skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is a bit odd that there is no mention of the awful security problems like Spectre and Meltdown which mostly hit Intel and was very poorly handled by them.

I recall him mentioning exactly this.
Finally my military experience is relevant. If you've ever wondered why military ammo depots rarely blow up despite plenty of accidents and fires (at least in western cultures or specifically in the USA), a long time ago I was an Army sysadmin for a computer system devoted to keeping that safe. This wasn't a centralized control thing either, it was a distributed system.

There's a minimum contact diameter and maximum distance to propagate an explosion. Even if you detonate one pallet of one ton of ANFO literally making a checkerboard of pallets would seem from memory to be enough to make sure the explosion does not propagate to the other pallets. Now realize this was decades ago and I was more or less a sysadmin not a warrant officer nor one of the research scientists who wrote the books full of regulations nor the geospatial analysis code. Yes one pallet of one ton of ANFO would make a mess of the forklift driver next to it, but, maybe 100 or 200 hundred feet away, other than maybe some broken windows you'd be hard pressed to tell it happened.

One of many AN production processes generates about one part calcium carbonate (limestone, essentially) to one part AN, so you could literally alternate train cars of synthetic limestone with train car loads of AN.

Bulk storage is more problematic.

A pretty good analogy is forest fires. One tree chopped into segments and catches fire is a pretty cool bonfire or camp fire which is no big deal for outdoorsmen who intelligently plan ahead. You can do that a million nights in a row and nothing bad will happen. One million trees in close proximity and if one catches fire the whole forest burns down in one night, which is a huge problem.
It's not intended to be a record of fact. It's in the "Critics Notebook", which means it is an opinion piece (as is all criticism; do you expect a review of, say, a movie to be an entirely factual document with no opinion?)
I found this to be true before having kids. The waste was so high it pushed the cost up for groceries. After increasing the number of mouths I find delivery to be much higher.
I originally meant "people were already doing this in the lab 19 years ago", but you are right that that does not mean CPUs "in the wild" actually do this. I originally learned about it from a blog post where someone uncapped chips to make photographs of the die and made an offhand comment about the branch prediction having neural nets.

I did some more searching and found an article at https://acad.ro/sectii2002/proceedings/doc2019-2/12-Vintan.p... which describes Samsung Galaxy S7 phones having these type of branch predictors as far back as 2016 and AMD CPUs having perceptron based branch predictors as far back as 2011. It was not officially known if Intel also uses neural networks in their chips, but the author of that paper "strongly believes" it does and I concur that it's unlikely they don't given that Samsung, Oracle, IBM, ARM and AMD all seem to use them.
go-jira [1] is quite useful for avoiding Atlassian's UI.

[1]: https://github.com/go-jira/jira
Congress Considers National Right-to-Repair Legislation for Medical Equipment
“Guys, 70 years have gone by! The current regime of Iran was not chosen by the CIA."

Indeed, it was more of a MI6 job https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/02/mi6-the-coup-i...
The focus on suicide methods feels of questionable utility, surely the suicide motivations are where it's at.
The Twilight of The New York Times would be a better title. Agreed that this is the epitome of why many have lost respect for the company. This piece feels like a medium "article"
>There is a difference between the legal possibility of doing so, and the practical possibility.

Yes, because the existing employer has actually created a lot of value by investing their capital in the business, because providing investment is actually incredibly valuable
How to do more with fewer servers
Yup! That's correct, here's a demonstration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEoYwyHddLc

Explaining why it works is an exercise in number theory. For example, card 1 stays in place; card 2 goes to position 3, then 5, then 9, then 17, ... In short, the reason why it works is that 2^8 - 1 is divisible by 52 - 1.
In a philosophical point, aren't all suicides are euthanasia?

People suicide because they are suffering and they do not see any other way out to end the suffering.

Edit: I know that there are problems that can be fixed and problems that can not, but in their perspective, nothing works.
There is an implementation of Judy arrays in Rust: https://github.com/adevore/rudy Not sure how complete / usable it is.
A 2020 Guide to Semantic Segmentation
CMU Embedded System Lecture Notes (and Videos)
What a neat way of thinking about (dimension a, dimension b, value) tuples.

Does anyone know of any library to visualise data this way?
> I feel that this writing system is best used to facilitate inter-cultural communication

This happens in China

When I used to spend time with a Mandarin speaker, he explained to me that written Chinese is the same throughout the country, but the dialects are often so different that they can't understand each other.

It would be as if all romance languages were written the same way, so that written Italian, Spanish, French, ect, were the same.
Correct, here is a well researched article from 2016. https://thewire.in/tech/the-immaculate-conception-of-relianc...
It isn't journalism: it's opinion.

It's in the Food section [0], and tagged with "Critic's Notebook" anywhere the article is linked. That apparently being one of their blog / opinion lines for food.

It doesn't seem fair to look at modern news conglomerates (which typically combine news and opinion) and complain that the non-news content bismirches the journalism.

That content typically funds the journalism, and is the only reason the latter still exists.

A fair shot would be saying "I do not feel like this article is appropriately declared as opinion." Which, maybe. But I think that's debatable, and the NYT certainly differentiates a helluva lot better than Fox News and MSNBC.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/section/food
Clover was stable. OpenCore isn't. It'll take a few years yet before it gets to the same level of ease of use and stability Clover achieved.

Source: I installed Catalina via OpenCore on a new machine last weekend. It's very similar to installing Arch Linux for the first time.
I'm not sure how you'd distinguish them, particularly in a consistent way for different countries.
Amazing work of art, bravo.
Since suicides can often be impulsive and not premeditated, if you can reduce the access to the method, you can reduce the number suicides.
I've been looking for any updates on covid19 and suicide. This lancet article is from April.

Gunnell, D., Appleby, L., Arensman, E., Hawton, K., John, A., Kapur, N., ... & Chan, L. F. (2020). Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet Psychiatry, 7(6), 468-471.
I think as more and more people launch their own protest movements, they will become less and less noticed. When everyone is accused of racism/sexism/being mean it completely loses its sting. A few years ago I judged people accused of racism as lacking, now I assume it's likely a bitter opponent or a disgruntled employee until evidence is provided
The BBC is a shadow of its former self unfortunately
Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin
I think that this might be exploring the analogy's breaking point.

It can be quite easy to draw a clean line between theoreticians and implementors in other fields. Biologists and veterinarians, physicists and engineers, etc. But who was the last major computer science theoretician who wasn't also a skilled programmer or system architect (or both)? Alonzo Church?
> others cooking for you as a non-luxury item

Interestingly, this sounds more like a regression, since in most urban but poor countries it's already cheaper to eat out than prepare food yourself. This comes down to the cost of labor: a restaurant can buy in bulk cheaper than you can and prepare in batches larger than you can, so they'll be cheaper than you as long as their labor cost doesn't obliterate the advantage. In Europe or Australia it does, so eating out is a luxury; in India or China it does not.

Obviously this is a generalization, there are countries that buck the trend (eg Japan) and some meals that are still cheaper to DIY. But I don't think we'll get to techno-utopia here until robotic food preparation goes from gimmick to mass market, and we're still a long way off.
Not a naive question: why would Canada (state) need to authorize patients to consume anything?

I get that substances are regulated but we already can get legal access to substances that we shouldn't consume too much or at all (ie. spirits, tobacco, sugar, salt, bleach...) so, why would dying patients (or anyone, really) not be allowed to consume regulated mushrooms?

I get that the real problem noted in this article is not on the right of the patient to consume, but the access to it - anyone distributing mushrooms to those patients need legal coverage to do so.

Still, I find it really hard to understand why (most, yet, not all) societies are so obsessed in regulating the access and consumptions of certains things while vast majority of unregulated things can and are as deadly as those regulated.
There are also things like TRESOR [1] which keep all encryption keys inside the CPU. I'm not sure what the current state of the art is.

There are so many possible evil maid attacks that I think it would be useful to add a pysical layer, just in case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRESOR
You might give https://pitchy.ninja/game a try for practicing vocals.
"The frugal economy" is a weird title for it, they are basically advocating abolishing shareholders and the whole equity system because it keeps failing us repeatedly.

I lost count of how many months its been since I paid my mortgage, just waiting for the deputies to show up now and make me officially homeless. I guess I'm a squatter now? The word "frugal" is just not in my vocabulary any more.
I would still expect proper evidence. This is equivalent of an article saying "The End of Goldendoodles" with the evidence being that my neighbors dog died. We should expect more from an institution that claims to be more
What's interesting is that circle is smaller than it was 4 years ago.
Or perhaps stop using Excel?
Its hygroscopic, stored next to the water, in a poor country. It was likely unsellable within weeks. Or, to be blunt, every undamaged package was probably already sold within weeks. Once the remainder amalgamates into a giant lump, its an environmental remediation problem that'll cost money, not a make money fast sales scam. That's the whole point of why historically explosives were used to crack chunks apart.
This x1000.

Visa/MasterCard/amex are a huge tax on society, and they won by anti-competitive processes. Society wins very little by a 2-3% tax on all transactions.

I think the problems with credit card for businesses in the US are almost solely cost. There are other minor issues, but until Stripe works to bust up the interchange, they really aren't working on the true problem with payments.

(Fraud is a distant #2 issue for most merchants and for most people I've chatted with Stripe's radar is more expensive than the fraud itself).
Countries where euthanasia is legal have strict frameworks surrounding the procedure - being signed off by multiple doctors in advance, for example.
Hackintosh: because Apple doesn't offer a $1000 Mac Pro.
Charlie Trotter got angry he wasn't named the meanest man in Chicago one year (Michael Jordan was #1).

He ran an outstanding restaurant (three Michelin stars), but was a tyrant in the kitchen. Tons of cooks who worked in his kitchen vowed to open their own restaurants, but run them with a less firm hand.

If he were alive today (he passed in 2013) I wonder if his chefs would unionize.
I’m sure you are just trying to share a memory of interacting with an illustrious colleague here - and my sympathies go to you as it’s always a shock to learn of the passing of someone you worked with.

But I think you maybe need to work on how you present this anecdote - as it is, it reads like you tried to mansplain her own research to a Turing Award winner. I hope you approached with more humility than this telling suggests?

Also, you should be aware that contextualizing professional women in terms of who their husband is or what his credentials are has long been used to underplay women’s individual achievements. Again, I don’t think that’s your intent, but you could consider whether, in the case of talking about Jacob Schwartz, you would have been moved to drop in the detail of who he was married to?
I think another question is that why isn't there a viable alternative to excel for this particular use case?

Is there, perhaps, a market for niche spreadsheet applications that serve one particular market?
>> They can never be appeased

And if you do then appease them, you'll face an equal but opposite backlash for appeasing them. If America's not headed for a civil war, it's definitely headed for a society where red people patronize red businesses, blue people patronize blue businesses, and everything else is a people boycotting or third-parties not caring to play.
In the Netherlands it would be easy, because it is legal. There is a registration process.

Euthanasia involves other people in the planning. Suicide does not.
Some people like animations. Some people like tooltips. Some people like figuring out the UI without instruction.

Different people prefer different things and there is no objective right answer.
Why in the world is excel the application of choice? Last time I tried to use it (for much less complicated things than genetics), it choked and became unusable when the filesize exceeded about 6MB. I have yet to encounter a spreadsheet oriented task that isn't better implemented in gnumeric. Maybe we should also shorten all publications so adobe reader can display them without crashing?
> What is Jio, and why are tech’s biggest players suddenly obsessed with it?

"What is Jio" isn't mentioned until the middle of the article.

Short answer, it's currently the most popular wireless provider in India; and it provides much more services.
Big BROTHER. Custom foiled deck inspired by George Orwell novel “1984”
I saw this solved with a USB stick on a keychain and the computer shuts down when the stick is removed. Does anybody still have the link?

Ah. Found it:
https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2020/01/02/buskill-laptop-k...
+1 this request!

If consumers feel the credit card fees more directly, they will likely revolt.
Own It
I've spent a lot of time suicidal. I'm happy to see this discussion recognizing that people are suicidal because they are suffering.

But suicide is often a rash decision because you are currently miserable and if you knew that you wouldn't be miserable tomorrow morning, you probably wouldn't do it. In contrast, euthansia is a more logically sound decision that "This is not going to get better and I'm not interested in enduring where it goes from here."

I know there's a difference because I've been through experiences where I was physically miserable but clear-headed and rational and realized this was a short-term thing that would soon resolve, but was physically miserable enough that if I had not been absolutely certain it would resolve within a matter of hours, I would have been suicidal. I have also been mentally screwed up at times and lacked that kind of clear thinking.

It's hard to effectively articulate the difference, but when I'm not rational, I can tell my adult sons and let them know it's not safe to leave me alone today. (It's been a while since I've had such an incident. Being back in housing has been good for both my general level of suffering and my mental stability.)
The one I got "Couldn't you do it in Wordpress faster?"
The thing I take away from comparaison of suicide rates between countries is, to put it bluntly, some cultures suck. Or, more specifically, some cultures are pretty awful for the people actually living in them.

South Korea has a strong economy, is conquering the entertainment world, and is a place of technological marvels. They also have 5% of deaths by suicide, compared to Greece with 0.5%, whose economy collapsed a decade ago. Not to mention SK has the lowest birthrates in the world.

I feel strongly we need policy makers to move away from GDP growth as the primary marker of national health.
I agree. It took me .335 seconds to realize what it was. We need more UX designers I guess.
I think we should buy either windows or apple based computers instead of chromebooks because the former allows us to install Firefox while the latter does not allow that. I tried Firefox recently and I really liked it.
Motivation is harder to categorize and collect. It also assumes someone in investigating the root cause and recording it.
Fast proxy to expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet
Excel’s problem is it destroys the original keystrokes.

Anyone know why? It makes little sense to me.
QEMU should move from C to Rust
See pictures from the American midwest where after a tornado sometimes the only thing left standing is water towers and grain silos.

Something weird aerodynamically about upright tubes and vortex shedding or something like that.
> Finally, some might say; just buy a Mac Pro! Well, I cannot motivate $6000 Just because I want to game every now and then.. :)

Depending on how much gaming computer you need for the games you want to play, it sounds like the better solution is to just build a gaming computer that runs Windows. That's my setup - a Linux desktop machine (small form factor, running on a machine from two generations ago, it's sufficient for the things that I need to do locally, and if I need to spin off a big compile I have cloud resources to do that) and a six month old gaming rig that runs Windows.
Time to Upgrade Your Monitor https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23551983
The graph I think you're pointing to is about "suicide by firearm", not "suicide rates" in general.

Of course with fewer guns people will choose other methods.
Talking to my colleagues who are using Airpods (also non-Pro), the quality sounds terrible. Almost like they're talking over a phone line. This is paired to a ~2016 MB Pro though, so perhaps the older BT chipset makes a difference.
I would much prefer using emails too. My mails are usually to some reseller about specific unmentioned details of the product - like what is the type of power socket, is there a certain feature present in that specific model etc. Anything that is not easily searchable. I assume that regular call operators who probably also read emails don't have an easy answer and just ignore mails altogether.
This reminds me of the orbitouch, which is a keyless keyboard for people with disabilities. It works by having one stick chose a subset of letters, and the other to letter within that subset. https://orbitouch.com/
Not OP- but I do a lot of work with containers and orchestration- and being on a Unix filesystem with native POSIX shell is very helpful
Wish we could get the black bar up.
Pieces have the same movement rules as normal chess. A knight for instance moves 3 spaces along one axis, and 1 space along another axis. If you time travel you're essentially sacrificing one of those spatial moves for a temporal move. For example 2 spaces back in time and 1 forward. So while it's not entirely giving up a move it's fairly close, especially for pieces that only move along a single axis at a time.
That is the default behavior. Looks like you changed something in the settings.

Open the extension, click on 'Personal' and deselect 'Limit to designated sites'

PS: You can ctrl+click on the 'plus' button on the tab bar to open a new tab in the current container.
Yes I absolutely agree. While I think it's generally good when luxuries become widespread, this isn't so good if just means some sort of mass middle class is exploiting some underclass. And we must always be vigilant for low labor costs being laundered as some sort of efficient tech (e.g. Uber in suburbs/rural is just inherently inefficient). It's a cruel irony as-under priced labor is the bellwether for inefficiency.

That said, I hope there's something between now and full italicization that can be economically while paying the few remaining chefs well. Cities should absolutely price-control the shit out of these cloud kitchens since they will be so dependent on the public good that is efficient land use.
Ahhh, neat!
Volts, Amps and Watts
Not for theoretical defensive tactical use in Korea / Germany / Israel / similar
Untitled Goose Game ditches plastic for its eco-friendly game cases
The Data Market Yield
I think there should be legal medical euthanasia/suicide, treated as the same thing (same cause of death) whether it is done with the patient's active participation or done to comply with their previously legally established wish to be killed under certain circumstances.

Suicide done outside this process should be treated differently.
>>> Spoiler: it is unlikely that more maintainers or even money is really what most developers need.

So
what is it ? :-)
Grain silos are actually built to withstand explosions. I am not an expert but I was explained as a kid that stored grain can create static electricity discharges that can result in self-ignition.
Is it of questionable utility?

I don't think it's a waste to look at the data and see if certain methods of suicide really stand out. It doesn't seem unreasonable to see if (this is a gross way to phrase it but here we go) easy and efficient methods of suicide are associated with more suicides. My gut instinct would say that having easy access to handguns would be associated with more suicides, as it's (relatively) more reliable than an intentional drug overdose.

Does the data here reflect that? I am not a statistician, but what's shown actually makes me question my priors. The US has a huge difference in suicide by gun rates, but the overall suicide rate isn't all that different from European countries. And, this actually surprised me, the male-to-female suicide ratio in the US isn't much different than other countries, which really makes me question my prior that "guys have handguns and thus have an easier way to commit suicide".
Disclaimer: I do not intend the following as a criticism.

Can somebody explain why these Scratch-like GUI programming efforts always seem to invent their own language? Why not build ASTs of a "real language" with such a system, and take advantage of its ecosystem? Is there some reason why implementing drag-and-drop blocks is, at the very least, synergistic with building an entirely new VM? It seems to me that you should be able to build Lisp or Python very easily, and hence bridge the gap to "real programming".
Thanks for mentioning "Airstrip One" (1). It's indeed always worth to mentally compare the parts of his Oceania with Five Eyes (2). The "airstrip" is, I believe, a reference to the island's role in the bombing operations of WW II (3) which would have been a direct association to the reader reading the novel in 1948. Also thanks for mentioning Eleanor Dulles (4) I haven't read about her before.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nations_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Fou...

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World...

4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Lansing_Dulles
True, but the scale there was totally different. Measured in tons of TNT, not kilotons.
Dylan is another example of a Lisp with Algol syntax.
I am happy to see that this isn't another Stamets hand waving woo generator article on fungi. This is well written and interesting.

>Our lives take place in the space that decomposition leaves behind.

Great quote