skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The face up and face down cards would really be numbers, and the “machine” means applying some algorithm to the numbers to combine and then check them. Bob could do that by himself.

The key idea is that these numbers somehow don’t reveal which digit goes where.
You can offer .rdp files for download and they will automatically open in the app. The app will tell you not to open untrusted files but the warning is not too scary.
I wanted to add my site to Gigablast, but it said it would cost 25 cents. How is this a good thing?
Google doesn't allow prepaid cards last I checked. I tried to use a card from privacy.com and the Google form explicitly stated that you can't use prepaid cards.
>The text you quoted is explaining why the negative correlation is observed

Yes, and it is clearly describing the possibility it shows up, which is inconsistent with it always being the case. I'm trying to condense my point as much as I can.

>The only evidence necessary to show it applies is that there's an economic trade-off

This looks to me like essentially the same statement as I was referring to - "you don't need data". There is an economic tradeoff, and that's all we need to know.

I am not telling you it's a fallacy to reject the possibility of contrary evidence. I'm saying that I doubt the principle is actually that powerful because of the qualified language I've mentioned already.

>That isn't remotely what happened

From my point of view, you just made the same claim again, so let's avoid the meta-argument and not start rehashing who said what. It only makes misunderstandings worse.
"Your phone can run mapreduce jobs 10x-100x faster than your timeshared cloud instance that costs more. Plus it has a GPU."

Plus you can carry the phone anywhere, e.g., somewhere no internet access, but you need internet access to reach a timeshared cloud instance.

Have been experimenting with running servers on "phones" personally and think we need computers in this form factor that are not "phones".

"One SSD in a Macbook is ~1000x faster than the default disk in an EC2 instance."

Same. Can carry Macbook anywhere.

"Computers are so hard to run now, that we are supposed to give up and pay a subscription to someone - well, actually to every software microvendor - to do it for us."

All under the guise of "making things easier". Anything is easier if you do not have to do it yourself. This does not mean the thing itself is becoming easier to do. IMO, microvendors are, intentionally or not, effectively building "complexity moats". When DIY becomes exceedingly more difficult, then we know that no one is "making things easier". They might be deliberately doing the opposite. If the thing isn't any easier for the microvendor, then we are just transferring the burden to someone else, not making the thing easier.

"We even pay 30% margins to App Stores mainly so they can not let us download apps that are "too dangerous.""

There is usuallly an HN comment along the lines of "I am thankful that Apple screens apps for me" as if it is some kind of service. However the "service" is not solving problem of "dangerous apps". Someone still has to look at the program and ask, "What is this app doing". Of course, many users do not need to be paying for this "service" because they can select "safe apps" just as well as Apple can. But it isn't optional. Pay up.

"IT security has become literally impossible: if you install all the patches, you get SolarWinds-style supply chain malware delivered to you automatically. If you don't install the patches, well, that's worse. Either way, enjoy your ransomware."

Maybe this is, to some small extent, the result of trying to delegate 100% of our responsibilities when using a computer. "Let someone else take care of it."

Not to say I enjoy having to know how to do everything in order to compile and install an OS, a server, and configure it, but I know if I don't then there are consequences.

No problem with running software on a computer in "the cloud" so long as I own the computer. There are consquences if I don't.

Make the choices the marketers want us to make, enjoy the "convenience" (and the expense), but accept the consequences. Take personal responsibility.

When no one knows how to do anything for themselves, then the problem of "gatekeeping" can only become worse.
With SoftBank Group as a holding company, ARM pretty much runs the same as before.

Should Nvidia own ARM, the avenues for exploitation aren't just obvious, but anticipated.
I don't know. It seems easier and more fruitful to build some cred (not even that much) on stackoverflow, then sit down and watch job offers pop up in your inbox without any further effort on your side.

If you follow this path the positive side effect is that you will probably have helped at least a few hundreds of people with your questions/answers. You are actually doing something concrete, making yourself professionally more appealing for the rest of the world at the same time.

On the other hand it won't probably land you a FAANG job (who knows?), but it feels to me like a lot of time wasted on LinkedIn without any positive return for yourself, the tech community or even the world. Just time and energy spent trying to get the attention of some recruiter. Let them come to you instead.
Wow, do you happen to have published your utility so that other people can play with it?
If you truly have a position that is averaging 100 applicants, you are hiring on the margins.

You either have a position that is so elite and aspirational that it is paid accordingly and people are flocking to it - and good luck filtering out the majority of resumes that Dunning-Krugered their way into your inbox before the elite candidate moves on. Or, you have a position with requirements so low that you can easily get candidates by the bucketful and take your time to sift through to find a diamond.

Most of us aren’t hiring on the margins.
Social media is just a utility service and should be regulated as such. Just like your power company cannot cut you off, tech companies shouldn't be able to cut you off based on your political views and opinions. Clarence Thomas got it right: https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/clarence-thomas-is-ri...

I don't get the argument the author of this Tech Dirt article is supporting here. The problem is that a common carrier is engaging in censorship. But the argument seems to be that that very same censorship is justification that social media companies are not common carriers:

> User-generated content on social media platforms is screened and sometimes moderated or curated. The State balks that the screening is done by an algorithm, not a person, but whatever the method, social media platforms are not mere conduits.

Yes, the problem is that they are not behaving as conduits when they should be, not that they "are not" mere conduits. Then again, Tech Dirt is tremendously biased (look at all the mentions of "Trump" in this article) and so perhaps I shouldn't be surprised at the pandering take in this article.
Or you can get the same result from vaccines, without having to kill a few %.
Now compare how many different versions of the functions are required for the dozens of possible x86 extensions (and combinations of them) and all the prologue/epilogue code required to watch out for page boundaries and unaligned pointers and as well as the length of the inner loop to handle all the packing/unpacking and cobbeling together horizontal operations to the required masks and turn somehow use them for flow control where needed. It's enough code to put painful pressure on the instruction cache and requires wide OoO superscalar CPU cores to be worth the overhead compare the code in the RISC V vector spec with this strcmp https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/sysdeps/x86_64/m... and tell me it's a clean and straightforward implementation using the instruction set as intended and not an ugly hack around its limitations.
I have seen violations of human rights. Those are the freedoms I was referring to.

See the UN Declaration of Human Rights: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

Article 13 - right to freedom of movement (lockdowns, anyone?)

Article 20 - right to peaceful assembly (lockdowns again)

Article 24 - right to work (mandatory vaccination as a condition of employment)
> I'm extremely uncomfortable with granting a novel coronavirus a gigantic reservoir of freely available incubators to infect and try out new ways to use the human body for its own goals

Then you should be extremely uncomfortable with vaccine mandates, because this is exactly what mass vaccination is doing. Since none of the vaccines prevent people from getting COVID or passing it on to others, the vaccines are creating an evolutionary environment where there is high selection pressure for the virus to evolve variants that resist the vaccines. Mandating vaccines just makes that worse.
When I was a wee lad the soda cans were not yet engineered to retain the opener ring, and at every national park or scenic view there would be thousands of soda can rings, in addition of course to the millions of cigarette butts.
I would hope it might help you with your observation about the division of the country, and with your feeling of irony on another subject, and using both of these skills towards understanding.

So for the situation in general: if enough people are less divisive, perhaps a less divided country can occur.
Don’t want to talk about specific conferences or individuals but I agree that some conferences (really, a handful) have far less of this problem than others.
Does this vaccination entry requirement exist for residents?
The last line is just your opinion, and clearly Rittenhouse disagreed. If it's not illegal for me to be somewhere, then I have the right to be there, and I can choose to exercise that right.
Both should be regulated. Constant back and forth “x is worse” is why there’s been zero progress with plastics or CO2.
> If this merger doesn't happen China is going to win the chip race.

Wut? How is NVIDIA keeping new ARM designs from competitors like Intel, AMD and phone manufacturers helping to win the "chip race"?
- You can be against mandatory vaccinations and not be an anti-vaxxer.

- "Herd immunity" is only a secondary desired trait for the vaccine. The primary one should be that the individual that gets the vaccine will have a stronger immune system and less likely to be severely sick. I got it for my own benefit, not because I want to be nice to others.

- The vaccine was sold as a one-shot thing. I think that the vaccine is safe enough for its risks to outweighs the benefits if it was only once. If periodic boosters start getting required, the calculus changes.

- Where does it stop? Let's not forget that the whole thing with lockdowns was to flatten the curve and to avoid the health care system to collapse. These should've been seen as temporary measures so that we could improve the healthcare system so that it could respond properly. Instead, it has become a perma-threat with no end in sight.
Ok, find some significant published studies that tracked side effects (like headache or arm ache) of BNT162b2 over time (not just the typical "there was XYZ in first 7 days, and we don't care further") since the first dose. And tell me what % of people still reported the new onset symptoms still present say 3 months later. I'll wait. :)

Or are you just sharing an opinion?
So far I have gotten sicker from my vaccines than the coronavirus. I am NOT going to get boosters, fuck that. I'm not going to get revaccinated every once in a while. Sorry, humanity can deal with it. Vaccines don't work well enough, clearly.

I did everything right. I got vaccinated. I isolated. I endured lockdown. I did not go out frivolously. I wore masks when I needed to go out anyway. What could I have done differently? This whole thing, it's just not working. I want freedom back.
While I offer no opinion about whether vaccinations should be compulsory, it must be stated that if they should, it certainly isn't because of your argument about pure democracy. In a pure democracy, 90% of the population can choose to oppress the other 10%, and they have, many, many times throughout history.

If vaccinations should be made mandatory in a free society, it is solely due to the externality imposed by the unvaccinated on others (like you mentioned with ICU capacity, as well as general pathogen propagation), and avoiding that violation of the broader public's freedoms.
I think assuming that it's out of "spite" is an example of not realizing how "your side" might be causing the division.

There are a lot of people who have already had covid and now have antibodies, who were also never in, and continue not to be in, a risky demographic. The risk for these people is very, very low already.

On top of that, the vaccine is not entirely without risk. There have been many reports of side effects, specifically heart issues in young males. There have been some deaths.

The counterargument might be, "okay, that may be technically true, but the risk is very, very low." And the people who do not want the vaccine, who are not in a risky demographic, might say in reply to you: exactly, that's the same thing we're saying about the virus.
I begrudgingly feel that things being good enough is they main why. And I say begrudgingly because it means less and less are caring about excellence while more and more becomes trash.

Fuelling it is that there are people in the “I want my <$500 things to last a long time because they should last” and people in the “If there’s a QC issue or it’s not as advertised I’ll return it, and if it breaks after I use it for a while I’ll just get the then-current one which will be better anyways”, and almost no one in between.

In our current society people with funds and not time see a clear ROI for shooting for 80% success because it means not having to spend time thinking or sorting out logistics.
> This is nonsense, plastic is necessary and used all over the place mostly hidden from consumer eyes.

my fist job leaving my home country was working as a PADI diving instructor. We set up a small company in Colombo, Sri Lanka called "Adventure Sports Lanka" and hired a local fisherman in Unawatuna just outside Galle. We (dumb Brits) had no idea what we got ourselves into but because a civil war was also raging (another story) this guy who drove our boat supported his whole family with the salary that he made from acting as the "captain" of our diving boat.

He took me and my students nearly every day out on his boat and waited patiently for us to get back to the surface and into the boat. Once I took out a student to teach them in an Advanced course about project A.W.A.R.E which is basically about how not to have impact on the environment as a diver, never leave anything behind etc. The student was a German girl who was very keen. When we got back from our dive our captain decided to throw an empty water (plastic) bottle back into the sea. I was incredibly embarrassed because he was on my payroll and I was just finishing a whole day of telling her (who was 100% a supporter of the Green party and much onboard with the whole program in this cursed course) about how well we take care about the environment as PADI divers.

Getting back onto the boat I confronted the captain who just shrugged his shoulders and said: "but you know sometimes a bird comes. and they sit on the bottle. they are tired and they sit"-

I had no words for him because I realized how far his reality was from mine. In a similar way I'm out of ideas because no matter what I say I know it's not going to reach you.

peace.
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So do not think, and go and look.
Turns out that's exactly what scientists have been saying for a few months already.
Would it be less bad if the virus was bred on Dutch grounds by another animal? Otherwise I am not sure what your are implying or why you bring it up.
It’s open source, what’s keeping you from patching out that limitation?
I have been getting the sense that this is a continuation of Trumpers vs. Democrats, and their respective apologists throughout the west. Whatever the hell this is, it's getting hot and if we don't figure out a way to cut through the shit it's going to get worse.

I'm all ears for a civilized discussion, but until we can agree on some epistemic framework (or narrative) we're not going anywhere except where the current ruling class pushes us.
> the new Arm would be disincentived to innovate in any area that negatively affects Nvidia businesses

If the standard is "they don't compete against each other now, but would be disincentivized to compete against each other in the future," that could be used as a rationale to block literally every merger.
Yes… Democracy isn’t two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

That being said, if you declare any consideration of the actual policies to be off limits for supposedly being subjective, you won’t ever be able to make any decision.

Specifically, in this case, vaccinations are safe & beneficial. And even if governments are subject to elections, and their powers are subject to frustration even by minorities opposing them, reality is not. A principled argument cannot be made in the abstract, leaving the wisdom of vaccinations open. Opponents pretend that it is possible because they do not stand a chance on those merits, and seek to instead shift the debate to “freedom vs. safety” or whatever safe in the knowledge that it is impossible to argue for either of those conflicting values to ever ‘win’.
You’d have to explain, I was certainly being vitriolic, but I hope HN hasn’t lost its poor taste for theatrics and poetry - granted, as a moron, I believe everything I’ve said.

Edit: is it so much to ask to not want to write code that looks like gibberish? I don’t care what the benefits are, it looks like gibberish code. Can type safety be accomplished without gibberish code?

I think in Java it goes something like this:

Function (String s, int num)

Ok, I’m on board. You Typescript bastards are writing gibberish code and I don’t care who disagrees.
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I have literally only seen people opposed to vaccine mandates bring this up. It's a fake talking point to paint people in favor of mandates as misinformed.
> The concept of "individual rights" as you present it here is at odds with best practices learned from epidemiology.

No, it isn't, because science cannot make value judgments. Epidemiology can tell you things like: if you do A, B will happen; if you do C, D will happen; etc. That's all "best practices" based on epidemiology or any other science can amount to. But no amount of science can tell you whether doing A to make B happen, or doing C to make D happen, is worth the cost of doing those things or the other side effects they will have. Those are value judgments, and value judgments should not be forced on people.
Cool - We'll save this kind of discussion for when we're choosing ice cream flavours.
Not making decisions that affect the health of not just the nation, but the follow-on global ramifications due to mutations.

As for the "other side" - this is what democracy is about. So if the elected representatives and majority of the nation are for it, then that's the decision made.
> I'm assuming these stable coins aren't actually backed by $150bn in actual USD,

Maybe I am missing something, how is this different than banks employing fractional reserve banking?
This comes up every year so I ask a question:

If you could fix copyright, how would you do it?

Here is what I would do:

1. All works must be registered in a government registry.

If it's not in there it's not copyrighted. If you want to register a work from before the law passes, you have to prove you own it under the current system. This would solve the orphan works problem -- if no one can prove they own it, it becomes public domain. Basically, ownership should be recorded like actual property with a proper chain of title. It would be published on a public ledger.

2. You must renew your registration every three years. The fee for renewal will be X% of the revenue from the work, where X = years since first registration - 5 (edit: With a minimum fee of $100 to discourage hoarding useless IP). First renewal is at 8 years. Your registration fee would be recorded on the public ledger.

If you want to continue to derive benefit from your work you have to pay for the privilege. After 105 years it will obviously no longer be worth it, but probably long before that. This would be reported like income taxes -- you self report your profits but if the government thinks you're cheating, they can audit you. If you have multiple works in one product (think Marvel movies) then all revenue goes to the oldest work (that way you can't avoid the fee by putting new and old characters together).

If you don't renew, the work goes to the public domain.

How would you fix copyright?
I've learned that it's more common to get flu vaccines in the US, so I have to adjust that statement to Europe where I live. And even if you do get the flu vaccine, isn't that purely a nice to have? Did they really recommend you to take it?

Yeah but you didn't have mRNA, which makes you really sick.
I remember part of a book, "Souls in the Great Machine", on a post-apocalyptic fantasy Earth, where a "librarian" ran a computing device composed of hundreds of people working machinery together. She set up a duplicate computer to make sure the results always matched.
It's not binary.
> Most companies won't _really_ care if you sign and then...

Sign what? This thread has been full of "most jobs in the USA don't come with any employment contract at all", so what is that you're signing?
Promoting fair competition (not crony captalism) is how the US wins the chip race
No no, you do not understand—it's for common good! /s
not an issue anymore thanks to qled!
This assumes that you can hire the two extra engineers. In all likelihood, their business is constrained by the speed that new people can be recruited, vetted, and onboarded. This means that even with infinite budget every engineer is a precious resource and should be allocated to higher-value projects.
A bucket with 3 holes will get the floor just as wet as a bucket with 6 holes given enough time. And covid will be here for a long time.

In fact the buckets with 3 holes are now encouraged to walk around the room.
That is an exceptionally well designed purchase process. In my case, I had to go through 3-4 months of wrangling banks and other paperwork. I still don't understand my mortgage contract fully. I just hope it doesn't have any "surprises" in it.
Cesium tubes have a 5-7 year service life. They need to be synced up to the rest of the world, or they can't tell you the time. They do drift, a bit. If you're trying to keep clock in sync to the second, they'll do as long as the tube lasts, but if you're trying to keep systems in sync to the microsecond, they need to be synced up from time to time. The stability of an HP5061a Cesium Beam clock is about 10^-11

If you want to stay within a microsecond, you have to sync it up about every 3 months. This could be done with a mobile atomic clock driven to sync up secondary standards, in the absence of GPS.
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