skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, but they have enough researchers to figure out that this will not work forever and web3.0 will eat them.
And if that first press fails, the Pepsi label must be the Random button, so you should press the button with the Random label as it is guaranteed to be the Coke button.
Or just switch to a platform that allows third party apps
I dunno, machine learning engineers were a key force against privacy at one company I once worked at. As an ML engineer, your whole career sort of depends on convincing the company you work at to collect as much information as possible from their users, so that you can then run it through magical algorithms to make it look like you're providing value to the company. (There are exceptions, but entire subfields like "recommendation systems" depend on this--startups aren't hiring ML engineers to get better at playing chess.)
I mean... computers are complex these days. I could type up like 3 paragraphs that more specifically describes what is going on but is that really helpful?

Yeah, pipelines and out-of-order exeuction makes the definition a bit difficult. If you want to ensure that all previous instructions are done executing, you need lfence, and if you want to prevent future instructions from filling in the pipelines you'll need an mfence.

There are many clocks (even within a core). The turbo-clock is different from the standard clock. I forget exactly which clock rdtsc uses, but I do know that under some processors under certain conditions, you'll get weird results.

Different processors may have different interpretations of "clock" (mostly due to turbo and/or sleeping behavior). Etc. etc. I don't recall the details, but these different clock states could vary as much as 2.2GHz to 4GHz on my processor (P1? Turbo? I forget the exact name...)

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But all in all, you get a 64-bit number that describes the number of clock-ticks --- for some "definition" of clock tick that differs between processors... and for some definition of "now" (in the case of out-of-order execution and/or pipelined execution, the "now" is a bit ambiguous, as previous instructions may have not finished executing yet and future instructions may already be executing).

If you really want to know, read the processor manual specific to the microarchitecture (since different microarchitectures could change these definitions)
>The tools we use don’t define us. If you feel they do, please reevaluate. Perl (C, k8s, PHP, Python 2.x) are just tools. It’s like defining your identity by the brand of hammer you use.

Maybe they shouldn't but professionally they actually do. Try to get a job using a tool you love but doesn't have widespread adoption and it's hard. X years experience using tool Y? Better have got on board earlier. Adopt something early that really takes off while you write key libraries, docs, contribute (previous times o'reilly howto books) and it can make your career.

As a class we get awfully groupthink and boosterist of our tech choices. It's not good but it's completely understandable.

Hammers are completely fungible. Two similar languages used in similar places are not. See Perl and Python. Do you really have no preference seeing jobs that specify one or the other? If so that's great - I try to be thereabouts myself too. But it's clearly not the norm and it's not as irrational as you're making out here for all I dislike it.

edit: Trying to phrase this in a pithy fashion below.

It makes zero difference to you as a carpenter if every other carpenter on earth hates your chosen brand of hammer.

It makes a world of difference to you as a programmer if your language of choice is popular or not.
>Still using a 2016 SE.

Same. And I've got 2 new ones in the box sitting in my closet should this one break. I'll never buy a new phone again until Apple releases another 4 inch screen. The new "mini" iPhones are literally the size of an iPhone 6.
Looks like they are arguing - hwe followed every procedure leading to a poorer quality service, but they are breaking rules and will out compete us.

However, I wonder how the intersection of regulatory frameworks with rapid tech progress intersect here.

I know that until Elon came around, satellite internet was a costly special use affair. So, perhaps the rules ought to be changed but govt moves slower than pvt companies, so they missed the chance.

Also, large scale satellite deployments for broadband internet on a global scale is extremely fresh territory.
Thank you fogus and the team for your work on these tools!
When it comes to it, I would generally discourage from doing it, Le Monde Diplomatique is just heads and shoulders above the Economist on both breath of reporting as well as scope and coverage

They also have Spanish and English editions besides French

https://mondediplo.com/
Most people don't know this thing when they go to buy the device, and of course nobody will tell you about that. If on the box there is written "THIS DEVICE WILL ONLY RUN SOFTWARE APPROVED BY APPLE", how many people would buy that? In reality most people don't know this thing.

They discover it later, when they ask some more expert friend "can you install me an app to do so, like the one you have on your phone", and you have to explain that no, you can't because Apple didn't approve it for the store. And then they understand that they made a bad choice, but it's too late.

Or when someone goes to you asking for an iOS app and you have to explain that putting it on the store (the only way they can install it permanently, even if they need it only on one phone) they will have to spend a lot of money. While with Android you just give them the .apk and you are done. And most of the time these customer will buy Android phones because it's cheaper to buy a new phone than get the app on the store.
Clearly you've never tried to purchase real estate in the Bay or done the math. $140k after taxes is more like 90k, and then rent eats up $25k of that alone. Subtract another $25k for living expenses (food, insurance, car, etc.) and you're left with 40k, which realistically you'd be dumping into a retirement fund. 2 bedroom house in a decent location with decent schools costs well over $1.5M, plus the insane property taxes due to Prop 13., and you need to pay cash or you won't win the bidding wars.

In states with functioning real estate markets, a decent house in a decent location costs $700k tops and you don't pay $3-4k/mo in rent for a shitty, tiny apartment next to a homeless encampment. My friend rents a highrise penthouse in Chicago for the same price as a 1930s 3bd apartment in SF.
"Alright folks, the Dickburglar is at it again. Battle stations."
It used to be able to be easily purchasable over Amazon. They removed all listings due to the FDA classification I assume. So not so easily anymore.
In their "steps to avoid location tracking of your phone", add this to the list:

5. Disable "high accuracy location" on Android phones.

This mode enables a range of data harvesting by Google Location Services that includes detailed sensor traces fused with GPS, WiFi, and others. Google claims that this information is used in an "anonymous" way to "improve their services", but location data is not, and cannot be, anonymized. The resolution of data harvested here is nothing short of Orwellian, and you just gotta trust Google (as well as all governments that have subpoena and NSL authority over it) now and in perpetuity. No thanks!
I loathe Facebook - but trying to say Mark Zuckerberg is an idiot at this point is pretty hilarious. A bachelor's level of academic training is essentially irrelevant by the time you're thirty - a master's by the time you're thirty five. Academic credentials are a very silly thing to get out the rulers over.
In the general case, how is multi core different than saying “complicated CPU”, you still have computation in a separate box from data and move bits back and forth.

And if we’re being precise, aren’t we all on modified Harvard systems these days? :P (I am not a computer scientist)
This sumbission is actually about just that article ;-) But yeah, it's too slow. The only saving grace is that there are multiple vaccines. Unless they all work exactly the same way, new mutations are unlikely to be immune to all of them.

We indeed don't know that much about the virus itself, what happens when one gets infected multiple times and when multiple vaccines are combined. We are going to find out either way. The goal of the vaccines and the other containment measures is to keep our health systems from collapsing. Whether or not we manage to eradicate Covid or to just force it into low-level virulence is not so important. It is probably not feasible to convince the public to hunt down Covid to extinction as with Smallpox.
At first I thought this was so you could sell retail products through all these different platforms.

I was thinking.... WHY?!

But it is actually for ecommerce plugins/apps/add-ons and the customers are those companies making shopify plugins so they can develop once and deploy everywhere.

Echoing other comments - a more clear description / example or word other than "App" might help. I think Add-On or Plugin might be more clear in your one liner when referencing all the platforms.

Good luck on the launch! Hope the "meet the batch" thing doesn't flop.
The "outside investment" is just time and effort. There is free access to information via public libraries, the internet, youtube, mathworld, etc.
Yeah but (1) it is not the only one and (2) what you bankrupt Facebook will be a different leverage, not access to cheap money (or access to even cheaper money?)
It could also use an adjustable centerboard like some sailboats.
Those liabilities will bring in millions of people. Epic wished they had those platforms to onramp users.
Hey Gabriel! Thank you for the kind words and wishes! Bianca and I actually suffered from this exact problem and that is why we decided to build it.
Lean startup: build fast billing system in MariaDB UDF and OpenResty
We do in some places! Actual cities have exactly that profile, and have the opposite problem of this article; a dense city core that is so expensive that it can be hard to live in.

This article is really describing the failures of suburbia, that soulless monstrosity. By all rights, no matter what is legally true, this 'Appleton' is not a city, or a town or a village, it's just the vestigial growth of people who all want to live in suburbia.
Just a bit of a talky wise-ass, really.

That much, at least, actually sounds like Feynman. But for the most part, no, it didn't really sound much like him.
Not really, the fox crap that smells awful to me smells wonderful to a golden retriever. The "badness" of the smell is entirely down to the nose that's smelling it, the subjective experience of smelling comes from the mind rather than the particular chemical compounds which we understand as a smell.

That subjective information which describes the badness of a smell doesn't exist within the smell itself, it exists within the mind.
I think the issue is Viasat think they are being shortchanged by the FCC to help Elon.
Ok, I'll remember from now on that a comfortable temperature is an "inalienable right" whereas just general freedom is simply a "right of a citizen" or something.

The hoops people are jumping through to not acknowledge that prison is an explicit, intended violation of human rights are wild.
Emotions Matter More Than Interest Rates
No, you're mis-understanding cause and effect. I've had vaccines before and have no fear of vaccines in general. This round in particular does concern me, but that concern arose due to the data and anecdotes that I already mentioned. Concern follows reason for concern. You're asserting it's the other way around, which is:

a. Not very charitable.

b. Not the simplest possible explanation.

Occam would not approve.
When it comes to reopening after coronavirus, income matters more than party
I love this app. The only thing I find a bit problematic is that if you have a match and fetch more info on the bird (Wikipedia / Macaulay Library / eBird), that none of these fragments have a "Share"-Button.

I use that "Share"-button a lot (it usually looks like a "<") in order to save interesting stuff I later want to look at on my PC.

There is enough free space on the top right for such a button (I think it's called the ActionBar?)
Are they printing money with gacha games? Yes.

Doesn't mean they couldn't do some optimization! But to your point, yeah, I imagine there's probably a little more pressure to develop new features/characters/etc. rather than spend months rigging up in-house network infrastructure.
Transaction costs, speed, the willingness of banks to do that kind of business, the assurity that banks will not panic and reverse transactions or shut the account down. Tether, until it inevitably explodes, just works.

The reality of modern business banking is that it works, effectively, on a whitelist basis. They don't just let a totally new business category open an account transacting millions per day just because they don't know of anything illegal.

I take your point that these are, under the hood, regulatory... but that doesn't really change that much.

We could reverse the questions. Why would an exchange prefer to hold tether than USD?

I fully agree with you on Tether, the company. I also agree that it has gone way past exchanges. That said, it is true that working within the normal financial system is extremely difficult for anything new, with big needs for financial services.
Sounds more like the corporate dystopia of Ready Player One...
Assuming you're saying that my analogy is terrible (and not Snowden's), I agree that it doesn't directly argue for the right to privacy. My intention was rather to show (as a proof by contradiction) that the "logic" of devaluing privacy and freedom of speech would also suggest that voting is unnecessary.

There is a real temptation for people to think "Society is generally fine the way it is, so I don't want things to change", which makes them react negatively to things like protests or even whistleblowing (because it causes them cognitive dissonance).

Such people might feel confident that even if the government did abuse its power, it would only spy on, or silence, or hurt people who aren't like them. They therefore may not feel that these fundamental rights are doing them much good, and they don't consciously exercise them. However, many of them would exercise their right to vote, and could imagine the government turning against them if there were no more elections.
> It requires outside investment.

So if you engage in more and better education, above and beyond the education that one is engaging in school, then that person will be better at education?

Yes, of course.

Just like if someone practices basketball, outside of their school team, and hires a basketball tutor, then they would become better at basketball.

Obviously, if someone spends more of their own time on something, anything, whether it is education, or basketball, or whatever, then they would become better at that thing.

The only question now, is why would that possibly surprise you, that people who go above and beyond whatever everyone else is doing, would become better than everyone else at that thing?
Facebook is IOI in Ready Player One and Zuckerberg is Nolan Sorrento.
That is what bash/pipeline programming felt like for me the first time I mastered it.

I missed the Perl boat by a few years, riding the Python2/Java wave at Uni instead, but I did encounter it a few times in legacy (read: 5-years old) code and could only marvel at its string manipulation capabilities.

I like to think of it as the extended bash that I never took the time to learn
Can't say enough how much I despise the term 'metaverse', mainly because it can mean pretty much whatever the speaker wants it to mean, and it's usually used to hype with obscurity (i.e. it sounds cool but nobody really knows what it means), as opposed to clarifying with specifics of what something actually does.
Even apart from global warming, approximately 1 in 8 bird species are already on the brink of extinction. Major causes are loss of habitat, introduction of predators (cats, rats, snakes) and spread of diseases (bird flu is already pandemic but new one will certainly arise).
Debunking the “Leveraged ETFs Are Not a Long-Term Hold” Myth. Big Backtest
No, I don't think they are too relevant but it is a self fulfilling prophecy. Outlets will write about topics that buzz on Twitter. It is easier and if you post something viral, you get the clicks. This is self reinforcing.

The whole gender discussion was a self fulfilling prophecy because many people complained. It still brought clicks, so there were more articles about it. Same could happen for racism, but here journals are at least a little bit more careful.
A platform that claims it's about "bringing people together" is now the arbiter of when it's ok to publicly call for someone's death. Terrific.
Also, I would suggest, most mainstream users. My non-tech savvy friends' only experience with 2FA is for work things and they complain about it. I don't think most people are clamouring to add that extra layer of security to their personal accounts.
Financial incentives aren't there. Why would I redevelop and old house if it's cheaper for me to buy a lot and build new?
> Imagine how many parent would just stick their kid into the worst school for 1-2 years to get that.

This actually happened when UT started applying the rule. Parents moved their kids to less competitive schools.
I found this criticism of the Robin Hood plan: https://www.keranews.org/archive/2005-12-12/texas-schools-an....

Let's examine the substance of the points the article makes.

> Yet when the money is being transferred to other districts, it becomes a state issue and is therefore a state property tax, which is illegal in Texas.

Ah, geez.

> Furthermore, taking funds from one district to another makes accountability for funding convoluted [...] how will they ever know if their money is being used constructively?

Sure, there's also no way to definitively say that the money is _not_ being used constructively.

> The percentage of Texans graduating was stagnant from 1993 to 2003 - stuck at 77%. If the "Robin Hood" system is supposed to bring up the weaker districts (which tend to be the poorer ones), the statistics show no signs of improvement.

The graduation rate isn't the sole metric that should be considered to make this argument. And even if it is considered, you'd only want to consider the graduate rate change across time in the weaker/poorer districts, not across the whole state.

Is there an article with better criticism? The English Wikipedia entry doesn't really mention any, besides "oh no it's actually a state tax".
Can I ride my hoverboard while waving a flag in the Metaverse?
Hi all, I wrote this piece and will be around for the next hour or two if anyone fancies a chat about GPT-3 and large scale language models!
This is like calling a blockchain “decentralized”

How is it a metaverse if there’s only one canonical environment hosted at Facebook.com?
> I don’t think that’s a flaw! The study is “95% of paint splatters” not “95% of random strings of ASCII characters”. If common OCR programs are optimized to produce letters and spaces, fair game!

But if someone said "95% of paint splatters OCR as Welsh words" and it turned out that's because the OCR is looking for words, it doesn't say much interesting about Welsh like the title implies.

> Edit: Also, the programs in the article appear to be mostly special characters?

Look at the whole gallery though. Most of the OCR results are just a string of letters or a number. Those being valid is very mundane.

Edit: Actually if you want to make the analogy super precise, you could say "oh yeah those strings of letters are just proper nouns, which makes them valid Welsh, and of course numbers are valid Welsh"
Well, I think it gets it wrong when it comes to the safety issue question. Something being possible, even if unlikely, is obviously more dangerous than something being impossible. Feynman would definitely understand that even if he insisted that the main reason for the shape of the cover is the shape of the hole (which is probably true).

EDIT: Assuming Feynman is deliberately being obtuse, he might point out that, while unlikely, if the round cover is placed on its edge, it could roll away potentially injuring someone or damaging property.
The people that were using UNIX workstations back then, even Xenix, compared to MS-DOS was probably 1 to 1000.
Mint’s first PM raises millions for Monarch, an Accel-backed money mgmt platform
Universities are, in general, not responsible for high-school dropouts.
Wow, "infinitely" better? That's quite a strong opinion.

But I'm curious how you think they give a "better macro perspective"?

Is it in the range of stories covered, and so what kind of stuff do they cover that the Economist doesn't?

Or is it the "debate", and I'm curious what positions you don't find in the Economist? Especially since their articles are very often in dialectical format, presenting competing interpretations of events as seen from the different sides involved in an issue.

I mean it's true they're not going to apply a European democratic socialism lens to American political issues... but then they're looking at European issues through a European lens.
I agree. I don't think that VR will have a strong presence outside of games and niche applications, either.
... or rise up as history has previously shown.
Gaming implies that your metrics are being ruined by moving towards an opposite effect, not that they fail to be perfect. Similarly, doing well in the IMO could be a predictor of wealth and circumstance, but it's also a signal for math talent.

If we're saying that AP tests and classes are too easy, then of course people can have a discussion about increasing difficulty.
A Tour of the Fuchsia Operating System
Same! Not even on an ultrawide, but 16:9 laptops make usable vertical real estate a priority
Does the CIA torture people that draw dicks in the real world?
You're totally right. Thanks!
> I've resorted to relying exclusively on search now

I'm surprised you're even able to make use of the search because that's also horrible and loves to swap out the result you wanted last second so you open up something else random. It's also incredibly slow and tries to hamfist bing search results and stupid suggestions to install apps instead of just searching your computer.

Now I use Everything (voidtools). And I put it as the first pinned item in my taskbar so I can do Win+1 to access it quickly.
I think you've nailed it - I was racking my brain connecting the article with any interpretation of the poem, rather than the literal text. This feels closer to using Mending Wall to justify a taller border fence.
In the "post-scarcity" world of 2021, tweets by influencers are Porsches and offhand comments by Zucks are a few lifetimes of earnings of the average underling.
> We're giving ourselves some time in market in order to price it appropriately, but since our product is easy to repair, we believe our costs for supporting warranties will be lower than it would be for less repairable products.

Absolutely. In particular, I wouldn't expect an "at-home service" warranty this early in the life of your company, for such an easily repaired laptop. Rather, I'd expect a warranty in which you cross-ship a replacement part, provide instructions to replace it, and say "just put the old part back in the box we shipped you the replacement in and drop it in your outgoing mail".
Sounded like Stallman than Feynman tbh.
Are people really passed on for being over-qualified? Or is it a polite way of declining some applications? Or maybe even a little of both?