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My view is that a system of government, where material advantages are based on quality of legal representation -- is doomed to become non-representative.

The case in article is just an example of it.

That means, in short, wealthy (corporations or individuals) can afford good legal representation --therefore they will necessarily bias the case law. And case law, will necessary, bias the subsequent judicial decisions.

So a judicial system biased towards judging in favor of more expensive legal representation, is really the main reason why corporations become larger, why they create their own system of rules, that 'floats' on top of the system of rules for the mere mortal.

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We often have a dialog and an argument about size of government, vs size of corporations, vs individual freedoms and so on.

But really what we first must recognize is that manipulation, disinformation and biases in the judicial systems must be eliminated.

Basically we have to remove information manipulation and judicial selectivity out of the society.

Then argue about other stuff.

A step in the right direction -- would be to assign legal representation to all sides involved in a dispute (or in a criminal case) -- from some sort of a pool (based on say some standardize algorithm).

This way in a dispute between Alphabet and a Joe Shmo would have equal legal representation.

Overtime, this will slowly change case law, and outcomes of legal disputes -- towards fairness.

Some might ask: would you do the same with Financial advisors, Doctors, University professors ?

I would say no, because they do not impact the fairness of judicial system.

Having said that, I do think that Job applications must hide (not include) what University an applicant had attended... but that's discussion for another post...
It would probably work better for the two Steves than it would for many others.
According to the below random site, there 218 Jobs and 10,602 Wozniaks. It claims 410,801 Steves.

http://howmanyofme.com/search/
You sound like a lovely person, Igor. You've gifted many passers-by delightful little blooms of human connection.
The Swartz Prize? I like that namesake better than some others

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel#Criticism

"Criticism of Nobel focuses on his leading role in weapons manufacturing and sales, and some question his motives in creating his prizes, suggesting they are intended to improve his reputation."
> It lets you unlock your phone while wearing a mask.

I'm really glad I passed on the Pixel 4, mainly because I hated the concept of face unlock on a phone (slower and less reliable? sounds great!). And this was before the age of masks. I love having a fingerprint reader on the back. The phone is unlocked as it's coming out of my pocket. Google switched back with the 4a and 5 so I picked up a 4a 5G. It's a shame Apple won't stick a fingerprint reader on the back, too.
1989: http://phrack.org/issues/24/11.html

Unless Y2K comes before 1989 it most certainly did not come from Counter-strike. Pwning something had existed throughout the 1990's hacker culture and likely was in use in the 80's too. There are some of us old enough to remember it being used. It probably stemmed from QWERTY keyboards and o/p being close to one another. "Pwned" is an easy typo from "Owned" and "owned by [some hacker/hacker group]" was always common way to deface hacked websites. It easily predates Counter-strike's release date by at least a decade so it could not have originated from CS.
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Yes many more. Including details of the death of the wife of a researcher in December 2019 from Covid. The other is deeper investigation of the FCS and how it might have arisen, very difficulty in nature, especially with zero trace of intermediate host so far.
Eve online has a lot of self inflicted problems, like relaying on Python for speed sensitive code, running single threaded servers, allocating one CPU per solar system (small region around a star) instead of per grid, expanding Grids to ridiculous sizes instead of partitioning them into small microgrids with delayed group updates.

You really dont need to be send accurate per server tick information about a rocket hitting a ship 5000km away from you.
Feynman lectures are the SICP of physics. Out of date, not all that relevant but fetishized to death.
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I'm sorry I haven't had a chance to respond to this in detail but I really appreciate your taking the time to share your perspective and your ideas.
I understand their grief with AWS but this is incredibly childish, short sighted and petty. What a way to burn your supporters' goodwill.
> And we see the consequences with old Asian ladies being punched in streets by young white thugs.

Speaking of hate-mongering..are we seeing the same data on anti-Asian attacks?
Interesting — I’ll have to look into this. Thank you!
At minimum ECC will cost you an extra 12.5% for the extra bit of RAM. That part is not inflated.
The vaccines (so far) all use sequences of the spike protein from an early sample of COVID-19. They just make spike proteins and your body sees it and becomes immune to it. They've made some modifications, but for better stability/structure outside of the virus, but not (yet) to address variants.

If anything, infection from current circulating virus is more relevantly effective (but obviously more dangerous than the vaccines).

What I wonder is how much post-infection immunity might be from something other than just the spike protein, and therefore a bit more flexible against new variants than our strictly 'detect the spike protein' vaccination programmes.

And how 'flexible' immunity is from infection vs. vaccination.
Well, you didn't accurately summarize my point. It's not just from demands, it's from getting verbally attacked and also not having the ability to verbally defend. It's also hard to summarize in a comment here so I attempted to illustrate an example, but you are the one completely ignoring it and not addressing it.

That's fine, let me just clarify, I don't condone Gaetz (I've only heard of him) or what he is saying, and I don't condone any violence or call for it (and I'm trying to prevent it as much as I can).

I am able to see both extremes quite clearly. I think both extremes are wanting violence, but only one side is being direct about it. Ridiculing them is just asking for more extreme behavior, it's not like they will learn from that.
There's once I was running some jruby stuff in jenkins during a build, the job kept on hanging on some stage, I thought there must be bug somewhere, I forced kill it a couple of times with no success, but kept the last one running before I head home. Then after a couple of hours, I found out an email said the built was passed... eventually, I had figured out that jruby was using /dev/random, since jenkins was running in vm, so no enough entropy was generated. after force mounting /dev/random to urandom, the hanging issue just disappeared.
Confidently incorrect.
Good work, ol’ chap.
This sounds like a great application for self driving cards at robot power charging stations. Have the car drive itself out of state & back in!
I'd imagine through trade, much like how it seems to be the explanation for why most languages call "tea" some variation of te, cha, or chai.
Enough time has passed that social distancing, masks, vaccines have become moral issues to many.

“Only bad people don’t wear masks” mentality. Completely separate from if they are still needed or not.
I once met a russian person online who had learned portuguese, my native language. I was extremely impressed. To this day I've never seen anyone else learn portuguese as a second language.
It’s true there are some rough edges here, notably mostly in the actual Clojure(Script) implementations (unfortunately unsurprising) rather than in EDN. Also worth emphasizing that Transit addresses many of the issues highlighted (as well as EDN’s biggest downside outside the Clojure ecosystem: it’s slow).
As a layperson to physics, I really appreciate his approachable style, both in writing and in speech. Do you have any suggestions that are as approachable and fun for technologists interested in physics?
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but do you have the kind of people skills that let you scam your girlfriend with a fake diamond ring, get caught, and be able to talk your way out of it to string her along for another 6 months? Do you have what it takes to recruit an army of free workforce (child labour) on empty promises alone? Those are some heavy duty CEO skills.
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Disclosure: I used to work on Google Cloud.

Perlmutter seems like an awesome system. But, I think the “ai exaflops” is a “X GPUS times the NVIDIA peak rate”. The new sparsity features on A100 are promising, but haven’t been demonstrated to be nearly as awesome in practice (yet).

It also all comes down to workloads: large-scale distributed training is a funny workload! It’s not like LINPACK. If you make your model compute intensive enough, then the networking need mostly becomes bandwidth (for which multi-hundred Gbps worth of NICs is handy) but even without it there are lots of ways to max out your compute.

Similarly, storage is a serious need for say giant video corpora, but not for things like text! GPT-2 had like a 40 GiB corpus.

For those asking about largest-scale cloud GPU runs, there are basically three examples (chronological)

- the work OpenAI did on Five (thousands of V100s on GCP)

- the IceCube science work [1] on many clouds (51000 GPUs at peak!)

- OpenAI’s 10000-V100 cluster they used for GPT-3

The A100s used here are recently released and another step-change in perf per part (and memory). All major providers now offer them, though with different density and networking configurations (GCP went with 16 in a single box, most folks went with 8, some have lots of networking, etc.).

What everyone should be asking is: what awesome stuff is NERSC / LBL going to do with Perlmutter? You can’t just rent one for a few hours on GCP or any other provider :). (But, fwiw, most usage will be small slices: this is the sad fate of giant supercomputers!)

[1] https://insidehpc.com/2019/11/sdsc-conducts-50000-gpu-cloudb...
Ruby's basically as fast as Node.js. If you look at comparative benchmarks, Roda/Rack/Puma is within spitting distance of Koa, Fastify, etc. Express is actually slower in some benchmarks.

I don't think a lot of people are aware of just how much faster the Ruby ecosystem has gotten in the past few years (especially when you leave Rails out of the equation which is known not to do well in microbenchmarks).
Maybe while both ECC and non-ECC are both being sold, but that would be a temporary situation. The goal would be to have non-ECC memory be effectively deprecated, so the next revision of the spec enforces ECC as a requirement.
When will you support HTTP/3 to origin?
There's 0% chance someone who left early on would be able to hold on to 45%. They'd need some very heavy duty protections, and even then. The CEO, given their actions, would find a way to recover that stock later, probably at the behest of other investors.
Getting into Sim world is hard. It would be better if we have beginner one.
True!

I have people tell me their bad news or downers pretty often when I greet them with “how are you?”, and my care or sympathy for the situation they’re in is not at all insincere.

I’m half German, and my grandfather always found it absurd to visit the US and have everyone saying “thank you” and “sorry” and smiling all the time. His opinion was that this behavior devalued the true meaning of a “thank you” or a smile.

Interestingly, Germans have now adopted two words for sorry, one being just “sorry” (spoken with a guttural “r”) and the other being “Entschuldigung“ — literally translates to something like “acceptance of blame.” The German “sorry” is much more common, and “Entschuldigung” is reserved for the true apologies, maybe analogous to “I apologize” in American English. Then it might be “ich entschuldige mich” or “I place the fault on myself.”

I mention this because it seems the “American” way of being more colloquially friendly is becoming more adopted in parts of Europe, especially by younger generations in areas like Germany and the Netherlands. Maybe this is just from exposure to American media.

Whatever the cause, I find this shift pleasant, as it saves me from having to code-switch between American friendliness and German staunchness when I talk with friends or family there (except for the older generations).
I'm using serial to mean something different.

There is serial as in reading byte 1 2 3 4. This is what you're talking about. This is good on any drive and great on hard drives.

There is serial as in read a byte, do a calculation, read a byte, do a calculation. This is what I was talking about. This is bad on any drive and even more noticeable on SSDs.

If you can have all your data in one single 500MB read, that's great. But I wasn't talking about that, because any drive can do a single giant read with good performance.

If you have to do 800 different reads, it's much better to ask for them all at once. You don't want to trickle them out one at a time. This is what my comparison was.
Good grief.

You're referring to a headline from an online magazine health section, not "science," nor even the study you are criticizing (which you clearly haven't even glanced at).

> *CONTRIBUTES*

What's the insight here? Do you really think that people can possibly die from "overwork," full stop, or are you being deliberately obtuse for the sake of wedging your politics into the discussion?

> In fact, what are the odds that overwork doesn't correlate with living in a higher air pollution environment?

Somehow this still works on HN.
I'm not sure that it is true that there is even such thing as decorum on social media, or if there was, if you could reasonably define it. The Internet is a global communications system linking hundreds of countries, thousands of cultures, and perhaps millions of sub-cultures, class affiliations, and tribes. Even the fact that we are here, on HN, speaking English puts us squarely in the minority of people who use the Internet.
It can be with work. This is basically true of all languages. I remember telling my team that I wanted them to use Java instead of python for some new service we were building because I wanted it to scale better. They were not happy about it, and they coded up two versions, one in python and one in Java. I was shocked by the results, they performed roughly equally in terms of latency and scaling. When I dug into it, the very abstract Java library that gave them the power of python ran about as fast as python. They could get rid of that library which made them far more productive, but then the project took longer and cost more.

In fairness, the Java version had an easier path for optimization, but there are no free lunches.
Agreed on intentional obfuscation. It even has booby traps. https://neosmart.net/blog/2018/imessage-for-windows/
Another person raised the question of liability for working on decentralized mixers, a few hours before me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27319240

The distinction you made seems straightforward, but I don't see a reason to conclude the legal system will follow suit.
Seems like there's obviously a big I/O performance difference. Maybe it's something simple like buffering being setup differently or not at all or sync vs async. It'd be interesting to dig in more

Even something like mmap can drastically improve performance since it lets the kernel handle I/O asynchronously from your program execution (so your code doesn't block as much or as easily on I/O)
Back when I was playing capital city raids would lag out pretty badly - you don’t get it when everyone is massively single-playering but when action is occurring you notice it.
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It is a big contribution to opensource it. The work behind the data is huge and extremely significant. Thanks Troy!

The service implementation that I did with a bit different technical requirement is here https://github.com/janos/compromised as an alternative. It is actively used behind the NewReleases.io service.

It focuses on extremely low memory usage and supporting very high request rates on a commodity hardware, cheap vps or cloud instances.
What is 'repressive' about what is described on that page?

>allowing for arbitrarily and retroactively defining people's behavior as unacceptable, and consequently sanctioning them all the way up to expulsion

You could do that without a code of conduct... but even without one I think it would be unfair to criticize a group for it... if you know nothing of that happening.
This is true, but when so much of our culture and the starting conditions many people find themselves in are decided before our birth, often as a matter of public policy, the whole exercise starts to feel a bit, contrived? The rules of the game are really up to us, we're not talking about axioms of the universe here and yet, we're so often expected not to question anything, and simply focus on our personal success while ignoring externalities and plights of others.

What if succeeding personally while watching many others suffer unfairly, in a rich country where it needn't be that way, isn't enough to enjoy life? Do we have a duty to expand our sympathies beyond the self and the family? Most ancient wisdom says yes, and yet the modern status quo has failed to conserve this crucial pillar of humanity. Instead we have prosperity gospel, and its more secular version, the mythical meritocracy. Failed ideas that the human race has fought off more than once, only to find itself in the same boat again.
Another thing the integral handles is a systematic error in the controls.

For example, suppose you have a vehicle that is suppose to automatically follow a straight line painted on the road. You have a sensor that can tell you how far you are from the line, and you can set the steering angle.

The car is supposed to go straight when the steering angle is 0, but if there is a misalignment so that to go straight you actually have to set the steering angle to some constant non-zero value, if you just do PD you can end up with the car following a fixed distance to the side of the line instead of centered on the line like you want.

Make it a PID controller instead of just PD, and the I term will fix this.
The messages I saw were that achieving herd immunity through infections would result in a whole ton of deaths.
> Now you've turned specific access patterns into "attack attempts",

We already have error correction detection available to us and it's in use today.

> RAM should always hold what was last written to it, under all conditions of software accesses.

OK? That's what anyone who is advocating for ECC is already advocating for. ECC is error correcting up to 1 bit and error detecting up to 2 bits. The goal is to ensure that the property you've described holds.

> It only got created because the RAM companies have forsaken correctness,

This problem exists because... physics. Do you actually have a design for RAM that can match today's cell density while somehow providing perfect isolation? Saying this problem didn't exist 15 years ago is like saying that malware didn't impact the abacus - RAM 15 years ago was designed completely differently, and had considerably lower capabilities in terms of storage and latency.

And for reference, hamming codes (which back ECC) were created in the 1950s for error correction in punch cards. This is not a new problem.

ECC is the existing, obvious solution to this problem, it just wasn't built for this threat - but it's an excellent, proven method for correcting bit flips. Even without being designed to prevent rowhammer it already makes the attack much slower, less likely to succeed, and easier to detect (just monitor for a massive spike in ecc corrections).

Trying to design high density RAM that maintains perfect isolation seems pointless. Improving ECC or ECC-like approaches is likely going to be much more effective.
Out of date? Sure.

But it still adds very valuable insights, and new perspectives. Feynman Lectures are great. Especially Vols I and II.

Just because something has a community fetishizing it, it does not lose its value because of that.

I read most of Feynman Lectures in my undergrad, and the experience was profoundly rewarding.

It is not about gaining up-to-date knowledge of the topic. It is about learning the core and crux of the subject, and how to think about the subject.
Yes exactly this. Naturalistic immunity learns a more diverse set of epitopes. Whereas the artificial-spike-protein immunity is learning just the S protein. The spike is super important but it’s not the only source of epitopes. And I’ve seen some papers on immunology of SARS-2 that do show a lot of activity that’s not based around the spike protein.

This notion that natural immunity is “worse” or won’t be able to handle the “variants” is completely contrary to the evidence as well as just basic napkin immunology. It’s, IMO, purely an idea spread implicitly through media headlines with the obvious intent of convincing people who don’t benefit from the vaccine (those who have already recovered successfully from COVID-19) to get it. I’ve talked to multiple friends in real life who had PCR-confirmed COVID/19, recovered, and got the vaccine anyway (which of course had even worse side effects than the usual second shot syndrome since the immune system had already been sensitized to SARS-2), and upon my prodding they basically all seemed to think they needed the vaccine to be protected against “the variants”.
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Published 9 months ago.
>who harms

Potentially 'harmed', as in the past. The other user didn't didn't say they harmed anyone, but if they did... they also didn't say it was ongoing.

I think you might be imagining a different situation.
It's a game.

I'd be more bummed if a game gave me five lines of sample data which fit the constraint of "exactly one space and exactly two names", and then the rest of the data violated that constraint.

Or if some of the last names didn't start with a capital letter, like d'Azzo, for that matter.
China wants to hide their own faults. Everything they do supports this narrative. To lose face might mean an end to power. Reforms are only possible by pointing likely theories because the proof is gone and it happened months before the outbreak was even registered.
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Herd immunity seems like a default assumption?

At worst, we will always end up with the herd immunity solution. Others need to prove themselves to be more effective
I saw pwn being used as a synonym for own in the mid-90's so it definitely predates Counter Strike.

That being said, it probably originated as a typo and that could have happened on multiple occasions.
They must not think or read very deeply into their own field then, because there exists the phenomenom of immunological memory, ie the effect where memory B/T cells lay dormant in the body for decades, and upon exposure to the characteristic antigen of SARS-2 (in this case) they ramp up antibody production exponentially. This results in - theoretically, but this is definitely what happens - lower peak viral load, lower symptomacity, and thus lower transmission and a shorter disease course.

Thus even when full immunity to reinfection is gone - which btw the estimates I’ve seen are that IgG lasts a few years before the individual is seronegative again - there will still be immunological memory which persists indefinitely and vastly reduces mortality and morbidity.
“Phrack World News” and it’s acronym are a different usage to the word synonymous with “own” — which is not saying it wasn’t in use before counter-strike, but the link isn’t good evidence for it.