skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> we can replace elementwise products in each dot product (a₁b₁ + a₂b₂ ...) with elementwise additions (a₁+b₁ + a₂+b₂ ...), in which signs depend on each value

Thinking out loud here. If you encode 64 weights in 2 64-bit words you can have the bits in one word indicating +1 if they're 1, and the bits in the other word indicating -1 if they are 1. You should be able to do the "products" with a few boolean operations on these 2 words to get a pair of 64 bit words for the result. Then summing becomes a matter of using a count-of-1's instruction on each word and subtracting the "negative" count from the positive. If AVX instructions can do this too, it seems like equivalent of 10-100 TOPS might be possible on a multi-core CPU.
>This will happen with UBI

Dunno why you think more prosperity leads to more children when it's almost always the other way around. Poorer, less educated people have more kids. Once a society develops economically, they have less kids. This is a worldwide phenomenon.

UBI will free you from having to work shitty jobs. You think people will spend their newfound time raising kids instead? Doubt
With teeth, you can go really far, because in cool, dry conditions they can be preserved for tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of years. Also, you only need a tiny amount of genetic material to analyse. Of course, having some genetic material is very different from having complete DNA. I guess in this case the researchers just got lucky and got the right segment after all.
I agree with you that billionaires reflect an obscene system. What is a fair, and loophole-free way to avoid them?

Asset taxes? Do you just tax every dollar over $1B at 100%? What if they own shares in a company that grows beyond $1B? Do they have to sell the shares? What if they then lose control of the company as a result? Maybe that is good. IDK.

Also, is it $1B per person. Could the person get married to let them grow to $2B?

If the rest of the world doesn’t follow suit, then what happens? Do all the billionaires just buy citizenship in Estonia or something?

Again, I am not opposed to the idea. I just think it needs a lot of work. Otherwise, these rants seem like a distraction. If it is never going to happen, maybe we are better off focused on trying to achieve UBI than Universal Asset Equality or whatever.
FBI using push notification tokens to identify anonymous users
Notice that as it seems, the vast majority are caught and deleted due to the intense automation, not the detection of malicious contents. If the actor was to run a smoother automation process, probably nothing would have been deleted. (disclaimer: author this article)
That stance is simply in line with the U.S. State Department, which also does not consider ROC (Taiwan) a country, which just reinforces the point that you're replying to: the NYT, like the rest of the MSM, is just carrying water for the capitalist American hegemonic status quo.
> totally drops the central themes of lifecycles of empires.

That theme is very much out of fashion, you even have people trying to argue that the Roman Empire never went into decline. Everything always gets better, because technology, the inevitability of progress, etc. Anybody who worries about decline is a reactionary, etc.

Personally I think it fell out of fashion because it makes Americans nervous. It's more comforting to think that we're at "the end of history" and American global hegemony will be forever. The Foundation is just too challenging for modern audiences.
I'm always puzzled by the feedback I see on The Peripheral. Granted, I haven't read the book, so I'm not comparing to anything.

But the show was interesting, compelling, and fun. It also ended satisfyingly and absolutely doesn't need another season: in fact, it's hard to imagine a second season that doesn't go downhill. Better to leave it as it is.
companies can often do more than one thing at once...
If you live in a 1st world country, your country believes in the coercive appropriation of other's property.

You already participate in that appropriation. The coercive appropriation is called taxation. You can choose to not pay, but you'll be incarcerated. You cannot choose where your monies go, or what they go for.

You're already a participant, and you don't seem to realize it.

Also, eleemosynary... really? Means charitable or charity. Did you really have to use a word most of the world hasn't ever heard of to prove the point that you don't like charity?

You should stop using our roads then. You should stop using our schools. You should stop using emergency services, voting, or participating in the first world country you're living in.

Because every single program, service, or project uses confiscated monies from the masses to benefit the smaller minority that use those programs, services, or projects.

Taxation is social charity. UBI is social charity. What's the difference?
This is true, but it still may be how Hetzner decides usage. I'm not sure if this is the case, but it seems pretty reasonable when you're talking about bare metal.
Usually a relationship focus means they don't have the budget for exteriors :)
NixOS unstable has it too I think. It was merged yesterday at least.
> Sure, but... who wants to go back to the days of the early settlers "living" in such conditions?

Those who want to have children. But I agree, people don't want children, they want other things in life. And fair enough. It is their life to live as they see fit.

> many of my relatively middle-ish class friends want children but no one can afford them - the biggest road block is of course housing

So they say. But really, they're just complaining about the housing situation using a device that they hope will pull on the right heart strings (and most likely are just repeating what they heard someone else say). Let's face it: Whatever housing they've already got, even if just a tent, will be fine for the children. Children don't care.

> Back in '91 when I was born, a lowly police officer could support a family on his own, even in a big city like Munich. Nowadays? Completely impossible.

Or, perhaps, children were the contributors that made those things possible? We don't have to go too far back in history to find a time where adults were unable to survive without children. Being able to opt to not have children today is a luxury afforded to those well off (yes, that includes the middle class).
> There’s more enough women who would WANT to have children if it were less of a burden.

source?
"How to make neuromancer into a tv show/movie" is one of my favorite idle past-times, and for a long time, I used to think about how it would have to be updated to make sense with current technology, but after playing Cyberpunk 2077, I think they should fully commit to retro-futurism, and keep everything _exactly as it is in the book_, and just make it the future as seen from 1983, banks of pay phones and all.

I just don't think there's any way to update the technology and keep the story as it was written coherent, and I don't think it's necessary.
Recent blade runner though did 80s well, so it's not unseen anymore
Do you remember how there was a time when, every time the EU would do something that didn't allow US companies to get away with everything they wanted, you'd see people pouring on HN comments claiming how the evil red tape EU bureaucrats are just trying to bully poor US companies for money?

That has changed, hasn't it? Around 2020?
It's not really that complicated.

People are complex. If you think the only people fighting for democratic rights should be the ultra-pure in contemporary political views ("let he who is without sin cast the first stone"), well, you're going to quickly run out of people to talk about or support.

Look at the human beings who were great leaders - Martin Luther King Jr was an adulterer, Churchill held racist ideas, Gandi loved to test his will by sleeping next to prepubescent girls.

It's possible to support a person because they are doing great things, without automatically agreeing to everything they believe or do.
+ Kim Jee-woon's “Dr. Brain” is great.
I do recognise the fact that such "aggregators" would be hugely centralised (if not outright monopolised, like the search engine space). however, maybe I'm wrong but I don't see the federated model succeeding without such services either, so I think of "need for centralised content discovery" as an independent problem, honestly.
Timeshielding: How to Do the Things You Want to Do
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/9546
The adaptation of The Three Body Problem that was made for Chinese audiences is the adaptation I was looking for.

It's 30 parts. The acting is stilted. The camera work is strange. The special effects are cheesy. The pacing is slow.

I loved it. It was faithful to the source material, to a delightful fault.
>was there a previous period of avocado popularity,

I suspect it was regional, and as you observed, Ohio (and the Midwest in general) was not one of the regions 40+ years ago.

At my (Midwestern) college radio station in the 1970s, we used to get PSAs (public service announcements) to read from the California Avocado Advisory Board[0,1] touting the fruit, sometimes they were mocked regarding what kind of advice we give to avocados.

I recall my first direct experience with an avocado wasn't until I moved to California some years later.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Avocado_Commission#...

[1] at the above link, you can read about how a Sunset magazine cover featuring avocado dish played a role in popularizing avocado across the nation in the 1970s
In this time and age, the question is 'why not'? If customers want a bluetooth-connected toothbrush and are willing to shell out the extra $5...
I just installed plasma6 on nixos (using Wayland) and it automatically picked an appropriate fractional scaling for my resolution (150%), and everything works and feels great. No configuration needed.
Spelling in title: Should be "Debt" not "Dept"
(This is the author of the article.) I agree! One of my favorite things about this topic is that you can prove the polyhedron version using very simple tools, so it's possible to get a feel for the concept of curvature (at least for surfaces) with a lot less machinery than you'd need to study the corresponding concept for smooth surfaces.
Foundation suffers from it's origins as a series of disjointed short stories in the pulp magazines of the era that were later lightly edited into books. They are chock full of generic characters standing around discussing interesting ideas with very little action.

There was no way to turn it into a television show without major rewrites.

However, Invasion is my call for the weakest scifi show they've done.
The Value of Descriptive, Multi-Level Rubrics
Well, did you pay out 0.1% of the profits?

I'm not picking on you, FOSS projects aren't really set up for anything like shared revenue yet, and almost nobody's thinking about it.

But in the future, monetized FOSS projects need to pay out to their contributors. By default, contributors own copyright to the code they share, and forcing them to surrender that for free won't be acceptable.
> There won't be inflation if you take money from the top and give it to the bottom. The total amount of money stays the same.

Our system is far from perfect but I believe history shows that communism is even worse.
I have tried every technical and legal recourse I know to fix this

So you got the court order and forgot to mention it?

There are rules like this to prevent social engineering attacks.
You are attributing to federal fiscal policy what was caused by supply chain dysfunction, housing inventory shortages, and corporate profits.

https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/publications/eco...

> Global supply chain disruptions following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the rapid rise in U.S. inflation over the past two years. Evidence suggests that supply chain pressures pushed up the cost of inputs for goods production and the public’s expectations of higher future prices. These factors accounted for about 60% of the surge in U.S. inflation beginning in early 2021. Supply chain pressures began easing substantially in mid-2022, contributing to the slowdown in inflation.

https://www.fanniemae.com/research-and-insights/perspectives...

> The causes of the housing supply crisis are widely understood. After the Great Recession, new home construction dropped like a stone. Fewer new homes were built in the 10 years ended 2018 than in any decade since the 1960s. By 2019, a good estimate of the shortage of housing units for sale or rent was 3.8 million. The pandemic-induced materials and labor shortage exacerbated the trend, however, as evidenced by the surge in rents and home prices in 2021.

https://www.kansascityfed.org/research/economic-bulletin/cor...

> Corporate profits rose quickly in 2021 along with inflation, raising concerns about corporations driving up prices to increase profits. Although corporate profits indeed contributed to inflation in 2021, their contribution fell in 2022. This pattern is not unusual: in previous economic recoveries, corporate profits were the main contributor to inflation in the first year and displaced by costs in the second year.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/08/excess-profits-of-big-firms-...

> “We argue that market power by some corporations and in some sectors – including temporary market power emerging in the aftermath of the pandemic – amplified inflation,” the report said.

> The author’s analysis of financial reports from 1,350 companies listed in the U.K., U.S., Germany, Brazil and South Africa found nominal profits were on average 30% higher at the end of 2022 than at the end of 2019.
Looks similar to PRQL[0].

Neither PRQL nor Pql seem to be able to do anything outside of SELECT like Preql[1] can.

I propose we call all attempts at transpiling to SQL "quels".

[0] https://prql-lang.org/
[1] https://github.com/erezsh/Preql
Strangely, there were also massive supply chain disruptions, hoarding, and a program that basically handed out free money to business owners for any sort of purchase they wanted, all around the same time.

You don't make double-digit inflation by giving people barely enough money to cover rent in most low-cost American cities.

EDIT:

Also, let us consider why these payments were necessary and why they had to be funded the way they were. They had to be funded by printing money because the US government is deep in debt and there hasn't been a real tax increase since George HW Bush killed his political career with one in 1992. There is no rainy-day fund for the American people, so the FRS had to make one, and quick, lest you have people in the streets in general revolt, which given that the George Floyd protests were around the same time, was a real risk.

The payments were necessary because the American economy is not only leveraged from top-to-bottom, but in fact requires a good chunk of the population be in a good amount of debt with no savings in order to maintain growth of the credit products that many financial institutions rely on for the production of value for their shareholders. If you had over a hundred million people suddenly not making money, it's like the 2008 financial crisis, except instead of mortgage-backed securities, this time, it's every kind of securitized debt.
Some people want areas without kids. Why should that be illegal? Kids ruin most things, as as society gets older and childless, those that want to have fun in said society will lobby for changes. Movies in cinema all suck ass because they need to cater ages 13 demographic. Latest Hunger Games movie is prime example. Any time violence is supposed to happen, they cut away from the violence and merely imply violence happening. No-kids zone is what made HBO so successful -- it releases shows with wildly disturbing, no kids allowed, avant garde themes. If you do not allow explicit no kids zones, people will yearn for these zones and the supply will be met. Just with different justifications.
Async Rust in a Nutshell
I was eating avocado, sprouts and Muenster cheese sandwiches since the early 70’s. This was in Florida. Could be produce shipping made them more viable up north by the 90’s.
Thanks for sharing!

> This change together with Apache Superset for the BI layer made a huge impact in the amount of internal users that could extract value from the data collected. Went from around 150 to 800 internal users.

Really impressive results.
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I use Debian Testing which trails release by a couple of versions. I search the bug in the Bugzilla, and if it's not filed, I file the bug. Sometimes it's marked as a duplicate (but additional feedback is useful), sometimes new, but very rarely a duplicate of a closed bug.

So, you don't have to use Neon. KDE is a massive project.
Elvish Scripting Case Studies
I can’t remember the last time I saw someone talk about the Gauss-Bonnet theorem without talking about soccer balls
Oh crap I've watched Invasion and don't understand why I did it to myself. Totally forgot about that show.

Do not watch.
SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving crimes:

- https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/23066776

Lost at SQL: The SQL learning game:

- https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/35665142

There are even more games in the comments.
Could be worse.

Could be LaTeX.
YES! That's what I was looking for! Thank you!
I recall a cookbook from the 1970's that lists such exotic delicacies as avocadoes, mangoes and chile peppers. From the presentation it was clear that these were possibly expensive, but one could find them, especially in large cities.
This is cool! I understand why they removed it, but is there a browser extension that retains this functionality on modern versions of FF?
Totally agree - I think package managers that make it very easy to pull in huge transitive dependency trees are fundamentally making the wrong thing too easy.

First all those dependences you pull in aren't necessarily dependencies because they are done at the package level. If I use one class/function from package A, I may not need any of the package A sub-dependencies - yet these package managers will pull them in recursively down the tree.

Second you are trading control for having somebody else manage version dependencies - not sure that saves you time in the end - especially if you took an approach that didn't pull in unncessary dependencies in the first place.
Oh, yeah important caveat for sure. If you go to the store now many TV brands don't even sell mid/high level TVs smaller than 55", unless they are intended for gaming (probably expected to sit closer).
Heh. I thought the relationships were the point in For All Mankind. I'm not a fan of alternate histories, but the characters pulled me in.
Why only $1? That’s like one-fifth of a flat white.

If you can sell your thing for $1 you can probably sell it for $2 or $3 or more.

Or bundle it with something?
In a just society, these companies would be dissolved and its leadership imprisoned at least.
That's the thing I liked the most about the books. It was so painfully obvious that empires fall and rise that a mere human could predict the details of how it would happen. It's hand wavy sci-fi, but it's a fun setting and it does really push the point. The change in rhetoric, stagnation of culture, centralization of wealth, talks of secession, they're all markers of a declining empire. It's already happened.
Constructive feedback is welcome, let me know what you would like to see (or not like to see)
That is an excellent source. I'll explore it a bit.
> Linux would be unusuable if I had to use GNOME.

This type of hyperbole is what feeds the DE wars. GNOME is very usable, and if it's not, you don't know how to use a computer at all.
I didn't know anyone had any standard until a conversation on here where it came up a year or two ago. Every place I've lived had two switches somewhere (both ends of a hallway, both entrances to a room, etc) so I never internalized any directionality for switches - it's just always been "flip the switch if the light is in the wrong state".

One or two of the switches I've had have even been sideways.
Wait, they're mounting starlink on drones? Is that actually a thing?
Villa pop FTW!

https://sunderlandglobalmedia.org/made-in-sunderland-the-his...
> If you have a credit card but don't want to use it for an uncertain online pre-order of a new product, what do you use it for?

I have credit and debit cards. Basically no point in using the credit card, so I only use it for emergencies when nothing else works, which has been exactly once in my life so far, and that was in Mexico. In Spain (home) / around Europe I've never had an issue with my debit card, so it's what I keep using everywhere.
The SNES and Genesis definitely had hardware sprites. The PS1 and PS2 worked with palettized textures 99% of the time and had hardware quads. The N64 could do palettized textures and quads. The same for the OG Xbox, but it was a big speed hit vs DXTC. With the Xbox360 and PS3 you could implement palettized textures as a shader. But, only the most special cases bothered.
We're living through proof you cannot right now.
I sincerely doubt economic principles where ever a concern [1].

I remember many rumours of Elon Musk in Moscow at the founding of SpaceX with former Pentagon people? Lots of other reports on military considerations of SpaceX. Hard to verify [2][3].

[1] https://spacenews.com/spacex-providing-starlink-services-to-...

[2] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3082067/Russ...

[3] https://spacenews.com/first-satellite-for-chinese-g60-megaco...
The total amount of money being the same doesn't imply that there would be no inflation. The total demand being the same (for a given supply) would be what you'd need there.

If you give the rich more money, they're not likely to spend it on restaurants and merchandise and services: they can already afford as much of those as they want.

If you give money to people who couldn't afford them without the extra cash, though, you're artificially boosting demand, which would impact inflation.