skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. I think that CNN, Fox and MSNBC all need an evolution. I think Greenwald tells the truth. You might dislike how intense he yells it, but the content is sound. He is sharp. He isn't slipping. He's just pissed off, and frankly, we all should be.
Rust's landing was actually a huge black eye to Soviet military and intelligence. From what I recall, their radar techs reported the contact but the chain of command fell to pieces, especially between handoffs.
> Construction men working in the dark for an hour? What do they want, bankers hours?

Presumably, they want their schedule moved around so they can see what they're doing. There's no reason that the clock itself needs to change for that, though. Just unions forcing employers into a "9-5 in summer, 10-6 in winter" schedule would work fine.
Lets make it clear.... they build impressive things, and had a civilization, but they were way behind those both of europe and asia.

the Aztecs were sacrificing people to Huitzilopochtli (their war god), when europeans were teaching and learning in Oxford an Cambridge.

Same with the mayans. We can discuss all day long, but their civilizations were not any more advanced than old egypt ones, and the ones in the Levantine era (Prior to the Roman period). Which were about 2080-3500 years prior.
> Next, we have madd x0, x0, x0, x8. madd stands for “multiply-add”: it squares x0, adds x8, and stores the result in x0.

I'm curious (I know very little about assembly or what's on the CPU so pardon me if what I'm asking makes no sense), what's the benefit of having a whole instruction that both multiplies and adds? Is there a logical gate on the processor that does this? Or is this just going through a binary multiplier before going through an adder? Does what I'm asking even make any sense?
> what good is freedom of speech if a platform is not free to choose which speech to amplify

What good is freedom of speech when powerful and influential organizations (like Twitter or Facebook) control virtually all speech in society? Above a certain size, these platforms are public utilities and public town squares. For the right to free speech to be at all practical and meaningful, they must be required to platform all legal speech.
I mean, VS Code != vim, so that explains the problem.
The only bad thing about time changes is adapting to different sleeping hours.

Since the change between standard time and DST does not come as a surprise, I do that slowly over the course of a month. When the change actually happens, I drop the hour of extra time I gained in the morning and be done with it.

This might not apply to people with kids or living in confined living conditions with others who would be disturbed by someone waking earlier. Beside that, it is just a matter of foresight and preparedness.

I felt like shite while I was still treating the time change like a flight between timezones (that is as happening suddenly). This is also why I take arguments about time changes from people who fly frequently not serious. It's not different from the jetlag that they subject themselves to willfully.
I’m not sure what distinction you’re making here, as most western jurisdictions have an ultimate goal of zero cases and applied the same lockdown policies to a first order approximation (with some succeeding, most needing to relax restrictions after time). But we agree more than we disagree, I just get annoyed at the canard that Canada is dealing with COVID only because of mismanagement in the US (which has caused weird side effects, like harassment of people with US plates).
Certainly feels that way.
Is this not common knowledge?

I remember hearing about this quite a few years back on some youtube science channel..
People in general, of course.
So true! Around 1980, chemical and petroleum engineers made the best CEOs, because oil prices were high and energy companies had the highest stock-market valuations.

Around 1990 Japanese finance majors made the best CEOs, because the Japanese financial markets were near their peak and Japanese bank stocks were highly valued.
Apparently there is a patch for the SMHasher here which adds support for ahash:

https://github.com/tkaitchuck/aHash/tree/master/smhasher

There are also ahash's own benchmarks here:

https://github.com/tkaitchuck/aHash/blob/master/compare/test...

They use the wyhash Rust crate, so if wyhash itself was updated doing a head to head comparison would boil down to updating the wyhash crate and rerunning ahash's benchmark suite.
This is the first time I've seen pong not written in assembly.
"that can in principle be sold back to the market at a later date"

What's the material difference, in your opinion, between the threat of the central bank selling back existing government bonds, and the government just creating new bonds of precisely the same type.

There is no money in circulation. All that has happened is that the type of savings has changed - from holding government bonds to holding bank deposits.

And that just means the term and interest rate has changed on the financial instrument.

The fundamental problem is the belief in interest rates and how they work is wrong in practice. People hold savings for a myriad of reasons.
It means anyone who risks social or professional consequences will self censor. It means a number of legitimate ideas will never enter public discourse because the prevailing ruling ideology will ensure negative consequences (“cancel culture”) for anyone who dares speak up. For those with nothing to lose, this isn’t an issue. For everyone else, the lack of anonymity is tantamount to losing their practical freedom to express themselves.
The problem with using market cap for tech is that Wall Street and the financial industry in general factors in too much "hype" and imagined future earnings into their valuations. This should be obvious to anyone that sees headlines of X Company with unreliable revenue model now valued at $50 Billion.

If instead you look at industries which don't have as much of this future hype, they are much more competitive. Fashion, for instance. LVMH has a market cap of $283 billion and Bernard Arnault briefly surpassed Bezos as the richest man in the world in 2019.
That's crummy. Would it be possible to take some additional shorter exposure images and use those to remove them from your long exposure images?
OT: I have a tip for blackout curtains.

There are expensive ones that do a really good job of blocking light, and inexpensive ones that let some light through.

Walmart's house brand, Mainstays, is the later. They block a decent amount of light, but some will get through.

I found that if you use blackout curtains with grommets, like the Mainstays [1], you can simply double them up. Set one panel on top of another with their grommets aligned, and you have a double blackout curtain. A pair of $10 Mainstay panels doubled work as well as the expensive ones which are way more than 2x$10 per panel.

If you need more than one panel (or pairs of doubled panels) side by side to cover your window, the grommets can help there too. Overlap them side by side by a couple grommets. You've now got effectively one wider panel.

[1] https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mainstays-Blackout-Energy-Efficie...
Hedge funds buy up all available LPFs on the market.

They manipulate the market to drive up LPF prices of politicians who vote according to the fund managers wishes.

Politicians do the bidding of the fund managers, sell their inflated shares, and get rich.

Bribery money laundered.
Poland has cloudy winters with short days and no reliable offshore winds (nothing comparable to the trade winds on the North Sea for example). It is mostly a lowland country with no potential for pumped hydro, or for the most part, regular hydro.

I’m not, like many Polish people are, pro coal and climate change denier, just saying we can’t solve global warming on the assumption of Californian weather.
Yeah, WangYi only updates via some git gui. Same for his hash and prng. But those two set already the new standards, and the hll should be in the same league. Top of the class.
Hi, I'm the original author. It's late for me, but if you have questions or comment for me, I will get back to you in the morning.

The article has to do with this idea: "Software engineers deeply understand that you iterate your way to value through hundreds of failed attempts.”

I by no means think software engineers are smarter or more virtuous. What I do think is that the high rates of fail from writing code teaches them to discover value iterative -- hence the Agile movement. Learning is pivoting moment by moment, and planning one value attempt or value experiment at a time IMO. It is the nature of value that shaped this behavior IMO, not some superior virtue -- see https://iism.org/post/glossary-value-76
How are the Channel islands, southern CA coastline in general and e.g. Guadalupe island south of the border doing? Is situation any better down there?
There's a "fused multiply-add" numerical operation defined in IEEE FP provides the implementation a shortcut compared to the two separate instructions. It doesn't have the extra roundings applied in the intermediate results. The resulting extra accuracy can be a good or bad thing depending on whether you prefer reproducible results (vs other expressions of the algorithm) or more accuracy.
I’m still not sure why we’re talking about ancient naïveté, I figure they didn’t know a lot of things back then.
> Unfortunately it's also littering the sky with a shitload of eventual junk, and immediate astronomical blight.

Starlink are the least likely satellites to create "eventual junk" since they orbit so low. The biggest criticism is probably that there are so many they present a visual hazard for astronomy
This is what the Guardian does too. Their frontend is open-source: https://github.com/guardian/frontend
Improving circulation in intimate areas and enlarging the
This misanthropy is self-defeating and accomplishes nothing besides making the holder feel smug and superior.

Be honest: the entire species isn’t going to be persuaded to stop reproducing to save kelp forests. You know this is true as well as I do. Nor is everyone going to get rid of all their possessions and return to preindustrial life. Only a few people want to do this, and since it doesn’t scale, it doesn’t work.

Fifty years of this moral pleading to reduce consumption and reproduction has done jack shit to help the environment. Eight billion people want a developed-world affluent lifestyle and each and every one of them will personally guillotine you if you try to deny it to them. Preventing this desire is a lost cause.

Given that humanity stubbornly will not listen to you, and given that your odds of establishing a totalitarian state to force them to do so are long, it is time to look for other solutions. If humans are going to be here and are going to demand affluence, we desperately need to find ways to deliver that without destroying the biosphere. And having fewer kids will not help with that—in fact it’ll hurt. The more minds we can focus on the problem, the better.

It will not be easy and there is no promise of success, but it is better than a cause that is already lost.
Or get the kids a damn flashlight.

Up here near the arctic circle, we don't get stuff like "sunrise" and "sunset" for a good part of the year. It's just dark and less dark.

Kids walk/bike to school just fine.
When China had strong central powers, other nations, especially the ones close to them suffered. When China was torn apart and occupied by others, others blossomed.

It's time to tear China apart for good before it's too late. They don't deserve a strong central power.
That curation is also a problem. In an era where every news outlet is biased, and most of the major ones are lurching ideological leftward, and journalists bring their personal politics to work, the lack of equal and uninhibited reach for opposing viewpoints is a problem.
Stencil-and-cover approaches like NV_path_rendering have a lot of drawbacks like documented below, but probably biggest of all, they're still mostly just doing the tessellation on CPU. A lot of the important things, like winding mode calculations, are handled on the CPU. Modern research is looking for ways out of that.
I understand your point of view but I am not sure current state is sustainable and that Israel is rational actor long term.

Israel depends on several things to be true and any one or two of them being false probably means end of state

1. Israel has much stronger economy than neighboring states. Hi tech army is expensive
2. Strong internal cohesion with no widespread protests/division or civil war.
3. Modern weapons systems are exclusively available to Israel
4. Strong US support with both money and political cover
5. Arabs not becoming majority in Israel thru demographics
6. Arab states continue to be in shitty state

Specifically

3 may not be true for long with China investing in military capabilities
4 is not assured with woke anti-colonialism ideology and AOC/Tlaib/Ilhan increasing influence on Dem party.

All Palestinians need to do is not to give up. Israel need to win every single time as there is no recovery from loss.

There is argument that strategically Israel is at the strongest moment and it can get most concessions from Palestinians now. In future it may end up in much worse bargaining position.
Cap and trade, and then gradually lower the cap (driving the price of emitting carbon up). When a lot of money is on the line people tend to get creative.

There’s no physical law that says we must put CO2 in the air to unlock these resources. With the right incentives people will figure it out.
No, more likely Microsoft Paint 3D
UK opens antitrust probe into Apple’s App Store policies
I also wonder. As an aside/anecdote of perhaps dubious quality, I had a mate that worked in the Office of National Statistics in the UK. He said that they'd often come up with figures for things that didn't match expectations, so they'd fudge them in case it caused a fuss.

Still, again anecdotally, I can't say that I find Japan a place of particularly efficient work. Long working hours, certainly, but efficiency… not in my experience.
Yup, same here in Finland.

Timing anything based on sunrise and sunset is completely futile. During winter the sunrise might be at 10 and sundown at three in the afternoon. You won't be seeing the sun no matter how you flip the clocks - humans invented the lightbulb for this exact purpose. Use it.

Again in the summertime the sun will be up most of the day, so you can't plan anything by its movement.
Looks like you understand it better than the police, huehuehue!
> I'm half convinced that wine connoisseurs are fooling themselves when they claim that they can tell the difference between cheap and expensive wines.

TL;DR Yes, it seems you're right about that.

This has been put to the test many times, usually with comical results. This page[0] has some stories, e.g. :

French researcher Frédéric Brochet "submitted a mid-range Bordeaux in two different bottles, one labeled as a cheap table wine, the other bearing a grand cru etiquette." Tasters described the supposed grand cru as "woody, complex, and round" and the supposed cheap wine as "short, light, and faulty." ...when Brochet served a white wine he received all the usual descriptions: "fresh, dry, honeyed, lively." Later he served the same wine dyed red and received the usual red terms: "intense, spicy, supple, deep."

...little correlation has been found between price and preference, even among wine experts, in tasting settings in which labels and prices have been concealed.

Robert Hodgson, a California vintner...noticed that the results of wine competitions were surprisingly inconsistent. ...[he] approached the organizers of the California State Fair wine competition in 2005 with a proposal. In the course of their routine duties, he would sometimes present the judges with samples from the same bottle three times without their knowledge. The judges were among the top experts in the American wine industry: winemakers, sommeliers, critics and buyers as well as wine consultants and academics. The results were "disturbing"... "Over the years he has shown again and again that even trained, professional palates are terrible at judging wine." ...Hodgson continued to analyze the results of wine competitions across the state and found that the medals awarded for wine excellence "were distributed at random".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_wine_tasting
I'd argue that there is are two hidden variables that cause ruby to be such a good predictor.

Ruby was "the go to web language" in the cabrian "web 2.0" years, where the web tranformed from a "space of personal websites" into a "space of commercial servives and monopolies dependent on the network effect".

So the actual predictors are, "web" and "2000s", which give the startup a high probability of being the first one to fill an ecological niche.
> because their floating surface canopies have strong reflectance in the near-infrared, similar to terrestrial vegetation`, so you wouldn't be able to see the difference anyways.

This is not true. You can certainly look at the near infrared channel of an image (it is just a regular gray-scale image anyway) and see right away the vegetation.
I have an umbrella with a similar surface. It gets noticeably damaged over time and loses effectiveness, so I'd be wary of using it with food and particles from the damaged surface falling into the food.
I agree. For example, look at companies by revenue, walmart is #1 and the no software engineer at the helm ever right?

Of course now take a look at this macro trends chart comparing walmart to amazon

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/stock-comparison?s=revenu...

Now tell me your best guess on when when Amazon will pass Walmart to take Fortune 1.
I hear you; and I'm pretty pessimistic that the "democratic" solution will solve anything. Look at covid - the US's approach to mask wearing seems to be what you're proposing - millions of tiny actions by individuals. The result is over half a million people dead. If those deaths were clustered in SF, that would be every man (or every woman) in San Francisco dead from the pandemic. In comparison here in Australia during the entire pandemic we've only lost 900 people to covid. Single cases make the news here.

The difference is that (on this topic) our government has showed real leadership. We haven't left health policy in the hands of millions of individuals. We put health policy in the hands of experts, and then implemented strict policies to get us to 0. Change didn't happen from individuals independently figuring out what to do. Change happened from the country as a whole picking a direction and moving in that direction together.

In comparison, Australia has been utterly appalling with climate change. Its a national embarrassment. I don't eat meat and I don't have a car - but I don't think thats going to matter much in the long run. What we need is to do the same thing for the planet that we did for covid - we need effective leadership on climate change. We need to do it together.
Most news is essentially toxic so it's unsurprising that comments are also.
Slug isn't great for lots of shapes since it does the winding order scanning per-pixel on the pixel shader. It does have a novel quadratic root-finder. Put simply, it's better suited to fonts than large vector graphics.
I think that DST is not such an ugly hack. Think of it as a mass coordination problem. You want to start work every day 1-2 hours after the sun rises. Fine, but in this time system, it's a different time in every point on earth, and it's complicated to convert between them. If you want to schedule a phone call, you're going to have to use a computer to figure out what two equivalent times are. Times are meaningless unless a precise location is also specified.

A similar (but not as bad) problem cropped up when every town had a clock set by the local solar noon, and the railroad came to town. They would have to do time conversions for train tables for every stop. The conductor couldn't just have a watch to figure out what time to pull out of the station or how long until the next stop -- it involved a bunch of time offsets. The solution was time zones. Then the conductor just has to adjust his watch exactly one hour when they cross a timezone boundary and everything works out.

DST is a very similar solution to a very similar problem. Everyone wants to have certain things happen at approximately a certain time after sunrise. People still want to be able to specify a time that is valid over a large geographical region, and is easily convertible when outside of that region. People want to be able to have watches that don't need to know the user's location in order to say what time it is.

DST gives you the approximation of all of these things, and you only have to think about it twice a year, when you make a big adjustment to the length of the day, instead of making little adjustments to the length of the day every day.
So many ISPs have gone bankrupt trying to make fibre work. Not even Google with all its massive resources could make it economically viable in mid-size cities.
The HN moderation is (AFAIK still) a 1-2 man show, with @dang doing fantastic work as a moderator, but also much helped with the upvote/downvote, flag and a whole bunch of algorithms.
What an unbelievably privileged thing to say.
We likely won't, at least nowhere near the 20th century balance. For all the new tree saplings planted elsewhere, Brazil straight burns down old growth in the rainforest. For all the wind and solar installed by the rich countries, poor countries are happy for the cheaper coal. Replacing nuclear base power with fossil fuels doesn't help too.

Even if we ever do manage to come together and fund active carbon capture, it will take decades to reverse the trend. And then possibly centuries for the oceans to de-acidify. Together with active efforts to burn down nature in the places where most biodiversity remains, the mass extinction even is likely to run its course before we get to a stable ecosystem. Sure we can restore most of the biomass, but it will be much fewer species. And letting the nature run its course will, naturally, take millions of years.
Yeah, another software engineering CEO has put a real damper on Shell's stock price - Elon Musk with his EV revolution
According to the article, the purple sea urchins are starving. Maybe this will balance out eventually, as other predator/prey cycles in nature?
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Model this NBA coaches and Adam Smith
You have to take into account that these vessels are several orders of magnitude smaller than military subs and travel barely submerged.
According to the Birthday paradox you can expect a collision after approx 2^32 keys. Whether this is small or big probably depends on your use case.
An astute person in the Mad group on FB, mentioned recently that no one drew puke like Jaffee, with all the little unique chunks. :-D
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