skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Libertarian ones are more likely to say that abstract private property, on the contrary, is what requires state enforcement by violence (e.g. evicting squatters) - and thus, if you get rid of that enforcement, you get rid of private property as such, leaving only personal property / right-of-use in place.

Right. That is basically how primitive societies (not meant as a value judgement) worked. You could own whatever you could physically defend, or convince your allies to help you defend.

Unfortunately that means that political considerations will decide who owns what, at which point a hierarchical group will form, and it will be well organized, and it will conquer the decentralized society of individuals and small communities. So you are left with the eternal problems of decentralized societies, which is that they are just weaker than centralized societies.

So then you say, we will have a strong hierarchy, but the sole purpose of the hierarchy is to guarantee our values, and now you are back in the authoritarian camp, and very quickly the party that runs the society will be more interested in domination than preserving whatever founding values they had before.

There is just a big gap between what is intellectually appealing, and what is stable and defendable in a hostile world.
So I guess one question I have is: what organizations still do defend freedom of speech in the old style?
I have now discovered "preantepenultimate" and my world is a happier place with a bit of faith in humanity restored. Thank you for leading the way :)
Honest question: why use words like "antepenultimate" that are not in common use and don't convey any more meaning than a more common form (like third-last)?
So Private Relay is available on both iOS and macOS stable releases now.

Have there been expert opinions about how private this is? I understand they built a Tor-light, by hopping through one Apple server, then one external server, with some sort of anonymisation between the two?
This is McCarthy's paper on Lisp for HOPL (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Programming_Languag... in 1978.

McCarthy praised Herbert Stoyan's historical work on early Lisp http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2010/07/29/185/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050617031004/http://www8.infor... above his own "History of Lisp": "Stoyan's reading of the early LISP documents gives a more accurate picture than my own memories turned out to have given." http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/

For HOPL 2 in 1993 Guy Steele and Richard P. Gabriel wrote "The Evolution of Lisp" https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf which continued the story up to about 1992-3.
> The problem is that you don't know the instruction length until you've decoded it so where is the size cache getting the size?

You are aware that x86 _CURRENTLY_ (ie: without size-cache) decodes 4-instructions per clock tick, right? That's in parallel, as currently implemented.

Intel just seems to think the size-cache is a potential solution for going faster. I've given it some thought and it seems like it could very well be worth the 4-bits (or so) per byte it'd cost.

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A parallel size-calculator would also be O(n) work and O(log(n)) depth, by using a parallel regex/finite automata on calculating the sizes for arbitrary lengths upwards.
I was just guessing at this, but it seems I might be correct: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/10/19/apps-can-use-full...

Not a big fan of the notch, but I do like consistency.
They changed.

They went from defending Nazis to calling people Nazis.

I’ve always hated Nazis but I’ve also always wanted speech to be free, and the ACLU is the one who changed their tune.
ARM is nice and all (typeing this on an M1), but for something written in Assembler, that would almost be a rewrite.
Facebook Removed the News Feed Algorithm in a 2018 Experiment
Epistemic Minor Leagues
The USSR massively outproduced all of the Reich, let alone Germany, much less East Germany.

What they did get from East Germany was a lot of R&D, and ok terms of productivity per capita yes there was some "looting".
Yep: https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9309162/norway-s-nursery-...
Everyone polled said they didn't like dying from a preventable disease.
Relevant reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

>A Veblen good is a type of luxury good for which the demand for a good increases as the price increases, in apparent (but not actual) contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve. The higher prices of Veblen goods may make them desirable as a status symbol in the practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure. A product may be a Veblen good because it is a positional good, something few others can own.
What is the EFF doing that's fashionable and wrong? Is this just wild speculations as to what's going on?
I had a somewhat similar experience with a large tech company. Grew from <100 to 600 in a few years, but in the meantime they weren't even able to update the homepage. Not even the content changed, in almost three years. Everything was convoluted and over-engineered. The whole thing was rewritten from scratch twice, and when I left there were plans for a third rewrite from scratch. COVID destroyed the company: there were zero customers. But the website still struggled to stay online. That's when I decided to leave.
Given the vendors mentioned above, you may find this article useful about in-memory data warehouses/query engines and their underlying technology. Good luck!

https://underthejargon.com/the-fastest-sql-databases-on-the-...
> This complicated decoding makes a pipeline longer. This means that in case of branch misprediction there would be a large penalty.

PDEP / PEXT are single-clock tick instructions and are far more complex than what I'm proposing here. As is AESRound.

I think you're underestimating the number of gates you can put in parallel and execute in a single stage of the pipeline. 64-bit PDEP / PEXT are more complicated than say... a 64-byte parallel adder in terms of depth. (PDEP / PEXT need both a butterfly circuit forward + inverse butterfly back + a decoder in parallel. 64-byte prefix sum is just one butterfly forward).
The newly updated DOJ complaint alleges collusion w/ google to deanonymize users to work around Apple's privacy changes...
I didn't have to buy anything extra, the iPod came with a 4-connector to 6-connector adapter.
I like to think mathematics is really all about this *theroetical* pursuit.

Assume nothing, explain everything. Thus I claim that mathematical constants are a failure of the mathematicians. This level of constantless mathematics would have its users recalculating pi every single time.
Any organization willing to put "Civil Liberties" in their name should be foremost concerned with the individual liberties of Americans. So it worries me that their position on the Second Amendment is:

> Given the reference to "a well regulated Militia" and "the security of a free State," the ACLU has long taken the position that the Second Amendment protects a collective right rather than an individual right.

https://www.aclu.org/other/second-amendment

Of course, they have their reasons. And they concede that there are some instances where the state goes too far with regulations and prohibitions. But I would want to see an organization which defends civil liberties to frequently err on the side of protecting the individual than the government.
(There's also "preantepenultimate" if you ever want to say fourth to last without saying fourth to last...)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/preantepenultimate
The reading I take is that Gilmore opposed censorship, and presumably was impeding actions of the EFF which might be interpreted as same, effectively exercising power through veto (see Francis Fukuyama's concept of a "vetocracy", and note that I'm not familiar enough with EFF's governance to know specifically what veto or obstruction powers exist).

The irony is that the EFF routed around Gilmore's presumed obstruction.

For the record, I'm increasingly of the view that free-speech absolutism is very badly flawed. If my reading of the situation is correct, then I'd agree with the action. That said, I'm as much in the dark as anyone whose information is the Register piece itself, so don't read too much into what I'm saying.
I thought HBM was a power sucking tech?
Can you please point to these cases?
While I understand the F-150 is the best selling vehicle in the US, it occupies a distinctly different market than Tesla's current vehicles. The Mustang Mach-E is the better comparison.

Then there's the Cybertruck. Despite being a big Tesla fan, my opinion is that it's not going to appeal to the majority of traditional truck buyers. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
Obligatory The Onion link: https://www.theonion.com/aclu-defends-nazis-right-to-burn-do...
Information distribution has always had direct effects on meatspace.

That's what makes an anti-censorship stand relevant and important. Nobody would censor if there were no physical impacts.
> Has anybody explored GR equations with multiple, say 2, timelike dimensions?

Entire topic is too big for my brain, but I think the cool kids these days consider classical theories of any sort to be uninteresting, that the universe is really an infinite dimensional quantum state, and that GR and everything else emerges from that. https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08132
Your question implies that there was no successful software development before the Agile Manifesto was written, and that all successful software development since it was written has been exclusively done as "agile" development.
I couldn't agree more! I'm working at https://readup.com/, we're making a general-purpose reading app where reads-to-completion are the basis for monetization as opposed to clicks or views. Together with reader ratings it really helps to reduce (even eliminate) clickbait.

I think our missions are quite aligned! We're mostly trying to incentivize & monetize the deep reading of medium- & long-form stories on the web. If that's something Forth is also going into (next to streams of shorter updates?), we may be able to collaborate!
Language, like programming skill or physical muscles, develops under use. Failure to extend beyond quotidian usage and trepidation over sesquipedalian terms will result in atrophy.

Someone probably learned a new word today here. Or was reminded of an unfamiliar one.

And yes, there's virtue as well in clarity. Sometimes that comes from precision.
Ask HN: Performing Interviews for Intern Positions
I got tagged to perform a few interviews of candidates for intern / co-op positions in an embedded FW group.

So far I've only ever performed interviews for senior positions. I'm concerned my normal questions and conversations won't be appropriate for the candidates and jobs.

The candidates are all still working toward a BS degree in a couple of different computer related degrees. Some have one or two internship experiences, but some are looking for the first time.

Can anyone share any experience and advice for interviewing candidates at this level?
Co-workers/Managers, but usually a cook as far as co-workers rather than server-to-server. The reigning manager had multiple warnings about his unsolicited behavior and after I'd walked out on the job for a second time after being so fed up I found he'd finally been fired for his behavior but still failed forward onto a another management job at a 5-star hotel.
Dictionaries exist.

Anyone is welcome to look up words they don’t understand.
Today? Probably not.

Intel's Alder Lake is moving to a Performance + Efficiency core setup, which should help overall with battery life. But they are still behind on manufacturing process (Alder Lake is "Intel 7", supposedly roughly comparable to TSMC N7), so Apple will quite likely maintain their lead in power consumption.

Alder Lake is getting announced in 2 days, but rumors have it as a desktop-first product launch, so laptops may be another quarter or two out.
How is that missing the point? Transparency isn't just for governments and if you advocate for transparency in others you should adopt it yourself.
IMHO the skill to construct real structures in orbit would necessarily come after forming a commercial/industrial space station (unlike ISS), not before it. You would need significant amount of equipment and people in orbit for the long term to work on that construction, so you need a sizeable station even if it's just "temporary construction crew quarters+warehouse".
There were a LOT of hiring freezes and substantial layoffs in the first half of 2020.
First of all: THANK YOU for caring about this. .NET was dying during the first 3/4 of the 2010s and was just about gaining momentum to get out of its sorry state. A sorry state Visual Studio IS A PART OF THE REASON FOR.

> Keeping Hot Reload as a "value add" for Visual Studio keeps those locked into the paid product and less reason to jump to VS Code

No.

It gives less of a reason to adopt .NET.

If you don't want .NET to die (I like it, but honestly am not sure if it's really worth fighting for anymore considering it includes rewarding this god damn company), this is a hugely important moment. Microsoft needs to (re-?!?!)learn that they can't push their shitty products down peoples' throats if they want to keep their oh-so-nice ecosystem.

If things went more my way Visual Studio would immediately be killed off, Microsoft's veto power removed, .NET GPL licensed and MAUI extended to support Linux. Might be a pretty attractive platform, then.
Even at 200 dpi this would be 15 meters wide and 2.25 meters tall.

Imagine that in a museum, just a massive wall with 100 billion stars. It would be ridiculously cool.
The President is basically the head of law enforcement in the federal government. Police organizations in the USA have a long history of pushing the limits of what is Constitutional. After all, they just want to get their job done and leave it up to the judiciary to decide what is Constitutional.
And maybe they should have thought about this inevitability when they did this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/eff-apples-shareholder...
Clearly it's meant to be a political campaign, not an informative post. That's exactly what I expect the EFF to do, and their technical content (which is separate) is also great.
Additional items:

Many new grads have exaggerated expectations and refuse to consider or accept "lower" than working in big tech.

Related to this, there are also the new grads that have some extremely niche role that they want to fill. I recall from a bit ago a new grad on reddit that wanted to do machine learning to save the whales while traveling on a research ship. Coming to the realization that most jobs aren't in the "safe the world" category was something of a shock / disillusionment for them.

At least traditionally, many new grads have refused to consider other geographic areas. The "I want to do software development, but I am not willing to move out of {local area}." Some of this may be changing with remote jobs being more feasible - though there may still be restrictions on "you must reside within {some state} to qualify for WFH". This may be changing a bit, for some companies... but I still suspect that some companies are still going to require a "you may need to come into the office occasionally with a 24h notice."

To point 3, even with the "they are a net drain and they job hop soon" there's also the "we need to add more capacity in the mid and senior levels before we add additional juniors to these teams." There are a lot of places where it's "here's a new junior, there's the code - go for it" because the mid and senior devs don't have the capacity to mentor them.

I also suspect there is a common thought process of new grads that the quantity of applications is more important than the quality of the application -- sending out hundreds of applications even if there significant mismatches between the resume and the job posting that could be trivially corrected.
Does this really matter? Companies with 100, 500, 1000, 5000, etc employees often stand exactly in the same position and use the same kinds of tools.
As far as I can tell, there is no contractual sales commitment. Just a press release.
You don't even need to wait 10 days, let one years.

He who controls the media, controls the narrative.

Also

"Give me six lines written by the most honest man, and I will find something in them which will hang him."

And so on. I'd bet some animals do this kind of shit to each to each other. We humans are not the only assholes.
Nice, didn't know that detail, always something new, thx.
But you compare power-efficiency by how efficient each transistor is.

TSMC N5p is 10% more efficient and 5% higher clocks than TSMC N5. The same 5nm __BY THE SAME COMPANY__ can change 15.5% in just a year, as manufacturing issues are figured out.

Making every transistor 10% less power and 5% more GHz across the entire chip, while keeping the same size, is a huge bonus that cannot be ignored. I don't know what magic these chip engineers are doing, but they're surely spending some supercomputer on brute forcing all sorts of shapes/sizes of transistors to find the best density/power/speed tradeoffs per transistor.

This is part of the reason why Intel stuck with 14nm for so long. 14nm+++++++ kept increasing clock speeds, yields, and power efficiency (but not density), so it never really was "worth it" for Intel to switch to 10nm (which Intel had some customer silicon tapped out for years, but only at low clock speeds IIRC).

It isn't until recently that Intel seems to have figured out the clock speed issue and has begun offering mainstream chips at 10nm.
More improper use of a "gotcha".

Perhaps those who consider themselves to be part of the educated class find sloganeering distasteful and thus contrary to the goals of the movement? After all, it's likely those part of the educated class that are going to do the real groundwork on these important matters of policy.

Perhaps if it was a good slogan, it wouldn't need discussion.

All of these are possibilities.

How essential are slogans, in your view?
Are you confusing the EFF and FSF?
So they advocate transparency, yet there aren’t any board minutes or even a look into what happened. Weird.
Slogans are fine as long as the details are available somewhere for those that want to dig in.
M1 Pro/Max destroys the competition by every definition.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...

So taste maybe subjective. But there is simply no argument that if you care about performance or battery life then the MacBook Pro is objectively better.
AKA Don't sweat the small stuff.
This was the kind of high-end catering where you had weddings with a $50,000/night harpist playing blissfully on the staircase, we servers were 100% looking forward to getting at the leftovers afterward/during work since it all had to be thrown out in the garbage by law.
Is there a text source available? I'm not interested in getting this kind of information from a video, even if it weren't a polarizing source.
I disagree, it is relevant, just not directly related. It's relevant through an idelogical lens.
Noticed this as well. Speaks volumes of the levels of wealth creation we are seeing in the present.

Just 10 years ago, the largest company by market cap was just shy of 400B; the richest man ~70B. Now, top 10 are all routinely above both according to wikipedia. Unicorns will probably give way to Trilobites at this rate ;). Definitely real, but no less elusive in the present day.

In the same vein that being a millionaire is no longer as rare as it used to be, I can envision being a billionaire may go the same way in my lifetime. Inflationary pressures or otherwise, it points in part to the futility of directly comparing wealth across time periods, as future generations are able to tap into more leverage from whatever emerging technologies arise.
Because people are encouraged to look up and learn a new word!
That seems to be the case now; perhaps if large scale operations of reusable vehicles make shipping costs decrease significantly then the economics of that would change.
Firing John Gilmore is highly objectionable on its own.
Yes, so if Apple were divided into separate hardware and software companies, then a third company X could order both these companies to come up with hardware and software solutions, and reach the same result. In this case, what you call management would be performed by the third company.

This is imho a better way of building things than having everything completely integrated in a single company. A fourth company could do the same thing as X and build an alternative iPod. And so could a fifth, etc.
And the notch was only just introduced. Not sure what your point is here.
Wow, that looks like an amazing collection. I wonder if there is any initiative afoot to digitize (some|any|all) of the material and place it online?
I don't think giving some people special privileges that allows them to post revenge porn which ruins people's lives is the best they can do. I don't think allowing ads that they know are contributing to sex slavery is the best they can do. I definitely don't think allowing governments to organize genocide on their platform is the best they can do.

Their constraints are not impossible. They've just got to realize that their algorithm to detect rule breaking doesn't work and they need to hire minimum 100,000 moderators.
Another Trump presidency will be the end of democracy in the USA. He will install cronies at the top of the military leadership and do exactly what Erdoğan did in Turkey. It's as sure a thing as the sun rising. He will not depend on a bunch of untrained rabble to take over the Capitol next time.
Yep, and in just one quarter that'll be a PE of ~300. PE ratios change really fast when growth is fast.
Personally, I like fun words like that, much more than pretentious words like "access" and "empower." YMMV.
This 100%. I worked at a company and we hired on a self described "AI expert" (I think he was a friend of the founder). He didn't last long because when push came to shove and there wasn't any hard AI work to be done, the guy didn't know how to write HTML, and couldn't seem bothered to learn. And the product was a web app.

You know what else is a hard problem? Delivering a quality product on time and in good working order. Not everything has to be at a million user scale for it to be considered a difficult task.
Unless I want to engage in charity, why would I use this over Spotify or Apple music?
Why pay AWS $0.09 a GB tax to listen to Spotify?
I started investing in AAPL around 2005. I remember prevailing repeated opinion back then was that the stock price would soon tank to oblivion because of some kind of Traditional Accounting Principles technobabble. Nowadays everyone is singing praises about how AAPL is one of the best stocks to own ever.

I see the same thing happening with TSLA nowadays. Not saying AAPL back then and TSLA today are directly comparable, but a lot of the naysaying about TSLA today is again, often about some kind of Traditional Accounting Principles thingamajig.
Original model was a Brit design by Lotus even, I believe.
Given the choices between app->k8s->vm->metal, app->vm->metal, app->k8s->metal, or app->metal, a lot of businesses really should be choosing the ones without k8s in the chain. Sometimes a single VM, with a hot spare ready for manual failover, is plenty.