skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mocking a belief is the same as mocking people who hold that belief.

So, do you defend defend creationists with the same vigor when their beliefs are being mocked?
Good enough often enough that people stop paying attention (and die when the car hits an obstacle the AI doesn't recognise)
I was also a die hard i3wm fan who started using MacOS on a new job.

I am currently a (mostly) happy user of Yabai. There's some blog posts from folks who made the same transition, lemme know if end up taking a look and still have questions, and I'll try to answer them.
How does this work out for security bugs?

I would assume the 128 cores share a lot of caches, so a core can leak data to other cores on the same chip.

Hence, a model where individual cores are given to different customers might be a model where these customers can steal data from each other.
Gamestop is still at 150 so people are still throwing money into anything
> Roman Empire has a lot of similar aspects - there is a reason why Hitler took so much from the Roman Empire - yet it had imperial ideology, not nazist.

I shared a quote by an ancient Roman general and politician saying the peoples of the Balkans, Asia Minor and the Levant were “the most worthless peoples among mankind and born for slavery”-how is that different from Hitler’s view that Slavs were an inferior race who ought to be enslaved? If there is a difference I don’t see it. But if the Roman Empire was practising “Nazism” 2000 years before Hitler was even born, maybe “Nazism” is somewhat of a misnomer for the generic phenomena (as opposed to the specific instantiation of it in 20th century Germany)
This is a consequence of twitter being a different place than what people are used to:

- your opinion will not be bound to where you say it (your local pub), but potentially visible to anyone on earth

- your opinion will not be bound to the time you say it like in verbal speech, but might re-emerge at any point in time

- your opinion might be seen as a public statement (or even a declaration) to the world

- the friction to post your opinion, to react to your opinion or to jump on bandwaggons is as low as it gets

This is fundamentally different from any place you could speech in ever before in history, yet most people speak the same way they might in their local pub after the third beer. This impedance mismatch produces all kinds of wonky results.

The bandwaggon problem is yet another class of problem, that is much more systemically rooted and could probably be addressed by introducing a little bit of friction in the right places. My hunch is that this is less of a culture problem showing up on twitter, but a twitter problem showing up in culture. Certain forms of media make certain forms of communication more likely while preventing others due to their systems of communications. Twitters systems make such phenomena more likely, so they show up more often.
It is not the Biden admin that handed it over, the deal for the hand off was negotiated and signed by the previous admin.
Didn't know this, that is great news for all Chinese citizens.

Better late than never must be the motto China is going for.
Calculating the levenshtein distance from users, the average difference between the avatars, and looking at basic interactions in reply-to-reply-to-users isn't AI. That's heuristic. And it should have been implemented ages ago.
Why it has to be opposite?

Like you totally disagree.

I described my experience and what I saw, well I did not do any scientific research on 1000s of companies. But I still think my experience has the same validity as your statement. So it can be both at the same time, there is so many companies small and big.
I see a weird dissonance in your post - you clearly believe in nuclear deterrence, but also negate that NATO - a nuclear alliance - provides deterrence, and claim that it would be better for nations to not be part of NATO, but have their own small nuclear force instead.

The first point is something that you'll have to resolve yourself, so I'd actually like the time to disagree on your second point - that a small nuclear force provides deterrence against major powers, like North Korea. North Korea has a very small nuclear arsenal, and an even smaller number of carrier missiles; this is exactly the threat you counter with BMD, and indeed, if you look at a map of where the US's BMD is located, you will find that it's squarely pointed at North Korea. North Korea is safe for other reasons, not because it could lob a nuclear-tipped missile at the US; it could lob nukes at various US allies, this provides deterrence, and is more difficult to defend against (and, as you would expect from this line of reasoning, both Japan and South Korea have been investing and continue to do so a lot into BMD). And North Korea is of course in a range where it could glass Seoul using conventional weapons, which is virtually impossible to defend against. On top of that there is an unclear amount of China in the back of North Korea; it seems unlikely that you could intervene in NK without China doing something.

The situation is even worse for a country like Lithuania. Even assuming they bring up their own nuclear arms program without Russia or anyone else intervening, which seems like one heck of an assumption to me, deterrence requires that you're actually able to feasibly launch something. This essentially rules out land-based nukes, because Lithuania is too small and all possible locations are too close to Russian land forces or naval forces to be able to launch a missile without giving a large window to intercept it. Air-based nukes are out for similar reasons, the country is small enough that air defenses would cover most of it. So now you're looking at SLBMs and the submarines that go with them.

There is only country that managed to do something like this, and that's Israel. And it does not border on another nuclear country, not even close - in part because they actively prevent that from happening.
The author, Stuart, dismisses the entire study based on: expectancy bias, and participants being able to tell whether they are in the treatment group or the control group.

What if this were applied to everything? "95% of participants preferred the meal of pizza to the one that was hard tack and water. However, participants might have just had pre-existing bias that pizza was tasty, and they were able to identify whether they were eating pizza. No conclusions can be drawn whether pizza is actually tasty or this is simply a placebo effect caused by the participants' expectations."
SpaceX's Starlink license pulled in France
Oh, wow, ty!
As a citizen of a country that joined NATO in the late 90s, I really believe that if we didn't join NATO, we'd be on of the targets right now.

NATO didn't force us to join, we asked for it, as an independent country which suffered a lot for centuries.

All the "NATO provokes" Russia are garbage, because they remove us, the countries that decided to join NATO, from the equation. We acted in our own interest, to protect ourselves from Russia and free ourselves from Russian influence. We didn't plan to "push against the borders of Russia", we planned to protect ourselves, and today more than ever I believe we were right to do so.
Might be better to think of 'regular' mechanical pencils as under-engineered, where the flaws are compensated for by using a lot lead and clicking a lot.

I've used the Uni Kuru Toga for years and have converted a few people to it. I don't think it's necessary for everyone, but it's just a great pencil.

It's also worth investing in better than the cheapest lead you can find as well. I prefer lead that is a little softer, and writes darker, than your standard "#2" pencil lead. There are a few sites dedicated to reviewing pens and pencils that are useful, and some have added on side stores where you can buy sampler packs.

I also recommend Paper Mate Flair felt tip marker pens for ink writing, especially if you've ever struggled with keeping legible notes.
Agree. Real-time signal processing with feedback loops is a case in point.
We don't use third-party scripts on our site and I don't know of any sites using our scripts either.
> you can't visually "see" that two await calls can be parallelized. Speak for yourself, buddy.

Agreed. My first thought was to try

var userSaveTask = save('userData', userData);
var sessionSaveTask = save('session', sessionPrefences);
await Task.WhenAll(userSaveTask, sessionSaveTask);

I saw it before I got to the part of the text explaining how I wasn't going to just see it.

> Furthermore, if we are to take advantage of parallelization in the async/await example, we must use promises anyway.

Again, Speak for yourself, buddy. "await Task.WhenAll" does that job in c#, and there must be a JavaScript equivalent.

IDK, this may be the c# mindset. yes, "async / await" is an extra-ordinarily complex feature that can easily be done wrong. But its also very useful and powerful, so lets not throw it out.
Many awaits -> many, many case statements.
It's not just that they're wrong, it's that they're talking nonsense. An ML engineer working on perception models can't be trivially retasked to an NLP spam filtering problem.

If they're obviously talking out of their arse on one point then it definitely suggests they're talking out of their arse on the rest of it.
The space.com article is beyond bad. They didn’t understand the case at all. The issue at stake here is monopolization of radio frequencies not of the whole market.

The license which was awarded to spacex in February was for the use of specific radio bands which are regulated in France. The French regulator allowed SpaceX to use them arguing that these bands were large enough that they should be able to withstand multiple providers but without doing a formal study. The high court revoked it because by law the assessment was mandatory. The regulator is free to properly do it and allows spacex to operate again which is what’s going to happen.
How many PC's can officially run Windows 11? Windows 10 ran on virtually anything from 10 years ago and was a free upgrade even to pirate users of windows. Windows 11 is barely out of demo and requires a pc from the last three years or so.
The casualties at the other end of the remote-controlled kill
> Voicing your opinion in public has always carried the risk of being shamed or shunned

This is an argument in favour of a more liberal model is it not? Just not a centralized system that takes a dictatorial role in socially isolating people for having bad ideas. The analogy would make more sense if there was a benevolent gatekeeper blocking you from coming back into the public square (or even all big public squares) because you said something controversial.

Otherwise cultural free speech people want ideas to be openly challenged, not efficiently silenced by the system.

Harassing people is something I think most people agree crosses a line, in the same ways it’s a criminal act. But even here Twitter does a poor job at that by taking a very broad interpretation, for example it punishes people for publicly disagreeing with someone while also being popular, because their fans decided to brigade a person, then banning the parent for ‘causing it’ (without ever directly encouraging or supporting such a thing).

There’s a hundred ways to do this better than Twitter/Facebook/Reddit without throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Trying to accuse every person who wants a very limited scope for wanting Ayn Rand style anarchy is disingenuous.

Otherwise I’m not a fan of “All in” pod’s analysis.
That's now been "fixed" by blowing a permanent fuse.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-nukes-alder-lake-avx...
I guess people will tell you you’re a paranoid old person with a selective memory. But FWIW I hear you and feel your pain on all points. I have but one upvote to give.
There is no baseline to measure against candidates as opposed to competitive programming problems
It doesn't even matter if their perception models _were_ that good, NLP is a seriously different problem.
Thanks a lot, I wonder how I missed that one...

I'm 30% in, and this does seem to be a potential seed for a vision of the future that the (bottom) left has been so sorely lacking since the failure of the Soviets !

You don't see something so radical often (last time would have been the Unibomber ?), since they seem to consider that the whole Western civilization has to be thrown away, including its Ancient Greek roots ?!

(But then we are in unprecedented times, with tremendous responsibility, and keep failing harder and harder, so at some point you have to wonder why...)
> The problem is most of these things are not easily and correctly measured by a questionnaire. You need more expertise to get this information out of a patient.

It sounds like you're agreeing. Mental health is subjective feelings. When we want to study it, we reduce it to an objective measure of a few dimensions, like those diagnostic questionnaires. This removes its complexities, but also allows some level of standardisation across studies.
>it's important

Very little empirical evidence supports it, despite people parroting how "useful" it is. You're also teaching people to BS about themselves to get a job, perverting the entire thing.

If you want to psychologically analyze people, use a method which is actually supported empirically instead of the "do what every other pseudo-psychologist does" method. Big 5, for one, actually has some empirical evidence supporting it, but is barely ever used.

On the other hand, if you can actually figure people out in an hour under a single set of constraints, somehow being able to extrapolate that to the work environment as a whole, while also trying to put the work environment in a much better light than it actually is: quit your IT job now and make millions selling books.
Yishan is trying to be impartial but some of that is bologna. What Elon really stands to lose is left-wingers leaving the platform in protest if a viable alternative emerges for the prominent figures to bring their audience over to. Right-wingers will come back in droves unless the platform dies altogether. Twitter would also get legislated to shreds in retaliation if the democrats have a strong majority + White House at any point in the future (assuming it maintains its relevancy).

But one part I really cannot reconcile is his capitalist interests and his free speech gambit are only potentially overlapping in the US. How many governments will put up with this crap or will many finally ban Twitter altogether? That statement even applies to democratic governments. That’s not going to increase his monetizable user base. Something’s got to give- and with a financed 43 billion it might be his morals. Perhaps he has another gameplan but it’s hard to imagine.
I believe author misses one important point.

Async/await optimizes for throughput, not latency. Use case is many lightweight tasks you want to parallel as wholes. Web APIs, web sites are usual examples.

However, if you need other kind of optimizations, like two parallel saves within one request, maybe async/await is not what you need in the first place.
Golly, another sweeping statement :) It seems to me a GPU might actually sort more slowly.

For 64-bit keys, we sort about 1 GB/s per (5 year old) Skylake core, and perhaps 5-6 parallel.

This (2018) reports 3.5 GB/s: https://benkarsin.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/dissertation.p...
And a 6-year old GPU radix sort reports 2.1 GB/s:
https://github.com/Bulat-Ziganshin/Compression-Research/tree...

BTW I've worked on a product that used GPUs. That typically requires everything to move to the GPU, which is not always desirable or feasible.
> If you're scared of the consequences of your actions then you don't get to do those actions.

I’m pretty sure you don’t actually believe that.
The question is did help actually come via this route or not.

(If it did then I'm hardly surprised.)
> Also, I am highly confused by China's zero coivd policy. Just by the nature of how viruses work, that seems impossible. Even zero deaths. I understand the want to minimize (especially in an area with high population densities), but zero is an impossible number.

I'd argue it worked well for the initial phase of the pandemic. Even if you don't trust chinese data, China had little restrictions for most of 2020-2022, and by the sheer transmissibility of covid, this suggests they were very successful in keeping infections at bay. The problem is the lack of exit strategy. For a good example on how to deal with covid we can look at Singapore, which also had harsh lockdowns, rules and travel restrictions, and is now opening up again after vaccinating the vast majority of the population. Australia and NZ are also good examples of how to deal with the virus.

China can't do that though, because the elderly and vulnerable aren't vaccinated, and the chinese healthcare system is already strained without a pandemic. There's really not much they can do at the moment unless they find a way to massively increase vaccinations with effective vaccines, which proves hard when the population most vulnerable tends to have doubts and reservations on the vaccines.

I'd also like to mention that the way Europe and the US dealt with the initial two years of the pandemic was absolute shit. Healthcare workers were worked to death, sometimes literally, and we lost hundreds of thousands of people, while still restricting ourselves in some futile, some sensible ways.
The contribution of engineers to capital creation massively exceeds 20% over the past 30 years. Relative pay increase is such a scam.

Having seen it up close, the even greater issue for society is this program & how it’s used has created an engineering culture of order takers.

That’s the least valuable configuration of engineering teams.
Researchers? Seriously? What IP do researchers have?

Copyright reform is not “defunding copyright.” It’s a reform. It wouldn’t hurt individuals, unless they are super successful, and even then, not that much. And it helps everyone have higher quality, cheaper content and political freedom.

The problem is simply that the media is once again suppressing the lower/middle class for the one percent, and spreading FUD.
Some of us know that crypto must be full of fraud because there’s so much fraud in traditional markets, despite regulation and oversight that crypto doesn’t have at all.
I do almost the same but a bit differently. Like a lot of people have suggested here that they can't share their company's proprietary code (neither can I). So I have cooked up some sample questions asking people to code for a app involving REST and CRUD (because that's resturant what we do at office). It's not much work and can be done in 2-3 hours. Then I get down to discuss their answers and the 'why' questions around their approach. Always gives me a pretty good insight on their work style and doesn't give the candidates any opportunity to cheat (in these remote times) because eventually they would get caught whole explaining their code.

This approach has given me excellent candidates every single time and also led to a lot of time saved otherwise wasted.
Nuclear weapons are not as destructive as you think
"5. The elites have somehow inverted history so they now believe that it is not censorship that is the favored tool of fascists and authoritarians, even though every fascist and despot in history used censorship to maintain power, but instead believe free speech, free discourse, and free thought are the instruments of repression."

Yes. Gaslighting crystalized. We are now to believe free speech is bad. Authoritarians know auguring against logic is hard.
Congrats, you've re-invented sumtypes!
> The real Russian Duma website is er.ru

In a single-party state, I suppose it is…
This sounds Wolf-of-Wallstreet like.
India Is Stalling the WHO’s Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public
First off, async/await is promises. It's merely syntactic sugar. The point of async/await is not to never have the word "Promise" appear in your code. It's also not meant to be universally better than using Promises bare-bones.

A lot of the argument appears to be the author extrapolating from his own lack of familiarity to others: "We are taught", "our minds", etc. I can easily construe some hypothetical person with a certain set of skills (and lack thereof) that would have just as much trouble with bare-bones Promises. But I don't have to because the author did it for me at "One more thing…".

"People can mess this up" was never an argument. You can mess everything up. The more interesting question is how badly and how often.
> Glenn Greenwald believed in the story, and was later proven right

mind sharing this proof?
I can't see the keyboard nor trackpoint, and it's quite expensive.
employees' political biases aside these platforms exist to make money and so they'll play within the boundaries of "acceptable" speech which in the west is pro-capitalist, pretty centerist, and with some scraps thrown to minorities from time to time. If you are outside the window you are off the platform because advertisers get anxious. saying they arent political is absurd.
99% of the time you'll be storing promises in order to await on them in the same async method.

Those other 1% of times make for quite intuitive solutions, I think. For example, a cache. Most caches are request => already finished response, but with a lookup of promises you can easily do request => in-progress responses, for de-deplication.
Instead of connecting to a Github repo, you can use https://github.com/heroku/heroku-builds. It allows to create a build locally and then deploy it to Heroku. From what I've read so far, this approach has not been impacted and it should still be possible to do deployments like that.
Elon Musk absolutely does not care about free speech. He’s no history of ever standing up for it. He doesn’t even understand what it means.

The fight over Twitter is about control. Control of narratives. And the price to do that right now, due to Twitter’s ridiculously bungled management, stands at $60-70B.
You can generally do something like:

Task { [weak self] in
await foo()
self?.bar() // self may be nil
}

That is, you can just make a new task which awaits on something and then does more work, and that Task can be tagged with weak self so that self can be freed.
Whether the overall tax take is more or less depends on the LVT rate! But I think proponents of LVT say that when introducing the tax the rate should be set so that the overall tax take is the same.
Until you need to do any error handling.
You might be overestimating the grade of people who make it through coding interviews.

I'd rather hire-- as a coder-- someone that could read code but would fail an interview where they coded, than someone who could pass some trivial coding interview but couldn't read code.

Obviously, people need to do both, but the reading seems less likely to get a false positive/negative in an interview.

Heck, given two candidates one who cannot currently code but reads code fluently vs one who can code (and not just pass a coding interview) but cannot read code-- I'd still prefer the reader. It's the more important skill.

Average industrial programmer is going to write 8 lines of code per day. If you can correctly read a codebase, you can probably manage to write 8 working lines of code per day for it on average. Maybe you wouldn't be #1 one the team overnight, but a fluent reader is at least on track to be average even if they hardly write at all now.
Many years ago when XCOM Enemy Unknown was released I was forced to upgrade to Windows 8 to play it, something to do with DirectX I think.

Such a moment has never occurred since, so I'm happily still using Windows 8. Don't fix what isn't broke.
China May Have Just Taken the Lead in the Quantum Computing Race
US immigration is near its 100-year historic peak [1], and takes the largest share of international migrants [2]. If that's "very little", then what would merely "moderate" immigration look like?

[1] https://cis.org/Report/Immigrant-Population-Growth-Slows

[2] https://rankingamerica.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/the-us-ranks...