skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook's policy page only mentions censoring content suggesting that the virus was "man-made". Did Twitter actually ban users who suggested _only_ that the virus leaked from a lab? I'd be surprised because I follow some fairly big accounts there which have posted about the lab leak theory.

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/04/covid-19-misinfo-update/
Absolutely. Discussion with friends about the goings ons of the world frequently just turns into taking turns regurgitating what we can recall from NPR and NYT's The Daily.
What makes you think cars will ever drive more safely than humans? What if they don’t? This always seems to just be a given, but like GP, I think “self driving safer than humans” requires GAI unless maybe you make massive changes to the road infra.
Here Buckminister predicts that the price of energy will become so stable that it will be the favored benchmark for valuation and currency denomination. Laughable - for the next few centuries at least - and the opposite of what's happening, as solar prices are plummeting, halving and halving again. I went to one of his lectures back in the day and remember equally laughable advice about worldwide electricity pooling that should happen immediately. Suggestions that were physically impossible (but BF didn't think we'd have to wait for superconductivity to do this apparently, or that it was nearly here) and obviously, have never happened. My electrical engineer father, who worked for a power company, snorted.

We obviously aren't going to have one catastrophically interdependent grid distributing energy from a few sources, either.

FWIW There's an interesting debate between an author and Einstein during the 1930s on whether energy is the limiting factor in economics, or human labor is, as Marx said. Einstein took Marx's side, but our more automated world tilts the other way a bit more every day.

No Buckminister Fuller didn't predict PoW, Bitcoin etc, in any way.
They should be shut down by government order, because they're a threat to national security.

I'm serious. Their business is proving to be a direct assault on the right to a fair trial before punishment is dispensed. This is literally taking the crazy Twitter cancel mobs from digital space to meatspace.
That is called guilding the lilly. Long term the erosion of trust causes more damage than the white lies avoid. And it shouldn't be Facebook's call.
Country A infant mortality rate in 2021: 2.86 deaths per 1000 births.

Country B infant mortality rate in 2019: 5.75 deaths per 1000 births.

Guess which country is which.
If there have been no advancements between now and 2024 and then Elon says that FSD is 2 weeks away. Is that the scenario you are asking about?
SSDs are destroyed but HDDs are not.
You didn't read the article. You cherrypicked the parts of it that you could use to justify disregarding it. That's intellectually dishonest, lazy, and frankly typical for climate change cultists.

The bulk of the article discusses hydrology and how the sheer volume of water on the earth is more significant than C02 in terms of greenhouse effects. There's also a section about far higher historical C02 levels being present when temperatures were lower than today.

Respond to that part of the paper, not the tangent on the term "climate change" (which is also accurate, but not the meat of the argument).
Judaism is tantamount to Nazism in the eyes of Twitter
So the issue with coincidence counters in general is that they count... coincidences. Only. Nothing else.

White cards measure total photons.

You can fool yourself very easily by ignoring the total intensity of the photons per second measured with coincidence counters. E.g.: going from some distribution at intensity of "1 unit" to some other distribution at intensities of 1/2, 1/4, etc... might all mean different things. Essentially the detector is acting as a filter, "picking out" subsets of the signal. The drop in intensity is due to the filtering being highly selective.

However, if you read through many of these papers, including the quantum eraser paper, you'll note that they normalise the measurements so that they all look like they have unit intensity. This is misleading, because it looks like something is being changed ("erased"), but in reality its just that the experiment is being set up to increasingly filter to smaller and smaller subsets of the photon stream.

Looking at this through the lens of the many worlds interpretation (MWI) completely removes the mystery, making this a very boring and ordinary experiment that reveals nothing new.

Yet, "classical" QM theorists insist on breathlessly promulgating it as clear evidence of "quantum weirdness". It isn't weird. It's just purposefully misinterpreted to increase the mysticism.

This is directly comparable to the behaviour of priests and holy men. Religions wouldn't have as many ardent adherents if there was no mystery. You gotta have the mystery! The magic! The miracles!

Would Christianity be as popular if Jesus hadn't healed the sick and came back from the dead himself?

Would QM get as much funding if it was just some boring maths?
Well he still does post links and comment on articles from time to time (both as 'dang and 'gruseom, and I think a lot of users don’t make the connection). I think he just isn’t a super active commenter (and the things he likes to comment on don’t show up so often). Obviously he can’t really weigh in and pick sides with some random flame war in the comments.
I read it, and is not that bad, in fact the points it make are probably as close as non-controversial in how make a fast compiler.

And LLVM is certainly major slow in the compiling pipeline. And very complex at it.

What is unclear is how design "a photoshop-like plugin architecture" that allow to do all the optimizations it have, ie: How much the complexity of LLVM is related to the need to intermix all the optimizations and IF is possible to modularize them to the extend to make a lean core?

(A better way to say the same is that it must be. like the nano pass framework, that it have more pedigree in this case than use of photoshop :;)
> I guess they have no one thinking that far ahead

Small businesses don't care because they are too busy surviving.

Medium businesses don't care because why break what works?

Large businesses don't care because their managerial careers promote short-term priorities and marquee "transformation" projects which are buzzword-driven, and cloud is the current one.
> Google's new extension interfaces are reasonable though. They really are more secure. I want extensions to have as little access as possible.

Maybe then just don't install the extension -> voila, zero access
given! Of course this is a stupid advice because obviously you
want the working extension for some reason. Just like others
want their extension to be able to do whatever it needs to get
its job done.
One benefit of "the cloud" not mentioned here is elapsed time to acquire a new instance

If you have moved to AWS / other then that time is around 5 minutes.

If you are in a major fortune 500 and need a new server, quite often that time will measure in months (yes really).

This simple equation just blows every other cost/benefit calculation out of the water.

I may have missed it in the discussion.
Oh you don't want your hand near a Mellanox connectx 6 then. 200GbE doesn't come cold...
Indeed.

Just had a look at the Future milestone for PowerShell and with 272 open issues, it's not likely to see PowerShell 7 as default anytime soon.

One of the open issues from 2019 about ease of install would be great to have fixed:

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/8663
Did you compensate the victim of your personal and corporate negligence?
Think critically about college admissions
Thank you for filing the issue!

Here's how safe-regex works: Every matcher has a variable for each byte (b0, b1, etc.) representing states in the NFA. We iterate through the input bytes. In each iteration, we get the next input byte `b` and calculate the transition of every state for consuming that byte.

A matcher with no capturing groups uses the type Option<()> to represent each state. That means each state can be Option::Some(()) "input matched up to this point" or Option::None "no match". When the loop finishes, if the `accept` state is Option::Some, then the input matched. We use `Option::filter` to copy the preceding state only if the byte matches.

The core of the matcher for "a" [1]:

let mut start = Some(());
let mut b0: Option<()> = None;
let mut data_iter = data.iter();
loop {
let prev_b0 = b0.clone();
if let Some(b) = data_iter.next() {
b0 = start.clone().filter(|_| *b == 97u8);
start = None;
} else {
return prev_b0;
}
}

When matching with capturing groups, we must keep track of every capturing group for every state. A capturing group match is two integers representing the start and end of the matching portion of the input. We store that in a Range<usize> struct. There can be multiple capturing groups, so we store the ranges in a tuple. The state variables become type Option<(Range<usize>,)>.

When the input enters a capturing group, we set the Range for that group to the input byte: `.map(|(r0,)| (n..n,))`. Technically, it's the zero-length position between the current byte and the previous byte.

Whenever a byte matches inside a group, we expand the range for that group to include the byte: `.map(|(r0,)| (r0.start..n + 1,))`.

Here's the core of the matcher for "(a)" [1]:

let mut start = Some((usize::MAX..usize::MAX,));
let mut b0: Option<(core::ops::Range<usize>,)> = None;
let mut accept: Option<(core::ops::Range<usize>,)> = None;
let mut data_iter = data.iter();
let mut n = 0;
loop {
let prev_b0 = b0.clone();
accept = prev_b0.clone();
if let Some(b) = data_iter.next() {
b0 = start
.clone()
.map(|(r0,)| (n..n,))
.clone()
.filter(|_| *b == 97u8)
.map(|(r0,)| (r0.start..n + 1,));
start = None;
} else {
break;
}
n = n + 1;
}

The matcher for "(abc)d" [2] is a more thorough example.

[0] https://gitlab.com/leonhard-llc/safe-regex-rs/-/blob/79106c0...

[1] https://gitlab.com/leonhard-llc/safe-regex-rs/-/blob/79106c0...

[2] https://gitlab.com/leonhard-llc/safe-regex-rs/-/blob/79106c0...
Yeah but what about the saved traffic? Think of the poor routers that have to do all this transferring job.
People stopped reading the source material, and started just parroting the talking points. It's even gotten to the point where people are even convinced the talking points are the source material.
We don't have any confirmation that it exists, we have more observations that Newton's law is wrong. Moreover, these observations collectively are unimodal; to date we only have observations of more gravitational discrepancies, not corroborating phenomena which correlate to the existing discrepancies.
I would honestly rather my business fail than participate in that sort of manipulation. "Unethical" doesn't even begin to describe it.

The game is supported by the players willing to play. If you play, you're culpable.
What you said does not make sense at all. All Chinese government branches are directly under the command of the CCP. Even China's top court rejects the idea of juridical independence [1]. To say China is equivalent to U.S is totally ignorant.

1 . https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-policy-law/chinas-t...
I wouldn't use the word bad faith, but I think for a lot of people it was very likely motivated by political/social pressure more than by trying to find the truth. In a positive light one could interpret some of the dismissal as an effort to combat anti-Asian racism occuring here. In a somewhat more negative light one might think it was simply the move to make to avoid
even remotely aligning with conservatives. There were probably also dynamics going on with foreign politics, but even just on US soil there was more than enough politicization of the issue.
It read sensible to me, but I'm not a native speaker, so maybe the writer is neither one?
What would you prefer the concept be called?
> Let's begin from the premise that the climate scientists are largely correct in their models and that climate change as a dire threat is not fraudulent.

> No, it can't be solved. That's just math. There is absolutely nothing that can be done about it realistically, and it's exceptionally obvious at this point.

So, I am seeing this set of ideas getting pushed a lot more these days, which means that a lot of the effort being put into climate change denial has started shifting to climate delay and outright fatalism (which used to mostly be a feature of evangelical "who are we to question God's plan for us?" arguments).

The fact of the matter is that there is a lot we can do in terms of slowing the growth and even reducing global CO2 (and CH4, methane) output, and a lot more we can do in terms of carbon capture, and a lot we can do in terms of mitigation and adaptation (which we will have to do regardless of how successful we are at reduction and capture) that is only going to get more expensive the longer we put it off.

This isn't a case of "we must do something, this is something, therefore we must do it". Every proposal is competing with every other in terms of cost, feasibility, externalities, and impact, it isn't the case that committing to spending money on the problem results in checks being handed out indiscriminately.

If you have a criticism of some specific intervention, please make it, but it isn't feasible to throw up our hands and do nothing. Because even if the cost/benefit analyses are so incredibly bad that just means that ultimately we only do things in the mitigation and adaptation buckets.
If this model works as expected, then it should take into account those who "would have die very soon" otherwise. It models the deaths that would have happened if it were not for COVID and measures the difference against that number. So the person you mentioned should be counted in the projection.
Thank you for the reference. My only issue with his analysis was that he proposed an income in the form of a monetary payment. I think this is exactly why UBI is impossible and we should rather have universal service. In other words: one should not receive monetary payment but be granted unrestricted access to vital goods and services instead.
I'm in USA and not censored for me, although I'm logged in and have view sensitive content turned on
it's worth teasing apart where words come from. the term "dynamic programming" does not make a lot of sense until you understand the historical context.
If you need that server today, absolutely, build an AMI and fire it up, and then place an order for a server to migrate to. It’s not binary, and it is possible between engineering and finance for balancing velocity and spend.

Not everyone needs a server immediately. And not every use case will generate business value by having that server immediately available. This blog post cuts to the core of that: cloud gets you from product market fit to scale, but once at scale, it’s time to revisit capex vs opex.
Better to just have a no-vote system like forums back in the day

Even upvote-only system can skew readers' bias through "ratio-ing"
Yes, pesky facts and science that aren't sponsored by grant money handed out by globalist controlled entities.
I have this book and I have never looked him up until seeing this post today. All of my three daughters love this book and I didn't quite understand why as I grew up in a different culture.
RIP Eric. You've done great work for this world!
Yes indeed - but luckily driving is a fairly narrow task by human standards. An AI trained specifically do this should be more like an animal's well known behaviours.

If driverless cars were crashing because all of a sudden a giant sheet of glass appeared in the middle of the road, or a giant alien death ray shot up the tarmac, I think most people would have some sympathy.
NHTSA says the leading cause of accidents is driver distraction , speeding and drunk/drugs , would rather solve those problems which are far more attainable than an actual level 5 car.
I haven't read any papers about this, so this is just a first speculative guess that I will update if/when I learn more:

I suspect nodes ask one another to perform computations on random subsets of very large amounts of data. Since the subsets requested would be random, nodes can't predict the requests and thus have to store all the data. The data would then be augmented with the consensus results of these computations, so that future computations would be able to reference them.
It's not. And we can,
Great idea for a service and I am interested!

Couple questions and observations:

What are you asking for in the "Linked Profile URL" field. "https://gosauber.com/register" A link to one's profile on truepeoplesearch or the like? It isn't clear. (And it also might imply a user's info would only be removed from that site).

The navigation links on the top ("features, "how does it work", "plans", etc) only work at the root url of your page. They don't function on /register or similar because they point to html IDs on the landing page, not a full or relative url path.

Again, great idea!
Sorry, it's just really off-putting to me that software developers who get paid more than average laborers complain so much about paid offerings that cost them less than a single Starbucks drink. We don't know what the pricing is yet, but there are already people discussing what is too much.

I know the demographics here aren't strictly American, but the currency conversion is hardly that impactful across major developed nations.

There are so many tools in our industry that help you do your job on a daily basis that we all pay nothing for.

But you know, have fun thinking you can do anything more than being an employee for the rest of your life if you decide you want to create a product and realize you're a part of an industry who's too cheap to pay $0.99 for an app.
Might be close to spdk + compress accelerators?
I meant if Moscow kept a lid on the Chernobyl situation and did not allow them to "fix" it as that would have admitted that Soviet engineering was falible. Had the various nightmare scenarios been allowed to happen (meltdown reaching the water table, etc) due to pride, then Chernobyl could have been so much worse. Could COVID had been mitigated from becoming a global pandemic if "pride" had not affected Bejing?
Exactly. Is it RT? Is it well-typed? Is it as simple as it could be? Is there a small number of inhabitants? Ship it. Using some weird recursion scheme when fold right will do?
With THD, strong odd harmonics are objectionable sooner than the even ones, unless you happen to like an aggressive over-driven transistor sound.
slightly tangential, but Box, a storage company that did take the business route, is about 10% more valuable than it was at its IPO in early 2015. That is pretty bad in comparison to most other public software firms that grow like weeds.

Dropbox is worth about 3x Box as of today
Could you please compare it to OpenJDK’s JIT compilers? I’m unfortunately not familiar with V8 - but do I get it right that they have sort of converged and just got more similar?
Not really, MOND and the like falls into the category of "dark matter theory", and that's the problem with the name.
Still not good enough for PS5 hey Sony?
I think it's pretty obvious why they were banned:

> The article, posted under the pseudonym "Tyler Durden" (the fictional character played by Brad Pitt in the movie "Fight Club"), was titled "Is This Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic?" It included a photograph of a scientist at Wuhan's Institute of Virology and suggested that anyone curious about the epidemic might want to pay him "a visit."
Also in my experience, on-prem infra, on relatively cheap gear like Dell servers is highly reliable.

Yes, you have to plan, yes you have long lead times to get new gear, DC space, etc. But once it's running, failure rates are pretty low. At least in the single digit thousands and servers.

I've had to deal with much more frequent and odd types of failures on cloud infra than with on-prem.
As I mentioned in previous comment - flies crash into glass because they didn't evolve with it. They don't have the right sensors to see it. So it seems like an unfair thing to level at them!
The ad copy says "It is not actually for children?"
The worst scenario is always meltdown.
How about I point to the unadjusted temperature data over the last 20 years showing no warming? Can I point to that, or is that Qanon propaganda?
You can generally keep paying for the same health insurance for to 18 or 36 months after leaving a job via COBRA except in cases of gross misconduct. It can be shockingly expensive though.

https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/legacy-files/ebsa/abo...
Well by that token so was the discrepancy in the precession of mercury (which was not, as it turns out,matter).
Five bucks would be a no brainer amount for me. Ten would make me pause and consider if I really needed it.
> Yet, people seem to be convinced that prices are ok, and that going outside will let them reduce their infrastructure footprint.

That's where you get it all wrong. It is not about the price, at all. It is all about avoiding large upfront capex with a small periodical opex, and in the process have virtually boundless growth potential.

Think about it: when you happen to need a bit more computational resources to run an app, is it easier to convince your boss the need to pay, say, 100€/month for extra VMs, or is it easier to convince your boss to shelve $2k to buy an extra rack? And how many times are you willing to have that same conversation with your boss whenever you run out of computational resources?
My theory is dark matter is the shadow of angels, there's more of it where new galaxies are forming because there's more angels there building the galaxies :-).

Here's a movie of it in progress https://youtu.be/1x3RRrqJWKA

I know this will get downvoted, but wouldn't it be funny if it turned out to be angels and we're looking at heaven. It's possible.
Baidu debuts updated AI framework and R&D initiative
There is no real distinction, it is all just bad usage of the word. There are only compilers. It may compile to a high level language, but “transpiling” adds zero information to the sentence.
Right Here, Right Now – NFTs on Bitcoin with Fatboy Slim and Chemical X
It’s also often used to mitigate risk as you have a vendor to call and offload work, costs, specialization, and other factors to during critical incidents.
If you’re looking for cryptography, I maintain my favorite active blogs here: https://github.com/mimoo/crypto_blogs

I was even interviewed about that list :P

https://netzpolitik.org/2017/interview-how-to-pique-your-cur...
At around the same time I was working at a startup in London. We had two sizeable clusters - Hadoop and Cassandra - neither of which was conveniently elastic, but were located on EC2. We had sundry other instances, but those were the major culprits for our ~ £25,000 / month.

It took me about a day to scope out a BOM that would well surpass that (maybe a year's expected growth) of whitebox server gear, and get some quotes from nearby co-los.

IIRC hardware capex was about £15,000, and monthly rack + network something around £3,000. We relocated within a few weeks.

One small bonus was predictable & consistent performance -- back then, the EU-west EC2 offerings were extremely sensitive to noisy neighbours, and our benchmarks never gave anywhere near the same results twice.

I think for genuinely elastic loads, or if you're really addicted to some vendor-only services, it certainly makes sense. I suspect most customers are overly optimistic about how elastic their requirements are, and their stack can be.