skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work with GPUs professionally, but I've written a lot of AVX-512 code (e.g., https://NN-512.com) and AVX-512 is a big step forward from AVX2.

The regularity and simplicity and completeness of the instruction set is a big win.

The lane predication (masking) of every instruction is useful when the data doesn't fit the vectors (and in loop tails) but it has numerous other uses, too. For example, it makes blending (vector splicing) and partial operations easy.

The flexible permute instructions (two data vectors in, one control vector in, and one data vector out) are fast and enormously useful. Anyone who has puzzled with AVX2 will breathe a sigh of relief.

The register file is big enough (32 vectors, each 16 floats wide) that register starvation typically isn't an issue. For example, you don't worry about having registers for your permutation control vectors. And the predicate masks are in another set of registers, which again are plentiful (eight!).

The easing of alignment requirements (unaligned load/store instructions operating on aligned addresses are as fast as aligned loads/stores) is also a big win.

AVX-512 is a real pleasure to use.
Honestly I think that there is quite a lot of non-fearmongering media out there. The Economist strikes me as a good example. And in general I think if you read any "respectable" (Economist, NYT, WSJ, WaPo, La Monde, etc.) newspaper as a whole on a day-to-day basis you wouldn't come away from the experience being especially scared or fearful. The problem is that it all gets dumped into the social media slurry and what a lot of people consume (in practice) is a sort of curated selection of the most sensationalist individual stories across the entire media ecosystem.
Rockstar Begins a War on Modders for 'GTA' Games for Unclear Reasons
For some of the ages we are talking about... I'd be surprised if those measures do anything.

Speaking as a parent of kids under six. Many of them literally suck on the masks they are wearing...

Edit: though, big plus one on the shots for staff. I take that as a given.
The downside isn’t zero, as we can see right now: NPIs in children -> immune deficit for other common viruses -> off-season surge -> PICU capacity issues concurrent to a Covid-19 surge.
I read about some of the history of Haiti on the Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/2018/09/shades-of-gray/

It is interwoven with describing an interactive fiction game, so not every word on there represents reality, but there are sources. I found it riveting when I first read it.
That's a fantasy of resilience, not a case for resilience. You only get that kind of resilience when you have a political system capable of planning ahead on extended time scales, and which is explicitly committed to looking after its people more than than its leaders.

With a few debatable exceptions, that's not true of any country on Earth.

And it's certainly not true of the planet as a whole. Which is the level at which it would need to operate to deal with planetary challenges.
Is it the same issue Linus was pointing out when discussing possible adoption of Rust for Linux kernel?
Seems like they’re just trying to confuse things by claiming confusion where there was none.
https://handwiki.org/wiki/Engineering:Bug_(engineering):

“The Middle English word bugge is the basis for the terms "bugbear" and "bugaboo" as terms used for a monster.

The term "bug" to describe defects has been a part of engineering jargon since the 1870s and predates electronic computers and computer software; it may have originally been used in hardware engineering to describe mechanical malfunctions. For instance, Thomas Edison wrote the following words in a letter to an associate in 1878:

It has been just so in all of my inventions. The first step is an intuition, and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise—this thing gives out and [it is] then that "Bugs"—as such little faults and difficulties are called—show themselves and months of intense watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success or failure is certainly reached.”

That page also says:

“The related term "debug" also appears to predate its usage in computing: the Oxford English Dictionary's etymology of the word contains an attestation from 1945, in the context of aircraft engines.”
Stock valuation models get updated a bit more frequently than quarterly, new information is incorporated into the share price all the time.
Different people have different interpretations of certain words depending on various factors (environment, culture, etc), and don't forget that words change meaning over time. He is simply coming from a culture where that word has evolved into being a generic insult. This is even more likely especially because it is a private repo, he would be less interested in writing in a way accessible to others compared to a public repo.

> The entire point of using words is that they are well-known abstractions used when communicating to other people

I will disagree with this, and so will every diary-owner and note-taker. In addition, even if this was true there are various languages (like tut) which are intended to be used within a specific community, just because something is written it does not mean that it needs to be understood by everyone, although it is desirable in public projects. Not to mention that this statement assumes that he knew that they would interpret it in a way which he did not intent.

Anyway, he made a new commit earlier today without it: https://git.tyil.nl/dotfiles/commit/?id=891b7a7a31941dfe253c...
part of the issue here is while the physical mechanism of colorblindness is quite clear, the perceptual implications are inherently subjective.

so I don't know how much my advice is relevant to colorblind people in general.

but greyscale is very good start. after that - if you want to show contrast at least for me there are whole areas of the palette that you don't want to take more than one color from. for example the whole red/green/brown/tan/orange space for me is a giant wash. purple looks nice, but don't set it against blue unless its substantially different in saturation.

a secondary issue is that some color combinations I find confusing/distracting. that is my brain can't really settle on the color(s). so for example casual games sometimes just don't work, because its going to take me a second or two to even decide if I can combine these two dots...and I may not even be able to focus on anything else because there is the loud flashing thing on the screen (flashing because I'm 'trying on' colors to see if they fit)

if there is too much color going on I'll probably just reject the whole activity if I can.

sadly I've seen games with a 'colorblind mode' which shows that someone really cared - but it was no more usable than the default more or even worse.

but low saturation UIs with good color choices do look better than mono. I have some form of blue/yellow, but certain choices of blue and yellow are really quite readable and even look pleasant (shrug).

but I wouldn't flail too much. as other people have mentioned its not really that life-changing. if I have to use your garish interface to book an appointment it doesn't really matter...but if you're going to go in and colorize my emacs with nice round hex values I wish you would have the courage to post your address so I can come visit you and have a talk.

that was all over the place. hope it helped.
This is absolutely false. It's not universal in the least. I can't consume asparatame because even a tiny amount will give me terrible gastrointestinal pains. I haven't consumed asparatame in over 25 years now and don't even think about it.
In general, almost all of it. If you haven't laid out your data to make it accessible to SIMD instructions, at best the program will get a modest speedup by using most of the instructions rearranging data to be SIMD-compatible.

By far the simplest way of making the correct data-layout is to use the intrinsics manually, so that you discover any issues that arise.

A step further is to change the program logic to better take advantage of SIMD-instructions, for instance Fabian Giesen has written a great deal on making compression code that splices the jobs in creative ways in order to utilize SIMD-instructions.
If you were a true gimp, at least you wouldn't have to suffer open office plans.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_debt_of_Haiti

You can find the source of a text just by picking a random sentence from it, put it in quotes and google for it.
I spent some time trying to upgrade my home network to primarily-IPv6 (mainly so I could more easily address internal computers from the outside). I was pretty unimpressed with the results; I expect to have to run dual stack for the foreseeable future.
Oh, that's really clever. I knew about Android's color modes, but I never thought to combine it with the camera before.
You do you realize that everything that is mainstream was once a niche that eventually got the attention of millions of people? Computers, for instance.
There are features of btrfs that are currently considered experimental/unsafe to use like their raid-5 implementation.

I personally use btrfs raid-1 setups and have survived actual device failures without data loss. However, I also perform regular backups so I'm not overly concerned about "eat my data" bugs in a filesystem either.
Apocalypse WOW!

I have a slightly different view. Not the end of the world, but the end of it as we (have) know(n) it! In the literal meaning of the word, as in lifting the veil which occludes reality.

The reality of our existence as species on a world with limits exploding right back into our faces, shattering our illusions.

No demons, holy spirits, or such.

Those emerge out of our own weaknesses.

Because of bad signal to noise ratio due to SPAM of bullshitters since ancient times.
This is genius at work. If I was 5% as smart as these guys I'd be doing well.
Dark facet of mankind, with the potential for exponential growth via the cumulative network effects of the Internet and and the billions of people tethered to it.
Building a desktop application using Electron and Create React App
Both those things are true, though. In fact, both are true of most vaccines that are actually in use; perfect vaccines are rare.
Do you have any actual evidence that this is true in school-age children (ages 5+)?
Yes the problem is that I just don’t understand a how to use this fresh new innovative product that will sweep the world by storm with its ability to take the burden and hard work out of the whole writing process. If only I see the light through these amazing stupefying mind-befuddling product demos…

And no I do not write ad content for the web nor will I ever get a computer to write my feelings for me. Not in 5 years, not in 10 years, not whatever you tell your up-incoming investors. The fact that writing about personal grief and marketmuse are being equated as like things is rather disturbing, in a sociopathic/psychopathic sort of way.

Judging by all of these comments I believe I
may just be in the wrong place and that hacker-news is no longer for people like myself.
Racket's fork of Chez Scheme now runs native on Apple M1 silicon. That's a remarkable feat; GHC Haskell for instance doesn't yet, and their blogs explain the difficulties.

I keep a zoo of exotic languages, many of which must be build from source. I took a plunge buying an M1 Mac mini, imagining that emulation would hide the transition. Not so for the zoo. At least I have other machines.

For actually using a language, one wants there to be a critical mass of sophisticated support. Racket has long had best-of-class documentation, but this technical feat of native M1 support is a serious feather in their cap.
If you write in Groovy, you might have to Google "how to concatenate two G-strings."
But the legality aspect doesn't matter in this case. It's about the friendship/marriage and how you feel about yourself and the other under these circumstances. It's possible in some countries to be married and not share wealth, but if it weren't you could consider it purely hypothetical. With the question I asked, I wanted to evoke philosophical curiosity. Even the great Greek philosophers ruminated about what it means to be friends versus married, so it must be an interesting topic, and certainly when combined with the topic of this post. And if you wonder about my "definitions", just assume that they are as diametrically opposed to your view as possible, to make an interesting conversation.
Death rate from cancer is not really comparable, since there has been significant progress in early diagnosis and treatment.
Not accusing or defending aspartame, just pointing it out.
Personally, I found the format of progressively adding to her words and letting the AI fill in the rest quite interesting.

Her sister probably died some years ago (based on her being in junior high at the time, while she's already worked 15+ years reporting on the tech industry) so she probably has some emotional distance and felt like she could be experimental.

However, the last story where most of the words are the author's and the AI only adds a handful of phrases was the most poignant to me.
If you're running Debian Stable, using the backports repo is generally preferable to installing packages from the testing or unstable channels. The latter will give you an unsupported configuration that might be broken to begin with, or break without warning in the future as stuff gets upgraded further.
hex floats are great, but text formats using decimal floats are ubiquitous and never going away.
it's a complex story, but here are some reasons:

- HTML by itself had usability issues that were addressable only with javascript

- REST/HATEOAS got lost in the morass of JSON APIs, which isn't a natural hypermedia, and none of the thought leaders came out strongly for hypermedia or even really pointed out what was going wrong

- Developers tend to prefer RPC over Hypermedia because it is closer to their natural way of thinking

- FAANG-chasing

- Developers generally don't like saying "this is too complicated" because it sounds close to "I am not smart enough."

Hypermedia is too good an idea to die completely, and I think we'll see a swing back. But in the meantime, a huge amount of time and energy has been and is going to continue to be wasted on rube goldberg contraptions to make "forms talk to databases".
The conflation is probably not that far off in this case. There are some numbers downthread but I think it likely a significant percentage of vaccinated people are perfectly fine with, for example, United requiring flight personnel to be vaccinated, the many universities requiring vaccination to attend in the fall, events requiring vaccination, and the increasing drumbeat of companies requiring vaccination to enter an office.
Oh yikes, Google is going down the Apple path of forbidding downloaded code? That's awful. How long until third party web browsers are banned on Android as well?
> if tennis balls are hard to find in stores now, I will buy a case of 24 cans online

Standard panick reaction that's exacerbating the problem. People are piling up on all sorts of stuff right now. I needed new tyres for my mountain bike, largely impossible to find a few months ago. A neighbour told me "oh that's fine I can resell you a pair, I bought 6 a few weeks ago just in case" . Pair up tight supply chain and people virtually increasing the demand to stock up in case the offer runs dry, and you obtain magic.
Circa 2006, all the Emacs users realized it has perfectly good documentation built-in, so they didn't have to search for it anymore /s
I don't think modern economies and supply chains work that way. It isn't like the tennis ball supply chain is an independent entity from everything else. It is all connected in somewhat intricate and non-obvious ways.

It isn't particularly surprising to me that we are seeing all sorts of side-effects of the unpresidented shutdown of vast parts of our economy as a response to COVID.
I'm not sure that is a fair characterization of his preferences. This is a guy who just wrote a book called "One Billion Americans" which argues that we should quadruple the US population through both pro-natalist policies and more immigration. I wouldn't really consider that a "moderate" position.

His other shtick though is "popularism" which is just that politicians should focusing on doing things that are broadly popular. It is (on my reading at least) not so much that this is "desirable" in a normative sense, but just that it is the only way to actually make progress.
I just don't really understand this argument.

I charge my phone every... 2 days? And Micro USB takes... 3 seconds to plug in? Type C maybe 1/2 seconds?

Is saving 2 or 3 minutes a year worth the environmental (and actual monetary!) cost of duplicate cables?

If you dislike having to plug things in then just buy one of those magnetic adaptors so it takes... 1 second.
Closing 45% of the open Emacs bugs
How about just adding a permission to the already present permission system? Oh, that's right. Google and Apple don't trust their users and want full control over everyone's devices.
I use dragonbox and it makes the serialization task quite easy and fast. It would be great for a mirror library that did so for deserialization of arbitrary decimal numbers. The current libraries are not fast, and it isn't the parsing, it's the math they do with those characters.
> Do we apply this thinking to any other public health threats? Smoking for example, particularly for those forced to be around smokers like their children?

Yes, of course. Most developed countries ban indoor smoking in most or all places outside the home.
> It's just as easy to imagine this being most of San Jose because of drought.

The non-agricultural, non-forestry parts of the California economy can do just fine on desalinated seawater.
“a privileged contract that has the right to trigger messages from another chain. It's a pretty standard thing for cross-chain projects.”

Full stop; I’m stuck here. Why does it need to do this?
People's experience will vary eidely because the problem is in the supply chains, not production. In most cases, there exists plenty of X, it's getting it from Y to Z that's the problem.
It's much simpler than Mach IPC, and at the same time a strange beast in that they literally chopped the driver down the middle. The same objects exist on both sides, and certain methods call over to the other side. This is accomplished by having thunks on one side that marshal the arguments into a buffer and call the RPC function, and then the other side un-marshals and calls the real method on the object, then return data goes back in the opposite direction. I assume those thunks are autogenerated from some sort of IDL definition they have (they mostly use C++ templates on the argument types to perform the marshaling).

As for the non-DCP driver, the odd thing is that it's specifically for the same chip generation (H13, i.e. A14 and M1), not an older one or any weird prototype thing.

No weird "workstations" were built to prototype the Apple Silicon release of macOS; Apple Silicon has existed for many years now, coprocessors like these included, in iPhones and iPads. The M1 is an iPad chip, the A14X, that they beefed up just enough to be able to stick it in laptops, and then marketing rebranded it as M1. DCP specifically is relatively recent, though, I think it only showed up in a relatively recent Ax silicon generation.
Definitely. I've found people are more willing to help if you can talk through your findings and even propose a solution, or part of a solution.
> should be allowed to push something along the lines that says “ni—-er get a job” to CPAN

He didn't push it to CPAN, his dotfiles repo is not on CPAN. Please do not spread misinformation.

Edit: The CPAN thing is different. It contains a directory whose name is "perl6-nigger", you can find it at http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/T/TY/TYIL/Perl6/App-Cpan6...
The flip side of that argument is look at how vertically integrated companies like Samsung are. Apple used to buy processors and such from other IC vendors, and now they are doing that in-house.

I don't know how Motorola could have been fixed though.
Anyone taking an "IQ test" on a toddler seriously deserves all the mockery they get and then some.

I've only raised one human; but lots of puppies; and there's no telling what kind of critter they'll turn out to be until well after they "chewing on everything" stage. And they're talking tests on people younger than that, still.

Utter Horse Shit.
I still need a small glass of Diet Coke every day in the afternoon. I need to cut the habit so I'm drinking right now Diet Coke without Caffeine.. It is like the last step before quitting for good. I like to drink sparkling water (San Pellegrino) when eating, I hope it will help me stop. Fresh sparkling water is good!

My bottle of 1 liter (33 oz I think in the US) lasts 4 or 5 days so I don't know if I'm at risk.
I’ve served on a jury. Everything you’ve said applies to all juries. Every case has nuance that requires expertise and understanding, from how to appropriately consider witness testimony to what weight to put in various pieces of evidence. As nerds it’s easier to apply this reasoning to technical cases — because we think we understand the absolute truth of the situation — but it applies to non-technical trials too.
> The answer is that you know the leader and you trust them. If you don't, you should leave.

That sounds like a recipe for a cult.

People like to know what is and isn't okay, and leaving it up to someone's feeling, even if you generally trust that person, makes the whole thing very fragile.
And smoking light cigarettes are probably healthier for you too…
> I did mention in my comment above that children of smokers don't have a choice being around second hand smoke. Yet most governments consider the harm to the health of the child to be less critical than the smoker's individual freedom to smoke.

I don't think most people are suggesting mandatory vaccination of parents; the rules actually being imposed in developed countries are much more similar to indoor smoking bans (ie. you are allowed put yourself and your children in danger, but you're not allowed put the general public in danger.)
Think your friends got very lucky (like someone with a Powerball jackpot), cheer for them then move on. Maybe you will do a bit of self-reflection but you know 95% of startups fail so continue with your current job is not a terribly bad idea. Unless you truly detest your job then you should change it anyway.
> If they're all focused on the code, then stick to the code.

That might be good advice if the aggrieved could ever be satisfied, but they cannot. You will not be left alone, you must rename all your git "master" branches to "KuntaKinte".
I think that’s the best argument. To point for many people is the services are so good. You text someone on your phone and it shows up on your desktop. Even though macOS doesn’t make as much money it makes iOS more valuable
The Economist does a fair bit of fearmongering when it comes to China and inflation.
This is exactly the kind of fear-mongering that's being derided. Assuming OP's stat is correct, a given child has a considerably higher chance of dying from cancer, injuries, or even suicide than covid. It's the fear of terrorism after 9/11 all over again. (These are per 100,000, so 2x them: https://cutt.ly/vQJHgGm)