skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are they using to benchmark single-threaded performance? I don't think it's good to state that without clarifying what is the task being run. You could have a benchmark that increments a number in register. Since add/increment runs in a single clock, a high frequency CPU (Pentium 4 at 3.8Ghz?) would win over a wide core with great memory bandwidth (M2 at 3.7Ghz). Technically, that's a greater single thread performance, but not really applicable to the real world.

If it's over a variety of tasks and/or in a task that's similar to real world computation, kudos to them!
Aren't there more incidents with Tesla? Where's a similar statement for Tesla?
With circuit design you have OR gates and AND gates and NOT gates. However you can program everything with only NAND gates because with that gate you can express all other gates.

Ultimately though using universal NAND gates is a convenience of manufacturing and not comprehension. Just imagine if we replace all of our Boolean operators with an equivalent NAND and then only use that. Probably not the most readable code.

OOP has one trick: dynamic dispatch. Which corresponds to logical existential operator.

You could also have product (structures ... depending on if you consider getters and setters proper OO then maybe it has this), sum (sum types and discriminated unions), implication (anon functions), and universal (generics).

Yeah technically you can simulate everything with dynamic dispatch but then you kind of end up with a mess.
Resistless EUV lithography: Photon-induced oxide patterning on silicon
I learned how to program by working on a modest simulation for one of the PIs involved with IceCube. I ended up leaving academia but I really enjoy keeping up with the project over the years.
RustPython for DOS

This uses https://github.com/turbolent/w2c2 to convert RustPython,
built for the wasm32-wasi platform, to C89, which is then compiled with DJGPP and linked to the w2c2 wasi runtime library.
rustpython-nofreeze.exe is built without the freeze-stdlib feature, so it does not have the stdlib.
rustpython-freeze.exe is built with freeze-stdlib, so the standard library is there and usable.
Both need CWSDPMI.EXE, to provide the 32-bit runtime.
Cruise Self-Driving License Revoked After It Withheld Pedestrian Injury Footage
LOL, that's almost exactly how it went down
Just geekbench, not much else.
How are they clever? Their core product AI chips seem OK, but why the sudden bet on RISC-V. And Jim Keller even puts out some ridiculous statements about RISC-V taking over the data center in 5 to 10 years. To me they seem to be losing focus, or maybe it's that their core products won't be as good as expected so they had to come out with all kinda hype driven stuff to pull in more investments.
Can someone tell me when to use Uint8Array vs ArrayBuffer in my method signatures?

Like, I would think that replaces a lot of Buffer usage....but the articles mentions it exactly zero times.
Ys, you can sue anyone at any time for any thing, but you have to actually show cause, show harm, show standing, show breach of contract, etc.

So you sue me. I said I fulfilled all of my obligations according to the contract and since the fault was with a third party you knew I already trusted, I get your case thrown out because I can demonstrate you knew this was a risk, and agreed to hold me harmless in the case of a third party breach beyond my control. Or, I settle/lose and I or my insurance company then go after Okta for my losses.
Sudafed (edit: also) makes (or at least made) products with phenylephrine, the useless drug in question. Those products don't contain pseudoephedrine, which can indeed be used as a precursor to making meth.

Edit: I did not say that Sudafed did not also make products containing pseudoephedrine. They do, obviously, it's where their name comes from. They just also make products with useless phenylephrine.
This reminds me of NTK.
And this means we're going to have an easier time buying the stuff that works...right?

...right?
as if it's only a problem in Missouri. what ever gripe you have is totally useless here.
I tested it for fun, if you sign up for Ralphs, it sorta works till you hit the 200 coupon limit and then it goes a little wonky. Give it a try and I think you will see the bugs.
That's why the Bitcoin and Ethereum crowd trust the Koblitz curves like secp256k1 instead of secp256r1 which is the only curve that is in widespread use in browsers, operating systems, secure enclaves etc.

The k1 curve has parameters like 15, whereas the "standard" one has curves with parameters chosen as an "arbitrary" number in the billions for some reason. People believe the NSA may have iterated through the previous ones until they found a vulnerable curve, and NIST recommended that. Take a look:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/this-researcher-says-bitcoins...

“(1) The Koblitz curve is specially designed for faster scalar multiplications. Hence the (signing, verifying and key generation) operations on Secp256k1 are faster than those on Secp256r1. (2) Although the Secp256r1 curve was announced to be randomly selected, there could still exist some suspicion that some backdoor might be secretly set up in the curve parameters. In contrast, the Koblitz curve parameters are mathematically determined, and there is little possibility for setting such a backdoor.”

However, given the prevalence of the r1 curve, Ethereum devs might want to add a precompiled contract so that people can sign into the blockchain without trusting web sites and wallet software:

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-7212-precompiled-for-se...

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/256088/is-the-e...
So my big takeaway from this is to never email a government official or agency if at all possible, because that’s how you end up on spam lists via FOIA.
People taking it upon themselves to talk up a brand is the opposite of astroturfing, not pseudo-astroturfing.
Replace buffer in your example with plain object or just array - that rest of it still stands, right?

There's something other at play:

> buffers expose private information through global variables, a potential security risk.

This links to following piece of code [1]:

> // Somewhere in your code

> const privateBuf = Buffer.from(privateKey, 'hex');

> // Rogue package can access

> Buffer.from('1').buffer

I've just run it in node, and my god am I shocked!

> const privateBuf = Buffer.from('DEADBEEF', 'hex');

> Buffer.from('1').buffer

> ArrayBuffer {
[Uint8Contents]: <2f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 de ad be ef 00 > ....

[1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/41588#issuecomment-101...
This makes sense, although I think that as the edge cases get rarer and rarer it’ll be a tossup whether a human could have reacted better.
If I remember correctly, the first version of coffee script was quite sane, but the second version was completely different, and IMNHO much worse?

I think the initial version was a moderate enhancement on js, fixing some things like global scope etc?
https://archive.ph/ePjBp

Houston Chronicle has previously committed to releasing articles circulating social media from the paywall, but I guess we aren’t big enough.

The guy that runs their website probably posts here, too…
The thing is we aren't doing those things. Maybe its because we don't want to, maybe its because we can't. My point is let's not add advanced robotics to the things we can't or won't do: There is a future where 40k automotive deaths/year becomes closer to 40 on the back of self-driving cars, but we can't get to that future[1] with the current level of risk tolerance.

[1]And getting there slower has the opportunity cost of surplus deaths at the current rate minus the terminal rate - a year delay to that future costs 39,960 lives. (A year delay to ubiquitous public transport does as well ofc.)
Tesla just announced 500 million miles driven by FSD [1]. Per the video, were it fully autonomous they could have a 95% CI on "safer than human" at only 275 million miles [2], but obviously having human supervision ought to remove many of the worst incidents from the dataset. Does anyone know if they publish disengagement data?

[1] https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/...

[2] https://youtu.be/yaYER2M8dcs?t=477
How does "Summerization" work? Cuneiform?
if you get distracted staring at the guy pooping on the sidewalk then you won't see the guy who's trying to hurt you
> Many times, if the case is weak, or not enforceable, a judge will not sign to execute the warrant or said people that want to search will not try to get one (either knowing it wont be granted or it would be denied.)

Absolutely. Demanding a warrant is your protection against a weak case. But in this particular case, OP has already told authorities that they possessed contraband. The authorities already have everything they need to exercise a warrant. So insisting on one here is the exact opposite protection.

Again, OP was smart and worked with a lawyer to deescalate.
`git diff --word-diff` has something close to this and it’s really nice.
From a human-computer interaction standpoint you do raise a fair point.

Even if in reality the AI misses _considerably more_ than that, there's a good argument to be made that such hints may steer the human from their initial, correct assumptions, or even reasoning.
Not going to happen. All the tech working groups in the foundation report up through Yunsup who's the benevolent tech dictator for life. Changing the spec wouldn't go through without his approval. And compressed instructions check a check box in the low end cores SiFive is selling. Code density is pretty crappy otherwise. Or at least it's crappy compared to 8051s which is where they're competing against in some corners. The low-end RV16 or RV32 are a little more competitive against Cortex M0/3/4s, but even then only when you have the compressed instruction extension.
Nope, you are correct, I completely over-looked the "campaigning". Campaigning is actually supposed to be kept very separate from civic business. Updating my comment.
Also Samuel Johnson "A second marriage is a triumph of hope over experience."

totally unrelated but still, heard this recently ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lend our car, pay people to cause damages, inflate damages, collect cheque.
For small microcontrollers you can just buy modern radiation tolerant chips from e.g. microchip for about $2000 or so per unit, but you need a certain expertise to select the other components you need and design/qualify. Or you can any one of dozens of different cubesat cpu boards, which typically have COTS components and has gone through radiation screening (which is way more work than "nuking under a beam"). These are typically sold for cubesats, but don't meet the requirements for qualification and documentation that is required for an ESA or NASA-related project beyond a cubesat.

There are the famous "old as hell" rad-hard powerPCs which cost $200k, used for historical reasons or extreme environments like a fly-by of Venus. It's true that older chips may be inherently more radiation tolerant due to larger features on the silicon but it's a misconception that CPUs used in space are therefore always old as hell. These are usually selected because they are good enough and to reuse design and qualification from a previous project instead of spending millions and ten person-years on a new design.

But commercial spacecraft these days usually use something like this[1] triple-redundant 50MHz softcpu implemented on an FPGA or this[2] Ultrascale ~1Ghz SOC protected by a secret sauce of separate FPGA for watchdog and overcurrent detection. Both are modern, run linux and use modern development environments/tools. The former is slower but can recover upsets in realtime, while the latter is much faster but needs to reset itself to recover at least some types of upsets.

[1] https://www.aac-clyde.space/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/AAC_D...

[2] https://xiphos.com/product-details/q8
UNRWA is the label for multiple issues related to Palestinian refugees, including the right to return. Yes, they have everything to do with it. The sole purpose of this organization is to deal with Palestinian refugees, which UN made a special case, separate from all other refugees. It's literally called "United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East". Does it sound like they have nothing to do with Palestinian refugees?

I mean, unironically, UN is full of b/s and nonsense. W/o specific knowledge of this organization, I'd say they might have been unrelated to Palestinian refugees, despite their name... but they are not.

Did their officials create the disaster in Palestine themselves (including the right of return)? -- No, they are too dumb to accomplish anything of such magnitude. Best they can do is organize soccer games in refugee camps, you know, instead of providing decent accommodations / healthcare / teaching useful skills or language etc. That's their MO: being totally useless and sometimes harmful through sheer stupidity.

But they are the UN's implementation of UN's policies, including the right of return. Whenever any Israeli talks about UNRWA, they don't mean the worthless soccer games and photo-ops with underage starving refugees. They mean UN policies represented by this organization.

> Oslo accords

That ship sailed long time ago. At the time, there was a hope that Palestinians could self-govern and become a responsible country. Today, Gaza to a larger degree, but West Bank is trailing not to far behind, are sliding into the same condition where Syria and Lebanon are: a "failed state". A plot of land ran by gangs of terrorists. Thanks Iran, mostly. But stupidity of various international organizations duped into supporting and financing terrorists in these lands might be a close second.

I've heard Macron is pushing towards anti-ISIS coalition taking control of Gaza after the purge of Hamas. Of all plans I've heard so far for Gaza, this is the best way forward IMO.

> a nation who violently fought for its right to existence would deny the same right to another.

Read it again. I said temporary. Gaza and West Bank today are unsalvageable w/o international intervention. If they want to not die out / devolve into a shooting range where everyone and their uncle test new weapons, they need to accept a foreign rule. Nobody's denying them existence. Much in the same way how post-WW2 government of Germany and Japan didn't try to kill off Germans or Japanese.
"situational awareness" walking around places like skid row or the tenderloin is exactly not paying attention to the normal (for the area) things going on that aren't a threat, like a guy pooping on the sidewalk
> Isn't that one of the ingredients in meth?

Not an ingredient -- a precursor. Methamphetamine, pseudoephedrine and and phenylephrine are very closely related:

https://cen.acs.org/content/dam/cen/83/13/8313govpol1imgs.gi...

To convert pseudoephedrine to meth you have to remove a hydroxyl (-OH) group in a way that leaves the resulting molecule in a specific isomer. Doing this at high yield is challenging, but it turns out that if you're willing to live with lots of horrible impurities, you can do it in a cola bottle. PE has the same structure as pseudoephedrine, but in a different isomer, so it cannot be converted with the simple approaches.

Unfortunately, PE is also useless for decongestion, because -- surprise! -- the isomer matters a lot for effectiveness.
CertWatch: MitM Monitoring for XMPP
I hope people understand that their profits come as a result of monopolistic abuse and pitting advertisement buyers against each other in a bidding war.

We are all paying into Google coffers a tiny bit.

Maybe it's not a zero-sum game, but it's not an unlimited-sum game either. Google is doing this at the expense of the general public, through hundreds of mini-dark patterns designed to extract data and sell it back to us, at a markup (in dollars or attention).

The business may be impressive from the point of big numbers, but that's all it is. It stopped being impressive after the search quality has gone downhill and none of the other products panned out.
Not a myth. Not a myth at all.
Famously, small subgroup attacks in DH; I can't think of non-silly RSA parameter negotiation bugs (I mean, E=1 with SaltStack, but that doesn't really count). Invalid point bugs in ECDH and zero-mod-p in PAKEs are similar in spirit, but don't really derive from parameter negotiation.
Why Monday.com decided to build its new database instead of buying one
*only under contract, NDA, and agreements to only do what apple wants.

Apple didn't stop being a mega capitalist corp overnight. Devices must be forced to separate their components, the same as an anti-trust breakup.
The record companies can claim they compensated the artist, even if the math is bogus.

See Steve Albini’s open letter to the music industry for the full accounting…from the nineties when labels made their artists •really• dance for their shekels…

Best example I know of Lawful Evil…
The poster didn't say ban, this is a huge strawman.

The poster said laying down requirements and them being unable to scale whilst adhering to those requirements is not an argument for removing said requirements.

Our priority is the safety and health of society, if the only way they can scale is to put people at risk then maybe as a society we don't WANT them to scale.
I’m lumping things like Tesla FSD.

But also, there are explicitly times and areas where Cruises don’t operate due to being insufficiently able to operate. And times where they do just pull over and wait for human intervention when they don’t know what else to do. Both of which are safe and reasonable, but which also selects themselves into a safer set of miles actually traveled.
I was at a Walgreens years ago and there was a rack of impulse-buy items at the checkout counter. One of them was a homeopathic cold "remedy." I had the same thought as you -- Walgreens is hurting their reputation as a trustworthy pharmacy, but then I realized that behind the counter was a wall of cigarettes. That resolved the tension for me: if they are willing to sell cancer causing agents, selling homeopathic meds is tame in comparison. Their goal, of course, is to make money, not to make you better.
That sounds like hell. More areas should be walkable and bikeable. Motorized vehicles should be limited to minimal areas so that the rest is quiet, safe and accessible. European cities have it right here - underground transport and quiet walkable surface level.
yeah but it does have to have enough people for it to be efficient moving around that giant wall of metal
I am not a macroeconomist but I’ll defend them.

Macro is hard. It’s really, really, really hard.

It’s _really easy_ to write down a moderately realistic macro model which you have absolutely no hope of ever solving numerically (an “extremely realistic model” would be even worse). That’s not going to do anyone any good.

It would be a totally empty exercise: “here’s something which I bet would be great but we’ll never know!”. It’s impossible to confront such models with data, which is absolutely the bread and butter of any macro paper.

It is still hard but somewhat less hard to write down a simplified model which you can solve and which can give you insights. By necessity you lose some realism in this exercise. There is no way around that. It’s not a lack of cleverness or imagination.

It is possible to confront such models with data to make the whole exercise empirical, which credible macro is and must be.

By necessity these insights might be useful or not depending on how much of the useful machinery of realism you dropped from your model to make it solvable.

If you personally want something “better”, you are welcome to try. I encourage you! If you show that your method works - that it involves plausible assumptions, can be solved, and can be made empirical - the macroeconomists of the world will beat a path to your door and gladly study your methods.

The exercise not a charade. There are currently no alternatives to mainstream empirical macro bc all of the purported alternatives are (for lack of a better word) complete BS (example: MMT).
Bad public transit doesn’t mean public transit can’t be good. It just means your local transit happens to be bad.

The crazy thing is bad transit needs a larger subsidy because people don’t want to use it. So good systems get better and bad systems get worse.
You can still get it over the counter, but you have to ask at the counter for it
Cars are going in the same direction.

One Rivian had a fender bender that cost $41K to fix: https://www.thedrive.com/news/rivian-r1t-fender-bender-turns...

Tesla is making their cars with huge single castings and structural batteries, making any repair to those components prohibitively expensive.
You compare what matters — mean accidents per mile driven. And like any actuary, you can compare distributions with finer granularity data (location, tickets, ages, occupations, collusion severity, etc). None of this is new or intractable. We can have objective standards with confident judgements of what’s safe for our roads.

As an aside, public acceptance of driverless cars is another story. A story filled with warped perspectives due to media outlets stoking the audience emotions which keep outlets in business — outrage, fear, and drama. For every story covering an extreme accident involving human drivers, there might be 100 stories covering a moderate driverless accident. No matter how superhuman autonomous cars perform, they’ll have a massive uphill battle for a positive image.
There's the Sudafed on the shelves, made with phenylephrine, and the Sudafed behind the counter, made with pseudoephedrine. (Technically both OTC.)

The Sudafed behind the counter actually works (really really well), but due to what you've described, you need to present ID and affirm that you'll abide by certain federal laws. Oh, and there's a low hard limit on how much you can buy at a time, which is fine if it's just you in your household but not so fine if absurd levels of congestion run in the family and you all live together.
How would you define it?

The wiki article for it in the context of software (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software) seems to pretty much stand it in opposition to open licenses, but I also have a sort of gut feeling that it could also refer to interfaces in OSS that are not designed to re-implementable. Not sure about that though.
Are there cryptographers with dissenting opinions to this article, or is what the author writes about generally recognised best practice?

I ask because I remember an article a while back where this same author had very confidently got some details wrong about CloudFlare and I think the CEO or CTO or someone like that had to step in and correct him.
I've spoken to many people inside government who work on the open data side. To be blunt: the signal to noise ratio isn't very good in terms of whether someone actually knows what they're talking about. So please consider my reluctance to take much of what is said as a product of being lied to for years, both intentionally and unintentionally.

Yes, FOI processes are getting slower and yes we're going to keep suing. What other choice do we have? One thing to consider is that SO MUCH of that is a product of gov agencies simply not preparing their documents in a way that makes them FOIAable. So much can be done that simply isn't -- a significant amount of which is very intentional (eg, police records) in an intentional violation of the law.

We're not trying to be dicks in all of this. We just want to know what's going on. So yours (and many others in your position)'s clear desire to think of us as adversaries rather than simply people who want to know what the fuck is going on is blinding your vision.

Get out of your head as a person in government and start thinking as a person who's at least empathetic towards the frustrations of a tired public that constantly lied to, deceived, and fed communications that are perpetually weighed down by legally reviewed PR releases. We can do better, but sure as hell not with your defeated attitude.