skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Violence is always abuse,

So any form of self defense is abuse? I'm not sure you've thought this through. Trivializing complex issues is the kneejerk response for many, but there isn't a simple moral line of thinking that billions of people have overlooked.
Well, thank you for pointing out that I’m wrong.

It doesn’t sting to be wrong, but the reality makes me feel like shit.
If there would be such right, it should be expresed in terms of error probabilities rather than a specific features like ECC.
Nope. Maybe it's just me.
You’re right, that would make no sense.

That’s why my reading is that he’s referring to the satellite photos, not airplane.
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Parents are always experimenting on their children. Faddish observational studies reflect the biases of the researchers.

Also, there are legal and cultural definitions of child abuse and, at least where I'm from, corporeal punishment isn't necessarily abusive.
While it would be definitely interesting, I am not sure it would be really helpful. This is really comparing apples and oranges here: you will have statistics for modes that are used in specific situations against more global statistics. Without more data (which would raise privacy questions), it will be hard to correct the numbers for the usage.
throwing out the baby (tesla) with the bathwater (twitter)
>violence performed by state actors or business with liabilities.

Which is permitted by their state laws.

>In my opinion, it’s child abuse

I agree.
Lots of CEOs don't have any technical skills directly related to what their company does, nor do they have an entrepreneur background.
> Industry Layoffs Are Hitting Black And Brown Workers Hardest

Pardon the tangent, but I've always thought "brown" was a derogatory term. Is it not?
No, I'm doing nothing of the sort. Try precisely the physical assault you're condoning for a child on a police officer. After they break your arm, they'll put you in a lockup, and the state will follow that up with a felony prosecution.

(I don't condone police violence either; I'm laying out a positive argument, not a normative one.)
Give it a rest, Bryan
> this is circular logic

Are you trying to get into a semantic debate because you don't want to do the philosophical one?

You're choosing words with a connotation you know are more extreme.

So you avoid basic words like slap and use a basic word like strike. For the connotation.

> Hitting colloquially gives the impression of a closed-fist.

You don't speak for all of society. So we're 1:1 right now. Let's take a poll.

When describing a fight, you see one person using open hand, one person using closed fist.

You wouldn't say one is slapping, one is hitting?

> what the hell is spanking then? you're not hitting the kid or hurting the kid apparently. is it just another term for a 'stern talking-to?'

It's the fear of the whole process. It's the next level after being sent into the corner or something.
I was on HN when the Boston bombings happened, trust me, you don't want to let random people on the Internet doxx other people, no matter how smart or righteous the people doing the doxxing think they are.
I mean we should get used to this kind of stuff and just accept that Agile means "corporate agile" and just call classical agile that. Just like how OOP today means "like c++" and not whatever smalltalk is.
> when I've heard CUDA lets you maintain the same data structure

Yes, that's possible with a combination of:

* Unified address space for pointers (and C++ references are basically pointers)

* Paged virtual memory on GPUs

... however, remember that many/most data structures which make sense on the CPU may not make sense to use on a GPU. And - NVIDIA very often implements and promotes certain features because they sound good in marketing, not because they're actually that useful. Or because they let you make a super-slow program into a meh-speed program, not because you would use them in a really-fast program.

> Compiling from source on rust is generally install Rustc, and do `cargo b --release`.

Well, I guess you may have a point, but let me still make a couple more arguments.

First, installing Rust (and related libraries/tools/whatever) is not trivial for people who don't know rust, and some OS distributions only offer you an older version of rust using their distro-package-managers. It's more likely that a C++ environment is already set up on someone's machine... TBH, though, if the distro is older, that might not be a perfect fit for what you're building.

Second C++ package managers becoming more popular, e.g. Conan: https://conan.io/ ; and that helps for when your OS distro doesn't cover you.

> Compiling someone else's code in C++ is... complicated.

This has actually improved a whole lot over the past... say, decade or so!

* Unzip/untar

* Configure the build with CMake (cross-platform build system generator - almost ubiquitous these days in C++ projects): `cmake -B build_dir/`

* Assuming you have the dependencies set up - it should "just build": `cmake --build build_dir`

* Run the thing from the build directory or install it with `cmake --install build_dir`.

... and if you want to tweak package options more easily than via the command-line, you can use a TUI (ccmake) or GUI (cmake-gui).

The problems start when you're missing dependencies, or if the author didn't make their code platform-independent / multi-platform.
Python's demise would be it's undeserving fate to be the world's best "glue" language.

The language needs to stand on it's own to be competitive in the long run.

Pure Python modules are much easier to install and keep updated.
> Edit: [linguistic relativism]

Their, they're and there are commonly misused, but that doesn't change what each means.
This is just unscientific nonsense.

> Memory manufacturers assure us that desktop RAM is so reliable that it doesn’t need ECC, that the probability of bit flip events is so low that it’s not worth the extra “cost” of ECC

Yea, and they are right.
n=1 I’ve certainly commented to see how well my arguments hold up.
Octave has been an excellent alternative to MatLab. I don't see, for a grad student, what you cannot do in Octave but can in MatLab. Not like MatLab is any cheap either.
Which stuff in DFW's essays did he make up?
Maybe a better solution would be "Find a new ISP"?
Sure, but having the design frozen is one reason why this may never happen in the first place, after all any kind of deviation and it is back to a recertification and that gets expensive quickly. No such thing as 'move fast and break stuff' in the nuclear power business, your design works or you're history.

And as you tacitly admit modular is revolutionary and there are a whole pile of challenges right there, having a single (large) point of failure may well be much easier to manage than several smaller ones, I never saw the modularity as the problem to solve, because existing (large) reactors are more often than not also created in sets to deal with downtime due to maintenance and overhauls.

Your third point is accurate, but also may end up being this projects downfall: by changing some core design parameters (such as size) new failure modes may well pop up. MTBF is mostly a function of the number of components, if you increase the number of components, even if the components are smaller you will probably still see more failures.

Four is true, but: here in NL we currently have the same situation and a new reactor was just greenlit (two, actually if I understood all of the material right). But this is a decade+ project and I suspect that given the fickle nature of these projects that there is a fair chance that it will eventually never see the light of day because of the dark horse of economics: a typical nuclear plant will generate power, but it will never generate any money. Without subsidies these are essentially dead ends.
it doesn't give a complete answer, but we might as well start by referencing pg's words himself: https://genius.com/Paul-graham-sam-altman-for-president-anno...
I was the CTO of a tech company where we needed to do layoffs or go out of business in a month. Layoffs extended our runway by 2 years if all else remained the same. It didn't last that long though. We got acquired a few months later and once debt was paid and the VCs got their cut there was just enough left to provide 3 months of severance to employees (my co-founder and I used our payouts to cover that - I walked away with less than $1k when all was said and done).

When I had to do layoffs, who got picked to be laid off was almost entirely random.

I say "almost" because before picking who would go, we first selected teams with redundant roles. For example, if a team had two mid-level backend engineers, they had redundant roles, and one of those two roles would be eliminated at random.

That was literally the only "thought" put into who got cut or not. Where we didn't have redundant roles, it was random. Directors got laid off, QA testers, facilities people. It was one of the worst experiences of my life.

Today I'm convinced that the only people safe when it comes to layoffs is the board of directors.

It doesn't go a long way to help people feel better, but if you're laid off, it's nearly 100% likely that it had nothing to do with your performance, whether or not you were "liked", tenure/seniority, or how much you got paid.
This was such a mass fail lol

I remember thinking Open AI was doomed the day that launched, since that was a clear signal to me that he had zero sense of product market fit.

Well, I was wrong. Good for him, seriously.
> That is the value in a proxy war...

The proxy war might be closer to Moscow than St Petersburg is. I don't think the Russians are fooled - the US just allocated more money than most countries GDP to this war, they may as well be directly at war. It isn't even a proxy war, the Russian army are suffering direct losses. Multiple Russian generals are dead [0]. Labelling it a proxy law is basically rules-lawyering in a way that is totally useless in the middle of an active war, the Russians are not going to react to this like it is some fight in the Afghan hinterlands or Somalia or something.

And this is in no way 'safer'. That is almost literally saying a Russian proxy war in Canada or Mexico would be less threatening to the US than a Russian missile base in Cuba. It is quite possible that when the dust settles we discover there was a 3:2 conversation where if it had been 2:3 humanity would be going extinct right now.

I'm not sure how people expect this war to end, but Ukraine being nuked is still an option if it goes badly enough for the Russian army. Unlikely, but war has a habit of becoming uncontrolled when the situation keeps escalating.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_generals_kille...
Like others, I don't rely on the streamed content being available in the future, so I hoard content.

I wrote a Python app that runs on a Raspberry Pi that continually plays the content that I have accrued. Some of the content I schedule, other content is random.

It just runs on a downstairs TV. I enjoy accidentally catching some old film, or a musical or something I pulled down from YouTube of a guy making furniture....
My big complaint is actually digging through the mess of MB/RAM/BIOS documentation to actually verify that I have the right combination of processor/motherboard/memory for ECC AND TEST IT'S WORKING.

AMD seems to support ECC on some consumer-level chipsets, but it's a nightmare to sort it all out and verify that all the bits are actually functioning properly.
While we are sharing eye rollers.. I had this person plonk into our issues once with a “revolutionary” encryption technique. I wish I could remember the concoction he described.. Now that I’m trying to find it, it seems they deleted the github account. Seems like he saw the light, or got banned. Either way SNR increased and I’m all for that.
I also agree that drug misuse should be a capital offence, without due process.
It takes away power. Doesn't matter if 1/2 still use ads. Paying users can then exert power over Twitter as well.

It's not the crazy harrassign me. It's the crazy doing an end run around me and leveraging the choke point of advertising, where several thousand nasty emails and phone calls are enough to get most all advertisers to say anything to stop the pain. I don't have to deal with it.

Now I also have a painpoint to infect damages against Twitter if I choose. That takes monetary commitment.

A more balanced future is where crazy exert pressure on advertisers, and customers exert pressure on twitter. The advertisers give in, twitter and advertisers lose. Advertisers start realizing its a lose lose and all the boycotts are fake anyway as online lynch mobs don't purchase their products anyway.

Hopefully, after all that pain, we can get back to live and let live. Because the alternative is a dual economy where everyone loses.

As for dailystormer, that's just an example. And a repugnant one that got me lots of down votes. Oh well, such is intolerance ;)
No, it is not the case that a police officer, observing a larger adult assaulting a smaller one (or any other permuation), is authorized to beat the assailant in retribution. If such an attack by a police officer was recorded on a bodycam, the current state of play in most of the US would end up with the officer fired, and a (likely unsuccessful) prosecution to follow.
The ONLY remaining hold out in the UN.

Republicans will not pass this because it calls for children to receive, among other things, access to health care.
They buried the lede. At the bottom they say they are working on a lawsuit against Kirk and want other people who have been harassed to share their story. How could they do that without saying who they are preparing to sue?
Have you? Bryan might want to have a word with you, soon.
There's a bias there, I think there are a lot of small shops where agile works great and you mostly hear about big shops that use it where it will never work great because you probably don't care that much about SmallTechCo.

Versus communism where people (e.g. Benjamin Tucker) were predicting its primary failure mode decades before it ever was instantiated at any scale.
And LPDDR5 gets to have link-level ECC.

Thinking about it, when a DIMM doesn't have extra RAM chips for ECC, you could reuse the ECC pins to run a parity bit to each chip. It would cost nothing. And with DDR5 having 2x8 ECC pins, it would work with any chip layout: x16, x8, or x4.
>it’s not like it was pre-destined to become the company it is today

A billion dollars, Ilya Sutskever as chief scientist, and some of the most brilliant young minds in ML.

I say it was.
The Agile Manifesto it’s a nice read but you cannot put it in practice. It’s like the Bible: everyone has its own interpretation.

Not sure why we still talk about it.
Going to be fun when these are bots that use ChatGPT to harass online communities (if this already isn't that).
You are, everyone can see which word you are choosing to stick with, and why.

You ignored the breakdown of your analogy.

Just going to reiterate, if you're hurting your child you aren't spanking, you're beating.
Try reading the comment again. In that section they're talking about satellite photos, where they don't get precise control of the timing.
Yep, prefer rips to my actual DVDs. If for no other reason the film starts right away. :-)
> told the investors - they shrugged - said hope he can find product market fit

Makes me think that investors are often kind of in on it too. Like in crypto, they know it's all smoke and mirrors, just hope that it can hold on long enough to find a bigger sucker.
And he was murdered
If my child is struck and there's no legal recourse, then yes, I would lower myself to their level.

If society creates an unsafe environment, then sometimes violence is necessary as a means to fight an abusive regime and cause change. That does not mean it's a nice thing - last resorts seldom are.

That you think I'm the "kinder, gentler" crowd is your mistake. I just don't like injustice, and punching down against someone unable to defend themselves is one of the worst forms of injustice.
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Cool! Feature request: put the word in the url querystring so they are easy to share.
[1] Disabilities may be broad, but it is incumbent upon our profession(s) to be inclusive.

[2] It is not pointless to work towards including folks who have a disability. More people than you realize have a form of disability. Ensuring our services and products are accessible is important, whether considered under a legal or an ethical lens.
He was in this list in 2009: http://www.paulgraham.com/5founders.html

It's too easy to mix up cause and effect here. Was he already visible so good that pg put them there, or is pg infatuation so influential?

There's probably more than what meets the eye. Too bad for us that sama doesn't write as much as pg does.
I went to school in Mississippi in the late 80s. While corporal punishment was definitely in the student handbook as being possible, I actually never heard of anyone getting it. I heard the private school was more liberal with it than our public middle/high schools.
Wouldn't this be expected when companies are pruning the lowest performers? They got an extra boost to get in the door, but naturally, some won't take advantage of that and will be dropped when times get tough.
They dont want to disconnect Russia completely. I can't find data for all 2022, but between February and August EU countries paid to Russia around $100 billions for energy resources only: gas, oil, etc. Here is the data till November so it's far more than just $100B:

https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/russian-foreign-trade-tracke...

It's still more money than US and EU countries spent combined on help to Ukraine:

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-s...
News source has no reputation.

Article title is misleading.

Did you just wake up today and decide… “let’s help monger some fear?”
Apparently people have forgotten the importance of a belt in the life of an impressionable child; particularly pernicious ones. I should know, I deal with them every day these days in my professional career that would have been best suited to learning the importance of an ass whipping to level-set expectations in life earlier than my having to do so. Watch Adult Swim's The Boondocks S01E03 for more details.
Of course somebody thought of this already
Although DEI is started with good intentions, it always, 100% results in rent-seeking activities and roles within an organization.

DEI is cancer for firms and they can ill afford it during increased AI disruption and high interest rates age
I've heard all these arguments before many times, nobody here has said anything novel. I know I'm going against the grain saying this, I knew my comment would be unpopular before I wrote it. But it is nevertheless the way I feel.
Suppose the life saving technology requires you to mow down a rainforest to obtain. Is that still a right? This isn't even a thought experiment. For quite a bit of time, taxol was only obtainable from the endangered yew tree only found in PNW rainforests.
It is on Ryzen. Stick with AsRock or Asus motherboards, though.
> I've never had ECC memory to my knowledge. What have I been missing out on, in practice? Can we confidently say that x% of my past BSOD were the direct consequence?

I very highly doubt so. I remember BSOD and Guru meditations (on the Amiga) before that. Once I switched to Linux suddenly no more BSOD and very little kernel panics. I've had at times my desktop reach six months of uptime.

I think bit-flips are a great excuse for unreliable software.

BTW I'm not saying ECC is unnecessary: I'm saying it's unlikely the lack of ECC was the reason for most of the BSOD you saw throughout the ages.
Yeah he doesn’t even seem like the kind of person that would connect well with a lot of talented ML researchers.
> I've always wondered why assault statutes don't apply in these scenarios.

Because assault statutes have an exception for lawful force, and the applicable laws (either statute or common law) provide a legal privilege.

> I presume in loco parentis is a defense?

Not a “defense”, but in some schemes it may be part of the legal basis. (In states where there is a parental option, this is clearly the case.)

> Is this something that is well tested by the courts in the places where this still takes place?

It is worth noting that most of the explicit rules prohibiting or regulating corporal punishment are the outcome of debate in the late 70s and into the 80s triggered by a 1977 US Supreme Court decision that found, in the absence of state law to the contrary, that corporal punishment in public schools was legal, even when contrary to the express wishes of parents.

Very few states had any explicit law on the issue prior to that point.
The driver behind the Tesla ought to have noticed the Tesla signal its lane change and would have had several seconds to ensure they were leaving sufficient space for the Tesla. If the driver had been attentive and slowed down prior to the Tesla changing lanes, as he should have, then this would have been totally avoidable.

If you went to court for having rear-ended someone in a similar set of circumstances, that's basically what the judge would tell you. Would that be frustrating to hear? Yes, but it's how it works.
Some people prefer to trade off stability for a slight performance improvement.

In my PC, I've got a Intel Core i5-3570K (3.4ghz stock) overclocked to 4.5ghz or something silly like that. I used the motherboard manufacturer's "one touch overclocking" feature to determine that speed years ago and haven't touched it since.

The performance improvement is more than slight. Stability is rock solid across thousands of hours of gaming. I'm not running advanced cooling. $60 Corsair closed loop cooler and three Noctua case fans. System runs cool and quiet, fans throttle up and down nicely. Near silent when idle and still rather quiet under load.

That is a pretty decent gain in performance for zero drawbacks and essentially zero effort.
It's often used to include people of color who aren't necessarily Black
Why the hell would you announce that you've virus-scanned an executable that _your own company_ has produced?
That error indicates something weird going on with one of your extensions. The guid tells you what extension is generating the error so you can disable it.

I don't know why your browser is blocking a request to open the source code for one of your extensions. Maybe an extension trying to hide its own code?

To find out what's causing this, disable all extensions and enabled them one by one until the problem occurs, I suppose. It'll be harder to find if your problem is caused by two different extensions, in which case you're going to need to test pairs...
XMP profiles are another example where you can boost RAM speeds without much risk of instability [1]. I assume the manufacturer is just doing binning on their end and selling the higher performing RAM at higher prices.

And the performance differences can be significant: 20% or more in certain workloads.

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/what-are-xmp-profiles-and-how-do-i-u...
NomadBSD: Persistent USB flash drive based desktop OS
The fact that this confusing distinction even exists is testament to how unnecessarily complicated agile is.
But also, doxxing is totally acceptable to protect people from threats including harassment.

We are well past the era where we maintained the fantasy that the internet was separate from real life. People who are acting out online sometimes also act dangerous IRL and it is therefore prudent to figure out who they are IRL if they've proven to be bad actors online.
Adults that advocate child abuse like this are one of the few types of people I'd support subjecting to the kind of abuse they advocate.