skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That area, the pool deck, was exposed to the elements. Rainwater was allowed to pool on top and seep into the concrete because it was not constructed correctly. It should have been slanted to allow water to drain off.
The slabs and pillars under the actual building may have been in better condition since they were mostly protected from the weather.
It used to be the case more that the ultra rich didn't work; but nowadays they often have a lot of wealth generating assets + high paying jobs - 'homoploutia', as coined by Branko Milanovic
I genuinely don't mean this in a dismissive way, but have you considered therapy?

I do wonder if you may have prematurely foreclosed upon future possibilities ("it's all we will ever have") based on your current perspective; perhaps an effective therapist could help reframe some of your thoughts here.

If you find a good one, I think this is absolutely possible.
Replying to myself here but I reported the issue to Bing. If they don't fix this then not only are they serving inappropriate search suggestions but they also run the risk of a huge shitstorm. I'm amazed it haven't been fixed ..
Disabling JavaScript often works as well.
Symmetrical gigabit or more would fundamentally change the web forever. Self hosting becomes feasible for most things, it prys power away from the centralized structure we live with now.
I'm fairly sure that anything permission related has been completely mangled beyond all recognizability in this brave new world of "why should users be burdened with understanding the basic abstractions and mechanics of computing, just give them an app!"

Except now we have two permission problems...
> experts DO exist in any given field and you can't just dismiss what they're saying

Yes, ok, so isn't "parasitic infections" arguably a different field than coronaviruses?

That's why I saw a parallel with Pauling and Newton.

What am I missing?

The fact is, I have no idea about the science. Right now I dismiss it because it seems like mobs of people pop up in recurring threads to promote this thing, as if orchestrated.

Every few days or weeks it seems like there is a new thing that "they" (mainstream media or big tech) are trying to suppress. If it was being suppressed, I wouldn't feel like there was a firehose of it directed at me.

And if the interest in it was organic and evidence based, then the discussions in one thread ought to cause the next thread to be different. But it seems like groundhog day - either people don't evolve their views, or there's an influx of new people.
A good place to start might be the “Evaluation” chapter of Manning et al.‘a “Introduction to Information Retrieval”: https://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/html/htmledition/evaluation...

The whole book is superb, and while some of the content is a bit long in the tooth at this point, the evaluation chapter has aged extremely well.

Oh, and if you’re interested in how to evaluate search engine user interfaces, the equivalent chapter in Hearst’s book on Search UI has you covered: https://searchuserinterfaces.com/book/sui_ch2_evaluation.htm...
I think there was some reddit data hoarder initiative that did that a few months ago.
True but the other point mentioned in the article: - giving automatic access to Finder automatically leading to that app getting FDA access without appearing in the list - is very counterintuitive I think.
Yet Chromium's Blink engine is a fork of WebCore from WebKit and it's still open source. (LGPL and BSD Licenses)

It gets contributions from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Opera Software, Adobe, Intel, IBM, Samsung, etc... It is not controlled by one company.

So, not nearly the "browser monopoly" as it was with Internet Explorer at the time.

Blink didn't become a "monopoly" because of pressure from Google... as it was pressure from Microsoft with IE. It became widely adopted because it's actually the superior engine.

I hope you're not trying to drawl parallels with what happened with Microsoft by calling it a "Chromium monopoly." I'd argue it'd be disingenuous to do so.

If the only thing keeping Apple's spin of Webkit alive is its own anti-consumer practices of keeping it as the only option within its own walled garden, that's hardly a statement of confidence for the engine itself. Perhaps it should die.
> In NYC we call that art.

Sometimes. And sometimes it's shitty. And even more so, if you tag over someone else art you'll get more than a caning in NYC.
Cable plants are generally weak on upstream bandwidth. Around here, there's only 4x 6mhz channels allocated for upstream, meaning about 100 megabits is shared across an entire node, which is 100's of homes. Downstream, on the other hand, is 32+ channels, plus a DOCSIS 3.1 OFDM channel, providing over a gigabit of bandwidth (shared.)

DOCSIS 3.1 was supposed to also improve the upstream situation, but OFDM upstream is no where to be found yet, as supposedly they have to upgrade all the amplifiers to support more bandwidth in that direction. Most people don't care. They're not uploading tons of files.

I'm hoping to get fiber someday.
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Is Oribi better than the free Google Analytics?
I've been delving deep into SIMD for wasm and have had a few findings:
Clang/llvm doesn't use the wat format. Its similar to gas preprocessor, and supports relocation, so you can write your wasm assembly similar to how you would for arm and integrates in your makefile/C code as normal. This also makes it easier to port SIMD from other platforms to wasm simd.

The SIMD spec is quite lacking. Many algorithms take advantage of the chips ability to do multiple things at once in one instructions. Rounding, saturation, and truncation are the main ones I see that wasm does not support out of box, and you have to emulate them. Minus add_sat, that one does saturation.

So far aarch64 is lovely to port, but x86 is terrible. As noted in OP's blog here one single f64.max instruction ends up being 5-6 instructions on x86. While aarch64 and armhf just package it in a singular instruction.

I hope there is more work being done to remedy this so we can bring more algorithms at great performance in the browser. compiler work is above my abilities currently.
TCC does not bypass Unix file permissions. I don't know where that idea is coming from but it is incorrect.

An admin has always been able to sudo to bypass normal Unix permission checks. That's true on all Unix systems.
Lolwut? Unit tests are one of the few things that give me confidence in my refactored code.

Integration tests are nice, but they don’t give me enough confidence about the specific part of the system I’m altering.
That seems like the less likely parsing of the actual text. The more plausible reading would have the "for all users" apply only to the bit about "certain administrative settings", which may by their nature need to apply to all users instead of per-user.

A less ambiguous warning is needed if this is truly meant to be such a powerful setting that overrides regular user-based permissions.
I have a 920. It’s awful when compared to my 12 year-old DSLR’s video-out or my 6 (7?) year-old iPhone 6.

Logitech needs to stop using cheap plastic lenses and excessively compressing video. USB3 has sufficient bandwidth.
They say that the dataset is hundreds of Gigs worths of games, so the net must still be really pretty big.

Though definitely not directly comparable, dataset of GPT2-xl is 8 million web-pages. What I mean to say is that this is clearly deep learning.
Must be fun to work with you.
The AM4 platform does not support ECC reporting. No motherboard can fix this.

https://www.servethehome.com/asrock-rack-x570d4u-2l2t-review...
So, in most cases, bullying causes damage to the victim?
Well, I'll certainly buy this QCOM M1 ("qair"), but not any MacAir's anymore. It will have more RAM and be twice as cheap.
Why scammy website like this which ask people to pay is allowed ?
You have a working Amstrad? I worry for your sanity mate - Ok you didn't mention "working", so I hope it is sleeping with the Old Ones in a safe place and can't do any harm.

The BASIC line numbering thing is really odd these days and it may be time to consider putting BASIC to bed. There are several other interpreted languages these days that do a far better job of doing the programming thing for newcomers.

Given how fast machines are these days, the gap between compiled and interpreted (etc) is quite small for trivial programs/apps.

You say caret, I say cursor! I've also just noticed your spelling of colour and that probably explains the ill advised Amstrad confession.

I'm based in Somerset.
Anyway to read without linked in account
If it’s private insurers and private doctors how can you call it “nationalized”?
Only SF has the vision to bring Robocop to life.
So your position is unfalsifiable. Have fun with that.

Can you prove that the SF stats are of worse quality than any other city? If not, they're still of use for comparison. Can you prove that the reporting percentage has gotten worse over time? If not, they're still useful for year over year.
Good for them. They live in a system that seeks to extract their livelihood for national progress and little else. If the state can take away even the hard work of people like jack ma, then why bother. Seems like the winning move to me.
The article specifically calls out nuisance lawsuits, inexperienced project management, and extra costs incurred to avoid disruptions for drivers.
An autonomous vehicle can keep the tires to the same track within 3cm. So there is potential to build pavement just where wheels go and corners.

I don't believe it, but it is possible.
> I don't see how RH customers can become a captive revenue stream like mainframe has...

In the 10-15 year time frame: IBM can't. Simple as that.

In the 3-10 year time frame however, which not coincidentally happens to be in the range of CEO tenures, the momentum of enterprise infrastructure relying upon a specific platform delivers a kind of lock-in that absolutely can be exploited by IBM leadership.

Look at Oracle. There are still quite a few use cases where their arguably painful pricing, licensing, and account relationship management experience are worth it. For some use cases, there is no other acceptable solution; I've seen them, and Oracle is damn impressive if you operate at that rarefied strata. But for arguably in the Pareto distribution of scenarios where Oracle is used, much of it like CRUD applications, Postgres does just fine.

Yet Oracle today is as dominant as ever in many enterprises.

When it comes to what can and cannot become captive revenue streams in the software market, I've learned to accept that the market can often be irrational for far longer than I can remain solvent.

I really like Debian. It is what I use in my personal servers. I'd like nothing better than to see it supplant Red Hat. But in the enterprise, the Debian story is under-developed. Debian is very rarely supported by application vendors. The LTS duration is half that of Red Hat. The members of the big, profitable enterprise market move that slowly.

I think those are tough problems to solve by someone like Ubuntu basing off a Debian distro to solve on their own. All the other challenges of interfacing with enterprise customers, communicating in their lingo, meeting them half-way, *etc., are addressable by a company organized around doing that using Debian, but there are inevitable questions of resolving differences of opinion in the future between the community and the company. I suspect Red Hat being both the distro and the commercial entity traded solving a lot of those types of problems with a different, more commercially-acceptable set of problems.
I really think Apple should be clearer about what all this stuff does. They're adding a layer of what looks like security but it's not always clear how it behaves.

I feel Apple tries to hide complexity from the user too much. I understand they want to do this by default but there should be a way for technical users to know what's going on. I don't think that's the case well enough now.

Especially that thing with the full disk access cascading though the automation permission is very vague.
Not sure what “culturally rich” means, but if the problem is income I equality, the top 1% need to pay more taxes.
If your plaintext is that sensitive, it should never touch media in that form.

If the storage media (spinning rust, SSD, USB key, etc) is to see sensitive data, the device must be encrypted at the block level such that plaintext never touches it.

At that point, destroying it is a "nice to have," but not really required. Without the encryption key, it's just a source of pseudorandom data, and destroying a key securely is an awful lot more reliable than destroying a large amount of data.

However, if you have some media that you don't want recovered, what you do to it depends somewhat on the media.

If the drive is encrypted and spinning rust, I totally trust a dd of /dev/zero, followed by a hexdump of the device to verify that it's all zeros (hexdump, by default, won't show repeated lines, so if you see a line of 0s, a ** line, and then it finishes, the drive is zeroed).

For SSDs that either haven't contained sensitive data or have been encrypted, blkdiscard is fine, though enough devices don't implement it properly that you must hexdump it after, and if that shows anything, give 'er a couple passes of /dev/zero with a blkdiscard after. And then let it sit, powered on, for a couple hours to finish processing whatever it has queued.

If a drive has sensitive plaintext on it, you should zero it a few times, then, how's your industrial grinder look?

For spinning rust, to actually remove any residual data, you'll want to bring the platters above the Curie temperature that will scramble magnetic domains. "Glowing red from a propane torch" should do this, though thermite may be a bit more fun.

Putting bullets through them will satisfy the requirement for preventing casual recovery, but any residual data is still there if you wanted to get really fancy, even with a bullet hole or few in the drive.

For SSDs, I would generally take a good torch to the drive, get it "as glowing as possible," then sledegehammer it. There shouldn't be much left beyond powder after that, and at that point, the data is well and truly gone. If you want to be sure, a good "Will it Blend?" test of the remains should cover your edge cases, though I wouldn't use a blender you ever intend to use on food...

But, really, if you're at all concerned about this realm of data destruction, you must be using block device encryption.
It seems most of Wolfram explorations are around statistical analyses of pandemic development. For that these two videos are pretty good:

"Exploring Pandemic Data"

https://youtu.be/Vs5APySGYnk

"Exploring and Explaining Epidemic Modeling"

https://youtu.be/kC6LHAv_lx0

But this one in the post is a different type of project.
That's just a rhetoric that attempts to dismiss religion from being bad throughout history towards minorities. Yes, we should all just sit back and not acknowledge truth because humans can be bad by other ways.
I guess you didn't get the memo:

- the CCP has been in a Cold War with the US since the Korean War

- the CCP is in a genocide campaign against multiple religions

- the CCP finances their health care syste with involuntary organ donations

- the CCP's main military target for their nuclear and hypersonic missiles is the US.

It's not a "disagreement." They're monsters.
> There's no rational reason to care about non-human lives at all

> Animal rights are a purely emotional impulse

That would be like saying you're going on holiday but there's no need to take account of the climate or weather.

Humans have emotions, therefore they are a consideration. To ignore emotions is not rational at all.

> We know that by training other humans not to harm humans we reduce the likelihood that we will face hardship. There is no reason to include animals in this system other than that some people feel more sympathy for them.

I, and many others throughout history would disagree with this assertion. As Tolstoy wrote: “As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.” Psychopaths that hunt humans are well known for beginning on small animals and working their way up.

You may say that not all of society are psychopathic, but then we could ask if you would want to live somewhere where animal rights are strong, like the UK, or China, where they aren't even part of public consciousness.

If the powerful treat the less powerful badly, then I'd say it's naive to rely on their making the same arbitrary distinction between humans and other animals as you're relying on here.

Edit: missed out that very important word!
> Not if you're writing your unit tests correctly. Thought should go into what you're testing.

I hear this all the time. “If you just write your tests correctly, you will not have any bugs.”

A statement like this can only be made with a huge misunderstanding of computation and programming. Try telling all the formal verification researchers out there that the perfect set of unit tests can be determined for any program at all. It is not possible. That has been the holy grail of the verification community for 50 years at this point. See this paper from 1975, Towards a Theory of Test Data Selection: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John-Goodenough/publica....

In 1988, the Category Partition method of test case generation was introduced in this paper: https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~harrold/6340/cs6340_fall2009/Read.... In it, a much bigger sampling of the parameter input space is selected from for test cases, but it can result in thousands of test cases to write. This method has at least one industrial case study where a team applied it on financial software for Freddie Mac with 0 reported defects after release: https://cs.gmu.edu/~offutt/rsrch/papers/calcengine.pdf.

Really, the mother of all testing techniques is the DO-178C certification: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178C. This is what companies use when developing avionics software. The highest level of verification requires 100% modified condition / decision coverage: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_condition/decision_....

Given that most people don’t know what MC/DC or the category partition method are, I doubt that there are many actually effective test suites out there. Which makes the frequency of these statements pretty confusing.
The answer is no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
It worked in a private tab for me. You can also try https://outline.com/kGM8Sp
I worked at Sony when these were released, and worked with every one of these devkits. I had been working at Activision, and for various reasons wanted out. I ended up interviewing with Sony in Santa Monica at the time, during the process they never said they were making a console, just that they were going to start working on games. After something like 7 interviews, they finally gave me the job.

On my first day they explained that they were going to release a console. We had one kit at the office that was still marked as a Super Nintendo CD Drive (also built into the NEWS workstation cases). Then we got the NEWS workstation dev-kits, and finally the giant ISA cards.

After a change in management, the head of our division decided we were going to move the office to the Bay Area. There was a weird 3-4 month window where a bunch of people had been laid off, and I was working in a mostly empty office with a Playstation 1 devkit, and the freedom to do whatever I wanted with it. This was months before the Playstation was even announced to the public. This was one of the best experiences that ann 18 year old computer geek like me could have had.
What I meant was that at least CSS blurs in Chrome don't have that "dark" effect that you get from poor color management. https://twitter.com/graycoding/status/1411679670001569793
You need to work out where you sit on the efficiency vs development speed and your architecture.

If your focusing on development speed to be able to add features and trying to grow quickly, then your should lean towards where existing skills are, but design it in a scale out fashion. i.e. break out your state from your http layer so you can run as many front end instances as needed to handle the load. Work on getting the data layer optimized as far as data access patterns go, and serve most of your data from a caching layer. Keep in mind that a web app like reddit spends most of its time dealing with your data layer. A Higher performance language won't fix a slow data source.

If your optimizing for efficiency (hosting and cost), then it might make more sense to start with a higher performance language, but at that point you likely want to optimize for your hosting environment. Can you make your application highly static? Can you make the pages be generated on change? i.e. new comments / posts go into a worker queue and a static HTML page is generated (possibly with some small dynamic content being pulled in from another microservice). In this architecture the web stack is dictated by your hosting environment. For AWS this would be whatever runs best in lambdas. Something like Cloudflare workers enforce JS or Web Assembly.

You also need to ask yourself if you want to develop the code or the site. If your more interested in the application then you should look for something that already exists that is close and see if you can make it work for your needs. The site likely will need a lot of work to attract a userbase, and your likely better focusing on that unless the goal is to develop the software itself.
Quite iteration/feedback loop is a big plus for sure
The key is to find something you think is fun, and play with it. It doesn’t matter what it’s written in. I don’t think it would be fun to take a course, so I never did. But it was a blast to get all this working: https://youtube.com/channel/UCqpwMaJbb-zj-MlMkRd28QQ

You can see my early videos were crude meme attempts, and eventually it morphed to 100 TPU training. You can’t really predict the things that you’ll like, so don’t try.

What’s fun to you? That’s the question to focus on. For me, it was language modeling and image generation, which I learned from https://gwern.net/GPT-2 and Peter Baylor’s’ stylegan notebook, respectively. Then I transitioned to audio memes https://youtu.be/koU3L7WBz_s and kept going from there.

Tensorflow is bullshit, pytorch is different bullshit, Jax is pretty friggin awesome but still has one or two flecks of bs. But none of it feels hard to deal with, because it’s all an enormous box of legos; as long as you chase your interests, you’ll never* feel like it’s annoying.

* you’ll be annoyed all the time, but at least you’ll keep going.
This is a brilliant effort. Keep it up!