skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The implication of `growing popularity of cloud storage` is that today the user's data files are sitting in a remote cloud storage and not on local file system. This means a typical most-used application on user's Android/ChromeOS device (say a web browser, or a streaming app) has very little local file storage usage and hence very little page cache usage. Bulk of the memory is used by non-page-cache memory – that's anon memory. Based on this mix shift in memory use, this patchset is enhancing the swap system to evict anon pages better. It is useful for end-user linux devices like phones and laptops.
> What conservatives really seem to want, meanwhile, is something more like a version of the “fairness doctrine” adapted for social media. (Ignore the fact that conservatives used to insist that the fairness doctrine was an unconstitutional left-wing conspiracy to destroy talk radio).

This is not a good faith argument, and it's made worse by the fact that (as others have mentioned) Tim Wu coined the concept of net neutrality. Free speech advocates and conservatives want social media to be a dumb pipe that doesn't discriminate on content, much like other internet services. Tim is uncharitably misrepresenting their position here.
Presumably the remainder of the netbsd userland relies on features not supported by ack.
and in Soviet Russia Minix develops you...
> When you use WhatsApp and allow access to your phone book, we only see the phone numbers, not the name.

> we can hand over, for example, the IP address, user name or profile photo

Seems to me that they don't have to collect the name from the phone book, they just match it with the profile information (at least)
I think it may be that people feel someone is trying to deflect away from a crime by being overly pedantic. When someone commits a crime and people scream "pedophile!", it is really strange when someone shows up and say that pedophilia technically means x.

There is pedophilia (the clinical definition), hebephilia (the clinical definition) which is when someone is into young teenagers, and then there is the social concept of pedophilia, which is committing a sexual crime associated with people who aren't of age.

Many people who commit such crimes don't meet the clinical criteria, but socially, they are considered such due to the last definition.

Many people who are clinically pedophiles (clinically significant being that it is sensually predominant and everything else they do is going to feel sub-optimal compared to that stimuli and may even feel nothing at all to adults) don't commit pedophilia related crimes.
I’m glad you have a magical belief without meaningful facts produced with meaningful oversight. Tesla’s representations are essentially “hold my beer while we provide not full self driving”.
Non-const globals could be an issue, but it's possible it doesn't matter too much for this particular benchmark. I'm a little worried about taking compilation time (apart from precompilation) into account (would that also be done for C++ code?). But I must confess I maybe posted my comment a bit too soon, partially because of the time of day, partially because of the semicolons at the end of each line in the code, which made me quickly think the benchmark writer was using Julia for the first time. While I have a good amount of experience with Julia, I don't have that much experience with DataFrames.jl itself, so I don't know for sure whether the reported benchmark times are reasonable or not.
Sounds more like Adam Smith’s invisible finger
My personal impression is that there has been a huge movement away from WhatsApp to Signal and Telegram in Germany in the last months.

Not just typically privacy sensitive people, but also lots of normal people.

Most people still have WhatsApp for that one or two friends and relatives that don't want to switch. But most activity has moved on.
Are there really that many Intel processors?
We wouldn't? That seemes like a bold statement.

To put your numbers in perspective, in a population of 330mio with life expectancy 70-75y (USA numbers), every year around 4mio people die for some reason or another. Not saying covid is not a problem, but these numbers don't really support the claim.
An artwork needs to engender emotion in others and it needs to be a focus for questioning, thinking and feeling.

The best way to get these properties is to make a physical object and to make it unique either through craftsmanship or artificial constraint (a limited edition print run, for example).

Unless constrained by the artist, machine generated works do not have the property of uniqueness. They produce something more like poetry — infinitely reproducible art in the form of pure data sculpted at the human scale.

A photograph when presented as a computer image consists of pure data: but is it art? Was it taken at a moment in time in the real world? The uniqueness and craftsmanship is right there in the process of capture.
No, they are a mandatory binding arbitration away from keeping accountability at bay, with an NDA.
Walker Evans, Beauties of the Common Tool (1955)
I think minimalism in UI did not begin with apple iPhone
In reality it works nothing like this though. People like to think that all of these companies and downstream projects depend on this maintainer, but realistically they would have no problem switching to a fork or doing it internally.

Using his work as-is from upstream is just the path of least resistance. If nobody picks up dhcpd maintenance companies will have no problem carrying forks and more than likely the open source community will quickly converge around a future implementation.

This isn’t comparable to some sole manufacturer or anything like that. It’s similar instead to someone publishing blueprints for basic things and everyone using them because of time saved because redoing them from scratch is tedious and wouldn’t have much of a point.
> Free speech advocates and conservatives want social media to be a dumb pipe that doesn't discriminate on content, much like other internet services.

Do that and soon every post will be about diet pills or AMAZING OFFER MAKE $$$$$ FROM YOUR COMPUTER CLICK HERE!!!!
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Whatsapp is a company. Does anybody believe they will simply leave 80M customers out or principle?
> Your company is profitable but has slow organic growth in revenue/profit (single or low double digits).

> Since salaries (especially in the tech sector) are rising much faster per year than your growth or inflation for that matter, you must pay much more to the new hires.

> In the current artificially inflated tech market (thanks to easy money),

By some accident engineers have offered their time to this business which is unable to put their efforts to good economic use, and hence unable to pay market-competitive salaries. The management at this firm needs to think hard if they really need expensive skills as inputs, and if they do, why are the returns so meager.
Why can't users sign up with a real email account and maybe delete the account if not needed?
Re the annoying part, a different way to get the day of week in the rance 1–7 is

1+(6+strftime('%w',yyyymmdd))%7
I don't think there is any kind of similarity between a text prediction model and human (or animal) intelligence. At most we maybe have a subsystem that could work somewhat similarly.

It's very clear though that human intelligence has a model of the world being made up of agents which interact with objects. Words and sentences refer to entities in this model in our head, and our use of language essentially consists of describing instances of this model, with various purposes.

Text prediction works exclusively on text, no model of the world, and it has a single purpose: to produce the text that would be most likely to follow the prompt based on its training.

This isn't just a theoretical difference. GPT-3 couldn't be used to, for example, be presented with a situation and asked to respond to it in such a way that it achieves some goal.
That's not generally true. It would generally be the manufacturer if the autopilot failed (as opposed to disengaging).
lol of course. rethinkdb dies, thinks they need a post-mortem, and pushes blame away from their own incompetence.
For Nvidia this is not a mess; they support X for their supported use-cases and that's just it, and X works pretty much perfectly for me now, even PRIME is essentially issue-less. I give them a lot of credit for making Nvidia GPUs in laptops on Linux as viable as on Windows.
Luckily, migrants exist. I think overall, this is more a good news than a bad news story. Its a good news story with rough edges and a bumpy ride maybe.
It's a distant island nation at the end of the transport network.

One of the reasons New York, London and Brussels have been hit so hard is that they are global hubs in the world transport and financial power networks.
Can anyone explain the move to Telegram to me? I understand the UX argument, Telegram is amazing. But privacy? Aren't you moving from "Facebook can read your metadata" to "Pavel Durov can read your every message"? How is that an improvement?

I mean, I too trust Durov more than Zuckerberg but that's an extremely low bar to clear, and you're giving them a lot more data.
A dumb pipe within which real world law on speech applies? Or not?

If I post defamatory stuff on my website I can be sued. If I do the same on your website, you can be sued unless you fall under that 230 regulation.

So this is the choice between "social media is liable for what you say and will therefore censor you" and between "you are liable and can therefore be sued".

The option "nobody can get sued" doesn't exist, because although there is free speech, there are limits to it (which get breached on a few times a minute on big platforms). I am not saying whether that is a good thing or not, that is just the current state of affairs. And as the author stated: if you are basing what you say on the truth you might be able to say a lot more (than e.g. if you are spouting weaponized propaganda which is factualy wrong)
Not sure if we can trust anything coming from FB or Google type of large corp under US national security surveillance capitalism state (with conflicting business model against user privacy) regarding what they really do with user data. Any corporation with association with the intelligence agency and the military industrial complex can not be trust.
Yes, it may be a news, but the world does not revolve around you, and it should not.
Wait. Are you sincerely making the argument that conservatives would like the social networks to become public utilities? (following net neutrality)

We are living in weird times if a good faith argument really involves assuming conservatives want to make a class of businesses part of the public sector. Something seems off with your reasoning, but if you're right then I'm all about it!
Man, when I was growing up, everyone was telling me that the world was overpopulated, we would be facing water and food shortages, there would be wars over resources, and the increasing population was accelerating the destruction of the environment. But apparently lower birth rates are "ruinous consequences". So I guess everything I learned was wrong.
> “All industrial fisheries, with very few exceptions, are ultimately drained of life after a certain time,” says Daniel Pauly, a University of British Columbia fisheries biologist. “They increase and push, push, until they collapse. Why should skipjack tuna be any different?”

There you have it.
Okay, but what does any of that have to do with Section 230? How would repealing it have any effect on how Facebook treats content on their site vs. how Brietbart does it?
As coroner I must aver,
I have thoroughly examined it,
And it's not only merely dead,
It's really most sincerely dead.
That’s terrible messaging for UBI because it’s universal. It’s literally for people who haven’t meaningfully contributed anything to society as much as it is for the struggling underpaid artist.

Framing it as “finally paying for something you’ve been getting for free” is an amazing way to kill it because you’re paying to support drunks, spouse abusers, racists, etc.
That will immediately lead to discussions about criteria to receive it and it will no longer be UBI.
You may be interested in this blog post: https://daedtech.com/the-7-habits-of-highly-overrated-people...

N.B. The author warns at the end that it is a very bad idea to enact these ideas.
I very much agree to getting rid of the mandatory handshaking habit. And quite some similar customs. Like in the supermarket yesterday, with everyone wearing masks, limited people inside etc. - but then at the cashier I was expected to use the same dirty digital pen to sign the payment by card, like everybody else did. Such idiocity.

But for the rest, do you expect people to continiue to wear masks after this?

In general, are you aware, that the youth of this planet is pretty much on standby since a year? They are not really threatened by covid, yet they have to pay the highest toll in the restrictions - because their life is not established, they have to move around to set up their life. Which they cannot really do now. They could also say, fuck the old and weak, we won't sacrifice more for them - we got to live our lives now - but they are largely not doing it. So maybe it is not such a shitty egoistic world after all?
> I prefer not jumping ship

And your manager knows it too, it seems.
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"Science progresses one funeral at a time"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
No, my thirty-five-year old sister-in-law was given remdesivir twice during her stay in a Los Angeles hospital during the December wave, and while she had early stage covid pneumonia she was not in the ICU.
> If The_donald wants to make a site and push bullshit

I wish this trope would die. Trump was probably the best President since Roosevelt 75 years ago.

Virtually all of his policies have been shown to be not only correct, but exhibiting a clearer vision than the DNC can even imagine. All the while dragging the anchor of Pelosi around (besides 2 failed impeachments and the burning of our downtowns, what else did she do for this country in the past 5 years? Worst "leader" ever.)

There's a saying that we get the politicians that we deserve. Sadly, we've gone from a great leader to Sleepy Joe Biden (reportedly he goes to sleep at 6 pm daily.)
You can see the map of where it landed and it's path moving here: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/where-is-the-rover/

The yellow oval is the target landing zone, though it looks like it's a bit too tall on this map compared to other sources.

You can see it's landing targets within the oval here: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/jezeros-hazard-map

So it looks like it landed a little over 1km from the center of the oval, if that's your question.

When precisely talking about space travel, things tend to be discussed as "nominal" instead of being on target or correct. This is because some variance is expected, and systems are designed to work successfully within that variance. In that sense, Perseverance landed within the landing oval and on a safe landing spot, so it was 0 meters away from target.

An analogy would be it hit the bullseye and got the points, even it if it wasn't exactly in the middle of the dart board.
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That's impossible. China is not North Korea. All it takes is just 1 asymptomatic infected person to leave the country - perhaps 1 hour before the hypothetical country-wide lockdown - for the virus to spread.

No, it's even worse than that. Signs of covid have been found in Europe dating back to October 2019, before anyone in China knew that this existed.

Besides, western countries didn't take the virus seriously in the beginning at all. Even a month after the Wuhan lockdown, the Dutch didn't take much action, while Trump said it's just the cold. The attitude was basically: it's only a disaster in China, outside China it's not serious.
Come on. The world isn't divided into people who agree with you and psychopaths. That's such a juvenile and unhealthy way of looking at the world. People who oppose UBI generally worry about cost (which they feel they will pay) and the potential for shifting incentives to result in a worse society - they have just much as empathy as you, they are just empathizing with different people (the lower and middle class paying for the UBI instead of the underclass receiving it) or envisioning different outcomes.
Data science is a science in a name only.
What AlphaFold 2 means for the future of scientific R&D
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The term "fascist" now means "anyone who disagrees with me."
Yeah it's common in business. Normally it's in a spreadsheet on a shared drive, so this is a step up.

Businesses change fast and don't always have internal development resources to create an application to do this sort of thing.
No, the post implies that FSD will never be autonomous.
Actually, I think your point is very interesting. I have observed unusual behavior in animals that could easily be attributed to ‚precognition‘ - magic!

Yet, for them, it's just another survival tactic.
> So why not have a mechanism by which the user's desktop environment and init / login system can reserve itself enough memory to always be responsive under any memory condition?

Because it's not the memory shortage that's nailing the UI. It's disk contention. When pathological swap activity causes disk thrashing, every process that needs to use the disk is now waiting in a very long queue with all the swap page in/out requests and every other process that is now backed up.

If you have a metrics agent that emits a handful of metrics on a per second granularity, you can see a bunch of things happen:

* Memory rises

* Some pages get swapped out

* Even if the system has no other processes writing to disk, you'll see the swap-out correlating with disk writes

* Memory rises some more

* You see more pages get swapped out

* (...and see more disk writes)

* Memory rises some more

* You see pages get swapped out and in, because now we're shuffling out pages that are imminently required by another running process.

* Disk queue lengths rise

* One by one, all processes are waiting (driving up the CPU "wa" number, and causing load averages to shoot up)

This is why, if you're oncall and you're trying to remotely troubleshoot "high load", you likely can't log in because the system needs to access /etc/passwd, /etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/ldap/ldap.conf, /bin/bash... Your login gets handed a ticket with "∞" written on it, and is told to stand in the line for the disk.

But aren't these files already in the disk cache? Possibly. But another thing that happens when the system runs out of memory is that disk caches get purged. So you have to go back to the disk again. Also, when disk caches get dropped, your disk read performance is dogshit.

So what can you do? Try zswap? Use a different disk devices for swap? Try to pin important processes so the can't be swapped out?

NOTE: I might not be right about this stuff - I've never worked on the Linux kernel, and I rarely even compile it these days. But I've worked as SRE / *Ops for years and saw this problem a lot in badly configured systems. Same patterns all the time.
No. He is arguing that we have achieved racial harmony. Read it again:

> Two generations of Americans never had seen a segregated bathroom or bus or lunch counter. This country had achieved racial harmony. It was not that long ago that racial harmony existed.
How is data.table so amazing? I didn’t expect it to be that fast...
I find it very hard to believe. Could you please provide any citations.
There are no reliable sources that this was a scam or indeed any sources mentioning the building from the time. If this building gained investment on the basis of it being a 480 ft tall building then both the investors are complete idiots and the scam would have been judged as fraud.

The investors can't have done any due diligence at all. Why would there be any value to building at that scale at that location.

Building a 480 inch building whilst taking investment to build a 480 ft tower would clearly be shown as fraudulent.

I suspect this building has a more mundane explanation: a builder trying out some new techniques or a client that wanted a larger building but ran out of funding.
Support is better in latest cards, but they are still lagging behind for scenarios like Blender and etc.
Any piece of work that does not speak for itself, i dont consider art.

The works of the great masters can be appreciated even by children. They speak for themselves.
You can play Zelda II and A link to the past via the online subscription. And one could count the remake of Links awakening as well.

But more to the small catalog. Nintendo has not the rights to just publish the old NES/SNES catalogue as they are not the sole rights owners. Also they won’t dump all these games at once. I still wait for Windwaker HD as I never owned a WiiU and don’t want to emulate the game.
Got paid in Bitcoin for a year. Living in Europe, got a client in the US. Client had Bitcoin so it was faster, cheaper and easier to get paid directly in Bitcoin.

Obviously, no landlord accepts Bitcoin yet so I had to sell a portion for EUR.

Another obvious use case: If you change the denominator from USD to the FED balance sheet, the S&P just went sideways since 2008. So did everything else.

Bitcoin for me is an inflation hedge and I have all my wealth in the digital space at the moment. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Polkadot. I am simply waiting for StartUps to build more use cases around the space so I can safely stay there until I die.

So: Payment and escaping the destruction of FIAT money by the central banks.
This was the promise behind sandstorm.io
It is a complete mess due to their inability to properly support kernel interfaces. Their driver is a blob and it's the source of all their problems with integration. Nothing stopped them from upstreaming it a long time ago but they prefer keeping the mess to doing things right.

PRIME doesn't work because they only implemented it half way. After decades of not implementing anything that is. I call such level of support complete garbage.
I'm human, and I need social stimulation. What I really dislike is forced social stimulation. I would go to an office, yes. But monthly, not daily.
Chamath: Why there aren't more of us try to electrify a plane (rather than Elon)
No idea. Just saying what I am observing.

I got signal, telegram and element.io . I encourage non technically savvy people to go to signal and technically savvy people to go to element. But I see a lot of normal people switching to telegram.

Possibly just network effect due to the whatsapp exodus. If somebody you want to communicate with only has telegram, you also download it.
Virtue signaling? That seems like a stretch. GP is only saying how they think covid-19 should have been handled.
> And I’m not sure he’s contributed anything that’s taken seriously by mainstream cognitive science.

If nothing else, he single-handedly tore down behaviorism as a serious theory of the mind, which at one point was status quo and gaining traction. Chomsky used his observations from the study of language to show that behaviorism simply can't explain most of how we acquire language.

So even if his own theories of mind had not gained traction (I don't know enough about this to comment), he definitely had a major contribution to cognitive science.
I added a paragraph clarifying my stance on fractional reserve banking. That section could've indeed been easily misinterpreted. Thank you.
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