skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yup, a great starting point would be commodity based. Even then those can be controlled, ie. public transport cost can be subsidized to keep that price point low for consumers, but subsidy is indirectly reflected by increased taxes...
Good! Considering they made their policy clear, and the employees knowingly violated it, there's nothing particularly unexpected here.

Policies without enforcement are kind of pointless.
Lisp as an alternative to Java, still, in 2021 (and C++ and Rust[1]): https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/revisiting-prechelt-paper-...

[1] talking about speed
How can a document like that even be legal? What reason would a worker have to willingly sign away their rights?
so if the screw up is real then how come it's fake news? Clearly the culture isn't ideal yet if you just check resources I mentioned. It was more like a modern slavery when you consider previous state.
Alternate history speculation is a fool's game, but a fun one. ;) It's also extremely likely that the (states that make up the) United States would be the territory of other powers if it hadn't united.

It's interesting to speculate on how much of the colonies Britain would have won back in the War of 1812 if it hadn't faced a unified front, or what a powerful France would have done in world history if it had never made the Louisiana purchase sale to the United States because there would have been no United States to make the sale to (or, for that matter, what a powerful Spain would have done if France had made the sale to Spain instead, expanding the Mexican holdings). Or how long slavery would have lasted in North America if there had been no pressure of maintaining a national-scale rule of law to bring disagreements between Northern and Southern states to the point of a military conflict.
I used to think I was allergic to oat milk - but apparently was only really allergic to Oatly's vanilla flavor. I did fine with other brands.

Oatly's overly litigious nature makes complete sense based on their ownership (from das Wiki):

"Oatly is now part-owned by The Blackstone Group (7%), Verlinvest, China Resources, Industrifonden, Östersjöstiftelsen, and the employees.[16][17][18] The group also included celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and Jay-Z, as well as Starbucks founder Howard Schultz.[19]"
A rainbow table approach is easily defeated by length.

Whether you can remember a password depends mostly on how often you use it. If you have to type it in every day, 30 random letters aren't difficult to remember.

I can still tell you my first library card number just from the messages the library would leave when a book came in. 1000102772901.
Probably a requirement at the top of the RFQ
I'm really loving fastmail. Thanks for the heads up!
> In the US, by default, each party is liable for their own litigation costs. This means that if 20000 people decide to sue Pfizer (you know, 1% of 1% of the vaccinated in the US), Pfizer now has to deal with the litigation costs of tens of thousands of lawsuits.

They can recover those costs if the lawsuit is frivolous. And we're talking about a billion dollar company racking billions in profits fighting in court against... sick people robbed of their health's. A balanced fight indeed.
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The article spends time on the implications for kids messaging other kids. Though I think parents as a group might tend to lean more towards wanting that snooping going on.

Separate from kids, I wonder whether Apple's is yet shooting itself in the foot for teens.

Teens should start caring about privacy around then, are very peer/fashion-sensitive, and have shown that they'll readily abandon platforms. Many parents/teachers/others still want to be treating teens as children under their power, but teens have significant OPSEC motivation and ability.

Personally, I'd love to see genuinely good privacy&security products rushing to serve the huge market of a newly clueful late-teen generation. The cluefulness seems like it would be good for society, and market forces mean the rest of us then might also be able to buy products that aren't ridiculously insecure and invasive.
Apple GPUs had been focused on the iOS APIs, I wouldn't be surprised if there is still a gap to fill until they can compare to this kind of GPU setups for the given workloads. Which can also be because of (software) vendor support not being as good yet.

Also let's not forgot how bad graphic drivers have been on Mac as long as you don't limit yourself to the subset iOS likes you to use...
> If you open an application when it's already open, Windows creates a whole new instance of the application instead of just switching to the already-open application.

This can be handled by the application though. VLC for example has an option ("Allow only one instance") so that it will only let you, uh, open one instance at a time - if you try to open VLC again while there's a Window already open it just (IIRC) sets focus to the existing window.

I think Firefox opening a new window is an intentional design decision.
Fair use is whatever a judge and/or a jury says it is.
Apple's marketing materials related to the M1 underlined the point that an integrated GPU is not a bad thing because of the unified memory / high bandwidth. I agree with that point.

So, I expect that if they come out with a "discrete" GPU, they will have some innovative solution in terms of communication between the main SoC and the GPU, and maybe there won't be a PCIe connector like we are used to in PCs.
Yeah, I’m not offended or anything. Good for GGP and whatnot, just trying to explain.

It was funny working with some people who didn’t really need the money. It was/is always an alien concept for me. We had a cool startup we were working with and they were in “stealth mode” for two years without any revenue or funding, just working without any income. Must be nice.
> Credibility matters

People attack credibility when they can't refute the facts!

> Likewise no one cares to listen to people who refuse to get vaccinated or do anything at all to reduce spread of a disease when those same people want to talk about whether the disease made a trip through a lab on it's way to the general population.

Of course, remember it was forbidden to mention the lab leak hypothesis on mainstream social media. They banned people for that.
There also was a Youtube incident of chess videos being flagged, because of "black/white [...]" comments being tagged as racist speech.

These contextual problems honestly show how shallow AI still is.
Anecdotally this is pretty typical of the evolution of mo systems.

Some heuristic/standard algorithm works pretty well, but people see cases it didn't catch and think it could be better. An engineer/scientist takes a look and realizes the extra features required need a more complex/ml algorithm to add support for. Years later a model has made it to production, but there are now complaints about too lenient matching.

In my experience, ML works best in scenarios where there is either such immense data volume that .2% improvement is a real benefit (these are rare) or the very notion of a heuristic method simply wouldn’t work.
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>If, for example, it takes 8 hours of computation time to process a recording of duration 2 hours, the real time factor is 4. When the real time factor is 1, the processing is done in real time. It is a hardware-dependent value.

I think real-time factors smaller than 1 are faster than real-time (not slower) and use less than 100% of a resource's computational power to keep up.
> Pretty much wasn't until Linux that the PC actually became useful at all.

This. I got lucky to experience a SGI Indy when it came out and although going from my beloved Amiga to a 386 running DOS "because CPU speed" (and because the PC was obviously where it was heading) was a really bitter move. Then a 486. Then I discovered Linux and my 486 + Linux was my "poor boy's SGI Indy". Great memories (and still rocking desktop linux on my workstation on a daily basis).
Its always funny to me explaining perceived rudeness as just being from a Nation State. More they beat their chest and swell their pride because of it.
Is it just me that finds the list of "Things to turn off." getting ridiculously long?
That’s an incredible example; thank you for sharing!
> hard requirements such as understanding data structures and some decent idea of big-O,

That's the problem with current software. Web-devs and others who have gone through some sort of a CS curriculum, know only high-level stuff and know big-O, but have no idea of how a computer works. Big-O (mostly) only kicks in when large numbers of stuff are involved, but meanwhile what matters is how each pass of the iterating process is slow (and even when Big-O kicks in, it just multiplies the base unit, so if the base unit is slow, it will also account, it will scale as they like to say :-) ).

If you only know and trust what the high level gives you, you have no idea about how each base unit (operation) is slow, on how each may require data movement and memory. You can believe that copying a whole memory area (a data structure) is the same as copying a native integer, since it is the same operation in the high level language, except one can be a simple register-to-register transfer, while the other one means performing a loop with many memory accesses, both for reading and writing. You can think that exponentiation is the same as an addition, since they both are provided as primitives by the high level language, except one is a native single-cycle CPU operation, while the other one means looping over a couple of instructions because the CPU do not have hardware exponentiation. You can think that floating-point calculation are as fast as integer operations, especially when some of the favourite languages of that demographics found it clever to provide only a single type of number and implement it as FP; while they are still slower (except division).

That's a bit the theme of the original post. Instead of doing an actually simple operation, doing a lot of things without having any idea about how much pressure they put on the HW, how much resources they use: allocations, several loops. After all, it looks like a chain of simple operations from the high-level language; the author doesn't know which translate to basic operations, which translate into a complex loop-intensive and/or resources-heavy stream of instructions, which are just there to please the compiler and are not translated into anything.

The cure for some of those things is however quick and simple: opening and giving a look, once in one's life, at the PDF manual of a CPU at the instructions set chapter, should suffice to somewhat ground the reader into reality. It doesn't bite.
> Turns out it has phototoxic sap, causing blisters and scars if you touch it and then expose that skin to the sun.

Fun fact: The name for this is corona syndrome, named for people getting severe burns after cutting limes on the beach. Almost gave it to myself yesterday after pruning a potted fig tree without wearing gloves, but fortunately got the sap off in less than a minute so was fine.
>Maybe they wouldn't do better, but they wouldn't have a trillion dollar incentive and ideally there'd be competing metrics.

The fact that no private entities tried to do anything similar (eg. bloomberg, s&p, msci) despite the massive incentive to do so (it's hard to price bonds/mortgages/loans if you can't trust the inflation numbers), suggests that the current number is already pretty good and/or that coming up with comparable numbers would be massively expensive. I think the problem is of expectations. You want a competitor to the BBC. You hope that it'll be something like propublica, but given the crowd associated with crypto, you'll probably end up with something like zerohedge.

>Health care: On a per capita basis, health spending has increased over 31-fold in the last four decades, from $353 per person in 1970 to $11,582 in 2019. [0]

That seems pretty consistent with the figures from CPI: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SAM2

From 1999 to 2019, the source you gave (Total national health expenditures, US $ per capita) 154% increase. The "Medical Care Services" component of the CPI grew by 112% in the same time period. The figure you gave also doesn't account for an aging population (older people spend more on healthcare, irrespective of cost), so the "true" difference is probably smaller.

>Housing: Median home price was around ~210k in today's dollars ten years ago and is now ~314k [1]

Because looking at home prices is a poor way of assessing housing cost increases. If you factor in falling interest rates, the cost of a house has actually gone down. Houses have also gotten bigger and better equipped in the last few decades, which might increase the overall sticker price, but arguably shouldn't contribute to CPI increase.

see: https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/03/what-if-housing-pri...

>Education: The cost of college increased by more than 25% in the last 10 years [2]

The "Tuition, Other School Fees, and Childcare" component of the CPI has increased 37.4% in the same time period.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SEEB
That's what he wants you to think. In reality he really is just a buffoon.
definitely not the issue of people handwaving away concerns as being unfounded or uneducated. thanks for showing me the truth.
I don't think they necessarily need to agree. "How expensive is stuff getting these days?" is a broad, multidimensional question, and I think looking for a single numerical answer tends to confuse people more than it clarifies. (Even today, we have "core CPI" and "median CPI" and "chained urban CPI" and so on.)
I just looked and I think you'd need to squint really hard to think they were related.

Different color, different font, different layout, there's literally no copying of Oatly's design other than the y at the end of the word Oat (which, as a common word, isn't brand able on it's own).
That's a very effective defense against this attack. It's ineffective against someone walking up to the terminal.
We're talking about someone's use of the words "failed state" because that's how they feel about the US and it definitely fits the definition based on the position some people are in.

People also argued in January 2020 that it would be ridiculous to worry about this coronavirus it's just as deadly as the flu. Literally told to me by a democratic doctor that works at an extremely prestigious medical institution. (Different take now).

I'm not saying the US is on the precipice of failure in 1 year and 7 months, but people don't realize the stilts things are on sometimes.
If you have a number base n, shift right/left k digits means, respectively, "divide/multiply by n^k".

That's the same whether it's decimal (n=10) or binary (n=2).
That's the point! When the postal service has to OCR mailing addresses, they need to do the messy scribbles more than the professionally printed labels.
Unfortunately, they compete with native berries like salmon berries on the west coast and other shrubs in the same habitat. Unlike salmon berries and native shrubs though, despite being a good food source, they are poor habitat for birds and small mammals that would otherwise occupy that canopy level and habitat.

The native blackberries are small trailing vines that grow below salmonberries, thimbleberries, huckleberries, spirea, dogwoods, elder berries, mountain ash, salal, cottonwoods, alders and more. They grow amongst foamlflowers and other small herbaceous plants. All those plants provide ideal habitat and forage for a huge variety of animal species.

Himalayan and evergreen blackberries are large woody shrubs that overtake everything else and grow into a thick tangled impenetrable mass of thorns not ideal for many native animal species.

An area that should have between 6 to a dozen species of plants will instead have 1 because of the way invasive blackberries grow.
> The fact that our forestry practices, by artificially arresting a natural part of forest life-cycles, create powderkegs of old, unhealthy, and highly flammable forests is not news. It's been known for decades.

This is 100% true.

Unfortunately, better forestry practices require a LOT more money to be pumped into the departments which manage those forests for manpower. Go take a look at how much manpower and resource it took to clean up even a tiny area around the Grand Canyon.

In addition, climate change is making things like "controlled burns" increasingly dangerous. The number of days you have the conditions to do a controlled burn are getting fewer and fewer.

"Better" forestry practices are not cheap, and nobody wants to spend the money until after their house burns down.
What I am reminded of is all of the now seemingly prophetic writing and story telling in a lot of cyber-punk-dystopian anime about the future of the corporate state, and how mega corps rule EVERY THING.

What I always thought was interesting was that the Police Security Services in Singapore were called "CISCO" -- and you used to see these swat-APV-type vans driving around and armed men with CISCO emblazened on their gear/equip/vehicles...

I always was reminded of Cyberpunk Anime around that.
It's almost comical the tendency companies/societies/countries have to invoke absolutely abhorrent concepts in order to justify their future unethical behaviors and shield themselves from any valid criticism.

The fact that they raised the children card speaks volumes about the level of fuckery they're gonna deploy on this one.
Yes, it's been used that way in American venacular for at least several decades.
I don't have the feature to downvote you, but it I did then I would. Here's why: what is an "objective fact"?

Are those statements you made relevant to the death of George Floyd? The answer is no.

He was a criminal who made mistakes - for which he served his time. Stating your "objective facts" appear to diverge attention elsewhere and in particular to paint George as the guilty party that warranted the police response that he received. Did he deserve that?

He begged for his life while being kneed to the throat for over 10 minutes. He then died on the floor by a police offer. There's some objective facts for you pal.

Further, there was no "real life complications of a real life case" he was literally murdered. That's the point and is why the police office is serving jail time!

Please take some time to consider what and WHY you wrote what you did. Do you think that he deserved death? Why?
Downloading an image to your phone is different than uploading it to iCloud.

Downloaded images are not uploaded to iCloud w/out user intervention.
Your point would be more widely listened to if you used the less condemnatory label "The uninformed" instead of "idiots."
What options for addressing the SSO problem would you recommend over SAML if one had the option? OIDC? Kerberos?
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keep pretty much everything you just mentioned, just with OIDC, and possibly add Zanzibar-like system for permissions with OIDC tokens being limited to just being identity bearers?
What competitive advantage does performing semantic hashing of my photos for law enforcement give apple
As mentioned, SLIMA for Atom is pretty good, nearly as good as Slime. More options: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... (VSCode, Jupyter notebooks, a simple Eclipse plugin, an overview of LispWorks etc)
Policy in Yellowstone did change. I would have thought that policy everywhere else changed at the same time.
Step 1: Do a Google search. Ransomware hacker goes rogue, leaks gang's plan
“easy enough to clear up”

I prefer not having my door busted in at 6 am and my dog shot in the head because of a hash collision
A CU is more equivalent to a GPC than to an SM tho with RDNA2 that’s also not exactly true as they introduced WGPs.

NVIDIA and AMD hardware is quite different the “core” count comparison is pretty meaningless.

An Ampere SM also has also quite a bit more than 64 cores.
Don't worry - you can trust ALL of these guys:

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I haven't worked on the project in a while, so I can't comment too much on the current status. But I'm happy to talk about what I learned, the challenges I faced, etc. if you have any questions about those.

The multiplayer aspect is immensely valuable. Having multiple developers walk around the same codebase together, discussing the architecture and the code, is helpful for debugging, onboarding, brainstorming, all the different ways we collaborate as developers. This kind of visualization is not a solo activity, so I can see where Vircadia would come in.
Been using Kotlin for ten'ish years. I feel the same, although I'm not part of the Java camp, coming more functional i.e. Scala.
I was working on a number of open source libraries for a more functional reactive Kotlin, but have largely stopped.

They really painted them selves into a corner by doubling down on Spring, Micronaut etc. There is little benefit to those and Kotlin. From the back-end side, it's Java light, and Java has largely caught up.

If they kept to Ktor, Quarkus, vertx that could compete a bit with the Node/lighter crowd. Or people who limit class usage and focus on a more functional style. But that leads into that target audience...

Is not as apt to use Jetbrains projects, ancedotal observation. When I started Jetbrains was heavily used for python, ruby, etc. I converted several teams to Kotlin pre 1.0. But now with VS Code being the primary IDE/Editor, it's a much harder pitch.

The multi platform stuff feels half baked out side of UI. Having done several run time agnostic services, I hit so many road bumps. Jetpack compose is really cool though.

Where to go? This is an honest question. I just got done a project where we tried to go to Rust, and reverted due to wider difficulty with the borrower system across teams.

On another contract I spent several days tracking down node module resolution issues, and incompatibilities between peer dependencies. The script portion of package.json feels lacking compared to gradle and dependent task trees. NRWL/nx and Microsoft/Rush help a bit here.

I still feel Kotlin is a really good language, with graal if treated as Node with a better build system. But I rarely see that, mostly it's akin to J2EE or mobile.
> A14/M1 use a non-standard NVMe queue format

>USB4... but Apple made it their own, as usual

I am wondering about these two points. Why ?
> That said, I am disappointed in Gebru, I read her "Gender Shades" paper where she completely ignored the existence of the Asian race. That's a pretty big limitation for a paper named in such general terms. In another place she labels Asians as "white adjacent"

You are scratching the surface of a much bigger racial divide in the Bay Area. [0] [1]

> That doesn't seem to be ethical behavior for an ethics researcher. She also refused to debate with Yann LeCun on the topic of bias, instead sent him to reeducate himself

I don't think she had the technical background required to really argue with LeCun.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/us/02sfcrime.html

[1] https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674018440