skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see why RISC-V couldn't have billions of dollars behind it in 10-20 years.

For Chinese phones I don't see any better architecture right now, as they can't depend on ARM forever, it's too risky for them.
Creating a cross-platform app today – what technology to use for speed?
The question above makes a trade off for speed above quality. I do understand what this implies but speed is of the essence in this case.

Also, non mainstream technology is of great interest and very welcome.
On Joel's list I've done 1,4,5,6 myself

This one is hardest I think-
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We had a guy that would work nights and weekends on other people's assigned tickets committing non-running half assed code to trunk. Note this was in lieu of doing any work actually assigned to him, coming into the office, attending meetings, or participating in L3 rotation.
This was sometimes in coordination with the boss in which Bob underbid other devs by 1 or more orders of magnitude (They said 1 week? I can do it in an afternoon!)

We would get into office in morning and be told by the boss - well Bob already did that ticket last night, just help him get it working.. and spend a month of effort getting his "afternoon" hack implementation to semi-work. Sometimes he'd even email people code to commit on his behalf.

This went on for a few years.

Eventually we did two things:
1- The rest of the team transitioned to a release branch and let him keep committing his non-working fixes to trunk as the new major version release. We had an agreement that when he got it all working we would merge back and release to PROD. He felt like the all-star he was because he was working on the strategic improvement while us peons piddled away on "feature requests" and "bug fixes".

6 months later he admitted he couldn't get trunk running, which then lead to the next step.

2- Explained to a couple hops up in management that this developer was actually producing negative work. It wasn't that his work was subpar, it was that every hour of work he did produced 2 or more hours of work for other people. Morale was shit, the project was shit, and the whole team was going to leave if you keep this guy around.. here's a bunch of examples of him producing negative work.

We presented him with the ultimate juicy prize - cut cost and increase productivity.

The whole process still took about a year to get rid of a peer.

I've never seen it work on a higher up.
Every place I've been with a bad boss I've only seen things go from bad to worse, just interview and leave.
And when you quit, all the promises they make are BS too, I've never been talked into staying but in retrospect, every "don't leave because we will do __" would turned out to have been a lie.

I once had a manager try to talk me out of leaving who, when I showed up at the new shop after 2 weeks.. arrived himself 2 weeks later, so during this chat he had probably already quit himself given the extended notice period for his seniority ..
Even if no one dies from this, he and the contrarian happy clappers on lesswrong deserve a special recognition for ingenuity at the Darwin Awards. The field is crowded for 2020, what with HCQ and ivermectin truthers, statistical frauds, denialists and blind optimists, but there is a chance they'll dominate the anti-vaxxers in 2021.
You can install it unprivileged somewhere in your home directory and it will generally work fine, even though they warn you against it.
I don’t know, usually when I talk and think about freedom of speech, I don’t mean 1A. I mean the principle of free speech that is the idea parent to 1A.

I’ll frequently try to think about freedom of speech when trying to work out some community process or way to interact with people and if someone thought I was talking about 1A, I would feel bad for their confusion.

I’m not sure how to prevent this in my speech as if I said “free speech* *independent and not specifically 1A” every time it would probably be more confusing.
Harold Lloyd is another silent film comedy great who is probably not nearly as well known today as he should be. Recognized for, among other things, doing pretty crazy stunt work by himself (although probably his most iconic image from Safety Last! was a trick shot).
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Proposition 47[0] in 2014 substantially reduced the penalties for shoplifting, grand theft, forgery, fraud, and other crimes.

Stealing <$950 is a misdemeanor regardless of how often someone does it.

It would be surprising if this didn't lead to a substantial increase in the crime rate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_47
I've been working on Pleke for the last 18 months and using it daily for the last 6 months.

Would love some feedback!
We could test that it's safe, yes. Effective, no. You have to have the people out in the community, for both the vaccinated group and the control group, and then compare who gets infected in each group. The testing actually took less time than they expected due to the unfortunately-high prevalence of COVID-19 in the community.
The state I was thinking about is stable electron configuration. If an atom has two such configurations, and can switch between them, that's one bit worth of storage.
Nuclear MRI (NMRI) -> MRI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging
Some vaccines in the past have been withdrawn for causing autoimmune disorders, eg arthritis.
This article is useless and gives no real advice except "get out". To deal with abusers you have to learn to see tricks they use to emotionally destabilize their victims. For example, they can use hints and innuendos for intimidation. I wrote a blog post about such communication https://dandanua.github.io/posts/counterfactual-communicatio...

Also, you can't really "manage" your boss if he/she is gaslighting you. This is a criminal offense (or should be, depending on where you live) and must be punished accordingly.
That's a strange way to frame it. Reducing waste will allow farmers to cover more of the production costs using non-meat revenue. In a competitive market, this will push them to lower the price of meat, stimulating its consumption, and increasing the number of animals, which in turn will lead to economies of scale, lower costs and prices, even higher demand and even more animals.
No one is saying it's an excuse or acceptable, it's just an explanation for why the state of things is the way it is. People are too lazy or incompetent to fix software. Calling it racism is to cheapen the label into meaninglessness.
What ripdog said. There's another comment upthread suggesting that searching for "Asian restaurants near me" would be a logical thing for someone to do, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. "Asian restaurants" are a category no more useful than "restaurants".
This white boy from the Midwest has never searched for "Asian food" in Cupertino or anywhere else. I have, though, frequently searched for Thai, Indian, Japanese, Chinese...

(And I see that I've been...not exactly ninja'ed, I guess, if I switch back to answer email before finishing my HN reply.)
Does it also block "teen" and "lesbian"?
I recall a researcher talking about previous attempts at creating coronavirus vaccines. How they resulted not in immunity, but in training the immune system to _over_ respond when a real infection came along.

After a bit of digging I found this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335060/

> An early concern for application of a SARS-CoV vaccine was the experience with other coronavirus infections which induced enhanced disease and immunopathology in animals when challenged with infectious virus

I didn't dig deep enough to see if any experimental vaccines caused similar issues, but it definitely appears to be a concern.

So yeah, I'd be _very_ cautious with any homebrew vaccine. You might accidentally train your immune system to self destruct when you get exposed to a real SARS-CoV-2.

That said, I have little to no experience with biology, so it's entirely possible that radvac based vaccinations have already been demonstrated not to have this particular problem.
> This is in contrast to a much more nuanced view of the issues in the west. End-to-end encryption is a debated issue in the US and EU and legislators have proposed laws to ban it or enforcing other mechanisms to circumvent by law enforcement such as backdoors.

It looks to me like you try to cloud your false argument in whataboutisms based upon a profound lack of knowledge:

> I mentioned the US as an example, because of Signal is operating under US jurisdiction.

The reason Signal is a good way to go is because this doesn't matter. Signal doesn't save any conversations they can hand over to the US (or other) government.

> This is in contrast to Iran which is in a chaotic region and surrounded by the US military bases.

Yeah, yeah I get it. We all do. US = bad but how does it change anything for the oppressed people in Iran we can help here? If those would have been people in the US, we'd be doing the same thing for them here in the EU.

> What I am expecting is a more nuanced and sophisticated perspective toward the issue.

A whataboutism and derailment of the issue is neither nuanced nor sophisticated. It's quite shady and ignorant.

Here is something you can do to help people out but instead of doing that, you try to build some weird case which actually helps the Iranian government.
Hey, thanks for the feedback! We plan to improve our support for virtual environments in the future. Also, it's really necessary to install spyder-kernels in every env to make the variable explorer and debugger work for it. However, that could be by us handling virtual envs and installing spyder-kernels on behalf of the users.
> I mean, to step past the common dodge of moral relativism, the whole thing behind this is a tacit agreement amongst a lot of tech-inclined folk that quite a few cultures (including powerful, western cultural movements, past-and-present) are just plain evil. So we're using whatever tools we have to subvert and change these cultures, and we're putting leverage on companies we have cultural hegemony over to try to work around - in whatever ways they can - laws that we consider similarly evil. It's a culture war, plain and simple. I've chosen to use "we" here to be honest about my own affiliations in this particular case (of anti-Ahmadiyya censorship).

And my point isn't to denigrate those efforts as they are, merely to point out that the fact you're permitted to engage in those efforts is contingent on those efforts remaining ineffective. Those in power will never concede power to those without peacefully, this is a lesson history teaches us all the way back to the city state of Ur. If you ever were to engage in efforts that caused legitimate destabilization of the power structures above you, those efforts would be put down. Probably legally, possibly violently, but they will be put down.

The fact that some Governments are quicker to pull the metaphorical triggers, doesn't mean the others are therefore not armed.

> A company like Google might not have the power to say no to censorship in China, but they're a lot more likely to have considerable heft against a nation that can't credibly mount a replacement for something like Google.

This presumes the Government in question sees value in a thing it is trying to actively remove. Like I'm not trying to be rude, but do you think it's a major concern of Pakistan's leadership that their people have ready access to Stadia and Chrome? Or the search engine itself, for that matter?
"...US companies end up selling off their holdings in banana republics."

Do you have a source for that? I have run across instances of US companies using various schemes to avoid the appearance of bribes (usually involving paying a "consultant" a large amount of money and paying no attention to how the consultant gets the business done), but I know of none getting rid of their businesses in other countries.
Did the blackshirt antifa arsonists have phones? What about the more violent among the BLM protestors? They were called "mostly peaceful" for doing exactly this, but now that same conduct is an "insurrection" and we're not allowed to disagree if we want to keep a job.

How about nobody burns down anything? Can we manage that? Yes, even if a big fat meanie is president.
Easy there bud thats just shit algo and its hilarious
PICO-8 seems adjacent, at least. It's generally more programming-oriented, but it includes tools for editing sprites and music and code and bundles everything together under a single editor/runtime, which can target desktop or web or even be distributed in the form of an image file.
Interesting!

Curious as to whether you'd say the approach you are taking is closer to Jupyter's binary cell approach or RStudio's Notebook's text-based approach.

Thanks!
> Why do the stores in SF attract violent crime compared to, say, a store in another West Coast city?

Population density and economic inequality are probably the big factors.
Firefox does
You can set up launchd to run `brew update` and `brew upgrade` regularly -- it's what I do.

Don't do this if you're attached to specific versions of any formulae you have installed. You can try `brew pin`ning them though.
I'm not saying it is. If Apple spun a wheel of all english words with the commitment to ban the one it landed on, and it was 'asian', it wouldn't be racist, but as you say it wouldn't be acceptable - both in terms of how they did it and the outcome.
railrodders are fun. Three decades ago i've got to ride on DIY railrodders - an open wooden box/platform with bike engine driving the repurposed auto car wheels, "kludge" doesn't even start to describe the contraptions, glorious noise and vibration - people in that Russian town use those railrodders as a personal transportation mode into/from the forest as there is an abandoned "narrow width" ("uzkokoleyka") railway branching deep into the forest left over from the long time ago when it was used by timber industry. Riding it while drinking with the fishermen/huntsmen can't be farther from the Keaton's gentleman style :)
Alot of the people hired at FAANG arent that talented. They just studied hard for the interviews. Its a myth. The long term payout is worth the months of study
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And rugby, rugby league, Aussie rules etc are essentially aerobic physical contact sports not anaerobic impact sports. These sports have relatively few stops, and certainly no time for advertisements outside of the half or quarter time breaks. And there are no bulky pads and helmets, and the physicality is just as dynamic, if not more, than US football.

Cricket is like baseball, where it tends to be on in the background and you pay attention at each delivery/pitch. Cricket can last 5 days though...

As an outsider in the US I was struck by the crazy high percentage of time dedicated to advertisements - even to the extent of intentional breaks for that purpose.
Just FYI, edge supports this natively in the latest version. I've completely switched over after Google's last few rounds of questionable behavior.

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/12/09/sleeping-tabs...
very much agree. nightlife has been struggling, is my prescription, in my city. it's very pricey. a lot less youth, a lot less live musical & clubs, more medium-upscale dining.
Firstly, the Visual Shader GUI in Godot has pretty series issues on my Macbook. Secondly, it's impossible to do any effects with a stencil shader [1].

Most of the useful post-processing effects (bloom, depth-of-field etc) are implemented out of the box, so this also means that there isn't a way (AFAIK) to implement post-processing effects yourself.

Godot also only has simplex noise implemented out of the box, so you need to jump through some hoops to get anything else included (which is super useful in shaders).

[1] also has some images of the way to implement outline shaders in Godot, which is to move the faces of object out by a scaling factor and then render them as unshaded, which leaves some gnarly artifacts at the corners.

[1] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/23721
Going to make an unpopular opinion:

Well... Their content is being blocked on behalf of their own government while Pakistani social media content, especially Twitter content is being banned by Twitter India on behalf of Indian government. Recently my account was restricted when I RTed tweets of an Indian raising voice against farmer protest and once I got banned because I RTed a tweet about atrocities in IOK.

We also witnessed how parker app was banned and how many content is taken down on behalf of Many governments.

The point is, many counties are involved in such wicked activities one way or other regardless of who is pro democracy and who isn't.
Or what? A physical presence is one of the only leverage points they'd have over you. If you don't accede to that, what are they going to do?

Obviously I'm describing a much different tack than Google and Apple have chosen, and switching between the two isn't easy. But the point is that Google and Apple could have set themselves up this way, likely with the full blessing of the State Department. They chose not to and now predictably find themselves being used to implement totalitarianism.

Their situation is a bit stickier being hardware brands, but that just illustrates why they shouldn't have built in digital restrictions to their devices. I doubt Asus is finding themselves under such pressure, because they simply don't have the technical capability to control what users run on their computers.
> Nonetheless it is illegal for a US company to bribe people abroad

IANAL but this is only partially true from what I understand. It's legal if the bribe is "grease money". (Grease money is paying a public official to do their job properly and promptly, while regular bribery is paying a public official to do something they shouldn't. But the distinction between the two seems subjective or ambiguous in many possible scenarios.)
Agreed on the shadiness. I think the GME pump wasn't a direct attempt by him to make money (since he donated proceeds), it was mostly a strategy to get publicity and align him with the retail investor crowd on social media so that his next SPAC gets pumped. He was able to pump his CLOV position 10% today for example, using a single Tweet.
> It would be surprising if this didn't lead to a substantial increase in the crime rate.

Probably doesn't make a big difference to San Francisco vs other major West Coast cities, since most of the major West Coast cities are also in California.
That is in fact not how the golden state killer was nabbed. Uploads to GEDmatch are voluntary.
Seems like a good guess.

I wonder what the privacy story is here?
+1 This book is excellent. Going through it w/ my daughter as a learning project now. I've worked on renderers in the games and vfx industries, and this is a very satisfying and relatively easy introduction.

Once finished, you can jump in to PBRT https://pbrt.org/ which has a new update coming out for rendering on gpu.
> Regardless of the antics of its CEO (something I know first-hand since Elon Musk’s first job in Silicon Valley was as my intern)

I highly doubt performance of "then" is significant indication of approach today. I'd assume most, if not all, people significantly change between internship and top billionaire statuses.
You would further have to require US organizations not to do business with other organizations that participate in oppression, etc., transitively. And have to have a way to enforce that.
It does in fact block "teen", but not "lesbian".
Similar to how Amazon, Boeing, and AT&T are dual use?

Or how Johnson and Johnson’s CEO is Ex military? Guess you should think twice about that shampoo.

And that CCP cell controls the direction of the company? Or less dramatically does it ensure (a) workers rights (admittedly these are far worse conditions than western countries), and (b) that the company isn’t working against the CCP.
No, the testers would be directly exposed as part of the trial, which is why they'd be compensated -- as opposed to waiting around for 9 months for some percent of people to be exposed.
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Thanks for this answer, I really appreciate it.
Yes, also if you feed a kid corporate garbage they will believe it is food, i.e. whatever we experience as a child is "normal." Later, these habits are very hard to break. These folks tend to believe you need "will power" to force down actual delicious/nutritious food. Do the opposite and enjoy healthy food from the get-go.
as an asian american, uh... I guess my feeling is that this isn't meaningfully discrimination. It's both an understandable mistake, and unacceptable only when not fixed with celerity.
Can we truly say that Amazon is making the world better?

Obviously, being able to get just about anything delivered in a day is nice. But at what cost to the environment?

Is it a net good?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/04/14/cutter-pol...
I'm not suprised to see this post so popular on Less Wrong/the rational community. I can easily imagine the fascination they have for crazy scientists doing experimentations on them selves, cutting all the corners and operating at fair distance of ethical concerns.
I'm not very convinced by the "Motivations" section of the article by the way, but that's a nice stunt nonetheless, and quite fascinating indeed.
One can browse the web by telnet and issuing HTTP requests directly or sending emails with `mail`, but its usually a bit smoother of an experience using a web browser or email client.

I use a podcast app to favorite the RSS feeds of podcasts and other content. It then keeps track of which entries are new, can automatically download those new ones, and keep track of what I've already listened to. It makes it a lot easier than manually looking at the RSS feeds and downloading the files by hand.
I worked for Quanta in Salt Lake. They made the Delta character generator, and the Orion, and some others before my time.

Yeah, I've heard that whine. Haven't heard it in years, though. Both monitors and my ears have changed...

Did you ever go to the National Association of Broadcasters trade show? That was loud. Hundreds of monitors, but dozens of booths, each trying to play catchy audio loud to attract attention.
They're working on it: https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/30/google-researchers-releas...
It seems to block "ebony" as well, which is often used to refer to black people in adult content.
Sort of like fractional reserve banking?

In practice it doesn't make a big difference whether it's banned or not. Stocks almost never have a short-interest above 100%, and the larger the short-interest the less attractive it becomes to join in so there's already negative feedback built in.
> I am often a dick, I am often difficult, I often don’t know computer science, but. BUT.

I'll stop him right there. Definitely not googley.
Take list of top 1000 search terms and run by human reviewers. Take list of top 1000 search terms that are flagged and run by human reviewers. Take list of 1000 sensitive terms (pay a few interns to do come up with them) and run by a human reviewer. Then review top false positives and random false positives.

Apple probably spent more money on the UI components for this feature than all of that would have cost.
I personally think it leads to this theory which my life experience tends to agree with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
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I've been using utterances (github issue tracker powered comments) on my website. Seems better than Disqus (lighter, less tracking) but it requires a github account.