skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For that example, it's at least fairly obvious why it was censored, but this one really puzzles me:

"Getting good FP performance from a micro seems to require
pipelining. Keeping the p<asterisk><asterisk>e(s) full seems to require a certain amount of parallelism and regularity."

https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=comp.arch&g=14965...

Edit: Ah, the irony. HN markdown causes two consecutive asterisks to disappear.
Isn’t that just hourly with no overtime pay then? That sounds ridiculous
I live in New England and a bunch of people have moved up here from all over. I'm most curious about how they handle it getting dark at 4pm and everything being closed by 9.
The lack of definition in the arms, the sharp lighting and the absence of any sense of motion combine to make it look posed in garrysmod or something.
I will write up my idea later today.
That's what the site author claimed he does. Others claim that what he actually does is just adding a few percentage points to the official stats[1]. Among academic economists, the site author is largely regarded as some kooky conspiracy theorist[2].

Personally I just see him more as small time business man making a nice living from satisfying some market demand for figures that proof government is lying to you. For those who want to find out for themselves, here's the raw BLS data[3] and methodology[4].

[1] https://azizonomics.com/2013/06/01/the-trouble-with-shadowst...

[2] https://www.thestreet.com/economonitor/emerging-markets/deco...

[3] https://www.bls.gov/developers/home.htm

[4] https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/pdf/cpihom.pdf
This particular error bugs me more than most because I always have to stop and try to figure out if some question is actually being begged. The writer is wasting my time for no reason and is distracting me from their point. It would be different if it was a simpler concept.
New housing is always for the richer. Those who want a deal go for older ones. However when there isn't enough construction those who are willing to pay for new go for used as well driving all costs up.

That said, housing can be profitably built cheaper, but why would any sane developer make a low price house when there is more profit in luxury housing. SF has refused to allow enough construction to meet demand, and this has resulted in only luxury being built.

Cities with less growth than SF are building more than SF, and as a result all housing is cheaper.
> Not only does a an employee's location not change the employers' demand, the moving also does not change the supply available to employer. Moving or not, the employer could always find a new employee abroad if supply was indeed plentiful.

The company tolerating remote workers changes the supply to the company.

The people moving immediately are seeing the first effect here, but if it becomes permanent, the people who don't move will inevitably get the same paycut. Why pay $200K for someone in SF when someone in Des Moines will take $140K, but wasn't willing to relocate five years ago?
Really?? I love mine. I use it every day for Hue bulb activations, playing music, timers, etc. and it does the job perfectly.

It doesn’t answer all the same answers as the Google Assistant but I feel like that’s worth the privacy trade off.
I don't know that centralized warehousing is relevant here, given that the systems seemingly rely on centralized silos regardless. But keeping the system dealership-only will encourage security by obscurity (eg one master login per dealership that can then access any car), whereas opening it up will force automakers to design their system for fine grained security.
Hmm, mine gave me very high coefficients for INTP (0.36) and INTP (0.18), which seems to line up with what I remember from when I've taken these sorts of tests. Except... my reddit is very sparse. From where did it draw these conclusions?

This tool highlighted my suspicions. It's very biased towards these results (I don't know if Myers-Briggs is also, which might be possible). For example, "lorem ipsum" scores INXX all above 0.13, with everything else below 0.08. Similar results for "youtube reddit" or "the quick brown fox".
Another note: the iPhone 12s still support Qi wireless charging, up to 7.5W. MagSafe allows faster 15W charging (sigh). Apple said during the event that it wants a MagSafe ecosystem, so expect chargers, mounts and so on from third parties.- nilay Patel on Twitter
Mine bricked itself on an update. No way to hard reset it. Apple would repair it only for $1 less than the full cost of the device.
I have nice speakers I don't want to change. I used to control spotify and soundcloud through them using chromecast audio which is discontinued and the second one I bought off ebay doesn't work. I am open to playing MP3s off my NAS. I would even consider bluetooth since I rarely fiddle with the playlist.

What is the best way to remote control a device that is wired to my mixer (XLR or 1/4 in or 1/8in jack)
> For that example, it's at least fairly obvious why it was censored.

Actually, it's not that obvious. It censored "Dirty Sanchez". I'm thinking it thought it was a person's name, and censored it for privacy reasons?

> Keeping the p<asterisk><asterisk>e(s) full seems to

I suppose "pipe" can have an offensive/sexual connotation. Even if it doesn't so much today, perhaps it did back then.
Yes, if the site does not explain this method then I have little reason to believe the prediction. It's no different to a Buzzfeed quiz.
No, just because something changes doesn't mean it can be used to send information. You need changes you can control.

The thing about the change of "colour" in this analogy is you don't know in which direction it changes. So let's say you observe you "marble" through a "purple filter", which gives has:

- a 50% chance of being transparent to your marble (corresponding to a red-blue superposition marble collapsing to a purple marble)

- a 50% chance of being opaque to your marble (corresponding to red-blue superposition marble collapsing to a green marble).

The issue is that when you learn your marble is purple, while you know with 100% certainty the marble in australia is green, there is no way you can send information to Australia using that. This is because the other 50% of the time, your marble will be green, and the marble in Australia is purple.

So if I'm sitting in Australia, when I measure the marbles in my envelopes with purple filters, all I see is purple marbles 50% of the time and green marbles 50% of the time no matter what measurements you are performing at your end. So you can't send me messages by performing measurements at your end because you can't change the statistics of those measurements.

But you'll know the answer to every measurement I performed, if you've measured the other marble with a purple filter too.
Effectively, there's never more than a dozen cities, tops, in any country in the world where you can get close to top-level food quality, and even so that applies only for a few genres of food.
There's a lot of projects that attempt/do this:

https://github.com/wau/YDrive

https://github.com/TheApeMachine/cloudtube
That is very oddly specific. Hello, fellow old school SMRPG fan.
Thanks for the info.
So you are saying that bc income tax is also going to fund healthcare?
Hm this is making me feel old... because I used to frequent certain music newsgroups around 1995-2002, and the earliest one they have is from 2003.

https://usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=rec.music.makers.p...

Google does have some from 1998. It is this weird mix of people from 2016 replying to threads from 1998. The organization is very confusing which I'm sure contributes to the low quality.

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.makers.percussion/c/rv...

And what's insane is that there appear to be some flames still going on from 20 years ago ???

I vaguely recall this dude's name from back in 2002 ... I guess he must have been a prolific poster / troll, but I don't remember. But there appear to be some people trolling him. I think he did sell drums or something.

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.makers.percussion/c/Nh...

Good ol' Usenet I guess ...

Yeah this is insane, I search for "Rob Schuh" and this flame war has been going on for decades !!!

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.makers.percussion/c/8Z...
One feature I wish Apple would build into this would be a 3.5mm jack or optical audio out. I have a lot of very nice speakers already in my house, but no multi-room audio, or voice assistant. I know the echos can do this, but I don’t want them spying on me.
Edtech provides a pandemic lifeline but only if students surrender their privacy
A line-up of comments from a frequent reviewer: "The Year of the Linux dissatisfaction"

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-year-of-dissatisfa...
But who's going to put up the Bitnet Relay Chat archive? I want to read the Hot Tub channel once again ...
Nothing. I need my current job to support my family.
Even if all of them go bust this year, there will be new ones once population return and will need entertainment. The nature of entertainment might change a bit, but it will be still there.
An HN-style shitpost. I like it.
> Unions usually end up with rules regarding who gets promoted and who doesn't. Broke your back working OT to help out the company? Well tough luck Martha came in one month before you and has priority on promotions.

Good. I don't want promotion to be a race to the bottom for whoever works the longest hours. If you're gonna try to get ahead of me by doing OT, screw you.
Cholecalciferol, vitamin d3 is 384.648 g·mol−1. So 1 nmol/L is 384.649 ng/L or 0.384649 ng/mL. Also, 1 IU is 0.025 µg.
Counterpoint - I have an iPhone 6 that has exactly this problem. The cable doesn't get seated properly, so occasionally it stops charging or disconnects when attached to a computer.
A $30 echo will do that. I have a few of those, why spend $200 for a HomePod if that’s all it is.
Face ID is a major downgrade from Touch ID regardless of the pandemic.

Touch ID (combined with a home button) is a lot faster. You can reach into your pocket or handbag, put the finger on the button and press it while you're taking it out. By the time your phone is out it's unlocked and on the home screen. I don't recall seeing people failing to unlock their phones while paying with Apple Pay before but now it's a reasonably common occurrence if they didn't "prime" it ahead of time.

You can also quickly unlock your phone if it's not directly aligned with your face without having to pick it up (let's say it's on a table or desk) or if you're letting another person handle it.

Face ID is also annoying in bed, when either your face is obstructed by pillows/blankets or if you're holding your phone too close to your face and need to hold it further away for a second, illuminating the whole room in the process.

Touch ID also makes the authentication action explicit. If you're handling someone else's phone, you can look at the lockscreen without attempting to authenticate by simply keeping away from the home button and using the power button to wake it up. With Face ID the simple fact of looking at the phone is an authentication attempt and you'd be consuming the limited amount of attempts the owner has before they have to fall back to a passcode.
The latest Star Trek offerings have struck me as viciously cynical. The future was meant to be a place where humanity strove to be its best. Instead of looking forward we have stories that, while not hopeless, certainly reek of pessimism. Apparently the only story we want to tell is about the End of the Cruel American Empire, rather than how our own present could transform into something greater.
We have them in CA as well. I think in general they're a good workaround for getting things passed that the legislature for some reason doesn't have the political will to work on.

On the downside, repealing these things usually takes another ballot measure (the legislature can't touch most of these), so if one passes that turns out to be a bad idea, it'll be harder to remove it. Unfortunately we do have a few persistent ballot measures that have been on the books for years that are detrimental, but there's no will to get rid of them (Prop 13, I'm looking at you).

Occasionally I'll vote "no" on a proposition that I agree with, simply because I believe it's something that the legislature should take up, and doing it through the ballot measure process will end up being too inflexible.
I'm more bothered by the people who believe "theory" is a synonym of hypothesis and dismiss some scientific fact because it's just a "theory"
I don't think Apple understands what 'world class' assistant means.

I've tried their intercom feature on an iPhone using Hey Siri. The message doesn't get recorded if you don't speak english. It works fine if you press and hold side button tho (my preferred way to use Siri anyway).

I would probably consider Homepod or Homepod mini if they've got batteries and bluetooth. Heck they could've even used MagSafe chargers for them. Now I've got two Soundcore Motion+ that got amazing hifi sound.
Thank you! Is 2003 a hard limit to how far back was captured, or just a current point in the import? I was looking to comp.os.linux.* groups from a bit earlier than that, a lot of the 90s. Thanks again :)
> and it's not great, since there is no other comprehensive archive after Google's purchase of Dejanews around 20 years ago.

Bit unreasonable to complain that Google is evil because they don't want to keep an archive of Usenet when the only reason this is an issue is because nobody else wanted to do that either. Every organization which ran an NNTP server had a copy of all messages because Usenet is decentralised, every single one could have kept an archive and didn't, it's not like websites where nobody but the webserver host has full access.

Not gonna go as far as saying "it cannot be evil to do what everyone else does", but if there is only one remaining archive on the planet and you desperately value it ... why are you shitting on the company which owns it?
Have you tried pulling a non-popular file out of IPFS? I can't find the link but an archive put up I think, BeOS ISOs - it wasn't possible to get the file back again, just like if a torrent isn't seeded.
Thread safety, or the lack of it.

The system-allocator needs to be thread-safe in a large variety of situations.

Your custom allocator doesn't have to be: maybe you know only 1 thread is running. Heck, even knowing that only 32-threads or 64-threads will ever run can make gross simplifications to the synchronization code.

System-allocator needs to be thread-safe with an unbounded number of threads (because you may call pthread_create at any time).

Your custom allocator may know more specifics about when, and where, pthreads are created, as well as whether or not they interact with each other.

---------

Case in point: lets say you malloc a 256MB region per thread. You know that only one thread would ever access this 256MB region, so you write it without any synchronization primitives what so ever.

But you still want a general purpose, multi-size supported allocator to split up the data inside the 256MB region.

You call void* fooptr = malloc(256MB), because grabbing from the system allocator should remain thread-safe (who knows how many other threads are calling malloc?). But afterwards, you can make very specific assumptions about the access patterns of that fooptr.
Consider that iPad has replaced lightning with usb-c and that having ports takes up a lot of space... I think they are just planning to phase out lightning and go port-less on the iPhone.
I'm getting this:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function real_escape_string() on null in /var/www/html/usenetarchives.com/3.vars.php:80 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/usenetarchives.com/1.header.php(190): include() #1 /var/www/html/usenetarchives.com/view.php(22): include_once('/var/www/html/u...') #2 {main} thrown in /var/www/html/usenetarchives.com/3.vars.php on line 80

Pretty consistently.
Fair enough, but I bit the bullet on AirPods Pro earlier this year and have been really impressed.
Direct democracy also leads to dumpster fires of a policy choice like Proposition 13 for your southern neighbors. No guarantees it wouldn't have passed through regular legislative channels, I suppose...
Odd to see an article about forecasting without mentioning DeMesquita and Smith's predictioneer models and stakeholder salience models. Also without Charlie Munger's comments on incentives, which have had a better track record than pretty much anyone.

There was much point scoring done after the 2016 U.S. election about polling and predictions being wrong, particularly against Fivethirtyeight, but where I think critics got it wrong was, when someone says there's a %95 chance of an event going in one way, it's not valuable as a prediction, but it certainly is as an accurate assessment of the impact of the results. In 2016, if you told people that the %95 implied probability of winning translated to what felt like paying out a 19/1 loss, a lot of people would have agreed with you.

You can reliably bet on the effect of the upset being inversely proportional to the predicted probabilities. When I see election predictions that are 60:40 I think the 2nd order impacts of the result will be slightly lopsided, but within the realms of expectations. In this sense, %54 chance of winning close races may be better for stability than perceived polarized %95 ones because of how people perceive the results of a loss.
I see it slightly differently. As an engineer, most of my time is spent trying to understand the scientific principles behind some observed failure so that some tiny tweak can be applied to fix it. There is design, but very analytical and minimalist. As a programmer, I’m mostly interacting with people based on their ideas and desires. There’s also a lot more trade knowledge about software tools and languages, but very little about first principles. The ideas about how to design something seem arbitrarily fashionable rather than optimized based on constraints.
Can you even see the difference between 1080 and 8K?
paid time off not just time off
Portland is right by Hood River if you kitesurf (which, despite 17 years of regular surfing and only 2 months of kiting, I've decided is objectively better)
Whoa, you take it out of the box? Enjoy your scratched-up, damaged phone!
"Low CoG" and "Heavy" are not at all the same thing, and frankly I've known plenty of people in meatspace who genuinely thought "moar heavy === better grip", so I may be over-sensitive to this particular falsehood.
Catalog your thoughts like an engineer
Tech worker majority in SVBA have a choice to live 2 hours outside of the metro.

Everyone else typically does not.

The expectation is apt.
Leave only footprints, take only pictures?
Thank you for the links. These projects are fascinating, and precisely what I was thinking about. I wish I had more time, skill, and knowledge to delve into ML and GANs.
I found the second best definition of the urban dictionary greatly refreshing. Quoting it here:

> beg the question

> Phrase that is now used instead of "raises the question" due to the fact that the true definition is unintelligible to most people, and has little to do with an actual question.

> Best not to use it at all, as you will either sound ignorant to geeks, or geeky to regular people.

[1]: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beg%20the%20...
Are we just not using the same screen protectors? I don't ever notice my screen protector and I've been using them for years. The only annoyance I can remember with those is applying the plastic flexible ones, but the rigid glass ones are very easy to apply.

I'm curious as to what you dislike so much about them.
According to Apple, it's still available at authorized resellers.
From TFA:

> The trick is to use the allocations themselves as linked list nodes so you don’t have to waste any extra memory for tracking.

There was an article that I'm struggling to find—posted to hn iirc—recommending against this approach. IIRC there were two reasons stated:

* Efficiency due to CPU cache. Freed allocations might have been unused for a long time and thus out of cache. Writing the pointer to the linked list on free puts it back into cache—a whole cache line when you only need 8 bytes or whatever for the singly-linked list—possibly at the expense of something hotter. (I think there are special instructions on many platforms to store without adding to cache, but that's probably not wise either because a bunch of frees might come together and thus need to access a previous one's book-keeping info. Better to keep all the bookkeeping info together in a dense region so you use more of the cache line.)

* Debugging troubles on buggy applications. They're more likely to overwrite adjacent allocations and thus the memory allocator's book-keeping, resulting in hard-to-debug failures. (I recall not being super convinced of this reason—I think having external tracking is insufficient for making it easy to debug this kind of error. I think you'd want to make it possible for ASAN to work well, thus you'd want to implement its "manual poisoning" interface.)

edit: I found this tcmalloc issue talking about not wanting to use singly-linked lists because of cache effects when moving stuff from the thread cache to the central list. Kind of similar. https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools/issues/951
To be fair, qsort is not insisting on seeing an algorithm that is metaphysically identical with a human mind, nor claiming that such an algorithm would be a p-zombie, devoid of subjective experiences, which are both positions that you might find from dualist philosophers.
This build is just another stepping stone in a long process. Their older videos on other lightsaber prototypes are here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUdLlGLSQHQ&list=PLbncXbXlaN...

They aren't shy about their process of iteration at all. And that is a great thing that I think a lot of HN could appreciate. Especially in hardware, things take their own time.[0]

More power to Hacksmith (pun intended). I think they stuff they are putting out is amazing considering the budgets, time, and manpower issues. They somehow are managing to fund, off YouTube and ads, the crazy ideas you'd get from too many beers with too many Lockheed R&D researchers. That's impressive on it's own. These guys are embodying the old MIT 'hacker' ethos very well.

[0] Good Lord, I wish they would spend more time on the safety part of the builds. The lasers they get from StryoPyro will blind them sooner than later. I remember being caviler about lasers. But then I lost some vision, and now I'm not.
Sewergate
I’m wondering if moving or not, due to the higher pay in the us, but I have gotten used to Vancouver (I’m not from Canada), and I’m wondering how life long term is here.
Buying a house seems to be the biggest issue here, in the us it would be easier with the higher pay, as well as getting retirement money, but well, it’s the usa.
Also, I could get citizenship in less than 3 years, which is tempting.
Is there any alternative to SBC for two way audio? I feel like half the interviews in the media have horrible audio quality because the person on the other end is using AirPods with a handset profile.
When did anyone predict COVID? You can just throw around assertions that someone predicted something like COVID without providing evidence and expect people to make judgements on it.
Colorado is horrible. Denver gets 10 feet of snow every winter. Austin is way better.
I tried something similar and it works to a degree.

There are two cons though: connector reliability on the disk and especially on the docking device degrades with time and you need to care about backups more as you can damage the drive during the transportation with mechanical hit or with static electricity.