skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Martial arts. Was a competitive martial artist around 8 years ago, neglected it for a couple of years and practiced just about 3 times per month for the last 6 months (this was the only excercise I got). 2 months ago I joined a Kung Fu Club and started training twice a week, and 1 day I go to the gym and do mostly cardio on the treadmill. I rather practice martial arts because I always get bored at the gym just by lifting weights, so I believe that martial arts are a fun and practical to get your weekly training.

I got to tell you, all the praise that excercise gets is for something, cannot express how better I feel since this new training regime; I feel more focused, with more energy and my ideas are clearer in my head, also my mood stays better over the week. If you're not excercising, PLEASE do it.
Op gave a personal opinion about how onboarding is ‘Total bullshit’. Commenter asked for OP to not throw their personal bias as truth. It is confirmation bias. I had this one experience so all experience are this one experience. Commenter two called commenter one out saying that commenter one is completely off the mark and that op was not speaking gospel due to one sentence they wrote at the beginning.

I merely pointed out how Saying one sentence does not change the sentiment and tone of the rest of the story.

Ie; ‘In my personal experience’ does not negate preaching nor gospel talk.

Sure I may have told commenter two to stop contributing, but that is because commenter two was also violating the rules that you so eagerly linked.

Agreeing with a commenter who calls someone out on their attempts to sway others through logical fallacies like straw man etc, is not breaking the rules. There is a huge problem in modern times of manipulation and when people are trying to manipulate others it should be brought to light.

There was nothing wrong in the example I provided and that was not meant to be taken literal, so the example provided does not break the rules.

Again, what is the point of dogmatically following rules, when rules aren’t a catch all to begin with? They are guidelines to help form a better community. The rules need to be analyzed in the context of the whole, not in some isolated measures. Nor garnered through a ‘reputation’ via downvoted. I bet most people who can downvote felt attacked when a personal experience was labeled as gospel because they are the same people who often find themselves preaching.

HN would be better off without downvoted in total rather then some gatekeeping effort to put downvotes ‘in the right hands’. Honestly this is silly that my comment was even flagged.

If an apology is wanted for telling commenter two to stop contributing I will do so, but commenter two should also apologize for making others feel they cannot contribute. Arguments are fine but when you take the stance of I am right and you are wrong without any evidence or support or argument at all, you are not starting a debate you are just contributing to the wide pool of logical fallacy.

Lastly I will defer to Paul Gharam’s Hierarchy of disagreement, which btw op and commenter two failed to reach the top:

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We fixed DRM in Portugal (and so can you)
Bash is POSIX compliant, but it has a number of extensions.
I don't appreciate the aggressiveness and clear attempt to induce outrage with the title.
This is the outrage algorithm working.

* Edit - the previous title referenced a Twitter thread, not phoronix. The new title is fine.
>It was easier to flip open a phone to unlock it then press the weird key combos that some phones used.

That depends if you had a lock code - in such case it was irrelevant back then already. Also it wasn't like you'd check the phone hundreds of time per day as most of the people do nowadays so it wasn't a big annoyance to unlock by pressing e.g. two keys in the keypad, but maybe that's just me.

One thing that many people appreciate as well was receiving a call and just open the phone to answer it.
I personally believe VirtualLink is dead. Its use case (four-lane DisplayPort and USB 3.x at the same time) is also met by USB4, which I believe will be more widely implemented.

However, I also believe that the VirtualLink trick of repurposing the USB 2.0 pins will end up being used by a future USB standard for two more lanes of USB4, gaining 50% more speed without reducing even more the maximum cable length.
seems to me like you are questioning the whole concept of censoring expletives
It's about bargaining power. The simple fact is that the income gap is widening, and wealth is increasingly held by a small minority. This indicates that a small elite disproportionately reap the rewards of increased efficiency in production. Software engineers are better able to claw back some of this gap (and are often responsible for automating jobs away, increasing efficiency).

We went to 5 day work weeks with full pay during the industrial revolution - it's probably high time to consider a 4 day week / 6 hour day with full pay as a result of the increased efficiency since.
In hunter-gatherer societies. Teens were full adults who could marry. They could stay up late, having sex all they wanted. There was no need to get up early since there were no cows to milk or any other chores like that.

Life was governed only by the sun, not artificial clocks.
It’s a somewhat unrelated bug that also had a workaround released for it recently.
Plastic substitute from fish waste hauls in Dyson award for UK designer
With a suitable doctors note they’d have to let your emotional support liger into the cabin.
do you think it is possible to integrate with proxycrawl? that can benefit from not getting blocked by twitter
My very last one, Nokia 6120 classic did last a couple of days.

> The battery life of Nokia 6120 is impressive. To give you an example, a daily average of 5 minutes of calls and 20 SMS requires charging every four to five days. More demanding jobs, including active internet browsing in UMTS, will surely reduce durability to 2-3 days, but even so the phone does great. Charging takes about 2.5 hours.

https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_6120_classic-review-161.php

Try to do this with most mid range Android devices.
One of the issues I see is that teens usually don't think about the future, and that is bad if you think that they are the future... does this make sense?
It'll confuse the hell out of people, but I think it's probably the way to go. I hope for example that Linux based package managers split the "amd64" so that we all don't get hit by this crap.
How to Protect Your Crypto, by an Ex-Hacker
For me the physical keys are better. With the touch bar, I have to look down to change the volume, and it occasionally hangs with the volume slider visible, but not actually responding to input. That's usually when I really want to turn down the volume quickly, and instead my laptop is blasting for another second while I have to adjust the volume with the mouse.

Also I really would like a physical mute button. It's often very valuable to be able to mute in a hurry.
Uncovered: Coordinated fake local media outlets serving Indian interests
Sorry, I'm off to bed due to the timezone I live in. Will try to write a better response tomorrow. Thanks.
Women Executives and Remote Work
Emacs + company-mode + lsp-mode + pipenv-mode (for virtualenv packages) work great for me. What was your setup and what kind of issues did you have with it?
On Windows it's handled in Windows Update, and maybe there's a way to disable loading the new microcode. On Linux, it's explicitly provided to the kernel by whatever userspace you have. On Arch, for example, it's in a separate package called intel-ucode.

Some board firmware loads updated microcode when it's updated. It has to be loaded at each boot by software in order to change.
The US could end up running on gasoline forever
What do you mean? The quest is virtually inexistent market wise. Nobody is buying it. Did you see a huge uptake anywhere? I havent.
yeah, one kind i guess. Or perhaps they cover all kinds?
> concept of independent product reviews

How did these original purchasers find out about these products in order to buy and review them? How do I know they aren't receiving products for free or more subtly being specific in what products they will or won't review in order to spin a narrative. I'm a big fan of good product reviews but this doesn't solve advertisings problems it just introduces new ones.

I'm not really sure how businesses survive in a world where they are not allowed to advertise their products or where they are located? It feels very artificially prescribed in how you think people should discover something.

Like you I don't even like ads, and I would rather not see them but I don't advocate for them not to be able to exist, just for my right to block them or in the real world for them to no intrude unnecessarily.

What solution do you envisage to the problem of ads as you see it? to ban them entirely?
I blame marketing. People will run after every fad as though it is mission critical stuff and will re-tell marketing copy verbatim as though it is their own thoughts. I've seen this with a friend who watches Top Gear a lot, I heard him say something that did not make sense for him to say and tracked it back to a specific episode of Top Gear and confronted him with it. He was surprised himself!

This stuff really works and it gets under people's skins in ways that they are not aware of. If you want to keep an even keel I would like to propose that the only way you will be able to do so is to radically limit your ingestion of any kind of media.
Food in America compared to the U.K. (Why is it so different?)
This is certainly amazing! Thanks!
That's the classical plight of someone who's much smarter than those around them. It's not enough to see the right path, you'd also have to manage to convince everyone else that it's right. Technology moves by peak knowledge and insight, not the democratic average.
I think the GP’s point is this: if you’re against the use of an expletive, then don’t use it. Putting it behind a fig leaf is embarrassing and silly.
Because they are electrically neutral, there is no direct interaction between photons, which is good, because it allows us to see each other even when there is light coming from all directions. At low energies, that's the end of the story as the interactions via intermediate particles are incredibly unlikely.

However, think about how an electron and a positron can annihilate into two photons. As the electromagnetic interaction is symmetric under time reversal, the reverse reaction should be possible, as long as sufficient energy is available. So an extremely energetic photon can combine with a photon from the background starlight and turn into an electron-positron pair, essentially being absorbed.
> It can also be revealed that Lady Arbuthnot has received gifts and hospitality in relation to her husband, including from a military and cybersecurity company exposed by WikiLeaks.

> These activities indicate that the chief magistrate’s activities cannot be considered as entirely separate from her husband’s.

> Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom, a former defence minister, is a paid chair of the advisory board of military corporation Thales Group, and was until earlier this year an adviser to arms company Babcock International. Both companies have major contracts with the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD).

... a disgrace established media (like Guardian and others) refuses to cover any of this. All of UK'S MSM has lost their credibility IMO. Ranting and raving against immigrants and creating outrage against foreigners is all they are good for.
Is short-term thinking a problem limited to teenagers? It seems even more problematic in adults who wield the power and from what I've seen short-term thinking is very prevalent at any age group in humans.
I do appreciate it. Its quite serious.
I've looked at the USB-C spec, and it does allow for hubs like that. The USB 2.0 and USB 3.x parts of the hub are the same as for non-USB-C hubs, and the USB-PD standard even has an example with a 3-port USB-C hub at the end.
How do people wind up working for seemingly big outfits at a young age? That seems like a recipe for a very slow to grow or advance career.

Also makes me wonder about my local news celebrities. But then my most easily brought to mind is a weather forecaster in a beautiful climate...
Similar workflow with Emacs and CIDER. CIDER automatic nREPL with TRAMP (edit files over SSH transparently, and run a remote REPL) is spectacular.
> AlphaGo didn't learn the rules of Go. It has no idea what those rules are, it's just been trained through trial and error not to break them. That's not the same thing. It's not approaching chess or Go as an intelligent thinking being, learning the rules and working out their consequences

There are indeed some people who learn chess by "reading the manual". Or learn a language by memorizing grammar rules. Or learn how to build a business by studying MBA business theories.

There are also tons of other people who do the opposite. They learn by simply doing and observing. I personally have no idea what an "adverb" is, but people seem perfectly happy with the way I write and communicate my thoughts. Would my English skills count as general intelligence, or am I just a pattern-recognition automaton? I won't dispute the pattern-recognition part, but I somehow don't feel like an automaton.

I can certainly see the potential upsides of learning some theory and reasoning from first principles. But that seems too high a bar for general intelligence. I would argue that the vast majority of human decisions and actions are made on the basis of pattern recognition, not reasoning from first principles.

One last note: "working out their consequences" sounds exactly like a lookahead decision tree
The difference with 32 bit software is that there's nothing forcing them to do it. With something like a port, there are physical limitations to the device, so abandoning older technologies at least gets you something in terms of form factor.

With 32 bit support, these exact same CPUs could easily still run 32 bit software as they have for years. The tradeoff I guess is that it makes the OS a bit easier to support from Apple's point of view. The advantage to the user is not clear.
I was reading the comments, and saw my exact issue with USB-C reflected there.

I use a Thunderbolt hub (TS3), and I drive a 5120 X 1440 Big Ol' Honker display.

The display has a USBC port, but if I use it, the resolution drops.

I learned to unplug the USBC port, and just use the DisplayPort. If I do that, the display works great. Full width at 60Hz.

It's not a gaming rig, so that's fine for me.
The naming AMD64 correctly was visionary, but what do we call broken x64?
Canadian podcasts to listen to – according to podcasters
> Honestly, what I see is that every single person in research is unhappy in some way

Would they be happier doing a different job? The grass is always greener...
I am a "super" smeller and I hate it. Particularly annoying at the gym as I seems to be only one who can tell who didn't shower or is using deo. Those who smell really bad I can smell even if they already left. Very strong smells also tend to linger for the rest of the day even if the source is long gone.

How do you tell someone they should use more deodorant without upsetting them?
Did it take a lot of time to develop the required discipline?
I wouldn't say lot of time. If you get a good mentor, it isn't a steep learning curve. Moreover, I program using a framework, it has lot of helper functions.

May i ask: what is your problem domain / field of work?
I develop SAAS apps and complex HA web applications/API. I am web developer - PHP(Laravel to be exact).
In many cases maybe. Personally I would love to play a game with a world inhabited by "individual" NPC AI:s, where they can influence the world as much as I can, with no specific act structure or story arc.

Some significant part of gaming is risk-free experimentation in a simulated world. The experiments possible are bounded by the simulation quality of the world. More realistic NPC behavior would open up for a lot more games.
Where in the spec is it written that USB-C hubs are not allowed? The USB-PD spec even has an example with a 3-port USB-C hub, showing how the power delivery negotiation with the downstream ports should work.
A child comes pre-programmed to put things in their mouth.
They also have very sophisticated reward functions built-in that identify tasty sugars entering their mouth.

Very quickly (assuming said child doesn't eat something too bad), in the absence of an external oracle, the child learns a very productive mental model of what an apple is.

This type of feedback loop seems eminently translatable to machine learning, assuming we can encode the concept space in a way that allows the model to be encoded and trained in a reasonable set of constraints
This meme about Python being slow needs to end. While it's not as fast as some other interpreted languages it is not slow for any general use case unless you're doing number crunching (which is slow in any interpreted/bytecode language anyway).
Both are true. Lingo doesn't spring from a vacuum.
there, something rust can't do, UI
We were still using this for classified chat in the Navy like 5 years ago. We didn't use the comic feature, just the normal IRC client. Eventually we followed other services and went to mIRC before the .gov paid some software company a ridiculous amount of money to make a very simple Java-based IRC client called Mako. It was like a software project you would do in an intermediate Java class, no bells and whistles. Ridiculous the amount of money available to SWEs who can navigate the contracting process.
I’m wondering also what could be done to help increase those wages?
Last night, I was ready to pull my hair out trying to figure out what dock + cable I need, so this article is quite the blessing. However, I’m still left confused on whether I need a USB3.1 usb-c cable or Thunderbolt 3 cable.

In light of the MBP16 announcement, I wanted to plan my purchase, including the peripherals. I currently have 2 4K monitors on a PC. I’d still like to use that PC from time to time, but it’d be convenient to do so through a dock. Enter the Targus dock that I happen to have received through work (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BPQKP8V/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_0b...) which claims to be Thunderbolt 3 “compatible.” However, none of their ports are specced to be such. Furthermore, the included host attachment USB-C up cable is only capable of transferring 5GB/s instead of the 40GB/s a la Thunderbolt 3.

Now, this article explains DisplayLink nicely, but what happens when I use the Targus Dock with and without a Thunderbolt 3 cable? Does it bypass DisplayLink and just go directly to the dual 4K monitors at 60hz? Or does it still fall victim of CPU overhead due to processing DisplayLink?
The new movies are hit or miss.

Rogue one was good, Episode 7 was okayish as a introduction to new arc and characters, Episode 8 was killed by playing it safe - it was such a wasted potential.

We don't talk about Solo. That move does not exist.
swift is open source, targets both macOS and Linux (and windows + android, but still early stage)
It helps if you can let go of the top places. I've done a PhD at a subtop institute, less well known, and I made a rule of not working in the weekend/evening (unless it was my own initiative, which was rarely), and I had a blast. I'm doing a postdoc now at another subtop place, which will be the end of my academic career because getting tenure of course still requires more than average, which I'm happy to admit I am.

Joing a top institute is starting training with olympians: most of us can't keep up, but that's fine. Join a local fitness club instead, and suddenly you can. You won't win medals, but you'll still learn a shit-ton, do good research and have fun.
Elastic has 1800+ distributed employees, should probably be in your list
I think you missed the artificial part of AGI.
If only the microcode workaround affected just Jcc...

> The MCU prevents jump instructions from being cached in the Decoded ICache when the jump instructions cross a 32-byte boundary or when they end on a 32-byte boundary. In this context, Jump Instructions include all jumptypes: conditional jump (Jcc), macro-fusedop-Jcc(where opis one ofcmp, test, add, sub, and, inc, ordec), direct unconditional jump, indirect jump, direct/indirect call, and return

These patches are just to recover some of the performance penalty...
Clearly, intel64
Can you provide a single good example? Every example I know of is bad for building occupants and looks terrible at street level.
The child does know that the apple is a thing though. That it’s a separate object that can be carried around. Computer vision ML systems don’t even know that!

All they know is how to recognize a common pattern on a pixel grid, after seeing a large number of examples, and then draw a box around it.

The fact that a child has a body and can manipulate the world with all 5 senses working in concert should not be underestimated.
I thought 'Faragism' is in the rise.
Uh, yes. Avoid that one. We have ZBooks and these Docks at work and we all have all kind of troubles. But the funny thing is, we all have different troubles. Mostly the keyboard or one or two monitors does not work ..
I'm sure that a lot is wrong with our current eduction system for teens and that giving some amount of responsibility to teens would be good. But the claim that adolescents are as good or even better than adults when it comes to decision making or responsibility is just plain wrong and there is plenty of physical evidence that disproves it.

When teens reach their adolescence, the functioning of the frontal lobe in the brain is tuned down. The frontal lobe is what gives people self control; tune it down and you become more impulsive, emotional and risk seeking. The frontal lobe only returns to its normal mode when people reach their early twenties.

Source: e.g https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?Con...
> And given AGI would come from some completely new breakthrough not related to the current practice of "machine learning"

I’m not so sure of that. Intuitively AGI feels like being able to generalize and automatize what is already done in specialized problems, like having a meta program that that orchestrate and apply specialized subsystems, and adapt existing one. If playing Go, Starcraft, Speech recognition, Computer vision are already of the same building blocks, it feels like having a meta program that‘s just trained to recognize the type of problem and route it to the appropriate subsystem with some parameters tweaks is a path to AGI. In the dog example you don’t even need to have subsystem that are that better than humans individually.

Edit: my point is I feel like AGI is the interface and orchestration between specialized subsystems we already know how to create. Trying to train a big network like generalizing Alpha Go is a dead-end, but having simpler sub networks ready to be trained at a specific problem seems feasible. Much like the brain is at first seen like a big network, but in practice there are specialized areas. The key is how are these networks interfaced and which information they exchange to self adapt. Maybe these interfaces themselves are sub networks specialized in the problem of interfacing and “tuning hyperparameters”.

In short: I think when we’ll figure out how to automate Kaggle competitions (recognize the pattern of the problem, then instantiate and train the relevant subsystem) we’ll be a good step forward AGI. We don’t need better performance e.g. in image recognition, just how to figure orchestration.