skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's certainly closer than it has ever been, the mobile Ryzen 4000 series is a massive improvement across the board. At the high and medium end, it completely dominates Intel.

Where Intel still rules (in x86 land) is that all day battery life. They're simply better, for now. I think mobile Ryzen 5000 may take over even that niche, but it remains to be seen.
Nation states tried to do that in twentieth century, with very disappointing results.
I truly believe that it should be illegal for state-funded universities to collect tuition from students that are "undecided" in their major.
A Letter to the Present from a Post-Pandemic IT Director
Yes. It was a drastic title change- I wish mods (dang?) would note the change when it happens.

For others the original title was the title of the page:

Rob Pike interview: “Go has indeed become the language of cloud infrastructure“
I dont know ... I have seen enough impulsive random decision to be made. Including high price ones, including by very smart individuals.

It is just not true that someone always runs the math and then decides by weighting pros and cons.
Ask HN: What eBook reading software do you recommend?
I am an avid reader and I bet so are the people here. Basically my checklist for the software is:
1. Being able to read PDF, EPUB, MOBI, and AZW3.
2. Highlighting and Note taking.
3. Synchronization between Windows and Android (uploaded files, the files' annotation, and reading progress).
4. Good UX.

I have used:
- BookFusion: it worked well for the first, the second, and the third item in my checklist, but half of the fourth, I guess. The Android app works well, but the web reader on PC sucks. It reloads every time I turn the pages, and that makes the reading experience feels suspended. It also does not allow me to turn pages by scrolling, which is very unnatural.
- Google Play Books: it worked well for the first, the third, and the fourth item in my checklist, but only half of the second. The app deliberately remove the texts of PDFs that I upload, which disable Highlighting and Note taking on the file. It really sucks, since half of the ebooks I want to read are PDFs.

Thanks for reading and I really hope for a great suggestion from you guys. I glanced at FBReader and BlueFire, but I was lazy and decided to ask away.
This.

I have also interviewed a handful of people that had 20, 30 years of experience building software. In some cases, they had resumes pages long dating back into the late 80s. One tip I would stress to anyone who has been doing software engineering that long? Don't list all of the history you've ever had. Go back maybe 10 years. If you're worried someone might miss something you built from 15 years ago, just put "more job experience history available upon request" or something like that. The simple truth is having built something in Delphi in the 90s just isn't going to 'help' you working with today's frameworks, even though the underlying core software engineering skills will almost certainly be relevant regardless of language, toolset, or framework du jour.
I'd say the value of the average four year bachelors degree today is less than the value of the average two year trade school, so the value might not be zero but it might as well be.

That being said, I think the assessment problem is real. I'm the founder of a small startup that very few people want to work for (relative to say, Google) and that means I can assess each candidate in careful/unorthodox (time-consuming) ways. Companies at Google scale have to assess thousands of candidates per month (week?) and they have to do it in a way that ensures they're beyond reproach with regard to discrimination.

Having a college degree means you're statistically more likely to know your stuff, period. Correlation or causation isn't material in this case. There would have to be a very good reason for any big company to start ignoring that reality.

Tricky problem. I'd imagine the only solution involves an actual replacement credential. Like a bar exam, but for "private" disciplines. Maybe Neuralink will sort out how to see if you actually have the necessary understandings in your brain.
It reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode "Eye of the Beholder"... maybe medical staff were just computers with some wonky ML for standards.
The full report: http://ncirs.org.au/sites/default/files/2020-04/NCIRS%20NSW%...

Key quote:

>SARS-CoV-2 transmission in children in schools appears considerably less than seen for other respiratory viruses, such as influenza. In contrast to influenza, data from both virus and antibody testing to date suggest that children are not the primary drivers of COVID-19 spread in schools or in the community. This is consistent with data from international studies showing low rates of disease in children and suggesting limited spread among children and from children to adults. Data from the whole of NSW also demonstrate children (aged <19 years) represent 4% of all cases of COVID-19 despite being approximately 23% of the population.
This is why propaganda, especially state propaganda is effective. First, it comes from an authority. Second, the people that try to refute it are labeled as 'fringe' or 'conspiracy' or 'alt-something'. Next, the state is onto the next big lie.

Iraq soldiers throwing babies in Kuwait on to the floor to die. Iraq's WMD. Syria's usage of chemical weapons and the 'red line.' All little pieces of propaganda to support the wars.
Somewhat related someone made this anime character generator I think it's pretty impressive make.girls.moe

Can be a time sink as you keep pressing generate over and over.
> is that what is best for society? to create elite clubs based on who you know vs merit, capability, output volume etc.

I don't know if finding ways to expand someone's network and connections necessarily means we have to create elite clubs - having networks is vital to success in any way, especially in a system based on merit.

So maybe I was one step ahead of what you were saying. I read it as more along the lines of given the entire set of X people in our education systems, how do we ensure a system that is fair and allows for the maximal human flourishing of each individual member while taking into account our psychology and the negative externalities / side-effects of emergent system dynamics. (Of course this last point, is something we sorely need in many fields - not just education).
There seems to be a lot of flattening and smoothing going on, not unlike the art style of anime characters with no discernible nose.
I'm not going to judge you for it.
I would start with Money Guides for general guidance on managing your money. Or simply ask your question, and if Finny the bot cannot answer it, one of our coaches will.
Let me pass a few things by your sniffer, here.

Here's some random characters from the "Math Symbols" page of OSX's character viewer.

⨐⨔⊹⊰⨶⨹⩫⫸⧯⧼

Did you know that Unicode has an entire set of dominos in it?

🀱🀲🀳🀴🀵🀶🀷🀸🀹🀺🀻🀼🀽🀾🀿🁀🁁🁂🁃🁄🁅🁆🁇🁈🁉🁊🁋🁌🁍🁎🁏🁐🁑🁒🁓🁔🁕🁖🁗🁘🁙🁚🁛🁜🁝🁞🁟🁠🁡

Twice: once horizontally, once vertically.

🁣🁤🁥🁦🁧🁨🁩🁪🁫🁬🁭🁮🁰🁱🁲🁳🁴🁵🁶🁷🁸🁹🁺🁻🁼🁽🁾🁿🂀🂁🂂🂃🂄🂅🂆🂇🂈🂉🂊🂋🂌🂍🂎🂏🂐🂑🂒🂓

I know I sure use Ogham runes in my daily text communications on a constant basis.

ᚃᚄᚓᚈᚚᚙ᚛ᚘ

And Egyptian hieroglyphs.

𓁑𓀳𓂩𓃋𓇀𓈣𓇻𓇼𓇽𓀫

Oh hey and here's a "next page" and "previous page" symbol that "external link" could comfortably sit next to.

⎘⎗

And some miscellaneous arrows.

⤥↪︎↴↶↺⥀⟳⤩⤭⤱⥹⥰⥼⥺⥽⥬⇆⇼⇟⥣↬⇴
Was thinking same. Like facebook trying to connect people which they did to an extend but also gave many spite and anxiety.

The robot feels like a bandaid solution. If a robot is required then there are deeper issues that need to be addressed here.
Beyond the next “new normal”: 25 ideas on the reboot from indie consultants
I'm not a C programmer, rather an extensive database user. And NULL == 0 seems awkward and nonsensical to me.
None of those are quite right IMHO:

tar -czvf - <sourcedir> | ssh <user>@<remotehost> tar -xzf - -C <remotedir>

This is _much_ faster if you're sending over a directory with a lot of small files, especially if the link has even a modest amount of latency. The 'z' parameter can be omitted if the source files are not compressible (media files or already compressed).

If the files are highly compressible but very large you might consider this instead:

tar -cvf - <sourcedir> | pbzip2 -c | ssh <user>@<remotehost> tar -xf - -C <remotedir>
Discord is nice with this and if your desktop goes idle without you reading messages it then pushes them to your phone. It’s one of the best features I haven’t seen in many other products. Particularly as it mutes your mobile notifications when you are on desktop. Which a lot of products also get wrong.
Remember that both current gen consoles are ~8 core AMD CPUs. Anything that runs on those will have to be pretty good at using all of them
I pay $8/month to rent mine, and it’s worth it. It’s a dual modem/router & works fine. Considering a nighthawk or similar would end up being the equivalent of ~24 months or so of renting the unit I have it makes sense to rent.

Now, I will say I do this intentionally because I’m renting apartments and not owning a home. Once I own a place, I’d do a setup with many more Ethernet drops and all of that but since I can’t do that (I could, but tearing it down is a real pain in the ass) renting it makes sense.
Background in pure math here. Generally researchers learn about what problems are fashionable as they talk to others in the field. As a PhD student, your advisor should give you ideas for problems to work on. Solutions to old problems tend to open up new lines of inquiry. It's a potentially infinite process, with the only limit being the capacity of the human mind.

The odd perfect number problem has been unsolved for thousands of years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number

Why would anyone want to know the answer to this problem? The truth is that the motivation for most pure math research is purely aesthetic. You could also ask arts or english departments "How can you apply your paintings or novels?!?". Some mathematicians (mostly geometers and topologists) are inspired by problems in physics, but most aren't. In truth you never know what structure or theorem might have some future application; number theory was totally "useless" until modern cryptography made (some of) it useful.

For just a tiny taste of one small area of modern math, I dare you to click on any of the links here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floer_homology

We are flush with structures to investigate.
The idea that "most discoveries have been made" is nonsensical in a domain where the discoveries to be made are literally infinite. To give a hint as to the infinite nature of mathematical inquiry, you probably are familiar with the idea of a function mapping a number to another number. A good deal of modern math is involved with much higher order functions; we can have functions that map functions to numbers, functions to functions, functions to spaces, and so on and so on. And then we can consider functions between those functions (and so on). Category theory is an attempt to give a framework to some of these "meta" relations. It should be obvious there is no limit to these structures and no limit to the number of problems one could pose about them.
These sets look great. Only 5 more days to vote for them!
To equate "politics" with lying, stealing, and corruption is the sort of cynicism that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

This article is fundamentally based on the fact that there is a lot of variance in the amount of illegal activity in business and politics (and life generally) between countries: the Scandinavian countries are universally considered to be pretty close to corruption-free. Eastern and Southern Europe are a bit worse, parts of Africa and South America are really bad, and Asia in the middle. The US, contrary to popular opinion, has also long been ahead of most other countries, and even been the driving international force against corruption through the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

That law made it illegal for US companies to engage in corruption abroad. It was passed in 1977. As a contrast, consider that German companies were still taking tax deductions for foreign bribes until 2002[0].

There are, in other words, very obvious regional differences. Additionally, there have been rather drastic changes along the temporal dimension, as well: Eastern Europe and Asia, for example, have come a long way over the last thirty years. Italy, original inventor of the Mafia, is solidly average these days, probably more similar to Germany or the UK than to its own past.

So, logically, if levels of corruption are different, that shows that equating all politics with corruption is wrong, and it demands at least some nuance or your criticism becomes entirely decoupled from reality and therefore no longer a useful tool to improve anything.

If, as a politician or bureaucrat, all you ever hear are superficial "everything-is-terrible" accusations completely devoid of any connection to anything you are actually doing, you will pretty soon just start engaging in that sort of activity: your public image cannot get any worse, anyway.

And people growing up in a society with these believes will start their careers in politics or business with such assumptions, and act accordingly.[1]

[0]: yes, it's true that some corrupt practices have simply been legalized in the US. But that's a failure of the voting public, and it's still better because it's known. And yes, the illegal stuff is making a comeback, considering the current President is both on record as supporting a repeal of FCPA, as well as having good reasons to do so

[1]: Of note, AOC observed not too long ago that before being elected to congress, she expected the corruption to be transactional, i. e. money for something in explicit quid-pro-quo. As she noticed, lobbying in the US is really more of a social process, where politicians aren't directly bought, but spent a lot of time with lobbyists. And familiarity, as always, breeds sympathy.
Did you find anything in the previous comments for needing to write this nonsensical opinion?
Yes, recent games do. For example, Doom Eternal can max out all CPU cores.
My waifu was made by a dirty hippie on LSD.
Cliqz was a hypocritical product right from the start, and it never attracted a large userbase. The only reason it survived that long because the company behind Cliqz didn't care about throwing lots of money into the idea of creating a competition to google.

Second, the product doesn't provide any practical benefit to google users, so there is no point to switch.

Cliqz didn't realize that you can't sell privacy as a primary product. Privacy is always a secondary attribute to a real product.

That's why DuckDuckGo is succesful. It profits from the increasing privacy-awareness, but people use it because it both works and respects privacy.

Brave is far from perfect, and to a certain extent it is indeed hypocritical. Brave sells us the idea of decentralization, even though in practice there is no decentralization at all.

Other than that, you can't compare Cliqz with Brave, and here's the reason why Brave will not fail:

- First and firemost, they have a consistent monthly growth in their userbase for years
- In contrast to Cliqz who pushes their own products via Ghostery, Brave acts as a neutral middleman, thus creating a direct competition with Google et al., who are also middlemen. In other words, Brave offers every customer the same opportunity to serve ads
- An innovative and unique product: The monthly growth proves this point, as innovation leads to demand.
- user first ideology: Even though Brave wants to be a middleman for a privacy-preserving money-flow between creators and users, they allow the user to chose whether to activate it or not. By default, Brave is just a browser that blocks annoying and privacy-infringing stuff. With Cliqz it is basically impossible to get the Cliqz out of the browser, with Brave I can change my browser in a way as to never see anything related to ads, crypto tokens, etc. and Brave actively respects that decision.

As long as Brave respects users like me who deactivate everything in the browser related to ads and crypto schemes, they will continue to have a loyal userbase behind them.
Zero benefit how? As a Comcast customer I can travel all over the place and connect to WiFi at high speed as long as I simply sign in once with my device, which authorizes my MAC address.
> The average consumer may honestly be better off getting a cable tech to come out and fix their broken router than buying their own and trying to figure it each time something goes wrong (which is arguably rare, but very problematic when you have no clue).

That may be true, but the rental fees are a shameless money-grab. From the OP:

> the average customer is paying between $12-$15 per month to rent equipment like a router and modem.

There's no consumer-friendly justification for that cost, given the hardware is cheap, has a long life, and the only kind of on-site physical service it could get is an eventual replacement. It's just a way of using small-print to sneakily raise prices for most users, without having to include it in the full, advertised monthly fee.
IMHO you have to measure productivity with debugging time included. If you’re fixing the bugs in someone else’s code, the only way to measure productivity is to measure the both of you as a whole.

For me the real 10x skill is knowing when to write code and when not to. Too many programmers code their way out of a problem, instead of reconsidering the problem in a way that they can repurpose something that already exists.
Instead of censorship, perhaps we should codify universally acceptable ideas and put them into a book. This book would be distributed to everyone that wants one and once a week we would gather and read a portion of it together and receive guidance from an expert on the subject. Over time this should lead to a more virtuous society.

I think this would be preferable to the clumsy "whack-a-mole" system we currently use to silence unacceptable ideas.
>There's probably some civilizational complexity limit where the unexpected interactions between seemingly isolated pieces of tech become so bad that we cannot introduce anything new without introducing legion of weird bugs.

Come to think of it, I believe that meme was wondering about on UseNet from before the early days. I think Vernor Vinge alluded to it in one of his novels, (paraphrasing here) some interplanetary civilization crashing because in-transit space traffic was so dense no new launches could occur in a useful time frame due to safety-lock outs, and they didn't want to accept the risk in changing the safety margins...
I do JS/TS profesionally, I play around with various languages on the side including Haskell/Rust.

The more I work in JS the more I realized that I'm dumb. I'm not worthy to hold the power that JS has, much more other more complicated languages.

I tried Go. I like it. It makes me feel safe and smart enough to write production grade app.

Small docs, small language, no need fancy IDE, just any regular text editor like Vim works. Easy to read, easy to reason about. Everything is easy.

Now I finally can focus on other non-programming passion instead of chasing endless language features in other programming languages.

I like Go. The language for mediocre SWE like me. I code, I go home, I enjoy life.
Thanks, this looks like what I want.
> Scrolling through thumbnails is better than nothing, sure.

"Better than nothing" is pretty much what I'm going for here. Almost all my personal data stored in cloud services falls into this "corner case": I only have indirect access to the source, it's important enough to me that I want to do some level of checking, but it's not important enough to spend the huge amounts of time it would take to inspect every individual datum.
> A basic characteristic of science is that it tells us something new about the world, something that can be proven true. Experiments are fundamental to science for that reason.

A lot of science relies on observation without experiment. That's still enough to support a cycle of hypothesis, test, etc. For example, where are the experiments in astrophysics? Seen anyone build a quasar recently? Epidemiology is no different. From the very first days of the "pump handle" cholera situation, epidemiologists have acted based on empirical observation. Then they have built models based on empirical findings, and those models are constantly checked against new findings. How is that not science? It seems considerably more scientific than most of what we in tech do.
Altice / Optimum Online is the worst. I signed up for gigabit. They came 3 separate times and tried to pull a fast one on me by installing a 200 mbps modem instead of a DOCSIS 3.1 modem. On the 3rd visit, I had my own Arris SB8200 ready, and had the tech install it, and take their modem back. I've spent more than 20 hours on the phone with them and they refuse to remove the modem fee. I assume they will eventually charge me for a modem I already returned. I have the work order PDF showing their modem was taken back by the tech but since they continue to bill me for the modem every month, they will probably screw me, with an unreturned modem fee, when I finally cancel service with them. I don't think there's a company in the world that I have more scorn for.
5008 on Pinboard, many thousands more in Instapaper.

I either find a use for them at some point, or I don't. Doesn't bother me if I don't as I'm not trying to process everything I come across, just putting them in a trusted system where I could find them again if I needed to.

I do find it useful if I have a personal research project in an area of interest to start searching with what I already have vs. going to Google. Most of the links I have are vetted either by me or a source I trust so they don't have a bias to who has good on page SEO.
Just a quick thank you for your work. Redis has always been a fantastically easy-to-approach key storage for me and other people I’ve worked with.
It'll never stay limited to just provably false statements. The article we're discussing is evidence enough of that.
One day people will have computers embedded into their optic and auditory nerves.

They will quite literally see a fantasy world, with filters and augmented reality changing everything they perceive.

Deep fakes and 3D transforms will mean any horny people can see anyone they want to naked. Other people will be able to live in a complete Lord of the Rings fantasy world with dragons, magic, elves and orcs.
I've never been as confused by an onsite demo in my life but it looks Very interesting!
With a modern javascript engine you can throttle the activity of tabs that are not focused. (And browsers do indeed do that. Pretty aggressively, too.)
ground beef. but it does seem dubious at best. and also like totally the Soviet Way.
How does one get experience architecting stuff when most roles usually require experience?
Corruption is an umbrella for a reason although the more specific crime should be used in general. If given a choice between two discretionary apparently adequate canidates choosing either one is perfectly fine. Choosing one because of connections or because they paid a bribe is not even though it results in no marginal additional expenses to the entity.

I can't help but think to ask where do you live where libel actually results in that? From US perspective criminal libel is just too exploitable to allow as a criminal offense instead of a tort with claims of damages. The chilling effect of "jail for calling a serial rapist a rapist or the corruot corrupt" is just too great to be accsptable. It might be related to the Alien and Sedition act abuses and backlash (notably a case where of the first congressman elected while in jail and unable to campaign after his only failed defense for a critical publication amounted to "This law is blatantly unconstitutional."