skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm open to debate. But I think the OP is erroneous in presuming popular will is expressed in American National Security and Foreign policy and therefore using that to lend credence to this turn of events.
I do know that if you have very fast NVMe SSDs (>6000MB/s or so) ZFS is not currently able to give you the whole performance, due to time spent memcpying to/from the ARC[0]. Direct IO support could eventually alleviate this[1].

[0]: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/8381

[1]: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/10018
I know it's been the case for a while, but as time goes on I actually feel more like the product when I need to use Chrome. They aren't building it for me, they're building it to sell me.
The Deadliest Road in America
"Headcount was 83,553 as of June 30, 2022, an increase of 32% year-over-year."

Like ... why? They hired 20 000 employees net in a year? And Zuckerberg now somehow says that they need to tighten the belt?
> you can just... visit the country

Obviously. But it's considerably easier for anyone with an internet connection to now be able to take a virtual tour; thus, it is much more exposed.

What the street views illustrate is how far behind the key infrastructure is. With a population that is motivated and willing to work hard, it suggests failures at the government level. This has been a global topic for 10 years, but it does not seem to have changed much (while the population has significantly increased).

Street views everywhere just make it easier for management failures to be seen and analyzed. This will hopefully result in some changes and improvements.
As a fellow WoWer, I always opted for aesthetics, writ large, over optimization. I get that folks seek out competition, either vs environment or other players. But adhering to a personal aesthetic Code is another option.

See also, I suppose, conduct runs in many roguelikes.
At least this will tell you the code it generates is close to something in its training set and tell you the license that code is under. So it’s got that going for it
> If you think it have no use cases you just have no imagination

This is not what I was hoping to read on HN.
Speaking of potentially obsolete sanctions, conferences have been on hold so I might be hanging on to a few more of them past their due date. Does anyone have fresh experiences with these?

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AMD GPUs (2014): Waiting for GPGPU support from Adobe and Blender that was supposed to be operational (Adobe) or getting there (Blender) but never landed.

AMD GPUs (2016): I burned an entire semester trying to port CUDA code to OpenCL only to run into bug after bug after bug. Lockups, black screens (no framebuffers were supposed to be involved but bugs find a way), leaks, stalls which were difficult to attribute, unscruitable errors leading to abandoned threads with pleading users from years past with no reply. I finally cracked when after a long day of "I swear this should work I have no idea how the changes I make correspond to the bugs I see" I ran my ailing OpenCL code on a weaker NVidia card, and it Just Worked. Not only did it just work, it was 10x faster. Even though the card was like 2 generations older, and I was using OpenCL, which NVidia had every reason to sandbag, but they were still winning at. Oh, and the debugging tools actually worked, too. I was persuaded to sell my red cards, eat the ebay tax, eat the nvidia tax, and buy green from then on. Time has passed since 2016, though. ROCm looks good and AMD has money now, so maybe they can afford to pay people to fix bugs. I want to see someone running Blender and a modern ML framework or two before I retire the sanctions, though. Anyone have fresh intuition here?

Numba CUDA (2018): I spent two weeks working through a succession of problems that I eventually resolved in two days by just using CUDA C++. Numba CUDA only worked with year-stale CUDA, it copied float8s over a float4 array despite having access to triply redundant type specs, the mechanism to pass buffers between kernels always forced copy off GPU, and one more that I forget. I made patches for the first three and gave up on the last one before fixing. Has anyone used it recently? Is it in better shape these days?
It's totally graspable.

Users are unable/unwilling to spend a penny on social networks, hence ads it is, hence engagement it is.

If users would pay a monthly fee at scale, it wouldn't be needed. They'd in fact be happy if you'd keep your engagement brief.
Might want to watch this as it’s quite clear Meta knows exactly what’s required to make the Metaverse a reality.

And if they achieve it then it will be a game changer as big as the internet or smart phone.

https://youtu.be/2zHDkdkqd1I
Tax based on manufacturing concentration?

e.g. at current market shares, we could

- 10% tax for Asia manufacturing

- 20% tax for Taiwan manufacturing

By moving away from these centers, taxes would be adjusted say annually

I think this would be interesting for other industries too

#ChinaDecoupling
Source? I cite from Wikipedia:

> The Economist supports government action on global warming. In 1987 the paper called for a price on carbon emissions. In 1997 it wrote that the United States showed 'dangerous signs' of using the developing world as an excuse to do nothing about global warming. In 1998, The Economist expressed its view that global warming may be a catastrophe that warrants much spending to reduce fossil fuels, but before this, climatologists need a stream of reliable data. In a December editorial before the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, The Economist declared its view that the risk of catastrophic climate change and its effect on the economy outweighs the economic consequences of insuring against global warming now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_editorial_stance...
This is news to me. I remember that the Linux desktop seemed to be on the ascendancy back in 2006. GNOME 2 and KDE 3 were very nice desktops; while they weren’t Mac OS X Tiger (which still holds up as an amazing desktop), they were solid contenders to Windows XP. But then came GNOME 3 and KDE 4, which were major fumbles that set back the Linux desktop for years.

If it’s true that GNOME’s radical direction beginning with version 3 is the result of threats from Microsoft to change its desktop to avoid influences from Windows, then that definitely changes my assessment of the era, and my distaste for Microsoft’s anti-competitive behavior only deepens (this is the same Microsoft that complained about Apple’s look-and-feel lawsuits).
So have the telecom companies. We don't need to downlevel the quality of the site because of it.
Ask HN: Higher order derivatives in everyday life?
Hi all, I read a Bloomberg article today (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-27/fed-raise...) stating the following:

"Powell also said the Fed will slow the pace of increases [to interest rates] at some point"

This is referencing a 3rd derivative (loan obligation = base, interest rate = 1st derivative, change in interest rate = 2nd derivative, pace of changes in interest rate = 3rd derivative).

I was wondering if hackernews had any other interesting examples of higher order derivatives that one might encounter in everyday life.
Bad..as expected. Meta generates tons of cash though, i think it's cheap, imho
Give yourself some down time. Get outside. Get more sun and exercise. Eat and sleep properly. Cut out any stimulants, including tea/coffee. Note down all the things you achieve in a day, as part of your day, and spend 10 minutes to reflect on it the morning after.
The actual title is not the inspid word soup deposited atop this thread.
EU found evidence employee phones compromised with spyware
Best guess would be the same structures that have been kept around us by over the past hundred years for their importance, scarcity and usefulness.

Some of them being Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal, Machu Pichu, Petra, etc.
There is no good intrinsic metrics for research, we can agree on that. Impact on society is not a good measure either, because if you had funded 10 smaller research projects instead of one big one, you might have gotten a much bigger impact on society, but not so easy to measure and attribute, and maybe not as quick to do the impacting.

So yes, bureaucracy. Because instead of actually doing the job that needs to be done, the EU is more interested in covering their own asses so that it looks as if they were doing the job. But the EU is not special in any way here, except that it is a very big example of a bureaucracy, of course.
> It's a testament to how deep the lack of a creative culture at Meta runs.

This seems to be it. Meta only "innovates" to copy competitors. WhatsApp was a threat and was bought. Same for Instagram. Snapchat couldn't be bought, so it became stories and is now part of every product Meta owns.

TikTok is the latest threat, and history repeats itself. Instead of creating a superior product that people want to use, Meta is sacrificing Instagram to replicate TikTok's every feature (including finally paying creators).
Yes, and thus I made the comment that I made.
As I understand it, repentance includes apology, but also includes a change away from the offending behavior.
They have Instagram and what's app , too, let's not forget.

So it is diversified in that sense.
>Mozilla is a c++ and javascript shop. What do they ship in Rust? How much of Firefox is written in rust for example?

About 20%, if you compare it directly against C and C++ and exclude Javascript, CSS, HTML, Java, etc.

https://www.openhub.net/p/firefox/analyses/latest/languages_...
Once server-side analytics get implemented widely, we've lost. We'll keep chasing each other with tricks like renaming the api endpoints, randomizing the javascript hash, etc. for a while but if we end up having to run an ML model in the browser to attempt to detect when our data is being stolen we've lost a long time before.

Might be better to shame any website caught using it with some crowd-sourced list of some kind - then at least we'd know who the bad actors are and force their content through an isolated container / proxy / VPN, or simply stop using them altogether.
So "pentesting" often kinda defaults to "network pentesting" which is closer to an IT job than a software engineering job and its salary range (in general, as you specialize pay goes up regardless).

But there is "application penetration testing" and just application security in general which tends to pay competitively with software engineering. And of course plenty of people do both at the same job.

So pentesting can be competitive but it depends on definitions a bit. That said on the upper end, software dev tends to have more chances to get a big exit by being part of building something. In security you might be with a consulting firm where you have a slight chance at that, but its not common for a security guy to have that sort of big exit.
How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out (2021)
To other commenters:

The only thing and the only job the Fed has now is to increase the Consumer Sentiment Index (without destroying royally the economy and the Consumer Confidence Index (employment that is)).

Its power are the statements and showcasing it is doing stuff. That's it. The interest rates and treasury issuance will do nothing by themselves -- the banks have not unloaded their portfolios yet. If it wanted to affect things it would start messing with the Mortgage Backed Securities "portfolio" which would be the "nuclear fusion bomb" word.

So let's hope people get convinced that things are fine and don't start running to the banks/stores to stock up on ... toilet paper. (wink)

Edit: https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_consumer_sentiment_index (Consumer Sentiment Index)
A few thoughts

- Tell them about your weekly "help" office hours you hold (and actually show up). Make sure to say they don't have to make an appointment. Just show up on a chat link (text is less invasive than video).

- Ask if they'd like to schedule a call to go through onboarding (à la superhuman) as they get started

- Tell them that you'll refund their last payment if they have a 5 minute brief chat (and be truthful about it being a brief chat) about why they are cancelling
> What English (partly US English, partly "English in general") does to foreign words is... interesting. Also interesting is that unlike any other language I speak, reading a word in English is often not sufficient to know how it's pronounced. Yes, French's orthography for example seems enormously complex ("Bordeaux"?) compared to e.g. German or Italian, but it's still consistent.

The French don't seem to agree.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homographe
He believes there is a lot of money to be made, so he he supports it enthusiastically. It doesn’t reflect on whether he thinks it is good for society or the planet.
I would have been pretty tempted to build this with a W480 Xeon platform having 2x thunderbolt ports. Conceivably that could have broken through the 1GB/s ceiling the article is seeing with 10g ethernet.
But science has a big system of distributing money up front to people to do the work of innovating. There is no such system in place to fund people developing innovative products that require significant up front investment.

Also the "product" of science innovation is the actual innovation and being first to publish. An equivalent freeloader problem would not be someone copying the idea/papers after they are released. It would be spying inside the laboratory, copying the ideas and releasing competing papers before the actual researcher releases their own. If that was happening, I am sure you would object.
I still think the Applications/Places/System triple menu was absolutely superb in terms of usability. You had three clear and coherent categories where all the GUI software in your system was placed, which made all that stuff easily scanneable by anyone even if they have never used it before. It shouldn't have been ditched, if you ask me. That clever way to separate and categorize that stuff was and is superior to any 'start' menu Windows (and any other desktop environment) has ever had.
Brilliant. I know what you mean, people don't want to offend so they prefer to stay quiet. Unless they can report it by bypassing the human. Will implement.
all of social media is a national security threat, we just handwave away the dangers of domesticly owned social media because of excessive trust in the state and greed

facebook could extort billions out of its users using the data its already sitting on. they could also monetize that data by selling it to foreign intelligence. we've seen evidence of them doing similar things in the past, seems naive to expect they will never turn more evil, especially if they face a recession
And yet they jump straight to "We don't do that here" every time in the article.
I see we're allowed to pick arbitrary timescales for measuring inflation. Lets measure a few 50 year periods instead of annual periods:

1970-2020 : ~560%

1920-1970 : ~ 94%

1870-1920 : ~ 53%

1820-1870 : ~ 12%

If memory serves, we went completely fiat in ~1974, or roughly the beginning of the 1970-2020 period.
The best managers I've seen are the ones that, following a failure from staff, can detect a real apology and earnest promise to learn and do better next time, and then never mentioned it again.

The worst ones will detect that same apology and crowd that person out of their own mind with unresolved guilt, completely disabling them with their own emotions. Give them long enough and they can create monsters out of the nicest men.
That entire thing needed to be quoted in full?
Additionally, the driver for the huge volume increase was partly Listerine going down market from an expensive medicine to a mass market product. $20 in 1881 is apparently equivalent to $580 now. J&J probably only get around $200 revenue for each gross of Listerine sold now (a guess based on retail prices and markups), suggesting that despite inflation the royalty is still a respectable 10% but implying the 1881 price must have been much higher, in real terms, than Listerine costs now.
What did Facebook do to innovate on the Oculus? Oculus Rift was amazing before they sold.
Of course complexity is an issue. If users don't care about E2E encryption, why would Google spend more time implementing an E2E application?
Nobody should ever throw glass containers full of styrofoam dissolved into gasoline
> Subjects of opposing cultural outlooks who were assigned to the same experimental condition (and thus had the same belief about the nature of the protest) disagreed sharply on key “facts” — including whether the protestors obstructed and threatened pedestrians.

That's scary, but it's potentially really helpful in understanding the connections between language and belief.

I know there's some controversy about the validity of the so-called Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, but the idea that language and perception affect political culture was well understood by George Orwell, and I'm not surprised if the idea intersects well with the "ultimate attribution error" phenomenon from social psychology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_attribution_error
Regarding the topic of making edits that would be accepted, I assume it was subject matter that rubbed someone the wrong way because as I said it was basically a character assassination of the article's subject. I strongly suspect the writer of the original non-neutral content had a browser extension or bot monitoring the page for any edits. I reflected on it quite a bit (I'm not sure how you concluded I've no interest in that), but I just think it creates a bit of an issue with the community being unwelcoming to newcomers. On the receiving end of it there's not really any way to know why someone decided to make unfounded accusations against you in a public place without engaging them further, which seemed unwise to me.

I agree with you that it looks like a good field for some research, I don't know how the issue of anonymous edits could be handled to productively stamp out abusive edit behavior.
You can do that, and you can also proxy encoded requests which obfuscates all data, but you could also do that with the previous version of Google Analytics via the Measurement API.

In practice - in the EU, at least - I haven't seen any examples of this, and it would be unlawful without consent anyway, thanks to the GDPR.

It's also still fairly easy to classify requests (if you have access to the unencrypted request in the browser) based on heuristics. That's partly what the company I work for does.

Separately, thank you for your contribution to the Internet - it's as big and important as all the behemoths, but unfortunately will never be rewarded in the same way.
clap adds about 300kb with my usual release mode profile (lto = true, opt-level = 'z', panic = 'abort', strip = true). Bigger than I would like but for most projects I'm OK taking the binary size hit for nicer ergonomics and more features than argh.
SQLite is great. But the simple fact that it runs locally makes it a poor technical fit in many scenarios.
When did they last do innovation? As far as I can tell the site is hardly different from when the Wall / News Feed was invented in... what, 2005? Since then they've made a few minor extensions of the site, a few major acquisitions of competitors, and that's it.
You honestly think tens of millions in lobbying efforts cause a tens of billions return on investment? Why is it so insanely cheap?

Maybe our elected representatives simply agree that national security is a priority just like the people who voted them into office?
The newspaper has a 10-page special report on ESG, mentioning sources (it does not "cite" them, because it is a newspaper, not an academic journal). The linked article is the one-page summary ("leader").
Great ideas.. thank you. I love the refund idea, good way to get vital reason for churn.
> No I don't trust Facebook or Google any more than I trust TikTok and I minimise the use of services from either. But at least Facebook and Google are from a country I'm more morally aligned with.

Funny, I feel oppositely - Live in the USA, probably never going back to PRC, am not "overseas Chinese" and don't have family in vulnerable jurisdictions (though maybe those include some less developed African and Asian countries not just PRC). So if the CCP wanted to make trouble for me it would be a large and probably unsuccessful effort (real trouble meaning beyond remote/online harassment). Whereas if the US government wants to make trouble for me, even if they follow the letter of the law re: procedural due process and I eventually prevail, it is likely to be a very bad experience.
That's because they use language "ironically" to convince people to be nihilists.
That doesn't look... awful? For realtime graphics on a 120hz screen, that's not any worse than Memojis and leagues better than whatever Samsung's ill-fated AR garbage was.

I get a kick out of watching companies take the piss for bad art direction, but I really struggle to imagine a better solution here. Would people prefer photo-scanned faces mapped onto a low-res mesh? Methinks it would be even further into the uncanny valley...
The operative word in your comment being "actions". What "actions" can (current generation) neural networks undertake? Can they initiate anything? Can they choose their own learning material? Can they even choose when or whether to repeat a certain training set?

There was a recent HN comment about this that I think illustrates the point well [0]:

experimentation is an act on the world to set its state and then measure it. That's what learning involves. These machines do not act on the world, they just capture correlations.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32201757
Great suggestion. Thanks.
The point isn't that its one or the other, the point is that spending on social programs is much cheaper than national security programs and makes a more meaningful difference in more peoples lives. The point is that either-or is a false dichotomy, we can have good social safety nets and still have robust national security. The reason we don't have both isn't that we can't afford both, its that much of this country views poverty as a moral failing and intentionally neglects the poor because "they deserve it".
No, he would say something clever and unarguable, stated in terms of popular truths. In fact everybody on both sides of the discussion would do that.
> because it was "too expensive" at $11B

Schools meals are pure cost, they don't bring anything back. It's not like we have mass starvation going on at the moment either.

Also, why "free meals" when parents can afford to pay for it? If you have parents who are under a certain threshold of revenues, give their kids free meals, but let's not do a one-size fits all policy, this is not 1950 anymore.
Hang on, doesn't deliberate manipulation of the consumption of counterfactual legal precedent by a sitting judiciary (withholding with measurable effect the countering case references is the study method) only result in a spate of mistrials?

Ed. legal precedent replaced sources for clarity of this significance
I agree with your message but it's hard to find an i7 that supports ECC RAM and the Mellanox Connect-X 2 has lost support in modern distros.

Best bet is to pick up an old HP Z620 of find someone who is upgrading their old Xeon homelab. Generally its a choice of cheap, quiet, energy efficient and you can only pick two of these options.
Huge fan of Jeff’s work on YouTube! Highly recommend checking it out if this blog interests you
Is there a reason corporations even pay taxes, versus just taxing individuals once they get money distributed to them from the corporation?
Only if they are storing personal data (including IP addresses).