skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What matters now is that disingenuous Republicans like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are still pushing the bald faced lie that Reagan instead of Carter deserves credit for the release of the hostages.

https://www.vox.com/2016/1/25/10826056/reagan-iran-hostage-n...

>The Republican myth of Ronald Reagan and the Iran hostages, debunked

[...]

>"When I become president," Rubio claimed, "it will be like Ronald Reagan, where as soon as he took office, the hostages were released from Iran," because "our adversaries around the world will know that America is no longer under the command of someone weak like Barack Obama."

>Ted Cruz gave a remarkably similar statement the same day on Fox News, saying that the temporary seizure of the US sailors by Iran was "the direct result of the weakness of this presidency," and that "it’s worth remembering, this same nation, Iran, in 1981 released our hostages the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office."

>The problem with this story: Iran released the embassy hostages because of Carter's negotiations, not in spite of them.

[...]

>But Carter and his negotiators kept working through the very end of his presidency, and eventually, at the last possible moment, they succeeded. On January 19, 1981, the US and Iran signed the Algiers Accords, an agreement brokered by the Algerian government that secured the hostages' release in exchange for concessions by the US, including sanctions relief, the release of frozen Iranian assets, and the creation of the Iran–United States Claims Tribunal that would remove cases against Iran from US courts.

>The hostages were released the following day, January 20, 1981 — the day Reagan was inaugurated.

>In other words, Rubio and Cruz's version of events is straight-up false. The hostages were released in exchange for sizable concessions from the United States — exactly the sort of process they deride as weak — and not because Ronald Reagan was a tough and scary gentleman whose mere presence in the Oval Office panicked Khomeini into capitulating.

[...]
paulg, despite saying "There are aggressively conventional-minded people on both the right and the left", immediately follows that with a fixation on the left:

"The reason the current wave of intolerance comes from the left is simply because the new unifying ideology happened to come from the left. The next one might come from the right. Imagine what that would be like."

We don't need to imagine. We're over a year into a wave of moral panic from the right focusing on local school boards in the united states, in which they seek to purge reading materials dealing with subjects that make them uncomfortable, fire people for raising those subjects, and impose rules against raising those subjects, in some cases carrying criminal penalties.

Looking over at Russia, we see the worst case scenarios Paul references in the esssay playing out quite explicitly, today. The example of how we'll know we're really in trouble ("Damn right we're banning ideas, and in fact here's a list of them") and the example of Mao saying "There are heretics among us. Seek them out and punish them"? Putin and his followers have already entered that territory [1] [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/world/europe/putin-russia-ukraine-protests.html
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/09/world/europe/putin-russia-war-ukraine.html
While not exactly the idea in your post, this recent paper by Dubois, Bloem-Reddy, Ullrich, and Maddison on "Lossy Compression for Lossless Prediction" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10800) kinda gets at this idea.

From the abstract:

Most data is automatically collected and only ever "seen" by algorithms. Yet, data compressors preserve perceptual fidelity rather than just the information needed by algorithms performing downstream tasks. In this paper, we characterize the bit-rate required to ensure high performance on all predictive tasks that are invariant under a set of transformations, such as data augmentations...

Using these objectives, we train a generic image compressor that achieves substantial rate savings (more than 1000× on ImageNet) compared to JPEG on 8 datasets, without decreasing downstream classification performance.

Pretty cool stuff!
Microsoft was the very MS-DOS compiler vendor to support C++.

Zortech, Borland, Watcom, Metaware all beat Microsoft to it, which released their first support on Microsoft C/C++ 7.0, their very last MS-DOS compiler.
Modern tools like Overleaf are great, especially for collaboration. But it's still extremely annoying having to google every little thing like "how can I move this element on the slide a bit to the right?" or even things that you'd expect would be easier in a software designed for mathematicians like "how can I format this common type of math problem (eg an optimization problem) nicely?". Plain LaTeX's overall useability has strong 80's vibes and the output does look nice, but imho doesn't justify the effort (especially given that the competition like Word has really come of age wrt to equation editing). If it wasn't for tools like Overleaf I might have ditched it, but there is also strong peer pressure in math-heavy fields to keep using it.
https://archive.ph/i5qBZ
Real formal verification in Rust is basically waiting for a proper formal model of Rust semantics (including semantics of "unsafe"). This is one of the most unappreciated things about Rust's future potential, AIUI; the only language in common use that supports both systems-level programming and formal proof is ATS.
This isn’t entirely true. The software that a GPU supports (DX version, etc) is directly tied to certain specifics about the hardware. Have a look at the “Shader model comparisons” to see an example of this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Level_Shader_Language
Is Phil a pseudonym first name as well? That’s a smart new technique if so.
All versions came like that.
> there is surely a case to answer as to whether the vaccinations have caused harm

Answer: they reduced harmful outcomes by orders of magnitude. It is stupid to suggest that this is in question.

Nothing is harmless. Obviously a few people had bad reactions to the vaccine. Obviously it is not 100% effective. But those numbers a nothing compared to the reduction in unnecessary deaths and unnecessarily shortened, taste-free, mentally-fogged, or otherwise harmed lives.
Obviously we are going off a very small snippet. I agree that if this is a personalized human written snippet, that is a different situation.

I suspect this is a bulk sent marketing campaign. That is not ok.
Curious how you define terrible in this case. Doesn't the fact that you spent so much time in the browser that you had to look for alternatives mean that it was in fact too good?
> somewhat slow, very defensive

I would say those are strengths.
If you're using Org-ref, and have used that to drill down into your
pdfs then you always have the document context (and bibtex etc
context) from within emacs. But I don't think that is the OPs use
case, so apologies for the noise. Also careful use of unix find with
pdfgrep can be handy.
If you're smart about what you permit on it, it works well. I only have messages, phone calls (rare events anymore), informational things (weather, maps, and such), some audiobooks and music, and tracking things (for sports and athletics). When I leave the phone behind, I'm still reachable but find myself much more engaged with wherever I am than when I have the phone. Even better if you leave the headphones behind (which I don't always during exercises and such, but do the rest of the time).
I think they are terrible.
> maybe I'm just old-fashioned but I just have a few folders for paper notes

paper, like.. pieces of paper.. yes, that is old-fashioned! however, in deep math, maybe this is something.. I was told after attending a world-class lecture week in pure math, that it is common for PhDs and post-docs in math to have very little to talk about between each other.. since their interest and subject area is almost certainly deeply buried in some specialty. Aside from the quip "all roads lead to cryptography" perhaps just an excuse for certain people, I can see how this "different worlds" problem in post-doc math might be real..

The fellow writing this post is first-year however.. maybe its different.. Also I just cloned and built pdfgrep .. I am definitely going to try that out immediately .. thx!
Unfortunately those works create the compiler in C, whereas this work is done in python. In particular "Retargetable C Compiler" spends a huge amount of space dealing with managing data in C and not much on compiling.
...What? The comment you're replying to is pretty explicitly arguing the exact opposite of what you claim it is.

"People will be ok with this restriction because it's similar to this earlier clearly correct restriction."
It smells, China systematically prepare to seize Taiwan, so will got extremely hard sanctions, and they create their own CPUs, GPUs.
>streamlined enough for one person to excute in 2022.

How so? I would like to know such streamline processes.
It's already on nightly: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/lazy/struct.Lazy.html
While on rivers... Ribble, Ouse, Humber and probably others all apparently mean river as well
Ah true - the longer the execution time the more money they make.
If you want to be self employed and have the skills then sure, why not. But if you want to go into the treadmill as a junior, feel entirely out of touch with the rest of your team and will be expected to keep up with learning new tech every 3 months then maybe focus on your strengths already developed and use programming as an extra tool in your toolbox rather than as the main means to generate income.
> 4) This is probably a political or anti-vax screed.

I understand you saying that.

My 'screed' is truth. I confess I do not trust my government to provide me the truth. It seems to me that the way the data is gathered and presented is not seem to be open or clear. Given that, I am interested to read what others are able to uncover from the bits of data that are provided.

> most of the people getting sick are vaccinated because most of the people breathing are vaccinated. As another writer pointed out - tally outcomes not infections.

I take that point - but as I said re the NZ data, its not clear that it is a tally. For me though, if 70-90% of people getting ill are vaccinated as you say, that's terrible! What is the value of a vaccine? According to the definition of vaccination I hold to (and I know this has been conveniently changed), very few should become ill once vaccinated. And since when do we have so many vaccinations, in such a short time? This is all new science, as far as I am concerned.

Why did governments take such a hard line, locking people in their houses for a year, preventing unvaccinated people from travelling, locking down the world economy, etc? None of it makes sense.
Coding vs. programming: What is the difference?
You don't need a button for essential cookies. Essential cookies can be set without the user's consent. The popups are for non-essential cookies, like analytics, ads, etc.
Ask HN: I read comments before the article, do you?
I find myself reading the comments on HN before the articles most of the time...
It usually brings a better/shorter description and decent reaction.

Only when I don't fully understand the arguments then I read the article
Also: they are running Google Cloud at a loss which at some level means that they are selling compute below costs which would suggest that Google could be paying more.
Floating solar panel installations are already in use. They operate at much higher conversion efficiency than desert panels, and reduce biofouling in the reservoir.

You don't need flat ground for solar. A south-facing slope is strictly better.

You are really reaching for objections now:
It is universal practice to rotate herds between pastures. You would build in a pasture that livestock are not in this week. You might even build in winter when they are inside.
This is their second demonstration in Germany.

They have freedom, democracy, and full access to uncensored media. Who do they support? President "Putrid".

Some days humanity is just cause for despair.
Agreed! I'm planning to update it in a few weeks with additional features including real-time 'multiplayer'.
My understanding is Cake was used for the 1st and 2nd generation, but all the Wi-Fi 6 models of eero (6, 6+, Pro 6, Pro 6E) use fq_codel. It’s optional, off by default, and hidden under eero labs as a beta feature under the name “optimize for conferencing and gaming”

No idea what usage of that feature is like, but there’s a lot of chatter about it on r/eero, mostly positive. That subreddit is probably more technical than the average eero user though.
Are your domains set up correctly? That sounds suspiciously like something isn't set up correctly and their client's thought it was spam.
Unfortunately I couldn’t read the article due to the cookies banner…
Simply categorizing human beings as conventional vs unconventional and passive vs aggressive, and then establishing an enemy in one quadrant is an example. Unconventional people are the victims, aggressively conventional people are the others.

I think the thing Paul really has a problem with is social brigading and mobs attacking people unfairly. Which is fine; but you can make that argument without painting yourself or people like you as a victim. Otherwise you’re just using the same tactic mobs use.

We’re all guilty of this to different degrees because social media algorithms are finely-tuned to propagate outrage and we’re being conditioned to respond to and generate said outrage. I think the way out of the loop is to recognize this pattern and try to break it.
Am I wrong or does this prevent the author from using any website that saves user state?

Like, I'm considering adding preferences to my game dudo.ai, and maybe saving the score from visit to visit (like Wordle does), but then I would have to add a cookie banner and I would lose people like the author.
People working remotely can write very slow and complex bug trackers too, you know...
This is a great study: the code isn't that large, and it is rather straightforward compared to looking at today's GCC. Thanks for putting this up!
What’s wrong with TOTP? Isn’t it exactly as secure as WebAuthN?
Needs (2006) in the title.
They are ridiculous. They serve literally no consumer purpose, they are just a silly compliance measure.

What I'd much rather see is a clear way to set cookie preferences in the browser. It still wouldn't be perfect because it would require some knowledge, and no doubt some lame websites would beg you to enable cookies, but it's a much more reasonable solution than the nonsense we have now.
" in good districts "

And therein is one of the bigger problems.
I worked on code where we had to be careful about this - but this was even before Windows 10. It was an issue with XP, Vista, 7, etc., because they didn't follow the "year" convention, so you couldn't check the version (which you might do with old enough software to be sure that it was running on an OS that your small team could support) by just using the marketing version and some clever `version >= 98` logic.
A sort-of related idea is: How small can an image of a human face be and still be recognizable? I remember X-face images from mail headers years ago -- these were just 48 x 48 x 1 pixel images, i.e., just 288 bytes (yes, bytes, not KB or MB). I marveled that the faces were indeed recognizable. I wish I could find an example of an X-face of a famous person (or even an unknown person) to give as an example here, but this seems to be one of those things that are ungoogleable.
You are projecting far too much.
Grad School in most STEM fields will look equally gibberish to you, so your question is almost like asking "Why do people do research?". The answer is to learn things that we didn't know before. In most STEM fields it's about how the world works, in math you discover eternal truths, which is pretty cool too.
The vast majority of nuclear power plants weren't funded privately.
This raised a bigger question for me- How did the system get to a point where only big players can set up a service like this?
I want to like Helm (mine is temporarily in storage), but there doesn't seem to be any way to run the rest of Nextcloud on it.

It's great that you don't have to start rolling your own cloud, but it would be a better offering for me if you could decide to tinker with it.
> When examined side by side with European emissions standards, the economics of CAFE become more transparent. EU are relatively straight forward by comparison. Tailpipe CO2 emissions are measured and a de facto consumption tax is levied based on a vehicle’s output.

One downside of this is that it encourages diesel. While diesel has a less CO2 emissions, it tends to have a lot of other very harmful emissions. These can be regulated but companies do cheat (see VW).
You just need to make it obvious that saving these preferences will cause some state to be written to the client browser, and not use this state for any other purpose than what the user consented to. Placing a “these preferences will be saved in a cookie” next to the respective save button is enough.

Cookie banners aren’t a requirement, they’re a legal consultant meme with a dash of dark patterns.
If you have a basic idea of how high availability apps and databases work and you write code that isn't woefully inefficient, it's trivial.

Lambda scales pretty much infinitely. EC2 autoscaling instances behind a load balancer provide a ton of horsepower. Throw in a CDN where it is appropriate.

Some of those terms are AWS specific but you can do the same on other providers.

Even basic configurations of old school relational databases can scale up pretty darn far before you have to worry about them.
That's the tricky thing. Wifi6 is not the same as 6E. The "E" means its capable of operating in the 6GHz band.
Because Amtrak is still too convenient, right?
It got MUCH slower about... 7 years? back when it went all javascript-y; it seems to have mostly slowly improved since then, though it's still pretty slow.
> but I question how many of our rights we can really, actually give up in a contract.

Theoretically, probably none. Otherwise, you'd be able to hire a hitman on yourself, have slaves, or restrict a person's free speech because they're an employee.
I generally call out those hangups in a hiring loop. If the manager has that concern, that manager can get on the horn with the candidate and find out if they'd actually have that issue, or the recruiter. Hell the manager should have hit on that DURING the loop or the phone screen. Don't guess on behalf of the candidate, ask.
Discord "Wait!" anti-scam attempt:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/711974054088933446/96...
>There are always some heresies — some opinions you'd be punished for expressing. But there are a lot more now than there were a few decades ago

I see this sentiment expressed often to the point where it seems to just be accepted as true without the need to provide proof. Is anyone familiar with a methodology that attempts to examine this view with more rigor other than just, "boy it seems like more people are being cancelled these days"?
Crossovers and SUVs are not station wagons.
Microsoft has bought some software from other companies, most famously the operating system which became MS-DOS (from Seattle Computer Products), but in their early years compilers and interpreters were their core ability.

I do not remember that they have bought any CP/M compiler.

In any case, I can guarantee that the Microsoft Fortran compiler was written by the same people who had written the Microsoft Basic interpreter.

I have disassembled both the MS Fortran and the MS Basic for CP/M, and they shared many unusual tricks.

For example both Microsoft programs included machine instructions that were executed with different meanings, depending on whether the instruction was entered sequentially or by a jump in the middle of the instruction.

A frequent use of this technique was for skipping the first instruction of a loop, when the loop was executed the first time (e.g. for skipping the incrementing of the loop counter after the initial value is assigned to it).

This was done by using a 3-byte load-register-with-immediate-value instruction, which loaded a 16-bit register with a 2-byte constant, but then the register was not used, so the load had the effect of a NOP.

At the end of the loop, there was a jump to the initial load instruction, but not to its beginning, but 1 byte later. So starting from the second execution of the loop what had initially been interpreted as 16-bit constant to be loaded in a register, was interpreted as an operation code and executed.

The net effect of the trick was that the program code was shorter by 2 bytes for each occurrence of the trick, in comparison with a program written in the standard way, where a jump instruction would have been needed to skip the first instruction of the loop.

The trick had the added benefit that it would confuse naive automatic disassemblers, which would attempt to disassemble sequentially, instead of disassembling by tracing the execution.
>Nuclear economics analysis shows that if you actually have a real industry with lots of people experienced in such plants, they become much, much cheaper and far more predictable on timeline.

Yeah and then the nuclear advocates build monolithic plants that last 50 years, exactly enough time for all the people involved to retire and not pass on their knowledge.
Text alone is already a painful domain [1][2] and text is just a small subset of the full UI domain.

--

[1] https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/

[2] https://lord.io/text-editing-hates-you-too/
Anecdatapoint: I publish my email address in plaintext on my website and I receive very little spam. People are way overthinking the impact of putting their email addresses out there.
Decent exploration of the forces and considerations behind "authoritative recommendations", such as whether to get vaccinated for COVID, or wear a mask.

I think this misses out bad faith actors in the audience. It would seem that a certain segment of US national leadership wanted pandemic control efforts to fail, and worked towards that failure, so as to be able to make political gains from the failure, by blaming the current administration.
It's important to note that the victims of the forced organ harvesting are political prisoners or "prisoners of conscience", such as Falun Gong and Uyghurs.
https://chinatribunal.com/final-judgment/
for your info, what I said - with context - was:

> If they were down in the first, but up in the second, there is surely a case to answer as to whether the vaccinations have caused harm.

"If"

I didn't say they have caused harm, I'm saying we don't know. We don't have the data to know. But in the spirit of truth, this would be worth investigating.
I hated Evernote ever since it decided it wanted to be a platform instead of a note taking tool. It was useful in the early days, then it became a gigantic, bloated, ever changing mess that was always trying to get me to use it in ways I didn't need.
Wish I had ditched it much earlier to be honest.

These days I use VSCode Notes, a pretty minimal extension that suits the way I work.
The solution is emacs. I know you’ve got a lot invested in vim already. You can get instant LaTeX rendering with AUCTeX, view the pdf in emacs with pdf-tools, which can be used with something like org-ref (there are many bibliography packages) to query a db with the DOI of the pdf. (Try saying that two times fast). This EmacsConf talk should give you a taste of what I mean:

https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/research/

Your old post with instantly rendering latex snippets actually inspired me to start using vim/LaTeX. This opened up a whole new world for me. I started programming, got back into my engineering degree, started using emacs/org-mode and have nearly finished the degree. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I don’t know what I’d be doing if I hadn’t seen your post. It revealed a way of using computers that I had never seen before.