skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you have a phone that got slower, but works.

I would assume that like most Android phones and (2000s) windows laptops the phone is just old because of age and I need to buy a new one to get faster one.

> And you got phone which just switches off randomly.

I would assume that something is wrong with the phone and would get it looked into at-least once to know what the issue is. Apple would (presumably[1]) tell me its just the battery which needs to change nothing else and I would do just that.

[1] I have read articles where it is mentioned that even geniuses were unaware of the throttling feature.
Writing 1M records in 60 seconds with AWS DynamoDB and a single Lambda
We have been able to, and pretty quickly, after the F00F and FDIV bugs.
Yes, your fun fact is in Baez's TWF week 92 (1996):

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week92.html

and the core proposition goes back to Penrose.
POSIX compliance in no way makes environmental variables in shell scripting more usable and readable, its usually the opposite.

I say this as somebody who has written shell scripts for almost 20 years.

Constructs like

if [ "X${str1}" = "X${str2}" ]

to avoid things exploding because a zero length variable might exist is a stupid and ugly hack.

Not to mention the hell that is trying to use a user supplied filename safely in shellscript. (for the uninitiated, a unix filename can contain any character, and any sequence of bytes besides / and 0x00, including newlines, backspaces, shell meta-charachters and so many more exciting things)
That's a bit of a pain if you put that into muscle memory and use other Vi interface software that can't be remapped.

Personally I'm in the Caps to Ctrl and use Ctrl-[ for escape camp. Works in my shell, REPLs and in my database clients and anywhere else with a readline interface that isn't Vim.

Even with that I still want a physical escape key.
time spent with others is not always "pure waste", Peer Learning can let you see the things you already see but now with a different perspective, from a different angle. Besides that it gives you enough experience to practice real world collaborations.
And yes I agree, there's no silver bullet in education.
The number of Apple apologists on Hacker News is really jarring indeed. I don't think it's too much to expect a decent 1080p webcam on a ~$4000 USD laptop touted to be "the best notebook" and for professional use.
Even then you likely want something better than a webcam, those cams are of such poor quality. Even if you get a Logitech C930 you're paying a lot for relatively little. They're not really meant (they certainly can be used for it though) recording as much as they are for streaming/conference purposes. Image quality there isn't nearly as important as it is for recordings. A cheap camcorder will likely give you a much better image quality. Or hell, get one of those LED rings that you can mount your phone in and you're better off.
At least they didn't try to patent "two screens with thin bezels next to each other"...
The Strange Life and Mysterious Death of a Virtuoso Coder
I don't think that's a disagreement, I think you're right. Most of the benefit someone like that would get from their competence in Chess or Go would be incidental ones. In fact I would say your experience confirms my understanding of this, optimizing for a single domain in the way Alphago does or even in the way humans do, has little to do with general intelligence.
Algorand host Hackathons in a bid to attract Developers
For those not understanding the context of the parent's comment, this HN post originally linked to @damageboy's https://twitter.com/damageboy/status/1194751035136450560 tweet showing a 20% performance hit, but was later changed by mods to link to the phoronix.com article.
I've reached my article limit and it won't show me the full text even with js disabled.

Do people realise that interested readers aren't getting to their content because they chose Medium?
That world will not happen unless every single device including entry level phones and size-constrained devices somehow magically include all the circuitry required to handle all the different alternate modes.

Also, as far as I understand there just isn’t enough pins to support all the modes at once so trade offs have to be made...
At $100/kWh, a 200kwh battery pack is just $20k. I expect the motor is approximately $5k. An F150 runs anywhere from $28k-$70k. Which means that the base F150 without gas engine is around $23k. Add in the electric, and you’re up to $48k - still well in the middle of the F150 price range. The electric version would have incredible torque and reasonable range.

Even if the gas version gets 20mpg @ $3/gal, over 200k miles, you’re spending $30k on gas. Electric is likely 1/3 the cost, saving $20k over the lifetime. This puts the electric truck on par with the lowest end F150 for TCO.

We are at the inflection point for battery prices driving TCO wins across major new sectors. The conversion rate to EV will accelerate.
Firefox Almost Won the Second Browser War. Almost
Each means all three of the conditions. So they have to satisfy B as well:

> (B) that the worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business; and

This pretty clearly seems to render the arrangement illegal. Does this change your view at all?
Thanks, interesting. But so far I don't see such a big advantage over LuaJIT or the Lua language that would justify creating a new, incompatible fork. It's just another variant, not necessarily a better one. Or have I missed something which is so much better than the original?
yes, no popup.
Thes "spotted dog" pub one looked interesting to me and quite nice in a mix of old-new but it follows on to what you said about incorporated vs the freestanding pointless stuff that doesnt match up and has a gap to the new building. It looks horrendous.
I know the subject has been beaten to death but still, as someone who was pleasantly surprised by the butterfly keyboard, I am living a nightmare with my just 2 month old MacBook Pro with keys starting to lose travel and I feel like it’s only a matter of time before bein completely stuck. To the point I’m now afraid to use the keyboard, feeling like everytime I use it without the external keyboard keys become more stuck. I’m so disappointed and was misguided on how the new generation had less problems.
An addition for anyone in the Baltimore/DC area: the Ellicott City Volunteer Fire Department has an annual model train display that they set up every year. Believe it’s from right after thanksgiving through the new year. It’s not enormous from a square footage view, but it is absolutely packed with detail. They even have a scavenger hunt sheet they give to kids to see if they can find stuff like all the Santas, Harry Potter miniatures in a hidden cave, etc. Well worth a visit if you’re in the area!
Worse, it reads like a love letter to a $264.87 billion company, a company responsible for this:

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
The real problem here is a deep political schizophrenia in modern society, or at least parts of it, which demands decisions be deliberately biased towards the outcomes they politically desire. These people then turn around and describe results that are not biased as "biased", which is utterly Orwellian.

I think your comment shows that you understand this. You accept that a decision may be correct, when measured in totally cold and statistical terms. But such decisions would not "change the status quo" and that would be a problem.

But that position is a deeply political one. Why should decisions at banks, tech firms, or wherever be deliberately biased to change the status quo? It's social engineering, a field with a long and terrible track record of catastrophic failure. Failure both to actually change reality, and failure in terms of the resulting human cost.

Injecting bias into otherwise unbiased decisions by manipulating ML models, or by manipulating people (threatening them if they don't toe the line), is never a good thing.
While this is true, I feel that Netlify et al also make it very easy to get started. All you need to do is find a repository that has Jekyll configured the way you like it and clone that. Bonus points if it has Gitlab pages defined.
We must get pictures! You could probably do a Show HN post.
> I now need to daisy chain converters to use my PS/2 mouse on my MacBook Pro though, so that's a bit of a hassle.

Out of curiosity, what PS/2 mouse do you use?
Employee Data Theft: Information Commissioner Urged Court to Favor Supermarket
It depends.

Unless the author took preventive measures to prevent this, key lookups tend to be vulnerable to timing attacks, for example.
Intel-SA-00210
This is a pretty cool idea - I'm not sure how intrusive the OS notification are going to be but I'm willing to give it a shot as long as they don't collect any personal info on me.

I just signed up as a content creator and added my website as a channel - interestingly my website already had some bat associated with it. Does this mean that some people have already donated some BAT to it?
Machine Learning in Elixir
Who is your target user? I think that if user is able to install jupyter notebook, pandas and load data with python, there is a high chance that user can also search pandas documentation and write few lines of code.

Anyway, I like the idea of making UI for Pandas, but I think that there should be more comprehensive software to make data science easier for non-coders.
xkcd: Exploits of a Mom
HTTPS: //adamharkus.com/music-benefit-older-adults/
I self-host two blogs [0][1]. I even made the static site generator I wrote for the second one available [2].

Each time I visit a Medium page I wonder why people are still using it.

[0] http://johnbokma.com/blog/

[1] https://plurrrr.com/

[2] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog
And Microsoft 3D Movie Maker! I spent so much time making "movies" with that thing!
If you want to buy good drill please click<a href="https://goodsspec.com/wen-4214-12-inch-variable-speed-drill-... rel="bookmark">WEN 4214 12-Inch Variable Speed Drill Press</a> that will be shown in https://goodsspec.com
Important to note that the Brave browser + BAT are also achieving a more private browsing experience compared to a corporate browser and 3rd party ads allowing the tech to be abused to gather as much data on you as possible.
I can plug in a X1 carbon thinkpad in my monitor (some ultrawide dell) with USB-C support just fine. I then get video, audio, USB (the monitor has a hub where I have mouse and keyboard connected) _and_ charging/powering my laptop over a single link.

Works today with Linux here! It's just magical, I tell you.

The world started to happen already, it may not become all that good and 100% universal soon or anytime, but good enough for a wide spread adoption.
Seems appropriate if you're openly flaunting very clear rules from the airline.
They don't need to be much more advanced than you. Also the article is talking about adults not children and also adults who have chosen the topic that they wish to learn so it is reasonable to expect that they will put some effort into the task. Very often it is much more effective to have another student explain something to another student than have the teacher try to explain it to a whole class or lecture theatre simply because the student realizes which bits are difficult because they have recently gone through the process of learning it. Anyway, this surely does not happen in a vacuum, both peers can surely use other resources in addition.

In a slightly different but related field in my career as an electronics engineer and software developer I have always found it valuable to have manuals written largely by users who have themselves recently learnt how to use my products rather than trying to write it all myself. Of course I give assistance and do a lot of proofreading but having the users teach each other is efficient because they can concentrate on the things that are actually important rather than the ones that were difficult, expensive, or intellectually interesting to create.
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FCC Enforcement Actions Against Pirate Radio by Location
For some calendars, that's this year.
Why is American internet access much more expensive than the rest of the world?
With obscure form factors, you’re lucky if anything fits your needs. I simply want a tablet with Linux pre-installed, I’d pay iPad price for one if it existed. Pine 64 is nice and I’ll probably buy a few when they come out to play with. But it’s too underpowered to be a daily driver.

This project, well I can’t imagine why they spent all that time cramming a keyboard into it.
Too bad he didn't go for his runner up. cost effective/mass produceable fission reactors could save humanity.
Is there a place where I can find how much performance my Haswell CPU has lost due to all of these 'fixes'?
Then the hub requires an additional power connector that goes to the wall.

It doesn't mean such a device would be impossible to make.
Here is the Q&A: https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/blob/maste...

Another way to compare is as follows:

https://www.openhub.net/p/openapi-generator vs https://www.openhub.net/p/swagger-codegen
My house was built in the 1870s so I'm quite familiar with most of the things I mentioned above! Thankfully it's not in a conservation area though. I certainly think there needs to be a balance between the needs of modern occupants of a building and the desire to preserve the heritage of traditional buildings. If there isn't an acknowledgement of the need to modernise these buildings they fall into near museum status. I don't think that is good for modern day occupants or for those who would wish the home to be maintained into the future.
AI for Banks with Ana and Christian from Symbiotica AI [audio]
I played around a bit with J as a language and found it really lovely but unfortunately not really applicable to my problem domain (CRUD Enterprise Apps)

I guess maybe some people are really in love with the symbolic notation of APL (vs J) but I would think it would be terribly limiting.
I prefer mapping caps to Ctrl over escape because it leaves me with loads of other useful shortcuts in both the terminal and Vim.

e.g. Ctrl-o to pop out of insert mode for 1 command only.

or

ctrl-w: delete the last word.

ctrl-u: delete to the beginning of the line.

ctrl-d or ctrl-t: change indent level.

ctrl-h: backspace without leaving the home row.

ctrl-m: without leaving the home row.

There's loads more that are useful in Vim. Of course you've still got the built in Ctrl keys but having ctrl in place of caps is really ergonomic for me.
The #1 thing is it led to an elegant notion of how to compare intelligence (or rather, a parametrized family of intelligence comparators). There's a theorem called Arrow's Theorem, which basically says there's no good way to decide elections between more than 2 candidates. There are a handful of requirements an election-deciding method should have, and no method satisfies all those requirements. But Arrow's theorem has a loophole, discovered in the 1970s: if there are infinitely many voters, then there are methods of deciding the election which satisfy all Arrow's requirements. Economists in the 1970s exactly characterized these methods, in terms of a mathematical device called an "ultrafilter". Taking their characterization, a definition for relative intelligence is immediate--it writes itself.

If you're already familiar with ultrafilters, then the relative intelligence definition is SO elegant you're like, "Whoah. How can a definition of relative intelligence be that simple?" Of course, if you're not familiar with ultrafilters, then the definition is just as complicated as the definition of ultrafilters, which is quite complicated. So the definition of relative intelligence is like a simple computer program which imports from a complicated library in order to achieve that simplicity.
Ask HN: Resources for Understanding Modern Hardware
After watching Mike Acton's talk on Data-Oriented Design (https://youtu.be/rX0ItVEVjHc), I would like to at least try it on some of my own code. One of the principles is "If you don't understand the hardware, you can't reason about the cost of solving the problem". I don't understand the hardware.

Do you have any suggestions for things to read to a) understand on a lower level how my hardware works (modern x86_64 desktop if that is necessary to know) and b) understand the code generated by the compiler. I don't want to become an assembly programmer, I just want to be able to read the assembly output and reason about the real cost of the involved operations.

The closest thing I've found are the Write Great Code books (https://nostarch.com/greatcode.htm) by Randall Hyde. This seems to be what I want, but a) they add up to a whopping 1100 pages and b) I'm wondering how much of that content (if any) is now outdated (from 2004/2006, respectively).

What other resources can you recommend?
Neo Geo
The cat needs flying less and walking more
Penrose's paper:

https://mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/papers/papers/graphical-bi...
As others pointed out, the NFLT only applies if the environments are uniformly distributed. In the paper, they are not uniformly distributed.
Who maintains these dumb things now you've got two buildings to pressure wash and they're in such close proximity that it's going to be difficult
And what does exactly?
I nor her have any specific preference for diamonds. I only explained why she, and many people, like them: it’s as dumbly simply as “sparkle, sparkle”.
I can highly recommend the eponymous book by the speaker. It is a long read, but a fascinating read. Here is a link to the publisher's page on it: https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/th...
I had a meeting with Bill Joy some time ago. He typed on his laptop the whole time (presumably taking notes). I wanted to ask him what he had in his (or if even still uses VI/vi derivatives)

But of course I didn’t.
x64_broken. Tell it like it is.
I was talking about the disks, sorry I didn't make that clear.

If the rust is too extensive then the car will fail its periodic test. All cars in Norway must be tested every two years (first test when the car is four years old) and the condition of the brake disks is one of the check points.

I agree that the pads will last much longer with regen but the pads are relatively cheap compared to the disks.
> Plenty of computers now ship with no other connectors than USB-C. In other words HDMI is not ubiquitous

Sadly. Mine has USB-C and HDMI. I don't think I will buy a device without HDMI in the next 15 years.
As usual whenever this comes up, no alternatives recommended.
And the truth is, all alternatives are worse currently. They either require way more out-of-scope effort, or draw in a lot less potential readers.
Why not “Intel Architecture 64-bit” to be clear? You can even shorten it to “IA-64”.
> The next best (least worst) option is probably a self-hosted WordPress blog with zero/few plugins.

If you already have dev experience, I'd argue that rolling out a static blog with a pre-made Hugo/Jekyll theme (lots of Medium-ish clones) would be just as fast as rolling out a self-hosted WordPress blog.
Oh so did I. I was always stuck with the trial version, but it was loads of fun.
I note that none of these companies appear to have any employees in Asia...
FWIW, my understanding is that XBEGIN/XEND/XABORT are still available on the affected CPUs. Only XACQUIRE/XRELEASE are disabled. So the clock isn't really reset.

I, too, wish TSX was more ubiquitous. I'm working on a kernel, and was hoping to use TSX to greatly simplify the logic of safely reading user memory from kernelspace - catching various exception cases without going through the real exception handler.

Turns out, none of the machines I have at my disposal have TSX - not my Desktop PC nor my server machine. So, RIP that plan, I guess.

What you want is absolutely doable with TSX. The overhead might be significant though. I wouldn't be surprised if locking a mutex was faster.
Not sure why but I expect a big storm when Medium does something "outrageous"/"politically incorrect" and then people would move in mass. We need to calculate teh cost of a possible migration in the future, what happens if you delete your account in protest or they will delete it for you.
Here you are, straight from Microsoft's website, as I downloaded it back in 96 or whatever:

https://ipfs.eternum.io/ipfs/QmPhBJ9Dg91wH9NUiF4dKVewazL6g6c...
The Sea of Nodes and the HotSpot JIT – Cliff Click
Too little too late. By now, Apple has lost me. The only Apple HW I might (theoretically) still buy is a Mac Pro, but not in practice, since you can't get it with a 32-bit capable OS any more. So fuck Apple. I'll have to get Windoze hardware and put a BSD Unix on it.
He also spreads misinformation.

EDIT: Ok, I suppose I should back my claim up.

Joe Rogan has pushed the “DMT is produced in our pineal gland” narrative, but there is no evidence to back this up. I’ll report a comment I made elsewhere and also link a separate reddit discussion which cites various sources. I will note that, in fairness to Joe, he said this a while ago, so perhaps he’s not so quick to jump the gun now, I don’t know, I don’t listen to his podcasts, but perhaps he’s better now.

“We all have it in our bodies” — This is an often repeated myth that has never been proven. The myth originates from Rick Strassman’s work, who himself has said that he only detected a precursor, not DMT itself and that everything else he wrote about it was hypothetical speculation. There have, apparently, been recent studies that found DMT synthesised in rat brains, but it has not yet been proven whether this translates to humans or not. Cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Indre Viskontas stated that while DMT shares a similar molecular structure to seritonin and melatonin, there is no evidence that it is made inside the brain. Similarly, Dr. Bryan Yamamoto of the neurosciencedepartment at the University of Toledo said: “I know of no evidence that DMT is produced anywhere in the body. It’s chemical structure us similar to serotonin and melatonin, but their endogenous actions are very different from DMT.”

This reddit discussion also links various sources, although I didn’t check them all myself: https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/mwz2h/dmt_has_nev...
A brand new combustion engine can be bought from JEGS or Summit Racing for less than $4,000 USD.

A used engine can be had for less than $1,000, and it often comes attached to a car if you are not interested in adding it to a different vehicle.

Electric cars are really cool, but I don't think hundreds of millions of Americans will be running out to switch until maybe 11 years from now, which is how long it took the USA to go from "nobody has a smart phone" to "everyone has a smart phone".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-photon_physics
The Mind of a Mathematician
Old man yells at clouds
I think the idea is that you would have many environments and each one is a voter.

If an AGI candidate wins the board game vote but no others (the hunter-gathering vote, the walking and crawling vote, the "publish or perish" vote, etc), it will be trounced by something that is not quite so good at board games but is more flexible and adaptable - i.e., general.

I'm an AGI skeptic myself, but I do think that's the best attempt at a formalism for ranking AGI attempts that I've seen so far (disclaimer: as a skeptic I haven't exactly done a deep dive into the field).
For a "fair" company their cookie opt-out should be more user friendly.
I mean, he could just give theses away and not breeding with them, how hard can it be to separate 2 dogs?
Per machine, that is 4,250k rps. For any http service we write in Go, that lines up with our general sizing estimates before we start work on a generic new service. After we start to hit the service with load, we start profiling and go from there. Sometimes it gets faster and sometimes it gets slower, but it is usually in the right ball park.