skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JFYI, the "Unknown Unknowns" quote is from before the invasion (2002-02-12). It was deflection on whether there was evidence of Iraq building WMDs or of cooperating with e.g Al Qaeda.

> Q: Could I follow up, Mr. Secretary, on what you just said, please? In regard to Iraq weapons of mass destruction and terrorists, is there any evidence to indicate that Iraq has attempted to or is willing to supply terrorists with weapons of mass destruction? Because there are reports that there is no evidence of a direct link between Baghdad and some of these terrorist organizations.

> Rumsfeld: Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.

> And so people who have the omniscience that they can say with high certainty that something has not happened or is not being tried, have capabilities that are ...

https://archive.ph/20180320091111/http://archive.defense.gov...
Prior companies always had a history of surrounding Musk with “handlers” that steered him in productive and non-destructive directions and manipulated him into making sane decisions.

Twitter never had this, and was never ready for Musky-boy when he bought the place.

The behind-the-scenes presence and work of these handlers are also what engineered such a “tech bro” cult of personality around Musk, such that he acquired legions of deluded fanboys who thought he was playing 4D chess when he was always two drool bubbles away from munching on the carpet.

So I can understand it when people have an unrealistically idealistic view of Musk. The social engineering done by his handlers has been exemplary, if only because they were trying to leverage this useful idiot into making their company greater than it could have been without his name attached to it. They had to do what they did from behind the scenes, completely hidden, in order for investors and other involved entities to not lose confidence.
What about the group that thinks they excel when working in their own curated, controlled environment?

Companies can probably get more out of average and below average people easily by forcing them into an office. That’s good enough for some companies to get by. And I say this as an average person who would get more done if I didn’t work remotely.
> Are you sure announcing layoffs hurts share prices?

I'm relatively sure losing people without severance and without WARN Act and similar notice issues, is easier on the financials for the same number of positions cut than the alternative.
The system placed us at the top
If the troll farms are responsible for online attacks on our civil liberties, why would they use themselves, troll farms, as the justification? I rather think the attacks on our freedom are being made by real people who are misguided about the tradeoffs between letting people speak when they are wrong, and making it easy for officials covering up misconduct.
> I am sympathetic to the reasons why orgs like banks want things like remote-device attestation

I'm not. I mean, I am in theory; being able to warn a user their device might have some sort of malware upon trying to log into a banking website is useful, but we've already seen how banks handle these things in practice with mobile devices having attestation capabilities.

The result is some banking apps refuse to run on my phone with a very up-to-date and definitely not compromised LineageOS, but will happily run on devices several years out of date. Google SafetyNet can tell that the bootloader is locked and the system partition hasn't been modified, but can't tell that some malware has gained root access by privilege escalation.

I don't want them doing that to their websites as well. This technology should not be let loose on the world.
From my experience, it does make it easier if you need to compare similar foods.

For example, I want to buy a yogurt with highest amount of protein. Serving sizes may vary between 150 and to 500gr. With standardized labels it is very easy task.

In my country we have calories listed for both 100g/container and nutrients are always listed for 100g and sometimes for full contaiber. I almost always use 100g part.
That I think gets more to the point that our housing economy is completely irrational.

Used to be, you could live close but maybe not the best neighborhood.

Now everything that's not some new exurb 1hr+ away from medium-large metros is insanely priced.
Exactly. They were the original resource as far back as the mid-90's. They originated SGML, HTML <3.0 .. 4.01, CSS, XML (XPath, XSLT), and so forth.

And yes, even VRML :)

https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/ HTML 2 (the wild west)

https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/ HTML 3.2

https://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/appendix/changes.html Diffs of HTML 3.2 -> 4

https://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/book4/ch02.html History of HTML until 3.2

https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ HTML 4

https://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/ Diffs of HTML 4 -> 5

https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/NOTE-html53-20210128/ HTML 5.3 (last version on W3C)

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/ HTML5.3+ (moved to whatwg)

https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/VRML/ Virtual Reality Markup Language
How is working from home able to replace daycare? That's a new one to me.
Why do they have to be designed?
Keep in mind I'm not talking about the popular definition of "terrorism". "Terroristic threat" is literally telling someone you are going to hurt them or someone else, and existed well before the events of 9/11. It is a crime punishable at the state level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terroristic_threat
I think bots are part of the public.
Huh? Was Hitler just the face of a large government? Like Hitler, Putin is directing the large government *that he controls* to commit horrendous war crimes.
https://archive.li/6vnq0
Yes.

Prosecute = criminal = prison

Sue = civil = damages (liability)

Edit: unless you are a pedantic ass. They use different definitions.
Tragic. Imagine the moment when making the decision to carry on while the cameraman stayed behind. Everyone's sympathy and priorities laid bare.

I don't blame anyone. Nobody should expect too much help in those kinds of situations.
His father having some level of involvement in FTX is indisputable, as he was a consultant to FTX. His mother's PAC also received a significant amount of funding from it, which certainly raises questions.

As far as nature vs nurture, consider this navel gazing 2013 essay by his mother ( https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/barbara-fried-beyond-blam... ) essentially arguing that criminal culpability is impossible because free will doesn't exist.
https://archive.is/6vnq0
“In the future, all restaurants are Taco Bell”
At this time (4h after posting) they've responded to almost every other question/comment except this one, so they've seen this question and chosen not to respond, which means the answer is bad - no tests.

I like the idea of a Vault alternative, but I won't use a security product in production that is not automatically tested for vulnerabilities and regressions.
x86 is two well organized behemoths designing chips (including the base designs for most motherboards).

On ARM, some SoC designers slap together IP blocks without fully understanding the implications. Not all SoC designers. But there are a lot out there, and not all have as high of standards as Intel and AMD.

IIRC, the PCIe implementation on the SolidRun Honeycomb is quite good and can be used with GPUs.
All of Adrian Goldsworthy‘s books.
There was plenty of dissent but it was censored on pretty much every platform.
"Common knowledge" went from, "haha tinfoils" to "of course they spy on everything". Kind of frustrating.
I have two sites that provide documentation for open source libraries I've created, and I definitely won't be blocking ChatGPT. It has already read my documentation and can correctly answer most StackOverflow-level questions about my libraries' use. This is seriously impressive and very helpful, as far as I'm concerned.
What’s this about Wireguard leaking metadata? That is the first time I’ve heard the protocol complained about.
To look and feel important. I worked for a company that moved to a building simply because the CEO wanted the sign to be seen from a major highway. My 20min commute would become 1 hour or more. I left upon hearing that rationale.
Glad to hear it. I agree it's well written. I was doing okay up until the co(ntra)variant tensor part. My brain is going to get a helluva workout trying to follow this. :-)
I wonder if it is better to shard by tenant (customer) in the first place. A bit more complexity upfront but not that
much really. Tenants could initially share a DB on different schemas.

YAGNI? But you could say that about a lot of things and this also gives you other options like releasing to a subset of customers (rolling release system like LTS etc.)

I work somewhere that has done this but for other driving reasons but it is a scalability dream. It is the web equivalent of desktop software running in Citrix! I haven’t seen anyone tune SQL in 4 years there whereas it has been a regular pastime everywhere else!

Yes you can’t do this for social networks but you can do it for most “customer with isolated clients”
type shops which is most companies.
I'm sure there's a benign explanation but it's interesting to see this story got downweighted hard. Compare the points and time since it was posted to others around it. Possibly because it's "AI" or because of the source?

Anyway, I posted the article, I didn't agree with a lot of it but I do agree with the main point that "existential risk" is a smokescreen that covers real issues. I'd argue that so is "bias" - people distract themselves analyzing if AI behaves differently across demographics as opposed to questioning how horrible the underlying process of algorithmically determining someone's fate is.
Some folklore tales attempt to teach moral lessons, but a pretty big fraction of them are pretty nihilistic: the "heroes" do some pretty horrible shit, and get away with it and even get praised for it.

In the case of the crop of cocks,the O.P. seems to think the farmer id being punished for his rudeness, but I think he's actually being rather polite. I think "I'm sowing cocks" is the delicate way of saying, "None of your Business, M[y] F[riend]."
Does anyone know (or can refer to) a reasonable definition of +,-,*,/,% (in their usual meanings) on rational numbers such that A op B always evaluates to a rational?

Given the usual definition of multiplication (and division as its inverse), this is not possible:

Assume some multiplicative inverse 0⁻¹ of 0 exists. Then, writing · for multiplication, since

a·0 = b·0

for all rational a and b, we have

a·0·0⁻¹ = b·0·0⁻¹

and therefore

a = b

for all rational a and b, which is absurd.
Are you talking about the M1 Extreme? This is extremely expensive, and I suspect the dual die GPU only works because of Metal.

TBH I prefer AMD's 7900 series approach of pushing the memory controller + cache out onto little memory controller dies. This allows for a monolithic GPU with a really wide bus, without all that wasted space on the controller/cache/pins. And those dies don't care about being split up since the memory access is interleaved anyway.
That is a hot take... ;)

But joins should never impact performance in a large way if they're on the same server and properly indexed. "It's truly amazing how much faster everything is when you eliminate joins" is just not true if you're using joins correctly. Sadly, many developers simply never bother to learn.

On the other hand, having to write a piece of data to 20 different spots instead of 1 is going to be dramatically slower performance-wise, not to mention make your queries tremendously more complex and bug-prone, when you remember to update a value in 18 spots but forget about 2 of them.

You mention cheap storage as an advantage for denormalizing, but storage is the least problem here. It's a vastly larger surface area for bugs, and terrible write performance (that can easily chew up read performance).
Better.com going public
Jujutsu was discussed recently - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36952796

IIRC it's inspired by Pijul and mercurial and uses git database underneath? or it's git-compatible at least.
Btw, since the thread is about both Samsung and SanDisk now, I can tell a personal experience with both regarding the same kind of issue.

I had the exact same problem with SanDisk as explained in The Verge article. I had it in January, before it became a known major issue, so I guess they were not prepared for that. However, the process was smooth enough, and I just filled a ticket with details, received a couple of questions, send it to their service center and received a new one later. It works fine now.

But I had a similar situation with Samsung SSD too, it died after a couple of months. But they made it impossible to replace it. The process is so bad that I was never able to get into any support for that case, and never received any meaningful response. So I just gave up eventually, so I guess I just donated few hundred dollars to Samsung.
Remember the Cray-1. It had no division instruction but could perform reciprocals. Division was performed as 1 reciprocal and 2 or 3 multiplications (depending on the precision needed). Thus division was only a little more complex than multiplication. (A reciprocal instruction took about twice the time of a multiply.)

See https://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/CRAY-1-HardRefMan/CRAY-1...

So really, it's tradition that division (which is needed relatively rarely) is not performed quickly in hardware. The old time versus silicon tradeoff strikes again - you can have it quick but it will be expensive, how much do you want it?

Re the original question - (almost) anything can be done in enough silicon. Both multiplication and division could be done as very fast "ROM" lookups, but that would use an enormous amount of silicon.
Why is a computer making loan decisions not better for almost everyone? Given enough information, it should be able to determine if the person taking out the loan can pay it back. That’s better for them and the bank.

Maybe it disadvantages the people who might succeed in spite of the data against them, but what percentage of those exist?
Would be fun to see the whole system going down because most nerds decide to quit all this shiny disneyworld of plastic and do weird tech things again.
> Who enforces electrical and network standards? Those don't require world police.

Most blocs have their own standards. Commonwealth countries follow one standard, EU countries another, North American engineering standards are not the same as Japanese ones.
There are vast swaths of devs who are not aware people still use mailing lists, nor that git has first class support for applying patches from emails.
And that's why I disñike CLA.
Company pleaded guilty to three felonies but no officers/directors were ever charged.
Is energica really the leader in electric motorcycle sales? I couldnt find any stats but Ive definitely seen some zero bikes on the road and Ive never seen an energica in person
So go see the Hermitage. You probably need to spend more for the visa and transit through Turkey or Egypt, but odds are you aren't significant enough on the world stage to get picked up and harrassed for it. There's always been a split between what Putin is doing in his little tower in the Kremlin and what a normal person is doing walking through Kolomenskoye Park.
That’s awesome …. I’ve gotta remember this when our PO’s want to add things that have absolutely no business being in our software…
I have one that has the FTX ad on one side and on the other side says "In hindsight, it was inevitable."
This is inaccurate; civil cases are also prosecuted. E.g., from the California Rules of Court, which defines a “civil case” by its prosecution:

"Civil case" means a case prosecuted by one party against another for the declaration, enforcement, or protection of a right or the redress or prevention of a wrong.

https://www.courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index.cfm?title=one&link...
You’re the only person claiming this, Snowden himself has said the opposite in 2014, on record.
Doesn't D+D just yield 4He (and no neutrons) though?
It's hard to say. If you asked people this question in 2011-2016, almost all of their guesses would be wrong.

I think it's safe to assume there will be a market for both remote and in-office work. Pre-pandemic I was doing remote jobs, and now post RTO I'm still remote. FAANG and F500 workers are at the mercy of their management, but I don't trust those trends to reflect the "future of work" or what have you.
I think about this whenever a product lead talks about planning something, dumping it on the dev team, and saying it's the dev team's responsibility to figure out how to implement it. No wonder the part of the company that does this has a very contentious relationship with their product team and is overly oriented around metrics, having to constantly fight for resources and prove they don't have the bandwidth to take on projects.

Meanwhile our side of the org has a much more collaborative relationship with our product team. We have our issues for sure, but our relationships are sound. The feedback loop is tight and product pushes back on things as much as the dev team does. Product works with the dev team to figure out what we can do and stays with us to the end. There's much less tossing things over the fence and everybody seems happier.
> To the extent that there is a freedom of speech it is exactly a freedom from government imposed consequences for that speech.

Employees of the government are regularly punished for revealing secrets of the government. Threats to others by private citizens are also punishable by the government.

> OTOH, being arrested for a crime pending trial, even when released on bail, involves a loss of liberty (with due process of law), and that can include, insofar as is necessary for the administration of justice, limits on free speech.

Correct, in the same sense that felons can lose their 2nd amendment (and others, such as voting) rights.
I think you mean scribes right? But yes, occupational obsolescence is a risk, and I think it’s reasonable to worry about at a macro scale. The luddites weren’t wrong, their jobs did go away and it was very bad for them.

Large parts of the US underwent systemic obsolescence when their jobs were shipped overseas. At a societal level, that has been a disaster. Deaths of despair have skyrocketed. Retraining is expensive and often unsuccessful.

Automation threatens many industries at a global level, and much faster than on a time scale of decades. What will happen when large parts of the Chinese economy become unemployed due to robotics? It probably won’t be great.

So the question is who will reap the benefits of these “genuine improvements”? This is a question every society needs to answer for themselves.
Like fuzz testing with nature
Sounds like someone may have thought the code for Headscale "coordination" server was higher quality than the code for Tailscale "coordination" server. If the later needed to be "cleaned up". Maybe there were things in that code Tailscale did not want the public to see.

Funny how Wireguard's original pitch was that it was smaller and simpler than OpenVPN or other alternatives. Now people are commercialising some complex GUI on top of it. More "features" on a steady basis. Some of them might be closed source but pay no mind. "Worse is better".
Lotus notes is wide… I imagine their scope creep checker was just a sticky note that said Absolutely!!
Tesla makes their service manuals available for free (you need to sign in and subscribe, but it’s free and didn’t require a payment method for me.)

https://service.tesla.com/
And that this is not just a minor niche use case, "the largest and oldest Git project that is, Linux, uses a mailing list and patch files to develop."
No, its not. See, e.g., most of my post history.

Sometimes, OTOH, completely moronic ideas are offered without any support, and without it, contradiction is all they warrant.
Butterfly Theory
Public statements about productivity are rarely negative. No one wants to hire a business with lazy workers who might not fulfill their contract. So public statements have to be positive.
You are promoting FOMO.
In enterprise clients you commonly run into issues where the company thinks you have to save all data forever. Very often this runs in a pattern where the application is lightly used a first then uptake increases over time. Then you run into the slowness issue. They typically expand DB sizing, bit eventually run into the problem where archiving is needed. This can be a huge problem when it's an after thought instead of a primary design. All kinds of fun when you have key relationships between different tablea.
Putin has spent over two decades building "the vertical of power" - he's at the top, and all the power goes through him. So, yes, he's the face. He's also the unquestioned decisionmaker. He does not exist in isolation - there are people who carry out his decisions - but they're his decisions.
I dunno, James Mickens has an odd type of poetic style that’s hard to imagine being employed a century ago.
Sounds like we're just reinventing B-trees.
Then you missed them or looked at the wrong blog entry tags or something. Over the past 3 years, I wouldn't be suprised if it added up to 100 new changes/features in Docs alone (not including Sheets etc.). There's generally 2-3 new things per month.

Here, go nuts:

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%...
Politics is fundamentally the art of convincing people of things - usually “vote for me.” That is the only skill that acquisition of high office is evidence of. Many politicians have more skills than just than that, but the mere fact of having acquired high office tells you nothing more about a person than that they’re particularly good at politics.
When Someone Tells You They're Lying, Believe Them
I think I still have mine somewhere.
If your point is causality exists, okay.

If your point is that the 1st amendment is an absolute freedom of speech, you couldn't be more wrong.
> Google's hallowed SRE system was developed by an engineer who had come up through the ranks of Navy nuclear power

Wait, really? That makes _so much sense._ It also makes me upset that all of my attempts to sway other SRE orgs over to Nuclear Navy practices have been met with doubt.

- ex nuke submariner
Why do you have tasks that take more than a single sprint? Those should be epics made up of smaller tasks. No dev should be working on a single task like that. That’s probably why they aren’t picking them up…
s/Flipps/Flippa/
This is the wrong take. There was science on both sides. The side that "wins" has the political backing. More news organizations need to back of the politics and debate the science.
I miss notes - it was really a better way to organize companies than anything later. Historical valuable data, records of why decisions were made, ephemeral email like things but for groups, user programmable if it didn't quite match your needs, robust encryption, it had it all.
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The Consequence that is Plastiglomerate