skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The consequence of a data race isn't (necessarily) limited to "crashing now and then".

The big problem is SC/DRF. Most languages promise (at best) your program is sequentially consistent if data race free. And it turns out we can't debug non-trivial programs unless they're sequentially consistent because it hurts our brains too much.

Causality is something we're all used to in the real world. The man hits the ball with the bat, then the ball's trajectory changes, because it struck the bat. Sequentially consistent programs are the same. X was five, then we doubled it, now it's ten.

But without sequential consistency that's not how your program works at all. The ball goes flying off over the wall around the field, then the pitcher throws the ball, the ball lands in the catcher's glove, the umpire calls it, the batter hits the ball, and yet at the same time misses the ball... We doubled X, now it's five, but before we doubled it that was nine or sixteen? What?
I live in NZ and feel that commentors of our govts approach overstate the level of authoritarianism we're experiencing. Its not universal but it feels more like the majority of people recognize that lockdowns and other restrictions are for the greater good. If you are arrested you are not going to be "disapeared", you will be processed like anyone else breaking a law. While we might collectively trust the current elected govt, I dont automatically trust that a future govt won't abuse new laws hastily written to lawfully restrict peope though. Anyway, mostly just came here to say how comical it seems when we're compared with genuine dictatoriships ruled by autocrats where you can simply be dissapeared if you step out of line. We're far from that and its just media bating. There's a conflict between being able to protest by gathering and spreading covid... Agree in the long term laws restricting congregating need to be monitored and disestablished. Its no mystery that kiwis feel part of a team when the current govt has done pretty well with its propaganda, but Its the approach Id have taken too.
With the US keeping the land border closed, it will soon be impossible to leave Canada without being vaccinated (or bribing a border guard).
I mean I agree, COVID has definitely impacted the workforce in a wide variety of complicated ways and even then its not necessarily a 1 for 1 of working adults dying. Also, due to COVID complications there have also been a lot of people who are now disabled/unable to do their previous jobs which also impacts these numbers. I just wanted to point out that while 150k is a lot of people, its not really a massive percentage of the overall US workforce.
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> A slurry of plant fats and proteins which approximates eggs sounds like nasty factory runoff.

Assuming that you're talking about all plant-based processed foods with this, you can pry tofu and vegan breads from my cold, dead hands.
Our merit increases are basically just inflation. Even the years when I filled roles above my grade, it was maybe a real raise of 1-2%. If your friend gets under 5% this year, he might not be so happy...
We can't blame the LNP for all of this. All of the surveillance related bills passed in the last 10 years have been bipartisan.

I'd also go as far as to say this is what Australians want. Many people believe these laws won't be used against regular citizens and will assist in law enforcement efforts.
Is it common for people in Australia to leave home with rubber bullets?
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> Theirs's an entire anti-work sub on Reddit dedicated to this mindset

/r/NEET and I recommend everyone spend an hour there, it's fascinating.
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Apart from being interesting it was a really fun read.
You have to be careful as some people give away ALL their Legos, and simply watch others build until it's time to take credit.
"antenna that can only receive signals from a specific direction"

That's what "high gain" means; the main lobe is strongly focused in some direction. Actively tracking multiple moving satellites makes this approach mostly unworkable.
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Daycare was already expensive, know plenty of people myself included who are no longer doing it because they work from home. None the less because of COVID protocols meant less space in the daycare. Daycare really needs to be subsidized so costs can come down without totally screwing employees.
They totally can https://deepmind.com/blog/article/generally-capable-agents-e...
Meh. I'm Chinese and I think you're seriously overestimating the amount of influence CCP propaganda has on people's opinions, and seriously underestimating the genuineness of people's opinions on Taiwan. This is typical western bias: blaming everything on the CCP as if the people can't have any sort of agency or legitimate opinion that differs from the western mainstream.

There is a saying that if China were democratic, then they would have invaded Taiwan yesterday. In this sense the CCP are moderates.

I also can't believe that so many people accuse China of propping up an external enemy without taking a good hard look at their own country's behavior. It's this sort of lack of introspection that could eventually trigger WW3.
> You think it’s pure hubris to predict that the quality of life in New York will exceed Lagos 5-10 years out? Really?

I stated:

> First, the idea that anyone living today can accurately predict what life is going to be like for anyone anywhere in 2200 is pure hubris. Heck, it's pure hubris to believe that we can do this even 5-10 years out at this point.

Emphasis added for clarity.

> Of course no one can predict 200 years out perfectly. But you don’t need perfect prediction to say the first world will be better off than the developing worked.

Have you ever considered that today's concept of the "developing world" might not be applicable in 200 years? That the world of 2200 would likely be indistinguishable to a person living today? That the probability we're not even around in 200 years is non-zero?

> Of course, Nigeria could likely be a world power that far out and may be “first world” by then.

It's worth noting that the first world has major demographic challenges and Africa is one of the few places you'll find countries that aren't dying.

Nigeria is demographically better positioned than virtually every first world country. Its population is predicted to double by 2050 and 70% of its population is under 30.

That's not to say that you would be comfortable living in Lagos, but Africa has a lot going for it in this lifetime.
I just found out yesterday (thanks, tcrf.net!) that one of the developers on Banjo-Kazooie put some new info on Stop'n'Swop up on twitter this year. Eternal mystery resolved.

tl;dr: turn n64 off, RAM retains data for 10s, load different game, transferring data between cartridges with no memory card and no internal disk! And it worked!

https://tcrf.net/Banjo-Kazooie#Stop_.27n.27_Swop

https://twitter.com/Paul_Mach1/status/1352744510225326081?s=...

What a hack. I love it.
I would still rather live in the US, as an American, but I don't think this is how to think about the original statement. It's all relative, right? In absolute terms you can say they're overworked and overcrowded, but they can still be happier than us because they reference their past experience and they see the progress the country has made. We see a lot of dissatisfaction in the US today, despite having higher QoL than China, because things have not improved for large swathes of the population. I'd honestly be surprised if the average Chinese citizen were less happy than the average American.

I also appreciate the Chinese faith in their government and their sense of national purpose. People talk ad nauseam about our political polarity, but another issue is that it's basically American culture to question government competence now. I don't think people fully realize how damaging that is for society. Pollution and inequality are problems, but the sense of most Chinese is that the government is working to fix them. What do you think they see if they look at us? Probably theatrics and gridlock, that's what Americans feel after all
Exposure to authoritarian values leads to higher meaning in life
Lower car costs?
It’s going to be a hololens 2 with tape over the name, isn’t it?

Their developer tools were an unholy mix of libraries.
The problem is that it is very easy to have a decent life here in Australia. We have never had to feel the full force of the repercussions of our voting or policies and as such there is an apathy towards the direction of government policies, at least within my age group - "I don't care they can have my meme's" or some variation of "I have nothing to hide" is the most common attitude.

Unfortunately, by the time the effects are felt by the vast majority of the population it will be too late - indeed with the recent Identify and Disrupt legislation, it would be completely legal for the government to take over the accounts of the leaders for any meaningful protests or awareness groups and use that trust to break the groups from the inside, or at the least crush momentum as it appears.

If anyone has any useful advice or tips to raise awareness please let me know.
If you thought "Terror" was an amorphous, undefeatable enemy on which to wage war, wait until you get a load of the War on the Virus.
> police are justified in shooting people who leave their homes with rubber bullets

This is not true at all. As an Australian who has been following protests closely and the police response, they are clearly only shooting rubber bullets at those who are:

- Throwing glass bottles at police

- Attacking "fake news" journalists

- Damaging buildings and monuments.

Black Lives Matter protests peacefully marched through the city last year and no rubber bullets were used.

> why it's normal to be required to take surveillance photos of themselves in their own residences

Unless you're in quarantine, this is not a requirement. Are you suggesting that we should not have a quarantine program? Or continue to use hotels, which are ill-equip for quarantining, and lead to the initial outbreaks here in Australia?

> I guess strict authoritarianism must be accompanied with equally strict media propaganda.

Media diversity has never been worse. I agree that things need to change.
That however, has nothing to do with CHO directives.
Lego trees and Lego people. You call them all Lego.
In reality, it will probably just end up with more people staying on Windows 10.
Or less extreme things. Do the soldiers notice when their GPS shows them as half a mile away from where they need to be. In a slowly changing offset.
And many of the new languages are designed around removing footguns for the spaghetti chefs I feel.

Of course everyone thinks they’re a superstar, but they’re probably not. I know I ain’t.
Bad idea. Relying on any single technology creates a nasty single point of failure. GPS signals are weak signals from satellites & obviously can be jammed.
Exactly. Two people from my company left to Google recently. Both are very average. We didn't even bother with a counter offer.
Has it not caught on because it might not align with people’s experiences?

I know for me, reading is only the first step in learning. Doing is far more educational, and often when things go wrong, I go back and read it again. So I wouldn’t argue that reading isn’t worthwhile, but at least in my experience reading is only 50% of my learning process, I might I’m even go lower than that, 20-40% range.

As an example, I read the Rust Book beginning to end, but it wasn’t until I started writing code with it that I truly understood some of the concepts, like move-by-default. When I read about move-by-default, I understood what it was saying, but I only grokked it after writing code and experiencing it—and at the same time realizing that it was the first time I’d actually worked with a language that had that as a fundamental piece of it.

I have a lot more examples like that, just happens to be a memorable one.
At least in Australia and for myself personally, I am not worried about how we are being treated _now_, I am worried about the powers that have the capacity to be abused in the future without a legal standing for opposition.
Citing the fact that the 3 body problem doesn't always have an exact solution is a straw man argument.
> The growing surveillance powers in Australia have been in the spotlight recently following the passage of the Identify and Disrupt bill last month. This handed “extraordinary” new powers to the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, allowing them to access three new warrants to access the computers and networks of those suspected of conducting criminal activity, “disrupt” their data and take over their accounts covertly.

By the time complacency ends, it will be too late.
For what it's worth, the Amazon interview experience is modelled that way for fairness. We are pretty much told that we can't deviate too much from the script because by doing so we might advantage a candidate over another. There are exception with more senior employees that tend to disregard that advice but overall it's pretty well followed.

Sorry about your bad experience though.
Be careful - they’ve redefined ‘warrant’. For some of the hacking, they no longer need a warrant from a judge, but can get a “warrant” from the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (a body which concerns have been raised about it having been fairly heavily stacked with failed Liberal party candidates, Liberal party ex-staffers, etc. with no legal training or experience).

There is even some provision for being able to declare it’s an emergency and just getting an internal “emergency authorisation”. So a lot of it has become (by law) actually warrantless.
Well, as part of my MBA classes I read a metric ton of WFH articles and some interviews with CEOs. And all of them get the same advice from their HR, finance and compliance and likely get very similar responses from their respective heads. Since that is the case, it is less of a surprise that the decisions they optimize for is so prevalent.

As an anecdote, as part my class last semester I did an interview with 2nd in command at our company. It was exactly this. Covid is a temporary distortion of the market.

edit: removed between the lines part; its my interpretation so it might be an unfair read
I don't understand what happened with MS support at all.
This is interesting work and I hope to see more. I'm not qualified to comment on the mathematical analysis but the setup seems legitimate and repeatable.

The discussion of the results leaves much to be desired. The nature of the task is highly synchronized, so it's not surprising to see "brain wave" synchronization that correlates with higher performance. The task also involves auditory signals and timing, which may influence the identified brain regions and activity.

I would like to see this independently verified, and validated across tasks that are primarily visual or proprioceptive. It would also be especially instructive to contrast this to the sense of flow state achieved in high-level competitive play, such as technical fighting games.

The inclusion of line numbers in the paper and the separation of relevant text from graphics is an effective way to disrupt flow of reading the paper. It's a shame I wasn't hooked up to an EEG.
Because Microsoft is too big to fail. When implementing MFA for BigCorps, their internal infra teams often only know MS products and refuse to accept that there could be a better alternative (even when 100% compatible with their stack). It's the ultimate vendor lock-in.
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I often ask for cover letters. Sure, the extra few minutes it takes to write one hopefully filters out a few people who can't be bothered, and it's also a way to test people's English. But actually the main reason is I genuinely want to get a quick notion of who this person is and why they are applying for this job. No hidden agenda. Depending on the situation, I'd be perfectly fine with "I desperately need a job and so am applying to all [job title] positions I can find. I know nothing about your company, but had a quick look at the website and it looks like it could be interesting." So it's a shame that the majority are so formulaic and insincere as to be useless.
It's a forgone conclusion that no country in the world will let you in without proof of COVID vaccination.

This has been the status quo for dozens and dozens of countries around the world with regards to for example Yellow Fever Vaccination, so it's nothing new at all. Many people just didn't know about it because they never tried to go to those countries before (West Africa is my personal experience)
There have been emergency health measures in place in a couple of states but most states have very few restrictions. Australians pay much less for health care than most places and our health system is run very lean so we have to be cautious until we reach vaccination targets.

If they let it rip there would be even more people protesting that they couldn't get into hospital.

Everything is open where I live. Plenty of people out and about last weekend. Festivals, bbqs in parks, people at beaches and restaurants. My kids have lost more days of school to teacher training than covid restrictions in the last two years.

There have been a few incidents in other states but they don't define the whole country.
This - I remember in 2006 was when all new mobile phones now had cameras. They certainly weren't the personal computing devices they are now.
No. That is a "with COVID" number, not a "from COVID" number. You really can't escape the truth that the public policy response to COVID was a mistake –– a very grave mistake. Nothing should have been shut down, and the contrarians who said so at the time were vilified then and continue to be vilified. But they were right.
What?

You said it's either build this or build thousands and thousands of homes sprawled across many miles.

Where's the land for those thousands of homes coming from?
The U.S. is going the way of Standard Oil and Carnegie again, with wealth consolidation to the few massive corporations.
I'm becoming more and more despondent by the day here.

I'll preface this with, I chose to be vaccinated - I believe the science, however...

I watch people allow the Government and Corporations infringe on peoples body autonomy through mandatory vaccination. If you don't received a vaccine by a certain date - you'll lose your right to work in essential industries (it's a lot broader than just aged care or health care).

If you protest(ed) this, you're labelled selfish, an anti-vaxxer or conspiracy theorist.
You're pepper sprayed or shot with rubber bullets - All enabled through health mandates - designed to protect your health (last I checked pepper spray will cause coughing and potential aerosol transmission).

We officially have the most locked down state in the world yet we have a higher vaccination rate than North America.

While our fully vaxxed rates lag behind the EU, our first dose coverage is marginally greater with an assumption that the fully vaxxed rate will catch up and potentially surpass.

We have minimal deaths, but at a great cost to our freedom.
When we do get our 'freedom' it'll be with surveillance and vaccine passports. Those who have decided not to be coerced into having a vaccine will not be allowed to participate in the economy and society at large.

I fear this has set a precedent in this Country and we will see this occur again and again.
I think it's a byproduct of a deep cultural thing. In East Asian countries, there's a strong culture of respecting your elders. In China, it seems this sometimes manifests in a peculiar way where people getting older start to act as if they're entitled to unconditional respect and they abuse the heck out of it (abusing the heck of unspoken gray areas also appears to be another chinese cultural peculiarity). "I had to put up with my elders, now it's your turn to put up with me" is a pretty accurate summary of how some people seem to think/act.

My mother-in-law is quite a reasonable and well respected person (she was a teacher and gets gifts from ex-students to this day, and she doesn't even live in China anymore), but the fights my wife has gotten into with her due to this "respect for elders" thing are... something else.

The whole dynamic reminds me of a tradition in Brazil where senior students in universities play pranks on new students. The general gist is that pranks can be pretty nasty (getting your head shaved and your face covered in paint is standard fare treatment and things just get worse from there), and the tradition gets passed on in a "now it's my turn to be nasty" sort of way. Predictably, things can and have gotten out of hand on several occasions and pretty much everyone knows of at least one urban legend/story of someone drowning or getting seriously injured in some other way. Unsurprisingly, some schools ban these pranks, not unlike these regulations you mentioned.

People will be people, I guess.
The casino profits frequently benefit a select few who are a part of the club, and then the club doesn't let anyone else in, keeping the profits for themselves. Even if you can show you have 100% native ancestry of your given tribe, it is not a given that you will be allowed to officially become part of the tribe.
But OP's video is just a video with very low frame rate (reported as 0.030 FPS from `mediainfo`). There is nothing broken about it.

Just become its file size is small, does not mean it can't be 15 hours long (one of the author is takeaway is "[t]he size of a video file is not an proper indicator for how long it is": but even without this hack, you can't do that either, since video can have whatever bitrates.)
This is largely a reprint of a report from nfib: https://www.nfib.com/content/press-release/economy/small-bus...

Which is a summary of their jobs report: https://www.nfib.com/foundations/research-center/monthly-rep...

The most damning is the graphs at the bottom of the report. This is clearly not just covid, and follows a trend line in NFIB's data since at least 2010.

Their PDF of their full report is extremely wanting, but contains the larger graphs: https://assets.nfib.com/nfibcom/2021-Sep-Jobs-Report-FINAL.p...

They don't document much about what businesses are part of nfib, or much of the methodology of how they got this data.
I live in Melbourne, the most locked down city in the world.

We have substantially lower death rates than Florida, which has a comparable population.

Florida:
3,600,000 covid cases
56,667 deaths

Melbourne:
54,470 covid cases
913 deaths

This remains true for the rest of Australia.
Unfortunately, we are in a remarkable position compared to many parts of the world.
I think the biggest issue with white noise is that bikes don't have cabin isolation. If you're trying to make white noise that people can hear through traffic ~5m away from you, it's going to be really loud to the rider! Music has that problem too, but it's easier to bear or even enjoy, and you can tune it out more easily than white noise.

I certainly agree that ebikes can sneak up on you. Personally though, I would give up riding a bike if I had to use a fairly loud white noise generator.

Nature sounds would be good for humans, but they might be disruptive to the fauna. Perhaps there's something that can be done about that though.
Can you give an example? “Sane people” who used to believe what and now believe what? Who or what is their enemy in this covid scenario?

In which way are they hateful?
Discord support is notoriously bad - not responding to issues in a timely manner, and being obtuse with the information they give.
personally i am not grumpy about my life and/or sleep problems because i do not have neighbors that are loud and wake me up in the morning with loud music
China's Wu Dao 2.0 has 1.75 trillion parameters. https://towardsdatascience.com/gpt-3-scared-you-meet-wu-dao-...