skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you tried optimising and benchmarking on a 2.6 kernel? I found the more recent kennels in rhel7 that the amount of kernel work being done very hard to control. The first core on any numa node is especially problematic and induce horrific jitter
Usually the figures about admissions are undergrad focused. Are Ivy League schools doing legacy admissions for graduate research?
well if you want wide adoption of your product (OSS or not), a good marketing strategy can't hurt -- including a good product name
As an art piece for your house?
Silicon Valley is one of the most polluted places in the country
Good catch, you're right. I can sympathize with how you must feel, but more racial discrimination is not the answer. This is because it leads to an arms race of discrimination. And then society falls apart.
I borrowed $7k to have this company find a manufacturer, design a brochure and look into the patent process. Big waste of time and money.

Good luck.
Your post reads to me a lot like just getting away from everything in a setting where you couldn't be tempted otherwise was what you found beneficial.

Which is great, but makes me wonder if the meditation aspect isn't what's central to the experience.

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I do a good amount of solo backpacking (or with a long-term friend who can appreciate hours of silence as much as I can, instead of filling the time with constant conversation), and I feel I could write the same post as you from that experience, but it doesn't really involve anything I would label "meditation".
Have you seen License Zero?
https://writing.kemitchell.com/2017/09/12/The-License-Zero-M...
Things that might be generally useful for cli programs:

creating GUI interfaces for them (what this does)

enhancing CLI interface to include autocomplete including help with options and arguments

wrapping CLI commands to turn them into APIs/make them programmable
Only if you listen to Top 50. The metal world is still going strong with album oriented albums
Pretty much right. Yes its useful for almost anyone to know programming but we can't learn everything in the world that's useful. A carpenter is probably thinking its crazy I can't build my own bench and have to pay loads more for someone else to do it.
From Electron, to Wasm, to Rust (Aaand Back to Electron) by Irina Shestak
I've witnessed unconscious prejudices in myself e.g. toward female coworkers. I remember being livid because a female coworker corrected me in the presence of others. If she had done it in private I would have had no feelings about it. But I felt like it was a particular harm to my reputation on account of her gender.

If asked, I would strongly deny being even remotely sexist. Ironically, if I were in a position to hire or promote a female candidate or employee, I might be unreasonably biased toward the notion on account of wanting to have a diverse team. But in the aforementioned scenario I was caught inside of my own projections of an invisible pecking order.

The prospect that there are people who might have a similar reaction to my asserting myself while being a black man frightened me. I ruminated over past interactions, framing them in a completely different context.

Trying to make it in this industry has created a certain amount of anxiety and resentment, and it's compounded by the fact that I don't know which parts of it are my imagination or reality. I want to make it clear that I'm not trying to argue that everyone is prejudiced toward me, but rather my own constant uncertainty of how I'm perceived is both alienating and discouraging.
There's some technical blindness that comes with PC use. While people can navigate complex situations fine by talking to humans, put them in front of a user interface and they can't tell an affordance from a hole in the ground. They're not dumb people, they just spent all their time interfacing with humans instead of with computers, so when faced with a technical challenge they don't really know how to start.

(I'm sure you've met people who are the inverse.)
I got some mad eloquent words for your ass.
Journalists to stop the persecution of Stallman and apologize publicly
Why is quantum supremacy important ?

Quantum supremacy is reached when a quantum computer does something that no classical computer can do.

So before quantum supremacy, quantum computers are useless.

Which does no mean that after quantum supremacy quantum computers are useful. Usefulness depends on people, is a social property. We need to be able to solve a problem relevant to humans.

There is reasonable hope that with more (quantum) computing power and people ingenuity we will be able to make quantum computer useful.

Actually, many (among them investors) think that quantum computing is a turning point in human history.
When it's possible, id like to upload my mind into a machine.
I stand corrected. Thank you.

Quantum computing is, like blockchain and AI, a topic that’s fretted about in the NatSec establishment, often by those who don’t understand the topic in depth but are otherwise NatSec experts and help control resources. “AI Supremacy” is a book in that vein; Kai-Fu Lee’s book has freaked out many others.
Why? Both corporations and governments are, in theory, supposed to take actions that maximise benefit to their stakeholders. If those stakeholders decide in the majority that morality is a way in which they seek to derive value from either a corporation or a government then those institutions are presumably bound to deliver on those requirements or to be subsequently punished by the majority or their stakeholders. The fact that shareholders (and customers) seem to be more inclined to be demanding moral behaviours from companies, even though they are also (presumably) citizens, is possibly an indication of the fact companies are more responsive in this regard.

EDIT: autocorrect
I have a cursory knowledge of how a car works but if there was a problem where it couldn't start and the problem wasn't that the battery is flat or out of fuel then I would have no idea what to check.

I also don't drive a car so this skill is mostly useless to me much like some people don't need any more computer skill than just being able to send emails and read websites.
> Learning how to use, configure and create open source is definitely one of the highest-proficiency forms of computer usage.

Some of the most successful accountants, CFO's, and stakeholders I have met would beg to differ.

> I think if they had kept tracking the higher levels of proficiency by the time they got to open source users and developers there is a chasm between their ability to use computers to solve problems vs the 3rd-level person ...

This is a straw man argument[0]. OSS != "higher levels of [computer] proficiency".

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
I didn't know about Zenity, thank you.

https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/3.32/
Imperfectly cached by Bing:

Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable
Superconducting Processor

http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%2220190030475%22&d=5027660...

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EDIT: Just now I saw this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21043659

The full paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19lv8p1fB47z1pEZVlfDXhop082L...

Supplementary information for “Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor”

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vReCUoN9oOGGybt2TbzJBdPyALa...
You can edit comments. FYI
Agreed, after identifying contributing factors or manageable interfaces process-oriented fixes are most powerful. That's why CI/CD is so awesome, RCS/VCS pre-commit and post-commit hooks allow you to automate the checklists you need to solve entire categories of issues.
Never heard of this, but I once wrote a Perl script (it was a long time ago ;-) that created Perl/Tk UIs around CLI tools by parsing the output from "$CMD --help" or "man $CMD".

It never worked perfect, but was "good enough" for the few simple things I needed it for.
"Somehow, he managed to obtain copies of the IBM entrance examination questions and answers" - Not okey!
Tao Te Ching – Python
Also all these studies focus only on Buddhist meditation which is just one form of meditation. There are earlier, more diverse and more intense forms of meditation (e.g. Hindu meditation) that many researchers unscientifically ignore due to their theological roots.

Almost all of these studies need better ablation experiments, similar alternatives, better controls and baselines.
All true. However, even before you could disable the GC, you could ignore it as long as you weren't allocating and hit framerate. Unity isn't magic but the way people talk it's like Unity games don't exist.
Incremental Reading v4.10.3
> Plus the point is that as cars became more ubiquitous, once esoteric skills became the norm, such as checking oil, filling up gas. At some point the baseline has to advance.

Yes and no. On the one hand, as early cars become more common, more people had to deal with them. But on the other hand, cars became simpler to use over time.

Tinkering with your car used to be a hobby of many people and a necessity. These days, there's not much user servicing left. (I don't even know whether you still have to manually check the level of oil? Don't they have sensors for that these days?)

Gas station pumps have also become much easier to use. It requires some intention and a minimum amount of skill to overfill your tank these days.
Similar considerations apply to using computers.

Starting your spreadsheet by typing something in the DOS prompt used to be how things were done. These days, vastly more people are expected to be at least somewhat familiar with spreadsheets--it's no longer something to highlight in your CV--but starting the program used to do so has become simpler.

Similar countervailing developments have been common since at least the industrial revolution.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskilling
Its also interesting how much of what we consider an "easy to use UI" actually just means "Its what I already know".

I have been using linux with gnome for years and I recently had to use a macbook. I wanted to change the sound settings so I opened the global app search thing and typed "Sound" got nothing so I searched "Audio" still nothing so I tried to find the settings app and tried "Settings" still nothing until I remembered the settings app is called "Preferences"

The OSX UI is not hard to use, its just not the same as what I had been using for years so even simple interactions seem difficult.
My HP-28S still works after 30 years. The battery door is missing a corner but it still works!

I didn't know this was a common problem.

These days I mostly use PCALC on my iPhone. I like the ability to customize the number displayed lines from 4 up to 8. There's free version too : PCALC Lite
I think there's more informational value in hearing goog-anon's perspective than in condemning it.
When a bank teller hands me a bag of cash because I'm pointing a gun a them, it's robbery.

When a police officer forces me to hand the bag of cash back to the cashier, it isn't robbery.

Motives and circumstances matter.

> America's "historical baggage"? As if every other nation on Earth doesn't have similar historical baggage.

Other countries' transgressions don't absolve the US', in the same way that other people's crimes don't absolve all criminals. And while there are probably few people that never break any laws, there's still a difference between murderers and jaywalkers. For countries, there are obviously small countries that avoided committing atrocities just by a lack of opportunity. There are recently formed countries that enjoy what for Germans born after 1945 is called "the good luck of being born late". And even among larger countries with long and sometimes dark histories, not all injustice is equal: it's plainly possible to see the injustice of France's conduct in Algeria while still acknowledging it pales in comparison to the Shoah.
Conclusions made by design folks are difficult for me to take seriously, because the journey mapping and design process is usually based on consensus on desired behaviors. Design isn’t science, it’s usually a process framework.

Best case it’s an 80/20 situation. Few design teams have a mandate or desire to dive into the 20%. They love to remove “distractions” and usually don’t understand that tasks that happen once a quarter are often as important as tasks that are done 3x per day.

I’ll use iMovie as an example. It’s a well-designed, great app and incredibly intuitive... if you are on a path/experience that was designed for you. My then-5 year old could make shockingly well done little movies without the ability to meaningfully read. But... if you need to step off the path, it’s a cliff.

When I was in college, in the 90s, I worked at a big box retailer selling computers and similar gear. Their ERP was an AS/400, text based system that was not at all intuitive, but with about 30 minutes of training was usable. After a few weeks was a trusty tool that could be adeptly and efficiently wielded. The difference was that it was a tool, and the practitioners of the tool could make changes to how the tools were used to get shot done.
OpenRC is similarly concise. The runit run scripts used on Void Linux are too, but they rarely take into account complicated dependencies so they are fragile.
I'm waiting for you to write what the alternative is? Make a law stating that if you cross the boarder illegally, or for that matter, commit any crime, but are a child, then you do not get detained?
Fun fact, Nebraska Furniture Mart holds 0x0004 on the list of Linux Manufacturer USB Ids [1]. At my last job we built a product with a custom OpenWRT fork, and I needed to identify an Atmel D21 behind a usb hub on a custom board we built, and I figured I'd never have a collision with any NFM hardware, so I just used that since no one outside our company would never see the device either.

[1] http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids
One might argue that use of a nuclear weapon - as intended - qualifies as a “senseless failure”, just not of the weapon.
That’s a good way to describe it. It’s interesting that an anti-pattern (bad UI/UX) can be an asset like that. Snapchat is the Bloomberg Terminal for teens.
> But it's not irrelevant, and I explain that in my response to the other reply to this.

It's irrelevant, because it's a noncentral fallacy[1]. To quote Scott Alexander:

> Suppose someone wants to build a statue honoring Martin Luther King Jr. for his nonviolent resistance to racism. An opponent of the statue objects: "But Martin Luther King was a criminal!"

> Any historian can confirm this is correct. A criminal is technically someone who breaks the law, and King knowingly broke a law against peaceful anti-segregation protest - hence his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail.

> But in this case calling Martin Luther King a criminal is the noncentral. The archetypal criminal is a mugger or bank robber. He is driven only by greed, preys on the innocent, and weakens the fabric of society. Since we don't like these things, calling someone a "criminal" naturally lowers our opinion of them.

> The opponent is saying "Because you don't like criminals, and Martin Luther King is a criminal, you should stop liking Martin Luther King." But King doesn't share the important criminal features of being driven by greed, preying on the innocent, or weakening the fabric of society that made us dislike criminals in the first place. Therefore, even though he is a criminal, there is no reason to dislike King.

In this case, you calling regulation violence is the noncentral. The archetypical violence is assault. It is driven by anger, causes great physical harm to victims, and causes fear in the community. Since we don't like these things, calling something "violence" generally makes us think that thing is bad.

You're really saying, "Because you don't like violence, and regulation is violence, you should stop liking regulation." But regulation doesn't share the important features of being driven by anger, causing great phsyical harm to victims, and fear in the community that made us dislike violence in the first place. Therefore, even if regulation is in theory backed up by the possibility of violence (which is a bit of a stretch to begin with), there is no reason to care. It's utterly irrelevant to any reasonable conversation.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncen...
Yes, quantum supremacy disproves the extended church-turing thesis (Bernstein-Vazirani). This thesis states that any computation that can be computed efficiently can be computed efficiently with a classical computer (ie a Turing machine).

ECT thesis means that quantum computers will never be able to compute something significantly faster that classical ones.

However, technically, google haven't proved yet quantum supremacy since they just did the classical calculation using the best known classical algorithm. And there is no proof that there is no significantly better algorithm.

But this not a serious objection, no one thinks that there is an exponentially better way of classically simulating quantum computers.
Money is not a system of control. Debt is a system of control.

When you take out a loan, you are now obligated to pay the money back with interest at some time in the future. Some part of your future efforts are no longer yours to do with as you choose, but have to be directed towards an economically productive activity that will raise the money to pay the lender.

Debt is the real whip that drives the workforce in the capitalist system based on hourly and salaried compensation. Ownership of slaves and physical whips are no longer needed. The debt and employee system is more efficient, since workers can be laid off and not supported when not needed.

Debt is also older than money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
The pipeline problem for blacks begins before the age of 4 when their IQs are measurably lower than whites and stay that way for life. This is well known and has been studied to death. Any talk about education or whatever at school age or above is ultimately futile because you can't improve IQ in a lasting way. Some researchers attribute it to cultural parenting techniques or the environment or other things. But, fundamentally, to get black engineers, you need to solve that pre-school disadvantage.

Maybe the best you could do is identify the gifted children and move them to a suitable environment. But not all of them - only those who actually have potential, otherwise the problems caused by their lower ability peers will continue to drag them down.
Hackatrack – Say goodbye to stress and unproductivity in hackathons
Seems like you're making quite the leap in assuming they can't buy effective replacement parts.
Money can also be transferable equity.
Here you go. I still had the PDF hanging around. [0]

[0] https://keybase.pub/shakna/Quantum%20Supremacy%20Using%20a%2...
> This is not right; this can get you priority inversion if your audio thread is waiting for a lower priority thread

No. It can't invert because the circular buffer is lock free--that's the whole point. The audio thread controls the resources and if the audio thread doesn't relinquish then the other threads can't add to the data structure--the audio thread, however, never, ever sees a point of contention.

Now, the audio thread can theoretically starve because it's holding resources so long that the other threads can't transfer a buffer in. However, as audio threads tend to be hard, real-time periodic with the highest priority, so that problem is of the programmers own making.

> for many tasks it just adds overhead.

Only if your task is audio in->audio out with very little processing.

The moment you have to pull from network or disk, change in response to a UI event, or anything else which touches something non-audio, you either eat the overhead of a circular buffer data structure or you risk a glitch.
I have things to say, but instead, I will quote Gwern on the IQ wars and be done with it. Mostly because I know more than you but less than Gwern.

> If, like most people, you’ve only read a few papers or books on it, your opinion (whatever that is) is worthless and you probably don’t even realize how worthless your opinion is, how far you are from actually grasping the subtleties involved and having a command of all the studies and criticisms of said studies. I exempt myself from this only inasmuch as I have realized how little I still know after all my reading.
Depends on who you're listening to. Most big names rely on streaming plays so you're probably not going to get it there but you can kinda drop the shitty songs and understand what the album could have been. It difficult to make a coherent album with 20 songs but that is what major labels are requiring these days.

I think Bandana by Freddie Gibbs & Madlib is a great example of a full and coherent album I've loved this year. Lots of indie rockers, metal, jazz and experimental EDM musicians are still making great full albums
And car mechanics would look at you just as derisively for not knowing how to fix your own car. They would also say that fixing a car isn’t just for professionals. The average person doesn’t need to know how to program any more than the average programmer needs to know assembly (I do). Everyone is ignorant to someone who doesn’t knows something that they do.
The other comments seem spot on: Emily Oster books, a checklist (amazing how quickly they leave your mind when stressed by crying), and the knowledge that parenting doesn't actually matter for much in the first few years past making sure the kid gets enough food and sleep.
The Trump administration is punishing immigrants of all types in every way they can (denying asylum to refugees from war or natural disasters, revoking previously granted asylum, separating children from innocent families and locking them in concentration camps, rounding up and deporting people with US-born kids for 20-year-old clerical errors, arresting people who visit hospitalized family members or pick up their kids from school or show up to their court appointments, banning visitors from whole regions of the world using flimsy pretexts, rolling back work authorization for spouses of H-1B holders, delaying or denying applications for green cards and citizenship, denying student visas, ...) And not just foreign immigrants, but also doing its best to punish US citizens from Puerto Rico, Native Americans, ....

Racism, xenophobia, and spite are the primary drivers of administration immigration policy (Trump, Stephen Miller, and others have repeatedly told us this in their public statements; we should take them at their word). Any damage to companies specifically abusing the visa system is incidental.
Wouldn't the undefined behavior be whatever the CPU happens to do? Or do you think some optimization would introduce tearing?
This would also be helpful in determining how to weight (or not) user feedback in the training portion. I just tried it out (the 10 questions) and there were at least a few I thought, "huh, I know some others would disagree with me on this" because I value X and they value Y more.

Having scores that weight X more than Y would give me more accurate scores, while seemingly also giving other people more accurate scores at the same time.
Wow this is fantastic. Just saw it streaming across the sky evening in oakland it is possible to see it with all the light pollution!
I am glad you asked.

1. Which open source project do you think isn’t geared (willingly or unwillingly) towards the benefit of a for-profit company?

Or wait.

2. Do you think being registered as a non-profit makes an entity benign?

These questions are (have been) to me as much as they are to you—and it’s also time to sleep. GN.
Don't know about horror stories, but Aurora PG Serverless doesn't (yet?) have the Data API support (which enables a couple of other Aurora serverless features) that Aurora MySQL Serverless has, and IIRC has some other feature limitations that aren't directly tied to Data API.
Is this brexit related?
Or buy Bitcoin.
Thank you, much appreciated.