skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a laymen so don't take this as definitive but my understanding is Power = Volts * Amps. The amount of Amps going into something is the amount of electrons moving into it (water in a pipe). Volts is how hard you're pushing the electrons through a circuit (pressure in a pipe). Because of magic I don't understand amps is ~constant while how much force is behind those electrons have is changeable (how wide you open your faucet).

Processor governors change the clock speed of the CPU (how many dishes you're washing). Dynamic voltage control is changing how hard you're pushing electrons through the CPU to let it stably operate at a given frequency (opening/closing the faucet as your scrubbing your dishes).

By doing this we can lower the amount of Power (water) we use while getting the same amount of work done (dishes washed).
Bringing it back to TypeScript [audio]
They sent this to employees ofa company? I would immediately fire this vendor if this is correct, regardless of my political views.

It exposes way too much liability to have a vendor you hire lobbying your employees without your knowledge or consent.
American cities are clustered as much as European and there's hardly a good reason why high speed rail is impossible. To the point that there literally is a private company that built a high speed link between Orlando and Miami.

As for the experience of driving to a train station, that's compounded x times by going to an airport.

But in the end the lack of use stems more from discomfort, than anything else. Having high speed connection from Poughkeepsie/Albany to NYC would open up Hudson Valley to commuters decades ago, not a boom of Zoomtowns today (Kingston, NY, Beacon, NY)

The overall infrastructure is crap in US and that is the primary reason for poor use of it. (I mean, FFS, old Tappan Zee Bridge didn't even have pedestrian walkway! While being the only available crossing for miles)
It definitely depends. For most of the tech stuff people do, the kind of people you want to get are going to be unwilling to have a job that requires them to have no social life where they live.

If you want to make distributed work, then you need to be OK with asynchronicity rather than demanding synchronous work.

And to be fair, because of tax and timezones, it's more likely that this stuff will be sent to Europe rather than SE Asia, and you definitely won't get long-term people to work 1pm to 9pm to overlap with the US West coast.
Ahahahaha no absolutely not. Unless they clearly enjoy solving those types of puzzles for their own personal enjoyment, anyone chasing status through leetcode comes off as just kinda pathetic. What an incredible waste of time, like competing to get the highest score on an IQ test.

Much more impressive is when people direct their intelligence toward solving problems in high-dimensional domains. Self-contained leetcode problems, at most, break down into (1) translating the problem into known-best algorithm input (2) implementing that algorithm (3) translating the algorithm output into the expected format. Boring.
Intel's Xeon Scalable 'Ice Lake-SP' Volume Ramp Delayed to Q1 2021
Some would say the same about NodeJS especially since Deno exists.
Now I'm curious. This seems like a procedure that would need to be precisely defined. Is there a standard protocol for this? Does it have an RFC or similar I could read? If nothing else, it would be nice to have a short bumper-sticker "Chrome destroyed protocol X!" complaint.
How much choice do the drivers have if that's where all the customers are?

It sounds to me like you're confusing the willingness of drivers to relent to market forces outside of their control for their consent. Some are definitely happier than others but none have the degree of agency you seem to suggest they do.
> In the cases where that trust breaks down or shouldn't have been given in the first place, it tends to create problems that are astronomically more costly than if a trustless system was used in the first place.

Is this actually true? My mind immediately goes to credit card fraud as an example, which definitely isn't more costly than if a purely trustless system was introduced. The cost of fraud is baked into using a credit card, and credit card vendors have built ever-improving technology to cut down on fraud on their end.

How is that more expensive than a trustless system that would require everyone to move to?
In another part of this thread I mention that there are some genuinely non-consensual or otherwise exploitive agreements which we are right to ban; the situation you're describing seems to veer into that territory.

To the extent that your counterparty lies to you about your future take-home pay that is fraud and is already illegal whether you're an employee or a contractor. To the extent they strongly imply you'll be taking home $2 per week or that you'll be able to afford Disneyland, well aware neither are true, that is likely also fraud.

To the extent that someone is genuinely dumb and naive it seems easier to legally put them into an exploitative situation but I reject the notion that this is an accurate description of most Uber drivers.

You have brought up a good point, the system I'm imagining doesn't have a good solution for people who are dumb and naive and who unknowingly put themselves into exploitive situations. Luckily I don't think there are many people like this, hopefully they have a network of friends/family guiding them, and hopefully the safety net I'm describing puts some bounds on their downside: by picking a bad job they might not make it to Disneyland but at least they won't make it into poverty.
We need more innovation to close the gap between physical and virtual learning
thanks for the response. yes the responsive part is on the works and will be coming to the component very soon.
I don't love the grind. So these observations/tips to myself are in spite of loving the grind.

What helps me a bit to get through the grind is to observe myself while working or applying for jobs. I'm noticing when I get into things, and when I am not getting into things and asking myself why. Sometimes it's really clear why, but sometimes it's subtle. In rare cases I can tweak my inner psychology a bit to like things a bit more, i.e. suffer less.

Now that I'm finally working, I have ample of opportunity to see when I'm in a flow state :)
An open tool to understand compensation
Why can't we just pay 5 bucks per month everyone over patreon or something similar to them to keep doing servo and mdn?
538 analyzed the various polls--and corrected for their methodologies and predictive power--just fine!

A sibling comment brings up a batter, and I think that's a great analogy. A good batter has a batting average of, say 0.273. Nobody is shocked when they hit the ball!

538 gave a similar chance to Trump. He hit the ball.
Can Node eventually fix the problems that coaxed Ryan Dahl to move on to Deno?
Let me demoralise you. There are industries [cough] where (for a good number of jurisdictions) you MUST have the pentests and other audit-like engagements conducted by a specially approved operator. Think of a royal charter.

These operators have no incentive to invest in proper skills. So they don't. They can charge almost anything they like. And sure enough, they do.

In an industry with such massive vendor lock-ins and regulatory capture regimes, organisationally you get to shovel a lot of money for sub-par pentests. The appetite to have yet another one, even from a known-good and reasonably priced provider, is quite hard to come by. After all, these approved providers will REFUSE to even look at a third-party pentest report, let alone let one guide their own testing.

So in aggregate the existence of these approved providers and their level of competence degrades the security posture of entire business domains.

Macchiavelli would have been proud.
One thing that has to be considered and can become an issue with under volting is that multiple transistors make up circuits. Some times these transistors work together and some times they fight each other. Even two transistors in close proximity to each other on the same chip will be slightly different due to variation. As voltage decreases for some circuits this variation between transistors gets exposed as one transistor approaches the treshold voltage while the other may not, while at higher voltages this slight variation may not come into play as strongly, leading to outright failures or stability problems that get exposed at particular frequencies.
what company is this? love the initiative from your management.
Why they would try to open themselves to discrimination lawsuits is beyond me.
The current standard model can't explain a number of observations. There was a rather detailed post over on PhysicsForums[1] detailing a number of issues.

The LHC hasn't really shown us where to look, the hope is that a larger collider can give a more clear indication.

That said, I have this feeling that we're approaching the limits of "going big". There was a very interesting talk[2] over at Perimeter Institute recently about larger colliders and their feasibility.

[1]: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/what-are-the-most-impo...

[2]: http://pirsa.org/20100056/
I mostly agree with your sentiment, except on hiring. I've gotten several offers from French companies for Sr. Engineer roles and the problem isn't that your developers are lazy - it's that software companies in France don't pay anywhere near market wages compared to the rest of the globe. Last year I was offered the equivalent of US 70K to take on an ambitious Sr. Eng. Role. That's less than half what I'd expect in the states.
Writing is a great example of this. It's almost impossible to create a perfect piece of writing on the first attempt; there's always room for improvement. Although, you can publish your first draft and may get the job done, following an iterative process of writing and revising multiple drafts that leads to more polished results.
Why does this work?

I imagine a psychologist might be able to answer with reference to empirical studies, but can/could any neuroscientist answer with details of a mechanism?

Or do we just not know enough about how the brain works yet?
>The particle community has enumerated why new accelerators are the best way to answer particle physics questions

They have not given a good answer why particle accelerators they are asking for would give any answers at 100 TeV.

It's just biggest they can hope to get.
We still need to leave a heck of a collection. On a living, evolving planet if all civilizations are gone the signs get wiped out pretty fast in geological time (geology, weather), and in space the signs are usually traveling in the emptiness with little chances of being spotted. The best probes will eventually fail and will just add to the countless objects floating never to encounter anything.

I know it sounds depressing but I keep getting reminded of this [0] when thinking of loneliness in the universe. It's the most apt description I came across in recent memory.

[0] https://www.theoatmeal.com/comics/oracle
Which Is the Bird That Nest with Twigs and Thorns, in the Painting
would love it if someone could make a webpage to visualize the current pace of carbon emissions by proof of work systems in terms of the number of acres of forest that would need to be burned to release the same amount of carbon. or even just know the calculation.
Yes the system that lasted for thousands of years, which was fine until politicians turned the system into a polítical utility making promises they knew they could never keep, and which was replaced by another system that is falling apart after 50 years.

If a gold standard was a disaster, I don't know what our current system is.
There's a lot of significant differences from the original Google QUIC design and what we currently have in the IETF drafts. They are very much wire-incompatible. That's why it took several years for the working group to get to a point where they were near-completion.
Like humans, male chimps mellow with age
You're right. They had him on about 33%, depending on exactly when you look.

Interestingly, in 2016 they thought Trump was more likely than the betting markets did. Betfair had him on about 22%. So if they were betting they'd have made a profit.

This year the situation has reversed. Betfair has 35% for Trump, whereas 538 has him on only 12%. So they'd be betting on Biden.
The PIAM Bubble
I always thought maybe the reason we don't see life in the surface of other planets is because of security/defense reasons. Why wouldn't they be cloaked? Isn't it a bad defensive position to just live out in the open like we do?
Original title: "India buzzes with fake news of 'civil war' in Pakistan" - please don't change titles unnecessarily
As a consumer, I loved the phone. As a developer, I was afraid to touch it. Dumping the old Windows Mobile platform for Windows Phone was understandable, but the compatibility break between Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 was really off-putting.

Though I think the biggest problem there is that it didn't happen in a vacuum. It was one more event in a fairly long list of Microsoft technologies and APIs that were shipped to much fanfare, and then abandoned shortly after release. It made it hard to feel comfortable trying any Microsoft tech that wasn't at least a fewy years old. Including mobile APIs. Which, given what happened with Windows Phone 8, did not turn out to be an overabundance of caution.

The problem hurt more than Windows Phone, too. A lot of people got sick of having the rug repeatedly yanked out from under them, and started developing on non-Microsoft tech stacks. Which then removed a lot of the need to run Windows Server, and things sort of snowballed.

Despite all his infamous ranting about the importance of keeping developers happy early on, the Ballmer years turned out to be the era when Microsoft perfected the art of alienating developers.
The point is that public justifications are more important than actual motivations. Actual motivations can be enslaving other beings, ruling / mining an extra planet or just wanting to watch the universe burn. Motivations are already present because there are millions of motivations that map on to the same result - destruction of another group of living things. I'm pointing out that it's easy to find public justification as well.

It's also possible to do this unilaterally. China or any other country could also unilaterally decide to destroy another planet. And same possibility on the other side.
They don't all use a lot of electricity. Proof of Stake blockchains use very little electricity and don't require specialized hardware. Lisk (LSK) is DPoS and is a good example but there are many others like that.
I remember when those vague blobs were a monumental achievement. It’s very cool to see these kinds of technologies break through and get refined like this.
Completion of tertiary education =/= "well educated" necessarily. Consider the math and reading scores of our children, which lag behind many other countries. Consider the poor state of public schooling in urban and rural areas. There's also a cultural difference, many European areas may have a more pro-knowledge or pro-truth mindset, whereas "American values" are often incongruous with the actual facts established by science.
If when people say big tech they exclude msft (and include Facebook), they are simply wrong. .net, sqlserver, power bi, hell office are the blood flowing through Government and industry. Gaming is also tech and azure will get there if they just keep at it. The startup world is only a slice of the pie, and not the largest or most important .

If you don’t live on the coasts, and you want to invest in a stack that will keep you employed indefinitely and wherever you go, you pick dotnet hands down, and I say this as someone who hasn’t written a line of dotnet code
If the megabar is enough to get you to switch browser you'd likely be better of where you are now anyway. It's such a tiny totally unimportant thing. I didn't even notice it untill I read complaints about it.
Things like USB ports, touchbar, etc... Mac still makes a good laptop, but in a historical sense I think this is a still a lowpoint for their hardware comparatively to themselves in quality and functionality.
I don't know why Americans think that they are so special.

Yes - Europeans do prefer the optimal transport option (cost, speed, comfort, etc)

Americans aren't special and many European places rely on cars or busses for transport.
> Another example of such uninspired CEO that keeps making good quarters but tarnishes his company advantages is Tim Cook. I can't wait for him to be replaced.

Comments like this make zero sense to me. Apple might be better if Jobs was still alive. But without a time machine, and potentially better medicine, that's not an option.

Under Cook Apple:

- Increased profitability and market share massively.

- Created the most successful watch brand in the world.

- Turned Beats into Beats + AirPods, the two most successful headphone brands in the world.

- Massively increased Mac, iPhone, iPad, install base.

- Avoided the sort of ridiculous cash burning acquisitions to inflate growth Ballmer was guilty of.

Apple has a bunch of mis-steps under Cook, but none of them have had long term company damaging impact. Many of the things people beat Cook up over were actually things Jobs was as bad/ worse with. For example almost all the App Store policies everyone hates were created under Jobs. Jobs was also far more protective and litigious.

Cook isn't Jobs, since Jobs is dead the comparison is pointless. Cook has done better than the vast majority of CEOs who have taken over successful brands. Apple is doing just fine.
and my impression was that all good things that started under his regime (Azure, more openness)

I think a lot of that was Ray Ozzie. I guess Balmer deserves some credit at least for hiring him?

MS under Ballmer lost couple of generations of programmers

A lot of younger programmers may not realize this, but in the 90’s, all roads led to Microsoft. If you were a programmer and you didn’t know at least some of the MS acronym soup of Win32/VB/ATL/MFC/etc/etc, you weren’t getting paid. Microsoft and Windows completely dominated commercial software development. And then what happened?

Balmer tried stupidly to kill the web. He redeployed the IE team and assumed that the web would stagnate without his attention. He’d killed Netscape and the threat had passed. In the meantime, Mozilla and Apple and Google were forming the whatwg and architecting the next generation of the web. And MS was not only not a part of it, but had lost all credibility in the eyes of web and browser devs.

And then of course he also got caught flat-footed by the iPhone. Balmer was a serial failure as a CEO. Maybe he deserves some credit, a little bit at least for Azure? But he’ll always be remembered for all of those stupid quips he made about how Apple wasn’t going to be able to make headway in the smartphone biz.
Le Corbusier! I love encountering people that know who he is, and why he's so important.

Do you know Robert Moses? I feel like those two people have pretty much ruined America, and almost no one has heard of them.

I just purchased a house in Golden, CO, where I have all of the things you're talking about - walkable, coffee shops, restaurants, grocery stores in tolerably close distance.

I'm trying to get Golden to legalize a style of building that would make all of these good things more plentiful and more affordable.

I am writing about two competing "visions" for a block of what is currently a surface parking lot in downtown Golden.

One option is not pleasant, the other option is delightful, and illegal.

I bet it'll all be right up your alley:

https://josh.works/#what-this-newsletter-is-about
Yes, but that work is becoming rare. As the workflows, tools advance further ,it will be easier to do offline analysis which otherwise need meetings.
It's powerful, and a definite step up over crystallography in some ways, but personally I think structural biology has repeatedly been oversold as a method to understand the function of proteins at the molecular level. I say that as somebody who obtained a PhD in NMR spectroscopy and worked for 15 years on structural biology problems.

I've come to see SB as a visualization tool that helps form hypotheses, but not an actual method by which most protein structural/function problems can be directly solved.

The techniques which seem to provide the most utility are fluorescent imaging with light microscopy, often at low magnification. These are more amenable to scale-up and machine learning, both of which are likely to be necessary to unlock the next level of understanding biology.
Another blast from the past: Lala. Before Apple bought them, you could buy the rights to stream any song from their website for 10 cents. This was during the era of dollar downloads, so you essentially got a steep discount in exchange for needing to use a non-mobile device. I loved that service.
Who has?

We're still on Facebook and Twitter and Youtube, using iPhones to play digital music. You say 2020, I say 2009.

Wireless earbuds and smart watches I guess are the only "game changing" (they're not) inventions of note for the past decade?

Web... phone... computer... they're just more refined versions of products we had in 2009.
Ah yes! Sorry the settings I posted are for the original crab rave music video in 4k.
Sure. But there is no actual thing as "free" money, in the sense that it all comes from somewhere. And honestly, probably nothing is truly free. Even sunlight is the result of spent nuclear potential of the Sun. Unearned is maybe a more precise adjective to use in these scenarios.

But again, the point behind my comment was to explain where the money was actually coming from. I feel like these responses keep trying to apply a moral-judgement reading to my comment where none was intended. If one didn't know the details behind merchant credit processing, they didn't know where that cash back was coming from. And the answer is that the merchant still lost money in that transaction.
If you learn classical methods of drawing techniques you often do poses in different time frames - 1 minutes, then 2 minute, then 5 and 15 minute poses.

The shorter poses don't let you put in any detail but you learn how to quickly express gesture and delineate important masses and shadow.

For 5 minutes poses you're essentially practicing the first 5 minutes of a drawing intentionally without intending to finish it.

It's essentially a similar idea.
Seems to be down

https://web.archive.org/web/20201023091717/ruzkuku.com/txt/m...
They had a little momentum building but they broke app compatibility between versions 7 and 8. Why would any developer trust them again?
Yes, but that would require adding a Congressperson (#EC = #HofR + #Senate + 3 for DC).
Our "exorbitant privelege" is not going to last forever. When the imf called. For a new Bretton woods moment last week, ending that system is what they were talking about.
It's an amazing echo chamber. 7 pixels in the address bar were the end of Mozilla. In reality, most people who browse the Web barely know what address bar is, and couldn't care less how much padding it has.

I use Nightly and haven't even noticed when it changed. I've only learned about the "controversy" after the fact. But then again, I must be a lunatic, because I think Pocket is useful.
Indeed. CLKSCREW is the progenitor of that work. Note that in the context of security, it only matters if undervolting can cross security boundaries. This was possible on Intel systems at the time of Plundervolt but has since been fixed.
I think the difference between the criticism of Chrome and the criticism of Firefox lies in the marketing. Firefox is constantly telling me that they are the good guys. The last bastion of privacy and user-first on the web. But in reality they are doing a lot of questionable and shady stuff that that they need to be called out for.