skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry that that was your PhD experience. It's a pity that enthusiastic students end up there, often because they're not given the right environment to thrive (e.g. a good lab and a supervisor that cares).

There isn't much to say to respond to that, apart that it seems to me that, in a parallel universe, you might have had a more fulfilling experience, or you might have cut your losses and walked away sooner.

That's the cruel aspect of the PhD. It really seems like a lot of important things are outside of one's control, especially when it comes to important factors in mental health. Nobody's starting a PhD with the goal of sinking hours into Reddit and Buffy because they feel awful about their PhD experience.
Seems like a good start. :)
I doubt these will actually be built. With a projected price point of $78/MWh [0] these are already way more expensive than existing offshore wind, even if they'd actually get built without budget overruns.

[0] = https://newatlas.com/energy/rolls-royce-plans-mini-nuclear-r...
There is a good alternative, and we are already using it.

Solar PV and wind turbines are already the cheapest and greenest source of energy and are set to decrease in price more as they ramp up.

They're already causing the closure of existing coal and nuclear plants for purely economic reasons.

It sometimes feels like people with oddly strong opinions on nuclear power are posting from some alternate dimension where the only alternative is coal.

Nuclear is cool tech, so are vertical wind turbines and wave powered generators and concentrated solar molten salt generators. But they're all more expensive than PV and turbines.
The Japanisation of white young men - hikikomori will become far more frequent I believe.

They will descend into junk food, video games, porn, YouTube and depression and either no job or jobs they hate.
As a native English speaker and middling foreign-language speaker of German, "halzenfugel" sounds to me like a mock-German word that an English speaker would make up.
I doubt they’d implement PCIe since they don’t need that for their baked in GPU to talk to their baked in CPU.
Not even proto-lifeforms - any pile of interesting organic chemicals is going to immediately be devoured (i.e. go moldy) well before it can spontaneously assemble into anything. This is why we have fridges..
Nit: isn’t

> Armed with accounts-daemon’s PID, you can use kill to send the SIGSTOP signal

what `pkill` is for?
(I am not from UK, so it is likely that I am missing a rather sizeable context. If that is the case, pointing out of the missing pieces would be appreciated)

Those connections are correlations, not causations, are they not? I fear they will be seen and used as the latter. Personally, I would love to see confidence intervals associated with the connections shown.
>But if the last few years of Apple's new hardware is telling us anything, is that Apple is now strictly casual-oriented, and if you're in any capacity a professional, you need to start thinking about getting a PC again.

Was the new Mac Pro not 'professional' enough for you? Up to 28 core CPU, 1.5 TB of RAM, capable of driving six 6K monitors and so on? Even the iMac Pro is absurdly overpowered for 'casual' usage.
That's distressing to hear. For many months I struggled with performance issues and throttling on my Macbook Pro (15 inch, mid 2017). I went down a bunch of rabbit holes, messing with Time Machine backup, paranoia about specific apps pegging the CPU. The issue with one side of the thunderbolt ports running hotter than the other, and maybe that was causing the system to heat up to the point of throttling.

Finally I discovered it was my external monitors - I have have 2 4k monitors connected and I use display scaling on both. This apparently strains the integrated GPU, heats up the system, and caused the throttling. As ridiculous as it was to purchase an external enclosure and video card - that solved the issue. Now the system runs flawlessly.
I posted this elsewhere in the thread but even without exit polls we can make some reasonably solid conclusions from geographical voting data: https://sweep.thedispatch.com/p/the-sweep-dont-trust-the-exi...

At this point it seems pretty clear that Trump made big gains among Latinos compared to 2016; with other demographics the jury is still out (I think.)
this has a pretty good analysis https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...

This is far from Apple's first in-house processor, and they were already way ahead of other ARM chips before the M1
It would be great to see similar comparison for TimescaleDB vs VictoriaMetrics :) There are some benchmarks ([1], [2], [3]) that compare performance and resource usage between TimescaleDB, InfluxDB and VictoriaMetrics, but these benchmarks may be outdated.

[1] https://medium.com/@valyala/when-size-matters-benchmarking-v...

[2] https://medium.com/@valyala/high-cardinality-tsdb-benchmarks...

[3] https://medium.com/@valyala/insert-benchmarks-with-inch-infl...
No overreaction, just sharing what I'm seeing in the European film industry already. Film professionals couldn't care less if it's Mac or PC, as long as it runs the software they want to run, that it won't make them lose their mind with performance issues and won't cost similarly to a semi-fancy car.

Apple currently is making it clear that they are not actively targeting those people anymore (max 16GB of memory, really?) and professionals are finally noticing, which is why in the last few years you see more and more professionals moving back to PC after being on macOS for many years.
https://www.apple.com/mac/m1/

There's no claim of any 5-6x faster than previous there. It says "fastest integrated" (and in the fine print that integrated is specifically unified monolithic die, eliminating chiplet-style products), and then also "M1 delivers significantly higher graphics performance than the very latest PC laptop chip — for up to 2x the graphics speed."

So take the 4800U, which has among the fastest commercially available integrated graphics in a monolithic die, and double the GPU performance. If you needed a discreet GPU in your laptop previously this probably won't change that.
You're not wrong. Both can be (and often are) abuses of market power.
Do we truly believe that on die memory has similar costs? I don't see how this is remotely possible but its going to take tear downs of both configurations to check what is going on; as in are the 8gb units using chips which never had the circuitry or perhaps disabled by hardware and its still there?
I my view the problem is these objections (though valid at face value) are used to shut down the conversation, not to advance it. I'm not white, does that matter in this instance? Yes, because my lived experience will be very different from yours. But this whole thing is only valuable if I can explain what's missing from your mental model. Lived experience was supposed to give you cover over not knowing racial conditions upfront and give an avenue and tools for us to incorporate more information.

This argument originated to facilitate nuance but is being used to shut it out. That fucking sucks.
You might like looking at the Testing Library (www.testing-library.com) group of projects which supports has support for Puppeteer and Playwright, React etc.

They use similar approach by querying elements by their ARIA roles. I think that helps to improve the accessibility of the page as you the idea is to change the markup to make it queryable through ARIA.

There is also the awesome testing playground extension for Chrome and as web-site to help write these queries: https://www.testing-playground.com
An application that allows to independently manage capital in the stock market.
Hi! My name is Ivan and I am the founder of Dominant Investors, an application that allows you to independently manage your capital in the stock market.
(https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dominant-investing-in-stocks/id1147502198)

I've always wanted to make money investing in stocks. My capital is not huge enough to pay someone to manage it. So I decided to do it myself.

So I was interested in the question of what strategy can bring me profit with the minimum investment of time and effort. Having analyzed dozens of trading strategies, my assistant Bogdan and I have developed our own trading system that allows you to quickly and easily form an investment portfolio from stocks of companies with aggressive growth. We have created an application that generates trade orders with a given stock entry point, stop loss level and target price for taking profit. The user only has to select the volume of shares to buy and send a trade order to his brokerage account.

To practice and check how everything works, the application has a built-in virtual trading account to which can first send trading orders so as not to risk real money.

We also created a general rating of investors, in which the first place is taken by the one whose investment portfolio has received the greatest profit in percentage terms. We also plan to provide users with the opportunity to follow the leading investors from the rating and receive trade orders from them with all the necessary information to makes transactions.

We’d love to hear your feedback and are happy to answer any of your questions. Thanks!
The Plan to Turn Scrapped Rockets into Space Stations Is Back from the Dead
An efficient way to create nanographene for power and display devices
"we know not to do the thing that makes them explode" This is not the core problem. The core problem is that explosion can still happen - even if we "know not to do the thing that makes them explode". It can happen because of a natural disaster, because of war and because of other unpredictable reason. To avoid the possible explosion and consequences altogether it is better to not have them in the first place!
As a prospective student from a developing country looking to apply for fall'21 cycle- not really. Given the stipend provided by an avg US university, and taking cost of living into account, my standard of living is likely to be lower in USA than in my home country.

There are lots of great positives about doing a PhD in USA- salary/stipend is definitely not one of them.
Purple is both red and blue, both from the steepest parts of the spectrum. The green part of the spectrum is literally nowhere near that.

And again, organisms with purple chlorophyll have and continue to exist, so it's not like it's impossible or produces very incompetitive lifeforms.
Alphabet delivers wireless Internet over light beams from 20km away
To me beginning of life is a combinatorial issue. You have to have the right combination of lots of different things (chemicals, weather conditions, time etc) to have it happened. What’s scary (or interesting) to me is that we have access to labs and are capable of quickly iterating with lots of different combinations; yet no life arised. If it’s hard in a lab it’s probably a lot harder in nature where to get a different set of combinations you need a new planet! Hence why I think life is rare in the universe.
To add more, it gets its name "shell code" from the fact that a lot of the time, the point of the exploit is to launch a system shell that the attacker can control.
> My point was that it's extremely common for PhD students to just go through the motions

I think you misspelled 'human'. Of course people do that. And of course there are places to 'practice pretend research' - we've just spent multiple generations flipping universities into something much closer to businesses. Business caters to customers, what do you expect them to do?
In my town, I doubt you'd sell all that many. There aren't many significant business--and what there is are essentially a spillover from the adjacent small city in one part of town. We did have a small paper for a time that was quite good but the publisher got ill and it shut down. And to the degree there are other chain local papers in the area, our small rural town is essentially ignored.
He was perfectly allowed to do that by his work contract (and so his wife, since in swiss marriage wealth is shared, and so are taxes here). That argument didn't work well in face of public and he was let go very quickly.
Has the US actually decided on a permanent nuclear waste repository?
"robot" usually implies it can move around. This is just a scarecrow that tilts back snd forth and plays sound effects.
Of course solar and wind are awesome, but they are dependent on external factors and thus not fully comparable. If there is no sun (or wind), you get no power. Nuclear and fuel-burning power plants are not like that, and the difference matters.

You either need to specify an an energy storage solution on a scale large enough to handle when there is no sun, or expect us poor folks in the Nordics (for instance) to just migrate to the south. :)
By the same logic in the article I think we should tax electric cars and bikes as ppl using them save more money than those driving petrol ones.
Inappropriate Applications of Benford’s Law [pdf]
Honoring America’s Veterans
Working from an office is certainly good for keeping the price of commercial real estate high. And if you’re a bank who loans money to people who buy/build commercial real estate with that money, and then the value of the commercial real estate falls... well you’d be in for a giant world of pain.

If people can’t repay their loans you’re now stuck with something worth a lot less than all that money you gave out. OOPS.

I’ve been wondering what banks are going to do about this one. It’s a long term trend happening much faster than anyone could predict.
To be clear, the individual in question was neither incarcerated life, nor was incarcerated for shoplifting.

>just an example I thought of myself right now but I'm pretty sure it's real

You're pretty sure it's real eh?
> Greenpeace's comment is pretty disappointing.

But completely unsurprising. Greenpeace pivoted from an anti-military nuclear to an anti-civilian nuclear stance to try and remain relevant, they've been a negative force in the world ever since.

They've been raising awareness about AGW while actively fighting one of the best tools to mitigate it for more than 30 years.
Small bits of copywriting and social media tips shared weekly to you inbox
> (max 16GB of memory, really?)

Again, this is the first iteration of the M1 chip. Again, you can buy a different Mac and spec it out to 32GB if you have that requirement.

I'm a professional. I'm "noticing". I'm still buying a Mac.
You can use log and monitoring signals to whitebox test certain implementation details to an otherwise stateless interface.

I would say it's not great practice, but, it can remove a lot of contortions to be able to make assertions about the execution path taken when doing a unit test.

If I have a tricky thing to test. I ask, if I added the required operational monitoring (e.g. queue sizes)? Would I suddenly be able to test this easier? Would it make the test more self explanatory. If the answer is yes I might add the monitoring and then do the unit testing. If the answer is no I have to refactor the implementation for testability.

conclusion: exposing logs and especially monitoring counters to unit tests can actually super charge your testing and leave you net positive
I am looking forward to compile time benchmarks for Chromium. I think this chip and SoC architecture may make the Air a truly fantastic dev box for larger projects.
Isn't there a high environmental cost to building PVs? (extraction of required resources from mines - I realise nuclear requires this too). I like green energy a lot, but don't believe they come at zero cost. Also PVs work for half of the day at best, and wind blows sometimes... What we need is all of the above. Diversity in energy.

When most vehicles are electric are need to be charged at night, I'm not sure PV and turbines will cut it.
> I'm guessing Apple is looking at the Mac hardware in the same light. "Want more power? Buy a new laptop!"

How often do phone users actually upgrade their phones for more power? I mostly use my computer to develop software, play video games, and edit media, and stream videos. I mostly use my phone to text, play music, and access the internet.

Almost every PC purchase I've ever made was driven by a need for better performance, but I've never upgraded my phone for that reason. I've upgrade my phone for a better screen, a better camera, a bigger battery, software support, new hardware features (4G, biometrics, USB-C, etc)... but never because I felt like I needed a faster processor or more system memory.
Does it really take that much for a company to be an interesting target for industrial espionage ?
Congratulations and well done for finding this bug, you deserve a virtual medal of some sort..
If you have watched Social Dilemma or really mental health industry in general. Mental health issues are at the peak, especially in the last 10 years.

I've known Massimo Pigliucci or Sam Harris or many other Atheists for a long time; they all tend to be stoics. Atheists who generally would be Christians or Jews otherwise are often Stoics in replacement. This isn't unusual, it's logical.

The general increase in Atheism, I believe means Stoicism will take off. I think it needs to take off. If it doesn't take off, there's going to continued increase in mental health.
Permanent means they can’t reuse it so
AY-3-8910 Reverse Engineered
So, if I choose to work in the office because I prefer and not because I don't have a choice I still benefit from someone who has no choice but work remotely?

Who pays for bills incurred due to working from home?

I can sort see this being a temporary tax on exceptional circumstances (such as public health crisis that halts work for those non-remote) but the proposal explicitly excludes this.

As a permanent tax this only sounds like a tax to make employees (since self-employed won't be taxed) pay for a hypothetical change in paradigm of how people work. Society has been investing in a model (expensive centralized infrastructure for on-site work) that is become obsolete and to sustain this obsolete model they propose to make employees pay for the transition.
They're fighting yesterday's battles. We should have been pushing nuclear hard 10 and 20 years ago. Today we have alternatives that are both much cheaper and much quicker.
I also did pure mathematics, and this summarises my experiences perfectly.
I am glad to see old hardware is being preserved. Is there a fanbase for old Sound Blaster cards? The only thing I remember about my SoundBlaster 16 is that the MIDI presets sounded nothing like the instruments they were named after.
Oscilloscope options are famous for being trivial to enable, and I think Rigol finally did the right thing by just selling the scopes "pre-hacked", enabling the options that everyone was gonna enable on their own within minutes of unboxing the thing anyway.

Debates rage endlessly about whether the manufacturer is in the right to lock-out certain features or sell low-end scopes at a loss or a zillion other business questions. But the fact of the matter is, the clientele for this particular product is _hardware engineers_, and hardware engineers seem to take a stronger view than most, that if they bought it, they own it, they're going to use it.

Particularly in the case of this old Tek that hasn't been sold in decades, I think anything that keeps it out of the solid waste stream is great.
Library for easy discovery, and consumption of models to turn data into vectors
Not to detract on your conclusion (I do think like is hard due to some estimates on chemical combinations), but there are way more planets than experiments on Earth about abiogenesis.
I have a working copy of Dr Sbaitso. I was showing it to my kids afew years ago... Good times.
That quote has summed up whats going on at Apple for quite a while now. Under Tim Cook we've seen what was once a product line with each archetype having it's place and having meaningful difference and care put into it fragment into many different tiers designed to milk a few more hundred dollars while also trying to reduce the BOM at every step.

Long time Apple fans who would in the past have championed how much care and vision Apple puts into their products now champion how working this way is so important because apparently building shareholder value is something an end customer should care about.
The closest I've found is the Spotify open-source project "Backstage", which uses Discord for communication (https://github.com/backstage/backstage) - I have no idea about the rest of Spotify, mind.
Yeah, like most first gen Apple gear, it's probably wise to hold off until they work the kinks out. That being said, my MacBook Air is getting a little long in the tooth so I may upgrade sooner rather than later.
A free market solution would be to make commute time paid (maybe to some reasonable maximum e.g. 1h per direction).

So instead of companies forcing their employees to come to the office so they don't get slapped with a penalty tax, they'd be actively participating in optimizing commutes. And it would similarly support those workers who have no option.
It looks like TensorBase has many common things with ClickHouse. Do you have benchmarks that compare performance of TensorBase with ClickHouse similar to benchmarks published by ClickHouse [1]?

[1] https://clickhouse.tech/benchmark/dbms/
> My understanding was that threads are subject to GIL and thus cannot run on multiple cores

That's exactly the myth I'm trying to address. It's true that in some circumstances the GIL prevents threads from running in multiple cores, but not all. The GIL would definitely have been released during the file I/O calls in your program. The GIL could well have been released during hashing too, depending on what hashing library you were using, which would have enabled true thread-based parallelism. For example, the built in Python hashlib says [1]:

> Note: For better multithreading performance, the Python GIL is released for data larger than 2047 bytes at object creation or on update.

On the other hand, I'm absolutely not saying that nobody should use multiple processes. For some applications, it's no more complex to use the multiprocessing module than to use threads and not much overhead to pass the data between processes. In that case, it's nice because you just don't even need to worry about whether the GIL is going to play a role, which can be a pain since sometimes there's no documentation saying whether specific functions release the GIL or not. All I'm saying is we should always make clear that to clear to everyone that threads are an option that the GIL doesn't (always) prevent.

> Also, the featured video is from 2015. Maybe it's just outdated information?

Another note on the hashlib page said that the above feature was added in Python 3.1 (released in 2009). That's just about that particular module. I found documentation from Python 1.5 (released in 1998) that describes how C extensions can release the GIL [2]

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/hashlib.html

[2] https://docs.python.org/release/1.5/api/node43.html
Minitube: YouTube App for Mac, Windows and Linux
Indeed. One thing labs lack that the early earth had in the plenty is space (for multiple "experiments") and time.
Source Code : https://github.com/flaviotordini/minitube
AI? VR/AR?
I think Panspermia could explain why it's so hard to reproduce the first organisms in a lab by mimicking Earth's early conditions - we could be using the wrong conditions altogether. E.g. we could be ignoring the effect of solar radiation from another atmosphere, or very high/low atmospheric pressure, etc.
Also add utility bills to that. Gas, electric and water bills all increase by working from home, and for some their internet connection bills will increase as they have a need for more data and a better connection.
The slides shows an external "Thunderbold controller" chip. Seems like something they would have hanging off a PCIe bus.
I'm a little surprised at the number of people analyzing this idea at face value rather than wondering what their motivation was for coming up with such a bizarre idea in the first place.