skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is basically missing from the Jones paper that is cited in the article here. That model, as far as I can tell from my initial skimming, doesn't allow for something like "human societies adopting different customs and policies as population growth goes to 0 or below."
The point was to give an example that desktop/laptop computers do not always result in better performance than phones.

The GP didn't seem to believe it was possible that a phone could be "less laggy".

In line with your own remarks, there are a number of common use cases that have been optimised on phones in a way that they never were on desktop, resulting in a superior user experience on the phone vs the desktop.
Well, it's a win-win.
Huh? Literally everyone in college still has snapchat. A lot less people are on tiktok. There are definitely people who use it, but it's not considered fully mainstream and 'popular' yet.
Dark matter (at least any of the non cold baryonic matter and standard model WIMP candidates) adds new physics too it’s just adds it in different field of physics that often is much less related to cosmology than gravity is.
It's kind of hard to rest things like a huge chunk of the world's computing infrastructure basing itself on OpenSSL long before the product put out its 1.0 release on the usual "don't trust marketing" finger-tutting. Did OpenSSL even have a marketing team back in the early 2000s?
Also

Haiku:

https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/building/compiling-arm/

But what do you want with Redox? It's the "80% OS form the 80%-Dudes"…

Pure waste of time even looking at it. Besides broad climes wrapped in marketing-BS-speech there is more or less nothing that works.

Even GNU/Hurd is more usable[1]! ;-) (Only that there is no ARM port of Hurd afaik).

[1] https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install.
There was one release of System 7 where they advertised "Type 11 Errors are virtually eliminated!"

Imagine that being a selling point in an Apple product today...
Once schools closed and my coworkers started working from home due to the pandemic, I observed the opposite. Endless, unbounded time with their children generally made my coworkers less excited about having any more.
This is nothing that increased immigration can't solve. Immigration has insulated the US from the age curve that has afflicted most Western nations for generations.
> If we presume the latter figures stay the same (they won't) then in a mere 944 years the human population would be such that there's only one square meter of land per human alive.

not a problem - with the current energy consumption growth we'll boil off the oceans in half of that time.
Bump Emacs Version to 27.1
No it isn't at all, the article is just pointing out the potential consequences down the road. The article is perfectly cognizant that having a child is an economic burden to individual couples:

"Unromantic as it sounds, planning a family is a numbers exercise that factors in the age of the would-be mother, access to affordable child care, college costs, income, and job security. Toss in a national health emergency and an economic crisis that invites comparisons to the Great Depression, and the benefits of parenthood no longer pencil out for many."
I assure you if immigrants arrived in the US and immediately assimilated and voted for right wing causes, you'd see a comprehensive plan for a wall on Joe Biden's website.
Some of the prepper videos actually look kinda cool. Lots of DIY stuff.
two by twos?
not every1, tho! as a US citizen, I think it's actually a good thing if there are some popular social networks not under US govt control.
Is there any existing directory of similar products? Small team, sustainable.

I ask because I know one of the big tradeoffs of bootstrapping is no growth "war chest" — but I would love to find and use more of these!
I wish there was a way to turn the recommendation algorithms to their inverse setting. Watch a right wing video? Get recommended something from the left. Watch a debunking video? Get recommendations on topics in the paranormal and the fringe.

This strikes me more as actual "red pilling."
The solution is clear - cults.
Using a poll from the Verge to validate your opinion that people like tech companies...sorry, that’s a no from me.

You discount that the vast majority of people are completely ignorant of how computers and the internet actually function. They have no idea or, because of their ignorance, do not care that companies such as Google are hovering up all their data and doing who know what with it. Or that large monopolies are wielding more power than any entity has ever possessed. Or that social media is being weaponized by domestic and foreign parties. Or that they are acting as arbiters as to what is and what is not science. I love tech but Facebook, Google, and Twitter are tearing society apart. Twitter and Facebook aren’t even special as far as code goes. Let’s just create open source social media to remove the advertising aspect and kill Facebook and Twitter completely. These sort of companies should NEVER be publicly traded FFS.
Very true and covid has made this so much worse.

Distance learning is manageable for my kids as they're a little older and I can work from home. But families with younger kids where both parents have to go out to work and can't possibly afford childcare are getting hammered.

As always, the poor get the worse of the effects, and children are really compounding that right now.
> And so heavily truncated, spoiling the point in many (but not all) cases of having an RSS feed entirely.

I'm of two minds about this. On one hand, as a reader it's convenient to have the full text and images of the articles/posts so that I can look at them all in one place without much effort.

On the other hand, as a webmaster, I might have months or years worth of content on my site that I want visitors to look at, and if they never visit my site again after finding and subscribing to the RSS feed, odds are that they'll never see any of it. So truncating the entries is a good way to nudge readers into visiting my site if there's something that looks interesting rather than downloading full text and images for a bunch of articles that they might not even read, which would be a waste of bandwidth.
Scientists Embark on Journey to the “Deep” to Explore Blue Holes
For Python I use cookiecutter.
Mercantilism had "recognition of property rights, capital accumulation, wage labor, voluntary exchange, a price system and competitive markets" too; just not for all the actors. That's why I called it "proto-capitalism".

What about when violent coercion happens under a capitalist system, like with Belgium and Congo, or blood diamonds? That makes it suddenly "not-capitalism"? You might be technically correct but it's semantic handwashing. If those atrocities due to the incentives in a capitalist system, it's entirely fair to pin them on capitalism. Otherwise it's no different than communism apologists claiming true communism has never been tried and therefore, things like the Holodomor shouldn't count against it - which is equally bad.
This is why I browse incognito, clear my cookies, use a VPN, and don't participate in the phenomenon of recommended content. I don't want some algorithm telling me what I should want.
Anecdata: I have three. The youngest is at the age I got married, still single. The oldest is older than I was when I had all of them; not planning on any. The middle one is in Silicon Valley and too distracted by all that to even date.
Like you I doubt they will release the entire thing. I think this is more of a marketing stunt than an actual drive for more trust. Less tech savvy users will see this as "transparency" and that will drive more trust.
Not exactly if you need a little as in just enough to be explained by “missing” baryonic matter and other DM candidate that fit the standard model it’s not a weak argument on its own.
Lower birth rates are also happening in social-democratic European countries with extensive welfare states, social safety nets, and good upward mobility. It's not a uniquely American problem.

Meanwhile, families in war-torn African countries, people whose best aspirations in life are to own a flock of sheep and live on a farm, are having 6+ kids.

Low birth rates may be exacerbated at the moment by the economy, but people's preference for their careers and the quality and availability of modern entertainment (why raise kids when you can travel, binge watch shows on Netflix, play video games, etc.) are more probable causes.
Also, the economy is bad which means that Americans have little hope for the future.
"I think that x64 hardware of similar specs outperforms arm64 in performance"

Performance per watt is probably going to be the primary driver. "How cheaply can I rent a 'vCPU' drives decisions."
Maybe the current economic system is not good for humanity. An economy based on an infinitely expanding population is a pyramid scheme bound to collapse eventually. Why does everything have to be based on endless growth rather than maintaining a net neutral?
"Do this incredibly difficult, expensive and slightly risky thing for the Economy, an abstract concept which will not benefit you personally" is just not a convincing sales pitch.

If you want that to change, you have to change one of those factors. Pick one. Or several.

The physical effort of labour or child-rearing is not yet reducible technologially. The cost may be, but since that gets into questions of "welfare" it will be unpopular - people who themselves feel struggling to provide for their children are hardly likely to want to provide for the children of others. The risk is a similar question: America has a surprisingly high maternal mortality rate, and a notoriously difficult healthcare system for those who are not lucky with their employer's insurance.

Wider social purpose? Is there such a thing in America, over and above money?
Like others here, I have 10,000+ bookmarks on pinboard and add several daily. I can be on any number of computers, iPad, phone at any given time so an online, centralized database of sites, personally tagged, is extremely useful.
The specific circumstances where the drugs are effective aren't being met. I didn't look up the details before.

https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/doi/10.1093/aje/kwaa093....

> Evidence about use of hydroxychloroquine alone, or of hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin in inpatients, is irrelevant concerning efficacy of the pair in early high-risk outpatient disease. Five studies, including two controlled clinical trials, have demonstrated significant major outpatient treatment efficacy.
This is a very cool idea. I'd love to see similar versions for sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Apple does not have a license to add instructions to the ARMv8 ISA. ARMv8 processors designed by Apple must be fully compliant with the ARMv8 instruction set architecture - such are the terms of the license.

ARM very recently started allowing licensees to add custom instructions, but only for Cortex-M (embedded).
I think 10 (+/- 2) years is a fair estimate but I would start counting from when Starship reaches orbit. It would be close enough to their historical development timeline of the Falcon which went from Falcon 1 reaching orbit in 2008 to a crewed Falcon 9 mission to the ISS in 2020, with a propulsive landing of the first stage to boot. I would expect a number of missions within that timeframe that could possibly satisfy the condition of "fly to Mars and back" but I think they will be able to do a full surface of Earth to surface of Mars and back to surface of Earth crewed mission at the end of that period. Call me an optimist but I'm pretty sure that's what they're aiming for.
Neat website. Wish we didn't have this dishonest clickbait title though.
Pure speculation but I'd guess the feds were involved. If they didn't pay, it might tell us something about what the NSA (or whoever) is capable of.
I got tired of all the clickbait and recommendation spam on my YouTube homepage so I made some filters in uBlock Origin.

My filters also block out recommended videos on the righthand side of the video you are watching.

Here's what it looks like: https://imgur.com/a/uxpQE1J

If you'd like the same, enter this into your uBlock Filters.
https://pastebin.com/PK1hdeEn

(Feedback and additions Welcome! This is something I hope to share with others to make YouTube a little less insufferable)
Some of the very productive developers I have worked with are not great at code reviews. It's a different skill from writing code and not everyone who is good at coding is good at reviewing other people's code.

Considering most of us spend about 90% of our time coding and a very small amount of time doing code reviews, your best signal in my experience is just giving candidates something to code.
Well yeah, I still need to pay shipping for amazon to send me a product even if I need to return it because it's broken. I would have no product to return if I did not pay for the shipping to receive the product.

Apple would justify that 30% being non-refundable by saying "you would have never had that client to refund if you did not give us that 30%". They did their job, they got you the client, you were the one who did the bad job and made the client pursue a refund.

You pay a toll to cross a bridge, but it turns out to be the wrong bridge. You don't get your toll back, you still crossed the bridge.
Tackling remote loneliness with 166 years of combined experience
Anyone look at the Mormon and Catholic fertility rates lately? I haven’t, but it seems even those cults can’t keep the baby rate up anymore.
Clicking on the back arrow lets you check out recommendations for previous dates.
Followed by Nintendo, running a Japanese OS on Japanese Hardware to play Japanese developed games. Have you not noticed the popularity of the new Animal Crossing during quarantine, or the outsized impact Nintendo has had on Western pop culture?
The Asus G14 seems to fit the loose description
if it's true that a couple might be taking more risk than normal by choosing to have a baby during a pandemic, then it may also be true that those pandemic babies will grow up in an environment where they are more scarce and therefore more in demand, and so will enjoy advantages that they would otherwise have to compete against each other for, compared to the norm.
India Extends Imposition of Safeguard Duty on Solar Imports by Another Year
I checked out the prepper channel and I actually like the videos that were on there. I know the gag here is that these are fringe topics, but this is a fun way to explore other topics.
You don't even address some of the core points: a GW of steam turbine is going to require massive cooling infrastructure that wind turbines do not require.

The learning rate will not stop overnight with wind turbines; there is more than enough research and industrial improvements that are in the works that we will start to see a slowing of the learning rate before it suddenly stops.

Also, airdynamics and not well understood as it relates to wind farms, and new research comes out all the time to improve efficiency of future designs.

For somebody who's claiming that the other person is not providing any evidence, you are operating without any links, only with certainty that I must be wrong about predictions that I admit are tricky to make.
That's incorrect, Apple designs their own micro architecture that implements the ARM ISA. Qualcomm, HiSilicon, and Samsung use ARM's reference micro architectures, which are mostly designed in Austin TX now, although some have been from the ARM Sophia, France office. Samsung also made custom uarchs at their Austin office for their Exynos chips but recently shut the operation down.
The Two-pizza team concept is a very small part on how Amazon works. A few others on top of my head.

- Enable high-velocity decision making: Defining clear tenets that act as the north start for decision making at team level, and two-way doors thinking.

- Establish how you measure success, and how does relate to the goals of the organisation.

- Achieve team independency is a key factor, and having strong mechanisms such as the "away teams" concept, "communication is terrible" mental model and reducing cognitive overload by relying on platform teams

- Nominating a single-threaded owner for programs and business outcomes.

- Articulate how the organisation works across teams using mechanisms such as bar raisers, OP1/OP2, PR/FAQs, CoEs, WBRs, experiment-driven teams, ...
Not necessarily. Take a wholesale distributor. Buy a product for $99 and sell for $100. Your revenue will be massive, but the value you create is low.

I’d say earnings are a better, but still not great measure of value added.
Production being constrained by the availability of labour doesn't mean one whit to me. I don't benefit from increased national production. The overwhelming majority of my expenses go towards things that aren't constrained by national production.

Employers always want to find alternatives to paying people for their labour. That's also not my problem.

It's an incredibly weird argument to be making. Employers need a thumb placed on their side of the scale, because otherwise... The country will produce fewer goods then it otherwise would? And because otherwise, they'll seek to reduce their costs, by employing fewer people? They are always motivated to do that anyways, and they are in a much worse position to do it than if they could trivially fire and replace their workforce, and if they are slower at accumulating profits.
Wait - can you explain what you mean by this a little more? Stuck in a cult "by choice"? What cult? How were you stuck "by choice" if you weren't rational?
Between increasing economic uncertainty, student loan debt, no mandated maternity/paternity leave, no sick leave, no vacation time, etc. etc... Is it any wonder Millennials aren't having kids?
All of this reminds me of what happened to Toshiba in the 80s:

https://www.anti-empire.com/today-the-us-is-waging-a-war-on-...

Just goes to show that the US is as much the thug as it has always been.
The Soviet web: the tale of how the USSR almost invented the internet (2017)
Keeping in mind that the hearing is in the Dem-controlled HOUSE and all these companies are censoring people to help the Dems win the election, I doubt anything exciting will happen. The questions will be "Isn't it true that you don't censor conservatives and just white supremacist nazi scumbags?"
I don't know, he writes well, he's funny, but somehow always manages to convince me he's a horrible person I don't want to meet.
CEOs are out in force today.
Preppers are just paranoid DIYers.
Should You Be Testing in Production?
They are probably just peripherals, like the GPU. I'd be very surprised if Apple strayed from the ARMv8 specification and added new instructions for those accelerators.
I completely agree. del.icio.us search results were often phenomenally good, better than Google for certain types of searches at the time.
Prolog and Ada are also French.
The official unemployment rate is only 11.1%. 9/10 Americans who want a job have a job. And new business formation for Q2 2020 is at an all-time high:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BUSAPPSAUS
So you don't have an account on any website?
However, arguably it was closer to where the Web seems to be going now.
How was Facemash (Hot or Not) developed (pics of Harvard girls never used the site)? How did they get website traffic data from their like button without visitors using Facebook? Also, how is my grandma part of their database because all her grandchildren have her in their phone contacts?
This is why I hate Agile. It's much harder to convince management that they won't be getting a pre-determined set of functionality by a certain date (we will have feature x,y and z developed by October 13th) than to convince a team to stop doing upfront planning and design. So almost every project I've been on that was "Agile" was actually waterfall sans upfront planning and design.
Xserves were really loud. I doubt you'd want it anywhere near an audio setup, unless it was in a separate room. You can hear it at 6:30 in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdMKuHVnjik
Great stuff, bad AI recommendations at least for the climate denier part. (maybe you should change it to climate catastrophism skeptic which would be more precise from the results I see) very few people denies there is a climate I take it :)
This is cool. I once made an app in the same vein [1]. I think that generative/immersive art software has a lot of potential. A large part of making art is enjoying the process, whereas most digital art software is about getting results efficiently.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodenclos...
Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund
You realise that the Hacker News front page is an algorithm that predicts what you should want?
Global population growth is already slowing down and the global population will likely peak withing the next 100 years and then slowly decline.
I like this article a lot, it's a pretty good summary of the problem.

> Most developers, especially in larger organizations, complain about meetings,

I would quibble with this though - I think this depends a lot on your manager, your project, and some other things. I've been part of start-ups that have a daily standup that lasted over an hour and involved everyone in the company (~20 people), and the time in my career I had the fewest meetings was when I worked for Dow Jones (not a FAANG, but also not a small company). My experience working for a few different start-ups is that start-ups have as many meetings, they just tend to be more ad-hoc, less formal, and might not always involve a formal Outlook Calendar invitation.
All great questions!

Datasaur are great. I hope Ivan would think it's fair that I'd describe their current product as as a modern, cloud-hosted Brat (https://brat.nlplab.org/ – this remains very popular!) with the features to make that work with teams. As you point out we're focusing on the tight integration of annotation and training enabling you to move faster and iterate on NLP ideas... essentially trying for move a waterfall ML lifecycle to a an agile one.

Fine tuning on BERT is the way to go. It's what we do, and that already reduces the data annotation requirements by an order of magnitude. Doing that offline in a notebook is still wanted by some (you can use our tool just as the annotation platform, and download the data and you'll still get the efficiency benefit through active learning) but integrating or deploying that model is still a time-suck. Having the model deployed in the cloud immediately has a load of supplementary benefits (easy to update, can always use the latest models etc) too, we hope.

(edit: typos)
I love these, nicely done! For reference, I consider DriveClub state of the art when it comes to rain simulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hViwrRGfuHU
Have there been any major Facebook flops? They seem to be very successful in acquiring (WhatsApp, Instagram) and diversifying (Facebook Messenger, Instagram Stories) the next social thing. They are no Yahoo or, on occasion, Microsoft.
He interestingly lists of DOS clones made in the UK by a US based company as an achievement in his blog post, but anything derivative from Asia or made by a multinational in Asia is not notable enough.
lol so true
Immigrant arrived in America centuries ago.
Bypassing macOS TCC for unauthorized access to sensitive user data