skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Face-to-face is only applicable with you small social network.

That is my point precisely. And I will point out here that small social networks are our historical environment. I believe not only can we return to them and flourish, but also that it would be a great boon to human flourishing, the only outcome that really matters.
I’ve arrived at my conclusions all on my own. I’d love to be part of the “take this serious” crowd because it would have made my life a lot easier (but also wasted). Unfortunately the facts and data combined with my values just don’t align with the idea that Covid was ever something we should have shut it all down for.

There is an alternate universe where they didn’t test everybody that breathed and don’t publish daily death counts. The only way you’d know there was a pandemic was an uptick in “wash your hands” signs in the restroom. Otherwise it would have been “just that thing going around”.

The last time we had an equivalent pandemic they held Woodstock. No shutdowns. No masks. No hysterical blowhards tweeting about the end of the world on twitter. People just got on with life.

Does this make me a selfish asshole? Perhaps. But I personally think the people screaming to mask up and shut it all down are the true selfish ones. The expect everybody to massively disrupt their lives in order to appease their fear and anxiety. Especially when those mitigations had no prior evidence they’d work and not even a whiff of a stated off-ramp or end goal.
But AlphaFold is already being used in a ton of research labs at great effect.
BetaFold
this is a real lazy take mate. i mean, i agree that the crypto industry is plauged by fraud and posers, but to say that blockchain offers nothing new is just showing ignorance of the technology.

i recommend reading the original bitcoin whitepaper to understand what is new: https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper
Meta-visualization / statistical use cases links site : https://www.tableau.com/learn/articles

sample links:

https://www.tableau.com/learn/articles/data-science-blogs

https://www.tableau.com/learn/articles/best-data-visualizati...
But is that entirely wrong?

Isn't 'good pedigree' saying 'we can trust the unknown here more than in other cases'?
Suddenly celluloid film will become the unfungible evidence stored in sacred temples.
All rights are legal rights. No one has any rights without a legal system.
Wait what happened?
What do these apps give me that I can't do with VSCode + Markdown Notes plugin (or some other text editor of choice), a git repo and some markdown files?
Three cheers for Telegram!
I'd guess it's the rotating globe canvas animation showing real-time stats.
Yes it turns out people care about being lied to.
People assume that some RGB matrix transform and a nonlinear PQ gamma is all Dolby Vision is.

In practice it's an entire ecosystem of certifications, professional calibration of panels, efficient encoding formats, etc...

To reproduce the end effect of Dolby Vision you'd have to have a team of people liaising with television manufacturers, and makers of production software like DaVinci Resolve.

It's not a trivial task that can be done through open source. It's real work that costs money.

We can all hope and wish for open standards, but it's a bit like trying to come up with an open architecture for a railway bridge. It'll still take real work to customise it to any particular valley, the local geography, and the specific requirements. Dolby Vision is similar. The mapping from the full signal range to each specific panel is a complicated thing that requires quite a bit of work to determine.
What can crypto and blockchain legitimately offer that is better than what the current financial system offers?

The Bitcoin whitepaper outlines a P2P payments system, today it isn't used as such, rather a store of value, not even Stripe is using Bitcoin for payments at all.

So what use are these cryptocurrencies for, if not for scams and fraud?
> "24-hour Outrage-News Channels"

That’s the only kind
The average median household income is ~$75k the average house in Canada is $700,000
Turn the tower on its side so the motherboard is parallel with the ground and the weight of the GPU keeps it in the PCI-e slot. It is my understanding that GPUs are able to still properly dissipate their heat in this configuration.

Great article!
The people quoted in the article are all fairly well known in the field, and while I obviously can't speak for them (especially because each of them alone has much more experience in the field than I do) I expect that they generally have realistic rather than what I might call sensationalistic views of this result. I expect this is also true of the authors of the work in question, though of course they may be even more excited about the result (with good reason). To be clear, this is an interesting result, and is certainly food for thought, but I think it's too soon to tell how much of the "cuprate problem" it solves.

I my guess that the sensationalism in the article is just a combination of overexcitement and misinterpretation by the journalist. I think most people in the field would agree that this result is interesting, and could end up being quite important. If the journalist heard something like this from everyone he asked, he may have misinterpreted this as the matter being "settled" in the view of most of the community.
It’s rather circular, I imagine.
> pro book banning in libraries

I've seen tons of recent support for censorship from ideas and speech the (left? I wouldn't consider it actually left) doesn't like. Then you have conservatives moving against these books that promote woke religion and suddenly these same people are very pro free speech.
Meta told to pay walkie-talkie techies $175M in patent case
From the article:

> Speed is one advantage of crypto payouts. Reach is another. Millions of talented freelancers live in countries where it’s hard, if not impossible, to open a local bank account. For example, a majority of the people in Djibouti, El Salvador, and Bhutan don't have bank accounts. With Stripe, freelancers in those countries are now able to receive funds via USDC in minutes. With the addition of USDC, Stripe cross-border payouts extend to more than 4.4 billion people in more than 110 countries—a majority of the world’s population.
Yes, independent travel will be allowed again.
Help people in Iran reconnect to Signal – a request to our community
Unfortunately political power is not generally distributed on a per-issue basis. In most cases it simply is not an option for an individual citizen to support increasing personA's political power to regulate social networks without increasing personA's overall political power.
absolute control of your own money. borderless currency. distributed applications/smart contracts outside the reach of any state. these are my personal faves
Car Affiliate System
> This was a rational and intentional decision, not a contradiction.

This was a rational and intentional decision to lie, not a contradiction.
The scrolling behavior on this page is horrendous.
I'm 54 and have had the same high school nightmare several times.

I find myself in my old high school and stuff has changed and is really confusing. I end up being compelled to go to classes and somehow have a schedule foisted on me that's too complex to be readable. I feel anxiety that the other students will notice my graying hair!
But if it can be generated on the fly, why persist it to the code at all?
Tactical Intelligence Security Named to MSSP Alert’s Top MSSPs List for 2022
macOS and iOS do something similar when you're debugging your app. By default Xcode sets various environmental variables to set newly allocated memory to 0xAAAAAAAA and deallocated memory to 0x55555555. This makes it pretty clear when looking at something in the debugger that you've hit either uninitialized or stale data.
I guess the assumption is the lower earning natives will leave and go somewhere else?
Linux has similar vulnerability some extent, and dependent on the distro. Just because you're Linux doesn't mean invincible.

Qubes feels like the best answer, but ran too slow on my box to watch video.

Firejail feels like a decent balance but I found myself digging through config files when, e.g., I wanted to save a file from Gimp into a new location.

Expect any paradigm shift to take at least a decade.
Honestly I think a lot of the issue here is problem with incentives.

When these teachers signed up, many didn't sign up for the risks of COVID (however large... or small they may actually be). They didn't sign up for the psychological stress that put on them either. For that, I feel bad for them, and I'll explain why.

They were offered virtually nothing in exchange for "changing up the game." They weren't compensated for these new conditions. Some, not all, but some rather than just saying out loud "fuck you not worth it" came up with faux-philosophical reasons for why they rejected this, such as scientifically unproven conjecture that the children would be better off remote. But had they been properly incentivized, I think their reasoning (as it usually does) will chase what benefits them.

We wasted tons of money pumping it into low-interest asset accumulation and 'free' business loans. I would have spent some of that money instead DOUBLING teacher pay as a reward for 'risk' (whether it be mostly purely psychological, or not, or whatever) of enduring COVID.

I would then offer the teachers this doubled wage as compensation for this risk. Teachers that can get with the program (doing in-person, or remote, as desired by the families) would stay on. Everyone else would be fired with a 1 year severance to find a new job, and the doubled wages being used incentivize replacements.

IMO elevated adult risk, and even some elevated child risk, is justified in the name of education. We seem to intuitively understand this as many of us may engage in dangerous trades or risks to help our children, but then again a stranger should be fairly compensated for such risk. I think had we compensated these teachers in a way they were fattening their bones for staying in class we would have been flooded with (for self-serving reasons) "facts" from teachers about how great in-person learning is and how everybody should be doing it.
https://digitalarrtarchive.siggraph.org/exhibition/siggraph-...
At this point both the motherboard and graphics card need to be mounted on the back plate of the chassis, so that they can both use tower coolers. You can already use a PCIe extender to achieve this, but it should become the standard.
You are grossly over-simplifying what this is doing. Nowhere does it say anything as simple as setting x to y. In nearly each case it takes the context of the variables into account and states the meaning of the function calls, not the meaning of the syntax.
It is exactly how it works. Unless you have ridiculous amounts of luck and/or is an established name, you won't sell books unless you commit to spending a lot of time marketing. The market for books is ridiculously saturated.
Crypto is very popular among people working in rich countries who send remittances back to their families in other countries. That's a legitimate use, a very popular use, and is obviously what Stripe is going for here.
About 15 years ago I weighed about 235 pounds when I stop getting on scales.

I was 200 at 18 and tried going to the gym to lose weight but I stopped because I bulked up with muscle I increased my weight rapidly. So I went back to being a lazy nerd.

I started losing weight by buying a bike to get to work and doing yoga so that I could go hiking in the mountains. I started eating better, tried being vegan and other fad diets and slowly got down to 185-190 and was stuck, but was in pretty good shape with extra padding.

I eventually realized I had an issue with gluten and when I cut that out, I dropped done to about 170, and am probably a perfect body fat.

I’ve since lost about 10 pounds in the last year from food prices rising faster than my income and am frequently hungry and lightheaded.

It took nutritional experience and exercise, but I feel physically and mentally so much better it’s like being a different person(to yourself and others).
I've heard this for years. Does anyone have any actual goddamn statistics of how many people die in the shower from lightning every year?

So, if around 18 people per year die from lightning in the US every year, and most of those people were outdoors, exactly how risky is this activity, really? Is this just fear mongering, or is there an actual risk?
I don't get them as frequently as discussed in the article, but they come up a few times per week.
UW-Madison is on the list, but University of Chicago is not?
transparent algorithmic governance.

I think it is easy to dismiss as a value proposition. In the end, the future will show, so we probably should not spend too much time speculating.
Michigan State is lower tier than the likes of Harvard maybe, but it's still a premier research institution by global standards.
There is a large difference between "not entirely trustworthy" and "unknowable".

And in both cases - severed lobes, and hemispatial neglect - serious trauma needs to be present to observe this effect.

I do think the changed title here on HN is doing the subject much more justice than the attention-grabbing attempts of the article.
Rust absolutely lets you control alignment, and use SIMD. I won’t claim to make a comparison to C++ here because I have never done that sort of work in it, but it is absolutely a thing.
To be clear, I'm not really arguing that the intent is to embed comments. But I'm just going by the "validateSignature" example they give in the video. All that does is generate a 1-1 mapping of each code line to an English comment. TBH I would expect a senior developer to just be faster reading the code.

Perhaps there are some other examples that explain more of a "structural understanding" of the code, but I'm skeptical without more evidence.
Are the Taliban sitting on boat leads of the stuff?

Why didn’t the American build a railroad to the ocean!?
Hard to believe people who have actually thought about the consequences of demoderation could possibly support it. It would instantly be the end of all forums. Moderation isn't always perfect, but it is infinitely better than a free for all.
> Frankly, how does anyone continue to work in any job? They all bring undesirable externalities of some sort. As a farmer, I'm one of the most evil people on the planet

Oh God, I write software that helps farmers do a better job!
I don't really agree that max power should be regulated, but power efficiency should be featured much more prominently in reviews, as should TCO.
The vast majority of code cannot so this isn’t particularly useful.
Thanks for sharing. I did (hitchhiking/walking/bus) part of the Kumanokodo over a couple of weeks back in uni. Truly awesome experiences. Mt Koya (easily accessable by public transport from Osaka/Kyoto) is a real power spot for me.

https://www.japan.travel/en/spot/979/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_K%C5%8Dya
> Well, I guess you can say Dolby Vision indirectly would benefit because it requires minimum 1000 nits brightness for certified displays

It unfortunately does not. That's what a Dolby Vision Mastering display requires, but to get the DV logo on your display all you really have to do is pay Dolby money and use their tonemapper. Unlike Vesa they don't actually have a display certification system at all.
> is about as high-stakes as most people's lives ever get

I don't think that's the case, but more that kids are being put in these "high stakes" situations without the mental capacity to handle them. Turning in an assignment late, underpreparing or waking up late for an exam, getting a B+ instead of an A, fumbling during a presentation – these are all insignificant and completely artificial problems in the grand scheme of life. However when you are a student going through them it feels like the end of the world, and that memory sticks.
> What can crypto and blockchain legitimately offer that is better than what the current financial system offers?

Cancellation resistance. Protection from oppressive governments trying to squash freedom. Protection from retroactive laws targeting previously legal transactions. Asset protection.

And look I agree with you. And everything I posted above carries a huge cost given the volatility of most cryptocurrencies, but unfortunately we live in times where if you truly care about freedom from tyranny, your behaviour is going to overlap heavily with criminal behaviour.
USDC is a completely centralised 'stablecoin' and has a blacklist function which means they can seize funds of people who they don't like. USDC again is not even regulated as I said with no proof backing this other than 'attestations' which is not a full audit of reserves.

How is this decentralised money that was promised by crypto and blockchain? You may very well use Wise, Moneygram and other regulated alternatives which works better, is also relatively faster and is more stable and widely accepted than these USDC tokens.
But the memory controller still has to refresh them. So at some point you have to negotiate a wait state, don't you?
Agreed! Likewise, if you're doing anything multithreaded, ThreadSanitizer (TSAN) is a must!
Obligatory related movie link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvDFJVUaXUI
I think this study is approaching the limits of what can be determined using quantitative methods. The academia is not single field but a collection of tens of thousands of overlapping niches. If you want to understand the dynamics in a niche, you must spend years studying it, which does not scale.

In the niche I'm most familiar with, where I can often tell the difference between the reputation of a researcher and the quality of their work, prestige does not seem to have a significant role. University of Cambridge is the only institute that stands out, while most top people and most faculty members come from a wide range of reputable but unexceptional research universities.

Prestige seems to have a bigger role in another subfield I work in, but I'm not as confident in evaluating the people in it. The big difference seems to be that this subfield favors building large labs and emphasizes the role of the PI as a manager and a visionary rather than as a researcher. I'm not even sure if the quality of research means the same things in this field as in my home field.
It doesn't help that Confluence has one of the most irritatingly useless search engines in existence.
This depends almost entirely on what exactly you are hosting. Is it a Node.js app? ASP.NET? Windows? Linux?

In Visual Studio it is more-or-less as simple as right-clicking a project and selecting "Add -> Docker support": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/contai...

In Azure DevOps pipelines or GitHub Actions, it's also quite simple to add a container build step: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/eco...

In the actual Azure subscription you just need to create an Azure Container Registry resource to host the image. I believe you can also use Docker Hub, if you prefer.

Then in App Service just host the container image instead of the raw code: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/tutorial...

That should be about it. The effect of this is to "zip up" your loose 'js' files (or whatever), making deployments much faster. The build happens before this step, so the container image is "final" and will run directly without needing any npm steps or whatever at deployment time.

If you need something like hot-reload or similar very fast deployment times, then App Service is probably not the right environment for you. However, with containers its often possible to have a fast local deployment edit-build-test loop and then have the same environment running in production. This is the main benefit of containers!
I'd withdraw it, but edit period has passed.
I was working on a code base where testing was inconvenient (re-striping a large RAID array took hours) and I can think of scenarios where testing is impossible (or at least very costly). Test driven development isn't always the right approach.
Why would you want to do that, though?

Honest question. It’s going to be a long trip throughout the Uncanny Valley where everyone will clearly notice the fakery and then … what? What is the end goal here? Ok, making more Superman movies starring Christopher Reeves, obviously. But then what?

To quote someone who deserves to be more in more deep-fakes, “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
> What's struck me as weird about this is that I don't recall a single teacher ever mentioning their spouse, or their personal weekend plans.

That strikes me as odd. I recall this happening many times. Heck, there were even several pairs of teachers who met at school and got married. One teacher proposed to another teacher during a town parade where many students and teachers were present. It's not like teachers dwelled on personal details in class. It's just that it would be impossible to miss.
Watch out or you'll invent desktop cases and we'll put the monitor on top. ;)
Porn uses old and free formats for maximum compatibility. h264 and aac, works on every budget device from the last decade (and older). Even the highest quality 4k porn is just 20 mbit/s h264. These companies aren't youtube, they don't encode every video in 10 different formats for every use case. If pornhub statistics are to be believed, like 85% of visitors are mobile users. There's no point in optimizing anything for expensive big screen great audio home theater experience when your target audience is 5" low res screen 1% volume ashamed at night phone fappers.

The very opposite of cutting edge technology (with the exception of tiny niches like VR).
> Florida is purging libraries of unpopular political opinions.

For example?
1. While I agree we're beginning to reach absurd proportions, lets really analyze the situation and think about it.

2. Are there any GPUs that actually have performed physical damage on a motherboard slot?

3. GPUs are already 2-wide by default, and some are 3-wide. 4-wide GPUs will have more support from the chassis. This seems like the simpler solution, especially since most people rarely have a 2nd add in card at all in their computers these days.

4. Perhaps the real issue is that PCIe extenders need to become a thing again, and GPUs can be placed in an anchored point elsewhere on the chassis. However, extending up to 4-wide GPUs seems more likely (because PCIe needs to get faster-and-faster. GPU-to-CPU communications is growing more and more important, so the PCIe 5 and PCIe 6 lanes are going to be harder and harder to extend out).

For now, its probably just an absurd look, but I'm not 100% convinced we have a real problem yet. For years, GPUs have drawn more power than the CPU/Motherboard combined, because GPUs perform most of the work in video games (ie: Matrix multiplication to move the list of vertices to the right location, and pixel-shaders to calculate the angle of light/shadows).
Is this still a thing? The article seems to be over 3 years old.
Well the change is to zero out memory on deallocation. So on allocation it may or may not be zero depending on whether it was previously freed, right?
>I guess they consider some kinds of speech more free than others.

False equivalency. Setting up a snitch website has little to do with speech and everything to do with administrative action.

Clearly, many people here don't understand jack about why free speech is important. They just parrot that phrase when they feel it advances their pet ideology, literally not understanding what it means. They treat it as if it's just some clever construct made up by "the other side". This is how we get persistent false equivalency between communication and disrupting communication.