skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone please tell me why I was hypnotised by this? Do you think this ethical to do to another human being looking for a productive afternoon!???!?!?!

/s
I am not sure there are good solutions besides going off browser.

P.S. I was involved in user authorization, attestation and privacy flows for a particular product recently and the browser was always where shit hit the fan. The web features are just not made with simplicity and privacy in mind. Then again we had more complex constraints.
Appreciate this information and perspective :)
> WASM implemented return values in a way that was different from register hardware, and it makes efficient codegen of Common Lisp more challenging. This was brought to the attention of the committee while WASM was still in flux, and they (perhaps rightfully) decided CL was insufficiently important to change things.

Can you refresh my memory here? What exactly is different about Wasm return values than any other function-oriented language?
They don’t need to for CUDA. I didn’t say they didn’t. I’d love more open ARM devices like Jetson.
> Where do you get the idea that the vaccines only work on people who have co-morbidities?

How do you draw that conclusion? I never said that. Vaccines work across the board. But to illustrate an extreme, they do practically nothing to kids. For 80+ year olds they're miracle drugs.
Arm: 30cm. I think my arm is bigger than that. And fire: 40cm. This seems somewhat arbitrary lol
Yeah, but my point was that q95 is not even an OLED screen. FALD=high together with filmmaker mode do the job just fine.
huh. that's basically the opposite of what I'd think of it as - on the American side of things, I read that as "shake them and see what falls out", i.e. see what they're hiding.

I'm also not sure how to search for that kind of phrase though. "a good shake" / "give them a good shake" doesn't seem to find anything relevant in my google. Anyone know of effective ways to search for culturally-idiomatic phrases?
But not that much of a problem. x86 is way, way worse about variable length opcodes than RISC-V and there are plenty of fast x86 processors...
I‘m sorry but this is exactly how you should NOT do it unless you’ve lost your mind in type limbo. It‘s ideological overarching for totalitarian TS. After that, the code looks cluttered and the amount of typing syntax compared to the benefits is ridiculous, even with inference. Don‘t waste your time typing the shit out of your js, use ts selectively, use it for the signatures of your own pure functions and move on.
Should put an eggplant at the end :)
This is a sect and abuse of a language in which words supposed to be associated with particular non-imaginary aspects of reality.

Logic "works" not because its rules are absolute, but because Universe has its structure and laws. Ignoring validity and non-contradiction of premises renders any conclusions meaningless (merely abstract Hegelian bullshit).

Causes (and premises) are not arbitrary so the assumption that everything can be deduced (proved) from anything is bullshit.

Applied math require a type discipline and abstract math is just a set of rules, like abstract logic. And this is my contribution to science.
Remove copy right. Everyone must be allowed to copy. If you’re selling devices, you must provide schematics and software sources to users.
You're saying that a handful of your anecdotes are a perpetual fake talking point? I have seen the exact opposite. People are generally misinformed. In case you need a counterpoint to your anecdotes, read the upthread:

> I agree that everybody should get vaccinated. Let's make this virus extinct.
> Hardware costs are too high

I want to say - you don’t know what are talking about. But, it’ll be rude.

Hardware is much cheaper and powerful now compared to 2005.
>is pretty extreme at home if you don't have a proper "home theater" setup

I have a proper home theater setup and it seems worse.

With subs the walls shake. Try watching a movie at night with someone asleep in the next room.

It's so irritating, I wish they'd be sensible. It doesn't seem like anyone enjoys it, I can't work out why the directors don't want a movie to be an enjoyable experience for the viewer.

Every comment that I've seen echoes the same sentiment. Nobody is springing to the defense of these ridiculous dynamics.
Dude, where have you been. The viral load is the same in the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. The virus is mutating in the vaccinated as well as dogs, cats, deer, goats, llamas, bats, and likely most mammals. Ireland is 92% vaccinated in 12 and older population, and their cases are higher than they were when most of the country was unvaccinated. The vaccines don't appear to work as intended. Also, I'm from a generation and place where measles were no big deal. We all (including myself) had it, and got over it in 7 days. Many of our neighbourhoods had organized measles parties. Mass vaccinating for a disease that was already on its way out due to natural immunity, backfired spectacularly.
Yeah but it just sucks having no bass... :-P
> people working on Uber’s technology would prefer to build a system whose social impact they could be proud of

the author omitted the part where those people would prefer to also keep the compensation they receive currently. And it is this constraint that prevents people from "building systems with great (positive) social impact that they can be proud of".
There are differing definitions but maybe the wiggle room is in the use of "agreement" vs "acceptance".

As I see it, for humans usually consensus on a topic is:

majority agree

minority disagree...

but in lieu of anything better being accepted by the group, they accept a perceived suboptimal outcome for the sake of getting a beneficial outcome at all. IE it's not great, but it's good enough.
Yeah, what gives? Are there no mosquitoes in Europe? For my house, windows without screens would be unthinkable. But when I've been to Europe, I rarely see screens.
The only argument that is viable against vaccination is that one might already have natural immunity. I get that some will try to get infected on purpose, but those will be the minority of the minority. Maybe there is also the argument that higher vaccination rates will not help. I heard that 90% UK's population has antibodies. People say that Spain has low rates now b/c they have a high vaccination rate, but they also had a high number of cases previously, and they were probably underreported. Personally, I gladly increased the average antibodies count of the population by getting vaccinated despite already having some immunity, but people are frightened, and we can't really change their minds. Force will only make them more stubborn.
What is the evidence to suggest that? Seems like vaccinated people have had pretty mild cases so far.
Exciting stuff - but I expect all sorts of interesting corner cases for a while. Good idea to do this via a beta.
Only for the last 300 years or so. But ya know, at least the CDC has edited their website, so, poof, no such thing as natural immunity now. :-P
Seriously, natural immunity is reactive to all 4 major viral proteins, vs vaccine's one. I recently saw a study from Sweden where vaccine effectiveness goes negative after 7-8 months! :-O
let's just make sure we destroy everything they invest in
Because the market thinks Nvidia's potential for future earnings is similar to Intel, Apple, and similar tech companies (Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebeta or whatever-it-is).

While I can guess what the collective market is thinking, it's anybody's guess. If you disagree, then short Nvidia?
I was surprised by that as well.
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Only Gigablast can read it means it is not private
More often than not I have an idea which site a result might be on when I issue a query:

If I search for a news event it's a news site.

If I search an error message, I know the result is going to likely be stackoverflow, github issues or the forum of the library.

etc.

I don't think this strategy will get you all the way there, but it could be combined with other ways of curating sites to crawl.
Maybe consider donating all/some to

https://therivet.org/

They function as a nonprofit , and provider a community space for making.
From usage in this scenario, the actual term you want to search for is "fair shake". You're thinking of "shake down" or possibly "shaking the tree" which is why it seems odd.
Edge is essentially ungoogled-chromium done right at this point.

Uncompromised security chrome, minus the google shit, plus some minor Microsoft crap.
This study has a rather strange design that might be miscategorizing people who’d both been infected & vaxed (counting them only as vaxed), & among other things, misses the risk that more unvaxed people might seek medical care, or receive more aggressive treatment, for the same level of symptoms.

It’s also an outlier result, as larger analyses from Israel suggest longer & stronger protection from infection.

What we can say confidently is that both the vax & prior infection provide some future protection, ut both fade against re-infection fairly fast, while remaining helpful against severity.

Also more generally: the CDC has not, in this pandemic, proven very reliable in its reporting, recommendations, or weighing/updating of evidence, & its choice of what to report & emphasize has been highly compromised by shifting political pressures. I think their highlighting of this result, over evidence suggesting otherwise, is suspect - more a reflection of them wanting to boost the vax campaign than an honest assessment of all relevant scientific evidence.
I suppose "long" is relative.

The verge article is from 2018, the Apple v Publishers is 2013.

Apple and Microsoft have been collaborating/competing since the 70's.
> inevitably band together to overcome the stronger stick man.

and produce the court-based system we see today, with enforcement of the stick centralized to an authority that everyone agreed to (implicitly).
I've been intrigued for a while, but I feel like I should be learning the theory and not doing a SAT-style cram course. Is there a recommended resource for that? I've got three weeks of vacation time coming up and very little else better to do.
I like your general concept, but my concern with any fixed fee is that it pushes out small publishers in favor of big ones.

A small publisher who is making say $300,000 from their work after 40 years can't afford to register it, but Disney can easily afford the 50 year fee.

Also, the reason for registration right away is because otherwise you can't be sure a work is in the public domain or who to license it from for at least however long the no registration period is. If it's 10 years, then you have to wait at least 10 years to find out if someone has a claim on it.
Should have "banana for scale" checkbox
A Chinese hegemony world will be void of virtue signalling, moralizing and ideologization (esp in tech). Something that much preferable.
Apple has a perpetual ARM architecture license. Nvidia wouldn’t be able to force chips on Apple at all.
Singapore does a great job of testing and the vaccination rate is >95% for the eligible population. Despite that, they have introduced restrictions due to ICU overload.

https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19/statistics

Look at "Proportion (%) of cases ever critically ill in ICU or died, by age and vaccination status"

Looking at the high risk group of 80+ year old (43% of all ICU cases and/or deaths), the numbers are: unvaccinated (24%), partially vaccinated (16%) and fully vaccinated (3.2%).

They don't define partially vaccinated (typically 14 days after 2nd dose). So clearly the vaccine reduces the risk of ICU/death, but the "truly" unvaccinated make up only 50% of ICU cases in that age group.
Yes, I proposed to build it nearby.
How about the border when entering a country? What should you do in that case?
Well, a lot of people use links -g and Netsurf daily :p.

HN works on texts, lots of blogs are plain text, and ofc you have http://68k.news, https://lite.cnn.io and https://text.npr.org.
DTS:X has that as well, my receiver has a "dialog level" control to adjust it.

There's a Dolby equivalent as well, but as far as I know there are zero titles that make use of it except for a couple of demo discs.
That's a beautiful utopia, but sadly I don't think it would fly in today's world. Also, short copyrights serve a useful purpose of encouraging invention. It's the length of time that's the problem, not that it exists.
Yes, corporate IT is basically equivalent to 1800's era factory technology. It works, but there are massive safety issues.
> Intel could do the exact same thing to any X86 vendor today, couldn't it? And AMD to X86_64 vendors, no?

They already have killed off any effective competition, and that's a bad thing. If x86 was more diverse and was moving toward the current set of two, blocking it would also be good.

At least the important parts are falling out of patent...

> In reality if we stop this merger what we're saying is that it's a problem for any company to own IP that they license to competitors while at the same time producing and selling an in-house product that leverages the same IP.

Well it is. How much of a problem depends on how much competition the different parts of the market have.
The salty sysadmins will note that Microsoft has a track record of botched patches to things like this, with effects ranging from not-remediated to majorly breaking other OS components
No, hadn’t seen that. Thanks!
Would you be ok with not allowing unvaccinated people into certain places? e.g. a vaccine "license".
I worry that any fixed fee pushes out small publishers in favor of large ones. Disney can afford any fee you put that a lot of small publishers can't.
The Russians new ICBM don't go to space and fly a “low” altitude trajectory to avoid ABM defences. including, it seems, these pebbles.

Anyway, the Russians or the Chinese, if they reasonably feel they’re being denied access to space will trigger the Kessler syndrome. what happens if the Russians counter the 1000 mini-pebbles in space with ten massive satellites filled with TNT, ball bearings and a remote trigger?

Ultimately, thats what I would do if I got bored of the space race. Put enough TNT up there to deny space for everyone if need be.
Not sure about EM attacks, but I don't think disabling the imager of a spy satellite with a laser from the ground is feasible. If it makes it through the atmosphere it would just scatter or open up too much. Artificial stars shine by reacting with the atmosphere that kinda ends around 30km. LEO imagers fly as low as 240km but are even higher than that usually.

EM "attacks" wouldn't do much except if you are trying to spy on the EM spectrum in that are so they are more like a "defense". They won't make the satellite unusable.
And a response to the OP:

"A Conflict of Blurred Visions

A response on ivermectin to one of my heroes, Scott Alexander"

https://doyourownresearch.substack.com/p/a-conflict-of-blurr...
Why do people fall for this shit? Blows my mind.
China is culturally an ancient agrarian society focused more on defending farmland than conquering nations. This is not really comparable to the U.S. which is an ideology-based nation that inherited European imperialism traits. China is not interested in controlling or imposing beliefs in the same way it's rivals are so we shouldn't interpret their actions with the same lens.
I used to donate my idle cpu to seti@home back in the day. Wonder if the same can be done for creating an open search engine to compete with Google.

Also since the resources are crowd sourced it can make it easy to get around rate limits and anti scraping too.
Your contention is that masks don't work, and Japanese people don't wear them? I travel the loop line to and from work during rush hour each day, and yeah, while I don't canvas every single person, to my mind, I don't see anyone not masked up and wearing it correctly.

On my way today actually, remembering your goofy statements, I kept a special eye out, just for you. Carriages stuffed full of people, lines and lines on the platforms, train doors opening and waves of people pouring out to change trains, little groups of elementary schoolkids walking together to school....I didn't see a single person today (bar a couple of dudes with their masks down while they smoked outside Lawsons) not masked. You just don't see people not fully masked up. Day in, day out. Sorry if I don't keep a little tally counter on me.

"You're doing it too." What does this even mean? I drink within a closed circle of friends or family in a bar with separated tables and screens up. The staff all wear masks. Life goes on, but because of the masks and distancing measures, the transmission rates remain low.

You have an incoherent world-view and grasp of logic. Are you incapable of understanding that there is a sliding scale of masking behaviour? With Japan at one end, and the dolts screaming about mandates in street protests at the other?

Again, I say, don't listen to this guy.
Wear a mask (properly).
Get vaccinated. (Is that punctuation more to your liking?)
For typical datasets (~95% of companies have medium data on the order of gigabyte), you are 100% correct that the data modeling / formatting is the biggest challenge.

Having well modeled data that matches the business domain is a massive (2-10x) productivity boost for most business analysis.
Apple still does things that other companies won’t even consider, though. I mean look at the M1 and Rosetta 2. Nobody knew what their plans for ARM were, and out of the gate they had a processor that was not only faster than anything Intel or AMD could provide, but also a system for translating x86 applications such that they ran with comparable performance on ARM. Even Microsoft didn’t have that on the Surface Pro X!

I think it’s easy to forget because of how secretive they are, but it’s pretty clear from their output that Apple has one of the best software engineering teams in the world, if not the absolute best.
It's hard to believe they'd take money from someone that attacked so many open source projects earlier this year by leveraging "donations". They should be careful.
Social media ≠ social connection, for the most part (i.e. the proportion of time spent messaging vs. passively viewing is skewed towards the latter).

That's why it's trash - it's a pseudo-relational avoidance of both the greatest rewards of connection but also - crucially I suspect - of its most painful liabilities (i.e. no one's heart is broken if a pseudo; relationship ends).

And since humans are naturally biased more towards avoiding loss than seeking gain, social media takes over the world and online becomes the default place to hang out.

A world which in aggregate no one wants becomes a reality because of narrow preferences repeated over and over again and at scale.
> more important thing is that nobody gets something that they hate.

but what if there's only a limited set of choices, and at least one person in the group would hate one of the available choices? What then?
I wish we could run experiments on this sort of thing and compare. I want to know how an alternative "no IP law" USA would have developed. Or even one that just didn't grant patents as freely.

My totally uninformed opinion is that basically the only IP law that's worth a damn is trademarks (which should absolutely be very strongly enforced. It's crucially important that consumers know who they're buying from for the market to work properly), and maybe copyright on /entertainment/ focused creative works for the life of the author and no longer.
Bekk Advent Calendar
It's likely that there are many new designs being spun up everyday by various people, but that doesn't mean that we want to remove competition from the market.
Right, so wouldn't it be nice if they were using an L2 sub-chain (a bank) that rolled up transactions so that this transaction could have been flagged and rejected. The need for these intermediaries to help the general public not get fucked is clear. The existing tech just kinda sucks. There's a world where the root chain is objective and transparent and distributed but where for most any practical application people interface with the chain at layer 2 and subject to any sort of social restraints and regulations they want to put in place.
> but putting societal pressure on them is overbearing and eventually pointless

> ...

> and C is valuing your interests above the opportunity to help others. That’s the definition of selfishness.

This, I think, highlights the fundamental blind spot in reasoning of many who pushes the vax or other measures to 100% "uptake". What do the people think will happen once somebody submits to the pressure? Masked and vaxed and fine and dandy? Quite the opposite, I believe. The resistance in the remaining population is not at the rational level, it is very visceral, primal, fight-or-flight feeling. Even though, I think, it was largely provoked by the initial torrent of equally irrational measures, it is not something that is going to change. Submitting to pressure doesn't mean forgetting or forgiving. The solid foundation is being laid for a very broken society for a generation to come. The internal trust in society is as shaken as never before. Society with 5-10% of people broken, bitter and vengeful is not healthy. The fallout is going to be very bad, in unexpected way. Cruel and unusual.

Sure, you may say it is selfishness. It is not rational selfishness though. As I said, it is a visceral reaction which is very hard to explain, to put into words, therefore all you hear is "we don't want it". It is sort of a mental condition, and pushing through to the end won't cure that condition, only make it worse. Such condition is nothing to be proud of, but punitive correctional measures aren't known to work against diseases, mental included. Even criminals are not prosecuted if suspected to be in acute mental condition.

I would hope the nature of the resistance is properly recognised and not vilified. After all, we've complied with all the past vaccine "soft-mandates" for our children and ourselves, but always thought that generous exemption provisions were very good! Letting people make choices without pushing them into the corner is beneficial for society. I always thought the society's capacity for compassion was bigger than my own. Unfortunately, it is not what transpired.

At this moment I'd be ok with increased insurance premiums, testing regime for travel and high-risk settings, tax surcharge or even mandatory community service as alternative to vax. Something we can rationally discuss. "Bodily autonomy" - face masks included - is simply not something I can engage with rationally.

But what is the end game?
California still has restrictions. Not enough imho, but they are here. There was a brief moment (before Delta) where vaccines stopped infection instead of only slowing it down. Now with Omicron, we're almost back where we started. 53k people in a convention (must be indoors if it's in NY) is a super spreader event.