skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The specialist cubes were always rather more succinct at expressing long chains of derivations and effectively doing the equivalent of many KB of SQL.
Can anyone share the actual binaries used? (Specifically, the dll cryptor which was sideloaded).
Ah I got excited for a second, I'll stick with ue4 if its only EC
Do you think a totalitarian state makes that distinction? They are not known for their sensitivity. I would imagine they are simply dispensed with.
The video was 5 seconds long, the truck was already signalling and slowly merging into the other lane at the beginning of that 5 seconds. It takes a human driver 1.5 seconds to react, there was 3 whole seconds for a human driver to slow down properly.
Something similar was in one of Donald Westlake's Dortmunder novels, I forget which one.
The underclass in BNW isn't what I would describe as uneducated though. Everyone was essentially a specialist or technician dedicated to a field of work. There was no such thing as being unemployed or underemployed, they were all engineered and educated to do exactly what they were intended to do. They probably couldn't even conceive of their situation needing improvement.
Hospitals Often Charge Uninsured People the Highest Prices, New Data Show
Hard to keep the price of Apple stock a secret
Any time I see a headline is from the Economist I go straight to the comments for the inevitable rebuttal of their oversimplifications or outright bias. Appreciate the book recommendation; just ordered it.
Anti-WFH propaganda machine in full swing. Article barely had anything to do with WFH, just a term mixed up with some work stress studies.
He did: "the suspect had kept the paintings at the home of a relative that he frequently visited to look at them,"

The article doesn't say if the relative knew they were stolen originals or presumed they were prints.
This is a terrible, uninformed take. Had we seen any serious unwanted side-effects during the EUA authorizations the FDA would withdraw the authorization, and the vaccines have continued to have excellent track records across over a hundred million patients!

No known variant incl. delta shows full antigenic escape, and we have plenty of evidence of the protective benefit of vaccination in patient outcomes. Coronaviruses are slow-evolving RNA viruses (due to their proofreading enzymatic activity, single strand, etc.), and though we are certainly seeing a period of new host adaptation, SARS-COV-2 is almost certainly not going to be like H1N1 influenza.
> Wokists make jokes about Ayn Rand because she died poor, lonely and deprived, dependent on the state. The ultimate payback, no? Asocial is, as Asocial does.

Wokists make jokes about Ayn Rand because it makes them feel better and they don't know or choose to ignore that this is false. She didn't die poor, lonely and deprived. She still made a lot of money by the time she died and the amount she collected from state was 2k or something like that.
Hmmm, 7% requiring hospitalization = not odds I want to take.
This is clearly (at least to the Western sensibilities) a vast government overreach into private life, but can we marvel for a second at a company employing AI to curb addictive behavior towards its product? I definitely don't agree with the government mandates dictating how and when you can play video games, but it is kind of incredible to see a company use AI for something other than encouraging addictive behavior like many US tech companies do.
I have the opinion that the needs of web based games is fairly different than native games and that it's unlikely any game engine targeting native games is going to do a good job with for web games.

Native games, downloading 50meg to 50gig is before you can play is not uncommon. Web games you probably want to keep under 1-2meg (just a guess). Of course you can try to use an engine designed to make native games but use small resources but, AFAICT, most of those engines, just their code, is already too large to really be a web game.

I know Unity was trying to make a smaller runtime for web games but since shipping a few demos a few years ago I haven't heard much about it.
Fixed the link, thanks.

There's no attempt at humor here - I'm just trying to get you to explain what, precisely, you mean by "test against a specification to verify implementation" so that we're in agreement on terms.

When I hear "test against a specification" and "verify implementation," I think about things like CompCert. But the Linux kernel does not use CompCert, it uses GCC or Clang. To the best of my knowledge, neither is tested against a specification and neither has a verified implementation.

Actually, when we first started discussing mainlining this, we had a bit of discussion about whether it was safe to allow rustc-compiled Rust code to link against GCC-compled C code. The specific worry was potential compiler bugs, of which the kernel has historically run into many. We eventually decided the risk was low, but the kernel has gone through periods where it insisted you use the exact same compiler for the kernel and for modules because of bugs. Those bugs have gone away through the normal human process of writing better code, not through formal verification. And when they existed, the kernel's response was not to reject those compilers, it was to work around the bugs.

Also, CompCert does not test against the C standard, which is written in English prose. It tests against the CompCert developers' attempt to re-express the C standard in terms of machine-checkable theorems. The C standard is confusing even to human readers, so it would be misleading to say that CompCert has verified their compiler against the standard as published by the standards committee. (Hence my claim that they're similar; you can verify a compiler of any language provided you write your own machine-checkable statements about what you expect it to do, and you still need other humans to read those theorems and convince themselves that they're the right ones.)

For those reasons, I'm trying to understand what your question is in a precise manner. Are you asking about things like CompCert? Because if so, I don't follow the relevance to our work, though again, I'm happy to point you at interesting research.
The spec is quite clear. Read shall either produce the same data as was written or return an error. I haven't ever seen an eMMC device that didn't comply with this part of the spec given how obviously bad that would end.
Agree. You can get vaccines on a walk-in basis almost everywhere now (in the USA at least). We have more vaccine than people who want it. Everyone who wants to be vaccinated is vaccinated. Time to drop all the drama and get back to normal.
Actually, this is mostly incorrect.

But, to be fair, CEOs know PR professionals that know what 4chan is.
Because FAANG is a cool, somewhat-evil sounding word, and GAFAM is a boring nothing.
You said "The fact that it spreads inside friend circles should be all it takes to defeat the idea that it is based on some fundamental internal gender dysphoria." I offered a plausible alternative. At least you admit you're guessing now.
What worries me is that this is at odds with Tencent's revenue model. How likely it is it that this was planned all along? Would it be possible that it's just the first step (nobody would argue about "protecting" children) to more invasive surveillance?
From their website I gleaned that they have 5 facilities, and several miles of piping that carries ice-cold water to their customers, large buildings around.

It's the maximally outsourced air-conditioning solution I ever saw :)
Houses like that are still being built and passing inspections today, mostly in NM. I realize that technologies requiring actual builder expertise (because they're uncommon) and a minimal level of competent, individualized design are out of reach for the majority of the market, but it's not some inaccessible future tech.
And as I read this comment, I'm amazed that this user doesn't believe calorie intake is a core component of emotional regulation and stress management. Has the user ever heard of terms like "stress eating" or that "hangry" has made it into the dictionary? Or has the user ever realized that despite all the stressors of Navy BUD/S and Army Ranger bootcamps, the one thing they do not restrict is calorie intake (and why)? Alas, poor skeptical user.
True now, 5-10 years time though? When they finally get to the cloud and realise the costs, they will look at opportunities to reduce their bills.
The Koehntoppsche Idiotenfalle or news:de.alt.binaries.sex.children proposal to discuss usenet and web censorship is actually 25 years old.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040618062603/http://kris.koehnt... (German)
TikTok has two advantages:

- lots of short content

- viewing metrics to the second

Within an hour of usage you could've browsed through hundreds of TikToks, and allowed them to classify many tastes for you.

You'd need to sit in front of Netflix for an entire month for them to get the same amount of signal.
Loginbud – Automate Google login as a service
It's better to assume he did check properly. The problem is the car behind didn't slow down AT ALL, that would be VERY surprising, leading to the last second attempt to swerve.
"What purpose do they serve to the mushroom? And how is it that similar agents exist in fungi, plants (ayehuasca) and amphibians (DMT from toad venom)? And also how do they produce such dramatic effects (generally beneficial when used judiciously) in humans with seemingly very little toxicity?"

These are some of the most important and fascinating open questions regarding these substances, the answers to which have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the mind and mental health. Unfortunately, at the glacial pace that human studies in to psychedelics are proceeding[1], we will probably have to wait a very long time to find out.

Meanwhile, there are religious answers to these questions, as many psychedelic users consider these substances, plants, and animals sacred or even divine. Other theories, regarding psilocybin mushrooms, for instance, have been that they are some sort of alien beings who are trying to communicate vast amounts of information to humans or trying to influence human evolution. Similarly, I've heard theories that nature or "Mother Earth" is communicating through these substances, plants, and animals to humans to try to stop the environmental destruction they are causing, etc.

Materialists, physicalists, or naturalists[2] might scoff at such explanations (especially if they've never had strong psychedelic experiences, though sometimes even then), but I believe that it's likely that a great religious revival is heralded by the renewed interest and widespread use of psychedelics. Some have argued that psychedelics were the original cause of some if not all the great religions, and plenty of new religions are being inspired by psychedelic use all the time.. so such religious/non-materialistic/supernatural explanations and more are likely to become more and more widespread in the future.

[1] - While the popular view is that psychedelic research is running full steam ahead since we're in the so-called Psychedelic Renaissance, the unfortunate fact is that human studies of psychedelics are still very difficult and time-consuming to get approval for, and there really aren't that many.

[2] - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physicalism/ and https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism/
You may watch garbage (revealed preferences) but that is more important to them in terms of keeping your attention than your wish list (stated preference).
During my rather short stint in a synthetic chemistry lab in college, I learned that it was a relatively standard practice for folks to "nuke" their reactions in a microwave in an attempt to speed things up. Certainly, nobody wanted anything to get ionized in these situations... So, to me the idea that biological systems may be able to pick up additional energy from local RF fields, and that this increase could potentially have adverse side effects, does not seem totally implausible.
I'm finding it remarkable that people getting chased out of houses they've lived for years - maybe all their lives - by property taxes is "non perverse".

Bonus points for using the phrase "happened to randomly live". I mean, the whole sentimentalism about people's hometowns can be taken a bit far, but seriously?

HN comments like this put me in mind of that great quote:

"All of us have sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others." -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It's not that past generations had some special knowledge on building structures that we have forgotten, but they were doing the best they could with the materials they had at the time.

Lot's of adobe buildings were made by the indigenous people as that's about all they had, mud and clay. Mud and clay are terrible insulators, they retain heat extremely well, which is why they are great for pizza ovens.

In the arid parts of Texas evaporative cooling works really really well but requires a decent supply of water. I've never seen people use solar chimneys in these parts but those older generations could have done it with their technology, as long as they had a source of cool air to pull from.
Probably the essence of meditation is not to be borrowing power from the outside. You are entering that mode by yourself.
This is an extremely narrow-minded and potentially harmful view.

For health reasons that I'm not going to discuss online, my partner has been unable to get the vaccine. The amount of people who have stopped wearing masks in our apartment, at the grocery store, etc. has really started to increase where we live. Knowing that these people are still able to get infected with the delta variant and easily spread it is terrifying. She desperately wants to get the vaccine but can't, so every day is more and more terrifying for her. I have the vaccine but I'm still scared to go out without a mask on because I don't want to get it from somebody who isn't wearing a mask and spread it to her, so I'm not even able to "resume living normally".

I know it might not seem fair to you to put the world on hold for a few people who can't get the vaccine for one reason or another, but you also need to know that it is not always "by choice" and that the price may be people's lives.
The Path of the Humane Technologist (2021)
Maui mayor asks airlines for fewer tourists amid travel boom
> And it's crucial to increase vaccinations in other countries, says Saad Omer, a vaccine researcher at Yale. "The world has to get its act together," Omer says. "Otherwise yet another, potentially more dangerous, variant could emerge."

Where I live, approx. 1/3 people claimed to want to avoid the vaccine a month or two ago. We’re up to maybe 75% vaccination rate, so many changed their minds. It’s hard to focus on other countries when your own citizens are holding out
It's less confusing when written "Entity−Component−System architecture". That is, it's a list of the three concepts -- Entities, Components, and Systems -- that predominate in the architecture.
I think it maps onto the argument as an explanation for both 1) why youth feel entitled to homes and 2) why they are experiencing such disappointment.

Growing up through a bubble explains 1) and the rapid decline from the bubble popping explains the intensity of 2)*.

I agree that the youth ownership numbers are dismal and indicate housing is harder to get into for that age group[1]. On the other hand, ownership is going up for the elderly as fewer old folks fall into poverty and lose their homes, leading to a bit of a wash for the overall population.

It is hard to call home ownership an 'elite' while the majority of Americans are homeowners.

*There are a ton of other factors that play into the affordability crisis

-Increasing migration to more expensive urban areas.

-Housing stock not keeping up (NIMBY, regulation)

-Loss of blue collar jobs, and immigration depressing wages

-College debt burden

[1] https://faculty.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03...
It would take me some time to dive into the prevalence of abusive “therapies” or what every day life is for autistic people in China. I did find this report about a rehabilitation center that forces autistic children to walk 19km (12 miles) per day as part of their treatment. It gained notoriety after a 3-year old died while in the center.

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/811/toddler-jia-jias-death-hi...
Yes. Different local hard cheeses work as replacement for different famous trademarked hard cheeses.

Sidenote: Pecorino Romano is one of the cheeses that I can't find a local replacement for :(
Netflix pays really well.
FIRE: 13 Important points in the campus and K-12 ‘critical race theory’ debate
I’d love sources/anything to show how the seasonal hypotheses have been disproven.
About ten to fifteen years ago, “Internet addiction” was perceived to be a big problem among the youth in China. Kids would skip school and play video games in Internet cafes.

Someone opened an “Internet addiction treatment center”. Parents would pay to send their kids there, where they are deprived of their freedom, be indoctrinated about their “sins”, and even subject to electric shock. [1]

The state official television network, CCTV, aired a documentary endorsing the practice.

I am not making this up.

Obviously nobody cares about this anymore because literally everyone is an Internet addict.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Yongxin#Internet_addictio...
First thought about something similar would be the 737 MAX and the MCAS fiasco. I remember the whole "new type certification" was floated as solution to something like this from happening again.

Obviously different case, but I think the same principle applies here. A software update that significantly changes the performance characteristics should be recertified and not grandfathered in.
is this the average hacker news comment nowadays?

Why overloading our medical facilities again somehow going to level out some imaginary part of the population you think needs to magically die?
If they are beneficial to us, and we grow the fungi, then it’s beneficial to them too.
The curious death of Oppenheimer’s mistress (2015)
I had always heard Apple as the outlier for low salaries, not Microsoft.

https://medium.com/@paysa/tech-salaries-who-pays-more-micros...
Yeah, blast from the past. Early days of the web. The image interpolation/extrapolation blew me away, particularly extrapolating away from a blurred image as a way to sharpen.
Thanks for sharing Troy! I imagine it's not easy to build in public and to write in public when you don't necessarily have it all figured out. Respect your willingness to put yourself out there as you figure it out, and looking forward to learning alongside you on your journey.
Former Netflix employee (2010-2013) here and, if there's one thing Netflix does as well or better than anyone in the industry, it's running the numbers. In particular, in those days, we had two key metrics that were strongly correlated and we would attempt to drive up: Streaming hours and account retention. Higher usage was strongly correlated with account retention to the point that they were the core of nearly every experiment we did.
Cellphone use has gone from basically nothing to ubiquitous in the US from ~1995 to 2015, with a particularly steep incline in the middle of that range (2000-2005 is when I'd estimate the biggest increase was). With more or less of a lag depending on how well-developed a country is, this is also true for most of the world--even in poor, underdeveloped countries, cellphone use is pretty damn ubiquitous today.

Were there a major risk of brain cancer from cellphone usage, it would have shown up in actual statistics. Hell, if the risk were as small as an extra one per million chance, we should still be able to find it (note that we're able to observe side effects that rare in the current COVID-19 vaccination drive). While the real world data is an uncontrolled study, the study size is so large that it has enormous statistical power in its own right.
It's easy to understand.

First, a gas-fired power plant converts about 40% of thermal energy to electricity, discarding 60% to further heat the planet. Then a few more percent are lost in transmission lines and voltage-lowering transformers. Only then that electricity is used to heat water or air in one's house.

If you just directly burn that same gas in the house to produce heat, it's nearly 3x as efficient.
Climate change is making weather more extreme, in both directions. “Global warming” is a good descriptor of global climate as a whole but a bad descriptor of the effects on local weather. Many places are seeing higher highs and lower lows.

The only saving grace at the coasts is that you’re sitting beside a giant heatsink.
The truck touches the white line at 2 seconds, crossed into lane at 3 seconds, fully in the lane at 4 seconds.
They cited various problems with the other studies.

All of Cantor's sources included non conforming behavior or "sub threshold" gender identity disorder.[1] He just ignored the numbers lost to follow up. And several studies found predictors of persistence. Like meeting the criteria for gender identity disorder.[2]

[1] http://www.sexologytoday.org/2016/01/do-trans-kids-stay-tran...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18981931/
I believe they're criticizing the somewhat unfounded idea of a stress-induced uncovering of past traumas in order to purge emotions about said traumas.
Everybody loves money.
Not sure how important that stat is considering it still means that vaccinated folks are able to spread it.

If 36% of vaccinated people get it, they probably aren't wearing masks and are going to spread it very easily to people who may not be vaccinated. Not everybody is unvaccinated by choice, especially depending on the area you live in. Just seems a little premature to open everything back up with a more infectious strain going around.
Is it? The incredible thing would be if they used AI for something better than addictive behavior. Doing it for something worse is the expected course of action.
You can implement ECS on top of EC. Entitas is and example of a really good ECS on top of Unity’s default EC.

I’m currently writing and designing a serialization/networking library that I’m using to build an ECS framework on top of regular Unity EC. Why not use dots? Well, I hate the restriction of using only blittables for component data, I want to have access to the already existing ecosystem of Unity packages, and the biggest is that I am designing it for networking first. It’s slow going (I’m a dad and I have a full time game dev job), but I’m making good steady progress. My serialization library currently features composition, quantization, no reflection, and no garbage collection. I plan on releasing the first version under the MIT license hopefully in the next couple months.

I have a prototype that I’ve been building to test my stuff. Check it out it’s only 30s.
https://youtu.be/p4v3ZnS2KBM
Only true of 10BASE-T and older [1]. 100BASE-TX transmits 4 bits at a time [2]; 1000BASE-T 8 bits [3]; higher speeds even more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_over_twisted_pair#Var...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Ethernet#100BASE-TX

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet#1000BASE-T
If you want your monthly payments to be low initially, and you intend to pay off the mortgage debt fully within 5 or 7 years, then a 5/1 or 7/1 ARM can be a good option.
We're not really disagreeing. I also like properties of Viridis, but it doesn't make it better for all tasks. It is a shorter path through color space, so it is not as good for some tasks. "Distortion" is not really a well-defined term, absent a particular visual analysis task. People can say "use viridis" with as much self-assured confidence as others say "use python", but they're still missing the point that different needs call for different tools.
It is a periodic partial settlement mechanism. Perpetual futures are equivalent to a bag of daily futures that automatically roll over, one of which is always in its expiry period.