skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a problem with asynchronous text-based communication that doesn't happen with synchronous voice-based communication: I often write (or feel the need to write) text like this:

> I'm not sure what you meant by "blargh". If you meant foo then [long explanation, probably with bullet points]. If you meant bar then [a different long explanation].

This isn't an efficient use of either of our time. Also, if the explanation was already a bit intimidating (in terms of amount of content) then double that is even worse, even if half of it is actually irrelevant.

The alternative is that I ask what they meant by "blargh" but often the response doesn't get the heart of the difference, probably because the difference is subtle enough they didn't realise there was one in the first place. So it takes a few messages to sort out, by which point the whole conversation has dragged on for a few extra hours precisely because the communication is asynchronous so messages aren't replied to instantly by either of us, which is distracting us (or me, at least!) for that long.

In a conversation where there's likely to be some ambiguities in what you're saying, it's just much faster and less wasteful to iterate your joint understanding with a synchronous conversation. I often have highly technical conversations that are like this, but it's probably true even of lots of non-technical conversations.

Of course what I've said is mostly true of one to one conversations. But depending on the nature of a meeting, often lots of these happen between pairs of people in the meeting.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. The biggest German left-wing newspaper (taz) is owned by a cooperative. If anything, I find it more annoyingly partisan than other newspapers. It's a hard problem.
What I saw on the local (Dutch) news is houses being severely damaged due to the melting permafrost.

And who in his right mind would sunbath at 38 Celcius, especially when you're not used to it. We went past 40 last here in the Netherlands, but I guess moving north for cooler weather is out of the question now.
However in terms of efficiency, I noticed that the raw educational value of some (often 4h+ long) meetings could have been summarized by watching a well produced 15min video and reading a 10 page PDF, if one were to skip all the chitchat and pointless hollow remarks.

Balancing efficiency and normal social contact can be tricky to get right even in a physical office setting, but I'm fairly sure aiming for peak efficiency to the exclusion of all casual conversation is not a good plan. Those friendly chats when everyone is getting to work in the morning or while the coffee is on matter. One of the downsides of remote working, particularly in the current situation with the virus, is the sense of isolation and potentially loneliness it creates if you don't take active steps to stay connected to your colleagues, and video chat allows that in a way no glorified mailing list ever will.
Intel missed the whole move of personal computing to mobile devices. Not missing out on that should have been incentive enough one might think.
Yeah, totally, I get that for some people they'll see Android like that and for people like yourself the "mini computer" paradigm makes total sense.

Just not for the gigantic market that Android has.

I've always found Android's design to be really weird compared to iOS or Windows Phone, but seeing it as a "mini computer" explains why their design doesn't make sense to me - because I see phones as a separate form factor that fundamentally changes how it is used [by most people].
Sydney routinely beats Singapore for daily maximum temperature during summer. This is because the variation in daily maximum temperature is much much higher in sub-tropical regions than near the Equator. So Sydney's average maximum temperature in January (27C) is lower than Singapore's (30C), but the variation is enough that the record high in Sydney is 10C hotter (45C vs 35C).

If you like stable warm weather, your sweetspot is probably Brisbane, where it never really gets too hot or cold (rare exceptions).
The difference between High German and Yiddish is much larger than between Urdu and Hindi.
Which other languages are you fluent with? I find many that love PHP have a bit of a "when all you've got is a hammer" bias in favor of it.

I had the same! Then I invested in learning some Haskell/ Elm/ Reason/ Rust/ Kotlin: it changed my preferences for ever. I now look for proper sum types and (pattern) matchers, strong typing discipline and null safety.
> tropical Singapore

Singapore is always hot and humid, but places of all latitudes can be hotter for a short period, but usually with low humidity.

So San Jose (Silicon Valley) has a couple weeks of over 100 F weather each year. But almost no humidity.
But don't waste time reinventing the wheel. I needed a small audio amplifier the other day and looked for an IC to build it. My junk box was empty of audio amplifiers so I went to a distributor and found a nice IC for 65p but minimum order 10 off. With postage the price was about £10, and I still had to find the other components and build it.

I was just about to order it when I realised it might be cheaper on eBay. There a found an assembled board with the same amplifier for 56p with a minimum order of 5 pieces:- £2.80 post paid and ready to use - and four spare ready-made amps for future projects.

Beating the system is fun, too.
After 5 years Apple can't get parts for your computer, so I don't think running the latest compatible software is the problem. For most laptops the battery or keyboard will be pretty reduced I would have thought.

So I don't think the situation materially changes enough to stop buying Macs, unless of course you already stopped buying macs for these reasons, so this article is in my opinion misleading.

It might help justify people who have left the Mac ecosystem feel better, judging by the target audience.
Foreign language; can't read: The investigation of Nginx authorship has been finished and found no evidence against Sysoev et al. The case will be closed if the government body which opened it will accept the results.
Going through the history of an article counts as digging, and saying that's "on Wikipedia" is pretty misleading.
Didn't look at rust too much, but I love this already. Will try it out.

Body deformation is mentioned as a feature. Is this equivalent to what other renderer call soft body physics opposed to rigid body physics? And can I treat such an object as a rigid object again if I wanted to and can I have compound objects with soft and rigid parts? Had some problems with that in some renderers.

Here is an example of what I would basically understand under that term:

https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#480ZBN#2

This is babylon.js with ammo.js (I think it is ammo.js for the physics part).
That would be because io_uring is incredibly new and I don't think the tuntap driver supports it yet.
Proxyjump, the SSH option you probably never heard of
Wielding the spotlight of your publication as a weapon sounds like an interesting business model too. Like a private detective being payed by a group of subscribers, interested in finding wrongthink.

Given the current climate and the pretty safe assumption that the NYT author knows that the general public would never read through SSC (because the posts are too long and you actually have to make an effort to "consume" that blog) make me suspicious of the "positive" piece.
Out of curiosity; if Linux sucks, why do you still choose it over other systems?
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ham7tg/proxyju...
You can convert TF models to CoreML and have been able to for quite a while: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreml/converting_...
Gell-Mann amnesia effect:

"""
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

- Michael Crichton, Why Speculate (26 April 2002)
"""

This isn’t to say that all journalists are “bad apples”, but as the full aphorism says, “A few bad apples spoils the whole barrel”.
Cards Against Containers/DevOps
Getting a Browser Extension Through Review
The thing that surprised me most is that when compared to Summit, the previous #1 powered by POWER9 cores and Nvidia GV100 accelerators, Fugaku seems to show the exact same power efficiency.

> The new Fugaku supercomputer is bigger than Summit in practically every way. It has 3.05x cores, it has 2.8x the score in the official LINPACK tests, and consumes 2.8x the power

So were the Nvidia accelerators what drove up Summit's efficiency?
I totally agree with what you're saying.

While PHP is still a joke compared to even Java which it very hard tries to become (which I think is a good thing), for someone who only knew PHP the entire time, the situation still got much, much better over the last decade...
Don't worry, they'll be able to 'unlock' the OS for an exorbitant price via an Apple Pay purchase. :)
> Why offer them a second massive truckload of money when the first truckload fundamentally did not work.

Except Facebook did that. Rumors go Facebook offered them double their Deal from Mixer, but they declined. Though, others did take it. Facebook is bar far not as worse as Mixer for a streamer. If you have the matching games, you can be happy there.
I'm pretty sure Scott would have been more keen to share details about his personal life if his pseudonymity had been guaranteed; I know I personally would have in his stead.
Might be a bit controversial but I found writing drivers for Linux on my raspberry pi helped me understand kernels, virtual memory etc. I used Linux Device Drivers (ldd3) which is free online. The book was written for the 2.6 kernel but someone on GitHub updated the code for the latest kernels.
New York Times has been a piece of shit lately.
Same here, I'm trying to cancel now and they actually don't have a one click to stop the subscription.
Bananas in SEA are so much more delicious than in America. They also have very thin skins.
This API is hit on every search keystroke in modern browsers with a small debounce delay, so its tolerance to frequent requests will be pretty high.
You seem to be attributing all sorts of malice to the journalist that Scott himself sees no reason to

https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/he95ak/blog...
You can manage the ecological effects with efficiency modules, I have built small factories like that. But then you trade the time.
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I'm somewhat confused by this rhetorical question since the microcode of processor is vastly different than the userspace & kernel of Mac OS. Running an OS bare metal versus in a VM on top of Mac OS are different across a wide array of things. At a minimum performance is lower and less predictable on the VM; you now have two different OS's updates to worry about breakage with on top of their mutual interface (ask anyone who's done serious Linux dev work on a Mac); you have two different sets of security policies to worry about; the low level tools to debug performance in a VM don't have the level of access they do on bare metal; and if you're working with hardware for linux servers & devices in a VM you are going to have to go bare metall sooner or later.

The abstractions are leaky, the VM is not a pristine environment floating on top of some vaguely well-defined architecture. The software in one has two extra layers (VM software & OS) between it and the actual platform and all this is before you start hitting weird corner cases with cpu architecture differences in the layers.
Not entirely, -- e.g. in some cases the information might only be available by breaching confidentiality.

But the fact that it was technically openly available to some degree doesn't change the fact that the people most likely to cause harm with it often lack the mental facilities to actually do the work to dig it up.

The same lack of judgement that makes someone more likely to engage in harassment or violence often also makes them less skilful researchers than a blinking NYT reporter.

Maybe a way I'd express your sentiment instead: If it didn't matter because the information was already public then why write the article in the first place? -- after all, anyone else could also learn these things so no one needs the article. The answer is because articles do matter and by that same token we can't disregard the ethical considerations regarding their content, even if it's entirely derived from open sources.

The theoretical open availability of the information also doesn't change the fact that many other venues (e.g. sites like Reddit and Wikipedia) will protect your personal information but not if the NYT has printed it with neon blinkers.
> My favorite is http://www.noagendashow.com/.

Are they doing independent investigative journalism, though? I jumped around in the episode a bit and it just sounds like talk radio commentary/opinion that cites MSM sources.
I stopped trusting reporters when I was 14. Did some cool CS shit that got national press - reporters wrote ridiculous made up things in articles all over. Most common was putting words in my mouth, less common was using my words without attribution.

That's about when I started reading multiple sources to figure out wtf happened anywhere.

It's super prevalent. If a reporter wants to chat, tell them to fuck off.
AMD Scores First Top Zen Supercomputer at Nvidia
drobert, yours is a fairly well balanced comment.

Summary of the article: we are puppets to our biology.
This goes well belong gender, I'm sure that the guy who is paraplegic will have his own story on how he has to cope with things that many people take for granted.

Some of the most objective posts here have been either flagged or banned, i.e there is no option to up vote them.
I still vividly remember the shit they pulled before the Iraq war. In large part because I happened to talk to a former NYT reporter (in a Parisian café of all places) who spent an hour detailing how disgusted he was by them.

So it's no exacting hot new news, sadly.
I meant that it supports dynamic translation in order to support JITs such as turbofan.

But to answer your question, yes a JIT can be static. JIT just means that the compilation happens at runtime, and "static" in this context means that the compilation is happening at the very start of runtime. You could imagine a JIT that compiles all bytecode to native code immediately on launch. The reason this technique is not used often is that it tends to lead to long startup times. But if the result is cached somewhere then it might be acceptable.
Start by doing the task you want to do every day for a set period of time, say 30 mins up to 1.5 hrs. Then you will see the product of your hard work and you will internalise the fact that success is more a product of hard work rather than just being magically good at something.
They just had a massive diesel oil spill in Siberia due to permafrost loss, which broke equipment. Oil is now following rivers up north to the coast.
I woke up to the fact that most newspapers are like that in the last 2-3 years. That resulted in me eliminating one publication after the other.

Today only one has remained, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, a german-language publication from Switzerland. Lets see how long it holds up.
Breaking News: Weather glitch confirms climate change came 80 years faster than expected!
I asked the same question 7 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23537135
Intel to use nanowire/nanoribbon transistors in volume ‘in five years’
User-space vs. Linux kernel TCP for HTTPS proxying
PostgreSQL Query JIT
In 5 years of using telegram, I'm yet to see a person who would initate a secret chat with me. Everyone who loves Telegram hypes how cool it syncs all their messages on all devices, including browsers, yet, being happy of using the most secure end-to-end encrypted messaging. Sad.
Ask HN: A FOSS Alternative for Notion or Roam Research
Hi,

So in my uni, we are having a FOSS Club(amfoss.in), we are looking for a good team notes management thing like collab, edit and do things, share etc.

Currently, we are doing most of the thing using Google Docs,

We have found Roam Research[1], seems promising but the thing is, it is super expensive for us to afford as we are fully student-driven club since 14+ years. So another alternative would be Notion[2], it is for a single user it is free for now. But not sure how long will it be and will it be changed in the middle.

So, we were curious what are some really good alternatives to both which can be collab and used, if it is OSS Solution then would be great, so we can also volunteer for the development too.

Right now I found,

1 Trilium: https://github.com/zadam/trilium

2 Outline: http://getoutline.com/

3 Joplin: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin

4 Notable: https://notable.app

I haven't used, before trying if some people in HN did use any of these or also Notion/Roam Research, would be a great help to her your views regarding this.

Even if it is only for individuals and it is a good OSS Solution then that would be also fine,

[1]: https://roamresearch.com

[2]: https://www.notion.so
> As Sansec also discovered, if the compromised online store's customers would open their browsers' Developer Tools, they'd get flagged and the skimmer would automatically disable.

That's kind of cool. I'm not up to date in this scene. Is this a common tactic? Seems smart.
no, that's the interpretation of an art piece, art in itself exist as an expression of a singular intent (well, potentially from a collective of authors)

further reflections are independent thoughts which exist because of the interaction with the art piece, but not within the art piece itself.

as such, these are observations of one's self, and not of the art.
That sounds good; thanks for the response. Most stuff I do is in the middle between static/dynamic; needs solid SEO and prerendered parts for various reasons but also contains, for browsers that support it, quite a lot of dynamic elements. Now we just use asp.net/static-with-some-react but that is driving me bonkers.
"...JavaScript to power modern web experiences..."

What the hell are 'modern web experiences'? If you mean unacceptably slow, jittery pages loaded with megabytes of useless crappy data whose only purpose is to spy on users then I don't need them. I always avoid sites like that (and there's plenty more fish in the sea).
I think the reduction in usable space for content is so egregious that I am quite sure I will not be upgrading—ever. Too bad: I was looking forward to ARM.
See also closely related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23601098 from yesterday.
All these enterprise systems are crap. Trying using SAP. It's not better.
With the breakdown of Dennard scaling getting more performance per unit of energy is getting harder and harder. We need another breakthrough to get back on a clearly improving curve. It's surprising how it's exactly the same here though, given how different the two systems are.
Apple gives us our first glimpse of Foundation, adapted from Asimov series
Apple WWDC Platforms State of the Union
i think it'd be smarter to keep Canada's land the way it is until you figure out how to handle a few (dozen) million of immigrants per year whose land used to be arable...
It's almost invisible against your background photo, but at the very bottom, there are a bunch of dots just like on the home screen, except the rightmost dot is a camera icon. It's not a button you can tap, it's an indicator of what is on the page to the right. It's the same on my 7. World's most subtle indicator.
Show HN: A mobile-first open-source online store demo built with Ruby on Rails
We’ve decided to rename Riot
100% with you: Durian pastries in Singapore are bland. Honestly, I haven't found pastry form of Durian that great, and I love, love, love durian since I was a kid (I'm Indonesian).

Keep in mind that there are over 200 varieties of Durian - some are even red inside, some sweet, some more pungent than others, different notes and textures. The best for me is Musang King variety in Malaysia, esp. when they get a slight alcohol after taste.
Did Apple convince these guys and TSMC (re 5nm production) to make their big ARM announcements the same day ARM Macs are announced?

If it's not great marketing then it's a heck of a coincidence.
No idea who Scott is or what his blog was about but regardless it's fucked he's in this situation because of an unapologetic tabloid.
Cristina Rodriguez, VP Intel Data Center Group
> a 30 second conversation might take a 1 minute call now but certainly a 30 minute call sounds absurd.

It is absurd, but people do it. People are always late to meetings. Then 5 minutes of kibbutzing since many have recommended personal chit chat as a way to connect during lockdown. Then there are people who just want to hear themselves talk. It happens.

In a normal office you could streamline some of these but in lockdown you can't.

It's great that you don't have this experience. Consider yourself lucky. But I was responding to the generalization that people who don't have kids "love" WFH. I do not have kids, do not love WFH, and anecdotally from my professional circle my experience is not that uncommon.
> So were the Nvidia accelerators what drove up Summit's efficiency?

Yes. And the next generation NVIDIA accelerators (A100) in the Selene computer (#7 on the list) are even more efficient, currently taking the #2 spot on the green500 list (which is essentially the top500 list ordered by performance/watt).

Edit: Disclaimer: I work for NVIDIA.
> I don't understand why Mixer, after failing to penetrate the game streaming market - didn't pivot to a tech/coder oriented streaming service. It would have better integrated with Microsoft's other products (GitHub, Teams, etc), and trivialized finding marketing/ad-fill partners.

Because this doesn't make money, has a very low market and doesn't need all the expensive technology they invested into.

> Twitch has a 'science & technology' channel grouping which is nice

Exactly, and it sucks. I'm a dev, I occasionally watch there, but it's just not very good. Technology is just not good content for this medium. And a good streamer has the kind of personality which is hard to find with technology-affine people.

> but there's a demographic mismatch

Not true. There are many coders and people working in IT on twitch. They probably even make the biggest group outside of gamers.

Though, it's also true that Twitch does not sell this category well. There are many stuff outside of gaming which could be sold better. Creative-Categories have this problem too.
Hmmm. It's also a process of blind optimization on the part of companies that sell food. If they stumble into things that are addictive, that short-circuit the reward function in human appetite functions, they make more profit. Industrialization, marketing, high quality feedback mechanisms - they all add up to exploiting the human choice function.

Yes, industrialization of food is a function of culture. It's a tough one to fight against though, because marketing is also a culture generator; it needs constant oppositional effort.