skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In 2010 MIPS wanted $2 million from Berkeley to allow them to use the MIPS instruction encodings

Do you have a source for that? I see that you're a RISC-V expert, and I know MIPS, Inc. is notorious for patent lawsuits, so I trust you. I'm just curious about the Berkeley project.
You need a body with a low moment of inertia. I.e. short.
LLVM Now Supports m68k
1. Simplex is used to solve linear programs, which are inequalities (not equations). While it's true that your solution will typically be on one of the vertices of your polytope, that just means that some (not necessarily all) of your constraints are hard constraints.

2. The worst-case time complexity of Simplex is exponential.
Standards cost money because the process to create them costs money.

But the money you pay to the standards doesn't go to the creators, it goes to the organization to make them available. (I've contributed to ANSI standards).
It’s sad that 5 of those chickens don’t have heads
I got into music production when the pandemic hit. I've been obsessed with it since March. I've been playing guitar for over 20 years though. I found I enjoy making electronic music with a lot of orchestral and piano elements. If you are kind enough to give me a listen, check out Dark Matter and Dark Energy, these are the ones I am most proud of. I still have a lot to learn though, mixing the music properly is very difficult.

https://soundcloud.com/emmets-music
I think POWER might have originally been an independent rediscovery of RISC actually, while designing some PBX system.
Like the others, I guess: streams of wata.
AI Interpret Brain Data Produces Personally Attractive Images
The bit that always bothers me about US toilets is how poor the privacy is. The cubicle door is like 1m high and raised nearly 40cm off the floor, and often poorly fits on the frame. I'm told it's for ease of cleaning but we accomplish that with raising them only 10cm here and extending enough for at least a standing adult.

That's not to say we don't have crappy stalls here, but they seem the norm in the US and the exception at home
Tested with a personal tech project account and that's not the case for me.
Why Scientists Are Infecting Healthy Volunteers with the Coronavirus
> Just because nobody bothered yet to define a rigorous mental model of 'Ship of Theseus' doesn't mean such a model doesn't exist in principle.

Bothered to?

MY good man, giants have attempted, and failed. — you speak as though no one attempted, rather than that many have, and none could.

> (In fact, the job of programmers is exactly that - to define rigorous models for things that nobody bothered to define before.)

The difference being that they generally succeed and when after millennia of attempts none have, tend to acknowledge that it probably cannot be done.
Self-hosting is totally optional. I pay for the premium version mainly to support the devs, but the free version has free cloud sync already. I use LastPass a bit for work, and I can't think of any features LastPass has that Bitwarden doesn't.
I make some beats with Ableton and Max MSP

https://soundcloud.com/schweppessoda/lamma-island
No - rnd() can not return one, but can return zero, at which point you'd access index 0 even with ceil().
I like the vocals!
> The Supreme Court recently ruled they could not be copyrighted, for the reasons you say, they are laws that need to be available.

No, it didn't. It ruled that the State of Georgia couldn't claim copyright on officially-annotated legal codes. Your sources note this and speculate about how it might impact a different ongoing dispute about privately-copyrighted building codes owned by the ICC that are often referenced in, and thereby given force of, law (and the TC one of discusses it having an effect on a non-terminal ruling in the case (a motion to dismiss which was denied, allowing the case to move forward but not resolving it.)
The style of writing in that article[0] is utterly infuriating to read or even skim for facts.

For anyone else unlucky enough to want to know what happened here:

- Microsoft Edge on macOS is apparently a thing that exists (I was not aware of this)

- If you install and open Edge on macOS, a notification titled “Try the new Safari” appears on the top right of the display, claiming Safari is “Fast, energy efficient, and with a beautiful design”

- The linked article is basically a tweetstorm made worse by being surrounded by distractions.

[0]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-opened-microsoft-edge-and-ap...
> So to me, his declaration that inclusivity as a value ought to be up for debate seems to indicate he doesn't think it's a top priority that students of marginalized backgrounds feel welcome in his classroom.

Well, Kunin says: "My sense is that students and faculty are unsure of the meaning of inclusive teaching. To the extent that we feel any certainty, we do not agree with one another." I don't think he ever says that he thinks inclusivity, the way he interprets it, is a bad thing or isn't worthwhile.

Is that a distinction without a difference? Suppose, for illustration, that I declare that "inclusivity" means everyone has to sit in a circle for the whole class, because otherwise some people won't be seen by others and therefore won't be properly included in the classroom experience. Kunin protests that this would make it impossible for him to write on a chalkboard or project an image onto a screen. I tell everyone that this means Kunin opposes inclusivity, and the minority students start to feel unsafe. Is this Kunin's fault, or mine? Is the solution for Kunin to buckle up, or for me to stop scaring the students?

If you think that's a silly idea, consider this: "Last year when I proposed to teach a seminar in which the syllabus would include essays by Ralph Ellison, two of my colleagues wrote to the Curriculum Committee, as well as to the dean and the president of the college, objecting that it would be “literary blackface” for me to study Ellison." (The more general term "cultural appropriation" could be used if Ellison were a non-black minority.) I wouldn't be surprised if someone had actually proposed sitting in a circle.

Is there some source of truth, that all responsible people should obviously recognize as the source of truth, about what is the ideal "inclusivity"? If it were a serious attempt at "making an environment safe for people of marginalized backgrounds", then one thing I would expect to see is for these recommendations to be backed by studies; is that usually the case?

Also, by the way, receiving a failing grade on a test is probably very distressing to many people (perhaps a majority), and failing a class even more so. Surely making students feel "safe", at this level, would imply eliminating the possibility of such distress and making sure the students knew it was gone?
Where did you hear that? It doesn't mention it in the article...
A lot of travelers swear by McDonalds near the highways. The restrooms are clean and I've never had an issue with using them before paying. Unlike the city, where the signs are either "no public restroom" or "restroom are for paying customers only".

In Portland there are a variety of restrooms built by the city but they're almost all permanently closed. Too many drug deals, drug use, sex acts, etc. The city government likes to bill Portland as "the city that works" and has spent several million dollars on automated toilets much like the one described in the article.

Recently the city has put a bunch of portable toilets in neighbhorhoods so that the homeless have access. Neighbors seem mostly tolerant if not happy about it. At first there were reports of a few of them being tipped over but I haven't heard much about it recently.

The portables aren't attractive but it's one way of handling the need.
This was a very clear exposition and easy to follow, not knowing much about the topic. A very nice piece of writing.
Damocles was an obsequious courtier in the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse, a fourth century BC tyrant of Syracuse. Damocles exclaimed that, as a great man of power and authority, Dionysius was truly fortunate. Dionysius offered to switch places with him for a day, so he could taste that fortune first-hand. In the evening a banquet was held, where Damocles very much enjoyed being waited upon like a king. Only at the end of the meal did he look up and notice a sharpened sword hanging directly above his head, held only by a single horse-hair. Immediately, he lost all taste for the festivities and asked leave of the tyrant, saying he no longer wanted to be so fortunate. Dionysius had successfully conveyed a sense of the constant threat under which a powerful man lives.

- The Sword of Damocles, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sword_of_Damocles

The powerful are perpetually terrified. They are scared of each other. They are scared of the populace. If someone created a perfectly secure computer or phone with secure messaging capabilities, from the hardware up, that company would immediately be told to play ball or face blackballing.
I may be misunderstanding but they quote

>“It only works when your matrix is sparse enough,” said Williams.

This is still important but only for this subset of problems really.
I'm kind of surprised at how the "paradox of tolerance" has gained so much currency in the past few years as if it were an obviously-established principle in free speech theory or something.

In the recent past, this idea was much less accepted in the U.S. because it was not assumed that allowing people who were intolerant in some regard to express their ideas (or people who were hostile in some regard to U.S. society or culture) would inevitably lead to destroying the tolerant social order. Instead, the "marketplace of ideas" theory was usually taken to mean that people would consider various ideas (including intolerant ideas, or ideas aimed at radically changing the social order) and, in most cases, largely find them unappealing and not act on them.

In the Cold War era, there were lots of civil libertarians who thought Communism was gravely evil and threatening, but that there was no "paradox" in allowing Communists to advocate their views because those views would lose an open discussion. The fact that Communists didn't necessarily believe in free speech or intend to reciprocate this tolerance did nothing to undermine this confidence; it was like "Communism is a bad idea and it's not going to win in a free marketplace of ideas; only the Communists need to use censorship to shore up their bad ideas, whereas we don't".

Similarly, the ACLU defending Nazis in Skokie (etc.) didn't think that it was a paradox to defend and tolerate people who themselves would not tolerate the ACLU or other minorities. They believed that those people had pretty crummy ideas and that most Americans would see through those ideas.

Similarly, there have always been religious groups that are wildly intolerant in the sense that they believe that their religion is the only true religion, that everyone should follow it, and even that ideally people should be forced to follow it, if that were possible. (To say nothing of the harshness with which they may treat people who disbelieve or mock their religions, or of people who flout their precepts.) Nonetheless, tolerating these religions isn't really a "paradox" except in the case where they're capable of taking over a whole society. Which is not never, but also not always.

The stability question is subtle because it depends a lot on your assumptions. But isn't the paradigmatic unstable equilibrium case where most people in the society are willing or eager to become more intolerant, and tolerance is only maintained because they're kept from hearing suggestions that would move them in that direction? As I've been noticing more and more, that's what the west said about our adversaries in the Cold War: rickety societies propped up by lies and suppression!
Human-computer-interaction themed electronic album

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> You don't want Microsoft to be involved

Microsoft works closely with Intel... I wonder if they might have access to the invisible OS running on your PC... (Linux would not disable that)
I'm not criticizing Orwell or the quote itself. I'm pointing out the irony of seeing this quote and others by the same author get regularly popped out following the very same gramophone mindset he warns about. People just pop an Orwell and call it a day. Could it be called recursive irony? I don't know if that's a thing.
So I found a thing and am trying to get ahold of Newegg's security team
I think that's a fair criticism of a specific failing of a specific complexity metric. A reasonable response, especially if switch statements or pattern matches in your language are better at detecting completeness than other approaches, might be changing the metric to reward switch statements that completely cover the input range. It also makes it clear why any one metric should not be a target with no exceptions. I don't think it invalidates the concept of measuring complexity.
What Matters for Early Stage Startups
It didn't just ask about censoring specific words or terms, or staying polite. It asked about censoring beliefs.

Say someone who is very much in favor of legal abortion stays silent as one of their co-workers goes on about how abortion should be banned, for fear of offending said co-worker. Is the fact that this person held back from sharing their beliefs an example of inclusivity? I'd say that this is not only false, it is the opposite of what is true. The fact that this person self-censored out of fear of causing offense is evidence of an environment intolerant of pro-choice people.

Inclusivity is a worthwhile goal. That is why such extensive self-censoring beliefs is a prominent concern, it's strong evidence that we are not being inclusive of people of different beliefs.
> Some of them are now in the "red" universe, and some of them are now in the "blue" universe and give matching answers. The percentage of them giving each answer is the same as in the situation above

The objection is: what fraction are in red universes, and why? Why is it 2/3rds and not, say, 3/5ths or zero?

In QM we can compute these fractions using the Born rule, which says that the probability of each outcome is proportional to its measure in the wavefunction. This is natural to postulate in Copenhagen, where we interpret the wavefunction as a probability density. If the measure of spin-up is twice that of spin-down, it means that spin-up is twice as likely.

But in MWI, the wavefunction is definitely NOT a probability density. Both spin-up and spin-down are physically realized. So why should it matter that spin-up has a higher measure?

Where does the Born rule come from in MWI? Can it be derived from the Schrödinger equation? If so, how? If not, what additional axioms are needed?
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I have nothing of value to add except that seeing someone do what they love and enjoy, greatly warms my heart.

Good luck with everything Akshay!!
The threat model for FHE is that the attacker is the entity doing the computation
Will it work when I get to Mars?
I'm not sure this unique to software projects. It seems like any major project is subject to similar issues. Although for software projects I think the perception is that things are more malleable, so adding a requirement/feature etc is seen as less problematic than, say, deciding a new construction project should have a few extra rooms added to it.
I mean it's going to be accurate. I think from a cost stand point it's a lot cheaper to lob a shell than fire a cruise missile from the same range. Also it would be impervious to ECM as there's no guidance system (That's if they don't put anything in the shell)
Still waiting for someone to show me how starlink isn’t a scam.
Thats what the industry says :-)
Interesting. This thread has refined my opinion.

I still wouldn't characterize this as a "free market failure", implying there is no room for competition, or everything needs to be the same as the rest of the country.

I paid a lot of attention to the following from the grandparent's linked texasmonthly.com article: "You essentially pay up front for peace of mind. But because neither regulators nor state lawmakers ordered anybody to pay, nothing was done." (regarding winterizing, costs to keep the grid robust, etc)

I assume that the regulators and the politicians weren't smart enough to do their part. Free markets can be great, can be better than too much regulation, but need to be tempered by the people's interests. The politicians involved failed big time. Didn't they think past their next reelection? Hopefully they make adjustments, both in their current regulations, and in the processes around reviewing and maintaining those regulations. I'm disgusted at the oversights that led to this. They had regulators who were responsible for this stuff! I'm curious how this will play out.

On a related note, it's not a free market if the customers don't know when the price increases a hundred fold or more.
How could they recreate every crash that's happened? It seems the police only keep detailed records of the fatal crashes that happened there.
Agree with most of the comments, but it's worth mentioning that you will never get those things for cheap.

The reason most of the things you buy are cheap is due to economies of scale - you want something a lot of people want.

Want a bicycle with 2 wheels? Cheap. Want one with 7 wheels? Expensive.

Unfortunately for you, almost none of the things you say you want in a laptop are things you're aligned with most of humanity in terms of priority. Sure, most people might tell you they want those things, but they're not willing to give up the benefits of centralization, or pay a few bucks to get rid of ads.

Tldr: if you want something few people will buy, expect to pay more.
"except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted" [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...
Unfortunately not everyone thinks like you. Though I would agree.

For anyone that will listen I will tell them not to answer to the lure of prestige and 'benefits' of FAANGs but a lot won't. It's just too prestigious for them. Who doesn't want to work for Google?

Who wouldn't have wanted to work for IBM back in the day?

(a friend of mine worked for IBM precisely because it would look good on a CV even today and is now at Google ;))
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Why Hasn't Effective Altruism Grown Since 2015?
Exactly, hence this endeavour! Where we discovered the secret map between the software developers' predictions and reality, which management worried was completely uncorrelated but it turned out to just be the lognormal distribution.
As I thought more about this, I realized (again) that the reason this happens is that people in tech are more likely to have blogs and other ways to make themselves heard. They don't see their privilege. This article could easily be titled "4 Times I Felt Discriminated Against for Being a Female" and drop the word "Developer". The oppressed in other industries don't have as much power. This reinforces the case that those who oppose the tech industry having an outsize influence on culture.
That already exists.

https://coraldrowningdetection.com/
I would recommend that folks to watch the mini-series "The Capture" for some eye opening thoughts on the trustworthiness of video evidence. At some point the chain of evidence becomes as important as the video itself. I doubt we can come up with a technical way to authenticate video evidence, and I suspect these issues will become worse over time as it becomes easier and easier to create deep fakes.
I've hear it as, "the first 90% of the task takes the first 90% of the time, and the last 10% of the task takes the other 90% of the time." :)
Buy a physical copy, scan it, and give the resulting PDF to everyone who needs it, lol
Interpreting the evolution of SARS-CoV-2
Sure! While Google Brain is focused specifically on AI, Stanford as a whole conducts research across a very wide range of disciplines. As a result, my network at Stanford has a more diverse collection of interests. As a PhD candidate I have worked with or am connected to people interested in neuroscience, radiation treatment planning, finance, control, economics, computer systems, and (yes) machine learning, among other topics.

Of course there's nothing wrong with focusing specifically on AI. It's just that I wanted to develop my research sensibilities in a more diverse environment.

edit: & thank you for the kind words!
I made this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ZEK7KTdVI

And this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdaoO1xoQWo

I'm TAFKADA (the artist formally known as Dave Armstrong)
It's not binary. Sure, there are elements of being human that transcend racial, ethic and cultural differences, but there aspects that are difficult to understand if you didn't grow up in that culture or have extensive exposure.
Sounds like stress doesn't impact you, even in interview settings. Good for you! Too bad it seems like you also lack the empathy to see why other people might find interviews different from normal work-collaboration duties.

And no, it's not your job to worry about other people's issues, but if you think that 'being stressed in an interview setting' == 'unable to collaborate' (this is what I read from your ridiculous strawmen), you're going to pass on a lot of good people.
No, what's really funny is suggesting that the editors of the Chicago Review and their contributors somehow CONTROL ALL DISCOURSE. It's as if Kunin has no other medium for the written word available to him.

Of course I don't think I'm right about everything. But, as should be obvious, maximizing inclusivity means more than just ensuring an edgy, white, male poet with a university position is provided an audience.
CDC: Mask vs. No Mask in Restaurants [pdf]
Turn the power off.
Unplug all cables.

Problem is (temporarily) solved :D
I know this is true for Bing Maps, but I thought Google Maps used photogrammetry or LIDAR to create a synthetic 3D view.
> Honestly, I feel like I received more discrimination as a white, western European in the US than you did.

What is the point of bringing this up - is this thread the oppression olympics/"Four Yorkshiremen" of discrimination? Do I have a bit for you: White, western European, you say? Try being an immigrant as a black, African in tech - I'm sure I had it worse than you, at least you people assume you had electricity growing up.

As you can imagine, it takes longer than I'd like to establish trust in my engineering chops, and this is an additional consideration when changing jobs.
>individual users don't matter

Until they do, of course. Higher profile people have had Google deactivate their accounts before and they manage to make enough noise to trigger the Google PR people who call the engineers or whoever and they fix the problem.

Individual users don't matter, mostly, because they don't have the platform or reach to annoy Google enough to fix the problem.
Jesse Bloom of the Hutch is giving a talk tomorrow on the functional consequences and antibody escape about escape mutations in SARS-CoV-2; these are his slides. The talk tomorrow at HHMO can be found here: http://janelia.org/scienceofcovid19
I look forward to the day that we can't use reheated arguments from last century about current events. It doesn't help that people who want to destroy our ability to think use Orwell as a manual - hate speech might as well be something he coined in 1984 for all the emotion and lack of logic behind it, that it's law today will be judged harshly by future generations.