skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair question. I've never heard it argued that the human genome project was anything other than a huge success, but I'm curious to look into it more. That being said it probably doesn't apply here. Considering we were sending people to the moon 50 years ago, I don't feel space travel has scaled similarly. In contrast to your human genome example think how far back the scientific community was set back by canceling the Super Conducting Supercollider. There's just no other way to get this information from Earth. You could argue that the knowledge could wait 100 years, but you could say that about a lot of things.
This is a great exercise for anyone who wants to start exploring how a particular compiler works.

I went through something similar in 2005, when during an internship I was working on a program reading and displaying generated Python code in which the code comments provided important metadata about the statements on the same line. I hacked the compiler to make the AST generate a new token for comments (they're otherwise dropped), and this was an incredibly useful experience that gave me knowledge about CPython that I still rely on to this day – 16 years later.
That's actually a real issue that needs addressing. Any phone that makes 911 calls should still get security updates. All phones that can reach the cell network can still make 911 calls per FCC requirement.

Imagine the worse case scenario where malware infects the phone but requires a credit card to call 911.

Maybe congress will get around to this to make Google and everyone else do the right thing, but from my perspective Google should have done the right thing here.
Actually I can guarantee you that our defence force vehicles, aircrafts, ships, etc. all have communication that works every first time.

Big difference. One is a purpose built machine, the other is an app on your multi-purpose computer.
OR does survive, largely as a study of technical operations, far less social, organisational, or political ones.

The other major similar school was Norbert Wiener's cybernetics, and also systems theory (Jay Forrester/MIT). These took a far broader approach, and were even considered for integration into (and ultimately redefinition of) the social sciences. A fascinating book I have is Alfred Kuhn's The Study of Society: A Unified Approach (1963), which tackles political science, sociology, and economics head on.

Wiener butted heads with the military establishment, in which he'd worked during WWII. Systems Research was closely associated with the Limits to Growth team and Stanford Beer's Project Cybersyn, enacted in Salvador Allende's Chile, and lost when Pinichet (advised by University of Chicago economists) overthrew the government in a coup and assassinated Allende.

Complexity research also was (and sometimes still is) criticised for being vague and nonpredictive. Not entirely without merits. That said there's been something of a resurgence, notably through the Santa Fe Institute.

But the anti-military, Malthusian, and socialist branding has somewhat stuck, and made the approaches if not precisely taboo, highly unpopular at least within mainstream US academia.

OR itself however is a fairly vibrant study and practice, largely by virtue of having avoided the social and political areas. My view is that this has stunted its application even if it's permitted the development and continuation of the field.
> If the secret society system was a dominant selective force in evolving and maintaining antibiotics in the preantibiotic era, then changes in the magnitude, frequency, and diversity of antibiotics after 1940 would likely have caused a consequent shift away from a production-resistance balance in favor of a resistance-dominated evolutionary strategy.

So if bacteria in nature use antibiotics for signalling and to filter surrounding bacteria, rather than for warfare, it's not reasonable to expect humans to stop using antibiotics as warfare against dangerous pathogens (though using it to make animals grow faster is another story). What's the takeaway from this hypothesis?
This is a really good point, too: coverage for classes is hard. I've got a great workplace and we've not really had attrition, but when it comes time to find a sub we're facing a crazy marketplace: lots of teachers have left the profession; lots of people that would sub before are not bothering; and everyone needs more subs than the previous baseline.
People will grow their own, but it from a mate.

Point is it’s not illegal to smoke, it is illegal to sell an addictive, harmful substance commercially.
what is the need that justifies this exactly?
i think Big Brother there is the IBM PC, dominant at the time.
Owning huge amounts of land is uniquely antisocial in a way that owning huge amounts of other stuff isn't. If Mr Moneybags buys ten thousand paintings, we can always produce more paintings (and the rising price of paintings will push more people to take up careers in art). But if Moneybags buys ten thousand acres, the rest of us are ten thousand acres worse off in a way that we can't really fix.
And for every phone they released that can still reach 911 services. You don't need a sim to call 911.
My apartment building announced it's installing Latch
I got an email from my building that they're installing Latch (<https://www.latch.com/>) on all the doors. Has anyone had success in fighting this? I don't want to install an app on my phone to go around unlocking building, gym, apartment, etc. doors. I read a few years ago a tenant was able to sue for a hard key but Latch was still installed.

We already use key fobs, not sure what benefits the building is getting from Latch / or what Latch's business model is.
> I've been curious who you are & what motivates you.

I'm just a person who enjoys reading and writing about systems - information on me available in HN profile and on the blog :)
You'd have to fill the volume of at 25,000 Earths (or more, that's just my napkin math), where orbits aren't stable for more than a year or two, with enough debris to hit something a few meters across. No using explosions to do this either because debris with more than a few m/s aberrant velocity would be ejected from the Lagrange point even faster. Seems unlikely.
https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/protos-are-wrong/inde...

For those who still want / need binary protocols and schemas, look at FlatBuffers or Cap'n Proto instead. At least they are capable of representing domain structures properly.
Most C and C++ code is perfectly happy with fat pointers provided you take care in how you implement them, especially around (u)intptr_t. For CHERI we see a very tiny % of LoC that need changing; e.g. http://www.capabilitieslimited.co.uk/pdfs/20210917-capltd-ch... documents a recent case study in porting a KDE desktop stack (X11 itself, Qt, other standard graphical desktop libraries, Plasma, Dolphin, Okular) and across the 6 million LoC only 0.026% needed changing.

So, if you pick your fat pointer implementation poorly, then yes, you run up against both the standard and de-facto C, but if you take care then the vast majority of C code just works, and we're (uniquely?) positioned to be able to prove that by having a FreeBSD-based kernel and userspace, and graphical desktop stack (plus an adaptation of WebKit's JSC JIT) all built with a compiler that maps C pointers to capabilities that enforce fine-grained bounds.
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Please don't close it, I really love this service, I guess Amazon got enough money to support this, isn't it?
Your comment is excellent when limited to the first paragraph alone.
Your description is a good one.

My experience in industry is that we validate requirements when we confirm that they are necessary to achieving a particular mission.

We then verify that the system under construction does in fact satisfy the set of validated requirements.
Since macOS is / was a port of xBSD, how much difference is there between Darwin and xBSD kernel?
Sure. I would put depression in the emotional health category.

If it can be cured/aided with empathy, it may be accurate to call it an emotional health issue. ADHD? Mental or emotional? Well it doesn't have to be either, it can be both! Taking a baseball bat to the brain will damage your physical and mental health, why can't taking a few distractions to the eyes do something similar?

No need to thank me. I am only giving you my justification. You are the one doing the work. :)
“Worthless” is a false dichotomy, people will still need, use and pay for land.

And progressively levying a LVT would make a lot more sense than flipping a switch and upside downing the economy.
I truly appreciate that this team uses nightly rust and only runs only Linux currently (due to relying on io_uring). Truly in the spirit of systems programming - focusing on a single, tight, efficient implementation first and leaving other considerations such as cross-platform compatibility for later. Lets those of us who love to live on the bleeding edge have our nice things too! :)
It is not Microsoft’s fault. No app should be able to intercept 911 calls. Teams should not have received an actionable event at all here. Microsoft should not have to test the 911 call path.
What would you like them to do? Google couldn't retroactively make it possible to patch every phone on the planet even if they wanted to, and the phone manufacturers aren't likely to treat this as any more special than the other bugs that they aren't patching
Oh wow, this is true for me as well. Need to check if the app permission is required or if the location tracking works separately through some system service.
Part of this is that they don't exactly know what they are going to see out there.
CentOS changes the cloud Linux game
Anyone have an idea why on why a variant would require more doses to protect?

Is the implication also that you'd be better protected from the alpha variant too, just that you enter diminishing returns for the third shot there whereas for variants diminishing returns don't kick in until later shots?
the top comments talking about maps, it's absolutely insane

'The agreement included a pledge from Apple to help Chinese manufacturers develop "the most advanced manufacturing technologies," "support the training of high-quality Chinese talents," use more components from Chinese suppliers, sign deals with Chinese software firms, collaborate with research in Chinese universities, and directly invest in Chinese tech companies, as well as assistance with around a dozen Chinese government causes. If there were no objections from either side, the deal would be automatically be extended for an additional year until May 2022, according to the agreement.'

'Apple vowed to invest "many billions of dollars more" than its current expenditure in China, including on new retail stores, research and development facilities, and renewable energy projects. Other internal documents reportedly showed that Apple's pledge amounted to more than $275 billion in spending over a period of five years.'

what do American citizens have to do to get this sort of treatment? Seems like a broken record at this point, but we truly have been sold at the absolute highest level. It's one thing to make these deals with a foreign hostile country - it's another to ask yourself: When's the last CEO I heard making these same promises to America? Or to any friendly country for that matter? As if the streets are paved with gold everywhere else?

It aches my heart to be a young man in this country and see this be our so-called 'leaders'. I'm confident the tides have already turned against all this nonsense, though, and I look forward to rebuilding industries of the world with good-hearted men & women
If you are not convinced of the benefits to yourself of using a seatbelt at this point I don't think you can claim your positions to be rational

It's ok to have emotional, irrational, positions. But you are better off knowing that is what they are
Out of curiosity, where specifically do you find this definition within Smith's writings?
Nope, but a whole lot of ancap bros are going to get very rich from this fad. More power to them I guess.
Those are ten thousand paintings which the public cannot experience or enjoy! In many ways, the paintings are more precious, as they could go on worldwide tours, and be experienced by millions of people; most land has virtually no uniqueness, and cannot be shared.
Why does Android allow a buggy app to break 911 calling?
It should be Android’s task to not pass emergency calls to third party apps. Even if you “fix” Teams, any other app still can do it, and you’ll never know.
This is not accurate. All complex software has had bugs since Grace Hopper's moth, at least, and it was never common to seek refunds because of software errors. Microsoft is only notable because DOS and Windows became ubiquitous in a way that no previous software had, exposing the whole world to unreliable software.

(I've been a professional programmer since the mid 1980's, so I do remember. )
there is a paywall :/
> I just don't buy the argument that China as the world's electronic supply-chain can't be replaced.

No one is really interested in taking the hit in creating in country supply chains for all of the low value stuff. Vietnam is too small to support that, SE Asia as a whole might work (or maybe India), but both are still politically and economically unstable to do much in this area yet. China has scale and stability.

I see final assembly moving to different countries, but the supply chains will remain plumbed through China for a while.
The post you replied to was also humor, btw.
A simple flat tax is clearly a far superior system in every single way.

If you are really hardcore about richer people paying even larger part then simply make the curve slightly progressive.

If you want poorer people to pay even less make the minimum number required for max tax higher.

This would make the overall tax system 1000x simpler releasing a gigantic amount of labor and would allow IRS to actually check effectively if people are lying. It would make all fraud much harder.
There is a contingent of users on HN who reject the degree to which inborn talents contribute to human abilities. People vary a lot in how well they absorb information and communicate effectively with others. It's silly to claim that forcing children to go to school creates these abilities where they don't exist. The explanation that some children simply mature into adult-like abilities with age and others do not requires a lot fewer hypotheticals.
If a regular user application can break the ability to call 911 from the default dialer, Android is at fault. Microsoft may also have messed up, but the OS failed by letting the bug manifest.
>The reason I can make these modifications is that Mastodon is open source

the pedantic me would like to point out that mastodon is "free software" more than anything "open source" because that terms can mean a lot of things that free software isn't but i get the point. yeah.

there is this amazing software called pleromaPi.
https://github.com/guysoft/PleromaPi/

so you simply install it on a raspberry pi and you are good to go with your own social network. this is by far the easiest way to dip your toes into free software social networking via the fediverse.

then there are https://fediverse.party/ , which if you get started with pleromapi can be much easier to understand and you will have a good time learning about technology and stuff.
And I think that's plenty reasonable. Not trying to argue, was just pointing out the problem that underlies all politics: conflicts in wills (or even from strictly a libertarian viewpoint, conflict in freedoms, since freedom is a core principle held by libertarians).
https://ava.do is one. Cool founders based in the Swiss “Crypto Valley”.
Orientation wouldn't be that hard an issue to overcome, phones have magnetometers to act as a compass, and accelerometers which indicate the direction of gravity, so assuming you have a decent idea of where on earth the phone is located, you can work out its orientation in 3 space.

Precision can to some degree be made up for by quantity. If data from all the phones in an area skew the same way, it can stand out even if the signal would be impossibly lost in the noise from a single detector.

More problematic would be calibration. A phone at the top of a tall building vibrating like a tuning fork is going to have a radically different signature from one at the same altitude but in the pocket of a mountain climber, which in turn is going to be very different from one at sea level but close to a highway. If you had a sensor sitting in the same place for a long time, you could probably characterize it, but assuming these are phones people are going to pick up and move after a couple minutes I doubt you could do more than a very crude guess.
I have a Google pixel 2xl, I guess I assumed people would get that I had a Google phone from the fact that I said I had a pixel...
No, I did not in fact read the whole thing. My life is too short.

Only 400k houses? I don't think that supports your point very much. Apple, Amazon, or Google have land footprints that are far smaller than 400,000 houses.

And, the growth in inequality is coming from land? The top 0.01% have what percent of their assets in land? And, which came first? Did they make their money on stocks and then buy the land to diversify? Or did they make the bulk of their initial money on the land?
Those phones are just a little more dangerous to own
There are a few dark corners, e.g.

mkdir dir
chmod a-x dir
mkdir -p dir

Will not give you the permissions on dir that you want, typically.

I've come to the idea that the best thing to guarantee what you want is

mkdir the-new-dir.temp-jnsjw23
<do things to the-new-dir.temp-jnsjw23>
rsync -a --delete the-new-dir.temp-jnsjw23 the-new-dir
It's bigger than Teams. It's that an app can prevent such a basic, and important functionality.
I didn't say anything about the singularity.

My entire career has been AI. So you are right, machine learning today is dominated by gradient based, and line based, searches.

And I understand what you are saying about distributed computing's inherent limitations.

But, it's not all about increasing the amount of computing (although that will continue to be a big factor for many years). Better organized computation is continually producing better results with less computing too.

Keep in mind that our brains take about the same effort to learn as to operate. Machine learning models operate with an incredible efficiency, and a minuscule amount of computing than when being trained. Models trained on massive cloud resources can be run on embedded processors, phones or smart watches.

Improvements to gradient/line searches accrue across virtually all of today's machine learning, so will continue to be researched and improved.

In the past, "simple" things like convolution, the right way to stage layers, etc., have dramatically improved the results and reduced model complexity in ways our neural circuits are unable to match. (Convolution reuses weight values across many virtual neurons. In our brain all those neurons must be real and independently learn to behave similarly.)

These days novel ways of multi-target training have not just expanded the types of problems machine learning is good at, but also reduced model sizes in ways our brain's networks are unlikely to be able to do. There is no limit to how many performance derivatives, from different trained outputs, can go through a machine "neuron" either changing that neuron's weights or going on to change other weights.

Generative Adversarial Networks use multiple target training. There is no end in sight yet on the kinds of things that having multiple performance targets operating in different subsets of weights can do. It is a massive booster for many problems that would be difficult or unattainable otherwise today.

Model reuse will be a massive savings in training time. Standard blocks can be trained through to other blocks. They don't make sence as long as every major retraining effort produces a better model, but at some point a lot of models or parts of models will be pretrained.

Finally, the value of improvements to machine learning are now colossal. So the resources put into improving them are colossal. A trained system can be used throughout a company, or sold as a product to any number of customers. A trained human ... not so much. So where a machine can match a human, the machine version is far more valuable.

Well we will see.
Sorry, I'm the author of Cap'n Proto and I think that article is full of shit.

My previous commentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18190005
> I'm speaking mostly about SFUSD covid guidelines[1], which prominently mention hand sanitizer, disinfecting wipes, gloves, and gowns. AFAIK we have no evidence of those being effective at reducing indoor transmission.

That just says those supplies will be available. They're available at my workplace, too.

This is the one thing that we've de-emphasized this year:

> Staff will clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces like door handles, desks, countertops, phones, keyboards, light switches, handles, toilets and faucets at least once daily.

OTOH, I do run a lab and now wipe down the frequently used tools a couple of times per day. It may or may not make a difference for COVID, but it probably will reduce the transmission of stomach bugs and influenza.
One problem is Julia is just ahead of time compiled, so you need something like JET to iteratively run stability analysis via abstract interpretation if you intend to run it for a top level program:
https://aviatesk.github.io/JET.jl/dev/optanalysis/

It recently got support on vscode.

What was available in Julia before (things like @code_typed) are only applicable locally, so there is only limited benefit. Because linters have dramatically improved in recent years, it feels like Julia was lagging behind until recently.

Actually thinking about it, Julia could use something like refinement types ala Liquidhaskell: http://ucsd-progsys.github.io/liquidhaskell-tutorial/Tutoria...
Yes, any app can be a phone app ("dialer" in Android parlance), and there is a user preference to determine the default dialer app for sending and receiving calls.

In fact, Google has themselves made several available over the years; Hangouts and Google Voice are two examples.
now imagine a game that intercepts phone calls (because everyone totally reads the permissions sheet) and is actually able to handle 911 calls. congrats, now OP just gave an attacker their physical address, and their grandma is dead because, well, i doubt the attacker will relay the call for them.

this is a huge, huge problem and has nothing to do with Teams.
I would like to table a point about how this will prevent urban sprawl.

The maps showing land value peaking in cities should be a good indicator of this but the opposite conclusion is being formed. If land is expensive, it will be taxed at a considerable amount per year driving people out of these areas or into condos where they can share the costs with those on the floors above and below them.

Perhaps there will be two types of development with this Georgism paradigm, high rise and extra urban but at the cost of suburban homes.
That’s a good idea. I bet the creator of cap’n proto would tell us what a bad idea this is. What does kentonv have to say?
How do I know my phone has this problem? Is there a way to test this without triggering or bothering the emergency response?
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Oh FFS, it’s an issue with app/dialer integration based on Android design and permissions. But, I know it’s popular to bash MS.

I’m not a teams fan, but this is taking things a tad far.

Edit: dialer has been autocorrected to diaper
This is unfair. The requirements for consumer software have become exponentially more complex during Microsoft's tenure as leader. Hardly anything worked quite right in the 90s or 00s.