skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
edit: My argument was based on the naive implementation of matrix-vector multiplication. But, as explained here [1]
there are more efficient algorithms for small-ish matrices that flip this around. For bigger matrices it remains better to do the efficient algorithm block-wise.

There is an argument that, for 'obviousness', the naive method matter more than the efficient one. But that gets tenuous. Especially because with some exceptions (finite fields, ugh) people are probably much better of using libraries for matrix operations, rather than writing their own.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33359654
There's a reason I keep harping on the profit motive. Such personal decisions aren't made in a vacuum.

Should people be allowed to try cyanide-containing apricot kernels to treat their cancers too? Maybe?

But don't you agree then that we should at least do something about those who make tons of money on such unproven cures, and spend a good chunk on it too convince more desperate people to give it a try?
Hi,
It's said that the father of LISP, John McCarthy, lamented the W3C's choice of SGML as the basis for HTML : « An environment where the markup, styling and scripting is all s-expression based would be nice. »

The {lambda way} project could be an answer, small and simple : http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/

What do you think of this answer?
> It seems like the problem is that the author has a moral objection to paying bribes

Duh?
I think the comment above argues that every change that happens in nature is a destruction of what was there before, and that that's an inherently natural process, whether humans are responsible or not.
Ok, so rather than writing a comment where you shit on the people who work at Apple and actually do care about security, I suggest you actually read the article. Because the article lists those safe languages, and states why the existence of those safe languages does not solve security.
There are two ways to price a stock:

1. On the basis of how much you expect a bigger sucker than yourself to pay for it.

2. On the basis of yield on your investment, aka dividend / share multiplied by some "reasonable" number, e.g. 15 which implies 7% interest rates.

Since there seems to be fewer gullible investors, on the basis of dividend earnings, Meta is worth exactly zero. Time to pay a dividend or burn the cash. Which to even gullible investors looks bad.
It kind of pushed their own definition of what RISC is. They also confuse the definition of what a 16-bit computer is and ignore the many commercial successes in 16-bit minicomputers such as the Nova. It is clever to point out that the most useful definition of RISC is that it’s a tradeoff.

The point remains that a simplified ISA that’s easy to decode (and, more recently) implement dynamic reordering, will always have an edge by freeing up resources that can be dedicated to execution of the workload rather than housekeeping (as in resolving all inter-instruction dependencies).

OTOH, going too far in that direction gives you VLIW, which has proven itself to be a pain more often than not.
I don't see Africa in "Net sales by reportable segment"...
Nah, that's all for show. A perfectly fine camera can be made with a pinhole and some silver salt.
Redditor acquires decommissioned Netflix cache server with 262TB of storage
If you're talking about the industry, machine learning and data science projects are inherently experimental processes that rely on setting up quick feedback loops to analyze your data and see what works.

The ideal setup for that is the interpreted shell/compiled core approach that languages like Python have championed forever. Competitors to Python would be the likes of R, Lua, Ruby, Perl, Javascript; not C, C++ or Rust.

Why Python in particular? The answer is that it has an excellent scientific stack with Numpy, Scipy and Pandas.

R is very competitive for statistical work.

Julia is an interesting, if unproven, alternative.

Once you're done with your model, you write it in C (or whatever) for production, but that's a more traditional software engineering project.

In academia, the incentives are such that most people don't really care about code. Their careers depend on them publishing papers, so that's where they're going to focus their efforts. Code is a way to prove a point for publication, not a product that needs to generate value.

> a lot of things are popularly rewritten in Rust or Zig

Beware of the HN bubble. Rust and especially Zig are tiny, fringe players in the industry, regardless of their technological merits.
The time spend is the request for a bribe.. waiting 8h at a checkpoint or the local police station is the punishment for not paying up.
… but that is what Apple is doing?
Python 2 was an educational language adopted by academics and some minor parts of the software industry.

Python 3 is a software engineering and data science language, widely used by professionals.

The goals of pre3-python ("import this") have basically been abandoned for the sake of making a more usable seng. language.
I remember accessing SEBI, PWD records through google dorking. They are probably still live, haven't checked. I reported it to all the correct authorities, tried to get in touch with various organizations. To no avail.
Python using IPython:

import IPython
IPython.embed()

Or, using only the Python standard library:

import code
namespace = globals().copy()
namespace.update(locals())
code.interact("", None, namespace)
When I retired from photography a decade ago I dumped Nikon in favour Olympus (for its smaller size, 4/3 system). I wasn't fully happy and wanted to switch and buy Pentax but I only did that when I was robbed and lost my Olympus gear.
Or just issues with sugar. In a country with ~40% obesity there will be plenty of people who are happy to get a box of chocolates, eat it with great joy, and then spend a few hours in self-loathing because they really shouldn't have.

Surely it's bad enough having all the trashy sugary junk food on display at the supermarket check-out without the extra step of people actually buying it on your behalf...

See also people who give absurd quantities of candy to other peoples' kids and think that's great on the basis of the immediate reaction of joy...
"Yes, some manufacturers struggled to move from film to digital (Fuji, Olympus, and Pentax being notable)"

The Olympus Camedia C800 around 1995 was my first digital camera and webcam (new shot every 5 seconds so people could see if I'm at my desk or not)
Destroying the fun for others and wasting time I figure. I received no demands or anything like that.
I wouldn't consider the author to be the problem.
I love what Google does with it on the pixel phones. All of them take pictures exactly like how I see the scene and I love that
This happened in South Korea as well.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/skorea-broadb...
There’s a distinction to be made between a small customary bribe to an seriously underpaid state employee, and a larcenous bribe to a high official.
I saw AR glasses the other day (forget where) that looked almost normal, but were like $4000. The glasses are only half the issue, the other half is the CPU power required to drive them. How does a 4lb fanny pack look and feel?
The paperwork is an attempt(usually misguided) to stop the corruption. The idea is that if you have to account and document all actions you will have act in the proscribed manner and not in a way that benefits you.

This usually fails for the reason you posted. I am not really sure how you are supposed to stop corruption once it gets rooted in your society. It is a vile and subversive menace that turns every one into a criminal, preying on their fellow man. A very unpleasant environment to live in.

The best article on corruption I have seen.(if you have time for an hour long power point presentation )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9i47sgi-V4
> This would be specifically for tracking cookies (“cookie pop-ups”).

Those pop-ups are not "specific for tracking cookies". Because the issue, and the law, isn't about "tracking cookies". The issue, and the law, is about user data.

So, they will replace the question about cookies with question about localStorage. Then about indexed db. Then about storing data in service workers.

Why do you keep focusing on the one issue that is 100% the result of industries actions and pretending it's about the law?

> Consent for legitimate reasons is given, for example, when you sign up for an account on a website or conduct some sort of transaction with a business.

Again. Even when you sign up for something, for some of the data consent isn't required. And for other data consent is required.

I give up. I cannot put it in simpler terms that I already have.
It seems another metaphor to describe "pace layering" in complex system.
Here's an article I always liked on the topic and inspired me years ago: https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-brand/release/2

I often ended up applying this simple principle to software, especially design systems, e.g. in atomic design where atom, molecules, organism, etc. Can be developed as layers with different pace of change and optimized around it.

I'm curious if anybody knows where the concept came from originally. Was there already something like that in Greek philosophy, or was introduced with the study of complex systems? Or maybe it was indeed from architecture?
If you want a potential alternative to the security research device from Apple look into Corellium[1] - startup that emulates iOS on ARM64 server hardware, sued by Apple for copyright claims and survived.

It is a paid product (eg $x/hr cloud billing). Supposedly easier to obtain than the security research device.

[1] https://corellium.com
> you don't need to set up a company in india to do business

You do if you want outside investment. Or if you want professional management. Or if you want to seriously engage in international business.

What you say is true: most businesses are sole proprietorships. But that's a significant and manufactured barrier to growth.
What has worked for me is “priming” my subconscious with a place/person/thing I want to incorporate in my dream, and then finding the nearest door in the current dream I’m in (doesn’t always work, sometimes I gain lucidity in an environment that does not have many doors, but often times my dreams are inside (aside: I think it’s easier for the subconscious to generate dreamscapes that are bounded)). When I open the door I can change environments to what I “primed” with a low risk (but not zero) of “popping” out of the dream (which for me involves the entire dreamscape going completely and infinitely white/blank).
Avoid games with IAPs in them. Free or not. The second an IAP shows up it twists the design towards "engagement".

MMOs are also a problem even if they have no IAPs.

There's a nasty feedback loop here. Non gamer parent won't pay upfront for a non predatory game for the kids. Kids will install free to play crap. Parent will think all the games are like that.
>Why? I have no idea!

Legacy of British civil service and bureaucracy ?
Google Agrees to Compliance Reforms in DOJ Settlement
> Blockquotes. Are people really typing > before each paragraph? No, they’re using an editor.

Yes they are, and no they aren't, respectively.
You are assuming that there are no families that can barely afford what they need and really can't afford the waste or can afford the price increase.

Fasting is healthy but I'd rather it not be done because you can't afford to eat.
There aren't as many hungry kids as there used to be. There aren't as many hungry adults, either, for that matter. Global hunger is declining.

I am rather more worried about hungry kids than dead cows.

I also don't care if people can subsist solely on vegetables; subsistence is not our aim -- we can live in appalling conditions, but we got out of those circumstances deliberately. It took a great deal of time and hard work in miserable environments to do so.

That's why there's so much meat now, we were tired of being hungry and we built a better world.

We have build such a peaceful, prosperous world now that large numbers of people are worried about the emotional state of our meat. They're not worried about hunger or violence or poverty because, for enormous numbers of people, those issues are gone. So now we worry about chicken burritos.
Any terms I can search to understand these advances? I seemed to remember learning that boring old electrolysis was around 30% efficient!
Can it be under Apache licence when YOLO is GPL?
And not just for the game itself but for creating the world in the first place. Often you need radically different data structures for the creation and editing of the data as compared to what you need for running the game on player's machines.
News articles often make mistakes.
Markdown is the worst way to write HTML except for all the rest.
Can't you just hand that case to your national CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) and let them handle this? After all, they may have more effective instruments against corporations.
This comparison is not perfect for various reasons. For example, the average firing rate of neurons is pretty low. Most attempts at comparison are done using FLOPS, e.g. https://www.openphilanthropy.org/research/how-much-computati.... You may prefer this comparison using Traversed Edges Per Second: https://aiimpacts.org/brain-performance-in-teps/.
Brazil Election Disinformation Concerns Go Beyond WhatsApp
Twitter and Facebook should join Myspace - something shiny and new will always come along (TikTok).
For anyone who doesn't share OP's world view and might be interested in working on the latest, greatest stabilized imaging systems and augmented reality solutions to support hollywood, broadcast TV, (yes) cops, firefighting, animal conservation, methane leak detection and more, we are hiring computer vision, software, and electrical engineers; DM me and check out where this tech is now:

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https://shotover.com/products/m2
> Moving parts (autofocus!) will dominate the energy budget,

I've never noticed a difference between AF and MF lenses in battery use. What matters most by far is how long the EVF/display is on. Distant second is how many shots you actually take.
It would be funny if Apple start to advertise like tabloids and spam emails. Would totally drive all the silicon valley hipster crazy.
There is no difference between code and data. Data is code. Data is code that retains its identity.
I liked this article… but… it’s agricultural land. You can’t buy agricultural land unless you are a farmer and you can’t build non-ag buildings on ag land. This is a national food security issue. This is common in many countries.
Go handles concurrency via goroutines whereas in Zig... I couldn't find any available information. All it says in their docs "it's an area of active research".
... and instead using binge watching abysmal Netflix series as a coping mechanism for stress because it's more 'mainstream'? :)
Unfortunately you need to incorporate if you want to raise venture funding. You'll also struggle to get taken seriously by good tech talent if you try to hire them as a proprietorship.
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We're looking for a top-notch Java developer who will shape the technology of the world’s top content recommendation network.

A day in the life

Each team is highly autonomous and owns its own services. You develop, you deploy, you wake up at night when your code breaks.
Production code must be safeguarded by unit and integration tests, pass static analysis, go through a gradual deployment process and be automatically monitored for business KPIs. Quality is king.
Peer review through pull requests is our bread and butter.
Use the right tool for the job. Don’t blindly follow the latest fad, but always be on the lookout for what’s out there.
We require thousands of servers across multiple data centers to serve our traffic.
10k Kubernetes pods.
Many dozens of services and data stores are accessed for each served request. We have a Netflix-style micro services architecture where all pieces must fit together to deliver on performance and correctness.

What you’ll bring

B.Sc. in Computer Science / Engineering or related degrees
3+ Years of proven industry experience in Java (or similar, e.g. C#) software development; Scala/Kotlin experience is a plus
Experience in developing large-scale data-intensive systems, preferably Web systems
Experience in bringing advanced algorithms to production
You have excellent knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing at scale, and operations.
You have great communication and interpersonal skills, and you love to collaborate with your team and share all the different knowledge you’ve accumulated with others.
Familiarity with one or more of the following is an advantage: Spring, Hadoop, Hive, Cassandra, Kafka, Spark, ElasticSearch

Skills/Experience will be tested in the early stages of the recruitment process.

More than snacks!

Office and home hybrid working - make your home working space productive and comfortable with our WFH budget!
Parking reimbursement
Be part of our success with our equity program
Wellbeing benefits like sports allowance,
Expand your toolbox with our mentorship program and internal learning tools
Pet friendly office
Happy hours & Free lunch once a week that is cooked by renowned chef
…and of course a fully stocked kitchen!
Please submit your CV in english
...and an effectively unlimited labour supply
https://archive.ph/RQgjG
Meat has lots of Tryptophan and Tyrosine which are the precursors for serotonin and dopamine, the molecules most anti-depressents aim to modulate.

I am a layman, so not an expert, and I don't have a source for you for causality, but it sounds plausible to me.
History has countless examples of companies collapsing on their own size, even outside of tech. There is nothing special about Zuck or META that would prevent that from "just happening", unless they figure out the right structure to make it work.
> a distinction to be made between a small customary bribe to an seriously underpaid state employee, and a larcenous bribe to a high official

Not really. If normalized, it's part of their expected compensation package. Practically speaking, I think I'd suck it up and pay the bribe in the author's position. But I'd know I was doing wrong.
I used to have my first blog ever registered through duck dns. Reused an old hp desktop a friend of mine had found for me at the nearest waste collection facility as server. A golden era for me.
The _moment_ there's an option, there will be a Facebook store, and it will have things like that vpn app that routed all traffic through Facebook so that they could do analytics on it. There will be cross app device/user level identifiers.

Facebook will drive something like 10-50% of people to add their store if it's the only way they can have their insta/whatsapp/fb/whateverthehellelse.

Google will probably roll out a play store as well. I don't think they're going to be as overtly evil, but they're still going to be be going around Apple's privacy protections if at all possible. (Why not? I get the feeling that FB is more on the back foot with metaverse and other flat/failing metrics, and google has more to drive people to them between Chrome, Android, and GApps.)

And others? There will probably be at least 10-100 app stores, and I would be shocked if there wasn't one that attempted to do things like a hidden RAT/Rootkit. I'm not saying that the app store review process solves a malware problem, but it is one layer in a defense in depth. It certainly has kept my extended family's devices in better shape than their computers, which I've had to clean occasionally.

This is a version of good of the many vs good of the few (Sorry, been looking at Star Trek lately). On the one hand, there are companies that would like a bigger hit of the pie, + a fringe of people who have enough knowledge and skills to manage to manually setup a secure phone with alternative/os/apps. On the other, there's Apple and a vast swath of humanity where the iPhone/iPad is probably the most secure computing device they can hope to own, and is yet still useful.
Are you kidding? At this point the internet might not even be around for much longer.
This is from Musk declaring he won't join the board, after reasonable feedback from Agrawal in support of Musk joining:

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1575598387335901190
> Because both of us can coexist without forcing the other out of the room.

So can't you just, like, not be an Apple customer?

Your own solution to another commenter not wanting alternative apps stores is to "just not use it". So why don't you "just not use" iOS?

People who like the Apple Way can continue to buy Apple products. People who don't can continue enjoying products from Apple's competitors. No need to force anyone out of the room.
> Markdown will never get beyond developers.

In my experience it works pretty well for non-developers. I added it to our email client years ago as an alternative to the WYSIWYG editor, and quite a few non-developers liked and used it. Also see Reddit, which uses it. While the Reddit userbase does skew somewhat towards the tech-y, there's also loads of non-tech folks on there.

As for the larger point: do I have a great love of Markdown? Not really; I think some of the other similar formats are better. But it works "well enough", and switching syntaxes is hard so I "just use Markdown" . I hate the "GitHub flavoured Markdown" with a passion though; the way it deals with newlines is just fundamentally broken and it's inconsistent even on GitHub where some things are GFM and some things are not (which they need to be, because GFM is fundamentally broken) leading to sillyness like copy/pasting text from one part of GitHub to another part ending up with badly formatted text.

Either way, whatever the faults of Markdown may be, I sure as hell prefer it over any HTML subset. Writing <i>emphasis</i> is just too distracting compared to *emphasis*; there's few things I dislike more than having to focus on the presentation as I'm writing something.
Hey, I'm a yubikey user. I even have two as they recommend to have a backup. But I still can't get over myself to trust a digital piece of hardware that it will not fail me. And I still want to have some backup code printed or TOTP token (which itself is backed up) along with yubikey etc.
The author is mixing up two different things: the concept of markdown (text with a little bit of light formatting mixed into it with easy-on-the-eye syntax) and the existing specification of Markdown-with-a-capital-M (and its flow on effects).

The concept is fine. The author may not want to manually write markdown, and may think that no one else wants to either, but they are wrong. It's very very useful to have a way to store formatted text without the horrors of full blown HTML. You can stick some markdown in a CMS database, render it on a webpage, and get the most common formatting: links, bullet points, bold. Great.

On the actual spec/implementation: yes, it's a complete disaster. Especially the way it is kind of mapped on to HTML, so you get weird things like writing "1. blah; \ 1. blah" makes a numbered list with a 1 and a 2.

But mixed in there, the author seems to have some weird assumptions that people are using Markdown primarily to write documentation, and this is somehow Markdown's fault. I genuinely don't understand this, or their point 13 "It’s 2022, we shouldn’t be using ascii-text to write documents."

Clearly we do need something like Markdown, but the existing attempts (including Mediawiki's "wikitext") all reveal that design a markdown syntax looks easy, but is actually extremely difficult to do well.