skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hadn't heard of them before. They are neat. If papers aren't your style here's some videos I've found:

What is polyhedral compilation? [about six minutes]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAF-orse4hE

Polyhedral Compilation as a Design Pattern for Compilers - Albert Cohen - PLISS 2019 [about an hour and a half]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt6pIpt5Wk0
Git can be very performant if you use a good interface to it. Unfortunately, the CLI interfaces are slow, and e.g. libgit2 is a bit awkward to use. However, there is the object reader and writer interface, which allows reading and writing raw Git objects to its database - with it, you can build some nice high-performance tools.

For example, here is a program which, given a file's SHA1 and path, finds the last commit to have that file version at that path:
https://github.com/cybershadow/misc/blob/master/git-find-fil...
The web is fraught with scams because it's grown to the point now where the only remaining ways of making next-level Internet money on the web are to resort to wildly complex and unethical tactics and/or deception to get attention, to fake success, or to spend a lot of money to gain attention. Social media is also not accurate in it's portrayals of potential for many because they simply are too big to allow users to succeed or even to be organically visible now.

Something like NFTs, which are totally worthless digital files in real life, are marketed as "valuable goods", and it's literally insanity... Trust me, I've seen plenty of pitches even when I didn't want to on social media... Non stop. If you lose your wallet your money is gone? No FDIC protections? Good luck waiting for government to catch up on proper regulations.

Even if this poorly though out pyramid scheme of branding the online greed heist as "Web 3" succeeds, it will be short lived once the rich cash out, and all that will be left is a totally broken internet with no commerce flowing through it, and the value of real world products and services will be severely corrupted by it all. Everyone will suffer for it, from the rich that get literally mugged on streets by the disenfranchised to the disenfranchised that spend years trying to find success with their last dollar.

The solution is to stop supporting platforms that are peddling this phony pyramid scheme, and to reinvest in keeping the Internet open, and to stop money and influence from changing how the Internet worked 5 years ago, but even if you don't change this terrible course, you'll suffer too when you realize that everything has been dumbed down or made overly-complex on the Internet and function and utility have been corrupted to get you to pay for upgrades each month...

Internet-based business had been making record breaking profits for years based on fair payment for advertising space, and for selling tangible goods and services. If you start a high-overhead business for free and then try to convert it into a paid service then that's where the business model went wrong, not because users are now dependent on the service and primed for milking that dependency.

The only people advocating the schemes are people who are invested in them, but they're too caught up to admit the simple truth. We will learn how to communicate in real life again probably while the Web3 dumpster fire burns out, and then rebuild hopefully... :/
Going faster than 130 km/h (85 mph) is not worth it in most cars because you can't recover the extra time needed to refuel due to higher fuel consumption.
A big thanks to all the useful i**ots who fall for the ads and marketing.
Everybody wants flexibility, but it always turns into “always on” at the lowest geographic pay. I would like to try working 100% in-person, meaning no remote communication at all, like a university research group.
Well, when you talk about blameless post mortems and how they are valued at the company... A throw-away does make me doubt that the culture supports being blameless :)
Thats a funny comment, but in reality the heating was probably timed, and she only realized the car was cold when it was time to leave.
I wasn't able to understand. Will have to look this up. Do you have a simpler source for this?
Yeah my first thoughts as well. I had an electric kickbike in the last country I lived in and it was insanely convenient. The rental ones support people dumping them anywhere/everywhere and have a bunch of people not used to handling them, which causes a bad reputation for actual owners who behave responsibly.
Even if it were suboptimal in that usage (but it looks like the best choice to me), the extent of the harm would be contained to the function body. Nothing outside could “see” that a goto was used.

If you worsened the function, such as by duplicating the cleanup code and using a return statement, that would be worse, and unacceptable, but still, the harm would be contained to the function body.
Quantum computing.
Imagine how powerful it would be to be able to alter the setting so bad trips depict hell and good trips depict heaven.

Almost like they could be utilized in a way to provide a religious fervor for your adherents.
Those municipalities chose to change when they zone for and permit more offices. The need for more housing is the other shoe dropping.
On that note: Most common letters and syllables form a logical tree structure. If you are multi-lingual, it might even make sense to switch the layout with the language. And even more, it might even be that the keyboard learns from you and organizes layout accordingly. And next step is of course that the keyboard organizes itself all the time as you write, instead of giving suggestions on the screen. But nothing to do with Ænglish, as mentioned.
There are chaos.

I seem no corruption.
I do see the Chinese workers who did exteadornry work to support Wuhan. One great example is a hospital built in 10 days https://youtu.be/53nhErXUd9A

All people on the construction site are volunteer. They have had the chance to go back. But decided to risk their own lifes.

Besides there are numerous medical workers from all over China to come to Wuhan to alleviate the chaos.

My highest respect to those ordinary people.
Zuck don't give a fuck.
> Should they fine you $200k instead

Yes, the fines should be punitive, not proportional to the damage.
Eh, robots are tools, and like most, they'll be used and abused. ANYmal and Boston Dynamics Spot are currently being used for automated site inspections, and most of the top spots for the recent DARPA subterranean challenge were legged robots [1]. Of course, you also have companies like Ghost Robotics which are weaponising their platform [2]. Should we have not made airplanes because someone would eventually put bombs on them?

I'm sure there's a lot more philosophical depth to the topic, and perhaps my quick dismissal of your criticism is equally unproductive as your comment, but I see a use-case for these (frankly super cool) robots in every day society/workplaces.

[1]: https://www.subtchallenge.com/results.html
[2]: https://www.engadget.com/robot-dog-gun-ghost-robotics-sword-...
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I second this.

If you are here and have skipped the article, I strongly recommended it.

It is a fun and interesting read, and a jumping point for a bunch of rabbit holes I will probably end up wandering in this afternoon!
I feel that is actual encoding though and programming is a different thing
If Hubble were brought back, where would it go?

I assume anything remotely still classified would be ripped out, so probably only the big (outer) shell would end up in a museum, maybe some of the outdated computer boards.

It's still inspiring, but would it be more fair to go to Florida? Texas? Some state where it was built (if it weren't those)? The Smithsonian?
As someone who learned about the electrical meaning of impedance matching in school, where impedance is a commonly discussed fundamental quantity in circuits (it’s the AC equivalent to resistance), I have always tried to avoid using the term outside of engineering circles to avoid confusing people.

This is the first I’ve ever heard someone deliberately apply it to a disparate array of phenomena but I have to say that, to me, the phrase makes sense in all those contexts and has a nice ring to it.
Nature shows how all this works
You can keep asking that question, and it will continue not to add value to the discussions.

Google’s metrics are based on increasing ad revenue. It doesn’t take a lot to see how that works against their mission statement.
Maps Can Confuse Us
As a complete layperson, I suspect osmosis may be a good counterexample. Channels react selectively to various compounds, but water can probably pass through the membrane more easily.

Wikipedia (heh) seems to support this idea, but my gosh is this all complex.

> Compared to ions, water molecules actually have a relatively large permeability through the bilayer, as evidenced by osmotic swelling. [...] Small uncharged apolar molecules diffuse through lipid bilayers many orders of magnitude faster than ions or water. This applies both to fats and organic solvents like chloroform and ether. Regardless of their polar character larger molecules diffuse more slowly across lipid bilayers than small molecules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid_bilayer
Easy, C++ is more type safe than C since forever. Also the same reasoning why GCC has migrated to C++.

Microsoft has done the same with their new C runtime, and they have written a couple of blog posts exactly about that subject.

From "The Great C Runtime (CRT) Refactoring"

> So, as part of this great refactoring of the CRT, we have done an enormous amount of work to simplify and improve the quality of the code, so that it is easier to add features and fix bugs in the future. We have converted most of the CRT sources to compile as C++, enabling us to replace many ugly C idioms with simpler and more advanced C++ constructs. The publicly callable functions are still declared as C functions, of course (extern "C" in C++), so they can still be called from C. But internally we now take full advantage of the C++ language and its many useful features.

-- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/the-great-c-runtime-c...

"C Runtime (CRT) Features, Fixes, and Breaking Changes in Visual Studio 14 CTP1"

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c-runtime-crt-feature...

"Introducing the Universal CRT"

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/introducing-the-unive...
Going to have to buy this book now. Enjoyed this extract. I wonder what font was used? whatthefont thinks it might be Adobe Jenson Display, and I don't currently have any PDF tools to inspect the document. The 'y' looks so pretty, with it's rightward curve.
Discovery is not a viable product, but Payola is - and Spotify is a repeat offender
> In a closed USD ecosystem the entity with more USD can increase the amount of USD they hold simply by holding more of it.

That closed USD ecosystem is just as much a product of fantasy as is the closed Bitcoin ecosystem.

> Your claim that BTC is a scheme for the rich to get richer is only true because of the existence of USD, otherwise that wouldn't be possible.

USD does in fact exist, so I guess you are agreeing with me.

> I'm saying is its your fantasy that allows rich get richer to even be possible in BTC, not the other way around.

Erm, are you now claiming that USD is my fantasy? That’s what it sound like.
Let’s say there was no rock solid evidence. Is the way she is treated right?

If no, why would they treat her that way then?

Why she is willing to just not eat is a mystery. If she admitted to wrong doing they might let her out with a fine.
I don't think this will ever go away. For example, HIV and MERS is still out there.
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2...

https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet

Sure, one of these is more prevalent than the other but it becoming extinct seems unlikely to me unless something like an asteroid hits earth.
You're implying meta will or even can provide mental health.
Would you shed more light on why there little interest in remote support / med applications? If there was a need for it, what held it back?

What do you see as a common weakness / deficiency in products from ODG, Vuzix, and RealWear that could sink them by competitors such as HoloLens and Magic Leap? On the other hand, what do they need to beat HoloLens and Magic Leap?
Many others have already trailed this path like e.g. Microsoft in 2014.
There's a lot of things you can't buy in IT. There's a lot of things you don't need to either because they are free. For all this you must find people who are passionate and have interests aligned to your own. This is how I aim to hold the interviews I conduct for infrastructure engineers. The most important question I ask is "Why do you want to work in this position?". 10 years ago I used to care mostly about candidate know-how, now I care mostly about drive.
A OVH or Hetzner VPS can get you a long way for 3.5 to 5€ a month, and they're both quite established and not just a one-man show hoster. Also, you get an actual VM, not just a container, so you can do pretty much everything with it.

For network stability I'd prefer OVH, but they only offer you a single IPv6 address, which is just stupid - but depending on your use case that may not be so relevant to you. Hetzners VPS/cloud offering improved a lot in UX in recent year.
I thought Microsoft had announced they are switching to an annual release cycle.

I don't think it makes much difference to the quality, some features are too big to fit in a single cycle anyway. The question is whether they have enough discipline to hold back projects that aren't ready. In this respect neither Apple nor Microsoft seem able to say no.
The end game is pinball and we are the balls.
Best response I can think of is 'Simpson's paradox'
"I have been advised to let you know that I have never..."
> Superficial differences exist between factions, but their fundamental core moral position remains the same.

The differences are significant, but you're correct they share fundamental core moral positions, namely a resignation to the human condition and skepticism about efforts to fundamentally change it.

> Conservatives believe in a hierarchical society with the elite at the top who must be pampered, and the bottom feeders who must be ignored and kept quiet lest they try to upset the apple cart.

No, conservatives recognize that society is inherently hierarchical and believe that efforts to engage in social engineering are typically counterproductive.

> Conservative factions differ in only who they think should be at the bottom. Social conservatives think it should be gays and other minorities.

No, social conservatives believe that "culture" is fragile and difficult to engineer, and we should hesitate to change longstanding institutions like marriage to address the needs of minorities. Case in point, social liberals are literally failing to perpetuate their societies--North America has become wholly dependent on immigration from socially conservative Latin America, while Europe has become wholly dependent on immigration from socially conservative Muslim countries.

> Economic conservatives believe it should obviously be poor people.

Economic conservatives acknowledge poor people will always exist and are skeptical of efforts to "fix" it. Case in point, the mixed results of Great Society programs.

> Defense hawks believe it should be people of other countries because the home country is racially and culturally superior.

Defense hawks acknowledge that great powers will exist on the international stage, and believe that the world is better off with America being the one in charge.

> 1. Small government folks against cheap food stamps but for expensive wars

Food stamps aren't in the Constitution but defense is.

> 2. Railing against cheap universal health care to support an expensive insurance industry

Even Elizabeth Warren doesn't believe you can make our healthcare system significantly cheaper than what we have now. Universal healthcare in other countries may be cheap, but so are lots of other public functions that are extremely expensive in the U.S.

> 3. Republican devout christians opposed to helping the poor and immigrants

The Bible doesn't say anything about using government coercion to help the poor and immigrants. Conservatives give more and religious organizations are the main "boots on the ground" entities working on refugee resettlement.

You're confusing "want" with "accept." Liberals, more strongly than conservatives, want an egalitarian society. Conservatives, more strongly than liberals, are resigned to the idea that you can't have one and trying will probably make things worse. And I don't know if you've looked around lately, but the liberal world is vastly more hierarchical than the conservative world. NYC and SF are incredibly hierarchical, while Iowa is incredibly flat. Liberals have embraced hierarchy economically, culturally, socially, etc.
All the damn time!

I have spent 40 years not working for Microsoft. It makes some effort lately at seeming less Evil, but its increasing revenue demonstrates it is wholly as Evil as ever. Who buys anything from them by choice? (I guess Surface is OK hardware?)

More lately, Facebook. Goldman Sachs. The list goes on. I often turn down cryptocurrency recruiters.

Out of the FAANG, I would work with Netflix.
Miners suck money away from real batteries who would otherwise be smoothing out the peaks. It's not good for efficiency or climate change.

People point to miners using up excessive hydro or geothermal capacity (Quebec and Iceland), but these areas were prior doing low-carbon factory work such as aluminum manufacturing.
3D Line Mathematics
The obvious counter argument to the genetic book of the dead would be that our genome, rather than being an append-only log of our evolution, is a snapshot of our current morphology that is constantly being overwritten.

There simply is no history because the overwrites delete what was there before. If we evolve wings then our arms=arms gene gets deleted and replaced with a arms=wings gene?

That is clearly not how Dawkins thinks of it but I wish he had explained why the genes-as-mutable-variables model is wrong.
If you are interested in this, I maintain a list of boardgame-solving related research at https://github.com/captn3m0/boardgame-research, with sections for specific games.

This looks really interesting. It would be a good project to test this against a general card-playing framework to easily test it on a variety of imperfect-information games based on playing cards.
That sounds like functionality tunnel vision, to me. Matching users to movies isn’t an abstract metadata networking exercise— the larger goal is recommending things users enjoy so they keep watching. I’m far less likely to suffer a bad movie if it closely aligns with my interests. Poor representations of my passions and crafts frustrate the hell out of me.
How is she being cynically abused by the people calling for her freedom? You think that in itself is western propaganda?

Also, it's absurd to equate what she's done to any form of violent extremism or the Jan 6 rioters -- that's an apples and hand grenades comparison.

And of course she deserves to be safe and healthy -- I say release her now (hell, my vote would be never imprison her in the first place, but I'm incapable of rewinding time). I just don't think it was "needless to say" coming from you given the rest of what you've written here, elsewhere on this thread, and elsewhere on this website.
It might be that discovery via Spotify is polarising based on genre? Some people seem to hate it but like you, I find it very useful and constantly come across new tracks/artists I really like. Never had anywhere near that much success in the past sourcing new music, and certainly nowhere near as easily. Sometimes with a custom Discover Weekly playlist, I will favourite 80% of songs it pitches to me.

And I also agree on the efficiency. My first music purchase was a record, then tapes, then CDs and so on. Getting recommendations right where I listen to the music makes it trivial to add to my list - usually via the desktop app while working or via CarPlay while driving.
Thousands of Protesters in Los Angeles
> Obviously government can't have the power to do that because they'll go after everything but that.

It’s interesting to watch Australia navigate this. Murdoch is rather powerful there and has some leverage.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/mar/16/rupert-murdoch...
This article was really hard to read. I generally hate sources that are dripping with opinion that I need to get five or six paragraphs in to bypass the “of COURSE they did X, like we covered last Thursday”.

Also obligatory academic freedom -> actually free speech argument in that article that leads to the common misconception of the 1st amendment applying to literally everything “for curiosity’s sake”.
Scientists are not in the business of making recommendations to lay people. There are other professions for that: doctors, lawyers, bankers, teachers, journalists etc. Scientists are mostly in the business of disproving the conjectures of other scientists.*

* actually grant-writing, but I’m not sure that counts either

Also, I’m pretty sure that the inclusion of “deferring to experts” in the accepted rules of formal logic would be a minority opinion among philosophy professors specializing in that area. “The fallacy guy” may not appreciate the irony there. It’s still a fallacy because it’s not logical in the strict sense of an argument (deduction from premise), regardless of whether it’s a good idea or not. It would only hold if the premise was that the “expert” source was an honest oracle, so without acceptance of that premise by both parties, the argument is erroneous.
...I am living in Vietnam, part of the "80%", and doing this every time. It always works.

When speaking Vietnamese, you get an extra discount.
The evolution of how we host our applications
I didn’t even know that they had an office in Edmonton...
What's the solution to internet addiction? It's only seeming to get worse.
Another vote for Bitwarden. I can confirm that it works flawlessly, does not gobble up ram in Chrome and is user friendly.
You’re mixing them up with McKesson
This sounds like you might be able to gain something from the “Do chairs exist?” video by vsauce.[1] Basically, he goes through the different philosophical reasonings of the past and then explores where each one of those fall apart. He goes explicitly into how small things can create something larger but why philosophers have struggled to make the leaps to change definition. He ends on the latest philosophical reasoning, which I think thoroughly explains your conundrum.

I’ll try to explain even if it seems less profound here than in the video. Basically, all concepts are emergent behavior of “stuff.” There really isn’t a chair, but “stuff” arranged chair-wise. And humans decide what that boundary is for both chairs and consciousness as they are concepts we apply to stuff that is “chairing” or “being conscious.” A collection of neurons may or may not be conscious by defining how they behave. And the details on where we draw the line for consciousness is no different than where we draw the line for how many atoms we can scrape away from a chair and it still be a chair.

[1] https://youtu.be/fXW-QjBsruE
Yep, if it works at all, ITAR will slap it with a "Don't even think about using this for anything" label.