skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value of social networks to manipulate politics is way more valuable than any ads. The ads are there to just cover the bills. Reddit is going downhill because it's a radicalization factory filled to the brim with bots. Anyone who presents an unpopular opinion is banned on most subs.

This is why the whole social media world is easy to disrupt. It's not listening to the consumer and focused on influence. I mean the whole reason Gab.com exists is not because it's a good site with cool features. Nope. The reason it exists is nobody can host that stuff without building their whole infrastructure from scratch because of the political controversy.

TikTok on the other hand is just focused on user engagement right now and not politics, so whatever. There will come a day though when it become too powerful for just that.
His direct involvement in an atrocity-filled period of US foreign policy is what gets him called a war criminal, not his pithy quotes.
I think you meant to write "who stole $19,000 from me" and not "who stole $19,000 for me."

Probably would get faster police attention, but not the kind you want.
"Metaball" to me refers to the organic-looking, morphing, implicit surface used in computer graphics. What's the connection to this?
Mozilla was doing this literally before Google existed. The origins of how cookies work predate Google as a company let alone as an advertiser platform. At the time Netscape was not beholden to an advertising company at all.

The previous poster is correct on their historical analysis. Your comment does not change the accuracy at all.
Exactly th le same as the 90s. There were several serious companies and other not that serious. A cursory look at rest.news shows the amount of projects that have been pwned.
You're probably thinking of a few $100M Tether transfers over the weekend. I'd say its just a coincidence, but you never know in crypto.
Memory bandwidth and latency is a real problem. As the referenced article points out, both have gotten worse as compared to CPU speeds as time goes on.

The biggest bottleneck in my favorite workload (Netflix CDN server) is memory bandwidth. When doing software kTLS, we do 4 access per byte served to customers. One access to DMA the contents of a video file to DRAM from storage. A second access to read the byte for encryption. A third to write the encrypted data to DRAM. And a fourth to DMA the encrypted data to the NIC. That means we're bottlenecked serving Netflix video at ~240Gb/s on AMD Rome servers (quad channel DDR4-3200, single socket).

The theoretical performance, assuming everything besides serving the video is "free" is ~260-300Gb/s (depending on numa config, etc).

Every cache miss that I can eliminate leads to a small performance increase by both decreasing the memory system load (and leaving more headroom for the workload), and by eliminating a CPU stall on DRAM access.

I'm thrilled that next generation servers will have DDR5. That should help a lot with bandwidth, but the PCIe and network speeds will go up as well (Gen4->Gen5, 100GbE -> 400GbE), so we'll still be fighting the same battle.

Things like inline-kTLS (where the NIC does the TLS encryption) reduce the memory bandwidth requirements by roughly half, and is how we're able to serve up over 350Gb/s from a single socket.
Looks nice.

My question about totally new operating systems is: does any "end-user" software work on it? Can I run Python? A Bash-like shell and some approximation to GNU coreutils? Will audio output actually work? Will my monitor work at a sensible resolution?

It seems like such a tremendous effort just to get to the point where anyone other than a serious OS developer can use it. I wonder if there's any way to reduce the effort required, or if that's just how things have to be.
Yes!
You know Dashboard was a completely separate layer. I could watch a video in full screen and take notes with semi transparent stickes. Try doing that in full screen with the stickes app... You can't!

The dashboard feature is totally underrated. What would be even better would be if you could actually put any window in there.

Or if any window could be made semi transparent and float on top. And have that entire layer be toggleable with transitions....

It's total shame that they've removed it entirely.
The first cookie RFC, rfc2109 (1997), was even more conservative:

An origin server could create a Set-Cookie header to track the path of a user through the server. Users may object to this behavior as an intrusive accumulation of information, even if their identity is not evident. (Identity might become evident if a user subsequently fills out a form that contains identifying information.) This state management specification therefore requires that a user agent give the user control over such a possible intrusion... --https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2109#section-7.1
What exactly were the ethics behind removing any reference to wuhan institute of virology being the source of covid?

Ethics to you does not mean ethics to me.
Legit since when? They signed a consent degree and have agreed to pay this huge fine.

They are absolutely guilty of what they are accused of here - they allowed US persons to trade in violation of US futures laws. They were trying to play the "we block US IPs, therefore we block US persons" card, which is laughable enough that they were never going to fool anyone serious.
You can certainly assert that right and probably defend it successfully legally but it’s not obvious that its compatible with their terms of use.

https://m.facebook.com/terms.php

I’m no lawyer and have no idea if those terms are enforceable or even legal. Practically I think Facebook is just punching itself in the face here, but it is their platform and they do have some say in how it’s used.

The point of my original post is that I’ve had experience where researchers try to use the ends to justify their means and then cry foul when they are told that this means can’t be allowed to continue. (Eg in the infosec context rather than breaking into an account they own through some vulnerability, set up automation to break into thousands of those owned by customers and download all of their data).

Again I’m giving the researchers the benefit of the doubt, but i think the phenomenon still applies and in the general case is worth paying attention to when this kind of headline comes out.
Some planning can be good. Chicago had the Burnham Plan; New York had Olmsted. (People like to cite L'Enfant's DC but I don't actually think that turned out as well.) And Oglethorpe's Savannah Plan was a wonderful thing.

And Poundbury in the UK looks like it might turn out well.

But the designer has to have taste, give a shit, and care about something besides money.
It might be fair to characterize some products traded on CME as gambling products, because people often use them to gamble. Though of course cash settled futures have other purposes too.
> Have you seen this previously anywhere? Sounds like a pipe dream to me.

That's because it has already happened. They already were sued for screwing with their users privacy. [0] [1] Facebook's brand has been damaged because of this, as for Reddit they hasn't even started yet. Even with the 'dark patterns' you speak of.

The worst part is TikTok has already started these violations for everyone to see and the fact they are still getting sued over this, probably means they will continue to do it anyway.

I don't blame them, both Reddit and ByteDance (TikTok) need to IPO.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56815480

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/25/22301704/tiktok-92-millio...
The way the GDP and the GDP growth are calculated is a bit funny. In that if you start with one year and compound the official GDP growth for a number of years, you end up with a number that is much lower than the actual GDP at the end of that period.

In this particular case, Dyson mentions a GNP of about $600 BN. Since I don't know exactly the difference between the GDP and the GNP, I'll use the official GDP as recorded by the Fed [1]. It was $968 BN in 1968 and $21.5 TN in 2020. That's a (compounded) growth rate of more than 6% per year.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDP
While I agree with you, this project originslly began (IIRC) to showcase a new theme for Ubuntu/Gnome. The main developers are designers first, and the target is to make Linux desktop more user friendly.

You and I survived the trials amd now wamt performance. I personally will lilely never use elementary, but you and I are not the target audience.
From the link someone else posted:
Although it's a long shot (and very optimistic), I ultimately intend it to replace Linux and Windows as a desktop operating system.
> Many parts of the world are on fire right now, but California is in a league of its own.

So then what league is Siberia in then? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28135792
Hello Patreon.
Illegal logging was mostly happening in Russian Far East, and not Siberia at the time I left in 2007.

Siberia is way too far away from any transportation, and most importantly China, and seaports.

And yes, indeed, the forestry industry was synonymic with mafia back then.

Currently, fires are blazing in extremely unreachable places, and too way up far north to be a result of commercial activity.
Blocking tokens on exchanges, blacklisting addresses and threats of legal action? And silly old me thought that decentralized cryptocurrency was supposed to be the path of Freedom(tm) beyond all those centralized, coercive, fiat-like restrictions.
Needs a (2020).
How well supported are these accusations? Without additional evidence it's hard to tell whether these accusations are because of disgruntled traders who made bad trades, or actual malfeasance by bitmex. For instance, if they were really "manipulating prices unfavorably", you'd expect their mark price to deviate drastically from other exchanges. Is there evidence of this happening?
> and what organization could stay incorruptible for 10^9 years?

I'd imagine after the first 10^8 years you'd probably have it sorted. Getting your organisation to last 10^2 to 10^3 years is the hard part.
Jewish Problems (2011)
It may be a surprise to you but there is a lot more problems in life than a myopic focus on exactly one single form of illness.

And quoting CFR is very poor form. The IFR for OG covid in folks under like 65 is something under 0.1%. For children, you should be much more worried about fires and pools.
I'm pretty sure it is a lot lower than 90%, because you can very easily compensate that in the open market with some salary adjustments and extra hiring.

It must be something like 50 or 60% of productivity, and at 70% of the speed.
The bets aren't against the house. Bitmex isn't market making their own products (unless you're trading one of the super illiquid products nobody uses). They're analogous to regular derivatives exchanges that provide a platform in exchange for a trading fee.
Community == mob rule.
That sounds fantastic to see that sort of thing being used out in the open. Aside from using the Ember-electron POS app can customers access other parts of the UI or elementary OS applications? What made you choose elementary OS in particular? I'd imagine the advantage of using it over ubuntu gnome would be fairly minimised if the user would be locked to just a single application.
As in Q-ovary? I don't think that's the end of the world, even if it meant to be pronounced as such.
(2017)?
There are more people in the remote pool than in the in-office pool. Also it is better for employees to be remote than to be in the office, meaning they are willing to get a paycut to get it.
Lastly COL and tax adjustments.

There are perfectly capable engineers in this world making under 1000U$S a month, they are just not in the US.
Yes, but they usually break them up first, releasing the reactive, lead heavy acid into the ground. The lead itself is packaged and shipped, leaving the plastic casing and acid in the ground.
Used to be normal practice for scrap yards the world over.
> its probably hopeless for branch divergence to ever be solved

Here's a partial solution, at least: Huihui Sun, Florian Fey, Jie Zhao, Sergei Gorlatch, "WCCV: improving the vectorization of IF-statements with warp-coherent conditions", 2019, https://www.di.ens.fr/~zhaojie/ics2019.pdf

> WCCV uses two different methods to detect warp-coherent conditions. The first method detects boolean-step conditions based on static affine analysis. Affine analysis is usually used for analyzing memory access patterns [15, 23], while we use affine analysis to analyze the variables and expressions used in conditions in order to detect a boolean-step condition. If the static affine analysis fails, we use the second method based on the branch probability estimation to identify high-probability conditions. We develop a cost model based on the estimated branch probability and branch cost: if a certain branch is more likely to be executed and the corresponding branch cost is greater than a threshold, we treat the corresponding condition as warp-coherent. We use auto-tuning to determine the optimal thresholds for various target platforms and applications.

Specifically, the detection of "boolean-step conditions" looks interesting. The fallback heuristic sounds like one of those things that doesn't extrapolate well in the wider software ecosystem.
At some point, many years ago, it was reasonable to assume Facebook had something resembling honest intentions.

That has been proven wrong so many times, across such a wide range of topics, that at this point it's reasonable to assume actions by Facebook correspond to "What makes us more money," and any press release about the actions is "How can we spin this in such a way that the most people possible will swallow it and keep using Facebook?"
> If you are required to be in the office from 9 am - 5 pm Monday-Friday

But.. why should companies require that? No time to go out for an errand?
Is there some feature installing the app gives you over logging in in the browser?
Totally ripe for confirmation bias, which is why my comment seemed very uncertain. I’m kind of going from a heuristic of older cities versus newer ones under the (potentially wrong!) assumption that zoning has tended toward more stringency over time.
A fascinating read. I remember many years ago listening to Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand for the first time and being absolutely taken aback by the total shift it took a minute or so into the song. I wonder if that was one of those moments the article describes.

https://youtu.be/Ijk4j-r7qPA
One major difference is it's hard to "supe up" an old computer. Harder in general for the layman to repair or modify means you are more likely to need a fully functioning device to be able to use it, less gray area. Also cars are inherently harder to store so there are less of them floating around at any given time if they aren't immediately serviceable they might get junked or otherwise rust into pieces.

That being said writing software for "dead" platforms might level that out
What evidence is there of this? They have a separate trading desk who market make their illiquid products that nobody wants to trade. But the claim you made sounds like fake news from social media.
Oh, there’s a lot more where that came from.

Just an example. During a heatwave some summer over a decade ago, many elderly people died.

So what did the government do? They instituted a "day of solidarity", of course!

What does it mean? If you are salaried, then you get to work an extra day, during a holiday of your company’s choosing, and not be paid. The day’s salary will go to a public fund dedicated to helping promote the autonomy of elderly people. And your employer gets an extra day of employees supposedly producing value out of it.

Many people instead take the day, either on their paid leave or their Work Time Reduction days (RTT).

That’s on top of all the other social "contributions" (sounds better than taxes), of course.

Payslips used to be quite funny to decipher[1][2]. They’ve simplified those a bit since then; mostly by regrouping items[3].

[1]: http://cdn-s-www.ledauphine.com/images/F9FED7FA-778E-40CA-8F...

[2]: https://cap.img.pmdstatic.net/scale/http.3A.2F.2Fprd2-bone-i...

[3]: http://s-www.ledauphine.com/images/39A7BC0B-D6E2-456D-800D-5...
fMRI machines are expensive as hell, most institutions share a few between multiple labs and even if they do get a new one don't decommission the old.

IIRC the dead fish result had more to do with software than hardware though. My understanding is that the best of the best labs are careful with the analysis techniques applied, and they wouldn't have even made the dead fish mistake back then.

The commonly used analysis tools are continually improved, so improvements may have propagated to the median fMRI group, but to be honest I still start out skeptical of most fMRI papers unless they're from a group I have prior reason to trust (or they include other data types besides just scans). Too many groups just apply the popular pipelines without an understanding of what they are doing, leading to misuse of tools.

I'm tangential to the fMRI field though, so take with a grain of salt.
Grammatical and spelling errors aside, I have no idea what you’re trying to say here.
China's rise to superpower is bad. The Soviet Union surviving and spreading its influence to kill millions more is worse.

If you actually want to argue that the Holocaust was the better alternative, I'd be interested to hear your case on what that alternative was.

There's a reason that Kissinger was afraid of too much reliance on data, and that's why. As a German Jew, Kissinger experienced the start of the Holocaust. I imagine he's more adept at distinguishing bad from worse than either of us are.
A new Tesla is all of those things too, but expecting a construction laborer or call center worker to drive one is delusional.
The proposal is a 5 million ton, 10 km shell of copper fueled by 30 million hydrogen bombs. Cost to orbit isn't particularly relevant (it would easily be optimized as part of the decades long project).
See also:

https://lhc.ca.gov/report/fire-mountain-rethinking-forest-ma...

tl;dr: state and federal officials have actually been thinking about most of the contents of the article for a while, there are intermediate political/resource/coordination problems to solve.
... trying to get a random backend engineer to publicly share and comment on company policy during an acquisition. An acquisition into a public company no less.
There are some interesting ideas in Sapiens (which I've already been exposed to elsewhere) but I couldn't tolerate the breathless tone of the book. It was written in the same rhetorical style as one of those History Channel documentaries about how Aliens built the Pyramids.
The data series you are looking at is nominal, not real, GDP [0], so the annual growth multiplier (1 + growth rate) is the real GDP growth multiplier times the inflation multiplier.

In current dollars, 1968’s real GDP is something over $4 trillion.

[0] The St. Louis Fed has both series, see https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPC1
No "rage", just sounded that way. I just get a sense that in HN, perspectives are heavily tilted towards the rich and comfortable.
Over capacity and negligence on the part of someone who was supposed to check that are fairly good reasons for a legitimate vessel with too much stuff to get lost.

More plausibly everyone claimed what they should have been shipping, good luck proving who over-claimed and under-shipped.
That's really the way to do it. Most of the important info ends up on the sub, while daily shitposts and friendly convos take place on Discord.
Je me souviens de toi en tant qu'Astek (un an plus vieux je crois), best of luck!
They don't have any fees?
No, you either didn’t read what I wrote or you haven’t been living on a budget. Poor people don’t waste more money on gas than they save by going to Walmart.

They go to Walmart because it’s significantly cheaper to do weekly shopping there than even other big retail grocery outlets, let lone little ones. My parents absolutely fucking hate going to Walmart but they go there weekly because it’s $50/week difference just for the two of them vs Kroger.
(FYI casinos have among the highest daily throughput of money and do not even compare with the crypto-token industry.)

The whole financial system is based on risk management. Options and other derivatives are fundamental tools to that extent. Here is a simplified example: you have two products A and B. You toss a coin: on heads A returns $100 otherwise $0 and B does the reverse. What is the expected value of A or B? What is that of A and B together -- do you want to re-evaluate A or B now? That is what options give you. And there is no such thing as the house kicking you out if you have any advantage. Which casinos do.

So comparing casinos and selling or buying options is fundamentally flawed. If you go in and start selling or buying with no idea what you are doing, well yeah you are doomed. It is like asking a 5 year old to fix a jet engine. It might manage to do so, but guess what is most likely to happen.

Any serious broker will get you through a bunch of questions to allow you to trade options or even basic stocks. And they will offer assistance etc. That is something you should blame some platforms with. They are not blameless. But they are not casinos or lotteries.

But serious people spend time modeling etc before even thinking of placing a trade. They don't walk in and buy a next day expiration contract... Which is something that a lot of people entering for a quick buck do. I am sorry but at some point we need to say to the patient "ok, you want to kill yourself, go ahead but don't damage your family."

There are other industries that the casino metaphor better fits: gaming (EA aka most hated company) and lotteries (aka state theft/extra tax) are some.
Saying "thank you" and upvoting is encouraging, and makes communities stronger.

Blaming people is discouraging, and divides communities. Criticise the article, not the author, and thank the author for what they got right (a good topic for discussion) so they'll create more in future.

We can also increase trust in the community using links. Mentioning names in a good way is particularly helpful, like academic citations.

Thank you for finishing with the "great tl;dr", xcambar, you're asking the right questions :)
The bleaching is what makes the flour, and by extension the bread made from it, ultra-processed, even if the bread is baked in a home setting. You misread.