skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Joseph Goebbels is on the company’s list of dangerous individuals."

Does Facebook know he's dead?

Josef Goebbels is an important figure in the history of media. He systematized what he called "propaganda" and is now called "mass communication" or "information operations" or "messaging". Before Goebbels, there were pamphlets, newspapers, and speeches, but convincing people on an ongoing basis was not well organized. Goebbels created the first big system for keeping PR "on message".[1] PR at scale.

In his own words: All propaganda has a direction. The quality of this direction determines whether propaganda has a positive or negative effect. Good propaganda does not need to lie, indeed it may not lie. It has no reason to fear the truth. It is a mistake to believe that the people cannot take the truth. They can. It is only a matter of presenting the truth to people in a way that they will be able to understand. A propaganda that lies proves that it has a bad cause. It cannot be successful in the long run. A good propaganda will always come along that serves a good cause. But propaganda is still necessary if a good cause is to succeed. A good idea does not win simply because it is good. It must be presented properly if it is to win. The combination makes for the best propaganda. Such propaganda is successful without being obnoxious. It depends on its nature, not its methods. It works without being noticed. Its goals are inherent in its nature. Since it is almost invisible, it is effective and powerful. A good cause will lose to a bad one if it depends only on its rightness, while the other side uses the methods of influencing the masses.

His closest modern counterpart was Roger Ailes, who created Fox News. Ailes taught Richard Nixon how to use television and went on to PR roles for the Reagan and Bush campaigns.

Not knowing about Goebbels is more dangerous than knowing about him. Facebook was way off censoring this.

[1] https://www.physics.smu.edu/pseudo/Propaganda/goebbels.html
I think yes, you can call those statements rational, but that just gets at an additional level of difficulty here. Bayes only gets you so far as holding a belief with maximum probability it is true, given some level of seen evidence. To actually get maximally probably true beliefs without the qualification, you need to actually gather more evidence. In some cases, that may just mean accumulating knowledge that other people already generated, but in some cases, you may need to generate knowledge from scratch. The ability to do that may be severely bounded by resource and time constraints. One person can't personally do all science, so now you need division of labor and assignment of workers to efforts, so you need optimal matching and scheduling algorithms. These are theoretically not computationally intractable, but the algorithms rely upon pre-existing accurate ability and preference ranking, so now you need to go back to information gathering and suddenly you have a bootstrapping problem here that feeding your algorithm the data it needs to tell you how to gather data in the first place requires you to gather data first.
Humans operate by doing, then rationalizing, and much of the attempts at rational thought here demonstrate how easy it is to fool ourselves into thinking we are being rational, when really we are
acting on feelings and delusions and then constructing what feels like a rational argument that we originally had - but falls apart upon analysis.

In the past, it is a rational concern to be worried about being jumped by a predator from behind a bush, and if you don’t know if or if not there is a predator, it is perfectly rational to be worried about such a concern!

Same with diseases and causes when you don’t know what is causing them, etc.

It’s a tendency to dismiss older concerns from a time when there was a severe lack of information as irrational, where when you know your limits and see the results, there is no other rational way to behave except to be concerned or avoid those things. While also not rational to believe clearly contradictory religious dogma that covers the topic, it is rational to follow or support it when it has clear alignment with visibly effective methods encoded in it for avoiding disease and other problems.
I guess people want their site to be available when it gets viral?
Unfortunately that support is via ROCm, which doesn't support the last three generations (!) of AMD hardware: https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm.github.io/blob/master/hardware....
This is the main reason I'm excited about this. I really hope they continue the very open approach they've used so far, but even if they start going binary blob for some of it like nvidia and (now to a lesser extent) amd have at least they're likely to properly implement KMS and other things because that's what they've been doing already.
I've had my Chevy Volt for 3.5 years and driven almost 100k km (60k miles) and for service... have done one oil change. That's it. (Well, tire rotation, but that just comes along with bi-annual winter tire changeover)

Extremely reliable.
> But it's hard to understand the benefit to writing a language frontend in C, generally speaking.

The advantage of writing in C is that the language provides very little “high” level features. All you have is just functions and memory so you end up doing everything which is a laborious process but rewarding to the mind especially if you are someone who never did low level programming.
I found the exact same issue! Here's a .bashrc snippet you can steal to extract from a multitude of files.

It doesn't quite have the number of features your library does and only supports extracting.

[0] https://github.com/popey456963/bashrc/blob/gh-pages/bashrc.t...
Why should I care to keep what I buy at the grocery store private?

I'm not trying to be flippant with this question. I'm just honestly perplexed why this is an important dateset to keep private.

Also, why would I want to avoid discounts? Grocery stores are one of the few places that gives me money for handing them my data. Isn't this good behavior!?
A land use or land efficiency tax would probably be a wise move in some metro areas.
Many apps need to peer with a very short list of remote nodes. There are only some rare apps that need blanket network access to any other node. Maybe it's time for more permissions constraints to be applied?
I asked a question, which you did not answer. I did not say anything about whose fault it is.

EDIT: FWIW, I think it is manifestly obvious that Biden and the current administration is responsible for the current situation. No need to convince me of that.
:O ;(
I haven’t seen the terms of the deal but it presume that most customers on the monthly retainer will not submit a task every day, maybe on average every 4 or 5 business days. That changes the maths quite a bit
Photos you submitted during cruise purchase?
While I don’t think this browser is for me, cobbling it all together with extensions isn’t the same thing as having a unified product. Only with a unified product can you have a completely consistent experience across all of the features.. like having sharing come into its own workspace next to the ones you created.. and then being able to share via shortcuts into someone else’s shared inbox.

I’m not sure this product is fully differentiated yet, but that doesn’t mean extensions are the real competition. The real competition is the default browser.
https://software.intel.com/content/dam/develop/external/us/e...

The above is Intel's Gen11 architecture whitepaper, describing how Gen11 iGPUs work. I'd assume that their next-generation discrete GPUs will have a similar architecture (but no longer attached to CPU L3 cache).

I haven't really looked into Intel iGPU architecture at all. I see that the whitepaper has some oddities compared to AMD / NVidia GPUs. Its definitely "more different".

The SIMD-units are apparently only 4 x 32-bit wide (compared to 32-wide NVidia / RDNA or 64-wide CDNA). But they can be reconfigured to be 8x16-bit wide instead (a feature not really available on NVidia. AMD can do SIMD-inside-of-SIMD and split up its registers once again however, but its a fundamentally different mechanism).

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Branch divergence is likely to be less of an issue with narrower SIMD than its competitors. Well, in theory anyway.
That’s what I’m thinking too. But my experience with investors is very limited so far. The investor in the startup that me and a couple of others founded agreed to contribute funds (in exchange for ownership of a percentage of the company), but in our case the condition was that these funds are for things like marketing and other expenses, and not for paying salaries to ourselves. So until our company is making a profit we are not getting paid a salary at all. But I don’t know if this is actually common or not, and how for example Silicon Valley is with regards to this compared to our geographical location.
what's more amazing is that the founder was educated and trained in the US. We let so much talent slip through our fingers

Credit to Taiwan's government for realizing how crucial semiconductors would be and investing in it as a national security strategy. The value of having engineers instead of lawyers leading your nation. A company 95+% of the world wouldn't recognize by name is probably the most important company in the world
Thank you, helpful!
Another reason why humans better think twice before taking on another convenient technology.
Not relevant for the broader content and brand marketing approach discussed here but I repeatedly and decisively clicked on ads on readthedocs, resulting in conversions a couple of times (mostly eBooks).

Never really thought deeply about the why, but probably related to some of the offers appearing more relevant to me (in terms of context and not browsing history/social graph) .
Is it TikTok or is it just because of a captive portal on the WiFi?

It happened to me just yesterday: “Why does X require local network access? Ugh.” A minute later “Oh, Y is also requiring network access.”

Yes, I was on a public wifi.

This may be 100% Apple’s fault, everyone here is just commenting on a photo and not confirming that they also saw the message today.
I've been thinking about this recently -- there's a healthy mod community around the tactics game Battletech (Roguetech being the most expansive mod, but there are many others) and the modders all seem to agree that the base game is quite janky under the covers; it's not a deep simulation nor is it graphically advanced, yet it suffers from poor performance, and it's also awkward to mod in some places, since there are some things that you just can't change with mods.

I do wonder how far we are from having the default "community driven game" be implemented from the ground up in open source instead of being implemented as a mod on top of a closed-source commercial game.

One issue is that most OSS games I've seen build an engine from scratch, which is fun but a massive time sink; I wonder how much of this is due to professional engines having OSS-incompatible licenses? I noticed that Unreal Engine 4 was made open-source (royalty-based licensing, not FOSS) which might be compatible with an OSS free game?

Another aspect is that it's just a lot of work to build an A-tier game (not even considering AAA) but with a good engine this floor is being reduced over time; Battletech for example was I believe on the order of 100 developer-years of effort, which is huge for an open source project. But could you get 80% of the way there in 10 developer-years if you strip out some of the features the mods eschew like story content? Plus, with Patreon, these days it seems viable for a small number of developers to work full-time on niche content like this.

In summary, I'm surprised at how few OSS games there are considering how much effort goes into modding. Does anyone in the industry (or otherwise) have insight into what's holding us back here?
This method of images is also used to add reverberation to audio. If you have some audio and want to make it sound like it was spoken by someone in a room of a particular size, you do a similar thing where you tile the room and then draw lines from the source to every image of the microphone to calculate an impulse response function.
It's not just a problem for font authors. What happens with this can change the intent of what people are writing pretty radically. If someone tweets "I support [afghanistan flag]" and that's seen by the wrong people with the wrong font it can literally mean the difference between life and death for the poster.

Edit: Flag emojis aren't supported on HN
I assumed it was to gracefully deal with handoff from one device to another while in a meeting since you can start on one device and continue with another, or maybe to share your screen from another device etc. It would be nice to know why exactly certain permissions are requested; sometimes that’s done by telling you what feature it might break if you don’t grant those permissions.
Possibly related - this is the same person who is working on a very impressive voxel game/engine. I didn't see an explicit mention of it in the blog, but the Youtube videos speak for themselves:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM2RhfMLoLqG24e_DYgTQeA
> I believe Apple should be fined to impose such a huge internet traffic for... nothing:

The internet is built to be used...?
So true.

I lived through most of the Vietnam War (live on the 6 o'clock news) and the fall. The lessons have been obvious to anyone who CHOOSES to pay attention. But the lessons aren't ones that politicians drunk with power and venom want to hear.
Apple does require a string for location access motivation, hopefully they'll do that for this one as well. Ideally all of them.
Oh crap, I've never noticed that (or maybe I did many years ago and promptly ignored that because it wasn't what I was looking for at that time). Well, there goes the whole idea. Symlinks are of no use here, or at least I don't see how they help.
We’re not going to tech our way out of this.

Reducing demand for energy conversion, promoting and investing in robust ecosystems that we could still be part of but not exploiting, and switching back to a coexistence/reciprocity model will help.

The wheel in the sky keeps on turning; don’t know where we’ll be tomorrow, but we have some options that will affect how the bleeding edge of life carries on.
I bet if I asked the people I know (many who earn enough to not need the discounts) if they would rather spend 1% less on their groceries and let go of their grocery purchase data, or if they would spend 1% more and keep their purchase history private, almost everyone would choose to voluntarily give it up and spend 1% less.
"that was a miss"
I like it. Some eventual way to translate it to XeLaTeX or the like would also be nice.
That example is immediately followed by two sentences of text, of which the second sentence is:

> The zx package provides useful wrappers around child_process, escapes arguments and gives sensible defaults.

lit-html and at least one SQL generating package I've seen use the template string custom interpolation mechanism to auto-escape things - it's a pretty established pattern at this point in javascript land ... but also, yes, until you learn that, it totally does look prone to injection. I've got in the habit of going and finding the template string interpolation function and double checking, because otherwise I find it hard to convince my brain to believe it isn't prone to injection and it interferes with my skim reading the code ;)
> They don't have to tell you anything. Go use your browser extension. You aren't the market.

I'm guessing what he wrote resonates with a vast majority of the HN crowd even if the tone of the message doesn't. The whole point of ShowHN is to get feedback, critical or otherwise. You criticizing his feedback kinds of defeats the entire purpose IMO.
President's situation room photo has wrong times sparking conspiracy theories
Some of that is just bouncing back from how low sedans became. A Ford land boat from the late 60’s and early 70’s didn’t require much getting up/down either.
While I agree about not just being positive for the sake of it and this product is certainly not for me, I'm not sure what's constructive about calling something a "cheap ripoff" of something else (what does "cheap" even mean here other than an insult?)
Lets say I wanna draw some weird kind of curve. Theres an equation for it in wikipedia. The equation will be f(x) = 5x + 3x^2 blah blah blah..

In order to draw the curve I iterate through values of X for each pixel, plug those values into the right hand side, and what the right hand side of equation is equal to is my Y value for that point on the curve. So if they had just written that big fancy f(X) as Y it would have been much clearer and easier to understand for me initially.
MM5740 Emulator
I recently received a helpful reply about liability from an HN user who says they're a Plaid employee. Thanks @phoenixy!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27982516

While I'm still trying to understand the bigger picture implications, maybe you will find this helpful too.
Personally, I enjoy stories, parables, the dialectic when it comes to such things. S1 E4 of Billions (TV, 2016) Axe takes his childhood buddies to a private rock concert (and one friend does something stupid with some trading info he overhears).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4704400/
They lose a lot to theft in those aisles. I didn’t particularly mind when I thought it was an anonymous noise maker, but you can’t trust that anymore.
Press Briefing by Mr Hakainde Hichilema, Zambia President Elect
ROCm seems to be tolerably decent, if you are willing to spend a couple hours, and, big if, if HIP supports all the various libraries you were relying on. CUDA has a huge support library, and ROCm has been missing not just the small fry stuff but a lot of the core stuff in the that library.

Long term, AI (& a lot of other interests) need to serve themselves. CUDA is excellently convenient, but long term I have a hard time imagining there being a worthwhile future for anything but Vulkan. There don't seem to be a lot of forays into writing good all-encompassing libraries in Vulkan yet, nor many more specialized AI/ML Vulkan libraries, so it feels largely like we more or less haven't started really trying.
Yes that’s why I switched from Safari to Firefox.
Like others say, keep a journal of your work. Measure things and write them down. Do experiments. There is a lot of extra effort involved and just like in real science, you can be fooled by bad data.
For long trips and fast charging it has a quite disappointing charging curve though. It only manages 150 kW for about 5 minutes before dropping off quickly down to ~100 kW: https://support.fastned.nl/hc/en-gb/articles/360019984758-Ch...
Glossary of Higher Mathematical Jargon
There’s a market for snowbirds who work half the year. You just have to be Visibly Very Good at something.
I honestly believe this is hard to answer. Is it worth it to churn credit cards, cut coupons, and constantly optimize for price? Probably not. That said, the average person in society is woefully under skilled in my opinion for everyday tasks. Most people cannot fix a leaking sink or cracked tile. There is a significant cost to outsourcing everything, and this cost is more than monetary. Our agency is reduced when we cannot be self sufficient. It may be cheaper to rent in the short or long term, but owning a house means that you might dabble more in real estate later because it won’t be new to you. Really this is an exploration vs exploitation problem. The answer is that you should exploit the things that provide the most benefit, and explore enough to find those opportunities. Outside of word of mouth, this can’t really be known beforehand. So the answer is pick the right things with imperfect information, which is impossible.

Personally, I enjoy exploration and learning about everything. I’m studying construction management on the side because I want to feel like the house I’m in is mine, because I designed and made it. Likewise, if you use Simplifi Money or YNAB or any other budgeting app, you have more agency.

My general thesis is that it’s useful to go outside of your comfort zone and try to do and learn things that aren’t clearly the optimal economic path. I’ve done that and I think it’s worked out well for me, but I am very lucky.
it's pretty rare to have the size of an objet in memory be proportional to the number of times one of its method is called. It's usually proportional to the amount of "data" it stores.

In the case of recursion, the "time" of computation may have a direct consequence, in itself, on the occupied memory (in the case of non-tail optimized calls)
This is such a standard apple developer experience. I've been rejected so many times without making changes related to the rejection reason. I've re-submitted the same app 3 or 4 times and eventually it just gets "approved" all of a sudden. Their review process is complete BS. It's all just luck of which off-shore vendor you got reviewing your app.
I'm not sure where that idea came from. The last we saw was that N5 was slightly more expensive than N7, but at the time that info came out nobody but Apple could run N5 except for super expensive proto runs that even then were under tight competition. And even then, N5 is still cheaper than N10. Everything else is cheaper for gate count as you go down in gate size, and we should expect N5 to drop in price to under N7.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmcs-wafer-prices-reveale...

Maybe this idea came from the industry not fully internalizing the consolidation in the space and how much competition for wafers affects the initial price of a new node?
> “ - Pedestrians that engage in more illegal behaviours today are less likely to be in favour of the fine/infringement for bullying fully automated vehicles.”

Bullying? Seriously? How do you bully an inanimate object? My guess is that he’s using the verb “bully” as a proxy, because the autonomous car is supposedly carrying out the wishes of a human agent. In that case, blocking the car is thwarting the will of a human. But even that is very thin.

Machines should adapt to humans, not the other way around. Our common spaces have already been taken over my automobiles, made unsafe by them. Walking used to be the default mode of human transport, and now it’s an explicit second-class citizen to driving a car.

Adopting this frame where it’s possible to bully a robot leads us closer to blaming pedestrians when they’re killed by robots. We already do this with vehicles driven by humans — it’s been said for years that if you want to kill someone and get away with it, run over them with your car. What’s next? Justifiable automated homicide? “I’m sorry, officer, that pedestrian was making my robot feel unsafe. It was just protecting itself.”
Of that I agree.

My comment, however, referred to your original statement 'Clearly not very seriously'.

Very Serious People have been winging it for the last 20 years.
If someone really wants something with less enforced limitations than PICO, then the TIC-80 [0] fantasy console is fully open source.

[0]: https://tic80.com
It's fine as long as people keep using it.
Nope, wiki is wrong. According to Intel, the facility in Chander, AZ will start being built next year, but won't be producing chips until 2024. See https://www.anandtech.com/show/16573/intels-new-strategy-20b...
I think the bigger picture here is that electrics are just becoming "cars". They aren't buying it because its electric, but because of the specifics of the car itself (styling, performance, etc). Because of that another electric car is not a replacement because they don't care specifically that its electric.