skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or another thing that just came up on HN today...

"Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year"

https://hbr.org/2016/09/excess-management-is-costing-the-us-...

> Here’s the arithmetic. According to our analysis of occupational data provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 23.8 million managers, first-line supervisors, and administrators in the American workforce in 2014. (This figure includes both the public and private sectors but does not include individuals in IT-related functions.) That works out to one manager and administrator for every 4.7 employees. Overall, managers and administrators made up 17.6% of the U.S. workforce and received nearly 30% of total compensation.
You wouldn’t get fired at Rutgers:

https://torontosun.com/life/rutgers-professor-calls-white-pe...

Or Drexel:

https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/health/drexel-professor-white...

Or Yale:

https://news.yahoo.com/psychiatrist-delivered-lecture-yale-d...

But say things that are embarrassing yet true of minority students at Georgetown, and you’ll be fired and disowned by the college in under 48 hours:

https://news.yahoo.com/georgetown-law-professor-fired-over-1...
> pretty much nobody believes that the laws in the Old Testament should be applied or have any relevance nowadays.

The Ten Commandments are in the Old Testament, and there are lots of conservative Christians in the U.S. trying to get them posted in courtrooms and public school classrooms.
Possibly because Samsung has a terrible history of making products that only work on one version of their product.
My point was more that the promise of AI isn't better BSing, if I wanted that I'd go to the pub.

The promise of AI is better answers, more correct answers, answers that are easier to get. It's supposed to enhance what computers can do, and complement their strengths, not undermine those strengths.

A computer program that gives an incorrect answer is buggy. Why should AI be held to a different standard?
Yeah. In the long run we always lose to entropy too. Life is about what happens before living is no longer possible so we may as well jump as high as we can. At least someone gets to enjoy themselves.
This a rather broad question, one may as well ask 'Are locks secure?' or even 'Are computers secure?'.

I'm not hugely convinced the open licensing of the ISA enables better security. Computer architecture and computer security researchers have worked with closed licensing ISAs for years and it hasn't stopped them finding issues.

Open silicon on the other hand does form a good basis for secure design though one must not make the mistake that open design inherently provides better security. Rather it's more about providing trust and provenance (along with a bunch of other collateral) so design users can have confidence in the security.

Like many RISC-V articles this one sadly freely mixes open ISA licensing with open design and they are not the same!
The timeline presented in the article is about 80 years of trajectory. Software appears to be following the same pattern through a more condensed timeline.
I did not follow the events closely, but it seems that one guy, not particularly involved in the development, took charge of the repo and the website and essentially locked it from all the core developers. The story is told here, very interesting read!

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-wild-events-that-nearly-t...
I doubt that you'll get people to stop driving by simply building more public transportation, even if that was possible (it's often not because new tunnels are incredibly expensive and it's hard to fit new train lines into existing cities).

A big issue with public transportation is other people. You don't have the criminally minded youth in your personal car, you don't have a homeless guy in your car, you don't have a mother on her phone while her children are crying at full volume while you're in your car.

And I'm not a car-enthusiast. I don't have a car, I take my bike pretty much everywhere < 10km. But if worked in the city, I'd buy a car, even if it took longer, because I wouldn't want to ride the train each day with lots of people who haven't learned how to behave when they share space with others.
Most Jews and Christians interpret this text as prohibiting the creating and worshipping of idols, not of prohibiting images in general. As long as it's not being directly worshipped, or being created for that purpose, you're fine. As always for any text, it's important to read the text before and after it. I think its context makes it clear that the text is addressing just idols.

As evidence, consider the vast number of practicing Jews and Christians who were or are artists. Also consider the vast number of churches which have artwork (like stained glass and statues).
Easy - because it’s a luxury endeavor.
Could work in reverse, too. If you don’t like a particular BitTorrent indexer, submit enough torrents to pass that threshold and then take a screenshot.
I think folks prefer to talk about themselves naturally rather than answer pre-scripted shallow end questions.

Honesty I might even get bored and bail on the date if it'd been a reasonable amount of time (1+ hour) to know it wasn't going anywhere beyond a me pub quiz. There's an entire world going on in here, stop gleaning useful information and start conversing! I'm not an NPC and this ain't a dialogue tree!

The picture in my head is that you're running through the questions without injecting any real conversation in there so I could be way off. I'm also imagining they left not knowing a thing about you haha

Tbh a "hot or not" question would be the end of the date for me mentally anyway unless things really picked up from there. Reducing an entire person to a boolean is unstimulating and kinda gross lol. I think you need to at least A/B test the questions.
I have difficulty following some of the points made in that article.

1. I always thought that common vulnerabilities like Spectre were a problem with implementation (a certain way to do speculative execution) rather than with the ISA. How is RISC-V ISA supposed to solve these kind of issues?

2. I do not understand how openness of RISC-V makes it easier to find bugs in the ISA. For example, ARM ISA is fully described in a publicly available documents. What is stopping a security researcher from analysing the ARM specification and pointing out issues at the ISA level? Or do they mean that it's easier to analyse open-sources RISC-V implementations rather than ISA spec?
Hmm... Looks like sdl2-config is deprecated and will be removed for SDL3: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/6140
>... her faculty decided it was insufficient. So what would have been sufficient?

>That we can have a debate about, but some BS about "western values" and a strawman argument about "submitting" to "superstitions" is not even worth me caring about, ...

Difficult to have an argument about after the fact. "You are free to leave" seems to be the exact argument that was made, beyond that there is no argument that would have been sufficient. If that's not enough, it is because of superstition, for lack of a better word. And this caused a panic reaction. It would be superstition even if the sides were switched and Feedome of Speech were the deeply held, now insulted believe that would include for example showing religious imagery in class (often forbidden in school charters to create a neutral environment).

From what I read I guess that Freiheit der Lehre (freedom of lecturing) is fairly constrained and lecturers are generally treated not with the same respect as a professor for whom they work. So it is to some a degree a systematic, institutional proble about powerstructures. Not worth the risk can become either you are not worth it, subjectively, or you are btter than that, optimistically speaking. Now I don't have a cromulent quote handy on collectively held believes. Suppose there is no mainstream concensus on that.
Started exploring machine learning in Python 6 months ago. Despite all the resources for learning Pandas I couldn't ever get to a point where it seemed coherent. It felt like a grab bag of tricks that accomplished various different jobs. Polars on the other hand felt really consistent and logical. Instead of having to google how to do so something in Pandas I could generally just figure out how to do it by combining the the simpler operations that Polars provides.
>There are several counterexamples to this idea, [...] where no competitors show up to eat their lunch.

Yes, I understand that and already provided several counterexamples. (Local restaurants and legacy railroads.)

>The poster child for this model, I think, is Zildjian: the biggest global maker of cymbals. They have been doing it for hundreds of years, never expanded outside of cymbals,

I actually own a bunch of Zildjian cymbals and saw several documentaries about the brothers' split into Zildjian and Sabian. In any case, Zildjian did expand into other products outside of cymbals. From wikipedia:

- In 2010, Zildjian acquired the Vic Firth Company and in 2018 acquired the Mike Balter Mallet company expanding the company's product offerings to include a full range of drumsticks and percussion mallets.

Zildjian also sells electronics like earphones[1]. The daughters that inherited Zildjian wants the company to grow. The growth has not been as fast as a tech startup but they do want it to grow.

But even without expanding product categories, the company can also expand markets to sell to. That was one of the motivations of Zildjian expanding their manufacturing into Canada as that export location allowed them to sell cheaper cymbals to Europe.

>This "grow or die" mentality is entirely a cultural phenomenon of modern western companies, and they can absolutely opt out of it.

Not just Western companies. Also East Asia companies in Japan like Canon, Sony, Toyota wanted growth. Korea companies like Samsung and LG. And Africa companies in Ethiopia and Nigeria want to grow too.

But I do agree with the point you were trying to make: if you happen to pick a business domain that doesn't have cutthroat competition, there's less pressure to grow to avoid dying.

RIM Blackberry didn't get into the drums cymbals business (slower moving competition of hammering round sheets of metal) but the phones business (fast iteration competition of electronics). They grew until the 2007 Apple iPhone made their keyboard phones and 2-way pagers mostly obsolete.

If you're an entrepreneur who believes the "growth treadmill" is insane and stupid, you need to pick the type of business that aligns with that philosophy!

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=zildjian+in+ear+monitors
No, not really. Those numbers are meaningless without knowing what the 100% represents.
Broadcast ads would certainly be compliant.

(...and if the advertiser pays for the spot, not per view, "fraud detection" becomes moot as well.)
> Real markets naturally tend towards monopolies

Would really like to see a credible source for this statement. There are industries where this happens (natural monopolies which is stuff like raw commodities, as competitors cannot mine at the place where you mine) but I don't think this holds in general at all.
Driving in Amsterdam is much worse than cycling there… But yes, planning a city to support safe cycling while also having decent public transportation is important, I guess. We just need less car centrism.
> which is "interesting" given the history of Moorish conquest of Iberia and the Treaty of Grenada and the Inquisition.

Why? In Spain either you converted to Christianism 500 years ago or you got expelled. Most of Moors which came into Iberia where from modern Morocco origin and a few from Algeria. And a lot of them have "interesting" beliefs, such as drinking in private.

Also, every Moroccan has satellite TV and for sure they follow the Spanish soccer Liga.

They are very aware of Flamenco in Andalusia and the tiling from toilet rooms, which are the same in Andalusia and Morocco, or pretty close. Thus, they get assimilated fast in Spain to the Western values.
Yes, a different story. The idea is that attaching information on "stack frames" might be useful for other things than stack traces.

The reference linked to is precise, but do not show the utility.

The rationale here gives a better quick introduction:
> https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-157/srfi-157.html

A more thorough treatment:
https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/dissertation-clements.p...
Yes because a DIY tool would have really taken off in the market.

And how would it have been better for Android not to exist?

And yes it’s not rocket science, that must be why all of the other open source mobile operating systems given away for free have been so successful. Who was going to fund it in your hypothetical world?

Yes and in a “proper anti trust world” a manufacturer who at the time had 1% of the mobile operating system would have come under scrutiny because of anti trust.

On stage during the launch, SJ said their goal was to capture 1% of the market in the first year. They barely reached that by the time the app store was launched.
Example:

Is the pytorch convention that one or zero should be used for mask values you do not want to attend to?

ChatGPT will give a correct answer and sample implementation, if the implementation is broken or uses a non resistant api then I just tell it what's wrong and ask it if it knows better. Getting to the correct answer has proven vastly more efficient than wading through google results.

Alternatively if I'm asking a conceptual question, chatgpt will give a few directions, I can ask to dive deeper on one, and then I ask it for a citation or google search terms to confirm the result. If I fail to confirm, I'll tell it that and see if it corrects.

If I have some code to write - and I'm feeling lazy. I can just tell chatgpt my requirements and ask it if it has any questions. I keep clarifying the questions until it says it can write the code ( which it usually does with 95% correctness for non trivial asks) - if you tell it where it made mistakes it will usually correct, and if not porting the code to a working state just means changing a few function calls which chat gpt hallucinated into existence.
there would be some crossover but I'd imagine they're two separate entities
> institutions act outraged over Florida's "don't say gay" bill

Were you upset of the 'don't say gay bill'? It's an example, not just of a single school acting to restrict academic freedom and freedom of expression in general, but the actual government enforcing this on ALL schools. That should be enraging to anyone who cares about freedom. A elementary school teacher was fired not too long ago for reading 'A need a new butt', because Christians found it offensive.

I think the decision to fire this guy was wrong, but this sort of action is hardly the sole domain of the 'left', the 'right' is doing plenty of censorship in schools all by itself.
I was surprised no one here mentioned cfront. My first job out of college I would look at the generated C code from my C++ source to see how it would convert some of the the C++ things into C, since I couldn't figure out how to do it myself.
It’s funny to me to see this juxtaposed with the arguments from the other side:

Society had long argued that animals were not intelligent, and that instincts were deterministic.
Please point out every comment I made in this thread and then point out which of those comments made “wild assumptions” and how they are “wild” based on the content of the comment being replied to.

Also, defamation does not mean what you think it means.
> I'm kinda surprise how the goalpost is shifted from "hey it's easy" to "go install iTunes if you're on windows". I having a website too much to ask really ?

Dunno where you got the idea that I somehow ‘shifted the goalpost’ from “it’s easy…”?

The poster I was answering said that Apple made it “impossible” to cancel subscriptions by using “dark patterns” and this somehow got transformed into some vanishingly tiny, special HN-case of a person running Linux who doesn’t have another Apple device and ‘cannot’ install iTunes with a teenager who’s phone they can never access to check subscriptions…

Oh well - the anti-Apple fanatics here will downvote absolutely anything, I guess - including anyone responding to utter garbage like this.
> I suspect they don't add an insurmountable level of difficulty to the problem.

Not for you, because to humans, moving, finding things, gathering information, formulating new goals, etc. are common tasks. And we generalized them to a point where we can integrate them with other tasks, even such which are completely abstract to our daily lives like a game where little stones are put on a grid.

But to a machine? Is it easier to make a machine play Go or make it find arbitrary objects while walking around? Is gathering information on its own difficult? Is goal formulation difficult? Is moving through arbitrary spaces difficult? And how difficult are all these tasks relative to one another?

> The claim here is not that algorithmic AI is very [very...] difficult; it is that it is impossible.

As I understood it, impossible in the current research paradigms.

And given the difference in complexity between the task of playing a board game, and playing a board game as I described above, this seems very likely.
Your lack of patience notwithstanding, it helps to take into consideration the fact that Islamic cultural practices vary from place to place. Saying that something is Persian doesn't fully capture the context. Sudanese Muslim culture is extremely conservative and until recently included laws against apostasy. The student who complained comes from this cultural background. Persians are generally from a different sect of Islam and have their own cultural complications.

Right or wrong, that's the context.

One fact of religious tolerance is that one person will inevitably view as sacred something that another person views as stupid. Drawing lines around certain practices is a challenging task for society as a whole. I personally don't believe that reducing everything to "fascism" is productive.

Your suggestion that people be deported to Iran or Afghanistan is among the most common racist retorts against Muslim people and indicates a lack of tolerance for what is in reality a fairly complicated issue that can only be solved by mutual respect.
Different civilisations have different views, values, and “red lines” to borrow a term from elsewhere. Some of these may make the civilisations incompatible. How anyone is surprised by this I do not know.
While the OPs comment is needlessly coarse, a charitable reading still gets at something important, something you evade addressing by repeating what are effectively tired liberal relativist platitudes about neutrality.

What this firing, and events like it, demonstrate is that there is a zero sum game where foundational beliefs are concerned. Here, the game is between liberalism and (this form of) Islam. If the professor isn’t punished, liberalism wins. If the teacher is punished, this Islam wins. You can’t accommodate both. An Achilles’ heel of liberalism is the notion that it can accommodate everyone, that liberalism is some kind of neutral absence of beliefs that can somehow accommodate fundamental differences and become the basis of a universal society of Man rooted in nothing. Vulgar consumerism has tried to fill that void, but appetite is no basis for a society, to put it mildly.
Here's an example of splicing being done in the field:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zN20ZVInfU

A friend lives in a rural area served by a cooperative not unlike this one, and he's got symmetric gigabit fiber. I'm in Charlotte and can't get AT&T or Google interested in lighting up my neighborhood...
Well it is actually, this tweet is advertising. Netflix is asserting that this is OK, saying the opposite somewhere else (EULA) means that this would be false advertising. Which IIRC would most likely get them in trouble with the FTC, and other bodies around the world who are there to protect consumers...
From what I've been told, you need to "change something" in order to get promoted at Google. Doesn't much matter what, as long as it's a visible change, presumably at least marginally improving things.

And that illustrates what releasing half-baked stuff and not caring much about tech debt is all about - visibility. This seems to be true across industries. Not releasing something, even if it's not ready gives impression of not doing enough, not delivering, always being late, etc. Releasing stuff shows you (the manager) are the person who delivers. If it's crap, you'll get even more resources to throw at fixing stuff that's already delivered. And you're the hero again (even if it's "techies" who did 80-hour weeks to make it happen).

This doesn't even break down too much in physical product world. "Deliver" could mean sales, first to the market, we'll add copy&paste in 3.0, and so on...
One of the very real sacrifices of becoming a parent is that your ability to just try out new stuff be it a job or a hobby becomes very limited.
Not just percussion, I know violon players who do (same brand), because violins are very close to their player's ear, and hearing is really important to violin players.
It's easy to confirm a fact, it's much harder to find a fact. Just ask chatgpt for a reference or what you should search for. This latter trick may not work after chatgpt becomes GA as blogspam outputs of chstgpt become common.
Ghost Ships - What happens when ships become data?
How much CO2 would be required to re-construct the road infrastructures of all the world to match the bike friendliness of the netherlands?
They specifically say Russian attempts at taking down Ukraine networks at the start of the war, didn't work too well.

The hype would make sense if existing networks got compromised/vaporized. But it doesn't look like that happened.
Unrelated to the content, but this is basically a perfect webpage.
Minecraft with multiplayer was launched only 3 weeks after the initial release.
If LGBTQ are not OK with their gender and the movement's figureheads being talked about in ways that are not within the rules of their safe spaces, they shouldn't be shoving it down everyone's throats constantly, and we should act as if they don't exist. You think being LGBTQ is important? I don't care, I can't talk about them anyway, so it won't be part of my world of ideas. This has been my position on this topic since I got scolded by some transgender person for not referring to them by their preferred pronouns.
PodRide: The Four Wheel EBike That Looks Like a Car
Once again… It accomplishes next to nothing.

And we certainly don’t want people driving 1000 miles instead of flying

If the electricity comes from coal or nuclear, no one would know the difference, except for the cleaner air
Here's what the professor had to say:

“I am showing you this image for a reason. And that is that there is this common thinking that Islam completely forbids, outright, any figurative depictions or any depictions of holy personages. While many Islamic cultures do strongly frown on this practice, I would like to remind you there is no one, monothetic Islamic culture,”

https://hamlineoracle.com/10750/news/who-belongs/