skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In a case like this, where some journalists believe in a story and others don't, but neither side has won the debate (yet), the story should be published and discussed.

No, these are not viable standards. First of all, Greenwald was 100% free to publish and discuss the story. Just not on Twitter. Secondly, the criteria is not "do some journalists believe in a story", but "is there actually evidence that the story is true". Greenwald had no more evidence than anyone else, it just "felt right" to him, and so he believed it. Nobody stopped him from talking about it (nobody seems to be able to stop Greenwald from talking about anything, really). A private corporation decided that it did not want to play a role in this story without more evidence that it may be true. The threshold is not "is there a journalist who believes it (because there more or less always is).
Reading the story, to call this "ransomware" is a bit of a stretch. Reminds me a bit of those spam websites that would tell you that you had a virus on your machine, and prevent you from navigating away using Javascript.

The biggest "scam" I see on the app store is the lack of guardrails for subscription apps. Even the most basic apps now want you to "subscribe" to their app for $X/mo. There are the obvious scams out there (Icon pack that charges $99/week subscription) but my real gripe is most apps now, even those that are seemingly offline and don't have ongoing costs for a developer, also have a subscription. Like sorry dude, I'm not paying you $2.99/month to use an OFFLINE notes app.
Personal devices are practically an extension of one’s brain in that it is a key part of most people’s thought processes. Speeding this up globally is a holy mission.
> by deign of grievance.

What you call a grievance is someone's life.

> You should absolutely be allowed to make terrible jokes about that, people are also allowed to tell you you're not funny.

And you might face consequences for telling jokes that aren't funny and are offensive. Tell a racist joke at work, and there are decent odds you'll lose your job.
even easier would be to have avx 512 be micro coded for the small cores. most of avx512 can be emulated pretty easily.
> This comes up all the time that "you can't make edgy jokes anymore", but it isn't true.

What would be your explanation for Nimesh Patel being removed from stage at Columbia?

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/former-snl-writer-nimesh...
Good luck in your next adventure and a big thank you for all your past work, blogs, tools and books. Much appreciated and helpful in my work.
Paul Graham claiming to be left wing is some comical stuff.
That was the way it was done for years and years, and it's poor performance is why we have much better, but still flawed, ways of interviewing these days.
Your first link notes a slowing down of immigration to US 2017-2020. I wonder why? Your second link is claiming data from the US as having the most foreign born residents.. From 2006. Although that hasn't changed in recent years. US immigration is, like many things, at a historic peak because population size is at a historic peak. Percentage-wise, foreign born immigrants make of a record high proportion of the US population, probably due in large part, again, to our declining birthrates. Our population is aging at record rates as well, and our dependency ratio is increasing. We'd better hope immigration continues, or who is going to take care of all the old folks? There are economic consequences to declining and aging population.
You are free to mock non-binary people, though. And others are free to call you a bigot. Both of those comport with a right to say whatever you want.
Working in the financial industry as well, not as a contractor but within the organisation itself.

To add to the above (everything is quite the same in my case): pasting medium chunks of data to external websites is restricted on the system level, same for uploading documents/images; emails to non-corporate addresses are scanned.
It's more than it sounds like.

As you can see from the breakdown someone posted [0], almost two-thirds of the Firefox codebase is HTML / JavaScript / Python (for tests) / assembly / Java (for Android), none of which is a candidate for being rewritten in Rust to begin with.

If you just look at the portion written in native system languages, Rust is slightly more than 1/3 of that code already and still climbing.

[0] https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/
Android hardware is behind, but I don't mind it that much. M1 made Android development finally nice on a laptop though. Before this it was a massive slog if you couldn't use a desktop machine, but developing on M1 is joyous. And this comes from a person who has never bought a single piece of Apple hardware nor has any interest in the ecosystem.
I can recommend LibreWolf [1] as an alternative for anyone who doesn’t wish to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

[1]: https://librewolf.net/
> They have been hostile to old reddit for a long time - many new features don't work with it like polls, free awards, inline pics, avatar, and so on.

I didn't want or appreciate some of those features anyway. Old Reddit with RES pretty much feels feature-complete to me. In some sense it's also refreshing to use a popular social media UI that isn't going through constant redesigns and tweaks.
It loosely follows the same metaphor as the T-shaped pipe connector that 'tee' is named for.

$ seq 3 | tee somefile
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seq═tee═╣
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$ seq 10 | pee 'head -n 3' 'tail -n 3'
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> Cancelling means someone losing their financial safety and that of their family for expressing their opinion. If your response to this is "tough luck", I'd say you're showing a lot of privilege, and lack of empathy that'd get you cancelled if expressed about one of the hot button social issues.

Tell a racist joke at work, and there are good odds you'll get fired. Tell a sexist joke at work, and odds are good, you'll get fired. Are you going to argue that freedom of speech should prevent you from being fired for telling a racist or sexist jokes?
In my early twenties, I took Buspirone for anxiety and it got the job done. Its my understanding that they also prescribe this to Alcoholics. I'm curious what overlap that old drug has with this or if it is entirely novel. Ironically, in my late twenties i would have considered myself an alcoholic, long after i got off buspirone. I am three years sober now.
So you think that war between NATO and Russia is good idea?

> Russia would not launch nukes against the US

But still can lunch few against Ukraine.

Even if USA is safe in open war - Europe is not.
Back when I was on Twitter, my biggest observation was that the left-right continuum doesn't necessarily help explain things very much by itself. You have to talk about specific coalitions and fan clubs. Here's a very incomplete list:

- On the right: right-wing journalists, right-wing podcast fans, Trump-heads, Cernovich-heads, Peterson-heads, Pepe avatars, right-wing anime avatars, ultra-trads, open neo-Nazis

- On the left: left-wing journalists, Tumblr fans, left-wing podcast fans, K-pop fans (this is a SURPRISINGLY large and powerful group), activist defenders of rights for various marginalized groups, left-wing anime avatars, nonprofit group figures, Antifa, tankies

On each side you have certain groups and certain subsets within those groups who use censorship or censorship-adjacent techniques, like mobbing, character assassination, public shaming, doxxing, or fabricating false and misleading narratives optimized for virality.

The biggest thing you want to avoid is getting into the gun-sights of anyone with a large following, left or right. Or someone who will work tirelessly to doxx or spread lies about you.
I felt the same way coming from a threaded language.

Learning the event loop, then promises, then async/await is a must. Today, you probably should throw typescript on top.

A steep learning curve just to get back to a typed language that can do things concurrently.

You do get used to it, but it is a mess of stuff.
Does the Earth Move Around the Sun? (By Sean Carroll)
How did that solution do? How did it solve the 51% attack problem without being bundled with a cryptocurrency?

...Or are you just using the word "blockchain" to literally mean a Merkle tree, so that the "innovation" was equivalent to storing settlements in git?
The only thing that’s valid (and I didn’t really understand if the video maker understood it bc he wastes so much time on the wobble) is that if you spin sth up to, say, 200 /s, then your rocket will spin, with its full length, at 200 /s. I don’t know how they want to address that.
gpus generally aren't worth it for moderately cheap O(n) operations. avx 512 is really nice because if you match the memory speed, you beat GPU (since the cost of GPU will also be memory speed constrained).
This article is on JavaScript.
Given I had to Google "metamask" to understand your comment, I’m not sure it’s as widespread as I think you think it is.
For reference:

Tracking issue for overall progress on the self-hosted compiler: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/89

Zig's New Relationship with LLVM: https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-relationship-llvm/
Especially when there are plentiful examples of cancel culture in the news on a nearly weekly basis.

Arguing against the existence of empirical evidence showing real consequences is absolutely gaslighting, and I see it all the time from primarily left-leaning folks who, without always saying it, believe the people who were cancelled fully deserved their punishment, without bothering to assess the context or conditions of the situation in relation to our fundamental rights in society, where fair trial and freedom of speech/thought are ignored in favor of an unregulated digital militia composed of Twitter bots and large corporations like VISA/Mastercard coercing businesses to terminate payments for controversial people -- while narrative-approved late night entertainers humiliate you and people like you for daring to exist, opine, and jest differently than them as they broadcast their dogmatic standards as gospel to their fervent viewers who fail to see through them.

I recall when Patreon spent way too much manpower to silence Sargon of Akkad because their payment providers were enforcing their own private societal norms on Patreon's users, by proxy.

Imagine, if you will, that you're an Uber driver and while driving someone to their destination, you nearly get hit by another vehicle and in your fear, you scream an expletive that upsets just this one customer. You later lose your ability to drive for any taxi service because their payment services refuse to facilitate paying you for that one cross remark.

Many people argue that private companies have every right to deny service or operate their services in any way they like, but if most of them are operating in unison to control speech and aid in humiliating average people for breaching their "community standards", then having a society with rights to free speech, expression, and thought without undue punishment outside of the court of law is pointless. These rights may as well not exist if they only serve a vocal, angry minority. The irony being that those same rights are protected for them because large corporations use them as fodder for shallow marketing campaigns that take advantage of human compassion towards manufactured victimhood that inaccurately represent the realities of this world, signaling their defense of complete lunacy for profit.

Cancel culture is an absolutely pathetic way to treat citizens in our society, I don't care how "private" your company is in their ability to make decisions like these — you cannot deny the backbone of society to individuals for spilling their milk.
It’s the cleanest way to wrap a event-emitting library, for example. async/await is not applicable in such a case where resolve needs to be explicitly called in a callback.

async function process() {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
emitter.on(”error”, (err) => reject(err));
emitter.on(”end”, (result) => resolve(result));
emitter.start();
});
}

async is not strictly needed here, but I find it a good practice to use it on functions which immediately return a Promise anyway.
I made it through the whole thread. In my opinion this [0] is the crux of their argument. Essentially that some ideas are dangerous and cause bad behavior and that's why they're censored.

They also pine in for an old internet that was great because of free speech and something like that. They seem to forget that it was full of flame wars and people being terrible also.

Some of the language that they use indicates that this person views the users as lesser... As people that must be managed and shaped, and it's the leaders job to do that, despite the fact that the leaders are severely flawed.

I see their points, but they are looking at the problem purely through the lens of what has existed, and not through the lenses of what is possible. Elon is not that person, and so saying he's going to fail because no one has ever done it before doesn't really apply to Elon.

0. https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514941586517336071?s=20&t...
Really?
Just searched "pirate bay" on DDG. First result is thepiratebay.org.
I don't really get the first part of your comment. You say an NN is "just" compression + kNN and does no representational learning. But finding a compression (a transformation in other words) that makes kNN feasible on the data is exactly what people mean when they say it finds a hidden representation. It is a highly non-trivial task: e.g. simple distance in pixel space between images would get you useless results.
> one could just blindly measure anything in any way, and somehow, knowledge would be produced.

Is this not what astronomers do? Sure they also have inputs from experiments made on Earth, but the actual investigation of "the stars" is reliant solely on data analysis.

What is the structure of the world if not the correlations in some measurement data?
How to make your own CFexpress card for under $100
This is a neat idea, but the site is nothing but a scam.

https://t.me/amereleases -> Telegram.

No matter how many times you go around all the links, you only get the same BS. This feels like a "join Telegram" scam.

If this were a real project, they wouldn't require getting an account to try it out.
Why would it take months for a new president? In case of the death of a president, the vice-president gets automatically sworn into office as fast as possible and in fact becomes a president. Now if the vice president also dies, you have a line of succession to act as a president.

I haven't found any information about the obligation to hold new elections in such event, but I could be wrong
The Wikipedia article also says:

"Approximately two years after the lottery, researchers found that Medicaid had no statistically significant impact on physical health measures"
Very true.

And even in specialist communities there is a certain degree of moderation needed in order to keep it in order.

In the offline worlds individuals for which (reasonable) moderation is needed are kept in check by society (either through social pressure or physical force).

Very seldom they are the beginning of societal changes but usually they are just unpleasant (e.g. "I hope you and your loved ones get murdered because...") people which most others avoid if they can.

I'm very sure I would leave any platform where their kind is allowed to run wild and so would many of my family and friends.

Facebook is a very good example: Most people are boring and nice enough. Those who are not (ranging from annoying to vile) spoil the fun for everybody else.

People leave (in part) because they don't want constant conflict and not every opinion is worth to be heard.
Hello HN! Here is some context to decorate this announcement:

The Zig self-hosted compiler codebase consists of 197,549 lines of code.

There are several different backends, each at varying levels of completion. Here is how many behavior tests are passing:

LLVM: 1101/1138 (97%)
WASM: 919/1138 (81%)
C: 740/1138 (65%)
x86_64: 725/1138 (64%)
arm: 490/1138 (43%)
aarch64: 411/1138 (36%)

As you might guess, the one that this milestone is celebrating is the LLVM backend, which is now able to compile the compiler itself, despite 3% of the behavior tests not yet passing.

The new compiler codebase, which is written in Zig instead of C++, uses significantly less memory, and represents a modest performance improvement. There are 5 more upcoming compiler milestones which will have a more significant impact on compilation speed. I talked about this in detail last weekend at the Zig meetup in Milan, Italy[1].

There are 3 main things needed before we can ship this new compiler to everyone.

1. bug fixes

2. improved compile errors

3. implement the remaining runtime safety checks

If you're looking forward to giving it a spin, subscribe to [this issue](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/89) to be notified when it is landed in master branch.

Edit: The talk recording about upcoming compiler milestones is uploaded now [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqDdWEiSwMM
In my company we go one step further: We encourage the candidates to „bring their own code“. Then we let them explain their code, discuss possible issues, extensions and so on. Usually simply from looking at the code style one can infer a lot about the candidates level of skills. Also the candidates are less nervous and are sometimes really enthusiastic explaining their favorite side project. All in all it leads to a quite good interview experience for the candidate, but also for the interviewer.
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Cold calling to chip away at Russia's digital iron curtain
You're missing the point. It's not about whether people who do not live in X should be able to vote in X. I think most people would agree that they definitely should not.

It's about whether the people currently living in X should be able to arrange things so that certain other groups of people will be impeded from living in X in the future.

There's clearly room for some debate there: most people would agree that nations can set their own standards for immigration and that these may exclude large classes of people.

However, if a town explicitly said "we do not want anyone who earns less than 400% of median household income to move here", I think that most people would find that at least a little troubling.

There really are not any mechanisms that would allow a US municipality to say that explicitly. However, things like zoning laws can be used to go fairly far in this direction in a more implicit way.

I think that's wrong.
> UNHR estimates 2,000 civilian deaths so far in Ukraine

This number is nowhere close to being accurate. UNHCR "believes that the actual figures are considerably higher" [0]. More than 900 dead discovered since the liberation of the areas around Kyiv [1]. And we've not yet had the opportunity to count the dead in Mariupol, or Russian controlled areas.

> And you probably didn’t post anything about it on your Facebook, right?

Millions in the West spoke out with horror and revulsion at the death tolls in the 9/11 Wars.

[0] https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2022/04/ukraine-civilian-casua...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/15/number-of-civi...
Well, if they made me stand in line for 2-3 hours, then decided not to give me the food that I paid for because I'm not a culture fit for the grocery store, then yeah probably.
The last time I bought a MacBook was in 2016. I swear, that thing was cursed. In the first 2 weeks, I cracked the bezel below the screen (I suspect a small shell of a peanut or something of a similar nature). Then, 2 weeks after that, my keys started to randomly fall out (this was very common for that particular model) and Apple refused to fix it for me. And then, a few months down the line, I managed to spill a can of beer on it while getting up from the bed in my hotel room. That was the end of that.

Didn't get another one and instead got an Asus with an RTX card, which is really nice for all kinds of things, and even gaming when I want.

But, the M1 looks really promising. And it seems they have finally gotten rid of the Touch Bar also. I think I need to start putting some money in the piggy bank.
Technically, joining NATO is not the choice of those countries alone, but also of those countries already in NATO. But principally, the freedom to apply to join should be granted to any sovereign country. And that's exactly the problem: Russia doesn't see a whole lot of countries as sovereign but as 'temporarily misplaced'.
Important for context. The remarks about the (unnamed) President made me say O really?
Yeah, I think secret network is the one I'm remembering. It's been a long time since I was paying attention to the cryptocurrency space.

My consern is that it hasn't been tested as a generic proof of stake network and there is a risk that it might not degrade as expected.

It also means the blockchain can't be independently verified. If someone was to exploit it in a way that gave themselves extra coins, then nobody would ever know because all evidence is hidden inside the secure enclave.

How big is the risk? I'm not sure. I just suspect it's bigger than the advantage you get from using SGX; There are other ways to get privacy.
Interesting article, thanks!
I think Intel is too late. They can play catch up with the ARM market, but it will take time because there are are enough other players that they're not relevant enough to be on top again. That is unless they can out-innovate the competition, which I doubt, but who knows.

Over the past few years I've read articles and watched videos on Intel making some kind of comeback, yet the journalists creating those pieces seem either oblivious to RISC or are ignoring it. I don't know which one. That tells me all I need to know, and so far it isn't looking like Intel is the future for consumer electronics.
I absolutely agree that Disulfiram is an awful drug to treat alcohol abuse with, it feels like conversion therapy for taking a drink. Also, there is no fixing of the underlying issue at all with this drug (I'm pointly saying that conversion therapy is used to fix a problem that doesn exist).

I've seen a family member successfully win over an alcohol abuse issue by changing their job and getting therapy after detoxing safely in a hospital. Disulfiram should be bottom of the list for anyone, I've not heard of Naltrexone, but a quick google makes it sound like a superb option too.
Why Is It So Expensive to Save Lives?
Democracy empowers a majority, or sometimes a plurality. It is not necessarily the case that whatever that bloc of voters wants respects the rights and interests of other citizens. Hence the possibility of a 'tyranny of the majority'.

It may be, as in this case, that homeowners actively try to protect their asset by excluding non-homeowners from the market, perhaps by obstructing the construction of new houses, or by supporting the inflation of house prices. Is that a good situation just because it is sanctioned by a majority?

In liberal societies, there are side-constraints on what a demos can sanction - it cannot, for example, curtail the free speech of individuals. There is no reason why that should not be the case with respect to certain basic means of life, like housing.
Isn’t this how OAuth 1.0a work? It is more secured for a reason.

https://developer.mastercard.com/blog/why-mastercard-doesnt-...
I would love to hear the radio traffic around that incident, as well as to read the post mortem.