skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple has claimed that it can install higher capacity batteries because they're not consumer-replaceable, giving devices a longer life before the battery has to be replaced. You can buy that explanation or assume it was solely to make more money, but design tradeoffs are a thing.
> For a growing percentage of the workplace, knowing that a coworker has a socially unacceptable opinion is creating a hostile work environment.

Which is basically supporting the wrong political party at this point.

Are we really sure we want to go down this road?
More transparency in some form, requiring researchers to publish code and data openly for instance.
I think this story actually proves the point. In this case, people were monsters at work and respectable people at home.

Therefore it works the other way around too: someone can worship Satan in a death metal band in his private life and work at a Catholic school.

The very definition of maturity is assuming the role appropriate to the situation. What I think might influence my decisions, but in my job is my duty to set aside what I think and act in the interest of my employer. Not mine.

Now we live in a time where your work identity an personal are conflated into one. Your work is who you are. There's no longer life beyond it.

Maybe is a good thing... But it's certainly exhausting to me. Everyone putting up their best behavior all the time.
Say you are the person who doesn't like one of your co-workers. Whatever reason, maybe they remind you of someone who treated you poorly. Maybe you just don't have compatible personalities. Whatever it is, something about them irks you. Still, you're a professional, so you treat them with the same respect and courtesy you treat everyone else.

You vent your feelings on your livejournal or whatever. Keeping things anonymous, but your co-worker finds it and demands that you be fired. Should you be fired?
What if the employee is into domination role playing in the bedroom. Should we fire such employees in the case they brought their interest into the work place and created a toxic environment?

I could imagine how any generic law that tried to address this would break horrible in all the multiple ways people have opinion, views and hobbies that if brought to work would create a toxic environment and be grounds for firing. Many would be in direct conflict with anti-discrimination laws.
I don't really see why "being shunned" or "being a visionary" has anything to do with this, to be honest. If you set up a simple rule: "the results have to be reproducable", then surely it shouldn't matter whether or not the theory is considered "crackpot" or "brilliant"?
Read the small text above it

> That's right – purchases of UE include a key for UC Pro at no additional cost.
Significant amounts of Vikings left Scandinavia to settle other places in Europe, so maybe the ones left behind were less predisposed to commit crimes /s
How about we do that in Lisp, and then apply the invert function to its own source code?

1> (defun invert (tree)
(if (atom tree)
tree
(cons (invert (cdr tree)) (invert (car tree)))))
invert
2> (invert '(defun invert (tree)
(if (atom tree)
tree
(cons (invert (cdr tree)) (invert (car tree))))))
((((nil (((nil ((nil (nil (nil . tree) . car) . invert) (nil (nil . tree) . cdr) . invert) . cons) . tree)
(nil . tree) . atom) . if)
nil . tree) . invert) . defun)

A Lisp tree structure can be regarded not as a binary tree, but as an n-ary tree; under which we can come up with a different semantics for inverting:

3> (defun invert2 (tree)
(if (listp tree)
[mapcar invert2 (reverse tree)]
tree))
invert2

Now for comparison, we apply that to the original invert:

4> (invert2 '(defun invert (tree)
(if (atom tree)
tree
(cons (invert (cdr tree)) (invert (car tree))))))
(((((tree car) invert) ((tree cdr) invert) cons) tree (tree atom)
if)
(tree) invert defun)

That's actually halfway readable.

Okay, now let's crank up the stupid knob to about 7.5.

5> (defun invert3 (tree)
(cond ((listp tree)
[mapcar invert3 (reverse tree)])
((symbolp tree) (intern (reverse (symbol-name tree))))
(t tree)))

invert3
6> (invert3 '(defun invert (tree)
(if (atom tree)
tree
(cons (invert (cdr tree)) (invert (car tree))))))
(((((eert rac) trevni) ((eert rdc) trevni) snoc) eert (eert mota)
fi)
(eert) trevni nufed)

and finally to 11:

12> (defun invert4 (tree)
(let ((tree-picture (with-out-strlist-stream (s)
(print tree s))))
(each ((line tree-picture))
(let* ((rl (reverse line))
(sb (mapcar (relate "()" ")(") rl)))
(put-line `@{sb -78}`)))))
invert4
13> (invert4 '(defun invert (tree)
(if (atom tree)
tree
(cons (invert (cdr tree)) (invert (car tree))))))
trevni nufed)
(eert mota) fi) (eert)
((eert rdc) trevni) snoc) eert
(((((eert rac) trevni)
nil

Look, text-wise left-right mirror image of the printed version of the tree!
Crash test safety is the answer.
Looking at this thread, references to Nazis, KKK etc. are fairly frequent.

One of the curses of the woke movement is the loss of the ability to distinguish between really bad things and banalities. Nothing is banal anymore.

If a Cuban guy writes something unflattering about SV women in his book, it might not be pretty, but it is a far cry from "let's roll our armored brigades through the continent, enslave unwanted ethnic groups and gas millions of people as subhumans" or "lynch blacks and terrorize entire cities".

Signatories of the "fire him" letter do not seem to distinguish that anymore. That is the fruit of the victim mentality tree, watered with everyday Twitter outrage. Nothing is banal and every crisis must be escalated to verbal equivalent of nuclear war.

I wonder if tech rotted our minds. Social networks are full of vicious, all-out conflicts that nevertheless do not cause any visible physical destruction and fatalities - or at least, most of the time. Thus, we are losing our ability to de-escalate, compromise and move beyond. But precisely this ability is the core of diplomacy, as opposed to constant wars that plagued the world previously. This is a dangerous way to go. It feels like a prelude to the religious wars of the 1600s and 1700s. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odium_theologicum
> But after you get above the base model, the only thing available is "crew cabs" which is the full 4-seat SUV size interior.

Looking at ford.com, I could order an F-150 with regular cab (2 door) and 8 ft bed for $30K.

Looking at Dodge, the 1500 doesn't seem to have an 8ft bed option, but I could order a 2500 with regular cab and 8ft bed for $36K.
I suspect his neural net library used in this could become quite useful and propagate far and wide if it were open-sourced: https://bellard.org/libnc/
Trust is a thing that is becoming more and more important these days with more and more of users secrets going through our devices. Wouldn't want all your email or banking details to be sucked up by a cheap wifi-chip which could have backdoors either by design or by accident. This is also why one should stay away from cheap IoT-gimmicks.

Another interesting aspect is reputation of quality in case repair shops don't restore the device to original performance, while customers still think they are running genuine parts, because it's very hard to visually inspect and understand what happens inside, as opposed to a toaster.

Not saying i'm for all these locks but pointing out it's a lot more multi-faceted than the article presents it.
Sorta, but unless you want source for the chip, there likely isn't anything that interesting you can learn from looking at traces, even with pins labeled. Competitors probably already do this for every new, interesting device. The biggest risk is probably device security, but you can't really depend on pinouts being secret for that.
One could equally ask why it bothers you so much - don't you have any real problems? People don't need permission for their aesthetic tastes.
It has non subscription options of you find the tiny, tiny link for "more purchase options".
Seeing this comment triggered several memories about how out of touch I felt the lyft office folks were - both as a rider and as a driver.

I was quite shocked on several occasions actually - some things were at times 'tone deaf' other times I wondered how they could do things that most would certainly know are going to disgust some 40% of the population and yet push it out there to everyone anyway.

And to see what they think of the drivers, while you are driving some of them - just wow. I hope they never get knocked off that high horse fantasy land they are living in.

Of course my experience is a small data point comparatively and not necessarily indicative of the corporate culture as a whole 100 - and all that.. I can imagine working with the folks I encountered on a few rides - working in close proximity with them every day would be mentally exhausting.
Compression achieved on the first billion bytes of English Wikipedia is only 0.88 bits per byte (bpb). Even when the decompressing program is large at almost 200KB, that is... wow!
In Eastern Europe under communism, you would be thrown in jail if you did not work. The official name of this crime was "parasitism", as you were not contributing to society - this happened to an uncle of mine who had to serve one summer of hard labor for not finding work fast enough after graduating. That ticket that said you had a job and showed up each day was a life and death thing. It also famously happend to Joseph Brodsky -- sentenced to five years hard labor for parasitism when the authorities decided that being a poet did not constitute gainful labor.

Also, if you missed a day of work, you better have a doctor's note. I once asked my parents what happened if you just didn't show up to work for a day and didn't have a doctor's note, and she looked at me and said "I don't think anyone dared to do that." Imagine being thrown in jail for calling in sick but not having a doctor's note to show your employer.

Of course crimes like theft were punished a lot more severely than in the West, and the result was indeed very little of that type of crime. Of course having an extensive network of secret police and informants everywhere helped with that. But that's the difference between being the revolutionary trying to overthrow capitalism and being the nomenklatura trying to keep the shelves stocked once capitalism has been overthrown.
Sure, but I wouldn't have described that as precision necessarily, so I wondered if there's a different nuance I'm missing.
Injecting strings from user input into generated HTML? Sure, to hell with checking if it contains script tags and/or onclick= attributes, or perform any kind of escaping alltogether for that matter.
The old Bloomberg keyboards had a separate "Help" key. However, the new one merged it again with the "F1” key.
> Trust is a thing that is becoming more and more important these days with more and more of users secrets going through our devices.

How many hardware backdoored PC's have you encountered in your life?
The Deep Tech Investment Paradox: a call to redesign the investor model [pdf]
I hope he's eligible for the Hutter prize for this improvement, should be a pretty nice sum.
I don't get the sense that Wittenstein was suspicious of infinity as an idea / concept in itself, only of its treatment in mathematical logic. Otherwise much of his writings on it could've been far more terse.
You are one of those fascist wokes I hope I never have to work with.
Unless he published a formal demonstration of Gödel's 'error', Wittengenstein's belief is of mere biographical interest. History is littered with eminent people who had all sorts of erroneous beliefs about theories and ideas that we now see as having withstood the test of time.
Labeled data is easy to come by in popular language though. Just get an Audible subscription.
Yeah - you are being paid to think to solve the problem specifically related to your work, not being lost in thoughts about your personal political beliefs.
I agree. Everytime this project gets mentioned somewhere, it turns to be still vaporware.
Add Seattle and Portland to the list.

This is a west coast phenomenon largely driven by IMO west coast policies.
Repairability might not be interesting for something that people only own for three years. It's hard to measure for new devices, but reliability is just as important.
I understand that a growing number of people are confused about what hostile work environment means. That still does not change the meaning as the law defines it, nor should we change it to accommodate those people.
It might be silly without evidence. The threshold for silliness would become a lot lower if there were a history of systemic problems and extensive evidence of similar scenarios in the present.
Interesting video about drummers talking about Ringo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJTjjAXDZSY
Seagate Specs the Mach.2, the World’s Fastest Hard Drive
Nope, like autonmous driving the problem will be the last 20%
What if he said that privately and you somehow found out. Would it be OK? Because a huge amount of people say similar things privately among their friends and the world keeps turning.

What you describe sounds more like being the victim of gossip, which is probably a far more common and serious problem in workplaces. Should gossip be banned?
Really? Ever tried vi in read-only mode?
It's quite good..
Inndian here, just like someone was saying upthread, there are millions of police offices in India. Lets not get carried away and say all are corrupt annd people are not getting beat left and right as you seem to inisinuate.
Data and code archives, along with better methods training.

Data manipulation generally doesn't happen by changing values in a data frame. It's done by running and rerunning similar models with slightly different specifications to get a P value under .05, or by applying various "manipulations" to variables or the models themselves for the same effect. It's much easier to identify this when you have the code that was used to recreate whatever was eventually published.
Yeah, it's weird the author didn't discuss these positive aspects of the lockdowns and other measures.

There's plenty of mention and data to support it, like decreased number of miscarriages.

Anecdotally, I know a number of Alzheimer patients in care facilities did much better when their families weren't allowed to visit them. Painful of course, but probably just related to 'normal' life in these homes being too crazy and them needing more quiet space. Others did worse.
Right, my point is that it's the statistics that matter, not circumstantial evidence like opinions they expressed in the past.

If there's a murder in the workplace, sure, maybe the employee who writes murder mysteries on the weekend did it. But you'd still need actual evidence to convict them.
Hash Functions for GPU Rendering
This is all very admirable, but if it were me, and I wanted to get a game in people's hands, and I was intent on supporting Linux, and the major engines' Linux support had issues (or I was writing a custom engine), I'd honestly target the web and maybe provide an Electron wrapper if it felt appropriate. Even if I was using a native language.

I'm sure this is an unpopular opinion in these circles, but unless you're doing game development for the programming side of things, I just can't see how it would be worth all the hoops you'd have to jump through when there's an open, pretty performant, 100% cross-platform runtime-and-graphics-toolkit, just sitting there waiting to be used.
I worked in the academic world for two years. What I saw was that lots of people are under a constant pressure to publish, and quantity is often put above quality.

I've seen papers without any sort of value or reason to exist being bruteforced through reviewing just to avoid some useless junk data of no value whatsoever being wasted, all to just add a line on someone's CV.

This is without saying that some Unis are packed of totally incompetent people that only got to advance their careers by always finding a way to piggyback on someone else's paper.

The worst thing I've seen is that reviewing papers is also often offloaded to newly graduated fellows, which are often instructed to be lenient when reviewing papers coming from "friendly universities".

The level of most papers I have had the disgrace to read is so bad it made me want to quit that world as soon as I could.

I got to the conclusion the whole system is basically a complex game of politics and strategy, fed by a loop in which bad research gets published on mediocre outlets, which then get a financial return by publishing them. This bad published research is then used to justify further money being spent on low quality rubbish work, and the cycle continues.

Sometimes you get to review papers that are so comically bad and low effort they almost feel insulting on a personal level.

For instance, I had to reject multiple papers not only due their complete lack of content, but also because their English was so horrendous they were basically unintelligible.
To give my thoughts about the term 'Big Discoveries': I think it's mainly from the influence of the Enlightenment to focus on discovering absolute, simple laws of nature, and analytically using these laws to obtain a greater understanding of the world. But recently we are now discovering that most of the phenomenon we empirically observe (whether it be chemistry, biology, or society) can't be deduced straightforwardly from those laws, and conversely there is a limit to how we can deduce absolute laws from empirical data, due to the complex nature of large dynamic systems (interplay between molecules, interplay between cells, interplay between humans). The grand problem of Complexity still haunts us to this day.

I think that in the near future there will be a mode shift about how we think about science and technology in general. Simulation will start to replace analytic reasoning (since logical deduction inside our heads has reached its limits of analyzing complex systems), and science will become more and more indistinguishable from engineering (The question of 'what is possible?' will begin to replace 'why is this possible?'). I'm both terrified and excited about this new era.
> How do you deal with shy students, or ones who don't like to participate?

With students who aren't participating in the current model? They will (have the opportunity to) do better than they are now, as when they watch prerecorded lectures they can skip back to parts they didn't understand. As opposed to their current behavior of not speaking up and, therefore, not being able to go over the content again.
And the not main usage?
> Seattle’s been awesome so far.

Seattle might be headed that way with our city council. Make sure to vote.
Americans tend to idealize European countries. We generally have a more accessible healthcare, but otherwise, well... European cities are chock-full of beggars and homeless people. Welfare structures are often hidden behind a high wall of bureaucratic compliance that pretty much locks some people out.

And even if you can manage those, your simple existence won't be on a level of a person with a normal job. Especially a single young person or a childless family cannot expect living beyond a very, very basic level from welfare money. Low enough that you won't be very happy.

Also, work does not end on the dot in Europe either. There are some countries that enshrined the right to do so into laws, but most have not. If you compete in a global economy, there tends to be a race to the bottom.
Commodore’s Assemblers: MOS Resident Assembler
The pre-IPO company I worked at was acquired by a large public company. The deal was closed about two months after it was announced.

Exercised options and vested RSUs were paid out at a certain price per share.

Unvested RSUs and options were converted to options and stock of the acquiring company, at proportional unit and strike price, with the same vesting terms.

People with vested, but unexercised options were given a choice between exercising their options and getting cash after close, or holding on to their options and getting options of the acquiring company.

The money transaction was handled by Computershare.

Expect a large tax bill.

You might get to learn how much stock top management owns. Except some unhappiness in the troops right after that announcement.

Happy to answer other specific questions.
Note that it is an XML formatted version of Wikipedia, so some of that data is very predictable XML tags.
The problem isn't that everything is in some way political. It's people who are looking to make things political.

But often they are political and people are simply pointing it out, which makes other people uncomfortable. 'That's just how X is' or 'things have always been that way, what's the big deal' are very often the product of past political decisions whose results have become the default.
I have personally recommended for publication papers written by people who do not have a master's degree. In most cases I did not know that at the time of review, but it did not occur to me to care about it when I did.
1. You can limit access to IMS to certain processes inside linux
2. Just combine the policies

If you’re worried about malicious processes on the EC2 altering the fingerprint, you got bigger issues. You can also sign the fingerprint with gpg.
Keep in mind that highly cited papers are usually first to their field on a particular subject, and it makes sense that they will be usually be less "accurate" simply because they don't have the luxury of building off of a direct line of prior research.

The first Tesla Model S isn't anywhere as good as the current version, but it was still groundbreaking. Academic publications work the same way.
It’s not lost? It just isn’t currently commercially viable.

Read the article carefully - they say “in the wild” about a dozen times.

Stenophylla is known as Highland Coffee in Liberia and Leone (distinct from Liberian coffee, Liberica), and is cultivated and roasted on a small scale. Little to none is exported.

I’ve tried it. It’s ok. Somewhere between arabica and Liberica. Can’t recommend Liberica though, I thought it tasted like burning rubber.
It’s a very cool achievement (a NN in 200KB, to compress? Wow) but the CMIX compression program performs better in the 1st benchmark, and is competitive in the 2nd.

So he does not beat the SoTA “by a substantial margin”. Your comment is overstating the case.
On one hand, it'd be nice to get the board so you can fix it yourself. On the other, if Apple doesn't know how to diagnose or fix its own hardware, I'm not sure most repair shops would be any better. Or maybe competition in the repair space would make them up their game.
It's a notable portion of 'Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics'.
Oh wow I’m pretty sure I’ve been debugging this issue all week and was on the verge of reformatting my Mac back to Catalina (as I don’t recall seeing this there). What great timing!

I noticed the issue as my laptop feeling laggy overall, but especially that graphics on the laptop screen (eg the minimise animation) ran at like 5fps when my external monitor was connected - they were fine without, and the external monitor was ok.

A friend said theirs was fine with the same setup but a 4K monitor so I did wonder if it was something to do with scaling but wasn’t aware you could do anything about it. Will test this out tomorrow!

Slightly off topic but related - had a fun day yesterday tracking down the fact that in Big Sur, timers in tasks that are not in the foreground (ie the active window) start firing up to 10 secs late. I thought it must be a symptom of whatever issue was making my computer laggy but it actually seems to be aggressive power saving... so if anyone knows how to opt out of that I’ll be happy, really messes up what I was doing yesterday (basically a program that forwards IPC messages between two programs - they start arriving late after 10 secs or so).