skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whilst I agree with your general point, some of what you said isn't quite right.

Human sacrifice has a long history. Though it was, as far as I'm aware, a rare and drastic thing to do. For example there were a few instances in classical Roman history when human slaves were sacrificed. This was done in very dire situations, think pandemic or important battle, and often in earlier Roman periods. It was also actually quite common in Aztec and Mayan, though in differing degrees. They didn't however use volcanoes

Also in these classical times human slavery was much more wide spread and accepted. It was a very different situation to modern and colonial slavery. Some examples of it being wide spread being helots in ancient Greece, and the slave economy of Rome. The influx of slaves in the gallic wars lead to the political upheaval that let Cesar come to power, with "cheap" labor taking work from Roman citizens.

To summarize, having flowers in a vase is completely normal, and likening it to slavery or human sacrifice is dumb. Also history is interesting!
> not possible to do that with jet airplanes

How's about a jet airplane that runs on cut flower waste? taps head
They are necessary to get Microsoft to sign your keys, which is necessary to get Linux distributions to boot on modern hardware without getting the user to install custom keys (and that is a requirement because there is no standard way to configure UEFI Keys -- that's why the mokutils exist).

And I have to stress that they do actually solve real security problems and aren't of themselves a bad idea. The fact that you can inject unsigned code into the kernel as root is not a good thing.
Facebook has released a map of coronavirus symptoms crowdsourced from its users
Cape Town is becoming a serious tech hub
Billy Brothers clocks, as a child in northeast Iowa that place felt world-famous.
The cloud and water look like photographs. Everything else, including the island, seems to
be digital drawings.
ACPI contains code!

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/br...

> ACPI defines an interpreted language (ACPI source language, or ASL) and an execution environment (ACPI virtual machine) for describing system devices and features, and their platform-specific controls, in an OS-agnostic way.

> ASL is used to define named objects in the ACPI namespace, and the Microsoft ASL compiler is used to produce ACPI machine language (AML) byte code for transmission to the operating system in the DSDT.

Linux drivers run this code via the acpi_evaluate_* functions.

https://lwn.net/Articles/367630/

Microsoft defined another interface on top of ACPI called WMI. Unfortunately it seems to be widely used.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ke...

https://lwn.net/Articles/391230/

On Linux it's easy to extract and decompile the DSDT:

$ cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT > dsdt.dat
$ iasl -d dsdt.dat

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DSDT
Thank you for the link. It's great that we get these numbers now. The relevant table for this discussion seems to be table 10. From this it does become clear that a majority of all people who died did not have any severe comorbidities.

However, playing devils advocate I would argue that 1) not all comorbidities are known. In this study they write: "Very severe comorbidities must have been evident within the six months prior to critical care and documented at or prior to critical care".

This is why I think pathology studies are needed. There are healthy young people who suddenly die while playing football because they have undiagnosed heart problems. Given the relatively low number of young people who die, I am not sure we can exclude this right now.

2) I could not find a breakdown of age for those people who were classified as having severe comorbidities. Even though this number is likely low, I wonder what the overlap is between severe comorbidities and those who died young.

Having said all this. I also believe that current behaviour should be conservative if there is uncertain data. Discussion should be allowed though.
To put your question in a footwear-oriented perspective: Out of curiousity, why do you prefer shoes made of nylon or leather over those made of lead?
Americans have Texas-sized carbon footprints–here’s why
You don't just publish a study and have it cemented as fact to end all other studies.
I do think it's worth adding, though, that from what I've heard (and given my own experiences), the culture in Oxford/Cambridge is not at all representative of University culture generally in British Universities.
Yeah, I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, just that I was really surprised by it. In the entirety of my Polish education it was drilled into our heads that we had to be super good at algebra for example, because "no one at university will wait for you to learn, you have to know it before you start" - and then I went to a British uni, and well, people did wait for us to catch up, which lead to me having a very relaxed 1st year, while I know from my friends that at Polish unis the 1st year is actually the worst one as that's where a lot of people get kicked out for failing exams and there is a lot of catching up to do. In a British uni it was the opposite - I have no idea what you'd need to do to get kicked out of the course in 1st year, I've never heard about that happening to anyone, while in some Polish courses the attrition rate is above 50% in the first year.
As I’ve aged I’ve discovered that new pop music tends to be a reflection of the current youth culture and it’s something I’m not interested in. I still listen to new music produced by artists that were in their prime when I was younger though. They aren’t culturally relevant but either am I any longer.

I’ve also found that I enjoy digging into older music And genres I would have never considered when I was younger. Robert Johnson is about as primitive as can be but it truely is fantastic blues, a genre I never much cared for. Or finding different folk music from way back, or genres like Bluegrass and their fast picking guitar legends like Norman Blake.

So yeah it’s not new music but it’s new to me. But what I wouldn’t give to hear what Kurt Cobain would be making today if he were still alive.
> most new music from 2000-2020 is utter crap

This statement is easy to react to and argue against. I almost did. But it’s true. The same is true for music from 1900-1920, or any era.

The difference is we have a record of all that “utter crap” now, and it’s ever present. If you want to find some old music that is crap, go to a consignment store and pick out some random $0.50 records. You can’t find baroque “utter crap” because who would bother to hand-copy the music notation for music of that quality?

Also, time will filter out the great works.

Digging for new music can help keep stuff alive that deserves to stand the test of time. It just takes more work than some people want to do, which is fine. Keep digging up cool computer science topics, so I can go to hacker news rather than sift through all the “utter crap” out there.
For those not getting the pun: 'bloem' (pronounced 'bloom') is the Dutch word for flower ;)
Let me answer by rewriting your question:

Why are stiffy drives not enough and what are the use cases of CD-Roms?
For programs running on the CPU, the programmer cannot manually control memory transfers across the memory hierarchy, so adding that ability to your programming language does not solve any problems.

So I'd say most languages don't expose it because there is no need for it.

Many languages for GPUs do expose the memory hierarchy to programmers (e.g. CUDA, OpenCL, even OpenAcc).

> What is the core problem that has not yet been solved?

That using the memory hierarchy efficiently and correctly when writing GPU programs in those languages is hard and error prone. It is trivial to write code that performs horribly and/or has data-races and other forms of UB in CUDA, e.g., when dealing with global/shared/local memory.

Sequoia attempted to split the kernel in the algorithms at the different levels of the memory hierarchy, and the memory owned by the kernel at the different levels, as well as how to split this memory as you "refine" the kernel, e.g., from kernel (global) -> thread blocks (global, shared, constant) -> warps (global, shared, constant, shared registers) -> threads (global, shared, constant, shared registers, local memory).

For many algorithms (e.g. GEMM, convolutions), how you partition global memory into thread blocks, and which parts of global memory one loads into shared memory and how, has a huge impact on performance.
New Hampton, checking in.
> even if peopled needed flowers they can't get them because the store is closed

If people needed them, the store wouldn't be closed as being a non-essential business.
Reminds me of a YouTube video which said every time someone gets beamed in Star Trek they are killed and someone else is created with their body and mind somehow. If that were possible, why wouldn’t they just store backups and “restore” from backup when someone died?
I have seen it being referred various times that musical interest and emotional connection to it really develops and peaks around the age 14

E.g.:
https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/is-14-a-magic-...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/opinion/sunday/favorite-s...

I think the book "This Is Your Brain on Music" also talks about it, but I haven't read it yet.
https://www.amazon.com/This-Your-Brain-Music-Obsession/dp/04...

I have never dug deeper on it, but it rings very true for my own case and friends I talked with about it. To the music that awed me when I was a teenager, most intensely so Scandinavian melodic death metal, I still to this day have a stronger emotional reaction than anything I listen to before or after that period of my life. Even tough I don't listen to those songs anymore that often and there are plenty of modern songs in similar styles that I do think are better in many aspects, that just don't have the same goosebumps effect anymore.

And I think the main difference here is me, not the music that has changed, that has gotten better or worse.
Nushell 0.13 (shell written in Rust) – aliases, math, startup commands, and more
If you don't need to have your data in the cloud, there's also the option of just buying the drives, backing up your data and then putting them in a box, no need to keep them spinning unless you need frequent access to said data.

B2 is $0.06/GB/year, while a regular HDD would cost ~$0.03/GB/drive-lifespan.
> btw, I don’t know how I actually got these invites. Either from math competitions, or through my math teachers who found a way to get rid of me ;)

Almost certainly from the math competitions. Nikolay Konstantinov [1] had his apartment full of boxes of punched cards with data on every high school student who produced at least a partial solution to any of the advanced problems at those competitions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Konstantinov
I'm not surprised. They're a publicly traded company with a fiduciary to operate in the shareholder's best interest not be some moral beacon of truth.
Consider adding something else to your life, particularly something where you are helping others. Is there any place you can volunteer? What are your interests?

Consider taking this assessment. It's helped a lot of people get their thoughts straight and make better decisions about their future.

https://www.understandmyself.com/
There is no migration from Perl 5 to Perl 6, but mainly because Perl 6 has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media).

That being sad, you can integrate Perl code in Raku (using the Inline::Perl5 module), and vice-versa.
Do you have more information about that startups course? Looks very promising by the looks of it, but the resources they provide in the schedule section are a bit sparse :p
Surely most of those lines of codes are optional modules and device drivers - so aren't compiled for most users or this test?
> not even in the 80s

Not the OP but personally some of most innovative music can be found in the mainstream Italian scene of the late '60s - early '70s (including music film), you've got former "musique concrète" composers (or people interested in that type of music) like Piero Umiliani, Piero Piccioni, Armando
Trovajoli or Ennio Morricone himself now composing music for the masses, I don't think anything similar has happened since then (I'd dare say that nowadays the "music for the masses" has nothing to do with avant-garde music). Add an extraordinary voice like Mina's to one of Morricone's compositions and you can get one of the best songs of all time, "Se telefonando" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXX4PdW7dLM
Do it. If you can afford a short amount with no job. You are skilled, you will get a new job. And once you got rid of the old one, your mind is open for new inspiration. You won't regret it.
Well, Facebook just taught every country in the world how they can be controlled to take down content that country doesn’t like.
>This data has never been, would never be, and will never be sold/rented/etc. to advertisers.

I chortled a bit. Everything beyond has is questionable, though I believe there is sincerity about past actions and maybe even ethical business considerations.

If location data can be used for supplemental revenue in a fashion that won't hurt revenue more than help revenue, it will, it's only a question of when. It may or may not be advertising, but it absolutely will be used for all sorts of functions beyond fraud detection (if it's not already), especially once Stripe is publicly traded and/or gobbled up by some other massive business.
There's a big difference in quality of British universities
Just tangentially related to the topic at hand, but I have a question to ask HN.
The main trans-Pacific cable connection between Vietnam and the US tends to be damaged several times a year (3<n<10 is my guess), which severely slow downs any connection to the outside of Vietnam during the time it is under maintenance. This always happens suspiciously during major political holiday (Independence day and the likes), so Vietnamese has just assumed that is a blatant censorship attempt. The wiki page has an outage section you can read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia-America_Gateway , it doesn't list anything beyond 2018, but the situation is the same.

So my question is, how likely it is that the cable system are just really shitty? Or is the assumption of bald-faced censorship correct?
> Prolog is rather limiting;

How is it limiting?
Voice cloning is becoming the new normal in digital education
>I think on average the difference between a high school student from Russia and US is negligible

I don't think so, compared to the difference between the US and my country (which is western but closer to USSR/Russia regarding math curriculum). I think you overestimate what the average US high school student learns...
Their response wasn't really correlated with the ban. They were moving in that direction for months, despite the fact that the problem with their platform wasn't the ecosystem of properly marked porn posted by creators, but the avalanche of untagged porn (some illegal) posted by bots which they were unable or unwilling to do anything about (the illegal stuff is why Apple banned their app). When they started the ban, their filter was awful and basically just pushed all the creators off the site (even those who weren't posting porn). As far as I know the porn bots are still there, because the false positive and false negative rate of their filter is atrocious.
Survey: 41% of global startups have less than 3 months of cash
I’ve been looking for something like this. Too bad that there’s no Firefox extension.

Using a bookmarklet is inconvenient because I don‘t have bookmarks displayed by default. Screen real estate is valuable.
A normal user shouldn't have to install a driver manually
Lambda School is in the education business - they run private computer skills courses.
How to design a landing page. Top tips to make your landing page effective
How do they ensure that output of both compilers is correct?

e.g LLVM output is A, but the new one is B, how do they deal with different results between backends?
I would phrase it as "mispriced" as has much of the consumption that has occured for the last couple of hundred years. Seems the atmosphere is starting to call in the line of credit.
5G has extremely low latency, enabling anything that would benefit from that: gaming, telemedicine, low-latency video calls (could potentially allow live music collaboration over video chat, for example)
Me asking myself "how long is this article" before I start reading it is a distraction? Too bad, I can't help but want to know. I could've learned that instantly by unconsciously glancing at the scroll indicator, but instead I have to move the whole content down for it to appear (possibly with a whizz-bang animation, no less), introducing friction and further distracting me from the content. Good job, I guess.
Sure, but it's bounded by human creativity, and there's anyway a difference between reliably and deterministically computing the function, and a sort of approximation with repeated guesses, or reaching a certain confidence.

I only have vague recollections of numerical analysis, I remembered the Newton-Raphson method (no good: we don't have an oracle for f'(x), just f(x)) and stumbled into the Runge-Kutta Wikipedia page which I'd forgotten about (also no good).

But it seems like a good strategy would be to test one number, guess assuming constant, test a second, guess assuming linear, test a third, guess assuming first order polynomial, and so on.

In the presence of step changes or the like though I suppose there's nothing you can do.
Then pay to support a creator on patreon and consume their content elsewhere. (I don’t think this is ideal, but your summation made it sound like a false dichotomy.)
> This data has never been, would never be, and will never be sold/rented/etc. to advertisers.

What about to companies or people who are not advertisers?
I can’t decide whether the aliasing is part of the aesthetic or not.
> unfulfilled and unsatisfied

If you're not satisfied, maybe you should try Satisfactory - it's a FPS lite-version of Factorio :)
Initial Benchmarks of Fedora 32 Linux Performance
What is the hardest thing in Computer Science?
"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." — Phil Karlton
Are all those people really essential, or could we perhaps do with fewer people too?
Well, that explains it. I've been using FB on VPN for more than a month until last week. At the time I thought that the outages were due to increased traffic - perhaps they were routing locally and hadn't provisioned enough resources. I wish they didn't buckle.
Those were the plans. In the meantime, Perl 6 has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media).

Integrating Perl code in Raku can be done with the excellent Inline::Perl5 module (https://modules.raku.org/dist/Inline::Perl5:cpan:NINE). In fact, that efficiency of that module basically killed the "parse Perl code in Raku" project.
I don't know what you tell you - most people don't think about user interfaces like this. As we can clearly tell by people not designing them like this anymore.
March 2020 Internet Disruption Power Outages, Cable and Fiber Cuts
This combination of "Nonprofit" and "Permanent" is an oxymoron. And the fact that the people who run this operation don't realize this means this initiative is doomed.

These people use museum endowment as an analogy, but especially judging from that analogy I don't think they have any idea how this thing works. Storing someone else's data forever is completely different from how museum is run. The analogy is so ridiculous that it's not even funny.

Where this analogy may apply is sites like Waybackmachine, because they're at least doing it for the greater good. But I'm pretty sure these guys will throw away some random guy's private file archive the moment they run out of money.

Normally I'm all for silly experiments that come from ignorance, and I'm fine with various consumer startups that come and go along with their user data, because sometimes this ignorance leads to success. But in this case these people are playing with someone else's data AND asking for money, and claiming to store these forever in my view is no different from a scam artist. Intentional or not, this to me is no different from a scam.

I would say the companies who are at least honest about exploiting our data such as Google and Facebook are more ethical.
The e5 also doesn't have the sensor that tells it when the bin is full, which the i7 does. iRobot's marketing material doesn't make that clear.

It's terrible when you have a pet -- the e5 gets full, doesn't realize it, and just keeps dragging hair balls around the house until you stop it.
When I was trying to do something similar I left all that stuff to the side on the assumption someone had made a neat wrapper to handle it

...and they did! https://github.com/bokuweb/react-rnd
Software Engineering (1968) [pdf]
Federal Reserve can set interest rates based on the movements of Mars
Even Apple-designed software on Apple devices doesn't always have hints that an area is scrollable, and users missing features as a result. And in other ecosystems, doing that reliably is even harder, given the variation between devices. Always having a system-provided scroll indicator by default solves that universally.
First my father upgrade our PC to Windows 95, coming from Windows 3.1 I thought it looked gorgeous. Some time passes by and my father come home with a Windows 95 Plus CD. Yep, that was the real deal. Lots of themes with different color schemes and sounds. I particularly remember the "mistery" theme. I could just sit there and look at it for hours.

https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+95+mystery+theme&cli...
Which country's independence day/holidays?

Imagine if your job is to drive the tractor on the beach that would "chop" the cable up once or twice every year...
I don't think we disagree? Above I wrote: "Having a search engine that people go to whenever they want to search for things is incredibly valuable, because they will come to you when they want to buy things and you can sell ads."
You’ve Got 0-Click Mail: Unassisted iOS Attacks RCE via Mobilemail/Maild
Also, a robot vacuum scoots under the couch, bed and other furniture, cleaning places every day that I used to get to once a month (at best).
Kind of surprising. I can somehow understand that FB bends under pressure from Chinese government - huge population of a "superpower" country. But Vietnam? It looks as if FB was forced to squeeze every cent of their revenue.

FB might have just opened Pandora's box with all kind of restriction requests coming from all over the World.
This kid is going to be so much better of in life in a STEM field than his peers without a parent who teaches functional programming/theory courses and as one that takes an interest in their children (which I am sure most, of not all, parents do). I say this because reading the story helped me see that I should do this when I have kids: expose them early on to what I’m doing and help them get ahead anyway I can (if they so choose a STEM aligned career they’ll be advantaged some) but also wishing I had parents that finished college so they could do this for me. They didn’t and I made it out okay so I’ll just better the next generation where I can. What a cool post. And that kid sounds really smart. I bet he’s going to go on to do big things.
Security.

It needs to be built into every phase of computing, starting with the CPU micro-code, going through network protocols, up to the topmost JS framework layer.

Screw up one piece and you may end up with a major vulnerability.

Many software project owners avoid it due to complexity. To some extent, even academia sometimes eschews it.