skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Parler is its own platform and Element is just a client.

Indeed, people made that point, but I don't see how this is a useful distinction. Parler (the app) that Google and Apple removed is also just a client, that facilitates access to Parler (the social media website) that can be accessed via other means, e.g. a web browser. And Google and Apple didn't really have any problems with the app itself, which has no content on its own; they wanted different moderation policies on the website. As they have no direct control over the website, they acted against the client app; it was Amazon that took down the website.

One difference might be that Elements and Matrix have different developers and Parler (the app) and Parler (the social media website) have the same owner. But again, this is not a meaningful difference; e.g. if Google and Apple had problem with content on Reddit (the website), surely they would remove both Reddit (the app) and all 3rd party clients, Apollo, Boost, Sync, etc, at least those that fail to actively censor the objectionable parts of the website in the app.

So Apple/Google saw Parler (the website) as having dangerous content and took it out on Parler (the app). If they are justified in that; it is not a big stretch that they saw Matrix (protocol) as having dangerous content and took it out on Element (app), and presumably other clients. I don't think whether it is decentralized or not matters from an app store policy point of view.

Two companies having the say on which programs almost everyone can run on their mobile devices, especially on the iOS side, is a huge problem, that becomes increasingly evident as they start to flex their muscles.
Ironically this move finally made me to consider Matrix. I'm thinking about spinning a server on a non FAANG provider like Vultr or Linode and setting IM services bridges from there. Nowadays I use lots of different communicators to talk to different people and most of these apps track me. If I setup a Matrix server somewhere that allows me to use those networks without having their software installed on my devices that will not only be convenient but also improve my privacy. Not to mention the Matrix network and protocol that can be used to do fun stuff.

Is Dendrite ready for use? I don't have a lot of memory available and I heard Synapse is kinda heavy on resources.
In our society many domains (finance being one) are now too massive, complex and quickly 'working' and evolving for anybody (even a group) to understand enough to predict more-or-less accurately, let's say to do better than random picks in a set of possible outcomes descriptions for the next 5 years.

One of the effects is that there is no real pilot onboard anymore. Some people are dressed and talking as pilots and some of them may believe they (and their teams) understand and control, but I think most feign.

The huge 'kinetic energy' of all those systems let them roll forward more and more out-of-control, until some mishap reveals our lack of knowledge.
Google Deletes 100k Negative Reviews of Robinhood App from Angry Users
Clojure/Script mode for CodeMirror 6
That’s great! This is the future.

During vaccines, how have your pharmacists managed to do both? I’m sure it’s a lot on them
This was also an important part of Soviet Maskirovka in WW2. Soon after being attacked by the Germans, the Soviets realized that their military codes had been thoroughly broken. However, due to material, time, and skilled manpower constraints, they did not have the ability replace the codes with ones that actually worked while also fending off the largest coordinated invasion the world had ever seen.

So, what to do when the enemy can read all the orders you give your troops pretty much immediately after you give them? Do you let them have this amazing intelligence advantage, or do you stop using radio altogether and thus give yourself a massive communication handicap?

The Soviets took the third option. They kept giving their troops orders using the compromised codes, and eventually also in the clear, but also started giving a lot of conflicting orders to formations that did not exist, or were in fact elsewhere. Or fake orders to real formations that were specifically told beforehand to ignore any orders starting with a certain phrase. And by a lot, I really mean massive quantities. Once they really got the hang of it, the ratio of bullshit to real orders on the air was often well above 1000:1. The idea being that it was so much easier to manufacture bullshit that survived superficial scrutiny, but would collapse under any real investigation, than conducting those investigations, that you could bury the enemy intelligence officers under the workload. By the time of Stalingrad, the Germans had mostly given up on sigint.
It seems like a reduction in short-selling will probably help the market be healthier.

Companies shorting 130% of a stock doesn't help the market.
What do you find is so much better in WSL2 vs Mac? I find when I’m using WSL2 I feel more like I’m using 2 computers since they have the different file systems (you can’t just git clone into your windows file system from WSL for example) Whereas with Mac, it’s all one system and it’s all still Unix. The rest of Mac vs Windows seems like it could be up for debate (last few Mac updates have made it feel a lot less polished) but from a purely terminal experience I’ve found Mac to be so much better since it’s all just one system. I’m switching to Windows soon so I’m really curious, what’s your workflow for dev with WSL? For example, where do you keep your repos? What editor do you use? That sort of thing.
I'm not referring to the Pfizer research, I'm referring to the Maccabi paper. The data is explicitly for the first dose and not the second. The paper also mentions the effect starts from day 18, not beforehand - maybe you should read it again.

What Maccabi did publish on the second dose, it was in a much more encouraging note. Granted, not a peer reviewed paper, that would be difficult given lack of time.

Claiming Yediot is parroting the government is delusional. I won't belabor about it, since most HN readers deserve better than Israeli politics or the eternal elections.
I suspect actually most toothpaste is found dissolved in the water supply.
There is a lot of open hardware, also a lot published by private companies.

See e.g.

https://ohwr.org/, https://opencores.org/

or https://github.com/westerndigitalcorporation/swerv_eh1_fpga https://github.com/westerndigitalcorporation/swerv_eh1
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The value of a big index fund going to zero is so inconceivable as to be hardly worth considering.

That would mean that ALL 500 of the US' largest companies by market cap all go completely bankrupt WITHIN ONE CALENDAR YEAR.

I think if atomic bombs were to destroy the 50 largest cities in the USA, that this wouldn't happen. There would still be enough economic activity in enough of the 500 companies to justify some price above zero.

So the scenario would literally be the apocalypse. The kind of apocalypse where the US dollar has zero value. The kind of apocalypse where the amount of money in a brokerage account would not even be on the top 100 list of things a human would be worried about.

Even losing 90% of value would be an event so unprecedented in magnitude that it would make anthropomorphic climate change seem like a footnote in history.
I was the co-author of Turbo Modula-2 for CP/M. It was quite a capable system to fit in less than 64K. Great memories.

At the time Borland intended to develop their own version of Modula-2 for IBM PC, so they bought ours as a complement for the CP/M versions they were still covering. But the in-house version got delayed a lot. It was eventually released as Topspeed Modula-2 several years later, from a spinoff. If Borland had let us also do the IBM-PC version in around 1984, maybe history would have changed and Modula-2 would have become more popular.
Excellent article, thank you!
I really like the analysis and profiling part of the evaluation.
I also have some experience in I/O performance in linux -- we measured 30GiB/s in a pcie Gen3 box (shameless plug[0]).

I have one question / comment: did you use multiple jobs for the BW (large IO) experiments? If yes, then did you set randrepeat to 0? I'm asking this because fio by default uses the same sequence of offsets for each job, in which case there might be data re-used across jobs. I had verified that with blktrace a few years back, but it might have changed recently.

[0]https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast19/presentation/kourti...

edit: fixed typo
Imagine that you were discussing Nazi Germany's relations with Belgium during the second world war with someone, and were making the argument that clearly the Third Reich and Belgium were in opposition (considering little things like Hitler invading the country, or the resistance from Belgians during its occupation). Imagine that I then showed up with the absolutely stellar retort of "Is that somehow different from how Belgium invaded and occupied people they didn't like?", linking to the country's imperial/colonial history in Congo that resulted in the deaths of millions of people.

Do you understand how that could be seen as rather obnoxious whataboutism that's both entirely irrelevant to the discussion actually being had and misses the point by a mile?
You could see this in action during that "Cheetah follows hiker" story a few months back. Here's the video queued to the moment where he throws a rock at it:

https://youtu.be/p25MgRZ9rJc?t=333
Could this be related to all the WSB shenanigans going on? Banning their chat groups makes them move to another, repeat?
> Software architecture probably matters more than anything else. A shitty implementation of a good abstraction causes no net harm to the code base. A bad abstraction or missing layer causes everything to rot.

That's fair, but shouldn't we strive to make the best possible guesses in the absence of said theory and science?
> I suspect what's happening with GameStop is that the stock price is just so absurdly overvalued that short interest has reached a level that people previously thought was impossible.

This is backwards. The stock was already over 140% shorted when it was valued less than the cash it had on hand. Plus there were a number of factors converging on a potential turnaround. That's how this all started; it was originally a strong value play with the short squeeze as only a possible cherry on top. You can check the old videos from Roaring Kitty on YouTube to see the original analysis.
I’d be more inclined to say a cell is the ancestor of those that it divides into.

Otherwise, saying you are your father and mother would be consistent with what you initially said...
I believe the UK contract is along the lines of "once you've met our order, you can ship UK made vaccines elsewhere" If the EU commission used their head, the sooner this was met they'd get it sooner and MORE vaccines.
The EU had dropped the ball, stabbed it and ran it over. They make it seem the pharmaceutical companies are out to screw them. Far from it, the risk is being taken by government's and fully funded.
but sometimes I don't even want/need to use git. Or any fancy deployment. I just want to upload my file and done.
We can have democracy or surveillance society, but we can't have both
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Looking for stuff like https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog. Feel free to throw in exotic ones too..
But it's old news. It's not even relevant content as of three days ago, where they first announced that they had closed their position. Is there even a new press release that restates the action they took and announced three days ago that would make it news?
> It's a play on "those who can, teach" which was a marketing campaign in the UK, which somewhat backfired within the UK and became the saying "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach".

Lol I think you’ve got that backwards!

The marketing slogan was a play on the common criticism of teachers which is a quote of Shaw from around 1900.
Australia has had real time transfers on our reserve bank's "New Payments Platform" since 2018. Transfers are finalized in a few hundred milliseconds.

And we're actually half a decade behind most of Asia and Europe.
It's a well known fact that GnuPG maintainers are incompetent. My favorite example: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4592?utm_source=cryptography-dispatch...

tl;dr one of the main GnuPG developers doesn't understand how SQLite works and because of that he's going to reimplement it.
> AstraZeneca is currently struggling to produce 2 million doses a week for the UK [0]. How does the EU expect to use UK production to shore up a shortfall of 49 million doses that they require in February/March?

open-source the vaccine, the recipes, processes, etc. everything needed so EU can look for a capable manufacturer on its own?
It also frequently happens, and there are many ulti century-long stretches of time in various places in the world from which we have virtually no literature or historical record, not even enough to verify basic facts like what cities were named or where they were located. Sometimes this is because there was virtually nothing being written at the time that anyone thought worth preserving, or because movements, marauders, armies, or some pogrom burned it all and forced people not to discuss the contents on pain of death.

Alarm about the end of civilization is wrong far more often than it is right, but it is eventually right. Societies just recover over time. I'm afraid we've reached the level of technological sophistication that it might be hard to avoid putting a real end to it next time. Our current situation is materially different due to our machines.
It's a daft idea that we would have been forced to sue for peace had we lost Hawaii.

Japan certainly did not have the logistical capability to take and hold Hawaii (Morison and Toll agree on this point) at any point in the war, so I'm suspicious of the argument that Midway was decisive. It represented one instance in a chain of many of Japan's fixation on the decisive battle. Guadalcanal, on the other hand, represents the American strategic fixation on continuous pressure and attrition. When the United States fought the battles Japan wanted to fight, we won (repeatedly; Midway, Philippine Sea, and Leyte). When Japan fought the battles the United States wanted to fight, they lost repeatedly. That suggests that none of the battles themselves were decisive, rather the strategic concepts of the respective nations.

Anthony Tully does a nice job demonstrating how absolutely screwed the Japanese were whatever the outcome of Midway: http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm
It's further down the (infinite-scrolling) page, under the title "Why Wait Three Days to Sell Stock?". Looks like much of the material there is older, but this section at least has been updated to mention the change to T+2.

(Looks like a more direct link would be https://finance.zacks.com/wait-three-days-sell-stock-11114.h...)
So in a very, very simplified way, you can imagine the color space like a triangle with Red, Green and Blue at the corners.

By mixing, you can reach any color within the triangle — but you can‘t leave it, as then you‘d have to start from an even "bluer" blue.

This is basically what the new pigment enables, and not just that: This shade seems to be way more color stable over time. All colors fade eventually (especially with UV irradiation), so if you want to preserve the original color in a painting for example, this matters.
My objection to this kind of thing continues to be: having lists of fallacies arms everyone with fully general counterarguments that permit everyone to avoid thinking. No argument on anything important is watertight; every important argument is fallacious in some way; dismissing every fallacious argument will allow you to "win" every argument simply by pointing out all the ways in which your opponent is wrong, without ever actually arguing in favour of anything.
Those might be the exceptions, at least for now. Ever since Firefox's crusade against IE the majority of people seem to still know there are different ~programs~ apps to access the internet with. As long as Chrome is not the default in the overwhelming amount of the operating systems, this might even stay like this, which is why I'm extremely unhappy that Android ships with Chrome these days and not with a thin gui on top of the system webview, like it used to.

EDIT: this ties in to the conversation I had on different platform recently, that it's getting arduous to make people understand that an app is not necessarily the same as the system behind it. Choosing an email client used to be a thing (Thunderbird, The Bat!, Outlook Express, mutt, etc; to name some across contrasting needs) not even too long ago. I despise that we came to a world where even the tech moderation fails to understand an app != protocol.
I think it will depend on furore that remains after the dust has settled. It seems to have become a bipartisan issue (when last did the US have one of those?) which means if people stay angry enough they will still be pulled before SEC. Civil class action lawsuits have already been filed against RH and the like.

If the SEC could they would probably pull the stock pumpers as well, but you can ask Hollywood how easy it is to pull a random crowd of Internet disruptors in front of any kind of court in practice. Very difficult to prove coordination in a case like this as well, although not impossible
I wonder why this hasn't been escalated to an anti-trust case yet.
For the record, this was a community contribution. So we maybe didn't take the proper diligence in documenting this as we should have. Frankly, I'm no hlsl expert so I don't think I'm capable of coming up with anything cooler than what the original PR introduced, but I'd be _happy_ to include community contributions in the docs. We'll definitely be addressing this (on Monday).
So in this regards, Matrix is no different from email. Should it be expected that the play store will ban email clients?
Alphabet bought it. But it‘s a direct result of university research with the same people. Just check the field of reinforcement learning.
There’s also quantity and complexity: For every fact, you can come up with a multitude of BS counter-claims (so it’s more likely that at least one of them is already out in the wild), and truths are usually more complex than BS claims, which also biases against them.
India plans to introduce law to ban Bitcoin, other private cryptocurrencies
The 4004 could have performed much better than it did (up to 3x faster) if intel hadn't insisted on the 16 pin DIP. This limited how much data could be accessed per cycle and relied on shift registers etc to get full instructions and memory.
In their Transformer section they have implementations of:

- kNN-LM: Generalization through Memorization
- Feedback Transformer
- Switch Transformer

Which are all from recent, highly interesting papers
Actually, your eyes have a better dynamic range than cameras or displays. More specifically, the process of going from a scene, to a photo sensor, to your monitor, and eventually to some paper is basically reducing dynamic range and either compressing or clipping to deal with the physical reality that each subsequent medium has less dynamic range.

Real life has an infinite (practically) dynamic range that is perceived by our eyes with about 20 stops of EV (exposure values or stops). A high-end sensor would capture maybe 12-14 of those. So, at that point you are already making creative choices (e.g. expose for shadows or highlights).

HDR in photography is the notion of combining multiple exposures to recover detail from a wider range of exposure values; which then get compressed down to the EVs of your monitor, which would be something of 8-10 stops typically (maybe more with these new fancy screens). And finally, printed materials have a dynamic range that is far less than that. 4-6 EVs.

High bit rates in raw files (12 or 14 bits are fairly common) means you have more data to work with when compressing values or otherwise manipulating the image data; which is a lossy process that involves rounding errors that can build up. When black and white can be apart by as many as 14 EVs, those extra bits are nice to have as well.

The point of high bitrate displays is more accurate color reproduction. Higher bit rates allow for more smoother gradients between colors. 8 bit color spaces were good enough for displays for a long time. But now that we have displays with higher contrast, deeper blacks, and brighter whites (i.e. a better dynamic range) the few extra bits of precision are useful. Especially on high end screens intended for graphics professionals, this is nice to have.

Of course this only makes sense if the input has a large bitrate as well. Apple is involved in HDR video formats with high bitrate that are getting common on cameras. Also recent beasts like the new Sony Alpa 1 produce 8K video with 10 bits. So that requires some beefy hardware to process, which Apple of course provides. Down-sampling 10 to 8 bits on a monitor is nice to be able to avoid while you are editing; even if your output is going to be lower quality after you finish editing.
I am neither a painter nor a chemist, but this is significant to me as a general science person in a meta(l) kind of way.

Most useful compounds, even alloys, of only metallic elements, tend to be composed of MAINLY two metals. (usually they are 2 main ones plus many lesser metals) This one is composed of THREE and isnt even a metal.
One take away that this has on me, is that with Google and Apple controlling content on mobile phones, it might be impossible to have a truly decentralized application. I believe that Apple should be required to allow 3rd party installs if the user so chooses. If there is an example of monopolistic behaviour this is one for sure.
oh commonlisp. you came and you gave without taking.

what a beautifully-written lambda. i'm not finished reading source but i can't think of a reason i wouldn't prefer to use nyxt over every other browser when i'm in x11.
In the UK all professors are permanent positions.
Oops, I'm happy to be corrected - I'll go back into my hole...
A routine for knowledge discovery within a research group
Google is just Larry and Moe pullin' a fast one on Curly.
What happens in the alternative universe where the west crushes Germany in 1935? It seems really hard to guess these things.

Do they have the attention span to keep it divided for another half-century until things cool down, or do the hawks get voted out as crazy people, and they walk away after a few years leaving simmering hatred?

Does the USSR get its act together and finish what they failed to do in 1920? Perhaps on the same side as Japan since war in the pacific was also brewing... then we get WWII with different teams. Does the US still get the bomb first? Probably. Does the communism end up occupying the space nazism has in our culture, as the great evil, or does it still sound too tempting afterwards?
> There is a solution implemented in the US, the sex offender registry, meant to address this exact problem.

Well, you glossed over a lot in that one sentence, namely:

1) Prosecutions are usually plea-bargained in the US, so no proof is required that the accused actually did anything to get on the list.

2) The average person cannot afford a defense, so again the registry might mean they didn't have $100k - $200k for legal fees.

3) How are incorrect entries updated?

4) Since being on that list geo-fences the accused from areas of town, they end up living under bridges on the outskirts of town. Is that what we as a society want, especially given the above?

5) "Sex offender" in the US includes an 18-yo receiving a nude photo from his 17-yo gf, which is the most common category. That's some level of puritanical.