skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently the bit pattern of a float interpreted as an int is sorta-kinda it's own logarithm, which is why the famous fast inverse square root from quake 3 works: log(x^-½) = -½log(x) =~ -log(x) >> 1. This video is approachable and explains it pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8u_k2LIZyo
You pointing out edge cases isn't a very convincing argument against Europe as a whole.

In general, Europe has more strict voting ID laws (fact).

In general, Europe has more restricted immigration laws (fact). I mean in the US the debate isn't even about who to let in, rather if we should even have a border and allow people to come in as they please.

In general, Europe is more racist. When Orlando Patterson, a renowned race-baiter in the US, surveyed the evidence he found that America was less racist than any other white-majority country by far. Americans are more open than Europeans to living next to a neighbor of a difference race. And we have sharply rising level of intermarriages.
Neat paper. I designed the ALU for a fabbed university microprocessor as a student.

Something I have always thought would be interesting is if memory was more bit addressable. Would we find non-obvious efficiencies, like the ones in the Shifter paper, by generalizing from byte to bit addressing?

* More aesthetically pleasing (to me!)

* Flexible bit-scalable integer ranges

* Flexible bit-scalable floating point precisions

* More efficient use of data layout and transfer

* Other non-obvious benefits?

Giving up 3 bits of 64-bit addresses for bit level precision doesn't seem like a big disadvantage for address space.

2^64 bytes
= 18,466,744,073,709,551,616 bytes
= 18 quintillion bytes
= 18 EiB

vs:

2^64 bits
= 18,466,744,073,709,551,616 bits
= 2,305,843,009,213,693,952 bytes
= 2.3 quintillion bytes
= 2.3 EiB
We had someone who would, unironically, leave these around the office. It was amusing at first, but then he began targeting individuals with them rather than just leaving them in a few public places and had to be told to stop. I read a bunch of the tracts during that time, they were quite bizarre. I did share the D&D one with my gaming group, though.
acronym: IC?
Show HN: First Proof of “Six Degrees of Separation” theory - Pathica
I don't, but it's clear that there were societies where the vast majority of the political power served capital, so from then on you can say that they were unhindered capitalism. Of course, there is always some political power that is not wielded by capitalists, even merely because the state requires a military and capitalism requires the state, but since that is inherent to capitalism it can still be said to be part of capitalism without any restraint.
It's the same "eye of the needle" genetic resistance that ws seen with both Black Death and Spanish Flu. So people will be resistant in an almost magically bizarre way.
First of all, I was reflecting on the situation in the public sector, in a very blue state, where officially you strictly don't talk politics at work. Do you think my comments were all from "one side of the fence"? Which one?

Also, I wasn't expressing any opinion on what risk there is or what risk should be acceptable.

I don't see anything political in the fact that multiple parents are concerned about bringing covid home to their family if people don't wear masks.

It doesn't matter what people are saying in internet debates; I was stating this is what real people are saying in non-political, offline conversation.

I also don't see politics in the sense of left or right if the leader of our organization is making decisions that I don't see the sense in. I think leaders of all types can fall in a trap where they commit to something just because they don't want to look weak and wishy washy.

As far as my risk goes, if everybody wants to wear masks, I'm fine with it, and if nobody wants to wear mask, I'm fine with that too.

I waited my turn, then I got vaccinated promptly, now there is nothing for me to do. I just want whatever people decide to make sense.
Ye olde pragmatist vs idealist.
>Authorities caught on to the scheme in one case when IDC sent inflated invoices to a southern California storage company that only used typewriters to do business, according to court documents.

...did not expect typewriters
Let the AR-50 bang.
I wonder if their donor base has shifted? One big donor can obviate many thousands of grass-roots members with a few 10's of millions.

I've donated several times, thought they stood for something.

Similar thing happened with the Sierra Club when they started taking money from big oil. Now they're mostly just anti-nuclear lobbyists.

Point is, once an entity gets a reputation for doing "good", they become so valuable as a business sheepskin than any number of individual donors could ever hop to match.
It takes a lot more than military and police. Just ask North Korea.
WHO says Covid will mutate like the flu and is likely here to stay
You’re missing a word.
I am experimenting with NFTs. I found it hard to manually come up with unique traits by combining layers. As a dev you can easily write such a tool but I know some people who have asked me to do that for them so I decided to create a tool.

Simply name your image files accordingly, drag entire folder(s), define how many NFTs you wanna generate, size etc and it will do that for you in browser. It's in browser / offline so your images are not uploaded anywhere. You can also disconnected with the network if you are concerned...

The only thing I track are page views to see if the tool is at all useful.

This tool also create a ERC721 (OpenSea specific) metadata template if you wanna create your own smart contract and host metadata... but if you are creating small set of images its best to lazy mint on markets like OpenSea.

Hope it's useful to someone, somewhere out there.

P.S. I also create my own collection, its not for sale yet but if you are interested its here https://unwonted.io/art
> The post hardly felt pushy to me, and I don’t understand the skepticism of the poster’s intentions.

Two things that lead me to thinking that:

* Blanket statement on censorship without providing further details and references
* Picking a policy that affects a small part of the population and referencing articles that already say that many experts already find problematic

I think it's great that you could read the comment with good intentions, but the way that the details are presented and cherry-picked doesn't sit right with me.

I can only agree to disagree on your point that's just part of how we communicate.
It sounds odd to hear about typewriters outside of prisons.

After all the games Apple and Microsoft have been playing I’m not sure they’re a bad idea though.
It depends on the company, but generally as long as you havent received performance concerns, you can switch.
Working on other companies' mobile apps, about half the performance problems I've discovered have been down to some accidental crazy, like initialising something you only need once, in a loop, in 3 different places (because the code has become so unnecessarily complicated that no one really knows what it's doing). The rest are due to some piece of code accidentally blocking the UI thread.

A well written mobile app doesn't really have any need to be sluggish at all, including smooth animations and fast scrolling lists, it was doable 10 years ago, it's doable now. (*I don't know about games).

But unlike on the server side, the accepted wisdom in most places I've worked at is that the answer to the performance problems is: a new framework.

(I feel like this is a lie that developers tell the business side, and maybe themselves. It avoids having to explain that software is hard, sometimes you don't get it right the first time, and if you don't spend time and effort tending to it, it can turn into an ungodly and expensive mess - and that's got nothing to do with the hardware or the framework)
Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins Proton’s advisory board
If the Treasury defaulted on its obligation to pay the interest and principle on the debt owned by SS, the ratings agencies would downgrade US Treasuries the same way they would if they failed to pay Japan, or any other bondholder.
Another reason why old control panes still alive is that new settings app isn't customizable by 3rd parties. Some 3rd party drivers added custom configuration panel on control panel and old drivers remain forever on windows world.
Sure! The "core" I mentioned above talks about the common psychological concepts of Id, Ego, and Superego (and more), and analogises them to separate processes running on your brain's processor, with a "layered approach". Lower-level processes have a higher interrupt priority. For example, fight-or-flight happens at a subrational level, and therefore "rational" thinking won't change the way you handle a fight-or-flight response, since the triggering of that response inherently interrupts your rational thought-loop.

I'm not saying that this is literally correct -- the brain is way more complicated than that! But I find it quite useful as a metaphor for processing and understanding social dynamics that I inherently find "irrational".
It definitely does, it exposes the bad managers. Attrition can be used as a gauge across an organization to shed light on who isn't doing their job well.
> Defunding the police was never a sincerely held belief

You are lying.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/how-i-beca...

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2021/02/12/We-Actually-Mean-Aboli...

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2020/08/the-abolition-mov...
I have heard that exploring wrecks while diving is very dangerous. Of course, this is just the thing I would want to learn how to dive so I can do! Any divers here want to explain ways to stay safe or is it just too bad of an idea?
There were Macintoshes here and there at least in Finland where I live. Saw first Mac in 1989 or 90 and did see them here and there but they were not common household items.

C64 was kind of a national computer for the 80s but there were others as well and Macs were used in the DTP and graphics circles a lot and sometimes one could find them in schools as well but as I said, they were quite high end and adult/work oriented compared to the inexpensive home computers like Commodores, Ataris and sometimes even PCs.

Funnily in Finland there were home computer magazines which basically ignored the existence of Macs for most of the time except there was one, seprate Mac magazine. Probably because the advertising segment was targeted to DTP professionals etc.
There's also a national reckoning going on with sleep deprived early career people working their long hour residency hell too. Just because one field does it doesn't mean its a good practice at all.
Cannabis consumers nearly twice as likely to suffer from a heart attack
Echoing what everyone else is saying - I have no idea what this does. Maybe I’m not in the target market and I’d jump on it if I were, but real world examples would help.

And I don’t mean real world examples like you’ve listed. Those are just names of domains (neurofeedback, order fulfillment). I can list domains too (accounting, genomics). Give me a case study of what your thing does, with the real world payoff.

Here’s an example (trying to guess what it does, could be way off):

Imagine you had a time series of the temperature in your room every day and when your AC engages

If you had a time series ML engine, it could optimize when the AC turns on and off

This would reduce your energy usage by not overcooling the room at the end of the day as the temp drops naturally

See how that format works? Situation without your thing. What your thing can do. Real world benefit user gets from using your thing.
And our friends at Campus Crusades for Christ and their annual 'D&D is evil' speakers. The sad part was how easy it was to hand out a pamphlet that refuted all of the speaker's sources before the speaker had ever spoke.

Ah, pharisees, gotta love them.
The "contact" link in the footer points to the mods' email address. I've dropped a line.
100% true for me as well -- I found the Illuminatus Trilogy via reading the Jargon File when I was an embryonic techie oh so long ago and that whole scene has been super-influential on me ever since.
Isn't Australia showing the exact opposite, that you don't need CCP-style top down control to enact powerful surveillance laws? That's always been possible in a "free democracy".

The Australian government has explicitly aligned itself with the US and against China in the current tensions, as a member of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. In my view Australia (and New Zealand) are being seduced by US power above all else.

For example, in 2020 a Strategic Dialogue took place between the US and NZ, which was barely reported on. Items for discussion included "the strategic and economic architecture of the Indo-Pacific" and " the U.S.-NZ strategic partnership, including security cooperation"[1]. I bet you less than 1% of Kiwis know that this high level military dialogue took place - an impressive level of control over a population of a kind that the CCP could only dream of.

[1] https://2017-2021.state.gov/joint-statement-on-united-states...
Any time someone designs a fool proof device, someone goes out and designs a better fool.
Ok, but I was referring to expatriates.

Also, you forgot Paul Hogan. And Kylie Minogue. And Nick Cave.

Also, while absolutely nothing sticks in my mind about either, the names of Kevin Rudd and Kim Beazley have been retained in my memory.
Sorry if this is a silly question but are the LP and the LNP the same party? When I try to look up LNP I see references to Queensland which confuses me if it's a national party. If not are they related?
Now imagine just how much more effective they would be with sane working hours
Individual contributor- not a tech lead or manager.
This is pretty hyperbolic.
Examination of global excess deaths would tell you that the lockdowns were successful in their stated primary aim. Australia and NZ had significantly fewer excess deaths during the first wave [1].
And if they continue with lockdowns, they will have signficantly fewer excess deaths again no matter what else happens.

You may think this isn't a good trade-off, which is a fine point to make, but I don't think any minds need to be blown.

[1] https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1434228604666368007?s=2...
That may be, but do they hate where they came from the same amount and do they talk about it as much?
1000 AUD is about 100 USD an hour. That's laughably low for any Brisbane sized city in the states. Not nuts at all.
If you haven't already, you need to read as much Greg Egan as you can. His short stories "Learning To Be Me" and "Closer" are as disturbing as they are wonderful, but it's the novel "Zendegi" where Egan really starts to explore the challenges of BCI and actual integration or digitization of a human mind.
But the only way to realise that gain is to downsize or move out of town. And neither of those options is easy, because of restrictions on development and redevelopment.
You mean the same windows 10 that I never bother to boot into because every time I do various services decide to do so many indexing and updating tasks that it pegs the hard drive at 100% for hours?

I should be able to launch windows every couple of months without having to wait so long to do anything that I forget why I even booted into windows in the first place.
Why are they still in lockdown? Vaccine rates seem fine enough to at-least let most people do whatever they want.
You experience this now?
Unless you have "show dead" turned on, in which case you see it anyway. (You still can't comment on it, though.)

And, if it's dead and you see it and you don't think it should be dead, you can "vouch" for it. If enough people do that, it can lift the "flagged" status.
Haven't happened to me on my desktop. Maybe try updating? File a bug report?

The start menu web search is actually really good for quickly searching for things.
It’s not “forced” it’s “your responsibility in a democracy”.

We have preferential voting here, and plenty of minor parties to vote for, so your vote isn’t “wasted”. Living in a democracy means participating in voting to help decide what the country does, and honestly it’s a pretty minor requirement: the actual act is quick and easy, it’s on a weekend and anyone who has to work at is given the opportunity and the results are usually mostly finalised by the end of the day.
They don't park them right on L2, JWST will orbit L2 thousands of kilometers away from the exact point.
Flagged -- 100% political opinion pieces seem off-topic
Without exceptions for rape/incest that argument is pretty weak.
Somali feminist: Facebook is being used to silence me
I have about half a dozen translations of the Meditations and i suggest the following;

* Translation by Gregory Hays published in "The Modern Library" classics. This is highly approachable and should be the first one you start with.

* Translation by Martin Hammond and published by Penguin Classics. Lots of illuminating Notes.

* Translation by Robin Hard and published in "Oxford World's Classics" series. Robin Hard also has a translation of Epictetus' Discourses/Enchiridion/Fragments and Sayings and Anecdotes of Diogenes in the same Oxford series, both of which are also excellent.

PS: All of the above contain a detailed Introduction to the work which you should not skip. They set the background, Worldview, Time etc. which help you understand the ideas in the book better.
1200+ cases in NSW out of a population of over 8 million.

So we should extend a strict lockdown … to do what exactly? Is the plan to manage this virus with a series of alternating lockdowns and get the number of cases to zero? Is this realistic, is this the type of world you want to live in?

The virus appears to be as contagious as chicken pox, vaccines help with serious cases but are doing little unfortunately to stop the spread. At what point do you think it would make sense to manage the disease and resume normal life instead of draconian lockdowns for a untenable goal?
Just remove all ads. That should fix the bug.
The problem with negative gearing is the 'average person' can't participate in negative gearing.

Negative gearing only works for those who have a high level of income with the corresponding high level of taxation.

Why it works so well for these individuals is they can greatly reduce their tax liability by using the property deductions negatively gearing has to offer.

As a secondary benefit, those same investors also win on the capital gain side of the equation as these negative gearing tax incentives create massive demand for property.

Your 'average person' living on the average wage can't benefit from negative gearing as their wage bracket does not attract a high enough level of taxation.

In fact it hurts this group of people only because those higher property prices also means they are priced out of the housing market.
Do you have to wear a mask when jogging outside? (or walking etc). Can you jog with your family or small group of friends?
How the September 11 terror attacks produced a military industrial juggernaut
Xbox, Geforce Now and Stadia streaming etc are another option.
The public information films that scared Seventies children for life
For the cameras facing earth, you wouldn't need fantastic resolution for it to be useful. With a resolution of 50 meters, you could track suezmax ships. With a resolution of 5 meters, you could track commercial aircraft. Not great, but it would help with a Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 like incident.
Some did, some didn't. Some got stock, some got bonuses. Almost everyone gained a reputation that benefited them greatly in endeavors post-Apple. Some fared very poorly. Burrell Smith has certainly dealt with a a lot of issues. It would be difficult for me to believe working in that environment was helpful in any way.
I would like to but the performance is a dealbreaker. If I'm on windows, I can expect to run latest titles at 60 fps on my 4 year old rig. That isn't possible on wine/proton.
Five police officers in Miami recently attacked two men while thirteen of their fellow officers watched. [1] The idiom "bad apples" comes from the saying, "A few bad apples spoil the whole bunch," so it's an appropriate term here.

[1] Video footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF4ze5VCY1c
It's mostly that these are very narrow and shallow networks -- if I remember right, 5 layers and 30 units wide?
IBM Power10 Coming to Market: E1080 for ‘Frictionless Hybrid Cloud Experiences’
“Constantly taking” is not the same thing as “constantly polling”. The ring buffer approach works identically in the event-driven approach, you just need to calculate the number of “skipped” ticks and zero them out in the ring buffer.
The ban on alcohol in some communities is (AFAICT) welcomed by those communities, which have massive problems with it. There are laws in other states which allow people to declare their house a “dry place” which is then enforceable by law, to try to stop anyone from bringing alcohol into the house.

I can’t tell you whether any of these measures work, but they aren’t implemented for reasons of racist suppression, from what I can tell. Also no idea on the porn bans.

I’ve just moved to Australia, for the second time. The censorship you talk about is trivial and easily worked around (Video game didn’t get approved for sale? Order in from New Zealand or Hong Kong)

The populace isn’t so much OK with the policy as unaffected by it. These policies usually come from SA and are usually rooted in religion, which still seems to hold sway there.

The appeal of Aus to this Brit is that it has space, so much space, and sunshine. And it’s not as downright crazy as the USA (guns, employment rights, healthcare etc)
I'd like to say it just 'censorship' than 'censorship in videogames'. OP said 'books, video games, movies' so it seems that every media can be censored in the future.
It’s Mozilla all over again.
People should if they are interested in performance. I log about 1TB/day of metrics data for the applications I'm responsible for and developed a mantra for it; It's better to have a shitton of metrics logging and not need them than have no metrics logging and having to set it up when everything is broken already.
There are pros and cons to either approach. I've been wondering recently if voluntary voting in the US is partially responsible for the tribal political atmosphere? As I understand it, one of the big challenges both major parties face in the US is how to motivate their voting bases to actually turn up to vote at all. And as social media has shown us, there's nothing more engaging and motivating than outrage.

So both sides of US politics, and their surrogates in the media, are incentivised to stir up outrage against their opponent, leading to a more divided country in the long run.
The SEC has told us it wants to sue us over Lend. We don’t know why
This is already possible, by statically linking musl. But the build process is probably simpler by using a pure Rust alternative.
Some universities (at least in my country) requiring non-IT students to take mandatory programming courses. Those courses are tailor made for their degrees.