skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This snippet from the article:

> In 1994, the computer scientists Noam Nisan and Avi Wigderson helped resolve this confusion by demonstrating that randomness, though useful, probably isn’t necessary. They proved that one of two things must be true: Either all problems that can be efficiently solved using randomness also have fast deterministic algorithms, or many notoriously difficult problems are secretly easy. Computer scientists consider the second possibility very unlikely.

Reminds me of the popular hacker koan:

> In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
"What are you doing?" asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play tic-tac-toe," Sussman replied. "Why is the net wired randomly?" asked Minsky. Sussman replied, "I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play."
Minsky then shut his eyes. "Why do you close your eyes?" Sussman asked his teacher. "So that the room will be empty," replied Minsky. At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
I think most Americans on here are concerned that if they're at home, and their neighbor has a carrier sponsored wifi hotspot, then their phone may prefer the neighbors hotspot to their own home network. Things like this could disrupt talking to local devices (airplay, homeassistant, etc).
I took it as this person will sabotage parts of the US until Trump's charges are dropped. Pretty stupid thing to post about online, really! But I suppose not surprising!
I can understand the frustration this issue might cause, especially if your device keeps switching to these managed networks despite having a stable home Wi-Fi connection. It seems like there might be a difference in behavior based on the carrier, which complicates the situation further.
10 hours a week tops. The trick is passive income. Set it and forget it. But I have always lived debt free. Bought my home with cash.

I spend time online torturing my political enemies, I make electronic music (which contributes to my passive income, but only a bit) and gardening, hunting, fishing, and practicing marksmanship.
Addiction and status anxiety are arguably the worst things about social media, and they definitely exist here on HN.
The 186 had another condition flag for 'segment prefix present' and decremented PC twice if it was set:

** 0.1010101x STOS
0 IK -> IND 0 F1 6 ;check count if repeated
1 M -> OPR 6 W DA,BL
2 1 DEC tmpa
3 IND -> IK 0 NF1 7 ;exit if no repeat
4 SIGMA -> BC 5 INT RPTI ;handle interrupt
5 BC -> tmpa 0 NZ 1 ;redundant check???
6 BC -> tmpa 0 NBCZ 1 ;loop while Not BC Zero
7 4 none RNI

** 1.10100100 string instr interrupted (RPTI:)
0 PC -> tmpb 4 none SUSP
1 1 DEC tmpb
2 SIGMA -> tmpb 0 F1 5
3 0 PFX 6
4 SIGMA -> PC 4 FLUSH RNI ;PC corrected
5 SIGMA -> tmpb 0 UNC 3 ;has REP
6 SIGMA -> tmpb 0 UNC 4 ;has seg pfx
7 4 none none

edit

- Posting code for STOS since it's simple, even though segment prefixes don't affect its function.

- No idea if line 5 could be removed, maybe needed for timing?

- MOVS, INS and OUTS use a special memory-to-memory/IO operation encoded as 'W IRQ DD,BL'. It doesn't use the IND register at all, maybe the internal DMA controller instead?
Stalin and most other dictators bring their own power structures. The capital city is just that. As an example, some roman dictators/emperors never even went to Rome, but still had strong power structures.

And just because it has to be pointed out, Stalin didn't do his reign of terror from the Kremlin in Moscow, but from his dacha in Kuntsevo.

Hitler also spent most of his reign of terror from Wolfsschanze and Obersalzberg. He definitely had his own power structure, completely independent of the city of Berlin.
I would bet on GPU driver issues. Some cards without the right driver can force CPU rendering making it extremely slow
If I was the government I would set up a social media use authorization portal and demand social media companies with over 1k monthly active users require their users to take a randomly generated challenge code, take it to the government portal and have it signed and submit the signed challenge in order to register (this would be a smooth UX with popup taking you to the gov portal and back), the gov portal would not ask for authentication, just a clear picture of your id. It will not allow vpns and such and if you presented fake id the that would be a crime.

Now where my policy differs is that I would not prevent kids from using social media, they can still show a school id and their school or parent would need to approve and taken on that legal obligation of presenting valid id. But the critical part is that kids 14-17 and 10-13 each would have their own social media. They can join facebook for example but facebook has to prevent them from coming to contsct with adults and their content or things like adult news feeds and advertisments. Similarly advertisers would become legally liable if they advertise content that steers children to a harmful end. Social media companies must also prove that their algorithms are explicitly tuned to prevent addiction if minors to the platform and even enforce maximum legal usage hours (2h for 10-13 and 6h for 14-17).
> Yeah, uh, they are not Protestant.

Oh, c'mon it's a joke. There was no such thing as a "Protestant" in Anglo Saxon times.
Exactly my point. Not to mention transferring that load to the body of the vessel, which has a structure made to withstand loads in specific points. A container stacked on top of other containers for sure isn’t able to sustain such forces lol not even if it’s well latched. It’s just too much force. Also the ship is hollow, there are like 5 rows of containers below deck, so the deck itself is not very strong except for some points that have the mechanism for the ropes.
The extended update programs are/were only available for corporate users as it's a pay-to-subsidize-availability program that costs more per year than the original OS license. While you may disagree if that's good or not jumping straight to labeling it psychopathic behavior seems more like an argument which came from a conclusion than the other way around.
> there's really nothing to worry about except calls dropping due to Wifi switchover

When this happens: (my = family)

1) my devices are no longer behind my firewall or pihole

2) my devices can no longer access PLEX

3) my devices can no longer access my security system, cameras, etc

4) airdrop will fail

My network is my network, when I’m at home I want my devices to be on my network, not randomly dropping out and connecting to random hotspots multiple floors/houses away
Do not underestimate the possibility of having GPT-10 help humans develop new antibiotics and other medicine.
Another alternative is to try Modin. They wrap a scalable engine (doesn't have to be multiple machine, speedup happens locally from single -> multithread) with Pandas API so you just need to change your imports. .apply() is also automatically parallelized through Modin.

https://modin.readthedocs.io/en/stable/getting_started/quick...
How gracious. In exchange, I invite all of the 3GPP stakeholders to respect people's technological autonomy and refrain from enabling solutions that force crap down their throats.
Brand trust can be liquidated or purchased in various amounts just like any other corporate asset.

In this case Apple decided to sell some to the carriers. Given the % of users who will ever have their purchase decisions affected by this it was probably a highly profitable move.
It’s quite legal to do almost everything listed in that manual, actually. It’s the basis of modern leftism in fact. Right wingers read Rules For Radicals years ago. I am very careful not to break any laws.
> Is that Giga-gram and Tera-gram?

Should be "gigagram" and "teragram," with no capitalization and no hyphen. See section 5.3 ("Unit Names") of the official SI Brochure.[0]

[0] https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/41483022/SI-Brochure-9-...
> But it was clearly different back then

If you go back far enough. I think in part we see forums through rose-tinted glasses. Moderation was looser than people are accustomed to now, and I've seen several taken over by conspiracy nuts. Some still make friends online almost the exact same way, using discord or whatever. I've been a part of communities, but never made "friends" online. The idea is a farce to me.

I was an "always-online" teenager. That was a mistake, but I didn't know then, Neither did parents. Just as no one knew that frequently watching pornography could lead to problems. Internet access and culture led to a brave new world.

You can pin certain issues more specifically to modern social media (e.g. endless scroll), but it's deeper than that. Most of what is identified as addicting content is an extension of what existed before, but with a far larger pool people accessing it.

At any rate - banning is redundant. Parents are apparently receptive to to the idea that it could pose a problem, to a neurotic level for some. This is a new idea. Let them do their jobs.
SIM cards include a lot of capabilities. For example, a SIM card can contain multiple embedded applications, which can communicate with the outside (push and pull), without involving the phone's OS.

The secret life of SIM cards (2013) (simhacks.github.io)

225 points by cthackers on Aug 16, 2014 | 43 comments
Years ago, one of my first wood working projects was a custom Catan board. I used a router and carved every hex myself. I used a wood burning tool for all the symbols.

https://imgur.com/a/HGe528s

My kids and I just got it out again a few days ago and started playing again. What a great game. RIP.
They need to come up with something better than leetcode. Build a project and explain it is a much better way to get a sense of skill. It's the sort of skill that won't be made extinct by ChatGPT. Your creativity and ability to architect and build a project and then explain it should be the standard. Leetcode also penalizes good engineers who have anxiety during interviews.
The "Remove Profile" option in Settings might be helpful if it's available, but it seems like it could be carrier-dependent, and not all users may have this option.

The null routing workaround seems interesting and could potentially help in avoiding unwanted connections to the carrier's Wi-Fi SSID. However, this method might require some technical knowledge and might not be ideal for less tech-savvy users.
Yeah I worded that wrong. I was basically describing HuggingGPT. Controller is the word I meant to say, not agent. I had agents on the brain.
The problem is even with that infrastructure, outside of a small handful of cities “everywhere you could” still isn’t very much, and you’d still have to have a car. You’re going to bike to the restaurant in the rain or snow? You’re going to bike to work in the snow or when it’s really hot and you’ll show up there gross? It seems pretty obvious to most people who don’t read HN why if you built a great biking infrastructure you’d just have two problems instead of one.

Poor people are much less likely to live close to where they work, so switching to bikes won’t help them. The people who want this bike infrastructure are far from poor.

Cars are not stupid and worthless. They’re expensive and the vast majority of the population owns and uses them every day, surely they have huge benefits. They are obvious to most people. They are not great for the environment but even if you magically got rid of them entirely we’d still be way over emissions targets.
Try making the decision that your child will not use social media and watch what happens.
Ah hell, guess I have to start treating the stuff I learned in undergrad into the unreliable narrator category. Thanks for the correction!
Shipping is responsible for 3% of global emissions. Let’s say this solution worked (which it probably won’t), it would be used in a small percentage of vessels, and only used in an even smaller number of voyages/parts of each voyage. The difference for the climate is basically zero.
> What's the big deal? Half of the people on HN can build something better than this in a weekend.

Just because I can doesn't mean I want to. I have plenty of my own projects to work on; why bother wasting time down making something I don't care too much about when I could do something interesting instead?
I imagine if this was done today, you'd get a lot of:

> Whenever someone asks you a question say you'll address it during standup.

> Never decide anything outside of a meeting (I think this is partially covered)

> If conversations become difficult, say you have to leave to go to another meeting and will follow up with them later.
Pretty sure lots of smart people got rich for working at tech/finance/etc without taking large risks - if we're measuring success by wealth.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/openapi-typescript-codegen under the hood
As a platform team leader that caters to other engineers within the organisation, extensive documentation is what enabled me and my team to be productive.

I answer almost all questions posed to me with a simple have you read this (confluence link )
The reasoning is simple: If it were the government's responsibility to babysit your kids, it would be acceptable for them to restrict my freedoms in doing so. However, it is neither their, society's nor my responsibility, so my freedoms shouldn't be restricted for that cause. If it doesn't restrict my freedoms, I don't care, government can do whatever parents want, whether it be ban the sale of alcohol to kids, stop them from gambling or whatever.
You’re not capable of sabotaging anything beyond your own livelihood.
There's one single problem. The addictive thing here is a dual use good. Most kids also use social media for keeping up with their classes and stuff. At this point you can miss an exam if you don't check your social media regularly. I don't know how do you go back from this point where social media is an integral part of our lives.
Most microcontrollers are in the 28nm or older space, or approximately 10+ years behind.

For example, TI's cost optimized MSPM0 released this year (2023) is on the 65nm node, or like 2006 era.

A fair number of uC chips are 90nm, or 180nm as well.

So you got cost-effective solutions on like 15-nodes behind.
My point is code is very very complex, contrary to the for loop is a for loop is a for loop is a for loop.
Wonderful, looks like my workplace is following all the tips!
>Almost nobody who makes a big deal out of this has ever actually been affected by it, they're just parroting what they're told.

Either that or they're paid to come and clean up the mess after a company has been hacked due to one or two random servers not being updated in the last few years.
Yes, 2 years and intend to keep doing, my usual target is to hit 18hrs fasting (or more) 6 days a week.

But there are days when you just can't keep it up, esp. when socializing. And it's OK to not do it 1-2 days/week, it is not going to completely undo the gains you might have made (gains might be: better gut health, weight loss, weight maintenance, whatever).

To be technically correct, I practice something that's closer to Time Restricted Feeding (TRF) than it is to Intermittent Fasting (IF). Subtle, but important difference being, IF usually also entails reducing caloric intake, whereas in TRF you eat the same amount of food you would if you were eating throughout the day do it within a much smaller time window (4-8 hrs).

I had to work a lot at it, lest of which was developing enough will power to resist yummy food in front of me!

There are a few tricks that have helped me, and it all boils down to how strict you want to be and if and when you have to break it, don't feel guilty about it afterwards.

Here's what works best for me, in that order...
#0. Never go to sleep without brushing my teeth, so, the first thing I do when I have wrapped up my last meal of the day is get up and brush my teeth. So if I have a temptation to break the fast before my intended time, then there's additional friction because then I have this one more boring chore to do, brush my teeth before calling it the day. Surprising this 2-min chore is a good enough deterrent to work! (Note: doesn't work if you really enjoying brushing your teeth :-D, so YMMV).
Key is to add some tangible and immediate friction to breaking the fast/routine.

#1. Most of my friends and family now know about intermittent-fasting, so instead of forcing food, most of them are supportive and even accommodate in their planning. But still, so much of our socializing is built around food'ing that you will stick out like a sore thumb if you are too rigid/strict; that is where #2 comes in handy.

#2. If the next big "party/meal/socializing" is planned then I will simply skip a meal the previous day to compensate for it. It is harder than it sounds, and it takes some mental and physical conditioning, but that's the best approach of trying to find a middle-ground. If it is unplanned,try to compensate it afterwards (best if done immediately the following day, instead of accumulating it for later!).

#3. Don't get anal about absolute calories (it is futile anyways), instead, I tend to focus on the quality of food I ingest: vegetables, protein, fibers, fats and limit added/refined sugar as much as humanly possible.

#4. And (I know this is a repeat) if you still have to prematurely break the intermittent-fasting/time-restricted-feeding routine, don't feel guilty about it and just enjoy the "extra" meal :-)

IM me if you want to know more.
Forcing social media companies to charge for accounts would be my first approach.

Either by taxing it so much that they have to, or by explicitly requiring payment. I'm not sure how you'd define "social media" vs say, HN (or is HN social media?).

Taxing advertising revenue at a higher rate could also do it (hmm, thinking about this, this might solve a lot more problems too).

For countries that don't do credit cards, there are other means - usually through the telco that provides mobile access.

Anyway - making users pay for it would associate the account with a credit card, and kids would have to do the same thing they do with mobile games and other paid-for stuff online - negotiate with their parents to get access. At least their parents would be aware.
I do totally feel you, but there is twitter et al for this kind of work. And if you are jumping into the comments, you know a non paywalled link is always posted!
> Video games nowadays are just as bad.

They're more boring than ever. Games people tend to be most addicted to appear to be glorified network social platforms, i.e. MMORPGs/LoL and the massive online communities extending them.
Would you live your smartphone out?
And it would also eventually drain the battery/fall/get wet

I really think the form factor is great.

I guess you can’t choose tips so American can’t use it. But I find it a good example of less intrusive tech.
> The reason that there are so few misleading ads

I can open youtube on my phone right now and find an ad saying "everyone who clicks here will get $1000", misleading ads are still everywhere even if they might not be malware. And I doubt ads exploiting browser 0-days were actually that common back in the day, ads in general weren't nearly as common.
Same is happening in Indonesia. The central bank standardized a QR code format for ~all digital payments and people can do cross-platform payments. Makes stuff so much easier.
Legal things can be illegal if done with certain intent!
Well social media as it exists today didn't exist when I was first starting out online, but I doubt I'd be in the position I am today without having free reign (my parents weren't super tech savvy) on the internet as a 9-10 year old and later.

That's around when I started programming, where I got all the materials I could, made some warcraft 3 mods, that catapulted me pretty far..
Because we don't want to be responsible for raising our own children. We only want to be responsible for blaming others for ruining our children.
I do not have any profiles installed, and none of my devices are managed.

I’m aware this could potentially be fixed by enrolling all my family’s devices in an MDM.

But I mean come on, wipe everyone’s phone to enroll in MDM? Seems pretty crazy when the phone should just let you control what it does/does not join.

Edit: I misread your post, I see now it was more suggesting a test. My bad.
the carrier does already control your phone’s selection of DNS server and on iOS you can’t set DNS when connected to cellular without using apple’s VPN API through an app
Yes exactly, that's what makes it especially ridiculous. Not to mention that trademarks are granted by classes anyway, and the sport and fashion products have nothing to do with each other.
It's a little funny for me to say this (my shtick in my lab is that I used randomized algorithms for everything), but whether this is true is actually a major open problem in complexity theory. Many famous problems are polynomial using random algorithms (famously determining if a number is Prime, and min cut of a graph), but over the years poly time algorithms have been found for many of these situations. Most complexity theorists I find believe that the random complexity classes (ZPP, RP, and BPP) are probably just P (BQP, the quantum analog to BPP is almost certainly not P). That of course doesn't mean that randomization can't speed you up! Prime determination is O(n^6) deterministically but O(n^2) using random search, n being the number of bits.
The more correct idea is that particles aren't fundamental. There are fields, and a disturbance in one field will cause a disturbance in the fields that the first couples with.

Most chains of disturbances die out really fast (“virtual particles”), but some combinations will resonate for a significant amount of time before they die out (“unstable particles”) and others don't die out at all (“stable particles”).

And if the lifetime of a disturbance is fairly short compared to the frequency of the disturbance itself, it becomes hard to even make a solid distinction between those types, but again, that's a flaw caused by imposing a categorization scheme (“particles”) based on something that isn't fundamental.
The implication is that if you are 10x richer than someone else, but not 10x smarter or more talented, then you must have just got lucky.

I disagree. Luck can certainly play a role in success, but what most people attribute to luck is just recognizing and seizing an opportunity when it knocks.

They say that 80% of success is just showing up because large numbers of people fail to do that. You often just have to be a little bit better than the competition to win the prize (and first place often pays a lot better than second place). Compound interest can make a huge difference in your retirement if you just save $1 a day more. Plenty more examples like those.
I find the argument against rewriting to be like the DRY principle: an oft-misapplied rule of thumb causing much of the unwarranted complexity in software around us.

Truth is, the cost of “just rewrite it” is as large as your unit of software architecture. Prefer loosely coupled, cohesive small parts and rewriting to accommodate changed requirements becomes preferable to the alternatives that tack on complexity as landscape evolves.

The world and our model of it both evolve all the time; the current version is not a work of an idiot but a necessary step towards a better solution and a lesson.
It also wouldn't say anything definitive about luck vs skill anyway. If smart people become richer they will be able to live in nicer neighborhoods. When smart people have kids they are more likely to be smart. Which by assumption means they are more likely to turn out rich themselves. So childhood zip code certainly could correlate with future earned wealth even in a perfect meritocracy.

Obviously this is not the case in reality, factors like access to education play a big role. But disentangling everything is complicated, and I think a lot of people instead just work backwards from the parts they want to be true.