skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Linus (I guess everyone addresses him with his first name), has been very critical, even dismissive of systems programming languages other than C. But with Rust he has a more, I guess we could say passive approach. This might be a good indicator that Rust is doing something very respectable.

Or that Linus is going through something very respectable.
> In 10-20 years, "small killer robot swarm" will be achievable for a single individual.

There's a Black Mirror episode on this IIRC.
Evolution works in an incredibly complex "fitness landscape," where certain minor tweaks in phenotype or behaviors can affect your fitness in quite complex ways.

Genetic Algorithms attempt to use this same system over extremely simple "fitness landscapes," where the fitness of an agent is defined by programmers using some simple mathematical formula or something.

When the fitness function is being defined in the system by programmers, instead of emerging from a rich and complex ecosystem, then the outcome depends exactly on what the programers choose. If they fail to see the consequences of their scoring algorithm, that's on them. There's nothing really magical going on, they simply failed to foresee the consequences of their choice.

(As someone who has worked with GAs and agent models, this outcome really doesn't surprise me. I would have said "oops, I need to weight the time less" and re-run it, and not thought twice.)
If the government wanted an unlimited Roth IRA cap they wouldn’t have added a Roth IRA cap. The fact they added a cap shows clear intent, which is definitely how the courts view such forms of Tax Evasion.

Now the government doesn’t go after the vast majority of criminals be that the IRS, FBI, or your local cops. However, that has no impact on what is or isn’t breaking the law as written. As such this was clearly tax evasion because it’s illegally reducing taxes he would owe and it’s fraudulent activity because it’s falsifying financial records for personal benefit. Hell was likely also wire fraud depending on how he submitted tax documents, not that such charges are normally tacked on to such cases but they still apply.
It is probably more about a v2 vs v3 debate in the case of Linux. He really likes copyleft GPLv2-style and really thinks it has been a net-positive if not one of the key things for the success of the project.
Bitbucket is horribly antiquated (along with all Atlasssian software IMO), why not go to GitLab - it's code management, merges request workflows and discussions are excellent for peer review and the CI/CD is fantastic.
Passing cars that stand still without slowing down doesn't have to be illegal in order to be stupid. There's clearly enough blame to share in this situation.
Or phablet
OLED is quite a difference though.
This comment makes me want to bet money that you don't work in the health space and you aren't friends with a single practicing healthcare provider.

> Do we spend trillions of dollars a year on safer cars?

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's annual budget exceeds $1T (EDIT: $1 billion, not trillion, thanks KptMarchewa) [1], and that's just part of government spending on highway safety -- far from the full picture of "vehicle safety." Your homework is to look up the safety R&D spending of the top automotive manufacturers in the USA. "We" absolutely do spend a ton of money and research on vehicle safety, and it's paid off in the form of an exponential drop in deaths per unit distance traveled.

[1] PDF Page 11 of https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2020-02/F...
The result of perverse incentives. See the cobra story in the wiki article, that's another fantastic story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
This would be tricky - the nature of software means some people would try to keep crashing their programs on purpose, sending repetitive crash reports, in order to make money. Developers would now have to deal with a flood of spam in their crash reports.

I think the only way crash reporting can work, outside of support contracts, is as a favor by the user to the vendor. But, to maximize the amount of such favors, the vendor would have to treat users with respect - which is pretty much anathema to the industry these days.
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I think Rust support should be in a more experimental branch for the kernel first before even thinking of adding it to the main code base. Mostly because I think it needs more supporting code and documentation to get people on board with such an inclusion: complexity or not.
I'm not an expert, but story described within the article looks like normal bump on the road to get desired result. When putting together rules for the game researchers did not think that in resulting environment it might be more rewarding to chose observed action than to do what they intended. As much as it looks like nice story, is it not just what researchers encounter on daily basis?
Yes, I’ve noticed several articles in the past week on the subject. The resurgence of this topic has me looking for a presentation I watched perhaps 5-10 years ago where the presenter suggested humorously that the Victorians popularized and normalized cat pet ownership at the level we now know (having cats indoors) because they were afflicted with toxoplasmosis. The presenter suggested that icanhazcheeseburger and pictures of cats on the internet are a symptom of mass infection of people with toxoplasmosis and that people who are infected are more likely to give comfort to crying cats which have learned, or had their behavior modified by the parasite, to mimic the cries of human babies.

If anyone can find me this presentation I’d be grateful. I fear a pro-cat conspiracy drove this video off the internet.
A closer tale might be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice
>Again, not illegal to make fun of dead people.

In India? Who knows? Probably not NSA worthy, but I wouldn't bet against anything being illegal in India.

I certainly know one person who was kept in jail for years for mocking one dead person (PBUH). That person did eventually get out on bail only to soon have his throat cut. But I guess that case ties into mocking religious feelings of a community (but then, so does this case).

Also, I think you probably missed the part where I began and ended my comment by emphasizing that I think this is government misusing the laws to punish dissent.
Would you pass Netflix Keeper Test in your current role?
A Skeptical View of Information Fiduciaries (2019)
Looking at genetic algorithms makes a great comparison. In essence any algorithm in which the wolf commits suicide doesn't make it to the next generation. It's the equivalent of an enormous score penalty and 100% analog to how it works for actual life.
I'm guessing he is asking now because a lot of people have recently worked out their 2020 incomes statementes for tax purposes.
Not sure what jurisdiction you're in, but the tax implications are not 'basically the same' here in the UK.

Capital gains are taxed at 20% and can be offset against personal losses, whereas dividend income is typically taxed at 32.5 - 38%, and that's after the company issuing the dividend already paid corporation tax of 19% on their end.
Not really, any C++ compiler is able to compile Symbian C++, it was just a bunch of conventions on how to write C++ code.

C++ haters seem to always try to use the move that unless one isn't using 100% of language features and standard library, one isn't using the language.

Yet the same measure doesn't apply to C, when it is crippled to use in kernel code.
The will to do the drill will bring the willingness to execute.

I am not a painter but I followed a pure drill approach to teach html/css/javascript to 12 of my operations/monitoring team members (11 males 1 female, aged 24-27) who lost their job during start of Covid.

None of them had any background in programming or engineering, 3 of them dropped out after two weeks.

All those who went through the drill got jobs as developers. 7 as react developers, 1 test automation and 1 script developer.

All I did was ensure the drill and motivate them not to give up. They were all from very poor families so the motivation part was easy - hope of a better life at the end of drill.

The mantra is, don’t fool yourself, type it, clock the hours and don’t miss the meeting.
Quite insightful thanks.

WhatsApp probably a not right comparison ? It is not like there was ever going to be opt out in WhatsApp even, and Facebook's reputation and history of abuses is at different league than pretty much anyone else.
Algorithms are not free of -isms, they just represent the -isms of the person who came up with that algorithm.
Goodluck trying to educate 500 million. The government can force people to learn stuff(like China) but that doesn't work due to fear of losing elections.
Yeah me too. If made today, Superbad! would be smeared on cable news as anti-cop propaganda.

It's like "Calling someone gay isn't fashionable anymore so what's the use!?"

boop
> It was a GUI, developed by people that hate GUI. What could possibly go wrong?

I agree with this statement but disagree with the next one. Modern Linux GUIs still feel like they were designed by people who don't like GUIs. The only difference is that they now seem to be designed by the same people who design GUIs for more mainstream software... who hate GUIs but love pretty screenshots.
Python could soon overtake C and Java as most popular
Except that munitions don’t self replicate. It’s more like deciding to do munitions research specifically in enemy territory where the research could be taken an used against you on any security breach.
> What is remotely mandatory about including a political topic in a movie?

We are talking about fairly subjective preferences or perceptions. You don't have to be a film student to know that films/movies/tv are frequently used as tools for social engineering. When you notice, you can either feel positively or negatively about it and most importantly, you dont need to have a "good reason" for feeling either way.
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Twitter should patch up and let a billion people have uncertain future on free speech (or at least what's left of it) amidst a blatant dystopia?
If you're in the US, you very likely already live in a society that only values lives based on their output as given to someone else (unless you're in the capital holder class and happen to be on the other side of the table).

I think the tech industry is especially susceptible to arguments based on efficiency because after all, that's what technology provides at a fundamental basis. We need to realize, as with many aspects within technology itself, there are tradeoffs to efficiency itself. You still have educated people who will tout efficiency above all else. I'm all for progress and improving efficiency but it has costs (and benefits) on the human condition and we need to understand and factor those costs in instead of only looking at benefits from efficiency gains.

As a kid I was naive and believed this same philosophy of efficiency and didn't understand why we didn't always push to technology to improve situations. As I've grown over the years I realize life is a lot more than obsessing over efficiency. Obsessing over efficiency only brought me misery while accepting a reasonable degree of inefficiency in my life in strategic areas brought me a lot of happiness. It's always important to think about what you're optimizing on and what the costs are. Imagine going to a restaurant and making your dinner purchase decision based on a metric like: $/calorie. It's probably the most economically efficient way to look at food (perhaps with a nutritional distribution factor as well), but who wants to live like that out of choice?
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EICR in West London has revealed that new electricians suffer a severe loss due to the unawareness of safety standards and they cause harm to the people in the surroundings as well. So, whenever a newcomer enters into this field, he should learn the safety tips first.
You need someone on your team who figures out what is important for the users and prioritizes accordingly. The arrangement where the person who does this also codes a bit can work (especially when the team is small and the application domain is highly technical), but it doesn't happen automatically after you've banished all "pointy-haired bosses" from the project nor is anyone who is a good engineer automatically good at this thing also.
No, my point is: 1) the journals aren't the problem, the requirement to publish in them is and 2) until the incentives change, scientists won't move away from those journals.
You can do 60-90 HDDs in 4U, so conservatively using 36U of a 42U rack that is 540-810 HDDs per rack. So it could be more like 1600 racks.
Does it finally support bluetooth audio?
The Switch already can support some third party ethernet ports while docked via USB so the Ethernet port doesn't strike me as a big deal.
In the context of previous allegations about Kaspersky and Russian intelligence, there's some chance these errors were intentionally introduced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_bans_and_allegations...
After years of rumors about hardware revamps, new SoC and DLSS support, this feels like a very underwhelming announcement. It’s hard to believe that hardware built on top of the original nVidia Shield is still being sold in 2021 at a full price.
I would suggest reading up on why people are getting fired.

e.g. getting fired because you couldn't fulfill your "quota" because some neighborhoods have their gates locked over the weekend.

Imagine getting fired for something you have no control over, or didn't even realize was getting penalized for.

This system is cruelty, pure and simple. Is it any wonder that Amazon execs are worried about running out of people to hire?
There's nothing wrong with generated code if it's never manually modified. Think of binaries: we never manually edit them but they are essentially "generated".

More modern build systems automate this process of hiding the intermediate steps. One great example of this is the way Thrift and gRPC. You never edit the stubs or server code. You just implement an interface.
Or, try this starting point:

Brain and autonomic nervous system activity measurement in software engineering: A systematic literature review

Abstract

In the past decade, brain and autonomic nervous system activity measurement received increasing attention in the study of software engineering (SE). This paper presents a systematic literature review (SLR) to survey the existing NeuroSE literature.

Highlights

• First comprehensive review on use of neurophysiological methods in software engineering.

• Investigation of 89 articles and detailed analysis of the 47 completed empirical studies.

• Identification of code comprehension as the most frequently studied NeuroSE topic.

• Increasing trend towards multi-modal measurements of neurophysiological data.

• Identification of the most productive authors in the field of NeuroSE.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2021.110946

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016412122...
Not buying a Nintendo console again after the time and money I’ve spent on this issue.
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A lack of ICU beds is a healthcare industry issue. If anything this should be a red flag that our healthcare cartels have created a shortage.

But also my metro area of 5 million people never ended up having a shortage, and our area had a bunch of anti maskers.
How much gets finished is a matter of commitment to working more than a matter of ambition.

The wasted hours are the hours that they are not working on the thing. One hundred hours is only a bit more than four days...and if you use both hands, barely more than two.
It is a big deal because the switch does not go to sleep when a USB-Ethernet adapter is plugged in. This hardware does not have a powered-on MTTF that would make many customers happy.
I felt irrational was too strong a word, there might have been good reasons for the turban in a different time, I don't see a good one for while riding a bike.
The thing is opt-in telemetry doesn't work. Few people will actively choose to enable it, even if they read the documentation and are aware of it.

I think we should distinguish benign uses of telemetry from tracking that collects invasive details about the environment the app is running in.

A popular CLI open source project I use has telemetry enabled by default. The authors are upfront about the data it collects and reference the source code for everyone to verify it. It collects generic things like the app version, operating system, CPU architecture, and a couple more datapoints about the app usage. The IP isn't logged, but is of course known at the time of submission.

This data is not sold or used for any nefarious purpose, but mostly to track which app versions and which features are most commonly used so that development efforts can be better planned. And there is of course a CLI flag and environment variable to disable it.

I'm perfectly fine with this level of telemetry, as long as the authors are open about what data is collected and how it's used. Making the app switch to opt-in would probably eliminate most submissions and would make it impossible to know how the app is used in the wild.
Are we going to have to start living underground? I went to Beer Caves [0] in the UK recently, where I was told that no matter the outside temperature it was always a consistent temperature within the caves (which was great for mushroom farming in the caves).

Obviously living in a cave is not great, but properly built underground habitats?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Quarry_Caves
No SoC update, it's the same one as in the current Switch. The 4K and DLSS rumours didn't come true, unfortunately.

With that, if you already have a Switch, don't bother upgrading.
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"Practice makes permanent" is a perfectly reasonable goal for someone who needs to perform the same set of songs many nights out of the year.

Musicians don't always "make" music - that's not what it's all about. Musicians may only need to "play" music.
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> Also, is the screen still 720p?

7-inch instead of 6.2-inch, but still 1280x720.

https://www.nintendo.com/switch/tech-specs/
How can I, as an Indian citizen, "resist" or "protest" these changes? Today the government wants backdoors in social networks, tomorrow they may turn to other aspects.

Also, I would like to point out that the laws should be very different for peer-to-peer encrypted tools like WhatsApp and Signal vs laws for "content-discovery" platforms like twitter and google search. While the government should not concern itself what we speak to each other about as in the former case, for the latter there should be some moderation, just that the government should have some form of moderation along with the actual companies. Anyways I don't care much for the latter group as what I see / discover is already being manipulated by someone. We all want an unaltered version of the news / content but I believe it's an impossible problem to solve.
Wear an n95 mask.

The lockdowns didn't work. N95 masks do work.

The overreaction was anti science from statistics to actual implementation.
> Yes, I finally got around to adding some "quail" stuff to my .emacs

Why into .emacs and not into the global keyboard configuration? Don't you ever write text outside of emacs?
Why doesn't music fall victim to this? Is it that visual demands more complete attention? One can "half-listen" to music, but not "half-watch" a movie so repetition isn't as annoying as quickly, so it happens, but more slowly?
The indicated battery life remains the same though. OLED might be more power efficient, but if they pump up the brightness and increase the screen size it's pretty much negated.
> Suppose you need to add new features or fix a bug, to do so you will need all of the original specifications and code generation tools.

So, nothing changes compared to using existing high level language compilers, then?
I wonder what would happen if you made candy with some antifungal compound, maybe it would reduce the craving for sugar..
Citation needed. This should be flagged for fear mongering.

Edit- And the ambiguity of the word "lots" is particularly unhelpful
What distinguishes AI from self-calibrated algorithm?. Neither this "AI" nor the story about it seem too intelligent.

The incentive structure is a two dimensional membrane embeded in a third dimension of "points space."

Obviously if the goal is to maximize total points OR minimize point loss and the absolute value of the gradient toward a mininum loss is greater than the abs gradient toward a maximum gain then the algorithm may prefer the minimum until or if it is selected against by random chance or survivorship bias.

obviously the linear time constraint causes this. a less monotonic, i.e. random, time constraint may have been interesting.
Watching fury road is like listening to a classical symphony. A masterpiece in composiing and weaving together sequences.
The counterpainter crew is an established part of the build-up ritual. Chances are a large percentage of what they censor wasn't made to get on TV but to see them perform. It's a beloved ritual as much as it is a broadcasting technology problem.
IMO there is too much drama around this. The new "maintainers" should be allowed to have their "vision", and the community should be allowed to have their fork. I.e less drama and more forking and working on separate paths.
If you don't fully trust getRandomValues, you can collect entropy in JavaScript and then hash everything you got using something like Blake2b. Touch/mouse inputs time and positions can give a few bits of entropy for example.