skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That thing on the google.com page is really annoying. Google is probably trying this out but I am really hoping that this is some behind the scenes look at the fact that google might be a dying company and are grasping for straws. Not that I think that is really real, but because it would be glorious.
network effects are overcome all the time. all the social networks are dying sooner or later. even facebook is panicking because they're losing the next generation and instagram is panically trying to emulate tiktok or whatever because they have _something_.
Ask any Ukrainians who have family in Russia...

https://mobile.twitter.com/nastasiaKlimash/status/1575649514...

(This is just one example across many I've seen since February)
I usually listen to airplane noise during programming, cabin or outside propeller depending on my mood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tds7Onwz2-U&t=6800s
Coroner rules 14 year old died while suffering from effects of online content
Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner texted Elon Musk urging him to buy Twitter
And which modern web framework is least boilerplate? Springboot?
where are those usb c cable reviews?
I agree, this is strange. Maybe some things are not being told?
> Lots of smaller companies that have comparable compensation

Do you mean smaller companies that all have similar compensation to each other or similar to FAANG? Cause very few companies out there are paying $400k+ for senior engineers. People join FAANG mostly for the pay - the brand recognition is just a perk.
What/who is Dorsey referring to when he says "Back when we had the activist come in" ? It's cute Musk thinks decentralised Twitter is a 'Super interesting idea' - come on, really? It's like two people discussing Blockchain when it first entered into the Zeitgeist a decade ago.
You would easily eventually get into volumes of 2-3 million a year if you could get something out which is powerful enough for PS2 level re-creation.

The MiSTER project is already inspiring a generation to learn how to program FPGAs, those skills could be applied to improve performance in a lot of applications.
Ask HN: What are your training strategies as Engineers?
When doing any sort of high performance activities or hobbies (be it running, climbing, cooking etc.) there are tons of suggested training plans and preps for specific goals.

In my 10+ career in Software Engineering, I didn't find much of that.

So I am curious: What is our profession (Security Engineer, Software Engineer etc) and how do you train to get better?
Reminds me of this point by Matt Levine:

> If you have a pot of money that is immune to bank runs, over time, modern finance will find a way to make it vulnerable to bank runs. That is an emergent property of modern finance. No one sits down and says “let’s make pension funds vulnerable to bank runs!” Finance, as an abstract entity, just sort of does that on its own.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-29/uk-pen...
This is funny, because that's exactly the thing "The Old Industries" said before being disrupted by tech companies.
I had a feeling they shuffled comments randomly a few times during the first 1-2h after post creation. But I guess you are right, it's easier to get noticed by bandwagoning the most popular comment.

Maybe if there are a lot of comments - display five randomly chosen and get those up/down voted first before showing everything else?

But there would still be a problem with some just having longer lifetime hence higher chance of being in the top than others.
You can use Wise for this purpose, strictly speaking it's not a bank account, but you can have a unique IBAN and transfer funds to your local account or keep it there.

As a disclosure, I work there.
As far as I understand, the act prevents the prime minister from dissolving the parliament unilaterally, but in practice the parliament still only need a simple majority, by just passing a law stating 'notwithstanding the Fixed-term Parliament Act, the parliament is dissolved'. This happened in 2019 ([1], [2]).

Or it could have just repelled the act, which is what happened this year.

This can happen when there is no entrenched constitution and the parliament has complete freedom to legislate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-term_Parliaments_Act_201...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Parliamentary_General_El...
I think the confusion you're having is because in the Fibonacci example it is specifying what the Fibonacci function is by one way to calculate it. Try the following natural number division example instead. In this example the spec doesn't show how to calculate the function:

spec: Function NatDiv implements a "division" function that given two natural numbers "dividend" and "divisor" (with the guarantees that "divisor" < "dividend" and "divisor" is not 0) either-
1) returns "quotient" an integer such that either quotientdivisor = dividend (here quotient will obviously be >=0), or, if no such number exists, returns "-1",
2) always terminates.
where we assume your computer's hardware doesn't have an inbuilt division operation but has at least natural number addition, along with common comparison operations (eg: <, equality, etc) and logic ops (eg: OR, AND, NOT, etc).

Notice that here the spec doesn't specify the function by detailing what it does. In fact it specifies the division function by using multiplication which is the opposite of division. And we're not even guaranteed that our hardware has multiplication- so the spec itself gives no detail how to compute the division.

One possible NatDiv implementation:
define two variables- counter and sum and set to 0. Create a while loop where the while condition to enter inside the loop is that sum is less than dividend's value. Inside the loop in each iteration sum is increased by divisor's value and counter is incremented. So when the loop terminates sum is greater than or equal to dividend's value. The function returns counter's value if sum = dividend or returns "-1" otherwise.
Notice that we can argue that the loop always terminates because sum can only increase inside the loop while the value of dividend never changes thus eventually the loop condition will eventually fail to hold at some point. And when it terminates counterdivisor=sum (by the fact that multiplication of ab is equivalent to summing "a" occurrences of "b") and that counter is returned when sum=dividend or -1 is returned otherwise. Thus the requirements of the spec are satisfied.

*in reality, the spec would have to account of the size limitations of the physical machine- but here we're unrealistically assuming that it can handle any sized natural numbers.
Completely agree, none of the facts align with what they are saying. I mean imagine having billions of dollars in your pocket and pretending you can’t start a protocol that looks like mastodon or xmpp… These guys know their records are going to be subpoenaed.
My comment will certainly be dead, but I'll try replying anyway.

> the government has cut off or severely limited residential and especially mobile broadband access to the internet

How limited is the Internet access? As long as the network didn't go straight to "whitelist" mode, there may be ways to gain access to the blocked sites. Since you mentioned machines in data centers can still access the outside world, I guess it's still working in "blacklist" mode - only the sites they blocked are inaccessible.

As the rumor goes, Iran imported the censoring tech and equipment from PRC, so anything that works in China will most probably work in Iran.

V2ray and Vmess work in China because they disguise their protocols AND servers as normal web stuff. I wouldn't recommend Shadowsocks because the Chinese Great Firewall can now partially recognize it. If all things failed, HTTP proxies over TLS with legit Let's Encrypt certificates and client certificate authentication may be much more viable.

The Chinese guys also have tons of free proxies & VPN providers that are updated regularly stockpiled on GitHub, but most are documented in ambiguous language, such as these (I have no affiliation with any of them):

https://github.com/bannedbook/fanqiang
https://github.com/Alvin9999/new-pac
https://github.com/freefq/free
https://github.com/anaer/Sub

My suggestion would be,

1. Search for such repositories on GitHub. The keyword you want to use is "翻墙", or go straight to the links listed above. You'll need to research their documents, or

2. Create an Issue stating your situation and that you need help.

I believe the owners of those repos may have the ability AND willingness to help you out.

And the communication part.... I used Matrix in China with the server placed abroad, and it worked very well, because it's working on top of HTTPS. Again, anything that seems normal web stuff have a higher chance of getting pass the censorship.

Be safe out there.
With the twist that for a robot that gets it's rough plan from a diffusion model that's then executed in a tight conventional control loop, I'd call the control loop more "conscious" than the diffusion model part (which is of course an extremely subjective categorization).

On the other hand, if you take another step back and think of the query input to the diffusion model, perhaps a text "human walking up to a higher floor" in our stair-climbing example, then you are absolutely right, that would be much closer to what we'd call "conscious" than I had ever imagined!

(my usual model of technical consciousness is an entirely different beast, the "simulate before act" approach with the additional requirement that the simulation includes a "self" and "peers" and the simulation includes rules/mechanisms that put them in the same category)
Yeah, I definitely see the appeal on that. I'd pay for this as an offline app that doesn't hand over all my emails to a random third party though. Pity it's only Goog/MS/Yahoo so far too. Really, it should be any IMAP server and offline only. Someday maybe?
It's called the Media business model where we get the user to trade privacy for features and earn revenue on abusing privacy.

Given Apple's moves in the iOS app space and the way young people talk and behave; the next social media platform will be a low paid app that has full privacy and is non-ad revenue based and is centralized.

It will be some company that is super transparent but at the same time has figured out that one can provide paid services of value user of social media would pay for.

It might even be one of us that is reading this message that goes on to form such a social platform.
"So climate change can only really be solved by a lower population."

It sounds like Nazi slogan.
Might be a regional thing then. You see square meters and square kilometers used here a lot.
c) the parliament decides to have an election.
Thumb are definitely underutilised. I just received my Moonlander split keyboard and I love having 3 keys per thumb now (actually even more than that)
Mudge, maybe?
This brings to mind Leonard's law, which is that software will be as bad as it's users can tolerate.
Further down:

> But as the legendary Midcentury Modern designer Charles Eames put it, ‘toys and games are the preludes to serious ideas.’ Grownups who play with Lego, dump fortunes into JPEGs of cartoon characters online or dress like overgrown toddlers force us to question long-held assumptions about adulthood and society as a whole.
Wow. Inhad never considered this to be a problem!
A call to reconsider memory address-space isolation in Linux
>Guy has a background in infosec, an holds a CISSP cert, among others
So how do you get the pods to read the new credentials?
Elon Musk’s Text Exchanges Show Twitter Deal Going Off the Rails
Say you're a decision-maker at Google (or Any Large Corp). You have a KPI to increase revenue by 5% this year. If you hit this KPI, then you get a bonus. If you get the bonus, then you can afford the thing that your partner has been wanting forever (or that will make your neighbours jealous, or whatever), and you get a happy life.

You know that doing X will harm the company in the long term (defined as anything past your likely tenure in this role, so usually 2 years max). But doing X will bump revenue in the short term, and get you your bonus and your happy life.

WDYD? Given that to get to a level where you have the power to make this decision, you had to have a particular personality type and set of priorities, it's extremely likely that you decide to do the thing that helps you and hurts everyone else.
I usually remind myself of this quote, “We Never Really Grow Up, We Just Learn How To Act In Public.”
Probably the "Activist Shareholders" - Elliott Management - that tried to get seats on the board (and kick him out) in 2020.
It seems to me that once your middle management is infested with the wrong kind of non-tech people (because you couldn't resist "growing" forever), you don't stand a chance anymore.

To me it seems this is what happened to Larry & Sergey, too.
You mean administration is decentralized? Sounds like what they were going for.
> There's just not much biological difference, … - nipples are nipples

I have nipples, Greg. Can you milk me?
[Meet the Parents]
Yes, we have accounts in two other countries (one Europe, one is the US) using Wise. Works well for sending, receiving or just letting the money wait in the account. The setup requires uploading a copy of the passport etc but that's similar to any other bank.
Someone with actual experience at Valve would be better suited for the role.
Ask HN: Accessible resources to learn discrete mathematics
What book(s) or resource(s) (could be even a blog) would you suggest for learning discrete mathematics, given an (European) high school level mathematical maturity?

Bonus point if it's something I can read on a Kindle or any other e-reader that has no good PDF rendering, such as EPUB, MOBI etc.

Another bonus point if it shows the applications.
> This article is trying to focus on falling bullets, but the only death it mentions […]

Yes, because only deaths are important and/or traumatic for those involved:

> Health Secretary Enrique Ona said Tuesday that the 413 wounded and hurt included a child who was hit in the head by a stray bullet fired by an unidentified person at the height of New Year's revelry in suburban Caloocan city in metropolitan Manila.

> The 7-year-old girl is fighting for her life.

> "The bullet's still embedded in her head," Ona told a news conference. "It looks like she may not be saved."

* https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/400-injured-philippin...

Perhaps the issue is not finding reports, but that there are too many to single out:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire#Notable_in...

It's almost like reporting on that the sun rose this morning: obviously happening.
This is fearmongering and war propaganda. The infrastructure is out of this group's control.
It seems interesting but £510 is a lot for 2 days of currently unknown content.
Interesting. I've heard people refer to it as "museumstasten" (key of museums). Probably a regional thing.
I don't even understand why do people become adult in the first place. Sure, your body changes and you begin to understand some more complex things you previously couldn't (and that's fun), but why change anything else? Why be boring and take bullshit seriously?
Sounds like a toddler and a Corgi jamming away on a Roland Juno.
That's very interesting thank you. Is it possible to "spend" directly my funds from wise? For example by getting a debit card ?
You are both right and wrong.

Bloomberg IS a tech company. But the journalists obviously don't mingle with that part.
This is nonsense. First, no one can interact in "arbitrary user-defined ways" with anything. Second, anything you can imagine on the web and more has already been done in games. Please don't tell people that running a 3d strategy game or a AAA multiplayer first-person shooter is somehow less complex than scrolling an effing window with a bunch of text and forms in it.
> that once your middle management is infested with the wrong kind of non-tech people

Surely that's the responsibility of the CEO/chairman/board who recruit and direct the staff?
So what? Where's the cutoff? Tell me one tech company besides Apple, Google, and Microsoft that logic wouldn't apply to. (No, Tesla doesn't count.)
It exists for 5 years already: https://communick.com
The optimise the hot part strategy, applied repeatedly across different test cases, stamps down the spikes on the profiler until the profile is basically flat.

Sadly at that point rather more thought is needed and it seems to get a bit domain specific what needs to change next.

A corollary of this that bad architecture choices made up front, e.g. because performance was not considered, become both extremely entrenched and difficult to see on the flat flame graph.
Also see the Fitbit ad from Singapore.
Inventing a new cartoon or 3D character can't be harder than designing an anime avatar.
Does rumble require the same standard? Perhaps it’s time for more people move to the alternative websites.
It was the other way around. They reached out to him using a foreign email service provider and mentioning something vague about mutual benefits. He took the bait.
It's mandated in the EU as well under the Network Neutrality rules: https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/routers.en.html

Sadly, enforcement of this directive is up to each country's own regulator, and as the map in the above link shows, only a few countries have actually enshrined this in their national laws.
Personally I can't stop thinking about Skeletor doing code review lol
Companies are AI. http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/companies_are_ai.html
Annoyingly, the new tab page used to have an exclusion for these "announcements". The flag was removed.

I've ended up installing one of those "inspirational new tab page" extensions, just so I don't see an ad. I am sure that means someone else is siphoning my data.
You mean like Google which invested billions in Plus?
I did mean 25% faster, though it was a guesstimate. That was comparing Agilex to Agilex D, not Cyclone V to Agilex D.

FPGA logic in simple terms consists of LUTs (look up tables, used to implement gates) and registers. The LUTs can be chained several times until they connect to a register. Registers are clocked at a frequency.

Now the max frequency is calculated using the maximum time from a register output, through a bunch of LUTs to reach another register. So it depends how long the chain is.

Its more complex than that in reality since there is also the time for the clock to propagate and to route the signals around. Fortunately the software takes care of that.

I don't really know how maximum frequency is specified in the specs, but I guess it'd be something like an ideal register->single LUT->register without much routing.
I am not sure why you're being downvoted. Both the newtab (at the bottom of the page) and the search page have had subtle "ads" for google's new product launches. I remember seeing it for Stadia, and I remember seeing it for "Google One"
As much as I think the rest of what you're saying is a really good point, I do think the article has some interesting things it says as well.

For example:

> By framing the embrace of childish sensibilities purely as a moral failing, and lumping all forms of it together, critics like Sasse and Andersen miss two important points. One is that there is a nourishing form of regression that harnesses the playfulness, creativity and diversity of childhood, but there is also a destructive form that manifests as blind rage. Both forms of regression are fuelled by a certain disappointment with society. Both crave the creation of something new. But one delights in transgressing boundaries through play, while the other polices boundaries through hate and violence.
My favourite aspect of this is that I have ctrl-c for SIGINT when I'm working in terminal and cmd-c for copy. No tracking which terminal emulator or IDE I'm in and which keyboard shortcuts to use for very common actions.
You are assuming that capitalism pushes individual actors to act in their own best self-interest. It does not. It pushes people to serve capital
You could have a look at Revolut.
Yes, wise does give you a debit card to spend money you deposited there.
It feels too clean to me. No typos, no emojis, correct punctuation…
They cant mine as much as possible. 6.25 bitcoins will be mined every 10min from now till 2024 ish. Due to the variable difficultly there is a cap as to how many miners can mine and remain profitable. If there high energy usage at all it simply means bitcoin has that much value otherwise it would not be worth mining at all. * which refutes the whole bitcoin has no value argument *

There is no incentive to move methane from remote locations. The volume would probably not make it physically possible to do, never mind economical. Not to mention waste more fossil fuels ie diesel. And besides you completely overlook remote locations that cant afford infrastructure do to costs and low dense population. Bitcoin would make infrastructure profitable in those cases.

Bitcoin is easy to setup one container box plus sat up-ink. Seeing as how this ensures the methane is burnt of and also provides incentive to do so. I fail to see your complaint here.

Whats even more insulting is people are using the fact bitcoins is transparent and deterministic to quantify how much energy is uses (which is less then clothes dryers by a factor of 5 BTW) . Meanwhile they are enjoying all their guilty pleasures hiding behind the fact we cant even quantify their energy use.

It's just ridicules to think xbox and video cards etc etc have value. But providing banking to the estimated 1.8 billion people without a bank account has no value.

We've seen this kinda of thing before. In short it always boils done "we don't see the value". How can a computer widget have value after all. And the precise answer is because it's tethered in the real world . You cant make something from nothing.

Ultimately it doesn't matter because you cant stop/attack it. More energy will be wasted then bitcoin uses trying to stop it and still won't succeed. I suggest you conserve your efforts (energy)
Random people believe whatever they believe, it would be weird to assume that everyone has a consolidated perspective.

Most people hardly understand the nuances between "war", "military operation" or "proxy war".
I usually hold the left side of my palm down a bit in order to press the ctrl button. So I rarely touch the ctrl button with a finger.
Thanks for the tip, I'll look if there is a mod doing it that has not been patched yet...
Happens with attempted infiltration of activists groups. I recall one case where undercover agents from two separate agencies started showing up at meetings of some local environmental or anti-nuclear group and they started writing profiles about each other noting how the other person didn’t really seem to fit.
Quantum computing engineers set new standard in silicon chip performance
We worked for 4 months to build a port for Stadia and today we finished it
It's not unprecedented, they did that when Google+ launched too.
There is no solution for fixing web communication that doesn't involve uploading your ID every time you post something.

The internet was, is and always will be a cesspool. It comes with anonimity and plausible deniability.
If you translate it into this yes, but that's not how they talked to each other.
I thought it was generally known that a lot of babies are born with blue eyes which later change colour.

Personally I had really dark brown eyes until the age of about 12. Then they went very green, and now they are hazel.
Great product,
we have been using it for already a few month in our company. Lots of insights on the data. I would also love to see different time frames for the data comparison, i.e. compare week to week, or month to month, instead of having only day-to-day comparison.

Anyway, good luck!