skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An algorithm M is described that solves any well-defined problem p as quickly as the fastest algorithm computing a solution to p, save for a factor of 5 and low-order additive terms. M optimally distributes resources between the execution of provably correct p-solving programs and an enumeration of all proofs, including relevant proofs of program correctness and of time bounds on program runtimes. M avoids Blum's speed-up theorem by ignoring programs without correctness proof.

So this solves any problem that you can formally specify with the same complexity as the best algorithm?

This sounds too good to be true, what's the catch?
MyST-Parser/MyST-NB provides a great environment for extensible markdown with Sphinx (fully supplanting any need to work with rST). Combined with sphinx-pydata-theme, you get a clean look with little configuration. We use this for some large C projects (with and without Breathe), though the Sphinx apidoc ecosystem is indeed better for Python. (Material is great, but comparison with Sphinx isn't so clear-cut.)

https://myst-nb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Video Shows Two Bees Work Together to Unscrew a Soda Bottle
Yes, technically you don't have to join unions anywhere in the US. If you want, you can give up your membership and benefits, but still have to pay dues. Obviously, that's really one-sided, which is why a few states (but not the whole US) have passed right-to-work laws.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -C.S. Lewis
Marvell? I thought that DC had all the Flash controller rights.
Scientists induced hallucinations in mice to learn more about human psychosis
I found hugo with documentation templates to be enough. How does this compare?
"Privateering" is an excellent analogy (if it's even different enough to be considered an analogy, and not just more or less exactly the same thing).
> My understanding is that NVMe interface is pretty much as close as you can get to the CPU without being integrated.

The best for consumer technology, yes. But future I/O protocols continue to improve and get better.

NVidia / IBM's collaboration on OpenCAPI (which is deployed in Summit as a CPU/GPU interface) has 300GBps I/O between the CPU and GPU, far faster than NVMe speeds (and even DDR4 RAM bandwidth).

And future chips may go even faster. I/O is probably one of the fastest growing aspects of a modern computer. PCIe 5.0, CXL, OpenCAPI, etc. etc. Lots and lots of new technology coming into play here.

There are even some products on making Flash-RAM work on the DDR4 interface. Non-volatile memory is what that's called. Intel's Optane works pretty well on that. Its not very mainstream but I hear reports that its impressive (slower than real RAM of course, but storage that has the bandwidth of RAM is still cool).

> Is there a world where these things can operate as fast as RAM?

Well... yesish. Flash is a kind of RAM (random access memory).

To answer your fundamental question though: No. Flash is fundamentally higher latency than DRAM (aka: DDR4). But with enough parallelism / big enough flash arrays (or DRAM arrays), you can continue to get higher and higher bandwidth.

At the top-of-the-line is SRAM, the RAM used to make L1 cache and registers inside of CPUs. This is very expensive and rarely used.

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Then you've got various non-mainstream RAMs: FRAM, MRAM, Optane, etc. etc.
1. I like it because it automatically takes care of HTML tags. I was tired of remembering to manually open and close tags for paragraphs, links, lists, tables, etc. It made the tedium go away and let me focus more on authoring the text itself. If markdown doesn't implement a tag I'm looking for, I can drop it in where needed and not think twice about it.

2. I rather like it, due to 1.

3. I haven't tried pushing it. Does anyone non-technical enjoy using a markup language? In my experience, markup is hidden behind a rich text control of some kind.
LexisNexis Opt-Out Form
Do you think the only purpose of a union is wages?
If Mozilla is still having to do a paid option - MDN Plus - they are obviously not getting enough. Looks like around the price of one employee for the top funders.

Unless Mozilla is suddenly operating for profit and following the ol' "why get some of the money when you can get all of the money" business model.
The Unabomber was just an 80s-90s techno-utopian played backwards.

He was also a victim of unethical human experimentation, something that I'm sure helped radicalize him. If you read his manifesto it sounds personal in places because the feelings behind it are. There's a line I actually remember about how these scientists "need to be punished." He's globalizing it via his ideology, which is a coping mechanism often employed by trauma victims, but I don't think he's truly talking about "scientists" generally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski#Harvard_College

"In his second year at Harvard, Kaczynski participated in a study described by author Alston Chase as a "purposely brutalizing psychological experiment" led by Harvard psychologist Henry Murray. Subjects were told they would debate personal philosophy with a fellow student and were asked to write essays detailing their personal beliefs and aspirations. The essays were turned over to an anonymous individual who would confront and belittle the subject in what Murray himself called "vehement, sweeping, and personally abusive" attacks, using the content of the essays as ammunition.[26] Electrodes monitored the subject's physiological reactions. These encounters were filmed, and subjects' expressions of anger and rage were later played back to them repeatedly.[26] The experiment lasted three years, with someone verbally abusing and humiliating Kaczynski each week.[27][28] Kaczynski spent 200 hours as part of the study.[29]"

There was no IRB (institutional review board) in those days.
You are conflating cause and effect. Security budget of Bitcoin is defined by block reward. Miners just compete to get a larger piece of the pie. Bitcoin price (and thus security budget) are so high because Bitcoin is the default-go-to cryptocurrency. Media talk about two CCs: Bitcoin (in serious tone) and DogeCoin (as a joke). That what explains Bitcoin domination over all other CCs - dumb money.

Unless you are saying that folks who started 'stacking sats' during last two years are a bright bunch and they are capable of reasoning about CCs security.

> Why does every proposal without miner majority support fail?

Watch miners getting owned during Ethereum's transition to PoS.
> I am well aware (and have been for decades) that I've been the beneficiary of white male privilege

Excellent. Either you got this training at some point or you figured it out yourself. The point of such training is to make sure that all of us white men understand that benefits we've gotten from systemic racism.

This is not really different from other aspects of education. I spent plenty of time in computer science classes where I already understood the material. I had some exposure to this kind of education about systemic racism early in college, which I completely bounced off of and missed the point of. Future exposure eventually got the message through. Sometimes repetition is needed.

> But aside from treating all humans equally, I'm not sure what else I can really do.

That's a big "aside from". There are many times in my career where I have decision making power or influence on a decision that involves other humans. Being aware of systemic racism and unconscious and conscious biases help me make more equitable decisions. If you are doing similar things, then congratulations, you are probably helping solve the problem. I don't think anyone is asking you to do more than that.
No, it's not weird at all. Things aren't automatically good for companies just because they're bad for workers. A lot of unions are bad for both.
I’d agree with all those thoughts with respect to the system we have today. Yes, the goal of de-anonymizing reviews would be to eliminate trust in reviewers as a requirement for achieving impartial and fair reviewing (given the many ways we’ve already seen trust failure), and hopefully the side effect would be to increase overall trust in the system. Making reviewers part of the public record would also allow exposure of bad behavior and explicit collusion, without having to go to great lengths to prove it like they did in the article. I’m not entirely sure that the level of candidness that anonymity invites is necessary or helpful for a healthy and robust review system. But, note that my suggestion above doesn’t depend on critical feedback at all. One of the things I’ve found problematic in today’s review system is that reviewers assign absolute scores to a paper, but every reviewer has their own notion of what is good and bad. It’s common for an entire group of reviewers in one sub-topic to give average lower scores than a group in another sub-topic, meaning that different sections of a given journal or conference have different acceptance rates. My suggestion for rank choice voting is partly to ensure that all reviewers are working in the same units, and are all weighted equally. (But I assume there is a possibility of unintended consequences and/or opportunities to game the system with what I suggested, so I’m curious if people see ways that might happen.)
I always look forward to anything Salman Rushdie writes. Midnight's Children introduced me to reading and writing back in the day and literally changed my life.
This sounds exactly like the process my wife and I are going through in the US right now.

I’ve never heard of pregnancy being treated like an “illness” (??).

Midwives are also extremely common here.

Granted I live in Arizona, and I know much of HN lives in SF. So maybe this is unique to Arizona in some way?
I believe you that Klarna are shady about how they manage data, however, my understanding was that they got a banking license because they want to fund themselves via brokered deposits? A banking license means that they can get money from anyone in the EU and it will be insured up to €100,000. Without this, almost no one would want to deposit with them.

If you have other information about other reasons they might have become a bank, I would be genuinely interested in hearing them.
This is exactly why these IQ-test companies make so much money. It gives out yeses and no:s confirmation bias does the rest.

Quickly why they don't work:

You create a huge chain correlational assumptions. First that visual-spatial tasks of this kind predict performance on visual tasks. 2. That performance on visual tasks predict general intelligence (whatever that is). 3. That this notion of general intelligence (which is usually and arbitrarily defined not to include social skills) actually correlates with the tasks that you think the person will be performing, and finally that your idea of what the role has an impact on the company. Of course it is completely absurd, what they are selling is snake oil, plain and simple.

The remedy I recommend is simple, talk to the person - do it and you will be able to tell within 5 minutes.
We are limiting the contract to 3 years. Considering the potential volume they bring in the next eight months, 100x our current volume, we are very tempted to have it. As you suggested, we will quote for the product premium. Thanks for your suggestion there, it is helpful.
I agree completely.

I'm not visually impaired outside of garden-variety nearsightedness, but I sort of have a strong appreciation for "boring" websites that have very utilitarian "Header, subheader, body of text, etc...". They work well with text-only browsers, but also are trivial to make work with various text-to-speech things which I find occasionally useful; sometimes it's just easier for me to understand something if it's being read along to me while reading it, particularly if the font is small.
He already paid a price with his hands.

That’s why he was forced to find other solutions

Eye tracking would be cooler but keyboard/mice alternatives are slow to appear
Open Source eInk Touchscreen Device
Not sure about Android, but ChromeOS' a11y features are embarrassingly poor, which surprised the hell out of me considering its primary audience is kids (some crazy-high percentage of Chromebook use must be in schools as student laptops, from what I've seen) and old people who have trouble with computers. And the settings menus are so terrible that it took me quite a while to convince myself they were as limited as they seemed and I wasn't just missing something (god knows my dad could never have found what they did have, on his own) but that part's just typical Google UI. Wish I'd gotten my dad to spring for an iPad w/ keyboard instead. Modern iOS may not be anywhere near as intuitive as in, say, iOS 6, but I could have configured it to be really good for him.
Reddit has become too popular. Web dev subreddits have become infested with self promoting garbage like "I made a blog post about Redux" and "how do I split a string in React".
The great thing about TW2002 is that it was simple on the surface, which made it accessible. You could have fun warping around, trading goods, but then eventually you'd start digging and find the incredible depth in the game. The first time I stumbled on the Starbase blew my mind, and it just kept on going from there. Getting a Federal Commission (or going evil), terraforming planets, building citadels, finding dead ends in space to set up your planet, setting up corporations...
I maintain a feed aggregator focused only on ruby at http://rubyland.news -- doesn't have the interactive/personalization features of yours, you have gone quite a bit furhter!

But anyway, is there a way I can suggest blogs to diff.blog? (including my own). Or, if you'd like to just scrape the ones I've already "curated", feel free. http://rubyland.news/sources.opml
A Culture of Fear at the Firm That Manages Bill Gates's Fortune
Having several friends on the Apple a11y team, they really do work tirelessly to make the accessibility experience amazing. A lot of the engineers on that team have visual, audiotory, or other physical impairment as well, which is really cool to see and as a result they’re all really invested in making the product accessibility awesome.

Personal favorite “Easter egg” in their accessibility utilities is the baroque voiceover descriptions for the built-in wallpapers. A current colleague of mine shared it last week as part of Global Accessibility Awareness Day - https://twitter.com/mattt/status/1395439320652148736?s=21
Very likely BS, but it is at least consistent with a prior Who is hiring? post.

[link redacted]
Time for a blameless postmortem

https://www.atlassian.com/incident-management/postmortem/bla...

Or perhaps not

https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/blameless-postmortems...
It's only hard if you are viewing the world through classist glasses. Plumbing is a skill with real world consequences when that skill is executed poorly, just like engineering.
For personal finance: "Of dollars and data". Mainly short articles, approximately weekly, and, rare enough to be noted, the code for all analysis is shared.

https://ofdollarsanddata.com/
If I'm reading the article correctly, this is allowed by HIPAA already and is already happening (for research purposes and by third party healthcare companies?).

I would much rather google handle this data rather than unknown third parties with their own agendas, at least with google, the data comes with privacy risks that are relatively well known and might actually be useful for clinicians due to google's expertise on AI/pattern classification work which is primarily what medical diagnoses is about now (IANAD so perhaps this is incorrect).
Even obtaining valid DNSSEC and x.509 is easy, as DE government has its own trusted key subroot.

It is a strong case for using key pinning on all levels, from routing protocols through DNS all the way to email signatures.
Related: anyone know of a good video or diagram for helping CS students get an intuition regarding the interplay of bandwidth and latency? Including how saturating bandwidth increases latency by causing queueing bottlenecks?

I'm looking for something a bit more visual and dynamic than the old "station wagon full of tapes going down the highway" imagery.

[EDIT: Just for clarification, I feel like I already have a pretty good grasp on these concepts. I'm looking for good ways to help others at the ~ undergrad level.]
Empire on C64, tradewars and global war (risk) were so much fun back in the golden age of BBses.

Funny coincidence as I was searching exactly tradewars on my ipad a week ago to see if there was something similar. I’m being nostalgic nowadays, if someone has any suggestions for android or iOS games, store searches are usually not returning small gems.
They target ads based on health conditions for starters [0], and I've seen them doing some pretty exotic stuff with using first-party cookies as shared identifiers between tracking networks.

[0] https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/privacy/pdfs/Adobe...
Show HN: A Python file to help Visualize ML in the Terminal
This one looks at unintended consequences of tech and tries to understand systems. Looks at examples in history as well as recent news: https://unintendedconsequenc.es/
I too have recently been interested in TeX and Rust. Apart from Tectonic (wrapper around XeTeX and dvipdfmx) and the attempt to rewrite it in Rust (your first link), I also found [1], an attempt to rewrite TeX itself in Rust. I also understand that you are a supporter of the Tectonic in Rust effort, so hopefully you can fill me in on the current progress.

At first I though that just rewriting XeTeX/dvipdfmx in Rust just for sake of being written in Rust was foolish, because of TeX's untypical memory model. Also because of the manual translation using c2rust (also on C code generated from Pascal code that uses a lot of macros).

But after lookin at it now it seems that the rewrite progressed and the result are parts looking very Rusty, which is nice.

I too had ideas about TeX in Rust, but I think that starting with LuaTeX would be much more beneficial. Apart from LuaTeX having obvious support of scripting in Lua and being very extensible, XeTeX has other disadvantages. See for example [2], which still in my opinion misses many internal differences, where LuaTeX is much superior.

Do you have any tips on how to join the Tectonic / TeX in Rust community? Where can I potentially discuss my foolish TeX/Rust ideas, being very new to Rust?

[1] https://github.com/crlf0710/tex-rs
[2] https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/593217/125126
quip and slab (to a lesser degree, guru) are better experiences, but literally none of them will let me CI my codebase's documentation, or even so much as upload a zip file. It would be very nice to host private documentation in a linkable format, but behind a login, since, it is private documentation.
Not looking for a debate myself :)
> I've never used a real JavaFX-based app though.

Neither have I; from what I can tell, the only place that JavaFX seems to have a foothold still is "intro to software engineering" classes in colleges.
> [T]hey could apply to the same job. But they would have to apply and earn it again, which means that (at least, if the process is fair) they wouldn't be able to stop caring about doing a good job due to having a guaranteed job for life.

But that means that a tenured professor will start acting in non-academically-independent ways at some point before their tenure is up to avoid messing up their re-applicaction.

It is also quite likely that events such as departmental re-orgs could be timed around tenure expiration to eliminate specific job descriptions in order to make re-applying more difficult.

You might be able to achieve the same goals though some combination of making tenure transferrable between cooperating institutions, mandatory sabbaticals, requiring review committees be partly or wholely staffed from outside the institution, etc.
Economic doom and gloom, but with a forward-looking twist:

- heisenbergreport.com

- https://oftwominds.com/blog.html
We should all just switch to electric vehicles already. It'll suck at first but eventually it will be normal.
> When is a programming language done regarding the pain it was meant to solve?

Elixir is often presented as "done" (https://elixirforum.com/t/is-elixir-done/20830/12). For example, the depreciation policy mention that function can only be removed on a major version (1.X to 2.Y for example), and for now it's still in 1.X and no Elixir 2 is planned.

It still has releases (https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/05/19/elixir-v1-12-0-relea...) to follow Erlang releases, but Erlang itself is also more conservative than some other languages.
Talon is free/gratis - It's not open source.
Seven Academics Who Didn’t Want to Make a Cent Are Now Worth Billions
For the unaware - this particular hospital chain (HCA) is super, super shady.

It's a for-profit institution, which is alarming in and of itself when the bar for hospitals to be nonprofit is so low (and when most of the "non-profit" hospitals are essentially for profit institutions anyway.)
I've been enjoying:
- https://myannoyingopinions.com/
- https://yomadic.com/
A voice layer on an iPad could make it a better productivity device.
Why does regularizing the bias lead to underfitting in neural networks?
I had a look at the RT's web site (in English) when the hijacking happened. I found them being quite objective.

I did not analyze everything but they mentioned the reactions of western countries, the fact that Protasevich was arrested etc.

When extensively travelling in the ME 12 years ago, I often watched Al-Jazeera (in English) and I di not find anything outrageous either.

So either I did not read closely, or there is some subliminal text that I did not notice, or I was not interested enough to be the right target (just for the record, I think that the Belorussian govt is completely fucked up and we (France) should do whatever we can to kick them in the ass, more than just closing the airspace (and yes, I do not know what)).
Nvidia Merlin
PCI Express 6.0 Status Update: Draft 0.71 Coming Soon, Final Rel by End of Year
Lately, I've been reading through the "100 Rabbits" folks stuff:

https://100r.co/site/home.html

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/index.html

It's fascinating to see how dependent modern tech is on a constant, or at least semi-regular, internet connection for tokens, etc., and how that "model" fails completely on the open ocean.
I don’t even think that is required. I think what might be required is simply making it more explicit when a device is or is not UL listed. I shouldn’t have to search Amazon’s “questions” thing on a product listing to see if it is UL listed.

Of course I suppose products that actually are UL listed on Amazon will already mention the fact somewhere in their description.

That being said I’ve had more issues with low voltage crap letting the magic smoke out than mains powered devices.
Still waiting for the actual evidence...
Oh it does. I'm interdisciplinary. I've been offered the "opportunity" to be part of two citation rings in Economics, and that's from attending a handful of conferences.

Which if one looks at the state of economics right now, is an object lesson on this kind of stuff never ending well.
oh boy you're gonna be downvoted here...
Weeds out those who had someone else take it, though.