skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminded me of https://github.com/elsamuko/Shirt-without-Stripes

Whose days may be soon over as gpt4 gets this overall right..? As noted by many folks here
It's highly unlikely that someone with the capacity to deploy a team to covertly sabotage a pipeline decides to back out 3/4 of the way when in they're in such close proximity, or fails and their failure is never detected (there would be failed explosives at the site).

Bad faith argument? Where does this nonsense about "everyone is getting on board with BRICS" come from? Who is "everyone"?
Let’s say I’m targeting x86 or PTX or some standard subo instruction set. I can do vanilla codegen but it is slow af
The way "representative democracy" (in quotes because both words are a lie) works at scale of any large country is as follows: you elect people based on simplistic promises that they make, and if they win and you're lucky, they kinda sorta do something that's vaguely like half of what they promised. Your only recourse is waiting for N years to vote for someone else who will almost certainly do the same thing.

Not only is this all by design, but in many countries, the "free mandate" - i.e. the notion that the politician can say A before the election and then do ~A after - is even legally codified. In theory, this is supposed to allow the elected representatives to apply their own judgment based on nuances of the moment instead of pandering to the mob. In practice, it means that your representative is free to pander to people other than those they "represent" while still claiming a public mandate based on the votes received.
I don't know all the factors involved, but I know as an engineer if I have a choice of 2 or more places to work, I'm strongly incented to go live in a place that is NOT under invasion/blockade threat by China.

Plus Taiwan is an island. It would be much harder to get in or out, in wartime, than say Ukraine. Harder to reinforce and resupply.

Granted, maybe you'd have enough time to escape, but maybe you wouldn't, and either way I wouldnt want to grow a family there or friendships if that dark cloud loomed overhead, threatening the loss of all. Plenty of other places to live and work instead.

Now... if they offered 5X more pay than anywhere else, then sure, maybe. ;-)
the m1 macbook pro with the touch bar and usbc only, or the m1 macbook pro where apple went from that to a refresh of the 2012-15 design as a capitulation to years of complaints about form-over-function?
On a long enough time horizon wouldn’t it make sense for most steel to be recycled? I think we already get a lot of our aluminum from recycling.
One approach is to perform the bitstream parsing and Huffman decoding concurrently, while carrying out the LZ77 decoding sequentially. This method does not rely on a specialized encoder, such as pigz, that isolates LZ references into chunks.
What do you mean by "better"? There's room for lots of people to have jobs off the field. Think about all of the support staff we never see on TV during the game. Or off the field even during the game. The announcer/sports commentator, the coach,
the physical therapists and doctors, the people that work the grounds. Stephen Curry doesn't work in vacuum and neither does Jeff Dean.
O_o....I did not know that, I'll have to try it out. Thanks for the tip!
https://www.autoharnesshouse.com/69018.html

This was the first result when I searched "telematics module front speakers"
Bloatware since 1994...
Nah you don't just die, but you are changed. If you fail to account for a person's microbiome (among all the other things that we might not even know about yet) then you haven't completely copied who they are.

I probably should have just said that IMO we humans don't know the beginning of what consciousness is.
Pareto principle. With the dawn of AI systems and the scale they require I wonder how much more unequal things will get. Previously you would have no issues running the state of the art CIFAR classifier model on your laptop, now running your own semi-state of the art LLM is not even worth doing for many companies.
Should hotel rooms be cleaned daily? Housekeepers in those jobs think so
I’ve read many of them.

I suspect we are coming at the same thing from different angles.

You can’t have a culture that tolerates accidents like this, so get some systems in place to prevent them. It’s not about one person or piece of equipment. Swiss cheese model etc.
LVM ftw...
Who's building a straw man? There's plenty of examples of exactly the scenario I mentioned happening.

Deadly Crash Brings New Attention To Viral 'Kia Challenge' Trend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B1laqHpw7A

Robbins police: 3 teens in stolen Kia arrested after 71-year-old man dies in crash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC_QeFdPtus

Teen killed, suspect on the run after stolen car crashes on Roosevelt Boulevard
https://www.fox29.com/news/police-stolen-kia-involved-deadly...
The thing to remember when selling to businesses is that a business is just a stack of people in a trench coat. This might sound a tad evil but you don’t have to offer something that benefits the business as a whole, just something that benefits the person who holds the purse strings.

This is why cloud services are so popular. They’re easy and they don’t cost the decision makers personally.
Yes, they are. The bank is Europe.
Specifically they are using a 1024 bit accumulator register to hold intermediate results for 64-bit posit operations. You can get more precision for IEEE float operations as well if you're willing to just add loads of extra bits!

It's expensive though:

Synthesis results of the 64-bit PAU in Big-PERCIVAL
have shown that it requires 2.5× as many resources as
the double-precision FPNew FPU. Moreover, we studied
the impact of the corresponding 1024-bit quire accumulator
register, which increased the total hardware cost to a third
of the area of the core. Detailed area results illustrated how
the hardware resources are distributed among the different
operations. In particular, the most resource-hungry elements
are the quire-related units and the posit division and square
root units.

I don't think this is a particularly positive results for posits.
That's what you, as an engineer would do if you were to do layoffs starting from first principles, but that's not who's doing the layoffs.
I Never Became an Entrepreneur. Now I Wonder Why
Also want to add:

ELIZA: How do you do. Please tell me your problem.
YOU: I'm worried about shmerple
ELIZA: Do you believe it is normal to be worried about shmerple ?

The fact that it can insert your made up word into patterns has no significance in itself.
I read an article today about someone who was called by his daughter to transfer money. It turned out to be an AI deepfake.

The criminal networks are pretty sophisticated.
GitHub Copilot Leaked Prompt
> To solve [forward branches], those bytecodes would push information about how the branch destination address shall be fixed up into a late-patch buffer.

This reminds me of how Forth `if` and `then` can be compiled in a single pass -- `if` writes the branch instruction and pushes the current instruction pointer to the stack, and `then` pops it and patches the instruction to point to the current instruction pointer.
> teams that can't talk to each other

Is there such a thing?
I cracked level 7 finally!!!!
I admit to honestly believing the punchline was that the 'she' in question would be his dog, and then back to BAU.
Yes, and it was disbursed as stimulus under the guise of a "Gasoline Tax Refund." Obvious to everyone that it was a terrible fiscal decision, but clearly the administration thought it was prudent politically.
>Like what exactly is the implementation of the top 20 optimizations? It can’t be that high right..

I love the full-throated arrogance of this - "I have no idea but I'm sure it's not hard" lol

So I'll tell you - each pass is at minimum a paper (mem2reg) and at maximum several dissertations (polly) to understand. Then have fun implementing a basic basic alpha in your compiler that doesn't have all the creature comforts of LLVM - iterators, efficient data-structures, debugging aids, etc. And then give up because a paper or a dissertation is out-of-date like as soon as it's in deadtree form, while LLVM is a living, breathing, tapestry of insights, breakthroughs, and hacks too.

I highly recommend you attempt even one pass to get a feel: pick any language that has a parser impl and design an IR for it and then optimize it (designing an IR from scratch can't be that hard can it?)
> In the end, we reduced core Messenger code by 84 percent, from more than 1.7M lines to 360,000.

iOS only.
> m1 macbook pro with the touch bar and usbc only

I have one of these. Hands down the best laptop I've ever owned. Fast, quiet, and I literally had to check system settings again to confirm that it's close to three years old. (And I'm the guy who tosses it in a briefcase that inevitably falls off my carry-on at least three times per trip.)
My current "solution" to this is driving a 16yo car, before all this stuff became ubiquitous and impossible to opt out of, but obviously it gets harder every year to find cars from that era that still run reliably.

What other options are there? I would SO willingly pay thousands of dollars specifically to have these features disabled on a new car, but it seems like they're actually designed for that to be impossible.

What options are there for acquiring and driving a car with no internet or satellite connections?

(I'm not trying to stop some other-purpose satellite from being able to see my car if it wanted. I'm trying to prevent a car company--which is NOT a security company--from having a record of everywhere my car has been at every moment of every day where someone can steal it.)
I agree. I downloaded the Boring app yesterday. Launched it for the first time today and it appears to be tackling the wrong problem. The problem isn’t the headlines, it’s deciding what to cover in the first place.

PBS News Hour also does a great job of this. Just a few global and national stories a day, but a stark contrast from the emotional triggers from other news outlets.

Unfortunately have to delete the app for now. Will check back later to see if they’ve figured it out.
What attributes of "computer" are you looking for? The Remarkable 2 is definitely a "computer", but lacks many computer attributes, so it may not be what you're looking for, so it really depends on what you're looking for.

It meets the singular criteria of being incapable of running a modern web browser while having aspects of being a digital device.

https://remarkable.com/
Inventions often seem to be simultaneous, as if the time had come for this problem to be recognized, and for the solution to be possible. However, I do think in some cases, a "great man" can make an invention earlier than otherwise - we should measure genius in units of time.

We wouldn't be stuck in 1950 without him... but maybe we'd now be in 2018 without him.

OTOH the "great man" fallacy encourages the intense and unpredictable work required for many inventions - why undermine that?
If it’s something they’re interested in or need to know for their career, then I don’t think it’s possible to be ill-suited, only ill-prepared.
It's funny - I find cars to be less practical than motorcycles for most of the trips I take, for example whenever traffic or scarcity of parking are involved - which is most of the time! - and if for some reason I could only have one vehicle, I want to say that I would choose the motorcycle, because life without it would suck; but then, a car actually can handle all the trips a motorcycle can make - comparatively slow, expensive, and annoying though the process may be - whereas there are a minority of errands one occasionally has to run which a motorcycle cannot handle at all. So perhaps the real answer is that it's too much to expect any one mode of transportation to handle every need.
More likely snow in the summer and failed harvests. Or a sudden shutdown of the thermohaline circulation. That could wake some people.
There are quite a few billion people looking forward to the convenience of their own vehicle and living in their own detached house and visiting tropical destinations and eating avocados all year. I do not think any leader is going to be able to placate the population by telling them to consume less to maybe help future generations.
Every time this topic comes up, it seems people invariably divide into one of two groups. In the first group are those who trust in the odds and play the probability game. In the other, those who demand absolute guarantees. Neither group seems fully capable of understanding the other's standpoint.

Let me add my own perspective: Distributed locks are a fallacy. They can be beneficial in decreasing contention, under the assumption that "most of the time, only one actor will be active". However, by themselves, they offer no solid guarantees. The blog post addresses this point by introducing the concept of fencing tokens. These tokens have the potential to provide concrete guarantees, but they require the cooperation of downstream systems for enforcement, which isn't always possible.

I was really surprised to see Antirez argue for the probability approach.
Inevitable, but disappointing of course - I had hoped we'd have something closer to a 5y cycle, as the previous couple of dry cycles were much longer than this most recent wet(ish) one.

I'm 150km inland, just north of Sydney AU latitude (150E, 33S).

The very averaged annual rainfall in our area is 600mm (about the same as London, about half of Sydney).

In 2021 we had 910mm, and 2022 we had 966mm. So far this year we've had 192mm - and given January is our wettest period, that's way under both long-term average and recent trend.
I guess I don't understand because I go weeks at a time without reading or hearing about something Elon said, and I don't loathe anyone.
You failed to add the two most important things on the subject about its impact worldwide

1) Certain regions, particularly those riding the equatorial line that also have wet seasons will experience (rather, are experiencing right now) extreme wet seasons with heavy flooding , for example in south america, such as Peru, Brazil and COlombia. The wet season causes an extreme cascading effect in those societies by the spike in cases of water-related (mosquito larvae) disease like dengue, cholera and malaria.

2) The same countries will experience drought in the normally quieter, "winter" season. That wrecks agricultural yield. Watch the price of bananas and similar water-intensive perennials , at your local supermarket early next year. For countries near major river flows (amazon in particular) that are not diversified in power sources and heavily dependant in hydro for power , they can get really in trouble and experience brownouts further damaging their GDP. This is rarer since most countries learn their lesson after the 1-brownout in a decade..but you never know.
"PostgreSQL supports most of the major features of SQL:2016. Out of 177 mandatory features required for full Core conformance, PostgreSQL conforms to at least 170. In addition, there is a long list of supported optional features."[1]

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/features.html
We appear to have different understandings of the word majority.
Yes, I probably should have omitted the example of the OP because I'm really more interested in the principle than the specific implementation.

My suspicion is that you could probably give verbal or informally written or offered license and that it would be valid from a legal perspective. I'm basing that off the existence of verbal contracts and how there is no process for licenses but instead a very practical consensus on the best way to communicate intent.

EDIT: In a sibling comment I verified this suspicion! Includes a couple links to short articles.
You could also argue that recidivists tend to aggregate in jail, so yeah, opinions will definitely vary.
Which does not disprove the implication I made, since you assumed the hypothesis to be false. Given that they are guilty, would you still support them? There sure seems to be a lot of “we should be nicer to thieves” in this thread, so I think we already know the answer.
I heard the vinyl version of Random Access Memories playing on a cheap turntable and was surprised how good it sounded.

I'd like to A/B the vinyl vs. CD versions through the same speakers to hear how they compare.
how did he possibly survive 3 shots to his skull like that without even any penetration of bone. is is unusual skull thickness or something? that is incredible
I'll be the first to admit this is a meaningless debate but seems fun!

I'll say no

We don't colloquial think of a HDD bit as a manufactured unit on magnetic disks. It doesn't have a direct macro connection/object.

For SSDs the macro analog of a bit storage is a register and those are like 6 nand gates which those are made of like 3 transistors?

Exact numbers are wrong I'm sure. It's been a long time.
(tbc I was forthcoming with my arrogance, like it genuinely didn’t make sense to me)

Why would constant propagation need a PhD level proficiency to implement? It’s basically running part of your code and no different from parsing.

Again not trying to trivialize or be rude. I wish this was something I could ask ChatGPT and trust its outputs but you know I can’t
CI servers can't hold scope probes or land on test points.
Voice recording without explicit consent of all recorded parties is illegal under wiretapping laws in my state, and my state is pretty aggressive about it.

I wonder how that factors into this.
> The US incarcerates more people than China, despite China having more than four times as many people

This is an apple & orange measure. Starting from first principles, that is how people behave in society, we can at least temper superficial reading of bare metrics.

Human beings self police under surveillance. This is the entire point of setting up surveillance states. US in contrast tends more towards police state: show of force to partition society in distinct 'social climates', directly informed by economic means.

So, yes, a police state will attempt to partition, even to the extremity of incarceration, and a surveillance state (which is a super-set of police-state) applies psychological force and thus has a much reduced subset that it will deem 'problematic'. Ideally, a state like China will like to approach the limit of having every 'citizen' well trained and well behaved, as domesticated humans.

Our problem over here is (given a generous disposition) that we struggle with reconciling freedom and order without resorting to brainwashing the population, or (less generously) that structural characteristic of our system where "freedom" is bound with at times grotesque wealth disparities naturally creates social hostility, and the economic incentives of a criminal life.
I love this. I picked one at random https://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheCigarStoreIndian.htm
I haven't seen this one, but it's great. The characters are so familiar you can construct the whole thing perfectly in your head, now I don't really need to see it. Although I can't picture Elaine's apartment. Was that a regular set?

The script is put together like a Swiss watch. Every line fits perfectly in place. Kudos to the craftsmen involved.
It's closing to become a Chanel store according to the article, so this doesn't exactly fit with the narrative some might think it does.
Browsers also meet the everything app definition. The only gap I see is that there's not a single identity provider in front of Twitter, Venmo, and Robinhood, which seems to be Musk's vision. When you think of it that way it becomes clear it's about building a single social graph and the lock-in and surveillance risks become really glaring.
If experts don't have merit, then what person has merit? Non experts like you and I?
That’s my solution too. I love my old cars. I did get a newish (2012) Jeep to build onto an off road rig. It happens to be the one that you can hack by knowing the VIN which is displayed in the windshield. You can connect to the CAN over the air and unlock and start it with a program widely available on the internet. Luckily, because it’s a Jeep the antenna mount rusted and the antenna fell off. I can’t start it over the air since it no longer talks to the network.

I guess that’s a long way of saying that if we ever have to get new cars, all we need to do is find the wireless antenna and disconnect it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing,_Forever

It’s technically back, but “with a new cast of characters and an original format different from that of Seinfeld” …
Summer has already arrived a whole month earlier than usual in the PNW.
> The Pentium was not great, not terrible. IIRC 2 ways superscalar in-order,

Eh, I don't agree. Look at the other superscalar microprocessors available around the same time:

* POWER (1990)

* Alpha 21064 (1992)

* PA-RISC 7100 (1992)

* Pentium (1993)

* POWER2 (1993)

* MIPS R8000 (1994)

* PA-RISC 7200 (1995)

* UltraSparc (1995)

* Alpha 21164 (1995)

So, first of all, all of these are in-order processors. Out of order execution didn't come until later ('95 for PA-8000, '96 for R10k and Pentium Pro and '98 for Alpha 21264 and Power3).

Second, all of the RISC superscalar processors prior to the Pentium are also (technically) dual issue.

But Pentium did something unique: It can issue two integer instructions in the same cycle. Before that, all the others could issue only one instruction of a given type (load/store, int, and fp) per cycle. In other words, while they may be "dual issue", your instruction stream needs a mix of those types to get any benefit from multi-issue on those early implementations.

In terms of having 2x execution units of the same type: POWER2 got there later in 1993, but was not a single-chip processor, followed by R8000 (also multi-chip), PA-7200 and 21164.

That's why Pentium had pretty good integer benchmarks, even while it was getting crushed on floating point compared to RISC.
https://corporate.target.com/press/releases/2022/02/target-t...

If Target is doing this, I'm guessing others are too.
Yes? When was the last time people were satisfied with the candidates available to "represent" them and were doing anything other than choosing the "lesser of two evils" to try to keep it from getting worse?
I think some of this political conflict is over what constitutes a harmless or victimless or nonviolent crime.

In the past year I've seen different people claim that hemp consumption, property crime, and even intimidation with a firearm were nonviolent and that their perpetrators were merely marginalized individuals who need social assistance rather than prosecution.

I think GP's point is that even property crime is not victimless: It hurts everyone, it makes society worse, and it likely hurts the people at the bottom of society disproportionately.

But I may add, then, that the reformers have the burden of showing evidence for their position: they need to demonstrate that it is possible to have a low-crime, low-prosecution, high social net city somewhere in the US. I'm beginning to suspect that they are missing some critical component which is required to make such a system work for everyone.