skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't load that page for some reason, and although I don't really like Krugman and certainly if it just comes from a blog with his opinion and vague handwaving in it I don't think it's worth much. But that surprises me that he would have changed his tune so quickly after being famously against HFT, e.g.,

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/opinion/03krugman.html

> It’s hard to imagine a better illustration than high-frequency trading. The stock market is supposed to allocate capital to its most productive uses, for example by helping companies with good ideas raise money. But it’s hard to see how traders who place their orders one-thirtieth of a second faster than anyone else do anything to improve that social function.

> What about Mr. Hall? The Times report suggests that he makes money mainly by outsmarting other investors, rather than by directing resources to where they’re needed. Again, it’s hard to see the social value of what he does.

> And there’s a good case that such activities are actually harmful. For example, high-frequency trading probably degrades the stock market’s function, because it’s a kind of tax on investors who lack access to those superfast computers  which means that the money Goldman spends on those computers has a negative effect on national wealth.
Oh, God, well I suppose that's like yay, I passed an inverse Turing test or something ;p ;) xx

but honestly I think mine is way more rambling and incoherent than GPT-3 haha
(imo) Solution Architects are popular in big enterprise environments exactly because the organisation as a whole doesn't use/isn't familiar with agile or the like. They have to figure out what solution the org is looking for, how to best integrate it with what they already have, and how to do it with the least impact on employees. If the org has poor information management, getting requirements is already a mess, and the SA is already screwed.

From what I've seen (with contracted SAs), SAs are just inventorying and working around the half-finished implementations the previous SAs left behind, ad infinitum.
I’m glad you’ve found the errors of your ways so quickly. May you be less ignorant and a better person for all.
Sure, you can fake that you do the job in any role if you want. Question is, do you enjoy doing this, going to such work every day?
No, it doesn't matter, as cheap labor in on fab subsidizes the other fabs, even if those would have best working conditions thinkable.
Why bother? They may change their mind later on and then what? Apple will come out with their own display that will just work out of the box with their own API.
Absolutely, only toilet paper can be thrown to toilets. Everything else must go to garbage bins, especially all kinds of wet wipes. Same is surely true for US too.
Just as the process of building a bridge has a lead engineer, supported by likely many different different types of subordinate engineers, large IT projects succeed more with a similar structure and process.

If you're building a bridge over a small pond, iteration based on feedback from users will likely work well.
Ok, to answer my own question of why not:

because the various legal systems regarding copyright are a abomination, that simply do not allow me legally to waive my rights.

CC0 claims to waive my rights to the fullest extend, but reserves my right to file a patent. Not what I want.

The closest seems the unlicence:

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:Unlicense

(but it seems not recommended by GNU, for whatever reason - they recommend the CC0 instead)

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#Unlicense

This is annoying because I just want to make it clear and simple for anyone without doubt, that my project shall be free for any use, any time. A layperson cannot divide between all the various GPL, LGPL, MIT, etc.

So unlicence is my current favorite, until I find the caveat.
WaPo called out NYT for fake news twice yesterday. This supports your argument - they both can't be right! They both can be wrong, of course.
I'm not talking about the total increase of productivity, I'm talking about the roughly 20% it increased beyond where it would have been if the pre-95 trajectory had continued. I.e., the excess. It just doesn't seem like a plausible explanation.

EDIT: going back and looking at the actual numbers rather than eyeballing it's more like 10-12% excess. That's across the entire economy of course, so it would still be a massive increase to attribute that mostly to a subset of retail and finance sectors.
I avoid these abbreviations just call them queue and stack.
Apple innovated a lot post-Steve Jobs.

The development line of the A CPUs that led to the M1 is definitely not ‘a new bottle every 1-2 years’. The M1 out-innovated Intel, Qualcomm and to a lesser extend AMD.

Apple also branched out to other categories with the Apple Watch and AirPods.

Apple is most definitely still innovating.
Listen, every single time I find a piece of information regarding tech in general (often security, cloud or IPOs), whether it’s TV, papers or the internet, they’re wrong on something because the journalist didn’t care about being thorough. This is just about tech because it’s my area of expertise. Now why would I believe that it’s not the case for every single field besides tech? Why would I believe journalists are thorough regarding politics, economics, health, energy? I don’t. That’s why instead of reading journalists pieces, I follow experts I trust on the fields I care about, whether it’s on Twitter, TikTok, YouTube or whatever. And why do I trust them? Because if they know what they’re talking about, they have rock solid sources which is what I expect and that I don’t find in mainstream media. They believe they are the source because they say so, but it’s not how it works.
On Forms of Journalism
Basically it's to do with ownership, Rupert Murdoch/News Corp actually has nothing much to do with Sky News UK (anymore) but completely owns Sky News Australia.

Sky News UK is owned by Sky Group, which also used to own Sky News Australia until a few years ago when it was acquired by News corp. News Corp of course used to own a controlling stake in Sky group and even tried to buy the whole lot at one point but failed and now it's mostly owned by Comcast I think.

It's also worth nothing that Sky News Australia also runs a relatively 'normal', fairly respectable news network during the day but then in the evening they switch over to start broadcasting much more right wing conspiracy laden content and pushing this onto digital channels such as Youtube where it then gets picked up and used by more fringe right wingers in the US to legitimise their views (kind of look this 'mainstream' australian news channel is broadcasting this clip, it must be true and the US mainstream media just is covering it up). This is commonly known as 'Sky after dark'.

This article from the guardian probably gives a better overview of what they are doing these days and why it is so insidious.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/24/sky-n...
One of my grandfathers was illiterate as well. Not a finance whiz, but not stupid either. He was a rural blacksmith and he was rather good with engines and small appliances, repairing them for paying customers.

This is also a good moment to meditate on "right of repair". As recently as approx. 1970, most of the machinery in daily use could be repaired by a skillful, even though illiterate, person. The advent of semiconductors did away with that and nowadays even highly qualified people struggle to update a firmware against the vendor's wishes.
PyTorch Lightning 1.4 with TPU Pods, IPU Hardware, Fully Sharded Data-Parallel
This reminds me of the saying "the best design in the design you don't notice" (or something like that). Just because it seems authentic, doesn't mean it is not curated. That is not to say that curation is an issue in itself, just that it requires a system that becomes dangerous when abused.
A friend who worked as a doctor in the Fens of East Anglia said that many of the older farmers she treated (in the early 2010s) were essentially illiterate. If she gave them a form or a letter, they would hand it to their wife to read because they considered reading to be women's work.
They have gone through most of the FDA approval process. 3 phase clinical trials have been completed. Applications have been submitted for the two mRNA vaccines, and the ~6 month rolling review process has started. They also have been approved for emergency use, which might be what is referred to here.

Her overall point stands fine even if she misrepresented the completion of the approval process. The vaccines are well tested. Adverse reactions are primarily immune response related, and at similar rates to the unvaccinated population.
Note that „DW“ is part of the German state media network which is financed with a special tax of around 18€/month that every household in Germany has to pay.

The purpose of the state media network is to provide „societal and political stability“.

The article itself is contradictory, as they claim the anti-lockdown movement is „far-right“, just below a screenshot of the movement holding a banner saying something about a „class war“ against Warren Buffet, which is an obvious far-left talking point.

At the very end of the article, they do mention shortly what the opposition party is saying about the lockdown protest bans, but the article conveniently leaves out what the protest with 35,000 people that did not get banned was about (pro-LGBT), which leaves a bitter taste that the current bans are political. (The „Covid doesn't spread when you are protesting for a good cause!“ kind of hypocrisy)

The courts themselves in Germany have been extremely supportive regarding anything the government did during the pandemic, which has led some politicians and lawyers (from the FDP, centre-liberal party) to call for an inquiry into the role/absence of the judiciary branch during the pandemic.

Note that I personally think the protesters were not tactically smart in insisting on not wearing masks, as 1) masks most likely do help to prevent the spread of the disease, and 2) the lack of masks was the main/only reason for the the protest bans. They could have written creative things on their masks, but insisted on not wearing them.
Tetra Paks aren't put to generic waste, they go in a semi-specific packaging materials bin that depends on country. I assume almost all of them are incinerated for energy.
Could have, but this would have been a really bad look for the Olympic Committee, and it's very possible they would have preferred to waive the fine.

Beyond a certain point, fines become a game of political chicken.
In my experience, statements like the one you quoted are generally just made up on the spot, and the author adds phrases like "advanced nation" so he can weasel his way out if someone bothers to do a minimum of research and finds a counter example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary_confinement#United_Ki...

Oh look, the UK has 40 people in solitary confinement. I guess the UK doesn't qualify as an advanced nation then?
No, those days are long gone. OWL is dive or pharah+ball or rush, and sometimes some double shield or mcree+torb. A lot of comps can work.
"I would memorize the eye test sheet"

There were so many of us...
CO2 battery could make wind and solar dispatchable at a lower price
The problem is that it's a massive waste of resources, in terms of fossil fuels, production capacity, engineering talent, research talent. There are much more pressing and likely to be fruitful avenues of exploration. Launch or build telescopes to explore space, and engineer green energy and carbon capture solutions on Earth.
No, I think it is pretty clear from my comment that I do believe that companies are making money on prisons. It can be deduced for example from the part where I say:

> Now, to be sure, a lot of people make money on prisons, (...) but also some private businesses too.

In fact, it would be beyond strange to expect a private company to provide a useful service to the people indefinitely at a loss; that’s not how business works.

> Like most graft in the US, the issue is that private companies get to make a profit on public expenses. This is "more efficient" than having the government do it at cost (see also: medicine).

The problem is that “at cost” is not some sort of objective, physical notion. Most things that government does are “at cost”, but this means little to the taxpayers who foot the bill, if they end up paying more for government services provided “at cost”, than for private services, the providers of which end up making good profits. The entire point of private prisons is that they are cheaper to taxpayers than the government ran ones. In all, I see no problem whatsoever with private companies get to make a profit on public expense, if taxpayers benefit compared to the alternative.

> The practice in this case disincentivizes rehabilitation, means people lobby for things like 3 strikes, or trivial parole violations, mandatory minimums etc. The incentive structure creates systemic reinforcement. You go in to the system and it doesn't particularly want you to come out.

3 strikes, mandatory minimums etc are not a product of private prison lobbyists sneakily instituting them, while the public is kept in the dark. The actual history of those policies is that they were instituted with wide public support, during a time of large increase in crime compared to previous periods, when many of the offenders were found to have offended many times before, and got away with slap on the wrist. For example, first state to introduce 3 strikes law was Washington state, not exactly known for private prisons, or population hell bent on punishment. It was introduced by public ballot measure, which passed 75% to 25%. The voter pamphlet argued that under current law, a violent robber, who has two earlier violent felony convictions, is recommended only 5 years in prison, not even considering early release for good behavior. Not exactly what you would call a trick pulled on the public by sinister private prison lobby,
> I share the skepticism towards any progress towards 'general AI' - I don't think that we're remotely close or even on the right path in any way.

I actually think that AGI is deceptively simple. I don't have a proof, but I have a (rather embryonic, frankly) theory of how is it gonna work.

I believe AGI is an analogue of third Futamura projection, but for (reinforcement) learners and not compilers.

So the first level is you have problem and a learner, and you teach learner to solve the problem. The representation of the problem is implicit in the learner.

The second level is that you have a language, which can describe the problem and its solution, and a (2nd level) learner, and you teach the 2nd level learner to create (1st level) solvers of the problem based on the problem description language. The ability to interpret the problem description language is implicit in the 2nd level learner.

The third level is, you have a general description language that is capable of describing any problem description language, and you teach the 3rd level learner to take a description of the problem description language, and produce 2nd level learners that can use this language to solve problems created in it.

Now, just like in Futamura projections, this is where it stops. You have a "generally intelligent" creature on the 3rd level. You can talk to them on level of how to effectively describe or solve problems (create a specialized language for it) and they will come all the way down with the way to attack (solve) them.

In humans, the 3rd level, general intelligence (AKA "sentience"), evolved eventually from the 2nd level, and it was a creation of the general internal language (which probably co-evolved to be shared). The 2nd level is an internal representation of the world that can be manipulated, but only ever refer to the external world, not itself, so it allows creatures to make conscious plans, but lack the ability to reflect on the planning (and also learning) process itself. The "bicameral mind" is a theory how we acquired 3rd level from the 2nd, and the 3rd level is why "we are strange loops".

Anway, the problem is, the higher you go up the chain, the harder it becomes to create the learner, it's a lot more general problem. But I think the ladder must be, and should be, climbed. I believe that Deepmind (and RL research) has solved the 1st level, is now working on the 2nd level, but they already somewhat dimly see the 3rd level.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/02/04/murr-f04.html

This is the best description of what it was all about from the persepctive of Craig Murray.
Welp, no need to ever buy Kodak products again.
`Mutex` (and `RwLock`) should not since they grant exclusive access, should they? As long as the aliasing information doesn't live across lockings, but that doesn't seem like it would happen: each locking would hand out a different guard, and thus a different reference the optimiser wouldn't see relating at all to the previous locking.
I think that is the clear implication of "I know many people", not "I know of", but "I know".

The phrasing is intended to give the feeling of immediacy.
I think it's worth adding: the domains that these organisations rank are chosen by those organisations. How the ranking works is chosen by the ranking org. A major source of revenue for the ranking orgs is conference sponsorships, and one of the things included in those sponsorships is access to the analysts writing the reports.

It's also worth noting that ranking companies don't rank products, they rank vendors. So a company that does everything kind of ok over multiple products can get an advantage over a company that solves one problem very well with one product, if the ranking companies choose to define the category in an overly broad way.
This is to a large part due to worker owned business being unable to attract capital. A capital giver wants ownership or at least tcomaprable influence as consequence. At that point they aren't worker-owned anymore.

Generally however I think worker-owned companies are unlikely to take risk but value the workplace of current workers over future workers. (i.e. closing a department in order to build a new market will be delayed)
The SO answer has the entire list (Shep' apparently updates it regularly). In stable it had to be disabled twice, though both times it remained disabled for a long while, and the first re-enable was a mayfly (lasted all of 18 weeks):

* initially enabled

* disabled in 1.8

* enabled in 1.27

* disabled in 1.30

* enabled 1.54 (because an issue blocked enabling it in 1.53 which pretty much guarantees there's still a bunch lurking)
As someone who enjoyed vaporwave as it was being produced, “the idea” behind vaporwave was that it sounded good.

It may have sounded good because it touched on nostalgic sounds for millennials, but there wasn’t a wide spread movement “… to provoke those feelings in you while also detaching from what might actually make one nostalgic”
"Noticing an obvious deficiency in your life and doing nothing about it is in fact idiotic."

So, how many people are overweight and fat these days?

Maybe some things aren't easy to solve. If someone told me to learn writing in Chinese, I would be very creative in finding ways how to do without. It is just too hard for me at 43 years of age.

People with certain disabilities may find English spelling (a notoriously tricky terrain full of illogical exceptions) similarly overwhelming.
LISP Comes of Age
Tiktok is fantastic at disguising ads as videos.

In to food? Look at this amazing restaurant, filmed in high quality, with lots of editing, exactly the length of a tv ad. All done because the person just loves the place so much /s

Gay? The person is the advert for their onlyfans.

It seems absolutely chock full of “brand ambassadors” just like Instagram.
> Why do you think the opposition won't take care of it?

As I said above, recent track record. This is not a thing that we see happening, so why would it start happening now? Do you not think that the media spheres are disjoint, as I said above?

> I am taking about the actual people in the first video, who claim to have suffered AEFIs.

So then, are you sure that there isn't a fact check that "debunks" that? Have you looked?
Coffee Addiction in the Working World
It would be nice if pure benchmark papers were a thing. Most of the time system papers get accepted for some new idea. The evaluation section is often biased towards the new idea. Independent benchmarks could fix this.
And the death of privacy!
(Not a licence expert) There's the Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License:

DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

http://www.wtfpl.net/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
No defined use case really, tinkering :-)

Initially I just wanted to try out some other ways to build a JS runtime, now that the web is much more advanced than it was when Node was created.

Shortly after I realized my goals aligned very well with those of Deno: provide web APIs where possible on a CLI / server runtime. Granted Deno is a much bigger beast.
I remember having a whiteboard conversation with an Enterprise IT architect. I drew my usual diagram of the actual systems and services and how they connect. He rubbed out all the arrows, drew a triangle and had all the arrows flowing into and out of the triangle.

"What's the triangle?" I (perhaps naively) asked.

"That's the source of ontological truth".

That's when I realised there's a whole other level of ability that some people have. This guy was a zen master of bullshit.
You can always download the instructions from the web. It should contain all the info you need to decide.

Of course it won't help when you are shopping and looking around in a store for some reason.
Well, in any case, writing a backend for rust or llvm that generates C is probably still less work than writing an entire rust compiler. Maintaining it is even orders of magnitude less work than maintaining a C++ "shadow" version of the rust compiler.
It wasn't stolen by burglars, it's stolen in the sense that someone pockets some money for letting the supply leave the holding facility.

They technically don't own it, but the owners were never going to pay the fine to get their property back.

It's the inevitable course of events in these situations.
For the moment the intended use case is experimentation, by using the tjs binary as the runtime.

Embedding is something I’d like to get to, eventually.
This was in the news back in 2018, and at the time I think local councils were instead sending plastics to landfill.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/malaysia-bans-waste-import...

I’m not sure how the situation has changed since.

More here: http://environment.gov.au/protection/waste/how-we-manage-was...
You’d have to adjust for the reduced valuation had you not made those purchases
You just reminded me that SC2 was split up into 3 parts. I'd completely forgotten. I can't remember how they justified it at the time, but through the lens of history and their other actions it certainly looks like they thought it'd just be easy to make us pay 3 times.

Either way, I enjoyed SC2 for a while but it just felt like it was missing something compared to Brood War. I never did buy the other 2 parts.
> Society does not have an answer to the more extrem cases of deviants, sadly.

This society does have an answer and it's the same lazy answer it gives to every problem that it can't empathize with, lock it up and keep it out of sight for as long as possible. It has never cared to seek another answer.

Frankly, things only change when enough people do research and be obnoxious and cantankerous about the answer. I doubt there is much funding for that research as it takes no effort to see how little this society cares about those that need the most compassion.