skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course. But efficiency is not the only important thing in the world.

You can explore the world from different perspectives, not just from one.

Lisp was for a long time a very inefficient language, but also extremely important.

The users of early Lisp did not care so much about efficiency, they were mainly academics after all and someone else did buy the machines they used(they did cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each).

They cared about things like reusability of code, being easy to understand, not making mistakes or just exploring the new world of computers.

They invented flow control directives like "cond" and later "if", "while"..., functions, lambdas, macros, program evaluation through eval(interpretation of programs), structured text(s expressions) and complex parsing, automatic reference counting, garbage collectors, closures...and so many things that we take for granted today.

If you focus too much on something you become myopic to other things that are also important. And if you don't explore those other areas, you don't even know that they exist.
I always preferred EOR. Maybe the cute factor, or maybe because I first played with assembly language on an Acorn Electron (and later a full BBC Master Series) where I think the nomenclature comes from (the 6502 assembler built into BBC BASIC called the instruction EOR). ARM was originally Acorn Risk Machines, and the original designs evolved from the CPUs designed for the Acorn Archimedes range of computers.
Oh no, so most big media channels need to be closed down. This will be a slaughterfest :) I rarely find a news channel with accurate COVID-19 information. The UK Telegraph being one of the rare good cases.

* Most e.g. present the latest positve PCR test numbers per day as "confirmed new infections", whilst they are not "new" and not "infections". They are just "confirmed positives".

They are not "new", because the statistics don't give away if they are old or new, they don't store old PCR or antibody tests results.

And they are certainly not "infections" just "positives", as old infections and therefore immune people will test positive with PCR. Given the 7 months timeframe and the immense high dark figure of asymptotic cases, and the upcoming cold season with many people getting suddenly symptomatic (getting the common cold) and therefore getting tested finally, the real infection rate could be 20% less than the reported one. Those people did not get tested before, will be tested now, will be positive but not infected.

* Previously they reported for months the mortality rate as CFR, not IFR. The CFR is only relevant for healthcare providers ("how many people die in hospitals"), but not for policies ("how many people die after being infected"). The CFR just looked much better being 10-30x higher (citing Ionnadis latest stats here), so policies looked much better. https://doi.org/10.1111/eci.13423

* They continue to mixup HCQ prevention with treatment, for pure political gain.

And many more such lies and inaccuracies, mostly by intent, not by mistake.

But not even news and politics are guilty, even scientific research: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.13.249847v1....

Getting rid of all the misinformation would be a godsend, but we certainly don't need even more censorship, as already done under the conspiracy label.
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I don't think anyone will buy iPhone 12 because of mmWave. But still very strange that Apple made this decision. Perhaps it was better to offer a separate option with the mmWave support for the very few people that have that very specific utilization globally and even in the US. And make the phone a little bit cheaper for consumers.

https://www.apple.com/iphone-12-pro/specs/

https://www.apple.com/uk/iphone-12-pro/specs/
So, basically, it's better to be uncharismatic? I find this hard to believe, we're social creatures.
If you’re being sincere that’s a false characterization of the freedom of speech. It is not the ability to say whatever you want but it is the ability to share legitimate information or dissenting opinions, the former being the topic of OP. Employers should not be able to deny people their rights.
What makes "gambling" such a special case to take up 22 out of 71 categories (30%)

https://register.apple.com/resources/imdf/Categories/#sectio...
Great article! I will try orc for my project.
Perhaps revisit the start of this discussion.

Lockdown will not frustrate the virus regarding any long term objective.
If it's a separate box that then the buyer has the option to say "no".

Why would everyone just take one when they have perfectly functioning charging cradles, docks, clocks, and travel accessories?

I have a 5-port charger on my desk which charges all my devices and organises them neatly. When we go travelling we have a USB charging bar which plugs into mains and provides half a dozen 2.4A USB ports. We don't need vendor-provided chargers.

I expect a vast majority of the market is in a similar position.

The only people who would take the free accessory are those that need one, or have a compulsion to acquire free stuff because it's free.
And who is to decide what is information and what is misinformation? Google? US government? Sergej? Google Shareholders? Youtube users by voting? Pope? Churches? Some poor employee tasked of tagging content? AI algorithm? A man pretending to be an AI?

As much as I hate misinformation, I hate censorship even more because it's easy to misuse. None should have a power to decide on one and only ultimate source of truth.
How? If i am floating in a frictionless environment the gravitational pull has no opposing force to rip my body apart particle by particle. We are talking about forces stronger than strong nuclear force, but somehow affecting body locally.
Presumably he would have pressed your finger on the TouchID too, or just cut your thumb off if he's willing to go the next step. Hard to hold the phone manufacturer at fault for a case like this, right?
The idea of loading/storing multiple registers very much predates microprocessors and very much predates the VAX.

The earliest appearance I know of is in the IBM System/360, first released in 1964. The instruction is probably even older than that.

The ARM did change the instruction, arguably improving it. The IBM instruction loaded/stored multiple registers, but the registers were required to be consecutive. The ARM instruction has a register mask.

See IBM System/360 Principles of Operation, page 26: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/360/princOps/A22-...
Russian translation appeared on https://habr.com/ru/company/vdsina/blog/523306/, congrats.
I think this is the story referred to: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/those-win9x-crashes-on-fast-mach...
the US life expectancy is falling largely due to suicide, drug overdoses, and obesity.

the richest city on earth has a sizable, entrenched homeless population that openly do drugs on the street. Are we not in the midst of the opioid epidemic? Can what happens in Chicago be characterized as a war?

There is deep dysfunction and societal numbness to not see these realities; despite the riches accrued and the definitive technological advance, these problems are apparently unable to be solved.
Sure but why would they care? They're not going to get into massive existential trouble because employees have strong views on political issues except that on anti-trust, a paper trail of internal people saying "we are too powerful and should be broken up" will cause them a huge issue.
Censoring isn't bad in and of it's own, so it would help if you illustrated this with perhaps some undesirable examples of things happening today.
> but that doesn’t mean your content automatically get prime spot placement

That's not how it works. It might be a desirable goal, but that doesn't mean that the role of a content marketer is not to a) astroturf discusssions, b) generate content that's SEO-friendly even if they don't blow up.

Customers already get their money's worth if you get your minions sparking causal low-key discussions about their product/service/PR talking point on random places in order to raise awareness and focus on topics in ways that serves your best interests.
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... delivers all tech features to everyone.

Does he really? What about that autopilot thingy which doesn't really deliver, for a few thouand bucks more?
I used this one a while back: https://athletigen.com/ uploaded mine and the missus's raw DNA data.

Although it was obvious their aim was to sell you some kind of individually tailored exercise programme and a lot of the report's 'insights' were sport related, there were a few more generic things we could relate to.

Examples:

DNA REPORT: I have a genetic marker which indicates a high sensitivity to caffeine, the missus has the opposite.

REAL WORLD: I quite often feel a bit jittery if I make my single cafetiere of coffee a bit too strong in the morning. The missus, on the other hand, pretty much pours an unending stream of tea down her neck, from the moment she gets up in the morning til she goes to bed at night.

DNA REPORT: I have a DNA marker which suggests I'm fairly impervious to cold [as in temperature]. The missus has the opposite.

REAL WORLD: In winter, I'll quite often be sat round the house in a T-shirt, while the missus is wrapped up in several layers of shirts / jerseys, etc. complaining she's freezing.

I've also seen other sites where you can upload your raw DNA data and get a report telling you which diseases eg. cardiovascular, cancer, etc you might be more prone to getting. But I gave those ones a miss. When it comes to that kind of thing, I prefer blissful ignorance to intimations of impending doom. It's been bad enough these past 6 months thinking "Oh no. It's the Covid!" every time I get a tickle in my throat.
I worked for a while in the R&D department of HP printer division. As @jacquesm said, good 2D printer costs peanuts. The amount of R&D in color quality, speed and other parameters is huge. There were a lot of teams involved: mechanical, electrical, software, chemical... And because of that investment, there are thousands of patents that the big players are continuously paying each other for. It's a very old market with a lot of legacy. For most of us, a printer is something for home photos, some documents, and so, but that's only a little part of the cake: the money is in professional printing, ads, designers, etc.

Once that is said, it should be possible to work in a general-purpose open source 2d printer. The open community has achieved bigger goals. The biggest problem I can see is the entry barrier: to get a very basic printer, you have to invest thousands of time with a lot of knowledge in different areas, when a basic printer, even from the large companies, is not very expensive.

I think that one of the only chances we have for that to happen is that a company frees its designs and patents and community starts working from there.
I used to print some very long shell scripts at my previous employer when I was newly hired.

I sat there most of a morning with a rubber, a mechanical pencil and a highlighter and worked my way through the code.

It felt very good to have made sense of the whole thing to a reasonable level of detail.

I highlighted the key tokens, variables and function names and took notes on the side of the pages (sometimes in the back too).

It felt very very good.

Some of my colleagues where true masters of shellscript, some scripts were remarkable for what they achieved, along with both error checking and error recovery. I've learnt a lot that morning just by looking up commands and syntax I didn't know at the time.
The answer is trivial if you believe in the protection of civil rights.
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Plain Z80's topped out at 2.5 MHz or so. The Z80A could do 4 MHz, but was launched in 1979. Apple IIs and Commodore clocked the 6502 at 1MHz, but Ataris used 1.8 (?) and the BBC micro was clocked at 2 MHz.

At that time, once launched, it was difficult to increase the clock of a computer because games would become unplayable.
Tolkien's Silmarillion using Audible with a 15 minute sleep timer.

Works like a charm. I'm usually asleep so fast I have to start back a chapter. Honestly, I still don't really have any clue what the book is about. Ancient trees and elves I assume.

(For the pedantic, that's a joke. About the book, not its effect on my sleep.)
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Very true, but that’s the classic 32b arch only, aarch64 is much cleaner. The next big A class CPUs will be aarch64 only.
As a relatively new owner of a 3D printer, cost has very little to do with it. I spent way more on upgrading and tinkering with my printer than the thing cost in the first place.

If there was a 2D equivalent, I'd be interested in tinkering with that, too. And yes, that would probably mean spending 5x ot 10x more than a cheap commercial printer to get a printer than underperformed said cheap commercial printer. But it would be mine, and I would understand it, and be able to mess with it. And fix it if it broke. And use weird inks with it. And so on.
I observe my particle here, and in doing so its state is decided.

The state of the entangled particle over there, a light year away (for example) is also decided. Instantly. Faster than the speed of light. Nothing travelled from here to there. No particle, no photon, nothing. How does over there "know" that I did something over here?

Sure feels kind of spooky.

To me it would be more straightforward to say the concrete state of the particle is simply unknown until it is observed.

It's not just unknown. It's undecided. It has no concrete state. It's not that it IS a one or a zero and you just don't know it. It's not yet been decided whether it's a one or a zero, but as soon as the decision is made for one of the entangled particles, the decision is also made for the other one, a light year away. Instantly. Spooky.
In aggregate downvoted posts are practically always low-effort (or sometimes just really unhinged or otherwise patently wrong), so I'm not convinced that downvotes being used unkindly is a big problem.
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I assume The Guardian means "natural" (non-pharmacologically caused) herd immunity? Because vaccines end epidemics exactly through that.
> Is HashiCorp known to do this?

HashiCorp and other companies doing "devops" tools are known for using "open core" and hijacking the spirit of open source in many ways.
The things you link to don't seem to say that at all, they seem to say it got slow because it was hard to implement and no-one cared about it.
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Democrats are also anti-science. It’s just due to scientists used to understanding they should stay out of politics.
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It has already been pointed out that discussing anti-astroturfing measures in detail is not done, for reasons that have been explained. It doesn't seem reasonable to keep demanding explanations given what has been said before.
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Pffft. The future is wireless charging! See:

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=texas+tesla+tower

Yeehaw!
Nonsense. This duplication is not maintainable and needs massive amounts of memory.
Proper abstraction adds a few if else in the data, and is about 20x smaller. You can even read and understand that, e.g. what changed with this HW upgrade. No chance with duplicated blobs of structs and enums.
that also sounds like pretty ok risks for an under sea cable. though given one break you have to replace the entire cable might cancel it out.
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Things changed for me when I realized that if you want to do cool stuff you need to do them at home.

At work, do your best to make people happy.

Also at no point in your comment you describe what a good situation would be like.
I think the mistake good sleepers (of which I'm one) often make, is that they think it's just a case of not doing something correctly.

Instead the approach should be along the lines of how we think of depression, where your brain either naturally or through some other phenomenon fails to follow the correct "natural" steps. Training definitely helps, but there are still many that struggle while doing that correctly.

I myself lie down on my right-hand side for 30 seconds to a few minutes, thinking about whatever I want. Then I turn onto my left side and I just go to sleep.
There's actually a Snap! disambiguation page on Wikipedia, that includes the Snap! German Eurodance group, as well as the Snap! (album), greatest hits album of The Jam, the Snap! programming language, and SNAP!, a Canadian English-language arts magazine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap!_(disambiguation)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap%21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap!_(album)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap!_(programming_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP%21

I think the Object Oriented version of Snap! should be called "Snap! Snap!" instead of "Snap!++".

Great minds snap alike! (That man's nuts: grab 'em! Woo hoo!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8xmQDpYGYo&t=1m38s
Twitter is now censoring the government webpage for the Republican House Judiciary Committee.

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1316672984057176064
C, C++ and Rust are big barrier to most hobby programmers.

Python, JavaScript, and other high-level languages are way more accessible and are an order of magnitude faster to get started with.

Why waste weeks on learning C when that time could just as well be spent actually getting things done?

I also don't see how C - and especially Rust - would make embedded development any easier than using a scripting language. Tooling is often worse, skills cannot be transferred from and to other common areas (mobile, web) and development times are provably longer.

Unless your goal is to become a professional and create commercial products in the IoT/embedded space, I doubt learning and using C or C++ would be easier in any way.
Actually, if we could snap our fingers and wish social media out of existence tomorrow nothing really bad would happen, besides some influencers becoming poorer.

The opposite of social media today (election manipulation, divided societies, ethnic cleansing) is the state of affairs before social media, which wasn't bad at all. I'm struggling to think of large-scale benefits social media has brought us, because the individual ones like talking more to grandma and getting more dates are clear enough. But come on, people should just pick up that phone and go out more.
I can open vim on my iphone/desktop and get a textbox. I don't see what storing things in files has to do with that.

>Extremely easy sharing of data between apps.

hah no. Try sharing large batches of files on iOS. with plenty of apps there's no way to do this (and often the only way to do it if you can is with the files app.)
I take it you wouldn't approve of the CIA's experiments on elephants either!

In 1962 Tusko the elephant was given 297mg (yes, milligrams, not micrograms) of LSD by CIA-funded quacks who were trying to simulate "musth" in the hope that it could be used to weaponize elephants for sabotage in south-east Asia (hint: Vietnam war in progress).

We now know that 297mg of LSD will kill an elephant.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/feb/26/research.sci...

In case you think I'm making this up, the original paper was published in Science: West, LJ; Pierce, CM; Thomas, WD (7 December 1962). "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide: Its Effects on a Male Asiatic Elephant". Science. 138 (3545): 1100–3. It's online here (account needed): https://science.sciencemag.org/content/138/3545/1100
>One of them is saying “it’s not true” and one of them is saying “we should stop the public from seeing that”.

In this case, who is saying "we should stop the public from seeing that?" Not Biden. His campaign folks said "it's not true." I'm unaware of any calls from Biden to censor anything. Ever.

Please do correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm in the "This was bad and biased of Twitter" camp but that is a hilarious comment, 10/10
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Most "sophisticated" marketing schemes are incredibly unethical (and I've even argued that marketing at it's core is unethical, but that's a hard sell most places). That might mean that it's not any less ethical, but equally scummy.

The fact that it's not a surprise (and implying that everyone does it) is not an excuse to keep manipulating people at a mass scale when they're browsing the internet in (primarily) good faith. I'd say that pointing that out and accepting it as a good justification is in and of itself unethical.
Just ask your local refill shop what printer to buy so you don't have to go through this. That's what I did when I last bought a printer.
It wouldn't change the development situation, but Linux distros wouldn't have lots of GPL violations and be ignoring those GPL violations.
>You can even do all that stuff online by SSHing a much better computer.

I pay 20€ per month to "SSH" into a worse computer and by "SSH" I mean I effectively do VNC over WebRTC. The video encoding performance of cloud servers is just abysmal. I'm forced to use 720p. Meanwhile my desktop can easily run 8 1080p VP8 streams at once without breaking a sweat. How much did it cost? 350€ for a Ryzen 2700 with 8 cores, 32 GB RAM and a new mainboard. I'm not counting the cost of the case or PSU because I already had those and there are super cheap options already. After 1.5 years (or 2 years if you include case, psu, storage) the server will have cost me more even though it performs far worse. Why would I still pay for the crappy server? Because it's a shared user experience. I'm not the only one on that server. My friends are there as well.

You know. If I actually used Stadia or Nvidia's alternative I'd be their worst customer. I'd run their dedicated GPU instances all day even if the only thing I do is listen to music with that instance while I'm playing games on my desktop.
I find in practice that is very hard to keep the table up-to-date with code changes and graphics are easier to inspect than table for complex flows.

I have written a state machine generator that both produces the table and the code (no allocation, as fast as hand optimized, suitable for embedded) for my multithreading runtime to visually detect logic/design bugs in the code used:

https://github.com/mratsim/Synthesis
How do we know it's harmless for youth and young adults? You know what you've seen. Again, this is a novel virus. It's new. It could be setting up shop in your brain, heart, kidney, liver, semen -- wherever.

It could be invisibly weakening your lungs just enough that a flu can come through and kill you.

I would suggest a deep dive on mercury poisoning, radiation poisoning, lead poisoning, asbestos, and whatever other reminders you may find throughout history that assuming you know what nature is up to without the benefit of lengthy scientific review never turns out well for the cocksure.
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Exactly!

Try selling unofficial nikes or use unofficial dollars and see how that gets reported.
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Never have I hated the graying out of downvoted comments as much as now.
They likely see casinos as consumers of applications providing indoor wayfinding using this specification.
It turns out a group of experts has debated your example at length and come to some reasonable conclusions.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6350