skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's good to know there's a performance-accuracy tradeoff.

Is the error the same in non-Apple targets? Does replacing FMADD with FNMADD (negative mult) or FNSUB change the magnitude of error in this case? Also, would the relative error be the same if the numbers were random integers or random floats of a given range (-1 to 1; -0.01 to 0.01; -100 to 100; 0 to 1) rather than integers in sequence?

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In most robotics and AI applications, calculations are unlikely to suffer greatly from inaccuracy but benefit from speed. What are the applications where someone would require floating point math AND both extreme speed and extreme accuracy?
I think it's more likely that a lot of poor people have a main job, frequently with a number of hours that prevents them getting all the benefits of a full time job (think 35 hours instead of 40) and then they work extra, on the side, to be able to make ends meet.

So legally they'd only show up as working 15-20-35 hours and in fact they'd work 60 hours a week.
I just ran your PDF through an accessibility checker and it failed magnificently. For this reason alone, suggesting people make more use of PDFs instead of well-formatted HTML is a total non-starter for me (and should be for everyone).
The article says that Pegasus is installed via a zero-day (presumably via a phishing attack or similar). I love opensource software, but it is not a magic bullet that stops the likes of zero day attacks. In other words, using a fully opensource stack would not prevent something like Pegasus if they exploited a zero day.

Purchasing phones which ensure frequent software patches for a number of years is a far better tactic IMHO. For example I recently purchased a Nokia X20 (https://www.clove.co.uk/products/nokia-x20) which has a promised 3 years of OS upgrades...something I've not seen by other manufacturers.
> PDFs used to be unreadable on small screens, but now you can reflowthem.

(Pasted verbatim, retaining the missing space.)

I don't see this feature in Firefox's viewer, or the default Android one. Can anyone recommend a FOSS PDF viewer that has it? (It must be FOSS, otherwise the point about using PDF to avoid tracking is lost.)
The typical user/gamer will just use the "Piper" frontend which, upon installation, will automatically pull the ratbag thing dependency.
Nobody in Sweden accused him of rape. Please read the direct statements of the women involved.
From https://sites.google.com/site/udfintro/ :

> Although an implementation may use a journal to protect metadata integrity, this does not guarantee interoperability between platforms since it is not part of the standard.

it seems it's left up to the implementation.
I had an external harddrive with exfat that lost all its partition information.

Worked one day, then few days later plugged it in and it was all gone.
There is a convincing argument that the reverse is true.

Namely that "Bitcoin incentivices renewable energy": https://assets.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/5mRjc9X5LTXFFihIlT...
inb4 dang shows up telling you not to feed the troll :)
I'll grant that heat pumps in the US should be standard, but no one is going to cook stir fry with a heat pump.
The full PDF spec is insane and allows for web requests and javascript. Most readers do not implement the anti features but adobe's tools will.
> The first I've ever met

Welcome to the working class! Where things are routinely shit, if "external discouragement" stops you from things, you will never get far in life.

It not about sex or gender, its resilience what matters. And resilience is what people from privileged backgrounds rarely have, because they had it good enough to never have to learn it.

Next time i see a damsel in distress i'll come back to you. Yes, im just making fun of you.
In your opinion, what are the practical risks to them? What actual interference in their daily lives has the FB leak caused or is likely to cause, which would justify e.g. the effort and inconvenience of switching their phone number? Has anyone abused the data leak against them in some way? If not, how likely is that someone would actually do so?
Some clarity:

1) Experts don’t say fuck you user by intentionally doing hostile things for their own convenience or emotional satisfaction.

2) Elegance directly suggests simplicity and polish where simple means few:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegance

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/

That’s fewer shit in the code, which eliminates decoration and unnecessary conventions many developers cannot live without.

3) Beginners and weak insecure developers focus on composition. Experts focus on the end state.
Yeah you would have to if you want to keep Windows on both machines. Just because someone buys a new laptop doesn’t make the old one obsolete. I usually just give my old laptops away for free to those in need of it.
> OTOH it's totally possible to make a self-contained HTML page without using a JS framework of the day.

I'm basically in agreement, but the author has a good point that PDF is obviously self-contained and self-contained HTML pages are not necessarily distinguishable from those that aren't. Perhaps we might have to revisit MHTML or embrace Web bundles as an alternative to PDF.
You're not wrong! It always a trade off of one set of problems for another with these sorts of things, I guess.
IME most external hard drives and USB sticks are marketed as compatible with both Windows and Mac, and ship formatted with FAT32. But maybe I'm the odd one here.
I was not talking about Apple, i was talking about you.
Making Multiple Next.js Apps Serve from Same Domain Without Base Path
Yeah in general every single HW specific tool that has a full support on Linux will have a better UX design on Linux rather than the original Windows version from the HW vendor, because those are usually pestered with custom UIs, custom concepts etc etc
such a waste
Instead of pdf, why not the most basic HTML?
I wouldn't be surprised if the difference in rounding is an innate property of how the math behind an FMA instruction works and that guaranteeing the same rounding (which is essentially rounding twice, once after mul and once after add) heavily impacts the performance benefits. Thus implementing FMA with an inconsistent rounding to separate mul and add instruction is in the interest of performance.

I'm just guessing here tho.
I'm not sure what your question is?

My point (that I think you're referring to?) is that US law shouldn't apply to people not in the US. There are a few well established exceptions (Murder, Rape, Piracy (with boats) and terrorism), but aside from those most nations accept that things happening outside their borders aren't subject to their laws...
How is a complicated binary better than a literal text file?

Truly absurd, this whole thread is churn.
You've moved the goalposts twice

1. Sure the Washington Post covered it, but it didn't cover it soon enough.
2. Sure the Washington Post covered it, but it's coverage wasn't favorable to Assange
How many years was he in forced isolation by that point?
If you live in the US, then the UK will seem strange to you:

- UK has pre-crime policing

- anybody can file a hate charge, etc. based on socials

- self-identifying trans people (a man claiming to be a woman) are sent to women's prisons automatically. You can guess what happens then - Disneyland for male predators. (This is starting to happen in the US.)
>Even if office work returns to something close to pre-COVID levels, one thing that has been proven is that remote meetings can work online.

Remote meetings work since broadband internet was introduced but nobody cared for it on a mass scale until COVID.
The existing kernel mode driver has a very limited write mode that is marked with flashing sirens and limited to things like (IIRC) "only modifying existing files without changing their size".

ntfs-3g is a FUSE driver with read/write support, but it's FUSE, and not bundled with the kernel.

This new driver is (based on?) the commercial NTFS driver Paragon sold, and does not suffer the limitations of either, AIUI, and I gather the objections have mostly been around the state of the code rather than functionality.

edit: Having looked, the comment in the Kconfig makes it clear that they believe the limited write support is quite limited, but quite safe.
It's more complicated than "printing press = bad". There's a good argument to be made for how and when monetary supply should be controlled and to what extent. But completely giving up that control is a recipe for disaster. It's like taking away the steering wheel just because your driver made a bad turn.

I'm not sure how many of the people advocating for fixed-supply currencies actually understand history, economic cycles, inflation-deflation and the role of monetary policy. A lot of the argumentation comes from a surface-level understanding of these concepts and knee-jerk reactions that get repeated by the hivemind.
It’s entirely possible to write accessible PDFs. It’s just that no-one does.
Society managed to not collapse for quite a long time without the ability to spy on every aspect of someone's life. Does the capability existing suddenly make it necessary? I don't buy this argument at all
As far as I can tell, this article doesn’t give any example where fused multiply-add gives a worse result than multiply, then add.

Without such a smoking gun, I would guess the explanation for this is that “subtract c, then divide by b” is a better inverse for “multiply by b, then add c” than for the fused multiply-add.
If you want to try out the ntfs-3 driver, it is already in the XanMod kernel.
That's not the PDF spec is it? That is a spec for Adobe Acrobat, which is not allowed to make any web requests thanks to my application firewall (Little Snitch).

Pretty sure a PDF opened in the browser can't run any JS, but not completely sure. So you're right: I don't really know it for a fact. Poor choice of words.
Can Google index text content in CSS pseudo elements?
I'm pretty sure that the grandparent meant portable quite literally, as in you can take it with you. Things like USB sticks, external hard drives, sd cards etc..
I meant Ordet and Babette's Feast. The Passion of Joan of Arc is a french movie, even if it is a Dreyer film.
U.S. Will Formally Accuse China of Hacking Microsoft
Just recently I brought a Mac-formatted exfat flash drive to a print shop, where it failed at being read on a Windows box. I doubt it that they're using WinME.
This seems to be a flawed approach. Comparing the result to sub/div is not computing the error in the fused-mac. It is calculating the difference between one rounding operation and two.

To do this correctly requires:

* performing the calculation with a higher degree of accuracy (and precision).

* comparing the two approaches against the reference results.

To do this you should look into either writing a simulation of ieee with a larger mantissa or using an arbitrary precision library.
A great line in a great movie "It is not economicly viable"
Most these days ship as exFAT.
Patently untrue. This year alone there was active reporting on Assange from up to June on most popular US media outlets which suddenly stopped. My comment from an earlier thread on July 3rd:

There have been 20 articles in print and on the web mentioning Assange in the NY Times since 2021 began, avidly covering the details of his trial and extradition, but now nothing. If their search features are any indication, CNN doesn't believe you should seek out news as much as passively accept it-same pattern and then no recent mention.

Reuters' latest article from 25 June in a break from the style of their previous coverage leaves out mention of the trial details entirely in favor of a human element story petitioning Biden free Assange "to show the US has changed". This narrative does little to exculpate Assange or share why the trial may be over for good while preempting any credit for what follows to the mercy and wisdom of Biden. Whether Biden ignores or denies, well, them's the laws, you know.
Using plastic waste to help solve sand shortages
Sounds like sensible advice.

I've been led to believe the psilocybin ones have blue stalks which can distinguish them from others, but wouldn't pass that on as advice, myself.
Yes, all made worse by these apps that are available in the play or Apple App store that supposedly identify mushrooms for you. Do not go picking mushrooms without an expert or if you live in a country that offers mushroom inspection [2] use those and stay safe.

[1] https://www.srf.ch/news/panorama/vorsicht-lebensgefahr-pilz-...

[2] https://www.vapko.ch/de/
There's a crazy amount of inertia around the 'mushroom foraging is only for experts' idea. I was just telling my mother in law this weekend that in our area there are no killer mushrooms. There are mushrooms that taste very bad, and (in the worst case) will cause stomach upset (vomiting) but nothing that will kill you outright. I was trying to encourage her to try some of the more well known edible wild varieties (which as the parent comment pointed out are often very easily identified) but she wouldn't budge from the belief that if you're not an expert you'll pick a mushroom and die. People are missing out on a very enjoyable past time because of fear mongering.
> It's too bad but try not to take it personally.

Does this strike you as an odd way to respond to cut and dry sexism? Would this response be as reasonable and forgiving if the genders in the quoted aside were reversed?
You're right, I hadn't checked the site recently and I thought the project were further along - I should've said "booting already" to be conservative.
Your device, your device version, screen size, browser, browser version, IP address, etc... Are all tracked regardless.

You might not be a unique fingerprint, but at best you are part of a group of somewhere between 3 and 1000 similar users.

Not to be a downer, but when I webscraped I learned that big corporations can spend money to fingerprint you.
The author addresses this: “We choose to switch to PDF in this decade, not because it easy, but because it is hard”
– John F. Warnock, September 12th 1962"

The author is obviously making a statements, exploring ideas... not searching for an actual solution to his use case.
Thats one of the helpful identifiers but not the end of the story. Its a useful puzzle piece
I grew up upper class with self-made parents that came from considerably less. As a result they still had the thrifty gene and that really burned a lot of anxiety into me. What helped was them talking to me about it. But I still struggled well into my late teens that I was making my family go poor any time I got some toy or game or clothes or food that I didn’t enjoy fully.

It’s why I am trying hard to find the right balance of communication with my kids. I don’t want them to waste or act spoiled and entitled, but I never want them to think we’re at risk for anything.
AES-128 in Brainfuck
Still very much (1) a tactical mistake and (2) not everyone of the 60 million people who voted for trump fits your description. Working class people fucked over by the establishment voted for the "anti-establishment" candidate, surprise surprise.
I don't think that is about linguistic determinism in the sense of the Sappir-Whorf hypothesis, it seems to be more about Chomsky's theory that language is an internal thought mechanism first, and a communication mechanism second. That is, all thought is internally represented in langauge-like structures - not in Chinese or French, but in internal language trees which can, if you decide to externalize it, be translated to an external langauge phrase that you know.
> So your point was to complain about how Docker took a long time to update their code. I guess that’s not good.

Not exactly. The software was not stable for general use for M1 users at the time of its launch in November 2020. That is the point.

I don't know anyone who thinks or recommends using unstable preview tools for production use is a good idea or even waiting for the software to stabilise for months on a newly unsupported machine. Means you can't use it properly for months.

Might as well use an already existing computer that works well.
Good book on the topic is The World in a Grain by Vince Beiser:

> After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other–even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt’s pyramids to the Hubble telescope, from the world’s tallest skyscraper to the sidewalk below it, from Chartres’ stained-glass windows to your iPhone, sand shelters us, empowers us, engages us, and inspires us. It’s the ingredient that makes possible our cities, our science, our lives–and our future.

> And, incredibly, we’re running out of it.

* https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/537681/the-world-in...

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36950075-the-world-in-a-...

Interview:

* https://www.npr.org/2018/08/05/635748605/the-story-of-sand-i...
I guess identity theft is the most likely risk? but who knows? and humans are pretty bad at calculating such risks. Changing your phone number is a pretty concrete hassle though, and I guess none of them estimated it worth the hassle… It’s just some anecdata to support the parent’s point.
> Yet every democracy seems to tend toward dictatorships according to history.

How could a democracy end if not dictatorship? I suppose sinking beneath the waves is an alternative, but that is pretty rare.

If you want to have some fun reading up on Wikipedia's list of Empires [0], take some time to appreciate that the Republic of Venice being the longest-lived Western European empire. And I'm no expert in Venetian history (especially being as they have so much of it), but it seems to have had some solid democratic elements for around 700 years.

Democracies have a messy, difficult to categorise staying power. I hear stories about Kings and Emperors, but nobody talks about the enduring-like-weeds powers that don't have neatly defined figureheads but are hotbeds of prosperity. Look at Switzerland working through the World Wars for example. Really a minor miracle at that time in that place.

And world's largest empire (the British) spawned numerous highly successful democracies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_empires
Have you considered that some people might genuinely not like Assange for his actions in the past few years?
This[1] is a survey of college students. About 25-30% are self-censoring on campus, and rates are higher among conservatives. This is a pretty well established finding across multiple polls of both college-age and working-age people.

> I'm not aware of any mainstream Conservative beliefs that are suppressed in general discourse

Not in "general discourse" (if by that you mean anonymous social media), but if you work for a tech company, many mainstream conservative beliefs are not to be discussed in public. Consider the James Damore memo, which he got fired for and which most conservatives would agree with. Or imagine being a Trump supporter in a tech company, and wanting to put a Trump poster on your wall/cubicle compared to a Biden/Hillary poster. You might not get fired, but there's enough stories of social ostracism that people probably won't want to do that. Or consider having the opinion that gender = sex and therefore pronouns should correspond to sex, which is what most conservatives think, and something that they'd get fired over. Self-censorship is a rational thing to do in such a climate.

A left-leaning person would probably self-censor in a heavily conservative industry (e.g. oil & gas), too. I don't really have a reference point in such industries about how stifling the climate would be for them, but I don't think this is a phenomenon that's unique to one side of the spectrum. It's mostly a consequence of heightened polarization.

[1] https://2cnzc91figkyqqeq8390pgd1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
I don't think so.

Let me explain from my experience.

I have been asked to create a payment gateway for a company. We found an elegant solution that consisted of general components that we could just configure and wire together so that we will never need to write another payment gateway.

This was a mistake and we found it on next project that involved adding new payment method.

We found that yes, it could be rewired and configured without any development at all. But the process to do so took so much effort, that we would just be able to write a new payment gateway in less time.

The simpler (but less elegant) solution would be to just write the minimum code necessary (of course still neatly and nicely), and then implement the other payment gateway separately. We should have then extracted common model and infrastructure until there is nothing left and we again are left with a single, coherent application.

We have prematurely optimized, put a lot of upfront effort for unknown benefit. The benefit happened to be negligible and the resulting code was complex and costly to work with.

But sure it looked elegant.

Now that I am wiser for this lesson I am trying to use patterns to produce simple dumb code that models the problem well enough without details that are not necessary for the particular instance of the problem.
In France, pharmacists are trained and obligated by law to provide free mushroom identification to anyone. For this purpose, every pharmacy owns of very complete mushroom encyclopedias.
I had good results in asking psilocibes IDing, but of course got some weird looks and strong recommendations not to consume them. Nobody called the cops.
I use a terminal pager with PDFs quite frequently. It works surprisingly well. Even something you wouldn't expect, like a pay stub, renders fine in the terminal.
Well, vomiting isn't very nice either. And some (many?) folks aren't crazy about mushrooms to start with. They may make apologies of the "I wouldn't know how to pick them safely" sort to avoid having to go mushrooming...
What source article? It would be a relief to know that due process is still a thing somewhere in the world.
T-bone steak
I'm not sure what other peoples' conception of hypocrisy is, but for me I think that it's acting in a manner that contradicts, or is at odds with your espoused beliefs.

The simultaneous part is important, if your beliefs change and your actions change accordingly; that doesn't count as hypocrisy in my book.
I feel like there should be laws preventing anyone from destroying something someone else could use

We can't just throw everything away, no matter if it's cheaper, we will run out of resources if we don't recycle
Spotify Has Changed Music Libraries Forever
Apple iPhones were successfully hacked by NSO’s Pegasus surveillance tool
Upvoting and downvoting especially incentivizes echo chambers. I take it you've never had people follow you around threads and downvote everything you posted? Happens bizarrely often.

HN disappoints me more than the average Reddit or Twitter thread because some of the highs are really high here, but when you see brilliant people arguing about stuff they were arguing about six years ago, or adults that are so ideological that they aren't even rational, that happens all the time on HN and I feel in a way it is worse because we should know better.

I think HN, as a place for nerds, largely succeeds, but it also has a very very limited demographic.
I've read this notion before, but whenever I've actually looked into it, neural networks can only seem to represent differentiable/integrale functions, not any computable function.

More importantly, the fact that any function can be represented as a NN does NOT mean that any function can be learned through known NN training mechanisms, not even in principle (i.e. given finitely arbitrarily many examples and unbounded but finite time).

And of course, there is always still the vague possibility (which I don't personally subscribe to) that the actual function is not Turing computable, which would mean it certainly can't be approximated by an NN.
Apple put M1 in the exact same bad enclosures they were using before, so the Apples-to-Apples comparison is still valid :)