skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps consider that some people are talking about luck as a way of reasoning about how we should organize society (if luck is a factor that may imply stronger safety nets) while others (like you, I'd gather) are talking about how to approach one's own life? That's how I've been reasoning about the discussion and it helps clarify things.
Neandertals were a type of humans, well hominids to be exact. A bunch of neadertal DNA is present in populations outside Africa because we interbreed.

> Imagine the furore if someone manages to make this genome into a living creature...

if some mad scientist indeed makes a cross between a Neandertal and a Pig will they be allowed to be called humans?
Safari users seem to update very quickly (based on stats about iOS and MacOS update timelines). I've already got some desktop-oriented websites that are WebP only, and once Safari supports WebP on iOS, I'll finish transitioning them all.

The space savings is quite nice for my bandwidth bills (my websites don't have video, so I estimate saving about 20% in bandwidth costs, or approximately $120/month across all of them).
> The beautiful irony is that I simultaneously understand what the author means by this and I find it completely incomprehensible. Well, it's not that bad, but I guess it's just that the concept has morphed into such a complex shape of neurons in my head that doesn't seem to quite fit the words this author is saying, so it doesn't jive quite right. I think I know what they mean, but maybe I don't.

You might already know about this but you should ready about the "Memory Palace" technique used for remembering lots of things. Using a physical space in your mind to "store" information.

Personally, I need a place for things to live for me to remember it. That either needs to be a physical space - I write something down to help me remember it, in a way because the memory is on the paper in my mind, or at the end of a linked list of memories, so that I can remember it by the things it's associated with.
What laptop did you get?
Even though I'm young and relatively healthy, I'm not interested in acquiring the virus in the service of "herd immunity". Especially after hearing reports of it causing lung and organ damage even in asymptomatic patients. Please count me out.
Soil and oceans are shared resources, which we're (probably) spoiling by permeating them with countless minuscule bits of plastic.

Or maybe I don't properly understand what "spoil" means.
This sounds like the opposite of what Richard Sutton seemed to advocate for in his "Bitter Lesson"[0]. I don't know nearly enough to advocate for one thing or the other, but it is fascinating to see that those approaches seem to compete as we venture into the unknown.

[0] http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
I saw this discussed on reddit, and I was surprised that there was so much confusion about how this happened. It wasn't just "network injection" - quite clearly (unfortunately very poorly described in the article) there was a vulnerability in iOS/Safari that allowed remote code execution; network injection alone wouldn't have been enough. Does anyone know what the CVE was that allowed this?
> Even with root, you can't touch /usr/bin

Yes, you can. If you disagree with Apple's System Integrity Protection, you can take two whole minutes of your life (if even up to that, considering how quickly OSes boot these days) to turn it off permanently and mount the entire drive as read-writeable. For some strange reason, though, I tend to encounter far more people complaining about it than actually taking the steps needed to fix the "problem".
Harassing journalists for doing their job (we don't even know what kind of article this is yet) and revealing the real name of some blogger that has barely hidden their full name either way is worlds apart. The outrage, if there would even be one, that the latter would get would also be because of their own writings. If you write on controversial topics and have a large following you can't expect some sort of total anonymity. That's just naive to the point of stupidity.
and they had baity headlines then too
In some Italian villages that tested extensively, they found 50-70% asymptomatic

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-what-proportion-are-a...
Non-native menus and poor keyboard focus handling and shortcuts are the giveaway, and extreme memory usage!
Lol, like I said, Intel is obviously out of the picture. I'm not really defending them, just being as charitable to their side as I can for the sake of argument. But yes, their GPUs are perennially terrible, and their fab side has too many issues these days to rely on being able to ship a leading edge process node at scale.

I'm just on the side that a semicustom AMD APU would have made way more sense for the stated reasons of the arch switch, as you would have been able to have all the power/watt and raw GPU perf improvements (if not more) without switching arch from under your users. And the Xbox One is an incredibly secure chip that'll be the first major game console I know of to not be hacked to allow unsigned code during it's lifetime, and that's while running games in kernel mode.

I think the real reason for the switch is the fact that catalyst runs iOS apps unmodified on macOS/aarch64. When you look at their 10-K that's where they make their real money, and I suspect that they had a hard conversation about the mac app store not meeting expectations and this is how they intend to get macs on that same gravy train.

That has a lot of implications for their incentive structure going forward that doesn't look great for people who want a genreal purpose computer ala Cory Doctorow's "The Coming War on General Computation".
Have you heard of the 4% rule? That basically means if you save up X amount, you can spend 4% of X every year, in perpetuity, given some reasonable return like 7%. So if you can live on $80k/year, save and invest $2 million.
I don't know how "real life" it is, but Sarah and Duck [1] is about the best young kids show we've come across. It used to be on Netflix, but they took it off. We've bought all 9? seasons on Amazon by now though. It's a great show of just of just completely mundane things with a bit of imagination tossed in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_%26_Duck
So that's how those Mission Impossible messages to James Bond would self destruct!
Huh, in twenty years of using Linux, hardware support has improved with each update not gone down hill.

What I do agree with is that on day one support might not be as good for new types of hardware (especially for more niche hardware like a fingerprint reader for example). Even that has improved a lot over the years though.
Where is this Bureau of Justice statistics analysis that you're talking about in the second paragraph?
RFC 1925 – The Twelve Networking Truths (1996)
I think that MuZero is a fascinating algorithm, but that a lot of news articles are misleading when they present it as a new, superior substitute for AlphaZero.

MuZero is solving a harder problem, in which the learning agent does not have a model of the environment from the start (e.g. it does not know the rules of the game a priori). This makes it potentially applicable to a larger number of real-world challenges.

However, I haven't seen any evidence that it is any better than AlphaZero at learning games such as Chess or Go. Although DeepMind reports that their MuZero agent "slightly exceeds the performances of AlphaZero on Go", they say nothing about the training time and tuning effort spent on each.

As far as I understand and in the absence of further data, I think AlphaZero is still the superior choice to solve games with known rules, especially if you don't have DeepMind's level of computing resources.

If anyone knows better about this, I would be happy to be proven wrong though.
I was responding to the second paragraph. TLS is not complicated now.
Can't wait for this shit to drop onto the floor(s).
Fullscreen on my large monitor it looks ridiculous. On my phone it seems ok, except firefox crashed at one point.

Developer tools should really be desktop first, instead of mobile first. I always wonder why we all use bootstrap as our goto so the site works on mobile, but then twitter barely works on a mobile browser.
VERY highly voted and discussed topic earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23610416
The people i know with the most simultaneous breadth and depth of knowledge just inherently enjoy learning. The skills developed are more of a side effect than the goal itself. A pattern ive seen is having some sort of an anchor in different areas, like being a professional scientist but playing regularly in a band and volunteering to coach debate. Spreading areas of focus out increases likelihood of new information being interesting and relatable to existing knowledge, which makes it faster and easier to take in, especially if it intersects with multiple areas at once.
That's cool, I'm looking forward to that.

Since many different organizations self-host GitLab instances (which is great!), having to enable Javascript for each one can be a bit of a pain.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/215365
Sure the theory is nice, but can I see some empirical evidence? :)
> How does anything we buy in the US even work at all, considering it’s all made in China by people of a different culture and race with zero diversity and zero representation of the customer?

Because most products are targeted very widely and are for general purpose use. For general purpose products, my second comment does not apply. What I am saying is that if your product is targeted to a niche group of people who tend to occupy a specific demographic that you aren't in, then it makes sense to have members of that demographic on your team because they can provide you basic data that you might not know. This is to gain a business advantage, not to pacify diversity proponents, and I don't think it is at all a contentious statement. If you were going to start a healthcare startup and no one on your team had a healthcare background, that would probably be concerning. Are you guaranteed to fail without that user input? Not necessarily, but you will likely have to work a lot harder than you would otherwise need to in order to properly understand the space. Similarly, if you were going to start a shampoo company catering towards black women and your team was all white guys, it would probably be a good idea to bring a black woman onboard to help steer product development.

> That’s always been a really silly assertion backed by a very small number of cherry picked examples...We shouldn’t accept arguments like this, no matter how uncomfortable the righteous want to make us feel for thinking critically.

These are not particularly value adding comments and detract from your argument. Please stick to attacking my argument rather than trying to attack me personally.
The parameters are a 'signature' of previous texts in many ways. Perhaps this is essentially a form of authentication?
The Johns Hopkins database implies that California's overall positivity rate (i.e. the percent of COVID-19 tests of Californians that are positive) remains roughly flat at just under 5%. [1] While that's still a concerning number (and it seems like LA in particular is not doing as well as the rest of CA), California overall is doing reasonably well, as it has been throughout the outbreak, despite our dense cities and massive population. More tests mean more positive results, but doesn't necessarily indicate worsening conditions. Cumulative totals are especially meaningless; of course an area with a large population (e.g. the Bay Area) will have large cumulative totals.

The focus on absolute numbers of positive cases (without normalizing by testing rate or population) pretty dramatically distorts the national discourse on COVID-19. California has been slow to reopen — although it is reopening — and has been criticized by the right as experiencing surging cases regardless. But that's largely inaccurate: CA is just much, much larger than any other state, and it's been reliably ramping up testing. As counterexamples, Florida and Arizona are places where the surge in cases is actually reflective of significantly worsening community spread: Arizona's positivity rate has tripled from a low of 6.5% in May to nearly 20% today [2], and Florida's positivity rate has grown 5x from a low of 2.3% in May to over 12% today [3]. Texas, another state that reopened quickly, had its positivity rate double from a low of 4.7% — approximately similar to the rate CA has managed to keep itself at — to 11% today. [4]

1: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/califo...
2: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/arizon...
3: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/florid...
4: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/texas
I really wanted to stick with Safari a little over two years ago when I moved off of Google products. It was (is) snappy and battery conversant. Beyond poor extension support, I realized the absolutely most important features to me in a browser are password, bookmark, and history synchronization. Since I use Windows and macOS, Safari was out of the question (RIP Windows edition of it). Thankfully in the last year Firefox has mad leaps and bounds on performance and battery life consumption on macOS (on Windows it is fantastic).

Also at the end of the day, you have what I believe is the most unlimited ad-blocking experience on Firefox compared to Chrome, Chromium, and Safari.
I love long-form newsletters and prefer them to reading content on the web (no ads, instant load times, the personal touch of having it delivered in my mailbox, breaking out of the "one more click" dynamic when browsing the web, etc.) . I guess it's why people like Ben Thomson or Matt Levine write and distribute them - ultimately, because there's an audience for it. The former even makes a pretty penny with it, and I'm sure there are others.

Your claim about open rates is unsubstantiated because I wouldn't have ever subscribed if it was just a summary and a link to Bloomberg (which has a free article limit to boot, if I remember correctly). So between the two of us that's only n = 2 and I think neither of us has any clue what metrics for that newsletter might look like.
Did a rust build with the following...

fn fibonacci(n: u32) -> u32 {
match n {
0 => 1,
1 => 1,
_ => fibonacci(n - 1) + fibonacci(n - 2),
}
}

fn main() {
println!("{}", fibonacci(47));
}

size: 2.67kb
time: 7.391s

I think rust wins :-D

---
edit: not sure if I used valgrind/massif right, but the largest values in the output file.

mem_heap_B=1816
mem_heap_extra_B=32

I think this means it stayed under 2k ram?
It seems fine to me in that I'm using it and have barely noticed apart from I have to scroll a bit more. It always amazes me somehow everyone thinks of the same ideas at the same time. MacOS Big Sur feels very reminiscent of some of these changes...
His advice is simple: stick your money in low fee index funds.
Thank you for taking the time to write all this out.

I'm hoping that when covid becomes less of an issue that people are going to be eager to get out and meet people.
> I've spent zero days, zero hours, zero minutes, and zero seconds fiddling with setting anything up in macOSX over the last 15 years.

I have to say that I 100% do not believe this statement.

You mean you you've never used any wireless connections to your machine?
You've never had to set up backups or change audio settings?
You've never had to deal with setting up one thing in 15 years?
Since when did OSX gain the ability to read minds?
I'm not frustrated. In fact, I prefer the cleaner look. Now I'm not distracted by extra information I don't care about 99% of the time.
>In a year of historic ironies, here’s another one: that it was the decent, reasonable, and well-meaning Cade Metz, rather than any of the SneerClubbers

Okay so what's with the obsession with a niche subreddit whose sole purpose is to dunk on rationalists/SSCers who talk too often about the IQ of black people. I mean it's not like Aaronson is himself an HBD blogger. I kind of like Aaronson but his online anxiety is really getting the better of his judgement.
Towards a new generation of artificial intelligence in China
I deleted ~/.stack and ~/.mvn and had plenty of room. I usually do Haskell dev on a very fast VPS anyway.

I am running the macOS Big Sur beta and also the iPadOS 14 beta. Things seem to run slowly on my MacBook, but ti seems like some work is done the first time apps are opened. My $3400 Common Lisp kit does not work on the Big Sur beta, so I will probably revert in a few days, but I am having fun with the beta right now.

I have had no problems with the iPadOS 14 beta so far.
The new layout of the repo screen is decent, but the new, overly-smooth UI components are too much of a departure from the previous, well-done UI components.

The way the top tab/nav bar stretches across the screen, while the content is centered feels broken to me.

https://twitter.com/joelkesler/status/1275557934290755584

(above) I mocked up what the repo screen could look like if it used Github's previous UI with the new layout (and fixed the fluid tab bar!)
> Who in the right mind is going to enable Web Application Firewall feature, when rules exceptions cannot be configured?

Currently we are using ModSecurity for our Web Application Firewall and rather than duplicating their documentation, we refer our users to ModSecurity's documentation for rule configuration. Rule exceptions with GitLab's WAF are possible as documented on the ModSecurity website: https://www.modsecurity.org/CRS/Documentation/exceptions.htm...

It is also worth noting that we are in the process of designing a more refined, UI-based policy management experience. While this policy management experience is starting with support for Cilium Network Policies only, we plan to eventually add support for WAF rules as well. We would love to get input or feedback you have on the direction we are headed with our policy management interface at https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/3403
>I am genuinely baffled how Scott Alexander's post has turned into hundreds and hundreds of comments on cancel culture, as if it was anything near the #1 reason why he'd be in danger if his name was revealed.

Isn't it obvious that the upcoming NYT articles is going to be a hit piece with the goal of ruining his personal credibility and professional career.

I hope to be wrong, but somehow I don't think so.

>Being famous is dangerous in every era, doubly so in an era where anybody unhinged basically has access to the same level of information you used to need a private investigator to get.

Nobody would really care if it was just some twitter people bitching on twitter. The problem is that media, employers, sponsors, advertisers, etc. listen to them and act on what they think the mob wants.

And we are way past targeting famous people. The step-mother of the Atlanta cop who shot Brooks was fired for having the audacity of defending her step-son on social media. Imagine a world where you fault a mother for not disowning her son!! WaPo put together a 3000 word article attacking and naming a staffer for a Halloween costume she wore two years ago (with no ill intent!). She profusely apologized, but that doesn't matter - she was fired after being publicly humiliated by a noted paper of record who was also her employer. WaPo did that to their own employee!! How about that "Karen" (a modern day slur against women) in San Francisco who merely inquired, very very politely, if a gentleman who was writing out a BLM slogan on a property if he lived at that property .. she was dragged through the mud, forced into a public apology, which was not accepted (apologies are never accepted but instead are used as evidence of guilt) her small business was shut down (after the mob targeted her customers), and her husband was fired from his job.

This is all great stuff.
The original Rosetta couldn’t do it, or couldn’t do some part of it. I remember because Sixtyforce couldn’t run. I believe that it could have to do with self-modifying code.
> ...unlike most people here I am not afraid of change

Not every preference is a fear, except I guess the fear that a lot of people will now waste a lot more time learning things that used to be obvious at a glance.

The tables are somehow less dense and less readable at the same time; the added line spacing should have helped with this, but overall it's worse. The controls are needlessly stretched across the entire width of the screen, which these days is most likely wide, so reading and moving your mouse between controls is inherently more laborious (it's also just ugly).
Why are there so many Apple devices with 8GB RAM for sale on eBay then? The RAM prices for new Apple devices are 3x the normal rate so people get disappointed with all the Electron apps eating RAM and sell it!
NASA Rejection Letter
Ok, then Burnaby[1]. I visited Vancouver last year, and stayed there. It's quite nice, also a suburb, and a short train ride into Vancouver. You can have a 2-bedroom for CAD 2900.

I think you're underestimating how insanely expensive renting in the Bay Area is.

> Look at averages, not the lowest available price at any given time.

I compared prices from the same outlet (Costco) in different locations. That's as apples-to-apples as you can get.

I made two visits to Canada last year, and bought gas at random (non-Costco) outlets. At no point did it feel significantly more expensive than California prices - I converted in my head every time I filled up.

Gas is extremely cheap in Texas, compared to California (and also Canada).

1. https://www.padmapper.com/apartments/burnaby-bc
Ask HN: Why would one learn Ruby on Rails in 2020?
Considering diving into RoR, mostly because it's a trusted technology choice that powers some of the biggest websites (e.g. Shopify).

Currently I've got pretty good hands-on experience with Flask, Phoenix, and Express.

Any reason to perhaps skip RoR over something newer, say Go (with whatever web/API framework)?
all the european countries have strong medical systems that don't let anyone through the cracks. Many also don't have prison systems like we have but are more focused on rehabilitation, and the 'why' people commit crimes. Sure murderers/rapists lock up, but non-violent people reward them for NOT using violence to commit a crime w/ house arrest, community service, and fines.

If we had guaranteed medical, we'd have a check on mental health. Probably the #1 cause of crimes in America is poor mental health and the stress of living in America.
Spotlight search is one of the only patterns I really took away from using a mac for work.

I even mapped Super (win key) + Space to the application finder in XFCE. It's just muscle memory at this point, just like the vim keybindings.

And, really, any excuse to use the mouse less is a win.
I don't think there's a pre-built FPS VR template from Unity, but it is pretty simple for basic projects. Word of warning, though: VR locomotion is very different from FPS locomotion, and gets very complex pretty quickly.
Antibody levels in recovered Covid-19 patients decline quickly: research
to clarify, the explanation isn't condoning the reporter's behavior. it is simply trying to explain the behavior without assuming malice.

it's obvious that doxxing scott alexander is not necessary for this article. in fact, it's actually quite dangerous given the history of threats.
we will/would have to stop fucking over black people in America at all the corners for the social contract to have any meaning for them.

(and we definitely need to do that)
Similar to how deaf and Deaf have different meanings, and you don't read stories about Hearing people. If you're intellectually curious, read up on that.