skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a metaphor for general ability, not a concrete estimate of actual physical brain usage. People who use it tend to mean "You, yes you, could amazing and magical things if you were more focussed."

That's very unlikely to be literally true in the way they hope. But given how poorly most people are educated, and how often they're fed lies and distortions in adulthood, there's likely to be some metaphorical truth to it.

So the population as a whole certainly could be smarter, more aware, more effective, and probably more creative too.

But it's not something you could easily put a number on. Certainly a one dimensional measurement like IQ won't capture it.
Ask HN: 9-5 Burnout?
I always feel a little strange among all the other 9-5 workers. It's really difficult for me to do that every day of the week.

Does anyone else feels the same way? How do you handle daily burn out?
From the people I know who worked with Jobs, he was more than 10% asshole.

Being unwaveringly decisive (eschewing discussion) is often considered antisocial (although it's admired by some). Brutal honesty is considered "unnecessary" in the corporate environment. I believe this culture contributes to bureaucracy far and above the risk it mitigates.

For example, nobody wants to look at evidence that an long-established process is an unnecessary cost-sink. It's safer to leave it alone. Participants (and their allies) will perform all kinds of political and process acrobatics to defend their known knowns.

If you are jumping from company to company (which you should every few years outside your stock options), you can see how established companies have internal structures that prevent innovation and shoot themselves in the foot until whole departments are dismantled. At that point, most of the participants look at each other like "what happened?" or "this asshole came in and tore the dept apart".

It's a pain point of mine. The more money you make, the more you see this stuff and I'm usually the asshole brought in to break up the status quo (without much political support). I've been successful as often as I have failed. Jobs had much better positioning and was better at identifying the people and tools necessary to inspire change.
But it was a devil's bargain: you would then have to wait multiple weeks for the 5th episode.
Many beers traditionally packaged in clear or green bottles (like Heineken and Mexican lagers) got "skunked" during shipment and consumers (especially in export markets) came to recognize that as the taste of the beer. Today, they get shipped to store more quickly and without much light exposure... so they're deliberately skunked by the brewer to maintain the taste.
huh? What are you even talking about? Is there a thing called "femtocomputing"?

If you're referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtotechnology it's all science fiction at this point.
Linear Technologies makes LTSpice - Analog bought Linear in 2016.
Fed will continue printing until Boomers die off... there is a lot of wealth locked up in 401k that needs to be disbursed.

This block votes and they vote often and if their little pennies are threatened, they will vote people out.

Edit: If you think these market rises are anything other than a way for the rich to rinse their money before the market bombs, I have a bridge to sell you, it's very pretty.
> Only problem I have with torrents are unpopular movies/series usually have no seeds, but there is nothing that can be done about that.

> Pro-tip: Do not download the actual .torrent file. Many websites are setup to redirect you into an endless loop of shady .exe downloads. Always, always just copy the magnet link to your clipboard.

A better pro-tip for these issues: if you're anyway using a seed box, figure out and switch to private trackers and follow their rules. With the good ones around, you won't have to worry about shady downloads. Some of the unpopular or older content may also be available on those.
This part is outright creepy:

> We cooperate with Right Holders, Law Offices, Internet Service Providers, Advertising Agencies and National Police. We provide information about sharing/downloading content via Bittorrent Network all over the world.

It's one thing to collect this as some sort of research, but another to feed MAFIAA [1] with this data to make their job easier. The fact that they process the data without disclosing who they actually are doesn't make it any less fishy. Doesn't it violate GDPR or something?

1: http://mafiaa.org/
There's a straightforward rebuttal to about 90% of the horrible arguments (which is at least half of the comments - seriously, hacker news?!) in this thread.

1. Did [other country that was also previously somebody else's] finish their genocide?

2. Would you prefer that Canada and the United States did?

I know your answer to the second one because I know humans are, eventually, (once they stop pretending that they live in a statistics textbook) usually not assholes. So to the whataboutism, I simply ask: understanding that this is not history, but the present, what the fuck do you think you're advocating?
Clearly worth more than book value of approximately $59.76 at the time of writing. But over 28 times so? Sure, OK.
Wikipedia has an article on Enstein's brain that says that, because a region of his brain was vacant, neurons in that part of the brain may have communicated better. It also mentions Einstein used to say he always thinks visually, but from what I can tell from the article that doesn't have something to do with an enlargement of the area of the brain that is responsible for visualisation. That's how I read the below anyway. Also note that the examination that concluded a part of his brain was missing was based on photographs of the brain and not a direct autopsy.

Autopsy

Harvey had reported that Einstein had no parietal operculum in either hemisphere,[12] but this finding has been disputed.[13] Photographs of the brain show an enlarged Sylvian fissure. In 1999, further analysis by a team at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario revealed that his parietal operculum region in the inferior frontal gyrus in the frontal lobe of the brain was vacant. Also absent was part of a bordering region called the lateral sulcus (Sylvian fissure). Researchers at McMaster University speculated that the vacancy may have enabled neurons in this part of his brain to communicate better. "This unusual brain anatomy...[missing part of the Sylvian fissure]... may explain why Einstein thought the way he did," said Professor Sandra Witelson who led the research published in The Lancet. This study was based on photographs of the whole brain made at autopsy in 1955 by Harvey and not a direct examination of the brain. Einstein himself claimed that he thought visually rather than verbally. Professor Laurie Hall of Cambridge University, commenting on the study, said, "To say there is a definite link is one bridge too far, at the moment. So far, the case isn't proven. But magnetic resonance and other new technologies are allowing us to start to probe those very questions."[14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein%27s_brain

Also, note:

Selection bias may have influenced published results, which means that results showing differences between Einstein's brain and other brains tend to get published while results showing that in many respects Einstein's brain was like other brains tend to be neglected. Researchers knew which brain was Einstein's and which were controls, allowing possible conscious or unconscious bias and preventing impartial research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein%27s_brain#Crit...

I'd think that, indeed, one has to be very careful about confirmation bias in this kind of study. Not least because Einstein was very famous and having some grounds to claim that "he was a genious because of how his brain was made" is something that can grant some publicity to a researcher's otherwise obscure work.
>...there is a ton of real money in there too.

There is zero money "in there" market cap for a non-backed currency is meaningless value. No amount of bitcoin buying will ever put money "into" anything. The money goes to whoever sells its just a trade.
That's a pretty pro-racist thing of you to say.

You're the one arguing for tolerating White Supremacists, in direct violation of the Linux Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct.

Do you really object to black people and other minorities working on the Linux kernel?
My modem has had the same IP for nearly 10 years now! It's the same even after several moves, one to a new county. Super convenient, but that's the nicest thing I have to say about Comcast. Boy I wish there were other options.
Interesting insight. I always thought gold/silver coins would be more useful than jewelry.

I mean, how can you verify if a ring or necklace is actual gold, but not be able to verify a coin?

I guess using the age-old method of density perhaps? do you know what did process to exchange jewelry looked like?
> I know the UI is horrible. Don't worry, I have no intention of quitting my day job.

Actually, this is a nice clean layout and workflow. Nothing to be ashamed of at all.
I've not run into anything that I wanted to watch which isn't available on Usenet. DMCA takedowns haven't been an issue at all because I use two Usenet servers with multiple aggregated indexers. If something gets taken down, it gets replaced very quickly and the tools I use automatically retry in the event of failure. The other benefit is I can saturate my bandwidth instantly instead of the dreaded kb/s trickle that torrents start out as / become. After making a request for a TV show in Ombi, I will usually have the episode show up in my Plex list within a few minutes. Most movies are there in less than ten minutes. I haven't tried torrenting in a good while, but my Usenet experience has been dramatically better than what I experienced with P2P.
Intel announced that future cores will be portable to multiple processes, although it's not clear whether that includes non-Intel ones. It is rumored that the upcoming Rocket Lake is a 14 nm backport of Willow Cove that was originally intended for 10 nm.
> If everyone treated piracy as theft (it is)

Then everybody would be as wrong as you. You can repeat this as much as you like, but it is simply false.

Legally speaking: copyright infringement is an offense distinct from theft.

Speaking from reality: copyright infringement does not deprive the holder of the right of their property.

Speaking ethically: Copyright infringement is a violation of a particular commercial mode of exchange. "Unauthorized Looking" would be a better term for what retail bittorrent users are up to.
Ask HN: How are you staying connected with your guild?
In an organisation with multiple teams where a wider guild/team needs to be closer, what are some sort of ceremonies or processes you do that you think makes you stay connected?

Guild meetings? Who's organising those? Regular presentations? 1-1 meetings? Do you feel like you are involved in that group? Can you get more involved?
> The movement away from physical copies

I just don't understand this argument, physical copies of virtually any type of media absolutely still exist. If you want to own even Netflix shows on disc, you can do that pretty cheaply. I'd you want to get Blu Ray discs delivered to you by mail for a subscription fee, you can probably do that (although this is slightly more geographically restricted).

This argument is simply invalid.

https://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Complete-Seasons-Collect...
Couldn't the intern have paid for his own bare bones VPS and done it from there? Or used a different paid VPN service, which cost roughly the same ~$5? Seems like the cost of a VPN compared to the value of his internship wouldn't even compare. All for some campus clout.
> I always thought of ADI as a company with ASICs like PLLs and MEMS and whatever. Are IGBT drivers an important line of business for them (I don't follow the company closely).

IGBTs were more of a TI-comment. I see TI as more of the power-company.

I like talking about IGBTs because its superficially a simple subject. It just a switch: power turns on, power turns off. But when you really consider the shear level of efficiency being developed today, its mind-boggling.

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You're right that I don't see ADI as an IGBT (or similar) company. But I just sorta went on a tangent, hooking into your TI-comment more so than ADI.
Wow is that on the nose.
Because I haven't heard about it before this comment? I am taking a look now, it looks interesting.

I usually like to download the whole files anyway and keep them on my external big drive to make sure I have them when a movie stops being popular and becomes harder to find on torrents.

Also, I have an external projector that can play movies from a USB and having the full file available for me to copy onto the USB in few minutes is very useful for my use case.
You mean „Bauch“ instead of gastro-? I also find the Latin terms easier but I had to study Greek and Latin anyway. But my mum had to learn a ton of Latin terms in med school in the 50s, when she’d only been speaking English for three or four years (went to med school in an English speaking country). I asked her about it when I was studying the languages as languages and she said it was such a small deal proportion to all the other things she had to learn that she didn’t even notice. But it has helped her talk to other doctors from other countries.

In general linguistic conservatism is a good idea simply because you want to think about the topic, not the words themselves (though in specific there are words with changing). But reading, say, Ulysses is exhausting!
I was raised in China and our education was almost the exact opposite. Very little on the European WWII and mostly (95%) on the evil Japanese empire.
Printing money has recently shown to have little impact on inflation. This is likely due in part to lack of consumer spending (can't inflate prices if nobody is buying it anyway) as well as spreading the USD across billions of people in dozens of interconnected economies that base off the dollar.

The recent $5 trillion injection from the Fed (buying bad debt/assets) and Treasury (stimulus/PPP) may simply show that we could afford universal healthcare and a bunch of other programs that cost $$$. Now is the time to spend that money and, at least it appears, avoid some long term costs. I'd argue the benefits of things like expanding education, investing in mental and physical health, and doing more to support our youth will have a much greater return than potential long term inflation or other issues from the $5 trillion.

I commented more on this last week here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23778819
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I never said your message was too brief, so no, we don't agree your message was too brief, because I didn't say that at all.

I said your message was deceptive. Do you agree with me that your message was deceptive?

And are you going to tell me what my secretly held beliefs are, and how you know, like I asked you to?

Why do you feel the need to deceive, by quoting me saying something I clearly did not say, and claiming to know what my secretly held beliefs are? Are straw man arguments and deception and putting words I didn't say into my mouth and beliefs I don't hold into my mind the best you have?

If fighting against racism pisses off the right, then so be it. That just means they're racist, and they deserve to be pissed off. How about coming up with a political ideology you're not ashamed to put your real name next to, anonymous coward?
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Thanks for posting about this. I hear about seed boxes, but never thought it was affordable to rent one. One question: after downloading the files, how easy is it to get them back on a home computer?
This sounds like a fantastic way to filter out non-native English speakers. Also anyone lacking exposure to archaic English, since "cleft" is rarely used outside of constructions like "cleft chin/palate".

"cleave" is of course alive and well but not everyone realizes "cleft" is a past participle of "cleave". "cleaved" is much more common as a verb where I'm from and "cleave" is not a very common verb to begin with.
The whole ordeal with the Online part led me to believe there will be feature differentiation. I might be wrong.

It is indeed blurry on this particular matter.
There actually are serious problems in India that aren't self inflicted.
It's harder, perhaps, but not impossible, and would certainly still hold up in court. When tracking a user behind CGNAT you need to capture not just their source IP, but also their source port. If you have timestamp, source IP and source port, that's enough for the ISP to resolve it back to the subscriber.
I am reasonably certain that Stalin had Warren Bechtel, one of the builders of Hoover Dam, die on a visit to Russia. "Dad" Bechtel was a virulent anti-communist.
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A BitTorrent client uploads data to other peers who want the data blocks you have already downloaded (even while you're still in the process of downloading the content, depending on the peers in the swarm around that time). I think it'd be difficult to argue technically that you were just downloading and not uploading when using BitTorrent. If you leave the torrent running after the download completes, you're seeding (uploading) to any other user's client that connects to yours and asks for blocks from your client.
I dont know why either, but to me viewing traditional TV with same ads every 15 min or 30 min is not an annoyance, but doing it on Youtube or Website is god damn annoying. To the point where I think the brand is trying too hard and I have negative feelings with it.

There are huge difference in Online / Digital Media consumption compared to traditional media like Tv and NewsPaper. And may be I am old I tend to value the latter a lot more.
Ehhh, it's specifically the case that the fall from middle-class to poor is steeper for Black folk for what should be obvious reasons. Most of our middle class comes from our working class rather than inheriting the position [0]

[0]https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2015/01...
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Then its only a matter of time before they go bankrupt.
Also AVX-512 heat up quite a bit the CPU.
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It's not that clear cut.

Some people we're never and are never going to pay for some of the they consume, they'll either pirate it or just not consume it.

I'm presently watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. Which I just pirated earlier today. I'm never going to our-right buy, nor rent, it.

One season is presently on Netflix here in Australia, so I'll watch that there, and the publisher will get their three cents out of me via Netflix, or whatever Netflix pays.

That's three cents they were otherwise never going to get out of me.

If the content was available at a reasonable price, say some portion of what I pay my ISP and the AU$8 I pay the VPN service to hide my traffic from my surveillance-state ISP, I'd pay it.

But it isn't, and I can't afford to pay for all the content I consume on my trifling skilled-tradesperson wage.

You realise when people like me see job ads for doctors getting paid in a day what I earn in a fortnight, and revenue figures like:

The Last Airbender had grossed $131,772,187 in the United States, and $187,941,694 in other countries, making for a total of $319,713,881 worldwide.

... there's no way you're going to convince me this side of the heat death of the universe that copyright infringement in universally bad.
This is not an answer to your question, but you may like the channel "Applied Science" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCivA7_KLKWo43tFcCkFvydw He has a lot of strange projects with very different equipment. (Be aware that the DIY projects are not easy at all.)
While literally true; I have always found this argument to be petty and pedantic.

I’ve heard every argument in the book; but even the old ads said ‘you wouldn’t steal ____’.

The fundamental principle is so similar to the point that discussing it quickly devolves into pedantry.

I am one that has had this discussion probably a dozen times; half of those on this forum, and I’ve just decided to stand by my educated opinion that it’s absolutely a type of theft.
It’s funny when I was in college the Battle of Badon = Arthur theory was very popular and I got the impression it had overtaken the let’s treat Arthur as a collection of myths school of thought, but I feel like myth school of thought has more steam these days
>The only counter balance is developing your own network.

Interesting, I have reached essentially the same conclusion. Read the link on my profile and contact me if needed.
> ubiquity of Linux and decline of Windows

Should I read this as sarcasm?
Interesting info! I suppose I could have said what I really intended to say: "We'll never have more than two parties in the FPTP system, so we'll need to change that first."
I'm not saying it's easier to use. I've said multiple times in this thread they seem just about the same to me. They're just two ways of displaying a hierarchy of functions. One way hides a lot of it in menus and takes up less room, the other way lays it out on the screen and takes up more room. I get a lot of work done in either interface. There are pros and cons to both. In the end I can write documents in both. I personally find it easier to discover new functionality in the ribbon, but I feel at peak competency they difference is a wash.
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There's not much use for AVX-512 in the kernel. But, from the people who are using it I've heard good things. It's an enormous collection of new instructions. But, a lot of them came from the Larrabee team --which was probably the greatest case of high-perf software engineers having direct influence over the direction of a CPU. Otherwise, the history SSE and AVX has largely been software engineers requesting features and hardware engineers replying "Do not understand. How does that feature improve our SPECfp score? Rejected."
That would require you to have a choice of ISPs...
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Not to discourage reporting (seriously).

Simply as an observation, I would be legitimately shocked if the FBI didn't use these same techniques with automation to find suspicious torrents and get data from ISPs.
I think the killer invention would be to solidify C02 efficiently for building materials (much like trees do).
I wonder if there are any government requirements here for people operating ISPs. Does anyone have any insight into the time range that is required to keep these logs (if there is one)?
You’re right. I’m an absolute idiot.

So $6 actual for a $20 bill. I see how that could be tempting to someone but I’m pretty sure it would have to be somewhere outside the US, you don’t mess with fake money here.
How can you tell if someone uses on usenet? Ask them what a par files are.
Cows can walk minutes after they are born. I guess they're even smarter. You might argue that the walking calf is not intelligent because it came preprogrammed to walk, but human babies will reflexively start making stepping movements when you hold them upright and let their feet touch the ground. I think it's ridiculous to argue that your son somehow learned to walk through observation and reasoning alone.
Does anyone know if the frequency throttling caused by AVX512 can be circumvented with high-performance CPU cooling?

It would at a first glance appear the throttling is not caused by temperature spikes but rather just executing the instructions at all.

I wonder how much more FP performance one could extract out of an AVX512 CPU with extreme cooling.