skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think Linus Torvalds loses sleep at night just because North Korea has created a controlled linux distribution for use in their country[0]. Would you if you were the creator of Linux? If so, what would you have done that Linus Torvalds didn't do?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS
I've had androids and find that iphones have better battery life so that was my main reason for sticking with the iphone. Maybe that's different now.. not sure. I don't like paying $1k for a phone for sure.
WebAssembly on its own won't help with web page bloat. As with all things on web pages, it can both be used to add more bloat, or to reduce bloat. Web page bloat isn't mainly a technical problem and can't be solved by technology alone.
As I understand 'full task-isolation mode' will prevent compaction, completely disable vmstat timer etc. So it provides additional isolation. Since you already switched into kernel mode, might as well deliver a signal to let you know it happened. If the signal is masked there should be no overhead at all except a branch to check the signal mask.
Very interesting read about why TikTok is succeeding. It makes me more curious about how the TikTok curation algorithm works!

I appreciate the comparison of TikTok to other social networks like Facebook and Twitter, but I am surprised there is no discussion about Reddit? Reddit is interesting in that people have to follow topics/communities in the form of subreddits, so it only works if the user puts in the effort to find communities to subscribe to. Maybe Reddit could also benefit from a better curation algorithm.
Yes, but you have to consider also that people have different priorities. For example, you say that "iMessage is a huge differentiating feature", but if most of that person's social circle uses other services, there is no advantage there. And UI polish might rank lower compared to the lock-in.

I'm not saying you're wrong to value those things, but a good amount of people don't. So no amount of explaining why iMessage is great will convince them, even if they understand and agree iMessage is great, since the "maximum appreciation" for any feature is capped by the perceived value of its premise.
Unless I'm missing something they forgot to account for the fact that dimensional analysis will only give you a result up to a constant.

This should be somewhat obvious as otherwise you'd get a different result with different units (and no SI units won't save you here, those just work for several common equations in physics not ones you came up with yourself).
Termpdf.py – A graphical pdf (and ePub and cbz) viewer, written in Python, that
I'd like to commend the authors for embarking on this. Complex ISA's are an unfortunate reality for performance as advances in cycles-per-second on a single core are negligible. The divergence of these increasingly complex ISA's among platforms weigh heavily on competitive application developers.

As someone who is interested in writing cross-platform SIMD code the most valuable asset to me is a library or compiler that can generate the instructions dynamically from otherwise normal'ish looking C/C++. This is the most powerful mode of development in my experience. Clang already does this remarkably. I can write with standard C++ syntax (albeit awkwardly) and maybe using a few custom types with `__attribute__((vector_size(x)))` and not have to involve explicit intrinsics except perhaps for a very small number of leaf operations that cannot be expressed. At this time Clang has the upper-hand on GCC: the latter cannot generate code which scales between platforms utilizing different vector sizes. For example, if you try to perform an operation on a 256-bit vector using a 128-bit target: Clang will seamlessly generate two 128-bit operations; GCC will fall back entirely to scalar. My assumption is that developments in Clang for ARM's SVE have carried over to generating scalable code for other platforms, but nevertheless it is remarkable.

I don't believe that writing functions comprised of hand-crafted lists of intrinsics is the best way forward. Undoubtedly it's worked for projects, even quite well to ship stable software -- but it scales and adapts poorly in a fast-developing and diverse market of hardware. For example, years ago I wrote a simple `tolower(string)` implementation using an assemblage of 128-bit standard-Intel SSE2 statements and today the instructions it produces are exactly the same as the day that I wrote it. All I can hope for is that 256-bit capable architectures can execute two of my operations at once. That's not ideal.
Purgecss is a godsend when you use a third-party CSS library.
lol yeah you are right I think, I messed it up!
Ah yes the design with the ports on the back that get scratched up, the unopenable case without destroying the screen cables, the dangerously fragile corners, the thermal issues, the proprietary storage thermal monitoring and the fact it’s all in one lump so if something goes wrong you’re in trouble.

I have repaired a few and own one (2015) I think the design is absolutely dire.
Slate Star Codex update: NYT still at it, reopening on hold
Reads like the Yellowstone Club/Spanish Peaks/Telluride/etc from other cities out west.

And as another comment pointed out, its a literal ad by the company.

... Moving on
I maintain an encrypted vault-file containing some instructions and passwords accessible at a url that is printed on a piece of paper. Along with it is a "share" of a password which I split up using SSS[0]. I laminate those along with a piece of dark cardboard (to make it more difficult to peek) and instructions.

They are distributed among friends and family to be cut open in the event of my death.

It's based on the trust that not more than 5 of those 10 people will conspire against me while I am still alive, but also at least 5 of them will be able to find one another, and unlock the password should I pass.

... good reminder, it's due for an update

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
They probably enjoy the work. A lot of people identify with their careers as well.
People scream at the cops, without masks. The same for chanting. You can either muffle yourself, or lower the mask and project loudly.

With a few hours of intense marching, people naturally want to remove/adjust/lower the mask to talk/shout/run. Even with those wearing their masks, their effectiveness won't be 100%.

Which leads back to the OP's point - if the virus is airborne, why don't we see an uptick in deaths for that demographic?

Because the 'participating demographic' skews young.

“We estimate that susceptibility to infection in individuals under 20 years of age is approximately half that of adults aged over 20 years, and that clinical symptoms manifest in 21% (95% credible interval: 12–31%) of infections in 10- to 19-year-olds”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0962-9
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Ag...
Well, JSON is used in a serious way, in fact I doubt you can use most web applications (and many desktop apps too) without your machine parsing some json. And... https://www.json.org/license.html
You can remove videos from your watch history: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/95725?co=GENIE.Pla...

I presume this also removes them as a factor in your recommendations.
> The comment they first replied to said

> > I don't understand this "have to reboot to do something windows related"

Ah, I see. Right now that comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24051085 says:

> Of course Windows-only things are only on Windows. But a lot of Windows-only things have non-Windows-only alternatives.

, which seems less inflammatory. EDIT: Oh, wait, I see—I think you're going a couple more levels up, to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24050905 :

> I've used linux on my desktop for 20 years, I don't understand this "have to reboot to do something windows related", I guess I just use computers for very different things to you.

I read this more charitably, not as saying "why would someone need to use Windows?" but more "I don't need to use Windows, so I don't regard it as a universal need". (That, in turn, came from mmm_grayons's post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24050677 :

> And use what instead? I generally use linux on my desktop but have to reboot fairly often to do something windows-related. Libreoffice botches document formatting every time I use it on something above "hello, world." Lots of stuff still only works on windows, though wine compatibility is getting better.

which I read, again perhaps unfairly, as suggesting that it is unrealistic for people to consider a computer workflow that doesn't involve Windows.)

Perhaps still more charity (or clarity) would have been appropriate, but the explicit acknowledgement that there are different purposes for which different people need computers seems to me to defuse much of what one might perceive as hostility or dismissiveness there.
Print them and collect then in books.
That will only work if the original is in lossless.
Did Vine not work that way? I have no idea and the author didn't say either.
What your post sounds like, and I believe this to be true, is that the primary value proposition of Windows is . . .

to run legacy software.
Wow, if that pans out it would be exceptionally negligent to store that stuff like that.

One of the things about being a military brat was that I got to see a number of ammunition storage locations which are easily recognized by their subterranean reinforced bunkers separated by distance :-)
You can do this with javascript, and some sites do.
I'm not the GP and therefore I'm not 100% sure the idea of Western social-justice mobs stifling innovation was intended as a compliment to the West.

Anyway if anyone takes anything at all from this, it's the idea that the whole source of TikTok's success is in making culture (and therefore culture wars) irrelevant. Want to look at videos of disabled, unattractive, poor people all day? Have at. Not being flippant there, although now that I think about it, I bet there are vast differences between some people's publicly-espoused views and their own watching habits, were they ever revealed by TikTok's algorithm.

Edit: Went off on all sorts of tangents, but yes I totally agree with your point. In Trump-era America even success & failure fall into the fact-free zone.

We succeed: Of course! We're awesome! So proud!

We fail: It wasn't fair! Everybody had it out for us!

They succeed: Bunch of cheaters! We took the high road!

They fail: Of course! We're just too awesome for 'em! Better luck next time!
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Being flexible is key.

Some jobs benefit so much from equipment and skill that it won't ever make sense to DIY. Some jobs are just a bunch of labor that you could do, and probably do better because you care to do it right.

DIY solar seems like a ROI for a DIY project. Just stay safe on that roof!
At max 0.2K TNT
He counts Linux as 17 MLoc, half of it is drivers, tinyconfig is just 300 kLoc [1]. Is there any reason to watch? Chrome is huge though.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/223746/why-is-the-l...
5K iMac was introduced in 2014, several years before iMac Pro. I think the point of iMac Pro was to fill the gap while the new Mac Pro was in development.
I'm a data scientist without a formal background in programming. Can someone please explain why implementing math functions in C/D is different than doing it in R?

For example, I would assume that creating a mean function using numbers and operators would be language-agnostic.
Apple is one of the most dominant tech firms in the world, leveraging their wealth to buy companies and then shut out their competitors from the service is pretty much the quintessential example of an anti-compettive behavior, especially because of the very clear consumer harm produced by shutting out all those existing users. Having a monopoly is not illegal and not the issue, anti-competitive behavior resulting in clear consumer harm is.
Much of the genetic diversity of our food supply is threatened today. Whether it's the strain of yeast needed to make cheese, or a variety of bean no longer grown commercially.

We are probably unable to recreate crops from wild genetics at this point. Every variety we lose is gone forever.

Domesticated food animals are facing the same fate. I don't think we could recreate the domesticated sheep from the wild at this point. We're only a couple generations from a real crisis at this point, and in many areas, the crisis is already here.
Hmm this is different than my experience when my co workers had kids. Usually their productivity dropped due to being sleep deprived and not having the time on nights and weekends to come up to speed on any new technology.

Not that I minded, just saying that time constraints and sleep deprivation seemed to have the effect you'd except from them.
IMO, the fact that lawyers can't even agree on the scope of the AGPL means that semantics are just that, semantics.

Many licenses haven't been tried in court, including the AGPL, yet it's used fairly broadly.
it's not really dimensional analysis. the same methodology was used to estimate the Trinity blast.
Is it possible to use this as rsync replacement ?
I wonder how to make that work in a larger organization where people would just see your Outlook calendar in the scheduling assistant. Does Calendly or any product block that off for you?
The Fisherman's Secret: A modern-day treasure hunt
I've been out of the game for a while, so I could be way off here, but my experience during my brief (15-20 year) career was one could always get paid significantly more for doing C++ than Python.

Which makes intuitive sense to me since it's a lot harder to master C++.
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Lawn care business or cleaning business are the first ones that come to mind. Both have a relatively low barrier of entry. I was able to create a lawn care business for under $10k in upfront investment, and that means absolutely everything: marketing, website, pickup truck, covered trailer, mower, all misc tools. I did everything myself. Cleaning business has far less upfront cost and doesn't require as much hot outdoors work.

I've heard Dave Ramsey refer to coin car wash lots as a license to print money, but he also said he doesn't own any b/c it's not what he wants to get into. I never did research that claim, and I don't know how much money it would require but I'm guessing more than 10k.
This. Also they ship the Mac mini and no reasonable display options themselves leaving you at the mercy of LG (unreliable and almost completely unavailable) or 1.5x display scaling on other 4K monitors or a monitor which costs three kidneys attached to a stand that costs another one.

And let’s not get into the overpriced input devices. Wobbly keys and a mouse designed much like the furniture at the start of Men in Black.

Gah I’ve just convinced myself to sell the Mac mini and the iMac I already have now. And probably the iPad I’m whining about this on. Yes I’m a member of the cult. I have a whole cupboard of white boxes. But the pc pays the bills.
Susan did great things. But like Lattner, the whole Apple Fellow thing doesn't apply because she doesn't work for Apple. It isn't some sort of hall of fame, it is a paid position.
Individuals do not make companies, and individuals have reasons outside of work for doing what they do. The man has worked at Apple for almost 35 years, and is 60yrs old - why would he want to continue in a huge role instead of reducing his role?
Wirth's Law reborn: "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
No. It will work regardless. I'm talking about having a single additional client decompress the broadcast and act as a first-frame keyframe source based on the decompressed stream. In a traditional compressed stream, a reconstructed frame is already the context for the next delta after the first. Sending a frame reconstructed by someone else allows you to immediately begin using deltas, and it's a close enough approximation of the original uncompressed frame that the immediate result will be quite good even if not perfect, especially compared to waiting.

At worst it would only be as bad as a transcoded stream for the first few seconds until the subsequent true keyframe arrives. That's loads better than no stream at all.
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Framing. Once you understand the code and have done it a few times, this is another one where -- assuming you have access to a low cost, reliable labor pool -- you can also clear $20-30k in a weekend [in California].
I'm not debating about whether an AGI can duplicate itself or not. If an AGI knows its own source-code, it can duplicate itself. I literally acknowledge this in the paper itself (section 5.2).

Rather, what I am saying is that it doesn't have any bearing on the thesis, "If an AGI single-handedly creates a child AGI, in such a way as to know the child's truth and source-code, then the child is less intelligent than the parent". And the reason it has no bearing is because, since an AGI cannot know its own truthfulness and source-code, AGI self-duplication does not satisfy the hypotheses of the claim.

Again, this is like if I claim "If x>2 then x²>4". The fact that 1² is not >4 has no bearing on the truth of the claim, because 1 is not >2. To make the analogy crystal clear, the "x>2" part corresponds to "the AGI single-handedly creates a child AGI in such a way as to know its truthfulness and source-code", and the "x²>4" part corresponds to "the child AGI is less intelligent than the parent".
True, but I think your caveat is covered by my assertion regarding the intent of the tool.

The intent of deepfake software is clearly either fraud or development of deepfake detection tools. If you're a vendor and your intent is the latter, it would be morally commendable to do your best to sell to reputable customers only... but with security tools like this the authorial intent almost doesn't (and shouldn't) factor in. Unfortunately, if you try to go soft so it won't "hurt someone" then the fraud detection R&D can't be as robust.

Regarding guns, they're either for killing people, killing varmints/animals, or defending oneself against bad guys. As a salesperson, you can reserve the right to refuse sales to known crooks -- that would be morally commendable (as far as it's possible). But it's your decision based on your own judgment. As far as the gun itself is concerned, if as a manufacturer your intent is defense against bad guys (or legal hunting/varmint control) and your product reflects that intent, then you're morally in the clear.

Incidentally, I'm strongly against sales of surplus military gear to police departments, because of the mixing of intentions that are at-odds. The intent of military gear is to fight foreign armies commanded by bad guys -- which is an intent that police departments should never have, as they're dealing with civilians. That's why in the US, we have the National Guard if an army of bad guys ever appears within our borders--it's different from the police, with different training and different intent.
Fractal Topological Insulators Are All Edge
Yeah, you get domesticated cats where there are grain crops, but not with nomadic herding.

So this kind of thing provides information about the time of the transition from pastoral to agrarian societies.
Agreed that many developers do this. I'm very averse to relearning all my tooling every couple of years, though, so I tend to treat FOSS very seriously because my investment will last decades. This makes me a bit of an outlier, but it's the reason I invested in building skills in GNU tools, Linux, and Emacs in the 90s, and continue to use those tools every day. For people like me, VSCode is not a great choice, for all the reasons you suggest. For most, I agree that the stakes aren't quite as high, simply because folks are switching tools from time to time for other reasons anyway.
Page Speed Insight mainly measure how fast your above-the-fold content loads. It doesn't matter if your page loads a bunch of heavy js and images as long as it's deferred/lazy-loaded and doesn't block initial render. For example, amp pages actually load a lot of js for its component, but it doesn't block above-the-fold render and thus scored really great on page speed insight. Personally, I think page speed insight is one of google's strategy to encourage people to use AMP more.

Edit: Also, I find it comical that when you include recaptcha v3 on your website, your page speed insight score can drop almost 20 points. It is as if google don't want you to use recaptcha at all.
Something is stopping me. If your analysis is correct, I'd lose money.

Given you reading comprehension skills, though, I'm beginning to question your analysis. If you can't understand a 6-paragraph post, I can't imagine why you'd be qualified to analyze ROI for an investment.

Go back and re-read what I wrote a few times until you understand it, and then we can talk.
We heavily investigated zstd and met with the brilliant inventor, Yann, who provided amazing insights into the design and rationale behind zstd and why it is so fast and such an amazing technology. I also recompiled zstd into rust using https://github.com/immunant/c2rust and tried using various webasm mechanisms to run it (I didn't get webasm quite fast enough, and teaching c2rust to make it safe would be quite a slog).

But the main reason we settled on Brotli was the second order context modeling, which makes a substantial difference in the final size of files stored on Dropbox (several percent on average as I recall, with some files getting much, much smaller).
And for the storage of files, especially cold files, every percent improvement imparts a cost savings.

Also, widespread in-browser support of Brotli makes it possible for us to serve the dropbox files directly to browsers in the future (especially since they are concatenatable). Zstd browser support isn't at the same level today.
what makes you say that Zoom is most reliable? Did you evaluate google meet, etc.?
Back to roughly where the TRYUSD pair was in August 2018.
‘Time camera’ generates 3D images from echoes of light
I really feel sorry for the Lebanese people today.

They were in a tough spot already before this happened :-/
Templated lambdas are extremely powerful. Think for example of (recursive) visitations of etherogeneous containers.
I'm not so sure - ARM and Intel are bound to meet at some point in the power/performance space because both share the same limitations in terms of physics.
Look at how often it was downloaded last week alone: https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-odd

We're all doomed.