skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to make a gag about how it couldn't possibly be - because Queneau has the letter e in it twice...

But the one I was referring to is La Disparition by Georges Perec - with the letter e four times... :shrug:
A lot of devs don't realize that other than your HR manager, you can ignore others. Anytime a PM asked me something unreasonable, I simply said no and if They pretended like i need to obey them, I got my real manager involved. It always worked out in my favor.

It saddens me to see so many devs especially the H1Bs getting abused by PMs.
Yeah, it never would have been that profitable to be an ARM vendor for Apple. I couldn't even remember who made the chips in the iPhone 1, I had to look up that it was Samsung.

If Intel managed to convince Apple to go x86, and they had low power chips competitive with ARM at the time, then that would be a different story.

You could even argue that it was a happy accident; Intel providing a high performance ARM core may have forced mobile competitors to react, producing high performance ARM chips of their own, and sped up the erosion of the x86 monopoly we're finally witnessing today by several years.
To be fair, there’s also some due process when you’re not paying your taxes. In this case, I imagine that the process for dealing with non-payment is rather violent, inconsistent and chaotic.
What is the Ur-problem? I googled it and the top result was this post.
I switched reddit from nginx to haproxy because nginx had a pathological problem where it would send 90% of the load to the first app server listed when there was a burst of requests (and 9% to the next, and .9% to the next and so on, leaving almost every app server idle).

I'm sure they fixed the problem by now, but it was not a good look for a load balancer.

HAProxy on the other hand has never failed me, and Wily (the creator) is super responsive if you have questions or need features.
> In what sense?

This is covered in the video.

He breaks down efficiencies of large corporations (or really any organization) into two types of gains:

(1) gains from parallelism, and
(2) gains from synergy (e.g. people having better ideas by working in groups).

For (1) his argument is that while you get a much larger amount of work done, the maximum quality is just the max over the parallel units. E.g. if your R&D department consists of N scientists working independently, you'll get N times the work done, but the quality of each unit will be at best the quality of your best scientists.

For (2) his argument is essentially that the quality of ideas generated by human organizations is gated by the ability of people within the organization to recognize that the idea is good. He then does a simple simulation where he argues that if even if you have everyone in your company brainstorming great ideas, after a certain number of people, say 1000, you have diminishing returns on how good an idea you can generate and recognize as good. His claim is then, in contrast, an AI is not constrained by this limitation.

He doesn't seem to account for "standing on the shoulders of giants" effects where institutions build up knowledge over decades. That seems to me to imply a model similar to compound interest, at least over some time period before the corporation becomes stagnant and dies off.
A similar conjecture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument

"In other words, we could assume that we could be 95% certain that we would be within the last 95% of all the humans ever to be born."
The article's point is deeper.

> There is no reason that nature should actually be described by a theory of everything. While we *do need a theory of quantum gravity to avoid logical inconsistency in the laws of nature, the forces in the standard model do not have to be unified, and they do not have to be unified with gravity. It would be pretty, yes, but it’s unnecessary. The standard model works just fine without unification.

We don't need the theories to be unified for them to be consistent. Putting all our efforts into that unification could actually be leading us astray and postponing the day when we've figured out how they're consistent.
Yes, a lot of that article was navel gazing at how smart we are today. None of these problems are new nor are the solutions discussed about novel. But they do need to be repeated, because they are not always obvious. I dunno why so many articles/books like these have to come off so "preachy"; ironically that in itself is not very user friendly.
I think in this scenario, where some sort of rule is imposed upon a group that's already been established, people would be justifiably pissed off.

I do my best to make the activity requirements clear upfront, so the only people who will be upset are those who choose not to sign up anyway. For me, the far bigger challenge is learning how to define these "rules" in a way that makes the group sustainable over the long run - which is to the benefit of everyone involved. While the idea of having to post once every 25 days may seem unnecessary, if 100 people followed it to a tee, you're going to have a group that remains active indefinitely.

I do see your point, and I agree that if any sorts of hard rules are to be imposed upon a discussion, it needs to be done tactfully.
The fact that the West eats pork is discomforting to Muslims and Jews. Please modify your behavior to be a nice person and stop eating pork. It's such a small cost after all.
awesome work! we're gonna submit one tomorrow!

it would be cool if you tagged the videos by time of day and showed daytime/nighttime ones based on the client's local time (or preference)
> BLM protestors block freeway At 2am, demanding police to be dismantled

You mean the police blocked the interstate for the protest and the driver went up an off ramp and struck two protestors, killing one.

> police chases down and arrest the driver

Police showed up after a civilian followed the car, yes.

> no real news coverage

By which you mean extensive national and international news coverage (seriously, just search for it) but it still hasn't been made clear why the driver was on the highway.

Comparing these two "timelines" maybe gives more insight about you than any "incident", because they're not really parallel in spatial, personal, or temporal scope.
I've noticed words are the problem too. Thinking in words seems to engage something in my brain that just won't let me rest. Images are better. I'll have to try this trick.

For whatever reason though, I sometimes notice myself falling asleep which jerks me wide awake (different to restless legs which I sometimes also get). I would love to drop that habit.
> The A/B/X/Y aren't distinguished between each other

Sure they are - their layout is distinct and doesn't alighn with any other buttons on the controller. It's very easy to distinguish which one you are hitting even though their shape and size are identical.
> The iPhone part doesn't have anywhere near the same power budget, nor does it have active cooling.

This is much less of an issue for single thread performance because a single thread isn't going to exhaust an 8-core CPU's full power budget anyway, or if it does it's by boosting to very high (i.e. less power efficient) clocks which only give a few extra percent more performance. The main thing the extra power budget gives you these days is the ability to have more cores, which x64 processors already have.

> It will be built on TSMC's 5nm node while AMD is sticking with an enhanced version of TSMC's 7nm node and Intel will still be on 10nm.

AMD already has 5nm processors on their roadmap. Apple might release theirs first, but having a modest advantage for a few months until your competitors release their next design isn't especially groundbreaking. It's basically the expected state of affairs when companies compete with each other and neither has a clear advantage -- the one released most recently is a bit faster and then soon the competitor has a release and it goes back the other way.
Wasn't the MOOC supposed to address higher education as a problem? No traction on that front?
For queries that fall in the realm of "conspiracy" like alternative medicine, flat earth, telepathy, anti-vax, etc. I think results from certain "high quality" sources like Wikipedia should be weighed higher even if the content doesn't seem as relevant. For that specific example, the wikipedia article on telepathy would seem more appropriate than many of the results. There is also plenty of literature from psychology that suggests a link between belief in telepathy and certain mental illnesses, so maybe that can also be surfaced more prominently than services that claim they can talk to your dead dog. However this is not about one specific example, this is about indirectly validating false information by simply making it more accessible. On the internet a lot of conspiracies have more "social proof" (through prominence on social networks and search results) than the boring reality so they spread faster than they should.
“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of the human mind.“

- Frank Herbert, Dune Chronicles
>However, since the overlap between two generation's cognitive prime age is narrow, not every thought, intuition, idea is passed along well enough.

The overlap is perfect and zero at the same time as "generations" are a descriptive simplification rather than a reflection of reality. Every year people are born whose overlap with the people the year before is off by just one year (more or less). A new PhD student learns from his peers a year further along as well as from the post-doc 5 years ahead and the professor 10 years ahead.
One of the creators of Readwise here :)

Love what you’re doing and we’re about to ship a public API.

Hit us up at hello@readwise.io!
This.

Even to the point that I swear people designing cars don’t factor in 100% tactile any more.

For example my Skoda has a full 360 degree knob for changing aircon vent position with no detents. There is literally no way of changing from defog to face without looking down and adjusting.

My Mazda on the other hand is more mechanical which may at first seem “clunkier”, but it has stops on either end for face (fat counter clockwise) and defog (full clockwise) so you can instantly choose the most common settings. The in-between settings have large and small detents as you cycle through so I can go 50% feet, 50% defog by going hard right then one click back without looking.
Article claims it's binocs only, but I have seen it with the naked eye two mornings in a row (09 and 10 July).
I have become one of the idiots who attacks strangers on the internet. My apologies.
Your boss/mentor has a plan for you. Trust them.
I think it'll be okay! ;)
Instead of free market finding the proper risk-adjusted yield for a bond, we are swinging between over-regulated squeeze (shut down non-blue chips companies from access to capital) and free-for-all central bank buying bonanza (carpet-buying of corp bonds). It is either very hard for business to get access to capital, or CB makes it excessively easy.

Somehow FT makes is look like it is some "financial engineering" fault that companies are "addicted to debt". How about letting willing debt buyers get into transaction with willing debt sellers? That simple.
Website allows you to experience what it is like to live with dyslexia (2016)
I own a Tesla and live 200 miles from the closest service center. If you have a problem, chances are that it can and will be fixed by mobile tech. I had a problem with my door handle (a typical problem in early Model Ss). Mobile tech came to my work and swapped out the handle in the parking lot. I never saw the tech. When I got an upgrade to the latest autopilot computer, a Tesla tech came to my house and did the install, which took a couple of hours, in my garage. I just left the garage door open so he could get in. And no oil so oil changes aren’t an issue. I get the occasional tire rotation at a local tire shop and that’s it for maintenance.
When Scholars Collaborate with Tech Companies, How Reliable Are the Findings?
Centos at work, Fedora at home. Like it or not, RedHat devs are core contributors of many of the most critical parts of the linux ecosystem. The desktop integration of those different parts in Fedora is both bleeding edge and often without a hitch.
Features are a better abstraction than issues
> Apple doesn't want other vendors using their CPUs.

Exactly my point, in so far as what I said: Apple’s never going to be Intels customer for CPUs once they the last Mac requiring Intel CPUs is no longer supported. That’s a dead market.

Qualcomm on the other hand, is ripe for some real competition. If Intel wants to swing big into the ARM CPU game, they should look to dethrone Qualcomm. Apple is pretty much irrelevant here. That’s been clear since they brought all their CPU designs in house
It's actually easy to work around the AMD deoptimization by just pretending to be an Intel CPU when the check is made - no need to fork the code.

On the bigger point, it ends up hurting them because companies often use gcc to benchmark across systems, so the Intel performance comes out lower than it might be if Intel really invested heavily in gcc rather than icc.
Which shady business practices, specifically?
Huh. I recall coming across a Tor onion site with links to various security cam systems. Nothing exciting, just live video of lobbies, elevators, parking lots and garages, etc.
Oh damn, I thought so too... :(
I think he meant that some people would prefer the parking service experience. As in some people would prefer having a service where you can pay someone to watch and guard your car.
Hmm, I was going to say that digikey has 3 or 4 dollar shipping, but I checked and it's $5 for a first class mail. Maybe they've changed it, or maybe it's COVID-related. I recall that they had a low price for shipping of a small maximum weight, which was good for little orders of just a few components. I generally just suck it up and place the order regardless of the shipping cost, it's not great to spend as much on shipping as you did on parts, but it's still cheaper than buying parts locally. Remember buying the assorted resistor packs at Radio Shack? Ugh.
Touchscreens are modern.

(Not meant as affirmation of touchscreens especially in an auto context, meant to provoke reflection about the term "modern".)
The biggest risk for bookmark app nowadays is that you don't know when it's going to disappear.
It felt tongue in cheek to me since they went on to somewhat agree that signal boosting via retweets at least used to be nice. But I agree, it was a bit weird of a response.
Visited June 29 for a number of hours, visited protests at the police line after it was dismantled approx. Jul 1-4.

The area proper on 29 was generally enjoyable to be around. Observed lots of drifter types, no visible violence, some good musical performances, nice community gardens, free food tent. Saw very little public drinking, some weed, lots of tobacco (mainly self-rolling, which I thought was interesting). A few circles of older folks smoking weed in circles out front their tents and hammocks on the outskirts of the habitation.

The protests at the police line were very disheartening. The militarization of police was of course frightening (not for my own life so much as the state of the nation). The protesters themselves had a fair amount of infighting, some of them seemed unstable (these ones were often the ones with guns).

Overall I found the CHOP area pleasant to be around, however the fact that CHOP armed guards killed more black teens in that ~2 week period than SPD in the past 6 months made me question if it was possible to logically consistently support both CHOP and BLM -- it's concerning there hasn't been more coverage of the disconnect there.
The city of Seattle commissioned a separate study on Uber and Lyft driver pay in Seattle (mentioned in the NYT article): https://irle.berkeley.edu/files/2020/07/Parrott-Reich-Seattl...

The authors of the Seattle-commissioned report have written up their own criticism of their report to the Cornell/Uber/Lyft report: https://irle.berkeley.edu/files/2020/07/Comparison-of-two-Se...
Great article, I love "because why not articles".

Checkout Perlin Noise, for when you need "smooth" and "natural" looking random numbers (making terrain, skies, waves, etc)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZEMLCnn8v0
Minimizing Fuel Explosions from Accidents and Terrorist Attacks (2019)
I disagree. Using this thing for an hour, users with emojis are more distinguishable at a glance. I often face this issue with HN where I have to read the user's username to know if they're OP. Twitter usernames with emojis, however, is really obnoxious.
When I bought stuff from DigiKey this year, the shipping was $5.
I’ll borrow the old BSD/linux saying about intel is a group cpu makers writing an OS Where Apple is and OS maker that designed a cpu
Intel deserves it 100%. No tears shed.
Hi astrobe_, interesting points! I disagree with you on a few things:

> Looking at the C version, the argument "tile" is used once in the function, to get the pointer to the tile. The pointer could be passed directly: one less local.

The argument "tile" is an 8-bit index, which is faster to pass than the 16-bit pointer to the tile. More importantly, that index is used for things other than looking up the tile pointer, such as finding color pairs to recolor the tile. In other words, you could pass the 16-bit tile pointer directly, but you'd still need a way to correlate that pointer with its matching color data, and that system would be slower than using the same 8-bit index for both.

> x and y are passed only to calculate an address, this address could be passed directly

That would be more efficient and save a handful of cycles when the function is called. This does not answer the original criticism, however. As I mentioned on the page, x and y go away after the pointer is calculated, so I'm not counting those as variables that need to be available in the loop body. You still have over a dozen variables that you can't manage efficiently in Forth.

> t0 seems to be always 0, except when it is undefined.

Good point!

> The t_height, t_with are just offsets in the tile structure. This locals can go away too

I don't think I see your point. If you're going for performance, doing one array access and saving the value saves a lot of cycles compared to indexing into the array each iteration, which eats a lot of cycles.

> trans_row only exists to set skip_pixel, it seems one of them can go away. The logic seems to be "unless trans_row and something, do something". The C version might actually be more verbose than necessary.

You could get rid of one of them at the expense of readability. Or maybe there is a good name that would indicate both purposes.

> Finally, the edge_style complicates a lot the logic. Using one function to do different things because it is so simple to "just add another parameter" is typical in many HLL, and often result in awful spaghetti code.

I don't think this function is awful spaghetti code. Yes, the logic is complicated. I mention on the page that I encoded the data for some tiles as 1 bit per pixel to save room and decided to make rounded transparent corners in code depending on a flag stored for each tile. This function is a compromise to save memory. Otherwise, you could just encode the tile like any other and have three colors including transparency but take up 8 times more memory.

> Actually even in C some follow certain naming conventions - like #defines being all caps, member things being prefixed by m_, etc. And you can do that in Forth too. Once again, "write only" has more to do with the author than wit the language.

I really disagree on this one! All caps and so on for constants is nice but still does not tell you how many values, if any, a word pops and how many it leaves behind. That alone earns the "write only" label. For example: CONST_A m_foo CONST_B m_bar. What does m_foo return and what arguments does m_bar take?

Thanks for the comments!
Written and verbal communication are huge.

It’s one of those things you eye roll as your teachers say it. But it turns out to be absolutely true. You don’t have to be the smartest person in the room, just the one that makes ideas most easily understood and accessible.
I think they _do_ exist. Transiently and briefly.

For me, they recur maybe once every 5-10 years or so and last about the same sort of time period?? Here since 2009. Twitter circa 2008 or so. Burningman in the early 2000s. ASR on usenet in the late '90s

Things change, they run their course - and I change and the things I want become different. Some people rant and demand things "go back the way they were", but by then the people who made it "the way things were" have moved on to a new thing, and new people have grown up and started building new things they think are better than the old people had.

Hold on to your dream, but realise that you may have to either chase it around the internet as it moves (and work out how to find it when you one day wake up are realise it's gone from the old place), or make it yourself as part of a team prepared to put in the hard work required to shape it the way you think is right.

(While I personally think 4Chan is a total shit show, I have no doubt moot invested enormous effort in making it or helping it become what _he_ wanted in the world. A whole different sort of effort than pg/deng/scott/YC/others put in here, but I have no doubt moot complained bitterly to his friends how hard it was dealing with things like lawyers and hosting companies and all the other things that become a problem when you decide you need to make a thing like 4Cahn exists in the world...)
Become a politician and remove government backed student loans.
Since the government has backed the loans, prices have gone up tremendously.
Please let me follow people.

Next let me see all the people I follow on a "pintrest" style page. I should be able to see only their latest subreply.

Most recent subreply to oldest.

I hit refresh when I'm ready for updates.

If I want to see all of somebodies subreplies I will click their username to see all the threads they have created.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ur
Covid-19 in schoolchildren – A comparison between Finland and Sweden [pdf]
> some of the most advanced computers ever made now come with only cursory instructions that say little more than "turn it on." This is one of the great achievements of the last century of technological progress.

Also the greatest contribution towards reduced curiosity, inquisitiveness, and the hacker ethos.
>>Then, to get specifically to the oppressive aspects of the US, they range from slavery and lack of women's rights from its foundation, to segregation that existed in law up to the middle of the 20th Century (and arguably still exists in fact to some extent and in some places in the US even now), to the imprisonment in concentration camps of Americans of Japanese descent, to discrimination against people who weren't heterosexual, to the War on Drugs and police brutality which primarily impact minorities, to abuse, killing, and imprisonment of people who come to the US from other countries.

To the imprisonment of those who refuse to surrender their privacy and submit an income tax return, and pay the income tax, to the prohibition of mutually voluntary economic interactions, like getting a haircut from an unlicensed barber, where barbers are licensed.

The important thing to remember is that oppression in a democracy is not perceived as oppression to the majority, so democracy will generally be perceived as non-oppressive, due to the subjectivity of what constitutes it.
Similar happened to me in Morocco. Parked in a public park. Guy came over and told me it was 20 dirham. I Argued with him a little bit pointing out it’s a public parking lot and there is no meter. Spouse told me to pay the man or he may cause trouble. I relented thinking of the damage he could cause to our rental. He did guard our car and stopped traffic.

Police were prevalent, just setting up speed traps and shaking down tourists.
Retweet is more on brand.