skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read into the RTB protocol. With every Google pixel, all of the information obtained by the HTTP request + publisher appended data is passed to Google and auction to advertisers.

https://www.iab.com/guidelines/real-time-bidding-rtb-project...

Full disclosure: I work for one of these third parties. Safari/Firefox are the hardest browsers to track. Google extended the deadline for killing cookies which probably netted us another year worth of easy revenue before we have to start start relying on first party tracking.
And also, there's a proposal to _finally_ require that H1-B's are paid no less than median pay for the jobs, when visa issuance is resumed. Companies are fighting it tooth and nail, obviously, but I think they'll lose this time.
I'm very surprised that MS has quit this quickly. I didn't expect them to win in the short-term against Twitch and I doubt they did either. This suggests that Mixer didn't just do poorly (which could have been assumed) but it must have been a deep catastrophe that showed no signs of turning around.

I think the problem with video, and the monopolies it continues to create, is the massive expense of data transfer. I'm guessing Mixer had hundreds/thousands of streamers active at any given time. I assume this was a massive cost and the revenue to support it (even ignoring their deals with streamers like Ninja/Shroud) just wasn't there.

It makes me doubt the profitability of Twitch, although you can be sure they are breathing a sigh of relief today.
More transparent, low contrast menus, and not much colour to help you navigate. I must be getting old. What accessibility features do one use to make the UI clearer without becoming butt-ugly to look at?
Humans are made of cells but it's not a useful description of us for most purposes.
Many different kinds of meditation can end up with that result. In some traditions it starts with the cultivation of samatha and incorporates piti.

Zazen works pretty well for me. ymmv.
"interinoperable"? :)
I'm not sure about CL lectures in general.

In regards to applying CL to SICP, I would argue that the course is more about the underlying concepts than the language itself. You could probably read a CL reference and write your exercise code in CL instead of Scheme, or just learn CL after the course and it wouldn't be a big leap.
The Hot Chips piece mentioned has comparisons with both versions of SPARCfx as far as I remember.
> would be astronomical in cost.

The actual nuclear fuel is not expensive at all. The online calculator [1] shows that to enrich uranium to 20% (HALEU grade, which is what DARPA is looking into), you pay about $6500/kg. At this concentration, Uranium has an energy density of about 800 GJ/kg [2]. The NERVA engine had a power of about 1.1 GW and provided about 246 kN of thrust, which is about 3.4 times the thrust envisioned for the Starship upper stage [3], so assuming you burn only 50% of the uranium at only 50% efficiency (that's very conservative), you can run the engine for 3 minutes. If you want to run this engine for 5 hours (how many trips to Mars and back would that be?), the fuel cost would be $650k. Most likely this would be well below the fuel cost for the Starship upper stage. The cost of the cryogenic hydrogen is a different story, but even that one should not be a dealbreaker.

[1] https://www.uxc.com/p/tools/FuelCalculator.aspx

[2] https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Energy_density

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
This seems super out of no where and way too soon to throw the towel in.

Thinking there was some break clauses in Ninja and Shroud’s contracts that incentivised MS’s early exit.
Startup idea: make an app that contains empty, transparent widgets of all possible sizes. Sell it for $1. Make millions.
Well, the root cause is probably that raising VC depends on keeping up appearances.
>>> They already have a mobile chip that is as fast as an active-thermally cooled notebook chip.

>> "As fast" on specific curated use cases. Show me an Apple chip that beats any laptop on 7zip.

> Is this a joke, what kind of usage benchmark is 7zipping large numbers of files?

A benchmark that Apple is unlikely to have implemented specific optimizations for, which therefore is a better test of the general purpose performance of the chip.

The situation being claimed here is sort of like if someone cited a DES benchmark to claim that Deep Crack's DES cracking chips (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker) were faster than a contemporary 1998 Pentium II.
> The tools of extractive economic institutions include abolition or severe limits on private property, state-run enterprises, excessive regulation and taxation, and more.

> Acemoglu and Robinson acknowledge that, under some conditions, growth can occur under extractive political institutions as in the case of China.

So I suppose that's not a very good definition of "extractive political institutions," then, is it? Perhaps wealth extraction can even occur in countries that claim to be for free market capitalism.
Just saw now in the Platforms State of the Union that it's ARM Debian, not x86.
It was in the news a few years ago.

Here's an example that was in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff...
my immediate reaction to seeing that ui was

1. playdoh os

2. (more seriously) its pretty obvious they are making it look like ios so that catalyst and pure ios/ipad apps dont look too out of place

personaliy, i think its a bit sad, because it makes the desktop feel less professional and notice the larger fonts, spacing etc... seems like the ui could be used for touchscreens almost, instead of optimized for mouse/keyboard....
We create what we look for
I see this comment in every one of these discussions, but finding new venues for social contact is a fairly simple adjustment to make once you accept that it's necessary.
Thanks for the kind words, I think that crown is for MKL-DNN / OneDNN though, for now ;), and in the deep learning domain.

I also expect Halide[1], Taichi[2], DaCe[3] and Tiramisu[4] to be able to more easily reach those levels of performance hence why I want to add a compiler to Laser (implemented at compile-time via Nim macros) but prerequisite is excellent and composable multithreading support which OpenMP didn't provide.

In statistics / data analysis, my PCA though (Principal Component Analysis) beats all implementations I've seen from Scipy, Facebook and R.

[1]: https://halide-lang.org/

[2]: https://github.com/taichi-dev/taichi

[3]: https://github.com/spcl/dace

[4]: http://tiramisu-compiler.org/
thats genuinely hilarious, money well spent
Macs presently also have a TPM, but it doesn't lock the device down to the same extent. That's the bit I'm interested in seeing if carries over.
But will Apple let you run iOS apps in an environment where you can break iOS security guarantees? I suspect that this is the beginning of the end for sideloaded apps.
I don't know, I think this is a bit harsh -- I'm not arguing the gaming community isn't toxic, it certainly can be -- but rather I think Mixer wanted its community to be just like those actors who played hip 20-somethings in "real gameplay" game trailers at E3. It always seemed to have a "hello fellow gamers" mentality, and simply did not "get" the type of people it was trying to recruit.

If a stream and its viewers is a community, then on Mixer you didn't really have the chance to make that community "yours" -- rather, you had to be what Mixer wanted you to be, which is some made-up archetype of the advertiser-friendly hip gamer who captures that coveted market segment without saying anything even remotely controversial.
> * ARM macbooks

Superior performance characteristics and vertical integration.

> * iOS Apps on macOS

> * iOS look-and-feel on macOS

> * iOS features like Control Center, Widgets on macOS

Because there's changes in how people want their computers to look and be used. New (and old!) users expect their Macs to work in a familiar way. Developers want to share their app infrastructure.

There's absolutely zero reason for Apple to "merge" iOS and macOS together. I don't understand what people think Apple's endgame would be there, what nefarious advantage they would possibly get out of it.
This is all overstated IMO.

> You'd need heavy radiation shielding, heavy shielding around the reactor itself so that it wouldn't be blown to bits in the event of a launch explosion, etc.

Not nearly as much as you think. You need some shielding between the reactor and any radiation-sensitive payloads (including humans) but you don’t need anything around the reactor; radiating into outer space is kind of like pouring water into the ocean.

This requires the reactor not to be operating while on the ground, of course, and probably not even fueled until it reaches orbit. (Note that I said “fuel”—ie uranium—and not “propellant”.) But since the purpose of NTR’s is to enable deep space travel beyond cislunar space, that’s not a blocker.

> Plus, hydrogen is the least dense propellant so your fuel tank needs to be much bigger than e.g. the RP-1/LOX fuel tanks

NTR’s are competing with hydrolox upper stage engines for propulsion in space. They aren’t competing with high-thrust RP-1 or methane engines for launch. In fact RP-1 isn’t even in the picture after you reach LEO. SpaceX is going with methane over hydrolox for Starship largely because liftoff from Mars is a requirement and methane can be synthesized on Mars.

> You end up in a much worst place than even hydrolox, because at least in hydrolox the liquid oxygen fuel tank at least can be relatively small. With NERVA it's only hydrogen.

This makes zero sense. There’s no reason you couldn’t use oxygen as propellant in an NTR; it’s just that hydrogen works better.

Again I think you’re missing the point—density is important for launching from the ground because during launch, you need to be able to produce a TWR > 1. But once you’re in orbit, none of that matters anymore.

Upper stages—especially ones for going anywhere past LEO—are already predominantly hydrolox because the better specific impulse of hydrolox, combined with its low mass, more than compensates for the added dry mass of tankage.
They could have a separate bridging process to host the x86 plugins, so we can’t know whether it does or does not support them.
3. Osbourne effect avoided by not crowing about specs - those who are cautious or dependent on x86 will continue buying Intel kit. Once the new product is available and it kicks the daylight out of the legacy, they will already have their pareto-split of interest in their new offerings.
> https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/police-....

3 people "screened and analyzed" 1.1 million calls and found out that there was a (presumably temporary) effect on minorities after one much-discussed incident involving minorities? The rest is cherry-picked examples and wild conjecture and not thorough analysis of the data.

> illegal immigrants do not call the police for their fears.

Um, that's because they're illegal and has nothing to do with racism.
Apple's services already make more money than their Mac business. There aren't enough macs sold for this to have a big impact
* ARM notebooks provide higher performance with less power usage and substantial cost savings.
* This enables easily running iOS apps on MacOS, so why not allow it?
* Control and Widgets are useful UI concepts and Widgets have been around forever.
Nor do they make money from the free apps that they demo'd....
This is almost exactly what I'm working on! :D
If that was enough, though, they'd just do that now. They control the OS without making laptop silicon.
I actually think total battery life will go up a fair bit and compile times will be much faster, 20-30%, while giving everyone full power when not on the mains. The amount my MacBook throttles when on battery is startling and stopping that while still giving huge battery life, say 6h at 80% CPU will be a huge win. Apple wouldn’t bother unless they knew the benefits they can bring over the next 10 years will be huge.

All of this is complete speculation of course but I don’t believe it will be a financial decision this one, it’ll be about creating better products.
Rust and ARM is just fine. For example, Cloudflare famously keeps their entire stack cross-compilable to ARM, and even ships Rust on iPhones.

There's two areas where I believe you could call it second-class at the moment, though:

1. There is no ARM targets in Rust's "Tier 1" platform support.

2. std::arch doesn't have ARM intrinsics in stable.

For 1, ARM targets are in a weird space; they aren't Tier 1, but they're closer than most of the other Tier 2 targets. Several ARM targets are Tier 1 for Firefox, for example, so they get a bunch of work done there.

For 2, well, there hasn't been as much demand before. I expect that to change because of this.

... we'll see what the future holds :)
That's an indication that change for change's sake is neither needed nor desired.
macOS in its history has not really followed semantic versioning. 10.6 dropped support for running on PowerPC CPUs, and 10.7 dropped support for running PowerPC apps with Rosetta. 10.15 dropped support for 32-bit apps. Those were pretty significant breaking changes.
Does FB gaming have a culture?
I was actually arguing for India by the point I made - as in, India when compared to China comes out to be a super under-developed country that people consider India to be a basket case; which it is not.
$500 to get an early access to an unreleased tech does not sound bad at all.
Luck?
Anyone know any CS grads who are having trouble finding work and would like to work in a corporate job that H1s work it? Or even regular devs.
If nothing else, I guess this will stop me complaining about how Macs are just generic X86 hardware with a different OS than other PCs.

Will be interesting to see how it plays out in practice.
Using a Golang pattern to write better TypeScript
Nuclear fusion is also sometimes described as "burning plasma."
Or a “hacker” as in the “hacker news” usage of the word.
> It's complicated because the data isn't worth much until it's processed and analyzed, and that's where much of the value-add is

It isn't worth much, per user, even after it's processed and analyzed.
As more and more people WFH, H-1B visa is less necessary.
This is how I convinced my parents to buy both a PS2 and PS3 - the PS3 was one of the most affordable blu-ray players when introduced, it just happened to have a game console attached to it.
Climate Change Trends and Impacts on California Agriculture: A Detailed Review
I've been trying recently to wrap my head around what life is going to be like from here on out. Where do we go? Things will never be the same again. Remote work will now be completely normal, that's for sure. But how do we get back to living our lives? Fundamental assumptions I've had about the things I've wanted to do in life are now basically no longer an option. Will Silicon Valley no longer really be a "thing" anymore with physical meetups, hackathons, conferences etc. being a thing of the past? Surely at some point we have to reckon with this, rather than just hunkering down in our caves.
A proper experiment is obviously infeasible but there are countries that a) went from poor to rich and b) have had strong citizenry even back when they were poor.
A benchmark that probably relies as much on disk access speeds as CPU?
While it's a bit harder to engage with audiences on multiple platforms, it's definitely possible.

Since the communication direct is still mostly one way, you can e.g. aggregate all the chats from multiple platforms into a single one, and treat it like you would right now. Rocketbeans.tv, a German television-like streaming station that I watch a lot has a "superchat"[0] that does just that (which I think they built in-house), and it works really well. From a quick search, it looks like Restream.io also provides such a tool.

[0]: https://rocketbeans.tv/superchad/
"The way Catalina sends the hash of every binary you run to Apple."

<irony> They truly care about privacy... </irony>
Taleb doesnt live in NYC anymore
When you put it that way, I want to throw my Apple Watch in a river. Technological identity? Consumer defined 'GUI brand'?

Yikes.
OneNote, same as I use for long ones.
The same way Nasa does. Or airlines.

If you don't have one, you don't go. If your's isn't working, you don't go.

Cameras should have the same checks that guns do before you go out.

And yes, sometimes they break, but that should result in an appropriate error code.

Finally, a hundred million cars run off computers in the US pretty reliably - police cameras should run with a similar level of reliability.

If we've authorized people with the use of deadly force then we should take their cameras seriously.
This amount of money is crazy to me. Are these guys really that big of a draw? Are they just so good at the games they play or are they funny/entertaining?
Another thing to keep in mind about hospitalizations is that many people have avoided going to hospitals during the pandemic for non-covid related visits for fear of contracting covid at the hospital and/or adding to hospitals caseload. It could also be the case that people are re-evaluating their risk profiles and no longer taking the same precautions with respect to hospital visits. I'm not sure what is really happening but wanted to emphasize how tricky it can be to interpret covid related metrics.
When I saw the PowerPC to Intel move, it felt like a company with ambition and vision who knew what they were doing with technology.

It was a confident CEO that used his own words to passionately live-demo the products his company was developing and selling. He almost apologetically told us that Apple had to make the change to deliver the notebooks he had promised two years before -- But couldn't with PowerPC. It made sense. And then, he showed us that all along Apple had the foresight to plan for this many years ahead.

It was inspiring, and I was really excited about it. As a user and computer scientist, it made me curious about OSX. As a developer I wanted to support their platform, and went on to work on iOS apps a couple of years later. Apple felt like the future.

This time, I feel unenthusiastic, and wondering where to go next... Despite the fact, that I objectively think this has the potential to be far more significant.

Delivery with confidence and passion for the product always matter. A lot.
Deaths lag new cases by 2 to 3 weeks.
This reminds me that I wish DNS had some way to define a load balancing algorithm for clients to use, so browsers could make load balancing decisions. This would eliminate the need for virtual IP addresses, having to pass originating subnet information up recursive queries, having to remove faulty VIPs (or hosts) from DNS, etc.

It is baffling to me that inside the datacenter, I can control the balancing strategy for every service-to-service transaction, but for the end user's browser, all I can do is some L3 hacks to make two routers appear as one (for failover purposes). L3 balancing would be completely unnecessary if I could just program the user agent to go to the right host, after all. The end result is unnecessary cost and complexity multiplied over a billion websites.
Also heat is greatly reduced with ARM, no?
This is why the US just struck a deal to have TSMC build a fab in Arizona. It's absolutely critical to have a backup plan.
I'm gonna guess that putting macs on annual major version numbers is just another piece of lining up macOS for an eventual merger with the iPad.
I'm not really into that whole scene, but my third-hand understanding is that the Amazon Prime integration is a form of this. Basically, while Microsoft offered millions to people like Ninja, Amazon offers somewhere around three dollars each month to each Prime member, with the restriction that they must give it to a mid-sized or bigger streamer that they enjoy. This makes it worth the time for growing streamers, and lets big-but-not-Ninja-big folks make a job out of it.

It's actually a pretty interesting economic / business model case study: they're basically crowdsourcing which streamers they subsidize while simultaneously offering a cross-promotional perk to an existing customer base.
Hey, something something Farmville...
Ugh. That's deeply infuriating and sad, but it doesn't really surprise me much (if at all).
Unified keyboard shortcuts and I'd be all there. I've come kinda close-ish in Elementary, but it's still clunky enough that I can't commit full-time.
Working for a unionized public sector employer, they are nevertheless doing the charade of "well, we'll go back next month, oops, maybe not" over and over. So I guess it's not just the heartless capitalists.

Most recently, a mid-July date was mooted for returning to the office, but a few days later it was announced that the union-negotiated work-from-home arrangements have been extended to October. It's ambiguous whether there will be a transition period, or if really nobody wants to go in.

But nobody seems to want to push things out as far as next year all at once. Some employees feel threatened and say they're not going back until there's a vaccine. I'm just kind of bemused for the moment, because I'm almost 100% sure that as things get worse, there is no chance of following through on the plans, yet the authorities keep making them, and then pushing the date out a little more.

I'm fine with going back to the office as soon as other people are and management can explain why we should. But I'm not sure that's happening in the forseeable future. Every day we get an email from our dear leader talking about going back as though we need to keep our hopes up, yet we are also told how well we are doing working remote. So...why return?
My favorite example: the American government spends more on health care than any other OECD government, for much less coverage.

https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm
I'd add Why the West Rules for Now by Ian Morris. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_West_Rules%E2%80%94For...

It makes the (to me) convincing argument that geographic determinism, while important, doesn't really explain why the western core given that the eastern core surpassed the west on many measures after the fall of Rome. (Though it does explain why one of those two cores were probably ordained to win out.)

But the western core was in a better situation to exploit the Industrial Revolution which basically made everything before it almost irrelevant.

Neither book does much to explain why well-positioned modern states, e.g. Argentina, weren't able to better take advantage of their position and natural resources however.
Rory Sutherland - Alchemy

Ole Peters work on ergodocity

Paul Skallas / "Lindy Table" on Twitter
It's absolutely not solved. I run a company with employees in multiple states.

The payroll company takes care of some of the problems, but for example, every state has different rules about worker's comp. Most states require you to get your own, but you still have to let them know. Some states require you to buy into their state system, which requires signing up.

Then there is corporate registration. Many states require you to register as a foreign entity. Payroll doesn't take care of that.

Then you have to pay state taxes, or if you just have employees, you have to file a form that says "I don't owe your state any income taxes".

There are other things different states do differently that the payroll provider doesn't take care of.
How much would be involved to adapt this to other cities?
The amount of padding throughout the whole UI is worrying. For years I've used macOS on high contrast mode and invert colors for dark mode — very curious of how that will look.
between $20 and $30 million, according to this https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/26/tech/video-game-streaming...
This is why I am skeptical about the long term threat/success of China. With Xi now effectively chairman for life he will put more energy into maintaining his position than governing.
And what, in your view, is it that causes countries to be poor?