skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aha, it's Sid Meier's "Covert Action" rule, discussed here[1] by someone who seems similarly as skeptical of it as I am.

[edit]

Reading that article more, it goes on to discuss ludologists vs. narratavists. It seems like SC2 that has the strategy as strongly narrative (the developers reported that they originally had procedurally generated planets, but ditched it because it wasn't as fun), while the tactics are more ludological(is that a word?) in the sense that many battles are random, so you'll have to play the matchups you get.

1: https://www.filfre.net/2017/03/whats-the-matter-with-covert-...
Next week it will be Zig then
Specification isn't being followed is of course useless. But yeah, tests are definitely useless and in the absence of the spec is the only sane way to approach such rewrite.
Definitely not. It's the regulation of capitalism that is driving this. This is why the countries where capitalism is most heavily regulated (nordic countries, some european countries) are cited throughout the article. Capitalism on its own with no regulation just devolves into corporate dystopia and corruption because the short term path of least resistance is always taken. When we experience progress it's because of thousands of well thought out regulations that steer capitalism, perhaps kicking and screaming, towards actual technological and societal progress. Conversely, when public policy is dictated by lobbyists and corporate interests, wealth disparity increases and progress ceases. Those that say "but capitalism is all about disrupting and innovating" are wrong -- capital will only innovate if it has no other choice. It would much prefer to simply buy out, price-fix, monopolize, crush via economies of scale, bribe, silence naysayers, acquire, etc., because these tactics and any tactics that maintain the status quo in which the corporation has been able to become successful are superior if left unregulated. If the only options you leave on the table for capital to take are options that are good for society, then you will see society improve.

Imagine how much we could progress technologically, culturally, and societally if we were able to 100% remove corporate influence over politics and create regulations and guardrails that reward innovation and punish monopolization and exploitation.
From the point of the corporate hierarchy, by definition you are not successful if you do not have an executive rank. Therefore only those who have been fermented in the vat, can be considered successful.
> I can't give a cite for the following

Because this did not actually happen.
I am stuck with a delicate balancing act around this one.

Our organization arguably would not exist today if it were not for developers doing "too much" work on things before bothering others. Our product would certainly be worthless trash today if we had to design by committee for every feature. We took extraordinary risks that simply could not have been planned into reality. Most of those risks were taken by individual contributors without anyone being explicitly aware of the magnitude of those risks.

There is a price to be paid for asking permission. Especially if your team members lack the same vision/ambition and are unable to conceptualize the path you laid out. Clearly, this is a problem for both parties, but it is a big reason to sometimes go off on your own, build a whole goddamn thing in peace, and then show it to the team. When others see a complete solution, even if its not 100% what the business wanted, it makes the conversation substantially more productive. It's the fear of the unknown/unseen that makes project managers nervous in my experience. Why start a hard thing at all if the conclusion is ambiguous at best?

On the other hand, we lost ~4 major customers to technical iterations over time. This was something we could have avoided by polishing what we had at the time. Problem is, that thing we would have polished was an abject failure in terms of strategic sustainability for the organization and our customers at scale.
Wouldn't there be 1000 options?
According to wiki, there were 15 model 91s, 4 kept by IBM and the rest went to customers including NASA. There were two 95s and both went to NASA (and really the 95 was a 91 with a different RAM technology but the same CPU).

That lines up with my source who started his career doing simulation and analysis of rocket propellent in micro gravity for the tail end of the Apollo program and some of the initial work for the space shuttle.
Pointless unless it now marks lots, or pastures for animals. You've never see a fence or wall to delimit the upper pasture from the lower pasture? Or to mark the area where you leave trees to grow rather than weed them as samplings, thus forming a woodlot for future generations. Stone fences in days gone by were probably very desirable say as cover when fighting the British during the revolution. Original reasons may be obsolete, but it doesn't make future reasons invalid.
I’m also thinking along these lines. With little to no knowledge of the domain (other than being human) a lot of life seems to come down to referencing which subsystem or set of subsystems to use in a given situation and training them over time. Like yes - we need the ‘make small talk with checkout operator’ skill in this situation
Learning how double-entry accounting works is both very simple and extremely useful for understanding any finance related topics.
I wonder if there were some sort of metric that could account for parity in the power in purchasing between two locations?
I currently have a Pixel 5a. I got it via the Google Fi "Subscribe and Save" option, which works out to a pretty decent discount from the retail price on top of paying it in installments over 2 years.

I don't know how many of these subscriptions Google is selling, but it will be interesting to see what happens in when a bunch of Google Fi customers start becoming eligible for their upgrade to a new phone subscription around November 2023.

Will customers upgrade immediately to the then presumably extant 'Pixel 7a', or wait?

If customers wait for the next (hypothetically, a 'Pixel 8a') model to come out, will that actually be offered as an upgrade, or will the upgrade offer stick to the older model for a while?

Because of these unknowns, the calculation the customers have to make is interesting: On the one hand, the 5a should still have almost another year of updates, so not upgrading immediately is viable and saves money, and if you wait your upgrade may be to a newer phone.

But, if the '7a' remains the upgrade offer for a while even after the '8a' comes out, what is gained from maxing out the life of the 5a phone at the tail end is lost from shortening the life of the '8a' upgrade from the head end.
mitilicu' :-))
I fully agree with you but I'd suggest simply adding the word "only" before "just" in the title, I think that's missing.

I.e.: "The end of poverty has only just begun"
My application Datasette can serve this need: https://datasette.io/

Lots of live demos - two of my favourites are https://github-to-sqlite.dogsheep.net/ and https://global-power-plants.datasettes.com/
I do. I recommend it as a way to avoid thinking Haskell is magic, which a lot of people seem to be convinced of. GHC has pretty good desugared printing options.

I'm not sure how to view asm for HotSpot or a JavaScript engine though.
I'd probably use fibers, like node-fibers used to do. The problem is V8 stopped supporting fibers a few versions ago. We'd have to hack support back in. That's something we probably could get done but I'm not exactly excited about it. :)
Dr. Jason Hickel has—I think—a pretty fair criticism of these graphs [1], that I'll try to summarize here:

1. Treating "poverty" as a binary "yes/no" thing, where having > $1.90/day suddenly alleviates you from poverty seems like a bit of a stretch. $1.90/day is probably way too low a number to cover adequate nutrition, shelter, and basic human needs.

2. While the percentage of people in poverty by this measure has decreased, the total number of people is probably more important. And that number has actually increased in the past 40 years.

3. They didn't start collecting these numbers since 1981. All numbers prior to 1981 are highly dubious.

4. It ignores the effects of colonialism. Many people went from living lives with little need for money to one totally dependent on it. Enclosure of what once were public resources has eliminated many non-monetary forms of wealth these people once had.

5. Related to 4, it's not clear that going from a pre-monetary system to a much more capitalist system where money is necessary for virtually everything is an improvement. Especially when that transition was brought about by the threat of violence.

6. Virtually all of this reduction in extreme poverty occurred in China, which makes the notion that this was a triumph of capitalism / neoliberalism kind of silly.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/29/bill-g...
Once you are in the workplace shouldn't you already be an adult by that point?
Title was very badly massacred
Don't resist too hard, I don't want you to have an aneurysm!
that's exactly how TF.js does it: https://github.com/google/XNNPACK/blob/master/src/f32-gemm/M...
It's not SCIENCE until somebody replicates the OP's results.
In a just world, companies such as this lender would not only lose the money they loaned, but would be liable for the vast amounts of time and grief they caused a completely unrelated individual.

Only then might we get a financial system which is robust against ID theft. While the costs are externalized to countless individuals, nothing will change.
It is always nice to see such narratives based on robust data. For similar stories backed by data I can also recommend the book "Factfulnes" by Hans Rosling [1].

When we talk about basic needs, our global community is making tremendous progress. At the same time, we should not forget that the same system that abolishes poverty also creates enormous inequality, which not only makes people unhappier, but also leads to enormous social tensions within whole societies. So while we should be celebrating the decline in poverty, we are somewhat also left with a sour taste about the side effects that occur.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34890015-factfulness
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> It’s mild. Everybody is getting it and that strains hospitals but it’s a mild illness and many infected people won’t even be tested let alone seek treatment.

It really is not. It's mild to double- and triple-vaccinated individuals living in highly vaccinated populations. They get the shot, they brush it aside

The poor souls who didn't managed to get vaccinated, or didn't wanted to, represent the bulk of the hospitalized population and deaths.

The key factor is that the world has spent the last year bulking on vaccines, precisely to allow any infection to be at most mild. And now that we're seeing highly vaccinated populations being exposed and developing mostly mild cases are we now supposed to pretend that vaccines don't exist and the disease suddenly got tame? In whose head does this even compute?
> With that said: the order is clearly impossible to execute.

It is clearly possible to execute, it would just require much higher costs per image that ClearView processes and the probable need for ClearView to avoid using any images that they can't verify the location of in am economical fashion.

Saying it is "impossible" is different from saying that the costs of compliance would fundamentally change ClearView's business model.
Serious question for any lawyers out there: why isn't there more serious recourse for consumers when credit agencies commit libel?

If Equifax issues a report saying that I owe X, and I contact them with proof that this was a fraudulent loan, and they continue issuing that report... how is this not criminal libel?
I’m very far from being a rust expert but it was difficult to build a bi-directional graph because it’s difficult to connect the nodes together. A simple recursive algorithm will not work. I ended up using a crate.

I found the following article interesting on the topic :
https://aminb.gitbooks.io/rust-for-c/content/graphs/
Apple foresaw this and made the appropriate investments because they explicitly value device longevity. Google could easily do the same.
And then you face Go's usual awkward issues with having a lack of generics which becomes important when, say, traversing a tree.
Capitalism is one tool in the economic toolkit. Capitalism isn't the only economic system, or even the only free-market economic system, just a very popular one. I wouldn't say a hammer builds a house, even if it is very useful. If poverty will be eliminated, my first guess is that humans will ultimately be the ones to do it.
I always ask myself when someone makes a definitive statement if they actually have a way of knowing that. That detector has been off the charts this whole pandemic. The usual suspects proclaimed Omicron was 'mild' whatever that actually means well before any data was available to show either way.

It's looking more and more like Omicron isn't mild. In particular it's producing worse infections in children. Not to mention it's immune escape means it's infecting vaccinated people. Mild infection in vaccinated people vs no infection in vaccinated people as you had with other variants.
Hi "cx". If you skim this page you'll notice the predominant personas and their own-domain email use-cases. Something like: 1 domain, 10 aliases, ability to send/receive messages. So, why don't you create a "Google Workspace Rescue" plan at $1/$2 per month? I'm a potential customer myself, and it seems to me that the free plan lacks functionality and the Premium is too resourceful (at a $9 tag). Just adding my 2 cents.
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This sort of evidence-free conspiracy-theory cynicism is common these days. I don't think it's helpful.
The reality is that it's not your call, it's the customer's call, and you need to stop trying to make a decision for the customer. Let them tell you what they want.
My first thought that this would be a naturally occurring phenomena with inflation, but it appears all their analysis over time have adjusted for inflation.
I think it's more than that, it has something to do with its consistency. You can find recipes to make your own and they all use a seemingly ridiculous amount of salt.
It’s way past time for banks to start taking responsibility for issuing fraudulent loans. If someone else takes out a loan using my information, it shouldn’t even remotely be my problem to help clean up, and it shouldn’t involve me at all. This is between the bank and the fraudster.

Even the term “identity theft” is slimy: deftly deflecting blame from the negligent bank, trying to draw an unrelated 3rd party into the mix by nominating him as the “theft victim.”
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Just so we don't misunderstand, are you saying you actively chew lead?
Of course. You are taught about it quite early on. The earliest I can remember is around the 3rd or 4th grade. Usually brought into context with Abraham Lincoln as president.
Not to be a doomsday troll, but climate change seems to throw a big question mark in terms of basic food security especially non-industrialized.

See Afghanistan drought right now. I'm sure we can solve those problems with enough money and tech, but we could do that right now and feed millions but we choose not too.
The Stanford folks are claiming that the functional MRI would be useful, but I'm inclined to believe that you're right.
Governments should have instituted a lot more regulations a thousand years ago to eliminate poverty.
I will answer your question with another leading question: What do you think created poverty in the first place?
There were approximately 15 Model 91s produced. The Computer History Museum has the console from one, and the Living Computers Museum has another.

The Model 95 was the even more rare version with thin-film memory instead of core memory. Only two of them were produced, for NASA.

The Model 195 was a reimplementation of the Model 91 with "monolithic" integrated circuits instead of hybrid SLT modules. The System 370/195 was very similar to the System 360/195. Curiously, the System 360/195 has the black styling of System/370 control panels, rather than the beige control panel of System/360.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_91#Models...
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

This article is an interview with an architect who designs offices for large corporations. He has to believe this, otherwise he's out of a job.
They're not bad these days if they're predictable. There's a code size cost, but there's also a cost to emitting all the cleanups and exception safety too.

For instance Swift doesn't have exceptions - it has try/catch but they simply return, though with a special ABI for error passing.
That's how Arm already works! The customers help to set the roadmap.

There's also prior art in RISC-V
Hehe. Always have a "Kill" Switch...
You project a lot.
If they used the OECD's PPP, which they probably did, it includes rent.
Then I get:

.file "test.c"
.text
.globl fn
.type fn, @function
fn:
.LFB0:
.cfi_startproc
pushq %rbp
.cfi_def_cfa_offset 16
.cfi_offset 6, -16
movq %rsp, %rbp
.cfi_def_cfa_register 6
popq %rbp
.cfi_def_cfa 7, 8
ret
.cfi_endproc
.LFE0:
.size fn, .-fn
.ident "GCC: (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.4) 4.8.4"
.section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits

No thanks.
Now's a great time to discuss the bot factor on music and other industries
For people who don't like MARC formatting either:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/25/11

https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt
Seems like they're just trying to prevent spoilers for the existing wordle game?
Also rocking a Pixel 2 (XL) 128GB here, even recently swapped the battery and its like new again. Replacing it with an equivalent or better phone would cost a good bit of money.

What security issues should I be concerned about? It's difficult to spend the time going through the CVE database to figure this out, I see a lot of privilege escalation issues but I don't install apps that I don't trust anyway. I still get browser updates. I care less about the bugs and more about the attack vectors.
There really should be an investigatory process when credit is fraudulently taken out in someone else's name.

How did the company get duped into making the loan? If the answer is something like "we treated an SSN as identification", that company should lose the right to be a credit issuer.
In practice I don't see it as a big deal.

On the x86 side generally one of the vendors makes a new extension and then once it's shown that there's value, their legal teams get together and cross license. The world hasn't fallen apart.

I agree that ARM has more controls, but disagree that those controls have value.
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The issue is that the moment you cross the boundary into some other language (and note that this usually includes the APIs provided by the OS!), the caller and the callee have to agree on how green threads work.

It's not an issue with explicit async/await model, because that one desugars into callbacks, which can be described entirely in terms of the already-existing C ABI that is the baseline for FFI in any modern language.
I wouldn’t use that to justify deploying thought-terminating cliches.
> A government that governs without consent of the governed is illegitimate.

This is not exactly a mainstream viewpoint.

> For a crystal-clear example, the south under Jim Crow. Unfair laws, unfair enforcement of laws, but I'd be hard-pressed to argue that many of those governments did not have the consent of most of who they governed.

But in the other direction, it's trivially easy to argue that many major governments did not have the consent of the governed. e.g. the Qing dynasty was hated by the Chinese people it ruled.

The consent of the governed is not even a theoretically valid concept as applied to large groups. You rule through force.
With hindsight it was sure exciting but not really fun.

There was huge pressure to get the machine back up again. An outage might mean that an entire bank branch was down, or that payroll could not be run. The CEO could be looking over your shoulder. That kind of pressure saps the fun quickly.

Also the bugs could be very, very hard hard to find. In room-sized machines like 3033 for example, there are many thousands of signal leads (trileads) that were many yards long. A slightly bad connection could cause electrical ringing and highly intermittent errors that were excruciatingly difficult to reproduce, let alone to find and fix.

Intermittent errors were common and brutal. You could think you'd fixed it, only to have another crash a few hours later. A common debugging technique was to swap cards around and see if the bug moved. Just doing that often introduced new bugs.

In latter years the role of the on-site engineer was reduced, and often you would be a lacky for some remote engineer back in the plant where the machine was built.
> In fact, only about 70 percent of it is truly derestricted, while the rest of the Autobahn has a speed limit of 100 kph (62 mph).

That's wrong, speed limits vary between 80, 100, 120 and 130 km/h on the restricted sections. 120 and 130 km/h being more common.
At what point do we stop using the term RISC (particularly amusing is using it in CHERI since it's a nested acronym), when we're adding stuff to the ISA that used to be considered too much even for CISC architectures? ;-)
It saddens me that I grew up during this time but never availed myself of any of these resources. What a lift that would've been to my lifelong quest to discover my own sound.

Nah, back then I just used LimeWire to download fake Weird Al Yankovic songs.

Though, I did discover the Avalanches because a guildmate I met while playing an MMO sent me the MP3 in MSN Messenger.
> Previously worked full-time in the office, but the last two years have really shown me how much better my life is wfh.

100% agree, I insist on Remote only roles now. I did before the pandemic. There's plenty of remote jobs here in the UK. Does it have to be Banking/Finance?
Although it's said that call/cc is a poor abstraction that's too powerful, and it'd be better to have its components instead.

https://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/against-callcc.html
An experienced manager is not easy to bullshit regardless. Sometimes a non-technical manager is better for many reasons. Having business domain experience can be just as valuable
And how many PCI-E cards do you think this comment took to reach my screen?
> Remember FairPlay?

Was FairPlay the name of the rootkit they'd install if you tried to play one of their audio CDs in a Windows PC?
I spoke with ARM employees last summer and although it was not mentioned aloud, it was obvious the process had been started the make the bride pretty for the IPO.
In what sense is it completely unsecured? As far as I can tell the data partition at least is protected and installing another OS should require wiping this partition.

I mean given unfettered physical access someone could conceivably install malicious hard/software in it which might spy on you in other ways, but it takes some very strict security requirements for that to be an issue.
The irony, of course, is that everyone's reaction to hearing about the bittering agent is to immediately lick a cartridge to taste it for themselves.
To customers: "Uncover leads, insights, & relationships you never knew existed."

To regulators: "Where did all these pictures come from? It's impossible to say."
If you buy a Pixel 6 today you get OS updates until October 2024 and security updates until October 2026 which is shown on Google support pages. Similar to if you were to buy an iOS device except you'd only have past experience to go off because they won't actually promise you anything.