skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't stand and type for long, as soon as I start to zone into it my legs want to go off and do their own thing and it totally messes me up. But, turns out most of my day is reading text, reading code, meeting, debugging, etc and not nearly as much typing as I would have guessed otherwise. It's easy to find a few hours that I really don't need to be sitting.

With a sit/stand desk you can start by standing up for meetings, phone calls, etc, that don't really require typing at all and then see what else you can do standing.
You can see BLIS on Intel's home turf at https://github.com/flame/blis/blob/master/docs/Performance.m... (52-core SKX) and compare with OpenBLAS on 32-core Zen1. (Multithreaded BLAS isn't typically used in HPC, where the parallelism is elsewhere.)
Thanks a lot, much appreciated !

I was browsing though the different pillow/cushion and was a bit worried at first by the $150 zafu/zabuton but it looks like there are ~$50 ones so I can give it a try.
The only significant facility I can think of in this area is the IBM Almaden Research Lab. It and another IBM office are very specifically in that area, which is an odd connection. Can't say whether their electrical service is provided by that substation, but they are geographically very close.

https://goo.gl/maps/i7NWjxfomyXvZCBY9
I think, the main benefit of FP is alsoits main problem.

Patterns like the monad are so abstract, that ob its own nobody knows what to do with it, but it makes them so very powerful.

OOP patterns, on the other hand, come from a more inductive source. They are more concrete, but also not as powerful. Easier to grasp, but less concise.

We need a step (or more) between the definition of FP concepts and their application, to make all this more approachable for the average programmer.
Film Crew Spent 3 Years in Remote Balkan Hamlet. Will They Ever Leave?
>the current "Bill Gates invented coronavirus" conspiracy nonsense

I haven't heard that particular conspiracy yet. This editorial does however add additional context to the fawning coverage that Gates has gotten recently as a supposed selfless, benevolent philanthropist and opinion leader during the pandemic.
> If you want to miniaturize electronics you need to miniaturize the inductors used in power conversion

Hasn't that problem mostly been solved already with switch mode power supplies that are pretty small.

With most personal electronics being battery powered these days I'm curious where you see a real need for further reduction in the size of power converters. In other words what technologies or devices are currently limited by the size of their power converters ?
I lived in KSA for about 2 months doing post delivery services on a project at the client's office. As I started befriending some of the personnel, I found one of them had a daughter from his first wife. He was very angry at her and blamed her for the child, basically saying that she had become pregnant on purpose so that he would have to cancel his trip to Europe where he was planning on finding his fourth wife. He was the fairer and kinder man of the bunch over there. Most of them were mostly busy making stunts to have some time off at work and look good, not caring at all about work or worst, create problems so as to gain leverage against our company for negociation. They separated the immigrants workers in poor shared offices from the KSA citizens. Offices were also missing drinkable water even thought it was in a capital city (I could see skyscrapers...)...

Ever since that trip, while I hope they'll see some positive change for women's right, I fear the opposite might happen to our countries due to low demographics. I don't believe we are benefiting from a relationship with that country at all, there is not point in even taking time to deal with them.
> Reality is not required to conform to our standards of scientific proof. If we can't observe or manipulate something, there's no way for us to scientifically reason about it. That's tough for a lot of folks to deal with.

The standards of scientific proof are rules to avoid error that we made in the past.

For example with 'Oumuamua, one guy think it is a solar sail, another guy thinks it is made of Hydrogen ice and another one thinks that it is made of very low density dust. We know that two of them are wrong, at least. With a low enough standard, someone can claim that one of the answers is the correct.

For another examples think about low temperature fission or high temperature superconductivity. Well we have strong proof of the later now.
I'd include the addendum that wisdom is holding mutually-exclusive truths at once, and deciding which governs in any particular circumstance.

But I've found the previous to be right, more often than not.

Hope the inspiration helps you get out of your own way. :)
I suppose if you know UI cache of some element will be invalidated this frame you can inject a delay up to expected upper bound in frame time increase it will cause and artificially hold back next frame flip by a variable amount if it takes less than the max expected delay. It could be tricky to get that from the GPU with all the queuing it can potentially do and stuff though.
That looks really fun!
If AWS was "good enough" in all cases, no one would use redis labs solution on AWS.

https://redislabs.com/partner/aws/

as they sell it, obviously some organizations are buying it, so those orgs must find the AWS option "not good enough". is it possible that AWS will continue to improve it? yes, but presumably Redis Labs will also continue to improve their solution.
I think this has to be some attempt to "test" the guy to see how he would respond to a company policy that is not only wrong but could have serious legal consequences.
The fundamental question is of "rights". Do we apply 17th century morality and economic models for digital markets? Modern problems need modern solutions. We need to re-define where these "rights" of digital businesses come from.

Comcast invest millions and therefore has a "right" to control internet access, block websites, etc? Comcast "allows" a business to reach millions of customers.

Apple invested millions and therefore has a "right" to block third party payment processors? Apple "allows" a business to reach millions of customers.

Microsoft invested millions in their platform and there has a "right" to block Chrome/Firefox? Microsoft "allows" a business to reach millions of customers.

etc, etc.

Taking 30% of sales of a digital-only product is not morally acceptable to me.
A question I've always had is, how is the decision on how many propellers made? Why 16, and not 4? Or why 1?
See.

“The Southern Strategy”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Dog Whistle Politics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_(politics)
Your conclusion is wrong.

You can live to an old age with common conditions like diabetes, vitamin D deficiency, and subclinical heart issues.

Also, unless you think old age is a curable health issue, shutdowns are still the only way to keep people in that group safe.

> improving diets and removing pollution from the air

How does one improve the diets of billions of people in a few days?

Shutdowns are instant. Major overhauls of civilization are not.
At least in the case of Dear ImGui, things like the current window position and size is widget state that's owned and persisted between frames by the library, otherwise windows wouldn't be moveable or resizeable by the UI user.

Other immediate mode UIs may decide to delegate this "state housekeeping" to the user (that's how rxi's microui works), but IMHO this isn't quite as convenient for the library user, it keeps the library implementation very simple though.
I feel sure that the US military has access to every bit of code at Deep Mind. Although they seem to publish most everything anyway. Just not always with all the code.

That's literally the "killer" application that 100% has obsessed many military planners ever since they saw the Atari playing demos.

And whether people recognize it or not, those are the killer robots. They are built into fighters, defense and planning systems.

Regardless of any objections or how many people sign letters against killer robots, the military strategists have no choice but to include the most sophisticated software available.

Now I assume that there is some "failsafe" in most of not all operational systems that prevent actions that are not authorized. But it is also necessary to make that authorization fairly vague in some circumstances. And there is quite possibly a way to turn that failsafe off in the case of a war or scenarios where they feel there is no time to wait for the human (which seems guaranteed assuming the other side has AI also).
Life Sciences Observations #25
You can shield the magnetic coupling with materials with high permeability.
Why does the government let a company like Herbalife stay in business?
It's actually more like an abstract class! Even the Maybe monad has some implementation, it's just super simple :)

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.14.0.0/docs/src/G...
I’d like to chime in here. Posture is terribly important. No chair can help fully if there is dis or misalignment (maybe even from previous chairs that gave you bad posture)

It is mentioned in the article briefly, and I feel it is a missed opportunity to discuss it.

I currently use a series of exercises that I designed specifically for combatting the ails of sitting, and it has been a big improvement. The chair i use matters less now.
What is the typical series resistance of this device?
> Also right wing politics in India enjoys a substantial support, especially the Hitler style

Since independence in 1947 Hindu population in Pakistan dwindled from 15% to 2%, in Bangladesh from 22% to 8% whereas in India the Muslim population in India increased from 9% to 14%. This is a result of extensive ethnic cleansing of Hindus. This was also witnessed in Kashmir where 350,000 Kashmiri Hindus were forced to leave their homeland. It's actually Hindus who bore the brunt of Hitler style genocide.

I'll share a personal story. My ancestors were originally from East Bengal, today's Bangladesh. They were forced to leave in 1947 due to violence by Muslims. My granduncle was killed by them. An aunt had 11 members of her family burnt alive. The area I grew up in was extensively populated by Hindu refugees from East Bengal. All those families had similar stories to tell. So it's galling to me when you accuse Hindus of Hitler style tactics when they're the real victims of it.
Because his skills are valued higher than his cost.
Thanks a lot for the extra details!
This kind of complex-system-optimization problem seems ripe for improvement via machine-learning. Cases where 1) precisely modeling the outcome is totally intractable, and 2) you really just need to get "close enough" to get good results. It also helps that this case is predictive in nature (so it's easy to go back and measure accuracy) and has an enormous set of available training data (all traffic happening everywhere across the country).

It feels very similar in spirit to that story about Google reducing data center energy use by 40% via ML optimization: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/deepmind-ai-reduces-google...

More broadly I've started wondering if there's a huge opportunity to apply software to civil improvement. Everything from detecting patterns of corruption, to aggregating data that can inform voters, to identifying sources of inefficient spending. I don't put much stock in things like digital voting/governance, but in the area of "data crunching and presentation" I think there's a lot that could be done.
> That is entirely reasonable and correct, but it's also really just saying "suck it up".

You bet it is. And the sooner you realize that most of life is this way the better off you will be.
The terror angle is that someone tried to disrupt a major component of the electrical grid. It’s hard to imagine a motive for such an attack that doesn’t involve trying to cause major panic to a community. That’s definitely qualifiable as terrorism.

Just because they didn’t attempt again (that we know of) doesn’t mean that they weren’t terrorists to begin with. Also noted in the article, investigators later believed it to be an inside job. This goes into wild speculation, but if the attackers worked at DHS, they may have known how close an investigation came to revealing them and opted not to try again. We’ll probably never know why though.
You would rather commute and sit in office as your social activity instead of doing sports/dance/art at your own leisure?
It would be useful to have lower profile inductors. It's difficult to get inductors less than 1mm high for use with low voltage boost/buck converters. ICs and other passive components can usually sit significantly less high above the board.
That's a problem. You don't want anyone anywhere near those things on takeoff and landing. Which is a problem if they use them for package delivery. However, the eHang really does fly, it really does carry people, and it works well enough they sent a reporter for the SCMP up in it. Closest thing to a flying car so far.
Youtube Music, however, has the opposite problem. It always tries to load the online version, regardless of whether I have downloaded the file already. Even if I specifically clicked a file in the downloaded list, it will still try the online version when the next song begins.

When I have flaky connections, I get so many pauses (of songs I have downloaded) that I just deleted the app alltogether.
On a similar register, multiple French power plants were scouted by unidentified drones in the past 5 years.
Transformers are an fragile point of failure of an entire country infrastructure. I hope security has improved since then.
Generally:

- Quick startup
- Reasonable RAM usage
- Well-designed keyboard navigation
- Conveniently launches from the commandline
How is the the SQS pattern bidirectional?
> Facebook said that Apple cited an App Store rule that bars developers from showing “irrelevant” information to users.

This is incredibly draconian.

I know it's Apple's platform but when ¼ of Earth uses that platform, letting one company have that much power and control seems dangerous.
Surprisingly fun. Double-click or press space to clear the image.

Also, the character graphics in the comments alone are amazing.
"Remote Code Execution" means the attacker can Execute Code Remotely, right? I guess you could classify the virtual machine as a (virtually) separate machine from the physical one, so that it's not a RCE on the machine you actually want to attack, but it's clearly executing code on some machine that the remote attacker isn't supposed to be able to execute code on.
Jobs could and did program. He couldn't do what Woz could, though. Nobody could. And nobody could create or sell a vision like Jobs. Apple was a great division of labor.

> What he didn't tell him -- and what Wozniak didn't find out until several years later -- was that Jobs also pocketed a bonus somewhere in the neighborhood of $5,000.

That part is crappy for sure.
Totally agree. Bought a second-handed Herman Miller (though from eBay) some time ago, and that's the best purchase of the past few years of my life.
You're a bit lucky because the back is very likely to have pain in sedentary office workers. I think the standing and running are both key, yes, movement and change are key to keeping our fluidic bodies healthy.

Then again, you are lucky because all manner of injuries, genetic weakness, and former life conditions have not all occurred, thus gotten you to this healthy spot. For instance, car or sporting accidents or falls, these could all lead to chronic weakness in the body, and luck determines their occurence.
I love life. I'm 37.

Being alive in itself is truly remarkable. I've made great friends. I've met people who ended up disappointing me greatly. I've married a smart, beautiful, ambitious woman twelve years ago. We've went through exhilarating ups and soulcrushing downs.

I've worked for a startup, which almost went under several times. I've worked for a corporate thresher which sucked life right out of me.

I've worked on niche projects in my spare time, which so far have amounted to nothing.

I've had panic attacks. I've experienced months of mania and perceived greatness.

Life is a present which keeps on giving. I'm grateful. Accomplishments are a matter of perception, experience in itself is utterly exhilarating to me.

I love life. I'm 37.
Are those scenarios more or less likely than AWS lowering prices and in the future not kicking you off.

If it takes less effort and time to build something with proprietary technology surely that is a benefit? You can then assess whether removing that dependency improves your position.
It's plain and simple and pretty nice. I like that I can paste in an image from the clipboard.

I was also excited to see indent and unindent buttons, but they don't seem to do anything. Coming from OneNote, I use indentation all the time to organize my notes, and basically none of the other note taking apps around these days offer it. Markdown doesn't support it as far as I can tell.

I also learned abruptly that if you don't save a once-saved note before leaving the page, your most recent changes will be wiped out. It reloads the saved copy when you return to the page. If the note has never been saved, it doesn't reload it on return, leaving the existing note still available.

Also, one needs to keep track of the URL given when saving before going to a new note because the previous URL is no longer shown. I hit the back button and got it back.

Does this save to local storage? Any plans to export a note?
Hey Dan, didn't mean to violate the rules. To be clear, my comment was intended to be about his argument and it's lack of rigour.
Also, his bio links his twitter, so I thought that made it within bounds. But yeah, that was a bit harsh, sorry.
Some people complain about excessive brightness being hard on their eyes. They likely have their monitor brightness set too high.

This, absolutely! Monitors usually come with an eye-searingly-bright default that's meant to look good in a showroom and wear out the backlight more quickly, not at all a good brightness/contrast for normal use. I set my monitors to 0 when they were new, and that was already very bright; now, many years later, they've gone up to 20-40 to compensate for backlight degradation, but are otherwise still more than bright enough.
Another thing that is often missed is that we think we “understand” something when in fact we just got used to it. Even such simple concept as “number” would probably be very difficult to explain to someone (who either doesn’t know what a number is or wishes to “really understand” it).
Reducing blackness of text to color is a mistake. Effective perceived contrast really depends on weight, size, tracking and leading. Same color looks darker with heavier font and less contrasty with thinner type set more speciously. Compare body text in Swift docs in Safari (uses macOS system font stack so may look differently on other systems) and Django docs for an example.
If you have ever worked at a large company, the inefficiencies are explicitly obvious, built into the culture and structure of the company.

Starting from 0, valuing employee opinion, and removing red tape saves countless employee hours and makes good people stay.
It will never work, because the computer will never be able to infer what I want. I might be looking for the movie, then five minutes later be looking for information about layer masks in Gimp. You're suggesting I should be able to type "mask" in both cases and, somehow, Google should figure out what I'm really looking for. I don't want them to even try. I can type one or two additional keywords:

mask movie
mask gimp

See? It's easy, and it already works.
You run into the natural monopoly of airspace instead.

There's more room up there, but owners of the land beneath and users of other aircraft alike have a vested interest in the skies not being a free-for-all, and sure enough it's government agencies stepping into the air traffic control and regulation breach.
We need more self hosted email and less centralized control.

This is true, from both sides of the equation. The biggest single problem with email today, IME at least, is the number of major mail providers who are acting as gatekeepers for their users and doing a bad job of it. In particular, they block way too much legitimate mail, and often do it silently, so the sender is not even aware of the problem or able to contact them about getting it fixed.

Then the sender of the missing mail gets the customer support requests about the missing password reset emails, or the complaints that someone didn't know they were still subscribed despite the receipt emails being sent for each payment, or...

At this point, there really ought to be a blacklist for unreliable mail services on the receiving side analogous to the spam blacklists, so businesses can warn their users if given an address on a bad service and invite them to choose another.
You seem to not understand the sendgrid service at all. They aren't selling SMTP service, they are selling deliverability (along with tracking and metrics)

You seem to not understand the actual problem at all if you think you will be able to successfully deliver email sent directly from a local sendmail client on any random IP that lets you connect over port 25. No major email provider will accept your email coming from a residential IP.
Most people owning commercial property dont give a fuuu. Unleased stores are sitting on NY market for 5-7 years and prices keep going up. It will all just sit idle as parked capital, and keep appreciating in value.
This has always puzzled me. As a stockholder what is the use of a stock that never pays dividends? What does ownership of a bussiness mean when you have no share of its profits?
> Hasn't that problem mostly been solved already with switch mode power supplies that are pretty small.

I waste a ton of board space with power supplies. Not everything is personal electronics with custom ICs* in the volume of an iPhone. So this means on my current design there's power supplies for 1v, 1v8, 2v5, 3v3, ~4v, 5v. Each of these the biggest component is the inductor.

I've sometimes joked, I make power supplies with a computer attached.

Edit: since the volume is low we use off the shelf parts which means we tend to end up with a variety of voltage requirements. And yes...reduction of rails is something that's part of components selection, alas....
Large banks in the US.
Haha! It’s helpful regardless for non-space projects. For e.g. I made “rave skates” (colour shifting LEDs on ice skates) and the connections on it have to be robust to abrupt movements and forces.