skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is omnipresent even where regulators aren't involved: every graphics card benchmark out there is 'manipulated' relative to real world performance. At this point it's so universal that I don't think anyone is even fighting it - as long as everyone games benchmarks roughly the same amount, the relative scores stay usable.

Your point about fairness and passive design is the one that makes me view these cases differently also. In the anecdote, the product being tested was the same one being sold, and there's no sign the heater was worsened to improve test performance. The designers just picked the best-scoring option among some reasonable configurations. (Frankly, once they noticed that issue, what were they supposed to do? Pick the worst-scoring, or pick the spec out of a hat?)

In the VW story, the test-bench vehicle was fundamentally different from the market vehicle, and the road version was designed to behave worse on the metrics to get other gains. I happen to know someone who bought a diesel Jetta specifically because it was more eco-friendly than other options, and I think he'd draw a clear line between tuning for test metrics and VW consciously lying to their buyers.
Do you still have it in your bookmarks, perhaps?
Poverty isn’t a lack of character. It’s a lack of cash
Comments like this remind me of the Principal Skinner quote "surely I am right and it's everyone else who's wrong" or something like that.

Everyone(TM) prefers AWD for it's superior go-ing abilities even if the turning and stopping abilities are unchanged. An obnoxious vocal minority tells them they're wrong. Since it's a matter of performance and consensus the overwhelming majority can't be wrong though.

Anecdote time:

I have a fleet of several identical station wagons. There is one of them that's FWD. They all use the same brand of tires. It's as close to scientific experiment as you can get. The FWD one sucks in the wet/snow/anything but dry. Forcing all the horsepower to go through just two tires that also have to do double duty and steer the vehicle make it peel-out city. The AWD ones are much more tame. But the FWD one gets a couple more mpg so we keep it around. Given the choice between snow tires on the FWD wagon and driving one of the AWD wagons on all season tires I will pick the AWD one every time. Having a marginally shorter minimum stopping distance and being able to corner better is less of an improvement than having a substantially reduced likelihood of peeling out on an uphill.

The above opinion is shared by the other four people who have to drive the vehicles in question which is why I'm the one who gets stuck driving the FWD one when it snows.
It takes some getting used to, but for me I ended up not keeping certain newsletters in The Feed. The general idea is that The Feed can be read anytime, and to just "let it flow". There are certain newsletters that I like to keep on track of, so I just keep those in my Imbox.
Because others of us have productive jobs.
> While the rule on hate protects such groups, it does not protect all groups or all forms of identity. For example, the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority or who promote such attacks of hate.

Not a single word about white people not benefiting from such protections.
>TSMC....

TSMC never had capacity problem. Which mainstream media likes to run the story. You dont go and ask if TSMC has another spare 10K wafer capacity sitting around. TSMC plans their capacity based on their client's forecasting and projection many months in advance. They will happily expand their capacity if you are willing to commit to it. Like how Apple was willing to bet on TSMC, and TSMC basically built a Fab specifically for Apple.

This is much easier for AWS since they are using it themselves with their own SaaS offering. It is harder for AMD since they dont know how much they could sell. And AMD being conservatives meant they dont order more than they are able to chew.

>Given how much they spend on Intel CPUs to what extent is it worth AWS / Oracle etc making low hundred million dollar investments in their own silicon or startups like Ampere just to keep Intels pricing competitive?

I am not sure I understand the question correctly. But AWS already invested hundreds of millions in their own ARM CPU called Graviton.
I was going to comment on this as well.

I added a math degree to my CS degree (which also added a year, but I was going to be a year late graduating anyways). So I took a lot of courses in math my last two years. The three that made the biggest difference for me were:

Set theory: Covered proof construction in a deeper fashion than high school geometry and was the first proof-heavy math course I had taken in college (others used them and expected regurgitation, but did not expect construction; this was my first math-major only course).

Later I took both Abstract Algebra and Linear Algebra (high level) together. I wasn't struggling in either, but in my mind they were two separate courses. One day we were doing a proof in Linear and I realized I'd already done it in Abstract, only we had been dealing with (I don't recall what) some other objects than matrices or vectors. What I realized then was that we were dealing (in both classes) with a class of objects and operations on them that were the same in the abstract, but different in the concrete (if you wanted to actually apply the math to solve a problem). Given the right perspective, I could apply the proofs of one to the other so long as the objects had the same properties the proofs relied on. Both classes became a breeze after that because, coincidentally, the order the material was covered in meant that every other week one class had been largely covered by the other when viewed in this fashion.
I purchased something with a credit card, and returned it, but it was "lost" in shipping even though they signed for it. It took a while to notice, then it took a while to investigate and then a specified time period had elapsed and my cc company wouldn't reverse the charge. I cancelled the card.
> Prior to the Release of Android 10 we announced a new constrained sandbox for software codecs. We’re really pleased with the results. Thus far, Android 10 is the first Android release since the infamous stagefright vulnerabilities in Android 5.0 with zero critical-severity vulnerabilities in the media frameworks.

It wasn't mediatized, but there must have been like a new stagefright-like media library bug every 2-3 months since stagefright was first publicized. Glad to see this news.

Also, how are they enabling memory tagging if it's an Arm v8.5 feature and new Arm CPUs, except for Apple's own chips, don't seem to support newer than Arm v8.2? Is it just the software version of memory tagging (with some expected performance penalty)?
Not yet but we had few people hacking on our GraphQL API already so hopefully we'll get there soon. Integrating into your existing workflow is one of the design cornerstones for us, we don't want to waste anyone's time.

https://docs.linear.app/API-Webhooks-d7b411ffab7b4a91853d04a...
It's as if the image from your memory/imagination appears on a different monitor than the signal from your eyes.
Seems like an opportunity to raise awareness for this information then.
OpenModelica is free. There are many commercial IDEs like Dymola from Dassault, Wolfram System Modeler etc.
Violating copyright and stealing are fundamentally different things. If I steal your tv, you no longer have a TV. If I pirate a book, all existing copies of the book still exist.

If you price a book above what I'm willing to pay for it, I'm never going to buy it. Ever. If my willingness to pay is "$0", then you can't even argue that the creator has lost revenue if I pirate it. I was never going to buy it - it's too expensive at any price.

You can make the argument that capitalism should exclude me from ever being allowed to read it, because my willingness to pay is below the seller's willingness to sell. Fair enough.

However, it's pretty tough to calculate actual economic damages here - I was never going to buy the book, at any price. And I haven't deprived anyone else of the ability to buy the book. You might say to me: "But you are clearly in the target market - you wanted the book enough to pirate and read it." I disagree - by definition, the target market must consist of people who want the product enough to pay for it.
https://fanlesstech.com reviews lots of completely silent computers generally using standard components. I would go with something with standardized components if you can as the case, the power, the heatsink etc may all be reusable.

https://simplynuc.com will equip you with a NUC mounted in a fanless case. This means a proprietary motherboard/soldered chip and a case no other computer can be mounted in, which left me with a rather expensive and useless case when an older NUC died. A NUC is a very small line of computers made by Intel, they're basically laptop hardware repurposed as desktops.

https://quietpc.com has lots of fanless and near-silent machines too up to full workstation-size desktops but the smallest ones all tend to be the Intel NUCs.

I currently have a 6-core/12-thread NUC with a 1tb NVMe which is even smaller than a Mac Mini. But I hesitate to recommend this as it has a 10th generation processor saddled with the years-old Intel HD620 graphics like the Mac Mini, my 2013 MBP with Intel Iris outperforms it. It requires an eGPU for anything even slightly graphically intensive.

https://liliputing.com/2020/04/intel-frost-canyon-nuc-10-rev...
Haha, I have spent my fair share of time procrastinating over what a type-safe JSX alternative would look like for React.

The most ergonomic solution (well, atleast for me) has been their old factory API upon which I layered a set of convenience utilities [1]. I have been trying it out in a hobby project and I find the reduction of className boilerplate, elimination of closing tags etc. quite productive. And unlike alternatives like react-pug etc. I don't have to compromise with type checking of attributes.

I'll probably release it as a library after doing some performance evaluation and if needed, wrapping it in a babel-macro [2] that eliminates the runtime overhead.

--

[1] Example in CodeSandbox: https://codesandbox.io/s/pedantic-shape-lq9q9?file=/src/reac...

Code in github gist: https://gist.github.com/lorefnon/53377e4d6a6b13adbcfa155f486...

[2] https://github.com/kentcdodds/babel-plugin-macros
I thought this was a pretty interesting read, especially about how they used Jekyll as a prototyping tool. It's always great to see the different variations of a product, especially a new one, as it takes shape.
Those were all free too if I remember correctly?
I'm thinking what would be the purpose or added value of a separate "public spec" document (which would require a significant maintenance effort) when you already have [1] a healthy Github (or Gitlab) project governance going on, [2] Bitcoin feature proposal process.

[1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/projects
[2] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips

When you upgrade your Bitcoin node software, the act of the upgrading is you casting your Yes vote for the changes introduced in that version. The BIPs etc. can help you understand these, but if you want to be 100% diligent, the only fully authoritative source is the state of (the code sources in) the git repo as referenced by the commit hash in the Bitcoin software you are upgrading to.
>That is the reason you don't see them being used anywhere other than niche use cases or for cost reasons.

By 2017 there were three times as many smartphones than PCs, all running ARM chips.

The top four supercomputers all use RISC, and the fastest uses ARM.
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/uk-pubs-reopen-register-dri...

UK pubs will reopen on Saturday but government issued guidance recommends that venues require customers to leave contact details in case of a localised Corona outbreak. We designed a simple service to collect the bare minimum data to comply with both the registration guidance and GDPR.

Customers just send a four digit SMS locator to a number (or an email to a special mailbox) and we log either the sender's phone number or email address against the venue and the time of entry. We reply to the message with a confirmation that can be shown to security/service staff. All data is encrypted on the back end and retention periods are enforced. Data export is controlled (and similarly encrypted) in the event that a venue is required to provide by the public health authority.

This approach means data is accurate (non-trivial to forge sender headers) and low friction for the customers. Not asking for personal details to be input makes for a less invasive check in experience for the customer, whilst maintaining compliance for the venue.
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All object-relational mappings would be in database. Why not function returning a query? Because you can't EXPLAIN ANALYZE function body.
Guerraoui said his team is working on "refinements and extensions" to support such functionality in the future.

When do they expect this work to be done?
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I have doubts that you can do it without heavy automation. Sure, eventually some human can decide whether something is "factual-ish" or not. But producing content is much easier and can be automated, so the attackers can flood the system.

If you want humans involved, you end up with a gate keeper, which essentially means "unless you're an accredited media organization, your content is considered fake", because you can't vet individual pieces.
Covid-19 spreading faster in Nevada than any other US state
Please see the original article where the author explicitly complains that cost of building their own house is too high.
> I write code in order to express myself, and I consider what I code an artifact, rather than just something useful to get things done. I would say that what I write is useful just as a side effect, but my first goal is to make something that is, in some way, beautiful. In essence, I would rather be remembered as a bad artist than a good programmer.

This entered my list of favorite quotes! For this, if not for your huge contribution to OSS, grazie!
One thing I think about non profits and volunteering, is the jobs displaced by volunteers;
For example; Adopt-A-Roads

In "The Legend of Bagger Vance", Hardy's dad becomes a street sweeper in the midst of the depression to pay his bills;

What if, instead of volunteering to clean up roads, the city collected taxes, and paid a living wage with benefits to people cleaning up the streets.

This line of thinking also applies to the Coronavirus, restaurant + school shutdowns; If only, instead of asking for volunteers, non profits were paid by the state to re-employ restaurants and/or their workers, to make meals for children now without a meal.
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The main problem I've seen with scrum is that everything can get put into the backlog, and the backlog becomes infinite.

Then, development becomes ticket driven instead of engineered.

I have seen scrum used successfully where an engineering process was placed in front of the backlog ala Feature Driven Development.

There is a ticketing system, but it is kept separate from the work planning system.
Actually, that's pretty much perfect! Thanks for the reply.
Many. Dymola is probably the go-to solution, but also openmodelica, simulationX and wolfram, I think.

Here is a list:
https://www.modelica.org/tools
Not sure that's gonna be enough assurance, my friend
Define "small desktop". SFF-sized? Smaller? Price, size, and capability are tradeoffs.

For whatever it's worth, I'll vouch for the HP Elitedesk Mini series and the Dell Optiplex Micro series. If the current generation units are too expensive, previous generation units can be found cheaply on eBay and maxed out with add-on parts.
That is exactly the quote I was looking for, thank you. I promise to bookmark it this time!
Fair use is a term and redefining is a big hill to climb but a worthly one.

All copyrights expire and all works have fair use clauses. It's just a matter of when and what country is issuing the copyright.

You can give away free digital books. Project Gutenburg has been doing it for years. Even if the author's family doesn't like it. It's not stealing either. It's simply waiting for the copyright to expire.

In this case they are using borrowing like a libruary as a defensive with covid hardship thrown in to justify removing a limit on the amount of books they can lend.
> Assuming there's a bidding system, wouldn't transaction cost tend to zero?

Well, that depends. If there is extra space in blocks, then yes the fees tend towards zero (or very low costs, at least, zero is not exactly accurate, even in cases where there is extra block space)

If blocks are "full" and there is more demand for this space, than there is extra space, then they do not tend towards zero, as transactors are bidding on a limited supply of space.
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I actually think there is a bigger motivator for differences is cost to enter.

Consider this: in the US the biggest cost of a furniture store is the land. When you compare the cost of starting a Quito-style "no guarantees" store vs. an American style "customer is always right" store, the difference is negligible. You see this also in the US real estate market - "luxury" real estate is overrepresented, because the difference between building with nice appliances and marble vs. cheap appliances and particle board is a trivial percentage of total build cost. So if you're going to develop real estate, or open a furniture store, or a restaurant, or almost anything else in the US, you usually go for the "nice" version because it's a marginal expense.

This swings the other way too - because the relative risk of opening an American-style store in Quito is greater, you end up with disproportionately high prices, often approaching those of the West.

Disclaimer: I said "Quito" but the above is based on my experience with another city in a developing nation.
How did I know this linked to some kind of general principle with a cool short name even before reading or opening the link?
Poverty is also a lack of basic human rights. Poverty causes people to live in places where their safety isn't guaranteed, and go to school where their development isn't fostered.
While the media is is cheaper LTO8 drives are not. A single Disk writer with manual change can be around 4-5K USD.

That is alot of tapes to recover the cost savings over HDD
Sure, brute forcing it could work to an extent. But, for example, some users are nearly always among the top 10 reposes to a Donald Trump tweet. I suspect they are using some tools to enable it.
I didn’t say it was inherent in being black, but if you are selling a drowning prevention technology, it’s imperative that it work well for dark-skinned people. As someone with dark skin I can say that the problem of tech products (Automatic red eye reduction, “Facetune” style image tuning, Face recognition login) not working as well for us is very real.
And it's not just about not learning how to handle risk, but at this point it's gotten to the point of not believing that risk exists! That's the only way I can explain the militant anti-mask brigades out there. The virus cannot happen to them!
https://archive.vn/Muf5l
I tend to agree but I have a anecdotal counterexample. We recently switched from JIRA to Clubhouse by importing our history and backlog wholesale. Due to the substantial performance bump we have definitively leveled up as a team.

Status updates that used to happen in slack channels are now captured in Clubhouse, people log in to check on progress, stories get love and details.

JIRA cloud was unusably slow and as a result we didn’t want to use the tool. We hated it even though it technically “worked”.
Complexity intensifies... hahaha
Been working in Modelica for a couple of years. Modelica compilers generate C code since they're heavily used in the embedded and real-time space. Kinda amazing to see systems with hundreds of thousands of equations simulate faster than real time.
I don't like that either, but on my computer I added a code to make it treat URLs entered in the location bar as relative, so if you just type "web.test" it will try to access the file called "web.test" relative to whatever document is currently open.
I don’t pretty much like Apple ecosystem but I have to say that the best decision I made technically was to switch to an iPhone 7 Plus 3 years ago after years of Android (since T-Mobile G1, first android phone ever). I said goodbye to a lot of customizations but at the same time regain my sanity from battery life, slowness and absurd support timelines
Apple reportedly evaluating Apple Silicon-powered macOS on iPhone
pick up a functional programming language and learn its [concept] library, it's a great way to experiment with mathematical concepts while also having something concrete to play with. I suggest Haskell.

P.S. challenge yourself to solve problems with as few lines as possible, that way you're forced to find better (combinations of) abstractions
While I'm sure it's a fine app, this oddly looks like a graduation of using Thunderbird in ~2006 as a multi-email client.
Seriously, even if she failed to pay 10,000 traffic tickets, how does it do any good to put her behind bars at all? They really couldn't think of a better way to deal with non-violent offense??
Yes, that's the PIV applet.
I can give an anecdote.

I love most things about iOS design more than Android, and I've used both, but have stuck with Android over the last 7-8ish years. Mainly because of the amount that I could customize things, freely make little app projects, install custom ROMs, etc. Over the last few years, it's gotten inconvenient to tinker, and I just don't find myself bothering with it anymore. I've run into issues where certain apps stop working because of root.

But also both OS's have gotten much better and need fewer (if any) tweaks anyways to be used effectively. Especially with the upcoming change to allow iOS to use a different default browser (finally).

If the main reason I've been drawn to Android is vanishing more every year, I'd rather use the more elegant OS (Apple), regardless of how closed it is. I have a Pixel 2 that's getting near EOL (only 2 years after buying it), and I'll be getting an iPhone SE as soon as I can justify spending the money.

I guess something that helps too is I've been on a de-googling kick these last few months where I've been switching off all their services because of privacy, another benefit of iOS to me
My returns from angel investing have been stellar. Individual companies, private round, etc. my question is about AL specifically. I have yet to meet a single investor on the AL platform who says anything other than they’ve zero or negative returns.
Ummm.. The DOE run National labs have pioneered fundamental science. A lot of modern materials science technique development originally happened at some DOE National Lab.

Judging basic science by productivity is the absolute worst metric to choose. DOE Labs are going down that path, and are becoming glorified university research groups all in the name of productivity.
I used to be like this then my interest broaden a lot when I was about 22. I basically have friends now that I only talk via chat or when I want to talk tech since my old crowd would just chat about it perpetually.
Naval and Balaji look to invest in Indian companies after Chinese Apps Ban
That's a sensationalized way of describing it. Judges can't just decide to have random people sterilized. The mother petitioned the court to have her minor daughter sterilized. The judge made a large number of procedural mistakes in granting the petition, but the Supreme Court ruled that he didn't act outside of his judicial capacity. The general rule is that judges can't be held personally liable for mistakes they make when acting in their official capacity as judges.