skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High end soft cores do most of that. Particularly when you consider that most of what isn't automated these days is equally applicable to soft cores that aren't just Verilog or VHDl. Floor planning FPGA cores these days can be nutty compared to the recent past (far past interestingly enough was similar before you had higher level tools). And the fact that stuff like packaging, DLLs/PLLs are equally applicable to hard cores. That's outside of what they care about on nearly every core design I've seen (albeit I'm only in my mid 30s).
> contain other "tweaks that are needed to run binaries that we use at Google".

Most of the world manages to run their binaries on a mainline kernel so I'd love to know what's so special in their binaries.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28768413
...or, did tabloid-style "journalism" bleed from the UK to the US as they both reach new heights in fear-mongering and blaming the out-group to get rage-clicks as news organizations' incomes decline?
Very nice writeup. I have an idea how this might be implemented. Since you rightfully want to keep the details private, let me just ask:

How do you handle the case where the probed clusters contain no elements satisfying the filter criteria? Is the probe extended to additional clusters, or terminated with no results?
I thought nosql would make my life easier but it doesn't. Use RDMS with an upfront schema really is simpler. Yeah changes can be awkward but its worth it.
Access to democracy is declining in practical terms.

This is one of the main reasons that it costs so much to build public infrastructure like high-speed rail or a new tunnel under the Hudson, and why the government is not doing enough on climate change despite the results of surveys, for instance.

A minority can veto actions that would benefit everyone else.
> The biggest reason Canada is different is that they have a parliamentary system that elects their Prime Minister

Quebec is another big difference–there is nothing really comparable in the US. Spanish is the closest thing the US has to French, but there is no state in which Spanish outranks English–and even if predominantly Spanish-speaking Puerto Rico successfully gains statehood, Puerto Rico would be only a medium-sized state in terms of population, so it will not be able to have the same impact on US national politics that Quebec has on Canadian.

The US has a lot of cultural diversity, but its cultural diversity is spread out thinly, rather than being regionally concentrated – as a result, that cultural diversity can't be reflected in the political sphere in the same way that it is in Canada or the UK or Belgium or Spain, where the distinctive culture of specific regions of the country causes them to develop their own unique party systems.
This is not the same as radix sort but you're right that radix is a non-comparative sorting algorithm just like the one the parent commenter described.
Roger McNamee warned us.
This is a place where the founder-CEO-demigod like Zuck should able to make better decisions than a professional team like Twitter. The long term profit maximization strategy was to maximize profits only up to the point where you risk getting regulated by government. With all the fawning praise of him as a kid I don’t think Zuck envisioned that one day both Democrats and Republicans would be united in their desire to fuck him over.
The project is still in its infancy, so yeah they're missing a couple of things. I've been building stuff in it for a while and currently running my first campaign in it.

1. I agree with you, but hidden zones are good enough for now.

3. discord...

4. Meh... I think it's the kind of thing that people complain, but will still pay for.

You can't really compare foundry vtt who displays jpegs in a browser with Talespire who offers a 3d environment. It's like comparing a car to a plane.
I'm still amazed that most people in USA refuse to structure their affairs so they do not qualify as a person who files a tax return. Most of this nonsense is voluntary if you are set up corectly.
Not sure - are Google running their servers with custom-made processors as well?
That assumes a model where most of the electorate is politically moderate. A sort of "normal distribution" where the mean is centered around centrism. These days, the US electorate is highly polarized and the parties are responding in kind.
When I redo the wiring in my shed, that's one of the things I plan on doing - more exterior outlets. Right now, I don't have an easy way to plug the Volt in down there, but on days when it's used early and has the full day to recover, I probably could. The main limit is that I only have a 2kW single phase (120V) inverter down there, so I can't really charge at a full 2kW, and I can't charge hard while also running my air conditioner. I can spare 500-800W, no problem, but beyond that, it starts to be harder. I've got a bigger inverter on a trailer I can parallel in, though, and that might work - run 900W out of my office into the aux charger on that, with another 900W coming in from solar, and then charge the car at 3.3kW, buffering off the battery pack. I need to play with it a bit more this winter, but having some good outdoor outlets on my office will make things easier.
> Communications on Facebook aren't worse than what was on the internet two decades ago.

Let's not underestimate the degree to which 'likes' (social affirmation ersatz) are eliciting the worst in people.
how does a Russian hacker having a picture of my fingerprint allow them to use my Yubikey to unlock my account?
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Anyone care to comment on the Netflix documentary "Kiss the Ground" ?
I meant a permission to circumvent the W^X restriction.

> And it doesn't restrict any useful behavior. It does require some design burden to do properly, though, which not everyone is willing to do.

Do you know of any alternative approach to the gross APK packaging one? I would say it definitely restricts "useful behavior", unless you think Termux would be just as useful after API 29 compatibility were implemented (and I would disagree).

Besides, when thinking about implementing a security feature, the question "does this restrict behavior?" is important (and I think it does in this case), but not quite as relevant as the question "what actual extra security does this provide?", and I'm not quite sure how much extra security this provides.

Could someone provide a realistic attack scenario?
That's covered earlier (full quote):

> Those patches implement various internal APIs (e.g. for Google Fibers), provide hardware support, add performance optimizations, and contain other "tweaks that are needed to run binaries that we use at Google".

I'd assume if you're making allowances for custom-made processors at the kernel level you wouldn't also want that leaking into your user land binaries as well.
According to one researcher (https://www.brown.edu/news/2020-01-21/polarization) polarization is increasing as parties become more closely aligned to ideologies (eg. religion, race). Looking across the aisle, your opponents looks more different then they did a decade ago.

Why? My theory is that data mining and software is identifying and targeting seams of ideology that are most readily influenced, so in effect campaigning efforts are efficiently widening the divide between parties. Social media just happens to be the choice source of this data, as well as the medium to influence.
Illegality is dangerous to define and enforce when it comes to speech. Especially if Glenn Greenwald[1] is right that this is not an attempt to weaken facebook, but to commandeer its power to censor.

Directory of Policy Communications for Facebook Lena Pietch just called for "standard rules" for the whole internet, increasing the danger because whomever would get that power could widely censor unwanted popular dissent and counter narrative viewpoints. Facebook already caused damage doing this by censoring the lab leak hypothesis, which delayed potential lifesaving insights.

The whistleblower also has a political connection that should be investigated; The law firm representing the whistleblower also represent Whitehouse Press Secretary Jen Psaki, and the whistleblowers lawyer Andrew P. Bakaj[2] was the principal attorney representing the whistleblower who filed the initial complaint that led to the Trump impeachment process.

[1] https://greenwald.substack.com/p/democrats-and-media-do-not-...
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_P._Bakaj
No kidding. This man has too much money and too much power. He needs to be dragged back down to earth.
> The limit that does make sense is the ratio of volumes of n-sphere to an n-cube. That that goes to zero is maybe not so surprising.

This is why I start by recalling that the volume of the n-cube is always one, as the frame of reference. But I think people still find it surprising. Hard to tell, because...

> I have a hobby of turning surprising facts about the n-sphere into less surprising facts about the n-cube. So far I haven't met one that can't be 'fixed' by this strategy.

Hard to tell, because I don't find any of these facts surprising anymore -- would guess you're in the same boat!

Another good one is how you can fit exp(n) "almost-orthognal vectors" on the n-sphere.
HN isn't particularly designed to be addictive.

It doesn't notify you when someone responds to one of your posts. It doesn't send you any nagging emails (indeed, doesn't even require an email to sign up). It has the noprocrast setting to let you set limits on your own usage. It doesn't (afaik) try to optimize for engagement - dang tries to maintain civil discourse as much as possible.
> If you install malware that runs as your user, it can see and edit any of your files regardless of whether or not the OS knows decryption keys for them.

The OS now prompts to grant file access permissions to applications.
The “Steve Jobs” movie written by Soorkin does such a good job examining this question by having the two of them fight over the relative importance of their contributions. Since one of character-Woz’s strongest lines is “you can be decent and brilliant at the same time,” I assume you’ve seen it. If not, you should! Everybody here should, it’s a brilliant film.

One of the things that character-Jobs says is (something along the lines of) “you’d be the easiest A at Palo Alto highschool right now if it wasn’t for me.” What he’s getting at is that Woz didn’t know how to channel his engineering talent into successful ambition. This makes the question a lot more complex: it’s not “can you be talented & kind,” it’s “can you be talented & kind & successfully ambitious.” Character-Jobs is asserting that his ruthlessness, his faults, were a necessity for these things to happen with Apple.

The film probes at these questions from just about every angle. Perhaps not coincidentally, it portrays his greatest success at the time when character-Jobs is most able to be at peace with himself and work other people.
what they call "divisive and extremist actions" that need to be censored is basically anything which doesn't agree with their political ideology. It's a direct attack on free speech.
I haven’t heard nearly as much talk about breaking it up as I have regulating it and social media in general. Kind of a red herring.
How do you do this without getting nailed for tax evasion?
Mao Zedong was a "founder" of a militant "startup" called the Communist Party of China during a vast civil war; his experience has virtually nothing in common with a non-founder career climber in 21st century SV.
So much gaslighting, it's hard to read. This evil company should be closed!
It's just hard to swallow when the BOM is $10 and the hardware is simple. Nothing about it is magic.
The answer of this question is complicated and requires mastery in psychology. In layman terms is something about religious experience mixed with father figure and deep symbolism. People need something to believe and worship, this is part of multinational traditions in different forms.
I personally have used Apple computers from purely UX an UI motivation, never trusted a slogan or marketing "reality distortion field", never been an early adopter or Apple fetishist. Simply put, in one distant point in time Macs were the ultimate professional tools. UNIX based, clean, logical software with reliable and beautifully designed hardware.

Now they are just a services and fashion company with hardware appliances as vehicles for vertical integration.

I respected Jobs intuition towards product design and execution but never "idolized" him for a second.

Even today, people don't get it, thousands of talented and faceless people are involved in Apples success but everything that the world can see is the face of the CEO and marketing presentation (This on second thought is one of biggest Jobs innovations).

The bigger problem is that we are "stuck" in Jobs vision of "user oriented" product (which figures as Tim Cook effectively abused and shifted towards monopoly, politics and shareholders driven existence) and cannot move forward.

The success stories of Jobs and Apple are considered "The Holly Grail" of tech companies and we have even some impostors using perception tricks (Elizabeth Holmes).

It is sad and frightening at the same time. If User Centered Design was really applied (not only advertised) the current state of personal computing would include real focus on encryption, privacy, data protection and accessibility, not some fetishistic obsession with tech specs and decoration in the name of "perception of progress" or corporate profits.
I don't think that argument holds water. Imagine rolling it on the inside of the circle – the center of the circle traces a path with only twice its radius, yet it still rolls 4 times around.
This, their entire premise of modifying their engagement-optimization to try to account for wellbeing but still optimize engagement is flawed. It’s clear that outrage and anger drive engagement over all else. If they want to fix things they can just bring back chronological feeds; but they won’t because the incentives are just too misaligned.
Yes, and that's simply and demonstrably false. There are not always middlemen, as I have already explained.
Startup, stall and low-speed currents can be higher than rated becase there is less back-emf.
The intermittent fasting in this study was every other day feeding by the way.
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I feel tainted for having read this arrant bullshit.
I did one meal a day for a few years and lost an OK amount of weight and felt pretty good. But then I fell off the wagon and it wasn’t easy to start up again.

So now I’m trying a 48 hour fast once a week, and not changing much else. Starting week 5 tomorrow, and it’s looking promising so far.
I have said no to a Facebook offer before (I actually recommend everybody apply to Facebook, they give great offers you can use for negotiation elsewhere and it wastes their time). Like you said, we’re talking about the differences between insanely and very high here. I don’t think a 20% increase in TC is worth making the world a worse place, and I’d hope for most people that’s not a hard decision.
Intel owns Altera.

Providing a good FPGA CPU to run all the custom stuff is a great way to sell more chips.

This isn't aimed at makers so much as aimed at huge corporations with loads of money to burn on FPGA hardware, circuit design, and custom software.
The way to make sense of this is not to think about the water weight but the solid matter. By changing the proportion of water from 99% to 98%, you're also doubling the proportion of solid mass from 1% to 2%.
Regretting that gender studies degree?
The post mentioned that the out-of-band network was also down, and I’m curious what that entails and how it was also impacted. They must not have been on external DNS or had static IPs to access recovery. I’m sure they won’t share more than this now, but I’d sure love to hear more about the OOB access.
I don't think this idea matches what parent poster is saying.

Banality of evil is about how ordinary people can work on evil things while not being sociopaths and still being considered ordinary people. But it also presumes that there is some truly evil / sociopathic force driving this through authority, such as Hitler himself in case of Eichmann.

On the other hand the parent poster is saying that Facebook is simply too big to not end up evil, that evil is an emergent property of the million different processes that is Facebook. That view absolves not only regular workers of Facebook who are helping the company achieve evil things, but also the people who are actually in control of the company – Mark Zuckerberg and his senior executive team.

Personally I'm not buying either of these absolutions, but especially not the grand universal absolution that the parent poster affords to the whole company.

Ultimately it is someone's decision to put profits above everything else. Engagement doesn't excessively optimize itself. Users' contact books aren't getting stolen by themselves. Shadow profiles don't fill up themselves. "Just doing my job" is a choice, not an excuse. Many people are complicit in making and implementing these decisions for their own benefit, and they are all responsible for the outcome.
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90% is 1 in 10, 95% is 1 in 20.
They don't have to be in the center, they just have to make the lesser-evil argument. They just need to express to the swing voters that the other party is even more extreme.
The title reads like a joke.
A lot of it is just mundane details. Some of it leaks out in ABSL, for example some boring trivia is at:

https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/base/i...

They also have for years had major patches to TCP which Linux refuses to adopt. Some details at:

https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/97/slides/slides-97-tcpm-tc...

These won't make binaries "not run" as such but they are necessary for the correct and efficient operation of large-scale distributed systems.

QUIC, Snap/Pony, and user-space thread scheduling are strictly superior to what happens inside the kernel and their development makes the delta between prodkernel and upstream kernel less relevant over time. They also, collectively, make Linux itself less relevant.
I see. I guess compute intensive stuff is usually implemented in c++. By the way, if you don't mind, could you share your experience in learning RL? I am struggling through Sutton and Barto's text right now and wondering if I'll progress faster if I just "dive into things." Also, nice project!
Email, video calls, photo sharing services, etc.

My parents ans I live on different continents and we still manage to speak regularly, share pictures, etc. All of that without any of us having a Facebook account.
NoSQL are super easy to start with. Then you have a pile of heaping unstructured data that's hard to query, hard to report and gain insight on.

Every data task becomes a programming problem which needs a team to work on to get something that might be stale. With SQL there's a lot of work. But you have a DB that everyone knows. 3rd party tools work. Developer on-boarding is easy. Your boss asks you how many users used feature X in the past month you can actually tell him right away...

Performance is actually good and consistent. Your data is also consistent and respects acid principles. The whole write performance of NoSQL DBs is a bit of a crock that doesn't stand the test of scaling. With proper cashing SQL is as performant when done right and the profiling tools are better. Screw no-SQL. They are just Object Oriented DBs (which were a disaster in the 90s) in new clothes.
> Most of the world manages to run their binaries on a mainline kernel

Most of the world doesn’t need to worry about their kernel - this is a good thing. But at FAANG scale, you inevitably need to make changes and optimizations.

Eg: “Twitter has a kernel team!?” - https://danluu.com/in-house/
The Bitcoin block size hard fork showed that full nodes and validating nodes have the power to censor miners who don't follow the consensus rules. And the amount of Bitcoin needed to run a node is zero.
Single-page apps are forgivable for media oriented sites, so the video/music can keep playing as you navigate the site. in the past this was done with pop-up players and was generally messier, so I like SPAs for this.

Literally every other type of website on the planet should use traditional loading pages.
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Yeah, but you're not allowed to make it so obvious.
Huh? There's tons of commentary that isn't just translating "what he did vs what I would have done":

"This is a good move for black. It attacks the center and attacks the pawn on e4. It also allows the development of the knight to c6."

"The main line. I don't know why I played this. But, I know that it's not a good idea to block in your own pieces, and that's what I would've done. But, this is a mistake because of what I'm about to do." (This is after its own move, and sounds very GPT3-ish.)

"He decides to kick my knight, but this is not a good move. It is also a very good move because it threatens my knight and threatens my pawn on e5. I am not worried about the knight fork on f2."

"I'm not sure what I'm doing, so I thought that I could castle, and try to defend it with a pawn, but I don't think it's worth it."

"The pawn on e5 is pinned to the king, so it is time to castle."

These samples are from the first ten lines or so of a single game.[1] They're all like that. Don't know what you were reading.

1. https://lichess.org/4l1urWeU#5
The trigger for surveillance is $600 which is practically every American. It is certainly about regular people.

Larger sums of many are already tracked, so wealthy people would have already been monitored.
Good timing with the posting. Maybe the get the attention elsewhere from https://www.npr.org/2021/10/04/1042921981/facebook-whistlebl... ?
Social media is absolutely not the only responsible party. Many factors are at play, in my opinion our own decisions to think in dualities.
In the literature [*], the "proof" is an actual proof, but that's not what the prover sends to the verifier. Rather, the verifier queries random pieces of the proof, eventually convincing themselves that with high probability, the prover knows a valid proof.

[*] At least in most of the older literature descending from the PCP literature. Modern papers sometimes abandon that distinction and just use "proof" and "argument" interchangeably.
> you must login to continue

No, I don't.
The limit case can be helpful here, a strawberry made of 100% water can be dehydrated to practically nothing and is still made of 100% water.
I want to belive.
Here is one of my favorites. Take a light source and shine it at a filter that is polarized up/down that is in front of a filter that is polarized left/right. None of the light will get through: the first filter removes all of the L/R components of the light, and the second filter removes all the remaining light.

Now add a third filter, between the two, which is polarized at 45 degrees. Now some of the light goes through!

If this doesn't surprise you, imagine there was a man firing a machine gun at a pair of walls. The two walls are thick enough that they absorb all the bullets. But when you add a third wall in between them, some of the bullets go through.
It's mean to be a thought experiment but some people (like Veritasium) can't get around this simple realization.

Like, "I wonder what could be happening inside of a black hole?"

"Oh we would never know, because if we send a camera it would break. Also suppose we MaaaAaAKKeee aa cCAaaMeerra with ThE STROooonngGEEstt Material In the UUunniveersssee, so it wouldn't break, you would find that there's no wifi in there so how would you transmit your findings ;)"

I hate this kind of "smart" people.
Influxdb was doing a project in Rust/Arrow as well right?

I think the lesson might be- be careful who and when you take funding from. All these managed services smack of VCs looking for ARR growth and a big exit...