skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one aspect of Polarization in the US is that a big part of it is our expectations of polarization. I think we strongly overestimate the degree to which we can predict someone's political views and world outlook from a single statement.

I am worried we are in a positive feedback were perceptions of polarization lead to self-censorship among the less polarized, which further drives the perceptions of polarization.
I am strongly against child abuse, but I really don't have a problem with a computer being forced to emit textual patterns which include English words correlated with something a human might call a story about child abuse. It's a waste of GPU time, but enh.

It's scary that the press release from latitude talks about "and to comply with law" as a reason for review. Under US law, maybe specific threats to the President might be reportable (although one on one communication with an AI would be a stretch here...), but I'm pretty sure an AI or other system emitting textual patterns which humans view as representing fantasy sexual abuse of anything isn't illegal, just distasteful.

They're perfectly within their rights to ban it under a ToS but pretending it is for legal purposes is fucking bullshit. (Of course, I'm not a lawyer.). My understanding of court decisions is that even machine-generated images are legal, although "is this image machine generated or is it evidence of actual child sexual exploitation" is an increasingly difficult question and if you're building an automated low-cost system it often makes sense to err on the side of safety. There might be some complexity around laws related to image manipulation involving real, but legal/non-sexual minor images which are then convoluted into something sexual, or "revenge porn" use of something which simulates a specific person (or is based on that person), and maybe text can be legally questionable if it's abuse targeted to a specific person, but especially for on on one non-published communications with a computer you are probably fairly ok with a weird fantasy sexual fetish about a neighbor, even a minor neighbor, in text form, unless it rises to an actual threat.
Based on what you're saying, Brazil's data should be questionable, too.
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It is not that Anvisa is taking a political stance, but they operate under requirements of the government. The government is making it difficult for Anvisa to gather the data they need to make a decision.
Unlike the US you can pay your way out of most infractions in Thailand for a fair price.
Thank you. I just couldnt see it. For some reason i was having a mental block on that new icon appearing.
Or be expected to bike 5 miles through absurd traffic.
in such a niche market, you're better off creating competition among a few bidders, rather than putting off a significant % of the demand and relying on a person really liking the property to bid up the price.

Put another way, 4 people moderately interested in the property will probably yield a higher price than 2 people that are very interested in the property.

This is especially true in luxury real estate, where buyers go in looking to substantially change the property. They expect to bring in their own architects and designers. The staging is just a canvas.
" I have a great deal of sympathy for the Russian people, who over the years have managed to make great contributions to humanity while cynically being abused by their leaders, who have too often been a series of despots and thieves."

Hot damn.
> It's basically all the future events that happen inside the black hole isn't it?

No, you won't even see all of those if you fall in; the most you will see are the events that end up in your past light cone before you hit the singularity. That is only a portion of the entire spacetime region inside the horizon.
No, the apolitical don't feel the need to discuss politics at work; they'll get on just fine. It's the political who will leave places they disagree with, accelerating polarization.
Vacancy tax
It's more the JS ecosystem than web, because of where it started and how it's evolved organically. It's rather surprising we got this far.
I've experienced the same. It's the new normal. Yes, it's racism, but it's accepted in the current culture.
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I loved my Blackberries, and hung on to the last one as long as possible. I think I had to give it up around 2012... but even within the Blackberries, there were differences. Some keyboards were better than other, or at least, suited me better.

Having said that, I am not sure they could have withstood the app revolution without participating in. I do think they made major mistakes in their strategy at critical points, but simply focusing on their core business demographic might not have been enough. The get corporate IT on board, IIRC, you had to run a Blackberry Enterprise Server (?) for security and corporate connectedness. This was not cheap. That was becoming increasingly problematic as the iPhone and Android infrastructures caught up security-wise. In the end the cost to maintain the Blackberry servers was no longer justifiable as many people wanted the shiny new phones with all the apps.
You could also afford to set fire to a stack of $100 bills. That does not mean you find it a sensible thing to do.
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It takes about 45 minutes to don a modern spacesuit -- and that assumes the person donning the spacesuit is assisting with the process, not incapacitated.

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/spacesuits/facts/...

Edit: This says it can actually be done in five minutes in an emergency if one's willing to skip every safety check, but getting an unresponsive person into one seems like surely it would be more of a challenge -- particularly if the "helper" was wearing a spacesuit himself. Those things are awfully restrictive! And I would wager it's not a scenario they practiced.

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/how-do-you-put-...
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(Note that the subtraction is between two pointers to "struct A", not two chars. In the snippet "char" is used simply because it's 1 byte; one could also use int8_t, assuming a byte is 8 bits long.)

It's a fact about how the C language does pointer arithmetic.

For instance, suppose you have an array of many 64-bit integers, and a pointer to one of the elements of the array:

int64_t arr[100];
int64_t *p;
p = &arr[50];

Now, the value of p is a certain address in memory. As each element of the array takes 8 bytes (64 bits = 8 bytes), the address of the next element of the array is 8 bytes past the location of p. In some languages (including assembly), you have to refer to this address by manually adding 8 to the address stored in p. In C, to refer to the next element of the array, you write "p + 1", and the compiler translates that into adding 8 bytes.

Conversely, if you give the new pointer a name:

int64_t *q;
q = p + 1;

then you expect (q - p) to be 1, not 8 (even though the value stored in q is 8 more than the value stored in p).

That is, when subtracting pointers (of the same type), the result implicitly divides by the size of the type. In the code example in the blog post, as the size of "struct A" is 7 bytes, subtracting two pointers to A will subtract the memory addresses and divide by 7.

If that wasn't clear, see this sentence on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pointer_(computer... or the answers to this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3238482/pointer-subtract... or play with it yourself here: https://godbolt.org/z/M6PEWYeYx
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Let me offer a rephrasing: your claim that the original iPhone's skeuomorphic design was "to make the phone look small" and that the later, flatter UI design was "to make the same device look bigger" requires more of an explanation than your implicit "this is clearly obvious to even the most casual of observers." I don't recall anyone at Apple ever explaining that their original UI choices were about "making the phone look small," nor have I ever learned in UI design -- which I have studied -- that smallness is some inherent property of skeuomorphism.

So maybe you could enlighten us without being, you know, a jerk about it.
I really like educative.io. I pay for it every year. Lots of great content and it is well curated.
IIRC, you urinate a decent chunk of it out too.
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> simply provide all the storage space first and get the exact same "insta-mine" result while advertising it to people like you that actually care about no premines. A dozen ways to get the same result, its all marketing.

You only get the same result if you completely monopolize mining for the first twenty-one years. If you control 50% of mining, it would take 119 years to achieve the equivalent. My issue is not that there is a premine. It's the scale of it.
You don't need a standard for ad-hoc whiteboard diagrams or expositional figures. You're comparing apples and oranges because what you are talking about needing this level of precision in is more "blueprints", not ad-hoc diagrams.

And, while it's my opinion only, blueprints for software are best written in prose. For C++ for example, I think the best language to use is concise, precise, well written, C++. And so on.
Thanks for the great list of resources for debugging gpu performance! Android GPU Inspector and http://shader-playground.timjones.io/ all look pretty cool.

Do you have any other debugging tips or tooling recommendations for a complete graphics noob?

I have only done one webgl project before but that experience was pretty painful. When writing my first glsl shader I basically committed every performance sin possible. Like in your case, the slowness is hard to notice on a beefy desktop, it was only on mobile devices when it becomes apparent. My debugging process was then to comment out lines, rerun, and squint at the fps. There must be a better workflow than this!

(iirc, my issue was that I was using "discard" in my fragment shader which is apparently especially bad on powervr architectures https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8509051/is-discard-bad-f...)
If they can afford the tax that's fine. At least then the inhabitants of the city get value out of the empty apartment buildings. Hell, it can be used to build other apartment buildings that aren't empty.
some humans are scammers, most scams are repeatable. so if scammers in country X benefit from credential scamming, then it follows that their exist scammers in countries Y and Z that are also benefiting via their own application of the scamming technique.
Oh Force Touch, this was one of the biggest UX fails of the modern Apple era. It all goes back to one of Apple's Macintosh era fails: the one button mouse. This was one thing that can be reasonably argued (as I do) that Jobs was wrong about.

Right-clicking became so ubiquitous and even consistent on Windows. You needed the same behaviour on Macs but had no second mouse button so got that by using modifier keys. Some apps it was Option, others control and so on.

The problem was that those modified clicks had no discoverability and less consistency than right-clicking. Windows users on the other hand learned that nothing bad could happen with a right click.

Force Touch as a similar kind of UX fail with no discoverability. There was (and is) no consistency with what a Force Touch means or should mean or even if it's an option at all.

But yes, Force Touch did make the iPhone thicker and heavier.
Why do you think the post did not refer to its author's understanding, that your experience would be the same as hanging forever just outside the horizon except in finite time from your perspective? This would be my default interpretation of their comment, and since you are successfully attacking a different stronger interpretation you should reconsider that this strong interpretation is the right way to interpret the comment. That's scenario is actually covered in HN discussion rules.

To be fair until your comment I wrongly believed the moment you'd be crossing horizon you'd be hit by all light ever emitted toward that point of the horizon in the entirety of the future (assuming no hawking radiation of course).
Apparently they don't do insta-nuke.

"violate terms of service with elf"
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"continue"
I agree! I was just trying to say that it's unfair to tar them with Wakefield's nonsense.
>Humanity will start doing more and more things without understanding why, but because "the computer said so", and things work out when the computer says they will. Black boxes will explode in usage, and God forgive those that may be on the side where The computer says No.

That sounds like a hellish dystopia.
Real troubles start when it is not your fault.
Yes, exactly. Modelling things has many uses (collaborative thinking, communication, dependency tracing, complexity management etc.) and specifying things is probably one of the least useful of these. I work with UML (and Sparx EA) primarily as a high-level architecture tool. Once everybody has a rough shared understanding of what and why we are building, people get to coding and UML stops. Should we get to a problem, we dig up the initial idea, validate it, us it for problem-solving and move on. Sometimes sequence diagrams might be used for making sure everybody has the same understanding of how an interaction should go. But that’s it. Communication, problem-solving, knowledge management. And not specification.
One step closer to massive sky rise arcologies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology
Considering that projects nowadays have all dependencies installed into their folders, what else is both viable and much smaller? If we had to install everything required for a hello.c into c_modules, including a compiler, libc, etc, it wouldn’t take less than 34mb.

Of course a counter argument is that you don’t usually swap C compilers between projects and libc is stable af, but if a toolchain and/or stdlib was constantly changing and subject to non-compat, you’d have to.
> 114. Your needs come first. Then come those of your co-workers. Both come before that of the customer and before that of your manager. You need to be healthy, learning about the task at hand, improving your mental model of the product, and building a theory of how the code works. Otherwise, you aren’t going to be able to address anybody else’s needs.

I really like this. As always, the devil is in the boundaries (masseuses at work and limos to/from work are not "needs") but the basic principle is right: if the employee isn't in good shape, they can't serve the customer, which is how they serve the business.
I have thought the same many times before. One part of the reason why is that Japan, since the Meiji administration, has been actively creating myths about the "unique uniqueness" of Japanese culture, i.e. that Japan is not just unique like all countries and cultures are unique, but "uniquely unique" - beating all other cultures at being unique.
Which of course is just an attempt to disguise the idea that Japanese culture is superior to all others to make it more easily digestible.
The effort of the Japanese government to project soft power through the "cool Japan" initiative (Anime, Manga, J-Pop, games, etc.) seems to work wonders on Americans, but a little less so on Europeans.
There's a great book that puts the hype around "everything Japan" in perspective: "Japan - A Reinterpretation" (ISBN 97806797451120)
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> Also AI dungeon is a multiplayer game so yeah

What? No it isn't.

Technically there's a "multiplayer" mode but that's fundamentally just people taking turns. Restricting certain kinds of content for that reason is nonsense, akin to restricting the kind of story you can write in google docs because multiple people might have been given access to a document.
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Public and private will always be on unequal footing, due to the difference in the their objectives. It may also be worthwhile to point out that public infra is designed to serve even people who can’t otherwise afford it, as well as limited by their ability to attract talent. (I’m sure there are others.)

I had assumed we all felt comfortable using “public/private” as a shortcut for all of these differences, but am learning that is not necessarily shared. In terms of moving the discussion forward, what were you hoping to achieve by pointing out some of these facts?
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Loved my BlackBerry passport, perfect form factor. Very bad phone reception sadly and never happy with the android apps.
My wife and I once visited a friend of a friend who was “living like a king” in northern Thailand. He had a walled compound with a Mets baseball theme, a half dozen Burmese slaves, and had recently downsized from multiple wives to 1. He explained that there were three ways people make money in Thailand, drugs, money lending, and prostitution. And that he didn’t touch drugs...

It was one of the saddest and strangest experiences of my life.

But yes. People do this. It is weirder than you think.
I can’t tell if that’s sarcasm or not so I’ll just remind everyone of Adam Smith: "A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural."

In this country there was a time yes where inheriting it is shady and it’s something I fear our conservative brothers have forgotten. The problems of multi-generational wealth were clearly visible to our founders looking at Europe. It should be patently offensive to all Americans
But which country are you living in ?
Would you please stop posting political flamewar comments to HN? You did it repeatedly in this thread and it's not what this site is supposed to be for.

Others are doing it too, but not counting the account that started it (which we just banned), yours stands out as doing it worse.

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You can back up all Telegram chats including Media, of course this doesn't replace email, but the difference is just a client to parse the data and log it in a message style front end.

Overall, email is killer, I would love to move everything toward emails that I can filter, or as the OP posted, a Unified inbox.

I wonder if there is a patent on it.
If the leader of the infosec company is ex-CIA... that doesn't seem unreasonable.
Natural selection prefers people who think otherwise, unfortunately.
We have been using objects of the kind described in your last paragraph, called compilers since the 1950s, and with the increasing number of portability-focused high-performance DSLs / frameworks like tensorflow or OneAPI, we are only going further down this direction. But yet 70 years after the advent of compilers, there are still people who know how to open-up the machine, improve it, and fix it, and there probably always will be.

I don't see how machine learning, at least in its current non-AGI state, will be any different. It's just that your average end-user will have no idea how to "open up the machine", but that's also true for compiler technology today.
I don’t think it’s that big of an explosion risk; it’s just a matter of finding the right pressure to hold water at 212F permanently. Pressure cookers already exceed this IIRC, so off the shelf equipment should suffice.
I mean, they literally call themselves the Communist Party? How else would you succinctly express them?
There's a risk vs productivity balance. Most people develop for systems which are connected to the internet and can be updated on demand, in that case it makes sense to "shit out javascript" because we can go back and optimise and fix things later. That doesn't mean you can't use proper design patterns, but you shouldn't front-load work for something which is most likely going to be wrong for the customer when they see it regardless.

The fact that we can iterate on something once it's released means that engineering in a software sense is different from any other discipline which we call engineering.
When you see an "easy" solution to congestion, there are usually factors that make it not so easy - if cities rely on cars for personal transport and don't provide a transit alternative, then congestion pricing alone isn't going to help other than being a regressive tax on the people that can least afford to pay it. The $200K/year software engineer can avoid the $10 tax by working from home until 10am when the rate drops to $5. The $30K/year service worker doesn't have that option, when his workday starts at 9am, he has no choice.

And you can only stretch out the commute so far with congestion pricing before the morning commute runs into the afternoon commute, already in the bay area (pre-covid), I was seeing stop and go traffic from early afternoon through 8pm or so. COVID has been a nice reprieve from the traffic, but many companies want their employees back in the office, so within a year or so, traffic levels will be back to pre-covid levels, maybe worse because many people moved farther away when they were working from home.
Vite looks like an interesting option to fill part of the asset pipeline gap in Asp.Net Core and Blazor.. Could use it for the inevitable TypeScript project and provide HMR for JS and CSS.
But the bigger news was that Anvisa, the Brazilian drug agency, said that every single lot of the Ad5 Gamaleya shot that they have data on appears to still have replication-competent adenovirus in it.

Sounds like a manufacturing quality-control problem. This is why you need so much sampling and analysis in drug production. It's probably fixable, but denial will not help.
I agree with the point about game being overloaded, but the statement that relatively few people want to play games like fortnite on their phones is clearly false. PubG alone has tens of millions of people who play it exclusively on mobile, and it is very much a game like fortnite.
That's just nonsense. Australia has had one of the harshest lockdown measures in the developed world and we're quite Corona free at the moment. We're living in our own little bubble. Everyone who could, had to work from home during the lockdown. Everyone else was supported by a salary equivalent payment from the govt. Now, people are back at work. But when it can be done from home, most people are still choosing to do it that way. And we're haven't lost any productivity. Rather gained more due to savings in commuting time. Also, as our lives get easier, we're more grateful because of it and the overall positivity definitely helps with productivity. I've been lucky to work for a company that promotes this more. Even after everything is normal, no one is being forced to come back to the office. Because it doesn't matter. We get the same thing done more effectively. You're right about one thing. I'm also itching to get back to work. I do that once or twice a week. Mostly to catch up with mates and grab some lunch together.
You can't be neutral on a moving train. If you're not fighting against it, you're for it.
We use AWS SES for email on production, and use mailgun for the rest.

> 20M/day transaction email

We get better support and explanation from SES.

Totally recommended AWS SES, but for usage statistic you need to create one with their SNS
This is a solved problem.

The municipality provides the fiber network. All ISPs rent dark fiber, local loops, wavelengths or bitstream access on equal open access terms.

All on equal footing and equal terms.
A good place to start is the official blog/wiki: https://chia.net/2021/02/22/plotting-basics.html

Reddit also has some good plotting/farming recommendations among the usual chaff.