combination. I've stopped trying to get anyone not in that demo to read it. But if that's you, please give it a shot!
Yes, but, while RH is the 900lb gorilla in the "pure OSS" business (and yes, we should be thankful for their contributions all over the OSS ecosystem even if we aren't RH customers), from a business perspective they are not that spectacular. Looking at wikipedia, the company was formed in 1993, has a revenue of $3.4 billion, and 13400 employees. By IT sector standards, that's decent but far from spectacular.

Partly due to releasing all their code as OSS, they have poor pricing power over their primary product (support and services (RHEL)) as that's a commodified market with a bunch of competitors who are happy to take their business (offering support for CentOS or other RHEL rebuilds) if they charge too much, or customers might just decide they have the in-house knowledge to support themselves.
Well I'll be glad to see some real competition in search when I actually see it, but if that's all you have to offer, I'm sorry no one's going to believe you.
If I had a dollar for every throw away account that posted something along these lines on hackernews, I'd be slightly richer than I already am.
With no context, humanism sounds like it's just something pertaining to humans. Also, at least to my perception, the word has a built-in positive valence. But, it has a much more specific meaning: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism

There's a similar dynamic with rationalism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalism
I wanted to pick it up, I feel it's under-appreciated technology that has lots of potential. Reasons why I didn't:

- It's somewhat hard to sell to management. There (was) no company behind it to provide support; and it's not a "successful Apache project"/ with large-ish community, either. And generally for a long while it was a passion project more than something Frank McSherry would actively encourage you to use in production.

- As other have said, the "hello world" is somewhat tricky. Not a lot of people know Rust. If you say "let's do this project in Rust", this will likely not go well; if I were able to use it from .NET and JVM, as a library, it might be an easier sell (I'm personally more invested in .NET now but earlier in my carer it would've been JVM)

- last but not least: the "productization" story is a bit tricky; comparing it to Spark does it no service. For Spark, not only do I have managed clusters like EMR, but I have a decent amount of tooling to see how the cluster executes (the spark web UI). Also I can deploy it in mesos, yarn not just standalone (and mesos/yarn have their own tooling). For differential dataflow, one had none of that (at least last time I checked). Maybe it'd be more fair to compare it to Kafka Streams?

* Might I add: spark-ec2 was a huge help for me picking up spark, since before the 1.0 version. You can do tons of work on a single machine, yes... but, for this kind of systems, the very first question is "how do you distribute that?". And you have the story that "it's possible", but you don't have easy examples of "word count, done on 3 machines, not because it's necessary but because we demonstrate how easy it is to distribute the computing across machines".

* Compared to Kafka Streams: the thing about Kafka Streams is that you know what to use it for (Kafka!) and one immediately groks how one uses this in production (all state management is delegated to Kafka, this is truly just a library that helps you work better with Kafka). With differential dataflow, it's much less clear. You could use it with Kafka, but also with Twitter directly, or with something else. And what happens if it crashes? How do you recover from that? What are the data loss risks? Does it give you any guarantees or do you have to manage that?
Fun fact: Since ID Hasher is Base64 encoding the hexdigest, not the digest, the characters ‘/’ and ‘+’ will never appear in the ID.
Can you expand on this? Not sure I understand.