skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worst case scenario? Sounds like best case scenario to me so long as no one is harmed.

It will take some horribly idiotic event like that to get the manufacturers to actually address that when you sell a phone you're selling hardware and software.
missiles and artillery

can't remote-boom-boom if you can't know where they are
What proportion of people who had the perspective/foresight to predict "several technology curves" (and potentially profit off of them) will waste their time fighting battles in the comments of hacker news threads about the potential next one?
This is roughly the point, though.

It doesn't _absolutely_ disincentivize these things unless they are operating at a loss. It certainly disincentivizes "economic activity" like opening an at-grade parking lot in a bustling city-center in order to minimize the property tax you pay while the land appreciates in value more than it disincentivizes opening a parking garage there (assuming there's actually enough parking demand to pay to build and maintain).

(I don't entirely disagree with you--it seems like this would shunt some investment away from investments that need expensive land. It's less clear to me whether that is good, neutral, or bad.)
Our machine has W=UINT16_MAX words, of N=16 bits each

Did the seemingly-off-by-one-error catch anyone else? A 16-bit integer has 65536 values, so you'll be going one past the end of the virtual RAM if you attempt to access address FFFFh.

With this simple trick, we can avoid writing a switch statement with 16 (+1) cases

Personally, I prefer having a switch since it's more obvious which opcode goes where. Probably makes the code a little shorter too (and is that another off-by-one, this time in the other direction?)

Also, I understand the need to keep a "learning architecture" simple, but without byte-wide memory access, you'll quickly realise how annoying it is to work with actual bytes. For example, any string handling, unless you decide to use UTF-16 instead. I think a sweet spot is 16-bit address and 8-bit data, with register pairs for 16-bit operations, much like the popular Z80 and the 8080/8085 that preceded it.

The DEC Alpha is a real architecture that made a similar mistake and later had to be extended to fix it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha#Byte-Word_Extensions...
Especially since no amount of technology has lessened the amount that most of us (especially those doing these jobs being complained about) still have to work to earn a living.
That a group doesn't treat failure the same way as an individual is practically tautological in the sense that the power of a group vis a vis outcome (whether ~success or ~failure) is precisely that it's not an individual, but a proxy, "holding" it. In other words it makes no sense for a "group" to admit failure - that's why you put the group together, and that's why, generally speaking, not everyone gets fired when shit hits the fan. What is the insight here?
I guess this also means that Auto Alexa Pro (the service that automatically improved your Alexa ranking) will stop working.
Thanks for those insights.
Disclaimer: I work on Ethereum core development. One of the coolest things happening that will be available to everyone over the coming year is something called a light client, which is essentially a very light, validating node that tracks the head of the chain with certainty, and can be used as an alternative to services such as Unfura. In the future, Metamask will probably be a light client that actually tracks the head of the chain and can validate proofs of user account state. Source: https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/blob/dev/specs/a...
Have you thought about interfacing with DuckDB for out of core processing?

https://github.com/kimmolinna/DuckDB.jl
Arthur Jensen, 1976, would like a word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35DSdw7dHjs
If 8 registers is "limiting", I don't know what you'd call something like a PIC which has a single accumulator... and yet, C compilers exist for those too. On the bright side, it really reduces the number of choices for register allocation.
The clever thing about interferometers is that they're actually measuring space and time in two different dimensions concurrently and then looking for changes in the interference pattern between light moving along each of the dimensions. Simplistically, imagine a gravitational wave propagating along one dimension of the interferometer (realistically gravitational waves will never be perfectly aligned with any direction of the interferometer). Space will be distorted in that dimension but not the other and we can notice the change in the resulting interference pattern. In practice, gravitational waves will come from all sorts of weird angles, but they will distort each of the two dimensions differently and allow us to figure what direction they were propagating by the interference pattern that's observed.
I've met internists who are like this. Encyclopedic knowledge of their field, excited about theory, obviously spending a lot more time on literature than they're strictly required to. It kind of makes sense that the "true nerds" would end up in these jobs, because specialized internists spend tons of extra time in training but make less money than "procedural" specialties (surgeons, mostly).

The best family doctors I've met aren't mega-nerds but at least seem to genuinely care about helping people.
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Ah I see. Hmm maybe, since the 4 valves cover the whole octave from Bb down to B, you could give every octave that same valve fingering, and control the octave and other things with the other hand. Also, I think everyone fingers trumpet valves with their dominant hand! I couldn't play very fast at all with my non-dominant hand. So the keys for the valves on a keyboard might have to cater to both handednesses.
> Show me a school curriculum that actually teaches how academic science is done today,

The things I see are stuff like asking students to gather data, fit lines, and derive Hooke's law from scratch before talking about it. Or giving students a pile of LEDs and a breadboard and asking them to figure out how to measure voltage before talking about electrical circuits in depth. Or giving lenses and figuring out how to raytrace before talking about optics. Or playing with adding and subtracting colors and trying to intuit the laws that apply before talking in depth about light.

The idea is to building systemic process of observing and figuring out the rules that seem to apply. Does every lab and every unit reach this standard? No, but it's common enough.

When I was teaching Earth Science (as a substitute) last year, we read Science News (journal articles summarized at an 8th grade level) articles about current controversies about whether rainfall in the Hawaiian Islands was precipitating volcanic activity, and I had the students argue about the different views and evidence. 6th graders find it hugely entertaining to have a "science fight" about the evidence and then ultimately suggest their ideas for what types of research might be helpful next.

After discovering the basics of laws in a subject area and the processes by which we evaluate information, they move on to "memorizing factoids"--- after all, most of them will be consumers of science rather than academic scientists, and there's some basic knowledge about how the world works that it's beneficial for everyone to know.

I agree that science is far too often presented as a body of knowledge in education than a process.
We are using it for Orion browser, currently in beta. Very grateful for WebKit being open-source.

https://browser.kagi.com
Length had nothing to do with fair use.
The Chinese government is committing genocide on the Uyghur people, stealing land from Central Asian countries through shady infrastructure deals, colonizing Hong Kong, trying to colonize Taiwan, propping up North Korea's oppressive government, and viciously threatening anyone who tries to get in their way. Xi Jinping and his regime have proven themselves to be enemies of the free world. Supporting the CCP in 2021 is akin to supporting the Nazis in World War Two. Apple's great design and user experience do not justify Tim Cook's meddling in foreign relations. It's inexcusable and he should resign effective immediately.
> If they can't learn,

Not what the parent said. The question is whether they are inclined to learn independently.
I would say, accidentally dialing 911 is somewhat more acceptable than the current issue in discussion. One thing that sounds unacceptable is, Google expecting this issue to be fixed by MS Teams. At least their response should be accepting the situation and providing a security fix asap.
Someday I hope to have half the composure and calm you continue to maintain and nurture, dang.
But are those tech/finance/corporate jobs, or jobs that drop you below the inflection point on the lorenz curve?
People’s behavior changed across the board. This was the biggest sudden shift in people’s behavior we (hopefully) will ever see. And because of that people picked up new habit and most of them are good.

The question is will these negative behaviors persist, or will some of the subside as society finds a new equilibrium?
> it's almost entirely a product of venture capital seeking ROI.

This is a generous description for what's basically AmWay but less useful. Agree w/ your point.
My father incites me to apologize often for saying true things that aren’t nice. There are two approaches, and I believe you are pointing something correct. If you apologize on any aspect, it is a well-known effect that you entirely revoke your legitimacy from the group. In the woke culture for example, the first who apologize has to also quit and lose its career entirely, it’s a recurring problem. The second approach is never to apologize. It’s annoying, but it keeps people in check. It’s an attribute of real power: making huge visible mistakes and not having to say something about it. And this is what wins in our current culture. People will accept your authority and you will avoid being the scapegoat, people will criticize a bit but much less (and that it the surprising effect) than if you say “I’m sorry”. The looks of an apology seems to trigger a reaction of entire reject from the group, even if your words were carefully measured and balanced.

I empathize that you’ve lost your business to this. I sounded like you would instill an awesome culture where people recognize mistakes…
iAPX432 is a good example. :-)

But in the early-80s, Symbolics was making a lot of noise with Lisp machines, the late-80s AI winter hadn't yet set in, and there were certainly worse bets than CISCy "we need to integrate up the stack" ideas.

x86 on mobile is a hard one. I see why Intel did it: it's what they had. And I'm sure Microsoft was whispering some demand in their ear behind the scenes.

But it really only made strategic sense pre-App Store volume (so say pre-2010?). Once the mass of code existed on ARM and built for iOS, that genie wasn't going back in the bottle.

As far as I've heard it told, that was more of a financial business decision though. Intel wasn't willing to cut its margins, because it couldn't see trading volume for margin as mobile exploded.

If they'd been able to offer the market cheap, sufficiently performant, power efficient chips for mobile, I think present would look a lot different.
It's interesting that the narrative is that when people move to Canada, it's because they have a deep desire of becoming Canadian, and according to the current administration deserve it even more than the folks who built the country [0], but when it's people coming to the US it's simply for higher pay and not because they want to make America their home.

Meanwhile, there are now universities where 85% of the graduating class immediately moves to the US upon graduation [1]. And the numbers have actually increased during the Trump administration, despite the narrative that the US would stop attracting international talent.

[0] https://globalnews.ca/news/3567893/justin-trudeau-jealous-im...

[1] https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1351785083598893062
If you are in California or Oregon there is the my shake app:
https://myshake.berkeley.edu/
Collects data when charging.

I have only had the early warning go off once, and before I could act the quake hit. It happed to be really close, so not much warning.
Total hit piece/propaganda, but does have a few good (obvious) points. Wonder who the audience though. If you don't already know and believe this stuff, I doubt China would be the one that convinces you...
Looking by the number of replies to this it possibly could be a viable side project with a few added premium features like notifications for downtime, data breach reports, etc etc...
Kowtow, which is borrowed from kau tau in Cantonese, is the act of deep respect shown by prostration, that is, kneeling and bowing so low as to have one's head touching the ground. In Sinospheric culture, the kowtow is the highest sign of reverence. -wiki
it is much easier to host with lesser resources
It is a common misconception. Browser != rendering engine. It takes tremendous effort to build an iOS browser even when you have WebKit as given as you need to build every single browser feature from scratch. "Open in new tab"? "Favorites"? "Download file"? "Switch tabs"? "Find on page"? All of them need to be built. I know because we are building one.

Chrome on iOS can do pretty much everything it needs to do - settings, telemetry, sync, any kind of custom browser chrome and features and is a _very_ different browser than Safari in many important aspects. For a few that particularly matter to user - consistency of web page rendering, performance and battery life - the user is actually better off as they get a rendering engine built by the phone manufacturer.
You could probably make exceptions to the high tax rate for high density commercial real estate ownership so you could own a suite of offices without it kicking in as well as providing temporary tax brakes (as in, for X years after construction) to people who own multiple homes in a single new development. That way people investing in the construction of new apartment buildings aren't paying extra tax so long as they sell them in say, 5 years.
Air pollution reduces the benefits of physical activity on the brain
> 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?

Thank you for saying this. I don't live in the US, but yes it's shocking.

My (unpopular) view is that we humans have the ability to focus only on a limited set of issues simultaneously, and we should pick the important ones first. It is appalling that news about secretive 200+ billion deals with Xi's CCP (the greatest threat to freedom since the Brezhnev era) has to compete for attention.
Is using ubo/sponsorblock unethical? I have been blocking ads for so long I cannot bear to see ads in any shape or form. Our attention is abused.
I have to throw a sledgehammer at the 'T' key on my 2018 Macbook Pro for it to work because of this forsaken butterfly keyboard.
What roles do you fill, out of curiosity?
It doesn’t have to be. I’d never make that mistake. Not because of anything special by me. But just because I’m familiar with the names.

I’ve heard someone mix up Slack and Stripe. Doesn’t mean those two are bad branding. The person isn’t someone who cares about SV or startups.
I always find ISO9660 being abbreviated to ISO very amusing.
The MQ-9 Reaper is cost effective for counter insurgency missions but it requires reliable high-bandwidth remote control data links to operate. In any conflict with a peer adversary they will shoot down the communications satellites and jam other links, making such drones mostly useless.
Maybe you could get some ideas from https://www.websitecarbon.com/
from what i've heard the symptoms of omicron aren't very severe anyway. couple of recent videos from the last day or so are pretty encouraging
https://youtu.be/BtELl7-zE_w
https://youtu.be/5E6gpPJwYIY
THIS IS COMPLETELY MISLEADING. Telegram just provides group administrators with an option of preventing bad members from secretly forwarding messages to other chats, or to save them locally. It has nothing to do with digital rights, nor DRM. It is a privacy feature, not a copyright feature.
I wish there were a way to broadcast "I am a <hobbyist> in <area>" and generate a decentralized forum (i.e. phpbb 15 years ago). Growing up, all online friends lived hundreds of miles away; as an adult, all my friends have wildly different interests. Nowadays Discord is The Answer but it's not nearly as intimate as a good message board. Maybe that's a function of growing up, but I can't help but feel disillusioned that $someone hasn't come up with a good enough solution for my use case (San Diego retro computing/HAM/etc.) that isn't instantly inundated with real-life politics.
> There is a National Guard base nearby and it is so cool watching them do flybys on the small mountains.

I'm near a different A-10 base. I've noted that they've stepped up training flights during the last two weeks. I'm wondering if it's related to the Russian build up on the Ukrainian frontier. Have you noticed more flights?
This appears to be the MO for Altman. That’s what happened to his first [and only?] company he founded. Funny this can be called special favors. Cronyism seems more honest and apt.
> Yes, why not?

Security updates for one. People are always complaining about insecure IoT devices/routers that get conscripted into botnets. Dropping kernel support entirely compounds to manufacturer firmware negligence - meaning end users can't update to the latest Lineage/DD-WRT/OpenWRT firmware, even if they want to.

> Most software runs fine on 10 year old linux kernels.

If you had to wrangle with world of custom Android ROMs or open source router firmware - even as a user and not a developer - you know that software does not work fine on old kernels. Trying to support both old and new kernels is a royal pain, especially if you have add shims to support old kernels that lack new features.

I thank $DIETY for Linus' pragmatic approach, I trust him to balance user support against developer zealotry. I wonder how long it'll take for Linux to go to shit after he retires. Kernel notes for v42.3: dropped support for Risc-V. Remaining supported archs are x64 and ARMv21-24
I’d like to see the same. Your comment got me to think about it for a couple minutes. If another claim about LVT is true – that speculation is defeated and thus prices are driven downwards – then the most valuable land becomes more generally affordable. Because of that, you’ll see _more_ people able to move into cities. Perhaps then the city also grows naturally/securely (rather than sprawls).

You’ll still have people that prefer privacy and property, of course. But would a government need to or want to service them with roads and utilities? I think these are some of the “dynamic effects” hinted towards in the article. Anyway, though, the point is that more people can afford to live in the city.
Guess: e911 requires location to be sent. There is probably a special provide_e911_location intent that teams handles (makes sense. In an office environment it could add cubicle number, floor, etc). When not logged in, teams likely crashes (probably nobody tested this case), OS doesn’t handle that crash well. No call.
That may be the case in the abstract, but I'm not really talking about the abstract, and I'm not really trying to imply anything...except maybe that the Go compiler could be written in a friendlier and easier-to-modify way, possibly at some performance cost (which might not be worth it!).

That is, is there a particular quality of the Go language you can think of that necessitates only looking at the first two characters of tokens when hashing? Or that requires it to iterate only to `_Var` when generating the keyword map instead of the full length of the list?
I tend to agree, and definitely on the surface of it. But what about for example incentives to cut down on carbon emissions, how would you achieve those? Or stopping investors for buying up all the great real estate in an area and boost up the rent prices?

I believe that there needs to be some "punishment" taxes, to regulate things that might otherwise go out of hand (which is important in order for capitalism to function well). But I do recognize the issue that it's probably what has lead most governments down that exact path towards an overly complex taxation system.

Also I don't think you have to be "really hardcore" to support progressive taxation. It just makes sense. As long as it's not "overly progressive".

Edit: A too simple of a system makes it too easy to game the system. I wish there was a clear way out of it.
It's effectively illegal* in china to write unapproved stories about any government official or department or policy. I think that's what people mean when they say government dealings are 'secret'.

* i.e. to be a journalist you have to go through intense ideological screening; extreme prohibitions on foreign journalists operating in china; complete prior restraint on ALL media (and all education, all printing presses, communication technology, etc.)
Microsoft Seizes Domains Used by a Chinese Hacking Group
The land value on farm land is really low compared to urban land.

The status quo right now is that we tax farming -- a labor intensive job as you say -- with income (labor) taxes and sales taxes.

Shifting even partially to a land value tax would be a major savings for farmers.
My wife and I, along with our two girls, recently moved out of my MIL’s and into a building that serves as our home and my business (we do computer repair). During a wellness checkup, my youngest had to do a lead test because of the age of our new home (built in 1931), and they discovered she had lead in her system.

At the time it was at level 14, so they recommended we do some tests, and try to do our best to keep her away from any chipped paint. It was another four months until she was checked again, and we thought we had done so much better, but her level was up to 22. The health department had to come investigate.

Needless to say, our new home is covered in lead, and given our financial situation, this being my source of income and our home, we’re in a peculiar situation. We’ve got a lot of surfaces to treat, and her levels will take some time to go down. The building owner never informed us, and by law they’re not responsible for fixing any of it, but even so we’re not holding it against them.
Try something different.
Long View: Why Is China Pursuing Common Prosperity?
Honestly, I'm not trying to sound like I'm speaking in bad faith or provokingly, but why did you ever expect the top executives of a multi-million (or in this case, trillion) dollar corporation to care about anything but profits and their own well-being? It's just like Zuckerberg said, "Company over country".

I like to imagine those corporations as a machine with irs unique objective being profit. Every single thing that comes out of their mouths and every single action they perform is done with the expectation that it will sooner or later result in more profit. In this case, the equation came out as "the profit that Apple will earn as a result of this deal will compensate any loss of revenue that could be ever generated because of the public's reaction to it". And that's how it always works, period.
Jokes on you, consoles have also been out stock since forever.
Oh man, seeing "SQL Wizard" brought back memories. Thanks for sharing.