skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keeping your dictators benevolent across decades and generations has proven a significantly hard problem. Even that give this form of government, in my view, far far too much credit.

Singapore is a rare contemporary example of a city-state, & I think that makes the scenario very different from most cases. Using this as an example seems ill suited.

Let's compare to one of your other cited cases, Philippines. Both experienced to degrees the wave of modernization following WW2, a moment of great possibility. Singapore is a very small nation, 1/4 the size of the smallest US State, Rhode Island. Sinagpore is positioned nicely amid a number of other countries giving it close trade access, and at the sea-most tip of a major intercontinental route. The Philippines is almost 100x bigger, about on par with Nevada, the 7th largest state, with much more space & population to tend to. Philippines is non-continugous in extreme, a nation of many islands, further exarcerbating the difficulty of effective governance. Philippines are isolated by a couple hundred miles of sea from other nations, and located rather at the edge of the map.

Singapore is one of the few city-states left on this planet, and it was one permitted to strain & grow at a crucial inflection point in human history.
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You’ve misunderstood the problem.

Backup codes wouldn’t help here, and the person I was referring to had their 2FA to hand.

Forgetting a password is unrecoverable on gmail - they even had recovery options on the account (secondary email and phone), but the recovery form never asked for that information so it could never be used (it insisted on the previous password). As no member of staff has access to prompt the system to offer a different one of the specified recovery options, the account is permanently frozen to this user (but not potentially to an attacker in the future, assuming that other information could be obtained somehow).

Helping the elderly is hard, but Google’s system is horrifically dangerous to people in ways even Google aren’t aware of.

This was an elderly gentleman, not well versed in computers, but all the savviness in the world couldn’t have helped him. He was forced to just walk away and hope for the best. Holiday snaps, photos of grandkids, personal files - all permanently retained by Google but locked out of his reach forever.
Ask HN: How've you seen open source used as a business strategy?
As an open-source advocate, I'd love to hear stories of how you (or your employer) have used open source as a viable business strategy and differentiator.
I'm actually stunned just how effective that MARPAT pattern is compared to the NATO blob camo, in the second image.
> If you bring HTML rendering to the client

The client being the browser? Isn't HTML rendering what it does? What kind of HTML rendering are you talking about?
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It was just an example, I don't have any special insight into the China-Taiwan situation. Maybe the conflict would be over a TV show, or a sports match, who knows. It just occurs to me that if there's a situation where we cut China off, or China cuts us off, we would be in the situation Germany is in now.

China would stand to lose a lot of money in that situation, but our economy would be severely disrupted as well. Russia is showing that for a totalitarian regime, losing a lot of money may not necessarily be a complete show stopper. They could make that choice and decide it's worth it, if they don't have to worry about the polls and are able to shape the narrative their own population gets to see.
I don't see what DAOs solve other than a fresh start. Most of the complaints are not really against traditional government, just the bureaucratic cruft that builds up over time. Whose to say smart contracts won't accumulate the same esoteric rules, possibly at an accelerated rate?
They're not writing for you.
Neocortex saves energy by reducing coding precision during food scarcity
From the port usage reported at https://uops.info/html-instr/CRC32_R64_R64.html, we can conclude (B) for the Intel microarchitectures.
For AMD it's not entirely obvious, but I agree (B) appears more likely.
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> Maybe you can speed up an entire server, even one with lots of free space and no need for compression, by adding full disk compression anyway!

Yes. Although not all filesystems support compression. One of the filesystems that does support and this is regularly benchmarked, is ZFS. It is also interesting that while you are definitely using more CPU to read a compressed stream, if that causes you to finish your task earlier, then it can be a net gain even from a CPU usage standpoint.

eg.

https://www.servethehome.com/the-case-for-using-zfs-compress...
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I think it really depends on what you like in a location. Like Gibson stated:

>Singapore's destiny will be to become nothing more than a smug, neo-Swiss enclave of order and prosperity, amid a sea of unthinkable ... weirdness.

There is a lot to like in a "neo-Swiss enclave of order and prosperity".
An API to make me smarter.
That's not an accurate description of what we're doing. It's all much simpler than that.
My company has a RN app and a React web app. We've found there isn't much opportunity for sharing UI code; you can share hooks, data layer type stuff, etc, but the actual components aren't really compatible because the leaves of the UI tree are totally different (native elements vs HTML elements)

The bigger wins come from shared tooling/skillset/headspace. Our UI devs can fairly easily jump back and forth between the two codebases
So what, they should be able to give fraud another go?
CRISPR-Cas9 editing produces social behavior changes in hamsters
Still a web framework though, even if the end result isn't HTML.
LXC is nice, but different scope.
I personally found Singapore charming when I was there. It's a fascinating mix of several different cultures who all seem to retained many of their traditional customs. I never understood the sterile critique myself, the city never struck me as such.

Gibson's main critique, from what I can tell, is the lack of much of a counterculture similar to what you'd find in the U.S. allied-bloc (Europe, U.S., Canada, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand), combined with wealth and modernity that you would find in such countries. He compares it to America in the 1950's. I can't help but think there's an underlying prejudice in the way he and others think countries should develop, where as they get richer they should be more like rich countries he's used to (ironically enough, the problem for many seems to be that Singapore _isn't_ the same as the other developed nations they're used to).

Though he does praise the food at the hawker centers, which I can at least agree with (and which are far away from any idea of sterile and boring).
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I posted more or less identical moderation comments to people on all sides of the argument in this thread. In other words, you are creating the bias you're objecting to, simply by choosing which data points to emphasize. You could have picked an opposite one to reply to and made exactly the opposite claim with as much justification.

It's extremely common for people to feel like the mods are against their side, when seeing a moderation comment they don't like.

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We experimented with a similar process in agriculture for customer VR tours of facilities that are too remote or would result in excessive biosecurity risk for the plants/animals inside.

However, we now just use 360 degree video to provide a better, more realistic experience. it's not helpful for exploring designs, but its a better choice (IMHO) for tours of facilities that already exist.
The difference, of course, is that in your metaphor the reaction is not related to the critique.

If I created a website called "Singapore Loves Shooting Critics" and Singapore responded by shooting me, that would be seen as confirmation of the critique.

If I created a website called "Singapore Loves Square Dancing" and Singapore responded by shooting me, that would be an overreaction but not one that related to the criticism.
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I can't square it either. Lets say that you live in a world where rich people want to control the narrative by making entertaining news shows to distract the populace from what is important, but needed a way to trick the people that sought to dig deeper from more authoritative sources that are less TV-entertainy... then I think it would make sense to tell the people that are digging deeper that it is bad for them and they should stop paying attention to the news for their own mental health and productivity.

I recognized that I was over consuming the news during the Trump presidency and needed a reset, and decided to not spend any more time reading the news than the short summaries that Axios posts and ignore all other forms (including John Oliver, although I do still watch Closer Look).

It appears that my actions and aspirations don't seem to be making the world a better place, but it is too depressing a thought to think that the best thing for me to do is be ignorant to the bad things in the world.

I plan on trying out subscribing to Delayed Gratification to see if that is a better path.
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A sufficiently smart compiler can obviously do any optimization that we can think of, but in practice the kind of optimization described in this article is very difficult to actually implement in an optimizing compiler. The CRC algorithm literally operates one bit at a time, in sequential order. As the article mentions, there are some properties of how the CRC math work that allow you to calculate the CRC from multiple chunks in a stream and then combine them in a specific way. This is the kind of thing that an optimizing compiler just isn't going to be able to figure out on its own given a naive CRC implementation because it's a math insight much moreso than it is a code generation trick.

In principle you could probably use some kind of symbolic math solving library to try to detect optimization opportunities like this in general code. In practice it just wouldn't be worth it, even at -O3, because it would add a ton of CPU and memory overhead to compilation and the optimization would be very rarely applicable in the first place.
I've done this with YouTube and it's been extraordinarily effective for me. Without the history associated with my account, the recommendation engine just shows me the default junk, preventing me from falling down rabbit holes when I just want to watch some video. For keeping in touch with channels that I still want to follow, I've subscribed to them via RSS.

If you need an extra push to enforce that you only use private browsing, you can install any browser extension that blocks sites and then tell your browser to not permit that extension to run in private windows.
Isn't flossing more important? That's where stuff gets stuck and acid breaches enamel - between the teeth. Does this sponge clean there?
The article mentions that people who grow up in poverty but have wealthy friends are more likely to rise out of poverty.

They didn't indicate if the effect goes both ways.

Are rich kids with poor friends more likely to slide on the economic ladder than rich kids who are isolated to neighborhoods with only other rich kids?

That seems like an important aspect of the system to understand.
I think TempleOS started in a similar fashion…
Ask HN: Would you continue interviewing for a company in this situation?
I had applied to a company for a software engineering role. Typical fullstack role, nothing special.

I was given a take home that was ok compared to a lot of others, it took me an hour to do it.

Then I had a talk with head of engineering.

Then for some reason, I got scheduled with him again, which he apologized for.

Then they disappeared for a while, but came back asking me for a virtual onsite.

That consisted of 3 rounds, all technical.

Then they disappeared for 2/3 weeks with 0 info.

They reappeared out of the blue yesterday with no explanation and emailed me about 2 more interviews.

At this point I have spent maybe 6 hours on this process with them if you add everything up. I'm kinda feeling done with them.

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I suspect it started when engineers stopped making the important decisions and people with merely a business background took over.
Not disagreeing at all, but amplifying...

It seems silly to compare Atari and Commodore in this way. They were both playing in a very immature market that really had no idea what direction it was going in, so their strategies bear little resemblance to today's mature and saturated market.

Speaking as someone who lived through the whole thing, there were clear technological benefits to both machines. For example, the C64 had the SID just, bringing vastly superior sound. On the Atari 800 side (which is what I owned), the expansion bus was not just easier to use, but also allowed the floppy drives to outperform those of the Commodore competition.

And the design of the Atari BASIC language was superior. C64 did have some better hardware but as I recall you needed to do goofy things like POKE special values into odd memory addresses to use them. By contrast, I recall Atari's combination of COLOR and SETCOLOR commands, which at first seemed baffling but later the realization of how they worked together (and other similar sorts of things) did a lot to help me understand software systems.
The iOS app seems to work as well or better than the desktop app in my experience, so imagine my surprise finding out it's React Native. If the Android app will work just as well, this is good news.
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>Where did you learn your standard, and when did you learn it?

News. Probably during H.W. Bush.

Here's an article from 2008 talking about the 2 quarter rule of thumb. Apparently it's been around since 1974.

https://money.cnn.com/2008/05/05/news/economy/recession/

Here's one from 1998 using the 2 month definition.

https://money.cnn.com/2001/09/28/economy/economy/index.htm

Here's the NYT defining it the same way in 1974. From the text:

The bureau considers a recession to have occurred when there has been an ettended substantial, and widespread decline in aggregate economic activity—or, duration, depth, and diffusion. The bureau has not specified the breakpoints which distinguish recessions from milder slowdowns. Its experts depend rather on comparisons of current cyclical trends with what happened during previous business cycles, a process that involves some qualitative judgment and interpretation of cyclical trends.

Seems the NBER was pretty wishy washy about it back then too.

The bureau has not specified the breakpoints which distinguish recessions from milder slowdowns.

If it's been around since the 1920s, why isn't it mentioned in 1974? Maybe the NYT dropped the ball.

The NYT goes on to opine:

A rough translation of the bureau's qualitative, definition of a recession into a quantitative one, that almost anyone can use, might run like this:

In terms of duration—declines in real G.N.P. for 2 consecutive quarters; a decline in industrial production over a six‐month period.

There's your 2 quarters boundaries, back in 1974.

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/01/archives/the-changing-bus...

It's pretty evident that both have been around a long time and politicians, their news allies and political operatives push whichever one is most convenient. In today's case, the (current?) NBER definition means we aren't currently in a recession (yet), which benefits the current sitting president, briefly.

FYI, I can't seem to find in your first link from 1983 where it actually defines a recession. Perhaps you can quote it. I stopped reading your links after the first one didn't seem to have any references to your claim, but I might have missed it. My eyes started to glaze over a bit, business cycles in 1980 is pretty dry reading.
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California also has 7 times the population of Singapore.
None of which invalidates the fact that California does, in fact, have the death penalty, in marked contrast to most of the Western world.
Sorry, but is Elizabeth Holmes the best example here?
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Why is this even a debate? Aren't there wallets known to belong to Satoshi Nakamoto - and thus the control of these wallets would be a near 100% effective way to test if someone is him/her?