skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So your situation is you want to DIY build a desktop with an integrated CPU+GPU, with a significant upgrade from a 4770k.

4770k passmark: 7042
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4770K...

Ryzen 5 3400G passmark: 9421
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+5+3400G&i...

Intel Graphics 4600 (in 4770k): 649
https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Intel+HD+4600...

RX Vega 11 (in 3400G): 2106
https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+RX+Veg...

So relative to 4770k, 3400G has a 33% faster CPU, and 3.25x the GPU.
Bytedance is incorporated in Caymen islands. Its not a Chinese owned corporation. It has subsidiary in HongKong, not mainland China. In fact, it does not have an legal entity in mainland China. Its has subsidiary in the U.S. that runs TikTok in California. The US subsidiary is managed by Americans and hires American workers. The CEO is Kevin Mayer. All TikTok's data is stored in the US, the content management and regulation team are all American employees. I know from TikTok employees that employees in Chinese office are not allowed to view U.S. stored data. The machine learning system for Tiktok and Chinese version douyin are separate. Tiktok is planning to allow outside security review of how they manage content and how the recommendation algorithm works. Legally, there is no way that Chinese laws have any jurisdiction on the U.S. subsidiary due to the fact that Bytedance is incorporated in Cayman islands. Bytedance's operations in China (Douyin and others) are managed by the Hongkong operating entity, and only these operations have to respect Chinese laws. If the Chinese government wants to get data from TikTok, the employees there can just deny them. What can the Chinese government do? Arrest them? They live in the US. Second, if Chinese government is forcing Tiktok to censor according to its own wishes, the American employees at Tiktok would have been talking by now. You think American employees would bend backwards for Chinese government?

Source: ByteDance coporeate structure: https://www.bytedance.com/en/
TikTok's statement on data practices
https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/fair-competition-and-trans...
> if the newspaper leans X, they can shut down all the comments from people who lean the other way, or people who disagree with the article

And make no mistake about it - ALL the media in Australia owned by essentially one person, so there is a lot of leaning.
What if you need do anything significant with your money in those 7 years? Like rent an apartment? Have a car to get to work?

The debt doesn't just magically go away. Chapter 7 requires liquidating assets, and chapter 13 requires paying some loans back anyway. And besides, I don't see why loan companies couldn't require cosigners to reduce risk on these college loans.
Same for software. Sometimes I dream of basic income and everyone having time to do just what they really believe others and they themselves will like to use/listen to/watch/experience, but it probably won't play out like that in my lifetime.
Once you have some understanding of the state management facilities native to Clojure, you might be willing to concede the "modern" adjective.
(If this is actually the person behind the attacks) Yes he may serve jail time for this, but he did get to read DMs of some of these people, and has had enough time to copy those contents to be read later. That's still valuable knowledge, he should leverage this to get people interested in those details to fund his legal defense in return for providing the contents of the DMs. Or is that illegal?
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They should. You should get $200 if you can get an employee's password.
The story below the linked one is how a man rammed his way into a gated community, beat two people to death with a baseball bath, and then the police found the suspect unconscious after he drank some bleach.

That seems more weird than my local news, by a bit.
Good music - electrifying, change-your-life music - is still extremely scarce.

But Spotify has made it even harder to find by swamping it in mediocre burger+fries music.
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In your first comment you proposed that, "Either consciousness is something composed of information processing, or it is something inherent to the universe that has some evolutionarily efficient use towards information processing."

Sometimes I try to imagine the later case, and it really flips reality on its head. The limit and most extreme case is that reality is fundamentally experiential -- that is, what comes first is "being", "feeling", "embodiment", and through this lens is found structure, objects, form, etc. Obviously this is just the reverse of the idea that consciousness emerges from an underlying physical substrate performing complex processes.

Either way, there is a definite correlation between the two -- feelings have their correlate molecular, biochemical basis, and molecules working together through processes have their transcendent embodiment as feelings experienced.

The question of "what is real?" can boil down to this: are things external to consciousness fundamentally real and consciousness an ephemeral, emergent flourish floating "on top", or is consciousness real and everything observed by it a kind of flourishing of it?

This is a bit of a rabbit hole with many different paths to fall down, as I'm sure you know. Scientific knowledge is rooted in observation and the dusting away of uncertainty to reveal an objective reality we all share. From this standpoint, the objective substrate being revealed and it's complex processes is taken as fundamental, and we have all the great successes of scientific knowledge to show as justification for this to be true. The only hole seems to be, why the hell am I embodied, then? -- why am I conscious at all? Life would probably be easier if I didn't see that hole and want to search for more satisfying answers!
> You should not be required to install a binary blob in 2020 to get basic functionality (like fan control) to work.

You are not required to do that. Use nouveau, buy an AMD or intel GFX card.

You are not entitled to it either. People developing nouveau on their free time don't owe you anything, and nvidia does not owe you an open source driver either.

I don't really understand the entitlement here. None of the drivers on my windows and macosx machines are open source. They are all binary blobs.

I don't use nvidia GFX cards on linux anymore (intel suffices for my needs), but when I did, I was happy to have a working driver at all. That was a huge upgrade from my previous ATI card, which had no driver at all. Hell, I even tried using AMD's ROCm recently on Linux with a 5700 card, and it wasn't supported at all... I would have been very happy to hear that AMD had a binary driver that made it work, but unfortunately it doesn't.

And that was very disappointing because I thought AMD had good open source driver support. At least when buying Nvidia for Linux, you know beforehand that you are going to have to use a proprietary driver, and if that makes you uncomfortable, you can buy just something else.
Hubble is not that large compared to the mirrors on ground based telescopes[0].
Ground based
Subaru: 8.2m
Gran Telescopio Canarias: 10.4m

Space based
Hubble: 2.4m
James Webb: 6.5m (still on the ground)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_optical_telesc...
I recently bought and Ergodox-EZ, after previously getting my first mechanical keyboard (the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard, which I love).

I'm not a huge fan of it. So far, it seems like it's been a lot of work relearning habits, for little gain.

But oddly enough, my biggest gripe with the Ergodox isn't something I've heard people complain about - the lack of an extra column of keys on the right part. Basically, on a normal keyboard, to the right of the "l" key, you've got another 3 keys - a ;, a ', and the enter key. They're all pretty important.

But on the Ergodox, you only have 2 more keys. Meaning you either have to move the return key to somewhere else, or move the "'" key somewhere else. Both of them break tons of muscle memory, and for no real benefit IMO.

In addition, the lack of that extra column means that symbols like [], like -=, etc can't be in their regular locations. Obviously, as a programmer, these are all keys I use a lot.

I don't know that much about mechanical keyboards, but I really don't get why this choice was made. It seems like a completely self-own here, making it so much harder to get used to this keyboard.
It seems to have been more prolonged for Ola Wong. I’m not sure how long the manic state / hospitalization lasted, but the overall recovery seems to have taken a year or two (before he felt confident to write professionally on refugee issues again). Seems to have been treated as a (severe) crisis, with therapy and lifestyle changes.

I agree that most would probably not have had the same reaction to the same circumstances. But after listening to Ola’s story I wonder if you couldn’t produce some instability in most people if you take something they care deeply about (in Wong’s case Sweden’s future and the role of his profession in it) and have their social surroundings deny obvious truths and thereby jeopardize it...
Not sure, but I hope they do, as it's an often forgotten avenue for exploitation. You can't deny the human factor in a lot of these instances. Humans are humans. Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_intelligence_(intelligen...
Would they merge it with Linkedin?
I don't think the study controlled for differences in muscle damage. The more damage, the longer it takes to recover, even if the rate of recovery is the same.

The ungrounded group was measured with higher blood lactate levels, suggesting that the exercise was more strenuous for the and that they experienced more muscle damage.

See: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29619805/
Unlike existing YouTube content (which has immense cultural value) and existing GMail addresses (which many people use as their main identity) Google Drive as well as the apps are very much replaceable. I.e. I didn't mean the services, I meant the content - YouTube itself (let alone GMail) are easy to replace also. Most of the Google drive content probably is private and easy to migrate, also and either backed-up already or not-needed by the owners.
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in exchange for not being artists, ironically.

If you instrumentalize music to maximise your influencer career with the content of the music as an afterthought what you get isn't art but a mediocre commodity.

It's like Ricky Gervais remark at the Globes, the actors aren't actually actors any more, it's a competition for the best looking, most ripped steroid junkie.
Yes they can. Spotify fortunately is not the only way in which musicians can reach and audience and for some musicians it is still an art rather than a sausage of which they need to produce an extra quota to boost every Spotify quarterly earnings report.

Quality takes time, especially in music.

I wonder if that CEO has ever made any music themselves?
Why would a local TV station in a random US city bend over backwards for Europeans?
Nope, it definitely hasn't always been this way.

When vinyls were the predominant media form, it was prohibitively expensive for most artists to press a master, cut vinyls, package them, market it, and distribute it. I can do all of that in 10 minutes with Spotify now.

Tapes made this a little bit faster. And then CDs made it a little bit faster from there. And then MP3 players made it quite a bit faster. And then download speeds and prevalence of internet made streaming possible, and it made it a LOT faster. And then here we are - about 10 years after the emergence of Pandora and similar services.

To use your example: Elvis had a TON of funding and was able to maintain that rapid release cycle while touring because of that. Smaller DIY artists don't have funding, they're all working jobs, etc...
Pretty good takes here in the comments (shout out to references to "pit of success")

There are two things worth mentioning, though.

1) the best pragmatic programming recommendation is "semantic compression" by Muratori [1]. Incidentally, I find it to be an effective "takedown" of the sort of dogmatic oop that anyone criticizing oop is criticizing

2) Muratori might disagree with this, but for me the whole point of a new class (type) is new invariants [2]. If you need a new invariant, you make a new type. Sticking to this principle has helped me keep classes small and focused without really thinking about other things like "single responsibility". There are a few exceptions (eg you might need a new type to work with a particularly clunky API, like some Map Reduce ones), but it's really that simple.

As a bit of an aside, the worst code I have written hasn't been purely OO nor purely functional. It's been when I've mistakenly tried to add new ideas to existing code that break the paradigm.

[1] https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0015

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_invariant
OOP is perhaps not the best abstraction for distributed computing where you want maximize data flow and minimize distributed state. The slowdown of Moores Law for a single core/node means performance improvements will distribute computing among a large number of such units.
Ideally you want to have all your state in one place, the "single point of truth", in tightly modeled data structures, keeping it as lean and immutable as possible. The program is then just a function of the state, consisting mainly of self-contained functions, that take arguments and produce a result, without causing side effects. Realistically, that doesn't mean there are no classes or objects with internal vars, but these are more of ephemeral nature, and can be created predicatively and deterministically from your centralized global state. In the best case you can have complex applications with tens of thousands LoCs that feed from just a few dozen state variables.
Its low skill because they appear to have been unprepared to take full advantage of their "hack".
>This seems like a dumb move, why would MS want to get tied up in the horrors of social media when they have such a profitable empire.

They bought LinkedIn, which increasingly resembles a niche social media for professionals, all the way down to a news feed that is increasingly filled with motivational junk

Then there's Github, which used to advertise itself as "social coding".

Microsoft has done plenty already to get their foot in the door of social media.
According to Elon Musk, Starship will be able to launch 400 Starlink satellites in one go[0]. He also says a Starship launch will cost ~$2 million[1] per launch.

Given that this is Elon we're talking about, we'll call it 300 sats at $20 million per launch.

Per their FCC application, SpaceX were allowed an upper eventual limit of 30,000 sats.[2] Let's assume that upper limit is what's required for a global comms network.

(30,000 / 300) * 20,000,000) = $2 Billion in launch costs. Assuming a lifetime of 5 years[3], that's $4 Billion per decade.

30,000 sats at $250K per[4] gives us $7.5 Billion in hardware costs. Twice per decade is $15 Billion.

That's 19 Billion per decade. Round and double it, just to be safe. 40 Billion per decade, so 4 Billion per year.

Could you build and maintain a global fiber network for $4 Billion per year?

[0]https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/27/spacex-president-we-will-lan...
[1]https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/spacex-starship-rock...
[2]https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites.html
[3]https://phys.org/news/2020-05-costly-collateral-elonmusk-sta....
[4]https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/12/spacex-starlink-satell...
I can't emphasize this point enough. I learned a ton in the classes I took, but the real value I got from college was the people I was exposed to. I built a ton of lasting friendships and a strong network there, but more important was just the experience of being around smart and motivated people. My peers in college had higher ambitions and expectations for their lives than the people I grew up with. That caused me to shift how I thought about my own life and put me on a very different path. That just would not have happened if I took online classes.
I wouldn't hire him. It's not like he _programmed_ his way in. And he didn't just post tweets saying "Twitter's security is bad." He actively tried to scam people. So he wasn't trying to accomplish anything good.
From https://www.omnicoreagency.com/tiktok-statistics/

> 41 percent of TikTok users are aged between 16 and 24.

That seems rather youth-heavy when compared to Facebook (Timeline), Twitter, YouTube, Instagram.

Nothing inherently wrong with that, but it does come with risks.
I can't imagine the population of any country would be too happy when google.com returns a "Service discontinued due to law blah blah blah" when they want to look up how to beat eggs.
...oh my god.
It's growing on everyone, all ages.
If a rando artist suddenly gets as many streams as Gaga, then Spotify might make that deal with the "random indie artist".

But let's be real - majority of people go to Spotify BECAUSE there is Gaga, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Adelle, The Weekend, Shawn Mendes, etc... If you take those names out of the pot - Spotify turns into crappier Soundcloud.

These indie artists literally cottail on the big names.
My thoughts go to the fact they were able to hunt someone down based on their bitcoin address.

Either they got help, this kid was already being watched or it just speaks to the DOJs data collection to all citizens.
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Agreed that AI will probably be frustrating if it's used in a way that makes "queries" unpredictable.

On the other hand, suppose we use it to make stable changes to a personal version of a product. I'd like to ask the "AI" to write the SQL query that answers a question within the context the product, and save the query once we get it right. Now I have customized my product with a new query without hiring a developer or learning SQL myself. And I can reuse this saved query for predictable results. The story probably gets more interesting with more components: reports, screens, storage, etc.
I do know people who manage with just satellite, including some in tech. But it's certainly a stretch and being basically unable to stream video is increasingly a liability.
How so? It seems like lots of businesses run successfully on that model for indefinite periods.
You're basically just repeating what I said, but yes. I would say influence is a little different from marketing. Marketing is you trying to reach new fans, influence is you reaching established fans.
Thanks for the advice. This is pretty much what I was planning to do - part-time and mostly online - but I wasn't confident it was possible to get a degree this way.
I think they are confusing musician with "content producer" Musicians make the music that we end up listening to 20 years later, content producers are the ones that create crap for us every day so we don't get bored that day.
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A tremendously important example is videogames which as well as being a multi-billion dollar industry akin to music are also a major medium of individual self expression.

In the broader set you have interactive fiction and a whole slew of art that shares a lot in common with time-based art. Demoscene is a good example of the latter.
Did you move to caddy 2?

Our initial use-case was ingress for docker swarm - after a fooray into k8s with the "traditional" nginx ingress with its rather hackish let's encrypt contraption.

I briefly looked at caddy 2 - but wasn't able to find any out-of-the box tricks for listening to docker messages and dynamically configure sites in a sane way.

Do you use custom code and configure caddy via the api?
Yes, that would be pretty illegal.
Tiktok bans all political content. It's literally the opposite of politically poisonous.
There have also been reports that the Chinese use all the behavioral data reaped from TikTok as input for training their own surveillance and censorship ML. The international user base is involuntarily turned into fuel for the totalitarian Chinese oppression machinery.
the verge is reporting that he's being tried as an adult, so maybe that's the reasoning.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21349920/twitter-hack-arr...

>He’s being charged as an adult, and the press conference made clear that law enforcement is considering how bad consequences of the hack could have been — not just the $100,000-plus in bitcoin that the teen is alleged to have scammed out of unsuspecting Twitter users.
Amen. I think the mistake is to reach for the complicated patterns first. Rather than refactoring later when it’s obvious they are needed to simplify your code.
I really like this anecdote, I find it very prescriptive for life, but I don’t think it applies. Professional musicians aren’t learning how to make music like the students of the ceramics class, they are mostly fully developed artists with their own artistic style and voice. I think that constantly producing art leads an artist to become a slave to his prior work, a sort of creative fatigue. In order to foster development of an artist’s voice, they need space to get away from that style and explore other styles and forms of art.

Not a popular opinion here, but I really don’t think that coding is very comparable to pure art like music or painting, and I think that a lot of these ideas come from that place(that coding is art). Coding is art like electrical work is art—there is certainly a distinction between work crafted by a master and something muddled together by an amateur, but at the end of the day it’s functional. In these trades it’s perfectly okay to have creative fatigue as long as all the parts are good. If you have great variable names, nice modular form, terse functions, excellent descriptive comments, etc, its actually better if you have a monolithic unchanging form. Pure art, that is art meant to be consumed in the form its created, by contrast, brings with it all kinds of aesthetic values that are put by the way side in coding, and novelty and creativity are front and center.
Right.

Modern politician who think that they can tax the hell out of the rich and rich won't do anything about it - do not deserve to be listed in a ballot.

Today's wealth is very fluid and today's zero-tax jurisdictions are fighting for foreigners dollars.

Catch me if you can.
They're using RISC-V for their micro controllers. I don't think we have any reason to believe they won't stick with ARM for application cores. And they've tended to ping-pong between Denver cores and standard ARM cores so I wouldn't entirely write Denver off.
Swedes, who are by default social distancing anyway, should not have seen a lot of infections in the first place. The abrupt drop in cases id probably due to schools closing.
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Thanks for telling me something I discovered half way through my university studies.
"Imagine China subtly promoting videos to create outrage and civil unrest in the US, or to feed anti-US propaganda to germinate terrorist groups in the US."

our president is doing a fine job of that now with his twitter account.
And don’t forget that it’s just behind Italy for the deaths/M figure and probably will overtake it in the next couple of weeks.
Thanks for your insight. I guess I'll have to dive into the wayback Machine
It has been a journalistic tradition done out of good faith not to print the names of accused minors. This has largely been done industry-wide under an implicit "gentleman's agreement." Similar traditions include not printing the names of victims of alleged rape victims or other sexual crimes.

But there's no law against it that I am aware of.