skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol - fair. I might have been too premature in antcipating its failure :P

Thought it made a good point, but was too verbose in doing so.
It's not so easy to find a unicode transcription, but I would think that would be the first step in 2020. There is some info here [1] about such a transcription but it does not feel "definitive". Does anyone know if there is a copy paste-able transcription of the manuscript anywhere?

When linear B was decoded the first thing many researchers did was to transcribe every word they could get their hands on, then sort by beginnings and endings of words [2]. I suppose that is what the poster has done since they say there are no inflected word endings, but perhaps a cipher hides these, or they do not have enough data?

[1]: http://www.turkicresearch.com
[2]: https://medium.com/@ilyakavalerov/greek-before-homer-how-lin...
The EU requires the module to be powered off except in an emergency. So it's not in contact with cell towers all the time, except when it needs to make an emergency call. It's easy enough to detect the transmissions with simple hardware.
e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0310-1

The IPCC report is rather out of date at this point.

There's a number of positive feedback mechanisms such as cloud cover and methane clathrates that are still poorly constrained and could credibly lead to a rise like that. It's not the most likely scenario, on the high end of current projections, but it should be planned for.

You buy fire insurance for your house even if you don't think it will catch on fire. I wear a seatbelt even though the vast majority of times I'm in a car, I don't get in a crash. We rationally prepare for unlikely but severe events all the time. With climate change, people have this blind spot with thinking about risk.

Here, it's the planet and our civilization. We should take existential threats very, very seriously.
Don't people engineer new biomes pretty frequently? It seems pretty defeatist to look at a world where we regularly transform dirt fields into grassy plains into food and think that we'll never be able to sustain ourselves if the climate changes.
It's a tad ironic (to me) because unless you max out the scaling of the display, none of the MacBook displays have an effective resolution >= 1920x1080. Apple has been defaulting to a fractional scaling the past few years rather than true Retina which is 200% scaling, but even then it falls short[0].

However, 200% scaling is crisp and I can appreciate it. I just don't like losing all that real estate. And the fractional options on MacBooks aren't bad, but I can see text fuzzing out when it's not on the real Retina resolution. So when I'm running without an external display I do bite the bullet and deal with the lower resolution because otherwise I can feel my eyes straining.

[0]

Model | Physical | Max | Default | Retina
16" | 3072x1920 | 2048x1280 | 1792x1120 | 1536x960
15" | 2880x1800 | 1920x1200 | 1680x1050 | 1440x900
13" | 2560x1600 | 1680x1050 | 1440x900 | 1280x800
One of the biggest cinematographic disappointments I’ve ever witnessed.

Harrison Ford’s involvement in the movie was tragic. He acted lazily, his character had very little to add to the storyline. Inexplicably he was into Elvis can you imagine your grand children, when old, being huge Elvis fans? It was all so lazy.

The only saving grace was the concept that creation of life is a continuous, inescapable circle, that creates a hierarchy alongside the risk of oppression and servitude.

God created men, men is subservient and inferior. Men create replicants, same thing. Now replicants have “holograms”...
I've seen this happen in the office too after some stressful or particularly frustrating events at the office! Everyone has a "meeting" scheduled in the unused old conference room in the basement with beverages provided...
That is fixed with the Gathering Storm expansion. Warmonger Penalties are replaced with Grievances, which each civ tracks individually against each other civ. So long as you have more Grievances against a given civ than they do against you, other civs do not care what you do. It makes fighting defensive/retributive wars much easier. I think it works pretty well overall.
It is important to note that it is 50% performance improvement per watt, not absolute performance.
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First US Small Nuclear Reactor Design Approved
> their code has been built on it for forever, and there's a big advantage to having your dev machines running the same architecture as your cloud production machines

Is that really so? Are remote development and emulation not sufficiently advanced yet?

Super hot paths might be x86 optimized, but how much does that really matter? I'd think at the scales of the big providers nothing matters more than performance/power use and performance/price.
> The mere fact that a person’s likeness is used in connection with a commercial product or service does not violate the statute

Nope even your own source confirms it. You can publish a photo taken in public for commercial purposes without permission - the only exception listed there is if your present it in such a way that it appears as an endorsement. Then you need permission (for the endorsement). In that case though it isn’t the photo that is the problem it is the false endorsement (which is illegal no matter what the medium, photo, words etc).
The last time I owned an AMD video card was more than a decade ago. At the time their video card drivers needed work and could blue screen your box. There was a lot of back and forth on the internet about which driver version to load to get the most stable experience.

Fast forward to 2020 and the perception about AMD's video driver quality seems to be in a similar place: https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/radeon-big-navi-driver-issues-f.... This may just be confirmation bias since there are also articles refuting that AMD still has driver issues.

On the gripping hand AMD themselves apparently acknowledge they have issues and are trying to address them . https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-drivers-update-downloa...
> Increased speeds mean people use more internet, not less.

Do you have reports that show this? I've read a recent isp report that show as people moved to gigabit fiber, their usage didn't go up as had been feared. The report showed that beyond a certain number, something like 100mb/s, usage no longer went up as bandwidth increased. Additionally, infrastructure costs went significantly down for the ISP showing that moving to fiber everywhere makes good financial sense for them.

This isn't surprising at all. We see this in computing as well. When designing clusters, other network specs such a latency and jitter become the bottleneck above certain speeds, depending on the application.
If you were sending or receiving private keys via email then you were doing it wrong. CSRs and certificates do not contain private keys.
If you decide to dismiss a position by saying that it chose the wrong definition, you're not contributing anything useful. "Pure" functional programming is not more functional programming than "Functional programming", the adjective specializes it and makes it more narrow. I don't really care what a wiki article says. I can run a survey of my colleagues if you want?

As for calling me a junior, well, you don't know how much experience I have, do you? It's probably more than you, though. I've used and participated in the development of functional programming languages for over a decade at this point.

Unsolicited advice: Sophomoric pedantry isn't a good look.
Org mode is the only reason I use Emacs. Nothing comes close to Org mode. Actually, I'd say that I use Org mode, and I use Emacs only incidentally because Org mode requires it.

Because I used Org mode, for awhile I tried to switch my other text editing to Emacs. But without a good mode, it's not worth using Emacs. I do all my other text editing in Vim.
I think the GDPR would make an opt-out requirement mandatory. Still you can always physically disconnect the module and likely there will be an aftermarket solution to disable whatever warning lights come on.
Goodhart's law is eternal.
Is October 8th really a month after Nvidia is shipping?

I'm not sure how many units Nvidia is really going to move before then...
Don't forget the mass surveillance of his old job. Even if he didn't lie, you might want to think of hiring him for your cloud services.
I think it works well enough for me I have my daily count set to 10. So I’m really trying to prevent those days where I’m mindlessly checking it throughout the day.
Matte screen protectors are cheap and look great.
The only solution to is to live in harmony with more animals. People think wild animals can't be domesticated, but they are wrong. Living in the wild makes any animal wild, including humans, but raised from birth, generations of animals can learn to cohabit with humans. We could even train the more intelligence animals to assist us. Imagine local monkeys trained to collect trash and recyclables, rewarded with food to bring bottles and cans to a local depository.
That still doesn't look very usable, as someone who designed a board, I don't know what the milling and drilling diameters are for. I know about track size, track clearance, minimum via diameter, etc.

The way they have it, I need to know about how PCBs are fabricated to read it accurately.
I swear I remember reading this somewhere in the Go docs as well but only found it in the FAQ:

https://golang.org/doc/faq#get_version

I think this is a reasonable enough approach. You see it in Debian for dependencies so I'm okay with it for Go. It outlines clearly what your dependencies are.
What do you even do with a GPU on a Mac these days? I guess there are a decent amount of games now, but it seems like it'd be mostly limited to "creative" stuff since CUDA is out of the question.

Imagine how much more dire it's going to get once Apple has ditched Intel. Are they going to continue using third-party, discrete GPUs? You definitely won't be able to use one off the shelf (at least without flashing the card's BIOS)
Along similar lines are some of the Paradox Interactive games, specifically Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron. The premise is that they start with a fairly accurate representation of the world at various critical moments, and from there, some kind of alternative history takes place. The simulation itself is quite interesting (with things like justifications for wars being a major focus), and the game is sprinkled with fascinating real historical events. Many of these play out as they did in real life, but many also have alternatives. One is often led to a Wikipedia rabbit-hole following them.
Finding the Limits of the Socket 8
Mine is here: https://urlaunched.com

As for hiring manager, don't think it is too valuable. But it is not so difficult to build the one on Wix, Squarespace, or Tilda. So, if you are planning to have own blog and brand building it worth it.
Well, Nvidia invented CUDA, it's no surprise that they won't give up their competitive advantage by properly supporting OpenCL or SYCL.

Edit: Also, SYCL should be supported by most things already supporting OpenCL, like Tensorflow for example.
Most businesses need a lot more than dumb storage from their IT systems though...

As soon as you start using the full suite of cloud tools, it's impossible to not give the provider the encryption key...
Data-Driven Insights Help in Better Decision Making
It's a (seemingly) pretty simple matter of keeping track of how long someone looks at a video, and optimizing to show them videos they'll spend a long time looking at. It's pretty powerful too, I spend much more time looking at TikTok than any other digital content aggregator (to the extent I had to delete it from my phone).

They also do some things like sprinkle in random fresh videos, potentially unrelated to your interests, to your "For You" to get exposure to them and a base idea of how long people look at them, which is nice because it potentially boosts small creators to larger audiences.

Further, I'm pretty sure they see what creators are keeping the most people on their platform for the longest, and directly compensate them. This gives rise to a host of "lifestyle accounts" where folks can live doing the things that some chunk of the userbase wants to be doing, and they'll get paid directly from TikTok, rather than needing to source a third party company to sponsor them.

All in all, I think it's fantastically designed -- to the extent I'm not sure it should exist at all.
True. If you start today, you are limited to 3.8j, because IBM won't license z/OS to you. If you already have a license, you can continue using your software on non-IBM hardware, but I think IBM explicitly limits your ability to run z/OS the same way Apple does macOS.

As for the ZDTE, we can call it "virtual IBM hardware" ;-)
Woah. That’s not what happens in the movie. Rachael does indeed say the owl is fake. However she has no idea she is a replicant. If I remember correctly she’s a “different kind of replicants” more human like because she was given pre-canned memories.
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X-Plane 11.50 Is Here
It's not only that the documentation is quite bad. It's also the rest of go.

Here's what it spews when you specidy a dependency incorrectly

Dependency:

github.com/robfig/cron v3.0.1

go's handling of this:

require github.com/robfig/cron: version "v3.0.1" invalid:
module contains a go.mod file, so major version must be
compatible: should be v0 or v1, not v3

Right. What?

I solved it by looking through this issue that comes at the top of Google Search for it: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/35732
It might be a fun project to go through the movie after its release and bleep out every politically charged word or phrase. I really do hate this reductionism.
This study seems to answer the question of 'who would the team select as a leader', but in reality project leadership at companies is rarely a democracy.

People move jobs a lot in the tech industry, so as a result senior roles are often filled externally. It helps to have a recommendation, but roles are rarely filled by asking the team who they would most like to work with an approaching them. Normally companies advertise roles and try to use some kind of standardized process. So CV writing and interview technique are critical.

Promotions often happen because people apply for the role up when it is advertised competitively. My observation is that people succeed at this by focusing on performing against their current objectives, not being a problem, requesting training, and picking up the tasks relevant to their current role that will be on the job description for the next one up. That next role up might be in another team so your own teams favor matters less. The main thing is not to have been a problem to management and to present yourself well during the application process.

I think external upwards moves are more likely to be powered by skill at believable exaggeration, and internal promotions by rules compliance and consistent ambition driven box ticking.

Finally, some people get promoted because management need someone they trust to do that job now, at least temporarily. This happens when a new project team is created and someone is told they are in charge of it, or someone quits and their duties are reallocated to an immediate report. These reward competence yes, but such a people keep their winnings or fall back by their actual short term success - if things look shaky management go out externally for a permanent replacement and quietly put them back where they were.

I don't really see any of this changing due to work from home.

It is probably different at high levels of management because these roles seem to be filled more based on relationships.
Japan is a really interesting case study here... I don't quite understand how it got that way but apparently it's lead to an interesting/good market for really custom designed architecture where people get their exact dream home best they can afford because it's not going to have much value when they leave it anyway? https://www.rethinktokyo.com/2018/06/06/depreciate-limited-l...
US official claims pressure to downplay intelligence reports
Bezos’s likely Amazon successor is an executive made in Bezos’s image
> A boss without a clue was easy to dupe and avoid ... A boss that knew what was what would be on your case if you slacked, but also super relaxed if you were producing to expectations.

Very true. We struggled with this at a past company. Most engineers were inherently honest and hard working, but maybe 1 in 5 were constantly playing games to convince their manager that they were working harder than they really were.

Managers who were formerly engineers had no problem spotting this. It was the managers with non-technical backgrounds who struggled to gauge if their employees were really working hard.

My workaround was to coach non-technical managers to pick up clues from the person's peers. If you privately ask 3 random team members to estimate tasks and 1 person constantly gives estimates 10x longer than anyone else, that person should be watched closely for performance issues.

It also helps to group people together to finish tasks, then ask each of them how it went in private direct conversations (your schedules 1:1s). The person's honest peers will give strong hints that another person isn't pulling their weight.

Trust your employees until they prove themselves untrustworthy, but be careful. We had at least one confirmed situation where a remote employee took another full-time job but didn't quit our company. Instead, they worked on doing the bare minimum to keep their manager satisfied so they could collect paychecks until we were forced to fire them. I suspect this play will become more common now that WFH is on the rise.
Looks promising, hope covid19 doesn't kill any chance of the 2nd half of the book being filmed :/
https://archive.vn/F5Qjk
I’ve not tried Habitica. I went with streaks because it is a one off payment
The death of CNAME records in analytics?
I'm pretty excited to see what they'll offer in the 10- to 16-core range for Zen 3 and if they'll hit the magical 5GHz mark.

Anyone else remember the promised 10GHz of the NetBurst? It's nice to see the industry slowly creeping up to that number.
Doesn't that assume that the value of the slots is directly proportional to the price of the product you sell from those slots? That seems like quite a big assumption. For example, I would speculate that having a product shortfall (because you sold your manufacturing capacity) is going to significantly impact your market share and thus long term profitability.
References for my video on nuclear power
> I intend never to buy a laptop with a 1920×1080 screen again

Same here and WOW, it's frustrating. There are so many laptops that would be amazing if it wasn't for their screens. Paradoxically 17" models are almost all crap.
The awareness has meant that I've asked people about how they're going in a non-trivial sense when I otherwise would not have. I suspect RUOK is most effective amongst friends rather than strangers in the street, and that cookies build awareness and encourage people to ask their friends, thus having some impact.
The plodding and limp segment in the ruins of Las Vegas really killed the pace and punch of that whole film. Even assuming there was any point in having Deckard in it all, 15 minutes of that could have easily been cut out with almost no impact to the story.
More data beats smarter algorithms any day, and TikTok gets a lot of data because its videos are so short and interaction rate so high. There are tons of signals it can use as inputs: How much of a video did you let play before swiping next? How many times did you let the video loop? Did you like? Did you comment? Did you like a comment? Did you click through to the profile? Did you view other videos from the profile?
It is a pity that a similarly specced ThinkPad would be at least a thousand dollars more expensive.
I thought this would be the case for me, but after trying it I've been really impressed with the creativity and content quality. The algorithm quickly figured out I didn't care about teenagers dancing and started feeding me cool crafts and comedy, and my faith in Gen Z has grown dramatically.
That's how you'd end up with a billion pixel monitor that's 100x100000
Yes. I definitely remember way more birds. Especially larger birds. When I see one in the sky now, I think, "oh, wow there's a bird." How sad is that?
Git Tricks
> Incompetence happened a great deal in the Soviet Union. It mentally killed people to see it everyday.

Wasn't it result of communism? At least that's my impression after reading Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago".
> no more forwarding X11 applications over ssh, which is slow at best

It was "slow" when I did it over 10Base2 Ethernet spanning an entire building. These days our CPUs are several orders of magnitude faster, and so are our networks. I don't need it to play the latest 3D games, I need it to display a user interface to an app that runs on a different machine. It's plenty fast enough.
Just a note: the gom jabbar is the poisonous needle while the box was the pain component of the humanity test.
I'd say it's a good way to measure discrimination, among other uses. If the average h-index for a given group is significantly lower than other groups, it could indicate a discrimination problem. Ceasing to measure the problem won't make it go away.
Again not true at all. If I take a picture of Times Square with 1000 people in it, I don’t need permission from anybody there. I can sell the photo as a stock photo or otherwise with absolutely no permission. The same principle is true for a picture of one person on your local street.
The first half(?) of Metamorphosis, where Gregor tries to act as usual (opening the door, going to work) with his unfamiliar bug body could work in a physics-based game along the lines of Table Manners.
In at least datacenter settings, performance-per-watt is just as important as performance-per-dollar, since watts are continuous OpEx.
Could you flesh this out a bit? What is the official Wayland model for doing "Remote Desktop"?
Funny, this sort of ambient noise is the only thing that turns my brain off and allows me to sleep at night.