skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computerbase hides some benchmark results by default. Click at the top right "+29 Einträge" to see 29 processors more, including the 2700X.

I understand that the number in that specific benchmarks is confusing right now. Again, that's from the conversion done for the "lower is better" benchmarks. That's why it's not the same number, just the same distance. I hope a better solution can be used soon.
Are they free books to begin with?
I wish IntelliJ moves in this direction so bad - would gladly pay more for this. I tried switching to VS Code for my current project yesterday and it's the best VS Code scenario out of my projects - backend RoR frontend React/TS. TypeScript aspect is amazing but the Rails part is nowhere close to RubyMine.

.NET (Core) was inferior to any IDE (even Xamarin ones) last time I tried it (~6 months back). IntelliJ Rider has been quite an amazing discovery in this regard - I prefer it to Visual Studio.

And then there are things like mobile development which VS Code has realistically no chance of touching.

Any language I can think of other than TypeScript - VSCode just cannot come close to IntelliJ support. I would pay for the ability to have a desktop machine on which I could SSH develop from say a Windows tablet/2in1 with integrated 4G and hardware powerful enough to run the client editor + productivity apps and has portability + battery life (say some intel low power series + 8GB ram)
Forget your friends. You want a BOSS that has your back. If your boss doesn't have your back, it's time to move jobs.
I just finished reading Ubik, so this is eerily timed for me.

I have trouble interpreting discoveries like these because my understanding of (neuro)biology is limited. For example, this:

> At the cellular level, these brains are very close to being alive, but if we consider the life of the brain as the expression of the functionality of the brain, then they’re very far from being alive.

I understand this is basically saying, "Just because the cells are working doesn't mean the brain is." But then my question is, what's the gap? I know the brain is complex at all, but it's always been a little strange to me that we aren't better at bringing back the dead. Do we know what it theoretically takes to "start" a brain?
> Most countries in the world rely on global supply chains, and many countries are now closing their borders to external trade, meaning that their own prices will sky-rocket, likely causing layoffs and bankruptcies, causing stimulus packages and therefore inflation

Which countries, exactly, are closing their borders to trade? There are definitely a lot of restrictions being placed on travel and tourism, but banning cargo makes no sense in this context.

If anything, things will probably just get lonelier for merchant seamen.
I don't think enough users look at /lists for that to have much influence. I should check the numbers though.
That sounds good, but an infrastructure needs to be developed first, particularly a way to label which cookie is which and then have a law to enforce it.

Ultimately though by default I use extension to destroy cookies as soon as I leave the page, I can place an exclusion for sites that I frequent but when I do that I just allow all cookies. My reasoning is that if I have credentials they can track me using these anyway.

Anyway the whole thing is moot though, since advertisers are beyond cookies and use many other ways to track users. Now seems what their primary goal is, is to be able to tie multiple devices of the same user together.
Credit Default Swaps

good times
In a competitive market, it really will be "pay less if it's not urgent". In particular, if you're a peon flying coach, you want some people flying first class, because they are effectively subsidizing your ticket. Bring on the rich!
I feel a bit conflicted on this idea as I too believe that some things do not require attention. However, I always try to maintain a balance and try to read information if it feels imperative even when I might not be necessarily interested. This topic looks very similar to one's Circle of Competencies.
If you call the local bike shop amd try to sell rocket engines,then yes,it is useless. However,there are plenty of good business matching to be done that way. Not all are bad.
Assuming we're resurfacing our roads once every 5 years, if we banned trucks it would take 100x longer to accumulate the same amount of damage, so we'd be able to resurface only once every 500 years?

I would expect there to be a significant amount of damage done just by the elements, independent of usage.
Not everyone wants to take an hour long break every 400 miles.

On a 2000 mile trip, that's an extra 5 hours of travel time. I'd much rather be at the beach than at Rest Stop X in the middle of nowhere for an hour.
macOS has emacs style key bindings like this OS-wide.

Ctrl+e: end of line

Ctrl+a: beginning of line

Ctrl+p: go up a line

Ctrl+n: go down a line

Ctrl+f: go forward a character

Ctrl+b: go back a character

etc...
Between high fees and more errors with UberEats, I've stopped using them. DoorDash has been decent, but not great. I reallllly wish DoorDash would add car make and color, then I'd have 0 reason to consider UberEats. I usually walk out of my complex around dinner time and there's between 2 and 5 cars waiting either to pick up riders or deliver food, so I get to go to each and ask if they're for me.
Octarine.
It does though. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132135
As an native speaker I think things that are personified have an aura of gender. Impersonal objects do not. Ships are female for instance. And you use the proper pronoun. The earth is feminine but you don't.
Serious: Are those stickers any better?

I haven't shopped at a store with those arrows, so I haven't seen how well they work, I can only guess...

If someone is standing in the aisle comparing two products, are you going to wait for them so you don't pass them?

If you only need one item and it's in an aisle towards the front of the store, are you going to follow the arrows so you go further towards the back of the store and down an aisle that you didn't need to go down?

Are the arrows going to prevent you from walking through someone else's exhaled air?

It seems more like something to appear doing good than actually doing good.
Interesting idea! Will think about that.
I understand the frustration since even as a veteran users of Vim, there are lots I do not know about.

Vi is a completely different way of thinking. I would compare it to learning to program. When you first start, there isn't very much that is discoverable. You just have to sit through the learning. Once you do, you have access to a lot of power.
using clayton christensen, what's in the downmarket forcing them to retreat upmarket?
Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are the heart attacks and strokes?
Related : you are more what you do than what you think. What you think mostly comes from what you do, and that determines who you are; act more, think less. Do things, don't overthink it.
It's that enlightenment doesn't change anything.

People set out pursuing enlightenment to try to find fulfillment or happiness, but enlightenment is realizing that fulfillment or happiness is entirely dependent on your attitude towards things.

Therefore, nothing changes from becoming enlightened, other than your decision to keep a positive attitude about the every day.

As they say, you can choose to be happy, and mind over matter...
I Cut My Hair with a Vacuum Cleaner and Oh Man, I Think I
https://www.doordash.com/dashpass-v2/chase/sapphire-preferre...

...shows some for Sapphire Preferred. Looks like a year of DashPass for free.

https://help.doordash.com/consumers/s/article/Chase-Partners...

I still have a huge problem with DD from their tip-handling, though. I know they revised it somewhat but they held out longest and have been the shadiest. I'm disappointed they're winning.
I used to love Stoic thinking and read the usual primary sources a few years ago. I still do love it and practise it.

However, I became more and more turned off by the modern company of success porn bros who use it as a kind of macho way to justify not caring about others. This is not the truth of it, as Stoic ethics is about concentric circles of concern emanating outward (family, friends, community, country). I wish there was more focus on that.
https://schnack.cool/
Hep C in its chronic form isn't exactly "latent" in the way that a lentivirus or a herpesvirus can be, but it's the closest thing I can think of in terms of an RNA virus that replicates with RNA dependent RNA polymerase that has something resembling a "latent" form. It still replicates and has turnover due to the low stability of RNA as you mentioned, but it stays asymptomatic for decades in this infection course. I"m sure a virologist might be able to chime in with a better example, maybe a nonhuman one? There's so much variation in biology it'd almost be surprising if some RNA virus somewhere hadn't figured out some weird way to stabilize an RNA episome somehow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis_C#Chronic_infection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis_C_virus#Replication
I'm not sure. If the majority of the metrics give a false or misleading sense of reality, then maybe taking away the metrics would be a net win. It's entirely plausible that the whole system of measurement we've come up with in this domain is fundamentally flawed and has more costs than benefits (see financial system risk ratings circa 2008). The skepticism of new metrics could very well be warranted until there's a real demonstration of success and good faith in their use.
> We'll get to a point where new developers won't even know how to set up a local development environment.

I think we're already there. I think system administration is the current biggest stumbling block that new programmers have. Tools like repl.it, google colab, etc. remove these (stumbling blocks | learning opportunities).

At many universities, a lot of code is now written in online editors that compile, run, and check against public and hidden unit tests (sort of like codewars but lower quality).

I personally love learning systems administration but there is very real demand for services that abstract it all away.

That said, you enumerated an effective roadmap for this kind of transition. I suspect it will generate an increased annual cost similar in magnitude to the Office 365 migration.
Isn't it only if no other location to work from is available to you as an employee?
From Shannon's formula for information content[1]. The Idea is that the less likely an event is the more information it imparts.

I = -log2(p)

In this case they used p = 1/100

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_content
I'm a solo developer and I disagree with everything you have said. Gitlab has been an absolute joy to use. Sure, it has a lot of features, but it's not like you are forced to use stuff you don't need. My workflow is pretty simple, yet I have never felt like I'm using a sledgehammer to kill a fly.
This is the correct answer for B2B emails in Europe.
So the the insight was: Instead of focussing 80% of the time on the big goal and 20% on what's right in front of me, I flipped that around. So yes there are longterm goals and stuff we work towards, but instead of every day hoping you're there, you set the goal and then focus on much smaller incremental steps on a daily basis. These incremental steps, in a way, become goals, that give you continuous feedback and satisfaction (instead of 1 big high, followed up with a deep low)
dSock v0.2.0 – Distributed WebSocket broker
"Talent" is not always a there-or-not quality. IMHO it depends what we're talking about, and to what degree. Math genius, NBA player, obviously yeah you need some degree of inborn talent plus a crazy intense environment (for the NBA) in your youner years.

But there's a huge range below "world elite" where "talent" is relevant, and it's not at all clear when it's a "you-have-it-or-you-don't" kind of thing.

Same with hard work. Two people work hard; one person has a more efficient system, or a better teacher.

It's not zeros and ones here imho.
Commercial planes don’t even do midair refueling, because it’s expensive and dangerous.
They should add a feature that releases daily
There have been many. (I collect ideas.)

The single most important and far-reaching idea that changed my life is simple to state:

All are One.

Oddly enough it was Hofstadter's GEB[1] that clued me and not a religious or spiritual book. Somehow I directly intuited that the "strange loop" at the core of each being was none other than the Universal "strange loop" at the core of everything.

"Thou art That."

The thing that is both speaking and being said.

You have a body but you are not your body; you have emotions but you are not your emotions; you have thoughts but you are not your thoughts; you have will but you are not your will. You are that which is awareness: Being-Consciousness-Bliss Sat-Chit-Ananda.[2]

From this, all morality and ethics flow easily and firmly.

One can walk down the street and watch the expressions on peoples faces change as they are observed from this context or viewpoint. Toughs melt into shy little boys and old ladies smile.

On the subject of bliss: it's not an emotion. It's more like gravity or electricity, fundamental and physical. (Just something I wanted to record.)

[1] "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel,_Escher,_Bach

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satcitananda
The UK has triple lock pensions. Knew it was time to quit the UK when that happened. Took a while but I managed it.

Pensioners everywhere are powerful. You'll never sacrifice them. They'll eat the young whenever they get a chance. Your only hope is to get in as close to the ground floor and then eat as many young yourself.
Stubbing out WASI manually in Rust
Though I'm kinda glad people who refund delivery food for being cold get kicked off the platform so that more reasonable people who know how to heat food up don't have to subsidize you and your expectations.

Btw how many times did you heat up and eat the food anyways after getting your refund?
It's usually the opposite. The vendor tries to charge a crazy amount per user per month or charge for every employee in the company, which makes the solution acutely cost prohibitive.

Nobody wants to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year -if not millions- on something that's barely used. Better spend on anything else that is tangible.
Most of us (non-sociopaths) don't get to choose our enemies though. They choose us.
I think the most important thing that most people maybe forgetting is, GitHub maybe announcing these features, but these features were the results of acquiring companies that were solely focused on these features for years.

So if you take this into consideration, GitHub's feature has not only been in works for a while, but they have been refined to a point that GitLab will have a hard time catching up to.

There is no way GitLab will be able to compete on the IDE front-end for a while since GitHub's solution is essentially VSCode which they own and is iterated on at an incredible rate. And the one thing Microsoft hasn't made open source, that makes remote work incredibility powerful, is what makes Codespace incredibility difficult for GitLab to compete with.

Their security scan feature is the result of acquiring a leader in the field with expertise that GitLab will have a hard time matching/hiring for. And GitHub's Insights feature is the result of multiple acquisitions with years of previous experience.

These announcements maybe new, but the solutions that GitHub has released are years ahead of GitLab's existing solution.
I'm guessing not pico or nano
The rocket science is not a rocket science.

Meaning that we sometimes habitually consider something hard because it used to be hard, or it became known to be hard. But with time passing, sometimes things like that change.

The literal rocket science is a prime example - we reached orbit in 1957 using technology which is very modest by today's standards. It's still hard to launch a satellite - but it's so, so much easier.

Knowing that, SpaceX approach suddenly becomes practically the most logical.
What are your thoughts on the welfare state and its compatibility with your freedom? What do you think about homelessness?
I'm not sure why this is down-voted. Do people not believe that people with expertise in food can tell you what the amount of salt or sugar does to a sauce or that people in the steel industry knows what the amount of chrome does to a steel?
All I can think about is the Suck Kut.

https://youtu.be/7LrJDt-fPQI

Here's another video about the Flowbee that mentions the Suck Kut too. https://youtu.be/VyZgZDhsOz4
How is it about as safe? What if I don't have a car?

Delivery seems MUCH safer -- I don't have to leave my home at all.
Don't sweat the small stuff. And it's almost all small stuff.

If you're finding yourself stressed out about something, ask yourself...will it have a significant impact on your life within the next month? Will you even remember it in a year?

If you can truly adopt this mentality, it cures road rage. Okay, so some asshole cut you off in traffic. Why lose your mind over it? It won't even have an impact on your day, let alone a month.

Even something more significant like a minor car collision. Yeah, you might be out your car for a few days while it gets repaired, but once it's resolved, life returns to normal.

I'm lucky that even this COVID-19 crisis hasn't significantly affected my life. The only difference is that I'm working from home and cooking more rather than eating out all the time. A vacation and two conventions have been cancelled, but life goes on.
"No One Knows What They're Doing"

This gave me more power to make stronger decisions and feel on the same plane as everyone else. I used to think there where people that had everything figured out
> They simply want to better target their offerings to their customers,

As a user I don't want anyone to "better target me" - no single exception. Gosh I miss the time where we just burned the McDonald's...
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You could get Bill Gates to infect everyone with 5g?
Courage
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Ideally they'd pick in the middle of the night, to help with this. Personally I'd prefer it as a picker, though not everyone wants to work the night shift.
It's pretty gross that someone is trying to monetize this. There's actually FOSS version that draws pixel art in your contribution history: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti It's pretty funny, though it doesn't look like its actively maintained anymore. To quote from one of the issue threads:

What better way to demonstrate that the commit graph is a not an indicator of a profile's importance? Hopefully someone who sees gitifi style art in the graph will immediately realize that they should take it with a grain of salt, and instead read the code.
This can sometimes lead to burnout for me. When I blindly try to please no matter what, it also raises the bar of expectations. Sometimes people just want to feel superior and will take advantage, which can be hard to see in the moment.
> Do you think a lot of people would have problems with reading this?

I don't know. Readability and aesthetics are at odds. I believe there used to be a strong aesthetic desire for text to be of uniformly block-like shape. It took centuries for spaces to appear between words and even longer for paragraphs to become as short as they are today.
Thomson Reuters Claims Competitor’s AI-Powered Bot Hijacked Westlaw Data
The social policy advantages in Nordic nations and Western Europe today vastly outweigh those in the US. Growing up in the US, I was lucky my parents had good jobs and pushed me to learn and grow. If I did not have their support (and healthcare) I would not have survived college or medical issues at that time, some of which are ongoing today. I'm extremely lucky to have an advanced education, be healthy, and be less than 10k in debt 5 years after graduating. That's entirely due to my parents funding my education and medical bills best they could through that period as well as the insanely good benefits from my current position.

If I was born into a Nordic nation I think I'd have been better off. I'd have had the same supportive parents but no burden from education and medical debts, or stress of finding a position with good benefits before turning 26. I might even be freelancing or building my own company right now without fear of paying for prescriptions out of pocket for me and my SO which would be significantly more costly than our rent.

The US is a great country for opportunity but it is not a place of equal opportunity.
I also find a similar technique useful when searching online. If you search "do Aliens exist?" or "does teflon cause cancer" you're guaranteed to find articles that match the bias of your question. Instead, search "extraterrestrial life" or "teflon health effects" or similar terms that are likely to match articles that both agree and disagree with the premise in question. You will end up significantly more informed from the results.
True. Copyright infringement is done on a massive global scale by search engines and everyone uses those.
> runners can't look inside to verify the order

I was an Uber/Lyft driver, and I tried delivery a couple times way back before covid-19. One pickup was 5 identical, unlabeled containers, two of which were special orders. Having worked in restaurants before, there was no way in hell I wasn't going to visually check them (also I don't recall this being prohibited before). Turns out, one was wrong-- so the other 4 got cold while that one was re-made and I sat for 20 minutes. All told, it took me 45 minutes to bring mostly cold food to an unhappy person and I made about $4. Not. Sustainable.

It sounds like you have some good ideas and are thinking in the right direction, though. Streamlining your whole operation to minimize the possibility of errors and reduce wait times is one of the most important things to focus on in my book. Give people fewer choices.
Has Half-Life: Alyx made a profit? Doing the dirty math on a VR-only game
There's been some really neat work around teledildonics and anonymity. I highly recommend Sarah Jamie Lewis's Oniondildonics work: https://mascherari.press/oniondildonics/
Don't send the root unless you have a good reason (like supporting a dumb client, or a dumb platform).

If the client trusts that root, they don't need a new copy. If the client doesn't trust the root, sending it won't help them trust it.