skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If unpopular opinion X turned out to be reality, early adopters/investors would come out ahead of skeptics - think how ridiculous quotes from internet nay-sayers now appear.

If you can make your opinion reality, by either persuading or bullying people into accepting it, you don't need to trust it - you can just choose it and act accordingly. Politics is just religion without the anthropomorphism. Societies and civilizations need to be rational all the way down, just as people are not creatures of pure logic.
Putin - UNFORTUNATELY - already crushed all of EUs economies as his country thriving as never before. And that wasn't even his goal.

I'm not sure who are the not-so-smart ones in Europe atm. Consider Germany buying gas off India (probably at a higher price than usual, haven't checked the numbers), which India got from Russia. Very smart. /s

Mass uprisings are probably near. It will become awfully clear which Kaisers are actually naked. Hint: It's not gonna be Putin.
> many more features than competing apps

In a lot of cases polish and quality matter more than the feature count. If it works, but looks half-baked then you will see no coversion, no adoption and next to zero feedback. Unimpressed users just leave.
The clarity of purpose that the Greatest Generation started with was the purpose of not defending the Spanish Government, not allowing Jewish refugees to immigrate from Germany, finally showing up late to the party, then after the party was over rehabilitating the Nazis and adopting their enemy, the USSR, who had lost 27 million people while everyone else was being so brave.

The Soviet Union defeated Germany. There's no greatest generation without them.
So Ukraine has to take a stand against most world major powers while fighting a full out war with Russia?
Does not work on android chromium either
The pixel 6a was $450 last I checked. High end phones are $1000 range.
Hurd is still stuck using Mach, unfortunately. The issues from the Hurd critique paper haven't been addressed either.

Minix, as cool as it is, does not have a maintainer, and hasn't seen activity for years. There's a lot of out-of-tree work that's just sitting there. It is a shame, because it is a really cool system architecture.

Genode is a modern, proper multiserver OS that has a good architecture, frequent releases and quite solid overall direction. And it has POSIX compatibility, so a lot of software runs, including modern web browser engines.
Current Affairs recently ran "NPR Is Not Your Friend", which highlights some of the issues:

<https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/09/npr-is-not-your-frien...>

The upshot of that piece is that NPR itself remains part of the neoliberal ideological propaganda apparatus:

Like all press outlets, NPR has a particular point of view. Its bias is just as profound as the likes of MSNBC or Fox News. NPR’s ideological bias is toward what we might call the American bipartisan consensus.

My sense is that both NPR and Wikipedia have performed admirably, and far better than their commercial counterparts, but that there remain pitfalls with both any organisation and those which are based on nonprofit / NGO models, particularly in terms of sponsor / donor capture.

The NonProfit Quarterly's podcast Tiny Spark frequently discusses such issues. It seems to be on hiatus but its back-catalogue has numerous episodes dedicated to the topic:

<https://nonprofitquarterly.org/tiny-spark/>

One of the voices heard several times on that topic has been Rob Reich of Stanford (not to be confused with former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich, at UC Berkeley), who's written and spoken on issues of philanthropy. Several articles are listed in his ... Wikipedia ... bio:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Reich#Articles>

I suspect that the OP had another take on this, which I find less credible.
I wrecked my brain last week trying to get generics to work correctly and i think Go just won’t support this.

have a function take in an array of T

T is generic with type constraint call Constraint

problem is calling that function wont work because it has to instantiated with one of the types found in the Constraint which beats the whole purpose. I need this to pass in structs that belong to Constraint.

I tried a multitude of different things and nothing seemed to work.

I ended up reading the Go library for how it handles SPrintF args and did something similar with a type switch and reflection wizardry.

Im still a junior programmer so it could be that I just didnt know how or I underestimate the solution for this.

But I figured once we have a type Constraint defined with a function, it should be relatively simple to not have to instantiate it with ONE concrete type and allow the Constraint types as args.

if anyone knows a better way to do this please let me know
The relation to the bug in his code at the end was interesting. It took the story in a direction that I was not expecting. Honestly, reading through the first 95% of the fine article I was wondering why this was posted to HN. The end was worth it.
Hmm, considering that the Jewish New Year ended in the middle of September that year, it actually is a question. I suppose it depends on whether that journal was actually published before or after Rosh Hashanah that year.
Weight changes in one neuron can have dramatic and non linear or obviously predictable impact on the performance of a full model.
While your proposal is perfectly reasonable, I couldn't help but notice that your opening was an example of the "'think of the kids + terrorism'" mentioned by GP.

> Look, I'd love to stop CP distribution in America! Really, I would! But Google's encryption policies are preventing law enforcement from intercepting pedophile communications now, today.

It's the same "think of [vulnerable group]" type of statement.
Thanks, that's a worthy addition (and good example of what I mean about agreeing with his philosophy). I was probably a bit too uncharitable in saying he doesn't want to see progress.
This is tangential to your point, but I’ll just mention that Azure has some properly specced out HPC gear: IB, FPGAs, the works. You used to be able to get time on a Cray XC with an Ares interconnect, but I never have occasion to use it, so I don’t know if you still can. They’ve been aggressively hiring top-notch HPC people for a while.
You're disgusted by volunteer financing of Ukraine's defense against the Russian invasion? That is either ignorant or evil, IMO.

The $3500 supposedly formally paid for logistical supplies, not the shell (it should be cheaper than that), but does the distinction really matter?
I used that back when it was current. It was an impressive bit of kit, but TBH, what QNX did on a single floppy made -- and more than ever still makes -- Linux look very very bloated.

Tom's Root-and-Boot just about got you a working command line on one floppy.

For comparison, using FOSS equivalents, QNX got that, plus all of X.org, plus Firefox, onto one floppy.

And if you used the status bar to find your IP address, and went to another machine and put that in a browser's URL box, you found that as well as all that, it was also a live webserver, serving live performance stats to the Internet.

So, kernel, busybox, X server, desktop, web browser AND WEB SERVER on one (very heavily compressed) floppy.

Sadly, the genius who built it died young. Cancer. Fsck cancer.

https://openqnx.com/node/298
The population of the largest island, Iturup, at least is majority ethnic Ukranian. Arguably Ukraine has a greater claim than Russia to be the successor of the USSR's holding there, and it wouldn't be at all surprising if a referendum held today chose Japanese administration over Russian.
> Jobs was good at echoing the wisdom of people smarter than him, but not so great at using those principles to fix his own life.

This applies to most people.
Robert Jordan was notoriously bad at writing women and the... physical descriptions are pretty bad, but to his credit, women in his books are not second class citizens. Some of the most interesting, influential and powerful characters are women.
I started working for a company that was using this tracking technology. Struck me as an invasion of privacy, so I discontinued their of the tool. There are other solutions out there for getting useful into on sticking points, crawl depth, etc. that don't expose individual user behavior.
For instance, an exponential decay is a bad model of a stepwise function. So, while everything is a computer, not everything computes what you want it to.

For purposes of human life, only a device easy to control is a computer.
That’s because bureaucrats are threatened by people who actually know how to make things.
It would still help if you could give a specific example of a topic you want to study that way. I think a book that includes a serious axiomatic approach is unlikely to include a "tool" approach, and vice versa. If you can name a specific topic, people here might be able to recommend specific books. I'd say if you want an applied approach, then just go for that. If you also want an axiomatic approach, do that afterwards, from a different book.
Experts Weigh in on the State of SRE
Businesses die of indigestion more often then starvation.
Being strongarmed into giving up your phone number is as much "for your security" as manifest v3 is "for your privacy". They could care less that you have 2FA enabled, they want that phone number. Many people never change their numbers and enter them into hundreds of sites, creating a wealth of data which can then be profitably correlated with your email content, google account activity, searches, location, etc.
for emulation a midrange graphics card and a i7 or i9 intel chip with high single core speed from the last few years is best - you can get something second hand for very cheap that will perform emulation as well as the ryzen 4 4090
To hint at what I fundamentally mean by model I'd be interested to see a symbolic model of vision. E.g. take 5125123 numbers and give them names and then follow some rules to arrive at "cat" or "dog". Image recognition, I think, is demonstrably not symbolic. Likewise most transformations from the real world to model state are not symbolic. Within model state, symbolism may have uses but Church-Turing claims that it isn't necessary.

It seems clear to me that if the CLIP-like part of Imagen or Stable Diffusion can take an image made of pixels and yield "cat" and similarly take "dog" and produce a 3D neural radiance field that we can light just like any other 3D model and recognize as a dog then there must be an accurate and useful model of both how vision works and what dogs look like and the English relationship between those two things inside the machine.

I also wish Gary Marcus was replying to Google's Minerva paper instead of GPT-3. The ability to answer multi-step symbolic problems is basically here. https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/06/minerva-solving-quantitati...

I'd also note that decades of attempts at automated theorem proving with symbolic systems haven't yielded similarly impressive results. Now we have deep learning models helping with proof search.
Look up "Amor Fati". Regret is not an acceptable approach to life. You can only love what you've done so far. Obviously you can not change anything from the past so regret does not provide any value.
Nope. Been burned by Wikipedia editors being territorial and deletionist way too many times.
It's just another proprietary network with its own gatekeepers. I don't see what the fundamental change is here over something like SWIFT.

It may only be temporarily competitive as it tries to penetrate the market. Once it reaches a sufficient enough market share, they will be able to hike up fees and disregard users like the systems that came before it.
The frequentist test for this attempts to see what would happen with a variety of test designs using likelihood ratio and similar statistical tests. Relaxing it you end up with Generalized Method of Moments family.

A Bayesian would attempt to compute the Bayes factor using approximate Bayesian computation resulting in more or less the same thing. You end up with various information criteria.

Both approaches then converge in using Monte Carlo techniques to evaluate the features of the whole experimental setup using simulated data.

All of the above approaches replace the problem of choosing the test/design based on data by the researcher with one by a data driven algorithm with known properties.
There's really not that much shared between Power and z cores.
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I don't think there is anything today that comes close to equalling it, and very definitely nothing that can improve on it.
Comparing numbers between television in the 1960s and modern internet multimedia and then extrapolating that to a comparison of relative cultural impact is disingenuous. Baby Shark is only as viewed as it is because it's an easy way for people to distract their kids.

I don't agree that shared media experiences typically carried more depth and meaning pre-internet than today. You're picking out exceptions to the norm, but the mainstream is always mediocre. Most people weren't watching intellectually stimulating, complex, thought provoking works of art or listening to symphonies - people who watched television were literally referred to as "couch potatoes."

And if there were an event comparable to the Moon landing in cultural import (the closest I can think of in modern memory is COVID) it would of course be all over the internet, rather than localized on a single platform, to be compared to viewing on a single television channel.
I arrived at my base in Germany about 3 weeks after Able Archer 83. By that time the US had realized that the Soviets had had a knee-jerk reaction to the exercise and we were gently winding things down. We still had armored vehicles covering the gates for a few days though.

What I have heard is that the Soviets reacted as badly as they did because the exercise replicated what they would have done: Mobilize troops and hold an exercise in a neighboring country, have senior political leadership go into bunkers and be involved in war decisions. Broadcast distracting information while you then attack. (Recent events in Ukraine should make this sound familiar.)

Afterwards, the US never used actual leaders in an exercise like this ever again. We made sure that senior leaders were visible somewhere in public, and used stand-ins to role-play National Command Authority (President, Chairman of the Joint-Chiefs, Speaker of the House, etc.)

I didn't tell my mom about this until the other year. No reason to worry her.
Love this stuff! What is the tablet that is standing to the left of the Mac?

Shameless plug to a blog post I wrote a while back, where I sung the praise of my old laptop that is running Windows 3.1.

https://iskender.ee/2022/05/16/Laptop-1992.html
Either you universally believe in certain principles and values, living up to them or you have to live with the fact that people will call out your double-standards / opportunism.
Mostly HN and some newsletters:

- https://aiweekly.co/

- https://tldr.tech/
keep sending emails and see test features users are interested in via clicks or registrations.
... or don't write how your HTML is supposed to look from JavaScript.

I like Angular's approach the best. You have an HTML file, a SCSS file, and a TS file. The TS file is essentially your model and handles all the thinking. HTML/SCSS are kept declarative like god intended.
Same banks that make, literally, billions off overdraft and other fees? Shocking.
> Walls that are paper thin with no insulation so you can listen in on your neighbor's phone calls.

These sound like wild assumptions with nothing to back them up.

https://basc.pnnl.gov/code-compliance/air-sealing-and-insula...

"Many builders are insulating these walls fully for sound proofing purposes per the International Building Code (IBC), Section 1207, Sound Transmission walls, partitions, and floor/ceiling assemblies separating dwelling units from each other must have a sound transmission class (STC) of not less than 50 for airborne noise when tested in accordance with ASTM E 90."

Also the comment I replied to said 'americans' not 'in america'
More like "Apple ‘notebooks’ become ‘laptops’ in completely trivial Mac branding change"

I suppose it could be that they want to reserve the word "notebook" to use in reference to ipad-related products though.
Also, do not forget about the Ukrainian meme forces[0] & North Atlantic Fellas Organization[1] on Twitter, Reddit, etc.[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]

[0] https://war.ukraine.ua/country-and-society/ukrainian-meme-fo...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFO_(group)

[2] https://www.cyberscoop.com/nafo-fellas-and-their-memes-ukrai...

[3] https://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-ukrainian-meme-war-...

[4] https://www.coffeeordie.com/ukraine-war-memes

[5] https://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-ukrainian-meme-war-...

[6] https://www.boredpanda.com/ukraine-support-memes/

[7] https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/9/6/ukraine-latest-w...

[8] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/18/ukraine-war-...

[9] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/world/middleeast/ukraine-...

[10] http://www.zhu.edu.ua/journal_cpu/index.php/der_sc/article/v...

[11] https://mwi.usma.edu/on-trolls-and-nuclear-signaling-strateg...

[12] https://www.politico.eu/article/nafo-doge-shiba-russia-putin...
Lots of people have their favorite cheap electric guitar, but mine is definitely the Tagima TW-55 (not the woodstock series, has to be TW). Can often find it used for ~$180
> why would it be hard or illogical for the NSA to setup an innocent seeming "good guys" radiating non-profit chat service that is supposedly secure

Let's also investigate the inverse side of this. Supposing Signal works, would the NSA not instead want to launch a disinformation campaign against them and exaggerate downsides? I think such action would also be easy and logical.

But I don't think that's happening, to be clear. I think people are just passionate about the subjects and with passion people are often excessively head strong (this is something disinformation campaigns prey on btw. They often play both sides because chaos is often more effective pushing a singular narrative. See "malinformation").

> Oh, and Signal is based in the US. That fact by itself pretty much means all bets are off when it comes to security or anonymity.

(anonymity. FTFY) I do agree that being US based comes with certain risks, but the US is not authoritarian and is unable to force companies to collect data. This is enough to raise suspicion but not enough to be damning. The suspicion is also reduced given that Signal publicly discloses subpoenas that they receive. Insiders like Snowden also advocate for its usage as well as many major players in the security community, globally. One can come back and suggest that this is disinformation but that increases the complexity of the honeypot campaign and as history has shown, complex conspiracies unravel quickly. Especially in high profile cases, and since Signal is universally suggested as the gold standard by the security community, I'd argue it is pretty high profile.

The problem with conspiracy theories is that it is easy to turn evidence against a conspiracy into part of the plot and coverup. But this just exponentially increases complexity. And anyone that has worked for or with the government will gladly tell you how ineffective they are (often in the form of complaints). After all, two can keep a secret only if one of them is dead. The fact that it is difficult to prove (and people have been trying for over a decade without yielding any more evidence than you have put here, +RadioFreeAsia) is actually evidence to the contrary. More should have been uncovered if there was a real plot (especially considering how complex it would need to be).
And if the US thinks it can make a nuclear response without a larger nuclear response...
Remember the mindset of Putin. "What good is a world without Russia?" It's better to have no world than a world where Russia is not a central player.
> I have long wondered... How was it possible to construct this? Is it just extreme self-discipline, omitting everything not strictly essential? Or is there an underlying formalism that makes a very small amount of code do a very great deal?

Two really good designers, Gorden Bell and Dan Dodge.

Here are the key design decisions:

- All the kernel does is manage memory, dispatch processes, handle interrupts and timers, and pass messages from process to process. No device drivers, no file systems. Everything else is in user space. The kernel is small (about 60KB of code in some versions), very well written, and rarely changed. It's so small, so heavily used, and so rarely changed that it reached an essentially bug-free state.

- All non-preemptable kernel operations have fixed upper bounds on how long they can take, worst case. That upper bound is in microseconds. That's why real time works.

- Message passing and CPU scheduling are integrated and very efficient. In particular, the case of sending a message to another process and getting a reply message is not only low overhead, but does not involve losing your turn for the CPU. The two systems are designed together. So calling another process can be used almost like a subroutine call. Most interprocess message systems botch this, and calling another process means two or more trips through the CPU scheduler and may cost you your CPU quantum. Which means a "microservice architecture" runs too slowly. Which means people work around making interprocess calls, putting too much in one process.

- There is no swapping or paging. This is essential for real-time. It simplifies other things. Message passing is copying user space to user space, and can't page fault. The destination area has to be in memory. So there is no need for kernel data buffers.

- At boot time, the boot program loads the kernel, a user space utility process called "proc", plus any user space drivers or programs you want at startup. That's how it gets started with no device drivers in the kernel. More drivers can be loaded later, if desired. Having a file system or disk is optional. The minimal configuration is a CPU, boot ROM with the software, and memory. That's a common configuration for small embedded systems.

- File systems, networking, and drivers are all user programs. Some have the privilege of writing to device space. The kernel turns interrupts into interprocess messages.

It's a nice architecture for small and medium real-time systems that have to Just Work.
I tried selecting a particular date. I couldn't. The selection (and the resulting date value in the text column) remained in the previous year.

I refreshed the browser and came back, now I can select the date.
Well the contrary cases are what the recent anthro/archaeological research is showing. And this is for societies that are well beyond Dunbar’s number, after discovery of agriculture. You have a capitalist realist viewpoint it seems and are behind on anthropology
Personally I'm torn on this. And I'm not the only one. On the one hand, this means basically killing people. On the other hand, they are protecting their homeland, their homes, their families. So as a compromise I try to donate for civilian causes, not military.

Although, frankly, I sometimes do wonder if I'm not a hypocrite. I want to defend the image of myself as a person who would never support killing. But in this case, it means innocent people will die attacked by Russians if everybody has the same outlook like me. So I have this doubt, and I don't believe is an easy decision for anyone in the West who really understands the consequences.
That's Weird, I've never had to do that. I can just login to Google with my username/password. If it doesn't recognize the device it just pushes a notification of the sign in to my phone