skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why a cancer scare around aspartame is mostly unfounded
Can people from other countries opt for this bank account?
Karl Popper discusses "unlimited tolerance" which literally no one is demanding. With very very few exceptions, we all accept limitations on speech. We have specific exemptions to free speech like incitements to violence for this reason.

Popper also states: "I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise." He only recommends such an extreme action when all else has failed and we're up against "fists and pistols". When hate groups are committing acts of violence (not just acts of speech), the US is certainly not sitting around tolerating that behavior.
> Separately, the 2 fast threads and the 64 slow threads are very similar with older CPUs or GPUs, but their combination into a single core with shared scratchpad memory and cache memories is novel.

Getting some Cell[1] vibes from that, except in reverse I guess.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(processor)
> scrum is too much

Surely scrum is too little? Most lowercase-a agile people consider it more of a stepping stone into agile.
Science is always taken with salt!

More seriously - science produces contingent knowledge. Even the results of the LHC are to be taken with some salt because although the greatest and most honest minds of our generation work on them they likely won't ever be independently replicated.

All scientific knowledge has some doubt attached to it - after all, it's not maths!
I recall a theory that we do it because of our arboreal lineage. When apes moved into the trees to get away from predators, they would often carry things in their mouth (using their tongue to hold them) so leaving their forelimbs free for tree swinging. Hence the connection - if the hands are occupied, the tongue comes out.
thanks! there's something magic about LLMs running code, I think.
It should be mentioned that some intelligence agencies have an involvement in extremist groups. Like the Soviet Union supported urban guerillas in the west or Russia dumping its Neonazis (who happened to kill Kremlin-critical journalists) into the Ukraine. With them then purposefully spreading stuff like Christchurch manifest translations through people involved with Azov to pump their "international far right" image.

Trying to solve that problem through attempts to quell public discourse and dictate limits of conversation are misguided and self destructive. Its a race to the bottom as a byproduct of short term power politics. Its not like western actors arent also doing it, strategy of tension in Italy for example. Having a bogey man can be quite beneficial.

There being a communication channel with reduced moderation is hardly the root cause. I would argue its quite the contrary, the heavier you get involved in controlling discourse, the easier it becomes to saw tension.

edit: As an example

>Russia dumping its Neonazis (who happened to kill Kremlin-critical journalists) into the Ukraine

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/02/15/def...

>In an interview published by Azov’s online podcast in May 2015, Korotkih fawned over the Islamic State, and compared the Azov Regiment to the group.

>“I can’t accept ISIS ideology but they’re awesome in what they do. I enjoy their movies very much. I drool over what’s going on in the territories they control”, Korotkih proclaimed during the interview (00:32:45 into the interview), in which he also characterized ISIS as “heroes of that time.”

You might know him as the head of paramilitary training of the NSO in Ross Kemps visit to Moscow. With the NSO likely being part of the same Vladislav Surkov project as BORN.
https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/russian-neonazi-ilya-go...

Sergei Korotkikh and the NSO and FSB
https://www.ft.com/content/21553438-fcda-11df-ae2d-00144feab...

Ross Kemp (introduction in the gym to the NSO in the first few minutes. In case you watch it, the badly faked videos they made were a cover for the police to not investigate attacks on migrant workers. Tesak grew a concision in prison and got tortured and executed through "suicide".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv1q3pCfed0

Before Tesak was famously used as a bogeyman for Russia's liberal opposition when he came to a book club where Navalny held a discussion.
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Wow, people really hate Pinterest (the top 6 blocked domains are all pinterest).

I wonder if this data could be fed into an algorithm to lead to better search results overall. I guess it could be easily abused but it appears whatever is current used to determine rankings (backlinks still?) is easily abused.
https://archive.is/6VWY3
Top 10 most-blocked domains:

1. pinterest.com

2. pinterest.co.uk

3. pinterest.ca

4. pinterest.de

5. pinterest.fr

6. pinterest.com.au

7. facebook.com

8. pinterest.es

9. foxnews.com

10. w3schools.com
You're just doing Russell conjugation.
> Cars have no right to a minimum speed on surface streets

Generally no one has a right to any specific minimum speed, but most states do have laws against impeding the normal flow of traffic [1].

[1] https://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/traffic-tickets/impedin...
Moderation can be good, but only in moderation.
Disease X is the placeholder name for a hypothetical pandemic caused by a yet-unknown virus.But is it possible to preempt a disease that has yet to exist with an all-in-one-vaccine?
Maybe the machines the poster on Reddit saw/dealt with were modified, Carpigiani is Italian[1], so while it is well possible that some settings are not translated from Italian to English, it is unlikely that they were "natively" in German.

[1] Specifically from Emilia Romagna, not far from Ravenna, i.e. it is not the case of a bi-lingual Italian/German region such as Trentino Alto Adige.
Sure time estimation in developmentprojects is hard (impossible?), but thats hard in both waterfall and agile or whatever.

But the often used CER -> PDR -> CDR -> TRR etc. is damn useful.
Insulting is already a criminal offence, so it makes sense.
You are not asking for help. The comments on your critique are patient, and explain how to look at things different. Just because people disagree, does not mean they 'attack's you.

Honestly, your critiques seem more like opinions. The comments are pretty spot on that these are not issues. Your perspective on the default data types is off though. This is not an attack. I simply disagree with you descriptions and opinions.
Also the person the quote is attributed had some abhorrent views most people who share them have the good sense to only vaguely alude to through veiled references to Ayn Rand and questionable race science articles. He was not exactly a defender of democracy and equal rights.
Skip your flaky tests should be a religion. There's nothing else I feel as strongly about regarding CI optimization. If a test is flaky, it gets immediately skipped. Even if you're working on a fix, it's skipped until you solve it, if you ever do. Most of your CI problems can start to be solved by applying this simple rule.

How do you know if it's flaky? You keep a count and any time a test fails/recovers 3 times it gets skipped, even if there's weeks between failures. You can make it more complex for little gain, but I've found this system will have teams actually prioritize fixing important tests, but mostly it has proven that many "important tests to keep even if they are flaky" never were actually important or end up getting re-written in different ways later on.
Have we already forgotten the McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit? If someone’s kid died from listeria after eating McDonald’s ice cream the lawsuit would make national news. It would destroy their reputation and cost a ton of money in damages!
Thankfully we already have laws against lynchings and genocide so there is no reason to violate the ideals of freedom of speech. If anyone is doing either of those things we can (and absolutely should) throw the book at them.
Break the project up into clear deliverables. Charge for delivering, not for the entire project, and not by the hour. At every step the client can see real progress and you have something tangible to bill for.

I have freelanced for 15 years, never had a client refuse to pay. Big companies with bureaucratic payables systems can take time to pay, you have to anticipate that, typically net 30 days.

Retainer arrangements also work well if you have a long-term relationship with the client. You get into their payables system as a recurring fixed cost, rather than an irregular invoiced amount.
Why do I feel like I read this before? Did you comment the same somewhere else
Coming to Python from PHP it was interesting to see that in the PHP world I'd get 80% of my knowledge from the PHP documentation and 20% elsewhere. In the Python world it's easily the other way around. It also doesn't help that the PHP documentation is more up to date so I am using the most current info, while for Python their own docs are so bad I rely on other docs but they all vary on what version of Python it depends on and whether it follows current best practice. The difference is night and day and one of the reason I ended up going back to PHP.
Python had a huge head start. It was already one of the most used scripting languages by the late 90s and Ruby barely even existed outside of Japan.

Ruby’s beginner-friendliness and consistent OO design managed to help it expand in the early aughts and Rails brought the language to prominence in 2005, but by that time Python was already replacing Perl in its niche and had support from giants like Google.

Ruby got more adoption than would have been predicted based on its late entrance and lack of truly differentiating features, and that’s a credit to its ergonomics, community and how easy it is to learn.
The trackpad on my 2014 Retina isn't very good compared to my M1. The old one took a lot of force and was physical wereas the new one is using their haptic engine.
> I hate that Ramaswamy made that suggestion in such an embarrassing, conversation-poisoning way

Are you talking about his "failed Civics 101" gaffe re: historical ordering of Constitution and Revolution?
That just means you have a shit management culture that values lies about deadlines over the type of honesty that builds profitable products.
Intentionally insulting someone already is a crime under German law, so the only real question is why deadnaming is not already covered?

And these kinds of laws also exist in more extreme "free-speech" countries like the United States (where the guarantee of free speech doesn't cover, for example, libel).
The real trouble with disagree and commit comes where it's the manager/leadership pushing ideas that are gonna cause problems.

Ultimately, if you need to exercise your management authority about stuff that your reports are doing that's a time-limited move, as too much of this will lead to reports just doing exactly what they're told, which is the kiss of death if you want to build good stuff quickly.
In this particular case there is still something else: the author doing a series of quite similar studies with relatively little impact so that even if everything they did turns out fake, nobody cares. It's the exact opposite of the conclusion of the famous speech "You and Your Research".
How can you achieve any level of security and safety with un-trusted cooperative apps? Any app can get hold of the CPU for an indefinite amount of time, possibly stalling the kernel and other apps. There's a reason we are using OS-es with preemptive scheduling - any misbehaving app can be interrupted without compromising the rest of the system.
Fixed that: "That should not [need to] be a criminal offence."

Much like many other things. But, alas, we do not yet live in a world where people treat each other with even the simplest basic respect and we have to force the issue via laws.
I think it was to provide an indication that the password was correct at a glance. (IIRC the number of dots in the password field was also generated, so it didn't necessarily match the number of chars)

The image was essentially a simple checksum. Each user would eventually memorise which icon was "theirs".
Problem for nuclear is an AP1000 costs 15 billion and takes ten years to build.

For 15 billion you could install solar that would produce 4X the energy per year. And build it in three years.
While 'commoditizing your complements' is one of their strategies. I think it also helps them attract top-tier talent, as who doesn't want the whole world to see and use your cutting-edge developments.
> But that was achieved by doing specific research (clinical trials, followup investigations and investigations into chemical mechanisms) which is totally unrelated to psychology.

A lot of psychiatric medications are not well understood, not the chemical pathways, not the chemical mechanisms, some of them just "work" for some people, some people require a different one, and we don't know exactly why. In that sense it's not too different from talk therapy, we know that some work but I don't think we know exactly why.
> the EFF explicitly calls out the government for failing to enforce existing laws which would have shut down Kiwifarms

Eh, maybe, but don't most of these laws mostly fail to work across international borders anyway?

I mean, I haven't seen many cryptolocker authors appearing before US courts. And wikileaks remains online despite the best efforts of US authorities.

Surely anything that could shut down or block kiwifarms could do the same to wikileaks and pirate bay and sci-hub?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/30/radical-...

Dismissing SRM technology, Prof Joeri Rogelj of Imperial College, London, called it “irresponsible, dangerous and a threat to the manageability” of our survival, saying: “It is not a solution but an extremely dangerous band-aid that covers up the global warming problem without healing it, creating a false and unwarranted sense of climate safety while the core of the problem continues to fester.”

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-viewpoint-guardrails-geoengine...

Without more research and guardrails, geoengineering is a costly gamble, with potentially harmful results
I'm doing scrum and waterfall at the moment, customers are saying why is it costing so much? Managers are saying we're agile :-D what fun. We have design docs and requirements docs and epics and scrum masters and devops etc etc
Does it basically mean "don't compare because it's different"?
> I think most of those things are EU initiatives

no, only the mandated banking API (which is impossible to get access to if you're a startup or an individual)
Friend, I have worked in advertising. The entire industry hinges on humans acting irrationally in regard to money. Humans are irrational actors. The rational homo economicus is an abstraction to give economists something to work with.

Corporations act somewhat rationally in aggregate only because the people in charge of them are bound to do so by law. And even this breaks down when the corporation is directly run by one person who also owns it.

"Market participants" is not what we're talking about. "Market participants" includes corporations and other forms of organizations that impose strict controls on their own behavior. We're talking about humans. And humans are very irrational. They're just also very good at rationalizing their irrational behavior and prefer doing things they can rationalize.
> we will no longer support the anonymous creation of rooms on meet.jit.si, and will require the use of an account

if I understand correctly the creator of the meeting needs to have an account but other people can still join without it?
I cannot really understand the use of this vexl app, but if it is about:

> At the Vexl Foundation, we sponsor projects that promote and enable personal and financial freedoms and self-determination. Bitcoin is the ultimate tool of this mission and we spent countless resources trying to give back and preserve its very nature: a peer-to-peer version of an electronic cash that enables payments without going through a financial institution.

it is "buying Biotcoins in cash outside a financial institution" that Apple reviewers deemed "reckless", not using cash "per se".
Moderation and censorship are two very different things.

Also, trusting the government is silly. It has a lot of opportunities to call any speech harmful to state policies as 'hate speech', 'misinformation', etc. - and before long you could find your country turned into a authoritarian failed state like Russia.
Website host is not a utility. ISP is a utility. Having an ISP, much like having mail service, should always be possible for everyone.

I think website hosts should be able to drop people for most reasons, but that's not what's happening here
Sure. So, my startup[1] does data processing for clients in aviation and finance. Due to security, legal, and regulatory requirements, sending our code on to a third party (e.g., OpenAI) is a no-go. Thanks to CodeLlama (the WizardCoder fine-tune), I've finally been able to get AI assistance with my code.

My fundamental programming skills are solid (30+ years programming!), but I only started using Python extensively relatively recently. I can get the language to do what I want it to do—but often not in the most "Pythonic" way. With CodeLlama, I'm able to check if I've done things in the "right" way, and I'm also able to ask questions when I'm trying to figure out how to implement something.

As mentioned above, I cannot use GPT-4 for my startup, but I have used it for personal stuff. My feel so far is that wizardcoder-python-34b is surprisingly good. I certainly haven't thought "oh, I wish I had GPT-4 instead"—at least, not yet! (I haven't used Copilot either, for the same reasons listed above.)

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You'll get human rights regardless of your political ideas, not a free pass to commit crimes.

Say, instead of be denied of water, you'll get to face justice without your life being at risk nor you being deprived of essential rights.

Just imagine drinking water is like carrying guns ;)
Yes youre missihg something, SC on slower disks (even ssds) sucks it needs to be on an NvME drive for best performance

It fails to load geomoetry on slower disks sometimes, i.e. insides of an elevtator which causes the player to clip through and the game tries to compenstate and cause funky reactions.
> What are the kinds of challenges to write things efficiently?

The challenge is mostly that you have to create enough fine-grained parallelism and that per thread performance is relatively low. Amdahl's law is in full effect here, a sequential part is going to bite you hard. That's why each die on this chip has two sequential-performance cores.

The graph problems this processor is designed to handle have plenty of parallelism and most of the time those threads will be waiting for (uncached) 8B DRAM accesses.

> From skimming Wikipedia, it looks like a big challenge is cache pollution

This processor has tiny caches and the programmer decides which accesses are cached. In practice, you cache the thread's stack and do all the large graph accesses un-cached, letting the barrel processor hide the latency. There are very fast scratchpads on this thing for when you do need to exploit locality.
The main thing missing is sudoedit equivalent. That replaces doas vi which is a security whole
This certainly just made me more confused.
This construction is something my French friend often does in English instead of using a possessive—the <property> of <thing>.

As a native speaker of English, I’d just say, “if mylist’s length is more than 10”.
>Test configurations on the public roadways make everyone around the vehicle an unwilling participant in that testing configuration.

Why do people fail/refuse to grasp this really simple thing?
The Paradox of tolerance doesn't mean what you think it does. It talks about "unlimited tolerance" which already doesn't exist under law or the first amendment. We have many restrictions on freedom of speech, such as incitements to violence.

The author also states explicitly that his words shouldn't be used to "suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument" and that such extreme action should be reserved for situations where all else has failed and we're up against "fists or pistols"

Violence, not words, is the problem. Thankfully we're not tolerating their violence.
for what i recall, the actual messages on whatsapp are end-to-end encrypted, metadata and attachments are not. It is just another mass data gathering service
None of them have the graphic fidelity or immersion that remotely close, it has no space ship interiors or seemless atmospheric entry. Nor the future potential scope of engineering ships etc..

Starcitizen is probably one of the most technologicaly advanced games out there currently barring something rockstar produces in the near future.

You're just ignorant.
If they choose to enter a utility market, yes.

They can leave the market at any time, but ISPs should not be making these choices.
DRAM is the new I/O. So yes, this is designed to handle 97% of the threads doing constant bad-locality DRAM accesses.
FBI operation tricked computers infected by Qakbot to uninstalling it
So not knowing either company, is IncogNet and CrunchBits related companies in some way? I ask because the article just talks about Crunchbits, which I didn't know about. I tried to look looking up CrunchBits, but that's not really possible on Bing based search engines.

There are a few links to reviews, but the Crunchbits website seems to have scrubbed from Bing.
Original commenter mentions he did it standing up.
I disagree about extensive validating of email addresses. This is why: https://davidcel.is/articles/stop-validating-email-addresses...
People should read Royce's paper that popularised Waterfall. It has iterations, sadly it appears most people stopped reading after Figure 2.

https://www.praxisframework.org/files/royce1970.pdf
This is it, I distinctly recall a reading a paper defining Waterfall as a thought exercise, with the author coming back years later to clarify that there can never be such a thing in software development. The Wikipedia article for "Waterfall model" mentions something like that as well. As an old teacher used to say, "There's no such thing as a Waterfall model, it was your parents all along. All software development is iterative."
If I understand the article correctly, the author offers SLOs as a way to pressure the management to allocate resources to fix CI problems. This would work under assumption that the management has resources to spare or would be able to divert those resources from other departments towards fixing CI problems.

And, sometimes this will probably work. But, I can easily imagine a situation where I, as a CI personnel come to my manager and tell her that we've burned past our 87% SLO objective, and get an immediate response that starting today our SLO objective is 77%.

In my experience, QA (and therefore CI tests) are the first chunk of the budget allocated to overall development that is being subtracted from if any subtraction is to take place. Very few companies bet on the quality of their software as a sale's driver. Most will probably fire the whole QA department and throw away all tests, if times were tough instead of trying to allocate more resources to software quality when hitting some percentage of test failures.