skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without it the blog post is less interesting. Having listened to Naval on Clubhouse he's extremely confident in everything he says (/said on Clubhouse, which was largely political/covid/government/society/extremely broad categories). For people to find you interesting, unfortunately you usually need to project such confidence even if it's not technically true.
Yeah, that's a really good point. In which case perhaps the problem could be mitigated through things like mandatory artificial 'difficulty' in design/UX, and, if so, we would know to be on the lookout for that in any OTHER new technology we create down the road as well and design for it.
> because we don't know why the account was actually banned aside from artificial manipulation

We don't know why the account was actually banned aside from Twitter's evidence-free assertions.
A lot of things appear unsustainable because the income of builders is inflated with fed money. I don't think much will improve until a normal person can afford to build a house again.
It's a very painful moment in everyone's career when they realize that, no, they're not the only one that has noticed that powerpoints are usually full of fluff, and no, they're not going to get anywhere by changing that, because yes, they got that way for a reason.
https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-construct...
I have a PHP script that does idempotentcy. It was strictly easier to write than a similar code in bash the moment one needs non-trivial and robust patching of config files.

And passing force flags can lead to subtle issues as -f and friends may have wrong behavior in corner cases. So for this reason I do not use it in shell scripts and rather do explicit tests before the command, like test -f file && rm file
"Dark Silicon" is actually ubiquitous in modern chips. They can't possibly run 100% of the chip while staying within power and thermal constraints - and this gets worse, not better as process technology improves. So, even if some of that dark silicon is "software defined" it just doesn't matter all that much.
The only reason A-10 is still flying is gun fetishism of certain senators.
My original point was that it's not just about brand perception, but that was largely on based on my incorrect belief that AWS is a much larger portion of Amazon's revenue than it is in reality. I thought it was like 40-50%, but it's actually only 14.5%. Interestingly, I found this quote from the source[0]:

> AWS’ revenue makes up 14.5% of Amazon’s total revenue of $110.8 billion. And for the first time ever, revenue from AWS, advertising, third-party seller services and Prime subscriptions ($55.9 million) surpassed revenue from Amazon’s retail and product sales ($54.9 billion).

This certainly reinforces your point! It sure sounds like Amazon retail is a sort of loss leader.

[0]: https://www.fiercetelecom.com/platforms/aws-to-rescue-3q-rev...
Quote:

Natural gas flows at the westernmost point of the Yamal pipeline — a strategically important 2,000-kilometer pipeline that runs across four countries: Russia, Belarus, Poland and Germany — dropped to 20 million cubic meters per day in mid-August, according to ICIS. This was down from 49 mcm per day at the end of July, and a sharp fall from its typical rate of 81 mcm per day.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/24/russia-is-pumping-less-natur...
That seems like a political culture issue rather than something inherent to governments. If you really care about doing good in the world (isn't that the whole point of politics?) then you have a huge incentive to save on costs as any money saved can be put to good use elsewhere.
All I want is to be able to pay to remove ads without also having to pay for a YouTube music subscription.
Scanning a PokéStop
The carbon calculator produces the same result whether a site is served from a 1400w server or a 5w Raspberry Pi.
Into the trash it goes.
JSON is a powerful enemy, it takes lots of money to wage war against such a cunning opponent
Another word for it is "pork-barrel".
In early 3D hardware, the Z buffer was a bit more special cased than it is now, where you quite literally allocate a texture. In either case, the interesting (and expensive to emulate in software) part is of course using the depth buffer to perform depth testing, that is, rejecting pixels that would be hidden.
I doubt it's organized in any large-scale sense, but nevertheless it's very corrupt.
That's not right. The US had no expectation or desire for the Philippines when the war with Spain began in 1898; it ended up with the Philippines (and Puerto Rico and Guam) because Spain was so decisively defeated so quickly that it was willing to give up its entire colonial empire to end the war. The US began discussing when and how to give the Philippines independence within two decades after the 1898 annexation. The Jones Act contemplated independence as early as 1920; the date was pushed back because Filipinos thought that it was too soon. By the attack on Pearl Harbor, 1945 had been legally set as the target date for independence, after a 10-year transition period.

Hawaii, by contrast, was contemplated by Americans and Hawaiians as inevitably becoming an American possession long before the 1898 annexation.
Even that is a bastardized version when compared to what Toyota developed. The reality is software engineers are not factory production line workers. Also, kanban negates the fact that cars are completely spec'd out (aka waterfall) by the time a car is ready to be built on a production line.
Age of Phage: Friend or Foe in the New Dawn of Therapeutic and Biocontrol Apps?
I'd compare average household incomes.

US mobile carriers just know they can charge more, and people will be able to pay.
> it has not improved the lives of anyone meaningfully, traffic is as bad as its ever been

The latter does not imply the former. If the increased infrastructure means that more people can live and work in an area, then even if the traffic for each person in that area is exactly as bad as it was before, it still helped those people who took the option to move there.

We do not build infrastructure that it might stay idle. Compare "we upgraded our internet to gigabit but we're seeing a similar utilization ratio, therefor the upgrade didn't improve the lives of anyone in the home".
The one thing that I think starship has proven is that for any major mission that stretches our current launch capanilities, it may be worth investigating developing a new launch vehicle instead of accommodating the ones we have.

Just think of all the engineering and risk that’s going into a process that will be used once.
In the developed world we've already gone beyond the optimal point of individual environmental responsibility and it's all diminishing returns from here.
Oh, now I’m confused. I thought this was about the Alexa assistant product. Seems from other comments that this company provides web analysis.
every company - from privacy advocates to those cashing in on social justice - bow to China. Every, last one of them.
Google De-Indexes 4k Articles over Bogus DMCA
That's the chilling thing about Chinese censorship?
> Birth rates always drop when the quality of life improves.

Sure. They do not drop 60% in only a few years, only amongst a single ethnic group in a single region. The numerous testimonies, plus recently leaked documents confirming this is an explicit CCP policy removes any doubt.
While true, its also a huge problem when contractors promise something for 2B$ and then it costs 10-15B$ without the contractors suffering any consequences. What stops them from doing that for every single contract?

There is a reason recently NASA has started to focus on Fixed Price contracts.

We need a shift to more missions, building these things more often and more on price. Putting absurd amount of money into 1 mission compared to 20 missions for 500M$ likely doesn't make sense.

The Webb telescope has been so long in development that lots of subsystems could have evolved considerably since then.
In this case it might be a drop shipper, which is completely legit. I've seen other fake stores, however, that scrape listings from eBay and offer them on their "store". They somehow generate valid USPS tracking numbers yet never send your item. They only take PayPal because PayPal will not accept any disputed charge with a tracking number.
Chickens can't find their way home if maps are illegal now can they.
I have a secret to share. Apple and others may virtual signal but at the end of the day it's all about profits. If you believed otherwise you were mislead. "Think Different" is just a commercial slogan.
> This is pretty much what a CPU without ECC is. It randomly crashes and corrupts your data.

I use ECC RAM in systems with error counters.

Error correction is an extremely rare event, if it happens at all. This idea that non-ECC computers are crashing all the time due to memory errors isn’t true. I've also had unstable systems with ECC RAM and no error correction events, so it's not a magic bullet.

You can run something like memtest86 for days on end. You shouldn’t see any errors at all, unless your memory is bad.

The reality is that the average consumer doesn’t really want to pay the extra amount for ECC RAM. As you said, ECC has been available on AMD consumer platforms for a long time and there’s barely any uptake outside of people building servers and workstations with consumer-grade AMD CPUs.

The AMD (Consumer) ECC story isn’t perfect, either. It’s not officially supported so there’s a lot of debate around whether or not it’s actually working on certain consumer motherboards. It’s definitely not equivalent to the official ECC support of their higher-end parts.

Intel, on the other hand, actually did roll out a lot of i3 processors with full, official ECC support. These are (or were) a favorite for low-cost servers for this reason. It worked well and the support was great.
>Twitter has been banning conservative accounts

It's not merely "conservative" accounts who have been banned. Plenty of anti-war activists, supporters of government transparency and general voices against the narrative set by the DC blob have been banned who were in no way, "conservative". You could ask Wikileaks supporters how they have been treated by Twitter, if you can find any of them that haven't been banned.
>You'll see accusations of concentration camps, then countered by the existence of actual forced labour camps (private prisons)

Are you implying the Chinese criminal justice system is more just than that of the US? Lol!

At least the people in US private prisons were ostensibly convicted of crimes by their peers. Unlike the victims of the ongoing genocide under the CCP.

Also # of inmates in all prisons in the US has been rapidly dropping, and in any case they’re far more humane than Chinese ones.

Anyways, arguing with CCP apologists I know I’m in the backwaters here. Bring on the undeserved downvotes.
Yet in plenty of parts of the UK, even in the supposedly wealthy south, you cannot get consistent phone signal.
DoubleVerify is an adfraud and brand safety tracker. Basically, they ensure that your ads are displayed to people and not on questionable content if you dont want to. Most agencies and large direct advertisers add this 3rd party to ensure actual humans are seeing the ads, and thus the advertiser is paying for “good” eyeballs instead of “bad”. It’s essentially a 3rd party checking that the ad network doesn’t do anything naughty, which some sites have done in the past.
What will you do for income while working on OS?
The Ribbon Mic Mod
Not only that, since they're heavier a crash into a person at the same speed will be more devastating even ignoring the higher impact position.

They are also more prone to roll, which dispenses with the "well I'm safer!", and have been shown to cause far more fatalities and life-changing injuries when involved in multi-car pile ups.

That's before we even get to the ecological cost (initial construction and then keeping it running), European infrastructure that wasn't designed for cars of that size etc. etc. etc.
Urgent care doctors in particular are basically glorified pharmacists. I will never go to an urgent care unless I know what it is and how to fix it, and I just need their signature.

If you need real help, go to an emergency room or wait for a specialist.
I think you're making potentially invalid assumptions about the about the relative scales of the numbers involved.

The issue is that if the small outlier leads to the product being less than 1, the degree of the root doesn't matter because the largest value possible of the n-th root approaches 1, which may be below whatever meaningful thresholds are relevant here.
Perhaps it allows speculation to push up the value of this unit more than would be possible if it was a proper subsidiary. For example, would Rivian be worth as much without the hype on the stock market, for example if Amazon owned it out-righ? I doubt it.

Plus, selling part of the company allows raising some cash for their elevated capital expenditures, which were critizised by their shareholders.
What made it not possible for the compiler to notice that M was small?

I have been thinking about "Sufficiently Smart Compilers" recently and it seems like in most cases a SSC would be able to guess the distribution of numbers being divided.
> "the chilling thing"

Your comment implies a singular chilling thing, while his does not.
I broadly agree that it was non obvious and don’t really blame Intel for trying IA-64.

I was really (semi humorously) trying to push back against the parent comment saying that everything these firms have done has arisen directly from customer demand. Obviously firms must think that there is demand for new products or features but sometimes they just misunderstand the market.

To give another example was there really any demand from customers for x86 cores in smartphones or was it Intel just trying to establish a market presence?

To answer your question iAPX432.
This brings up the long debated question about China and Russia before them. Is it better to have US/Western companies operating with some concessions or better to boycott.

I'm still of the opinion it's better to operate with concessions because there is a chance of influencing the local population over time. Otherwise we end up with a completely siloed environment like has happened with parts of China's tech scene.
Google Releases 2021’s ‘Most Searched’ Items
I don't really know. Perhaps old habits die hard. Or they want to deal with two versions. Online journals should consider remove this pointless limit and instead advise authors not to make papers longer than necessary.
Tim Cook should be forced to live there for the rest of his life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_China
It would be interesting if you could accumulate seismic data with iPhones. Like if they're stationary for more than 10 minutes, share data with USGS.
Based on the title, I was expecting something quite different...
Thiel seems to genuinely believe the USA, and the west in general, is in an existential struggle with forces intent on destroying it. I can’t speak for him, but maybe Islamic fundamentalists, authoritarian autocracies like Russia, Chinese communism, etc.

If you genuinely believe that, then putting ever more powerful intelligence gathering tools in the hands of western governments, even at some risk of threats to freedoms in the west, might seem reasonable.

That’s especially true if you have good confidence in the checks and balances in the free west to prevent the worst abuses of such tools, and that the threats are truly dire.
There are lots of points in the article challenging smart contracts because they need a social contract. Ethereum community also understands that social contract > smart contract. See below:

From Vitalik https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/03/23/legitimacy.html:

"...What's going on here is a pattern of a similar type to what we saw with the not-yet-issued Bitcoin and Ethereum coin rewards: the coins were ultimately owned not by a cryptographic key, but by some kind of social contract."

"...Once again, millions of dollars of value are being controlled and allocated, not by individuals or cryptographic keys, but by social conceptions of legitimacy."

So the point is a bit moot, money is not flowing to web3 because of immutability per se. For most venture capital, mainly it is an effort to create a levelled playing field for startups –"decentralized x" etc. For retail investors, highly volatile, information symmetric (perceived) assets.
General Robotics also taken. Defense contractor.
The labels are slightly different. Consumers who pay attention can see that. The easiest way is to look for a QR code. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_energy_label)
This is the one time that the title is very ambiguous that I'll clarify what are they talking about. This is about ISO boot files on EasyOS, but if you didn't read the article you could read it as ISO the organisation or a particular specification issued or co-issued by ISO.
>> Gains from scale are largest in areas such as reading comprehension, fact-checking, and the identification of toxic language, but logical and mathematical reasoning see less benefit

Left unsaid: it's much harder to learn shortcuts to fake performance in logic and reasoning and common arithmetic, than it is to do the same in "reading comprehension" and similar tasks for which there are no good benchmark datasets (most are basically multipl-choice tests that can be solved by a strong classifier without any need of anything like "comprehension") and for which there are no good metrics either (see BLEU score and friends).
I'm no sympathizer to the CCP, but I don't think this argument makes sense in our time.

There's a big gap between a private individual looking around, and lots of private individuals coordinating to look at everything all the time.

Modern technology is making that gap larger year after year.
Can machine learning be used to do optimization?

What if you applied machine learning to machine learning?
I am curious about this -- is it more complete to say that zero surveying is allowed without a permit, if it is an individual or company or school or anyone?
If you find the term "Deutschland Uber Alles" problematic then you'd be horrified if you ever watch Germany at the football world cup, because "Deutschland Uber Alles" is not a Nazi or fascistic slogan but is a lyric from the current German national anthem.
Checks and balances is a staple of any functioning system.
It all comes down to the ease of suing people in the US. Because of that, everyone gets insurance, the insurance companies mandate all kinds of inspections, all vendors need to be certified and bonded, and go through a 4000 hour licensing process, etc.

Probably 500 fewer people die a year of workplace accidents and similar because of all these rules, but hundreds of thousands die of air pollution and economic distress due to the low return on the dollar.
you can't trust them to protect our freedom of speech, our privacy, to save the environment, to care about how social media impacts kids, you can't trust them for anything, ever.
I think it would be cool to just be able to instantly get improvements to my machine without having to go through the hassle of dealing with ordering and installing physical hardware.
Effortless omni-channel product notifications
I loved the "blink once for yes, blink twice for no."

"He gave two yesses!"

"Look, he's emphatically blinking more yesses!"

Edit: The internet delivers again!

https://morbotron.com/caption/S04E12/70553
Not all anti-Zionists are antisemitic. And Zionism is not the same as Judaism.

In fact, I would have a hard time finding one Jewish friend who was even mildly Zionist.
Life is more than just commute time. When commuting further distances you have more options of where to live and where to work.
They're not big enough yet, but they're getting there. And they have anticipated that they might need it, hence the language in their TOS.
Is any of the systems documentation for any NASA project publicly available? As someone who spends a considerable amount of time sifting through systems documentation where the process hasn't been applied so diligently, I've always wanted to read a NASA SSDD or similar.
Pretty accurate guess ;)
I don't worry much about it. I can go back to corporate slavery any time. In fact there's massive labor shortage

Open-Source brings many more opportunities as a side-effect. Especially networking, eg. "I saw this guy on on GitHub/HackerNews, can we hire him?"

Actually, they stumbled upon my GitHub project and that's how they found out about me in the first place
Big picture answer - because the U.S has very little constituency for economical, timely, and competent construction of actual working infrastructure. Vs. political posturing, profiteering, NIMBYism, etc. - all of those have large, savvy, and highly motivated constituencies.
neither country has been focused on peaceful economic growth in the last two decades.

but their sins aren't equal, either.
This is stupid af because there are plenty of other countries with similar incentives & similar levels of corruption who don't have this problem. This sort of low-effort "lol everything bad" adds nothing to the discourse.
https://electrek.co/2021/12/07/elon-musk-senate-not-pass-bui...

Context: The bill they're talking about is unusually porcine, to the point of overwhelming even cynics. Relevant example: Subsidies of $12,500 for electric vehicles, but only if they're made by a union. Because auto unions are major campaign donors.

Everybody always talks about "oh the government spends so much money on pork all the time, deficits are so big etc." but this is another level:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S

Federal spending as percent of GDP last year: More than triple the level present during the New Deal. >50% increase year over year.

It's unprecedented in peacetime. The only time it has ever been more as a percent of GDP is WWII, and in dollars (even per capita and adjusted for inflation) it's already more than WWII.

This year's proposals are a significant increase from that level.

The claim that to oppose the bill is to "promote divestment from the USA" is pretty bold.
Not really directly connected to the Cascadia Subduction Zone

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/08/1062365995/50-earthquakes-hit....
That argument would be more appropriate if OSM was about something other than where the streets went.
The problem is not the price as such but contractors promising something for $2.5B and then spending 4x time and 4x the amount of cost without suffering any negative consequences. For Northrop this has been nothing but nice, basically finance its space division for decades.

We need a space industry that delivers on target and reward those contractors.

The growth in cost of Webb, directly detracts from other missions. It also has to be compared to actually building 4 actual $2.5B telescopes. There is lots of evidence that faster iteration, more missions give more overall science.

Continuously launching and continuously improving would be far better plan. Webb has lots of subsystems that have been done base on 10-20 year old engineering. But because of the approach one iteration cycle for some of these technologies takes 30 years.
This building is fucked and I wonder when people are going to accept that.
Can't they design the tank system modularly to be replaceable? Like (also projecting how SpaceX etc are also making space cargo much cheaper) having a rocket carry payload that would replace the tank cartgridge with a new one, giving, say, another 5 years' worth of propeller.

I'm pretty much 100% sure NASA knows this better than me of course, but I'd love to see the reasoning behind planning to retire such an expensive project after a (relatively) short ~10 years.
Related: https://srcgr.ph/zoekt-memory-optimizations
It said my personal site was cleaner than 100% of web pages tested. It said that loading my page costs 0.00g of CO2. Not bad!