skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The truth is, we pay taxes and the state, in effect, assists in raising the children. In 2020 they stopped doing that.

In 2020 there was a pandemic that shut down many things other than schools. That pandemic is, unfortunately, still ongoing.

This is tantamount to saying "I pay taxes, so the road I go to work on should always be open regardless of construction activity". But in reality, roads are often closed for construction activity or if there is a natural disaster, or for a host of other reasons that make them unsafe.

> This school board should resign and everyone in the district should lobby for allowing school choice. This would help dismantle the power these school boards have and improve education quality.

"The transport board should resign because I cannot go to work on I-123 due to an avalanche warning". That's an extremely simplistic view of a complex public health disaster that's currently affecting us.
Why not hold the people accountable that deployed the tool? Ultimately the tool helps a human do the job. It doesn't do anything on its own. If a contractor shows up to do repairs in your house, but their hammer is faulty and the head flies through your window you don't talk to the hammer manufacturer. You talk to the contractor. It's the contractor's job to deal with wherever they got the hammer from.

If software developers are held responsible for the software then expect costs to multiply. Nobody would directly sell you software either - they'd sell you a hardware and software bundle that you must use exactly as the developers say. If you input a value that's out of bounds then that's on you. The software also won't get updates and it will run on 20 year old hardware. That's not too dissimilar to what we have in aerospace, right? And developers aren't even held responsible there! It's the companies, so expect it to be worse than even that.
It's not memory-hard. That makes it much, much faster on GPUs than CPUs, which tends to mean it's much faster for attackers than legitimate users. It's also likely vunlerable to side-channel attacks, since nothing in its design tries to resist those. It's not broken by any means, and still vastly better than just a salted cryptographic hash, but it's not as good as Argon2id.
Would that it were so simple to assess the value and integrity of individual voices vying for attention among the roaring cacophony that is the internet.
Would you elaborate on your workflow and how you use these ? Thank you.
While it's tempting to conflate the beneficiaries of our problems with those who created them, reality is not that simple. Blaming things on an all-powerful cabal of bankers is nearing QAnon levels of seeking a small number of people to blame for systemic issues. That sort of reductionism isn't useful. Action taken based on it is going to never touch any real problem. At most it'll change who benefits from them.

I think we can do better.

(As for your email counterfactual... Why? Do you find it an effective rhetorical tactic to imagine what people might do instead of looking at what people have done?)
Yes, if you are not given a choice 70% (or whatever - the efficiency question is not something I'm going to comment on) is better than 0%. However in the unlikely event that you get a choice 95% is greater than 70%.
rsc said they made some big improvements for this particular type of problem. I'm not sure which version of go the improvements landed in.
The old saw about computers is that they're designed to allow humans to make millions of mistakes, very quickly and very accurately.
Hey boomer, or whatever generation you wish you were born into:

>Everything I see on Facebook/IG is vapid, and meaningless.

Maybe you should stop following vapid and meaningless people then? When I do go on instagram I see custom made guitars, people playing cool guitar riffs, drum stuff, and so on. Facebook is used for local neighborhood news and motorcycle groups.

Its as if.... you control what you see!
False. There were viruses in the PC and Mac world for years, long before the 1988 Morris worm incident popularized the "worm" term.

Viruses spread via interactions like booting an infected floppy disc, or running an infected program copied from another user.

A virus is simply a piece of malicious code which attaches itself to programs, arranges for itself to be executed when those programs to be run, and thereby spreads to more programs as programs are copied from system to system by unsuspecting users.

A Trojan horse is a malicious program which a user is somehow fooled into trusting, installing and running. It doesn't have to be a virus at all; for instance, it could be a fake authentication dialog that steals their credentials and then defers to the real authentication.

A malicious thumb drive deliberately dropped in the parking lot of a company is a modern example of a Trojan horse. It might not infect anything, just steal information and transmit it.
You could replace orthogonal and immutable perhaps, but idempotency has a rather precise technical definition that doesn't really have any synonyms. It's a useful word too, because idempotency is generally a very desirable property to have in many systems.

If you do any kind of system automation, it would get quite cumbersome if you had to keep talking about operations which only effect change when they actually need to.
A more honest title would have ended with "no one knows what for".
If you're new enough to computerworld that you've never been through a downturn (and it's been a long time!), then take note: this is what a crazy asset bubble looks like. This is what 1998 felt like.
> A lot of the people claiming to have debilitating "long COVID" were never actually tested positive for COVID in the first place.

Do you have a citation for this claim?
Nuclear is not: it needs grid power to be able to run.
Nintendo had something like this in the days of the NES: https://gamingbolt.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/nintendo-h...
It's not that simple. See for example how complicated the situation wrt. to copyright law turned out since you were able to digitally replicate things infinitely. A law made for analog purposes is not always 1:1 applicable to the digital world. And then there is international law which is a complete mess anyway.
One of the issues is that laws are made on paper and then everyone needs to figure out how to map it to software. Instead, laws should be codified in software and legal APIs should be binding. This would do wonders for efficiency, but also force laws to be cleaned up, be consistent, simple and logical.
Mathematics doesn't suddenly stop working because your interpreter is a bit old.
I didn't mean my response to be argumentative, sorry about that! It's more of an FYI to readers who never interacted with a civil law jurisdiction.
I am a being of pure text, and I suspect the same might be true of Gwern.
I would also argue that possibly doing it per time may be the wrong incentives.

I have had issues that took me several hours to try to debug, only to have someone else show me how to fix it in under 2 minutes. So that dev gets paid $1, but I would easily pay much more for the fix in that issue because of how much time I sunk in it.
Given the TDP difference between the 5800X and this supposed M1X, it's not really fair though, is it?

5800X is a 105W TDP, the M1X claims to be a 45W TDP.

If you scale by TDP, the M1X is over 2x faster in multicore bench.

M1X: 321 score/watt
5800X: 146 score/watt
Send me to hell if Spotify is mastering or applying EQ to any tracks. That would be egregious.

It’s definitely about compression. Implementations can differ significantly for the same formats, as anyone who remembers the initial MP3 frenzy can tell. The fact you cannot discern two random codecs at their max quality doesn’t mean Apple and Spotify cannot have a meaningful difference with their streaming codecs (both custom afaik).
I shared it with close colleagues bc it's a fun product to use for happy hours and game nights. And the direct user feedback was invaluable. It's fun/silly and doesn't fit with big tech vibe so I didn't expect anybody high up to care about it.

NPS was really high and it spread around the company naturally. Was all fine until this one VP made a big deal of it and now my entire management chain knows.
A great example of a low impact, high frequency event being underweighted.
> Also, if I can answer your problem in less than a minute then you didn't even google it.

And so the person who has to field this call shouldn't get paid?
The linguistic term for this, as I recently learned from the Lingthusiasm podcast, is "evidentiality" and apparently a number of languages have it as a feature. Some languages get really granular with it, having different forms of expression depending on whether you've seen something, done something, overheard it, etc.

https://lingthusiasm.com/post/184928796346/change-the-audio-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidentiality
We pretend the goal is rehabilitation, but its obviously not.

I don't really think any justice system is actually putting rehabilitation first. Otherwise, you'd be sentenced to "until you get rehabilitated or no more than X years."
Then make it a users choice?
> I think lockdowns are impacting the economy much more than the pandemic itself.

Well of course.

The USA is at nearly 500K deaths. But we've got a population of 328 Million. The economy won't notice the loss of on 0.15% of the population. It's nothing more than a rounding error.

But isn't that a terrible way to think of it? Think about what you're implying here. How many people should we allow to die just to keep the economy afloat?
> They reduce cases but they’re not perfect,

Which is why the statement ‘if only we had worn the masks’ is false. And I don’t personally care but it is a sneaky way of turning people against each other and a way to avoid responsibility: If you’re a government which has wasted billions on lockdowns and it hasn’t helped, how convenient is it to shift the blame to all these silly anti-maskers.

And I mind you, I am not anti science and I am not anti masks. I am against the statement ‘if only they had worn the masks.’

About half a year ago scientific ’authorities’ here said that if you get infected you must have done something against the measures, insinuating it was your own fault. That kind of stopped now that hospital workers turn out to get infected all the time. Are they anti-maskers? Do they not know how to avoid contact? Are they careless? Or is it unavoidable? To accept that, we also have to accept that you can’t get away with simply blaming everything on anti-science noncompliance.
From my experience, front-end developers are the last people that want to learn how to query a complex data model. It's usually much preferable if the backend team exposes the required endpoints for any UI operation, since they have much more fine-grained control on the DB and a much clearer intuition on what is easy to do and what isn't.
Probably this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922799
What We Learned About Engineering Effectiveness Talking to Hundreds of CTOs
I'm repulsed by the idea, but it would make interesting story.

I imagine it as some device with display and button labeled "fork". It would either return number of your newly created copy, or device would instantly disappear, which would mean that you are copy. This causes somewhat weird paradoxical experience: as real original person, pressing button is 100% safe for you. But from subjective experience of the copy, by pressing button you effectively consented to 50% chance of forced labor and subsequent suicide and you ended up on the losing side. I'm not sure if there would be any motivation to do work for the original person at this point.

(for extra mind-boggling effects, allow fork device to be used recursively)
What will it take for humans to keep on keeping on?
Probably still just a big money laundering/tax evasion operation, like much of the real art world...
This is fascinating to me. Is there any particular kind of profile that hired you as a ghostwriter? Do these people know how to do their work and decide to outsource it or they have no clue and just got lucky in the interviews?
I don't think it's so much that software is better or worse than manual entry. First, it's the attitude / rules that assume what's in the system is right. Second, it's no real procedure to audit or check the accuracy of the data.

From a professional who works with data systems, you're more likely to have a database with bad data in it that not.
> Every "critical" site I use also supports u2f 2fa, which I've turned on.

What US bank do you use that supports U2F, or do you not include banking in "critical"?
Have you considered to jettison some of the batteries during and/or after take-off?

Probably not just drop them, maybe a controlled glider or similar, plus what are the posibilities for an in the air charge by tether to another plane?

Final super radical idea, have some iflatable high chord wings for take off at low speed high drag and lift, then ditch them somehow once at altitude and can do a anouever with stored height to get speed. (Or a lift blimp).

As you say, the take off is where the problem is.
There are plenty of situations where people do things for benefits that they personally won't see. Like people who decide to avoid messing up the environment even though the consequences might not happen in their lifetime or to themselves specifically. Or scientists who work to add knowledge that might only be properly appreciated or used by future generations. "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in". The setup would just be the dynamic of society recreated in miniature with a society of yourselves.

If you psyche yourself into the right mood, knowing that the only remaining thing of consequence to do with your time is your task might be exciting. I imagine there's some inkling of truth in https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dream. You could also make it so all of your upload-selves have their mental states modified to be more focused.
Exactly, which is why my original responses to this year-old blog post was "Why did we switch to Rust: because we wanted to". The blog post should focus on those social aspects, not invent tenuous technical back-justifications.
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One of the engineers does a great shot-by-shot commentary of this video about 15 minutes into their live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYQwuYZbA6o
How to Read Donald Duck
Considering the questions tab currently includes "What the fuck is this?" and "Why is my butt full of poop?" I am going to assume they will turn off anonymous posting soon.
I guess that’s right. I was reading the title as “no one know why they bothered infecting these computers with a virus that doesn’t do anything.”
> When they deliberately gave diseased blankets to indigenous peoples, I think that checked off both boxes.

While this event has been documented, it wasn't an everyday occurence. "Normal" violence and raids were much more typical during the 400 years of the conquest of both Americas.

The first infectious diseases were introduced onto the continent in early 16th century. At that time, neither Europeans nor Natives had much understanding about the root causes and applied magical thinking (witches, wrath of heaven, acts of God/Satan, punishment for sins).

Western understanding of epidemics has been a mess, arguably until today - see contemporary Covid deniers etc. I have just read a report about a Slovak member of government (Labor Minister) wanting to open the churches and arguing with a 1710 wave of black plague in Trnava that was purportedly stopped by the citizens praying to the Holy Virgin. And this is a Central European EU member state in 2021! Now try 1521.

And massive die-outs of native population was a cause for concern in the Spanish parts of the empire; the Spanish took two well-operated indigenous empires (Aztec and Incan) with all the infrastructure, resources and mines to get rich off, only to see their workforce melting away. They weren't happy about that - any more than today's Facebook would be about half of their users dying.
The way Daft Punk flipped the sample for One More Time
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Given that neither the power companies nor the regulatory bodies correctly anticipated this risk I think it’s a huge stretch to say that consumers did.
That study specifically says

"There were too few studies to conduct any comparison by age or disease severity. "

It also dates back from a year ago, under very different circumstances to today
> PBKDF2 is a slow algorithm specifically created for password hashing.

Yeah, over 20 years ago. It's woefully out of date by modern standards.

PBKDF2 doesn't even attempt memory hardness, so there are whole classes of attacks on later generation slow hashing algorithms that don't even apply to PBKDF2 because of how old it is. Argon2 is extremely resistant to Time-Memory-Trade-Off (TMTO) attacks, which older algorithms like bcrypt and scrypt are vulnerable to.

PBKDF2 is essentially a linear slowdown, which is effectively pointless these days.
> Comments like yours seem to glorify a pre-software world filled with manual entry. The reality is that manual entry is even more error-prone, bias-prone, with more people falling through the cracks.

I think that the pre-software world was quite bias-prone and extremely expensive for large processing jobs like this. The question is how this system was allowed to transition from the expensive manually managed system that used to be in place to the automatic software driven system that is replacing it at such a cut-rate that gigantic bugs were allowed to sneak in.

It appears this software is primarily used by the state government so why was such a poor replacement allowed as a substitute for the working manual process.

Also, the number of bugs this software has accumulated since Nov 2019 (14000) is astounding enough that I assume it's counting incidents - that's a fair way to go since these are folks' lives, but I'd be curious to know just how bug laden this software actually is.

Although there is another factor here - this specific release program was a rather late feature addition that may not have been covered in the original contract with ACIS since the bill was only signed into law two months before the software was rolled out.
> Humans think about certain things as being infinite, until they aren't

I think the real issue is that humans DONT think beyond their own needs. You have people who think having a picture perfect green lawn is somehow an achievement. If its not perfect, you must be a lazy sack of crap or have no pride. Think Hank Hill from the animated TV series, King of the Hill.

Same goes for gardens and so on. To achieve this they poison the earth again and again and again. Continuously spraying and pumping all sorts of life destroying chemicals into the air and ground. Just so they can stand on their porch, arms akimbo, nodding in satisfaction of the holocaust they just unleashed against multiple forms of life, both insect and plant. All for a crappy lifeless lawn.

If grass needed bees to grow you can be sure we'd be up to our eyeballs in bees. (I come from NYC/Long island so I'm more familiar with urban earth poisoning. I'm sure farming has as great or a much larger impact as well. Just my POV)
Yes, been following Bunnie. Very impressive.

Is anyone else making similar progress? I've followed along somewhat with the RISC-V movement, but not in sufficient detail.

Any add'l resources in this area are appreciated.
Awesome!

Is it open source?
I want to learn on how to create it
most of us have jobs that service the revenue streams of rich owners. what did you think was going to happen?
FJ Labs Valuation Matrix
MapReduce – munching through Big Data (2016)
Not sure I fully understand you. This is of course all hypothetical but if you make 1 copy of yourself there's not 50 % that you "find yourself as the copy". Unless the copying mechanism was somehow designed for this.

You'll continue as is, there's just another you there and he will think he's the source initially, as that was the source mind-state being copied. Fortunately the copying-machine color-coded the source headband red and the copy headband blue, which clears the confusion for the copy.

At this point you will start diverge obviously, and you must be considered two different sentient beings that cannot ethically be terminated. It's just as ethically wrong to terminate the copy as the souce at this point, you are identical in matter, but two lights are on, twice the capability for emotion.

This also means that mind-uploading (moving) from one medium (meat) to another (silicon?) needs to be designed as a continuous-journey as experienced from the source-perception if it needs to become commercially viable (or bet on people not thinking about this hard enough, because the copy surviving wouldn't mind) without just being a COPY A TO B, DELETE A experience for the source, which would be like death.
Are bridges and software comparable in complexity though? How many engineers work on designing a bridge compared to software developers that are writing a program? There are more than an order of magnitude more software developers in the US than civil engineers.

Now think about the state of US infrastructure. Does it inspire confidence for the future?
It's not really a main plot point, but Iain M. Banks's Culture uses a constructed language that de-emphasizes or lacks easy descriptions of the concepts of possession and ownership, dominance/submission, and aggression.
Yup looks like it is up now, was a temporary blip
You need a way to report posts ...
There is zero reason Apple would do what you suggest. You haven’t provided one, you just assume if you utter the phrase “Business Sense” enough that people will agree with you.

shrug

There is zero sense or logic in these assertions, business or otherwise. It’s baseless nonsense.
There's a bot on reddit that does this for mushrooms: https://www.reddit.com/user/Mycology_Bot

This xkcd from just a few years ago has already aged poorly:
https://m.xkcd.com/1425/
Why assume that the future aircraft fundamental design has to remain same and replace the turbofan engine with an equivalent electric motor?

Current aircrafts have evolved into their current shape from restrictions and capabilities of combustion & jet engines.
I...did not know that. I’m legitimately amazed.

That’s like if Disneyland didn’t sell any books about Disney or something.
After such a shitty 2020, this is just what we needed. Incredible.
They did solve it in Go, then got performance improvements re-implementing a small piece in Rust.

This is more about scale and saving computing costs, than proving out a business idea or implementing new features.
> No, actually - in pure economic terms, 'Tax' is actually a reasonable term to use.
Fees which can be perceived as arbitrary capture of a piece of economic activity (and monopoly pricing could be considered that in part) acts just like a tax.

Whether something is a tax or not has nothing to do with perception.

Also these fees don’t act ‘just like a tax’.

They are not taxes. They don’t act like taxes. It’s dishonest to call them taxes.

It’s reasonable to compare them to taxes. It’s false to call them taxes.

> There are no 'middle men' to lobby.

This makes no sense.

Epic is lobbying and want to be a middleman.

Facebook is lobbying and wants to be a middleman.

Your link is about taxes, but does nothing to support the argument that App Store fees are taxes.

Edit: Here is proof that Epic is lobbying:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/02/16/epic-games-behind...
Collections of goofus's are likely important because covid tends to burn out without super spreading events. One can imagine that the collections of dummies that continued to hold large gatherings would have even higher infection rates.

Highlights an issue with a lot of thinking about this. Population profiles aren't homogeneous but people make that assumption when drawing conclusions from simple statistics.