skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, I am an editor at The Gradient and host of this interview! As this is only episode 6 the podcast domain is pretty new to us^, so would definitely welcome feedback on question choice or my style as an interviewer. We tried focusing much more on research than other interviews out there such as Lex Fridman's, would be curious to hear if you think that worked well.

^(we've existed as a digital publication focused on AI for way longer, see thegradient.pub if you're curious.)
I'm not conspiratorial but I am "vaccine hesitant" as they call it here in the US. For instance, if I theoretically got bitten by a rabid dog and I didn't want to die I would take the rabies vax.
I personally disapprove of the COVID vaccine since it is very unusual for vaccines to be made in two days...and evidence regarding long-term side effects is scarce.
However if taking the Covid vaccine meant I would get $10k in cash, then of course I would take it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/moderna-designed-coronavirus...

If you haven't seen my earlier comment I am the guy that DM'd you on reddit, I noticed your account was suspended and reverse searched the username.
Show HN: Graph general formulas (not just functions of x) with FormulaGraph
it's all modelled using physical laws; see slides 16 onwards of the "Inside Liquidfun" presentation:

http://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fEAb4-lSyqxlVGNPog3G1...
Enabling COOP/COEP without touching the server
Hi HN! This project is a mashup of a few projects from other people: Relplot, Graphtoy, and Web Turbo Pascal. I shared more details about how these all fit together here[0] with the hope that others might find it interesting :)

[0] https://memalign.github.io/p/formulagraph.html
No paywall link: https://archive.is/IBmbl
What do you think of open source projects like iNav, Ardupilot, and PX4?

(I don't have enough open-space to test their navigation / RTH functionality, I use them only for poshold & althold in horizon mode)
USN-4661-1: Ubuntu Snapcraft vulnerability
It just occurs to me that something might be happening to China behind the scene as well.
As a ps3 owner who was considering that it might be fun to make a simple game or utility it's a total non-starter.

Of course I can make a game for free on my desktop, laptop or phone and have many options available. But I was literally just last night thinking about making something for use with a controller on the sofa and bookmarked Unity for further consideration. I'd rather use Godot but I don't think that works with consoles at all.

It sounds like this still works for older versions of Unity? I am not imagining anything elaborate/commercial. The ps3 is not the best computer (or even console) I own, but it's one I like and use daily, even if just for a few minutes to play an old game or watch streaming video.

Edit: after looking around Unity's website it seems they're just not catering to hobbyists at all any more which I guess makes sense from their business perspective. Oh well.
Longevity or Quality of Life?
Indeed, I am poking fun. The current narrative is that sensible policies are the only thing that matters, which leads to the obvious conclusion that there was failure that should be accounted for.
This probably explains the previously mysterious drop in Delta cases in the UK.

In the U.S. why shouldn't we just shoot for herd immunity now? Not sure how effective restrictions and mandates will be in slowing things down and the costs to mental health and quality of life are so high.
This is exactly right. Too many folks assume PoW is more decentralized because it's not tied to money, but what's the difference if mining requires money? As you note, PoS lowers the barrier to entry and actually creates a more egalitarian system, despite with Bitcoin maximalists think.
> … famous Caper Jones study…

Have you ever considered the validity of that study: which purports to compare programming languages, apparently without considering obvious differences in available programming tools?

Even back in the late '80s, those Smalltalk implementations provided a very integrated development environment — writing Smalltalk in a simple text editor really isn't the same ;-)
A good point; it's entirely possible that this is only a very temporary challenger, who will soon be challenged again, and be defeated.
It is a bit disturbing that an organization (Cyber Ninjas) allegedly dedicated to election transparency and public confidence should express so much embarrassment over how it works with $$$, and work so hard to keep its affairs opaque.

It is also bizarre that the GOP would choose a no-reputation firm without any prior experience in elections to administer the process.
Given that we know next to nothing about intelligence at this level, no one can say that some gene doesn't have any effect on intelligence, especially if it has any kind of effect on the brain.
> Most of them are making the assumption that they have lasting immunity, but I'm going so far as to have my antibody levels checked. It's been several months and they are still in excess of what would be expected from having been vaccinated, so I see no benefit to getting vaccinated.

Wouldn't getting vaccinated then be comparable to vaccine + booster, giving you even better protection?

> I'm going so far as to have my antibody levels checked

I didn't know you could do this. How do you get your antibody levels checked?
Very nice. I need something like this incorporated into my workbook since I mainly use ETFs over mutual funds. Not sure if you know, but Sheets has a function "GOOGLEFINANCE" where you can input a ticker symbol and retrieve a lot of useful info, including price.

EDIT: I commented too soon. You have useful info in some hidden columns. Thanks again for this! I'll be incorporating it into my spreadsheet.
Here's an issue I have with that question.

> A sample question might be “count how many bits in this byte are 1”

Use the Popcnt assembly instruction.

> But what if the popcnt assembly instruction doesn't exist on your platform?

Popcnt exists on POWER9, ARM, x86, NVidia PTX (GPU Assembly), AMD RDNA, AMD CDNA, AMD GCN.

> But no, really this interview is about seeing if you're able to answer the question in a manner that's familiar to the interviewer... and not really how you'd solve the problem in practice.

Fine fine fine. I'll open up my "Art of Computer Programming Volume 4A, Bitwise Tricks" and copy/paste the algorithm specified therein. I don't keep the particulars of how to implement popcount in my brain anymore because its implemented in most CPUs / GPUs these days, AND I can look it up if you happen to be on an uncommon platform in pretty standard bitwise-tricks based programming books.

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But really, the interviewer would want to know "You do the weird "(x & 0x5555) + ((x & 0xAAAA) >> 1) (etc. etc.)" routine.

But really, the practical answer (aka: use a single-cycle popcnt instruction available on all mainstream desktop-class CPUs and GPUs I can possibly imagine in today's world) is still the "wrong answer".

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I think a better interview question would be: Demonstrate mastery of horizontal SIMD-programming, __such as__ implementing the popcnt instruction out of bitshifts, adds, and "AND" instructions.

Or, demonstrate said parallel programming mastery over any other similar problem (be it lookahead carry addition, or kogge-stone bishop/rook moves in chess, or whatever).

That's what you really are trying to figure out when you ask the question. Anyone can solve "popcnt" or look it up with a quickie search (either on the internet, or reading through a book). But the overall methodology generalizes to many problems in the SIMD-programming space, so its an important skill to have.

But also, its important for the interviewer to demonstrate having this skill to the interviewee. Otherwise, you lose the interviewee. (Skilled individuals want their skills recognized. If you fail to recognize their skill during the interview, they'll seek someone else)
I've taken all vaccines I've been offered including BioNTech/Pfizer but:

carefulness regarding new medical procedures is also completely natural.

We aren't robots and we need to cut one another some slack. Different persons being mire or less risk averse is even a strength for society.
It's this smug holier-than-thou sanctimony that any successful company is ipso facto evil, the bigger evil.
>Technically there's a 3rd way: extremely long wires, but that's basically never practical.

Has this ever been done?
They aren't using file hashes like SHA1, but perceptual hashes and then a fuzzy metric like hamming distance to make a fuzzy match. It's entirely possible for two images that have nothing to do with each other to have similar hashes.
I’ve never once wanted GIF support on HN comments until this moment. Good god man what is wrong with you
I haven't researched this at all, so perhaps these type of studies are out there, but I think it would be interesting to see how exemptions/credits and deductions were actually utilized over time. We have roughly 200B tax returns filed since the income tax was created (not counting corporate returns).

It would be good to be able to visualize how tax collections changed over time etc.
Unfortunately if you have equity in the business, you'll get taxed. However, if you are only an employee, you get an exemption on something like $150,000 of income, housing, and other expenses. So as a US citizen, you can avoid taxes only by living outside the US, and being an employee of a non-US company. If anyone knows otherwise, please correct me as I'd greatly benefit!
The difference is that you - presumably - aren't the de facto steward of one of the most important open communication platforms on the planet that literal nation states rely on to function correctly, in addition to the general public.
It is indeed. Although there were several arcos in SC2k, not just one.
So I was asking around how mRNA vaccines got approved after being blocked in approval process for so long, and a little earlier came across this

https://anthonycolpo.com/the-junk-science-behind-the-moderna...
I don’t know, and I’m certainly troubled by the story.

There is a federal law requiring electronic service providers to notify if they spot such material. Apple may be subject to that. See the “Federal CSAM Law” section here:

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/01/earn-it-act-how-b...
Could anyone recommend a good and current book on Postgres?
Giraffes aren't real.
The slant I took from that thread is this is the way to comply with known-bad-hash matching requirement while preserving E2E encryption for cloud-stored content: checking hash at an end.

Don’t need to MITM when you put an M at an end.
i feel better already /s
think about the children!! also, think about poor law enforcement and their mass surveillance attempts. throw them a bone!
I think bitcoin using 1 out of 1000 units of energy produced is pretty disgusting, hard stop.
Scotland awards £2m to Nova Innovation to scale up tidal energy
Humans can do way better than that, somewhere in the 20 microsecond range. See for example Mills (1958). https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=11401696136259886...

Edit: in fact, humans are among the best animals at all at this task, I think it is not really clear why. They are on par with highly specialist auditory hunters like barn owls. May be that humans can use their higher cognitive faculties to somehow get better at the task than the average animal but it's not clear to me how that would happen.
I think I understand your point. Landing pages work when it has direct correlation with the product.

Selling courses work because people buy because of the instructor (hence all this talk about building an audience). They can gauge how good the course is because of the instructor and the product is simple - video access.

However, building complex products or services doesn't work because customers cannot gauge anything about the product or service. The seller is not a good reference point for customers in this case.
Did you ever build enough launch arcos in a single city that they did indeed launch into space?
Every other developed country I'm aware of uses price controls for their healthcare system, usually by declaring price lists regardless of payer, by establishing a state-directed monopsony, or by taking direct control of healthcare providers.

Clearly it can work since AFAIK everyone is doing it, and it seems to be basically fine. Not perfect, but fine.
What example are you thinking of?
The last bad flu season didn't kill over 600K Americans...
Is this an actual conspiracy theory?
Terrible title! "Wealthy people" - all of them? Two of them? Half of them? Most of them?
https://www.nature.org/en-us/magazine/magazine-articles/indi...
Senior-level engineers at a FAANGs are already a pretty rare and prestigious class of people. I'm a reasonably intelligent person and I've failed to pass the hiring bar at every FAANG.

And of course they don't "feel" rich. Lifestyle inflation is a thing. Trade the Civic for a Tesla; send the kids to private school; buy organic groceries; take international vacations every year or so; yet still find the means to save more money each year than the average household in the USA earns. Feeling is a state of mind, not a state of being.
Absolutely. I was laid off after PPP ran out last year from a small (~20) company. Applied to a bunch of companies, went through a couple of interviews, no offers. Gave in and replied to an FAANG recruiter that had been emailing me and got the job. I like my team and work/life balance, but planning on jumping ship in the near future specifically because I don't want to work for FAANG anymore. As for how to deal with it, the money helps ha. But it does start to weigh down on you. I like to think I wouldn't have ever worked at such a company if not for covid.
After Copenhagen Consensus, Lomberg and his advising group offered advice to several nations about the optimal issues they should be investing in to maximize lives saved and improvements in quality of life. I don't remember details off the top of my head, but that is what I was referring to.

One of the hardest books to read and see that for a pittance the world could eradicate several types of horrific diseases or drastically improve large numbers of lives, through simple targeted investments, and yet it never happens.

Here's a more personal example. After reading the book, a friend who made a mint in the oil industry bought four mobile drilling rigs, fitted them for digging water wells, paid to ship them to a state in I can't remember which country, but it was a poor one in Africa, where he hired a crew to run the operation and dig wells for free. He said it was a nightmare of red tape to operate, but wells got dug and people got fresh water that used to get dirty water.
I am stunned so few governments publish such "in the wild" data.

The only way to judge the effectiveness of measures is to see how many people have actually been infected, not to count "confirmed" cases.

For instance, it seems only 8.8% is confirmed (or 88k out of 1 million) [1] . Add that to the 69% vaccinated with at least one dose [2], and you get 77.8% accounted for, which is less than the 95% quoted.

[1] - https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

[2] - https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
I sort of wish I did this when I was younger. But I have kids, family, and extended family (on both sides) all in California. It makes it difficult to leave the state much less the country.
Or the recent attack on foreign media in China: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202107/1229947.shtml

When NYT/WSJ/BBC etc weren't blocked in China, they had incredible high trust #'s. Now the government says they are bad (after blocking them), the public all falls in line with that opinion.

I worry about what the Chinese government will do when they know they can make or remake public opinion so easily and effectively.
Basically zero, but it's definitely awful marketing to devs who imagine themselves successful.

Unity sure is encouraging folks to move to Unreal or Godot lately.

If you're porting to consoles and making at least 100k/yr then this is a drop in the bucket.
From https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/criteria

> Varying Pronunciations

> Be cautious before rejecting a clip on the ground that the reader has mispronounced a word, has put the stress in the wrong place, or has apparently ignored a question mark. There are a wide variety of pronunciations in use around the world, some of which you may not have heard in your local community. Please provide a margin of appreciation for those who may speak differently from you.

> On the other hand, if you think that the reader has probably never come across the word before, and is simply making an incorrect guess at the pronunciation, please reject. If you are unsure, use the skip button.
This is extremely alarming, I don’t care what the reason, I don’t want apple or anyone looking through my personal photos. It’s none of their business, and the sheer chance of false positives and ruining peoples lives is far too great to let this go forward.
I wouldn't say we are shooting for it, but it looks like we are heading that direction.
Deriving the fast doubling Fibonacci algorithm without matrices ( O(logN))
Just because a tool is well liked and widely used does not mean that it is well-designed or immune from criticism. "But it's popular" or "but I like it" really aren't a defense of any criticism at all. At best they merely express disagreement with it, but in this case they're more or less orthogonal to it.

I have and do use SQLite. That doesn't mean I'm incapable of recognizing and understanding a design flaw when I see one, nor that I'm unwilling to point one out for fear of upsetting those who simply haven't experienced it.
I don't think I can, I'm using gpl code from other parts of the kernel. I'm not sure I would want to either, I put a lot of work into this and the gpl gives me more of a feeling of ownership.

That said, there's nothing stopping you or anyone else from reworking my code into a (gpl-licensed) FUSE driver. I don't think it's a straightforward task, but it can definitely be done.
well these days LL PLs tend have the popcount intrinsic...
I can only partially agree.

Look at https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/1298383464094265344/phot... and see how big a chunk 2020 is of all megafires in California history. And 2021 is on track to be even worse.

Past forestry management is why we have the the problem in the first place.

Climate change is why the problem just got so much worse, so quickly. And is why we can't attempt to fix it as gradually as we created it in the first place.

Both are actually important for understanding this subject. And climate change doesn't just come up because it is demanded by pop culture.
The US doesn't have a choice to shoot for herd immunity because the remaining willfully unvaccinated population is both anti-mask and anti-vax.

EDIT: Guess I worded that badly. What I mean is: choosing herd immunity is inevitable, so there is no choice. It will happen.

EDIT2: It didn't occur to me that there is a huge risk if more deadly mutations happen faster than herd immunity.
Hi @joombaga!

That's very kind of you. We have raised a remove request with Quad9 for the domain. Will keep posted here.

CC @villified
network inspector says 2.1MB. but that's dominated by a 1.3MB image.

the main assets of the library are:

- Box2D.simd.js (422kB)

- Box2D.simd.wasm (266 kB)

a minimal demo that uses the library can be created in just a few kB:

https://github.com/Birch-san/box2d-wasm/tree/master/demo/mod...
You need to provide an example of a highly cited paper with low clarity otherwise the clarity concept is vague.

Even if it is true that papers are unclear, the incentives for academics is to get prestige, which follows from getting papers accepted, which follows from getting (usually) 3 experts to say their paper is the least terrible paper in their stack. Professors need 30-40 papers in 5-6 years so journalists reading their paper for a 2 minute story is probably not on their radar. The process for getting a paper accepted is tuned precisely to be understood by the 3 reviewers, and further synthesis is out of scope.

Basically, it is incorrect to view papers as a way to spread knowledge to the masses (this is a common stance taken by science), but they are rather a form of academic currency which can be converted into other digestible forms, such as books. Often the knowledge in the paper is not even yet broadly accepted and may even be unsafe/incorrect e.g., medical research. So yes, consult with experts.
Visual Studio Code July 2021
Multiplayer in Godot 4.0: On servers, RSETs and state updates
Ah, how to feel totally inadequate...
It would be better if the false positive rate was known to be nonzero.

And what, in this context, is "your data?" Is a photo on an iPhone Apple's data?

I'd argue that the thing you should do if you get a hit is to delete your data, unless you want to spend enormous amounts of time and money defending yourself from prosecution by people who believe that false positives are vanishingly rare.
> These lists are handled by humans.

That's also true for the no-fly list and the Terrorist Screening Database,[1] yet those are full of false positives. And unlike those lists, CSAM databases cannot be independently verified. To do so would require having the original images, which is illegal.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist_Screening_Database
even llvm will translate the popcount intrinsic into the code you want for you! just use it freely.
Noob question -- what do you mean by harmonization trends in the EU? I couldn't quite understand from a google search or maybe even what exactly to search for.
Yep, those folks engaged in "performative commenting" upvoting and agreeing that they would all buy small phones if only Apple would make them. Then Apple made the small phones... and crickets.
Leo Messi not staying at FC Barcelona
Same with "bird brain" as an insult, meanwhile corvid's display quite a bit of intelligence
Build your own SPARC workstation
That means they will be infected and subsequently immune, boosting herd immunity
Next, something that scans for pictures of cops, to detect people taking pictures of law enforcement.
Private Foundation vs. Charity Organization
The usual reason is packing/unpacking bitfields.

To extract the hours/minutes/seconds from a DOS timestamp

hour = (timestamp >> 11) & 0x1f
min = (timestamp >> 5) & 0x3f
sec = (timestamp & 0x1f) * 2

To check if a byte is a UTF-8 continuation byte

(x >> 6) == 0b10

To pack 5-bit r, g, b values into a 16-bit integer

(uint16)r | ((uint16)g << 5) | ((uint16)b << 10)

To swap the bytes of a uint32 (little endian <-> big endian conversion)

(x >> 24) | ((x >> 8) & 0xff00) | ((x << 8) & 0xff0000) | (x << 24)
The hashes will of course be provided by local governments, who have the ultimate authority (because they can forbid Apple to sell there, and Tim Cook never says no to money).
Western redcedar, too. They have a lot in common with their distant northern cousins.
Remember this includes vaccinated persons
The US uniquely shields officials in these cases which promotes coverups. That’s a specific, systematic, and correctable failing of the US justice system not simply normal human issues.

How hard it is for the coverup to work is largely irrelevant IMO.
I asked a similar question in both threads here and both times I got downvoted by some courageous folks without an answer.

I also would like to know if I already agreed to this and where can I read the agreement that I signed?
Just use SIMH, tun/tap, Xephyr and xhost.
No he's right, it has been used historically to distinguish it from Brittany. What on earth are you talking about regarding imperial legacy? It might be used in a sense to project national potency, but the naming never derived from any imperial motive. It seems to me along with your earlier comment, that you're fixated on self flagellation and a conclusion that just doesn't exist regarding the naming.