skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ideally our fixation would be on a hypothetical institution that admits people entirely at random

This is subjective and not a universal truth. I wouldn't want that at all, nor would I consider that ideal. My ideal is keep everything the way it is, just bring other institutions up to the level of ivy leagues (since we're talking ideals and not practical options).
And big mobile telecoms as well.
Anyone doing GAN with

before: old streetview pre bikelanes

after: streetview with new bike lanes

profit: now you can see what any town would look like with complete streets. I call it Complete Street View.

Please do implement. Of course it would be dreamlike, this is a strength as you wouldn’t want the gan to make design recommendations, just a plausible feel.
Man, 10KLOC is a very small project. Obviously it compiles quickly.
Linux kernel is almost 30 million lines of code.
HBM might be an interesting idea. I would love to see multiple bandwidth levels of memory becoming a norm, with computers a very fast small amount of memory, and a larger set of DRR4 or DRR5. We already have multiple levels of cache, why not having multiple levels of RAM? Operating systems and software would need to accommodate a new reality where NUMA is the norm though. But it’s good that we even have the concept of NUMA, so this is not entirely uncharted/unfamiliar territory.
Thanks Russ for that additional insight.

> I would hope that anyone sensitive to networking costs at this level would be shipping around stripped binaries, so the growth in accurate DWARF info should not be relevant to this post at all.

Good point. I removed that part from the conclusion.

> If you subtract out the strippable overheads and you take the "Dark + pclntab" as an accurate representation of Go-specific overhead [...] then the situation has actually improved markedly since Go 1.12 [...] Whereas in Go 1.12 the measured "actual program" was only about 40% of the stripped binary, in Go 1.16 that fraction has risen to closer to 55%.

Ok, that is fair. I will attempt to produce a new version of these tables with this clarification.

> the stripped CockroachDB binary in question has gotten smaller since April 2019, and less of the binary is occupied by what the post calls "non-useful" or "Go-internal" bytes.

There's an explanation for that, which is that the crdb code was also reduced in that time frame.
The paper is pretty awesome and accessibly-written: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2856963

The PDF is free-to-read.
Rock climbing is sometimes fun. It's physical, it's social, and it's got a big dose of problem-solving. I don't approach it with such enthusiasm any more (there's enough problem solving at work and in life without purposefully engaging in more), but I still do it sometimes.

I guess in some sense you could say that all the gear and understanding its use (ropes, redundancy etc.) have a tech-ish component, but I'd still generally count it as non-tech.
Yeah it's crazy. They've become so bullish on it the past 6 months, it's ridiculous. Are you?
> C might be inconvenient and lacking expressive power, but if people can't handle pointers and goto, what mess are they going to make with different address spaces and interrupts?

I have terrible news for you. People (well, humans, and I don't see anybody else signing up to maintain Linux) cannot in fact correctly handle pointers and goto. That's why they keep making mistakes.

It's actually to be hoped that Rust can usefully express constraints it has today to prevent some of those problems onto things like address spaces. It'd be great if say, driver code which can confuse a virtual address with a physical one just won't compile rather than compiling and then mysteriously not working as expected or causing occasionally BUG() reports.
This isn't measuring the same thing though - a college degree vs a high-school degree is a very different question than a college degree from an elite school vs a college degree from a slightly less elite, but still very good school.

This also appears to lack any kind of control, whereas the other study tried to control for the student's abilities.
> Where? The argument is _precisely_ that the growth is occurring in non-code areas.

But how is this important? If the thing you're optimizing for is "total Go binary size", then all that matters is the total size of binary! How bytes are organized internally is irrelevant to this metric.

You should redo the analysis where you compile an old version of Cockroach DB (say v1.0.0) with Go versions 1.8 through 1.16, and then see what the numbers say. Your current analysis, which doesn't account for growth in the code base at all, or tries to account for it by deep-diving into the internal organization of the binary, is not sound.
StreisandEffect
Insults are not an argument.
Quote:

> nybble: /nib´l/, nibble, n.
^---- see that word over here?
This is such a HN comment
I have a particularly funny recent anecdote: in the past year, a professor at my dept had two papers of his attacked by aggressive letters to the editor pointing out flaws in both methodology and interpretation. The end result has been that we published two additional papers titled "a reanalysis of [insert title of 1st paper]". So a critique of bad research ended up producing twice the amount of bad research!

It's so absurd that it has a certain Monty Python flavour twist of comedy.
I'm sure the rest of the ecosystem will just wait around for a few decades while we begin to repopulate them...
> That's probably what they thought back then, too.

Sure, after purging hundreds of thousands of "counterrevolutionary" scientists and other intellectuals.

We're in a slightly different scenario now. Our understanding of ecological impacts from this sort of action is well advanced past that of Maoist China. It may not be perfect, but it's certainly better.
a crypto scam isnt what i had in mind
I think a lot of it is that the safety nets let people be more careless, and proper skills aren’t considered prerequisites.

I grew up with the ethos that you never want to be that guy who has to get rescued from the wilderness (and I still believe that). To me, having to get rescued is a mark of severe embarrassment - not only for your own failure in the outdoors but what you’ve now obligated others to risk in the rescue attempt. That means you better have skills, be hardy, and be prepared for shit and not assume you can just “eject” from your situation with an sos button.

Things change when you get your own dependent family though, and the cheapness of a locator device like an inreach make them very cheap insurance for stupid mistakes if you still want to engage in lone multi-day wilderness excursions.

I really don’t think it should change anything in risk calculation and preparedness though. If you have to use it, it still represents a complete fail for you as an outdoorsman. The downside is that their easy availability makes people more likely to engage SAR when they should just suck it up or not have gone out in the first place.
Why it is here? HN is a political news website now?
> Meanwhile I sent hundreds of resumes, in multiple languages, formats, long ones, short ones, and so on.

That is the problem! Do not send hundreds of resumes. Instead identify what you will like to work on. Do some research to find out what companies work in that area. What they look for in a candidate(go through their career section on the website). Try to build skills in that area. Then start applying. It is not a fire-and-forget type of process. You need to prepare for a job, a job that you will like to do.
Another thought that people might dv without considering it from an intellectual perspective: Dispensing with incel negativity.. OTOH, let's consider attractive people who are accosted by people who just want to have sex with them without knowing them. That seems to feel similarly lonely, yes?

I mean, I'm no one special at all, but it feels weird in such examples as: you were chased around the playground by groups of the opposite gender before you understood, girls on the elementary school bus flashed you below their waists, much later a woman ditches her friend for you in the middle of the street, a woman wants you to get with her girlfriends, a woman pulls over and stops her car in the middle of traffic to make a proposal, or someone just comes right up to you and starts grinding on your leg after talking for 30 seconds. How can someone find intimacy if they're always anxious about not being appreciated as a person?
Rails PR to be able to opt-out of FLoC
> That's not what it says [...]

That claim was retracted a while ago already on the original version; the syndicated copy on the crl web site will be updated at some point.
Cigarettes, alcohol, and porn is actually regulated. In the US alcohol is even so tightly regulated that they bind infrastructure budgets to the legal drinking age of 21.
Yep same substance but you misunderstand my point.

The risk here is that street mushrooms usually are going to be LESS potent than people think. What happens now, is that people pull the random statistic out of thin air saying "well 3.5g is about 35mg psilocybin so 25mg is good for the study." In reality, this dosage might end up being much higher than many of the positive anecdotes about "eating an eighth". And again, there's a million horror stories that use that same 3.5g weight.

That's why its silly to compare pharma-grade psilocybin with anecdotal evidence of street mushroom potency.
Isn’t it because resellers like Walmart always require lower prices than what the brand sells publicly, otherwise brands would always undercut all their resellers? It is the case with electronics, I don’t know for food.
FWIW

> It's foolish to believe that we actually know a surefire to fix injustice

That's why I'm not an accelerationist. I think (specifically in the US and most Western countries) incrementalism is preferable and building dual power is a more fruitful path than attempting a revolution. But when incrementalism fails, direct action can become necessary. Incrementalism wouldn't have achieved universal suffrage, wouldn't have abolished racial segregation, wouldn't have decriminalized homosexuality and will not end capitalism.

Incrementalism rarely manages to topple hierarchies, it mostly just shifts them or tips them in one direction or the other.

I'm an anarchist but I don't fully believe a purely anarchic society is possible at a global scale today. I think mutualism or democratic confederalism is a more pragmatic goal but that's certainly not something we can jump into just by overcoming one power structure alone.

But as the saying goes, "it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism" (or unjust hierarchies in general, for that matter).

Thanks, I appreciate it.
What do you mean up to the level of ivy leagues? I think you missed my entire point.
We've also managed to fix quite a few.

No one's fussing much about the ecological impacts of getting rid of smallpox, polio, and guinea worm.
Thank you for this information. I often prefer to use curl or wget to download files, so this is helpful to know.
Active mode is pretty weird. Coordinating a single client across two ports sounds difficult to me, but I've never implemented it. If that's not a difficult protocol, then what is?
Which sounds pretty normal for mid- to large tech companies (and I daresay many others). Outside of layoffs or significant teams being dismantled, you're probably going to be on a performance improvement plan before being fired--and that typically has a pretty high bar.
> Each one of those innovative ideas

On their own though, right? That's not what was being asked. They wanted someway to track things that would work really well together and bring bigger benefits than things could on their own.
Depends on who you are. For me the features of a credit card all revolve around convenience and risk minimization. Convenience in that I don't have to fumble around with bills and coins. Risk minimization in that US laws give me far more protection from fraudulent uses of my credit card than fraudulent uses of a debit card (and stolen cash is just gone for good).

Only once have I ever use the deferred payment aspect of a card, and that was a 0% APR offer.
The Linux kernel is freestanding. But that's hardly the reason why kernel programming is difficult.
I don't see what's wrong with suggesting genes are causing the gap. I'm not "dogwhistling" anything, this is the most powerfully supported scientific explanation. Science denialism seems to be extremely common on this forum. Genes definitely cause other gaps like sports gaps (or do you seriously believe that is because of racism in favor of blacks?) and are known to play a huge role in ability. Even if races have equal ability, do you seriously believe the extreme selection process for elite immigration won't affect outcomes?
The key understanding of the Kelly Criterion is that you need to scale your investment size with risk; riskier investments require smaller investments. How you estimate risk and how that informs your investments is rather fluid, but understanding it is the cornerstone of professional investing.

If you don't understand that, then you are going to go eventually go bust.
"Oxitec’s mosquitoes, for instance, are genetically altered to pass what the company calls “self-limiting” genes to their offspring; when released GM males breed with wild female mosquitoes, the resulting generation does not survive into adulthood, reducing the overall population."

This is incorrect and reflects the general illiteracy of the population towards this technology. They are producing "gene drive" mosquitos, which contain a genetic element that restricts the sex their offspring, and the offspring of all their descendants, to be male. Gene drive mosquitos cannot breed with each other, because they are male, reducing the total number of mosquito offspring in the next generation, but they compete with unmodified males for mates, spreading the gene drive and exponentially growing their population and repressing the total population more.

People, even on hacker news, seem to think we live in a Spider Man comic book. From this thread:

"How long before we have lockdowns due to mutant strains of man eating mosquitos."
Preregistering studies [1] are common in some fields and a nice idea. Unfortunately my personal experience is that reproductibility, or even providing the sources for your experiments, is not something many reviewers care about in comp-sci fields. At least no conference review I received ever mentioned reproductibility no matter if it was available or not (and I am not sure anyone ever mentioned source code availability either).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preregistration_(science)
Agreed on those particular points! :).
COPPA allows children until 13 to share personal info. They just need a parent's permission to do so.
To expand on this: they basically won the right to bundle on appeal, but they were found to have abused their market power in support of IE.

First Trial:

> On June 7, 2000, the court ordered a breakup of Microsoft as its remedy.[19] According to that judgment, Microsoft would have to be broken into two separate units, one to produce the operating system, and one to produce other software components.

Appeal:

> On November 2, 2001, the DOJ reached an agreement with Microsoft to settle the case. The proposed settlement required Microsoft to share its application programming interfaces with third-party companies and appoint a panel of three people who would have full access to Microsoft's systems, records, and source code for five years in order to ensure compliance.[29] However, the DOJ did not require Microsoft to change any of its code nor prevent Microsoft from tying other software with Windows in the future.
Based on reading the thread it looks like it opens an in-app webpage that leads to the casino game.

I'm not even sure how Apple beats this back. It would be trivial for an app to link out to nefarious sites (lol ads basically do this all the time).
I’m not sure what having a network has to do with being educated.
I don't know specifics about Copperhead in particular, but Bryan Catanzaro (creator of Copperhead) is now the VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at Nvidia. He gave a talk at GTC this year, which is how I heard about all of this in the first place.

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryancatanzaro/
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/gpu-computing-julia-progra...
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Yes, that is true. But the only way to get that data is to do it. This work is one part of doing that. Someone has to be first :) (There are of course a ton of kernel-level things in Rust that don't pass the "non-experimental" bar for various people. As always, depends on exactly what you mean.)

> Any data about that, I wonder?

Possibly one of the only things harder to measure than productivity is ease of learning, haha! I had programmed in C for decades before Rust even existed. We do have a lot of people who say that they think Rust was easier to learn for them than C was. And of course many who believe the opposite. Not sure anything is conclusive in any direction. For example, it's quite possible that some people find C easier, and some people find Rust easier, and there will never be a clear winner.

Time will tell.
> athletes (affirmative action for rich whites with relatively lower credentials and scores)

I guess the hours of training don't count.

> mainly affluent politically connected blacks and latinos

I'd be curious to see stats on the number of kids of Brazilian/Mexican and Nigerian millionaires (in US dollars).
People said the same thing about the Reddit UI and look what we got...
It's hard to imagine a more toxic mainstream platform (by "mainstream" I am excluding the likes of 4chan and certain Reddit subs). I can't really think how I would design a system to better promote ad hominem attacks and mob mentality over thoughtful discussion.
Colour criminals are defined as:

WHY ARE THE COLOUR CRIMINALS BANNED?

Anish Kapoor & the creators of Vantablack for hoarding the material and for generally being rotters.

Dupont for the imprisonment of tech consultant Walter Liew for espionage, after he stole and sold blueprints for their secret titanium white process for over $30million.

T-Mobile & its parent company Deutsche Telekom for claiming magenta as their own and suing small businesses for using it.

Scientists at ISIS Neutron and Muon Source who are in the process of investigating polar bear fur, insect scales and fathers for industrial and commercial applications.

3M for their ownership of Canary Yellow.

Daniel Smith, for buying up the last reserves of quinacridone Gold pigment in the world, so that only they would be able to sell it to artists.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-stealing-dupont-whit...

https://sandrinemaugy.com/2018/04/30/the-final-batch-of-quin...
Those are mostly examples of things that are _not_ the exclusive responsibility of parents. For example, selling alcohol to children (at least here in the UK) is a criminal offence, not something you can just say "well it's the parents' fault for not stopping them coming into my shop to buy". Pre-internet, that was even true of porn. They seem to support the opposite point than you make in your second paragraph.
That is what this patch series is about. It will require using unsafe code to some degree, yes.
>If there is one thing that annoys me in games, it is when every NPC only has dialog that pertains to your story. Or when areas are walled off/boxed off/locked away because they are irrelevant to the player's goals. Maybe I have played too many games where the player is the center of the universe, but I am frankly extremely tired of it.

But I mean, oblivion, skyrim and most open world games have those. If you try to wander into any quest area before you've got the quest, either you break something or you just can't enter or finish the whole area. If you talk to any important NPC, they still treat you like the hero and talk about things only pertaining to you and your quest. Just because it's hidden behind a bunch of other pointless stuff doesn't mean that when it comes down to it, anything important in the game still revolves around you.

They also tend to have the opposite problem, where the world doesn't actually react to what you do.

In new Vegas, I decided I didn't like Caesar's legion, so I murdered them all with a flamethrower. I cleared the entire main legion encampment, all their leaders everything. Then, I went back and continued on my way to new Vegas. Any legion encampments or anything I found were exactly the same. No acknowledgment that I'd obliterated their entire leadership. It didn't matter in the end other than that I'd failed and completed a bunch of quests I didn't even know about. It didn't actually change anything in the game world.

For me, that kills the immersion. What's the point of a big open world where you can do anything if nothing you do actually has any effect or consequences?

Sure, NPC's might wander on a schedule, but they don't react at all to the fact that the slavers are completely wiped out from the area? The other side doesn't start moving in to take over their territory? Not a single thing actually changes or reflects my choices in the game.

In the end, they're still just static worlds with the illusion of giving you freedom.

>I want to see this minutia, it tells me that the game designers are detail-oriented

No it doesn't, it says designers know how to copy and paste $Generic_Useless_Item and reskin it in a variety of ways. It says they can't actually be bothered giving a world real useful detail so they fill it with meaningless padding.

> the exception of crafting,

That's the problem. What you can craft is better than anything you find in a dungeon. So when it comes down to it, you spend several hours messing around in your inventory or gathering mundane stuff so you can craft an item because you need it to go through the dungeon, but then when you go through the dungeon what you find is less good than what you crafted, so you might as well have just not even bothered.
Your argument is a bit of a mess though.

It is easier to argue that the bitcoin energy expenditure should be turned off. That would lower energy demand and prices and we're now in a regime where that makes running carbon-burning plants less attractive and they'd get turned off while any renewables that bitcoin is using would become available.

And if I could snap my fingers and replace all the GHGs with wind I would and I wouldn't care about your concerns. And you're trying to argue that I can't make that comparison but I absolutely am. The issues you're bringing up aren't 1% of the problem that we have with GHGs so worrying about perfect renewable energy or overall dropping demand is so much less right now than worrying about getting off GHGs. The localized 0.5C surface warming of wind in that paper just isn't worth talking about at this point.

But it isn't totally perfect! Surely you must agree?

No. I. Do. Not. Care. About. Perfection.
Those intros are where a lot of the recurring inside jokes originate, don't skip them!
What are some examples of behavior you would accept as being actual harm to consumers?
Why would anyone sell now that the dollar is getting printed in the trillions?
Teachers should just roll their own video upload site.