skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever tried golf? It’s incredibly addicting and a great sport to get into for the long haul. Basically nothing about golf can hurt your body. If you’re torquing your back you’re doing it wrong!
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Do-it-yourself E-Ink laptop
tired of looking at glowing screens? Make an E-Ink laptop that emits no light as follows: Dasung 13.3" E-Ink monitor + raspberri pi 4000 + Ubuntu 20.10 pi desktop
While I agree with you that most universities don't generally prepare you for the job market (especially when it comes to CS), this is not an option for almost all students:

> if your institution "has" to use this sort of software, it's not worth attending

Because of the sheer number of applicants in many places, whether a person has a relevant college degree and how much they scored in college is often the first "filter" jobs apply while sorting candidates, and if you can't get past that, it's essentially impossible for you to get a job.

Students will stop going to college for courses that don't prepare them for the job market when the job market stops requiring them to do so, which definitely isn't the case right now.
As a vegetarian I just don't like tasting even trace amounts of meat in my food.

Would you care if bits of human carcass were mixed into your food? That's how I feel about the cows that you all are murdering.
VT-x itself is not the main attack surface. It's all the interfaces between the inside and the outside of the VMs, for example graphics hardware emulation, network hardware emulation, etc. etc. There have been many of these bugs, on qubes/xen, and basically every other popular hypervisor. I have personally found a kernel memory disclosure vulnerability affecting xen, which I tested under qubes (it wasn't a very useful bug, but the point is, they exist and they are plentiful).

Furthermore, the "blue pill" attack is not a vulnerability in VT-x itself. In fact, it does not exploit any vulnerabilities at all - it simply works off the idea that code running in ring n can hide itself from code running ring+1 (the bluepill hypervisor being ring -1).
Tesla has multiple EVs, and has had EV models longer than Tesla has existed.

They don't have a network of EV chargers because they implemented the industry standard, so their EVs can charge at any charging station except Tesla's.

Tesla doesn't have much of a solar panel business either; SolarCity went from being the world-leader to one of the smallest non-regional solar panel businesses in the country.

No other automaker has an insurance business. This is because it's not a competitive advantage to have an insurance business. The reason Tesla has one is because their cars are so expensive to insure due to parts shortages and labor costs that their cars would be prohibitively expensive to insure if they didn't step in as insurer of last resort.

And probably most importantly, as many industry observers have noted: Tesla's market position is extremely fragile. Now that they have actual competition in Europe, Tesla is no longer dominating EV sales. It's pretty much being kept alive solely because the big U.S. automakers are keeping it alive so they can buy clean car credits from it. (Tesla has never come close to posting a quarterly or annual profit with selling these credits.)
I wonder if modern peasants can fight and win against the knights.

You can't own a knife in many countries without a license let alone a gun. It's all tracked. There are targeted missiles, drones, autonomous guns, surveillance, radar, bombs, tear gas, tasers, tanks, bullet and knife proof clothing, exoskeleton, etc available to the knights. Knights are many times more organized than they have ever been in history.

Recent incident in Nigeria where military massacred the protestors: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54630592

How do you protect yourself as a peasant against the Knights?
A few ideas for how peasants can defeat a knight:

1) Use disguises to approach in circumstances where a knight is vulnerable

2) Surprise arson in the middle of the night

3) Pit trap

4) Deadfall trap

With outside resources from wealthy parties interested in influencing the land in which the peasants live, a guerilla war can be sustained for several years.
> It is wrong, it a real sense, to have unreasonable personal rules about a restaurant kitchen.

It's wrong to eat meat.
Peut-etre fondue et racelette est la vraie potion magique?
I'm not claiming he is _definitively_ doing so, even just in part for tax purposes. Nor am I claiming he is not already able to use many advantageous tax loopholes in the US.

I only claim two things. One, that by most reasonable definitions, Cyprus is a tax haven -- there is even a recent sordid history there, exposed in The Cyprus Papers. And two, given tax havens are often used as a means to minimize tax in transferring wealth from one generation to the next [0] among other things, I think it's a dubious claim to say "There is no dodge" as you have so unequivocally done.

[0] Via Panama and Jersey, not Cyprus, but for example these schemes were used by David Cameron's father, and by Jimmy Carr before he bowed to public pressure -- all quite legal and non-magical, and I'm sure US citizens could use similar schemes, in spite of their global reach. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/apr/20/cameron-fam...
Another one in Python. Also cool: https://github.com/kitao/pyxel
At least, I’d wager most people know that E. Coli is dangerous[0], which has about the same effect.

0: ignoring the subtleties of gut bacterial ecosystems
Check out what happened to replaytv (bought by directv) and sagetv (bought by google) if you want to be disheartened.

Although at least sagetv was eventually open-sourced.
Please tell me what parts of my statement are incorrect or misinformed. I’d love to learn more, but I haven’t gained anything from your snark!
The US credit system isn't devised to be something where those with little debt are to be trusted most. It's 100% the contrary. Banks like to see how you handle debt. Every line of credit they monitor your payments and what you do with it. Also having large amounts of available credit but not using it shows you don't see debt/revolving credit as "free money" but something you have to pay back.

So many Americans associate debt as being a bad thing. Debt is just an asset offset by liability. People of all walks of life in all income brackets can successfully manage debt in a proper way that can give you a good credits score.

People who don't know how to handle debt fall into two camps: those who are up to their eyeballs in loans, and those who pay it off right away because they're afraid of interest. Credit cards and HELOC's are a bit different simply because they are devised to be continuously open and revolving. Credit cards being paid in full is a good thing purely because 30% apy is usury, flat out.

Your income means nothing to a bank when you lose your job but had no debt. Your debt means everything if you lost your job but still could make payments on time and in full. Banks like to see that. It means you're a trustworthy borrower and can make payments on time in any situation. That's exactly WHY they give these people better rates.

Also because of federal laws and equal opportunity for mortgage applications, they need to have a system that is unbiased for all. So while you think you got screwed, again, blame the 2008 USA government. They attributed somehow the mortgage crisis to racism and not enough minorities owning property and less so on the real problem: private mortgage brokers. These people are human filth that lie through their way in the process of lending, break federal laws CONSTANTLY, and maximize loan sizes without a care in the world so long as it gets approved. They make payday loans look like childs play. Yet the federal government hasn't touched these guys...
This will just accelerate CNAME flattening - that's already available on CloudFlare.
Classic example of "Don't Try to Mine Gold When You Can Sell Shovels".
Sounds surprisingly familiar

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/3r...
Oh, I have no intention of skipping the vaccine (you can see if you read my comment to the end). I was commenting more on the desire to get a vaccine early.
This is doable right now with some effort, which I kind of like because it keeps the cat-and-mouse game paused for a while.

The moment someone makes a one-click browser that lets the average person spoof all these things, then sites are going to start building captcha-style verification mechanisms like having to "wink three times" in your video to get it to proceed.
This checks out - thanks.

The below article makes mention of a fact that may complicate things though - big strong slaves were worth more. Presumably slave owners had this in mind so had an ulterior motive for feeding slaves better.

It’s one bleak subject.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11718681_The_Height...
Here's an entire demoscene demo on a microcontroller.

https://youtu.be/sNCqrylNY-0
The x++ isn't necessary.

x = 1;
assert(x==1); // May fail in a parallel world
I hear you. I've had moments in life of similar grief and it always felt borderline absurd. What's striking to me is that it makes you feel like not only is life going to shit at that moment, you're not even allowed to be dignified as a person for a while. I get why it happens though, as I've made the same mistake to others. Cultural reflex, perhaps?

For me personally, the best interactions I ever had during those times were when people would talk to me like a normal person. Asking about things about the events themselves, the person, anything about the topic that came to mind like any curious person would. If it was too much, they were happy to move on of course. It was really nice.
I worked on a large extremely high performance system (dozens of developers) that’s almost entirely lock free, and constantly mutates shared state. Concurrency issues weren’t really a big problem in that code base. Developers took a long time to ramp up, but that’s an OK tradeoff in my book.

None of this would have been possible without lead developers that designed and continuously refined the guard rails that our internal “standard library” implemented.

Oddly, I now find it easier to reason about lock free algorithms than mutex based code (and I wrote the latter for 15 years before working on the lock free system)
Are they though? Mass farming puts humans into orders of magnitude more contact with animals than wet markets. In the case of covid, a wet market led to the disease. There are plenty of cases — just about the majority of plagues — where a domesticated animal led to disease
And I want the Army to get the fuck out of the Middle East. Not gonna happen now, I know, but I still want it. A man can dream, right?

I don't get the downvotes for this one in particular. Does anyone here _not_ want to stop droning children in the Middle East?
Yeah, that's where my journey started. I've explored those quite a bit, even wrote a GLSL solver (wave-glsl.github.io/web) to visualize height maps of the u_tt = u_xx + u_yy equation (there is a shallow water equation solver there as well). Problems were that:

(1) Making a stable and fast solver is very difficult. A simple solver for the canonical wave equation is fast, but unstable, so the solution has to be periodically adjusted to avoid NaNs. A stable solver, even for the simplest equation, would be 20x slower. For complex cases, we'd have to involve the Floquet theory, but that would bring an already slow solver to a halt.

(2) A wave diff equation can barely visualize a select frequency, not even a simple mix of frequencies or let alone music. The thing is such wave equations and their boundary shapes have a few select "resonance frequencies" that produce semi-stable patterns. Even a tiny step from a stable frequency, e.g. 6.1 Hz vs 6 Hz, and the solution turns into a mix of unstable patterns morphing one into another, which is cool, but not visually appealing. Mixing multiple frequencies together often produces an unstable mess and even if a pattern forms, you're never sure if it's the pattern for that frequency or just a transient shape, and if it's transient, you can't know if it's due to numeric errors or due to the nature of the equation.

(3) Limited resolution. The rule of thumb is that on a 1000x1000 px screen, the densest Chladni pattern would make 500 full wave repetitions, one pixel per positive and negative sides of the wave. This means we can render only the 500 different frequencies, with 500 Hz slowly turning into a mess due to rounding errors (2 pixels per wave period isn't really enough). Increasing the internal solver buffer to say 4096px brings fps down to 3-4.

However, despite all this, Chladni patterns are hiding something very remarkable, that seems to be glossed over in technical papers. If you imagine that a Chaldni pattern is a water or glass surface, with reflective and refractive properties, and look at the reflection of a simple symmetric object, e.g. a ring, you'd see something resembling a 3d hologram: all these inter-reflections will produce a "virtual image" or remarkable complexity. This picture can be taken by a hi-res camera, but visualizing it with GLSL is again very difficult: the raytracer needs to be outrageously precise.
Holey JavaScript Arrays
AppleCrate II: A New Apple II-Based Parallel Computer (2015)
More vaccine for me.
Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping's China (2019)
An incompetent knight can survive for a long period on bluster alone. Think of modern bosses who have no acumen at technical or logistical concerns but are successful in bullying underlings. The business does not fail instantly in most such circumstances, rather it just falls into a gradual decline.

The villagers, on the other hand, are used to invaders coming through. Their condition is likely to remain poor either way: The knight is more likely to come through after something happened, rather than preventing it from happening. Most of the daily decision making is up to the community.

The knight's recruitment efforts can always come with the promise of gaining wealth and status, which will always encourage some young folks, even if the knight is a bad boss who plans no real rewards. Records that uncover his lies are hard to acquire and most of what you learn will come from rumor instead.
The mount was not as heavily armored, however, as modern armor vehicles are, and extremely vulnerable to pikemen (as many other commenters here have brought up: the landsknechts).

Back to the analogy, a peasant (in the modern sense) is unlikely going to be as able to obtain an anti-tank or armor piercing rounds as easily as a peasant (medieval sense) could pick up a pike.
Soda taxes are stupid. Look at cigarettes. Still in existence yet you're taxing the (more than likely) poorer class of people because they got addicted to something. If you really want to stop this, you regulate the factories that produce the goods. You can't deter economic behavior among consumers simply by charging more. You can however alter their habits if the market goods that exist change.

For instance, when I buy groceries at walmart, if they don't have tyson boneless chicken that i want but instead great value boneless chicken, and I need chicken, I'm going to buy the great value chicken. Likewise in the scenario, if all fruit juices contained far less sugar, all of the country could adapt. If they want more sugar, nothing is stopping them from manually adding it themselves.

Extra taxes are just imposed upon lower classes. Just because you charge more from an item doesn't stop poor people from buying it. It just makes them poorer.
That’s a bad example I guess. For something I struggled more with, take history. When I was in school it had a huge focus on trivia like dates, while I’m now fascinated by it, focusing on the cause and effect of things. But you can’t easily assess someone’s understanding of that side of things in a standardized manner, so it gets short shrift. Success is defined by the factors that least matter, and students, wanting to spend their efforts efficiently, will focus on the measures that define success.

As for the “most people can’t derive the quadratic formula,” you might be right about my blind spots, but I think it’s equally likely that I’m right and have the necessary point of view to see that most people can’t do it because it’s taught and tested poorly. Both explanations would equally explain it being easier for me to derive the formula than memorize it.
Can anyone comment on why oatmilk is so expensive then. Because oats are super cheap. But 1L of oat milk is $4.50 where I live, which crazy because thats more than regular milk.
Let people pick an emoji that represents their current mood. Bonus points if you import all Discord gifs.

Emojis are the body language of the web.
The solution to "mob rule" isn't less democracy traditionally it to provide rights that require more than a simple majority to abrogate. This also means that if you believe that the document requires amendments to better protect rights NOW that also means that you will require overwhelming support for that as well.

The interesting thing is what DOES not take 2/3 is a compact by an increasing number of states to give their votes to whom ever wins the popular vote if enough states to equal 270 votes enact it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...

States worth 196 states have enacted it and states worth 60 are pending. If we push hard we can have this in the next 10 years whether people like you disagree or not.
Boeing Just Sold It's Superyacht
Vitamin D: Problems With the Latitude Hypothesis (2010)
Repetition to wire up thought processes and logic (why do X instead of Y) != Arbitrary memorization of trivia (X formula or Y proof)

The difference between learning X and understanding X
How does that help if you have multiple cores?
I'd bet that in a few iterations the plant based meats will taste better too.

It took them a pretty long time to get the food to taste like meat, there's nothing stopping them from tweaking the taste even more. Their food science must be pretty alright as it stands.

A few dozen taste variables and you get thousands of distinct tastes. You can tailor the taste in some acceptable 'tastes-good' parameters to fit just about anything:

'Introducing the Captain America 7 Burger (TM)! Unique and only at Burger King! Our unique blend of spices combined with our Burger scientists American gumption have created the perfect burger for shared virtual summer fun! Order with Shield Sauce (TM) for that taste of Freedom!'
Can you point me to a rebuttal of his points?

I just hear a lot of IQ fanatics calling he is wrong, yet haven’t seen anything that takes his argument apart.

Also seeing the history of IQ, I don’t trust much in these tests

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/g-mis...

I mean if we don’t know what we are measuring, how can we be sure we are measuring it. Do you have a definition for intelligence?
It won't succeed in changing the outcome of the election—but I doubt that's the plan. Instead, it's to create a widespread feeling that the election was stolen, and use that resentment to support obstructionism and as fuel for the next election.
Each country provides their own guidelines to border officers. How clear these are and how closely they are followed varies from country to country. Just because one country's officers apparently deny people entry on a whim doesn't mean that's what happens everywhere.
Yeah, if anything the first thing this makes me think is "how could I circumvent this?", on a test I otherwise would have just gone with and not even considered cheating. Maybe it's the hacker mind in me, or maybe these things actually induce more cheating than they prevent...
Also a good indicator of what is fruit juice and what is not is look if it's a cocktail, vitamin c, no added sugars (high fructose corn syrup), and ingredients in general.

I never buy juice unless it's roughly 80-100% plus in vitamin c and it contains 0 added sugars. I'm often shocked how many "juices" are literally de-carbonized soda with a healthy looking image.
it depends on what you are looking for. if i don't stay in a place for at least a month, then it's almost not worth it for me. i want the routine, i want to live and work and not be on a permanent vacation. i have done both, backpacking for 3 months at a time, during student holidays, being a digital nomad where i stayed for days, sometimes weeks, essentially as long as i was welcome, or as long as my passport allowed me to stay, at someones couch. but i also got jobs with work permits and stayed for longer, so that over a decade i lived in 7 different countries and visited a few more.

20 years later i still don't consider myself having settled, i am just staying longer in each place. and i am open to new opportunities. i am just thinking in years now, instead of days or weeks.
> Memorization is absolutely crucial to getting good at math.

I have a terrible memory and I excel at math (and majored in physics in undergrad) precisely because it doesn’t require memorization.

I don’t know anyone who is good at math who operates by memorization.
Isn't the image size mostly independent of chrome? Docker images are gigabytes, right? But chrome is only ~60 Mb.
We are still thinking of ways to capture scores for various open source projects in an automated fashion and/or work with GitHub to display this kind of information as part of their user interface. Right now, project maintainers need to run it themselves.
What’s the distinction between evidence and authority in practical sense?

Vaccine efficacy according to FDA says it’s 90%. ~~~~> Authority.

Paper published by FDA shows data ~~~~> Evidence.

Right?

Who wrote the paper and who collected the data? Some authority.
Which is contradicted by Kosher dietary restrictions being struck down in the New Testament.

Part of the power of the Bible is its contradictions. Like in math, you can use one contradiction to prove any statement true.
I've written about it elsewhere, but I think that concurrency is easier if you really stick to a methodology.

Fork-join is the simplest methodology, and supported in a very wide number of languages. In fact, its so stupidly easy, you probably are going to over-think it the first time you use it.

1. Fork when you need concurrency (aka: speed)

2. Join when you need consistency

That's it. Don't write mutexes, don't write barriers. Just join. That's all you need: if you ever need "synchronized" access, do it in the "single" or "master" thread, when all other threads are joined.

You _cannot_ have a race-condition if you only have one thread. Joins ensure that only one thread is running. What else do you want?

Fork-join parallelism has relatively low utilization. Its not the fastest approach, but its the "easiest" approach in my eyes.

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The #1 issue with parallelism books, in my eyes, is that we start with mutexes and threads, which are a very hard way to do parallelism.

I argue instead: beginners should start with easy (but inefficient) forms of parallelism, and then work their way towards complicated tools as performance becomes more-and-more of a consideration.