skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The emission scenarios were developed decades ago and are proving to be over-estimates. The author interprets that as outdated science which is a rather pessimistic view.

I interpret it differently: Scientists make a spread of climate predictions and their potential consequences. Those listening mustered significant market/public/government pressure and ... it worked. We pushed the outcome towards the low end of the predictions. This is good news and demonstrates the efficacy of political action based on science.

If those predictions are correct, between RCP2.6 and RCP4.5 is not a bad place to be. Climate change is still locked in but life on earth has a chance of adapting to it without major upheaval. RCP8.5 otoh, if it were to happen, we'd be screwed.
I’m curious, why?
Waymo does not drive like that. It's smooth, actually. Watch this guy's channel for daily videos of how the driver behaves in practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq-QndXs-nI
I know a whole bunch of people who are on an ISO committee, and not a single one of them is happy that their hard work will be locked behind a paywall.
Nice that there's both MIPS and RISC-V versions of the book:

https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-MIPS-Arc...

https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-RISC-V-A...

I guess as of today we know which one to get.
Quick scan: it seems that this result is a real extension of that result.
> In her 1974 memoir, ''Sanya: My Life with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn'' (Bobbs-Merrill), she wrote

Was she still living in Russia at the time this was published?
> When he started out, Hart was only able to inject a few cells at a time before having to step back to review his progress. He’s since invented a computer algorithm that gives him a working bird’s eye view. While it makes the process faster, it’s still time-consuming.

A cool hacker project would be to make a “bubble printer” with an automatic injector that given an image will try to reproduce it in bubble wrap.
With regular phones, the radio stuff is pretty darn separate, too (and in case of Snapdragon 865, on a separate chip).
We have to make money somehow. I don't understand how people don't understand why this is the case. If you increase the cost of other things then organizations and people won't want to be part of the committees. A lot of the revenue comes from organizations purchasing the work.
> The problems of public infrastructure are not money.

The problems of American public infrastructure are exactly money, which is to say, the differences in funding capital projects versus funding maintenance. Forget public toilets for a second - one of the reasons why America's roads and bridges are falling apart is because they were built with Federal dollars, but no Federal provision was made for their maintenance. So what happens is that non-urban localities look at the responses to their maintenance RFPs, calculate that they would need to triple property taxes to afford it, and so decide not to do anything instead. Why would the maintenance of public toilets be any different? It's just another public expenditure. So writers like the author come up with mental gymnastics to try to find some kind of private solution that will take quarters from those who save every quarter to help them get their next fix. As if an addict would prefer a toilet to a dose. It's facetious on its face (pun intended, I guess).

America isn't like this because of "culture". America is like this because of the combination of a) Congress not being able to shoulder these maintenance burdens itself (because they are the responsibility of state governments) b) state governments being both financially restrained (people are willing to pay only so much in state taxes when they already pay so much in federal taxes) and monetarily constrained (no power to print their own dollars, often constitutionally required to balance their budgets). So nobody is empowered (in the real sense of funding) to provide for the maintenance of the public commons.
AVR does this. I can attest to the “interesting” debugging...
SuperProductivity – an open source todo list manager with sync support
There are different kinds of socialism, like there are different kinds of capitalism.

The author lived in the most extreme one and his writings show that.

I can tell you that from my personal experience that the time after the fall of communism and before the agents of capitalism gained power in society was the most free time in my life.
How is this whataboutism? I'm in no way apologizing for gulags, but the "Socialism and Marxism always leads to utter destruction" take is so tired and insulting to those who actually study history and political science.

Also, this "Ultimately that adherence to a singular ideology, with aggressive suppression of all others, leads to every subsequent horror." You do realize this holds true under every economic system, right. It was true under feudalism and it's absolutely true under Capitalism. That's kind of the nature of a system.

Edit: The point of bringing up the anti-semitism and Fascism was to show that his views, pretty much all around, were strongly forbidden in the Soviet Union at the time. Absolute free speech works fairly well in America, but you have to understand that at the time in that part of the world there were many different cultures with high-tensions sharing the same space. If hate speech was allowed it would result in non-stop war. The same thing was the case in Yugoslavia where hate speech was strongly punished and it served the purpose of keeping the peace, until Tito died. The history of the Balkans illustrates this point quite well. Yes, we all love free speech, but endless wars are good for nobody.

FWIW, I've traveled through all of these countries extensively and Russian is my second language. I also speak a bit of Serbo-Croatian. Traveling around and speaking with these people changed the lens with which I view these things. There is more nuance than words can describe and the history is complicated to say the least.
“In this paper, we present an algorithm that solves linear systems in sparse matrices asymptotically faster than matrix multiplication for any ω>2. This speedup holds for any input matrix A with o(nω−1/log(κ(A))) non-zeros, where κ(A) is the condition number of A. For poly(n)-conditioned matrices with Õ(n) nonzeros, and the current value of ω, the bit complexity of our algorithm to solve to within any 1/poly(n) error is O(n2.331645).
Our algorithm can be viewed as an efficient, randomized implementation of the block Krylov method via recursive low displacement rank factorizations. It is inspired by the algorithm of [Eberly et al. ISSAC `06 `07] for inverting matrices over finite fields. In our analysis of numerical stability, we develop matrix anti-concentration techniques to bound the smallest eigenvalue and the smallest gap in eigenvalues of semi-random matrices.”
Most (if not all) people on the committees don't like the paywall. The accountants have to explain every couple years why its necessary. Then people seem to forget and we have to do it all over again. It's cyclical.
It is possible to build housing cheaply in the Bay Area
NFTs, Art, and Digital Ownership
Earth to Techies: Let’s Map It All
> “We believe the data shows the shift to remote work, though abrupt, has been successful overall,” the company said in a blog post at the time. “... In our internal surveys most employees say they’re able to be productive at home (nearly 90%) and don’t want to return to a rigid five-day in-office workweek.”

It's funny that we needed a pandemic to let a bunch of techy, smart people know that "typing in front of a keyboard can happen anywhere."

I guess a huge part of management thinks if they can "watch" the bodies of their employees arrive to an office be on time and not blatantly text and watch YouTube at their desks, huge rents and overhead will be worth it.

Why did we need a pandemic to let people know that remote working isn't really a big deal?
Uhh so apparently, Microsoft Teams copied that same pattern of auto-hiding the most important controls.

https://neil.computer/notes/oh-sorry-i-was-on-mute/
And they charged the people a dollar and a half to C them
Thanks for the encouragement!

That focus for Loom sounds on-point. As you said, those are hard to do and extremely valuable, which further differentiates.

Truthfully, I’m honored that you took the time to comment. I am a big fan of Loom and have been for some time. We pay for and use (and plan to forever use) Loom for some use cases at PingPong (e.g., videos on our product wiki, support pages, reporting bugs in our own product).
What are the advantages and disadvantages of Python?
Most people who think they know have, in fact, no idea what "passive voice" means. (E.B. White, of Strunk & White, e.g., certainly didn't.) Things they claim are aren't. Very likely, the tool doesn't either; if it gave the right answer, people would insist it was wrong.

Whenever I find a stray copy of S&W, I throw it away. I have tossed a bunch. Everything in it is either trivial or wrong. The trivial parts wouldn't make a book, so White added lots of wrong.

After his teacher, Strunk, died, White made up a bunch more fake rules, and then went back and doctored Strunk's text to obey them. But he didn't even notice he was violating them in his own text.

For the detailed rundown, search "nasty book pullum strunk".
Your perspective is helpful; thanks for sharing. That’s a good point about async opening up the possibility of multi-layer threads. We’ll consider that! We’d need to figure out how to do it in a way to help people not get lost. I’ll also think more about if there’s a way to somehow recapture the efficiency from real-time feedback in synchronous voice communication.
> Were someone else to put on the headset, they would see only a nauseating mess.

I imagine that would define hot mess.
I had a hard time finding Talkshow - looks like they might have shut down (I could be wrong). But there are some relevant comments in that thread; thanks for pointing me here!
> because consumers really don't want this product

> Self driving cars will drive the speed limit

Tesla is proving both to be false, today.
Thanks for this example! It’s interesting to compare these two questions:

- “Can you pass the salt?”

- “Would you like to stop for coffee?”

Neither is explicitly a direct request, but somehow the salt one is more clear than the other —- for me. It just shows how different social conventions and expectations can play into one’s understanding.
Thanks for the great feedback. This is a focus for us to figure out.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_algorithm and compare with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_algorithm
Thanks for giving it a try, and for the feedback. Keep it coming!
> people who live in RVs or off-grid but maintain a modern lifestyle with driver licenses and credit cards and all

There aren't as many of those as you might think, and they've all had this problem in a big way since the PATRIOT act nonsense happened.

Most of them give a relative's address as their residential address.
"Meanwhile, in East Asia,"

I guess you've never been to Thailand, Malaysia or the Philippines but I would agree that nickel and diming does not == quality/experience in this stance.

But sometimes it is marginally cleaner.
I'm surprised every time someone says:

1: This field requires a lot skill.

2: I am not skilled in this field.

3: It's obvious to me <observation that might require skill in domain>.

And then there's no appeal to an expert in the field, or observed behavior.

It's fair that sometimes negative effects are obvious, and if the writer was observing the deleterious effects of the button placement, I could see where they're coming from.
If Wikipedia is to be believed, GitHub had 56 million users in September 2020. If we adjust that to 60 million for the time that's passed, that gives us a ballpark of 600 users who were affected.

So no it's not high. But I'm impressed if they were able to accurately quantify that less than 600 users were impacted by this race condition.
If every query didn’t walk the entire dataset then the server could figure out what was queried based on what data was loaded and what data was not loaded.
I believe she was.
Is there a good layman’s guide on how to do this? I’ve heard about things like f droid or cyanogen but really have no idea how those paths compare to “open source” phone operating systems from Mozilla or Ubuntu or other choices like Purism. What’s a reliable route to get a smartphone that can do calls, texts, and browsers without relying on Google or Apple?
Harvard professor ignites uproar over Korean sex slave claims
nanoMIPS (the last compressed MIPS ISA that sadly never made it across the whole product line) re-encoded nop(32) for much the same reason.
AEB is great, and I'm super happy that it's going to be standard, but its not going to totally eliminate the rear-ending problem. From wikipedia [1]:

> Forward collision warning plus autobrake is associated to a 50% decrease in front to rear crashes.

Similar stats are reported from around the world.

Low friction surfaces, weird car angles, poor radar/camera visibility and too high entry speed all mean the system isn't going to be 100% effective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_avoidance_system
Realtime Interactive Visualization of CNN in Unity (2018)
> Women are better at language, social interactions, etc. So when her boss says to use her “feminine” skills to talk to a difficult co-worker, it’s simply a comment on a predisposed advantage women have over men when looking at the statistics.

This boss was clearly an amateur. A truly effective manager inputs their employees' eye colors, clothing preferences, heart rates, favorite books, and heights into the magic statistics machine to determine the correct person for each task.
What I find rather puzzling is the increasing secrecy of hardware manufacturers; search the part numbers of all the ICs on a motherboard from the first IBM PC/XT/AT (for which schematics and BIOS source were available) up to the 486/586 era, and chances are very good that you'll find the full datasheets. Try that with a modern motherboard, however, and you may find that something as seemingly mundane as the CPU voltage regulator controller or temperature monitoring/superIO has next to no public information available. Wouldn't a company making data on how to use its products easily available be more likely to earn new customers and have better sales?
Long ago I found the potential for this kind of race in one of the then very popular app servers. Things to keep you awake at night..
Worth noting these are also animations of exceptional circumstances.

There's that little qualifier that "in the vast majority of events" it drove smoothly while avoiding the simulated fatal crash.

Now ideally, they'll be able to iterate to go from "vast majority" to "all" ... but if my future self-driving car drives smoothly most of the time, but I occasionally experience it braking suddenly or swerving without warning, and it is avoiding a fatal crash by doing so, I'm not going to complain.

Of course, if it periodically slams on the brakes because an empty plastic bag blows into the road or some other false positive for a potentially fatal collision ... I'n a little curious what the acceptable false positive rate is on potentially fatal car crashes. Would I (or others) accept 10 random brakings per necessary braking? More, less?
In practice, are there maybe a few problems for which this guarantee unlocks a big performance speedup? How might this be used practically?
In 1850, few people felt that electricity was particularly profound either. That year, William Gladstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked Michael Faraday why electricity was valuable. Faraday replied, "One day sir, you may tax it." [1].

The electric motor had been invented (by Faraday), but it couldn't do any useful work and had to sit in a pool of mercury to function. Electric lighting had been invented, but the filaments were dim and burned out too quickly to be practical. There was no way to generate or distribute electricity at scale. To most people, electricity looked like a toy (and a terrifying toy at that). It would take decades of invention and refinement to get to the point where electricity was useful, reliable, and ubiquitous. But the seeds for doing so were there in 1850.

So when Sundar Pichai says AI is more profound than electricity, it's possible he's right. It's just that we're still in its 1850, so we can't see it yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity#Cultural_perceptio...
I thought you just answered that question in the preceding paragraph? :)

At my workplace the founder was staunchly anti-remote. Something about discipline and hallway conversations being necessary for creativity. Mostly discipline. It really did take a pandemic to prove to people like him that remote work works. The execs sounded genuinely surprised in their Zoom presentations about engineering still hitting all the targets like nothing happened.

Realistically speaking, even before the pandemic deep work could only happen when people got away from the open plan office. Some would come in or leave at odd hours. Others would work late from home and roll into the office closer to lunchtime. Others still hunted for empty conference rooms. Communication is important but it is realistically needed only about 20% of the time.
The inputs are encrypted, the processing is encrypted, the outputs are encrypted. Once the execution service has produced an encrypted result it is sent back to the requester, who decrypts the returned result with their decryption key, which has never left their control.
What’s funny to me is that people are only complaining about diversity in the US and Europe. Although I have seen a few articles about class based diversity in Latin America and India.

Maybe I am missing something but I don’t see complaints about diversity in Arabia, Persia, African Regions, Asian regions.

Yet there are historic multi-ethnic conflicts in most of not all of these areas.

Take the Hausa, Fula, Igbo, and Yoruba of Nigeria for example, as an example.

Ultimately, dividing people and calling it “diversity” resembles a divide and conquer tactic for reducing the cohesion of a society, making it easier to control (via narratives and reducing my inter-group trust compared to some central, approved authority), in my view.

Check out Ryan Long for a humorous example: “When Racists and Woke Agree On Everything”:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev373c7wSRg
Point taken but, was it my manager’s fault when I wrote

echo “print(“$1”+”$2”)” | python

?
I wasn't that understanding of kernel stuff back then, but I don't recall seeing anything that the kernel was always running on CPU0; but I think everything was behind the GIANT lock, so there was effectively zero kernel concurrency.
I think you can make more money, a lot more. It seems you have revenue as much as $200 per month selling these books, in total. But I have to say, when I was younger ( and a lot poorer ), I paid up to $200 for a single college textbook. So as patio11 would say: "raise your prices".

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2006/08/14/you-can-probably-stand-...
This is true, although if I look at my old company - they've migrated to Exchange Online and run onprem Exchange servers to support the hybrid environment. But they don't need to publish those servers to the Internet.

Many of these orgs should have learned this after [CVE-2020-0688](https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2020/2/24/cve-2020-0688-remote-c...)

If it's a hybrid environment, it doesn't need to be exposed.

That doesn't solve MS problem of coming up with a better solution though
But what about choosing between hitting one doctor versus a group of school kids? /s
The future of business intelligence is open source
Twitter Sues Texas AG over content moderation citing 1st Amendment Rights
The thing that makes me pessimistic about anything free, is seeing chewing gum in the urinals. It’s obvious the gum can’t go down the drain. It’s also obvious that someone will have to take out the urine soaked gum and put it in the garbage. There is a trash can literally 5 feet away. But I still find chewing gum in the urinals.

If we as a culture can’t collectively get that right, I have doubts for anything more involved.
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20210308022841/https://blog.plov...
I don't think this is a major problem with interfaces that have a real implementation and a mock implementation. You can just as well "Go to implementation", and will see two options - XImpl and MockXImpl.
It's an interesting book and (I think) well written, but we should take care not to take it as factual. Gulags were real and very awful places, but Solzhenitsyn wasn't writing a history or a scientifically investigated piece. He was writing material for future novels, and much of the book is fabrication. His wife's autobiography (and other places) confirm what's a fairly widespread view outside of the OECD world. She called western responses to it "overestimated and wrongly appraised", and mentions that Solzhenitsyn himself never viewed the book as "historical research, or scientific research, but [rather more] a 'camp folklore' collection".

Solzhenitsyn wrote a lot and TGA seems like a melting pot of his own anticommunist beliefs, his experiences under Soviet rule, and an interest in his craft as a writer. But it's not 100% a historically accurate book.

Obviously (shouldn't have to say it but who knows these days) gulags were bad and I wouldn't want to be placed into one etc. I do however think we do ourselves a disservice when taking untrue accounts as factual, as is the case in a lot of western treatment of Soviet leaders (esp. Stalin; Lenin seems to get more of a pass).
Does that matter if the indexes, the data, and the query are all encrypted?
Because when you have a wide-scale every-company experiment like this it immediately squashes any counter argument like “well our company is different because $silly_reason.”

For me having an office available is nice for when I need a change of scenery but I think it would genuinely be cheaper for our company to just pay for daily passes at a coworking space than the rent for our building.
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Interesting, I just took it at face value. I wonder what the % split is.
I agree with you. At the same time, I suspect that the act of filling each bubble by hand is an important part of the process for this artist.
Oh, it's just the vast majority of SQLite databases we see are pretty tiny. eg a few MB's at max

So, resource usage is pretty much not a consideration in any way when doing things with them.

Once people start doing things with multi-GB databases though, if the system they're running on has a small amount of memory (say 4GB, 8GB) then things can start going poorly.

Not like "crash and burn" poorly (so far). More like "tries to read 10GB of data into 4GB of ram" poorly. eg Dog slow, not lightning quick.

If your machine has a bunch of ram in it, you're likely safe . Though, I'd be making damn sure there are tested and working backups of it, just to be safe. :)
Understanding is a thought process, not a genetic or environmental one.
I've known the "liberal arts" have an apologist streak for Soviet Communism but this is the equivalent of doubting the Holocaust. The idea that these kinds of attitudes are permeating through universities and SJW circles today is terrifying.
Hrmn. Marketing is probably more important a good part of the time, though? :(
Totally agree. In fact, it is one of my biggest issues moving from Linux to Mac (which is supposed to be oh so good about UX/UI). Fortunately there is a hack where you can map the Command+Q to something less malign like "invert the colors on the screen" so I won't accidentally kill the whole app when intending to only close a small part of it. I just wanted to disable it, but well at least inverting colors is reversible.