skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does being a reverse engineer correlate with making backups of a hobby project which seemed to had outliven it's usefullness?
Mercury and algal blooms poisoned Maya reservoirs at Tikal
Yes, all benchmarks right now are highly questionable. Still, it’s understandable everyone is curious - we’ll just have to wait and see.
You might appreciate this illustration of the results of what you suggest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z2vU8M6CYI

Ah, but the Rosetta Stone would be much less interesting if we'd already had a (more) complete record. Think of the careers that would have been rendered unnecessary!
I suspect he also deserves some of the “blame” but maybe not for the reasons you list. He has not exactly made the Linux kernel community a warm and welcoming place historically. Many people can probably think of more fun things to do than get publicly brow beaten by Linus
You don't have to trust RBC (Royal Bank of Canada) to not run off with your money because they are regulated by the Canadian government. Canada has one of the most respected and stable banking industries in the world with a proven track record.

If somebody breaches your Canadian bank account you get your money back. If somebody steals your money from your bitcoin wallet you start all over again.
I'd wager to say the bulk of the web is CPU bound.
Scott has spoken many times on SSC that his concern is with his employer—i.e. he's afraid of getting fired for the contents of his blog, and perhaps what he himself has written in the past. That's why he uses a pseudonym online—he's not afraid of his patients, at least, not primarily.

Obviously, if Scott is fired from where he works, he can't continue to treat his current patients—so that's where the harm to "his ability to practice and treat his patients" come in.

He didn't lay all of that out explicitly in his farewell post on SSC, but it's fully consistent with what he wrote—if you're aware of the history of his employment concerns and the likely result of the NYT article sending a bunch of low-info culture warriors after him personally as a result.

People can disagree about his motives, of course. For me, the above is most consistent with everything Scott's written previously, as well as the final farewell post.
While the DTK can't, Apple has announced that they will be offering virtualization on Apple silicon, and Rosetta 2 will take care of the Intel binaries. And they have affirmed that you can always run whatever you like, as the switches to do so are there if you want them.
I've had mostly mediocre or downright poor experiences with curbside pickup.

Most recently at Lowe's I called the number on the parking sign and was put on hold, and then it hung up after a few minutes. When I called back it was busy so I moved to a normal spot and donned the mask and went in. Then, when I got to the desk, I had to do the back-and-forth of giving an order number, name, etc, and then wait for them to find the order.

Full disclosure: I co-founded Routegy and happy to answer questions about how we're helping businesses build better contactless experiences, including curbside pickup.
Bolsonaro: How quickly is he destroying the Amazon Rainforest? [video]
Thank you for creating Redis :) Best wishes with whatever comes next.
Maybe you interpreting your past self is not the greatest value it provides.

P.S. "shudder"
Each time I find myself stopping in middle for brief time, I intentionally leave error and comment pointing out status and next step of project.
Next time just come and compile/run and see last work.
For those who find this website's edge to edge text maddening to read on large displays, I highly recommend Sakura (https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura) for a one-click fix for badly formatted websites.
Bitcoin is not a means of payment for everyday life currently
This is nice and all, but bigger issue is when will Android phones reach Android 11? Has fragmentation gotten better? Do most phone manufacturers support upgrading to major versions of Android (it does not seem to be in their interest)?
And unfortunately we can't quantify that disadvantage without controlling for all the other variables.
Comparing idle power consumption for desktop parts is kind of a desperation. For laptops it matters, but the Zen2 laptops aren't using an IO die manufactured on the older process. For desktops the difference at idle is something like 10 watts, i.e. ~$10/year in electricity, and even that much only if the machine is both turned on and idle 24 hours a day the whole year, whereas anybody worried about power consumption would put it to sleep.

Between Windows Update and crappy javascript, the theory that modern desktops are usually idle is also increasingly untrue, and under load the power consumption for the Intel parts is worse.
Stablecoins 2.0: A Framework for Risks, Models, and Open Problems
Full paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12388
Thank you, I was reading the article too trying to get the point and failing to do so.
FTC and DOJ Antitrust Guidelines for Evaluating Vertical Mergers
I think you misunderstood my question:

1. The fact that the function is easy to compute because there is an analytical solution to the ODE when the atom is simple enough tells precious little about what the picture actually represents.

2. The fact that the function you talk about has 6 parameters and this is a 3D visualization (3 degrees of freedom) is confusing.

3. The chemistry lesson about orbitals is also an interesting fact but still not properly correlated to the interactive depiction. Notoriously missing: where are m,n,l actually depicted in the story? Am I looking at one specific choice for those? What are the menu entries?

I think there is something that would truly help: if one would take a volume integral over a infinitesimal cube of the 3D interactive representation, what physical units would the result be in?
Yeah, this is smart.

The most dangerous thing about debt is the tacit assumption you can keep making money as a functional adult. Full stop.

If you pay attention to the life stories of everybody who lives around you, that's actually a very dangerous assumption - it's about as dangerous and unreliable as a farmer assuming he'll never, ever, have crop failure. Some really informal guesstimation for me actually gives kinda comparable rates - 1/10 or 1/5 chances of it blowing up, every year. Just this very year, in fact, I've watched it blow up on half of my coworkers as they got laid off in the pandemic. They may have to default on their mortgages - loans that assumed the "working adult" party would just go on uninterrupted.

Yikes.

Debt can be useful, but man, people really need to only "sail out of sight of land" with a damn good reason. Don't just do it casually to pay for routine things like houses and cars.
It runs macOS.
Can Priority Inversion
North bought the Intel Vaunt IP and improved it, so they actually do have some very impressive tech.
Racks are horribly loud! Do they even have a fan speed other than "insane"?
Try restore the other windows with ctrl+shift+n
Thank you very much for creating Redis! It's an outstanding piece of software that I've enjoyed using over the past decade.
Set theory in 6 diagrams and 100 symbols
Renaming a pin isn't seizing power - it's exercising power that's already been taken or at least trying to be established, i.e. calling anyone who dares to question actions, movements, etc. a racist and destroying their livelihood. The power is through co-opting race issues, and other marginalized identities to silence debate and free thought. Oddly enough it's usually done by the managerial, urbane, upper-middle class white crowd.
I hadn't heard of shoes until I saw this post, but it looks really attractive for certain cases.

Thanks for mentioning the _why connection. I started reading WPGR years ago when another CS major showed it to me, but I had to quit because could tell I wouldn't be able to restrain myself from spending way too much time on it instead of my coursework. This was shortly after I decided to try Gentoo "real quick" the week before midterms...

Anyway, I never got around to trying ruby for one reason or another -- already use Python, didn't come up at work, some friends are ambivalent about Rails, etc.

So, is being decently competent in ruby still a good skill for a full stack/generalist type dev in 2020? (if there even is such a thing anymore) Is ruby just so cool that it's worth the opportunity cost not to miss out?

Or should I, metaphorically, just try not to screw around before midterms?
Their govt is very close to default right now.

The only thing that has saved Ecuador was Correra not managing to bind his successor to his policies. Correra borrowed a ton of money, gave it out to win elections, and left the people with the bill. I am not sure how this can be called a success (it is true that lots of people think Ecuador is successful because they borrowed a ton of money and gave it out...this hasn't created a wealth, it has just created massive debt that can't be repaid).
As far as I can tell, you're the only one moving the goalpost from "internally visualize" to "actually see the object manifested in front of you".

I don't think anyone is claiming that the latter is widespread, and I also don't think you're acknowledging that there are many people who can't do the former at all (myself included).

If you ask me to imagine something, there is no visual component to that at all for me. Internally, externally, nowhere.
Both S3 and Google offer file storage where you can set that it can't be overwritten or deleted until a certain date. So you get the best of offline and online storage.
I had a great conversation with a couple of IT folks once where they objectively covered most of the variables. It came down to capacity, linear write speed, and the relative likelihood of tape adhesion versus bearing stiction. In any given time interval, the balance could shift. Seek time (find beginning of backup N) and cost felt like tie breakers.
Yes the GraphQL Data Layer is super useful to connect to external APIs. Nuxt.js is more used for more complex apps than simple and light headless ecommerce stores.
Humans are generally risk averse. I thing given the chance it is a choice most people make.
Ahaha. Let me corrected that.

Microsoft has arrived and is rescuing linux
External storage used to be a shared storage for apps outside of it's sandbox. Files are retained after app is uninstalled. [1]

[1] https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage
Only authoritarians would take the side of for profit publishers over librarians. Copyright is evil and must be abolished at any cost.
Tape has two really important features that HDDs don't:

o Linear speed

o transportability

Assuming you can feed the data to a tape drive, it will run at top speed until the tape is full. When you have a tape robot with 25+ drives, this means you can easily keep up with a 40/100gig pipe

LTO tapes really are portable. They have been designed to stand up to dropping. The abuse our tapes would get when being transported by the understandably grumpy runners was considerable. We could always get the data out of them. Portable HDDs, not so much.
Those are just driver deaths.
The standard forbids (well, "should nots", which is the best you get most of the time) .invalid. from routing. It's supposed to be filtered at the nameserver API level and everything after that (cached DNS, authoritative DNS, registrar, etc.)
The security changes are nice and needed so well done.

Enforcing SafetyNet is probably also a net positive change, and you (and I) are a minority among the general user base. Sadly this was always coming, it was nice while it lasted, I guess.

I'm not quite sure what I will do once my current phone dies. I don't see myself investing in the Apple ecosphere, so either go with the time (do nothing) or have a second phone for "secure" apps (Banking, Netflix) etc.
>For benchmarks, there should be held out tests that don't get distributed to (say) compiler authors until after the results are published.

The way you really "solve" the problem is to have a third-party test organization run the benchmark and only provide the final result--and you only get one shot for a given generation of hardware/software. (This is sort of how standardized tests work.)

The problem is that you're now benchmarking with a totally opaque test that you have to trust is reasonably representative of the type of workload it claims to represent as well as trust that the benchmark isn't favoring specific vendors or design decisions that are irrelevant to real world workloads.

I assume there have been benchmarks at various times that were similar to this. Certainly, I'm pretty sure source code for benchmark suites hasn't always been available.
I agree, I got so aggravated I switched to Vivaldi. I went to school for UI/UX and in my opinion the MegaBar is bad, bad, bad.
Google antitrust probe nears finish line
> 3. I often run with lots of tabs. Although firefox lets you make tabs smaller, it's default method of "scrolling" tabs isn't as nice as chrome infinite method.

That rather sounds like you run with a medium amount of tabs. I have one browser session that literally has >900 tabs in it (I started pruning when it hit 1000); if Chrome even let me have that many tabs, the interface would no longer be usable.
The fundamental idea of AMP is simply not something I can get behind, unless it doesn’t involve hosting the webpages elsewhere (i.e. no more amp.google.com). From the looks of it, though, it seems like they don’t necessarily want AMP to be better, they just want AMP to be more popular. That way they can always point at more broader use cases and don’t look as evil.

I realize this is a fairly cynical comment, but I don’t really see reason to be optimistic about all these developments.
You are absolutely correct!
Neat, didn't realize how much the options for ec2 have grown over time. Can those instances with 100Gbps networking actually push that to upstream transit (ie. the Internet)? Or is that mostly for internal network communication between instances and other AWS services?
OmniFocus – Task Management Software Built for Pros
What?!

I dont have any memory of "CCP abuses TikTok to stir unrest in USA" being reported. Is there really such evidence?

If there is evidence, then please just ban the goddamn app out of any mobile smart phone platforms. It's too dangerous to open the lid of such mass bring-washing machine. Even in the Arab-spring, it was just passively allowing the information to propagate organically. No one with sane judgement should allow these apps being used as manipulation tools by any minority group...
What is a public spec?

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_documentation
Another aspect is the incentives. Most discussion here is about the cheating itself, and not the reasons for it. I may not learn much from just writing about a degree I don't really have on my resume, or roles I never worked at, and experience I don't have. But I can get paid a lot more by doing so.
It's a data visualisation of a property of a model of hydrogen. The dots are denser where the absolute value of the 'wavefunction' (which is just a function that takes in space and time coordinates and returns a complex value) is higher.

It's not 'real' in the same way a simulation of a tennis ball flying through the air, rendered with dots isn't, but worse: that's a visualisation of a model, too, but if you imagine it being a simulation of possible sensory data it makes more sense- the world is set up so it's possible for a tennis ball to be seen by a conscious being, but that isn't true for a hydrogen atom.

In a model of a tennis ball, you might have a black screen, and then draw a dot where the tennis ball is, according to the model.

In this model of the hydrogen atom, you have a black screen, and then you draw a cloud with denser and less dense regions to represent where the electron 'is', according to the model. The problem is that electrons aren't point particles; in this model, an electron is a cloud- it's described not by some vector describing its position, but by the aforementioned wavefunction. It's a cloud in space, (except every point is complex-valued- they're taking the magnitude for this rendering) that changes (or doesn't) over time.

There's layers here. To what degree is a simplified model 'real'? To what degree is a visualisation of a model a picture of a 'real' thing, even if that model were true and complete?
Or may be we should face the sad truth: it's only so many people can be accommodated in SF.

Granted, we can build taller houses. It will cause huge influx of people, transport collapse, school and health care systems overload.

At this point it may be easier to just build another city.
I find algebraic geometry really interesting and helps me with my abstract thinking too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_geometry
A common pattern is to separate the instantiation of an abstraction from the place you're using it. There are variety of ways to implement this in different technologies/frameworks.

The way Angular implements it is the way our team believes is the most scalable and expressive way. It has been tested in over 2k projects inside of Google and hundreds of thousands of external apps and seems to be working well.

At the same time, this is just a feature that the framework provides. Just like any other technology, you can pick what pieces of the entire system which works for you and ignore the rest. That's not part of the beginners journey and shouldn't be, especially for folks unfamiliar with the pros and cons of this approach.
Americans living in big 'anger incubator.' Experts have tips for regulating rage
>US companies have gone to great legal lengths to restrict the US Government's involvement in certain areas

Yeah, they spend a fortune on lobbying - nonetheless they are very compliant with the US "national security". Keep them downvotes coming, Snowden never blew a whistle.
Holographic tech is shrinking VR displays to the size of sunglasses
I guess you are well aware of the concept of lucid dreaming?
>They did with Intel Custom Foundry. They tried and they failed.

From what I've heard, they didn't try very hard. Apparently they thought all they had to do was make chips, and that the sheer "technical superiority" of their process meant that they could treat their customers as second-class stakeholders, withhold information about their production timelines, etc.
Stuff like this is why I prefer a reactive web interface over a mobile app.

It seems like unless you need direct access to the camera or it’s a game a web version should be fine.
This was one of the main reasons I left for the Bay area. I had a big network in Toronto but I felt like 5 years here I would be more talk than execution
It's "expected" that founders extract millions from a failing company while employees working for years at below market salaries get nothing? I don't disagree but it's just sad.

The startup lottery just doesn't make sense for employees, even early ones. Founder is the only position worth holding. Early employees need to start demanding more from their founders.
Yeah the bar is high. But unfortunately people seek for short-term rewards and rarely care about their data leakage.

How did the #DeleteFacebook movement impact the companies business? Not that much I believe. The stocks keep rising.
Would be interesting to see what will happen to Bytedance product?

> 3) There's a deep seated fear, and evidence, that Chinese companies share their data with their government.

Can you share the evidence of that please?
Apparently Bytedance cut Domestic Engineers' Data Access to TikTok [0]

[0] https://en.pingwest.com/a/6875
This is an article about someone who was forced to shop in a way they found surprising and sub-optimal before trying it, and found out that there are upsides to it as well.

Then they proceed to say that they could have done a lot of this via Craigslist, etc, but there are hefty downsides to that.

Yeah, there are hefty (possible) downsides to thgis experience, too.

I'd bet that if there were no big box stores and no small market like this article has, they'd use Craigslist and write an article about how wonderful that experience was after all.

I don't consider myself a big risk-taker, but it seems to me that I'm more of one than the person in the article. I often buy things dirt-cheap and take a chance that they might not be quite right for my needs. I'm often happen with them, regardless of cost. Sometimes I have to take the price into consideration, too, before I'm happy. And rarely I'm just out some money for something that didn't work right.

As for the transportation, I'm betting if the price was higher they'd be unhappy with it. We actually have at-will transportation in all our cities: Taxis. And now that we have Uber/Lyft/etc, there are actually alternatives that are cheaper and arguably better. We even have for-rent bikes and scooters that will often be better than any automobile ride in the city.

Yes, I agree that people should open their eyes and welcome surprises more often... But I don't think the author has really taken that to heart themselves.
Yeah but we get to go out back and invent some new wheels for the portability tractor so that will be fun.
That's why I'm excited about SoloKeys v2, they (will) come with space for thousands of resident keys.
A few points irk me on "the beginning of the end" conjecture in modern technology, rather than focusing on "as one door closes, another one opens" philosophies that keep it all going.

If I were to do coffee with Linus, I would tell him to fork the kernel and cleancode a kernel for the future (and take the reins), while letting the complexities of the current kernel continue to flourish in its present form (possibly seen as letting the rope go in the middle of a heated tug-of-war, which needs to happen on a public stage more often).

The "in between the lines story" on Linux over the years looks like [they] have been thrust into a role of placating the miserable, instead of writing brilliant code (its happening outside of tech too).

As far as switching gears to salaried maintainers, OSS should start an ISP (core function) similar to AOL (maybe aspergers online) and be a HUB for accessing the fruits of their labor. It would be like bringing the earthlink/mindspring 110% support model back to life (a reputation for being stewards of all open tech, in addition to top notch support).

Just having an ad-free network as an option would be worth the price of admission.
Also a lot of suicides there.
And (modern) copyright is abuse of a legal system.
Combine `argdown` with something similar to `roam research` and you have the makings of a 21st century platform for knowledge production.

When we have conversations in person, there is a natural Clarify -> Challenge -> Refine loop that hopefully ends in some resolution. One of the major issues with long run, asynchronous, online platforms is that they don't enable newcomers to easily contribute novel thoughts to that cycle. As an outsider viewing discussion around async rust that occurred on here and on reddit, by far the most common reply was "not a new thought- already discussed HERE".

But as OP pointed out, those HERE links were hundreds of posts you'd have to read through and reconstruct the clarify -> challenge loop in your head before figuring out whether your question had been addressed.